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' LAYING THE PACIFIC CABLE , San FrancIsco.Cal. ( Special. ) With- Jn ninemonths' time the much talked , of Pacific cable connecting Hawaii with the United States will have been laid , and before two years have passed away-we shall be brought within easy speaking distance of the Philippines. A company , composed of Joh.i W. Mack- ay , Clarence H. Mackay , Edward C. Platt , Albert Beck , George G. Ward , Albert B. Chandler and William W. Cook , has been Incorporated to carry out the project. The cable will start from San Fran cisco. , lead to Honolulu , thence to Guam and the east coast of Luzon. When this stretch of cable , 6,912 miles In length , will have been laid , a tele graphic system encircling the entire globe will be completed. The estimated cost of the Pacific cable is $10,000,000. The demands of the government from the company will be reduced rates and absolute control over the line in time of war. The stretching of an oceanic cable is a ponderous task. The cable itself consists , first , of a core which comprises the conductor , made of a strand of copner wires and the insulating covering generally made . of gutta percha , but occasionally of India rubber , to prevent the escape of electricity. Then comes a layer of tanned jute yarn laid over the gutta percha to pro tect It from the sheathing of steel wires , over which come again jute yarn and a bituminous i compound. The sheathing varies in type with the depth of the water In which it is laid. The deep sea type has a sheathing of many small steel wires ; then through several intermediate types the sheath ing wires become gradually larger un til finally at the shore end the deep-set sheathed cable is again sheathed with strands , each made up of three steel wires set triangularly. It will be no ticed , however , that the core is the same throughout. The copper wires for the conductor are twisted up together or stranded. They are then passed through the cov ering machine , by which the gutta i percha is squeezed round the conductor in a continuous envelope , touching it < throughout. The coil is then served i with jute yarns , which are laid spii rally round it , forming an elastic , soft t bedding for the sheathing wires. These i latter , as well as the outer serving and f compound , are put on in one machine , t The served coil passed through a hoia row shaft of a circular skeleton frame- \ work of iron , on which are mounted c bobbins , filled with steel wire or jute yarn , as the case may be. This frame work can be rotated and the cable at the same time drawn along , the wires or yarns are wound spirally round the core. The bituminous compound is ap plied by the cable being passed under a spout from which the melted com pound runs. The finished cable is then a coiled in large circular iron tanks , in > which it is kept under water. The rate of manufacture is unusual n ly rabid , being for the deep-sea type a more than five nautical miles ( a nau w tical mile , 2,029 yards ) per machine in is 24 hours ; and , as the manufacture is isf carried on continuously day and night , with ten cable machines in operation G all at once , it will be seen that from & 50 to 55 nautical miles can be turned out every 24 hours. The cab'le ship itself is a vessel of ir strange interior arrangement , especi irPi ally designed for the purpose. It , is Pi not only a huge storage department , but a big floating workshop as well. In the hold there are three immense oi oiui Iron tanks , similar to the land tanks , ui at the manufactory , 34 feet in diameter fr frS for the starage of the cable , each hav S ( ing a conical core for guiding the cable te WAS A GAY OLD BOY. East Liverpool , O. ( Special. ) A lo cal attorney is about to file a damage suit in the common pleas court at Lis bon , which promises to create a big sensation. Mrs. Mary aJne Miller , aged 76 , is to be the plaintiff in the action , and she pioposes to bring Miss Belle Lyons , a maiden woman , aged 74 , to account for an alleged alienation of her husband's affections. All parties concerned in the case live at Calcutta , a country village four miles north of this city. Jacob Miller , the husband of the woman bringing the suit , is a prominent merchant in his home town and is 79 years of age. Previous to turning her case over to her attorneyMrs. . Miller applied to Justice David McLane for cojinsel. She related a sad story of endurance , cov ering a period of two years , and ap pealed to him to right the wrong which , she said , is pulling hard at her heart strings. