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Diet.
Children must have plenty to eat.
Adults can get along for some time,
if necessary, on noticeably restricted
diets without serious impairment of
health, but children cannot draw on
their reserves in this way, without
detriment to their growth and vigor,
is next to impossible to find the
joining. When it comes to binding
off stitches this tedious work can be
done easily and uniformly by crochete
Wag each stitch off the knitting
needle with a crochet hook.
Packing the Dinner Pail.
While the housewife is preparing
Children from two to six years
the evening meal it will take up very
should hare three good meals a day,
little time to prepare food that will
the heaviest one being in the middle
help fill the dinner pail. If the main
of the day. Their day's food should
dish is to be stew or potpie make an
extra portion of the crust. Roll it
out about one-quarter of an .inch
thick and then cut in four -inch
squares. Place two tablespoonfuls
of meat, taken from the stew or
potpie season nicely, taking care
Include plenty of milk, not less than
one arid a half pints—skim milk may
be used if butter is given also—
pleety. of cereals and green vege-
tables, particularly leaf vegetables,
such as spinach. It is desirable, also
to have a more varied diet and to
that no bone or fat is left attached to
inelede.' sugar, fruits; eggs, and
the meat. NOW brush the edges of
the pastry and then fold over, pres-
sing the edges firmly together. This
that there as practically no substitute will make a meat turnover. Brush
eitherthe top of the pastry with water and
for milk or green vegetables
bake. - Aaspoonful of corn or peas
may be- added 'if desired,
In making a pan of biscuits cut
out a half-dozen biscuits, using a
small cutter. Now roll these biscuits
meats, with fish and fowl, in the
daily meals.
Authorities on the subject state
in the food of the growing child. Milk
should be given in many forms. Spin-
ach is one of the best of green vege-
tables. It can be prepared in a
number of ways and should be used
out quate thin and spread with •a few
freely in the daily diet. Fish and
currants or raisins or, lacking these
chicken are better for- children in
fruits, use finely shredded dried
'many cases than beef or other meats,
peaches or prunes. Roll like jelly
and where these .foods can be ob- era pressing firmly. Place on
tained one or the bther may be given
greased tin ancl bake as usual: .
Care of the Skin. ' -
A quick bath every morning with
to children.
Mothers may need to be warned
that all cereals, and particularly the
coarser ones, like oatmeal and corn,
need very long cooking to be subtable tepid water, a handful of salt and a
efor children. Therefore •it stands to good flesh brush will injure no wo-
xeason that the "quick" breads and
griddle cakes, which have been ex-
posed to cooking heat perhaps only
a few minutes, will not be well di-.
',digested, and that all preparations of and whitens it. Use it exactly as
cereals should be •subjected • to longYou would soap, putting a little in
slow cooking if they are to enter into
the diet of young children.
The manner of cooking potatoes
must be constantly varied or the
family will tire of -them. The methods
will include frying and scalloping,
delicious teethe adult palate, if well
done, but f?Ot suitable to young chil-
dren. It is wise, therefore, for mo-
thers to remember that children
under five will hardly be able to eat
potatoes more than once a day, and
that for them this vegetable is bet-
ter when baked, mashed, or freshly
boiled and served simply with the
addition of a little salt and milk or
-cream. Thus prepared they are so
completely cooked and so finely di-
vided that children do not swallow
them in chunks. Frying, on the other
man's health, but will, instead, make
her feel bright, rested and refreshed.
Almond meal affects the skin ex-
acieysas bran does—that is, it softens
the palm of one hand, dampening it,
and then' applying it to the face.
afterward washing it off thoroughly.
FATIGUE AND ITS DANGERS.
Generates a Poison That Passes Into
the Circulation System.
Fatigue is a danger signal: if per-
sistently ignored, it may lead to many
kinds of serious trouble. It is neces-
sary to differentiate, however, be-
tween what may be called normal
tiredness and fatigue. Nye all get
tired every day of our lives unless we
are ehirkers. The secret of efficiency
is to learn to economize our outlay of
strength so that we get the utmost re-
turn for 21 10 good work without cross -
hand, makes feeds generally
ing the line of exhaustion or even of
le
unpleasant fatigue.
suitable to the digestion of children. It has been said' that 11 10 a good
thing to rise from the table hungry.
When You Wash Curtains. It may certainly be said that it is, pro -
The best way to wash curtains is per to leave off work while we still
to shake them as nearly free from feel that we could do a little more
dust as possible and soak them in without hurting ourselves. We all
a tub 'half full of tepid water in know that we do our best work who'll
Which half a pound of pure soap has we are fresh; that one hour in the
been dissolved. " morning is often worth three 1» the
In the morning squeeze them :Mie-
le, dry and place them in a tub half
fell of very hot water to which a
tablespoon of borax and enough dis-
solved soap to make a strong suds
are added. When they seem clean,
after splashing them about in this
-seater, rinse them thoroughly until
can the chronic driver who continual -
there is no trace of suds or dirt. Then
afternoon. The lesson contained In
that knowledge is valuable; we are
wise If we quickly apply it to life. By
carefully alternating work and rest
wc can keep ourselves to a great ex-
tent always fresh, and in that way we
can accomplish much more work than
ly breaks into his reserve capital of
squeeze them gently dry. Let them force -
dry thoroughly on the grass or hang
them over a line to dry. Then starch
them,
It will be found that hot starch is
the hest for cuetains, made rather
thin. Having mixed . dry search
Tho danger of fatigue is that it
generates a poison that passes into
the circulatory system; the problem
is how to get the proper amount of
work out of ourselves up to the point
of healthy tiredness and short of pro
diming what physicians call the "fa -
smooth with:cold water, pour boiling
water on it till it is clear and teens- tlieue toxins." Ohe thing to avoid is
mouotony. A change in the character
parent. Then add an equal quantity
of 'work will often do as much good
of hot water, and the mixture will
be an average consistency for cur-
as a change from work 10 play. We
tains.
never really stop work, havever, un-
til we go to sloop, Avoiding' fatigue
If the curtains aro white, put a
is especially necessary tho ease of
little bite to your starch; if yellow,
add coffeto the white starch. children. To do away with monotone
e
Squeeze dry and put out on line,
or, better stile stretch the curtains
on sheets upon a floor, being careful
to pull out the pointe and have no
oreases.
Next they go over them with hot
irons, three -0 this is not absolutely
necessary, as they will be straight
through stretching.
Timely Thrift.
Don't throw away shade curtains
because the lower part is faded or
soiled. In these days of high prices
and inferior goods, it pays to turn
Remove the tacks, Which fas-
, ten the curtain to the roller, and hem
this end on the machine. The met
; off the original hem and tack this
• end to the relief. If the spring dos
, not work well, take the curtain down
!and roll it tip right in one hand. Theii
t it up and pull down to full lengths
epeat this process onee Morel and
it will Wind the spring jest right.
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Joining Yerne Without Xhote.
When near the end of the old bell,
,ineert the thread of the nate one In
the eye of a datningsneedle; etittli
,uP the old yarn or an inch or Mote,
witlidreW the needle, give the joined
*geed ci alight Witt betWeen finger
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the rule should be alternate periods of
real study and of real play eieste
keep the children LIeah-and intere
instead of Mere Mid bored,,.
Many persons, especially in the melt
o1 big cities, get into the way ,or molt-
ing their fatigue by using etImulante;
with a cup of tea or coffee they whip
themselves up to the extra hour or
two of effort that causes overfatigue.
