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Show in 4 yuuf liUlltllllillU ! MAGNIFICENT SPECIMENS I I OF INDIAN ARCHITECTURE (SpeciaL Letter.) HE buried cities of Ceylon, Cj being far-removed from the ft tract passengers calling at f Colombo, are not so well known or so often visited as their interest and antiquity demand that they should be. The buried cities are three in number, num-ber, if one includes the rock fortress of tigiri. Anuradhapura and Polon-naruwa Polon-naruwa are more exactly described as cities. Our time being so short, my companion and I determined to confine ourselves chiefly to Anuradhapura, Anurad-hapura, named after and founded by one of the earliest Sinhalese nobles, Prince Anradha. 504 B. C. It Is situated In the center of the North Central province, in a district THE TAJ covered with the remains of palaces, shrines, temples, vast tanks and Intricate In-tricate irrigation works, all bearing witness to the greatness and power of - the earliest Sinhalese monarchy. The greatest of these tanks, named Kala-wewa, Kala-wewa, is a gigantic reservoir of about 6,000 acres, twenty feet wide at the top and sixty feet higb. Anuradhapura is about the center of the Great North road, which forms as it were, the spine or backbone of the island, connecting the Jaffna peninsula pen-insula with the planting districts, and Is chiefly used by the South Indian coolies, who can cross from India via Adam's bridge in a few hours, and can thence make their way on foot to their various destinations. One often meets a gang of some fifty or sixty of these coolies men, women and children each with a little bundle containing the household goods and entire possessions of its bearer. They are attracted by the fourpence a day-obtainable day-obtainable in the planting districts of Ceylon, as compared with the penny, the full, earnings of their own country. coun-try. - " On the road one hears the chattering chatter-ing of monkeys, the call of peacocks In the jungle a4 hwe'-ffhdtbere these wild creatures mongoose, bandicoot, etc. dart across the path, but the network net-work of creepers with which the trees are bound together forbid pursuit TEMPLE save where elephants nave cleared the way. The earliest authenticate records of Anuradhapura date back to the year 437 B. C a time when Britain wna ""Wim unknown t6 heTRemaa conquer?, ors, when our forefathers, stained with woad. still practiced the mystic rites of Druidical worship. When England was still sunk in barbarism this fair city of the east was at the height of Its glory, her vast walls surrounded sur-rounded an area of 250 square miles, thousands of priests thronged the courts of her temples, which rivaled in magnificence the richness and glory of the great temple of Solomon. Solemn Sol-emn processions, headed by the king, who was surrounded by a suite of magnificently equipped courtiers, filled b!streets. Her embassies journeyed to distant Rome, and her buildings and statues .rivaled those of ancient Greece in site and beauty of design. But this mighty monarchy was at Its height; power brought luxury, luxury lux-ury brought destruction f nd the Sinhalese Sin-halese dynasty fell before the fierce hordes of Malabar invaders from southern India, who, with the Tamils, overran the iand, ruthlessly destroying destroy-ing palace and temple, with every treasure of art and beauty. Where the proudest cny of the east shone in wealth and splendor and worshipped with a glorious ritual, there are now only mighty ruins, the fallen figures of giants and the overpowering over-powering vegetauon of the Jungle covet cov-et .ng all things. At Anuradhapura the Isurmuntya temple, can ed out of the natural rock, has a splendid position, though the -nodern entrance, with lta tiled roof gives one -ather a shock. Before it and behind it are largo lotus ponds, inhabited by sacred crocodiles. The terraces which lead to the shrine are covered with frescoes and sculptures lr bas-relief. The natural rock itself is frescoed in . high relief and beautiful beau-tiful carving abounds everywhere. One of the most interesting temples Is called Ioha Pasada, the brazen palace. pal-ace. It was built by Dutthagaminl, a successor of King Tissa, for a community com-munity of Buddhist monks. The sixteen six-teen bundled monolithic columns of - - sf . - I -5,, - ,' 's -'Si: - ----- - - -1 -5ilZ t I granite, on which it rested, are all that now remain. The college is said to have contained 1,000 dormitories and to have been 232 feet square. All the pillars were covered with burnished bur-nished brass and ornamented with precious stones, the building itself being be-ing nine stories high. In the large hall stood a royal throne, supported by pillars of gold, all resting on golden gold-en lions and surmounted by an imperial im-perial canopy of glistening white. To this day one ran see the marks of the wedges used in quarrying the granite. The ruins cover a wide extent. On all sides are vast dagobas, surrounded surround-ed by shrines and stonework of great beauty, and often in excellent preservation. preser-vation. The ruins of numberless temples, tem-ples, guardhouses and