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1 i^HEIPPEAL STEADILY GAINS I W BEOAtTSE: VOL. 17. NO. 16. 1It alms to publish all the news possible- SItdoes so impartially, wasting no words* aItscorrespondents Mrs able and energetic W YORK, April, lS.-T'rom an obscure hamlet in Iowa, about fifteen miles from Muscatine, comes the news of the death of old Hank :Pcnny, the quaintest, queerest gambler that ever turned a card between the Atlantic ocean and tlhe Mississippi rive:. There are many who will remember him and his' numberless ingenious devices for ma king money by the exercise of his nimble wits without the labor of his hands. He was well up in the eighties at the time of his death, for he was a man approaching middle a ft at th close of the Civil w:*?. It is probable that Ten,ny Is mors wide, ly remembered down through Virginia, Georgia and the two Car&linas. than else where., for it was in those great slave holding states that his peculiar gifts. made him famous and gave Mm the sobriquet that stuck to him throughout the later'years of his life. To all the gamblers in the East and in the West and.he%ias known to every mam jack of themfoe-, was "Kinky" Penny. On the lower East side of New York city he fre quently was spoken of as -"Turkey"' Penny. Each of these appellations had a peculiar and Interesting significance. On the west side of Chatham square, (between poyers and Mott street, there etood until two years ago an old ram shackle building that as far as back as the oldest East sider can remember was used for the exhibition of living skele tons, bearded women, Jeopard boys and other freaks of nature. A six-story build ing now Hearing completion occupies ihe eite. It was there that old Hank Penny first came into prominent public notice. In March, 1865, on the day that Sheridan moved up the Shenandoah valley to join Grant, the "freak house," as it was pop ularly known, blossomed out with a new and novel attraction. The city was filled with soldiers who had served out the term of their .enlistment and were coming home'many of them with three years' payito squander in one night, perhaps, the money which had taken so long to earn. Nothing was too good for any man in a blue uniform, and besides spending what be had in his own purse, he was at liberty to draw on the purses of .rqS trlotrc friends. He craved entertainment of th lighter sort, and Hank Penny un dertook to provide it. The canvas daubs of fat women and eavage cannibals from the fknith Sea islands had been removed from ihe front of the freak house and in their place was an immense poster n which was printed In large, bold type the following announcement: WONDERFUL, ATTRACTION! SACREP DANCING TURKEYS from THE ISLE OF PATMOS! MARVELOUS PERFORMANCE NOW GOING ON. These Strange Creatures Have been. Endowed by Nature with a Knowledgeof ,i- TIME IN MUSIC! ,'AND ARE NOW DANCING'! Admission.... ...30 cents Union Soldiers.... .HALF 'PRICE Johnny Rebs FREE THE 'E VICE FIElSiIlE*irr Wlmt the Future Hai in, Store foi Mr. Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt's vice presidential isalary of $8,000 a year will fall far shorl (of paying his actual expenses during the next four years. The house at Steven jteentih street and Rhode Island avenue !whtoh he has jusit leased furnished fron. Bellamy Storer, minister to Spain, wU.' .-coat toim *6,000 annually. In other words the new vice president will,spend all but $2,000 of each yearjy stipened for mere" {housing comforts. This meager balance the rocer alone will, dispose of before, a i single season spent in Washington has gone into history. Financially speaking, ihe has taken a great tumble within the 4last few months. As governor of New York he received $10,000 a year and had free use of the beaiuttful$ appointed exe cutive mansion at Albany. Talcing alJ 'things Into consideraitlon, .the governor tahlp netted him $8,000 more a year than will the second oflicef^of the land. Mr. Itoosev.elL'.a .Leasing .of the Storer ^toouse indicates thai he intends to shine a* a social star. The rental asked .for it would indicate that the Sjtftrer mansion. Is one of the show houses of Washing ton. But as seen front"the exterior it ja unpretentious. It is of buff brick has three stories and a hasemnat and con ,tains about twenty Eooaoaa. It is of mod ern renaissance ajrehiteoture, with" classic boldings, which lend a colonial effect. Although cut up into mtmp small rooms,. it Is artisctically decorated inside. The en trance, on the basement floor, is reached through a vault-like vestibule with grated doors. The drawing room above is foxuri- ously furnished and contains many 'ouvenirs of Mr. Storer's travels. The most notable apartment, however, is a capacious dining room, added since Mr. 6 or came here ten years ago to take his seat in corgress. High officials-gath ered