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SO OLD FRIENDS III PARIS CHICAGO'S MIDWAY PLAIS ANCE CHARACTERS' AT "THE PARIS FAIR. TRIAL OF All AIRSHIP Turks and Arabs in French Mid-." way. All Hall from Chicago. Monster Cigar-Shaped Craft Is Given a-Trip at Berlin. OLD FACES ARE SEEN TAKES UP FOUR MEN Familiar Figures Appear on the Crowded Street of One Hundred Gymnasts Heeded to 7 Start Machine Upward.

Seven Team Shew Life Rah Off Val-. ubli Characteristics the Kattvea. Peesiiar Apasraia aa Which Caaat 2eap-lla af Germany Una Ex- Bead THE SUNDAY INTEIl OCEAN, JVLTZ 22, 1900. Special Corrnpfflitnc of The Inter Ocean. PARIS.

July 7. "The Street of Algiers" Is the Midway plalsanc of the Paris exposition. 11 is a Imitation of th WnrM'a Fair mIiin I Is reminiscent of Chicago, but its people hare lost their individuality. Their seven years of dime museum and circus side-show ic-uw uk-tv iubud Luom im. iroxn ai- tractive.

In many respects, the Street of Aiders Is the Chicago Midway over again, with the novelty worn off. Look-at the posters, and you find the same names. Look at the performers and you'll recognise the same faces. There, for Instance. In a moth-eaten fe, is an old man who used to stand In front of a Midway side show, beckoning people to step In and look at Mile.

Rosa do her Dervish dance. What Is he saying nowT Bv the noven that hf Tt tym asm 11 story. In bad English he is telling passers-by that for 20 cents you can step upstairs and see Mile. Rosa do her famous dance, and that an American admirer, seeing her at Chicago, offered to give $20,000 to anybody else In the world who could keep on dancing as long as she does. Ismail Remember Chleaso.

"Hello! Old Ismail." you shout at him In English. "How are you?" He stops to harangue and grins toward you. "You speak English, don't you?" you say, approaching. Again he grins warmly, as he replies: "Ya-ae Chicago." They all say that word, all the show peo- file. They all declare that they speak Eng-iah, and that is It.

They know nothing else In the tongue but "Chicago." but they make that word answer every question. And not only do familiar faces greet the American on all sides, but familiar voices, too. As he strolls through Algiers he bears a cry that used to wake the echoes on Lake Michigan. It Is the nougat man screaming. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" as if all the thoughts of humanity and all the eloquence of the ages were embraced in that thunderous monosyllable.

He 1s the same grinning, wide-mouthed, white-toothed, Turkish-costumed Individual who did much to make the Midway plalsance noisy and genuinely foreign. As you gaze at him fond memories of seven years, ago urge upon you. He bogs you to approach. So long as anybody remains nearby he keeps shoving sticks of candy toward you, still crying: "Boom! Boom!" Presently you are alone with htm and his nougat and his boom. Then he watches his chance and leans toward you as If he wanted to tell you a ae-" cret.

i jo you apeaa tngnsni you say. He looks you steadily in the eye and grins a minute. Then, when nobody else Is looking, he whispers this: "Say, boss, I'se a Boston man." You learn his story. At Chicago he fell In with the Turks, and has been with them ever since, going from fair to fair, all over the aini verse. From htm you learn that the Inhabitants of the "Street -of Als-lers" are nothing more or less than an organized band of show people, as lazy as gypsies, who simply live' on the credulity, curiosity, and other vulnerable traits of people looking for amusement or new sensations.

Tky Appeared la Omaha. "Some us were in Omaha," he says, "and some have been in the Wild West. Most of the menamd women learned the business In Chicago. They make good money In summer. In winter It is hard picking.

This year ends the drawing power of this foreign business. The public Is tired. It wants something new. We may play we are Boxers next season, but that is on the quiet." As you draw near the "Street of Algiers" you see a of men In teases, white, black, ancPyellow men; and women and children, too. In costumes that bespeak all the different races of the Orient.

