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An Exchange of Blood.
ITE emigration of American farmers Into Can
ada is assuming proportions that are phenom
enal. A writer In Collier's Weekly gives figures
showing that It has reached the rate of 50,000
a year. And he gives reasons which It would
be well to think about In this country. The
truth Is, he says, that this beglra of good citi
zens Is due to the frauds that have been practiced In regard
to our own public lands and that "the westward tide has
bumped Into the unyielding front of ranch, timber laud and
mining tract grabs, and so turns north Into Canada—ere
long In numbers of 100,000 a year—birthright plundered
expatria tes !"
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When we measure up these 50,000 good American farm
ers lost to ns every year and the undesirable part of that
Other host of foreign Immigrants dumped upon us In their
atead, the prospect Is not cheering. The citizenship of
this country must deteriorate woefully If these currents
continue to Increase In volume ns they have Increased In
the last decade. Meanwhile an amusing phase of the situa
tion lies In the fact that England Is showing uneasiness
over the American concluent of Canada. The English
Economic Review recently had an article laying stress
upon the Idea that Americans go Into Canada thoroughly
Imbued with the Monroe doctrine and determined to be
come the controlling political quantity.
This, of course. Is merely a nightmare,
farmers of the class that are going Into Canada know
care anything about the Monroe doctrine. They are going
there to build homes, to develop the lands and to make
money. They have more concern for their crops than for
all the politics In the world. It Is not a political conquest
of Canada by American farmers that England needs to
fear.
Few American
..r
It la an Industrial and commercial conquest. It In
the United States which has real cause to feel alarm over
The wholesale exchange of good stock for
bad cannot fall to have evil effect upon us politically and
Industrially. And yet If the farmers who are going over
the line to the north will assimilate Canada as thoroughly
wo have thus far assimilated the foreign Immigrants, wo
may be happy under one flag.—-Chicago Journal.
the condition.
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The Business Woman's P ob «ns.
11 Y the woman who works for a living Is nan
illy more nervous and In leas exuberant health
generally than the man who works, has been
\ matter for much discussion In clubs and
newspapers, and without any satisfactory
diet having been reached, but there are those
who do not find It hard to understand the
w
ver
phenomenon.
The man who works usually does one sort of work.
Is a physician, n lawyer, or a dork, and when he has closed
his office door for the day. If he Is a sensible man, he puts
In the remainder of the time enjoying himself In whatever
way best suits him.
He
And the woman who works—well, she Is usually Jack
of n dozen trades and master of none.
When she comes home from her office It occurs to hor
tlial there are à half a dozen pairs of stockings to be
flamed- -and she sets to work forthwith on this
tearing work. When tile stockings are finished, she Is Just
as likely as not to sew on the lace that the laundress has
ripped off a skirt, and she goes to bed with her head
schlug and absolutely unrefresbed.
In the morning she remembers that there are a dozen
little lace collars to be laundered, for they were much too
fragile to go In the general laundry, and that afternoon she
gives over to the "doing up" of these troublesome little
things, adding a couple of white belta, three pairs of white
gloves and a veil to the pile.
Wheu she has finished with these, her back Is aching,
nerv*
; ANOTHER P0INI OF VIEW.
In one of the northern tier of coun
ties of Iowa dwells a politician whose
war record is one of his proudest pos
sessions. As a matter of history he
"volunteered" by moans of the draft
near the close of the
war, whh as
signed to the cavalry, and saw no
more wearing service than poltclug
the Instruction camp; but for purposes
of appealing to the soldier vote he has
become able to
remember all that
might have happened to him If he had
"enlisted" earlier.
Helng a caudldate for office last fall,
he turned a camp-fire Into a political
rally and called upon his old comrados
for support.
