SLEEPY MANILA
ORE than four years hare elapied since the invasion of the Philippines by
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acine writes a correspondent, that
L7.r ViiBtonm and habits of their
American has infused no fresher blood into
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made in cellars of Chicago and Uenver saioons nave, in a measure, uuuw ic
is the same old sleepy, indolent, care-free town that it was ten years ago and will
Perhaps when peace is permanently
i ernaps V p ., ,
mnttpr of fact little American capnai is urius luicsu. .7 ... . , , ti
Zk nL for places to put in some cash. But in nearly every instance they have returned home with al they had when they
' ft exoeot of course that which they spent for passage and food. The price of all foodstuffs has risen correspondingly
with th r;Po-ted Advances in America No one in ordinary circumstances can afford to patronize the better class of
t.nr.nu Md for beefsteak such as one could get in the cheaper restairants in Chicago they are not here at all
Ka Si" almost unknown, stuff that is called veal tastes like boiled shoestrings, and a. tor lamb and mutton the
meat smells Hke a dog pound and has a flavor that is a cross between dogwood blossoms and a bunch of jimson weeds
He one engaged in business usually reaches his office about 8 o'clock; at noon he has lunch, after which he takes
a ShuV 12 4 ,ciock m-Later 0011189 dinner partit' th,at vrng the
rich The hour is 8 o'clockf Calls are s ldom If ever made except among the closest friends after that time, but are con
fined to the earlier hours of the evening, when chocolate is served by the lady of the house.
THE CONCEITED COINS.
"I'm just as good as silver!"
The Nickel proudly cried;
"The head of Madam Liberty
Is stamped upon my side.
I am as white and shining
As any dime can be
lie needn't put on any airs,
I'm twice as thick as he!"
"I'm every bit as good as gold!
The Penny blustered loud;
"That tiny, thin, gold dollar-
He needn't feel so proud,
For all his airs and graces
I do not give a fig;
I'm burnished just as bright as he.
And half again as big!"
But when the Cent and Nickel
Went out upon their way,
Alas, the world still held them cheap,
Whatever they might say.
The Double Eagle smiled. "You'll find,
He said, "that par is par;
It doesn't matter how you boast,
But what you really are."
The Outlook.
I DEMON DANDY I
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URING his visit to the Hunting
I dons he bad fallen hopelessly in
love with the beautiful and Im
perious sister of his host. It was the
night before the sale that the subject
of the Otringtou horse sale was
broached by Huntingdon.
I see they are going to put up that
brute Demon Dandy," he began inqo
cently. :
"Why brute?" queried Diana.
' Belluirs, for her benefit, recounted
the history of Demon Dandy's ex
ploits. When he had finished the harrowing
recital with a thrilling account of how
Demon had beseiged a stableman In
the loft for a space of twelve hours,
nnd how he had kicked two loose boxes
Into, matchwood in the same space ot
time, Diana Huntingdon lifted her glo
rious dark eyes to his.
1 think I should like to buy that
horse." she said.
Mv dear Diana," expostulated her
brother.
-Don't think of it," said Mr. Bellairs
Diana had a will of her own. This
slight but ill-timed opposition called it
into life.
"I'm Sure I should like to buy that
i,nr,." she reiterated, with a rising
color.
More opposition followed from the
men.
Her brother grew angry at the Idea,
ii.ll:iirs. who would himsell
mount and ride anything between s
buck-Jumper and a zebra, grew alarm
ed and almost angry with her, whom
he worshiped In private as almost a
divinity.
"I am going to buy that horse," said
Diana Huntingdon at last, with an an
crv flash iu her eyes.
Then out of his love and fear for her
Bellairs forgot his manners, which, as
n general rule, were perfect. Worse
still, he also forgot diplomacy.
"1 don't think you will succeed," he
said, coolly.
Then a hot flush came up from his
boots, till he blushed In agony to th
crown of his head.
"Indeed?" replied the girl, with
note of scornful, interrogation In her
voice that caused his heart to sink
within him.
-I am thinking of buying him my
self." said Bellairs. desperately.
"Indeed?" replied Diana, with an al
most imperceptible lift of her eye
brows.
"To shoot " exclaimed Bellairs.
