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Show , DEFEAT ON FILIPINO INSURGENTS. the splendid location we had secured "On at least one occasion I bad snakes la my boots," said the man with the red nose to a reporter of the and it New Orleans was no, wild delirious fancy, either. Tragic History of Old French Chateau! AMERICAN TROOPS INFLICT DECISIVE Real Snakes in His Boots CONQUEROR Of MOROS. and the coziqess of our surroundings SULTAN KILLED. TYPICAL NATIVES. generally. Of course we had the usual quantity of stimulating things which belong to a fishing outfit, The snakes were genuine. They were and to tell the truth about the matter, very much alive, could crawl and I had been pulling away at the jug and aid crawl, and they had eyes and popping beer bottles until I was just fangs and forked tongues and all the a little shaky. After we had been out other things which go with a about a week I began to see things and complete member of the that a man under ordinary circumreptilian species. I had gone out on stances could not see. I was just in a Ashing trip with some friends up in this condition one morning when I Arkansas, aad we were quartered in rolled out of my cot to begin the days a tent on one of the best lake3 in the sport. The sun had been up for some southeastern section of the state. It time. was during the hot season. I never My boots were standing beside the saw as many snakes in all my life as cot where I had put them the night bewe found around that lake, and they fore. In throwing my legs over the Times-Democra- t, well-mad- first-clas- s e three-quarte- rs lings to the floor and began drawing the other two into their places. Mrs. Bronson here entered the struggle, but still further reinforcements were required, and the children came. The family lined up along one stick and pulled till Bronson strained his wrist, and let go. Then the web got in its work, and two children were thrown violently to the ceiling, while. Mrs. Bronson, caught by the escaping frame, was knocked breathless. Bronson said a few things, gathered up the children and renewed the attempt. But the esprit de corps was gone from the community efforts, and after a few further trials, in which the list of injured was like that of an excursion train accident, Bronson summoned a neighbor. The two men toiled all the afternoon, and then the Heigh-bolet go of the straining web at the wrong time. It was Bronsons jaw that suffered. BVonson thought hf dld it purposely, and the two fought earnestly and convincingly for half an hour, at the end of which time the neighbor's wife came and called him to supper. "My dear, said Bronson that evening, when the doctor left the house, I man will give think if the second-hanyou 25 cents for that mattress you'had better take it. I always despised that second-hanman, and this will be a glorious opportunity to show my ill will toward him. Portland Oregonian. d d One would not be surprised to learn that the attempt of the Northern Methodists to raise $20,000,000 as a twentieth century fund had been abanBut the fact doned as impracticable. is that $17,000,000 has already been subscribed, and the remaining $3,000,000 may be fairly said to be In sight, says the Watchman of Boston. This great sum is to be devoted to freeing Methodist churches from debt, and for educational work. Methodism in the United States for the next five hundred years is certain to receive a mighty impulse from this great achievement i The September number of the Church Economist gives the result of how careful investigation to show other denominatians are getting on with their twentieth century funds. The Methodists of Canada set their figures at $1,000,000, and they have raised $250,000 more than that, and the Presbyterians of Canada put their mark at $1,000,000, and have already obtained $1,430,000, with a probability that they will receive $150,000 more. The English Methodists have raised $4,500,000; the English Congregation-alists- , who sought $2,000,000, have secured $3,312,000; the English Baptists, who put their figure at $1,250,000, have already received $1,000,000, and the Congregationalists of Wales, who set Would Prove a Dear Girl. He was asking the old man for his daughter in marriage. He was talking tremblingly, hesitatingly, as you read of in story books. Now came the old mans turn to speak, and as he began his face was white with expassion, and his voice shook with citement. You want to marry my daughter?" Ah, twenty years ago your he said. father crippled me in a stock deal, And and I swore to be revenged! now my time has come. He paused for breath, and the