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TIOXESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1899. 81.00 PER ANNUM. t. - It looks as though the United States was no longer a debtor nation. Her capitalists are now flnanceering many of the heavy affairs of Europe. Think of it, and we not yet one-fourth through onr seoond century. Sheathing iron ships with an eleo trically appliod coating of torpor has proved so successful that it will be generally applied nntil something simpler is found. It is an American Invention, but we feel sure that the true explanation of its effectiveness has not been reached. Iu realizing what causes the ship's bottom so treated to remaiu free of marine growths the greater discovery lies. American trolley cars, built in Pittsbnrg, are to be run on a line couuecting Cairo, Egypt, with the Pyramids. If over the Sphinx is to break the silonce of centuries, he may bo expocted to speak put in amaze inont when he sees the natives of the oldest country dodging the electric cars-of the newest, while the Nile boats are left tied to the banks and the Egyptian donkeys are turned out to hunt for a living in the desert. A sympathetic critic of our literature has said that the people of the United States have had to net their Iliad and have not had timo to sing it. They have passod through several stages oi political progress culminating in the position of a colonizing power, and the intervals between their crises of growth have not been long enough for.th set tlement of literary canons, nor promo tive of general literary culture. Until recently the territorial sections in which certain economical aud political doctrines were more or loss powerful, represented the antagonism of feelings and ideas which prevented unity ot national aspiration. Since the Civil" War the country has been developing industrial business by means of the railroad systems which have promoted the largest domestic trade iwhe world; and now, for the first time in its history, it has become politically one by reason of a war which has brought together North and South, as well as East and West, in au intimacy of national relation which did not ex ist a year ago, observes the New York Commercial Advertiser. While the dress goods industry of this country is in a somewhat uusatis fuotory condition, that of France ap pears to bo far worse situated, ob serves the Dry Goods Economist. Manufacturers in Roubaix report a very unprofitable business, and though their confreres in Germany and Eng land have also suffered from bad trade, the latter were undoubtedly better off than the Frenchmen. Want of adaptation to modern requirements is the cause ascribed by the Ecouomiste Frtncaise. While there are establish ' ments in France as well equipped as in Alsace or Saxony, ou the whole a muoh larger proportion of the looms in Germany are of the best and most recent construction. This is largely because the German woolen manufac ture is of more recent growth than that of France. It is also claimed by the Eoononiiste that, btause of. the com bination ' of spinning and weaving in the samo' mills, France cannot pro dace thty immense variety of fabrics . now required "so economically as is doiro in Germany and England, where ' Spinning and weaving are to a very large extent soparate industries. This is a matter which has rocently begun to receive attention from American manufacturers. The multiplication of locomotive agencies goes on apace, and is realiz ing such a forecast with a rapidity never before known. Canal, steam engine, electrio and cable cars, bicycle - and antomobile have not only com bined against our four-footed friends . for competition in long and short dis tances, bnt are competing among themselves for the largest share iu the victory. In the most highly civilized countries the beast of burden for long distances has been eliminated by tha railway, aud for short distance? UarocesB will bo practically com- dieted Hby the street car and ths automobile. The great trunk linos across this country, the Canadian Pacifio Railway acrois Canada, the (trans Siberian line in. Asia, the com ing railway from Cairo to Cape Town and other great lines yet to be built , iu Asia and Africa, portend the final displacement of the nomad life which originally gave animals their chief valne. The work of elimination is . thuatbeing sketched on broal lines by ' colonizing necessities, and the -filling- inprocess will go on with the develop- - ment of trade and-civilization. Minor details will be adjusted by local con ditions, and the same principle thai calls for great continental highways ol j steel will be operative in smaller areas p-bererAr commerce is established. 