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Show Ue INDEPENDENT. D. C. J0HSS05, PabUakar. SPRINOVILLE, . . . UTAH The curse of litigation seem ctm to hang over th j Fair millions. Too much thinking on the subject of microbes will dull the heartiest appetite. ap-petite. There is a double reason for calling It hard coal; since it has become o hard to get. The fact that coal and diamonds are chemically Identical ceases to wear aui air of paradox. An Indiana man burned np $6,009 ftt greenbacks before committing suicide. Is this patriotism? Grave diggers are taking risks when they go on a strike. There are no strikes at crematories. Since his father's wfll was read young Mr. Mackay has not had to worry about his board bilL We hare not read the coronation ode written by William Winter, but it Is better than Alfred Austin's. King Edward should remember that uneasy lies the head that doesnt take off its crown on going to bed. President Castro should know how to take Lis medicine. It is the same dose he has served out to others. The Viceroy of Chi ll means well enough, but his proclamation reads hke something from a comic opera. Henri Rochefort of Paris wears a straw hat which is said to have cost $1 000; but then one can say anything. It is a severe strain on the transportation transpor-tation facilities to move even the stories that are told of this year's crops. It is to be hoped that the rest of the South American republics will not Insist positively on having revolutions revo-lutions now. England is drinking California wine, with "California" on the label and likewise on the cork. Will the "invasion" "inva-sion" never end? It takes courage to buy a big daily newspaper only to suppress it, as Mr. Ochs has practically suppressed the Philadelphia Times. One ambitious and able-bodied mosquito mos-quito will cause more bloodshed than all the Central American and Haitian warriors put together. One of the first signs of autumn Is the prima donna's annual interview about the fabulous salary she has had to decline because of a previous contract. con-tract. The farmers' $50,000,000 trust will not need to go east after financial assistance if it can hold on to its products until the east really needs them. ' American women led all others for costly jewels at the coronation, a fact which the customs officers in New York will try to recall a little later in the year. The empress dowager has caught another Chinese reformer and suggested suggest-ed that he be sent to the place where reforms are either unnecessary or impossible. im-possible. Possibly the cigars that a Texas railroad rail-road is offering as a bonus to travelers travel-ers are of the kind that make the discomforts dis-comforts of travel seem as nothing by comparison. Because a waitress hands a customer cus-tomer a piece of peach pie when he says "Give me the kind that resembles re-sembles you. would you accuse her of being egotistical? Really that New York woman who is suing her first husband for abandonment abandon-ment after she has tried six other matrimonial ventures is paying him a very high compliment. The lady who drenched her husband in vitriol must have been an extravagant extrava-gant housewife. It is not necessary to have more than a few ounces of the fluid about. Besides there was her temper. Since the walls of Solomon's temple have been discovered in Samaria and Noah's ark has been found in Greenland, Green-land, there appears to be a chance for some scientist to locate Adam and Eve's first tepee. In Tolstoy's latest book the Russian pessimist asserts that English fiction died with Dickens and American literature lit-erature ceased with Emerson and Lowell. Lo-well. This is tough on Samuel Eberly Gross and Mary McLane. A New York mendicant has admitted admit-ted in court that he makes 1 1,800 A year begging. But. poor fellow, how can he expect to cut any kind of a figure in New York on $1,800 a year. A Boston man is trying to start a home for poor inventors. It should be fitted up with a number of padded cells for the perpetual motion crowd. Such lovely, artistic ways of serving serv-ing watermelons as one reads of! At the same time, for pure relish, caa anything beat the small boy's way? There is a colored man at Allegheny City, Pa., who can drink three qaarts of whisky in a aay. Some people will look upon him as being almost as great a hero as Mr. Jeffries. The Boer generals are getting a warm reception in England. They gave the British a hot reception In Africa. Af-rica. Reciprocity Is always la order. It Is now rumored that Fitssiramont lost the fight because he yielded to the pugilist's besetting temptatio te pause and indulge in conversation. Every few days Lord Kitchener la reported to be engaged to some other girl. Perhaps