New Orleans and Galveston now ex
port more wheat than New York.
The circulation of . American ' news
papers Is 8,000,000,000 copies a year.
Flfty-slx per cent of those dying
from' heart disease are over 60 years
oM.
Albinos are found among all races of
mankind and among 'animals and
plants.
Servia is only thirty -six hours by
rail from Paris. One can get there
without changing trains, but It is still
in the middle ages !tage of develop
ment '
Julius Kruttschmidt, Jr., went to
Yale as a freshman In a special private
car, Guadeloupe. His father Is fourth
vice president and general manager of
the Southern Pacific Railroad. -
"Five Boers, who still refuse to take
oath of loyalty, are to be sent back to
South Africa from Ceylon, In custody.
In order to show them the absurdity of
their attitude," says the London Mail.
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety, which In a few- months com
pletes a century of work, has Issued no
fewer than 180,000.000 copies of - the
Scriptures, which are now printed In
nearly 400 different languages.
A new occupation is ' opening for
Iframps In England. They station
'themselves near a police trap and warn
Approaching motorists 'of danger, and,
m a result, are rewarded with dona
tions of small pieces of money.
The oldest woman college 'graduate
ibL Massachusetts, If not in New , En
gland, Dr. Sophornia Fletcher, recently
observed her ninety-fifth birthday at
Cambridge. For thirty years she was
the attending physician ' of Wendell
Phillips' invalid wife and has had
many distinguished patients.
, J. H.-Hale employed on his farm in
Georgia a negro boy named Joe. 'We
are having hot weather, Joe," remark
ed Mr. Hale, one blistering day In July.
"Yes, sir, boss," said Joe, reflectively,
"f I wuz owin' a man a hot day, an'
he wonldn' tek dls one, 'fore de Lawd
I wouldn't know where to look for
one to pay him wid." :
When President Roosevelt said that
a public officer's reputation should be
"clean as a hound's teeth" he was giv
en a good deal of credit for Inventing
-an expressive phrase. Someone has
just dug up the fact that Senator Ed
munds used precisely the same words
ten or a dozen years ago In describing
A' Vermont applicant for office.
When the work of draining the Zuy
iee Zee Is completed it will be possible
:fj&r one to stand on a dyke with the
nfrater of the North Sea on one side
only ten feet below and on the other
side will be the farmers at work till
rtag the soil from twenty to thirty feet
beneath. The chimneys of the farm
; houses will in some cases be below
the level of the water on the other
side of the dike.
Along the lines of the Southern Rail
way there have been added this year
nineteen new cotton mills and eight
knitting mills,- which have added to
the- total equipment 20,134 looms and
727,358 spindles. There are now under
construction twenty-three other mills,
with an equipment of 14,025 looms and
500,312 spindles, making a grand total
existing and in sight of 642 mills, 185,
73 looms and 6.976,800 spindles.
The ship canal from Lake Huron, In
Georgian Bay, almost due - south to
Lake Ontario, near "Toronto, upon
which work has been in progress for
. several years, will shorten the lake
route 259 miles. The highest point Is
600 feet higher than Lake Ontario, and
a drop of sixty-six feet-in four, miles,
at ' Peterboro, "made necessary ' the
building' of the largest locks'-, of the
.kind in the world.; They are now com
pleted.'. ... .. . j, v,
FROM SEAMSTRESS TO SINGER.
Adventurous Career of Line Cavalieri,
, v - Now the Idol of onar in 'Italy.
From a tailor's bench to the operatic
s.a. is rather a far cry. From "a
ha. d earned Wage of a few sous a day
to. a singer's', salary , of s tbousktfss; a
night is considerable of 'a progression.
Yet from the one to . the other Lina
Cavalieri, a beautiful, Italian girl,, has
traveled. iq a few short years. But
they were' no easy years, v s j;
j Yet to-day Lina Cavalieri is the idol
of her countrymen. She Is little known
in America; though she has conquered
"half the world with her beauty and
sweet voice. Less than three years ago
she made her debut, and now the an
nouncement that Lina: Cavalieri .will
eihg is sufficient to insure a full house.
' She Is a slender; snp;of,a girl, this
great singer who is being hailed as th
most beautiful woman ; in L Italy. J She
has a peculiar fascination that all ac
knowledge. Her - face is classically
beautiful, such a one as the great mas
ters loved in the days gone by. -
Before she was 16 she had to find for
herself. She .was -penniless untll she
got work in a tailor shop, where for
three years she toiled. But stitching
jwas bread and' butter, and Lena
stitched on till the fairy prince came
and brought about her awakening.
