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year, and every part of every day, ex-
ceDt in the communion Office.

year, and every part of every day, ex-
cept in the communion Office.
The average pay of n parish priest Is
about 1900. Bishops have about f5Oo,
and metropolitan. who corresponds
to our primate, fl,C00 per annum.
There are no state endowments. | he
lieve. the incomes heing derived from
collections of fees, for no priest will
perform even the most trifing office
without payment.
The Russian clergy have no social
standing; better class of Russian
would not eat at table with the parish
priest: in fact, they occupy the place
CT our own clergy occupied about, say,
the fourteenth century.
Sermons are rarely preached in the
Russian churches. There are book
OF homilies from which the clergy may
read, but these homilies are so very
lengthy, ornate and elaborate that the
people refuse to listen to them. AS n
rule, the clergy are too ignorant to
compose their own sermons, ana even
If they do compose them they must
first be sent to the consistory for APP
proval, because the government is de-
termined to stamp out heresy. The
consistory is in no hurry to return the
sermons and often several weeks or
more may pass before they do So con
sequently the clergy as a rule leave
preaching severely alone. The Russian
priests never pay parochial visits ex-
cept to beg; the result is that they
have never gained the confidence OF
good will of the laity.
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est roof garden IN the world. !. 400 feet

est roof garden IN the world. LOO feet
above the sidewalk. which is so high
that every other. roof Garden will look
like pigmy patch of light without
form or substance. III you are an as
tronomer you will find all the para
phernalia for the study of the heavens
at such close range that you will hard
ly need a telescope. And, above all,
there will be the necessary precautions
to prevent YOU jumping Off If you are
one of those persons who get that i'm
pulse whenever they reach the top of
a high place.
Although virtually nothing has been
known of this remarkable project ex-
cept by those most intimately asso-
progressed that in all likelihood it will
be an accomplished fact III n reason
ably short time. Several of the most
influential capitalists in New York
have taken it up and have been so
much impressed with it that the vast
sum required for it is practically
ready and actual work will probably
begin before the winter sets in. So
thoroughly has the scheme been
worked out that the whole structure
can be completed and ready for use
within year after the beginning of
the operation.
In design the tower will be entirely
novel. Its main part is to be cylin.
dricnl, in the form of a shaft of thir.
| ty-five feet inside diameter, the lower
300 feet reinforced by system OF
ribs, while the largest outside diam
eter will he 40 feet. Balconies fol
the accommodation of visitors will be
provided at various heights, and the
highest platform accessible to the pub
lie will be 1000 feet above the street
level, where there will be space fol
as many MS 1000 persons at one time
According to present plans. eight ell
evators will run In the main shaft
with Il capacity of about 1,250 per
sons every hour. The main platform
however, where there will be roo
| garden that can he inclosed when tll,
necessity arises. will be LOO feet high
Here there will be refresllment stands
a post office, telegraph Office. publ,
telephones, toilet rooms and about ev
erything else that modern exigencie.
demand. while well-informed guide!
| will be in attendance TO point ont ant
explain the wonderful views from
/ every side and to furnish field glasse
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WORLDS HIGHEST TOWER.


