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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1896)
a THE RED CLOUD CHIEF, TODAY, SKIT. II. 1CJ6. 3 - . lit HIDDKN TRKASUItK. A CAVE WHICH CONTAINS MIL LIONS OF SHININQ GOLD. 'A n'anun Will l.nnl mi 1 s 1 1 1 1 ri In Nrcti of (lir I In rlr-il Wenltli mi Cnroi lilnnil lllililni lliiriii .Sji.iiiMlfl'i'rn vli War. US. James llrennan, of North Sydney, Nova Scotia, liiiH been for ttio past ten days in Oak land. Cnl., where she Is superintend ing tliu llttlng out of tlio schooner Meridian, which had lieen chartered for lier by a San Fianclsen b Ii I p tcnt Ii fore r.ho left her home In the Province. When the schooner Ih icady for sea Mrs. llrennan will occupy the cabin, mill tin; Meridian will he at her disposal for a period of throo lnonlliH, with mi option of a further period of t.lx monllw. Tho Meildlan Ih not a yaeht. Aln. Hrennan Ih not a yachtswoman, Sho 1ms never hern at sea In her life, and, although she has In en married to two different seafaring men and out lived them both, sho Ih a demure little old lady, who looks iih If she had lived mi old inald'a life In a quiet country vlllago and never seen any one more adventurous than the country parson, jyn tho Now York Journal. And yet Mrs. llrennan Ih going to try to effect u landing on Cociw Island, a little nlicll of volcanic rock about 500 iiiIIch uonth- .MAP OP Til west of Panama, an Island Inhabited only by herds of goats and known only us having been at ono time a watering utatlon for South Se.i whalcis. Airs. lSronunn Is going there to 11ml some treasure, which sho knows wan there Hfty-four years ago, and which she has every reason to believe has not since Ik'oii removed. The old lady has no rctinon for making any mystery about nor plans, except, of course, as to the precise spot on the Island in which Hie treasure lies, as It is a matter of com pion knowledge that there Is a great deal of gold hidden somewhere on the inland, iuhI extensive excavations have from tltno to lime been made by nench r.n, who hoped tlint chance would guide them to the cache, of which Airs. Jlrcnnan knows the exact location. Most expeditions In search of tie. tiro are organized by mere dreamers and enthusiasts, and not a few of them ,ly skillful nwlndlers. Hut Airs. Ilron fian, who is Investing no money but her own in the ventino, certainly uccuis to be a woman of ntrong common Htinso, and the story of the treasure, as she herself tells It, Is very much room simple and direct than are the narratives which form the stock In trado of the common run of adventur ers. llrs. Iliennan wan married for the first e in ISIS to John Keating, of PL Jems, Newfoundland, a seafaring pian, who died In 1SS'.'. Ucforo ho died tie gave hern marked map of tho Island mid told her the stoiy of his own con nection with the treasure. In June, JS35, Keating was ship's carpenter of the Uose Illanche, of St. Johns, then loading in lllo Jancrio for home. A man who looked like a tramp came out fronr behind a pile of boards on the wharf ono morning and asked Keating if tho Uose Illanche would like to ship another hand. He was, ho said, an ablo Bcnman, and had been trying to do wonm trading on his own account In tho Ygunssu country, but had been robbed and made his way to tho coast wllli great dlllleulty. Keating at once fifinmcd that the innn was a deserter JlYoin some other ship, if nothing worse, but as two of tho ciew of tho Uose 'Jllancho had run away at Porto Scguro, ho told the man to wait until Captnln Humphries came on board. He gave Thompson, as tho btranger called him no1f, something to eat, and later In the day found the captain very glad to add one to his depleted complement. The Hono Hlancho sailed the next day. and as he made her northing Thompson who had contracted a fevor while trumping down to the coast, was com pelled to take to his berth. Keating, who was a good-natured young fellow, did what he could for tho sick man, who made loud protestations of his xratltudo and talked vaguely about a .great leward which Keating might hope to reap for his kindness. When tho limn Hlnnehe reached St. Johns, Thompson uuld ho would llko to llud board in some quiet placo where ho could regain his strength before going to sea