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Show VARIOUS WAYS OF W0RKIN3. WORLDS FAIR FAR BEYOND EXPECTATIONS Tibet Land of Wonders All Men Can Not Follow Same Methods In Their Labor. bst la Wo ore not all built alike; one man's pleasure Is 'another man's pain. It is ImpossIbU for a Dower engine to do the wcrk of a Verdict of a New York Writer Who Spent a Week one-hors- (Special Correspondence.) e power engine. I have a cousin wbo says his best work Is done alien he bis to do a day's work In a rouple'of hours. I think my best work Is done when I hare a month in which to do a couple of hours' work. Practice Is absolutely nereraT Some never have been obliged to r ompllsh a definite amount of work each day. If you are forced intu 'narrow path you are likely to eccnm pllsh more definite results than you are If you stroll on t'te boulevard. A manager of a jobbing house sv ihe can da four limes the work now than whm he commenced dictjiiwj This Is dee to practice and to ll'uits Lons In time. He has improved In volurtTlIy because Ms work forced Ihlm ahead. Farl M. Pratt. Electricity for Vegetables. Dr. Selim I cm Si rum. a German scientist, says that by means of elec trlclty it la possible to force fruit am! vegetables to twice their ordluary else. Voice From Arkansas. Cleveland. Ark., August lb (Special). .Nearly every newspaper tells ol some wonderful cure of some form of Kidney Disease by the Great .American Remedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills, and this part of Arkansas is 'not without Its share of evidence that too case Is too deeply rooted foi .1 idd's Kidney Pills to cure. Mr. A. E. Carl lie, well known and 'highly respected here, tells of bis euro after nearly a quarter of a suffering. Mr. Carlile says: I want to let the public know what I thl:L of Dodd's Kidney Pills. II think they are the best remedy for sick kidneys ever made. I had Kidney Trouble for IS years and never found anything that did ine mo much good as Dodd's Kidney Pills. .1 recommend them to all sufft rera." There Is no uncertain sound about Mr. Carllle's statement. He knows that Dodd'a Kidney Pills rescued him from a Ufa of suffering and he wants the public to know It Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all Kidney Ills from Backache to Brights Disease. cen-iury- 's ALL WANTED N0I8Y CLOCKS. Manufacturer Had to Meet Demand of Savages. A clockmaker discovered that a Ival wai sending out large stocks of cberp clocks to the heart of Africa, and doing good business with them. He spent a large sum in making bet ter clocks and shipped thousands of them to the same market Btrange to say, his sales were small, although Sis rival, turning out a cheap and Inaccurate timepiece, was selling all ha ould make. Finally he found a key to the mystery. Savages like noise. The clocks made by the first export m feed a particularly loud and aggressive tick. His competitor had mads a better clock, but It was nliuost noiseless, and the savages would have none of It The next cargo of clocks which the maker shipped to the Guinea coast ever ticked louder than anything heard there, and they sold like pink lemonade at a c.rcus. Mrs. WlnSlowa RontMnw Syrup. oifliiia ilw cure. twIotm ohm wluS OSH). XuisbuUi. VSr rhIMnte Value of Torpedoes. Torpedo range la now about 1.000 yards. The Improvement which are being made. It la estimated, will near ly double this, and that before very long. This means that when two fleets approach eacu other in order of battle usually In line ahead with ships 400 yards apart, and the lines making an angle to one another, ao that as many guns can lie brought to bear as possible torpedo firing will begin when tue Intervening distance ta about two miles, 'this is, if anything. beyond effective fighting range of guns. As the distauce Increase' the accuracy of the flight of the tor pedo increases, and becomes as great If not greater thau that of the gun What tactics arc to bx projectiles. used to meet tuese new conditions is not yet assured, but that the chances if hits with the torpedoes are very large one in three under the conditions above stated Is wall recognised. Review of Reviews. Important to Mothers. Xrtmliia csrrfully svviy bottle of CASTOMA. remedy for Infents sad chiidrra, a mtm and end see that It hi Whatever stage In art hi devotee may have reached, the great teach' image remains the same frtm Japan to Java, and the gaudy kataf" or ceremonial scarves hide In Gyaig-Ts- e as severely simple a design as ym may find at Kamakura or Mandaley-Uularge turquoise supplies the eve bump of wisdom on G alarm's forehead, but otherwise there no decoration. j But, when one enters, the lugry that has