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THE JUMPING KANGAROO AND THE APPLE BUTTER CAT. l)y Jonn Walker Harrington. {Copyright, 1900. by McClure. Phli:tpa & On) Jaiu|tlß Jrhouiphnt. Kerchug. th leap frog. was all <h time Jumidng. He stood every morning on the . Ice of (he pool where he lived. and said to ail tiw bird* lli tile trees show* him. ••Isn't It wonderful how I can Jump?” Then all the birds would nap their wings nnd ring a song, which began. "Isn't It u treat to sea our leap frog Jump eo fart” one day Kerchug made a great big Jump into the middle of the pool, and then ■warn back to the stone from which ho ulwaya made hi* Jump* He waited for the birds to flap their wings and lo sing about this Jumping, but not one of them took any notice of him. Instead of that lie found Carrier Ptgeon roosting on a log near the pool and looking very solemn. • Wasn't that a great Jump?” asked Kerf hug. Carrier Pigeon (hook his head and look out from ureter his wing a little roll of paper, which he gave lo Kerchug Ker chug unrolled th# paper, and when he had Bo th bounding Kangaroo look the big etnne In his little arm* and Jumped up Into the air one hundred time*. look**] ut it he turned while under the chin. "Read It to me, Carrier Ptaeon." he raid, "I've Just ew out of the water, und thy gaggles are so damp that I can baldly *<-•■ anything " So Carrier I’tgeoo swelled out hl cheat and l****J on one bg ami held the paper ill his right taw ns he read: "1 can leap further and higher and bet ter than anything which wears a speckled ekm and goggles. If Kerchug Is not a coward he will come away from the wa ter and hot* right out here In the wood und jump with me. (SiKnudi "Jumping Jehowophat." Are Ills legs as long as mine?" asked Kerchua, looking very hard ut Carrier pigeon. "lie had them curled under him when I saw him sitting on th>- woods." answer ed <'artier i I aeon, "und really I cannot aaj." icetvhtig, the leap frog, heanl all the turds twittering and whispering up tn !he trees. He thought they were all laughing at him. eo tie gulped and awailowed ar.l then said that he was very gold indeed to see t'ttrtler Pigeon snd that it was a vary fine inorhiug. "You might say to your friend," he a-bled, "that 1 must have lime to thln'c tr.is over, aid you can come back in an hour.” "Very well." answered Carrier Pigeon; "1 11 go hack und tell him.” When Carrier Pigeon had gone. Ker chug put everything which he had in a red ImnakiiMt liatsikerchief and lied it up nod isit the bundle on the end of a etlct which h had over bis shoulder. Then lie started for the bullrushes which gr. w along side of the pool. He had not gone very for !*efor* ho met diy Fox. • tlood inoroliig. Kerchug. how in the Jumping Una morning'.'" asked Sly fox •Not very good.' answered Kerchug, "lirwedes. I tun * found that M Is not very healthy place to live around here The pool Is so very damp, and you know that t cannot Hand molaria. so I have d> rMnl to move.” "It seems to me," said Sly Fox. "that you had better wait until you have fin ished fide affair with J.impir.s Jrho.-o phat. I am surprised that you should lie nft aid to jump with such an awkward looking creature ns he ks.” "But 1 am afraid that he can go further than I can," replied Kerchurg. "Don't worry about that.” answered B,y Fox, "you Just leave that to me. You tell him tliat you wilt meet him to-mor row morning ” Bo Kerchurg. the leap-frog, hid his bun dle In the bullrushes and marched back to the atone in front of ll pool und croaked for Carrier Pigeon to come back. "Tell Jumping Jehosophot. whoever he I said he, "that I'll meet him to-mot t • morning at 9 o'clock under the old oms tree, arsl I will show him something about Jumping.” All the birds In the woods went the t ext morning to the old oak tree. The hr li, has of the tree were to full of birds ?. tt some of them sagged way down. li*k.r the tree the ground was all hard aid smooth. Jumping Jehoeophat was there waiting. He was certainly a queer animal. He hoe a great big body nrul a I ile bit of a head. Hi* hind legs were long and strong and his front less were no bigger