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Til -GARMENT. I
fUEIiE wag do skeleton la the
armor when Hartpule fouud It;
only gome sand and a buucb of
tumble-weed, a rattle-snake, and a ta
rantula. The tarantula scuttled off, he
killed the rattlesnake, and the tumble-
weed and sand he emptied out. Then
he had the armor done up In a shelter-
teut and put upon a pack-mule. After
which, the column moved on. It should
not have halted at all, for It wag In
pursuit of a band of Indians. But there
were bands of Indians every day, and
the finding of a full suit of armor lying
under a mesquite bush beside their trail
w as rare.
Certainly Hartpole had never beard
of such a thing. And, so far as he
knew. It was the only fruit of armor
ever discovered on the New Mexico
plains, but bis lore on the subject was
not profound. ' " . .
When he got back to his two-company
post on the banks of tbe Gila, he
found the interest In life, which had
been lacking for him up to then, In en
larging that knowledge. lie sent East
for books and histories and treatises
concerning coats of mail and tbe men
who have worn them, and he even went
so far as to write to tbe Smithsonian
Institution, at tbe risk of having a gov
ernment commission sent out at once
to seize his treasure. And in the Inter
val of two months which elapsed be
fore be received a reply for the rail
road was only to Kansas In those days
be set about cleaning thff armor him
self, and with big own hands Joining it
together.
He was so occupied, what with that
and the histories and the other books,
that he forgot to have Glla-bottom ma
- larla and had no time to worry about
tbe flies. Then, when the steel was
once more bright as the assure shield of
Achilles, and be had proved to his own
and to every one's satisfaction that it
must once have protected tbe body of
one of Coronado's men, and must date
from tbe middle of Hie sixteenth cen
tury, or thereabout, be bung It up In
bis one-room adobe quarters, along
with the Indian trophies that were as
nothing now and the bottled reptiles of
many sorts; and the fame of it spread
through tbe laud. , An English lord, In
a pith helmet and gray linen, whq was
going about the country, traveled miles
out of bis way to look upon it; and a
scientific party from Boston did the
same. Hartpole Was beginning to be
-very proud, when, one day, he bad a
visitor of another kind. '"- - " '
It was a man be had seen sometimes
banging around the agency and tbe
post a small, lithe fellow, part Coyo
tero Apache, part' Mexican,' possibly'' a
very small part white; who had some
reputation as a medicine man with tha
tribes, but not much as anything else.
Hartpole was sitting under his ra-
nuula on a late summer afternoon, read
ing a book whose covers curled up with
the heat, when something came be
tween li t iil and bis light, and, looking
up, he saw the medlclne-iuau peering
In the opening. He said, "Hullo, Clcgo
and added, "What do you want, eh?"
Ciego was so called because he was
blind In one eye. He came In under
the runmdn, ami stood so close to him
that Hartpole moved a little. The Coy
otero's cast-off uniform and red head
band wero not clean. . -
Clcgo spoke excellent Spanish, and,
as Hartpole did, too, be had no trouble
about making himself understood. He
explained that he would like to see the
suit of Iron clothes which he bad been
told that the lieutenant possessed. The
lieutenant was so pleased to think that
it had been spoken of even in the fast
nesses of the Sierra Rlnnea and of the
Touto Baslu that he forgot how dirty
Clcgo was, and straightway rose and
Invited hi in Into the one room.
The medlclne-man stood looking at
tbe armor with an Interest and evident
.appreciation that touched Hartpole
very much. After tbe manner of his
kind, be said no word, but presently be
went nearer and felt of the plates and
chains with bis finger-tips, and put bis
good eye close and looked Inside. Then
lie turned to Hartpole. "Where did
you find It?" be asked.
.The lieutenant explained at some
length.
"is It very old?" ' : '
Hartpole said It wag at least three
hundred and thirty odd years old, and
went luto a little history.
Clego nodded his bead, 'i know," he
said. But that was so manifestly ab
surd that Hartpole did not pay any at
tention to It. "It Is very fine," said
Clcgo. "For bow much will you sell It
to me?" Naturally, Hartpole only
laughed, but the Apache was lu ear
nest, nevertheless. "No," he Insisted,
looking him sharply In the face. "No,
de vera, I wish to buy It from you."
"Well, I don't wish to sell," answered
the lieutenant, rather vexed at the mere
Idea.
"1 have five hundred dollars," said
the Indian. , . f,
"If you had a thousand you could not
have it."
"I have a thousand."' " - '
Hartpole laughed again, a little Im
patiently. "You do not believe me look here."
Clego drew a buckskin bag from the
folds of bis sash. It was full of gold.
"There are five hundred dollars here.
In three days I can bring you five bun
died more."
