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Show A YISITIXCK PRINCE SOMETHING ABOUT OUR JAPANESE JAPA-NESE GUEST. Paid to IS One of tlie SToat I!t inot jh-eil jh-eil of th Mikado's Nobility Warns to Kuo Ait About Oar Publle Kdu-catlon. Kdu-catlon. Prince Toktima Kon-.jye of Japan, who is new in AnK-riea on a tour of observation, is, one of the mst distinguished distin-guished of the Japan.?; nobility. He is a membr of o.:e o! tli? five fan Hies who a:e ca'ird Go-eH-a. ar he ia the president o: !. b..-,:i--e of peers ia the Japanese r ar':.: :r nt. Kcrc.yo is likewise like-wise the p resident cf tin Ko-oku-Cak-ko, which is the co.'icge cf the nobility. nobil-ity. The prime intends to make a rather lo:g stay ic this country, ami will visit uil the large c:t-s he possibly possi-bly can. Hi tt.ur is be in made to: the collection of information which will he tisfui to the government an J the peop'e of Japan. 'Vh-n he has finished with the Un itcd States he wil, go to Eui.-pc- snd v.ii! rrp-pt the rr'"' ess there. Sn.-via! attention will '' paid by bin to the system of public education in America at: i to private educaticr.nl institutions likewise. The emperor of Japan presented the prince 1mm , . ".. 1 V... ;-,iJ;-T-g,f: TRIXCE KOXOYE. with 30.0-0 yen (about $27.00)) for his expenses while away. He ;ill return to Japan by way of China md Corea. A FIJI DANCE. We have been accustomed to think of the Fijians as a race ut ruthless savages, 'but for such an uncivilized people as they are they ceitainly possess pos-sess some very poetic and noble ideas. If a theater manager could reproduce one of their dances, for Instance, he might make his fortune. The idea to be conveyed in this dancfl Is that of a coral reef, in which the tide rises and the waves break till it is only a tiny island. This is conveyed by means ot dancers In a most poetic and picturesque pic-turesque manner. The dancers form first in long lines and approach quietly quiet-ly to represent the silant advance ol the waves. Then the lines break up into small companies and advance, with bodies bent forward and outstretched out-stretched hands, to represent the rippling rip-pling of the water, the smallest waves being represented by children. As they move about, now sinuously, now leaping and tossing their heads, the soft white masi, or native cloth, which is worn as a turban, for greater effect, with long streamers, lends itseif readily to the effect desired. The same mateilal is also wound about the wai:;t and extends In long, scarflike end which float away and flutter in X.te breeze. The whole effect of the dancf is a most artistic and picturesque, and the native orchestra plays an accompaniment accom-paniment that is an imitation of the moan and roar of the surf breaking on the reef. There is a gradual qu'ekening of the moveicent, now advancing, now retreating, re-treating, yet like waves, always pr greasing, anil gradually closing in oi every side of the imaginary coral reef, round which they move quietly like 6ome rolling wave, or by spring high in air represent the breakers flinging their arms far above their heads to represent the action of spray. PASSPORTS. Under what circumstances does ont use a passport when traveling abroad .' This is the usual query of those who have never left the hospitabie s'ior-of s'ior-of the United States. The simplest reply re-ply is that the passport is used when one is in difficulties. In some Euro pean countries you cannot get a regis tered letter which is addressed to you unless you show your passport. As a rule the special entries to museums, mu-seums, libraries and picture galleries for the purpose of study are permitted only to those with passports and sometimes some-times because of a special consular letter obtained on the strength of the passport. In case of death in a foreign hotel the passport is invaluable to those attending at-tending and saves expense and deiay to the survivors. In Russia passports are absolutely necessary and a certi ficate that they have been examined is just as imperative. Without both yoa cannot cross the frontier. These precautions strike us as unnecessary, but if we lived in a European country we would see the wisdom of it all. Army conscriptions make it necessary that a man should carry papers. A Swiss, German or Frenchman has to carry with him his papers stating his srmy service, certificates of birth, mar-iii:ge, mar-iii:ge, vaccination, etc. Easy Way to Figure Sperd. A simpie way to calculate the speed cf a bicycle by the rider is to niuiupiy the gear by 10 and divide by 56. The result may be called seconds for this particular purpose. The number ol complete revolutions made by either pedal in the given number of seconds corresponds exactly to the rate of miles pr hour. For instance, if the gear be IS 4, multiplied by 10 and divided by 56. the result is 15. If the pedal goes around 20 times in 15 seconds the ruler knows that he is going at the rate of 20 miles per hoar. If the gear be 67.2 the result of the calculation is 12 seconds, sec-onds, and the rider would have to push his pedal around 20 times in 12 seconds to equal the speed made by the man on the higher gear by 20 revolutions in 35 seconds. T6 divide the gear by on gives nearly the same result as multiplying multi-plying by 10 and dividing by 56, but is not quite so accurate. Kr Remedy for Insomnia. A Russian remedy for insomnia is to have a dog sleep in the room, and preferably in the same bed. It may be through a sense of companionship, or one of security, or it may act suggestively; sugges-tively; at any rate it ia said at times to prove of value when other means faiL Taste of Strychlne. The taste of strychnine can be detected de-tected when one grain is diluted with 00,000 parts of water. If' i - j ' ; t I j - . j ! '.I KANSAS SEA SERPENT. At Interesting; Addition to the Uuiam of Iowa Cnlverslty. Once there w?re genuine sea .lr-pents, .lr-pents, or at least there were forms of reptile life that might have served every purpose of sea serpents could they have been perpetuated to the present time, says the St. Louis Globe-Deniocrat. Globe-Deniocrat. Any one who has doubts on the subject may have his doubts removed by visiting the museum of the University of Iowa, for the Davenport Daven-port Alumni association has just presented pre-sented to this institution one of the nsc: t interesting and complete skeletons skele-tons of these old-fashioned lizard ser-"3 ser-"3 ?c fur discos .