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Show DOWN THE ANDES AMERICAN ENGINEERS THRILL-INTRIP IN PERU. G Bit of Road Summit from the of the Mountain to the Orange Groves of Coast. Run Over a Remarkable Snow-Cappe- d The ticket man at the theater had Just opened up for business when a fellow hurried Into the lobby and passed a cigar through the window with the remark: Have a smoke on me, old chap." "Whats this for?" asked the man In the box office. For past favors," was the reply. "Those were excellent seats you gave me and a lady friend last night" Oh, I see." and I "Yes, sir," he continued, a really ought to make It half dozen weeds, considering what you did for me." "Well, Im glad you liked the scats," said the ticket man. Lets see, didnt I place you In F, Nos. 2 and 4?" "No, sir; in It, 10 and 12." "In R, 10 and 12? Then then this Is a bit of sarcasm on your part?" Not at all, sir not at all." replied the other earnestly. There Is a thick post between thuse scats, you know?' "Yes; that's why I thought " "Thats why I liked them," he Inter rupted. That old maid with me got sentimental after the third act and prodarted to make me a leap-yeaI around her but dodging posal, kept the post until the curtain went up again and I was saved. Here, have another." A. B. Lewis, In Judge. Weman ha but ons trick 'Tl that of tho ye: From birth h knows th That In them lira. powsr She ha but to look and long. She need no perch: Ami man will the boon Her eye trick of the eyes has she For husband. lover, brother; Woman ha but on trick . . no other. Phe ne-- l A Ecml-troplca- HANDY AND LEGGY, TOO. r Baseballicized. "Albert, said the editor of the Bugle to the Baseball Reporter, "I see that Rev. Van Deusen married Juc Hicks to Susy Philbrlck this morning. Write up a couple of lines about it. Fifteen minutes later the basebal and perspiring, reporter, turned in the following: A tie game was put up this a. m. by Rev. Van Deusen who assisted a There being only one mirror in tht double play Philbrlck to Ilicks. The game was called at 10:15 and none of dressing room, this is how the Scrag? the decisions was disputed. Mr. Hicks family of acrobats manage their toilet batting average, which has been tolerDisappointing. ably high in the past, will doubtless You could read the womanly wombe lowered considerably, though from In her moist eye reliable reports the young couple ex- ans disappointment and quivering lip. pect to make a home run in the near What is it? we gently asked, future. Puck. while our hearts went out to her. CHEERFUL THOUGHTS. "My husbands present to me, she red-face- d faltered. "Is it not what you expected? No; only what I told him I ex- pected. Of course we felt for her. Why, we asked ourselves, did such dense men presume to marry? Puck. The Danger Sign. When you see a woman with a towel around her head beating a carpet with a broom, remarked the spring philosopher, do you know what it is the sign of? Yes, responded the man who had left home to escape house cleaning; it means it is time to take to the tall timber unless you wish her to wield the broom against you instead of the carpet. Chicago Daily News. Called. Reggy Bah Jove, I told my tailor Id like to marry some rich girl and in become interested settlement work. Evelyn I am in the blues I never felt so miserable. Percy What did he say? Reggy He said Id better get to Myrtle Why, I can always cheer myself up thinking what beautiful work and make a settlement on that clothes I could buy if I only had the suit I bought two years ago. Chicago Daily News. money. to-da- y. . No Great Curiosity. In Chicago. reOver in the Cairo museum, .Dearborn Is he following in the marked the man who likes to tell footsteps of his father? about his travels, I saw the ashes of Wabash Oh, yes; his father had six the Egyptians. wives, anl the son has had four so far. friend his Yonkers Statesman. Thats nothing, laughed as he emptied a small saucer; here is Village Green Historical Hotel. a handful of the ashes of the EgypThe Seven Stars Hotel at Village tians. ' Green, Pa., has been a public house for What! 145 years. It was the headquarters of ChicaYes, Egyptian cigarettes. Gen. Cornwallis in 1777. go Daily News. if . Few men have experienced such a ride as that recently taken by W. V. Alford, an American, and assistant chief engineer of the Cerro de Pasco jail road of Peru, down the mountain side of the Andes, from the snowl capped summit to the climate of the coast. The vehicle used was a stout, squatty handcar, arranged with two large spacious seats with leather cushions and lockers underneath for baggage. The car was fitted with double brakes on each side. The only motive power was gravity, older than the granite walls down which the trip was made sometimes at the rate of 40 miles an hour. Plunging down the side of the Andes on a 4s per