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Show gested Mexican link in the g)3tem will doubtless be under construction soon It win be built a few miles back from the eoast along INTERESTING INFORMATION BY the foothills, tapping fertile and OUR CORRESPONDENTS. valleys, extending back into the sierras, opening and settling a most healthful and delightful reEFFORT TO RECLAIM LAND gion The state lacks many things that are prime necessities elsewhere. There is need of good roads and city In many secImportant National Movement Begun improvement crusades tions carriages, two or four wheeled, in Portugal Natural Advantage! are unknown Kniei prising automoAwaiting Development in bile builders arc eager to supply this Mexican State. It would be much to the territory K)int if they would combine and ina good roads movement, augurate thus creating a recognizable demand It is bard to convinee the natives that there Is any Improvement over the saddle for pleasure oi the burro or Yet cargadore porter for business It Is a beautiful state, rich in Its poa It needs sessions and itosssihilities US RON. PORTUGAL. no booming; It does need capital. . Portugal has started in on a sysJ H Kt.'HAKDHUN. tem of land reclamation which, if as successful as il promises to be, must PLANTATIONS IN SAMOA. result in similar movements in various parts of Europe In the south of Portugal a serious attempt is being made with some chance of success to bring back Into cultivation a large tract of land This country being essentially agricultural. any steps to reclaim land that has gone out of cultivation, estimated at 4,314,000 hectares (about 10,000,000 acres), or 44 per cent, of SAMOA, APIA. Land suitable for planting can be the Total area of Portugal, are a move leased here from natives from 25 tc In the right direction. Some energetic members of society 75 cents per annum. The area of free hold land is limited and the cost In the district of Serpa, In combination with the municipal authorities, varies from $10 to $20 per acre, clear fiave set to work upon 100,000 acres, ing expenses running np to $14. The dividing It up Into allotments of 15 cost of planting cocoanuts and bring acres each and letting It at a nominal ing themup to the eighth year, when rent, calculated according to the es- a return can be expected, is $135 per timated value of the land, which has. acre. The cost for cacao plantations as it were, four classifications, the Until the sixth year runs from $150 to highest quit rent being placed at $175 per acre, and rubber $150 to $166. Vanilla does not pay to fertilise. 3 20 and the lowest at 40 cents per In Samoa most of the land near allotment, free of local rates and the water front is owned by the na taxes for ten years. Quite a heterogeneous mixture of lives and is studded thickly with settlers has already taken possession cocoanut palms, planted without or der or system. They extend back of their tenements. Carpenters, masons, doctors, chemists, barbers, from the coast for mtlea to an eleva seamstresses, isllors, and even beg- tion not exceeding 600 feet, and proximity to the coast that th gars, figure In the list One sf the chief difficulties to be palms get the benefit of the moisture overcome before making the allot- carried by the trade winds from the ments was to deal with the proprie- sea. In plantation systems the trees are placed 20 to 30 feet apart The tary rights of bee keepers, who centuries ago had certain privileges con- average yield per acre is from 708 to ferred upon them whereby they did 1,000 pounds, though 1,200 to 1,400 a thriving trade In honey and wax. pounds Is not an uncommon- yield. This trade has In later times dimin- The large planters nse the for drying copra, and copra, ished, owing to the destruction of the thus treated can be need fbr confecfloral produce of the land, chiefly by price-o- f were tionery purposes. The average- wax. firing when portions thereof 1906 in copra during Apia cleared for wheat and other cereals. ship,. Matters have been amicably settled $67.60 per ton, delivered HEIMRODJ GEORGE for the bee keepers and the embryo The success of the agriculturists. COOPERATIVE FARMING. scheme as far as It, has gone has 'resitfnwd the ajsfcftfee vr dents In a large part of the north of Portugal, where a project on similar lines is being set on foot to bring back Into cultivation something like half a million acres. IN FOREIGN LANDS. ed He had not known her more than a It seemed like a lifetime, to for he felt that he had only live since his first meeting with her She had seemed like a child that night she was ten years younger than he and not many months out of college; but with all her girlish