Hartpole guessed how he had come
by It, and his temper rose. ; "That Is
stolen money," be said, angrily; "put It
up. You can't have the armor. Uka
Sliee." "You let me have it." begged Clego;
'I wish It very much. 1 will do mauy
things for you." ' ' ':'
Hartpoie swore this time mean,
. Spanish oaths. "No," he said, "you
cau't have It. Go to the Devil get
out." - -. ' " -
Even though Clego was only a dirty
Indian, the. White-Eye should have re
membered that he probably bad feel
ings which could be hurt. . It Is well,
"cowever, for those who have the direc
tion of children and savages In their
hands to remember that those simple
folk have sometimes reasons for the
things they do and say, good and suffi
cient unto themselves. But It never
Occurred to Hartpole what this half-
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blind Indian's reasons might be. Tbey
did not transpire until some weeks
later.
Yet In Ciego'i tribe there was a le
gend of a great white chief who bad
once married one of their women, and
had ruled over them, and who bad
worn a suit of shining Iron. And their
tradition ran that whosoever should
find and wear that garment again
would be Impervious to the bullets of
the White-Eye, would become the
greatest of medlclne-men, and rule not
only over his own people but over all
the Apache tribes and those of the
plains of the North. And the very
founder of that family to which Clego
belonged wag reputed to have been the
white chief In the coat of Iron.
The Coyoteros believed these things
and so did the medicine man. So when
the news of the armor suit had reached
him, he had levied heavy fees for big
Incantations .for some months, and,
adding these to the gold be had ex
changed for Mexican dollars, .collected
from many raids, be took himself down
to tbe camp of the soldiers to obtain
fairly and by purchase that which wag
big very own. But fairness and the
offers of purchase had failed.
Clego looked the White-Eye officer
over from his scalp to his toes, and up
again, and then with no sound, save
Just one grunt, went out from the quar
ters and from the post. ;
Hartpole told of It at the mess that
night, and forgot all about It after that.
But Clego did not as Hartpole ought
to have foreseen. . rf
One night an Indian, his body naked
as It was born, a poisoned knife In his
hand, stole across the sandy parade
ground when the moon wag nnder tbe
clouds of a coming storm, and slipped,
as silently as none but a savage can,
under tbe ramada of Hartpole'g quar
ters, and thence through the open door,
The Indian bad missed nothing when
he bad been In that one small room a
month before. He knew where every
thing in It was, from the cbromo In a
blue frame on the wall to the cot In the
corner, across from tbe fire-place.- He
bid himself behind the piece of calico
that curtained off tbe nook where Hart-
pole's clothes bung, and waited until
the moon showed for a moment through
a break In the clouds, and he could see
the figure on the cot beneath the mos
quito-net. When the room wag dark
again, he slid out; and the blade of the
knife in big band went straight through
the heart of the man asleep. Then he
took the rattling armor from Its nails
and wrapped it In tbe calico curtain,
and fled through the night, as silently
and swiftly as only an Apache can.
Now It happened that Hartpole had
gone to another post a good many miles
to the east that very day, and be had
left his striker to sleep In bis quarters
and keep guard over big things. So It
was into tbe luckless soldier's heart
that the knife was driven, and the next
day a telegram apprised Hartpole that
his striker wag murdered and big suit
of mnll wag gone.
The day after that all the department
knew that the Coyoteroa were on the
war-path, and, having cut the reserva
tion, were killing right and left. They
were led by a medlclne-man called
"Clcgo," and the scouts reported that
he was dressed In a garment of White
Iron which no White-Eye's bullet could
peirce. They also reported that tbe
Cblrlcahuas and the Pah-Utes and tbe
Sierra Blancas were Joining him. It
promised to be an Interesting rime for
the territories. ?'.
Hartpole began to have a dim Idea of
why the medlclne-man had wanted his
Spanlah mall, now. .,, He was ordered
out, of course. Most of the department
was. Trouble of the sort that this
promised to be had to be checked at
once, If at all. It was serious already;
but there was one thing in favor to get
away. Their fanatical faith in their
medlclne-man led them to seek battle
rather than to shun It. And twice,
having done bo, they beat off the
troops, because there were, as usual,
too few. But the third time they were
caught In a iioeket of the Mogallons,
and there were no less than six troops
Against them. Hartpole'g was of the
number. "
The ludlans fought from dawn of the
first day until twilight of the second, In
tbe open at first, then from behind she!
ter, then at last they retreated to a
shallow cave high up on a hillside, and
there was no getting them out A
mountain howitzer might have done It
but there was none with the command
All dny tbe troops fired volleys Into go
much of the mouth of the cave as show
ed between the pine trunks aud the
walls of rock. They knew that tbe
slaughter within must have been pretty
severe, but there were no signs of sur
render, nevertheless. The hostlles
might hold out until the last one was
dead; they certainly would until their
medicine-man should fall. The medi
cineman could be, seen from time to
time, a gleaming figure, moving clumsi
ly among the trees and underbrush.