"In those long
watches of the
night," he said, "when we lay shoul
der to shoulder beside those earlier
camp-fires along the Rappahannock,
In those wearisome days
pursued the fleeing enemy across the
Potomac after Gettysburg—"
"Hold ou there Bill," called a neigh
bor who knew him of old and oad a
grudge. "Stick to what you
about,
rivers."
when we
know
You never saw either of them
The orator paused and looked down
"Let me see." he asked, cool
were perhaps at
at him.
ly critical. "You
first Bull Run?"
"No, 1 wa'ii't, and you—
"Then perhaps
Meade? Or Hancock?"
"No. sir. Bill Bar—"
"Ah!
you
were with
Then probably you went In
back of Vicksburg, or tried the Chick
asaw Bayou route?"
"No. nor that neither."
"Then,"
thundered the
orator,
grandiloquently, "what right have
you to come here and Interrupt
discourse with these men who
Bull Run, and were on the Rappahan
nock. and were at Gettysburg—"
"When you and 1 were boys, back
in Indlauucr. Bill," Interrupted the
objector, who had now worked up to
tho front of the interested audience,
"there was a circus come
my
were at
our way.
They had one of the most wonderful
wild beasts of the African Jungle with
'em—'the only, sole and unique, three
horned uulcorulan.'
You and I paid
our good money to see him. Bill, and
we were mighty well satisfied with
what we seen. But along
feller from 8L Carles, and be
•Sho!
come a
says:
That ain't nothin' but a three
horned steer they bought of Slle
Thompson, and painted stripes and
spots on.'
" 'See here, you' says the
man. 'Be you from Africa T
" 'No. I haln't,' says the SL Charles
man.
" T >ld you ever see a three-horned
nnlcornlan before?' »ays the circus
man.
" 'No, I never did.'
" Then what right have you got to
circus
come here snyln' this beast ain't a
three homed unlcorulan, like we say
It Is?'
" *W«I,' says the ol' feller from St
Charles, 'I ain't never seen no three
horned unleornlan before, but I seen
Slle Thompson's three horned steer
many « time, an' I'm speakln' from
that point of view.' "
The politician did not stay to have
the application of the fable pointed
out.—Youth's Companion.
Bone Pot In n Boy's Arm.
At tbe annul gathering of the Glas
gow University t'lub at Sunderland
recently Sir William Maceweu. who
was concerned In an extraordinary op
eration upon a child over twenty years
ago, Introduced the patient, now a full
grown man, to the medical men pres
ent and explained the nature of the re
markable case.
The child was born without a bone
In the right arm, the boneless limb
hanging helpless by Its side. The sur
geons determined to make an attempt
to save tbe limb.
Small sections of the bone taken
from the tibia and other portions of
the legs of other patients who were
under treatment for tbe cure of bow
leggedness were transferred to the
boneless arm, there to continue their
growth and to become amalgamated—
In fart, eventually supplying the place
of the missing bumerus.
Sir William Maceweu kept In touch
with the boy, who at tho age of 14 left
Glasgow for Sunderland, where he had
worked since. The young man bared
bis arm to tbe guests present and gave
the company abundant proof of the
sustained servlceableness of the limb,
despite several accidents, Including a
compound fracture, which had be
fallen It
Orlgln of "Hunifhtter."
A correspondent of the New York
Sun gives the following account of tbe
origin of the word "hamfatter"—a
term of derision applied to actors:
"Years ago, before cold cream became
a feature of the make-up box, actors
used a preparation of ham fat for re
moving the crude grease paint of their
times. The less prosperous ones, for
the sake of economy, contented them
selves with the fat side of a ham skin,
which they carried about and used
Just as a wood cutter does In greasing
his saw. This practice had a disas
trous effect on the complexion, and
caused Thespians to be recognized at
once by the cracked and discolored au
pearance of their faces,
term 'hamfatter.'"
Hence the
Tho Brute.
Mr. Jawback—"Go to the devlll"
Mrs. Jawback—"Yon brute! I «hall
Just take you at your word and_"
Mr. Jawback—"And
home to your mother, eh?"—Cleveland
Leader.
go straight
We are always afraid of a man who
wears a sporty vest.
and she Is glad to lie down and read by the light of a
distant and dim gas Jet, thereby bringing on tho ills that
come from eye strain.
