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•t-'M & m'i ^V" hj pteu.- fi THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE VIRGINIA. MINN. W. E. HANNAFORD, Publisher. Watson's testiug tauk experiments with the model of Valkyrie II. will con vince "horse marines" that the new yacht will' win if she is towed like the models in the tank. The Sultan has at last contracted with the Cramps for a warship, and the claim of the United States will thus be paid in an incidental manner. The ship should be named the Rake-off. The recognition of the wives of men of prominence as "national women," by the D. A. R., will give the fair sex an :Mereased incentive to back their hus bands in political campaigns. The whaler Esquimau, purchased for the Zicgler-Baldwin expedition to the north pole, will henceforward be the America and the Americans who go north in her will for a time try to be usquimaux. It is believed by the engineers who are repairing the Galveston-Mexico cable, which was broken by the Galveston hur ricane, that the storm was accompanied by a submarine eruption. The evidence of this eruption is found in the twisted condition of the cable. The sheathing is found to have been reversed and the wires binding it to the core turned the wrong way. The entire amount of $75,000 necessary to build a wooden centerboard yacht for the international races of next year has been subscribed at Boston, and as Gen. Paine, who successfully defended the America cup with the centerboarders Puritan, Mayflower and Volunteer, is to Lie associated with the manager of the new craft, yachtsmen are in great glee nver the prospect for good sport. The Zoological gardens in The Bronx, New York, were planned on generous lines and the management has proved it self to be broad-minded and enterprising. It is now reported that British Columbia is to be ransacked by competent agents, who will send to New York a fine collec tion of bears, cougars, lynxes, mountain sheep, mountain goats and other wild ani mals that may be trapped alive. Within a few years New York may have within it* limits collections to challenge compari son with those of London, Paris aiul oth er famous cities. Americans who are spending the winter abroad need not be without their native American luxury of fresh fruit. Pack ages'are arranged and packed early, and special rates are given, at about one-half former charges, for shipping fruit in bar rels to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Ant werp, Rotterdam, Bremen and Amster dam. It costs a little more to ship fruit to Berlin, and other ports in Germany and, again, 25 cents additional to dis patch it to France, Austria or Switzer land. Our California and Fl6rida fruits bear transport very well. Molton wood is a new invention by M. de Gall, inspector of forests at Lemur, France. By means of dry distillation and high pressure the escape of developing gases is prevented, thereby reducing the wood to a molten condition. After cool ing off the mass assumes the character of coal, yet without showing a trace of the organic structure of that mineral. This new body is hard, but can be shaped and polished at will, is impervious to water and acids and is a perfect elec trical nonconductor. Great results are expected from this new discovery. A fort built by nioundbuilders has been discovered at Wayne, Ashtabula county, O. The embankments are well defined, being about four feet in height. Two of them extend parallel. On the east side a stream aits as a moat. The banks are wide enough for four persons to walk abreast comfortably. This is the fur thest north of any of the earthworks erected by the Ohio ancients, being only a dozen miles from the lake shore and less than six miles from the corduroy log road unearthed during recent exca vations of the Lake Shore railway at Amboy. League island is hereafter to be known as tho Philadelphia navy-yard. An of ficial order to this effect approved and signet! by Secretary Loug goes into ef fect at once. To many the change will seem to discard gratuitously a name ven erable and picturesque historically. But official routine concerns itself little about sentiment, and in keeping with the well formed policy of the department to make this the greatest naval station on the Atlantic coast, the yard will hereafter in all official language be known as the Philadelphia yard, just as the old Brook lyn navy-yard is now known as the New York yard. Officials of the Lehigh Coal and Navi gation company are jubilant over the fact that the fire in the celebrated burning mine at Summit Hill, near Tamaqua, Pa., which started forty-two years ago, is now under control, and it is said that the next two years will see its extin guishment. The fire, which has con sumed about thirty-five acres of the fin est coal land in tho anthracite region. ha9 moved westward toward Lansford. Two immense drilling machines which have been constantly probing for the fire have now honeycombed the earth to the