Show DESERT MAY BE RECLAIMED poss b I 1 ty of success n ng ferell ty of sahara it is estimated that the oases of the sahara occupy about one fourth of its area the other thirty nine fortieths be ing hopeless desert but this Is guess work a is indeed the exact location of most of the cases themselves so poorly hale the observations been tak en by former visitors at many of these spots that often an explorer who has guided himself by their directions will find himself far out 01 his course and hopeless of untwisting the tangle ex capt by independent investigation now that france possesses lecog nihed claim to the greater part of the sahara ana has brought the desert tribes into some kind of order there is a prospect that the whole region will be carefully gone over so that in the course of not many years re bable maps may be made indeed the vari buo ouo expeditions under french army officers that have been out tor one purpose or another during the past year accomplished notable results last spring commandant lavernne Lap ernne of the military staff in the tuat oases with three brother officers an astron omer and a part of seventy five sol diers on fleet camels covered a dis tance of 1 miles in four at a pace which far exceeds that of the big old time expeditions he found water and pasturage and lived almost entirely off the resources of the desert his report shows that of forty three places whose locations were accurately determined by his astronomer all but one had been placed very much too far to the west on the maps Timis sao for instance lies 15 miles southeast of its old map location adeles on the other hand lies about a degree of longitude west of it had been supposed to be with the desert once fully explored the next question will be how to make it most useful the dry river beds show that in former ages it had at least in the western part a much larger water supply than it has now it may not be out of the power of men of a generation hence to restore to some extent at least the old condi alons SUCCESSOR TO VON prince has been chosen by the czar prince Svia the new russian minister of the interior who prince sv succeeds the murdered von has been successively governor of penza marshal of the nobility of the province of kharl off and lay and assistant minister of the in tenor under M who also was assassinated the prince Is 47 years of age and began his career as a sold er but later entered the civil service he is said to possess a hor of religious persecution his ta ther was a famous general during the reign of alexander II 11 the prince s wife Is a great admirer of count tol stol DIPLOMAT NOT FOND OF SHOW Unon tra t in ch nese minister to london minister chang chinese represent arlve in london is among the most re pecked pec ted diplomats in the british cap ital he is g eted with an unon preference for plainness in costume which Is fortunate tor himself as he Is not wealthy prince chen an am densely rich chinese nobleman was in london recently and in the course of an interview with the minister said why 14 it that you do not dress more richly and why do you not provide more elaborate costumes tor mme chang and the members of your suited minister chang replied calm ly in the first place your highness I 1 do not care for rich attire and in the next place being a poor man I 1 can not afford to do as you suggest it Is understood that a substantial in crease in minister chang s allowance was the outcome of this interview new mrs potter a beauty miss may handy who married james brown potter has been the ideal southern beauty for twenty years hers Is a tall willowy figure and her hair in later days has been like burnished copper her parents have been dead for years and she has lived alone with her two servants on franklin street richmond dis daining a chaperon because she stood on a plane so high that she needed none Pills burys wonderful skill there are ways ot playing the first four moves on each side of a chessboard yet harry N pillsbury has played against as many as twenty two d efferent boards at one and the same time without seeing a single board and has won a large ma of the games farmers boys in college two hundred and thirty of the first L students enrolled in the sity of missouri this year are from farm homes the next largest dele gation benenty seven in number comes from the homes of merchants J JL |