he is afraid Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews will get after him if he doesn't watch out. Emperor William has invited Kitchener Kitch-ener to visit Berlin. Perhaps William has made np his mind to give the prince a licking and wants help. It would be very slangy to say that tht valuable new gum tree found in Brasfl wa discovered by an American rha was rubbering around. COMMANDERS OF RIVAL FORCES IN MIMIC WAR- NOW ONi MAP OF COAST SUBJECT TO ATTACK BY THE ENEMY. I ass A k l r THE ATTACKED 'kiak Ammi j.nusrUKX The attempt of the "enemy," represented repre-sented by Commander Pillsbury's white squadron, to effect a landing on the New England coast ended by the theoretical destruction of the fleet and Its surrender to Rear Admiral Higgin-son, Higgin-son, commanding the blue, or defending defend-ing squadron. At 5:40 a. m. Aug. 24 the signal "Surrender; demand unconditional," was made from Rear Admiral Higgin-son's Higgin-son's flagship, and the reply, "Accept, surrender," came from the fore truck of the Prairie, Commander Pillsbury's flagship. The battle between the blue or defending de-fending squadron, and the white, or attacking at-tacking squadron, was thus quickly ended eight miles south of Thatcher's Island. The "enemy" had most signally sig-nally failed to make a harbor having for its objective Salem... A preponderance prepon-derance of fighting strength, relatively sixty-four points, represented by the battleships Kearsarge, Alabama and Massachusetts, Scorpion and a torpedo boat, had overwhelmed the forty-five points represented by the auxiliary cruisers Prairie, Panther and Supply. To speak from a theoretic standpoint, the white squadron was entirely destroyed de-stroyed by the guns of the defending battleships. Thus on the fourth night the game of naval strategy was brought to an end, it having covered a period of unceasing toil, sleepless nights, of anxious and wearing vigil, and of grave uncertainty to its participants. partici-pants. The maneuvers of the two United States fleets off the Massachusetts coast have been watched with much Interest by both naval and military men. Commander Pillsbury heads the attacking fleet, and his object is to make a Innding on the coast &bd hoM and fortify a position, while Admiral Iligginson is in charge of the defending defend-ing float, to prevent such a move. A thick fcg has aided the fiei't of th enemy. At the begirn5ng of the Pnanish-American Pnanish-American war the government established estab-lished a lookout and maintained a crew of signal service men on the rocky islands, ten miles off the New Hampshire coast. That this judgment was good was demonstrated when, during a leavy mist, the jacky who was on lookoi't at the top of the mast espied what proved to have been one of Commander Pillsbury's fleet. As soon a? the station on the Isle of Shoals notified the nearest mainland main-land point by the use of torches and the secret code of the navy. Admiral Higginson s system of signals spread the re-vs. In a moment the destroyer Ie-aair was rocketed from Portsmouth Ports-mouth to pursue the mysterious comer, and in another moment the Tecaiur, with the smoke belching for'h from four stacks, was plowing furiously through the heavy seas. The stranger turned and fled at full speed and was soon lost. Again shortly before dark the man en watch discovered a number of war vessels several miles to the southeast of the islands. They were not discernible dis-cernible by the naked eye and were only seen from the lookout by the aid of a powerful glass. They remained practically in the same position until darkness shut them from view. From this fact they were believed to be md LJI Tm BATTLESHIP DISCOVERING TORPEDO BOAT. First Cannon Built in 1333. It is a curious fact that the first cannon can-non was cast at Venice. It was called a "bombard," and was invented and employed by Gen. Pisanl in a war against the Genoese. The Original bombard, which bears the date of U80, Is still preserved, and stands at the foot of Pisani's statue at the arsenal. ar-senal. The bombard threw a stone 109 pounds in weight; but another Venetian Ve-netian general, Francisco Varde. improved im-proved it until he was able to handle a charge of rock and bowlders weighing weigh-ing S.000 pounds. It proved disastrous to him. however, for one day during the siege of Zara. while he was operating oper-ating his terrible engine, he was hurled by it over the walls and instantly in-stantly killed. Remembered With Gratitude. The man who introduced the Turkish Turk-ish bath into the United States has Just died In New York. Millions of his grateful fellow countrymen will hope he does cot have to go through the hot room of purgatory in order to reach the pleasant couches of heav- fa- -i t - aeisfiiv7raa lit L : !. m b;J;i "l-iii'Ki'iN ; . ii : ' i'-;v::i,.