She discovers the next afternoon that her hair needs
washing, and she spends a good two hours at this hard
work. She doesn't feel that she can afford the seventy
five cents or $1 that a hairdresser would charge her for
this service, and which the latter can do much better than
she can do It herself, and so she expends her strength that
Is worth more to her than money. In half-doing this work
She manicures her own nails when she should be taking
a nap, and makes shirt waists when she should be exer
cising In the open. She makes caramels by way of fun,
and fusses over them until she herself admits that she Is
"half dead."
She finds things for herself to do that really needn't be
done, and by the end of the summer she Is a limp and
nerve-racked rag.
"But I have to keep nice," «he walls, "and I cannot af
ford to hire some one to do my mending and to groom my
hoir and nails!"
It Is, Indeed, a problem how the business woman shall
manage, hut. nevertheless, these ore some of the reasons
why she who works for a living ts usually a thin and ane
mic person, who looks haggard and old before her time.—
Baltimore News.
The Mind of the Petty Juror.
OME day science will have progressed far
enough In tho Investigation of the more com
plex mechanism of the animal body for an au
thoritative answer to be given to the question,
|Hhs a petty Juror any reasoning powers? At
the present time all Jurors, by a legal fiction
handed down from the time of the Saxons,
have the ability to comprehend simple statements of facts,
but like most legal fictions, this one has been Inconvenient
ly disproved. Only the other day, In the Superior Court, a
Jury, after listening to the suit of a man who wauted the
rent for a hotel which he had leased to two women who
sold their Interest to n third, awarded him precisely one
dollar In lieu of the $2,400 everybody admitted was com
ing to him. The decision of this sapient company of cal
culators was that the ones who sold possession did not
owe any rent, the one that owed the rent should not have
any possession, and that the owner should look to God and
not to his bond. A careful consideration of this Judgment
proves at least one fact that has been bitterly disputed:
Jurors have Instincts. They know when It Is dinner time
and when It Is quitting time. Excellently well-termed
Petty Jury!—San Francisco Argonaut.
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Why the Postal Defic't,
HE deficit of $12,000,000 In the postal depart
ment for the fiscal year calls renewed attention
to the outrageous manner In which the govern
ment is held up by tile railroads In the matter
of charges for the transportation of the malls.
It Is well known that the general public has to
pay unfair prices, but the general shipping
public escapes comparatively easy by the side of the gov
ernment. The government pays about eight times as much
pound for pound, as the express companies pay on the
same trains, and the government pays rent for the postal
cars, while the express companies pay nothing for the
press cars. But every effort to secure fair transportation
rates for the mails Is effectually blocked by the railroads.
When It Is remembered that the government pays the rail
roads upward to $35,000,000 n year for transporting the
malls the public may have a better Idea of why the railroad
managers take ao much Interest In electing congressmen
and senators, and securing pliable officials In the various
departments of the "P. O. IX"—The Commoner.
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To run an elevator Is not difficult
work, but requires careful attention
to business. For this reason, accord- ,
Ing to the testimony of their employ
era. girls can do It better than boys.
They are more conscientious and trust- I
worthy. The girls seem to enjoy the
work, and though the hours are long 1
the work Is not tiring. At the Young
Women's Christian Association the 1
elevator girl goes on duty at 7 o'clock !
and works till 12. Then she has two !
In the afternoon she !
works from 2 o'clock until 6, when she
WOMEN IN NEW EMPLOYMENT.
Hired to K
Devote I to Fi>
Women always seem to be able to
establish some kind of new' work. Now
Boston lias In several buildings de
voted to women's Interests, or patron*
Ized by women, girls employed to run
the elevators. The Idea was Introdueed
by the Women's Educational and In
dustrial Union, and the Young Wom
en's Christian Association soon fol
lowed.
Kl
torn In Huildt
ale lntere«ta.