The lives that some workers lead are
so exacting that it would seem cruel
to deny them that relief, but they
would be wise to substitute for the tea
or coffee—or, very much worse, aleo•
hol—elowly sipped hot milk, or malted
milk, in that way they would get the
relief aid the rest without the danger.
Another Spoonerism.
It is told of Dr. Spooner, the English
scholar, whose persletent habit Of
transposing the first letters of _nie
weeds, bas given the name of
"Spoonerism" to tee trickethat be Was
once asked by a friend Where he got
hls greceries,
"Oh," he replied lit the Most med-
ia -of -Mot tone, "we always stoat at
the &ore."
The friend was ehooked until ft oe.
Meted to him that Die Speoiier prob.
Able tweet he say that the family
dealt at the etteree e.•
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CHAPTER IV.—(Con'd.)
Not until they.were en the way to
the hotel that plight did there come
to the young husband the full real-
izMg pollee that housekeeping' meantfurn2tue, furniture.
"Oh, of worse I knew it did," be
groaned, half -laughingly, after hie
first despairing ejaculation. "But I
jot didn't think. thttt' 11. Our
furniture at home we'd always had.
But of cone it doeshave to be
bought—at fleet."
"Of course! And I didn't think
either," laughed Helen. "You see,
we'd always had our furniture, too,
I ,guess. But then, et'll be grand to
buy it. I love new thins."
Burke Denby frowned.
"Buy it! Theta all right—if we'
had the money ,to pay. Haven only
knows bow much it'll cost. I don't."
At nine o'clock the following morn-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Burke Denby sal-
lied forth to buy furniture for their
"tenement," az Helen called it, until,
her husband's annoyed remonstrances
changed the word to "apartment." .1
Burke Denby leiumed many things,
during the next few hours. He learn-
ed first, that table and chairs and,
beds and stoves—really decent ones
that a fellow could endure the sight
of—cost a rodi foes amount of
money. But, to offset this, and to
make Pete really worth the living,
deer all, it seemed that one might
buy a quantity sufflcient for one's
needs, and pay for'them' in Metall-,
meets, week by week. This- idea,
while not wholly eatisfactory, seem-
ed the only way f stretheing their
limited means to cover their many
needs; and, after some hesitation, it
was adopted.
There remained then only the mat-
ter of ,selection; and it was just here1
that Burke Denby learned something
else. He learned that two people,1
otherwise apparently in perfect ac-
cords could disagree most violently,
over the shape of a chair or the
shade of a rug. Indeed, he would
not have believed it possible that
such elements of soul torture could
lie in a mere matter of color or tex-
ture. And how any one with eyes
and sensibilities could. Ny!sh to select
for one's daily companions each a
mass of gingerbread decoration and
glaring colors as seemed to meet the:
fancy of his wife, he could not under-
stand. Neither could he understand
why, all his selections and prefer-
ences were promptly dubbed "dingy"
and "homely," nor why nothirig that
he liked pleased her at all. As such
was certainly the case, however, he
came to express these prferenees less
and less frequently. And in the end
he always bought what she wanted,
particularly as the price on her
choice was nearly always lower than
the one on his—which was an argu-
ment in its favor that he found it
hard to refute.
Iik a quitter. And his father hated
quitters! He weal& like to -show he
f1ather. And be would how him 122221 t
here, And had not Helen, his dear
wife, said that she woultraid him?
As if be could help winning out under
those eirmenstandes!
It Was with stich thoughts ae these
tient he went now to niece his father,
Eepeeially Was he thinking of Helee,
doe Belem—poor Helen, struggling
back therdeveitli those abominable
hooks and eurtaies, And he had been
such a brute. to snap her up to crow
ly. He would not do it again, eIt
was only that he was so dreading•tele
first meeting withh is father, After
(Met it•wceild be easier. 'There wotild
not beanything then only just to
keel) steadily acting till he'd made
good—he and Helen. Bet now—fig
ther would be proud to see how finely
he was taking it!
With chin up and shoulders baek,
therefore, Burke Denby walked into
his father's office."Well, father,"' he began, with
cheery briskness,. -Then, (instantly,
.voice and manner changed as he took
a hurried step forward. .4'1/ad, what
is it? Are you ill?"
So 'absorbed bad Burke Denby been
over the part he himself was playing
in this little drama' of Denby and
Son, that he had gi-von no thought
as to the probable looks or actions
of any other member of the. east.
He was quite unprepared, therefore,
for the change in the, man he- now
saw before him--athe pallor, the
shrunken choker the' stooped sboul-
dere, the unmistakable something
that made the usually erect, debonair
man look suddenly worn and old.
"Dad, you are ell!" exelaiined Burke
in dismay.
John Denby got to his feet at ,once.
He even smiled and held out his hand.
Yet Burke, who took the hand, felt
suddenly that there were, uncounted
miles of space between them.
"Ah, Burke, how are you? No,
I'm not ill at all. And you—are you
wehl 9r'L
E
ah --ah, yes, very well—er—
very well."
1 "That's good. I'm glad."
There was a brief pause. A torrent
of words swept to the tip of the
younger man's tongue; but nothing
found voice except another faltering
1"Er—yes, very well!" which Burke
had not mean -to say at all. There
1 was a secofld brief pause, then John
Denby sat own.
"You will find Brett in his office.
:You have come to work, I ,dare say,"
he observed, a she turned to the let-
ters on his desk.
"Er—yes," stammered the young
num. The next moment he found
himself alone, white and shaken, the
other side of his father's door.
be contin_ued.)
s.,_
FAT AND FAMOUS.
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Few Fleetly Stout Men Have Reached
the Pinnacle of Fame.
Mr. Taft an ex -President of the
U.S.A., is mentioned as President Wil-
son's successor at the board of the
Peace Conference. Ile is probably the
stoutest man in public life; at any
rate, the stoutest man with an inter-
national reputation.
Fat and fame have not very often
been combined, perhaps because stout
men are generally inclined to be easy-
going, and theretore lacking in that
push which brings a man to the fore.
The only great statesman one can re.,
call who was really a fat man was
Charles Samos Fox, as can bo seen
even by his effigy la the Palace of
Westminster, where he would make
three of his great rival, Pitt the
younger.
Tho only fat poet one can recall is
Jamie Thompson, the anther of "The
Seasons." He was a comfortable,
lazy, slovenly man. of whom it is re-
lated that he would eat peaches off
the wall, not taking the trouble to
take his hands out of his pockets to
pluck 'them. Yet, despite his lazy dis-
position, he managed to write one of
the longest of English—poems, as well
as "The Castle of ledolence"—a castle
in which he habitually dwelt.
Mr. G. H. Chesterton, one of the
stoutest of living celebrItes, has on
more than one occasion made up in
the character of the Sage ofaneeet
Street with most excellent success.
It is a little remarkable, too, that
one or his closest friends, Mr. Hilaire
Bailee, is almost as famous for his
bulk as he is for bbs critism ofmili-
tary operatioes, his poetry, his history
and his fiction. .
CANADA WELL ADVERTISED.
French Industrial Leaders Interested
In Dominion Exhibit at Lyons Fair.