(li: s, n cod i mrJMi II i-i,.,M!''ir : v s IMMORAL I jrmwaf; 6LOQ; ItLAXD come of Commander Pillsbury's squadron, and shortly after nightfall the fleet of torpedo boats of Admiral Higginson's squadron left to keep an eye on the movements of the attacking attack-ing fleet. It was early discovered that Commander Com-mander Pillsbury had secretly landed some of his officers ashore to spy upon the movements of the blue squadron, and this served only to increase in-crease the perplexity of Admiral IZig-ginson's IZig-ginson's position, and this reported siore system of spying was one of the things which led the admiral to establish estab-lish the new signal station off Straits Mouth point, and o to remove his ships to a point just inside Thatcher's island. The battleship Kearsarge, Admiral Higginson's flagship, and the two other battleships, the Alabama and the Massachusetts, were off Thatcher's Thatch-er's island close to Rockport. The scouts of the blue squadron put out to sea to engage in the work of trying to locate the white squadron of the enemy. Two torpedo boats were with them. The armored cruiser Brooklyn and the cruiser Olympia were somewhere to the Boith watching approaches to Portsmouth and Portland, and ready to respond to any news that the white squadron was trying to enter one of these places. The cruiser Montgomery Montgom-ery and the smaller vessels, including all the other torpedo boatus, were strung out along the coast. Hain fell on the afternoon of the second day, and when it ceased the skies remained threatening. The moon, which was the white squadron's despair, could not be seen. The torpedo boat Stockton left Officers Abele, Jackson, Wainwrlght and Cox, detailed from the Montgomery Montgom-ery as shore signal men, to cover Race Point and Highland Light, Mass. The Stockton patrolled the coast in search of Capt. Pillsbury's fleet. From the Provincetown shore to that of Plymouth the distance is eighteen miles. The bay shore sweeps around in a circle, Is Invisible from shipping off Provincetown, and spying ships would necessarily be obliged to cover much water to guard all sections of the bay shore. The defenders relied to some extent on news of the invading fleet being brought by fishermen. Rear Admiral Higginson's three battleships bat-tleships at midnight of the second day were still at anchor off Thatcher's island, is-land, and besides them were two torpedo tor-pedo boats, but a nasty sea was running run-ning and the lightning occasionally lighted up the bay. At midnight the flagship's launches found difficult work in making landings, and incoming incom-ing craft reported a wild sea outside. On the battleships the men were wide awake, as every one expected to get word of the enemy before daylight. The three battleships of Higginson's command, the only division of his squadron maintained as a unit capable capa-ble of frustrating Pillsbury's purpose, lay close In to the great granite bowlders bowl-ders called Thatcher's and Strait-mouth's Strait-mouth's islands, situated barely pistol shot range from the headland that shelters the harbors of Rockport, Mass., from easterly gaies. The battleships bat-tleships were cleared for action and officers and men had been warned to ;cv " -;. -Lit l i s It Utilization of Peat. Although electricity Is not generally regarded by engineers as an economical econom-ical heating agent, its use for this purpdse In many industrial operations is increasing. This advance Is due to the fact that by aid of electricity tne heat can be generated exactly at the spot where it Is to become effective, and that the losses arising from radiation and conduction are therefore reduced to a minimum. Even where only moderate mod-erate temperatures are required there is much to be said in favor Oi using electricity, and when t'je generating costs are exceptionally low the' actual cost of the heating operation compares favorably with the cost of heating by coal. The latest example of this use of electricity current is In the manufacture manu-facture of peat fuel. Nearly every country of Europe possesses immense peat bogs and morasses', which are as yet practically unutilized for industrial purposes. Education and Crime. "Too severe education" is gravely reported as having caused 2 per cent of the bad boys in Tokjo reformatory to be sent tbre. zr i we Drrrwnz LfjfiruwpiK, Mia jQUffl.0' be ready to spring to quarters at the first alarm. "w- The torpedo boats Bagley and Bid-die Bid-die were scouting near by, occasionally occasion-ally communicating with the flagship. The knowing young war dogs of Rear Admiral Higginson's fleet were not as confident as formerly that Pillsbury, the Cervera