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VEXED BY GOLD FIND ^ QUICKLY-GOTTEN TREASURE PLAGUE OF THEIR LIVES Entanglements of a legal nature be set the paths of Messrs. Melville E. Wygaat. aud John T. Redmond, two gold tiadets of Staten Island. The former owner of the property upon which the treasure was found has made a demand of $10,000 upon Mr. Wygant, Another member of the fam ily has appeared to accept $200 for his e'aim. Every mail brings demands for gold Their pot of treasure has be come the plague of the discoverers’ lives. On this account thpy have spent anx ious nights since they sprang into fame. They say that they stood over the treasure with shotguns, reinforced by bulldogs. One of the animals, ac cording to Mr. Wygant, while per formlug his duty, was poisoned. I.offend of TreAmro. That at least a considerable quanti ty of the precious metal had been found there can be no doubt. Mr. John T. R°lniond told the legend which ac counted for th« presence of the trea sn:e The occupant of the house a century and a half ago built a tower, 1 let them identify it. They hare hired a lawyer to take charge of the case. C ns lout Christian Sunet. One of the most curious names ever bestowed upon a girl is Airs and Grates. She is now about 3 years old, j her name being registered at Someset j House, Ixmdon. in 1898, when she was ! baptiezri. Her sister's name is equally unusual. Nun Niver. When Airs and Graces and Nun Niver arrive at the age of maturity at least one of them should marry a youth whose Christian I great natural shrewdness. He got pos session of a number of Manitoba land giants in some way or other and evolved an elaborate scheme for run ning a railroad out into that wilder ness, dividing the land off into farms and city lots and selling it. He inter ested some of the richest men in his plan, talked them into putting up tho money for the road and it was built. The lota were sold right off all right and the road was a success. Later on Hill got control of it, having started with nothing but some plans on paper. That was his beginning and he has been going ahead ever since. He is a wonderful money-maker. The* (ompaM Plant. The compass plant is one of the most interesting growths on the great prairies of North America, and many fine specimens may be seen in botani cal gardens. It is from three to six THE OLD FIREPI.ACH5 on which were kindled beacons. These luring many a grand ship to destruc tion of the chill waters of the Kill von ku!l The wreckers abstracted doub loon - from Spanish galleons and bonis | d’Ot 3 from French barks. These ill got:tn gains are said to have been placed in the identical kettle which was found by Mr. Wygant and Mr. Redmond. They had engaged the ser vices of Mr. Thomas Brown, an emi nent young attorney, some days be fot ■ they secured the contract for the demolition of the old house, which re sulted in finding the treasure. Everybody in Port Richmond knows • Mel” Wygant and his livery stable. Fie is a man of large dimensions and a marry eye. He is around fifty, and is counted one of the richest men in the village He owns many houses. The story that he had found a lot of gold under the ruins of the old Hatfield house excited the whole village to the fever point The old house was a land mark. and was over a hundred years old. For all that time it was the home of the Hatfields. Many tales are told of the Hatfields. The original Hatfield owucj over 100 acres of land in the vicinity The last Hatfield to live in the old house was John D. He died In 183.1. Then it fell Into the hands of John J. Hatfield. Mr. Charles Rosen berg, a wealthy New York merchant, bough* the farm, and Is cutting it into lots The house was torn down to get It out of the way. After removing the bouse the contractor sold the stone to Mr. Wygant for $10. It was while digging in the masonry that he and Mr. Redmond found the pot contain ing, it i3 said, $40,000 in gold. The gold is kept carefully hidden sway in a safe somewhere on the Island Unless the claimants can Identify it they rannot sue for its re oovsry, and the finders do not mean to KEI/VTLX.3 E. WTO ANT. name compares favorably; for exam ple: Acts of the Apostles. This is a name found in an English parish register: Acsapostle, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Pegden. was | baptized Aug 2. 