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Mi 'irior Uu.icr ih- !': SENT TO ROOSEVELT V .VUlI'- iNU, WOMAN ''..h H-n-'- fW Maracaibo, Venezuela, Dee. 26, 1901. A grave condition uf affairs exists In Venezuela due lo tbe adm.n.s, ration of President Castro. His relentless course in political cases is illustrated in au instance' which has uy this time been presented to iTeaiiieat Koosevelt through a letter ot appeal written by the mother of a political prisoner in the dungeon ot run an Carlos at Maracaibo. This leter was dated Maracaibo, November 5, 1Mu4, was addressed to ITesiuent Koosevelt and was transmitted to him by a high Venezuelan church dignitary. The name ot the writer is nut given in this article, ui protect her from President Castro. 'Hie letter reads in parts: 1 come as a last resort to Implore your pity. I am a widowed mother, to whom there renwins but one son, ail the others having perished either through hardshlus or disease, or sunned upon the fields ot caruuBe oi my unhappy country. The survivur is a political prisoner since more tuan two jeers ago, when be was arrested, 'is have been many others, without a shadow of right or cause, by tne sole whim of a tyrant, THE MOTHER'S DSICOVERf. "For more than two years I have knocked at .every door, 1 have begged president Castro to receive and hoar ae that I might endeavor to convince him that my wretched son was not guilty. I humbled myself, and he has not deigned to answer my prayers, but has had me thrust forth by his lackeys. The little that remained to me I sold that I might again find my son, and after many endeavors, after months of privation and fatigue, 1 discovered, thanks to the kind heart of s jailer, that my son was chained like a criminal in one of the casements of the fort of San Carlos, at Maracaibo (to which he had been condemned without trial), that he Is not allowed to write to me, that he waa suffering from fever, or from hunger when the fever left him that, In a word, he was being treated aa bad never even the Spanlarda treated their prisoners in Cuba. Nor was be alone. More than 1,500 unfortunates belonging to ail classes of Venezuelan society share his fate, because they have tried to cast off the yoke of the oppressor. "Should you deem, Mr. President, that 1 am exaggerating, that nvy sorrows bare distorted my reason and. that the sufferings of my loved ones have led me into error aa to the facts, you have but require your Minister . CurHrs, an 'p 10 '! to.. Ri.St'LT J nm J,' ( 11 1 IS BVi.-i- eJ :iu-- j - J l!' . ,n- wi:u ji l im r .lr v: 01 IJ.U1V, wa n:i ol l:iT l!,ru y,..g a!l 1,1,1 u to seveial l t!' un' le ,er i;:c iiiiod with SOU man, a. i:.li!. . th-.- i -- c:i',1 as lol.cct: brvadih. 3o were i - ( eiu- - v. tier net tonnage as last surveyed ,1u:'. I: '2. she foundered was hundred miles from Mt. .dii 'liich is north of the Canary "i Lose reM'tnil from ths very tin.. of death were Captain and Mrs. Ja .e Air ,.. C. L. Hay, the mate; H ids the cook; iiolieri Owen. nn:i:wain. and Morgan lcka, Harry V vPiirintic, Neils Jacobsen. Cart AlusiUMin and Joe Abriot, able men. T;..1 n.-- i' i it- whtn-- ir.-- ii. ! WASHINGTON y one. I'.e'on- - I Mtiraca'lio I siw an old in n with rli nm'ii-tn- , a rul , y umr min attennate-- l with c. v. Baby Congressman and Baby President Cr. Girdner and the Artist In the Park. t VeneitrLia wealth, owned Has eilu.atl s:a:,w and in KuiOe. Wi en.- - l,o ii::b:l Ulna of liberty, ami independi-n.-.