A DANGEROUS CALLING Ite American Steeple Climber and lila Perilous Work. One of the most curious and at the same time most dangerous callings followed by any man is that which has made famous the individual known as "the American steeple climber." What ills real name Is has never beer, ascer tained, but under this cognomen he is known throughout this Country and Europe. That he is a man of rare nerve and daring Is shown in tho many peril ous feats he has performed In his par ticular calling and in spite of many liair-brcadth escapes from being diisu ed to death he Is still in love with his peculiar profession. Sixteen years ago, when he was a Bailor in the United States navy, he performed his first feat of climbing, When he gilded a cock on the top of a steeple at Bremen. The authorities offered a large sum of money to any man who would do the job and "the 'American steeple climber" was the only one who had the nerve to tackle it. He decided to adopt steeple climb ing as a profession and has since fol- TITE AMERICAN STEEPLE CLIMBER. lowed it. As Is natural In such dan gerous work he has met with scores of accidents, but ho seems to hoar a charmed life. While working on tho top of a pole In New York he received an electric shock and, losing his head, jumped to the roof of the building, a distance of 75 feet. He escaped un harmed, and In a short*ime was back again at work. At another time he was painting a flag pole on a school building In New York when the pole slipped through the roof like a shot and When he came to he was sitting on tho roof with the top of the pole clasped in his arms. He was badly bruised, but wanted to continue bts work. His greatest feat was the placing of a Uag-staff on top of the Eiffel Tower in I'aris. During the sixteen years lie has been in business be has climbed 2,207 flag poles anil sixty-three steeples. He uses no scaffolding whatever. When he climbs a steeple ho affixes little pieces of rubber to his legs, which take fast hold of the steeple and he does tho same when climbing a flag pole. When he reaches the top he ties a rope and slides down with it His Bravery. ' Mrs. Blinkly—John, dear, won't you discharge Mary? Ycu know how afraid I am of her? Mr. Blinkly—Certainly. No servant can ever scare me. tA little while af ter)— Mary, ahem! Mrs. Blinkly has asked ine to tell you that she wants to see you after I ha.vo gone to tile office •—Brooklyn Life. Two Smart Tltliisrs* Scene—A public eating house. Pert youth addressing waitress: "Bring UM one of your dog biscuits, miss." "Yes, sir; If you promise to 'lit It on t\e mat."—Tld-Bitr Shake Into Tour Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures paluful, swollen, smarting feet, and In fitiiutly takes tho sting out of corns and bun ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Easo makes tight-Ht ting or new shoes feel easy. 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The hammock is made of heavy canvas, quilted on the inside and fastened to a stout stick at each end. Two large Iron hooks project from the wooden rods and by these he attaches his novel rest ing place to the two iron bars which run the length of each side of the car. A cover is sewed to one side and al most covers the ends, the sewed edge being placed toward the engine, so that the wind pressure will keep out the dust as the car speeds along. But the interest in "Jack" is not only due to his peculiar mode of travel, but also to the fact that his life ill fits a man of his characteristics. During the recent campaign ho attracted consid erable attention as a stump speaker, and by his ready wit he has gained a friend in almost every town ho has vis ited. Added to his natural propensi ties for entertaining is liis wide expe rience and no inconsiderable educa tion, which readily command the atten tion of any who chance to speak to him. Neither working nor begging, he procures his meals and shelter by dint of clever invention and repartee. Ue has a taste for music, and, curious ns It may seem, Is fond of playing hynms on the piano, during which performance ■l=l —" -■ M: nil! I , 1 r, ' , RAILROADS. he wears a sad and lofty expression. His past life is a mystery, nnd in speak ing of himself bo refers only to li'.s years of travel. "Jack" studied in Chi cago at the I'ush Medical College, in tending to make medicine his profes sion, but he prefers his roving life and declares he is "the happiest hobo in the world." The Indian Baby. An article on "Home Life Among the Indians" Is contributed to the Century by Mrs. Alice C. Fletcher. Mrs. Fletch er says: In the Indian household, as lu our own, children bear an Important part. The baby is the constant com panion of Its mother; not that