1 According to official reports the American navy used 814,23.1 tons of eonl during the war with Spain. Thin, perhaps, accounts for its hot and ef fective firing. And now the coflln-makers have formed a trust, with an aggregate cap ital of $20,000,000. Ibis, of course, Is a benevolent scheme to make death unpopular by making a decent burial more cosily. The suggestion that the new Amer-' tea's enp defender be built for cross ing the Atlantic that she may t ike part in races for various international trophies in Enropenu waters would be national expansion policy to which no American could object. Bicycles and trolley cars havo dis placed 210,000 horses in seven citios as follows: Philadelphia, 60,000; Chicago, 75,000; New York, 40,010; Baltimore, 25,000; St. Louis, 10,0(10; Cincinnati, 10,000; Richmond, Vn., 15,000; Toledo, 15,000, and the motor Vehicle is coming right along to add its quota to this column of equiue dis placement. Men now living will ride by rail from Cairo to Cape Town. Then civ ilization will set in all along the rail way. Towns will spring up in salu brious spots, and in some not salu brious, where money is to be mndr. The telegraph, the telephone and the electric motor will spread out on both Rides, and the "unexplored aomitry" of the geographies of a generation ago will hum with the activities of modem life. The United States consul at Vienna, Anstria, in a report to the state de partment, ascribes the general de crease in exports from Austria-Hungary to this country to the fact that the same goods are now manufactured in the United States at as low a figure and even lower than iu Austria. The consul soys it is frankly admitted that American cut glass is finer and more elegant than any manufactured In Europe,while in Austria,as iu other countries, the American bicycle is pre ferred to those of native make. Notwithstanding the war with Spain, the people of this country have not forgotten deeds of generosity and philanthropy, the latest of which is a gift of property by Col. C. H. Payne to Cornell university for a medic.il college and dispensary valued at $1,500,000. Since January 1 last there have been donated by gift or bequest in this country over $14,001, 000 in about the following proportions, Charities, $4,000,000; churches, 81, 600,000; colleges, $7,000,000, and the remainder to libraries, museums and gallorios. Of these various contribu tions three have exceeded $1,000,000 each, two $500,000, four $300,000, ten $200,000 and twenty $100,000 each. The curious fact is noted that if Cuba should ever become an independ ent republio it would be the sole island in the world to possess separate na tional existence. Madagascar has be come French, and Japan is an archi pelago. This seems to show that is olated tracts do not get on well alone. Tiny countries, walled in by mountain barriers, like Montenegro and Swit zerland, retain independence, bat the ocean is a less sure protection than mountain walls. Even Iceland is a dependency of Denmark still. An island would seem a more advantageous spot for maintaining national exist ence than such territory as Belgium and Holland, bnt both countries are in a fair way to retain independence permanently. "Every kind of industry tends to go where production can be carried on under the cheapest and easiest condi tions," philosophises the New York Commercial Advertiser, "Like other forms of aotion, industry seeks the least resistance. We have had re peated illustrations of this principle in this country. Wheat growing orig inally was an important industry in New England, but later it shifted to western New York, and now it is al most completely monopolized by the western states. Bi it has been, to large extent, with the iron industry. Daring the first half of the century Pennsylvania produced nearly all the iron used iu the United States, bat bow an ever-increasing quantity of it is furnished by the west and south. The gradual migration of the cotton indnstry from New England to the southern states is in obedienee to the same economic law. The relative de cline in New York commerce is trace able to a lik cause. Excessive ter ' minal charges, want of adequate canal facilities, railroad differentials and similar burdens and obstacles have diverted, astwar.d-bound freight from Tw York city to other Atlantie porta eaa h reached at less expense. AT THE Oh, what ears 1 for wealth or fame I lhey vanish as a dream, When nlKln Isdrnwn through antes of Dawn (Ju Hlmuber's ebbing; stream! Let others sing of Inth and War, Or Horrows trngin lorei Dut Love lias corns and calls me home To meet him at the door! Oh, whnt ears 1 to weave my Fnte On Life's mysterious loom, Its wnrp and woof from pesos aloof ihe Kilmer and the gloom! Let others slnir of Dentil and War, Or Morrow's tnvrln lorei Dut I.nvn hns come nnd calls me home To meet him at the doorl THE CONVENIENT TIGER. Adtealar of s Han Whs Foanil lllimrlf In lj anil s DUhonrat Nerrant. b Jrv i. c. rowros. i. c. s. r rvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvVvvvvvv "I don't know thnt 1 have ever met fiill-blosomed yogi in all my years in I ml in. One hns to come to America to find out the wonders and mysteries of theosophy. But I have seen per formances of Indian fakirs quite as in explicable as anything I have heard of the Mnhatmns. There was one in particular iu which I was concerned a matter of some 20 years ago. It had a tragedy iu it aud some things which neither you nor I can explain, ion understand, no doubt, what an Indian fakir is a man of the Brahmiuical faith who devotes his life to commun ion with the Iliudoo gods. Through prayer and contemplation and the leading of an ascetio life the fakirs at tain powers that seem miraculous to the Western mind. "The fakir that I am to tell you about came one afternoon to Archie Hedvon's bungalow, near Charpore, where I bad been staying for a few days during a round of inspection. He was an old, lirown-skiuned man, with long, intellectual face aud hair and beard snowy white. A waist cloth, turban and saudals were all he wore, and the rest of his visible belongiugs consisted of a prayer mat, a hubble- bubble, or native water pipe, and an earthen bowl from which he ate his food. He spread bis mat in the mid dle of the compound, seated himself cross-leged upon it and began to take tinsel balls from somewhere from the mat, it seemed, although none could be seeu upon it and to throw tbetn ouo by one up into the air. Each one, as he threw it, went sailing up, up. nutil it was out of sight, and none of them came down. Then be did the boy nnd ladder and the mango tree trick iu a manner that showed that he was a fakir of no common order. "Then ho took a hollow reed, fash ioned it into a sort of pipe aud went round in the compound aud on the outside of the bungalow, playing a weird tune. Preseutly a cobra poked its head out from a hole iu the wall, its body followed, aud the serpent came to the ground and glidod along after the fakir. Soon another cobra crnwled out of the grass aud followed the Bound of the pipe. When the fakir stayed his steps the snakes stopped, and as he played on the reed they reared their hooded bonds from the ground, and their bodies swayed to and fro as if they were keeping tiino with his piping. He called for a bas ket. A house aorvant brought him one, and the fakir, with his bare hands, took the snakes each by the neck aud body, placed them, in the basket, pressed their heads down and tied a oloth above them. "This ended his performance. Rod von gave him rupee, and I banded him five, for I had never seen any thing to compare with what he had done. He gravely took :e coins, after the manner of the Brahmius, without a tbauk or salaam. Bat as be dropped them somewhere in his waist cloth his eye fell on my servant Nagho, standing at my shoulder, and he looked at him with a strange in ten tne&s, then turued to me with a gaze as searching. Have yon ever chanced to notice a Hindoo's eye so sombre black, so keen to see and comprehend and revealing no more than a pool of ink might the thought behind it. Bnt I noted in the fakir's eye what seemed to me to be a flash of perception, of discovery, as his look rested on Nagho and then on me. It was the episode of a mo ment He said nothing, but picked up his mat and pipe, put the basket and snakes on his shoulder and went his way, takiug the direction of Char pore, three miles away. "On the next day I had to go to Baghra to meet the deputy collector there. To save distance I decided to travel in a palanquin over a bullock trail too rough for a carriage, instead of going twice as far round by the highway. I made my start in the middle of the afternoon, expecting to arrive in Baghra in the early evening. In my traveling satchel were notes aud coin to the value of 12,000 rupees, which I was takiug to the deputy col lector. At the last hour Kedvon showed some anxiety about my taking the route I had chosen. " 'Once your start is made, don't waste anytime in getting through to Baghra,' he said. 'Beyond Charpore the road is through jungle all the way. There's a chance of daooits and then if your palanquin bearers should run upon them or get tiger scare, they would think nothing of setting down the palanquin aud leaving you in the jungle, ui course, you nave your re volvar by you in working order?' "I had cleaned and oiled and re loaded my revolver that morning aud tola Ilea von so. But be bad still another eautionto give me. He looked at Nagho, who was tilling a water ves el from chatty at the further end of tlie veranda. " 'That aervant of yours have you had him long?' he asked. 