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Show - A SHALL realm. dos boats manned by bluejackets, an 3 native craft conveying a large force UNIQUE KlNCDOM IN REMOTE CORNER CF ASIA. KsuU fmadtf. ed ki4 idvrntnrouv Carver of Pa loilrprodtot'o Ti,,ee t,reat koo.rt, Kajah Brooks i, of Dyaks, under the command ct Captain Keppel and Mr. Brooke, 70 or 80 miles Up the great rivers and their tributaries and attacked the strongholds of Pershua and so that for the first time In native experience these pirates wer bearded In their dens The fighting waa of the moet inter eating description, and was attended b) quite a respectable number of casualties on the winning side Brooke's best fighting man. Fating! All, Mr Seward, one of b'a wh'te staff. Lieutenant Wade of the Dido, and many another brave Englishman and Dyak met their deaths In these battles, but in attaining their object the expeditions were entirely successful. The once dreaded ch'cf Seriff Sahib, was driven across the mountains single and unattended, beyond the reach of doing further hi-n- i In 1847 Rajah Sir Janies Brooke visited England and met with an enthusiastic reception from those who could understand and appreciate his work He was bidden to Windsor, where the queen not only made him a knight of the Bath, but conferred on him the appointments of governor of Labuan and consul general of Borneo. Two year before his death, In July, of Sarawak 1868, the independence was recognized by America, Italy and England and the great man died with the knowledge that It had enteied on the path of prosperity, with Increasing population, trade and revenue Sir Charles Brooke, his successor, was born In 1829, and having spent 10 years In the royal navy, served rtider his uncle for 20 years In Sarawak. He married the Ranee, Margaret, only daughter of Mr de Windt of Bluns-do- n Abbery, Wiltshire, England. In 1SC9, who is now queen of Sarawak. By concessions and purchases of territory, Including coal mines, harbors and splendid rivers away to the north chiefly from the declining sultanate of Brunei, Sarawak has Increased to 13 times Its original area. It n of comprises 50,000 miles five times the of size of Belgium with 400 miles coast line, and has a population of Notwithstanding, the cost of Its efficient administration is les9 than that of any Asiatic country presided over by Europeans. Its expenditure Is about $500,000 annually. Aaaorlra, Italy. Euclaml. (Special Letter ) There Is a unique kingdom hidden way in a corner of Asia of which mosc people know nothing or at most the hare outline It was founded by an Englishman, and is ruled by an tug-lis- h king as absolutely as all the Rus-aia- s are rultd by the czar, and yet I England has no right, even of supervision, in its internal government, and the warships of at least three great powers salute its flag when they anchor within Its territorial waters Its name is Sarawak, and its present king i? Sir Charles Johnson Brooke He succeeded the first king, his unde, bir James Brooke, whose life story reads Lae a romance The son of a civil servant of Honorable East India company, James Brooke was horn in India m 1803, and. after attending the Norwich grammar school, received an ensign's commission in the Sixth Native infantry of the Bengal army, and joined his corps at the age of 16 He wa3 seriously wounded In an engagement In the first Burmese war, In which he commanded a body of volunteer native calvary, and on returning from England whither he had been on furlough suffered shipwreck, and was thus delayed In rejoining his regiment, to which be had been recalled. As It afterward proved, this was a lucky accident, for It ultimately led to his resigning bis commission and severing his connection with the East India company. In the voyage which he subsequently made to China he first saw the isles of the Malay archipelago, and some Inner voice then whispered that his destiny awaited him In those gardens of the East The possibilities of adventure and discovery whtcn Borneo held were ear-- " ficlent attraction for an adventurous man; but above and beyond this rose an ambition to extirpate piracy and slavery, to reform a distracted country by methods of his own, to stand as a shield between oppressor and opPSYCHE, 6P GREECE. pressed; and it was an ambition to So Mortal Mistook Hr Bountiful which he remained consistent to his for Voa last breath. Psche is an exquisite creation of the In the face of great difficulties a later was and mythology of Greece. She was and manneu, procured yacht In this Mr. Brooke set sail for Brunei the youngest of the three daughters of In the year 1838. The sultan of Brunei a king, and so beautiful that mortals was little better than an imbecile, and mistook her for Venus herself, and all state functions were practically In did not dare to love, but only to war? ship her. This excited the Jealousy of the goddess, who sent Cupid to Inspire Psyche with a passion for the most contemptible of all men, Cupid, however, waa smitten with her charm, and carried -- her away to