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supslitute for Pumice.

Artificial pumice is made In quanti-
ties in Bietigheim in the valley of the
En- in Germany, which is said TO be-
a valuable substitute for the genuine
stone, according to the New York Post.
1t Is made from ground sandstone and
clay, and there are ten kinds. differ.
ing from each other in regard to hard
ness and grain as follows: % a hard
and soft kind with coarse grain.
particularly useful in the leather. wax
cloth, felt and wood industries; (2l
hard and a soft kind with medium
coarse grain, suited TO stucco workers
and sculptors and particularly useful
for polishing wood before it is painted:
90 soft, fine grained stone for the
white and dry polish Of wood and for
tin goods; a. one Of medium hardness
with fine grain, for giving the wood a
surface for an oil polish; 90 a hard,
tine-grained one for working metals
and stones, especially photographic
stones; ind finally pumice stones with
a very fine grain.
These artificial stones are used in
pretty much the same way. as those
of volcanic origin. For giving smooth
surface to wood, dry stone is ap-
piled, but TO give it fine polish the
stone is dipped in oil. For the fine work
no coarse-grained and for coarse work
no fine-grained stones are used. The
unreliability of pumice, both in grain
and hardness, variations being noted
even in the same piece, suggested the
idea of replacing it with the artificial
product.
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The Police Renorter.

In two or three dingy little offices
opposite Police Headquarters in Null
berry street, New York city, men So
night and day collecting the police
news of the city for the newspapers.
Sooner or later every incident in the
city's life in which a policeman is
concerned reaches headquarters by
bulletin or formal report and comes
under the attention of the police re-
porters. A similar group has been
there getting the news since before
the elevated railroad existed and the
trolley cars began to run; and at some
time in his career almost every news
paper man in town has been a mem
Der of one of these groups sitting the
human interest out of the mass of
Incidents reported over the police
wires.
A very old timer not so long ago,
amused himself in an idle minute by
jotting down for the benefit of the
newer generation a list of men who
had served Their. term as police report
ers and afterward had attained fame
in newspaper work and out of it.
1t was a long list and it included al
most every news writer of past and
present reputation in this city.
One Of the earliest names on the
list was that of Sir Henry NJ. Stanl ey,
who died in London few days ago,
and one of the latest was Jacob A.
Riis.-New York Sun.
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Family DiscinIIna

The Rev. Elijah kellogg was most
unconventional minister. There are
many stories of his daring on sea end
land. So undaunted was he that his
influence over sailors and other men
of adventurous life was very great.
When he was settled at HarpswelI he
had on his farm a bull that had be-
come exceedingly trying and even dam
gerous to visitors, who liked to take
short cut across the pasture. The bull.
said Mr.. Kellogg. must be disciplined,
and taught some slight respect for
humankind
He therefore harnessed the animal
to the front wheels of heavy cart,
preparatory to driving him over the
road and showing him who was mas
ter. But before the guiding ropes had
been adequately arranged the bull took
to the woods in a mad rush, leaving
fragments of the cart wheels and har-
ness on its trail.
The little minister was not to be out
done. The next day at food-tide be
lured the bull to the end of the wharf
by a tempting display of fodder and
watching his opportunity showed him
back into the bay. Then he jumped
astride his back, and with the prowcss
Of 'bronco- buster" thrust his head
under water until the creature was
conquered Thereafter he was law
abiding beast.
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BIBLE WRITTEN IN rs.
MultipIes of This Figure Recur Signih-
Gently in New Testament.