again, and Keating said his mother would bo glad to take In any well-conducted man. I'pon this Thomp son said that ho was not so poor as (he looked, and showed Keating some old gold pieces, which ho carried In a belt concealed beneath his tattered clothing. At Mrs. Keatlng's Thompson grow Buddenl worse, and It was when he was about to die that ho told John KrntliiK tl"' ntoy and save to John Keating the map. which Keating In turn, when It eamc his tluio to die. communicated to his wife. The Htory as Thompson told It begins with tho voyage of the Hchooner Alary Dear, commanded by Captain William Thompson, which nailed from Lima on the Slid of November, 1S20, bound for tho (lallnpagos Islands under charter to the SpanlHh Government, which wan then at war with tho revolted colony of Peru. The Alary Dear, nllhougii Captaln TliompHon wiih aetlni: im mill. lug master, was under the control of a. young Spanish naval olllcer, who wan accompanied by a guard of twelve inarlneH fioni a SpanlHli man-of-war. I he Hchooner una manned by Thonip Hon'n own crow. On the 7th of Decem ber the Alary Hear anchored off Cocos Island. Why hIiu went to C'ocoh Instead of tho Onllapagos Islands, and how the Spanish olllcer and the twelve marines dlHnppenred from the nnrratlvo Aim. Iliennan aayrf hIiu does not know. Ap parently Thompson slurred over thin part of what ho told Keating. At any rate, when the lawfully conntltuted 1111 thorlllcH vanish from the narrative there appear six chests of Inestimable tienHiire. which It had no doubt Intend ed to conceal on one of tho (inllapagos Inlands. And thene Thompson and his now burled on Cocoa Island. In the course of the long continued struggle between tho Spanish and the Peruvian colonists any records or docu ments bearing on the case would un doubtedly have been lost, and It is Impossible now to say whether the gold belonged to tho Spanish Government or to some private citizen who had pro iMiied a naval guard to superintend Itn transportation to tho Gallapagos K ISLAM) WITH TUEASrUE CAVE Islands and Itn concealment there. In either ease It would now be Impossible for the original owners to prove their property, and the present government will not. Airs. Iliennan thinks, give her any trouble. It Is a ntrangn undertak ing for a lespectablo little old lady, with side combs and gray curia and gold-bowed spectacles, this search for burled gold. Hut If there are blood mains on the bags which hold the coins or skulls of murdered men lying hid den with the brass-bound chests, Airs. Hrennan ban nothing to do with the lawless past of which no witnesses re main. She wants the money if she can get It as earnestly and as simply as she wants the money for tho crop of po tatoes on her llttlo farm three miles from North Sydney. Nova Scotia. And If It Is to be gotten, sho will get It. Tim .'MiiliiliilliiUt I'lorriicr. How excellently these sweet struni mers aid digestion in this city of the .Medici! They and their stringed toys appear everywhere. Indeed, the more obscure the eating house the more sys tematic their visitations. The music dignifies the viands. Not alwayn was the wine good nor the cutlet a la mllan alse of the tenderest; but one forgets these defects In tho plaintive spectacle of a white-bearded, sightless mandolln Ist led Into the room by an angelfaced (though not very clean) little girl to add tho sauce of harmony to tho meal. I have seen a warm-hearted neighbor shed tears over his "carcloll" during tho melody and another let hl.j meat go cold while ho beat tlmo to tho musician's strumming. The I'lorentlnes are all sensibility or nearly. Touch their hearts and you may be sure you have touched their pockets also, though there may bo naught insido these. For my part I reckoned tho copper to the inandolinlst as an integral part of my dinner bill. Coruhlll .Magazine. Tim I'loitir Allium. ly the way I notice that, according to a statement published in one of the evening newspapers, the value of the n.uutless floral embloms which lay strewn upon the graveside of Sir Au gustus Harris amounted to over 11,000. This only nhows to what length a silly and pretentious custom can be carried. We aro always congratulating our M'lves on the disestablishment of Mr. Mold nnd lus myrmidons, lmt it i i,m a nominal leform which delivers us from the tyranny of the undertaker only to hand us over Into tho clutches or the fashionable florist. Two thou .Mind live hundred pounds absolutely wasted! How much better would it have been to add this sum to tho Har ris memorial rund that Is about to be raised.