SEED IN HER LI NG A CURIOUS MISHAP TO A COL ORADO CHILD. •Mil* low. A•. •••llaatd • *'««Mp4U» See* II t.*OgM Im Mw I «M MO It IlMMl < rrtalM la I •<*»• Dwlh. A pumpkin seed about tvis* a* Ur.;r *» a watermelon wed u tmbedd.d m the right lung of nine-year old Helen ICerr. who lives at So 73# Brilev lew •teste Colorado Spring; Yet she is ta a fair way to rwotit It la one or the rarest case* ta the history of med ical arMmre. For an object to adhere to the throat la aa everyday orcar reare, hot for aa object to pass through the windpipe and lodge ia the bron chial tabs, thereby shutting out atr from the lung, la rertatnly unusual. The physicians hope that the seed w.U he cast up saber whole or piecemeal a the girls np.toti.tua l.itttr Helen Is (damp and futu prettr 63m la vety fair, having a dear »otn plea ton with light bftoe eyes and golden brown hair Her hair la rolled at the aidea, and two braida reach almost to the «aat Mm drraasB prettily and la very graceful. She attends the second TALKING CHOSTS. A Rimry (iuantat««4 Correct Id Crrr? Partlralar. The group in the corner of the hotel corridor were talking about ghosts last et cuing. and. as usual on such occa* nous, some remarkable stories were told Finally a small man with a red t **ard 'poke up. "I dislike to advance an> theories on this subject." he said, i "but I had a little experience myself last summer which, with your permis • on I will narrate simply for what it - worth. I live in a very old house on Bourbon street." he continued, in the rear of which is a small bricked court connecting with a passage lead ing to a side gate. At the back of the court is a wall, twelve or fourteen feet l. gk. separating us from the next lot, ■ad showing traces in the corner of a i arrow door, w hich was long ago tilled i with masonry. There is nothing in the lej.>t unusual about the place, yet t *r f<>;ae indefinite reason it always a fleeted me unpleasantly. However, to come to the point. 1 happened to go to the back door of the house for some purpose or other one afternoon last July. :.nd there In the court, near the entrance to the passageway, was what .■•jH-ared to be an old man with a long gray beard. He was tall and gaunt and was standing in an attitude HELEN KERR. _-^ ^ ^ -^ _-_ grade at the Washington school to Colorado Spring* and at th* Thanks giving exam**-* she woo much ap y»xarr by bar drier rendition of a ** Wedat entitled *Tbe Little Puritan Maiden." Tba girl does not realise what a narrow escape tram death she bad. and when dangerous symptoms developed the day after she had swal lowed the seed, she calmly asked whether she cwulda t go to sc hool on the morrow Hr Slough, the attend ing phyahiaa. win formerly resident pfcy * ian of tba Cauk county hospital, a Chie .ro. for eigbla-o nor i*. The chance* are," said he. when pressed for a statement. jjmt the patiro: will re cover without an operation, and that she will expectorate the **ecl entirely or pM ernes*. It may be a matter of two days or taro nmiln The seed first lodged tn the windpipe and work ed on into the right lung "If. however, the §y aptoo* grow worse, we will tsve to operate. I wilt have to opew the perk and remove the seed hy way of the trachea "1 have locntad th* seed hy means of the syn-ptom* The seed produced n complete bine* tag of th* bronchial tube In the right lung, causing a swell ing at the mucous membrane abutting the sir completely out . "I am is hopes that she sill cough up the seed entire. If she hit the end of. as Che states, it would slough and she would cough it up in piece* " "Had she not bitten the end off,what then, doctor?" was asked *The condition then would 1* favor able to its sprouting. It woctld have amtature. plenty of air and warmth m the lung But there la no likelihood of that, as she tells a straight story of having bitten the germinating end What is yoar method or treat ment’"'" "The inhalation of antiseptics to aubUoe internal too “ "Suppose the mother had taken the girt by the heels immediately after she had swallowed the seed, would it “No; the aaed passed through the windpipe aad lodged la the bronchial tube. Ctbe child waa brought Uj me very violently. 1 g»vo her i r to mate hat vomit, hag the m wt flrtsd—d Thea Cl a coat of aati-phii a quarter of aa iarh thick. Raced one of the maah la a cup rhather it will of profound meditation. 1 was not more than twelve feet away at the time, and 1 assure you 1 saw the figure as distinctly as I see any of you. This, you will please bear in mind, occurred in broad daylight, at about 3 o’clock, as nearly as 1 can remember, and 1 wou.u like to add that I was in perfect health and not thinking about ghosts when I went to the door. I did not speak of the matter to my family.and, far as I know, they themselves' have never had any unusual experience in the bouse. Neither have I been able to learn of any tradition that Might be associated, directly or indi rectly, with the episode I have de scribed.'