Marching back and forth before the door of a somber building you see several Mongolians, whom ln- nulrv will disclose to be Annamlte aoldlam. 8uddealy a very pandemonium, of sound crashes into, your ears. You turn. On the left you see what looks at first like the wide doorway of one of the houses. But It Isn't, It Is the mouth of a winding thoroughfare.

and your eye Is bewildered by the scene therein. The place swarms with humanity, queer humanity, for the most part, with odd it i i ii nu mi ii i iMiuni KtiuaLi in in i the throng was playing the role et a bit of colored glass In a kaleidoscope. And out from the weird street, as you stop In front of it. issues a screeching chorus beside which a visiting sawmill would suggest an asylum for the deaf. and dumb.

You go closer and look down the thoroughfare. There is an air of double-distilled wickedness about the pi see that It could never have acquired If tt had been set out la the sunlight, with art, science and civilization going by it every minute. That would1 have changed the scene Immeasurably. But here, tn a narrow, winding way, the significance of the spectacle seems sharply accentuated. Encouraged by the presence of other white men and womei tn the place, you enter.

But you come out disappointed, and this Is about what you remember: la Vtw A long, narrow street so narrow that the overhanging upper story of one house seems to be in the act of bending down to steady Itself on the shoulder of the house opposite. A child could make a running Jump out of one window Into the other. No street so car-row could be popular In a modern occidental town, but It fills-the bill to perfection in the antique East, where everyone Is In the habit loving his neighbor as himself. Here and there, a fair, unveiled face la seen at a window for a second; which heightens the naturalness of the scene, and sets the visitor dreamily; dreams that tare the flavor of the Arabian Nights. It Is a faithful Auction of the street of the bazars in hundreds of Eastern towns, with nothing repressed and many suggestive- details added.

The mlse-en-scene ls marveloualy accurate. Everything is there except the aeeumulated dust and grease of age. It is a hustling scene. Many queer people are busy doing nothing, while other are working hard with the nonchalant tranquility that characterizes the Oriental. The frontaof the houses are hung with bewildering miscellaneous wares.

In a sort of bay window here and there young girls with their faces veiled are weaving Turkish rugs. On the tep of many of the houses are to be seen metal workers, hammering away at silver trinkets. Old women sitting In groups, are chattering like a dorcas society of while plaiting long yellow reeds Into an Infinite variety of patterns. deecrb-cuggeetlng men are fashioning hieroglyphics on shining sword-blades. Saddlers are making the odd accoutrements that one sees In pictures of Arabian steedav Children are capering through the crowded street, or playing queer English games In dark area- way.

Foreign Haalclaas at Musicians, old' and young, and middling, and of both sexes, are sitting around here and there and thumping, at funny-looking drums, or extracting discords from, the strings of Instruments that for shape and size might be anything from a tooth-brush to a hat-rack. Village belles, are lounging from, windows, flash says of coquetry through the eyeholes in their masks at swarthy cobblers across the way. The beach Is the narrowed end of the street, -where a lot of habitations are Jumbled all together. In front of these houses are massed the most obstreperous specimens of Algiers. They are all shouting, gyrating and gesticulating.

Every on of them Is pointing over hi shoulder at a door Just behind him. It is evidently an Invitation to walk In. The doors are wide open. Inside One of them are banging portieres of Oriental draperies. Insld others are stairways.

Standing or sitting alongside theae portals are women, the majority of them with veiled faces, but all with bare arms, from which, as well aa from their necks, hang strings of beads and all sorts of barbaric Jewelry. From their" bare arms their varied, colors may be dlrcerned. They range all the way from the whitest white to the blackest black. The women, too, are noisy. What they are screaming surely no one knows, not even themselves.

But tt all means the same thing: "Won't you walk Into my parlor?" TO END THE PHILIPPINE WAR. Tea Thtnara Which the Unite State Military Anthoritlea Saonld Do. There ace ten things needed to end the campaign la Luzon quickly, and here they are: First Repair all roads and build strong. If rough, bridges along the main route of supplies In every direction. Second Garrison these roads, putting a strong guard on every bridge or vital point of the road, leaving native villages un garrisoned If necessary to obtain this end.

