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TO DOLE BY MOB. THOUSANDS OF HRMED MEN SURROUND STATE HOUSE fUpubllsans In Kentuoky Seek Intimidate legislation From Acting With Freedom to Frankfort, Ky.(Specla!) Tissue bal lot's and intimidation continue tu be the f burden of the evidence offered by the fffontestees before the state boards hear ns the gubernatorial contests. A dozen Wolf county election officers were on the witness stand today, testi fying- concerning the use of illegal Ha gue ballot. Albert Drandels, a Louis ville attorney, testified that he exam ined the poll books of Louisville and found that 27,165 voters indicated their party affiliation when they registered He produced a tabulated statement, showing that 16.8 per cent of the dem ocratic voters registered failed to vote at the last election and that 19.8 per ent of the republicans registered fail ed to vote. The witness testified that he served on election day as an In spector for the Brown ticket and that he did not succeed In Raining admls ion to the voting place until three hours after the polls closed. He said tie was a member of the "Honest Elec tion league" and was captain of the squwi of seven men stationed at his precinct. The arrival In- Frankfort this morn Inir of from 800 to 1.000 men armed with jrlfies might have terrorized a commun ity less inured to unusual ami sensa tional happenings, but by nightfall the excitement caused by the appearance of the warlike visitors had subsided and the people were prepared for an other turn in the events now making hlftory in the state capital. The train that bore the armed men was made up of fourteen coaches. Ap narently but few here knew that It was expected. The men left the coaches in front of the Louisville & Nashville station, and forming Into companies marched to the state house, where their arrow were deposited promiscu ously. and the men scattered about the building. LUNCH AT STATE HOl'SR Lunch was served to them at the rear of the state house. Most of the visit ors wore badges of white ribbon, adorn d with a picture of Coventor Taylor. While it is generally believed that many of the men who arirved today are sol diers, no person In authority will aland stionsor for the statement, while iov Vrnor Taylor and Adjutant General C'd- fler disclaim any connection with them 4l"he men hail from various sections of the state. Shortly after their arrival the visitors gathered in front of the main state Imiktlntr. where ex-Secretary of Hiate Klnley addressed them, afterward In troducInK Stephen Sharp of Lexington, former Judge of Fayette county and treasurer of state by appointment, sue ceedin the abscondlr.fr treasurer of state. J, W. Tate. Judge Sharp spoke briefly and put himself at the service of the men. A committee was appoint ed to draft resolutions, which indicated the rjritosc of their mission. The reao. lulions as adopted will be presented to both houses of the legislature, ADOPT RESOLUTIONS. The resolutions committee drafted the foliowine; "We, Kentucklans, here aescmbled. In token of all the 'free and equal' men of Kentucky, do reassert 'the great, and essential principles of liberty and free government,' proclaimed in the bill of rights, not as derived to us tncretrum but as 'inherent,' "Our property we may alienate from ourselves and our children, nut our in erty Is a. heritage to us In trust for all gem-ratlonst, and wt may nenr.cr sur render nor encumber it. "We declare again the prerogative rlirht of 'freelv communicating our thoughts and opinions.' and to assem ble tngether in n peaceable manner for our common good and the good of our fellow men of Kentucky. More espe. clallv do we delare our rlcht and au thority, conferred on us by Almighty power, and not otherwise, of appealing to those invested with the power of government by either petition or r monstanee. and we represent to them, our brethren of Kentucky, our agents In the legislature convened, thai the government of Kentucky Is founded on our authority and Instituted for our pence, safety and happiness and the projection of properlyour own and t)t Irs as well as that of the ftrn'-t wthin our gates. We petition them. Mir proxies in the general assembly, ti Sieed that there Is peril hovering over air these things so dear to us and them and that calmness and prudem and wisdom need be