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Dakota County Herald DAKOTA CUT, NEB. John H. Ream, - Publisher a. l in iw.mi .1 ii.i, ,m in i i rn Most of tho so-called tiocesnry evils fire unnecessary. Fools never know when to slop talk ing, but wise men always know when not to begn. A man says he lost $15 dinning 'n street car. lie can charge It up to running expense. Oasollne lootiniotlves nre coming next. I tlie public ready to exchange smoke for Ktiii'll? A Wall street brokerage firm gave ft reward to tint nuin who found and returned ?21.000 worth of securities. The $1, liownvcr, was rent money. A Hoehcster woman turned on the gas, drank poison, eut her throat and jumped out of a window. The indi cations are that aim wanted to die. A Missouri man claims to have found a process for liquefying coal. The coal trust, however, will continue to water fls stock In the usual way. One paper has wasted whole columns f good space In an attempt at de fining tho word "crank." A crank Is h man whose views differ from your own. A New York man has been sent to Jail because ho permitted his wife to support him. lie will no doubt become a strong advocate of iersonal liberty now. A camera inun who suei-eeds lit get ting a snapshot of the New York Cen tral paying a fine of flOil.OOO for re bating Might to bo nble to do a big Imslnoss with his prints. London physician says that people re not getting enough sleep. He wis not explicit, but It Is presumed he menus tho pooplo who llvo next door to the man that owns a plioungrapli. A Loudon doctor says every man should, hare a silent hour at home each day. There arc men who will lean to the opinion that It would bo easier to nave their silent hours away from fcomc. Mrs. Saga has given $1,000 to a church. It Is the first bequest she has made out of tho $70,000,000 which was left In trust to her. She will have to pass It out more rapidly than this if sIhj expects to get rid of all of It before slio dies. An Indianapolis boy who was Incor rigible has been made good by the re suovel of his tonsils. If tho surgeons can prove that similar oiratIona will niaka other bad boys good It may be reasonable to expect an linmedlata hoora la the tonsil-cutting Hue. Two 'Pittsburg Isiy who stole cv. eral hundred thousund dollars from a bank explained that they did It be. cause they had to associate with mil lionaires and couldn't make a decent allowing on tho $(K) a month that each of tliejtu was paid. It must be almost terrible, to have to live In a town where even the grocer's boy has to be a mil lionaire. Grangers and others Interested In farm products have proposed that a lay bo established which shall be ob served ns "Apple day." To celebrate this wholesome festival every good housewife would provide apples In soine, form, "pic, baked, raw or snsa." There U a commercial side to the Idea, for tho feast of the apple would mean an additional consumption of many thousand barrels. Hut beyond that consideration tho plun Is a pleasant ue. Officers of the army and navy re forbidden to uso their otllelul titles In the advertisements of business enter prises with which they are connected. Recently tho naval authorities Inform ed a retired olllcer that ho could not hnve his title used as tho name of a nine la Mexico, aud that If It was to appear on the list of directors his name must be printed without the naval rank. Now an ofIleer of the army has been Instructed to wlthdruw from a mining concern unless ho can arrange to havo bis name associated prominent ly In tho advertising matter of tho bust iiers without mention of the military title. Hack to tho farm as u plea from James 1. Hill, the "empire builder," Is a practical suggestion which takes Into account the transition of tho farmer from a rural resident who grows crops for want of something to do to a busl ncs man who subscribes to tho rules of commerce and adds to the modern appliances ho may purehnso a native Ingenuity whose extent determines the annual return ho wreaks from the soil. The leaning Is to day moro strongly back to the soil on the part of the young men thus trained and they are the ones on whom Mr. Hill may de is'iid for the execution of his plans or tho application of , his Ideas. As u matter of fact farming Is rapidly bo coming a business and the farmer a business inun. He succeeds or falls according to the quality and quantity of his business acumen. Turn Sawyer U dead. Long live Tom