1 - THE PRETTY AH fOl GIRLS OF HONOLULU. A Truly Wonderful Story That is Unparalleled Even in . the World of Fiction. THIRTEEN CHARMING SI8TEns Ox Boahd Steimib Ociaxic, Orr Honolulu, IIawaii. January, 181)9. ) WONDER if you ever hear of the pretty Ah Fong girls of Hono 1 n 1 u thirteen charming daughters of a tre m e ndously wealthy China man and a Kan aka woman, each with a dowry of $330,- 000? It is a truly wonderful story and en tirely unparalleled even in the world of fiction. For no cause other than a Chinaman's ceaseless longing for re turn to his native eft un try the father abandoned his wife and family aud his millions and lives in seclusion in Pekiu. His Sandwich Island wife lives in magnificent style in the sump tuous home which he. built in Hono lulu, and his numerous daughters are in the swellest society the islands afford aud are plainly enough deter mined upon marriage allianoes with the best of the white men who come theitwoy, Recent tidings from Honolulu give currency to a report that another daughter of Wing Ah Fong is to marry iu that city a young Amoncan resi deut. - The prospective bride's mother already has the dowry of $350,000 in cash, real. estate and securities ready ior- the marriage day. This time the bride will be Miss Jessie Ah Fong, and her choico is settled upon Howard G. Morton, young newspaper-editor who has lived in Honolulu for several years. He is a distant relative of ex-Secretary of Agriculture Sterling G. Morton, of Nebraska, and a first cousin on his 'patefaal side of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. He was a student at Cornell Uuiver .sity, aud later at Stanford University, at Palo Alto. Cal. He inherited a small fortune when he was twenty-five, aud, abandoning reportorial work in San Fraucisoo, sailed on a jonrney around the world. He never got any further than ilduolnlu. There, be coming infatuated with the climate and the easy . life nnder the tropics, he decided to remain alwavs. He bought stook in a local newspaper, iu Tested in sugar company stock, and feu in love with Miss Jessie Ah Fong, The mairiae, it is said, will take place shortly. Story if tlie Ah Fuug Girl. The Ah Fong (written Afong since the family became leaders of fashion in Honolulu) group of thirteen girls is very interesting from several points of view. Everybody who has been in Hawaii, no matter for how brief a time, in the last decado has heard much about the Ah Fong family, and now it has borne the brunt of hospita ble entertainment of all visiting naval craft in the harbor of Honolulu Early in the sixties a young Chinaman named Wing Ah long settled in Hon olulu. lie was an unusually intelli gent and genial Chinaman, aud with a little capital he soon built up a pros perous business in Chinese pottery, silks and brio-o-brao. He learned the Kanaka and English tongues readily, and before anyone knew it he was the loading merchant in Honolulu. He spont niflney freely and was well liked by whites and blacks in the quaint old town. He married ayonug girl of uncertain Portuguese and Kan aka anoestry, but with a dash of Eng lish blood somewhere back in her con fnsed pedigree. ' She was an attrac tive, energetic and ambitions person for that land of languor and siesta, and the young couple prospered. Ah Fong invested in sugar cane planta tions, and in the old times, when sugar plantation stock paid thirty and forty per cent, dividends a year he grew very rioh. In ten years Ah Fong was worth over $300,000 and was add ing $35,000 a year to it annually! Mr. Ah Fong was a careful, prudent busi ness man, and while his busiuess as sociates were content to drowse and take no heed of the morrow he was watching chances to buy plantation land cheap from the improvident who abounded in Hawaii. Swellest Home In Honolulu. In time tho Ah Fong family num bered seventeen the parent, two boys and thirteen girls. People who used to visit Honolulu ten aud fifteen years ago say that it was a memorable sight to see bowling along any of the lava-made roads in Honolulu Papa Ah long with Lis white duck suit and his long cue dangling down his'back, driving the horses. that drew his com plete family circle. The girls always dressed