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1 NOVEL PRIZE CLAIM.
Sampson’s Men Contend That Cer
vers’s Ships Were Captured.
SAILORS WILL SUE FOR MONEY.
Th. Men of the North Atlantic Squadron
Relieve That They are Entitled to
I’rixe Money For the Destruction of
Admiral Cervera'a Fleet oft Santiago—
An Ingenious Point In Maritime Law.
WtuniMaTox, D. C. (Special).—Hecretary
T.ong has directed the Naval Board of In*
•pectlon to appraise the cruiser Reina Mer
cedes, now at Norfolk, as well as the In
fanta Maria Teresa, wrecked on Cat Island,
and all the salvage from the Spanish
wrecks at Santiago, It being the purpose of
the officers and men who served on the
North Atlantic Station last summer to sue
In the Court of Claims for prize money ac
cruing from the capture of these vessels
•nd material.
The Secretary’s action, which does not in
•uy way bind the Navy Department to a
decision on the merits of the claim, was
taken in accordance with a request which
was recently forwarded by Admiral Samp
son in the form of a letter from Captain
French E. Chadwick, commanding the New
York, who suggests the appraisal In behalf
of all the officers and men woo took part In
the blockade of Santiago and the battle of
July 3.
It is the understanding that this claim
for prize money Is supplemental and alto
gether distinct from the applications for
bounty on account of participation In the
destruction of Cervera's fleet, the claims
for bounty having already been referred
by the Navy Department to the Court of
Claims for adjudication.
The point raised by Captain Chadwick
for the officers and men who served off
Santiago Harbor Is regarded as an Ingen
ious one by maritime lawyers who are
puzzled to see what sort of a case the at
torneys for the claimants will be able to
present. Tliestatutes provide for the pay
ment of “bounties" for hostile vessels sunk
or destroyed, the amount of bounty de
pending on the number of men aboard the
enemy's ship and her strength compared
with that of her American opponent.
Bounties are paid for such affairs as the
destruction of most of Montojo’s fleet by
Dewey on Muy 1 or of Cervera’s on July
8. “Prize money" Is paid only for ac
tual captures, and Is generally derived
from the proceeds of the sale of the prize
vessels. Bounty unquestionably accrued
from the Infanta Marla Teresa’s being
djlvon ashore, as It did In the similar cases
of the Oquendo, the Vizcaya and the Colon.
But until now It has seemed that by no in
terpretation of the statutes could any prize
money be Involved. Up to the preaent
time the Reina Mercedes lias not been re
garded as subject to either bounty or prize
money claims, as she was deliberately sunk
by the Hpanlards about midnight of July
4, with the Intention of blocking the en
trance of the harbor to prevent the Ameri
cans from coming In, an Imitation of the
Merrimac episode. Hhn was sunk exactly
at the spot Intended by the Spaniards, al
though, ns In the case of the Merrimac, her
stern did not swing across the channel.
FLOOD OF BAD HALF DOLLARS.
Govrrmn.nl Agents on a Hunt For Court.
terrettwrs Operating Near Philadelphia,
I“ati.*i>zt.rni* (Special).— Chief Wilkie,
of the Secret Hervloe, and his assistants
•in hard at work endeavoring to find a
band of counterfeiter, who are Hooding
southeastern Pennsylvania and south
Jorsoy with spurious half dollars.
The coins are dated 18113 and the eagle
on the reverse side Is poorly done, but the
coin being nurpoaely made to resemble one
that Is much worn, the defect Is onlv no
ticeable after close examination. Under
the head of Liberty on the bogus coin Is the
letter o, whereas the mint letter of that
year la s. The coins are made of copper
and plated with a slight wash of silver.
Information in possession of the Hecrot
Hervlce men leads to the ballet that the
handquarters of the makers of the bad
money Is In Now York. Several dies have
been used In order to make the scheme
more successful. The coins are dated 1854,
1893 and 1895, and the earlier dated coins
carry on the obverse side the figure of Col
umbia In a sitting posture, those of later
dnto boarlug ouly the wreathed head of
Liberty.
BIC ORDER FOR AUTOMOBILES.
A Company Gives n Contract For 98,000,-
000 Worth of Electric Vehicles.
Nitw York Citi (dpeolal).—Some Idea of
the extent of the inroads the electric
vehicle is making upon the old-fashioned
vehicles that depend upon horses tor their
motive power may be gained from the
•nnouucemeut made that an electric
.vehicle company of this city has placed
orders for ♦8,000,000 worth of electric car
riages. This means 4290 new vehicles, and
this number will not begin to supply the
big demand that is being made tn all
directions for the new-taugTed vehicle.