'My stew ard tells me that be is a bill man by DOOR. Oh, whnt enra I for clashing creeds, Or hostile sohools ol art, If I may wenr through smile and tear The ermine of the heart! Let others sing of Death nnd War, Or Morrow's trsgia lorni But Love hns come nnd enlls Die hone To meet htm at the door! Oh, whnt enre f for houseless winds, With rnln snd dnrkness blent, If through the blight on me mny light The shy dove of content! Let others sing of Death nnd War, Or Horrow's trngla lorei But Love hns come nnd calls me home To meet lilm at the door! Harper's Bsr.ur. sa t.tni Indian Jsagls with a Das of Hapten birth, thnt he talks the argot of the Indian thieves' guilds, and lie carries a tulwar. Do you know that yoa can trust him?' "This was news to meabont Nngho. I had hired him two months before iu Calcutta. He bad come well recom mended nnd had proved a capable ser vant. I did not like the idea that he should have carried a tulwar unknown to me. The tulwar, let me explain, is the wide-bladed knife which the men of the hill tribes use so elTectively in fighting, wielding it at close quarters or throwing it. With his tulwar, a hill man can cut ofT the branch of a tree 20 paces away or lop a man's arm from his body. I made up my mind that I would find out more about Nagho be fore I took him with me on another trip, but today there was nothing I could well do in the matter. " 'I think the Hindoo is nil right,' I said to Itedvon. 'I'll have my eye on him, though. Good bye. Hope I'll see yoa at Baghra next week.' "We shook hands, and tho four bearers of the palanquin trotted away with me at a four-mile-an-hour gait, with Nagho and two relay bearers fol lowing. At Charpore, where we stopped a few minutes to rest, the bearers got hold of a roport about a tiger, which was said to have killed a man or two lately on the road to Baghra, and when they started on it was with little of the willingness that they bad shown in the beginning. We had got about four miles beyond Charpore when we met a crowd of grass cutters coming on the run for the village, and they shouted 'Tiger! Tigerl' as they came near us. I man aged to find out from them that no one had been hurt, but that one of them thought that he had seen a tiger. That was enough for my six pnlanquin bearers. They set the palanquin down aud joined the grass cutters in their run for tho village, leaving me with Nngho iu tho jungle. "I reckoned that it was about ten miles further to Baghra and decided that I would walk there rather than turn back. I spread my umbrella to protect me from the sun .nnd started along the path, with Nagho following, carrying the satchel. It was a rough road, miry in places, I had to atop often to rest, so as not to be overcome by heat, and darkness fell before we had made a third of the romaiuiug dis tance to Baghra. But I plodded on in the darkness, feeling rather than see ing my way, and hoping that nearer llnghra the road would improve. I was beginning pretty thoroughly to distrust Nagho. There had come an unpleasant change of expression in his face since the palanquin men bad loft us, and I did uot like the furtive look iu his eyes which I had caught several times in turning suddenly toward him. ' Now that darkness hud fullen I carried my revolver in my baud, quite as much on his acconnt as on the chance of falling in with a tiger or leopard. "I had ordered him to walk ahead. which commaud he obeyed sulkily. He was walking about 30 feet in ad vauce of me when he turned suddenly round just as my foot tripped against a tree root, sending me sprawling to tue ground. As x fell something whizzed above my head, and I heard leaves and twigs falling far back of me down the road. It was Nagho s tulwar, and but for my lucky tumble it would have split my skull as neatly as you please. The Hindoo ran as soon as he saw that his knife had missed, taking the satchel with him. I sent three shots after bim from the ground, then got up aud started on at an easy pace, for there was no hope of my overtaking the Hindoo, for, leaving the darkness out of the ques tion, he could have outstripped me on sucu a road two to one. My only hope of recovering the satchel and money and bringiug him to punish ment was in getting to Baghra and setting the native police on his trail. "It soou became clear to me that I should not get to Bnghra that night. The air was horribly hot and humid, nud the road got worse us I - went on. I could foel the jungle fever clutching at me in the miasma that rose from the moist ground, but it was better to chance that thau risk falling from heat and futigue, I bad rested inyeclf under a tree by the roadside and had b?gun to nod with drowsiness, when the roar of a tiger somewhere off in the jungle gave a new turn to my thoughts, and I got up and stumbled on. Just as the - tiger roared again I saw a smouldering fire in the clear ingofftothe right. It was even chauoe whether it meant a camp of woodcutters or a rendezvous of da ooits, but I turned off the road and approached it. Only one man was by the fire an old white-bearded man aeatad oross-legged on a mat and I saw that it was the fakir who bad been at Bedvon's bungalow the day befere, Here in the juugle be was sitting, ab sorbed in contemplation, as calmly as If such things as tigers or jungle fever did not exist. Two cobras in a basket by bis side reared their heads and biased as I came near, bnt the fakir did not raise his eyes until I stood be fore him. Then he looked at me with out the slightest sign of surprise and motioned that I should seat myself opposite him. " 'I expected you,' he said, in Hin dostanec. 