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SUNDAY MORNING. THE SALTIf-.C. The sim sinks sbw’y down the west. ne mountains shade to deeper blue, lay swift.y g.ides unto the breast <*S^E nio r* v ' ‘ : •’ summer dew. \\ hoo kie! Whoo k:e! ” The g!ad young voice ring* out so free: u you raise your eyes you will sure'.v see Ho-.v the) cattle h.si.m at the refrain. ' in g.act response to the welcome strain that ever sounds with the suiting. That call bring? back the long ago: c. 1 * 1 ' c J cnin S !,:H m.* sweet V.rtii low, M'.e waiks again with girlish pride Her "YYhoo kie* Whoo kie!” ‘ A Over the hills it conies to me. •ri ' cves aro dim, hut I surely see The torin so loved, when the g)ad refrain. , !llls •''Sam in the weloome strain ** I ihrt ever sounds with the salting. --Mary A. kirknp. in the Dgs Monies 1 Register and Leader. Ihe Feat of an Amateur. T~ By F. W. Crlssman. ¥l* Sister Florence has won considerable success as an amateur photographer. Last year, with a mountain scene showing a herd of deer grazing at the timber-line, she took a prize given by au association of amateur photographers. She ruined a walking suit in climb ing, crawling over sticks and stones and through dirty wash-outs, but the prize was twenty-five dollars and a second-best diploma, and the glory well, 1 must say that Florence was a little hard to live with for a few days. She is naturally modest and good natured enough, though, and was re duced to the ranks in dne season. Black Rock Ranch, our home, with lots of children, is a pure democracy, at least in principle. Of late, however. Florence has really performed a feat so notable that we cannot ignore her claim to distinction. Th * worst of il Is, she has never once bragged of her performance, anil when the subject is mentioned by any one, she turns it aside with an air of being bored, and says it was nothing but what any amateur with a camera would have done. Such a thing is not to be be lieved of every one. though, and it is just this air of calm superiority to praise that Ford. Fanny and I find hard to get along with. We have read and heard that people who have performed heroic actions ot notable achievements become very humble and modest at home when their deeds have received public recog nition. So it is with some hope of re ducing Florence to her normal status that I undertake to tell of her adven ture exactly as it. happened. Last August Florence. Ferd. Fanny and 1 went as usual to Shoshone Peaks for the raspberry picking. In these excursions we drive a stout spring wagon, and carry a tent and a canning outfit. High up among the juniper hush and shrub pine of the Shoshones grow fields of red raspberries—berries half ns big as a man’s thumb, juicy as strawberries and luscious to the taste. This fruit is so abundant that, birds and beasts do not visibly diminish the supply. Our berry camp of an evening, with its glowing pine-wood fire, ils big heat ing kettle giving out the odor of sim mering fruit, and two berry-stained girls moving about among pots and jars and packing crates, is a pleasant place for Ford and me: and the girls enjoy it as much as we do. Florence and Fanny help in picking berries, although Florence always car ries a camera under her arm. She has •bus secured excellent photographs, at close range, of pine-liens, sage-grouse, whistling hares and other mountain birds and animals. One day she got n tine snap shot of an elk which trotted by within a few yards of her. There are a good nihny hears in these mountains, but as they never attack people unless directly provoked, we do not fear them: and as landmarks are perfectly defined all about our camp, we take no pains to keep to gether. Eacli one of us. in tact, can do better work alone. Thus it happened that Florence was alone when she encountered a big grizzly at close quarters. She was a half-mile or so from camp and sitting at rest witli two buckets filled with berries, when she heard a great splash ing of water in the channel of a small brook near at hand. The sounds came from some rods below, and she jumped at the conclu sion that an elk had come down to drink, as the day was very warm. So she took her camera from its case, and slipped down into .the crooked, diteh-like channel. As she could see no animal there, she stole softly down-stream, stepping upon boulders which were thickly strewn in the shallow little runlet. The crooked ditch deepened as she ad vanced. and the sun’s rays beat hot upon the stones at th? bottom. After several turns of the brook, she came suddenly upon the object