west of the burning portion. Culm is being poured into these holes, and a solid mass will thus confront tie fire. The authorities of the British museum have recently secured the exhaustive col lection of 20,000 moths from western China, which formed part of the collec tion of the late J. H. Leach, and is the finest collection of lepidoptera in the world. The museum paid $5000 for the right to choose what they desirfe from the collection, which will be about 12,000 specimens. Mr. Leach had specimens of several moths not to be found in any oth er collection extant. Sir George Hamp? son, Bart., who classified the moths of India for the Indian government some years ago, will make the choice and ar range them in the present British mu seum collection. The work will occupy about twelve months. .sir- v-V-•.»,.'•'•.• .•••• \*te •-:.-• "••••-. ,* "*$s V* ^^.tv j^'amf £&jh£ •'.•'•• y.-•••'.,• ." ." "V -•.•rf.:--- -.': ••-. The movement to erect a monument to Col. Alexander L. Hawkins and other dead of the Tenth Pennsylvania volun teers has interested members of the Pennsylvania state Senate. Col. Hawk ins was elected a member of the Senate, but being in the military service, and preferring to remain with his regiment, he was never sworn in. He was well known personally to many members of the Senate, who could not fail to ad mire his high purposes and unimpeacha ble character. They will all unite re gardless of party or factional division, says the Philadelphia Press, in the movement to erect a monument to com memorate his services to the country/ as well as to those of the other dead of the only regiment of Pennsylvania volun teers that fought in the Philippines. The United States consular agent at Eibenstock reports to the state depart ment upon commercial education in Sax ony. This little kingdom alone has fifty commercial schools, that for the most part were organized by merchant unions, but over which the state exercises a su pervising influence. The buildings for the schools are furnished by town au thorities. The principals of these insti tutions receive from $1000 to $1500 a year. In Saxony the teachers are pen sioned after a certain time of service, though this is not the general custom in respect to similar schools throughout the German empire. The students come from the middle classes and are appren ticed to merchants while attending the schools, in some instances dividing their time between the counting house and the schoolroom. The courses of study in clude not only bookkeeping, etc., but also English and French, upon which a great deal of attention is bestowed. Indiana boasts of one of the few gold fish farms in the country. It is located in Shelby county, and the proprietors are the original propagators of goldfish in the United States. There are two tracts of land, widely separated—one containing ten and the other sixteen acres—and the farm is known as the Spring Lake fish ery. There are now 200,000 goldfish on the two tracts. The breeding ponds are protected from the cold winds by high embankments, this being the only shel ter required, as the fish are hardy, ex cept when handled. The small fish are similar to those of any other variety. They have no peculiar marks, being of a silvery-gray color. In some instances they do not change color at all. Most of them, however, become very dark, and as they develop they take on the beau tiful coloring which makes them valua ble. The fish are hatched on one tract, and as they grow are transferred to the other. They are fed alike, being given toasted bread crumbs two or three times a week. The sun and water do the rest. Shipments of the fish are made to all parts of the country. Edwin P. Seaver of Boston writes as follows to the New York Sun: As a sum mer resident of Princetown I was in terested in your remarks yesterday about Plymouth and Provincetown as the first landing place of the Pilgrims. You ask your readers to remember when they go to Puddle Dock (at Plymouth) and "have a thrill," and that "thrill belongs to Prov incetown, which still awaits a monument to commemorate the first landing place of the Pilgrims." Your readers will be glad to know that Provinceto\yn had an appropriate monument, erected five or more years ago "by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is a large granite block standing in front of the town hall, bearing two bronze tablets, one on tlu front side representing the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower in the act of signing the celebrated Compact or Con stitution of Government, the text of which is given underneath in letters of bronze, and the one on the reverse side bearing the names of the signers. Hun dreds of modern pilgrims visit this monu ment every summer and doubtless "hav.i a thrill" at the proper place. The Toronto Mail and Empire credits "a Quebec expert" with the following story: "Action was taken in the supe rior court by a poor widow against a mu nicipal corporation, for damages