priests' quar- - MAHAL. ters, pillars with finely molded capitals capi-tals and massive stones, figures cf gods and kings, of elephants and lions, horses and oxen, stand out prominently on every side. Large and handsome "pokunas," or bathing places, with three or four tiers of massive mas-sive stonework leading down to them, remind one that the ancient Sinhalese Sin-halese valued cleanliness as much as godliness. "How are thf mighty fallen" fall-en" was in one's mind all the time. Looking Hack" aril. "I wonder," said the student of archaeology, ar-chaeology, of the thirtieth century, "what that queer shaped Jhing is we see over the loor in pictures of dwellings dwel-lings of a" thousand years ago." "That, my son," replied the venerable vener-able and learned professor, "is called a horseshoe. It was worn by an animal ani-mal called a horse, much used in those dark ages as a beast of burden. People Peo-ple rode on its back and it dragged vehicles from place to place, both for business and pleasure." "How very strange. But why was the shoe placed over doorways?" "It was supposed to bring good luck to the dwellers in a house so protected." protect-ed." "What a" remarkable idea!" - "Yes, very remarkable. But, then, my son, the people of the twentieth century were very odd in jrany of AT AGRA. their ways. How thankful we ought to be that we live in a more enlightened enlight-ened age." Short of Hot Water. "" Miss Flora Shaw, a correspondent of the London Times, was once traveling travel-ing through Africa in a bullock wagon. The sun was blazing, the bullocks were slow, the dust was indescribable. She was making for a frontier town. where she anticipated the comforts of a bath. At the entrance to the place MIsb Shaw, dead beat, dusty and Irritable, Irri-table, found herself confronted with the ordeal of a public reception. The officials read her a welcome; she was S3 civil as she could be; then she bolted bolt-ed for the hotel. She gave but one order, or-der, "Hot water, quick!" She sat on the edge of the bed and waited. Some minutes passed. At last a black servant ser-vant entered with a tin vessel, in which there was something steaming. Seizing it. Miss Shaw poured out a milky, odoriferous liquid. She turned to the servant for an explanation. The hotel was very short of water; as a distinguished guest, a point had been stretched for her. They had sent her the water in which the fish had just been boiled! . A Historic Flair. "There is one relic in the treasury department which is not seen by half the visitors to Washington, simply because be-cause their Washington friends don't know it is there." said a treasury girl the other day. "It is the flag which was draped over the front of the box in which Lincoln sat when he was assassinated. as-sassinated. You can see the torn place where Booth's spur caught when he tripped and fell. "You dont know where it is? Well, it is somewhere In the treasury building, build-ing, and you'll find it if you look." But for being wrong once la a while there would be no triumph In being right now ana then. God never forgets the man who can forget himself. 9 God's essentials may be hidden in our incidentals. - BECOME BOYS AGAIN RICH AND PROSPEROUS MEN ENJOY CHILDHOOD DISHES. B!ft-ht of Blab of Appl Plo Overeamo ! Conscience Ex-Preaidnt Grant Askod f for Dinner of Corn Beef and Cab-i Cab-i I big. He was particularly well-groomed and looked well fed as he strolled through the lobby of one of our most fashionable hotels, says the New York ress. "Talking about the connection of the organs of scent with memory," he said, "scientists to the contrary notwithstanding, I believe taste spurns memory quite as quickly as smell. Last night I took dinner with an old-time friend of mine 'supper they called it and his wife put some raised doughnuts on the table that, when I bit into one, put me right back In the old kitchen at home when I was a boy." "That's so that's so!" declared a white-haired man who wore a stock not because the hunting set have made them fashionable again,, but because be-cause he had always worn one. "My daughter-in-law has good help and she's a fine cook herself; but the other day I was rummaging around in the basement of our warehouse and I came across the porter's dinner pail. I opened it to see what the boy's wife gave him for luncheon, and there was a big slab of apple pie right on top. It looked just like what my aunt used to make years ago. I couldn't resist the temptation, and I left half a dollar, on deposit for the pie and eat up every last crumb of it. Why, I could remember getting licked for hooking a piece that tasted just like that out of the pantry for my aunt was a strict disciplinarian. "But then," added the old man' reflectively, re-flectively, "that couldn't have been just like my aunt's pies, if it dia taste so, for I couldn t sleep a wink that night for the trouble it gave me." "Reminds me of what the steward of the Palmer House in Chicago told me once," said a third member of the group. "When Gen. Grant stopped there on his return from his tour of the world one noon the steward was all but stupefied at seeing the ex-President slide in at the kitchen door, as though escaping from some one." " 'I am sorry to trouble you,' he said. a3 though asking a great, favor, 'but may I have a little corned beef and cabbage?" 