of* her search—not an elk. hut an enorreotts grizzly bear, wallowing in a pool of water held by a dam of boulders. The water came to its mid-sides, and the animal floundered about, cooling ils parched hide in this refreshing bath. On catching sight of Florence, the grizzly gave a grunt of surprise, and reared itself upon the boulders to stare at her; and there the animal stood, after a shako of its loose skin, uneasy at the presence of au intruder, yet ap parently neither angered nor afraid. Naturally Florence feared danger at Mich close quarters, but she knew ihat running would avail hev nothing if the bear chose t ■< attack. Pluckily, there fore. she steed he: ground, at iess than fifteen steps, and took two or three snap shots in quick succession, or at least as quickly as she could roll tlie camera's film into position. J hen, as the grizzly refused to retire and still showed no disposition to at tack. Florence began leisurely to back . away. She had made but a careful si op or two when she heard a racket in the bushes almost above her Irani, and an instant later, just behind her, another bear descended the precipitous bank of the channel. lie slid down ' backward, and alighted with a splash in the brook! This bear or big cub was not more . titan half as large as the other, but it I was very near Florence, and very | much startled at the apparition of a | girl in a blue dress, it crowded against ! ‘he creek bank and showed its tooth, j evidently expecting immediate attack, i and growled and whimpered, as much 1 in alarm as in auger. | This stirred the old bear io wrath, I and poor Florence, standing in a ue.r --| row channel between the angry mother I and the formidable cult, dared not | move a foot in either direction. She : might have dared to .try passing the | small bear, but she knew the old one ! would leap at her instantly. She stood upon two big boulders, slightly elevated above the bears, and astride a little channel of the brook. She kept her position, and although her heart beat so loudly that it sound ed in her ears like the tattoo of a drum, she controlled her agitation, and turned her camera first upon one anil then the other of the threatening griz zlies, until she had exhausted nil the exposures upon the film. While she was doing this she noted that the grizzlies were growing more and more angry, and that the smaller one. hugging an earth bank within five or six steps of her, had its nose and jaws stained red with the juice of berries, which seemed to heighten the ferocity of its expression. The photographing, which occupied but a few moments, seemed to clear her brain, and she looked swiftly about, seeking in vain for some line of ascent up the steep banks. The bears increased their threats and yag gerings until the little canyon roared with the horrid noise. Florence felt sure the old dam was about to pounce upon her, and as a last resort, she stooped, laid her cam era behind one of the boulders upon which she stood, and then suddenly dropped at full length into the narrow crevice between them. The water in this small runway was a foot or more iii depth, and Florence sunk upon the bottom with only her face and flouting skirt at the surface. She was completely hidden from the bears, and to her great relief their threatentngs quickly ceased, and pres ently the cub leaped fairly over her body on its way to join its dam. Two or three minutes later Florence dared to peep over the rocks, and find ing the coast clear, crawled out and made her way to camp, where, after telling her story, she became a heroine indeed. Six photographs enlarged to real pic ture size and handsomely framed now hung in the dining-room at Black Rock Ranch. Three of those pictures show a great grizzly standing at gaze upon some rocks, and two others show the same bear in different nttltiulo* of fierce threat. The remaining one dis plays, in shadow, a hoar crowding against an earth bank and showing its teeth like an animal at bay. It is cer tainly a notable collection of photo graphs. Recently, at a social gathering, my mother related the story of “The Lady or the Tiger;” and someone proposed the conundrum, “What would Florence Crlssman do in such a case?" With one voice all the company shouted, ■'Photograph the tiger:” I think such things are enough to spoil any girl.