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POOR CARL DUNDER. Tie GIti? n llanroivlne Arroiint (if UNT.nkt Sail 1'allureln l'nlltlr. "He vhns no use!" sighed Carl Dun dor, ns he entered the Woodbridge street police station yesterday and dropped into a chair. ,1 "To what do you refer?" queried Ser geant Bendnll. "To some politics. I shan't nofertry to ondersUuid him again. I vhus all busted oop und broke down." How?" "Vholl. dcr poys ennio in my place two months ago und say to mo: 'Oldt mans, go in und bet on Cleailands. Ho vhas dec man to get thore. Ho vhill shweop dor country.' "Vholl, I like to mako somo money, und to 1 bet feefty dollar on Clealland. It vhasn't life days before somo poys come in my place und yolls out: 'Hoo ray for .Harrison! He vhas dor poy who knocks 'em all out! Say, oldt mans, if you like to mako somo money, bet on Harrison. He vhas dor feller to sweep (lis country.' "Vhell, I poliof dot. und I bet feefty dollar on Harrison. Pooty soon an al derman comes in my place for a glass of beer un says: 'Say, Dundor. don't you bo somo fools. If you haf some money oop on Cleailands take her down right avhay. Dot election vhill knock him out like a crowbar.' "Dat scares mo like caferytings, und I gif fife dollar to withdraw my bet. It vhasn't fife days poforo anoder alder man corncs in my place to say: 'Hollo! Dander, hof you mako a shackass of yourself? How? Vhy, dot Harrison vhas for dor Chinese und high taxes, und wo shall scoop him high und dry. Ho shall nefor know who hit him. Let mo advise you as a friendt not to put any money on him.' "Vhell, dot scares mo again, und I gif ten dollars to withdraw my hot on him. "1 sco. Co on." "Vholl, pooty soon a feller conies aroundt mit a banner on which vhas painted, 'Chipman Headquarters,' und ho says: 'Look here, Mister Dundor, J like to gif you a pointer. Chipman vhas sure to got there. Put oop dis banner und go mit dor swim.' "Vhell, J liko to gi- und swim, und so I toll him to nail it oop. It looks pooty nice, but. ho vhas oop only ono day po foro a feller conies along mit a banner which reads: 'Baker Headquarters Dor Poy for our YVotos,' und ho says: 'Say, oldt mans, don't got left. Baker vhas going in by five thousand majori ties, und if you vhasn't a linker man you vhas a greenhorn. Put dis oop as quook as you can.' "Vhell, I put him oop, und linker vhas left out in dor cold, so vhas 1." "It is sad," sighed the sergeant. "You bet mit me it vhas! A follor comes in my plneound looks all aroundt und whispers: 'Say, Dundor, if you liko to mako money bot on Mr. Young blood. Ho goes in by throe thousand ahead of Littlefield. 1 vhas inside, und I know.' "Vholl, I mako a bot of feefty dollar, but pooty soon a feller comes in, calls mo into a cornor, und says: 'Mister Dundor, you vhas all right mit dor boys, und I liko to see you ahead. Pet two to ono on Littloliold. Dot vhas straight.' Dot scares mo so 1 can't sloop nights." "You lost your fifty?" "Ofcourso! I lose on more ash ton men, but vhas I to blame? Vhas I somo green horns to bet? Iloro comes n man who says dot (Jovornor Part vhas shust fx) shuro as next winter, und ho likes to gif mo a pointer. Next comes a man avIio says ho vhill bet his lung dot Luco runs vhay ahead, und ho likes to gif mo a chanco to scoop der poys. How vhas I to toll?" "You can't." "Und so I loso moro ash two hoon ered dollar und vhas all proko oop." "You'd bettor let politics alone after this." "Sergeant, sco mo in dor loft oyo! If I haf some moro to do mit politics in dis country I liko to bo sont to dor crazy liouso! Next timo I don't vote for no pody, und if somo pody comos to gif mo some pointers I break him in two so quook ho can't hollor! I vhas nil mixed oop. Eaforypody vhas elected eafory pody runs vhay ahead eaforypody vhas sure, und nopody comes out liko lie oxpocts nopody but mo, und I vhns vegetables!" Detroit Free Press, Wouldn't Do for Her. Mrs. Nowrich, a wealthy lady on her travels, visited Paris, nnd white there Jt occurred to hot that it was the proper thing to have hor portrait painted by a famous artist. Accordingly sho hunted tip the studio of a painter of high repu tation, and rapped at tho door. A pupil of tho great painter oponcd tho door to tho lady. . "Will you kindly sit down nnd wait u few momonts?" ho asked, when Mrs. Nowrich had stated hor orrand. "Well, I'm in a hurry. Is your mas ter busy?" she asked. "Yes, rri&dam, ho is engnged on a study." On n study T exclaimed Mrs. Now-rich- "Well, no matter, I guess I vpi' wait I shan't want him to paint wij' picture. 