An angry flush crept across her face
ns she swept from the room, gazing
angrily before her.
"You're quite right, Jack." said
Huntingdon, sympathetically, as his
friend returned disconsolately to the
table. "But I'm afraid you've upset
Di; she's a bit short-tempered, you
know. Do you really mean to buy the
brute?"
"I do." replied Bellairs, "and to ride
hiui, too.".
I Little Improvement Since ;
the Invasion by Amer
ican Forces.
in that time the natives wouia nave yn.Keu
white-faced brethren from over the seas.
the ways of business. He tried it for
" . . ''A -,m.h,.. that mercantile establishments display their goods
io onmm.inAr tlnn Snanisli coin:
th.at rhies ndMK
established with all the islands Americans will be more conspicuous but as
. . tv, ,,-. , nrosnoetors and men with money to land here
And he did.
Diana did not appear at the sale the
next day, neither did she put In an ap
pearance at the dinner table. Where
fore. In the evening, Mr. Bellalrs or
dered the dogcart, bade his friend
farewell, and returned to his home
with a sorrowful heart.
A year elapsed and found him still
sorrowful.
All his male friends declared him to
have become a mysogynist, while all
his acquaintances of the softer sex,
who might have been his friends but
for this painful peculiarity, declared
that he was a heartless brute.
The peculiarity was made all the
more unbearable to the eligible dam
sels of Burghminster society by the
fact that Jack was considered a good
"catch."
"I AM GOING. TO UUY THAT HOUSE.
Burghminster mammas, with mar
riageable daughters, were of opinion
that a woman hater had absolutely no
right to own such a home as Bellairs
did. and that a heavy tax should be
instituted to discourage such flagrant
examples of cast-Iron bachelorhood.
He was decoyed away Into discreet
woods, where dovelike eyes--, were
flashed upon him; where tiny well-
gloved hands grasped his with tender
appeals for help at the slightest obsta
cle In the shape of a stile or gurgling
brook.
But all in vain. Only one person sat
on the stile, and the brook gurgled on,
mocking the aspirations of matchmak
ing humanity. The dovelike eyes of
STRANGE.
Old Hen (seeing her brood go in
I am sure we never did anything
American. .
the American forces. One would im-
a j xA wMMn rna man
up uu c.uus
But such is not the case lhe
a while and tnen sat down unaer .u
that some of the women who travel
-.
be twenty years hence,
Burghminster beauty might have been
the blackened optics of a borough ama
zon, so small their attractions to the
stony-hearted Bellairs.
He now took long objectless rides
alone on Demon Dandy, whose natural
depravity of character had almost dis
appeared under the Influence of a long
snell of hard work. Sometimes, in the
course of these rides, "he would pass
Miss Huntingdon, who would greet
him with a cold and distant bow, and
ivho, when he was safely out of sight,
would indulge in the feminine luxury
of tears.
Bellairs, having no tears, would,
by touching Demon Dandy with the
spur, incite him to rebellion.
The fights that followed were of ben
efit both to man and horse.
Nevertheless, every time he met
Diana Huntingdon she could not help
noticing that he was growing thinner
and paler.
He, too, thought the same of her, till,
one one occasion, the thought proved
too much for liiin.
She had just disappeared round a
bend In the leafy lane, walking slowly
and with drooping head.
Bellairs, overcome by his feelings,
clapped both spurs into Demon Dandy,
a direct challenge for an equine strug
gle of the most violent character.
Demon Dandy answered the chal
lenge by rearing wildly, then falling
backwards with a heavy crash on to
his master.
Bellairs was conscious of a glimpse
of Demon Dandy's nose against the
sky. Then a flash passed before his
eyes and he knew no more. .
When he came to himself he found
his lost divinity bending over him.
He had a vague idea that she was
calling him "Jack" and her "boy."
A half hour elapsed.
Bellairs said little. He just lay there
happily, explaining matters and recov
ering his breath.
"It is just as well that I did not let
you buy Demon Dandy," he said at
htst.
"Just as well, dearest, since you are
not killed," said Diana. "But you will
not ride him again?"
"I won't," ejaculated Bellairs, fer
vently. Chicago Tribune.
An "Essential OH."
