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1 HE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOUENAL FRIDAY NOV.EMBBil 1 J J909 WILL VISIT OLD Irish Home Going Pilgrimage tc Mother Land Planned. LEAGUE HAS BEEN ORGANIZEC Officers Elected at a Meeting Held Ir Washington Information About Ire land and Its Industries to De Gath ered Much Interest Shown In thi Movement. The Intended Irish home going pll grlmago , which was llrst proposed b > Francis J. Kilkenny and which luti been discussed by Irishmen nil over the United States for several mouths imst , was made a certainty nt Carroll Institute hall In Washington the other night. A permanent organization wns formed , 'and plans were outlined for the pilgrimage , which will bo made In 1010. The organization Is to bo known as the Irish Homo Going Pilgrimage league. Its purpose Is to gather all Information regarding events In Ire land next summer and to arrange rates on the transatlantic steamship lines. Mr. Kilkenny and Dr. P. J. Lennox wore appointed to visit Ireland this summer and prepare the .way to next year's pilgrimage. S lnoe Mr. Kilkenny began stirring up Interest In the home going movement ho has boon swamped by correspondence - once , and It was found necessary to have n regular organization to bear the expenses of the movement. The mem bership fee la $1 , the fund obtained from the dues to bo expended for run ning expenses. Headquarters will be opened In Washington , and literature Vrlll bo prepared nnd scut out all over America and Canada. The ofllcers chosen nre the following : President general , Frnucls J. Kil kenny ; first vice president goncrnl , P J. Moron ; third vice president general , John J. Couyhlln ; fourth vice president general , P. J. nnltlgnn ; fifth vice pros- llent gencrnl , Roprcscntntlvo T. T. Unsbcrry of Ohio ; general trensurcr , tVllllnm F. Downey ; general secretnry , Joseph D. Sullivan. In outlining the general plan for the pilgrimage Mr. Kilkenny said : "Few people realize today the changes wrougtit In Ireland for the betterment and uplifting of its people. This Is due In largo measure to tlM > reform legislation generally , and espe cially to the relief given the tenants In Ireland through the land bill of 1003 , enabling them to own their own farms. The people of Ireland arc now Improv ing their holdings without fear of be ing twd by thp landlords for improve monts. "The mnln Idea underlying the home going to Ireland movements Is to give the visitors nu opportunity for observ Ing conditions ns they really exist In Ireland. Much has been written nnd much will be written of Irelnnd's pov erty and Ireland's riches , but those de scriptions arc not half ns vivid or Im pressive us the nctunl sight of the con- illtlons themselves. "This movement therefore offers nn opportunity to the sons and daughters of Erin to return to the scenes of their childhood , to give n word of cheer whore needed nnd to demonstrate to those who still remain to preserve the old traditions that we arc all Interest ed In the land of our forefathers , in Its people and In the preservation of Its natural beauty. Ono striking fact conies out In the official statistics , nnd thnt Is that the total emigration of the Irish people from Mny 1 , 1851 , when the enumeration wns commenced , to Doc. 31. 1008. practically equals the present population of the country. beIng - Ing more than 4.000,000. " After further review of conditions Mr. Kilkenny said : "The mercantile mind of Ireland must bo awakened. The Irish mer-1 | chant nnd business mnn must bo won i' over to the point of view of their own i real Interests. Representative Irish i Americans can do much to encourage > commercial relations with this conn- try. American capital can be profit ably Invested In Irish factories and I Irish stores. Irish linens , Ince , woolens , tweeds , frieze nnd kindred Industries cnn be easily developed to a high state of elllcloncy. "Ireland offers to the manufacturer many attractive Inducements for profit able returns on capital Invested. v t only Is the capital of Irish Amerl - needed , but their skill and experience In the use of modern methods and de vices will prove to be of Invaluable service In the Industrial awakening which Is now Just beginning to dawn i In the 'old InndWashington Star Hunting For Justice. Justice