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HEWASA KINDLY MAN
LEAFLETS I'HOM THIi HISTORY
OF THE LATE UISHOP COXE.
II ''lirUtl.iti 1! ill, iil line llrrn KpiiI
If Million of llonir llulr Irmlrr
I'.mlini - lli stiinil Ik the I'mIhii In
llm l.ntc till War.
CONSPICUOUS fig
ure has dlappo.Ued
fiom I lie church
ami state In tin- re-
rrnt lU-ath of Ar
thur Cleveland
Coxe. of Now York.
Ho was tlui second
bishop of the I rot
onlatit Hplscopnl
diocese of Western
Now York. UlHhop
'o. was burn In F.hgland In May,
1M', ainl was a son of th Rev. Samuel
Hudson Coxe, I). 1).. a noted Presby
ti riaii ll Ine. lip was graduated with
h.jii honors by the university of the
" of Now York at the age of twenty,
id immediately entered tipun a tlue
.ir.V ij'iisc of study at the (iencral
'riiooloRlr.il Seminary, ami at his ordi
nation entered on a brief ehaigo of St.
Ann's. Mot rlsnnln. In is I- he became
litor of St. John's. Hartford, Conn,
l'v hrillUnt rectorship of this parish
intituled twelve .ears. when he wan
nniimoiii"l to the rectorship of Grace
ih trch, Ualtlmoio. In iMill he bo
c.'ap r-ctor of Calvary pIiiiitIi. New
Yoik, only to lie chosen, after two
i ars, for the episcopate of Western
Sv York.
Tho ouilost years of his manhood
1.. '1 :i broad foundation for the oinln
(re which he aftrrward attained. It
was while he was ftill a student In tho
Gmoral Theological Seminary, If we
mistake not. that he published his
Christian Hnllmlo." Thin volitnio was
ft oiiee lerognlzod as placing Its
n nhor among the choicest of Ktigllsh
!;if'loua poets, and It lias continued to
" a household book in Hnglund as
w-11 as here. During hid rectorship
a Hartford he published "Athanaslon
: id Other Poems." "Halloween and
Other Poems," ".Saul and Other
Poems," ami "Impressions of Fug
land." This last volume was the result
of an exl-nded and very Important and
tniltful Kmopmn tour. It shows a
1 1 jso study and a delliMte apprecla
lion, and It was exceedingly well le
c ;ved in F.nglnnd. It was Jim at the
luse of his Hartford rectorship thai
he publi.-ho 1 his "Apology for the Ung
li?b Hible," and succeeded In securing
the suppression of the costly but very
iiiHcliolarly revisions of the Kngllsh
unnslitioii which had been made by
'ho American Hlble Society.
Ills nine cais' rectorship of Grace
rhurch, Haltlniore. brought Into prom-
it.'iice tho Intense patriotism which
was a markeil characteristic of the
jinn. He was diligent during the war
in vlbliiiiK the nick and wounded snl
dlers in hospitals and on the Held, and
in his parish ho Mood firmly for the
1 nlon cause, though n largo part of
his parish sympathized with the oppo-c-.te
side. It was a time that tried
men's hearts and engendered Intensest
b.ttcru-'ss even In families. Dr. Coxe,
however, stood firmly by his couvlc
lious. and would not yield to any do
ti, and In behalf of the confederate
e.iuso. Yet ho was as Kind and ns
onclliatory as he was firm, and he
von the hearty lespect of those who
differed most widely with him.
In his episcopate. Hlshop Coxo was a
n an of mark among his fellow bishops.
