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Show T .X FREDERICK ARCHER. IhmI That r.r.lU Tec tea f HE WORLD RENOWNED ORGANIST WHO DIED RECENTLY. Oh. ti.v. .000 OrU VllkMI iiHUa( FuaM Mmr fun of ill Ufa U th Cvaatr. Frederick Archer, organist of Carnegie Music Hail and one of the beat known mush Ian of the country, died at his home in Pittsburg, Pa., after a lingering illness. Mr Archer bad a brilliant career in music. He was bora at Oxford, Englaodr-e- n June 18, 1838. la 1847 he became the chorister at Margaret Chapel, now All Balnta - church, London, and later organlat at St, Clement's, Oxford, and then of Morton College, holding both appoint-- , menu. After trare'ing rn the continent ce was appointed organist of the Panopticon, now the Alhambra Theater, London, and in 1R2 gave weekly recitals on tha great organ at the world's fair la London In 1883, In with Julius Benedict, ha directed tha eonceru of in Vocal association ; la 1863 became organlat and choirmaster of Christ Church; then of the Church of tne Jesuit Father, until 1873, when he wa appointed to A similar position at Alexandra Palace, and gave more than 2.000 recitals ' on the great organ without repeating a program. fn 177 he was given the otlrs direction of Alexandra Palace, sad, besides the organ recital, con ducUd the orchestral concert and the English opera in tha theater. In 187 be became muster! examiner In the University of Glasgow, and hi 1880 P FREDERICK ARCHER, formed an English opera company, which gars performances In the chief cities of England. He visited the United 8tate In 1881, played la many of the principal cltleA and after a short visit to London became organist of the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and subsequently of the Church of the. Incarnation, New York, during which he Fv a Series of ninety concerts la Chfekerfng Hall In 183 be founded the Keynote at Boston. Ha was the author of "Tha Organ " a theoretical trestle and "The Collegiate Organ Tutor," and had composed much music of a high grad. Bis Fella Vu Uiahea. old darky had hi faith badly shaken not long ago. He la sex-io- n for a whit church la a Fayette County, Tennessee, town, and one afternoon aa he was In front sweeping the pavement a strong wind arose, tearing a piece of the cornice off and taking a few brick out of the walL Realising that a good run was better than a bad sUnd, the old man sought shelter In the aUtlon-hous- e on the opposite aide of the street Several minute later a member of the church of which Uncle Iaham Is sexton cams by, and, noticing blm In hit retreat remarked that be thought the ststlon-houa strange place for a man of faith to seek shelter In a storm when a house of worship was near. "Dat's so, but what's a man gwlna ter do when de Lord begins to trow bricks A religion ae at lar pint Pm it the Hot Slut, James M. Swank, in a government report on Iron and steel, says: , The first practical application of the hot blast to the manufacture of pig Iron la this country was made at the furnace la INfw 1 Jersey, la 1$3L by William Henry, the manager. The waste heat at the tymp passed over ' the surface of a neat of email cast Iron pipes, through which ,th blaat was conveyed to the furnace. The temperature was raised to 230 degrees Fahrenheit and the product of the furnace was Increased about 10 per cent. In 1835 a hot-blaoven, containing cast iron arched pipes, waa placed on the top of the stack hy Mr. Henry and heated by the flame from the tunnel head. By this means the temperature of the btast waa raised to 500 degrees. The fuel used was charcoal. Ox-.fo- rd laetlai la Caba. Cuba produces no tobacco for chew- ing or pipe smoking. The Cubans who smoke pipes may be counted on one's fingers without making a second round on th fingers. Ths cigar and tbs cigarette prevalL To what extent the Cuban cigarette might aver become popular with American amokert matter beyond determinstlon. It Is is certain that most Americans of prolonged residence, become. If they he mnokers. addicted to the Cuban brands and find difficulty la weaning them-selv- es back to American brands on their return. Be Was Fwfied, 1 win follow you to the uttermost ends of the earth!" hissed the villain. "No, yow won't," remarked the