He was a young lieutenant in the
army, son of a ' rich and powerful
Roman family. He was attracted by
the girl's unusual beauty. He sought
her acquaintance, andVjconvinced of his
sincerity, Lina fell desperately in love
with him, and for a while was ecstati
cally happy.
But the law stepped in and put an
end to their dream of bliss. For the
. law the Italian law, that is says
that an officer In the army shall not
marry unless his proposed bride has so
and so much of money. And the lower
the rank of the officer the bigger must
be his wife's dowry to offset, of
course, the smallness of his own sal
ary. A lieutenant's rank entails on his
bride the possession of not less than
40,000 francs about $8,000. His fam
ily managed to have the young man
transferred "to break off this unfor
tunate affair.". The young people nev-
er met again.
For two years she sang in a cafe
chantant of the ' city. For two years
she lived in the atmosphere of their
programs, tJ-yair an oier-
tures of friendship.
She had saved g'aough to go to Paris,
.where her voice iad beauty at once
won her a place In a fashionable re
sort She became a fad, bad a dis
tinctive vogue of her own, and in six
months had saved enough to begin her
studies under Mme. Marches!.
Her debut was In Rome, the seen
of her early struggles. It was a small
part, but her friends of the cafes had
not forgotten her, and gave her rous
ing greeting. They called her before
the curtain repeatedly, and would not
be .satisfied till she had sung them one
of her old songs. For ten months she
stayed In Rome, gaining steadily In
popularity and In power. Then sh
went to Russia and sang there all th
leading opera rolea,
JACK" AT THE BARBER'S.
He Underwent All the Operations oa
the Liit.
To Illustrate the impositions to
which the sailor ashore is subject, the
Sea Breeze tells an experience of two
lads from the cruiser New York while
on shore leave at San Francisco. They
yisited a barber's, and when they bad
taken a full course in his chair, found
that between them they had a bill of
seven dollars to pay. Under protest
they paid.
When Chaplain Chidwick and a po
liceman called with the boys on the
barber, he admitted that their bill
did come to some such figure. "But,"
said he, "this Is a first-class place, and
the young men demanded , every ser
vice on the schedule.". Then tio went
on to enumerate the items.
They bad been shaved, and each had
had his hair cut. t Both scalps were
massaged. -' Their' faces were mas
saged. - ... '-'
Their hair was shampooed, and the
shampoo was of the kind that rated
highest on the list. They had had their
hair singed, treated with a tonic "for
the suppression of baldness," and sub
jected to local electrical shocks "for
the prevention of premature bleach
ing." Then they had had their ,hair curled
to fit the style depicted on a fancy col
ored lithograph, and they took a treat
ment for the obliteration of their two
year coat of tan.""'
As a suitable wind-up they submit
ted their hands to the manicurist and
their shoe? to the bootblack. Then the
proprietor, unable to make any more
out of them,', announced that they
owed him three dollars and a half
apiece.-
At a bint from Chaplain Chidwick,
re-enforced from the policeman, the
barber returned four dollars. - But it
is safe to say that the men from the
New York , will long remember their
"close shave."
A Complimentary "Tip."
Women travelers are not nearly so
much given to bestowing "tips" as are
men, especially men who travel. There
are exceptions, of course, but in gen
eral the rule holds good, and there is
just enough truth underlying the hu
mor of a Detroit Free Press story to
make it worth repeating.
The particular woman in question!
had come through from Denver. She
was accompanied by four children, and
the combined needs, real and fancied
of the five had kept one porter busy.
As they, were nearly Detroit the lroth
er signified their readiness for the
final brushing. When this was over,
she turned to the porter and said gra
ciously: "You have, been very attentive to us
during this trip, and I wish to reward
you.' -, s -v- ?
"Yesum," -said the porter, with a
smile and a bow.
"What is your name T asked the
lady, as she took out a pencil and note
book. . . -.. ' -
"William White, mum."
- She wrote for a minute on one of
the leaves of her book, and then tore it
out and handed it to him with the
remark : " ' ""''' - -
"A colored man who is ambitious to
get along will always find friends.".
