SUZETTE. 1 She Made a Quick Journey and Saved the Property. By FRANK H. SWEET. iCopyrisht. 190i>, oy American f'reaa ABHO ciation.j "I say they come here and drive away our game!" cried Suzette. stamp ing her pretty foot. "Oui, 1 say It bold ly. Do we not have to search the wood all day now for a deer or a tur key when both used to come to our very door? And they have angle and seine and troll and spear till there be no feesh any more. Do uot tell me fhey have come to civilize, to open up the country and to bring pros-per-i-ty. Bah! Have not we been happy here all by ourselves on our little slope overlooking the river, and does not our grandmother sny she was happy here when a little girl, aud did not her mother and her grandmother live here, too, and be happy in their time? What more is there? Have we not had pros per-i-ty? And what do we care for more civilize, more open up? it is not good for us. See!" scornfully and sweeping her arm toward a building SHE SHOT OVXB AND DOWN THE FALLS. whose many open, mouth-like piazzas grinued affably at them through the trees. "That Is their civilize, to dance and be amuse, and they have put up a—a clubhouse on the bank, at the very top of our own beautiful falls, where they have canvas shells—to shoot the falls, and that be amuse too. And that is not all—non. They"— "Child, child," remonstrated her moth er, "do not goon so. They mean well and want to be friendly. Aud. anyway, nothing we can do will change"— "That is not all," repeated Suzette. "This morning some of them come on our owu land with things to measure around our own cabin, and I did hear one of them say the slope would soon be theirs nud that it would he a beau ti-ful spot for a bun ga-low. Think, mother! The land has been ours since the time of my great-grandfather, with nobody but ourselves here, and all the game and fish for us alone, and now they come here and walk across the land and tnake some figures, and all they have to do is to send the figures away and the land will be theirs for ever and through all time! That is what 1 bear the man say. Bah! SVhat kind ot civilize do you call it, this open up? It is not we who have live here. God did uot make two lands for one man." "H'sh, Suzotte!" auxiously. "They may hear you and drive us away when they owu the land. We are nothing but squatters. Uiey say." "We have lived here, and they have not," flashed Suzette. "And what are the figures but marks that any school boy can make! 1 look at them and know. The first paper the man they call sur-vey-or make he lay down, and the wind blow It toward me. Then he make another. And when they go I pick it up. 1 have It now. and It is nothing but some figures and some let ters.-' Her mother was usually calm and submissive to fate, but now a quick light flashed to her eyes. "If we could get the paper to Que bec first, Suzette," she almost breathed, "maybe—maybe the land would bo ours. I hud an uncle who got some land that way once. Another man was try to get it, but my uncle reach the land place first, and the land have been his ever since, and now no man can lake it except they pay him mon ey and he is willing'. Tf-if -rr ecald get our land like that!" Suzette drew a paper from her bos om, and liie two women bent over it eagerly, a'most reverently, for to both it was alihe unintelligible. "Did you hear the man say when he take his paper to the land place. Suzette?" "Not till next week. They were stand near the cabin, and I could not help to hear. They will fish this week and hunt, and the next week when they start home they will goto Quebec, too, and steal our land." "If they can," the submissive face growing yet firmer with Its new pur pose. "But wo try to do like my undo did first, only," with a note of appre hension hi ber voice, "these people know things, and they have been to Quebec. The man who try to steal my uncle's land was only a tramp seller of pins, with slow wits, and it was a race of legs. This may not be so easy, but we will try. Vou hurry to the traps and find your father, Suzette, and tell him to come quick. lie must start with the sunset, for it will be a long, hard Journey, and he will have to goon foot. When 'hey go it will be with fast horses. Hut there is the week's start. Hurry, suzette!" But the girl only drew herself up, shaking her bead. "Not father." she said. "He would lie vet' grt to Quebec. lie would [SD at first, meaning to do everything, buf when he found water or a sigtl Of game he would stop to tisb or bans and forget everything. No. no, HOD uion pere. Now, there is a way Wtf must not risk. 1 will go myself." j "You, Suzette!" incredulously. "Yo| cannot, child. It is three days' Joan ney, and you have never been a (liijl from hotue." "Only two days by water, mothnu and 1 shall go that way. It will be ■ straight course, and 1 cannot get lo«fl 1 will take my 00 shillings and somj bread." 