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The Canadian Valley News.
CBSSTKIt A IKVKS, I'ublUhor.
JONES,
TERRITORIAL NOTE8
The &*• w lt st IHarltwell is said
to bate a prc.**ur« of IGO pounds.
The Midland Valley mad, It Is re
ported, will build Its general offices
at Muskogee.
National Hank Examiner Sturto
♦ant hax been appointed by the comp
troller of the currency as receiver ol j
the defunct Capital National Hank a|
Outhrle.
An uuknown Choctaw Indian fell
from a trestle on the railroad near
Hugo and waH killed.
A smooth swindler taught the mer-
chants and bankerg in Claremore and
vicinity for nearly a thousand dollar*.
He worked the commisnion racket
and left a number of his victims iv
the hole for various amounts.
Citizens of Muskogee who subscrib*
ed to the I tonus for the Ozark tc Cher*
okee Central and have failed to pay
their notes are to be sued for th#
am ou ins.
Sapulpa Is to have a new three*
Story brick hotel, modern iu all re«
spects, to be built by Chicago and St.
Louis capitalists to whom the city
donatio two thousand Ave hundred
dollars as a bonus.
i rttie.
<ixtly pin
irururp ••xotlc, i und rare;
I k(?pi It In u Hunny nook.
1 dull
rilul
ly flower name to bloom
holder*' Hcnm-M thrilled
beauty and perfum
rumen* hand
Iiik npe'd th* window wide;
Ami tho few nioinfnts that tod uamtetl
tleforc my flowur . hilled
i Imin. oft. with virtue safely houNed
Within tlif hothoiiNi- of tin
Ut rifely necm it* bi-unchen Hp read.
It* hi
I low lovoly doth apt
yet. when the world's temptatl
AituIiihI It hut on« I
Illicitly do It.s hranehen driw
I oft its root Ih chilled to death,
letitia K <'lark, In lloMton Pout
TOOK HUSBAND IN PAWN.
VICTIM OF NOVEL ACCIDENT.
RuMian Spinster Foreclosed on Peas- [Woman Awakens to Find Herself on
ant Woman's Mate. Top of a Freight Car,
A peasant woman, residing in the I Mrs. Joseph Callowltz weut to bed
THE BOOK IN WOMAN'S LOOKS
My If. H. CANrfBLD.
Copyright, mi. by Unity Story I'ubllthing Company.
For ten years Mr. G. Homing Magnus
of Philadelphia had been a writer for
the leuser magazines. He wrote short
stories and essays and sent them to
the editors in the? hopes they would
be accepted. His stamp bill was
large. Still, perseverance, a mild In-
tention and knowledge dug from the
encyclopaedia will tell In time. His
accepted manuscripts increased In
number. This perked hiin up. He
started a bank account of moderate di-
mensions. Nothing makes a man so
brave as a bank account. He wns a
Territorial Auditor Baxter paid to
the Oklahoma Sanitarium Company ,
at Norman th« sum of I20.512.M for "'?1DIdf1 wlt" 'lnK,"l"K "hol.ld.TH
tho care of Oklahoma'* Inaano for the """ ,tt TV VKn"yk'
1 beard. When "lionized" lie used !<>
The Shawnee Herald thinks a man
who was found dead near South Mc-
Alester with three bullet holes in his
head and a knife wound In his breast
may have died from sunstroke.
quarter ending March 31st. At that . . , . , , ,
period there were 410 Inmate. In that i £* b"ard ,nto "har" """" "lul
Institution—a decrease of ten during i hl™elf ,hl" n"rmw " ' «
#hf mm rtor 1 front* 1 hough his legs were wobbly
and his feet large, his "heart was in
the right place." This he knew from
the fact that when startled by a sud-
den noise it "beat thick and quick, like
a madman on a drum."
A boisterous doctor came up behind
lilm, slapped him on the shoulder and
howled:
"Maggy, old mun, how're the brutal
editor men?"
Tho heart, which was In tho right
place, began thumping. Magnus wheel*
ed and faced him, wrath In his pale
eyes.
"I do bo hate to be called 'Maggy.*"
he snapped. "It really is not nsy
name." Then his thin, delicate hand
went to his left side.
"It's all right, Magnus," the doctor
said. "Beg pardon. You looked over-
worked. Take a bit of freo advlco:
Go away somewhere and rest."
It was early summer and the mem-
bers of the literary cluba, tho fashion-
ables and tho preachers wero flitting.
