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THE MARBLE TIMES —AMD crystal SILVER LANCE MARBLE. COLORADO. I The Arkansas river is 2,170 miiet long, but at various points in its course is very narrow for its length. 1 No British ship is permitted to carry > deckload of timber into a British • port between the last day of October and April 16. Emile Zola has just refused an offer of $100,000 for three books. “I once walked the streets of Paris in danger of starvation,” he said, “but I am not •tarving now at the age of 61.'* Bermuda’s receiving ship, the Ter ror, has been put out of commission after perhaps the most uneventful ca reer of any naval vessel. She was an Iron floating battery built in 1856 for the Crimean war, but was sent the following year to Bermuda without having seen service, and for forty-four years remained moored off the Naval club there. George Gould, like his father, is a silent man. He divides his secrets with no one. Taught in a practical school, he has the ability, the wealth and the experience to develop his plans on a scale of great magnitude. It is predicted he will make a greater repu tation as a master financier than his father left, and that he will accumu late, If he has not done so already, a ( much larger fortune. j Vice President Roosevelt recently said in an interview with the Cherokee Indians at Buffalo: "The first shot fired in Cuba was fired by a half-breed Cherokee Indian in my regiment in the first battle of Guasimas. He was wounded eight times before he gave up, and as soon as he was out of the hospital he was back in the ranks ready for more fight. I had about fifty men who were either whole or pari Indian in my regiment.” To this American Horse, a noted Ogalla chief, responded: "Maybe that’s the reason you had the brrvest regiment in the army.” Accredited Russian officials have Just made overtures to a Philadelphia firm to establish a plant on the line of the Trans-Siberian railway for the making of steel and the construction of cars and locomotives. A free site has been offered, lumber, coal and iron privileges are to be granted, while the government guarantees to purchase a certain number of cars and locomo tives annually. The capital of $10,000,. 000 is to be raised in the United State* and the original plant shipped duty free from American ports. This is bui one of the many indications that the Russian government is willing tc make any concession to those who car and will develop Siberian industries. On the 14th day of November a ter rifle storm wrecked twenty-one vessels in Balaclava Bay, bearing for Britain’s men ammunition and warm clothin? and other necessaries for the winter which settled in with unusual severity Through unpardonable oversight tin land transport broke down altogether although it was but ten miles fron Balaclava to the front. Cholera, tin germs of which had been brought fron Varna, raged in the British lines, ant those who escaped it fell victims t< scurvy, dysentery, or fever. With onl] tents for shelter and rags for clothing with insufficient food, and, no mediaa comforts, the poor fellows starved anc died, and rotted. Between the begin ni»g of November and the end of Feb ruary 8,689 British troops perished ii hospital. On the last of these date! 13,608 men were still in hospital. A swarm of bees held up the businesi centre of Waterbury, Conn., the othei day. The bees swarmed a day befon the schedule date, and as they mad< for the business district there wai great excitement. Store doors anc windows were closed and women anc children screamed and fled to the side streets. There was a general scamper ing down South Main street as thi ■warm descended on this thorough fare, and, although the most traveled In the city, it was bare of everythin? tmt bees in a few minutes. Electric care and all other vehicles went int< retirement, and the bees, after sting ing 50 persons, circled about the sa loons and the livery stables until they threatened to destroy all business “When the excitement was at its heighi the bees, attracted by tinners repair -lng a roof, made a dead set for the noise, and the way the men slipped down the ladders would do credit tc sailors. The bees sought the seclu sion of the housetops, where theli owner, with the usual blandishment* succeeded In coaxing the bees into a big chimney. After a successful flirtation with the queen, the man loaded the swarm in big handfuls into the hive brought along In anticipation of sue •ess. If a load of coal is let out of doors exposed to the weather—say, for a month —It loses one-third of its heat tag qualities. If a ton of coal is <; fteesd on the ground and left there and another ton is placed under