a beautiful palace, where he visited her every night, unseen and unknown. He bade her never let curiosity overcome her, and one night while he waa asleep Bhe took a lamp and went to look at him. She saw with rapture that he was the most handsome of the gods, but In her excitement she let a drop of hot This oil fall on the sleepers-sbouldeawoke Cupid, who upbraided her for her mistrust, and vanished. Psyche then set out to look for her lover, and touting to the palace of Venus she was seized by the goddess and kept as a slave. Cupid, however, reconciled her to his mother, and was united to her OF SARAWAK THE PRESENT KINO wedlock. In works of art the hands of his uncle. Rajah Muda In immortal is represented as a beautiful Psyche welwarm a Brooke who gave Hassim, maiden with the wings of a buttercome, and at once enlisted his services Her story has been considered as for the suppression of the rebellion fly, an of the progress of the huallegory state. wretch had broken out in the man soul earthly passion and through In gratitude for this assistance, and to pure celestial felicity, misfortune an of the services retain to In order not be forgotten that It ia but ally whose value he was quick to rec- merely a version of one of the most over the handed Hassim Muda ognize, folk-talin the world. then small province some 3,000 miles widespread In extent of Sarawak and lta dependKeep thv Hands Clean. encies to Mr. Brooke, one cogent Tea; To keep the hands nice, cleanliness on for this generdslty being that he is the first essential, and, therefore, was unable to control It himself. as when rough work has to be done it Is Of this territory Mr, Brooke To put on gloves: Prewelt, tf formally proclaimed rajah on Sept. 24, vention possible, is better than cure, and at two yeara 1841; but in the preceding spoils the hands like getting nothing Its administered had he which during them it should be avoided os affairs, he had completely won the far asgrimed When this occurs, possible. nabearta of all the better disposed go to work upon them dont however, a fascination of the In tives. spite with soap and a brush. Instead, take throne exercisea over most 'Imaginacome vaseline or oil and rub tt into tions; few kingdoms could have seemed the hands and then wash them thorfor Brooke's, than Rajah less desirable with a good toilet eoap and a the condition of the country was any- oughly piece' of flannel in warm water. -- The thing but peaceful. flannel will soon clean them and withThere was practically no exchequer out the skin in any way. It and absolutely no revenue; his peace- Is farInjuring better than a nail brush for ordito death, harassed were ful subjects nary use and if used regularly a nail and he never knew how much he could brush will be found almost, tf not endepehd on outside assistance to right tirely, superfluous. influence was dally on them. Yet-bi- s for by a marvelous Inthe Increase, Deluding Young Filipino. tuition he at once understood the charIn the maps of Europe which were acter and the native point of view of nsed In the Filipino schools under the a large place in the Brooke .succeeded In enlisting the Spanishof regime the center continent, usually occusympathies of the British naval author more than one-ha- lf the page, pying and his ItiM on the China station, waa marked Spain; all the rest of the great friend, CapL Henry Keppel, wh, countries 'were scattered about the vth sword, pen and voice did more Thus the young Filipino came for Borneo than any other man, ths edge. e very distorted Idee ct the to have Brooke exeepted, wassent in - comofthe "country' of his opmagnitude him aid to Dido mand of the frigate Even Agulnaldo was surpressors. Sare-bua In suppressing the pirate of the America covers n learn to that prised And Sakarran rivers, and more than Spain. area greater bands who formidable particularly the followed the flag of the terrible Seriff Ire Keew How tolivu Him Sahib. d. James Gordon Bennett, who recent. These pirates had never been visand were regarded by Mr. ly paid one of his somewhere in New is when York, to the Yet In its vincible. as Brooke's people Tie told them he should go, but gave 60's, but really looks ten yean youngthem the opportunity to accompany er. One of hia friends is quoted as him or not, as they thought best they saying that "Jim seems to have learnof how to live on a milmerely replied: "What Is theweuse of ed the secret Nine out of ten men with a lion Tf year. die; die, ypn our remaining? and if you live, we live. We will go Ms Income would have been dead long ago, and Jim hasnt traveled snail-fashiwith you. DI- at that " the of So expeditions consisting' I te long-neglect- 300,-00- 0. lh( r. es eon-ueVe- semi-occasio- on h s-- ' gsr i An Old !oi i Moonshiner distillery. " r 9 One of the most remarkable characters of the mountain region of Western Pennsylvania Is Bill Pritts, who was convicted Of moonshlmng in the Intted States district court at Pitts He has long been Uurg last week resident of Fayette county and was notorious far and wide as one