other members of the family do not share In tho care of tt, but the little one Is kept closely under the maternal eye. Boon after birth it Is laid In Its on u bod, which is often profusely orna mented, and Is always portable. A board about a foot wide and three feet loug is covered with a feather pillow or with layers of soft skins. Upon these the baby la fastened by broad bunds of slcln, flannel, or calico. When asleep the child's arms are bound un der cover, but tbey are released when It awakes. A great portion of the In fant's time Is spent lying upon a soft robe or blanket, where It can kick and crow to Its heart's content. If, however, the mother should be so en gaged an to be frequently ca'led out of the tent, the baby Is laced upon Its board, nnd hung up under a tree, or placed where there is no danger of falling. Should the mother have to go any distance from home, she will slip the strap of the board over lior head, and tho baby goes aloug, winking at the great world from its mother'sback. Long Journeys on horses are made by babies snugly packed nnd lnmg l'roiu the horn of the mother's saddle. The Ilorrid Brute. She—l never expected to work like this when I married you. He—l didn't suppose you cared. You worked hard enough to get me, didn't you?—lndianapolis Journal. Try Graln-O ! Try Craln-O1 Ask your grocer to-day to show you a pack age of Grain-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. Tho children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it, Grain-O has that xich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach re ceives it without distress. One-quarter the price of coffee. 15 cts. and cts. per package. Sold by all grocers. THE BILTMORE ESTATE. A NORTH CAROLINA WILDERNESS TURNED INTO A PARADISE. Dlore Tlian 5T.000.000 Spent Upon an Unimproved Tract of 7000 Acrei* by George Vanderbilt—A Princely Man sion and Miles of Mugnilicent Drives. The Biltmore estate is about two miles from the city of Asheville, N. C. It is in the mountains which makes Asheville so noted as a summer resort. The estate belongs to George Vander bilt and contains 7000 acres. More than half of this is in beautiful wood lauds, the remainder in a high state of cultivation. It is impossible to tell how much money has been spent on the estate from beginning to end, but it is some where between §7,000,000 and $lO,- 000,000, with no end yet to the amount of money it will cost the young mill ionaire. Every day he is spending money on it, and seems to pay no at tention to what goes out. When he gets everything to suit himself, the estate will be, beyond all doubt, the most princely in the world. It is probably now the most attractive place in this country. Across the French Broad River, in the heart of the North Carolina Moun tains, Mr. Vanderbilt has bought 7000 acres of property. This is unim proved, except for a mountain shanty here and there. It is thought to be the intention of the young millionaire to make a great game preserve of this tract. It is not connected with the estate on which money is now being so lavishly expended. It is so moun tainous as to be worthless for any pur poso except a great game estate. Work on the Biltmore estate was begun about seven or eight years ago, Mr. Vanderbilt then owning about one-half of the land now embraced in his property. He has continued to buy until the ncreage is, as stated, 70U0, Besides the princely mansion of millionaire, surrounded by hand some walls and iron fences, there are many beautiful houses on the estate, occupied by employes. And here it i 3 interesting to know that several hun dred people are employed on the es tate. At the mansion itself forty or fifty people are on duty. Yet Mr. Vanderbilt does not spend a total of a month each year at the mansion. He is now in Europe. The salaries of the employes go on all the time. The neighbors and the Asheville friends of the millionaire say that he is big-hearted, a philanthropist and a benefactor of mankind. Those in his employ who are faithful and attentive are assured a home under all misfor tunes. In case an employe is striken with serious illness his salary goes on and his house remains at his disposal. Nothing is left undone for his comfort. Mr. Vanderbilt is thoughtful and kind to the farmers. He has taught them hundreds of new ideas and aids them in every way possible. He en courages them in the improvement of their stock and the introduction of im proved methods in farming. His over seers are instructed to aid the farmers rfi every way possible. The result of this magnanimity is that the best class of cattle are being introduced into the country and tlio old red hills around the estate, heretofore fit only to grow sprouts