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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. JANUARY 23, 1D10. C REAL ESTATF I ARM AD RAXCM I..4ND FOR BALE (Continued ) Tessa Com !. fciO AfRKS Improved near Houston. shell road from ritv thmueh tract. Fine for miMlvlnkin. $2:. an acre. 1tM acr at rail road switch, alill load to rtty. $20 an acre, acrea. SIS an acre Ai slse tract 10 rrea up for truck farming or lnn tract for suNllvlairm. people througiiotit the north are tired eif shovelling enow and are coming south, principally to Texas. Now la the, time to buy. Write tia for pam pble4a and other Information. W. ('. Moore Co., Lumberman'! Bank Hldg., Houston, Texas. FREK map of Txa. giving; elevations, rainfall, oil lea, railroad, product, etc. with every 2So S montlia subscription to Texas Realty Journal, a magazine telling all about Texas development, resource, opportunities, etc. Texas Realty Journal, Houston, Tex. BE8T black farm in Texaa 1.200 aorea cultivated, $W; 13, seres cut over land, $7; terma. Hill & Klklnx. Houston. Vermont. 125-ACTIK farm for sale. Good b'llldlnga with all modern Improvements, will cut 1 tona hay, Address Box So. Plltaford Mllla. Vt. Mlarr llaneoaa. WE are hesduqartors for NORTH DA KOTA AND MONTANA LAND; large or mail tracta; ea&y terma. Wi own our land and do som trading; on cash baala. L. O. CLARK CO.. 42 N. Y. Life Bldg. I HAVB noma fin acreage tract! from 2V4 to 40 acrea. HUFFMAN. SIS NEVILLE. BLDtf. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Whitney A. Woodwird and wife to Michael J. Naylon. lot . Foreat Hill. J 1.900 O. A. LlndnulKt and wife to Gordon C. Vlmock, lota 22 and 23. Lind qtilat'a add MO John C. Rrlshln, guardian, to Joa Fulton. n'4 lot 9. Upland terrace 1 James Maclay and wife, to William N. and Oliver Orenvllle, nt2 feet of -4 of lot 10 and n62 feet of lot 11, block 2. Denlne's add 4.000 Arthur P. Wood . and wife . to Wil liam N. and Oliver Grenvllle. eVi lit 10, block 2, Ienlnea add , 400 Otto Nordln to Petr Nordln, lota U and 12, block 13, Saunders Hlme haiiKh'a add 1 ParkwHy Real F.state Co. to Kdgar H. Bcott, lot S, block S, Pleree'a suh dtv. of lota 24, 6. 28 and 27, block J, Himebaugh's add '. 6 Reed Bros, to Carl F. Nelson, b',4. lot 6. block 8. replat of Durant Place.. 250 Magdalene M. Bolaen et al. to Anna M. Olaen, b aublot J, lot 7. 27-li- . 13, and other property 2 GOVERNMENT NOTICES OFFICE) OF THE CONSTRUCTING Quartermaster, Fort Robinson, Nebraska, January IB, 1910. Scaled proposals tor fur nishing all material and labor for ADDI TION TO AND RKPA1RING PUMP HOUSE, NEW BOILERS. NEW PUMP, etc., at Fort Robinson, Nebraska will be received here until 11 a. in. February 19, lfllO. Plans and specifications may be con sulted at the office of the Chief Quarter master at Denver, Omaha, Chicago and ft. Paul. Depot Quartermaster at 8t. Louis, and at this office. 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SOME FAKERS BEFORE COOK Wise Ones of Yesterday Fooled in the Same Old Way. REMINISCENCES WITH A LAUQH ronfldlnc laltltailra Wonder at Cardiff t.laat, ataffej .Sen rr. pnt, anal Freak trles of F'xplorers. The multitude which welcomed Dr. Frederick A. Cook as the first of th? pole flndera can extract a few rralna of com fort from the fHct thai they are not tha first of the human family to be fooled. History is dotted with records of the Cook variety, and one need not go far back into the chronicles of the lat ccnturv to find similar experiences, though somewhat localised. Chester A. Hull, a product of the wilds of New York, perpetrated the "Cardiff Giant" and other fakes on the country. One day a friend came to the little nwspaper office where Hull was the presiding gonlits and offered to advertise for sale two or three acres of land near the town of Cardiff. The mall that day had brought a lttr from Hull's brother. Joe, who resided In Chicago. The brother's letter said that in his wanderings about town he had found an excellent atone man in the back shed of an ambitions' tombstone sculptor. The figure had been hewn out of a solid rook the sculptor having followed as nearly as he could the picture of a man In a school physiology. The stone man, and the acres, produced in the mind of Chester an Idea. He could sell his friend'! land, make some money for himself, and create a furore In newspaper clrcleH, If his Idea could be prop erly managed. The man with the land waa agreeable, and after much trouble. and caution, the stone man was hauled firm Chicago to Cardiff, and at the solemn hour of mldliight the stone man was burled on the land that tnr i. ah. theieafter the man who owned the land turned up the Cardiff alant while