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PAMING III MINK.
Tack Iwo earths on (Ito outside of your
truteic, Ono over the other; tee wider one
bearing your hoine addrese, the upper
one Unit of the place to which you aro
going, Weer' the time for repacking
Coneee, yOtt have only to tear off the up-
per earl
For keeping gowns smooth, fasten
atlittn011 BMW eyes into tile inner sides
of the trunk In rows, three or four in e
tow, and have Guth row about two
inchop apart. Draw strings of tape
tightly through these, and after a skirt
is folded place IL in the Mimic, and, witti
sueety-pins,. fasten at each end to tho
I ape.
A geese way to pack a woman's hat in
thaveguld lust tray Is to bore fain; holes,
ene In °tech side, near We corner, and To realize In some measure what has
half an inch from the bottom. Take been accomplished in suelt a stied time
four piece% of tape, each half a yard as Mao elapsed since the discovery ol the
long, ane after tying a knot in one end, nickel deposits al Sudbury it Is limes -
run the tape through the holes, knots
outside. Place a hut in the bottom and
Le the Ono ends diegonally opposite
each other.
A simple device for an ordinary can-
vas telescope bag is to provide four
strips of slaingles, In length a little less
than twice the height of the telescope.
When the bag Is being packed these
pieces aro put In each corner, and one
may keep on packing as high as they
stand. Then the top may be tightly
stropped on, and oven the fluffiest gar-
ments wilt not be crushed.
children CAA be amused and the annoy -1 as English walnuts. This, the foreman
aneee of a long trip can be reducon to it
milienten by furnishing them with pro-
per entertainment.
Ou a liot night Ione off a piece of news -
caper the size 01 110 is time and slip the
impel' between the pillow and the pillow- Three or four ears of the train am tilled
epee, As paper Is a noroconduelor of Wilh a nitch liner ore. It Is almost Ilice
heal, the pillow Is !cold, co/emirate*, dust. This Is called "fines," and you can.
cool. When the air in We berth is 1.0 glatsS darivatiOn far Solirself,
eat nen is is band to go to moo!), wily The OVe is taken direct 11'0111 the mines
1111 a rubber witter-bollie with lee wat,:e In the "roast yards" at Copper Cliff,
and place beneath tha pillow. Turning These lio about a mile to the north, of
the pillow no that, the cool eide may come tho village and present peehaps the most,
ender the neck, soon induces sleep, depressing scene of earthly desolation
to be found in Canada, Students of
Dante and Milton will find no dillioulty
In selecting appropriate quotations,
Most et all, perhaps, it remits pictures
of the Valley of the liftmen, that awful
&Me of Old Joeusalem, in which 11 Is
said great tires were icejet constantly
burning to consume the refuse of the city.
From tele Valley of the ['Innen is de-
rived the word Gehenna, which is usual -
1y translated "Hell," On one side of a
line of railway used for the transporta-
tion of ore rise great hills of barren
rock, covered here and there with guant
skeletons of white birch and lemma,
all dead --one is tempted to quote with
Charles Lamb
"Alt silent and all damned."
On the other side huge windrows of ore
In square beds stretch in seemingly end -
was still a wilderne,ss. The ground was clouds of smoke rise from these plies and
Covered with a tangle of tenon trees and
drift lazily to the horleon. These ore Me
thick underbrush, through which pro -
roast yards, where the sulphur is mast-
icated (he spectral skeletons of gharred
pines that bore testimony to the 'terrible ed out -of the ore. The ore as it Is Laken
from the mine contains about twenty -
destructiveness of the forest fires 01
floe per cent. of sulphur. When It reach -
forty years before. At the present thilb
perhaps Ilve thousand people directly or' es the roost yards It is unloaded on
indirectly draw their living team the ores
oundations of emelwood about eighteen
discovered in this wild„,„ese. Feely, inches thick. Earle bee carries teem
tells you, Is called "raggins," If you
ask sfhy it is culled "regains" be belie
you
IIE DOES NOT KNOW.
THE STORY OF NICKEL
A VISIT TO THE LARGEST NICKEL
BEPOSiT IN TUE WORLD.
Bow The Ore Is Removed From The
Ground—Before It. Reaches the '
S 11 lei ler.
COmPOirr AND HEALTH.
For toothache, rubbing the gum with
quinine, -in powdered form, Is recom-
mended. The powder should be held
in the mouth as long AS possible.
A sick headache Is often caused by in -
&tinily to get meals at the usual time. A
few }begins carried in a tiny box and
eaten from time to time will often overt
o houlache. naisins contain a geeat
deal of nourishment. Try eating sweet
rallic ottocolate when meals aro delayed.
To allay thirst when there is no water,
cr at tenet no good water, to be obtalm
ed, a cube of mom soaked in lemon
:Mice is exoellent. Lemons are valueble
traveling companions. Sweetened lem-
on juices ended to water is much better
for &Inking than plain water on boats
AP trains.