aspirant for the maidens hand was about to beat a hasty retreat In the face of supposed defeat, when the father broke forth again. Yes, sir, I swore to be revenged, and Ill now strike the father through the son. Want my daughter, eh? Well, take her, and may she prove as expensive to you as she has to me! The old man dropped into his chair, worn out with the excitement of his plot, and the young man fainted , A Vivid Description. about the man. to the said young she play, They say that climax at the close of the third act was superb. Yes, I am inclined to think it was very good. Cant you describe it to me? Why, the heroine came stealthily on the stage and knelt, dagger in hand, behind a clump of pink ribbons. The hero emerged from a large bunch qf purple flowers, and as soon as sne perceived bim she fell upon Do tell me something J, out to secure have received $100,000 in five years, $860,000 in three years. The Economist reckons that the churches have secureu $30,000,000 of the $40,000,000 proposed, and that the movement in all its branches is proving an unexpected and overwhelming success. Doubtless the entire sum proposed will be secured. One of the interesting features connected with this movement is that the raising of these huge sums has not diminished regular contributions for denominational causes. It was feared that offerings for missions would be lessened, but that has not been the case. Again the assertion has been demonstrated that there is no fixed sum for benevolence, like the alleged wage fund of the political econom ists, which cannot be diverted to one cause except at the cost of others. It has been shown that gifts depend on the inculcation of the giving spirit and that the larger the gifts the larger they In a recent expedition against Filipino insurgents Capt. John J. Pershings column completely routed the Maciu Moros in the island of Mindanao, killing or wounding a hundred of them and capturing and destroying forty forts. Two Americans were wounded. The Moros had retired to their largest and strongest fort on the lake shore, and Capt. Pershing attacked them with artillery, bombarding the enemy for three hours. Lieut. Lor-inleading a squad of men, attempted to set fire to the fort He crept under the walls and started a blaze, but the Moros discovered - him and forced the Americans to retreat The Sultan of Cabagulan led a sortie at the head of a band of fanatics armed with krlses. They crept A CIVIL WAR VETERAN. WOMEN will be. These great sums have not been contributed by syndicates of rich men. For the most part they have come from people in moderate circumstances. A married man says the best alarm clock is his wifes elbow. him, stabbed him twice and sank half conscious into a very handsome aigrette. This may sound queer, but the lady in front oi me didnt remove her hat, and thats how it looked. New Definition of Wall Street Man. Hello, papa, cried the daughter of the Wall street operator after the father reached his porch, after his ride out from the city on a suburban train, and seated his little one on his knee. But, papa, Ive got one you can't guess. Cant guess? said the financier. "Another new joke? A good one, too, chattered the little girl. You ought to guess it, but you cant Now, if a student is a book worm, what kind of a worm are you? Well, that Is a hard one. Were all supposed to be worms, in one way, said the speculator. Yes, but youd be a tape worm, broke in the little girl, with a burst of laughter; "you read the ticker tape so much. Thats right," was the answer. Doyle Mistaken for Kitchener. On several occasions lately Conan Doyle, while walking in London, has been mistaken for Lord Kitchener, much to the authors embarrassment. Once he was nearly mobbed by a yelling crowd of enthusiasts, who cheered madly for the ero of South Hafrica." By the way, it has seldom fallen to the lot of man to reach affluence in a literary career so early In life as has been the case with Sir Conan. He is only 43, richr titled and popular. - were discovered and many of them were killed. The Moros abandoned the fort after fifteen hours bombarding and Capt. Pershing restroyed the rest of the forts and returned to Camp Vicars. 