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The Kins of Italy is said to he dom inated by his mother. A good many worse things might be said of him. Experience teaches that great suc cess may be made up of trifles, but the man who trifles can never achieve great success. An automobile has ascended Pike's Peak, 11,000 feet high, and descended in safety, which establishes its prac ticability as a liill climber. The New York family that moved sixty-one times in a year is qualified to write for the magazines on the ques tion, "Is it cheaper to move than pay rent?" After we have had about one more summer like the past one has been most of us will be able to understand why people keep on trying to find the north pole. It seems as if soon tho only way a man could go t'vsr shooting in safety from the bullets of embryo hunters would be to strap antlers to his head and crawl on all fours in the under brush. The ladies who watched the vivisec tion of a frog in Paris were overcome with horror at the sight. They should have prepared themselves for tho or deal by going fishing with live bait or by eating a live-broiled lobster. A St. Louis couple who posed as principals in a "mock marriage" cere mony are greatly disturbed by the | declaration of the Circuit Court Judges that the wedding was a legal one. They are not the first persons to learn that marriage is no joke. Predictions have been made from many sources that the winter will be severe. The Sioux Indians see signs of a hard season in the fact that the buffalo grass produced a heavy crop of seeds tho past summer—a sure sign, tho redskins say, of a severe winter find deep snow. Dr. F. Larroque reports to tho French Academy of Sciences that his studies of the action of sounds upon : the human ears prove that the audi- j tory apparatus of each ear operates 1 independently of the other. This ap pears to have a bearing upon the question whether loss of hearing by j one ear exercises an injurious effect j upon its mate. Two opinions regarding bicycling \ and in; M l Iv come from London and ; Louisville, Ky. An authority at the | English capital maintains that a j druni; n man cannot ride a bicycle at all, while a Kentucky authority says , that a drunken man can ride a bicycle j better than any one else. It is prob- ! able that the two authorities use en- i tircly different brands of goods. The awards of tho jury of final ap- j peal at the Paris Exposition give the I bulk of the prizes to French exhibit- j ors, as a matter of course; but outside j of the home awards the United States exhibits have fared very well. In | every classification Americans carry j off the larger number of first honors I allotted to foreigners, save only in grand prizes. In view of the searching and unsparing competition of the best the world affords, American primacy at the Paris World's Fair may bo fair ly regarded as a conspicuous feather j in Uncle Sam's hat. tjermnny is not free from leprosy. The malady is actually increasing. In ! Prussia, in the district of Memcl, close | to the Russian border, 22 cases have ' been discovered so far. At Hamburg j 10 cases have been found; in Meckicn burg-Schwerin one. Tn the United States there are 134 j cities which have a population exceed- i ing 30,000. They have a total popula- 1 tion of 18,872,46 2. The average popula tion is 140,830. 1 | How Pennsylvania Coal Miners Work and Live. J? MOST people going for the first time into the region of the great anthracite 1 mines would at once put 1 the mine workers and their families in | a class apart from the ordinary human ( i beings, writes Paul Latzke, in the De . j troit Free Press. The newspaper ae . | counts have paved the way for this, and tho appearance of the men and ■ j boys in their working outfit clinches ' the impression. No other body of I laborers in the world carry such | I strong external evidences of their vo ] cation. From Hie top of their heads, I where their mining lamps flare from the peaks of their queer shaped caps, , I to their feet, shod with great, grimy, thick-soled, clamping boots, the mine workers bear the obtrusive stump of 1 their trade. They look uncanny, fierce. j Take the most mild mannered and 111- , | offensive little man that lives, clothe him in the miners' regalia, let him ' 1 hammer for eight or ten hours under '! ground, and lie will come up a fcar- I some object. The most courageous j woman from the outside world would . j run from such a 111.111 at the least . i demonstration. Should she unexpcct * | edly meet him at dark 011 a lonely roa 1. 5 having never seen a miner before, she ! I would probably have an attack of, hysteria. j The faces of the men are hard and I seamed and sallow, and, thick with | coal dust, they are almost less than human to the unaccustomed gaze. ! Their eyes are outlined with crows' I feet, no matter how young they may | i bo, and they have a peculiar squinting I look, duo to their constant working in j the half gloom of the coal tunnels. It js recorded of some of the mules that pull coal cars in the mines, that, hav ing worked for years under ground ' without once coming up, they have ( gone Instantly blind, 011 being exposed 1I to the daylight. In a measure Jt is so ! with the men md boys who speud ; I their working hours day after day j underground. The daylight gives them an uncomfortable sensation, and I they acquire the habit of screwing up their eyes that finally affects all the mufv-i.