of the mock war campaign, cam-paign, would fail to make a landing on the New England coast and establish estab-lish a base of supplies and offensive operations there before the big ships under Higginson could stay him. Of course, these exercises of the ships were all mere play in comparison compari-son with actual hostilities, but there was plenty of hard work in it. The officers and men ; of Rear Admiral Higginson's command did not mind the work, for they were mightily enthusiastic. en-thusiastic. There may have been a few who were inclined to scoff at the utility of the whole thing, but these caught the contagion of interest in the whereabouts of Pillsbury's division and the chances of his success or failure fail-ure to establish a base. It was no fun for the personnel of the vessels lying In wait for the white squadron. They are kept busy all day at subcaliber practice and other exercises, exer-cises, and at night had to bear the anxiety and fatigue of watching. Nobody No-body was permitted to come ashore except the few engaged in maintaining communication between Rockport and Higginson's flagship and the signal stations along the coast from Portland to Cape Cod. Even these underwent the hardest kind of duty. Rumors as to Pillsbury's whereabouts came to Rear Admiral Higginson by the score. Hostile squadrons were being discovered all along the coast. One report that got to Rockport was that Rear Admiral Higginson and some of his officers went ashore at the Isle of Shoals and took dinner at a hotel there. But this proved to be based on the joke of a man from Gloucester, who went there In a yacht, and to everybody that one of hl&(- companions was the rear admiral. The United States battleship Indiana, In-diana, with a portion of the three upper up-per classes of midshipmen aboard, left Annapolis to take part In the naval maneuvers off the Massachusett's coast. The cadets, who have been away on their summer cruise, will be given a vacation until the academic year begins next month. Eggs Are Universal Food. An English traveler who has visited every nation in the world is authority for the statement that one food is universal throughout all countries. "There is not a part of the world," he says, "where you cannot get an egg." While in western China, however, he at first had some difficulty in getting even eggs. The natives could not understand un-derstand him and refused to recognize recog-nize the pictures he drew as pictures of eggs. "The way I got out of the difficulty," he adds, "was that I squatted squat-ted down on my haunches, flapped my wings and cock-a-doodle-doo'd until the entire nation grasped what I wanted, and I was simply provided with hundreds hun-dreds of eggs." Railway Passengers Injured. The French government has adopted a system of passenger insurance on state railways. The purchase of a penny ticket confers the right to $2,-000 $2,-000 in case of death or permanent injury, in-jury, from J500 to (1,000 for minor injuries in-juries and Ave francs a day while the Injured person is unable to work as the result of an accident of any kind within the precincts of the railway. A ssenger may purchase any number of tickets up to ten. New Use for Injunctions. A Chicago man has appealed to the courts to protect him from a woman who is bent on marrying him. This is a logical course to take, for it is a poor injunction nowadays that is not elastic enough to cover all sorts of speculation, including that governed govern-ed by Dan Cupid. Division of Land in Prussia. Of the 34,864,865.8 hectares (86,151,-083.3 (86,151,-083.3 acres) of land in Prussia, 8,270,-133.5 8,270,-133.5 hectares (20,435,199.8 acres), or 23.7, per cent, are occupied by forests and orchards. Snail as an Article of Food. The snail is reared and fattened with great care in some cantons ol Switzerland as an article of luxury and is exporteed in a pickled state. It is also eaten as a relish and nutritious nutri-tious article of food in Austria, Spain, Italy and in some sections of the United States. The Ashantees and ther African tribes smoke them and eat them as daily food all the year around. In Algeria, in the markets, large heaps of snails are sold by the bushel and the hundred as an article of food. Venders hawk them In the streets of Cairo. In modern Rome freshly gathered snails are hawked by women from door to door. Bacteriological Experiments. Experiments in Dublin recently demonstrated dem-onstrated to the satisfaction of the experimenters ex-perimenters that bacteria could be carried car-ried a great distance by the wind despite de-spite a heavy railfall. Electricity and the Brain. Experiments recently made have demonstrated that the brain is susceptible suscep-tible to peculiar influence from electricity. UNCLE SAM'S O.WNERSHIP OF THE PACIFIC R . i i . I, , i v - -. The warship Adams has been ordered or-dered to cruise among the island possessions pos-sessions of the United States in the Pacific and oust Japanese and others who have settled in the islands and are working their pearl fisheries and other resources. The sovereignty of the United States In the Pacific and the reasons for American domination were tersely given by O. P. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics of the treasury department, in a recent address. ad-dress. , Mr. Austin says "the Pacific is, and will remain, an American ocean," for the following reasons: First The United States has a greater coast line and more and better bet-ter harbors on the Pacific than any other v-tlon. Second The United States has more railway lines to serve as land carriers for that commerce that all the other countries put together. CAMERAS IN WAR TIME. French Military Men Recognize Their Possibilities. To France probably belongs the credit of using the camera for war purposes in a most satisfactory manner man-ner at a time when it was of the utmost importance. When Paris was beseiged communication with the outside out-side world was had only by mean9 of balloons and carrier pigeons. The dispatches sent by the carrier pigeons were photographed on small films, which could be attached to the feathers feath-ers of the birds, and in this way a single bird could carry thousands of words. Likewise the aeronauts who hovered over Paris used the camera for photographing the different positions posi-tions of the Prussians. These photographs photo-graphs were the first ever taken of an invading army from a balloon. Profiting by this experience, the French army and navy have increased their carrier-pigeon and balloon service. ser-vice. Several hundred officers In the French army are expert photographers photog-raphers and every engineering corps carries with it complete photographic outfits. ' TALK OF KNOX FOR BENCH. Attorney General Mentioned as Suc-cessor Suc-cessor to Justice Shiras. The semi-official announcement that Justice Shiras will retire from the supreme court early next year has started anew the gossip about Attorney Attor-ney General Knox as a probable successor suc-cessor to him. The intimate friends of the attorney general do not take much stock in this gossip as they do not believe Mr. Knox would care to retire from the active practice of his profession in the prime of life, even to accept such a position of honor and dignity. These intimate associates of the attorney general say that he has no desire to retire and give up his professional pro-fessional career. He is only 50 years old and in prime physical condition. He has made a reputation as one of the great lawyers in this country and Justice Shiras. he expects to add to that reputation during his official career as head of the department of justice. Funny British Antics. There is something particularly ludicrous lu-dicrous in the sight of a room full of mature and, in many cases, corpulent ladles, attired in black satin knickerbockers knicker-bockers and white snirts, lying flat on the floor kicking their legs in the air. Yet in two years no fewer than 4,000 British dames of undoubted respectability respecta-bility have so disported themselves under un-der the supervision of the various people peo-ple whose classes (for voice production) produc-tion) are the craze of the hour. Many well-known singers have undergone the treatment Pearson's Weekly. Duse and Her Nerves. Eleanora Duse, the famous Italian actress, is peculiarly nervous. When she is not at rehearsal or acting she spends her time in perfect rest. She-sees She-sees no one but old friends, and only a few of these. She has a companion who arranges her journeys and engages en-gages her rooms in various hotels. This woman sees that Duse's rooms are at the back of the hotel and that, if possible, they look out on a garden. She cannot bear street sounds and sights. The furnishing of her room is important. There must be no pictures pic-tures or ornaments ; nothing to disturb dis-turb her highly wrought aesthetic sen-'sibilities. sen-'sibilities. Everything must be scrupulously scrup-ulously clean, severe and quiet. Neutral Zone Between Countries. When the boundary between Bulgaria Bul-garia and Roumania is definitely demarcated de-marcated a neutral zone a mile and a quarter wide is to be established on either side of the frontier line. Wisconsin Dairy Industry. The Wisconsin dairy industry employs em-ploys 1,700 hands at an annual cqst for wngea of nearly 51,000,000. Third The United States owns the chief way stations of commerce on that ocean,- the island ports of call which are important in an ocean of such va.