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GIX THE PITTSBURG PR ESS EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1905 WITH EDGED TOOLS THE PITTSBURGH PRESS AND DAILY NEW8, RREGQ PUDLIGHINO COMPANY. OLIVER 8. HER8HMAN, President and Treasurer. A. P.

MOORE, Secretary and Managing Editor. BY HENRY SETON MERRIMAN QUEER WILL OF AN OLD LAKE AINSLIE WIDOWER Graves of Seven Former Wives Must Be Decorated Each Week and the Hitching Post, With Seven Black Bands, Must Be Kept Clean Harper Brothers. RADIUM AND THE AIR. Theories About the Ionlaatlon of Atmosphere. In the modern theory of electricity the assumption is made that minute particles of positive and negative electricity exist, to which is given the name of electrons, says Harper's Weekly.

Under certain influences, such as radiation from radium, the atmosphere may be Ionized or separated Into its component electrons. It Is now asserted that the number of electrons In the atmosphere has a great influence on weather conditions, and. consequently, upon health. Thus, at high attitudes, where there is likely to be an excess of positive electrons, mountain sickness may be produced, while other forms of sickness are apt to result from certain winds which flow down into valleys from high mountains. The ionization of the atmosphere Is thought to be due to radioactive emanations from the soil, and it has been shown that this action increases with the decrease of pressure, as shown by tha height of the barometer.

A recent discovery is the fact that the breathing of animals can also produce the Ionization, and experiments with a charged electroscope have shown that under the influence of sir exhaled from the lungs its rate of discharge was increased from 60 to 70 per cent. This discovery explains why electrostatic experiments before large audiences rarely succeed, as the rapid Ionization of the air serves to discharge the apparatus. The points here made seem to indicate that the phenomena of radioactivity are closely connected with the study of atmospherio electricity, and that important developments in this field may shortly be Entered as second-claes matter at Pittsburg, Pa. OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURG AND OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. GSNERAIi OFFICES.

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C. were served in a second room decorated after the manner of the first. In addition, however, were menu cards with black 'borders and bearing hand-sketched tombstones, upon which epitaphs were Inscribed. When the guests left the house, after listening to witty stories relating to Mrs. MacFarlane No.

2, they observed that two black stripes had been painted on a whits tutcmng post in front. MacFarlane married a third time, and for three years his life was commonplace. The third mistress or tne nouse was not required to make oath she would not enter the rooms her predecessors had occupied, but she made a verbal promise to this effect "before tne wedding. When on a visit in Halifax she died of diphtheria. MacFarlane was so upset he took to.

his bed. When he got well he decorated another room In mourning and invited his friends to a strawberry festival. As usual, he ushered his guests into the chamber occupied by the most recently departed. He delivered a funeral oration before a morsel of the dinner was served, and then tried to enliven the evening with more anecdotes. The whole affair was depressing in its tendencies, but the dinner was excellent and the guests, who now had become accustomed to MacFarlane's ways, took things as a matter of course, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

JANUARY 18, 1905. rr t5 1 ANDREW C. MCLEAN, THE NEXT CONTROLLER. The Republicans of the city of Pittsburg are entitled to feel proud of the work of their city convention last evening. That convention with an interested audience of over one thousand persons met in Old City Hall and adopted a strong platform and a popular candidate.

It was a splendidly representative gathering, in the election of which the masses of Republican voters of the city were invited to participate, in refreshing contrast with the handful of officeholders, twenty-five in number, representing nobody themselves, who met the preceding evening in a back parlor on Third avenue and nominated John B. Larkin. The nominee of last evening's convention for the office of controller, Andrew Curtln McLean, is a fitting type of the new city Republicanism. He embddios within himself all the elements of the rejuvenated party. He is an educator, not a politician.

He has no political past to fetter him in making his political future what he pleases, subject only to the approval of the people. Not even his most reckless political enemy, if such a man as he can have political enemies, can pretend that he has any associations which will stand between him and his duty. His only political activity has been that of the plain, unassuming, loyal Republican voter. He has served in the ranks without a thought of preferment. His work as a public school instructor has been agreeable to him and, to judge" from the length of time in which he haa, continuously served his ward, it has been eminently satisfactory to the school authorities.

He enjoys a reputation which none. dare assail, and in the full consciousness of integrity he declares that if elected to the responsible office of controller he will enter it absolutely without pledge or obligation other than his public ones to the people. This assurance will be accepted by the community. Professor McLean has earned the confidence of his fellow-citizens by the life he has led. The requisites for the office to which his party has nominated him are intelligence and high character, and these he possesses In such degree that he need not fear the closest comparison with his opponent.

The platform adopted last evening is as gratifying an evidence of the Republican party's restoration to trustful relations with the public as are the free and representative character of the convention and the antecedents of the candidate. The platform rightly accuses the Citizens party of having violated every pledge it has ever made, and adds to the charge of hyprocrisy that of incompetence. But it does not stop with the detailed indictment of the flagrant misdeeds of the party in power. That is highly pertinent, as showing that no dependence whatever can be placed by the people upon any pledges that he may be made at the present time or hereafter by the leaders of the Citizens organization. But the platform adds to criticism a concise statement of what the Republican party proposes to do if re-established In control of the' municipal government.

