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IH o5v J~ ~~~rl ~~F S m AnK IMPOSTOR. hw-U'mph! This feller -mein'. Anybody kin git oms cold weathur!"-C cgo -.1Ne Klek ComIS... bier faced the audience sase trite and true: sing the old sons, - s I used to do." eat from his high pew: sal;:ret busy pow. -a something new." I Enqulrer. m nymtr we hint yor i I as. aar r t b& s ari~ mm,? oa. Iagu6Ilhauveu w~ lrbabble neat! I'beand k. _t~uhatbepsua~er Tba t r tdfs s ui uI-. ··ý- t t;: ·~ 'ý ýýý.ý 'ý ;ý ý'ý ý ý Getttas Aeqastate. Relative-I notice that you have at last got acquainted with your next-door neighbor, who has lived alongside of you for the past ten years. Mrs. D'Avnoo-Yes, we were intro duced to each other at the Pyramids of Egypt, and I found her a delightful cm panion. We became very intimate. N. Y. Weekly. Amethelr War Rmer. Prsacilla-Lieut. Huggins seems to be rather attentive to Miss Elderlelgb of late. Melicent-Yes; and she is evidently skirmishing around trying to precipli tate an engagementL.--Cncinnt~ En. quirer. SUASONABLM DIPLOMACY. IttleW WIllie--ay, pt, I um t e awful to be a poor orphan boy and know that Santa Clas won't bring y a biclble, a sled, a cannon, a knife, a box of tools, a wateb and a lot of oranges, candy and nuts for Chrbtmas,-Chicago Dally News. Fer se*& Maud-I understand you are about to lose the younm astor that has been pimching for you the lait yearvr to. MaOLO-Yes; hek going to be married next week.-AtlantaL ~sttation. "Z bhw he i a anq atlitIn amany "Y-ul-pablltt. iuaerrlgbllity and erie mIibt, -r"- ase'ia Comm. dalSrm. Tim * sP Wvekratti. .Wh, doen way. Wte MoIly sor "whir,,Wbw do, ta hha shessld aw hamr to o v eb b. Jaute that me was naever tooladto as.."-~-P.S. m vru COW im& . "'tar, I tblak I MWO. I know tn. ' at, -" )$oj to du mVdtlR al· I egsttnt to tlp ic pi s.'--Ck$CSlk~s--j~l~sr ...s=. .mb '.w fee Li~ trk "', ` i.,'Lc-ý ' R 1 r '15- V MSC qbwth a J MOUNTAINS ARE MOVED. CtskIl Foothills Alon tIhe Hmdem MIver Delam Carted Of tor Balldlra Purposes. Vast patches of yellow beginning high up on the mountain side and running to the chores of the river mark the spots where vandals are fast destroying one of the most beautiful and justly celebrated of all the great foothills of the Catskills that rise abruptly for hundreds of feet from the Hudson river. S'nce Hendrik Hudson first saw and sailed up the river that bears his name all the world has seen or heard of its picturesque shores, which to-day are being destroyed and carried away to contribute to the building of New York, the wonder city of the world, says a Gotham paper. Some few years ago spasmodic out cries arose from the throats of many New Yorkers who loved the picturesque and who saw the destruction of the Palisades going on as they took their Sunday walks on the Riverside drive. They could see what their neighbors of New Jersey could or would not see-that the far famed Palisades were surely being blasted away and a trip up the river would be robbed of its chief attraction. a walk on the Riverside drive be marred and to future generations the Palisades would be a tradition if this was not stopped. The esthetic and patriotic New York er wanted the stone for his streets, but he wanted his view more; so that after many years final action was taken and legislation secured that stopped the de struction of the Palisades of New Je r sey. But stone must be had, and the west shore of the Hudson lay temptingly near. Therefore the trap rock concerns mov.Fi their huge plants around the corner of the Jersey state line, and set up their devouring monsters half way up the side of the Hook mountain, at Upper Nyack. The largest of the three ravenous mon sters that are eating away the Hook mountain is a pavement company of New York, whose crushers devour about 50,000 cubic feet of stone each day. Four barge loads of fine trap rock are taken away ever) 24 hours from this plant alone. Each barge holds 4,000 cubic yards of stone when loaded and trimmed. One hundred and fifty men do the actual work of getting out the stone, though many more are employed on barges, tugs. etc. A ledge or platform is blasted away from the face of the mountain about half way up, upon which is situated the engine house, which contains two big high speed engines that furnish thi great power that operates the crushers, conveyors, screens automatic dumps and hoisting machinery A mighty steam pump keeps two enormous tanks filled with water from the river, hun dreds of feet below. The stone is first blasted with dynamite away from the cliff, the face of which is carefully gone over after each blast by a man lowered by a rope from the top, who prods and pokes every crack and cranny into which he can get his pointed crowbar. carefully prying away every particle of loose stone, which crashes down to the main ledge, away from ahere the men are working. This care is very neces sary, as a piece of stone does not have to weigh very much, falling from