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All decoiuted < . . woiMi . . line. 1 ; IOO.OO iiorth $ ; i.no a lO.Oi ) a inoiitli. $1,35 # iOO.OO ivordi < I.OO u tvcrk . < 5ir > .OO a month. SOMETHING ABOUT THE SUN OLat with Secretary Imngley Concerning His Wonderful Discoveries , NOT ALWAYS ON TIME FOR DINNER HOUR Knur in mis lli'iit Rt'iieriiii'il Aecitrntolj Mfiimircil SuisufNllniiM for Aiiply- li\K It Jlcc'lmiilenlly Study of ( CopyrlBhlod. 1W , by Prank Q. Carpenter. ) WASHINGTON , I ) . C. , Oac. 14. For years the Investigations of Mr. S. P. Langley , the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution , have been watched with absorbing Interest by the scientists ol th ? world. What Edison , Telsa and Hell nre to general Invention he Is to scientific invention. He has created new methods In the study of the heavenly bodies. He has to tin largest extent measured the heat ot the sun , Inventing for the purpose the bolometer , by means of which the tem perature of a funbeam can bo tested to the millionth of a d'gree. He has given us our best Idea of the- wonderful spots on the sun's surface , and has best shown how this great body may practically affect the earth and eventually be better used to Its advantage. It was Mr. Langley who originated th sys tematic tlmo servlcfi by which the clocks cf our cities are now regulated from the observatories of the country and by which the railroads htlll run their trains without danger of accidents through varying time- . It Is he who has made some of the- greatest advances In the study of the problems of the air , and of the physical principles upon which aerial navigation , If It Is ever r/allzed , must rest. The mobt of those experiments and observa tions were made by Mr , Langley while lie was the head of the observatory at Plttsburg , though lie was then constantly supplementing them by others which ho carried on at high altltud.B nil over the world. In the plains nt Spain , on Iho edge of the crater of Mount Aetna , In Sicily , upon Pike's Peak , In Colorado rado , and on the snowy summits of the Sierra Nevadas , In California , ho has been , not as a tourist for an hour , but spending long days and nights studying the hcaveni , catching the changes on the niti'H surface , and trying to learn their practical applications for the uses of mankind. He Is In a minor degree car rying on observation and experiment today , though his time and energies are necessarily almost wholly devoted to the administration of the great Institution of which ho U the licad. CHAT WITH SECRETARY LANOLRY. ThlB man Is now 61 years young. His life has been packed with the hardest of work , but his eye Is bright , his step Is firm , and he has today as much vitality as any of the jouncer ofllcers of the Institution , Ho Is , I believe , the builcst man in Washington , for bu carries on his scientific experiments only lu the Intervals of his administrative work , and It required a special appointment made sometime In sulvunre for me > to secure a chat with him , I found him a dunning talker , full of good nature and overflowing with apt quotations and fun. There lu noth ing pedantic about him. Ho dropped for the tlmo all technical language , and In every day words , nt my request , tried to convey to me some Idea of his wonderful work , I ftpketl him n number of question ! about hlm- tclf. Ho did not llko to answer these. He wanted to put himself In the background , hut I feel that the people will bo Interested In hU perponallty , and jn the story of how an ambitious boy "hitched his wagon to the utars" and got there. Upon my risking him when ho was first attracted to the study of Hi ? litaveni , lie replied : "I carlriot fcmember when I was not In terested In astronomy , I remember reading books upon the subject as arly as at 9 , and when I was quite n , boy I learned how t- > make llttlo telescopes , and studied the stars through them , Later I made some larger ones , and though they were , of course , noth ing llko ( hose wo use here , I think myself they were very good for a boy. Oao of the most wonderful thing * to me- was th ? MID , anil as to lio\v It heated tli5earth. . I use < to hold my hands up to It and wonder how Iko layy made them warm , uiiil where am how tlio Jieat came from. I asked many questions , but I could get no