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Show vv FIItED THE FIRST GUN LONDON'S HANGED, BUT LS ALIVE BIO EEN. Kaap Wall Wka Kara ta Hear Ik The etrlklng mechanism of Big Beq Is Brobdlngnagian affair in every way. It is some thirty or forty feet up above the clock, which occupies a room In the center of the tower, say the I.ondon News Tbe striking la driven by weights of about a ton and a ha.f, hanging in a sort of chimney shaft 174 feet deep, and to wind them up tma bottom to top though, f course, they are never ala fair lowed to rus qu'te down day' work When fully wound up liig Bens torinento- - the !'l go pounding iron han,mr hiad away for four dav wi'hout further attention. It need a pretty ponderous hammer to fuh the full tone out of hell we'gHug fl f ecn or sixteen tons, that this and the marvelous thing r aslve mechanism keeps such beautiful time as it dies The flock, with wbbh it is tonne' ted by Iron rods, gives It ta cue with such astonishing chimes get through jre ibt'iTj Ttfr and the their pre'ojnn try perfo-mungrest hat . ' r fal'a on the mighty Ben Wlthtu one cn nd of Oieeflwhb tliaaft d t that is what It I time at a to t'J ,d the astronomer royal, who keep a vigilant eve upon the pieat pub'ir timepieie, aav that It does week all the year not vary a second round The only unsatisfactory thing the about the whole performance horribly bd "E"tbat Btn sends forth. sick person The wonder 1. not that find It torture to him to have it booming out all night long, but tbat people who are doomed to be continually hearing It are not made ill by it. Bow AND A FILIPINO PICKET DROP- PED DEAD. DnaatU Mary d( ts Initial Shot That Bimsht mi t ha War la tlia rkllty ta.tovMl That to till (Jrayaou Waa Hlcht. pijar-- B William Gr. son. who f..rd tbe cb.t ttai cuTr;ir.ail: lutSF trnrtno Amert-c- n si, airunrlv enough, joined the Nebraska volunteer bf.iuec of love of. adventure. He him laid) Um jiad itiuw la Nebraska He arc tbat tbe Filipino ate being supplied i rift ptcvlriofi ty tbe Ensflh in4 not by the German.. He say of Ihe shot that e tuned the ar, fit was Just k question of killing tbat Fijipino btfare be hilled ire That Is ih J felt when I leveled ny gup at. him, and Hose mere my feellrys when I beard him groan In the dust "After It ass all over I felt queer nervous and unsteady The T.nTyTBIfig tbat aeemej to n'ady try nerve that Bight waa to shoot . in That was the first shot nf the war gainst tbe Insurgent, and my target U tbe fiist FU.pino eter killed by at . American. 'When I went on outpost duty that eight f was mad enough to fifihl the Old' scratch. For day and week before the Filipino had been calling u the' worst came men could think of ' " Uno Filipino maa bueno cinq Americana That wi their taunt. One rebel can lick five Americana' I ma-m- 1 u; re sup-j.me- 1 -- 4 -- daf. We were not long the kind of a chap oar In finding out d bos AbcsIiIm of Ufa Is ArUotia Doal to tba ISaath oa ta ftaiia kuilawa by tba liaagtag af tba borvlr fwtMr by frlaads at tba Xw4aS Maa. A unique and picturesque character la Mr. William Easouaii. ai one time resident of New York, but the greater portion of blit life has been spent on the frontier. He is a man apparently 70 year of age, tall and muscular, with a w eaiherheaten face and grizzly-gra- y board. He wear an euluts suit, of buckskin, and from tbe collar of tbe coat hang three tufts of long, wiry hair tbat look like portions of a horse' rnaue or tali, but which are tbe sc alpha of Indian trophies of the valor and btavery of the man whose coat they adom Mr Eastman is one of the few men who has experienced the sensation of being tian-e- d and Hve to describe his feelings, and it was for the purpose of getting an Recount of his experience that an interview with him was sought, whi!e be was In Sandusky. O , a short time ago In response to a question, Mr Eastman said s "I was twice made captive by Into escape, tbe secdiana, ond time, however, receiving wound that came near making an angel of me. and the scars of which I shall carry to my grave. But when I look at the topknots that ornament the collar of sense of grim my coat I always feel satisfaction In the thought that, badly a-k "We had been at work only two day when Wilson got drunk and allowed some of the cattl to wander away, tk hen I heard the ranchman open up on Wilson, I expected to see the latter shoot the fellow without further talk, hut he managed to control himself, and that ntgbt wnea we went Into our hut on the feeding grounds, be told me what an effort it had cost him to keep from killing the ranchman, and declared that if that sort of thing occurred again there would be a funeral on that rani h, and that he would attend personally to the little preliminary matter of supplying the torpBe for the occasion, A few days afterward a party of prospectors passed that way. and, unknown to me, Wilson procured from, them a bottle of whisky and proceeded to take frequent generous doses of tbe liquor, which speedily aroused