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' Pffy j u,t' Preeldent and Qnanl Herri tt deliberately nmi unkindly kicked the" - . t- I 1 Skmfsn'i lillO U " toti'K ,ttrK,,," of volunteers. Filipino out. In tills Install. v hot ' ftiir '5' trf ' 'Q ml '7 111 I in f with a leaven of regulars to steady the headed determination set ulde all 7 ?j2.ejr- i5k i nii ll I ' 'nmP' 11 waa supposed that there rules of warfare. Viewed In n regular f'SL .T - ; - - V - g iiVv , U, ..(&' -k 1 Ui'siW ' w"uM ,H "nly a m""""'r i,l,-,,u' f"r 1,10 wn-v- ,hi' malted were beaten, bul J5. ;tt' --e-. rfe ll J f'Tiner, with the latter needed only for Irrepressible pitching lu defied all mnr- 5g?jS -""a 52nr- ,,' ' I'Hef garrison duty until tlm ball Waa tlal strictures, and the day wus won. " VC-a ., ih l Wl1 f .(Ml) "vt'r so It fame alioiit that the army In like manner, when Anderson wni '3-' jgjjjV' g f ' " I iA of occupation of the Philippines was .attaeked hy Augustl ou Aug. 3, thlek " - ' FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. MANY PRfcSENT-DAY CELEURI TltS THfcN UNKNOWN. in ttip Karlj i IghtUa font of Ttaoa N.i on the Top l'rrt nf FaSBS VVrrc Toilinu in Comparative ' overly Bad DbocBritjft OW well volunteers have borne il. I. runt of battle line the war with Spain began Ih now a mat- r..r historv. A recapiiuuraon or me ,ln ezploltl of our armies In Cuba !! Pblllpplnei shows at once uow ..ii.lhllv this contingent as upneiu m ii-i... ti... i . ... illilliii'"1 viiiciicii. "-" ......... I 1 1. da loit-lu.r tlli ople eogerl clamored to lie led to front, nnil when war was nciuuny telared the response to the call to was ten-fold greater than tne lis. Twenty-live inotiHanu regular i natter how brave, skillful and disciplined -oonld not ba a match br ton times that number of trained egulnrs fighting under the banner of astllt', nml. from the beginning or lillltiirr operations to the volunteer Li ,'ciiiio a glowing share of the glory If daring, patient, effective work well lOBf. The Aral fierce fight of Los Quaslmas r;i . : gaged in ny Western volunteers coiijiinctlou with negro regulars. these nun were practically without nsrience cavalry, but dismounted nd forced to plunge through a Cuban knitli1 In the face of a hot lire. Wood's kugb riders led the fierce charge. The li'D sere away from home in an tin- Mdly climate, which In Itself was hnVlcut to enervate them. Hut they fujlit and won. Regular army of ers, who scorned the national guard bil nastily organized volunteers, Open- I their eyes in wonder to see the "inln- le men conscripts or tne M est give e truculent dons their "trimmings ' approved measure! The men who rut to l'orto ltleo with Miles wore of same class with no previous ex- rtence umler fire. Yet all the fight- that amounted to anything was e by Illinois and Ohio men. not of regular army. Hennltt's Third Hil ls had never said much, but It Bgbt, and wept that peace was de- fcred Just as they had things nicely ked "to smash the dons!" The Philippine situation Is worth go- ; over In detail to analyze the tlght ; mettle that has been shown by our pv men. Dewey won tne tirst ngnt here -o easily that nobody thought en' would be another battle. As the ordered enemy took heart, however, tne President and General Merrltt madf up a force largely of volunteers, with u leaven of regulars to steady the lump. It was supposed that there would be only a summer picnic for the former, with the latter needed only for brief gnrriaon duty until the ball was over. So It eama uliout that the army of occupation of the Philippines was made up of 7."i per cent, of volunteers. Of sixteen regiment of these only one was from the Baal and South respec tively. The others were all Western, representing California. Kansas. North Iiakotu, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, South Dakota, Colorado, Minnesota, Nebraska. Oregon, Washington, Iowa, and Utah all from west of UM big river. These men had only that train ing at arms that comes from having a pistol as a regular article of tollot. Ninety per cent, of them had never been organized as regiments. Without being drilled, within two months after concentration ninny of them were aboard transports und on their way to Manila. Five expeditions, with nearly 17,iKH) troops, reached the capital of Luzon by the middle of June. No drilling could be Indulged In on the troop ships, but little time was giyen after debarkation for such things. Hut they were there to oust the Spanish, and ten days after arrival this raw ma terial was engaged In a deadly strug gle. Under the most