satisfactory re pllea , and someof these childish questions liav ? occupied many years of my la'cr life It the answering. I remember , for Instance , one of the. wonders to me was' a common hot bed. I could not bee how the glass kept I warm while all around was cold , and when ui'ked I was told that of course th ° glass kep in the heat ; but though my elders saw no dllllculty about It , I could not bee why , 1 the heat went In through the glass , it couli not come out again. I now know that the size of the rays changed after entering the glass , and that they could no : come out be cause they grew larger , being In much the name condition as that of the lean mouse who crept through a hole In a barrel of grain and filled himself so full that he could not get out again. Since then I have spent many years In studying the way that that great hot bed , the earth Itself on which we live , is , b > a like principle , made warmer by the atmo - plieio that covers It as the glats did the hot bed. " "Was your father an astronomer , Mr. Langley. ' " I asked. "No , " was the reply. "My father was a merchant , and I have no records of as tronomers In my family. My father was not rich enough to give ma an income suf ficient to support myself and my hobby. Astronomy , you know , is not a very profit able science , and as I had to make a living for myself , I chose the profession of archi tecture and civil engineering , but I never heartily liked It. After some years I went to Europe , and on my return from the trip , having n little money , I decided that I would take up astronomy and devote my life to It. I went to the Harvard university at Cambridge and found u position for work and study there. That 1 had been occupying myself with astronomy pretty assiduously already was , I think , shown by the fact that although I lacked the. experience that only observatory work could supply , J still knew enough to command a salaried position from the outset. I remained at Harvard for some time , and then was called to the naval academy at Annapolis to take charge of the observatory there. My next position was as the dliector of the Allegheny observatory near I'lttsburg , where I bpent a great part of my jirofobslonal life before I came to Wash ington , " "It was at I'ittsburg , then , that most of your experiments were carried on , was It not ? " "Ves. " rjplled Mr. Langley. "There was a qulto large telescope for those days nt I'lttsburg. It had been bought by n club of amateur astionomers , partially for cunli , but mostly for credit. After iho first en- thimUism passed away the- debt remained and the club became disorganized , so ( hut the telescope was about to bo sold at auction , when the Western university teemed It , They Invited me to take chargeof the ob- icrvntory , and I cams to I'ltsburg nml began my work. The first work , however , was to .irovlde . the Indispensable apparatus for the observatoiy , which , except for thn single telescope - scope , was one only In name , I found , however - over , a total lick ( of money , " HE ORGANIZES THE TIME SERVICE. The i > ecretary continued : "My proposed In vestigations could not be made without books and Instruments , and thete could not bo iol ; without [ limit1. 1 then began lo look around Tor something which I could do which \\ould be commercially profitable to the observatory , and the result was tin Inauguration of the Imu service , which has clnce spread all over .lie country , and by which the clocks of our rallroaiU unJ our cities are now regulated 'rein ' an observatory at sonic central point. It s familiar enough now , but I had the hud woik of first Introducing It and persuading icopU of Ha utility. I had to Interest the city councils and the railroads In It , but I Inally got an electric clock , established at he observatory , and soon had Die time of he c'ly ' regulated by It , Hefore- this ear-h ewder had his own time , Each of the rail- ondd ran byvdlfferent times , and th re was 19 cerlaluty as to the arrivals or departures of trains. Soon after I started U It wag exUmlul along the lines of Die railways until \e were regulating clocks as far as Chicago ami iMilhdelphla from I'ltteburg. To do this ve had to hava the electric wires to our- dvEs. and It was so arranged that we wcie allowed to uSP them for five minutes at U o'clock In the morning and at 4 In the aftcr- loon uf every day. The cyttem teen spread o other cities , and It U now In uip all am hesorlJ. . 