I It is sad that nil of the42oo vehicles
could be put to Instant use if they were
finished now. The bringing together Into
what is practically one company of all of
the companies Interested In the manufac
ture and sale of electric vehicles was aoeom
pdshnd some three mouths ago. The ag
gregate capital of the eompauiee Is ♦ll'J,-
000,000.
STRIKING CLASS WORKERS RIOT,
They Smash Car Doors ■»<! Windows ami
Attack Nou-linlon Men.
UanmxTos, N. J. (Special).—Fifteen non
union workmen came from the West to
take the places of the strikers at the Cum
berland Glass Works. The strikers met
the car containing the men and took them
from It by force. All the glass In the win
dows and doors of the car were broken by
missiles.
Many of the non-union men hid under the
•eats, and two women who were with them
fainted. Some of the men we.e pulled
through the windows of the car. Manager
O. G. Ktug. John Trlauoe and a Philadel
phia detective, who accompanied the party,
were attacked. King's head was cut open.
The strikers sent the non-union men out
of town oo the noon train. They were glad
to get away. Mayor Applegate says it j s
the first time the manufacturers failed to
notify him when they were expecting work
men, aud t nt had they done so he could
have prevented the trouble.
Kentucky Republican* Nominate.
The Republican State Conveutloa. which
was held at Lexington, Ky., nominated ths
following ticket: Governor, W. 8. Taylor,
now Attorney-Geueral o* Kentucky; Lieu
tenant-Governor, John Marshal), of Loals
vllle; Secretary of State, Caleo Powers, of
Knox County; Attorney-General, Cllfcou
J. Pratt; Auditor of State, John S. Sweeny,
of Bourbon County; State Treasurer, Wal
ter IL Day, of Breathitt; Superintendent
of Public Instruction, John Burke, of
Campbell County, aud Commissioner of
Agriculture. Johu W. rarockmortou, ot
.Fayette County.
BIG LEAP IN IMMIGRATION '
Returns Show an Increase of 82.-
579 Over Reports For 1898.
The Victorious War With Spain Partly
Responsible For live Large In
flux From Abroad.
Washixotok, D. C. (Special).—Almost
complete returns to the Bureau of Immi
gration of the Treasury Department of im
migrants arriving In the United States for
the fiscal year ended June 30,1899. show an
Increase of 82,579 over the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1898. The returns yet to be re
ceived will not change the figures mate
rially. The number ot Immigrants arriv
ing in 1899 was 311,878 as against 229,299
for the previous year. Immigration for
1898 was the smallest for ten years. The
following table shows the Immigration of
each month for the fiscal year 1899 with
the Increase over the same months in 1898.
Fiscal year
1899. Increase.
July 17,114 2,163
August 16,779 2,884
September....- .... 25,380 4.93 C
October 25,459 4,415
November22,7lß 7,54 s
December... " .... 17.833 4,17 f
Januaryf.. 10,683 1,054
February 14,478 2,751
March 29.704 4,18 f
April 40,276 6,201
May 63.954 21,601
June 37,500 20,676
T0ta1311,878 82,579
Commissioner Powderly attributes this
large increase in immigration during the
last fiscal yearto a number ot reasons. The
victorious war with Spain served to attract
favorable notice ot the United States
throughout Europe, aud the return ot
prosperity Is, he thinks, also in a large
measure responsible for the influx from
abroad. Within the past two months there
have been many Inquiries by Intending Im
migrants as to the location ot agricultural
lands In various parts ot the country, In
dicating that many of those coming hern
comtemplate making farming their line ot
work.
The Commissioner has heretofore recom
mended to Congress, and will do so again
In his next annual report, that the Govern
ment Immigration Bureau avail itself ot
the benefit of the labor bureaus aud fac
tory Inspection work In the several Status
so that the office here may intelligently
aid Immigrants In locating In communities
where there Is a demand for the labor they
are capable of performing,
PROVINCES RULE FRANCE,
The Paris Mob no Longer Sways the Des
tinies of the Nation.
Paris (By Cable).—M. Louis Lepine, the
now Prefect ot Paris police, has been in
office a month, nnd suddenly, without blus
ter or display, the noisy demonstrations,
the budding insurrections nnd the dis
graceful assaults on high officials of the
past year have entirely ceased.