4 Ten minutes later the keeper of tha boathouse at the head of the falls saw her running down the slope. Suzette never walked when sne could run. As she approached the man rose to his feet. There were few visitors at this hour. "Ob. m'sieu," sbe called merrily as she stepped on the platform aud slip ped past bitn to the riverside, where the boats were kept, "uiay i take one of the—er—shells togo over the falls? Vou know you said 1 could use them any time when not engaged." "Certainly, Miss Suzette," the man answered respectfully. He had orders to treat these first settlers with every consideration possible that did not in terfere witli business or profit in any way. "Which one will you tryV" The girl's eyes swept over the boats, instantly fixing upon the one she felt to be the strongest aud most seawor thy. "This." she replied as she stepped into it. "Now see it I not go down the tails as nice as any ot your hotel peo ple." A minute later, with shoulders erect and hair Hying, she shot over and down the falis, the man standing on the platform watching her. After passing below the rapids the man expected her to turn back by the little side stream prepared for that purpose, up which the boat could be drawn. But, 110; she paddled calmly 011 without looking back aud soon disap peared round a betid iu the river. The man stood there for some time watching, then resumed his seat, with a chuckle. J lie girl hud likely gone ou to some quiet pool tor an hour's lisb ing, or perhaps she was gathering ' lilies or leaves or just keeping out or sight ihroush some leasing mood. She was a iiaruiu scarum thing anyway. But when she had not returned at noon uor at night lie grew anxious and at last went to the owner and spoke with him In a low voice, then sought the cabiu with faltering steps Yet somehow, though Suzette's mother expressed anxiety in a voluble voice, he had a feeling that tbe words did not reach much farther than tbe lips, and the feeling lessened bis own cou cern. Very likely tbe girl was accus tomed to such escapades. So little was said about it tbe next day, and it was not until tbe end of i the third that the disappearance be came generally known, l'ben it seem i ed chletly to affect two men who bad | Just come iu from a fishing trip. They I had planned to leave tbe week follow | lng, but after a hurried consultation I they ordered the fastest horses and within half an hour were on the way to Quebec. Three days afterward Suzette rowed to tbe foot ot the rapids, turned Into the small side stream aud signaled for the keeper to draw her boat up. When she stepped upon tbe platform her face i was pale, but triumphant. "You may tell tbe owner his boat have been very useful to me,'* she said, "and that I have not harm it. At'd you may add that 1 own the land around tbe cabin now and all the slope | beyond. All 1 have to do Is to live on | it. And. oh. yes. If the hotel want to ! ii •<* any more of tbe water from our 1 s; ring it must pay us something for the privilege! So far it have paid m thing and tried to take everything. [ but 1 will let the use of the boat can | eel all that." And then she started up the slope to j meet her mother, who was hurrying ' down from the cabin. Meanwhile the two men. who follow ed the girl on fast horses, were gallop : lng toward the land office at Quebec. I They traveled fast, but Suzette had j got too much a start of them. When | they reached Quebec they threw them j selves from their jaded horses and j went into the office to register the land i they found that an entry had been j made only a few hours before. There | on the books tbey were shown the | name of the girl who bad outwitted : them. Their fishing trip had been I spoiled, they bad ruined two valua ble horses, and they had got nothing i for their pains. And the bad temper of these men was balanced by the rejoicings of Suzette and her mother. They could not return to the times when the deer and wild turkeys cou!d be shot at their doors and when the fish were plentiful In the streams. But people who bad plenty of money wanted their property and kept bidding more and more for it every year. At last a j hunting club that had purchased many acres lying all about it made them sueh a fine offer for it that it was ac cepted. With the money Suzette and Uer mother went away and purchased a. new home. And now the game comes again to their door. To School by Air Tube. "Fifty years from now there will be no schools lu Chicago," said Architect Dwlght H. Perkins of the Chicago board of educution the other day. lie meant that conditions In Chicago, par ticularly transportation, will have changed to such an extent that the schools will be thirty or forty miles be yond the city limits, far from its smoke, dust, dirt and turmoil and close to nature. "We will shoot the children out through pneumatic tubes every morn-, lng into fields, groves and parks to! school," was the architect's enthusias tic prophecy. "And in the evening we will shoot them back again." Tanning. Johnny—Don't they use bark to tan hides with, pa? Father—Yes, my son, but if you ask any more questions this •evening you'll fiud that a slipper does Just as well. A Mean Comment. The Man—She looks nice enough to eRt. The Woman—M-yes; plain food seems to appeal to some people.