A passenger caught him in the ves
tibule two minutes later and asked to
see the paper. It read: - -
"Mr. Pullman; ;! Your man, William
White, has been very attentive to me
and my children. and I would recomJ
inend'that you raise his salary and let
him" know that you fully appreciate his
efforts. '' :MRS. S. B." i
It? was read aloud to the porter, an! J
then the passenger looked at him.. He
turned a sort of gray and gasped for
.breath, and it was a long minute be
fore he could ejaculate: ; , :
"For de lan' scakes! I done thought
dat mus' be a fifteen-dollar check on
some bank In Colorado."
. ; A Poet's Pastime.
It was not only 'as ', a boy
that
Wordsworth
Shod with steel, hissed along the polished
ice. ; . -
He was a skater of skill In his man
hood "A girt skater;- noan better in
these parts," was the testimony of a
Dales man, quoted by Canon Rawns
ley in his "Lake Country Sketches."
On one occasion thV poet went by
himself to figure a bit upon the. White
Moss Tarn, and a man sent a boy to
sweep the snow from, the Ice for him.
When the boy returned from his labor
the man asked: ""'
"Well, did Mr. Wordsworth gie ye
owt?"
"Nay," rejoined the boy, with a grin
of content from ear to - ear. "I seed
him tummle, tho'!"
But the lad, who had thought the
tumble a fair equivalent for a tip, had
been much impressed by the quiet way
In which Wordsworth had borne his
fall. His skate had caught in a stone
when he. was in full swing, and he
came down with a crash.
"He didn't swear nor say owt." said
the boy, "but he just sot up an' said,
"Eh, boy that was a bad fall, wasn't
it?"
, Term Radiograms.
At the international congress of
wireless telegraphy, which recently
met in Berlin, the term "radiograms"
was used for messages ! sent by the
new method. The term has the ad
vantage of being descriptive.
Chinese Students in Japan.
There are 800 Chinese students in
the colleges of Japan and 500 more
are to be sent.
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WHEN A MAN MARRIES A FOOL, .
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As a rule, women of more than common talent
are rarely belles; the beauty or the heiress counts
her suitors by the score, whecje the woman of un
usual intellect may reckon hers upon the lingers
of one hand, and still have digits to spare. True,
;b lovers of the clever woman
ably are, far superior to those
yet the fact, remains that many men prefer that
their women should not be
where tne too much begins and ends it
tastes differ, and what one man counts
dull to. another. Besides, brilliant men often find much
pleasure In the society of brilliant women; still. It is the
exception that even they demand a
tellect as requisite for a wife. Clever
quito content not to ask overmuch wisdom upon the part
of the -women whom they marry; it would seem as though
the man, being the head of the house, felt himself compe
tent to furnish the family stock of brains, even as he sup
plies the family exchequer. There is
tion with which modern progress has by no means done
away to the effect tiuat women, as compared with men,
have small need of brains as an equipment for life. Also
there Is no denying the fact tha t folly in
although singular attraction for men,
sort.
, The foolish woman may be good in
Is, which is fortunate, since a wicked
last is worse than a demon. But sins
the full as disastrous as those of willful wickedness, some
times more so, since provision Is efficient against them
A' foolish woman is never to be trusted under any circum
stances. She does the things she ought not to have done
she leaves undone the things which
done, and. still worse, she is always saying the wrong
thing, for she never understands the virtue of silence. The
proverb '-ays that many a fool has passed for a wise man
simply ly holding his tongue and letting others speak, but
no such aphorism has ever been uttered with regard to a
woman, since the foolish woman is always a chatterbox.
The man who marries such an one has no resource but to
treat her as though she were a child and not expect too
much of her. He may coun himself fortunate If she Is
sweet tempered and anxious to win his
BAS!S OF AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING ALLIANCE.
Br the Rt. Hon. W. C. H. Lecky.
The idea has been steadily growing that in
foreign countries the first aim of an English
statesman should be to establish close and friend
ly relations with the United States. England Is
by her position fn the world an eminently free
rade country, while America Is strongly protec
tionist. Probably a more serious fact in affecting
the future relations of the two countries, how
ever, 4s a growing divergence of racial elements.
for tne vast flow of European emigration to America is
constantly reducing the proportion of the
even of the Teutonic race in the American population. Yet
with all this there remains a far greater community of
thought and feeling between England and the United States
than between England and any other
country. The English common law lies at the founda$on
of the American legal system. The two nations have the
same language. In a measure the same history and the
same traditional sympathies and characteristics. They
have grown up under the Influence of a common literature
WILL BE FIRST LADY OF OHIO.