tuc uuSement OF New OTkeTbs
Original always aud in all things,
New York is soon to have the oldest
amusement enterprise on the face of
the earth. in the shape of n tower
taller than any structure i'll the world
and equipped with IL larger variety of
combined entertainments and utilities
than anything that has ever existed
for the editication of the millions who
are constantly and hungrily seeking
new pleasures.
Called 1.-The Weber Tower" after Its
designer. Carl Weber, one of the best
known experts in the matter of tai
steel-concrete constructions, the build
ing will be unique in many ways, and
when it has been erected, either In one
of the parks of Manhattan, or III some
equally prominent spot. 1t Will I'M
questionably be one of the foremost
attractions of the metropolis.
In the first place. it will reach the
enormous height of / go feet. just 25S
feet taller than the Eiffel tower in
Paris, and more than twice as tall as
the Washington monument, winch,
with $50 feet. is mt present the high
est permanent structure in the world.
1t will SO far Overtop everything in
New York that comparison is idle. the
Park Row building, which now holds
pre-eminencc. being only 3S2 feet high.
and the ST. Paul building, ranking
second, having but 30S feet. In Eu-
rope. after the Eiffel tower. there is
only the Tim Cathedral. with 52S feet,
but this Is eXcelled by the City Hall
In Philadelphia, with 54S feet.
Height alone. however, will not be
the chief Recommendation of the Web
or tower. 1t will be II skyscraper of
universal Invitation. If you are n
business man you will be able to rent
offices inside Its tall bnt lofty
stretches. If Won want an evenings
frolic You will be escorted to the high
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country is calculated, one can not
help wondering how 1t is possible to
consume such vast number of ZEN
ellis
Some of the pencils are "made In
Germany, but of the entire number
that Americans use nine-tenths are of
home manufacture. \ considerable
quantity of this article is also ex-
ported as well as imported. The pen
ell factories of the United States en-
ploy upward of 1900 persons, paying
them about 100000 in wages every
year. Americas annual output of
pencils is worth 100000.
The wood most commonly sought
for making pencils is Virginia or red
cedar. which grows abundantly in the
South. especially in Alabama ana
Florida. Europe, having nothing MS
good among its own trees for pencil
covering as Virginia cedar obtains its
supply of this material from the Unit.
ed States. But the American manu-
facturer is compelled to go abroad for
the graphite contained in pencils
/ Mexico. Bohemia, Ceylon and Siberia
yield the best qualities of graphite
The preparation Of graphite, of which
| with clay, pencil lead consists, is IN
| important industry in itself, md II
has its home in Germany.
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Tclepathic Prayer.

A remarkable story of the Boer war
was recently told by dissenting min
lister. ut Hanley. During the struggle
in South Africa n father prayed daily
for his son. who was at the front. One
night. moved by IL strange impulse the
elder man felt constrained to remain
in prayer until the morning. The next
mail brought news of what had hap
pened OH that particular night. The
son was on that date taken out of hos
pital where he had been down with
enteric, and placed in the mortuary
among the dead. The hospital doctor,
however, was possessed of Il peculiar
uneasiness and could not rest Going to
the nurse w..o had ordered the removal
of the body. he asked IL she was sure
the patient was dead. notwithstanding
her assertion to that effect, the doctor
proceeded to the mortuaiy. to find that
after all there was still breath in the
supposed dead body. The patient was
taken back to the hospital, and eventu-
~ ,.anprara1
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as the sun comes out in the morning 1t
disappears almost instantly,

There is a peculiar railway down
here. 1t is The only one l know of in
this country over which no passes are
issued. Everybody except the conduc-
tor and the train crew--even the pres
ident himself.has to pay fare. and
round-trip ticket over the entire sys-
TEN costs $3.50. The railroad is ninety
miles long. 1t has no stations except
the terminals at Williams, where ii
connects with the Santa Fe, and at the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 1t has
no side tracks except one to allow the
trains to pass. There are four passen.
ger trains a day, two in each direction.
made up of a baggage car and two
coaches and through Pullmans from
Kansas City and Los Angeles twice n
week. There are no freight trains ana
10 freight is carried except water and
other supplies for the hotels at the
Grand Canyon. The road depends upon
passenger traffic alone. That is the rea-
son why passes are not given. There
are no switchmen in the employ 7of
the company and the pay roll carries
only twelve names, including conduc
tors. engineers, tiremcn. ticket agents
and all concerned, and the track is
kept in order Ivy FIVE section gangs OF
ten men each, who are now rebuilding
it from the bottom with new ties, new
rails and ballast of volcanic cinilers
Shall not try to describe the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado. Few pens are
brave enough to attempt it, and none
is equal to the task. Famous writers
have described the canyon with fine
wora-painting, hut none conveys more
than n meager idea of what the can
| You looks like; and it seldom looks the
same from hour to hour. With every
shifting cloud its outlines and colors
seem to alter. AS the sun rises and
sets in the heavens its majestic out.
lines change like the scenes of pan
Drama. You NAV sit on the rim from
breakfast TO dinner, gazing over the
same area. and see dozen picture.
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RELIGION OF RUSSIA.
Peculiarities of the Church of Which
the Gar Is the Head