Beat is one of the most powerful
agents for the rend of pain. So don't
forget the hot water bag. A flannel cov-
et. will serve to protect the skin from
direct oentact with the hot bag. In
-ease of headache the bag may bo laid at
the lutelc of the erre. The feet, will prob-
ably be cold, tteli the bag will serve to
warm them and drew elm blood to the
fxteemities. The tiny hot water face
bags, too, are a combirt in case of nee-
ealgia or an aching tooth.
SOME THINGS TO TAKE.
A rubber soap bag is better Chan a
soap box.
A mitten made from outing flannel
may be slipped on the hand and used to
Wipn dust from shoes.
Ono traveler advises a pair of fancy,
dark teetered blankets instead of the con-
ventlenal traveling rug, on the ground
that they can bo twee on occasion when
the bed linen in a, hotel Is found to to
damp.
Duelectollts for trunks me useful. They
may be made of China Mlle cheesecloth
or any other washable material.. Cut
them the length rind width of the trunk
titya. Feather -stitch the hems, and use
instead ot ordinary towels or tissue
paper.
A package of setae absorbent antisep-
tic cotton wttl be found useful in many
noes when traveling. For chat= IL
may be used for handkerchief, washcloth
or Intent, and theta thrown away. In
ense of accident or stekness it will bo tn.
wiluable,
It a small bottle of alcohol, a "silk'
sponge and several pieces of clean blot-
ting paper aro carried in your bag, it
will be e. ',emote matter to remove a
greasy or sticky spot from your cloth -
Ing. Place the blotter under the spot and
oppliy (Inc alcohol with a sponge. Tho
dirt wull bo carried through and absorb-
er: by the blotter.
FOR THE WOMEN.
Women will find that wearing a black
elIk 171013 -cap, or tying a, silk handicer-
clitef over the head at night on board a
train, will save much annoyance from
cInders or other dust.
Lot a woman avoid hooks and oyes
and fericy fastenings on clothirm to bo
worn 011 shlp-board; remember that
much of the time your head will be do-
ecribing the aro of a, circle, and the less
toilette You have to make the better.
A welters submits that the night gown
for the iravelor sheuld not bo white. A
black cashmere gown with stitching or
other Leimminm of red looks well. Gowns
of black India silk are the best, for they
aro so light and pack Into such liftle
space.
Wear a leathee belt with strong buckle
and hang on it a chatelain bag with tile
front side turned to the, back. By Rs
simple arrangenient It will be impossible
re lase it, or for thieves to snatch IL oft.
1st this carry small change enough for
0.,clay and replenish each evening.
Ono's hat should not be trenmed with
feathers and flowers, both of which
are ruined by wet, damp and
dust: 'Stiff ribbon bows with
WOW ar Single stiff plumes are
the best garniture. PI0 0 piece of Ohm
Mots itt the badk of your paled ittee
Warinth across the sholders and wear
tights tnetead of a number of skirts.
ON TIIE TRAIN,
When writing on the treinerest, your
!Mohnen of a flaxseed Inmost always
the jav.
To remove a cinder from the eye, tlw
Insertion of a .flezseed almost always
will prove eilleaclous,
If yoU expect to travel at night, take
levee. $ettee of net or =tense to pin
whist the window-pano of your berth.
Pull up the shade in the morning, and
the little contrivance will enable you to
thaw without onlberrressment oven when
wailing at etatiengs
Many imothevs who con:tier motility
the bodily comfort et their childrenmn
10011103', &met epparently leg provide
Id r Omit, leeelst minde, Even very young
Sudbury as a centre a circle of twenty
miles might he described to the north
and west that would contain almost all
the nickel to be found on the North
American continent.
1,500 to 1,000 tons of ore. The coarse ore
forms the bulk of the pile. On top of
thls is placed the "raggins" and on top
of this again. the "lines." The wood is
then Ignited. Tho cab soon Lakes (Ire,
if lett alone will burn for nine
The only evidence which the ore gives Lend
months 01'a year. As a rule the ore as
of its presence beneeth the surface is a
left to burn ienm three to lour months
red dusty stain on the rocks, known as
before it is taken to the saneller. 13y
"gozzan," or, as the German's call it,
this roasting the percentage of sulphur
"iron liat." This Is mune by the rust
is reduced Mom 25 per cent. to from len
•11 the iron ore which. has stained the
to twelve per cent. The sulphur fumes
gravel and cemented it into a conglorn-
aro fatal to vegetation, and for miles
erate in which the pebbles are inibecided
around tee landscape presents a scene
raisins In a pudding. The glaciers
of naked desolation. It ls said that suite -
long ago scraped away great quantities
. dent suinhitrio acid escapes into the at -
of Hs ore, and spread it over the coun
mosphere every day to supply the whole
of Canada. As yet the problem of secur-
ing this waste and converting it to com-
mercial use has not been solved.
lry to the south. Under this capping ot
"gozzan" the unalloyed ore is revealed
AS
A BRIGHT SHINING MINIMAL
in the black diorite. The ove occurs in
largo masses, -onen several hundred feel
in width, which Ile usually between the
Mack diorite on the one side and the red
granite on. the other.