Ernest Insersoll is as quick at rep
artee as he is keen in his observation of
nature, it nappenea some time ago
that his daughter asked him a question
concerning the difference between es-
sential and fixed oils. He explained at
. a.
some icugtii.
"Well," said she, "to, which class does
skunk's oil belong?"
"To both," was the prompt rejoinder,
i .
"It's essential to the skunk and fixed
on the man." New York Times.
Opportunity is said to knock at every
man's door, but it is the usual experi
ence that he throws a poster over the
gate and runs by.
water for first time) Well, that's queer.
like that when I was young. Chicago
WEST INDIAN SUPERSTlf IQN
Belief im
the Vampire
ut la the
"Rolling Calf."
The French islands have two super
stitions which are not found in some
others of the West Indies. These ate
a belief in a sort of werewolf or vam
pire, which lives on the blood of way
farers, upon whom it leaps when they
are abroad in the nighttime, or of
sleepers whom it finds in lonely hats;
and a second believe in what Is known
as the British Islands as the "rolling
calf," a monster with biasing ' eyes,
which prowls at' night, clanking a
chain which hangs about Its neck, and
at whose touch men die. The follow
ing description is given of the typical
obeah-man:;
"There is something so Indescribably
sinister about an obeah-man's appear
ance that he can always be picked out
by anybody who has had much to do
with negroes. Dirty, ragged, unkempt,
diseased, deformed, there is yet about
him an aiirof cunning authority. His
small, cruel, piercing eyes peer vicious
ly at the witnesses arrayea againsi
him in court, for all the world like
those of a cornered rat. Black men
may be seen to turn as gray as ashes
under the terror of that baleful gaze,
and often it Is only with the greatest
difficulty that incriminating evidence
can be drajreed out of them, lae wiz
ard's awesome presence, however, does
not aDoal an unsentimental enusn
ludee. He orders him "twelve months'
hard" and a sound flogging. requeni
ly the obeah-man appeals against his
sentence to' the higher court, and in
Jamaica It Is not at all unusual for
him to get off on some technical point,
owine to the defective drafting of the
law. Of course, he tells the Ignorant
negroes that he procured freedom by
his magical powers, and thus their su
perstition Is strengthened.
British law punishes obeah with
flogging and Imprisonment. Neverthe
less, obeah Is practiced by the white
planters almost as a matter of neces
sity in order to frighten the negroes
and prevent them from stealing the
produce of the plantations.
You may walk through your friend's
"coco-piece" or banana plantation and
notice a skull stuck on the top of a
stick, a small bottle full of dead cock
roaches tied to a branch, or a minia
ture black coffin placed on a little
mound. "Hullo, old man!" yon say;
"working obeah eh? I'll come and
see you flogged at the Jail." He tries
to laugh it off shamefacedly, saying
there Is really no other way to make
"those wretched niggers" keep their
thieving hands off the crops. That is
true. It is needless, however, to go to
the trouble of placing these things
about the plantation. If some night
prowler has stolen your best yams or
bananas, all you need do Is to say next
morning in the hearing of the negroes,
"It's all right; I don't care. I've got
the foot-print" You will see them
whisper among themselves In an awe
stricken way, and presently one will
come up to you, nearly weeping with
terror, and confess himself the thief,
The superstition is that if you dig out
the earth upon which the robber has
impressed his foot and throw it Into
the tire he will waste away ana me
unless he gives himself up and takes
his punlshtxent. New York Commer
cial Advertiser. -
The Golden. Fleece.
The King of Spain has conferred the
order of the Golden Fleece on the
Prince of Wales. The boy King is de
facto one of the grand masters of an
order which was instituted, at uruges.
by Philip, Duke of Burgundy, who was
styled "the Good," as rar bacn as r eD
ruary 10, 1429. The other grand mas
ter of the order is, of course, the Em
peror of Austria. The Fleece went to
the Hapsburgs "by arrangement," af
ter the death of Charles of Burgundy,
the "fighting Temeraire," in 1477, by
the marriage of Mary of Burgundy
with the Archduke Maxmillan, after
wards Emperor of Germany.
So It got
to Spain,
When the line of the Span-
ish
Hapsburgs had become extinct,!
Austria claimed the sole grand master-
ship, and diplomacy had to intervene.