been denied on tbe centtal figure Is seen to be lavished on like ornaments that strew tbe kyllkoror altar shelves beneath tbe Buddta. One great wrought steel chorten with chased courses ard turquoise and gtld ornamental Ion stands out among a crowd of lesser ones of brass or stiver. antique Ivories from India, vs' with peacock feathers, and great hr ard copper limps. Thvse lamps r? perhaps the most striking ornament of a Buddhist shrine. Sometimes single, there may be dozens and even each composed of a wide and deep bowl of heaped-ubutter, I In which, floating In a little pool which its own warmth has made, burns a single wick with a small yellow flaae. These are the last thlnga that the priests will take away. If they fear looting they will hide every otter ornament, replacing them by die erections of strange, butter (terms), which they mild with extraordinary dexterity Into structures, sometimes five and six feet high. But the lamps must and do remain, whatever the Group of Tibetans, risk, and one of the pleas brought forpenetrated Into Its most sacred halls, ward recently by the Abbot of Gygig-Ts- e Tibet bids fair to justify all that has was that a fine to be paid In batbeen written of it as a land of con- ter be commuted, as they needmight tinual surprises, of extraordinary con- ed all the butter they coulda get lor trasts, of bidden wealth. Indeed, Judg- ceremonial use on their hundred ing by what the British have already altars and, they urged, with ahrevd treasures exist la flattery, it was well known that tha seen, undreamed-olb's extraordinary couni ry, and In cer- British never Interfere with the retain directions the civilization of the ligion of the countries into which Tibetans Is much more advanced than they made their way." has been euppoeed. Tbe architecture of the buildings Tbe newspaper correspondents with in Tibet will prove of extreme Interthe British tnlsalon have had plenty est to archaeologists, for many of the reof time to explore the most secret structures are of immense antiquity, cesses of Gysng-Tse- , and the local au- while others are ex 1 copies of thorities have shown themselves mast famous buildings from the dating complaisant when requested to show early day of Buddhism which hare the visitors around. In view of what since been destroyed. ' As for the happened to the Tibetana who opposed treasures In manuscripts which miy the advance of the expedition thla see the light as a result of the opes-ln-g complaisance la not unnatural. up of Tibet, which now seems Some of the accounts of what th one can only gueae at them. correspondents saw make delightful At present alio, one can only ImaglM l Times' reprereading. The sentative, for instance, telle of a wall painting, done by some unknown enamel process, In the great lamaiaerg r of Cholde, a quarter of a As mile from the Jong of Gyang-Tse- . one leaves the chorten end enters the main 'temple." he says, an exquisitely painted 'Wheel of Life' ( if we may accept the rough translation which Rudyard Kipling borrowed for 'Kim' from Col. Wqddell of the Indian Medical Service) meets the eye to the left of the doorway leading from the vestibule to the central apartment It la difficult to convey any idea of the minute finish of this piece ' of work. A few will realize It when I ay that It la probably the only proTibetan Beast of Burden, duct of mans brush which rivals the Book of Kells or the 'Llndlsfarne the wealth in Jewels which la said to Gospels. lie under the Dalai palace at In a balcony above there la ex- Lhasa, but It is not at all Improbable quisite work, but upon this circle tbe that gems famous many centuries ago artlat has lavished an obvious affec- and supposed to have finally disaption and care .which must be seen to peared may turn out to have become be believed. In style It resembles part of the Dalai Lama's treasure. thirteen century Illuminations, but, In all the letters from correspondfor example, no vision of hell was ents with the British force there Is to ever drawn with auch amazing deli- lie found a suggestion that discoveries cacy and strength of line as are the may be made which will astonish the quaint tortures of the damned In this civilized world. represertatinn of the Ruddhiat Sheol." To compare a Tibetan painting with The Latest on Radium. the Book of Kells will seent. to any It Is a matter for satisfaction that one who has seen that most wonderful so much of our present knowledge of of all the treasures In Dublin, almost radium is due to the discoveries made inevitably an exaggeration, hut the by Englishmen. lTp to the present correspondent apparently knows what no one has cunt plaited more largily be is talking about, and we must ac- to our knowledge titan I ref. Ruthercept his word for It lhat the artistic ford. who is :i native of New Zealand attainmert of the Tibetans are of a trained at Cambridge, and at present far higher order than has been be- hoi. ling the position of pnfes-o- r of lieved. physics at tli I'nlversity of Montreal. baa Irof. Rutherford was tin first to preThe greet Jong of Gyang-Ts- e dict th.il radium I spontaneously changing into the g.is helium a prediction subsequently trifled by Sir William Ramsay. to Prof. Rutherford's latest researches helium is not tli.