of the most daring men in his line of business Ilia two sons, John S. and Henry Pritts. were also Included In the information, but they did not appear. The case excited great attention oa account of the numerous efforts t capture Prltt in hie mountain bom and his numerous successful escapes He was from the revenue officers. finally captured at his home last May. Against the Pritts family the following charges are made, on all of which the United States grand Jury found true bills: William PritU, John 8, PritU and Henry Pritts, as dlstiHers who Failed to give bond and as distillers carrying on business with intent to defraud the United States; William Pritts. retail special liquor dealer, falling to pay tax. Ignored bills John S. Pritts and Henry Pritts, retail liquor dealers, falling to pay special tax. John and Henry Prjtla were .arrested la October. 1899, but the ol,d man made his escape, being wounded b bounce ha placed famous old ''Bill" ner the top of the list of the queer ckzrbters developed in the mountains tstern Pennsylvania like all of his cl tss, Pritts had many blanch friends among his neighbors, these assisted him frequently In elndisg the officers of the government Among the people of the mountain 14iw it is not regarded a a crime lotluat Im Sam out of the tax on Men otherwise honest would w'l!ky hot a ruple to traffic in whisky thet had paid no tribute to the government, ad those ho endeavor to collect it hat a rotky time of It The moon-hinis seldom without notice of the PWne of revenue officer In the vicinity of his still, and he has ampl Hut to ontevl all evidences of hi illldt occupation Hi patrons can neve t,e induced to testify against hln and the officers, even though they may be morally certain of the geilt of a suspect, have a hard task to procure the evidence necessary to eontyct Bill Prlits was fortunate In having the good ill of hts neighbors, and en that account he long enjoyed immtniity from arrest The officer now claim to have proofs of his guilt and are confident of being able to give him a long term In the penitentiary. During his trial Prltta manifested the greatest unconcern He admitted that he drank all the whisky he could get At the recent Bradford meeting of the British association a paper read by D toO air moletules luTrwave-Iengt- h of ordinary light Every molecule la composed of atoms smaller than Itself. Now. Dr. Le Bon. calculate that the particles dissociated by the electric energy which produce such phenomena as the Becquerel rays are so small that even atoms would appear to be "Infinitely large In comparison with them. J B. C. Kershaw dealt with the comparative cost of power produced by steam engines, water turbines and gas engines, with the result of showing that gas engine have a very promis- IMPLEMENT TO OPEN BARRELS ing future. The gupremaiy of the steam engine Is now disputed, says the The purpose of the invention illusBaltimore Sun. On one Bide the wa- trated in the accompanying cut Is to ter turbine, on the other the gas en- provide an implement which will rapgine, has become Its rival "During idly force the top hoops from barrels the past ten years, say Mr. Ker-stato allow the ends to be removed or In"a moat remarkable develop- serted and the barrels beaded up. A been foot Is provided, which rests either on ment of hydraulic power ha Euof on continent the place the chime and projects inside the bartaking rope, in France and Germany, and In rel or engages the head tf the barrel America at Niagara. The aggregate has not been opened. This foot forms amount of power at the present date the fulcrum for the lever, which is generated from falling water forms no provldedatlts outer end with a carved ' Inconsiderable portion of the total hook to be slipped under the hoope. ower utilized In the manufacturing industries, and two years ago It was estimated by the author to be between 236,000 and 350.000 horse power. On the other band, gas engineers have been busily engaged In working out the problems presented by large gas engine and by the utilization of the waste gases of blast furnaces Gas engines up to 650 horse power have been built and have worked smoothly and economically." , Local considerations will often decide ones choice between the three possible sources et power, but a large DEVICE TO REMOVE HOOPS, waterfall does not always give the r when a downward movement of cheapest power and the nearness of detaches them from the staves, the coal field will not always make to two or the steam engine preferable. The the Implement being moved different loosen more to the positions can source of most economical power on a used When of the parts hoop. only be determined after an exhaustfulcrum ive study of comparative cost data. hogshead or large barret the and hook can be reversed, when a liftWater, It Is conceded, Is ths cheapest efeuree el power if Its fall oaa bo uilL ing movement will have the same lm-"" Ihe claims Inventor The that fect much Ued without capital expend! withdo work will lta rapidly, plement ture, but If It costs heavily