Sawyer. Tho boyhood playmnte and chum ct Murk Twain, who was made the hero of the story bcuriug his name grown to bo an old man of 70 years of ago died not long ago In San Fran Iseo. Tm Sawyer U dead. The white haired old fcllo.w who was recently buried, hint his day. What fun he oed his chum, Sain Clemens, must have had barring the house chores that luurt Is done. In the old. happy days at Hanulhal how they iiun-t have haunted the levee. And there were robber cave to explore and secret societies to or- inlzo and surreptitious clgurs to suiojce ad dime novels to read on the ijulet. Aud like other lioys, they escaped su unkind lata by the favor of I'rovldeuce. That was a long time ogo. And thai Tom Sawyer lies low In his Cnllfonl grave nnd that Sam Clemens Is quit an old boy now. Hut Ixing live Ton Sawyer! The real lsy of Hannibal live In a countless thousand heart, botli old and young. The flesh and blfyil Tom Sawyers merely touched the butti'i of Clemens' memory. The sweet fanfy of Mark Twain did the rest. How the real Tom Sawyer touches us as If be were flesh and lione! How tho boy w He red ble.od In his veins anil the renl man - responds to that real Tom Saw yer. Dear old Tom the real Toni will live so long ns boys shall live,-or so long ns men shall Tie glad In calling back the memory of ojd and happy days. Tom Sawyer Is dead. Iing live Tom Sawyer I 1 Admiral Itobley I). Evans was grad uated from the Cnlted States Naval Academy in 1-Sfill. He served In the Civil War and In the war with Spain, and has been attached to the navy for more than forty years. When a man has bad such nn experience his reflec tions on "Heroism In the Navy" will naturally cre.use much curiosity. What, It will be Inquired, were the nets that npjicnlcd to him as being heroic? nnd It Is n significant fact that most of then were acts that have brought small re ward either In money or glory. The conduct that made the deepest Impres sion on his ndnd was that of Dr. Long street at tho nssnult of Fort Fisher, nnd he tells his "story ns follows: "As far as the eye could reach the dead nnd wounded lay upon the sand, and those who had lost much blood cried out for water. Dr. Lo.ngstrcct wns trying to relieve this thirst by taking the can teens from the dead nnd passing them around among the brave lads; but the bullets were singing around his head, nnd I begged him to lie down. Ho kept on at his work, and had Just said, 'We will have you all off the beach to night,' when a bullet struck him In the head, killing him Instantly." The ad miral's comment Is that when he thinks of Longstrcct's constitutional bravery, his sense of duty and manly courage In trying to Jolly nlong his comrades who were half dead from their wound 4. he feels that no braver mau ever lived. "The help," he says, "which In a crisis like this wns the first to come, the sim ple, kindly, quiet deve,tlon to duty, look ing back nt It now, has Impressed me as the one thing of more value In the lesson of heroism than all the rest." It was undoubtedly nn unconscious heroism that Longstreet showed, aud It was of a kind fe,rtuuntely that Is not peculiar to ariules or navies, but that Is frequently noticed In civil life. Ths heroeB may not be threatened with the bullets of au cnmjr ns the doctor was, but, like him, they Jolly others along, are Actuated by a "simple, kindly, quiet devctlon to, duty" nnd are ready to sac rifice themselves as a matter of course. They find many chances aud take them, and die heroes ns truly as though they bad volunteered for some conspicuous, service on the field of battle. GAME ABUNDANT IN CUBA. Kit live Animals Few, but Varieties . of lllnla Number SOO. Throughout Culm game Is abundant. Deer, though not native, have nour ished and multiplied greatly. Itabblts are plentiful; also vl!d boar, so culled, the wild pig, the wild dog and the wild cat of the Island. Wild fowl, especially ducks nnd pigeons, abound, the former crossing from the Southern States dur ing the winter seasou, while the latter remain on the Island the year round, l'heasants, quail, snipe, wild turkeys aud wild guinea fowl urc also numer ous, with several varieties of game birds, such ns the erdlz, tojosas, ra blches aud the guauaros. The only distinctive native animal Is the Julia or huntla, ratlike In appear ance and black. U grows to a length of slxteu or eighteen Jtichcs, not Includ ing the tail. While eatable, It Is not es pecially palatablu. Cuba has