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p Stately Mexican City; (Special Correspondence.) Puebla. Mexico, ancient and noble city, sometimes called “the Boston of Mexico,” by reason of its solidity, ■ grandeur and opulence, is almost a century older than the other Boston far away in the north, by the shores ! of, Massachusetts bay. It was founded in April, 1532, by the order of the Audiencia Real, which had been so petitioned by the Franciscans, that early missionary'society in New Spain. \ You can come to Puebla in five or six hours from the City of Mexico, either over the Mexican railway or via. the Interoceanic; but on this oc casion, though I had made the direct trip several times. I chose to take a roundabout way, stopping at several towns on the journey. Hence I left the San Lazara station in Mexico City i and went first to the sleepy, languid, hoteountry little city of Cuautla, the ; winter home of many fashionable folk j from the federal capital, and delighted | in by European diplomats resident there. Ride Through Hot Country. But I wanted a warmer place than Cuautla; so, after a few days I took j train down the Interoceanic to the re- j gfou roundabout Ateneingo ana Mata Pyramid of Chciula. moros. We passed over, in a few miles, to the old Matamoros Izucar railway, now belonging to the Inter oeeaiiie. and came to the center of a famous sugar region at Matamoros, a ! town as hot, as sleepy in the siesta j hours, as anything in Africa. High j rose the ancient towers and domes of churches resembling mosques, and great palms stood in streets, plazas i and courtyards. The air was very 1 warm, and the people walked slowly. ; Yet all about were signs of the sugar- | making industry, for which the region j is notable. Matamoros is famous for j heat, sugar, insects, lovely palms and | square miles of cane. It is well to go ■ on artd up the road, which has now i made a complete bend, and on to 1 Puebla, a few hours away. But I wished to see ancient Atlixco, the • place above the waters,” in the tierra ! templada. or temperate country, and 1 so arranged to remain there several days. The enormous plain of Atlixco, ! abounding in water and with a rich ! soil, was soon reached, it is as pro- I ductive as any valley in Mexico, and. one notes signs of opulence in the vast ■ hacienda houses, for ail the world : like feudal castles, the seats of fafni- I lies grown rich in growing corn and wheat. Miles on miles of well irri gated land, milpas of Indian corn ex tending almost as far as the eye can eel up the road to Puebla, making only a low whistle and without any bell ringing. One of the pleasures fc.ere is to take horse and ride through the suburban lanes, and I was surprised to find in the finquitas of the Indians the orange, the lime and coffee trees, a proof pal pable of the mildness of the climate at this elevation of some 5,500 feet above sea level. I was glad to tarry in Atlixco, so kindly were its people, so delicious was the air. and so agreeable the tone of the place. And when I left for Puebla I went around to say “adios” to new-made friends. 0 " Stately City of Puebla. It is only two hours up to Puebla, and, if you ever make the journey, take the morning train, leaving at <5:45, and enjoy the scenery as you climb up some 2,000 feet to the great valley of Puebla, where you come to the ancient town of Cholula, about which, and the terrible massacre there of the Indians by the conquistadores, consult your Prescott. Cholula, with its many great churches and ancient convents, and its real pyramid topped by a fine church, is well worth a day. From Cholula the city of Puebla, capital of the great and fertile state of the same name, is soon reached, and it is a fair sight to see the hard some and stately city in the early light, the towers of its great cathedral rising from among the mass of fiat roofs. In this valley are some 3G5 churches and domed chapels, one for every day in the year. It is a very clerical city, and, therefore, good man nered. and. also, another clerical city characteristic, abounding in street stalis. or “puestos,” for the sale of swe. i meats. Piety and sweets go hand in hand in Mexico. A “norther" had blown up from the Guif of Mexico, bringing a fine chilly rain, but within the cathedral the ah was soi: and warm, a temperature of its own. I could have passed days in the cathedral, and other clays in view ing the marvels and exquisite beauty of the famous chapel of the Rosario in the old church of Santa Domingo, a chapel which foreign artists say i? unsurpassed for richness and splendor in all Europe, and surely it is divine! That is the only word. The Church of I.a Con.pania is notable, and some great paintings are there to be ob served. In the Church of San Jose is the image ol that saint, who protect? the city from lightning stroke, all carved from the wood of a riven tree. Santa Clara church has a shrine foi some thorns from the crown of Christ. The Catholic American will find in Puebla endless delight, so grand are the churches, and so notable the an cient edifices, built when the church was in the prime cf its splendor in this country. Here the ancient faith