than a rabbit's. As he stood up ho was almost as tall as a man; Ills fur was gray aivl he had funny little - ee which twinkled ns he tulked On I is breast were at least a doxen medals for Jumping. He folded hla arm# and lopped about cat his hind legs. ' Birds In the tree.” he said, 'in me you see the great Jumping Jehoeophat. the I'-"I riding kangaroo. Because I Jump so high 1 got away from the circus. Now, lien, where Is this miserable little speck led green thing that minks it can Jump"' Nobody spoke for a long lime, and then Ply Fox came out from behind the buahe* currying a btillrush for a cane. Birds In ih* tree.” aatd Sly Fox, "the great and only Kerchug. th only creature who Is not afraid to leap boiii in the wa'er and on the dry land, has Just finished nls test, and Is now on his way to show how a truly great laap frog can Jump " There he la!" screamed all Ihs bird* up In the tree. And. sure enough, there * urn* Kerchug, all dressed up In gieen lights with spangles all over them B y Fox. who had gone Into the bushes to bring him out. came up behind him. car rylng a great big stone. With this e-ner-muu* •ton*." said Sly Fox. "Kerch ug ho* Just leaped WO time*, to at tu fryt r,d> for aatit rtwl Jumping. ll< wilt now watt until Ihl# poor and awk ward crwatura brt ha* a chance to do *l*® t int, no that you will all fay that ha ha* l ean fair.’ ’ . O that la aaty!" mM Jumping Jehos oi'hat. So tha bounding kangaroo look th# b< stone in his little arms and Jumped up Inlo i the air !( lime*. Now then,” said Bly Peg, "we ahull have (he pleasure of seeing who Is the h. iter Juniper. Jumping Jrhoeophat. the bounding kangaroo, or my Utile friend here, who leap* as well on the dry land as in the wettest pool,” Then Kershug made a great big Jump and .s'!y Co* marked the place. Jumping Jehoaophal, who was all tlrisl out and or. by leaping when he carried 1 lie big sione, could only make a little ‘ It of a J..mp. and did not come within a fool of the plac where Kershug had leaped, lie was *>• ashamed that he ran into the bushes and hid Bo Kerahug, a.I covered With nnUulr. went hark to hla pool hand In hand with his friend. Sly Fn*. and all the birds In the tree*, as they (lew HWay, said out: "What a wonderful Jumper Is our little friend Kershug the leaping frog!" SOME St lipiilsiM, STATISTICS. S Pot Poorl of Facts from All the World Over. Only 5 per cenl. of the capital of this country Is owned by millionaires. Th.' avirage wealth per Inhabitant In the United States Is *1.950. Over 3.000,000 of our population arc In annual need and actually receive some kind of charitable assistance. In New York city, there are on an average more than 100.ouu unemploy ed persons. More thart 3.000 people earn a living In' Paris by fortune telling, their total year ly earnlnga being estimated at U.UGO.tJun. In I-ondon over lOO.Ouri men. women and chil dren gain their dally bread entirely by pocketpicking More than U. 000.010 visits are paid annually tn lymdon pawnshops. Over ll.noo.flCrt worth of diamonds are stolen every year from th South Afri can diamond mine. During the last twenty-live years the American people have imported worth of precious stones. It requires an average of more than 39.- OOO.OUO pins per day lo sustain dislocated ehlrlwaista. replace missing suspender but tons and meet the other needs of tha American people. Istst year there were Imported Into the t'nlied States over one bllHon grains of our national drug—quinine—costing over H.SMi.MX*. The manufacture and sale of dolls In Eu rope exceed 58.