—, Youth's Companion. An Engineer's Experience. “The superstition about owls is a wonderful thing.” said an old railroad engineer, “and if I had not been in clined to lie superstitious about the birds tlie engine I. was riding one night would have been knocked into smith ereens and the passengers in (lie coaches might have fared very badly, f am not always superstitious, but I am particularly so about owls. But I like tlie creatures, for one certainly saved my life. The incident occurred on tt very dark night. The train was running at full speed. We were run ning on a straight line, and there was nothing for the fireman and myself to do but to look directly ahead and let lier had been looking Intently nr. when .-one-thing ffi v struck less time than it tails to tell it I began to think that the owl was a bad omen, and 1 stopped the train immediately. I cannot say what made me feel so. but I was sure that death was ahead. I descended and walked to a switch that was a short distance ahead of us. It .was open and a long train of empty freight cars was on it. I had the owl stuffed, and since that time he has had a place iti the cab of my engine. I owe my life to the superstition about owls, and if another one strikes my engine I will close the throttle at once.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. K.vzantino London. Arc we to have a Byzantine period in London, asks the Westminster Gazette. The big Byzantine cathedral at West minster is approaching completion; and now tlie redecoration of St. James's Hall, which has just been completed, has transformed it from Moorish more or less—to Byzantine, with deep red wall-panels, subdued green and gold tints predominating iri the color scheme, ceiling panels of Byzantine design in green, yellow anil cream, modeled piaster balustrades in place of the old iron ones, and windows of cloisonne glass' . j Isolation in Cfje Ngtioggl Britons Brominj Long-Nosed, Frenchmen Blond ami Japanoi Bearded—Odd Effects of Cold Baths and Beer— Drirtkiijg-. SBrcpggsa It PI circumstances of blood Upv or food, of early habit or Hi jk ItU subsequent education, ill [n] creating for the races of ifa m the world—the highly civ- illzod races—a new pliy “JSSSSsil slognomy? To one who believes in the evolution of racial type by means of natural se lection an answer in the affirmative presents no difficulties, says Cham bers’ Journal, but to others—the stu dent of comparative ethnology, the acute archaeologist, the thoughtful traveler—this important matter is as firmly settled as that the Chinese has slanting eyes, the Tartar high cheek bones and the Spaniard an olive com plexion. Max Nordau has discussed the question as regards the French and Germans, Professor Mantegazza as re gards the Italians and Dr. Hamilton and others concerning the actual blend ing of the multiform racial features of the American population into a single type. The subject has, perhaps, in England as yet hardly received the attention its extreme interest and importance de serve. Yet every Englishman who is at all familiar with the ancient phy siognomy and tlie physical aspect and proportions of ids race must be aware that tlie now Englishman of the twen tieth century is not quite the same ani mal as was the Englishman of the Tu dor period. The loyal subject of Edward VI.. flaxen haired if he were it yeoman and black haired in towns, would hardly recognize as his posterity and compa triots the equally loyal subjects of Ed ward A’lt. Indeed, it is not certain that there has been a special and distinctive type for each century, and this, it' it is really the case, would, of course, not preclude the recurrence of a former type at intervals. Among the factors Which have undoubtedly affected the physique, hair and complexion of the nineteentheentury Englishman has been the matutinal till)- tlie widespread prev alence of the bathing habit. It seems strange when we reflect; that in tlie eighteenth century the morning bath, now regarded as so essential to Eng lishmen of all classes, was hardly ever indulged In, and the cold plunge within doors a tiling practically unknown. The physiological effects of frequent bathing are well known, among them being a heightened color, sharper feat ures—that is, a rawboned appearance— and (as Dr. Andrew Wilson has lately pointed out) a thinning of the linir. As to the latter, it is common knowledge that in tlie fifteenth century curly hair was the rule in England, but whether the change to lankness is to be ascribed to the wigs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or whether the wigs themselves were resorted to as a means of disguising tlie less hirsute luxuriance, it would be difficult to de termine satisfactorily. Looking abroad we are shown the Frenchman gradually growing lighter of liair and complexion, owing