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TO GATHER IN JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA DEMOCRATS PREPARING FOR THE CONVENTION. Acme of the Leaders Are Already on the Ground—Candidates for Gov ernor Are Hard at AVork—Jrn alngi and Myen Will Lend on the First Ballot—Candidates for Other State Offices— Removal of the Capi tal Qurstlof. Jacksonville, Fla., June 36.—Jacksonville will give a hearty welcome to the "CO-odi delegates to the Democratic State Conven tion, which meets on Tuesday. The leading gubernatorial candidates are arriving. Hon. Fred T'. Myers “moved' Into town yesterday and has his Head quarters opened. Brer Jennings will be here to-night or Sunday, and Messrs. Beggs, Milton, Mays, etc., will all he in evidence by Monday. The convention this year promises to be an exciting one, albeit devoid of the bit ter strife that has sometimes of old pie vailed. It is a family contest this year, the Republican vote not being wot thy of being counted as a factor in any sense. Being a family affair it piomises io be the more exciting and full of ginger in all Its stages. From the first announce mnts the political air throughout the state has been tending upward and the* atmotphe e has been quite warm in all section.-. The counties that have favorite sons have been “booming'’ them with vigor; other sec tions have “laid low," like Bruder Jon©3. “ 'waiting for to see what will turn up next.” The unexpected always happens and in this convention many wise prophets are giving utterances to their wi-e and otherwise oracles, and predicting wi at “that dark horse’’ will do with the test of the field, when once it gets in the race. The Greatest Prise. The gubernatorial plum Is, of course, the first prize to be fought for. There Is a good field of candidates so far, the leading five comprising Messrss. Jennings of Hernando, Myers of Leon, Beggs of Orange, Mays of Jefferson and Milton of Jackson. What their strength is, the convention vote alone can tell. It is con ceded that Jennings and Myers wilt- lead in the first votes, both being about equal. Beggs will be a close third, if not even, while Mays and Milton will probably be fourth and fifth, respectively. While all these gentlemen have good local followings, politicians have pointed out that they haven't a state following— that is, one that could be depended upon An close and continued balloting. The fact that so many bounties have sent unin strueted delegates shows plainly that no one of these gentlemen has a great lead, and indicates that many of the, delegates prefer to look over the ground first before committing themselves. In fact, Frank Harris of Ocala hit the matter pretty squarely, according to many intelligent thinkers, the other day, when he wrote that, according to his conceptions of the case, the people all over the state had sent so many uninstructed delegates be cause they hadn't fully decided that the candidates up so prominently now were really the men they wanted—in fact, that a “dark horse" would about fill the bill. Judging from the present aspect of the political field, a strong man. backed by several counties, and a strong fo.lowing. would give a strong fight to the present corps of candidates. Many men have been mentioned as such dark horses, but the popular fancy hasn’t been touched yet Hon. Robert McNamee, ex-Con gressman Bullock, State Senator Frank Adams of Hamilton. Hon. Jefferson B. Browne of Key West and others are on the public tongue, but it's too early yet to make any slates on them. Hon. J. N. C. Stockton of Duval Is an other dark horse of pronounced ability and strength. He. is for Milton, it is stated, end doubtless will stand by him; seeing that Milton cannot be nominated, Stockton's friends may attempt a stam pede to him. Anyway, the dark horse ques tion is worrying the leaders not a little. Tle Other Office*. Judge F. B. Carter will probably be re* nominated for the Supreme bench. Dr. John L. Crawford. Secretary of State, will also likely be renominated, as likewise W. B. Lamar, Attorney General. Controller Reynolds is likely to have a strong fight on his hands, as there are several aspirants for his shoes. Treasurer Whitfield is probably happy In the thought that the indications point, at present, to the fact that he will suc ceed himself. Aside from the governorship contest, the sharpest fight will be over the Su perintendent of Public Instruction. Mr. Sheats, the present incumbent, has been sharply scored during the past year by the press, or a large portion of It, many teachers and many Influential citizens. He also has a large following of friends, and they are fighting vigorously for his re nomination. Mr. Tom Meßeath, a prom inent educator of Duval county. Is his leading opponent, end the contest bids fair to be a hotly fought one, and one that will have a bearing upon the guber natorial contest. It would not be surprising if Senator B. E. McLin of Lake county succeeded Commissioner of Agriculture