1795. Again this name figures in records in 1833, when Acts of the Apostles , son of Richard and Phebe Kennett, was baptized. This I name, curious as it is, is preferable to j What, or Dun Spiro Spero, names with i which children have been handicapped. It was a patriotic American who be- | stowed upon his young hopeful the | name of Declaration of Independence, j A most warlike name is Robert Alma j Balaclava Inkerman Sebastopol Delhi j Dugdale, who is an English innkeep- ; er’s son. A similar name is Richard Coeur de Lion Tyler Walter Hill. Knwla'i Might? Nav?. Russia's fleet consists of 22 first class battleships, yielding to none in the world in excellence and perfection, though three or four of the Japanese battleships have certain qualities of superior weight; one second-class bat tleship, 16 coast defense ships, and 23 cruisers of the first-class, or fully ar mored. Twenty-three battleships and 23 cruisers, therefore, may stand as the backbone of Russia's naval strength, a force well seconded by full complements of coast defense ships, second and third-class cruisers, gun boats, torpedo boats, torpedo destroy ! ers, transports, auxiliaries and all that pertains to them. The Russian heavy guns are second to none and the bat teries of 6-inch and 4.7-inch quick-fir ing guns leave nothing to wish for. The secondary small arm batteries are likewise perfectly equipped. The Rus sian warships are. in fact, the most numerously armed in the world. Hill'* Rl»* from a I)a? laborer. James J. Hill, president of the Great [ Northern railroad company, and now worth many millions, was at one time t a day laborer in St. Paul, Minn. He 1 i wan a stalwart, husky American and of HATFIELD HOUSE. feet high, bears a pretty yellow flow er and lives through a number of rears. The name is derived from the [act that the edges of its radical leaves ilways point north and south, and the faces are therefore turned east and west. Hunters, travelers and horsemen on !he trackless prairies depend in great part upon this plant to get their bear ings. Even on dark nights it serves as i guide. If the lost traveler can feel the edges of the leaves, he can at once i locate the points of the compass I Longfellow in his beautiful poem of ! Rvangeline refers to this plant when j heroine over the western prairies in search of her exiled Acadian lover, j Scientists ascribe the action of the i leaves of the plant in always pointing | north and south as due to the effect of; light. — WelliriKton's Appetite Eislly Suited. The Duke of Wellington's personal tastes and habits, like those of most I great men, were very simple. He cared not for show or pomp of any kind. In his diet he was very abstem ious, even to the injury, it appears, of his health. He, of course, kept a first rate French cook for his guests. The cook, it is said, one day suddenly resigned. The duke in astonishment asked the reason. “Was hi3 salary insufficient?" “No, my salary is very handsome. But 1 am not appreciated. I cook your dinner myself, a dinner fit for a king. You say nothing. I go out and leave the under-cook to cook your dinner. He gives you a dinner fit for a pig. You say nothing. I am not appreciated. I must go.” PMllng of the Hlg Ranch. Charles S. Goodnight, a pioneer ranchman in the Texas Panhandle a j generation ago, says that this genera tion has seen the passing of the 1,000, 000 acre ranch, and that immense tracts in one body have seen their day in Texas. Mr. Goodnight says that ten men with 10.000 acres each can operate more successfully than one man on 1,000,000 acres. (■•od Koaionlnj. "Don't you kinder hanker after re spectability now an' den?” asked Plod ding Pete. “Oh. I dunno,” answered Meander ing Mike. "Sometimes I t'ink dat re spectability ain' much more dan per mission to work hard for what us people gits for nothin'." ARE PAINTED TOO BLACK. Iplileri Are I)e»erviii|f of More t'ouvld • ratlon Than They Receive. •'There are many kinds of spiders besides those that annoy the house wife with their webs stuck up in the corners of the rooms and in the win dows whore she has been too busy with the sewing to look after the bouse much," says a recent writer on scientific subjects,” but every kind Is an appetite on eight legB and thor oughiy convinced that no one can be atrong and hearty that lives on vege tables. They all spin more or less, whence their name, which is a con traction of spinder or spinner. Also, they bite, and if you listen to all the fool stories that are told, when a spider bites you you will save time by sending for the lawyer to make your will and telegraph for the boys to come home at once if they want to see you alive. But I will tell you as between educated people that know a thiug or two and do not get scared j over every little trifle that a spider's bite is no svorse than a mosquito's— not so bad, in fact. A big spider can 1 kill a small bird with its poison, but ' it only makes a man's arm swell up and hurt for a day or less and not hurt very much at that. Bertkau could not feel the ordinary domestic spi ler on the thick skin of his haud, and only