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ARGU VOL. LV. NO. 4. THE ARGUS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1903. PAGES 0 TO 16. AMBASSADOR. WHITELAW MEED PRINCELY ENTERTAINER ROOK ISLAM) -jef y ROM a position as legislative cor respondent at S-" per w k to the editorship aud proprietorship of the leading Republican paper in the land and tile ambassadorship rf his country to the leading outside nation; from a comparatively poor boy to a wealth that reach many millions; from a one room log house la western Ohio to one of the finest pal ncs in New York city, one of the most expensive country homes in America and perhaps the choicest private resi dence In I-ondon these extremes, with a life of ambition and activity packed between, represent the career of Wnite law Reid, editor, speaker, diplomat, his torian and princely entertainer, who will spend the Christmas holidays In his native land. Fortunate, the envious would say, Perhaps. I'.ut to do those things aud be these things require more than luck, iWhatevcr that much abused word may mean. To climb the ladder of fame and fortune, especially In a newspaper ca reer, calls for ability and energy, ap- plk-ation of the mot Intense sort, driv ing power, persistency and. more thau all. Individual initiative. Aristocrat Born la a Cabin. The most enchanting thing in the world Is the study of people, actual flesh and blood folks warm with hu man Interest; not to denounce, not to excuse, but to measure and weigh, to catch their angle of vision, to look at the world through their eyes. That sort . v -rr; " a .ft r wurrtLAW kkii. of study broadens both the miud jia'J. the heart, give new ideas and new sympathies. From that standpoint cWhitelaw Iteld is eminently worth .while uu aristocrat born in a cabin. iu American at home with courts and kings, an editor living in u palace, a man desiring power aud the show of power, devoted to wealth and the ap pearance of wealth, loving elegance F - : ;t A ZJs. inlets FILIPINO STUDENTS ARE ALL PROVING APT PUPILS i-:np:u.j cttuieiits. I;i.:g::t troiu me islands at the expense of the govern ment iiii.l given free education in the Kchools and colleges ia the I'nited State, are making admirable records for their industry and ability to master the a l ions subjevts't aught lUcui. says a Wi.shiiigtJU special dispatch to the New lork ilobe. Returns to William A. Sutherland, superintendent of the bureau of insular affairs, iu charge of Filipino students in the I'nited States, show these students are untiring in their applicniiou to bard work and that they hae exhibited mentality of the strongest sni. In their c.a uiinat ions they liae rauked well up wiih l lie best American students. It was uot expected that the Filipi nos would show much of a grasp of M-icul.tic subjects, but they hate done ex client scientific work aud h.ivedcm ouMiatcd much ability in mathematics. In engineering many of tliem have evinced enviable capacity, aud espe cially iu the manual pursuits they have demonstrated great skill. While untir ing iu study, they have not shown much relish for hard physical effort. One of the subjects they li.ne let alone t.evere!y has U-cn foot ball, although they liae show n quite a likiug for baseball, basketball, tenuis aud some t'f the lighter iqorts. In a short time the govcriiuicnt stu dents will start in Washington a mag azine t be called the Filipino. It wi:l l M-lr supiMirting. While published in Washington, contributions will le made to it by Filipino students at the different institutions. Men of promi nence familiar with Philippine affairs will also coutribuie. Thus the first number will coutaiu instructive arti- Ics on the Philippines aud their prob lems by a prominent Amcrhau. a Spaniard, a Filipino aud a Japanese. Each writer will present the subject from his viewpoint. The magazine will not be the usual college publication, but will seek to set forth the Filipino attitude toward things American iu a correct light. Vuder the old Sunish regime there was a coutiuual stream of Filipino Hudcnts U Europe. This has been ibauged. Now most of the Filipinos that go abroad for education enter American schools. Mr. Sutherland ays there are nhout 2oO PiPpina etu n.is cow in Americau iiistitutious of i and tbe trappings of elegance," yeCau the time an Americau. standing up for his couutry: simple in his home life ami tastes, with no touch of the vulgar, giv j en to little acts of charity; seemingly ! rather unbending and distant, yet a ing as his bosom friends many eminent people of all lines of endeavor; corcbiu Ing a considerable degree of literary ability with a keen business capacity. Just in his actions and estimates, court ly In his bearing, never known to lose his temper and failing at nothing he undertakes. Altogether a notable com bination! That is Whitelaw Reid. tie American ambassador at the court of St. James. An Editor at Twenty. Here is Reid's career in a nutshell; Born on a farm In southwestern Ohio lo October. 