Wombwell. Such is the talk among groups of lead ing politicians. J. L. Morgan, one of the present Rail road Commissioners, whose term expires, will most likely be renominated. Very little has been said as yet re garding delegatese to Kansas City and presidential electors. The leaders prefer to keeep quier as much as possible, as it makes a very desirable “aid” in the other serious work of the convention, later on. The State Democratic Committee will meet here Monday and prepare for the work of the convention. Most of the mem bers will be here Sunday night. The choice for chairman is likely to be Hon. Duncan U. Fletcher of Ihis city. He Is a fine parliamentarian, an able and brilliant speaker. His selection would suit and please all factions. The Platform. One feature of the platform, will be, It Is said, a resolution instructing the next Legislature to have the question of tile removal of the capital from Tallahassee to some other point in the state, more ac cessible, voted upon by the people. This is a matter that promises to have some importance in the convention upon the fortunes of the gubernatorial candidates, and decidedly it will create warm discus sions. West Florida is up in arms over such a proposition, while East. South, Middle snd Southwest Florida sections arc •11 agreeable to this proposition. The matter is to be submitted to a popular vote. The candidates so far have kept discreetly quiet on this subject. Duval county's delegation goes instructed to make a strong fight for this particular resolution, and they Intend doing It. Outside of the real business of the con vention. the delegates will have ample proof of the substantial welcome of Jack sonville in the various entertainments of fered. Tuesday the East Coast Railroad offers a trip to Pablo for the delegates and their families; each visitor will re ceive a handsome souvenir free, also. An exeeureion down the river cn the May Garner has been arranged also. On Thurs day night a big smoker will lie giytn at the Armory wl h "refreshments” of all kinds. All delegatts will have free trans portation on the street cans for a f:: visit to the famous Ostr'.eh farms. Many other pleasing matters of attention l a', e also been arranged. Jacks' n\ file's live, wideawake Board of Trade and her generous and public sp'r lted cplzens ha e determined that this shall be a red e ter day In convention an ‘nalg in ttl< st' te Delegation* Arriving;. The advance guards for the coming bat tle next week began arriving to-day, anl to-night several political conferences of importance are loking places in several headquarters. At the Windsor the delegations from Marion, Monroe. Escambia. Leon, Levy, Jefferson, Putnam, Dade, Citrus, De Soto, Franklin. Hernando, Volusia and Hllls- borough are located. A suite of rooms also has been secured at the Windsor for the Duval county delegation. This will be center of the political Mecca for the convention. Messrs. Jennings. Myers and Maye are here, have engaged commodious quarters, and are preparing for the fray. Judge Beggs, who has headquarters at the Du val, is expected on to-night's train, while 'Milton will arrive in the morning. Maj. Healy, the "war horse" of Vo lusia, and Hon. Jefferson B. Browne, Key West's favorite son. are in the city, and will be active participants in the conven tion work. The Bryan Club here demanded tickets for all their members, reserved seats, too, in the convention. As this would mean 300 to 400 such, the committee in charge .demurred, and after a consultation sent the club 100. This was not satisfactory, and the club threatens to appeal to ilie convention. Col. Pope, president of the Bryan Club, and Robert McNamee, the silver-tongued orator of Lake county, arc spoken of fav orably as delegates to Kansas City. One of them may he selected. The Evening Metropolis has furnished a handsome and well-arranged room near the convention hail for the use of the visiting newspaper men. Hon. R. 11. McNamee is securing con siderable strength as national committee man. There is no open opposition to his name as yet. It is reported that Myers’ strength will he east to Mays at the early ballots. The last work on the convention hall was finished late to-night, and the big, handsomely decorated auditorium is now ready for use of the delegates. GIANTS OF OTHER TIMES. NA arrior Slain by Charlemagne NVns Fully Eighteen Feet High. From the Washington Times. That the human race has degenerated in size as well as longevity is a fact well attested by various authorities. A well known physician of this city, who has made a life study of brains and cerebai de velopment. says that visiting the cata combs of Paris, what struck him most in those vast ancieut graveyards was the great size of the skulls In comparison with those of more modern mankind. This su periority of development of the men who lived a thousand years ago, the doctor at tributed to the open air life then in vogue and the physical sports and exercises indulged in. There are