As a rule most of the nickel deposits
around Sudbury de worked as "open
pits," which means simply that a hole
is dug in the ore, and that around this
hole air drills are set up, preparing the
way for the use of dynamite. The ore
as 111s broken off from the sido by the
explosions of dynamite falls to the bee -
tom, where 11 is loaded into tram Can
and carried to the shaft, which is sunk
on one side al the are pit. This shaft
serves to hoist the eve to the surface
and In the Inn of what is allOW11 as the
"rock house." As you stand on the vock
nt 600 side ot the Creighton mine, the
largest deposit of nickel in the world,
you see before you an immense pit fun-
nelled like the mouth of a volcano.
From this pit arises an incessant clack-
ing and throbbing. Clinging to the side.,
you seo the men at week with Mr drille.
AL the bottom you see what at the dis-
tance lollies like a small army of pig-
mies, loading the ore into Mt, tram Gds.
Beside you rises up a towering stie-
tare not unlike a grain elevator. Thtis
is the "rock house." An inclined rail-
way leads from the top of this struc-
ture and disappears into the shalt which
is cut through the rock beside the one.
As you watch a square bucket. or "Skip"
as the miners call it, emerges from the
pit nad starts up the incline. As it passes
up it touches a lever,
A. SHRILL WHISTLE SOUNDS,
and a second atter you hear the rattle
of the ore as it falls Mom the overturned
"skip" into the lop of -the rock house.
Another second and the "skip" rattles
down again and disappears into the
earth, and every few minutes the pro-
cess Is repeated. Meanwhile .the dnIlIs
are at wovk on the sides of the open pit.
As you watch there comee a sudden
rush. Men are seen scrambling up the
pit sides and removing We drills: A
few minutes more and you see the men
running Lo covet' behind railway cars or
under trestles. Teen somebody calls
"Ilrel" A tremendous explosion follows,
whioh reverberates like the discharge of
a battery of artillery. The ore, which has
been displected by the dynamite, rattles
down the sides of the pit, with a noise
lam thunder. Then the men return
and again lake up the work of loading
the tram cars.
Let us climb te the top 01 (110 trestle
and see what is going on inside the rock
-house. The 'betiding ;shakes as you as -
Md the stairway (hat, rises on the out -
. A. crunching noise illis,your ears.
As you enter the building by a little
doorway' all seems darkness. As you
peee through the gig= 'somobedy yells
at you.
YOU JUMP INTO A. CORNER,
A 'second later the building trembles es
tPc ore 6111, which you ha(1 been watch-
ing outside, dumps its loadof a ton or
so of broken rock on the spot whore you
had beep standing. Tho house is lighted
up with a minion sparks Mom the con-
cussion. As the ear disappears on Ite
downward journey half a dozen mote
rush leeward with shovels arid feed the
ore Into (ho gaping maw of the insa-
tiable crusher which throbs and puisatee
like a, thing alive. AS you peer below
you see Me nre' falling in fragments
from the Mee of a man's ilst lo that of
O boy's marble into a revolving sceeen.
This' sereen is perforated with holm of
various sizes tvhich serve to' separate
the, ore end classify 11, dropping each
size into the' bin prepared to receive it.
Ab a lower level under these bins are
openings at which workmen from lime
to time, by operating leVere, elbow the
ore to fall into net Atit'S WhIeli ISASS
along la aCletialla to receive thole loads,
As you wince these cds you teem rhat
!about iwn.thirds 01 1110113 000 lined with
course ore about the 8105 Ot the Anthem
MO eon' ueod the 'mem% tet
leg 110.0805, 011,100eseo. min Will IN,
Med WW1 a smaller size, abed As tittge
SPAIN HONORS ENGLAND
MARRIAGE OF KING AROUSES PRO -
BRITISH PEELING.
elope Prevails That New Dueen Will
Relax Austere Etiquette of
the Court.
Ono striking effect of the approaching
royal wadding is the widespread WO
of everything English. SOVOral politicl-
ans and writers have insisted, however,
that British popularity Is not a recent
feeling in Spin, quoting in support of
this statement a popular refrain of the
eighteenth ceatury, when French Court
itelluence svas strongly resented: "Con
lotto el mundo guerra y pas con Ingle -
terra" ("War with all the world and
peace with. England").
PLEA FOR ENGL(SH CUSTOMS.
