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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.
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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.