-stin? .;••• •. I It is owing 10 these strongly marked I peculiarities that the mine workers | rfrc put down at first by newspaper correspondents and writers In the dis- I trlct as something apart. Even the I trained observer requires some time | to accustom himself to their striking appearance and to realize that after | nil these men are like other men, and I that their women, though they have | absorbed many of the characteristics jof the men, are like other women. It 1 is not until he has spent a little time J among the miners that lie comes to re j gard them as ordinary workmen. On : a Sunday or holiday'with the grime washed off their faces, their mining ; lamps hung away, their working , clothes removed, the men look an en j tircly different lot of human beings. Then it is only by their crows' feet ONE OF THE COMPANY STORES, and the paleness of their skins, due to their underground life, that they are to be recognized. The first time I ever saw a considerable body of the ; miners together was a Sunday mass meeting before the big strike was j called. I amazed at the unlike ness to their pictured appearance. For all that any one could have told the mass meeting might have been at Cooper Union in New York. The only difference was that most of the men ' —and women, too, for there were lots of women in the crowd—were much better dressed than the crowd that AmmB IW j A GROUP OF BREAKER BOYS AT THE MOUTH OF A COLLIERY INCLINE. j turn out at Cooper Union mass meet- ] 1 tugs. J If the miners and mine laborers were j ; engaged in work of an ordinary clmr- i icter, no one would think of putting j ! them down as being underpaid as n i class. Compared with other forms ! of work, mining, even in its highest t form, is little more than unskilled i labor, and the scale of prices may I seem high. But in determining the - earnings of miners ns compared with • the earnings of other laborers, a tiuin . her of tilings are to lie taken into con- I slderation. The character of their i work is extra hazardous. Every time ' a man goes down the shaft lie puts i himself at the mercy of all sorts of • dangers over which lie lias no control. Gas explosions, a "squeeze," the fall ing of a mass of coal, and a dozen , other things menace his life every mo- V\OTHER. / JS \ ONE OP n A RY JOMES ' I - Pennsylvania niNEi\> i : incut that lie Is underground. And so , shrewdly have the operators managed that the llnancial penalty for an ac cident never falls on them. In almost any other pursuit in which an em ploye is killed his family has a chance of claiming damages. In the coal mines no one ever dreams of putting I , In such a <• as aif li right. Many j diligent Inquiries i made to Jiiul a case where a coal operator had been mulcted in damages, for injury and loss of life, but none could he found. IhiaK. fe f A TYPICAL BREAKER IN TIIE COAL MIN ING REGIONS. There was a hazy story that an un known operator had once paid the family of an unknown driver boy, who was killed, $75. But this case could not he traced within the time at the ordinary man's disposal. Most of the operators make some sort of repara tion by furnishing special employment about the works to the men crippled in their employ, ami where the father is killed a place is generally found for the boys if there are any in the family. But such a thing as a cash settlement Is never dreamed of. The little chance that the miners had in this direction was skillfully taken from them by a piece of legis lation that was passed, "in the inter est of miners" and that was hailed with joy by the men at that time. This was the creation of county ex amining boards, to insure miners' licenses. Without such license no man can mine coal. The men foolish ly thought that this would protect them from unskilled competition, and especially from the competition of the foreigners that were pouring into the region. They soon found, however, that the protection didn't protect. The county boards are paid n fee for each license they issue. Naturally county politicians are not going to work against their own politics by refusing licenses to men prepared to pay for the luxury. So the "license" has de generated into a farce, In so far as It serves as a protection against com petition, and danger from the presence of poor workmen. But for the operat ing eompanies the measure has proved a great thing. By employing only "licensed" miners they are released legally from all responsibility for ac cidents. If a miner is hurled under tons of coal and rock when lie is at work, the fault Is his own. If the la borer working at his side is also killed, the laborer's relatives may look to the family of the "licensed" miner for damages, but not to the operator. If there is an explosion of gas, the miner In whose chamber it occurs is the re sponsible party. The operntor hired liim on the strength of his license, the possession of which presupposes that the man knows all about gas, and how to get away from the chambers where it lies before it