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"Except for one Janitor," said the
superintendent of the latter Institu
tion, "we are nil women around here,
and to have two or three boys about
to run the elevator was au unmitigated
nuisance. So we discharged the boys
and hired the girls. Since then we
have been much more comfortable."
The New England Hospital for Wom
en In Roxbury baa also Introduced ele
vator girls, and some of tbe millinery
and women's furnishing goods stores
In Boston are taking up the Idea.
The girls nre all dclug the work to
the complete sallufnctioii of their em
ployers and have at the
suggested a solution for the perplexing
question of what to do with a girl
who has to earn money at an early
age. She can run au elevator until
she Is old enough or has acquired the
necessary training for something bet
ter. Formerly she might have beeu a
cash girl, but now various mechanical
devices are taking the place of the
cash girl and leaving her without
ployment. Several of the girls em
ployed as elevator girls lu the build
ings Just mentioned are studying for
better positions, and one Is glad to
earn $3 a week while her
me time
em
eyes are
recovering from the strain of her high
school course.
hours' rest.
has an Intermission of half au hour,
resuming work at 5:30 o'clock and con
tinuing till 7.
Hooked
Bacon—I tell you, American watch
es are bolding their own.
Egbert—That may be. but all the
owners of American watches
holding their own.—Yonkers States- !
man.
If -it were not for the fact that most
people ask too much Indemnity, there
wouldn't be much use for court*.
are not
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Some houses always look as though
the occupants were In the midst of a
house cleaning.
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8LEDDINQ IN «WEOEN
Only Country in Which the 8p»rk«tot
tinic la in Common L'aa.
of
The Swedes have made a fine art
sledding. Their fastest sled Is called j
the sparkstotting and Is an exceed
Ingly light sled that the Inhabitants
of Norrland, a province situated at the,
north of Sweden, employ during the
winter as a means of locomotion.
The use of It now extends through
out Sweden, where races upon this
original vehicle constitute one of the
I most highly appreciated sports of win
ter. Among other people of the north,
I In Russia, Scotland and Germany, this
sport Is entirely unknown, a fact that
Is somewhat extraordinary, considering
I that the sparkstotting can be employ
ed In all countries In which the rigors
of winter penult of the use of ordl
nary sleds.
The sparkstotting Is constructed en
tirely of Norway spruce. It Is straight,
of elongated form and weighs no more
than thirty pounds. It consists of two
ninneçs, curved upward In front, and
six and one-half feet In length. To
each of the runners is fixed an upright
I that serve« both us a point of support
I and a tiller. The entire affair la con
netted by two or three crosspieces, one
of which supports a light seat placed
twelve Inches above the surface.
The Norrland sled differs percepti
bly from the Vesterbotten type. In
which the runners, which are much
shorter, are not shod with Iron, but
are well greased or Impregnated with
boiling tar. The lightest and best type
for racing Is the one manufactured at
Umea, Norway. In order to push the
sparkstotting the racer, bearing with
both hands upon the extremities of
the uprights, places bis left foot upon
the runner to the left, and then with
the right foot strikes the ground at
regular Intervals so as to propel the
sled forward.
If the snow Is very hard and the
racer Is not provided with spiked shoe:
It Is necessary for him to fix steel calks
to the soles. In recent times a hori
zontal bar, breast high, has been placed
between the uprights. This modifica
tion renders the steering easier and
besides permits of governing with a
single hand. Upon a level route the
sparkstotting reaches a pretty good
speed without great effort
An experienced racer, when the
snow la In good condition, can easily
attain the speed of a horse on a trot.
In ascents It Is necessary to push the
sparkstotting or to drag It, but this
does not cause much fatigue, owing
to Its lightness and the feeble surface
In contact with the snow. With this
sled It Is possible to run very fast
WELL MEANT. BUT NOT TACTFUL.