more thau 200 species of native birds, Including those already mentioned as game birds, many pos sessing the most beautiful plumage, but those with soug are rare. In swampy localities crocodiles and American allgutors (caimans) are found, and although these frequently grow to an enormous size but little at tention Is paid to them by the natives. Chameleons, small lizards, tree toads and similar harmless Silurians of di minutive size are very common, while occasionally tlie Iguana and other large varieties of the lizard siiecles nro seen. Fed varieties of snakes exist lu Cuba. One of these, the maja, from ten to fourteen feet In length, Is a semldumcs tlcated reptile, If such a term may bo used, for It Is most frequently found atsmt tho huts, furui houses aud small villages, Its favorite living place being In the palm thatches of the old build ings, while Its favorite food is poultry. Another snake, mimed the Julio, Is more vicious In disposition thau tho maja, although never reaching more than one third Its size. It Is not poisonous. The other varieties uro still smaller lu size, are seldom seen and not venomous.- Havana Tost I'lrk-a-llack la Jaan. Taking care of little sister or lltth brother means much more to the chil dren e.f Japan thnn to those of this country. As a rule, the baby U fas tened to the luck of the elder child, even though the latter bo little more than a baby Itself. Although mere hoys and girls carry the tots around by the hour, they do not apparently suffer in health, but that may be the reason why the race does lle.t reach greater physical propor tions. mm rvtfi v-zt III Wealth. Magistrate You were hogging lu tno public streets, and yet you had fifteen shillings lu your pocket. Prisoner Yes, your worship, l may not be ns ludustilous us some, but Fid uo siKMidthrlfL IahmIoii F.xpm. B I if m . - 0LD DrlvliiK Home tlie ( im. Out of the clover anil tlm Mii'M j inI gras lit.' tuniril llii'in into the riv r line. One nfler another he let Ummi Then fastened l lie niemloiv 'mrs ag:iiii. I' ruler l!ie willows :tml over l!ie Mil lie piiiently followed their eoVi r t"e; Tlie merry wliNMe for one'1 was Hlilli And soinit!ii:i xliadotved the :imny fa.c Only a boy, nnd his father I. id id lie never eouM let his yoaiuest gi ; Two already were lying dead I'lider the feet of the tr:i;iiding fw. lint nfler the evening work vas done, Ami tlie frojj.H were Imul in the meadow swamp. Over his slumldir he slung iii pur And stealthily followed the footpath dump, Across the clover and through the wheat. With resolute henrt and purpose crim. Though cold was the dew nn hi: hurrying feet, And Hit- blind hat's flitting start led hi:u, Thrice sincn then had tho bines lieen white, And the orchards sweet with apple bloom ; And now, when (he emvs nnne hiek at night. The feeble father drove ih"tn home. I'or news had come to the lo:iely farm That three were lying wii.re two had lain : And the old man's treiiiiilnii, pnleinil arm ('ould never lean on a son's aiain. The slimmer dny lirew cool h ml late. Ho went for the cows when the work was done ; . lluf down the lane, ns he opened the gate. He saw them corning, one by one - Urimlle, Khony, Speckle and Vwr.. Shaking their horns in t'.in evening wind ; Cropping the buttercups out of the grass Hut who was it following lose behind? Ioosely swung in the Idle air The empty ideeve of army blue : And worn and pale, from the crisping hair, Looked out s face that the fattier knew. For gloomy prisons will soue-tinn- yawn And yield their dead unto life 'gain; And the day that coined -vi'li n cloudy dawn In golden glory at last inny whiic. The great tears sprang to iheir meeting eyes. For the heart must speak -.vren the lips are dumb; And under the silent evening Mines Together they followed the rut lie home. Ksto Putnam Osgood. TYROLESE CUSTOMS. ia-.allar Manner In Which l'roi al of Murrltiite Are Alnile. There Is 'an old custom prevailing among the Tyrolese regarding propos als of marriage. The first time a young man puys a visit as avowed lover he brings with him a Isiltlo or wine, of which he M)iirs out a glass and pre sents It to tho object of his desires. If she accepts it tlie whole nlTalr Is settled. Very often the girl has not vet miido tip her mind, and then she will tnko refuge lu excuses so as not to drink the wine and yet not refuse It point blank, for that Is considered a gross Insult, proving that she has been merely trifling with the