IN A TRAMP CITY. TERRADELRHIA. A NOVEL IN DUSTRIAL TOWN. I Trmton N J.. Letter ) Oat to shat aard to be tbe swamp erne of Use toggeot and handsom* -t fat - tone* to tka ntjr stands four stories MO awumg anminailliiii of grimy coni yards and tha accumulated refuse cf railroad yuak Throughout tbe day O* bam of its Industry sounds in the aars of a man who sits la a little chanty hack of one of the «al yards ponag over his ledger with but one dominant thought that runs through all his labor; bow he may oare mors tary that he built and owned and lost i»d make It again a home for the t bownaads of Ra former lodgers nos scattered sorer tbe length and breadth of the continent. The man is Thomas If- Terradeil. and the factory building with Its oarroiittdiiigs was formerly a community which was to prove to the world the indnatrial worth of tbe so SIT® IM A LITTLE SHANTY, cnilod wnrtfclm- *Ld nearly tor years ago Terrade::, then a maa at 22. waa aa etftaer «>n the l^MMptVMl® railroad He had al ready aaaa lit# la many phases As a arhaal hay la Trenton he had blacked ***** aad arid papers to pay for bu hiok* and cRdhes Thereafter he had hewn aa Iron moulder a Jockey, a cir ca* au. n minstrel and n jark-ofall trades. wandering from place to place and constantly thrown la with the Banting population of trsmpdom When ho went into the employ of the railroad, aa a fireman first, and then as an engineer, he found himself still tn a position to nee much of tramp life snd a certair. fellowship which he had si ways felt for the knights of the high road, desek^ed into n strong desire to b» of some lasting benefit to them. In his years of experience and associa tion with the tramp fraternity he came to ’.Le conclusion that the hobo, a* a rises, was not a eumberer of the earth, hat an anfortcaat* misfit who under A WONDER FVL TRANSFORMATION. the proper conditions might be made of aa* to himself and the community. While deliberating aa how to accom plish hie purpose, he was caught In a wreck and so severely injured that fur irt-»*°t he sugared and was wholly disabled for future service la railroad ing. Daring the months of suffering hie scheme for the redemption of the hobo was grow tag and solidifying in | hie mind, and to the Idea of making srunilhtsr of this life for the tramp vac added the hope of preparing him tor the next, for Terradeil had joined the cbwh. and had thrown himself lata religion with the fervor character istic of the man in whatever b« did Ihoagh wUhoa* regular employment he contrived to get together a 1 *r dol lar* and with the faith which after ward rasH-** him to achieve such tWff..^«ff result* act out to build a tramp* home. Ttr a ait* he selected j a let of swamp land near the railroad ^ U» a»i. rnni, « ■« thee* thoroughfares that his ex pcstcmee taught him the tramp would travel, partly bseaue* tbm land war an worthless that nobody cored to the ownership of it at that time More he befit a wooden shanty which , he intended for a tramp's hotel, hav Z. arvcial Ubormi u> Oil. la the wort, after be had folly they would work through a winter faithfully, but the first sounds and sw*-n:r of spring would set them back cn the road again. The irreclaimable touo, mho had no intention of doing regular work, could find shelter there for two days and nights conditional upon doing a certain amount of work la cutting wood or cleaning up about the place. Three meals of coffee and bread were given to him each day while he was there. If a sick tramp cauie there he was cared for and medi cine that the establishment could ill afford was given to him until he was able to proceed or had qualified for hospital treatment. Terradell held religious services and tried, with vary suceets. to convert his associates. The 27 cottages were rented at low rates. Regarding his community as a city of itself Terradell decided to name it “Terradelphia.” For a time Terradel phla flourished. Merchants and manu facturers who were Interested in Ter radell gave him orders and the output of the place found good sales. The cottages were filled and apparently the community flourished. Terradell pro jected another factory building, and the fw. Borden, of Fall River, as their benefactor. It was he who. by establishing a 10 per cent increase in wages, forced the other manufacturers of that city to aban don their plan of a 5 per cent increase and give the same advance he offered. The result is that cotton mill owners in other cities were compelled to do likewise and thousands upon thou sands of extra dollars will flow into M. C. D. BORDEN, the hands of the working forces of the mills. His fellow manufacturers are now seeking to belittle Mr. Borden by impugning his motive, saying that he did it to revenge himself upon them because they insisted upon raising wages 5 per cent while he originally declared that wages were high enough. When they refused to agree with him, he became