to the greater fecundity of the Norman and the constant infusion of Swiss and Al satian blood. The habit of drinking beer in preference to wine is also said to be influencing the physique and fa cial tint of the Gallic race. There can be no question of a slight increase of stature and a more erect carriage among the males, this resulting from the same cause which has transformed the whole race of Germans from round shouldered, shambling men, with a pro fusion of adipose tissue, into grim, sin ewy automatons -namely, the severity of universal military discipline. But with the Germans they have to thank the army l'or a decrease instead of ttu increase of stature, the height of the men, as shown by official reports, hav ing gradually diminished since 1851. Whether the Kaiser’s subjects will re gard this loss as sufficiently atoned for by the greater size of tlie German chin, which Is becoming a prominent charac ter, unknown to the Prussians under Frederick the Great, is a matter 'Which we must leave to the subjects of Will iam 11. to determine. The Russian face is undergoing a pro nounced change, owing to new blood and different food, habits,and condi tions of life. But perhaps tlie most ex traordinary metamorphosis of all is taking place under our eyes among two nations as widely separated in origin and history as it is possible for any civ ilized countries to be— America and Japan. The American physiognomy is as completely marked as that of any race under the sun that lias, as An thony Trollope remarked, “bred in and in for centuries.” Yet, as tlie same traveler pointed out, the American owns a more mixed Idood than any other race known. His chief stock is English, and with this are mingled the bloods of Ireland. Holland. France. Germany, Scandinavia, Italy and Sla vonic Austria. “All this has been done within a few years, so that the American may be said to have no claim to any national type of face. Nevertheless, no man lias a type of face so clearly national as the American. The lantern jaws, the thin, lithe body, the dry face, the thick hair and thin lips, the intelligent eyes, the voice not altogether harsh, though sharp and nasal—all these traits are acknowledged all over the conti nent of Europe.” Yet perhaps Trollope was mistaken in attributing the forrna- THE BRUNSWICK DALLY NEWS. IJpes °f !%)■ tion of this type to “hot air pipes and dollar worship,” although not alto gether wrong in supporting the Ameri can countenance to be modified by his ‘•special aspirations.” Yet it is extraordinary how rapidly '•lie child of English or European par ents. born anil bred ill America, as sumes these special features. B.v some it has been believed that the so-called American face is merely a reversion to the countenance of the aborigines, and considering how strong the general likeness is, this theory deserves careful consideration. On the other hand, how Is il that the Canadians, whose habits of life differ from their neighbors, should preserve a more English type of visage, so that after three or four gen ovations they are very readily mistaken for Englishmen? Here there is cer tainly no reversion to the aboriginal type. In Japan it; lias been observed with increasing astonishment as almost it freak of nature that ever since the adoption by the Emperor Mutsuhito, thirty years ago, of European customs and costumes the Europeanization of the physiognomy of the Japanese has been growing apace. One of least wonderful results the traveled will learn from the barbers of Toklo and Yokohama is the increase in the growth of the beard, and of the lesser stiffness of the liair, owing to the haldt of wearing lints and of brushing and oiling the hair. The increase of stature among the Japanese is very perceptible, and the substitution of tepid and even cold water for the hot baths among many of the people is responsible for an in creasing floridlty of the complexion. The Rainbow. When a ray of sunlight falls on a raindrop it is refracted: then part of the light is reflected from tlie internal surface and again refracted on leav ing tile drop. The white sunlight is not only refracted when it enters and leaves the drop, but dispersion also takes place. The eye sees bright cir cles of light for each kind of light, and since sunlight Is made up of different; kinds of homogeneous light; we get a series of circular arcs, showing the spectrum colors, the red being outside and the other colors following in the order of descending wave length. The whole constitutes a primary rainbow. A secondary iiow Is sometimes seen outside