at? THE SCn ANTON TIUJ3UNE-SATCRDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1895. Ym IE IIS wwjwwtfmmmwwwmwmA Well, really now, this Is awfully pood of you, Miss Polly, tnklnir pity on n, poor devil like me. Have a chair, will you?" and Itotlerlclt hospitably Bwept a pile of papers from the single plialr his stuffy little otHce cnntnlnetl. "ThankP, Bald Polly demurely. "It Krlevca mo to nee" with a severe bendlnR of her pretty brow "that you nro not quite no cominotllotisly dom iciled as you have led your fiientlH to believe. Indeed, I fall to observe the costly statue, or the curtained recess which hid a painter's masterpiece, or the bric-a-brac whleh ndorned your bpeclol sanctum, or the jardiniere of yxotlcs or" "Oh come, now, don't be hard on a fellow If he tried to cheat the wot lit a little with his optimism, but X found a parallel for every parable." "Parable Is a very mild expression," put in Miss Polly. "I call It lief." "The lllblc name sounds better," he KUBRcsted, mildly, "and moie appro priate, bi sides 1 can Illustrate every assertion. For Instance" he pulled aside the curtain before his one win row "this Is the curtained recess, mi ls he not as much mine) as he Is t-miR leilrro here, from which T look down upon my costly statute; there It is old Hen Franklin, shedding his be nign presence over that dingy srjuare. Is he not as much as mine as ho is yours or Mr. Pmlth's next door? That's ill, sociological light to view It In; iirtd the pointer's masterpiece Is a llt i'e further on, but visible to the naked eye. The shimmer of the bay Is ev dUlsite In the sunlight anil on dull and murky dnys It Is I'nrnt at his best; It might ho a Turner Just now, It is such a brilliant dash of color. And the brlc-a-brac. I assure you. Miss Polly, that broken-nosed Juno on the shelf Just over your head Is a marvel of the ian unique." "And the exotics," murmured Polly, "how can you account for them?" "My grentest treasurer!" he an Jiouneed, pushing a single flower pot In view. "This If a spring of rose cer au.um that a certain young lady dropped from her hair last Christinas at the Carrlngtons' ball. Are you sat isllrd?" "No. All those hnlf-truths are worse than lies" with u queer Ilttlo catch In her voice, then with a sudden change "Roderick" Well?" "I've come to eat my lunch with you; It's dreadfully Improper, I know, but," maliciously, "my little olllcu was so Hiiall that I sighed for more spacious quarters. Are you sure your clients will not Interrupt us?" "I think I may nssuro X"ou safety on that score." "Very well. then. I shall spread the fant," cried Miss Polly, springing up and grasping a fat black bag, which had nestled unnoticed In her lap, "Re nHvo your ink and quills from your ' 'sk into the recess, also the legal an and those heavy tomes of jurls !' udence and "The Heavenly Twins," witu withering scorn. "Is that the iiy you spend your time, Roderick?" "Only in my leisure moments," he 1 -adrd. "Do you know," said Miss Polly, 'Te been thinking It over calmly and deliberately and I've come to tho con- lusion that progress and poverty don't pull together at all. Theoretical ly it's nil very well to strain a point ijtitl say they do, liut coming" down to faits." with a smart thump of her ( lost-it list on he desk, "it doesn't wort;. The grindstone of poverty has no more in common with the giant s-trldes of progress than than" "You with me," suggested Roderick. She sent a reproachful glance across the desk the whero ho sat In tho ip cess. ''Can't you be Impersonal for just two minutes?" sho asked. "I like to generalize wide of Hie mark and liar Vow down gradually and logically to my pbjcctlve point. It Is such n m!s tnko to think that all women jump at conclusions. The new woman Is above fiuch things." "You must be the very newest thing In women," lie said, in an emphatic tonn of approval. Sho shook her head, "No, we haven't peached the superlative yet." "Wo! Then you nre one In the ranks 7" "Certainly," cried Polly, lookinsr dis tinctly offended. "You don't suppose I have come here for nothing?" A. woman's hair Is h.er glory. Like i tier complex ly ion, much of Its Deauiy ae pends upon her general health, Nine times in ten n woman's general health 1 B dependent upon her local health in a womanly way. It is an ita possibility for u woman to be pretty or at tractive w h o 8 u ff e 1 3 from general ill- health. The 1.Ih tl.u t.Btt. (he eyes, the hair and the carriage will tell the fetory when a woman is ailing. It is impossible for a woman to be in good gen era! health when some