everything mean In his nature He became reckless and allowed the cattle under his t barge to roam at will, and tbe result was that some of them strayed away, a fait that tbe boss was not long In Ending out. And wnen he did find it out bis rage knew no bounds When 1 saw him ride rapidly across the feeding grounds toward Wilson, and saw him gesticulating wildly with his heavy whip, I realized at once that the hour for the promised fuueral was 1 saw him raise his close at hand whip as If to strike Wilson, and. at the same instant a pistol shut rang out, a little puff of smoke rose above the boss' saddle, and the ranchman fell. He waa ns dead as a door nail when two of tbe ether herders and myself reached him. -- Vt$S W t i 4 Ar ( Sfs t V z 4 J yxim WILLIAM i 4a lh Uad af rbryiftNilivnRa. When a young man has fixed his upon a maiden of suitable standing he declares hla love by fastening a branch of a certain shrub to the house of the datniel' parents. If the branch be neglected tha suit is rebe If it accepted ao Is the suitor. jected, At ftic time of the marriage thd bridegroom amds presents to hU brlue as costly as his moans will al!ow,whlch she Immediately offers to her parents in acknowledgment of their. kindness In Infancy and of the pains bestowed upon her education. The wedding takes place In the evening. The bride is dressed in a long kbits silk kimono And white veil tnd she and her future husband alt facing each other on the floor. Two tab'es are placed close by: on the one Is s kettle with two spouts, a bottle of sake and cups; on the other table a miniature fir tree signifying the strength of tfre bridegrooraTtrpum tree, signify! tg the beauty of the bride, and, asflyt sltork standing on a tortoise, representing a long Ilf and happiness, desired by them both. At the marriage feast each guest In turn drinks three cups of the sake and the kettle, also containing sake. Is put to the mouthe of tbe bride and bridegroom alternately by two attendants, signifying that they ara to share together Joya and sorrow. Th bride keeps her veil all her Ufa and after death It Is burled w Ith her as her shroud. Tbe chief duty of a Japsnese woman. all her life Is obedience while unmarried, to her parents; when married, to her husband and his parents; when widowed, to her son. GHAT SON. They would have spit In our face If v had walled muih longer. "Orville Miller of company D went out with me that night for outpost duty ne..r Sant Mesa. We went heavily rmrj and kept onr eye open, for w bad been warned by our superior Tbs end of our beat was do to a lot of old buildings and bamboo th'i Vets. Whenever we saw a sus-'.cm figure w would get under ct.vtr and watch. If any Otie tried to in x our line he would be halted or offl-ej- rj. pl ' ilihrrt dOWIl, About 8,30 o'clock I saw three men net more than thirty feet from us lying fist on the ground. They had Just us. At that moment I heard a ta'hietle from their direction. It waa jtoo dark to sea them plainly. Ths si waa answered from the brush by another low whistle. Then sigtel .lights wer seen from Filipino blockhouses, and Miller and I knew what -- tg-- 41 , was coming. ."Halt!" I yelled, as the rebels began do get up, clicking their rifles- ."Alto!" (halt) waa their reply, and fwe had been challenged. There was ho time to lose, and so I brought my AN EMINENT GERMAN. Hirst Filipino down; and I tell you, there was a little feeling of lately and Paul llcyse of Munich will leave a satisfaction when I heard him groan. great gap In the social and literary life Then I knew the war waa on. of the fatherland. In the goclal Ufa "We at one ran hack to where four of Munich he has for years been a of our men were on guard and lined up for battle. Thea we made tor the pipe line back toward the camp, and I shall never forget that little trip that night, "It seemed that a thousand men were firing at us on all sldca, and it looked ae though we would never get under cover from the bullets. My hat waa lost somewhere near where I killed my rebel, and I found lt tbere the next morning. I admit that I waa scared when got back out of reach of that lead. It la a serious thing to lira a. shot that tans a war.. .7M j man-stoppi- -- None of ua ever expected to get out of the hole at the pipe line, which made good breastworks, though we ere joined by the entire outpost-- , thirty men and we all peppered away ft the enemy. Then the action spread from the ' right to the left, and In fifteen minutes the engagement was general from Caloocan to the bay, - THE BI EL ON THE PLAINS. as the red devils treated me, I quit winner three times when the stakes were human life. The closest call that I ever had, however, was near what is known at Skull valley, a small town In Yavapai county, Arizona. I had been up near where the village of Burnt Ranch la now located. In Crook county. Ore., and while there fell In with a man named Robert Wilson. I liked him from the first. He was In trouble, and my peart went out to him He and I