Is of course loudly demanded by every litigant in n court of law , but It Is u frequent iutirmlty of the human mind to confuse justice 'with one's own cause. The late Thomas R. Reed , ac cording to n writer In Law Notes , Ujed to tell an amusing story to Illustrate this tendency. He was once rctalnc.d by an enter prising client to prosecute an action. On talking with the plaintiff's wit- ' ( bosses Mr. Reed found that their sto ries were far from consistent , so ho re ported the fact to his client nnd 1o vlsed that the suit be dropped. The client was somewhat perturbed , but told the attorney he would have a talk with the witnesses and let him know , the next morning what ho bad decided , to do. True to his word , he dropped In bright and early , wearing the cheer ful look of ono who has fought the good tight. "I've those witnesses " he scon , explained . plained , "and they say they must hnvo been mlstnkcn when they talked with you. They nil see It alike now. I've also seen some of the jurymen , and they think I'll win. Now , If there's eiich a thing as justice in law wo can't lose. " TOLD IT TO THE KAISER. Carnegie First Obtained Permission , Then Went Ahend With His Story. lit a recent conversation between tliu kaiser and Andrew Carnegie at Kiel Mr. Carnegie- urged the kaiser to visit the United States , assuring him of an enthusiastic reception , The kaiser replied that such a visit would Interest him greatly , but he could not be away so long , being needed In his own country. Mr. Carnegie thereupon related an anecdote , prefacing It by saying that his majesty must not get angry. "Go ahead , " said the kalsor , and Mr. Carnegie told of a big American manu facturer who was overworked and suf fering In health owing to the persist ence with which be overlooked every detail of his business himself , Ulti mately his manager persuaded him to make a voyage. He returned recuper ated and wild to the manager : "You cannot think how delighted I was when 1 turned my back on the factory. " The manager replied : "You were not more delighted than we were. " The kaiser saw the point and laughed heartily. heartily.WORLD'S WORLD'S BANKNOTES. Shape , Size and Color of Paper Money of the Nations. The only paper money that Is accept ed practically all over the globe Is not "money" at all , but the notes of the Hank of England These notes uro simply printed In black Ink on Irish linen water lined paper , plain wh'te , with ragged edges. The reason that A badly soiled or worn Hank of England note Is rarely seen Is that notes which In any way find their way back to the bank arc Immediately canceled nnd new ones are Issued. The notes of the Ranque do France are made of white water lined paper printed In black and white , with numerous mythological and allegorical pictures. They are In de nominations of from 25 francs to 1,000 francs. Hank of England notes arc of n somewhat unhandy size B by 8 Inches. South American currency resembles the bills of the United States , except that cinnamon brown and slate blue are the prevailing colors. Gorman cur rency Is printed In green and black , the notes being In denominations of from 5 to 1,000 marks. The 1,000 mark bills arc printed on silk fiber paper. It takes an expert or n native to dis tinguish n Chinese bill from a laundry ticket If the bill Is of low denomina tion or a firecracker label If for a largo amount , the print being In red on white or yellow on red , with much gilt and gorgeous devices. Italian notes are all slzos , shapes and colors. The smallest bills , 5 and 10 lire , arc print ed on white paper In pink , blue nnd carmlno Inks. The most striking paper currency In the world Is the 100 ruble note of RUB. sin. which Is barred from top to bottom tom with all the colors of the rainbow blended as when n sun ray passes through n prism. In the center In bold relief Is a finely executed vignette In black. Th remainder of the engrav ing on the note Is In dark nnd light brown Ink. The American practice of scattering strands of silk through the paper fiber as a protection against counterfeiting Is unique. Harper's Weekly. POLAR PHENOMENA. The Mirage and the Mock Sun of the Arctic Regions. In the spring of 1000 I changed over to the steamer Corwln nnd sailed for the Arctic ocean to establish n trading station somewhere on the northern shores