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TWO PROSPEROUS LOOKING PRESIDENTS.
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Uneasy rests the head of a South
American president, for, hb a rule, the
most that la heard about such per
sonages Is that they have been either
deposed or shot. The two robust-looking
gentlemen shown In the accom
panying Illustration, however, although
PACIFIC FISHING INCIDENT.
Narrow Kit-ape of rt Smnll Hoafs 1'arly
from a Whale' Mail Itiuli.
The theory that whales refuse to at
tack men unless they themselves .ue
assailed Is exploded. A monster whale
not less than sixty feet In length made
n vicious charge at a boat anchored off
Point Cavallo and badly frightened its
occupants. Hut for the coolness of the
man who had the boat In charge the re
sult might have been disastrous. Tho
boat, containing tho fisherman and his
threo children, was pulled to a point
about 1,500 feet oft Point Cavallo and
dropped anchor. Tho party were flail
ing Industriously, when a whale en
tered tlio Golden Gato and speeded to
ward them. Tho spectacle of the ani
mal excited tho curiosity of the young
er llsher folk.but caused no alarm. Sud
denly his whaleshlp caught sight of the
boat and he reared his majestic pro
portions aloft until he seemed to tower
in tho water llko n six-story building.
He was evidently getting his bearings,
and as he caught sight of tho boat he
spoutod fiercely. Then he sank with
u huge splash, and came up again and
dashed for tho boat. Happily, tho aim
of tlio leviathan was bad, for In his
rush ho missed tho boat by some three
or four feet nnd passed on like a whirl
wind a considerable distance beyond.
Tho raMd passage of tho wbalu with
lialfrjbs huge body abovo tho water
imo imiied tho water into a mlnla
turo tidal wave, which swung the boat
as though In an eddy and all but cap
Hizcd It. Tho chlldicn screamed in
terror and gave themselves up for lost.
The fisherman did not lose his head,
however, and by a Judicious uso of his
oars brought tho boat about, and, mi
nus somo fishing tackle which w.is
purloined by tho whale in his passage,
ho headed for tho shore. Tho whale
turned as If to renew the attack, but,
apparently thinking better of it, ho
flapped his fins and tail and dove out
of sight. Later ho was seen off Al
ectraz, whore ho remained for an hour
or two observing tho fortifications.
What bocamo of him after that nobody
knows. San Francisco Post,
THE KHAKI UNIFORM.
Tho accompanying picture shows the
much-talked-about khaki uniform, in
which both officers nnd men of tho
British army In South Africa aro
dressed during uctlvo servlco nxalnst
tho llocrs. This khaki uniform Is a
dun, earth-colored stuff, with nono of
the regulation tinsel and martial trap
pings of the parade ground about it. It
has' however, proved very sorvlccablo
In active duty, and has tho further ad
vantago of not proving a glaring target
or Boer marksntcn.
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one is President Itora of the Argentine
Republic, and tho other Is President
Uuestas of L'ruguay. do not seem In
any way to have suffered In health on
account of the troublous scenes around
them. They have been exes for sev
eral years.
SSNASS
A New Orruputliin for Women.
Prom the I,oiidon Telegraph: Pony
farming Is an alluring occupation for
women who have a fancy for horse
flesh. One lady In Devonshire has for
years bought llttlo Dartmoor ponies,
trained them and sold them for high
BOER PORT AT
That the Hoers have for mouths and
oven for years been ultlclpatlng some
flual struggle with tho British has
been well demonstrated by tho thor
oughness of the preparations for war
which the government of the crafty
Oom Paul has been making for some
time past. Tho samu might he said of
tho doughty burghers or tho Orango
Tree State, for Bloemfonteln, tho cap-
prices. Since polo became of such im
portance she devoted her attention to
breeding ponies suitable for the game,
and has had great success. Ladles
Mary and Dorothy Hope devote their
attention to little Shetland ponies, nnd
havo their farm at Bdenbrldgo, Kent.
Both ladles have a wonderful power
over little animals, and understand
their ailments. Their vcntuie. besides
affording them Immense Interest, Is
very successful. They havo gained
many prizes. They are capable whips,
and drive mlnlaturo teams and tan
dems with great skill. Success In such
a scheme as this demands a lovo for
horses and knowledge of them, as well
as capital, energy and patience. Jn
this last-named commodity It Is neces
sary for a pony farmer to excel, since
miniature horses are exceedingly 'difll
cult to train.
