= Ae A oR SS Rn Be a SNE 3 an = an ik A TI EE ‘was first covered for the ‘milliners, it is of record that Are Tow It is pot lmproba- ) the. restoration of order, ; been known before. {ng to note that the Unt ies Supreme Court id more sp with its docket than it has r almost half a century. This t statement was made by one e oldest officials of the court, who that the tribunal is now only ar behind in its work. ¢ most Important epochs In history of medicine was the discov. the tubercle bacillus by Profes- och, of Berlin, for when consumption was known y of combating it became a pow know that consump not hereditary or incurable, ad by germs in the sputum % ago the population of the 5 fixed at 1,468.990,000. It is ated at 1.540,000,000. an in- more than 71,000,000. An feature of the statistics | tact that the Americans sre fast up with Europe in the gain Increase in the Americas for the ten years is 20,000,000, while in ope it 1s 30,000,000. It is estimated the Western hemisphere now con- s 142,000,000, about the population je whole of Europe a century ago. stimate for Europe at the pres- time 18 390,000,000. Africa is now ‘with the use of wires for tele and telephonic purposes with- limits of populous citles it would & boom, indeed. The tangle of over- id wires and the perpetunl diggiog ‘streets In laying conduits ound wires are disagree , says the Philadelphia Record. ¢ It has been demonstrated that nications can be interchanged t wires our thoughts may 0, » had anticipated, ere 1s a woeful shortage of For several years now pearls than the supply. The consequence t anyone who wants to buy a 3 of pearls or a “dog-collar” for or someone else must pay we or four times as much as be did n years ago. There i on exhibis Paris a pearl necklace contain. orty-five jewels, twelve of which black. It fs worth $58,000, and 0 be sold, so the French say, to an : Americans are buying necklaces worth anywhere {rom to $60,000 without murmuring. hat would the foreign tradesmen 0 without us? Eo weon City Is more thin a mere mining camp. It has become thx cen- of o valuable fur trade in © Llenk gion embracing many thousand gar miles, where sn army of trate 8 bring thelr peltries as thy nearest for ready export to the great markets of the world, The Yu. un says: “Hears, vlack, brown, l7 and cinnamon, are found all country from March to Nor “About 3000 skins are shipped , season. The value Is from $10 te $25 each. Beaver are numerous on * streams; about 2500 skins are shipped, the price being from $3.50 to 7 each, Marten is the most numer ous of all the number shipped, being a 25,000 to 30,000. Of red fox, shipped about 2000 cach. Black | skins are the rarcst and most | halt a dozen nre shipped, from $200 to £300." ‘e among the hardiest of the sons of men, fnsulated wire was | 1 dfeament once. PAIR of eagles were wheel ing in vast slants about the top of Cone Mount, m Cen tral Colorado, and I was | watching them with delight from the valley on the south side, when the English settler, an “old timer.” who was riding the range with me, advised me to beware of the birds. They bad brought him into a strange pre As he and 1 looked up at the precipice of the south side i of Cone Mount be began the story. men, It was during the summer of 1888, ust three years after I came out here I was very young and rather reckless _ Only a few settlers were in this part then, snd as I had only a small bunch of entitle I was alone. I had been rid- ing the range one day, and was return. foe in the afternpon, When I aaw those eagles hovering over ifs crest, as I had seen them a hundred times before —~the very sane pair we see now, I believe, Well, I wanted to find their nest. It would not be dark for three or four | hours. and as I was on the north side of the bill 1 could ride some distance toward the summit So up 1 went Alont half way {rom bottom to top | fied my horse to & tree and finished the elimb an foot, I lay face down looking over the ‘edge of the cliff for several minules, closely scanning lta steep side, with- out seeing auytling of theengles nest. Then I heard something very different from Any noise an eagle ever makes. | It was a queer little wall, muffled and eatlike, which seemed to come