• While the 'Ca.nadian ministers aro
busily engaged in terminating, the
work entrusted to them as pettee con-
ference the economic 2u-
4,400,10Cauada is occupying their at-
tenttiiit and is being discussed at daily
meetings, The successful results
which are anticipated as the outcome
of Canada's brilliant 'participation at
the Lyons Fair, have awakened the
Interest of French industrial leaders
towards Canada•
The recant visit to Paris of dele-
gates to tbe Federation at British In-
chistriee, represeetIng 8 membership
of eevrnlecii thousand firms, and the
speeches delivesed at a banquet pre-
sided iivreehy 11. &meta:1411e French
Minister ef (Ionia -terve, mtnit the pre-
, liminaries of a direct and durable ac-
cord between the British and geeeee
busitiese met and producers. Canada
is no -less leterested in such c0 -opera
tion, and the commeets of the Erenth
press show Cigna eih i
httlirorevapatirdltoi!
Prance of a Polley w
tageoiis co-operatioft for the conquest
Id foreign markete.
Tractable as beawas as to quality,
however, he did have to draw a sharp
line as to quantity; for Helen—with
the cheerful -slogan, "Why, it's only
twenty-five cents a week more,
Burke!"—seemed not to realize that
there was a limit even to the number
of those one might spend—on piety
dollars a month. True, at thee be-
ginning she did remind him that they
could "eat less" till they "got the
things paid ear," andithat her clothes
were "all new, -anyhow, being a bride,
so! But she had not said that
again. Perhaps because she saw the
salesman turn his intik to laugh, and
perhaps beeause she was a little
frightened at the look on berg:bus-
band's face. At all events, "When
Berke did at last insist that they
had bought quete enough, she ac-
gtiecseged with •some measure of
grace.
Burke himself, whin the shopping
was finished, drew a sigh of relief,
yet with an inward shudder at the
recollection of certain things marked
"Sold to Burke Denby."
"Oh, well,". he comforted himself.
"Helen's happy—and that's the main
thing; and I shan't see them much.
I'm away days- and asleep nights."
Nor did it occur to him that this was
net the usual attitude of a supposed-
ly proud bridegroom toward his new
little nest of a home.
C.etting eettled in the little Dale
Street apartment was, so far as
Burke was concerned, a mere matter
of moving from the hotel and (lump-
ing the codents of his trunks into
his new chiffonier and closet. Tree,
Helen, lookinetered and flurried (slid
not , nearly so pretty as usual),
brought him some borrowed tools,
thgethet with innumerable curtains
and rods and nails and hooks that
simply must be put up, she said, be-
fore ehe could clo a thing. But
Burke, after a half-hrertee
during which he smashed his 'thumb
and bored, three holes in wrong
places,—flow into a passion of bee-
-W:1)1113y, anti bade her get the jani-
tor who "owned the darn things" to
do the job, and to pay him ervhat he
asked—nwould be worth it, no mat-
ter what it was!
With a very hasty kiss then Burke
b•antiout of the house and headed
.nby Iron Works.
L. alone the curtains ev
hammer _that' was
wrong with alles leeriby Diet morn -
Mg, The thno had come when he
must not only meet his fellow em-
ployes, and take his place among
them, but he mug face his hither.
And be was dreading yet longing to
see his father. He had not seen him
shim he bade him good -eight and
went upstairs to his own 1700111 the
month before—to write that farewell
note,
Ohre, eince coming back from his
wedding trip, he had been tempted to
Irene town and never gee his :father
again—until he should have made
for himself the name and money that
he was going to make. Then he would
come back and ory• "Behold, this is I
your son, and this is Helen, my wife,
who you see, has not- dragged me
downl” He Would iiot, of °muse,
talk like that But he would thew
them. He would! • This had been
when he first learned front Brett of
the allowanteactethinge and of his fa-
ther`e implacable anger.
g Then had coine the better, beaver
decienue. Would stay whereiite
was. Ile would make the name end
the Morley tight here, tinder hit( fa-
thers very eyee, It wottld be IMMO
hf-boursb; but there Weald thee be
all the More glory fil the Winnihat.
BeSideft to leave noW would look Mee
defectieLeotild make One gum Almost
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PHOTOS OF'
v 11.1( BATTALION
that 'Soft Canaan fee bele by
ALMANDTIA STVDIOS
See (entitle et, Weigen teetteeetti
. Write for Nether leferniatlati,
P4ANIA
A STORMLWAYS CENTRE
oNE OF EtiE,oPE's sEurri,E,
COCl FOR THOUSAND YEARS
Before Being Swept Into World Mee'
strom of 1914-1918, Was Rnown
as Land of Unique Beciatiee.
"Itoemarda, where disorders have
been growing for the lest two months
until now they are reported to have
reached the point of a general insur-
rection, bus been a centre of Euros
pean war storms Tor a thousand
years,"
" nays a bulletin a the Na-
tionalGeogrephie Society, Which
.teihieowpsesitiofwrontlitewt 4.cresuZfiryonlaefa
ethernreeicloiln.
bees,
"Peter the Great 011C0 established
a protectorate over the Roumanians
and Catherine the Great later ad-
vanced a plan for the annexation of
their territory to Ruesda. Fearing
bhat such territopial expansion migh
be a menace to her, Austria persuad-
ed Catherine to abandon that plan.
"Roumania, approximately as we
now
know it, was formed from Mon,
devie and Wallachia, in 18:31, Pre.
viously these principalities had been
tinder Turkish suzerainty, following
Austhia's protest against Russia an-
nexing them.. Autdeomy being guar-
anteed by the powers which agreed to
the tinion of the principalities had
been under Turkish suzerainty, fol-
lowing Austria's protest against Rus-
sia annexing them. Autonomy being
guaranteed by the powers which
agreed to the union of the princi-
palities following the Cririman War,
Roumanians chose an army officer,
Colonel Alexander Cuza, as their rul-
er. IIiis title`was Alexander John I,
Prince of Roumania.
"When, seven years later, the ele-
ment in power at Bucharest decided
for a el -lenge of rulers there -were few
formalities. Invading the Prince's
bedroom by night leaders of the group
presented a certificate of abdication
to be signed, and then bundled him
in a carriage and put him aboard an
express for Pales.
"The Count, of etlapders, brother
of KineLeopold of Belgium, was
chosen by a provisional gdirernment.
The powers, espedially Austria, pro-
tested, and Prince Charles (Carol),
who had -been an officer in the Prus-
sian army, 'was substituted. He set
about freeing the country from the
suzerainty of Turkey.
"When the Russo-Turkish storm
clouds arose in 1875, Charles sought
to have the powers guarantee the
neutrality of Roumania. He failed
Then an agreement was reached with
Russia. Under its tering Russian
troops were to have free passage
through -Roumania, while Russia was
to respect the rights and defend the
integrity of Roumania.
"When the war began Roumania
promptly declared herself indepen-
dent of Turkey. As the war went on
Russia needed help badly and finally
Roumania responded to repeated Ap-
peals. Under Prince Carol, Rumania
and allied troops gained a decisive
but costly victory before Plevna. Rou.
manian freedom was recognized in
the treaty of San Se -fano, and it fur-
thermore was stipulated that Rou-
mania was to get the swampy coun-
try known as Dobrudja, lying be-
tween the Danube, where it flows to
the north, and the Black Sea, Resale
was to have Bessarabia, territory
claimed by Roumania and, 'in part,
occupied by her.
Land of Quaint Customs.