Clean streets, decent street car service, limitation of the grants of public franchises, cheaper water rents, abolition of the office of delinquent tax collector, and a redistribution of taxes in such manner as to compel the corporations to bear their just share, are the leading planks of this strong document. The Press, which during all the upheavals of the past few years has Btood consistently for clean, honest, efficient government under Republican auspices, is rejoiced to see the Republican party standing unquestionably in this campaign for the people and for the people's rights; and we cannot doubt that last night's convention will win a verdict of popular approval, as overwhelming as the verdict of condemnation which awaits the clique of pledge-breakers and John B. Larkin, the candidate of that clique. -I Stands Seven Feet High and Is Strong; mm Hercolea. Signor Sylos Sersale.

the well-known Italian explorer, has returned to Naples from Somaliland. where he had Interviewed the Mad Mullah. He was accompanied by General Pesta-lozza. the Italian consul general at Aden, and their mission was to come to terms with the Mullah to prevent trouble In the Italian protectorate. "When Signor Pestalosza and I reached the point on the coast whence the road turns inward to the hill, where the Mullah and his dervishes were awaiting said Signor Sersale, "we did not at first see a single soul.

"Accompanied by two interpreters and set out on our steep ascent to our rendezvous, and before long everywhere, before us. behind us. on either side we could discern armed men behind the rocks. No opposition, however, was offered us. "On reaching the end of the ascent we found ourselves in front of a small fort.

Proceeding past the trenches, we came on armed men of ferocious aspect," some mounted, some on foot, and all with rifles. "On entering the fort Itself we saw about a hundred yards from us hundreds of horsemen drawn up in military arrav. They were dressed in white cloaks, while round their shoulders were colored blankets and scarfs of various colors. "These were the" Mullah's 'Sacred They were young men of from 20 to 25 years of age, all over six feet in height, slender in physique and of brave and proud mien. They all wore small turbans of white muslin, the insignia of dervishes.

"In the center of this picturesque circle of warriors was the Mullah himself. He asked us why we had come to him, and we explained our mission. 'Are you not afraid." he asked, 'to trust yourselves among the dervishes, who hate and kill the Christians?" "We replied that we only feared God. "We are Italians." we said, 'and Italians despise life as much as the dervishes. We are born once; we can die but "These fearless words pleased him.

He. invited us to enter his hut. All the horsemen dismounted, maintaining a proud but respectful demeanor, since their lord was treating us courteously. "We then came to business. I drew aside for a moment to come to an understanding with Hazzi Suni, the Mullah's prime minister, and Hamed Sultan, a young chief of the Ogaden country, who had left his small territory to follow the holv cause.

Tn Scia Alia' (by God's will), they said, 'if you have not died today you will not die for a long time. The Mullah has cut off the heads of Englishmen killed in war; he has decapitated Abyssinian children that they might not grow up to be Christian men. And you two white men have dared to come before this "The says Signor "is almost 7 feet high, and as strong as Hercules. Unlike other Somalis, who have little or no hair on the body, he has a hairy chest. "His head is broad and well-proportioned, his forehead, his chin somewhat protruding.

He wears a long black beard. "His" eyes. 'which when discussing battle or slaughter glow with a sinister light, reveal him a ruthless foe. "When discussing religious questions, his features become less hard, and his eyes reveal a light of mingled exaltation and mysticism. He is frank because he fears no one." Everything was arranged with him, and the two Italians afterward left for Aden.

Rome Cor. London Express. UP-TO-DATE SURGEON'S BILL. Experience of vt Woman Which Her Doctor Called Unprecedented. Miss Jane Doe, a woman of middle age and moderate fortune living in this city, was surprised recently by the declaration of her family physician that what she thought only a trivial indisposition indicates a serious and pernicious internal growth requiring the immediate attention of a surgeon.

After some hesitation she consented to have the necessary operation performed. "I will make arrangements for you," said tlv physician, "at the private hospital of Dr. Skulanbones in Blank street. He is one of our best surgeons, and you will be comfortable and quiet there." Miss Doe put her affairs in order, as she is a good business woman; and two days after, as the need was immediate, she was a patient In the hospital. The charge for her room there was to be $00 a week with $25 additional for the services of a trained nurse.

Nothing was said about the surgeon's fee as she supposed her family doctor would arrange for that. The operation took place on the Wednesday of the week she arrived and developed a cancerous growth, attended to Just in time it was declared. A second operation was also held to be necessary within a week or so, when the patient rallied from the first shock. Her fine constitution helped Miss Doe to mend rapidly, but on the following Tuesday she was almost thrown into a syncope when Dr. Skulanbones, after his usual morning visit, presented her a bill for $1,075.