from fomew hore near me, 1 glanced slong the half-way ledge helow. and then down among the rocks and bushes at the bottom, but cold see nothing But soon the ery was repeaind, thix time much clearer, and ar ones I caught sight of a small yellowish object protrading fram the face of the youd wall Heel, pot thinly feet Felow me. 1 Bad so trois in making out a pair of pointed black. tipped ears on the head of what 1 knew gost be a lynx cab The Hite erantire was sinnding in the mouth of that dark place Youu see np (here, about thdrey feet shove the Jedge, That dark : Ba place 1s a shallow save. Natursliy 1 thought po reore abaut | S54 The cab wank make al how was 1 to get the eagles, far odder pet. Bat Ji? At the presciit time there is no way | of reaching the cave excopt by a rape from the top of the iff, or a ladder | from the ledge, but at that tine a dead pine. which had grown on the ledge, leaned seainst the olf. Its knoisy trunk formed a perfect natural ladder botwaen the cave and the Jedge below, | I saw af a glance that the old iynxes must reach their dem by way of the tree. Why couldn't I do the same thing? A more experienced man wonld pot! have trie] such a thing In such a place, alone and unarmed had shot away all the cartridges in my pistol at & coyote. But the spice of danger did not stop me, sithonugh my only weap on was a jack knife! I knew how fo reach the ledge—-any strong young man oan easily get down to It where It passes aronnd the cast ern skie of the hill. After reaching the ledge, I began to wonder whether the old Iynser wore not abot. That ledge Is a singularly wild and Jonely place, with fity feet of oiiff ‘below it sod ax math towering above I looked up the winding shell, very parrow in places, and could nat beip wondering whether 1 or a lynx or Irnxes would go aver if one or mere of the brutes should meet or overtake me midway, Afzer I Kad gone nearly marks ou various bushes, and big foot prints on sone sand, bul as thers wore no other signs of the oid ivaxes 1 went oa 10 the dead pipe Here the sdef WA&S wore than twenly fool overload, The climb up that dead tree was got | diflenit, but it was alarming: for, al} though the roots seemed deeply emp bedded in flseures, thers wax such an | unsound shaking about it that 1 was : 3 gore whore gind to reach the top In safely The cave proved to be merely 8 washed-out clay pocket, some five feet high by about seven wile a1 the FANT as mouth, and from ten ita Bfteen foo ad from frout fo hack, Ar the fer end | was the lynx kiiten, crouching among | a lot of small bones and leaves, spit fur mitten three sizes too big Before I loft thé ledge I had cut and | 4 trionued a small sapling, so that I had | 8 stick lke a short, sti fishpole. Ta one end of this I now tied six or sight feet of the 2iout cord that I always 8.14 mlong the side of the cli and fell crashing to the narrow ledge, #» shat tered mass of rotten wood, It was all over so nuickly that 1 had had no time to eonsider anyibing SXODE present Jooked down at the ledge [ saw that my trouble was not yet ended. The brute stood directly underneath me hurt from his fall. Of course Bo conld not reach me, but bow wis I fo us caps except by dropping in the same ledge squarely in front of him? And he #tond almost an high as a wolf and yous mach mors getive and dangerous, ith all the stones I eonld piek np of tent loose, bot this only rade lim an- rider. so 1 fried another nian, Per haps be would go away if 1 vanished. crawled and waited for perhaps twen- month again, The Jyax was sone After waiting a fow minstes langey 1 Jemrih, meanivg to bold on by the batt of ny stick, which 1 jammed wprighs tielitiy into a small crevice, Jiaet ax 1 was ia the act of the frst part of the drop I heard the fend sorive hannding along the ledge. It was too late for me to stay af he cave devel 1 fell ar arm's length Flaw I feared the stick would give way with my weight! Bar it held and I scrambled back, the Iyax jump ine at me and seremmiog as | pulled myEelf up into the cave. I tried the same plan several times, altlsongh I dit not again drop to avs jength, buf the moment I made the least noise the lynx came bounding hack. 1 soepected him of deliberately cotivealing Bhogal