is strongly held, and it is charming tc see the devotion of the people even on weekdays, when they throng the old churches, ard, amid the glories of the past, under roofs of gold, say their prayers before many an ancient altar. Miss not Puebla when you make the adventure of Mexico; it is worth a long journey to see its marvels and its ancient churches. Raising Tea in ihe South. Dr. Charles A. Shepard of South Carolina has proved on his own plan tation £t Summerville, twenty miles out of Charleston, that the growing of tea can be carried on successfully and Mexican Women and Children. •4ach; everywhere signs of agricul tural wealth and a high degree of irosperity. Cue German settled hare some thirty years row owns three treat liactendas. Other men have great estates and their families have >^en educated in France and Germany, jr in the City of Mexico. It is the feudal system—the great nouse of the master, the huts of the laborers, a rigid caste system, and general contentment. The brown pdons in the fields are gravely polite, and their faces show no signs of worry or anxiety. So closely is the land- of 'his great valley held that you can't ■>$y enough of it to plant a see 1 of OQrn in. The irrigation system is :$nturies old. for this reason has seerf cultivated by white men nearly M0 years. At present a federal gov ernment hydrographic commission is Undying the system with* a view to lefining water rights and preventing waste. AtMxco’s People and Buildings. The sun was fast declining, when, to the left, rose more domes and tow ers and a great hill shaped much like H pyramid, the "cerrito,” or hill, of San Miguel, with a chapel dedicated fo that saint on its very top. a place for pious pilgrimage. Atlixco is as picturesque as any old Italian town In the Appenines. and when we had i alighted at the little station and could I lodk ud into the town it seemed cen ftbirles old. It is all on a hill, and the mUets slope down to the station. Our rain, in modern fashion, 110,1 depart profitably. He has been doing this for twelve years with such good results that the secretary of agriculture and the congresu of the United States highly approve his deeds and both are extending h',n liberal assistance. “My idea from the start,” said Dr. Shepard, “was to add an additional crop to the farm products cf the coun try. The road to agricultural su premacy is through diversifying. My friends seem to thing I have been suc cessful, and I have every reason to be gratified with wnat has been accom plished. “Tea-raising in the United States is certainly practicable. It is no new thing in this country, for in the old days a French priest planted tea on the banks of the Ashley river. But owing to the difference in the cost of labor the United States can not com pete with the orient in iow-grade or cheap teas. It will pay us to produce only that of the highest quality, which brings a high price in market. The tea grown on my place in South Car olina compares with the best that is impoited from eastern lands.” Not on Exhibition. He—I don’t think Miss Singleton shows her age, do you? She—Of course not. She scratched it out of the family Bible years ago. Consolation. Hetty—It takes all sorts of women to make u world. Netty—That must be a comforting thought to your husband. I Rules Little Kingdom (Special Correspondence.) ahe is a gentle and venerable po tentate, and her little kingdom, In ishkea, lies out in the stormy ocean off the remote western coast of Ire land. In olden times that wild western district had some notable female rulers of the amazon type, who helped to make some lurid Irish history. There was the celebrated Queen Meva. her heart hot with passion and her person flashing with gold and steel, who led the forces of Connaught against the northerns in the quarrel, in the first century, about the covet ed White Bull of Cooley. And there was the famous sea-queen Grana O’Malley, who in the sixteenth cen tury levied what she delicately called her “trade of maintenance” on mer chant ships sailing these waters and with her war galleys visited Queen Elizabeth at Hampton court. But of a different type to these warlike Cel tic heroines of the past is the kindly snowj’-haired old lady who now holds the title of Queen of Inishkea. A few miles out from the Irish mainland lie the two islets of Inish kea, both together about three miles long, a narrow strait separating them. More desolate little islands it would bo hard to find. They are ledgy extremities of the oldest geological Barren and Bleak Shore. formation in Europe, inhabited by a scanty remnant of the most ancient race. There is nothing but the heav ing ocean between them and America, and the sea breeze sweeps in over 3,(!00 sheer miles of brine. A few miles north of Inishkca is the Islet of Inishglcry, whence in the sixth century St. Brendan the Navi gator. the Celtic discoverer of Amer ica, sailed with h.s monks on his cel ebrated voyage. Not far away, behind a long and low peninsula, lies the magnificent harbor of Blacksod, where the whole British fleet might ride safely at anchor and which has been repeatedly proposed as a port for transatlantic liners, to sherten