hero! it. calmly. Why won't I?" queried the villain, aghast at her coolness. "Because I'm not going there," she re, V plied. OCOO.O'O'OC SPIDER AS WEATHER PROPHET.' U UM oaIU4Bj Mfiiififoloylcfit Most bird and an me Lave the faculty of discerning th approach of a storm with more or aciuraey but- - Hi Yacaian- - they Irsve a spWer w ather fo that Is known ' on acThis Insect Is known count of the efrwt product A by It poison. As far a itt owb product ve and can goes the Inse t la ino J-be handled with irapubiiy but If anybody has the misfortune to get one 1 mysterlouily mixed w.th hi food he and few hours, certain to die after a meanwhile, for some unexplained reason, will frequently ejaculate Am! Am Am! heme the name of the spider. Throughout the peninsula th's la affirmed to be a faeL and If an "am falls Into fodder of horea or mules It surely the animal that awallow diet. This spider Is shaped like a crab, of a bright minus the claws, and brown spots; the with color, yeJow blggeet could be accommodated upon a silver dime Its favorite abode is among the leaves of the banana ahrub commonly, but erroneously, called tree. There It spins, with extreme rapidity. Its web, which Is prodigiously large, considering the size of the architect. and proceeds to devour flies that are nnlucky enough to get entangled In the meshes of thta astonishing little glutton, that Is not satisfied with lew than a dozen a dayj that la to say, It consumes a good deal mors than Its own bulk. Its progeny art numerous, and appear, at first, like mere black specks, smaller than the smallest pins bead. The sky may be blue and cloudlees, when suddenly the am commences taking In Its sails, or, rather, gathering In Its nets, with neatness and dispatch, cramming the whole of the material into its dlmlnutlva body entirely out of sight. A few minutes completes the job and the eplder takes up Its position on the under aurface of one 6f the greet leaves, to be lulled by the gentle swaying and sheltered while the storm regee. It la for this that the am haa prepared, and never la mistaken; when the web is taken In rain will surely fall within an hour. The moment the am Is touched it fefgne death and lets itself drop, showing no sign of Ufa until again placed upon a leaf or on the ground. Many a one hag lain on the palm of the writer's hand, Inert, all Its legs drawn close to Its body, while It was examined at leisure, even being picked up la the lingers wlthdut its manifesting m s-- ps 1 HOME WHERE DRUG VICTIMS BE CURED. Lsvriled st Baltimore tea-lad- throughout Maryland as Peggy gew-ar- t day, and in commemoration of It a plendld monument to the revolutionary heroes was unveiled In Baltimore the other day under tbe auspices of the National 'Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, The destruction of th Peggy Stewart and her cargo of tea was eQe of the most stirring sets of the revolutionary period Following closely upon the heels of the stamp act it not only stung English pride, but aroused tbe spirits of the Maryland colonist to a fighting pitch. It Is contended by Marylanders that the destruction of the Peggy Stewart Is of as signal Interest to tbe country aa the Boston Te Party. They contend that while th men who tossed the tea overboard In Boston harbor were disguised as Indian TOKIO GAYER THAN PARIS. Jiyu'l Capital Is a City la PlMuaM-Swkla- latnuly Da-n- l4 TO CHANCE A QUARTER It lUtiliN Sraraty Crate it Thirty Twa Coin. "How much doee It take to change a quarter?" naked the bartender, Twenty-five cents, eh? Not on your life. It takes seventy cents to do the trick. How many vt)t do you suppose a changed? Just quarter dollar can--bexactly eleven. A fellow of limited means may like th Jingle of cola In ' hla cloth. a In that event you can give him twenty-fiv- e pennies, or twenty pennies and one nickel, supposing he wants to get a beer. He may Ilk to have a little tprlnk ing of silver In hi clothes, and 'you can accommodate him with fifteen pennes and a dim or a nickel. If ten pennies, a dime-an- d he prefers to .have change handy for a beer and a car tare, why fifteen pen. nlea and two nickels will fix him up; and. It he wants a cigar In addition, besides having a little stock of eash In his Jeans, give him ten