®0.011 per year. One firm In Part* turns out 3.000 dolls a day. and many •'Read It to me, Carrier Pigeon.” other house# make even larger number*. China exporta U.WO.OOb farm yearly. Over 170,0*) umbrellas are leli In In -<ton puttie conveyance* every year. There are said to be over 400,000 cat* In London, of which half are •‘unattached.” The moat common name for a town In England Is Newton, which occurs no fewer thin twenty-two time* Of the 4.110 varieties of flowers known and cultivated In Europe scarcely 4nn have any olor, and ol these nearly !tf4y have an odor which Is, If anything, disagree able. Japan Is the largest consumer of rice in the world, the aversge being m pound* lr person a year. The American* use but four pound* per capita. Belgium uees more tobacco, In proportion, than any other country, about 110 ounces per caplt! yearly, while Italy use* only S ounce*. . . „ , More candy It consumed In New York. Philadelphia and Chicago than In the wTstflc of France. A sliver coin Is usually In currency for about twenty-seven year* There are about IWJW.OOO old-faabtoned copper cent* somewhere, but no one can locate them, except that occasionally a solitary speci men eurn* up In change. The first four week# after the opening of the electric railroad at Cairo. Egypt, no lea* than eighty person* were killed. Since that time the weekly average of victims In seven or eight. Thle high rate of casual!!** 1* due In part to defective ey*alght-ey* dlaeaaes prevailing In Egypt. The postal service establishment of the United Btatee lithe greatest liualneaa con cern In the world. The revenue of the pontoflio* of New York U more than Be- THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1000. ten am yearly, with a nsCproflt of 15.000,- ft. In ItSt. (.:u,47.000 pieces of mall mailer were hundled In the United States, of which 2 Cl'.7o7.h*i were letter*. A truns- Ailanlli steamer, carrying what t* called "a full Kuropean mail.” usually bring* JOO.OuO letters and 300 sucks of newspaper* for New York city, lo say nothing of the 500 and isl.l sacks for other places. In IMO two sacks of mall was the average brought over by a steamer. In ltk the United Stales governmeht primed of two-cent postage stamps 2.501,. rni.ist., of special delivery 5.250.0 ft), of stamps of all denominations S.jOU.OOO.itui Massachusetts uses more slumps In pro portion than any other state. It Is estimated that Zki.oo.nno microbe* ran stand on a postage atatnp without crowding. The name of the man who counted them I* not given. The tola! number of newspaper* of all kinds published !e the world Is 42.H0P The United States comes IHat. and far In ad vance of all countries, with ll.iSl piper,., and tireat Ilrltlan next with *.ODu. In Kussia there are only 743 newspapers, or one lo every 17U.n0 people, la* Petit Jour nal of Paris has the largest daily circula tion In the world, averaging t.OltO.flOO cop ies; tbs paper which ha* the smallest Is Ihe Imperial Krvtea. publish'd for the sole benefit of th* Kmperor of Austria. It Is made up from translation* of all the pnn clpal ll*ms In Kuropean pu|**rs. and the dally edition I* three copies. The Kngllsh language heads the 'l*l, with the enormous vocabulariy of 20U.rot word*, while the Spanish hae only JO. off), the German W.ond. Italian 75.000. French 30,000. Turkish 23,-O0 Shakespeare': vccab ularly Is put at 13.000. Milton's at S.OOO. and the Bible at rather less. When Dr. Murray's new Ehgllsh dte tionary Is completed It will contain about 500.000 words, of which one-half have conk Into use during this century, and of these the larger part are technical or | scientific terms. A fluent speaker titters between 7.000 and 7.5U1 words in the course of an hour's un i interrupted speaking Many orators of morn than usual rapid utterance will reach f.OOO and even 9.000, but 125 words a minute, or i.U) an hour, la a fair aver age. A person deaf and dumb can speak. In the sign language, about 43 words a min ute. A cnlld of 0 years uses about <SO words all told, and one of eJght years about JTO words. st reufie Houses. From the Golden Fenny. A Russian gentleman has erected, at a cost of gn.oon rubies, on his country estate at Havlnowka, In Fodolla, a ls-roomed house made entirely of paper. The house which was constructed In N*w York, la calculated by It* architect to last longer ethan would a stone building The whole sof the fuml'ure. too. Is made from the same strange material In County Westmeath, Ireland, a house has bein built whereof all the windows are made to resemble In outline the barks of easy chairs, being thus constructed by Its eccentric! owtrar to match the back* of a suit* of choirs In the dining room In the