angry and the 10 per cent increase was offered by him merely to injure the market and cause a gen eral wreck. COLD IN BLACK SAND. Oao Btlau Propones to Uet Rich ou WUut Others Throw Away. “There's millions of gold in black sand.” said H. A. Frederick, a Seattle man of experience in the Klondike, “and I believe I have hit upon a plan to get it out. You know thi3 black sand is about as heavy as gold, and in panning, as ordinarily done with cold water, the gold and the sand either go out of the pan together and are lost, or they stay in the bottom and are of no more use than if they were lost On the claim I had in the Yukon country we only got $32 out of the black sand for a whole season, and I know that we were losing a whole lot and that there ought to be some way of getting at it. So I experimented w-ith hot water, which was not unusual, but I added some salt to it, and found an improvement. I took an iron bucket holding two gallons, filled it about one third full of sand, put in a double handful of salt, filled it with water and set it on the fire to boil. As it boiled I stirred it, like you would stir apple butter, or as we stir ‘dog feed’ in the Klondike, and then poured it off into pans. I don’t know what effect the salt had, but when I put a little quicksilver into the pans I’ll be blamed if I didn’t get every particle of gold there was. Then I went at it on a larger scale and with the sand that w-as before practically valueless, I got 52 ounces for one’s day’s work by three men. The gold was worth about $850, or say about $1G an ounce. I’m going to Cape Nome in the spring, where there are tons and tons of this black sand that cannot be or has not been worked, and I'm going to utilize the salt sea-water and get rich. You see if I don’t. At the same time I want to tell you that the Klondike country is just beginning to be worth looking after. So far there have been only scrapings along the surface by indi viduals with poor appliances, but when the rich companies, that arc organiz ing. get to work with big hydraulic ma chines and the right kind of mining tools, the gold will fairly run out in streams. Dirt that is worth only six or seven cents a pan won’t pay a single miner to fool with, but a big hydraulic on that kind of dirt can make a million a day. It is estimated that there are thirty-five claims around Dawson that will have produced a mil lion each as now worked, and there are hundreds that are good for any amount from a hundred th#«sand to half a mil lion.” A Clever Artist. A clever American woman artist, Miss Hutchinson, is said to be the on ly woman in the country able to do the decorating enameled on fine pieces of jewelry. A workshop with the mer cury in summer at 100 and 110 degrees is the price one has to pay for the abil ity to do this delicate work. Misd Hutchinson is an indefatigable worker. The greater part of her education was received in this country, and later she studied a few mouths in the Julian studio, Paris. She was also admitted for a time to the Sevres factory. Her work there was so satisfactory that she was given special pieces of the Sevres porcelain to decorate. Her Leaulug Was Pronounced. Her mother—I think that Mabel has a slight leaning toward this young Mr. Smith. Her father—Slight? Great Scott! You ought to have seen them last night!—Stray Stories. “Porter, call me a cab.” “With or without, sir?” “Eh?” “Horse or auto, sir?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE ROSE OF WILTON A GIRL OUTLAW OF THE FAR EAST. She Has Given the Authorities Much Trouble — Kemarkable Career of a Young Connecticut Girl Outlaw Still iu Her Teens. (Norwalk Letter.) Within the gloomy walls of a Con necticut prison, drooping and pining for the wilderness of the forest, lan guishing for the lack of the sunlight, is “the Wild Rose of Wilton.” Not yet out of her teens, Minnie Sturm, brown eyed and beautiful, has had a career that well might puzzle a philosopher to account for. Reared in a quiet, old fashioned house near Norwalk, this girl, with a rich profusion of dark brown hair, with hands soft and white, with a beauty such that many a maid en of lordly birth might envy her, un tutored and in tatters, is yet a queen of men, lawless men though they are. Not more than a mile from her home, beneath the shelter of two great rocks, was the rendezvous of a marauding band of idlers. There this farmer s daughter found them about two years ago. She cast her life with theirs. MINNIE STURM. When a raid on neighboring cellar® and hen roosts made provisions plenti ful there in the rendezvous, it was Minnie Sturm (Minnie Brotherton) who cooked the viands over a tire of logs. But the band became too daring. The hand of the law seized them. Some were imprisoned and the others scat tered. Minnie Brotherton promised to mend her ways and the lenient author ities let her go her way. For a short time she lived quietly, but not