His mind was very active and very re
sourceful. Filled witli a devoted love
lor bin ihiirch ant his country, he
vatched all events with tho eye of n
huri'hmau and of a patriot. In
Pram e he urged religious reform and
the revivification and independence of
tho Galilean church. Ho cont
battoil the exercise of papal inlln
onco In this country, an, for iiiBtnnee, In
IiIb vigorous protests against tho com
ing of Mouslgnor Satolli as a papal
ablegate to America. One of his most
important works was tho establish
ment of the Christian literature society
in Now York City. This society haspub
Ushed a superb edition of the "Anto
Nlceno Fathes," which was edited by
ISishup Coxe. Nowhere olso havo his
THR I.ATK I1ISII0P COXK.
farnest caiefulness and his great learn
ing been more .signally exhibited. He
hini.-.oir looked upon his work as tho
magnum opus of Ills literary life. Sev
eral of Hlshop Coxo's controversial
works havo had a very wide circula
tion in ninny languages, notably his
"Open Letter to Pope Plus IX," In re
ply to that popo's letter convening tho
Vatlcal council,
Some farmers In New South Wales
are nklng up tho cultivation of to
bacco, and tho government of tho
colony Is considering tho advisability
of engasliiK an expert from the L'r'ted
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ltau3 to slvo them Itistiuctlon.
KING GEORGE,
'1 he I.ninriilril .Milium h, l'l.ilnly Ont
IIiipiI 'i Our Slhi-r liollitr.
The .iher dollar of this realm, which
U Jusi ii i v.- ,t In. ne of nun h contention,
W when studied minutely, a wry In
ti resting subject, it has been said
that this coin uintalucil upon Its sur
face a place of worship, several ani
mals and other things, but the puzzle
worker, after a prolonged Fearcli, has
always given up tlndlng them. Hut It
has been found that It does actually
contain n portrait of the long lament
ed King Giorge III of Huglaud.
Many have noticed and wondered at
the unnecessao pionilneut chin on tho
face of Liberty, which adorns one tddo
of tho silver dollar. Perhaps there hi
a leason for it. and perhaps It Is only
a vagary of the designer. At any rate,
."Woman, the man who modeled it, has
been accused of facetiously crouching
In this llgure certain characteristics
of the defunct though august monarch
in Liberty's face, theieby making of
it a sort of pu..Ie card.
While Mr. Morgan may have been
perfectly Innocent In the premises,
nevertheless, upon dose examination,
the design, parllj cowied as In the Il
lustration, there appeals an unmistak
able resemblance, a sort of caricature
of the deceased monarch. The prom
inent chin of the goddess forms the
monarch's piomlueiit nose, while her
rather severe mouth Inverted presents
POUTHA1T OI'GKOUGK III.
hl.i lips. Uion which nourishes a play
of s'liiplsh expression, as though the
Joke was about to be spilled. The out
lines of the arch, the prominent chin of
the goddess' hair, are not so plainly
discerned us the portrait of Klni;
George.
MUSCLE VS. MACHINIiRY.
1'iict Mum Ins llip Mini I'liircr ii Minium
rrliui' Munr Iti'pri'iii'iitH.
What a puny thing Is muscular pow
er, whether animal or human, when
compared with tho vast efforts exerted
nowadays by machinery was Illustrated
recently by an English scientist, Sir
Fiederlek Hramwcll. Contrasting a
galley, for example a vessel propelled
by oars with a modern Atlantic liner,
and assuming that prime movers were
nnii-e.xlstent, and that this vessel was
to bo propelled after galley fashion, ho
proceeded thus: Take the length of
the vessel ns COO feet, and assume that
place could be found for as many as
100 oars on each side, each oar worked
by three men, or 2.100 men, and allow
that six men under these conditions
could develop work equal to one horse
power. Wo t hould then have 100 horso
power. Double the number of men and
we should have 800 horse power, with
I, son men at work, and at least the
same number In reserve If tho Journey
is to be carried on continuously. Con
trast the puny result thus obtained
with 10.500 horse power given forth by
a 1iii-b prime mover of the present day,
such a power requiring on tho abovo
mi.de of calculation 117.000 men at
work and 117,000 In ieserve, and these
to be carried In n vessel less than 000
feet In length. Kvcn were It possible
to carry this number of men in such a
vessel, by no conceivable means could
their power bo utilized so as to Impart
to It a speed of twenty knots an hour.