'Why, certainly,' the steward replied, re-plied, 'but sha'n't I send it out to you In the dining room?' ,"'No,' he answered, 'I'll eat it right here if you'll let me sit down.' "So a place on the rough board table, ta-ble, where the cook had been fixing the meat, was cleared and Grant drew up a stool and set to. And the way he got away with that corned beef and cabbage was a caution. When he had finished he laid down his knife and fork with a funny sigh of satisfaction, satis-faction, put one hand on the steward's shoulder, and said: '"Young man, I don't suppose you 'care for that at all, but If you had had to eat what I have for the past-) few months it would taste like a dinner din-ner for the gods. It tastes homey!' "The ex-President had dined with everybody from the Queen down, but that cabbage and corned beef doubtless doubt-less reminded him of the time when he was not so well known, but probably prob-ably far happier when people In St. Louis called him 'Captain' when they spoke to him and bought the wood, he carted into town to sell." Awoke Senator Scott. Senator Morgan Is 78 years old. Not long ago he stood on his feet for five hours and read 80,000 words of a Nicaragua Nic-aragua canal speech, and was as fresh as a daisy when he had finished. Everybody Ev-erybody left the chamber, but Senator Morgan ambled along contentedly and probably didn't know or care whether one senator or fifty listened to him. President Frye escaped early. He called Senator Scott to the chair. Senator Sen-ator Scott kept awake as long as he could and then took a nap. Senator Kittridge was present most of Iwe time, because he is going to make a speech In reply to Morgan. Once he rose to make an inquiry. Senator Scott slept peacefully. " "Change cars!" said tne reading clerk. Senator Scott awoke with a start and answered the question, and Senator Sen-ator Morgan went on and on and on. "Papa's Wife." Justice Henry Bischoff of the supreme su-preme court was a widower for several years. Recently he announced his forthcoming marriage to Mrs. ColH-more, ColH-more, an old friend of his family. His daughter, who is married, asked him how she should in future address her stepmother. "Should I call her mamma," asked she, "or what?" "I think," said the Justice, "you ought to call her Anna Held." "Anna Held," repeated she, inquiringly, inquir-ingly, "why so?" "Because she will be 'Papa's wife,' " remarked the Justice -with a chuckle. Immigrants In Canada. Lord Strathcona, the high commissioner commis-sioner of Canada, announces that specially spe-cially conducted parties (in charge of representatives of the Canadian government) gov-ernment) will start from Liverpool and Glasgow during this month. Those who form these parties will receive re-ceive personal attention from the government gov-ernment agents, whose duty it will be to see that the passengers are well looked after on the voyage, and, on their arrival in Canada, to assist in any way they properly can their satisfactory satis-factory location on farms. Where Women Do Hiiraal Labor. You frequently find women in Damascus Dam-ascus doing the hardest kind of manual man-ual labor, as in Bohemia and Hungary. They carry the hod, they dig ditches, they haul carts and are employed in the most menial labor. In Damascus factories, where brass work, pottery, inlaid furniture, embroideries and other characteristic merchandise of the country is produced, women artists art-ists work side by side with the men, producing similar results. But receiving receiv-ing only half as much wages. Such is the rule the world over. - No matter mat-ter whether a woman works in Chicago Chi-cago or Damascus, In Fall River or Constantinople, in Sweden or in Spain, in Japan or Bolivia, she is never paid mora than half as much as men re- cieve for the same kind of work. W; E. Curtis, in Chicago Record-Herald. Oans for Eastarn Siberia. Three-inch quick-firing guns of the newest patterns are to be served out to the Russian artillery in Eastern Siberia, Si-beria, at an estimated cost cf over $2,-500,000. $2,-500,000. i GEN. GRANT Famous President and Distinguish on Little MH evfmfmmnmimwHnmMHiitni ; For once at least in the history of this republic the nation was without a head. Though brief, the interregnum was complete. It was only for about fourteen hours, but in that short period per-iod the nation ran itself. But the people peo-ple knew it not, and nothing occurred to create a temporary state of anarchy. an-archy. Ail the same, the occasion thereof constituted a most interesting incident. It transpired in the summer of 1873, when President Grant, several members mem-bers of his cabinet and other more or less distinguished men, Including Hannibal Hamlln.Gen. Babcock, Simon Cameron, Lot M. Morrill, James G. Blaine and Thomas B. Reed were enforced en-forced prisoners one night on a little Maine island, during a violent storm and completely isolated from the rest of the world. "The idea that Grant couldn't talk! Why, bless