Peculiarities of the Church of Which
the Car Is the Head.
Confession is enjoincd in the Rus
sian church, but is rot performed as
satisfaction offered TO God, says the
Church of Ireland Gazette.
No candidate for holy orders viii be
ordained until he is married. This of
course, refers to the secular clergy
The monastic orders must he cclibates
must first renounce his orders. a GU
rious inconsistency is that no prlestIas
long as his wife is alive can attain {;
hishoprir, because NIL bishops must be
unmarried.
In the eucharist the priest receive.
the brea,l and wine separately. where
as the laity receive both element.
mixed together, from a spoon. stand
ihg. The sacrament Is also admins
tered to Infants. but they receive the
wine only. lest they might reject til,
bread.
Baptism is most elaborate cere
mony and takes forty days before it i
complete. 1t includes triple immersion
the cbrism, ana tonsure of the infant
hair In the shape of cross. The sacra
ment of JUNCTION differs from the sim
liar sacrament in the Roman church
being, as it is, administered even t.
those who are slightly i'll, whereas tn
Church of Rome only gives it in al
/
chance of recovery.
The services in the Russian churcl
are most elaborate. This is eviuen
from the fact that the ritual aud sci
vices occupy twenty folio volume,
Service is performed at least tire
times daily, and the greatest part O
the service varies every dayi in th
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differing m color and intensity. 1t is
n stupendous intaglio. carved In the
silent desert by the Colorado River,
and the rain and winds. 1t is like an
inverted mountain range, PHI miles
long, reaching a depth of 1880 feet,
with a series of depresslons averaging
COCO feet chiseled out of the earth by
the erosion of ages.
II is the generally accepted theory
that this great cllasm is solely the
work of water--of the foods that
come down from the mountains every
spring and summer--but Mr., Ordonez,
n distinguished Mexican geologist. who
came here not long ago, made sug-
gestion which may not be entirely
new but is worth mentioning. 1t is
his idea that, while the earth was cool
ing, the soil and the rocks contracte
and split Il deep ana wide fissurc in
the surface of the plateau. and that Its
sides have since been worn down and
polished hy the action of the water
That seems reasonable
There are various places along the
rim from which splendid Views of the
canyon may be obtained. Each is diff
ferent. Each has Its own glories; bu,
what is known as the Grand View Is
the best, because from that promon
tory the eye has a wider vista, a dou
bic view: there the canyon curves
| around like a monstrous serpent, and
one can follow II n distance of nearly
| eighty miles. Thomas Moran paintet
his famous pictures from what i,
known as Moran's Point. He thinks
the colors of the rocks and the clay,
appear more brilliant there than else
where.
You can wander nlong the rim 70
sixty miles. There is no obstruction
for all that distance. and you can lool
down mile into the bowels of til,
earth,--Willlam Curtis, In Chlcag
Record Herald.
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Pushing the Ola Folks Aside

When the babies are cross and n
man would like quiet retreat there
is none for him. But in few years.
when the children are grown and he
is in the way, the daughters and
mother put their heads together and
originate II den. There Is no den for
the mother because She gracefully
eliminates herself by sitting in the
kitchen or running over to n neigh.
boris. Ii is her natural disposition to
hide in Il corner or remove herself en-
t.rely. and it is not the natural disposi-
ton Of the father. Hence the den. 1t
has n couch and some pipes and to-
bacco and the books which the neigh
bors haven't got around to borrowing
as yet, though II father begins Il story
to-day the book will be found to De
loaned out when lie wants to finish 1t
tomorrow. The den is Il fashionable
way of pushing the old man out. II
there is one in your house. Mr.. Man,
don't be deceived. Kan,
Globe
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MAaITlME wosLp.s Fam.
Robert Fulton Anniversary VIII Re
Nfe,nornb G Occasio,,