"Roumania protested bitterly
against exchange of the picturesque
Bessarabia for the ugly Dobrudja re-
gion. Resent threatened to disarm
the Roumanian army, and Prince
Carol pluckily responded that bis
army might be destroyed, but it
never would be disarmed.
—
"The Russo-Turkiv.h treaty of San
Stefano was overturted by the Con -
vete of Berlin, but Ruseia s aim in
Bessarabia was not denied. Thus
Roumania, after helping Russia in
her plight, came out of the war with
less than she had when she went in.
"Before Roumania was swept into
the world maelstrom of 1914-1918
she was known as the land of unique
beauties, not so much on account of
scenery as because of her quaint vil-
lages, little whitewashed cottages,
their doors and window frames paipt-
ed in bright colors, and the attractive
type of Roumanian peasant women.
"The Roumanian pearnnt women
are considered the fairest in the
Balkans. They dress elaborately,
and show unusual individuality- in
their reeturnes of many colors, Men
and women alike usually' wear hats in
the house, except when they sat The
late Dowager Queen, known as CaT-
men Sylva, put .onnative dress in
order to miner:ice this distinctive
costurne, particularly popular in the
Roninanian uplands."
A Real Family Jar.
Winnipeg man hath dropped in
one afternoon for a conference with
his friend, when he heard a terrible
tumult emanating from the kitchen.
Just then the nine-year-old hopeful
of the household entered; so the visi-
toeasked: "What's all that row
aboilt?",
"Ma's calming fruit," explained
the lad, with an appreciative
in the direction Whence poured the
sound of angry voices, "and Pit's a
food inspector, you know, an' he's
thief to tell Ma Now she oughter clo
her work"
As It's Wrote.
A Frenchman was learning English,
and GIMPY morning read a little in an
English Pewspapee Oto day he was
Sorely puzgled.
"Vot Ise this?" he asked a friend.
"Vailt13912.099 is a 19112,919.ft
The Weed took the papee and read:
"Shoeld Mr. Hintze-, who sat for the
00110t11U0110y 1» 11—, eon,
Sent to stand resale and be ene, he
Would to all Prebabillte have a Wang
*Yea"
W.
THE LAND QF PRINCES.
Examples of Princely Evtravagance
In Rusela of Other Days.
Russia, WW1 it became lied Rosie,
hIsil bong been notably the land of
princes. In 210 Other 000211:73, was the
title so oommou; in no other did 3
Stone eor greater extremes 01 1210 and
habits. A Russian mince might be a
simple, unpretending, impeaunioue
ootnitey gentleman, of provincial In-
termits and bound to strict economiee;
he might bo a courtly, splendid and
irepoeing personage of extravagant
wealth and at the most lavish and or -
retie' expenditure. A recent writer,
ape:thine of the Russian house of De-
micloy, the princely title of which,
lioWever, is Italian in origin, gives an
amusing instance of princely extrava-
gance.
Elim Dentidov, Prince of San DPS -
to, attended school in England. He
was an Eton boy, and, needless to say,
was treated at Eton like any other
boy, English or Russian, • prince or
commoner. But when,. on leaving
Eton, it became necessary for him, in
view of his intended diplomatic car-
eer, to pass certain Russian university
examinations, he accepted the neces-
sity In a manlier both princely and
mating. • He was staying in the
Riviera, and having a very good time
there, which be did not care to inter.
rupt by a trip to Petrograd. But he
saw a way to manage the affair quite
easily. He merely Invited the entire
facultr of the University of Petrograd
to vis t Nice at his expense and sent
a special train for them equipped with
every luxury. Arrived at Nice, they
were -his honored guests. He gave
them, as a young Canadian would say,
"the tine of their llves;" and Mei-
dentelly they gave him his examina-
tion, which they did not make too die-
ficulte and he passed it with flying
colors. Then the special train car-
ried them back to Petrograd; and the
young prince, with his agreeable so -
learn undisturbed, entered leisurely
upon his diplomatic _career:
Curiously enough, the founder of the
family to Which this lordly Youth be-
longed was one Nikita Demidov, a
blacksmith, whose excellent work
caught the attention of Peter the
Great, and' whose good fortune it was
to receive as a reward an estate, af-
terwards greatly extended and en-
riched, Mines of gold and silver;
lapis lazuli and malachite, .together
with vast agricultural lands, united to
support in splendor' the desceneents
ot the sturdy blacksmith.
Another Russian prince, also the 1
owner of malachite quarries and. of
vast mines in the Urals, lavished trea-
511r8 on an educational whim fess
solt-
ish, but scarcely more win, He lad
an only daughter, a languid, -sickly
child, `end to arouse her interest in
her studies he determined that she
should be taught by means of dblls.
He ordered hundreds of them, dressed
to represent the natives of different
countries as well as _historic person-
ages of different' nations and epochs.
The arms and armor of knights and
warriors were to be executed in pure
silver and gold, the crowns and jewels
of kings and countries in real gems.
Not a half or a quarter of those
wonderful dolls were ever finished,
and only a few had been delivered
when the poor little, trail Princess
Weenia faded quietly out of life, 13y
her father's order, that no sight of
them might by chance reawaken his
grief, all her possessions were des-
troyed. One glittering royal doll, her
favorite, cradled in the arms of the
dying child, remained there after her
death, and was buried with her. It
was a marvelous miniature queen,
eighteen inches high, Frayed In a
robe so stiff with pearls, emeralds and
rubies, and with a diadem, sceptre
'and ornaments of such fine diamonds
' that it was said to be worth, alone,
"enough to endow a convent, found a
church, or dower a dozen princesses
of beauty' and nobility no less than
hers with whosa dust it was laid to
mingle in the
WEIGHTS IN THE BALANCE
Ceremony Attending Comparison of
Standards With the Originals.
Every twenty years our standard
measures—the yarul and the pound—
are ccnnpared with the oeiginals,
which lie hidden within the Palace
walls at Westminster. The occasion
is due round • again this inonth, says
a London magazine. ,
Quite a ceremony is entailed to
check the measures, In addition to
. the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chem-
berlain and the President of the
Board of Trade, a small army of
carpenters and masons also attend.
The standard yard is a solid bar
of bronze, representing the arm
measurement ag Henry I., who oe-
&tined that the length of his ossai
arm should be the standard •yard of
el°TehhenlielariepUOrreift. 1 standard pound is
composed of a ball of pletinum.
When the Lord 'Chan -cello cheeks
the weights, most elaborate cane is
taken to ensure accuracy. The pound
weight is tested with the original
pound weight on scales minable of
disclosing the minutest fraction of a
grain, while the yard is measured by
an inetrument which can detect an
error oe a hundredth thousandth peat
of Aftine
atntertlihe test, the precious pound
weight is wrapped in Swedish filter-
ing paper—soft mid frictionless—
the yawl is placed on soft rollers in
a mahogany ego Bothaare then -mi-
dsized in innumerable boxes end a
leaden ease and hidden in the stair -
Mese Wall, which 211 rebuilt lifter each
test.
There is storage tepeeite ab Poet
Arthur end Fort Willem for be.
twee11 50 tied 60 Millige buthels of
BURIED WEALTH
IN IVORY
GIGANTIC SPECIES OP "MOLE" en
NORTHERN SIBERIA,
Huge Mammals, Living about 100,001
Years Ago, Furnish the Mose
Valuable of Ivory.
