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Show HDlIOil OF TIIE DAY GAS IN COAl MINES. THE LANb OF ,X ttlAN CHACO. the moat apot 0B the America continent, and possibly Jo lb world, ha claimed ano(.h ft band of victims; again ID t Pilcxwnayj river haa proved lUelf cf the title given to it by the naUvea ot Paraguay, Argentln and Bolivia River of Death. ' Te la- - victims of the unknown plac are the fauwa Italian explorer, "Guido Rogg lai and hla party. From n tnji-tertou- a do-wi- n AwnHon-t- M l 4 ractwBcoier Parsguayihtr new'bts DEATH xv 8a-wa- dwellers, and with canoe 'and men paddled away to reach the Pllcomayo river." And when be paddled thus away he passed out of human sight forever. For the River of Death haa never given him up. Fragments of his story have drifted to the outer world, and from tha stories told by boastful Indians and the scattered rumor brought to Bolivian and Paraguayan and Argen tlnlanjfrontler post. It la known that he river, reached Amerlran geographer that the party haa been officially pro contending against nature and wild beasts and wild men Alike, until, thor Bounced dead. With the alaying of Bogglano, Gran oughly worn out and sadly diminished In numbers, the expedition found itChaco, fta self cut off from either triumphantly keeping retreat or ad secret, haa successfully defied five vance by the allied force of human a it-.jsa.yonBFraxjce. Spain.. Germany,, foe and hunger. " For the - Indite, and parasuay. Each, of . them rarely-showinconthemselves,-bu- t ' stantly lurking around the party, not only picked off any member of the expedition who strayed even slightly frdm the main body, but prevented alt hunting. At last the party was o reduced by privations that panic tetxed some and despair others. And r r V ' . then came annihilation, so that none returned. Lists himself, so men have learned since then, was one of the last to dlde. He was brained while he lay atarving. And scattered owev many mile of forest trail He b'.a companions, pursued and killed in fight Entrance to hand of Death, While Bogglano fate was stl'i uv 'aent Ha beat explorer and to none known, Capt. Slrvent, a German did their man return alive, la the Chilean army, start? Creveaux, of France; Ibarretta, of with hla son to enter the Chaco counSpain; List of Paraguay; Slrvent, try from the west He expected to of Germany, and Bogglano of Italy, return la a month. But three passed all atarted from the border, dived and no sign came from the unknown into the primeval forests of El Gran land. Chaco, reached the Pllcomayo river Now, according to new Just reand disappeared forever. ceived in America Capt. Rojas, of No man haa gone In and emerged the Paraguayan army, who started Hive. What lurka In Ita twilight for- from the east to search for him, baa est that alay o atirely?. returned to Villa Hayes named after Iook on the map of South America. President Hayes to commemorate hla Between the tropic of Capricorn settlement of the Paraguay Argentina and latlture 30 south, and between boundary diapute Aith the almost a .longitude 58 and 55 west, la a patch Information that this expedition that la left almost entirely blank. also baa been destroyed. Capt. R eThat patch contain more than 75,000 tas found that It bad approached the square miles, about a hlch man knows vicinity of the scene of Ibarreta'a 'nothing. death, and there, on the banks of It la the terra Incognita of the American continent. Five months ago Guido Bogglano aStaw atarted from Asuncion with an exSr pedition of six Indians and a peon to -f0 "t. follow the path that ao many other ' k' ' had taken before him and that had kd them to death. Men beard from a .,. bin only once after he had left civ-1- 1 list Ion, a he passed tbrough Puerto ' Ciuxdo. Then came a week of alienee, . broken by the arrival of two of the Even In that one week expedition. hardships and terrors bad become too much for them and they had fled toward settled country. They reported Typical Scene on Pllcomayo. that Gx Une of march had been tho Pllcomayo river,, had ,perished,, f,o through emutant'dangt-- i ii,d through constant mystery. Unseen enemies prove anew that the River of Death bad attacked them by day and by still defies the worlds efforts to disnight. Unseen animals had prowled pel Ha mystery. on their trul. Unseen things had Tatsscop to 6Urt a Land Boom. terrified the Indian helpers, , tht Prof, Turuer declare that the ereceven then 1' uuo was fiud'ng U altion of the observatory on Mt. Hamilmost impossible to force them on. That la the last that haa been heard ton aent up the value of land In that region considerably. Accordingly, by man of Guido Bogglano and hi party. No doubt the entire expedi- some enterprising gentleman In antion wa destroyed, presumably by other neighborhood, desiring to test the fierce, practically unknown Tobaa the generality ot the