between the fingers could tiie spider make a puncture like that of a dll'll pin. The worse result was that it itched a little. Black wall had i them draw blood, but that was all. Though one spider bit another so hard that its liver ran out it lived for more than a year afterward. As for these terrible tarantulas, either the •torles told about victims having to dance till they fell down in exhaus tion La order to escape death and madness were tremendous whoppers or tarantulas don't bite as bad as they used to. It is true that in those days the Italian violinists had to work overtime composing tarantelles to play for the bitten, but still there were sneering skeptics that said it was all a scheme got up to pass the hat for the wife and family of the suffering man whom a malignant spider had bitten while he was out looking for a job. Dufour had a tarantula that was quite tame and gentle. She took flies from his Angers like a dear thing." Harsh Urand’* Wit. Mme. Sarah Grand's lectures In Eng land during the past winter have been attended with singular success. Clever, accomplished and charming, she talks brilliantly and lectures with easy grace and finish. People who have rushed to hear her in the hope that her lec tures would savor of the problems in ‘‘The Heavenly Twins" and "Habs the impossible," and who expected to he mildly shocked, have been disappoint ed. But they have been agreeably sur prised in other ways by her sense of humor, which is the salt of her speak ing as well as her writing. Recently she sent a I.<ondon audience into screams of laughter when she respond ed to the cry from Australia—“Send us 2.000 wives.” "In behalf of 2.000 Eng lish benedicts. I reply, ‘Take ours! Take ours! ’ ” Tale llnto Cloak*. As pale blue cloth cloaks were im mensely smart last summer at the French watering places, so this year will be those in pale rose color. Some times the material is flannel, some times cloth, sometimes taffeta, always it has a certain air of being tailored that Is a bit of a pretense considering the color, and, in some cases, the ma terial. One of the prettiest models to come out as yet is in pale rose flan nel, three-quarters length, laid from the shoulders m tiny tucks that are stitched almost to the hem. The cloak fastens with an ecru guipure scarf about the throat, knotting on one side, and then hanging in two long, broad ends to the hem of the cloak, confined at several points by straps of flannel, buttoned across with handsome gold buttons. The sleeve is wide and loose and hangs only a little below the el bow in order to show a full under sleeve of lace like the scarf. The gar ment is unlined. MUaloia (halo Acrou Africa. Rev. George Grenfell has been com missioned by Robert ArtMpgton, a wealthy man of Leeds, England, to es tablish a chain of Christian missions across Africa. Mr. Grenfell has long been the friend and confidant of Leo pold, king of the Belgians, by whom he was created a commander of the Royal Order of the Lion. He was se lected by the king of the Belgians to act as a special commissioner for the delimitation of the Congo frontier, and traveled 1,000 miles on oxhack during his journeylngs. which occupied two i years, and compelled him to occupy j same tent and dangerous surround ings for the whole of that time. On Different Orouod. The term "help." meaning household or outside assistants engaged for short periods, occurs in the Massachusetts records of 1645, where help and serv ants are treated as separate, the latter being inferior. A "servant" in those days was not sul Juris; ‘•help" stood on different ground, and the distinc tion is still felt, however faintly. | “Help" meant a free person, ‘‘servant" ' did not, MARGARET FULLER. A BRILLIANT CAREER WHICH CLOSED TRAGICALLY. A Womin Marvelously Gifted, j daily In EunKUitKeSi Who*. Memory It In Now Proposed to Honor by the Erection of n Monument. The proposition to erect a monu ment to the memory of Sarah Margar et Fuller Ossoli, better known as plain Margaret Fuller, directs attention to | one of the brightest geniuses among American women. It is suggested that the memorial be placed on the shore of Fire Island, near the spot where the gifted woman went down to a wa tery grave more than a half century ago. Her career, which ended so trag ically, w-as one of brilliant literary achievements and romantic incidents. A I'romgy. Margaret Fuller was the daughter of Timothy Fuller, a congressman and distinguished lawyer of Chilmark, Mass., and her early education was supervised by him. Naturally bright, the father exceeded the limit of her endurance in forcing her to study throughout the day ar.d recite at night. As a mere child she read Hor ace, Ovid and other Latin writers in the