1S.TT: Scotch extraction; parents in moderate circumstances; college education, graduating young; school teacher at nineteen; editor of a paper at the little city of Xenia at twenty; attracted state atteution by bright editorial; advocated nomina tion of Lincoln and stumped state for him; went to Columbus as legislative correspondent, starting at .5 a week; letters attracted attention aud other papers bid for them, among the rest the Cincinnati Gazette; afterward went as war correspondent for the Ga zette; gained national fume by graphic description of battles, keen estimates of generals and power of detail descrip tion; in ISO. tried cotton planting in the south and wrote '"Ohio In the War," a book that added to his fame and nearly broke his publishers; wrote description of Impeachment trial of President Johnson for Cincinnati Ga zette; librarian of congress for a few years; attracted attention of Horace Greeley, who offered him a place on the New York Tribune; lgnn us writer of editorial paragraphs, then made man aging editor. When Greeley ran for president in 1S72 Reid became editor in chief. Aft er Greeley's defeat and death he se cured control of the Tribune aud put It again on Its feet. This was u t au easy thing, and the success with which it was carried through required great executive and political ability aud In- ! cessant work, constituting the greatest triumph of Refd's career. In 1ST8 he was offered the post of ( minister to Germany by President Haves, declined; in is?i offered eame piace uy i-resiueur ameiu. again de clined ; somewhat earlier l:.'.d married Elizabeth. daugbWut-Xl4tafcA. Mills, the California millionaire; at about this time bought control of the Tribune, having controlled it In-fore through friends; in the later eighties made president of the board of regents of the New York State university; iu 1S'. ac cepted appointment as ambassador to France; iu 1VJ2 candidate for vice president on the ticket with Rj.'uja.miu learning. Of these, 1VS are govern ment students. The Manila Jockey club is supporting sjtne students. The others are Iho sons of wealthy families, by whom they are maintained. Washing!. u has eleven go eminent students. Cornell univer sity has five, who are taking engineering courses. Jlrooklyu polytechnic has two government students and two support tl by the Manila Jockey club. The Fniversity of Chicago has eleven. The institutions in the states of the central west have lx-en looked tin with much f.ivor iu the distribution of the students. Many of the leading univer sities are willing t admit Filipinos on government scholarships, but few of the students are yet fitted to take uni versity courses, such as thse at Yale or Harvard. All branches of agri'-ult 'ire. normal work. law. medicine. English and engi neering in all lines are among the snl Ject.s Riven attention. Light of the stu deuts are girls, one of them, Honoria Acosta. stood highest of V.l't young per sons of loth sexes examined for the privilege of taking courses here at gov ernment expense. She is taking a medi cal course in Philadelphia. Three of the girls are studying in Drexel insti tute, and four are taking normal courses in domestic science Iu different institutions. Whereer possible, nor mal training is gien the students, as it li expected many of them will teach ou returning to the islands. Physically the Fi:i;.in students have profile! by their sojourn iu the I'nited States. SuWistence on American food h.Ts beeu good for them. Just as eating of the American ration by the Philip pine scouts and constabulary has caus ed them to increase much in weight. It is said that ou n average each stu dent has increased ten jHuuds in weight, to say nothing of gaining ma terially iu strength. There has been lirtl Ktcfcn.wa iiniK. tti. ViHoin.w Anil but oue death. The government ap- j points the students for four years. Of : the ITS here 10O were brought In 11)03 and the others last year and in Sep tember of this year. Selection m al ways by competitive examination, and there is competition of the sharpest sort, wltn numerous candidates. As already mentioned. Honoria Acos ta led all com)etitors iu high standing In a test of STo. That Wits iu KXM. TLis yeaj a fourteen year jIJ cfc! L:a- Harrison, but defeated; special Amer ican representative t Queen Victoria's diamond Jubilee; special American rep resentative at King Edward's corona tion; tendered place as ambassador tt Great Britain, but declined, aud Joseph II. Choate appointed; at expiration of Choate's term again offered place and accepted. There is the mere skeleton. Fill it in with deeds, books, editorials, orations, diplomacy, art collecting, society, land scape gardening, business and a thou jsand and one