And for all that It went go slowly and
was so bright, no bullet seemed ever to
hit .It.?- Even the w hite men began to
consider It with awe. -
At sunset of the second day, when
the sounds from the cave had all but
ceased and the Indians wlthlu It were
without ammunition aud at bay, the
glistening form came clambering delib
erately to the top of a high rock,
whooping aud yelling, calling the rem
nant of Its followers on. It stood so,
for a moment, the red sun rays striking
through the pine branches on the dent
ed steel, a weird sight In the depths of
the mountain fastnesses of the New
World; so odd and strange that tbe sol
diers hesitated with their fingers on
the triggers of their carbines.
"But Hartpole, kneeling alone behind
n bowlder, remembered ouly that that
glowing armor was his, and that he
wauted It The visor was up and he
could see the glitter of the one good
eye. He bad won a sharpshooter's med
al In his time, and he put his skill to
use now. There waa a puff of smoke
from above bis bowlder, and the shin
ing figure threw up Its arms and stag
gered. Then It fell forward, down from :
the pinnacle of rock, clattering and
crashing among tbe logs and stones.
Tbey found, when tbey dragged him
out, tbat Hartpole'g bullet bad gone
gtralgbt through tbe good eye, and tbat
Ciego waa ciego In very truth now
and quite dead. San Francisco Argonaut.
IT WAS NOT CONSCIENCE.
Made Honest by tbe Sight of a Dilapi
date t Umbrella.
Here I a highly moral tale wblcb will
make good reading for both old and
young. It la a valuable Illustration of
tbe text, "Tbe way of tbe transgressor
Is hard." It Is a story of a woman and
an umbrella. It Is apparent tbat tbe
umbrella boa been the cauxe of tbe fall
from strict honesty of many otherwise
irreproachable Individuals. The woman
In this story, up to the occurrence of
this particular event, however, bad
found the umbrella to'be tbe source of
the display on her part of many excel
lent virtues and had suffered many
things because of them. She bad been
snlpplly treated by women, barely
thanked by men and openly snubbed
by the autocrats of the surface cars lu
her efforts to gee that absent-minded
people did not lose their umbrellas. And
lu some way she seemed always to be
finding unattached umbrellas, and her
conscience forbade her leaving them
without an attempt to find the owners.
On this particular day she waa resting
quietly In one of the parlors of a big
New York shop when quite .according to
her custom she espied beside her an
umbrella. It was rather dark In that
coruer of the room and she could Dot
see tbe umbrella distinctly, but she put
her band on It, found tbat It was silk,
and with a weary sigh rose to find some
one who would take charge of It. Why
should she be made the public cus
todian of umbrellas? Nevertheless ah
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charge of the room, but ahe had slipped
out. She went In search of a floor
walker, but not one was In sight. In
and out around counters gh walked'
weafly but not a floor walker to be
wearily, nut not a floor walker to be
seen. Then the temptation came.
"What a gooae you aref said the In -
ward voice, "Here you upend your tim
looking up people to take charge of lost
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umbrellas, and I don't bel eve that once
1n a thousand years they ever reach
their owners. Take that umbrella
home with you and don't be a fool."
The voice waa growing emphatic.
It was probably because she waa
tired, but, anyway, without a moment'g
resistance the ' woman stopped her
search and walkc-d out of the shop with
the umbrella which would now be berg.
She walked on with conscious careless
ness, not venturing to give glance at It
She did not do this until she waa In the
car on her way home. Then she did
look down and saw In her bands a silk j
umbrella, to be sure, but old and
ragged, an umbrella which would be a
disgrace to the poorest costume. Some i
woman had bought a new umbrella '
and discarded this rag. And now the
finder must get rid of It She hadn't
felt like a thief before, but now she did.
How could she get rid of It? She did
not dare throw It In the street; for that
would be conspicuous. . She laid It on
the seat as far back as possible, looked
unconscious again, and at last sneaked
-J-that was the way she felt out of that
car and actually ran until ahe was
around the corner and no one could pes-
sibly return to her the umbrella she had
Voluntarily stolen. New York Times.
THE HEROINE OF TO-DAY,
the laSelf-Rellant, Physically Strong,
und Fitted to le Muu'a Companion.
The heroine of modern life and fic
tion is contrasted with the heroine ef
the century's beginning by Robert
Grant, In the Woman's Home Compan
Ion. In the following passage Judge
Grant leaves little doubt as to wblcb
of the two he prefers:
"Not only woman herself, but tbe
universe, rejoices In the new heroine of
real life and contemporary fiction the
self-reliant, Incredulous, sphere-seeking,
critical, yearning modern woman
Even the rose on her bosom wears a
prouder demeanor, as though conscious
of her changed estate. Who would re
mand her to her Insipid servitude?