and blackberry vines, are blossoming into cultivated fields. An inspiration has been set which has had farreaching effect. Even in the build ing of mill dams the millionaire has furnished new ideas. The farming operations are con ducted under the supervision of men of scientific knowledge. Every im proved instrument is used. A splen did truck farm is operated. This, however, has not paid, owing to the competition of Virginia and Georgia truck farmers, and is to be abandoned after this year. Small fruits will take the place of vegetables. It is impossible to describe in a short article the beauties of the estate. The most attractive features are the drives. These have been macada mized, the rock being pulverized. The roads are hard, smooth and firm. Bicyclists are allowed to use them. All along these drives the native wild flowers have been added to by foreign flowers and plants. Honeysuckles, wild roses, lilies, daisies, ferns, plains abound in the wooded portions of the estate, presenting a bower of beauty, which draw from all visitors unbound ed expressions of delight.—Washing ton Star. A Ileal Dlnmontl Ring. A ring recently exhibited at Ant werp, Belgium, was the admiration of diamond cutters and merchants be cause it was the first successful at tempt to cut a ring out of a single stone. There are a great many diffi culties in this method of cutting dia monds, as tho stones have a certain cleavage and particular veins, all of wliioh have to be carefully studied iu order to prevent splitting just as suc cess seems within reach. After several unsuccessful attempts and three years' labor the feat has been accomplished by the patience and skill of one of the best-known lapidaries of Antwerp. The ring is about six eights of an inch in diameter. In the Marlborough cabinet there is a ring cut out of one entire nnd perfect sap phire.—Chicago News. The rails Catacombs. The subterranean galleries between the Jardin des Plantes, which consti tute the catacombs, by which the sub soil of Paris is honeycombed, are now being utilized. They have been con verted ito a species of laboratory nnd aquarium. A number of them have been fitted with reservoirs and glass tanks, while in others tho niches that once contained human bodies have been converted into cages, where scientists are able to study the effect of total and partial darkness upon ani - mal life. THE DRUM ON SHIPBOARD. It IMays an Important Part in tho Dally lloutiue of Duty. "The Last of the Drums" is the title of an article written by Lieuten ant Con Marrast Perkins for St. Nicho las. Lieutenant Perkins says: In tho navy as well as in the army the drum is hallowed and glorified by traditions of victory; and from the day Paul J ones ran up the first flag of our country, with its liberty tree and its motto, "An Appeal to Heaven," down to the present, a man-of-war's drum mer, though the smallest mite on board, has always played an important part in the daily routine of our Nation's floating bulwarks. From the rolling of "gun bright- i work" in the morning, and the long- ' drawn, solemn beat to "quarters," to the last incident of the day—"taps," or "extinguish lights"—the drum re- ' tains its place here; and the little marine drummer, with his baby face ' nnd red coat, is the last to carry his drum proudly at the head of marching men, and to blend its martial rattle with the blare of the trumpet, which has usurped the place of the fife. These boys are enlisted at Washing ton, nnd are taught in the musio school at marine headquarters, after which they are drafted to the several marine stations at navy yards, or dis tributed to vessels in commission all over the world. They are eulisted at from fourteen to sixteen years of ago, and are bound over to serve in the Marine Corps un til twenty-one, when they are honor ably discharged. While serving on men-of-war, they swing in hammocks and mess with the Marine Guard, nnd in all respects are treated as if they are men; in action they serve at tho great guns as powder boys—"powder monkeys" as they are sometimes called. The duty of a pow der boy is to pass charges from tho magnzine to tho battery. Drummers are distinguished from | the private soldiers of the Marine Guard in full-dress uniform by a scar let tunic with white facing and shoul der knots—the only dress in our ser vico like the traditional red coat of "Tommy Atkins," the British soldier, which has been worn by the army for nearly three hundred years. As a joke upon this distinctively un-Ameri- I can uniform, it is related that when the British were seen approaching Blad- , ensburg, during tho War of 1812, a ! wag in the American ranks shouted, "Great Scott! boys, here comes the music. I guess