-t distances. Fourth The United States controls the best and nearly the only practicable prac-ticable route on which to lay submarine sub-marine cables across the ocean an important factor in a consideration of its commercial possibilities. Fifth At Manila the United States has an extremely valuable distributing distribut-ing point for commerce for all parts of the orient. Sixth Nature has given to the Njrth American continent great and remarkable advantages for commerce across the Pacific ocean advantages which must continue to exist as long as the continent and the ocean continue con-tinue in their present relation. WILL NOT BRIBE FORGER. Bankers Deny Story That They Will Pay Becker to "Be Good." Charles Becker, the notorious forger, for-ger, who will soon be released from San Quentin penitentiary, California, will not be paid a salary of $500 a month or any other sum, by the Bank- Charles Becker. ers Association to restrain him from crime. This story, which has just been put into circulation in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, is denied by the Pinkerton agency, through whose efforts Becker was caught a few years ago after re-frauding re-frauding the Nevada bank of San Francisco out of $16,000. The Pinker-tons Pinker-tons are the agents of the Banker's association. That organization, they say, has no salary list, and while Becker might be willing enough to take the money, there is not the slightest slight-est possibility of his getting It. The story, say the Pinkertons, is pure fiction, fic-tion, and, moreover, has not even the merit of being new. It was originated origin-ated four years ago, two years after Becker was convicted. The forger then announced that he and the bankers bank-ers were "going into partners," and the story then published was substantially substan-tially the same as that which is in circulation cir-culation now. Becker is one of the cleverest forgers in the world. For many years he has worked independently, independ-ently, with a partner, or with a company, com-pany, and he has fleeced numerous banks in European and American cities of sums ranging into six figures. His last big job was the swindling of the Union Trust company of New York out of $64,000. Superstition of Hindoos. One difficulty arising from the contact con-tact of Englishmen and native races in India is due to the native's belief that he must neglect all business on the great "washing days" when all faithful Hindoos must bathe in the sea. The head of an English business firm In India recently received the following fol-lowing note from an employe who had failed to appear for work: "Respected Sir I respectfully beg to bring to your kind notice that I had about eight months ago vowed a solemn vow that I would perform certain ceremonies and have a fine bath in the sea. I am afraid the deities might visit me with tenfold calamities than before, and perhaps I may be also reduced half my size. I therefore shall be highly obliged to perform the above-mentioned rights." .Youth in High Position. One of the youngest of the British officials in South Africa is Major Herbert Her-bert Darling, commissioner of police at Bloomfontain, who is only 23 years old. At 18 he managed a mine in western west-ern Australia. At 20 he was captain of a west Australian contingent in South Africa. He looks younger than he really is, and in the early days of the war, before his coolness and bravery brav-ery were recognized, he. was known among his associates as "Baby Darling." Dar-ling." Statistics of Human Life. According to a French statistician, a man of fifty years ha3 slept 6,000 days, worked 6,500 days, walked 800 days, amused himself 8,000 days, was eating 1,500 days, and sick 500 days. He ate 17,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of meat, 4,600 pounds of vegetables, vege-tables, eggs and fish, and drank 7,000 gallons of liquids. ' Democrats in Congress. There are from Northern constituencies constitu-encies forty-eight Democrats In the House of Representatives, of which number twelve are from New York, three from Massachusetts, two from New Jersey and four from Pennsylvania, Pennsylva-nia, a total of twenty-one. There are-105 are-105 Democrats and Populists from the South. Physicians of Massachusetts. Registered physicians in Massachusetts Massachu-setts are paid to number 4.500. an average aver-age of one to every 625 inhabitants. Telegrams in Two Capitals. Londcn daily averages 475.000 telegrams. tele-grams. In Pari-' the. daily average is-120,000. AS THE WORLD REVOLVES NOTED AS A MATCHMAKER. Mrs. R. T. Wilsjn of New York Has a Rare Accomplishment, .drs. R. T. Wilson, wife of one of New York's multimillionaires, is n ted as a great matchmaker. She is called the dean of the mat:hmaiiing society. Her husband came from the south Immediately after the civU war ai.