This illustrate.1) how a prime mover
may not only ho a moro subotltuto for
muscular work, but may afford the
means of attaining an end that could
not by any possibility be attained by
muscular exertlnji, no matter what
money waB expended or what galley
slave buffering was Indicted.
Take, again, tho enso of a railroad
locomotive, In which from 400 to COO
horse-power Is developed In nn Imple
ment which, even Including Its tender,
does not occupy an area of moro than
fifty square yards, and that can attain
a speed of more than sixty miles an
hour. Hero again the prlmo mover
succeeds In doing that which no ex
penditure of money or of lira could
draw from muscular effort. Now York
Journal.
1,1 IIiiiii; (.'hiiiir Alirouil.
Li Hung Chang speaks no languago
but Chinese and had seen nothing of
the outside world before starting on his
present tour. Doubtless hm eyes havo
been opened to tho wealth, resources
and civilization which exist outside of
i he Flowery Kingdom, and his observa
tions should be of benellt to his country
upon Ills return, should he maintain tho
favor of bin sovereign. Tho war with
Japan must hae Impressed upon the
ruling clauses In China that their nation
led far behind the ago. Li's visit nbroad
must convince them that the civiliza
tion of dragons, kites and paper um
brellas cannot wlMistand tho civiliza
tion ot Kurope and America. Phlladul
phla Ledger.
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llm ltWhnp'4 Illiiluitliin.
At a recent Introduction of an Eng
lish bishop to his see, somebody no
ticed a Dublin graduate wearing an
Oxford hood. Ho pointed It out to the
bishop, and said that tho person stood
there with a llo on his back. "Well,"
it plied his lordship, "you can hardly
call It a He; but It Is certainly a false
hood."
1IEK, EIGHT KOK LIFE.
REMAHKAULK CASE OF RECOV
ERING FROM UUHNS.
Mlixroir lli4inrit lltlllr Mmtl.v lint
Mirrlr tin' l.llllr lilrl U llrlflliu IIji K
li llrnllli I tiller skillful '1 rut-
iiiriit.
Vint In Han Ra
fael a stout-hearted
doctor and a
b ra e. patient
mother have been
lighting for tho last
ar and ten days
with all the
strength and skill
and love anil pa
tience that Is In
them to save the
life ot a little gill, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. Though there Is still
nearly a .war of struggling before
them, they smile cheerily on their
questioners and say
"O'a, yes, we'll pull her through."
It is a little girl of 11, lying in a
small, clean while bed. over which the
war of life and death has been waged.
On July 'JO, last year, she was playing
about a bonllie In her own backyard.
There was a bieath front a wandering
breeze, a dicker of a cotton petticoat,
n curling, yellow dame, and In an In
t.iant the terrible mischief was done,
llrr whole right side was seamed anil
tinned and marked by the cruel ciini
ton lingers. The delicate features were
spared, but the body was roasted -not
SLorched. Great pieces of lleih fell
out, the hip muscles were exposed,
blood oozed and trickled fiom the
veins, whose ends had been burned
.".way.
Nobody thought that Jessie Proud
foot could live. A burn covering such
an area on so small a body was com
paratively greater than burns that had
killed the strongest men. Hut the girl
Is going to get well If the skin supply
in San Rafael holds out. Dr. W. F.
Jones, her physician, began at llrst to
graft on now skin taken from healthy
persons, for the terrible burns on the
child were too largo for the skin
around the edges to unite. Then It was
that the generous San Rafael people
showed their mettle. So far eighty
persons, some of them from San Fran
cisco, hnve contributed cuticle to Jes
sie's side. The smaller burns on the
arms healed themselves, but when the
girl Is well one entire hip will have a
skin of shreds ami patches.