several races of giants men tioned in the Bible. and the Greek and Roman historians have recorded many examples which serve to show that these specimens of elongated humanity were by no means rare at one period of the world's history. Thus it is mentioned that the Emperor Maximilian was eight feet some inches high. The body of Orestes, according to the Greeks, was eleven feet and a half in hight; the giant Galbora, Arabia to Rome under Claudius Caesar, measured near ten feet, and the bones of Seconding and Pusio, keepers of the gar dens of Salust, were but six inches shorter. The probability is that, outside of culti vated Greece and Rome, among the semi barbarous ancestors of the greater part of present day European nations physical de velopment reached often to more won drous proportions. The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to the peak of Teneriffe, says that they found in one of the sepulchral caverns of that mountain the head of a Guanche which had eighty teeth and that the !>o,ly was net less than fifteen feet long The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando, nep.iew of Charlemagne, was eighteen felt h gh. Revlan4, a celebrated anat mist, who wrote in 3614, says that some years* be fore that time there was to be seen in the suburbs of St. Germaine the tomb of he giant Isoret, who was twenty feet high. At Rouen, in 1509, in digging in ihe ditches near the Dominicamo, there was found a stone tomb containing a skeleton, whose skull held a bushel of corn and whose shin bone reached up to the girlie of the tallest man there, being about four feet long, and consequently the body must have been about geventeen or eigh teen feet high. Upon the tomb was a plate of copper, upon which was engrav ed. “In this tomb lies the noble and puissant lord, the Chevalier Ruon de Val leroont, and his bones.” There is, indeed, evidence in the ponderous armor and two handed swords, which remain to us in museums, |o prove that the knight of the ages of chivalry was an heroic speci men of human architecture. Platerins, a famous physician, declared that he saw at Lucerne the true human bones of a subject, which must have been at least nineteen feet high. Valance, in Dau hine, beasts of possess ing the bones of the giant Bucart, tyrant of the Vivarais. who was s ain by an ar row by the Count de Babill n, his vassal. The Dominicans had a part of the shin bone with the articulation of the knee, and his figure pain ed in fresco, with an Inscription showing that this giant was twenty-two and one-half feet high and that his bones were found in 1705 near the banks of the Morderi. a little river at ihe foot of the mountain of Crusol, upon which (tradition says) the giant dwelt. On Jan. 11. M3, some masons digging near the ruins of a castle in Dauphine, in a locality which bad long been called the giant’s field, at the depth of eighteen feet discover'd a brick tomb "thirty feet long, twelve feet wide and eight feet high, on which was a gray stone, with the words "Theutohochus Rex” cut thereon. When the tomb whs opened they found a hu man skeleton entire, twenty-five and one half feet long, ten feet wide across the shoulders and five fe?t deep from the breast bone to the back. The teeth were each about the size of an ox's foot and his shin bone measured four feet. Near Magarlno, in Sicily, in 1516, was found a giant thirty feet high. His head was the size of a hogshead and each of his teeth weighed five ounces. Near Palermo, in the valley of Magara, in Sicily, a skeleton of a giant thirty feet long was found in the year 1518 and an other thirty-three feel high In 1350. Sev eral of the givantic bones of this lat’er subject are still preserved by private per sons In Italy. The Athenians found nearly thirty-two famous skeletons, one thirty-four and an other thirty-six feet In hight. At Totlc, In Bohemia, in 758, was found a skeleton, the head of which could scarcely be encompassed by the arms of two men together and whose legs, which are still preserved In the castle of the city, were twenty-six feet long. The skull of the giant found In Macedonia In September. 1691, held 210 pounds of corn. The celebrated Ergllsh scientist, Sir Hans Sloane, who treated the matter very learnedly, does not doubt the facts ahifve related, but thinks tne bones were those of elephants, Whales or other animals. But It has been well remarked that, while 'elephants’ bones may be shown for those of giants to superficial observers, this can never Impose upon such distinguished anatomists as have testified in many cases to the mammoth bones being unmis takably human. Whales, which by their Immense bulk, are more likely to be sub stituted for the largest giants, have neither arms or legs, and the head of that marine animal’ has not the least resem blance to that of man. If it be true, therefore, that a great number of the gi gantic bones mentioned have been seen by experts and have by them been re puted to be real human remains, it may reasonably he Inferred that the exlsiance of men of superior physical proportions to any of modern times has been proved. DOG AS A WINDOW DHEB9BB. Madison Street Terrier Benrrauges Decorations of a Shoe Store. From the Chicago News. That a dog in a show window has much the same effect as a cyclone in a similar place, Is the belief of the clerk who open er! a Madison street store recently. Skip Is u bull terrier, and he Is accus tomed to repose quietly every rdght in the store, where he curio himself up on the door mat. In the morning he greets the first clerk with a good-morning hark. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1000. Skip thought he would improve the usual routine recently, so he scrambled through the curtains at the back of the show win dow where he could have a wider view and yelp the sooner at the approach, of his friends the clerk 6. Having a little spare time at his disposal and not liking the arrangement of the shoes in th> window. Skip decided to im prove his opportunity to rearrange the display. Skip had noticed that there was a sameness in the arrangement of the show windows in all shoe stores, in that shoes were paired off. Skip felt they ought to be grouped in blocks of four, but when he had bunched all the shoes in the middle of the window as the first move, he forget what was the next. About that time a lot of friendly persons gathered in front of the window and be gan to amuse him by laughing and telling him that he was a good dog. So Skip made up his mind to skip the rest of the work and help entertain the crowd. “No, it wasn’t a mad dog," explained the clerk half an hour after he had begun- ;o clear up the debris, "but it was a mad man, ail right.” Then he went on sort ing out the jumbled-up mass of rights and left*. THE CHINESE VIEW OF IT. A Rather Startling Look at “The Other Side ” Letter to New York Tribune. Well, now that we are ail agreed upon the Chinese question—as we all are, war for war's sake men, and peace at any price men, Little Americans and imperial ist expansionists, Anglophobes and An glophiles, all fully agreed that the Box ers must be exterminated; that the Dow ager Empress is a compound bf Messa lina, Bloody Mary and Catherine of Rus sia, who must be deposed, if pot put to death; that the Chinese government Is wholly inefficient and corrupt, and must be radically by uninvited out side Powers, and in brief that men with pigtails and bias cut eyes have no rights that men with short hair and straight cut eyes are bound to respect—now that we are all so perfectly agreed upon these things, from our own superior and infal lible point of view, suppose we try for a moment to look at the subject from the point of view of those very low-born, un worthy and altogether disgraceful people the Chinese themselves. We may not be able to do it perfectly. Our imitative faculties are not as highly developed as those of the yellow folk whom we so much condemn. But at least we may try. In the first place, we shall have to con sider the Dowager Empress to be a p r ticularly patriotic and astute soveregn. For patriotism is love of country ad protection of it and its institutions agai s foreign assaults, whether open or Ins d ious. There can be no doubt that T-u Hsi loves China, according to her lights, and is trying*, and has for years i*tn trying, at no matter what cost, to def nd the empire against alien aggression. From her and her people’s point of view, indus trial, commercial, social and religious ag gression is just as full of menace as mili tary aggression, end is just as much to be restricted. So she opposes it all con sistently and persistently. Perhaps she has erred in so doing. Perhaps she has been blind to the best interests of China.. Perhaps she has been tolish in resisting an irresistible power. Perhaps it would have been far better for her and for China if she had let China be Americaniz ed or Europeanized or Russianized. Those, however, are matter* for her and not for outsiders to judge. Neither America r.or Europe, nor even Russia, is fond of hav ing outsiders dictate its domestic policy. And. et worst, is it an unpardonable fault for a patriot to make such mistakes through excess of patriotic zeal? Then many of the world’s most honored pa triots were grievous sinners. We must also, as we have said, deem her' astute in statesmanship, in spite of Imputations of mistakes. For years she has been menaced by foreign Powers, any one of them too strong for her to withstand. She has played them the one against the other, and so maintained a balance of rivalry between them as to prevent any one of them from attacking her. In a Bismarck or a Francis Jo seph we consider that consummate genius. Why should we esteem it less highly when it is practised by an almond eyed Mongolian? Again, in the last desperate extremity, when alien aggression has be come most formidable and menacing and her tactful quiescence bejpre It has arous ed distrust and disaffection among her own subjects and provoked a