for the death of her husband, caused, as she al leged, by the fault of the corporation. The superior court judge dismissed the action. Plaintiff appealed to the court of review in Montreal, and the three judges of that court unanimously reversed the judgment and condemned the defendant to pay $3200 and costs. The corpora tion then appealed to the court of queen's bench, and tho five judges of that court unanimously confirmed the judgment of the court of reviews. The corporation then appealed to the Supreme court at Ottawa, and the five judges of this court unanimously reversed the judgments of the court of review and of the court of queen's bench, and, affirming the judg ment of the first judge, dismissed the ac tion with costs against the plaintiff so that this unfortunate woman, with eight judges in her favor and only six against her, finally lost her case. The law's un certainty was never better illustrated." Editor Objected to its Use. The recent death of Sir Arthur Sulfi van recalls the "Pinafore craze" in this country, which was deep-seated and long-lasting, relates a New York corre spondent. It is related that the-words, "What, never? Well, hardly ever," be came a catch phrase so prevalent that it interfered with ordinary conversation and disturbed the gravity of courts in session, of Legislatures and even of pul pit orators who could not use the word '"nerer" wlthvut causing a ripple of mer riment in the audience. One eminent New York editor and publisher, now dead, was compelled to forbid the use of the phrase in his paper on pain of dis missal. He called his force together. "This thing occurred," said he, "twen ty times in as many articles in yester day's paper. Never let it be used again." "What, never?" chorused the staff. "Well, hardly ever." replied the wretched man, surrendering to the inev itable. At the height of their successes Sulli van and Gilbert quarreled and the breach was never healed. Oxygen Starvation. It is claimed that sighing is but an other name for oxygen starvation. There is no doubt but that the most prevalent cause for sighing is worry. An interval of several seconds often follows moments of mental disquietude, during which time the" chest walls remain rigid until na ture's demand is made for oxygen, thus' causing the deep inhalation. It is the expiration following the inspiration that ia properly termed the sigh, and this sigh is simply an effort of the organism to obtain the necessary supply of oxygen WHEN I WAS A CHILD. When I was a child'the moon to me Through the nursery curtains seemed to*be A thing of marvel and witchery. J1 The slim white crescent floating high In the lucid green of the western sky Was a fairy boat, and tne evening star, A light on the land where the fairies are: When I was a woman the moon to me (Whose life was a pledge of what life might be) Was a thing of promise and prophecy. When from my window I saw it set In the, twilight my lashes with tears were Wet Yet my heart sang ever because knew That from your window you watched it too. And now. O my Love the moon to me (Who think of what was, and was not to be) Is a thing of heartbreak and memory. When I see its crescent white and slim, The empty present of life grows dim And its pale young gold is the hoop of troth That, stronger than Death is, binds us both. —A. E. P. in the Atlantic Monthly. THE DIFFERENCE OF ANT Mabel Townsend said that I quarreled with her, and I said that she quarreled with me. Disinterested persons were re ported tb have said that we were a pair of young fools who quarreled with one another. Anyhow, we quarreled. I comforted myself with the reflection that I didn't care. I was sure that I didn't, because I told myself so a hun dred times a day. It was merely an af fection of the liver which made me feel so dismal. "I can go where I like and do what I like," I reflected. "How I shall enjoy my freedom." The only drawback to enjoyment was that I had grown so used to going around to Mabel's. Man is the slave of cus tom—especially when the custom is eon neeted-*witii a pretty girl. Mabel is dis tinctly pretty. About a week after our dissension I passed her in the High street. She bowed formally and I took off my hat. By the time it was on my head again I might have admitted to myself that, how ever unreasonable she might be, she was nevertheless very nice. It dawned upon me also that there were one or two little points in which I might have been slight ly to blame in the disagreement. The next evening I met her Cousin Milly, and we had a confidential conver sation. "Why don't you make it up?" she sug gested. "Well—er—the fact is I don't know whether she would," I replied. I didn't want to give myself away. "I'm sure she would," declared Cousin Milly. "I'll think about it," I said—as if it were a new idea! "You better think about it soon." she advised. "I noticed that young Adams paying her a lot of attention yesterday evening. "I'll see her tomorrow." I said- firmly. I felt a sort