- only product of radium; a mimle-- it change occur. each lo the production of s new element which changi s into y t r.notN-dement. All the radium at present in the j.rth will htive disappeared in about lu.OuO year: but radium is itself being constantly formed, probably by the spontaneous deentni-ositloof uranium. The July number of "Technics" contains t In- tit st of a short series of article on radium by Prof. Rutherford, t in which tbe discoveries relating to this interesting substance are der:lhed and discussed. British Troops Repulsing Attack. been seen by Manning and other travEnglish Trade Falla Off. eler. tint none of them has described English manufacturers are greatly It la an enormous agitated over tbe it adequately. apparent falling off raatle on the tup or a prc pilous and of British trade with Australasia. One l laolated etil. ardly leas In size than of the reasons advanced for thl ia the the giant mruc'ure on Mont St. Mi- new merchandise marks set. which chel. Inside It fa a maze of harracka. make It Incumbent for the importer storerooms, chapels, living rooms, and to show on his esses the or.ginal halla. The Times' correspondent thus source of supply. describes one of tha little gombas or temples: Diplomat Are Friendly. In from the sunlight one At recent review at Aldershot, can Just distinguish Hie great dull England, given to the Archduke Frederick of Austria, the Japanese m iitary gold figure and smiling, placid countenance of the Master whose presentattache, followed In the royal cavalment no superstition or latitude cen cade side by side with the Russian either deface or materially change. Nearly all the mystery of the mysterious east, that fairyland of wonder and romance that fascinated our greatgrandfathers, bas disappeared by now. When the allies entered the Forbidden City at 1ekln four years ago tine of the few remaining alrongliolils of the esoteric was laid bare for inquisitive occidental eyes, and the British rre now busily engaged la violating the sanctity of TlbPt. Already cable are apdispatches dated Gyang-Tspearing dally in the newspapers, and doublless before king similar mesUself, sages will be dated from to le followed by Cook's tours to the Dalai lama's capital and personally conducted expeditions to tbe great monastery palace. But while the Korb'dden City proved 'somewhat of a disappointment U tbe Europeans and Americana who Css For Over SO Yuri. The glad Toe Have Always BuogtU. An Undeserved Cuffin" The "tipper at a vessel discharging pig iron at the harbor In Glasgow wit surprised one afternoon recently when a woman saluted him at the ship'i Ida with the query: doub'e-barrele- d Cun ye tell me. mister. If It's th A rule for men tee get knockit all wurk "at this boat If there's nae wagons taf pit th' Iron intae, an' dae they no' get peyed fur tb' time they're weltin' till empty wagons cum? On being Informed that such was the case eh aid: Oh. 1 only wanted tae ken, ooi ma man wis worklo' here an' I thocht he was tryln' tae dae me last nlchl wt a broken pey. aae I jlst gled him a raffin. Tbat'e th wey he's no' ooi th day. I'm rale vexed about It noo, reels he wi idlin' th' truth." Books Are Utlised. The Inhabitants of Mains, Gen many, are great reatleis. Of the 200 400 volumes In their library, 40,001 were used last year. Exposition at St. Louis in July. on e 1 bin-dred- s, p many-colore- . Th World's Fair at St. Louis Is sow In the miJst of its spleudiJ, season. Colossal, complete, cosmopolitan, It commands the attention of the world aa no other enterprise of the present year. From all nations there are pilgrims coming to th! shrine and from all our stales and territories there ia a constantly growing throng of visitors. United States Sera tors. Governors of States, men eminent la science, art and letters all express anqualifled admiration for the Exposition and free ecquleecence In the statement that this is by far Ute greatest end best universal exposition ever held. macarlue During July a and newspaper writer from New York, Mr. Addison Steele, spent a week at the Worlds Fair, inspecting tbe