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have for several years been living in a house owned by Miss Lyons , the latter occupying half the property. According to the wife's narrative , Miss .Lyons has winning ways about her which are too much for the age dhusband to battle against. As a consequence , Mrs. Miller says , he has become fickle and careless. During her conversation with the magistrate Mrs. Miller said she had given up all hope of setting the exist ing difficulty until the courts had been appealed to. She said the last time she undertook tk > expostulate with Mr. Miller , in an effort to point out to him wherein he was doing wrong , he flared np in anger and told her to 'go to grass. " "I don't care so much for losing the old man , " she said , assuringly , "but to think that he would give me up for a young and giddy girl , who ain't half s good locking , is more thjyi I can' ( When it is being paid out. The space within these cores is utilized to hold fresh water. The capacity of its tanks in the regular cable ship is about 1,400 tons fo cable.thls being the equiv alent of about 100 miles of Inshore ca ble , weighing fourteen tons to the mile , or 700 miles of the deep sea type , weight n about two tons per mile. The cable tanks are all connected by "ways" or troughs , so that a tarnsfer may be made from one tank to an-- other or from any tank to either of the huge paying-out machines. Hand ling of , the cable made necessary by such transfer is usually done by means of a small engine connected to a drum , and al Imounted on a truck by which it may be moved about the deck. As the cable is brought from the tank it passes over an iron sheave , fastened to the framework of the hatchway , thence around another larger , deeply grooved iron sheave , and the friction of the cable at this point acts as a ten sion. It then passes several times around the giant drums of the great dynamometer , over several pulleys on the deck and out over the sheave of the stern to its resting place at the bottom of the sea , The dynamometer Indicates tht amount of strain to which the cable is subject at any moment and also en ables the man in charge of the brake- wheel to regulate the strain put on by the brake to suit the varying condi tions of laying. After leaving the dy namometer it passes under and over several large retarding wheels before wending its sinuous way into the sea. When all the avalable cable has been laid the end is carefully sealed up and having been attached to a rope , is low ered to the bed of the ocean. A buoy is 'attached to the other end of the rope and is left floating on the sur face of the water until the ship can return to port with a new cargo. On May 6 , 189 , the United States ship Nero began the survey to locate a route for a cable from the United States across the Pacific to the Phil ippines. Along this route an obstacle was encountered in the nature of a sub marine abyss , the deepest yet kno\vn in the world. The abyss was named the Nero deep , and its depth makes it necessary to deflect the direct route from the Midway islands to Guam. In this lowarea the Nero , by means of an extraordinary long sounding wire , was enabled to take two of the deepest casts and also two deepest water tem peratures ever recorded. The depths found were 5,160 fathoms and the other 5,269 fathoms. The temperatures found it these points registered 35.9 degrees ind 36 degrees Fahrenheit respectively. Here is a description of the route jeginning at Honolulu : An ocean bed of almost level mud it a general depth of about 2,700 fath- ms extends from Honolulu to the Mid- vay islands on a route a little to the lorthward of the line of reefs running ibout west-northwest from the Ha waiian islands to a point beyond Ocean sland. The plain affords an ideal route or a telegraphic submarine cable. Beyond the Midway islands toward Juam is another great level plain at a lepth of about 3,200 fathoms. The remainder of the distance , how- ver , while in general faily level , is nterspersed with reefs and mountain anges that required much time to ex- ; lore and avoid. In fifty years the words and phrases the English language lexiconized nder the letter "A" have increased ; rom 7,000 in number to nearly 60,000. cience and invention requiring new : srms are largely responsible. ; th understand. She is egging him on be cause she is mad at me. We are not on speaking terms , but I am told by the neighbors that she makes a terri cc ble fuss over Miller when I am out , and tells him that I am not the right match for him. He is foolish enough to think that she is 'sweet' on him , but I have said all along that she just wants to get him away from me and then give him the shake. " Mrs. Miller alleges that her husband - refuses to sup'port her , and says he has ai been spending his money for rings and candy for .Miss Lyons. She packed up in her belongings today and came to this ' city , declaring she would never return. The attorney who has charge of the woman's case says he proposes to bring suit against Miss Lyons for $10,000. She is wealthy and prominent. Miller si a deacon in a Calcutta church and measures have already been taken ' to nost him. The community where of the aged trio live is much wrought up ofw ] over the affair. gr The Civic federation , whose Industri al department Is to meet in New oYrk City on December 15 to discuss the re is lations between capital and labor , has among its members Cardinal Gibbons , Ui Archbishop Ireland , Bishop Potter.Seth UiN Low , Charles Francis Adams and pres- idents of a number of important man of E ufacturing and transportation compa th nles , Carroll D. Wright , Samuel Gom- pers , and the international presidents gt : ( of nearly every , trade union in the W country. i th Trenton , N. J. , is another rough place tei ; for the