neighborhood of Ipewlrh a cer tain land owner, thinking that the view from hi* house lacked a church, pro ceeded to supply Its place by erecting a row of cottages so designed as to re semble. from bis side, the edifice re quired. Approached from the other di rection. however, the sham Is at once manifest. A somewhat similar building In Kent, which has always been used as a dwell ing houXe. wax built over 100 year* back by Sir John Royd. a native of Bridgend, In memory of a friend who died In Afri ca. and was Interred beneath a church, of which Btr John's memorial la an ex act copy The present occupant of this curious house Is a blacksmith. —Oen. Richard H. O'Grady Haly. th# new commander-in-chief of the British troops In Canada, won the dlstlngrulahod order service In th# Egyptian expedition of UU whan ho was on* of tha fighting officers In the Second York and the Lan cashire Regiments, , SOME SEPTEMBER RECIPES. HOW TO ( £ H IHYUT APPLKO AXI) 441 H( EK. Mrrla nnd I'ulaloct-t Irver I srs In Mke of I'reikly Onllirrrd Mint, Appl* nnd Quince !>*w r#. The larg* tart harvest appl* n* w in market is Just rlfchi for i-ockliif in wl ole quntert, sweetened to ta*t aid abmt u table spoonful of arelaftiM added to make the syrup Jelly s'Uihtly when cold. ADo. thy w ill prove very popular p eled. cut In round* of quarter of an Inch ihlckne** eoaked for a few' minute* in rgg and milk, (one I eaten egg. .-all to taste and a tewcupful of milk). U.cn browned quick* I) In deep boll UK fa To mak* • doll clous pudding with thci-e mime apples pr *1 and core six. F ill the center with sugar, put quarter of a cup of water In the bot tom of the dish, cover and bfck<* until nearly done, then pour over them a let ter ma le of fo tr e‘g*. a pi t of milk, a • art pint of flour sift and with a teaspoon ful each of salt and baking powder (•alt scanted) JB.ikr about twenty min ute# eat with baid sauce. With even slightly cooler weather a change from frosn is welcome. Baked QuiftO— - Bake with the skin* n and with a little water In bottom of dish. Whan lender and cool < nough to handh . remove skins, put In n *cu*#*i-h sprin kle with fine aranulaied sugar, about a cupful to six quint ea AHer standing an hour examine to •*** that the *ugar has melted evenly. The-e will he found lu* cl us and economical. and the trouble of removing tough i*pcl obviated. Apple Offin.—lVel and core six larg* apples, rover and atewr with a little wat er until soft. Fre*s through a sieve. w*eten lo taste and whip into them briskly the white* of four eggs, well stif fened. Eat with cream A* the popu lar omelet Is mode from yolks of eggs alone, the whites m* y be used as above. Borne Ways of Using Mint -To extract enough flavor from a f* w sprigs of mint lo give Just the right “tang" lo a cooling drink It Is only necessary to press the leaves against the side of each tumbler with the back of a spoon after the strived lee has been put In. using the Ice to cre ate friclior. A 111 tie* raspberry and cur rant Jelly melted and added to orange or pineapple Juice will mako a delightful drink If minted Ice Is used. If making in n pitcher use more mint In the *nrm* way. The mint, of course. Is rejected, once the flavor Is extracted A famous cook makes a delicious fruit sauce with melted Jelly thickened very •lightly with a little cornstarch, mixed smooth with the syrup when cool. It may be used for either hoi or cold padding*. Potato and Meat Puffs—An appetising breakfast or luncheon dish may be made -CsT-^ ’ 7 -”- .t- V ■ -r J Sly fox came up behind him carrying a great Mg stone. from Mta of cold meat and a few p-.tatoea as follows For a family of five peel and boll four good slxed potatoes, when ten d*r (noi over done) drain anil with sail to taste, while shaking In th hot saucepan nnill light nisi floury lo tatoes must tie boiled in this way 4f Wished light and flaky. Mash with a wire masher, then dd two teaspoonfuls of ho* milk and a labletqtoonful of butler. Now beat lightly with a whlpper or fork until while ami light; laetly. whip In a well beaten egg. and when cool enough to handle use as little flour (mixed with quarter