of Alaska. Although wo went on n purely commercial ven ture , there wns n good denl , of tnlk about the pole during the seven months we spent In the almost continuous sun light. Dr. Cook relates Instances of seeing mirages above the Ice fields mountains passing ui solemn review and soinc- i times Inverted and standing on their peaks but he goes on to say that there were no forms of life. Mirage Is n common sight even In lower latitudes \ than those mentioned by Dr. Cook. I have seen the spires and domes ofvnll defined buildings , whole cities. In fact , appear above the horizon , sometime * lingering for severnl minutes , or , ngnln , with their towers reaching up higher nnd higher , attenuating apparently to n mere thread. The "mock sun" Is n common phenomenon In the Rerlng ' son. On the evening of June 2. 1000. perhaps 100 miles south of St. Law- rence Island , about 9HO : o'clock nnd past sunset , the sun wns visible as though half an hour high , but appear- Ing as n much flattened oval. Then another sun more nearly round cmerg- ed from the horizon beneath the "gooso egg , " rising quite rapidly until It blended with the descending orb. Thereupon. Instead of settling below the horizon , the light was quickly dls- slpnted in the air. This phenomenon was probably duo to the unequal den- slty of several superimposed strains of air producing refraction of the sun's rays from below the horizon. Captain Edwin Cotlln of Xleglor Polar Expedi tion In National Magazine. Parental Severity. The children of two centuries ngo fell on stern times. If one may believe that the spirit of family life was ac curately expressed by an excellent mother of that day who said , without humorous Intent , that her children "loved her as sinners dread death. " There Is little doubt that parental con trol at that date wns ns rigorous ns this anecdote Indicates. It Is said that when little Andrew Elliot , afterward lieutenant covernor of New York , objected - jocted to boiled mutton his father , Sir Gilbert Elliot , frowned. "Let Mr. Andrew hnve boiled mutton - ton for breakfast , " commanded tbo stern parent , "cold mutton for dinner and cold mutton for supper till be baa learned to like It. " Youth's Compan ion IMMIGRANTS AND THE BIBLE. Approaching Centennial of the New York Qlble Society. Plans are bi'i'ig ' perfected for tin celebration on lec.I ) of the centennial of the New York Itllilc society. A feature of this celebration will be an Interdenominational meeting In Car negie hall on the evening of Dec. . ' ) . More than Kin.OUO Immigrants land ed at Kills Island during the last six months , and each one who wished It wu.-i given a copy of the Scriptures In his own language by missionaries of the society. Thin work Is strictly tin- sectarian , so that all persons , regard losy of creed , can unite In supplying these strangers with the Hlble.by con tributing to the society. Thousands of sailors on vessels of all nations In the harbor have also been visited by the missionaries of the society. There are more than 800 pastors In Manhattan and the Bronx and a larger number of missionaries and other workers who visit the needy In homes , hospitals , prisons and other In stitutions. Many of them cannot af ford to pay for the Scriptures that they distribute In their dally visiting , and over sixty of these workers have been freely supplied by the New York Hlble society. The society has distributed nearly 00,000 volumes of Scripture In thirty- seven languages during the last six months In the city and harbor of New York. The work Is maintained by voluntary contributions and church collections. The Increased population demands Increased funds In order that the Incoming multitudes may b ( supplied with Scripture. CARAVAN FOR A BABY. Queen Wilhelmina Invents Perambulat ing Home For Her Daughter. Baby Princess Juliana of Holland now takes exercise In nn elaborate sort of caravan Invented by her moth er , Queen Wilhelmina. The novel conveyance Is used for taking the royal Infant to sheltered spots In the park of Hot Lee , at The m ' - - - j QDEE.V WILUELUINA OF HOLLAND. Hague , nnd protecting her from the weather during the short journey. It contains space for nn ordinary baby carriage , seats for nurses and a small stove for heating food as well as warming the Interior , with other ap propriate