—Lon don Illustrated Bits. I The Work | Of Doctor I Jonnesco i entire med -8 ical profession of the country is at present in tensely interested In the work of I)r. Jonnesco of ttouma nia, now in Amer *4o9 ' *'emonstrations ' 'if Jjk have won the high est praise, our phy sicians intend to DIJ. JONNESCO. await results before adopting his methods here. Dr. Jon nesco by the injecting into the spine of his new anaesthetic, stovaine and strychnine, is enabled to operate while tile patient is perfectly conscious. lie cently in New York city he anaesthe tized four patients, three of them chil dren and the fourth a woman of thir ty-live years, with stovaine, while half n hundred keen, critical American doc tors, six of them women, looked on from the amphitheater, following every move. Dr. William Mayo, one of the noted Mayo brothers of Minnesota, ranked by some as the foremost surgeons of America, was among those who watch ed the demonstration. lie had come halfway across the country to wit ness it, and when it was at an end lie congratulated Jonnesco and invited the professor to demonstrate at Rochester, Minn, where the Mayos have their hospital. The behavior of the patients was most remarkable. The youngest of the four was a boy four and a half years of age, suffering from infantile paral ysis. lie whimpered just a little as the needle punctured his spine and for a moment when the sharp lance touch ed his heel. The rest of the time be laughed. When he was asked after it was over how he felt he replied in a INJECTINO HIE HTUVAINi:. [From Harper's Weekly.J voice that carried to every corner of the room: "1 feel all right. 1 feel One." The third boy was deeply worried for fear that the doctors were "golug to do something" to him. Even while he worried over something he believed impending Dr. Coley finished the op eration for hernia. The youngster lay on the table ns calmly as if he were in his own bed, looking at the physi cian with big, unwinking eyes, feeling nothing, though there was an Incision several Inches long in the region of his abdomen. Trofessor Jonnesco said that uot one of the patients had felt any pain, and that was tlieir own testimony. Some skeptics present declared that it re mained to be seen whether stovalne had any effect on the spinal cord, which would take several months to determine. Professor Jonnesco was asked about these possible after ef fects, and he said there would bo none. In an operation for appendicitis where stovalne had been Injected the patient laughed and talked with the doctors. After the incision had been made and the appendix found the sur geon asked: "Do you feel it much?" "Feel what?" "That pain." "No. When will you begin?" Spinal anaesthesia is 110 new thing, nud I'rofessor Jonnesco does not say It is. Dr. .1. Leonard Corning, "an American surgeon, is sakl to have been the first to suggest it.and Drs. Bier of Berlin, Tutiier of Paris, Morton of Sau Francisco. Matas of New Orleans, George Fowler and William S. llain bridge of Washington have all used It. But Dr. Jonnesco uses stovalne com bined with strychnine to stimulate the heart action, and that is a new solu tiou. As lie explains his method there are "two essential points of novelty— the puncture Is made at the level of the spinal column appropriate to the region to be operated upon. An anaes thetic solution is used which, owing to the addition of strychnine. Is tolerated by the higher nervous centers." Professor Jonnesco prefers stovaine to tropa-coeaine and novocain, though ho admits that the latter are equally efficacious and harmless. What He Lacked. "lie's got no license to talk the way he does." "Oh, he's got a license, all right! What he lacks is a muzzle."—Cleve land Leader. Disagreeable. Aunt—l can tell at a glance what Other people are thinking of me. Niece (absentmindedl.v) —llow very disagree able for you. auntie! Although the world Is full of suffer ing. it Is full of the overcoming of It.