of a teaspoonful of leaking pow den as possible to keep from Ml king lo the Angers Have ready and nicely mined cold meat, free from fat. Put enough of this for each pemnn In the renter of enough of the potato puff to make n cro quette. but spretd out. in tatty shape, cook In boiling fat or In a very hot pan with Just enough fat to keep from slick ing. Squash Muffins-One cup of squash as prepared for the table, a cup of milk, two tablcepoonfub* of sugar, a tablesponful of melted butter a teaspoonful of baking powder sifted with flour enough to moke a dough as thin as possibly ran be handled. Roll out. cut In biscuit shape and bake. If preferred, the baiter may be thinner and dropped In muffin rings. OOOD PAY FOR Hl* WORK. Man Who Received a City for Ilia Wages Wa* Xnlky at First. Probably no workman ever felt tee* aut laflrd with his pay at the lime than did Nicholas Spark* when he received a deed of the land on which a large part of Ot tawa. Canada. I# now built. The deed was given In lieu of money due for wages. Spark* was a native of Woburn. Mass. Having pioneer lnetlncta he had pushed up Into the lea# settled parts of Canada, and obtained employment with a man named Wright on the northern shore of the Otta wa river at a point known as the Oitl neau. Th# city of Ottawa was destined to be built on the southern shore, nearly op posite; but there was yet no evidence of the floulrshtng ••apltal city of Canada sparks worked for his employer for some months: but not receiving his wages to his satisfaction, he deelded to make a change. He was obliged to accept for compensa tion a deed of n tract of land on the south Side of the Ottaws river The deed was taken reluctantly, as being the best that could be done under th# circumstances. It happened, however, that Just about this time some activity began to be man ifest along the southern bank of the river. The British government had commission ed Col. By to conetruet. for military pur poaew. a canal which should Join the Otta wa river with the Oreal Lake*. The point where this canal was to be cut w* with- In the land deeded to Spark*. Operations on th# canal brought together a large number of workmen. and a settlement anon sprang up which assumed the pro portion* of a town. This settlement was called By Town, after th* engineer who had the work In charge. By thla lime Sparks found himself fairly prosperous, as he waa able to sell small parcels of hts land to th* new etiler* at a very good profit. By Town continued to grow and prosper until It* crowning honor came to It when the British government, noticing th# beauty and security of It* inla id position, selected the oite for the capital of the newly confederated Canadian province* Th* name wo* changed to Ottawa, and th* place grew rapidly into a large and handsome city, a* It l at present. Nich olas Spark* lived to we sit three change*. Sots* of th* fine government budding* were orccted upon the land deeded lo him Th# finest resident* ii au.| business blocks are upon kind the title of which la de rived from ttpurk* The principal afreet In the city j* •*; -1 Spark** street, Be fore In died the old man's wealth had be come very great. |<e tv an quite Illiterate, and It woo a laborious pm ess for him to sign hi* name. Itut bin descendants form one of th*- w'4tl(hi<.md most arlsto tit le families in Canada. It Is one of the many romances of wealth on this conti nent. W 11 V Walker. rONKIUIENA l> (MIMA. Computation of How Many There 4re and their Xatlonnllllea. From the l^union Mall . At the pre* nt time, when the fate of the legati n and thdr Inmatm and the safety of other European” In all parts of the celestial empire are ittiacting the attention and anxiety the whole cdvtl i*ed world, it D an int-iculnf query how many Kuroi e rath r. "white" fotk—there ar- a!tog> :her In the various parts of China. The Informatl n H not at all easy to g*t. for when a country stretches thou sands of mil* i*. am) it lak a traveler four month* to pro** * I from the coast t•* the far interior, even by otuiant trav eling. It I- plain that such • atlstlcs are •xtrttnc > diffUult to obtain But cm* fa mous foreign newHpaiMr. the Dvutscher lUiohs-Atixclger. ha* been at * me imin# to g* t particular* of what figure# are available relating to the known "foreign era" in tli. towns known a* "treatv ports." and from its roMtarches we are •ii.tbled to give aome Pl* a of how far our own relation* and countrymen surpass thse rf other nation* in thlr colonlsiiig and tta itng in th* ('him empire The figure • apply to *om #ev* r or eight towns on the *e.i coast of China, open f*r trade nnd husliie** *o all na- Honwllte* In these we And that there are. In tound number* English, *..'