The Government sought a strong arm to
rule Paris during Dreyfus days. It found
the arm ot M. Louis Lepine, once before
prefect of Paris police, and asked him tc
return to bls old post.
Paris, Indeed all France, is now ruled by
the provinces. The city mob no longer
sways the destinies of the nation. Parish
losing Its power to the provinces, and
President Loubet, himself a provincial, is
steadily wiping out what remains ot the old
order. The dashing generals are sent to
distant posts; the idols of the boulevards
are effectually silenced.
General Rogot, commander ot the troops
In Paris, after protesting to General Gain
ful, Minister ot War. against being trans
ferred outside Paris, finally said, with fine
bravado, "I go, because you sand me to a
post of honor.”
"You go,” replied the Minister ot Wai
coldly, “because I order you to go.”
The places of these mon are being filled
by cool, unemotional men from thecountry
towns. Some ot them hate Paris. All ol
them have contempt for the idea that Paris
rules the nation.
A REBEL TOWN SHELLED.
Force nt Cavalry Lands at Muntlnlup*
nnd Chases Filipinos to the Hills.
Manila (By Cable). —The army gunboat
Napidan, while towing cascoes containing
a force of the Fourth Cavalry under Cap
tain McGraw, shelled Muntlnlupa, on
Laguna de Bay, for an hour, utter which
the cavalry landed and forced 500 insur
gents to retreat to their strongest tranches
in the hills. Ton ot the enemy wore killed.
Our loss was two wounded. The small
ness of the American force prevented a
further attack upon the intrenched in
surgents that night.
Lieutenant Babcock with a force ot cav
alry tn scouting around Baliuag and Mas
sin has had some sharp lighting, in which
several rebels were killed.
A large force ot Insurgents is active at
San Ildefonso.
KILLED FOR STONING A DOG.
It. M. Wiley Meet* Death at the Handl
of K. J. Brogan nt Lancaster.
Lancaster, Penn. (Special).—Edwin J
Brogan, of Pulton Township, a carpenter,
forty-three years old, with a wife and three
children, came to this city and surrendered
hlmsoltto the District-Attorney, the charge
against him being murder.
While R. Marion Wiley, aged twenty
years, and a companion named Johu Wills,
neighbors ot Brogan, were passing the lat
ter's place they threw stones at bls dog.
They started to run, when the crack ot a
pistol was heard, aud Wiley received n
bullet in his left lung, which resulted in his
death.
Brogan claims he was justified fn shoot
ing, as the young mon had been in the habit
of annoying him.
“’WOMAN IN BLACK" WAS A MAN,
Mysterious Per»on Who Ha* Terrified
Louisville Captured.
Locwvillm, Kv. (Special).—Residents ot
the Crescent Hill section of Louisville, who
have tor two vears been agitated over the
existence of a mysterious “woman tn
black," were amazed to ascertain that this
person was a man.
The' woman iu black" had the temerity
to hold up Martin Scbuffier as be was rid
ing along on horseback. He cried tor help
and spurred his horse, getting away. Per
sons who responded to his calls captured
the figure tu the long black robe, who
proved to be a man well known to the po
lice here until about two years ago.
XwUs Bell Ringer Dead.
William H. Peak, the original Swiss bell
ringer and harpist, who had been long be
fore the amusement -loving public of
America, died at Belvidere, ill. He iu his
palmy days amassed a big fortune iu the
theatrical business, and was known among
the profession from eoast to coast. Ot lau
years Mr. Peak met with reverses, and he
traveled the last year earning a living with
his harp. He leaves a widow, who lives at
Niles. Mich., aud two sons, one residing in
Chicago.
Move* Into the Governor'* Palace.
Major-General Brooke has moved into
the Goveruor-Geuerai’s palace at Havana.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The official records show that four
hundred New York City babies have
been named Dewey.
It is only recently that any atten
tion has been paid to the rice crop of
Texas, but it is demanding notice.
An acre of rice returns about 350 a
crop.
The way we have been capturing
the markets of the world in the last
few months leads one to expect that
some American will soon be shipping
over a few samples of hand-made
crises to France and soliciting orders.
The Czarina now is the mother of
three girls, and the Czar’s brother
George remains heir to the throne of
Russia. If there should be collusion
between George and Dr. Schenk both
may lose their heads.
One of the novels of which Mr.