When she recovered sufficiently to talk she expressed surprise at the amount charged and that It should be presented to her in that manner. But the doctor bluntly said it was his fee, and that if he had not known something of her family connections it would have been demanded in advance. "Well, doctor," she replied, "I am not a rich woman. I have only a small income from some property, and I will not be able probably to pay you such an amount at once. It must be in two or three installments." But the surgeon said he wanted the amount settled at once.

Asked then if the second operation, which was fixed for the following week, would cost as much, he said that perhaps only two assistants would be needed, and in that case the bill would be 1,050, as each assistant received Then he added, by way of consolation: "You're a single woman, with no one depending on you, and you might as well spend your money on yourself as to leave it after you for other people." When Miss Doe's relative- came to see her there was a consultation over the situation and the family physician, an old fashioned practitioner, was Informed of what had happened. He was wild at the story. Nothing like it. he declared, ever happened in his professional career, and the charge was extortionate. But the rela tives concluded that as things had gone so far, and as the case was so serious.

It was better to make no fuss that might injure the patient, and the bill was paid and the second operation agreed to. It was duly performed under the stated conditions, and the patient underwent its rigors with the same fortitude as at first, recuperating so that sht was able to return to her own home last week to complete her convalescence. New York Sun. A Brave Man. One of the bravest men of whom we ever heard was La Condamlne.

a French scientists, who lived in the earlier part of last century, says the Liverpool Post. In his last illness, being prevented from attending, as usual, the meetings of the French Academy, he had notes brought to him of all the papers which had been read there. In one of them he learned that a young surgeon had proposed a bold, but dangerous operation for the disease from which he was suffering. He sent for this young surgeon, and proposed that the experiment should at once be tried upon himself. "But," hesitated the young surgeon, "if I fail?" "What then?" replied La Condamlne.

"I am o'd and dansrerously ill; it will be said that nature did not properly assist you. If, on the contrary, you succeed, I myself will draw up an exact account of your method for the Academy, and you will be a made man!" The task was undertaken, and it Is even said that the sick man requested the surgeon to do his work as slowly as possible, in order that full notes might be taken; but it was without avail, and La Condamine died from its effects." Cheapening; Rail-Fay Rates. In 1875 the average revenue derived from hauling one ton of freight one mile on four of the leading railroads of the United States was 1.16 cents, and the average for the whole country was probably considerably higher, while in 1903 the same Here averaged, for all the railroads In the United States, 0.7R3 cent, indicating a decrease of about 34 per cent. In 1875 the total outstanding capital stock of the railroads in the United States was $2,248,358,375. and the amount paid In dividends upon this stock was $74,204,208, or 3.30 per cent.

In 1903 their total capital stock was $6,270,032,728 and dividends 'to the amount of $160,176,586 were paid, an average of 2.65 per cent, being a net reduction during the period of about 20 pet cent. Engineering Magazine. VAD MULLAH. Copyright, 1894, by CHAPTER XII. (Continued.) Since sunset he had been crawling, scrambling up the bank of this stream in relentless prusult of some largo animal which persistently kept hidden to tae tangle across the bed of the river.

T.ne strange part of it was that when he stopped to peep through the branched tne animal stopped too. and he found no way of discovering its whereabouts. More than once they stopped thus for nearly five minutes, peering at each other through the heavy leafage. It was distinctly unpleasant, for Meredith felt that the animal was not afraid of him. and did not fully understand the situation.

The respective positions of hunter ana hunted were imperfectly defined. He had hitherto confined his attentions to such game as showed a sporting readiness to run away, and there was a striking novelty in this unseen beast of the forest, fresh, as it were, from the hands of the Creator, that entered into the fun of the thing from a totally mistaken stand-poin. Once Meredith was able to decide approximately the whereabouts of his prey by the momentary shaking of a twig. He raised his rifle and covered that twig steadily; his forefinger played tentatively on the trigger, but on second thought he refrained. He was keenly conscious of the fact that the beast was doing its work with skill superior to his own.

In comparison to his, its movements wen almost noiseless. Jack Meredith was tos clever a man to be conceited in the wrong place, which is the habit of fools. He recognized very plainly that he was not distinguishing himself in this new field of glory; he was not yet an accomplished big game hunter. Twice he raised his rifle with the intention of "firing at random into the underwood on the remote chance of bringing his enemy Into the open. But the fascination of this uuel of cunning was too strong, and he crept onward with bated breath.

It was terrifically hot. and all the while night was stalking westward on the summits of the trees with stealthy tread. While absorbed in the intricacies of pursuit while anathematizing tendrils and condemning thorns to summary judgment Jack Meredith was not losing sight of his chance of getting back to the little village of Msala. He knew that he had only to follow the course of the stream downward, retracing his steps until a Junction with the Ogowe river was effected. In the meantime his lips were parted breathlessly, and there was light in the quiet eyes which might have startled some of his well-bred friends could they have seen it.