other affairs in The busi est age in the vorld' history, and you ! have some of the life of Whitelaw Reid. One of Mr. Keid's chief services to bistorv and letters was the editing DOKCIIKSTEU HOUSE. A.MliASSAKOK KEID'S LONDON KESIDKNCB. of the memoirs of th? famous states man Talleyrand. Dazzling Arrjy of Houses. The houses owned and occupied at various times by Mr. Kid and his fam ily iu themselves form a dazzling ar ray. First there is the Madison avenue mansion in New York city, one of the finest in the metropolis. It was built by Henry Villard and helped to break him. Then It was offered for sale and bought by Keid at a fraction of its val ue. Next is the estate of over 7U acres near White Plains, N. Y., wit'.i the ver itable castle topping its highest point. This broke another millionaire, and Reid bought it at a low figure. He pent a million in Interior decorations, when the house burned. A still more magnificent house was erected at tho eosl joXAuaaief million. This place, Ophir Hall, is iu many respects the most sumptuous country home on the American continent. The estate sur rounding it has leen so Iteautified by the landscape gardener's art as to vie with some of the famous estates of England. In Paris the Reids occupied one of the best places In that glittering caijital. payui'f much more rent than tauced all competitors, but. unhappily for her, she was not permitted to come to America, as the minimum age is lixed at sixteen. She put her age down as fifteen when examined, but the offi cials were: convinced she "was extreme ly young, and on investigation found she was but fourteen. Hot Water ('arm Spotted l-'cver. Raphael l.infandi was recently dis charged from the Newark (N. J.) ho pital as cured, after ls-iug ill live weeks with cerebro spinal meningitis. The surgeons at the hospital believe that the hot bath treatment and the drawing away of pus from the spinal column as fast as it forme.! were the determining factors of the case. l.in fandi was taken to the hospital on May '21 and for ten days was delirious. Several times a da the patient .was subjected to hot baths. These seemed to relieve him. but the delirium aul convulsions continued periodically. At length the surgeons began tapping the pus cells, and it is probably t this the greater redit can be gien. lir-- anU llrraii !!- I Ulc. "A proper mixture of soft, ripe cheesy and bread with wutcr contains every thing which a human lcing require in the way of food. Weight for weight, cheese is at least twice as nourishing as good meat, while it is far easier to take too much n4.1t thau it is to con sume too much cheese," declares otto Hehner. the well known analytical chemist and food expert. "Cheese is a far more useful food than nuts.'' adds Mr. Hehner, because it is made from the lest of ail foxls-namely, miik and it is even letter than milk in that iu the process of ripening certain di gestive changes incur whi.h make tUe casein more digestible." A Perpetual Calendar. Cainille Flammarion. the well Lu wn French astronomer, has decided to sub mit u new calendar for adopt ion by the Mate to the chamber of depufies. He makes the year begin with March I'l, the advent of spring, a month of thiity oue days following every two months of thirty days each. The year would thus cousist of 3)4 days, with a siociul feast day annually, while a leap 3 car; would Lave two su h feast days. Thes- . extra days would be known by special names and not by the recognized names of the days of the week. The same dates thua would always fall on the same wet k days, o that the calen dar would remain stationary every jear. his total yearly salary." As both the queen's jubilee and Edwards corona tion equally expensive places were oc cupied, and entertainment w;;.? on a magnificent scale. One of thee was the famous Brook House. The present home of the Americau ambnssadi r is Dorchester House, con sidered the best private residence in London. Its owner, Captain Holford, the king's equerry, was very loath to let it go. but Mr. Reid insisted, and the king himself Interposed, being fond of the American ambassador personally and wishing to favor this count rv. The annual rental of this Imposing palace is nearly twice Mr. Keid's yearly salary. The veteran editor has said niaj"' t-icver inig?. Here is a fair one: "You can't abolish the typographieal error any more thau you can original sin." Reid was never heard to swear about the Tribune ottice and but seldom called down his subordinates. One of his editorial writers was rather prolix, however, and one day his chief called him in and advised him very tersely "to write less and think more." Tho editorial writer saw the point and fol lowed the suggestion. Mr. Reid's courtship was not tho least characteristic feat up.? of his ca reer. He was a man of forty when ho met Miss Mills, then a debutante of eighteen. The siee for her hand l-gau soon after, but victory was not achieved until after a campaign of four years. The itcrsisteney which built up the Tribune during its dark days won out in iill'uirs of the heart. Mr. aud Mrs. Reid have two children a son,. Ogden Mills Reid, and a daughter. Miss Joan, who is quite a sportswoman au l drives a four in haud with as much case and grace as that displayed in entertaining guests at one of the splendid functions' of the Ameri can ambassador. Unou being told that he failed to rec- Harness 'Rcviczv. 