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IH SESSION AT OTTAWA.
£ chat- cr 2- eie-atcs s.i s. Over h:s hcai la the r«-pc<-te-s" iz".-.ry . In front of him at table sits the sergeant -at -arms.
IMW m b-t'orrc ;, sits S.- Wuf>-id L-s_-:c, tt-e Premier.
T PARIS BICYCLE TRACK.
til hit motor b.cycle blocked neaHy a", the tracfc. Contant, !a hi* endeavor to avoid
*hi. machine climbed until it reached the top of the -a" in the word -Humber. At
*, reached the top cf the second -•" in the word "Eadie-» At that point the machine
dictators until the front wheel struck a post and was smashed- Contant had only
*tt . Beth w*rs ready to recommence their dangerous exercise- Two spectators
• . c unr,r, 3 junction cf many photographs •?«"»' igJ^'jJ^J&J*
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, lima
"Tlere, you kids," she drawled, "yon all had
best watch out for that little table; you'll
ma: h all the lady's crockery."
The "crockery" survived that visitation, but
pooti after suffered at the hands of a friend.
A goest who revered the name of Washington
Irving dropped a cup, and It fell to the floor
with a sickening ish. There was dead si
lence as the family stood staring at the melan
choly remains. Then the guest spoke: "1 con
sider it a greal honor to break a cup that has
touched the l;ps of the greatest American au
thor." And she stooped down, carefully ith
ered into her handkerchief the precious frag
ments, and bore them away to pack them care
fully in her trunk.
Tho cups had still another nture. In the
spring and fall there Is a grand round-up on
every ranch. The cattle are counted, the ealTea
branded and divisions made into the different
pastures. The ranch owners at th!s time em
ploy extra cowboys. A raifs wagon is fitted out
with dishes, cooking utensil:?, drinking water and
provisions, unless the rour.J-up fur the day is
near enough to the ranch house for the men
to come in to dinner. On the first day of one
of the fall round-ups at Sleepy Hollow Ranch
the mesa wagon stood at the door waiting to
be Fto< ked out. Every one was running ba<:k
and forth g.-tting together this and that thing
at the last moment. Some one asked the rand
ov.-ner, who fcapp. n,-d to pass through the kitchen.
If he would not get the tin coffee cups and pack
them in the wagon. The ranch owner is a no
toriously absent minded man, and on this par
tlcular morning he was wondering where he
could get ar. extra man to take the ; lace of
the on.- who had failed him at the last minute,
why the cowboys from the n. 9 Hanch had not
come, and whether the water would hold out
if the wind continued too low to turn the wind
mill. But in spite of these, to a ranchman,
vital worries, he remembered to go to the china
closet for the cups.
After the little company of cowboys and the
moss ....... up the rear had disap
peared and peace and n,ui<t once more pre
raJled abont the hous.-. the rancherb'a wife had
occasion to go to the china closet. Hei glance
fell on the shelf held sacred to the Irving china.
Her eyes suddenly grew wide. There was the
enormous platter, there were the vegetable ;
dishes, the plates, but wh<re were the cups? hr ■ r l
heart came up into her throat, and she turned ;
quickly to a side shelf. There sat, peaceful and \
unmolested, the common Mexican pottery and
& dczen or fo shiny tin cups. Not a piece was ,
pone from Its place. Every horse had been
taken from the pasture, and nothing could be .
done but wait in agonized silence until the mess
wagon should come rumbling and jolting horn?
sjsjaln. Strange to say, not a cup was broken.
The old aristocrat* weathered the storm of ;»
round-up and returned to port without a nick.
MANUAL TRAIXMXG.
Indiana to Work—School* for h\d
Boys and Girt*.
Rapid City, S. D., Nov. 10.--Th- L'nited States
government this \ a- begins *.— >■ the ~xi>-rim<»nt
of teaching In<lian hoy'a ar.ri ,''::•:- manual train
ing. It is pan of the nrogtaM.T.e «>f the .govern
ment for putting the indi.tr. to «.,rk. Satis
factory results have l>»<r. r :»■ .:.<! among even
the high spiriti-d Sluux Indiar*. -:nd ••n th Pin«
Ridge ni-.rvation alone sun.,- l.n>o Indians ar«
supporting themselves ar>J families except la
winter But these red men r~rf..rm only . in
skilled labor. Th.y ar- in demand on th," ■ -il
road extend. >r.s «.f So U ;s, Dakota. Nebraska and
Wyoming. ai:d hundreds ..f them have -ked
on government and private wagon toads, whila
a limited number have h. iped the farmers har
vest theli small grain and corn crops. But their
The government believes that the Indian of
to-morrow will be found in sui I professions _i
electrical, mechanical and mining engin^rlng
and even in the learned professions. A new
Industrial building has just been erected here,
at a cost of |8,000 In this building the boys
will get practical instruction In blacksmithing,
cobMinc. harness making and carpentering.
W"hil«- the boys are being equipped to 'Iraw
good wages, the Indian girls are being made into
housekeepers. They are learning to sew, "ok.
•wash, iron and clean and keep house. Th*
Indian girls call keeping house "making it new,"
and their phrase is expressive of the care they
usually take. At a day school in ?outh Dakota,
Uncle Sam provides the luncheon rations, and
the girls, assisted by a teacher, prepare the
luncheon. The meal usually consists of "fTee,
bread, bacon, beans, dried fruit and syrup. In
Idaho and Kansas an outing system for Indian
girls has been established, the girls working tor
wages as house servants in the summer. Thia
Is also being tried in South Dakota, and the
Indian problem and the servant problem may
both be solved at the same time.
AUTOMATIC JUSTICE IN ITALY.
A few days ago a rebber tried to steal copper by
cutting down tne wires from an iron pele out
side Naples.. The wires were carrying a high
tension currsnt of five thousand volts and
killed him instantly. It was with difficult/
that the body was brought down, as one arm
was firmly gripped around the column. Th*
current passing through the arm had pertly
melted the iron of the column.
—Tha Srh-rw.
AN INSECT THAT LOOKS LIKE A THOR*.
Protective resemblance, protective colorat or
whatever name may be given to the deception
which is practised by one branch of zoology
upon another, is to the naturalist at ail tm.e3
a most fascinating study. One of the most
remarkable, perhaps, is the little South A-ner
ican insect which bears so striking a resem
blance to the ordinary rose thorn as often to
deceive even the most practiced eye. H : .v it
discovered in the first instance its milarity
to z prickly thorn, or how. having made tn«
discovery, it decided to use it as a rr-ar., cf
protection against its natural enemies, is cr.e
of nature's profoundest riddles. Still more
mysterious, perhaps, is the instinctive power
which induces it tc take up a position on the
ros- stem, in the very exactitude of which in
rc!r.ticn to the surrounding thorns lies its
chiif • ••rent of safety. — The Sthfja.
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