- London Truth. VUmrn SUmr U irl.nl. Tho most beautiful and finest llllgree sliver In the world is mado In Delhi. The lace-like silver made at .Malta Is also very much admired by collectors. This delicate hand-made sliver is made in a number of other places and conva to us from Norway and Sweden as well as Paris and FlorenceNew York Kvcnlng Post. Will lliril "They say the soprano has largo es tates in Italy." "Yes; she Is one of the fixed stars." Dotrolt News. CHINESE VIANDS. Hlirntril lntl.il 'itrli tlm Trmln of ItntKiiiiliiii New Yorker. Chinatown restaurants at ono time were of tho strident sort and no New Yorker thought of showing his faco within their sacred precincts, says tho New York World. Then enmo the day when a wave of oriental bohenilanlsm swept ocr this town and to dine In Chinatown was considered to be one of the most utterly unconventional thlngr which a man could do. Tho red Ink. spaghetti, table d'hote dinner was an oidlnary'affalr compared to the delec tation of eating (impolicy In tho pics encoof men with almond eyes and (low ing queues. Ilenco the liso of the Chinese-American restaurant. Tho or iginal Chinese restaurant down In Alott and Pell streets was generally u dreary little hole In the wall, redolent of still" odors. There were a few greasy tables, with long spindle legs, mirroundod by high stools. The service was very bad and tho food was cheap and coarse. Chinamen who lived cheaply patron ized It and squealed over unsavoiy dishes. They leeied at the chance Amei leans who came In ami made them feel aa though they were In tho state or the guest who came to the wed ding without a miltable clawhammer. Theie are sluewd mm In Chinatown, and when they saw that tho "heathen drvils" really wanted to como to Alott and Pell streets for dinner occasionally these thrifty souls methodically pre pared to meet tho demand. They gave public dinners, to which they Invited the mayor and all his cabinet. They tented the most commodious rooms lii all Chinatown. They put windows whne there had been blank walls. They scrubbed the Doors and decorated the walls and ceilings with rich oriental AIAUKED. hangings. The tall, iingalnlv tables weie replaced by folding-leaf dining room table. of the conventional sort. Stock companies weie formed, bicked by Canton capital, and two new build ings were erected especially for restau rants. The rooms are light and nirv. the restaurants aro supposed to be dis tinctively Chinese, yet they mo model ed after the most approved American standards. Tho visitor who goes to them Is mrprls-d by a show of flae linen on the tables nnd the glint of silver ware. The dinhes are of the finest Chinese porcelain. Tho bills of fare aro printed In Chinese ami ICngllsh and the prices are high enough for both. Knives, forks ami spoons are provided for those who cannot wrestle with the vory chopsticks. Tho Chinese waiters have acquired the airs and polish of tho rench garcons. They formeily shuf fled over the floor nt tho patron as though he weie a nuisance. Now they caper from dining room to kitchen and deposit the dishes on the tables with Ineffable grace. The bill of fr (s especially modified tomeet thcAmerlcnii palate. There is chicken, which some how tho Chinaman succeeds In cook ing until it is no tender tlmt It almost melts In the mouth. The rice Is conked in the conventional Chinese way. There, are all kinds of hlrds brought dried troni China and then cooked nnd stewed until their pristine plumpness returns. Them are all manner of small cakes and sweetmeats, soiiim of the most deli cate flavor and desserts which aro link, ed sweetness long drawn out. No Wonder. A. I hear your son bus imnn ,.. , , , - . i,,,- Ished leceutly for Inflicting grievous bodily harm. Ii.