affections of her lover. She will, for instance, maintain that th? wine "looks sour'' or that wine dlsagrecswlth her or that sho Is a frit Id of getting tipsy or that the priest has forbidden ler to take any In fact, she makes use of any subterfuge that pro Bents Itself at that moment. The purport of these excuses Is that she has not come to n decision and that the wine offering is premature. This slrauge custom, dating very far back according to one account, It was known as early as the ninth century Is called "bringing the wine" and Is synouymous with the net of propos ing. Shy lovers, loath to make sure of their case licforchnnd, (hid It a very happy Institution. Not a word iiood lie simkeu. and the girl Is spared the pain ful "No" of civilization. ' If any of the wine is spllied or tlie glass or bottle broken It Is isuisldcred a most unhappy omen in fact, there Is a iM'usant's saying for an uiiliiippy inarrlage. "They have spilled the wine between them." BRIDGE WITH THREE ENDS. Onljr One lu llnlteil Slairn t iiiiueem Purls of an Ohlik Tiiwi, Klght In the middle of n city lu Ohio one river empties Into another, and su the city Is divided Into three purls, it is really three towns sitting "catacor nered" to each other, with the waters between them. One river Is the mur muring Muskingum, hurrying along be tween its big echoing hills, and the oth er Is the lazy Licking, llowlng quietly between green garden banks and osier fit Ids and overhanging trees. Itoth of them have mills to turn. The blue Muskingum spreads out in the sun an,', si.lnes like a mirror above Its mil! dam and then It tumbles down with n roar as it turns the mill and hurries away over the rocks us If It were angry at being caught and put at such a tusk. Hut the Licking spills Itself snioolhly itito the Muskingum aud slugs happily at Its work. ro ymi see even the lazy Licking does not get past here without dolug some work, for tho Inhabitant nre ve.-y Industrious. Then the rive .-a unite their waters and make a stream deep enough to Ihmt barges full (1f envkery aud steamlsHits laden with all the things they make here, down to th" Ohio and thence to the- Mississippi t.nd uwny to the Gulf of Mexico. Now, wheu It came to building a bridge to join that city together the wise men of the place saw that It would havo t be a bridge with three ends. A queer bridge that would lie. Indied, for who ever beard of a bridge with more thau two ends to IO There was not 1111 11 1 , '!i ).." II such n thing In the Culled States. P.ut they had to hnve It ami so they made it. And It wns the only bridge of the kind In the world except one lu Swit zerland tint Is scjnewhat like It. To look at It one would think that each town bud started to build a bridge o'lt to the others and nil three bridges had met In the middle of the river. L:ieh part of the brldiro find four ball wajx, two big ones fe.r horses and twi little one fi r people walking. It had a ' shingled roof over nil the length of It Mini windows In the sides, so that It was a sort of house bridge. When it rained yi.il could go out on the rlv.r mid I' out of the wet. Where the bridges came together there was n l!g room out In the middle of the river, wil'i tlio'twclve hallways opening Into it i 'an yen Imagine what a roomful of iioi-.-es and wagiis and people Unit was. with the people of three towns nil cross ing from hall to hall ns they came r.n 1 went In different directions? Kverv body In the three parts of the city had lo come out here whenever they went t any e.f tl,e others. And so they all niei in the nsmi out In the middle of the river, no matter where they wcr coming from or where they were going to. SI. Nicholas. THE BLACK BALL. A I lever Scheme Tllnl Was tolled In tbu Drawl nit. Two young men in a French village were called on to draw for conscrip tion, one only was wanted to com plete the number, and of the two who were to draw one was the son of a rich farmer and the other the child of n poor widow. The farmer Ingratiated himself with the MitM-rluteiidcnt of the ballot and promisiil him a present If lie could find means to prevent his sou from going in the army. In order to accomplish this the ollklnl put Into the urn two black bulls instead of one white and one black ball. When the young men came, lie said : "There are two balls, one blink and one white, In the urn. He who draws the black one must serve. Your turn is llrst," pointing to the widow's sou. The