terrifying c II tlons of night and a whirlwind of tem pest and rain they repulsed the enemy and covered their States with glory. No denial of the lunate fighting iual Itles of these men of the nation bad ever been made, but all regular officers held that much training was Deo M " to render them steady under fire, and enduring In a sickly cllmnte. Yet these raw levies, fresh from counting-house ami farm, accustomed to all kinds of good things to eat and drink, buckled down to army rations In a land IO.ismi miles from home, took the good with the bad, and lacked not one whit of the steadiness of regulars. The first sortie of consequence by the I'lllpluo was on Feb. 3. It consisted of a preconcerted attack at a dozen dif ferent place on Otis' Hues, and was as skillfully planned nB any fight ever made, but It was soon turned Into a disgraceful rout. Our volunteers did not know that under the rules of war the were licked at the start. Hence it came about that Instead of retreat ing these hardy Westerners hopped over the fronts of their trenches and made for those occupied by Aguln aldo' men, three time their number. They simply took them. Tin y wanted the waterworks, and from the vicinity delltH-rately and unkindly kicked the Filipino out. In till Instance hot headed determination et aside all rule of warfare. Viewed In a regular way, the assailed were beaten, but Irrepressible pitching lu defied all mar tial stricture, and the day was won. In like manner, w hen Anderson wa .attacked by Angustl on Aug. 3, thick weather prevented the regiments from knowing that In a tactical point of view they were a good lis wiped out. Hut they pressed on diligently, fought their way post obstacles, half realized at the time, by sheer force of pluck -system and scientific skill out of the question. When Miller lundcd at Hollo with his handful of lowan he seemed to have committed ulelde. He faced a bunch of Filipinos ten times his num ber, and well armed and well disciplin ed. Yet he kept the town, and when lli.- Tehllessi ,- r. glinctit w as add. d I" his force, w ith a part of the Third art 11 lery, he went Into the country looking for a fight. He found one, and, to the chagrin of nil military strategists, from Charles Martel down to Kitchener of Khartoum, he won It. He had no right to do anything of the kind, but he did, and there Is an end to the discussion that risl htpa and Ironclad rules have anything to do with real enthusiasm ami victory. What Is aimed at here Is to express what "Teddy" Koosevelt, "Joe" Wheel er and others nlllrm: the volunteer of America Is a fighting machine who Im bibes practical skill with salt pork, iK'an soup, black coffee and bad bread. He does not need a course of sprouts at any school of technical war Instruction If he can get the real thing lu front of him. Lacking regular training, he d.ws the best lie can, coolly realizing all his advantages ami marching up to the point where he con do the most effi tlve shooting. He mokes use of w hat skill he hos, ond then drops the whole science of war to find out who is shoot ing at him and how quickly ho cult shoot bock. A great deal of Jungle skirmishing has marked the Ftllpluo conflict. Here the work of the Western volunteer has boon such os to excite wonder and ad miration on the part of trained offlcer of foreign lands, who never dreamed n force of raw recruits could behave so like steady regulars. Sniokless pow der In bamboo wildernesses could not daunt these men. They wrestled With the undergrowth os they would with n patch of sunflower at home, they wriggled through right down upon the guerrillas, and the sturdy regular grin ned with approbation when he heard these lighting wildcats yell. lu the lighting that hos taken plan 111 the Philippines the difference be tweeli the methods of regulars and vol linteers has been strikingly manifested The former move forward perslstentl.i mid doggedly In silence; the hitter g to the front with yells and enthusiasm but both go to the front. When Wheat on was opposed by a river, the othei side of which bristled with rifles, h halted for the pioneers. The regulari did the same, but the Oregon boys, Ik lug good swimmers ond not liking U wait for bridges umler fire, swain thl river. When Otis met the Marllar ltlver Colonel Funaton and a core ol his men swam over and took tOBM trenches which were manned by tin Filipinos. Some of the Washlugtor boys sow n blockhouse flag. One ol them volunteered to go and set It or ' fire, lie did so under a heavy fire, and I Ills comrades rushed up. III possession while the Filipinos