At last he came to an open space made by a slip of the land Into the bed of the river. When Jack Meredith came to this he stepped out of the ticket and stood in the open, awaiting the approach of his stealthy prey. The sound of its footfall was just perceptible, slowly diminishing the distance that divided them. Then the trees were parted, and a tall, fair mun stepped forward onto the opposite bank. Jack Meredith bowed gravely and the other sportsman, peeing the absurdity of the situation, burst into hearty laughter.

In a moment or two he had leaped from rock to rock and come to Meredith. "It seems." he said, "that we have been wasting a considerable amount of time." "I very nearly wasted powder and shot," replied jack, significantly indicating his rifle. "I saw you twice, and raised my rifle; your breeches are- just the color of a young doe. Are you Meredith My name is Oscard." "Ah! Yes, I am Meredith. I am glad t6 see you." They shook hands.

There was a twinkle in Jack Meredith's eyes, but Oscard was quite grave. His sense -of humor was not very keen, and he was before all things a sportsman. "I left the canoes a mile below Msala and landed to shoot a deer we saw drinking, but I never saw him afterward. Then I heard you, and I have been stalking-you ever since." "But I never expected to see you so soon: you were not due till look!" Jack whispered, suddenly. Oscard turned on his heel, and the next instant their two rifles rang out through the forest stillness in one sharp crack.

Across the stream, 10 yards behind the spot where Oscard had emerged from the brush, a leopard sprang into the air. five feet from the ground, with head thrown back and paws clawing at the thinness of space with grand free smeeps. The beast fell with a thud, and lay still dead. The two men clambered across the rocks again, Side by side. While they stood over the prostrate form of the leopard beautiful, incomparably graceful and sleek even in death Guy Oscard stole a sidelong glance at his companion.

He was a modest man, and yet he knew that he was reckoned among the big-game hunters of the age. This man had fired as quickly as himself, and there were two small trickling holes in the animal's head. While he was being quiety scrutinized, Jack Meredith stooped down, and, taking the leopard beaeath the shoulders, lifted it bodily back from the pool of blood. to spoil the skin." ho explained, as he put a fresh cartridge into his rifle. Oscar nodded in an approving way.

He knew the weight of a full-grown male leopard, all muscle and bone, and he was one of those old-fashioned persons mentioned in the Scriptures as taking a delight ill a man's legs or his arms, so long as they were strong. "I suppose," he said, quietly, "we had better skin him here." As he spoke he drew a long hunting-knife, and, slashing down a bunch of the maidenhair fern that grew like nettles around them, he wiped the blood gently, almost affectionately, from the leopard's cat-like face. There was about these two men a strict attention to the matter in hand, a mutual and common respect for all things pertaining to sport, a quiet sense of settling down without delay to the regulation of necessary detail that promised well for any future interest they might have In common. So these highly-educated young gentlemen turned up their sleeves and steeped themselves to the elbow in gore. Moreover, they did it with a certain technical skill and a distinct sense of enjoyment Truly, the modern English gentleman is a strange being.

There is nothing his soul takes so much delight in as the process of getting hot and very dirty, and, if convenient, somewhat sanguinary You cannot educate the manliness out of him, try as you will; and for such blessings let us in all humbleness give thanks to heaven. This was the bringing together of Jack Meredith and Gay Oscard two men who loved the same woman. They knelt side by side, and Jack Meredith the older man, the accomplished, gifted gentleman of the world, who stood second to none in that varied knowledge required nowadays of the successful societarian Jack Meredith, be it noted, humbly dragged the skin away from the body-while Guy Oscard cut the clinging integuments with a delicate touch and finished skill. They laid the skin, out on the trampled maidenhair and contemplated it with silent satisfaction. In the course of their' Inspection they both arrived at the hotel at the same moment.

The two holes In the hide. Just above the eyes, came under their notice at the same moment, and they turned and smiled gravely at each other, thinking the same thought the sort of thought that Englishmen rarely put into intelligible Knglish. "I'm glad we did that," said Guy Oscard at length; suddenly, "Whatever comes of this expedition of ours if we fight like hell, as we probably shall, before it is finished if hate each other ever afterwards, that skin ought to remind us that we ara much of a muchness." It might have been put into better English; it might almost have sounded like poetry had Guy Oscard been possessed of the poetic soul. But this, fortunately, was not bis: and all that might have been said was left to the imagination of Meredith. What he really felt was that there need be no rivalry.

and that he for one had no thought of such; that in the quest which they were about to undertake there need be no question of first and last: that they were merely two men, good or bad, competent or incompetent, but through all equaL Neither them suspected vthat the 1 I friendship thus strangely inaugurated at the rifle's mouth was to run through a longer period than the few months -e-j quired to reach the plateau that it was. In fact, to extend through that long ex- j.ji i uier a strange country that we call Life, and that it was to stand th greatest test that friendship has to meet with here on earth. It was almost dark when at last they turned to cm isltm over his shoulder and leading the way. There was no opportunity for conversation, as their progress was neces-i sarily very difficult. Only bv the nrattl- or the stream were they able to make 5eep'lF in the rt-ht direction tach had a thousand questions to ask rero total strangers; but it is not, one finds, by conversation that men get to know each other A common danger, a common pleasure a common pursuit these are the touches of nature by which men are Jrawn together into the kinship of mutual e-teem Once they sained the banks of the Ogowe their progress was quicker, and by 9 clock they reached the camp at Msala.