- red. In times gone y a tin .-a stood over western Kaitsas, a:;d in ti.,s sea numberless !:the-l .;;d;cd st i per, t-iike creatures disported dis-ported t'u-n-. .selves or savagely fought each ot !-r in the ever-jpeurring conflicts con-flicts thru a; itnais wae for food. The forms in cr-.estion had each the elon satd. Po.iH body and the forked pro'.ruiil.lo tongue of the serpent. The hedy. fun ":;tm:-- was covered with t-caie-i. Ii:it unlike serpents, these ni ip r ii r.ij iji;.;-. f-v-r: !l;tK3 werr Loo weak to he of ue in terrestria.' locomotion; but. 1 eing modified into paddles. tNv -.-vM eftecively as organs or-gans or prop'tl-i - n in the sea. Mo;-a-srtiirs i-i tile name science give3 to those jrra :t;e reptiles. They are not serpents, but are In reality lizards o; nake-;H-e proportions and gigantic tize. The larger individuals measuie.J forty-five feet in length, large enough to sati'y the most imaginative dweller a' our fashionable seaside summer re.-nrts. The more common (iimen-iors mt with, however, range from fifteen to thirty feet. Very seldom sel-dom are the skeletons perfect. They verp w-tia'ly dismembered and the bones were more or less scattered by various asents before they were completely com-pletely covered and protected by the accuntula: ing ooze of the sea bottom. Even afier complete imbedding the bones were generally broken or distorted dis-torted by pressure of the superincumbent superin-cumbent sediments. The specimen just received at the University of Iowa is unusually perfect. With the exception of a number of the last caudal vertebrae, verte-brae, every bone Is present, and is practically free from distortion or crushing. The vertebral col-.mn, the head, the limb bones, the rib. the pelvis pel-vis all are present, except as noted above, and all are practically in their normal position and relations to each other. This most unique and valuable specimen, the most perfect probably that has ever been recovered from the hardened ooze of the cretaceous sea bottoms, indica'p an individual that, when alive, must have measured zbou) twenty-five feet iu length. THE CANDLE FISH, A Ureitt Gift of N'.Uure to the Miners in the Klo.idyke. With the discovery of the Klondike, with all its winter hardships, comes also the discovery of a fish found along the Alaskan shore.-, which, it is said, will furnish food, light, heat and medicine to the prospectors who have gone into the new gold fields. It is said that this fish is of the smelt variety, va-riety, but larger and fatter. They are caught in nets easily, and ou being caught are found to be of a rich green color on the back, with spots of blue, and golden tints under the body. On being held up to the light one can almost al-most see through them. On bsing caught these fish are dried and stored. When the Alaskan is snowed in, and without a light:, he sticks the stiff tail of one of these fish in a crack in the table and touches a match to its nose. It gives out a clear three-candle power ligM. The backbone is largely formed of phosphorus, which not only causes it to take fire easily, but also accounts for the strength of the flame and the heat given out. The substance of the fish, largely fat, keeps it from burning, as the tallow acts in an ordinary candle. can-dle. The fish is also good as food. Still another use to which it may be put is in the place of cod liver oil, which, aiding the natural heat of the body, serves to protect against the seven cold. IN THE PUBLIC EYE. Wil'iam Paine Lord of Oregon, wno lately declined to represent' the United States government at the court of Persia Per-sia during the next four years, was born in Dover, Del., in 1833. Graduating Graduat-ing with high honors from Fairfield college in 1S60, Mr. Lord immediately began the study of law, but on the outbreak of the war between the states he abandoned his legal studies in order to assume military duties. He entered the war with the rank of captain at the head of troops which he organized himself; subsequently became major and eventually succeeded to the position posi-tion of judge-advocate on the staff of Gen. Lew Wallace. At the close of the war he resumed his legal studies; and, on graduating from the Albany law school in 1866, he commenced the prac- 'HhC W. P. LORj tlce of law. Finding clients somewhat scarce, he temporarily entered the United States army with the rank of lieutenant and spent nearly two years in Alaska engaged in military duties. In 1SC8 he located in Salem. Ore., where he soon began to reap professional profes-sional honors in abundance. In 1S73 he became state eenator, in 1SS0 Justice of the supreme court of Oregon, and in 1894 governor. In the role of foreign minister at the court of Persia additional addi-tional honors await this sturdy representative repre-sentative of the Pacific coast. The p!d-r. The spider has a tremendous appetite appe-tite and his gormandizing defies all human competition. A scientist who carefully noted a spider's consumption of food in 24 hours, concluded that if the spider were built proportionately to the human scales he would eat at daybreak day-break (approximately) a small alligator, alli-gator, at by 7 a. m. a lamb, by 9 a. m. a young camelopard, by 1 