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!A(f Willi NcKINLETS ANCESTORS LIVED.
A VIEW OF THE PA KM
It Is gonera ly known that President
McKiniey, of the Pulled States, Is of
IrWi descent, but It Is not of so com
mon knowledge th.it It is only ii lltllo
CONAOHER. DERVOCK. COUNTY
LAUNCHINO LANTERNS.
Hplrlta In .Inimn FitrnUhed with blilpi
for Voje-.
Mr. Lufcadlo Hern, In his book,
"In Ghostly Japan." says that he was
fortunate enough to be a Yaldzu dur
ing the. three days of the "Festival of
the Dead," although he missed a part
or the prettiest sight of all, the beau
tiful farewell ceremony of tho third
and last day. In many parts of Japan
tho spirits are furnished with minia
ture, ships for their voyage little
A YOUTHFUL
Dddlo Von Goldern Is a San Fran
cisco boy. About a year ago ho had
tlio pleasuro of being on board tho
'"United States battlo ship Iowa just
ono hour, Ho Inspected the vessol so
closely and Intelligently that he Imme
diately set to work to making a model
.of It, and the result of his labor Is n
remarkablo model of tho ship. In
'sropoi'Uoa It Is accurate uud iu detail
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AT. THK M'KINLEY HOMESTEAD,
COUNTY ANTRIM, IUEIAND.
over q century sluro the McKlnlcys
left the roaat of Ireland for the United
States.
The ancestral homestead of Presi
dent McKiniey U situated about three
miles distant from H.illymoney.County
Antrim. The McKlnlcys, of Conaghor,
were respectable farmers and belonged
to the Presbyterian Church. In 1798,
the- year of the Irish rebellion, tha
housu was occupied by Francis M'KIn
ley (or McKiniey, as the name Is spell
ed on the gravestone), who wan exe-
ANTRIM. THE OLD IRISH HOME OF
models of junks or flshlnc craft, each
containing offerings of food and wa
ter and kindled lnconse, and also a
tiny lantern or lamp, If the ghost ship
Is to be despatched at night. At Yald
zu, however, only lanterns are set
atloat. The author says:
I was told that tho lanterns would
be launched after dark, and midnight
being tho customary hour clsewhoro,
I supposed that It was the hour of
farowoll at Yaldzu also. I therefore
rashly ludulged In a nap after supper,
MODEL HAKER.
delicate. Tho only material ho had to
work with were scraps picked up about
his home nnd In tho neighborhood, In
addition to this he has constructed
out of odds and ends of material mod
els of an electric car and a steam en
gine, both of which were recently ex
hibited before- tho technical society,
and commanded tits respect and com
mendations of the members of that Im
poituut organization.
CONAOHER, DERVOCK.
cutei! In that year at Colorulnc for his
connection with the United Irishmen.
After the execution his wife obtained
the body, and had It Interred In the
family burying ground at. Dcrrykel
Hhan. President McKiniey Is said by
some to bo descended from an uncle,
by others from u brother, of this Fran
cis .McKiniey.
The house is almost In the same con
dition that It was a century ngo.
Within the kitchen there Is a most In
teresting relic, consisting of a beam
on which aie impressed or cut the let
ters "l- McK." After the exocutlon of
Francis McKiniey, the. place passed
successively to his sons, John and
Francis, and on the departure of the
latter to Anicilca, In 183S, to John Fer
guson, and then In 188!) to John Car
son, whose son Robert Is the pit-sent
occupier und owner.- Montreal Her
ald. PRESIDENT M'KINLEY'S FAMILY.