in elaborate gowns of maroons, magentas and scarlet reds, and the wagon load of childish feminine loveli ness of every hue in the raiubow made a charming spectacle. Mr. Ah Fong bnilt the most unique residence in Hawaii. It stands in the western suburbs of Honolulu' on a sightly knoll. It is an enormons pagoda, with the oddest sort of piaz zas abont it. There are sixteen of the piazzas, and they are all over twenty feet wide. Envious parents of other pretty and marriageable daughters in Honolulu say that the AU Fong par ents had these many separate and dis tinct piazzas built in this fashion pur posely to let each daughter in the family have a piazza solely to herself and her particular young men callers of an evening. Be the charge true or false, it is a fact that all the Ah Fong piazzas so famous in Honolulu are filled 350 evenings in ths year with companies ' young1 wen callers, and WHOU WS ABB RAPIDLY ANNEXING. there are impromptu concerts with man dolins, banjos and a dozen reed instru ments not known outside the tropics on the piazzas almost every evening. Mr. Ah Fong, trne to the character istics of his race, never abandoned his Chinese mcde of life. His wife and his fast increasing family might think and do as they liked, for he was an in dulgent father, but lie never gave up his chop-sticks and his woodeu shoes and flowing garments of gaudy silks. Occasionally when this wagon load of gayly gowned femininity drove down to the Honolulu wharf to give a wel coming baud to ueoplo from the steamer or mau-of-war he would please his daughters by putting his long black cuo nnder his derby hat. He was the soul of hospitality, and he loved to give big spreads at home. Ah Font Sail Away. In the spring of 1892 Mr. Ah Fong planned a visit to China with his eldest son, about seventeen years old. The man had become very wealthy in fact, one of the four richest men in the Hawaiian Islands. His invest ments in stock in the sugar companies had paid themselves out six and seven times over. He made over $300,000 in one deal in sugar stock to Claus Spreckels, of San Francisco. Hun dreds of aores of land on the Island of Maui that had cost him a few thou sand dollars had become worth many times more. He was popularly rated at about $1,000,000, with aninoomeof over $70,000 a year, and the estimate seems to have been just. In the summer of 1892 Mr. Ah Fong had so arranged his busiuess that he and his son sailed away for Hong Kong. When six months had passed and the rich Chinaman had not re turned there was some comment. But when a year went by and he was still absent all Honolulu was interested, Mrs. Ah Fong and her lovely daugh ters never spoke on the subject at least, to ontsiders. Then the Chinese in Honolulu began to get news from relatives and friends in China, and the information became general in the oity that Ah Fong had gone to visit in Pekin, and that by the laws of China he came very near going to prison for a long term for going to a foreign land. The gossip had it also that Mr, Ah Fong had paid a fine of many thou sands of dollars aud had settled down with a good-sized fortune to live all his days in Pekin. How much of this is mere gossip and how muchh's tory no one can say confidently. At any rate the Ah Fong family in Hono lulu believes the story as to the fate that befell l'apa Ah Fong in Pekin. Moreover, the Honolulu and San Francisco newspapers published the gossip about Mr. Ah Fong and no one has yet contradicted them. Mrs. Ah Fong and her children hove gone right along, apparently heedless of the absence of the hns baud and father. The estate is well managed and is in such shape that it earns its dividends with little personal care of the family. When the first daughter was married to Captain Whiting it was decided that each girl should have hor sharo of tho family patrimony wnen sue married. Mrs. Whiting got $100,000 in cash and $230,000 in property and securities, So it was then settled also that the dowries were to consist of money and property or securities to tho value of $350,000 each. Girls All Winsome, Some Beautiful. Eight of tho thirteen cirls are nn usually attractive and would be much observed in any genoral assemblage oi yonug women the world over. "All the Ah Fong girls are petite and have peculiarly graceful ways, winning voices and a certain vivacity that has no comparable counterpart in Amari- can life. They rouge iu height from five, feet two to five feet S3ven, with