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ATTRACTIVE FLOWER BED. OLD-FASHIONED GARDES A FAV ORITE SPOT OP HRS. ROOSEVELT. This Corner of the White House Grounds, With Its Blue of Color, Attracts the Slght-Sccr. Mrs. Roosevelt's Old Fashioned Gar den, as the generous collection of posies west of tho Bouth veranda of the While Uouse Is called, baa been a coat lemons in ass of bloom and color during the summer and fall, quite different from any of tho other Govern ment flower displays. There are mt of these, surrounding the different p.'irlinciitnl buildings, those of the : purtmout of Agriculture being parti iarly elaborate and ornate, but It la opinion of Bummer visitors to Washing ton that the old-time corner of the mistress of tho White Bouse is the most pleasing of all. At least It seems to strike the majority of fancies, for It recalls the scenes and times of earlier days. This part of the White Bouse grounds has always been devoted to flowers, but until Mrs. Roosevelt's ad vent It 1ms been rather given up to tho latest fails of horticulture than to a display of the familiar blooms of tho oid tiino flower garden. i u the White Bouse s OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. American System of Public Education Par Loss Practical Than That of Germany. Tho general public school education of the country Is complacently believed by the majority of people to be the best In the world. There ore some, however, who insist that much of our education Is unpractical and does not flt the youth of the country for the ac tual hard knocks of life, and that our school system should Include a much * Industrial work German educa tional methods places the United States GREAT CANALS OF HARS. RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS ESTAB LISH APPARENT ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCTION. The Camera** Eye, More Sensitive than the Human Optic, Establishes New Data—Interesting Scientific Discoveries. Is places at an aparent disadvantage In this re gard. An Instance of this Is seen In a fort Industrial School, who has been twice sent by the German Government to study the Industrial schools of this country. Mr. Back expresses surprise that wa have not provided In our school system for training our dtisens In special directions, Instead of leaving the establishment of trade. Industrial and technical schools to the enterprise of Individuals or the generosity of philanthropy. The result Js that a com paratively small number of these Ittle op- tln prnc- and to The changes couple of couple of years ago were officially known ns the “restoration,*’ but have, perhaps, been mpre generally termed the “mutilation.” It seemed necessary that something should be done; there was talk of reconstructing the Whits United States, while -tlon of the country little portnnfty la offered boye to obtain tieal and thorough Instruction ai increase their value to the nation by converting themselves Into trained workmen. The German Government, on the other bond, maintains in every part of the empire good trade, Industrial and technical school the country and sending them out, each A FAVORITE SPOT OF THE PRESIDENTS WIFE. nmiso, but the niggardly appropria tions made by Congress prevented any extensile change or Improvement. There baa, however, been notblng but approval for the changes in Mrs. Roosevelt’s garden. The location Is Ideal one, somewhat sheltered and se cluded, and when the President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave the garden p last spring to too International I way delegates there were many words of praise for the charming effect of the hundreds of climbing rosea, displayed In full bloom and fragrance, their vivid coloring contraettng well against the walls of the east and west terraces. Special Floral Pets. Particular pets of the President's wife are hardy shrubs and annuals, too, but all of tbe kind with which men tod women who loved flowers a half century ago loved to surround them- ■elves and with each of which for tbe older generation there lingers some po etic or sentimental fancy. Hollyhocks, jessamine, phlox, dalillaa, China asters, lavender, rosemary, columbine, clema tis, peonies and smaller shrubs and flowers have contributed generously to tbe riot of color and bloom which his pervaded this nook daring the season. The mistress of this garden delights to pick up new plants which are yet old, and following her various visits to Arlington, Mount Vernon nnd'otber places have come many package! of new favorites to And an mrased corner In thli old-fashioned garden. Boca Sugar Mate Strength f Various reasons have been assigned for the Increase In stature and strength of the modern maiden, who has most certainly grown uncommonly tall and proportionately muscular during the past few years, says an English writer. It cannot ba that outdoor sports, gym nastic exerdse and so on, have stretched her out and made her at strong as she la. because her brothers have had precisely the same advant ages, and they have not developed at the same rate. It seems to me, there fore, that the eecret lies In tbe fget, that of recent years girls have becoms far greater consumers of sweetmeats than ever were their mother* and grandmother*. Time was when wa should never have dreamt of having sweets on Our luncheon, dinner and tea tables. Now tt would be quite extraordinary were ana not to offer these dainties. And, what is more, wpmen are not merely content to eat sweetmeats at our meals. Bat they consume them at all times and Jn aU