accumulates in dangerous quantities. The "Are boss" who inspects the mine every morning for gas on behalf of the operator warns the miners as they BO lu when gas may he expected and It Is up to the miners to avoid ex plosions. This is what the "license" has done for the men. "Mother" Mary Jones, "queen of the mines" and the idol of the miners, i occupies n unique place In Ilia world of i labor. This kind hearted, philan thropic woman Is so loved by the rough del vers of the cool mines in the anthracite regions that with them her word is tantamount to law. Mrs. Jones Is fifty-six years old, silver haired and beautiful. Her voice has i been sweetly eloquent in behalf of j the workers whose cause she has adopted, and her appeals have won j unstinted sympathy for her simple, hard laboring friends. She lives at ' WilUesbnrre. New Nursery Carousel. If the invention shown in this illus- j tration does not serve to give the I children many hours of thorough en- | joymont then we miss our guess. Al- j most every child is ready to ride on a merry-go-round as often as invited, and with this machine set up in the nursery the invitation can he given many times a day without squander ing a nickel. The Inventor's intention is to have one of the older children pro- i pel tlie carousel by means of pedals f located as shown. The seats nre ad- j .Instable, in order that children of j different ages may he accommodated, j ~ "DOMESTIC" MEI'.HY-GO-I'.OUND. and the baskets v.vre for the babies. The vertical post is pivoted in stand ards secured to the ceiling and floor, and the horizontal arms are rigidly attached to this central post. The pedal shaft is connected to a shaft parallel to the supporting arm by a chain or cord running over the pulleys, and power is tints transmitted from the pedals to the inner end of the shaft, where a gear wheel meshes with a toothed disk attached to the standard, the revolution of the shaft driving the machine around. lligli Lights. Weak cofTee often nerves a man sufficiently not to tip the waiter. Other people's blunders either edu cate us or make us more conceited. Good luck is simply having the agility to get on a ear that is going your way. The cheerful life is like all other entertainments; we have to seek it out and pay to get in. We like the people who don't put 011 too much style and the people who don't put on too little. When we try to blame other people | for our mistakes we usually get hold of the wrong person. Polite people are those who listen j to us while we talk about something | they have no earthly interest in. It Is Vvell occasionally to put your- j self in the other man's place, even if ! you feel yourself too big to he a good j lit.—-Chicago Record. In the private schools of China a 1 teacher Is paid alnut oue-halfpeuuy a j day for each pupil. SILK FROM THE SPIDER. A. Beautiful Golden Thread Taken From Madagascar Insects. ! A French writer, who recently paid n visit to Tananarive, on the Island of : Madagascar where the web of the ! spider is utilized to produce silk, se cured some very interesting photo j _—. ! [gggggg ' 1111 [iSHPSMS N" • l ii BILK SPIDER IN TOE GUILLOTINE. graphs of the operation, cuts from which are shown herewith. The in sects are brought from the country In light baskets by Malagash women on the day upon which the silk is to be reeled, anil placed in a frame in groups of one or two dozen. It Is Important not to mutilate or wound them during the operation, since they are capable of being submitted to four or five suc cessive reelings in a month, represent- I Ing about four thousand yards of thread. At the School of Tananarive ! the idea has occurred to place the I spiders In what are called "guillo. | tines," the crescents of which hold | them between the abdomen and corse, lot. Tholr legs are turned back upon tlio corselet and tlieir abdomeE emerges from the side on wbieh the unwinding and twisting of the thread Is done. The Malagash girls, in performing tills delicate operation, touch the end of tiie abdomen of the prisoners with the linger and then gently withdraw the latter, thus carrying along, in a single bundle, the twelve or twenty four threads to a book that unites them Into a single one, whence they | REELING THE SPIDER THREAD. afterward start for the bobbin upon which they are to he wound. The spiders thus undergo a com plete reeling without resistance, and when they are "empty" they are re placed by others. Those which have been operated upon are placed for con valescence hi a "park" constructed for the purpose and consisting of bam boo planted in the ground and cou neeted by strings sons to form trellises. After a few days' rest in these they are taken out in order to be submit ted to another reeling. The silk is of a wonderful golden color. Tlilokloe Frozen ltapiilly. In the illustration Is shown an ap paratus which will aid materially in the formation of lee on a small lake. It is well known that when a body of water starts to freeze on the sur face the latent heat of congelation is liberated into the water underneath, thus retarding the freezing process and often preventing the formation of ice beyond a certain depth. In localities where the temperature seldom falls much below the