- And no wonder. He Is nppienticed to a barber. -Standard, i Wurkml Hull, Jlntlotn. I Sqillldlg- Aly wifo called inn m i.i- . telephone this morning. AlcSwilllgen What for? Squildlg To call uip down. Hxihiinge. POPULAR SCIENCE. At a recent meeting of tho Pans Academy of Sciences AI. Ilalland pre sented a memoir describing an analyls of a samplo of rlco over a century old. He found the rlco only slightly dell dent In fat. Though butterflies nro often blown out to sea. and have been thought by llioxpcrlencril observe in linir,.,.. . dlilerent species to tho ordinary land ' uiiiii-i-ny, mere aro none which can bo said to llvo on tho sea. It is reported trom Paris, where pneumatic tires have been Introduced on some of the cabs, that In conse quenco of the lessened shock to ho eiueins mo cost or repair has beon reduced fifty per cent, to say nothing of the saving to tho'nerve.s of passen gers nnd the muscles of horses. Sir John Lubbock says that the houso lly. which pinduces tho sound P vi brates 20.100 times a minute, or sac a hccond. and the bee. which makes tho sound of A, as many as 20.000, or over 4110 a second. On tho contrary, a tired bee hums on K, aiul vibrates Its wings only I'.OO times a second. Tho tongue of tho cat family Is cov ered with recurving spines. la tho common domestic cat theso are small but sulllclently well developed to give the tongue a feeling of roughness. " In the lion and tiger tho bplues are strong enough to enable tho animal to tear th skin of a man's hiind by licking It D1RT1KST ON EARTH. AMOY, IN SOUTHEAST CHINA, HASTHAT DISTINCTION. tlm I'lltli, Dlnruae, UfKenrn unit IIiir l.iittnr .Irn Sold .IIo In tlm Market mill lliitri, n a (Ire. it Dcllr.iry by tlm Nutlvit C'nlenll.iK AFOY, In southeast ern China, posaosfics the unique distinc tion of being the dirtiest city In tho world, saya tho New York World, though as otic of tho "open tlnMu" It lin.1 Im.i.i E$i '" col,tact wlth I4III llltlll UWIJI- merce and clvlllz.i- Moti for over half a century. Aside from the quarter where the foreigners live the stieets reel: with 111th and the air Is heavy with stenches so poison ous the can be endured by no one but i Chinaman who has been reared among them. The city of Amoy Is on nn Island of the same name and pos sesses one of the finest harbors along the Chinese coast. Some IfiO 3 ears ago It hail a population of over a million, but tho latest estimates obtainable say that Its Inhabitants number hardly a tenth of that now. Properl.v speaking, theie are two cities, an outer and an Inner, the latter being a sort of citadel, perched upon some rocky hills and en circled by a massive wall. It Is the outer town, which lies along and around the harbor, at the mouth of the Lung Klnng river, which Is, for the most part, the paradise of tilth and dis ease. The streets In some forgotten dynas ty are said to have been paved with granite, but the accumulation of dec ades of filth is so deep as to leave this Jtatement open to doubt. The thor nughfaresof thlsChlnese town are even worse from a sanitary point of view than those of the other cities of the empire. They nr", on the average, twelve feet in width, but their depth Is unknowable, for during the seasons of the rains they turn to rivers of liquid mud. In this particular part of the city the ground Is fairly level and an at tempt was once made to construct a system of drainage, but vestiges of these drains exist. At almost every door stands a large vessel, In which offal and everything else offensive to the Kuropcan eye and nostril Is thrown. This Is a custom prevailing In nearly every great city of China and for this reason natives of Amoy look surprised at the "foreijn den II." who, as he enters one of their streets for the first time, grows pale and sick. In dry weather tho streets are deep with flue dust and the air Is quite as badly tainted as, during the rainy sea son, though the quality of some of tho most noted characteristic smells under go a slight change. It would not be so bad If there were a chance for the wind to have full sweep once In awhile through these narrow streets, but they aro covered wholly or la part with awnings, which In fair weather keep out the sun and In the rainy season afford Ineffectual protection against the wot, but always prevent tho air from circulating freely. Another thing which makes the at mosphere of the street retain Its pollu tion, no matter how much of a breeze inny be moving above tho low house tops, Is tho