— Keller. MATCHING, A Story of Love Between Intel lectual People. By WAYNE S. BORROW. JCopyrlght, 1009. by American Press Asso ciation.] A little dark wotnnn dressed In a kimono was arranging a mahogany tea table, with claws to Its legs, on which were a teapot, dainty china cups and saucers, cream and sugar bowls. The Apartment was as daintily furnished as the tea table. Persian rugs were on the floor, damask and lace curtains hung in the windows, while a pro fusion of bric-a-brac was scattered About. It was an apartment that a man would never dare enter, for should lie turu around suddenly his coattall would be sure to sweep some valuable bit of china onto the floor, of course breaking it into fragments. A woman large and fair entered. "You poor thing! You look fagged to death." "I am, dear. I'm dead already. This is my ghost that wants a cup of tea." The little dark woman In the kimono pushed the large fair one into an easy "OBEKN STREAKS," BHB TOM) FS, "BTOOD POU PATIENCE." chair, Bllpi>ed out hatpins and dis posed of the gorgeous picture hat that crowned a blond pompadour. "I'm sure you're an angel, Laura. Perhaps this poor ghost has got to heaven." "Tell me about It," said the other sympathetically. "You haven't lost flesh over It, Anne." The visitor laughed ruefully. "Do I lose flesh over anything?" she in quired. "But I have taken what Jack calls my annual vow and swear-off from clubs. The federation may fed erate in any town it sees fit. I'll not go near it. No, I'll not!" as her hostess laughed and refilled her tea- I cup. "This vow is not to be annually I broken—only annually renewed. | "You see. it was like this: It was | worse than an ordinary federation | meeting, for I had Myra Heed Morton and her daughter Lily's love affairs on my tnind. You know, Professor Henry of the university has been des perately in love wilb Lily for a year. I only be doesn't know It. poor soul! He's so wound up in his 'oiogies and knowledges that he doesn't understand | what he wants." | "And you were trying to help him. I you matchmaking creature!'" suggested Laura. "Of course 1 was! Isn't Myra Hoed a widow and one of rny dearest friends, and isn't 1 Jly the sweetest and l»est girl of her age 1 know? I've invited ! the professor to my house and listened I to his theories till"— "Till you're very, very tired of it." agreed the other sympathetically. The sufferer tiodded. "I've given ! him every chance in the world to be 1 alone with Lily, and I've tried—well, I it sounds brutal to put it just that : way—but I've tried to shield Myra's I little idiosyncrasies from tho sou-in ; law I hoped she would have. I "Then along came this miserable fed | eratlon meeting, and the evil one couuseled me to put Myra on the pro gram. Some madness lod me to think that she would actually follow Instruc tions and give tue a paper on colonial families of Virginia—that for the Daughters, you know. In uiy besotted state of mind 1 ran and Invited the j professor to be present at that partic- I ular meeting. To Invite him It was necessary to invite the entire faculty j unless 1 wanted to seem desperately ! special. Oh. Laura, 1 don't know | whether 1 hnve fortitude togo on!" , "Yes, you have," her friend Insisted, j "Take a wafer and several long breaths. i Did Susie Alllngham faint? I heard ] the most garbled account of the thing." | "Faint? No more than you or I. i She had promised me to have a paper j on traveling libraries and a full report, i Five minutes before the reading I 1 asked her how long her paper was and would she please let me glance | over it. The shameless creature hadn't the scratch of a pen. She said she was I going to give us a little talk, aud she I was shaking like a leaf with stage I fright right then. Oh. yes, she pre j tended to faint!" I "You can't quite say that, can you? Tou didn't have a physician present or test her with a redhot Iron?" The president of the Spare Moments club giggled comfortably. "I rather think the latter. Jane Courtney—you know what a soldier Jane is—oh. a grenadier! Well, perhaps Jane had been on foot all day looking after tho refreshments and various things that nobody else wants to, and when she saw Susie keel over she turned around and remarked: 'That Alllngham girl looks a sight with her bonnet knocked over one ear, and her switch is coming loose. Good gracious, it'll fall off in another minute!' " There was soft murmur of apprecia tion from the other side of tho table. "And Susie?" "Susie opened one eye to see who it was talking, and theu she changed her mind about fainting. My, but she was mad! She wept. I had to nil her num ber ou iln- |>roj_lit llJ witU some music. 1 didn't cure. Ity (bill time it was all a mad. seething, lioilliiK whirlpool of managing lo make something do for something else anyhow." "But about MyraV" "Ob. yes! Well. Myra came. and so did all the professors. 1 had uo idea tbose men were so interested in wom en's clubs. What do you suppose that woman bad done in place of anything on earth about colonial Virginia?" "Something wild, of course." "Something wild? 1 like your phrase. It was bloodcurdling! She bad diagrams! I thought 1 should sink wheu she drew those diagrams out. You know, site's a fanatic on some new ism about reforming the world by set ting down and holding your breath and thinking about something else." "Not a bad idea." with carefully pre served gravity. "And you put it so lu cidly. Anne. 1 think 1 could do that myself." "Oh. well, you know! The kind of thing that used to be in the front of the first readers when you and I were babies at school. You sit dowu and shut your teeth nnd say. 