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p PRESIDENT'S SHOWS DAUGHTER PLUCK. IhhhhI GREAT M While riding with President Roose velt, her father, Miss Alice Roosevelt lind a narrow escape in Washington the other day. The horses were trot tiug along Seventeenth street toward the boundary, when, upon reaching Rhode Island avenue, a lumbering fiordle came upon them, frightening Miss Roosevelt's horse so that It swerved suddenly. The President was riding slightly in advance, and was interfered with by the vehicle and prevented from going / i’Vi W ■ 4 to ’M m ill !it. xs> m r fag m /hr /U *•* — . * MISS AldCE ROOSEVELT. (Hie President’s eldest dnughter.) to ids daughter’s assistance. In the meanwhile the intrepid horsewoman had gotten her slued under control. President Roosevelt turned so quick ly that the horse seemed to stand im movable, the rider sitting erect, like a sentinel on guard. An orderly in uni form was Half a square behind. President Roosevelt has purchased flic original drawing of Bernard Par tridge's recent London Punch cartoon, icpvi seating the President as a Hough Rider. A reproduction of the fatuous picture is shown on this page. THROWING THE BOOMERANC. Fhclit of tl>* Australian Weapon Ana lyzed by apirlrntlHt. The wonderful flights of the boom erang, described by travelers, are sel dom seen to-day, and, though there are many natives of Australia who can make a boomerang go to a distance of 240 feet before lt returns to them, there seems to be only one trustworthy account of a much more sensational throw. According to this account a boomerang described five circles in the air, traveled to a distance of about 270 feet from the thrower and rose to a height of 135 feet. There are two principal types of this weapon, as described by a recent experimenter. The first, shown, in figure No. 1, is bent almost to a right angle, and has the cross section shown in No. 2. The cross section diminishes slightly toward the ends, and the weight is about 230 grams. The arms are twisted from the plane, like the sails of a windmill, being rotated in the direction of a righthanded screw. A boomerang of the second type is shown in figure No. 3. It has a cross section similar to that of a boomerang of the first type. Its arms, however, are twisted in the opposite direction, and thus involve a lefthauded rotation. On boih types one side is more round ed than the other. A boomerang of the first type is held with the more rounded side to the left, and the concave edge forward, ■and is thrown in a horizontal direc tion. As much rotation as possible Is given to It, hut Instead of remaining parallel to Its original direction, “the ylme of rotation has au angular veloc ity, first about the direction of trans- PRESIDENT BUYS DRAWING OF THE PUNCH CARTOON. . r G ?>• . . % h wetilffi h n–c-i' w m •cT • m nni ujm m £ ; m V- ■ i £•?.: jOt •v : 0 mlEM h.o i --I ■a* 1 A Sa m I .7^ 9 ■ $ 'V PARTRIDGE’S CARTOON IN PUNCH lotion, nn<l second about a lino In Its plane perpendicular to tills The ef feet of the latter Is that the path curia to the left, while owing to the f'c # r/* s /•w 4 O tea former the plane of rotation inclines over to the right, l. e., rotates in the direction of the hands of a clock fac ing the thrower.” After It has described nearly a com plete circle the boomerang goes more slowly, and tinally falls near tlie feet of the thrower. In figures Nos. 4 and 5 its flight is illustrated by means of projections on a horizontal and on a vertical plane. Until the velocity be comes small the up bill path Is nearly straight, but the moment that point has been reached the weapon starts to return along a track close to that of the ascent. If the thrower wishes the weapon to describe a second circle in front of him, he must cast it from him with much greater force, so that after one circle has been described it may still have sufficient velocity to make a second one. Moreover, after the weap on lias described toe Brat circle and while It is over the thrower’s head the axis of rotation must point in an up ward direction in front of him, for if it points behind him the subsequent path will be behind his back, and a figure of eight will become possible. If a path with a second loop in front of the thrower is desired, a boomerang with much twist and well rounded should he chosen, and the thrower’s body, while throwing it, should lean over to the left.—Chicago Record-Her ald. British War Office. This picture illustrates the famous British war office in London, which has been the European centre of inter est in the great South African trouble. ■WN < P ■V- 11 4 m imp m i. L. , . . • -■ ^ --- Here are received all the official tele grams from the front and here are posted the bulletins which the author ties see lit to publish. Ever since the war begau the street before the grim old building has been crowded with anxious relatives of the fighting men, eager for news of husband, brother, sweetheart ot father, and many have been the distressing scenes the war officials have been compelled to wit ness. The average duration of marriages in England is twenty-eight years. Russia, with thirty years, is the only country to heat her. In France and Germany twenty-six years is the aver age duration. THREE DOC STORIES. AiTitetlon Tor Their Miiilwi of a N>t» ton ml In ml, » Terrlvr und » Bulldog, “Tlip most pathetic thin? about the thoroughbred dog,” said the mnn whose time has been spent about the kennels, “is his devotion to the memory | of a kind master of mine who is dead. There was a friend who owned a j Newfoundland, and Dash, as they called him, was never contented when away from his master. Not long ago the master was taken ill. He had to be moved to a hospital and Dash was left at home. The dog refused to I eat. "About 11 