placet between meals. It was re cently said that boxes of bonbons play a consplcuous part In modem lovemak- fng, “sweets to the sweet' being ap parently the text by which every young man of the day guides himself through the devious paths of courtship. Tbe great Russian wrestler who Is shortly to enter again into contest wltb the Turk, UadraU, tells us that the more sweet stuff one eats the stronger one grows. Sngar Is the secret of strength, ho declares. Only » Portion of Russia. In order to appreciate tbe sin of Siberia one most imagine the placing sf all of the States and Kingdoms, principalities and ampins, etc., of Eu- - rope, excepting Russia, and all of the United -States, Including Alaska, in the lerrltery occupied by thnt portion of Russia, and then would still have a snail amount of land uncovered. la British Columbia as hi England tho rule of tho road la “Beep to the loft and you're sure to be right. an expert or a trained specialist, to play a useful and Intelligent part In tbe groat battle of international com merce. POKER IN THE PHILIPPINES. One Moro Who Knew the Game Reports came from time to time from Portsmouth showing that tbe Oriental envoys and attaches bad found a great liking far American ways and manners, and more especially for tbe true Amer ican beverages, cocktails and hlgb balls, and for that little bit of diversion known as poker. On top of tbese re ports camo a message from a member of the Taft party In tbe Philippines that Datto Grande, one of tbo leading citizens of Bambaag, bad fallen down before tbo Sultan of GanassI In the game of poker. Army officers stationed In tbe Philippines are stated to have carefully coached tbe Datto Grande lo tbls game and tbelr estimation of their ability to Instruct bas bad a severe shock, a result of the Datto’s losses of his carabaos, wives sad raiment, since, It appears, bis opponent had never beeu taught bow to play, but bad relied upon bis untutored aklll and tbe devices known only to tbe Mores. Tbe next thing wo may expect to learn will be that tbls wily More “Ab Sing” has actually taken the uniform -from aome of our army officers, aye, even those considered adepts at the game. This news ts probably of more In- ._reit to the people of our Island pos session and to tbe cltlsens of the United States than Is at first Implied, for It ■bows that for cunning and Intelligence the More* show ability to defeat even the skill of blghly experienced and practiced American army officers, and, aa an exebaflgo remarks. It shows that the Filipinos are, and of right ought to bo free and Independent The Postmaster GeneraPe Panto Pitted. Boke Smith, Postmaster General during Cleveland's last administration, tells a story of a darky employed at his home who was usually tho recipient of all of Mr. Smith's cast-off clothing. Many of the coats, vesta and trousers, when cast aside, were of a flue quality and aa a result this negro shone In tbo society of bis fellowmen. On one oc casion tho ex-Postmaster General pur chased an elegant pair of trousers from Paris. Somcbow, tbese trousers would not wear out. Mr. Smith would wear tbcm day In and day out, rain or shine, and If apparently soiled a little clean ing up would make tbem as good as new. Try what bo would, tho servant could not get the master to cast them away. One rainy day, Mr. 8mlth came home from a rldo Into tho country on horse back with his trousers very much the worse for mud and water. “Sambo," be said to bis helper, “take this pair of pants out and give tbem a good cleaning, ns I want to wear tbem to morrow.” Sambo came back in in hour or two, hts fare sad and gloomy. “Deed Marsa Hoke,” he said, “somehow I can't get that tbar mud olfn your pants, dey certainly am a sight” “Try some soap and water, Sam,” ■aid Mr. Smith. “Done tried soap and water, sor." “Try some gasoline,” Mr. Smith re plied. “Done tried gasoline.” “Try turpentine,” desperately cried the ex-Postmaster General. “Done tried turpentine.” “Did you try ammonia 1" “Taint no use to try «a on. Marsa Hoke I knows dey*U at" Astronomers and scientists In _ eral are deeply Interested in the modest announcement made by Pro fessor Perclval Lowell and his associates at tbe Lowell Obeervatory in Arizona .recently that after zereral partial successes and some complete failure* the greater canal* of tho planet Mar* bad at last been photo graphed. ' Itherto the general pnMle has been compelled to accept or to reject the existence of the Martian canals on tbe word of tbe stargazing fraternity. Bat with the aecompllzhment of tbe Har vard observers In Arizona everyone will now have an opportunity to see tbe actual photographs In proof of what has long been considered as more or less of a theory. While several photographs were taken of the canals some weeks ago, It was not nntll a few days ago that the solar photographers were ready to annonnee tbe complete success of tbe undertaking. Professor Lowell, In the following account of tbe achievement, Is unreserved In his belief that tbe Martian canals closely correspond to tbe familiar waterways of tbe same general classification ob this planet Up to tbe present time hamsa knowledge of Mars has been largely theoretical—tbe principal facts regard ing tbe planet being that It Is 141,600,000 miles from tbe sun and approximately 47,000,000 miles from earth. The Martian year has 087 days. Mars 1* 4230 miles In diameter, tbe earth being 7018, Jupiter 80,600 and the snn 800,400 miles. “To photograph tbe canals of Mars,” ■ays Professor Lowell, “bns for many years been a