Invoked In order that truth and justice may prevail: a, . exercise our right of remount), c against their suffering themselves to be led into the temptations of partisan pride in the crisis which Is on us. W e beseech them to remember that their jun Just powers were loaned them by us at the polls and that among these was the Jurisdiction to decide Judi cially and by due process of law and not otherwise, what was then our ex pressed will, not their present political t preference. "We implore the mthat they do not on slight or technical pretexts nor flim sy or trivial causes permit the sub version of that supremo law of the land, the will of the people. "We beg of them that they receive from the hands of our messengers and conMUer this, our earnest address, pe tition and remonstrance, and that they by their considerate action, protect. pre serve and promote the safety and wel fare, and. above all, the honor of Ken tucky commuted to Ihclr keeping. , , "CHAHLRS FINLKY. "DU. TIOTMAB W. BKBRY, "A. W. KA7M, . "CLAUTK CHINN." ';; ft Major Morris Olfford of Louisville was. e first witness of Importance at th iknt session. Jfe said he had been a "Vfrt'ber of the Louisville legion, the flint Kentucky regiment, for ten years, ind waa at the head of a company that -Matted the polling places at 7 o'clock ' HI Ihe lust election day. He gave It is bis opinion that Oovernor I'.radley otlld have been guilty of malfeasant c f office had he not called out the troops il testified that he was fa nlllar with the conduct of troops at former elections, and said that more nen were at the armory In Louisville n election day In IW than on the hint lection day. NO HONKST FXKCTTONS. Colonel Andrew Cowan, a wealth:' MMrtneaa man and member of the 1-ouls-'III "Honest Flection league," text 34 that the fhargln of election clll Jr 0e night before election caused tlM greater part of the npprehens on tfcfti llwre would be trouble on election ftsT. Colonel Cowan testified that there fc4 net been an honwt alactloa n Lou isville in the last twenty-five years. H said that he attended a meeting of thi Honest hlectlon league" the day be fore the election to urge the member! to not arm themselves on election day Major Thomas Iawson of 1-oulsvlile testified that negro voters were requir ed tu furnish Identification by two white voters of their precinct. He thought II unjust to require white men for identi fication, when one-fourth the voters ol the entire city were negroes and many have but few white acquaintance!). GO BUT TO UKTTRN. The armed men of the mountains contrary to expectations, on the advict of the republican authorities here, lefl Frankfort at a o'clock tonight. Th consensus of opinion here is that th visitors mistook this for the day or which the contest boards were to mak their report. The men were an hour getting aboard their train and amused themselves dur ing the delay by discharging their guns The people of the city gave them a wide berth. They are expected to retun, when the contest ends. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. Coin Harves Declares That an Early Convention Should be Had Chicago, III. (Special.) The demo cratic national committee meets Feb ruary 22, to fix the time and place for the meeting of the democratic nationa! convention, "In my Judgment," says Hon. W. H. (Coin) Harvey, "it should be an early convention, not later than the month ol June, and May would be preferable tc June. The reasons for an early con vention are; 1. The democratic party represents t great cause. It must realize that fart To represent that cause It must be e progressive parly a truly progressive party is aggressive. If It, realizes it! mission It will set the pace whicl means an early convention. 2. If it lap after; the republican con vention, it will be judged as a parts that seeks meanly to take advantagi of the mistakes of the opposing parly will fall below what the people demani as an ideal reform party. A party wltt a remedy does not wait to see wha any other party 3 going to do. A partj without a remedy, or too timid to bt aggressive with a remedy, will lost caste with the people In a crisis llki the present, where the republic Is a! stake. A late convention is grounc lost; an early convention la ground gained. 