The land and the giant were promptly sold at a good figure and Hull was left In the luich, of course. The riant was carted about over the country and exhibited, and It had a hard time for even a stnna man Onca It was attached' for the biiU of the showman and lay several years, cold and lonesome, In a freight house at Cheyenne, Wyo. Eventually It was taken on the. road again, and finally reduced to common, evcry-day lime, by the destruction of a railway station In Missouri, which was burned while the poor old giant was staying nitre one nignt. . J Once, attired In a sheensk-f n. annlled with paint to represent a leopard's hide, and dec orated with a head-dress of bright feathera and red flannel, Hull traversed central New rom as an African explorer and lectured upon the wonders nf tha rin t t..u Nyanza and the bead-waters of the Nile. notwithstanding the absurdity of the lec ture and the transparent fraud tume, he Imposed upon the Innocents and gathered In many ducats. Then he went to California and In a little whtia m.., m papers published, simultaneously, an -count irom Mull of an expedition to the North pole under the command of Octave Pavy. This account declared that the expedition had reached Wrangel Island and mat rroiB. Thomas Newcomb, Harry Kd wards and others, who were reallv n. paper men and actors, well known to the an i-ranclsco public, were making; anato mical examinations of Immense mastodons found Imbeded In the ice cliffs of that mys terious' quarter or the globe. Cieorare Waa n Lain. The Joe, Mulhatton of the eighteenth century waa George Psalmanazar. a French adventurer, who, having traveled extensively In Europe, and finding himself everywhere pushed for funds, determined to "raise the wind" In an entirely novel and unheard of fashion. He had a tasta for reading, and. In the course of his desul tory studies, became much interested In China and the east. He determined to pass himself off as an oriental, so assumed a fantastic garb whlcji he declared to be that commonly worn in Formosa, manu factured for himself a ritual of worship and prayer, which he ostentatiously ob served In public, and with a confederate went to England, where he passed for a Formosan noble. Going diligently to work, ho prepared an account of the island, giv ing a full description of its geography, botany and zoology, together with Its his tory and the manners and customs of Its Inhabitants. Much to his satisfaction the Joke took, his hoax waa universally be lieved, his book sold enormously and he became a literary and social Hon. Many years elapsed ere the fraud was discovered and In the meantime Psalmanazar's his tory became a classic, was translated Into several languages of Europe and quoted by learned philosophers, who, whenever they wished to Illustrate an unusually curious phase of human nature went to Formosa for their material. The fraud wai certainly one of the most clever ever per petrated, for Its narratives were so ctroum stantlal, so much In detail, one part tallied so well with another, that In default of other knowledge, nobody could say it was put so. lie even Invented a language which he reduced to gramatlcal form, and gave samples of Formosan poetry and literature sufficiently clever In atvln and mutter m ducoive even the very elect Not until Pual- manaxar himself confessed the deception was the mystery cleared up. Another French Freak. x' Nearly three centuries ago. or to be ex act, 2'J9 years ago, there was a great ex ploreTfwho sought the northwest passage. which was the dream of explorers in the seventeenth century as the North pole has been the dream of explorers of a later generation. He had made several attempts to find that mysterious and ever-eluslv passage to Cathay, and at last had be n torn or a migniy river far In the interior of a new continent, which would lead him to the salt sea of the west. He wanted to make another effort to reach that great river, and had gone to France to enlist the aid of the king and the nobles in sup plying him with the needed equipment. This great explorer was Samuel de Chum plain, the founder of Quebec and the dis coverer of the great lakes. At the same time there was another who waa ambitious for fame as a great 'and successful explorer. But he wanted to get his fame without the toll and hardships encountered by all the others This am bitious young man spent a winter in Can ada among the Indians. One day he sud denly appeared at Quebec, Just as a ship was sailing for France. His acquaintances and friends were anxious to hear of what he had been doing during ills winter's ah. sence, but he kept his own counsel, and haatlly boarded the ship, then out In the stream with Its prow turned toward the Atlantic and France. v He arrived in France, and had wondrous RAILWAY TIME CARD-4""" Chicane, St. Paul, Mlanenpolls Jt Uinaha- Leave. Arrive. ..b:U)pm Ml 45 am , ciSOpm b 9 30 pm ..b 6:10am . .o 8 .15 am ..b 165 pm b 8. 