o'clock a sheep and would finish up with a lark pie in which there were 120 birds. Yet in 6pite of his enormous appetite a spider has wonderful power of refraining refrain-ing from food, and one has been known to live 10 months when absolutely deprived de-prived or food. A beetle lived ta a similar &Ut of unrefjeshment fcr J tin three years. DK.EDTTARDSJIEALEEj PARIS HAS GONE WILD OVER THE AMERICAN. ero to Possess the Power of Cnr!nx by the Laying On of Hands Statement State-ment of an Eye Witness, Who Is a Sceptic. Dr. Edwards, the American magnetic healer, has been busy performing so-called so-called miracles in Paris. Tne noise of his reputed cures has caused a sensation, sensa-tion, and peopie flock to his apartment in the Rue Cadet, near the Boulevard. The doctor is an amiable old man, full cf admiration fcr himself and his works. He is weil versed in adaptability, adapta-bility, and although when in Spain found a monk's beads and cowl useful, use-ful, has adopted a "rediugote" for J'aris. It is better suited to his clients. cli-ents. It was to Dr. Edwards that Loie Fuller, the famous American dancer, went for relief when the bright elec-'ric elec-'ric lights, in the glare of which she gyrates, had caused her almost total olinduess. La Loie says she has been benefited. His consulting rooms I found crowded with men, women and hildren. Women predominated. Many of them were young and pretty. Soma Tvere well dressed, but, on the whole, Ihey resembled a group of fanatics Huch as one notices at a Paderewski matinee, or, to be strictly up to date, a Persl recital. No one looked particularly particu-larly ill, but each patient evidently had i reason for coming. I was met by an attendant, who took my card and disappeared dis-appeared into an inner rocm, where the doctor was engaged with a patient. pa-tient. "Show them in," I heard a deep voice say, and my companion and I were ushered into the sanctum of sanctums, where the mirr.cles are performed. The doctor seemed pleased with our visit, DR. EDWARDS. and at once presented us with his picture pic-ture and a very handsome picture it is. He had effected many cures, he said, and was happy to be able to render ren-der such service to the suffering world. I asked him how he performed his miracles, mir-acles, which no way ruffled his good humor. "I will give you an illustration," illustra-tion," he replied with dignity, and forthwith ordered his patient a young and pretty woman to stand, up and be cured. He then placed himself in front of her and the "curing" commenced. com-menced. First the doctor laid his hand on her head, then on his own. He muttered mut-tered a few prayers, and, still praying, began violently gesticulating iu Sven-gali Sven-gali fashion. I doubt if poor Trilby ever submitted to more hideous gestures ges-tures than those of the miracle worker. work-er. Sometimes he would thrust two long, bony fingers right into the face of his patient. This performance continued con-tinued some little time and was followed fol-lowed by a light rubbing, during all of which the young woman seemed as ii under a magnetic influence of some sort. When at last the "curing" terminated ter-minated the doctor asked her how she felt, and she replied "Much better," and laid a gold piece on the doctor's donation plate. The doctor seemed contented and called the nex patient. One after another was treated in the same fashion. As I took my departure depar-ture I was struck by the pathos of the scene the old man surrounded by hopeful crowds of sufferers. I could not help sighing over the credulity of mankind. GRACE CORXEAU. A MARVELOUS PALM. Its Trunk. Leaves and Roots Are Used for Various Purposes. The most marvelous tree undoubtedly undoubted-ly grows in Brazil, says Philadelphia Record. It is the Carnahuba palm, whteh grows uncultivated in the states of Parahiba, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Piauhi and some of the neighboring neigh-boring states. The descriptions given of it seem incredible. In no other region re-gion of the globe is a tree to be found that can be employed for such varied and useful purposes. It resists intense in-tense and protracted droughts and is always green and vigorous. Its roots produce the same medicinal effects as sarsaparilla. Its stems afford strong, light fibers, which acquire a beautiful luster, and serve also for joists, rafters and other building materials, as well as for stakes forfences. From parts of the tree wines and vinegars are made. It yields almost a saccharine substance, as wel as a starch resembling resem-bling sago. In periods of famine, caused by protracted droughts, the nutritious substances obtained "from it are of immense benefit to the poorer classes. Its fruit is used for feeding cattle. The pulp has an agreeable taste, and the nut, which Is oleaginou? ano emulsive, is sometimes used as a substitute for coffee. Of the wood of the stem musical instruments, water tubes and pumps are made. The pith is an excellent substitute for cork. From the stem a white liquid, similar to the milk of the cocoanut, and a flour resembling maizena may be extracted. Of the straw, hats, baskets, brooms and mats are made. A considerable quantity of this straw i3 shipped to Europe, and a part of it returns to Brazil manufactured into hats. The straw is also used for thatching houses. Moreover, salt is extracted from it, and likewise an alkali used in the manufacture of common soap. Cheap LlTlnff. For $300 a year a man can, in Japan, pay for a house, food and two servants. ABSENT-MINDED FOLKS. Incidents That FarnUh a Valuable StndT to Psychologists. When a college professor gravely apologizes to the cow he has stumbled against, or a literary woman repeatedly repeated-ly rues against one of her own shade trees while discussing metaphysics, the trifling blunders are often attributed to some