bitter, susiSM-tlug that all was not fair, approached the urn and drew one of the balls, which he Immediately swallowed without looking nt It. "Why," said the superintendent, have you done that? How are we to know- whether you have drawn a black or a white ball?" Oh. that's very easy to discover." was the reply. "Let the other now draw. If I have the black, he must necessarily draw the white one." There was no help for It, and the farmer's son. putting his hand Into the tirn. drew the remaining ball, which, to the satisfaction of the sMK'tators, was a black one. FOREIGN JOHN SMITHS. Nearly Kvery utltn linn a Peculiar Mnuner of Selllu III !N mile. Of all the families of the earth prob ably there Is none moro numerous than ili.it of Smith, nnd of all the Smiths lu the world It seems that at least 50 per cent have been chlsteued John. If the name were not so common we should probably admire It and see It through a glamour, as we do ninny other names that are not half as solid and substan tial. As It Is, plain John Smith is not very high-sounding; It does not suggest aris tocracy. It Is not the name of any hero in die-away novels; yet It Is good nnd honest. Transferred to other languages It seems to climb the ladder of rosiiec tilblllty. Thus lu Latin It Is Johannes Smith us; the Italian smoothes It off Into Oiovaiini Smith!; the Spaniards render it .1 nun Snilthus; the Oermaii adopts it as Hans Schmidt: the French flatten It out Into .leau Stuccts ; tho Uussiaii. turns It Into .lonlofr Sinltowski; the Icelanders say he Is Jahiine Snilthson. Among the Tuscaroras he liocoinos Tain tjlia Smlttin: lu Poland be Is known Ivan SchinlttlweisUI ; among the Welsh 1 mountain they call htm Jlhom ! Schmidt; lu Mexico bis name Is written ' .lontll F'Smltri; In Greece ho turns to Foil Slnlkton: In Turkey he Is almost disguised as Yoo Seef. Knbinaon Crunoe. The second volume of ' Uobinson Crusoe." by Daniel Ie Foe, published on Aug. ''i, 1S70. was the first story published In Kngland with illustra tions. The Illustrations consisted of a map of the world. In which the differ ent voyages of the hero of the tale were delineated. The first volume of "Kohluson Crusoe' was published in April. 1710, and lscame iiipular "at once. A second edition was printed j seventeen days after the first, twenty live days later another followed, nnd a' fourth was published on Aug. 8 of the same ear. On Aug. 20. the second volume was issued under the title of "Tlie Further Adventures of Uoblnson Crusoe; Isdng the second and last part of his life and of the strange, surpris ing account of Ids travels round three parts of the globe. Written by him self. To which Is added a map f the world. In which Is delineated the voy age of Uoblnson Crusoe." riunla (hut Take I'llls. A very large and sturdy orange tree was growing lu a small jiot. "If that tree," said tlie florist, "didn't take pills It would require a pot as big as a bathtub to grow n. Kut it takes pills like a hypochrondrlac. "Chemists, agricultural experts now make plant pills, pills no bigger than chestnuts, that contain sustenance for six months, a kind of tabloid food. These chemists analyze a plant's ash, and make pills of the constituent salts. The pills, inclosed lu a metal cover, are burled lu the earth at the plant's routs, aud tho salts gradually dissolve and diffuse through the metal, giving the plants day by day the sustenance that they require. "Pills are also applied to weak, sick ly plants, which they help wonderfully." Tuu llnrlr, let. He And so they are engaged to be married? She Yes. "Has be given her a diamond ring?" "She's wearing o::. but I dou t know whether he's given it to her or uot. They're ue.t married yet, you know," Tonkers Stutesmau. eTT-s. Jk MM n m u. i r v-r )raf.-:-' Marvels of Invention in these times are looked upon as matters of fact. The announcement of the discovery of the X-ray ten years ago was indeed nt first viewed with some Incredulity; but when the proof wns quickly produced, the world wns rendy to liellevc any thing. Wireless telegraphy was accept ed ns a matter of course ; wireless tel ephony Is now expected speedily to be made available. There Is almost noth ing too extravagant to be Impossible for science, so far as the average man Is concerned. Yet while these views are held of science, the ordinary person attending nn exhibition of conjuring cannot escape a secret thrill In the presence of the possibly uncanny. What