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Dragging
Down
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CLIMBING ELEPHANTS
How THey Hake Their Way tip end
Dbwb Steep Cllfia
Elephants are able to make thdr
way up and down mountains and
through a country of steep cliffs where
mules would not dare to venture and
even where men find passage difficult
Their tracks have been found upon the
very summit of mountains over 7000
feet high In these journeys an ele
phant Is often compelled to descend
hills and mountain sides which are al
most precipitous This is the way in
which It Is done The elephants first
maneuver Is to kneel down close to the
declivity One fore leg is then cau
tiously passed over the edge and a
short way down the slope and if he
finds there is no good spot for a firm
foothold he speedily forms one by
stamping Irto the soil if It is moist or
kicking out a footing if ft is dry
When he is sure of a good foothold the
other fore leg Is brought down in the
same way Then he performs the same
work over again with his feet bring
ing both fore legs a little in advance
of the first foothold This leaves good
places all ready made for the hind feet
Now bracing himself up by his huge
strong fore legs he draws his hind legs
first one and then the other carefully
over the edge where they occupy the
first places made by the fore feet This
is the way the huge animal proceeds
all the way down zigzag kneeling ev
ery time with the two hind legs while
he makes footholds with his fore feet
Thus the center of gravity is preserved
and the huge beast prevented from top
pling over on hs nose
INSURANCE
The Beg lmiiiiffs of This Now Common
Mode of Protection
The practice of insurance was known
to the ancients being in vogue at the
beginning of the Christian era
The insurance of ships was undoubt
edly part of the business of the Ilanse
atic league which was formed about
1140 by the port towns of Germany to
protect themselves against the pirates
of Sweden and Denmark
The custom of drawing out insurance
policies originated in Florence in 1523
although a regular chamber of insur
ance was formed at Bruges early in the
fourteenth century and the practice
was in general use in Italy in 1194 and
in England in loliO
Fire and life insurance is of much
more recent origin Some of the an
cient guilds provided compensation for
any of their members who suffered loss
from fire but the insurance of goods
and houses as a distinct branch of busi
ness cannot be traced farther back
than 1GGT the year after the great fire
of London
The first regular company the
was founded in 1G9G and five
other companies still existing were
started in the quarter of a century
which followed Life insurance was
first undertaken by the Amicable in
1700 London Standard
Animals That Do Xot Grow Thirty
There are many different kinds of an
imals in the world that never in all
their lives sip so much as a drop of
water Among these are the llamas
of Patagonia and the gazelles of the
far east A parrot lived for fifty two
years in the zoo at London without
drinking a drop of water and many
naturalists believe the only moisture
imbibed by wild rabbits Is derived
from green herbage laden with dew
Many reptiles serpents lizards and
certain batrachians live and thrive in
places entirely devoid of water and
sloths are also said never to drink An
arid district In France has produced a
race of nondrinking cows and sheep
and from the milk of the former
Roquefort cheese is made There is a
species of mouse which has estab
lished itself on the waterless plains of
western America and which flourishes
notwithstanding the absence of mois
ture
Needless Wear
Many people wear themselves out
needlessly Their conscience is a ty
rant An exaggerated sense of duty
leads a person to anxious ceaseless ac
tivity to be constantly doing some-
thing overpunctual never idle a sec-
ond of time to scorn rest Such are in
unconscious nerve tension They say
they have no time to rest they have so
much to do not thinking they are rap
idly unfitting themselves for probably
what would have been their best and
greatest work in after years
A Short Sermon
No time or place is sacred to the en
thusiastic joker Duclos tells in his
memoirs how the prince archbishop of
Cologne asked license to preach in the
royal chapel at Versailles when visit
ing Louis XIV himself All the court
assembled It was April 1 The prince
archbishop mounted the pulpit in state