a shed, . -flMMgttsr loses about 25 per cent of til basting force, the former about 41 f eomt Hence it is a great saving «oaI tig hare it in a dry place, cov afar and on ail sides. The softer the more heating power it e the volatile and valuable undergo a alow oombua TREASURERS OF OLD. BE1NQ UNEARTHED IN THE FAR EAST. Old MmiIo Floor Recently Daf Up la JerniBlem — Peculiar Drawing; that Tall of HUtorieal Kvaoti Asm Ago, When Christianity Was Young. (Jerusalem Letter.) Former discoveries of fragments of mosaic pavements in Jerusalem, Pales tine, and its neighborhood have been eclipsed by a recent find which is most elaborate and exquisite in design and execution, and which is also in a state of almost perfect preservation, the col ors of the mosaics in their artistic combinations being as bright and effec tive as the day the work was finished. A few weeks since the owner of a little property in a small Jewish col ony just outside the Damascus gate, in digging a ditch in his yard, came upon some mosaic work at about four feet below the surface which, when uncov ered as far as permitted by the streets bounding the excavation on two sides and the wall of a house on the third, disclosed the ancient mosaic pavement which the illustration shows. Further excavations await the order of the Turkish government, whose officials have taken the site in hand, and which may sow the pavement to extend some what further in length on one side. The patter would indicate that the complete width at one end has been uncovered. This mosaic floor is about 220 paces west-northwest of the Da mascus gate. The part already un covered is about 18 feet in length by 11 in breadth. The upper and larger part of the pavement is composed of an exquisite design, including a central panel surrounded by an elaborate frame. The panel has its chief figure, a representation of Orpheus, in a sit ting posture, and playing upon an 11- stringed harp. Grouped within the panel are animals and birds, including a serpent and a salamander, which lat ter two are in an attitude of conflict. In the lowej* right-hand corner is the horned and goat-footed figure of the God Pan, with his pan pipes under his left arm and his right hand out stretched, and beneath it a hare. In the other lower corner is a centaur, with his hand over his mouth. The posture of these animals and figures suggests that they are entranced with the music of the harp of Orpheus. Green branches on the white back ground, interspersed here and there, given an added brightness and beauty to this central design. In the elaborate work of the wide frame surrounding THE MOSAIC FLOOR. this panel are wrought medallions in leaf-enclosed wreaths, 14 in all, con taining representations of fruits, ani mals, and birds, with symbolic human heads in the four corners, each looking towards the center, where Orpheus sits. Beneath this main part of the floor, but wrought in with it so as to form an harmonious whole, are two rows of designs, there being three in each row. The first row is composed of three panels, the central one containing two female figures in Byzantine dress, with a column standing between them, and a Greek name written alongside of each in poor orthography and style of character. The lettering suggests the reverse side of the Byzantine coins. On either side of this central panel is an other, containing each a stone which protrudes above the surface and sug gests tombs beneath. The lower row ,is of three medallions, each contain ing a figure, the right-hand one of a hunter with a spear, running; the cen tral one of a lion, and the left-hand one of a leopard, both bounding away. The work is assigned to not earlier than the Fourth century, and possibly as late as the Seventh. The designs seem purely pagan and classical. There is little, if anything, to indicate a Christian origin. There may be a nimbus about the heads of the female figures, but it is as likely to represent the dressing of the hair or be designed to throw the faces into better relief. St. Dunstan and the Horseshoe. The notion that the horseshoe Is a protection against evil is as old as the hills. There is a legend that the devil one day asked St. Dunstan, who was noted for his skill in shoeing horses, to shoe his "single hoof.” Dun stan, knowing who his customer was, tied him tightly to the wall, and pro ceeded with the job, but purposely put the devil to so much pain that he roar ed for mercy. The saint at last con sented to release him on condition that h* never would enter a place where he mw * horeeehoe displayed. IGNORANCE NO EXCUSE. TbU Tonne <M»n Proporlj Bnneood bf m Greek Cutonar. If in the course of your wanderings, gentle reader, you