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Show THE TALL (llllltt OF GERMANY Ita walla are three meters high; it t provided with casemates and moatsand real Krupp guns. This to praeucally the only plavihing of the young orincea, for even during their mostsder age, toys. In the strict acceptatlon of the word, were and are few and far between. On their birthdays, when the pony is not yet flue or has As mar be Imagined from a glance wish they would give you tome " The been given, the parents' presents con at this picture, the crown prince ot princes' riding lessons usually are su- slat of useful things a bicycle, s viothe , . young . . pripjt.es .Germany, w,bo has Just epjnp of age, is perintended, by --the emperor . himself, lin two of a tittle tod dig to be laid conveniently and the reward for proficiency is a play that instrument books, and even over the imperial knee and caned He Is taller than his father. Yet in tne past, that punishment has been administered to Germanys royal sons, and In the case of the younger princes it still is employed sometimes Were it not for the Influence of the empress the cane might play a still larger part in the domestic economy, for the emperor believes in it, having suffered somewhat in his youth. His sons, being chips of the old block, have much of the mischievous boyish spirit of Wilhelm before he grew to man's estate. The whole of the young princes training is extremely strict, and the empress shares the training voluntarily. In summer the lads are out of bed at 6, in winter at 7, and halt an hour later they have their first meal of tea and bread and butter, at which meal the mother is present. At 8 o'clock the princes' studies begin, at i'30 there is a second meal at which the tea is replaced by wine and water. Then there are further lessons until 1:15. Recreation follows the dinner, taken In company with their civil and military governors, but at 3 work is resumed, and is not ended until the clock strikes 6. It is on record that a couple of years ago the crown prince asked one of his tutors fop some information about the eight hours working bill. The tutor explained. "It must be nice to be a workingman," said the prince, some-whsignificantly. For a long time the German empress used to be present at all the Indoor lessons, without, however, interfering by a word or gesture. Even now, no matter what the hour may be of her return to the palace or the conclusion pt this or that festivity or ceremony, she does not retire without having gone the round of all her children's rooms. Ordinary boys do not work In GERMAN EMPEROR AND HIS SON. jthelr holidays. Wilhelm II.'s boys are not Indulged In that way. During cer-jta- pony as a birthday present Naturally wearing appareL Frivolous gifts do seasons the teaching Is relaxed; military studies occupy a foremost not find a place In Wilhelm's educapot sufficient, however, to please the plage In the curriculum, but Prince tional system. Oa such a day there la pads, if we may Judge by Prince Eltel Adalbert, the emperors third son, is an entire cessation from work. There jFrits'e answer to hit English cover destined to be the high admiral of the are seven - ch3dr, hence seven of kees some years ago. '"You'U soon future German fleet There Is at the Such days, which the crown prince de(have your holidays," said Mist Atkin new palace, near Potsdam.'a miniature scribed aa the "seven f at. klee. "I dont mind mine so much. fortress, the construction ot which has (son,alas! by the 350 odd tear (Miss Atkinson," was the advwer. "I cost a considerable' amount of money. ones.1 Heir to the Throne Stands Above His Father ln wal-lowed, SLEEPING SIDE BY SIDE American and Briton Died in a Great Naval Duel Bide by side in a graveyard In Portland, M., awaiting the last. cal I. sleep two naval captains, one American and the other English. They were killed in one of the most spirited sea duels of the War of 1812. Lieutenant William Burrows commanded the United States brig Enterprise, which, on September 5, 1813, sought out and overcame the British brig Boxer, Captain Samuel B'yth. off Portland Harbor, and eo near the land that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, then a boy of six, could bear in his boms the reverberations of the guns lAnd the poet. In years after, when bis -- - At the first broadside, too, Captain Blyth was killed instantly by an ball through his abdomen. After, a forty-minufight the Englishman was compelled to call for quarter, aa Captain Blyth had had his flag nailed to the mast, and It could not be hauled down. Lieutenant. Burrows .triumph was complete, for when the enemy was boarded the sword of hit