grace and freshness, her pouting, baby lips and clear, sweet voice, she had the poise and intelft-c- t of a woman of year; yet 30. With him it had been a case of love loe hot, tempestuous, yet unselfish. The Introduction had come about ac- It was by the merest cidentally chance that he had met Dick Darlington that evening at Altman's restaurant. Darlington seemed to be one of a supper party of half a dozen men and women who had dropped In after the theater. Darlington had put out his hand and said: You are just In "Hello, Brinsley! time to do me a favor Special messenger here a minute ago with word for me to go up and see the old man Yon know I leavef for Europe and a trip round the world for 1 want to my concern introduce you to my cousin, Miss Malcolm, and to get you to see her home. A moment later, and Darlington was gone, leaving Brinsley with a young lady whom he Immediately declared to himself was simply divine. For the last year Brinsley had His been Miss Malcolm's shadow. first advance had been to send her !a magnificent bouquet, after he had When he called (known her a week in the evening he found her wearing She one of bis roses on her breast. had smiled that enthralling smile of hers and thanked him prettily for the flowers. From presents of flowers the way i had been easy to automobile rides, He opera boxes and suppers had contrived to learn the date of her birthday, and when It came he had ventured to send her a present of a magnificent necklace. She had met him that evening with a grave face and a constrained manner. He thought she was going to make him take his present back. She gave him a chair and seated herself In another near him. "Mr. Brinsley, she safd, "it was very kind of you to think of my birthday; but you hare no you ought not to send me such presents." She took np the leather case that was lying on a "table at her elbow; and he thought that she was going to hand It back to him. But she opened It, and apparently succumbed to the dazzling beauty of the gems. Oh, arent they lovely! she exclaimed. "It must be nice to be rich, Mr. Brinsley If only for the pleasure that one can give to others. And then, too, the rich man has so many privileges. Its really terrible to be poor. I have only two thousand a year, for everything. She toyed with the necklace for a moment, then closed the case with a sigh, and laid Brinsley's present back on the table. "I dont know what makes you so good to me, she said, after a moments silence on both sides. Brinsley had been waiting for some such opening. He started to tell hei that if he was good to her, It was simply because he loved her, but she had Jumped up, exclaiming: "Oh! I must show you my other presents some of them very pretty, but none so valued as yours. Once It was at Christmas he had kissed her. The Impulse had been Irresistible; hut though Mollie had not made a fuss, he had not done it again A piece of mistletoe hung In the doorway between the two parlors; and as she came from the inner room, they met right under it Suddenly he had put his arm round her waist, drawn her to him, stooped over and kissed her lips. It was entirely unpremeditated, but before their lips had met he was wondering what would be the consequence of his temerity. Then the contact had thrilled him. He felt that no penalty would be too great to pay for that momentary bliss. But Instead of springing away from him, Mollie had laid her head on his shoulder, her breast pressing heavily against his, and for a brief second she had looked up at him under her long, drooping lashes, with eyes that seemed to confess a love long cherished, but studiously dissimulated. Then she had disengaged herself and taken a seat with the table between them, and for the rest of the evening she had been the happy, Inconsequential girl he had known for months back. Once since that night he bad tried to kiss her, hut she had repulsed him gently, saying simply: "No, please, Fred, you must not do at first sight t. tete-a-tet- had come for him to speak out like a man, and to know his fule. He sent her a costly bouquet during the day, and In the evening went up to her apartment, faultlessly groomed and manicured. Mollie became grave the moment Bbe saw him, and he found It difficult to begin After a few futile efforts on both sides to say something to put one another at ease, Mollie looked up with oue of her old radiant smiles, and said: O, Fred! I have some news to tell Dick will be home next week. you. Dick? Brinsley repeated, Inter"Who Is Dick?" rogatively. Why, Dick Darlington, said Mollie, raising her eyebrows with a sort of aggrieved air. Oh, yes your cousin. I remember, be- Introduced us, but, really, I had only