Mrs. Chase's rosy face wore an
unaccustomed frown when her friend,
Susan Wetherbee, came In, and as
It did not lift Imedlately, Susan sought
to ease the situation. As a begin
ning she asked >trs. Chase If she had
met the new minister yet; If he had
called. The question proved to have
been Judiciously chosen.
"Yes, he lias," replied Mrs. Chase,
In a tone that plainly said sbe wished
he had not.
"He's real social," Suaan remarked
after a discreet pause. "Like own
folks."
Mrs. Chase Ignored this. "Susan,"
she broke forth, "of all blundering
young ones, I b'lleve my Salome's
the worst. If there Is a wrong way
to say a thing she'll find It. And all
the time she's trying to be tactful
and uot hurt people's feelings,
s'pose I ought to pity her for being
so afflicted, but most gen'rally she
makes me angry."
"What's she said now?" Susan In
quired, with mild curiosity.
"You may have noticed that Deacon
Chase got up and went out of church
last Sunday afternoon?"
"I did," said Susan, nodding twice,
to add emphasis to her reply.
"Well, this afternoon, while I was
getting Into my dress—I was Just
changing when Mr. Mills came — Sa
lome entertained him. Just as I was
coming Into the room I heard him
remark upon Deacon Chase's going
out so sudden.
" T hope nothing was the matter?'
he says. T noticed he didn't come
back.'
" "Oh, no,' said she, 'there wasn't
really anything the matter, only pa's
troubled with
been since he was a boy.'
"Perhaps," Mrs. Chase challenged.
"perhaps you thluk It was easy to
converse after hearing that?"
"I guess you could do It if anybody
could," Susan returned, with ready ad
miration.
"I talked, but I shall never know
what I said," replied Mrs. Chase,
tragically. "When the minister had
gone I asked Salome what on earth
possessed her to say that."
"What'd she say?"
"She said she didn't want the min
liter to think—bis second Suadjly
here -that her pa didn't like what he
i was saving It would have been aw
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f ub 8h ® aa . ld ' for , prob f' sbe * ald '
he d ° tg au lota 0 paln8 wlth
, 8ermoa ;
-1 "® ve ^' " d S " ,an ' W bat dld
8tar [ t I ,' bt ' d8acon up/
I by '. f , ?! a sudden be reraem '
he d eft 1,18 gate b8tw8eQ f* 18
1 p ** ture ot a " d *^ 8 open, and
be wa8 afrald 1118 cowd get In au
1 eat up b,a corn '
! Sbe bad * and be 8aId "'J 1811 he got
! ber out and 8aw w bat 8be d doDe 1,8
! wa " 1 ln any frame of mlnd to 8°
bBclt t0 cburc "' and " e 881 down ' n
the barn an' got cooled off."—Youth's
Companion.
The Inexpensive Life.
The stingy husband la represented
by tho Bystander as scowling penurl
ously at his wife.
"Please don't think," be said, "that
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somnambulism—has
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bit surprised."
you can hoodwink me over money mat
Do you think I have lived all
ters.
these years for nothing?"
And she replied, "I shouldn't be a
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I you can put off until to-morrow. Many
of the worries of to-day. If put off
until to-morrow, will take care of
I them salves
WONDER OF NATURE.
GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA A
MAGNIFICENT SPECTA3LE.
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two thirds of It Is ou
the other third on the western 1,10
The timber is In fairly good condition.
Sublime Scenery Laid Out by Nature
Holds Men in Its Spell- Great Chasm
Miles Across - Is s Mecca for the
Tonrlat,
The Grand Canyon of Arizona 1»
within a government forest reservation
sixty by eighty miles In size.
About
the eastern and
There was a bad fire two years ago
which ruined several hundred acres of
fine forest, but there Is little danger
of Us recurrence because of the vigil
ance of Captain Fenton, the superin
tedent, and his corps of foresters.