should ever find yourself in the Grecian village of Mar copoulo, 35 miles out of Athens, don’t as you value your celibacy—if you are possessed of that pleasing attribute — pick up any handkerchiefs which you may see lying on the ground. A suit of breach of promise, which is now be ing tried in the Grecian capital, should be a warning to all bachelors who in tend visiting Hellas without a chaper on. The plaintiff in this suit is a re markably good-looking young woman, who demands that a young man, a to tal stranger to her until recently, and who never asked her hand in marriage in his life, should become her husband or pay her heavy damages. In the vil lage of Marcopoulo there is a curious custom which has the force of law. On certain holidays the villagers assemble on the village green, and on these oc casions any unmarried woman who thinks it is about time she took to herself a husband drops her handker chief has all the binding force of an engagement. Now', the fair plaintiff in this suit made up her mind a while ago that - the boys in Marcopoulo were rather "backward about coming for ward,” and her chances of matrimony weregraduallyslippingaway in spite of her good looks. So she went to the vil lage green on the next holiday and dropped her handkerchief. There hap pened to be a strange youth in the vil lage that day who was not familiar with the local customs. The village boys fought shy of the handkerchief, but the unsuspecting stranger picked it up. Then the villagers set up a great shout and brought to him a blushing beauty, whom he had never seen before, an nouncing to him that she was his fu ture wife. Naturally he was astonished, and could on4y murmur: “This is so sudden.” Partially recovering his com posure, he inquired if he might ask just why the young lady was to be his future wife. He said he was over young to marry yet, and, in fact, declined with thanks. But the villagers ex plained their ancient custom to him and the young lady declared that he would marry her or she would know the reason why. The young man swore by Pallas Athena that he would “see her further” first, and made his escape from the village. But the girl was bent on marrying, and the personal inclina tions of the man in the case could not be considered. So she brought breach of promise and it is thought she will win her case, and the young man be forced to either marry her or "pay through the nose.” —New York Press. WONDERFUL COW-HORSE. New Jersey Again In Line With Some thing Abnormal. Veterinarians are interested deeply in a freak cow-horse, which is in the possession of Mr. William S. Hugo of Elizabeth port, N. J. At first glance the animal looks like a mare of nat ural size, but on approaching her’ hind quarters the formation of a cow is dis covered in. the hip bones, which are level with the backbone. She measures 23% inches from one hip bone to the other. The mare has natural shoulders and head, but when traveling has the peculiar stride of the cow. The animal has attracted much at tention, and several circus men have endeavored to buy her. The mare can get over the ground in lively fashion, while not appearing to be going fast. In the stall the animal chews her cud, as does a cow or bull, and if watched closely many of the attributes of the bovine can be observed. When swish ing flies her motion is the same as that of a cow. She can gallop, but in a clumsy fashion only. Why Boys Wear Earrings. The custom of boys wearing earrings in China is thus popularly explained by the Chinese: The boy is the greatest blessing that heaven can send. The spirits like boy babies. It is natural that they should, everybody likes them. Very often, if the boy babies are not watched closely, the spirits who are constantly around grab up the un watched boy babe and carry him off to their home. Girl babies are not such blessings and the spirits care nothing for them. The earring is a feminen ornament, and the spirits know that; so the Chinese mothers have the ears of their boy babes pierced and put In huge earrings. When the sprites are around looking for boys they will see the earrings and be fooled into think ing the boys are girls and will pass on and not trouble them. Chamelson Colors of Butterflies. Butterflies change their colors ac cording to the heat of the atmosphere. This interesting fact has been discov ered by M. Sandfuss of Zurich, Swit zerland, who subjected 40,000 butter flies to experiments under different de greees of the sun’s heat. On one occa sion, it being unusually cold in Swit zerland, a butterfly common there took on the appearance of a butterfly from Lapland. On the other hand, butterflies which were subjected to a higher de