purpose of the observa tory established and maintained by Harvard College In Arizona. The first attempt to meet with an even approxi mate success was made In 1001. when a more or less satisfactory print was made of tbe Mare Acldallum, or Lake of Acid “Yet, encouraging as that pioneer effort was, no canal could then be detected on tbe negative wltb absolute certainty. To-day wc can state as positive and final thnt there are canals on Mar*—because tho photographs say so, and a photographic negative Is nothing If not truthful. “In my firm belief, It Is only n question of time, possibly of months, maybe a few years, when wo shall be able to determine tbe exact natnre and probable purpose of the canal* of our planetary neighbor. Meanwhile we hnvo a number of excellent negatives which have served to bring ns a bit closer to Mars than ever In tho past. “Tbo negatives thoroughly confirm the eye In showing not only the exist ence of the canals, but reveal them aa continuous lines of tens and oven hun dreds of miles In length. Of coarse It Is yet Impossible to say positively whether the Martian canals are of artificial or natural creation, or exactly of what composition Is the liquid or molten substance In them. Bnt so far as we can at present conceive they appear as corresponding to our famil iar waterways classified under the beading of canals. IMPLEMENT MAKERS MEET. SHOW GREAT EXPANSION Ot FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL MA. CBINBRT TRADE. - Pass Resolutions For Land Law Re form—Against dying Inter-State Commerce Commission Power to Fla Railroad Rate*. Value of Advertising. Once, beset with pain and trouble, When the day waa dreary and dork, And I felt most weary staking / Of my liver, lungs and heart' In the pipers I was scanning,' Advertisements by the score, '• Trusting there to find some doctor In whose ears my woes I’d pour.; Then there flashed across my vision's As If writ In living light; Tell, ob, tell, old Doctor Cartlnt Tell, before you sleep, this night AU your woe* *nd *11 your trouble*,' All your aches and svery pain He can sooth you, he can cure you; Pqt new life In every vein. And when all your troubles vanish, And your liver works all right And your lungs resume their functions And your heart with Joy Is bright Then you’ll sing loud Hallelujahs, And you’ll pay your bill In gold. Thankful that to Dr. Gartln . AU your troubles have been told. /- And you'll know that lucky Fortune Made you know, at any rate. That It pays for all to keep their Advertisements up to date. A Few Afterthoughts. The negro who demanded 55.000 from a New York life insurance company la to bo prosecuted. This man la evidently un- nlllar with tho New York method*. Ho >uld have applied for tho gUt through syndicate. l mining engineer In Guadalajara, Mex ico, has round a petrified apple, feet underground. This ta almost as startling as the seedless apple take. There were 137.000 pounds of Mocha and Java coffee Imported into the United States In the last six ycara. It seems Strangs that during that tlmt. grocers throughout tho country have sold 1,500,000 pounds of pure Mocha and Java. A recent meeting of the National As sociation of Agricultural Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers at Niagara Falla brought forth a number of Inter esting and Important facta relative the great progress which has been made in recent yean in the making of all classes of farm and working Imple ments and also the great expanse this class of trade abroad. Since 1899, when our exports In tbls line for tbe first time shot ahead of thoee of Great Britain, the United Stales has been easily the heaviest ex porter of agricultural Implements and machinery In the world. Manufacturers claim, and their efforts to secure for eign markets seem to substantiate It, that exports play n most Important part in the successful conduct of agri cultural implement manufacturing. Tbe last census puts the annual value of this class of production at {101,000, 000, and it la estimated that tbe pres ent year's production 1* greater. This SINGULAR I NOUNS WEST. OF NORTH bears were not i when I suddenly came upon them.” Surely the President A clever counterfeit of the ten-doilar “Buffalo” note la being passed In New York. Another Indigestible security, only It has the misfortune to be technically Hall Caine has concluded that he win not write a novel on American million aires. He was probably unabls to find on* who would make a good hero. dealing i aken th i Stock Exchange. has grown from {6,000,000 In 1850. The Increase In exports, however, has been far greater as we have, one after an- other, captured foreign markets. Ic 1870 we exported only a million dol lars’ worth of foreign Implements; lc 1900 we were at the {16,000,000 mark, and the high water mark waa reached In 1904 with {22,700,000, or over one- flfth of the product Much Work Ahead.! "Tho"Niagara meeting, however, brought forth the tact that there aro many fields as yet unconquered by our Implement makers. In sharp contrast with the brilliant snccesa achieved by American harvesting machinery In Rue- slo, American plows are practically un known in that vast agricultural coun try. The plows used are mostly Ger man or of local make, while the Amer ican types of light, strong plows^ cap able of doing almost twice tbe work of the Russian plows, and which have swept everything before them In South Africa and Australia, have thus far, for some reason, failed to gain an en try Into Russia. {American Manufacturers Foremost, It seems that tho American