local trouble is con tinually nagging ut her nerves and disar. Tanging the uatural functions of every orcan of the body. Dr, Pierce's l'avorite Pre scriptiou is the best of all medicines for women who suffer from local weakness and disease peculiar to their sex. It acts directly on the dolicate and important organs concerned, It makes them strong, healthy, vigorous and elastic. It allays hi. flammation. heals ulceration, soothes pain, tones' and builds up the nerves and ban lfihes the usnal discomforts of the expec tant months. It makes baby's advent easy and almost pulnless. It enables every organ of the body to perform its natural functious without unnatural interference fl'am a pain-tortured nervous system. It collects all irregularities, A woman who is made well in this way will recover her natural beauty of form and feature nnd her natural amiability of character and temper. Thousands of women have testified to its merits. An honest dealer will not urge a substitute for o little extra profit. Mrs. Rachel Clark, of Jloultou, St. Croix Co., Wis., writes i "lam in good health r.lnce I have taken Dr, Pierce's Favorite Prescription. 1 gave birth to a uYt pound boy lat June. He is six months old now anil weighs 30 pounds," How to preserve health and beauty are told in Dr. Tierce's Common Sense Medi cal AdvUeiv It is fete. For a paper-covered copy send 21 onk-cnt stamps, to cover mailing only: doth bindinr, 31 stamps. Address Dr. U. V. Tierce, Duffalo, N. Y. 17 J- & ea . vr in swrx-e? aKL-y 11. "I thought I flattered myself thnt the pleasure of my society had some thing to do with It." "Nonsense!" Sho flushed up to the roots of her prety hair. "Don't be fool ish, Roderick. I entne hero with a pur pose; do be serious." "I am," he assured her, 'perfectly, now to the purpose." "Oh, well," biting Into another sweet biscuit, "let us discuss things llrst." "What things?" "How provoking you nre! Why, pro gress nnd poverty If nothing better sug gests itself; we'll get the point sonic how." "The first point you spoko of?" ques tioned Roderick. "Yes." "Well, then, fire away." "Thanks; your elegant Invitation puts me quite ut my ease. I will 'fire nwny.' You see, Roderick, poverty Is relative, us most things nro, of course; the ab sence of money means the absence of so much more, not only tho material necessities of existence, but the liner llbres of the soul and mind, which crave not luxury but careful and Judicious nutriment. Can you follow my flight?" "You soar high; It Is hnrd work." "Keep up us best you can I'm com ing to" "Presently: have patience. The hand ful of very rich do a vast deal for the great army of the very poor, although they don't get linlf enough credit for It, but that kind of universal beggary Is not the port I mean. Tt Is the gen teel poverty that Is the bitter foe to progress. Too proud to beg, too honest to steal Its votaries stand apart In dumb suffering and fall to grasp the remedy." He smiled at her eagerness; it was a bitter, rather hopeless, smile. "Are you the discoverer of the prom ised land for such hapless mortals?" "There Is no promised land unless we go In a body and seek It. If our class of poor were only kinder to one an other, more confiding and less suspic ious In their Intercourse, If they would only stand shoulder to shoulder why, wlmt an army of woikers we should be!" "Chlniemn, Miss Polly, wo can't set tho world revolving the other way, elso the delinquent clients would step back ward Into my anxious clutches." Polly opened her eyes. "Why, I thought your creed was optimism!" "Well, It Is, with reservations'. I don't believe in fairy tales, however, even though told by the most bewitch ing fairies." "Roderick, I wish you wouldn't talk that way; it hurts." "I beg your pardon." "And shakes my resolution to say what I have come to say. You wouldn't have me go away without that, would you?" "Not for worlds." Rut Miss Polly seemed to have sud denly lost her tongue. She sat staring at Roderick's masterpiece a gorgeous bit of turquoise bay dotted with whlte wlnged sailboats. "Pride Is a very selfish thing," she re innrkcd at length, apropos of nothing. "That depends," said Roderick'. "It has done a great deal of mis chief," insisted I 'oily. "Only In the sense that one can have too much of a gooil thing sometimes." "Yet proud people are not often happy.' He reflected gravely: "I give you the. Inside track of the argument there." "Roderick, 1 am afraid you are proud." "Perhaps." "And unhappy," "Not now," Miss Polly changed her tack. "Don't you think If people want