A the World
ReVolVe$
XV oman Fencer to XOed,
Mls3 (Irrtco Pomoroy, whoso engage
mcnt lo Philip Clark has Just been
nnn ounce d, Is
known as tho moat
export all-around
womnn athlete In
tho United States.
At tho Bamo tlmo
Miss Pomoroy, who
Is wealthy, is a
favorlto In Now
York b o c 1 o t y.
Among tho feats
which nho has to
tier credit Is the Ullllnk, ninglo-hnudcd
mill with one rlllo shot, of a grizzly
Jicur near her camp at Glen
wood Springs, Colo. Sho Is also
n famoim cross-country rider and
Inng-dlstnnco Bwlmmor. Ono of
lior most unl()iin claims to dis
tinction In nn nthletlc way la tho fact
that tho best known tenchors of fenc
ing In tho country declare her to bo,
Without exception, tho best woman
fencer In tho United States, "capablo
of fencing with nny man, no matter
how export, without expecting that
favor bo shown hor becauso she Is n
woman." Miss Pomcroy Is a Cincin
nati girl, whlln her prospective hus
band, Philip Clark, Is a native of St.
I0lllS.
Chree to Ubuo Minute tSrotters.
Within tho memory of living man a
thrco-mlmito trotter wns pretty sure to
throw his dust In the faco of anything
on the road. Then cntno tho porlod
whon "2.M0 tall over tho dashboard"
was cxprceslvo of tho limit of the trot
lor's speed. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
In his poem on "Contcntmont," re
marked that ho would bo satisfied with
a nng that could do 2:40, though a fow
heconda less would hnvo given htm the
polo against all rivals.
Dut tho real attack of tho trotter on
tlmo began with Flora Tcmplo's step
ping out of tho 2!30 class and estab
lishing n record from which tho des
cent has been almost by single seconds
or fractions of seconds down to that of
Crcsceus this year. How tho seconds
hnvo been clipped off Is shown In the
following table:
1850 Flora Temple 2.244
1859 Flora Templo 2-10
1865 Dexter 2:18Vi
18C0 Dexter 2:18
18C7 Dexter 2:17V
1871- Goldsmlth Maid 2:17
1872 Goldsmith Maid 2:10
1874Wold8mlth Maid 2:14
1878 riarus 2: 134
1879 St. Julian 2:llVk
1880 Maud S 2:10
1881 Maud 8 2:10V
1884 Jay-Eyo-Bco 2 10
1884 Maud S 2:09
1885 Maud fl. 2!08
1891- Sunol 2:08
1892 Nancy Hanks 2:07
1892 Nancy Hanks 2:05
1892 Nancy Hanks 2:04
1894-AHx 2:04
1894 Allx 2:03
1900 Tho Abbot 2:03
df01 Orescous 2:02
1901 Grosceus 2:02
tho most romarkcblo showing of
this tablo Is that which gayo to Maud
8. hor title of "Queen of tho Turf,"
which Bho hold for no leas thau ton
years, tho record of Jay-Eyo-Soo not
standing long enough to constltuto a
flaw In It.
Tho present champion of tho turf
holds not only tho record for tho fast
est tlmo over mado by n trotter, but
tho fastost heat in a raco, tho fastest
second boat, tho fastost two-boat raco
and the fastost threo-heat race. His
ouduranco Is as romarkablo an his
speed,
JacKfit Cost S300.000.
Mile. , Fagette, who lately made her
debut Ik Purls, a few days ago re-
FAQETTH JACKET.
oelvod a prosout of a bewitching bo
loro jacket, which It la said cost l.OOOy
000 franca, about 1300,000.
It la covered with diamonds and
, pearls, emornlds utid sapphires, rubles
mid turquQlsos.
It was placed on exhlbttlpu In the
window ot a Jeweler In tho Avonue do
ltOpera, where It attracted crowds.
Anthony Overton of Kansas City,
Kan., declare that "trusts hnvo holp
ed the negro." Mr, Overton, hiinsolf
a negro, said this at the final session
, of the National Negro uuainosa i,cugu
lu Chicago last Friday. Ho uxplalncd
that the great comblnea had prevoutod
fluctuations In prices, with tho result
that the colored dealer could better
know hi ground. The comblnos holp
4A negro manufacturers ateo by roduc
"lag competition and la this, connection
he declared tut cue great sieei com
Mne had proved a good thing for the
egr.
