PAUL KRUGER KEEPS UP HOPE AND COURAGE. A Pria Tempi reporter has had la Interview with the sculptor Cartel, who returned from Utrecht, whither he had been lent by the French pro Boer (cmmitt i to execute a huit of Mr. Kruger. It being the eve of the sculptor's marrlageT the conversation w as naturally brief,- - but aa he. t thl first foreigner who had ieen Mr. Kru ger inc the conrluaton of peace, w quote his wij'tds: "I had two sittings a day of about half an hour eat h. At the brat 1 told the president that he might in ray presence do whatever he bked, for, photographer; I did wot him to remain motionless. 1 left him to eat, atnohe and talk. President Kruger profited by this to work As I do not urn with bis secretary. dors land Dutch, I was not in the way or indiscreet. As far as the mind is reflected on the countenance, I noticed in the president signs of calmness, strength and confidence. There was not the slightest appearance of sadness or dejection. In those around him I thought I sometimes surprised an expression of passing discouragement, but in the president never. Ill whole frame breathes en rtn-lthe- - e -- e ergy, as people say. 1 here is In his serious attitude and kok the stamp, as It were, of kls piofoundly religYou know that he ious sentiments. passes the best part of hi day in reading the Bible. An imposing Bible room lay open on the table of the wham 4 working,., S, ? Jt,JLrT.; member his loud voice and outbursts when discussing with hia secretary. I did not understand, but I heard. The secretary must have dropped a remark or an opinion that did not please the master. One day I atked the secretary to aay to the presid mt on my behalf, K peeple nk-- that of the Transvaal,., which has shown such civic virtues, cannot die." President Kruger replied, "No, it cannot die. A great nation, on the contrary, will spring from Us undeserved misfortunes, The president, I repeat, has at no moment seemed discouraged. In truth he is ignorant of the latest events In the Transvaal and the real conditions of peace. He knows that the Boeis have laid down1 their arms, and that is all. To those around him the English news the only news given to Europe appears to require confirmation and they are waiting." gled up in it. and H an Instant wav drawn down under water and The night was dark, though sometime s drowned. All efforts to check the taint slur speed of the wounded swordfish were A little while a Utile spare made bright The night was long and like an Iron Oar futile until it became exhausted and died. Then It rose to the surface, heavy on the land: till oer the BttiWls. WmiH Hie eaat; there grWk tight and Boucher," 1111 tangled In the line, tt hlth half waa starlight, and half came up with it. Boston Transcript. aeemed to be The herald of a greater Th- - pale White Guard Against Coal Famine. Turned slowly to the pale rose, and up the height a coal famine by reason of Fearing sea Of heaven slowly climb id. The gray the strike, the members of the Protesgrew d like the sky. A whit gull tant Episcopal church at 8t Clair, Pa . have entered on a novel project. flew toward the' utniortbtfUMSlfr 6 At the'suggestion of their pastor. Rev. the cast. W. H. Holder, the entire male part Where slowly the rose gathered and w- of the congregation are found daily , mazed. on , the refuse banks of the several It was aa on the opening of a door By one that in hia hand a lamp doth hold. collieries pickiug coal for the church's Whose flume la hidden by the garment i winter supply. Their pastor, attired fold The still air moves, the pkUf room Is less in overalls and with sleeves rolled up, , tlpn. accompanies them. The banks are a mile from town and the product is ocean More bright the east, became, the hauled in by teams. The church has turned Dark and more dark against the bright- a capacity for 75 tons in the cellar ening sky and the idea is to fill it. Sharper against the sky the long sea line The hollows of the breakers on the shore Authentic Ghost Story. Were green like leaves whereon no tun doth shine. Eighteen months ago a the Though white the outer branches of man died in London, and a few days ' tree From rose to red the level heaven burned after his death a London journalist Then sudden, as If a sword felt from on declared that he had just seen the high, decedent in a London ciub and had, A blase of gold flashed on the hOHaoe'e moreover, spoken to him. Andrew rim. - . Watson Glider. . Lang once met somebody in the street whom he took for a university man. He spoke to him, shook Money Froxan in Ice. Wallace of 215 Oliver street, bands with him and left him, and Baltimore, carried home $15 In green- the next day he was startled to learn backs, which were imbedded in a that at the very moment when he twelve-pouncake of Ice that he got was speaking to the gentleman In from a free ice distributing bureau, the street his university friend waa h was a dirty chunk of ice, but those dying more than a hundred miles who get their supply free dont atop away. to Insist that their allowance shall Row of Corn Miles Long, first be washed with a hose; so Leon A Kingman county, Kan., farmer lx took