revolt against her and the dynasty, what does she do? With consummate skill, she transforms the anti-dynasfle movement into an anti-foreign movement, with her self as its rallying point, and rouses the popular enthusiasm of the Chinese mil lions in support of the dynasty as it has not been roused before in this generation. In Louise of Prussia the world applauds and reveres such tactics. But in Tsu Hsi of China? Of course, the Chinese are heathens and all that. And they have acted very badly toward our missionaries and trav elers and traders. But history is by no means silent on the subject of the impo sition of the opium trade, and of legisla tion dictated from the Sand Lots, and of the Rock Springs massacre, and of a thousand other abominable outrages in flicted upon those benighted heathen by civilized Christians. Perhaps It was all for ihelr good. Eels are much more use ful after thay are skinned than before, but that fact seldom reconciles them to the skinning. The simple fact is that the Occidental Pow ers _ England. France, Russia and the United Slates—have for many years been treating China and the Chines* very twdv—as badly, from the Chines point of view, as the Chinese have treated the strangers who have, uninvited, intruded themselves within her gates. We have heard some of the most eminent and ex perienced American missionaries to China, at the time of some of the worst Chinese anti-mission riots, declare that they did not wonder a bit at the conduct of the Chinese, and, on the ground of the natural lex talionis, did not greatly blame them. AVe are going on, however, to coerce China Into submission to our ways. We are all agreed that it is our right and our duty to do so. We cannot permit that vast empire lo be shut against us. There is too vast a prospect of profit in the de velopment of its resources and In the sale of our goods to its inhabitants. Why, If China were as well supplied with rail roads as Is the United State*. It would have at least two million milea. We have simply got to go in and build those roads and make 30 per cent, dividends on their stock if it takes all the smokeless powder in the world to do It. But what a wretch ed travesty upon sense and justice It is to approve and urgently promote such a campaign against China, which Is, or should be, as Independent a sovereign stale as there is In the world, and at the same time to cavil at the suppression of insurrection and brigandage In the Phil ippines, which by every principle of Inter national law and natural morals are sub ject to eur sovereignty and to control which is legally and morally our duty as well as our right! W, F. J. Brooklyn, June 13. JAPAN'S BEAITIFVL GRASSES. The Eulalias Which Hava Reel In troduced Into This Country. From the Scientific American. Japan continues to supply ua with won derful products of their garden*, which, through centuries of culture, they hve brought to the present high state of per fection. Japanese plums, morning glories, and lawn grasses are now quite common in every orchard or gareen, and they are not excelled by anything (hat the Western nations have been able to produce. The Japanese grasses, or eulallas. have only been Introduced in this country a few years, but wherever planted they receive more than common nott e. For ornamental grouping on the iawn there Is no palm or plant quite equals them, not even except ing the celebrated pampas plumes. When once planted these grasses flourish so abundantly that It is a question whether they may not have a commercial value as well as an ornamental one. In Japan they are dried and woven into mats, and Emphatic Indorsement Of Thousands. EXPECTATIONS. MORE THAN REALIZED 1 THE CONTINUED DRY GOODS SENSATION, Great Removal Sale Bargains, Like Stars of the first magnitude, reduce all other Bargain attempts to the brilliancy of 4 ‘Cape May Diamonds” ground out at a glass factory. BONA FIDE VERSUS FAKE. Savannah Public the Judges. The citizens of Savannah demonstrated to us during the last three weeks that they are capable of discrimi nating between Bona Fide and Fake Sales. Never in the history of Savannah was there such a continuous bona fide sale attempted. To-morrow, and every day this week, you will have an opportunity of seeing the difference between Genuine and IMITATION SALES. • EXTRA SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS Will be offered in every department. Not a few, a dozen or so articles at reduced prices as baits, but everything throughout the entire house at lower prices than competitors are paying for same goods to-day. A CALL HERE MEANS That you will save more money, secure better results, obtain greater values than you ever did before. > FO YE & MORRISON if on© cares to imitate the Orientals in this respect, durable home mats can eas ily be manufactured. After the cool weath er has killed the graceful stems of the variety of eulalla known as graclllima, the stems should be cut down close to<he ground. This will give stems from fife