'Pa.rtoramci. I
"Descendants of a Hero in XXJant.
James Lawrence, Commander of the
frigate Chesapeake In tho war of
1812, won an Im
mortal placo In
history whon, In
tho fight with tho
Urltlsh man-of-war
Shannon, ho was
mortally wounded,
and, with his dying
breath, cried out;
"Don't glvo up tho
ship." A splendid
monument to Cap
tain Lawrence
stands nt tho entrance
Trllnlty
church In New York.
Meanwhile, thrco llttlo boys, Clar
onco, Lester, and Isaac Iawrcncc, 8, C,
and 4 years old, great-grandsons of tho
famous sea captain, have been living
for moro than two yenrs In tho St.
Dnrnnbns Homo, an Institution for de
pendent children on Mulberry street,
Now York. Tho boys nro half-orphans,
their father bolng doad and their
mother nt present working as a ser
vant In a Now York family.
Perpetual Motion Machine.
An Improved automatic or self-acting
gravity wheel Is tho modest tltlo
of an Invention by Herbert Hose of
Australia, which has recently been pat
ented nil over tho world, and which, it
tho claims of Its Inventor nro realized,
promises to supersede steam as a mo
tive power.
Tho Invention relates to tho con
struction of a gravity wheel, with con
centric rings, secured to nrms radiat
ing from tho conter. These arms or
weights net as balanco and driving
overs and aro so nicely arranged
thooo on tho downward grade being
two-thirds heavier than thoso on tho
pwnrd grado In action that n natural
falling of tho weights on tho former
grado Insures perpetual motion.
A cessation of tho driving force can
only bo effected by provontlng tho
weights from falling, and this Is done
by a very simple contrlvuuco in tho
form of n spring which acts on all tho
weights simultaneously. Taking a
heel forty foot In diameter and three
feet wldo, It Is estimated thut It will
carry 1,050 weights and that tho driv
ing power will bo equal to 1,443 tons
from tho conter of tho wheel. Tho
THE MOTOR WHEEL.
cost ot construction Is about one-sixth
tho cost ot machinery for steam power,
and It Is also claimed that the now
motlvo powor will reduce tho working
oxpoiibch 95 por cent.
Tho working model has been sub
jected to continuous tests, ns It Is ap
parently capable, like tho brooks, of
"going on forever." which of course Is
what Is expected ot an Invention
claiming to constitute a solution of
tho secret ot perpetual motion,
Bh youni Man's Chances,
A western weekly of national clrcu
latlon Iibb an Interesting symposium lu
reply to tho question, "What aro tho
young man's chunceaT" Tho conclu
ston ot the contributors, In which tho
editor joins, la that "a young mnn's
opportunity in tho business world wcro
novor more numerous, attractive or
conspicuous." Tho Conservative, how
ever, wnrna young men against tho
falsa notion that success can bo at
talned without hard work, and espe
cially does it warn them against Bpec
illation, lu which where few succeed
thousands rail. Tho successes nro
blazoned to tho world, tho fnllures are
seldom heard of; they aro tho wrecks
that atrow tho wnyeldo to which small
heed la paid In the tierce competition
ot II to.
A 70,000 Camera.
A Arm of manufacturers ot photo
graphic apparatus lu London, Eng.
have recently completed for tho Sultnn
ot Morocco two cameras, ono n quor-
tor-plato and tho other a half-plnte
which hold tho record as being tho
most clnborate and expensive ever
manufactured. The half-plate
Is
mounted lu silver whllo the quarter
plato fittings are till solid gold even
to tho screws and plate holders, the
camoru ltsolf being enclosed in
dainty cauo of white Morocco leather
The halt plate coat 900, and tho
quarter plate no lesa than 2,100.
C '"Rate"for Athletics.
President Uarrowa of Oborlln bo
llevos thut the "rag"" for athletics will
bo overruled for good; that we'll form
tho outdoor habit und bo the hcalthlor
for it. "If I had the ear ot the lend
Ing business men ot America," he says
"I would whisper lu It as the wisest
counsel r know to men over fifty years
ot ago, Golf first and business after
ward.' This menus longer lived, moro
successful, happier and better Amcrl
ji
to
can cltlxens."