dead antagonist was taken from tha Boxer to the Enterprise and placed In the hands of the lieutenant, who exclaimed: "I am satisfied. I die con tent." Out of a crew of 102 the Enterprise lost In killed before the action was over her commander and a seaman, and Midshipman Klrven Waters, and a carpenters mate mortally wounded. The young middy lived less than yen-t- y days, and was burled next to his te -- the line moved to a meeting house, where services were held. Then the dead captains were laid away In the eastern cemetery. The officers of the Boxer put np a monument over the body of their commander, but for several years the grave of Captain Burrows was neglected. One day Matthew I Davis of New York was In tbs cemetery and saw the deplorable condition of the grave of this young hero of a war, brilliant at least on tha water, and he caused a tombstone to be erected On the side of Captain Blyths gravestone is the Union Jack, while on the tombstone of his conqueror appears the Stars and Stripes. Lieutenant Burrows was twenty-eigyears old and had been with Preble who also Is buried In this graveyard in onr glorious little war with Tripoli Captain Blyth was a year the seai of his antagonist, and was distinguished In naval warfare. He one of the pallbearers in Halifax, at tbe funeral of the Chesapeake's commander, Captain Lawrence, who is burled in Trinity cemetery. New York. That America was as generous then to the fallen foe as she now la to their memory Is evident In the account of a naval dinner in New York soon after the battle, one of the toasts being The Crew of the Boxer Enemies by Law, but by Gallantry Brothi ers." ht Cede Sswif Overflowing Trnninry The treasury of the United States now contains more gold than any other treasury In the world more than the banks of England and Germany more than the bank of combined; 4 France, and even more 'than the Imperial bank of Russia. Germany has In Its government vaults only 1136,- 675.000 In gold. The rich bank of England has laid away 1163,312,325; the bank of France held a store of 1383.880.000 In tbe precious metal, while the banking establishment of the great white czar has 1122,800,000. Uncle Sams store is 1126,816,808, The Is fcoybood daye In Portland were a remi- niscence, wrote: the sea fight, far away, How It thnndered oer the tide! j (And tbe dead captains s they lay S remembered tin their graves oerlooking the tranquil bay Where they in battle died. At the first broadside, wht.w Lieutenant Burrows was helping bis men run out a cannonade, he war mortally wounded by a musket ball, bat be refused to be carried beow, ana. dying oa tbe deck, be witched the fght to . the end. OSMal BlrtMsy. official date ot the celebratloa of Victorias forthcoming birthday Saturday, May 26. She waa la commander, and a slab set on pillars reality born on Mar 1, but for many wad put over bis grave by the yonng years it has been thV custom for tbs men ot Portland. celebration to taka plae on the SatLieutenant McCall, who succeeded to urday of the week In whlcb-th- e annithe command of the Enterprise after versary occurs, for tbs sake ot public waa took both his superior wounded, convenience. vessels Into Portland, reaching tbe harbor two days after tbs battle. Tbs Bautam Vattecawa's Waalth. coffins containing tbs bodies were .Tfee Will of 8.' Robinson n Boston placed la bargee and amid the booming of minute guns were rowed in minute policeman, bequeaths ) 10, 000 to tbs strokes by shipmasters And mates to town of Gllmanton, N. H--, the Income the shore. At the lsndiag place wad to be expanded exclusively in buildformed a procession. In which. march- ing and malntaing good roads about ed the Boxers officers on parols, and tbs pises. Queen to the mystery ' 1 professor of this city. a j with the other very day, wta!klng, tobtligent blind man. He had been hffad from birth, but had received an Client education, and was fully as WS informed as the average person o meets in cultured circles. He sPote freely of hto infirmity, and final-- If I a tked him whether he had ever 8Weeded in forming a clear mental costeptlon of the sense xf sight, jdle ed frankly" that he had not, and l& he asked me several very curious UWMions The idea ot color, he said. w a gieat puzzle to him, and he had um- been able to obtain the slightest fit to what was meant when one Si, for instance, that one thing was nland another thing was blue. 