con tentedly, in the old house. A few months later she married Valentine Sturm of Norwalk and went to live with the family of her husband. Her stay there was remarkably short. Seven months after she left him, and in the winter of 1898 applied to the Selectman of Norwalk for support. She was sent to the Town Farm. Even there she showed her wild tendencies. She fell in love with a pauper, ‘•Jim” Collins, a gray-bearded man with a wooden leg. One day they eloped from the Almshouse, and for several days there was no trace of them. Then Col lins limped back to the institution and was restored to his former place, but the “Wild Rose” had no love for life in an Almshouse, and she soon found a companion in Howard Dauchy. A few days ago Dauchy and the ‘‘Wild Rose” entered the Norwalk Selectman’s office and applied for admission to the Poor house. Instead of accommodating them the Selectman notified Sturm, who preferred a charge against his wife. It was learned, too. that they had borrowed a horse and wagon to drive to the Town Clerk’s office, say ing they wished to get a marriage li cense. The horse and wagon were not returned, and a charge of horse theft was made. The “Wild Rose's” indig nation was aroused. She first plead ed with the owner to withdraw his charge, promising to bring back his horse and wagon. He was determined to send her to Jail, and refused. "You’ll never see that horse again!” the “Wild Rose” exclaimed. “I’ll go to jail and stay there.” And she did. Tills City Kntirely Owns Itself. The town of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, stands unique in the world as the only town which absolutely owns itself in every respect. Begin ning life in a municipal artisan's dwelling, the young man rides to his work on a municipal tram. He gets his gas or electricity from the city. His wife rents a gas stove from the city, purchases her produce from a municipal market, and buys meat that has been prepared by a municipal butcher. Both use the public baths, enjoy the city's parks, and send their children to the city’s playgrounds. Their house refuse is moved by the city. When ill they go to the city hospital; or. if unfortunate, to the city municipal lodging room. Their letters are collected by a city postman. And in a thousand other ways their daily life comes in close contact with the city government. At last they are burled in a city cemetery. “Little Dorrit’*” Church. The public authorities who are re moving the human remains from “Lit tle Dorrit’s" church in Southwark, have cleared away upwards of a thou sand bodies. In the process of doing so they have discovered vaults the ex istence of which was unknown or had been forgotten, and these are chockful of coffins. It is stated that the clear ing out of the whole of the vaults and the reinterment of the remains at Wok ing will add fourpence a pound to the rates of the parish. The bodies are presumably those of persons of local standing or distinction whom the parishioners or the church in past times desired to honor. A Mile * Minute In an Automobile. Chief Engineer Croker, of New York, rides to fires in an automobile that travels at 60 miles an hour. It is called and is really a fire locomotive. It is propelled by steam generated by gaso line. The machine carries a pressure of 120 pounds of steam, could be speed ed to 25 miles an hour in any 100 yards, and 60 miles in a furlong, and could be stopped in its own length. In a hundred yards it could attain the speed of an express train. NEWS SPREADS FAST. Even the African Natives Have Their Systems of Communication. Both South African and British In dian papers refer to the keen interest taken by the natives of the two coun tries in the war between the British and the Boers. A regular system of communication is said to have been es tablished between stations on the west and the northwest frontier of India and the hill country, by which all informa tion concerning the progress of the war is transmitted with extraordinary ra pidity among the tribesmen. How it is done is a mystery yet unsolved; but one Indian paper affirms that the news of the beginning of hostilities in South Africa was already known across the frontier when it was received at Pesha ; wur by telegraph. The effect of it was seen in the agitation that began among the tribes, and in a call sent out by the Mullah of Povindah for 3,000 men to assemble, ostensibly to march against some recalcitrant chieftains. He also issued a proclamation ascribing the de feats of the tribesmen last year to the want of harmony among them, and pointing out that if they wanted to re cover their independence they must rise all together. In consequence of this agitation a British force has been sent to the frontier to the point threat ened. A Rhodesian paper, in announc ing the outbreak of the war, laments the absence of telegraphic communica tion between Beira and the coast towns