expecting to suke up In time for tho
spectacle. Hut by ten o'clock, when 1
wont down to the bench, all was over,
and everybody hud gone home. Over
the water 1 saw something like a
long swarm of fireflies the lanterns
drifting out to sea in procession but
they were already too far off to be
distinguished except as points of col
ored light. I was much disappointed,
and felt that I had lazily missed an
opportunity which might never return,
for the old "lion" customs are dying
rapidly. In nnother moment, how
ever, it occurred to me that I could
very well venture to swim out to tho
lights. They wore moving slowly. I
dropped my robe on the beach and
plunged In. The sea was calm and
beautifully phosphorescont. Every
stroke kindled a stream of yellow Arc,
I swam fast and overtook the last of
the lantern fleet much sooner than I
had expected. I felt that It would be
unkind to Interfero with the lltiia
embarkations, or to divert them from
their silent course, so I contented my
self with keeping close to ono of thorn
and studying its details. The struct
ure was very simple. The bottom was
a piece of thick plank, perfectly
square, tind measured about ton Inches
across. Each one of Its corners sup
ported a slender stick about sixteen
inches high, and theso four uprights,
united above by crosspleces, sustained
tho paper sides. Upon the point of a
long nail driven up through tho cen
ter of the bottom was fixed a lighted
candlo The top was left open. Tho
four sides represented five different
colors, blue, yellow, red, white and
black, the live colors symbolizing
ether, wind, lire, water and earth, tho
five liuddhlst elomenta which are met
aphysically Identified with tho five
lluddhas. One paper pane was red, one
yellow and one blue, whllo tho fourth
was divided between black and white.
Insldo tho lantern there was only the
lllckorlnij candle.
It Is not tho cares of today, but tho
cares of tomorrow that weigh a man
down. For the needs of today wo
have corresponding strength given.
For tho morrow wo aro told to trust.
It in not ours yet. 0. Macdonald,
VALUAULE FIND3.
lint Otmno Cnim In HiiiiIIiitm
Ni'v
s Alrxli'ii.
Southern New Mexico is a land of
natural curiosities, a.id one at least
of theso has proved to have a high
commercial value. A resident of that
district had the good foitune a few
yours ago to accidentally stumble upon
several bat caves, one of which Is
stated to be sonm six miles In length,
and us he has shipped in the last two
years n,392,'.M0 pounds of phosphate or
guano fiom these caves, for which ho
has tecelved about $18 per ton, It can
be understood that the present and
prospective value of the.e caves Is
considerable It can be leadlly under
stood that bat guano possesses gieat
value as a feitlllzer. and thi value of
tho caves Is enhanced by the fact that
beneath the guano Is a considerable
deposlte of phosphate lock (the re
mains of defunct bats), which, when
ground up nnd treated with phosphoilc
acid, is highly prized as a fertilizer.
Since the discovery of these ancestral
homes'Of the bats, In which they have
made their resting place for unuum
'hered rendu lea, the search for more
such caves has continued Intermittent
ly, nnd It Is probable that many mora
valuable finds of this nature will be
made; for the section of the country
In which they He, Is literally Infested
with this obnoxious, but very lucra
tive little creature. The caves which
are frequented by bats, are of lava
formation, and curry evidence of hav
ing been subject to violent volcanic ac
tion. A remarkable bat trait Is men
tioned, which has the effect of render
ing the caves of permanent value. It
seems that after the entire front or
the first of these caves to be opened
hud been torn down to within u foot or
so of the narrow openings through
which for centuries the bats have
come and gone, the little creatures
continued, and still continue, to fol
low the ways of tholr ancestois. Fly
ing upward past the large openings,
they would squeeze In and out of the
caves as of old. Since the llrst clean
ing out of one cave, seven tons of
guano have been removed, all of which
had been deposited subsequently to the
(list removal. It Is estimated that
from the deposits which have already
been discovered, there has been taken
an annual nop of about 1,500 tons of
guano.
COAL AND IRON.
Mineral lltxuiirrrn of I lit- Clilnonn l.mplrn
Aro tiMl.