I won't wait for the army!" A Xluminoth Sea l.lzarcl. Says the Wichita (Kan.) correspon dent of the Cincinnati Enquirer: Henry Patterson, of Perry, Oklahoma, has dug from his farm a prehistoric mon ster, or rather a petrified skeleton of a mammoth sea lizard, that has excited great interest among scientists. It is the most wonderful and most colossal fossil ever unearthed, and its propor tions are gigantic. There are verte brae, a complete skull, ribs and flip pers, that are mammoth in size,a fossil fully petrified, the bones being cal careous. There are fifty or more vertebrae, each as big as the joint of a stovepipe. Tho head is sixteen feet in circumfer- j ence, and has a long protruding bone, six feet across, like the beak of a bird. The ribs are twenty-five feet long,half hooped in contour, and the eye sockets are two feet across. The propellers, or fins, are perfectly preserved, and are throe feet wide and eleven feet long. The fossil is that of a saurianondon or sea lizard, and was fully three hun dred feet long. In the Cherokee Strip the alluvial deposit just overlies the cretaceous or chalk formation, and the fossil was found by Mr. Patterson in a putty clay, not more than four feet be- j low the surface. It is believed to be the largest fossil ever found. Professor Marsh,of Yale, has restored skeletons of the reptiles of North America that ore over a hundred feet long, but nothing so gi gantic as the Cherokee Strip lizard has ever been brought to light on this continent. To Sleep Well Lut Before Ketlrlng. A light supper just before retiring is usually of advantage. Baby and brute animals are usually somnolent when their stomachs are well supplied with food, the activity of the stomach withdrawing the excess of blood from the brain, where it is not needed dur ing sleep. On the other hand people who are very hungry usually find it very difficult to sleep. And then a habit of sleep at at a regulated time and during proper hours should be cultivated in case this habit has been lost. Iu accomplishing this tho at tainment of a favorable state of mind ! is of great importance. Sleep cannot ' be enforced by a direct exercise of the will. The very effort of the will to com mand sleep is enough to render its at tainment nugatory. The mental state to be encouraged is one of quiescence, ono of indifference, a feeling that the recumbent posture is a proper one for rest, and that if the thoughts are dis posed to continue active they mny be safely allowed to take their course without any effort toward control, j This state of mind and thought is next akin to dreams, and dreaming is next to sound sleep.—Medical Record. A Cliapel Bell. The largest bell in the world is the one called "King of Bells," in Mos cow, Russia. It was cast in 1733, but i fell during a fire, and remained buried in the earth till 183 G. It is more than three times as high as a man, being over nineteen feet high, and weighs as much as 220 common cart-loads of coal. There is a large piece broken j out of ono side, so that it canni t bo rung as a bell; but it is set upon a stone foundation, and used as a chapel, ; of which the broken place is the door, j —St. Nicholas. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. ] Elevators are now made with but tons so that the passengers can stop i them at any point. The hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board in London have 3800 beds set apart for scarlet fever and only 700 for diphtheria. During the year 1890 no less than I 750 lives were saved in Chicago by the use of the diphtheria antitoxin. The statistics on which this assertion is i based may be found in the bureau and division reports of the Chicago Depart j ment of Health for April, 1897. In the sand wastes of Southern j California two varieties of rattlesnakes are found. The larger ones, called ■ "tiger rattlers," sometimes attain a ' length of four feet, but it is said that I they are sluggish, and far less dnnger- I ous than a smaller variety named the "side-winder." This name comes I from the snake's habit of moving side wise, as well as advancing in the ordi nary manner. It is also called the "horned rattlesnake," on account of the horn-like protuberances over its eyes. It seldom exceeds a foot and a half in length, but its motions are very quick, and it has the reputation of be ing "vicious." Professor Luigi Dambon, of Home, attempts to prove by statistics that northern lntitude and higher altitude do not conduce to longevity. He says the average Arab outlives the average ' Eskimo by no less than twenty-five , years, and that the people who live on the unhealthy coasts of South America survive the inhabitants of the higher and cooler altitudes