MuItipIes of This Figure Recur Signih-
Gently in New Testament.
The phenomena of the figure and
its multiples, occurring in the New
Testament. have been touched upon
by Ivan Panin, Russian student or
the Bible, who for number of years
has made his home at Grafton, Mass.
This significance of the sever" group
will not be lost even upon the super
stitious who are outside the pale of
scriptural points. and, as Mr.. Panin
has shown them. their relations of
their groupings TO the first eleven
verses OF the New Testament must
suggest that they were scarcely
chance.
For instance. in these first eleven
verses of Matthew, the vocabulary con-
sists of forty-nine words. or seven sew
ems; of these words there are twenty
eight. or four sevens. which begin with
vowels. and twenty-one, or three sew
ems. which begin with consonants.
This distribution by sevens be-
tween vowel words and consonant
words Justly might have been deemed
accidental but for the fact that of the
forty words forty-two of them are
nouns-six sevenS-and seven are not
nouns is the comment Of the writer.
"of the forty-two nouns there are
thirty-five proper nouns, or five sevens,
while seven are common nouns. or
the thirty-five proper names four sew
ems are male ancestors of Jesus and
seven are not such. NOT only then is
the distribution OF the forty-nine
words of the vocabulary by seysns as
between vowel words and c5dsonant
words, but also as between the parts
of speech
As a further and absolute proof that
these phenomena OF the sevens are not
accidental Mr.. Panin points out that
the forty-nine words OF the vocabulary
show fourteen words that are not used
but once, while thirty-fve OF them. or
ave sevens. are used more than once.
His conclusions after an exhaustive ar
ranrsment OF tie seven" features are
that mot even the choice OF the Ian
guages In which the scriptures were
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
A Tame Butterfly.

A Chicago woman had all winter a
tame butterfly that has just died. It
did not cost much to keep this butter
fly, for all it ate was one drop Of
honey every three days
The butterfly Numbered inro the
womans house one day last fall. It
was numb with cold. For a little
while it futtered feebly Then it
sank to the carpet and lay as though
dead.
The woman took it in her hands and
warmed it. whereupon it became ac-
tive and gay. But once released from
the warmth OF her hands it grew cold
again-it fell into a stupor. There
upon she gave it another warming.
Thus. before many days had gone by,
the butterfly learned the restorative
value OF a woman's hands, and 1t
would fy to them and nestle in theG
as a little child nestles on the breast
Of its mother.
It learned to feed from her hand,
too: but all it desired was a drop Of
honey every three or four days She
would place the honey on her finger
and the butterfly. uncurling its deli
cate sucker, would sip it slowly and
daintily. as a young lady sips soda
water through a straw.-Chicago In
ter Ocean.
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..FATHER. co WIFI Me-"

Sent up to bed In the dark, alone,
Where all Of the corners were weird
and dim
And the shapes and the shadows
awaited him
AT every taEning-my little son,
Sent for some childish mischief done
At the hour when childish hearts are
high
With joy of the evenings revelry-
And his fault at worst was a tiny onei
A wistful moment his feet delayed,
Waiting to let my face relent,
And then. pitiful penitent,
His faltering, frightened way he made;
But up in the stairway's deepest shade,
l heard him pause where their shad-
ows crowd
And whisper, Father" and sob aloud,
Father, go with me, I'm afraid"
Quick as his calling my answer leapt.
Strong as his terror my shielding arms
Folded him close from the nights
alarms.
Sheltered and comforted while he wept;
Up in the nursery's light l kept
A tender watch till he smiled again,
Till the sobs Of his half remembered
pain
Lessened and hushed, and TIE baby slept.
Father Of love, when my day is done
And all of my trespasses written in,
Not for thoughtless or willful sin
Send me out in the dark alone;
But so as 7 answered my little son,
Come TO the prayer of my pleading
breath
And lead me safe through the night of
death,
Father Of light. when my light is gone.
Washington Star.
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knew some heart tragedy lay back of

