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Show fr o ' M ISALTKEHENSIONS. aia-riin- g athool and the mile road waa SINGING FOR PHONOGRAPHS no tnwHy tiuaaesr- A Mtlesako Vocalist Whose Trad jt ' to the pasture hlng lot th Mac bines. h la-- t u go thi way, ugelel Away out In the extreme northeast-er- a The lire Bia were fl ihlr g over the t1hpart of the city, near the Miltop damp m adow and She eat a4 Sllaa Leach-ma- n step a moment to look at them He waukee railroad track, the took hi hat oft and stood h ld put jin four or five hour every alow'ly along the atepa. day singing at The' lop of hla lungs, ttubidy turnpike wish I could tell you a um thing." though not a soul la In hearing but his btH-t- f a g nian load he l g in heal I itlngly wife- sajs the Chleagq Tribune. When lug hay from a I will gladly listen." sai 1 the ympa-tbethe gla tired of singing h Yrle the stack niar I he em ' ole ouragtnglv by preaching a negro serro.l, ah r tned rllHhoneaty and proceeding AtaJe of -hiT. tiorae ' or give aa BcJuitioa of an Irish f dlowed 'In Sn eager burst um deception ran of confidence Ho, hullo wake and altogether conducts himself you tell hie where Mr Todd- the wtmot lead thetawnet wav that would in a Ba.si!!sfiaacvrxw i don t know why X tell iu I hate xMiusf azndGHXAMftfttoK tetxss.isc.c. Tawtaa to consider him a fit subject for an InIn her the atrong March wind blowing A ,an inpathy to sane asylum If there were any neighw,,rnHn r rise, she said a he grasped her hand. bor ik but ibfje ara not. ThU la the The mas got off the stark and came Mt arlM. ,l)WIl tl,e lt verv reason Mr. Leachman chose the Us. ii1" , l"uH Q.L think auftmu.ii.llahl nia keg nif IUheep.e,.. LTius SJSbl for hla residence: No one , ( vfi, gently, huggy. betas turnplklng the road (f Tun. May , Toiiely had made a ditch, whieh was filled with T do not know what her father would ever goes out tber to" hear him sing, water by the spring thaw Ho. he stood do with all those boys without her and jet he Is getting rich at It, He by the fence, with one foot on the lower hhe la always so loving and bright earn something over $50 a day, though lioard. as the. repeated her ijuestton Then Um- i onv eisatlon drifted to other he never see one of hla auditors. Mr ' I m him, was the laconic reply leachman sings for phonographs, and topics I wished to see you atout the head, Ttllie May make an excellent wife a he has s monopoly of the business f rri a teai her " The upright young farmer remember In the west he contrives to He n yarded her with a contempla-lla night In June when h Brat thought and has even been heard tokeep busy,a ataie fr r a mlnula express of her In that light and la glad that wish that he were twins. He has bet"Humph' he said, breaking a long he dll not lontlnue confidences l;i splinter r IT the top tuard and chewing with hi ter protection in bis monopoly than a unsurpectln companion. it meditatively. , i copyright or an injunction, or unlimit"Well, you drive round to the house I ended, and the school tern ed legal talent could alford. Nature Imhlnd them peppier There s nobody Sjjuly Mr with it Barnes, the other director, gave him the peculiar qualitlea that U I be up presently home, but Hhe taw In the direction Indicated by ha Just signed the laat money order enable him to reproduce hla voice perhis hand a farmhouse, beyond a double and handed It to the teacher fectly on the wax cylinders. Hundred "And you won t come back for th windbreak r f lamibardy poplars of persona have attempted to break in m conditions?" winter ' under Keep well to the eft as you turn on his profitable monopoly, but the refor I No. have another engagement the corner The bottom la all out. where sult of their effort put an effectual tht winter" the sun gits to the frost, ha called 'The deestrlc t need you here," stop to their attempts. And so Mr. after her widower. Leachman goes on enjoying the monoppleaded the middle-age- d "Your little Hattie will Boon be large oly and reaping the profits thereof. And you hired her, father "Tea," replied Mr Todd from the enough to leach the school. 