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Littlb Savior. BY LOPISA A’HMUTY XA*H. , -you lake my advice now. mv boy. r> r op everything just where you are, ' jn(l jr C , off to the country. It will be saving of you.” .. Are you mad. Gooff? What, drop a living certain sure, and go off to— nothing!” was mv answer to the doc f)r a n old schoolmate of mine. •The living will drop vou soon enough in more sense than one. The weather bureau does not want ghosts gs weather clerks!” he replied. -rd rather be ghost here than st arve there. I won’t, -d that ends it ' M f -You asked me to be honest with vou and I have been. And this is all jj get for my pains.” he closed with. as I left his office. I knew I was all run down, but expected the summer vacation would Le t me up as It had done before; and honestly I was thinking of my wife INfld her views as well as of myself. When I got home that evening she I met me at the door, as was her wont. I nicely got up for dinner. L isn’t it perfectly delicious. Arch. Z or Mabel?” (One of her sisters in ■ New York.) “They're going to settle ■in the country.” j -it might he for Mabel; but I don’t L 0 enough of her to pronounce—” | You do now', story boy!” she an swered. "You know she’s just like | me . Twins always are alike.” I opened my eyes, dumfounded, for evidently I had mis-oad mv young lady, or perhaps her capacity for — ' l won’t say what. She went on. just taking breath 'long enough for all she had to say. “I’ve written and told her how I envy her her luck. Fancy being able Ito sit upder cool trees when you're baking hot, and have a big fire when [you’re cold, and the children running ’'about without dressing up. and—” Here I stopped her. "You mean to say they are to go i with ’nodings on?’ ” “Nonsense. Arch! You know what I mean —dressed for the street, of course!” "Avery lucid explanation!” I edged in. “And they can have their own milk I and cream and butter and garden stuff | —so good for the children!” “It looks as though, Coonie.” (I icall her Coonie but her name is Lu- Ji ia.) “you want to follow suit.” | “Why of course I do! What, do you I suppose I’m telling you all this for?" I “We’ll see about it. You have to !ihave your own way always, haven’t I vou?” I This metamorphosis of my wife's views fairly took away all my fatigue Alter my day’s work on the root of a "sky-scraper.” She did not return to ftiiem till after tho children were all tucked up for the night. She then dragged one of their little rockers across the room, and sat down by me, as I lay on the couch, saying as she [did so, — “The worst of you. Arch, is that you ■never mean what you. say.” f “What lie have I been guilty of ■ now?” 1 asked innocently.. | “About my having my own way, oi I course. Mabel has hers, and its just I lovely to think of it Just Imaglnt [ how free and easy not. to bo r.t the I beck and tall of people "’ben you I Want to be at home and not to have to say you’re out when you are there!” “We'll see about it, little woman.” “That’s what, you said before din | ner. Of course that means ves!” And I she clapped her hands, just as Dickie I does when he’s got. o new toy. “You I really mean it this time!” And she I got up and kissed me solemnly on the I forehead, for ratification. | ’What’s Mabel going to live on in I the country, or you we’ll say for ar- I Knuent’s sake?” I , ”0h of course the husbands do the work, with a man to help them, and *e’ve lots to sell.” ror example?” I asked. Pigs and sheep; stoek and steers; ®od they hunt all we want to eat.” and steers; a different breed, -hr That’s one reason why i want to *o on a r anf h Archie, to learn some ! ing ’ B he said in an unusually hum ole voice. oi>. 1 see. You* - education has i n neglected in the city!” 1 could not help looking narrowly at to try to get at the “trulv truth” )° f,Uo,f flick. She had always given ? the impression that she wan de to und city life. She A n l ‘ n, 't m i'° her concerts. c her ! ' ~ lar,,ea. or her “at homes” and ‘lances for anything. She 1 herse| f on being “chic,” (that’s f .. s ‘ lP 051,18 it. I think) and she ap ' V love n<? w clothes dearly. w * * may have been mistakes, on are hard to read anyhow. onR :in(l short, of it waa. that I h,,- nmv to the weather , 3J ' a,l hough I had alwavs con “Yself on being an official ® ayp in office not to ba turned p change of political wind, and I f eon descend to anv trick to get 4 again. Jrr"' w< “ sold U P- and started ! c jj e ’ )u y' n g half cleared land at. a ieft T ra<P ’ eo aB to have something w P re liminary expenses. We t rn ,,., llw ' fhe young bears, with our hppL . allea( l- but I got strong and hrunt' aati WPJI abl<> t 0 bpar the,r took up her new studies 2 n rresh zest. and was tickled at all ' Je learned. pl^ n ° of them was what she was _ ed to call "aforetime doctoring.” B°od to laugh, Arch,” she dor S .?’ y ’ ** 1 grumbled at her exac ‘! • WTio sto nurse you and the children if you're sick abed? I don't propose to be sick nurse, so don’t ar range matters that ) should he lte sides you know there’s no doctor in these parts to be had under ?50. so you must practice doing without them by not needing them.” “While you practice on the kids” I put in. Of course I know what you’re driv ing at. Amaten-s can’t know every thing.” But you knew you had put the flaxseed ooultice on the kid. and that wasn't the place for the thermo meter!” How could I follow the shifting of a slippery eel?” Never mind, little woman, you are not the only one scared by thermo meter reading, when the patient was well enough to frisk into his clothes.” “Whatever you say. you know Tom mie had a close scratch of pnoumonia, and you might to he thankful, sir. to the poultice he didn’t cult. I wish I could it bv n, doctor.” “And the proof ”’ould he well worth the SSO ” ! answered in banter. “Who nearly pu* blistering liquid into my eye?” giving her weather-eye (as she called it) p sly twinkle. “And who shook the kid, instead of the bottle?” T shot back. “Nobody, since Methusaleh’s wife!” "But seriously. Archie, isn't it jusi perfect being your own butcher and baker and ohurner and cheese-mon ger, rnd charwoman and school ma'rm? Other things one doesn’t need. Don’t say you need a doctor, Archie dear, or my nose will he jointed flat and that would break my heart!” As T made no response, she went on: “It’s heavenly to be independent of all the mongers in creation. It gives you a kind of Alexander Selkirk sen sation—kind of ‘monarch of all we survey’ feeling, that does one good. Just say for once you agree with me, Arch, or I shall be let down to agree ing with myself, as usual.” To tell the truth which I never con fided to Lucia. I had been hiring a man not to work so much, but to teach me to do things—me, who scarcely knew a spade from a hoe. And Coonie always said “We had to have plenty of garden stuff to fight off the doctor.” Neither could I make a fence, or milk a cow. or keep the hogs out of the garden, let alone turning them into bacon. Why things came so natural to Coonie v never could make out. She got through all her housework, and taught and clothed the kids, getting herself up spick and span everv even ing to sit with me in the little par lor. Summer had come round again at the ranch and I had a notion there was something brewing in her little head, when she said suddenly. “Arch. dear, now that you know stock and steers are the same, I think you mav be trusted to leave them awhile." "Coonie!" I exclaimed, adding noth ing. “Well, you know a vear ago you didn’t.” she went on with a brazen front. And T knew bette- than to con tradict her in her humor. “Anyhow, don't you think it’s time we went out to see the world?” Expecting next moment a proposal to return to city life. I waited to see which world she had reference to; for she had repeatedly assured me that jsh despised the "worldliness of great cities.” a o it must be some lit tle world straight from the hand of its Maker. "You see. Arch,” she con tinued, “we’ve not come across the plains—” "It seems to me that we have done so,” I dared interpose “The old-faehioned way. of courge. The trains were there, and we had to take them. But I want to go in a prairie schooner!” Heavens and earth! Does she want to go back east that way? Seeing mv consternation she gave my hand p. little pat, saying: “Arch, you stupid frump, we muat take th“ child-en out camping some where; they’ll winter so much better.” “Good heavens! they're not bees. Coonie! 