ly fashion bowed from side to side and
stood a moment as if collecting his
thoughts then shouted April fools
picked up his skirts and ran
Cruel
I made these biscuits myself Da
vid said Mrs Copperfield with hon
est pride
They look very nice Dora replied
David picking one of them up and
making an effort to split it And they
are still hot How long ago did you
ah I cast them
A Thonshtfnl Answer
Whats the first step toward the di
gestion of thefood asked the teach
er Up went the hand of a black hair
ed little fellow who exclaimed with
eagerness Bite it off Bite it off
Let us read with method and propose
to ourselves an end to which our stud
ies may point The use of reading is
to aid us In thinking Edward Gibson
Well Known Mem
As Cartoonists
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TCty V fr L iff
W D MAKN
JAMES R KEEXE
OLONEL WIL
LIAM DAL
TON MANN
who was a principal
witness in the
suit and
who was arrested
shortly after Its con
clusion on a charge
of perjury based
upon his testimony
In that trial offers a
good subject for the
cartoonist His ex
uberant whiskers
out somewhat on the
vKing Leopold order
and his rather shag
gy aspect lend them
selves readily to
cari catu re Th e p u b
lisher of Town Top
ics the Smart Set
and Fads and Fan
cies who testified to obtaining loans
with the utmost facility from members
of the tipper circles in finance and so
ciety is in his sixty seventh year and
is a native of Sandusky O He was
educated as a civil engineer and en
tered the army at the outbreak of
the civil war as captain or the First
Michigan cavalry He organized sev
eral companies of cavalry and was
commissioned a colonel in 1802 He
devised army improvements intro
duced in the United States and Aus
tria which made a fortune for him
and he also devised the boudoir car
which was extensively used by Euro
pean railroads The company was later
bought out by George M Pullman He
settled in Mobile Ala and was the
first Democratic candidate for con
gress from the Mobile district under
reconstruction For several years he
edited the Mobile Register He found
ed Town Topics in lSJl
District Attorney William Travers
Jerome of New York city was placed
in a peculiar position in the proceed
ings which arose relative to Judge Jo
seph M Deuel and the now famous
Town Topics case When Judge Deuel
instituted suit for criminal libel
against Norman Ilapgood editor of
Colliers Weekly it became the duty of
the district attor
ney to assume the
work of prosecut
ing it but it was
a duty evidently
not much to Mr
Jeromes taste
When Judge Deuel
failed to establish
his charge of libel
the proprietors of
Colliers Weekly on
the ground of testi
mony adduced at
the trial instituted
charges against
Colonel Maun ed
itor of Town Top
ics and then it be
came Mr Jeromes
duty to turn around
and prosecute the
person in whose de
fense he had prac
tically been com
pelled to act in the
former proceeding
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WILLIAM TEAVEHB
JEKOIIE
Mr Jerome was
himself a member at one time of the
court of special sessions During his
first campaign for election as district
attorney a man called on him one day
and handed him a long article to read
Sketch of my life he asked
Yes judge
Seems to be pretty complimentary
Just what you deserve judge We
intend to print it in our magazine and
we would like to have you take 500
copies at 10 cents ea
Make it a thousand and leave me
out said Jerome as he threw the ar
ticle in the wastebasket
One of the sensations of the Deuel
Hapgood case was the testimony of
Colonel Mann as to the big loans he
obtained from capitalists and on his
list of creditors was the noted financier
and sportsman James It Keene who
advanced him 90000 taking a mort
gage as security Mr Keene is the vet
eran or one of the veterans of Wall
street He was there in the days of
Jay Gould and the elder Vanderbilt
He has seen the
rise and fall of
many fortunes in
eluding his own
He has made mil
lions lost them an
made others to re
place them
At sixty eightM r
Keene is an im
pressive figure
f wears u ciose crop-
A ped beard which
jJK does not hide tin-
firm outlines of his
jaw His gray eyes
are searching kind
ly and bright
Keene was in Cal
ifornia in the early
seventies and it
was there he made
his first lucky
strike He had become possessed of
some shares in a mining stock that was
selling at almost nothing It was be
lieved to be practically worthless but