8h la There are four other men In the east very bright and o Ilka her mother, that also do work for the phonograph, depths cf his weekly paper Mr Todd and her son. Morton, had they tell me You must be sure she has but while they have to have a man to been to the village six miles away, with every advantage the piano while they sing, another play butter and rgga They brought the Ills eyes grew moist as the little girl to make the announcement, another to came In yuall for the neigh borhood But the other directors ? pursued He drew her to hi knee. She was change the cylinders and a fourth to Mr Todd, like her mother, he never noticed it keep the machines In order, Mr. Leachman Is the entire show In himself To muddy for a woman to he rld- - much before Furthermore, he can give an unlimited number of impersonations, while the other four men are limited to a few specialties each. Mr. Leachman la a natural mimic, and therein Ilea the secret of his success. He atnga ballads negro melodies, and Irish, Chinese and Dutib dialect songs. He plays hla own accompaniment on the piano and takes care of the machines. He prepares three records, aa the wax cylinder are called, at one time. To do this three phonographs are placed near the piano with the horns at one Bide, pointing away from the keyboard, at an angle bfe of 43 degrees. The horns have-t- o placed very carefully, for a fifth of an inch makes a great difference in the tone the cylinders will reproduce When the horns have been adjusted exactly right, Mr. Leachman seats himself at the piano, and. turning hla head awa.over his right shoulder begins to sing aa loud aa he can, and than pretty loud, for he Is a man of powerful physique and has been. practicing loud singing for four years. He has been doing this workluntll hla throat haa become calloused 4 that be no longer becomes exhausted' after singing a short lime. As sooif as' he has finished one song he slips off the wax cylinders, puts on three freBh ones without leaving hla seat and goea right on singing until a passing train compels hla to atop for a short time. In the four years he has been In the business he has made nearly 250.000 records. So great la the demand for them that he cannot fill hla orders. It is such work that he cannot alng more than four hours a day. He gets 35 cents for every cylinder he preof 420 He has a repertory pares. WALKING SLOWLY ALONG " pieces, and his work is put on the market under a score of names. He has a Aa the intelligent' cWlI developed Ing around this raw day. Told her l i take th contract and have m tgn with the opportunities given her the remarkable memory, and after once hearing a eopg can not only repeat the father's pride waa unbounded. tt," came from behind th paper. Mra. Todd sniffed. She was thinking "I'd 'a never done It but for that words and muetc correctly, but can of her own long, cold rtde. which had teacher." he declared, and his heart imitate excellently the voice and exbeen urged upon her that morning., warmed with gratitude for what ahe pression ofthe singer. Where will she board?" was the next had done without knowing what moie he wished her to da Centura after protracted silencer" 1 'CRATEFUL TO HIS CAPTORS. Mr. Todd put down hla paper. "I told her she might board here tf tlH only Thp housekeeper, who Is Criminal Wasted t tilva Hla Walrk tn he could put up with our way and not huekeeper,tosei her head when that th Officer Who Arrested Him, expect any fixing summer's teacher la mentioned "fttram Todd? Didnt I aay after we The Influence of Sherlock Holmes "She wanted to marry bad Tried got clear of that Anantasta Lee girl Id for every male critter In the district, seems to have spread among the criminnever board another woman teacher? from Mort Todd to Barnes, but they alt al classes. As rule convicted swindrd then M ortn. ace through her." 1 lers do not have any special feeling What of Mortr of gratitude toward the detectives who I "Why, he moat seventeen Who And th teacher? Oh, ahe told her run them to earth, but there is one she, anyway? continued Mrs Todd, husband last night ahe was afraid h sinner, who goes under the elacontcntedly. cc uld never fulfill with English name of Dean, who seems to have a "I dunno. She live In the county him this winter. her engagement certificate neat and haa a first-cla- s Just regard for the efficiency of the single man In the district had She has a boa recommend from the to "Every " police force. At the conclusion of hta be nipped In the bud nupertntendent, too Molt KuU go furtrial in Manchester the other day, just look ther shd far worse, but she won t After he had been ronvicted and the WITH CORPSES. at him g 4 Justice, in severe words of condemnaMrs Todd atiiffed