Needed u llulr-L'ut.
Short slgbt Is not toleiatcd In a com
mon soldier, but sometimes It Is neces
sary to tolerato It In nn officer. Fur
thermore, there aro many short-sighted
olllcers who aro unwilling to wear
glasses. Such a ono was a certain
captain in tho Hrltlsh army of whom
a story is told In an English paper.
During a kit Inspection a mop had
been left propped with tho head up
permost against a spare bed cot. Tho
short-sighted captuln entered and
glanced at tho mop. Then ho snapped
his fingers. "Color-sergeant!" ho ex
claimed. "Yes, sir," said tho sergeant,
saluting. "Seo that that man has his
hair cut immediately!" said tho cap
tain, pointing at tho mop.
flinull Arm for the Kilt)',
Now York Press: I do not under
stand why thero should bo so suddon
a chango in tho navy small arm. He
ports from Washington stato that tho
service will bo equipped aa soon as
posslblo with tho Krag-Jorgensou rifle;
and that, In fact, 1,000 of theso weap
ons havo been ibsued by tho ordnnnce
bureau to tho Kentucky and Kenr
sarge, with fi.OOO rounds of ammuni
tion. Only two years ago tho Win
chester Repenting Arms company
MSI.
tu side and delivered to the government
10.000 Lee straight-pull rifles, which,
nfter critical testa, hud been adopted
as tlie model small arms for the naval
soivlec. In substituting the Krng-.lor-gensen
for the l.ce one advantage will
be Rained, at least, and that Is uni
formity of ammunition, the army cart
ridge and the navy cartridge being
Interchangeable.
KEPT THE WINE TOO LONG.
When III ('liunipHsno Win Opened It
Va Not I It to Drink.
"There Is such a thing as n wine
being too old," said a member of the
board of trade to a New Orleans
Times-Democrat reporter. "I hud that
Illustrated at my houso the other day
under rather Interesting circumstances.
Hack in ISIS Gen. John M. Lewis, who
was t lion sheriff and afterward mayor
of New Orleans, gave my uncle a bas
ket of four-year-old champagne. My
uncle afterward moved north, taking
that and other wines with him. and
on his death. In the early 'M, tho
basket was still Intact. The cham
pagne iiMiiiilned in the family cellar
untouched and only last mouth my
cousin, now In New York, broko the
lot and sent mo down four bottles. I
w:m iinttinillv uriou: to know how
the old wine would look and tasto and
a few days ago, on tho occasion of a
little anniversary at our home, 1 open
ed one of the bottles. 1 had consid
erable dllllculty In lemovlng the cork
without breaking It, but it filially gave
way. There was not a vestige of pop
and the wlno ran out perfectly dead
and limpid, it was pale amber In col
or and had a faint, pleasant bouquet,
but the imprisoned gas that had onco
given It life and sparkle was gone for
ever. It was Interesting as a relic,
but not fit to drink, nnd some friends
who are connoisseurs said that it had
evidently been deteriorating since
1870."
Initrnuituit to Locale Hound.
A new Instrument has been designed
BLOEMFONTEIN.
ital of tho little republic, was carefully
fortified and garrisoned for many
months before tho actual outbreak of
hostilities. Tho accompanying lllus
tiatlon will give a very good idea of
tho Hoer fort at Hloemfontcln, a spot
which, In view of recent events, has an
especial Interest to all followers of the
piescnt struggle between the Hoers and
the Hrltlsh.
by .Mr. Cowper-Coles of London for
readily locating tho direction of sound
and for projecting sound long dis
tances. It consists of a reflector
mounted on an arm which can be
LAURENCE IRVING AND SARDOU.
Mr. Laurenco Irving, tho favorlto
son of fMr Henry Irving, has found his
nnmo a good deal beforo tho public of
Iuto becauso of his successful transla
tion nn.l adaptation of M. Sardou's
"Robespierre. Tho accompanying plc
turo shows Sardou, tho shorter figure,
and tho young English nctor and au
thor nt tho Chateau do Marly, Sardou's
Btimmor residence In France.
Evon ns an undcr&rnduaU of Oxford
icadlly tinned on Its center nnd de
pressed or elevated by the operator.
