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Some people claim that John Sher- j man died disappointed. Still, he left . an estate valued at $3,000,000. i An Atlanta man has been fined $5 j for digging in his garden on j Sunday. Served him right. He should have been playing golf. In the Boston high schools the girls outnumber the boys by 1000 or so, but in the primary and grammar schools the boys outnumber the girls by nearly 2500. Even John D. Rockefeller has his 1 financial troubles. Instead of Stand- j ard oil paying $50,000,000 in divi j dends this year it pays a paltrj $45,000,000 only. Eighteen states and one territorj ; now have valued policy laws —that is, laws requiring fire insuranoe com- j panies to pay tho face of the policy, no matter what may be the actual j value of the property burned. Although the Berlin experts ad- j mit that American coal is superior in quality to that imported from any j other country, still the German col liery owners hope to get the govern ment chemists to report that it is full of disease germs and subject to exclusion like American pork. Once more the introduction of American methods will revolutionize j British traffic. As a result of the | visit of a prominent railway official - to the United States the directors of j his road have decided to substitute ! for the present lever system of sig nalling the pneumatic method em- I ployed on American roads. The in stallation of the latter system is now proceeding. Speaking of Indian summer, a down-castor is quoted by the Ports mouth (N. H.) Chronicle as saying: "The Indian summer comes in No vember, usually the first week. It got its name from coming so late in the autumn that tho shiftless red man could accomplish his tardy hunt ing and crop gathering in season to be ready for the first snows when they fell—playing the limit, 1 might say." This will answer for time and reason until a better guess is given. The government of New Zealand last year paid out about $50,000 for freezing the butter intended for ex port. As the process cost three eighths of a cent a pound, they must have exported over 18,000,000 pounds. Next year they propose that the farm er or shipper shall pay one-half of this cost, that they may use the money to promote agricultural ex ports in some other way. They think that the farmers now understand so well tho need of freezing butter that they will not he unwilling to pay at least half tho cost of the process, and their exports of dairy products are expected to increase. Taking the recent developments in the Castellane case as a text, the Philadelphia Times presents a severe class arraignment, concluding: "It is American women who had opportu nity for culture and for the most generous philanthropy that so beau tifully adorns American womanhood, who have brought reproach and shame upon the better women of this country. They make marriage a mere matter of commerce, and grasp the empty baubles of foreign titles, thinking themselves thereby honored, when they sacrifice the last vestige of self-respect, the respect of the country and of the world, and all the sanctity of homo life where woman is grandest in her offices and ments." OUR FERRYMAN. On, on to the ferry; the boatman is wait- Still drips the rude wave from his oar; Whilst he watches as if in his silence de bating The distance to yonder bright shore. See again how he listens for passengers coming To hail for that haven of rest Where the voice of the angels is heard through the gloaming While the day-star sinks deep in the west. Then on to the strand, where its rays are still gleaming If a passenger safe thou wouldst be, For the tideway is broad and the wave lets .ii- streaming In haste to their home in the sea. . w .\\ .\\. w .\\. w. w rvi.u.n .\\ .\\.\\.a\ l\\ .\\ .\\!\\rv\^^rn'^\rn*iwiv | THE GARMENT OF IRON § MjS A Tradition of the Coyoteros That Worked Disaster and Death. iji rfj Dy Gwendolen Overton. b-iS. w. w .\v rv\ .u• n. \\.