o’clock one night he began to howl. His cries alarmed the mem bers of the family, who were greatly I concerned about t lie condition of the j patient in the hospital. While liis erics continued the telephone bell rang and the message of death came over the wires. ) "Dash was sent away until after the funeral. After his return a portrait of his dead master disappeared from the house. Search showed jhat the j dog had carried it into a recess under the house. It was rescued from him with difficulty and screwed to an easel j In flie library. A rug was put down in 1 front of it for Dash. He lay there 1 with an expression of unutterable woe | on his face. Ho wouldn’t eat. For a Week lie kept his vigil. Once or twice he licked up a little water and tasted dainty food, hut he grew weaker day by day. One morning, ten days later, the library door was opened and there was the faithful Dash dead on his j rug. "Instances common in which dogs j | have remained are by the body of a mas j ter, refusing to leave. It seems cruel i to think of killing an animal of this I kilKl to get him out of the way, and yet it has been found necessary in , n.any cases. A very remarkable case of this kind happened a few weeks ago within my knowledge. There was a Uttio fox terrier, a trim little animal, with a wag of his stumpy tail for ev one, and he was the pet o,. a young hoy who had reared him from puppy hood. When the little fellow was taken ill the dog would creep into the room, without the least noise, and would lift himself on the bed to lick his mas ter’s hand. It was really touching. After a time the boy became danger ously ill. The dog had to he excluded from the room, but he sat by the door, never leaving it, with an expression of abject sorrow on his little face. “The boy died. The dog knew it jus t as well as if he had been human, and they took him away until after the funeral. In some way, however, he escaped and returned home just as the body was being placed in the hearse. He followed it to the cemetery. At the grave be sat on his haunches, his head oast down, and now and then his cries, always low and painful, caused big tears to fall from the eyes of those who were watching the last rites. He moved up closer when the grave was being filled, and when the mound was being smoothed off and the flowers put down the dog advanced and laid him self down at the head. A member of the family tried to pick him up, but ! he snarled threateningly, and they left ! the little country cemetery, and the | terrier stayed there to guard the last j resting place of his master. “The family believed the dog would return home that night, but he was not in his box the next morning. By noon he had not returned, and a servant was sent to the cemetery. Just as he got to the path leading down to the grave the servant heard a wild scream of pain ami terror from the terrier, J and before he could hasten to see the cause Mack had been killed. The blow which ended his faithful life was struck by a workman whom Mack had attacked when he tried to | arrange the earth on the grave. “Dogs seem to realize when there is trouble in the air. There is a true | story of a big bulldog that seized the hand of a drunken man who was try ; ing to kill his master. Blink, the dog, i had followed bis owner into a bar j room one night and was lying uuder | the table when a difficulty arose be tween Johnson, his master, and an Italian. The Italian fired at Johnson once and was about to tire again, when Blink jumped and caught the man’s wrist in a vise-like grip. The Italian dropped the gun. Like a flash Blink released his hold on the man’s wrist and seized him by the throat, j The Italian was thrown to the floor i and it was not until Johnson had kicked Blink in the side that he let go. It was rather hard punishment for his I good services, but if the kicks had not | been given, the man would have been j killed by the terrible laceration of the I throat.”—Sun. I’avitij; of Herrings. j You would hardly think that red herrings, or any sort of herrings, mixed with oil of pine, would make good street paving; yet that is what the smooth streets of Herald Square— aud all over the city where asphalt is used—are made of, according to the opinion of scientific gentlemen who are always delving into the origin of things. These scientific gentlemen have reached this apparently strange con elusion after some very interesting j experiments. They have made au ar i tifieial asphalt that closely resembles the natural substance, and used in its ! production only fresh herrings and oily pine wood. These substances were distilled, the product was condensed in a Liebig condenser, and resulted iu asphalt. It is claimed that this experiment confirmed the theory that asphalt is the product of a natural distillation, by which ancient animal and vegeta ble life have been transformed into asphalt under the crust of the earth.— New York Herald. A TIMBER-FLUME IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. i ■ ; ' i 1 gjffff tr; * % IS B RH i i j j m l j ! i 1 m SB* t\r n i 9 I \ 1 4 m , – A tf m ■< 1 f ; I Wr tf- L’ ] j mu, m ;; ' m ill \ ' 1 m S % ;m % | pt «S V :.V } " , W', \ §> f L''%5 m m \\ S mm i : • ‘ \ WL 'I 2 Bkv– -o The flumes, which are used to float logs and hewu timber from the mount ain tops to the sawmills, ;fre fed by the mountain toi'rents, and are in some cases between three and four miles long. The lumber men, after their week’s work in camp, save a tedious journey by constructing a rough wood en skiff and using the waterway, trave ling at times at the rate of a mile a minute. A gaff is used as a brake.—London Illustrated News. ft s Great and New I IK I * * * National industry. 