of the interior. I The natives of India live to a surpris- 1 ing old ago. Even in Europe people live longer in the south than in the north. Among the twenty-seven million in England there are but lid centena rians, while in Spain, with a popula tion of only eighteen million, there are four hundred centenarians. Photographers are said to bo able sometimes to produce direct positives by extreme over-exposure or by special treatment. Anthony's Bulletin calls attention to the remarkable experi ence of a beginner, who obtained three positives and ono negative from four exposures of the same subject, the only difference in conditions being the length of exposure. The one good, j clean-cut positive of the three was pro- , dueed by an exposure of a minute and a quarter, with a fairly large stop in | full daylight. In another experience mentioned two exposures of the same subject under precisely the same con ditions of lighting and timing produced one positive and one negative, although developed in the same tray at the same time. 'Alaska Indians Gi> Into Business. Rev. John Duncan, missionary to Metlakahtln Indians in Northern Alaska, is not having things all'his own way in the matter of trade up north. The Alaska Miner says that the missionary may have builded bet ter than he knew. Several Indians, acting in the spirit of emulation, have started stores of their own, and in some instances carry a stock of BGOOO to slo',ooo. There are six stores of this description on their isl unds. These educated Indians have arrived at the conclusion that there is money in i commercial life, and have decided to compete with Mr. Duncan and his I Portland capitalists. Mr. Duncan has met this competition, first by selling flour at 51.25 a sack and then raising dock rates to $3 per ton upon all goods not landed for his store. The ; Indians have determined to build a dock of their own, and have announced j that they will complete it this summer ; and allow any oue to laud there who wishes to. This is no idle boast, as they have I plenty of money and can pay cash for work they don't do themselves. Edu cational and religious movements on the island are being overshadowed by commercial matters. Rich free-mill- j ing quartz has been found, and the Indians hope before long to have; stamp mills at work.—San Francisco Chronicle. American Courtesy. Let one Englishman, at least, record his honest opinion that an educated American is the most courteous person ho has met in his travels, writes lan Maelaren. One may have a pardona ble pride in the good form of an Eng lish gentleman—an instinctive sense of what is becoming—and yet desire the cordiality which is very taking in ' an American; oue may admit that in ! what may be called the decorated style ' of manners a Frenchman is a past master, and still miss that note of sim plicity which is found in an American. There is, indeed, as appears to a dull male person, a certain analogy be tween the superiority of an American man in manners and an American wo man in dress, for she lias added to the severe good taste of an Englishwoman a certain grace, and redeemed tho cleverness of tho Parisian from the suspicion of trickery. Blood and climate have united to pronounce this felicitous result, where the gravity and dignity of the Anglo-Saxon have been relieved by a certain brightness of spirit and lightness of touch which would be out of place, and might he even offensive, in rain and fog. Wholes us Travelers. Mr. William H. Doll, of the Smith sonian Institution, says, in Science, that "during the early days of the whalo fishery several well-attested in stances occurred of whales struck in one ocean, as the Atlantic, being afterward killed in the North Pacific, and vice versa." This would indicate that some whales are great travelers, for to get from tho Atlnntic to the North Pacific they would have to go many thousands of miles, passing either around Cape Horn, or around the northern eud of North America and through Bering Strait. Cfiine Ijonjr Word h. I Doctors who are In the habit of using long words when visiting people may take a hint from the following little story: An old woman whoso husband ! was not very well sent for the doctor, ! who came and saw the old wife: "I will send him some medicine which must be taken In a recumbent po&i --| tlon." After he had gone the old woman sat down greatly puzzled. "A recumbent position—a recumbent position!" she kept repeating. "I haven't got ono." At last she thought, "I will go and see if Nurse Lown has got one to lend me." Accordingly she wont and said to the nurse: "Have yon a recumbent position to I lend me to take some medicine In?" 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