Show OUT aa cofini r port arthurs W ar scars wa k 0 10 0 4 I 1 axel aa so hort short Is the human memory that the scenes of the conflict hat that took place round port arthur have almost been forgotten the glory of port arthur has ha departed and the attempt attempts to restore the once powerful stronghold of the russians are low slow indeed the visitor to the battle scarred fort forts and hill hillsides sides however mut must be truck struck with the feeling that to all ap pe arances the war might have taken place yesterday yet erday the illustration shows the ruin ruins of fort ehrlund Ehr lung the main parapet of which wa was undermined and blown up by the japanese Ja pance about 1100 japanese Japa and BOO russians rare aver killed or wounded at this point WHO IN THIS TANGLE nhen ben edward P F cebrik wax was ar reigned on a lunacy barge at day ton ohio the other day a curious tar family rilly relationship developed cebrik Is the fathe by marriage of the worn an on once his wife he li Is the grandfather of his hl own daughter while his ion son li is stepfather tep father tather to the child ae as welt well as her brother urs mrs Is to mother in law to he her husband mrs john behrik divorced wife of Edw edwird filed flied the in sanity anit papers against him in 1990 she ne wedded edward cebrik and by the union came a daughter pearl lo 10 1903 1906 she wae was granted a divorce decree aad custody of the tha child lka pon on john by hie his first w wife ile married his hi father fathers divorced wife or his own stepmother at the hearing the court declared him sane 1 HAND AS TALISMAN I 1 I 1 A favorite talla tuan among the aloham mohammedan hamm ham edans 14 1 the lid ud el at fatima the hand of mahomet must have reproduced in silver the tho bind hind of ills tit favor lo daughter of that fatima through whom his blood has ha descended iren oven to our out alys diy tor for ever since 1 then very livery mohammedan and especially very woman has at pays worn a live hand the greater he glory of the he faint who consecrated t te otte intense tho the magic magle pow row or r of jio to relic over those who put under iti its protection IS alive AFTER FUNERAL after formal funeral services 1 cad tied ben held at bli former borne bome la in Washl agton and his hi near relative relatives had coined mourning for the man supposed tup posed to have met hia his fi trie fito to and been buried la in tar far off india word was wa received rece tied the other day stati nir that dort II 11 ellrick a widely known krown and well todo to do oil man was alive bad well and nd waa was planning to start for boni within a few daya days lertch went to ne tr in upper durbak india about IS 18 months ago for the irmah oil company recently ord reached his people by way of the company of tica that amrick bad had been killed bt breaking of a cable at one of tho the welle wells it was aller wards discovered that the original report of the tragedy was wa a mistake mia take GOING TO COLLEGE AT 80 mrs A D of racine nis la la in the oldest student in the united states mr mrs kinship wae was seventy eight years old she en em the university of or ohio she is cow now eighty years of nii and baa has corn com her fres timea and sophomore u tar her let alty waa was at summer school this year aarl win wili hip won Is prize prue for excel leue e in br her budles JAPANESE KITE FLIGHTS in japan there Is an annual feast day for boy boys when each bouse house baving having male children hangs out airings strings of pa per carp which InfIx inflated ted by the breexe breeze beacone lifelike monster fish it was wall on this feast day says a writer in the wide world that we left Yoc yokohama for kamakura Ca makura once the eastern capital ot 0 japan now a quiet it little seaside tillage village As A it waa was such an important occasion the whole ard orld arda mad holiday oma some families hurried to the seashore to fir their enormous humming bumming kites from which the parents appeared to derive quite ai as much enjoyment aa as the children lill drell the loud hum emitted by the oaring soaring kito as an bauser by a piece of thin bamboo which bibb la in stretched stretch pd tightly across from boulder shoulder to should bouldis boul dir cr thi this taut bamboo filament not only act as a aeolian harp barp but bends the whole hole kite so that its surface la Is consavo instead of being ae as in our kites a plane the noise when some threescore or so of these monsters are in the air at the rime rattle time la to deafen ing tle japanese kite has no tall but la to furnished furn libed with numerous lone long streamers great competitions are held by the owners of the kites and occasionally a mimic battle will be fought in the air the atral factions en by means of powdered glass which has been previously worked into a length of the kite sl ring ringi to saw through a rival a string and so bring the vanquished kito kite tumbling ignominiously to the ground 1 NEEDLE ENDS LONG CONG TRIP A pair of tweezers were used aed the other day by edlund edmund C caskill a lawyer of atlantic antic city to remove a needle that had been in bid bu body twenty three years it bd bad worked its way from hie his knee ti te bis his boulder shoulder lie ile found it there inen bathing the shoulder in the belief bellef be he bad had thelmi aben hen elitt years old gaskill fell against hie his mother who was sew saw ing and the needle was jabbed deep in his knee A doctor failed tailed to find and it it was forgotten when tho the juncture yunc ture healed heated that the needle took so ang in working through his body may be by the fact that he be Is sit feet eight inches tall VAST RICHES OF CHINA an astonishing impression of 0 the variety and peculiarity of the natural riches of china la Is given by the storehouses and factories of the dankow export arms whereas the export of tea the monopoly of a few large rus ilus siau houses house has for some yearn ro to ma malel mal ind nl in d almost stationary the value of the export of oil seeds from iian kow to take one example of a corn com unimportant article rost from 3 38 8 million in 1907 to 10 S 5 in 1209 boats bring wood tar from the up per yangtze in big round baskets lined with paper to be refined and re melted in the factories they bring astonish lag ing masses of the greasy product ot of the tallow tree used in european technical industries also cotton and beans gall nute nuts pigs bristles brist len also skins which are sun dried in the yards of storehouses and packed by means of hydraulic presses toi for sea tran transport raDe rort millions of decla eggs are during the few weeks of the season manu fractured by the band hand labor of coolie women and children into masses of puro pure dried yolk and albumen smelling like biscuits ble culta the albumen Is used la in the photographic industry the yolk in the european sweet stud stuff manu manufacture fati on the same bank of the yang too ts at are the new cold storage houses and the great tobacco factories of lor for eign firms arms and near by are ore bellit cries eries in which antimony lead and zinc are prepared for export LOFTY TOWER TELESCOPE vo this Is the second tower telescope construe constructed ted at the mount wilson observatory atory in callao nia from a new design by protestor sor hale the first was 65 feet high and it was so successful that the larger one here shown was built which Is feet in height while the well containing the graph and spectra Is 76 7 fel IL by the later instrument photograph photographs can be taken of the whole face of the th pun showing the vapors across iti its disk the find secondary condan ec mirrors are mounted at its top and after reflecting from them the sum sung light passes vertically vertic allf downward oo 00 to a lens placed near them on the tog to of the th tower A horizontal image el at the sun 17 inches in diameter it Is thence obtained in a piano plane ear tb tho ground LLAMAS IN HARNESS an interesting attraction is in one 1 I the european zoological gardens 1 id 4 1 pair of c tame alas that draw possen gera sere about lie vie grounds they aro are declared to be the only creatures of their kind in europe that hare have been trained for this purpose the animals draw dravo a light carriage and at a recent test it was shown that they bould easily pull a load of 4 pounds the are quite docile and readily ansga to the rein in their native andes they are the beasts of burden borden i ina ament on the behme FOR A ev every summer the people ct of paris par and visitors to that city are enter enten calmed by the tournament tournaments on an the seine stine which have been held hold lor for at least so year years the banke banks of the river are crowded with spectators and the con fenin for prize are numerous nume the photograph how one cf of the tilting contests in which the men with the long pole poles endeavor to push 63 cash ah othe other or the boats |