about its broa9%iahogwa board will De 8unoUuueu by rare specimens of pot -ltery an porcelain. In one corner a valu* 'vl^tble bromV image of Buddha now keep* ifiiient vigil. The room la made radiant ii "fti^^l^tefe^WiWl Sunnv Schemes r4l Ten minutes after the narrow doorway was opened and 'California Ike'^Saltoa stall-had. mounted the ticket seller's box crowds were pouring into the shack. To ward night the jam became so Teat that the price of -admission was 'raised to 50 cents, but the patronage was not in the least' diminished. Ths news spread over the lower part of the cityand to Brook lyn, tmd thousands came to see the -strange spectacle of four solemn rod wattled turkey gobblers dancing in state ly measure to the music of ,a violin played b,y Hank Penny. 'On a platform, raised about four feet from the floor, was a wire cage, in which the turkeys were confined. It. extended from the floor of the platform to the ceil ing. It "had a floor space ofc about eighty square feet. The bars of the cage were placed well apart, so that there v.-as an easy view of the interior. Directly in front of the cage on the, floor of the shanty was a chair, in which sat thej fiddler, facing the cage. Behind hlrn. at^ a distance of six feet, was a stout hiriKbrsg rail, and .inside the railed-off space the) spectators were not permitted to enter. Before the exhibition began it wasi Penny's custom to deliver a lecture, in which he extolled the wonderful instinct in'this particular species of turkey, which caused them to recognize musical sounds. "They are so rare," Penny would begin, "that they are unknown to the students of ancient or modern natural history. It is presumed that they are the descendants of the winged .creatures mentioned in the Bible as having danced before. John Qf Patmos. Each of these birds cost $25,000 in gold, and eleven precious human lives. Only alter a-fierce and bloody battle with the natives wtre they secured, and on the voyage to tMs country three superstitious passengers died of fright at seeing those strange the daytime by'ra, large window of yel- low glass overlooking Seventeenth street To the Storer mansion library Mr. Roosevelt will move his valuable books. Here during each morning while congress is sitting he will be engrossed with his private secretary and the early mail. Leaving for the ca?pltol at 11:15 he will enter his private carriageUncle Sam will furnish him no equipageand drive to the senate wing of the oapitol. Alighting within the porte coohere formed by the eastern portico, he will enter the front basement door, take the elevator to the main floor and proceed to his' official 5-anctumthe vice president's room. This is the most luxuriously appointed office to be seen in Washtmjton. It Is approached only from the senate lobby. Visitors admitted Ito the new vice presi dents presenae wiM tenter his sanctum by the first door met on the right of the lobby.. They will Sfand the second gentle man of the land seated in the' center of the -roam At :a ihuge mahogany flat-top desk. His feet will isest upon a gorgeous rojaal Sexuaah .rug, wrhteh cost $212, and the KgM tEwani the two large wnidows at his taaek will fall ewer his shoulders through two pairs off Brussels point lace curtains fr which the senate a few years ago paid $30fiL Looking- up from hi* pa pers his eyes will -fall m*on ja $000 grand lather clock, In .a mahogany case, tist to the left of 4Sae $176, sins-velvet portiere cwreriofc his doorway Turning to his left the new president-of the senate will sur vey a *1|K) mahagiany sofa- ^immediately, beneath a large portrait of Washington. From either side of this portrait the mar ble features of Fomer Vice President Wilson and Former President Pro Tem pore Lafayette Foster will look solemnly down upon their successor."..:-- Mr. Roosevelt will have his back turned to a marble mantel surmounted by a large mirror covering the space between his two windows. Whose light will tie re fleeted in the polished tops of three small mahogany desks, upon another two-hun- dred-and-twalve-dollar ru, in .the ''rear of'the room.- TheViee president's necej? t". 