law that tf a I large telescope were built the value ladians. This make the second expedition to ot land la the neighborhood would go up, announced a atill larger telvanish within a year. j discs Pint to meet fate In Gran Chaco escope, and ordered two waa Dr. Creveaux Ha started Into of glasa for the lens. The experiment succeeded admirthe interior In 188 with large and party, and forced hla way ably and they were to well satisfied for several months through the wilder- with the rise In price which followed ness along the Pllcomafo until be on the mm announcement (so the penetrated Into the Tola country, story goes), that they considered it rear the Bolivian bounlary, where unnecessary to proceed further with the expedition, worn and thinned out the Instrument by "constant fighting aid hardship, The Two lenses were produced, and, fell Into the hands off the Indiana, not being claimed, were left on the all a red quarwho suddenly r pea from makers hands, the result being that ters and massacred a the favorable opportunity for the . The fate of Jhe Crv was brought to Mr. Yerkea' atonly served to Increa tention, and he bought them for the ot explorers to tear t great telescope that bear hla name. the unknown land. This, at least, is Prof. Turners vernext waa to And that eagernesl sion of the story, San Francisco Arthe moat cost the life of one and earnest fend daring ex- gonaut plorers that ever waif In South AmerWhat tha World 8pak ica. He waa Ramoff List to whom Some interesting information reoJ ea much of Its world the today the chief languages of the knowledge ot Paifguay, Argentina garding F many year he earth are given by a German statist and Patagonia Leaving Ch loose ont of the question, which in Its various dialects la the language ot four hundred million, English la easily first Roughly apeak-dpEnglish is spoken by one hundred muttons. - Qsnaaa come next with sixty-nin- e millions, and. If the Low German dialects be Included, there are eighty five millions. Russian toUuwa with alxty-aevemillions. Two language which once covered the world, French and Spanish, are now spoken and forty million by only forty-onrespectively, and Italiaji, which .haa lately ahowa algnt of spreading. thirty 4 million g Msl. V Explosive Accumulate In Spit of Greatest Cara. Being reminded of some of hla own experience by the recen disaster la the Cambria mine, Frederick E. of the Coal Trade Journal gives the following account of the phenomena In a gaseous mine, I had been Invited." said ha, to visit a property which was said to possess a seam of coal of unusual thickness and purity. It waa, 'nevertheless, a notoriously gassy mine, .Insomuch tnat the fire boss made regti lar rounds to test the working places and calk up warning signs If too dam geroua vapor. s as discovered. Oangarecfs iSfOV Galng-dow- 6 well-arme- pur-cha- f . auc-cessf- ul g, n e - t Rmon List, the bad lived a tost constantly wildest part of the continent He wa the firs man to send out from the depths f Patagonia the report of the possible existence there of a monstrous animat, tha mylodun.,a giant sloth la great aa an ox, that atill surtitfd from prehistoric days, tie roportfl subsequently that one evening h had even shot at some huge crcapire that might have been hide turned hla bullet, the forest made pursuit Impossible. Ramon IJsta, thus on the threshold, possibly,, of an epochal discovery In modern orld history, set hlg face toward El Gran Chaco, He passed thi, uttermost frontier ot human It. But F And the gjoora of be--jn- Wanted to Know. Congressman Bingham la telling about the handsome and popular wife ot a senator who has been well to the tore In Washington affairs since last December. Mr Senator waa recently accosted at a fashionable reception by aa overdressed, affected woman, tha wlfdof a western lobbyist, and asked: "Have we met before? Your face seems familiar to me." T do not think weve met," replied Mr. Senator graciously. "Perhapa There have youve seen my picture been many of them In the magazines r ently." "That it! exclaimed the stranger. I've seen you Id the magazine And I want you to tell me. it you will, la that soap you indorse really aa good as you say it Is?" , i shaft ob p Visibly cracked "YooTTtny guide said that he would show me what gas was and how Jt wat put out. -- He held. hla lamp up near the crevice in the roof and forthwith there was a floating of blue gas along the roof near the crevice, tike burning slcobol ln a basin of water. We will not let it get ahead of us said the guide, and with that he took off hla coat and brushed out the flaming gas, driving it away from tha crevice. If he had drivfn It toward the crevice the roof might hare come down. As If this were not enough, the guide said: I will show you where It la not even safe to go with an ordinary lamp. He thereupon Ut hla safety and blew out the other