\\. \\ y ¥ T HERE was no skeleton In the I armor when Hartpole found J it; only some sand and a 6 bunch of tumble-weed, a rat tle-snake, and a tarantula. The tar antula scuttled off, he killed the rat tlesnake, and the tumble-weed and sand he emptied out. Then he had the armor done up in a shelter tent and put upon a pack-mule. After which, the column moved on. It should not have halted after all, for it was in pursuit of a band of Indians. But there were bands of Indians every day, and the finding of n full suit of armor lying under a mesquite bush beside their trail was rare. Certainly Hartpole had never heard of such a thing. And. so far ns he knew, it was the only suit of armor ever discovered on the New Mexico plains, but ills lore on the subject was not profound. When lie got back to his two-com pany post on the banks of the Gila, he found the interest in life, which had been lacking for him up to then, in enlarging that knowledge. He sent East for books and histories and treat ises concerning coats of mail and the men who have worn tliein, and lie even went so far as to write to the Smith sonian Institute, at the risk of having a Government commission sent out at once to seize ills treasure. And In the interval of two months which elapsed before he received n reply—for the railroad was only to Kansas In those days—lie set about cleaning the armor himself, and with his own hands join ing it together. He was so occupied, what with that and the histories and the other books, thnt lie forgot to have Gila-bottom malaria and had no time to worry about the flies. Then, when the steel was once' more bright as the azure shield of Achilles, and he had proved to ids own and to every one's satisfac tion that it must once have protected the body of one of Coronado's men, and must date back from the middle of the sixteenth century, or thereabout, he hung it up in his one-room adobe quarters, along with tlie Indian tro phies that were as nothing now and the bottled reptiles of many sorts; and the fame of it spread through the land. An English lord, in a pith hel met and gray linen, who was going about tlie country, traveled miles out of bis way to look upon it; and a scientific party from Boston did the same. Hartpole was beginning to be very proud, when one day be had a Visitor of another kind. It was a man he had seen sometimes hanging around the agency and the post—a small, lithe fellow, part Coyo tero Apache, part Mexican, possibly a very small part white, who had some reputation as a medicine-man with the tribes, but not much as anything.else, j Hartpole was sitting under his ra rnada on a late summer afternoon, i reading a book whose covers curled up with the heat, when somethiug , came between him and his light, and looking up he saw the medicine-man peering in the opening. lie said, i "Hullo, Ciego," and added: "What do j you want, eh?"* Ciego was so-called because he was blind in one eye. He came in under I the ramada, and stood so close to him j that Hartpole moved a little. The | Coyotero's cast-off uniform and red l head-band were not clean. Ciego spoke excellent Spanish, and as Hartpole did, too, lie had no trouble about making himself understood. He explained that lie would like to see tlie suit of iron clothes which he hnd been told that Hie lieutenant possessed. The lieutenant was so pleased to think that it had been spoken of in the fust nesses of the Sierra Blanca and of the Tonto Basin thnt he forgot how dirty Ciego was, and straightway rose and invited him into the one room. The medicine-man stood looking at tlie armor with an interest and evi dent appreciation I hat touched Hart pole very much. After tlie foamier of ills kind lie said no word, but present ly lie went nearer and felt of tlie plates and chains with his finger-tips, and put Ills good eye close and looked in side. Then he turned to Hartpole. "Where did you Dud it?" he asked. The lieuteuant explained at some length. "Is it very old?" Ilartpole said it was at least three hundred and thirty odd years old, and went into a little history. Ciego nodded his head. "I know," he said. But that was so manifestly absurd that Hartpole did not pay any attention to it- "It is very Que," said Then hasten thy footsteps and learn from such teaching That sloth cannot rest wiin the brave; For energy rules while the bigot is preach ing. And victory glides with the wave. Tread the pathway apace while the ban ner is floating; Note the finger-post while it is day, With the voice of the signalman's watch word denoting 'Tis time to be up and away. With the rapids all past and yon harbor light beaming, We know that all dangers are o'er; Then take to thy rest and may sweet be thy dreaming In peace for all time evermore. ■iS.\\.\i.