tlie journey between the New and Old worlds. Island Cut Cff by Storms. For days and weeks at a time, es pecially in the winter season. Inish kca is cut off from the world by the raging sea, which prevents the ap proach of any craft to its poor harbor. In long lost ages its remote and inac cessible character made it an ideal place of retreat not only for Christian anchorites, but for their little-known predecessors, the ministers of the pa gan cults. The relics of the latter are | mists of history. Most gentle and Jemocratic of sovereigns is that dear ; old Irish mother, her diadem the starched and snowy cap that cover* her silvery hair, her only robe of state her plaid woolen kerchief aDd matronly apron. She has a large and healthy progeny, splendid of physique ; and sound of morals. Lavelle is the ' family name of the dynasty of Inish | kea. the members of which compare ! favorably in many respects with those | of any other royal family of Europe. The functions of the hereditary ruler of Inishkea lay chiefly in adjusting | disputes between the inhabitants as to the boundaries of their tiny farms, arranging as to tillage and pasture j rights, partnership in fishing beats and other matters of local interest. Delightful Climate. i The climate of Inishkea is delight ful, this being due to the neighbor hood of the gulf stream, which here ; goes sweeping northward, its warm j waters tempering the atmosphere and occasionally bearing some valuable flotsam and jetsam to those remote shores. Occasionally piles of valu i able lumber are washed in by the bil lows. Even hogsheads of rum have been borne hither by the strange mid ocean river, possibly rolled all the j way from tlic scene of some wreck | in the Gulf of Mexico. Inishkea was once noted for the j manufacture of “poteen,'* or Irish moonshine whisky, for the ostensible j purpose of stopping which a police i j station was established on the island j Naturally it is not an envied station , with members of the royal Irish coa- : stabulary, who feel a chill at the pros- j pect of a sojourn on spray-swept In i ishkea. And so. far from the madding crowd, l the last Irish queen maintains her j gentle rule, while the wild gusts; ! shake the little windows of the thatched palace and the white billows i chafe around the gray shore of lonely* Inishkea. — Slightly Mixed. j An author who was his own publish or advertised a bock of his as follows: ! ' “Send $1 for my new book, with i ; autograph.” Shortly afterward he received this j order from a rural reader: “I inclose $1. If the autograph i? j one of them talkin’ machines send it | i on by freight. I don’t, want the book.' 1 and 1 Is 2, and 1 to Carry Is 3. “Gimme one of those self lighting i • gas burners that you pull up and down j with a chain," said a Jersey Centra! commuter, stopping at' a hardware i stall ifi Vesoy street. "Want a nursery burner, eh?” re j marked tl;e salesman. The commuter looked up guiltily and smiled as he handed over a quar ter in payment. “Easy enough to see what has hap I pened in that h< usehold.’ said the ; | salesman to another customer. “One ! ! and one is two, and one to carry j makes three. That young chap lias . been calling here, off and on, for a | year or more, buying screw drivers paolocks, tacks and things of that, sort handy to have about the house. But up to this time lhe gas burners that I were in his heme when he took it j seem to have done well enough. Now ! he lias a nursery burner. “They are no more self-lighting j than any other burner. You have got to get out of bed to reach them wher baby cries in the night. But it is s | mighty sight easier to pull a chair i than to prowl around in the dark foi Where Waves Dash High. still to be seen there graven on slabs a match. That's why we call ’em in strange curves and circles that nursery burners.”—New York Press. vainly now try to convey the language -- and symbolism of some prehistoric An Enicyent Board of Health> faith. To the pagan priests succeed- j «You must have a remarkably effi i ed in the sixth century an establish- ; cient Board of Health in this town ” ment of Christian nuns, presided over remarked the stronger. “Ccmposed of by the abbess Saint Kca^ or Ce, from scientists, I presume?” whom the island takes its name. In- ..^-0 sjr .» isii-Koa, meaning the Island of Kea. “Physicians?” She was a contemporary and friend .,Vni mil»u yvT„ .x ,, , ot the celebrated Saint ColumbMlle. or undt.rtakers on oul. Boar(1 , who converted the Piets ot Scotland ; xfealth ” to the Christian religion and in whose ' „ , . . memory there is a holy well named in ! awpo<nted?” - Inishkea. Other contemporaries of ! ... _„ . ^ Lite insurance men.” hers were the \ lrgins Carra and Der- ; . . ... ... e v. i. -• . . ! Comemnttng on this interview villa, for whom termons or ancient . . , , . ., • j American Medicine savs: church lands are named on the mam- ! .. , , .. . i Who belter than life insurance land. These three religious women i • . , , ^ did effective Christian pioneer work in ““■"""I8* llas, reaso”,tor takl"B a those western wilds. 