peculiar constitution of mind srppesed to belong to genius, but these tricks of mind and muscle are common com-mon to many in the common footpath way. The lack of co-ordination between be-tween brain and muscle ieads'to many a laughable mistake, a few instances cf which are here given: A woman recently went to purchase some Ham-bur? Ham-bur? trimming, and wishing to put on her glasses she opened her umbrella instead, and, having a merry heart, she hurried away from the counter con-vnl-ed with laughter the saleswoman no doubt thinking her would-be customer cus-tomer was something of a lunatic. A tsncher in a well-known academy has a habit of carrying his umbrella over his shoulder like a gun, and one cloudy morning, picking up a broom instead of the umbrella, he hurriedly walked off with it and would no doubt have go!! directly to prayers so accoutred ac-coutred had not his wife called him bark. A ycune hitly took an ice cream soda and carried the long spoon away with her. discovering her mistake when she undertook to fan herself with the spoor, at a lace counter. Who that i:ses pen and mucilage has not dipped the brush in the ink and sprawled over the paper with pen inadvertently dip.ped in the wrong bottle? One of the most embarrassing blunders, however, how-ever, happened to a dainty little lady who has to wear not only false teeth but two pairs of glasses. Sewing at some Dorcas society not long ago. she wished to change her glasses, but her hand, like a hasty or careless child, but half attended to her brain, and she discovered herself with her teeth in her hand instead of her eyes, as she laughingly said. Car conductors could tell many a laughable story of postage stamps offered for fares, and passengers both vexed and vexatious who pass their own stations or attempt to stop short of them. Perfectly sober and perfectly sane men have walked in at the neighbor's doors and even entered the dining-room before discovering dis-covering that they were perhaps several doors from their own. These errors of hand, eye and ear would afford a valuable study to the psychologist. MINISTER TO BELGIUM. Lawrence Townsend of Pennsylvania, our newly appointed minister to Belgium, Bel-gium, holds at present the position of minister to Portugal; and he will enter upon his n?w duties with the prestige of ripe diplomatic experience. Mr. Townsend is one of the youngest rep- LAWRENCE TOWNSEND. resentativc-s of the United States government gov-ernment iu foreign diplomatic fields, but he stands high upon the list of American envoys. He is widely read in international law, and is thoroughly familiar with political affairs on both sides of the water. In the recent war with Spain he was called upon to serve the United States government in several sev-eral delicate matters of diplomatic policy. pol-icy. tingins Waspa. Many writers upon natural history, following the observations of a French naturalist, Monsieur Fabre, have dwelt with admiration upon the skill and intelligence in-telligence or instinct of certain wasps, which are represented as having hav-ing the habit of stinging caterpillars at their nerve centers with such unerring unerr-ing precision that the caterpillar is merely paralyzed, whereupon the wasp lays an egg within the body of the caterpillar, cat-erpillar, and the young insect, on emerging from the egg, finds living food sufficient for its use until it is ready to take flight. The careful researches re-searches of Dr. and Mrs. Peckham of Milwaukee indicatethat the statement is so much exaggerated as to be virtually vir-tually untrue. Having seen the entire process several times, from beginning to end, they find that the wasp does not sting invariably at such points as indicate a knowledge of the nerve centers, cen-ters, and that the cat pillar is merely killed, and not paralyzed, by the sting. Thus one of the "marvels of nature" ia proved to be non-existent. A Lenten Farrtflee. Mae "Are you keeping Lent?" Ethel "Of course. I have given up three cf my fiances." New York Journal. Joy-Ac- I tijli liteswNSSS&s y) him A THRIFTY FKUIT MAN BO. TON GREEK LEAVES MILLIONS MIL-LIONS FOR GOOD CAUSE. 4,11 Greeee Is Consequently Mourning-the Mourning-the Death of Its Great Benefactor Since the Oays or Timon of Athens A Friend ot the Poor. A Thirty million drachmas, in American Amer-ican money $6,000,000, has been bequeathed be-queathed to philanthropy by a man who, so rumor ctys, was once engaged In the fruit business in Boston. The ;um represents the largest amount ever given at one time to philanthropic purposes in the history of the world. The benefactor is Andreas Sygros of Athens, Greece, who died February 14. The benefactor had other relations with American interests, notably with the Chicopee mills at Chicopee, Mass., whose goods for many years have been exported to Constantinople and in eastern east-ern Europe have grown to be the common com-mon articles of use. In that part of the world American cotton goods long ago supplanted those of English make in favor. It was in that line of business busi-ness that Andreas Sygros amassed the fortune, which, following the Greek custom, he now leaves to his nation. The money has been left for building and maintaining schools, court houses, churches, hospitals and dispensaries, orphan and infant asylums, homes for soldiers and sailors, kitchens for the poor of Athens, insane asylums and for the maintenance of the musical and athletic clubs of Athens. In Constantinople, Constan-tinople, also, similar philanthropic institutions in-stitutions are benefited by his will. To his servants he gives sums varying from $100,000 to his favorite to $25,000 for each person who had been in his service five years, and $2,500 to those frvho had been employed by him less than five years. His greatest gift is to the Greek nation. It is $600,000 for the