soon after Eeene had departed on a
trip east for the henefit of his health
It panned out wonderfully rich The
stock went up like a rocket from one
Tiiey Are and
Picture Them
C l
figure to three News traveled slowly
In those days He knew nothing of his
good fortune for a long time but when
he returned to San Francisco his few
hundreds had grown to 200000
There was a spectacular scene In the
United States senate when the veteran
legislator John C Spooner walked
down the aisle to the desk of the pre
siding officer with Itobert Marion La
Follette on his arm and presented his
new colleague from Wisconsin to be
sworn in as a member of the upper
branch of congress It was a moment
which had been eagerly awaited by the
other senators and
by the people In tlie
galleries for the two
had for years been
leaders of opposing
factions in Wiscon
sin and there was
curiosity to see how
they would conduct
themselves when
meeting under these
circumstances It is
a time honored
riitlnn In tho cpiifitn
ssjrSJ tnat Mhen a new
memDer taues tne
oath he shall be es
corted to the vice
presidents desk for
the ceremony by his
colleague and Mr
Spooner determined
not to allow his pre
vious cool relations
johv c spooxer with the former gov
ernor of Wisconsin to prevent his ad
hering to custom in this respect As
the two statesmen stood together Mr
La Follette with his pompadour and
Mr Spooner with his stiff hair brushed
sideways they formed quite a picture
Senator Spooner is the personification
of dignity and is noted for his courtesy
There was nothing in the behavior of
the two on this occasion to indicate
that they had ever been otherwise than
the most cordial of friends
It took Senator La Follette some
time to decide whether he would ac
cept the seat in the senate to whicli he
was chosen by the Wisconsin legisia
ture about a jear ago He did not re
sign as governor of Wisconsin until
last December and kept the public
guessing until the lat moment as to
whether he was go
ing to remain gov
ernor or take up
the duties of a
member of the
body which was
once graced by the
presence of such
men as Webster
and Clay and Cal
houn and Sumner
Senator La Follette
will be fifty - one
years of age next
summer and looks
young and energet
ic He is holding
his energy in re
serve at present
however and is
studiously keeping
in the background
Persons who call
on him find him
not disposed to talk
of his plans for
work in the senate
U i 1 W
He indicates that Robert marion
he is now devoting la follette
himself to getting the lay of the
land and from his rear seat in the
senate Cherokee strip he listens at
tentively to the proceedings He does
not want the public to say that he
made a spectacle of himself by jump
ing into the debates of the senate be
fore he had anything to say His hob
by as everybody knows Is railroad
rate legislation and when the general
debate on a rate bill comes on he will
take a hand
John D Rockefeller feels good about
two things The first is Investigator
Hadleys inability to get him on the
witness stand and the second is his
possession of a wig For years he tried
to find something that would make his
TOHX D ROCKE
FELLER
hair grow He of
fered a large re
ward to any one
who could cause
the baldness of his
pate to disappear
He hoped against
hope that the
Standard Oil mil
lions might be able
to purchase for him
a new crop of hair
but though he is
the richest man in
the world he could
not gratify this ar
dent desire and at
last he gave up the
search for a real
hair restorer and
fell back upon the
device of a wig to
cover the naked
ness of his head
The wig changes
Mr Rockefellers
appearance greatly In fact some of
his friends failed to recognize him
when they first saw him in his new
disguise The difference between Mr
Rockefeller with and without a wig of
fers quite an opportunity for the mak
ers of funny pictures
CHARING CROSS
Illatory of This Ancient Landmark
ef London
In reading English history you will
happen across numerous references to
Charing Cross but the chances are you
will wonder If the allusion la to a real
cross erected as a memorial or simply
a crossroad Chnrlng Cross was for
merly one of the noted landmarks of
Britain and Its history Is an followt
In November of the year 1201 Good
Queen Eleanor as she was termed by
her loyal subjectB was called to Join
her husband who was then making an
expedition into Scotlnnd When Elea
nor had got as far on her way as