of Natal and Cape Colony, by which news could be received of the progress of hostilities, and says that if all ether means of communication fail, they will have to fall back upon the native house boys. It says that it has certainly been more than surprising in previous Af rican wars how early and correct was the Information the natives seemed to possess. An instance is given in which during the last Mashona war, the Mas honas in the Umtali district knew of the battle at the Shangania river on the evening of the same day on which it was fought. How such speed of com munication was secured is still a puz zle. Whether it was done by shout ing from hill to hill, or by fleet run ners in relays, the result, the covering of 40 miles in eight hours, was a mar vel; GENEROUS CARNEGIE. It is a rare day that does not witness a wise and generous deed at the hands of Andrew Carnegie. It is generally a large gift of money for public labrary purposes, for this is Mr. Carnegie’s special line of beneficence. Within the past few weeks five such benefactions have come to public knowledge, the total amounts promised being not less than $2,000,000. Of this, $1,750,000 was the enlargement of the Carnegie library in Pittsburg, an institution to which Mr. Carnegie had already con tributed several millions. The addi tional sum, it is said, will make the library three and one-half times larg er than originally intended, and the largest and most magnificent building of its kind in the world. In addition to its use as a library, the building will have departments devoted to the pro motion of science, music, art and liter ature. The four other library gifts mentioned included one of $50,000 to the city of Duluth, Wis.; $50,000 to the city of Tyrone, Pa.; $125,000 to the Polytechnic Library Society, of Louis ville, Ky., and $25,000 to Tucson, Ariz. All these donations were accompanied with the condition that the cities thus favored should furnish certain sums of money for the regular maintenance of the library. CONKLING’S NAMESAKE. A Negro Orator Whose Name Commemo rates a Kind Act. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, a negro stu dent at Harvard, is proving himself an orator of great eloquence and a de bater of profound capacity. Harvard has been amazed by his brilliance. Y.oung Bruce is a son of former United States Senator Blanche K. Bruce, of Mississippi, who for many years was register of the treasury. Young Bruce was named for Roscoe Conkling out of gratitude for a favor the eloquent New York statesman once did for the elder Bruce when the negro leader first went to the senate. Bruce's colleague from Mississippi declined to introduce the colored statesman to the president of the senate. All the other senators were disposed not to interfere, and Mr. Bruce found himself in a most embar rassing position. Mr. Conkling took in the situation and his generous heart was touched. He promptly introduced Bruce to the president, and the Mis sissippi negro never forgot the kind ness. The younger Bruce was prepared R. C. BRUCE. for Harvard at Phillips Exeter, and en tered the university last year. His splendid abilities were brought out in the trials for the Princeton debate, in ■which hd' surprised everybody by his mastery of thought and by the plain evidences he gave of an inborn elo quence. Last year he earned much praise by winning the medal offered by Baron Coubert, of Paris, to Harvard students for excellence in knowledge of French politics. It is predicted that he will surpass the famous Frederick Douglass in oratory. __ The children of the Boers, females as well as males, are taught to use the rifle before they are ten years of age. This explains why the Boers are such excellent marksmen. IS A QUEER CHURCH. THAT OF FAITH HEALERS IN PHILADELPHIA. Flasks of Whisky. Cigars, Crotches, Corsets, Trusses, and Vials of Medi clne In Profusion—As Symbols of Ke , mtneiation. ________ (Philadelphia letter.) Philadelphia has the oddest place of worship in the world. It is at 1344 Somerset street, and is the local branch of the “Christian Catholic Church,” otherwise the “Zionists,” who believe in divine healing. The church is a neat, new and well-lighted apartment, about lSxoO feet in size. The wall back of the platform, which is used as a pulpit, is decorated in a unique manner. Flasks of whisky, cigars, pipes, bags of to bacco, crutches, plugs of chewing to bacco, trusses.vials of all kinds of med icine, corsets and many other articles have places on the wall, interspersed with Scriptural passages. Each of these articles is said to be the symbol of a renunciation of the use of liquor or medicine, or the material evidence of an escape from some malady. One understands their significance at last when men and women who have en JOHN A. DO WE. tirely given up the use of medicine to rely solely on the healing power of Christ, rise in the audience and bear testimony