1 suppose vou are afraid of having to apply poultices and thermo meter again—the mixture that does not agree with your nerves. Eli?” I bantered. "Change of air is good, that's why the cows go wandering off so far be fore the?’ calve.” she said, “and a paairie schooner will be the very nic est of all.” "Only without fhe prairie, seeing we’re mostlv mountains over here!” 1 interpolated. To please her, the men and I fixed up a rig. and we all embarked for the nearest bit coast, we expect ed to see more people than we had the year through, although Lucia pro fessed *o hate people. After living all her life near the great lakes, she hankered after a sight of water. We were preparing to camp over night. before reaching the olace in the morning and I was wielding the axe fo* fire-making when I stupidly struck my left hand between thumb and forefinger. From a great gash the blood spurted, running down bril liantly ns I made mv way to where my wife was busy with the children. “Now. ’aforetime doctor.' now's our chance. * I said coolly. Ive struck bone.” “How could you be such a goose. Arch?” and she tried in rain to staunch the blood. As it continued to flow from the rather ugly looking opening, she said, “Walt till I hold It THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSVILLE, GA. together!" and she very ingeniously ; closed the lips of the wound, holding them “rm with thumb and finger. “Wait? What are we to wait for? ; Till the fire’s made itself and boiled j the kettle?" "Wait. I say. and don’t argie-bor gie!” This always meant that the Scotch in her was uppermost, and I she wasn’t to be gainsaid. “Don’t argie-borgte!” and to the ] eldest boy, “Jimmie, yon run round to i the camp ahead of us, and ask one i of the young men to be so kind as to go with you and fetch the doctor frern the town.” “Coon!” I dared to expostulate. “If you bleed to death, sir. how are | we to have our tea? You know the j plaster won’t stick, and I didn't bring Imy surgery needle and silk, never i dreaming you’d do this.” I knew telephathically that “lock j jaw" was the word running up and i down the convolutions of her brain — | the thing she had never seen happily; j so I let her be. | “If Providence makes you do this. | just within reach of a doctor. I’m not . going to fly in its face and let. you bleed to death.” “It’s you who are doing the ‘argie | borgieing' now. !’m silent as a | stock.” “Well, you were doing it inside you; that’s all the same!” she had the ef frontery to come out with. I was feel ing a little weak from loss of blood, and waiting for my supper, and al lowed her to go on holding the cut.; she rallying me. and setting the chil dren to rights at intervals. She made me sit on a box. while s’he stood and stood and never flinched, although the stooping position end strain on her muscles must have been very wearing. The time seemed endless. The sun was sinking red behind high cliff land as only a Pacific sun can set in to tho far western horizon. “Almost the Orient again.” as Coonie ob served, when she dared turn her head and shoulders round, but never her bodv, to take a look. “That doctor must have gone with the sun,” i observed. “Just relax your grip for one moment and see how it has worked,” I begged. “Not for nothing and nobody but the doctor himself! What, undo my work that. I have been doing?” I pulled her down on my knee to rest her. “You dare, sir!” she said peremptor ily. thinking it a ruse to let go. The kids began to whine and cry, first for supper, then for bed, then winding down the grade that hid the ocean from our view, we at length spied the longed for cavalcade. “Why, Geoff. Goeff is it really yon, old man, wandered to the jumping off place of the world?” After a brief explanation that he had been run down too, and had tak en his own prescription, and was now on the eve of hunting us up, he pro ceeded to examine my hand. Lucia let go her hold with trem bling. and ne’er a drop of blood to tell the tale! A perfect cure! Or else as Ooe'* suggested, we were both more scared than scarified. It. had been an ordeal for her, and I led her on to the mattress in the tent, chopped the wood, made the fire, got supper and put the kids to bed: so dearly had I to pay for my yielding disposition. 