1 want an artist who has got 'all through with his btiuUos!" Youth's lornpunion. Will Resort to Law. Little throo-yoar-old Robin had got a 6hoe-button in his nose, and his mother took him. in grout haste, to tho doc tor's. 'Jlio romovul of tho button caused tho llttlo follow some pain. "Well, my llttlo man," bald tho phy fclclnn, "wo yon nil right now?" "Vm. I wo nil right now," was tho iiithtfiiniit ripiiiua; "hut I hh doln' to ha v ituU."- Harper' JUmir- HOW PENS ARE MADE. Til l'l-mr.. r.tptiiliinl In a Way Tlinl Kirry Iloiljr Can InilcrMand. The first steel pen wns made by an Englishman named Wise. It was cyl indrical and adjusted to a bone case for pockot use, but it wns too expensive as well as clumsy to como Into general use. A Birmingham ninn, named Meyer, who had been experimenting to improve on Wise's invention, had in his employ a young man named Gillott. About tho timo Meyer had nearly completed his In vention, his daughter married Gillott, nud told him hor father's secret. In consequonco Gillott anticipated his father-in-law, nnd started a factory for making the very kind of pons the old man had spent years in devising. How are tho pens made? A sheet of the finest s.teel six feet long, two and a half feet wide and one-sixteenth of an inch thick, is cut into strips each long en&ugli to make two pons. These strips are annealed by placing them in pots with clayed lids and leaving them over night in tho "muiller," or oven, which in kept at an intense heat. When they are cooled they aro scoured with acid to remove the scales and brighten them. They aro then rolled to tho gauge de sired and taken to tho cutting shop to be transformed into blanks by hand presses. Thence they go to tho pierc ing shop, where a hand-press makes tho slits in tho sides. After being cleaned in sawdust to lemovo tho grease, they go to tho hardening shop and spend a second warm night in pots in tho oven. Next comes tho Mumping room, where the linn namo nnd trade mark aro re ceived. Thus far they havo been merely fiat j blanks. Now comes tho transformn J tion scene. In tho raising shop thoy 1 tiro given tho semi-circular forms that trakes thorn pens. After a brief in ! ."Ulceration in tho oven, they aro given i an oil bath, shaken in a revolving , colander till tho drippings aro removed j nnd saved, and men wiped dry In drums j u ith a sawdust towel. In tho teniper 1 ing shop a hundred gross aro put in a ! single drum and turned slowly over a j charcoal lire, a man with along-handled j ladlo watching tho changing color, J scooping thorn up at tho proper instant and spreading them on a cooling pan. i In tho scouring shops they again en counter' sawdust in a drum; in tho i slitting shop a hand-press makes tho i slits in tho points; in tho grinding shop I they aro treated to either a straight or cross grinding, tho latter being consider I ed preferable. Tho back of tho pen shows readily to which process it has been subjected. Tho longest stay is in Iho polishing shop two days tho timo being spent in the most intimato intercourse with tho rubbish known as "pot." and in re- volving drums. They emerge polished and with tho sharp corners worn off tho points. Then nnothor trip is made 1 to tho tempering room, whoro thoy aro given a blue, light, dark straw, or any other desirable color. Into a thin var nish of alcohol and shellac thoy aro plunged, and spread on a perforated and heated iron pinto to dry, andthonco to tho looking-ovor room, whoro girls Inspect each pen, rejecting ul. defective ones. Thoy aro very particular to this part of tho process, as a bad pen, liko a bad egg, will spoil tho reputation of tho entire box. Tho final processes aro counting In gross lots and boxing, when tho product is ready for tho trade; and after going through all theso manipula tions tho completed pons sold to dealers for about a third of a cent npieco. Soon after steel pens becamo popular, inventors went to work to discover souiothing hotter. Glass, horn, tor-tolso-sholl and other substances woro tried, and tho numerous experiments culminated in the gold pen with douolo diamond points, first mudo in England by Isaac Hawkins, tin Amorican resid ing abroad. Subsequent tho samo man found that Iridium was about as good as the diamond, and It is now used al most exclusively. It is found in con nection with gold-bearing quartz in tho mines of California nnd Russia. Until 1814 gold pons woro split with scissors