\i.v\.u .wTvv.wtw .u'.n.n.nta Ciego. "For how much will you sell it to me?" Naturally, Hartpole only laughed, but tile Apache was in earn est, nevertheless. "No," he insisted, looking him sharply in the face. "No, de vc-ras, I wish to buy it from you." "Well, I don't wish to sell," an swered the lieutenant, rather vexed at the mere idea. "I have live hundred dollars," said the Indian. "If you had a thousand you could not have It." "I have a thousand." Ilurtpole laughed again, a little Im patiently. "You do not believe me—look here." Ciego drew a buckskin bag from the folds of his sash. It was full of gold. "There are Ave hundred dollars here. In three days I can bring you five hundred more." Hartpole guessed how he had come by it, and bis temper rose. "That Is stolen money," he cried, angrily; "put It up. Y'ou can't have the armor. Ukasliee." "You let me have It," begged Ciego; "I wish it very much. I will do many things for you." Hartpole swore this time—mean, Spanish oaths. "No," he said, "you can't have it. Go to the devil—get out." Even though Ciego was only a dirty Indian, the White-Eye should have re membered that he probably had feel ings which could be hurt. It is well, however, for those who have the di rection of children and savages in their hands to remember that those simple folk have sometimes reasons for the things they do nnd say, good and sufficient unto themselves. But it never occurred to Hartpole what this half-blind Indian's reason might he.' They did not transpire until some weeks later. Yet in Ciego's tribe there was a le gend of a great white chief who had once married one of their women, and had ruled over them, nnd who had worn a suit of shining iron. And their tradition raq that whosoever should find and wear that garment again would be impervious to the bullets of the Wliite-Eye, would become the greatest of medicine-men, and rule not only over his own people, hut over all tlie Apache tribes aud those of tho plains of tlie North. And the very founder of that family to which Ciego belonged was reputed to have been the white chief in the coat of iron. The Cbyoteros believed these things, and so did the mcdiclne-man. So when the news of the armor suit had reached him he had levied heavy fees for bis incantations for some months, and, adding these to the gold he had ex changed for Mexican dollars, col lected from many raids, he took him self down to the camp of the soldiers to obtain fairly and by purchase that which was his very own. But fair ness and the offers of purchase had failed. C'iogo looked the White-Eye officer from his scalp to his toes and up ngain and thou with no sound save just one grunt went out from the quarters and from the post. Hartpole told of't at the mess that night, and forgot all ahout it after that, ltut Ciego did not—as llartpole ought to have foreseen. One night an Inuian, his body naked as it was born, a poisoned knife in his hand, stole across the sandy parade ground when the moon was under the clouds of a coming storm, and slipped as silently as none but a savage can, under the ramada of Ilartpole's quarters, and thence through the open door. The Indiau had missed nothing when he had been in that one small room a month before. He knew where everything in it was, from the shromo In n Idue frame on the wall to the cot in the corner, across from the fire place. He hid himself behind the piece of calico that curtained off the nook where Ilartpole's clothes hung, and waited until the moon showed for a moment through a break in the clouds, and he could see the figure on the cot beneath the mosquito net. When the room was dark again he slid out, and the blade of the knife in his hand went straight through the heart of the man nsleep. Then he took the rat tling armor from its nails and wrapped it in the calico curtain, and fled through the night, as silently and swiftly as only an Apache can. Now it happened that Hartpole had gone to nnother post - good many | miles to tho east that very day, and he had left his striker to sleep In his quarters and keep guard over his things. So It was Into the luckless soldier's heart that the knife was driven, and the next day a telegram apprised Hartpole that his striker wag murdered and his suit of mall wag gone. The day after that all the depart ment anew that the Coyoteros were on the war path, and, having cut the reservation, were killing right and left. They were led by a medicine man called "Ciego," and the scoutg reported that he was dressed in a gar ment of white Iron which no White- Eye's bullet could pierce. They also reported that the Chlricahuas and the Pah-Utes and the Sierra Blancas were joining him. It promised to be an In teresting time for the Territories. Hartpole began to have a dim idea of why the medlclne-man had wanted his Spanish mail now. He was or dered out, of course. Most of the de partment was. Trouble of the sort that this promised to be had to be checked at once, If at all. It was se rious already, but there was one thing in favor of the troops, which was that the hostlles showed no desire to get away. Their fanatical faith in the