so great a height, to kill a man. Among the hundreds of whirring vweels and slapping beltsdin the almost impenetrable fog of bltnding choking dust, where the workmen could not breathe without reqslrators, the great crushing machines crack and grind from morn till night. It is beyond the power of a clever mathematician to figure out Just how long a time it will take for three big concerns, each using 150,000 cubic feet of stone a day, to entirely wipe the Hook mountain of the mqp. Perhaps if some obliging scholar were good enough to show approxlmately how soon that would occur the people of Naew York state, as well as patrioteic people elsewhere, might be sumdently interested to get legislation against the vandalsm that is surely destroying the beauty of the far-famed river. Leaoden Wbhtles. A boyar was charzed at a London po trw court the other day, with blowing Swhistle an such a way as to cause three poleemna to come toward him. The act that such a thing Is possible suggests the questions: How do the poliee dlstlnagish between a cab whis tle and a pole -.whistle? What Is there to prevent anyone from blowing a wbltle In such a ,way au to call a poliemtan? A representative of the Graphtc. who put these question to a --d. ocdal of the city pollee resttr a Jearned that In the matter of at teb . to whistles--as with his many other duties-the polieeman une his tdic tloa. Any hrill whitle wll at tract a pollesman. but sach a whistle blown at night outside a restaurant or any place where people eoagreste and cai are wanted would not brin a rolleema to to the whistler. The same wilstle ownU a recisely the same way to the amiddl of the city at mid day *old bring a poieeman on the ilnms at ode: -MB hes d[ the heat ojsers 13 h yOird- aim@*oWIgl i the baed, Ia r meiiqrges thea a Sader nail, ed i s3 dI.Uoin. It sugeeta the ~qAters. Tly .saecn fora the rIsi4 Sr Th* th -'isto * s -I ?,<v"ia Ppe t." itr WON Imm tam tMe , _a- br ticb- tim ~i br~~~~t ~ ~ +b HAS A GOOD RECORD. John Sharp Williams Well Liked by His Colleagues. %ew Minority Leader In House o Rep resentatives Abundantly Able oe Take Care of the nlater eats of His Party. If he lives until July 30 next John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, the democratic leader in the house of repre sentatives, will be 50. He is of slender figure, and a trifle above the medium in height. He has a whole lot of woozy hair and a striking disregard of fash ionable clotting. From boyhood Mr. Williams has been a hard student, and all his mature life an industrious reader of high class lit erature. Although never of a decidedly robust constitution, he has not at any time been regarded as an invalid. At present he appears to be in good condi tion physically for the arduous duties recently imposed upon him with unan imity by his party associates. Mr. Williams received a thorough ed ucational training. He studied at the Kentucky military institute, and later at the University of the South, at Se wanee, Tenn., and at the University of Virginia. Then he went abroad and at tended Heidelberg university. While at Heidelberg he mastered Ger man sufficilently to converse fluently in it. He also studied French in his youth, and since leaving the universities he has kept up his researches both in German and in French. Since his selection for the minority leadership, though, Mr. Williams has been somewhat amused to read that he is able to read and speak half a dozen languages. He was born at Memphis, Tenn. His mother died when he was quite young, and his father, who was a colonel of Ten nessee volunteers in the confederate army was killed at Shiloh. His home is at Yazoo, Miss., where he has practiced law and engaged in planting cotton. He and his brother are joint owners of about 8,000 acres of land in the Yazoo coun try. This property has not been divided In many generations. Mr. Willilams never held any public ofice prior to his election to congress in 1892. Mr. Williams does not pretend to be a JOHN IHARP WILLIAMS. (Leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives.) good parliamentaran. On the coutrary, he has before and since his election as the'minority leader candidly admitted that he is lacking in this capacity. But Judge De Armond, of Missouri, is acknowledged to be a shrewd, careful and able parliamentarlan. That is why at the request of Mr. Williams he was appointed by Speaker Cannon a member of the rules committee. Throughout the congress, and especially during the essrion preceding the presidential les tiop, Judge De Armond will virtually be at the elbow of the miaerity leader. The New York 8un says that it is con ceded on all sides that Mr. Williams is amply fortiled by experience and abfil ity to take care of himself and his party in aay partisan debates that may arise. HIs mind works quickly. he-purposes to be ever watchful, anL thoas who have measured lances with him know that he ts no slouci in diseassing the welfpie of the nation. A talk