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Make all money orders , checks, el o. t payabU to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. •- 1 - * Snntos-Dumont distributed his flying machine prize money among the poor of Paris. This is the first time on rec ord that a flying finchlne lias devel oped any practical advantages. • There are in the United States 'IOOO lighthouses on the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico and the lakes, exclu sive of beacons, whistling buoys, and fog signals operated either by steam or clockwork. Greater guns will not make war impossible. War was to be made im possible when spears and arrows gave way to firearms; but there has been more or less killing right along, just the same. Speaking of tunnels, the one which is to be put through the Sierra Nevada Mountains will be the largest one in the United States. It will be 27,000 feet long, and is estimated to cost from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. Women's clubs in Minnesota have undertaken the work of beautifying tlieir home cities, by influencing the conversion of waste places into public parks and transforming unsightly and unsanitary localities into healthful pleasure grounds. A painter recently exhibited a pic ture in Worcester, Mass., and won a S3OO prize. Then he sent it to Pitts burg. where it won a SISOO prize, after which it was sold for S6OO. This Is a rolling stone that gathered moss of the greenback variety. AJ ~ = Two warrant officers have recently been promoted to the rank of ensign, and the way is open to more promo tions of the same sort. This is as it should he. The possibility of advance ment for merit will attract young men to the Navy who otherwise would not enlist, says the Pittsburg Gazette The United States are undoubtedly approaching a time when the free de livery of mail will be extended to all parts of the country, as has been done in Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria and other parts of Europe, whose greater density of population suggested the system before it was tried in America. While the movement against ragtime is commendable, it does not go far enough. The suppression of bad music should be followed by the substitution | of good music. In this age, with the I standard of general intelligence higher than ever before, the works of Bee thoven, Mendelssohn and Mozart should be as well known as the novels of Dickens, Scott and Thackery. IftlnnilK in the Indian Orrnn, If you should want an island—that is. an uninhabited island—for the pur pose of occupying it alone, Robinson Crusoe like, or to use it for romantic fiction or any other purpose, to the exclusion of all others in the world, you need have no trouble in finding one if you see fit to make a journey to the Indian Ocean. In the waters between Madagascar and India you can find more than 15,000 of them, where there is not a human being and where you can, if you will, be mon arch of all you survey. An English traveler has recently been among the small islands that dot the western end of the Indian Ocean to make an in ventory of them and reports that he counted 16,100 and found only about 600 of them inhabited. Now, there is a good chance for any one who may want an island. These particular is lands are not large, as islands go, but Very many of them are sufficient for the purrose of a Robinson Crusoe or any other novel hero, or for even a small colony of shipwrecked mariners or other persona wno might be cast on one of them or seek for the purpose of making a home pretty much out of the busy world. The church that flourishes itself is Often far from flourishing. ROMANCE. TIIE BONO OF THE LOVER. To live for her, to toil for hor, To make her queen, ami oh To siii for her, to die for her, If Fute will huve it 80. THE BONO OF THE WIFE. To live for him, to trust in him, To be his all, but oh God pity me, I weary him Because I love him so. —S. E. Kiser, in the Chicago Record-Her ald. | A REPORTER'S HEROISM. j % Finned Under a Locomotive and Dy- m • ing lie Dictated His Story V ▼ of the Wreck. § 5 $ Py MAI. GEORGE F. WILLIAMS. £ Ever since the time when Froissart, that gonial historian of the Middle Ages, depicted, in his inimitable and charming style, the deeds performed by steel clad knights in search of ad venture on the roadside or in the me lee of battle, heroism has been the ab sorbing and dramatic theme of poet and singer. Today, when repeating rifles and rapid-firing field or naval guns are the weapons of war on land or sea, heroism displayed on the scene of conflict is always a theme for praise by writers of prose or poetry. In all the wars of ancient or modern history heroic acts have illumined the pages of each epoch or century and these deeds are embalmed in histoiy as the most precious gifts to human ity. Cut it is not alone on battle fields or in the hostile encounters that hero ism is displayed. Heroism belongs to every age and generation, it is this quality that gives a nation or a people distinctive character or force. As it was during all of the centuries of the Christian era, so it was in the nineteenth century just closed. Few men or women who read news papers would look for heroism among the men whose efforts placed before tiiem the news of the day from all parts of the world. 