10 am Plnux City Exprei... Omaha local Siuux City P.isenger. Twin City Paaeenger. Sluux City Iujcul Emerson Local talea to tell of great discoveries, of hard ships endured, of difficulties surmounted and dangers dared. He waa received by the king and queen and all the notables of the kingdom, and again and again told the atorjr of how he had succeeded where Champlaln and Cadillac and Carter and a host of others had failed. He was the hero of the hour, the pet of Paris and France. Honors were showered upon him. He told how he had paddled up this river In his canoe, and down that; how he had threaded his way through dense forests, and fought with, wild beasts as the blessed St. Paul did at Epheaus. and with wilder and more savage men; how at last he had come to the shores of the great salt sea, a boundless ocean stretching ever and ever westward; how he had tasted of the water and found It salt; how the Indians told him of a people who came twice a year to tbelr shores In great ahlps to trade for furs; that theae people were white and wore their hair In a Ion tall behind. All tills, nnd much more, glibly fall from his tongue a doien times a day, and the king and nobles vied with one another In their haste and liberality to fit out a new ex pedition under Champlaln to complete the dlm-overies and set up a claim to the land and the ocean for the kingdom of Franc. aMucIi against his will, the "discoverer' waa forced by the king to go with this new expedition as Its pilot and guide. Champlaln landed at Quebee, and almost Immediately started on his quest for the salt sea. Day after day he pushed his little force through the wilderness, until at last he came to a tribe of Indians, who recognized rfils guide. Then came the end. it waa developed that the guide had spent the winter with these Indians, and had not been a mile farther west. He had never seen the salt seas, and the Indians themselves had never heard of any such sea within thou sands of leagues of where they were. Champlaln turned back toward Quebec, and Nicholas Vlgnau, the great faker of the seventeenth century, quietly dropped out of sight. Panl Boynton'a Big, Fake. During the autumn of 1&3 the news waa flashed over the country from New York that a sea serpent had been killed in the Caribbean sea In an expedition sent to that part ofUhe world by Captain Paul Boyn ton to gather marine curiosities. A letter had been received by Boynton, purporting to come from Prof. Munster, who had charge of the expedition, in which the details of the killing of the serpent were given, and from It the reports were sent out. The New York newspaper! contained extended accounts of the capture. The scientists connected with the New York museum of natural history became Inter ested, and raised a furse of 810,000 with which to purchase thecatch.y une story in brief was that the crew of the schooner Huntress, then cruising off the Isle of Pines, were preparing to test the merits of a spring torpedo gun on a school of porpoises that were playing astern. As they were about to relieve the spring, the porpoises became frightened and darted away in all directions under the waves. Then the head of a frightful mon ster rose some five pr six feet out of the water, moving In the direction of tho little vessel. Those manning the gun were terror stricken fora moment, bat, regaining their courage the gun was sprung and the tor pedo hit the water within a few feot of the monster, exploding with terrific force and stunning It. Boynton enlisted aome con federates and together ' had built a mechanical sea serpent, shipped It to lea in sections, and returned with It to New York. Newspapers were filled with stories of the "great sea monster." Prof, O. C. Marsh of the Smith sonian Institution, the gentleman who ex posed the Cardiff Giant fraud, -read about It In Washington. He had always been a believer In the existence of the monsters, and here was proof that his theory about them waa correct. He immediately went to New York to see it, and his Interest was so great that inBtead of asking questions or making himself known he mounted some steps that had been carelessly left near the serpent's head and proceeded to examine Its mouth regardless of the remonstrances of the attendants. Boyton saw him and hurriedly left the hall In search of his rep rescntatlveT whom he found on a lower floor. "For heaven's sake," he yelled, "go up stairs quick. Some fellows up there are tearing the mischief out lot that snake's mouth." After some persuasion Prof. Marsh was induced to step down to the floor, but he had seen the character of the monster. He made himself known ami the manager, knowing that It would be usles to attempt to Impose on the eminent gentleman, trusted to his mercy and allowed him to thoroughly examine the reptile. When he had finished the examination hi pronouncel It wonderfully made and almost exactly in accordance-with his idea of the conforma tion of a sea serpent. 