to marvelous cures of con sumption, cancer and other serious dis eases which were wrought solely through the efficacy of prayer after physicians had .abandoned all hope. The Zionists eschew all swine's flesh, and the use of whisky and tobacco is absolutely prohibited, and the use of medicines of all kinds is considered blasphemous. The Zionists were founded less than ■ four years ago by Rev. John Alexand der Dowie, who was formerly a Con gregationalist preacher, and was once a minister of education in Australia. Their headquarters are at Chicago. In their brief existence the Zionists have grown to a membership of over 25,000. They have a bank, a college, land as sociation and other business institu tions. The members contribute one tenth of their income to the church. TL-. is done through the bank. The Chicago bankers are greatly incensed at this feature of the new religion, as it takes deposits away from them. All of these are under the absolute control of Rev. Dr. Dowie.who is called ; the general overseer.and whose powers ' extend even to the naming of his suc j cessor. Dowie poses as a prophet. At Zion Tabernacle, Chicago, recently, the faith healer predicted that in 25 years the world would be ready for the “com ing of the Lord.” "The telephone, telegraph and other wonderful things,” he said, "will make it so easy to spread the Gospel of Zion that in a quarter of a century the world will be prepared for the great day.” He lately began a two weeks’ war on the “unclean, un godly and criminal press” of Chicago. He explained that he would attack the greater part of the denominational press as well as the secular. How Children Are Named in Persia. In Persia the naming of children is a matter of chance, a sort of lottery de ciding what name the infant shall car ry through life. In Persia this cere mony, performed in the house of birth, is important and elaborate. All the relatives, even those living at a dis tance, are brought together, and the priests of the locality are invited. Aft er the meal, which is served as a wel come, is eaten, the new addition to Persia’s population is placed in the center of the room on a rug. The guests form a circle around the child. One of the priests w'rites five names, previously agreed upon, on five slips of paper, and distributes these among the leaves of the Koran. He then reads a chapter from the book end at random picks one of the slips. Whatever name this slip bears then be comes the name of the child. It is whispered into the ear of the new-born by the priest, and the slip of paper is then hidden in the baby's clothes. I ——— Not There to Talk. People who talk during a theatrical performance, a concept or a "paid” en tertainment of any kind, in a manner to cause annoyance to their neighbors before them, behind them, beside them or w’ithin earshot of them, if they be in boxes, are not mere disturbers and nerve-raekers. They are plain thieves and are just as much thieves as the proverbial grocers (we never met this kind of grocer in real life), who put sand into their sugar, and they stand in exactly the same relation to the pur veyors of the entertainments as does a malicious person to his grocer who who puts sand in his grocer’s sugar barrel with that grocer’s knowledge or consent. This remark applies not on ly to the loud talkers, but to the pes tiferous "siffle—siffle—siffle” ers, who speak in whispers.—New York Press. Cimeli on the Plow In Germany. Count Skorzewski, a wealthy land owner in Posen, Germany, has recent ly caused a sensation among the na tives by employing a camel instead of horses or oxen to draw the plow on his estate. The experiment has proved successful, and it is probable that it will be followed in other agricultural districts. Toil is the toll ®t the gate of roc cess. - - - k LJ BIG CAKES AND PIES. Some So I«irge That They Have Be* eomc Historic. Last Christmas, in North Enrl Road, Fulham, there was on view an •-'Ror mous cake that towered almost to the ceiling of the confectioner's shop. It was made to represent a fortress, and weighed more than 4,000 pounds. In its composition had been used 600 pounds of flour. 400 pounds of butter. 400 pounds of sugar. 600 pounds of icing sugar, 900 pounds of currants, 450 pounds of sultanas. 300 pounds of can died peel, 200 pounds of almonds, and 5.000 eggs. Gigantic, however, as was this cake, it cannot be compared with that with which in June, 1730, Frederick William I. regaled his army. After a huge repast of beef, wine and beer had been partaken of. the guests, to the number of 30,000, saw approaching an immense car drawn by eight horses, on which reposed a monster cake eighteen yards long, eight yards broad and one-half yard thick. It contained, among other ingredients, 36 bushels of flour. 