appointments. As the court remains at Hot Lee un til the middle of December , this cara van will be Just the thing for the baby princess during the chill autumn days. WHEAT 3,400 YEARS OLD. Connecticut Man Said to Have Some of Grain Joseph Stored In Egypt. Some of the wheat that Joseph stored during the seven years of fam ine In Egypt has been received by Valentine Hammer of Rranford , Conn. It wns found by otllcers of the mu seum of Cairo In a storehouse In Dior- ol-Habri , nnd Its identity was estab- Ished by appropriate Inscriptions. About half the quantity found was brought to the Cairo museum and placed on exhibition. The rest was .sold , and Azez Kliayal of New York city purchased n small amount of It. Ho sent a portion of his purchase to Mr. Hammer. The wheat was stored In the nineteenth dynasty. 1.500 years before Christ , or 3-00 ! years ago. The Monkey and the Pie. An Indian faker had a monkey that ho had brought up from babyhood , says an English writer. The pair were fast friends , the monkey being a faith ful attendant on his master and as good as a watchdog. One day the faker made a pie for dinner and left It to cook on a charcoal lire while ho wont for a walk. As the cooking pro- reeded the savory smell was too much for the monkey. It raised the cnv < t nnd tasted the chicken. Finding iho food very tasty , It ate more and moro nntll nothing but the crust remained Then It remembered Its master , who would shortly return hungry nnd ready to enjoy his meal. What was to be done ? The sharp eyes of the monkey detected some crows not far away , so without loss of time It lay down on i the ground as If dead. Hy and by a crow came along and pecked nt the pn monkey , which seized the bird In n twinkling , strangled It. stripped off the feathers , placed It In pieces in the dish , covered It over with the crust and then contentedly awaited the re turn of the fnkor , to whom the whole Incident wns rclntcd by nn eyewitness. Stove Lifters. Customer Do vou keep stove lifters In hero ? Grocer's Clerk Not the Iron ones. ; madam. Rut wo can give you a pint- of kerosene. Roston Transcript. Ebony Repartee. MIstah Cole \Vbah \ .you gwlne at , hub ? MIstah Dusky I's gwlne nt whab Ps gwlne at dnt'a whan 1's ffwlne at ! -Puck. NEW SOURCE OF RADIUM. English Engineer Says There Is One In Portugal. That the recent discovery of rich ore deposits In Portugal will make possible for the llrst time the maiiiifaciure of radium In quantities xulllrlcntl.v large for commercial iw Is the ai'rtl < iu ot Harry March , a young EnglMi civil engineer , who has come to this coun try In tlie hope of Interesting Ameri can scientists and American capital In the Portuguese mines. He has brought with him a boxful of ore. spft-lmt'iis ot which have been examined by miner alogists here and abroad , wlm declare that tin * mineral contains large quanti ties of crystalline urniilto. or what Is technically known as autunltc. the sub stance from which radium Is ex tracted. Professor James F. Kemp , head of the department of geology at Colum bia , and other members of the staff have seen some of the specimens. According to one analyst. Allen F. Wnldi'ti of the chemical department of Oxford university , who subjected the mineral to the usual scientific tests for ! radium. It Is estimated that the ore ! contains nearly 720 milligrams of ra- | dlnm to the ton. a new record. The ore Itself he found to be made up of quartz thickly erupted with yellow I crystals. These crystals when exam-j Ined proved to contain uranium , cal cium and phosphoric acid , and there was no trace of other metallic or acid Impurities. Up to the time of the discovery of the Portuguese deposits the chief ore from which radium was extracted was pitchblende , considerable quantities of which are found In Honolulu nnd In Cornwall. England. The amount of ra dium producing material In this sub stance , according to Mr. March. Is about 0 per cent , whcrons the ore ob- tnlned from Portugal has been tested and found to contain Ki per cent of oxide of uranium. E R. Barbonl. a French chemist , nflor subjecting the' ' new mineral to careful tests , declared that by reason of the cnse with which It could be treated It was In his opln- Ion "nt least three times superior as raw material to pitchblende. " COUNTRY BANKS THE BEST. Young Men Find There Greatest