again Hhe did not tion had pronounced an extended sencontinue, the aubjev t, for Morton came Medical Student at I diversity of tence upon him. Dean addressed the tn Just then, having distributed the 'Ykewaocl. court and asked permission to bestow mall among the neighbor A special from Ann Arbor says his gold watch 'and chain, together t May waa drawing to a close Schovl Hince the faculty of the University of worth, as he said, more than So. upon had been In session a month The new Michigan established a press censor- the detective who had arrested him. teacher sat on the low plana in a low ship over the character of news student Dean's little speech was concluded after chair. Morton sat on the floor at her reporter should aend out the local have had a presa correspondent tn this fashion; This brave fellow defeet, The cows were milked and the kin- the university town and have learn 'd serves auch a present, seeing that he haa succeeded where more than half dling spKLcll was too dark Inaid. to that not half of the medical student y hia brother officers have failed within rcadwnd not dark enough for a lamp; outiagca have 'ever been told the last year and a half Naturally bealdevf, ft was so pleasant outside It w as developed that lee than tw ' 1A eT K& tinsel the gossip of the nelgtP month ago the medics had a game of the upurt refused to allow the present w a hot hall hich for gruesomeness hs borhood unU the night settled to be made, and as the pri.-onwas "I don t know how we got alone be- published parallel. The tutor was a ltt-t- l. led away he shook his head sadly and ntudenta the and proposed it late a said in the came. boy fore you xcl limed It Is shameful for the tone, leaning back so as his game of ball. In whichasthree of the ra-a that the detectives who $rve il a aerv basemen, English avej ajiould bead almost rested against tut and them ao welt, should be raw irded so sponge' wet with human Moo looking up Into her face atm of a poorly." "I m glad tYd have brought you any halt and the dismembered cadaver the bat. The pitcher used both he cordlallv replied, happln'ss, hands In throwing the halt and so wtl -A Ptor In Trouble "Now, If you will bring the book that hilarious did th aport run that I will light lie on the table In my tramduUou of rhurch His strange an unpopugave lamp. The mosquitoes win never the umpire the sitting-rooand utterance- - from the pulthe of made was lar he discipline target decision ar getting troublesome out heic sponge. The deecrlo-th- n pit have brought Rev F F. IWhe, a the hi As ahe read "Wake Kobtn aloud in I too horrifying even of minister of Delaware u. into that game acftly modulated tone a new world ( to I told, although It lasted nearly a Baptist and his ordination trouble, papet have to th boy. opened I half hour and It ended By the umpire Year after Morton Todd looked back being driven from the room dubbed been asked for. He has retired thirty from the chair of natural history In out bv the human arm bat and the or forty of his wealthy th state university to that evening as sponge ball course the medleal fac- because they belong to Knights of the Impetus of his lntolWituat life, and ulty try to throwi discredit upon the Pythias lodges and Masonic organizas feels glad hla .companion did not sus- story, but more than a. ba.lt doxen tions. Although the Mt Vernon Bapd have ackswwledg.-t- i that they tist association his silent pect what was then In bis foolish young hed. took part tn the game The press Mr. Beebe refuses to deliver up hit paa been has thua far gloomy pers. He te a wealthy man, being conThe full June moon shone up n two . walking slowly along the country road. failure and the horrible brutality of the . sidered worth $60,000, and owner ot l being more and medical student V'. 