the average at about five foot five. All the Ah Fong girls are good sing ers, and have the love of the Ha- waiians for string music For years the girls have been famous for their waltzing. Many a naval officer has sailed away from Honolulu harbor with fond remembrance of his first ap preciation of the soulfulness and beauty of Strauss' waltzes after a party at the Ah Fong house. Five of the girls are nuusually handsome aud would win attention for that reason alone in any society. Two or three of the girls have the Chinese almond shaped eyes quite marked, and they feel dreadfully about it. But they are the very iolliest of the Ah Fonars, and by the graces and accomplish ments that they nave evidently studied to overcome any facial defect, they are particularly popular. Two more have a faint suggestion of slanting eyes, bnt their superb complexions and limpid dark eyes make them par ticularly prepossessing. All the Ah Fong 'girls have dark hair. Four have deep olive com plexions, five are as dark as American brunettes and four have light com plexions. They all have small hands and feet. One or two of them are what would be called fairly fat, but none of the others can weigh over 130 pounds. Stylish and "Picturesque. But it is the manner of dress and the chio style of the Ah Fong girls that make them such attractions to naval officers and prominent resident Americans in Honolulu. Possessed of great wealth and a natural genius for color effects, the Ah Fong girls have from the time the eldest first went out to dancing parties till the youngest a year ago made her debut in Honolulu society at the age of fifteen worn some of the most heart- crnshing gowns man ever looked npon. A modiste from Paris has been kept at a good salary for over ten years to live near the Ah Fong houBe and devote her talents solely to the mother and the unmarried girls in the family. Once every two years she goes to San Francisco, thence across the continent to New York, thence to Paris, where she spends some thou sands of the Ah Fong fortune in great boxes and cases of the latest Parisian feminine vanities and conceits. Cultivated and l to Date. Unlike all other young women in Honolulu, the Ah Fong girls have cultivated the ways of the Americans aud English. That is a characteristic they have inherited from their Mon golian ancestors the knack of know ing what will please the Causasian race and then setting abont to accom plish it The Ah Fong girls have be oo me proficient tennis players. Hun dreds of officers in the A merican and British navy know what good tennis players the Ah Fongs are, aud a man-of-war no sooner touches Honolulu than the young men aboard who have been there before begin plans for get ting early to the hospitable Ah Fong home. The Ah Fongs social position in Honolulu has been assured for ten years, and since the father went to China never to return to Honolulu the position of the girls has been settled beyond argument. The marked at tention the naval officers have shown the girls has given them a prestige that thoir money could not bny even in mercenary Honolulu. The agree ability of Mme. Ah Fong, aud her smiles of happiness upon all her daughters' attendants have been po tential in making the Ah Fongs the favorites they are. The pagoda man sion has always been kept open to the girls' friends. Captain Whiting's nappy Home. Miss Henrietta Ah Fong, who mar ried Captain Whiting, U. S. N., and now at Manila in command of the Mouadnock, is considered the most charming in the family. She is a pretty brunette, and is the only book reader among the girls. While all the girls have had so much attention from naval officers, it was nevertheless a nine days' woudor in Honolulu and San Francisco when the announcement went ont that grave, dignified and aristocratio Commander Whiting was to wed Miss Ah ;Fong. To be sure, she was very bright and pretty and would adorn any home, aud and she had an absolutely sure dowry of $350, 000, and may get more. But theu there is the persistent thought that possibly old Papa Ah Fong and his queue and his clattering wooden shoes may come ont of China one day on a visit to his daughters. Then, too, one cannot suppress the wonder whether any of Mamma Ah Fong's Kanaka blood will ever assert itself in future generations. The naval officers, even those who had repeatedly been guests at the Ah Fong mansion, shook their heads and talked iu whispers among themselves. Butlhe