7FPE OF It is believed the moral effect of the defeat of the Moros will be great. HOPO OTTCZZl Gen. Davis ordered that hostilities be stayed in order to permit the Sultan of Bacolod and other hostile Sultans through the grass and sprang up and to make peace.. attacked the Americans. The Sultans of Maciu were confident The Sultan was wounded six times of their ability to defeat the Ameriand boloed an American before he cans and vowed before the fight to enter slavery voluntarily if they themdied. His followers were killed. In the darkness Capt. Pershing took selves were defeated. Gen. Davis sent Gen. Sumner, in his batteries within a hundred yards of the fort, closed in his Infantry command ' of the American force in lines and resumed the attack. The Mindanao, a congratulatory telegram Moros broke through twice and at- on the success of Captain Pershing tempted to escape by the beach, but and the small American loss. every Sunday into the woods, but last Sunday she killed her first mountain United States Admiral Has a Distin- - lion. She was alone on the mountainside, when she was attracted by the guished Naval Record. Admiral Siias Casey, U. S. N., who baying of her hound. She found he forbade the Colombian government had a large lion up a tree. As forces to transport munitions of war she prepared to shoot at it she saw a or unarmed soldiers over the isthmian second lion looking hungrily at her railway, is one of the few American through the thick foliage. Just then naval officers still on the active list her husband came up attracted by the who saw service in the civil war. He noise of the dog. At the count of was graduated from the naval acade- three the two rifles rang out and two my in 1860 and was aslgned as exec- tawny brutes fell to the earth mortalutive officer of the gunboat Wissa-hicko- ly wounded. As they rolled in their which took a prominent part death struggles Mrs. Dobrowsky saw in the attack on Charleston under Ad- - a third mountain lion higher up in the tree than his fellows had been. She killed it with one ball. The smallest lion measu-.efive feet. San Francisco Chronicle. CASEY Huge Sums for Church Work chare haunted by Fouquet and the duke, duchess apd that high old Jink, times take place in the centuried m to-da-y a Wire Mattress Bronson had never taken a wire mattress to pieces, but he always thought he could. The mattress was too big to go up the stairway of the new house except on the instalment plan, and it had to go up there, the thing being so ordered by Mrs. Bronson. Bronson examined the mattress and found that it was composed of four modified scantlings, framed together by bolts and kept firm by the wire web. He diagnosed the case as one requiring a monkey wrench, and after he had 6earcned half or of an hour he found the wrench. He noticed that the nuts on the bolt turned hard, but said that they were rusty, and a little patience would conquer. When the nuts finally came off the two end frames flew together like long-los- t sisters and shut Bronson up in the folds of the web like a salmon in a gillnet He goi out after a while, and when he had expressed himself succinctly carried the mattress upstairs, where he set about putting it together again. 10 his great surprise he found that the web had shrunk about four sizes and that the frames refused to resume their former positions. He tugged and hauled for a while, but the sticks had an irritating habit of wrenching themselves out of his grasp and joining forces, and he always happened to be in the trajectory of one of them. At last he nailed two of the scant thrown into prison on the f Vaux-Praslin- were of all sizes, shapes and colors. side of the cot I knocked both boots The heat was so intense it was dur- over. You can guess how I felt when ing a severe drought of 1881 that all two or three snakes wriggled out of my the snakes of that section gathered boots. I simply went up in the air. My around the lake in an efTort, no doubt, nerves were in no condition to be to keep cool. They would slip down tampered with. I couldn't get out of to the waters edge, burrow in the mnd the cot, and I couldnt stay in it I and cut other curious capers because simply felt like melting into thin air. One of my friends witnessed the of the prevailing drought. Late in the evening they would whole thing, although I did not know take a whirl at swimming, wriggling it at the time. I was ashamed to say out into the lake for some distance, anything about the snakes until he and then pull back to the shore again. brought the question up. Finally he I mention these facts merely to show said something about the snakes that that snakes were plentiful in that sec- had spent the night in my boots, and tion. The heat had made them des- Ill swear to you I never felt better in perate, but we never anticipated any my life, for up to that time I was very trouble from this source. We pitched much in doubt about the genuineness our tent at the bead of the lake, and of the vision. I was glad to know that were inclined to gloat somewhat over the