The mining nnd metallurgical sec
tion or tho Franklin Institute held a
stated meeting In Philadelphia recent
ly. The president, Joseph Richards,
was In the chair. Professor Lynwood
Qnrrison delivered the address of the
evening on "The Mineral Resources
of the Chinese Empire" The speaker
lu opening gavo u general survey of
the physical geography and geology
of this vast country, aud then spoke
specillcally of his personal observa
tions made during a recent profession
al visit to Northeastern China, calling
special attention to tho fact that a
large part ot China Is underlaid by
coal, much of which Is anthracite of
high quality, comparing favorably In
this lespect with the best of Pennsyl
vania anthracite. The extent of theso
beds, however, far exceeds our own,
and, moreover, their location Is such
that the extraction of the coal will bo
a comparatively easy matter. He ex
pressed the belief that In a short time
China would enter the markets of tho
world as a great coal producer. Pro
fessor Garrison also alluded to the
great extent and accessibility of the
Iron ore deposits and Incidentally to
tho fact that oro of antimony occurred
there In greater abundance than In
any other part of tho world. Quick
silver deposits of uncquuled richness,
he said, wero likewise known in the
country. The speaker illustrated his
remarks with a number of mineral
specimens and exhibited a scries of
views showing tho crude methods of
mining employed by the natives. He
also showed a series of typical views
of Chinese scenery, Including formica
tions, harbors, public buildings, etc,
TEMPLE OF CONFUCIUS.
II ! a barreil Spot to tho Prople uf the
L'hliin Kmplro,
The temple of Confiiclu at Chu
foiihblcn Is the Westminster abbey of
China and the grave of that sacied
pcrtiouago Is the must noted spot in
the grounds. A sacred mound sur
mounts the remains of Confucius.
Near the mound Is a building erected
for tho meditation of those who ren
der homage to tho greatest Clilnaman
who ever lived. Near by Is a troe,
said to have been planted by Confu
cius -or, rather, the trunk of It, for It
Is dead. The tree Is on a circular
stand of stone and mortar, close by
a huge table of stone that looks like
marble, having been polished by a de
voteeo. The mound Is only twelve
feet high. Derate It Is a tablet bear
ing the nnmo and at the foot or tho
tablet Is tho famous lnconse vase, says
the London Mnll. The Inscription
reads: "Chili Sheng Hslen Shlh
K'ung T.u," which means tho perfect
sage, tho former teacher, tho philoso
pher K'ung. Near to tho tomb of
Confucius is that of his son, who died
four years before the Chinese seer; but
the tomb of his grandson attracts more
notlco, because It ts almost as grand
as that of Confucius. There aro thou
sands of graves near the Hhrlno of
Coiifuclus nnd the neurer they aro
tho "better the lot pf tho departed, ac
cording to tho belief of tho Chinese.
Tho keopers of the templo demand a
fco before showing tho plnco to for
eigners. Keep your chin up, (If you are a
woman, you won't have to be told so.)
SUA LIZAKD.
LINEAL DESCENDANT OF PRE
HUMAN WOULD MONSTERS.
tin t Found In Din (inliiptif.fi Arrlilprl
nun In tlio I'tirlUc Occiin III Nrlnil
tllli' Nil nix l Igilrtiilitii AlnlilrrkyiirliiM
Crl-tltiliKi.
J. ('niter Hc.ird, In mi Interesting
at tide In Truth, tells of the wonderful
animals peculiar to the Galapagos Ar
chipelago, lu the Pacific Ocean, and
mentions among othcis. the Galapagos
sea llrard, which, to quote the author,
Is u Ducal disceudaut of the monsters
of the old, prehuman world, and. to
some extent, nttents hW descent by bis
size as well as by his looks, for the
creature Is almost, or quite, live feet
lung. It may lie added that his scleu
title name Is. lu its way. almost as
long and ugly iw himself -Iguanlda
ainblyrkynchus crUtatus. The creatine
Is black, or almost black, in color; his
body, Including the tall, is flattened
like Unit of a fish He Is furnished
with a crest of well developed spines,
reaching from the nnpe of his neck to
the extremity of his caudal appendage
His color, his trhapc. aud his armament
or scales, the cruel, malignant glare or
his n ptlllau eyes, his truncated, trucu
lent, bull dog shaped head with Its
helmet or conical projections, and his
enormous mouth, that looks tit to
breathe out lire aud smoke, after the
manner or his kind In song aud story
seem to perfectly adapt him to his
place among the Impossible creations
of heialdiy. or to perform his part lu
a representation of St George and the
ilnigon; or. perchunce, to make rea
one of those more or less Imaginative
reconsd actions of (xtlnct monsteis.
with which books or pscudo-hclenco
Copper in
Gre5rxt Demand
Producing by far a larger amount of
copper than an other country, the
United States Is extremely fortunate In
being able to supply to a great extent
the over-Increasing demand for this
useful metal. All this year the t'nlted
States has been selling over a million
pounds of copper a day to. foreign
consumers and yet the supply Ih not
equal to the demand. In proportion to
the world's supply no metnl Ik now In
ho great demand us copper. Tho mar
ket for It Is very active becaiiso,
though the United States and all the
leading nations of Europe are great
consumers, none of them produces It In
large quantities except this country.
