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Show Shah Caught in Cupid's Net Liat they took form through the Noon. Blnulili r in ijc valley BuuliKht on de hill. fect of tlie sun uu petual snow. Kiil'iiy wish rial locus' Kiiowt-i- l how tn tip still. Don't ilu t already ln-n- Jli'k 11 tioily liuiii, limit tint liiseo' sayln Hull. ill days to cimu-- Fid's :i shinin' :ill(-- Now's de lime Bin I yo tiiiiiif. M'lia'u de uc Yiui do' se. iiii ef- lie fields of per- Traveler Mads Money. Vernon Churchill, an American riect.tly sailed from Liverpool on tin last stage of his round the world journey. He he.gar. his travels wish a fle-r.npiece given 'sirn by Admiral Honey, some twenty mouths aeo; lie has now in bin pi.sse.sf ion, He is a iinhining pastel art tint, and his mcihod uu tour has b.c "i to male pictures or give In tail in public piacis. wav he has been erabloJ to live at hotels, wherever such existed. Though speaking English only, be found that dumb show, and hit ability to draw pictures sufficed to carry him around the world. He has been in Japan, China. Mandiuria, Silieria, Russia, German, Holland and England. "gluhe-girdli'i-,- Will de lietlilin gru!li, O u i in ii litii a callin' t Beautiful American Girl Captures the Heart of Persia's Ruler He Offered to Make Her His Wife " fa rain; yon rascal, In cry? lain a'i hwint'x pla' l'uwii my f.iie seller- dawn; Ain't liil time wc'y hi i afihP 1 :i t all illna:ili In i'll'. - (In cm, liin an' Jaspnli, I .if yu' feet an lly. lid mit fa' ilo ulnddcr lo 1 lira i lilt1 Ili an' die. Hungry, lawd a tnussy, Hungry as a bn ill. Bet-nilailt 1 tiyeali dinnah Callin' tvaliwliaili'! Daili'x de lin'n a blow In'! Let dat cradle swing, tine mu' sweep, den ilu'ktes. Heat me to de sprint;! Iaul Lawrence Dunbur, In Ainslce'a . Magazine. Shark in Fishermens Net. A monster shark over fifteen feet long, and weighing nearly a ton, was caught by Frank It. Peterson anl Homy A. Thomas at Whitehorse beach, Manomet, Mass., the other afternoon. The shark, which is of a species rarely scon in northern waters, is the same one which caught James Rooney, a resident of Whitehorse Reach, by the hand, and pulled him off a dory, to his death, some time ago. Itooncy had his hand In the water, when the muster came tip perpendicularly, and caught him. A woman on shore saw the shark, and put out to his rescue, hut The the body was never found. shark probably dragged him to the bottom and ate him. Such a fish would ordinarily go through a net, hut a sharks tendency is to turn itself over and over, and in this way he wound hlmBelf all up in the net, which the two fishermen, Peterson and Thomas, were hauling in. There was plenty of fight left in him, and be gave them a desperate battle before they were able to drive a lance into his brains. first-clas- Accident Has Good Results. MrB. Emily Van Dyke, of Philadelphia, was unable to use her left leg, she having met with an accident which partially paralyzed the limb. The other day she started to market as lame as ever, with the aid of crutch and cane, accompanied by her pet dog, Fldo. They met the city pound wagon and one of the made a (lash for Fldo. The animal ran to his mistress, and In his rush knocked her down. She was taken to the hospital, where It was discovered that the shock and fright sudden advent of the bad started the circulation in her injured member. Her p&ralysiB has disappeared. dog-catche- rs 's Curious Headdress. New Possibilities in Pump Irrigation. Much lias already been said in these cried: rigorously never exported to "ilium! t lint ,l.. ..t Your voice seems my own naiiitry. iiiiiiiirably Muted In tiio weird strains. My dear i,u:i-- ; lady, you cannot do:te n.e belli r ihan by ringing this same sung a".aiu." Tin- r.'iji:-- st was gracefully complied wiili. and On a Mile. Courtney sai g es a selection from two mure "TS.and an avia l'rmn Pi.u'1 Wl.'-tlie numbers wire "C.iU con. pitted bis Muji.-iclasped upon bracean exii'iisite souvenir ana t of li rsian cameos surt l. i , uiinpiiM-.rounded by iniet aids ami pearls. And t lion, as if be were about to say bis adieu, he abruptly changed his mind ami commanded unco again to bauds Biavn! I 1 . . j rr.