a very slight acquaintance Mr. with Darlington though, of course, I shall be glad to know blm better for your sake, as he Is .your cousin. Well, he always calls himself my cousin, but, really, we a& not so, nearly related as that. You see, his father and my mother were cousins. The connection is very slight. But we are going to be married when Dick has been home a month. Brinsley got out of the room and got home, somehow lie never remembered how Nobody saw blm for a week. Miss Malcolm never saw him again. But on the morning of her wedding She day she had a note from him read it with a smile, and sighed as she dropped It Into the stove. Poor man," she said to herself. Ita too bad. Of course, If anything had happened to Dick while he was In Africa or any of those places, that would have made a difference." They had been on their honeymoon a week, when one morning Dick Darlington looked up from the newspaper and said: "Why, Mollie, Fred Brinsley Is dead! He was buried yesterday. Died from an overdose of strychnia must have been drinking heavily. And what'a this? why, bless my aoul! he's left his fortune to you. Mollie went over and sat on her husband's knee. She glanced over the paragraph that he had just been Then, putting her arms reading. round Dick's neck, she kissed him on ' the cheek and said: "Poor Mr. Brinsley. It was an odd fancy, wasnt It to leave his monoey to me. Well, dear, we can bay that mansion on the hill, now, that yon have always admired ao much." (Copyright, 1904, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) ADVICE BY EXPERT. beginner gives It up for disgusted ever. The next of the empire exercises consists bending from side to side iASY MEANS OF ATTAINING A This lib, u,i enough, and most likely a studs Hpon the mueeles. But the. GRACEFUL FIGURE." enthnslut can take hold of a chair by way of assistance, and not bend The idea is to Simple Exercise Recommended by a too far either way bend the body until If feels supple Famous Physical Culturist The more one bends In moderation Mistakes of Beginnsrs. 1:- the better The seek must be smalt If one Is English physical culturist has invented some exercises which he going to get the empire figure, and calls the empire exercises. He took them to Paris, but he found that the women there did not need them. And now he has sent them to this country. These exercises, gathered together j briefly, are these: They are called the empire exercises, and they are for the reduction of the belt line. Only this, and nothing more, unless one is full in the throat, when there are exercises for making the throat smaller. the emMost people practicing pire exercises will tighten up the belt. But this Is not the way. The belt should be very loose to give the waist muscles full play. The corset should be taken off while one is exercising The empire exercises are simple enough. Put on something loose and do this. Step forward and sink upon knee. Regain your position and atep forward with the other foot and sink upon the other knee. One foot goes forward and the other knee bends. That Is the way to do it. The rule la to keep on until you are pretty well An tired out The English Instructor advises moderation. He says amateurs do too much In the beginning, and the result Is a serious relapse. They get so tired that they take to . the couch, and then there la no more exercise for week and months. Maybe the next Vinter one mqst have this figure, teen though one doee not plan to war an empire gown. All dresses are td be a little shorter in the waist line, tad not a word la heard about the s might front. fa (it- - IDEAS FOR THE HOSTESS. Some Novel and Simple Waye to tertain Guesta. 4 Ten articles used by I Two lofty trees. rtNaflL .nin-- . a carpenter. I Two good fish. A number of shell fish. 1 1 A fine stag. A Handkerchief 8hower. I A number of small animal, How the Admiral Had Hit Quiet Fun This affair for a prospective bride grift and shy. With the Temperance Folk. 19 was arranged In a very clever manner. Two playful animals. Twelve intimate friends were Invited II A number of weathercocks. A prominent naval officer tells a to 12 luncheon with the request to bring Two established measures. story that exhibits Admiral Schley the gift "mouchoir rolled up Into the 11 Two implements of war. somewhat In the light of a humorist smallest 14 package possible. Before goWhips without handles Some years ago Schley was In com16 The steps of a hotel. to the dining-roothe hostess ing mand of one of the old navy ships that took all the 16 The aides of a vote. packages and dlsapepared. was fitting out at the Brooklyn navy When 17 Fine flowers. luncheon was announced, with yard for a foreign