medicine-man led them to seek battle t rather than to shun It. And twice, | having done so, they beat off the | troops, because there were, as usual, too few. But the third time they were caught in a pocket of the Mogallons, and there were no less than six troops against them. Hartpole's was of the number. The Indians fought from dawn of the first day until twilight of the sec ond, in the open at first, then from be hind shelter, then at last they re treated to a shallow cave high up on a hillside, and there was no getting them out. A mountain howitzer , might have done it, but there was none with the command. All day the j troops fired volleys into so much of the mouth of the cave as showed between j the pine trunks and the walls of rock. They knew that the slaughter within ] must have been pretty severe, but I there were no signs of surrender, nev- ] ertheless. The hostiles might hold out 1 until the last one was dead; they cer- , tainly would until their medicine-man j should fall. The medicine-man could ; be seen from time to time, a gleaming j figure, moving clumsily among the | .trees nnd underbrush. And for all | that it went so slowly and was sc bright, no bullet seemed ever to hit it Even the white men began to cousidei it with awe. ! 1 At sunset of the second day, wlier t the sounds from the cave had all but ceased and the Indians within it weri without ammunition and at bay, tin . glistening form came clambering do- ; liberately to the top of a high rock, whooping and yelling, calling the rem nant of its followers on. It stood so . for a moment, the red sun rays strik- j ing through the pine branches on the I dented steel, a weird sight in the I depths of the mountain fastnesses of 1 the New World; so odd nnd strange i that the soldiers hesitated with their fingers on the triggers of their car bines. | 1 But Hartpole, kneeling alone behind a bowlder, remembered only that that | glowing armor was his, and that he wanted it. The visor was up and he could see the glitter of the one good " eye. He had won a sharpshooter's medal in his time, and he put his skill to use now. There was a puff of 1 smoke from above his bowlder, and ' the shining figure threw up its arms and staggered. Then it fell forward, | down from the pinnacle of rock, clat- ; tering nnd crashing among the logs and stones. 1 They found, when they dragged him I out, that Hartpole's bullet had gone straight through the good eye, and 1 that Ciego was ciego in very truth J now—and quite dead.—San Francisco Argonaut. Armored Automoliileft. Two new armored trains for employ- ' ment over country where there arc no I ' rails of permanent ways have just j been placed upon the establishment j ' at Aldershot. Each consists of a loco motive or traction engine and four j trucks, all of which are painted the , ' now familiar, but ever unlovely, khn- 1 i ki. The locomotives, which are of ex-! eeedingly powerful construction, are i i completely cased with steel, the vital parts being especially protected. An Ingenious arrangement of prisms and \ mirrors, somewhat after the manner of the camera obscura, enables the driver inside the cab of the engine to see without being seen, or in any way exposing himself. The trucks are built with high sloping steel sides, which are pierced and slotted at in tervals to enable the occupants to fire through them. They are also provided with slides at either end to permit of guns and wagons being run into the trucks. The steel sides of the car riages are so constructed that when necessary they may fall inward and lie flat on the platform of the truck, which can then be used for ordinary transport purposes.—London News. Good News Froin Liberia. Commercial progress is reported from Liberia. If this is not of great importance to the world it is sufficient ly unexpected to be striking. Persons who were not so sanguine as to expect that settlement to solve the problem of American slavery, at least expected It to grow nnd flourish and surpass the English and other white colonies in the dark continent. All Rorts of ex cuscs have been made for its sluggist j development, but the fact remained the same that It did not prosper. Now there are reports of commercial en largement and real signs of prosperity —New York Journal of Commerce. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE STORIES TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. He Hold Her —Then They Laughed - Somewhat Largo l'aw Answer* Os tein! limited Hardest Ta*k of the Hay—-His Solemnity Accounted For,lite With .flirting and foolishness now she waa done, For she meant to be wed to this chap. "My race for a husband," she sighed, "ia near won— I believe I am on my last lap." —Catholic Standard and Times. Then They Laughed. "How restless the water is, foaming away behind us." "Something like the baby; it's al ways a wake."