erection of public schools and court houses, especially in the provinces outside out-side of Athens. The interest of bonds, the total sum of which is not yet known, is given for the maintenace of the schools. The sum of $300,000 is left for the amelioration of the prisons of Athens. In the will the testator makes magnificent bequests to the royal family of Greece, but these are revoked in the codicil, and there are some Greeks in Boston who think that Sygos did not like the attitude of the king during the recent war with Turkey. Tur-key. The death of the philanthropist turned the whole Greek nation into mourning. The king and queen were personal callers at the house of woe. The public offices of Athens were closed. The royal families of Europe were notified of the calamity by the ministers and ambassadors in Athens. The newspapers Inverted the column rules on the day of publishing the news. There was universal mourning. The newspapers spoke of him as the greatest man modern Greece has produced. pro-duced. The City, a daily newspaper, Eaid: "He had a gigantic mania for ameliorating the poor of the nation, yet he was always of a practical mind. No one ever went away from him empty-handed." He was born in the island of Syros in 1828, and after attending at-tending the public schools of his native na-tive island he went to Constantinople, where he became connected with a commercial house having large dealings deal-ings with American mercantile companies. com-panies. It is before his connection with the Constantinople houses that rumor locates him in America in the fruit business in Boston. In 1889 he returned to Syros and was elected to the Greek parliament. He was the acknowledged benefactor of all the public philanthropies of Greece. In 1890 he gave Thessaly the sum of $200,-000 $200,-000 to improve the condition of its poor. It is estimated that altogether during his lifetime he gave about $4,000,000. The will is a voluminous document, written in his own hand, and containing many practical suggestions sugges-tions for the direction of the executors of the will in carrying out his wishes. GOLD MINING May Be Carried on Profitably in th Philippines. At this distance and with the slight exploratory work which has been carried car-ried on in the Philippine Islands, says the Engineering Magazine, the minerals miner-als that can be profitably exported are best known. Mr. George P. Becker in his recent investigation has given a very clear view of the present mineral exploration in the Philippines, and ha3 shown that gold is found in a great number of localities in the archipelago, from Northern Luzon to Central Mindanao. Min-danao. In most cases the gold is de-trltal, de-trltal, and is found either in existing water courses or in deposits now deserted de-serted by the current. It is said that in Mindanao some of the gravels are in an elevated position and adapted to hydraulic mining. There are no data at hand which indicate decisively the value of any of the placers, but the fact that they are washed largely with cocoanut co-coanut shells for pans by the natives is an indication of either rich deposits or quite coarse gold. In the province of Abra, at the northern end of Luzon, there are placers, and the river Abra itself yields auriferous gravel. In Le Planto there are gold quartz veins as well as gravels, and here also is the best developed deposit of copper ores, although these are also reported from a great number of localities ou the islands of Luzon, Mindoro, Capu, Mas-bate, Mas-bate, Panay and Mindanao. The last island is practically unexplored and full of possibilities. A Musical Well. Near Wiederman's, Texas, is an abandoned aban-doned well, about sixty feet deep, and overgrown with vegetation, which Is famous in the neighborhood for its musical powers. In fine weather, particularly par-ticularly with a westerly wind, it gives forth a sound like that of an Aeolian harp, swelling and dying away by turns. When a heavy northerly wind is blowing the water rises within a few feet of the top, and strange noises, which some people think resemble moans, issue from the old well. An attempt to fill up the well a few years ago failed, apparently because of the existence of a subterranean cavity which swallowed up the dirt as fast as it was dumped In. To Prevent Squalls. Here is the published remedy for Infantile In-fantile sleeplessness discovered by an Englishman who has suffered much in the cause: "As soon as the squaller awakes prop it up in a sitting position with pillows and smear Its fingers with thick molasses or syrup. Then put half a dozen feathers Into its hands, and baby will sit and pick the feathers from one hand to the other until it falls asleep." Take the place and attitude which belong to you, and all men will ao- QUieEC ARTISTS AND STATESMEN. They Are Bavins a Pretty Row Orel Germany's Parliament Bulldiat A sharp conflict has broken out between be-tween the reichstag and the German artists, says the London News. The new parliament building is costing a good deal for decoration. For the ceiling alone about 30,000 pounds has been voted, and half as much again has been spent in all. The building committee com-mittee lately refused to accept a picture pic-ture ordered by Herr Paul Wallot, the architect, from Herr Franz Stuck of Munich, one of the leading modern painters. The price was 1,500 pounds. Two ballot urns made by another well-known well-known artist, Herr Hildebrandt, were also rejected. In the course of the do-bate do-bate a vehement attack was macTe upon the artists. Dr. Lieber, leader of the center party, for instance, called Herr Stuck's picture "a smudge, which must disgust everybody who saw it." Herr Wallot tried to convince con-vince the members of the committee that such paintings, meant to be looked at from a long distance, could not be judged