3. To those who say that a nationa campaign disturbs business and should therefore be short, the answer Is: T put our national household In order ii more important In a business way thar any other business to which the peopli can turn their attention. What do wt profit by n. few months of undisturbed business, if evils are at work, that Is unchecked, to eventually bankrupt tht people and overthrow the republic? Tht most important business the people ot this nation now have before them Is tc study the principles of government anc to avert an impending calamity. 4. If the democratic convention is at early one and will do what is expectec of It a proper platform and Bryan Hi nominee it will unite and set in mo tion all the affirmative reform forcei of the nation. If it waits, the popu list convention may meet and makt separate nominations resulting it three tickets. 6. A new national committee eomof Into existence at the time of the con vention, and It should have ample tlmt to formulate and push a campaign o) organization and education. BRITISH LOSE THOUSANDS. Britons Who Hrvo Died in an Effor to Enslave Another People London. (Special.) Nobody seems tc know here, not even the war ofllee what IjOrd Roberta has done with hh targe reinforcements. Six thousand tr&ik? awaited his arrival at Capetowr and since then 6,000 others have reach ed there. Military critics are all hoping that a good share of these 12.000 havt gone to help Oeneral Buller, and th.. argue that a few days' wait may muki his force strong enough ioovcreom the deadltx-k. There are !9.0"0 troops -it sea. unc this heavy weight on the British sld Is expected to destroy the equilibrium now existing on every Held of opera tions. The British losses up to dale in killed wounded ami captured, according tc General Puller's last list, total 8,21! men. F. W. Iteilz, the Transvaal slate sec retary, bus written a parody tin Mr Ki tiling's 'Recessional." It Is dedicated "I'rtiRressional." and if 'dedicated to "Jludyard Pipllng." The first stanza follows; "Gods of the Jingo, bras- and gold. Lords of the world, by right divine. Under whose tmneful sway they hold Dominion over mine and thine Such lords as these have made thorn rotten. They have forgotten. They have for got len." NKABLY FOItTY MB OF PLAUL'K. Victoria, li. C (Special.) The steam er Mlowera, "hiih arrived today from Australia, reports that thirty-nine (baths have thus far occurred at Hon olulu from bubonic plague. One white woman was among the victims. Th Mlowere brought neither mall nor pas sengers from Honolulu, off which port she anchored fr a short time. The Honolulu harbor tilllclals report inter Island trade paralyzed. Hiio has so erf.'t tuall.v barricaded tts doors against the Introduction of the disease that Its protective force has orders to shoot anyone attempting to dock sleamcrs from Honolulu. Immigrant steamers continue to arrive at Honolulu from Japan ami the quarantine accommoda tion are taxed to more than their ca pacity. In -Honolulu panic prevails and the danger is vastly Intensified by th popular terror. B'O THEATRICAL PYNMCATrj. Chicago, 111. (Special. -Methods of the theatrical syndicate have been closely copied In the formation of a vaudeville combine, the details of which were consummated In Chicago today at a meeting of leading managers. The conference which resulted In the forma tion of the syndicate which Is admitted to be the largest in the United States, was attended by the following- Michael Rhea Toronto and Buffalo; M. C. An deifon, Columbia theater. Clnclnnnll; Drew Campbell. War theater, Clcve l ind' Oeorge Mlddleton. Columbia, tin nier 'ft. IjiiiIh; Fl Meltrflcld and Fred Heck Orpheum circuit. Including (min im Kanrns Cltv. Denver.San Francisco and Los Angeles; Colonel John D. Hop kins, Chicago, Nashville. Memphis. New in leans and St. Louis; Kohl & Castle, Chicago. . . .. .. ' The usually correct Philadelphia Press speaks of Father Rvan. the poet priest of the south, the author of "The Bivouac of the Dead." Shades of Theodore O'Hara! The Prwt pnra granher should remember the fate of the Kmporla (Kon.) Ooxette man who accused Klplln of "David Harum " He wag mothered with mall protests. n hits or th J ncAVUtr, am ol Ihe Cnrle Way of This Nbellttch described. Many people are very fond of scal lops, as may be judged from the fact that nearly 60,000 gallons of the meats were used in New York and Brooklyn in lc97. Of