The following passage from an im-
portant, poriodicat tudicates the general
eling regarding England and the royal
wedding;
"There will arrive in Spain with Pet-
eess Elea the currents of British life,
by means of which Spain will be known
Letter and esteemed more by that mas-
ter of liberties, the lord and arbiter of
the mercanthe existence of the whole
world, and whose modern influence is
strongly relt in naval and. Government -
a1 circles in sports, clothes, fashions,
horses and carriages." '
The royal stables contain some fine
Einglieh and Irish horses, beating such
names as Fly, Pretty, 13Ig Ben. Foot -
boll has now become quite popular,
not only among Me sons of aristocracy,
but in popular schools. The King of-
fers a cup for the annual championship.
Polo has been played for the last three
yeat'S. Since the visit of Princess Ena
to Biarritz gold has leapt into forme
hitherto the grime was unknown here.
COURT ETIQUETTE.
It is hoped that the rigid Court eti-
quette maintained by Queen Christina
11111 bo relaxed by the English Queen,
Spanish ladies especially wish for more
personal freedom.
The principal shops have placed large
orders for ribbons, neckties and hand-
kerchiefs in English colors, "Princess
Ena" fancy cakes and pastries are also
being sold. For the carnival, beginning
en Sunday, many fancy costumes os
English tourists have been orderer].
English literature, too, is coming into
Mined in this country.
1
MANY RUSSIAN JOURNALS.
Crop of New Papers tinder the NOV
Freedom.
A St. Petersburg correspondent writes
to the London Daily Nows—"There was
never before such journalistio activity
in St. Petersburg as there is at present.
Now, radical hhd reyolutionary papers
nro appearing on the scene every day
to take the places of Mose that, have
fallen unclei" the displeasure of the law,
and such is the republicanenthusiasm
of the young mon who ron these perk).
dicals that in some of the offices there
Is no 'boss,' everybody 100111 the editor
In the printer's devil, being on a level,
and all measures being submitted to a
meeting of all the employee. The names
Me paws which the pollee have so
ler seized may bo interesting—Iienovat.
°LI noma, Our Velem Natiohal Freedom,
a paper printed in Finnish And called
Vusui InIceri, a paper printed in Lettish
and called the elebeen Worker, Iiio Pe-
terburgaa Avises,, the Poison, tho nnr•
tor, the ArrOWS, the Swashbuckler, the
Piddle, Young Russia, the Working
Week, the Motintobrink, Machine (lure
Labor endthe fled Laugh."
much that passes for love wouldn't
stand tha lost of curl papers,
ON THE CANADIAN RANGES
CALGARY, TUE CAPITAL OP T�E
CANADIAN CATTLE COUNTRY.
The New Country Is More Romantic
and Picturesque Than Eariy
Days in the West.
if you want, to see a live frontier
town come to Calgary, writes Frank U.
Carpenter, from Calgary, Alberta, te
the Mono liecord-ilevald. 11 is the
ranching capital of the Canadiun cattle
counteY, and 11 has for years been a
S01'( of Keeley cure for the younger sons
of English lords and dukes. Lying In
western Canada, a hundred miles or so
north of the American boundary, It is
O sort of a cross between Denver and
Cheyenne, peppered with the spice cf
Monte Carlo and London. There is no
more "spoety" town on the American
continent. It Is business from the word
"go," but al the same time cowboys gal-
lop through Its streets, and One -looking
Englishmen in riding trousers, leather
loggins and Norfolk jackets play polo
en the outskirts,
There are a number of hotols, and
every hotel has a well patronized bar.
There are two clubs, one known as
"The Ranchers" and another as "Tile
Alberta." The Ranchers' Club Is largely
composed of the sons of rich of rich
English families. It Is independent and
ultm fashionable. ;The Alberta Club
is mostly business men, comprising the
real estate dealers, merchants, whole-
sale and retail, and other prominent
characters who want to make Calgary
great. As for the Ranchers they do not
care a cent for Calgary, and aro more
interested in polo than politics.
RANCHERS FROM NOBILITY.
Among the characters of Calgary are
the remittance men. They aro the young -
or sons of wealthy or noble Faiglish
families, who are out hero to make their
fortunes and grow up with the country.
Some bave come because thole people
did not want them at home, and others
hecause they liked the wild life of the
prairies, which, until reeently, has cur -
responded somewhat with Keeling's de-
scription of "the country east of Suez"—
Where the best is like the worst—
Where there ain't no ten command-
ments
And a man can raise a thirst.
These remittance men get a certain
sum of tnoney every month, or every
quarter, and most Of them spend it in
drinking and carousing. Many are "neer
do wells," and they sink lower and low-
er, relying entirely on their remittances
te keep them going. I know, foe In-
stance, ono son of an English lord
whom you may seo almost any day here
hanging over the bar, and another who
will gladly borrow a quarter of you if
he sthikes you in the lean days prior le,
the next remittance.
Others" of these mon keep themselves
straiget. They being money with them,
invest it and make it limed like Aus-
tralian rabbits, but at the same lime
they de hill ot sport, and spend freely.