his gift home. When the Ice w as washed the money could be seen, growing a row of corn a little more but it looked like a lump of dirt or than 25 miles long for no other reastone, and the boy decided to cut it son than to be singular and extraorout. He chopped the frozen cake Into dinary. He commenced In a 50 acre field and went round and round In a pieces and the roll of bills fell out, Leons mother saw that the bof circle with a lister until he had planthad made a find. She tried to sep- ed the whole In a single row, which arate the bills but they were frozen commences at one of the edges and tightly together. The lump was terminates in the middle. When he placed over a steaming teakettle and cultivated it, of course he had to the Vs and X were soon counted oat. plow the same way. As appearances until $45 lay before the astonished go the field will make aa much crop woman, with an extra dollar bill for aa it would If planted ' in the ordihad pie, ic nary way. good measure. cream and watermelon for supper. J Dawn. . well-know- . well-know- n The movement of the society-seekin- g millionaires to Washington is quite a Interesting a sign of the times as is the nrgira of men of wealth to New York. Indeed, when a millionaire baa sold his stocks, bought bonds with the money and has no duty more fatiguing than that o.' scissoring coupon. he naturally go s to Washington as the next phase in his social metThe reason Is plain, empsychosis Washington has a society In which breeding and brains play a part, and a aotlcty of that kind Is distantly superior to one like that of New York, where money Is the critarlon of social position. It has somehow tome to be a fashion for millionaires to have homes in New York. . A palace built there is conspicuous and gets Its owner talked about. It is a convenient eyrie from which to descend upon Wall street. Furthermore, it la to be supposed that millionaires find one another society especially congenial, since-I- t must be conducive-tennui for any of them But the offsettlng-Hidvantage"Llteraturs" In China. r of such A commercial center as Chi- to be surrounded only by men who A traveler says that in no other think and talk of little sums Instead cago, or of such a manufacturing ter as Pittsburg, are no-- , lest pro- - ot big, round, mouth-fillinmillions. country has ha ever seen such tea for llterature .lx, every .form. at and lorefutrtftrihe So tile millionaires flock tvsHbertn erence China. " exlstslu avenue York la New one and that la Fifth after another for aougut keep orjr A printed word is regarded almost countenance to the beat ot their abilIts bnalnes advantages atone. as a sacred thing, and this sometime It is equally evident that the men ity. leads to amusing incidents when s . - who make thiif residency In the seaboard metropolis are not attracted Women with double china are apt to Chinese teacher Is dealing wfUTa t J brisk American pupil, thither by any supposed social advan he exacting in love affaire. This returned traveler spent four hours a day, while in China, with a native teacher ot the language, and one day, as the young men ' were starting on a walk together, and the American waa about to put os a new pair of shoes, he heard a horrified exfrom the Chinaman. clamation A story which has been going the tened through the darkened church to You not put foot on words!" he rounds of social and church circles In the apartment indicated. The door to the name and size gasped, Rochester, N. Y., according to n dis- waa closed, and, without giving Its marked pointing inside the shoe; and it was a In York New the Tribune, has occupant time to answer hia knock in patch time before be recovered from aroused a great deal of amusement at person, he opened the door and en- long his amazement that any one should a of known and the tered. expense widely I be so lacking in proper respect as to welt liked young clergyman, whose- - poHis astonishment and entertain- treat the symbols of his own lansition as rector of one of the richest ment may b Imagined when one guage or any other in such a way. and most fashionable parishes In this readB that he discovered the young part of the state has brought him Into rector arrayed In the complete vestCrow and Dog Good Friends. prominence In the affairs of the Prot- ment of the absent bishop, stepping There is a large Newfoundland dog estant Episcopal diocese- - of western sideways and back before the long and a crow In Ridley Park at Cheater, New York. pier glass, with the aid of which the The tale Is told as follows: A well ctorgymen were accustomed to as- Pa , that are on speaking terms with each other. The crows name Is Jim, known bishop of the Eptscopat church sume Jheir robes. Yhv Vestments handsome antmatrjs sreBteu!al.4!wtltia kmgi tlte vtsite-rRover. Both are owned by Julius C. church one several rectors wearbut became the young said, young day they week ago, and, upon going away for er admirably. What conversation Smith, head landscape gardener for a short business trip to a suburban passed between the two, or whether the Pennsylvania Railroad company. When Mr. Smith first took the bird