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the Washington officials IN the form OF
psnoramas. 1t is very easy then to
see the changes of year in the num-
bers of the animals which make their
homes on the Pribylov islands.
On May 20 the Albatross steamed
out of the harbor to Port Townsend,
where she remained for five days, Civ
ing and taking Instructions from the
patrol feet. Then she sailed north.
As she went further up the coast the
seals, returning to the rookeries, be-
came more numerous. Scores of them
could be seen gently tossing on the
waves as they slept. There had been
quite severe windstorm. The waves
were tossed, and the seals had to re-
main awake for days until the calm
came and they could sleep.
1t was one of the duties of the Alba
tross to protect the returning seals,
and it did. 1t was not long before the
steamer was at the Queen Charlotte
Islands, and then she was off for Cape
Rrince of Wales. All the while she was
busy with dredge and lines, the first
to carry to the surface objects from
the oceans floor, and the second to
catch fish too large for the net.
The Albatross took long journey
across the "fair weather grounds to
st. Paul's Island, stopping to search
scores of sealers.
At st. Paul's Island Independence
Day was spent, and the little COM
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How Were the Pyramids Built?

The question used for q headline
will in all probabilities never be satis-
fsctorily answered. Eminent Egyptol-
ogists, as well as other ''ologists,"
have been advancing theories ever
since the beginning of the age of his
torical inquiry, but the fact remains
that there is not a man living to-day
that can give anything like a tenable!
explanation of the manner in which
these huge buildings were reared. One
Investigator claims to have found the
marks of chisels, saws and drills on
the sides of the monster blocks of
stone therein used; but another, a
scientist equally as eminent, declares
the aforesaid marks to be those of the
molds used, his theory being that they
are blocks of concrete made on the
spot where they now lie, the material
being the sand from the surrounding
deserts One of the editors valued
friends, thinker and an investigator
%especially in the realms of Masonic
lore), declares it to be his belief that
the blocks of stone used were foated
into position on gigantic RATS during
periods Of high waters on the Nile.
l was rather taken with tie idea my
self when it WAS first presented for
consideration, but must acknowledge
that I hastened to abandon it when it
was ascertained that ':the great pyra-
mid is situated upon rocky steppe,
130 feet above the fertile plains annu-
ally overfowed by the Nile st.
Louis Republic.
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CIleap Meals.

Mr.. j. G. Monaghan, United States
Consul at Chemnitz, has made an in
lteresting report to the State Depart
;ment on the subject of cheap eating
houses in German cities, from which
lit appears that American cities have
lmuch to learn in that respect. '.To
minimize begging and to remove the
shame that no man feels more than
the honest poor of accepting food in
charity" says the Consul, "cities in
Germany have established eating
houses where substantial foods a-e
sold very cheaply." He says hev visited
one of these establishments in Chem
nitz and found nothing to condemn
and very much to commend. He
adds: ssThe food is substantial. To
hard working man, with an appetite
sharpened by exercise, the dinner is
excellent. The meats, vegetables,
etc., are properly cleaned and pre-
pared before they are cooked. Every
thing is kept clean and smells sweet
and wholesome. The people, who
look hearty and healthful, gather in
large rooms on benches placed by
long tables. Besides the dinner, or
midday meal, supports served to those
who wish it. Inasmuch as the dinner
is for the most part enjoyed by those
men whose wives work, or by men and
women who are far from their homes
and by those who prepare their own
evening. meal, the suppers of the city
eating house play very small part in
the annual account. At these suppers,
however, one can get picked herrings
with potatoes for 81 cents each person;
salt herrings and potatoes, 3 cents;
potatoes with curds of buttermilk, p
cents; warm beer, .! cents per cup;
different kinds of soup, 2s cents for
three-quarters of a liter (very nearly
q QUART; coffee, II cents per cup Ia
little over half pint bread, ofwhich
there are two kinds-the so-called
black or rye bread and wheat bread
II cents and three-fourths of cent
for portion.
There were sold last year 435, 7G0
dinners. At SO, 294 of these bread was
bought for II cents portion. The
years expenditures were $l5, 557, the
income -, sol, leaving balance in
favor of the city of 1914.
The Consul gives a. list of the articles
served, from which it appears that
beef, pork, sausage, potatoes, peas,
beans, lentils, bread, fruits and
vegetables of all kinds form the main
part of the meals 'These dinners, "
says the Consul, 'never cost more
than 10 cents. They do away with
the death and dyspepsia dealing din
ner pail. They blot ont the shame OF
begging. They are nutritious and
wholesome. Besides, they are SELF
supporting. "-Washington Star.
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A Surgeons Nerve.

