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DEATH MASK OF PRESIDENT
McKINLEY
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The death mask of President Mc
Tinley, taken soon after death at Buf
falo has been sent to "Washington,
where It wiH be preserved among the
most sacred mementoes which are kept
In the capital city. A duplicate of the
mask will be made and sent to Prince
ton University, to be added to the cel-
fl WORD Ift StflSOM
"If I have been able to accomplish
anything in my life," said a woman
fu.mous as one of the most kindly and
lovable among leaders cf the beet
American society, "it is due to the
word spoken to me in the right season
when I was a child by my old teacher.
I was the only homely, awkward one
in a class of exceptionally beautiful
girls, and being also dull at my books.
I became the derision of the school.
I fell into a morose, despairing state,
gave up study, withdrew into myself
and daily grew more bitter and vin
dictive. One day the French teacher
a gray-haired old woman with keen
ves and a bright smile found mc
erring. 'Qu as-tu. ma fille?" she
asa. "Oh." .iiadam, I am so ugly!' I
sobbed out.
"She soothed me. but did not con
tradict me. Presently she took me
into her room and said. 'I have a pres
ent for you,' handing me a scaly,
coarse lump covered with earth. 'It
is round and brown as you. Ugly, did
you say? Very well. We will call it
by your name, then. It is you. Now,
you shall plant it and water it and
give it sun for a week or two. I
CLEPTOSCOPE FOR
A Homan engineer. M. Triulzi. hs
invented a tube with crystal prisms,
whereby these in a submarine boat
can s?e what is going cn at the surface
of the water. The instrument is called
the ticptoscope.
The experiments have been entirely
IV eat her and Drunkenness.
Weather h23 been blamed for many
disorders. Lately some one has been
found to study the effect of weather
upon drunkenness in New York. It
would need much argument to con
vince mcst men that this can be
gauged by arrests. But. so far as ar
rests show, there is here in New York
more inclination to drunkenness in
cold weather than in hot; on clear, dry
days than on those which are cloudy
and wet, and on days when winds are
high than when the air is still. Strong
winds, it is said, are among the saloon
keeper's best friends. In conditions of
calm, the debauches, a? indicated by
arrests, were 23 per cent below the av
erage of three years; in winds of hur
ricane velocity. 50 per cent above. High
.humidities, as a general rule, seems to
increase the consumption of high balls,
probably because dampness makes
winter days seem colder. New York
Post
Bagdad exports more than Jl.000.000
worth of wool per. annum, but there
1s not a woolen mill in all Arabia.
sBtXL:l rrs S -
ft
ebrated collection presented to that in
stitution some years ago by Lawrence
Ilutton of New York. In this collection
are the death masks of Cromwell, Na
poleon, George Washington. Lincoln,
Edwin Booth. Lawrence Barrett, Rich
ard Brinsley Sheridan, and many other
famous men.
planted it and watched it carefuly.
Green leaves came out at first and at
length a golden Japanese lily the
first I had ever seen. Madam came
to share my delight. 'Ah!' she said
significantly, 'who would believe so
much beauty and fragrance were shut
i:p in that ugly thing? But it took
heart and grew in the sunlight!' It
was the first time it ever occurred to
me that in spite of my ugly face I,
too. might be able to win friends and
make myself beloved."
Potatoes In Washington.
An immense potato crop has been
raised this season by irrigation in the
Yakima Indian reservation in the
state cf Washington. The quantity
for export is 2,000 carloads, and one
farmer will clear $10,000. It is esti
mated that the crop will be 40,000
tons, worth $1,000,000.
Alcohol Product in Cerraanj.
The producti. of alcohol in Ger
many in the year 1S97 was 95,532,300
gallons, two-thirds of which was de
rived from potatoes of domestic origin.
It was produced in country distilleries,
which number about 12,500, of which
5,226 produce only from 264 to 2.C42
gallons.
SUBMARINE VESSELS.
successful, and photography of ob
jects on the water is possible thereby
from a vessel beneath.