4 rj *^^M creatures dancing a quadrille i.y *ioon light. You win now have the p'easure* *f seeing^a quickstep by the torn- danmng^ turkeysAthos, Porthos, Finnegan and Brannigan." With that Penny would seat himself and start off with "The Campbells -are Coming'-' or "The Devil's Hornpipe," the turkey standing motionless with necks craned as he began to play. In a few minutes they would move from one side of the cage to the other "Dance, Athos!" Penny would cry. "Lift a foot there, Finnegan! Come Athos, change corners!" All the time he would keep tapping with ihis right' foot on the floor. As the music became faster and shriller, the awkward, stupid looking creatures would lift their long, ungainly legs first sQowly and then snore rapidly, and with such regularity that they actually seemed to be keeping time to the music. Then, after five min utes of this performance, which always brought roars of laughter, the music would slaw own. to a walk, and the tur keys would cease to dance. Up to April 14, 1865, the date of the "as- sassination of Abraham Lincoln, the dancing turkeys coined money for their owner. Two hundred and fifty dollars a day was the average receipts, The only expenses were a few bushels of corn and a nominal rental. On the night of the 14th a drunken man forced his way past the rail and lurching over Penny fell against the platform. To save himself he put out his hand. It went between the wire bars and touched the floor-of the cage. The turkeys were then dancing- a furious quickstep, leaping high into the hir, and Occasionally giving voice to un barthly gobbles. The intruder pulled back his hand with a howl of pain. "Wow!" he shrieked. "Wliy, that's pretty near red.hot. No wonder theyidance. Come on, boys!" saxy reference volumes will be visible through the plate glass doors of a broad mahogany bookcase almost covering the waia to his right. If he wishes to wash the dust of official labor from bis hands he need but brush aside the draperies of an alcove penetrating: the wall to the left of his doorway. When Mr. Roosevelt wishes to. dictate a letter he will turn to his private secre tary, to whom Uncle Sam will pay a salary of $2,200 a year. His official ,er- ranids will be attended to by a messenger made happy by attended to by a mea made happy by a generous annual salary of $1,440. Roosevelt has Tbeeh cramming, senate rules and precedents during his leisure since the Philadelphia convention. As a parliamentarian ne is not so experienced as was Mr. ^6b4 rt when he arrived at the eapitol, four years ago. The former vice president had been speaker of the New Jersey house- of representatives fob two, terms aJ^ president of his state sen ate one term. fair. Rposevelt was a mem ber of his s^ite legislature for" two years, but nearly t^jo decades have elapsed since he gained thajj&rlef parliamentary train ing. TherefiWl b,e has had to spend con siderable tinfe of late mastering the rou tine a'nd detail of, the senate proceedings. Koreover he. has had to study the numer ous and technical parliamentary prece dents'established in thetsenate since the ver^, first days' of the republic. ^Although presiding over the senate. Col. Recsevelt, strange to say, will be neither an officer nor a member of that body: It will be impossible for the senate, acting directly, to remove him: Yet he will re ceive all communications addressed to the senate by the president, the house, anj -other branch of the government or any in dividual. He will not participate in bates. He -will only be heard when giving his decisions and opinions. He will have nc vote except in case of a tie, and this op portunity will have a slim chance for oc currence during the next four years. The /most notable* case of -it vice president': .makins history thus was the Dassaee of ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATURDAY. APEIL 20, 1901. 1 -j) liait a afczenrsol kind of a- Ittrkv of pushed into tttt ft surgeft after them ^ady for any i-ojivjh the "rait anS Penny was thrust aside while an investigation was made, and this is what the crowd found: A thin sheet iron floor at the bottom of the 'age a charcoal brazier filled with glow ing embers beneath .it the snout of a pair of bellows in the aperture of the brazier beneath the fire, and one handle of the bellows, lengthened "by splicing, leading to the point where the fiddler kept time by tapping with his foot. The cage was ripped to pieces, the tur keys carried off, and the printed an nouncement torn to tatters. Penny did not resume business next day, but sought ithe gamin* table and lost nearly all he had made'in two weeks. With the break ing up of his show he was dubbed "Tur key Penny," and that name stuck to him until a more anibitious project in a wider field caused him to be known oftener as, "Kinky" than as "Turkey." After the sacred birds from the Isle of Patmos had been carried off, and proba bly fattened and eaten by their captors, Penny was in hard luck. Of the $3,000 he had made on Chatham .square, he had not more than $50 left. The gambler had a well-defined pla.a in his head, and he proceeded to carry it out. He wanted not less than $1,000, and more If he could get it. "California Ike," his partner in the turkey scheme (he got one-fourth of the profits), was taken into his Confidence and they began operations. Penny with his $50all .the money he had in the worldvisited a broker's of fice and bought two ten-dollar gold pieces, paying a premium, which reduced his capital to a little less than $0. In a goldbeater's shop he bought a small "book" of leaf for $5, and from a sta tioner's he got a small pot of liquid gum arable. 