Certainly not man. She has become his
true companion Instead of bis adoring
doll. The Amelia Sedleyg have passed
away from tbe face of the earth for
ever, and the Marcellag .rule In their
place. And yet, with the swinging of
the pendulum In mind, a philosopher
may be pardoned for dropping a few
violets on the grave of tbe heroine of
the past; even on poor Amelia Sedley'g
Amelia, who would certainly have
bored this philosopher to the point of
weariness. .. -
"Amelia Sedley was the dheer heroine
of the past without lights and shadows.
But her more attractive sisters He also
In their graves, and memories of some
of them come back to us fragrant with
virtues In . spite of , their limitations,
which, It seems to a philosopher, the
new heroine the Gibson girl cannot
afford to disregard. They had no ml ads
to speak of, It Is true. That Is, they
were parrot-Ilke In their repetition of
what their husbands and fathers and
brothers told them was so; and their
energies were devoted to household
concerns the generation and rearing of
babies, the production of delectable
food, to darning, nursing, church-work
and small charities. They were gener
ally timid and afraid of mice, disin
clined to athletic exerclge and heroic
undertakings; they had no clubs, and
did not aim to be original. But think
how dainty and pnre-mlnded and ten
der they were! Dainty with the nlce-
ness of dolls, pure-minded with the In
nocence of the moated grange, tender
with the loving forgiveness and foolish
Infatuation of Idolators, It may be, and
yet dainty, pure-minded and tended"
Steam and Modern Navies.
A whole fleet In the days of Nelson
could be built and fitted out at little
more than tbe cost of a single Ironclad:
the coal expended on a single cruise
would pay for the refitting of his whole
battle line, while the Immense shells re
quired to make any Impression on the
modern armor plate cost more than hla
whole armament But the modern Kne-of-battle
ship could neither be built
armed nor fought without the use o!
steam, and its evolution may be said
to have commenced with the first appli
cation of the steam euglne to naviga
tion. If you would know a man as he really
is yon most dine with htm occasionally.
PRIZES HER SNAKES.
KLAMATH FALLS PEOPLE DON'T
LIKE TO PART WITH THEM.
On Plca-ant Par They Mar Be Been
br Thonaande Wriggling Abont on
Bocky Ledges Beside the Falla
Harmleea to Humanity.
The snake industry at Klamath Falls
bids fair to become Important. A few
weeks ago Postmaster Castel received
a letter from a concern In Minnesota
making Inquiry as to tbe price of the
reptiles, and if a shipment could be
made to a Minnesota snake farm. Al
though the letter was written on print
ed letter heads, the postmaster thought
some one was trying to perpetrate a
Joke upon him. He replied, however,
and stated that it would supply all tbe
snakes wanted at 25 cents a pound. By
return mall, much to bis surprise, came
an order for 400 pounds of snakes, de
livered at tbe nearest railroad statlou.
Tbe Mlnnesotan went on to state tbat
next season be would make further
orders an object to Mr. Castel, but be
would take 800 pounds more this fall.
Snake catching is now the order of the
day here. It Is a paying business, as
one man can easily capture 100 In a
day, and this represents at least fifty
pounds.
The Klamath Falls snakes have a
world-wide reputation. The town Is
situated at tbe foot of Klamath falls,
which begin at -Upper Klamath lake
and continue through a narrow, rocky
gulch for a mile to tbe lower lake. The
descent Is gradual and the falls nothing
more than a rapid mountain stream,
100 yards or more wide, between the
two lakes. This place forms a sort of
curve, or elbow, and was called Ewawa
by the Indians, meaning elbow. Along
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ritver or f1U on wrm da mlle,8
of -nakei, curling, wriggling and crawt
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flnd lf the weather ,s a llttle co1 one
. t , f th
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as many do. The stranger on hla first
il'ln fn .hla am. Inn la f .... n 1 1 AnAn.
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i Ing and Jumping g dewlse, although he
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o iuiviiucu luav i lie icuiucs aic uci-
! fectly harmless. The Inhabitant doesn't
mind them at all. . Little girls gather
lapronfuls and boys carry small ones
I around In their pockets. They are re
' garded as pets here generally and are
seldom harmed. They come down Into
the very town and while walking along
tbe streets a couple of dozen may be
seen In going a block. -They simply
wriggle out of the way crawl between
tbe cracks ,cf the plank sidewalks or
move off tq one side. : The snakes are
regarded as benefactors by the com
munity and there Is some complaint at
parting with the few required to fill
tbe Minnesota man's order.
The reptiles live and breed among
the rocks and cliffs along the falls, and
it Is asserted Jhjit they have completely
routed the rattlesnakes from tbe entire
section, besides destroying all tbe mice
and other pests that infested the place.