One of these is a 5011 of an admiral of
tiae Basle navy. His name is Cochrane
and he is said to have made a fortune
of his own in ranching and other invest-
ments. Ile has one big range near Cal-
gary on which he keeps 0.000 of the
wildest of Canadian cattle. Every year
or so he brings he a new instalment ef
tells from Scotland, giving his agents
at home instructions Lo send him the
wildest and fiercest animals that can be
secured.
The stories of how some of these re-
mittance men take In their parents aro
interesting. They are sent out here with
the idea that they may make their for-
tunes, and they frequently bring large
sums to invest. As soon as they arrive
they go into crazy speculatIons and
wild extravagances, sending back to
their parents for more money from time
to time. Ono character of this kind was
Dickle Bright, the grandson of We man
far whom the "disease of the kidneys
was named." Mottle's father was rich,
and he ime supplied Dickle with money
and sent Um out here to grow up wall
the country. Dicke) invested In a ranch
and asked for large remittances Mom
time to time on the plea of 'increasing
his live stock.
At the same time ho sent home florid
ories of the money be was making arid
h'OIV he was fast becoming a cattle king.
Shortly after one of his most enthusias-
tic letters be received a despatch from
New York saying that his father had
just arrived there and that he was com-
ing out to see 111111. The boy was In de,
spate. Ito had spent his remittances it
riotous Meng mid had no cattle to speak
of
GET IsIONEY FROM HOME.
Adjoining him, however, nets one of
the limps', cattle owners of the West.
He confided in him and persuaded him
to lend leen 1,000 head of his best stock
for one night. When lee made tins re-
quest his neighbor asked what ho want-
ed to do with the cattle. leo replied:
"I sball mat them in my corral, and
when the old man comes I will show
them as my herd, Dad can't stay but
a day, ancl I will sae that they aro driven
back sato to you the next morning."
The rancher Ares something of a
sport himself, and he finally consented
to help the boy out of his trouble. The
Cattle woro sent over. Old Dr. Bright
duly arrived, and he was driven out and
ebown the howl which Mottle said WAS
only a sample of hie stock, whieh ha
-
had brought In to shoW to his hither.
4grohoodb0MY laceacdp0d, thle .10WOVOr, that It was not
cattle penned up, and
WM they must go back upon the range
ertlighaLnadwgaay‘.43 Thoold8d. occhlbeocerircomz,osrildoseilollg,e01111t6.
on 0.2 1'
gland he boast -
how his eoy had
oNtvoo eaniorellittettsei;16110t.thleveli
buil1 up one 01 (110 biggest stook, ranches
In the Canadian plains. In the mean-,
limo Diekle WAS 111x -dieting on his $10e
000. lt, soon disappeared, and 0 little
later he wroM to his father for more,
saying that cold and disease had ruined
his herd. As a result. 110 was called back
toSeSonrgeisMocle Autsh Wive been sent, out
trom England to the United Slates and
Canada te learn farming, Thom are
men who mice a regular business; of
drumming up' mkt students. They
go to the rich families indifferent parte
ett Gnat Britain, mid persuade them
11011 L',Ile03 rt:i7„grt'CiatteUreythCilir =Vitra
business for a consideration, Tile boys
are charged all the way from 51,000 up-
ward a year for their instruction, and
in some cases they aro made to do the
dirty work, to clean up the stables, west
ILIO dishes and labor early and late. As
goon as they and out the deception they
run off, but the money has been paid an
advance, and the agent always comes
out ahead. 1 hoard of one young pupil
former wen was met the other day by
a. man who knew him when he first ar-
rived in Calgary. Ile asked the boy
how he liked We work ond if he was still
studying. Tee reply mune quick;
"I am not. I chucked that job six
months ago, and I now have two pupil
farmers myself."
FOOLED BY COLD BRICK.
As a rule order is good In the ranch
meetly and coofidence men compara-
tively scarce. The old -stagers here are
on the outlook for swindlers, but never-
theless some of the best of them aro
badly taken in. A. recent story is told
concerning the selling of a gold brick
11,00orc
abarialci manager and newspaper ern-
0guy for the sun) of $12.000,
Tha Canadian bankers are the shrewd-
est of their kind, and the manager of
this branch at Calgary has been long in
the business. Nevertheless, when an
old man came Into the bank a low
months ago and WM bow he had dis-
covered a gold mine In the Rockies and
(citron therefrom enough dust to form
two large bricks, he listened. He also
mentioned the fact to the editor, and tee
two again heard the story.