groueda, buildings and various attractions as thoroughly aa was possible in that limited period. Returning home. Mr. Steele published In Brooklyn Life the following appreciative cements on the Exposition: In the exprarsiv language of the cay, St. Louis has the goods." I had expected much of the Lou siana Purchase Exposition, for I had kept in touch with the making of it from its very inrcrtlon. five years ago; but after nearly a week of Journeying 'brough this new wonderland I must confess that Mu every essential particular It la far beyond my expectations. Tbe biggest and best It was meant to be and the biggest and beer , ent parts do Justice to their nobility Infinite variety, and as a rule th full of arch tteture and general grandeur. money's worth Is given. The enoras Then again in the ground plans acd mous Jerusalem and Boer War bird's-ey- e are net on the Pike. sketches the only possible manner of showing it the It is a caae of dine at the German arrangement of this group looked stiff end unsatisfying. Far from that. It is Pavilion and die at the exposition. In beautiful Moderns Kueat building quite ns remarkable In Ite wey aa the famous Court of Honor of the Colum-- I adjoining Dae Deutsche Haus tha beat bin Exposition. In one respect it ia trod and the highest prices on tho more notable,' for Instead of two grounds are to be fouad, the tabln grard vistas it offers a dozen. Tbe d'hote lunch and dinner coating two and three dollars, respectively. Then main vista is. of course, the one looking up the Plaza of St. Louis whose is also a Ia carte service. Everything crowning feature Is the great Louisi- considered, the prices are not excesana Purchase Monument and across sive. and at least one meal should bn the Grard Basin to the Cascade Gir-ier.- taken there for the experience. AnOu tie rlht ere tbe Varied la-- j other should be taken at the Tyrolean iluitr'ra end Electricity bulld'nr and Alps, either outdoors or In the gorIn the mountaln-rld- e. or. the left Manufacturers and Edu-- i geous dining-rooThe best French restaurant In c'Mon. Fcse with Transportation and .1 aciiluery still further to the right at Paris, on the Pike. Lower In prices Arts anJ Mines beyond acd in every way admirable are the and I at the left making up tie body of the two restaurant conducted by lira. far. For It handle the fan It's tbe Rorer In the pavilions of Caacadn Cascade Gardens rising in a grqud Gardens. The east one has waitfeet resses and no beer and the west one terr'ce to a lel,;!,t of sixty-fiv- e above the floor bel of the tnildirgs waiters and beer. For a bit of lunch mentioned nud crowned by tbe great Germany. France and England all Festival Hall, the Terrice of States offer delicious pastry In the AgriculPavilions and tural building. These are not free end the Fast and t the F.ue Arts building directly behind. ads, but tips for the traveler. There are no end of restaurants The Pike has in the Tyrolean Alps to fit all purses on the grounds. I the finest concession that I have ever tried nine of them and nowhere found seen. There la a great square with the prices more than they ought to be. many quaint buildings, a little village As a matter of fact, for neither food mouncor lodging no one need pay any morn street, and above tbe snow-clatains which look very real aa the ai St. Louis than he feels that be can coa-cesslo- -- well-know- I ! I d time-savin- g d f Pal-kbo- -- - r eorit-spnuilin- r fa at the - lai-m- LOUISIANA PURCHASE The exposition, rumors notwithstanding, la quite finished. It la. One of the greatest, and certalr.y me of tha most agreeable, of my many surprises was the extreme beauty of the main group of buildings. For tha simple reason that the camera does not exist which could take In the vast picture as the eye sees It, the early views of the group a bit bare and a bit there gave a scant Idea of tbe scheme as a whole. Nor d'd the early views of the ten individual buildings which make up ita compon- HAS FAD FOR PHOTOGRAPHS. Thousands of Negatives Made For Millionaire August Balmont. perhaps Among rich Americans none la ao fond of being photographed aa August Belmont. James R. Keene being a close second. One New York photographer, whoso patrons are mostly wealthy men, bas made thousands of negatives for Mr. Belmont in the last few years. One of the largest single orders for prints from old negatives ever received by this photographer came from Mr. Belmont himself soon after the death of his wife. It Included a good print from every negative In which Mrs. Belmont appeared. The photographer never guessed how many photographs he had taken fin1 Belmont till then; he found that they numbered nearly a