'l—am—in—it. he—ls—in—it.' or something like that." "No, dear. It's 'assertions' that you mean. You build them into your char acter by saying them over that way." "Laura," in a tragic tone, "you're al most as bad as she is! I don't want to build things into my character. You talk as If it was a summer cottage. Oh, dear me, 1 haven't a shred of char acter left since Myra disgraced me as j she did! She got to talking about I things that weren't quite nice, it seeni | ed to me, for a mixed audience, and 1 was in agony because 1 had Lily por tioned off with the professor there in the back room. "I could see the other men trying not to laugh, and I felt so apologetic—so abject! if 1 could have crawled out under the seats, dusting those men's boots as 1 went, 1 should have been ' glad. Then came the diagrams! A I large pink thing meant your natural i affections. Laura, do you love people in that shade of pink? Because, if you | do, pray never love me any. "A blue wedge was for your—for your—lntellectual capacity, I think. 1 hadn't any by the time that came Some green streaks, she told us, stood | for patience, but mine was at an end. | I pulled the back of her frock and I whispered to her, 'Where is your pa | per on colonial Virginia families?' ! Laura, that aggravating creature look ed across her shoulder at me as serene ly as she will look at her son-in-law I when she runs right over him, and she ] said, loud enough for everybody to hear: 'Oh, this is a much more im portant matter, my dear. This con cerns the source and origin of man and his cosmic destiny.' Laura, what is cosmic destiny? Do you suppose you and I each have one?" Her hostess got breath finally from the smothered laughter that had greet ed the diagrams. "Never mind your cosmic destiny, honey," she counseled. "Tell me what the professor and Lily did." I"I was in agony for them. Some of I Myra's remarks were very plain and | hardly the things for young girls to hear, lot alone girls accompanied by : gentlemen. Hut there! 1 might have ' spared myself worry. It seems 1 am I only a plain fool." ! "Oh, no," remonstrated her friend j slyly. "Nobody would ever say that ; of you." ! "I'd rather be a plain fool than a ' pretty one," retorted the other. "And that's what M.vra Morton and her iike 1 call me. I know! It seems that M.vra is a brilliant woman and that 1 had | only made trouble and retarded things, | instead of helping." I "How was that?" "Oh, the professor is deeply interest ed in the particular isiu that Mvra is i exploiting just now. 1 suppose he loves Lily in that shade of pink and does his thinking iu blue wedges and has streaks of green patience. Anyhow, he said that Myra's diagrams were very illuminating. lie was up in the crowd j congratulating her on that disgraceful ' performance. 1 saw that both he and • Lily looked mightily pleased about 1 something, and after the tiling was i over he told me confidentially—l have j been encouraging his confidential talks, ! you know, during the past year—that the hearing of that paper had removed ; the last shadow of a barrier between ; himself and Myra's daughter." j "Barrier V" "Oh, yes; I have been trying to tell j him about Myra and prepare him for ! what he might expect, and 1 suppose j my opinion of her cranklsm and J'ro ' feseor Henry's dou't precisely agree." | "They wouldn't naturally."' slipped from Laura's lips, and then was re gret ted. "Don't )oii tell me Hint I mean well!" ! turning sh.ir; ly. "I'll bear anything i but that, '!■ '!':t IJ's what the pro fessor a".l d Mynt Peed Morton are sn.vh. . • 141- this minute. They nre sitting 1 holiiing their breaths and thin!;'.- <1! ,»ut something else and saying (lint am a well meaning crea ture who l.\,■!set;sc." "Well." _•>-:nn-ented her friend crisp ly, "If they can do all that at one time I believe I'll iu'estigate the system myself." Tco Risky, In boring for oil when the drill reaches the depth where it allows gas to escape every precaution is taken ngainst igniting it lest there should be a destructive explosion. This neces sary precaution gives point to the fol lowing story, told by a writer iu the Pittsburg News: "I can deal with men," growled a drizzled oil driller, "but a woman can outdo the best of us. "1 brought In a well In Vlrglnny right close to the kitchen door of a little farmhouse. Just as we were get ting to the ticklish point where smok ing wasn't allowed within forty rods, out comes the farmer's wife and goes to building a big fire In a Dutch oven. "Mebby I didn't kick, but she Just showed me a batch of dough an' said if she didn't bake it 'twould spoil. If I wanted the fire out 1 had got to pay for the dough—ten dollars too. She Just dared me to touch that Dutch oven, an' 1 didn't touch it either. I