1 did all thU to me ungrateful work In ord r to get means for my experi ments ; and as I look back on It'I think I may claim that I did tolerably well in n business way , for a man chiefly versed In scientific affairs , for first and last I thus got for my little observatory over $00,000. This I made out of nothing , as It were , and this all went Into books and into tnc means foi scientific research. " SUN OFTEN BEHIND TIME. "The obs'rvatory clock was regulated by the sun , was It not ? " "Yes , " replied Mr. LangUy. "IJy the sui and the fixed stars. You cannot work by the sun alone. It is by no means ii regulai body , as many people suppose. Yon \\ouli not give anything for a watch which should bo as irregular as the sun. The sun Is soin- tlmes fifteen minutes out of the way nt noon , sometimes ahead and sometimes be hind tlmo , and It is only by averaging Its Inegularltles that we know where to find It. ' "Your studios have been largely devoted t < the sun , Mr. Langley. What is the sun anyhow ? " "That question Is a good deal easier to ask than to answer , " was the leply. "I have sp&nt years In watching It and trying to learn something about it. I have ( lib- covered some things , but I should have to know a great deal more before I could ade quately answer that question , I spent three years in the study of the spots on the sun before I was ready to make any announce ments concerning them , and during the waking hours of those throe years the sun's fuca was almost constantly before me. Have you ever looked at H In a telescope ? Do you appreciate what watching the sun Is ? In the first place , the face of the sun In .1 telescope Is almost always quivering. Our atmosphere makes It seem to move to anil fro In waves , and looking at It is like looking at a flickering candle , so thut If Its surface wore ever so near It would be hard to make out the details. Hut then It Is , of course , really an enormous way off , so that those details are also lost from Its remoteness. " "Can you give mo an Idea how far off II Is ? " "I have tried In one of my popular writ ings to do that by a borrowed illustration , " replied Mr. Langley. "For Ins'nnce , you touch your finger to a candle , and In a frac tion of a second your brain announce the pain. The sensation has traveled along the nerve to the brain almost Instantaneously , hut the speed has been mfasured. Suppose you had an arm which would reach from the earth to the mm , and you could put the tips of your finge-re on that glowing mass cf fire. It would bo a little more * than one hundred years ( If you could live so long ) bcfor ? you could know that your fingers were being burned. Well , the rays of the nun have to came all that dls'ance before they reach you , and the last miles'of their Journey are through waves of heated ulr , which makes the sun Ecem to dicker so , while byond and behind all this almobt all Its brightest surface Is > n real actual motion , shifting litre and there with a velocity many hundred limes that of a cannsn ball , Theto real changes may last tor a second or a minute , and special phe nomena may occur In the twinkling of tin eye , In my studleu of tha sun spots I had 0 have a paper and pencil before me us I looked thiough tlif telescope to record th'eo changes as they went on , In order to catch their varying expressions on the sun's face. "I cannot detcrlbto you the wonders which are going on thre. I found , how ever , that In order to do my work wll , I must learn fjmethliig moie than Iho mechati- cal drawing which was all I knew , and as licio studies went on , I learned to draw and wlnt iMlllclently well to make my ncords , Unco thMi I have drawn hundreds of sun Epo'B , and th& works which I have pub- lahcd liavo been Illustrated with my own 1 uwlnvs of them. " LOGIC AT A SUN SPOT. At this point In the conversation Secre- ary Langley had one of these former draw , ngs cf a sun spot laid upon ths tabls. It vas , In fict , a beautiful painting about 12x11 nches In size , of what seemed to be a snowy urfac > , with a large black area In the mid. die , croti'ed by strange lines of light , blend- ng In fantastic outlines like the frost figures n a | > ane of