you, that two hours' talk he gave us one memorable night on a lone island off the coast of Maine was at once the most graphic and fascinating fas-cinating 1 ever heard in my life." So spoke Lewis B. Smith, for many years deputy collector of customs at Portland, Me., a prominent citizen of that city. He told the very interesting interest-ing story to a little bevy of his acquaintances ac-quaintances one evening a few years after the episode. By virtue of his office, Deputy Collector Col-lector Smith was at the time referred to in charge of the presidential party ou board tho United States revenue cutter McCulloch. That year (1873) President Grant, accompanied by members of his cabinet, noted ment, and othr public men prominent in civil and military life, came east, and was received with due honors In the cities and principal towns visited. One of these was Portland and in addition ad-dition to the public ovations given the distinguished party, arrangements were made tc take them back to Bar Harbor then comparatively , little known as a summer resort and other points on the Maine coast. The party went oy rail as far as Rockland, where" the revenue cutter met them, tools' them on board, and put out to sea again. But their voyage was deatlned to be a short one. i The cutter had been but a little while out when there was abundant evider ce of storm near at hand approaching the coast. J Night was coming on. The cutter, however, continued on her way until opposite the little island of North Haven when it was decideu to take no further risks with such a valuable freight and so the captain steered for the island, near which, in safe harbor, a boat was lowered, low-ered, and the gentlemen of the party taken ashore, the ladies preferring to remain onjsoard because it was very damp and they were not prepared to go out in the wet. North Haven is a quiet place, but its steady-going, industrious people can hand down to their descendants through all time the important tradi- tion that their pretty, sea-girt home was at one time the seat of the United States government. The march ot tftat little arm7 of occupation oc-cupation from the beach to a certain neat-looking white house which proved to be an unpretentious inn, of very light patronage, on account of its isolation, iso-lation, was a memorable one. It is safe to say that no body of infantry so small in number, yet so illustrious in character, silent and unescorted, ever before" took up its lme of march on this continent. A complete roster of the procession, as recorded by the twenty-six members In Mr. Mullin's register, is given in fac simile from a photograph, with this article. The personnel per-sonnel was as follows: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, president of the United States. The Hon. James G. Blaine of Augusta, Augus-ta, Me., at that time representative in congress from the Third district, - The Hon. Eugene Hale of Ellsworth, Me., , member of congress from the Fifth' district, now United States senator. sen-ator. Isaac H. Bailey, a prominent politician politi-cian of New York city, a native of Foxcroft, Me, I think, and a great friend of Grant. . Gen. O. E. Babcock, U. S. A., on Grant's staff in the civil war and his secretary when Grant was president. The Hon." Lot M. Morrill of Augusta, Augus-ta, Me., United States senator, afterward after-ward secretary of the treasury under Grant. The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin of Bangor, Ban-gor, Me., ex-United States senator who was vice president in Lincoln's first term. - ' . A. S. Washburn of the famous Washburn Wash-burn family of statesmen. Clarence Hale, lawyer, a brother of the congressman."' The Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Portland, Port-land, Maine's attorney-general, afterward after-ward member of Congress from the First district. W. T. Hildrup. Ex-Congressman Sidney Perham of Paris, Me., at that time governor. The Hon. John H. Burleigh of South Berwick, Me., member ' of Congress from the First, district. The Hon. Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, at one time Lincoln's secretary sec-retary of war, United States senator, a celebrated statesman and politician. Thomas H. Lay. John Neal, the famous old-time poet and writer of Portland. Judge Charles Vr. Goddard of Portland, Port-land, with a record of judge of the superior court of Cumberland County, state attorney general and postmaster of Portland several times. Col. Henry S Osgood of Augusta, Me., general agent of the Eastern Express Ex-press Company, a warm friend of Blaine. H. B. Brown. , Ulysses Grant, Jr. W. B. Calhan. N. G. Alden, Jr. . Walker Blaine, oldest son of J. G. Blaine. James P. Bacon. Stanley T. Pullea. editor of the rPBE3. G-BAItT ITT 1573.