fact that the streets aro tor tuous beyond description, their Irregu larity being made to seem even greater on account of tho way tho corners of many of the houses project out into tho streets, making a series of Bharp turn ings necessary for pedestrians. Horses and carriages, of course, are unknown, for thcro is hardly room, oven under tho best conditions, for tho long files of people to brush past each other. Much has been written regarding tho people who throng tho nnrrow streets of this anil other Chinese cities, but one thing that Is especially notico ablo Is tho vast number of beggars, most of whom aro nllllcted with some sort of repulsive disease, Tho ain monlacal gases and the ever-present foul smells aro the cause of many sorts of dlsllgtirlng maladies, as well as tho epidemics of fever, smallpox and other filth-bred contagious diseases which pe riodically dcclmato the dense popula tion. Next to the peoplo In Amoy streets the most striking thing among living objects Is tho vast number of dogs. They are about a foot high and too feet long, with bristling, pale, dirty yellow or black hair and tails that curl up high over the back. They cannot run very rapidly owing to tho unusual strnlghtucHs of their hind legs, which makes their attempts at rapid locomo tion seem awkward. They havo black eyes and nil possess this striking pecu liarity tho Inshlcs of their lips, mouths nnd tongues are hlacl;. In Amoy, as in other Chinese cities, there aro regular markets whero dog meat Is sold, tho animals which supply It being reared expressly for the table. Their flesh Is quite expensive; so much so that It Is considered a luxury far out of tho reach of all but those In good circumstances. These dogs nro generally sold alive In cages nnd keep up a frightful yelping, which Is accel erated when a customer approaches, for then cubucs a thorough pinching and prodding of the poor beast's body to find out If he is tender. They nro fed on rlco, which fattons them and Is said to give their llesh a delicious fla or. In tho same market kittens arc sold alive for food. A black cat or a black dog will always conunnrd a higher prlro among tho peoplo of Amoy because their meat, especially If enten In midsummer, la tuppused to liieuro m xSTSrJ ' health and strength during the year to come. Despite the fact that many Christian missions have been established Infantl cldo Is still very common In Amoy. Some years ago a Air. Abcel mndo a thorough Investigation. Ho found that In some places the proportion of female Infants murdered annually roso as high as one-third, while the nverago was one-fourth. One of eight brothers told me that only three girls were left among all their children, sixteen hav ing been killed. The reasons Chinese parents give for committing these murders are various. The custom Is far less prevalent among the rich than It is with tho poorer classes, for with the latter the girl child must be sold if the means of the family are not snfllclent to dower her richly enough to Insure a husband. FORTUNE MAKING IN MEXICO. TlirlN.r Anmrlriiii4, Omn Pour, mr Kn Jny I'rliii'cl) liiriitnr,, You need not staive on the .Mexican tlerra callente. Kverythlng you need for your table you may have without much trouble, says the lloston Herald. You can rals. chicken and have eggs ad lib, and you can grow yams and fruit and com, and your own tobacco If you wish, and drink your own coffee and make your own sugar to sweeten It wltlul! You may not be rich, you shall not put in u fourth of the work that Is needed in cultivating New Kng liuid rock pastures and yet you will bo fat nnd hearty. Corn grows down on the Isthmus like the blessing of Cod, as the Spa lull saying has it. You will seo It being harvested from one field while It Is two feet high In tin adjoining Held and In another Is Just shooting up out of the ground. Ilernan Cortez.theeonquerorof. Mexi co, was no fool when he stiuck for the Isthmus to locate his big estates. It Is rich soil and now has a lallway from ocean to ocean and. as President Diaz said the other day on his return from that country, the isthmus Is fertile enough to support a nation. There Is, says the president, room for another New York nt Alvurudo. on a splendid bay, and some day 1 believe we