glass. "That , " said he. "Is a spot which I saw In ST3 , It remained about twenty minuted In he field of the- telescope , and It looks Jii : a I caw It. You nctlo all around It Ji white , 'ho sun dees not look like a ball of lire when on see It In the telescope. It appears more rozen than hot. It looks much like the loltfii white Iron In a great puddling fur- act , You citnuot se IU beauty In the drawing , nor can you appreciate Its size That spot which I have there drawn wa PO big that Hi * earth could have bsen droppe ( Into It without touching the sides. Each o thobe bright gossamer-like threads is abou C.OOO miles long , and that spot cov red mor than 1.000,000,000 square miles of the sun' face. It had an area flvo times that o the whole burface of the earth. A little edge of it broke up and dissolved while I looked a it , which was bigger than th ° . whole Unltec States , It wao all in motion , and Its srcth Ing particles were flying about nt the rate of fifty miles a second along the surface under which I could see- probably some thousands of miles Into the darkness below up from which came volumes of intens ly luated , whirling vapor. " "How could you look at the sun so long Mr. Langley , without hurting ycur eyes ? " "I could not have done It , " was the reply "had I lued nothing but my eyes. I had firs to Invent an Instrument to take the place o the Incomplete means used by Sir William Herschel in order to see the sun by reflection The rays come to the focus of the tclsscop ? In blinding brightness , producing a heat suffi cient to melt Iron , but these rays have sides to them , and by mirrors placed at different angles they can bo PO reflected that there is no more heat and light than I choose to have. [ have gazed at the sun for five hours at a stretch with this Instrument , and have felt no more fatigue than I would have felt from reading a book. " SUN'S ENORMOUS HEAT FORCE. "How about the heat of the sun. Mr. Langley - ley ? Can you give me- some Idea of It ? " "Putting It briefly , It Is enormous beyond conception , for there is enough to warm 2,000,000,000 worlds like ours , and every mln- uto- there Is enough of the sun's heat falling on the earth to talse to boiling 37,000,000,000 tons of water. Hut this heat which falls on the e-mh Is not a thousandth part of 1 per cent cf what the- sun ssnds elsewhere , and ull the coal bds In Pennsylvania , for Instance , though they can tmpply the country for hundreds of years , would not keep up this heat during the one-thousandth part of a second. Now , when you-think that these enormous figures are not exsggeiatlons , but within the truth , you have to give up the- idea of grasping the amount of the fim't' ' heat as Inconceivable. " "Will we over bo able to use this heat mechanically ? " "That remains to he seen. The force IB there. The method of preserving and ap plying It economically has yet to be In vented. My experiments on Mount Whitney , In the Sierra Nevadas , showed that If we could save It all andtuse It for our steam engines It would glvei about a horse power for every square yard. > o ( ground. We hear a great deal about tho-iImmense power from the lecent utilization iol Niagara , but the sun power which It , BO to speak , wasted dally on this little District of Columbia Is liundreds and hundreds of times as great. The heat on the. surface of the Uland of Manhattan or that occupied by London could ut noontide dilvo all it&e steam engines of the wotlil. Ho far there have been no prac tical Inventions for utilization of this enor mous power. At the Paris exposition of 1S78 there was a reflector which drove a steam engine which worked a printing press , El lesson made a solare engine which It was thought might be ufccd In the pumping up of the waters on doiort lands. The proba- jlllty Is that tl'e dayu will come when we will use ull this force ; When It does the deserts of the world , I with their enormoui eun power , may become the great centers of manufacture and ! nf civilization. " AERIAL NAVIGATION. I next aekid Mr. Lungiey some questions at to aerial navigation , He WHO dletncllneJ to talk about the subject , and he gave mete to understand that th statements made by ha pres-j concerning him In thU ccnmc- Icn had Imsn made without hlu authority. it Is well known , however , that In his pub- Uhed