'Trotters and Pacers That IVon ien: Honors During Recent Season. While no light harness performer lias during the season of l'.u5 placed in jeopardy the crowns worn by Lou Dillon, Major Delniar, Cresceus, Dan Patch. Prince Aiert and Dariel. it has beeu a jear of sensational pacing and trotting, and the iliam,n$us of V.H)o compare all around with theVracks of the sulky of other years. -. The king of all light. harness horses, D;lu p!ieh. has reduced his world's LKOXDA, '2?2, MAKES OF FASTl-sT liACB t-.ECoItO OF 1'". recuVd to l:.0t4. wh7ill Le a conipl.sh el Oct. 7, aid.-d by the dirt shield. This champion of (-Lampions is now nine years old and is an Indiana pro duction, having been foahil near Ox ford. He was trained aud driven the lirst year of Li turf career by Mr. WaddelL a man sevt-nty-lhree years of age. Dan Patch before he I cease an ex Libitioa horse ros' n'etetii Jtrnrtt oguize his friends "on the street Reid said that he made It a rule iwver to bow to any one on tae street, as he would have to keep his head bobbing so much it would leave Lii: with a crick in bis neck and a bad temper. The story, once persistently reeated, that Reid had a hand In throwing Hor ace Greeley out of the Tribune Is de nied by those who claim to know the history of that transaction. The real man responsible was Samuel Sinclair, Greeley's partner. The scheme was to make Schuyler Colfax editor and to tfcrow out Reid along with his chief. Mr. Reid called In his assistants to bid them good by when there was laid on bis desk a telegram connecting Schuy ler Colfax with the Credit Mobilier scandal. Swing the significance of the news, he rushed to some of his financial friends, induced them fo put up the money to finance the Tribune and thiii got control of It himself. At the time of King Edward's coro nation Mr. Reid was assigned t a car riage with the French and Turkish am bassadors, and tho American was re quired to sit with his back to the horses. To this Reiil objected so stren uously that he was given a carriage to himself at the king's special order. At a great Republican meeting in New York Reid. then a candidate for vice president, occupied a box just un der one reserved f r chauncev M. De- pew. I'pon his appearance the vice presidential nominee was greeted .with JM. ?:';''Y'-s MKS. WHITELAW KHII. cheering so prolonged that he arose to acknowledge the greeting. The cheers continued until he was about to un bend and make a speech, when ho was frozen to observe the audience con vulsed with laughter. He soon dis covered the cause, however. Tho geu- raV. Mii;7 ". i t only two oeats in 1 1 1 s life. His greatest racing season wa in l'.Kll. when he Willi l,vel.o straight races, meeting all coiners through (In gram! circuit, and losing but one heat, being defeated at Itrighloii l'eac'i. New York, by Martha Marshall iu L:n:. The great stallion slowed this was 1 fluke by coming back the second heat in 2:01';.. The only other heat lie ever lost was iu the second race l,e started in at Lafayette. Ind.. Milo S. beating him in the v time of 12:1s' ., tho. gh h1 was then racing on half mile tracks. The""e!!ormoTis min'of . 1 si '.ruWr has been refused fur Dan Patch, and Fly ing Fox. the thoroughbred s iid to M. Iiiane for SdDl.L'.V), is the only horse in the world's history which ever sold for as much us the sum recently offered for the greatest light harness horse of any age. To I.ocolid.l. the brown pacing stal lion, belongs the honor of the fastest harness mile of the year in a race. In a second heat at Lexington he paced a mile iu L:0J flat. Lo -onda is now eight years oM and holds the one and oue lialf mii.s pacing record, :t:l.Vj. which is two and one a.iif seconds faster than Dr. Strong's world's trotting record at that distance. Loconda also beid rbe world's stallion race record, pacing or trotting, iu P.tot and has been a grand circuit winner of prominence since his first appearance in fast company in 1!niJ. He is also the son of a great horse, being by Allerton. 'J:0'.ii,. Save The Platter and Axtcll. Loconda is about the trest horse bred by the noted turfman C. W. Williams, Galesburg. III. To Lightsome, winner of the Ken tucky Futurity, belong the honors of the two-year-old champion of the year. Her mark, 2:1 P2. has been but three j times teaten by a filly of this age in a racPviz. Janie T. and Katherine A . 