-which emhoidened Mm to far a tu gne public to his tlioughte and rsialilish a ivnijiariKoii between li.s own republic ami the re. . utu-.am-- public of the I'niied Siatrs and of France. One night lie was arrested, upon the S't eet "l I t'lken to t',n nnl"- niwttiii Ilia family heard no more of him no - wiTil, no s gu a Micme uit.p uiid n.asl 1"' grave. ior In Carman, as ?' in Spain at the time of tho Inquisition, wl.cn a man is denounce,, un matter how unjustly, he disappears, and no one knows wbsi has become of him or whether he he living or dead. Thus, from Caracas he was taken, without even the. semblance of a trinl, to La Guayra, and thence to the Fortress of San Carlos at. Maracaibo, where he waa chained By the feet to another political prisoner, au old man. From that day he has breathed the air of a casemate where the temperature is never less tli&n 105 degrees, wliera the atmosphere is heavy and damp as that ofa cave aud where, to make matters worse if possible, the sea occasionally dashes its waves on the whetched Inmates who sleep on the bare ground. In a space large enough for perhaps thirty, one hundred and five prisoners are huddled promiscuously day and night without projier and sufficient fond, without physicians or medicines, without books or letters from any one, witliout so much as a visit of a priest, seeing nothing of the outside world save the stars and hearing no sound but the monotonous beating of tlw surf and the cry of the sentinel. Six months of such an existence for one accustomed to the comforts of family life, would suffice to dethrone Ills reason, but lie bore It all untom-phtini- y, even endeavoring to console his chsinmate the wretched father of four children. But there came a day when, through the advent of a new- prisoner, he learned that the new prisoner hail seen his mother only a few days before his arrest. She informed .this inaa that the affianced of her son had died. The ad news changed him completely. He became morose and taciturn, and .at - wl-lc!ii;ue1 in- - e her, as this latter Is being by Ida companions to relieve him of the heat of ihe fever that la consuming him. the f rmer i covi-icas much as prrHhle that his rheumatism may become uo wor e. What a Ciintlnuing tbs visit, I eaw ihaiuel toeether two who are personal euciniiw, who havs maintained their rancor iu the depih of thrir captivity and refuse to cxcbajigc a word. In auolhi-- rorner, fetid an I miasmatic, two unfriitimalcs are linked tomher. a paralytic on the 'hreflghold of ,1 is olutton and a young man ot peel:- - twenty. In whom constant mo-ioIs imperative. And all this Is no haphazard, but premedinted, arranged and determined at Castro's laIac- at Cararsn. At the fortre-- t of P.icrto Cnbello th re are crowded about GM) p.iliticul and the same conditions are presented. , In October last, President Castro, while at Puerto Ca hello, visited ths fortrcaa, and the Governor to prevent the prisoners front, seeing the President, purpoely transfer! tv tliom from their quarters, so that during two hours six hundred or the unfortunates were compelled to remain crowded in two rooms Scarcely without breathing space, without motion, from the tuin of the windows tonic were nevmlie-lea- s, able lo ace tho President drinking champagne and dancing with his guesU on the terrace. Wax'inctnn, IVv. 26.' Rcpicsetita-ti- 'i 1Nii-,:lomcwitrlh. uf Ohio, came to rce th Frcsiilent. a-:- Ah. good mm nine. mid how m r - pri-oni- T. BISHOP ASSIGNED TO SOUTH AMERICA. Philadelphia, Dee. 25. Bishop T. II. Neely, who was elected a bishop at the last general conference of the 51. E. church and assigned by the board of bishops to South America, delivered his farewell sermon st Union M. K. church today and will sail for South America this week. Fnroute to Buenoa Ayres he will make an eigld day stay at Panama where he hopeh in 'found a mission. The bishop will hold the North Andea misMnn at Lima, Peru, on January, 18, and lire Andes conference at Coqnlmbo, Chile, on Feb. 8. lie will the baby this morning?" ! set to work at tin pump, but in spite t all they could d i the water mne to fourteen feet in an I. our. lone that night i iv huelinnd told me th(re wns no hope and we prepared for d'Wih. At nine oi k the heavy sms which had been s coping over the tiniMewiblr for making It a the men tu si ay S' i!ui pumps, carried away the wheel r. ;n s, and the ship, witliout steeri-- g g. ar, was at the mercy of the wavts. "lbiw we ever l.pt afloat do not know-- , for ull that night and the i