and rounded up with mallet and stick. Tho prico was thon from five dollars to ton dollars a pen. After John Rendell Invented machinery that would do tho greater portion of tho work, tho prico declined rapidly, and although much of tho work is still done by hand, a good gold pon can bo purchased to-day for from ono dollur to two dollars. Tho best gold pens aro mado in this coun try, and tho exportation is qulto largo. Golden Days. Not Honest, but Frank. An Eastern truvelor gives tho follow ing account of a brief, pointed, and wo think rather unsatisfactory interview with an Arab of Jobol Haurnn: "What brought you to tho spring, when you saw us thoro?" I asked him. "To strip you," ho coolly replied. "And why did you not do it?" "Bccauso Mnhmud was with you." "Hut why would you plundor us? Wo are strangers and not enemies." "It is our custom." "And do you strip all strangers?" "Yes, all wo can got hold of." "And If they resist, or uro too strong for you?" "In tho former caso wo shoot thorn from bohlnd trees; in tho lutter, wo run." "How do the people of your tribe Uvo? do thoy tow or plant?" "No, wo uro not slaves," said he, with much disdain. "What do you do for a living?" "W koop goats, hunt partridges, und uteul." 'Aro jot Ml thluves?" "Yiw, U.,,V. i' Ledger. i in Mrhj' a iiihii tit Ixian uui'iiud In Uto Until I. out at the race. 7.(r NOT IN A HURRY. A Com cuatlon Ovcrhvnil nt it Knllrrrnl Station Tlckot Wlttitmr. Enter woman: "Is this tho X. Y. & Z. ticket onlco?" "It is." "Can I tnko tho train hero for Pump kin Hollow?" "You can in just ten minutes." "What time does tho train go?" "At (:!iO." "La me! They told mo up at Catch cm & Chcatcm's that It went at hr.lt past six." "And so it does." "I ley!" "Tho train leaves nt half past six. Will you have n ticket?" "Well, 1 dunno. I kinder thought I'd drop down and see what time tho train went out to-night, cos I'd about made it) my mind to wait over and go in the lnornin'. S'poso 1 can go in tho morn in', can't 1?" "At 9:1."), uiadani." "Hey?" "You can leave hero for Pumpkin Hollow at l):-ir to-morrow, standard timo." "Law sakes what libbers some peo ple is! I just asked that big French policeman outside there, nnd ho said the mornin' train didn't go until a quar ter to ten! S'poso the fare' 11 bo the "unit! if I wait over and go in tho morn in', won't it?" "Just the same." "Well, you see, Mary Jnno that's my darter by my fust husband -she lives here, married to a foller by the name of John Smith; niebbo you know him? Never heard of him? Law, suz, you don't say! Now that's citrus, hain't it? Livo in tho same town with my darter's husband nnd don't know him; never s'much as hearn toll of him! Well, as I was saying, Mary Juno wants mo to stop over and go to prayer meet ing with her to-night an' kinder see tho sights. Now, it won't cost mo a cent to stay, but 1 never could abide that John Smith. Didn't want Mary Jane to marry him In tho first place, and" "Excuse mo, niadame, but will you havo a ticket?" "Well, don't bo in a hurry! I was tellin' yo about .John Smith and " "But you see there tiro others waiting to bo sorved?" "Well, 1 guess my monoy's as good as anybody's, nnd 1 don't stir from this window until I get my ticket; now seo if I do!" "Ticket? Dollar ton!" "Well, hero's two dollars. I s'poso you can mako tho change?" "Ninety cents. Next!" "Well, don't bo in a hurry; we'll just sco if it's ninoty conts! 1 ain't got any too much confidence In railroads since thoy run over that red heifer Joshua bought of Jim Mnddon's widdor and then went to law cos wo wanted what sho was lawfully wuth. Thoy didn't want to pay us but twenty dollars for hor, but wo got a jury of farmers, and I toll you thoy mudo that air old rail road talk turkey in " General Man ugcr. MILITARY GENIUS. A l'ovor AMilrli Han Horn l'ossogiori hy All (irt'itt iurulA. Thoro is a quality that must not bo ignored in nny analysis of military genius. I mean tho power of calculat ing chances. This power is much more natural to somo than to others. 