became firm friends, and were close, companions for years. There .was only one, trouble with him. He used to get the blues once In a while and when he did he would give himself up absolutely to a week or two of debauchery. He was brave end courageous to a remarkable degree when he waa sober; when he was drunk he was as reckless a dare-dev- il as ever lived. One day Wilson and I were In Ari- - PAUL HEYSE. prominent figure. Almost six feet tall and weighing upward of 300 pounds, ha carried himself with the soldierly bearing gained by service In the army, Beat known as a novelist, he la also a poet of much merit, se well as a noted wlL As a young roan no one would have predicted for him a literary career. He never read books for pleasure and it require j coercion on the part of his parents to get him to finish college. Early In life he had an unwent away to fortunate love affslr-anhide hie sorrow In Italy. There the literary fever seized him and shortly after he wrote his first book, In Para n novel ia The dlse." Ill Children of tbe World, which has been .translated Into almost all the M Eadint to EmUvIUm. The cable announces that young Viscount CasUrreagb, eldest son of ths Jdrquls of Londonderry, has suffered coucnselon of the brain tu rough a fall from his horse and will be confined to Lie bed for several weeks at least, even if Bo' more serious complications develop, Tba accident will put a eud-- den ard ending to ths IcstiviUes in honor of .the eota'rg of .age of the The birthday has 5 sung nobleman. keen celebrated at ' Mount Stewart, County Down, one of the scats to which the viscount la heir. One day . modern JanguaswsTheuHeyse vUla, w e t tr& or e th a u T.ttOO Xi a jbU w e r near Munich, has been for year a the estate. on Viscount fcastrd center of attraction for famous people. who wag educated at SandHANGED SURE ENOUGH West Is a Tolnt. the English hurst, and met some parties who were sons, Color TfctP Favorite lieutenant iq, tbe Royal Horse ..aew-'-nn to Skull valley, and they told route colfavorite Sultan The of Turkeys da irds, and la heir to bO.tkULacrea.ci a that, a ranchman near the latter la dark red. Tbe German Emperor or 'Uni. Ukee his uniforms blue and red, and place wanted to hire some .herders. Th Mt Wonder-fatcovered with gold embroideries. The Wilson and I were out- cf work and From Harpers Round Table: lade King of Greece, who dons hla uni- hard up, and we decided to apply to the man for a Job to lids us over until Reuben bad Just returned from his forms as seldom as possible, has Christmas holiday In New Tork. and marked preference for light colon. The something better turned up. Upon arhis mind was a confusion of cinematoEmperor of Austria has a preference rival at the ranchmans place we found for gray, while the Emperor of Russia him to be a coarse, ignorant and brupianos, sntomo-Jiilegraphs, phonographs, etc. When ha waa likes dark green uniforms, and tha tal fellow. I disliked and distrusted aked which had Impressed him most King of Italy, excepting Inthe rare oc- him from the Instant I saw him, as a genarall did Wilson. We hired oui to ki he solemnly replied: "By gosh, tha casions when e appear b.:w-!.suniform, gent tally wears black. however, and weak to vork the next piano beats em alk" d s-- best-know- 11 h, 3 d - - . self-playi- a a, y, 1 two-spout- ed ed -- -- C yv.-Jr"--:rr- 1 h WEDDINCS IN JAPAN. V. an escape of gaa being due to some ignorant person blowing out the flame instead of turning off the gas at Uhe remote places, CU8ENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY ten, for, except In a few to all. It familiar are Its and ways gas AND INVENTION. Is this familiarity which breeds the careleasaese and callousness H14 Itml Car TnufcrrVniabto proverbial which prompts people to seek an esThat ChU Thrad New cape of gas with alight. In nine eases riiuttva BtUttTh Win of out of ten the escape - due-t- o ths teleImproviwtaU to tho Eialocipa becoming scopic Cuing of a dry This is obviated by the addition to the water with vmit-- tbe fitting Tb Hlu of WfiftBAtiOR. aMat-made by charged of a few drops of swtet oil of The fiert-Alfred Ru-eWallace In his able book, coal oiT, wb!th forms a laywr on the the Wonderful Century, on vaccina- surfave and stops evaporation. If this tion, has called out opinions held by precaution were comisonlv adopted tba other scientists in different parts of the number of gas explosions wouid be One of tbe latworld on the subject sensibly decreased est to appear a anadvaeate af vaccination lsT3r Bizrorero of Rome, who Hold Street Car Transfer. has lectured In that city in a manner, Something new In railroad street says a correspondent of the London car punches is a magacme transfer Lancet, to make a deep impression He punch, especially suitable for small Tbe Instrument, which is a passed over his own country, Italy thug road leaving his foreign readers In Ignor- tiny affair, as shown by the Illustraance of how thp case stands there, but tion. is loaded (this