Victor Durnovo was still at work superintending the discharge of the baggage and stores from the large trading-ca-nef: heard the shouting and chattering before coming In sight of the camp, and one voice raised angrily above the others "fs that Durnovo's voice?" asked Mer-Oitn. "Yes." answered his companion, curtly. a new voice, which Meredith had not heard before. When they their arrival It was suddenly hushed, and presently Durnovo came forward to greet them Meredith hardly knew him, he was so much stronger and healthier in apuear-ance. Durnovo shook hands heartily-; -oijr0! tfi Intrduce you two." he looklrle from one to the other, after one mistake we discovered each other's identity in the forest," answered Meredith.

Durnovo smiled; but there was something behind the smile. He did not seem to approve of their meeting without his intervention. CHAPTER XIII. IN BLACK AND WHITE. secret of the blood.

a little serpent secret rankling keen." The three men walked up toward the house together. It was a fair-sized house. With a heavy thatched roof that overhung the walls like the crown of a mushroom. The walls were only mud, and the thatching was nothing else than banana leaves; but there was evidence of European taste in the garden surrounding the structure, and in the glazed windows and wooden door. As they approached the open doorway three little children, clad in very little more than their native modesty, ran gleefully out, and proceeded to engage seats on Jack Meredith's booths, looking upon him as a mere public conveyance.

They took hardly any notice of him, but chattered and quarreled among themselves som.et,!iru's ln baby English, sometimes in a dialect unknown to Oscard and Meredith. "These," said the latter, when they were seated, and clinging with their little dusky arms round his legs, "are the very rummest little kids I ever came across." Durnovo gave tn impatient laugh, and went on towards the house. But 'Guy Oscard stopped, and walked more slowlv beside Meredith, as he labored along heavy-footed. "They are the jolliest little souls imaginable," continued Jack Meredith. There, he said to them when they had reached the door-step, "run away to your mother very fine ride no! no more tonight! I'm aweary you understand aweary!" "Aweary-awM-e-ary!" repeated the little- things, standing before him in infantile nude rotundity, looking up with bright eyes.

"Aweary that is it. Good-night, Epa-minondas good-night, Xantippe! Give ye good hap, most stoufNestorius!" -He stooped and gravely shook hands with each one in turn, and. after forcing a like ceremonial upon Guy Oscard, they reluctantly withdrew. "They have not joined us, I suppose'" said Oscard, as he followed his companion Into the house. "Not yet.

They live in this place. TSTes-torius, I understand, takes care of his mother, who in her turn takes care of this house. He is one and a half." Guy Oscard seemed to have inherited the mind inquisitive from his learned father. He asked another question later on. "Who is that woman?" he said, during dinner, with a little nod toward the doorway, through which the object of his curiosity had passed with some plates.

"That Is the mother of the stout Nes-torius." answered Jack "Durnovo's housekeeper." (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) PROOF OF CIVILIZATION. There Are Passenger Car Hog- Even ln Japan. Another peculiar revelation in regard to train travel in Japan Is that the people of various classes, customarily polite in their intercourse with one another and in their dealings with aliens, lose nearly all sense of courtesy when they enter a passenger car. When I first rode in a first-class car in Japan and saw several dainty Japanese women ln pretty silks standing, while Japanese men remained resolutely seated, I could almost fancy I was' on an elevated train bound for Harlem. The same condition, only to a more marked degree, prevailed in the second-class coaches; while in the third-class cars all sense of personal regard for anybody was forgotten.

Nothing there was thought of but sloughing off spurious bits of. fruit, fish and personal effects. In a second-class coach one day recently an American in Japan rose and proffered his seat to a Japanese woman who had a baby strapped to her back. Before she could take it a Japanese man, short-statured and sturdy, strong enough no doubt to trot all day hitched to a jin-rikisha, slid into the vacant place. The American tapped him on the shoulder, and by gesture sufficiently intelligible indicated that the seat had been yielded to to woman.

The Japanese at first pretended not to understand, and may not have done so. but finally smiled and stood up. For the rest of the Journey there was much amusement ln the car but whether at the native or the American it was difficult to decide. Both men and women smoke in these cars and expectorate. In fact an expectoration ordinance in Japan would soon land in jail the major portion of the population.

A native physician told me that something in the moist climate caused this universal habit. One thing is certain It does not Issue from tobacco chewing That is one of the attributes of Western civilization that has not vet Invaded Japan. I met In Yokohama a Kentuckian whom I had known in America. He had been traveling in Japan and was about to start for San Francisco. He seemed joyous about returning, and I mentioned it "Glad to start back? I should say I am I haven't had a chew of tobacco in three months.