It is the common belief that O
surgeon must possess what is spoken
of as an extraordinary good nerve, and
you may perhaps doubt if you possess
this. At the same time you must bear
in mind that in the case of surgeon
the GOODNESS, or calmness which is so
admirable and necessary in an opera
tion does not imply the possession OF
any remarkable personal quality, but
it is the simplest result of complete
knowledge of what he it doing. 1t is
rather the natural outcome of his ,ac-
curate familiarity of anatomy, and his
daily habit.
A trooper would require very fine
nerve to 60 to q masthead, or a sailor
to ride an unmanageable horse across
a country, but a sailors confidence
aloft is due more to matter of habit
than to any particular amount of
courage. In saying this, I do not wish
to depreciate the calmuess of the
surgeon in the face of difficulties, but
I may tell you quite plainly that if
you haven't enough courage to be
surgeon I should be very much
ashamed of You, and you would turn
out to be very poor creature, what
ever occupation you might follow.
Still this fact remains, and you may,
perhaps, be interested to hear that
!, who have known many good sur
geons, have never seen one who has
not possessed very fine courage.
In short, a very good surgeon is, in
my humble opinion, a very fine fellow,
and when I see las I do see) the extra
ordinary achievements of modern sur
gerry, I am very proud of belonging to
q profession which has made life SO
much more endurable and prolonged
to the human race. So, possibly, the
great fascination which surgery no
doubt possesses to many, appeals more
strongly to men of courage and de.
termination than to those persons of
more weakly constituted minds, OF to
those who are less vertebrate alto
gether. -Longman's Magazine.
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Studying a RattIer's Rattle.

The growth of the rattle OF the
rattlesnake has been studied by Ger
man scientist, who finds that the rattle
is frequently shed; and, after being
shed (his snakes were kept in a very
warm room). in three or four months
two rattles were present, their ap-
pesrance having nothing to do with
the casting of the skin. The snakes
were made to register the vibrations
of the rattle on smoked paper, and it
was found that the vibration was a
compound: one, consisting of the
vibration of the tail as whole, and
of the rattle independently of the tail
vibrations. The approximate figures
of vibrations were, for the tail, seventy
five; of the rattle, Ito a second
Chicago Herald. ~
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4 Nothing can be substituted for
the Royal Baking Powder
4 and give as good results.
8 No other leavening agent will make such
light, sweet delicious, wholesome food.
Towed by an Iceberg.

When interesting tales Of adventure
at sea are told, Maine men always
take leading part. Captain Chase.
of the bark E. o. Clark, q son of Cap
tain Loring Chase, of East Machias,
now advances the claim Of being ths
only skipper whose bark was ever
towed by an iceberg. This experiences
was enjoyed on late voyage from
Greenland to Philadelphia. The bark
was caught in drift ice and carried
many miles out OF her course, but rode
out the experience in safety, 9 line
having been made fast to one Of the
nearest bergs to keep her steady until
several days later the wind changed
and the rope was cut, the vessel sooa
freeing herself from the ce.--LeWis-
ton Me-. journal.
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ment of the cruise. Every ten miles
the dredge was put out and the bottom
of the ocean secured. The fish and
strange beings of the sea were lifted to.

the surface, examined, recorded and
numbered. The weight and length OF
the fish were carefully noted and then
each specimen was placed in alcohol tc
be added to that collection of the deni.
zers of the ocean which the Albatross
has on board. It is one Of the most
interesting on any vessel in the world.
When the journey of 12O miles was
ended then the steamer began on an
arc of the great circle. 1t continued
only for ten miles and again started
toward the center. So the journey of
hu.Greds of miles was made.
The result of that long journey
around the islands will be known in
the first place as the establishment of
the zone hundred fathom curve, !"
which represents the depth of the
ocean around the islands until about
sixty miles west from them, when the
depth increases from 100 fathoms to
1900 fathoms It is of course varying
from the lowest to the highest figure.
Eastward of the islands the depth
varies from ten to seventy-fve fathoms.
While the Albatross was making its
soundings one of her officers was
stationed on the islands to study the
seals and secure pictures of the rook-
cries. His task was no easy one. 1T
took caution and judgment, ability to
get near enough to the animals with
out arousing them, and an equal
ability to escape them if they gave
chase. .....,. ..... ...........
The officer of the Albatross had
more than one narrow escape. On one
occasion he had cautiously approached
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munity, thousands of miles from home
in the desolate land of ice, ran up the
Stars and Stripes and fred the salute
of the Nation. All of the islands in
the group were visited and then the
journey was continued westward along
the south side of the Aleutian Islands.
In that journey the island volcano
of Adak was seen in full eruption. Far
in the distance the sailors saw the
steam issuing from the crater. AS the
ship drew nearer the water could be
seen boiling and rushing over the
sides. 1t was beautiful picture.
For miles around were the calm waters
of the ocean, and in the foreground
the island Of fire and steam. The YES
sci stopped and photograph Of the
island and it's volcano was taken.
After few days the steamer had
passed the last island and had turned
her course eastward to cruise along
the north side of the Aleutian group.
A short stop was made at Oonalaska,
and then the journey of 225 miles to
the Pribylov islands was begun. The
vessel anchored off the island of st.
Paul, the larger of the two where the
seal rookeries were established. The
first duty was to take soundings and to
secure characteristic specimens of all
the fish found within radius of 250
miles with the islands as center.
The second was to photograph the
seals on the rookeries
The soundings had never been made
before and were most thoroughly
taken. The center was taken at a point
midway between the two islands.
Bearings were taken and the steamer
started on it's course for 125 miles. 1t
was perhaps the most interesting ele-
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FROM ARCTIC SEAS.
LONG CRUISE OF THE STEAMER
ALBATROSS.
Strange Life on the Seal Rookeries
Making an Immense Circle
Around the lslands-A
Volcano in Action.