Joseph Chamberlain is most fond is
James Fenimore Cooper's “The Last
of the Mohicans.” England believes
that her Secretary of State for the
Colonies, if not checkmated, will
presently issue a work entitled “The
Last of the Boers.’’
There is a fine sarcastic tone about
the announcement that an American
civil engineer, a Mr. Louis, is on his
way from Chicago to Peking charged
with the mission of tearing down the
famed, historic Chinese Wall. This
wall has long since ceased to be either
a protection to the Heavenly Kingdom
or an obstruction to the foreign in
vader, and it should be allowed to
linger in its innocuous desuetude.
The government is finding no diffi
culty iu securing the bluejackets and
apprentices needed for the manning
of the fleet. The shipping rendez
vouses are crowded with applicants,
and as a result of the careful selection
thus made possible the recruits ac
cepted are of a superior quality phy
sically and mentally. The total num
ber allowed by law is 20,000, made up
of 17,500 men and 2,500 boys.
The famine in the seven provinces
of East European Russia is sinking
the wretched peasantry deeper and
deeper into their misery. They need
about a penny a day to live on, and
there are not nearly enough pennies
to go around, for in a population of
11,000,000 more than 5,000,000 are
hungry every hour of their lives. The
actual starvation in the afflicted terri
tory is said by those who know the
situation to be immeasurably worse
than the much-pitied famine of 1891-
92.
There has been no tendency of late
to a decline iu the price of horses,
says the Atlanta Journal. On the
contrary, it seems to be going up.
The average price of horses is about
what it was ton years ago, and there
is a brisk demand. It is said that the
sale of bicycles has fallen off in all
the large cities because horseback rid
ing has become so popular. Fancy
saddle and harness horses command
better prices than for several years
past The horse has uot been abol
ished yet by any means. He appears
to be rising in favor recently iu spite
of all the devices to supply his place.
The horse will be with us for a long
time, aud we are glad of it.
Chicago shoppers are preparing to
boycott the stores which refuse to
provide seats for their women clerks.
They affirm that it is injurious to
female health to stand up without re
lief nine hours daily, and that the
merchants who persist in imposing
such an unfeeling and unreasonable
task upon them deserve to lose their
customers. The employers will no
doubt give iu as soon as their trade
is seriously threatened, showing that
aven the Chicago purveyors may be
loerced into humane and considerate
ways of doing business if the pro
ceeding is set about in the right way.
Recent consular reports to the State
Department contain much interesting
matter about street aud steam rail
ways in France and Switzerland. At
Marseilles electric lines have been
arranged for upon which a uniform
fare of only two cents will be charged,
the company pays $19,300 annually
to the city for the use of the streets,
nid when the gross receipts reach a
certain figure an additional fee must
be paid, the amount increasing with
the receipts. The Government re
serves the right to buy the road and
ill its appurtenances at any time, and
apon the expiration of fifty years it
becomes absolute owner of all the
property located on the public domain,
and is privileged to take all rolling
stock, tools, etc., at a valuation fixed
by experts.
School officials in Germany are con
sidering the advisability of adopting
for children's use au expurgated
edition of the Bible. Parts of this
book, they argue, are more utterly
unsuited for the young person than
the average problem novel of to-day.
They declare that to its pages num
bers of boys and girls have recourse
only for reasons scarcely acceptable
to either parent or clergyman. Con
sequent upon this course of reason
ing, an edition of the Bible, carefully
expurgated, has long been in use in
Prussia and the northern provinces.
It is known as the Bremen School
Bible, and makes a book abo- half
the compass of the entire Ser; • ires.
I Now the movement has spi-..d to
South Germany, and the At .rteni
burg Bible Society has received or ’ > s
for a large edition of a similar Wvr.u
The cvclone or tornado is the most
fatal visitation, save epidemies, tha’
nature makes iu the area of the United
State*. Lightning bombards the
earth, out its casualties are few;
floods some, but, apart from such ex
ceptional catastroplies as that at
Johnstown, they are more of an in
convenience and a damage to property
than a menace to human life. Earth
quake shocks hardly ever hurt any
body; their death rate in this country
is not equal to that of lightning in a
single Eastern state. .Sometimes there
are great forest fires, but as these give
warning people are able to avoid them
if they start in time. But there is
almost no escape from the tornado,
which conies w ith the speed of a win
ter gale and with such tremendous
power that brick buildings are tumbled
down like houses of cards, and iron
safes, the bells of churches and even
masses of loose rock are hurled here
and there like the playthings of a
child.