When It Is desired to ascertain tho
exact direction from which a sound
emanates the apparatus Is turned on
its axis, and as noon as tho reflector
is opposite the rource of the sound It
Is beard much more Intensified In tho
receiver. Two Instrumentn are used
to carry on the conversation between
two distant points or chips. Tho sound
waves mo thrown from ono reflector
to the other, the sound being focusod
in one instrument in the recelvor when
the operator speaks Into the flexible
tube, uhllo the operator working tho
other Instrument places the lube at
tachment to tho receiver to his ear.
THE VALLEY OF GOLD.
Here Is tho famous Pintail waterfall
in Rhodesia, which ruin over some of
the richest gold-bearing rock In tho
world. A few years ago this particu
lar part of South Africa wan thought
to be nothing better than a barren wil
derness. Now it Is realized that when
once this country, which Khodc3 and
his company fliol opened up, Is prop
erly exploited, It will prove one of tho
world's now Bl Dorados.
Art nnd Nnlurr.
The perfect blcirllng of the real and
Ideal has recently been advertised by
Paris milliners, who han come to uso
oats from the fields to trim the bon
nets of tnelr fair curtomon. The nd
venture which be.'Ml one such bonnet
and Its wearer Is related by a foreign
newspaper. A lady, dressed beyond
the reach of criticism, was crossing a
broad boulevard. A cab bore down
upon her and she stepped harilly back
and stopped In front of tho curbstone,
unmindful of a horco and cart stand
ing immediately behind hor. Tho horo
quietly sniffed the oat3 and then, de
ciding that they were genuine, began
to munch. He was thus engaged when
the lady, quite unnware of the pleasure
slio was affording the hungry animal,
started forward. Hut tho honso was far
from satisfied, and planting his fore
feet on the lady's skirt, continued his
repast. The lady, supposing tho homo
about to devour her head, promptly
fainted and was removed to a drug
gist's shop near by. where hnpplly sho
soon recovered. The moral of the
story Is that oveiy field of oats should
havo a fence about It.
Heady Ainwrr,
Everything possible, of course, is
named for Admiral Dewey in thesn
days. There aro "Dewey" hats,
"Dewey" shoes, collars, neckties, nr
tlclea of furniture, clgara, nnd no forth,
to an cndlea'j extent, and even certain
dishes at restaurants are named In his
honor. A guest nt a lunch-counter ou
the day tho admiral landed nt Now
York observed "Dewey cakes" on tho
bill of fare and called for some. "Walt
er," ho said, after he had taatcd them,
"are these your Dewey caken?" "Yes,
sir." "They tasto very much like tho
'General cakes' I got here not
long ago." "Oh, no, sir," replied tho
waiter. "Thcy'c got lets more ginger
In them."
A Haptlst church hns been organised
nt Skaguay, Alaska.
Laurenco Irving showed great dra
matic promlso, and was nlways popu
lar at thoso numerous amateur per
formances which aro given each year
for tho delectation of tho students of
tho old university on tho Isls. Almo3t
his first professional lilt was made In
tho rolo of Svengall In Du Maurler'a
"Trilby," tut since then he has boon
dolug excellent work In tho English
provinces.
GRIGGS 10 DEC
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Right to Raise Freight Rates
Left to Him,
FORMAL COMPLAINT IS ALREADY FILED
Pro! rut of .Shipper Hrnl lo Attorney Gen
eral - liilcmtatn Commerce Cnmnili-
Ion Arts In Their llelmlf, lint
.Make no Iteruruiiieiid.illon,
At Washington Friday the Interstate
commerce, commission, in compliance
with the icqiicst of the freight ship
pers and icptesi'iitutlves of the com
mercial interests, transmitted to At
torney General Griggs a transcript of
the evidence taken at the hearing last
week respecting the new classification
of freight made by theolllclal clnssltl
cntlou committee. The proposed elassl
Heat ion is to be inside elVcctive on Jan
uary 1 by all railroads using the olll
clnl classification. These include more
than sixty lines east of the Mississippi
nnd north of the Ohio and Potomac
I ivers. The petition of the shippers
was that the commission should trans
mit the evidence taken before it to the
attorney general, with a rccomnu'ii la
tion that he, institute legal proco.-d-ings,
by injunction or otherwise, lo
restrain the railroads from putting
the new classification into effect.
To the request of the shippers the
commission in pari complies. The evi
dence and arguments inc. transmitted
to the attorney general, but without
lccommeudatlon.
The letter of transmittal is long1, the
eoniinis-don desiring to place the case,
fairly before the attorney general. It
reviews the proceedings which led up
to the hearing, the taking of testimo
ny, and the receipt of the protests.