cooing lovers. Not long ago the residents of Weit State street called ha on the police to take action against ch strollers , and now any man or woman thi caught billing and cooing in that sec- ' 'an Is t&figjnft custody. . an \ X ' , , . - . . , - - * - 1 ( .MIW i-i--1 ! " * * , ? ' . .y / THESE MEN STOLE AN : OKLAHOMA POSTOFFICE 1 Oklahoma City , O. T. ( Special. ) ' One of the strangest cases of alleged I fraud developed In the history of the j postofflce department has been brought to light through the instrumentality of Postofflce Inspector R. M. Hosford , Wichita , and F. A. Bebee of Oklahoma City. It is a story that Is stranger than fiction. R. F. Burnett was postmaster at Bain , Kay county. He had a regular commission as such from the postoffice department. He conspired with his brother , G. W. Burnett , who lived at Longwood , six miles distant , to get the postoffice at that place. But running country stores at Bain and Longwood , postoffices would help their business. R. F. Burnett proposed to his brother to erase the initials in his commis' I sion and substitute G. W. Instead , also , to erase the word Bain and insert the word Longwood. It was a unique and daring proposition and the brothers fell in with it. They did the work so clev erly that when G. W. Burnett went to Postmaster G. H. Pellman at Long- . wood and told him that he had been appointed postmaster to succeed him , " Mr. Pellman turned the office over to him without protest. He could not doubt that he had been removed in view of the commission Burnett show- ed him. i The postoffice was moved over to I Burnett's store last June and has cont tinued there ever since. After this bold stroke it was necessary to de- , celve the postoffice department at Washington. This was also accom- | plished by G. W. Burnett forging the name of George H. Pellman to all re- ports and correspondence with the de u partment. The postoffice at Longwood continued to be run in this manner for i several months , ' the department not ' : knowing that Mr. Pellman had ceased to be postmasters. I Sl To complicate matters R. F. Burnett appointed the Longwood usurper as- I ° sistant postmaster at Bain and the * ' r usurper in turn appointed R. F. Bur nett assistant postmaster at Long- wood. After this they actually swap- ped postoffices , R. F. going to Long- wood and G. W. going to Bain. When Postmaster Pellman turned over the postoffice at Longwood to , * Burnett , the fraudulent appointee , he * turned over with it all stamps , money orders , supplies and cash on hand. lc Burnett used these for his own adrt vantage. H The two brothers entered into a con. m spiracy to defraud on a larger scale. They ordered goods at Kansas City , li Memphis and other wholesale centers w and when the bills matured they placei ed money to the amount due in regisse tered letters , sealed and mailed them ri before witnesses. The envelopes , of ss course , would be rifled in the offices , hi and when they reached wholesale esto tablishments in bad shape all that v would be in them would be a note m stating that the sum due was inclosed , sh In this way they committed considerBi able fraud. ne At one time the Burnetts b'ecame of alarmed over their own actions and so skipped the country , going to the Cheras okee nation , where they remained for h several weeks. They soon ventured out again and resumed their offices so and their old methods. I sa While they weer absent somebody sh made complaint against them , and that i hi is what first attracted the attention hi Df the department to their cases and be ' caused the investigation that led to of : he above facts. th Both men were decoyed into Ponca ha 2ity .where a confession is said to j fin lave been obtained from them after Hi jeing arrested. The confession is said o be a story of the most weird and tin wonderful details , containing some ex- Bl raordinary romances. It is stated how sir he conspiracy was conceivedand ex- sis icuted , how the commission of R. F. olc Burnett was changed in favor of G. W. Burnett , how freely the old post- pr naster gave up his office , and other 1 ndicents of the conspiracy. ter The authorities say that no two of Im he innumerable postoffice frauds in res he history of the department have chi ieen exactly alike and that this one is ho lifferent from any crime heretofore sh ommitted. It was , in effect , they say , he theft of an entire postoffice. FACTS FROM EVERYWHERE. Nearly one-half of the students at witzerland's six universities last sum- ier-r-1,990 out of 4,046 were foreigners. Sillicus Why have you never mar- th ied ( ? Cynicus I'm a high churchman nd I have scruples against divorce. ° More than forty guides have been nsured free against accidents by the ° 'wiss Alpine club at an annual cost of t * ver 12,000 francs. One out of every 49 deaths in Min- ver esota is due to accident or negli- 2.TK ence , according to the report of vital gre tatistics for 1894 to 1897 inclusive. j The colored element constitutes in 'irginla nearly one-third of all males { s voting age , and is composed almost _ holly of persons of negro descent. A giant sequoia in the MariposaCal. , , , . . orn i j. j a. i i rove has been selected to be named . i coc ] 7illiam McKinley. It stands between ie Washington and Lincoln trees and estimated to be 3,000 years old. . f The consumption of sugar in the j , nited States in 1899 was 2,094,610 tons. I early two million of these were im- I orted. California yielded 72,944 tons . . . beet sugar and Louisiana-most of pro ie rest. infl India wag once in possession of a , - t- eel secret which is now lost. This ' as inlaying with gold of steel blades such manner that the strength of . ie blade was not impaired nor Its whi mper lost. had In England an electric automobile as recently run 94 3-4 miles on one large. It carried four persons and T : ie average speed was twelve miles ons hour. The vehicle weighed ' 3,900 , ad the battery" 2,200 pounds. ROOSEVELT KILLED A BEAR , Theodore Roosevelt has a record as i a successful hunter of wild game that Is certainly unique among Presidents , If not among professional men gener ally. His own story of his killing of a grizzly is as thrilling a bit of genuine adventure as you are likely to meet with. It is told In his interesting volume , "The Wilderness Hunter , " published by G. P. Putnam's Sons , and forms a part of his account of a hunting expe * dition through Idaho in the fall of 1889. The story , as told by President Roosevelt , is as follows : "At last , as I was thinking of turn- Ing J toward camp , I stole up to the crest of one of the ridges and looked over into a valley some sixty yards off. Immediately I caught the loom of some large ' , dark object , and another glance showed me a big grizzly walking off slowly with his head down. He was quartering to me , and I fired into his flank , the bullet , as I after ward found , ranging forward and piercing one lung. At the shot he ut tered a loud , moaning grunt and then plunged forward at a heavy gallop , while I faced obliquely down the lhill to cut him off. After going a few hundred feet he reached a laurel thicket , some thirty yards broad and two or three times as long , which he did not leave. I ran up to the edge and there halted , not liking to venture into the mass of twisted , close-growing stems and glos sy foliage. Moreover , as I halted I heard him utter a peculiar savage kind of whine from the heart of the brush. Accord ingly ] , I began to skirt the edge.stand- ng on tiptoe and gazing earnestly to see if I could not catch a glimpse of lis hide. When I was at the narrowest part f the thicket he suddenly left it di- ectly < opposite and then wheeled and THE ROMANCE OF HEPZIBAH , Charlotte , N. C. ( Special. ) The fol- owing romantic story is made public egarding the coming-marriage of Miss lepzibah Dye of Rotk Hill , S. C. , 25 liles from Charlotte : There is a romance attached to the fe : of Miss Hepzibah Dye of this city , rhich has been developing seven or ight years and which is now about to ee a blissful climax in her happy mar- iage to a certain sea captain in Pen- acola , Fla. She has never seen her usband-elect , having been introduced 3 him through the medium of an ad- ertisement he inserted in an Atlanta ewspaper many years ago , and which le answered as soon as she saw It. ut he has shown a devotion and a te- acity of purpose through these years C correspondence that give every rea- m to hope that the real end will be 3 in the story books , "and they lived appily ever afterward. " The bride-to-be will sell out her per- > nal effects and at once go to Pen- icola to meet and marry the man IB has learned to love through seeing s ! advertisement , his photograph and s : letters. Miss Hepzibah is a mem- ir of a good , solid , substantial family this section and has numerous rela- ves living near this city. 'She is a ird working , industrious woman of le character , and practically all Rock ill knows , esteems and likes her. She has always lived at Rock Hill , at ie old home place , at Wilson and lack ; streets , and has lived there alone ace the death of her mother about K months ago. She is about 35 years 3 , dresses well "and is good looking , er brothers at one time owned much operty < in this section. The story of her romance is an in- resting one in several particulars , imediately after she had opened cor- spondence she and the captain ex- anged photographs and the usual meyed : sentences. She told him that e could raise about one thousand THE SOUTH SEA ISLAND ' Dr. Alfred C. Haddon , the head , of j British anthropological expedition New Guinea , has come to America deliver lectures. He tells of the eer people who inhabit the islands the south of the Philippines and iir peculiar customs. Che Papuans of New Guinea are : y proud of their hair. It is black d woolly , and the men dress it with ; at care , and decorate it with ele- nt combs and feathers. As among imals , it is the male Papuan who decorated. n Papuan villages young men , gor- msly got up with feather and shell laments , strut about like turkey ks , while the more sober appareled nsels gaze at them admiringly , i the Mekeo district the extreme of hion is reached by the young men tight lacing. There the youths wear ids drawn about their waists so ex- mely tight that the flesh oozes out .ween the circles of the belts in iminent rings , and the chests seem ated , until they