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l-i. 5 i* 1 I a I Wit In 4 •3 "i During several years the world has been interested in Mme. Helena Mod jeska and her life. Ever since the un known Polish countess appeared In "Adrienne Lecouvreur," in San Fran cisco, twenty-two years ago, and car ried her audience by storm, anything that relates to her is read with great Interest. Probably all the selfish theater-goers would be sorry to hear that Mme. Mod jeska would be allowed to return to Russia, for that would take her away from us for many months in the year, and perhaps for several years. How ever that may be, something has start ed the rumor that her banishment is over. To the average mind the decree of the Russian government prohibiting Mme. Modjeska from returning to Rus sia is an unjust one. The imperial government had refused to allow the delegation of Polish women to attend the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. For what reason this action was taken is not known, but the delegation did not go. Mme. Modjeska was asked to represent the delegation at the fair, and, naturally enough, she consented, and made an excellent speech. In it, however, she upbraided the Russian government for its treatment of the delegation. Nothing was at once forth coming on account of this speech, and people forgot about it. In the fall of 1894 the great actress returned to Warsaw, in Russian Po land, to fill a. contract with the Im perial theatet' management. Imagine her surprise when the governor gen eral. instead of approving her con tract, sent for the president of the theater and upbraided him for bring ing the artist to Warsaw. He said that he was surprised that the rebel dared to enter the country. Mme. Modjeska was obliged to leave Warsaw in fact, she was obliged to leave the country. In 1895 she ar ranged to appear at one of the theaters in St. Petersburg, thinking that the new regime would take a lenient view of her so-called political speech at Chl cago. While on the way, however, she received a telegram from the police au thorities telling her not to enter the city of St. Petersburg. Mme. Modjeska turned about and went to Warsaw, though with some feeling of doubt as to the reception she would receive from the police. She had no sooner arrived than she re ceived word from the governor general that she must leave the country inside of twenty-four hours. Since that time Mme. Modjeska has never returned to Russia or Russian Poland. Although it is denied that she has received definite information from the Russian authorities that the decree of banishment has been revoked, It is TO GET COLD OUT OF SAND. Miner Thinks Ha Can Do Better at It Than Moat People. "There's millions of gold in black sand," said H. A. Frederick, a Seattle man of experience in the Klondike, to a Denver Times reporter, "and I be lieve I have hit upon a plan to get it out. You know this black sand is about as heavy as the gold, and in pan ning, as ordinarily done with cold water, the gold and the sand either go out of the pan together and are lost, or they stay in the bottom and are of no more use than if they were lost. On a claim I had in the Yukon coun try we got only $32 out of the black sand for a whole season and I knew that we were losing a whole lot and that there ought to be some way of getting it So I experimented with hot water, which was not unusual, but I added some salt to it and found an improvement. I took an iron bucket holding two gallons, filled it about one third full of sand, put in a double handful of salt, filled it with water and set it on the fire to boll. As it boiled I stirred it, like you would stir apple butter, or as we stir 'dog feed' in the Klondike, and then poured it oft into the pans. I don't know what effect the salt had, but when I put a little quicksilver into the pans I'll be blamed if I didn't get every particle of gold there was. Then I went at it on a large scale and with the sand that was before practically valueless I got fifty-two ounces for one day's work by three men. This gold was worth about $50, or say $16 an ounce. I'm going to Cape Nome in the spring, where there are tons and tons of this black sand that cannot be or has not been worked and I'm going to utilize the salt sea water and get rich. You see if I don't." the Island of Math St. Patrick is said to have banished toads and snakes from the island of Saints. He did not banish wit and repartee, says the Nineteenth Century. Yet it is as hard to classify these "gems" as it is to set uncut jewels in fragile filagree. In this paper I mere ly pass on a few of the humorous say ings and doings I have heard and seen in this beautiful island during a long course of residence therein. My dis pensary district extends over a wide sweep of moorland and mountain. Hours are long. Work hard. Pay small. What should I do without a sense of the ludicrous—that sense which can hardly lay claim to being a virtue, but is surely a most valuable possession? For Instance, suddenly to hear this prayer breathed after a gouty old gentleman of miserly habits, "The Lord make your heart aa tender your toes!" quite makes up for, a too small