1 had had my doubts as to the Mabel story for some months, and the test time I queried I heard that she was back : n New York. “As vou are her twin, I suppose you want to go hack to the place from which you came.” I remarked. “Ungrateful wretch,” she respond ed, “not till We’re old and grav head ed, and the boys must go to the col lege !’m getting them ready for!” And now, with Goeff an as enlight ener it. came out that it was all a put tip job on me between them, and that Mabe! had never left her home. I had to thank them both for the life-saving station our- ranch has proved to be, and my wife as the greatest little savior on it. —Waverly Magazine. Th I'Uia, There is a wealthy but very hard headed citizen of Detroit who has na hesitancy in tolling this story on him aelf. “If there’s anything on earth grinds me it is to plunge into the social swim. I'd fa- rathor plunge into an ice-cold bath. One of these here steel-pen coats makes me "‘an’ to go out and hide in the havloft. and a standing collar puts me into a grouch for a week after I’ve worn it. "But you know how women are. They’ll stand right by you when livin’ is up-hill work, skimp, hustle and save, but once they got money they want a sho’" for it. and the bigger the shew the better. Things sorter come my way in nine and l cleaned up a neat little pile. I ! uat grinned at car riages. horses, a coachman, a lot of servants a snookin’ ’round the house, receptions, theatre parties and all that sort of thing. “But when they rung in a genuine butler on me I had a warm conversa tion with mamma and the girls. It didn't do a mite of good. They talked me clean off my feet and the butler came. 1 could have got away passably with the president of the United States, bu’ that fellow, stiff-backed, high-headed, lookin’ superior like and never smilin’ ’less R was to stab you, riled me awful. One day while sit ting in the library, I heard him tell one of the maids he vas goin’ to re sign. ‘What for?’ she asked. 'The last lady as called took me for the barbarian' —that's me. "For years I dealt with raftsmen and lumbermen. I paid his bill for six weeks in the hospital, and his wages, too. We keen no butler.” —Detroit Free Pree3. PHENOMENA IN NATURE. •OWIE EFFECTS IN MECHANICS DUE TO CAUSES AS YET UNKNOWN. SfwUlH'c Iji „r Motion May H t Wliilt? Mnrli TliHt I'nttta tor Ktvinul Truth 1% I ntlrr Sliitpit’ion I uu-e f t>ruvil.r fllryonti it iiinun touffptimi. Recently we have discussed in these columns recondite problems of physi cal science. To say that these things are beyond the purview of engineers is to limit the scope of the profession. The business of the engineer is to util ize what has been termed, popularly if not accurately, the forces of nature, for the benefit of mankind. To thr physicist the world is indebted for the discovery of new phenomena and novel relations existing between old and uew natural actions and interactions. It is impossible, however, to draw a nar row line and say that the province of the engineer lies on one side and the territory of the man of pure science on the other. Thus the discovery of the phenomena of electrical induction was mainly the work of Faraday; but tho construction of dynamos, which utilize that discovery, is the daily work of the engineer. Reasoning In this way, it easily becomes obvious that, the engineer is really deeply interested in the whole course of modern scientific research; and speculations as to the constitution of matter and the nature of energy are by no means to be re garded as of necessity abstractions, possessing no real value sufficient to make them worth studying. No one can tell from day to day whether or not some extremely valuable discovery will be made. There is reason, indeed, to believe that co-relations of phenon ena may at any moment be hit on which will reduce the telegraph to the level of a conspicuously clumsy piece of apparatus, or bring down the cost of electric lighting to a tenth of its existing price. When Hertzian waves were first spoken oi no one dreamed that they would enaole us to transmit messages through long distances with out visible means of communication. The telephone was built up out of most unlikely materials; and the man who asserted that lie could make an iron plate talk to an audience by the aid of three French nails, a small bat tery, and a few cylinders, would have been regarded as a lunatic not so very long ago. Of late those who have watched the signs of the times will have noticed that, a change is coming over the mode of thought of the more advanced seek ers after physical truth. Possibly not many of our readers have carefully fol lowed Dr. Larmor’s