Robert Fulton Anniversary VIII Re a
Memorial c Occasion.
Plans are being made in New York
II celebrate two years hence the cen
tcnary of the Use of steam in naviga-
ton by the holding Of what would
seem to be n sort of maritime worlds
fair. says the Cleveland Plain Dealer
On Aug 4. 1907, Robert Fulton's Cler-
mont made her epoch-making voyage
OH the Hudson which revolutlonized
sea commerce and sea warfare The
C!ermont was not the first steamboat,
for attention is now being called to an
interesting coincidence which should
give the proposed celebration double
significance. In 1907 1t will be Just
POO years since the Frenchman. Papin,
drove crude steamboat on the river
Fulda. But though the Clermont was
not the first steamship, she marked at
all events the beginning of steam nav
| igation, and it will not detract from
her inventors fame to recall that the
centennial celebration in his honor will
be also n bicentenary in marine annals.
New York is, of course, the place of
all others for the observance 81 the
anniversary, for not only was the
| Clermont's momentons voyage made in
| its waters. but the city is the foremost
port in the new world, and has, more.
over, in its grand bay and two great
rivers, natural setting unsurpassed
anywhere OH earth for maritime
spectacle such as is contemplated.
The affair should with the most per
feet propriety he OF an industrial
rather than military character AM
celebrate the victories of peace rather
than those of war, for the revolution
in naval warfare followed necessaril,
from Clermont's performance 1t i,
proposed, however. to ask Admira
1 Togo to attend nor would this be with
out its special fitness. for Togo Is The
greatest naval warrior in the day O
steam. as Nelson was in the day OF
sails The presence of the victor /,
the only great naval battle since steam
was applied to ships would he NOR,
than an interesting feature of wha
should he made II really remarkable
and truly International occasion.
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WONDER OF NATURE.
GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA A
MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE.
Sublime Scenery Laid Out by Nature
Holds Man in Its spc i Great Chasm
Miles Across Is Mecca for the
Tourist.

The Grand Canyon of Arizona is
within government forest reservation
sixty by eighty miles In size. About
two-thilds of it is OH the eastern and
the other third on the western side.
The timber is in fairly good condition.
There was Il bad fire two wears ago
which ruined several hundred acres OF
fine forest, but there is little danger
of its recurrence because of the vigil.
ance of Captain Fenton. the superin-
tedent, and his corps of foresters.
1t is thirteen miles from one rim of
the canyon TO that on the opposite side
and there are two trails by which the
western side may be reached. One of
them, the Bright Angel Trail, is oppo-
site the new hotel and although it is
eighteen or twenty miles to the top
the climb Is comparatively easy. 1t
Follows stream of clear. pure cold
water which comes t,lInbling down a
narrow canyon on the western side.
and Major Powell during his frs,
memorable exploration of the CANYON
called 1t the Bright Angel River be
cause IT was such a grateful discovery
Captain Fenton says that the coun-
try OH the western side of the canyon
is much better than that on the east.
ern side; that the tinker is larger and
thicker water is more abundant. and
there are great many deer and Other
big game. The forest reserve include.
| striD of thirty milos ,lono III, oj ,,e
of the canyon. and west of that, to the
| Utah line, the land has been taken III
| by Mormon rnnclmen. who have lars.
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when required. Another novel fea-
TIRE VIII be provision for United
States weather observatory. which will
he higher than any now in use, as
well as several rooms applicable to
private scientific research.
From the base of the tower up to
the 30O-foot balcony there Will be
eighteen stories. some of which will
be utilized for office purposes and some
for entertainment There will be am
pie room for a theater. as well as for
museum and other exhibitions. AS
n matter of fact. half IL dozen distinct
entertainment enterprises may be in
cluded in this great space without con-
fltct, The second floor, however, will
be reserved for n restaurant of the
first class. with about 10000 square
feet Of floor space. and, of course. the
most up-to-date improvements in the
way of comfort and decorative effect
On the lower floor there will be
stores but only such as Will be in har.
mony with the purposes of the entire
edifice. and here also will be located
the electric machinery for the opera
ton of the elevators and the power
for the light, heat, ventilation. an.
paratus, and so on, although this will
be of such n magnitude that part of
1t will go below the main stairway.
Although details of the architectural
ornamentation have not yet been per-
fected, it is promised that the ell
frances especially will be extraordi.
narily elaborate, with marble columns,
spacious stairways, promenades recep-
ton rooms and other features of lux.
Jury and splendor. So far as may be
possible this effect of richness will be
striven for from the base of the build
ing to the top of the tower.
Whatever other attractions the build
ing may contain, the top OF it will be
the greatest. by reason of the i'm
mense height and the magnificent view
to be had there. to say nothing of the
| quality of the air In my kind of
weather Before the eyes of the spec
| tator there will lie the whole city of
! New York, the Atlantic Ocean as far
as the sight can reach, the Hudson
river and the surrounding country to
n distance of $50 miles. 1t has been
estimated that the view will take In a
territory of 10000 square miles.
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PACIFIC CABLE LINES EXTENDED.