2:14. and Grace Rond. 2:H;. Light some was bred by James Dodge of ! Paris, Ky., and is a daughter of the great race horse Constantino, 2:12' a. Bonalet, the winner of two pacing futurities, is the champion three-year-old pacer of the year, aud her mark of 2:O04 ties the world's three-year-old pacing filly record, held by Little Squjavr-. . Maud Keswick's second heat in the Tennessee at Lexington, 2:0-T:l. put Ler at the head of the new 2:li pacers of l;C. She hails from Canada and is ti daughter of Kes'vlck, 2:1V' 4. Iu an other season she ra".y force the pacing queen Dariel to step aside, as in two of her beats in the Tennessee she show ed Cashes of two minute s;eel. vm : - ' lal Chauncey had thought the ovation intended for himself. Once Threatened by General Rosecrans. General Rosecrans once threatened to have Reid. then a war corresjRmd eut. shot for telegraphing t the Cin cinnati Gazette that the West Virginia mountaineers were so ignorant they did not know enough to cut Rosecrans' telegraph lines. As the Gazette circu lated through West Virginia this amounted to a suggestion to the moun taineers to cut the wires. Reid es caied the ire of the general by bis j-petil itt placing the Ohio river l-e-tween them. One of Mr. Reid's chief assistants on the Tribune was the late John Hay. In appearance Mr. Keid i tall, with a distinguished manner, always well dressed, suave and courteous, but with a certain reserve. He is at ease in any' company and has the rare faculty of saying the rigtit word at the right time. In addition to his palatial house !u London, he has rented an expensive English couutry scat callel Wrest Park, and his entertainments are far and away the most expensive and elabo rate ever given by an American am bassador. J. A. EDGERTOW .tiaeli iut- Col Ion I'leUer. After eighteen mouths of experiment alteration and investigation J. C. Jau don ami S. L. I'.ond of Charleston have perfected and patented a cotton picker which they believe wi'l make the pick ing of cotton by I. an 1 a thing .f the past. The machine is -i one 'u ui af fair and very simple. The picker is mounted on three wheels like a tricy cle, the two larger wheels close togeth er, so that they can easily be pushed between rows of cotton without injury to growing plants. Kctw'ccu the two wheels is suspended a sack, and over the mouth of the sack opens a long, hollow cylinder. At the end of this cylinder are two short cylinders tilted with teeth, and as one turns a crank these two cylinders revolve, catching the tibcr of the cotton and depositing it in the long cylinder, whence it is car ried to the sack by a narrow belt. The operation of the crank rims the two picking cylinders and the eoiivcyiug belt. Charleston News and Courier. (uu l in cr: I Or "Snn)lnK" I'lahra. I'he gun camera of Dr. W. II. Howe, a Mexican angler, is especially intend ed for photographing le.i;,iug fishes. The idea was suggested I ..' hi experi ence with the tarpon, a high jumping fish, often six feet long, which he seeks each winter at Tampieo. The new camera has shown the tarpon In va rious positions in the air. some of them quite unexpected and surprising. The apparatus consists of a gunstock and a 4 by 5 kodak, the latter so fitted into the stock that the shutter and opening are on a line with the sight, and the shutter is connected with the trigger by a wire, the gup being fired" FLOCK OF 1.000 TURNKEYS DRIVEN FAR TO MARKET Mruir.ng. quarreling, gobbling, led by a boy and herded like a drove of steers, a flock of 1,1mi turkeys was re cently driven twenty-live miles over the old cattle trail from San Saba. Tc.v., to Lomeia, Tex., on the Houston and Texas Central railroad, says a San Antonio special dispatch to the St, Louis Republic. Il was a novel experiment, and few persons had faith iu the outcome. Stockmen ridiculed the idea, and the cowboy whose reassuring "Sub, sub, suhl'' to the tramping herd ahead of him has many times made music on the old Lometa trail had but a sneer for the undertaking. Rut the feat was accomplished with a success that even the luckiest cow boy has never had with a herd of such proportions, for at the end of the sc oml day tie whole nisy Hock, with the loss of but two birds, followed the leader into the pen that had been pre pared for them in Lometa. The man who found this new use for the old cat tie trail is O. D. Kirk pa trick. For weeks he had been bringing tur keys into San Saba from farms for miles around until his turkey corral held-over 1.1' fowls He preparei I for the undertaking .15 thouli he were going to drive an Im mense bunch of unruly Longhoni cat tle. He rigged up the usual "trail out fit"' and employed the requisite num ber of that new character of th trail, the "turkey boy." When all was ready he opened the gnte of the turkey corral. Half of the town of San Saba was on hand to see the start. In an endless stream the turkeys poured out of the inclosure right Into the dusty old cattle trail. Putfing, strutting and pirouetting, they sauu-tcn-d along at their own gait. Nothing could hurry them. For a quarter of a mile they str-tch'd out oer the trail Lino of them-leil by a turkey y hir ed to gobble. Twenty-live miles the trail winds around bills, stretches over plains and ! meanders through the dry beds of j creeks and across the Colorado river to I Lometa. The high bridge over tho ! Colorado was the critical point, It! w-i.s feared that there the flock would balk, f?tampede, gobble and scamper off Into the thicket that line the bank of the river. AJ o. at tLe critical roict was ap f.'