address to Section A of the British association, which we have placed on record in our columns, j Possibly fewer of those who have read it have understood it. Dr. Larmor has evidently failed to make the English language express clearly what he wanted to say, nor are we surprised. It is a hackneyed saying that "words fail us to express our feelings.” But Dr. Larmor has, in all events, suc ceeded in telling us that much that was formerly accepted as the very groundwork of physical science must be abondoned as untenable. He hints, indeed, that Newton's laws of motion are no longer satisfactory expositions of well known truths. He seems dis posed to abandon the idea that force is the cause of motion; a statement which we have often pointed out is wholly inconsistent with Newton’s third law. lons take the place of atoms, from which they seem to differ only in being infinitely more numerous. Kelvin’s theory of vortices, with a dif ference. is favored, and vve have again a theory of force centres, which so closely resembles that advanced years ago by the late Walter Browne, to say nothing of Bishop Berkeley, that to the superficial observer at all events the distinction is without a difference. But the most notable feature of the whole discourse is Dr. Larmor’s tendency to adandon the pursuits of knowledge in certain directions. It will be bet ter, he said in effect, to content our selves with a statement of the chain of events so far as we can see the links, without attempting to discover the ends of the chain. We can study the effects of gravity, but it is forever im possible for the human mind to con ceive of any adequate cause. We may frame mathematical theories about the ether, but the human mind is inca pable of forming a concept of a sub stance which will comply with the con ditions. In whatever direction we turn, we are stopped by the presence of the unknown. Dr. Larmor will have it, as we understand him, that much of the unknown is unknowable. It is pos sible that we overestimate Dr. Lar mor’s pessimism; we truct that we do. Among the matters to which he di rected attention was attraction. Its phenomena are common and obvious, even apart from gravity, but they ap pear to bo absolutely inexplicable. We speak of a torque of a motor, or a dy namo. and it is part of the work of the electrician and the engineer to calcu late its amount under stated condi tions: but no one on earth has the smallest notion of why torque exists at all in the combination of iron, cop per, cotton and shellac. The magnet gives us a puzzle as recondite as any in the universe. In old times, when men did not use very accurate lan guage. it was said that a lodestone on a permanent magnet “attracted" iron. No one thought of saying that the iron attracted the magnet to pre cisely the same extent. As to the na ture of the links across space between the two. no one worried himself. “Ac tion took place at a distance,” that wms enough. Sir Isaac Newton was the first man able to influence thought to any sufficient extent to point out that no action of the kind could take place without seme bridge to span va cuity. By degrees it began to be un derstood that what we term magnetic attraction can he expressed in terms of lines of force; and, what is of all things important, that attraction is due not to anything done by the mag net per se. but to some external form of energy which is localized and di rected by the magnet. But what this form of energy is, or how the magnet works, no one, as we have said, knows. —London .Engineer. MAINE’S KING CUMPICKER. ■ ' Ixmlii * l.uiiatv I-ife, but Makes & Good Income. Ezra Robar, the king gumplckcr of Maine, has camoed all winter on Por gie Brook, and when he comes to town this spring he will have bags and bags of amber lumps to swap for the dol lars of the druggists, who always pay the highest prices for the best gum. The life of a gumpicker, without doubt, is the most lonely that, a man can lead. The man go into the woods in October, and they make a study of spruce growth. They have an odd out fit, consisting generally of several polics and knives, a pair or two of snowshoos. a small dog, a couple of blankets, and a pair of “climbers.” They av like those used by telegraph linemen. The gumpickere travel alone, and have secrets, like gold hunters. They follow *he wake of the old