Third Establish well-built depots at outlying parts of Luzon, and fill them with provisions, quartermaster, and medical supplies, and all the things necessary to keep the troops of that section well supplied at all times, but especially designed to prevent the necessity of abandoning any positions during the rainy season for lack of supplies. Fcurth Form a field transportation service suitable to the country In which th troops are operating, and large enough to supply 60,000 men properly that Is, In plain words, abandon bull-carts except for short distances where roads are good, have mule-wagons for supplying those points where roads will allow, but for the rainy season, when roads are impassable for wheeled traffic, for supplying rapid-moving columns, which must at all times follow the light-footed rebels over streams and hills and through mud, wherever they go, form supply-trains of native pack-ponies and American pack-mules. Fifth All columns formed to break up rebel bands must be composed of mounted light Infantry accompanied by pack-animals, or of cavalry similarly equipped. This does not Imply that they shall all fight mounted, but means that they can travel ten times as quickly, and Instead of the men falling out exhausted by the heat and fatigue they will always be fresh for a fight and able to pursue. Such columns shall not have a single wheeled vehicle In the command, any artillery necessary to be of a light type car-tied by pack-mules.

Sixth Institute mounted patrols, on native ponies, of light Infantry or cavalry, to patrol night and day all provinces of conquered country, at first not less than five men going In company during the day, and fifteen to twenty at night, reducing the number as times become more settled, but always retaining a system similar to the Canadian or Mexican mounted police, while bodies of twenty to 100 mounted men shall periodically traverse a province and break up any bands which have dared to form. Seventh Issue a proclamation offering no Injury to the property of and future protection to all Insurgents who shall lay down their arms within a given period; but that all those who remain under arms after that date shall be declared outlaws and robbers, all their property shall be confiscated, and when captured they will be tried and Imprisoned as outlaws; but In cases where they have killed natives or American soldiers the whole band shall be hanged. Eighth All prisoners shall be set to work to assist In road construction, brtdge-bulld-Ing, under armed guards; none set free till the country is safe. Ninth All persons owning property tn the Islands who, living In Manila, continue to raise money and send It to the insurgents as blackmail to prevent the destruction of their property and crops, shall be liable to trial and Imprisonment as traitors, and' In-extreme cases have their property The same-to apply to all persons within territory under actual American control, where their lives are not exposed to Insurgent violence. Tenth All priests who have openly Incited the people to rebellion, lying to them regarding the treatment which they would receive, at the hands of Americans, shall be Imprisoned," and church property tn such quarters confiscated.

Sydney Adamson la Leslie's Weekly. A Virginia Blao Law. The old blue laws of colonial New England were severe enough, but here Is one drawn up for the government of the colony of Virginia In 1612, eight years before the Pilgrim landed at Plymouth Rock: "It is ordained that no man blaspheme God's holy name upon pain of death. That so man speak Impiously or maliciously against the holy and blessed Trlnitie or against the knowne Articles of the Christian faith, upon paine of death. Every man and woman duly twice a day upon the first tow! log of the bell shall upon working dayes repair unto the church tp hear divine Berv upon palne of losing his or her daye's allowance for the first omission, for the second to be whlpt, and for the third to be condemned to the GalHea for six Moneths." One of the Kvtle of Drink.

"Intemperance is a dreadful thing," salt the earnest citizen. "Indeed it is," answered Mr. Van Diggle, who in an enthusiastic wheelman. sir, it is Intemperance that causes people t- strew the street. with all these broken bottles." Washington Star, v- GREAT BOOM III SOUTH West Engulfed by Big Wave of Prosperity IT8 COAL IN DEMAND Output for 1899 -Shows Increase of Fully 1,500,000 Tons.

Lsisaber Interests Developing amd hop Profitably Employed Beast llenn Rail Salts the Peale. Special Correspondence of The Inter Ocean. WHEELING. W. July 20.

The Republicans of West Virginia are' confident that they will carry the state this fall for Mc-Klnley and and their hopes on the prosperity In the state. -There has been a marvelous development la coal and lumber, made possible by the provisions the Dingley tariff law. In all parts of the state unprecedented activity prevails, and labor is at a premium. There are constant calls for men, which other states are supplying. The coal output for 1S99 was nearly tons, an Increase of 1,500.000 tons over the preceding year.

More coal is being mined this year than eycr before, and the total product will go above the Scores of new mines are being opened and miles of new railroad are being Apace with coal Is the timber development. Governor Atkinson in a recent speech to the editors of West Virginia said "We have within the limits of the "Mountain state' perhaps .000,000 acres of what may be practically termed virgin forests, which embrace all the classes of hard and soft woods. No other state, in. my Judgment, can offer opportunities to the lumberman comparable with those of West Already the song of the saw is heard In every, vale that has thus far been penetrated by railroads. More railroads more lumber camps, and more wealth for the citizens who hold the titles of these undeveloped forests." The activity tn lumbering la marked along the line of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg railway and Its branches.