You can't buy it In this uncivilized empire!" Booklovers Magazine. Quaker City Small Boy. You can's lose the kids. The other day a youngster entered the store of a prominent business man in a town near this city and approached the head of the house with the remark: "Say. mister, don't you want to buv a ticket?" "What's it for?" asked the business man.

"It's for a fair we re goin' to have to buy baseball suits for next summer" was the reply. "I'm selling tickets, too," returned the business man. with a smile. "Mine are for the supper that is to be given for the benefit of the church. Suppose we trade?" The boy looked at the merchant with undisguised delight.

He had heard of the supper, and could hardly bunch up the words quick enough to say- "I'll go you. mister." The trade was quickly made, and it was not until some time afterward that it dawned on the business man that the tickets sold by the boy were rated at 10 cents each, while those he was selling for the church supper retailed at 50 cents. The boy was 40 cents to the good. Philadelphia Telegraph. Port Hood.

C. B. T-. January 18 John MacFarlane. th "Lake AInslie widower." haa painted one more -room of his house in mourning and married, again.

Several neighbors who have seen the room say it is a duplicate of six other rooms, and that the sight of them gives one the creeps. The new Mrs. MacFarlane. who was Ruth McDonald, daughter of Donald McDonald, is the eighth mistress that has ruied over the house of MacFarlane ln the last 40 years. She is 20 years old and pretty.

MacFarlane is 61 years old, and handsome only in the size of the check ne can sign his name to. The disparity in ages seems to have no dampening effect upon their happiness. MacFarlane is the oddest character ln the Lake AInslie district, a settlement made up of Scotch Presbyterians. He is rich as riches are accounted there, and has made a good husband to his successive wives, whom he dressed and bonneted to the envy of the rest of the community feminine. He was married at the age of 20 to Mary McLean and lived happily until the first heir to the house of MacFarlane was born, coincident with the mother's death.

He Immediately went into deep mourning and remained a recluse until a year from the day his wife died. He ce4ebrated his return to society by inviting all his neighbors to a banquet. Dinner was served in the death chamber. The walls were papered in pure white and the ceiling was white also. But every bit of woodwork was painted deep black.

Six epitaphs adorned the walls and all about were pictures of-flying angels. The host attempted to dispel the gloom cast by these surroundings by reciting anecdotes of his departed wife and otherwise making himself entertaining. He made no allusion to or explanation of the decorations. Shortly afterward MacFarlane married Margaret Elfatrick. Prior to the wedding he inquired her to make an oath before a notary public that she never would go into the room his first wife had occupied or refer to her in any way.

He took a similar vow. Two months later the second Mrs. MacFarlane met death by trying to row across the lake in a storm. Again the widower went into seclusion but thi3 time only for six months. Then he gave a second Banquet, and his guests HIS FIRS1" SPEECH.

Yonng Virginia Lawyer Moved His First Andience Wlthont a. "Word. A Virginia lawyer who attended a banquet in this city last week told this to his friend on the right: "If a man can speak at all he certainly ought to do it well in. a place like this. There is everything here calculated to inspire and loosen the tongue.

"It wasn't so when I was a young man ln my State. I shall never forget the first time I was called out. "I had just got my license to practice. The old ex-judge, in whose office I had read, was down to orate on the Fourth of July, at a picnic in the woods. At the last minute he had to send word that he could not be present.

"He sent me on horseback to the woods to inform the committee. I traveled at a Paul Revere gait. When I reached the platform the people were waiting, and the committee in their sashes and regalia were on the stand. "As soon as I had orally delivered the judge's message of regret, the chairman proclaimed it to the multitude and announced that as the judge couldn't come his young law student that was me would take his place. "I explained to the chairman and the committee that I had never made a speech, and that I certainly would not attempt to make one on that occasion.

The more I protested the more the committee insisted. "During the wrangle on the stand the people begaft to for Judge 's young man to pitch in. The committee got behind me and pushed me to the improvised rail. "Just at that moment Providence came to my rescue. Somebody yelled The next minute a young man as tall and thin as a sapling leaped about six feet in the air and screamed like a scared Indian.

"He wore a long linen duster. As he leaped the tail of his coat flashed up in flame and smoke, and he made a bee-line for a creek nearby. The crowd followed. The committee leaped over the rail and joined in the pursuit. The chairman yelled at every jump, 'Put him out! put him "The fellow had just lighted his pipe as I was pushed to the rail, and in dropping the burning match it fell into his pocket and started the conflagration.

While the crowd followed him to the creek I leaped from the platform, mounted my horse and rode away. By the time the chap reached the water I was out of sight. "I have made many speeches since that time, but I never get on my feet that th recollection of my first escape from an audience did not come before me. My old law preceptor used to say of me that I was a born orator, as I moved my first audience without uttering a single word." New York Sun. Beaant'a Writing.

Sir Walter Beasant's writing was small, cramped and crowded, says London Answers. Even under these conditions, the manuscript of "Dorothy Forster" occupies several hundred pages, entailing binding In two bulky volumes. Besant's fancy in paper was blue-gray, and unruled. One peculiarity that is easily traceable in this manuscript is the number of words that were written at a sitting. Whenever he resumed his narrative he never continued upon the last sheet, but always commenced upon a fresh page of paper.