The United Kingdom, France and Ger
many are by far the largest buyers of
copper Ingots, bars nnd plates In Eu
rope, but none of them produces tho
nietat except Germany, and the Ger
man output l only from 17,000 to 20,
000 tons a year. Great Dritaln can
buy copper In no parts of her vast em
pire except lu Australasia and Canada,
and the receipts tram these sources art
WHEN THE EXPECTED HAPPENS
More lliniiiirniu lliiwi Kirn tho AliMt
HhiibiiIiik C'onlil llxpert.
An old "seu-golng"' hack went clat
tering up Droadway. On the box with
the driver wore three weather beaten
trunks und a little barrel, stoutly
roped. Inside the undent vehicle wns
a man who looked like u foreigner, and
from one window stuck the legs or n
high chair. The dilver seemed to bo
guiding his venerable steeds with his
eyes shut. The hack rocked rrom side
to side like n ship In distress, aud
creaked and groaned ominously. It
wus the rusty "one-hoss shay" come
back to earth with four wheels Instead
of two, says the New York Mall and
Express. Every oue looked for some
mlvnap uud It runic.
At Canal street the carriage swerved
sharply to the left, and ono dccroplt
wheel caught In tho ear track. There
was a crash and a scream, and two
pantaloourd legs suddenly descended
to the pavement through tho big rent
In the bottom of the carriage. The
driver, too absorbed to notice any
thing chirruped to his horses, nnd the
nock went roiling through canal
stieet at a top speed of five miles an
hour, while tho two legs tried to keep
apace with tho rapidly revolving
wheels.
Yells and profuno protests and ap
peals for help in steady stream canio
rrom the windows or the ohlclo, but
tho driver paid no attention to them
until ho reached West Droadway. Thon
he slowly descended from tho box,
crawled under the carriage, pushed
tho legs back, went back to his seut
and turned his horses north.
Aklng Kiiron.
A proud, Independent man was once
heard to say: "I roly entirely upon
myself. I never ask a favor of nny
-no. Now, fortune might turn against
this man some day; then his pride
would desert him; necessity might
force him to ask n ravor or the very
man whom In the days or his prosper
ity ho had despised.
Fancy never asking a fuvor! Why,
it simply means ono Is friendless, for
In asking a favor one virtually grants
ono. Uetween friends thoro Is no
sense of obligation when ono kocb to
tho other nnd says, "Please do this or
that for me," ror tho ono who claimo
tho sorvlco knows It will bo a pleasure
to the other to rondor It, huvlng him
self exporlonced tho happiness of being
ablo to help thobo whom he loves. Real
have made u familiar. Fiercer, morn
formidable looking animals might bo
dllllcult to discover; inoro harmless
ouch cannot be found at all. They
never dream of biting, and their only
defense when brought to bay Is to
squirt a few dvops of fluid from their
nostrils. Their habits aro a peculiar
as Is their appearance, Though ex
tremely numerous along tho rocky
coasts of their native Islands, they aio
seldom seen more than twenty or thir
ty feet from shore, though as might
be expected, they nro perfectly at
home lu the sea swimming by serpen
tine, undulating movomenU of tho
flattened body aud tall, and movln
without nppaienl effort, grneciully and
swiftly through the vvatir, with tholr
limbs, which they do not use In
swimming, pressed closoly to tholr
sides. Yet, stiange as It may and
certainly doen- -appear, It Is neverthe
less a fad that you cannot drlvo ono
of these creatines which happens to
bo ashore, Into tho sra. Try It nnd
tho big fellow scainpniH off In any di
rection but that you would naturally
unppose he would take, toward what
would almost scum to bo his natural '
element. He will hide, as occasion
serves, In crevices, he will dodgo be
hind bowlders, he will double and
turn, and If nothing else will do, rush .
betWMen your feet and upsot you, or
climb the almost perpendicular faco
or the rock, but Into tho wator he will
not go; he will even allow himself
to bo captured IT 11 comes to a cholco
between that and plunging Into tho
sea, where ho could so easily escape.