Almost all her little school friends
tilTcreil to help, and young ladles, men.
old people and children have contrib
uted. Her little sister, ICthel. !l years
old, has given l!:i square Inches of skin.
Ten times her G-year-old brother Joe
has given three and one-half and four
inches without a tear, though the sis
ter took ether when she made her big
sacrifice. An aunt and Mrs. Proud
foot have very little more skin to
give.
Hut the kindly and personal offerings
have been by no means confined to the
family. The ages of the givers have
ranged from 7 .wars to 17, and cuticle
of all ages and complexions has been
adopted by the wounded child with
equal facility. People who never saw
Jessie have heard of the ease and of
fered themselves to Dr. Joins. Long
thin strips of skin have been peeled
fiom them, the operation always being
performed In the room next to the lit
tle girl, for the human skin Is a deli
cate fabric, liner than silk and more
flexible than elastic webbing. It Is
cleansed carefully and then cut with a
sterilized knife and laid on the gaping
burn while It Is still warm with some
body else's life.
Twice Dr. Jones has covered tho
whole wound, and twice the center
the deepest part has rejected the alien
tMoiie. Now he Is grafting around the
edges, and the burn Is steadily grow
ing smaller ns little peninsulas of skin
grow inward on the waste of uncov
red flesh. At the past rate of progress
It will he eight or nine months before
the ends meet.
Jessie Proudfoot Is a frail little thing
with white hands and lingers, slender
as a baby's. Her faco Is a delicate
oval, pale, with a faint wild-rose color
at times, and In It nrc set gray eyes,
dark lashed, that know moro than a
child's need ot suffering. She Is not
a plaintive Invalid, but a bravo, hope
ful lassie, who, through theso twelve
months of almost uninterrupted pain,
has never been under tho Inlluenco of
anaesthetic but three times, and then
was put to sleep while her wounds were
bcraped of tho deadly proud flesh. All
alio Bays whon they dress her raw
llcsh on her sldo In to moan softly: "It
hurts." She does not cry, for who has
learned that tears will not ease her
pain.
Tho marvel of It is that tho child Is
nblo to bo out ot bed between opera
tlono nnd wnlk with assistance Sho
limps a llttlo, but they say that the
new skin, which Is looso nnd clastic,
and wrinkled, will allow tho burned
limb to Btretch -when It Is well, and
tho limp -will not ho permanent. For
seven months Jesslo lay on her right
sldo nlmost without stirring, but now
sho drives about San Rafael and takes
a little exercise.
I)ii(Tnrln' Hiticpttfir.
Lord Llandaff, who has been ap
pointed to succeed the marquis of Dnf
ferln ns ambassador of Great Hrltaln
In Paris, Is tho official who, when ho
was Mr. Henry Matthews, declined to
romlt tho sentence of pen-il sorvltudo
I for llfo passed upon Mrs. flaybrlck. Ho
was educated In Paris nnd was admit
ted to the French bar beforo Joining
that of Fngland. Ho has tho ad van
tage of his prodeceEsor In being very
rich. Lord Daffodil hnd to depend
upon his official salary of fCO.000 a
year to tnulntalu his ollkial position.
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CULEURITIEH DOUDLP..