Miles of tramroad spread in all directions. Tralnload after tralnload of lumber is distributed to the trunk lines for the markets of the world. New York and Pennsylvania capital Is largely responsible for this activity. There are sixty stations along the line of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg railway, and at all, or nearly all. there are sawmills.

The extent of some can be told by the feat of the Blackwater Boom and Lumber company at Davis, W. in turning out 240,000 feet of finished lumber in ten hours. This does not Include box boards and short stuff from the specialty department. The Blackwater company has an annual capacity of over 30,000,000 feet, and the Beaver Creek Boom and Lumber company over Worlds Kiarht and Dir. These mills have modern electric plants and work goes ahead the same at night as during the day.

There are other mills running from 25,000,000 feet down to 10,000,000 feet, to say nothing of the number of portable mills with smaller capacity. It is conservatively estimated that feet of lumber is turned out annually by the milts along the line of this railroad alone, the tramroads operated run into the hundred of miles. The Condon Lane Boom and Lumber company of Horton has over forty miles of tramroad on which to haul logs to the mill. Nearly all the spruce lumber in the United States Is In West Virginia. The Interests controlling the West Virginia Pulp and Paper company, which are completing the largost pulp mill in the world at Covington on tha Greenbrier, -have organised the West Virginia Spruce Lumber company and are building a mill of 100,000 feet daily capacity on Leatberbark creek.

A new town, to be known as Cass, will be started. This mill will utilize the timber not made Into pulp wood. The company has about 200,000 acres of timber lands, and has already 15,000,000 feet of tolp wood cut for transportation to the mi lis at Covington. The pulp and paper company is directing an Immense new soda proo-ess mill at Luke, Just opposite Piedmont, W. Va.

The contract for 1,600,000 bricks to enter into its construction was let to a Cumberland, brick-manufacturing plant a few days ago. It will be one of the largest pulp mills In the country. The soda process is being substituted for the sulphite process and, it is said, will not pollute running Water. At Luke the United States postal-card factory 1 la full blast. day recently six carloads, aggregating 24.000,000 finished cards, were shipped from the factory.

The demand for postal cards is growing and the factory foree, now numbering about sixty persons, will be increased. An immense new pulp mill is being erected at Parsons, W. by the Parsons Pulp and Paper company. Th capital Is $300,000 and the incorporators are Robert Roe, of Covington, Robert T. Whltmer, Coole, Leroy Harvey, and Martin Lane, all of Philadelphia.

The mill sit Is on the Chrrick Ford battlefield, where General Carrick was killed during the civil War. The plant, which will coat $150,000, is rapfdly nearing completion and will employ 160 men. The Greenbrier River Lumber company is erecting a mammoth sawmill at Marllnton at a cosrof $100,000. It will have a dally capacity of 100,000 feet. The company has 1 tract of pin timber.

Ceketaa Company's Hew Mill. The Red Creek Lumber company recently organized by Grafton. W. Va- capitalists has erected a large lumber-manufacturing plant 011 the Dry Fork branch of the West Virginia Cectral railroad, fifteen miles from Hendricks, W. Va.

One of the finest lumber mills along the line of the West Virginia Central railway has Just been put in operation between Coketon and Thomas by the Coketon Lumber company, of wLlch Rusabarger brothers, the well-known lumberman of Philadelphia. are the principal members. R. Kumbarger of Elklns, W. will manage the plant, which will have a daUy capacity of 75.000 feet.

The company owns a tract of 13.000 acres, through which it Is building a lumber railroad. It has put nearly 200 men to work. Hench. Drumgold ft Shult of York, have started an Immense lumber plsnt at Crlckard. in Randolph county.

A recent addition to the mill required the employment of 100 more men. They operate several mills for the manufacture of hardwood, an Important Industry in West Virginia, and own many thousand acres of timber. On Roaring creek. Mable A McClure have a large tract of hardwood and a mill of great capacity. Oak Is the chief hardwood, with ash and hickory Johnson Bros, of NesiorvlUe.