The bank account was healthy. Mag-
nus looked over the papers. Among a
thousand advertisements of places
"with all the comforts of home?," his
eye was caught by a mention of Har-
Attorney General Simon gives an
opinion thai the funds of the territory
cannot bo used in preparing an ex-
hibit of schools for the St. flouts fair.
The decision was given in the case of
the preparatory university at Tonka-
wa Itit is equally applicable to atf
schools.
A car load of oil drilling machinery
arrived at Ardmore last week It is
to be used by tho Santa Fe road west
of Ardmore where tho road has secur-
ed several hundred acres of land.
appearance of Interest. Ho found
all her comments apt. and some of
them shrewd. Ho folt the unconscious
chcrm of her innocence.
One evening, three weeks after tho
beginning of their friendship, she as
sumed guidance of tho conversation,
it was done in a spirit of mischief but
the eyes of C. Iteming Magnus did
not see It. Ho lacked the percc.
live faculty. She astonished him much
by a sound, If not brilliant, monologue
upon tho Elizabethan poets as com
pared with those of the earlier e
and, in a mild discussion of the i
putod authorahip of the Shakesperean
At Okemah at the recent election
the successful candidate for mayor
won the election by one vote. Tho
election had no political significance;
but was hotly contested.
Several oil and asphalt experts of
Texas are making a thorough exami
nation of the aaphalt deposits near
Caddo. They report that tho deposits
are heavy and the quality of the aa-
phalt is very good. They also state
that they find the best indications of
a very large oil field in the Immediate
vicinity.
Commissioner Hubbard of Indian
Territory world's fair commission has
shipped three car loads of exhibits to
St. Louis for Indian Territory exhibit.
Two car loads were made up at South
McAlester and one was made up at
Muskogee The resources of Indian
Territory are well represented.
The body of an unknown man wa.«
found Saturday lying under the edge
of the platform of the Frisco depot st
Sasakioa. I T. it is thought he wan
killed while trying to board a freight
train
Two valuable horses were stolen at
ftdmond one night recently. Prof.
Blake and Mike Kringlln lost ono
each Mr Kringlln heard the thieves
at his place and arrived at his barn
too late to stop them. He took an<
other horse and followed them aome
distance, but could not overtake them.
Representative Stephens Introduced
a bill to acquire title to land for build-
ing. equipping and maintaining an
asylum for the insane in Indian Ter-
ritory. The bill provides for an ap-
propriation of 950,000, for this pur-
pose, and leaves the matter of loc*
tion with the president.
James McCorley was shot and In-
stsntly killed near Madill laat week
by Oscar Paris, who escsped. Henry
Paris, brother of the man who did the
shooting, has been arrested as an ac-
cessory. The quarrel was over some
land McCorley was shot in the
mouth, the ball passing through
breaking his neck.
per's Ferry, Virginia. Ho a#ked about
it And was told it was a good coun-
try, with pure air, farm foods, trout
fishing and cheapness. That seemed
to auit. Next afternoon he alighted
from a dilapidated buggy in front of
"Grassdene" farmhouse. Shadows lay
deep on tho alley. The Potomac
rolled grandly to tho south. Looking
from his window over the sweeping
river, Magnus said:
"Here is rest. I do not want human
companionship. A cultivated mind
needs only itself. Surrounded by these
eternal hills, amid which dwell a sim-
ple people, solitude should bring hap-
piness. Their ways are not my ways,
their souls are half-devoloped, but we
need not clash."
He fell readily into tho habits of the
household. It consisted of Mrs. Lou-
doun, a silver-haired widow, her grand-
daughter. Amanda iAiudoun, a brown-
eyed girl of eighteen, with a delicious
figure, a iua«t> oi brown hair and a
frank smile, and a man of all work,
who ate enormously and said never a
word. The two women gave him no
confidences, for which he was grate-
ful. He was forced to admit that
their manners were perfect, but set
this down to innate female refinement.
They made no effort at all to enter-
tain him. Ho paid his moderate bills
and kept himself to himself. Ho dls-
A "Potomac rose."
Work on the waterworks at Chick
sha has commenced.
A destructive fire visited Chelsea
fast week. The Couch block, compos-
ed of four stone buildings, was des-
troyed. entailing a loss to buildings
of 910,000. A number of mercantile
•establishments sustained serious
losses and the plant of the Chelsea
Commercial was completely destroy
ed. Origin of fire unknown.