1 do not intend to allude to or describe the work of war correspondents who participate in head-long charges or desperate en counters in search of material for glowing and rapid description of strik ing scenes, but to the work of every nay life. in the summer of 1592, the Chicago & Alton railroad modernized two or three hundred miles of its track, when the officials of the company organized an excursion train lor the purpose of showing how far thoy had progressed. Every prominent citizen of Chicago was invited to take the trip and most of them accepted. These gentlemen, the railroad officers and a reporter from each of the Chicago morning papers, formed the excursion party. The reporter representing the Chi cago Inter-Ocean was Eugene White head, who made himself famous by inventing what is now known as base hall nomenclature. He was the first writer who wrote of "daisy cutters," "sky-scraping fly-halls." "grounders'' and' similar phrases now so common in descriptions of the national game. As the "C. & A" excursion was really a junketing expedition, Mr. White head's managing editor assigned him to it as a special mark of favor. Eugene Whitehead was one of those men who are ever seeking a now sen sation, and it struck him that a rido in the cab of a locomotive during a trip over an improved railroad would be something out of the common run in newspaper experience. Inviting Itoy L. Quackenbush, a reporter for anoth er Chicago newspaper, to join him, they entered the cab. and, for nearly an hour, remained there, swallowing dust, cinders and smoke, until Quack enbush grew weary, and at the first stopping place retired for the more pleasant atmosphere of the passenger cars. The train had been running at a speed of from 5o to BO miles an hour, and the excursion party forgot ail about Whitehead's dusty ride on the locomotive amid the hilarity and feast ing among themselves. The train went on at its headlong pace until it reached a culvert, which, being imperfect, gave way under the weight of the engine. As the masonry crumbled the locomotive turned over and fell into the creek. The engineer and fireman were instantly killed, but Whitehead was alive and entirely con scious, despite the fact that ho lay pinned under the huge mass of metal, and could not be extricated. Every possible effort was made by the excursion party to relievo White head's sufferings, hilt all failed. Mr. Quackenbush then endeavored to cheer his friend and comrade by telling him that a wrecking outfit had been telegraphed for, and that when it arrived he would he extricated. "Thai's all right, old man," said Whitehead. "The wrecking train will not get here in time to save me; even if it does, I am going to die. Say, Roy. will you do me a favor?" "I'll do anything, 'Gene, for ydu. What is it?" exclaimed Quackenbush, with many tears running down his cheeks. "Well, Roy," replied the crushed and dying reporter, "it's this way. I want you to take down my dictated story of this accident and send it over the wire to the Inter-Ocean. Will you do It?" "Of course I will, 'Gene," said Quackcnbush. "But why worry your self about your duty to the Inter- Ocean. I'll send your story myself." "You don't seem to understand me. Roy," and Whitehead's voice grew faint—his face wet with the agony he was enduring. "What I want is that you write out my story as I dic tate it, and send the report to the Inter-Ocean; and I want you and all the other newspaper boys to let me have a 'scoop.' 1 want all of them to agree that my story shall he the only one published in Chicago. I shall never see it in print, but it's a fancy of mine to scoop in just one more bit of news before I die." "All right, old fellow," said Quack enbusli, taking out his note-book and pencil. "It shall be as you wish. I know that the boys will agree." "Thank you and them. Now are you ready" In less than 20 minutes the heroic reporter slowly, but clearly, described the accident which had brought death to him. He depicted the headlong speed of the train, the sudden subsid ence of the culvert and his own sen sations during the few seconds be tween apparent safety and the terri ble sensation of finding himself pinned under the locomotive. Mr. Whitehead was particular in record ing the names of the dead engineer and fireman, adding his own name as being fatally injured. He also alluded to