pennies and three nickels. That makes six way. Now, then, a fellow with a quarter eaa trad it off for five pennies and four nickels, two dimes and on nickel, and dims and three nickels, or flv nickels. Just as h prefers. And to accommodate him In any way h might select, penyou have to possess twenty-fiv-e nies, two dimes and flv nickels Tfl cents In alL" Philadelphia Record. e ' Malaria continue to be a greater sconrgt of the British army ia India than any other fatal cause. Oood people are not really sears ta lift; only on must look for them. IV rticu rro(tbr(, r Special Letter ) The farm In Kentucky on which Abraham Lincoln was born and where his earliest years were spent Is to be turned into a resort for the cure of victims of the alcohol and drug habits. St Luke's Society, of Chicago, has acquired possession of the property, and is going to erect upon it a number of buildings, where tbe victims of liquor and drugs may be treated and cured. Work on the buildings will begin 1l the' spring, and the society expects to raise and expend 1230.000 before its plans are fully earned out. The institution will be entirely free, and will be supported by an endowment fund. Dr. Struble, of Chicago, one of the directors of the society, ha secured an option on 330 acres of land adjacent to the Lincoln farm, and the latter, consisting of 110 acres, has been turned over to the society by the former owner, A. W. Dennett, of New York. After the first buildlug is erected aome of the patients who are cured will work on the other buildings. The home, says Dr. Struble, will be a memorial to Lincoln, and will be the greatest temperance project ever undertaken in this country. The number of patients It will be able to treat in a few years will be unlimited. .We propose to put up several buildings of a substantial character, and the number will be Increased &3 the number of patients increase. "The cabin in which Abraham Lincoln waa born, which was originally on the farm and is now at the Buffalo Exposition, will be returned to Its old site. The cabin In which Jeff Davis was born, 100 miles from Hodgens-vlll- e, will be placed by Its side." The St Luke Society has a home in Chicago where victims are treated. The police send human wrecks to the society and the Jails lso furnish patients. Quarters are maintained where the rich can be luxuriously treated, but In such cases payment Is expected. One eastern banker when presented with a bill for flOO gave bis check for 1,000 Instead, and when, after reaching home, he found that he had no desire for drugs or liquors, he sent the society an additional $1,500. The mode of treatment ia a secret and most peculiar In its working. On entering the institution the patient is given a strong purgative. Then three d liquid are injections of a dark-colore- g. No land upon the habitable' globs possesses the peculiar fascination that clings to Japan. .Other countries have equal beauty of - scenery, greater grandeur more noble works of art, more Interesting problems of society. But none possess sn equal fascination. No one who haa been in the real Japan which lies outside the treaty ports and th foreign hotels and railways ever equld dr even would ' forget his experience. No one If he could would ever fall to return. Th great secret of this charm lies with the people themselves. They have made a fins art of persona relations. Their acts are those of good taste and good humor. Two cites of about the same els and relative Importance are Paris and Tokio. No two could now show a greater contrast In spirit Both are. In a sense, cl tie of pleasure. Tokio Is a city of continuous Joyoueness, little pleasures drawn from stmpl things, which leave no sting and draw nothing from future happiness. Paris Is feverish and feels ths "difference In the morning" and tha "hard, fierce lust and cruel deed' which go with tha search or pleasure that draws on ths future for the Joys of the present No one who catches the spirit of Parle can fall to miss the underlying sadness, the pity of it alL The spirit of Tokio not of ell Tokio, but of Its life as a whole is as fresh aa th song birds, as "sweet ts childrens prattle Is," and it la good to be under Its spelt Chicago Chronicle. . Krt4 ra tb Farm th Mrty red