Just gave her the ten. "Mebby we didn't get that fire out quick. If the well had broken loose It would have blown me an' the whole farmhouse out of sight. "No, sir; 1 don't want any more deal ings with women. They're too risky." D.O.QLLS.HGIED riLLHwTiaSOPIST Financier Wiio Favorsd Aiding! Glta to Help Tliomselvas. : FOUNDER OF NOTED HOTELS. Three Built In New York Are Monu- ' merits to the Late Banker's Common Sense Charity —lncidents of His Ca reer and Early Life—A Sample of His Wit. To many thousands of persons lu the United States the name of Darius Og den Mills, the famous banker, tlnau eier and philanthropist of New York, who recently died at his winter home nt Mill brae, near San Francisco, will be associated solely with his broad Interest in the welfare of his fellows. His theory was that there is too much waste in the United States and that the value of money is not appreciat ed. lie believed that economy could be practiced without a loss of self re spect or injury to the physical being, and lie pointed the way in practical fashion. Thousands of young men he saw were expending every cent of their earnings for a bare living amid squalid surroundings, and lie erected cheap hotels where food and lodging could be obtained at a minimum price and where a man's self respect would not suffer. Object Lessons In Thrift. These hotels, of which there are now three in New York city, are object lessons in thrift, cleanliness and de cency. There the man of small in come may live well at a small cost and absorb a motive to save a part of the earnings that he would other wise have to expend for food and lodg ing. lie also erected several model tenements for families of small re sources and found that these people respond quickly to the uplifting influ ences of modern sanitation and mod erate rentals. Although bis charities were broad, he was always thinking of a way to help men to help them selves before the time came when they had t<> lie helped by their more fortu nate fellows. Mr. Mills was born iu North Sa lem, N. y., on Sept. 5, 1825. He was the fourth son of James Mills and Hannah Ogden Mills of North Salem. Iu December, 1849, he started for Cali fornia, going around the Horn, and arrived at San Francisco on June 8, 1810. From that day his name was Interwoven with the story of the growth of California. Bee-no a Leading Banker. He established the banking house of I). O. Mills is Co. of Sacramento, which is siill the leading bank of the interior of California. Although Mr. Mills i-pent the greater part of recent years in New York, he passed some mouths each year iu California. Mr. Mills married on Sept. 5, 1854. Miss Jane Templetou Cunningham of New York, who died on April 20, 188 S. When youUK Mills left his lxoiue in Westcnester county, N. Y., to win a place for himself in New York that city was little more than a provincial town, with woods and meadows cover j ing the district north of the city hall. | it was not diliieult to obtain a clerk | ship iu a bank In those days, and Mr. Mills was not long iu finding work, j He was not satisfied with the outlook for promotion, however, and gave up j the position for a better one ia lluf J falo, where ho soon became cashier and his employer's partner. The tlrst | tumors of the discovery of gold in | California found him an eager listeuer, j and he resolved to try his fortunes iu | this new western world. Got the "Gold Fevor." The "gold fever" which possessed i lilm was not of the speculative char j actor, which was typical of the man. j Ho argued that the rush of men to j the gold sections of Calbornia would i result in suffering from lack of the j necessities of life and that there would I be a dearth of business organization. I Investing his savings in a stock of tnlniug supplies, he made his first ap pearance in the gold fields as a mer chant. He was successful from the start. Sacramento was not much more than a village at that time, but the proximity of the diggings made It a center of trade with the miners. It was not long before he had establish ed a bank, the first institution of the kind on the Pacific coast. It became a prominent factor In the growth of the community surrounding It. The bank spread out into a network of enterprises and was finally follow ed by the Bank of California, which Mr. Mills helped to organize in San Francisco and of which he was the first president. The Institution soon attained an international prominence. A sample of the banker's ready wit was displayed on one occasion in the fifties when an amateur dramatic per formance was given In San Francisco for the benefit of some deserving char ity. Among the performers was the late Ilugh Farrar McDermott, the poet, and in a box was Mr. Mills. The play was some classic j)lece, and the acting was so bad that what should have been a tragedy became a farce. In the last act McDermott dropped his sword and, stooping