original. At 15 she was in the habit of rising at 5 o'clock of a sum mer morning, walking an hour, prac ticing on the piano an hour, reading Sismondis European literature In French one hour and Brown's Philoso phy one hour and a half. Then she would read Greek for a while. In the afternoon she spent two hours reading Italian. A year later she was studying Mme. de Stael, Epictetus, Mil ton, Racine and Castilian ballads with great delight. At 17 she was engrossed in Berni. Pulci, Politan and other old Italian poets. She was also deep in Greek and planning a course in Locke's philosophy. At 20 she gava her undivided attention to the German language and literature, in which she had already made considerable prog MARGARET FULLER. regs. It is recorded that she learned enough of a language to read it intel ligently in six weeks' study. Teaching and Writing. During these years at home Miss Fuller engaged in the housework, and at 20 took charge of the education of the younger children of the family. Three years later she became an in structor in Mr. Alcott's famous school, and when It was abandoned she went to Providence to teach. On returning to Boston she divided her time between study and teaching private scholars. She was qualified to teach Latin, Greek, German, French, Italian, Span ish and the higher English branches. It was during this period that Miss Fuller made many warm friends and won fame as a brilliant conversation alist. For five or six years she con ducted a school of conversation for girls and women, discussing many subjects. She also became known as a graceful and entertaining letter writer. She translated a number of works from foreign languages and wrote considerable original matter for the literary journals of the time. Her Autobiographical Romance appeared in 1840, her Summer on the Lakes in 1843, her Woman in the Nineteenth Century in 1844 and her Papers in Lit erature and Art in 1846. Much other literary material was found among her papers, and her journal was a vol umnous affair. She gave up her school of conversation to accept a position on the New York Tribune, In which she gave special attention to moral and social reforms, winning the favor of Horace Greeley and building up a strong following. A Romantic Marriage. Miss Fuller was able In 1847 to put a long-cherished project Into effect by making a trip to Europe, during which she wrote letters for the Tribune. This led her to Rome on the eve of the up rising. While in London Miss Fuller had met and learned to admire Maz zini, who was at the front of the move ment for the independence of Italy, and she took an earnest interest in the political situation in Rome. One day while out on a trip of observation she strayed from a party of friends, and a young Italian gallantly offered to es cort her home. He proved to be Gio vanni Angelo, Marquis Ossoll, a mem ber of a distinguished family. The marquis had joined the party of Inde pendence, although his family adlieied to the cause of the Pope, who had two of its younger members in his service as chamberlains. Angelo’s family dis carded him when he announced him self for Mazzinl. The chance acquainli ance with Miss Fuller was continued, and the young nobleman soon pro posed marriage, but was refused. Miss Fuller, however, admired him for the noble stand he had made, and in time learned to love him. This was fol lowed by a wedding in December, 1847, but as the bride was a Protestant the marriage was kept secret for a time In order not to aggravate the tension in the husband's family. Mrs. Ossoli devoted herself to the cause of freedom, encouraged the fol lowers of Mazzini, became an enthu siastic nurse in the hospitals and en deared herself to all who were for in dependence. During the height of the siege hy the French she joined her husband in the most exposed position on the works of defense, expecting both would be killed in the bombard ment. When the French entered tli city the Ossolis withdrew to Florence, and in 1S50 they sailed for the Unit ed States. Their ship foundered off Long Island within a few rods of shore, and most of those on hoard were lost. The life and fate of the gifted woman have ever since had a peculiarly strong interest for Americans. THE FLYING MACHINE. Its Limitations ami Also Its Posslblll t les. We can already calculate approxi mately the proportions, the strength and weight, the supporting efficiency, the speed, and the power required for a projected flying machine, so as to judge of the practicability of a design. Indeed, the mathematics of the subject have been so far evolved that engi neering computations may eventually displnee vague speculation in the do main of aerial navigation. Hut after the problem