People and
T Ettent
Exhibits a Mystic Votuer.
The power to move Inanimate ob
jects by sheer force ot will Ib generally
discredited by people who liavo not
seen tho performance with their own
eyes. Vlggo Lclcho Is a Dano 23 years
old. Ho nrrlvcd at Alto Paso, 111,, re
cently from Copenhagen to visit his
undo, C. Jcsson, n fruit package man
ufacturer there.
Lclcho had been there only a short
tlmo when his weird mental powers
began to "astonish the natives." Ho
first performod la a drug storo down
town, says a telegram from Alto Paso.
His undo heard of It and scouted tho
Idea of its reality. A few evenings lat
er ho repeated his "show" In his
uncle's home and completely routed
that worthy man's skepticism regard
ing his power. In performing at his
uncle's homo ho used nn Iron poker
sovernl feet long and qulto heavy.
Standing it against tho wall at an nnglo
of 15 degrees, ho sentcd himself n few
feet distant, focused his oyes on tho
top of tho poker and within a fow sec
onds It began trembling, then gradu
ally rose to n perpendicular position.
After standing still n moment it moved
toward him In short Jumps, Ho can
affect any wood or metal object such
as umbrellas, canes, etc., In tho samo
way. A short tlmo beforo going to
bed Is tho only tlmo ho can bo Induced
VIGGO LEIC11E,
(Youth Who Moves Inanlmato Objects
by Will Power.)
to practice Ills strnngo powor, as it
makes him deathly sick unless ho can
go to sleep a short tlmo afterward.
Minister Wu on Woman.
Wu Ting-fang, tho Chlncso minister
to Washington, Is showing that ho Is
nt homo in almost nny field ot ora
tory. Ono of his lntcst efforts was
made at u dinner In New York city re
cently, when ho wns called upon to
respond to "Tho Ladles." In tho
courso ot n short but exceedingly
graceful speech ho snld:
"When I seo so many beautiful wo
men confronting mo and I am called
upon to bo tho gallant of tho moment,
what can I say but that I wish for that
moment only thut I wero not a China
man, I should llko to bo an Ameri
can ns I stand here, so that each
one of you would appear aa boautlful
to mo as you actually must when soon
through your countrymen's eyes. Alasl
tho slight difference In tho forma
tion ot my orbs cannot do jiiBtico to
tho Impression you make upon me, In
dividually and Jointly and severally.
but there aro some well-nourished fig
ures nnd form?, among you that really
nppear to bo as lino us tho best that
my own fertile country has produced.
And your intelligence and souls, I am
told, which aro hidden under your In
tricate fashionable appnrol, aro moro
beautiful oven than your forms. May
you all feel tho depth nnd sincerity of
my ndmlratlon, nnd mny your youth
ful looks and honornblo years always
walk hand In nana."
Mrs Kevpcl to S'ee "Races.
Mrs. George Kennel, tho noted En
Usli society womnn and special frlond
ot King Edward, who arrived on the
steamship Etrurla tho other day, came
expressly to witness tho yacht races
Sho Is a close friend of Sir Thomas
MRS. GEORGE KEPPEL.
(Popular Urltlsh Society Leader In
Attendance at Yacht Races In
New York.
Upton and, ot courso, Is anxious that
ho should lift tho Americas cup.
Mrs. Koppel la n beuutitul and ac
compllshcd woman who wlclda great
intluonco In tho court ot St. James. She.
Ib ub courageous as aho is pretty, as
was shown during tho rocont accident
on the royal yacht, when cho and the
klmr almost lost their lives by tho fall
Ing of a mast across tho deck. She
displayed great coolness nnd did not
faint, ns did somo ot tno oiner women
on board.
EOOK.K.EETIJSTG
MACHINE.
The bookkeeper Is on tho toboggan
Blldc. Tho advance in labor-saving
machlnory bar. finally reached his
sphere and warned him that he must
scok other occupation. Tho latest piece
ot mechanism to Invade tho larger
cities consists of machines which dis
pense with bookkeepers In largo es
tablishments and porform their labor
through the medium of nn operator
and a typewriter. Ono of tho machines
In an ordinary establishment does
away with tho labor of two men; an
other dispensing with the lnbor of
eight men.