village, left hit episcopal robes In the theWshnp noticed aay change A the care of the young clergyman, aa had manner in which he had done up the borne, The crow espied Rover, and t been his habit In other churches under vestments, has never been divulged, flew from its new masters hand and A friend of but the story, as It appears above, has lit on the dog s back. At once there similar circumstances. to he a mutual understanding the young rector called to see him the been told as too good to consign to seemed between dog and bird, the former next afternoon, and was told by the oblivion. in affectionate manner, verger that this Rev. Mr. Blank was in " the and rewe and the latter vestry rootja. The visitor, who waa - If there were no turning the caresses of Its new friend on familiar term with the rector, haa- - should stagnate. by stroking beak. Jim and Rover seem to thorNow all is different. The FRlENDS TO LIFT HER BURDEN oughly understand each other, and are of.themriiaTellledraad the generally found together,.!,: Calamity Jane's Sorrows Touch tha younger generation coming up Is too Hearts if Old Associates. busy to pay heed to this woman who Texas Visited by Noisy Meteor. There la a movement on foot for helped blaze the way of the pioneer. A dispatch from Navasota, Texas, collecting money to be used aa a char- She now has no way ot making a live- says: Last night about 10:30 oclock and It ls up to the charitably a meteor ity fund for Calamity Jane, who la lihood passed over this city, going now in the country that Uea around inclined to see that she does not die from the south to the north. Quite in the poorhouse. Yellowstone park, says the Butte a number of people who bad just returned from church witnessed tha disLondon Writer Describes Ytrkts. A move was recently started oxer play, which was grand.1 The approach Charles T, Yerkea is credited with first attracted attention our way to bve Jane removed to the by a deep Park county poorhouse," said a Butte saying that men are in their appren- rumbling sound, resembling until ot reach to refused the I aha and they ticeship go. age flatly wan, of a freight and then business man ts not suddenly the heavens train, do not blame her la the least for 40 and that were lighted by doing so and 1 am la favor ot collect- tipe until he' is ten years Older than a large ball of fire which shot across that. The writer who quotes the heavens from horizon to horizon. ing enough money to make Jane him thus draws this brief pen picture A , ln her old age. fiery trail of sparks was left behind Think of the many kindly acts ahe of the former Chicago traction magwhich made it appear as a large Pallid, dark-eyehas done for others when she had nate; comet A few seconds after the dismeans. Why. R ts a shame to even with white hair and mustache and an appearance of the meteor a loud exallow the (necessity for such a aug-- - air of subdued refinement, the railway plosion, followed by a deep rumbling, gostkra as sending her to a poorhouse. autocrat might be taken for a quiet was heard In the direction of the flyof ing ball of fire, which is Calamity Jane i a pioneer. In the scholar rather than a graduate thought to . table have been caused by- the metfeor early days she was one ot the - n the most strenuous rough-and-t.strikin world. of the school westIn No v fighting the - r character , ing the earth. one came 'in contact Witcher whqjSid , To Study Auroral Displays. not feel tjhe benefit ot her kindly acts - Swordfish Drowned Fisherman. Prof. Blrksland Is at the head of and encouragement. Just now she is A sad story is told of the fate of over in the Yellowstone country try- the expedition which leaves Copen- an old fisherman from Gloucester who ing to sell her unique book to tourists. hagen this summer for, Nova Zerabla. went out on the last trip of the fishBut tie successful day of Calamity He will have six companions and th ing schooner, Joseph H. Cromwell, Jane ia past. Her books no longer object of the, expedition is to study The schooner has returned with his sell well.-- . Time was when tourists the phenomena connected with aun body. JWhlle on the fishing grounds "considered It an honor to buy Jane's raT displays. Thepartywltl winter off the Georges a big swordfish waa books and It- - waa considered a lack at Matolshktn Star in a house built observed crossing the bow. A harpoon of progr SKiveness to make a trip west some years ago by the Russian gov was shot Into its body and fisher- and cot purchase one of these unique eminent and occupied In recent turn- - man Boucher went down in a dory to mera jy aJRussian painter souvenirs. J the Hne, He got on foot tan-s tages. d g im YOUNG RECTOR ADMIRED VESTMENTS OF BISHOP. f , A o 5 i - -- "bow-wowin- fault-finder- g caw-cawin- s -- -- Inter-- h com-fortab- le soft-voice- by any one. Both ot the majority catching trap rats and mice no provision is made above objections are overcome ia the for disposing of the rodents, ana if a trail shown in the accompanying Novel-Hous- e. One of the most novel houses ever built was shaped in the form of an elephant It was the owners boas; that there, was a, free