bear the character- c appearance of pouter pigeons , 'apuan women are much less orna- ntal than the men , and after mar- je their hair is cut off , faking away at little attraction they may have I. The shaven pate is , in most cases only outward and visible sign of rriage. he Papuans are an excitable , dem- trative and fairly intelligent' peo- They are fond of dancing , for , stood broadside to me on the hillside , a little above. He turned his head stiffly toward me ; scarlet strings of froth hung from his lips ; his eyes burned like embers In the gloom. I held true , aiming behind the shoul der , and my bullet shattered the point or lower end of his heart , taking out a big nick. Instantly the great bear turned with a roar of fury and chal lenge , blowing the bloody foam from his mouth , so that I saw the gleam of his white fangs ; and then he charged straight at me , crashing and bounding through the laurel bushes so that it was hard to aim. - I waited until he came to a fallen tree , taking him as he topped it with a ball which entered his chest and went through the cavity of his body , but he neither swerved nor flinched , and at the moment I did not know that I hadstruck him. He came steadily on , and in another second was almost upon me. I fired for his forehead , but my bullet went low , entering his open mouth , smash ing his lower jaw ana going into the neck. I leaped to one side almost as I pulled the trigger , and through the hanging smoke the first thing I saw was his paw as he made a vicious side blow at me. The rush of the charge carried him past. As. he struck he lurched for ward , leaving a pool of bright blood where his muzzle hit the ground ; but he recovered himself and made two or three jumps onward , while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges Into the magazine , my rifle holding only four , all of which I had fired. Then he tried to pull up , but as he did so his muscles seemed suddenly to give way , his head dropped and he rolled over like a shot rabbit. Each of my first three bullets had inflicted a mortal wound. good , solid , honest American dollars and he replied that he was a sea cap tain , sailing out of Pensacola , had a good business and could well support a wife. He ended by fervently express ing his passion , urging an immediate marriage. Miss Hepzibah couldn't , or at least didn't , resist the usual feminine pecu liarity of a negative answer. She wrote that she could not think of marrying anyone as long as her father and mother were alive. This seemed to somewhat jar on his devotion , for at about this point the correspondence ceased. ' Soon afterward , however , her father died , and about six months ago her mother passed over the river. Miss Hepzibah reopened correspondence and found her sea captain willing to launch forth on the sea of matrimony as soon : > as she was ready to accompany him. She consented , and he wrote her to sell her property and come to Pensa cola that he was so situated that he could not come here to marry , and that , should he be off on a trip at the time she arrived , he had prepared : a place for her in a good family.where she might await his homecoming and ± the wedding. n It was Miss Hepzibah's intention to : follow his instructions right away , sell ing all the property , both real and per s sonal , but when her sister living in St. Louis heard about it , she consulted 1 a spiritualist friend , who gaVe this ir irdi message from Miss Hepzibah's mother di in the other world : "Give Hepzibah my love , and tell \ her not to sell the home. " So she will reserve the house. r Calvary Methodist Episcopal church , ct the largest church of that denomina 1 1fl tion in New York City , raised $70,000 fl ( on last Sunday to clear off the church h mortgage. J. S. Huyler , the confection 1 ; er , contributed $10,000 of the amount. a ] o\ which pastime they array themselves extravagantly. However the , great ge majority of their dances are of a cere Ci monial nature , and among some tribes vo they are held on supremely important va occasions , as when a youth is initiated into manhood. Some of the dances are of ofT performed by men wearing wonderful T\ masks. lUJ They have magical dances to make ar food abundant , and to make the du- Te gong come to be harpooned. At these dances masks are worn , such as a cro Fr codile's head combined with a human wl wlmi face , and above it the effigy of a mi sawfish. Some of the dances are in tio the nature of harvest festivals , and an to carry over the fertility of one sea ye ; son to another. j Important ceremonies are associated PO ! with death. Life after death is assured an by means of dances performed by men wr who by gait and actions mimic re soi cently deceased persons. Women and wil children believe these mummers to be hei ; the spirits of beloved relatives and are wa comforted. Women never participate waa In the secret dances where masks are filli employed ; some of the dances being Ge * too secret for them to even witness. car Among one tribe it is considered highly sisl Indelicate for men and women to dance str < together. Indeed , women rarely dance , oth although In another group of the Pa the puans boys and girls dance