-03 A PRISONER Party Confined by Storm Island. TTmnWTmnmwmtmm P rtland Press, a leading Republican ot jan. - Lewis B. Smith, custom house. Port-la Port-la id, . Jrhe hero of Appomattox, now a fol-lojrer fol-lojrer rather than a leader, drew his Ccflt Closer about him as the threatm- storm burst upon them, and the rty hastened "on to (the) Rich- id" of their perforced invasion. JTfce house was soon reached and the host .and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Nel-spiMullia, Nel-spiMullia, astonished, but not completely com-pletely overwhelmed, by the arrival of so distinguished a party of guests, set themselves triskly at work to take care of the Invaders. The spokesman of the latter said they would like rxo-JirnLB of autograph of prej obajJt AND PARTY "WRITTEN ON tWA flULlDTj REGISTER. SVL or XOKTH HAVE MB, 167S B( Apper and a place to sleep, and expect or desire for anything the common course." It was , and, darkness coming on, lamps lighted and fires were kindled. rant was nlain and democratic, as was his nature, and by his cheery chat with the somewhaLperturbed landlord and landlady soon made them at "their ease in their own inn." The humble tables were soon spread in- the little dining room and Mr. Mullin's Mul-lin's invitation, "Now, Mr. President aod gentlemen, if you will please take seats at the table, we will do the best we can to serve you," was accepted with alacrity, and all the party were forthwith partaking of what they jointly pronounced a delicious supper. .After supper the party returned to the parlor and passed the evening in ah informal, social way, some of them playing cards, the most of them cracking jokes, and all making themselves them-selves entirely at home. According to Mrs. Mullin's statement, President Grant came out into the kitchen, sat down on a stool and talked with them a'long time. He said he preferred to sit In the kitchen, where he could smoke without with-out disturbing those in the parlor. He would utter a few words, then take a puff at his cigar. His talk covered a wide range of subjects. "The president wanted no one to wait upon him," remarked Mr. Mullin, "and made less trouble than a young drummer on his first trip." During his waiting hours a cigar waa almost constantly in his mouth. Mr. Mullin carefully preserves, as a valued memento of Grant's visit, an empty cigar box marked "Colorado Claro," with an excellent likeness of the general on tho outaide wrapper. He also keeps a half-burned cigar left by Grant. At a seasonable hour in the morning morn-ing the party rallied again in the dining din-ing room and ate a hearty breakfast. The president selected the plainest food, but the venerable Gen. , Simon Cameron hale and hearty at 74 scored a point on his illustrious chief by asking and receiving from Mrs. Mullin a "quantum suf." of cold potatoes. pota-toes. The proposed trip to Bar Harbor was abandoned, and it was decided to steam direct to Bangor. Said Mr. Mullin to the writer: "In the morning, after they had finished breakfast, President Grant inquired for Mrs. Mullin and myself, and we had a very enjoyable chat with him for twenty minutes or more. He expressed ex-pressed his pleasure at having so good a night's rest and thanked us very kindly for the good care and comfort the party had received at our hands. He inquired about the business and prosperity Of this and neighboring towns, and in a frank, sincere manner man-ner which showed his interest in the 'common people. ."I accompanied the party down to the beach, and while the rest of them were getting into the boat which was to take them to the revenue cutter, Gen. Grant.as he bade me good-bye,ex- -i II'! i pressed his surprise at the promptness and capability shown by my wiie In providing for so comparatively a large company without any warning w hatever." hat-ever." An American Kaaaltx. " The" great Minister of Austria in the nineteenth century, Prince Kanitz, immortalized im-mortalized in Louise Muhlbach's historical his-torical novel, "Joseph II. and His Court," has a descendant in the United States. Some of the family emigrated to Sweden when Francis II. ascended the throne of Austria, and the name was spelled with a C Instead of a K Louis Caunitz, of -75 Chambers street, was born in Sweden about thirty-five years ago, and came to this country when a small boy. His distinguished ancestor was the only man in Austria, and possibly in all Europe, who was privileged to brush his teeth at the dinner table of royalty. His velvet-lined velvet-lined gold case, filled with dental Instruments, In-struments, was set before him at tie end of the meal for-the cleansing and polishing of his incisors, canines and molars, and no inferior in rank dared to leave the table until he had finished the job. MIST Tf I r i - mr'Mb I" TA1HED. GRSm fWealth doesn't always bring happiness, happi-ness, but it can furnish a pretty good imitation. ' ' 4 - -: - : SENTIMENT RULES IN THE SOUTH Ineldant Wtdeh Shews Lot of People for Their Lost Cans. "I was ia New Orleans the othsr day," said a young Detroiter who has made such a success in life that much of his time is at his own disposal, "and while roaming about the city came upon the shop of an old collector collec-tor of curios, himself about as quaint and Interesting an object as any that his establishment contained. He took the greatest delight in showing me his treasures bits of rare old furniture, valuable pictures and other things dear to the heart and purse of the lover of the antiquities. After displaying display-ing scores of the most