knew some heart tragedy lay back of
it.
He had not told of his find-search
for owners of such treasure-trove
seemed SO helpless. He had meant to
ask his uncle's advice, and be govern
the dispat,h-the good uncle was dead,
and Hardy his sole heir. Altogether
Fate seemed bent on forcing him TO
keep what he had found. He had kept
4, accounting for his change of estate
by true story of inheritance greater
than he had had the right to expect.
Now, he knew where the bulk of his
fortune belonged.
Almost he persuaded himself to
hurry back to the city. take out the
accusing craven stone and pound 1t
to powder. Suddenly, somewhere high
above his head, robin sang clear
and gay. The sound brought back to
him a country church-himself rest
less little boy, sitting at his mothers
side, and suddenly growing calm as to-
gether they got to their feet and re-
peated in unison with the rest the
Lords Prayer.
Lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil" 1t rang in his
ears like the voice of friend. He
had flung himself face down upon
messy turf. Instantly he was up, and
racing back toward the Morris home
fast as his feet could go. There he
burst in upon Milly and Betty. wild
eyed and white-faced, but Joyous in
deed. told them everything no
reserve even over his temptation and
how he had been saved from it, and
wound up with: NOW my soul is at
peace; 1 can dance and be happy. Let
things stand until tomorrow, pieaSe.
1t would be cruel, almost inhuman,
TO spring a sensation such as this, and
eclipse Aunt Harriet's party"
1--WE would never, never do thai"
Miliy said joyously. "She hates me
enough as it is-because Billy likes me.
She thinks, as do, he is quite wasted
on me. Indeed she said to him when
he told her we were engaged: "Oh,
YOU idiot! Why didn't you take BettyT'
Billy asked himself that question be-
fore the party was over. He got home
an hour before the guests assembled.
BETTY was easily far and away the
star of them. All in hlmy white, with
strands Of dull red coral at her throat
and twined in her solden hair, she
was SO ravishing it is small wonder
RiIly's callow heart wavered. In the
third waltz he capitulated-lost his
head entirely, and was only saved
from making himself a pretty spectacle
by Betty's superior poise. Betty was
sbrewdly observant-she had read
Hardy's face like an open book while
he waltzed with AIilly. So she man
aged it that the four Of them should
meet in a shrubby nook outside the
dancing tent. There things straighten-
ed themselves, with hardly word
spoken. But next day, with the great
news of SIilly's fortune, the world
heard that she had lost lover and
gained a brother In Billy Graham
San Francisco Gail.
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Yes, III You Do Ii Daily.

/ ran hard to overtake a street car
recently and asked physician upon
the car whether it was a safe thing
to do. Yes" he replied, If you do it
every day" Here is point in regard
to vigorous exercise. If we practice
running daily we strengthen the heart
and lungs and no injury is done, pro-
viding we start moderately. But if we
make a desperate run only once a
month we are liable to overtax the
heart, and if the heart is not; in
healthy condition are liable to lose our
lives. 1t is possible for a human being
TO endure great strain. great cold, g-aat
heat, or great misfortunes of every
kind providing he accuStoms himself to
such changes gradually. The firemen
in the holds of ocean steamers endure
for hours at a time heat in which
those unaccustomed would perish in
q short time The Esquimaux of the
north can lead comfortable life for
long periods where an ordinary man
unaccustomed to the cold would soon
perish. The lesson is then that what
ever changes we make we should
make moderately, thus accustonlng
ourselves to the change 1t is advised
that consumptives and others should
sleep outdoors. or in rooms with tie
window well raised even on cold
nights. but remember that this change
must not be made suddenly from a hot
room 10 excessive cold.
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Incendiarism is due to one OF ts1en-
ty motives, says DIR. ]. A. Fowler. a
scientist of repute, who has Analysed
and classified these destructive per
sons as one analyses and Classics bee
Ties and moths. twenty heads under
which inceDdiaries fall are. according
TO DR.. Fowler, insurance policy hold
ers, incendiaries for a gain other than
insurance, revenge. those that had
been discharged, malicious servants.
rioters. trsnps. thieves who wish to
conceal teir thefts, to create an OPP
pOrtunity for theft. murderers, to con-
ceal murder or TO de murder. mischiev-
ous boys or girls. incendiaries who seek
an offered reward. conspIrators who
seek to terrify by fire, momentary rage,
drunkards. hremen seeking to enhance
their regulations. criUlinally careless
bonfire kindlers. handlers OF fireworks.
and criminally careless manufacturers
of kerosene.
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erty for five years before getting IT,
tie, after which he may dispose of 1t
as he sees 1T On the basis of the
present compilation the cost will be
about SGT an acre.
The government officials have no
fear that the irrigated land will not be
taken up by homesteders. They fully
expect TO sell all the land. No effort
will be made to realize a profit, the
idea being to recover the actual cost Of
building and operating the irrigation
bitches. The proceeds from the sale
Of these lands will be turned into the
reclamation fund, to be used for sim
ilar work in new regions. The S27, O0O,-
GOO to complete the IA projects thus far
approved was realized through the sale
of public lands in arid States and Ter
ritories since the adoption of the irri-
cation act in June 1901. The actual
proceeds have been about $4,000, 900,
but Secretary Hitchcock thinks he is
safe in mortga ging future receipts to
the extent Of 100000.
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An old-school Gentleman.