Tho first machine, under the direc
tion of an ordinary typowrltlst, makes
out n bill, copies tho Invoice perma
nently In a book, nnd makes a perma
nent sales sheet copy. Tho work Is
all done In typewriting and In perma
nent books. The second machlno
makes a sales dopy, an original, a du
plicate and a triplicate bill of lading,
a platform order, a factory shipping
order, a bag-room order, n loading or
der and a car card. Still a third ma
chine, Of which Marshall Field has
taken thirty, makes ono bill a month
adding tho Items day by day,- record
ing the dato nnd salesman's number by
a lock nrrangomont which makes It
Impossible for the operator to enter a
series of items without dating tho
samo and entering tho salesman's
number, enters alb credits in rod ink,
and carries 1,200 accounts at ono tlmo.
A Tonnessoo bank cashier Is respon
sible Inr the Invention of these ma-
CkABru t
nut tft n MttaitlntM. t
iitttti r ituiki , mMiti
Undo Sam has been prying Into tho
Inner life of tho humblo potato and
after a most thorough and rigid ln-
ostlgatlon declares in tho year book
of the Department of Agriculture that
tho potato Is a deserving nnd ex
tremely valuable member of tho com
munity. Just nt this time when tho
country Is in tho throes of n potnto
famine, tho deductions of Uncle Sam
will bo of special Interest.
Scientific Investigation on the part
ot tho government has shown that tho
practice, which has become so gcncrnl,
of serving potatoes with meat and
other similar foods which contain lib
eral amounts of protein Is based upon
correct principles, ono food supplying
tho deficiencies of the other. Potatoes
and other foods containing carbo
hydrates are sometimes objected to on
tho ground that they aro starchy foods
and do not supply much nitrogenous
matorlal. It should bo remembered,
howovor, that the potato does contain
by no menus Inconsldornblo amount
of protein, and further that carbo
hydrates aro an essential part ot a
well regulated diet.
Tho potato called In different regions
whlto potato, Irish potato, English po
tato, or round potato was first Intro
duced Into Europo betweon 1580 and
1686 by tho Spaniards, and nttorwarus
by the English about tho tlmo ot Ra
leigh's voyages to Virginia. It Is com
monly bolloved to bo a native ot Chile.
Wild potato plants closely resembling
thoso cultivated today aro still found
thero, though It Is a fact worthy of
mention that, as tho potato has beon
modified by cultivation, it has largely
lost tho powor of producing seods, and
f Hotou Sa,n1o4?-T)ufnont Escaped Tiecrth A
The Illustration printed herewith,
sketched by a Pnrls artist, Bhows how
tho Intrepid Drazlllan aeronaut, M.
Santos-Dumont, cscapod from death
by his airship. "Santos-Dumont V.,"
bolng caught between two houses nt
Passy In falling. M. Santos-Dumont
wns trying to win with tho airship of
his own Invention tho Doutsch prize
of )20,000. Ho had succeeded In round
ing tho Eiffel tower with difficulty, but
his balloon was then unable to make
headway against tho strong wind
which was blowing, and It foil ou ono
of tho new houses near tho Trocadoro
and close to tho Solno. Luckily tho
tramo of tho car caught In one ot tho
walls, where It remained susponded.
Dut for this, M. Santos-Dumont would
probnbly hnvo beon killed. As It was,
ho was In a moat dangerous position
for over half an hour, hanging In mid
air In tho small wicker basket which
forms tho car. Here he clung until res
cued by Borne workmen, who climbed
over tho roofs of tho ndjolulng houses
and lot down tho guldo ropo, which had
fallen on tho roof of thebulldlngstruck
by the balloon, Santos-Dumont fasten
ed tho ropo about his body and was,
with somo difficulty, haulod up to a
place of safety by tho workmen.
Several colonies of stlngless bees
have been discovered lu tho Isl
and of Montscrrat, In tho West In
dies. Efforts nro being mndo to in.
troduco them in this country, as their
honey-producing qualities are tully
equal. 10 mose or tne common variety
of bee.