course these bivalves likewise are hunted persis tently, and the prospect is before long comparatively few of them will be left. It has been slippered that they mifrht be propagated in great salt ponds, which could be utilized as pre serves. Ciirjiiestlonnbly they could be brtd by mixing the milt of the male eca.lops with 1 he eggs of the female, hatching tliem out and liberating the young ones. Several difficulties arc in the way, however, and the most im portant of these is the locomotive habit, of the scallop. It is by no means a sedentary ani mal, like the oyster or long cHun, but on the contrary, is addicted to swim ming about, more like a fish than a respectable mollusk. Not, may years ago a Frenchman brought, several thousand gallons and planted tliem in a bed. The next day he was very much astonished to find that they luid all taken French leave. The scallop accomplishes locomo tion by a scries of leaps. When it is alarmed or wishes to change its loca tion it opens and energetically closes its valves, thus expelling the water. The reaction shoots it backward. By this means the creature is able, to travel long distances. Sometimes scal lops make considerable journeys in large companies. One can scarcely imagine a lovelier sight than that of a flock of these pretty creatures with shells of every hue, from purple and white to black, enlivened with shades of pink yellow and fawn, darting about in clear water. In their flight-like movements, vertical, horizontal find zigzag, they are more suggestive of n flock of wing ed animals than of bivalve mollusks, A superb species, called I'eeten inlan tliciiK, formerly abundant on the coast of Maine, is now so nearly extinct that , a specimen is regarded as n prize by conclioiogi.sts. Long Island hound, New York harbor and the New Jersey const, have been fairly depopulated of sertllupR liy raking and dredging. Only the ycllowwish-white adductor muscle, of the wallop is good to eat. The anininl is eaten by birds find by boring iiKili usks, its thin shell afford ing it alight protection. For this dis ndvantiige, however, some compensa tion is given by its superior intelli gence and swiftness of movement. In tiic prehistoric refuse heaps of Florida, especially at Cedar Keys, great numbers of scallops' shells are found relics of ancient aboriginal repasts. The scallop shell is used in heraldry to indicate that the bearer has made long voyages at sea. It has been the badge of severnf orders of knighthood especially thofte of the crusaders, A beautiful species which inhabits a portion of the Pacific is deified by the natives of some of 1he Islands of that ocean. Boston Trans-, cripl. Tlie llaleiglt Pearl. Coiincihnnti J. It C. McAllister, of the First ward, chairman of the Dewey Day celebration, in a most, sin gular minincr has become the lucky possessor of ti magnificent pearl of auch value that the exact amount has only yet been guessed at by leading jewelers of this city. Laxt Wednesday evening, while the oflicers of the cruiser Unlcigh were being dined nt the Hold Walton, .Mr. lIcAllisfef, by virtue of his office, pre sided ill I lie board. The first course was elnms, of which the councilman is passionately fond. Deftly impaling one of the toothsome bivalves upon a fork he lost no time in transferring it to his mouth. His teeth closed heavily upon his favorite delicacy, and the t'(uiitiiniit y of the table was the next moment startled by a smothered ejaculation. All eyes were upon the city father, us, clapping his hand to his lips, lie removed a hard, shining I object, which imbedded in the body of the clain. had nearly cost him a tooth or to. The lustre of the substance he had bitten upon aroused the curiosity of the distinguished company. It was j'ceogiiized nt once as n jewel, and was passed rapidly from hand to hand. Councilman John I.nng, of the Twenty-fourth ward, also a committeeman, who is a recognized expert on precious Btoncs, nt once pronounced it to be n pearl, und one of great price. Subse quent developments have proven it to be so. A happy inspiration (seized Captain togliinii the verdict wns passed by Mr. 1 . .;: "Allow me to christen your find," he snitl to Mr. McAllister. "Hereafter let it be known as the Kalcigli pcnrl," mill the Itiilcigli pearl it has become, which is the primary reason why pa f riot ic McAllister