'You will remain here until the morrow.' "He returned to his contemplation and spoke not another word through the night. The tiger's roar oame nearer, and I clutched my revolver as it changed into the low, enger,purring cry that tells he has scented his prey but the old man gave no sign that he had so much as heard it. I watched the misty darkness around for au hour or more, but there was no more roaring, and no tiger appeared, and I laid my pistol across my lap ana prepared to pass the night as comfort ably as I could. Iu senrchiug my pockets for cigars I found a package of quinine. I took 50 grains of it be fore morning and thus saved myself from jungle fever. Hour after hour I sat on the ground smoking cheroots, with the old man sitting opposite me. "Part of the time his eyes were closed, but he did not nod or change his position, and whether he slept or not I could not tell. From time, to time he fed the fire from a little heap of dry branches at his side, and two or three times he lighted his hubble- bubble, but be did not once rise to his feet or leave the mat. Toward morning sleep overcame me, nnd I woke to find myself on my back on the ground with the beams of the ris ing sun streaming into my face nnd one of the cobras crawling across my legs. I kept still, and the snake crept away in the grass hunting his break fast. "The old fakir, who was smoking, Ereaently laid aside his pipe, collected is snakes aud other luggage together, told me with a look that we were to move, and we left the clearing nnd turned into the road toward Baghra. In the dust, and more plainly iu the miry places, we could see the tracks of Nngho. Presently there were other footprints above the man's and taking the same course the tracks of a tiger which had come into the road from the jun gle. I bad not said a word to the fakir of what had occurred the night before, but he pointed to the tiger's tracks aud said gravely, the first words be had spoken thnt morning: " 'These are bringing you to your property. ' "We kept along the rood until we came to a place where the tracks showed that the swinging trot of the tiger had changed to a succession of long bounds, which ended nt a spot where the dust had been stirred by marks of a struggle aud caked with drops of red. The bushes and long grass crushed nnd bent to left and right, showed where the tiger leaped back into tho jungle.aiid there was no track of man or beast in the road be yond. But in the tiger's path at a few paces from the roadside, strong along the bushes, was the unwound tin bim of Nagho with a long smear of red upon its white. " 'It was so appointed.' said the fakir. 'He was weaving the plan of his own death when bo thought be was compassing yours, aow, take your own, restored to you, and we will go on into Bnghra.' "He pointed to my satchel, which I had not seeu, in the grass by the roadside. It was unopened, aud nil its conteuts were 'safe. We went on to Baghra, where the fakir left "me at the outskirts of the town, taking his way, I suppose, to the bouse of some person of his religious order.. I gave him a bug of rupees at parting, which be accepted without thanks or com ment to him it enmo by appointment of the gods, and I feel sure be would have received a sentence of immediate execution with the some calm fatalism. I saw him once more, when he was called before the magistrate to give his testimony ns to the manner of Nagho's death, but be gave me no sign of rec ognition. To one like him, wrapped in communion with diety.a mere man, whatever his degree, was worthy of nothing more than a passing notice. "My story of the fakir is told, and yon may explain it if you can to your satisfaction. His tricks at the bunga low were incomprehensible to the Western mind. Beyond these, what do you think of his reading of the hu man soul, as when his glance at Nagho revealed my servant's thought of murder and robbery against me? Of his knowledge of the events occurring in his case beyond the perceptions of the recognized senses of see ng and hearing? Was it the reading of Nagho's mind at the bungalow aud of mine by the fire in the jungle? Let that ex plain it if you will. But what a gen uine and lofty order of miud reading. Compare it with the jugglery that passes by that name among people of the Western hemisphere." New York Sun. rotcerle in Old Havana. "Life and Sooiety in Old Cuba." is the title of an article in the Century, made up of extracts from the journals of Jonathan S, Jenkius, written in 1809. Mr. Jenkina says: In Havana the stranger's attention is arrested by the venders of lottery tickets, who stand on the street cor ners with a pair of sheara iu one hand and aheeta of lottery tickets in the other, ready to cut on any number for buyers. 