circulation of air below the rooms, and that, an abundant supply of light waa ensured. The legs contained flights ot stairs and the trunk was utilised chiefly fof water pipes,' etc, A fire unfortunately destroyed this novel mansion; and though its owner maintained that It was a great success, yet it is significant that he never built another house on the elephantine plan. - A Cave Uaed by Indiana. larger Indian cave than the one recently found in Harwlnton has been discovered in the woods on the farm of B, A Anderson at Stanwich, Conn., on the very highest point, extending over ninety feet, with an opening at either end, where the Indians used to hide their plunder. It is in a large lot called to this day by the old residents the Wigwam lot. Mr. Anderson has found In It arrowheads, pieces of pottery and part of a crude bracelet made but of different colored pieces of flint. Fish Story Champion Tl? er. ch b mpton spring trap is used there is the disagreeable task of releasing the dead animal hy hand, which naturally is Removes Chill from In seaof the fact that at this spite son of the year the major portion of the country I undergoing what seems to the residents like tropical heat, there are many localities where the nights are sufficiently cold to warrant th.e building of a fire In the grate in rooms which are provided with them. As these grates and fire places are not as common as one might wish for, recourse may he had to the heat genet ator, shown In the accompanying drawing, which is the idea of George S. Chase of Springfield, Mass. The invention is practically a radiator, which gathers up the rising heat rays from the flame of the lamp and distributes them about the room instead of allowing them to rise vertically to the ceiling The circulation of this heated air also produces a current which draws the air from the room atid brings it in contact wita the hot surface of the genet ator, thus further increasing the genet ation of warm air The generator is built up of A series of thin metal plates, with an opening at the bottom for the insef tion of the lamp chimney. It is sup ported by a vertical post and project ing arm, the latter being binged tp Pressure of Light The of pressure light impinging on bodies, first predicted by Maxwell, has The lately been actually measured. consequent repulsion between the sun and the earth, for example, Is very great and amounts to about 100,000,000,000,000 dynes. The gravitational attraction between the two vsmr tw bodies - la- ,- of- - course, very much greater; it Is, In fact, about time as greaL Prof. Woodward concludes bis address with the remark that it la a curious and a puzzling, though perfectly obvious, fact, that mankind aa a whole, lives far less in the thought ot the present than In the thought ot the past; and that as a race we have more respect tor the myths of n wm r 40,000,-000,000,00-0, present season Is being told by James Patrick of Kansas City. He sajs that he Is In receipt of a letter from his sister, who lives in southwest Missouri, "in "which she states that a few days ago her boys led the borsea down to a pond to drink and that while the horses- wore thus engaged bass Jumped out of the g water and Into the jacket pocket of one of the boys. Robbed. who govern-ment- - size can be used, and, as there Is no connection between the chimney and the generator, the lamp can be removed if occasion requires. antiquity than we have for the certainties of exact science. From time immemorial tradition has dominated reason in the masses of men. Each race has lived under the sway of the thought of some preceding age. As it vigorous thinker he regrets the waste of human effort and of human time. Those who sire Interested in this pect of the subject "will do well to compare this address with one by Dr. Langley on the fLsws ot Nature, printed In Science for June 13. His contention Is that there are no "laws of nature, no certainties of exact science. The discrepancy In conclusions Is not difficult to unravel, but there Is no space here available. Readers are advised to aee the two addresses in question. f vided into sections, with an equal amount of gas in each, and in case ot puncture in one of the sections-th- e remaining pockets would have sufficient buoyancy to support the car until repairs could be made. - )ld Postmaster Hoom permit the neater to be elevated for the rmoval of the lamp. As the sleeve which carries the supporting ana is adjustable on the post, a lamp of any Going anchored; the higher up height the majority of people do not care to it was the greater would he the temptation to ascend and view the scenery. The intention of the inventor is to provide a car of sufficient buoyancy to carry cables of great length, with means for drawing the balloon down to anchor it close to the ground when not in use. The gas reservoir is di- d .Postmaster Roswell Beardsley, ls snpposed to be the oldest a Balloon Observatory Captive R was up in a balloon fa a feat that of the ftslr story" drawing, the invention of JoaepA Chagnot of Torrlngton, Conn. water Th device constats of reservoir, two bait holders and a tilting platform. The