200 gallons of milk. 1 ton of but ter. 1 ton of yeast, and 5.000 eggs. The soldiers, who had already eaten a hearty meal, were able to devour only a portion of this extraordinary cake, so to their aid were summoned the peo ple from the towns and villages in the * neighborhood, among whom it was distributed till not a morsel remained. Last August the town of Paignton re vived an old custom of making a plum pudding for the benefit of the local poor. After being drawn in proces sion round the town, it was cut up and sold. Its weight—250 pounds—com pares, however, but poorly with Paign ton's former efforts. In 1S19 a pud ding weighing 900 pounds was made, with unfortunately but indifferent suc cess. for, after boiling three days and nights in a brewer's copper, it was pro nounced too “doughy” to be eaten. However, in 1858 the inhabitants re covered their prestige and beat the rec ord with a pudding a ton and a half in weight, and costing $225. In its composition were employed 573 pounds of flour, 191 of bread, 382 pounds of raising. 191 pounds of currants, 382 pounds of suet, 320 lemons, 360 quarts of milk, 144 nutmegs, 95 pounds of su gar, besides a quantity of eggs. It was cooked in sections, which were aft erwards built together. In 1896 Denby Dale, near Huddersfield, celebrated the jubilee of the repeal of the corn laws by making a Brobdingnagian pie, which was served out to the thousands that flocked into the village from the country round. The dish employed in baking was ten feet long, six feet six inches wide and one foot deep, weigh ing, with its contents, thirty-five hun dredweight. The pie itself contained 1,120 pounds of beef, 180 pounds of veal, 112 pounds of mutton and 60 pounds of lamb. In the composition of the crust 1.120 pounds of flour and 160 pounds of lard were used. This is the sixth huge pie that has been made at Denby Dale, the first having been manufactured so long ago as 1788, to commemorate the recovery of George III.—London Tit-Bits. FLOWERS OF THE VELDT. Anything Will Grow In the Transvaal It Is Planted. I’p in the Transvaal, if a farmer cultivates flowers at all—and all Boers are not as unappreciative of beauty as their detractors suggest—he almost always has on his stoop, or veranda, a couple of tubs containing plants of keitje perring. This is the gardenia of the commercial London buttonhole. The tuberose also flourishes amazingly in the open air with but the smallest attention and cultivation. The bulbs shoot up their three or four-foot stems, each bearing very sweet-smelling flow ers, in an uncredibly short space of time, says the London Mail. In Pre toria roses are prolific—in fact, most of the streets are bounded by rose hedges throughout their length, and they bloom with a frail, pink monthly rose blossom for three-quarters of the year. In public places, such as the Burghers’ Park, the profusion of roses, lilies, carnations and tuberoses is be wilderingly beautiful. The wild or chids of Swaziland are famous. They are of at least 20 different kinds. They are extremely curious, and with a little care and extra heat they can be induced to develop into very wonder ful plants. Everything grows in the Transvaal if the trouble is taken to plant it. The sail being a:l virgin and naturally rich, the very smallest amount of attention is required. “Out at Luncheon, Sir.'* A physician writing to the Boston Transcript commands the New York World’s attack upon the heavy lunch eon for sedentary brain-workers, and points out that the “skilled physicians’’ who recommend the “three square meals a day” are not “skilled dietists.” “It is vastly better for the doctors,” says this candid and sensible doctor, “for men and women to eat three square meals a day.” And he goes on to show that science has discovered that even the day laborer who eats in the middle of the day does not really digest his food, but gets rid of the burden by an unhealthful fermenta tion. A craving for food is no more an indication of a healthful need than is a craving for whisky or tobacco. And how can food eaten at midday re fresh or strengthen when it does not digest? The Romans conquered the world on one meal a day, says The World, and the Greek intellect, fed once a day. was bright enough to il luminate twenty-three centuries. The Hat Didn't Come Back. “George, George, mind; your hat will be blown off if you lean so far out of the window!” exclaimed a fond father to his little son, who was traveling with him In a railway carriage. Quickly snatching the hat from the head of the refractory youngster, papa hid it behind his back. “There, now, the hat has gone!” he cried, pretend ing to be angry. And George imme diately set up a howl. After a time the father remarked: “Come, be quiet; if I whistle your hat will come back again.” Then he whistled and re placed the hat on the boy’s head. “There, it’s back again, you see.” Afterward, while papa was talking to mamma, a small, shrill voice was heard saying: “Papa, papa, I’ve thrown my hat out of tha window! Whistle again, will you?’”