lampa. We walked along the entry until we came to a place which led up the face ot the coat. Climbing upon lhaf which had Veen broken down the guide lifted hla safety lamp and the blue flame began to dance around the gauze. This daily tour of the fire boss no doubt saves many lives, but there Is often a quick accumulation in places where be has found nothing dangerous." tin-cu- p HIS PRIDE WAS HURT. Threatened to Take a Mean Ravanga. story was told at a recent dinner And Frenchman A of a New York literary club which goes back to the time when a certain famous man was governor ot Massachusetts. The tale sounds like a revival of a newspaper yarn contemporaneous with its hero. At any rate, it is worth retelling. Along a country road la the north of Maine plodded a French-Canadla- n with a tratned bearr making hla way to a county fair. At a croaa road he met a yankee driving a mule. They nodded to each other and were continuing on their ways when suddenly the Frenchman pricked up hla ear G long there, Napoleon!" the d farm-er'drevrl- to hlw ; h 3'M-fo- platform elevator without aides (simply the guide rods), in company with the fire boss, 1 walked along the main a mile, viewing the entry for one-hal- f coal by the light of our little tin-culamps. " Presently, on approaching a pus-itlv- f a n mules utCTixsx3i'x WAforx t aar The Frenchman stopped short and listened again. Git ap, Napoleon," called the yam . he . j ,, called I say, ma fren," the Canadian, bringing hla bear to a halt, "what for yon call xe xhackaas Napoleon?" Thats hla name," replied the farmer, Indifferently, , Well, he la no name for a aback-a- a Napoleon was a great general." Soa my male," replied the other, Geddap, Napoleoa." The Frenchman lost patience. ere, me fren, he said, you call sat thackaaa Napoleon wance more tltye, I tell yon wat 1 do. You see xst bl?k bear? Walk 1 poke hla one eye out an call him Baa Butler." Youth! . Companion. V Lk Evidently Used Up. Mm. Meadowland (early morning) I gueaa that city gentleman we took JOKES AND WITTICISMSTHAT to hoard for to summer aint much used to travelin la the car HAVE PUEASANT FLAVOR. H must a been all fagged out when he --Xgot here yesterday, though he didnt Youngatere Ingenious Device for aay nothin about IC Ksoplng Farmer Meadowland He looked Saby Quiet Bachelors Idea of tho Family Sceptor Hsr cheery enough, Mra. Meadowland Yes. but here It Reason. Is most 4 o'clock, and breakfast all ready, and he halnt waked up yet" Tho Bachelor1 Idea. Of course, said the bachelor, Tha Skin and the Graft there can be no auch thoughtfully, Truly, says the patient who la bething as Joint rule In a family. Some- ing surgical science 1 one must be the head. a wonderful thing. True, but the acepter passes from. It la, says the friend who la helpone to another!" ing out with the required xkinI Flrgt How? they skin me and tbeD they graft you: Well, at the beginning of married but after you get well and they send life the husband holds it; then It in the bill you'll find that you've been gently and unobtrusively passes to the skinned for their graft Judge,- wife, and be never gets it back agatq She keeps It for ever? Keeping Him Quiet f'Oh, aoj tbe baby gets it oext. - ' ' TRUE WORDS 8AID IN JEST. skin-grafte- An Oxygenarian, There la an acquaintance of mine, remarked the doctor, who gives himself airs because he was given up to did thirty yearjr ago and haa kept himself alive till now by taking oxy- gen. How old Is he now?" asked tho professor. Over 80. He's what you would call an la he?" said the professor, looking at him with half-shu- t eyes. Plausible Supposition. Isn't It awful how thin Mr. Hen-pec- k is now? remarked Mr Gabble to her husband. And he used to be so stout!" . Perhaps," chimed in little Willie, remembering his trouble with his bicycle tires "perhapa hla wife forgets to blow him up regular, like you said h used to." "What are you making that terrible noise for? Im keeping baby quiet. "Wheres the baby? Under the tin. When You Put It That Way. raon It seems to Argumentative me this theory of the Immortality of th soul la based merely on a selfish Cafeless Girl. "Such carelessness Is little short of hope. It has no philosophical basis. Cat you see any reasoi why-1- , for in- criminal," thundered Dr. Price-Pricstance, should be perpetuated In an- angrily. Oh, doctor, sobbed Mrs. Saaslety-Lleder'- s other state ot existence? nurse girl, "do you blame me 1 Person confess Conciliatory No, for the baby's illness? I cah Most assuredly. You should know better than to leave it alone In the HI Private View. Wederly Heres an Item about a care of Its mother even for a moman who kept his bank account in ment bis wifes name. Mr Nothing to Livo For. Wederly Thats aa it should be. All men are not fool Mrs. Benham The paper tells of a Wederly Of course not, my dear. bad accident Benham What kind of an