1 He promised not to give the "map" away, on account of its cleverness, and when he was interviewed later In the day by a news paper man he said It was the most remark able looking reptile he had ever Been. After a season through the museums the serpent began to weVr out and was sold to party who topk It to the country fairs before it finifily fell to pieces and was left to rot In the woods near Munrle, Ind. The Moon Hoax. When Sir John Herschel, in the year 1825. waa sent on an astronomical expedi tion to the Cape of Good Hope, he carried with him a telescope of hjige size, from which great things were expected, and also private Instructions to the effect that what ever he cccompllshed was to be kept pro foundly secret until he should return. Con sequently, for a long time after his de parture no news whatever reached England In regard to his doings In South Africa. Here was the opportunity which give blrtli to a luminous Idea, and one September morning there appeared In the columns of the New York Sun a long Article filled with information that was well calculated to astonish the world. The article stuted that Sir John Herschel with the help of Sir David Brewster, ha,d dovlsed certain apparatus for Increasing In a marvelous way the magnifying power of the telescope, and the instruments em ployed were described In the utmost detail, So wonderful were the results obtained that, when the great tube was turned upon the moon, the suj-fac of that satellite was brought within an apparent dlstcnce of two hundred yards. Flowers, recognizable aa roaetpoppies, were actually seen grow ing over bavaltlc rocks and the shifting; of a screw brought into view green valleys, in which browsed animals resembling the bison, with here and there flocks of pell cans and cranes, and goats that had a single horn, like the fabled unicorn. At length, aa the lunar landscapes were made to travel successively across the field of the telescope, some winged beings. In other respects human-like were seen to alight upon a grassy plain. Their wings were like those, of bats, and they conducted themselves In a singular manner. For the time being the article was gen erally accepted as entirely veracious, and there were few people who expressed skep ticism. When the Joke waa reveaed It was at first attributed to Nicollet, a French astronomer, but afterward It was ascer tained that the actual author was Richard Alton Locke, a New York journalist. Tb kef to the situation Bee Want Ads. WHERE TI1E MAGICIANS MEET They Try Their New Tricks on Each Other First. CAN'T ALWAYS FOOL RIVALS All Are solemnly Pledged ot ta lliioe the Wonders of Their Art Plight of Two rat Men. NEW YORK. Jan. 22. The members of the Magicians society who . meet every month vat Martinka's palace on Sixth avenue during the winter and occasionally have a ladles' evening do not, as a rule, appear to be rich, but what they lack in material things they make up in qualities (hat are not usually In possesion of the common herd. The eoclety, Which was or ganized In May, 1902, has at present more than 200 members, and while these regular social meeting! are apparently designed merely for good cheer and fellowship it Is an unwritten law that If any one of the magicians has a new trick he shall try It on the horne dog before he asks the opin ion of his neighbor's canine critic. The home dogs are pretty well broken, and It's a mighty poor trick that don't get at least a feeble wag. All of them ad mit that they had rather play before any old kind of an audience than the one com posed of their fellow craftsmen. As one of them admitted, you cannot tell at the mo ment your trick Is finished whether the ap plause means "I'm on, old chap," or whether the lookerson are applauding because they themselves have been fooled. But it la not an uncertain state of mlhd which continues for any length of time, and as soon as the magician mingles with the audience he finds -out Just where he stands. The Information Is given In a cipher com posed of expressive pantomines and verbal phrases absolutely Indistinguishable to the visitor, for the most solemn pledge is re quired