thousand. Why Birds Live Long. Why do birds live so much longer than mammals, which are often a hundred times their size? Possibly, among other thlnga. because they have beaks All carnivorous Instead of teeth. Fable to starand weak become bents teeth as their drop out or vation. break. Neither are the herbivorous Old animals In much better case. of starve. banes would probably die would fall wild, for their teeth tV tf Indeed, countries some in stony them: aid horses have to be killed because Hielr teeth are worn away by cropping congrass close to the rock. Rodents But teeth. to from Injuries stantly die nor a birds beak neither wears outswal-laws It aa and constantly off, flnps food In aid to grinding fresh grit M the gtssard that needs no repalriag either. MONUMENT AND PALACE Or VARIED INDUSTRIES. The best scenic railroad yet devised affords several flue glimpses of the Alpa and there la a very graphic exposition of the passion play In the little church. The Cliff Dwellers' concession also looks very realistic at nightfall. It Is elaborate In arrangement ar.d the courting, snake aad other dances by the Southwestern Indians make It another of the Pike shows In by all. In which should he tal-eSeville there 1 an amusing marionette theater and some genuine Spanish dancing. For tbe rest tbe Pike offers afford, and yet be well fed and housed U he will use ordinary common sens in making a selection out of tho abundance offered. How the Waiter Loet a Tip. At one of the Kansas City hotels where the colored waiters give especially good service, but always expect auequate remuneration for the same from tbe guests, a waller was especially officious the other day In serving a man from whom lie expected a liberal tip. When the meal had been served and he was standing off at one ride, eagerly looking for an opportu-nlt- y to be of service, he said lo the guest: Didn't yo' have a bmthab lieah last sah?" "No, said the on- - addressed. I believe not." Well. continued the waiter, theh was a gem'man lieah at mah table what looked ve'y much like you. and he was so well pleased with the service that he gave me 50 cents when he left." The guest had by this time finished his meal, and as he arose be said to the expectant servitor: "Come to think of it, Sam. that was my brother that was here, and I guess he paid you for the whole family. He may be back again In a week or two." Kansas City Journal. SET THEM ON EACH OTHER. ivening falls. Ober-ammerga- u Hot? Yea, but on the two hottest days of tho summer at SL Louis I suffered no more from the heat thaa In New York before leaving and after returning. Every day of the urea there wee a breeze at the fair grounds and It was a: ways possible to find a shady oct. The nights were cool and comfortable. ADDISON 8TEEIJ5. Belligerent Callers Fooled by Quick-Witte- d Newspaper Man. Representative Brownlow of Tennessee tells that once he waa running a . country paper during campaign times and was printing "fighting" language every week. One day. Just after the paper was out, a big man, armed with a club, walked Into ths sanctum and fiercely Inquired If the editor was In. The frightened Brown-.lohad wit enough to answer that ha was not. but that he would go out and hunt him up. He started for ths street and at the foot of the stairs met another irate fellow, who asked: "Will 1 find the editor of this dirty sheet upstairs?" "Yes," said Brown-lo"he's up there at his desk Just itching for a fight." The second maa went up and Brownlow disappeared. Which whipped the other la not related and Brownlow didn't go back during the day to find out. Ancient Phases Corrupted. Ancient Piets in England wera called by the Celtic word "pehta" or fightera. This was Latinized into Plo-ti-. So, too, Barbary of the ancient Church and School for Indiana. maps la a monument to the miscalling Mother Katherine Drexel of Phila- of the Berber tribe by the Greek word delphia, founder and head of the Or- signifying "barbarian." Even the legder of the Blessed Sacrament, com- end of the victory of Guy of Warwick posed of nuns who devote their lives over the dun cow la assailed by ruthto the uplifting of the Indlaa and ne- less etymologists, who Insist upon Its gro, has offered 1500,000 of her own derivation from his conquest over the private fortune with which to build "Dena gan, or Danish settlement, nt a church and school for the Indiana tb champion's gates. The Celtic of the Winnebago, Neb., reservation. words alt maen" are responsible tor Tha only condition Is that tbe Indiana many "old man" craga upon sea coasts consent, and thla Father Schell of and among monataipe. They mea Homer, Neb, has obtained. however, "high rock. |