snakes were real live snakes. Prowess of The marriage of Mile. Casimir-Per- J Casimir- ler, daughter of Perier, of France, and the fact that she will make her home in the cha, near Paris, teau of serve to recall the tragic history of j I this famous mansion, one of the most I It man. , erected by magnificent ever I is associated with scenes of luxury, I and splendor, of which Lucullus never I even dreamed, while connected with I it are a murder, a case of suicide and a death, If not of violence, at least of disgrace. jI The chateau of Vaux was erected by Fouquet, the minister of financeof King Louis XIV. He became minister, in 1658, and while before this he was honest, so far as known, he immediately upon attaining official position began to confound his own purse with the public coffers, into which he plunged his greedy hands. To leave a monument after him and to display his sense of splendor and magnificance he built the chateau of Vaux. He spared no expense and lavished upon the mansion a sum that To find would redeem a kingdom. room for a park he tore down three villages. This park was a bewilderment to the eye. Its fountains, cascades, lakes and statues were all that art and money could make them. Upon the building and the grounds he would expended a sum which equal $40,000,000. The chauteau was the most splendid in France, or even in the world, and when it was completed Fouquet the like of gave a housewarming which was never before seen and probably never since. King Louis and his court were his guests. The table groaned beneath its weight of service in solid gold and the corners of the earth had been ransacked for delicacies for the royal and courtly palate. "Heaven Itself was jealous of the fete, wrote an historian of the great function and while the hyperbole is manifest, and, indeed, blasphemous, it must be admitted that earth never before saw such splendor and display. It would have been better for Fouquet had he been less extravagant The King wondered where he obtained so much wealth and his suspicions became aroused. His courtiers fed his suspicions and a little later Fouquet was arrested and thrown into the bastile. An examination of his papers revealed that be had been shamefully squandering the public funds. A letter from a lady found GO miral Dupont He served on the Quaker City in the attack on Fort Fisher, and later commanded in the assault on Fort McKee. In 1889 he was made captain, and in 1898 was promoted to the rank of commodore. Good Bag of Mountain Lions. Mrs. A. F. Dobrowsky, the young and pretty wife of a jeweler, killed two mountain lions on Sunday at Bear mountain. The man and his wife go Improved Screw Propellers. The latest development of screw propellers is due to Mr. C. A. Parsons. The blades are given reduced pitch toward their tips, small vanes being also provided on the propeller cone, and the effect is to admit of high speed without captivation and to give a greater mean thrust than is possible with blades of constant or increasing ! pitch. Development of Finland Town. Tmmerfors, a town of 50,000 inhabitants, known as the Manchester of Finland, was founded about a century ago by a Scotchman named Its mills are driven by waterpower, and the town, under an imperial decree, has the right to import all its machinery and raw materials duty free until Jan. 1, 1906. ELECTORS IN NORWAY Experiment Seems Likely to Prove a Great Success. In Norway the women have for the first time taken part In the municipal elections, for, according to the new law, anyvNorwegian of the male sex is a municipal elector, and this without the payment of any tax. It is to correct the liberalism that the electoral qualification has been given to woman, which qualifications apply to any unmarried woman, the tax being 300 crowns in the country and 400 in the city. Further, all married women are electors whose husbands are taxed from 300 to 400 crowns, and thus a total of 200,000 women have become municipal electors, comprising therein the women of all classes, working-womeand women of the middle classes as well as those of the highest social group. Not only are the women electors, but they are also eligible for election, and, in consequence, the municipality of Bodo has elected Mr. and Mrs. Aspelund, and Christiania has two women councillors in the municipal assembly. Public Opinion. n Temptation of Fretting. There has been such a crowd of smart people at the Saratoga races this year that women have visited the race track who have never done such a thing before in their lives, and have pot only been there, but have made small bets. I dont know what my family