whirlwinds that have left long furrows in the wil derness, and as long as they can track the course by the gum that forms on trees wounded the previous season they follow it along. Sometimes a gum hunter finds that his pathway has been intercepted by another hun ter, who had discovered the lead, and anew plan of campaign must be re sorted to. Thefe are many men who go into the woods to chop trees or swamp roads at $25 a month who work every Sunday at digging gum from the boughs of the spruces, and in that way they greatly increase their earn ings, although they are not nearly so successful as the professional digger. The verctan gum hunter has made his occupation a life study and has re duced the work to a science. v ! Ho can go tip a tree like a cat. and skin it bare of gum, from stump to top. while the logger would be getting readv to climb. The lumberman gen erally gets 20 to 30 pounds of gum in a winter, and sells it at from SO cents to $1.25 a pound, according to quality A professional gum hunter can make f-om $3 to $8 a day when he strikes a really good gum country. When he gets into a good place he keeps very quiet, about it until he has gathered the last lump in sight. He makes from S4OO to SBOO in a season, and be earns every cent of it by hard, lonely work. —New Y*ork Times. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Tho leading poultryman in a thriv ing North Missouri town answers to the name of Henry Coop. When Hannibal’s army descended from the Alps into the valley of Lom bardy, the whole force was well nigh routed by a plague of mosquitos, which drove men and animals almost wild with pain. “I bought some apples from a China man yesterday, giving him an Ameri can dollar,” writes a Kansas soldier hoy from Pekin, "and in the change which he gave me back was an Ameri can half dollar of the date of 1813. 1 have been offered $lO for it.” ' i Esquimau babv is horn fair ex cept for iarl round spot on t us the back, varying in size from a three penny bit to a shillina. From this centre head of color the dark tint gradually spreads till the toddling Esquimau is as beautifully and as completely and as highly col ored as a well smoked meerschaum pipe. The same thing happens among the Japanese. A child’s savings bank has been dug out of the ruins of Ostia, the seaport of ancient Rome. The bank was an earthen pot containing 145 stiver coins issued by Roman emperors be tween the years 200 and 19 B. C. The little saving* bank was almost perfect when it was uncovered. It is three inches long and two and one-half inches wide, with a slit in the top through which the money was dropped. Captain Baron Holzing of the Third Baden Dragoons recently covered a distance of 15 kilometres In the space of 25 minutes, riding against a rail way train running from Graben to the neighborhood of Carlsruhe. He ar rived eight minutes before the train. His horse had been especially trained for the ride, having been fed on a particular sort of cake, instead of oats, for weeks past. The ride was accom plished without extraordinary exer tion. .and the horse was still fit for more work at the finish. Remarkable to relate, wood can be utilized for soft flowing gowns. Wood pulp silk has long been a staple indus try in St. Etienne, district of France. By certain secret chemical processes the pulp is reduced to a soapy condi tion. It is then forced into tubes full of tiny holes, through which it emerges in the form of fine silk like threads. These are speedily dried by being passed through hot atmosphere, and are forthwith wound on bobbins ready to be woven into silk. The ap pearance of this unioue product is s“ 5 -i to be so natural that even experts are mistaken and think it the genuine ar ticle. A century ago the potato was anew and unpopular article of food in France. j. _ _ . MR. BLUFF. Ho lenrcliased Shakespeare, Im>Ul)<l A forty-volume set. He searched for Dickens, Balzac'*' tales— The host that he could get : * And Hugo, Huxley, Darwin, too. And twenty score beside. They liiud his bookshelves, wide b# read "Proud Poll, the Pirate's Bride.” Of music he had Mozart's works, Beethoven’s symphonies, A gilt piano, too, with real Hand-whittled ivory keys. Herr Wagner’s bust adorned the Boom, And fancies rare would rise, Until you heard him carol forth: / "She Made Them Goo-Goo Eyes.” •—Josh Wink, in