Mr.
Myron T. Hrrrlck, Wife Ohio'
Governor-elect."
Mrs. Myron T. Herrick, wife of the
Governor-elect of Ohio, has by her
beauty,, win somen ess and tact won for
nerseir almost as
much of a national
reputation as her
husband. A gen
tlewoman in the
fullest sense of the
word, she presides
over her home with
exquisite grace. '"
The close friend
ship between the
Herricks and the
McKinleys brought
. mbs. hebbick. her into the social
limelight a bit more prominently per
haps than she would otherwise have
cared, for, and her visits to the White
House" were notable because of the
favor with which she was received.
Mrs. Herrick dresses beautifully, and
is an enthusiastic automobillst, a fad
that is more prevalent , in Cleveland
than almost any other city m the
United . States. She and Mr. Herrick
and their son, . Parmeley Webb Her
rick, are seen frequently in the parks
and on the streets of Cleveland. The
Herricks are an ideal happy family,
the absence of the son at Yale, where
he s a senior, being a hardship they
hare to endure and one which the fam
ily ..are rejoicing will end with young
Herrick's graduation,
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TUNNELING THE HUDSON.
The
Idea I by No Means
One of Re-
cent Birth.
The idea of tunneling the Hudson is
by no means of recent birth. Several
attempts in this direction have been
made since 1874, when the first com
pany to undertake the construction of
a sub-Hudson tunnel came into being.
Little progress had been made, how
ever, when, through an accident to
the door of an air-lock at a critical
moment, the tunnel was flooded and a
number of laborers were drowned.
The water was pumped out and work
resumed, but a bad leak once more
caused a long delay. By this time
something had been accomplished In
both tunnels, but the company had
now come to tbe end of its financial
resources and was obliged to order a
permanent cessation of work. The
years passed, and eventually an En
glish syndicate undertook to complete
the tunnel. In their turn they found
the task beyond their powers. Final
ly Mr. Jacobs declared his willingness
to begin where the others, defeated,
had withdrawn. He and his associates
are now satisfied that they have solved
the most difficult problem likely to
arise In this or future subaqueous tun
nel work. They have assuredly proved
that air, if properly reinforced, will
serve to stem the most powerful of
torrents, and the demonstration of this
must be said to mark a milestone In
the march - of engineering science.
Century.
Tobacco in Japan.....
Tobacco is both cultivated and con
sumed' on a large scale' in Japan. The
plant was introduced by the Portu
guese in the seventeenth century and
the trade in it is a government mo
nopoly. Tobacco is almost universal
ly used in a small pipe. While cigar
ettes are manufactured in large qftan
ties, they are nearly all exported.
may be and prob
of the society belle,
too clever. Exactly
Is not easy to say;
as dazzling may be
superior order of in
and able men are
America is happily
an old-fashioned no
woman has a great
even of the gravei
OPPORTUNITIES
ber way; she usually
woman without bal
of ignorance are to
she ought to have
more capable among
praise and approval.
Anglo-Saxon and
foreign European
POSTMEN USE ONE
The rural free delivery carriers of Central Illinois are deeply interested
in the vehicle used by a carrier on a route running out of Niantic, and which
was invented by J. H. Grosh, the postmaster at that point. It has, but a
single wheel and was designed especially for the carriers of the rural dis
tricts. -
The idea was suggested to Mr. Grosh by the villainous roads of. Central
Illinois in the winter months, which are almost impassable at times to the
ordinary four-wheeled vehicle, even with two horses and with no more load
than a driver and small consignment of mail. The inventor's idea has been
to reduce the friction, and there is naturally much less in one wheel than In
four.
The cart can be adapted to the use of one or two horses. Its equilibrium
is maintained on the principle of a three-legged stool, each shaft represent
ing one leg and the single wheel the other.
FATHER OF GREATER NEW YORK.
Andrew H. Green, "Who "Wee Shot to
t Death by an Insane Negro.
Andrew H. Green, who was shot to
death In New York by Cornelius M.
Williams, a negro, who charged Mr.