together , sou the male dancers beating the drums. she On the mainland of British New nd Guinea homes are almost invariably see : built on plies. In the west are im- metise" Houses- which many famillea live , while In the east each separate family group lives in a separate house. Some tribes build their villages in tho sea. As In the' stone and bronze ages of Europe , thousands of years ago , when the dwellers by the Swiss lakes lived over the water , so today In New Guinea dwellings are built on piles , with rickety platforms and unstable log bridges from one marine house to another. Papuan women are extremely tidy about their houses , and it Is a matter of pride with them to keep the open spaces in front spotlessly clean ; to do otherwise were a disgrace. Certain hill tribes build their houses on narrow ridges of high hills , or dwell in the tree tops , their houses serving as watch towers. A house in a tree would not seem a very safe refuge , because It would be so easy to cut down the tree and de stroy its inhabitants at one fell blow. Until recently the Papuans had only stone Implements , and It takes time to fell a tree with stone axes. In addi tion to this it is contrary to the eti quette of war of these people to cut down a tree house , so they really are houses of refuge. Tree houses are not common , however , because' the govern ment of British New Guinea has so pacified the country that the hill and mountain tribes are no longer warlike. FRILLS OF FASHION , Stockings matching the shoes and slippers are very fashionable. A revival is predicted of black vel vet coats with collars and cuffs of er mine and sable. Black net or mousseline de sole over black or white silk is a favorite com bination for evening wear. Buttons are immensely popular and a revival of an old fashion is the usa of velvet covered buttons. Large green onyx buttons set in cut steel are used for trimming some of the smart corduroy fal costumes , par ticularly in gray and green. Long fine silver chains are worn again. They must be very fine to meet with fashion's approval and have one single unset gem of some sort sus pended therefrom. Smal brooches of gun metal with turquoise or diamond ornamentation are among some beautiful little pins in red and pink coral. For evening gowns for young girls the small pompadour brocades and striped silks are charmingly appropri ate. The new silks with either fine or coarse weaving show a most brilliant sheen. Ostrich tips in pale turquoise blua or wild rose pink are included among the dainty ornaments for the hair , * as are Louis XVI bows fashioned of tulle and gold tissue and combined with Jeweled aigrettes or half wreaths of roses.preferably Banksia or La France. The one new lace which stands out very prominently among all the vari ous kinds in use is the filet , a Breton specialty , which is sort of embroidery n a foundation of very fine fishnet made of very fine thread , and this has Drought square meshed nets of all dnds into fashion. An effective touch was given an ivening gown of deep cream mousse- ine de soie with incrustations of lace he same tint , by a large chou of black let fastened at the front of the bodice. swathed girdle of soft silk in the lew mellow lemon tone completed the own harmoniously. The latest thing in umbrella handles enameled in white and it Is the ashionable white frocks which are re- ponsible for this fad. The design nay be the head of a swan or a white luck or perhaps an Angora cat with eweled eyes. This fancy will bring vory handles into vague again. A pretty novelty in Jewelry is the lower pendant which is particularly mart , caught in a soft lace scarf. It onsists of a gold knob holding two lender gold chains each ending In a ower of enamel. At the back of hese are tiny gold hooks to secure hem to the corsage some distance part. TALK ABOUT WOMEN. The women college graduates of 'ork are to have a club house of their wn. wn.Mrs. Mrs. Maria Ferguson of Los An- eles , CaL , has Issued the first Dawson ity , Yukon and Alaska directory. olume contains 900 pages and aluable mining maps. Miss Orro Eddelman.a young woman Cherokee blood , owns and edits the win Territories , a thirty-two-page IT- istrated magazine , whose contributors re residents of Oklahoma and Indian erritory. Mrs. Stanford has returned to San ranclsco after a Journey to Egypt , here she purchased for the Stanford luseum a remarkable private collec- on of Egyptian antiquities , treasured id supplemented during thirty-five jars by a foreign resident of Cairo. Miss Braddon , the English novelist , isitively refuses to be photographed id only one picture of this prolific riter is known to be in existence. For me time past she has been content ith writing one book a year , but in r younger days-her annual output is at least two long novels. Mrs. Maud Barker Cobb , who is now ling the office of postmaster of the orgia house of representatives Is , a ndldate for the appointment as as- stant state librarian and presents rong letters from judges , lawyers and her prominent men in all parts of state. It is said that when she tight the postmastership last year had such an array of Influential lorsements as had never before beea m In Georgia , '