cheek pocketed by his med- Ti Uii ffifr- 'y. 11 ^j tfi* i. *-f% ,, MODJESKA MAY RETURN TO RUSSIA believed that she will soon have word to that effect. The policy of the pres ent government has been milder than that of the preceding, and it is prob able that in a short while the great actress will be no longer expatriated. There is an element of romance In the seemingly quiet story of Mme. Modjeska's childhood. She was the daughter of Michael Opido and Mme. Benda, both of whom were descended from the mountaineers. Her father, however, was a scholarly man, an eminent philologist and a lover ot music. Modjeska was thus brought up ical attendant. Or a porter's answer, "There is no first train, at all at all they are all evenin' wans here," is al most enough to compensate for long detention at a wayside station. RED TAPE IN WASHINGTON. Why the Carpenter Coald Not Glean the Glass Door. A correspondent passing hurriedly into the room of the committee on riv ers and harbors to see Representative Burton pulled the knob off the door, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "How can I get that fixed, do you think?" asked Burton. "Shall I get the car penter or the locksmith?'' "The lock smith, I suppose." "No, sir. Were I to send for the locksmith he1 would tell me to consult the architect of the cap ital. He has no authority to fix door knobs. Doorknobs are permanent fix tures and are solely within the juris diction of the architect of the capitol." "Do you see that bookcase there?" said Secretary Ellis. "I caused the carpenter to paste soine cloth on the inside of the glass doors in order that the books might not show. He did the work, but when he had finished I noted that he had not cleaned the glass be fore he put the cloth on. The thing looked so disreputable that I asked him why he had not cleaned the glass. He told me that the glass was a per manent fixture and that he had no au thority to touch it, but that the plac ing of the cloth upon it was a tem porary matter and was entirely within the province of his labors. The wtiole thing's got to be done all over again." RUSSIA MAY AGAIN RECEIVE HER. Too Much Faith In a Dog. It is not always safe to put too much trust in a dog. An Ellsworth man had a highly prized dog, and when a neigh bor presented a bill for hens which he claimed had been killed by tjie brute the dog owner was grieved, and posi tively refused to believe the charge or pay for the hens. A few days later the Ellsworth man was driving by the farm where the hens had been killed. The dog was with him in the carriage. He drove into the farmer's yard to prove to him that his dog was not guilty. "Let out your hens," he said, "and I'll call the dog out of the car riage to prove that he will not kill the hens." It was done. Before the dog could be stopped he had killed four. The owner of the dog, who never dishonors a just bill, pulled out his wallet and settled for six hens.— Bangor (Me.) Commercial. Mme. Helena Modjeska has hope that the czar's decree against her entering the country may be repealed. mm Pnuaunlly Old. .kdBMtafS Lushe—You call this old whisky? Tanque—Why yes. I have had It in my cellar for.nearly a week.—New York Journal. |fi$ tit Vv N? ifflaai MWW in an artistic atmosphere. She was called Helena because her head was small and Grecian, and when she was very young her father predicted that she would cause her mother a lot of trouble. Modjeska's mother did not wish her to go upon the Btage, but the inclina tion was so strong that after a per formance of amateur theatricals a com pany was formed to tour Galicia. She met with the most pronounced success, and she has never failed to Improve from that day to this.—Boston Jour nal Magazine. PEARLS BROUGHT FROM TEXAS. Fine Specimens Are Procured from the Bed of the Concho Blven "Some fine pearls from the Concho river in Texas are now exhibited in this city," said a New York dealer in precious stones. "Of late years pearl hunting in that locality has been de veloped into a considerable Industry. The harvest is brought north by a competent man about twice a year. As a rule the pearls command as high a price as any in the market. No finds of extraordinary value have been made so fas as I know but the average is very good. Most of the pearls find a sale at between $6 and $35 a good many come nearer the latter price than the former. Some years ago no body considered the Texas pearls as important the growth of the Industry has been gradual and quiet. Men hunt along the Concho from its mouth to its source at various times, but the most profitable fields seem to be in Ster ling, Concho and Tom Green counties, where a number of pearl-trading com panies have been organized, both for harvesting and selling. While the.se counties yield the greater part of the harvest, the Llano river and other tributaries of the upper Colorado river are good hunting grounds. I have heard it said that some valuable pearls have been found there." Inheritance of Health. There 1b, it is true, as great an in equality in the inheritance of health as in the heirship of wealth or brains. Some are born with a fortune of vlgpr and soundness so large that not a