of at a near lew, but finally declared himself ready to ask Herr Stuck to make some alterations. The affair, however, has aroused the greatest great-est indignation among the artists, and this has now found expression in a strongly worded open letter, signed by all the leading painters, of Munich, among them Herren Franz Lenbach, Fritz Kaulbach and Von Uhde. They energetically protest against the way in which tfc most eminent artista were spoken of in the reichstag, and express their deep regret that the president did not interfere. They quote the late Prince Bismarck, who, in speaking of the members of the parliament, par-liament, once said: "There is not one among us, who. from waging war to catching a dog's fleas, does not understand under-stand everything better than all the learned experts living." Finally, the artists express the confident hope that Herr Paul Wallot will not lose his position po-sition in consequence of this occurrence. occur-rence. This remark refers to the circumstance cir-cumstance that Herr Wallot, who still receives a salary of 500 pounds a year for the superintendence of the decorative decora-tive work in the new building, is to be given notice. Herr Wallot is a man of independent character, who does not care much either for the sympathies sym-pathies or the antipathies of influential influen-tial personages. Immediately after the completion of the new parliament building he removed to Dresden, Dres-den, from whence he comes now and then to Berlin. He is highly respected in the artistic world, in spite of the emperor's sharp criticism of the building, build-ing, which he is said to have called when at Rome "the acme of tasteleas-ness." tasteleas-ness." Herr Wallot has now resigned. THE RED LILY. A Pretty Legend of the Flowers In the Garden of Gethsemane. The red lily of Palestine is in size and shape much like our Easter lilies, but they are yellow with purple streaks upon the outside and a red blush tint within. In the bottom of each bell there are six drops of sweet water-like tears. If you take these away six more will at once take their places. About this flower this pretty story is told by the simple folk who live near there: "Once the Garden of Gethsemane was full of flowers of all kinds, and among them none so fair and queenly as the slender, stately lily, with all her clustering bells proudly proud-ly upright It was eventime, and the Lord came to walk awhile in His garden. gar-den. As He passed along, each gentle flower bowed before Him while He breathed the refreshment of the quiet hour upon them; but when He came to the lily her haughty head remained erect in the defiance of conscious beauty. The Lord paused and looked upon her. For a second she braved that bright, mild eye of reproof, then slowly bent her silvery bells, while blushes swept in painful brilliancy over them. Still the Lord's gaze rested on her; lower sank her head, deeper burned her crimson; then tear after tear welled up in the lily cups. At this the Lord passed on. When morning came all the flowers lifted theih heads and smiled to see the light; all but the lily, that once white queen among them. Her head remained bowed in shame, while to this day she blushes over her vanity, and the tears of repentance re-pentance still flow in the delicate cups d the flower that refused to bend before be-fore the Lord as He walked in the Garden of Gethsemane at the evening hour." MAGNITUDE Of tbe Fishing Interest In Four Eastern States. New York Evening Post: The magnitude mag-nitude of the fishing interests of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania appears in the facts stated in a bulletin recently issued by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. In Maryland the industry gives employment to 42,812 persons, exclusive of those engaged in canneries, packing houses, transportation, transporta-tion, boat building, making nets, and other implements. The total amount invested in property used in taking fish and oysters in Maryland waters is $5,-821,610. $5,-821,610. Virginia employs 28,216 persons per-sons and has $2,891,536 invested in the business. The value of the product in Maryland in 1897, including 7,254,934 bushels of oysters, was $3,617,308, and in Virginia $3,167,866. In Maryland 17,139,459 pounds of alewives were caught, 1,321,280 pounds of perch, 5,-799,563 5,-799,563 pounds of shad, and 9,500,000 pounds of crabs. The largest item in the Virginia catch was 178,656,362 pounds of menhaden. The Delaware and Pennsylvania fisheries are naturally natu-rally smaller in extent, but the investments invest-ments of the latter amount to $1,601,-628, $1,601,-628, and of the former $407,469. Parson Praises "Hot" Show. "Woman and Wine," a sensational melodrama at the Princess theater, has been the talk of London for weeks. A Northumberland parson attended the performance one night recently to study its so-called wickedness. At the fall of the final curtain he arose and addressed the audience. He said the management deserved the thanks of the public rather than the condemnation condemna-tion for the mighty sermon the play preaches by picturing the horrible results re-sults of sin and vice. The tremendous throng paid close attention to the words, and cheered his sentiments at the end. London's Visitors. With a population of 5,500,000, London Lon-don harbors every day 120,000 strangers. strang-ers. Some may remain a week, some a month, but all the year around there is an average of 120,000 visitors who are within the metropolitan boundaries. boun-daries. Blind men outnumber blind women by two to one. 