'Your abr Impressions are absolutely are they not he asked. The QWitmn startled me, it was so strange Nov, hat could possibly have been One would infer that tokis mind h associated color with some sort of nswement; yet, when I asked, him to eijiain he couldn't do it He soon lost hiaself In words, sighed, and gave it He understood, as nearly as I cid gather, that the senseof sight ttehow furnished us with Informa-tto- a as to the size, shape and general I'krait(ir.. of surrounding objeits, but I tti satisfied from his questions that 'akad formed no Idea whateier of the Ptdure that is presented to the brain Hi was unable to undei stand how a hle scene could be taken in at once. Htroulf distinguish B flat on a vto-li- . he said, but suppose the whole Bounding country was full of violin all playing different airs That sataed to him a good apology for the I soon aatlous things In a landscape. realized that explanation on either side hopeless. There was a barrier of L went tla Inexpressible between us. aay with an Immensely increased respect for the teachers at instltutea for tie blind and deaf and dumb. It Is d a Barvelous thing that they ever in breaking into these sealed brains and bringing children so terribly handicapped into touch with tiah New Orleani d ( blind. uwmi Ji Hors MfhUeu Have kt At eumte Coufcptloa of Mht Wlidt a piofound mystery invesu 11 the operations of our senses!'' said IS suc-cae- fellow-beings- ." "THE VORACIOUS A MaaST MOTH. Snaaktag. tiidtrUaM Kant.1' Mad Into J n ( -- W never bt-answered, but the first question tan be, as far as New York is concerned Briefly, 300,000 discarded tin cans, exclusive of wash boilers, basins, cups and other divers sorts of tinware, are collected in this city each week, and as rapidly as gathered are and transformed into solder, can-irc- n window-eas- t .. Everything weight about the can is utilised, even to tbe paper. This, it is vouched for, provides a light and delectable dessert for omnivorous billy goats. At the works there Is a veritable mountain of tin 'cans, wh.:re the Teel pleat French peas fraternizes with the vessel and width contained marrowfats, where the can once containing aristocratic brandied peaches lies In helpless proximity to one once tbe home of plebeian beans. They are brought there by thousands, not only by a dozen or so hucksters, but by teams constantly in use. They are gathered from private places, ash barrels and dumps all over the city. Fifty tons a week are brought in, and as the average ia three cans to the pound, one may easily see shat there are tremendous numbers ot them. The factory pay tbe hucksters 35 a ton, though they get them tree. The fit st work of the day is taking these cans to an auxiliary stack of the furnace by means of a conveyer, consisting of moving buckets, which scoop them up and bear them Into the receptacle. They are exposed to a heat of from 406 to 600 degrees. At this temperature tbe solder la melted off, and by a rotary screen sifted Into a separate channel, to be afterward purified. The cans are left to go down another way Then the cans are sorted. Those with sides intact alh picked out for what is called "can Iron. About one-fifof a cans entire weight can be used for this purpose, while solder to yielded to the extent of forty pounds to tbe ton. An employs went into the building and pointed out something which looked like a clothes wringer. "Through this." hs said, "tbs still useful sides of tbe cans are, passed, so., that they may be straightened put They are put Into bundles of fifty pounds each and sold to manufacturers of trunks and other articles where their use to required. They average 350 or leee plates to the handle, according to whether they are plat quart or gallon else. Here to where tho refuse tin, amounting to about forty out of tbe fifty tone weight of can each week, to melted after U to sorted from the solder and ths can Iron. New York Exchange. the Letter Among Washington younger members of the house of representatives there is none who gives promise of greater permanent usefulness than William H. Moody of Massachusetts. This is really Mr. Moody's second term in congress. He was first elected to fill out a few months of the unexpired term, of .Gem. Cogswell but had little opportunity then to do much more than look around and get his bearings, which he did to very good purpose. Mr. Moody was first chosen in bis own right to tbe FiftyJJfth congress, and down in the Essex district they now say that he Can stay in congress just as long as he likes. There is nothing sensational or superficial about Moody. He is as hard a a man working and as thorough-goinas there is in public life today. He always Inspires confidence, and that to something which must be ot tbe utmost value to any man who maps out for himself a political career, no matter what party he belongs to. When Moody first carad to Washington he set out with the definite purpose of