has been worked out to a mechanical success, the commercial us :s of aerial appar atus will be small. The limitations of the balloon have already been men tioned; such craft will be slow, frail, and very costly. We are now suffi ciently advanced in the design of fly ing machines to perceive some of their limitations. They will be compara tively small and cranky, require much power, carry little extra weight and depend for theh- effective speed on each journey, whether they go against ! the wind or with It, so that they can- j not compete with existing modes of transportation in cheapness or In car rying capacity. It is true that high speeds may be attained, and this may serve In war, in exploration perhaps in mail transportation, and in sport; but the loads will be very small, and the expenses will be great. Hut flying machines will develop! new uses of their own; and as man kind has always been benefited by the introduction of new and faster modes of transportation, we may hope : that successful aerial navigation will spread civilization, Unit the nations closer together, make all regions ac- j cessiblc, and perhaps so equalize the ; hazards of war as to abolish it alto gether, thus bringing about the pre dieted era of universal peace and good j will. _ A LEGEND OF THE ORIENT. In Which I* Described the Discovery of Coffee. The discovery of coffee is thus told in a legend of the Orient: Toward the middle of the 15th century a poor Arab was traveling in Abyssinia, and find ing himself weak and weary from fa tigue he stopped near a grove. Then, being In want of fuel to cook his rice, he cut down a tree, which happened to be full of dead berries. His meal j being cooked and eaten, the traveler: discovered that the half-burned berries I were very fragrant. Collecting a num- j ber of these and crushing them with ; a stone, he found that their aroma had increased to a great extent. While; wondering at this he accidentally let fall the substance into a can which contained his scant supply of water. Lo, what a miracle! The almost pu trid liquid was instantly purified. He brought it to hts lips; it was fresh, agreeable and in a moment after the traveler has so far recovered his strength and energy as to be able tc resume hts journey. The lucky Arab gathered as many berries as he could, and, having ar rived at Arden, in Arabia, he in formed the mufti of his discovery. This worthy divine was an inveterate opium smoker, who had been suffering for years from the effects of that pois onous drug. He tried an infusion of the roasted berries and was so delight ed at the recovery of his own vigor that, in gratitude to the tree, he called it cabuah, which in Arabic signifies force. (Juaen Never Discarded Old Clothes. The sorting and arranging of the personal effects of the late Queen Victoria was a tremendous task, says a London correspondent. One pecu liarity of her majesty was never to discard any dress, mantle, hat or bon net which she had ever worn, and her wardrobe might well have been con sidered the most complete record of the fashion of the last 60 years In ex istence. Another fancy of Queen Vic toria was to have i^erythlng In dupli cate; two hats, two cloaks, eto., were always ordered. Her majesty had a wonderful collection of lace, but this Is not to be compared with the collec tion of the Queen Dowager of Italy, said to be the best in the world. Coal round Where Needed. A Copenhagen correspondent states that a firm in that city has exhibited the first samples of coal from the large Icelandic coal bed recently dis covered at Nordjord. The coal is con sidered equal in quality to Northum brian. Samples are being sent to the Danish Royal Agricultural Society to be examined, also to Stockholm and Christiania. It is expected that the new coal bed will be valuable, at any rate, for local purposes. Japaneaa 8tn lanta SliortWghtad. Shortsightedness among Japanese students is alarmingly on the increase. The latest investigations show that out of 1,786 university students In To klo more than half are myopic. SPRINKLING WAGONS. An I u»|»ro lenient on the Old Style-— Now Exported. The modern sprinkling wagon is very different from the old-timer. The chief improvement is in the spray head, which enables the driver to con trol the flow of water much better than the old style. Thus, whether it is a dirt or a macadam road, or a stone paved or asphalt street, there can be supplied from the modern street sprinkler just the amount of water required to lay the dust in it, without waste. The spray head on each side has its own valve rod running to the driver’s seat, with a step there for the foot. The driver can operate both heads at once, or he can vun only one head; he can shut