TTHE United States steamer
Albatross is now stationed at
Mare Island after four
months cruise of more than
ordinary interest. The stanch ship in
the service of the United States Fish
Commission had double duty to per-
form. She steamed $4,000 miles in
the North Pacific, now dredging the
ocean and dragging to the surface its
strange monsters and curious fish,
again patrolling the seas in search Of
illegal seal hunters and stopping them
on the ocean highway to give an
account of themselves.
This year the Albatross was in the
service Of the United States Navy. She
was commissioned to be on the look
out for sealers who had no right to
capture the animals, and when she
gave orders for q vessel to stop, IN
most cases she did not have to repeat
the signal. The Albatross would not
cut much of figure in difficulty
with cruiser, but she is armed, and
her men know how to shoot.
In addition to her duties as an ocean
guard the Albatross had other com
missions. As usual she had to find
out all about the life of the seas she
trayersed. Then she had to discover
the nature Of the ocean, covering an
enormous circles250 miles in diane-
ter, with the Pribylov islands as q
center. The Government wanted to
know about the fish upon which the
seals live. 1t wished to know how far
from the rookeries they went to feed,
and the most important point OF all,
it wished to secure comparative esti-
mate between the conditions existing
on the islands last year ndthis.
For that purpose photographs OF the
rookeries have been taken. The system
was inaugurated last year, and j. Stan
ley Brown succeeded in securing the
required photographs These photo
graphs are taken from the same point
Of view as last year, and are handed to
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a huge bull SEAL His camera was set
and everything was ready for the pic.
ture when suddenly the animal reared
up in fright and anger. The officer
dropped camera and all incumbrances
and rushed for place of, safety. The
seal shifted at the camera and went off
satisfied.
During his stay on the islands the
officer of the. Albstross recorded every
fact of interest regarding the seals. he
saw them on the rookeries day after
day, the fiercely fighting bulls defend
ing their harems. He saw the bache-
lors on the hauling grounds and saw
the natives drive them on the highland
to the killing grounds, where the deft.
ly-handled club dealt the death blow.
Time and again he saw men sbitten by
dead SEAL" That is the way the na-
tives tell of the terrible decorations
they receive from a seal that is only
half stunned by the club. The officer
ate seal meat with relish, and began
to think seal steak was as good as
porterhouse.
After the steamer had finished her
SCUM lings the journey home was be-
gun. The officer on the island had
long since finished his work. he had
hundreds of photographs, and was only
too glad to getaway. Back over the same
ground the same scenes were Witnessed
sgain. The sojourn of the seals upon
the rookeries was also drawing to o
close, and in its journey to the south
the Albatrosg saw many of the huge
black forms tossing on the waves
San Francisco Chronicle.
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Not Prepared For q Snap Shot.

A characteristic little story comes
from the scenes of the recent land
rush in Oklahoma. One of the heroines
of the occasion was Miss Mabel Gentry,
of Neosho County, Kansas. She was
the seventh to seize a claim, riding on
a spirited pony. She was armed with
q revolver and lunch basket, and
was prepared to guard her claim as
long as it was necessary. But when
an enterprising newspaper correspond
ent asked leave to take her photo
graph she promptly demurred on the
ground that she "was looking like
fright. "-Detroit Free Press.
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POPULAR SCIENUL.