B. Q. Martin, grand lecturer for the
A. F. and A, M. in Indian Territory,
died In Ryan. April 1st. He was ono
of the best known masons in the In-
dian Territory.
The Indian Territory Medical as-
sociation which was to have held its
annual meeting at Holdenville the 7th
and 8th of June has been notified that
that town cannot entertain the as-
sociation and arrangements will prob-
ably be made to hold the meeting
elsewhere. Tulsa has asked for it snd
the executive committee has taken it
under advisement.
The citizens of Holdenville have or
ganized a stock company for the pur-
pose of boring a test oil well near
Chat town.
Magnus wheeled and faced him
wrath in his pale eyes,
covered a boat in a small house which
stcod by the river and used to pull
laboriously a half-mile up the stream
of evenings, then float lastly down.
In two weeks, however, he realized
that a cultivated mind needs some-
thing more than Itself. He was bored.
Furthermore, his conscience oppressed
him. He told himself that he was
ungenerous in withholding himself
from these two lonely women, who
knew nothing of books, society, cities
or the great world without. He was
not conscious of a desire to alleviate
tho loneliness of Mrs. Loudoun, but
he thought tho girl would improve
mightily by converse with a man of
his cultivated abilities and expert
ences. She was plump, and her weight
in the boat made the rowing more dif-
ficult, but he endured the extra labor
for the pleasure of watchiug her In-
tellect expand like a flower. She list-
ened to his talk of books with every
plays, worsted him bhdly. She said
they wero the work of Sir Walter Ral
eigh during his eighteen years of con
flnement in the Tower of London,
Next day she invited him into a part
of tho house he had not visited, in-
troduced him to a sitting-room, fur-
nished plainly but In perfect, taste,
seated herself at. an old but tuneful
piano and played for him, with feel-
ing and force, selections from Beetho-
ven, Mozart, Mendelssohn. Chopin,
Verdi, Donizetti, Wagner, Do Koven,
Millard, Sullivan and "Dave" Bra-
ham.
The Philadclphian dimly recognized
that he might possibly havo been
guilty of underestimating the simple
farming family. A little later he be-
gan to hold her in his thoughts and to
speak of her, when on his rambles, as
a "Potomac rose." This was a bad
sign. In all hlsvthlrty years he had
seen no one like her, so simple, so un-
affected, so sympathetic, so beautiful.
This was a worse sign. Ho measured
mentally the height of his bank ac-
count and found it sufficient. This
was the worst sign of all.
It was late in the September of 1898.
There was a slight chill in the air.
The girl, wrapped in some fleecy light
stuff, sat, as was her custom, in the
stern of the little boat, which made no
sound as It drifted. In tho moonlight
her brown eyes looked like jewels. Not
n word had been Bpoken for half-hour.
G. Heming Magnus said:
"Miss Loudon, when I came hero
I thought you ignorant country folk.
I know now what a fool I was. I
must go to-morrow and it makes me
sad. I can't bear to. think that I will
never see you again. I havo never
told you that I love you, but I do sln-
cerely. You must havo seen It. Will
you marry moT"
She did not answer. She had grown
suddenly pale and was staring lutently
at the landing, then not a hundred
yards away. Suddenly she clasped her
hands and a wave of crimson rose to
her face. A happy smile curved her
lips. Then she gazed earnestly at her
companion.
"I have not seen it," she said grave-
ly. "Forgive mo, Mr. Magnus, but I
can not marry you."
In silence he picked up the oars.
The prow of the boat grated upon the
shore. As the girl stepped lightly lo
laud she was taken Into the arms of a
tall, young fellow in khaki uniform.
She staid there a full flve minutes,
while Magnus stood awkwardly by.
Then she turned, saying: "This Is Mr.
Landon. He has been at Santiago.
We have been engaged for two years."
Next sprlug G. Heming Magnus
wrote a book which is in ita 150th
thousand. His heart has gone into It.