something very much they should ask for it If if It Is so within tho bounds of reserve?" "Asking and getting arc two very different things. It's well worth risk ing, I should say." "And and suppose for the sake of argument that there were two people a man and a woman of the genteel poor class who want something, say, for Instance, each ottier more than anything else In the world," she stop ped, a little scared look In her wistful eyes, but be was silent, so sho went on: "Suppose the man's pride stood up like a gaunt, grim ghost nnd said: 'No, you cannot murry this woman. You must let your youth drag on In un loved loneliness because you are strug gling and poor. You must have no one to help you It would be unman ly." If this were really so, would it bo right for the woman to suffer and bo silent?" He was forced to answer her. "That would lie her only course," he said (.lowly. "That may he your 'old woman' with tho meek brow and head bowed to adversity's blast. Wo now ones know better. Wo nre not going to let our chances of happiness slip through our lingers for mero form. Roderick, do you hear me?" There was low en treaty in her tone. He had risen and turned nvay from her; his broad figure shut out tho view. "Roderick," sho entreated, "won't you speak to mo?" Still there was no answer. "Roderick," with iv break In her voice, "don't vou love mo after all?" Her face had grown suddenly color less; her lips trembled and sho was obliged to bite hard on a blreult to keep bnek the tears of mortification. The new woman was making a hazard ous experiment. He wheeled around and looked at her defiantly. ''Well suppose I do what then?" Rut ho reckoned without his host. Such an admission set Miss Tolly on her feet again. Sho laid down her biscuit and, leaning both elbows on tho desk, nodded across at him with n do termlncd nlr. "Roderick will you marry mo?" "No." "Why not?" "1 have only a woman's reason I won't. Lot us talk about somctlilntr else." Sho rose nnd enmc around to lilm so HWlftly that ho could not escape her. bho stood besido him with her two bands held out In supplication. "Couldn't wo pull together for n whllo until you nro able to go it alon? No one need know." "Jack Penrose ia coming In liore, Pol lyfor henvon's cake bo ," "Not until you eny yes," eaid Polly, seeing her nilvnntnEc and holding It will nil her lcmtnlno will. "Polly, I Implore" "Then say it," cried Miss Polly, laughing hysterically. It Is now two yeartt since Roderick married the new woman, and the new est woman lies cooing In her crndle. Chicago Nons. OnjJEST OF RAILROADS. How. the "Rock-n-Bye-Baby" Was Built by Jersey Fanners. The Rock-n-byt-baby rallrond of New Jersey Is probnbly the most romarkablo common carrier In the world. It stnrts In a swamp a mile or so from Morris- town, nnd, running through Mori Is, Somerset, and Hunterdon countles.jolns the Jersey Central at White House. An old farmer, In speaking of it, said It began at no plnco nnd ran to nowhere. Ho Was not far wrong. Rut the rond has an Interesting history, and the managers of It are making that history more Interesting day by day. The section through which the road runs had been without railroad facil ities until this road was built, and tho farmers and villagers along the route always felt that they were badly treat ed. For twenty-live years Samuel Sloan, of the Delaware and Lackn wanna railroad, had held out hopes that he was about to build a branch for these good pi ople, tuit Mr. Sloan's promises never materialized. Indeed, Jie so tried with the hopes nnd ex pectations of these people that at one time he was regarded with so strong a lintred that it would have been un safe for him to nppear In that section without a strong bodyguard. When the hope that Mr. Sloan would do something for them had been aban doned the country people got together and concluded to have a railroad of their own. This determination resulted In the Rock-n-bye-baby. No road was ever before built ns this was. The farmers not only supplied the capital, but they did the work of con struction nnd the engineering ns well. Kach farmer did the grading through his idaco and furnished from his wood lot the cross-ties. For this nnd the light of way he was paid In stock nnd bonds. I be bonds were given ns compensation and the stock was thrown In for good measure, or as "lanlappe," as the Cre oles have It. The method of locating the rond was Intensely Interesting. There were two conditions thnt hod always to be met. The line had to go through each farm just as suited the owner. 