—Brooklyn Life. Rome what Large. First Fly—"That's what they call the fly wheel." Second Fly—"Strikes me they should have named It after the elephant."— ruck. l'aw Answer* Ostend. "Paw," said Osteud, reading the war news, "what are disappearing car riages?" "Those drawn by horses," responded paw, without looking up.—Chicago News. Limited. "Great Scott, and the bnnk has gone up for $.100,000! For how much are the directors responsible?" "Only for the failure."—Denver News. Hardest Task of the Day. Harduppe—"l always do my hardest work before breakfast." Borrowell—''What's that?" Harduppe— "Getting it." Philadel phia Record. Ill* Solemnity Accounted For. Dyer—"ls that solemn-looking j'oung man across the way an undertaker?" Gj r er-—"Yes; that is, he is a grocery clerk who has undertaken to support a wife on a salary of $0 a week." Must Be Jealous. Penelope—"While he was talking to me I imagined I was floating in tho air." Patrice—"Yes, gns has that tenden cy, you know."—Yonkers Statesman. Unfortunately, It Is the Case. He—"l would be willing to exchange the responsibility of riches for the bonds of love at any time." She—"Unfortunately, one cannot cut coupons from the bonds of love."— Brooklyn Life. Amended. Friend—"You don't believe in the rule, 'Never prophesy unless you know?'" Fortune Teller—"Oil, no! Our rule Is, 'Never prophesy unless you're paid for It.' "—Buck. ller Explanation. "Mrs. Fotlieriugny Jibbs came to my reception without an invitation." "You don't mean it?" "Yes; she explained to me that she felt sure my omission of her was an oversight."—lndianapolis Journal. The Information She Desired. "Ah! beautiful lady," exclaimed tho clairvoyant, "you have come to find your future husband, is it not so?" "Not much," replied the beautiful lady; "I have come to find out where my present husband is when he's ab sent."—Philadelphia Press. The Prototype of Highwaymen. "Jack Slieppard is considered tho prototype of road agents, isn't he?" "Oh, I don't know. What's the mat ter with Atlas?" "Atlas?" "Yes. All the world's n stage, you know, and Atlas held it up." The Student Wants to Know. Professor (lecturing)—" Oxygen, gen tlemen, is essential to all animal ex istence; there could be no life without It. Strange to say, it was not discov ered until a century ago, when——" Student—"What did they do before it was discovered, professor?" Tho Evidence Was Lacking. "If I were a queen," she announced, "I tell you I would write some laws that would " "But a queen doesn't write the laws of a nation," he Interrupted. "How do you know?" she demanded. "Because there is no reference to millinery in any of the codes." he an swered. Got What They Wanted. Their Caller —"I don't sec why Count Parchesl and his American wife should quarrel." Miss Mavis—"Their interests clash, do they not?" Their Caller—"Not to any marked degree. She wanted a foreign al liance, nnd he a foreign allowance, that's all."—Harlem Life. Became a Question of Economy. "That youngster of yours seems to be having his own way lately. You're not as strict with him as you were." "No; It was a question of economy with me." "Economy ?" "Yes; every month I used to have to buy myself a new pair of slippers and the boy a new pair of trousers."—Phil adelphia Press. Ills Method. "Aha!" exclaimed the editor of tho Daily Shouter, "at last I have discov ered the secret of journalistic success: Publish so many reports that it will be physically linpesslble to contradict more than half of them, and then point triumphantly to the uncontra dicted other half." And then ho set to work vigorously an Extra Number Twenty-six.—ruck. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. An exploring party from Harvard University, who spent the last suiumei In Labrador, says that they made dis coveries warranting the belief thai more gold can be mined in Labrador than at the Klondike or at Cape Nome. According to the Sioux Indian weather prophets it's going to be a hard winter. Those predictions are based on tlie fact that the buffalo grass showed a heavy crop of seeds, which, the redskins declare, is a sure sign of severe winter and deep snow. A pipe line, 142 miles long, has been built to carry Caspian petroleum to the Black Sea. The railroad was in adequate to handle the oil, and it was found more economical to lay the pipe line than to improve the road. At pres ent, however, it