'MANNA." Victor VanDyke walked into the J largest real estate office in Chantux and asked the manager for keys to the finest houses on his list. With a look of surprise, the man handed them to him. Outside the business bouse he looked at the key-tags and found that the nearest residence was within walking distance. Slowly he meandered mean-dered in its direction, musing the while. That the "confirmed -bachelor" should purchase a home surprises tbejii. Let them laugh at me. I will buy rhe handsomest edifice I can obtain ob-tain and will endeavor to make her life as much of a romance as mine was for that brief time. I ought to be happy, hap-py, I suppose. She is a charming creature, and more than all, by her sweet womanliness, has caused my dolorous past to be almost forgotten. But was it other than delightful? Yes, if three years in the presence of i woman whose beauty of face was reflected re-flected in every feature of her character, char-acter, can be thus. Were I, after these years of anguish, to be given the privilege priv-ilege of again turning those leaves of life's mystery, could I refrain? Looking back at those evidences of misplaced affection, from the eminence emi-nence upon which fame has been pleased to place me, I wonder if I ever revelled in the sweet companionship companion-ship of my soul's false star. I seem so admirably fitted for the reticent life I since have led. By no circumstance here am I reminded re-minded of my transient joy, or the subsequent, enduring heart-break. This lovely girl has chosen to bestow upon me her preference. For my dull appreciation she lavishes smiles which would fill the hearts of other men with bliss supreme. Do not imagine sprites of my old-self old-self that there is aught less modest in her deportment than that of her whose queenly sway enslaved you in those happy lotus-eating days. As I look Into the waters of the fountain, I see hair sprinkled with sorrow's snows. It was not so when together we gazed upon the placid face of the pool which she christened "Resurgam." The name was typical, she said. Would that it were! She was fond of my curls. She would run her flexile fingers through them and say: "It is delightful for you to have hair so much more beautiful than that of any other man. It is blacker than the plumes of my big Gainesborough hat." Those hats were worn then, and no Parisian had thought of creating an ordinance for their removal at the theater. The whole house turned to PRONE UPON THE FLOOR HE LAY. look at her as we entered our box. The stage beauties were madly jealous jeal-ous of her. She was wonderfully beautiful, beau-tiful, like a stainless lily. Her face, always pallid, had the spiritual gleam sometimes seen in the luminous countenance coun-tenance of a dark-haired woman. Her lips glowed like the azaleas she always al-ways wore on her breast. They were odorless, and hence commended themselves them-selves to her. Perfumes were offensive offen-sive to her, yet, as I remember, her approach was ever preceded by an intangible in-tangible sweetness, as of the faintest breath from fragrant flowers confined in some secret receptacle. The refined perfume was incomparable. I never detect it now. A mark of individuality, individual-ity, it left me as did she. Then the shok of finding her gone, when I recovered from the long fever. One woman called her a thankless and bloodthirsty vampire. I was reminded of her hideous remark when I saw today the new poem of Kipling's by that title. And that odious painting by his cousin, Burne-Jones. How I hate them all! Had she but told me that she was a creature of the sun a child of Paris her life and affection changing as the seasons; I could have better borne her unceremonious fliiang. But to endure en-dure the dread uncertainty which has encumbered my soul through these interminably weary years! America, though, is vastly different from Paris. In this arctic atmosphere my grief has grown less poignant, my ardent temperament would now be called phlegmatic. No one dreams of my brief enchantment I am considered consid-ered a bachelor impregnable till Lois entranced me. Little they wreck of those days of wedded bliss! I wonder won-der if we shall live with our first or second wife in the world to come. Perhaps we shall all be judged as polygamists if we have married more than once. It is curious that for the first time in a long while, thoughts of Zonita obtrude themselves, when I am in quest of a domicile for Lois. Of late I have tried to put that false face away back among the discarded plates in memory's stereopticon, and when I have peeped at it, I gazed through the clear light in Lois' calm eyes. I fancy sometimes that she is like her if only the nearest woman could be invested with the spirit of the dearest one then it .would be easy to love as the law says. When I feel most positively that Zonita is near me, I close my eyes and press Lois' hand over them She Bpeaks to me, and the voice is Zo-nita's; Zo-nita's; but no! a lost soul cannot reappear re-appear transmigration is a delusive hope. I must shake off this lethargy. In my abstraction I have lost the keys. I am fortunate, after retracing my steps only half a block, to find them lying where they fell. And here Is the house. It is imposing from the streeL The facade is a counterpart of the one -'liita admired. It would be a coincidence if she came to this land of Independence and erected an establishment to suit her fancy. The interior decorations are comfortable com-fortable I am Impressed with the sensation that someone resides here now. The staircase has the very railing rail-ing we orderec for our new house in Paris. Memory! why do you haunt me thus? I wish to live In the present Mltjffb MM Help me to forj t the past nat recall It continually! A breakfast room. The breckfast room to me! Am I dreaming? It Is idle, foolish, to be thus uinierved. I am not in Paris. Soul of my soul, I surrender! I am again in our lost paradise. Every room reminds me of you, dear, but where is yourself? There must be an atelier all artists have them and every woman of Paris has