making himself thoroughly familiar with the methods ot legislation, and for months devoted himself solely to this task. He deliberately resisted the temptation, always strong with new members, to force himself upon tbe attention of the house by plunging Into debate and making a hit with a maiden speech. He had confidence In himself and knew that he could safely wait and trust to time and to bis native abilities to gain the influence and reputation be was after He waited until he was sure of bis ground and then when he ventured to demand the attention of the house he got it, and in such a way, too, that thereafter every word of hls carried weight. He impressed himself upon hls associates as a sound lawyer with a trained mind whose honesty of purpose could never he questioned. Mr. Moody has always been placed on committees. Hls first assignment was to tha elections committee and his first reputation was mads by bis exhibition of independence In upholding tbe claim of the democratic claimant In a contested esse. He bad to break with hls associates on the committee In this, hut so completely bad he mastered the details of ths cats and tho law that hs carried "He Is s mean, sneaking, underloaded element, the moth is," protests Join Kendrick Bangs. "Fire has a decent sense of the proprieties. Moths lave none at all When firs attacks pM It smokes and crackles and hisses sal roars, and lets you know In clarion tones that It has come. The ooth steals upon you In tbs dead ot chaws ip yews beat trouser, WigM gorges himself upon your wife's furs, tickles his palate with your swellest flannel golf shirt, munches away upon your handsome rug, punches holes In your, best sofa cushions with his tusks, and then silently folds hls tent and steals away without so much aa a thank-yo- u for hls meal The moth (nust either be domesticated or extinguished. I have tried to extinguish him, but without avail When be has flown forth I have endeavored to punch him In the head, and I have wasted my energy on tbe unresponsive air. 1 dont know a hero Inreal life or In fiction who could meet a moth 1 have reed o! en bis owa ground. the powers of Alexander, ot Caesar, of D'Artagnan. of Bonaparte, and ol Teddy Roosevelt, but there Isn't s man among 'em who can fight a moth. You can bombard him with a g&tllng gun loaded to the mnmle with camphor bails, and he still waves hls banner defiantly' in your face. You may lunge at him with a rapier, and he jumps lightly aslds, and to express Us contempt bites a hole In your parlor hangings. You can turn the b& on him, and he soars away out ot You can't kill him, because reach. vatch him. You can't drive you c, him away, and until we go hack to the dress ot the knights of old and wear nickel-plate- d steel clothing, we cannot starve him out" - CAS? and Window clcbta. What becomes of all the old tin cans? is a question asked about as often as hat becomes of all thq pins. The end of tha millions of pins has tulilr, Saab A HARD FIGHTER I bll.-g- r, WHAT BECOMES OF g th ' hard-worki- nr THE JIOOER S JOURNEY, u Celled tbe Wrong Mm An Irishman arriving in Cincinnati Bight found It impossible to get s bed JbuL waa. permitted to share one which had been engaged by a barber- - Pat noted that hto ,bedMb low was very bald and proceeded to chaff "''him. This the barber endured ,a silence, but When Pat bad fallen Into a heavy slumber the other man got up every hair off hit tormentors head. The Irishman baring a long trajnp before him on the morrow, had left instructions that he b called very early, and. It being still Lark when be rose, he did not notice tbe Joss ot his hair. When some distance on hls wgyhqwever. he fell thirsty, and, coming to a spring, took off hls hgt and bent down to drink. Seeing the reflection ot his bald head in the water, he sprang back aghast Be jabers," he exclaimed wrathfully, "they've called the wrong man!1 019 JiL-hlmse- and-sbave- d cm Tbe friM. "Yes" grunted the great chief, they have come to set np their laws over our land and to take possession of the hills and the valleys and tha fertlls plains that bars been ours. But they have paid a price that will stagger humanity!" vThen taking ths jug. for the content of which hs had traded off the. lands of hls tribe, he tilted ths bottom toward the planet Mars and was satisfied. . H At what age do yon think a girl shbuld marry T She When asked. A mad Uw World. The very small species of tbe flea, . CONGRESSMAN. MOODY. hls point against ths majority. Hs was afterward assigned to the appropriation committee, which Is ths most Important committee of ths house. Appropriation bills always have tha right of way and members of the committee