of each new member that he wil1 not expose magic on the stage, for accord ing to the resolutions adopted at the first meetings: j "All lovers of the mysterious in enter tainment should religiously discountenance and discourage by all reasonable and fair opposition thexpoina; of secrets of mys tical creations, whether original or adopted, published In print or not, on the following grounds, viz: That no good can result from such ex posure. That It Is an injustice to all concerned. performers and audience alike. That it tends to discourage originality. That it cheapens the art. robblna- it of Its real Intrinsic worth. That it "kills the goose that laid the golden egg." One naturally pictures the "magician" as a mysterious being, tall as a wand, with drooping shoulders and willowy arms that suggest the wearing of a mantle. He should smile rarely, his hair ought to be long, black and oscillating, and he should step lightly. The late Prof. Herrmann ad hered pretty closely to this visual standard, but his physical example has not been fol lowed very closely if one Judges from the members present at the last social meet ing. All looked aa if they heard a dinner bell at least once a day and responded thereto, and not one of inem was seen after the entertainment was over to refuse the soft drinks, the confectionery and the sandwiches. Most- of them might he . de scribed by the word rotund, and they had a nice, comfortable, domestic look about them. They are an optimistic, class, how ever, it Is discovered, and have no mean petty remarks to make about their profes sional rivals. Like the Lunnon bus driver, who, when he has a holiday, spends it on the top of a rival Une, so there la nothing a magician likes better, so one of them said, than to wander when off duty Into a spiritualistic seance and witness the same old tricks in a new environment. The plump hand of the medium covered with luminous paint and placed against a black ' velvet back ground he loves to have spoken of aa the absolute counterpart of "dear Mayme's and he altruistically Joins in the applause of the strange doings of "Little Comrade," the only criticism that he has to make Is that he rarely learna anything new there. For Instance, you might attend spirit ualistic seances all' yor days and never learn the service to wilch it is possible to put the odds and ends of household articles that have outlived their usefulness and for which the ordinary apartment and city home offers no- storage place. Of course you may say that there Is nothing of the occult about this, but after you have witnessed the work of one of the member magicians whose specialty takes this economic line you will admit that his entertainment is little short of the mar velous. For the Invariable criticism of the skeptic la sure, to be after witnessing the lifting of a chair, hearing three knocks on the left upper wall and seeing a specter finger dart from a curtained recess, "What good does it do?" No such remark can be made of the magic performance noted, where two t old socks wtih holes In the heels, a piece of a chair seat with the tapestry threads hanging, a black four-in-hand, two clay pipes and a red paper heart appear after a moment's clever manipulation a two Impressionistic paint ings neatly framed In passepartout deplet ing a St. Bernard dog in the icy fastness of Us native Swiss mountains and' an athletio looking woman seen from tlio rear diligently covering some twenty miles of open country on a bicycle with thick ver dure on the sides and a sleeping tramp in the far horizon. All the implements for this extraordinary piece of work besides those noted are an easel with a stiff background, the frame mentioned, considerable nerve on the part of the principal actor and a stolid acquies cence on the pari of the audience. The red heart under his manipulation becomes part of tha lady's bicycle costume, the bits of loose cotton lend themselves easily to the construction of snowy clouds, the drapery becomes a rural hedge and the socks a line of tender, wavering hills with that (intimate note of art, that tender aesthetic ism of values, that Inimitable toning that depicts the true artist. One of the magicians near by speaks In a voice almost Inaudible to his wife and says: , "I honestly don't see how a man can do a trick like that nd get money for it." Francis Werner, who Is secretary of the club and has adhered more closely to the aesthetic appearance of the Herrmann school than his compatriots, ascends the platform, steps gracefully with no other pliaraphernalia of office than is contained in a modest vanity bug which discloses a simple hat brim, He swings It hooplike on his