solemnly affirms that he will never consent to part with it. In shape the pearl is oval, one eighth of f?n inch in diameter. At lirst it was of n peculiar light brown (dor, but since it has been treated to dim baths ii ixl other arts of the trade this linn given way to a most dazzling whitennesN of a peculiarly pellucid tone. Fxperts have estimated its value nt $.i,(i(m. Lieutenant Commander Phelps, of tlit Iiiileigh, who is tin ar dent enthusiast on the subject of pre cious stones, and quite a collector of the same, admits lluif the "Kalcigli pearl," is the finest which has eer come under his observation. Mr. Mc Allister has contracted to have the pen fa encircled by sixteen sninll dia monds and mounted nn n senrf-pin.- -Philadelphia Times. "I'.eiijauiin Franklin sleeps in Philii dilphia," remarked the' reverent tour ist. "Well," answered the New York salesman with the plaid clothes, ''what else Is there for n man to do in Philadelphia." Washington Klnr. In )8M Germany imported cggit i the rain of 13,500.000. In 1898 th. mount wt nearly trebled. Kus!:i pro ride per cent of tbciu. mi, not. i roi.oii tio. If a Ililltrr' Nbol niur lie Htm (or Ilia tile. "Danger-ouK wild hogs? Holy smoke, I hey are Mie most tremendous, power ful and ierccst beasts in the whole I'nitfd -Sliiles. You never saw or hoard anything like them. Why, the old boars can lick a grizzily bear in no time. They are quicker than chain lightning, never see human being more thai once in a few years, ami would ticl.lt- a drove of elephants without second's thought. They'd charge the very devil. Don't know nuything but fight for a living. They've jfot tusks that are over half a foot long and sharp us needles. They could rip open a rhinocerous quicker than you can think, and they have the biggest mouths full of the most awful teeth I've ever seen in any menagerie. When they are wounded, it is like, an unlimited cyclone. Jf any of you peo ple go down the. Colorado to hunt, and you shoot one of the wild boars, you've got to shoot to kill or hunt a bi tall tree in the, best time any hu man being ever made, or you are a glner, sure. Don't climb a sapling, lor a boar would soon dig it up by the nsits and then rip you to pieces. Hon't forget when hunting old boars to keep near a tree which you can climb quick." Colonel Dan Wattcrs stopped here to draw his breath. He was telling folk of Pumona, Cal., of the droves of wild hogs along the tulelands of the lower Colorado river. He continued: "Three Yuma, half-breeds and I went up into a sparsely settled foot hill district to drop over, flu I sup jxjsed, a hog or two in the course of ihe day. It vvns plain when we got among the. trees that some swine had been feeding there, but we could not see bide nor bristle of them. We turned the big dogs loose, and in less than twenty minutes we heard a deep bay over on the right about a quartet of a mile away. "In a few minutes I heard a crash in the undergrowth nnd a savage grunt and snort, and out started a bit" sow and two half-grown pigs. Just as the sow appeared over a slight eleva tion about 150 feet away I fired and keeled her over. The pigs stood still a minute, until they caught sight of men, when they charged furiously, I knocked one. of them over before they had made twenty-live feet, but the other kept right on, the picture of demoniacal rngo, with foam dropping from his jaws and teeth nnd tusks snapping like castanets. Luckily, T placed myself under a low branched live oak tree, and I lost no time in putting myself out of the reach of the savage, beast. The tree was a thick, spreading oak, and 1 was safe enough to take tilings easy. I had swung n;y Winchester over my shoulder be fore I ascended the free, und one. shot from ray gun settled the hog. "About two hundred yards away I could see Jack, my Yuma savage, lean ing against a sapling which was not more than five or six inches in diame ter. Attracted by the rush of the hogs, Jack drew away from the free just as a tremendous old boar darted out of the underbrush about fifty yards distant. Jack saw him coming like a cyclone, and, without consider ing, shot, at him. The shot struck the boar fairly between the eyes, but it might as well have been fired into a monitor for nil 1he harm it did. The bullet flattened like putty, and did no other damage than more, thoroughly to enrage