Attorney General Griggs, who is ill,
has given no intimation yet us to what
action, if any, ho may take in the
premises. Necessarily lie will have to
review the testimony before he can
reach an Intelligent conclusion. In
any event, It is said, it will bo suvcnil
days beforo the matter can bo deter
mined. FIVE MEN TO BE GARROTED
laprrnie Court of I'nrto Itleo Infill'!
Ilenlh 1'rnilly.
Tlie supreme court of Porto Htco, at
Ponce, lias sentenced five men to be
garroted. In October, lSOS, twenty
men, heavily armed with guns and
machetes, robbed a house at Yauco,
province of Ponce, and murdered a man
named Priidcuclo Meude.. They also
danced nrounil the body with his
daughters, who were under compulsion.
Seven of the men were cnucht, but
subsequently one of tho prisoners es
caped and one died in jail,
Kindt V'ii o:u of .Murder.
At Chlllicotho, Mo., n reporter has
found a blood-smeared ax in the ruins
of the farm houso where William O.
Thomas and Ills three children were
cremated last Sunday. There appears
no room for doubt thut Thomas mur
dered his children and then set flro to
tho house, afterwards killing himself
and falling into tho flames. The
coroner's inquest disclosed no new in
telligence. The bodies were burned
beyond recognition.
Ilrynn Cnri for lllg (lame.
Hon. W. J. Bryan was the central
tlguro tn a big panther hunt in tho
mountains near Austin, Te.x. Tlie
hunt had been especially arranged for
him, and something lllcu .100 sports
men, headed by Mr. Iiryan ami e.x
Governor Hogg, left Austin early for
scone of the proposed hunt. They re
turned with a Hvo panther in their
possession, having captured the animal
during tho day.
Full or l'lnnacle Itoek.
The celebrated Pinnacle Hock, which
overhung Cumberland Gap, Tonn., and
was a noted natural spectacle, fell
from its lofty height recently. The
town was awakened as if by an earth
quake, as the iminonso mass, weighing
hundreds of tons, came tumbling down.
The course of the rock was from the
town and no lives havo been reported
lost, although considerable property
was destroyed.
Nc-ro KIIU the Nhfirlft.
Will Gorman, a negro, shot and in
stantly killed Sheriff T. H. Siuipklns
six miles north of Montlcello, Fla.
Gorman was wanted for murder and
Simpklns and a posse went to arrest
him. As Simpklns pushed open the
door of tho cabin Gorman shot him
twice in the brcafl. Tho murderer es
caped from the rear door, but he was
bhot down and killed.
Suffocated by foul (Jan.
Peter t". Schrocder, a w ealthy whole
sale grocer, with a number of stores in
Ilrooklyn, and a young woman, be
lieved to be Tillio Flyiiu, were suffo
cated by escaping gas from defective
stove connections in n cheap lodging
house in Brooklyn. Scliroeder lived
with his wife and tvo small children
In Willinmsburg, was a member of tho
various German societies and bore a
good reputation.
riulTiirlni; I'riim 1'nrenU.
Congressman Itoutello is now in the
McLean hospital for insane at Wnvcrly
seven miles out of ltoston. When he
was brought to lloston last Monday
night it was tho intention of tho at
tending physicians to pluco him in tho
Clianding sanitarium at Ilrooklyn, a
private institution. Ho was refused
admittance thero, tho Inference being
that his case was a uioro ilesporato ouu
than the managers cared to bu respon
sible for. From a thoroughly reliable
source It Is reported that the congress
man Is suffering from paresis.
TWO MEN KILLED IN A FIGHT
Tulnl Affrny Among tionlheriicrt I'rouil1
lent In TollUm.
A serious fight occurred nt Deposit,
a small town near lluiitsvlllo, Ala., in
which two men were killed and a third
probably fatally wounded.
.lames llarden's throat was cut from
car to ear by his nephew, Jesso Hard
en. The former is dead. John C.
Harden, a brother of tho dead man,
seriously cut .lesso Harden nnd in
the light was drawing to ti close, Mao
Ktisscll discharged n load of btiskshot
into Hie abdomen of desso Harden,
causing death Instantly.
All the parties are well known and
prominent in politics, ltusscll has not
been arrested. The cuuso of tho flgh'
is not known.
STORES DAMAGED BY FIRE
Itlnrn nt 1'roinonl, Noli., Ciituei a I.nns
of Nix Thmi'iind.