Baltimore American. HUMOROUS. Wigg—When my grandfather died all the clocks stopped. Wagg—What an untimely end. Boggs—There goes a man who nev er speaks a really good word of any body. Joggs—A misanthrope, eh? Boggs—No; he stutters. “What’s your name?” thundered the magistrate. “John," replied the man of many aliases. “What’s your laat name?” “I haven’t, quite decided.” Muggins—Subbubs seems to be pretty lucky. Buggius—Lucky is no name for it. Even his neighbors’ hens come and lay their eggs in his yard. He—So you wanted to know some thing about my past. I hope you didn’t go to extremes? She (adherent of spiritualism)—No; I went to a medi um. Mrs. Buggins—That was a rather se vere whipping you gave to Willie this morning. Mr. Buggins—Huh! You ought to see the kind that mother used to make. “That defaulting bank clerk was en gaged in some other business." said Mr. Bellefield, impressively. ‘’What other business?” asked Mr. Bloom field. “Steal.” Goodman —Go and see him, and I think he’ll give you a job; but first of all you need a shave. Uppers— You’re mistaken there. “How do you mean?” “First of all I need the. price of a shave.” “You seem to be very fond of cof fee,” said the landlady, as she passed over the sixth cup. “It looks like it,” returned the boarder, “when I'm will ing to swallow so much water for the sake of getting a little. “What are you crying for, little boy?” asked the kind old lady. "Me fader’s sick in bed,” replied the little boy. “I'm glad to see you so sympa thetic.” “It ain't dat. He promised to take me to do circus today, an’ den he went an’ got sick. 800-hoo-hoo! ” Husband (going to his rich uncle’s funeral) —Put a couple of large hand kerchiefs into my pocket dear. The old gentleman promised to leave me $50,000, and I shall want to shed some appropriate tears. Wife —But suppose when the will is read you find he hasn’t left you anything? Husband —ln that case you had better put in three. SAYS AMERICA WAS FOUND IN 492- Huddhiiit Prl*t Kay* Japiiiirin Got. Hr 1000 Year* Before < oliiidlmi*. Schuye Sonoda, a Buddhist priest o t Japan, has just returned from Mexico with what he regards as convincing proof that his people discovered Amer ica 1000 years before Columbus and carried their faith along the Pacifi* coast from Alaska to Mexico. Sonoda has been assisted by Senor Batres. archaeologist of the Mexican govern ment. Sonoda followed the chronicles of Hoier Shin,a Buddhist monk.who lived in 499 A. D. returned to his native land with an account of explorations that reached to a land he called Fu Sang, now identified by Sonoda with Mexico, because of the maguey plant Sonoda says he found innumerable evidences of Buddhist influence over the native* of Mexico. Some of these were in th* Mexican zodiac with its 28 hours, ori ental letterings and signs on temple*, stone images and pottery and hundreds of names which are slightly corrupted from Japanese. He found the temples invariably facing south as in Thibet, the home of Buddhism, and in mosaics at Uitla he found the common cross of Thibet. He also found strong racial resemblances in features between the Mexican and California mission Indi ans and the Japanese. So strong were these resemblances that when a Oali forian mission Indian was dressed in Japanese costume and photographed. Prof. John Fyer and the chair of orien tal languages, University of California, declared that the photograph was of a Japanese of the northern islands and bore no resemblance to a California lpdfan. Sonoda will write a book on his re searches and says he will submit proof* that will convince the scientific world that the Japanese discovered Ameri ca.—New York Sun. Front Alarms. Marked success has attended the ef forts of southern ami western fruit growers to protect, by artificial heat, their crops from dangerous frost at tacks during the winter season. Frost alarms have recently been devised as an additional precaution. These are simply thermometers arranged to reg ister dangerous “drops” in temperat ture, the alarm being given by means of an electric bell. The device is ex ceedingly simple, being merely anew application of old principles. Ar rangements are provided for the ad justment of the alarm, so that the alarm can be set for any temperature, and warning given whenever the tem perature falls within a few degrees of actual danger.