Op portunities , Says Chicagoan. "Young man. go to the country If you want n thorough groundwork for a financial career. Shun the big city bank , where you arc llnble to get Into n departments groove nnd go no high er. " Joseph T. Tnlbort. president of the Chlcngo Clearing House association and first vice president of the Com mercial National bank of Chicago , was talking of the reasons as he saw them for his being called to New York ns n vice president of the Nntlonnl City bank when he gave tills ndvlce to young men. Mr. Tulbort attributes bis success to the fact that ho was trained In n coun try Institution nnd says that ho "rub bed elbows with the farmer. " "In the hanking business , as well ns In any line of trade , the man who knows his customers , their habits and peculiarities. Is going to get the best results. I have never regretted that my start was In the country bank. It wns a good school , and no young man who Is In earnest will have cause for regret If he takes a course In It. " POLE FINDER CONFESSES. Professor Phelps of Yale , Drawn by a Sawhorse. Reaches World's Top. Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale says that ho Is the only original discoverer of the north pole. Ho do- scrlbos It In the following letter : At latitude SI I mode my final dash consisting of n few parenthetical remarks on the wenther. I hitched the span , the saw-horse and the pony , to a new buckboard - board wagon , cutting off the tongue , so that t might be the first to announce my discovery. Ten miles had swiftly flown by. when the pony , thinking that the sawhorse was a seahorse , tried to eat him. The pony naturally resented this. and the team , already frightened by the narrowness of the meridian lines and by the spectacle of n large fountain penguin. became unmanageable. The two faithful Ksklmos were thrown out anil wore Immediately devoured by polar bears , who , seeing their long beards , ' took them for arctic hairs , esteemwd n great delicacy by these animals. 1 was I pitched high In the nlr and landed on tha i small of my back , thus discovering not only the pole , but the whlllletree. At this | moment my right ascension was about ten seconds , my declination , so tnr as any , future attempts are concerned , was final I and absolute Vours very truly. WILLIAM LYON Birds on the Wing. Twice every year a wave of living t birds , almost Inconceivably grand In i the number of birds Involved , surges over North America. The autumn ! wave rolls from the arctic tundras of Canada and Alaska to the torrid 1 valley of the Amazon and the great pampas of the La Plata , only to roll I back again to the Icebound northern ocean with the northward progression of the sun. And almost as ceaseless ns the ever rising , ever falling swell j of the ocean tides Is tills miraculous tide of beating wings nnd pulsntlng little henrts. The last stragglers of the northward migration do not rencb their northern homo before the early pnrt of Juno , but in July the south ward setting tide has begun again. ' The number of birds that make up this mighty wave almost passes com , prehension. Probably more than 03 per cent of all birds making their summer homo between the northern boundary of Mexico nnd the Arctic ocean that Is. In the United States and Canada help" to swell the great t bird tide that moves southward In nutumn and northward In the spring with the regularity of a pendulum. Allowing n little less than ono migra tory bird to an acre , we get the euor- mous number -1.320,000.000 birds whosr whig bents follow with rhyth mic precision the southward and north ward movement of the sun. This number ! H too vast to be easily com- nrehondcd. U. Lauire In Atlantic DR. ELIOrS BOOK LIST. Bible and Shakespeare Omitted l Publisher's Suggestion , He Says. President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard recently Haiti of his live foot library of best books ( hat In. was paid by a llnu ol Now York publishers for picking out tliu list. Every Har vard graduate was surprised after tins commencement the other day to re ceive an announcement from the New York publisher ! ) of the Issuance of the books In "llarvaid crimson" binding. Dr. Eliot when seen said : "Tin- list of books as mentioned Is very Incomplete. 