Green with an im
aginary wrong' of
which the man
was entirely Inno
cent, was S3 years
old and was one
of the most prom
' Inent and ' public
- spirited citizens of
Greater New
York. Besides
bringing about the
creation of. the
greater city, he
gbeen. hod Dromoted and
fostered other great works of promi
nence and magnitude, including Cen
tral Park, the great museums and the
public library, now in course of , con
struction, and which Is a consolidation
of the Astor, Lenox and Tilden li
braries. Mr. Green, whose whole life was one
continued act of friendship for others,
was the personification of every civic
virtue, and the close of such a useful
life in such a horrible manner has
spread sorrow and horror throughout
the city.
Mr. Green was born at Worcester,
Mass., October 6, 1820r and came to
the metropolis in 1835, where he be
came a clerk, later studied law, and
was admitted to the bar. In 1856 he
was president of the Board of Edu
cation. From 1857 to 1870 he was
president of the Park Board, and from
1871 to 1876 was ComDtroller. and
straightened out the city finances after
the Tweed reign. He bad served as
executor and trustee for the estates of
Samuel J. Tilden and other prominent
A. H.
and a substantially identical creed. Of late years the feel
ing of amity between England and America has steadily
grown, and in England at least the great truth that a war
with kinsmen beyond the Atlantic would be one of the Judge Joseph E. Gary, of Chicago, fa
greatest calamities that, could fall upon the world has be- moua throughout the country as the
come generally realised. With increased facilities of com- Jurist before whom the anarchists
munlcation the personal contact between the two nations war tried and convicted for the Hay
has vastly Increased. Both the best and most frivolous Market riot and murders seventeen
elements la each are in constant touch, and are constantly years ago. may bo seen late In the aft
Interchanged. In finance. In commerce, Ma social life, by ernoon of almost any sunny day draw
common amusements and common intellectual pursuits and ing his little grandchildren about la
sympathies, the bond is dally strengthening. ; a hand cart ia Ontario street. At 11 ret
It does net appear probable that the relations of the sight the stranger knows the jurist for
two nations will take the form of any general or permanent
alliance. Each country has large classes of Interests with
which the other Is almost unconcerned. English opinion
now cordially acquiesces in the Monroe doctrine, while
free from all obligations to meddle with
purely European complications. Limited alliances aiming
at special objects may probably arise, but on the Whole the
unity of the English speaking races Is likely to depend
much on the increasing power of common sympathies, com
mon principles, and common Interests. Both countries are
essentially democratic and the broad basis of popular senti
ment must be the foundation of their friendship.
OPEN TO DOMESTICS.
Mr Mrs. Alrmh Jordmn Serf.
Year by year, generation after generation, the
daughters of the poor pass In hundreds of thou
sands from the narrow means and lowly culture
of the cottage or the tenement Into the atmos
phere of a higher social state. They go from
what is often a pinched and noisy or quarrelsome
home Into some family where they will day by
day live amid good manners, measured speech,
and Ideas of refinement, progress and the march
of events. They receive, insensibly, an extremely valuable
expansion of thoughts, feelings, and views of life, and the
them quickly learn something of what
is best in their mistresses and their manners. They pick
up much Information useful to them afterwards as wives,
mothers, cooks and nurses, and If they be careful and
dutiful they can help the people at home and save up
money to make a little start for themselves and their hus
bands when they marry.
What good fortune it is, If they only realized it, to serve
good masters and mistresses! How happy and honorable
that condition may be rendered where a servins m airl
properly self-respecting, proudly repays by faithful work
and humble attachment the fair treatment which has fall
en to her lot! Good masters and mistresses will almost
everywhere draw good servants to them; yet it does seem
as if the grand old Ideas upon the subject which animated
bygone servants of all descriptions are on the wane In the
present welter of policies and principles. That would be
the worst thing possible for our social progress, and, above
all, for those classes which at present derive a stnpendous
advantage from the domestic intermingling of rank with
rank.
The army and navy have been, and are still, the best
schools for teaching obedience, fidelity, and d itifulness to
the youthful male population. Its female portion never
had a better or happier machinery for the same instruc
tion as our customs have created in the passage of working
girlhood through the households of the cultured and well
to do. Sorrowful wall be the time when this natural and
happy social system comes to an end; but It will come. If
right hearted women do not everywhere repudiate the ridic
ulous creature who fears to call herself a "servant."
WHEELED CART.
men in State affairs, had been presi
dent and commissioner of the New
York State reservation at Niagara
Falls since 1883, and was a delegate
to the constitutional convention in
1894. '
In 186S he originated the idea of the
consolidation of the boroughs which
constitute Greater New York and kept
the agitation alive until the accom
plishment of the project. In 1896 he
was a member of the commission
which drafted the new charter, and In '
1897 he saw his Ideal realized.