1- the Walter tariff bill by the deciding vote of George M. Dallas, vice president during Polk's-administration. No %U or resolu' tion Bussed by the senate uurlng the next ifour years will be' authentic without Mr Roosevelt's signature. .-But not being a member of the senate Mr. Roosevelt wil have no Hand in the formation of tht senate committees. Neither will he be ad mitted to the caucuses of republican sen ators, which will appoint the committees and the 'many officers of the senate. Ir other words, Mr. Roosevelt's legislative powers will be almost- at the absolute zero of importance compared^wifh those of the speaker.of the house. President Pre Tempore Fi-ye of the senate is t#-day a more powerful man in his body that Mr. Roosevelt ,WIK be on Tuesday and thereafter. Moreover, Mr. Frye, in,ad dition to receiving the full vice president ial salary, enjoys many perquisites whier. will not legitimately fall to the vice presi dent. Being a senator, Mr. Frye ha been en titled each year to 20 cents a mile foi traveli I'xpenses to and from sessions, $123 fo. stationery, $lO worth of packing boxes, hundreds of bound government publications, a. box of''plants and euttings from, the Botanical gardens, ten charts from the coas* survey, 8,000 packages oi garden seed. 400 packages of flower seed and various bulbs and 'cuttings from the: department of agriculture. But while nc one appears tb be legally authorised tc regularly furnish these incidentals to the vice preidenti. be will probably have nc ^difficulty in obtaining, by courtesy of the officials, whatever products of the gov ernment grist he desires for personal use. About two-thirds of the neif four years will be a vacation, pure and simple, foi Rsoseve t, so far as his official duties arc concerned. In other words, he will be required to devote only about. sixteen CM .w UCVULC WJIUJ aivu. sixteen Jn not counting Saturdays and two'weeks of Christmas vacation Even' then he need hours each, day' when it is to session. months of his entire term to ofttci&l work -basket was made for the purpose of car. rying thC workmen across the riven after thec cable was secured, but the first per- tnstma vacation Eve then he slt in. the senate- but about two imjuis eabcu day wuei it I S I Session *^.-.*ci. tDuring the? "morning hour'*from noon Defective Page ^.2? 9L*? J^?i.E*eS^^5tM.lven. until 2 p*.m., while bills are being intro duced, reports are being presented, he will personally preside. But after '1 o'clock he may hand his gavel to some senator, descend to the senate restaurant. ,eat a sumptuous luncheon and later re tire to his luxurious sanctum to puff a fragrant Havana and chat with whoever of his callers he may wish to see. His presence in the senate will not be again required until adojurnment time. If he wishes to take a few days of extra holi day he can dele-gate his powers to the president pro tempore. Thus you will see that the hero of San luan will have abundant tiane fox hunting big game and for. cfevotlon to private literary work. He will be a valuable addition to the literary colony whdoh has, sprung up here' among high officials, under the leadership of Senator Lodge and Secretary Hay. will prob .bly receive more orders from publishers than he can possibly fill. A man in high Dflrcial life with any literary talent can .ordinarily double his salary In thte way. Pom Reed might have derived a hand- iome income from his pen, but he would tot exert himself in literary channels to ereat extent.Washington Star. ACROSS NIAGARA IN A1JASKET. ,In the Museum at Buffalo, X. T.." there is an iron basket which always arouses .he .euriosity of the visitor.**?Th basket About five feet long antf" four feet board, and.la made.ofi.4ron strips inter laced after the fashion" of a common splint basket. N one would ever guess its purpose were it not labeled after the manner of museum curios. This basket was used a half-eentury ago, when the then marvelous engineer Mg feat of bridging: the Niagara river tben a light coat of gum on both faces. The iilmy leaf was placed on each surface and -pressed in with a soft bit of linen. So thin was the leaf that a magnifying glass could not detect the laying on, but when the coin was dropped on a hard surface it gave forth a dull, leaden sound altogether unlike the ring of the true metal. Penny and Saltonstall went together to a famous old gambling .house, then on Center street, but long since destroyed. "A stack of blues," said Penny, throwing qown tne piece not covered with the leaf. attracted attention by ringing it sev eral times. Gold was not current in those days, and its possessor was usually re garded with intelest. Penny got his chips and began, to play. "California Ike" asked for a stack and tossed over