1°™"S P1"’1C sanlla,ion7 __ They profit by every advance in med Palace of the Queen. ical difovery and pro«ress and <hey At present these rocky and treeless reap 1 ie rao,st d!ret* advantage from islets support several families, gentle, evcrj essGU ng 111 ttie death tate. ’ modest, hardy people, who supplement the scanty harvest of their stony What He Would Do. fields with the finny harvest of the ‘What^ would you do if you were sea. They live in one-story stoutly- a asked the man of vaulting built cottages and cabins, thatched ambition. and whitewashed, the thatched roofs “1 don’t know,” answered the mat being weighted down by lines of ter-of-fact person; “I suppose I’d fol stones slung from ropes to prevent l°w fashion and wear a look of their being blown away by the fre- worry and a bulletproof shirt.”— quent fierce gales from the Atlantic. ' Washington Star. One of those humble habitations -— constitutes the palace of the aged Most Powerful Dredge, queen of the island, widow of the late The most powerful dredge in the King of Inishkea and successor of a world is that used by the Susquehanna long and unrecorded line of female Iron Company at Buffalo to dig potentates running far back into the through solid rock an inland harbor. Luxury for Statesmen1 (Special Correspondence.) a no annual nousecieamng at the United States Capitol has been unusu ally thorough this year, and it is not 'oo much to say that the great white domed building at Washington is just now & little cleaner and more attract ive than it has been at any previous time in history. The legislative head quarters is more modern, too, for many improvements have been made in the big structure since the national lawmakers went home last spring. Few persons, not excepting the sen ators and representatives themselves, have any conception of what a her culean task it is to put the capitol in apple-pie order for a session of con gress. The huge building has an area of more than three and a half acres, and inasmuch as it is three stories in height there is an aggregate of more than ten acres of floors to be scrubbed. There are 430 separate rooms the walls of which have to be cleaned and the woodwork touched up. to say nothing of the renovation of carpets and up holstered furniture, and twenty-eight apartments—all committee rooms of good size—have been completely transformed, the work embracing the redecoration of walls and ceiling and refurnishing with rew carpets and new mahogany furniture. Huge Housecleaning Task. Let the average housewife try to imagine what it would mean to wash West Front of Capitol. TOO windows each twice as large as any window in an ordinary house, and , to clean the woodwork of 550 doors, i and she may gain a slight conception of the immensity of housecleaning at the nation's capitol. And in addition there is more than an acre of glass skylights to be washed inside and out; ] 140 fireplaces to he set in order; 260 wash basins to be scoured, and an in- , finite number of- other tasks calcu lated to keep a large force of work- ; ers busy for weeks before the date for the assembling of the legislators. ; When the members of congress came back to work, after their long vaca tion, they found lhat electricity is, to a greater extent than ever, king of the j capitol. The magic current plays the most important part in heating, light- ■ ing and ventilating the monster build ing. ard has lately enabled marvelous advances in the facilities for quick communication between the various parts of this official city under one roof. Just a hint of the conveniences afforded by the utilization of the twentieth-century power is found in the operation of the new electric hell ! system whfch has been installed result of the recent election, come back to congress after an absence of some years, will be very likely to open their eyes in amazement. The twen tieth-century congressman sits in a chair that cost $25; has his shoes shined free of charge at a bootblack stand that cost $55; and is served with drink,ng water from coolers which cost $26 apiece, and each of which will hold $17 worth of min eral water. The speaker of the house of representatives has a new mahog any desk that cost $120, and may rest on a leather couch for which Uncle Sam paid out $60. There are ninety toilet rooms in the capitol, and four teen bathtubs have been installed for the use of congressmen. These tubs are all cut from blocks of solid mar ble, and are equipped with shower apparatus and other up-to-date ad juncts, Capitol to Be Extended. This session of congress will in all probability authorize an extension of the United States capitol which will cost se\eral million dollan and in crease the size of the builiing fully one-third. Under the old conditions such an expansion of the already spa cious structure would probably have appalled the men who are frequently called upon to communicate with widely-separated points in Uncle Sam's biggest office building. Now they can regard the growth with se renity, for the capitol has. all its own, as complete a telephone system as is to be found in the average city of 10, 000 inhabitants, the exchange being connected with more than 300 tele phones throughout the building. Steps are also to be taken to give the capitol