Imple ment makers are a progressive set and the secret of their phenomenal suc cess uis been In their good organiza tion nnd the close study they have made of the wants of tbe foreign peo ples. The American manufacturer has made a study of conditions and has thus beaten the Britisher with hts take It or leave it,” and the German plan of making an exact imitation of the native or local Implement, The National Association of Agri cultural implement and Vehicle Manu facturers Is on Influential body and Its annual meetings are participated In by some of the heaviest manufacturers In tbs world. It takes up. In addition to its regular business, the various broad questions of the day aa they may have tome direct or Indirect bearing upon the prosperity of their Industries. Among other questions discussed at the recent meeting were the ten-hour la bor day, certain phases of the tariff, the parcel poet question, ship subsidy, the railroad rate question nnd the re peal of the land laws. Tbe principal discussion, ns noted by the dally re port!, centered around the railroad rate and land law questions and parcel post, although there was, of course, no dlssentlon to the view that everything possible should be done to expand for eign trade. Questions of Legislation. Judge Grosscup of Chicago, who re cently attained tame in his beef trust decision, nuureased the association upon the evils winch he raid would re sult in esse the Interstate Commerce Commission was vested with power to act aa both prosecutor and court, ns they would if they were given power to fix railroad rate*. Ho took strong ground against all rebates and dlscrtm- lnatlons nnd declared that tt would be wise to replace the present machinery by a government bureau empowered to Investigate all complaints, with a court of transportation to adjudge the va rious points raised. Resolutions were adopted embodying this Idea. The association also indorsed the re port of President Roosevelt’s Public Land Commission, advising the repeal of tbe Timber and Stone Act and changes in the Desert Land Act. and the Commutation Clause of the Home stead Act to prevent land frauds. The Interest of the association In this mat ter and In the government Irrigation work Is active, since irrigation and home building on millions of acres of Western landa will furaic'a cn unpar allolcd market Tho proposed parcel post legislation came In for a scoring ts being Inimical to Independent manufacture and de stroyer of the thousands of retail and even wholesale dealers throughout the country with whom the farmers do business directly and tending to fur ther concentrate manufactures In a few great center*, and create monopolies. Where a Miss Was as Good as a Mile. Being no devotee of hunting, I sel dom carried anything but my revolver, while my partner, an enthusiast for any gamo from bear to poker, great or small, as I was the reverse, seldom stirred from the tent without his double-barrelled shotgun,” said the old timer from Nevada. As small game was fairly plenty in that part of the Sierras Jim generally took the right-of-way, lest It might be frightened away before he had an op portunity to shoot. This afternoon, however, we were merely going a short distance up the mountain back of our tent to see that our horses had not strayed too far. The gun was taken ns a matter of habit, but the prospect of meeting anything for ‘Jim’ to shoot was so slight that I pushed on ahead and was climbing the steep mountain side, my body inclined far forward with my head naturally but a short distance from the ground. "A sudden sharp gun shot report roared in my ear, and I felt tho wind of the blast as the charge almost grazed my cheek. " 'Devilish careless, Jim,’ I said, angrily as I wheeled around. ‘Don’t make game of yonr best friends with out at least a slight warning, and don’t fear but that after such a start ling hint I'll always let you take the lead, though not even a chipmunk is in sight.’ The color rushed from my face and was succeeded by a blush of shame as Jim quietly pointed to the mangled body of a six-foot rattler, whose head had been shattered Into a shapeless is. ‘Well,’ said Jim, smiling good nat- uredly, 'your two heads were about two feet apart A bit too close, I thought' ” The Marriage Contract a Compli cated Document. Many peculiar customs exist among the Kwaklute Indians who. live along the const of British Colombia. These Indians are divided Into numerous tribe* or clans, entry into one of wblcb Is obtained only through most exact ing laws. Marriage among them Is considered a purchase which ta con ducted on sound business principle*. Bnt the object sought ta not only the woman, but also the right of member ship In her clan for the future children of tbe couple. The privileges of the clan are not given as a present to the son-in-law, but be becomes entitled to them by paying & certain amount of property for bis wife. The wife ta given to blm as n first Installment of tbe return payment. The crest of the clan, Its privilege*, and a considerable amount of other properly besides, are given laser on, when the couple'have children, and the rate of Interest paid by the wife’s tribe Increases with the number of children. For one child, 200 per cent of Interest is paid; for two or more children, 300 per cent After tbe entire payment Is made the marriage is annulled, because the wife's father has redeemed hft daughter. If she continues to stay wltb her husband, sbe does so of ber own free will. 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