with Mr. Williams impresses the interviewer with the fact that if he has the spport of his party he does not propose to engage in flibustering to the extent of wasting the time of the housae. His polly will besignally ditfer eat frem that of some of his prede He pirposes, however, to put the re publcan party on record at every stage, so that the country may know what is nactually being done in the popular part o congress This he belleves c a be done speedily sad in order without a resort to tactles that prevailed tin former con gresses, when the roles were more lax and pemitted.uibusterlng to a degree nothing short of ridiculous. maaste. by Fleek of Ge... Tweity years ago an umenspected a in Lm gton . nd.. stole three geese from a eilghbor. The despoiled farmer h1s just received ve dollars from a resident In Washagtmo, C., eoasfoesng ththefit, and thou making aaulcl Wrepatitqp. He states that for years h has been unable to sleep wa ll as a tsoc or atie always haunt ad his iress ad matter whre he isC _ _ s t acs m c wlEaeI. A Pltt a$r RIrpier mU the e Cm tr ian data; ubdoam w! ortanouth pbouui . He tomud a dart, sobbb a the sbe'ar "*at- the a ww-hfoen , sad 1&hlm I he oWas to bordbw4rtY esmu~. "No,. i," Iguath rT S wat.W. ý ;' . 'i oanmnam ,111: t~s Wa 1r Ws Lr .' KM T; ,THE GIANT OF GIANTS, He Is Twenty-Two Year. Old and Al. most Eight Feet High, it His stoeking Feet. According to scientists who have carefully examined him, the man whose picture accompanies this story enjoys the distinction of being the tallest person in the world. His name is Feodore Machow, and he comes of an old Russian family. He is now about 22 years old and is 238 centi menters in height. He especially sur passes all other giants now living in the length of his head, and in every other respect he is of the greatest sci entific interest. The New York Herald says that all the other giants who have been seen in Europe were from ten to 15 centimeters smaller than he is, their FEODOR MACHOW. (Said to Be the Tallest Person In the Civ ilized World) average height, according tothe late Prot Virchow, who made a thorough study of the subject, being from 210 to 227 centi meters. Those who have not seen Ma chow can obtain an adequate idea of his height from the fact that the top boots which he wears, and which hardly reach to his knees, would cover two ordinary persons up to the waist and could be used by two 12-year-old boys as places in which they could completely conceal themselves Moreover, the mattress on which he sleeps is nine feet long, and at every meal heeats three poundof meat, together with a large quantity of bread, potatoes and other vegetables. IMPROVING HIS STYLE. Expertemee of a Young Reporter Who Tooee the Kentucky Editor's Ad vied Too Laterasly. Col. Henry Watterson, the editor. be. Ileves in good English, and not only writes it~ himself, but tries to get his young men to write it also. The Philadelphia Post says that a bright young fellow who went to report a national convention with CoL Watter son turned in an article one night that was loosely written and somewhat slangy. The colonel read it with portentous frowns. "Here, here, young man," he said, "this will never do. You must im prove your style." "What can I do to improve it, colonel?" the young man asked. "Read, sir, read; read books." "Yes, colonel, but what books?" "Read Thackeray; start lth 'Pendea That night there was much eeite meat. Important news developed. Col. COL. HENRY WA'TIERSON. (Famous Kentucky Editor, Lecturer and Istory TellwJ Watteregs waited for his young man's repork It came to be 11 o'elock at night, and he had not submitted a line. The colonel started on a search and found the young man in hil room with his feet on a table, smoking a cigar and reading a book. ere. sir," shouted theeolonel, "what are . doing? Wh is your article? Yonu Je written a ihblL at I can and. What are you doing here loeSng in this manner while the paper is waiting for the news?" "Why, ccoael," the young man re plied with pained surprise, "I am carry ing out your orders. fam reading 'Pen dennis' to. improve my style." A favorite method of muicide In Japan lately has been to leaI over cer tain waterfalls. So frequent hate such ocewrreaes become that police are row cemstatly statiomed in their elhboChooied and large notiee boards raserect. beartulag srlptioms in lage letters, of which the followtin tsmlation is an amaple: "Do not rws -oarelf here! Intended ant els s e warned that heaven disap pse ado the utiltiatlo at Kego wea terdll foe the parpose. This is certi' ! the a s te best priesly athority. aw bu eoaisegemaes In the bere. alto a Smas sas .hl drown beer 1isr th&gWgslg~ugal JAPAN'S NAVAL POWER. , lMarveC.es Progress Has Placed the Nation Among World's Great Naval Powers. In 1858 Queen Victoria presented a small steam yacht to the emperor of Japan, detailing some British blue jackets to the duty of instructing the Japanese in the management of that class of