A lire which started In the rear of
I). Gannon's grocery store on Main
street at Fremont, caused considerable)
damage, while tho dry goods store of
Thud Qtilnn. directly north of tho
building, suffered greatly from smoko
which poured in the store In cloud.
The lire alarm was sounded and tho
department managed to keep tho blar.o
I'oiilliicil to U.sstarllng place and event
ually quench it. The tiro was directly
over a large oil tank in tho basement
and for a time fear was felt that an
explosion might result. Mr. Gannon'o
damage will be about 51,000, while Mr.
Quinu reports that his damage may
reach as high as Sr.,000.
PAUL FULL OF CONFIDENCE
(nicer Jlellete llrrut llrlliiln Will
Konn Hut) for I'eaee.
Winston Churchill, on arriving at
Durban, Natal, after his escape from
the Hoer.-i, received u tremendous ova
tion, lie says that from conversations
with tho Transvaal executive at Pre
toria he learned that tlie Hoers began
the war with trepidation, but that
President Krugcr is now confident that
Great Britain will .soon sue for pence.
In Hie highest Trausvaal circles, M.
Churchill asserts, there is serious tall
of compiomisc, by which Great Hritaiti
would cede the territory now occupied
by the armies of tho two republics,
pay an indemnity of iiO.OOO.OOO pounds
(S 1 00,000,000), and acknowledge tho
complete independence of the Traus
vaal. It Coil lllm llli Mfe.
A. L Haylcs, while shucking corn on
his farm near McKlnley, says a Guth
rie, Okl., dispatch, was shot and killed
by Charles Thomas, aged fifty years.1
Haylcs, who was about sl.xty-livc years
old, married Thomas' twelve-year-old
daughter last summer against tho
father's wishes. Family quarrels have
been frequent since. Thomas ap
proached Haylcs witli levelled Win-
onrsier nun reuiariting tuat, iney nan
had trouble enough fired. Thomas es
caped to Guthrie, where ho was aK
rcbtvJ.
Wnn!s Itullrottdn Itcitrulnctl.
Secretary B. P. Wilson of tin utlon
al niiimifuutitrt,r.s association, at Cin
cinnati, says that a petition lias been
drawn up to tho United States attor
ney general asking that tho railroads
be restrained front raising their freighfc
rates tin .lanunry 1, on tho ground that
this proposed advanco will v lulu to thtr"
Sheridan anti-trust law. This is tho
result of tho conference between ship
pers and tho interstate commerce com
mission at Washington on tho 20 and
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Ileuit In a ltnvklns; Cliatr.
Mary Heck, aged forty-two, of Ellin
wood. Kan., was found by ono of her ;
four children dead in her rocking chair,
her throat cutand her forehead bruised. ,
Ono of the children said ho had heard
his mother say sho had killed someone
nnd would kill herself. Ilcr husband
has been in the insane asylum for two
years, and Mrs. Heck supported her
family by following tho plow during
tlio day and performing her household
duties al night.
fat's lllte Causes Death.
Ahram I. Lefcvre, a farmer of Green
laud, Pa., aged forty-five years, died
from hydrophobia. He was bitten on
the hand by a cat about four months
ago, but did not feel any effects from
the wound until last Saturday when
his arm became stiff. Tlio following
Sunday ho became violently ill and it
was necessary to keep him under tho
influence of opiates.
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UlichurKeH Itccolveri.
At St. Paul, Minn., Judge Sanborn
in the United States circuit court filed
an order discharging tho receivers of
the Northern Pacific railway company.
Tho property and affairs aro turned
over to tlie stockholders in tho reorgan
ized company, which succeeds tho old
corporation and bid in its holdings.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
A report is current In San Francisco
that tho bubonic plagua exists in
Hawaii.
Tlio 1,800 men employed by tho Lo
high and Wilkcsbarro Coal company
and tho Silvcrbrook coal company, of
Hazcltou, Pa., wore notified of au in
crcaso of two pur c t in their wagos.
Tho Bngllsh government has just
placed a large order for meats with the
various American packing houses. (
Tho National Card Hoard nnd Paper
company, at a meeting held in New
York, decided to iidvaiico tho price ol
card board S'.'.SO per ton.
Comptroller Dawes says there Is no
cause for alarm over tho monoy situa
tion. From a banking standpoint tho
situation is sound and stable.
Tho Japanese army is buylug up
arms and ammunition, and is other
wise preparing for war it expects to
have with Uussla sooner or later. '
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