supple wrist, while he Introduces his new art of "Chapeapgraphy" by saying: "I did this trick before President Roose veltwent to Africa." In the applause that follows this saying ha drapes It carelessly about his head and with a few changes of expression he be comes In turn a Polish beggar, Napoleon on the deck of the Bellerophon, a toreador, a harlequin, a Jesuit, a Mystic Shrlner and several others. Including a wonderful fao simile of himself, which he denominates the Lonely Man. You know what all these representations are because he tells you. Po far you have felt, It mu( be admitted, rvtaFcii THROUOia TOURIST SLEEPERS 4:10 P, 11. Overland Express Daily for California, via Denver, scenic Colorado, Salt Lake and Southern Pacific. Personally con ducted excursions Thursdays and Sundays. 4:10 P. U. northern Pacific Express- ' Daily via Northern Pacific for the Northwest, Spo kane, Washington, Seattle, Portland. - 11:30 P. M. Great Northern Express Daily via Great Northern connecting at Lincoln with through tourist sleepers for Great Falls, Spo kane, beattle, j TICKET that there Is something missing, some part of the accustomed routine cit out. Tou feel better when one of the magicians looks about the first few rows of seats and asks blandly that some one will lend him a $10 bill. The row look consciously at each other. There Is no suspicion In the glance, no doubting In regard to Ita safe return, even though It may form part of an omelet, be torn into shreds, thrown to the four winds and burnt up to light a cigarette, but with the exception of the look there Is ho evi dence that the platform request has been heard. The speaker does not urge the matter, but makes a wider appeal. Includ ing the whole assemblage, so that no one need feel hurt. No one does and no one feels for the $20 bill, a light of understand ing dawns on the magician's comprehen sion. He nods and compromises on a fiver. The first man he asks has a $S bill and gives It up without reluctance. The tii bill is torn Into shreds and these shreds are again destroyed by the long, supple fingers of the performer. The re mains are rolled Into a little ball and the ball unrolled discloses the So intact, with the same Initials on it that the owner had marked and corresponding in number with the number of the original bill, carefully copied for identification. .The owner, one of tho visiting corps, is visibly disappointed. "I saw that trick done when I was a little boy," he asterts In a loud voice. "I thought I was going to get a ten back at least. You don't seem to me to have advanced In your pro fession a mite. Guess I might aa well go to a speerltuallHtlc seeance." In order to bring the atmoFphere up to the normal, another member of the society' rises and begins to borrow all sorts of things from the audience. Ills wants are many; he has to have a pack of playing cards and some envelopes, pencils and pens and a chair and the attention of the people In the room. When he has gathered all this together he begins ta do a most com plicated trick, through the mazes of which it is quite impossible to follow him, and as boxes of candy are passed about during bis work and conversation Is quite prolific and the trick still goes on to a merry end ing you are quite satisfied. Bits of talk punctuates the trick. You hear, "cut through the middle of tho pack. Trank you. Write one word and put it into the second envelope. Thank you. 1 am going Into a corner of the room ami turn my back. Please put It in your pokect. Ten from twenty leaves bow ir.any. Twenty? Thank you." At the end of half an hour or so the magician whispers a long time to Mr. Oscar Teale, ex-president of the club, and then announces in a sepulchral tone that he has requested the president to go Into the outer room and return In a faw minutes with a certain book' of magic. His de parture is awaited breathfully, while more candy Is eaten and more conversation trickles up and dywn the rows of seals. Finally the. mesBenger returns stasxerlng beneath the burden of ' a huge volume, which ho lays down with empi easement and a nolte. All this time the envelope which was mentioned earlier in the trick, a half hour or so earlier, has had concealed In Its in terior a slip of paper on which one word written by a atrangs lady In the audience Is inscribed. The envelope has been put away in the pocket of one of the profes sional gentlemen, who, Judging from the expression of his face, do a no( believe the trick will ever be finished auccessf ully. No. one knows the word except the woman. It is her last word and she has separated herself from it with facility. Hhe remembers it too, which women do nut al ways