in order to felt pie to drep, but he bad not epongh 10 Ruccesd 1t was getting clear to ie now that if | Intended to et out of there before dark oan wiy, sud goon, for the sun Wis al reinly low 1 Ineked nn % ad pes Dope. 1301 ns ¢ out from ailza word be vaerted, But again I waz doomed tn dis inte that Yiitie oreature was a fool bejond ® Leap, Bntil at last having fo Jong tie hear? to worsy 1 left in to Hee down on the ledge of the first had cole hose! Certainly | had Waaderedd neat trap. I could hope Tor Bo hu: i ald ip that lonely spat, and the pone &t home 19 wis oe and ok § Tip However, I took out my pips say hee to mxself, "While we lve, let ns | five” Sooner or later the brutes would | live to go away for food and water: | then would come mr chance, And as Bight was their astural haniing tio 4s thonght! gave me fo Bat Boar after hour | nmoked pipe after pipe: and all the way 1 saw some distioet claw. | [ locked down af the ndge Ut wave either ta bok Ind plowing spite and firm shin fo be yee row] sikh below, Sak I Tag a, By vi vy iF be htingry and mus tied ub dona broke Inose. Once Ne a Rd pC TI ag Et Ce THAR IDE 8 fuss mune a FL ada yap Boing ae Wa on a SC didian ting Doar sized we Wei 3 ar hb 211 wis * Tam lege and thighs were numb, Af ast, ting and snarling ita eyes shining like | two great balls of topaz. It was no | larger than a house cat, hut its paws | looked as if they were wrapped up In | have dropped down CaRnee Gli Toe THREE a Seda ¥ a BN on] guess, then how 1 when ust ax the 000 WARY caught carried in my “shaps’ pocket for | emergency repairs amd go on. On the lower end of this cord I made a run ning noose. 1 hoped to get at the young wildeat, Bat too late! For exactly what 1 had been dreading oc curred. An alarming seratehing sounit from below made me face around with 8 jump, and there, already half way up the tree, was a full grown ynx! To reach down, grasp the end of | the pine trunk and push with all my might wag about the only chance left me, and I did so ipstinctively. For an instant it did not move. The brute was almost upon me. I pushed again | Pane of the phance. Dur when the dreary | exuctly outhined 3 Baunches and’ moo ie dnjeful bawi ol a voyore. wis stil again, Finativ 1 firmly resale torture by 8 had Jo lu wht morning 1 sheild Bnd the vn still on gusrd. Then I =ipvivched ap saif alone the rovky Hogr and fell asleep. It never acdurred to fw hal ATA AHI IPA pe ar i bigh Ab Sager. bur when I quivering with rage and quite un. 1 shouted at Bim and pelted him Baik inte the cave out of sight I tv minntes then quietly erapt 10 tho started fo let mrss! down at aris intive Mite | behind me, | x a pew den came thoazht of it before? wa dy to lower or toss the Kil. : its parent, when of course the | When 1 resomed my place at the month of the cave the sun bad set, | hat [could ses new cane Tor fear) Instead of eno big Iynx there were pow two Lhe mite : : EVAR Se CI Sg a ees cas we NER ¢ 39% % i Diy RIX ERIS Wale So UD 0 ne cad © PLE ar Fe % eek wnaer sd AREER Bh SR ¥ pd sa ie LTR A Ki 4 SRBREL BIY ean could 1 leave been cooviain of Bavio © vourb's Companies hit one of the ont Roy don Salta ehie HAE dandy hit one of the cats to Jace, I belisve ¢ patios} your po to look for the ing In the craviee, © vet a prisoner—prisoner bobtailed cats! | : But perhaps 1 was not. 1 glanced at the ledge. It was empty. My hopes had srarcely risen, however, before one of the old Iynxes appeared, bring. {ng a dead rahbit-the kittens break | | ast! When it reached the spot whera the tree had stood it dropped the rab nit and ran about, sniffing and calling in great distress, Then suddenly, as ir remembering what had occurred. it turned arovind, bristling all over, and glaring ub at me, utter 2a jong jow growl-a direct challenge, As this iynx had been ays hunts ing probably the other was stilton a similar errand. 