kati up and the water day the became diHier In the hold. It was not until Tui-d-ay that the wlml abated, and even then the waves were tlm 1 most awful ever saw. They rushed over tlm ro.if of our cabin, where I - n-- sat with our little Scoli-- trrrler, Sophie, wlm hnwb-- l in terror. "I cried all the time except when my husband or any of the uu-caiue into the cabin for a mouthful of food, 1 and then tried to cheer them up. From Sunday until Friday none of them had a moments sleep, and when we sighted the Lucia they were hagthat they could gard and so exhan-te- d hardly stand up. Friday, in apiie ot their work, tbe bow of the ship was under water, and we huew the end wgs near. "When we knew that tho Lucia had seen our signals of distress aud was mining to us wo were crazy with Joy, From the rigging, where we had taken refuge, we waved them to burry, tor fear that she would be too late, and, launching our boat in the heavy sea, we sent away annie of the crew toward her. 51 y husband tried to make me go with them, but. I would not leave blci aad waved for the lmat lo conic hark for us. Ho, of course, Insisted on being the last to leave the ship, and If he went down with her 1 wanted to reach the Argentine capital early in March, nnd will hold the South Ameri- go. too. can conference in Montevideo on March We did not save any ,f our be8. longings, hut Captain Zacvieb supplied said. Col au he seen aa far as the faer-edlight ranee of li.ounuir.s, T5 nulee diaisni. i lion wuh thrxe , lu cniijo.-iphras, s mounts in climblcg clu id , this (it;.-- are si ranging fur t'.e illnml-;:s!i.- iu of the top of Mount Hood, the i.igiicxt peak in Oregon by signal fires b: intc.iiais during June and July. VV.th Christmas Festivities at New 'Ji.e mountain is easily drasmbls York Santa Claus Introduced at fnni evety vantage point oa tha Ellis Island. , fiwinds. DID NOT INTERFERE i j J New Y( rk, Dec. l'i.- - Ncw York C'ily was treated in a Chv. annas siu,.-riby a high wind ti.d i decided ure. Snort-- j drop in the i iujk-vs- i tv coon W rb( M tall. With tin- - snow rams a gradual in tho vehM.iy of tha wind, whim hv 10 oclock tonight was Liiw-in- g -- 1) milts au hour. At that time four and five indira of snow had far fallen, which brought ihe m-orthe month up to ii incluot, the heaviest enow fail tYir December rauwdud here ip many years. Todays ennw was rutuMerabiy alve 11 e snow mii.ival : ut-ml- tinuin of two inclio.s, bat Ihe work of removing it fivm the st reels was nut tmiight as tomorrow will be otiscrrel us a holiday and the traffic will be light. In spite of the storm there waa pn lack of interrat In the rnlrbrwtion of thrmiehout Hie city al('hriainis though the fxt1viii.-- were toned down by Snnday sob'inrlty and in some were bekl In abeyance until IX did E UVARDED N;w York, D.f. 25. Chao. F. Dudga was h ought luck to this city from T(a a on Friday to a' and trial on a rl'jr of pejjui-- in counetion wlh the Moise-ltodg- e divorce tangle and ae who Roose-vd- i, Congrtwa-ina-n Fine. llasiu'.l back lomgworth and how Is the bsby I'residcntT' biaiuis' were held to lie Whereupon easy, Tkmn tnv way," Mid Representative CViiicr, of Texas, they tell a story of a distinguished army officer of the old data whose custom it was to offer prayrr liefore Ms regiment once a week. It. was In tlm exciting days of tne wnr w it h Mexico, when the Colonel called out hie icvlnii-ii- t for piactire. He delivered h long supplication, dealing with tin- - war, railing the ul io.i or the Almighty to the fact that ii vaa not a ar fur but for annexation only, ami conduit!: " 'And now. good Lud, lor further information on this subjoin I refer you to Iulk's recent ninssnge.1 par-tlculn- ily at-te- The recent annoiiuceinent that Dr. John 11. Girdner, of New fork, ki to be one of the editors of Tom Watsons Iopullst 51sgaxine reminded one of tlie doctors Washington friends of what la held to be the last Girdner story of tha whole lot. Girdner was walking through Central Dark one