1 expect when the task Is llnlshod to Issue twenty more titles. I will try to conllne the list to sixty books. When the publishers ask ed me to select the books for a prop osition of this kind 1 was glad to do It , because 1 felt If my name as com piler of the list Induced people to read the booK-s n great educational work would have been done. My position In this matter la thoroughly under stood by all who know mo. "I do not consider that my course In acting as editor could be considered as lending my name or what prestige I might have for advertising purposes , as has been Insinuated. It Is a strict business proposition , and naturally tl. publisher will advertise largely. "The nible and Shakespeare wcr i omitted from the list at the suggestloL of the publisher. The reason , of course , Is that most people have read the Bible and Shakespeare. The list was originally Intended to 1 a fifty book Ihit. Now. any good edition of Shakespeare would take five volumes the Bible would take three volumes and there would be eight gone out ol the fifty. " PEST EATING DUCKS. Alton ( III. ) Farmer Making Money Fast Annihilating Potato Bugs. Joseph Junettc , who farms one of the job ranches on the Alton bluffs at Alton , 111. , thinks he will engage ox tcnslvely In "duck" farming and educate cato the fowls to eat potato bugs at $1 a day per duck. Just now Junctte Is enjoying an In come of $15 a day from fifteen ducks which he trained to clear potato patches of bugs. He put the ducks In a pen and fed them on potato bugs exclusively after starving them until they wore glad to get the bug diet. Junctte tried them first on his own patch , which comprised several acres The ducks went through the patch like n neighborhood scandal. After the performance Junette _ shut up his brigade In the bug pen so they would not acquire n taste for other diet. The ducks arc In great demand on the farms In Junette's neighborhood Farmers arc glad to pay $1.00 per hour for the services of the brigade. ELECTRIC SUBWAY FOR MAIL. Trains In Vienna Will Travel About Twenty Miles an Hour. Plans arc now under consideration for an underground electric railway In Vienna , Austria , fur the transmis sion of postal matter. It Is proposed to link together the chief postolllce and sixty-four substations and the nine railway stations In the city. Letters tors , newspapers nnd pnrcels will be curried over this Hue Instend of In wngons through the streets. It Is estl mated that the line will take tb < place of 450 mall wngons nnd 700 horses , which now mnke some 2,500 journeys through the city every day , The railway will bo built In a sub way five feet high nnd n little loss h width. Each cnr will cnrry eighty packnges , which Is equnl to the en paclty of a one horse mall wagon Trains of eight cars will be run every twenty minutes from half past 5 In the morning until 10 o'clock at night They will carry motormeu , but will be operated from dispatch stations and will travel nbout twenty miles an liour. _ | Origin or Seals. The origin of seals Is lost In th shades of antiquity. In Assyrian an Babylonian ruins seals still arc fount and It Is certain that their use passe' I from those countries to Greece an I Rome , to nil European countries an from England to America. Original ! they wore set in rings. The carllcs references to them In Biblical bistor Is found In Genesis xxxvlll , where Is recorded that , pending certain ncgi tlntlons between Judah and Tame the widow of his son , Tamar demand cd a pledge and Judah gave her hi signet and other belongings. An when Ahnb. king of Israel , tried t buy Naboth's vineyard and couldn his wife Jezebel "wrote letters I Almb's name nnd scaled them with h seal. " In the Rook of Esther , chnpte vlll , It Is written that King Ahasueru said to Esther nnd Mordecni. "Writ ye nlso for the .lows , ns It Hketh yoi In the king's name nnd seal It with the king's ring , for the writing which Is written In the king's name and sealed with his ring may no man reverse. " Seals doubtless were used long before - fore the stirring events described In the quoted chapter of Genesis , but no one took the trouble to write about them. From the time of Jeremlnh to William the Conqueror the pen wns practically unknown to king , noble or peasant , so the seal was absolutely necessary. Kansas City Star. _ _ ' Aroused His Interest. Willie had tried by vnrlous means to interest his fnther