£3. Jap anese. 2.440 Ane-rl an*. Busman* 1.C31; Portuguese. 1,43; Krctuh 1.&4E tier fan*. l.l4; Bpanlard*. 4tx. Bcandinavlan*. 241; Belgians. 204. Danes. 17*. Italians. IJ4; Dutch, KM, miscellaneous, Wl; a total of 17,193 It thu* appear* that Englishmen form more than a third portlovt of al! the for eigner* In Chinn. .*ml thk* fact alone will show ii* what a Make we have In the most costly sink* of all- li<>mun live* —in the events now occurring in the cehstlal eropirt. A genera) nj.**sacr of all fortlgners In that land (and this Is by no means Iraproimbbr, nay It ls> even very llkelv to hitppt-n. If th*- Pekin ’for eign devils' nr. all murdered) would m*n that we in thin country should have to mourn the loss by a birlble death of torture and trial of no fewer than G.6C,’ brave English men and women! our trading firm* In these town* num ber 401; whip- Japan’s nr?* ID*, and she In second, far. far behind u* Germany bus 115. and is third Then there are Id French trading firms In China and 19 Rtia-dan Isn't the lOtnpartton ridiculous, after all? W lint slake have Franc* and Russia put together compared with Eng land. or Japan even? Mere Vlntter of Figures. From the Chicago News "Pm up a stump,” confessed it puxxled young man the other day as ne ran ••* fingers through his hair and looked the picture of perplexity. ”1 thought I could do figures, and I believe I can ye 4. hut my theories of Ilf*' are sadly atiaken by , them. A daffy friend of mine who calls himself u socialist started me going on a problem. H* said he could prove that con tinued compound Inter#*! would ruin th wor*d tn the fours# of lime, and there for# Interest was wrong "How doe# he figure that out?" queried the worried youth's confidant. '"How doesn't he figure it out?’ la a better question, "was the querulous an swer. "ile has set my hraln suing until It whirls with trying to multiply trillions by the InAidle. Walt till I tell you what he sprung on me. "He said, and I laughed at him. that a cent put at ft per cent compound Inter est at the year 1 would now have a value equal to the weight of the solar system in gold for each and every second of time since the beginning of the Christian era I thought he was cragy, but I figured it out and found it was right." "Why, I holleve you're craty, too," blurted out the confidant with a look com bining compassion and curtantty. "No, I'll show you haw the figures are all straight. You can easily figure out that money at ft per cent, double* Itself In twelve >*rs. That's easy to under*!in?!. At the end of the first twelve years A. D. It would he worth 3 cents At the end of the second twelve-year period it would be worth 4 cents. At the end of the fourth It would b# worth l rents. At lh end of the sixth, or at 72 A D., It would r worth ftl cents. Seventh, or M A D, would hind It at 12 sft. Doubling every lwt.lv* years, you see. The ninth j*erlol would take It to 25 12. and the tenth, or at 130 A. D.. would make It |lO 24 "111 oilier nerds, at the end o ( 12** yea's the cent would have Increased at * per cem compoi ml Inteict lo ire worm fti That I* a thousand limes worth what M was at the start. The next 120 year* would see It worth ',<*' tifn- * more, or tlo.uuu, instead of 110. The >er.r Mti would bring It through three 13t-ye.tr periods and would flx Its worth at tIO.OOO.Wn. Each pe rt t of 1 year* would, you understand, itdd three ciphers, which Is Ihe same as multiplying It by 1,000. At m A. D II would be worth 310.800.000,000. By 731 n lIO.OWi.OOn.OiM.fIUO.OWi would