PEOPLE in the United States consume
nearly 900 tons of nux vomica yearly.
The North and South Poles are
exactly 10000 miles apart from each
other.
So minute are the pores of the skin
that grain of fine sand will cover 3OS
of them.
Edison conceived his idea of the
phonograph from a close inspection of
indentations on the tape of Morse re-
corder.
The Lighthouse Board has demon
strated that telephone communication
may be established from the shore to
vessels near shore. The method will be
put into practical operation as soon as
funds are available for the purpose.
Taking the earth as the centre of the
universe and the polar star as the limit
of our vision. the visible universe en-
braces an aerial space with O diameter
of 42O, 600, 900, 600 miles, and cir
cumference of 1, 1923, 742, 600, 900 miles.
The assayer who examined the @ro-
lite that fell on the farm of Lawrence
Freeman, near Bath, South Dakota,
on the afternoon of August 70, 1892,
reports that the principal minerals it
contains are gold, silver, nickel and
cobalt.
The fastest mechanism, artificial or
natural, made to penetrate water for
any considerable distance is, accord
ing to Jeremiah Head, Thornycroft's
torpedo boat Ariete, which, on trial,
made 30.16 miles per hour. Aerial
mechanisms are capable of very much
greater speed. ~: ....s.. -
The prevalence Of crimson colors in
certain fishes on our New England
coast on portions of which scarlet and
crimson seaweeds abound is explained
by Professor j. Brown Goode by the
red pigment derived by the crustaceans
from the seaweeds, they devour, and
which in turn form the food of the
fishes.
Explorers have recently visited the
wild Olympic mountains in Western
Washington. They report that the
timber line disappears at about six
thousand feet, and at the base of the
highest peak, on the 5000 and 6000-
foot level, is a system of meadows and
lakes, where grass and flowers grow in
great luxurisnce.
Some writer's think the process of
turning white among arctic animals is
in some way connected with decrease
of vital energy and in his notes on
recent science, in the Nineteenth Cen
tury, Prince Krspotkin brings forward
as an example the alleged permanent
white colors of domesticated animals
in sub-arctic regions, such as the
Yakutsk horse. 49,.
Scientists are eSuberant at the dis
covery, of what is supposed to be new
metal, or at least new combination
of old metals. The scene of the de-
posit is in Albiquin, New Mexico. In
large morass are several thousand
logs of timber petrified into copper
ore, averaging sixty per cent. of cop.
per and from thirty to forty ounces o.
silver to the ton : =. q. 70 -. 80.
An experienced whaler is authority
for the statement that the Greenland
whale never has more than one set of
teeth. =. These teeth are milk teeth, and
when the young whale is weaned they
do not fall out Ikea baby's milk teeth,
but disappear by absortion in the jaw,
and instead of being replaced by per
manent teeth plates of baleen or whale
bone are substituted for them. -
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A Notable Voyage.

The British cruiser Melpomene,
which has returned to Victoria from
The south, steamed direct from Callao
to Victoria, a distance of over 5000
miles, in twenty days without making
a stop for coal. Officers of the Eng
lish navy consider this noteworthy
achievement, which has seldom been
paralleled and never surpassed. De-
troit Free Press.
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500 Reward. 500.

The reader Of this paper will be pleased to
1earn-that there Is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all it's
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known tn the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitu-
tional disease, requires constitutional treat
me1t. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally,
acting directly on the blood AMI mucous eur
faces Of the system, thereby, destroying the
tient strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature In doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its curative
powers, that they offer One Hundred Do lara
For any case that 1t fails to cure. Send for list
Of testimonials. Address mn ~
= .-I F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o. =
HSold by Druggists, 75c. =, ,'g,...s ~.
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Sure Preventive of Disease.

The Duchess of Edinburgh is the
happy possessor-from the Russian
and superstitious point of view-of
two genuine bezoar stones, one of
which was left to her by her imperial
father and the other by her aun.. The
bezoar stone is cut from very rare
animal and is regarded as sure pre-
server OF health and happiness.
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German
Syrup :

am a farmer at Edom, Texas. I
have used German Syrup for six
years successfully for Sore Throat,
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Painsi in
Chest and Lungs and Spitting-up of
Blood. Ihave tried many kinds of
Cough Syrups in my time, but let
me say to anyone wanting such a
medicine-German Syrupistheb best.
We are subject to so many sudden
changes from cold to hot, damp
weather here, but in families where
German Syrup is used there is little
trouble from colds. John F. Jones. %
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In Oldent Times

People overlooked the importance Of peIma
nently beneficial effects and were satisfied
with transient action but now that it is gen.
orally known that Syrup Of Figs will perma-
nently cure babitual constipation, well-in.
formed people will not buy other laxatives,
which act for time, but finally injure the
..s To-
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The largest park in the United
States is the Yellowstone. 1t is sixty
five miles north and south, fifty-hve
east and west, contains 1915 square
miles, and is 5000 feet above the sea
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SWamp.Ro Roof Cured Ne.

Twas troubled with constipation n very
much, but your medicine has regulated my
bowels which were in o bad condition. T will
willingly answer any one who will write to
me. Mrs. William Teter.
At Druggists, so cents and $I.O0 Size.
"Invalds' Guide TO Health" Consultation free
! DR.. Kilmer &c Co., Bipghamton. N. Y,
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All of the Egyptian paintings we're
executed according to a code of rules
laid down by the priesthood.