the bonr. When he saw the Indian he gave a fierce snort nnd started for him, with the foam flying from his mouth and his fierce little eyes glinting with devilish ferocity. Jack had not time to reload his gun. He skinned up a free, but, unluckily, it was u sapling barely big enough to hold his weight. The boar didn't stop in his charge, but ran full tilt, into tiie sapling, shaking it so badly that t lie Indian had all he could do ; to hung on. "When the boar found, he couldn't knock the tree down by sheer force he deliberately went to work in an other way. lie walked around the tree three or four times, until he seemed to have found u spot in which to begin operations, when he stopped und began fo dig and fear up the ground with his long snout nnd to tear and bite off the roots with his long tusks. It was plainly evident that something would have to be done jirclty quick, or our mess would be tip' short. Poor Jack was hanging on nnd yelling with all his might, nnd every yell appeared fo add to the ingc of the old hour. "Calling to Jack to slop yelling nnd to hang on fo the tree, 1 prepared to let the brute have n bullet. The dis tance was about 10 yards, and nn it took a close shot to effect anything nganisl the tough hide of an old boar. 1 made preparations by standing on n big limb of the live oak tree und resting my gun. on another, about, on a level with my shoulder. My first shot struck the hoar behind the shoul der, but as he stood quartering to ward me the only result was to tear out a big piece of his Lido along his side, inflicting a painful but not dan gerous, wound. When .the hoar felt the sling of flit; bullet he made for the tree I was in. lie must cither have caught a glimpse of me or have seen the smoke of the shot. CiiMing fo the Indian to slide down out of the little tree mid make for a big one, I turned my attention to the boar. "Tim whip-like cracks of guns off to the left told plainly that Hen nnd John, my other half-breed India n com panions, were also having their share of the sport. 1 got down and went to Ihe tree where Jack wiih roosting, and told him to conic down, ns the old hour vi:h (lend. V quietly approach ed from the quarter from which lib' miiiikI of the shooting came, and about fiOO yards distant we suddenly saw a 1'ttle opening about 100 yards in cir cumference. On tin1 opposite side of this iipciiing we saw a wide-spread lhp ins, from which puffs of smoke v,(f slowly drifting upward. He- in lib and around the trees were about a t u'Hi wild hogs, snorting nnd grunt in) 7iih rnge, and creating a pnndc mi nil m of sounds us they (lung them mc ici ut the free and fried to reach tbi iien by jumping' upward. Three of the lot were tremendous hoars, while the others were sown and half ferown pigs. "Selecting a tree within easy shoot ing distance, Jack and I climbed into its branches and opened fire. In a few minutes pot a living hog could be seen, and as none of them ever had undertaken to run away, we knew that between us we had wiped out the lot, seventeen in ail." St. Louis Globe Democrat. JIK.XICAN PHOVi;itBS. Some ot (lie. Trite Saying Heard lu Ihe Laud of Cigarette. There are many fine epigrams and proverbs in Spanish. Many of them cannot lie translated so as to pre serve the terseness and aptness of the original. Many, of course, are the same as the Knglish proverbs, or simply change the simile. They are used with all possible variety of appli cation. A gentleman who was seated near a group of young ladies at a rail way station, busy with their farewell kisses, stood it us long us he could and then protested: "Don't count your money in the presence of the poor." Following are some of Ihe pro verbs not uncommonly heard in Mex ico: "He who never ventures will never cross the sea." "There is no gain without pain." "Flies cannot enter a closed mouth." "Behind the cross is the devil." "A cat in gloves will never catch tats." "To the hungry no bread is dry." "A book that is shut makes no scholar." "The good laundress washes the Shirt lirst." "No evil will endure a hundred years." "When tin? river is passed the suint is forgotten." "JJe who has little has little to fear." "If the pill were not bitter it would not he gilt." "Do not trust your money to those, who keep their eyes on the floor and make an outward sign of piety." "Wind and good luck