he sees there are illusions, and deceptions. lie knows that Kellar, for Instance, has to get along without su pernatural help. Everything the stage magician accomplishes is a trick, and the fascination of the exhibition Is to be found chiefly in the universal curios ity which muses each spectator to de sire to know how the illusion was per formed, and partly In the old credence lu the miraculous powers of black art. One may hazard a "guess" as to the method employed in one Illusion or another, but he Is not likely to know whether or not his surmise is correct, for tho secret of the tricks is their greatest value, and the simplicity of most of them would, were It generally known, lessen the desire to see them. The average book of magic Is a tan tnllzlng treatise to a person who "wants to know." it will give the explanation of hundreds of tricks no longer exhib ited, and will describe those which may still be effective in terms so vague that their mystery Is, If niiythlng. made Teener. Revelation In Mnirle. An exception to the rule Is "The Old and the New Magic," by Henry Kldgely Evans, which has been published by the Open Court Publishing Company of Chicago. This is a very chatty nnd il luminating volume, but, nt times. Its author takes it for granted that the reader is nn adopt However, it is a very enjoyable but brier view of magie and magicians of nil times. The modus operandi of some famous Illusions or tricks Is given, nnd. excepting to the professional or amateur who has fol lowed stage magic closely, the book will prove a revelation. One of the most simple but startling tricks Bbown on the stage Is Thurston's "defiance of the laws of gravitation." Having made his etitrance by giving some feats of card manipulation, he suspends a large ball In the air like Mahomet's coffin. It Is apparently un attached to anything, for the magician passes a hoop about the ball. As he crosses the 6tnge the ball follows blm 1 And accompanies him as he makes bis exit The feat Is accomplished by a stream of compressed air. It Is very simple, but it requires great skill to reproduce. Herrmann' Uuo Illusion. The gun Illusion, performed by tlie late Alexander Herrmann, was perhaps one of the most sensational feats ever presented. A squad of soldiers, under the command of a sergeant or corporal, comprised the tiring party. The guns were apparently loaded with genuine cartridges, the bullets of which had been previously marked Tor Identifica tion by various spectators. The sol diers stood upoli n platform erected In the center of the theater, and Herr mann stationed himself upon the stage. The guns were fins I at htm, and he ap parently caught the balls upon a plate. I'pou examination the balls were found to lie still warm from the effects of the explosion and the marks were Identified upon them. The substitution of the show cartridges, which were loaded Into the guns, for the genuine ones, wis very subtly executed by menus of a trick salver having a small well let Into its center to hold the cart ridges. Into this well the marked cart ridges were dejsislted by the spectators. In the Interior of the salvor was a second compartment loaded with blank cartridges. The sergeant w ho collected tlie bullets fchlftcd the compartment by means of a peg' underneath the salver ts bo walked from tlie niulieuce to the stage. The sham cut ridges were now brought to view, and the real were hidden in the bisly of the salver. While the soldiers were engaged In loading their rifles with the blank cartridges the sergeant went behind the side scene STACK DKCAPITATION. iBLACKAim Exposed to get his run nnd dossil the salver A couple of nsslstants extracted the genuine bullets and heated them. Herr mann went to the wing to get the plate, nnd secretly semred the marked bul lets. Tlie rest of the trick consisted In working up the dramatic cfTects. Conjuror Mnxt lie Actor. A grcnt deal of the success In a trick such as this is due to the dramatic ef fects Introduced by the wonder worker. The conjurer must l.e something of an actor as well as a c!cer sleight-of-hand pirformer. Herrmann was always hap py in Ills "patter," th; technical name for the magician's running conversa tion, lie was a goisl bit of a comedian, and consequently wns able to distract tho intention of his audience from something he did not wish them to ob serve, lie wns not the first to make we of the bullct-cntchlng trick, which real ly was invented