Its name is Queen Hose of a Rosebud
Garden."
village of Bjclosaschek, in the Gov
eminent of Vilna, Eastern Russia,
found herself without money on ti*-
eve of a festival, and was very sad
on that, account. Her husband was
known far and near as a ne'er-do-well,
and therefore she did not reckon on
any help from him. In her distress
sho turned to her neighbor, an elderly
spinster, and requested the loan of a
few roubles. But she could not give
any security. "I really do not possess
anything that I could give you as se-
curity," she said, "unless you caro to
take ray lazy husband in pawn." To
her great surprise the woman received
the lo^n, and with tho money went
into the village to make a few pur-
chases. The idea of her obtaining a
loan on her husband appeared to her
very droll, (treat was her astonish-
ment on* returning from her shipping
expedition to find that the old spin-
ster had disappeared with the worth-
less husband. The deserted wife did
not trouble to make inquiries con-
cerning her BiKju.se. On tho contrary,
she rejoiced at her deliverance.
Sam Wouldn't Get Up.
Sam Prultt made his debut in the
boxing game soveral years ago. He
was a big colored fellow of the heavy-
weight division and many shrewd
judges of boxing pronounced Sam a
second Peter Jackson and placed him
as a likely candidate for tho heavy
weight championship. Sam made his
flrst appearance as an amateur and
won several bouts, which boomed his
stock. Then he became a professional
One night, at the San Francisco club
he was boxing a big fellow of tho op-
posite color. During the first two
rounds Sam showed to advantage by
pegging und jabbing his opponent
without a return. During a mix-up in
the third round the while man caught
Sam with a sweeping swing and sent
him to the floor. Refereo Greggains
stood over the fallen boxer and com-
menced counting off the seconds.
When ho reached eight Greggains
sa!d, "Sam, I havo counted eight, you
had better get up."
"Mr. Greggains," replied Sam, "you
can count u thousand and I ain't
never going to get up. You get that
white man there out of the ring 1/
you want me to get up."
The Inevitable.
During the trial of a suit to enforce
e payment of alimony recently,
witness in tho case gave the most
damaging evidence against the defend-
ant In tho suit, once the husband of
a very prepossessing blonde. With
very great frankness he told how the
defendant had mistreated his wife in
almost every imaginable way, and
how on one occasion ho (the witness)
had Interfered to save the poor wom>
an from a beating.
"Oh, you acted the part of a peace-
maker, did you?" said the defendant's
attorney when the voluble witness
was turned over to him for cross-
examination. "You rushed to the res-
cue of a fair damsel i|x distress."
"I <1 id," said thfc wftnens, proudly^
'and I succeeded in saving her."
"Well, well," sarcastically returned
at her home at Centralia, Pa., and
woki' up in the morning ou top of a
box car.
The car. one of an extra west-bound
freight train on tho Lehigh Valley rail-
road, jumped tho track at Railroad
street and Locust avenue, on the
northwest corner of which the Callo-
wits restaurant and residence is lo-
cated. It turned at right angles with
tho track and plunged into the build-
ing. It cut a swath eight feet wide
through tho barroom.
The car was so high that it reached
the flrst floor celling, and as it dashed
into the house it tore out the floor of
the room above the saloon, in which
Mrs. Callowitz and an infant were
asleep. Tho car roof took ihe place
of the floor, and Mrs. Callowitz's bed
settled firmly upon it.
Trainmen and neighbors came to
her assistance and by moans of a
plank she reached a rear room with
hor infant and secured clothing. She
was uninjured, beyond a slight cut on
the nose.
Reflection of Monument.
ORCHID HAS BABY'S PICTURE.
Almost Perfect Likeness of Infant on
Center Leaf.
It has been noticed frequently that
plants, ami especially orchids, bear
curious resemblances to animals. This
"baby orchid" is In a New Rocheile
greenhouse. In India there is un or-
chid which resombles a butterfly,
with coloring enough like thut of a
moccasin snake to bo protected from
.ts natural enemies.
The "baby orchid," obviously, gets
its name from the fact that on the
curves of tho center leaf, or petal, is
the almost perfect likeness of a baby,
partly molded, and in a measure
The Washington national monument,
erected to commemorate the first
President of the United States, is the
loftiest stone structure in the world.
The illustration shows tho pretty ef-
fect produced by Its reflection in tho
water.
Neither of Them Knew.
Lord Kelvin was once being shown
over some big electric works by the
foreman engineer, who was unaware
of the Identity of his visitor. The en
glneer was a capable man, &nfl
thuslastlc about his work, and he
gave long lectures about everything
the lawyer, "then you did not meet ! to Lord Kelvin, who listened with
the fate commonly acredited to the' great interest. Once or twice the
peacemaker?"
"Not just then," said the witness.