to utilise It or to transmit the power when ob- out injury to the barret or hoops. tained, then steam or gas may be Give Tear Speetoelee m Beth, cheaper. Some water power devel- oped In Switzerland, It Is observed, ' "Half of the people who wear glasses cost more than the other sources of and complain that their sight ia gradpower. The practicability of large gas ually diminishing owe the idea to engines Is settled, and under some cir- dirty glasses, remarks the optician. cumstances they must displace the "Spectacles and eyeglasses are as much turbine and the steam engine. Their benefited by a bath now and then as use may unsettle practical calcula- people are. It is strange how many tions. "If they do not cost excessivepeopla there are who think that by ly tor maintenance and repairs, says wiping their glasses now and then the writer, "large gas engines, In con- they keep them clean. The fact ia junction with coke ovens and blast they want g hath as frequently as a furnace, may entirely, alter .the, pres- human being.- - You so it lathis way; ent position of affairs, and the new The face, and especially the eyes, all g the fim Indus trlef which at present are give off a fine vapor- - This eetabliahed.lq the neighborhood clings to the glasses and the dust col- of water power stations may find iects on them. Aa soon aa they bethemselves In gevfere Competition with come clean that Is, apparently clean the wearer Is satisfied. similar manufactures carried on in the "So the process goes on. But, while coal and iron districts of the older manufacturing countries. wiping the glasses cleanses them and Is necessary, a bath la also required, PREVENTS SEASICKNESS. . quotes the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The disagreeable affliction of sea- "Every time the glasaea are wiped a sickness often robe an ocean voyage of fine film of dirt la left on them and half its pleasure and fills the traveler this accumulate, and no wiping will with dread of a return of the malady elern it off. In time this coating gets on hla next trip and mars the pleasure qulle thick enough to blur the vision, of anticipation. With the idea of elim- even though at a glance the glasses inating, to some extent at least, this may appear xluan Wben this occurs BILL PRITS. disagreeable feature of crossing the the sight la diminished and they come ocean, two Englishmen have designed to me or aome other optician. What chair, which we tllus- - they ought to have done was to giva bul-made and In the heel during his flight by a J the admission as though It a the glasses a bath In warm water, well let from the revolver of United States were a good Joke and it tickled him. scrubbing them with a small toothDeputy Marshal Frank Campbelt The He admitted, however, that he had brush and eoap and afterward wipe two boys stood trial at the Mdy term done so twenty years ago. He waa them. This should be done with chamof court and the Jtiry disagreed. Their as delighted as a youngster when ois leather and then with tissue paper bail was not renewed, but a stay was United States marshals told of the s to polish them. granted until thin term of court, when trouble they had experienced in capthey were told to be present. When turing him. Like many another man. trass aew aa Han. called yesterday afternoon neither of Bill Pritts is a mixture of simplicity Frol Johnstone Stoney, in developthem was present and the father was and guile, but the proportions are Atthe only one who responded. ing his theory of the escape of gases hard to determine. from planetary atmospheres depending torney R. B. Kennedy of Union town, their Attorney, was unable to explain upon the force of gravity of the par COAL CONSUMPTION. ticular planets concerned, has concludtheir absence. The court advised Mr. Far Capita tacreaee Fifty Far Caat la ed that helium at present is slowly esKennedy to have his clients appear. The case against Pritts was opened TeS Yeara. caping from the earth, and in a distant by Assistant United State District At- - Ia spite of continued effort te Inpast time.it probably escaped much more rapidly. From Mars, he says, torney J. N. Langham. Deputy Col- crease the efficiency of engines and lector of United States Internal Reve- boiler the progress of invention Is water vapor must have escaped with nue W. J. Dickson was the first wit- such that coal Is becoming each year a about the same readiness as helium ness called. He described how, while more and more important article of fled from the earth, and accordingly he and two others were engaged in de- commerce. So short a time ago, viewthe variable white patches about the CHAIR, molishing a still on Pritts farm in ing the history of the world, as 1831 poles of Mars are not snow, but probaOctober, , 1899, father and tons were the annual coal production of Great trate herewith, the Inventors claiming bly are frozen carbon dioxide. Other seen approaching along a path. They Britain waa 24,008,000 tons; for the that It will counteract the rolling and spppearances frequently observed