1 had therefors jost an opportunity ta escape Another day might pass before I got the chnars again. This prospect wan nnhearadle. Ra I decided to go down and fight bes fore the other lynx should appear. My plan was simple enough. I wenld wateh my chanee, drop when the 1ynx should be farthest down the ledze apd By a nuirk rush atiemit Ww PR ee hy 8 2 3 horl Bim over the adage. » mx t { bedi was broken. so that the longer ann loft meakared only two achok {pe short Gla sherp teoth aml vyenty shard claws, earch 83 neh long and as good 8% a knife! But the sdvootags in weight was nine : White 1 was whetting the point the menced clawing and mouthing a plece of the fal tree Now and again he would Her his big head my way, and on ane of thess goeasiona it ecenrred to me-what 4 chine for a rope! Of course my lariat was tied to my #ndd I die owherever that migh could not get the {des cut of my bead how easy It would be to got rid of the Bruits (f 1 only Bad a noose around his necal It would only Ne necessary to choke him or swing hin aver the edge. | in : { even thought of faring my shirt nto self-control or elec was too stapid io wait long esougb for bis stratagess | gtripe to make a rope, bot that would fe fon Simry, All this time © had plenty of the Plelt mdreriai ay chan Y-the leather . shape or trousers, on which 1 was be done in some OLWEF | whine my kaife! | worn jong eéncogh to be soft and pila i hie, and althongl they bad cost me gud doown the hare wl . They had wen 43d pie ake ne thirty seconds 11 them off, nor ten mingles to ty a pile of long, neh when koeotied together te a very foleralie Hoe 1 then ane enn ssenrely sposnd a point dd was ready to pake my firs But 1 wae wo exeited (hat. notwiths ob mtandine the (yng Dever moved when pedntment. The eave roof dropped 0-0 o dh : ! AY / 2 AE threw, | milkeed him aliogether. The wird rapidly, and ended na sort of @ : Fis put : A s . : i * | noose went splining over his back, sevice, and the cub Bad gobs back There 12 erogcbad ina ; ER i for a few piomenix then sprang at it place barely six inches high, aml the prang Pio glared at dev over the dee L fariousiy. 1 barely Bad time fo jerk : on iia : Lie ont of hia way. IT be had eaughr id reach of my noose. tried to dislodys | oh - 3} y ats boon a sud to Bhs a & . 5 ERery Wout aa Vieser a siphile on it by a bombardment of dust a te ie fioh : 2 Speoen em . ; : : i LUD TOF ahr, oir refise. hut there It staves? blak © » {riz and cringing in a frightened Hitle My nex? {hrow was better. Aan he wp to avid ie loop It ¢anght him k almost pulled me out of #41 had to lvl go be line vo mrad. The noose, as nearly sould sep, was drawn Ught around utes peck and under one fore. ut he was Jumping and bouncing mt I rondd pot see Kan well, ioe of perhaps forty seconds 3 ximply ’8 whirling, sparing x of yellowish gray, with teslh, BOA RDI : ; op pl BOE a Sonatas gull ar las, want felipe aver the voy aut of BOTORS sar fe Tike a . Bair fiving in the wind dag gn WOrHous Liat canon nearly on the hoadiary u CUSSING THE WHITE CEMENT. BE a brant chad Discovered by Old Man White, Wha Die. appeared With the Secret of Tia Loca. tion Failure of a ¥eheme te Learn Itx Wiheresbouts = Proof of lta Richaess The most popularly discussed joi mine among the miners in the Rocky mountain camps, especially those in northern New Mexico, is the White Cement. A few old miners who knew White persopally still remain in the Rock mountaing and their narmtive of the excitement he caused when he showed his rich specimen chunks of gold ore is always heard with later et It {8 safe to say that several thou- sand men have at one {ime or anoth- er. hunted for the White {Cement pine | The late millionaire silver king, Nat | CC. Creede of Colorado, spent & year fn trying to find it White was a New Englander, 80 years old, who was in California in 184%. As a gold secker He was Known pnd tiked ation in avery mining camp es : | on the coast. and stories wera told of Krenng my eyes on him I tock ont Pnifs snd hogan whetting it slong i his phenotsenal hiek. He no doubt, ii - tak The } made several soall frinnes, hint was 5 joao + enivakin ehars ; og ¢ 5 Bo jew of pvr oeaifekin shapes, The big siways poor ind prospected about with ‘a jean mule and a halibreed Indian > | boy, getting supplivs where ne {oh » against a monthfinl of Ca + P Many people thought he was alightiy | demented, hint he undoubtedly knew - more about the gold region than any Lian Hing One day in July, 1858 Whith came into Horse Head guleh from northern Trax. ax if taantior me with what It would do on my