the fact that not one of the passen ger coaches had left the track and that none of the occupants had suf fered more than a severe shaking up. He ended his report by saying that the .disaster was unavoidable and pre dicted success for the new and mod ern system. Poor Eugene Whitehead was dead before the story went over the wire. To it, under their respective signa tures, was appended the attestation of the other reporters that the dis patch had been dictated by Mr. White head, and that in compliance with his dying request the Inter-Ocean would be the only newspaper to receive an account of the accident. On the return of the surviving re porters to the Windy City, one and all received from their managing editors warm and hearty commendation for their deference to a dying comrade. This is probably the only instance where a news "scoop" was voluntarily accorded by living men to a dying one. The heroism and devotion to duty of Eugene Whitehead met its full reward. —The Journalist. TACK PROVED A HO DDOO. Tiny Clue Wliirli Led lo tlie Capture of a llank Burglar. "One of the most remarkable cap tures in the history of my experience," said a well known detective, "hap pened some years ago, and i need not mention the place nor the circum stance in connection with the case. It was in a case where $30,000 had sud denly and mysteriously disappeared from a bank. The money was in a package, and was near the paying teller's window. The bank was open and doing business, for the money dis appeared before it was time for the bank to close. In the rush of business the teller had left his post at the win dow for a minute, and it was wuile he was gone that the roll of money dis appeared. He was dumbfounded when he discovered that a wad of money amounting to s3o,out) had dis appeared from the amount he had on the counter behind the screen. Dili gent search was made. The money was gone. There had been no one in the wicker enclosure but the teller. He was fearfully distressed. He did not know what to make of it nil. The bank officials were badly puzzled. "An examination of the outside of the wooden framework revealed a very small triangular scar on the woodwork, as if some person had at tempted to climb up to a position where the money could be reached. The money was several feet from the window. The scar was freshly made, and it looked very much like the im print of a peculiarly shaped tack in the heel of a shoe. Probably 20 days later a member of the detective force happened to be passing through a prominent hotel. A stranger was sit ting in the lobby, and ho was striking the heel of his shoe with a pencil with brass on the end of it which he had in his hand, and it made a sort of clinking sound. The detective's at tention was arrested. 1-Ie made in quiries of the clerk with reference to the man. The clerk knew nothing about him except that he had been at the hotel for some time. "The detective concluded that he would lake a chance. He arrested the man. His trunk, valise and room w : • searched. No money could be found. The prisoner all the time was giving out excited protestations. Finally the officers thought they would make a close examination of the mattress. It was a happy thought, for they found the money, and the $30,000 was there, and the paying toiler was the happiest man in the world. —New Orleans Times-Democrat. Diameter of the I'lanet Mercury. The planet Mercury has been meas ured with the large telescope of the United States Naval observatory at Washington by Dr. See. and its diam eter determined as 5.90.11, corre sponding to 4278 kilometers (2G38 miles). Dr. See calls attention to the fact that he has never seen any marked spots on the planet's disc, not even when the sky was absolutely pure and the image of the planet per fectly defined, nor has he seen any diminution of brightness at the edges of the disc, surh as would be pro duced by an absorbing atmosphere. These results agree, in general, with those obtained at the Lick observa tory and disagree, in respect of the markings, at least, with those of Sckiaparelli and Mr. Percival Lowell. MAKING AN ENVELOP TEN MILLIONS TURNED OUT IN THIS COUNTRY EVERY DAY. now the Trade Pronounces the AVord Preliminary ProceMet of ?iMnufnctnre —Envelope* That Are Veritable Work* of Art—A Very Plea*aut. E Mployment. The word is spelled in two ways— envelope and envelop. The Envelope Trust spells it with the final e, in which case it should be pronounced as if French —ahn-v-lope. The French spelling is, however, envoioppe. The word without the final e is pronounced en-vellup. Dean Swift made the fol lowing rhyme— "Lend these to paper-sparing Pope, Ami when he sits to write, No letter with an envelope Could give him more delight." The trade does not say ahn-v-lope, but en-vellup. The United States En velope Company, with a capital of $5.