Prmldent tt t s TrMM To Jta and tbe deed waa done under cover of darkness, the men who destroyed tke Peggy Stewart were, all known and their act wai Mmmlttea openly. It la said that wllAe the Boston Tea Party might hard Men overlooked by England and smooched over, the ourning of the Peggy Stewart waa a defiance of the authority of the King which only abject retract! aw could wipe out. monument which ooramemor-ate- a Tb the destruction of the Peggy Stewart Is 60 feet 8 inches high and weighs 200 tons. The base Is the largest and heaviest single stone ever brought to Baltimore, weighing 31 tons.. The diameter of the column at tha bass of the shaft Is three feet, and tha diameter at the neck of the ehaft is two feet seven Inches. The height of the statue of tbe Goddess of Liberty surmounting the columns Is 11 feet The figure of Liberty U of bronze. She holds th laurel wreath of victory In one hand and the Declaration of Independence In the other Tb 127th anniversary Af th Maryland patriots' stand against the British Pump Act. when they burned th hlp Peggy Stesart and 1U cargo of tea In (be barter of Annapolis, Is Don n,v THE PEGGT STEWART 1 MONUMENT. CAfilN, IN WHICH LINCOLN WAS BORN. POWER OF ' BUDDHIST PRIESTS. (or th Frarfai Movemeet la China Buddhist priests were the Instigators of the horrible Boxer uprising In China and one of tbe aids they Invoked In goading the Boxen to violence wa hypnotism. These priests exercise great Influence and are regarded la th light of miracle workers. Their most extravagant statemmta art received with implicit belief. They at aured the Boxers that they wen Invulnerable and that the bullet of tht foreign devils could not Injun them How they put their knowledge of hyp notlim into effect la thus namted if A. Henry Savage Landor: "The usual malicious stories wars circulated in Boxers' placards of foreigners kidnaping children to turn them into soup or pound them Into Jelly, which, as, a medicine, became endowed. after ithad undergone the further process of drying in the sun, with marvelous strengthening qualities. Foreign doctors were also accused of plucking out the eyes of people unawares. Foreign devils, it was declared, then ground these eyes into dust and used them in their occult trts Most of these absurd rumors nere probably originated by natives who had seen surgical otratlons performed In mission hospitals The kidnaping of Children wa Invariably the first accusation brought against the fonign-er-s, and whenever riots occurred ngalnst white devils. the instigator maliciously did away with the number of little unfortunates, and then held foreigners responsible for their disappearance. The Buddhist monks, however, In the Boxer movement, had devised a alight variation In the 811 They were very adept at hypnotism, and availed themselves of this to Impress tbe masses. They (owef hypnotised young boys, and then at night left them In a state of catalepsy In ome thoroughfare. When a sufficient crowd bed collected around thm creature the monks duly appeared and pointed out the ituM proof of th evil doings of the ar. Th crowd having been worked Into a state of frensy, the boys Unlf. would be restored to life ntly deed, by the monks (they said resuscitated! and ths bystanders would be farther convinced that, whiter thus Btry foreigner, might perpetrate. de. dhint monk had alway, the ponr make things good. Chair SpralbUlty Boxer to!, t KJW "It waa this simple hypnotic PREPARING FOR WAR. limflh of Bal I Crastratly Inrrrai. The Russian naty la now second to that of England and Is oing strengthened every month by the additions of new ships, writes William E Curtis In It claim the Chicago Record-Heral- d the fastest torpedo boat la the world, which a a designed by Sakoveno, a Russian engineer, and was built with great secrecy In a French shipyard. It to sharp Is tapering points at both ends, and filled with powerful machinery, which drives Its triple screw with a speed of 40 miles an hour It can carry fuel for a cruise of 3,000 m.les, end it ia claimed that it can cross the Atlantic in three days and a half JTh Russians are getting ready for aa emergency, which means a war with Japan, and are Increasing their navy and putting their army in fighting condition with great