cent grade through black tunnels, out onto bridges over yawning chasms hundreds of feet down to the seething waters, along walls 2,000 feet straight up Into the clouds above, and just over the edge of the car on the opposite side one could look down Into a canyon so deep that the volcano of Vesuvius could be be tumbled Into It, and It would be necessary to stop and look twice to see where It had gone. Such were .the thrilling sights of the journey. The famous canyon of the Colorado which attracts tourists from every part of the states and Europe would be but an ordinary quebrada If seen In the rugged Andes. "A pebble on the rail as we swing around curves, at even 40 miles an hour, would be amply sufficient, writes Mr. Alford, In telling of his experience, "to swing us Into space, tnd unless a friendly condor caught us In his talous and sailed Into a nearby haven of safety the resulting fall would be disastrous to two 'gringos tobogganing down the Andes. At. Ticlio we stopped long enough to look at Mount Meggs and the cross that graces the snow-cappesummit, under which the tunnel joins the Atlantic and Pacific slopes. The cross on Mount Meggs is 17,775 feet above ocean level. From Ticlio there is a branch road running up into the mountains to a rich mining camp at Moroco-cha- , situated on a beautiful lake of the same name. In fact there are three lakes, one above the other. The upper one, which is nearly two miles long and a half mile wide, is at an elevation of 16,000 feet. The edge of great glaciers are bathed in this lake, and d perpetual snow covers the slope of the mountains. "Tunnels, vertical walls cf rock four times as high as the Washington monument, steel bridges that span tha seething waters of mountain torrents, canyons that In midday are in tha gloom of twilight ami Indian Pueblos, all of which. If seen by the eye as they pass In kaleidoscopic array, would produce unbounded enthusiasm and admiration, lose all their beauty and grandeur when reflected only In printers Ink. Words, how ever w ell spoken or written, cannot give even a feeble impression of Gods playhouse, the Andes. "As we near the Pacific the grade becomes less and our car runs more slow- - The Car Used on the Trip. It offers an opportunity to review briefly the history of the railroad, an enterprise that cost the Peruvian government $40,000,000 in gold. In the early seventies Peru was shipping to the states and Europe thousands of tons of Peruvian guano for fertilizer. The revenue was a princely sum, and as she thought the beds of rich fertilizer inexhaustible money for home ly. improvements was offered in a gold At this time Meggs, an American citizen with all the insinuating powers of a born diplomat, and of the same faith as the government of Peru, had no trouble In projecting railroads that were to cover the remotest However, only part of the country. the Peruvian Central was built. We are told by who came down with Meggs and are still in the employ of the road that the wanton waste of money exceeded that of the French at Panama, when was at his zenith. stream. old-time- Do-Lesse- WOMAN OWNS MUCH LAND. . Mrs. King of Texas Has an Estate ued at $30,000,000. the early days she was one of the set tiers who experienced great hardships, the country then being infested with M. H. A Texas woman, Mrs. King, is Mexican bandits and cutthroats. Anthe largest landholder of her sex' in other Texas woman, Mrs. C. Adair, owns 1,350,000 acres of land in the the United States. Her possessions Panhandle, and she also has a fine aggregate the enormous total of 1,470,-00- home In London, England., where she acres, and she has a magnificent lives a part of each year. She is a ranch home in Kingsville, Tex. Lately royal entertainer, and always brings she added 190,000 acres to her hold- with her from Europe members of the ings with as little fuss as the average nobility as her guests. person buys a small tract. Most of her land is valued at from $15 to $20 He Remembered. per acre, and her total wealth, includ-nSeveral young members of a Philacattle and other property, is estiestate family that spent the last is Her delphia mated at $30,000,000. in the White mountains were summer Mrs. but managed by her King is consulted about every impor- exchanging reminiscences of their tant matter. Agricultural operations trip, when one of the girls exclaimed: Oh, Tom, do you remember that extensive scale, are carried on on in Jefferson? numin raised is gorge stock and live great I remember? inDo Mrs. ranch. vast repeated Tom. King bers on this mean You Sure! the her day we got herited a large part of property was It the swellest dinner I from her late husband, but she has there. been a shrewd investor and has more ever had in my life I was so hunthan doubled her inheritance. During gry! Lippincottt Magazine. Val- 0 g son-in-la- |