They attack a rattlesnake and while
one alone has been known to kill tbe
largest rattler, a number will wind
themselves about the venomous reptile
and strangle It In a short time. It ts
claimed that before these snakes made
their appearance the rattlers Infested
the region, but they are now seldom
seen.
The species Is said to- be a water
snake, and this is evidenced by the fact
that they will take to the water If there
is no other meaus.-of escape when
crowded, and move about in that ele
ment with the ease and skill of a fish.
They are of a dark color, about three
feet long when full grown and have a
stripe a little lighter' than the general
color down their back., AH sizes may
be seen among them, from the three or
four Inch baby snake to the full-grown
ones. On a warm day they are visible
by the thousands and in many cases
they coil up by tbe dozens in huge rolls.
Pictures of ' these rolls have been sent,
upon Inquiry, all over the world. A
farmer living In tbe gulch by the banks
of the river has great difliculty In using
his hay at the last of winter. The
snakes take refuge In his barn during
the cold weather, and as the hay gets
low he finds great masses of the, be
numbed reptiles rolled together all
through the hay
It Is believed here that tons of the
snakes could be shipped from this place
annually without materially decreasing
the supply, and the Industry may prove
a paying one. Snake oil commands an
enormous price for medicinal purposes,
and It Is known tbat a superior quality
of tbe oil can be manufactured from
the Klamath Falls species. Portland
l regonlnn.
Insurance on Royal Heads.
The lives of European potentates are
generally heavily Insured. While many
of them enjoy practically unlimited in
comes during their lives tbey are un
able to bequeath anything except to
their eldest song. Insurance gives them
the opportunity of making some provis
ion for their younger sons and daugh
ters. Napoleon III. of France was Insured
for a fabulous sum; and It is due to this
foresight that the ex-Empress Eugenie
will leave when she dies $10,000,000 to
LPrlnce Victor Napoleon.
The late King Humbert of Italy was
more heavily insured than any mon
arch since that day. No less than
000,000 will be paid over to Queen
Margherlta.
Scarcely a single English insurance
company was without some Interest in
the Duke of Edinburgh's life and now
the huge sum of $1,500,000 will have to
come out of the coffers of these so
cieties.
The Prince of Wales' policies amount
to $3,000,000, while the Czar of Russia
is Insured for only $2,000,000. One mil
lion dollars Is at stake on the life of
Prince Henry of Prussia; $1,500,000 up
on that of the Baron de Rothschild, of
London. Queen Victoria, as might be
supposed, has been a veritable gold
mine to Insurance companies owing to
her long life.
Germany Haa a. New Motor.
From Germany comes the design of a
remarkable motor that turns beat
energy directly Into motion through the
Intermediary action of electricity. Tbe
machine Is called a thermo-electric
motor, and works on tbe familiar prin
ciple of tbe electric motor somewhat
modified to meet the peculiar exlgen
cies of the case. In action it Is essen
tially an electric motor, but one deriving-
its electrical energy from heat ap
plied to it through thermo-electric cou
ples. A thermo-electric couple Is com
posed of twodlsHilmilar metals, such as
iron and copper. Any complete circuit
made of two metals must necessarily
bave two Junctions of tbe two In it.
if mi nf thpse lunc-tions is heated
more than the other an electric current
will flow in the circuit, Its amount ana
direction depending on the nature of the
two metals, the difference in tempera
ture between the two Junctions and tbe
resistance It encounters In its path. On
tbe motor machine the couples are
made of Iron and nickel, firmly brazed
together. They are arranged like the
windings of the ordinary electric motor,
with one set of Junctions brought con
veniently to the surface, where gas Jets
nhiv unon them. The other set are
cooled by a rapid circulation of air
about them, pnceiidered bv the rotation
of the machine. While tbe motor is of
no practical value, It is exceedingly
Interesting exemplification of the ease
with which energy may be transformed
and retransformed through the various
forms of heat, electricity and motion.
A lady of literary fame once requested
VT. Held, the celebrated meuieai writer,
to call at her house. "Be sure you rec
ollect the address." she said as she
quitted tbe room, "No. 1 Chesterfield
street" "Madam," said the doctor, "I
am too great an admirer of politeness
not to remember Chesterfield, and, I
fear, too selfish ever to forget Number
One."
Justin McCarthy and some friends
were talking once about a member of
tbe House of Commons. A lady who
was one of tbe company said it was a
pity for the sake of his personal appear
ance that he had such very large ears.
"Yes,""ald T: P. O'Connor, the bril
liant parliamentary and platform ora
tor, "and the worst of it Is that while
they are too large for ears, they are too
small for wings."