awkwardly, pick ed it up. There was a titter in the audience, which Increased as the luck less performer asked, "What shall I do with this envenomed blade?" From the banker's box came in a queer stage whisper, "Stab yourself, Hugh, and be done with it"' Needle Dust. In factories where needles are made the grlndstoues throw otT great quanti ties of minute steel particles, with which the air becomes heavily charg ed, although the dust is too fine to be perceptible to the eye. Breathing the dust shows no Immediate effect, but gradually sets up irritation, usually ending in pulmonary consumption. In effective attempts were made to screen the air by gauze or linen guards for uose and mouth. At last the use of the magnet was suggested, and now masks of magnetized steel wire are worn by workmen and effectually re move the metal dust before the air is breathed.—London Graphic. CHINA'S DEMAND . FOR RAILROADS Wu Tells oi Early Prejudice Now Changed ta Enthusiasm. NETWORK OF LINES PREDICTED Former Chinese Minister and Li Hung Chang Dared Not Even Suggest Rail ways Once—Remarkable Revolution In Sentiment In Twenty Years. Wu Ting Fang, the former Chinese minister, who was Interviewed at New York a few days before he sailed for China, spoke on the question of rail road building in China and Imparted some startling facts. "CLlna for the Chinese" Is, accord ing to Mr. Wu, the motto of the Chi nese so far as railroads in their coun try are concerned, ami the fault, ho says, lies with Americans. To make this clear lie gave a rief history of Chinese railroads. Li Hung Chang's Strategy. "Twenty years ago," he said, "Li Hung Chang, whose legal adviser and secretary I was, was the only Chinese statesman who favored the building oC railroads in China. lie knew that it was useless to try to persuade the Chi nese by argument of the advisability of having railroads, tut he felt that if they could once see a railroad hi oper ation they would want tlieni all over ! the empire, where traveling is so iliffl | cult that many persons live and die I without stirring from their native vil lages. L.i Hung Cluing dared i.ot asit the imperial sanction tor building tlie j first railroad. | "He got around ttie difficulty by hav | ing me construct a road from a mine I to the bank of a river that passed I through no towns or villages even, so ) that no sanction was necessary. This j road was ten miles long. People floek j ed to see it and were so favorably im pressed that when 1.1 Hung Chang asked the emperor's permission to ex tend the road to the city of Tientsin it was granted. All opposition to the rail road among the Chinese died out. Network of Roads Soon. "The Chinese now are so strongly in favor of railroads that in a few years the whole country will be covered by a network of them, but they want to do it themselves. As they have nei ther the money nor the experience the work is progressing much more slow ly than It should, But they persist tn the •China for the Chinese' policy. "Now, 1 am as loyal and patriotic as any Chinaman, but 1 recognize the dif ference between u foreign capitalist like the late Calvin lirice and an ex ploiter, and 1 hope to make my coun trymen see the difference, too, but it will take a lot of diplomacy. "There is a great future for China men with n knowledge of railroading. I continually advise young men who come from China to study in the Unit ed States to lake it up, and more and more of them are taking my advice." SCHURZ MEMORIAL Relics to Be Preserved In His First American Home. The Wisconsin Society of New Vorl; has started a movement for a me morial to Carl Schurz. the late publi cist and statesman, that is being high ly commended. The project is to pur chase the site near Watertown, Wis., which was the tirst American homo of Scburz and to make it a perma nent memorial to him. \ For .$3,500 the strip of land for tin* I site can be purchased, and in th.s BBfijSjjjgls 1 BBSSSSBSSfifiSSSIa I CAHI* SCHUItZ UoMK, WATJSUTOWN, WIS. house that stands on the ground It la Intended to collect the speeches and writings and other relics of Schurz and to preserve them. The society holds an option on the site. Mr. Schurz was a boy of twenty three when he landed in New York. He lived tirst in Philadelphia and then purchased a home near Watertown, Wis., where the new memorial is be ing planned. Practical Considerations. "My family tree"— began the titled suitor. "I'm tired of hearing about family trees," answered Mr. Cuuirox. "lu the part of the country 1 catue from a man's industry and consequence nro measured by the size of the family, wood piles."—Washington Star SMfflfi A Flellablo TO SHOP ror all kind of Tin Roofing* Spoutln* nnd Csnerai Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Rsn«ss, Furnaces, eto. PRICES TEE LOWEST! QIIiLIT! TDK BEST,' JOHN HIXSOfI NO. 1W E, FKONT 81,
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