tie It# value. Add three more seta of ciphers for the next three UO-year period* and bring It to liii.ijfio.tvio.nrsj.rtxMsift.iXfi.tyjn.ono. That would be at the end of VM A I)., wouldn't It? "From 108D A. D. to lm A. D. I* 730 yrars. equal to six of the 130-year periods. That would mean adding six more at I of ■eroes to bring It down to the beginning of this century. Th* figure would look like lio.otM.'xm.ooo.tno.oob.floo.tyio.fiOo.ooo.OiS),- 000,000,OOO.tttt. Pronounce that If you can' There still remain a hundred years more of compounding Interest. As I figured out a few month* ago. It took eight twelve year periods, or ninety.#!* years, to In crease the cent to *J.W. The ninety-six year* Is about the same as a century, and lo gt< what th# cent would now be worth we would simply multiply our last big sum by 256. which would give 2.5aa.w0.- od), 00, 000. 000, . uoo.tyw ocn, 000.000.0g0, 000, Wouldn’t that fade John D. Rockefeller? "Now for the number of seconds In the I*oo year*. S)xty seconds In a minute. ?, In an hour and M.too In a day 1* the way they run. In a year of K day* there are *1.538.00) second*. In a century 100 Umca that, and tu nineteen centuries SEPTEMBER Necessitatesthe Crowding Out of All Summer Goods This is the Last Opportunity to Oet The Good Things Very Cheap. Hummer Quilts, usual price SSc. now OSe. Hummer Quilts, usual pries |! 00, now 7t cents. Fine White Crochet Quilts, cheap at f1.76. now $1 3S FRENCH ORGANDY. 72-Inch Whits Frsuch Ortsn.ly JV; re duced from 40c. 72-lnch French Organdy 4Rc, reduced fiom tt.'. 72-Inch French organdy 73c; reduced from II .ft). SHIRTING SALE. Our So>' Mlrachvd Shirting now tUfcc A good yard-wide Bhtrllng for 7c yatd. DANIEL HOGAN: The corner Broughton and Barnard Sts. PICTFRKH OF PAINT-BOX TOWN. NO. t. (Copyright, H*>. by the 8 H McClure Cos > Cut out the outline tfleture below and paste It with Hour paste (not glue) on a stiff piece of card-board. When the paste haa had time to dry. color accord ing to rhymed direction* given below. have these plcturea eaeh week till you have a complrge set of the views of Faint-Box Town. ; ..A", I'lrtnrr wf Pslwt-Boa Taws. Thla is the home of Dorothy Brown. The prellh-st house In Faint-Box Town. But It's commonly said as a cause of com plaint That It's sadly In need of anew coat of paint! Now, If you will give It a fine cost or two. 'Twill pleas* the Brown* to much—and Dorothy, too! •,•****•• The blind# should be green aa of course you'U agree. As well aa th*- leave# on every tree. The trunks of the trees should be brown or green-gray. And the shies of th# house—well, what do you say? White won hi he nicest of all, don't you think? And against 11. the rosea, a lovely soft pink. 1W) lime* that, or R,lS.4on,flW> seconds since the birth of Christ. Call It *>.'>.- rmoari Divide our M* aum of gold by sixty billion, and you will have the amount of 24Xano,ono.W#,nnn,n,Ooe,ooo.#*, - (WMMn.tWI Count th* ciphers ignd you will see I am right. That Inconceivable sum represents the value of the cent com pounded by 1 l* •** for ••*> second of th# l.*oo years! "Gold la worth *3O an ounce, or 1340 a pound troy weight, twelve ounce* to the pound. Per ton la worth 2420,000. or ap proximately IWfi.non. In the last big sum I name there would be it thaj rate M.n00,- 000 <no rpo.otn.'nn.oon.oon.om tons According to the Encyclopedia Brttannl-a,th# weight of th* earth I* about .o<Vi.(>*!,ono.'tn.OOtl.- ire on ton*. The maaa of the sun Is about 2.(rt*.(flo times that of the earth. Multiply the earth's weight by J.000.0n0 and you will have room for about forty more solar systems tn th* big total of lon*. Consequently. It Is a* I ##ld: A cent put at compound Interest a* th* birth of C* dal would now he worth In gold * aim. qual to the weight of the entire aolar system expres-ed once for each sec ond of that long lime. "If that lsn'4 enough to overturn any theory of Interest I ever thought of I'll eat my head. If reasoning In mathe matics drive# one lo such Inconceivable conclusions, what must reasoning in so ciology do? If* my opinion that all the aoclsl philosophers that ever drew breath can't figure anything about It. I'm go ing lo quit worrying over H. or I'll get thin and the next lime I see my socialist friend I'll tell him to take a vacation and come hack to earth.” KIM ( 1TEI) HORSE*. Bristol's Troop# aad Other* Come to Grief In China. From th#*Y*o#ton (Hob* John O Stewart, th# ohowmen who left Shanghai Jun* 1 to spend a two-months' vacation In his home country. I* now at his resident!