- 000,1)00, is the largest manufacturer of envelopes in the world, comprising as it does no less than nine big con cerns in New England and one in Milwaukee. Iu the United States we haoVe, ail told, 30 large firms engaged in this manufacture, 20 of which do not belong to the trust. Over 10,000,000" envelopes are made in this country every working day, or more than 3,000,000,000 a yer.\ The pin product amounts to 30,000,000 a day, or nearly 10.000,000,0„0 annually. The American output of lead pencils is 5000 gross or 720,000 a day, mak ing the annual production of 225,000. Buttons we make by the million gross, and great quantities of steel pens. In the latter product England is far ahead of us. It is said we do not make the right kind of steel for pens. The biggest little thing is the match, of which we make and use annually over 125,000,000,000. It is estimated that the consumption is five matches a day for every man, woman and child of the population, which makes 400,- 000,000 a day. A single machine turns out 060,000 matches an hour, or 5,280,000 each working day of eight hours. The oldest envelope manufacturing firm in the United States is in William street, which boasts many ancient houses in other lines. If you wish to see the old, the solid, the safe and the sound in our commercial life go to William street between, say, Lib erty and Beekman. Samuel Raynor was the original envelope manufac turer in New York, and the firm in William street is his successor. When he began business our fathers were folding their letters with the writing inside and concealing the contents by means of wafers and sealing wax. That was about 50 years ago. For a long time envelopes were made by hand and the cost was considerable. The establishment of to-day turns out with SO machines 1,200,000 every eight hours, and the present cost of enve lopes is so small that we hardly take it into serious consideration. I confess to a feeling of disappoint ment since going through this factory with Mr. Johnson, i thought an en velope machine could eat rolls of pa per and turn out millions of the finish ed product, packed in poxus ready for the customer. Match machines are fed on blocks of wood and vue com pleted product is set before you packed in boxes containing from 05 to 500 each. However, the envelope machine is ingenious enough. The blanks are first cut with steel dies, which are forced through from 40:> to 7(10 sheets of paper at a Single Im pression. They are then placed in (he front of the machine, which picks them up one by one, gums the flaps, folds them, dries them and delivers them in blocks of 25 to the operator. The latter is invariably a woman. All she has to do is to keep up the supply ,'jf blanks and band the envelopes as \iey are turned out. The smaller the jnvelope the faster the machine, the capacity ranging from 12,000 to 43,000 a day of eight hours. Some of the envelopes made here are veritable works of art. Splendid examples of lithographing are s. n in immense sheets of paper, some with gorgeous pictures so intricate that the man with the die must be a Philadel phia lawyer to unravel the puzzle. The number of sheets to be cut into blanks at one Impression must be of perfect register, else the envelope will be ruined in the folding. The old plan was to drive steel pins through the 4ut) or more sheets, seeing that in each a mark made by the lithographer was punctured. So varied is the demand for envelopes that no factory could keep in stock a sufficient number of dies and machines for making odd styles, therefore the ancient hand work is carried on in a secluded cor ner. A young man in a wire cage has a mallet and some queer shaped steel chisels, with which he cuts out these odd shapes and sizes, all of which are gummed and folded by hand. It is slow and tedious yet a necessary branch of the business. Gum arable, dissolved in hot water or steamed, is used for pasting the flaps. Some of the envelopes are 10 by 15 inches, with the top flap closed by means of cord. Then there are little fellows, 2 by 3 1-2 inches, principally made of rnanila paper and used for church collections. Enormotia quantities of official sizes are mart.:, for the govern ment. The favorite and standard commercial size for business corre spondence is No. 6 3-4. Malting envelopes is largely a wom an's occupation, only the heavier labor falling to men. And (he work of attending to a machine is easy, clean and pleasant. The wages are fair, the hours short. The envelope salesman, whether at home or on the road, carries no aaw*e case" but a small leather wallet in his coat pocket. It is said that Thomas Rule, the dean of salesmen, does not even carry a wallet. Twenty-two years in the busi ness, he has built up a trade that re lentlessly pursues him whereever he goes. His face is a big part of the fortune of