the first. This is formed by the light being twice reflected inside tlie raindrops. The less refrangible rays are on the inner side. Rainbows due to still more internal reflections are too feeble to be observed. It is possible to get a white rainbow if the sun is clouded or if there is a mixture of raindrops of very different sizes. Camerai in XVur Time. To France probably belongs the credit of using the camera for war purposes in a most satisfactory manner at a time when it was of the utmost impor tance. When I’aris was besieged com munication with the outside world was had only by means of balloons and carrier pigeons. The dispatches sent by the carrier pigeons were photo graphed on small films, which could be attached to the feathers of the birds, and in this way n single bird could carry thousands of words. Like wise the aeronauts who hovered over Paris used the camera for photograph ing tlie different positions of the Prus sians. These photographs were the first ever taken of an invading army from a balloon. Profiting by this ex perience tlie French army and navy have increased their carrier pigeon and balloon service. Several hundred offi cers in the French army are expert photographers and every engineering corps carries with it complete photo graphic outfits.—Chicago Post. How to Prove u Diamond s Wortli. In detecting a false gem from a gen uine, the X-ray can be relied on with absolute certainty. Diamonds, as is well known, are pure emboli; and carbon, which is opaque to ordinary light, is transparent to the Roentgen light, while glass, which is transparent to ordinary light, is opaque to the Roentgen ray. On an X-ray photo graph of a real diamond nothing will show but the shadow of the gold set ting. An interesting experiment was made recently In watching with the aid of an X-ray machine and a flttorcscope. mo tions carried on inside an opaque body. A goose was fed with food mixed witli subnitrate or bismuth salt, which absorbs the X-ray. The passage of the food down the long neck of Ha goose could In- plainly traced by the moving shadow east on the lluorescope screen.-Leslie's Monthly. I.an<l Without ,Nntrsiiapem. Tile overworked and sufferers from nervous prostration will (inti a real haven of rest in Korea. There is no such thing as a novel or a newspaper in the land. No regular story writer is known to have lived there for 1000 years. Education consists in a knowl edge of the immortal Chinese classics. So sacred are printed books to the Koreans that they cannot be tossed about or trodden upon without offend ing the gods LATEST iEW YORK, FASHIONS New York City.—Simple shirt waists made with the fashionable princess closing arc much in vogue and suit young girs to a nicety. The very misses’ shirt waist or blouse. pretty one shown is made of novelty silk in shades of blue with collar, cuffs and shoulder straps of plain blue, the combination being smart as well as novel. The May Manton original is •■"--•rn with an odd skirt hut the design Bruins*.. iv**i-..|ii.iiu ~s we n 118 them contributions tor t..0j 0 many material.,. , , a w The foundation mn..* „xistenc fitted and closes at the front, nut separately from the waist itself which consists of a plain back, drawn down in gathers at tlie waist line, and fronts that are gathered at the neck and at tlie waist. The front edges are tucked and brought together over tlie hems through which the closing is made invisible to give the princess effect. The sleeves are in bishop style with novel cuffs tlmt match the stock. Over the shoulder seams are arranged straps, cut in points, that fall over the sleeves but these may be omitted. The quantity of material required for the medium size (fourteen years) FASHIONABLE BLOUSE JACKET is three and a half yards twenty-one Inches wide, three and three-eighth yards twenty - seven inches wide and two and a quarter yards thirty-two inches wide, or one and seven-eighth yards forty-four inches wide. Woman’s Blouse Jacket. Short double-breasted blouse coats with fitted basques make a notable feature of the season and are more generally worn for walking and the affairs of life than any other sort. The stylish May Manton model, shown in the large drawing. Includes the fashionable slot seams at the fronts and the plain sleeve with roll-over cuffs that is so much liked. As shown it is black zibeline, stitched with cortieelli silk and is worn with a skirt of different, material, but tlie design suits the costume of cloth, cheviot, zibeline, velvet and velveteen and the odd coat of all the season's fabrics equally