one holding 230 Germanv, be said. Is alone in doing Its transfers) at the station and locked entire duty by Us people In respect to To lbsue a transfei the conductor sets vaccination That great empire. In a pointer, which is on tht end of the consequence of the calamitous small- small cylinder opposite the time dial, pox epidemic or Ik'd 71." enacted the te indicate the route for wUeb the law of 1871. which makes vaccination transfer is intended and then turns Che What time dial through one revolution, when obligatory at the tenth year was the result With a population of a transfer ticket bearing tbe date, time, place of tsue and destination is 50.000,000 having in 1S71 lost 143.000 lives by smallpox, she found by her law of 1874 the mortality diminished so rapidly that today the d'sease numbers These cases, only 116 victims a year moreover, occur almost exclusively on her frontier. If It were true, Professor BIzzozero went on to say, tnat a good vaccination does not protect from epidemics, we ought to find in smallpox epidemics that the disease diffuses itself in the well vaccinated no less than In the But countries It Is not so. In 1870-7during Lae Franco-Prussla- n war, the two peoples Interpenerated each othpr, the German having Its civil population vaccinated pushed out as shown. This arrangeoptionally, but Its army completely re- ment prevents mistakes In the dating, time or issuance of a ticket vaccinated, while the French (population and army alike) were vaccinated perfunctorily. Both were attacked by New Mn8tpln Ilullet. smallpox: but the French army numExperiments were conducted in Birbered 23,000 deaths by It, while the mingham recently with a new German army had only 278; and in projectile, the Invention of the same tent, breathing the same air, Mr Leslie B. Taylor, the managing the FYench wounded were heavily vis- director of the famous firm of West-leited by the disease, whijJhe German Richards & Co The main object wounded, having been vaccinated, had of the new bullet Is to produce a more not a single case extensive wound at short distances; but Us resisting power was proved at 1QQ yards, which Is considerably In exJ approvement tehave just Bucceedtd In getting per- cess of the range at which an officer fect photographs for the klnetoscope, would use a revolver "Walt till you see the whites of his eyee, Is the maxthat will be four by five inches In size. said Mr. Edison. This means that im practiced In regard to revolver firwhen they are thrown on a screen they ing in the army. The bullet, which exwill be a perfect reproduction. , As weighs eighty grains, has a fiat, core from the lead posed projecting no a ls bead bigthings are now, man's nickel envelope. The protruding lead ger than a pin point in tbe ordinary is undercut in a tapering fashion tofor the klne.toscope. .3ut photograph the ward where the nickel jacket point we ean with my Improved apparatus The shoulder thus serves color the fixtures and show things Just terminates as you see them In nature. The ad- to cut Or punch out on impact a clearer entrance hole of much larger dimenvantage of this will be apparent when sions than the ordinary shaped bullet I tel you that we propose to photoThe flat surface naturally retards the a and grand opera performance graph passage of the bullet, which therefore reproduce it with the assistance of my expends a greater amount of bullet I have latest improved phonograph. energy within the object slruelt This just succeeded in making cylinders that process of resistance is Increased by will reproduce the tones of tbe human the presence of an air chamber at tha voice with all the sweetness and vol- base of the nickel envelope, which enume that could be desired. Indeed, It ables the lead to shorten and at tha would take an experienced ear to desame time mushroom. The accuracy tect the difference between the singer of flight was tested against tha and the" singing Instrument or tbe bullet, and on firing from talker and the talking machine. The a range the ordinary bullet only necessary concomitants for a passed straight through a grand opera performance are a drop beech target, while the new bullet pencurtaln.my own phonograph and klnet-o- s etrated an Inch and a half. It comcope and two men. This may seem pletely shattered large bones, and was like a fairy tale, but It Is a fact. The then tried on a piece of beef a foot in bigger you make the cylinders for the diameter. The ordinary Manser bulphonograph the more perfect Is the re- let passed straight through MAe flesh, And If you have a series but the new one was arrested six production of them, say like a steamers funnel, inches from the point of impact One you can easily reproduce the vocal part curious effect that it produced was that of an opera performance. Just think it made a hole at the ifoint of entrance three times bigger than the surface of how cheap the outfit would be! A curtain would be all the stage scenery the fiat nose of the lead, and In this