marriage, which took plaoe in May, 1894, has proved a perfect nnion. Captain Whiting and his wife have a beautiful home among the cocoannt trees of Honolulu, and their devotion to each other is only marred by their common devotion to their three-year-old girl. . Mrs. Whiting is one of the most beautifully gowned women among the naval circles any where. Three Other Married Sisters. Miss Alice Ah Fong, who married Arthur M. Johnstone (formerly a re porter in St. Louis), the Associated Fress representative at Honolulu, is the tallest and most dignified of the girls that is, if one may speak of dig nity in connection with these jolly, singing bits of femininity of the tropics. Mrs. Johnstone owns a great block of stock in the Hawaiian Sugar Company and the annual income from that alone is over $22,000. Besides, her dowry included a coffee plantation and busi ness real estate iu Honolulu. Mrs. J. Alfred Morgan, wife of a prosperous lawyer iu Honolulu, who came from Leavenworth, Kan., was Miss Jenny Ah Fong until her marriage last Janu ary. Her dowry consisted of cash, a block of stock in the Maul Commer cial Sugar Company and real estate at Waikiki, near Honolulu. Miss Helen Ah Fong married a young San Fran cisco lawyer named George Stewart iu August, 1897, and went on a tour of the world with him. They will be back in Honolulu next spring. Meau whilo a very handsome home for the young couple is building in San Fran cisco. But there are nine other Ah Fong girls to gladden the hearts and homes of youth and chivalry. Moreover, there is a vast amount of stock in sugar companies, interests iu cocoannt groves, thousands of acres of fertile soil on tho islands of Hilo and Maui, stock in Hawaiian steamboat lines and Honolulu real estate to be given in dowry to the girls as fast as thoy choose their husbands. Ind above all old Papa Ah Fong has recently sent word from Pekin that he will probably never leave there again, and Mamma Ah Fong is not at all likely to so much as sail out of Honolulu harbor. Laying- the Atlantic Cable. The Atlantio telegraph-cable was safely laid, and was put in successful operation in the month of July, 18GG. The work was begnn on the Cth by lauding the shore end at Valencia, in Ireland. On the 13th the deep-sea line was spliced to the shore eud, and tho Great Eastern, with the cable on board, accompanied by three consorts, set ont on the voyage. Not a single misadventure occurred, and on the 28th the vessels reached Newfound- and. The whole distance sailed by the fleet was 1G8G nautical miles, and the length of cable paid out 18G8 miles. The rate of sailing was siniru- arly uniform, aud the least distance was made in a single day being 105 miles, the greatest 128. tmm)i5smtomi PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. The solutions to these puzzles will ap pear In a succeeding Issue. 1G Cl. Nine Insertions. 1. Insert a letter in a Bible name, and have a small house. 2. In a pos sessive pronoun, and have heeds. 3. In to preserve, and have a healing compound. 4. In pertaining to wings, and have a place of sacrifice. 5. In to gasp, and have to color. 6. In pr.rti of the foot, and have books. 7. In certain beverages, and have bitter plants. 8. In certain domestic ani mals, and have vehicles. 9. In t3 stuff, and have a rich liquid. The inserted letters spell the name of one of Admiral Dewey's ships. 01 A Diamond. 1. A letter. 2. A mimic 3. Luggage. 4. The act of climbing spirally. 5. Spiritual droughts. 6. The California rock-fish. 7. Pertaining to epithets. 8. Smelled. 9. Vory cold. 10. A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing Quid. 11. A letter. 63. Fire Broken Words. 1. Break a plant, and havo a weapon and to coiu. 2. A mound of earth, and have to obstruct and a distjfb auce. 3. A plaoe where plants are kept, and have a color aud a shelter 4. A dolt, and have a heavy piece cl timber and a part of the body. 5 Au exciting game, aud have the bot torn aud a Bphere. 61 A Square. . 1. The seat of life. 2. A mistake, 3. To get up. 4. Fragraut flowers. 