day and rams across an artist liaiiitlug a landscaiw of which the mala figure wns a large tree directly in Hie foreground. Girdner stopped ana looked at the canvas He noted that ths artist was painting the bole of the tne a golden yellow. Girdner looked at the tree and then at the painting, Tha trre did not seem yellow to bim. Pardon me, said Girdner to tha artist, "but does Unit tree look yellow to you? If it didn't I wouldnt be painting it eo, replied the artist without even glancing up. Do you enjoy youf wife's leas and receptions? No." answered 51 r. Cumrox; lo be candid, 1 do not I cant help harboring a MUHpicion that If I didn't happen' to he her husband 51 is. Cumrox would not consider me Of sufficient uncial consequence to be iuviti-d- . Washington Star. tomorrow. was released yesterday st ths re- staff attached to tha of- quest of Dasirivt Attorney Jerome was guarded today by several members, of d x BY DETECTIVES. wh ths - DAY BY DAY rs 3 SNOWSTORM w.isowrmd if iurou. X. K. Toi.niiiis, Norway. ly rebiliil 10 i. - - Ill Us dim-ase- who all(j In the ... i i ' niLii ri-i- te . a, lu.. ..i u'- titi; . Sl.i i Ci'enu. aJie'itd iti li'Jl. u : 1, l y y a rpe.ial '.hi.Mcii ncaily '.i.in.l au.l i ::e than vea-- s uti-cNew cdd. chniucd :..itoik ' cabo and an I not almwi-to cjhi .uicaio villi " l' . .11P u 1 i I..!.-- ' :..r I . i ca-e- . . i.e.n-rrii.li:1- (Mxi'si verify my HauwntS, "3 lilal are uuhap-P-- y i i. AX INVl STIJATlO.V. : ii .. I i i. runy Prs. ! i give -- cainuit cxpr.ss r.i for his kind- tr.p lo 1hl.a- I.i. which wni : . i.i . Mother of a Po'itca Priso-e- r Asksth dent to Extend a H;!pi Son Immured Li .s . n: ,u-.- 1, MiJ. a'. i ; v cvi-r- hn-. - 1H0I. IT--. i . dtnive fice uf the district attorney. He received no visitor and. (Li nut leave hie hotel. fits attorney, James W. Osborae, said has bees done by Mr. that whaL-vc- r Jeiome in providing suitable guards far Dodge was wholly acquiesced in by boh gentlemen. I shall do nothing further In the cs-- e until Mr. Jemma takes up tha matter, probably on Wednesday," said Mr. Osborne. I have not seen Iiodga since I do not think he objects at yesterday. 11 to the guard placed over hint. In fact, I know Mr. Jerome was aware, the deiertivea were detailed to keep Dodge In sight, that Doda acqulaced In the matter." It ia said that (hare will be no move mods iu the ease until Dodge goes be fore tha grand Jury sod that he wfl remain under guard until the district at torney no longer needs him as a witbe-fo- ra Chun-hcwere well attended aad religious services were held lu pearly ell tlie charitable InsUtutioue and el the police Mart prisons. (lu Ellis Island 2.000 alien of many nationalities were introduced to the American Santa Clan, lalrr in the ness. District Attorney Jerome today statday. when the number bad swelled to 4 .Toth they were given a Christ mss Jln-ued that he bad not called on the Bar with all tbe good thlugs appropriAssociation to take artloo agalnvt cerate to tbe occaaiou. tain lawyers in connection with the Owing to the late arrival of Fstur-lay- s Dodge-51orcsoa. I wish to deny the el element creditships an unusual large number of Immigrants were obliged to jvmaiu at ed to me said he. that 1 have naked Ellis Island over Hat unlay night and the Bar Association shu-- the return to their Chrldmas morning of Dodge, to take cognisance uf tbe there. The flrbt aurprixe rtme at lnvak-fas- t. manner in which certain lawyers InOn the long tables were a large terested In the cane have conducted number of little four foot high ChristthauiMlvra. I put that denial bluntly." Mr. Unborn. mas trues. All the children received iekfng of the probtoys and randy. Jlie women fruit, aud able action of tbe Bar Association said: It is almost certain Hist tha Bar candy and the men pipes and tobacco Aaeooiatiua will take soma steps In cigars ur clgsrcttcs. the matter, but not until Mr. Jerome las completed his invnulgition of tho cose. I do not think It likely that tlie liar Asauclaiion will