W. have established a mill on their tract la-Tucker Peerlees Lumber company of MoundsViile, with. $100,000 capital, has been organised. Robert Whltmer Sana' new lumber mill on the West Virginia Central railroad baa caused the new town of Wallman to be estab-Lined, a tramroad ha been extended Into the forest and many substantial houses have been built. At the big lumber mill In the midst of the forest religious services, tn which several hundred braacy woodmen take part, are held nearly every Sunday.

Thelarge mills of Thomas Berger ft Sons of Cumberland, at Douglas. W. recently burned, are being rebuilt. The fire was disastrous, taking besides the mill 2.500.-0C0 feet of sawed lumber' and a number of dwelling. The new mill will have a capacity of 100.060 feet dally.

John T. Jarrett of Charlestown. W. is completing the most extensive lumber contract ever handled la West Virginia; He has been engaged for almost three years In getting out timber on Lower Loup river for the Loup estate. The amount of lumber sent out by Mr.

Jarrett in that time will reach far up into the billions of feet, and some of the greatest xnoxtarchs of the forest have fallen before" the ax of his woodmen. One day recently he cut and marketed two trees, the finest of yellow poplar, making four logs, each sixteen feet long, which cut 19.725 feet. The cut would have ben 4.000 feet greater had not one of the loga been badly shattered at the butt. At any rate the cut beat the record in West Virginia. Keva Seefla Capital Eif if t4.

Last summer a party of Nova Scotia capitalists moved down into Clay county. W. and they now have six big mills in operation. About 250 men from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky are employed. Many native woodmen are also employed.

There are twenty-six native Nova Seotlans among the colonists. They have splendid up-to-date mills located on the- Elk river. There Is no society there as yet, and the Elkhurst Library association, with $1,000 capital, has been formed te Improve the situation. West Virginia is teeming with bark camps. The tanner has followed In the footsteps of the are thousands of bark peelers at.

work. One of the largest camps is near Gcrmanla and la operated by J. G. Hoffman ft Sons, whose large tannery made the bustling town. The company is adding an immense leech house to its tannery.

It is 40x180 feet, two stories high. In his great anxiety to get lumber the lumberman at. first let the bark go by default. The great proportion, of the lumber cut by the big mills la spruce and hemlock. The hemlock yields bark, which is the principal source of tanning for the leather maker.

The tanneries at Gormanla, Bayard, Parsons, and Davis have been unable to use all the bark, and in one year 25.000 cords of excellent hemlock bark was let rot on the ground for the want of a market. It was valued at $125,000, but it would net have paid to haul it long distances. Now tanneries on-the ground are adding to their capacity and new tanneries are springing up with the view of consuming the enUre bark product. The United States Leather company has acquired many thousands of acres of timber for bark. The stripped tree" trunks are made Into Extract factories, too, have followed in the wake of the lumber mills.

8everal have sprung up in Hampshire county. The' Rio Extract company has completed a large plant at Klrby and has contracted for great deal of Un bark, principally rock oak. A party of Romney capitalists are building- a -large extract plant near that place. The state of West Virginia is in the midst of unprecedented activity, yet the bulk of the Umber is still uncut A conservatlTS estimate places the timber yet untouched lu West Virginia at 5,000.000 acres. The West Virginia Pulp and Paper company's holdings on the Greenbrier alone aggregate 200,000 acres.

They are one of many. The Dry Fork lumber Interests' have about 175.000 acres. The interests or Senator Stephen B. Elklna-and his father-in-law, ex-Senator Henry O. Davis, total at least 600,000 acres of Umber and coal.

They own practically all the coal territory -along the line pt the West Virginia Central, and they have looked after almost exclusively the development of coal. Ax idea is here gfven of the" great prosperity In West Virginia with only one industry touched on and that net fully. It would require columns to- tell of the coal Industry, which during the past six months has made marvelous strides. It is on something solid that the Republicans of West Virginia base their hope of winning. GIVES PARIS A SHOCK Harry Thaw's "Beauty Dinner" Causes a Big Sensation.

FORTUNE SPENT ON IT Banquet Brings Together Women Famous for Escapades. Yean Xllllnnnlre af Plttebnraj Scatters Rare Cesss as Senventre the Costly Paris is shocked, and by an The gay capital is aghazt at the "beauty dinner" given the other night by Harry Kimball the young Pittsburg millionaire. A "beauty dinner" was a conception worthy of a Frenchman, the boulevardiers declare. They csgerly devour every detail of the banquet, that will be historic, for It cost a handsome fortune. The reckless host drew hit check for several hundred thousand franca, and felt repaid, inasmuch as it won him the title of the spendthrift of his generation.