The experiments were made on
board the submarine II Delphino, and
in the presence of Sig. Morin, the
Minister of Marine.
Army Impedimenta.
Armies are adding so many curious
vehicles to their impedimenta that it
is a grave question in Bome quarters
whether their mobility will not be ser
ously impeded in future wars. There
were the movable forge, the movable
ermatorium. the hospital, the ice
machine, and now comes the traveling
disinfecting apparatus. The latter i3
a wagon so fitted that it can readily
move from camp to camp to disinfect
the clothing of the soldiers.
Fatality of the Fishermen.
The toll which the sea takes from
those who trust it for a livelihood is
pathetically illustrated in the an
nouncement that the fishing season
just closed has cost the single port of
Gloucester, Mass., the lives of no less
than sixty-two of its stalwart nsh-ermr-.
The king of England is an excellent
bcotmafecr, the trade which he was
taught by the wish of the prince con
sort, who t ail his children taught
some trade.
BEflCONSFiELD AT 22
This is a picture of Lord Beacons
field at the age of 22. He was then
plain Benjamin Disraeli, and had just
published his famous novel. "Vivian
Grey." which won high favor in lit
erary London. The picture was sim
ply published as "the author of
'Vivian Grey,'" and for a time was
the talk of the town. Lord Beacons
field was born in 1804 and died in 1S81.
ALASKA IS FERTILE
Alaska Is not as barren a land as
people generally regard it. The com
monly received opinion is that it is a
region of snow and ice. of chilly blasts
and utter desolation. Governor Brady
however, thinks there is much to en
joy there, if one may judge by hij
Thanksgiving proclamation, in which
he sets forth many reasons for grati
tude. Here are some of them: "We in
Alaska in comparing our blessings with
those which our friends enjoy in other
places find that we have much for
which to be thankful. We have ao
abundance of grass, and where men
have attempted to till the earth it has
yielded many fold and those who have
tried it are satisfied that greater things
are in store for them. The sea has not
failed to yield of its abundance and
our fishermen have been handsomely
rewarded for their toil. The mineral
wealth of Alaska is more promising to
day than in the past. It is here, and
when otbained will represent human
effort. We have not been visited by
destructive disturbances of the at
mosphere, earth or sea. While we re
count our manifold blessings our
thoughts will be tempered by the ca
lamity which overwhelmed so many
people on the steamship Islander and
by the humiliation which we feel in the
manner of the death of President Mc
Kinley." EXPELLED PROFESSOR
M. Edouard Herve, the French pro
fessor who has been dismissed from
his chair in Paris tor writing anti-military
articles, is one of th most dis
tinguished scholars in France, and has
been an eminent figure in the educa
1S54. when he won the first prize in
tional and literary life of Paris since
philosophy at the Normal College. He
is a member of the French Academy, a
knight of the Legion of Honor and has
been several times honored by many
of the learned societies of Europe. M.
Herve was professor of mathematics at
the University of the City of Paris. His
offense was alleged to Incite insubor
dination in the army and to prejudice
citizens against military service.
M. Herve is 65 years old. but age
does not seem to have dampened the
fires of his youth, which was marked
by that almost defiant spirit with
which he opposes his enemies In his
present severe trouble. His article and
its results are the foremost topic in
political circles in the French capital.
Predicts Famine In China.
The Christian Herald's commission
er, who is Investigating the famine in
China, writes from Sian Fu, province
of Shen Si. that the autumn crops will
furnish food for a few months, but be
ing the first successful crops in five
years will not be sufficient to last un
til the next harvest is gathered, and he
predicts a repetition of the famine is
the coming spring.
The commissioner estimates that th
deaths from famine in the Shen Si
province number 2,500,000. or SO pel
cent of the population. He rode foi
four days tnrough villages north of th
Wei-Ho river and during this time saw
hardly 200 persons. The whole region
is desolated.
Urine In 300 Degrees of Heat.
In the bakeries of La Rochefoucauld
in France it is said that women enter
the ovens when they are 301 degree.