In the result, the grand mastership be
came a dual affair. To wear the Golden
Fleece of Austria you must be a sover
eign, a prince of a reigning house, or
a most Illustrious noble. Presumably,
you must also profess the old religion.
On the latter point Spain is less exact
ing. Ripening of Cheese,
A hitherto unknown element In milk,
a new ferment, has been discovered,
called galactose, which is proving of
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value m tne nPexiiuK
properties of this ferment are similar
to the secretion of the pancreatic organ
in the human body. Old cheese Is a
l tA nrA thu fllmootlnn
j pre-uigeaicu iuw,
' wrought by the galactose. It was found
j that the galactose would go on working
at very low temperatures, temperatures
at which bacteria were practically
inerx. uneese w V ZlAV w
tors and kept frozen for months. Other
cheese is cured at from 40 to 50 degrees
Fahrenheit Practical cheese manufac-
furS had maTntalned that 50 degree.
waTthe lowest temperature at which
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cneese couiu doubt the ability of human nature to
ut1wiUa U 7sZaea Z eaTryoufthe projects of its more boast
discovery will, it is believed, revoiu m-t 0 wnt heiow at the
tionize cheese manufacture, doing away
with all curing-rooms, the cheese being
sentdirectly to the refrigerator. Scrib
ner's. Substitute for Sleep.
A London paper says that the health
of people in fashionable society is be- pear In poetry or the newspapers,
lng dangerously threatened by a new j As everyone knows the pilot house
drug which Is popularly regarded as a and engine i-oom of a steamboat are
substitute for sleep. Very discreetly ( connected, not only with bells for sig
it declines to name this dangerous sub-1 naimg, but with a speaking tube,
stance. When tea was first introduced through which the important f unction
into Europe It was commended for the , who orierate above and below can
same virtue, and it was believed that
it wbuld no longer be necessary to
waste seven or eight hours m sleep.
But extended experience has shown the
disastrous results of cutting short the
neriod of natural rest ana Keeping
awake by the help of tea, and there is
no reason to suppose that chemists will
ever be able to devise any substitute
for sleep which will not in the long
run bring nervous breakdown. Spring
field (Mass.) Republican.
Ham smeUs better when it is frying
than it tastes when brought to the
table.
HOW TO FORETELL THE THUNDERSTORM
CT$ HE weather man does not keep
jn all his wisdom a secret, nor all the
tricks of his maps. They are
yours and all the world's for the read
ing. The "weather man" has pointea
out the atmospheric conditions, the fea
tures of the sky and the clouds, and the
time of day which must be taken Into
consideration when attempting to fore
cast the approach of a storm, and
which, if rightfully interpreted, are
certain signs. The leading conditions
to be considered are the aspect of the
western horizon, the presence or ab
sence of the cirrus and cirrus stratus
clouds, the temperature, with sultri
ness and humidity, and the distance
from the turning point In the day's tem
perature. If these different conditions
are correctly understood there should
be no difficulty, he says, in foretelling
a thunderstorm.
There Is one feature of an uncertain
ty, however, about the actual appear
ance of a storm correctly predicted, and
this is due to the fact that all thunder
storms are distinctly local features,
having to do, with extremely limited
areas, and all of short duration. This
renders it possible for one to see a
storm coming and really on Its way,
but to be disappointed of its arrival in
one's own locality. Its energy has been
spent before it has had time to come
sufficiently far.- Thunderstorms rarely
cover more .than thirty to forty miles
In a stretch, generally no more than
eight miles, while some are much
shorter. A hailstorm, which always
signifies the expenditure of tremendous
force, seldom covers more than one
eighth of a mile, Less severe storms
are sometimes no longer. In looking
for a storm the western sky is the only
sky point of value. This is because
storms always have been known to
travel from west to east. If you see a
storm due north or due south. It is more
than probable that ic will not reach
your locality, but if it is due west or
west of north, or perhaps west of south,
you may look for its arrival unless it
should happen to expend its energies on
the way before reaching you.
Look Out for Mares' Tails."