'They are very adroit, and are apt to persuade the credulous that they will draw a fortune in the scheme. These licensed lotteries are one of the great evils there, especially to the Spanish people, who seem to be boru gamblers, and for whom the chances of dice, cards and lottery tickets appear to have an irresistible ouarm, all classes iu Havana dealinf in tneni iiaouuaiiy. THE REALM A Dressy Waist. This dressy waist, of fancy figured green taffeta, is stylishly combined with cream-colored satin and mous- aeline de sole. The fronts roll back in pretty pointed lapels from the neok to waist-line, which are faoed with the satin and edged with ruching of mous seline. The full front, of moutseline, is arranged over satin in evenly spaoed rows of tucked shirring at the top and blouses prettily at the waist-line. The oollar is of cream satin, shaped with stylish points under the ears. The waist is supported by fitted lin- MISSES' ADMIRAL ings that close in centre front, the fnll front closing under the left revers. The oomfort-two-scatned sleeves have stylish fulness arranged in gathers at the top, and at the wrists points of the white satin stand out fashionably. The waist may be part of a oostnme or made separately to wear with different contrasting skirts. Combinations of material and ooloring may be artistically arranged, and the waist can be made in silk, cotton or light woolen fabrics. Velvet made in this way, with revers and front of satin, and deooration of point applique is especially handsome. To make the waist for a woman of medium size will require two yards of forty-four-inch material. A Patriotic Idea. Oar glorious viotory has been cele brated in the fashion world by model ling many of the new season garments according to the patriotio idea, ao in compliment to our heroes on water the "Admiral" jacket, shown in the large illustration, is a favored style for misses. Naval blue faced cloth, brsid and brass battons with anchor design are incorporated in the stylish coat which ! : x l 41 1 1 1 ill. - ..... V. .... 1- ; IB correuiiy uiieu wuu a vauu-uauR seam, side-back and nnder-arm gores. The fulness below the waist is laid in eoat plaits whioh are flatly pressed and finished at the top by battons, a deep coap lap completing the centre seam. The double-breasted fronts lap widely in reefer style, the neok fitting closely by a short-dart in the centre. Square laps cover pockets that are inserted in the fronts, and the neck is finished by a military looking collar closely fitted and trimmed with braid. Shoulder straps cover the shoulder seams ooming forward, brass buttons deoorating each end. (These may be omitted if not desired.) The fashionable two-seamed coat sleeves are finished at the wrists by the braid put on to simulate cuffs, and the slight fulness at top is collected in gathers, whioh is the newest style. Jackets in this style are natty and marl and eaa ba mads of anjr cloak- WOMAS OF FASHION. 8 o ing fabrio or of material to match tha) skirt. The collar and shoulder straps art aps art or pali l.whioh sometimes made of red, white, or i blue clotb, edged with the braid,' enhances the military effect. The skirt has all the prevailing gradnated flounce, that is so fashion able this season, joined to afive-goreoY npper portion that fits closely the be coming fulness at the back, falling in pretty fold. Serge, cheviot, covert or1 broad cloth, and other weaves in plain) colors or fancy mixtures are suitable for skirts or whole costumes by the) mode. To make the jacket for a miss of fourteen years will require one and! one-half yards of fifty-four-inch mate rial. To make the skirt in the medium size will require three and one-half yards of forty-four-inch material. The Hohnon Tie. The Hobson tie is a pretty finishing for the neck of a silk waist or woolen gown with which linen collars are worn. The Hobson tie consists of a satin strip with a slip-knot of accor dion pleated chiffon worn in front and fastened by a clasp like the four-in-hand. Colors For Evening Dresses. Several ihades of one color will bt worn on evening dresses. A Favorite Style For Boys. The Norfolk jacket is a fnvorita style for boys, and when made in JACKET AND SKIRT. heavy tweed or cheviot may be worn throughout the whole winter. . Brown cheviot is the material here delineated, machine stitching giving the correct tailor finish. The jacket is shaped by shoulder and under-arm seams, tM, plaits being folded and applied on front and back. The fronts are re versed at the top to form narrow lapels that meet tint rolling collar in notches, bone bnttons closing tha fronts in center and the belt that ia worn at the waist. The two-seamed NORFOLK JACKET. sleeves ore of oorreot tailor cat, ma chine stitching simul iting ouffs at tha wrists. ' Knickerbockers arc here shown in conjunction with thii jacket, but tha regular knee trousei, i can be substi tuted. Brown felt sailor hat, brown stookiugs and shock completes this iek stylish suit. A tlrlf ht Uialm Woman. The oleotrio light plant in Long Beach, Cat., is managed by a woman, Mrs. Iva E. TuttL who is Superin. tsudent and principal owntr as wall' St vitrei
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