-i.nn- t ; j y lir - l Miss Courtney Thomas. Courtney Thomas rr Mile. Courno', as sbe is known on the concert stag.-In Paris and he has prostrated bin-sel- f at her feet, her abject slave. And this is how all happened : Ills majesty, accompanied by Ll suite, attended a x rformauce at tbs Opera Ccmique in Paris, anil was delighted beyond expression. not only with the voice of tlie young singer, but with her personality, for at the moment Mile. Courtner is one of tlie most beautiful woniej in Paris. Tall straight, witri an exquisitely mouldet hair and brilfigure and raven-Miulicis is a beauty that dark eyes, liantly may stand all tests. "I would like to meet Mile. Courtney, said the Shah, after the curtain bad rung down on tke thrilling seeps in the third act of .Yauon Lescaut, 'n which the heroine induces her swe(t heart to lly with her f mm St. Sulpiys She has a wondeiful voice, but i would like to hear lief sing in another place. With Buch a dignitary as the Sbt,h raof Persia, who lings pigeon-bloobies and pocketfuls of diamonds vo those who tickle his ancy. a wish is a command, and licfi.e noon the day following Mile. Courtaey had received a note from the seer tary of the Slish inviting her to conn to the Ely sees at 5 to sing Palace the next for his majesty, fringing with her some music she Ijld best. Mile. CoumSjT accordingly betook hear "L'liaii." "The King of Kings" knows no restraint. luit dues just as ho pleases on spur of the impulse. Su she rang again divinely. A bracelet of trifles that I have just given you is not. enough for your llu- - voice like a nightingale, and your hair, which has more of tho glorious black than any In my own nation. Coma, k d The Crown of Persia. come, come back with me to my ova country. I will make you my wife. The Shah already, as far as the latest statistics can bo ascertained, including the wives allowed hiat by his religion, has 300 recipients of his favorB In his seraglio. Mile. Courtney, it may be assumed, in her embarras- - aim-noo- Coffee Blindness. It Is well known that the Moors are inveterate coffee drinkers, especially the merchants, who sit in their bazaars and drink coffee continually during the day. It has been noticed that almost invariably when these coffes drinkers reach the age of 40 or 43 their eyesight begins to fall, and by the time they get to bo 50 years old they become blind. One Is forcibly impressed by the number of blind This peculiar headdress was fash- men that are seen about the streets of ionable in the middle of the fifteenth the city of Fez. the capital of Morocco. It is invariably attributed to the century. excessive use of coffee. This opinion has been confirmed by the opinion of Baby Bird Ten Feet From Tip to Tip. European physicians living there. L. San of Cal., Stillwell Jose, George who has ust returned from a trip Freak of Lightning. to Santa Barbara county, has brought The phenomenal action of lightning back with him a young bird of the giant condor family, tin: largest spe- on the farm of J. L. Jones near Lane, cies of birds in existence. The bird Ottawa, Kansas, is reported. Mr. was captured after a most thrilling Jones pasture fence was struck reexperience. Stillwell and a compan- cently, the lightning running along ion scaled a lofty crag and engaged In the lower wire, pulling out many of a battle with the mother bird. The the staples and scarring the posts parent bird measured fifteen feet from for a quarter of a mile. Two cows tip to tip of wings, and both men lay with their heads almost under the The young fence. A neighbor saw one of the suffered many bruises. bird has never learned to fly, and cows go down. She rolled over, then its wings are not yet strong enough got to her feet. She walked a few It feet and fell. A examito bear the weight of its body. measures ten feet from tip to tip and nation showed that the cow's brains had been conked by the electricity. is developing well in caplivity. The parent of this bird is the only The upper part of the skull was badly one of the species known to exist in crushed. the state. Its home is one of the wildest spots in Santa Barbara county, Kago. a crag in tiio limit of the mountains, fifty