In the region of 1110 Lona Done, in
ear northern Siberia, there le a glean
tic species of inose which, burrowire
underground, dies if by chalice ex-
posed to the light. It has enormous
tusks, and the half -savage nomads oe
the country empetimes use stripe or
its thick hide for reindeer harness. •
Truth to tell, the "mole" Is the long -
extinct mammoth, and the last surviv-
ing specimen perished long before the
earliest dawn of human history. In-
deed, it may very well be that 100,000
years have passed since the youngest
mammoth walked the earth.
In their day those huge inanimate
roamed in herds all over northern Si-
beria, where the climate was mild and
salubrious. But there came a sudden
change and Jack Frost established a
permanent reign in that part ot the
world. The mammoths, huddled in
valleys, were overwhelmed by snow-
drifts, which, hardened to solid ire,
preserved their bodies intact even to
the present time:
Wonderful State of Preservation.
Now and then the hot sun of the
short Arctic summer melts out and
reveals to view one of the great car-
casses—the meat still fresh enough to
be Sed to dogs. The eyeballs of one
specimen found on the Tas River, be-
tween the Obi and the Yenesei, were
as perfect os if the animal had been
killed only a day or two earlier.
To the portheast of ,the mouth of
the Lena—which is one of the great
rivers,of the world, rising in eastern
Siberia and flowing northward to the
Arctic Ocean—is a group et islands
which, must formerly have been con.
netted 'with the mainland. There an
American naval expedition, which
sought survivors of the ill-fated Jean.
netts, found deposits of mammoth
tusks that were -literal ivory mines.
The frozen soil of tne islands was
so crowded with mammoth skeltons
as to suggest that the mighty pachp
dorms must have had there a "dying
place," to which through thousands of
years they resorted when death al/ -
preached. Lieutenant Schuetze, who
was a member‘of the expedition, told
the writer that there was a big for-
tune to bo gained by a few adventur-
ous men who should take a staunch
vessel through Bering Strait 111 the
opening of the Arctic summer dig for
ivory and return in half a dozen
weeks. They would encounter peen%
however, for the coast is most Mhos.
pitabbe and almost uninhabited,
Moat Valuable bf Ivory.
Mammoth ivory is more highly vei-
ned than any other, being worth $1 a
pound. A tusk of a full-grown speci-
men may be fourteen feet long, weigh-
ing four times as much as the largest
elephant's tusk. This giant relative
of the elephant attained a height of
sixteen feet and a length of twenty..
six feet, with a body girth of thirty
feet Tho sole of each foot was three
feet across. It had a shaggy mane
and was covered with long hair.
The first mammoth remeins dug up
in Europe, were supposed to be those
of gigantib men. In 1577 a learned
professor at Lucerne, from a pelvis
and 0110 thigh hone, "reconetructed"
man nineteen feet high, Nor was the
mistake without excuse, inasmnch ne
the bones of the mammoth are .re-
=1.1:ably human like. The vertebrae
look like magnified copies of humen
spino sections, and the same Is trite of
the shoulder blade, the pelvis, the
feumur, etc.
I saw a lithe lad returned from far
Ansi heard his rippling laughtm
high and sweet.
Lightly he danced on tiny sandaled
feet,
His oyes as blithe as walking floweret
ore
No sense of thee or distance now to
mar
His keen elation, bright expectancy
As, mingling with a merry rem
pan',
His baby face shone like soma nine('
star,
And with delight SOL my tire.'
bent afinme
With this warm thought: Perhaps
when I have crossed
Earth's ultimate bounds, and woe
that home 1 name
With •softened -voice—no loges
travel-tossed-
91a.d-hearted, like this child, I ellen
Brearhillaeshs' with joy to greet my
comrades there.
Those Rural Profiteers,
And men realte that Mrs. Newly-
wed went to the grocery store to do
her moiling 'rniteketing. And she
was deteemined that the grocer
ehoulcl not take calvantage of nee
youth and inexperience.
"Theo eggs are dreadfully semi:
the criticized. •
"I know ho aaswered. "But
that's the kind the farmer brings me.
They are just fresh from the country
inctaing."
"Yes," meld the bride, "and thet'4
the trouble with those farmers. They
are SO anxious to get their .egees old
that they take them -off the hest too
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CHAPTER IV.—(Con'd.)
Not until they.were en the way to
the hotel that plight did there come
to the young husband the full real-
izMg pollee that housekeeping' meantfurn2tue, furniture.
"Oh, of worse I knew it did," be
groaned, half -laughingly, after hie
first despairing ejaculation. "But I
jot didn't think. thttt' 11. Our
furniture at home we'd always had.
But of cone it doeshave to be
bought—at fleet."
"Of course! And I didn't think
either," laughed Helen. "You see,
we'd always had our furniture, too,
I ,guess. But then, et'll be grand to
buy it. I love new thins."
Burke Denby frowned.
"Buy it! Theta all right—if we'
had the money ,to pay. Haven only
knows bow much it'll cost. I don't."
At nine o'clock the following morn-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Burke Denby sal-
lied forth to buy furniture for their
"tenement," az Helen called it, until,
her husband's annoyed remonstrances
changed the word to "apartment." .1
Burke Denby leiumed many things,
during the next few hours. He learn-
ed first, that table and chairs and,
beds and stoves—really decent ones
that a fellow could endure the sight
of—cost a rodi foes amount of
money. But, to offset this, and to
make Pete really worth the living,
deer all, it seemed that one might
buy a quantity sufflcient for one's
needs, and pay for'them' in Metall-,
meets, week by week. This- idea,
while not wholly eatisfactory, seem-
ed the only way f stretheing their
limited means to cover their many
needs; and, after some hesitation, it
was adopted.
There remained then only the mat-
ter of ,selection; and it was just here1
that Burke Denby learned something
else. He learned that two people,1
otherwise apparently in perfect ac-
cords could disagree most violently,
over the shape of a chair or the
shade of a rug. Indeed, he would
not have believed it possible that
such elements of soul torture could
lie in a mere matter of color or tex-
ture. And how any one with eyes
and sensibilities could. Ny!sh to select
for one's daily companions each a
mass of gingerbread decoration and
glaring colors as seemed to meet the:
fancy of his wife, he could not under-
stand. Neither could he understand
why, all his selections and prefer-
ences were promptly dubbed "dingy"
and "homely," nor why nothirig that
he liked pleased her at all. As such
was certainly the case, however, he
came to express these prferenees less
and less frequently. And in the end
he always bought what she wanted,
particularly as the price on her
choice was nearly always lower than
the one on his—which was an argu-
ment in its favor that he found it
hard to refute.
Iik a quitter. And his father hated
quitters! He weal& like to -show he
f1ather. And be would how him 122221 t
here, And had not Helen, his dear
wife, said that she woultraid him?
As if be could help winning out under
those eirmenstandes!
It Was with stich thoughts ae these
tient he went now to niece his father,
Eepeeially Was he thinking of Helee,
doe Belem—poor Helen, struggling
back therdeveitli those abominable
hooks and eurtaies, And he had been
such a brute. to snap her up to crow
ly. He would not do it again, eIt
was only that he was so dreading•tele
first meeting withh is father, After
(Met it•wceild be easier. 'There wotild
not beanything then only just to
keel) steadily acting till he'd made
good—he and Helen. Bet now—fig
ther would be proud to see how finely
he was taking it!
With chin up and shoulders baek,
therefore, Burke Denby walked into
his father's office."Well, father,"' he began, with
cheery briskness,. -Then, (instantly,
.voice and manner changed as he took
a hurried step forward. .4'1/ad, what
is it? Are you ill?"