1 A young man In gray jeans, trouser peo- 1 conslderable Xand la Dakota Indiana tucked In hla boots, and Lie school moreTo mmeniedtipoii . : ' and Illinois, teacher. She was going home from the pie every day. AN HOUR WITH MARS. Home at pa lid over the feme to a path aero FLAMMARIQN WRITES OF' THE PLANET'S PEOPLE. tnlly' Tksy Ar Highly Caltlratag H Kays Tha Cnnat tha Work of Stmt Uaslga Wa Will Yat with Tlum. Com-mante- lc u e - u' , t amillb flam- - marion, the distinFrench guished after astronomer, Tong observation of Mars and patient Investigation of the work of others in the awbre- - held, ap pears, from aa article which has come from his pen, entitled An Hour With Mars. to have reached the conclualon that the planet ia inhabited and that the canala so numerous upon Ha surface are the work of a highly civilized race of al J- -! rtn I pan-hione- rs I tf pr-tldpant- has-vote- cn-sorsh- lp I A, Dey gjt Btuok on each other and hitched up but de booze got de best of dem and dey croaked In Paris ami left two kids De girl was Trilby, but vie- boy kid don't-rt- it mrce- - trt de etory: De girl wa a dandy, and some painter bloke got stuck on her shape and made a model of her to drawer from Den her and makia dey all got chalk images of her left foot er somethin and so she met three English guy s w ho uz in Paris teamin' paintin'. TLare wuz a big bloke bfgger'n Corbett, and a Scotch mug and a little dude Of course, Trilby 'a old man bein' English, she fell right In wld dis push, and soon she wuz mendin' delr socks and right to home wid dem "Bimeby de big bloke got spoony, but youse kids can't understand that part of lt Annyway, the little dud wuz the winner.- - list's Just like de wlmmin, dey don't know when dey got a good thing. If she'd made a play fer the big guy I think he'd a flew the coop wid her and den de stpry wouldn't ha' been rittln But the kid was the winner, as I sed, but she gev him de marble heart, because she know'd shed been sittln' round wid the painters and his folks mightn't like it So den a dago wat wuz a great musicianer got In w Id de gang, and of course he got stuck on Trilby, too. He wasn't no good except for playin the planer and wuz always pullin' some one's leg and wouldn't give annyone the glad hand who was fool enough to cough ell, annyway, when the kid told her hedskip if she didn't marry him she weakened and said all right Den de kid's ma cum over from London and put de blinkers on the whole racket and made Tulby l.ie him. see.? Den de dude took blek and de dame went on da bum for awhile, when she met de dago and be her, same as de bloke did doe" guys up at de museum last week, and hully gee' how she could sing when she was asleep no, I mean when she was under his influence. Well, in a few years she made a big hit all over Europe anil come to London, and wot dyer think? De night she was to make her dahoo dat means her first appearance, see? didn't de dago drop ded In de box, scared C death of the big fellow I w uz tellln' yer about wot wuz struck on Trilby in Paris, who wuz in the theay-te- r dat night. Gee, den dere wuz fun! She couldnt sing a little bit, because de dago wuz'nt dere to mesmerize her, and she got sick and de little dude got sick; but anyway dey both croaked. But youse couldn't tumble to dat part of the story. If youse could read and understand deres lots I couldn't tell about dat would make er leak even if you wuz tuff. The big feller wuz a corker, and de kid wuz a game one. too. but yer can't phase wlmmin. My Maag is Jest de same way. Hully gee! up-w- us In communication with the Inhabisimultaneously with their disappearance, the famous canals discovered by tants of Mara and will at last begin Prof. Schiaparelli begin to come Into the solution of the great problem. The view. To any student of physics it Is destinies of each of us, that of the enapparent that no snow could forid tire human race, are united to the deswhere there was no atmosphere, and tinies of the other dwellers of our systhe moon, aa M. Flammarlon poins out. tem. n?ver gathers snow or Ice, nor are these eubstances to be observed on any other TWO HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR of the planets. He assumes tbat the snow caps of Mars are formed through A Mall Car to Kun bjr Electricity on dew, which carries the moisture of the Elevated Track. Martian atmosphere from its tropic to A. B. Crell of Ionia, Mich., has perIts arctic xone. fected a model of a postal car which And right here is the most curious point which M. Flammarlon has dts covered, viz., that Mars has no rain. In all of the long observations of Mars made here and in Europe during recent years there Is no record of Martian clouds having obscured the view of the planet for any length of time. The Martian air is singularly clear and pure. There is considerable doubt Whether a cloud was ever observed upon lta surface. Upon the other hand, as M. Flammarlon haa pointed out, a Martian astronomer observing the earth would for days at a time be unable to Bee any part of the planet