tempting objects, ob-jects, he took from a safe a little bjs that he handled with the utmost gentleness, gen-tleness, and. opening it carefully, he permitted me to gaze upon a pair of old-fashioned earrings that to my eyes possessed little value. The gold in them could not have been worth more than $3 or $4. and I'm sure the stones did not represent a much larger value. Before I could express my want of appreciation ap-preciation of the ornaments he exclaimed: ex-claimed: " 'I gave a fine sum of money for those the other day. "'Why, may I ask?' was my reply. They don't appear valuable to- me." "'No, they're not In dollars and cents. But their sentimental value to me is almost priceless. They were brought in only last week by a lady who gave me satisfactory proof that they had belonged to the first wife of Jefferson Davis, had, indeed, been given to her by her father, Zachary Taylor, as a wedding present, after he forgave her for eloping with the dashing dash-ing young soldier who was destined to cut such a figure in American history in later years. The lady from whom I bought them 4s a relative of the family, fam-ily, and you may be sure that only the most pressing necessity induced ber to part with them; and, while I deeply regret her predicament, I cannot help rejoicing that I should be the fortunate fortu-nate purchaser.' -- "And this," added the Detroiter, "Is only a trifling evidence of the love and reverence the people of the South still feel for everything connected with the leader of the lost cause." Detroit Free Press. HOW HE SECURED AN UMBRELLA No One Knows Who Owned It, Bat It la Good Enough to Keep. A Grand avenue merchant entered his store the other day with an umbrella um-brella in his hand and, sitting down on the nearest stool, burst into a roar of laughter. In response to queries as to the character of the joke, the merchant said, after a few minutes of hilarity: "Well, you know, when I started out In the rain I had no umbrella. I worried wor-ried along the avenue and across the pontoon, debating whether I shouldn't Invest, but was deterred by the thought that I already have three umbrellas um-brellas kicking around somewhere. "When I gotover on East Water street I spied a man I presumed to be Dick Wilson. I don't believe you know Dick, but he is an old friend of mine. The man I thought to be Dick Wilson was carrying a fine silk umbrella. um-brella. It's mine, now," he added fondly, as he gazed on the work of art he held in his hand. "As soon as I saw the man I presumed pre-sumed to be Dick I was so overjoyed that I rushed on him from the rear and, slapping him hard oil the back, exclaimed: 'Look here, old man, "give me that umbrella! ' The man turned and, to my amazement, amaze-ment, I discovered that he was not Dick, but some one I had" never seen before. "I was covered with confusion and was about to apologize, when "I observed ob-served that he was even more confused con-fused than I. He hastily closed the umbrella and pressed it into my hand with the remark: "'I I beg your pardon; I didn't know it was yours,' and vanished around the corner, leaving me standing stand-ing with open-mouthed astonishment." astonish-ment." After the outburst of merriment from the assembled clerks had subsided, sub-sided, the merchant said: "Well, I've got a fine, new umbrella any way, and they say the second thief is the best owner." Milwaukee Sentinel. Sen-tinel. Color Affects Dew. There are conditions in which color materially affects the formation of dew, as may be shown by a simple experiment. ex-periment. Place three pieces of board one white, another green and another an-other black so that they may have the sun on them all day, and then leave them exposed to the air all night If all the conditions are normal It will be found in the morning that there is a good deal of dew on the white board, much less on the green board, and still less on the black board; Indeed, there may be none at all on the latter. The difference is due to the fact that the three boards absorb the sun's rays unequally, and are, therefore, of different dif-ferent temperatures at the close of the day. The black board absorbs the mint heat, the the white board the least. They all begin to lose their heat as soon as the sun's rays leave them, the white board cooling first, the green board ' next and the black board last. As soon as they become cool enough to condense the watery vapor of the air In contact with them, dew will begin to form on them, and the- most dew will form on the one that cools first. It may be that the black board will absorb more heat during the day than it can throw off at night; if so, no dew will form on it. Mexicans Take to English. The .progress that the English language lan-guage has made in Mexico in the last few years is remarkable, says Modern Mexico. It has not been long since French was easily the second language of the country, but today It is effectually effect-ually replaced by English. Where a half-dozen years ago only the larger establishments of those catering particularly par-ticularly to foreign trade employed English-speaking clerks, today It is possible for an American to