scientific writings on asrodynamlca Mr. Langley haa detcrlbtd hlu discovery of facts whlc'a greatly alter our former supposed < nowledge on thin subject , and that though he ma not thera undertaksn to dewrlbe any flying machine , as lieIs popularly supposed ci have- done , he has madu experiments which show that mechanical flight Is far from Im possible , Thus , by a proper .application ami direction of tlr force und the weed , It lu' sustained tolld brass plites upon the air wl h an IncreJIbly small dlipliy of energy. , IJe lid this many years ngo , and at PltUfturg le made thousands of exp' Iments which show that there are c'rlaln shape ] In which matter can bo dlspoted DJ ( bit the more rapidly It moves through the air , In on sens1-1 , the less power It takes to move I and that solid models can be thus made t skim , as it were , along the viewless air , a a skater skims along the surface of thin Ic ? the faster you go In either case the les danger there being of falling down. As fa as I could Judge from my talk with him hi experiments show that the soaring birds hav an Intuitive knowledge of certain propertle of the air , which have been only recently de veloped through these experiments , and tha by these they navigate the air almost wlthou ffort In a way which there is no reason t think that It is impossible we can do. If no by our unaided strength , nt any rate b means of such engines as are recently belli built. With regard to this he > spoke of th fact that such birds ven about Washlngto may bo seen rising and falling , soaring u and sailing down , and moving In circles with out any Happing of their wings. Said he : "Did you ever think what a phys leal miracle It Is for such a bird as one n our common turkey buzzaids to fly In the way It does ? You may see them any da ; along the Potomac , floating In the air , will hardly the movement of a feather , birds weigh from five to ten pounds ; thy ars far heavier than the air which they dis place ; they are absolutely heavier than i-o many flatlrons. I suppose if men saw cannon balls floating through the air nice soap bub bles they would look on It as surprising , if not as a miracle. The only reason that we- are not surprised at the soaring bird la that wo have sen It from our childhood. 1'eilmpB If wo had seen cannon balls floating In the air from our childhood wo should not stop to Inquire how they did It any more than we do how the buzzards do It. I am speaking now , of course , not of birds which fly t.y flapping their wings , but of those which My without flapping their wings , or very rarely , and with almost 110 visible expondltur ? cf force. HE TELLS OF HIS DISCOVERIES. "There Is a good deal of misapprehension about my own Investigations 'n this te- epect , " Secretary Langley wont on , "but what I have at least demonstrated Is that heavy machines , not balloons , can bo made which will produce enough mechanical rijuor to support themselves In the air , and to fly. though this Is not saying that we have ycl got the pklll to manage this power so as lo rise , advancs and descend safely. Wlut Is actually demonstrated rests on actual c.\pcrl- mento , repeated hundreds of times In the luboratoiy , but under conditions not an easily repeated In the open air , "These experiments nre In the nature of an engineer's measurements , giving things In pounds , feet and horse power , and by them I have shown that an expenditure of one homo power ( if we can only regulate It so ab to maho the flight horizontal ) will suppoit about 200 pounds , and at the cam ? time carry It at the rate of fifty miles an hour through the air. "Now , there have recently been built btenm engines which , with fuel and water for a short flight , will give a good deal more than u horse power and weigh a good deal less than twenty pounds , so that we have a very large margin. "What I am trying to do is to establish by direct experiment the underlying principles * of this future art or science , and , having found the exact amount of force required , If possible , to learn next how It is to bo ex erted , directed and controlled. "I know it ls dangerous for any one to make any statement except In positive facia and figures about such matters. The people have , ever vlnce the days , of Darius Oreen and his flying machine , until very lately , put such