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THE SCn ANTON TIUJ3UNE-SATCRDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1895.
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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,
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tones' and builds up the nerves and ban
lfihes the usnal discomforts of the expec
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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
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Mrs. Rachel Clark, of Jloultou, St. Croix Co.,
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1 gave birth to a uYt pound boy lat June. He
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"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-
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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
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THE WORLD'S CHAMPION CYCLIST, Writes:
" I have been using the genuine
for some tinie in
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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
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Special Attention Given to Wus!
ncss and Personal Accounts.
Liberal Accommodation In
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Responsibility.
Ul'cr Cent. Interest Allowed on
Interest Deposits
Capital, -Surplus,
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Surplus
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I. A, WATRHS. President.
(I. s.JOviNSON. Vies I'reilJcnt.
A. II CHRIST V, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
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