in conversation. "Can't you see I'm trying to rend ? " said the exasperated parent "Now don't bother me. " Willie was silent for almost a mln- utc. Then reflectively : "Awful accident In the subway to day. " Fnther looked upwith Interest. "What's thnt ? " be naked. "What was the accident In the subway ? " [ "Why. " replied Willie , edging to ward the door , /'a woman had her eya on n seat und a man aat on It. " Every- bodrt. MOVING BOYHOOD HOME. Hudson Maxim , Inventor , Has It Tnken From Maine to New Jersey. Hoard by board and shingle by sliltt ulo the did homestead of the family ) f Hudson Maxim , Inventor , Is being akcn apart far among the New Eng- and hills , where It has nestled for iliniist a century , In order that one of he fondest dreams of the Inventor nay be realized , The house has stood U Abbott'Me. Piece by piece It will bo lagged and . arel'ully paked and dually shipped o tlo country estate of the Maxims Ht'IlfiON MAXIM. at Lake Ilopatcong , N. .7. There the Inventor will oversee the work of put ting his boyhood's home together again until finally Its soft gray walls stand intact within a stone's throw of his pre.scnt mansion. "There will be a great contrast be tween the palace that Mr. Maxim lives in now and the little house that he wns born In , " said ono of Abbott's citizens , "but It won't be a bit greater than the contrast between little Hud son Maxim when ho plodded out of this town at the close of the civil war to sock his fortune and the Inventor Maxim who returned years afterward In a magnificent touring car a man who had been honored by sonitt of the greatest nations In the world. " Overdid It. An obliging young Pole named Kuno wns n wnltcr In n spcnk easy. Ono Sunday the place was crowded nil day. Even nt midnight there wns still n full house. Some of the members of tills full house were pretty full themselves , nnd the boss hesitated about letting them leave. It would look suspicious for thorn to stagger nnd lurch out of his speak easy. And so he said confi dentially to Kuno , the wnl'tcr ' : "Kuno , Just walk down as far ns the corner nnd sec If there nre any police men nbout. " At the end of five uijnutes Kuno re turned , nnd the bartenders busy be hind the bar nnd the noisy drinkers with their glasses nnd even the drunk en men propped on chairs In the cor ner looked nt him Inquiringly. Kuno , with n courtly wnvo of the band , ush ercd In n brnco of grim looking offi cers. "Sir , " he said to the boss , "dnre wass no pollcomnns on _ do corner , so I runs to de station houSe nn' bring you two ! " Why They Don't Speak. A young lady whose beauty Is equal to her bluntness In conversation was visiting a house whore other gueste wore assembled , among thorn the eld est son of a rich manufacturer. The talk turned on matrimonial squabbles " " "I bold that Said the eligible "parti : the correct thing for the husband late to begin as lie Intends to go on. Say that the question was one of smoking. Almost Immediately I would show my Intentions by lighting n cigar nnd set tling the question forever. " "And I would knock the thing out of your mouth ! " cried the Imperious beauty. "Do you know , " rejoined the young man , "I don't think you would be there ! " Awkward. Old Mr. Flaherty was a general fa- vorlto In the little town where he lived. The doctor was away nearly all one summer and did not hear of the old man's death. Soon after his return the doctor met Miss Flaherty nnd in quired nbout the family , endlug with , "And how Is your father standing the Intense boat ? ' Tried to Comply. The manufacturer of n ccrtnln brand of clgnr advertised It far and wide ns "the unparalleled everybody smokes It. " One day he received a letter from n man with whom he was only slight ly acquainted , running thus : "Dear Sinlthby I want ono of those cigars everybody Is smoking. Send It to mo by mall , securely done up In a small pasteboard box. Your truly , "BROWNSON. " Not even a stnmp wns Inclosed for postnge , but Smlthby took some pains to comply with the request , and after n lapse of two or three days Urown eon received by mall , duly packed In a small box , n stump of n clgnr three- quarters of nn Inch long , accompanied by the following note : "Dear Brownson Impossible to sent one that everybody Is smoking , buf here Is one that fifteen separate news boys