'J hen. again, the line had to be so placed that there should be no cutllng that could not be done with a plow and no filling that could not be made with Fcrnpers. This, too, is In a hilly country, a country which Is sometimes spoken of ns moun tainous. It will readily b- seen that then' conditions compelled a very fre quent chi'iigr. of grades, some of them fearfully st?ep, and a great many curves some remarkebly nbrupt. Hut the road was Anally built, some twenty-five miles of 11, the iron and the rolling stock blng supplied by conlld Ing persons, who took bonds in pay ment. For soni" reason or another lack of terminal facilities, very probably the load did not earn enough to meet the Interest charges. The bonds held by the farmers only nominally drew in terest, but those who had taken bonds for second-hand railroad Iron and wheezy Iocomotlvts were very hard hearted. Like Shvlock. they wanted their pound of tlesb. They cried out with such clamor that the poor Rock-a-bye-buby was put in the liands of a receiver, and for a time the projector and promoter of the enterprise was relieved of tho strain and responsibil ity of management. There could not have been much money in the receivership, for It soon came to an end, ami the road was sold untie r foreclosure proceedings. Then the promoter of the road showed his capacity. Though ho was bankrupt and all his properly was In the hands of an n3slgnee, who was managing It for the benefit of creditors, he pur chased the Rock-a-bye-baby road, and has since operated it. Tho chief business of this promoter, besides managing the politics of Hun terdon county, had been In cattle at jersey City. He has not been a rival of Armour exactly r.s a wholesale butcher, but he was In the same line. Tho road was for a time run by the owner's sons, but I believe there are now some others of the country folk employed. The conductor sells tickets nt the station and then punches them on the cars. He In a most accommodating otllelnl, and will stop his train nt any cross-road whero a passenger wishes to get on or oft'. The train consists usually of n combination passenger and baggage car and one or more freight cars. The engine Is a wonder. It wheezes most painfully, and always seems on the verge of brenking down or blowing up. 'When a steep grade Is encounter ed the engineer goes at It with n rush. If he geti to the summit safely, all well and gocd; If ho stalls before getting to tho top of the hill, he backs the train a 111M0 or so and then tries again. It Is a matter of record thnt n whole day has been consumed In this kind of game. Rut to return to tho conductor. Ho is a sad-looking chap, but he is re sourceful and not without humor. A whllo ago two of his passengers had nn argument which could not be settled In an ordinary way, as words were In adequate and Insufl'clont. When blows became Inevitable, the conductor stop ped tho train. Tho men got off and went for each other, not nccordlng to prize-ring rules, but In utter defiance of them. They smashed and scratched and wrestled. Finally they fell and 1 oiled over nnd over until they landed In a ditch. Tho muddy water cooled their nnger nnd they quit, each having had enough. They n-cntored the train, nnd the old engine, with a shriek of pain, moved on. The passenger compartment of tho 0110 car the company owns Is not luxur iously upholstered, but tho conductor thought It was too nice for the mud- covered heroes of the fight. Ho then made them go Into the baggage car. Tho chief station between tho ter mini of the Rock-n-bye-baby Is Mend ham, a village seven miles from Mor rlstown. In the old days before tho fanners had built their road, which Is no longer theirs, Mendhum found nccess from her. Although this railroad Is very ridic ulous It has done Morrlstown a splen did service, lleforo It watt built the Delaware nnd Lackawanna could do as it pleased In the matter of freights and tho price of coal. This is no long er the case. The rock-a-hyo baby fixes the price of both. Morrlstown con sumes at least 25,000 tons of coul each year. Coal now sells thero nt n SI 11 ton luss than It used to, Morrlstown people, thorufore. save in coal nlono Mn.OOO a year. This is it good deal of monoy and the Ilttlo rnllroud Is de sorvlng of a consideration from them , that It does not always receive. AMERICAN MAGIC IN THEFAR EAST NECROMANCER BALDWIN'S EX PERIENCES IN THE ORIENT. Ho Puts to Flight a Crack Hindoo Mnglcian and Causes tho Chineso Empress to Think Him a Devil. Mikado Not Rattled Love Scrape Ho Got Into with a Princess. From tho New York