5. A lock of hair. ANSWKBS TO TREVIOUS PUZZLES 57. A Metagram Hate. Fate, Mate, Kate, Bate. 58. A Word Square LONG , OVAL NATE GLEE 59. Six Decapitatious B-right, P-refer, D-auut, H andy, H eight, M-use. CO. A Diamond G MUG MO IRE GUINEAS GREAT EAT S. THE TWO MR. SP3INC3. Amuslns Complications Which the Same Name Caused at Montank. There were two men of the same name in tho Twentieth Infantry at Camp Wikolr, says the New York Press. One, hailing from Massachu setts, is a sergeant of Company I, while the other, a Pennsylvanian, is a private iu Company M. Soon after the regiment arrived at Montana Point, Sergeant Spring be gan to get very flattering letters from a young lady living iu a small Penn sylvania town; also express packages, which were none tho less wolcome for being unexpected. At the same time Private Spring was deciding that he must be able to charm at a distance, because a Massachusetts girl was writing to him in a particularly affec tionate strain, and wantiug to know if there wasn't somothiug Bhe could send him. Private Spring thought of a lot of things that he could use if he had them, but as the fair correspondent had omitted to sign her last name, it didn't seem feasible to write for them. Presently both Springs began to get letters complaining that no answers had been received to questions asked in the writer's previous letters. At the height of the tangle Sergeant bpring was walking along the road one day, when a comrade called his name. He and another man ahead of him both walked back, asking what was wanted. "Is your name Spring, too?" asked the sergeant. "That's what," replied the other man. "Francis Joseph Spring." "Well, that's me, too," said the sergeant. "Say," he added, as a thought struck him, "do you get letters from a girl named Mollie?" "No, I don't," replied the other. "Not as many as I ought to." "I do, more than I ought to," said the sergeant. "I guoss they're yours." "I've got some from Sarah that I'll trado for 'em," said the private, grin ning. "That's a go," answered the Massa chusetts man, and all was satisfactor ily arranged, except for the contents of sundry packages, which had been devoured. ' After that tho two Springs met every other day and held a mail ex change. Where Leather Comes From. Fourteen millions of cattle are killed in the United States each year to keep the tanneries of the leather mannfacturers busy. Where does the manufactured leather go? Thirteen million dollars' worth goes abroad. Heavy hides are converted into sole, belt and harness leather. Calfskin ie nsed for shoe uppers, boots and book bindings. Sheepskin goes into shoe linings, bellows, whips, aprons, cush ions and covers, gloves, women'i shoes, etc. Morocco leather, once generally nsed, has given way to glazed kid. Hog'skin is used for sad dle leather, traveliug bags, etc. Dog skin makes splendid gloves. Porpoise skin is used for shoe laces. Other creatures thatcontribute to tho leather industry are the buffalo, kangaroo, al ligator, deer, hippopotamus, elephant, rhinoceros, seal, walrtn aud shark. New York Press. ROAD-MAKING ANIMALS. The Trails of Sheep and Muak-Oxrn HaT Legal Keeosinttloo. In a note on tresspass by animals the editor of Country Life states that the Welsh mountain sheep have ob tained legal recognition of their capac ity to distinguish boundaries and as sert rigHts of way. On certain far its the flocks know the boundaries of their mountain pastnres, and presum ably transmit this knowledge to their lambs. They also maintain their rights against intruders, and if they meet trespassing sheep on the paths which generations of flocks have worn n the mountain side they do battle for the right of way, and if possible knock the intruders down the hill. This sense of locality augmeuts the ralue of flocks bred ou these hills, and the enhanced value was settled at Dolgelly Assizes as half a crown pet iheep. We should expect this assertion ol rights of way by sheep, though their knowledge of boundaries is more diffi cult to account for. Sheep bave for anknown ages been the great path markers on mountains and downs, and bave left their mark on the faces ol the everlasting hills. The Fheep walks are only niad intentionally in sc so far that the flocks having once sottled which is the shortest, easiest nd best route across these roadloss hills never seem to abandon what their reason has decided to he the best. Out on the hills these animals we almost in their primitive condition before domestication, and not the least interesting feature of their con duot in this relapse to the wild state is that, in spite of the highly artificial conditions in which they live to-day. they retain the primitive instincts of their race. That this "peremptory and path Iceoping" impulse is part of their early instinct is clear from au account ol the habits of the musk-ox recentlj written