by Hohert lloudln, and also used by Anderson. However, Herr mann mnde it the great feature of bis entertainment, and by performing It but seldom ndded to its Interest, for It wns believed by his audience that be placed Ids life In Jeopardy every time bo performed the feat. Excepting the card nnd coin manipu lators and the parlor magicians, the stage professor of the black art carries with blm many tons of paraphernalia. The lightest, airiest effects ore the re sults of elaborate and heavy apparatus, and the modern thaumaturglst must be accompanied by many mechanics and unseen assistants, as well as by the chief assistants whom the spectators notice. The confederate, as he was once known, Is unnecessary nowadays. The gentlemen who go upon the stage from the audience to tie knots are all of them very Innocent, Indeed. There Is no need of confederacy, for the trick Is really a genuine, carefully planned feat, and does not depend upon any col lusion on the part of some one placed in the audience. Some Peata of Kellar. Kellar as a young man was assistant to the famous Davenport P.rothers, and he reproduces some of their cabinet "mysteries" with considerable and more effective Improvements. It Is explained th.it the Davenport Brothers accom plished their feats by secretly taking up slack in the rope while It was being tied, thereby getting a loophole in the bonds through which to work one hand loose. Frequently they cut the cords with knives secreteil In their sleeves. Those who have seen Kellar's dexterous performance may form their own Ideas as to whether or not he achieves bis results hi this way. A master magician like Kellar usual ly Improves upon the tricks he adopts. Thus Kellar's automaton "Psycho" Is not Identical with Maskelyne's, which has been explained, although not be yond dispute. Kempclen's automaton chess player, which caused a sensation In Europe In the eighteenth century, was of very difficult construction. Au expose of Kempelen's masterpiece show ed that It wns operated by a man who was skillfully concealed In the machine. The present-day "Psycho". Is under no ft. OMninff f(W Pj. O. T;lp.t Siu4 FulUy Arrangement HYPNOTISM OB MECHANISM 7 such suspicion, being merely a product of mechanical ingenuity and a thorough knowledge of psychics. l.evltallon and Fllht. In adopting tlie celebrated "levlta tlon" mystery Kellar h"s also introduced Improvements. It Is ft very surprising feat, and as first used by Kellar may Ive explained by the diagram shown. An assistant Is Introduced, laid on an ottoman and then sent oSf Into a hyp notic trance? This part of tho feat, it may bo explained, Is the dramatic "leading up," a necessary feature In every sensational conjuring trick. The performer takes nn ordinary fan and fans the body while It rises slowly about four feet In the air, where It mysteriously remains for any length of time desired. A large solid steel hoop Is given for examination, and after the audience Is satisfied as to Its genuine ness it Is passed over the body from head to feet, behind the body and over It again, at once dispelling the idea of wires or any other tangible support usodv tho body, ns it were, Journeying through the hixip each time. It will be noticed that the cranked bar Is the soul of the illusion. Houdinl, the "Handcuff King," who, by the way, Is an American, has aston ished even the police by the rapidity and ence with which he sheds hand cuffs with which he allows himself to be fettered. Handcuffs are supplied with spring locks, and can only le open ened by means of a key. As a matter of fact, lloudlnl relieves himself of bis "bracelets" by using keys which he se crets about bis clothing. The costume EVOLUTION OF THE af lit whfch be performs Is provided ir'1 sundry small pocket especially made for the purpose, and m arranged that be Is able to place bis hand upon some one or other of them In whatever tlon be may be. No matter how fee may be burdened with his steel fetters, Houdinl finds a way to dexteriously withdraw a key. Insert It In tlie Iik-Us and relense bis bonds. One of the "big" sensational fc.aU which was used by Ilerrninnn, among others was De Kolta and Maskelyne's illusion, called "Ulack Art; or, the Ma hatmas Outdone." The paraphernalia for this act Is considerable, but the success of the performance rests upon, the histrionic ability nnd tlie dexterity of the performers. The stage Is ill bung In black. Sis?clal exposed foot