the doctored coin. He purposely caused it to fall on a marble topped table along side the dealer. The sound it gave forth caused the group of players at the board to laughl "Ike" became indignant. Penny became inquiring. He picked up the piece and said it was as .good as the coin he had just invested. The dealer "rang" thChalf eagle ^again and pulled a roll of green backs from his pocket. "Twenty to one it's a counterfeit." he said. "I'll take that," responded Penny, flash ing up a ten-dollar note. The dealer di rected an attendant to go to a drug store and get some acid. Penny suggested that he could prove the genuineness of the coin himself, so he brought out a pocket knife and scraped the gold leaf from both faces. The $200 thus won became $2,000 before the.night was over, and 'a couple of days later the partners started the pre liminary of what they believed was a "big thing." For men of their experience, and with below the falls was undertaken. The w*" ta, so wureu, um ice urst per- actually to cross was Co!. Eugene Chllds, now a resident of "Minneapolis, Vx a k** ot XIOIUUU 1 Tig Jg ^mf. auui|vvus, seventeen:*whofiadrbepn-, HlSTORICAl^y 7 I SOCIETY. rn and reared within sight of the falls. Col. Chllds was one of four to make this Irst trip, and the distinction was awarded him on account of the part, which he took ,n successfully carrying out the plane of he engineer. With fhe aid of two companions he flew a kite across the eleven hundred feet between shore and shore, successfully anding it upon the further side. To the *trjii^ the kite was attached'a heavier iord, and still a heavier one, until after the usual manner a sufficiently strong ope was pulled across to draw, after it the one-inch cable of thirty-six wire /jfvA^ "^w their presumed knowledge' of industrht! conditions, it Is amazing that they oSo..ucl have undertaken such a foolish venture. The South was in a turbulent-state, pov erty stricken, devastated And unwrta'n of the future. The freed negroos' were huddled like frightened .-iheep: Money was almost unknown among them. A few of the old slaves had jewols and deeds of property, which had been in- I that was about all the wealth therp was left below Mason and Dixon's linq!. 'Turkey Penny had a .'fine command of I language, a winning way* and, when he was clean, shaven and put on a clerical -make-up, almost exhaled- the *r-nor" of sanctity. .Th-partners spant tour- wcekp in arranging the route over which they were to travelPenny to go a week in advance. They aimed to work through middle Virginia, thence through North Carolina, froni there to South Carolina and lastly through Georgia. Penny made his^ first appearance some where in Albemarle county and n-orked his way down through Buckingham, Charlotte and thence to the border line of North Carolina, and so on over the route selected. His procedure was the same In all cases. Wherever he could find a group of negroes he would haran gue them and gain their confidence, so they would induce others to come to a lecture later in the day. Penny's ap pearance impressed the poor ersatutes wonderfully. He told them that Father Abraham wanted all the black m? in the South to have clean hearts and straight hair, and when they looked incredulous at this he adjured them to pray fervently for a week, asking the good Lord to straighten out their curly wool. He promised a bounty of $10fr and a mule to every black man, woman and child whose hair began to unkink within six months. He warned his hearers hot to mention the promise to any living white man. and hi* last words always were "Pray, pray, pray. Pray for straight hair, and te Lord will hear your cry." At the end of a week '^California Ike" followed in a wagon. He found great difficulty in getting permission to address the negroos, and was driven away a score of times." But when he did suc ceed, he announced himself as the agent of a wonderful preparation warranted to make the kinkiest wool as straight as tow. He affected to know nothing of the bounty offered by Father Abraham. Ha had eight ounce bottles filled with a dark strands, the ends of which were then firmly imbedded in tnesold rock. So#well did he succeed with his kite flying 'that when the strong cable was firmly im planted and the iron basket made ready for the workmen who were to. cross to the opposite shore, he, with his companions, was singled out as deserving of making the first trip. With boyish enthusiasm they accepted the offer. To each ffend of the basket was attached a strong rope which ran over a windlass on each side of the river. Everything was made safe, and the boys started on their novel journeyr They were only one hundred feet Blow the plunging cataract and directly over the whining rayids, at an elevation of "*m6rc than ItfO feet. Col. Childs confesses that there were blanched faces in that