A leap year joke, thrice refined, re-
Gently appeared in the New York
Press. A white-haired, infirm old man
stood wedged between other standing
folk in a crowded Broadway car. Ev-
cry seat was occupied, and for a time
no one paid any attention to him.
At last a little girl, whose golden
hair fell in waves over handsome vel-
vet coat, noticed the old man clinging
to the strap. Without a word to her
mother, who sat beside her, she rose
and gently plucked the sleeve Of Lis
coat
Wont you take my seet" she said
The old man looked at her sweet,
upturned face and hesitated for a mo-
ment Then he barred his snowy head
and bowed low.
MY little lady he said. Il thank
you. 1 shall accept your offer because
It is leap year"
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nopolizing the sites to the exclusion
of home seekers.
The average cost Of the irrigation
schemes is about 100000. The two
that are considered the most impor-
tant. one on Salt River. IN Arizona.
and another at Truckegee, New. viii
each cost S3,0O0oo0.
The list of approved projects to date
is as follows: Arizona. Salt River.
s.. 600. 600; California Yuma. $1,000
900; Colorado. Gunnison. $500. 600;
Idaho. AIinidoka. 100000; Montana,
Milk River. 81 SOC. 900; Nebraska. Path
finder, $1,000. 900; Nevada. Truckegee,
$1,000. 900: New Mexico. HOMO. $780,
900: North Dakota. Fort Buford.
s., 200. 900; Oregon. Umatilia. under
survey; Oregon, Ma!heur. $1,000. 900;
South Dakota, BelIefourche, $2,100.-
coo; Utah. Utah Lake. $1,000. 600;
Washington. Big Bend. S1,5O0,O0O;
Wyoming. Cody. s2.250.0O0.
It requires very little capital to ac-
ouire ownership IN one Of these irTigat-
I'd farms. The land is open to entry
under the homestead Laws. Practically
no charge is made. the homesteader
being required to pay to the govern
ment In ten annual instafiments the
actual pro rata cost OF irrigation. He
must reside upon and improve bis prop
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initiated by the red man. If personal
appeal for credit does not avail, he
unusually attempts written one.
The following Is a copy of a letter
written by Mark Long Pumpkin, who
acquired some knowledge of the Eng
lish language as one of the government
boarding schools which he attended
for a few years:
big Turkey Camp, Wososo, S. Oak.
MY Dear Trader l shake my hands
with you with a good heart, sir. You
know / am your honesty friend and
now | would like to owed you some
things. This is what l owed you for:
A blue pants for $50, just one per-
fume % cents worth, a coffee for so
cents and one gum to chew for I've
cents worth. Now for this you can
have charge against me always on
paper, and 1 paid you when l sold my
cattle. Your truly honesty friend,
"Mr Mark Long Pumpkin"
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much to be dangerous as point Of
attack, and the bank, on which the
fort stood. too high for intruding
floods.
Approaching from the Madison
County side, one winds down the
rugged hill, over the smooth, macad-
amized pike, much in the same path
that the pioneer used in returning from
the hunt in the wilderness to the west
1t is wild, picturesque spot, and when
one has descended to the waters edge
and observes the towering hills on all
sides, covered by the self-same trees
that hid the warriors of pioneer days,
a feeling of kinship and sympathy
with the brave souls who dwelt there
steals over one unawares.
In the dead of night, standing on
the bank of the stream, or in the
shadow of the majestic sycamores
which line the waters edge on either
side, one can almost see in the uncer-
tain, Pickering moonlight, the stealthy,
silent approach of warning Indians in
birchbark canoes. The cry Of prowliEg
fox or inquisitive hound on the slopes
above lead us unconsciously to listen
for the blood-curdling yell and crash
ing of brush by the hands of midnight
marauders who made life interesting
for the settlers One can but admire
and respect the fortltude and courage
shown by these men and their wives,
living here in the midst OF all these
unknown dangers, cut off by 800 miles
of unbroken forest from succor Of any
kind. For this was the picket line OF
advance into the wilderness, and their
own strength and courage must needs
defend them against all danger else
they perish, for no friendly hand vas
stretched out to aid them, and none
was closer than the settlements in Old
Virginia, too far away to be counted
on.
Until the smoke from anothcr's
chimney, far over the bills TO the
north, warned the Indian fighter that
civilization was fast crowding on his
heels Boone and his little band lived
strenuous life, laboring with the
wilderness and the Indians. But the
man loved adventure and danger, and
the proximity of so many white men
robbed the wilderness Of Its romance.
The restless spirit was depressed by
the peaceful quiet Of settlers life.
and so he gathered together his follow
ers and turned once more to the West,
to the great Mississippi valley, where
new lands were to be explored end
new conquests to be made, leaving to
posterity the glorious country he had
opened to settlement.
Inside the leveled ruins OF this first
stockgde to be built In the old COM
monwealth visitors may observe
grateful States testimonial to her
great PIONEER. Hard by the Old fort
II. the welcome shade OF the few re-
naming trees OF ancient lineage, he
may drink with the pioneer at the old
spring without apprehension of attack
from lurking savage 1t will always
be place of interest to Kentuckians.
The last Legislature has honored Itself
and Kentucky by thus honcring the
great pioneer A miniature reproduce
ton of the old fort has been placed on
exhibition at the st. Louis Worlds
Fair By the Boonesboro Chapter of the
Daughters Of the Revolution.
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The housekeeper who has known
what It Is to have unexpected guests
will no doubt find sympathy yelling
within her heart at the plight of a
woman In a Western town.
Her husband had asked her TO show
some kindness to a young officer of he
militia to whom he had taken fancy.
She therefore dispatched note, In
which she said: Mrs. Brown requests
the pleasure of Captain Whites CON-
pany at supper on Wednesday even
ing"
she received a prompt and joyful
reply, which read: with the exception
Of the men who have other engage
ments, Captain Whites company win
come with pleasure"
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TO HONOR DANIEL RooNE.
Monument to BE Erected to the Pioneer
Kentuckian's Memory.