Sun. "I confess," said Professor Baldwin, a showman, who has given seances In magic, thought reading, legerdemain, and the like In almost nil the countries of the civilized and uncivilized worlds, "that 1 have not a very high opinion of the much-tnlked-of Knstcrn mnglc. Some of the tricks done by the Indian fakirs may appear miraculous enough to us, although they are In reality quite simple, but, on the other hand, mnny of our old famillnr stand-bys astonish tho Orientals far more. For exnmple, thero Is a wall-known trick requiring only a little knowledge of e'ementnry chemistry for Its perform- unc which I have played before va- llous strange nudlenees. always with 1 great success and sometimes with rath er surprising results. If you put n few drops of a very simple chemical mixture on a garment the whole thing will burst Into flame In exactly three minutes without giving any warning except to the eye of the Initiated, and to him only when he keeps a very care ful watch. "Well, some ten years ago, when Sir James Ferguson was governor of Bombay, I was performing In Simla. After one of my shows 1 was intro duced to Sir James, and we fell to talking of Indian magic. Sir James was a believer: I was a skeptic. He declared that he could produce men who would convert me. I accepted the challenge. The trial was to take place in ten days, when I was to dine nt Government house. Ry this time Sir Jnines said he could procure the most celebrated magicians In the province, with whom he would confront me. Well, the time came. I repaired to Government house, when there was as sembled a big crowd of officers and civilians nnd their wives. In fact, all the wealth and fashion of Simla, wait ing to see the discomfiture of the Amer ican braggart. Their were also pres ent some half dozen fakirs, or Yoghls, or whatever you choose to call them, solemn-looking Individuals with long beards and nails, and not overclean, and for clothes, white bandanas wound round them. The Indians went through the old famillnr tricks, the mango' tree, stnbblng the boy In the basket, etc., the mysteries of which I was able to explain away well enough to the audience. THE Fl'N I5F.CINS. "After my rivals had got through with th'-lr work I took the governor aside and told him that I would make all the Indians strip to the skin and run out of the house if the company could stand It. Sir James told mo to go ahead. 'We don't think nothing of naked niggers here,' he said. Now, I was familiar enough with the Indian er.nr.'icter to know that unless you enr ry matters with a high hand they will thing nothing of you. I acted accord ingly. Through the medium of an olll cer, who acted as Interpreter,, I re viled the leading magician through all the moods and tenses. "I asked him v hat he ninnt by show ing sneh childish rubbish to his excel lency, the 1'cprcscntutlvo of the em prtss. and ended by telling him that I would blast him with fir" from heav en unless he went down on his knees Incontinently and apologized. The In dian smiled coutemptuouwly at me and made some remark, at which my Inter preter laughed, but refused to translate it. As well as I could gather, it was 1111 onsiene exDiesslon, signifying thnt I was 'talk! g through my hat.' Straightway I preteneded to fall Into a towering rage and, reeling out a long llgiiiarole, waved my hands above my head and Invoked the wrath of heaven to burn lilm up. The magician looked a little startled, but maintained an at titude of Incredulity nnd contempt. Of course the rigmarole was meaningless, but while I was vociferating a little native servant of mine hnd sneaked up behind and poured a few drops of the chemical I have spoken of above up on the garment of each of the magi cians. Then 1 waited with my watch In my hand. A SHF.F.T OF FJ.AMKS. "Just ns the three minutes expired I stretched up my hands above my head and made another Invocation, At the same moment the bandanas burst Into sheets of tlaine. With a howl the In dians tore off their garments the ban dana comes off easily and fled stark naked nnd screaming out of the house, down the street, and finally out through the gJtes of the town into the open country. My triumph wns complete. Tho company was dumbfounded anil even the governor was pnzzled. I kept lilm guessing for a week before I ex plained to hlni. In the meantime 1 sent out after the discomfited magic ians and ordered them to return nnd apologize. They did so, prostrating themselves before 1110 most nbjectly, and naming me the king of nil mnglc lans. I soothed their Injured feelings a