shall see a great city there, for It will have all that magnificent agricultural region be hind It. One does not w Uh to paint everything rose color, and surely the life remote from towns, the quiet of the country nnd the society of but few of one's own race do not constitute an attractive prospect for most men: but, as I must Insist, there is independence from hard grinding conditions in tropical agricul ture. A few c-aes In point: A friend of mine came here many years ago, married a charming Mexican girl, has a pretty family, and. alter dilfting from one thing to another, hit on sugnr, and now he Is In receipt of an Income of $1,000 a month. He tells me life is very sweet and that he goes to Kurope next year. Another friend was drifting about the streets of this old City of .Mexico, doing almost nothing. He began to think of the hot country ami what It might offer, took the train, got down there, ex plored, took up a little land and now, after four years, would not sell his possessions at less than $100,000. Ho Is a sugar and coffee planter. Another man. a surgeon, with a rail way practice, threw up the saw and the scalpel and Is now making sugar and $15,000 a year at the same time. Ho says ho Is only beginning and that In two years more ho shall pass his Hum mers yachting off the New England coast. These are specimens. They have had their trials and their obstacles to over come. Hut they had pluck, fertility of resource, tact in handling the native laborers ami they are now Independent men who need not ask of any man a dol lar. DENVER WOMAN CYCLIST. Sho llm Srnrilmil Over I.OftS .lllloj In Ten 1)it II11 Minle .'10 tVnttirli',. St. Louis Globe-Dcmocr.it: Airs. A. E. Ulnohnrt of Denver has Just com pleted the feat of riding 1,0.72 miles In ten days upon a bicycle, an nverago of over 100 miles a day. She set out to ride seven centurlcn In seven con secutive days, and when she had fin ished that task she concluded to go on riding, as sho said, "for tho fun of the thing." Airs. Uluehart has ridden thirty centuries now, nnd sho has dono them so rapidly that she hns been ablo to secure all tho gold bnrn to which sho Is entitled. When she ends the sum mer season she expects to havo tho world's record for century runs. Sho did not begin riding until last Sep tember, but sho Is now a veteran wheel woman. Her wheel Is a diamond frame of 72 gear. When sho rides alone she wears a short divided skirt of blue woolen goods, a sweater of blue and yellow to match, and it llttlo cap. When sho has an escort on tho road she discards tho skirt and rides In knickerbockers, During her ten days of hard tiding sho lost ton pounds in weight. One days sho nronc at 1 a. 111., rodo to Colorado Springs and re turn, climbing nn altitude of over 2,000 feet In crossing tho dlvldo and arrived home by 10 p. m., having cov ered n distunes of 150 miles. Her fast est contury was mndo In ten hours r.ud ten minutes, though In former trials sho has mado a century in eight hour3 and Ave minutes. Her last of tho scrlen of ten-century rides was dono In ten huurs and fifteen minutes. A N'ntlirnl MMtulm. Seasldo Guest Why dhlift you send an attendant to help mo out of that Turkish bath In which I spent nil last night? Proprietor Turkish bath, sir! That was your room, Philadelphia North Aiuericau. DESIGNS FOR PINCUSHIONS. , 1 TIimd Aoinrlo of the 'lullft Table I iy lie Verr Attr iillve. To make a diamond cushion, cut two pieces of cardboard In the shapo of a diamond. The length from point to pi Int, endways, should be three Inched. Cover these neatly with silk or satin, in two contrasting colorn, say gold one side and brown the other; or black and pink look very well. The two shies must be seaiiled together. Tho heart-shaped cushion is made In - exactly the same manner as the dia mond, two pieces being cut out In card board, covered with silk, and seamed together. The star ciirihlon lequlres more work than one would Imagine; It consists of no less than twelve pieces of dlaniond-shnped card, each covered separately with silk. You will requlro two colors for this two shades of pink are very pretty, or two shades of blue. The diamonds must bo cut an Inch nnd a half long, and six plecen must be seamed together to form the front, nnd tho same number