well. When preferred the basque portions can lie omitted and the blouse finished with tlie belt. The blouse consists of a smooth back, under - arm gores witli slightly full fronts and side fronts, which ex tend to the shoulders and are stitched to an under strap to form the slot scants. The right front laps over the left in double breasted stylo and tlie neck is finished with the fashionable coat collar that meets the fronts and rolls back to form lapels. The basque portions are joined to tlie lower edge, the seam being concealed by tile left. The coat sleeves are two-seamed and finished with roll-over cuffs. Tlie quantity of material required for the medium size is four and a quarter yards twenty-one Inches wide, two yards forty-four inches wide or one and three-quarter yards fifty-two inches wide. Knick-K iiurkfi. Very pretty button* made in china, oval, round and square, are to be bought following the designs of dif ferent kinds of china. Dresden. Sevres ami Staffordshire. Crystal and paste hall buttons are effective, and these often form tlie tassel to narrow loops of ribbon which have been run through tiny paste buckles, and replace tbe small flower tassels, which have been a good deal worn one wav or ntmitmv Knots tied In ribbons anil in stock, require an education. A series o. three or live chains festooned betweei bars is a fashionable form of necktie not to wear tight round the throat but to rest on the neck. Brooches are worn very small, and some are beau tifully painted. Some of the pearl brooches have very pretty pear-shaped pearl drops. Peacocks, with diamond tails, are new, and a small feather in diamonds makes an admirable brooch. A Useful Costume. A young lady who set out on her travels had a combination costume that really seemed immensely comprehen sive; she seemed to have everything in one garment. Site hml gotten herself a tailor-made of one of the finer serges, and to it had n long cape, and all these were worked in with one another in the most scientific way. The long skirt and the cape had in common a decora tion of graduated military braids with a note of white cloth lightly embroid ered in green and mauve where the coat turned back. This coat was of the open or closed formation, so that when closed, the embroidery being concealed, the coat, looked quite severely simple, ijyhlch arrangement had to do with the . for that the short skirt was also se f tvely simple as far as an adorning element was concerned (having just three two-inch tucks at its base). It will be evident on thinking over the matter that this inventive girl had quite a repertory of frocks in this os tensibly single tailor costume. llloufle or Shirt Waist. Slot scam effects are seen upon the latest waists and gowns and are ex ceedingly effective. The very stylish May Manton blouse illustrated shows them used to advantage and in con junction with tucks at the shoulders and the princess closing in front. The original is made of reseda peau de e.vnge, jiipeil with black and stitched with black cortieelli silk, but all waist cloths and silks and many gown ma terials are appropriate as the design suits both the old waist and the cos tume. The lining is snugly fitted and closes at the centre front quite separately from the outside, but can be omitted whenever an unlincd waist 1-s desired. Tlie waist proper consists of fronts and back, which are laid in inverted tucks that are stitched to give the slot seam effect from the shoulder to tlie waist lino, the fronts also includ ing additional tucks at the shoulders, that are stitched to yoke depth, and the front being laid in wide tucks that meet over the hems through which the closing is made. The back is finished with n novel stock and at the waist is a belt with postillion straps in centre back. Tlie quantity of material required for the medium size is four and three* eighth yards twenty-one wide, four blobse or snurr waist. and one-eighth yards twenty-seven inches wide, three and seven-eighth yards thirty-two inches wide, or two and tliree-eighth yards forty-foui' inches wide. In France $3,474,000 is spent every year in the improvement of horse lirootliiitf THE REAL THING*: There are only 400 real iron pots That flout in the stl'eulil Of style, And some of these pots. They are pretty tough lots, Though they float with a satisfied smile. And woe to the pot that is made out ot clay, _ :; ” T-gaSM Who dares to join in with the throng. It the book that iB blue . Doesn't recognize you, A- You will float—l don’t think—very long. In fact, I don't think the old saints, if they eoidd, Would care to mix lip with these pots. Brass, China and Delf, On the old kitchen shelf. Have a happier time of it—lots. Ami tlie 400 pots, in the social swim. Many thanks to paint, powder and pride, May look like a dream. As they float down tile stream, But they're horribly battered, inside. —James Clarence Harvey, in Life. “A speculator!” ”Yos: same thing. He's getting married on nothing at all.” —Detroit Free Press. Fudge—“ Poor fellow*, he owes hfs death to deadly gasoline.” Judge— “ Gasoline, auto or stove?”