make any move until Mr. Jerune is all through with the caoe; then if there has been anything dmie amiss by any counsel in Portland's Exposition to Have a Sub- the .rase, the liar Association con feel marine Lighting Scheme. that it has tha right to act. It the district attorney does not." Portland, Ore., Dec; 25 Aiming Hi novelties of tbe electrical Ulnminetmu lode tonight District Attorney scheme deetyned for th Lewie aud Joroine called at the hotel where Dodge Clark expowltlnn is tlie submarine Is remained more him and with staying lighting of Guilds Lake This lake ia than an hour, un leaving, Mr. Jerome the largest body of water ever enclosed declined to make any statement. in an exposition grounds, being over A of the grievance commutwo hundred acres ia estmt, and the te ofmember tbe Bar Asnociatlon said tonight will carried out arrangamenle being that tlm Association had tnkoa ne trsnwform the lake into a blaze of act Ion la Bar eJ refeven ne to any lawyers CO candle glory. The lights will be with rase. the The Dodge jiower and enclnswd In sir nnd water Mid the aamcistlna was tight receptaclca. Spectators will be prepared to receive a communication IHe to see all kinds uf flak swimming from tha district attorney and meet and about In the shallow water. This sub- eousult him if he should so request marine illumination will alao give Ihe but thatwith he understood the district ateffect nf dancing flames uf fire at n distance In Hie night. Completing the torney had no deeire to Interfere in tlm vidi of Columbia court on the Island mailer. In tbe lake will ba the grand court and Did you ever reed He Fell In Love gardens In front of the government building surmounted with the three with Ilia Wife? hundred foot towers, which, with their "No, and I aint goin to read no inch outlines trimmed with thousands of fool thing, cither." Houhton Post. e e" s epi-n- . ELECTRICAL NOVELTIES con-nori- aa Christmas Wisdom and Jollity F'or the bating JFolIis and tended It through the summer." And that is why the popcorn part of Aunt Alberta's Christmas gift le lacking this yeur because the horses walk. ed up tlie stone atepe and ale it loo, I Hotz the Horses? Ate Up A Christmas Present . 1 Anna year Gordon send their Aunt In the city a Christmas present from the country. It box of persimmons and popcorn. Nothing could please Aunt Alberta better, for u brings back to her the days ef her own childhood In the beautiful Evert ounlry. The persimmons the ohlldren gather cm a grand tree growing near the . It was planted there arrtage house. ! THE OLD PERSIMMON TREE. 2 their who her-g- ot It aa a sprout from a tree set y her own mother, Ihe greet-rt- -f rand mother of Gordon and ana. No wonder. Aunt Alberta likes " Persimmons from that old tree v,Tlr Chrlstmaf! The Persimmon tree grows wild In L'niiod Stc.tca from Pennsylvania w r By ALBERTA NEAR AND FAR. ban a greater variety er, has been discovered in the Isthmus ta thanperhaps it ia any other country tn tha of Tehuantepec. In the morning having 16,000 native aperies, white, et noon ft is red and at night Ihe flora of tha entire cnntlnen blue, and the changes of color are so ' 3l embraces only about 10,000. regular that the time of day can be told before he ' left America Rev. from the tint of the flower. It is said that the word tip originatWagner at tha Bowery mission. the days wk talked to a crowd of human ed a couple of centuries ago in doors of and then shook hands with the of the coffee houses. At the bread Una, com posed of 1,000 eating rooms there hung brass bound boxes bearing the phrase To insure hungry men. lauical slid into the slit Li the top flsw- a 1 dock, very pretty promptness, ARITHMETIC. (lollies Far lists Class." Making chillies for Hunts Claus is a fine holiday game. All that has to be provided before the play begins are needle and thread, acisoore and bits of cloth. At one end ef the room hang up a piece of white cotton cloth on which lisa been outlined the figure ef Rants Claus. When