1 ^ISIilliorjs o/ Acres For Macaroni Wheat £ * v-w-y I HE United States Department I Agriculture has just an -£■ jounced one of the most vai uab]e d j Sco r e rie.s of recent years . lt is the introduction of the drought resisting macaroni wheat, im por ted from the Volga region of East Ra ss ia. This wheat is adapted to semi-arid districts and can he profita pjy grown in the great plain regions 0 f the United States far beyond the looth meridian. Already astounding results have been obtained by the Government, in South Dakota, where the crop has just been harvested from one locality, W-l i it / A 1 at A nw ; taj- Pi Jrm sJUa-.-fT ..... !g ■ S pm if* \l HfevME* v fcJkUi /\va py \ ■ JJ if: r Ohio i 'tew*' , i -_ T~" s-Iam W \ i 4 ( €1 Territory u) vrhUb macaroni will succeed bcsl, and without - irrigafior 50 lot)o aj fi)e Sorornsr refiotall >s *1 least io iqcbes- ’ > ::::::::: 'Territory to wtfi-b macaroni wtjeat njaq be grown, ffic quanryj *v: 0 j. [jj e gr–ip wiit qor be so good it is reported that the yield of maca roni wheat will he from thirty-five to forty bushels per acre, which is one third more per acre than the average yield of the regular wheat from this section. The establishment of this new wheat Industry will be of incalculable benefit to agriculture in the semi-avid plains. A million or more of acres can thus be given to profitable wheat raising, which, on account of drought, have heretofore been entirely idle. Macaroni wheats differ radically from the ordinary bread wheats. The grain is much harder, and in the best varieties contains an unusual amount of nitrogen and a correspondingly small amount of starch. The quantity and quality of the gluten make it ex ceedingly valuable for making maca roni. The area outlined by the Department of Agriculture where macaroni wheat will succeed best is a long belt extend ing northward and southward through the great plain from North Dakota to the Texas coast. In width it embraces nearly the whole of the two Dakotas, Nebraska, the greater part of Kansas, Oklahoma and the eastern sections of Colorado, New Mexico and of Central Texas. The most remarkable thing regarding macaroni wheat is this: It is not only true that it can be grown in dry dis tricts, but it must be grown there in order to produce the best quality of grain, and up to a minimum of about ten inches of an annual rainfall the drier the better. Probably the most important an nouncement from a commercial stand point as a result of the new wheat in dustry is the fact of immediate mar ket for these wheats. The entire pres ent crop of this year, which will be about 100,000 bushels, was contracted for even before harvested at a good • average price. Another important business enterprise may be brought into existence, for the reason that the macaroni wheat from Southern Eu rope is succeeding so well in the great plains as to warrant the establishment of macaroni manufacturing. About 15,000,000 pounds of foreign macaroni is imported into this country each year, solely because being made from true macaroni wheat it is considered to be of better quality than our domes tic macaroni, which is made almost entirely from bread wheat. All the costs of the imported product can now he saved to this country if the farmers and nml minors millers will will furnish furnish our our factories factories with the right kind of material, and the factories are anxious to have the same. The area of wheat in. the United States in 1809 was over 44,000,000 acres. At the lowest estimate, there fore, if the average yield of wheat is increased only one bushel per acre we xi ill have an increase of 4-1,000,000 bushels, worth at the former price for 1900—nearly sixty cents per bushel— about $ 26,000,000. These figures will give at least an idea of the possibili ties for the new macaroni wheat indu try.—New York Herald. NECK AND NECK. A Queer Sport That Find* Favor in the Bavarian Alps. One of the queerest sports is that known as “Streck Ivatzenzichen” (a word which absolutely defies trans lation)—which is practiced by the sturdy sons of the Bavarian Alps. It is a trial of neck strength. Two men, says a writer in the New York V. AT? A KECK- A:cd- KECKTtJG-OF-WAR. Herald, lie down facing each other. Then a rope is passed over their heads, as shown in the illustration. Two chalk lines are drawn between the contestants. The object is to draw the opponent so far that his finger tips shall be beyond the second line. This rough pastime means sore necks and bleeding ears, but it is greatly enjoyed by all beholders. The winner usually receives a cash prize, and the contest is Invariably followed by dancing on “the arena where the bloody com; - was pulled,” as the local prints scribe it. Eggs and mulberry trees were sent out to Georgia by the British govern ! ment shortly after the settlement ol 1 the colony. AN IMPRESSION . “I am very much afraid,” sria \v tion Cayenne, "that keen observer I am losing my rep u !!* as a and so?* a "What makes you think "Several people yesterday Said th were glad to see me as if they rej! / meant it. 1 WHEELS PALL OFF. “There don’t seem to be so many hi cycles as formerly.” “No; it’s riding instead of riders that is falling orf now."—Indianapolis News, A CiUrlotin Custom. Jfo document can havo the authority of {u 9 imperial throno of c lima unloss it bears a red mirk seal placed there by tin. sovereign. becomin With Ms upon it, the p«p*r ofBciai The genuine their Hostottor’s Dio Stomach Bitters mu,* have Prirat 3 Stump over the n-> c k of the bottle. For fifty years it haa been tbs recognized complaints. rarccdy for It stomach, liver and kidney will euro dynpepsig indigestion, constipation fever and biliousness,also pieTent malaria, and ague. The furrier sometimes makes thina warm bills. for his customers who don’t oJC ’ their princess mom, m. a. 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