of the back. A small piece of wadding in the center of the two must be nddod, Just to give n little fullness to the mid dle before they are llnally seweil to gether. The most effective way of car rying out n pansy cushion lies In as near a copy of tho pansy Itself as pos nlble. Two different shaped pieces are required for It. Cut out llrst a piece of cardboard in the shape of a heart, and cover on both sides with purple velvet or silk seaming the edges neatly and finishing It off well, this being the back. Then cut out another piece of cardboard in the shape of a clover leaf and cover with yellow silk. Plnco one over the other and sew them both firmly together nnd buttonhole iitltch them right through with purple silk. This makes a charming pin culilnn, and If can led out In a large size that Is toeay, about hIx Inches It Is a pleas ing cushion to hang at one side of tho mirror In the bed-room. WOMEN AS NATURAL KICKERS. Mm Klckc l'hytlriillj-, MenUilljr, Mor.illy, r.vrlll(zlrilly ullil 1'erpe tii:illy. Kroin tho New York Herald: "A woman Is a natural 'kicker,' anyhow," said the man who felt he was being cornered In the nrgumeiit. "She'n a kicker physically, mentally, morally and psychologically. Ueslde her a man Isn't In It for anything." "I don't nee it," was the rejoined. "Any man can give her cards and spades -whatever that means nnd beat her." "Ho can, eh? Where aro your high l.ickers on the stage? Where a man goes at nnythlng with his list she goes at it with her foot. She could kick a chandelier down while a man was hunting a chair to reach It. Did you ever notice tho dining room girl? No? Well, you know, out Went and through out Canada they employ girl waitress es Instead of men waiters. Sometimes they have both. I can tell as soon as I enter a dining room whether the help la male or female. Women almost Invari ably open tho swinging doors with their foot men open them with their hand or arm. Tho consequence Is the doors are either worn out or patched with brass below or above, as it hap pens to bo men or women. When a woman approaches a nwinglug door she just gives it n kick that sends It f'ylng open, nnd sho wnlks through like the Israelites through the lied Sen. In case of n man the door Is opened by hand, or, If his hands arc full, with hie elbow or forearm. All through Cann on you'll seo the doors worn out at the bottom sometimes clean through. In many cases they are covered with brass where tho kick Is administered, A woman is a kicker by uature." With rnmp nml Circtiiiistuiirp. A popular Vienna cabby, Ignatius Hcrgor, died tho other dny and was burled with princely honors. Ho lay in state, as a notable, right honorable citizen of Vienna should, and many were tho high tapers and floral tributes Mirroundlng all that was left of one ol the fiinnrtcst, jolllest, and wittiest "Zeugl" drivers. "Zeugl" is t' nnme given by tho Austrian "Gentleman Joe" to his carriage ami pair. Tho aristocracy In deep mourning were an ec mbled around tho bier. Prince Paul and Prlnco Lajos Eszterhazy nnd Ha- ion Herman Koenlgswnrter, the mil Honalre, being among the number. lUtlier Mliml Up. "I can't help being a little mclan. choly," ho said, apologetically. "In trouble?" "Not on my own account. Hut I can't help thinking over tho misfortunes ol two friends of mine who recently mnr vied. Ono got a girl who can cook nnd Insists on playing the piano. Tho other got ono who knows how to piny th piano mid insists on cooking." A Itoynl KiiMitl.iner. Tho nnmo of the man who beheaded Charles I. is said to bo Ulchard Ilran don. In tho burial register of St. Alary's, Whltechapel, there may bo found entered a register of tho death of Ulchard Ilraudon of Uoseinaryiane, en tho 2tst of Juno, 1CI9. Apponded to this Is the following statement: "This It. Ilrnndon Is supposed to have cut of the head of Charles tho I'Irst." A rriitmrtml Vltlt. "I don't think your father feels very kindly toward me," said Air. Stalate. "You mlsjiidgo him. Tho morning after you called on mo last week ho seemed unite worried for f.?a? 1 hnd not treated you with proper courtesy.'' "Indeed. What did ho say?" "He asked me how I could bo so nulo as to let you go away without your breakfast." iN rm firoaactfc """-f-'MUMIil. - miii i.MJMiir .. ,'-r"