According to the Pall Mall Gazette,
the British worklngman haa almost
abandoned his clay pipe and shag is
favor of the two-penny packet of c-gtrettes.
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GROW OLD GRACEFULLY
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has
been writing on the subject of bow to
?row old easily, happily and gracefully.
She is now in her eighty-fifth year and
the say3 life to her is as sweet as ever.
She has no pains or aches, no regrets
or forebodings lor herself; all her sor
rows are for the troubles of others.
"I attribute my vigorous old age in
part to advantageous circumstances,"
she says, "in part to a happy, hopeful
temperament, a keen sense of humor,
sympathies for all my fellow being3
and a deep interest In all the vital
questions of the hour.
' One must have an earnest purpose
in life beyond personal ambition and
family aggrandizement. Self-centered
characters do not possess the necessary
elements of a hish development. If cne
would have a happy old age the first
condition is a sound body; to that end
exercise, diet, dress, sanitary condi
tions are all important.
"My philosophy is to live in tlie pres
ent. Regrets for the past are vain; the
pagf is turnud; there i3 no remedy for
hat is done. As to the future, anxi
eties are equally vain; we do not
know what one day will bring forth;
what we hope or fear may never oc
cur; the present is all that is ours."
New York Sun.
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT
Q'iniin is the only member of the
President's family who can boast of
the capital as a birthplace. He was
born just prior to the Spanish-American
war at 1735 N street, while his
father was organizing the Rough Rid
ers. He does not think much of Wash
ington as a place of residence. The
White House iu his estimation is a
poo; substitute for the home at Oys
ter Bay. He does not relish being con
fined to a small part of the mansion,
but would like to roam at will through
out the building and investigate the
progress of public business from time
to time. The other day he desired to
walk through the flower-beds cn stilts.
His father told him that the gardener
objected. The youngster answered: "I
don't see what good it does for you to
be President. There are so many
things we can't do here. I wis;h I was
home again."
THE SUCCESSFUL EYE
There are two classes of human eyes,
says Professor J. M. Simon, the em
inent occulist. First, the cold aud in
"fferent eye, which falls upon you
ith the same interest that it would
fall upon some large building or any
thing else. Then there is the warm,
flattering eye that indicates human in
terest. The gray is the strong one. I have
observed in the majority of cases of
people who have risen to eminence
that the eye has been gray, although
I am inclined to believe that the gray
eye Is weaker than any other. A gray
eye can charm, and in every instance
I give a man with that color of eye
more consideration than if his eyes
are of another color.
Liked the Frock.
An English soldier's wife once took
ier little girl to see her father, who
was on sentry duty. The soldier, who
was in a Scottish regiment, wore the
orthodox tartan and kilt. The little
girl, not having seen her father before
in such a garb, could not understand
it. and looking up at her mother, ex
claimed: "Mother, when father has
found the man who stole his trousers
may I have that little frock?"
Volumes In the Itritisb Mnseom.
The number of volumes in the Erit
ish museum library, according to a re
cent counting, is now over 2.000,000.
There are more than 16,000 voluraes
of London newspapers, about 47,000
volumes of provincial newspapers,
counting Welsh as well as English, 10.
.000 volumes of Scottish papers, and
9,000 from Ireland.
Ka'.lwaj at Damascus.
The first section of the Demascm
Mecca railway has been formally in
augurated with religious ceremonial
calculated to appeal to the Moslem
sentiment by which the funds have
been obtained. There were sacrifices
of numerous oxen, of which the flesh
was afterward distributed to the poor.
England Imports Her Food.
That English agriculture as a food
producing agency is now almost a
thing of the past appears from the
fact that of the 32.000.000 quarters of
wheat consumed annually la ' the
British Isles, no less than 24,000,000
quarters come from abroad, for which
nearly 40,000,000 Is paid.
'CUR. DUCHESS
Another mark of royal favor has
been extended to the Duchess of Mrl
borough, who was Miss Consuelo Van
derbilt. and who Is now cc-iisort of the
head of the Churchills.