'I did later. I married the fair dan*
eel after she got her divorce."
senior partner, who was of the party,
tried to tell tho foreman to whom he
was talking, but Lord Kelvin would
not havo it, and remained an attentive
listener till the round of the works
European Women in Tibet. waa concluded. Then, when tho engi-
Miss Susette Taylor, one of the very nGer 1,a(i finished, he turned to him
few European women who has ever J Quietly and said: "And what is elec
Isited Tibet, gave some interesting tricity T" The man, somewhat
particulars of the customs of the peo abashed, admitted that the question
pie of that mysterious land recently.
When the Tibetan puts out his tonguo
at you. Miss Taylor says that you
must not feel insulted. He is merely
being polite to you after his own
manner, the projection of tho tongue
being a civility equal to our shaking
hands, which In his country is not
etiquette. On one occasion Miss Tay-
lor strayed into a Buddhist temple at
prayer time, and her parasol was con-
sidered such an Interesting article
that prayers were interrupted while
the lama borrowed it and then opened
umong a chorus of murmurs of ap-
proval and admiration.
ho
Ballade of the Girls.
. toast,
mild not pause to drink
To pledge th« health t.f maidens fah,
fhlle thinking still of hor who most
ISxrels In wit and beauty rare?
Who would not thus one moment st>ar«
or lovers devoir, while onward rolls
The world, with all Its sordid care?—
health. I say, to lovely girls!
hat man of us Is too engrossed,
loo huxh-d with tl>«' world's affair
An Instant to desert his post
And drink to damaels debonair?
or/i t l!e ,1, Hr *est ho forswear
Himself In pledging flaxen hair—
« «°veH havo raven hnir—
health. I aay, to lovely pirls!
And s« this glass to beauty's host!
A pledge in which we all may share.
Ih only thus that w.* may boart
The smiles of her without compare.
I he one for whom we each would dar«
id die the death amid the swirls
1 H s,i« ke and battle's flare-
health, I say. to lovely girls!
was altogether beyond him. "Well
well," said Lord Kelvin, "that's the
one thing about electricity you and
don't know."
Hauled by a Thin Cable.
Washington stato will send the fa-
mous "Gray's Harbor Toothpick
the World's fair at St. Louis. This
is a log 271 feet long and almost
twelve feet In diameter at the base.
But the log itself, Interesting as it is,
is not nearly as interesting as the
story of how it was brought out of
tho woods for shipment. This was
done by means of steel ropes only
three-fourths of an Inch In diameter,
with which the tree was dragged
three miles through the forest. These
Coal in Russia and Japan.
Coal is an important article just
now in Japan and Russia. It is said
that Russia had ordered 1,000,000 tons
from Pennsylvania. Japan has 5,00(1 _
square miles of coal lands, and her ' imitations as to require experts to
ropes when three-fourths of an inch
in diameter have a breakage strength
of 100,000 pounds.
Italy's Bogus Antiquities
In reciting the different articles ex-
ported to the United States, in his
annual report, U. S. Consul F.
Keene of Florence, Italy, says:
"Next In value are antiquities
every kind, description and alleged
epoch, but most of them such clever
Africa's Iron Ore.
In addition to the gold and diamond
mines of Africa, iron promises to be
au important industry, as the first
blast furnace has just been erected
near Pretoria, on the line of the rail-
way, and is located in the center of
iron deposits and in close proximity
to coal supplies. The furnace, which
will havo a weekly capacity of 500
tons of nig iron, is to be followed by
rolling mills and a Bteel converting
plant. The ore Is of the hematite and
magnetite variety, and runs 58 to ; 2
per cent of metallic Iron. A survey
above ground and cross-cutting indi-
cate that there are some 62,000,000
tons of iron in sight.—Harper's Week-
ly
exports are ;!.000,000 tons annually
greater than her Imports. It is es-
timated that over 1,000,000 tons are
deposited in the undeveloped coal
fields iu the island of Hokkaido, one
of the northern Islands of Japan. Rus-
sia's Imports are largely in excess of
her exports, notwithstanding she has
a coal area of 20,000 square milefc. ex-
clusive of Siberia. Central Asia and
Caucasia. It Is clear that Russl«
needs developing.
World's Fair Exhibits.
The combined value of the exhibits
in the ten principal exhibit palsces of
tlie World's Fair has been estimated
by E. S. Hoch, assistant to Director of
Exhibits SkifT, at $72,500,000. This es-
tlraato is based on statistics at hand
In the division as to the amount and
nature of the exhibits which will be
Installed in each building. This does
not include the display in the Fine
Arts palace. Nor does the estimate
include the contents of the various
government structures at the exposi-
tion nor the exhibits contained in such
concessions as will be of an exhibit
natura.
de-
tect the deception.