little, telling them that their magic was very good In Its way, but warn ing them not to attempt to impose up on their superiors. Then 1 guvo them each a small gratuity and sent them away, humbled but fairly satisfied. "This same trick will serve to ex emplify some of the differences In char acter and Intellect In the Chinese und Japanese. Some tlmo after the Inci dent related above, I visited Pekin, where I played before tho empress nnd court. The empress' mother, you must know. Is the renl ruler of China. Well, at the end of the performurflco T set a man's clothes on lire in the manner I have explained. The Chinese courtiers were ono and all astounded and terri fied. Kven the empress, clever woman as she Is, was upset. 'No man did this,' Fhe said. 'It Is tho work of a devil. Take the man uway. Do not hurt lilm. I.oud him with presents; but let mo never see hlni more.' I took my pres ents nnd departed with all the speed I could. I got out of the city, too, for I knew that If the people once knew that I wns under tho ban of the em press' displeasure, my life would not bo worth nn hour's purchase. this JAi-ANKsn wat. "When 1 porformed before the J " kado In Toklo my experience wns very different. When my victim's clothes took tire, tho Mikado applauded. " 'Very good.' ho said, stroking his chin nnd smiling 'excellent; but you must show me how you du It.' Of courfo I wns nor, going to give tho thing away at once. I put up a re spectful bluff, declaring that It was 1 only to certain favored ones that heav- CD J(X llfl '111 I W' !' ! niMiWsiwj suss m - xr " m FAAlo Mrfiitft The Great Cyclist and World's Record Breaker, writes t W IUUUI lYBlLUllIC, Johann Hoff's Malt Extract was recommended to me by H Mr. Nat Butler, and I find it an elegant appetizer and muscle builder. I can recommend H it highly to all cyclists and athletes." cisncr & menoelson oo Soto Aonts, now York tfsii. VVVtgsj)ffflTO01)t0WWl9WWWWWVWl en granted such power and that I might not reveal It to others. Tho Mikado contlnnued to smile. 'Of course,' he said, 'of course, you must rot reveal these secrets to the com mon run of mankind; but between us you are n king of magic; I, too, am a sovereign.' "I wns much pleased with the di plomacy of the answer, furthermore 1 thought It would be wise on my part to accede to the request of so powerful nn Individual. I explained the trick In full. The Mikado was delighted nnd rewarded me handsomely. "in another country where I tried the same gnine, th results were likely to have been more serious. It wns the capital of a native province of further India, nnd my principal spec tators was an exalted princess. The lady she wns about fifteen years old. but, of couire, fully matured, was de lighted Willi my lire. Atter tho per formance sho summoned my wife and me to her prorence and held forth. " 'I'rince of magic.' she said, 'your power Is mighty. You could destroy my enemies and make me the might iest In the land.' "I bowed and said nothing. 'Your person,' she went on, Ms agreeable to me. You shall be my husband and we will rule over this country.' I wns dumbfounded. I explained to her that I had a wife already. Sh" waived tin.' objection aside. " "The law of this land,' she said, 'allows a man six wives' Then she came up to Mrs. Haldwln and put her arms around her neck. T think,' she said, 'that we two could rule the har em.' KMIiAUnASSINO. "I was at my wits' end. 1 knew that If I rebuffed the lady she would order a guard to stick a dagger In my back. I thought a little and finally devised a plan. After expressing my gratitude and new-born love I told her that wo must make a great festival of the mar riage, and that In a far-off town 1 had a vast store of riches, which we could use for the purpose. To obtain it, how ever. It would be necessary that I should go to where It was, In order to sign some papers. "The princess was not quite pleased. She hade me go nnd leave my wife as a hostage. This did not suit me, fo I explained that It was my wife's sig nature that was required. "To this she replied that my wife should go and 1 tenmln behind. This was nearly as bad, mi 1 took her aplde and told her that my wife was a very Jealous woman and that if 1 was not with her she would revenge herself by running off with the money. Finally the princess gave us leave to go and fetch the money with strict injunc tions that we make haste back. That was all I needed. I got out as quickly us I could. On arriving nt a coast town, wheie there was a liiitlsh resi dent, I told hlni my stoiy. He swore deeply nnd fervently, " 'A nice mess,' said he, 'you have got me into. Now at every ship that touches at this port I shall have a horde of the princess' people looking for you, and threatening the town with all kinds of blood and murder.' Then he evolved n plan. 