his house. Every time he snows it to a customer the company buys a new machine capacity 45,000 a day. Victor Smith, in the New j York Press. MEXICO'S ORACLE. Rule* Over a Tribe That In Centurion Be hind the Time*. As is well known to all who have looked into the matter carefully, for instance, such men as Lumholtz, Starr and Soville—there are in re mote parts of Mexico today to be found portions of tribes of Indians who are practically as much given to idolatry, superstition and witch craft as were their forbears in the vanished years when the gleaming banner of Castile and Aragon glanced amid the peaks and valleys ot Mex ico, announcing the advent of a stronger race and more victorious faith. The other day, while making a little trip over the Interoceanic, that runs through so many picturesque Indian towns, I happened to meet in one of these villages a very intelli gent Indian, who told me the follow ing. Whether it is true or not I do not know—"l tell the tale as 'twas told to me." He said that on the northern slope of Popocntapetl, near the foot, there is a large cave almost unknown to the outside world. In this cave lives an old white-haired Indian who is the oracle of a small tribe of Indians in that vicinity, whose language is unlike that of any of the neighboring towns. This little tri 1 e has never been con quered either by the Spaniards or by the church or by the modern govern ment of the republic. The Indians have preserved ail their old customs and traditions until this day, and are practically as they were 400 years ago. One of the very curious insti tutions among them is that of the ora cle, or seer, who dwells in the above mentioned cave all alone. He is al ways the oldest and wisest man of the tribe. He is looked upon with the same superstitious reverence as were the oracl -s of Dodona and Del phi in the boyhood of the world. In that cave are preserved rare gems of curiously carved emeralds, such as the great "Malinche" sent homo to Spain; idols of gold and silver and ! copper and stone, pearl necklaces j from the far-off Gulf of California, and strange robes of feather work, | of which but very few examples are known today outside the pages of I Sabagun, Prescott or Clavigero. j There are also ranged in fitting ! order the ancient gods of this strange [ people, of whom this old man is the i high priest. Once a month a eom -1 mission of the oldest men of the tribe | visits the cave and takes with it ' in the name of the people, offerings |of fruit and flowers and eatables 1 and incense in honor of the gods ' and their oracle. : Upon all affairs of importance to i the tribe this old man is consulted, and hi 3 judgments are those of the Modes and the Persians. I I asked whether it would be pos sible to visit him or not and wa3 told no one, not even members of the same tribe, outside the before mentioned "commission" had ever . seen the inside of that strange and ' mysterious cave. My informant told me that at a certain point all 1 persons are stopped by a guard and told that they can proceed no fur ther upon pain of death. And this is not a tale of 400 years ago, but j of today. The tribe and the cave are at the north side of Popocatapetl and ev ery Saturday in Atlixco members of this tribe are at the market to buy and sell their simple necessaries of life. It Is enough to see them to realize at once the great difference 1 between them and the other Mexican ! Indians who are to be seen there at i that time. Not only Is their style | of clothing very different, but also j their language.—Two Republics. Truckman und Motortiian, In the old days, before the cable and electric carE. and when horse cars ran on Broadway, truckmen practieal ! ly ruled the street, uud did not pay the slightest heed to remarks from the car drivers requesting them more or less (rather more) emphatically to get out of the way, until they decided that they were ready to do so. When the cable and finally the electric cars came in the truckmen became a little more careful, for a few encounters with the cars showed them that their trucks could be knocked Into kindling wood in | a few minutes. Nowadays they get j out of the way fairly expeditiously ! if grudgingly, but. such an exchange of I amenities as was heard yesterday be tween truckman and motorman is a record. It was on Duane street, and a heavy truck was keeping back a car. The motorman clanged his bell loudly, and the driver of the truck turned around and said: "If you will wr.it until we reach the next corner I shall be very glad to get out of your way." "Thank you very much," answered the motorman. "You are most oblig ing." "Gosh!" said the policeman on the crossing.—New York Mail and Express. raid for On.. Ooat, SIOIIO. A three-year-old Angora buck goat, Pasha-Columbia, was sold at the Kan sas City stock yards recently for SIOSO, the highest price ever paid for one of his kind.