of obligation to save her from young Adams. He's not such a bad fellow but he really isn't good enough for Mabel. The next morning I dispatched a not^ by a special messenger from the box a!: our corner. "Dear Mabel: There is one thing con nected with our quarrel fcr which I am sorry. I should like to speak to you about it. Will you meet me anywhere? Yours very sincerely, "Edward Marehant." I told the boy to wait for an answer, and watched out of the window for his return.. About an hour afterwards I saw him playing with another boy in the road. So I walked out and remonstrated with him. "Where is my answer?" I demanded. "Wasn't none,"' he said carelessly. "The gal wasn't up." I boxed his -ears as a lesson in manners, and retired in doors. I was about to depart for the city —five trains late—when a telegram ar rived. I tore it open with rapturous ex pectation. When I had read it three times I sank helplessly in a chair. Th'.s was the message: "Marry Adams. Twelve this morning. Very pleased.—Mabel." She might have spared me the last statement. I went down to the hall and brushed my hat in a dazed sort of way. She must have broken with me on his ac count—that feilow. Well, well! It seemed incredible that her people should allow her to marry him just ten days after our engagement was broken off. It really wasn't decent. They were such sticklers for propriety, too. Then I had a sudden idea. Suppose they knew nothing about it? It was evident that Cousin Milly didn't. I called a hand som and drove to their house. It was exactly 11:30 when I arrived. Pa Townsend was just coming down the front steps. He always goes to town late, being the senior partner. You might think he was the whole firm, to look at him. Except, however, that he is somewhat pompous and very peppery, he is a very pleasant old fellow. "Hullo, Marehant!" he said, with evi dent surprise. "1—er—hardly—er—what is it?" "This!" I shouted, flourishing the tele gram in his face. He put on his folders and read it with his usual deliberation. Then he dropped his umbrella and jumped a couple of feet in the air. Considering his age and weight, I should imagine it was a record. "What the er—dickens—is the meaning of this?" he demanded, fiercely. I shook my head. "That's what I should like to know." He stamped indoors, and I followed in his wake. "Mother!" he shouted. "Mother! where is Mabel?" "Here I am, dad," said Mabel's silvery voice. "What is the matter?" She walked down the stairs with her hat and gloves on. She seemed surprised to see me. "Matter!" roared her father. "Mat ter!" I thought he would have a tit. "How dare you, miss?" ^'Father!" said she. "George!" remonstrated her mother, appearing in a dressing gown. "Anyone would think that the child had done something dreadful!" "Dreadful!" he groaned. "It isn't a strong enough word lor sucn behavior!" "What do you mean, George?" "Ask her." He shook his finger at Mabel, who gazed from one to the other in apparent bewilderment. "It's no use asking me," said she. In dignantly. "I'm sure I don't know." "Don't add pretarication to deceit," he thundered. He executed another war dance. "What is it, George?" demanded her mother. Re pushed the^telegram into her hands. When she ta 4cep) ^e^gave a loud scream. "Mabel!" she cried "0h.*3dabel! Aft er the mother and father we've been to you. How could you?" "You area disgrace to us, miss," the old man roared. "A disgrace!" Mabel's pretty mouth began to quiver. She looked so charming that I almost groaned. She noticed my agitation, and turned to me appealingly. "I suppose they mean— Won't you speak to them?" "I am the last person to whom you should appeal," I said, firmly. "The last person in the world," .said her father. "The-very last person," added Iter nioth er. Mabel brushed her eyes with her hand kerchief. Then she drew herself «pi haughtily and walked down the passage. "Kind|y allow me to pass," die nij. Srjfc -v.'* pHsr sm -Mr'. v- -y- _, ,.. "Never!" said lier father, "after I have seen that!" He shook his fist at the tele gram. Mabel snatched the flimsy paper from her mother and glanced at it. Then she burst into a fit of hysterical laughter. "Oh!" she cried. "You poor people. It is a mistake at the telegraph office—a ridiculous mistake!" She sat down in the hall chair, and laughed and cried at the same time. "Mistake!" we all cried at once. 'Perhaps you will explain?" said her father with an air of doubt. She played with her handkerchief and suppressed an other outbreak before she answered. "Teddie—I mean Mr. Marehant—wrote and asked me where I would meet him, and I answered—'Mary Adams. Twelve this morning. Very pleased.' You—you are all very unkind." She put her handkerchief to her eyes, and we all rushed at her, and began to apologize. & "I can forgive mother and father," she sobbed, from underneath the handker chief, "but I'll never forgive Mr. Mar chant—never!" At this point her father aiid mother dis appeared. So I put my arms round her waist and drew her into the drawing room. "W^®* vv"as r?