-l settled in New York. He was e s rmously successful as a financier Mrs. R. T. Wilson. . and soon was very rich. As the fan ily of children grew up in luxury their mother began to look about for suit-ible suit-ible matches. The first great match was when Mrs. AVilson succeeded In weudirg her eldest daughter to Ogden Goelet, one of the great land owners of Manhattan. Mrs. Wilson's second daughter married the diplomat Michael Mich-ael Herbert. Orme Wilson, the eldest son, married and Astor, and Grace Wilson capped the climax of her mother's match making when she married mar-ried young Cornelius Vanderbilt. Richard Rich-ard T: Wilson, Jr., was recently married mar-ried to Miss Marion Mason, Boston's most beautiful belle. NEW CONSUL TO ZANZIBAR. Mason Mitchell, Recently Appointed by Piesident Roosevelt. Mason Mitchell, who has just been appointed consul to Zanzibar by President Presi-dent Roosevelt, is 11 known to the Mason Mitchell. theater-loving public as a clever actor. Mr. Mitchell is likewise a scout. a solider and a journalist of ability. DuriDg the war with Spain he was a member of Col. Roosevelt's Rough Riders and was twice wounded at El Caney. Last season he appeared with Blanche Walsh's company In the production pro-duction of "Janice Meredith." FEAR TO LOSE A BELLE. Washington Socle-ty May Have to Resign Re-sign Barones Von Sternberg. Washington society Is much perturbed per-turbed over the rumored diplomatic advancement of Baron Von Sternberg, one of the attaches of the German embassy. The Baroness Von Sternberg Stern-berg is known as one of the belles of the city ana has been prominent as a hostess in the diplomatic functions. The baroness is an American woman, a Kentuckian, who as Lillian Langham was known as a famous beauty, an Baroness Von Sternberg. her marriage to the baron was one of the brilliant events upon which the memory of Capital society lingers. Chinese Invention a Failure. A Chinese inventor, one Kwok Yuk-Ying, Yuk-Ying, has turned out a bow which discnarges arrows by machinery. He presented a petition to the viceroy of Canton that his up-to-date quick-firing quick-firing field bow be adopted, declaring it would be more than a match for foreign rifles and cannon in warfare. Experiments with it were conducted, but to the surprise and disappointment disappoint-ment of Kwok Yuk-Ying the machine turned out a failure. A Youthful Hero. A unique instance of an English lad taking part in the late war was mentioned men-tioned at the prize distribution at Cheltenham Chel-tenham College recently. The principal princi-pal said that one of their present scholars, a boy named Griffiths, not yet thirteen years of age, had served in the war and won a couple of medals. med-als. Problem for Canadians. Because tha exportation of frogs from Canada to the United States has become a big business the Canadians are in a quandary. If frogs are game th-3 close season must be fixed by the provincial authorities; if they are fish, by the Dominion. France Keeps Soldiers at Work. To save expense the French government govern-ment has set its soldiers at work tearing tear-ing down the electioneering posters that now deface practically every boarding in France. Worth of Canadian Railroads. The total capital invested in railways rail-ways and canals in Canada is $1,100,-000,000. WW TRIBUTE TO HORACE GREELEY. An Interesting Letter Written by Henry Hen-ry Ward Beecher in 1872. Immediately after the conclusion of the political campaign in which Horace Hor-ace Greeley wa3 snowed under by U. S. Grant, for the presidency of the United States, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in common with thousands of others, felt sad over the terrible desolation of his old friend, and just as soon as Mr. Greeley announced himself him-self once more in journalistic harness, addressed to him the following letter: "Brooklyn, Nov. 9, 1872. "My Dear Mr. Greeley: I read your card in the Tribune with sincere pleasure, pleas-ure, and congratulate myself and the cause of journalism on your return to a field in which you have won so much reputation and where you have done such service that the history of America Amer-ica cannot be written without including includ-ing as an important part of it your life and services. "You may think, amid clouds of smoke and dust, that all your old friends who parted company with you in the late campaign will turn a mo. mentary difference into a life long alienation. It will not be so. I speak for myself, and also from what I perceive per-ceive in other men's hearts. Your mere political influence may for a time be impaired, but your own power for good in the far wider field of industrial in-dustrial economy, social and