six miles cast of Santa Maria, and midway lietween BakersSan Franfield and Santa Barbara cisco Chronicle. butter-maker- INTERIOR CF an with accompanist and n herself, chaperon into tlie Shahs presence. After presentations had been made the music was haiub'd to Muzaffor-Ed-Dlfor him to make a selection. Looking over each piece carefully lie finally drew forth TIran" (Persia), by the composer Duval, saying, "I should lil.e PERSIAN HAREM. which she mi nt, said in French, speaks very i loverly: "I will always be a sister to you. sir, blit the religion of my compels me to refuse the distinguished honor of being your royal consort." And so it was that. Miss Courtney Thomas threw away one of the chances of her life that of becoming Xu. Sol to his imperial majesty, "The King of Kings." to devote herself to her art und tlie one particular liappy man. The French are nut lenient to people who speak their language badly, or, ar: they call it. with an accent. It is. therefore, a triumph in two directions when au American girl Ring& at the Opera Comiqiic aud captivates a Shall. It is such a triumph that has bepn wen by Miss Courtney Thomas, upon whom the Sloth lias rast Hie eyes of desire. Sim made up her mind five years ago. when she went to Paris to study singing, that she would eonquer her Missouri accent, which on all sides tlmy told her was charming in English. but. execrable in French. And she : 1 This mode of conveyance is the most common in mountainous regions of Japan. It is called kago. Bride. Secured V. French, a hotel porter of Findlay. ()., advertised for a woman to marry, "wealth io object, no black, brown, golden oriiuiiiirn hair wauled. Must be red today." Mangle Sickmillcr. aged 18 years, from the eouutry, applied, was ncceplril. ami they were married. Red-Haire- W. d red-haire- d did It. ml-haire- Never judge their fraiees. pinnies and horses by 1 J j The Shah. i Let mo see bow you enter into the spirit of tho music." Courtney sang, throwing ail her soul into the rhythmic and dreamy Mile. l i - ; j - s, buildings and machinery. Very well, then, let them shut up and h ave the. read clear fur those tbat are ready to do better. If a business of this, kind cannot be conducted properly It should not be conducted at all. The public has some rights in tbs matter. It. lias a right to be protected against dirt, which tuu often minus disease. The Chemistry of Forests. A recent important step by the national bureau of forestry was the esl tablishment of a labwith the buoratory in reau of chemistry. The need of laboratory which would devote all of its attention to the study uf the chemistry of forest products had been folk for some time. A number of laboratories devoted to the chemistry of tanning materials, and other materials used In the manufacture of leather, are in existence in England and on the Continent, but this line of work forms only a small part of the fiubl . or Tlie first work taken up by the ilendio chemical laboratory was a study of the cliomlral miposi '.ion of I ho w ood and bark of f:e cliff t nut oak. white oak. ml oak. and b!:( I mk. Tills investigation ban I ulcil to tin1 western hemlock, been and oilier trees will be taken up In turn until an exhaustive series of analyses is obtained, in hiding the most Important Amerlenn rourerrclal tre&. di'miro-clieinlca- demlm-chemistry- Tlie Shah of Persia lias no crown, propel Iv speaking. Bis eerenionial headpiece is a high gold brocade cap. v ; aduriii'-diamonds, feathers and pendant repes of pearls. Our piiiMi'i- of tin- interior of a Persian liarcin is from a snapshot taken surreptitiously by a European lady s, butter factories and cheese factories tbat would be We bard hit by a license system. also include the professional might users of the Babcock test. Some of the men tbat arc now making butter and cheese certainly could not obtain a license it the rules were at all strict. And it would be a good thing if they could uot. In some of our factories the owners make the plea that if they had to have things in a sanitary condition they would not bo able to run their establishments, aa they have no capital with which to make extensive changes in their cheese-maker- Dr. g