Tim llulto of ork l.ooU ,titt Mkw Mi
Vrtr,
There appears to be solid foundation
for the Hindoo belief that all men and
women haw their doublcn, Pays Pear
son's Weekly. . oM of our eelelnltles
ate known to haw eoiinterpaits. Kven
her most g'.i.lnis majesty Is icpio
duced in the person of and old woman
who is etuploved at a diurch in the
not th of London as "eleanei" and pew
opener. The old woman Is thiee or
four e.iis oiinger than the queen, but
Is so strikingly like In personal ap
pearance that many persons visit the
chinch to which she Is attached, mere
ly for the sake of seeing her. In
deed, ni leaiarkable Is the II! eness that
It Is doubtful whether her majesty's
own relations could Immediately dls
ivver an dissimilarity were the old
woman dressed III the queen's gown,
which Is really all that Is required to
llnlsh the picture. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
(the Duke of Kdlu
litirgh) has a double who trades as a
grocer and cheesemonger In Chelsea,
atid flatter') himself veiy highly up
on the likeness, which Is remarkable;
his r.iitliug trade owes very much to
It. He Is genernll) known in his nelg'a
borhod as the "duke." The Duke of
Cambi bine had until quite iccently a
double In the person of a Gorman to
bacconist In Mile F.nil toad, Wblte
ehapel. but the old man died a short
time ago and the duke Is mil known to
have any living counterpart. The
Duko of Cambridge's successor at Hie
horse gu.iuls, Lout Wolseley. has a
fairly good counterpart In a well
known law.wr of Lincoln's Inn, but the
likeness Is not quite so remarkable as
It might be, since the lawver possesses
a strong head of gray hair, of which
tho coniinaiider-ln.chlef cannot boast.
The llkeiH'hs Is. Imwowi, very strik
ing. Sir William llai court is more
blessed than most of his coutempoiary
celebrities, for he has two extraordin
arily line doubles. The one Is the
driver of an omnibus ami the other Is
employed at a large east end brewery
as dr.iMiian. Strange to say, they
Inth have rooted object Inns to local
veto and though they were, during the
tunc Sir William llaicoiirt held olllce
as chan.'ellor of the exchequer, con
tinually being questioned by their char-
lug friends upon their budgets, they I
are extremely poor politicians and have ,
. m.lln ..tl...... .if (I... ..MttMl II II I 1(111 I
t.lJSIM' 11,111 I M llllin HI III! 1 u, ,(!,. llli,..
of death duties.
The duke of Yotk might well be said
to be the double of tho czar of Russia,
for the likeness between them Is so te
markable that It almost amounts to a
-aie of the two Dronilos. and the slight
dissimilarity In their appearance Is
more on annum ot the way they are
"groomed'' than anything else. Tho
double of Mr. Goschen Is a Liverpool
physician, who met with a most Hal
tering rei option at Manchester during
a visit on one occuslon. lie was nils
taken by the crowd at the tatlon for
hi.) eminent piototyie and heartily
checied. The lecrptlon, however, an
noyed him extremely, for bis political
piocllvitles are advanced liberal and
his likeness to Mr. Goschen is a bug
bear to him.
THE SWIFT TORPEDO-COAT.
Tho Many rueful PnrixurH It SiirTei III
Our Nu).
Torpedo boats, however, are designed
for a wider service than simply to
carry and discharge the frightful weap
on from which they take their name.
They are to tho navy what scouts and
tkirmlshers aie to a laud army. They
form tho cavalry of the sea, of whlcli
l ho erulscru are tho Infantry nnd the
battleships and nionltor.1 the artillery
arm. They must spy out tho position
of the enemy's fleet, hover about his
Hanks or haunt h'u anchorage to ascer
tain what he Is about ami what he
means to do next. They must act as
tho pickets of their own fleet, patroll
ing tho neighborhood, or waiting and
watching, concealed among Islands or
in Inlets and liver mouths, ready to
hasten away to tho admiral with warn
ing of any movement of tho enemy.
It Is not their bushiest) to light (ex
cept rarely, In tho ono particular way),
but rather to pry and sneak and run.
Hence they are as small and sleek ami
Mvlfl as they can bo made. When the
licet goes upon a cruise, they are car
ried on tho docks of the big warships,
although they are ablo to get about In
leally rough weather by themselves. A
very recent Idea Is to build them out of
aluminium, which would be not only
of great advantago toward ease of
transportation, but would tend toward
increased speed, by adding buoyancy
and elasticity to the structure, which
seems to skim along tho surface and
fairly leap from wave to wuvo; but It
Is doubtful whether aluminium Is
strong enough for snfety and whether
It will not bo Injured by the chemical
action of the sea-water. Krncst Inger
noil, In August St. Nicholas.