vessel. The Japanese under took to handle the craft before they had thoroughly learned their lesson. and on the first voyage, when they wanted to stop, they discovered that they had forgotten how this operation was performed. They therefore steamed round and round the gulf of Yeddo until the fires died down, and then the yacht was tugged home, says the North American Review. Since then Japan has risen to the position of one of the great naval powers, and her progress of recent years has been noth ing short of marvelous. At the time of her war with China her whole fleet displaced about 30,000 tons; to-day the aggregate displacement is over 250.000) tons. Japan has a fishing population of about 2,000,000 men, and from this sec tion of the community she draws her seamen. Hitherto she has been de pending upon other countries for the construction of her vessels, but the time is near at hand when she will be able to throw off the assistance of the western world. Her arsenals are al ready capable of building protected cruisers and torpedo craft, and a gun factory and armor plate factory are pow being established which will soon be ready to begin work. Her seamen are men of intelligence, resource and sea lore, and capable of quickly acquiring sufficient mechanical skill to enable them to control the com plex mechanism of their modern men of-war with complete success. They de sire no pampering and they can live on the simplest food and sleep anywhere; but in their new ships they have more air, and, in some respects, greater com forts than are to be found on many, it not most, British men-of-war. These sailors of the far east take things very much as they find them, with a stoical calm. They face danger with much the same spirit with which they take their pleasure, and in spite of the rapid strides which civilization has made in their country their luxuries are few and they are contented and happy. They are de voted to simple sports, to fencing and to acting; no one can ever forget the dramatic entertainments on board Jap anese men-of-war who has been priv ileged to witness them. Nor does the memory soon become dim of one of these ships when decked out in gala dress with chrysanthemums, cherry blossoms and other blooms typical of Japan en livening the grim aspects of the decks. The men are adepts in the making of imitation paper flowers, which so closely resemble the handiwork of nature that at a casual glance one hardly notices the deception. THE GERMAW .EOPLE. This Writer Says They Are Net Lylag Awake Nishts to Hate Amerieaas. The people of the United States are prone to accept every cock and bull story that sensation mongers circulate about Germany. We must acknowl edge that the kaiser has sadly misun derstood as In the past. that his peo ple have been Inclined to envy our commercial s.remacy, but that Bm peror William and his advisers are strengthening the German army aad enlarging the German navy with the idea of eventually going to war with the United States we must seriously doubt, says a writer Jn the Albany Press Knickerbocker. During the past spring the writer spent several weeks n Germany. Frog the time he landed at Cauhafen until he sped toward the south ot Europe he never heard a word or viewed an act which might lead him to infer that there was any serious prejudice against Americans. In Hamburg. In Berlin, in Potsdam, in the Black FPr est district. in Gleason, in Frankfort. in Wiesbaden, and down the Rhine to Cologne, the 'writer never heard any remark that aroused a suspicion that the kaiser 'was preparing to turn his guns on the statue of Liberty in New Yorkc harbor. The statesmen of Ger many are not all agrarians, and the agrarians are the people who may have an idea that the United States is a dangerous commercial rival. Prince Henry's visit to the United States had an excellent effect upon the masses of Germany, To-day, if an American its down with an intelligent resident of Hamburg or Berlin, the latter is likely to refer In glowing terms to America's hospitable treatment of German"y most popular member oft the rsyal house. The Germans may not be disposed to accept the Monroe doctrine at the present time, they may even endeavor to securethe pick of the trade in South America, lat they are not imn. patientl. awatintg the time when them can lock horn with the United States. We predict that In the years to come Germany and the United States will be fast friends, who will mutually en gage in noble undertakings, which must make the world a better world for all classes. Here's to Germany--our friend and fU tare aly. New Realas Pree.... A method at treating gold ores after crushing or coacentratlon is called the chlorobromrloa'procems, and claims to be a rtval of the cyanide treatment. prticularly for ores carrying aunerI . o•s arsenical pyrite. The promeote at the proem as l a high percntagen of estrac.io, In which, as well as the -ser of lew wiraing com, tbhe sam -bes e 7 v r t a -asues 1owe