primary hait holder ia located above the inclined runway, and the second holder over the tilting platform. In use, the animal, finding It difficult to get the bait from the primary holder, will move forward and attempt to" ' ' obtain' the second morsel. In so doing he will pass beyond the pivoted point of the tilting platform and his weight will cause it to tilt and will precipitate him into the reservoir where the death penThe platform imalty Is inflicted resumes Us operative posimediately tion. a' Rose-colore- WHY RICH MEN BUILD HOMES IN NEW YORK. ft la becoming one of the Hied traditions of American social life that the American millionaire, after accumulating his fortune, should take himself to -a permanent residence in a costly mansion In New York, The custom la not peculiar to any city, state or section. From the Huntingtons and Clarks of the western coast to the febwaba and Carnegie of Pittsburg, all, after a probationary existence in their respective neighborhoods, meet In Fifth avenue. This transmigration to the New York stage of so lal incarnation Is becoming too marked a feature of the social body to be ig- nored, but it is not so easily to be accounted for. Not all the millionaires go to New York for business reasons, though some of them do. The advantage of being in the financial storm center at Wall street is doubtless considerable, The man whose money is In stock can find nearly everybody whom he need dea with somewhere between Central Park and the Bat-ter- Automatic Trap for ILodents In the of for not fancied perform, but if the balloon were captive, with no Chance for .tt to escape. It would make little difference at what tach a balloon to a single cable wound on a drum and allow a few persons to ascend at a time, but the amount of power required is much greater than that necessary to raise the elevator in this case. There is centra) opening in the observation platform, through which the car rises to discharge and take on passengers, with a single cable to operate the car. Joseph Greta of New York is the Inventor. Adjustable Book Holder place even when the support is tilted Adjuatabl Book Holder. forward beyond the vertical line. Ed The book holder shown In the picture is capable of attachment to the wall, tree, gas fixture or a piece of furniture, and In all cases the book is held perfectly quiet, and when once J u s f ed under the light p rope rl there Is no variation, and the arms and body of the reader are free to find the most comfortable position possible. There is a shelf of sufficient size to support an ordinary book, with a Headquarters for Toothpicks. Only one characteristic distinguish- clamp sliding on the vertical rod to es the little village of Strong, Me, hold the book open at the proper from the thousands of otters that are place. The upper part of the fixture scattered all over New Eugland. That consists of a telescoping rod which Is the peculiar Industry which serves can be adjusted to any desired length to support the entire community. and has a hook between the support Strong la famous for nothing but and the crimped horizontal portion of toothpicks, but it Is' known in the the rod below. This crimp permits trade as the place from which come the adjustment of the book or paper the majority of the toothpicks that at any desired angle, the sliding win S. Antlsdale of Chicago, UL, is are used in the United States. clamp holding the reading matter in the inventor. employe In the .United, States, at North having been postmaster Iain sing since LS28j sustained the first loss he has ever met at the hands of burglars the other night. Mr. Beardsleys store was entered from the cellar and a quantity of stamps and postal cards was removed.. The loss is about $50. Mr. Bearsley is 93 years old. - t yd best-know- - . v Claim Mins Is Haunted. Three hundred miners the other daT refused to go down the Giyncorryg colliery, near Port Talbot, In Wales, because they said It was haunted. It was . asserted that the figure of a woman bearing a lighted lamp had been seen In the workings and the screams of a woman heard. les, steel works. On plate and copper orks and numerous other factories generating station of the South Wales Electric Power Distribution company of different kinds. There will be five was recently laid by Sir Frederick stations. The dynamos Bramwell. Thus has been inaugurated, alternators will be driven by .steam, says Nature,, the second scheme In the engines having a total capacity Great Britain for the supply of elec- of 1 power. having been tricity In bulk, the first - Newcastle-on-TynFire engines are carried on started last year St trolley Now Is the season for the calTow The area which will be sup- cars in Springfield, Mass. The car youth to enjoy the festive sport with plied by the South Wales company is but Bine and a half inches high snd at the fhe antique spinster q'sportlng has an extent of about 1,000 square the truck under on end can be wahn resorts. miles. The district Includes collier- - movoA abd the engine run upon It three-phas- e -- 5,000-hors- e f. .4 V t in Britain Electricity The foundatlon stone bf tbe first 4 A --