gree of solar heat than the normal look ed as if they had been born and raised in Corsica or Syria. One result of these novel experiments is the production of butterflies of an entirely new type, some of them being of bewildering beauty. President Richard C. Hughes of Tabo College, who has accepted the presidency of Rlpon College, is 40 years old, and has a high reputation for scholarship and executive ability. Abyssinia was converted * to Chris tianity in the fourth century- The country hss now over 13,000 monks. SIGNALS TO MARS. PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY SAYS IT CAN’T BE DONE. 12 Lake Superior Wae Covered wllh Petroleum and tho Oil Set on Fire It Would Taka a Good Telescope to See tba Light. Sir Robert S. Ball, the Cambridge astronomer, writes to the London Ex press: It was the remark of the gyeat Sir William Herschel that the re semblance of Mars to this earth is one of the most striking features in the solar system. The observations of the planet which have been made since the time of this incomparable observer have tended to illustrate the truth which he then laid down. Mars is not so large as our earth, of course, but, like our earth, Mars is surrounded by an atmosphere. At the poles of Mars are vast white tracts which become greatly extended during winter on the planet, but which shrink again during the ensuing summer. To deny that these white tracts on Mars consist of ice or snow now seems to me a sup position so fantastic that I think we need not seriously diccuss it. It has been proved by recent observations that the large dark objects on Mars long believed to be open oceans can no longer be so described. By the ex cellent telescopes now available, these dark tracts have been shown to be traversed by marks of a nature so per manent as to be wholly incompatible with the supposition that in looking at the dark regions we are looking at sheets of liquid. For the demonstration of this point we are indebted to the labors of many astronomers, but we must specially mention Mr. Percival Lowell, who has devoted consummate skill and assiduity to the study of this planet. With the help of a powerful telescope at his observatory in Flag staff, Arizona, Mr. Lowell has also largely extended our knowledge of the canals discovered many years ago by Schiaparelli. Mr. Lowell has given us some excellent reasons for his belief that these so-called canals'do indeed mark the courses along which water is conducted from the melting snows at the poles of Mars to the more arid parts of the planet. When, upon cer tain occasions, which do not recur very frequently, Mars comes nearest the earth, the distance of the planet from our globe is still about thirty-five million miles. Now what can a tele scope show at the distance of thirty five million miles? It requires a very good telescope to reduce the apparent distance of an object to a thousandth part. That is to say, it is a very good telescope which will show an object as clearly as we could see It with the unaided eye if it were at a thousandth part of its distance, and if we dis pensed with the assistance of a tele scope. It is, therefore, impossible to hope for any signalling to Mars un less the signals were on a scale suffi ciently great to be visible to the un aided eye even at a distance as great as thirty-five thousand miles. This con sideration suffices to prove the utter futility of human endeavor to make any demonstrations on a sufficiently large scale to be perceptible to the inhabitants of Mars. The very largest city that this earth has qver known would be altogether too small to be visible to a being dwelling on the planet Mars, even if that being were endeavoring to see it with a tele scope as powerful as the greatest and most perfect instrument in any obser vatory on this globe. If the whole ex tent of Lake Superior was covered with petroleum, and if that petroleum was set on fire, then I think we may admit that an inhabitant of Mars who was furnished with a telescope as good as that which Mr. Percival Lowell uses at Flagstaff might be able to see that something had happened. But we must not suppose that the mighty con flagration would appear to the Martian as a Very conspicuous object. It would rather be a very small feature, but still I think it would not be beyond the reach of a practiced observer in that planet. On the other hand, if an area the size of Lake Superior on Mars was to be flooded with petroleum and that petroleum was to be kindled, we should expect to witness the event from here not as a great and striking conflagration, but as a tiny little'point of just discernible light. The disc of Mars is not a large object, and the