Many and varied are the uses ot
electricity. New and important ap
plications of this wonderful power in
nature are constantly being made.
One of the latest is in the develop
ment and fertilization of the arid
lands of the great Southwest. There
are in Utah, Nevada, New Mexico,
Arizona and California vasts tracts of
land which cannot be irrigated,
where artesian wells cannot be drilled
on account of the immense cost of
coal and the inadequate roads of the
country, over which machinery cannot
be hauled. All this can be overcome
by building one central electrical sta
tion, and sending out branch lines to
sub-stations in all directions, over
mountains aud deserts and rivers and
canons. Already there are capitalists
who are taking advantage of tnis fact,
and orders have come to Pittsburg
for the electrical machinery necessary
to accomplish the work. Only one
central electrical plant is necessary,
where coal would have to be stored
and steam used. Wires can be pul
up where even a burro could not
travel with a pack, so that there is
practically no limit to the extent to
which electricity can be utilized.
A SMART OURANG-OUTANG.
Yarn About One Out at Service in fl
Borneo Hotel.
At Pontianak, almost under the
equator, ou the south-west coast of
Borneo, I had occasion to remain for
a considerable period aud was lodged
in a pasagran (a hotel maintained by
the natives, at the expense of the
Dutch government, for the accommo
dation of any Dutch officials or visitors
who may come that way).
To my intense astonishment, I
learned'after my arrival at this pasa
gran that among the help regularly at
tached to the place was an orang
outang, known to the native servants
as Kees. He was about four feet high,
but strikingly human in appearance,
and ordinarily accustomed to walk and
stand erect. I was told that Kees, who
knew and readily responded to his
name, was ten or perhaps fifteen years
of age. and had been at the pasagran
from his childhood.
One day a Chinese peddler came to
the pasagran with an assortment of na
tive trousers of cheap, bright-colored
prints. The Dyaks called them batjoe
or pakilan. I bought a number of
pairs, presenting one to a native chief
who was iu the house at the time, and
others to the servants, all the white re
taining one of the brightest. Kees had
been sitting in the family group watch
ing what was going on. After distri
buting my presents to the others, I
looked laughingly at the orang-outang
aud said. “Kees. you don't get any!"
Instantly I regretted my attempt at a
Joke.
The poor creature began sobbing, a
tear streaming down his face, and it
was not until I had with evident regret
in my tones hastily called out, “Never
mind. Kees; you shall have these,” of
fering him the brightest colored article
of the lot. that the mias regained his
composure.
Kees actually put on the trousers and
wore them everj- Sunday, taking a
stick in his hand cane-fashion, and
walking around the house with much
gravity.
He habitaually ate rice and fruit,
with the servants at their meals. He
would bring me my slippers, or a
glass of water, or a bunch of fruit,
when I ordered him to do so. He
would hold my horse as long as I de
sired. and. when otherwise unoccupied,
would sit on the piazza and watch me
smoke.-—J. T. Van Gestel. in The Cos
mopolitan.
Ears. Sometime* Deceptive.
“It is strange.” said a Jersey City
High School teacher, “that people
have such confidence in their ears.
Even the courts, so keen to sift testi
mony, readily believe a witness who
is supposed to be trustworthy if he
says: 'Mr. Jones said so and so.’ Prob
ably his ears deceived him and Mr.
Jones said something very different.
My experience in dictation work con
vinces me that the human ear is often
a poor witness. The other day I dic
tated a stanza in which occurs the
words 'And animation wakes.’ One of
the most attentive girls in the school
wrote it ‘And damnation waits.’ In
another exercise was the quotation:
•To err is human, to forgive divine.’
This was written: To air is humor and
to forgive design.' I believe from these
and many similar experiences that the
ear is often exceedingly inaccurate in
recording impressions of sound."
Another teacher who was standing
by agreed with this, and told the story
of her little sister, who had picked up
many hymns by hearing them sung in
church. Iu one line occurred: “I want
to be with them then," and the child
one day avas heard singing fervently:
"I want to be with the men."—New
York Tribune.
In some parts of Russia the only
food for the people consists at present
of acorns, leaves, and the soft bark of
trees*
CUSTER’S FAVORITE BCOUT.
One of the Most Remarkable Me*
Ever Known Upon the Plain*.