the soul of an artist. She may trim her bonnet to perfection, or broil a partridge to suit the fastidious epicure; epi-cure; be her accomplishment what it may, if she come from Paris, she is an artist par excellence. At last I reach her studio. Here she painted the portrait of myself It was a pastel, one of her best. Here, too, was finished the picture which made her famous. How the critics marveled that "vanishing day!" Idly I watched the graceful strokes of her brush to live again through the dolce far niente of that season! Ah! Heaven! can she be hidden, a of old, by that screen? Alas! for human hope! Here is the easel I made for her crude and unshapely but she praised my attempt. Why did that man wish to torture me? Why was I given the key to this chamber of memories? What is this number here are words in Italian on the tag. They thought me ignorant of their meaning she spoke the tongue with such musical cadence. This phrase "Haunted house, sell at any price." Not haunted, kind friend; only kept in waiting for me. She whispers, "Search, you will find me." I'll look around she may be hidden in some dusty corner, laughing; through the cobwebs which cover her. I seem pitifully unsuccessful. Mon cher, mon cher, appear before me. Then tease me as you will! I never dreamed she would have carried this little escritoire, which I gave her, to her new home. How covered with dust it is something taps me on the head what is it? Through a broken pane in the skylight sky-light a great tree pushes one of its inquiring branches. There are a lot of tiny green worms on it; they will fall in here and die be literal worms of the dust there is enough of it to smother them. Why! here are a number num-ber of them on the top of the desk they lie in regular rows. Maybe they are dead, that is why they are so quiet but what funny shapes they form letters, and those letters are words those words compose a sentence! sen-tence! "In heaven; telephone!" What a queer illusion. Can it be meant for a joke? Has some skeptic killed and placed them here? No! they are alivo, and changing their positions, now. Perfectly motionless, they say in silent eloquence: "Forgive you all speak to me!" Strength and reason seem leaving me. I am growing very, very tired. I will rest upon this couch she called a memento of t e harem. What sweet music it comes through this little golden case on the tabouretf near my head I'll listen. A zephyr le wafted to me, past me through it, and on its wings it bears words spoken In softest soft-est accents. "Victor, Victor, say your heart is still mine. 1 have suffered much, yet I love but you, my own love, reply!' Thank heaven! Zonita! I will clasp the little golden casket in my hands. I can speak to her through its magic. You will wait for me, Zonita till time shall be no more? Dear one, your summons was opportune I shall not long await it. I am coming how sweet the music is! almost as sweet as your voice it is not very far converse with me through the Interim of passing I will be with you in r little jvhile. "Maybe he was so satisfied with his survey of one of the places that he decided to remain for a night. Perhaps Per-haps it is the 'haunted house. He is Just the cool sort of fellow who would try to fathom that mystery." When they found the door to No. 1105 open they were surprised and searched the house. In the atelier they found a lot of dusty furniture, and in one corner of the large room was the form of a man. Prone upon the floor he lay, and under him a shattered golden box. LATESTIN ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS Hydrangea and Azalea Blooms oa the New riats. The latest additions to the list of fashionable flowers are hydrangea and azalea blooms, magnified wallflowers, particularly favored in Bordeaux tints, primroses of all colors, both Chinese and garden varieties, and large flat roses with few petals, nick-named "wheel roses"; while all the flowers mentioned in former letters are maintained main-tained in vogue, says the Millinery Trade Review. Lilac, violets, cowslips cow-slips and hyacinths being essentially spring flowers, will not be worn after May, but until then they will be in considerable request. I was shown a pale gray sailor hat trimmed in a novel way with lilac, the sprays standing stand-ing up around the crown, three mauve ones on the right, three violets on the left and as many white behind. The interval In front is filled in with a puffing of mauve tulle. Among the new models entirely covered with flowers flow-ers I noted one of hyacinth bells shaded shad-ed from deep violet on the edge to lilac in the center; another, the low-domed crown of which was covered with pink rose petals, and the brim with a double row of Bordeaux roses placed back to back; and a third made of primroses, the flowers arranged in little bunches of different colors, each surrounded by leaves. Henrlk Ibsen. Henrik Ibsen, the great Norwegian author, who has just completed his seventy-first year, is of mixed German and Scottish descent He speaks the German language fluently; but, curiously enough, has not written any of his important works in that tongue. He was originally intended for the medical profession, but he was not long kept from his proper bent, for at the age of twentytwo his first drama, "Catilina," was prpdu-ced. He was very shortly afterward appointed director of the Bergen Theater, and his subsequent subse-quent career has been a record of hard work and triumph. His talents early received recognition, for before he wis forty, he had a pension awarded to him by the Storthing. He is recognized as one of the leading apostles of realism and a dramtist who has been able to make a problem deeply interesting. Because of a wager, Samuel Ham-aker Ham-aker of Manhelm, Pa., has not cut his beard since Blaine was defeated for the presidency In 1884. |