make his wants known in his own language in every store of any importance. The demand for English newspapers, magazines mag-azines and books among . the better clesses throughout the country has Increased In-creased to a notable extent. So much of the important business transactions in Mexico today has an International character, and so many English-speaking foreigners are interested in business busi-ness concerns of the country that professional pro-fessional men find the language almost al-most a necessity in , order to secure their share of a very profitable part of the business. In the City of Mexico the great preparatory school has replaced re-placed Latin by English. It Is to be taught In a thorough four-years course, and will be obligatory. FAMIL RAGEDY HAS As he sat at his desk, working on what he expected to be his greatest book, Paul Leicester Ford, the author of "Janice Meredith," "The Honorable Peter Stirling," and a dozen other famous fa-mous works, was slain by his brother Malcolm, the one-time amateur athletic ath-letic champion, because the latter blamed his distinguished brother for his being disinherited by their father, and the contrast between his own comparative poverty ' and the wealth and distinction of his brother maddened mad-dened him. Immediately after shooting, Malcolm turned the revolver on himself, put a bullet through his own heart, and was Malcolm Webster Ford. dead while his victim was still fighting fight-ing for breath. Malcolm Ford did not speak after he fell, but the novelist, looking up Into the eyes of the surgeon, who had come at once, and reading his fate there, said, calmly, "I want to die bravely." The murder was done and the fratricide fratri-cide killed himself in the library of the novelist's beautiful home at 37 East Seventy-seventh street, New York. Malcolm had come as he had often come before, to demand money, it is believed, and the one witness to the double tragedy gathered that he was refused. This one witness was Miss Elizabeth R. Hall, Paul Leicester Ford's secretary, who sat at the corner cor-ner of the room typewriting some of the manuscript of the writer's new book, and the story she tells is more bitterly dramatic and terrible than anything she ever copied for the man whose trade it was to invent and tell stirring stories. According to her the athlete brother came to the study and held a whispered whis-pered conversation with the hunchback hunch-back novelist, who was sitting at his desk weaving another romance. What they said she cannot repeat, but she gathered it was anotheirequest such as she had heard before. When she turned the strong man's arm was around his deformed brother's broth-er's neck and his pistol was pressed to his breast. At the first report she Jed, but she heard her name called by the murderer, and ran back to help her employer. She caught him as he was reeling from his desk and helped him to a couch, and while she was doing do-ing this she heard the voice of the Paul Leicester Ford. other, calm and sharp, saying, "Now watch me die." And, raising her eyes from the fainting, faint-ing, deformed man who was clutching at his bleeding breast, she saw the other put his still smoking weapon to his heart and fire and fall. The fortune of the father, Gordon L. Ford, participation In which was denied de-nied Malcolm Ford, amounted to millions. mil-lions. He was for years publisher of the New York Tribune, and then holder hold-er of large blocks of Brooklyn real estate. es-tate. - The lowest estimate of his estate when he died was 12,000,000, and there are those who say $10,000,000 is nearer the true figure. All this fortune for-tune was left to his widow to be divided di-vided at her death among the two brothers and two sisters of Malcolm Ford, who was thus excluded from any share in the property. The widow survived only two years. It Is difficult to learn just what arrangement was made then; one story has it that ag agreement was reached that Malcolm should have some share, and another is that; he was refused anything. Then followed threats to contest the father's will by Malcolm, and conferences confer-ences among the family, and it was generally believed that an allowance was made for Malcolm. His claim often repeated was that the quarrel between himself and his father had been practically patched up and that the will was to have been changed so as to admit him to an equal share with his brothers and sisters and to the Influence In-fluence of Paul he laid the failure of the father to make the change. This much is certain that, while his brothers and sisters lived in magnificent magnifi-cent homes and had all that riches could bring, Malcolm Ford lived in a modest apartment with his little boy Fonr Killed 0er 3 Cents. A special from Chihuahua, near El Paso, Texas, says that a fatal catting affray took place between the peons on what is known as the Little Plaza, opposite the cathedral, in which four men were killed and a dozen more or less were seriously injured. The men were gathered about a tequilla joint and the difficulty arose over thai price of a glass of tequilla, valued at three cents. The two disputing