accident? There are atill a few old bachelor Mra. Benham A woman dress left took fire and waa ruined and the worn an wa ao badly burned that ahe will HI Blunder, , Say?" she cried , suddenly, as the not recover. Benham I dont suppose she wants bashful young man backed Into the nearest chair, you mast think youre to recover If her dress is ruined. a bird." His Sympathetic Nature. .h . .etammey ... W " WeH'Fm glkd thla dont understand what music Youre on my hat!' ah shrieked. is getting out of date, remarked the business man. Tm sure It gave me r indigestion." Couldnt Go To Sow Nonsense! J Find1 Mother (listening to babys Fact. The orchestra at the re cries) : What a sweet-tonevoice the has, dear! She'll be a splendid singer. tsurant where I take my lunch alwaya We must send her to Italy and hav played it. and I couldnt help keeping time with my Jaw" her voice cultivated." Husband (Irritably, front behind the evening paper); Send her how." Cana V Beat. do you call him Cain?" -- Why Knew It Was a Fraud. quired Adam. He (doubtfully) Because the little darling cant ba Therea tr little freckle on your cheek, dont you know. beat." replied Eve, with feminist I 1 have heard tha. freckles can he logic. removed by ktaslng. Thus waa the Sugar Controvert) She Oh that is a fraud. Cousin started la Paradise ;pthe young mant Tom and I hav been experimenting subsequent career leaving it an open on that all aummer. . question. t "rag-Ume- A d ' A Catastrophe. ' A prim maiden My of Gloucester of the Northwest Applet 5Iet a bull which ran after and touces- - Aa account of how the great' north-we- st ter; has been made to grow most of Though ah landed all right. the winter apples for this country is She was near dead with fright valuable in connection with the increase in plant values. The early And the shock to her feelings ft con- coster.-..- , tamer' of the vasf prairtes 'CouTd D o no apple tree hardy enough for the Reason Enough! climate. They spent fortunes in nursery stock, and In planting trees, without auccea la 1855 Gideon M. Mitchell of Minnesota planted thirty varieties of apple. trees and a bushel ot seed. In nine years he planted, all told, 8.000 tree At the end of the tenth year he had left, after the winters cold, only one tree, a small seedling crab. From that, however, has come tho fine apple known In the market as the Wealthy, a fruit from which the northwest now annually reaps millions ol dollar During, these nine Jong year of - planting - anil - failure Mr. Mitchell Diends told him that nowhere In all that region would an apple ever grow, says Success. His success wat a triumph in which he must have experienced emotions similar to Justice (refusing to marry couple those of Columbus when. In 1492, he because the man la drunk) Are you sighted the island ot Guanahani. not ashamed to marry a man In such a state? Two Startling Suggestion J Lady But he wont come here It is rather startling to find that all when hes sober. the most effusive signs of affection in use are nothing more or less -- Perhapa Maant for Sarcasm. than relict of barbarism a modified Yes, said the head of the firm, fora of attack. Such, at least, is the Miss Addle is s good bookkeeper, but opinion of Student" (Oxford), who she makes some queer mistakes." claim to be an authority on the subWhat, for instance?" asked the si, ject lent partner. Take, for example." he says, a Well, she enters our messenger k!s What is it but a pretence to hoys wages under the head of runbite? It is an action plainly intended " ning expense to convey the meaning: T could bite you, you see, but I wont Overcrowded Already. In the same way the playful pats Shes just crazy to go on tho and slap which a lover gives to his Btage. sweetheart are obviously a mimicry Then sho d better noL What tho of blow, regarded simply as privl-legeneeds most is sane actor" stage marks of endearment When he clasps her in his arms It is the Proof. Positive sens of capture which thrills have wo that him, What proof Judge and of being captured which thrill Attorney this man is her London Tlt-BWhy, he actually stopped hla automobile at a watering fountain. r to-da- d absent-minded- -- Any aort of weather lx good weather des so long ex you got health enough to be bappy We dont need long aermona In dla hot weather. Dea show a alnner a thermometer en hell know whats ahead of him. Dis ole worl la, doin dea de beg what It kin. De only trouble is, folks wont give it a livin chance. Atlanta Constitution. Recrimination. Do you suppose that It waa a crat apple?" asked Eve as they were dls cussing the unfortunate eontre tempo "No, sneered Adam, with a pointed glare, It was a lobater apple!" Cuffing little Abel, he passed out Into the night,-while Eve wept bitter ly, realizing that slang was now to b4 added to her othyr trouble -- Th -- Small Brother. I heard him call you Duckie " am nounced the small brother. Well, what of It? aister defiantly. Oh- ,- nothin much," small brother. "I was tray be Ita because of walk.