It was so full of details that they con-
cluded 11 10118 true, and they went with
We old miner to his shack, kir away
from the railroad in the wilds of the
foothills. When they reached there they
found an Indian with a rthe guarding
the cabin, and saw unearthed two big
bars of poke They were made to be-
lieve that the Indian meant business,
and that if the gold was not taken as
api0rercouientract their liVOS would probably
be lost. The result was that they paid
$12,000 and Wok the bricks
back to Calgary. Before describing their
find they carried the gold to an assayer,
who reported upon It as pure: They
then announced their discovery, but
ethers suspected that there might be a
trick, and at their suggestion the gold
was tested again.. Tho second assay, .31
O new scientist, showed that the bricks
were nothing but copper, with a thin
ease of gold on the outside. The first
assayer had been fixed, and the seemed
Indian was merely one of the swindlers
dressed up for the occasion. As a ie-
sult the manager of the beak lost bis
job, and I have been warned not to
erodeinlpsn htehaerinngm.rds "gold brick" in the
to
FOUND A BURIED CITY
FRENCH TRAVELLER'S DISCOVERY
IN CENTRAL AmEnicA,
Explorers Claim to Have Found Evidence
of an Ancient Civiliz-
ation.
The report that Count efaurice de
Pereguy, a French archaeologist, has
found, in the Peten district of Guate-
mala, traces of "an immense ancient city
01 istayos" may prove to be tho fleet in -
W11511011 of an interesting and notable
discovery. Wo may, perhaps, assume
ihat 1110 ruins which the traveller has
been exploring alb those of one of the
cities of the Mayas, the mysterious peo-
ple who, when the Spaniards rirrived on
the scene, shared with the Aztecs the do-
minion over a considerable portion cf
Genteel America,
OF MONGOL 011101N.
Of the civilization end traditions of the
Mayas of Yucatan, Honduras, and Gua-
temala, history knows very little; and
until the hieroglyphics on the monu-
ments of Patenque and Copan can ee
deciphered, nee clue to their origtn will
probably evade all research, though evi-
dence is not wanting to give color to the
theory that they were in some way Con-
nected with the Mogul teibes in Nevin -
Eastern Asia. Store are mateme differ-
ences, as well ns resemblances, between
the Males and Nalmas, the race to which
Lim Aztecs belonged. 130111 worshipped
huge stone idols; but these, with tfie
Nahttas, were decorated in a way that
proves snake worship to have been part
of their national religion, whereas the
Mayan deities \\'(5 of a more benevo-
lent type, and wove often represented
in a sitting posture, with their feet
tucked under them, very like the statues
01 Buddha in contemplation,
STORY Ole THE HOBSE.
The elayas in Yucatan excelled in the
construction of underground Murices for
nrigation, worked in much the same
manner as the Rum adopted for tlie
same purpose in Persia and Afghanistan,
Hernando Cortes, when on his way to
Hounclums, passed through Men, the
district in which Count Maurice, do here -
guy is sojourning, and he relates his ex-
perlences in the famous fifth letter to the
Emperor Charles, An immigrant Maya
tribe then hacl Its stronghold on an is-
land in Lake helen, the people word
so impressed by (ho preaching of the
Franotsclan friars who accompanied. the
Spanish expedition that they consented
to the destruction of their idols and the
erection of a cross on the ruinss Cortes
telt a disabled horse, which they care-
fully tended 1111 it died, alter which' they
set up his stone imago in a temple.
Nearly ninety years later eome mission.
caries round thetheelagyonde atn113
tiglifisilAilse'la'esmple Mut home fell 11110
the lake, a long limo ago, during on
earthquake, but the Indians declare that
the image may yet be seen when the
waters of the lake are calm.
A legend Is current 10 C,entrel Ameri-
ca that en ancient oily, Mill Whetted
hy Indians, and still flottrishing,le hid-
den away ia the forests, tend preserves
iho destroyed elsewhere by
the Spanish conquerors. This, howeo.
tr, cannot he the city whose marvels
have to he recounted by the Prom% tray.
ellar.
Lord Morley Is particularly fond of
animals, arid AIWAyS lans a 'pet dog sib
Ling 011 his Inn wben Writing in his
etudy,
REMEMBERED• THE POLICE
--
LEGACIES LEFT TBErtl. BY CRATEFUL
11014100..B,
Suceessful Merchant Bequeathed
112,000bo the Constable 'Wm
Arrested Dim.
A certain man died a few years ago.
He had been a rift man, successful (11
business, and Mammal] by ttll who !mow
111111. When hie will ems road, those
who were assembled to hear its p10018'
sons were startled as these words fell on
their etas: "I give and bequeath to the
constable new took me into custody, and
was thus instrumental in getting ine
eighteen months' hard labor, the sum ..f
$2.,500, and I take this opportunity of
thanking hen for being one of the best
plaids I ever had."
The great merchant had been a young
clerk once. He bad been led astray, and
bad embezzled Ids master's money. Then
be bad tried to get away to America
with some of his evil assoetates. Had
he succeeded he would. have been a
hunted criminal all his days, and would
erobably have sunk deeper into the mire
of crime. But a smart policeman had
tapped him on the shoulder as he stood
on the Liverpool landing stage. His
sentence was a nest), dose. But it did
him good. It sobered htm. When be
was,$turt,tua
a releasedifrom prison, he made a
I:N.
SET OUT TO REDEEM THE PAST.