A BOOKKEEPING
chines. His namo is Fisher, and he
Uvea at Athens. Somo years ago, look
ing through a postofflco window, ho
noted a clerk cancelling stamps with
a hand stamp. Ho wondered why tho
samo work could not bo dono by ma
chinery. From that point his thoughts
iitrtk tu u muaf , a. aalto tf rw hiiu with at.... n.iM
la fc4UmtMU!aj , aaUaafaartltUraHktt tUU a. tUa r liaraatU?
tho cultivated potato differs from tho
wild in seldom producing seed bearing
fruits.
The edible portion of tho potnto Is
mado up of 78.3 per cent water, 2.2 por
cent protein (total nltrogonous mat
ter), 0.1 por cent is mndo up of crudo
fiber and materials which In somo of
tholr modifications constltuto tho cell
walls of plants nnd glvo thorn a rigid
structure. Thcso figures, llko others
for composition of food materials, rep
resent general avornges, from which
thero aro wldo variations in Individual
specimens. Though tho skin, cortical
layer, and flesh differ Bomowhat In
composition, they nil resemble moro
or less closely that ot tho wholo tuber.
When potatoes aro Btorod thoy un
dergo a shrlnkngc. According to tests
mado nt tho Michigan agricultural ex
periment stntlon, this amounted to
11.5 por cent when thoy wcro kept In
storage from Sept. 30 to May 1. This
ohrlnkngo Is probably duo to the loss
of water by evaporation.
To obtain tho highest food value po
tatoes should not bo peeled before
cooking. When, potatoes nro peolod
beforo cooking and placed directly in
hot water and boiled rapidly less loss
of material is sustained than when
thoy are cooked in water cold at tho
start. Tho wholesomencss ot potatoes
cooked in different ways is largely a
mutter which each must decide for
htmsolf, tho general experience being
that for men In health most ot tho
methods followed are satisfactory.
Although under ordinary circum
stances potatoes aro unquestionably a
wholcsomo food for most persons, ill
noss Is somottmcs caused by eating
I TT
TYPEWRITER.
wandered on to tho wondor why his
own books could not bo kept by ma
chinery. Ho tried to mako n book
keoplng machlno. A year ago ho pro
duced three machines, which nro now
supplanting bookkeepers In large es
tablishments. Thero nro undoubtedly
persons in henlth with whom potatoes
do not ngrco, Just as thero nro thoso
who cannot eat strawberries without
distress. This is duo to personal idio
syncrasy, and not to tho harmful char
acter of the food.
"Robbers in and Out of Jail.
In Chicago, as in several other cit
ies, somo good people arrange for oc
casional meetings In tho county Jail,
at which a speaker discourses to tho
prisoners on their situation and mor
alizes for their instruction. It la u
pleasant event for tho speaker, at any
rato, slnco tho audlenco cannot get
away, nnd tho platitudes which pro
priety demands on such occasions re
qulro no thought, but mny Indeed bo
culled from any old copy book or vol
ume of moral maxims. Somo time ago
tho committee having this function in
chargo mado n mistake. It asked a
man that actually thought to talk. Now
a man that actually thinks Is rather
a dangerous character anywhore, but
If ho gets into a Jail In tho present
state of society and reflects on what he
sees thero nnd then speaks frankly
whnt Ib In his mind ho is apt to say
things moro pleasing to thoso lnsido
tho wnlls than to thoso that put them
there. So it was with this Chicago
man Clarcnco Darrow, a lawyer who
has a bit ot n reputation for plain
speaking. Ho wasn't particularly com
plimentary to his audience, for ho re
marked thnt if ho met somo of them
on tho street ho would bo pretty apt
to got his pocket picked or be hold up,
but, said ho: "When I get outsldo
pretty nearly everybody holds mo up."
This rather startling statement ha
supported by saying that tho gas com
pany holds him up by charging a dol
lar for something worth twenty-flva
cents. If to escape this highwayman
ho turns to burning oil Mr. Rocke
feller holds him up, "and then uses
a certain portion of his money to build
universities and support churches
which nro engaged in telling us how
to bo good."
Nor are thcso spoliations all. As the
Instructor in jail ethics truly sold:
"When I rldo on tho street car I am
hold up I pay five cents for a ride that
is worth two and a half cents or three
conts, simply because a body ot men
has bribed tho city council and tho
legislature so that all tho rest have to
pay tribute to them and cannot help
it."