Waterways in Eiirope.
It is evident that the value of water
ways is fully understood In Europe.
France, for example, has spent $90,
000,000 on these works during the
years 1879-1900, and has Increased the
total length of her Waterways from
906 miles to 2,930 miles, including 401
miles of newly-constructed canals.
Austria has spent $105,000,000 on
waterways In the years 1848-1898. But
the greatest advance of all has been
made by Germany. In 1882 the num
ber of steamers on her waterways was
830, representing 33,155 tons. By
1S97 this number had risen to 1,953
Warners, with 104,360 tons. The
length of her waterways' In 1900, ac
cording to Imperial statistics, was 8,
798 miles. The total length of British
waterways in 1896 was 3,511 miles, ex
clusive of ship canals;
How Mamma Figured It.
"Say, ma."
"Wbat is it?"
"Wbat's the height of the ridicu
lous?" "Well," " said Mrs. Henpeck, "your
father is about 5 feet 8, I believe."
New-' York Herald. ' ,
Diplomacy is the art of promising a
man what he wants In a way that will
mike him cease to want it.
A FEARLESS JURIST
JUDGE GARY RULED AGAINST
CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.
Yenerable Jurist Complete 40 Year
of Centinnons Service en the Baser
ler Ceart Bench of Cook County. 11L,
A Meat Pictnreeq.ee Figure.
I After court nowadays the venerable
a gentleman of the old scbooL Ha
tops the cart load of Jubilant youth
and turns his kindly, forceful face al
ternately from the speaker to the
youngsters.
His coat U black of old-
IVCmZ JOSEPH E. ABY.
fashioned cut his trousers are black
and wrinkled from the knee clear
down to his plain, old-fashioned boots.
Loosely tied over an expanse of white
shirt Is a soft black neckerchief a
stock, you might say, of the period of
Henry Clay.
Judge Gary is now completing his
fortieth year of continuous service in
the Superior Court bench of Cook
County, 111., a record unequaled by any
elective jurist In the United States.
He Is a product of the State of New
York, but of Puritan extraction. He
was bora at Potsdam, St. Lawrence
County, In 1821. His parents were Ell
Bush Gary and Orilla Easton Gary.
To-day bo Is not only older In point of
years and judicial service than any
other judge in Illinois, but he Is also
perhaps the wittiest, most satirical and
In some respects the most picturesque
figure who has ever occupied a seat on !
the bench in the Middle West. Though
a man of few words, brusque, in man
ner, keen In wit and often cutting In
sarcasm, seeking neither publicity nor
applause. Judge Gary's popularity has
increased as he has advanced in years.
Snow-haired and bowed with his four- j
score years, he is still alert physically
and mentally. He pays close attention '
to witnesses, clipping short their ver- j
bosity, reproving their indiscretions '
and punctuating the questions of coun
sel with wit and apt inquiries of his i
own. He looks like a picture of t
Adolphe Thiers.
For a long time after he presided in
the trial of the anarchists his house
was guarded by the police, but this
was not done at his request. Detect
ives also kept him under their eyes in
his walks about the city. But these
precautions are taken no longer.
Though he was often threatened and
warned during the excitement follow
ing the Haymarket riots, he never
showed fear. Anarchists Parsons, Spies
and their six companions were con
victed of the murder of Police Officer
Matthias Dean in May, 1S86. Seven
received the sentence of death and
one was sent to the penitentiary for
seventeen years. During the trial and
afterward the friends of the accused
bitterly denounced Judge Gary for his
rulings and conduct of the case. But
his decisions were sustained in the
State and Federal Supreme courts, and
his course went far toward solving the
problem of dealing with an element
which had announced its antagonism
to organized society and sought to de
stroy the whole fabric of enlightened
civilization.
SUIT FOR MILLIONS.
Princess Radziwill Lays Claim to
$7,000,000 of Cecil Rhodes' Kstate.
A suit of international interest and
one which is likely to throw a flood of
light upon the latter-day history of
South Africa has been begun in Eng
land by the Princess Radziwill, against
the estate of Cecil Rhodes. The suit
is for $7,000,000 and is based upon
a written agreement made between the
princess and Rhodes in June, 1899.
Tbe affair has caused a tremendous
sensation in social and political high
places in England.