the gueats have assembled tell them they are asked to make clothes for Bants Claus and provide "Two Into one won't go." them with the materials at bead. One sewer will, fur Instance, make a glove plum puddings finger, another a trousers leg, aad so on. At tha end of a given time the sewing stops. Each player Is then blindfolded, turned around three timee and sent on bis way toward tha figure of tha saint with the object of pinning the article of apparel In the right place. Lota of funny mistaken will ba made. The person who pins his part of clothing nearest the right spot gets the prlxe. WHY THERE WAS HO POPCORN The Drulde of old Ro the into is told With torches and feast And asrrfrinril beast. Worshiped ths msglc mlatlDtos bough, put a rhort flight of atone steps up the steep bnnk and at the top hid mndn a little gate in tha garden fence. When anybody forgot and left that gate open nobody made so much fuss about It ua Mr. McKay himself. Aa they retimed from the orchards Mr. McKay and Aunt Alberta passed the - vegetable garden. Aunt Alberta looked and saw some horses iitbS garden. apparently having tbe time of their popcorn, which tasted especially good to them. What they did not eat they trampled and ruined, so there was none left. It's too bad! said Mr. McKay. The horses have destroyed all Gordon's poittorn. And he planted it hlnwelf, hough. Uvea. IIow he looks in the picture hooks. customers were expected to drop coins for the waiter. The Initial letters of that phrase came in time to be use as a word. Rear Admiral Barker, commanding the north Atlantic squadron, rays tlie navy is to be congratulated that wine and beer are excluded from the ship canteens. It ia explained that the T'nion Theological seminary at New York in dix-carding the Westminster Confession of Faith has simply returned to the original charier of tne seminary, which leaves the institution without any formal requirement for sco'p'ing the cinf,Kloii. Tills creed reiiulrement was an addition to the constitution made some yeais after the foundation of the school. The Italian ambassador at Washington. Baron des Planches, is investigating the practicability of dispersing city Italians into rural communities. He alms to with soul hern Industries seeking reliable white labor. In. Hooker of London aays he has established the that human r,.y differ lu color, according to tha cliarac- - rhsnn demands That whoever eiamia T'ndvriieuth, for this Kurtetta a klnn, Caosht 'nealh leaves of tho mistletoe boush. And Its But two hoy. "Dora he give presents according to will go Into one Tommy oil right at whether we are good or bad? Christinas time. does." he Indeed, Well, there's no use trying for an Wise Job say. automobile when I only want a aled Little Johnny was playing with lit lie this year." Mary next door. "Johnny, said the little girt, your mother's called you twice. UNCLE CHRISTMAS. Aren't you going tn ? Oh, no," aatd Johnny. But won't she whip you? No, not today. You see, she's got company, and when 1 go In she'll just say, The poor little man has bcea so deaf since he had ths Ought those horses to be there Tl she asked Mr. McKay. Goodness, no!" he exclaimed and ran aa fast as he could to open the large gate at the opposite side, through which lo drive them. And Just as he did so Aunt Alberta saw one horse, the last one, going up the stone steps and through tne opening where the little gate had been left open. The joke of it was thgt Mr. McKay himself had left It open, and there was nobody he could scold for It. The horses made havoc of the garden, especially of the tender young 1 We sow delight When Us berries bright, Huns overhead, Tlielr liialer sited From ths leaves of ths mistletoe (issiim aod Kiris. Santa Claus a ill nut bring you anything this Christmas if you sra not a better boy, said a mother te her small FOR CHKISTjAAS. THE MISTLETOE BOUGH. Christmas la hera Krisht its rbiwr With holly and areen. And, lo, between Hangs lbs magic mistletoe bough. Hitise PLATT