^ ™at one thing in our quar- you were sorry about, you stupid old Teddy?" she asked, five minutes later. She was holding both sides of my coat and looking up in my eyes. "That there was any quarrel at all!" I said.—Madame. Disliked the Governess. This story of a young man who is to become consort tc a queen is too good not to be repeated: Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Sehwerin. who, fifteen years ago, was visiting some female cousins of the ducal house, had taken a violent dislike to the lady governess, who objected to his rather free and easy man ners with her noble pupils—tomboys themselves and difficult to keep in order. One Sunday morning the children start ed with her in char-a-bancs to drive to the little church, situated a few miles away from the castle. The governess was on the front seat with the two young countesses and Master Henry in stalled on the back seat. More than once she felt as if something queer was going on behind her, but when she looked around the boy was stiff and solemn, and looking the other way. At last the party reached the church, in front of which a little crowd of nobie neighbors and peasants had assembled. Henry jumped out first and gallantly offered his hand to the governess. She thought this unwonted politeness rather strange, but on jumping out her skirt and one or two petticoats fell at her feet, where they softly arrayed themselves in a sort of cheese, from which she emerged a little more dressed than "Aphrodite leaving bath." On the morrow, Henry von Mecklenburg-Sehwerin was sent home with the brand of shame upon him. Rattlesnake Poison Cures Leprosy. Dr. Adolph Mercondes de Moura of St. Paulo (Brazils) contributes a paper on the application of rattlesnake poison to. the cure of leprosy to the German Medi cal Weekly Journal. This poison has been used for a long period by the natives for the treatment of skin diseases and even leprosy. Many wonderful cures of lepers through rattle snake bites having been reported to him, Dr. de Moura set himself to make inves tigations. He experimented with the poison on fifteen lepers, and he has come to the conclusion that the lepra tuberculosa if not complicated with another disease is curable by its means. The publication of Dr. de Moura's pa per has aroused much interest in the matter in medical circles. Prof. Lewin of Berlin discusses the subject in the same number of the Week ly Journal. While he contends from "a priori" considerations that the rattle snake poison is not a true antidote, never theless he admits that it may have a temporary effect on the disease, and con siders the matter worthy of investigation. —London Express. Paint was Wet. The bishop of Norwich has more stories told of him than most bis! ops, says London M. A. P. On one occa sion he was to hold a confirmation at a small town and, arriving some ftme be fore the hour for service,- took a stroll. His steps led him to the outskirts of the town and, passing a picturesque cottage, he stopped to admire it. A pretty little garden separated the cottage from the road, finished off with a neat hedge and green gate. "Oh, please, sir," said a voice from the other side of the hedge, "would you open the gate for me?" This tne bishop at once did. Then, to his surprise, instead of the tiny child he had expected, there stepped forth a girl quite big'enough to have opened the gate for herself "And why, my dear," said- Dr. Sheep shanks. "could you not open the gate for yourself?" "Please, sir, because the paints wet, said the child. A glance at his hand tes tified to the bishop but too plainly the truth of her statement. Matrimonial Jan. A stranger, on walking through the streets of China for the first time is puz zled, among other things, by the appear ance of jars in various positions on the roofs of the houses. A jar placed with its bottom end toward the street indi cates that, the daughter of the house is not yet of age to marry. As soon air she has developed into a marriageable maiden ther far is turned with its month to the street. When the young lady gets mar ried the jar is removed altogeawcr.—Bos ton Budget. ISIS'"'': -"I tmm, r....... w.y .., ^^psawKfc. J®,-.--, 04i SLOANE'S RACING DAYS ARE SAID TO BE OVER. Todhunter Sloane, the one-time stable boy whose riding in this country netted him manv thousands of dollars will it is reported, retire from the turf ere long. It practically, is impossible for him to gain admission to any bigtrack and his filends say he will not stoop to make common cause with the other racing outlaws. SUN DOG LED HIM ASTRAY. Sea Captain Sails Four Hundred Miles Out of His Course. When the Portuguese bark Venturosa, Capt. Laureiro, arrived in this port re cently on a long voyage from Lisbon, shipping men wofldered how the time had been lost. Capt. Laureiro said he had good weather and favorable winds, but seemed averse to explaining how sixty five days had been consumed on the