--Baltimore Herald. Of all sweet words of tongue or pen That woman can bestow The sweetest words to her are when She says: “I told you so!” —Philadelphia Record. “What kind of a stove did the pre historic man use?” asked little Ostend. “Probably he used a mountain range.” —Philadelphia Record. Archibald—“ Penelope Griggs is going to bo married.” Arthur—“ Gracious! Who’s going -to marry her?” Archi bald—“l am.”—Detroit Free Tress. She could have carried him with ease— Two hundred pounds she’d weigh. His given name was Hercules. Her given name was Fay. —Philadelphia Press. Madge—“ What method of courtship does he use?” Prue— “Oh. he affects to have found the only girl in the world who understands him.”—Detroit Free Press. His Lordship—“But you might change your mind. Women do, some times. change their minds!” Miss Phanny T. Plmyre—“Yes. I might if I had said yes!”—Puck. “Papa, what is the difference be tween the smart set and the four bun dred?” “Why, my son, the four hun dred is limited to 2<SOO. lint everybody is in the smart set.”—Life. “My fingers seem to he nil thumbs to-day,” apologetically remarked the clumsy butcher. • “Ah!” said the cus tomer. significantly; “that accounts for them getting in the weigh.”—Phila delphia* Record. Kittle—“Well, there’s one thing about the auto. It has enabled a good many to make a noise in the world who never were heard of before.” liattle—“But it has brought them into worse odor than before, if that were possible.”— Boston Evening Transcript. “Charlotte,” said the first, who was of her sex and a friend, “strives to be strictly up to the minute with her horseless carriage and other things.” “Yes,” responded the other, who was also feminine and an even closet friend, “she even affects n birthday less age.”—lndianapolis News. “Wasn’t it a terrifying experience,” asked his friend, “when you lost yout foothold anil went sliding down the mountain-side?” “It was exciting, but extremely interesting.” said the college professor. "I could not held noticing all the way donpi wittf what absolute accuracy I was following nlong the line of least resistance."-Chicago Tribune. ' "The Scottish Mother." Mr. Carnegie, after visiting the La ities’ College in Queen street. Edin burg, the oldest educational institution in connection with the Merchants’ Company, made the following entry 1 in the visitors’ book: “Surprised, delighted. impressed lliiskiii says there is nothing In the world that, oqunls the Scottish mother in the tried perfectness of her old age. This Institution does the important part of starting the future mother well —a greater service it is impossible to render.—Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie himself, of course, had a Scottish mother, and no mother, as Is well known, had ever a more de voted sou. The Perpetual Failure. If you lack character, downright, genuine honesty and squareness, your college education, your superior ad vantages only emphasize or extenuate your real failure, for no man has'ever succeeded, no matter how many mil lions of dollars he may have accumu lated. who lias lost his character in the process. If he has left his manhood behind him, if Ids integrity has es caped in his long-headed methods, his shrewd, sharp dealings, in his under handed schemes, his life is a failure. It does not matter what position he lias reached or how much money he lias made. He is a miserable failure if he has lost the pearl of his life.— Success. The lleur am! tile Child. The London Graphic obtains from a correspondent at Sebastopol an inter esting bear story. A huge bear ap proached near to the village and car ried off a young child. The inhabitants formed a cordon around the tract at forest where the bear had taken refuge, and on the third day after the child was carried off they closed in on the beast. The child, unharmed, was re clining on a deep mossy couch mado for her by the bear. She had subsisted on tln> nuts and forest’ fruit brought her by tho bear. One almost regrets to learn that the bear, yas summarily killed. NOVEMBER 39