gave lu. affrighted at rack foolnardlnet ami bravery. I.Ike (irant's army In the Wilderness, the volunteer contingents have made a showing no nation ou earth can match -not a man has advanced backward In oil that gallant army. Bullet :.: fromold rllles lu the hands of supposed ly raw troops have done as much dam age ns bullets sent from modern gun; by men wearing sharpshooters' badges They have been kepi stautly at tin front, the reason assigned being that they ore hardened to the climate, ond better than any freshly arrived regu lars. It took (ieiicral (it's less thai: half n year to reach a conclusion that all the precedents of (In. army and thf science of war were useless In the file of the Indomitable bravery, the match less aptitude and speed, the unbound ed enthusiasm of the American robin teer. Lacking skill as pioneers, they swam rivers; knowing nothing of skill ed clearing work, they cut the Jungle. Hot supposed to be full fledged soldiers they camped on the trail of the sullenly retiring enemy with bulldog tenacity Our regulars lu the Philippines ha v. proven themselves marvels of stcndl lies nnil machine like precision, but the volunteer all dash, spirit am pluck has shown that the true Am. i i can lighting vim cannot lie repressed and. given expression, carries all he fore It to victory. )UTCLASSED DEWEY IN LOVE. the Bpanlah Duke Who Did It Now Minister to usliingtnn. P'mlu's new ambassador to the L'nl- Ited States, the Duke d'Arcos, Is a man In whom Admiral Ceorge Dewey once found a successful rival. Twenty year or more ago D'Arcos, then a poor Count, but a handsome, (lushing fellow, was in Washington as a legittiou at- Itache, Dewev was also there in n uabordtnate naval position, and was Iwuallv poor. Both men were popular I favorites. They were In society a grent deal together, and were well liked. Among their Intimates Dewey was always "George (" nud D'Arcos, wli"s,. family name is Hvunettl, was I called "Jack." Dewev and IVAmmi lnth Ml In love with the same girl, the beautiful Vir ginia Woodbury Lowery, of Washing ton. Archibald Lnararv. who Is rich P' Mil os AND HIS WIFE. nl proud and tiatrlotlc. did not like either suitor. Ho thought his daughter f"ukl do better than marry Dewey. As jW burnetii, he was uot an American. lbi father's eye he was linisjsslble. Terliaps that was one reason why beautiful "girl preferred the hand me Spaniard. She gave him a vow that the would wed no one else, but she told her father that she would uot inar Without his consent. She kept Isith 1 but there was a long and waiting, For years the father Obdurate; the lover were sundcr-J1- In the meantime Dewey had mar ried another girl. She was In her grove twenty years ond more before the gun ' Manila echoed around the world. Aft'T many years the old Duke died "'! bi.-k BrunettJ became the Duke ' v 1 B was named Spanish mln tT to Mexico. Mr. Lowery finally acladed that further aoadeltlon was J1 ann" Kave sanction to the mar age, which wa carried out very lllttly. Ttie new minister from Spain la an Iortant man in Washington, and his '' a great lady. Hut there are people sI'!n as well os the Tnlted States h think Miss Lowery missed a great Pportunlty when she ald "no" to Dewey. C A Modrl Town. "Tun e mile from nowheie. In a Ilt J tackwuod .village over In North r,'lln the other day. I found the one a in the world where every txxlv works, and no loafing Is permitted." said a well-known traveling salesman. "In this hamlet there's no Idleness that Is not voluntary or vicious, and this privilege I not nllowed even to the wandering Willie out of a Job. On a sign at the postofllco In Beecbland Is this Injunction, from which there I no appeal! 'No loafing allowed In this town. We work, nnd so must everybody else who expects to reside here for any length of time. Idleness breed crime, ond, ns we never hod a robbery or a murder here, we have determined to strike nt tho root of all evil. Tramps will be given one hour In which to de part, and honest men out of employ ment will be given work If they desire It. If not, they must git, and git ns quick as their lozy legs wll carry them away from our village. This means you.'" HE LOST ALL, Including that Winsome Crentnre, the Lovely Blrdy Jnne. It was the first perfect day of the glad springtime. The warm sun bright ened the country landscape, and the odor of opening apple blossoms came upon the laden ntmosphere. The lozy cloud floated dreamily tu the sky over head, chiefly because they could not go afoot nor on the trolley cars. The rural roads were smooth under the hammer of Innumerable