The clouds which foretell a storm
are the cirrus clouds, "amers' tails" the
country folk call them hair-like shreds
threaded across-the heavens, later gath
ering into the cirrus stratus, white and
gray cloud sheets, which are the true
rain clouds. The atmosphere Is always
heated with a sultry humidity. It is
warm and moist, thick, heavy, muggy.
It sometimes almost feels wet. People
ofen then speak of "feeling" the rain
in the air. There is rarely any wind
preceding a storm for any length of
time; the air is exceptionally still'. - As
the tempest approaches nearer, how
ever, a soft, thick, "wet" sort of
"whirr," characteristic as a harbinger
of the rainstorm at Its heels, is felt
stirring abroad. This is most familiar
! to all those who have made a study of
j weather conditions and as easy of rec
ognition as tne awiui oracies
of the
weather prophet monstrosities on feet.
The time of day when a rain is most
likely to fall is about 3 o'clock in the
afternoon, or again between 2 and 1
o'clock in the morning. Thesefare the
two turning points in the day's tem-
Derature. At 3 o'clock the maximum
heat usually has been reached for af
ternoon while at night the coolness has
i Mlorml!rhlv set in. In case of a succes
' Bion 0f thunderstorms they usually oc-
TWAIN WANTED TO BE A PILOT.
Sad BndinR to Cherished Ambition of
the Noted Humorist.
An interesting yarn recently spun by
an old St. Louis riverman seems to be
a solution to the long-mooted question
as to why iuark Twain never followed
out his cherished ambition of becoming
MississiDDi river pilot.
Accoruins to the old man Mark Twain
never became a full-fledged pilot and
r at' or tnn,i n nierhr watch alone. In
other words, while he had a pilot's li
cense, his mastery of the great river
craft on which he rode was always Urn
ited by the understanding that an older
and more experienced head was within
easy call. This was no discredit to the
young pilot On the occasion in ques
tion, it matters not what the year or
boat, the steamer to which young Clem
ens was attached as cub pilot was
bound up stream with a heavy cargo of
cotton. At the officers' table tne nrsi
day out from Nachez, Miss., the talk
, - sudden emer-
, eSoiy ln ease of fire
, Kncies ana espec ,
; T bear-
"
ings, each of those present giving his
ideas upon the subject. Mark Twain
like most of the others, held to the no
tion that" it was the pilot's duty In such
an emergency to emulate the now fa-
mous Jim Bludso and "hold her nozzle
" ,ointH
Clemens wentto the pilot house to
stand Lis watch.
! Among those at the table was lae as-
sistant einr young ma n wh ose
experience of life had taught him to
He went below at the
same time tnatMark'Tw-ain went aloft,
but the two continued to think of the
conversation just closed. The more the
engineer thought about It the less credit
he was disposed to give to the cub pn
t, scheme, however nice it might ap-
djscuss the weather and politics in their
Bpare moment. The mouth of the tube
at the UPper end is but little larger
' than the human mouth, but in the en-
lne room it has shape of a funnel as
big as a half -bushel measure. While
ue assistant engineer was pondering
the emergency question he was also
wiping off a portion of the machinery
with a bunch of cotton waste, and as
he reached the mouth of the speaking
tube it was the work of but a moment
to touch a match to the inflammable
material in his hand and thrust it far
Into the tube.
cur about twenty-fonr hours apart,
that being apparently the time neces
sary for them to accumulate sufficient
moisture to break. So, if a storm series
begins in the afternoon, the remainder
of the series will likely take place in
the afternoon, while If it begins at
night the storms are likely to continue
to be at night.
It is considerably easier to foretell
accurately the arrival of a thunder
storm than to explain it after it has
come. Wiser than any man now known
would be he who could follow under
standing the magical metamorphosis
of the charming summer landscape,
with Its lake like glass and air as mo
tionless as marble, from the time the
first misty sultriness arises as the
threatening breezes begin to stir; as the
sky darkens frowningly the winds
break -boisterously from their fetters,
the cloud streams pour out in cataracts,
and the fires of heaven Illuminate the
tempestuous night with their terrible
play. And finally, -as the elements
again calm themselves, the sun breaks
out and revivified nature becomes
doubly lovely.
First Sign of Storm.