cruise. Now, naval one voice the guests exclaimed "how 18 A fruit officers of the wardroom carry a lot Suspended from the chanda-lle- r 19 Two scholars. of beer with them when they start on pretty. there was an Inverted (Japanese places of worship. a cruise. They are not, as- rule, umbrella, from each rib there was s H Tea Spanish noblemen tn wait beer like at but drinkers, they heavy smaller umbrella and from this hung upon me. mess with their meals. This beer is 22 A way out of difficulty. by ribbons there was a gilded watertaken on board in bottles packed in ing can the sprinkler of which had 12 ANSWERS. straw and placed In Immense hogs- (holes with The human body which has: of different ribbons baby heads. colors 1 A chesL out. At the end of each It appears that a few days before ribbon coming 2 Two there was a tightly rolled packeyelids. forfor a to was sail vessel Schley's 1 Drums. age. The effect was lovely. The place eign station, a large party of Brook- .cards were miniature 4 Nalls. ' parasols lyn Sunday school teachers visited the with the cards tied to"Jap 6 bandies. the Palma. was much The ship In a body. The party - 6 candle shades were ornamented Soles. interested In watching the crew stow with these same tiny parasols and - 7 Muscles. and break the stores. small lanetrns filled with candled 8 Hart (heart). On the main deck stood one of the 9 Hares (hairs). were rice The puffed each at place. big hogsheads packed full of beer botmint sherbert, which was the dessert, 10 Calves. tles that had been emptied. This .had smllax' twined around 11 Vanes (veins). the tall hogshead of empty bottles was about glass with another little umbrella In 12 Feet, hands. to be hoisted. There was no way for the 13 top of the glass. Anna the uninitiated to tell whether they 14 Lashes. were filled or empty; but the Sunday 15 Novel Flower Party. school teachers immediately concluded 1 Ayes and nocs. AccordAt an afternoon party given for 16 that the bottles were loaded. 17 Tulipa ingly they regarded the hogshead with or 20 girls, each was requested to 18 stern disapproval. After a hurried come wearing something to Indicate a 19 Adams apple. Puplla consultation they determined to send "flower. It certainly was a regular JO , Temples. flower garden of girls that assema delegate to the commander with ref11 the to hated hogshead. bled on the broad flower decked porch erence a Cheek. Sir, said the former to Schley, "It The hostess gave out little MADAME MERRL is a matter of deep regret that your flower shaped booklets for the a such vessel should carry huge quan- guesses to be written In and a prise of HOOD FOR 8MALL CHILD. ,a huge bouquqt of asters was awarded tity of Intoxicants. whiff quick-witteto knew at The Schley guessed the most and thgirl once that the hogshead was at the bot- a box of marshmallows to the one havtom of the trouble, but he did not "let ing the least correct guesses. Some of on. So, when the emissary spoke of the representations were exceedingly the many, many beer bottles he bad clever; a row of pins conspicuously Why, lt'a worn on the front of the gown was Seen, Schley exclaimed: simply shocking! Then, with his vis- "rose, several pink bows of huge proitor, he left the cabin snd repaired to portions was "pinks." while a button the main deck. "Bos un's mate," he fastened on with a nail was bachecalled out, send me some deckhands lors button;" a girl resplendent In stiat once. The hands were aft tn an ver stars proudly said she was a whole Instant. bouquet of "asters. Space forbids giving any more ex"Rig a tackle and dump that hogshead over the side, ordered Schley. amples, but It will be readily seen how that." The sailors, who knew that the bot- this Idea could be adapted to almost But he had loaded her with presents presents of Jewelry, of pictures, tles were empty, were all grins, but In any entertainment. Ice cream was and they had a jiffy they had the hogshead over the served In Individual "flower molds. books and seen every- side Into the water. The Brooklyn been and gone everywhere Riddles. party looked on approvingly, and when where together. Here is a most Ingenious riddle by Brinsley had found the friendship the offending bottles had disappeared or Mollle Malcolm so delightful, that they gathered around Schley and told Bishop Wilberforce which will afford r Childs model In pale pink chiffon be had been afraid to put his fortunes him what a noble "example be had aet-fo- keen amusement arranged aa a conthe men. Schley took it all with test At the head of the paper write: taffeta; the crown of the hood Is quiit-ed- . to the hazard. He had shrunk from - The he "I am a singular piece of mechanism, brim around the