kentuckian's Memory.
Among the bills passed by the last
Kentucky Legislature, that providing
Tor the erection of Ii monument at
Boonesboro, to the memory of the
great pioneer, Daniel Boone, is most
praiseworthy and appropriate. 1t will
De hitting testimonial to the sterling
worth OF great man, who braved the
dangers of the unbroken forest 10
years ago and planted here the seed
or progress. 1t was he who blazed
the trail over the hills and through tho
wilderness from Virginia. and led
more peaceably inclined settlers into
this garden spot Of earth. To him IL
due the credit of discoverer and ex-
plorer.
There is much Of the romantic to
be observed at Boonesboro: much 10
remind the twentieth century youth
of the turbulent life led by the pioneer
and his little band down here under
the hills by the waters edge. The
winding river, gliding noiselessly by,
between the steep. rugged hills; tho
remnants Of the great forest which
once spread its towering branches
over all the landscape; the ever faith
full spring, gurgling up from the roots
Of massive sycamore, placidly and
freely as in the days when hostile In
dams lurked in the underhrush, tend,
to impress one with the magnificencs
of nature and the magnitude OF
Boone ssundertaking
He was no commonplace man. and
this no commonplace spot One can
but admire the wisdom shown by its
selection. 1t commands an unobstruct-
ed view of the river. either way, for
half a mile; the hilltops receding TOD
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The LuxurY of Deht.

Since the Indian has laid down his
temahawk and come in off the war
path, the post traders store on an In
dian reservation has become the gen
eral gathering place where the white
and red man meet on common level
with feeling of good fellowship.
With the Indians adoption Of the
white mans civilization has come the
adoption Of his evils. The proneness
of the white man to purchase beyond
his ability to pay has been speedily
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From The World to-day

through as many States and Terrific
ries. 1t is estimated that something
like 100000 acres of land that is now
utterly worthless for grazing and agri-
cultural purposes will be converted
into fertile and productive farms upon
the completion Of the government
dams and reservoirs contemplated in
the irrigation projects
According to the statements of the
men in charge of the undertakings
new homes for thousands of families
will be thrown open for entry on pub
lie lands in the course Of the next
year or two. The charges for these
homesteads will be nominal, and every
precaut1on will be taken to prevent
syndicates of land grabbers from mo-
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tary has approved them. The expendi-
ture contemplated by this work not
only exhausts the fund now on hand
for enterprises of this kind. but mort
cages for several years TO come all re-
ceipts for irrigation PURPOSES.
Fourteen projects have been adopt
ed by Secretary Hitchcock, scattered
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an lmnrovernent.

ne boasts that be came from q
good family"
well. | don't doubt that it's good
deal better slice he came from t.
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