The first clew to the mystery of a
storm comes from water. If a glass of
water is stood on a window sill on a
hot day it gradually evaporates. The
hot, dry air sucks it up. Similarly the
hot, dry air above a large body of wa
ter sucks up its water, transforming it
into a fine vapor, which imparts a mis
tiness to the atmosphere. The distant
atmosphere now gradually screens it
self In a veil of vapor, which becomes
thicker and thicker. This leads to the
next phenomenon In a thunder storm.
Every one knows that when steam
comes in contact with cold objects it
condenses, finally forming tiny drops
and resuming its original form of wa
ter. In the same way on a warm sum
mer afternoon the upper layers of the
atmosphere are cooler than those Im
mediately above the earth. . Hence the
higher vapors rising as they come In
contact with the cool air . condense,
thickening Into the form of clouds,
which are nothing else than condensed
steam. The particles of water forming
the clouds are so minute and light that
they float in the air. The movements of
the vapor as it rises and the action of
the cooler upper strata of air upon it
generates currents of air, the wind.
This at first is just strong enough to
ripple the surface of the water and stir
the foliage of the trees. In the mean
time, another element is at work. Ev
ery one presupposes an accumulation
of electricity at a thunder storm. Elec
tricity Is present in the atmosphere all
the time, but, as has been observed, it
is always more powerful when any
strong perpendicular currents of air are
in action, such as cyclones, tornadoes,
volcanic eruptions, -waterspouts, thun
der storms. Electrical manifestations
are always accompanied by the down
pour of water. This means that the
condensation of vapor is closely con
nected with electricity. Why is it not
an instance of electricity generated by
friction? Rub two pieces of paper vig
orously against each other and elec
tricity is generated. Open the safety
valve of a steam engine giving out va
por and electricity is produced by the
friction of the steam and valve. In a
thunder storm electricity may thus be
generated by the friction of individual
particles of water which have been
driven about by the wind.
The two kinds of electricity, positive
No one saw the act, but everybody on
board heard from it in about a minute.
Mark Twain, alone in the pilot house
and still pondering the dire-things he
had heard of burning steamboats, es
pecially when they happened to be
loaded with cotton, was horrified to see
smoke pouring from his end of the
speaking tube.
There was but one thought in his
mind. The boat was on fire. Dropping
the wheel, which spun around and
around as it left his hand, he grasped
the rope by which the big bell was
sounded and began pulling like a sex
ton, at the same time raising his voice
in a cry of "Fire! Fire! The boat's
afire!" Here the officers of the boat
and the passengers are said to have
found him, after hurriedly ascertaining
that the alarm was false, still valor
ously determined to "save the ship."
The boat, relieved of the rudder's guid
ance, had in the meanwhile swung
around ln the current and dashed full
speed on a sand bar, from which it re
quired half a day to drag her. And
Mark Twain, having lost his nerve, left
the river.
WOMAN'S BIG GOAT RANCH.
Her Flocks of Angoras
Brine in
$25,000 a Year.
Mrs. Armour, in Sierra County, N. M.,
owns a herd of more than 25,000 An
gora goats, from which she is making
$25,000 profit a year. Her "Columbia
Pascha" Is the most valuable Angora
in America, and worth $1,500.
In 1899 she was left a widow pennl
less and with nine small children de
pendent on her for support. The ranch
men and miners took compassion on
the destitute family and contributed
a small sum for their immediate relief.
Then she pl'ickily cast about for some
MAKK TWAIW.
and negative, always try to unite. The
ascending portions of the air and the
clouds generally are charged with neg
ative electricity, while the surface of
the earth over which they swim are
charged with positive electricity. Each
seeks to unite with the other. The ma
jority of the particles are not strong
enough in electricity to span the space
of air lying between, and can do so
only under high tension. As the fric
tion increases, electricity accumulates
on the brims of the clouds and the pro
jections of the earth's surface, trees,
houses and mountains. The currents
of air become sturdier. They bend the
boughs of the trees, scourge the waves,
lash the ships. The last feeble sun rays
breaks through the massy clouds, cast
ing an unusual, threatening, and un
canny light over the scene. The clouds
gather more and more thickly, trans
forming themselves from the light
cumulus clouds to rain clouds. The
struggle of the negative and positive
poles of electricity become more sav
age. If a metal ball is charged with
electricity only the surface becomes
magnetic. The interior Is not electri
fied, similarly the microscopic drops of
water forming the clouds are electrical
only on their surface. Through the ever
greater condensation they come nearer
and nearer, and finally many together
form one large raindrop. This larger
raindrop contains all the electricity of
the many smaller drops, but as its sur
face Is more limited than their com
bined surfaces its electricity is of great
er power.