for the reason that clouds In the terrestrial atmosphere would Intervene. Even our own moon it is impossible to will attain a speed of 200 miles an hour, whlch ls'deslgned by the Inventor to carry mail between the principal Cities of the country. This car Is to be thirty-thre- e feet long and to run on a steel elevated track, eighteen feet above the ground. It is estimated that the road will cost $10,000 a mile. The car is provided with an apparatus for picking up and throwing off mail, so arranged that it will work automatically The model is provided with thirty-fou- r apartments, and. carrying out the scale of the model, the bags to be dropped in each place will be capable of holding 10,000 letters. Under the patentee's idea power houses can be supplied at intervals of 200 miles, and the electric current sufficient to make the entire run between New York and Chicago maybe generated from the power St Niagara Falls. It is so arranged that the operator in the central electric'hta-tio- n will always know the location of the car. General Bis-sewho has been shown a working model of the device, has indorsed it, as have many scientists. Mr. Creil's model weighs nearly 1,500 pounds. He is to give an exhibition of it on a thousand foot track within the next month. HEREDITARY tt Star at Sob Insurance. Needles have never been supposed to be hereditary, but a recent case reported by a physician of eminence offers undoubted evidence to the contrary. A lady accidentally ran a needle Into her foot thirty years ago, and it lay apparently dormant In her system for so many years tbat its existence was almost forgotten. In 1878 she was married, and a year after the birth ot her Infant daughter, the needle made its appearance in the infants shoulder. There could be no doubt It was the original needle by which the mother had been attacked In 1860, for lt was of a peculiar and now obsolete pattern, and the mother distinctly remembered that needles of that pattern were in use at the time of her attack. There can be no doubt that the infant inherited the needle from her mother and that henceforth physicians will expect to find a natural tendency to needles In the tissues. As it is asserted that people have died from needles, although there are very few such cases on record, the insurance companies will doubtless add to the questions which they put to candidates for insurance' Did your FLOATING WIT. father mother ever swallow needles, "Now. Charle, let us make a list of and, if so, how many, and of what kind "One moment, dear your debts." sewing, darning, or carpet? .'' uncle, till I have filled up your Fllegende Blatter. A Word In Smiob. Mra. Brown I didn't know he was a We advise people to lay in a supply member of your club Brown Oh. yes. he has been for six years Mrs. Brown of champagne before the price jumps Why. I though he didn't drink at all. up, for If this kind of stock market He' "My view on bringing up a fam- keepj up the stock-brokwill inaugur" She Never mind your ate a ily are. of diet from the beer and change views III bring up the family You of the past two years, to go and bring up the coal Boston champagne and pate de foie gias Post "then er man talk er tremenju When things are coming his wav there sight "bout whut a good frlen' ob your'n is no individual who spend; mor7 he Is, said Uncle Eben, listen ter 'ini, more freely than'your Jolly kroner. but dnan'. trade bosses wlf Tin. Boston Commercial Bulld a. t Washington Star comGood a Clerk. "What rare Dry Another Idiot te Wngor. Drug-Ftiir- e Clerk. plexion she has man T?r Duranwho recently wua comIf you knew as much about that a wager that die would po in full plexion as I do you wouldn t call it Demilitary uniform as a statue for twenty-eigrare; you d say It was well done. troit Free Press dajs, witn only one hour's rest Coroner, "lt ts a very unhappy occur- per day, has now made another singurence that you should run over thi lar bet He has now entered into an old lady and kill her. Trolley Motor-ma- agreement to repose for the same length "Very. Thi makes my thir- of time in a coffin, with but one hour teenth, and I feel that that number relaxation a day. will bring me bad lack." Judy. "How can you your dog la Ilwlrnlrnr. . that fashion? 