Liane de Pougy. La Belle Otero, Anna Robinson. Cleo de Merode, Nellie Neuatretter, Yvonne de Treville. Nanette Stanley these were some of the 150 guests at a banquet which 'cost more money than a king would spend Jn entertaining the sovereigns of tha world. The dinner took place at a restaurant on the Champa Elysets, which Is the most expensive in Europe, and which la.

kept by a man who was once chef in the palace of the Cxar. The decorations, the wines, and the food were selected with a sole view to their high price, and In this the proprietor sided heart snd soul with the enthusiastic young person who-was to pay the bill. If it had been possible i to serve a dish of stewed nightingales tongues the thing would have been done. As it was. Mr.

Thaw had the satisfaction of knowing that a more cosUy dinner could not possibly be provided. Bart Qenaa aa Savenlrs. The souvenirs came from the most famous Jewel shop in Paris. They were ornaments of emeralds, pearls, diamonds, and precious stones of all sorts. One young woman la reported to have received a pair of garters, on buckled with rubles and the other with sapphires.

Anna Robinson, lata of New York, waa presented with a brooch on which the stars and stripes were worked in garnets, pearls, and sapphires. All the women present were famous along certain lines. Liane de Pougy, the stage beauty over whom artists have raved and to whom poets have written sonnets, sat at Mr. Thaw's, right. The others took prese-dence according aa their escapades had won them the distinction of being talked about.

Nellie Neustretter was a personage of consequenoe among them because sbe hal once driven in the Bois and through the Paris streets with the Vanderbllt livery the box of ber carriage. That was when William K. Vanderbllt, after- the stormy breaking up of his yachting cruise with O. H. P.

Belmont and other guests, had gone to Paris and; gallantly offered public provocation for a divorce suit. Otero, although ahe has not been in New 7 HARRY THAW. York for some years, claimed kinship her host and the American guesta because of the many thousands of American dollars she had spent for good-natured young ms of the Thaw stamp. She wore some 01 ner famona diamonds when she wears them all they clothe her from head to foot and exhibited all the Spanish fir which made her irresisUble In America. Mwsle by Blast's BaaaU There was music, and that was also ex pensive.

For his previous famous dinner young Thaw hired Souaa's band. For this one he engaged Rigo'a. It la no longer led by the Princess Chimay's gypsy lover, but It still profits by the fame wmcn uiara war a adventure conferred upon it. and its terms are very high. Tonoi Mr.

Thaw was delighted to have a band so high-priced and so famona. He probably did not pay much, attention 10 ine music, but aa'a matter or iact ins wiia nan aarlsB strains from the violins were ami nenUv tn keening with the fantastic dance In which he Is scattering his father's millions. Paris finds Thaw an Interesting study. Give him time, say the philosophical Frenchmen, and he will excel the splendor of the British "Jubilee Juggins" Benson, aad. the French "Sugar Bowl" Lebaudy.

Thaw is about 30 years old. and has been busyi spending his fortune for the last ten years. His father. the late William Thaw, made $16,000,000 in railroads, steamboats, and Pittsburg real es tate. This money was divided among ten children.

Harry Kunball Thaw la the eldest son of his father's second marriage. He at tended school at the Western Penn. Univer sity In Allegheny, and while there had an al lowance of something uae si.wu a monio for spending money. He left the university In ISM and went to Princeton for two years. For the past four years he has been traveling between Pitttburg and Tokia, cans neisg his favorite way station." Lent $40,000 at Paker.

They tell a story about a poker game in which Thaw sat when he vlelted Pitteburg a year ago. It took place at a down-town hotel, and Thaw lost, according to too story, something like $40,000. When the session closed, about 7 o'clock in the morning, nearly all the players had checks written by Thaw. When the checks were sent to the bank, the having heard that they were given in payment of peker debts, refused to honor them. This made Thaw angry.

He told the cashier that the poker debts were incurred In good faith and would have te be cashed. Mr. Thaw a brother of Margaret Thaw, who married George Lauder Carnegie. The latter recently figured In the Esther Bart-Velt Clarke divorce trial. Edward Thaw of New York is another brother.