parties drew their knives and began to slash each other, and Instantly others took up the fight. Before the police could interfere, in-terfere, three rnen lay dead on the ground, one fatally injured, who died in a short time, and eleven were badly bad-ly cut up, three of whom may die. Every man on the plaza, which frequented fre-quented only by peons, was arrested. The number of prisoners is twenty-seven. twenty-seven. ' - Travel in Yukon Country. Road-houses, where meals are -A at 1 CO aooh Tiavn Tuxn Mtiih. lished at convenient distances In upper Yukon comvy to iaciutate travel. - THAT . "v SHOCKED NEW Y0R and spoke of his brother Paul always bitterly as one who had injured him deeply. , It does not appear that Malcolm Ford had ever done anything that would put him outside the pale. His father's anger is said to hare arisen from his objection to the athletic sports which were the young man's greatest delight, and in which for half a dozen years the country failed to produce his peer. The father was a sober man, with serious views of life,-and life,-and this full-blooded, strapping youngster young-ster was, unlike any of the other five children, whose scholarly bent pleased the father and made him contrast them to Malcolm to the latters disadvantage. disad-vantage. One funeral service was held over the bodies of both men at the home of the author. ' The burial was made in the family plot at Irvington on the Hudson, and when the two bodies were laid at rest the Ford feud, to the outside world at least, was ended. Side by side In the library where Malcolm Ford shot first his brother and then himself, the coffins lay before the service, which was conducted by Bishop Burgess, who officiated at the marriage of Paul Ford. He was assisted as-sisted by Rev. D. Stirres of St. Thomas' Thom-as' church. Crowds who had read of the differences differ-ences between the brothers and the deadly end, stood on the south side of the street. The police kept the north side clear. Paul Ford, much beloved of his father, who left him wealth that ha might live luxuriously, lay in a black; broadcloth casket that seemed smalf in size beside the larger and similar; one that , contained the body of Malcolm, Mal-colm, the athlete, who, brooding over his father's tction in leaving. JbJmjen- niless, was moved to kill his own brother and then himself. The room was a bower of flowers. Elizabeth B. HalL (Paul Leicester Ford's Private Secretary, Secre-tary, Who Witnessed the Murder and Suicide.) costly floral tributes that bore no. cards. Two large wreaths, one of lilies of the valley, the other of white roses, were the most striking. A pure white cross five feet in height, sent from Brooklyn, flanked the two coffins. cof-fins. A friend of the family, bearing an offering of white lilacs, dropped a spray just as he and his wife entered the Ford house. There was an immediate imme-diate rush for it on the part of men, women and children, but a woman secured se-cured it. Mrs. Paul Ford, stricken with the shock of her husband's death, remained remain-ed in her room during the services.' Her physicians say she is bearing up wonderfully under the shock. DEATH OF BRILLIANT INVENTOR Explosion of Airship Kills 6enhor Bevero and His Engineer. "- Experts differ as to the precise cause of Tthe explosion which shattered the airship of Senhor Severo, the rival of Santos-Dumont, and resulted in the death of the owner and his engineer. A physician who made an examina- tion immediately after the accident declares de-clares that the victims were not killed by the force of the fall, which shattered shat-tered both bodies almost beyond recognition, recog-nition, but died of suffocation. The engineer was terribly burned. His face and hands were so carbonized that the Senior Severe flesh fell when touched, leaving bare the bones. Statesman and Preacher. Though not a preacher, Congressman Congress-man Candler of Mississippi takes active ac-tive interest in religious matters, and while at home during the summer always al-ways holds revival meetings in country places where it is difficult to secure the services of men of ability and note. He has spoken from several Washington Washing-ton pulpits. Tom Read Forgot Etlqnett. Thomas Brackett Reed sat in the United States supreme court a few days ago listening to the delivery of an opinion by Justice White.- Some of his honor's statements especially pleased the ex-speaker, who applauded them audible. The sound of his own hands brought him to realize that he was in the presence of a dignified court, and the big ,man looked quite sheepish for a few moments. Ex-Got. Boadly's Misfortune. Ex-Gov. George Hoadly of Ohio, a member of the law firm of Hoadly, Lauterbach & Johnson, has been confined con-fined to his room at 33 East Fiftieth street, New York, for some time past undergoing treatment for his eyes. He recently underwent an operation and la now in the care of a specialist Because Be-cause of his advanced age it is feared that Mr. Hoadly may lose his sight. Ingenuity of a Robber. , A robber in Philadelphia, trying to escape from a policeman, ran through a trolley car and set the passengers in a panic. |