a more efficient system of fire protection, for, whereas, the mass ive structure is, in its construction, well safeguarded against fire, its rooms contain vast quantities of rec ords, books and documents of value which would be rapidly consumed were not means at hand for quickly extinguishing tlie flames. The provi sion of a modern fire department is all that is needed to make the con gressional community a little city by itself, for it already boasts a police department that numbers more men than are on the pay roll of the average small city; a postoffice that does a tremendous business, and an institu tion—the office of the sergeant-at-arms —which performs all the functions of a bank. When the new office build ings are completed, the capitol will also have its own underground rail way system. Remember the Pleasant Things. A cheerful face is as good for an in valid as pleasant weather. Cheerful ness is health, melancholy is disease. .Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart of a man in sound moral and physical health as color is to his cheeks, and whenever we see habitual gloom we may be sure there is some thing radically wrong in the animal economy, or the moral sense. Sydney Smith once gave a lady two and-twenty receipts against melan choly. One was a bright fire, another to remember a’l the pleasant things said to her. another to keep a box of sweets on the mantelpiece and a ket tle simmering on the hob. These are trivial things in themselves, but life is made up of the little pleasures, ahd none should be neglected because cf their seemingly trifling nature.— London Answers. A Strange Disappearance. The German on his native heath has some peculiar notions about wit Senatorial Reading Room. throughout the big building for the benefit of members temporarily absent from the floor while the legislative body is in session. By means of one or another of these 100 bells, a law maker. no matter in what part of the building he may be, is warned when any important action is to be taken in the legislative chamber, so that it is his own fault if he does rot vote on every measure which comes up. Arrangements of the Eest. The visitor to the capitol under this new regime may be surprised to note the total absence of lighting fixtures, and yet at the first suggestion of dusk the chambers of the senate and house of representatives are flooded with light. More than 25,000 incandescent lamps, each of sixteen candle power, tucked away in unobtrusive places, give the illumination. Similarly, not a single coil of steam pipe nor so much as one radiator is visible, and yet no person can ever complain of cold so long as he is within the walls of the huge pile on Capitol hill. Final ly, 75,000 cubic feet of fresh air is poured into the hall of the house, and 26,000 cubic feet of clean atmosphere is forced into the senate chamber each minute, and yet ^he novel task is performed so scientifically that there is not the suggestion of a draught in any part of these vast rooms. In this betterment of things in gen eral at the capitol, there has, as may be imagined, been no special effort for economy. The men in charge have gone on the theory that there can be nothing too good for a ‘‘billion-dollar congress,” and the men who, as the ( and hnrnoY, some of them being droll j anl others dreary. A tourist with his ' : bride asked a driver if there was any ! thii:g remarkable about the mountain they : ascending and he an swered: “No nothing peculiar about the hill I itself. but there is a queer story con j nected with it.” I "Please give us the legend.” i “Well, onre upon a time a young ! j lady and gentleman went up this j j mountain together, and hundreds of I people saw them go higher and higher I until they disappeared, and they never ! came back.” j “What became of them?” “They went down on the other side."—Chicago Record-Herald Sunday Magazine. ! _ Antarctic Exhibition. Capt. Scott, R. N., and the officers j of the Discovery Antarctic expedition ! were present at the opening of the Antarctic exposition of water colors, photographs ard other articles cf in terest. used in the South Polar regions during their recent expedition, which took place at the Bruton Galleries. Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society op ened the exhibition. Crafty Man. “But,” protested Plioxy’s young bride, “you promised me when we were married you would give me any thing I wanted.” "No, dear,” replied Phoxy. “I was careful to say ‘anything you were in want of.’ You are not in want of a sealskin sacque.” BROWN GUN IS A WONDER. Fighting Machine Said to Have a Range of One Hundred Miles. The inventor of the new American guh is a man named J. Hamilton Brown, though the work of construct ing this particular six-inch experimen tal piece is in charge of Col. John M. Ingalls, retired U. S. A., an artillerist of high standing and reputation. Des pite the incredulity of contemporary gun-bui’ders, says a writer in Every body’s, Col. Ingalls and the officers with him assert that this six-inch gun will throw thirty miles a projectile weighing 100 pounds which will pierce a six-inch steel target. A ten-inch gun of this construction, with a powder chamber of 14,259 cubic inches and using 360 pounds of smoke powder, would hurl a COO-pound pro jectile a distance af fifty-nine miles. Increasing this ratio a 16-inch gun would Lave an extreme range of more than 100 miles and equipped with such coast-defense rifles England and France could shell each other across the channel. The important new principle in the Brown gun is the winding of a tube of involute steel plates with polished steel wire, thus securing both longi tudinal and circumferential strength. The gun is 313 inches long and weighs 20,000 pounds. On a forged-steel lin ing tube thirty-four flat steel sheets, one-seventh of an inch in thickness and 308 inches in length, are laid in the same fashion that shingles are put on a roof, one under the other. But in this case they curl around the lining tube, fitting exactly and form the true tapering cylinder. On the outside of these plates is wound, back and forth, just as thread is wound on a spool, twenty-one miles of steel wire which is so tightly stretched by a special ma chine that every inch is tested to stand 2,500 pounds of tension. There are seven layers of wound wire at the muzzle and twenty-one at the breech. On the outside of the wire for a distance of twelve feet from the breech, is shrunk a forged steel jacket to cover the power chamber. It is be lieved that ro possible powder pres sure in explosion could burst this gur. HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING. Sample of Tragedies Now Being Enacted in the East. It was 10 o'clock in the morning when we sawT coming out from their hiding places a small band of Russian soldiers, w rites a Japanese Magazine. That was the beginning of the fierce onslaught. It was as if somebody had revived in this civilized day of ours the scenes from the old story books, when swords, spears, hows >nd ar rows wrere the only weapons of war, and men slashed away at each other It was just at this time that we saw a Russian officer rise from the ranks, and leaping over the dead bodies of his men and comrades and putting himself at the head of the ranks, try by his daring example to revive the spirits of his men. Against the lurid background of blood and fire he made a superb figure, always rushing in front of his men, his sword gleaming ever over the heads of the fighting men. At last this officer rushed out. call ing always and loudly upon his men to follow. When he was within a few feet of our men he turned his head to see whether his men were obeying his order. Instead cf follow ing at his heels his soldiers w-ere trampling upon each other in the mad effort to run away. The sight broke his heart, evidently. He turned the point of his sword he had held against himself. An instaift later he fell with his heart pierced through. The Real Issue. There are two Issues after all, Above the ones that speech may call Or wisdom utter; Two issues that with me and you Are most important—and the two Are bread and butter. Let patriotic banners wave. Let economic speakers rave; ’Tis not potential The Art proclaim or Music sing; The Leal' is after all the thing That's most essential. Truth seeks some broader meeting place For breed or clan or tribe or race For saint and sinner; Fait after all the noise and fuss The issue paramount with us Is—What for dinner? New- theories we may evolve. Old governments we may dissolve, New flags float o'er us. And Truth may search and Wisdom think. Still these two planks of iniat arid drink Are yet before us. So let contention hotly wage. And let the wars of logic rage In discourse fretted; When all the clamor is complete The issue still is what to tat—• And how to get it! —New York Times. Shares Over Half « Million Each. The highest-prived shares of stock in the world were the shares in the New River company, recently taken over by the municipality of London. In 1690 the first sod of the “New River’’ was turned, and stock in the undertaking consisted of 72 shares, divided into King’s and Adventurer's, which originally brought only $25 apiece. On July 17, 1899, an entire Adven turer’s share was bought at auction by the Prudential Assurance Company for $614,000— Stray Stories. Jury's Verdict Hard to Foresee. When Joseph H. Choate, present am bassador to Great Britain, was a yourg man and during.his early legal experi ence he was engaged as counsel for the defense in a case where affairs seemed very one sided, his being the right side. The jury of good men and true at the conclusion of the testi mony took but a few minutes to come to a decision. The evidence had been so concusive and the decision so quickly reached that Mr. Choate was perfectly dumfounded to hear their verdict, which was against him. “Well,” said he, turning to his client, “this proves it. If there be anything in the world w'hich surpasses the knowledge of the Almighty it is the finding of a petit jury.” Indian Priest. The Rev. Father Albert Nechauquet completed his four years' course In the Propaganda at Rome this year. He said his first mass in August in Okla homa City, and is now assistant pas tor Muskogee, I. T. He is a full blooded IPottowatomie and the first In dian priest.