Utth! .lolmny Mnki Mlnrlilaf.
Little Johnny "Mamma, Isn't Car
rlo mean not to glvo mo a second pleco
of plo when I imk for It?" Mamma
"No, Johnny; I told your sister Carrlo
that sho must not do It. Haven't I told
you tlmo and again that It Is not pretty
to ask for a. second piece?" Llttlo
Johnny "Well, I know ono thing.
T'other ovenlng, whon that Mr. Gunier
ton was here, I heard lilm ask Carrlo
for Just one more kiss, nnd oho gave It
to him, too, for I heard It. So thero
now."
Krcrrttml.
Tho subsidence of big sleeves will bo
regretted by two classes drfjp) goods
lnaniifacturerH and newspaper parn
grnphers. Concord Monitor.
The bones of vory aged persons aro
said to have u greater proportion of
llmo than those of young people.
RKAIi DOGS OK WAR.
CANINES MAY SOON UK SEEN
IN THE ARMY.
llm rnlli'il StnliM VVuf llrii'itliiii'iit
Cuiili'tiitihitiM Atlilltli: lhU IViittll-p In
nnr .'Mllltiir.i Hiri'iiglli -A tllinirn for
Well-1 ruliipil AiiliiniN.
IIF Flitted States
war department Is
seriously contem
plating the train
ing of dogs for use
In the nruiy.
Abioad they have
bi'cu found most
valuable In cam
paigning, and many
German leglinenls
iilread.v have can
Hefore long all of
military uUabllsli-
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7firMiT$
ine contingent!!,
the great foreign
iiitnts will have troops of four-legged
soldiers, and It will not do for this
eeiintr.v to lag behind.
Dogs, properly selected anil educated,
make the best sort of scouts and the
most callable tarrleis of orders in the
ileld. They are paillculaiiy useful for
transmitting information. In convex lug
messages from ad valued patrols and
In maintaining coiiimuiilcatlou be
tween posts and pickets. Also Ihe.v tin
excellent work In hunting up missing
men. Several bleeds of tings are found
highly siiliahle for nillllaiy purposes,
i otably pooilhv), n!t plicnl dogs and
bird dogs. The kind does not matter
so much as the quality of the breed,
which must be pure. No mongrel
makes a good war dog. It Is only In
a wll bred dog that the valuable qual
ifies above mentioned me developed
In a superior degree.
All points considered, bird dogs
make the best war dogs. They unite
the good qualities of the poodle and
tdii'phcrd dog. and are distinguished
by a lively sense of duty and u de
void! attachment to their muster.
Tho training of the dog detachment
of a battalion Is managed by an olll
ce r, who has special experlness In
such matters, lie selects assistants
from nuiniig the corporals and private:),
and gives them lessons In the art of
lialnlng. It Is his duty to buy the
dogs, to distribute them among the
companies, to supervise the breeding
ami louring of pups, and to see that
(lie animals nre properly cared for nnd
fed. The properly educated war dog
must carry messages with certainty,
limning back from advanced patrols
to detachments In the lear and then re
turning. 11 Is lequlreil to do this sort
of work with such ellh leucy as to main
tain communication between sentinels
and stationary detachments. The ani
mal must be taught to give notice to
sentinels of the appiuach of strang
ers. I The business of training "war dogs
has been reduced ton perfect system.
There Is a complete course of canine
pedagogy, with lessona as carefully
formulated as those of grammar nnd
arithmetic for children. Tho lessons
pass gradually from the simple to the
difllciilt, and care Is taken never to
Jcmnnd more of tin- animal than Is In
telligible to him.
A certain amount of training goes
naturally with the bringing up of the
pup, but the education proper should
not ho begun before ho is at least six
months old. It may be remarked hero
that tho war dog Is always of the male
persuasion.