From the number of these "breaks" in the vol--ume. it would appear that from six to seven pages were -written at a time, representing an output of from 1,800 to 2,000 words. One can also readily discern where the author, upon re-reading his manuscript, made additions. Instead of writing between the lines or in the margin, the ad-dendations were penned upon separate pieces of paper, which were pasted upon the back of the pages to which they referred, with defining marks to show where they were to be inserted. Curiously enough, the author, although he always wrote in black ink, numbered his pages in One-half of the manuscript of "Dorothv Forster" is numbered with black pencil and tfe -other half with blue.

pto-gfr-gs )- WHAT LOCAL RIVERS GET. The committee on rivers and harbors at a meeting in Washington yester Professional Among the developments and improvements of recent years few have been better or more beneficial than modern methods of nursing the sick. In the good old days of open fireplaces, with tinder and flint in place of matches, when a person fell sick the members of the family did the nursing, and if It was too much for them the neighbors came in and helped. If the sickness was protracted and severe a kindly coteries took turns In sitting up with the patients. All that sort of thing has been changed, especially In the cities and larger villages.

Now the hospitals have training schools for nurses, and into them eome strong, healthy, intelligent young women who after three years' apprenticeship, with plenty of hard work and lots of experience, are granted a graduate's certificate, and they go to the homes of their patrons, taking care of the sick. They do It deftly, acceptably and Intelligently. It has come to be recognized that a good nurse is quite as important as a good physician as an aid to recovery. The work is hard, but it pays well, and It attracts some of the brightest and best young women. Utlca Press.

Fish Pathology. Among the patients at the hospital for diseased fishes, recently established nt Vienna in connection with the new chair of fish pathology- and biology at the university, are a carp being treatel for an Inflammation resembling appendicitis. In others suffering from smallpov. a porpoise from the Adriatic with inflammation of the lungs, a trout with cataract in both eyes and another with St. James Gazette.

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LEEDS UPPINCOTT, day afternoon practically decided upon the allowance that will be made for the local river and harbor work in the new bill. and when the left looked to see another i stripe on the hitching post. They were not disappointed. They were not even jarred when the host offered to marry any of the single women present. While none accepted the offer then and there, it was not long before MacFarlane was hitched up again.

The bride was a girl from Sydney, who hadn't heard of the previous wives. When she reached the house and found three chambers locked, her curiosity got the better of She broke into one, and the sight so shocked her that she went home ta her mother. While she was taking steps to procure a legal separation she died of pneumonia, and another room in MacFarlane's house was decorated. This was half In black and half in brilliant red, as MacFarlane said the young woman had made but half a wife. Three other wives followed in fairly rapid succession.

Two died natural deaths and the third committed suicide. The memorial room for the latter was decorated with crude pictures of Dante's "Inferno." This tragedy occurred four years ago. Recently MacFarlane met Miss McDonald at a funeral. Their wedding followed. Before the ceremony the bride-elect had to make several agreements.

She promised: To decorate each week the graves of her seven predecessors. To make no reference in conversation to the dead wives. To see that the hitching post with its seven black hands was kept clean. To visit once a year some relative of some one of the deceased. On his part MacFarline promised: To make his wife his sole heir.

To take her to Boston once a year. To give up smoking a rip and to smoke cigars. To build a seven-room addition to the house. BOOK FARMING PAYS. Agriculturist Work Less Haphazard Than Formerly-.

The day when farmers ridiculed book farming is now past, says the Chicago Chronicle. The agricultural experiment stations have made so-called book farming popular, and the progressive farmers of the present day eagerly peruse the bulletins from their respective State experiment stations and the farmers bulletins that are issued by the United States department of agriculture. With the most wonderful strides made in every calling during the last 25 years, agriculture has kept pace. The evolution in farming methods and implements can hardly be understood by the present generation. It requires a knowledge of the old-time methods to make the comparison.

Years ago when some of the labor-saving agricultural implements were invented they were decided by the farmers as being quite unrieces-stry, etc. Today with steam plows, and, in fact, nearly all farming operations being performed by labor-saving machines, it is very difficult even with their use, requiring so few hands, to secure enough laboring men to save the crops during the critical stage of harvest time. At all busy seasons the farmers, especially those located near large cities and towns, complain of the scarcity of help. Were it not for these very same labor-saving machines and the practical lessons and valuable information furnished kto the farmers from theex peri men sta tions, the situation would border on the critical. The successful farmer of today is in a sense a scientific farmer.

He does not follow the obsolete methods of his ancestors. If he is In doubt about any of his farm work he asks questions. Had 'Em Scranibled. A salesman in a department store who possesses considerable wit entered a restaurant in the central section of the city the other day, and, finding the waiter to have been a recent arrival from Ireland, told him he wanted two fried eggs. "I want one egg fried on one side and the other egg fried on the other side, and I want them quick," the salesman added.