n on : down as a visionary , without Imet'tlKitlon of what he has to offer. As for me , 1 have never raid that man could fly by hlu own ittrciigth , nor have i ever pub- llnhed the detalla of any flying machine , Lut what I have not only dis covered , but demonstrated by actual Experiment , la that there Is no doubt that machines can he made powerful enough to suppoit bodlea In the air which are thous ands of times heavier than the air Itself. I'eople who ask , If this l 10 , why Mich ma- chlueu arc not made at once to actually fly with the human freight , sine ? we have now got mechanical power , may be re minded that though they themselves have got plenty of strength to ilde a bicycle or to skate , thli , thfiufch cstlhtlal , U not enough till they have added the special nklll and experience to use It , juit at every man's legs are strong enough to ride a bi cycle , while yet moat of us cannot do eo without much painful experience In learn ing how to u and manipulate our ttrengtb , i as many nowadays find out. So It is wit artificial flight. We have got the mochanl cal power now , but we have still got to ac quire the skill to use It in this new field. ' "llut will that day ever come , Mr. Mng ley ? " I asked. "As to that , " replied Secretary Langley "I have so far spoken only of what I hav ascertained to be fact , and I want to dis tinguish between what Is fact and what i only my opinion. Expressing only my per Eonal opinion , then , I am willing to answe that I believe It altogether probable tha In the not very distant future , but how fa distant I do not pretend to say , flying ma chines , that Is , not balloons , but heavy con structlons actuated by machinery , will b propelled very rapidly through the air , prob ably at first rarely and at great risk In fur thcranco of the arts of war ; later In Intro duclng a great change in all human affairs In the arts of peace. " MOUMO.VS jouitviir. Thrlr Mi'ivll Ono of flip IIlNlorlcSpulM Of ICtlllNIIN. During the past two months hundreds of Mormons reading near Independence , Mo. , Nauvoo , III. , and in Lee county , la. , have been making their annual pilgrimage to the old Mormon crossing of the Ulg Illue river In Marshall county. Near this historic bpot are the Alcove springs , where so- many ol their people were massacred by the Indians In 1840 as they were making their way across the Great American desert to Salt Lake , They have been visiting the. old crossing In final ! numbers since the l t of September , crossing the nig Dlue whcro their forefathers did , and resting a few day near the springs , where- religious services were regularly held In commemoration of the early pioneers who braved the dangers and opened the way to the new Mormon settlement at Great Salt Lake. The old Mormon or "Independence" crossing of the Dig lilue Is one of then most ilEtcrlc spots In Kansas , says ( lie St. Louis Republic. It has been visited by thousands of Mormons hlnce the days of 184G , and the icojilo who now live In the vicinity look 'orward to the pilgrimage of these people every year as one of the Inoldents of spe cial note In Marshall county. It Is the most leant If ul and romantic spot In all Kansas , The Dig Dlue river Is a btream as clear as cryftil , and the Alcove bprlngs are located n a sequestered ncok , which sonls to have icen madeby nature for such gatherings as hebo , When the first Immigrant trains carrying he Mormon people and their belonglngR to ho Great Salt Lake crossed the Dig Dluo at thin now historic ppot there was scarcely n vest IRQ of civilization In that eglon of country. For ages Its prairies iad been covered with a waving sea of wild Brasses ; vast herds of buffalo had for mini- lerlcss years wandered almost unmolested pcrojs them. Nothing disturbed Its tolltudo ave an occasional band of nomadic Indians n search of prey or plunder , and the hardy rontlersman who Is always found fur In ad- anco of civilization , As early as 1820 ifajor Stephen H. Long crossed that part of { aneas now known as Martlial ) county In ommand of an expedition frcm Plttsburg o the Rocky mountains. General Fremont n his expedition to thu Rocky mountains In S42-44 pasted through that pectlon of the late and mention * In ) IH ! travels several Im- nlgrant wagons cnrouto to Oregon. It was In IS74 that John Smith , the Merion ion