1 thought you were riscl-ultu- re la by no means a new member of the Society for the Protec"So I am, but I art It haa been practiced far ages by tion of AnimalsUL the Egyptians knew laat three months." Lusttge Blatter, . something otiL A Iosathlllty That NEEDLES. Time Affect Elf ll, tr ink-stand- pa-le- sentl-mtnt- .A.-- . in a Joint. -- Mkh-lfaaAtB- pr -- appear In the telescopes of astronomers and the snow caps melt as the water is distributed over the surface of the planet. It i ta tha-- futura- - dlacovcrlfs ol science rather than to the work of astronomers that M. Flammarlon looks for someeans of opening communication with thejnhabltants of Mars. We often ask ourselves, he says In conclusion, What are the forms and manners of these strange people? The rapid progress of optics will help us to know them some day. Will not some beings. In this elaborate system of canals, means be devised to place us In comwhich the recent perfection of astromunication with out heavenly neighnomical instruments has made more bors, and to throw out into space a line and more apparent, that M. Flamma-rlo- n between heaven and earth? It la very discusses In the light of the recent probable that thld progress, as useful He advance! certain for philosophy as for science, will not observations. views as to the question of the planet be accomplished by the optics which we know. being Inhabited that are near and startl"The future has some unexpected dising. Among the most important of these covery in store for us. Before the InIs one concerning the atmosphere ol vention of photography, who realized Mara Flammarlon shows that Mars the possibility of seizing and fixing bat an atmosphere of Its own, which Images? Before the first magnifying bad been denied by some of the astronoglass no one dreamed of the hidden mers at the Lick Observatory. If the benefits of that marvelous substance planet had no atmosphere, aa these called glass which bad been so caregentlemen sought to make out, he asks lessly used during three thousand years of blindness. bow the snow caps of Mars, so apparent Before the spectral in the telescope during the Martian analysis, who could imagine the poswinter could be formed? sibility of discovering the chemical These enow cape, one upon either pole composition of the planets And the of Mars, appear as large white surfaces telephone! And the phonograph! which gradually recede as summer folSome unexpected new discovery lows spring upon the planet, and, perhaps of a physical order will place BALL-PLAYI- To-da- falls in all parta of the earth it is diffi-tu- lt A NEW VERSION OF tR1LBY. to see how rivers or rtreams would form. Lakes are likewise starce upon Mickey falfn lit lly lit 'lpiuluit of the surface of Mars, except at the times the Plot of the Mol. "Say, Mickey, wot's and then they are fliTed through the "Hully gee' Trilby ain't a nawthln canals leading from Its polar seas s a clame. Why don t ycr read, Trilby Here, then, is the most reasonable ex- Jimmv Well den who's Trilby planation thus for offered by a distinguished astronomer of the elaborate "Oh, youse fellows make me ttred I read de canal system of Mars whit h has eo long Youse don t kno nawthin' Without book up at de doctor's Trilby was a puzzled the scientific world rain, the inhabitable of that planet de- dame wot wax bro't up In de fourt pend soldi upon their canals for the ward ia Parts. Her old man wax a Irrigation of their fields. These fields preacher, but got ter hittm de bottle CAMILLE see FI-A- M MARION, a large part of the year because of moisture in the atmosphere, while the two satellites of Mars are always in view when not hidden by the body of the planet. It is this singularly clear and pure atmosphere of Mars that has made recent efforts Inphotographing the canala upon Us surface so highly successful For weeks at a time, as M. Flammarlon points out. Mars was under observation last summer here and In Europe when there was not even the faintest suggestion of a cloud in its atmosphere, and It waa this absence of clouds that first gave rise to the 'mistaken notion' that It had no atmosphere at all- It ia right here In this consideration of the atmosphere of Mars that M. Flammarlon finds the explanation of the canals. There being no rain upon Mara, it la of course obvious that water must be of the highest value to its inhabitants, and that It should be, preferred, collected and distributed with the utmost care. The maps of Mare, moaoover, ehow that It ho s no rive rs. Without a rainfall euch aa that which er s -- ht -- n; 1 ill-u- V |