conflagration would not extend over the three-hundredth part of that disc. It is sufficient to state these facts to show that the possibility of signalling to MarB is entirely beyond the power of human resources. Wood Pavements Radiate Heat. Tests made in Boston prove that pavements radiate more heat than any other kind. The time of the experi ments was the early afternoon, with the thermometer at 98 in the shade. The average temperature was 124% for the wood pavement, 115 for granite blocks, 113 for asphalt and 102% for macadam. Cats are Calve's Pets. Cats are Calve’s pets among ani mals. She finds them the most inde pendent and coquet! sh of created things and full of occult Influence. Wild verbena is her perfume, carna tion her flower, autumn her season, Ophelia her favorite role. May Extract Bread From Wood. Prof. Dr. Van t'Hoff, a Berlin chem ist, is reported to be of opinion that before long the problem will be solved which will make it possible to extract breed from wood. * IN CARDLAND. Gambling t« England Soma Two HandroO Team Ago. After the advent of the House of Hanover, the favorite games at court were "quadrille,” an improvement of "ombre,” and "commerce.” The gains and losses of the kings and queens were as a rule restricted to 100 ’feul neas, but on twelfth night it was cus tomary for thousands to change hands. On one occasion Lady Cowper, a lady in waiting, refused, for the sake of her children, to take part in the game, as none sat down to the table with less than £200, About the year 1740, a rage for "whisk,” or whist, set in. but at first it was considered too wis9 a game for ladies to join in. Hume, the historian, and even the great Johnson regretted that he had not learned to play cards. In 1742, “Horry Walpole finds it absolutely necessary to learn "whisk,” "having waited in vain for its being Ifeft off.” We find him in another letter threatening to build an altar to “Pam” to commemo rate the escape of his charming Duch ess of Grafton, who, it appears, had been playing cards in Rome, when she ought to have been at a cardinal’s reception, where the floor fell in and all the monsignors were precipitated into the cellar! Cards were so very much in evidence'in his time that even invitations ’Were* frequently issued and notes written/ the backs of play ing cards*-.whitih.on' account were usually plain without any design. The chevalier’s fanfous order to retreat at Culloden was written on the back of the nine of hearts. A fresh attempt was made in 1739 to remedy the state of gambling in England, by passing an act which pro vided that “any person keeping a house or other place to game in for feits £200, half to the prosecutor and half to the poor of the parish.” Whereupon two ladies of title, Mord ington and Casselis. who kept open houses for gambling, claimed their privilege of peerage in order to in timidate the peace officers from doing their duty and suppressing the public gaming houses kept by them. —Long- man’s Magazine. THREE AMUSING GAMES. Read About Them and See How Mach Faa They Are. The game called water sprite affords children a lot of fun. Players stand in two lines facing each other, with a large open space, representing a river, between. The child called the water sprite stands between and beck ons one to cross. This one signals to one on the opposite side, and they run across to exchange places. If touched by the water sprite, the water sprite and the one touched exchange places, and the game is continued. Last pair pass is another amusing game. The children stand in twos, one behind the other. One who is catcher stands in front with his back to the others and calls, "Last couple out!” when the last two in the line run around to the front and try to join the hands before they are touched by the catcher. The one touched be cjmes catcher, and they take their places as first couple in the line/ To play red lion, one player, the red lion, stands in a den. The others venture near to him, calling: Red lion, red lion, come out of your den; Whoever you catch will be one of your men. He runs out and tries to catch one. The first one caught joins hands with him, and together they try to catch the others, each captive being added to his line. Only the two persons at the ends of the line can catch the others. The Religions Dance, Seville. Seville is the one place in the world where dancing is a part of religion. The dancing of the Seises before the high altar, as I saw it at the feast of the Immaculate Conception, to me, was not simply a curious thing, but a thing perfectly dignified, perfectly religious, without a suspicion of levity or inde corum. This consecration, of the dance, this turning a posslbld' "vice