At the coronation Queen Alexandra
vrill be attended by four fair duchesses
who will be attired in cloth of gold
and bedecked in their robes and coro
nets. Not only must these four be
duchesses, but they must be among
the most beautiful of the duchesses.
As filling these requirements the
chosen ones are those of Montrose,
Sutherland. Portland and Marlbor
ough all numbered among the loveli
est women in England.
FLIRTING IS BARRED
The students of the university col
lege of North Wales have been giving
the regents and teachers a great deal
of trouble lcaly by their predilection
for flirting. The upshot of the matter
has been the posting of the following
stringent and somewhat unique rules:
"Men students may not. firstly, meet
women students by appointment or
walk with them; secondly, accompany
women students to or from college;
thirdly, walk with women students in
the grounds of the college; fourthly,
visit or receive visits from women
6tudents in their lodgings.
"Reasonable association between
men and women students will be per
mitted, firstly, at authorized social
gatherings within the college; second
ly, in the college field during the prog
ress of matches, and. thirdly, in the
college itself for business connected
with college societies or class work."
These rules may work like a charm
in old Britain, but would undoubtedly
cause a storm of indignation among
independent young America.
MATTER OF OPINIO.
"I have often wondered." said a
thoughtful man to his minister, "what
Adam and Eve would have done could
they have foreseen the result of their
violation of the divine commandment."
"They were warned," said the min
ister. "True," said the thoughtful man,
' but such warnings make little im
pression. But I believe they would
have done just the same even if they
had realized all that would follow.
While they were driven out cf the
garden, they entered upon such a life
of happiness as Ehould have brought
no regret for their idle garden life.
I believe they would have sinned Just
the same."
"It is. perhaps, a sin to discuss the
question," said the minister.
BOOTH TARKtf.GTON
Booth Tarkington. the author, who
will be a candidate for the legislature
of Indiana, is an Indiana man clear
through and takes a kindly interest
in the welfare of his state. He is just
31 years old and a r ative of Indianap
olis. After a year's study at Purdue
university Mr. Tarkington entered
Princeton, and after leaving that uni
versity in 1S93 he began writing the
stories which have inc made him
famous.
A Versatile Genics.
A Laredo, Tesas, business man has
Issued a circular in the form of a
typewritten letter which shows him to
be a versatile man and a humorist.
He advertises himself as proprietor of
a "hotel, annex, sample-room, res
taurant, fish hatchery, gas plant,
chicken farm, saloon, lunch room, bil
liard hall," etc. At the head of the
sheet appears the line, "Me-an'-the-Old-Woman.
Sole Proprietors." On
either side of this line are pictures;
finder one is the caption. "This Is Me,"
and under the other, "This is the Old
Woman."
lArfest Sinjr'e pan Itridc.
The great bridge in the course of
construction across the Valley of
Petruffe, in Luxembourg, will when
finished surpass Cabin John bridge,
now the longest single span of masonry
in the world.
Over 40,000 Hungarian residents of
New York city recently celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of the landing of
Kossuth, the great Hungarian patriot.
La tliat city in 1S51.
UNDER TV. 0 FLAGS
"The man without a country" Is
generally regarded as an anomaly, but
there 13 something far 6tranger a
postoffice that does business under two
flags. It is located at Beebe Plain,
a town that is half in the state of
Vermont and half in the province of
Quebec. The building was erected
some seventy-five years ago exactly
on the line between the United States
and Canada, so that it stands in twe
countries and serves the postal serv
ice of two nations.
The cellar of the building connects
the two countries, and some years ago
when the postofflce wa3 a general
store, whisky was known to be sold
in one country and delivered in an
other without ever having gone out
from under the roof of the old struc
ture. This combination postoflke is
now being run by parent and child,
the father being postmaster for Can
adian Quebec and the daughter post
mi:tres3 for Vermont.