i The Question of Licensing. In Canada they are discussing the proposition of licensing cheese factories. In Minnesota the licensing of buttermakers is being discussed. It Is not Improbable that the license question will before long assume considerable proportion in dairy matters. It is certain that we have post-morte- Strange Figues of Snow. R. llautbal of the Argentine museum of I.a Plata. South America, has solved an old mystery that has been a wonder story of the Indians of the southern Cordilleras for years. On the east side ot tliin great chain, high mounup on tho mighty stand impressive figures great, tains, nieve penitente, the Indians call them. They say that these am penitents turned to snow, sinners in life who stand with bowed heads expiating their crimes and wickedness by eternal sorrow in the white solitudes of Pittngoula and the Argentine. Hr. llautbal readied the "places of penance" after a long, hard Journey through the wilderness. He found the looking imposing and great, figures, tut lie found that striking, indeed. they were just nrdiuai'y elear ire and columns relative to irrigating small areas on the farm by imaus of pumps. Generally wind power has been tbw force lined aud ad mealed. It has been taken fur grunted that any means of suppljing water by pumping meant tiio siipid.iing uf it in sm-- small quantities at. ihc iiu.e of pumping that it would l.au to l.e stored in mirs so that u sufpro ions id l..du,' ficient uf vaii-- could bp apilo ll.u plied at ime time to work. It is rei cgiil.'i d as a prliu ipo that the "iillie uiei ofieu" method f watering wid not do lu tin? West tliis s.'stcm lias bci-i- j tiuii, especially brought to some Ll Western Kansas ami Western Nebraska. There a windmill will fill a reservoir with enough water to irrigate about 15 acres of land, which, of course, is not used for grain growing, but for the raising of vegetables. But the cost of constructing a reservoir is considerable, and tlie cost of erecting a windmill tower is also considerable. be found tbat So if a method would make it possible to supply water to tlie land in a large enough stream to irrigate it direct there would be a considerable saving. This the Arizona station lias dime. It has used an ordinary engine for lifting the water, but lias employed a very large stream of water for thp purpose. From seven to 42 aens of ground can thus be irrigated lu a single day of 21 hours. Tlie use uf a large stream of water has a great advantage over the use of a small stream. The experiments are. to lie continued at the Arizona station and will doubtless bring to light many things, especially the economy of using certain kinds of fuel. In all ot our states there are times in the year when an application of water would save valuable crops. There are those that persistently stick to the Idea that we should not irrigate if we live in the humid states. But if a drouth comes just before a crop is ready to harvest and ruins it, the result is the same as if It had been present all the time. Hitherto it has been thought that only garden truck could be Irrigated, tlie expense being too great for field crops. But at tlie station mentioned it was found that irrigation could be car-rled on at about fl per acre and cover the ground more than five Inches deep with water. At this rate any kind of a rrop could be irrigated to advantage. There is evidently a great future for this kind of enterprise. Is some of our hilly states there are no end of water powers going to waste, which will doubtless some day be used aa has been Indicated. i . ldi.--.- 11 For forty years i ', bis e The ancients thought that walrus was a sea monster which climbed cliffs and fed on dew. They called it the rosmarine and printed pictures of it like the above. swim-ini- - s man-eatin- g life-save- rs its - s Rosmarine. be 1'einiua harmony, and iilua.il tempo. At Its fiuUh bis ni.'ija.-ittnnl up. and clai-piu- a Kirains uf - $2.(-n- enter-tnii.miiit- hxi fit fiua t L'li dull in lie sky. Ills The Shall of Persia has fallen m love with a fair American girl and of bis wives. asked her to become One would think lie bad quite already. But no, "the King uf Kings" ct |