cff cir open either at pleasure. With this sort of wagon the expert driver leaves behind him dry crosswalks with perfectly defined limits; and when he comes to a car riage or a street car, upon which he doesn’t want to throw water, he shuts off the flow on that side and keeps the other going. Sprinkling wagons are made in various sizes, ranging from 150 gallons to 1,000 gallons ca pacity. There are twenty sprinkling wagons sold in this country nowadays where there w’as one cold only a few years ago. This great increase in their use is due in large measure to sani tary reasons, to the great extension of good roads, and to the common desire for comfort. Sprinkling wagons are used nowadays commonly in many smaller towns and villages, where they were never thought of some years ago. And American sprinkling wagons are now found all over the world wher ever sprinkling wagons are used. They are exported to Australia, Cuba, Porto Rico, South America. South Africa and Europe. The modern sprinkling wag on that the traveler chances to see in Paris, or Berlin, or Hamburg, came very likely from the same factory as the one he saw here before hp left home, going through his own home street. HE CAME TO BE HANGED. Boer Gave I.nr.l (Valtelii; » Chtnre to Curry Out lilt Threat. Abel Erasmus, the Boer leader who recently surrendered to the British in South Africa, is a man of great dis tinction among his countrymen. A good story is told of the old Boer and hord Wolseley, then Sir Garnet Wol seley, In connection with the part Eras mus took In Wolseley's campaign in 1879 against Sekukuni, the chief of the Bapedis on the borders of Swaziland. After the capture of Sekukuni he was immediately brought before Sir Garnet Wolseley, who asked him how he, a miserable kaffir living in a cave, dared to defy the great queen of England The chief replied that he had been insti gated to do so by Abel Erasmus. Sir Garnet, in describing the scene at a public dinner given to him at Pretoria on his return from the campaign, said that he wished there and then to let Abel Erasmus know that if ever he found that Erasmus had been inciting any chief to levy war against Eng land, and he was able to lay hands on him, Abel Erasmus would hang as high as Haman. A few days after the dinner Sir Henry Brackenbury, Sir Garnet’s military secretary, was sit ting in his office when a tall, bearded Boer entered and asked permission to speak with him. ,-I am Abel Eras mus,” he said, “and l have very im portant business to do here.” He ex plained that he had come to see Sir Garnet Wolseley, for he had heard that Sir Garnet had said that, if he could lay hold of him lie would hang him, and so he had come to be hanged. Sir Garnet was in the next room and S>r Henry Brackenbury thought tbit it would be advisable to consult him on the subject. Sir Garnet, however, hap pened to be too busy at the moment to see anybody, and Sir Henry after re flection persuaded his angry visitor to take his leave and allow the hangtug to stand over for the time. Kin it Edwnril's Double, An amusing incident occurred dur ing the Easter holidays at Boulogne. The editor of a Ixmdon weekly—a gen tleman who bears a striking resem blance to King Edward—was enjoying his cigar in one of the principal cafes in the town, when he suddenly be came aware that his presence was causing unwonted interest and no lit tle commotion. Presently an old gen tleman rose up and shouted: “Vive le Roi de l’Angleterre!” a sentiment which was heartily joined in by most of the people In the cafe. The conduc tor of the orchestra, not to be behind hand, immediately struck up, “God Save the King," but this was too much for the journalist, who made a bolt for the door, and made good his es cape. Roclatjr'! N*W (lamp—Siberian WtiUt. The Ixmdon Express says that Si berian whist seems to be causing a cer tain amount of interest among the vo taries of bridge, but up to now is not much understood in England, although it is very much in vogue at Constanti nople and in Russia. It can be made a much more gambling game than bridge, as, although there is no doubl ing, as in the former, the players can outbid each other In the making of trumps, and the consequent penalties on the losing of tricks may amount to as much as 5,000 points, indeed, it is possible to lose as much with penny points at. Siberian whist as at bridge with points at a shilling. Th* World'! Tin I'rodnrer!. Up to about 40 years ago Cornwall Eng., supplied nearly all the tin used tn the world, but now only about 7 per cent of the supply comes from (here The Malay penlsula has taken Corni wall s place, furnishing about f.O per cent of the world's production, and the Dutch East Indies comes next with 19 per cent.