'Clot out of this us quick ns you can,' he said, 'and when you arrive in British territory get the authorities to make out a deed certify ing your death. Put this In a large ofllc lal envelope all covered w Itli stamps, and have it mulled to your princess.' I acted on his advice, and have never heard oT my royal would-bo bride since." PEESIAN RULER'S JEWELS, Fabulous Worth of the Gems in the Peacock Throne Koom. From tho Illustrated AlngnsUiie Who has not heard of the Persian jewels their glory, their number, their priceless worth? When the doors wero unlocked nnd I was taken Into Hie pea cock throne room, I found myself sur rtiiinded by it mass of wealth unequal od In the world. Nowhere are such treasures, but nowhere also Is thero such an accumulation of rubbish. -I will, however, dismiss the rubbish nnd refer only to the treasures. Down each side of the room were chairs en tirely covered with sheeted gold, und nt Intel vuIm were tables of gold, nailed, I Bhiidiiered to note, with the com monest of black-headed tacks. At the far end oh the room wns the Month!' of the w'lnld, the peacock throne. AVhether It Is ono of the seven thrones of the great mogul and wna brought from Oeihl, I don't know; but It Is certainly the niot costly orna ment that the eye of) man can look upon. I Inspected it most carefully. It Is entirely of silver, a grent camp bed structure, but modeled) In lovely de signs. It !h inerusted tpirn end tn end und trim top to bottomlwltli diamonds. At the back Is 11 star of brilliants that makes you bllnk. The rug on which the iJhah sits Is edged with pre cious i.tones, und the pillow on whleh he r-cllncs Is covered with pearls. I could kfip en wilting nlbout the daz zling benutlts of the tjhrone of the kins? of kings, but 1 nevef could get be yond declaring It to be U supeib jewel. Soino people have vnluccl li at Cl.OOft, 000. Its real vtilua is between .C2.000, 000 nnd ;i.ooo,ooo. Hut though the pencjoek throne Is the magnum opus of the IPoi'stuu crown Jowels, it by no means eHtlngulshus tho mngnlllcence of the ntlher treasures. Who enn attempt, howover, to recount the number of bejewoled arms, tho royal arms, the flashing alsrets, the EDDIE BALD t THE WORLD'S CHAMPION CYCLIST, Writes: " I have been using the genuine for some tinie in would cheerfully fill IWCi " tuJ u""v-uv-' ASKFOICTnEBaETOK1 GIVES THL BESTIiGnTWOpiP ANDlAESQiyTElYSAFE FOR SALE BY THE H CO n SCR ANTON STATION. trays piled up with cut and uncut stones and the bowls filled with pearls that you can run through your lingers 111c-- a hnudi'iil of rite" Kvery one has heard of the Ii.-iria-l-Nur, or Sea of Light, hister diamond to the Kohlnoor, or .Mountain of Light. Kery one has also heard of the (ilobe of the World, inadi by the Into shah, of seventy-five pounds of pure gold and fiLWi gems th sea, of emeralds. Persia of tur quoises, India or amethysts, Africa of rublis, l'ln'tnnd and France of dia mondsand valued at !H7,0f0. TAItM WAGONS BY TROLLEY. Scheme of an Ohio Man to Take Pro ducts to Market. From tho Itoston livening Transcript. A great many different schemes have been proposed and some of them have been tried, for the lessening the work of caitlng farm produce into town. The traction engine Is used for that purpose to 11 considerable t Meiit in Kngland, although in America very lit tle hauling is done therewith. Then again there has been a good deal of talf of laying broad, guttered rails on the common highway for the wheels of tin- ordinary wagon to run in. This is a rather more popular Idea, and has u promising future in our 'otintry. In some parts of the United States there arc trolley line reaching out through the rural regions nnd carrying not only passengers, but also a small mall ami express service, and In the vicin ity of very large titles one will some times llnd that a certain style of low platform cars are provided by the steam road'" for carrying into town tho heavy trucks of the market gard eners laden with fresh vegetables. And now still another plan Is proposed. A Toledo man, named lionner, hns devised a special truck which is de signed to run on a street railway and to enrry a farm or express Mngoii. In csniutii as the ordinary vehicle would not lit the truck, llr. rtnnner thinks it better to hnve Ills own wagons as well as his railway