must be carried by rail for 400 miles. An Oklahoma man lias invented an apparatus for supplying an endless roll of paper to a typewriter. It con sists of a light, frame placed on or above the machine, carrying a number of rolls 011 which the paper is wound. It is possible to run two sheets with manifolding paper between them. The paper is wound on a third roll, in front of which is a pair of jaws by which the paper can be torn off at any point desired. The United States Consul at Madge burg, Germany, describes an electrical farm operated in Germany in which the power for generating the electric current was derived from a stream whose waters were dammed lip to se cure the necessary fall to turn a largf turbine wheel. Nearly all the faru machinery, including pumps, harvest ers, feed cutters, thrashing machines, churns and plows, were operated by the electricity thus generated, which was conducted to all parts of the farm on overhead wires. There has recently been opened on one of the lower slopes of Mount Leb anon, Syria, near the road from Beirui to Damascus, a newly built hospital for the insane. Its founder is Mr. Theophilus Wahlmeier, a veteran mis sionary in Abyssinia and Syria. A considerable area of land and gardens for the growth of wheat, olives and other fruit surrounds the buildings. If is the first organized lunatic asylum in Syria, where the need for such in stitutions is said to be great. It will probably be dependent upon support from Europe for a good many years. llenefltft of Doar Coal. An observing engineer, traveling through some ot the Swiss manufac turing centers noticed that, generally, Swiss steam engines were of a higher economical type than those in Eng land, while Swiss electrical generators and motors were distinctly inferior to those of English standard practice. By a process of deduction from local cir cumstances he was able to attribute these two circumstances to the high cost of fuel in Switzerland on the one hand, and the great plenty nnd con sequent cheapness of natural water powers in the country on the other. The highest results in any branch of industry require an artitteiai stimu lus. At no time within recent mem ory lias the trade in economical appli ances for the production of steam energy been as active as it is now. Economization in manufacturing pro cesses simply moans the suppression of waste nnd in that view (he existing exorbitant post of fuel is not without its compensations. It must also he re membered that the present high price of coal is most likely transitory, but that the economical Improvements to which it may give rise must he per manent, for, however slow advance in manufacturing practice may he, there is no stepping back.—Loudon Express. Itegpected XI if* Memory. She entered the ollice of the tomb stone company," and the clerks imme diately became sad of countenance. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the chief mouruor. "Yes; my husband, John T. Abornn tliy, has died, and I would like to se cure some suitably engraved head stone—something with an appropriate inscription, if you please." "Certainly, madame, right this way. Now, here is a very pretty tiling in the stone line. Eight over tills cross we would carve: 'Here lies John T. Abcr nathy,' and " "Ah, sir," interrupted the widow, "you must think me cruel. I would not say 'Here lies.' That was one of his faults in life, and I will not follow him with the accusation now that he is v gone."—Denver Times. "**' Ilcgan Anew at Slxty-Bl;; Ami Succeeded. An American came to this country at sixty-six with n wife and four chil dren and sl4 in his pocket, having lost a.fortune in another country by specu lation. This man was "game." He started in doing odd jobs of surveying down in the hot country, raised vege tables on a small tract of laud be hired, gradually acquired some upland country where everybody said coffee could not be grown, and made a suc cess of his plantation. He added more land as time went on, and now takes in $30,000 a year gold from his place. He is eighty-six now, and says that, were he again to lose ids property, he lias the grit to begin life over again.— Mexican Herald. Fifty Tliousund l'OHtrardii Destroyed. It is said in Holland that a firm of picture postca-d makers In The Hague was so eoniiuent that Queen Williel miua would marry Duke Adolf of Mecklenburg-Seliwerlu that they print ed ills picture on 50,000 cards, in readi ness for the nnnoi'Mcement. When the event proved that his brother, Duke Henry, wan the happy man, the cards had to be destroyed.
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