trip. The Venturosa is now lying off Point Breeze loading a cargo of case oil. Yes terday her master was in a more commu nicative mood and toid a remarkable story concerning his vessel's detention: "We left Lisbon under cloudy skies," he said, "and sailed many days by dead reckoning. I was very anxious that the sun should come out so I could take a 'sight,' but the sky remained overcast. Not until the twenty-second day did the sun appear, and then I was roused by a frightful clamor on deck. "When I hurried up I found the men gesticulating and pointing to the sky. To my surprise, there were two suns in evi dence, both shining brilliantly and af fording a spectacle which might well cause alarm. "I had previously seen the 'sun dog.' as it is called b.v seafaring men, an at mospheric condition where the real sun reflects a counterpart of itself near by. In this case, however, it was impossible to distinguish between the real and the mock sun, and as noon was approaching there was little time to lose. "The mate and myself both took out sextants. I made observations from what I thought was the genuine article, while the mate took an observation of the other. Naturally when we worked out the 'sight' there was a difference be tween us of many hundreds of miles. "I was so certain that I was right that I set the course by my observation. In tending to verify it the next day. Un fortunately, the sky was again cloudy at noon, and remained so for nearly two. weeks. When the sun finally appeared without its companion of the previous in stance the observations made by the mftte and myself showed us to be nearly 400 miles out of our course. We at once realized that we had been sailing by the wrong sun and hurried to set matters right. This accounts for our long voy age" The phenomenon of the "sun dog" has been frequently observed by navigators in the tropics, where sometimes seven suns a:re seen at a time.—Philadelphia North American. Nobody Worries in Mississippi. Bishop Thompson of Mississippi said the other day: "I suppose there is a larger percentage of old men in Missis sippi than in anj- other state—at least, it seems so to me, and I have been in a good many. By old I mean frdm-80 to IK). They are not decrepit old men who bug the fireside, but are quite lively old fellows. One of them whom I knew, a man of 80, recently got a little too lively. He went out after dark without a lan tern, fell into a ditch, and was broken up just as if he were china. I forget how many bones were broken." "How do you account, bishop, for this large proportion of old men in Missis sippi?" asked someone. "Well," said the bishop, "there is no chance to become rich in Mississippi. Everybody knows it and does not worry himself into an early grave trying to."— New York Tribune. A School for Waiters. In former times most things were done by rule of thumb or after a long appren ticeship. Now apprenticeship is becom ing a thing of the past and rule of thumb is giving way to scientific training. In Vienna there is a school for waiters. The first course is devoted to a theoret ical exposition of the art of serving at table. When the public have sufficiently mastered the principles of the art they are allowed to practice on two ladies and two gentlemen in evening dress who dine at one table. The professor watches the operation and sharply calls, the waiter to account if he uses an ordinary corkscrew instead of an automatic one or carelessly puts^his finger in the soup. If he should be without gloves he is shown how to conceal the fact by .means of the serv iette. and eo forth. There are 1900 pu pils in this school alope.—London Chron icle. Dispute Lasted Over 200 Tears. The continuity of history is curiously illustrated by the award which was com municated on Saturday by the Swiss gov ernment to the representatives of the French and the Brazilian governments in regard to the frontier dispute to the north of the vast estuary of the Ama zons. A dispute that has lasted in vari ous forms and under different govern ments for more than two centuries is brought .at last to an end. What the shades of Louis XIV. and of his Portu guese cotemporary would think of the litigation and of the -tribunal it would, says the-Times, be hard to say-. At the end of the Seventeenth century a French republic was as inconceivable as a Bra zilian republic, and it was perhaps even more incredible than either that among the Swiss mountaineers a government should grow up to whose arbitrament the most powerful nations would be willing to submit their quarrels.