on Will pitching motion of the boat in any dig Mars are due, he thinks, to stopped their work on the still and year 1901 the coal production waited their arrival, when the three probably be 240,000,000 tona, an inrection. The method of suspension of fogs of carbon dioxide vapor shifting leaped out at the men and covered crease of 1,000 per cenL In 1831 the the chair will certainly maintain tb alternately between the poles and the Bill population of Great Britain 'was them with their revolvers. seat In a horizontal position and If this equatorial regions. and the next census, 1901, will does not have the desired effect In exPritts escaped. Deputy Collector Dickson said that the still was then in probably show about 40,000,000 In that tremely rough weather, or If the pasThe Evaporation of . Geld. . Hot embers were lying country, an increase of 66 2 3 per cent senger desires to sit on deck, suitable operation. Sir W. G, Roberts-- us ten ha proved beneath the affair and a mess of some- In seventy years. Therefore the screens are arranged to prevent the of coal has increased from one an experiment extended over thing was In the still. Six barrels of ton from suffering the optical ef- through per capita to six tons, and the rate occupant four that when a column of lead years nomash, he said, were in the stlllhouse. be fect of motion at sea. It will "Bill Pritts, he said, was captured of increase has been fifteen times as ticed that two rings are placed above is allowed to rest upon a column of the following May by himself and great as the rat of increaase in popu- the chair and by pivoting these rings gold a slow diffusion or evaporation of He was lation. In 1840 the production of bituthe gold takes place, resulting in the Deputy Marshal A. McBeth. at angles to each other they will of traces of gold ia the found near a house of one of his neigh- minous coal in the United State was tiltright appearance to hold as the manner a such in It bors. The officer said that when he between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 tons, chair motionless in the roughest sea. lead. When a degree of beat not sufthe production of anthracite was to melt either of the metals Is caught the defendant the latter denied and The Idea Is also applied to berths on ficient the diffusion of the gold take being.."Bill Pritts and said that at 1,000,000 tons say a total of 2.500.-00applied, curtains the shipboard and by drawing tons, says, the Engineering Magaany rate he had done nothing wrong. place more rapidly. The tendency of Inteview of the out the and shutting Frank Campbell, States zine. At that time the population of cabin the passenger may the particles Is upward into the lead. A far deputy marshal, and Emanuel Custer the country was IT.000,000.- - so that rior, of, jhe Isryet known the evaporation himself safely on land again. was imagine ther who followed Dickson on the witness probably less than one-sixt-h of gold occurs only In the presence of -- ' stand, corroborated Dicksons testi- of a ton need per capita. Compare that another metal. - - with the present tonnage of 220,000,000 maDent of the Small. mony. A plan of the farm of "Bill PritU. and a population of approximately 75, While we are accustomed to think of Taavlag tbs Waves with Beta. with the location of the house and the 000,000, and it will be aeen that Amer- atoms as the smallest possible particles new A is renow ica plan for diminishing the force be can divided, still, was submitted in evidence when using per capita eighteen into which matter W. B. Horton, s surveyor, was called. times as much coal aa aha did sixty cent experiments, particularly thoee o? of waves has recently been tried at "Bill Pritts first came Into promi- year ago. In fact, since 1890 the per Dr. Gustave Le Bon. have indicated Havre. It is the Invention of Baron an Italian residing In nence with the killing of Tony Hoch-stettl- capita increase has been 50 per cent. that, through electrical dissociation, dAlessandro, apparatus consists of a netseveral years ago.- - Robert atoms themselves are capable of sub- Paris. The work of water-proofe- d hemp, 860 feet Miller, one of the party Implicated, division into particles of amazing miGreet Reeder. long by fifty broad, anchored on the gar himself up and served four years Private contributions secure at least nuteness, Many years ago Lord Kelvin surface of the water. It flattens out la the penitentiary. The others were thirty traveling libraries in the rural calculated the probable size of a molenever apprehended. The history of counties of Pennsylvania this fall and cule of air, and according to Mm about heavy waves and prevents them from hie numerous encounter and escapes winter, the legislature having made no 25.000,000 such molecules laid In a row breaking, after the manner of oil has several ti v been printed, and appropriation for their support. would measure an Inch. There would spread upon the sea. L er the-leve- be-in- . self-leveli- 5 SELF-LEVELIN- G low-lyin- A n 0 ed u V er I1 tnunnilui V I I "i! ' w -- |