It Is thirteen miles from one rim of
the canyon to that on the opposite side,
and there ate t\vo trails by which the
western side may be reached. One of
them, the Bright Angel Trail, Is oppo
site the new hotel, and although It Is
eighteen or twenty miles to the top
the climb Is comparatively easy. It
follows a stream of clear, pure cold
water which comes tumbling down a
narrow canyon on the western side,
and Major Powell during his first
memorable exploration of the canyon
called It the Brlgbt Angel River be
cause It was such a grateful discovery.
Captain Fenton says that the coun
try on the western side of the canyon
Is much better than that on the east
ern side; that tllh timber Is larger and
thicker, water Is more abundant, and
there are a great many deer and other
big game. The forest reserve Includes
a strip of thirty miles along the edge
of the canyon, and west of that, to the
Utah line, the land has been taken up
bv Mermen ranchmen, who have large
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! ery; "" d t> f'^tion cannot be ac
| curately described. It 1* Impossible for
( one man to express his emotions to
j an * > er '
I It Is a singular fact that
I fourths of the people who come to the
canyon are women. A large number
of tbt ' lu nre weH along ,u F 8 " 1 " 8 ' a » d
'he endurance and the nerve they show
'« extraordinary. Nearly every woman
* bo tüUie8 L Ç le 1,,8i8t8 u l> ou «oing
down t0 the lK,,tom of the canyon,
wblle ouly half of tb8 m8, > show that
a >"ount of energy Iwo New
bave . £•? '?,*'* fo , r ,U01 "" 8
Tbey h " Ve vlslted al1 tbe P lac8s °f In
terest within 150 miles, Including the
Mokl and Supal Indians, and have fol
lowed all of the trails to the river,
Every one of these excursions
enough to use up the strongest men.
i Nowadays oue can ride to the oan
yon In a parlor car or a Pullman sleep
er and step off the tralu Into oue of
(he most picturesque and comfortable
hotels ( n the world. You can come all
the year round. February and March
are the least pleasant mouths, because
there are apt to be rain and snow
storms. From Sept. 16 to Feb. 1 the
weather Is most agreeable, but these
summer days are almost perfect_
neither too cool nor too hot. The ther
mometer ranges between 65 and 75
Fahrenheit. There are several advan
,ag8S In coming down here In the «um
mer . and a K°° d many people are be
Rlnnl,lg to flud tll8m out - T1 > 8 altitude
ts 7,000 feet above the sea, and that
Insures cool nights, no matter how
warm the days may be. But the days
are not too warm for comfort; the
thermometer seldom goes above 80;
there Is no humidity In the atmos
herds of cattle. Nearly all ot the In
habitants of that corner of Arizona
are Mormons. John D. Lee, the leader
In the Mountain Meadow massacre,
hud a ranch at a ferry over the Color
ado about a hundred miles north of
here, where he lived In concealment
for more than twenty years. He was
finally discovered, Identified, arrested,
convicted and executed for complicity
In the murder of a caravan of people
In northern Utah wible on their way
to California. His widow now keeps
a hotel at Holbrook, Arlz., oue of the
most Important stations ou the Santa
Fe Road, and several of his sons and
daughters are living In the locality,
People are beginning to find their
way here. Last year, which was the
first since the railroad was opened,
about 12,1)00 people came. This year,
If the present average keeps up, there
will be from 20,000 to 25,000 visitors,
and everyone who comes goes home a
walking advertisement for the place.
There Is nothing to compare with It
anywhere In the world. It Is Impossi
ble toexaggerate the grandeur, the sub
limity, the Impressiveness of the scen
three
York
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phere; and if the sun Is too hot all you
have to do la to raise your umberlla.
There is occasionally a freak of
weather. The snowstorm In which we
were lost occurred on the 20th of May,
1800. and tt la a singular coincidence
that a amtllar squall should arrive on
the very same date this year, with
snow enougn to hide the roadway
through the forest,
danger of getting lost now. The trees
have been blazed on both sides of the
trail, and If you stick to the railway
cars you are sure to bring up at the
canyon, three hours or so after yon
leave the Santa Fe Line at Fort Will
iams. The snow never lasts more than
a few hours. It may fall to a depth of
two or three Inches during the night
two or three times a year, but as soon
as the sun comes out In the morning it
disappears almost Instantly.