iron basket before it reached the opposite shore, and was drawn back again. But the trip was one of the experiences of his life which he would not willingly *fprget* although the hair-raising senWtlohe which he underwent whfft^ dQspeliflW IttV midair-over Niagara are as disjgjburtly re^~, called as are any of the more tangible events of the day, and the odd looking iron basket in the museum has a very special significance for "him. Col. Childs served during the" Civil 'war as captain of Company A, Fifth Iowa in fantry until 1863, and in 1865 as colonel of the Forty-seventh Veteran -Volunteers of -Iowa. He^has^nowjretired 'from, active iiiinm n#^tiiiMtii HE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT BEOAITS E: 4r-It is the organ of ALL Afro-Americans. 6Iti* not controlled by any ring or oliqne It asks no supportbut the people's. S2.40 PEE YEAR. fluid and bearing the "following "label, which he read aloud: UNCLE HANK*S BALM OF FREEDOM. RUB IT IN. Our great and good father, LINCOLN, Wants all his children to have clean hearts and STRAIGHT HAIR. "Let my people gro.'* salth the Lord. ,One dollar, a bot|le was the prlcec asked, but if lie"KatToffered a gross for a'Hfflc, the swindler would have made just as many sales. If money was not to be had he would accept rings or any article of jewelry. In middle Virginia he was offered a piano, which was buried in a corn field, for- two bottles, buf. he couldn't accept the price. The hundred or so bottles he did sell were used with great faith and persistency, and many an old darkey's head was rubbed bare of wool in an endeavor to unkink what little black fii/,z he had left. i "California Ike," disgusted with his failures, caught up with his partner at Atlanta. The expedition went to pieces there, and they came North after twice being threatened with lynching. "Kin ky" Pannyis pai-cner may be living still. He was last heard of four years ago, when he was dealing in a faro bank in Chicajro. tusiatitade. uutuy of the men who are at the front In Cuban affairs seem to think their isl and owes nothing to the United States &n acknowledgment of gratitude or anjt sort of concession to the Americans, they say, would "endiarger the sovereignty of their republic." Who gave them the 2hane to organize a republic? If the United States had not (intervened 1n the sprins of 18U8 the rebellion would have been suppressed by the end of that year instead of having Gen. Wood for a gov ernor they would 'have.Weyler, with all the disastrous consequences to themselves thajt Weyler'* victory would hrW tr. the.n. The antics of the men like Ci- nero|| and the rest of the Yankee-haters in the island give some color of truth to the assertion of many englishmen. Frenchmen, Qermans and other foreign ers thait the Cubans do not know the meaning of rational freedom, and do not deserve it.St. Louis Globe-Democrat business life, ana ms nome is onfc oi the lake suburbs of Minneapolis. Julia I). Cowles. A Clear Field. TowneD'Auber tellg me he's in love with hla art." Brow-nela he? Weil, he* n^ed never hava any fear a rival.Philadelphia Press, act with more rigor against political or Banizations that threatened the peace of the kingdom, and when Sig. Depretis on Dec. 20 of that year presented to the chamber of deputies the members of a new cabinet, he announced that the min tstry would preserve order under existing laws without recourse to harsh measures,, but without displaying weakness. In the following year, 1879, when po litical agitation aiWI demonstrations in favor of. a republican form of govern ment we're still rife in Italy, Giovanni Passanante, for his attempt to assassi nate the king, was sentenced to death. Humbert here evinced his policy of leni ency, and at his instance a decree, signed by the ministry, was issued commuting the sentence of death to one of imprison ment for life. Passanante, accordingly, was sent* the same year to the Island of Elba.. ?&^e i "*r 3 3 off '_..Il*' "Sot Very Close. BigheadIsn't it strange the way the nations are acting? Americans express sympathy with Kruger, Canadians with Agulnaldo, and Russians with Cronje. WlseunOh, I don't know. That is about as -dose as Christian nations can get' to the divine command. Tjhey love one ^anotjber's enemies.Puck. Nature* sometimes adjusts conditions when accident bas upset them. It is related that Link Clem of Orr. Kan., who enlisted for service in the Philippines, was wounded in a leg*In his firat battle, and when the woun healed he found that the injured member was- two inches shorter than the other. lie was fitted with a cork-soled shoe, and sent home-. Socn after bis return be met jytth an accident^1 and broke the other leg. when the bones'-' Wefe set, curiously enough, both legs wer found to be of the same length, but his height had been reduced by two inches^ ft ID T3 O mx (D