careass, coolly com- | Now Mexico, driving his mule and jooking utterly used up. Ho got | something to cat. Some one bantersd i him about his vain searches for a { mine “uwelf st look at that” sald old White, handing out several pieves of | what looked like bard, white clay, be-but 1 glittering with specks of metal but White suddenly became minm, and put. ting bis specimens in his bag, west out to find an asaver Befora night it wag known in ramp fhat White's speeimens showed 1000 ounces of edd 10 the ton. Eviaybhody went wild Nohody slept that night, but sat argund the fires and laiked “Cement.” In the morning a party headed hy Senator Sharon's brother Henry callnd on White, wha was sleeping in one of the shackn He was thid that he must pilot fhe men to his find of the ciptmm. but go he must, and on Wis refusal was warped that his life watid be worthices if he stood off” the samp. For a long times White gave | excises and geclared he did non know ; | oppd albinos, are among the most come where to lead the men fo the find, Bux when the miners showed that they | really would kill him if he didn't show | them wheres he got his specimens he | finally consented ; A crazier mining camp Wis never known Men In Horse gaich who were | a little credulous and not desirous of | following Whites over 30 miles from camp wers ofersd $1060 and i260 each for their camp outfits, consist ing of picks shovels kettlva, pane, | greasy old blankets a bushel of beans : Har ia fan dave and 90 MELEE, there was go onifit to he Wvight in the whole guaich mining campy Er ery one wanted his own outfit The tral] ted across the RotRles It was & very diflenlt ionrney, even for | the ohl miners who seemed never to : know what physical fatigue meant 1t led along rocky trails, up and down | panene and serosa prunialn. Ores, The firet day Was a race, mK twee y radinn lenped ahead ike a wolf, and then White followed hig long gray Be the ed of tha second day the parly way in the heart of the moultaing, 9 a des. | art where no huniag being had ever 3 Many of the animals | wera loner aml the man ware Haggard : een hefore with fatigme and excitement. White was fold If he niaved false he waz a {dead man, but he stl polnied east. Coward. The old ran led bis aching, thirst WEE sha A | between New Mexico snd (lolarago. ie Ea Haak 1% fasion hy, KW Pacse and the Miltary Officer, A new Srovy about the Ti I Fagee 8 causing amused FLEE wig t + ar ied Lihan and wis SPY BRT fat ipereased Bos aisgy wii Pah EEE 5 Snr En sly when 1 3 nl asked Ban Lar Gl i Bave not yet |. i : Suse, 1 | the ivax kitten might attack wy throat | M. le Prisident” Fapre thought over | ar that the parent beasts mizhi find | some means of helping one anvilier up true; © (bank you. this mailer for some Ur renmmrked with great grav: 4 to z5 WHY iis sniping to these, 7 frie ol hy from the siniahail thaovagh firs wos giles andl eden. the T £35 hangeis a Geer niu 0 Hoel, Leiew 1 th che htop: ne on earth, ond pines, § dwn 1 i ovr tran Rare the the night. B® 3 pL dened lot of men 17 Sree oval pot fv ¢ rh nig iw that region for more Lian a few ila A shuns was reals reid that the old man had duped his Pa eORnITY bad found WAL Yainly pron Aut a traces of faand. J vo ameshall of the par altar in le gaflering. got Back HRs and civilization and vel deaplle sir two duys miter, A £ an 3 4 FY uy Bree years later White res preared Len Ratt Takes City with his Cement ois He sould have the pick | | ike nature It 57 The regular muse- Lo £ pe eg ihn 2) Chm nese oot sake terms. Another mans interest or principal Th ment iu still one of the Rocky nin miners’ dreams SOME ART IN THE WAX FICURES un Skilled Workmes Kept Busy ~Dime Mus : sweyums and Their Prodoet. ie Although wax-works have been & synonym for uncouthness and angular: ity ever since the days of Mrs. Jariey, the mei who make them sowadays are somewhat trained in art, and in the intervals of their work sometimes turn out statuettes or decorative pieces of derided merit. So far as the designer is converned, it really matters litte whether his composition is finally to 1ake shape in marble, hronge or Wax. He first makes a rough miniature skeoteh in modelling wax, then a full sized wtatue in clay, from which