civil criticism, crit-icism, and the general well-being of society, will not be lessened, but augmented. aug-mented. It is true that hitherto the times called for a warrior, and such, you were; yet I cannot but think with regret how much ability has been spent by you that died with the occasion, occa-sion, and which might have built up positive and permanent elements. But I look upon your years to come as likely to be more fruitful and Irradiated Irradi-ated with a kind and beneficent light. which will leave your name in honor far greater than if you had reached the highest office. "I beg that you will pardon my intrusion, in-trusion, especially when you stand in the shadow of a great domestic trouble. trou-ble. I hoped that a word of honest respect and sympathy might not displease dis-please you. There are thousands who would like to do as I have done, and who with me will rejoice once more to be in sympathy with you in all things beneficent and patriotic. I am, my dear Mr. Greeley, very truly yours, "Henry Ward Beecher." WIT OF PRESIDENT WOODROW. New Head of Princeton Makes Himself Him-self Popular With Students. A Princeton man tells of an incident of Dr. Woodrow Wilson's elevation to the presidency of Princeton which he regards as indicative of the way in which he will hold the students in leash by ready wit and a genial smile instead of trying to awe them with his dignity. When darkness lent cover to the project, on the evening of the day on which the announcement of Dr. Wilson's Wil-son's election was made, some of the more boisterous spirits organized a celebration, and having requisitioned horns and a green grocer's stock of head lettuce, descended upon the new president. At the first toot of a horn he knew what was coming, but before bedlam could break loose, Dr. Wilson was out among the serenaders, grasping each, one by the hand and thanking them Individually and collectively for their congratulations, pretending not to see the lettuce heads which the students made desperate efforts to keep out of view and to get rid of. When tne students recovered from this unexpected overthrow of their plans some one shouted: "What's the matter with Woodrow Wilson?" And the answer came loud and clear: "He's all right. He's a brick." The students then marched away, singing, "For he's a jolly good fellow," and carrying their lettuce heads with them. , Love's Triumph. He waited while the long- years wcrt away; To one. In happy youth, he gave his heart; But fate was jealous of him, and one day Contrived, for spite, to put them far apart. Another claimed her, but the man who first Had given her his love went on alone; The love she gave to him he fondly nursed. Still hoping he might claim her as his own. Through many long and lonesome years he prayed. And she in widow's weeds one day went past He rushed to claim the joy so long delayed de-layed And held her in his arms his own at last! He waited long and hopefully and drew Her fondly to his heart at last, and then Grew weary of her in a month or two And wished that he could wait and love again. S. E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald. A Very Loud Call. A committee called on Minister Wu to request him to address a society connected with one of the fashionable churches of Washington. Casual mention men-tion was made of the fact that the youthful minister of the church had recently resigned to enter upon a new field of labor on the Pacific coast. "Why did he resign?" asked Mr. Wu. "Because he had received a call to another church," was the reply. "What salary did you pay him?" 'Four thousand dollars." "What is his present salary?" "Eight thousand dollars." "Ah!" said the disciple of Confucius, " very loud call!" London Writer Describes Yerkes. Charles T. Yerkes is credited with saying that men are in their apprenticeship appren-ticeship until they reach the ago of 40 and that a business man is not ripe until he is ten years older than that. The London writer who quotes him thus draws this brief pen picture of the former Chicago traction magnate: mag-nate: "Pallid, dark-eyed, soft-voiced, with white hair and mustache and an air of subdued refinement, the railway autocrat might be taken for a quiet scholar rather than a graduate of the most strenuous rough-and-tumble school of fighting in the world." To Study Auroral Displays. Prof. Birksland is at the head of tie expedition which leaves Copenhagen Copen-hagen this summer for Nova Zembla. He will have six companions and the object of the expedition is to study the phenomena connected with auroral auro-ral displays. The party will winter at Matolshkin Star in a house built some years ago by the Russian government gov-ernment and occupied in recent summers sum-mers by a Russian painter. |