“Lonesome Charlie" Reynolds, Gen
eral Custer's favorite scout, was one
of the most remarkable men over
known upon the plains, and had a ro
mantic history. They called him
“Lonesome Charlie” because he never
had a partner. Miners, hunters, trap
pers, scouts, and in fact all frontiers
men. for obvious reasons, go in pairs,
but Reynolds usually lived and trav
t-led alone. When he did take a com
panion he usually selected Bloody
Knife or some other Indjpn of loyalty
and intelligence, relates the Chicago
Record.
This peculiarity was due primarily
to a natural reticence and a desire to
be alone, for Reynolds, in camp or at
a military garrison or at one of the
frontier towns, remained by himseli
when he was able to do so. He was
never found in a saloon or a dance
house, or at any other place where peo
ple assembled, and when he sat with
others around a campfire he seldom
joined in the conversation or said a
word except in reply to a question. The
tragedy of his life undoubtedly threw
a shadow upon his social nature, and
although he was always cheerful and
good natured there was an air of mel
ancholy in all his moods.
It is no doubt true, also, that his in
tellectual and moral culture made the
society of ordinary trontiersmen dis
tasteful to him and caused him to pre
fer an Indian who could not talk the
frontier dialect and had no interest in
the gossip of the plains. Reynolds
never drank whisky, never swore, nev
er gambled and never used bad gram
mar. His vocabulary was simple and
his syntax was correct. His conversa
tion at a campfire was the same as it
might have been at a dinner table at
the White House, or in the drawing
room of the most refined society. He
never lost his temper and was nevei
guilty of boastfulness, which is the
prevailing fault of frontiersmen. Sc
far as we knew he bad no vices—not
even an Indian wife.
Reynolds bight have told a great deal
about himself that people were anxious
to know, but never gratified popular
curiosity. He was often asked to re
late his history, but declined to do so.
aud all that was known of his past
was learned incidentally or accidental
ly. Frank Bird Grinnell, the natural
Ist, editor of Forest and Stream, was
his closest friend and respected his con
fidence. but I doubt if he knew as
much of Reynolds’ former life as peo
ple supposed he did.
The generally accepted story was
that “Lonesome Charlie” was a Ten
nessean and a member of a highly edu
cated and wealthy family. He was
sent to Yale College, and was nearly
through his course when the Civil War
broke out. His father and his broth
ers joined the Confederacy, but he had
imbibed Northern ideas and declined
to do so. At the same time his re
sources were cut oft. he was compelled
to leave college and buried himself in
the mining regions of the West in
order to be out of the way of political
discussion and war news. After the
surrender he returned to Tennessee,
found his old home had been burned,
his father and brothers killed in bat
tle, his mother, the victim of sorrow)
and suffering, lying in the churchyard
and his sister, the only surviving mem
ber of his family, married to some Con
federate officer whose name he could
not ascertain. For several months he
sought for her with no result, and,
finding himself alone and friendless,
with no prospects in his native coun
try and the prejudice of the neighbors
strongly against him because of his
sympathy for the Union, he returned
to the West, and from a prospector
gradually became a hunter. During
the Indian troubles he offered his ser
vices to the government as a scout be
cause of his familiarity with the terri
tory and the habits of the hostile
tribes.
Reynolds made his headquarters at
Fort Lincoln, where the 7th cavalry
was stationed for several years during
the Indian troubles. Custer had more
confidence in him than in any other
scout, and they were constant com
panions, but Reynolds would never go
East of the Missouri River. It is said
that during all the years he spent at
Fort Lincoln he never once visited the
town of Bismarck, which was within
sight and accessible by ferry boat. He
was a great reader, and had a remark
able fund of general information, being
a natural’st, a botanist anu a geolo
gist, and had an extraordinary knowl
edge of Indian languages. A volume
might be written of his adventures,
but the actual facts were never known
to any one hut himself, ami he declined
to relate them. He accompanied Cus
ter on his last campaign, and his body
was found lying across that of the
general on the bill where the last stand
was made.
After Sixteen Years of Prison.
Those who are in the world do not
perhaps notice the gradual change
going on from day to day, but to a man
who has been in prison for a long term
of years things when he emerges from
confinement appear very much dif
ferent.
Joe Mullet one of the Invincibles.
who has just been released after six
teeen years of close confinement, said
that what surprised him most was the
appearance of electric trams and lady
cyclists.
"When I went into prison,” he said,
“the only cyclists who ventured abroad
were those who risked their lives on
ordinaries.” —London Correspondence
in New York Herald.