necessary and two men could work the respect It was as effective as the manmachine from behind. Why, the ad- stopping bullet now in use In the Britmission fee would not be over a quar- ish army. Considering the vast differter at most, and the poor could hear ence In weight and size of the projecMelba, Nordics. Eamea, the de Reazkes tiles, the destructive power of the new or other great singers for a mere song! bullet was rather remarkable. Various kinds of bullets were used from tha Mauser weapon and the present service Thlmbl. That Cats Tkntd, A German manufacturer has placed revolver, and the opinion of military on tbe market a new thimble, with a and sporting authorities waa that the new bullet is a decided "improvement on the ordinary projectile. ' SCIENTIFIC TOPICS half-bree- waa. EXPERIENCE JlTRAORDINARY OF WILLIAM EASTMAN. rr dal Tbe Instant the shot was fired Wilson put spurs to his horse and was off like the wind. 1 noticed that after the shooting some of the herders gave me looks that indicated that the act of my partner had prejudiced them against me. The matter didnt wrorry me particularly, and I gave It no further thought after I reached my hut that night I was then the only occupant of the place. I bad been in bed probably three or four hours when I waa suddenly aroused from sleep by a strong grip on my arms, and found them pinioned and a revolver pointed at my head. I waa unable to understand at first wbat It all meant but I soon found out My s, assailants were a couple of favorites of tbe dead boss, and I realized when I recognized them that they proposed to wreak vengeance on me for the act of Wilson. One of tha fellows forced a gag Into my mouth nd made the strings fast at the back ef my neck. Then they tied my legs together at the knees and ankles and then carried me out and threw me serosa the back of a horse and conveyed me to a tree about 100 rods from tha hut One end of a lariat was then fastened around my neck and the other thrown over a limb, and the scoundrels then pulled me up and made the lower end of the lariat fast to the tree. I ean remember that I suffered excruci-- a lug pains In toy ineck and back, and seemed to be absolutely burst-bity head Then 1 began to lose cousuious-tes- s and experienced A sensation of toting. I knew nothing after that-antI found myself at the side of a antall stream In a thicket, with Wilson tending over me. WllsoiTw as batbing my; face and seek and when I came to a realizing sense of what bad happened he told be that when he dashed across the prairie trtef Shooting th boas he had a presentiment tbat harm would come to me for his act, simply because I was km partner. He had, therefore, ridden back to the ranch under cover of darkless and gona to my hut. found It mpty. and. while leaving had heard voices in ths direction of the tree there I was strung up. He overheard condienough to satisfy him as to tha tion of affairs, and he lay low untU tha icoundrela left the scene and then he cut ms down." half-breed- g. il 4c - V ch Recent IavcatloM. To add to the comfort of bicycling a spring attachment has been patented, which Is Inserted In the rear forks.wlth a central rod in each fork engaging the hub connection, tbe springs holding the rods down and lessening tbe shock and Jar to the rider. Vegetables yan be readily sliced or masked by a newly designed cutter, having a hopper resting over a set of knives carried by a base, with a lever mounted on one side of the base, to depress a plunger In the hopper and force tbe vegetable between the enters. In a newly patented system of geartamable knife. When a thread Is to ing ' for chalnlesa bicycles the crank be cut off the knife Is to be opened by shaft carries a plain gear wheel.whlch the small handle, so that tbe thread is drives a smaller wheel, carried by a put between the two cutting edges and shafe below the crank hanger, a pair "By "Closing up the- - knife- - the thread 4s of short ersaks being mounted oa tha cut off. The article has found a ready second shaft to drive rods sale all over Germany. The obnoxious with cranks on the rear hub.connecting habit of biting the thread off with tha in cold weather, when the teeth would be avoided by tbe adop hands jne get numb a new driving mitten tioa of this thimble. As a rule, scis- has a metal bar pivoted in the palm, sors are never where they ought to be, with a slotted guide covering the loose aud our women are spared a half-daend of the bar to draw It close to the work in banting for them! That's what palm a hen pushed toward the fingers, tha German inventor says. causing It to grip the rein with a cam action and allow tha fingers to relax Gas Rxploaloa. 1 their hold. Explosions of gas In private houses are, unfortunately.very common occurHe who U ashamed of the pedigree rences, and coultj, nearly always be he got from hla father never Is avoided by the exercise of a little care. to leave one Uat hla children cangoing brag It It enlr occasionally that we hear st ot ys . |