"The only competent Judges in the
matter are the officials of the govern-
ment galleries, whose duty It is to In-
spect and seal all eases of works of
art intended for exportation.
"Should they, however, find any pre-
cious ancient pieces, they ex d?!lcIo.
hinder the exportation, yet thousands
of cases are classified as ancient art
works and dispatched to all couutrier."
—Jewelers' Circular Weekly.
Rattle Box Explodes.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
N. Votaw of Arkansas City, Ark.,
died in agony from burns received
while playing with a celluloid rattle-
box. The baby was sitting on the
floor near a hot stove when the rat-
tie-box took fire and exploded Tho
flames were blown into his faco and
set flre to the clothing, burning the
flesh. The flesh of the hand In which
the toy was held was blown away by
the explosion. There was no one in
the room with the child except an
older aister. The baby was about
four from the stove r ben the ac-
sldent happened.
made by the coloring on the petal,
which has a light yellow ground, with
spots and lines of a rich brown. The
little infant, also ha3 a canopy over
its head. The orchid averages about
three inches in width, und blooms in
January.
EFFECT OF AUTO RACING.
French Doctor Says It Will Produce
Elongated Brain.
A debate recently took place in
Paris between a brain specialist and
an eminent physician as to the efTect
high speed auto racing had upon the
brain. There was r. marked disparity
in the views set forth, and this has led
to much discussion on the subject.
The brain specialist predicted that
motor maniacs will be represented In
the Insane asylums in the near future.
There are a few already there, and he
contended that many more should be
confined although driving their cars
unmolested at the present time.
It remains to be proved how fast
the brain is capable of traveling; if
cannot acquire an eighty-mile speed
per hour, then an auto running at the
rate of eighty miles per hour is run-
ning without the guidance of the
brain, and the many disastrous results
are not to be marveled at.
If this be true, It must, be said that
automobiles run remarkably well alone
and without the aid of a guiding brain,
no A •<!« , st s Cm In. The Ncimal train.
for even at their best speed not more
than 20 per cent of them meet with ac-
cidents, and a large percentage of
these are duo to defective machinery
The brain specialist predicted lliat the
future high-speed autoraobilist
have an elongated brain as compared
with the normal brain, as shown in the
illustration.
EGGS GET IN DEADLY WORK.
N.any Hens Killed by Violent Explo-
sions of Their Frozen Product.
A most remarkable hen story,
vouched for by veracious and respect-
able people, comes from New Kent
county, Virginia. W. P. Tunstall, who
conducts a largo hennery, found sev-
eral of bis fowls dead, with their bod
ies badly mutilated. While Invest!
jratlnir the cause he heard a muffled
explosion and saw a hen fall from her
nest, torn and bleeding.
Looking into the matter further, ho
ascertained that the explosion
due to tho fowls sitting on frozen
eggs, which when they became warm
exploded with deadly effect.
According to Mr. Tunstall, the bod-
ies of the dead fowls had pieces of
eggshell all through them.
A Rat Show.
A successful rat show was recently
held at Cheltenham, England. There
were sixty exhibits of black, gold,
gray, white, piebald and tan rats.
Some agricultural journals, comment-
ing on it, maintain that the rat has
an economic future and may become a
table dainty in England, as it is in
China. To many people tho show is
the first correction of the impression
that rats are all alike, whereas the
arleties of thom, all more or less
alike in characteristic, are quite nu
merous. The flrst display having been
marked success, others will
doubt follow, and the rodent be studied
with increasing attention, the pros-
pect, however, of finding out any-
thing good about him being not at all
promising.
Apple Scoop.
John Bunyan Is reported 0>e owner
of this. Tho author of "Pilgrim's
Progress" used it for removing cores
for apples.
Eastern Man Fond of Eggs.
At Taunton, Mass., a man ate ten
hard-boiled eggs and topped the feast
off with a raw one, all In less than
ten mtoVes, to win a wager.
STRANGE FREAK OF NATURE.
"Sheep-Eater's Monument" In Gold
Region of Idaho.
One of the most remarkable nitural
curiosities on the earth is to be seet>
in a rugged and almost inaccessible
part of tho newly-opened, but already
famous Thi nder Mountain gold region
in Idaho. This strange freak of na-
ture is called "8heep-eater's monu
ment," and is said to have derived its
name from a tribe of Indians formerly
inhabiting the district.