Policemen come in tor unexepected le-
gacies sometime's. An intellegent ()Meer
wise saves a rich man's mansion from
Doing burgled, or heroically tears the
eieti man himself from the clutches ef
a gang of plunderitig hooligans, might
reasonably expect his due reward. But
i1 is far more piquant when the grateful
acknowledgment comes from somebody
whom he has helped to consign to dur-
ance vile.
While arresting a deeperale house-
breaker, a policeman was so badly hurt
that he had to retive from the force. For
tall a lifetime he was far from prosper-
ous. Then a lawyer's letter informed
him that he had been left a fortune—ey
O burglar.
The latter Individual had served a stiff
sentence, but while a convict, he had
made friends with another prisoner. The
pair had hit, on a scheme to ma.ke money
honestly. When released, they had
gone abroad together, and had eventu-
ally blossomed into rich men,
"If I'd gone on cracking cribs, it
would never liam brought ine much,'
ran the item in the will of the ex -burg.
lar, "But that bobby who collared me ,
!wiped me on the way to fortune, and(
e want bum to enjoy himself."
There was a discreet hushing -up of the
Lusiness when an enormously wealthy
man of title died, and left a policeman
enough money to make him
INDEPENDENT FOP LIFE.
The nobleman had once been very re-
mote' from the Home of Lords. Ho had
'been the family black sheep—an out-
cast, with whom his kindred had refused
to havo anything to dm Wandering,
bomeless and penniless, about the streets
0, 0 ,,,00.,K4
YOUNG
FOLKS
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THE BABY MOON.
I saw the little baby moon last nigtt;
it nestled in the sky, 08 1( 10 sleep,
Cuddled among soft clouds, to left and
ne
And clostt;e beside, one stet" a Wart
did keep,
"Good -night, you little baby moon," said
I;
"Good -night, and go to sleep."
I saw it 81111 and safe and tranquil
there,
Cradled in that blue destance of the
night,
It made mo smile with joy, It was so
fair—
So beautiful, so childlike and so white.
"You dear sky sleeper," looking Up,
saki I.
"Good -night, and go to sleep,"
OLD EILIND FAN.
"Get up, you lazy brute!" sald the man
who was leading an obi horse past the
Louse where Bruce and Amy lived. "Get
up, 1 say(" He jerked the strap cruelly
and tho old blind horse nearly fell down.
"Mister, what aro you going to do With
the poor horse?" asked Bruce, as the
man grew very angry and had to let the
poor °menial rest,
"Take her out here and 511001 here".
said the man, shortly.
"You mean, wicked thine said Array,
shaking her small flst at the man.
pub
ninty japial.,,on you, and he'll hu
have yo
"Ws the best thing that can hapen to
the old plug, children," said the man,
turning red. "She's blind and lame, ancl
can't do a day's work any More."
"And then you shoot her," said Bruce,
while Amy burst into tears. "Why
don't you put Per into a nice field,and
let her gee fat and well?"
"Pshawl She won't live a month.
She'll be better off dead Wan with sonee
one beating her.'
"You just put her into our field.," said
Bruce. "Amy and I vvill pump water
for her, and she can have an tha grass
she wants."
The man looked all around and could
see no one in sight. He was a stranger
in the town, and thought if he nut the
eld mare in pasture no one Would know
the difference, and it would be easier
than burying her. "Come Fan," he
said more gently than at flrst, "you're
going to have two children to loolc after
you now." Ile took the halter off her
head and hurried away as fast as he
could, while the poor animal began eat-
ing the tender grass as If half starved.
When the childree's papa came home
Pc looked grave over their story, but die
earnest little voices touched his heart.
He went with them lo look at old fan,
and filled their hearts with joy when he
told them they might keep her.
All that summer they worked faithful -
le keeping the trough filled with clean
cool water, and Fan enjoyed the grass
and shade to the utmost. She woula
eat out of their hands, and seemed 03-
w
a3 grateful for the apples and sugar
to London one night, he had tried to
throw himself 01' 0110 of the bridges.
An alert young policeman, however,
had dragged him back. Taken before a
magistrate, he had refused to give his
real names and had been sent to prison.
Almost simultaneously with his release,
Lose who had stood betwe.en himself
and the family title and possessions died
in rapid succession. lee had been saved
libm a suicide's fato that lie might en-
joy all the world could give—and he re-
membered the constable to whom he ow-
ediltwarlli
Otolk 0100 debts of gratitude to
policemen—and pay them. To the
constable who arrested the man was they were glad her last summer had
; teen so nice and peaceful. Whenever
going to marry, I give 00(1 bequeath— they see a poor old horse, they ask the
the y gave her. I wish every poor old
horse could have such a place to rest and
eat during the last days of his life as
Mind Fan head that hot summer.
"Papa said he'd buildett little place for
Fan in the straw shed this winter," said
Bruce ono morning, when it seemed a
little cool in the autumn, "Don't you
Wink Nees getting nice and fat?"