"Would you kindly write that on a piece of paper?" said the waiter. "I haven't got time. Be quick, I tell you." "One fried egg fried on both sides and the other fried egg fried on the other side." muttered the Irishman as he was leaving the table. In a few minutes the salesman heard much commotion in the kitchen. There were loud words and they were punctuated with sounds 'which seemed like blows.

Presently the waited appeared much excited, and, rushing up to the salesman exclaimed: "Say, I had a terrible fight with the cook about eggs and you'll have to take them scrambled." Philadelphia Great Men at Tsbli "A plague on your bill of fare! Show me your bill of company!" Such was the remark made by Swift when tempted to dine with Bollingbroke by a recital of the good dishes which would' be set before him, says London Answers. It Is. nevertheless, a fact that great literary men of the past have shown strong desires for particular dishes. Alexander Pope would always succumb to stewed lampreys, and Dr. Johnson had keen relish for a leg of mutton and veal pie.

Steak pudding was his greatest treat, however. Dryden. declining an invitation from a lady to an attractive supper, wrote: "If beggars be choosers, a chine of honest bacon would please my appetite more than all the marrow puddings, for I like them better plain, having a vulgar stomach." Dr. Parr, the great Greek scholar, relished "hot boiled lobster, with a profusion of shrimp sauce," and Byron was Inordinately fond of bacon and eggs, which he freely indulged in, in spite of what he knew would be the invitable result an attack of Indigestion. Leigh Hunt's late suppers of indigestible food produced "things that had nearly killed him," and Beethoven cared for little else What is granted is not by any means what was asked, but it is immensely better than what the chairman of the rivers and harbors committee, Mr.

Burton, at first proposed. For the Monongahela there will be an appropriation of $549,000, or enough to rebuild one of the dams. There are two that should be rebuilt, but it seemed out of the question to obtain a large enough appropriation for this purpose, and Acheson, the Pennsylvania member of the committee, appears convinced that under all the circumstances we are faring well. The Allegheny river interests secured $149,000 for the completion of Dam No. 2.

The Ohio is generally, regarded as the most important of all. The provisions for it include the appropriation of $340,000 for the extension of Pittsburg harbor down to Dam No. 6, and authorization of the examination of the entire river from Pittsburg to Cairo for the purpose of estimating what it would cost to canalize if. Ayith a nine-foot channel. The comparative smallness of the appropriations is not discouraging, although inconvenient.

The appropriations for the river and harbor work in other sections of the country are made with just as rigid economy, it seems, largely because of the deficit in the government's revenues. The committee makes more than one concession. It does not, for example, insist upon its preposterous proposition that the states shall bear a part of the expense of river and harbor work, and it displays a more friendly attitude than heretofore to the "On to Cairo" project, one of the most important of this generation. MR. CARNEGIE HELPS OBE RUN.

Few, if any, of Andrew Carnegie's philanthropies have been more practical than that which he is undertaking at Oberlin. Without any fault of his, but in a manner which brought his name into the matter, hundreds of depositors irf the bank there were defrauded out of their savings. Mr. Carnegie, with his Quick appreciation, did not need to be told what, this meant to most of them. They are people in humble circumstances, whose deposits represented generally the laborious accumulations of years.

Mr. Carnegie must have had their misfortune impressed upon him with unusual force, because of the prominent part that the forgery of his name played in the swindles by which the failure of the bank was precipitated. He is now making good the losses of the poorer and more deserving of these depositors. There is no other way by which they could have been indemnified; his bounty is accordingly all the more providential. Of course, Mr.

Carnegie is under no moral or legal obligation to extend this assistance, as the Chadwick loan3 were obtained through no co-operation of his; His action is philanthropic entirely, and it is, as we have already said, philanthropy of a very practical and commendable sort. SENATOR KNOX'S ELECTION. It was by no skinning of teeth that our distinguished fellow-townsman, Philander C. Kncx, pulled through as a senatorial candidate yesterday for the full term of six years, beginning March 4 next. In both branches of the legislature he obtained every Republican vote which means that very few votes will be cast against him in the joint session today, inasmuch as the Democratic members of the present legislature are hardly numerous enough to maintain the tradition that they are a party No senator from Pennsylvania ever received the legislative majority secured by Senator Knox.

The ballot is a high comnliment to one who fullv merits it. No one doubts that Mr. Knox has the ability to serve the 5tatl with renown both to it and to himself. "taie It is an occasion for extending hearty congratulations. EDITORIAL ETCHINGS.

Prof. Snyder, of the Philadelphia Observatory, has discovered radium in the stars. We wonder if it is worth $3,000000 a pound there, and whetherthe ftn! aDd SPeDd hiS time tryins to catcl1 a little of The Francies bill introduced yesterday at Harrisbure provides a nenal'v of whipping with the lash for wife-beate, and mSlt duty PDf the sheriff or one of his deputies to administer the castigation. Is Francies trying to make everybody run from the office of sheriff, or does he, on sXr second CHALF0NTE, Atbtatle City. M.

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