wheels, and Clarence Wheeler had stolen Blrdy Jones from her haughty BobO home for n ramble on bis 'i7 tandem among the highway of the townships. Stop ping from their run, they rested le neatb a great oak tree w hich overhung a wayside spring. Cowbells tinkled In the woodlot below the meadow, and lit tle lambs with wabbly legs three sizes too big for them gamboled on the short green grass. On n brood, flat stone that looked down upon the crystal water Blrdy spread the lunch they had car ried In the tandem box, nnd Clarence brought water In a romantic tin cuu thai be had found hard by. The soft winds toyed with the girl's bleached tresses, which streamed over her face like a photogravure picture of the west wind to Illustrate Longfel low's poems. Her cheeks flushisl with the vigor of exercise and robust health, and when the young innu approached her from the spring his whole thought was centered upon the winsome beau ty of the divine creature. He sat dow n by her side. Ills soul drunk In the charm of the picture. She looked up from the can of embalmed lieef that she was opening, with a smile of confi dent approval on ber young face, sud denly her eye kindled and the rosy flush of young womanhood gave way to a ghastly pallor. Her Up curled lu corn. Her classic head lifted In anger. "Merciful heaven:" shrieked the young man. "Tell me, dearest girl, what Is the matter?" But she stepped back, and, striking the attitude that she had learned nt the soh. i Amateur Dramatic club, she pointed her Huger at him nnd sold In tones that would wither a load of hay: "All Is lost, Clarence Wheeler. You aro sitting lu the pie!" Pittsburg Tlmea. i NEW MISSION SOCIETY. Formed l? HuptUta tn F.atabllth For eign MUnlnna. A new mission society has been or ganized among Baptists. Bev. Dr. Ceorgo C. Lorlmer, of Tremout Tem ple, Boston, 1 one of Its organizers. It alms to put Into foreign mission effort n new Idea that of mission stations, which, after having Ih'cii given three or four years to get startnl, must be self-supporting thereafter. The field secretary of the now society, Bev. Charles S. Morris, a grandson In low of Frederick Douglas, starts shortly nr.v. dr. op.onnic i.nuiuitn. Ml. Ol for upper Liberia. He takes a party of ten men with him. At that point the gateway to the Souduu a mission sta tlon Is to be planted. It Is to bo al lowed $4,01)0 a fear for four years, and after that It must not only pay Its own way, but start a new mission further Inland. I'nrt of the missionaries are to Ik preachers. Tin- rest are to Ik; school teachers, carpenters, physlctotis, form ers, blacksmiths, etc. Tho Industry Is to ins that of raising coffee. It Is sold a general desire exists on the pnrt of man colored young men nnd women In our own South to go back to LIIktIo. Kfforfs are making now to raise money to buy tWO ship to sail between Snv nnnoh and Liberia nnd provide cheop transportation. While or Ilrown Ilread. The oft-repeated debate betWeOI the advocates respectively of the white and brown In breads Is again llng car ried on In the columns of the London Illustrated News. Dr. Andrew Wilson takes the side of the brown, while Drv Lauder Burton writes In prale of the white, and he 1 supported by several other contributors. These latter pro I 1 m a -a .... icssiouhis ore nrm in the holier, oftei Having made Investigations Into thf question, that white bread is more nu trltlous than the brown variety. Th latter bus Its merits, of course. It tends to remove the torpidity of tin digestive system, which too often DO curs lu persona of sedentary habits and supplies also mineral matters especially pboephate of Mm led for Isine building. But the w hite bread also supplies mineral Items, and as re gards fat It Is said to afford a larger proportion of this Important ( I than the brown bread. The great point OUI Investigators lay stress on, however, b the Importance ol Judging the value ol a food by a physiological rather tlfiu by a purely chemical criterion. It ll one tiling to soy that any food show under analysis n large proportion ol this or that nutriment, and quite an other thing to assert that It can be easily assimilated, or. In other words, that its nutrients can be easily obtain ed by the body for the ultimate pur pose of nourishment. White bread overtops the brown In tbll latter re ss'ct, ond so we may rest content to know that in the ordinary loaf we bare a typical enough representative of the staff of life. I e in I fiom Itegul (loll. An Italian physician, rushing on Ids w heel to the bedside of a patient, WHS arrested by a policeman