into a means of fencing of the peopled art, the pstssion, into the church/ finding it 9,; place there, is op$ of . those acts of divine worlgjy wisjlpm. which the Catholic church has often practiced in her con quest of the world. And it is a quite logical development of that very elab orate pantomlne, using the word in all seriousness, which the ceremonies of the church really are, since all have their symbolical meaning, which they express by their gestures. Already we find in them every art but one: poetry, (the very substance of the liturgy), ora tory, music, both of voices and of In struments, sculpture, painting, all the decorative art, costume, perfume, every art lending it3 service; and now at last dancing finds its natural place there, in the one city of the world where its presence is most perfectly in keeping—Spectator. Don't Be Morbid —It Is Catching. A morbid state of mind, if long con tinued, produces a like condition of body. One should shun a morbid state of mind as much as one does smallpox or any other contagious disease. The People’s Health Journal says: "Fig uratively speaking, morbidity is a highly contagious disease, and a whole household may become Infected by one morbid-minded individual. Such condi tions of mind, which are often culti vated, do far more harm than epidem ics of smallpox or yellow fever. While these diseeees destroy lives and hornet of many people, the other, destroying mind and heart, affeeta the multitude.’* CHINESE IN LONG BEARDS Mongolians Wore WhUhk*. JH Shaving Ruined *9 “Dry shaving has been smjBI China and In less than aooSH almost removed beards ftWSBI of the men of the empiiTPHl! an intelligent Chinaman toaSB "Originally the Chinese JIM beards. This Is easily verlSSH examination of any 0 f *hc of Chinamen, for all of ttuSfl long-bearded men. in tlnu*B found that there was no partSBli for a beard and that the ■was expensive, outside of ttfl actually occupied in trlinmliJlH ing it. How many AnierieJJB day are fipreed to spend geveSfl a week in a barber’s chattel men that I know, American* ropeans as well, spend twedtv jB in the barber's chair every a/.'B “The Chinaman of the obBH the kind of Chinaman whotfBH a pirate in your prints, for Chinaman never seems to haveS picture in your books at all untS in the last fifty years at mowgfl were a long beard in reality 9 as in the pictures. But even h2H out that there was no necessity B The learned men of the asked to consider the matter arrived at the conclusion that SB ing was to some extent a Anyhow, official edicts ing this information. The 0 j7JB who had beards of course were 1 ! it and they lived out their foB passed out of existence beards, but the young men wen9 to ‘dry shave.’ Thus the refomB ed and in five or six people the beard had practicaffijB penred, so that the average (mH to-day does not have to detqB one-half hour in a month to bB face hairless. Iu the next tvofl ations beards are expected to I pear absolutely. It took timetoB this about, but in the life of iH such a thing as a century be allowed to count much. iB beards would disappear from B cam? and Europeans in five 9 tions if tb,e people wanted thenfl appear.” j§ Automobiles as Transport (???) Experiments In France have convincing, and the French bellMfll are certain to play a role oflaBI portance in modern warfare. ItbtfJ note the different uses to whiohmS and science are put. On the OH they fight for the destruction of rB throughout the country HostettenB ftch Bitters fights to preserve/fiB fifty years the Bitters has beet dyspepsia, indigestion, constlpatlrifl biliousness. It will also fever and ague. Gettysburg Park. In the Gettysburg National p9 mounted cannons have beenll and a total of 31(J monumefllB been erected. . * Are Yon Using Allen's Foot-Ease. It is the only cure for lB Smarting, Burning, Sweating* Corns and Bunions. Ask for ifl Foot-Ease, a powder to be shakiS the shoes. At all Druggists Btores, 25c. Sample sent FREES dress, Allen S. Olmsted. LeRayjfl Comparative Cost of Education. London, with 4.<»00,000'-« spends about $12,000,000 a j popular education. New Yoa 3,500,000, spends about $15,ON The greatest of professional at use Wizard Oil for a "rub-dof! softens the muscles and prevail ness. "As soon as Miranda saw Jn marked him as he r own," said' sive cowboy, "but dhe didn’t get lost the brand and is still a may Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price, 75c. Many a man who goes into tg market as a bull or a bear COS berating himself as a donkey. Piso’s Cure is the best medicine for all affections of the throat sndlOl O. Endsley, Vanburen. Ind., Feb. AI Good morning! 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