would think of my betting on the races, said one very charming woman, whose husband has been in the government service and was at one time Minister to Greece. "We are all blue Presbyterians, and I have hardly felt one scruple except when I have lost money. - Fin-layso- n. ARCHBISHOP KAIN Pear Felt for Head of Archie-piscop- $200,-000.00- however Chateau de I I Vaux-Praili- mansion erected by a cost minister of finance thlevta ot n money elsewhere so as to keep it 0 of the reach of the avaricious Fo ill quet 0 000,000. ON EARTHQUAKES, Pr Novel Defense of a Railroad Company to Suits for Damages to Farm. The alleged earthquakes in parti it eastern Pennsylvania are likely to be made a matter of judicial inquiry. Near New Market, at the northetj boundary of York county, and near New Cumberland, in Cumberland couj. ty, some of the smaller streams have changed their course since last Vinter, several wells have become dry and other wells and springs yield far less water than ever before in their history. Some of the property holders declare tnat this state of affairs has been brought about by blasting done by a railroad company last spring and summer and they propose to bring suits for damages. Others take the view that the change in watercourses, veils and springs is due to the small uplift of that part of the state announced to the public last June. It is announced that this will be the defense of the railroad company to the suits for damages, and that consequently experts in geology will be called to the witness stand by the d- Archbishop John J. Kain, whose indisposition of the past six months has Just developed into a critical illness, has been the official head of the orch. episcopal see of St. Louis since 1895, and had been coadjutor for sev eral years previously during the infirmity of the venerable Archbishop Kenrick. Before his advent in St, Louis Archbishop Kain had been bishop of Wheeling, W. Va., and his early services to the, church were spent in missionary work in the Blue Ridge Duchess of Choiseul-Prasliamong them thanked him for a gift of 10u,000 francs. One man, a duke, had received a present of 600,000 francs; another nobleman had received 200,000 and so it went. Fouquet could not expect any mercy and received none. His estates were confiscated and he was thrown into the citadel of Pignerol, where he later died. The glory of the chateau as the years unrolled declined and most of its lands were sold. In 1760 the lead pipes which had fed its lakes and cascades and fountains were sold and though only a small portion of their value was realized they brought 490,-00- 0 francs. The same year the estate passed into the possession of the ducal family of Choiseul-Praslland the mansion henceforth was called the chateau de Vaux-PrasiThe tragedies are connected with the ducal family. In 1824 the then Duke of Praslin, Carl, married Fannie, the beautiful daughter of Gen. Sebastlanl, a marshal of France. For seventeen years they lived happily together and had nine children. In 1841 the duchess engaged a governess. Archbishop Kain. Mile. Deluzy, tor her daughters, and Mountains of the old Dominion. He the duke promptly fell in love with is 61 years of age and a public-spiriteher. Family dissensions arose and citizen. He was born in West the governess was dismissed, going Virginia. to Paris, where the duke visited her. n d Statue of Cecil Rhodes. John Tweed, the sculptor, bag his statue of Cecil Rhodes, which is to be erected in Kimberley. It is on exhibition in London. The statue is more than life size. It represents Mr. Rhodes in the act ot making a speech, his right foot advanced and firmly planted, his hands clasped behind his back and his fine, uncovered head thrown somewhat on one side in a characteristic pose. He stands, too, in a tweed suit and closely buttoned jacket he always affected, and, "though baggy trouser kneel and bulging coat pockets do not lend themselves to artistic presentation, it is a virile and striking statue of Mr. Rhodes, says a London critic. Pleasures of Alpine Climbing. Perhaps ro woman has ever had a more severe trial of endurance than a Miss Bell, who was much talked about in Switzerland last summer. She made only the most difficult ascents, and finally tried the Finsteraarhorn from a new and supposedly inaccessible side. With two guides she got up to a- - considerable elevation when the weather suddenly became cold and stormy, and the party had to spend a night amid the rocks, with no protection. The descent on the following day could not be completed, and another, still mote uncomfortable, night had to be spent on a glacier. Tbs party