So 'absorbed bad Burke Denby been
over the part he himself was playing
in this little drama' of Denby and
Son, that he had gi-von no thought
as to the probable looks or actions
of any other member of the. east.
He was quite unprepared, therefore,
for the change in the, man he- now
saw before him--athe pallor, the
shrunken choker the' stooped sboul-
dere, the unmistakable something
that made the usually erect, debonair
man look suddenly worn and old.
"Dad, you are ell!" exelaiined Burke
in dismay.
John Denby got to his feet at ,once.
He even smiled and held out his hand.
Yet Burke, who took the hand, felt
suddenly that there were, uncounted
miles of space between them.
"Ah, Burke, how are you? No,
I'm not ill at all. And you—are you
wehl 9r'L
E
ah --ah, yes, very well—er—
very well."
1 "That's good. I'm glad."
There was a brief pause. A torrent
of words swept to the tip of the
younger man's tongue; but nothing
found voice except another faltering
1"Er—yes, very well!" which Burke
had not mean -to say at all. There
1 was a secofld brief pause, then John
Denby sat own.
"You will find Brett in his office.
:You have come to work, I ,dare say,"
he observed, a she turned to the let-
ters on his desk.
"Er—yes," stammered the young
num. The next moment he found
himself alone, white and shaken, the
other side of his father's door.
be contin_ued.)
s.,_
FAT AND FAMOUS.
•
Few Fleetly Stout Men Have Reached
the Pinnacle of Fame.
Mr. Taft an ex -President of the
U.S.A., is mentioned as President Wil-
son's successor at the board of the
Peace Conference. Ile is probably the
stoutest man in public life; at any
rate, the stoutest man with an inter-
national reputation.
Fat and fame have not very often
been combined, perhaps because stout
men are generally inclined to be easy-
going, and theretore lacking in that
push which brings a man to the fore.
The only great statesman one can re.,
call who was really a fat man was
Charles Samos Fox, as can bo seen
even by his effigy la the Palace of
Westminster, where he would make
three of his great rival, Pitt the
younger.
Tho only fat poet one can recall is
Jamie Thompson, the anther of "The
Seasons." He was a comfortable,
lazy, slovenly man. of whom it is re-
lated that he would eat peaches off
the wall, not taking the trouble to
take his hands out of his pockets to
pluck 'them. Yet, despite his lazy dis-
position, he managed to write one of
the longest of English—poems, as well
as "The Castle of ledolence"—a castle
in which he habitually dwelt.
Mr. G. H. Chesterton, one of the
stoutest of living celebrItes, has on
more than one occasion made up in
the character of the Sage ofaneeet
Street with most excellent success.
It is a little remarkable, too, that
one or his closest friends, Mr. Hilaire
Bailee, is almost as famous for his
bulk as he is for bbs critism ofmili-
tary operatioes, his poetry, his history
and his fiction. .
CANADA WELL ADVERTISED.
French Industrial Leaders Interested
In Dominion Exhibit at Lyons Fair.
• While the 'Ca.nadian ministers aro
busily engaged in terminating, the
work entrusted to them as pettee con-
ference the economic 2u-
4,400,10Cauada is occupying their at-
tenttiiit and is being discussed at daily
meetings, The successful results
which are anticipated as the outcome
of Canada's brilliant 'participation at
the Lyons Fair, have awakened the
Interest of French industrial leaders
towards Canada•
The recant visit to Paris of dele-
gates to tbe Federation at British In-
chistriee, represeetIng 8 membership
of eevrnlecii thousand firms, and the
speeches delivesed at a banquet pre-
sided iivreehy 11. &meta:1411e French
Minister ef (Ionia -terve, mtnit the pre-
, liminaries of a direct and durable ac-
cord between the British and geeeee
busitiese met and producers. Canada
is no -less leterested in such c0 -opera
tion, and the commeets of the Erenth
press show Cigna eih i
httlirorevapatirdltoi!
Prance of a Polley w
tageoiis co-operatioft for the conquest
Id foreign markete.
Tractable as beawas as to quality,
however, he did have to draw a sharp
line as to quantity; for Helen—with
the cheerful -slogan, "Why, it's only
twenty-five cents a week more,
Burke!"—seemed not to realize that
there was a limit even to the number
of those one might spend—on piety
dollars a month. True, at thee be-
ginning she did remind him that they
could "eat less" till they "got the
things paid ear," andithat her clothes
were "all new, -anyhow, being a bride,
so! But she had not said that
again. Perhaps because she saw the
salesman turn his intik to laugh, and
perhaps beeause she was a little
frightened at the look on berg:bus-
band's face. At all events, "When
Berke did at last insist that they
had bought quete enough, she ac-
gtiecseged with •some measure of
grace.
Burke himself, whin the shopping
was finished, drew a sigh of relief,
yet with an inward shudder at the
recollection of certain things marked
"Sold to Burke Denby."
"Oh, well,". he comforted himself.
"Helen's happy—and that's the main
thing; and I shan't see them much.
I'm away days- and asleep nights."
Nor did it occur to him that this was
net the usual attitude of a supposed-
ly proud bridegroom toward his new
little nest of a home.
C.etting eettled in the little Dale
Street apartment was, so far as
Burke was concerned, a mere matter
of moving from the hotel and (lump-
ing the codents of his trunks into
his new chiffonier and closet. Tree,
Helen, lookinetered and flurried (slid
not , nearly so pretty as usual),
brought him some borrowed tools,
thgethet with innumerable curtains
and rods and nails and hooks that
simply must be put up, she said, be-
fore ehe could clo a thing. But
Burke, after a half-hrertee
during which he smashed his 'thumb
and bored, three holes in wrong
places,—flow into a passion of bee-
-W:1)1113y, anti bade her get the jani-
tor who "owned the darn things" to
do the job, and to pay him ervhat he
asked—nwould be worth it, no mat-
ter what it was!
With a very hasty kiss then Burke
b•antiout of the house and headed
.nby Iron Works.
L. alone the curtains ev
hammer _that' was
wrong with alles leeriby Diet morn -
Mg, The thno had come when he
must not only meet his fellow em-
ployes, and take his place among
them, but he mug face his hither.
And be was dreading yet longing to
see his father. He had not seen him
shim he bade him good -eight and
went upstairs to his own 1700111 the
month before—to write that farewell
note,
Ohre, eince coming back from his
wedding trip, he had been tempted to
Irene town and never gee his :father
again—until he should have made
for himself the name and money that
he was going to make. Then he would
come back and ory• "Behold, this is I
your son, and this is Helen, my wife,
who you see, has not- dragged me
downl” He Would iiot, of °muse,
talk like that But he would thew
them. He would! • This had been
when he first learned front Brett of
the allowanteactethinge and of his fa-
ther`e implacable anger.
g Then had coine the better, beaver
decienue. Would stay whereiite
was. Ile would make the name end
the Morley tight here, tinder hit( fa-
thers very eyee, It wottld be IMMO
hf-boursb; but there Weald thee be
all the More glory fil the Winnihat.