Grantham she sickened and died
The remnius must of course be bur
ied at Westminster and the funeral
cortege started In that direction
During the time this royal funeral
procession was slowly winding Its
weary way toward the capital thou
sands of people flocked to the waystdo
to get a glimpse of it It was a great
event In the history of the rural dis
tricts and they did everything possible
to make the solemn occasion a mem
orable one Wherever the procession
halted for the night or for other cause
the people afterward set up a memorial
One of the longest stops was made at
Charing and subsequently a richly
carved memorial cross was erected on
the site of the camp This was the
Charing Cross of history It stood un
til 1G47 when the last vestige of it was
destroyed during the civil wars of
Charles I the vandals who destrojed
the relic claiming it to be a monument
of popish superstition Charing Cross
as seen teday was erected by the
Southern Railway company in the year
18G5
A SHIP WORTH TAKING
What the Capture of the San Ihlltpe
Meant to England
On the 9th of June 13S7 Drake com
ing back from singeing the king of
Spains beard in Cadiz fell in with a
huge vessel which lie captured She
proved to b the San Philipe an Eat
Indiaman owned by the king of Spain
himself and then the largest merchant
man afloat
Her cargo valued at more than a mil
lion sterling of modern money was in
itself the most valuable ever captured
but there was something else even
more valuable than the cargo This
consisted of the ships papers and ac
counts wl eh disclosed to the mer
chant adventurers of England all the
methods and mysteries and the bound
less possibilities of the East India
trade
Indeed it would hardly be stretching
the facts to say that the morning which
saw the capture of the San Philipe saw
also the dawn of our Indian empire
The immediate result was the forma
tion of the East India company which
was not only the greatest commercial
corporation the world had ever seen
but also the only one that ever com
manded its own armies and fleets and
wielded powers little less than impe
rial London Spectator
The Early Astronomers
The early astronomers were all as
trologers and claimed to be able to pre
dict the future careers of various indi
viduals by casting horoscopes show
ing the position of the planets at the
time of their birth The position and
movements of the various celestial
bodies were not only supposed to con
trol the destinies of men but were also
thought to bring weal or woe tempest
or sunshine upon the eartli itself A
man born when the sun was in the con
stellation of Scorpio was believed to be
naturally bent toward excessive indul
gence of the animal passions One born
when the sun was in Pisces was pre
destined to grovel or be a servant
while one whose earthly career was
opened when the great luminary was
in Aries would be a great scholar and
a man known to the world despite all
opposing influences
Trinidads Asphalt Lake
The famous asphalt lake of Trinidad
looks like a great black swamp sur
rounded with a fringe of cocoanut
pnlms A little railway runs across it
and men stand in it working some on
asphalt firm enough to support them
some on asphalt in which they keep
sinking down an inch or two a minute
some on asphalt so soft it is like quick
sand The stuff looks like a cross be
tween black mud and pitch The lake
Is 110 acres in size and its depth is tre
mendous The thick asphalt mixed
with water moves a little and now
and then an old tree comes slowly up
from the depths The men work with
pickaxes digging out the asphalt In
lumps the size of pumpkins
RopeinaUInp 2000 Years B C
The name of the first ropemaker and
that of the land in which he practiced
his art have both been lost to history
Before the beginning of the historical
period considerable skill had been ac
quired in that line Egyptian sculp
tures prove that the art was practiced
at least 2000 years before the time of
Christ
AVorse Than Broken
The American Tourist I suppose I
speak broken French eh Henri The
Waiter Not eggsactly msieur You
haf a word describes it bettaire let
me see ah yes it is pulverized
Puck
The Mean Man
The late Max OEell gave this advice
to bachelors Marry a woman smaller
than yourself Many a man couldnt
find one Milwaukee Journal
Feminine Esteem
When women like each other they
kiss when they love they do one an
others hair Lady Evans In London
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