.mt the snouwter in trie usual way. Great possibilities are opened In pho tographing also flying fishes and birds on the wing. (lie Ton ik u. The evils of moistening stamps and envelope chips, particularly in large quantities, with the tongue are tin well known to require description lu're. The accompanying engraving Illus trates a rather clever device for avoid ing this disagreeable and unsanitary practice. Strapped to the back of the hand is a water reservoir, from which for moisten inu ui"mmki scufai es. a tube leads down to a thimble on the first finger. The flow of water in the tube Is controlled by a netiUe valve oporat-d by a thumbscrew at the up per nil of the reservoir. The water is taken up by a suitable absorbent material on the thimble. Capillary at traction as well as the force of the wa ter falling through the tube insures a steady t'eil to the thimble, whic'i serves as an ever moist finger for moistening the gummed surface. Sci entific American. Aiiloiiiulie Trl tlrli. A satisfactory test having been mado of a new automatic trip switch, the In vention of Frank Ray lis. a poor but Ingenious colored man. its adoption by the New York Central lines Is a possi bility, says the New York Tribune. The switch was testis! at Springfield. I .. In the presence of thirty railroad men from Canada and the I'nited Slates. A train was run over the trip several times at spe-ds ranging from ten to forty miles an hour. It worked perfectly and closed the open switch each time. Two .Mil- m Mintitt. The Belgian administration has asked the congress to appropriate $10.0iri.(Mi for a new railway into Germany via Louvaln. St. Trend and Argenteait to meet the close competition of the Dutch railways. Every effort will be put forth to make travel as comfortable as possible atnl to increase speed as far as is consistent with safety. It U hoped that the spi-cil will reach ll!o miles an hour. There will be no grade crossings, the grades will be light and the radius of every curve will be at least 2,000 yards. proached, the gobble boy lu tb& lead put up his most seductive gobble, but the flock had already spiiil the high bridge. The leaders were excited. They increased their speed, aud in a few minutes the whole herd was ruu uing. scrambling and jostling past the gobble boy to get upon the bridife. So impetuous was the movement that two birds were pushed over the railing One fle.v to the opposite bank, while the other landed in midstream and swam to the nearest shore, where a farmer grabbed it and carried It home. Tbe other bird was uever seen again. At night this strange flock of tho trail was liodded and guarded Just like a herd of cattle, and at the close of the second day the whole drove, safe and sound, followed the gobble boy In to tbe pen at Lometa. Aud thus two new callings have been ushered iu "turkey boy" and "gobble !oy"-unil likewise a new profitable itr-o of the old cattle trull, for the east ern markets are taking all of the sago aud sunflower seed fd turkeys that Texas can deliver at a fair price a pound ou the hoof or, more correctly Mpeuking, iu the feather. V Lake of Soft Soap. Nicaragua contains a lake distin guishid above other similar bodies, lis waters hold a strong solution of bicarbonate of potash, bicarbonate- "f S'xla and sulph.ib of magnesia. It Is one of those few stretches of water outside the works of fiction which are actually la -bed to foam by the action of the elements. It is In reality n lake of soft soap. When rubled on any grea.v object a fine rich lather Is In stantly formed. The natives take !t externally and Internally, l-esldes us ing it for a corn cure and a hair wash. They are not blind, either, to the com mercial i-o.-sibilities of their lake, for last year they exjorfed four demijohns of the water to iieghtN-rt!j Gautemala. Uostoti Transcript. ftarKiral Outfit For Ktrvt t'ara. I"rgd by tin medical profetwdon. tho Cleveland Electric Railway company is about to equip its street cars with emergency surgical outfit, to includo only those things which can Ix? readily und efficiently handle. by the laymen A movement is al-i on foot to equ'y automobiles with such outfit.