When Governor Roosevelt's train
pulled out of Greeley, Col., a woman
climbed on the back platform In order
to five him a home-made enke. The
train gained such momentum that when
the time came for her to get on she was
obliged to make a flying-trapeze leap
for terra firma. She rolled over a few
times in the sand, got up, and smiled at
Roosevelt as he stood worried for her
safety on the back platform. Then she
waved her handkerchief In evident de
light, and became the envy of a hun
dred women who had watched her ac
robatic effort
At a luncheon given by some strang
ers in an English town, where he .was
lecturing the other day, Israel Zang
will was treated as a famous celebrity.
and his most Indifferent remark was re
ceived with great interest. After
luncheon his hostess asked him to write
something In her little boy's diary, so
that the little man might always re
member the day he saw the great
writer. Mr. Zangwlll turned over the
leaves of the diary, reading here and
there: "Got a reward of merit," "Had
a birthday party," "Tonsilitis," etc., and
then he wrote: "December-ZangwII-litis."
Years ago Major Patterson was trav
eling on the railroad through Western
Kansas, wnen ne fell into conversation
with a congenial St. Louis man, who
remarked that he had an excellent
scheme for hiding bis money. "I simply
"Islmnlv
put it under the sweatband of mv bat'
he said, "and no robber In the world
would ever think of looking there for
cash." With that he pulled off his
hat and showed where he had $250
"planted" as he described. About an
hour later the train was suddenly halt
ed while it was turning a lonely ravine,
and In a few moments a masked man
entered tbe car and began to system
at'cally loot the passengers, while two
other robbers kept them covered with
shotguns from the doors. When the
fellow reached him the Major looked
up coolly and declared be had less than
a dollar in his pocket "Now if you"ll
leave me that and my watch," he said.
"I'll tell you something worth know
ing: That fellow in the next seaLhas
$250 under the sweat-band of his hat."
"All right" said tbe robber, "keep your
watch and chicken feed," and he pro
ceeded to confiscate the other naswpn.
ger's cash. When the agony was all
gc, o utt.u. nucu agony was all wucu nuu Mouse
over, and the marauders had departed ,lr1' she receives her fod and clothes
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the St. Louis man turned around, burst
ing with rage and indignation. "That
'e "6 luuiKuuuon. xnat
was a dirty, low-down trick!" he roar-
ed, "and I'm going to hold you account
able for every cent of my money!"
expected you to, my friend," reDl'ed!!
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the Major, quietly, "and here is the!
amount. You see," he added, "I hap J
pen to be a paymaster In the United
States army, and I have a mattw nf
$40,000 In this valise by my feet. Under
the circumstances I felt Justified in
temporarily sacrificing your little $25?
to divert attention. I shall charge It uji
to tbe Government as 'extra expense h
transportation of funds.
A Beggar's Piea.
"Could you spare a few cents for'i
sick child, ma'am?" said a woman to
young lady who was about to get on a
street car in Bellefield. - .
Being of a sympathetic nature, tho
young lady looked In her purse and
found she could spare a 5-cent nl
The coin was handed to the beggar,
.who took it and said:
"Thank you, lady. It'll be a blessin?
to the child. It'll buy him a pint a piut
of milk," she added as an after thoitht.
The car came just then, and as-the
young lady mounted the steps she laid:
"O, don't get milk for the child get
him tbe pint." J
The woman scowled anTe car
rolled on. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Coat of Running Atlantic Steamers.
In three years the expense o mnning
an Atlantic steamer exceeds tij? cost of
construction. f
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The race is not always to 'he swift -It
often depends on the character of the'
man in the judges' stand. I
FOR LABORING MEN ONLY.
College n Mlaaonri Center of the Hna
kin Hall Movement.
A new college, the first of its kind In
thig country, has been opened at Tren
ton, Mo., and Is expected to act as the
parent stem from which numerous oth
er similar institutions will sprout. It
Is called Ruakln College and Is as far
as is yet possible a counterpart of the
college of tbe same name which has
proven such a valuable addition to Ox
ford University, England. The Institu
tion Is In part the gift of English work
lngmen to their fellows In this country
and owes its existence largely to tbe
efforts of Walter Vrooman, the young
American who with other admirers of
the philosopher and critic founded Rus
kin Hall at Oxford. The school has for
Its object the placing of hitherto unat
tainable educational advantages within
the reach of young men of small means,
thus enabling them, for a time at least,
to leave their environment and give
themselves wholly to study. When Mr.
Vrooman announced that he would at
tempt the establishment of such a col
lege In this country he received Imme
diate offers of help from all over En
gland. Worklngmen there showed their
KUSKIN COI.I.KOK.
gratitude for the founding of Ruskln
Hall at Oxford by raising $20,000 on
behalf of a similar Institution In this
country. On returning to this country
Mr. Vrooman received hearty co-operation
from educators and labor leaders
here and soon the fund was augment
ed by $10,000.