for scorching) nud notwithstanding the urgency of the case was Compelled to go to court. When the doctor was Anally released, on arlvlng at the home of the patient he found that she had died for lock of dlcal attendance w hile he was In the bonds of the low. The elrcunistonce led to the exclusion of physician from the regulations regarding scorching. France' M itrli .Monopoly. The manufacture of matches H a very strict state monopoly lu France, nnd n Baa of 1 franc per match Is ruthlessly imposed on all contraband Imports or tho klud from abroad. Forget fulness of this lately cost U BngTJah traveler the sum of 100 at the port of Bou logne, where be had to pay a fine of fssi frnnes on a box of waa lights, raJne cents, which the custom house officer found among hi luggage. Mlirrlan Horsehair. Vat quantities of horaehalr, which Is chiefly need for upholstering furni ture, comes to thl conn try from SI-ls-rla. It Is taken from the mane and tall of horses rldd. n by Cossack. London' I'opulallo i. It I estimated that at the present rate of growth Loudon, which now hat a population of Mt7000 will lu ludl have over LVKJ0.000. A married woman's tears excite curi osity ofteuer than they excite u pathy. Fifteen years ngo! There are many people who ore now gromlnentt whoee names are ou many tongUCI u many lauds, and were then unheard of out side of their own little circles. Uud yard Kipling, for Instance, was, in lin early eighties, ou assistant editor on the Indian Pioneer. Ills pay wos lln-n many less rupees per month than be uow earns dollars lu a single day. In his few spare moments he was writing hi "Department Ditties." Some day. he hoped, and Ibis was the height of his ambition at thai time, to Induce the world to read t hem III lmok form. In the time that has elapsed since then he has made many thousands of dol lars, Is midway In a remarkable coreee and has created a fame that will live w bile the world lasts. About the same time Blder Haggard had written one book. 'Vctcwino and His White Neighbors," and was utter ly discouraged, it had been published at 0 loss of JJ.'.d. lie was then on the verge of publishing another novel, "Dawn," which never attained any great fame, and w hlch netted him Just 100) the resnli of a vear of hard work. To-day everybody Is talking of Lord GURon, tin- present viceroy of India. In lvsi he was reading for his bachelor of arts degree at Oxford, and w as look lug forward t an apprenticeship in politics. He began the following year lu the humble position of assistant sci re la ry to Lord Salisbury. The 11 ft 000 years thot have elapsed have piacea him In a position second to none lu u wide sphere of action aud power. A decade ond o half ago Dr. CotUM) Doyle was laboriously working up u medical practice at Pouthaoa. Bngland. He set uied destined to live and die n count rj doctor. His pen was as yet untried, aid that he had wii bin him the hovcllstlc spirit which has gained Mm dollars and fame was unlhought of. Not until 1888 did be try his baud at writing. The reading public who have enjoyed Ills Sherlock Holme ami other stories know w ith w hat sue cess he met so do his bankers. inn llacLaren won popularity fifteen years ago as a minister of the Sefton Park Church lu Liverpool. Knghiud. But for a dozen years after that his pen wo engaged lu transcribing bis thoughts Into sermons before It turned to the bt amy and pathos of the "Bonny Brier Hush." As a writer and as o minister he now has u reputation which Is world wide. Anthony Hope was a scholar at Halllol lifteen years ago. and his only ambition then wos to follow In the foot Step of his uncle, sir Henry Hawkins. Not until 1800 did be begin 10 write and find out for himself os well as show others that he had ability lu quite on other direction. Mine. Sarah Grand was rambling all over the world with her soldier-doctor husband fifteen years ago and only vaguely mapping out a novel which the w orld now know s os "ldcolo." For away In the solitude of the African veldt at till' some time was OUVO Schielner, dreaming dreams. "The Story of an African Farm," with Its Wetrdneai and Its philosophy and Its religion, was gradually asserting itself In her brain. Mrs. Humphry Ward was busy with domestic cares lifteen years ago Un busy to recognise the genius that was working within her. Nobody knew Hall Cable lifteen years ogo, but now everybody knows of him, and it is a certainty that before he dies, unless the end comes quickly, he will corn his weight In gold. After spending a number of years lu Liver pool, a Journalist of DO very marked ability and working for a stipend rath er than for a salary, he went to London ond become Dante Uossettl's private secretary. There he found scope nnd Inspiration for the gifts that were In him. Change of environment appeared to work a miracle, for In 1880 his story. " The Shadow of a Crime," Introduced n new iispirntn to a worm or readers. New York Telegraph. the grent linen factories In Ireland nnd found (o be of excellent quality. Among the remarkable mo.