have smoked on. Yours truly , "SMITHBY. " He Was. > "Owen Flaflnngan ! Are you- Owen Flannagnn ? " snld the clerk of the court. "Yes , begorra. " replied the prisoner , with n merry twinkle In his eyo. "I'm owlu' everybody ! " London Mall. A Great Walker. On July 11 ! . INIII. the Newmarket bells rang a peal in honor of Captain Harclny'M completed walk of n mile In each of 1,000 successive hours hi his first week of It lie had averaged less than lfccn ! ! minutes lor each mllu nnd In ( he last ueH ; more than twen ty-one , and his ueight had gone down from thirteen HIOUC four pounds to eleven stone Rut on July IT he join ed the Walchcrcn expedition In porfecr health as aid de-camp to the Marquis of lluntly. Captain Barclay , who watt a Barclay of Ury and unsuccessfully claimed three Scottish earldoms , had performed wonderful feats before the Newmarket walk In ISO I he walked 110 miles In nineteen hours In n mud dy park. In I SOS IK- rose one morn ing at n , walked ll'lrty tulles grotiRo shooting , dined at 5 p in. , walked sixty miles to his house at Ury In eleven hours , did 301110 biHncss and walked sixteen n.lles to dance at a ball , walked liomr by 7 n in and spent the day pnrtrldgj shooting In all KtO miles without idccp for two nights and three days At twenty he could lift half a ton.St. . James' Gazette. Not Afraid. Personal courage Invests Its owner with a protection beyond thai afforded by outside forces An Illustration of this is recorded by General William F. Draper In Ills "Recollections of a Va ried Career. " where he gives this In cident : In 18OI Colonel Daniels of the Sev enth Rhode Inland became unpopular with some of his command , and a rumor spread that ho would bo shot at the next engagement. He heard of It. It was customary when guns had been loaded for some time to have them discharged Into some convenient bank , and Colonel Daniels took advan tage of this. Marching his regiment out with loaded rltles. he faced thorn toward a suitable elevation , and. ink ing position on the top of It nnd In front of them as at dress parade , ho gave the commands. "Ready ! " "Alml" "Fire ! " nnd the pieces were discharg ed. Needless to say. any man could hav shot him with little danger of discov ery , nnd. needless to sny. nlso , none of them did. There were no more threat * of that kind In his regiment Doubtful Praise. Mr. Fnxon wns the oldest patron of Jhe "select boarding house" III which ho j lived , and his landlady sometimes referred people to him for a recom mendation of her table. Ills wish waste to praise the food highly , ns ho could conscientiously do , but one day he overstepped his mark. "I'm dyspeptic , sir , " said a man who had gone to Mr. Faxon to make In quiries about the boarding house , "and my food has to bo simple and well cooked no high seasoning , no Indigest ible compounds. " Mr. Faxon looked at him with a bland nnd reassuring smile. "My dear sir , " he said In his most Impressive manner , "you need have no 'ears. All I have oaten In the ton years I have been under Mrs. Hrown's roof would not Interfere with the di gestion of the most delicate baby , sir , n the land. " FASHIONABLE FURS. Scarfs of Fur Trimmed Moussellns Very .odish. In Paris women have been wearing thin frocks edged with fur and scarfs of mousscllno with bands of pelt , but t is only lately that these scarfs or mantles have appeared In our midst. The modish ones are of a color bar- monl/.ing with the gown , and there are three or four narrow bands of skunk fur on the width of material. In length they either reach the hem of the frock or stop at the knee lino. Animal neckpieces are to be very popular tills winter , and on some of the pieces the arrangement of heads nnd tails Is reallj grewsome. Muffs are large , long and flat and trimmed with contrasting skins In many Instances nnd with huge choux of ribbon. Fur will bo used as a trimming on gowns later In the season. One piece frocks will have bandings of sable or ermine , nnd stoics and turbans will bo designed In fur , to match the cos tumes. The cent that Is made with n long sLiwl collar Is n favorite this fall. \ LONQ COAT WITH BIIAWZi COI.LAB. The wrap described has such n collar. Y The Hues are long and graceful nnd developed In zlbcllno or hopsucklnc. With skirt to match , it would make a useful eult. JUDIO CHOLLET.