Funds having been thus provided, the
work rapidly proceeded, and now the
college Is ready to receive students. Its
prototype at the venerable English seat
of learning Is devoted to the work of
educating young men of moderate
means, not with the Intention of mak
ing them lawyers or clergymen, but
with the hope of sending them back to
their own work fully equipped for the
leadership of their own class. It has
on Its rolls and It educates at this mo
ment about 1,500 worklngmen by cor
respondence; It has founded other Rus
kln Halls In the more Important towns
of England.
Ruskln College at Trenton hag now
necome the central Institution and
headquarters of the Ruskln Hall move
ment In America, and around It are to
be established shops, factories and bus
iness enterprises, Including agriculture
and horticulture.
A WOMAN'S POCKET MONEY.
Many Wire Are Compelled to Get
Along on a Small Allowance.
When a man at the altar utters the
words "VUth all my worldly goods I
thee endow," what does be mean? Oer
tain It is that few husbands live tin to
their pledge The majority look upon
tne small sums they give their wives
betimes as so much money thrown
away. One of tbe most charming of
women and faithful of Wives endured
the parsimony of her "lord and master"
as long as she could and then set to
work and secretly made cakes and pre
serves, which she disposed of at an ex.
change, and so earned a pittance which
she could dispose of, oh, Joy! "and no
questions asked."
The man found this out after a while.
and then there was a scene. He storm
areaarul'y an1 declared that the
wlfe of his bosom nad ,ald hlm Pen to
ed dreadfully and declared that
contumely of his neighbors; that
.uuw, yv-aouua uvn luiutk lie liafl
stinted her, whereag she well knew that
be bad given her plenty of food and
lucb clothes as he thought she needed
ine little woman had no reply for this
irgument, which seemed unanswerable,
and so she gave up making cakes, but
the next time 8he wanted money to
pay the dues of hetf literary cliih nr til
buy a new magazine or some trifling bit
of bric-a-brac for her bare mantel shelf
or a ribbon for her old bonnet she just
pawned her watch to get It.
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ner case 18 not Uniaue. Them nra
few promises so often broken as that
one made at the altar about a man's
worldly goods. The families where tha
purse is common to mother and father
alike are practically Infrequent
rainer is usually an almoner, mora
or less gracious, and mother hls.hum
hi. ,. . . . .
u,c ucusiuucl, wuo comes seklne- nim
Tor her work as housekeeDer. nni-so.
Jeamstress and often cook and house
......... . i.i. van V I 1U IIOUI QR
funds with which she ts flllnwp,! tA ann.
ply the Iarder
Why she should not receive hnlf th
J profits of the business does not appear,
' "fli-un
lnouSn ,n(Jeed, she wouldn't ask that
s modest ln "er demands. What
,he would llke Is a certain sum, small
or large, which Is hers to do with eh
pleases, with which she may hnv nen.
nuts if she likes without rebuke or giva
to the blind beggar at the corner.
Chicago Chronicle.
Touch or Human Nature.
A remarkable touch of human nature
was exhibited at Piedmont Park the
other day. The sham battle was ln prog
ress. Col. Woodward's men had scaled
the works and were driving back the
enemy. The field was enveloped ln
moke, and It was only by lta dense
lines that the location of the opposing
lines could be traced. The spectators
were cheering at the exhilarating scene
-all except two children In the grand
tand, but a little distance apart, who
were crying bitterly. The one, a girl,
was weeping lest some one might get
hurt in the engagement. The other, a
boy, was Indignant because no dead
bodies were being left In the rear.
"That's no battle at all!" he said.
This was humnn nature as it affecta
the exes.-Atlanta Journal
The Strenuous Life.
New Renorter ftirw1 rtt t. a
Saturday, and you know that this State
Utts aaiuroay falf-hollday law
which
City Editor By Jinket T
Sot it Bush out and get up a five-col-nmn
article on how tim i. ki .
servedNew York Weekly. '
LARGEST OF ALL DIAMoSj
ncignea eur.y MaU a Pound t.
Uncut, and la of the F.rst Water
No single object exhibited at 'tu
Paris exposition even remotely ,
proacheg In value the gleaming ..j
bilee" diamond, as it bag been called i
commemoration of the Jubilee of ti
reign of tbe Queen of England. it
diamond of the first water and-0f
beauty and size that leave anythm1
known heretofore far behind thi
largest and most costly of all diamond!
weighs in Its present shape 239
while the next largest, the "Oriotp
crowning tne Russian Imperial scent
welghg but 104 carats. Also a
gards whiteness and fire, as well as Z
the wonderful perfection of Its cut th
"Jubilee" excels nil its rivals.