There Is a peculiar railway down
here. It Is the only one I know of In
this country over which no passes are
Issued. Everybody except the conduc
tor and the train crew—even the pres
ident himself—has to pay fare, and a
round-trip ticket over the entire sys
tem costa $6.50. The railroad Is ninety
miles long, it has no stations except
the terminals at Williams, where It
connects with the Santa Fe. and at the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado. It has
no side tracks except one to allow the
trains to pass. There are four passen
gcr trains a day, two In each direction,
made up of a baggage car and two
coaches and through Pullmans from
Kansas City and lavs Angeles twice
week. There are no freight trains and
no freight Is carried except water and
other supplies for the hotels at the
Grand Canyon. The road depends upon
passenger traffic alone. That Is the rea
son why passes are not given. There
are no switchmen in the employ of
the company and the pay roll carries
only twelve names. Including conduc
tors, engineers, firemen, ticket agents
and all concerned, and the track
kept In order by five section gangs
ten men each, who are now rebuilding
It from the bottom with now ties, new
rails and ballast of volcanic cinder.
I shall not try to describe the Grand
But there Is no
Cunyou of the Colorado. Few pens
brave enough to attempt It, and none
la equal to the task. Famous writers
have described the canyon with flue
word-painting, but noue conveys more
than a meager Idea of what the can
yon looks like; and It seldom looks the
same from hour to hour. With every
shifting cloud Us outlines and colors
seem to alter. As the sun rises and
sets In the heavens Its majestic out
lines change like the scenes of a pan
orama. You may sit ou the rim from
breakfast to dinner, gazing over tbe
same area, and see a dozen pictures
differing in color and Intensity. It Is
a stupendous Intaglio, carved In the
silent desert by the Colorado River,
and the rain and winds. It Is like an
Inverted mountain range, 217 miles
long, reaching a depth ot 7,530 feet,
with a series of depressions averaging
6,000 feet chiseled out of the earth by
the erosion of ages.
It Is the generally accepted theory
that this great chasm is solely
work of water—of the floods that
come down from the mountains every
spring and summer—but Mr. Ordonez,
a distinguished Mexican geologist, who
came here not long ago, made a sug
gestion which may not be entirely
new but Is worth mentioning. It Is
his Idea that, while the earth was cool
ing, the soil and the rocks contracted
and split a deep and wide fissure In
the surface of the plateau, and that Its
sides have since been worn down and
polished by the action of the water.
That seems reasonable.
There are various places along the
rim from which splendid views of the
canyon may be obtained. Each la dif
ferent. Each has Its own glories: but
what Is known as the Grand View is
the best, because from that
tory the eye has u wider vista, a dou
ble view;
around like a monstrous serpent, and
one cau follow It a distance of nearly
eighty miles. Thomas Moran painted
his famous pictures from what Is
known as Moran's Point. He thinks
the colors of the rocks and the clays
appear more brilliant there than else
where.
You can wander along the rim for
sixty miles. There Is no obstruction
for all that distance, and you cau look
down a mile Into the bowels of the
earth.—William E. Curtis, in Chicago
Record-Herald.
are
the
promon
there the canyon curves
KEUQION OF RUSSIA.
Peculiarities of the Church of Which
the Czar la the Head.
Confession Is enjoined In tbe Rus
sian church, but ts not performed as
satisfaction offered to God, says the
Church of Ireland Gazette.
No candidate for holy orders will bo
ordained until he is married. This, of
course, refers to the secular clergy.
The monastic orders must be celibates.