are constantly In evidence from the necessities ot tbelr position. Garfield, Randall and Cannon are some of the men whose coLjressionul careers were identified with tbelr work on appropriations and opportunities for reputation are just as great now as ever they were. Moody Is e bachelor. He has always had bachelor apartments In Washington, and through one congressional session he and Representative Gillette hired a house together and kept bachelor's hall. He Is a member of the Metropolitan club and such time as he spends in the club Is about all the social relaxation he allows himself or cares for. At home In Massachusetts be ranks high as a lawyer and duriag the long recesses of congress he devote himself to hto profession, although there is never a time when he is not stadying legislative problems and trying to fit himself more thoroughly for hls public duties. During one long recess he carried home all the hooks he could find on parliamentary usage, apd when he came back for the next session he was so thoroughly grounded In that most difficult and complicated branch that only two or three men in congress, and those veterans, who have seen many him years of service, can compare with ' , in parliamentary lore. Moody to short and stocky, with a fine head set on a broad palr qf shoulders, and he looks the fightefl that he to. No one can see him without recognizing the man of bulldog tenacity who is hot afraid of tacktlng any situation which he may be thrown up at Haragainst He was graduated vard four years before Gov. Roosevelt other Harvard but unlike sonto of the come forwsrd ia have who graduates public life, has never devoted himself especially to pure literature and there fa little of the atmosphere of books and about him. He is practical, unhampered with Illusions, bat In spite of hls hard sense he figures little In practical politics and to Indifferent to the machinery of primaries and conventions. commonly known as the Jigger, whose native home is tropica) and subtropical America, set out In 1872 to circumnavigate tbe world and has now halt completed Its Journey. Hls arrival In India and Madagascar to almost simultaneously reported. On hto conquering way he feat badly frightened many barbarous tribes by hia propensity to bore through the skin and find lodgment nudes It, and many villages and sometimes whole district were abandoned by tbe- - aatlvs during hls journey across Africa. ' In September, 1872, a sailing vessel from Brazil dumped a quantity of sand ballast oa the beach at Ambris, a little south ot the Congo. This event ha historic importance from the fact that the Jigger crossed the ocean in this saod and it to believed to have been hls first Introduction to foreign terri- tory. Hto rate of advenes across Africa depended upon the means ot transportation at hand, tor the jigger ' will not hop when he may ride, .town thirteen years before he struck' th caravan routs to Stanley Pool, and then he Journeyed qulekly and comfortably with the porters In the freight service to that .starting point of th upper Congo steamers which carried him half way across Africa. Twenty years after hls arrival In Africa, th Jigger appeared on tbe shores of the Victoria Nyansa and six years later he was hopping along the sands of Zanzibar Island. The Jigger was thus ee- tabllshedln.J898.st the busy mart whence many vessels sail for tbs East Indies and Oceanica. It was predicted that he would soon Invade India, and sure enough hto arrival at Bombay, whither he had been brought by coolies returning from Africa, is now" reported, Le Tour du Monde says he may be expected in French Jndo-Chl-at any time and that he will evidently invade tbe whole tf Southern. Asia, and letters from Nossl Be, in northwest Madagascar, report hls advent there and on the adjoining Islands, where he Is flourishing and We multiplying In the sandy soil may next expect to hear of this persevering and successful traveler among the Pacific islands, and all regions In or uear the tropics seem destined - to make hto acquaintance. New York . na Sun. Oosfl War Story KotoML When Charles pud ley Warner was editor of the Hartford Press, back tis the '60s, one of the typesetters came in one day, from th composing-rooand. facing Mr. Warner, said: "Mr; Warner, I've decided to enlist in th With mingled - emotions ot army. and responsibility, Mr. Warner pride replied that It pleased him that th man felt the rail of duty. .Oh, ft isn't said the truthful ' compositor, that" If but be homely, The heiress may rather be shot than set ynr be waits for some young man to tell "hot .-Id Hartford Courant copyeo she will never find it out hard-head- ed ter m |