to seven feet in length. After cutting, dry a few days in a cool, shady place, and then weave the mats crosswise, fastening the ends by tying them under or sewing with a bagging needle and twine. A mat at least six by five feet can be made in this way, and it will be found durable enough to last for a long time. The mats can be made in a short time, and the stalks can be had in abundance. The Japanese make many ornamental wicker-wtrk articles with the stems of the euialias, and If they are properly dried In season, they will prove very stiff and strong. For this work they should be cut in the late fall and dried in the shade where mcls/ure cannot reach them. Or namental baskets, paper racks ands ra|e baskets can be made with the dried stems The best eulalia for this purpose is the variety mentioned above. This variety sends up beautiful stems to the hight of six or seven fe“t in th©-fall wiih stems not much larger around than thUk s'raw The leave* branch out frem these solid sums and widen to about a quarter of an Inch. These long, graceful blades are of a light green with a light midrib running fiom top o to t m. In late autumn they produce a light pink plume, which Is the flower of the plant; and as the fresi c.cmes the stems and 1. aves turn to a pretiy brown, which they main atn until apihg. If ihe stems are cut off In the late fall, new ones shoot up early the next spring, and another crop as large as the first will follow. The most commonly known eu alia is the zebrina. This is a short grass com pared to the first, but raised in beds and masses, It gives a pretty effect to the lawn or garden. The pure zebrina has yellow bars across a green blade, but most of the specimens seen In gardens are nearly grien. This is due to the fact that the va ri ty has a tendency to revert l ack to its o Iglnal type. In order to preserve the u. ri* gated na'ure of the plant the roots that show a plain green f have must be t ken up, and the rootß divided which empha size the yellow bars. In this way the plants can be prevented from degenerat ing. The eulalia Japonica variegata is a va riety that greatly resembles the old-fash ioned ribbon grass, but It Is prettier and taller. The green leaves are brightly va riegated with white and yellow, which colors do not disappear as the season ad vances, but remain on the foliage until frost kllla the plant*. Although fragile In appearance this grass Is quite hardy, and does not suffer from our severe win ters. A pretty method of planting them is to surround a group of me taller-grow ing graelillma with a border of the varie gata. The former lends support and con trast to the latter, and the two together always make on effective ornament. The variegata is a foot or two shorter in Its full growth than the gractillmj. The two varieties grow with the greatest freedom, and require next to no care after being planted. They can be made to flourish in clump* or In a scattering row. where each Individual etem stands out tall and straight as a Teed arrow. There are Infinite usea to which these tall, elender grasses may be put. They are not as tough as the Japanese bamboo, but for light work they answer almost the same purpose. We cannot raise the bamboo In this country, but the bulalias will flourish, and we might endeavor to employ them about the house in useful and ornamental ways. RELEASED BY A GIRL. Adventures of an American Itallrond Condnetor In Mexico—Hl* Escape. From the El Paso Herald. James A. Howard, an American railr nd conductor, reached here yesterday rom Jtroulco, Mexico, where the machlnatt ni, ingenuity and cunning of a heroic yo ng Mexican woman named Marie Gonzaiei, assisted by her brother and sister, suc ceeded in the darkness of the night in liberating him from the horror# and sedi tudo of a Mexican carcel or dungeon. A freight train was in waiting near the jail and Howard was hurriedly taken aboard and his escape accomplished. The conductor was incarcerated in- the dungeon for an accident over which ho had •no control. His train was pulling into the Jimulco yards at a high rate of speed A Mexican brakeman was on the head end of the train. To decrease its flight I w ard turned the emergency valve in the caboose, causing e sudden and quirk job and Ihe native hrakemen, who was fool ishly and carelessly sitting on b e b ake, was hurled to the ground. He did not fall between the cars, however, T>ut sustained n broken arm as the result cf his str king the ground heavily. Howard, as guardian of the freight train, was held responsible for the oc ur rence and was immediately and uncere moniously hustled off to the jail. After remaining in, Jail several daVs, Americars and sympathetic Mexicans used their best endeavors to have a day set for the hear ing. No good result or immediate satis faction was accomplished. The same Pay the American received a visitor In, the person of Senorita Marie Gonzalez, a polite, demure Spanish girl whom he had got acquainted with a short time previous to his incarceration. Howard, through a long residence in the Mexican republic, had become thoroughly efficient In the language, and between the lattice bars of the Jail Senorita Gonzalei made the startling announcement that, In co-operation with her brother ands sler, she had perfected plans whereby to break down the barrier that separated them. 