energy and at great expense. Tbe army has recently been completely reorganized and provided with new equipments. The Russians unloaded 1,000.000 rifles of obsolete pattern upon the Chinese government and substituted new ones of long range, high power and small caliber. Those were Russian guns which the Boxers fired at the British embassy in Pekin during the recent blege. Russia has 22 first-clabattleship. cruis12 armored cruisers, 11 first-claers, and 196 torpedo boats. The lowest estimate of the peace strength of tha Russian army under the present since January 1, 1901, la 42.000 officers and 1,100,000 men, and the war footing of 75,000 officer and 4.500.000 men, which is It million mors than the present numerical strength. When the vessels now under construction are completed the Russian navy will be Increased by 113 ships of alt 23 classes, Including 24 battleships, 85 boat 41 torpedo cruisers, gunboats, destroyers and 45 torpedo boats. Fifty submarine boats are also under construction. rtktl life. any r Revolstloaary Monument I ft A LINCOLN MEMORIAL. made Into his arm. After thla he Is ent, carried on on a large scale, that taken upstairs and placed In charge Induced the Boxers to fling themselves of a nurse, with other unfortunates to In the field against the modern rifles, keep him company. The black fluid under tbe belief that the Buddhlat Is injected into his arm four times a monks bad made them bullet-proo- f. day. He is given tea and toast twice a day and soup once a day. That Is SEATS OF M0NARCHS. the whole treatment Bat th patient does not know that Nicholas Have he la being treated. He does not even Klag Kdward and know where he ia The biack fluid Several RojrJ Chain. Great Britain has no distinctive and which haa been Injected into his arm He may be produces hallucination. exclusive throne. Instead, there ar the Philippines; four the wooden chair, with th slab fighting Tagalogs infoot-balL His exof Scotch stone, in Westminster Ab- he may be playing perience may be singing in a church bey, which has served an the coronation seat of the monarch of this choir; he may be pleasant or the rerealm for seven centuries; the sump- verse. It Is generally pleasant The delusions are caused hy the tuous chair of state la the House of medicine. When the patient ceases chair on the which tha late Lords; queen eat when holding a drawing taking it his mind Is as clear aa a bell roon in Buckingham palace, and tha In a short time. All appetite for drugs gilt arm chair, at Windsor, in which or Jtquor. leaves him; his ambition return and he finds himself ntamrac credence or recall from foreign envoys, more. or accord audience to dusky poten' tates. Tarqnolra Mining. The Czar of Russia la even mors An English firm, it Is announced, has diversely throqed. Each of a dozen been granted by the Egyptian governchairs of state are at various times ment a concession for mining turatyled the Russian throne. The two quoises In the Sinai Peninsula. Acmost remarkable are tbe chalra of Ivan to the account, the company cording the Terrible and the one in St does not intend opening any new George's llall of the Winter Palaoe mines, but simply to rework the abanat St. Petersburg. The former is of doned mines of Maghara and Sarakan. In the back alone there turquoises. upon the rocks in the are 10,000 of these gems. The other Hieroglyphics of these mine show that they chair is of costly woods, with Ivory vicinity were originally opened by the ancient and gold, richly Jeweled, and embossed Egyptian and until recently they have wlth-tImperial eagle. The seat is of been worked In a desultory sort of a arms are ivory tusks. ermine, and the Bedouin Arabs. The English by way Further east, :n Teheran, the Shah proposes to employ Bedouin company on himself a white marble displays to Install modern machinery. and labor throne, looted from Delhi in 1733. It ts said that this la now the only Is of ivory, overlaid with gold, and It ablate with gems, its value being esti- known place In the world where turquoises of the finest water can be ob1.000,000. mated at over which tained, as the Fenian-mine- s, have hitherto supplied the worlds marfor Plbllritr Corporation. ket, ar rapidly giving out PhiladelIn Great Britain the ' corporation phia Times. laws provide for a great degree of publicity ta. connection with promoTb Kmlu Far Tr4 tion of corporations and their regular Most of the world's supply of fora management. There la a like degree cornea from the Russian empire. Th of publicity for corporations ia Frano. banter ot Russia and Siberia annualGermany aad Austria, and la than ly capture 3,000.000 ermines, 11,000,000 latter countries there ar such rigid marmots and 25,000,000 squirrel, , provisions regarding the valuation at property, and reports of promoters Philosophy hath give ns several gad directors, that stock watering, fa plausible rules for attaining peso and the ordinary aense of the expression tranquillity of mind, but they fall very much . ahort ot bringing men to it a need la the United States, la alTillotson. most, If &ot quite, aa Impossibility. Casaler's Magazine. . expedi- Cr h e? cigar-shape- ss ss KITCHENS. SOME COSTLY Boywtty Sptndi Moeh UtfBlIlli for Cooking Royal kitchens invariably are expen-slv- e. The present Czar of Russia soon 80,000 In after his accession spent remodeling and, refurnishing the royal kitchens at the winter palace, St Petersburg. All the cooking utensils are of solid silver, and Include 40 stewing pans, noue of which could be purchased under as many pounds. The spice boxes are of solid gold, engraved with the royal arms, and the ranges and ovens are edged with silver. Th actual cost of rebuilding the kitchen was 30,000, the purest black being used throughout and the decorations were responsible for an outlay of 6,000. Among the cooking utensils should be mentioned 3,000 silver spoons and a gold gridiron that belonged to the great Catherine. The chief cook draws a salary of 8,000 a year, and he haa aix subordinates In receipt ot salaries ranging between 1,000 and ot 1,500, to say nothing of hundred supernumeraries. Altogether the Czars kitchen expenses amount to 120,000 per annum. The next most costly royal kitchen belongs to the Spanish court, tbe Ing utensllB alone having a face voluaj of nearly 15,000. .They are of a great age. The Shah of Persias kitchen la. Teheran. Is, however, the most valn- -i able kitchen in the world. Even tbol cooking pots are lined with gold, and' the plates and dishes used at the royal, table are of solid gold, lncrusted with! precious stones.. If It wer poastbl for the contents of the Shahs kitchen to be put up for auction tney would realize more than 1,000,000. Bootmlt Hprtler. "For a persistent. Indefatigable and positively tireless man, commend me to President Roosevelt," remarked one of the clerks of a New York book storey whose special duty Is aa a searcher for elusive' titles. "When the President was writing his articles for the "Cyclopedia of Sport he brought in here list of books that be said he must have, and have right away. In about a week I bad, managed to get together about 50 per cent of tbe lot, and turned them over to him. He was hack the nexLd8icn..ajtmJiunt Xorth rest. I told him some were out 01 print, and the rest books that no dealer regularly -- carried In stock. " But I miist have them, every last one of them, and I must hare them right away. Get a hustle on, my hoy, but dont you dare miss one of them. I cant work without them. I hunted high and low, only to b stirred up at least once a day by Mr. Roosevelt, who In some way learned the hour he was sure to find me at the hour he waa sure to find me at on hand to give me a prodding. At last I managed to get together all the books he wanted, but for a couple of weeks I had such a stirring up aa I had never before, and each a one aa I sincerely hope I may never have again, though Mr. Roosevelt wa In tha beet of humor and good nature fairly oozed from him when ha waa pushing me In hi most strenuous fashion. He made a hustler of In for Just one month for fair." good-natur- Tb Droakte ( It There were 37,000 droakies registered at pollct headquarters In 8L Petersburg last summer, or on to about Inhabitants. Durvery thirty-thre- e ing the Winter season, when tb wheeled vehicles are changed for aledgea of similar pattern, large number of people com In from tb country with horses to earn a lltte extra - money. Hope little and work much shortest way the goal to touch. 1 tb ' |