A widower priest may remarry; but be
mint first renounce his orders. A cu
rious Inconsistency is that no priest as
it
a
It
a
of
Is
of
long a, hi. wife 1. «live can attain «
bishopric, because all bishop, mutt m.
unmarried.
in the euchartst the priest receive,
the bread and wine sepsrately, where
as the laity receive both elements
mixed together, from a spoon, stand
ing. The sacrament Is also adminis
tered to Infants, but they receive
wine only, lest they might reject
bread.
tbs
the
Baptism Is
a most elaborate
mony and takes forty days before
complete. It Includes triple Immersion
the chrism, and tonsure of the Infant's
hair In the shape of a cross. The sacra
ment of unction differs from the ,i m '
liar sacrament In the Roman church
being, as It Is. administered even to
those who are slightly 111, whereas the
Church of Rome only gives It In an
articulo mortis, or when there lg
chance of
cere
It Is
no
recovery.
The services In the Russian
are mont elaborate,
from the fact that the
vices occupy twenty
Service la
church
This Is evident
ritual and ser
follo volumes.
performed at least
t raes dally, and the greatest part of
the service varies every day in
year, and every part of every day. ex
eept In the communion office.
The average pay of a parish
about £200. Bishops have about £5m
and a metropolitan, who corresponds
to our primate, £1,000 per annum
There are no state endowments, t he
lleve, the Incomes being derived from
collections of fees, for no priest will
perform even the most trifling office
without payment.
three
the
Priest Is
The Russian clergy have no social
standing; a better class of Russian
would uot eat at table with the parish
priest; In tact, they occupy the place
of our own clergy occupied about, say,
the fourteenth century.
Sermons are rarely preached In the
Russian churches. There are books
of homilies from which the clergy may
read, but these homilies
lengthy, ornate and elaborate that the
people refuse to listen to them. As a
rule, the clergy are too Ignorant
compose their own sermons, and
If they do compose them they must
first be sent to the consistory for ap
proval, because the government Is de
termined to stamp out heresy,
consistory is In no hurry to return tho
sermons and often several weeks or
more may pass before they do so, con
sequently the clergy as a rule leave
preaching severely alone. The Russian
priests never pay parochial visits
cept to beg; tbe result Is that they
have never gained the confidence
good will of the laity.
are so very
to
oven
The
ex
or
When ihe Stars Fell.
Almost historic Is the remark of the
awe-stricken lad who, while observing
the great meterolc display of 1833,
turned his eyes to a familiar corner of
the heavens after an especially brill
iant flight of meteors, drew a long
breath, and gasped;
"Well, tbe old Dipper's still there,
anyhow!"
Much more recently a similar spec
tacle. although In this Instance a dis
play no greater than Is ordinarily look
ed for In August skies, disturbed tho
tranquillity of a little girl
father, an enthusiastic amateur astron
omer, had taken her up on the roof
with him to see the sight. He expected
her to be delighted with the shooting
stars, but he soon observed that her
expression was scarcely a Joyous one.
"What Is It, Ada?" he asked her.
"Don't you like to watch them. Aren't
you enjoying yourself?"
"Ye-es, papa," she answered, dubi
ously, conscientiously trying to har
monlze the dictates of politeness and
truth. "At least, I suppose we can
spare the stars, and I think I might
enjoy It If only you can give me your
word we are sure of the moon."
whose
Pushing the Old Folks Aside.
When the babies are cross and a
man would like a quiet retreat there
Is none for him. But In a few years,
when the children are grown and he
Is in the way, the daughters and
mother put their heads together and
originate a den. There Is no den for
the mother because she gracefully
eliminates herself by sitting In tbe
kitchen or running over to a neigh
bor's. It is her natural disposition to
hide In a corner or remove herself en
tirely, and It Is not the natural disposi
tion of the father. Hence the den. It
has a couch and some pipes and to
bacco and the books which the neigh
bors haven't got around to borrowing
as yet, though If father begins a story
to-day the book will be found to hi
loaned out when he wants to finish It
to-morrow. The den Is a fashionable
way of pushing the old man ont. If
there Is one In your bouse, Mr. Man,
don't be deceived.—Atchison, Kno.,
Globe.