do not last." "Don't take a pawn that must, be fed," "it is good fishing' in troubled wat ers." "A frugal rich father and a spend thrift son." "No word is ill-spoken' if it is not ill-understood." "A tongue may inflict a deeper wound than a sword." He Knew the Cigar. The owner of a general store in a Western village got married. In this little town it is the custom for the happy bridegroom to set up the cigars for all the congratulating males who drop in to wish him joy. So the bride groom in this instance had a box on the counter, and most ol his patrons were regaled from it. Pretty soon an ancient gentleman lounged in. The storekeeper, who felt friendly to all the world just then, pushed the box toward the new comer. "Have a cigar, Uncle Jim," he smil ingly said. Uncle Jim looked nt the storekeeper, "What's this for?" he asked. The storekeeper slightly blushed "licen gettin' married." "Who? You?" "Yep. Mc." "An' you're standin' treat, ell?" "Yep," said the storekeeper. The old man picked up a cigar. "How much (lid these seegars cost ye, Ab?" he inquired. "Oh," replied the storekeeper '"bout four cents gin'n'co.p "they cost me 'bout four cents. They're a nickel cigar." The old man droped the cigar back into the box. Then his gaze wandered around the store. "Well, Ab," he slowly drawled, "cf it's all the same to you, I'll take a pound o' nails." And he got them. Cleveland Pla'u! Dealer. Palmer Cox's Visiting Curds. Not long ago an office boy in one ot the great newspaper offices came grin ning into the room occupied by the Sunday editor. "There's a man outside," he said, "who won't give his name," "Why didn't you ask him for his card?" the Sunday editor asked. "I did," said the boy, "and this is what he handed mc." The boy laughed again and placed a small slip of pasteboard on the editor's desk. On it was the neat pen drawing of a brownie. Then did the editor smile, "You dunce," he suit! to the, boy. "that is the gentleman's card. It's Palmer Cox, father of the brownies." So it was. ,ir. Cox has n most happy way of putting his quaint, little, people on his cards nnd on the cards of his fi'icnds. lie always has a new posi tion for one of the well-known child ren of his fancy. In scrap books over the country I here arc hundreds of original drawings of the quaint little people with large stomachs, and no two of the many sketches are alike. Philadclphia Post. "A nn4 'lllrd l.niiuiiue. "Zee Americnino language ccs one zaf. ccs easily coniprehendez. 1 don't zink," said the I'rcnch boarder to the young man who never cats veal. "You seem inclined to kick about it." "Oui. T nm notations making of ze lectin oddities zat I encounter in zc. vat you call orthography." "Yes?" "Oui. You spell shod s-h-o-e?" "We do." "And blue b-l-u-r?" "Kvact ly." "nd shoeing s-h-o-c-i-n-g?" "Well, what of it?" "And bluing b-l-u-i-n-g?'' "Well, haven't we the right to?" "Oui. But why yon so economical ns to smuggle, out. de lccile c in bill ing ninl make him so conspicuous in shoeing? Ah! .at is where 1 has gc ', vou!" St. Paul (ilobe. A Chicago ralcntchrr s reputed- U in n lie 6,000 a yc-. v ot iU A JlKHICAWft fVONDKRriJL VKAT. Ha Painted a Picture For Ika Part Salon In Four Days. It is reported in the cable dispatches that Messrs. Lionel Walden and Fred Duniond, Americans, have beea awards ed third-class medals for oil paintings at the Paris salon. It is supposed that these are the only two .Ameri cans who have been so honored thia year. Clinton Peters, a portrait paint er, who has lived in ISalfimbre for two or three years, was in Paris in 1S96 when Walden arrived there from Car di Wales. Walden is originally from Cincinnati, )., being the son of Bishop John M. Walden, of the Methodist Kpiseopal church. Bishop Walden wanted his son to enter the ministry, but the youth preferred art instead and went abroad. Mr. Peters was among the first whom Mr. Walden met when he reached the French me tropolis, and both being Americans, they became friends. Four days be fore paintings seeking a place in the salon had to be submitted to the judges Walden remarked: "Peters, this is the only salon yet that I haven't had a picture in, and if I only had a frame, I would get one up in short order." Mr. Peters remonstrated, sayinif that his friend couldn't paint a salon pict ure in four days, but he added that he had a frame 6x4 