freezing point It Is difficult to obtain a good crop of ice by natural methods, In which case this machine will be found useful. The apparatus Is so arranged that It will withdraw the water from beneath the thin sheet of lee, cool It, and return it at the opposite side of the pond. The sluice through which the water passes is provided at intervals with planks set obliquely, to stir the water ntiil extract the latent heat. The water re-enters the pond in a very thin sheet directly under the ice for mation, and being now of a low tem perature freezes rapidly, the Inventor claiming that a crop of ten or tv. elve ":a &A i mX i PACILITATINO TOE FORSIATION OF ICE. inch ice can be harvested several times a year with the aid of the ap paratus. In the cut an endless chain elevator is shown in the act of feed ing the waste ice into the returning stream of water at the rear of the dam, thus further aidiug in the cooling process. Ilrummoiul Cnstle. Drummonil Castle Is one of the fin est and most picturesque country seats in Great Britain. The house, the oldest part of which dates from 1401, was rebuilt during the last century in excellent taste, and it contains a fine collection of family and historical por traits. The terrace and gardens, de scribed by Mr. Charles Grenvllle as "fabulous," were originally laid out by John, Earl of Perth, who died in 11102, anil they extend over ten acres, anil comprise the best features of the French, Dutch and Italian styles. The castle is approached by a magnificent avenue of beeches and limes.—Loudon Truth. FAMOUS BY ACCIDENT. LUCKY CHANCE WHICH CAME TO NEIL BURGESS. Landing Lady of Fare© Company Ws 111 and Mr. ISurjosn Took Her Fart, Impersonating a Woman, and Made a Hit by Ills Oddity. V Few people who niglit after night at the Park theater laugh at Neil Bur gess' Abigail Prue know that but for an accident he never would have es- ■ sayed the character, and there never would have been a "County Fair" or a "Widow Bedott." The accident happened in Provi dence, when a lady who did leading * business in farces was taken ill and, to please the manager, Neil Burgess played her part. Notwithstanding that he had a perfect horror of im personating a woman, he made a hit and from that time on was fated, so he says, to play female characters. * Mr. Burgess is on the shady side of 50 and it was about 20 years ago that the public first discovered in him a j comedian. The role which he attempt i eJ in Providence was that of the eon j veiitional old maid. Taking his orders ! from the stage manager, who was ob liged to find a substitute for the lady | here referred to at a moment's no | tice, Neil Burgess donned female at tire, rushed on the stage and, tripping I all over himself, attempted as best ho I could to conceal the fact that the dress i was far too short. Not until he was | before the footlights did it occur to him that he had forgotten every line of the text. In the spasmodic cudgel ! ing of his brain to recall something lof the part, he pressed his cheek with \ , j the tips of his fingers, simpered a lit- ' j tie and thus unconsciously struck a i pose and an expression that, in its I suggestiveness of the elderly spins j ter's demonstrative timidity, tickled I his audience. , | That pose and expression was the ] key to Burgess' fortune. The cue it ' gave he made the best of by attitudi- I nizing and dipping into the dialogue [ as much as he could, continuing the I simpering and the gurgling until the I house resounded with laughter and a hit had been made. Two or three nights later the actress recovered her health and took up her task, but the manager of the theater summarily discharged her, claiming that she was a failure. The incident, meanwhile, had de termined Burgess' future work. For a time he played female roles in farces. Then somebody wrote for him a play, and later he constructed his i own "Vim," but in neither had he made money. Then it was that still another chance proved lucky for him. Among the audience who saw him play "Vim" at a Toledo theater one night was a jolly-faced man, who laughed with almost conspicuous vig or, and who, losing no time, secured an introduction to the actor. David R. Locke was that man. The brilliant and versatile Petroleum V. Nasby had some time before that made a comedy out of Mrs. Whicher's "Widow Bedott's Papers," and Bur gess came to him as a revelation. Out of their consultations came "The Wit' ow Bedott," christened just about 20 years ago in Providence. Nasby was a partner in the venture, and traveled with the company one season. That was a remarkable tour, too. Nasby was great on visiting newspaper of fices. Rarely, and then only by acci dent, did one of the craft escape him. | Burgess, who was indiscreet enough J. to accompany him on some of these V visits, relates that the great politico satirist invariably drew about him a crowd of listeners while he told stories and cracked jokes, and incidentally boomed the show. On each opening night he was duly called before the curtain, and he always made a funny speech of thanks. In fact, the tour was nearly a Nasby ovation, as ex pensive as it was flattering. fiMiere to Locate? WHY. 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