* The story was told in a plain, matter of fact way. and its sim plicity made it impressive. "That was certainly a remarkable experience," said one of the party, after a pause. Has the old man ever appeared to you since?” "Oh. yes.” replied the story teller. "1 know the old chap very well. He is our milkman.” * Thun der and lightning!” exclaimed the other indignantly. "What the dickens did you mean, then, by saying he was a ghost?” "I beg your pardon” re tort'd the little man blandly. "I didn't say anything of the kind.” The expe rience meeting thereupon broke up.— New Orleans Times-Democrat. I'anlfcvr E»r»pe«l from Ita (age. A panther escaped trom its cage on a ship at the Koyal Albert docks, at Lamdoo. Kngtand. on a recent night, and jumped ashore. It wandered about tiil daybreak, killing all the cats it came across. Twenty-four hours later a gardener in the employ of the Lon don County Council was about to enter a building in North Woolwich Gar dens when he saw the brute inside. He summoned the police, and the panther ifas ehut in, being re-caged again after some difficulty. »ap|MMrd to H« Dead. Turn* Ip Alive Police Lieutenant Thomas Howard of Chicago was surprised to hud a pris oner at the station xjho was suppcs d to be dead and buried for over six months. The prisone* gave his name as Jaroew Conway. The police say that his right name is Kinney. James Kinney waa »uppo.-**d to have been shot and killed last March in a quarrel The police were satisfied that the dead mm was Kinney and the body was bulled. An investigation will be made. Herd to I adrnUad. - pH you know that Miss BJones was going to marry young Smith?" “I knew it; hut I cannot understand how a girl ns Intelligent as she Is can con arat to marry a man stupid enough to want to marry her.**—Harlem Ufa. JEALOUS CAT KILLS ITS RIVAL. Did Not Like the Atlcntliivs tiae Kew Arrival Was Receiving. From the Minneapolis Tribune: The “fury of a woman scorned” is often spoken of as something to be feared, but. judging from a tragedy enacted in an east side residence, it is not in it wit* the anger of a common cat when it realized that the place it once filled in the affections of its owner has been taken by another and perhaps prettier cat. Old Dick, a big yellow cat, is the property of an east side young woman, and for a number of months past has been the whole thing around the house, so far as pets were aoncerned. ru had his own dish for milk, his own rug, and was a pretty lucky feline, taking it any way you would. His favorite rest ing place was in the lap of his mistress and when she recently brought home a little gray kitten of which she made much Old Dick manifested his displeas ure in a variety of ways. His dispo sition^eemed to change, and.instead of following his mistress around the house, as he had been in the habit of doing, he simply turned his back upon her. Several times the young woman caught the old fellow in the act of cuf fing the new arrival, and for this she reproved him sharply. Finally the little kitten was unmolested when the mistress was around, but the old cat manifested his anger in other direc tions. The other morning the young woman had the kitten in her lap, pet ting it and calling it endearing names, when Old Dick entered the room. He began to groan when he sawT the ten derness with which the kitten was treated and then tried to induce the young woman to pet him instead of the kitten. His attempt was a failure, however, and then the old cat went al most wild with rage. With a single bound he was in the lap of the young woman, who lost her presence of mind and began to scream, fearing the old cat was about to attack her. Seizing ! the kitten by the neck. Old Dick jump ed to the floor and, holding the kitten down by his front paws, deliberately tore open the little animal’s neck.kill ing it in a few seconds. As soon as the kitten was dead the old cat looked at the body for a moment and then dis appeared through the open door and has not been seen since. The tragedy was clearly the result of anger on the part of Old Dick, who up to the pres ent time had never been known to get into a quarrel with another cat. In fact, he was so gentle that his name was a synonym for all that was gentle and mild, and his behavior can be ex plained on no other theory than that he was driven insane by jealousy. A TERRIBLE CONFESSION. Mrs. Lane Tells How Her Husband and Mrs. Dinsmore Were Killed. Mrs. Frank Lane of Odessa. Neb., be fore County Attorney Nye and other F. L. DINSMORE. witnesses, has made a confession that she and F. L. Dinsmore entered into a conspiracy to murder her husband and Dinsmore's wife at Odessa and carried out their program. She said that it was agreed between her and Dinsmore that he was to place poison in his wife's food at the supper table, and that she was to kill Lane after they had returned. Dinsmore kept his part of the agreement and Mrs. Dinsmore died, but her courage failed at the last moment, and she told Dinsmore, who thereupon killed Lane for her. Dins more is now under arrest. SOLDIERS FOR CAPE NOME. They Will He Sent There Next