BeSideft to leave noW would look Mee
defectieLeotild make One gum Almost
•
PHOTOS OF'
v 11.1( BATTALION
that 'Soft Canaan fee bele by
ALMANDTIA STVDIOS
See (entitle et, Weigen teetteeetti
. Write for Nether leferniatlati,
P4ANIA
A STORMLWAYS CENTRE
oNE OF EtiE,oPE's sEurri,E,
COCl FOR THOUSAND YEARS
Before Being Swept Into World Mee'
strom of 1914-1918, Was Rnown
as Land of Unique Beciatiee.
"Itoemarda, where disorders have
been growing for the lest two months
until now they are reported to have
reached the point of a general insur-
rection, bus been a centre of Euros
pean war storms Tor a thousand
years,"
" nays a bulletin a the Na-
tionalGeogrephie Society, Which
.teihieowpsesitiofwrontlitewt 4.cresuZfiryonlaefa
ethernreeicloiln.
bees,
"Peter the Great 011C0 established
a protectorate over the Roumanians
and Catherine the Great later ad-
vanced a plan for the annexation of
their territory to Ruesda. Fearing
bhat such territopial expansion migh
be a menace to her, Austria persuad-
ed Catherine to abandon that plan.
"Roumania, approximately as we
now
know it, was formed from Mon,
devie and Wallachia, in 18:31, Pre.
viously these principalities had been
tinder Turkish suzerainty, following
Austhia's protest against Russia an-
nexing them.. Autdeomy being guar-
anteed by the powers which agreed to
the tinion of the principalities had
been under Turkish suzerainty, fol-
lowing Austria's protest against Rus-
sia annexing them. Autonomy being
guaranteed by the powers which
agreed to the union of the princi-
palities following the Cririman War,
Roumanians chose an army officer,
Colonel Alexander Cuza, as their rul-
er. IIiis title`was Alexander John I,
Prince of Roumania.
"When, seven years later, the ele-
ment in power at Bucharest decided
for a el -lenge of rulers there -were few
formalities. Invading the Prince's
bedroom by night leaders of the group
presented a certificate of abdication
to be signed, and then bundled him
in a carriage and put him aboard an
express for Pales.
"The Count, of etlapders, brother
of KineLeopold of Belgium, was
chosen by a provisional gdirernment.
The powers, espedially Austria, pro-
tested, and Prince Charles (Carol),
who had -been an officer in the Prus-
sian army, 'was substituted. He set
about freeing the country from the
suzerainty of Turkey.
"When the Russo-Turkish storm
clouds arose in 1875, Charles sought
to have the powers guarantee the
neutrality of Roumania. He failed
Then an agreement was reached with
Russia. Under its tering Russian
troops were to have free passage
through -Roumania, while Russia was
to respect the rights and defend the
integrity of Roumania.
"When the war began Roumania
promptly declared herself indepen-
dent of Turkey. As the war went on
Russia needed help badly and finally
Roumania responded to repeated Ap-
peals. Under Prince Carol, Rumania
and allied troops gained a decisive
but costly victory before Plevna. Rou.
manian freedom was recognized in
the treaty of San Se -fano, and it fur-
thermore was stipulated that Rou-
mania was to get the swampy coun-
try known as Dobrudja, lying be-
tween the Danube, where it flows to
the north, and the Black Sea, Resale
was to have Bessarabia, territory
claimed by Roumania and, 'in part,
occupied by her.
Land of Quaint Customs.
"Roumania protested bitterly
against exchange of the picturesque
Bessarabia for the ugly Dobrudja re-
gion. Resent threatened to disarm
the Roumanian army, and Prince
Carol pluckily responded that bis
army might be destroyed, but it
never would be disarmed.
—
"The Russo-Turkiv.h treaty of San
Stefano was overturted by the Con -
vete of Berlin, but Ruseia s aim in
Bessarabia was not denied. Thus
Roumania, after helping Russia in
her plight, came out of the war with
less than she had when she went in.
"Before Roumania was swept into
the world maelstrom of 1914-1918
she was known as the land of unique
beauties, not so much on account of
scenery as because of her quaint vil-
lages, little whitewashed cottages,
their doors and window frames paipt-
ed in bright colors, and the attractive
type of Roumanian peasant women.
"The Roumanian pearnnt women
are considered the fairest in the
Balkans. They dress elaborately,
and show unusual individuality- in
their reeturnes of many colors, Men
and women alike usually' wear hats in
the house, except when they sat The
late Dowager Queen, known as CaT-
men Sylva, put .onnative dress in
order to miner:ice this distinctive
costurne, particularly popular in the
Roninanian uplands."
A Real Family Jar.
Winnipeg man hath dropped in
one afternoon for a conference with
his friend, when he heard a terrible
tumult emanating from the kitchen.
Just then the nine-year-old hopeful
of the household entered; so the visi-
toeasked: "What's all that row
aboilt?",
"Ma's calming fruit," explained
the lad, with an appreciative
in the direction Whence poured the
sound of angry voices, "and Pit's a
food inspector, you know, an' he's
thief to tell Ma Now she oughter clo
her work"
As It's Wrote.
A Frenchman was learning English,
and GIMPY morning read a little in an
English Pewspapee Oto day he was
Sorely puzgled.
"Vot Ise this?" he asked a friend.
"Vailt13912.099 is a 19112,919.ft
The Weed took the papee and read:
"Shoeld Mr. Hintze-, who sat for the
00110t11U0110y 1» 11—, eon,
Sent to stand resale and be ene, he
Would to all Prebabillte have a Wang
*Yea"
W.
THE LAND QF PRINCES.
Examples of Princely Evtravagance
In Rusela of Other Days.
Russia, WW1 it became lied Rosie,
hIsil bong been notably the land of
princes. In 210 Other 000211:73, was the
title so oommou; in no other did 3
Stone eor greater extremes 01 1210 and
habits. A Russian mince might be a
simple, unpretending, impeaunioue
ootnitey gentleman, of provincial In-
termits and bound to strict economiee;
he might bo a courtly, splendid and
irepoeing personage of extravagant
wealth and at the most lavish and or -
retie' expenditure. A recent writer,
ape:thine of the Russian house of De-
micloy, the princely title of which,
lioWever, is Italian in origin, gives an
amusing instance of princely extrava-
gance.
Elim Dentidov, Prince of San DPS -
to, attended school in England. He
was an Eton boy, and, needless to say,
was treated at Eton like any other
boy, English or Russian, • prince or
commoner. But when,. on leaving
Eton, it became necessary for him, in
view of his intended diplomatic car-
eer, to pass certain Russian university
examinations, he accepted the neces-
sity In a manlier both princely and
mating. • He was staying in the
Riviera, and having a very good time
there, which be did not care to inter.
rupt by a trip to Petrograd. But he
saw a way to manage the affair quite
easily. He merely Invited the entire
facultr of the University of Petrograd
to vis t Nice at his expense and sent
a special train for them equipped with
every luxury. Arrived at Nice, they
were -his honored guests. He gave
them, as a young Canadian would say,
"the tine of their llves;" and Mei-
dentelly they gave him his examina-
tion, which they did not make too die-
ficulte and he passed it with flying
colors. Then the special train car-
ried them back to Petrograd; and the
young prince, with his agreeable so -
learn undisturbed, entered leisurely
upon his diplomatic _career:
Curiously enough, the founder of the
family to Which this lordly Youth be-
longed was one Nikita Demidov, a
blacksmith, whose excellent work
caught the attention of Peter the
Great, and' whose good fortune it was
to receive as a reward an estate, af-
terwards greatly extended and en-
riched, Mines of gold and silver;
lapis lazuli and malachite, .together
with vast agricultural lands, united to
support in splendor' the desceneents
ot the sturdy blacksmith.