BACK TO HIS OLD-LINE BOOKS. Dlaeeaaagtnc Experleaeea M. Caa-viMtr with a Volasne Tve gone back to my first love, the great 'Celebrated Compendium of Universal Knowledge. bound in calf and sold at a price within react of aH," said the book agent to a Detroit Free Press reporter. "The other day the head member of the firm that I am proud to represent called me Into his private office and showed me a book on dogs, telling how to take care of them, what to feed, what to do for the mange, how to tell a mastiff from a pug.

how to handle a mad dog la fact, it was a regular dog encyclopaedia, bound In cloth, and sold at a popular price. "The moment. I set eyes on that book I saw great possibilities In it- I knew from bitter experience that nearly every one kept a dog, and no matter what kind of a cross-eyed purp It might be the owner couldn't be convinced that his particular dog wasn't the finest dog on earth. I made up my mind that there was a fortune in the sale of that book, and I secured the exclusive right to this city before I left the office. Cautioning the head member of the firm to keep the presses going, so there would be no possible chance tor a shortage.

I started out to place the great work before the public The first house I struck my hopes received a audden chill. "I was no sooner in the yard than a big dog came tearing around the corner of the house and made for me. There waa only one thing to do, and I did It- I made for a tree that was near and managed to get out of the way before the beast arrived. As he showed no desire to leave, I yelled for help. A man came to the door, and after calmly looking the situation over, arked what I wanted.

I am selling a work on said rather weakly from my position in the tree. 'It tells how to cure the mango, what to feed, what "Well said he. cutUng tn. 'explain It to TIge, and if he cares about it I'll buy With that he went Inside and ahut the door. "For two mortal hours that miserable cur sat under the tree and licked his chops.

Then the owner came to the door again and said it was time that Tige had his dinner, and that I could finish explaining the book to him after he got through. If he hadn't called that dog away Just as he did Tige would hsve had his dinner right under the tree, and the firm would bavo been short one book agent. As far aa I am concerned, every cussed dog In this city may die of mange. In fact, I hope they will." What They 0al. "Did the girls say anything when they heard of my engagement she aaked with a little curiosity.

"Very little." waa the reply of her dearest friend. "But they said something" "Oh. yes; they sail aomethlng." "Well, what waa It?" "Well, most of them nserely exclaimed, 'At lastr There waa a pause, and than she asked: "Well, what did some of the others say? "Ojm of them said: 'Who'd have thought ltt? Another. WU1 wonders never eeaser And a third 1Oh, never mind the rest," interrupted the fiancee; "I never did have much curiosity." Pittsburg BERLIN. July 8.

Count Zeppelin, whoso giaaU airship made its first ascension on Mon- thirty years to the problem of aerial narl-gation, and has Invented a propeller which he declares permits the steering of balloons with mathematical precision. On the airship launched on Monday and on the preliminary expenses 1.500,000 marks ($375,000) has been expended. The floating balloon-house la which the airship' is stored and waa constructed is an edifice 142 meters long. 23.4 meters wide, and 20.S meters high. Two city houses of four stories could be planed in the cuhle) space it occupies.

The airship itself is 122 meters In length, being by far the largest ever constructed. -It Is dgar-ahsped, aad contains In aa aluminum netUng seventeen separate balloons. This cigar-shaped cylinder has a diameter of 1L2 meters, and a volume of 11,004 cubic metera, ana is cwumniea 10 nnve me capnciiy to raise and support In the air 11.000 kilograms. The airship weighs approximately 4,000 kllograma. Under the cigar-shaped placed 25 meters from their respecive ends of the cylinder.

Bach contains a fifteen-horse power Daimler motor, which work the propellers. The forward screw has four wings, the rear only three; the steering apparatus Is also contained in the gondolas. The screws are capable of 1.ZJ6 revolutions to the minute, and give aa estimated forward propulsion of 44 meters. Count Zeppelin estimates that the balloon can rise to 1.100 meters, and when weighted with 1.M0 kllograma. can be kept op la the air for eight days.