lights and sidelights prevent one peer-' Ing Into the mystic darkness beyond. Furniture nnd human beings nre pro duced niid vanished at a word, and a lady Is "decapitated." An assistant, dressed in black velvet ond wearing black gloves and a black hood. Is In the. r. part men t all the time. When n chair is to be produced he quickly whisks oft the black velvet cover which bud con cealed it. and, behold, a white chnir is In plain view. Throughout the sccau the performer Is attired in white. WORK AMONG MOSLEMS. Question 1)IkciipI nt an America Iloanl Blectlnic. Following closely upon the accept ance of Mr. I.eihmau as ambassador at Constantinople conies the announce ment of the new uttltudo of the Amer ican board toward mission work among the Moslems In Turkey, says the. New York Tribune. Hitherto it has been feared that Moslem' fanaticism might result lu vio lence against the missionaries at the front If it were plainly stated that this hoard Is endeavoring through Us mis sionaries to make Jesus Christ kuown to the followers of Mohammed. For nearly four score and ten years the board has maintained a silence that has been misinterpreted both In the. east nnd In the west. Widely has the uncontradicted but erroneous state-: uient been circulated that "mission! boards arc not working for the Christ- lanlzatlon of Moslems," nnd that "ao Moslems become Christian." There is even a wide difference ef opinion among the missionaries and' the friends of the board as to the wis dom of discussing this question lierej Some fear It mny result In open fanati cal violence against missionaries In Turkey and elsew here, while others be lieve that the time has come wheu the board should speak boldly nnd frauktyj Last April witnessed a long step in advance In the conference In ,Cnlroj Kgypt, where some seventy delegates assembled from all over the world to discuss this question. Since tho coo-' ference was In a Moslem country, se-' crecy was maintained at that time prevent the breaking up of the gather ing. Two volumes are soon to be IB sued, giving to the world n full repoet of proceedings of the first world con ference of Christians upon the subject of Mohammedanism and Its relation t Christianity. Printline Vrtmm In Tibet. When approaching Tibet from 1 i the valley on the west a correspondent patd a visit to n monastery, there far famed for its printing press, says the Times' o,f India. In winter the press does no work, probably because the Ink cannot be' kept from freezing, nnd we are disap pointed In our hopes of witnessing the manner In which sacred literature Is' manufactured lu Tibet. All around a big hall are arranged In shelves the printing blocks, which are simply rectangular pieces of wood up on which a whole page of lettering has been carved. When in action a block Is held In a vise and .then leverea by hand upon the paper, where It leaves a facsimile of the carving on Its face. The process Is simple and expedi tious, and several fat volumes can be printed In a day. Rut the blocks, oj which there are very many tho'i.'nds,' represent long and patient labor, their workmanship and finish being very fine. Of the usual adjuncts of a print ing press there are none at Nartank monastery except that unwashed con dition of some of the monks aud all of the attendants entitles them to rant with printers' devils. laefnl Teeth. . Many different reasons nre assigned by people for their unwillingness to submit to. the extraction of teeth. But it wns no fear of pain which was up permost In the mind of Miss Mehltable Lamson of Willowby, when told by the dentist -that she would be much bene fited by the loss of two of her promi nent teeth. "Yo,u say they can't be filled," she said. In evident distress, "aud you couldn't get any others In for me f;r more'n a fortnight?" The dentist admitted, reluctantly that It was so. "Well, then, I supivoso I'll have to get on as best I can," and Miss Mehit ahle seated herself In the torture-chair.: "But I don't see how I shuil make out Here I am, chambermaid to the Willow by Inn during tho summer, and It's chock-full of folks, with lots o' traa stents coming nnd going aud those ar my pillow-case teeth !" Not Among the Kllarlblea. Edith You would hardly know Bob bie since ho got back from Kurojie. U lost all his money tlire and Ethel Hardly know him why, I; shau't know him at all! New York Press. v There's nothing quite so foolish as) au angry fool. LION OF THE HOUR. i