eH1ons CHINA
the
Wf the signing NJ
landing
rights
the
begun John W. Mackay
Congress- but always met deea until President Mckinley
cable
of
In 1901 Mr. Clarence
lay the cable private enterprise unsubdzed
His eventually
Philippines China and japan
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The Inn: An Old Epltapt..

NC INH' M VIu GpItapH'
Postnaste we ride the road of men
From shadow through to shade again,
But rein, to breathe or tighten girth,
At that old inn yclept THE Earth"
There some delay to dine and sup.
While some but taste stirrup,cup;
And some have ease and ample fare,
And some find little comfort there.
His score is large who bides day;
Who soonest goes hath least to pay.
Arthur Guiterman, in the New York
Times.
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=
MAKING OF LEAD PENCILS.

Vas Industry Conducted in This Coun-
try aud in Germany.
The number of pencils used in the
United States annually, il divided
evenly. would leave only two for each
one of It's population. a pair of pen
ellis year would he a small allow
ance for those requiring them every
day. Yet, at this rate, when the total
of about l60,000,0oO for the whole
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Serpent immune from It's Venom.
One of the most important things
about serpent venom Is that each
species seems to he immune to its own
poison. II Il snake is inoculated with
its own venom 1t remains unaffected.
NJ. e. Phisalix. who has done so much
on this subject finds experimental evil
dence that this immunity is to be ut
tributed to the presence in the blood
of free antitoxin. This neutralizes
the poison as it is introduced.
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(9S! S${s{y}g!|s )
a. aaNNas1
THE BROOK

lf1E BhIiOh.
Rushing down the mountain tumblinG
through the vale,
Sprinkling all the land about with
spray,
Sliding under boulders which dot tho
hill and dale,
A little mountain brooklet pushed
its way.
1t helped to turn the mill-wheel Of
the mill upon the bank,
1t made some pools where children
love to be.
1t helped the merry fisher as hin
hook and line he sank,
And it whispered as it ran into tho
sea:
I'm glad helped the miller, and
made the children dance.
And I'm glad made the fisher mers
ry be;
I'm glad did bit of work when once
had the chance,
And now I'm glad I've made .
larger sea-" st. Nicholas.
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Ten-car trains, drawn by an cleo:
trio locomotive, are to run on the
twenty.mile track between Los An
geles and the Pacific Ocean shore.
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How Long Is n week?.

oh, yes. he's very careful about
himself and his clothes. Why, he. can
weara collar /. whole week long"
Gee whiz, lie must have an awful
long neck Philadelphia Press.
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Almost every little stream In rural
France has wash houses On ito hsakk
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New job for Him.

Have you Lost = Twenty four
hours'?' asked the old lady of the new
clerk In the book store.
mo, lady" he replied, Il amt had
time. ! only came here to-day Phil
adelphia Press.
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There are some people who affect
you very much us tl,a sight of Il water
melon on II cold day.
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For Purposes Of Identification
Nell-Did you speak French when
you were In Paris?
Belle-Only enough TO let them
know that was an American.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
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: History says a mans sins will and
him out; but men continue to bet that
they won't,
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The automobile has taken = strong
hold in Peru
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True love is founded gu the rock O
reverence.