# In Somerville. M*s. H* ha* Just learned that hi# buslnes# enler prlse. which Include, "Prof Bristol * edu cated horse#.” has been wrecked by th# war In China. He saya: "When I tailed for th* United States the clryo* was exhibiting *t Shanghai. Washington C. Pfluger. my advance agent, had gone on to Tien Tstn to IpN TOWELS. lluck Towel* 10c; reduced from lie. Kxtrx six* Damask Fringed TOW git Stef actual value 35c A 9k40 Loncn HOck Towel 16e. easily wutth 29c. *An extrg large Turkth Towel hleschad anil I wows well worth 49c, only 31c. Special twrgaln* In Table Oamaak Nap kins and 1 •otll- a. INDIA LINENS. White India IJnen *Hc; regular price lr. Whits Irslta Unen J#c; regular prtca 12Hc. While India Uuen 15c; roluced from 39c. White India Unen 30c; Ihe beat va.ua In the city. CHINA MATTING st very low pit <*>, from 15c In 80c p*tf yard N*w, fresh and attractivs |att*ms. Tha window shades paint a soft yellow hue, Bright yellow the door-knob and door knocker. too. Thai th* door should be green you caw not deny; And the chimney brick-red against a bits* sky. • • • • • • • • And now the Job's don# I will knock #4 the door And ask of Mlsa Brown If there's any thlng more • • • There' I've seen her. snd Dorothy wyi. "Yes, Indeed," To come round next week, ss th# par lor's In need Of paper and paint So don't you delay To men me right > r* s week from to day! With your brushes snd pslnl*. for them's lot* to be done, In Palm-Box Town our work s Just bs gun! Ihe town Since reaching Boston T hava been Informed that th* show arrived at Tien Tain on board of a Russian trans port aloiut June It. two day* before th* announcement to the world that th# Oar man mlnleler had been murdered In Pe kin. "The company of thlrty-flve people found themselves In a besieged elty. Th# mem ber# hsd to pas# through *h- horror* Of war Th# allied army came and confla reitil the lent* and also th# -due*ted horse*. becaue the troops were short of food Finally, on July J. til noei- oin halnnls being ordered to |e*ve, the show men end women were compelled to flee. They report that on the way to Taku they saw floating In tha water the body of that remarkable performing mule for whlrh I once refused an offer of 55,000. The member* of the company were obliged to leave behind them all the bag gage except what they could carry *• their backs or in their hands.” Mr Stewart expe -ted to meet the clretia on Ihe return to Calcutta a few months hence, and travel thence in Ixmdoo Rut now he Is all at sea as regards future plans. H# expect# to Ale claims with tha government at Washington with a view to the recovery of Ihe volue of at least that part of hit show which was confis cated by the allied army. But the recov ery Is likely to be the work of year* In the present mixed condition of affair*. He say* he has done business In Tien Tsin before this year, and has found tha Chinese to be generous patron* of hi* can vas temple of amusement. It was no un usual sight to see 2.000 pigtail* gathered under the tent lo wltnes* a single exhi bition. He has always showed In the for eign cettlem-nts around ihe big Chine** cities, never going within th* walled por tions. But he never went anywhere near Pe kin One entertainment manager once got a permit from a mandarin to local* at the Chinese capital, whereupon the said mandarin was Imprisoned and the aggre gation of artiste was driven any. Ho look warning from that historic Incident. Judge John H. Holt, th* Damoerstlo nominee for Governor of West Virginia. Is carrying on an old-fa shinned campaign In the mountain district* of hi* statto. Ha play* the fiddle for the farmers, and. upon one occasion. Instructed a bouse wife In th* art of making blackberry dumpling* 17