1 havo known men with whom It is a second instinct, whilo with others it is merely an arithmetical process, learned by book and mfc'or thoroughly effective. This, I think, is to bo accounted for by want of Imagination. Tho Gonornl who can not In his mind's oyo see boforo him tho wholo scene thnt somo projected operation will present, who can not, as It woro, pieturo to hlmsolf In n series of mental dissolving vlows nil tho various and progressive phases of, say, an at tack upon his enemy's position, lacks a natural quality which no nmount of study can supply. If you can not In your own mind Identify yourself with your nntngonlst; If you can not put yoursolf within his brain, as It woro, and reason as ho is doing nt every crit ical moment of a enmpaign, nnd from your knowledgo of men, and of him In particular, gathor what ho moans to do, you can nover bo in tho front rank of great commanders. A vivid Imagina tion, allied to a cool, calculating brain, enn alono insuro tills power to uny ono. Tho poetical, tho Imaginative side of war can not bo dlsponsod with by tto nblo General, tho groat lender. Wellington, In conversation long after his great achievements, said that ho had spent his military llfo In trying to divine what wns taking pluco bohlnd tho ranges of hills which bound ed his view. Ho was nbovo all things n man of sound common senso; unim pressionable, and the last man whom tho world would havo accredited with a brilliant imaglnatioti. Tito story of his lifo always oppeurs to tho casual reader of hlMory as tho abnogntlon of poetry. And yet ho must havo had u largo share of Imagination to havo en abled him to forcsoo his enemy's move ments with thnt perspicuous clearness which wns manifest in all his cam paigns, Waterloo alono oxcepted. Groat military genius Is impossible without n combination of all those qual ities, many of which uro ruro, ovon when tnkon singly. Thoy must bo well balanced, also, so that no ono quality shall ovorwolgh or outrun tho othur. No ono can be omitted without leaving a weak point, n broach Into which uncertainty of decision and con fusion of notion limy penetrate to tho utter dustriiutloii of tho iiiiin mid of ul. nimiiittad to hi waru. Umierul 'U iOHtt WuhtUy, in Fortnightly Jltvieu: ANTIQUITY OF DAKINQ. A rrctiNtorlc Art 1'rnrtlrril ly tho An clrnt 1'Kjiitlnin mill llrlirrww. Tho origin of baking precedes tho period of history and is Involved in tho obscurity of tho early ages of tho hu man rncj Excavations mado in Switz erland gave evidence that tho art of making bread was practiced by our prehistoric ancestors, ns early ns tho stono period. From the shape of loaves it Is thought that no ovens woro used at that time, but tho dough was rolled into small round cakes and laid on hot Monos, being covered with glowing ashes. Bread is mentioned in tho book of Genesis, where Abraham, wishing to entertain three angels, olTerod to "fetch n morsel of bread." Baking is again referred to where Sarah has in structions to "make ready quickly three measures of tlno meal, knead it, and make cukes upon tho hearth." Lot entertained two angels by giving them unleaven bread. Tho mere men tion of unleavened bread shows that there were two kinds of bread mado ovon at that time. Tho art of baking wns carried to a high perfection among tho Egyptians, who aro said to havo baked cukes in ninny fantastic shapes, using several kinds of Hour. The Romans took up tho art of baking nnd public bakeries were numerous on the streets of Rome. In England tho business of tho baker was considered to bo-ono so closely af fecting tho Interests of the public that In 1'2(5( an act of Parliament was passed regulating the prico to bo charged for bread. This regulation continued In operation until IS-'-' in London, and un til 1S.'!6 In tho rest of tho country. Tho art of making bread has not yet reached some countries in Europe and Asia. In tho rural parts of Sweden no bread is made, but ryo cakes that are bakod twice a year and uro as hard us flint. It is less than a century ago taut bread was used in Scotland, tho Scotch people of every class living on bnrloy bannocks and oaten cukes. Owing to tho fact that bread is sold very cheap ly in Great Britain, the bakers of that country aro a poorly paid class of lu borors. For years the employers mado uso of child labor to such an oxtont that parliament in 186!$ passed a law making it tt criminal offense to employ a young person under the ago of eigh teen years to work in u bakohouso be tween the hours of nine p. m. and livo a. in. As most of tho work done by bakors is in tho night, this statutory law in Grout Britnln virtually prohibits child labor In bakehouses. In all coun tries of tho world wheat Hour is tho principal material for making bread, although ryo is used largely among tho peasantry In somo parts of Europo. Tho prico of bread has always followed tho market prico of wheat very closely, and a recent rise in wheat advanced tho prico of a pound loaf In Chicago 'Jo per conL Chicago News. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Constant anil Itaplcl Growth nt tho Too Ilen U it Inn It. In nn article, "Tho Futuro of tho English-Speaking races," Mr. Glad stone computes that tho habitual speak ers of English havo increased from 15, 000,000 to lOS.OOO.OOO during tho last ono hundred years, that thoy will num ber 120,000,000 by tho year 1900, and at tho rate of luerenso, sovon times In a century, thoy will Includo 840,000,000 of people by tho year 2000. Tho Increase during tho last century has, of courso, been duo chlelly to tho growth of tho United States. Slnco 1787 our population bus boon multiplied twonty times, whilo that of tho British kingdom itself has only a llttlo moro than doubled. Wo havo inercusod from about 3,000,000 to moro than 00, 300,000, and England, including all tho British isles, has Incronsod from 14, 000,000 to ftf, 000,000. In othor words, tvhilo this country contained only one fifth of tho total of English-speaking pcoplo a century ago, it now con tains threo-flfths. Tho inoroaso during the next contury, as computed by Mr. Gladstone, must also bo In tho United States in chief part. If tho present rato of growth, about 8 per cent unnunlly, should con tinue, our population 100 years hence would bo 700,000.000, or noarly twlco tho present population of China. Even assuming tho gradual fall of tho rutlo of incroaso to 2 por cent, a your, It would bo moro thun 650,000,000, and by tho year 2000 out of tho 810,000,000 English-speaking people in the world more than throe-fourths would bo In Iho United Stutos. Mr. Burhum Zlncko, a woll known writer, astonished tho world iu 1883 by istlrnntlng that in 100 years from that .iino tho uggroguto of tho Kngllsh-spoak-,ng rucos would bo 1,000,000,000. Of Utoso ho guvo tho United Stutos 800, XK),000, estimating our ruto of increase it 2 per cent, annuity, or a doubling of ;ho popululion onco in ovory twonty lve years. That would bo four-fifths of jio wholo, while England itself would aavo only 70,000,000, or a very Inslg liflcunt part of tho English-speaking population of tho world. Another com putation, by a continental writer, esti mates our population a century honoo it 700,000,000, or ton times tho nuntbor ;hat can reasonably be estimated for tho British islands. Whether tho present rato of incroaso n this country continues during the toxt contury, or whether it alls from 3 lo 2 per cent, or oven lower, thoro is no juestion tlntt hero Is tho great scat of iio English-speaking ruce, and thnt England Itself and all Its English colo jlo will btfitdtly decline in relative lin ortnnou, until they become so far In iirtnr In number and power as to ho kiuiplutuly ovoi'ihudowod. .V. i, tiuiu TRICKS OF MEDIUMS. Wlint an Olil Thratrli al Man Knmi Al)on linmtnn In Spirit uallin. A well-known manager of traveling theatrical companies nt present in New York had handed to him on the street n dodger announcing tho "Death to Spir itualism" entertainment that Dr. Rich- p.nond, tho dentist, promises to glvo in tho Academy of Music Sunday evening. Ho laughed as ho glanced It over, and then ho said: "When I was manager of a theater on tho PariHe slope tho advanco agont of Anna Eva Fay caino along nnd want ed to hlro tho house. I didn't. hire that time; I wanted shares or nothing, ami ns I had the only theater in town lie had to accept my terms. Thoy had tv big house, and afterward engnged mo to uianago their tour through the siimll towns where I controlled the houses. I had to go with tho company, anil In that way got my first insight into tho business. I wasn't tnkon into nny secrets of the trade at all; these medi ums never give themselves away ex cept to their actual confederates, but i man with half an eye could seo easy enough what a humbug tho whole busi ness wtis. One of Anna Eva's great tricks then was tho production of tho spirit of some well-known person who had tiled In the place, and the verifica tion of the identity by the production of its name and other particulars writ ten on it slip of paper which somo ono in tho audience had inserted through ti slit in tho etiblnet- It made tho coun trymen get right down on their knees and groan when thoy saw those blank slips como out with names and dates of which tho medium was thought to bo absolutely ignorant written on them. Sometimes they used ovon to recognize the handwriting. "it was simple enough. Part of tho business of the advanco agent was to visit the graveyard