by tho London Times corres pondent in Canada. The musk-ox, the ovibus, is as much akin to the sheep as to the bovidio, and in habits more like what we lmscrine the nnde scended great original of our sheer was than are tho wild sheep of to-duy, It naturally assembles in great flocks and is migratory, just as all tho do meslicated flocks of Spain are, and those of Thrace and the Caspian steppe. Those flocks always return from tho barren lands in tho Fni North by the same rond and cros: rivers by the samo fords. Nothing out too persistent slaughter at these points by the Indians who beset thorn induoes them to desert their ancient highways. Pictures and anecdotes ol the migrations of these animals, and of the bison in former days, represent them as moving on a broad front across the prairie or tundra. The ex araples of all moving multitudes stis gest that this was not their usual formation on the march, and their roads prove that they moved on a unr row front or file. Origin of the Alphabet. The origin of our own alphabet is, according to Dr. Rouge's theory, do rived from the Phmnician, which was itself taken from a debased form of the Egyptian hieroglyphios, has nntil now held the field, and has been adopted by, among others, Canon t m i isaao loyior, in ms standard work on "The Alphabet." Bnt Mr. Arthur Evans, the keeper of tho Ashmolean, nas discovered in Urete a system of linear signs, which he assigns to the prehistoric Greek or "Mycenrcan " ago. These signs have been very much in evide. ce in Professor Flin ders Petrie's just concluded lectures at University College, and the Profes sor has gone so far as to assert that there was about 2000 B. C. a regular system of signs used in Crete, Cyprus, Libya, and, in fact, all the conutries bordering on the Mediterranean, fill filling, in some dezree. the nurnose nl correspondence. If this he so, we should have another source for the Phoenician letters quite independent of hieroglyphics. A Delusion That Was Ilangerons. Professor Hiiffh Scott savs that Pro fessor Henry Drummond, when a boy, discovered that be could hypnotize people. At a birthdoy party a little girl declined to play the piano. Drum mond happened to catch her eyo, aud said "Play." To his surprise she rose at once, went to the piano, aud played. At another time ho hypnotized a boy and gave him a poker for a gun. "Now," said Drnmmond, "I'm s pheasant ; shoot me. " Tho boy did so, and Drummond fell to keep up the il lusion, whereupon the boy, seeing the "bird" move, was about to hit it ovei the head with the poker. The liypno tizer had just time to stop tho mag netized sportsman. French Loyalty. During the rejoicing at Taris for the return of Louis XVIII., a Royalist exhibited a transparency with tho fol lowing words: "I have four millioiii at the service of tho King." Ad officer of the King- household seeing the transparency ..at into the man's house, and with ruuai politeness asked if it was really his intention to realize the offer his transparency announced if it was he could promise him marki of royal favor. "My lord," said the man, "the offur is sincere. My name is Million, and I have four sons all ready to serve his majesty. They only wait for good appointments." A Ranch That Pastures 130,(100 Cattle The X. I. T. ranch, in the extreme northwest corner of the Panhandle ol Texas, the largest ranch in tho world, has an area of five thousaud square miles. Its hords of cattlo nggregote 120,000 head, beside 1500 horses, and the calf crop branded in 1897 exceeded 31,000. Surprising as it may seem, all the work on the ranch is done by 125 men, one mau to every 21,000 acres. Ladies' Home Journal. JES' NEEP A SMILIN'. "Jcs' keep a smilin'," I hear it said, When yer tooth Is a achia' tell you wlsht yi was dead, An' "jes- keep a smilin'," 'ith a bard row ter hoe Fer the world'H be agin ye, ef ye tell yet woe; Say I but I'm Mck ov the bull blamed show An' It's "jes' keep a smllin'l" "Jes' keep a smllln';" as ef there ain't Nary time, nor place, fer a suff'rer's plaint. An' "Jes' keep a smllln'," 'ith a make-believe grin A-tryln' mighty hard to take folks in An' vowln' all the while ye oau't begin, Ter "jos'keep asinllln'l" "Jes" keep a smllln'." It's all very well Ter show yer grit when ye're down a spell; Kut "jes' keep a smilin' " whoa yer ship'! gela' down An' yer dasn't make a holler, though yet know ye'll drown, For fear some folks la the world'H frown Kin ye "jos' keop a smllln ?" 