a plaster mould {3 taken and the work- mien di the rest. The hot wax is poured inside the mould fo the thickness of a quarter of an inch or 80, backed up wilh the remejtsd wax from old Alsused figures. The body is of hol low plipler mache, and the limbs if they are to he movable of wood: if not. of paper. or if they are fo show whan the figure is dressed, of wax. Finishing the face is the most dell cate work. The eyes of course, are of zie and the lashes around them are phinted one at a Hime with forceps The teeth when the lips are to be spened are exactly the same 8% those weed By dintists to replace the natural cpex Human hair is so cheap just now that it no longer pays to use an- gora or any of the other pibstitutes cones ¢moployed. The cheap grades of real Biir it is interssting 10 note, come from (China, and are genuine pixtails iy fact. ‘The hair is ail black and straight ax a yardstick at first, but it ix blegehod and dyed in any tint de sired. and can be crimped mare or een though artists have never gue. ceeded In making it look naturally wavy, So Designers maka & sharp distinction hetween the figures used for displays | and advertising and thoss used for other purposes, museums, for instance. When you work for advertising.” said sme. “the mote heantifol and the | teas like natore you get if, the hetter it im bat for a musenm they Hike it hotter the less beautiful snd the more ums have modellers of thelr own, sO Contehils Aoused gol an Ye srenaional nhs Models of freaks such as rwo-iepmed bess, armless and legless men, or pinks men ayticles mais to order. The faces af puhite men are sometimes wanted, ton. A a rule this class of business is Inhked down apon. “Dime musening pay Aime prices and they get dime work” said a veteran designer The deniers are kept ar work mak- tag new dexigns sz fast as the oid anes dan he imitated, One house dent out oh new models in the past season. In farmer Tears 8 third or A fourth of hat number would suffice, as S00 or [0 copies were sometimes made from the same mould and zent ont to cities in different parts of the country. It is mot always dime musenme, hows ever that try ito gel something for soothing Advertisers often order Spe cial Birures or groups apracing © rent then for a certain length of time, but waving them afterwards far the maker to pay for by renting them sgain. if . he gan A group showing Faust, Mar birds of the men broke down. The | gusrae apd Mephistopheles was ones made for a lMpen house at a cost of fei or more The dre month's rental was $0 The owner Rept It seven venus und then rine of ever finding any ons wanted the prong, heakie 10 tn plsens. X inst slab orate hail | soup representing Anyang, God sing in her FHarist wie madly some YORrs amon une contrac: and is to be ufgetisrer hae on Nis hands a mammoth wpirhanieal water lily which 18 dupe § shar ar intervals hy veantifal jes : heen rented ways broke down Pha Deadly Thies Leonfod Fine tn rity in Diinois hes the nolan Ivy Sry Panna sai nanered ftuve of shail bw» it were In ihe x oMeinis ngs thal any sommuns fv itch an extent : may he oe easily is of coarse. he DOISOR- resemblances to the Vir orsener that makes the trouble, Cam! yer a mere glance at it ought to shiver the diferunce. or the oteeper | haw clusters of Ave leaves while the Bes fey Bas clusters of throw Bestdes, this (reener hears purple berries, while shen of the ivy ares white ¢ oway 10 get rid of vee 4 and rans rapidly, and is ni of Hein to pull 0 roots and bara iT Ina fold, There are some people that are Bit soped By ir and the work shonld he done he them: and even they shouk ustle the plant as little mossitde and aveid inhaling the fMGEe wey they harry it. They shoadd wear special clothing for the worn and wash the hands several tims a day in a sclution of suear of wind In a weak grade of alcobol say, Crd ip 15 pércent proof. This seintion may also be used with good affect by thane that Bare heen noisaned by the abide living in the pen frantically. The trunk started a lit | from the ledge to the cave, : I bave nut Jet | gpucimens as before, tnerenlibly sich, vine —Philadeiphia Record tle, then en snapped short off at its roots, | When I awoke the sun was an hour | thought oi that”