If, having caught him, you manage to
drop him from some overhanging rock
Into the water, he Incontinently swims
islioie as fast as he can. Thus In
carnate nightmare of a reptile, living
upon seaweed, and Incapable of harm
Ing a living creature, Is, iwrhapslir
perfect an example and proof aa oxllrS?
if tho fallacy of a Judgment foundcuV
merely on appearances.
lnltoii States Fortunate
in Producing Vtvt
Quantity of tills Metal
only a small part of Uie metal Hho con
Humes. Of nil the copper mined, tho
United .States produces inoro than oub
Imlf and Spain und Portugal about
one-fourth. About hair tho copper
mined here Is fcold abroad nnd half of
this In returned for conversion at the
Atlantic rellnerles Into plates an wire
for foreign use. Although tho world's
production or copper huii Increased
about one-third In tho past deendo, the
demand hns grown raster, being swoll
en constantly by the expansion of tho
diet-trie Industries. Next to silver,
copper ts the best conductor of heat
and electricity; und with the vast de
velopment of tho telegraph and ole
phoue services und tho now use of e!ee
trlclty to transmit power nnd Ahu
supplant the horse und tho steam en
gine, the demand for tho metal steadily
grows. In addition to tho largo uso ot
the metal for electrical purposes, enor
mous quantities nlso are alloyod with
zinc In the production of brans, which
next to Iron Is tho most, important
metal usod in tho arts. And coppor
goes with tin to make bronzo.
friendships uro perhaps not as plenti
ful us they might be, and It may tin
that our pride often hinders tholr
growth. We may have u strong liking
for some one in a.rathor bettor posi
tion than ourfiolve8 which feeling Ih
reclproculed; but we nip in tho bud tho
friendship that seems llkoly to grow
up, bocuuse, as we say, all tho benefits
would be on one side; we uro always
accepting kindnesses and can never
return them.
What roily! Think or tho Ideal
friendship between David und Jona
than. Was not tho case the same
there? Yet tho thought never hinder-"
ed their love, ror each knew that the
other had the heart and the will to do
likewise whenever ho accepted an act
or kindness, nnd that in accepting it
ho conrerred a ravor.
Wo all know what Shakespeare saya
or mercy: "It is twice blossod. It
blesseth him that gives and him that
takes," and we should do well to re
member that tho same Is the case In
the matter of fuvurs. Between friends
these should bo given and taken freely
nnd gladly, tor dependence on one an
other is a law of our nature, and on
whom would we more willingly be do
poudent ror help und sympathy In time
or need than on those whom we cull
I friends? New York Weekly,
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To Harriet the Mluourl,
Ynnkton, S. D Spo. Now York
Times: M. R. Mutu, a mechanical en
gineer nnd inventor, has solved appar
ently tho problem of harnessing tho
Immense power ot tho Mltsourl rlvur,
which Is now going to wuste, and ualag
It for practical purposes. An examina
tion of Math's invention ahowod a sim
ple looking machine, mado to work
under the current so that tho Ice will
not interfere with Its usefulness. A
four-foot wheel on experiment yields
n tested pressure or 200 pounds, with
the probability or greater power when
porrected. This brings within prob
abilities a power great enough to pump
Missouri river water into tho city for
drinking and tiro purposes, nnd also
ror manufacturing nnd llghtlna pur
poses. Tho wheel has already boon
submitted ror examination to leading
exports, who pronounce It entirely
piactical and capablo or accomplishing
all Itb luvuntor claims for it.
Reiuomber that your brushes need a
weekly washing nnd a dully airing,
Novor leave them on the toilet tnblo
where tho dust and germs In the rooin
can full on them.
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