do. If an amateur had been doing the trick tie would Juut carelessly open the volume und point out the familiar com- blnaticn of vowels and consonants, but the true ai tint delays with flneaae the moment 6f exposureV This is why the cards and the chair and the pencil and the other phara phernalla. With the cards cut and rear ranged and one selected which Is put back among Its companions und later discovered on the top' of a corner cupboard Inside of a clolssonne Jar, bearing the maglo num ber nine, it Is easy enough even for the visitors to see that there la only one thing to do and that Is open the volume at the page number indicated, nine, and then multiplying that number by the number of cards left in the pocket of the baldheaded mm I :1 k...,i. K mm A Omaha ana m-zi Eastern Nebraska To ls4 to Portland and the Tickets, Berths, Illustrated OFFICE: 1502 Farnam St. gentleman who has fallen asleep In dan gerous proximity to the base burner, said number belug three, count twenty-seven word! from the lower left hand corner and that word Is the identical word that Is written on the slip of paper In the envel ope. Two stout gentlemen are borrowed next. The magican states that they must be stout,' and after several demurs a couple who are "unanimously admitted to fill the requirements step ponderously on the plat form aid face each other sheepishly. One fumbles with a huge' watch chain and the other with a striped waistcoat. The magician for the nonce talks lightly and breezily on several subject!, all the time manipulating a deck, of cards. His flow of eloquence coming to a full atop he shows how the four honors that you saw with your own eyes tucked away In the breast pocket of the baldheaded gentleman, who still sleeps on undisturbed, are on the top of a table behind a hat, which nobody has taken any particular notice of. In another part of the room. Everybody is politely surprised, especially the gentleman who did tho trick, i but your surprise is still greater when the same cards thnt he has thrown down again very nonchalantly are now found in the etrtped waistcoat pocket of one of the fat men, while In the corre sponding pocket of the vis-a-vls are dragged forth the magican's own cigar case and handkerchief. HURRY RUN TO N EUROPE American Aatomobllea Are Rapidly Posh Paat Those of F.oro- pean Make. With one automobile show in full swing and another but a few days distant, there is timeliness In the publication by the Department of Commerce of several con sular reports on trade openings for the export of American-made motors. It is within easy Veoollectlon when the idea would nave been an absurdity, but it is already as little absurd to ask who uses an American motor car as to ask who reads an American book. The answer de pends as much on the Judgment of the man who wants the book or the car as on the excellence of the artlole wanted. That time is past. Americans going abroad now prefer their own country's rroduct for foreign use. This Is the best advertisement they could have. It is a natural compliment that foreign cars are h,a In demand for home use. They are still wanted for a certain quality of trade and use, but (here is an Immensely larger trade which cannot supply its nueds equally whII from foreign makes. We excel In this trade exactly as we have long ex celled In others that la, In the standardiza tion of manufacture and large-scale pro duction. .We have not displaced the high est grade of hand-made watches, but we have made our teachers In tiie art wonder at the facility and cheapness with which we produce very excellent timekeepers at prices which put them Into the pockets of those who could hever hope to have a watch made otherwise. We vhave done the same thing for the motor trade. Price and quality considered, our curs "cannot be beat." If there are better foreign cum, they may not be worth the higher price. It will not be long before these facts make their way wherever our cars are seen in performance. Therefore It Is well for tlioae contem plating a foreign trade If they ever get ahead of their home demand to know that In all Scotland there are only two factorioa making complete cars, and they are small concern!. Kunaia offers a good opening, and In all Russia there is but one American seeking custom, although there Is nut one Russian factory In the American sense. In both oountrles a few machines are made to offer to suit Indi vidual taaUs. The machine for tU many has t to be Introduced. Hut our pride should not outrun discretion. Our peculiar excellence lies in ur methods. Our pro duct cannot equallfledly be said to be bet ter, and our materials are certainly Ichb good. Tho nature of automobile