For the time being this Goliath
among precious stones Is still owned h?
a syndicate of capitalists connect
with the Jagersfoutein mine, In
It warfound. With regard to the pnM
one can hardly speak about that until
the stone haa been sold, an event which
la doubtless not going to take place In
a hurry, for the guard stationed by th
showcase containing tbe sparkling gem
gave iui vuiue at s.uuu.OOO fran,
whether correctly or not is bard to st7
Only one thing seems assured, namelj
that the stone shown to the admlrinr
crowds In tbe palals on the Esplanade
des Invalldes is paste, while Its original
lg kept somewhere In secure custody
This gem was found on June 30, m
at Jagersfonteln, In the Orange
eiaie. xne stone was picked up by a
native while he was loading a truck,
and although a white overseer wat
standing near him he managed to ie
crete It and kept It on his person for
some time. In this case, however, it
did not appear that he proposed stealing
the gem, but only wished to deliver it
personally to the manager. This hed'd,
and as a bonus he received 150 andi
horse, saddle and bridle. The diamond
weighed In the rough exactly 97155
'carats, or about 7 1-10 ounces avolrd
( pois. , Unfortunately It had a black spot
'about the middle, but it wna
as to allow the stone being cut Into two
with the spot falling out.
GOOD LOOKS A HINDRANCT.
Women of Homely Exterior Succeed
Bet In Bnalnesi Pnrnit.
As a class, women regard good looks
is their most valuable asset In life, yet
If they are to engage In business they
and that beauty Is a handicap they can
adt easily overcome. A few years ago,
when woman began to enter business
life in considerable numbers, a Hand
soma face was esteemed a great ad
rentage. To-day the reverse is true.
Those still youthful can remember dis
tinctly when It was next to impossible
tor a homely girl to get a situation.
Good looks were Insisted upon In type
writer! and stenographers, and mer
Aanta Were then under the Impression
lhat pretty clerks brought trade. It
took Borne time to explode that Idea,
The pretty clerks . certainly attracted
srowds to their counters, but they were
irowds of dudes and loafers, who would
buy a 5-eent paper of pins and then
dirt away three or four dollars' wortii
f time,- While the women, who consti
tute four-fifths of the patrons of all
retail houses, had a strong aversion to
belmj Waited upon by a professional
beauty. Moreover, no dependence was
to be placed In the clerks themselves.
The handsomest girls were pretty sure
to be vain and "touchy," and when one
proved really valuable she was morally
:ertaln to get married at the very time
ler services were most needed. So prae
deal men began to see that pretty clerks
ild not pay, as a cold business proposi
tion, and the same discovery was pres
ently made at tbe offices. Typewriting
belles made more trouble than they
were worth. They demoralized their
fellow-employes and created no end of
ealousy and bitterness and friction. In
many cases, perhaps In most, the poor
girl wasn't ln the least to blame. She
couldn't help being good to look at, and
was probably trying her best to attend
to her own affairs, but .the idiotic men
wouldn't let her. However, results are
the only things that count in business
nowadays, and a few years ago a big
reaction against beauty set In, and now
pretty faces are at a discount.
Could Not Be Photographed.
When Miss Helen Gould visited the
tenth annual convention of the rail
road department of the Young Men's
Christian .Association at Philadelphia
the newspaper artists were bound to
sketch her as she appeared at the re
ception. To this Miss Gould objected
strenuously, but the artists were not
routed until the railroad men threat
ened to demolish the photographers'
expensive cameras and tear up the art
ists' cardboards. A score of newspa
per photographers and artists appeared
at the Y. M. C. A. building early and
were informed that they could not en
ter with their machines.
A dozen burly railroad men were ap
pointed to smash all cameras found in
side the building aud tear up all art
ists materials. The picture men then
waited outside. When Miss Gould ar
rived with Mrs. Sage a flank move
ment was made and their carriage was
driven around to a side entrance.
The men of nictures rushed to the sine
aoor, but upon arriving there found tie
women surrounded by over fifty tall
men, who formed a bodyguard clear
Into the building, shutting tbe cameras
out completely.
In the crush to close out tbe picture
men Miss Gould and Mrs. Sage were
almost crushed themselves. in
seemed amazed at the excitement at
first but soon learned the cause and
helped to deprive the picture men of
snap shots.
A Celebrated King.
Onoe nftPT ovnnKintr the ridiculoos
hlnnilora nf thn nriitnr of certain Old
plays, James Russell Lowell concluded
with the remark: "In point of fact, we
must apply to this gentleman the name
of the first king of Sparta." No one
remembered, of course, what this was,
but when they looked it up they found
It was Eudamldas.
vr.'.n 1 .i nonnlo lire SO
C ail luai euiiic I" v.".-
worthless that they need an old fash
ioned whipping, but no one dares say
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T . J , Wnn-n lifter
i is uuw positively mi" " .
fears of experimenting, that "wishing
ioea no good.
Men have lost more by crowding than
they have by waiting their turn.
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