Another Russian prince, also the 1
owner of malachite quarries and. of
vast mines in the Urals, lavished trea-
511r8 on an educational whim fess
solt-
ish, but scarcely more win, He lad
an only daughter, a languid, -sickly
child, `end to arouse her interest in
her studies he determined that she
should be taught by means of dblls.
He ordered hundreds of them, dressed
to represent the natives of different
countries as well as _historic person-
ages of different' nations and epochs.
The arms and armor of knights and
warriors were to be executed in pure
silver and gold, the crowns and jewels
of kings and countries in real gems.
Not a half or a quarter of those
wonderful dolls were ever finished,
and only a few had been delivered
when the poor little, trail Princess
Weenia faded quietly out of life, 13y
her father's order, that no sight of
them might by chance reawaken his
grief, all her possessions were des-
troyed. One glittering royal doll, her
favorite, cradled in the arms of the
dying child, remained there after her
death, and was buried with her. It
was a marvelous miniature queen,
eighteen inches high, Frayed In a
robe so stiff with pearls, emeralds and
rubies, and with a diadem, sceptre
'and ornaments of such fine diamonds
' that it was said to be worth, alone,
"enough to endow a convent, found a
church, or dower a dozen princesses
of beauty' and nobility no less than
hers with whosa dust it was laid to
mingle in the
WEIGHTS IN THE BALANCE
Ceremony Attending Comparison of
Standards With the Originals.
Every twenty years our standard
measures—the yarul and the pound—
are ccnnpared with the oeiginals,
which lie hidden within the Palace
walls at Westminster. The occasion
is due round • again this inonth, says
a London magazine. ,
Quite a ceremony is entailed to
check the measures, In addition to
. the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chem-
berlain and the President of the
Board of Trade, a small army of
carpenters and masons also attend.
The standard yard is a solid bar
of bronze, representing the arm
measurement ag Henry I., who oe-
&tined that the length of his ossai
arm should be the standard •yard of
el°TehhenlielariepUOrreift. 1 standard pound is
composed of a ball of pletinum.
When the Lord 'Chan -cello cheeks
the weights, most elaborate cane is
taken to ensure accuracy. The pound
weight is tested with the original
pound weight on scales minable of
disclosing the minutest fraction of a
grain, while the yard is measured by
an inetrument which can detect an
error oe a hundredth thousandth peat
of Aftine
atntertlihe test, the precious pound
weight is wrapped in Swedish filter-
ing paper—soft mid frictionless—
the yawl is placed on soft rollers in
a mahogany ego Bothaare then -mi-
dsized in innumerable boxes end a
leaden ease and hidden in the stair -
Mese Wall, which 211 rebuilt lifter each
test.
There is storage tepeeite ab Poet
Arthur end Fort Willem for be.
twee11 50 tied 60 Millige buthels of
BURIED WEALTH
IN IVORY
GIGANTIC SPECIES OP "MOLE" en
NORTHERN SIBERIA,
Huge Mammals, Living about 100,001
Years Ago, Furnish the Mose
Valuable of Ivory.
In the region of 1110 Lona Done, in
ear northern Siberia, there le a glean
tic species of inose which, burrowire
underground, dies if by chalice ex-
posed to the light. It has enormous
tusks, and the half -savage nomads oe
the country empetimes use stripe or
its thick hide for reindeer harness. •
Truth to tell, the "mole" Is the long -
extinct mammoth, and the last surviv-
ing specimen perished long before the
earliest dawn of human history. In-
deed, it may very well be that 100,000
years have passed since the youngest
mammoth walked the earth.
In their day those huge inanimate
roamed in herds all over northern Si-
beria, where the climate was mild and
salubrious. But there came a sudden
change and Jack Frost established a
permanent reign in that part ot the
world. The mammoths, huddled in
valleys, were overwhelmed by snow-
drifts, which, hardened to solid ire,
preserved their bodies intact even to
the present time:
Wonderful State of Preservation.
Now and then the hot sun of the
short Arctic summer melts out and
reveals to view one of the great car-
casses—the meat still fresh enough to
be Sed to dogs. The eyeballs of one
specimen found on the Tas River, be-
tween the Obi and the Yenesei, were
as perfect os if the animal had been
killed only a day or two earlier.
To the portheast of ,the mouth of
the Lena—which is one of the great
rivers,of the world, rising in eastern
Siberia and flowing northward to the
Arctic Ocean—is a group et islands
which, must formerly have been con.
netted 'with the mainland. There an
American naval expedition, which
sought survivors of the ill-fated Jean.
netts, found deposits of mammoth
tusks that were -literal ivory mines.
The frozen soil of tne islands was
so crowded with mammoth skeltons
as to suggest that the mighty pachp
dorms must have had there a "dying
place," to which through thousands of
years they resorted when death al/ -
preached. Lieutenant Schuetze, who
was a member‘of the expedition, told
the writer that there was a big for-
tune to bo gained by a few adventur-
ous men who should take a staunch
vessel through Bering Strait 111 the
opening of the Arctic summer dig for
ivory and return in half a dozen
weeks. They would encounter peen%
however, for the coast is most Mhos.
pitabbe and almost uninhabited,
Moat Valuable bf Ivory.
Mammoth ivory is more highly vei-
ned than any other, being worth $1 a
pound. A tusk of a full-grown speci-
men may be fourteen feet long, weigh-
ing four times as much as the largest
elephant's tusk. This giant relative
of the elephant attained a height of
sixteen feet and a length of twenty..
six feet, with a body girth of thirty
feet Tho sole of each foot was three
feet across. It had a shaggy mane
and was covered with long hair.
The first mammoth remeins dug up
in Europe, were supposed to be those
of gigantib men. In 1577 a learned
professor at Lucerne, from a pelvis
and 0110 thigh hone, "reconetructed"
man nineteen feet high, Nor was the
mistake without excuse, inasmnch ne
the bones of the mammoth are .re-
=1.1:ably human like. The vertebrae
look like magnified copies of humen
spino sections, and the same Is trite of
the shoulder blade, the pelvis, the
feumur, etc.
I saw a lithe lad returned from far
Ansi heard his rippling laughtm
high and sweet.
Lightly he danced on tiny sandaled
feet,
His oyes as blithe as walking floweret
ore
No sense of thee or distance now to
mar
His keen elation, bright expectancy
As, mingling with a merry rem
pan',
His baby face shone like soma nine('
star,
And with delight SOL my tire.'
bent afinme
With this warm thought: Perhaps
when I have crossed
Earth's ultimate bounds, and woe
that home 1 name
With •softened -voice—no loges
travel-tossed-
91a.d-hearted, like this child, I ellen
Brearhillaeshs' with joy to greet my
comrades there.
Those Rural Profiteers,
And men realte that Mrs. Newly-
wed went to the grocery store to do
her moiling 'rniteketing. And she
was deteemined that the grocer
ehoulcl not take calvantage of nee
youth and inexperience.
"Theo eggs are dreadfully semi:
the criticized. •
"I know ho aaswered. "But
that's the kind the farmer brings me.
They are just fresh from the country
inctaing."
"Yes," meld the bride, "and thet'4
the trouble with those farmers. They
are SO anxious to get their .egees old
that they take them -off the hest too
seonl"
Nothing is 2110TO )19;;Vr in A home
lamee butte