That the suit of Princess Radziwill
will be resisted to the utmost by the
trustees of the Rhodes estate, which
include such men as Lord Rosebery,
former premier, and Earl Grey, is un
doubted, and almost inevitably there
will follow a series of disclosures hav
ing to do with the secret history of the
exciting period of South African em
pire building immediately preceding the
I Boer war and perhaps bearing directly
upon the disasters to British arms m
the earlier stages of that wonderful '
struggle. Much of the public sentiment ,
at the time blamed Joseph Chamber
lain, then colonial secretary, for bring
ing about the costly war, as well as for
the ridiculous fiasco of the Jameson
raid upon the stronghold and chief
town of the Boer republic, and it la be
lieved that startling revelations will
be made in this connection.
Princess Radziwill has only recently
returned to England from Capo Town,
Where she was released a few week
before from prison, after serving 18
months of a two years' sentence 1m
poood en her In tbe spring of 1902 for
alleged forgery of Cecil libodea' nmo
for stuns aggregating f 200 ,000. Her
trial for forgery wu in profrms at tho
time tbe great rmplro builder died, '
and revelation mad later went far
to afeow that tb grt man's n4 wt
battened by fbo scandal of thm prin
ce' arrest, and lb ruinm prt lat
ently emru4ing Xm 'mam wlrb b's to
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vioun from ixrasrtrs claw.
Tbe only violin ia tin? worfd
from tbe daw of gfast Umfer
Just been completed by iAsn If, !&
man, of 429 Berkley street, Caavtov
N. J. This uniqoo iajrtrust. Strang
to say, can bo made to prodoee aa
sweet musical tones a any hfjjrVta
violin. Its owner give tbe following
as the story of Its life:
Tho lobster from which the claw
was taken was caught off Gloucester,
Mass., In March, 1862. In time It cam
to Concord, N. H., where Mr. Dadmna
saw it. At that time the lobster weigh
ed 17 pounds. A single claw weigh
ed 514 pounds. The claw that Mr.
Dadmun preserved, after the lobster
had gone the way of such things, waa
18 14 inches long, 7 Inches broad and
3 inches thick.
Preserved among other curiosities of
the Dadmun household, the giant claw
remained a claw for many years. One
day It occurred to Its owner that It
was shaped something like a violin,
and he tried the experiment of fash
ioning it to look more like that popular
Instrument. After much patient effort
Mr. Dadmun managed to transform
the claw Into a violin that could be
played. The tone was very sweep, but
not loud enough for an orchestra. Ex
periment proved that by changing tho
fittings and settings the tone could be
made much louder. As it Is now tho
violin when played properly sounds,
exactly like any other violin. It ia
doubtless the most curious musical in
strument ever made.
Writing Good English.
There is a duty for Americans whicb
few of them take into serious account.
That is the duty of learning to write
good English; not that they may en--large
the already too-long list. of pecK
pie who want to contribute to news
papers, but merely that they may ex
press themselves in their letters so
that other people will know! what they
mean. This thing of knowing how to
write a clear business letter Is as nec
essary to women as to men. Before
learning to play the piano or paint
china a woman should learn to expresa
herself In her native tongue. It Is al
most as Important as knowing how to.
make beds or broil a beefsteak; not
quite, to be sure, but It is so import
ant that it needs greater attention than
it gets. The inability to write clearly
comes in part from a slovenly way or
thinking. We do not reason In straight
lines. We have a lot of ideas, but they
are jumbled. This is not so notlceablo
in speech, but when they are commit
ted to paper the fabric is a tottery
affair. To be systematic in thought
and action, that Is the secret of clear
ness. People should understand once
and for all that the ability to wrifce
does not come as a gift from God, but
that neither is it a hiuden art, and
that a little practice and thought will
enable them to write clearly and un- .
derstandlngly. They owe it to them
selves and their neighbors to give that
matter that practice and that thought.
Woman's Home Companion.
A Tnnnel Under the Capital.
. The twin tunnel under the capltol at.
Washington, which the Pennsylvania
Railway has been given permission to,
bore, will be 3,000 feet long, cost $800,-
000, and electricity ,1s to be exclusively
used for hauling trains through It.
Street Railway Employes.
Five hundred and sixty thousand
persons in the United States are de
pendent upon the street cars for sup
port. .' '
If you intend to pay your bills, pay
them as soon as possible, and get the
bother over with.
All's well that ends according' to.
your f pro diagram of f.he finish. .
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