On Monday Count Zeppelin had charge the steering apparatus la the forward gondola, and Eugen Wolff occupied the rear boat with Baron Baasug. A machinist waa la each gondola. The ascension took place at 8:03 p. m. Comparatively few spectators were present, the 40,000 people who had assembled on Saturday having mostly gone away in disgust after expressing their feelings by biases, groans, and insulting cries.

Carried mm a Pastaoa. The airship was brought out of the balloon-house on a colossal pontoon. One hundred gymnasts and soldiers were employed to liberate the big clgsr from Its holdings. When the command "Los!" (Let go!) waa given the monster arose about a meter, paused a fraction of a second, swayed a little, righted automatically, and then rose majestically amid cheers and the waving of handkerchiefs. The women present Included Princess Therese of Bavaria, and Count Zep pelin's daughter, who could not restrain her tears of anxiety.

With Its nose pointed to the south toward Switzerland, the airship quickly roee to a height of 400 metres. Then a half -turn to the north was made and a height between five and six hundred metres was reached. Through a powerful giasa the guests following the airship on the steamer Konig Karl could see the' movements of those on board distinctly. The airship was made to perform a partly circular movement. Everything eeemed to be proceeding satisfactorily, when the airship made a auddea turn anicn caused anxiety to tnoto following it.

and seemed to be eauced by a wind current. Are the propellers not powerful enough was askd- At 6:20 the monster wes again steered about toward the middle of the lake, but almost at the same time sank suddenly on the water about 400 metres from the Imnvenstadt landing stage. A cry of alarm went up front those following the airship's movements. The gondolas fell into the water, but were not submerged. The balloon was somewhat damaged by striking a pllotls, but the damage is said to be Steamera and other craft hurried up Immediately to give help.

It waa announced later that the descent was voluntary -and normal. The Konig Karl towed the balloon back to its pontoon by, moonlight. By 11 o'clock the 100 gymnasts, had securely fastened the airship to its moorings and the pontoon waa tagged back to 11 Trip a Seleattflo aaccasa. Count Zeppelin subsequently Issued a statement that the trip had been a success, and had demonstrated the dlriglbillty of the airship. The ahlp traveled easily, both with the wind and against the wind.

A alight de--raagement in a part of the steering apparatus caused the Count to decide to descend suddenly la order to avoid coming down on land at Immsnstadt. To ths Wurtemburg-roynl family he telegraphed that the experiment had proved that a few minor improvements would render the airship perfectly satisfactory. Among the spectators opinion is divided as to the success of the experiment. While enthusiastic friends of Count Zeppelin de clare that the problem of aerial navigation la cow solved, other onlookers Insist that the trip waa a complete fiasco. It should be said that among the experts of Berlin this opinion is generally held.

Professor Asemann of the Meteorological Institute is among the skeptics. Other critics emphasize the fact that the balloon descended at a spot situated la a direction contrary to that the Count had Intended to take. A light, balloon-like body will -always be powerless against tie force of the winds. It is argued. However, even if it could be steered against the winds, the Zeppelin aire Up will be of 00 practical value, add the critics.

They give a host of reasons for this opinion, chief among them being the auncuity 01 iraasponauon. NEGRO PRANKS ON THE STREET. Inaltntlnn Cake Walks ta Pick Cent frona the Aaaaaed. Onlookers. Imitation cake walks on" the streets are among the latest schemes to scrape up money.

They are being dene by two colored lads about 10 years old. svery day the youngsters start on a trip through the busluess district, and when they find an crgan grinder they ask him to play some tune, to which they do a They never fall make a deal with the organ man. and then they follow him around for the rest of the day. The boys have become very popular, especially on the West Side, where they generally appear about sundown. The stoops are well occupied at that time." The boys are very amusing because of their make-ups and caylngs.

The taller wears a frock coat and carries a cane almost aa big as himself. The other wears a suit which reminds one of a craiy quilt from all the patches on It. Both wear shoes about five times too large for them. Many persons who have seen them perform say there Is not much cake walking that they do not know. When night comes the boys, after settling with the crgan grinder, make for horn to change clothes.

When one of them waa asked why he did nat get a Job la one ot the rauclo halls, he said: "No, cah; these are easy times, acd we make inoah dough thta way." The Last Straw. "udfion thought he might pull through without maklug an assignment, but Just as he was about arranging satisfactorily with his creditors- 'What fcappeaedT "The Bill for wile's summer rewug cams in." PfcUedsIpMa Bulletin..