-lue mil luals whose Intl.-1 - have recctitlv been ' studied at Wood s Hull. Ma-s . ore the nbl on bk" MM-uorm called "uetner teana." One species frequenting the i New England ooaal sometimes attains 0 length os great as twenty -tWO feet, with a width of about an In. h. sTln-se worms ore i nridv orous, living on minute Inhabitants of the water. At low tide they conceal themselves under st. .in s. W hen handled they easily break apart, but from such fragments an entire worm Is sometimes re pro dtwed. Prof, t'oe estimates that a nemertean five fool In length may con tain not less than a quarter of a million eggs. Aii Bngtlah naturalist, Dr Augustus Henry, now traveling lu China, sends to the director of the Row Hardens In London o lively account of the wild In habitant! found lu some of the forests of the Interior. No large or dangerous animals are met with. The songs of the birds are exquisite lu showery Weather, but as soon as the sun shines the cicadas make a racket that drowns oil other sounds. Most Interesting are the Jungle fowl, which are very com mon lu the woods, and are gorgeous lu their plumage. They are glorified bantams," Kays Dr. Henry, "the colors having a brilliancy that seems abated lu the domesticated kind. They crow and cackle ami behave In the forest Just as farmyard fowl would do, only they are a little shyer of man." From time to time experts have no- ti I certain tun iphilmible peculiari ties In magnetic Instrument In various buildings. An American professor BOW declares, as the result of experl nts and Investigations, that the vagaries ore due to the presence of magnetism In bricks They ore mode of earthy mutter containing a greater or less proportion of magnetite or mag netlc Iron ore. Attempts to employ electricity In stiinu'ating plant growtb appear to have met with soinu success. Dr. Stone, of the Massachusetts Agrlcul rural College, reports that In the case of gOyOOO plant! experimented with, the results show that germination I accelerated by the application of elec trlelty, although the beiielb lal effect Is ohtolncd only within certain limits do termlned by experiment. Prof. CompbeU, of lbs Lick Obeerra lorv, has discovered that the star Kin Cephel Is approaching the earth ut the rate of 188(000 miles tin hour. Hut even witu inai i h avna raquirst iimi yean for the Hying star to cross tin- gup which separates tin- enrm from the nearest star In the heavens, Alpha Ooutaurl The dlstsnce of FJta Cephel Is not known, but It Is much greater than that of Alpha Ccntaurl. The hope Is held out by the Depart meiit of Agriculture mat UN rinsing of flax of a Urn- quality may liecotnc an ImiKirtaiit Industry In the Fulled States. Kiperltuetits III this direction have proved most successful around Puget Sound III the Hlote of Washing ton. The noil lino climate mere are said to be espial for lint raising to those of the l'"t flax producing re gion of F.urope. Puget Sound Hal i been cipcrlimutcd with at one or TALE OF A COAL WINE All LI MATE OF ALASKA. Hrokcn I. en of n litisk? DaaBSOl Unit Kriniilns. In tin' ltrltish museum there stands a Bgure of a human leg carved out of cannel coal, the remnant of u "coal black lady" that fell to pieces crossing tin- ocean from America, it is the odd est exhibit In the great museum ami commemorates the folly of a number of British speculators, among them th Prince of Wales, w ho were token In by an American promoter. The story of the fake Is os follows in Breckinridge County, in Southwest em Kentucky, there stands a hill that was formerly seumed on Its sides ond crest of 100 feet with large veins of Cannel cool, but unfortunately tin veins did not extend to any depth In the ground. The cool hill was an IsO luted section of mineral loud, there be lug no oth.