arrived at the Grlmsel Hospice M 10 the next morning. Good Disposal of Pirate Vessels. It It is stated that the three pirate vessels recently captured in the Per sian Gulf near Koweit by H. M. S Lapwing are to be sold for the bene fit of the British seaman who was killed in the fight. Is The Use of Electricity. estimated by the census that electricity has entered into the daily life of the country to the extent of seven dollars for each man. woman and child in the United States. Of this amount three dolisn goes to the electric traction comp ies, $1.50 to the electric light concerns, and 75 cents to the telephone companies. The telegraph also take about fifty cents a year from each of the 75,000,000 people, while the red of the seven dollars is charged of to electric fire alarms, signals, d general supplies. Various Names for Sowpaw. There are many different names for sowpaw. By some it is edged whisky, then there are John Barleycorn, redeye, firewater, booze, taggA-leg- , oil of gladness, and many other characterizations. But we 4bserre that in the dispensary of South Carotins the newspapers always refer to it as state rum. This is neat, but not gaudy, and the designation carries an idea with It Mile. Caslmir-Perie- r. A month later the duke and his entire family stopped at Gen. Sebastianls house in Paris over night on their way to a watering place, the duke and duchess occupying adjoining apart-- 1 ments on the lower floor. During the early morning hours shrieks were heard coming from the rooms occupied by the duchess. Servants rushed to the scene and to their knocks th doors were opened by the duke who stood, candle in hand, dressed in his morning gown, which was all stained with blood. On the floor lay the crim-- 1 body of the duchess, with twenty fearful stab wounds, pouring out their gore. The duke told an im- possible story of the tragedy and was d 01 F BLAME PUJ Since May last a large part of is orchard between three and four miles southwest of Harrisburg his dropped below the level of the sun rounding country considerably more than a foot, though all the trees remain upright. At Columbia it has been ascertained that the ape of the roundhouse of the railroad company his Pennsylvania veered over from its normal position about eighteen inches, and there is no way of accounting for the change except by seismic influence. New York Sun. al Has $6,000,000,000 Invested Abroad. The French republic bas the vast sum of $6,000,000,000 invested in for0 Of this total eign securities. is Invested in Great Britain, $1,400,000,000 in Russia, $600,000,000 in Spain, $575,000,000 in Austria HunThe Latest Blowpipe. The blowpipe of M. gary, $300,000,000 in Italy, $300,000,000 Slam's Imports and Exports. Fouche, easily melting most metals, in British South Africa and $277,200,-00- 0 in Egypt. Most of the money is burns a mixture of one part of acetyBangkok, Slam, imported nearly lene to 1.8 of oxygen. Explosion in invested in government loans, but in 31,100 worth of matches last year the blowpipe is pi evented by moderate South Africa it is largely in mines and from Japan, and exported edible birds industrials. nests to the value of 23,272 to China. pressure. , French See. Well, Hardly. The American who held up two gambling games in Caloocan and then took a shot at the native patrol from a revolver which he had stolen from a friend who had fed him when he was hungry is certainly not the type of man to assist in building up the Philippines, unless he assists in the stone work thereof, which now bids fair to be his fate. Manila Freedom. Caslmir-Perier- woman of pluck and courage and k pity the dukes spirit if she get J! er it. Her husband is a sugar ki of France, M. Sommier, who is saldn have an income of 30,000 francs a Knowing the history of the chatean it is probable that he will keep gj, efendants. 18 ILL. St Louis Mile. W. 8. Strattons Philanthropy. Several years ago a foreman in one of W. S. Stratton's mines was cared for the family and educated all the sons as mining neers. Strattons love for children w taken advantage of by persons noting charity, but after spending a for tune on more or less misapplied pbR-and anthropy, Stratton became" wiser h J before more investigated closely J gave. Kansas City Star, Tragedy In Pierce Family. Franklin Pierce, t months before his inauguration, to 1853, was traveling on the Boston Maine railroad, from Andover to L rence, accompanied by his wife their only son, age thirteen. I train was derailed, dashed against th rocks at the side of the track the boy was instantly kijlqd, President-elec- t I Qi II is th if th Pi w w V b U li I i |