Western Australia has an act in force
prohibiting the landing of any one who
cannot write out a given passage in
English.
Stock collars of fine sheer lawu with
lace-trimmed bow attached.
JOKERS’ BUDGET.
The One Thins She Care* Foe.
She doesn't care for operas, the drama
or the play,
She doesn’t care for housework—she
isn't built that way;
She doesn’t care for dancing, for flow
ers or for books.
She doesn’t care for bloomers —she
doesn't like their looks;
She doesn’t care for picnics, they
freckle her and tan—
The only thing she does care for is a
marriageable man.
—Chicago Record.
A Taeital Mistake.
“Tom, my dear, do you think I made
a mistake in naming baby after your
rich uncle?”
“No. my love; your mistake was tell
ing him the baby looked like him.”
A Feminine View.
Kate—So Carrie is to be married. I
suppose she is very happy?
Ruth—Happy! I should say so! Mr.
Fixton, her fiance, doesn't amount to
much, but her trousseau is just ele
gant.—Boston Transcript.
A Serious Omission.
“That new reporter has been dropped
to office boy.”
“What was the trouble?”
“He wrote an account of the cyclone
without usiffg the expression ‘funnel
shaped.’ ’’—Cleveland Plaindealer.
Against His Principles.
Lady—l should think you would be
ashamed to live on charity. Why don’t
you do something? Haven’t you ever
learned that a man is known by his
works?
Sloppy Sim—Well, so’s a watch. I
ain't no pocket piece.—Chicago Times-
Herald.
No Time for Idleness.
Retired Business Man—l am rich at
last, and now I’m going to find a per
fect climate to live in.
Great Traveler—Good idea! I’ve al
ways held that when a man retires
from business he should immediately
take up something that will keep him
occupied for the rest of his life.—New
York Weekly.
No Use for It.
“What advice would you give a
young man who intends to take up lit
erature as a profession?” inquired the
long-haired youth.
“I should advise him to have his
stomach removed,” replied the old
timer without a moment’s hesitation,—
New York Journal.
Hint At An Unfortunate Time.
“What has happened to Mrs. Nib
ber?”
“She fell out of the window while
trying to see who was sitting on her
next neighbor’s porch.”—Chicago Rec
ord.
A Mortifying; Confession.
Cholly—l was mawtified almost to
death lawst night!
Geowgie—What happened?
Cholly—A bold wobbah demanded
me diamond stud or me life, and to
save me life I had to confess it wasn’t
a diamond!—The Jewelers’ Weekly.
Condescends to Explain.
Half-frozen Passenger—What do
you run these open cars for when the
weather is like this?
Conductor—For nickles. Fare, please.
—Chicago Tribune.
Double Proof.
“Do you believe in heredity, Mrs.
Simpson?”
“Indeed I do; every mean trait Bob
by has I can trace right back to his
father.”
"Does his father believe in heredity,
too ?”
“Yes; he traces Bobby’s faults all
back to me.”—Chicago Record.
Looking; for a Friend.
Saleswoman (to lady who has been
rummaging the silk counter)—l thiuk
you will like this mauve; it is very
stylish, and I am sure it would become
you beautifully.
Lady—Oh, I didn’t come in to buy;
I was only looking for a friend.
Saleswoman—And did you expect to
find her in that ribbon box?
Pity the Poor leeman.
“In some future year,” said the citi
zen with a powerful imagination, "the
human race will find the sun extinct.
That once glowing orb will cease to
shed its rays upon our world. Then
what’ll we do.”
"What will we do?” echoed the mo
rose man, who was grinning for the
first time in weeks. “That isn't the
question. What'll the iceman do?”
Washington Star.
Misnomers.
Mrs. Brown—Our language is full of
misnomers. For instance, I met a
man once who was a perfect bear, and
they called him a “civil engineer.”
Mrs. Smith—Yes, but that’s not so
ridiculous as the man they call “teller”
in a bank. He won't tell you anything.
I asked one the other day how much
money my husband had on deposit and
he just laughed at me.—Catholic
Standard and Times.
A Wasted Opportunity.
“I never was so insulted in my life!”
she exclaimed.
“What did he do?” asked her dear
est friend.
"We were all alone and he threat
ened to kiss me.”
“Well?”
“Well, we were alone and he didn’t
do it.” '
“Oh-h-h!"—Chicago Post
A Cincinnati judge recently gave a
man ten days for stealing an eight-day
clock.