Tho war dog wears a collar that has
a metal plate, bearing the namo of the
company to which ho Is attached--as,
for example, "Rlllo Hattery 8, 12 Comp."
He carries a small canvas pouch, which
Is closed by a button or buckle. These
articles with a chain for fastening him
when required, constitute tho whole of
his equipment. Tho canvas receptacle
Is called, a "report pouch." An Idea
of Its purpose Is communicated to the
dog by putting written messages Into
It In his presence when he departs on
a mission, nnd taking them out on his
arrival, H' soon learns that he is car
rying something from one end of the
trip that la wanted nt tho other. This
business of conveying messages Is the
most Important thing that the animal
has to learn. Ho ought to bo able,
after a while to go a dlstanco of two
miles or more and return.
An Ahiont-miniliiil .Man.
I will tell you while I can
)f nn absent-minded man,
And nn absent-minded man was he,
Who forgot an unkind word
Just ns soon ns It was heard,
Such an absent-minded man was ho.
In political debate
Now, I can nui3t tiuly state,
Such an absent-minded man was he,
His opponent on tho street
With n hand-shake he would greet,
Such an absent-minded man was he.
Onco ho left a goodly storo
At a poor, old widow's door,
Such an abseiit-mlnded man was he,
And, although 'twas nil tho eamo,
Quito forgot to leave Ills name,
Suili an absent-minded man wub ho
You sco
Such an absent-minded man wns he.
St. Nicholas.
(li-urgo W, ;liln' Ail.
When Hill Nyo paid his last visit to
San Francisco some Hoheman friends
of his took him on a bay excursion.
They waited an hour or two for Hill to
spring one ot his (pilot Jokes, but he
remained as gravo as any sexton until
the tug passed Angel Island. There on
tho beach was an immense sign board
bearing tho ono word "Cablo" In largo,
otarlng letters.
"It'3 strange," said Mr. Nyo, flipping
a thumb toward tho sign, "how somo
of those American authors will Insist
on advertising themselves."
Just two men saw It, but tho.- nil
laughed. Sail Francisco Examiner.
WfoV
HUNTING MAHOGANY TUt.tS,
ihr Wur thi NiHUi- l.ilmr l llmiillr.1
In l!rltlli ItmiiliiriM.
Whib the camp Is being mnde llm
"hunter" 1 1 rf exploilng. says a Hrlt
Ish llnndiii.m letter to the Philadelphia
Record The piei Ions Swietnlu maliog
aui ihu s not mow In clumps nnd groves
like our pine uud walnut, but each
monarch stands almie in solitary italo
amid a tleiivo ki'owiIi 0f other bui-o
trees, Ha trunk conceiled by n wild
tangle of vines, orchids and iiiuI'M
brush, leqiihing the ebmest attention
of the liiexpeilenced woodman to de
lect It. In a tropical wilderness, wheie
the trees ure so thick thai one can
hnrdly force his way between them,
the whole hung with nn linpenetrible
mass of verduie an with a curtain, their
mingled tops u solid wall which .nates
eternal twilight below nnd every trunk
twined loiind anil round with creeper,
It Is not an easy niatler lo distinguish
species. Tlie hunter climbs the talh'st
tree that ho can find comparatively
clear ami from Its top his practiced
e.ves detect the foliage of the coveled
mahogany, lie then counts the treci
in line, notes carefully the direction,
distance ami every landmark, slides
down from his leafy observatory nnd
proceeds to cut and blaze n trail In hla
"Hnd." This done, he marks the tree
with his machete uud lelurns to camp.
Fa h man In a company Is assigned h'n
parllcular work- some lo fell (he trees,
oibirs to cut truck roads through the
Jungle nnd otliois to collect nnd haul
the wood, wafer, etc. The miters turn
oiu from c.i in 1 1 us soon as It In light
enough to see which In the tall, dense
woods means u much later hour than
the regions wheie the sun has a better
chance to show himself -and generally
by noon tree-culling for the day Is fin
ished. All work Is done by the task
system, which Is said to be the only
way of handling native labor that is,
one man's "stint" Is to cut two tree-.
from eight to ten feel In circumference;
two men nre given three large trecn to
bring down, or four men nre detailed
to lay low some forest giant, perhapy
twenty-live feet In circumference.