"She s the nicest horse in the walla,"
said Amy. "I wonder why she don't
come for her drink this morning."
The children cried when they found
eld Fan stretched out under the willows,
never to come to the two again, but
This was an item in the will of a beau-
tiful woman, who had reigned as a rich
and envied queen of high Society.
When a glrl, she had become engaged
to a handsome and faschuning man.
Blinded by infatuation, she had declined
lo see any flaws in her idol. She would
assuredly have married him, had It not
been for the fact that on the very day
fixed tor the wedding—as he was going
into the chorch, indeed—a 'keen -eyed po-
liceman had recognized the would-be
bridegroom as
A "WANTED" SWINDLER.
Click( and the handcuffs were snapped
or, hts wrists. Al the trial he was prov-
given herself to Mine her life would have
been a martyrdom of shame and misery.
A hard-working tradesman had a wife
who WEIS n drunkard and a tblef. Many
times she put herself hi danger of the
law, but he shielded her, although slia
made his life not worth living. Ile had
ceased to love her, but he felt that he
could not very well turn on. her. At
leg, however, she was caught red -band-
ed by a policeman, and, her evil record
being brought up against lier, Was sent
te penal servitude. After that, leer Mis-
t:end IVRS a lonely man, but, eree from
his incubus he got on in a modest way,
rind ended his days in peace. On his
death -bed he willed all he had to the
man in blue, but for whom he would
very probably have died worse than a
pauper.--Pearsores Weekly.
'
DEEP BREATHING.
Dr, 0, Normnn &reaction, in his leeture
at the Institute of Hygiene, London,
made sonee interesting remarks on this
subject:
"Deep breathing, if persistently prao-
'aced, In season and out of season, in the
street and al, (ho (since, for a few minute's
at a lime, would soon bring the roses
back to the faded cheeks, ancl dissipate
the sallow complexion. Lung Menses,
especially the dreaded scourge of eon-
sualption, would become less . prevalent
if people would carry oulthis simple ex-
ereise, which is merely on imitation of
natures method with primitive man,
who in running and leaping, unconfined
by clothing, develops excellent lung
capacity, and 1180$1 11 10 the MIL"
- 4
13A1113,001,1S MANNEBS,
svelter," ciaIled 4 man wise, nftea'
rushing Into a resturant, seated himself
at a table and proceecled to tuck his
napkin under his chin; "ean 1 get I1111011
"Yoo, sir," reeponded the clkgniflad
wally, "bid 003' shampoo,"
ewner 0111 to be as kind as they were
to Fan, and sometimes the men are more
mine and patient.
BLOWN AWAY.
"I'm lived of evoryl,Mng, mamma. Do
tell me what to dol" said Bath Lincoln,
coming into the room where Ws mother
was
„wshlilinng.
01
play basketball with me?"
"With you, mamma? I didn't know
you could play basket ball."
"Why not? I have balls in the yarn
basket, and I AM going to weave the
yarn in and out over this ball," saidt
Mrs. Lincoln smilieg and holding up iz
wooden ball, over which she stretched
the heel of Madge's Utile stocking.
"You and your friend Nellie had a Moe
11111inge syo (.0/ et et 3r,c1; atlyn dp I amellye g ns;
00 Nny ivene eo t spot
ay
that my real work is play—basket ball,
tor instance? 1 will toss the ball to you."
Beth caught the ball, and said, as she
came close to her mother: "But mamma,
PIletlasme
tined t Iwourt ejvaelithysighistegv antd ceavne ryI b do de;
tellIsmne13,711daatulghctaenr tired 01
her-
s.elfl" asked Mrs. Lincoln, with a slight
en2k-talsy,ts yes,
in
n"Dhei drselt le" say so, mammal..
"flow would it do to stop trying to
please self, of which you aro so tired?"
"Mamma, what de you mean?"
Just then deer 1111.19'1\ltedieeee oamo tod-
dling into the room and said wistfullyt•
"I haven't any one to play with."
Mrs. Lincoln mom Beth a meaning
k°kand
"Ilosywsoatildld: It do for my blg girl
In got away- from self and ininse my lite
tieg'lil
Mislincoln was called from the roOM
and (1110 (0111111 two happy children when
she returned half an hour later. What.
were they doing? Beth was blowfieg
soap bubles and Madge was trying to
cath them. Mrs. Lincoln stood for a
element In silence, thinking; "What a'
beautiful pleturel" Mt looked up and
sa'''''\A'rirni.11111Piotilbeurbb411no,(14 b8gaiitul, Manna,
'"1 Ilavo IStwiaodgdemargd?
leloaNry': hit what has
beeollolila
e of llutay,nm
t litleade1011101!"
,llwwibh tiro
tjah,
bless" laughed 1301.11,
• ' 4 —I
comp NOT POOL IIIAL
"Tou say PO has grOWtt whisker.
since yeti last saw him?"
"Haw did ,yott 0ee0gfilze him?"
"By My unib0e110