—Kansas City Journal. PEARLS Or THOJSHT. He is great enough that is his own master. —Bishop Hall. It is not he that searches tor praise that finds it. —Rivarcl. Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.—Hannah Moore. Flattery is a base coin which gains currency only from our vanity. — Rochefoucauld. When listeners refrain from evil hearing, talkers will refrain from evil speaking.—Hare. Persistent people begin their suc cess where others end in failure. — Edward Eggleston. Just as you are pleased at finding faults you are displeased at finding perfections.—Lavater. Esteem cannot be where there is no ' f confidence, and there can be no con fidence where there is no respect.— Giles. If we have no failings ourselves we should not take so much pleasure in finding out those of others. —Roche- foucauld. v It is not the place, nor the condi tion, but the mind alone, that can make any one happy or miserable. — I.'Estrange. Our sweetest experiences of affec tion are meant to point as to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart. —H. W. Bcochcr. The world is governed more by ap pearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.—-Dan iel Webster. WHAT ANIVIALS DO IN A STORM. They liielikn tlio Wet MVntlier and J-cok a Place of Safety. Both lame and wild animals, four footed or with wings, have a deep seated aversion to wet weather. Even 10 water fowl will seek a dry hiding place when it rains. Did you ever watch the actions of cattle before a big storm? If so. you nicist have seen them grow more and more uneasy as the clouds gathered. You also saw them run lip and down the field, as if seeking to escape some impending danger. Finally when the storm breaks, they draw close to gether and, with lowered heads, pre sent a picture of despair. Domestic animals, when it rains, will always keep indoors, or, failing that, they seek shelter by the barn, or under trees, or beneath the hedges and thickets; in short, in any con venient place where they may not be entirely exposed to the downpour. It is the same with fowls; they dis like the rain, which soakes their feathers. They seek sheltered places, and creep under wagons, or behind boxes and hoards. Chickens do not mind getting their feet wet, for they will scratch the ground soon after a shower, in search of worms and beetles. Wild birds do their best to keep out of the rain. Some of them build a root over their nests; others choose a home under the eaves, or under a projecting cliff, where they nay be safe from the discomfort that the rain brings. But most of them are without shelter provided in advance hv their own forethought. Those take refuge in any place that they happen to find at hand. If you watch them be fore the storm you will see them look ing for such a place, if the storm comes suddenly, the small and help loss ones seem bewildered, flying from tree to tree, and from limb to limb, quite unable to make up their minds exactly where to hide them selves.—Pittsburg Dispatch. I'|> In Dale. "It was settled some time ago that he was to marry my daughter, said tt the father of a girl of the period, "but It yet remained for the young man to get my consent. It was merely a formality, however, as I had cut no figure whatever during the campaign, my girl arranging matters to suit her self without consulting mo or my wishes. "Now, I remembered with what trepidation I had approached my wife's father when I asked him for her hand, and I made up my mi'nd that when the young man showed up to ask me for my daughter's hand I would have revenge, not only for what I had to pass through when 1 urged my suit, but lor being shoved to the background during the present pro ceedings. "Well, he called at my office yester day, and I toid my office hoy to ad-, mit him and leave us alone and see that we were not disturbed. ] " 'Just dropped in,' said ho, easily declining to take a seat, 'to tell you that 1 am going to marry your daugh ter the middle of next month. It will be an informal affair, so you may con- Eider yourself invited without further notice. Good day.' "Before I could catch my breath he was gone, and when I complained to my daughter about his treatment of me. all the comfort 1 got was that I could consider myself fortunate in get ting an invitation, as it was to be a very exclusive affair." Rlnftt-FnriiHCP Iimt. As an additional proof that nothing is now wasted, a scientific journal calls attention to the fact that in France successful experiments have been made with the dust from blast furnaces for fertilizing purposes. The ground so fer tilized responded satisfactorily. The dust contained ingredients that stimu late the earth's productive power. K. Grade cr .ssinga in Europe are un known.
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