work Is such that it dsrnands materials of excep tional fitness as well as superior quality. It Is useleas to place the hardest metal where toughness Is wanted, and a metal may be both hard and tough and yet fall In qualities adapting It for easy and cheap manufacture. It nny be excellent metal, PORTLAND SEATTLE i SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES SPOKANE . BUTTE 4 HELENA April IStti S ? upper Northwest. Folders. and yet suffer from heat In manufacture or vibration in use. In these qualities we sre not honnlesHlv rilHtanr,.1 hut far enough behind to put our chemists on ounce mat iney must place themselves on a par with our mechanicians. We should still be modest, but we have a growing cause for pride. New York Tribune. LAST OF THE BONANZA KINGS Mills Drew Millions from Cnraatork Lode, but It Waa Not the Mak ing: of Fortune. Darius Ogden Mills was the last of the bonansa kings of the Comstock Lode, 'hut unlike Flood, Mackay, Fair, and O'Brien, the lode was not the making of his fortune. Rather, his fortune mad a his partners mul timillionaire!. Long before the Comstock was discovered Mills had made millions, and was the richest man in California. When the four partners found the Com stock Lode in 1872 they knew it was a bonanza, but they didn't have the money to develop it. Mr. Mills hud and he bought an IntereHt in tho mine. Nobody knows what the profit on his In vestment was, but Is was enormous. Many years later John W. Mackay, pointing to a shaft opening out of the Comstock mine at Virginia city, said to a fried: "I have taken $160,000,000 in sliver bullion out of that hole." Others have said , that 1400, 00,000 was nearer the amount. Mackay, Flood. O'Brien and Fair died years ago and now Mills la gone. He began life as a poor boy, without a dollar, but he could look ahead. Thus, when the gold digging excitement broke out in California he saw at once that there waa more money to be made by selling necessarlea to the miners than by grubbing- for the precious metal. Accordingly, he invested his little capital In clothing, toula and other good! and started for the Pacific coast by way of Panama. This was In December, IMS. Ha openet a store at Sacreniento and in one year hi made a clear profit of $40,000. From that time on he grew steadily richer; for he be gan to deal in bullion, with large gain t himself. Everything he - touched seemed literally to turn to gold. in Wt D. O. Mills went back to New York. Popularly considered, he waa tu first of the great western multimillionaire to come east an,d settle down, and fabulous accounts were printed of his wealth. Many people in New York believed Mr. MI1U would prove an "easy mark." They tried a great variety of "little games" on hint but were surprised to discover that lit did not bite. On the contrary, he proceeded, to make money in the metropolis almost as rapidly as he bad made It in the west Being struck with the good prospect fot real estate investment in the neighbor" hood of Wall street, he picked up, bit b bit, half a block of land directly opposlu the Stock exchange, and on It erectet the flrJIt great modern steel office build lug put up, the Mills building. Although his active participation In buxi news affairs hud ceased, Mr. Mills, up U the time of his death, remained a directoi In many corporations. His railroad Inter, ests Including the holding of a director ship In the New York Central and Lakr Khore companies, and he held a place, a well, in the directorate of several New York banks" and trust companies and' numerous Industrial interprlses. He wa largely responsible for the haniesnlng of the Niagara a feet of Ingenuity, accom plished at an expense of $XO,000.000, by which an energy equivalent to lbO.OOO home powei Is made available for a great variety ov purposes. Kansaa tity War. Of Interest to skaters. Consldarlng the many lives lust every year by breaking through, or atlll oflener. by skating Into, holes In tha ice. a simple and practical meana of saving o.K'aelf from drowning should be of interest to skatera everywhere. It depend on the use of a llfe-aavlng awl. ufiii iw method of rescuing oneself is about aa follow h: I As Moon aa you break through the ice, eaiena inn Minin. ifin i ai excitea. 2, Kwlni to the "due of the ice when, a you came. Heat one hand on the Ice. Gently trad water. S. Take the awl In the olhtr hand ami remove the cork from tha point with the teeth. Reach over on the Ice aa far aa pooalble, and plant the point firmly In llia( surfsce. ' i Uy drawing in the arm you can now easily bilng the hips onto the lea. rltand up put the rurk back on the point nf Ihi awl and skate off. Popular r1"timUuri