Tho mountain is seventy feet high
and consists of a rough shaft, com-
posed of boulders and gravel, taperinr
slightly upward, and capped by a huge
Irregular rock, whoso weight is efct!
mated at not less than fifty tons. The
cap rests on slender projections from
the shaft that are gradually being
worn away by the elements, threaten
ing the eventual fall of the great
stone. The monument stands on the
slope of a ridge which rises 1,000 feet
und descends 500 feet from the site.
It was undoubtedly formed by erosion.
Tho surface of the declivity has been
£>r centuries, and is yet, being washeci
away by water, the result of melt.
Ing snows and rainfalls.
Originally the capstone was sta-
tioned on the ground, but gradually
tho soil surrounding it was carried
away, a narrow vertical section just
under it being left intact, owing prob-
ably to some hard cementing sub-
stance In the conglomerate and posbU
bly also to the direction in which the
eroding torrents expended their force.
I low long a time was required to form
the shaft may oe only partly realized
when it is stated that there are trees
not. far away taller than the monu-
ment. As the erosive process con-
tinues, the shaft is likely to increase
in length unless a soft spot should be
reached under tho present surface, Ic
which case the curious formation
might topple over and break ictv
pieces.—Montreal Herald.
CODE OF HOBO-LAND.
Wanderers Have an Elaborate System
of Signs.
In the Municipal lodging house, at
Twenty-third street and First avenue,
there was added recently to a varied
collection of captured curios a slip of
wrapping paper upon which are
scrawled the signs by which pausing
A
No ut
You can et food her*.
Dog In tke (trd«n.
Work hert.
Hand** <
V rirk «
: O* o" <
tr to police.
. Three women In house.
t of tofrn quick m possible
tramps let their following hungry com-
rades know what sort of treatment to
expect.
The signs and their meanings are
written in a careful, clear hand, and
they evidently were given by an ex-
perienced tramp to some comrade
serving his novitiate.
Here are the symbols, with their
meanings as given:
Indian picture writing is no more
ingenious than these novel hiero-
glyphs. The rectangle for the garden,
with the straight line body and the
four legs of the dog; tho cross bars
of the prison cell to suggest the po-
lice; the doubled flying arrow to en-
join a hasty departure—all express
their respective ideas cogently and
graphically. When tills key Is In the
"hobo's" possession, the gatopost and
stone stoop markings so frequently
seen in city and in country will indi-
cate to him what prospect he has for
getting a "hand-out."—New York
Times.
Two Queer Names.
A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-Journal gives an interesting
explanation of the origin of two queer
names of places. Tho mountains of
Kentucky afford many queer names of
streams, peaks, towns and villages,
but perhaps none are more remark
able than Kingdom Come and Why
Not. Tho flrst of these is the name of
stream in Leslie county, is taken
from the Lord's Prayer, and is the
scene of John Fox, Jr.'s, recent story,
"little 8hepherd of Kingdom Come."
The second is the name of a small
postofflce in the county, and originates
from the old song "Why Not To
night?" It is said that an Interesting
religious revival was once held In this
locality, at which this song was sung
a great deal, and the people became
so carried away with the music that
the place waa ever afterward called
Why Not.
Pipe Lighter of Bygone Age.
This strange thing of wood and iron,
with the look of a combination chaf
ing dish and sieve, Is a bi-metalBc
three-legged stove. It belongs to a
collection of curios owned by a man in
Tarry town, and was used by the old
Knickerbockers to light their pipes.
They called it a "comforter." FJlleo
with live ooals, it furnished lights for
many a curled-paper taper a century
ago. It is made of copper, with the
upper works of brass, and decorated
with an apple seed pattern.
A Pullman Automobile.
An automobile, costing $35,000 and
equipped with an engine of 308 horse-
power, said to be the largest auto-
mobile in the world, has jnst been
built for Louis D. Schoenberg of
Cleveland. In its appointments it is
probably the finest automobile In the
world, the interior of its Pullman body
being made of mahogany aud uphol-
stered In leather. There are sleeping
car berths at each side ol an aisle,
separated from each other by cur
tains. The autr mobile Is lighted aqd
heated by electricity furnished by a
seven-horsepower dynamo on hosr.l.
There sre also a dining room and
kitchen snd cupboards.
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