'The suggestions and proposed plans were pureiy voluntary on the woman’s part," sold Howard, "and her unflinching interest was Inspired through womanly sympathy.” At 10:50 p. m., the same night n freight train was scheduled to leave for the North toward the states. The heroic young wo man Informed the conductor and crew of her Intention* and pleadingly requested them to be In readiness to receive the escaping prisoner.' She then Instructed her younger sieter to guard closely the Immediate vicinity of tie Jail while she quietly but with agility rushed to the round house, where her brother was em ployed in the mechanical department of the Mexican Central. The brother, after becoming acquainted with the circumstance* and all the con nections therewith, secured a strong crowbar ftom the shops, and in the dark ness he and his sister in u roundabout way reached the vigilant girl who was standing In close proximity to the Jail. The standing freight train had received running orders from the trainmaster's of fice, and was ready to fly when the American was placed In their charge. Marie had revolver and a knife con cealed about her person, and the brother and youngest sister, at a given signal from Marie, stole up to the Jail door, a few hurried words In Spanish were inter changed, the pistol and knife were handed to Howard, and the hazardous undertaking began. The girl's brother placed the bar In the lock and succeeded in wrenching tt from its hold, releasing the American. The brother and his sister* then care fully and guardedly led Howard safely to the walling train and thereby effected his escape to the United Stole*. in relating his harrowing adventure and the work of the noble girls and their brother tears actually filled the railroad er's eye*. Marie Gonzales is hut 24 years of age, and her sister 19. The family, while not necessarily poor, are living In peaceful ness and contentedness, the father having a small ranch on the river town. Oddities of Fiction, From the PVtsbu-g DUpa'rh. it Is curious to note the freque.ruy with whi h famo au hrr* display ignorance with rtga and t n©d ca ma tert. Death so nee are frtqu ntly res, o slble for ihe ox at glaring of these errors, and the he roes and villains of aame auihors must have had Truly rima kalile conetituti tin. It is comparatively speaking, quite a o m mon occurrence for a man, after swal lowing Ihe con'ents of a tivo-drachm phial < f s me virulent poison to say no h ing-cf ma lng a farewell speech of some 2tt) or 3(A) lines, before staggering grace fully I,a kward to some convent ntly sit uated chair or sola, whereon lo lie down and die. Whereas In most instances the poise ns referred To ae sufficient to ca re almost lnstantan ous death, or, at any r te, wi hin the course of a very lew ae - on s T o’a who have read “Monte Cristo" will probably rn n b r how the old r vo -1 unionist NoriLr manage* to live on for a considerate nme, although pardyasd in every pa t of his ho ’y 'yc pt his eye li s I his reo a kab e o and fel ow s •ms to fit and np t iffleulty wha ever in swall w ng food O" and ink. but, more extraotd nary still, is sti 1 able to reas n accurately. It is somewhat astonishing that Dumas s’ould have been unaware t at such a paralytic condition as lie describes in volves brain damage of a most *scrlous and lasting klr and All lo\e s of Llckens will rememb r the drunkard in “Bleak House,” who died from spontaneous combustion, but proba bly comparatively few have heard of the contioversy Dickens had with the ros/sl bill'y of such an occurrence. Though the doctors laughed at him, the novelist per sist'd in declaring that he was right, and adduced historical oases to endeavor to prove his assertion. At 'ength the controversy took a more practical form, ad va So s attempts were made to demonstrate the truth or fallacy of the theory. Pieces of Ifish, large and small, were soaked In alcohol and at tempts made to burn them completely io asi es Some experimenters clalm-d lo have succeeded; others asserted it was impossible. OWLS ARE NOT .AMIABLE BIRDS. Those I'nacqualnted With Their Temper Should Keep at a Dis tance. From the Portland (Me.) Express. They say all sorts of mean things about owls. If a man hasn’t much respect for your gray matter or intelligence In gen eral he will say your are as stupid as an owl. On the other hand, If you are bril liant and he likes you, It would be Just like him to say you were ns wise as an owl. And there you are. To come right down to the subject, an owl Is not by any manner of means the stupid bird many people believe him to be. John A. Lord, a taxidermist of this city, relates a story about how he had