-buUaint very Jt Mountain dew haa caused torrent of trouble. Jte-t- h pipe story that sells the gold brick. Accident Is the foolish child of carelessness. Job had a great many trials.; so baa the wealthy criminal. The young lady with a bank needs no cosmetic -- - - - - - The beauty of poverty Is the freedom from champagne headaches. A woman ran pack a trunk, but It takes a man to stuff a ballot box. The law of entail generally means curtail so far as someones rights are concerned. Writers of the poetical side of farm life have no inclination to try the prosaic side. Was New Ergland made for pumpkin pies, or were pumpkin pies made for New England? Give woman the ballot and she would refrain from electing to office one of her own sex. A gun can glxe a boy more pleasure and hla rarents more misery than anything manufactured. Some people Imagine tnat they can stand well only by an effort to appear better than their superiors. g When a student dies with old age he can claim to have gained , only the alphabet of knowledge. It is no longer necessary for one to be past master in the art of swearing to hold the position of steamboat mate. A young man hunting a gem on the matrimonial beach rarely picks up the girl who considers herself the only pebble. About the time a young man gets his flrsC shave you will find among his effects a book on etiquette and a letter writer. Knowing how to do the double shuffle Isnt worth as much to the farmer aa knowing what to do with the double shove). The poor man who has traveled over the road of adversity gets his hand In his pocket quicker for char- lty than does the wealthy man who has known naught but prosperity. life-lon- t SOME GOOD RIDDLES. ' What herb la moat injurious to dJqx , beauty T , .Thyme, And tha Joka Was Ruined. The facetious boarder had the train an laid for a killing Joke. Ita a wonder" he said, that you didnt serve up this duck feathers and r alL" The next time. said the landlady with marked emphasis. "Ill serve her up bill anu all. Sensible Resolution, "What, asked the dreamer, would you do If you could be a king for a day? I?" answered the practical man: Id borrow enough money to live on for the rest of my life. , . 1 ,,, .. Why is green grass lik a mouse? Because the cattle eat It, ( Why la a wqmans agq Ukei flora) wedding bell? It li never told Why la th letter A like a honeysuckle? Because a follows It When Is a note of hand Ilk a rosebud? When It la matured by falling du What did- - Jack Frost say when, he kissed the rose? Wilt tho and It wilted. Why is a widow like a gardener? Because she tries to get rid of her weed .... , ... J What flowera? pistils. What trade does the sun follow In the month of May? The trade of mason (May sun). Why is asparagus like most sermons? The end is the part that people enjoy the most. At what age may a man be said to belong to the vegetable kingdom? When long experience haa made him saae. - Why la a young lady like a sheaf of wheat? She la first cradled, then thrashed, and finally becomes the flour of the family. CONDENSED demanded his answered the only thlnkln the way you nice' of him. I THOUGHTS. It a mans friend Btick to him when his money la gone tho price was well paid. The lazy man wants things leveled down. - The ambitious - one tries to have them evened up. The wall which separates geniua from insanity is as likely aa not to stand awy over jpn the other aide of the line. God haa given the poet an Imagination ao that he can have the pleasure of thinking of things ho would do tf he had money. When people begin to talk of a lady ability to get around lively for one of her years she may aa well give np the frill One nice thing about being a cer-tai-n kind of a preacher Is that h can go to auch wicked places after material for sermon Frilly Shoulder Shape. Among very fashionable people both here and abroad the boa in all it IVflIITED guises has In a great degree given finto shoulder the place frilly .4xta.COKai8POI,DKT8Wrrr cape ished with very long scarf ends of to collect useful ideas and experiences-abothe health and care handsome lace, or of accordlon-plalte- d I hysicians, nurses, teacherof children. net of chiffon tied with velvet bows, brother parent mstere. Invalids, and aUothw or brightened here and there with tIe ones ar Interested V1 clusters of rose or soft fluffy silk for 10 min- Epkyment Costly models are formed ttaJuMoi, popple da nd text-- " of real chantllly lace with the scar! tokx with course of stndr bv ends woven in very fine patterns, por- AflOo?thiT,M0,rt wular reporter tions of both the cape ruffles and Scarf ends showing Incrustations of the choicest silk embroidery In A toenlan. Flemish, Louis XIV. and other design REPORTERS .T ".RTnSLHSKKS feloi ut 4j |