Spring to Preserve Order. Secretary Root contemplates sending some 400 or 500 soldiers to the Cape Nome district early next spring to maintain order there next summer. Mr. I. N. Hibberd of Alaska was at Washington and carefully explained the condition of the Cape Nome dis trict to Secretary Gage and Secretary Root. The ease with which fortunes are apparently cradled from the Cape Nome sands has excited great interest in Alaska and all along the coast. Pay ing dirt or "color,” he says, has been found along the beach for a distance of 200 miles, and the fact that $2,000, 000 was taken out from that district in j about six weeks last summer is taken as evidence that exceptionally rich de posits are to be found there. Mr. Hibberd informed Secretary j Gage and Secretary Root that it could j be expected that the toughest charac ters in Alaska would flock to the dis trict. Last year a lieutenant and 19 soldiers attempted to keep order among the 4.000 miners there and with the expected rush next year will come the necessity for a larger force. Sol I diers are now stationed at St. Michael, Rampart, Eagle and Circle Cities. A Wonderful Floor. An extraordinary floor has been laid 1 in the London Coal Exchange. It Is constructed of inlaid wood, and the pieces are arranged so as to represent the mariner’s compass. Some of the slabs of wood, of which there are al together 4,000. have Interesting histor ical associations. Thus the one form ing the haft of the dagger in the city corporation arms is a portion of a tree planted by Peter the Great, when he worked as a shipwright at Deptford. Ntiwl Method of Traveling. Captain Moindron, of California, will sail to the Paris Exposition in a schooner made of the trunk of a single redwood tree. TALE OF TWO CITIES. STORY OF DAMON AND PY THIAS IN REAL LIFE. A Sacrifice Made in Vain—No Gallant Kahe of a Sidney Carton. but James Sullivan, Shoplifter and Burglar — Two Years to Serve. From behind the grim walls of two Pennsylvania prisons there has come a new "Tale of Two Cities," a modern version of the story of Damon and Pythias, with variations to suit the cir cumstances. The man of self-sacrifice in the present instance is, however, no gallant rake of a Sydney Carton, but James Sullivan, shoplifter and burglar. The man for whom he made the sacri fice—as it happened, in vain—is James Riley, alias “Ritchie," alias "the Mouse,” a weli-kuown New York and Boston thief. Sullivan and Riley, with Charles Hoyt and William Devlin, about three JAMES SULLIVAN, years ago made a successful visit to Berlin and Vienna, returning in a few months laden with the spoils of their thievery, which they proceeded to get rid of as fast as possible in New York's Tenderloin. After several minor ex peditions, conducted for the most part separately, the quartet descended on Philadelphia for the holiday season of 1897. There the police rounded them up on Jan. 15, 189S. They were charged with conspiracy to steal goods from various retail stores. One of them was provided with an ingenious contrivance, shaped like a walking-stick, and really provided with a spring clutch by which articles could be easily lifted from behind counters and pocketed. Theodore Kempf. a jeweler, identi fied Riley as a man who stole a tray of twenty-three diamond rings, valued at $2,500, from his store on Feb. 11. 1896. When the quartet was placed on trial, Devlin, Hoyt and Sullivan plead ed guilty to the charge of conspiracy to steal and Riley to the charge of lar ceny of the rings. Judge Beitler, on July 7. 1898, sentenced Riley to two years and Hoyt, Sullivan and Devlin to fifteen months each in the eastern penitentiary. No sooner was the dangerous band in custody than demands came from vari ous cities for Riley. The Newark and Boston police claimed him for the crimes committed there. Riley saw be fore him the prospect of a long and cheerless confinement either in the Massachusetts or New Jersey state prisons. On the way out in the van to the penitentiary he broached the sub ject of a substitution trick to Sullivan. The band had decided that when their time was up they would all go over to the Paris exposition. "Jimmy,” said Riley, "it will be dead easy for you to take my place when we get out to Cherry Hill. You must an swer to my name and 1 to yours, and when the fifteen months are up we can go out and work the country. You will stay there, and when the two year stretch is run through fly cops from Boston and Newark will come there and when they see you they will say: 'Why, this isn't Riley, and we don't want him.’ See? And they II turn you loose and you can make tracks to join us. See?” Sullivan thought he "saw.” But Riley forgot to tell him one thing, and that was that the laws of Pennsyl JAMES RILEY. vania impose a sentence of two years at solitary confinement for aiding a prisoner to escape. At any rate Sullivan agreed to take chances and all through the term of imprisonment he was "Riley” and Riley was "Sullivan,” and Warden Cas sidy and his wardens were none the wiser. Hoyt, Devlin and Riley. In his as sumed disguise as "Sullivan,” at the expiration of their terms left the pen itentiary and started in upon a career of crime. The trick of which Warden Cassidy had been made the victim might have remained undiscovered un til the term of the solitary convict had run out next spring but for an accident. Riley, who was going under the alias of John Robinson, snatched a tray of diamond rings, valued at $8,000, in the jewelry store of A. E. Seidle, in Market street, Pittsburg, on the night of Nov. 24 last, was chased by a mob and again he stood the crowd at bay with his six-shooter. Detective Charles McGovern engaged him in a rough and tumble fight, in which McGovern's life was saved only because Riley’s hand kerchief got jammed in his revolver hammer. McGovern pounded him Into submission. The Philadelphia detectives learned of the arrest, but could not at first believe the prisoner was really Riley, alias Ritchie. They sent photographs of the “Big Four” to Pittsburg and back came the reply: “This is Riley beyond a doubt.” Warden Cassidy refused to believe that Riley was at large and that he had been made the victim of a feat of such a nature until Detective Hannon went out to the penitentiary and showed him the photographs of Sullivan and Riley from the rogues’ gallery, and then Cassidy had to admit he had been imposed on. Sullivan owned up that Riley had "put up the job” on the warden and had deceived him (Sullivan) also. . District Attorney Rothermel took up the matter. Sullivan was brought in from the eastern penitentiary on a writ of habeas corpus and committed to prison to answer the charge of con spiracy with Riiey to personate each other on entering the penitentiary, so that each might serve the other's sen tence. Sullivan had little to say to the de tectives and seemed to regard the whole affair as a joke. In prison he is now ruminating on the prospect ahead of a two years fresh sojourn in the eastern penitentiary while Riley is do ing time in the western. ^ AN AMAZING STORY. Sixteen-years-old Annie M. Bush. a bride of four months, who has been ar rested at Boston, Mass., on a warrant issued by her husband, Michael Bush, who charges her with being idle and disorderly, tells a story of being sold in wedlock, of brutality and abuse which promises to shock the social set of Forest Hill in which she wras wont to travel, and, while it bears an amaz ing side, several of her friends and the friends of her parents corroborate it. Mrs. Bush's maiden name was Cunnuski. Bush was a boarder in the family for nine years. He became in fatuated with Annie and asked her to marry him. She refused. She resent ed his love-making, but he persisted and finally appealed to her parents. The father, Annie says, compelled her to marry Bush. She declares that she was sold to Bush for $15, and one of her friends says that Mrs. Cunnuski was in favor of pleasing Bush because of business relations, they at that time being engaged in the tailoring business. The wedding took place on Sept. 3, and after two weeks of unhappiness, as Mrs. Bush describes it, she ran away. She told the police the reason she ran away was that her husband beat her with his fists and abused her. She ANNIE M. BUSH. further claimed that her mother and father held her on the floor while her husband beat her with a strap because of some trifling incident which didn't please him. She has made her home for several weeks with friends. Sev eral days ago Bush learned where his young wife was. sought her out and endeavored to persuade her to return to him. Mrs. Bush was firm in her refusal to go back to her parents. He was determined that she should, and he finally had her arrested. Her Illusion* Cion*. Private letters from Ceylon say that Countess Miranda de Canavarro, the California convert to Buddhism, has left San Gamita convent and has ap pealed to friends in California for as sistance to return home. Her illusions are gone, and she is much depressed. The countess inherited a large estate from her father, Major McElroy, and married Count A. de Canavarro, the Portuguese representative at Honolulu. She had a son of 13 years when she became infatuated with Buddhism, left home and went to New York, where, in August. 1897, she was made a dis ciple of Buddha by Dharmapala. the Buddhist priest. She went to Ceylon and entered the convent. Two years’ novitiate has been ample to open her eyes, and she has abandoned all her plans for reforming the Oriental peo ple, who have been lured away from Buddhism. Krltish Surnames. British census reports of family names give in England and Wales 253.606 Smiths. 242,100 Joneses, with Williams, Taylor, Davies and Brown following in order. For Scotland, Smith leads, followed by McDonald, Brown, Thomson. Robertson, Stewart and Campbell. Murphy is ahead in Ireland, there being 62,600 of them; then come Kelly. 55.900; Sullivan, 43, 600; Walsh, 41,700; Smith. 37,000; O’Brien. /3,400; Byrne, 33,000; Ryan, 32.000; Connor. 31,200; O’Neil, 29,100; and Reilly, 29.000. Deep Lai