feet that he would put at Mr. Walden's disposal if the latter wanted it. Mr. Walden took the frame, bought a canvas and went to work, lie had a rough sketch which he had made on the back of an envelope from a car window on his way to Paris. There were railway tracks in the foreground nnd a vista in the background, and Ihis was to be his theme. Strange to say, Walden painted the picture in four days and it was ad mitted to the salon. By two votes it missed receiving a medal. The trench government wanted it, however, for the Luxembourg museum, and asked Walden his price. He said $100 would do, but the secretary made a mistake and sent in the figure at $600. Then one fine day Walden got. a letter from the authorities asking him whether he would take $400 for that four-days' picture. "Walden broke all records on a bicycle," said Mr. Peters, "going to accept, the offer before the mistake was discovered. He got his money und since then he has (lone much good work. He has had several paintings in the salon, and I am very glad to hear that he has been awarded a medal this year. That four-days' work of his though, was one of the best four days' work ever done in Paris." Lightning Holes. , "Did you ever see the diameter of a lightning flash measured?" asked a geologist. "Well, here is the case which once inclosed .a flash of light ning, fitting it exactly, so that you can. see just how big it was. This is called a 'fulgurite' or 'lightning hole,' and the material it is made "of is glass. 1 will fry to tell you how it was manu factured, though it only took a frac tion of a second to turn it out. "When a bolt of lightning strikes a bed of sand it plunges downw-ard into the sand for a distance less or greater, transforming simultaneously into glass the .silica in the material through which it passes. Thus by its great heat it forms a glass tube of precisely its own size. Now and then uch a tube known as 'fulgurite' is found and dug up. Fulgeritcs have been followed into the sand by excavation for nearly thirty feet. They vary in interior di ameter from the size of a quill to three inches or more, according to the 'bore of the flash. "But fulguries are not alone produc ed in sand; they are found also in solid rock, though very naturally of slight depth, and frequently existing merely as a thin, glassy coating on ths surface. Such fulgurites occur in as tonishing abundance on the summit if Little Ararat in Arbcnla. The rock Is soft and so porous that blocks a foot long can be obtained and per orated in nil directions by little tubes illcd with bottle green glass formed "rout the fused rock. There is a small Specimen in the national museum rthicli has the appearance of having been bored by the teredo, and the idles made by the worm subsequently illed with glass. "Sonic wonderful fulgurites were found by Humboldt on the high Nc rndii tie Toluca, in Mexico. Masses of Ihe rock , were covered with a thin inyer of green glass. Its peculiar shimmer in the sun led Humboldt to jscend the precipitous peak at the risk of his life." Kxchunge. Put to the Test. "Count," she said, "you must give nie some proof that you do not want me for my money alone." He looked at her silently for' a mo ment, and a subtle sort of sadness seemed to spread across his features Then he spoke, slowly, softly, as if he had been hurt: "I will do thees thing you ask," he said; "I will prove that 1 want to marry you for yourself only I will do thoese thing on one. condition." Tears of happiness rose to her eyes. She threw her arms around him and kissed him, and then she sobbed: "Ah, darling, I knew yon would do so. I have felt from the. first that my noble Bruno was no mere fortune llllllin, IIJIMI, l I in; lunu 1 1 lull, urdi- est?" "That you will prove you do not marry mc only for my title," hn re plied. "Oh, well," she said, "let's drop the subject. Can you be ready by a week from Wednesday?" Chicago Timrs-Hcrald. New Tent of lllilliloiida. . ' It is reported thai Prof. William I.ispennrd llobb, of Trinity College, Hartford, t onn., has made X-ray pic tures of real and imitation diamonds. i The genuine utone was transparent to the lavs, while the artllic.ini sionc cast a solid opaque shadow. This may prove n valuable test for jewelers' pur poses, A common (I Horoscope would en able a jeweller to detect a bogus diss inond. t