Standing in front cf this rtrar.-e
postoUce is a large pect which mark::
the boundary line, and it is szii that
at one timo a man who wanted to get
a roadway to his premises moved this
post, and many thousands of dollar
and no little time was spent in es
tablishing the exact line again.
SINGERS HONORED
Miss Mary McFarland and Mirs
Marie McFarland. twin sisters of Den-
SIlss Mary McFarland.
ver, Colo., who are well known as
much for their beauty as for their tal
ent as songsters, have been chosen to
sing at the coronation ceremonies of
King Edward VII. to be held next sum
mer. The Misses McFarland have been
great travelers and it was upon one of
their journeys through Europe that
they met the present king of England,
Mis Marie McFarland,
at that time prince of Wales. It is
stated that the royal command to sing
at the ceremonies proceeds directly
from the kins and is not the outcome
of the plans of the committee which
has this matter in hand.
ApparatuHcs for Making Coffee.
Thousands of apparatuses for mak
ing coffee have b?en invented. The
Patent Oiiiee is packed with pots. etc..
some of which cost ?25 apiece. Some
experts say boil the coffee; some say
Con't boil it. Some foreigners prefer
to make it in a saucepan, and they
have it as clear as crystal and as
strong as alcohol. While I was in Su
matra, several years ago, I drank cor
fee made of the dried leaves of the cof
fee tree instead of the beans. At first
I supposed they were brewing tea. Eu
it was as fine coffee as I have eve.:
tasted. '
Voice Carries Klght Miles.
Eighteen miles is said to be the
longest distance on record at which
a man's voice has been heard. This
occurred in the grand canyon of the
Colorado, where one man shouting the
name "Bob." at one end, his voice
vls plainly heard at the other end,
which is. eighteen miles away.
American Vines In Frenrs,
The very large 3'ields of wine in re
cent years in French vineyards are at
tributed largely to the impoitation ol
vigorous American vines to replace
those killed by phylloxera. The qual
ity, however, is said to be inferior to
that, of the wine made from the old
French vines.
Religions Orders Increasing.
Everywhere religious orders are on
the increase. In Belgium, for in
stance, in 1846 there were 779 con
vents and monasteries, with 12,000
inmates. In 1900 the number had in
creased to 2.200 convents and monas
teries, with 27.000 inmates.
Irrigation and Its Ittwalt.
About 58.000,000 was Epeist on the
great Chenab irrigating canal In India;
but the crops of last year from the ir
rigated canal are valued at twice that
amount.
Statistics recently published in Paris
show clearly that good surroundings
aScrd comparative immunity from pul
monary tuberculosis.
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REFORM IN MEN'S DRESS.
Club Formed at lierlln Will I.'ndearor
to K.T't n Change.
Under ihe Ieaderh:p of Prcf. Her
man Widner. a number of noted men
of artistic taste have formed at Berlin
the only male dress reform club in the
world, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A great e.msade has been inaugur
ated against the never? cut of ihe pres
ent day attire which forves one of tbr
sterner sex to put aside hi own In
dividuality and follow a fashion re
flected upon every roan he meets.
While the members of tL? German
Male Dress Reform club do not favor
the ruffles and lac es of Louis XIV. they
wo'ild compromise between that mode
of dress and the twentieth century
fashion.
Prof. Widner has irsuel a call fr
suggestions, and many hundre Js cif de
signs, some practical and otl.ra very
grott t-que. have ben submitted to
these orKttnized reverters aainst th
laws of fashion. The idea firKt s le. ted
is a detign worked out at a muss meet
ing by the artists of the club. It U a
modified form of the uniform worn by
a German Hussar regiment.
The short coat cr Jacket fits rnugly
at the waist and suggests the use of
stays, though these reformers are aftr
solid comfort. Rowg of braid, silver or
gold, to match the cloth, as the fancy
dictates, outline the graceful curves of
the spinal column, the sleeves are a
trifle fuller than men usually wear iml
the shoulders have that long, graceful
slope so much desired by the society
"belle" and so strenuously avoided b
men until these artists changed th
fashion.