apos'le ' , with his band of followers rom Illinois , opened his way through this cuntry , crossing the Dig Illu : river at the Id-"Mormon , " "Independence , " or "Call- urnla" cnn > ] ln . This was tlx miles below : io present town of Marysvlllo , ths r unty eat of Marshall county , For two years the xiled Latter-Day Kulntn passed over the rail that led to this crossing of the Dig Blue Ivfr , At one tlmo a Mormon camping party as surrounded by Indians at this famous pot and all were killed. Among tha party cro several elders of the Mormon faith ho were gclng to the western home to look tier the rplrltual welfare of the plom-crs ho had gone before. Ever since th : Mor- nonj of MUsonrl , Illinois and Iowa have lade annual pilgrimages to Alcove here < in > rcprlate service * are held. SWKKT MVSTHItllSS. C. T. Wilson In Xi-w Yoil : Sim. Slowly the seeds In the KID den nre growing1. Olnd homilies ! Tides , set In motion by winds briskly- blowing1. Pause ere they rise ; The nestling shall rlsu nml npplio to > heaven' ? Bnte , And the butterfly , though In u shroud lio- must wait In dim surmise : For all things shall rise. Gently kind spring has awakened tlm Jloweis , Sweet rnyHtcileHl Swiftly the grub on the wing , with new- powers , To happiness flics ; Ever with refluent wnvo nml strong motion. Lamtwurd now march the forces of ocean ; Clninil nugurlos ! For nil things do rise. In the world visible lurks the Invlslb'e , Making men wise. Telling of blessed trutliK plainly perceptible To love-lit i-ycs. Tolling of Heaven and happy Tomorrow , Telling of Joy with no vestlgiof borrow , And of bilKbt skies , Whqre love never dies. .SHOUT STOKIUS. Detroit Tribune : With a gesture the sav age. monarch commanded slle-jice. "My people ple , " he said , "I take great pleasure In. Introducing this noted traveler. I am sure I speak for all when I tell him wo shall bo glad to have him In our mldbt. I take this ; occasion to caution the children not to cat too much , since he Is reputed to he very rich. " Whereupon It plainly appeared that hlB majesty was not only witty , but nohooled In the flnor shades of meaning of the En glish tongue. Cincinnati Enquirer : "For the life of mft colcnol , I don't see why you persist In main taining that whleky Is of any valua In the cur * of snake-bites. Why , all the modern scientists " j "Young man , " answered Colonel Dluegrass ; turning purple , "It ptands to reason , sah , Hint good whisky , being beneficial in every ; other complaint , must bo of benefit In snukJ bites. When there Is a unlvufsal law lu nature , salt , It does not vary for a mercj snake , sah , " Chicago Tribune ; "Shadbolt , If n man should circulate a report that you wcro a deadbeat and a man without a particle ot honor , what would you do ? " "I'd s > ie him for slander , Dlngues , I'd glvo him n chance to provf It. " "Then that's exactly what I'll do to Old Wlpedunla' . I'M make him " "O , has anybody been Baying these things ibout you ? Don't do It , Dlnguss. That's different. " Detroit Free Press : "I don't mind oat ng bUcult made with baking powder , " paid the tramp , "but I draw tin line ut bread ralwil with yeast. " "I'd like to know why ? " said the woman ot the hou ! * , an she drew back the lialf-Iodt if white bread , "Tho yeast tliat made that bread worked , " * ' answered the tramp , "and I cannot consist ently ainilato with It. " Waihlngton Star : "Look hero , " said thft editor , "you Included In this poem u. line about the earth cycling around the sun. " "Yes , " replied the post , confidently ; "ami ' 1 stand by It. That line , sir , U not oulyj an example of polished 'expression , but It la ii'tronomloally ' correct , " "Mehbe so , but It won't go here , 'Cycling around the sun , ' " he icpeated scornfully. 'Why don't you lake the earth and put jlonmcrs on It , and be done with It ? " Chicago Poet : "I don't believe you are & voman , " said the detective , who was on th rail of u forger. . "Don't I look like one ? " asked the BUB lect. lect."Yes "Yes , you look like on * , " returned th * Irtecthe , ? "And don't I act like one ? " "Yet " , but "Well , what Is It that makci you doubt no ? " "When you a ked for a rcncil 1 gave you no with the point broken off and you were lle to sharpen U jourstlf. " Thtm the ferger realized that he was dl * overtd and coufeuul.