in each town whoro ho billed the company. From tho tombstones he copied names, dates of death and other particulars, especially of recently deceased persons, or of per sons who seemed to havo been of somo prominence in tho community. Ho also went through files of tho recent Issues of tho local papers and copied particu lars from death notices and obituary columns. The mass of memoranda thus gathered he Inclosed In an envelope and loft nt the hotel for Anna Evn when sho etinie. From theso memoranda names and othor mutters were copied upon slips of paper exactly liko those the audience was to have; and tho slips thus written on woro concealed upon tho medium's person, when she went into the cabinet. After that the sub stitution of tho written slips for tho blank ones put in by the audience was ti perfectly simple matter. Of course it goes without saying that the tying in the cabinet was till a sham. That is so with all of them. The staples to which tho ropes uro fastened seem solid enough to any ordinary oxamination, but any ono who knows tho trick can pull thorn out without trouble. As to the hands, any one with a slender hand can, with practice, double it up so that it will slip out of any knot that can bo tied or out of tho smallest size of hand cuffs. "Tho trick of materializing fiowors und making them Ileal in tho air boforo tho cabinet was another strong curd for Miss Fay. Wo used tt) buy tho llowors of somo llorlst us fur away from tho con tor of town us possible. Thoy hud very long stems, und shu simply stuck Ilium through holes in tho cabinet nnd waved them about. In the dim light nobody could tell that they woro not lloutlng in tho nir, und tho poor fools In tho uutll onco used to snatch them up lifter tho porformunco nnd curry thorn uwuy as sacred. "Soveral bad breaks woro mudo on that trip, but sho was novor really caught. Miss Fay is tho clovorest wo man I over know at tho business, und I don't bollovo sho over cun bo actually caught in nnu of hor tricks. Evon when things look protty dark for her sho manages to slip out of tho trap somehow. For ono thing, sho Is a dreadfully sweet und protty llttlo thing, nnd sho enn put on a most appealing look when It Is necessary, and fow mon can withstand that. Thoy drop tho subject und let hor go on without giving tho trick away." N. Y. Sun. Kooplng Sood Potatoes. If tho sood Is kept in barrels In tho collar it may ho poured over from one barrel to another; but after all tho main point Is to keep tho temperature down to a low figure. Thoro has boon somo talk In tho j.upors lately to tho olloct that forty degrees was low enough, thut it was not wibo to let them get uny nearer to freezing. I would keep tliom as cold as thlrty-threo degrees to thirty four degrees, providing, of course, that tho cellar was well enough built ho thut thoro would bo no danger of Its freezing during a cold night. Just us near freez ing us you cun und run no risk would bo my motto. I havo planted hundreds of bushels thut hud been kopt ul a temperature as low as nbovo mentioned for months and all grow lleoly. hi case of a sudden cold snap potatoes will stand a freezing tomporaturo or ovon lower for a short time. I havo planted some that were exposed to a temper tti re of tweiity-nliio degrees for a short timo on purpobo and thoy all grow all right. But when tho mercury gets bo low thtrty-threo degrees during a very cold spell ono hud butter Ihj on tho bitfu ldo and warm up tho collar a degree or so. A llttlo oil stove doos this nicely in a short time, and just enough ami no more If ono i wattihlng. T. II. Terry, (h Country OtHttemun. Ono of tho llrsl impulses of human nature 1 to pull down, Instead of build ing up. HIBERNATING FAKIRS. A furlou Story Which Nnhoilr- Is Com print to Itrllcvo. A traveler from India relates tho following trick of tho fakirs, which, if true, certainly ont-IIoudlnlzcs Houdlnr A fakir makes u wager with somo skep tical person or persons, generally ofll cers of tho British army, that ho will allow himself to bo buried in tho earth, "from corn to corn," a period of about six months. When tho arrangements aro completed, the fakir betakes him self to his family, probably for tho pur pose of going through a courso of treatment. Ho Is then brought forth, dressed In limine!, which is the chief ftiele of npparol among his class. Every one who desires Is permitted to witness what occurs from this poinL The man is then laid upon tho ground bvj his brother fakirs, and his tongue is