Storm in All Its Fury.
The raindrops, too large and heavy tc
hover In the air, fall to earth. As the
clouds merge, raindrops form more and
more rapidly and the rain falls more
violently and copiously. The storm 's
now fully developed, and unburdens
Itself with fury. Brilliant flashes of
light produced by powerful electric
sparks illuminate the darkness, and the
thunder growls in the sky. The tension
between the surface of the earth and
that of the clouds has become stronger.
The tracts of air which at first were too
vast to be traversed by electricity are
now the pathway of lightning, not
only between earth and clouds, but also
between clotla and cloud, negative and
positive poles meeting whenever strong
enough to cross the necessary space
The lightning comes in three forms.
Zigzag lightning with its crooked,
branch-like forks, is produced when
electricity amassed in small proportion
al points opposite each other wishes to
meet. The electricity seeks to spring
across by the shortest route in a
straight line, but is hindered by the re
sisting masses or air and clouds. Hencs
It goes as best it can, leaping to those
spots charged with electricity, whereby
it assumes its characteristic aspect,
L,ibtning Flashes 17,000 Yards.
Flashes a thousand yards long are
not rare, while those 10,000 and 17,000
yards in length have been seen. The
vast force of these long flashes may be
guessed at when It is known that a
streak a yard and a half long is the
largest that our stoutest apparatus per
mits our eyes to inspect. Besides the
familiar destruction of the bolt in
houses, trees, beast, and. man, It has
been known to charge iron fences with
magnetism. A single flash, as a sci
entific man has calculated, if utilized
with customary illuminating appara
tus, would yield enough power to light
a city for a month.
means of earning a living, so that she
might not be a burden on the generos
ity of her friends. By chance there
drifted Into camp a ranchman with a
herd of ninety Angora goats for sale,.
Nobody cared to buy them, for it was
thought there was more money in cat
tle raising. With genuine Intuition
Mrs. Armour looked a meir silken
coats and knew that they would be
valuable.
But she hadn't any money and didn't
want to borrow. So she made a propo-.
sition to take a small flock of the goats,
tend them and care for them and breed
them, and at the end of the year divide
the profits with the owner. The propo
sition was accepted. She took her goats
and her children and went up on the
mountain side, 6,000 feet above the sea
level, where the scrub oaks grow ln
profusion. Thus she secured the nec
essary fodder, and as for shelter the
goats needed none. She located a
claim, built herself a ranch, and set
tled down to work. At the end of a
year her success was such that she had
money enough to buy a flock of her
own and start out independently.
Since that time each year has added
to her prosperity. She now employs
twenty goatherds to care for her flocks.
The greatest precaution is required to
protect the goats from the inroads of
the mountain lions, or cougars, which
are so numerous that the ranchmen
have to organize hunts to get rid of
them.
Through her industry and persever
ance and pluck, Mrs. Armour has made
herself wealthy. She has sent her eld
est son to college, where he Is now
studying law, and her four other chil
dren attend school in Kingston.
Chicago Iron Workers Keep Gigs.
W. Abraham, M. P. ("Mabon"), in
a speech on his American experiences
I says that on rubbish heaps of the Uni
ted htates there are thousands of tons
of machinery that In England and
Wales would have been used for ten or
even twenty years longer.
In Chicago, in one large steel works,
the men, after being paid on Sundays,
stepped Into their gigs, which were
there by the score, and drove home.
Could they Imagine Rhondda colliers 1
driving home in their working clothes
in their own gigs on pay days? Lon
don Mail.
Farmers in Alabama.
The total number of farms in Ala
bama is given at 223,220, of which 129,
137 are operated by white farmers and
94,083 by colored farmers.
An old bachelor, when he feels blue
and discouraged, always regrets that
he has no wife to whine to.
A man is usually doing the very best
he can, or else the very worst he can.