'Jes' keep a smilin' !" there comes a time Where the world ain't a joke, an'llvla' ala'l a rhyme; An' "Jes keep a smllln'," it seems ter me Is a dangerous thing, when yer out at sea 'Ith yer rudder broke, an' oughter be Where ye kia "keep a sinlliu' I" "Jes keep asmilla'," I'd like ter know Kin ye alius keep away from sin an' woe? An' "jes' keep a smlliu'," when the .thing ye need Is ter help an' be helped by a generous deed, Tho' ye do hev ter make some soft heart bleed, Ter help ye "keep a smilin'?" Jes koep a smilin'," jes' so, when ye kin; Don't go ter wbln'n' bout the prick ov a tln, :eep a smllln'," till yer strength gives out iu'yo fludyersolf slukln' In a mire ov doubt liutlut folks know you're som'eres about Ami they'll do the smllin'l Detroit Journal. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Tabby "Would you die a thousand deaths for me?" Tom "No; only nine." Indiauapolis Journal. The ptomalue Is a cowardly beast, A man's his favorite prize; If he must light ho might at least Take some oue of his size. Old Style "Where there is a will there is a way." New Style "Where there is a will there is a contest." Judge. Cholly "I want a nice hat, one that aw will be becoming to my head, don' cherkuow?" Hatter "Yes, sir; here are somo stylish soft ones." Irate but Unmusical Father "For gracious sake, Mary, give us a rest!" Daughter "Can't do it, paw. There's none in the music." Harlem Life. Mrs. Newwed "My mother writes that she is coming here to star three months." Mr. Nowwod "Thank heaven for that! She knows how to cook." " ' Mistress "Why, Bridget, tho chairs are covered with dust!" Ser vant (coolly) "Well, mum, they want somothiug to hide their shabbiuess." Fun. He "That is just like a woman sharpening your pencil with a pair of shears." She "That's more thau you could do, anyway." Indianapolis Journal. Barber (to Charles) "Why, your face is all carved up! What mutton headed doukey shaved you last?" Charles (meekly) "I shaved myself." -Tit-Bits. Constance "What lovely embroid jry! Aud do you also paint?" Violet "No, dear. I often envy yon '.hat accomplishment. " Philadelphia North-American. "Fwat is th' matter with your face?" "Oi wor throwu from me carriage. But it tnk th' condocchtor an' motor man, the both of thim, to doit." In dianapolis Journal. "The editor receives lots of first- rate jokes, but ho throws them all in the waste basket." "Well, I'm glad to know there's something about that's jverflowiug with good humor." Philadelphia Bulletin. "Do you believe that poets are born?" asked one c.illor. "Not now," replied the editor, as he glanced toward the waste basket, "although I believe a few were born iu former ceu-tnrios."- Chicago News. The mother of the youthful employe in the Senate glared at her offspring. "I can read you like a book," said she. Then, getting her slipper, she pro ceeded to turn over a page. New York Commercial Advertiser. "Anyhow," said Perry Patattio to himself, as ho curled np in the hay, "I kin sleep long us I please 'thought beiu' afraid of missiu' my breakfast, cause they ain't no breakfast fer me to miss." Cincinnati Enquirer. "Mr. Scatterton prides himself on being strictly impartial." "Yes," an swered the uuamiable man, "I once went hunting with him. Ho didu't seem to care whether ho hit the rab bit, the dog, or one of his friends." Washington Star. "The year just passod was a vory satisfactory one in nearly all linos of l 1.. tl .. 1. .. 1 1. .. ..1. ........... 4 boarder. I am told, added the cross-eyed boarder, "that even the mints made more money than in any othor recent year." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Paper's Many Ises. Telegraph and telephone poles, flagtaffs aud spars for small sailing vessels are the latest development in tho line of manufacture from paper. They are made of pulp in which u small amount of borax, tallow and other ingredients are mixed. Theso are cast in a mold in the form of a hollow roil of the desired diameter and length. Tho poles aud spars arc claimed to be lighter and strougor than wood. They do not crack or split, and it is said when they are var nished or painted tho weatuer does not affect them. Besides possessiug these advantages, the paper-ma lo ar ticlo can be made tire proof by satu rating it in a strong solution of alum water. When thoroughly dry the paper poles aud spars thus treated will re sist the action of flames.
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