-r vein Within BOO miles. Tin Pennsylvania minora agreed thot it was too expensive on undertaking to Investigate, as the cool was In too small a quantity to pay for putting u machinery and hauling It to market Hut a Cincinnati man was of another opinion, in 1884 i. n If soman cross ed the Atlantic to Loudon armed with o photograph of the COal hill and sotm specimens of cool and o svortl state ment from the recorder of llreckln rblge OountVtnTri the specimens of coal were truly taken from the photo graphed coal hill and a statement also tli.it attested the area of the coal N gloll. Needless to say. a coal syndicate was easily organised In London. The ipei ulntor became known as the coal king of America and in six months be man aged to Induce the Prince of Wales tl buy stock to the value of $u,rsHi,(ssi " The Breckinridge Company. Limit ed.'' was inaugurated aud an Buglla manager crossed to America to take charge of the mining. The Itrllou saw ami was coinpicicd by the richness of tin' coal and proceeded to work the veins, although it cost Mm fx u ton to mine for what he received only 7 it ton in return. Nevertheless be did not seem to care. In his exhilaration he had o large figure of a woman carved out of the cool ond forwarded to I'.u gland, but It became broken In the rough voyage nnd thu limb In the muj scum Is oil that remains of the dusky goddess. It was only last January that the Prince of Wales and his swindled, fellow speculators awakened to thu knowledge that the Kentucky coal had been exhausted ond that lawsuits for miners' ond managers' woges lay on their hands to the sum of 1 180,000, IV) the mine wos abandoned ami all thai remains of Its story Is the auatomlca fragment In the ltrltish museum. WOMEN AT THE FRONT. Noble Part ' n , Bave Boras in the Treuclira In the I'lilllpiilnfls. When the d Is of courage ond valor lu tho Philippines have hi me a part of familiar history one of Its brightest page will be given to the wives ami maidens who bore a port so nobly w ith the Kansas troops, says the Kansas City Journal. They were present In the trenches, reody with their blind ages to give first aid to any stricken soldier, and about the hospitals their cheerful presence and deft nursing guv imfort to many a wounded boy lu the letters written to home folk by tin- Kansas wounded we find mention ed the names of Mrs. Funstoti, wife of tho colom-1; Mrs. Sclillemnn, wife of the chaplain; Mrs. BUChan, wife of the Kansas city captain; Mrs. Whitman, wife of the Junior major, and perhaps mote frequently yet the names of Miss Bradner igni Mlai 0111a O'Brien. Miss Bradner went from Kansas to India several years ago as u missionary. With the breaking out of the Spanl-.li war she proceeded to Hong Kong, ami then, after Manila had fallen, to tho Philippine capital, where she ut once lustulled herself us u nurse lu the Twentieth Kansas. She Kept nt th" front with the boys all through ths late campaign ami applied the nrst re lief to ail the wounded that came with in her reach. It Is related by OB0 Kan sas Isiy that during one of the ficrco engagement! this young woman sut by Ills side In the trenches, coolly passing c artridges to him as fast as ho could Ore. Miss OUI CBrlOO Is a Topcku girl who went to Manila lust summer on pleasure bent. She uccomplitiled Mr. Htuteiisburg, wife of a regular army officer, who Is now serving with the Volunteers from Nebraska. When the wounded commenced to come from the front she volunteered to go Into tint hospital as a nurss-, nud she has attend e. to her duties faithfully and well. A i. in i urn log Furniture. "Home men can take new furniture und make It look a If It waa made a century ago," says a Journalist. 80 can some children. - London Tlt-Blts. The man who suggests a compromise has usually been whipped. IT II LITTLE UNDERSTOOD BY MOST PEOPLE. r os pars Favsrebljt with Timtof the Northern atatss Winter la tonsil rrn lountry Not I SCISSSlTSlF I old, Like Ths I in Takoa Biatrial! DoUbtleOI there Is no part of the earth the climate of which Is as little lliidcmtoiid by the SVOfegO uiuu and Woman os that of Alaska. Most of tho people of the I tilted States, especially those east of the Itockles. have only u baa recollection of AIuhUu or "llussla lu Anierho," as described In lln-lr childhood's geography) ami the mod era "Klondike" has only dissipated that base nUBdeatly to allow their vis ion to be concentrated 00 that one point To them whatever happ. ns In Klondike" of course happens In oil oth.