thrust upward and backward into Ills throat unit there secured. This is probably done, physicians think, to prevent the How of saliva. His knees are then drawn up nnd his head thrust down between them, bringing him into ns small a compass us possible. In this position he is al lowed to remain until such time as ho becomes unconscious nud ills respira tion imperceptible. It is supposed, that unconsciousness is produced by Iho position of tho tongue. Ho is then placed in a rubber bag to protect him from all moisture, nnd tho bag Is Sealed up. By this time physicians clnim that ho has passed through tho comatoso state, nnd into n stnto of coma only ono remove from death. The persons who havo made tho wager are then allowed to select tho spot lu which thov wish tho body bur ied, there being but ono restriction im posed upon them, which is that they shall select u place slightly olovatcd above the surrounding country, iu or der that tho water or moisture may not settle about the burled fakir. Ho Is burled iu plain view of nil. Over him the ground Is burrowed and corn sowed und reuped. In ono Instance whoro tho trick was performed tho officers who laid tho wager kept two sontinols, who were relieved according to regu lar military custom, pacing over tho body of tho burled fakir both night and day from tho time ho wns Interred to tho timo ho wns exhumed In their presence. When tho six months or thorubout 'lad expired the body wns disinterred und laid upon the ground in tho presence of u consldornblo audi ence. After a short timo tho rubber bag was removed, euro being tnkon to koop tho body always on Its right side, nud another interval occurred. Then the llannel covering was loosoned and shortly nftor tho tonguo was brought back to tho proper position. Tho body was then raised to a standing position and carried about botwoon two fakirs until its limbs becamo capable of mo tion, Theso demonstrations woro con tinued but a short timo boforo tho fakir, to tho satisfaction of his audi ence, walked up and down unaided several times boforo thorn and then de parted alono to his home to bo cured for by his family. Medical men who woro present at this oxporimont nnd woro allowed to5' oxuinino tho fakir whon exhumed as sorted that thoy woro unublo to dotcct the slightest ovldonco of circulation by feeling of the pulso or tho hcarL EQUITABLE " ENOUGH. Mow mi Arizona JlauMtratu Dvclilrtl it Troiihlitxmiiu l.nw-Siilt. Tho Drawer hours of a cuso that won rocontly tried boforo a justice of tho pouco In ono of tho mining districts of Arl.onn, that for tho impartiality of its settlomout Is unlquo In tho annul of tho law. Tho plaintiff was a wealthy druggist, who sued tho Knights of La bor for tho cash cqulvalont of cor tola medicines furnished an Injured Knight on tho written order of tho association,, which order tho association refused ton lienor. Witnesses woro examined on both sides at grout length and tho counsel for both parties to tho dllToronco In dulged in tho highest flights or ora tory, to which his honor llstoncd with becoming dignity, ruling always with: tho greatest deference for tho proper ties, and taking apparently great In torosl in tho point at Issue. Tho Iriul lusted for two duys, both: sidos summed up, und, In accordance: with tho usual custom, each of tho counsol requested that tho judgo would uward tho verdict to his cllenL Whon counsol sat down a look of In effable disgust crossed his honor's fact), nud rising from his chair, ho fixed his oyo upon tho legal luminaries boforo him, and remarked: "You fel lers must think I'm tho blamodest fool thut over lived. Glvo a vordlet to your client? What kind of a freak do you tnko mo for?" "I'm suro, your Honor," crlod tho plaintiff's counsol, "that nolthor I nor my cllont holds you lu any othor than tho highest ostoom. Your rulings havo shown that your Honor is pos bossod of an erudition which" 'That'll do, that'll do. my friend. I don't want no buck talk. But I'll glvo both you follors this p'lntor: If I glvo a verdict agin Mr. Blank" (tho druggist), "Mr. Blank, boln' tho rich est man In this town, '11 bo down on mo, un' I can't afford loslu' uono of his liilluenco; nud If I glvo a vordlet ngtn tho Knights, tho town Ml git so darned hot I couldn't stay In It. I ain't no fool nor no freak, so I, don't deliver no deoUlon on no bide. Tho court's ad journed." Tho caso will probably ho appottlad. Harper1 Magutlne, Tho moro you practice what yen know, the moro you shull know wlmtu lmotic0i