fare is made saying anything that might make It becoming modesty. For the fun dolas every one admits; then write the of flv rows of gathered ruching of Impossible for him to continue even had out of it hf paid a couple of tt taffeta The ties are of soft wide la his present unsatisfactory relations lars Into the wardroom mess for the following questions: 1 I have a carpenter's tool box. taffeta ribbon, fastened to the hood loss of the empty bottles, which wtlh her. 2 Two lids. should have been returned to the But now after a year of this rose and a hud made f th ribbon. I Two musical Instruments. the time dealer. N. Y. Times.he felt that friendship SCHLEY IN ROLE OF HUMORIST. En- T m , tab. R. H. KINCHANT. BAD TEETH OF SCHOOL DREN. CHIL- ' s. Ten-don- hand-painte- - d light-hearte- bric-a-bra- pla-ton- - s, FRANKFORT. GERMANY. The result of an examination of the teeth of the pupils of a school ' at Hocbheide Is very suggestive. Of the 1,020 children examined 482 were boys and 538 girls. The boys had 12,826 defective teeth and only 2,118 eonnd ones. Only 19 of the boys had perfectly sound sets of teeth, 397 sets were unfit for chewing food, with 192 boys disturbances in their general condition were observed, due to decayed teeth. Of the teeth of the girls 15,747 were found defective and only 931 sound. Only 16 girls had perfect sets of teeth; 205 girls were suffering in their general condition in consequence of decayed teeth. The total result showed that 90 per cent of all the teeth examined were defective; only 35 out of 1,020 children had sound sets of teeth. In 396 children a poor bodily constitution was due to poor teeth. The result shows that caries, or decay of the teeth, has extremely noxious consequences. Cooperative farming associations in Germany are Interesting the Spanish people. At the close of 1905, 17,162 cooperative farming associations existed In the German empire, comprising a membership of over 1,000,000 farmers; 16,230 of the above number of' Out associations were confederated. of the 9,411 associations operating in Prussia 6,059 facilitated credits to farmers, 776 attended to the supply and demand, and 1,728 to dairying. In Bavaria 2,613 of the 3,294 associations dedicated their work to furnishing credits to agricultural undertakings, 234 to supply snd demand; 47 to dairying, and 300 to various other all, however, fostering purposes, mutual assistance to husbandmen snd thus redounding to their benefit of The cooperative associations credit expend loans amounting to, on the average, from $71,410,000 to annually. In 1906 the coopers-- ' tlve bodies for the creation of demand purchased fertilisers, forage, seed, coal and other items amounting to $12,062,500, On the other hand, the centers of Supply and dairying, which. In a comparatively short time; have entered a career of great prosperity, realized over $965,000 on their transactions, $73,-340,0- CHARLES KARMINSKI. RICHARD GUENTHER. RESOURCEFUL MEXICAN STATE. More Much Mail Goes Astray. thaa 11,000,000 pieces of mail went astray In the United States last year because they were not directed even well enough for the experts to. decipher the names and addresses. Millions of this Immense total went dead letter office, where a lot of it was opened, the addresses of the writers ascertained and the letters or packages returned. But in a good many cases the writer's address is never found and the letter is really MLAPA, MEXICO This region Is rich in resources and "dead when neither the sender nor - . the. prospective receiver can he full of promise. The State of Veracruz Is now of great interest to foreigners and will It Includes Improvement In Photography. be for years to come. sones An .inventor has succeeded in evolvboth temperate and tropical and extends from the gulf coast to a ing a novel Improvement upon tho ormountain, elevation of 10,000 feet dinary celluloid film used for cinematoThus soil and climate are varied graphic purposes. The pictures are The markets of Jalapa, 4,600 feet taken in a spiral manner upon circular high, have in season apples, peaches, glass plates, thereby enabling a long plums, grapes, series comprising several hundred pic quinces, pears, oranges, lemons, figs, melons, etc., of tures to be obtained in a small space the temperate zone, and mangos, The diameter of the plate la 15 inches sapotes. chlrimollas, papayas, bread whlie the photographs them selves d fruit, cocoanuts, nanches, pineapples, not exceed halt an inch in length. In this way it Is possible to record a story coffee, etc., of the tropics. ' The map suggests the ease and lastlag about four minutes upon one. profit of railroad extension. The sug plate to-th- ' " . |