once gone out to look ai some traps he had set for rabbits. When he reached the traps he found that a rabbit had been caught, but something had carried It off and left no Irace of It Identity behind It. That night Mr. Lord took two or three trap* snd baited them about whore the game had been stolen the night before. A rab bit soon got ensnared and Mr. Lord pro ceeded to watch it from a. near-by cover. For a long time everything was quiet, except for the frightened tugs and Jumps the imprisoned rabbit made to get free. Suddenly there was a whir of wings, and like a flash of lightning a great horned owl pounced oul of the gloom down onto the struggling victim. He killed the rab bit instantly and began to eat it. In his movements he got one foot into another trap and found that he In turn was a prisoner. He thrashed around for some time,‘when Mr. Lord and a friend went to his release. The friend did not know the peculiarities of the great horned owl so well as Mr. Lord did, or he nevrt would have attempted to lift the bird by his well foot. The owl wasn't feeling par , tleularly amiable and made one of its famous passes at the man, fastening its powerful claws in the fleshy part of his i right hand. There was a very animated scene for a few moments, and about all could be seen was a bunch of man and owl roll- tng about the ground. When the oano butants were brought to their feet again by Mr. Lord the owl refused to break ■lean and his claws remained firmly Im bedded In the flesh. The owl had to ba killed and the tendons In the leg cut be fore the cruel claws could be opened and withdrawn from the man’s hand. He learned something about owls, however. Mr. Lord relates how he once saw fully fifty crows nfter a great horned owl. They made It so hot for him that he drop ped to the ground, where they began to dart about him. The owl merely hunched hlm.-elf up Into a defensive position and let them play their game. He kept still ihat they became bolder and finally one came near Like a flash that ‘irre sistible right” shot out and fastened on Mr. Crow. There was one doleful squawk and it was all over. The owl then delib erately pulled the dead crow apart and ate It before the screeching flock that was watching him. It Is safe to say that they did not come near enough to bother him after that. - ■ Right here it might be well to state a little something about the manner In which an owl strikes Its prey. If you ever noticed when owls pounce down on th*lr victims they usually stretch their legs out in front of them. They strike in with their sharp claws, throwing their bodies forward and literally sitting down on the unfortunate object upon which they have fastened. This give# them a leverage and locks the sharp claws to gether In the flesh of the victim so firmly that It Is impossible for them to let ga Again until they have straightened out their legs. They can generally put their claws through any flesh they pounce upon. MONEY LEFT IIY WILL TO MOOIA Provisions for the Animal's Old Age Made by an Admirer. From the Boston Globe. A few years ago the Flagg brothers of Rangley, Me., came upon a baby moose starving In the forest. Whether the * mother deserted It or was frightened away by the hunters, the babe was there alone. Taking him home, the two boyj built him a pen and gave him milk to drink. Faith fully did they care for their charge and he, In compensation, grew In strength and stature. Then Mark Kennlston bought him and reaped a harvest of small coins at tha local shows and fairs. Mr. Kennlston also had black basa that would perform trteka, hut the gem of his collection remained Mr. Moose. Among his many accomplishments was his ability to turn off a fast'mile orl the track. It was no uncommon oc currence to see him hitched Into a sulky tearing down the home stretch, his awk ward. shamhling gait evoking hearty ap plause from the grand stand. it was now that Mr. Moose came to figure more prominently in the affairs of men. Heretofore he had been merely ah entertainer. Now he was to reap more Justing rewards. The game wardens of the Rangley section decreed that he should be liberated and returned to his native wilds. But as Mr. Kennlston had paid money for his mooses fit p and had been frequently offered good money for the same, the demand did not meet with Im mediate acquiescence. Nor did the nutst wish to change his style of living. The white man’s burden was easy to bear and the feed was beyond reproach. The liberty of the village was his. Tha most choice meadows were his stamping grounds. And Horn the Kennlston (arm some three miles from town tha unbroken forest stretched away In a never-accepted' Invitation. Still the game wardens Insisted. Then Israel R. Bmy, a man of property, died and left Jn his will the sum of 12,000 to ba expendej In giving the moose the ad vantage of civilization. When once the fact became known the (natter was drop ped. and Mr. Mooee had only to live In dignity and easo until death claimed him as her own. 11