truck, lie has taken out 11 patent on- the Idea, and hns ob tained a franchise from the city of Toledo for running his wagons through the streets. As soon ns he has man ufactured nnd sold a number of his special wagons to the express com panies in town and nlso has a few id' ills trucks made he will be In a pos ition to take tlie wagons on the tracks through such streets as have trolley lines. The trucks nre Intended to be coupled to a trolley car nnd nre not provided with electric motors of their own. After the city service Is fairly Ktuiied Jlr. Homier will endeavor to secure rural patronage. Of course, It Mill be necessary for such farmers as wish to tnko advantage of his plan to have made tho right sort of wagons nnd to haul them by horse power near enough to town to reach tho trolley lines. Hut In Ohio there are numerous trol ley roads extending from one town to another und nttnlnlng 11 length of ten, llfteen and even twenty-five miles. If n farmer only lives along one of theso routes he will not need to hnul his wagons more than n few rods. In deed, If hn has a switch und side-track and loads his wagons while they stand on tho latter he will have nn ensy task before, hlni. The rapid development of trolley lines through the rural dis tricts nowadays makes Mr. Honner's Idea an Interesting one. There is no telling how far It Is likely to become serviceable to American farmers. Appropriately Named. It wan on tlio Koiitliern Pacini train a fv iluyH iiko. A Krauji nf tru clinic mun were talking hIioji win re tla-y were ,ro Iiik, what they wc.o oulllliK uul all in" trlclCB of tlio t ru tic. "I am bnuml fur Tilnlty, Txhh," sntii ono of them, "I never heart! of Mutt rluci " re inurketl iniothnr. "Ami, ly thu way, in it Is a very peculiar name. Why la it call il Trinity?" "IJocaupo there nro only three iciipii in It." wiib tho ieionsc. Now Orleans Times-Democrat (n&JV mZTZ 2fl5SK !6tlusiN A my training, and recommend it to a ! ,rr-Wl i ? Sa THIRD NATIONAL OF SCRANTON, Special Attention Given to Wus! ncss and Personal Accounts. Liberal Accommodation In tended According to Unlunccs uul Responsibility. Ul'cr Cent. Interest Allowed on Interest Deposits Capital, -Surplus, UndiYided Profit?, 5200,000 300,000 79,000 W.U. CONNEIiIi, Pi'csiilcnt. IIKXRYBFiMN,Jr.,ViceFre9. WILLIAM II. PECK, Cashlc: The vault of thU bunk U pro. tooted by Holmes' Electric I'ro tectlve System. THE COUNTY FT! I vines BanK and Tnid I UiiU IIUUS QJU! 428 Lgokawmna Avj., Scranton, Pa. Capital . Surplus $100,000.00 55,000.00 i'as Intercuts on savin? tlepo.flti. Aits us trustee, Administrator, (luardlan. I. A, WATRHS. President. (I. s.JOviNSON. Vies I'reilJcnt. A. II CHRIST V, Cashier. DIRECTORS. Vm P. Hn1l!c.id. liverett Warren Urn" Kohlnson, li. I. Kingsbury. UlluJ. Wilion. O. b. Jolnson. U A. Watre. NEW YORK HOTELS. The Sto Denis Broadway and eleventh St., New Yorb. Opp. drace Church. European Plan. Rooms $1.00 0 Day and Upwards. n n modost and unobtruilvo way thers r ion buttor conducted Sotoli in tho metropolis; than tlio tit. Di'uW. Tho jjreat popularity it has vequlrod oaa readily lo traced to its unique location, it domcilke ntmo.ipuoro. tho peculiar oxcellonoo ot Us culMuo aud service, and Its Yry moder ate) prices. WILLIAM TAYLOR AND SON, IHEL, Cor. Sixteenth SL and Irving Placa, NEW YORK. AMERICAN PLAN, Day nnd Upwards. EUROPEAN PLAN, Day and Upwards. S3.S0 Per Sl.SO Per I. D. CRAWFORD, Proprietor. w::x:X":":-:-:-xx-x-X":":" For Business Men In the heart of the wholesale district For Shoppers 3 iiiluutrH walk lo Wana makers: 8 lmnuUf to SicrcI Cooper's Ui .Store, M.i-y of iiclcks to the K'cat Dry Uoods hi urea. For Sightseers. One Mock from ll'wav Cars, chlnir easy transportation to all points of interest. IEW YORK. CiR 11 til ST fit TNIVJIUSITY 1'I.ACn, Dim One Block from Broadway. ! Rooms &'HlD RESTAURANT .;. 00.'0 'Xx,';"Xx-'XX"X fhlthtittr'i I'ncUih lMaraonil HranA. ENNYROYAL PILLS Orlglnttl aud Onljr Genuine. ah. alwtjt rciUtU, iadic nt uracfiii tor cnutntr$ .-h;hja pi monlUrand In Mtd Qi OefJ m-MtUl 'twifi. if 11 with tlua ribbon Tula noolhrr. fu danotroht $uhitttu Mem tin-t tmitatnn. At Urojr-ftiti, trirDl 4. la Mimp rr I'tTtleuUn, ttittmoolilt tnl I MIf fbr ftAdtpA. in Itttj. k rrlnn CblrbttrlhmlcclL''a..Mai1UiMt Knare. fcolj tjf tU Local DruuUu, 1'JIILAUA i'A. lMmlMmm nrmyimB Thcao liny C'npmileii nr- artBi in 'in no urn wiinuui Biicunvpiilriirttiil!rriUma 1,111 Miiini t oimiiiu 1 ii Duet) rt itui) Iulrrlton full. M 4 .w I U jr MLvtra Hotel Albert. PX"WUK . ?
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