-r parts of Alaska. They forget that the Klondike aud the Yukon coun try Is separated from the southern coast by a range of great mountains, and that COfUOqUOUtly the coast line has a vastly different climate from that of the Interior. Tln-y forget that the proximity of the Paclllc, and the prevailing westerly winds over that ocean, give the southern coastal region of Ahisko a climate having 11 compara lively small range of temperature; while the Inlerlor, shut off from these modifying Influences, Is SUbJeet tu truly arctic rigors In winter which scarcely ffoet the southern sections. It Is safe to soy that before the discov ery of gold lu the Klondike scarcely one ihthoii lu ten knew the length and breadth of tho district, and some of the mistakes and guesses made are ludi crous lu the extreme. Southeastern Alaska, ot least os for os temperate conditions are concerned, has a climate thot ninny of the States may envy, remembering the severity of the cold waves that have swept the country from Montana to Florida. It - true thot Southeastern Alaska bus a considerably greater amount of pre cipitation and more rainy or suowy days than most of the State of the Union; however, the absence of eoM waves and disastrously sudden changes lu temperature will go far on the credit side of the Southern Alnskn ledger. The Interior, deprived In a great measure of the soothing effect of (lie ocean, of course has a rigid climate In winter, yet the summer mouths a re warm, often oppressive. The coast Hue has bud considerable more rain or snow than the mainland Juneau and Skaguay aud thu num ber of clear and partly cloudy days at Juneau and Skaguay Is more than twice as great ns ut Sitka nud Klllls QOOi In fucL the winter weather of Juneau ond Skoguay will favorably Compare with that of any of the North ern states Indeed, with many of the Southern. The Western bureau bul letins of I'ebruory 1." reported a tem perature of I degrees below Hero S Inning aired on the Kith at Talla hassee, Phi. Ou that date, at Juneau ond at Sitka, the lowest temperatures were. Juneau, III! degrees; Slll.a. 8B de grees, while the lowest temperature of the winter waa 4 degrees U low r.ero at Skaguay, lu December and January. when it is remembered thai skaguay la abOUl ".iski miles farther north from the eiitotor than Tallahassee, tin. dlf fere 1 ice becomes more striking, and should turn the tide of winter travel toward Alaska. Seattle Post Intelli gencer. LAW AS INTEHPHETED. The much disputed question of the right of a third portOO to bring action on 0 contract made for his Is-m-llt I decided In Baxter vs. Camp (Conn.), 42 L. It. A. Ml. by denying the right of a son to recover on a contract made with his mother by her husband to pay a sum of money after her death to the son. The pendency of nn action In n fed eral court after removal from a State court is held. In Wilson vs. Mllllketi (Ky.)4S L- K a. 44b, raffle lent to abett n Subsequent notion for the same cause In a State court. This decision Is lu conflict with the majority of the case which have considered tho question, and whh h an- anuly.ed In an extensile note to the cave. All offlCOr'l declaration that he makei an arrest. by authority of (he Statu and statements by his companions that he is an Officer art- bald, In Stale vs. Tuy h.r iVt.l, 42 L. It. A. 878, to lie suffi cient to require submission tu the ar rest The tUtbortttOt oil the question of the Information to which an ac cused person Is entitled at the time ot his arrest are reviewed In 11 note to this case. Payment of ths principal of a note to the original payee In the belief that It belonged to hint Is held, In Holllus heod vs. (Hobo Investment Company (N. I).), 42 L. U. A. 8B0i to ho no pi otec tlon to Hie maker when (he note had III fact In'oii Indorsed ond wa lu the hands of the Indorsee, olthough cou pons from the note hod been collected for him after the Indorsement by th payee. Tree Killed by Ita Htlng. J. K. Boron exhibited tu Cadis, Ky., 11 most remarkable homed snuke, which he plowed up lu a lb-Id on hi place. Tlie snake has, near the end ot hi tall, a long, keen born, which comes to u point as sharp its it needle. I'll Im Is the first serpent of this variety ever seen lu Kentucky. Tin- snake, when angered, take thu end of Its tall In Its mouth ami rolls like 0 hoop toward the object of It wrath, but, Just before reaching It, the serpent stands almost upon It bead and thrusts (hi prong Into whatever It would strike down. Mr. Boiefl de clare that the horn of the snake Is nihil with poison, and thai a blow from K Is deadly. It Is sold that even a tree stung by Ibis variety of reptllu will. If the sop Is up, die In a few- hour. I lg III house.. I Hiring the Inst decade Prance has constructed eleven lighthouses of enor moils Illuminating power, thu averugu being eipuil to that of 800,000 candle. Kugland lias eighty-all llrst class light houses, which avcrago only 20, UMO-cuu-die siwer. After a woman reuche tlfty, she la usually culled upon to deny her weight a wvll iu her agu.