RISING TO THE OCCASION.
Why ii l!oj I.li;lit l.'urrliisn l.iiinin Nciir
l'rni!Tt 1'iirk,
"Light yer lamp, sir?"
The hail Is not to bicyclists, but to
drivers who approach Prospect Park
Just before sunset, uud It hi made by a
little chap that has started to earn a
little money in a new way, says the
New York Times. The park commis
hloner'fl order Hint all carriages in tho
park after dark must carry lighted
lamps Is enforced, nnd the youngster
baa sized up the situation to the extent
of knowing (bat some persons are Ig
ntiiant and others are careless In re
gard to tlm order and that all men do
not cairy matches. Whenever ho sees
a carriage appioaehing without a light
be runs alongside and halls tho driver,
and the chances are that the driver will
pull up and allow tho boy to light the
lamp. The driver of a restless horso
appreciates the little service rendered
and tips accordingly. Tho tips vary
from a penny to ton cents, the latter
being too much for tho servlco and duo
generally to hick of emallcr change. If
a woman Is driving the boy Is almost
sure of a Job, because ho know.s that
unless hu Is a bicyclist she Is not like
ly to have matches about her clothes.
"I'm the only ono In tho business," hu
exclaimed, "and I've been In It only a
few weeks. How much do' I make?
Sometimes :'0 cents; sometimes half a
dollar. Yer see, the regulnr drivers
know they'vo got to havo lights, and It
they start out Just bofnro dark they
light up at the stables or the sheds
down the road. 1'vo got to Btrlko tho
drivers that don't know about the order
and those that thought they could get
through before dark. Yer fiee, too, If
a man alii t a smoker an' ho ain't like
ly to have matches, and then's wheu i
hit em."
Ilnll III I'liiMiritniii.
"Hell" 1b a colossal panoramic pic
ture which Is now approaching com
pletion nnd Is the work of somo Hun
garian and Italian limners, whoso com
bined forces executed tho elaborato
tableau. "Hell" promises to bo ns
graphic an Illustration ot tho sulphuric
regions of the damned as the Imag
ination of those concerned In tho nw
ful conception will allow. Of course,
It will bo only fantastic Imagination
and tho spectators will bo left as com
pletely In tho dark as lieretoforo rela
tive to tho actual scenic attributes nnd
llfo and society In the regions of per
petual torment. SHU, tho panorama Is
possessed of no mean artistic merit and
so thoroughly Impressed nre tho paint
ers with the excellence of tholr Infer
nnl (lchlovomonts that they havo decid
ed to commission three of their num
ber to ropnlr to Homo to Invito King
Humbert to tho show. Tho belief pre
vails In nrtlstlc circles in Hungary
that Humbert will respond favorably
to the call, despite Its natnnlc and sul
phuric associations, tho moro so as his
majesty has Intimated his Locution
of visiting the millennial exhibition lo
tho autumn. London Socloty.
Nhoillil lln In lloiton.
Mlas Clara Howard 13 working her
way through tho University of Cal
ifornia by EolUng newspapers. "I be
lieve In work," she says. "I think that
any woman does not need to allow any
pecuniary obstacles to Interfere with It.
Sho can always reach an Intellectual
object through manual labor. It la
means to an end, ami, besides, It la
conducive to clearness of thought. I
believe, also, In simplifying physical
wants for Hie sake of Intellectual grati
fication, nnd the demands of tho under
ntaudlng constitute tho highest lmprr
atlvo." Sho says that sho Intends to
become a philosopher, hut bIio would
appear to be r pretty good one already.
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