southward. It sometime' reaches a height of sixty feet, end Its wood le very hard and handsome when smoothed and polished. It is used in the Inside r.ntfch of houses. The persimmon Is really a species ef plum and la sometimes railed the date plum.' The fruit la finely flavored and sweet when fully ripe, but It le very bitter and puckery to the mouth when eaten a little green, so the people who know about persimmons never eat them till after frost comes. Bears are very fond of them, and In the early days, when thee animals were plentiful, they used fklrly to gorge themselves on persimmons In the autumn. That made them very fat and tender eating, so that bear meat was always the favorite In persimmon time. The who planted the original persimmon tree remembered when there wire both bears and Indiana in. that part of the country. The reason town children know so little about these data plums ia that when ripe they are eo soft that they crush Into a pulp if packed together In quantities, eo they are not often shipped to market American fruit growers are now, however, beginning to cultivate a delicious Japanese persimmon which le larger than ours and firm enough to bear packing. One part of Aunt Alberta's Christmas present is Licking this year, and that Is the popcorn. The' reason there tan'l any popcorn Is that the McKay horses went upslalra and ate it all up. Did you ever see a horse go up steps? It le the. quea-e- st story and one Aunt Alberts could not have believed If she herself had not seen a horse going up ttioxe steps. She visited the McKays last C'lL and as eonn as she arrived went out with Mr.' McKay to look at the orchards and the farm animals. The vegetable garden was uion a bit of sloping ground, quite steep on the side next the barnyard and house. To reach the garden easily Mr. McKay had TOMMYS Christmas day Is merry snd gay ond young, With mirth oVihmg. In the magic leaves ot tlie mistletoe Bn Mid old bough. A m n es! A Sew 5 crslss, Tho following were occurred In a school : Teacher (to literary class) Now, give me some words like "bemoan. First Smart Scholar Bedew. country How he looks In reality. Second Ditto Bedaub. Third Ditto Bespatter. Fourth jStuptd Scholar (prompted by first smart scholar) Begorra! ter and temperament of a person. He king of Italy 85, the queen of Holland finds that rays from a passional man 28 and the king of Spain II. are deep red; that pink rays Indirata a Dr. Albert J. Atkins has succeeded In good life and brown rays a debased life. registering a positive and negative elecOver 1,000.900 acres of land In Brasil trical current in tho air chambers nf devoted to tha cultur of coffee are ths living lungs outside the blood controlled by German planters. stream by means of mechanical InstrThe oldest European sovereign is the king of Denmark, who la It; the king ot Fweden Is 75, the emperor of Austria T. tha king ef the Belgians Cl. King lklward VI L 2, the sultan of Turkey 1. the king of Greets 68. the kalt--r 46, Hie king of Portugal 40, the esar 14, tbs (i.ae Per t'baek. Teacher Johnny, ran you teil mo anything you have to lie thankful for In the past year? Johnny (without hesitation) Yes. sir. Teacher Well, Johnny, shat la it? Johnny Why, when you broke ymir arm you couldn't Jh k us for two months. ument. He brilevt t!mt each otgan of ths body lias electrical action, but that ths center of cl sc tries I activity la in tho lung. light and clothing are obtained from The liver is a local dainty, and the is lamp oil, while tho treated k!n 1 w aterproof clothing. The Eskimo ro hia hut with it also. Tlie latest estimates of ths wh I crop of ths world this ysar Indicate t! j the total supply available for xp w ill not exceed 600.MS,etX bushel. T Is several millions short of ths a mated demand for this cereaL Ths Baited States has csnclui trestles of arbitration with feun Ths seal diet of tha Discovery craw recalls the fart that the whales flesh is full of n util tluu. Au fur ths scat, food. cour.inta |