—London Ex press. Wild Turkeys Domesticated. The handsome price paid by dealers for wild meats iacts as an incentive to singu Jar and successful experiments in domes ticating the wild turkeys so numerous in our mountains. In this correspondence reference was made last week to tli£ fact that a Pendleton oonnty man had marketed tWenty-five of these rare hatched from eggs procured by lost I teds mmm, him. Today a gentleman from Back Creek, in this county, brought twenty seven wild turkeys to the Monterey mar ket, having procured them in quite a dif ferent way. In. rounding up his tame turkeys one evening early in this season he found that a large drove of wild ones had joined them in the woods near his home. By careful handling he "connect ed" the attachment in a few weeks and finally succeeded in getting the wild birds to come in with his flock every evening. The result was seen in today's market, when he received 15 cents per pound for the twenty-seven, while his tame ones only realized him 6% cents. —Richmond Dispatch. WHAT COLOR WAS ADAH? Skin of Man Greatly Affected by Cli matic Conditions. Prof. Arthur Thomson of London has a new theory about the color of primi tive man, a question which has attracted considerable attention in the fields of physical anthropology. While on the one hand it has been maintained that primitive man was fair in complexion, on the other hand it has been maintained that he was of a dark tint. "It is not necessary for us," says Prof. Thomson, "to accept the extreme posi tion. A middle course is open, as suggested by Dr. A. R. Wallace, who advances the view that primitive mart was probably of a Mongoloid stock, and that his subsequent modification into white and brown and black varieties was due to his migrations Into geographical areas where lie was subject to the influ ence of varied conditipns of climate. "Temperature may ne mentioned, diur nal as well as nocturnal. The moisture of the atmosphere. The nature of the soil. The diet. The manner of life, whether dwellers in dense forest or jun gle—where, for example, the natives are screened from tne suns rays,, or dwell ers on the hills and plains,- where they -. are most exposed to light and alterna tions of the temperature. "Freckles, which, curiously enough, oc cur most frequently on those with hair of a pronounced red color, do not differ in any respect from the pigmental skins of the darker races, except in regard to their color and their circumscribed ap pearance. In persons of dark complex ion there is, in addition to the red. brown ar.d yellow pigments, probably a very slight admixture of the black pigment. This may be present in sufficient quanti ty to impart a blackness in the hair, but not abundant enough to. destroy the fair ness of the skin, though in exceptional situations its presence may be very evi dent. "It is curious to note that when the skin of a white man is grafted on to a negro the grafted patch assumes the nor mal tint of the, individual, and, vicc versa, when black skin is* grafted on to wfcitc the pigment disappears." Sign was Misleading. He was a coarse-looking individual with plenty of nerve. He was hungry and he entered one of those 10-cent res taurants on lower Main street. He took a stool at the lunch counter, looked at the bill of fare and calmly ordered celery. He finished the first order, and when the girl attendant asked him if there was anything more, he ordered more celery. He ordered a third dish and consumed it. Then he wiped his mouth with a clean napkin, arranged his neckwear, and started to go. The proprietor of the place intercepted him. "You havec't paid your bill," stated the proprietor. "I know it," replied the man "I have no bill to pay." "WLy, you've eaten three orders of cel ery and I have seen you eat all of it." "That may be true." said the nervy fellow, "bnt I still insist that I owe you nothing. Look at that sign in the win dow. The proprietor gazed as directed. He saw a sign which read: CELERY FREE. The proprietor turned to his guest. "You are all right, stranger. Come again when you want something beside celery." In a few hours the sign in the window -was enlarged upon. It read this way: Race Horse Heavily Insured. Kingston, a race horse with a wonder ful history, has just been insured for $70,000 by .Tames R. Keene. The in surance of thoroughbred horses is not us ual in this country, accept when the an imal is about to make a dangerous jour ney by land or water. A London com pany assumes the risk and the premium^ is said to be very large. Kingston is a star boarder at the Castleton farm, which has 'furnisbed many valuable horses for^raee.tfacks on b6th sffles of the Atlantic. Ballyhoo Bey, who won the Futurity last season, is a' son of '-•f J* fm wV,' •5® CELERY FREE -r WITH ALL MEAT 03DERS. That was the original intention.—Kan sas City Times. Much of Kentucky is "Dry." It may gtartle some people who think the name of Kentucky synonymous wj£h whisky to know that three-fourths of tne state is "dry." Thirty of Kentucky's counties are entirely "dry," as many more are "wet" in one spot, or, to be more exact, liquor is retailed only at the county seat. All but five are "dry" in spots that is, there are no retail Jiguor stores in certain voting precincts*. Ia other words, the prohibition area in--Ken tucky overshadows the "wet" spots in the proportion of nine-tenths to one-tenth. —Chicago Record.