American "Beau Brummds" scoff at
the idea cf wearing a coat the shoulder
Ream of which commences aiout two
inches down the arm, lor. lxsldes bing
in their eyes effeminate that awful
word which stands for everything man
should avoid and ugly, they m. -t be
uncomfortable, or it seems to the p"i .
unenlightened fashion's slaves and fol
lowers of long established custom on
this side of the water. The German
Male Dress Reform Club trousers fit
tight, loosening somewhat llow the
knee, and they are trimmed with but
tons from the knee down.
The waistcoat is thickly padded,
showing to good advantage the chest
formation. With the thermometer at
zero, this is comfort. But is the com
bination of the broad and manly c
with the slender, willowy form artit.
tic? As the chief aim and object of
these reformers is to be beautiful as
well as comfortable, the question is a
reflection on the good judgment or the
club.
The garmenta are to le manufac
tured of gay-colored cloths, varied in
tones, this being intended to give th
portrait painters a relief from the dull
monotony of the present colors. The
club has written to artist fraternities
all over Europe soliciting further de
signs, and whole volumes of drawings
and suggestions have been received in
reply.
All the members are wearing the at
tire firEt selected until something e!-
is decided upon.
Heat of Volcano.
The Maoris of New Zealand cook
their potatoes and other v potables in
volcanic heat. There ere a few vol
canoes in New Zealand, an 1 ome of
the Maoris live up in the mountain
near them. They make the volcano-
do several useful things for them, but
the queerest is the rooking. A f w
cf the vo'canoea have a sort cf pe-io i
action. They heat up the ground ir
the fall and then lie idle the remaind
er of th; year. Those volcanoes are of
a quiet disposition and never brek
loose, but they heat th ground J ist
enough to do the native cooking. Th
plan of the Maoris is to dig a pit ab tut
five or six feet deep and bed it with
rtraw. Then they put in their vege
tables, filling up the pit quite full, and
then cover it over with more straw
and then a layer of earth. And then
then they go away and lie low. Then
the volcano begins to heat up and
gets in its fine work and the potaioe-.;
and mangoes cook. The native let
them stay ther for a Ion.? time after
the beat depart from the earth, t.ike
them out whenever thry want tb-ni.
and eat them. So the earth I at onc
a stove and a storehouse D-troit Fre
Press.
Eastern I arm 1-m n 1 1 ft.
In the eastern states prices of agri
cultural land have generally fallen in
recer.t years, in some cases about riO
per cent of the figures asked during
the time of high prices. One of the
chief causes for the decline In th
value cf land in the east appear to
be a loss of fertility in the land itself,
due. perhaps, to careless farming. In
the central and western states there
appears to be no such marked decline
in fam values as In the cast. In ..he
northwest land seems to have been in
creasing in value, and in some locali
ties to a very marked ds:ec. Farm
laborers seem to have profited more in
the pas"t,few years than their em
ployers, or, since the fall in the prices
of farm product, even better off than
some of the farmers who employ then.
It is also said that there i. n greater
opportunity for laborers to riae to In
dependent positions in agriculture
than ever before. Detroit Free Press.
Tbe Most ValnaWle I'laat.
The most valnable flower In th
world Is surpeed to be an orchid be
longing to MM. George . Wilson of
Philadelphia, for which the asks $10,
000. At the rec ent Cower show in Phil
adelphia Ma Wilon exhibited eighty
varieties of orchid3. wonderfully CJry
like things, the butterflies of the vege
table world. Of an eighty-first variety
the PLaleonopsis Harriett she
showed one flower. The plant she
would not risk. It Is the only one of
its sort iu the world and U valued at
$10,000. I is a hybrid, originally grown
in the greenhouses of Erastus Corning
of this city. He named it after bis
daughter Harriet. After his death the
best of his collection patwd into Mrs.
Wilson's hand, including this unique
plant.
A ruddy and lusty old dame, who de
lights in all weathers and seasons, and
Is like!y to outlive all her children yet.
Thorcau.