life time of eager squandering will leave .them poor, and others enter the world paupers of need so dire that no charity, from medicine can ever raise them to comfort, but most of us have just that mediocre legacy of vitality which ren ders us undi8tingulshable units in the mass. It lies in the hands of each to improve or waste that property, as he chooses, toe there are Belf-made men physically as well as financially those who, because of ancestral wasteful ness, .have only a sixpence of health and turn it into a fortune, and there are spendthrifts of health who come to as sorrowful case as spendthrifts of gold. The body is the realm where a wise and frugal ruler brings happiness as surely as a foolish one insures dis tress, and wisdom here, as elsewhere, lies in learning and obeying natural laws.—North American Review. •'M Mormon Marriages In Mexico. The laws of Mexico provide that a Mormon who wishes to take a second wife must present a certificate signed by his first helpmeet to the effect tha$ she is-drilling and he must alio Ijjnre the express consent of the second irae and b«F paraata, A 1 A HORSE'S JUMP. He Leaped Through a Three-Foot Aper ture Over a Door Six Feet High. Badminton Magazine: Without very good evidence, I confess I should have been unable to credit an Incident which happened the other day at Nor wich but this evidence has been over whelmingly furnished, and the thing unquestionably happened. The Nor wich riding school is entered by a door certainly not less than six feet thre» inches in height, and above this there is an aperture of barely three feet. The charger of an officer in the Seventh Hussars was going around the school the other day, with no one on nis back, when suddenly, instead of turn ing the corner, he went straight for the door, tucked his head between his legs in what is described to me, and must certainly have been an extraor dinary manner, and jumped out into the yard. The landing is on some flat stones he slipped and came down on his side, slightly bruising himself, but doing no harm, and is now as well again as ever. When one comes to think what six feet three inches mean, and the manner in which the horse had to screw himself up in order to get through that aperture, the perform ance is certainly nothing short of mar velous. Captain Dibble, the riding master, who was in the school at the time, made a trooper, who was five feet nine inches in height, stand with his back to the door, and the woodwork was certainly a good six inches above his head. If this horse jumps as well with a man on his back as without, it ought to take something out of com mon to stop him. DRINK SAVED An Engineer from Sudden Death, and It Was' Water. Ton. New York Tribune: "The life of a locomotive engineer is a most danger ous one," said Allen Runkle, of Phil adelphia, at the Fifth Avenue hotel, "and some of their escapes are little short of miraculous. A friend of mine, who is now a prosperous business man, but who started life as a fireman and later became an engineer, owes his life to a cup of water, or rather the desire for one. He was at the time an engineer, and, wanting a drink of water, stepped from his seat to the water can on the tender to get it. He was just raising the can to his lips when there was a terrific crash, the entire side of the cab was torn off, and the air filled with flying pieces of wood and iron. Luckily neither he nor the fireman was seriously injured, and they, with the aid of the train's crew, managed to bring the train to a stop without further harm. They then found that the connecting rod on the right hand side had broken in two, and the two loose ends flying around with terrific force had wrecked every thing with which they came in con tact. The right hand side of the cab was torn to smithereens, and as the engineer's seat was directly above the loose end of the connecting rod at tached to the rear driving wheel, had my friend nod had that lucky inspira tion to take a drink he would beyond question have either been killed out right or else possibly so badly man gled as to make death by comparison seem preferable." GEN. LAWTON'S RUBBER TUB. The Apaches Knew Hon Highly He Valued It. The general made It a habit of his life to take a cold-water bath every morning before breakfast, and dur ing the campaign he carried with him a rubber tub. It made no difference where he was, he ordered the tubful of cold water to his quarters every morning, says the Louisville Courier Journal. In following the Apaches he reached a mountain. He knew that the Indians had fled there, and before pursuing them further he left his rub ber tub and other tent equipments at the base of the mountain in charge of an old and faithful servant to guard the tub carefully until he returned. It was an old trick with that tribe of Indians when being, pursued to circle around and return to the exact point whence they had started. The general lefc his tub and started out after the Indians. They circled around, cover ing a wide territory, and beat Gen. Lawton back to the base of the moun tain. When he got there he found that the old sergeant and his six m&n had been killed, and that his tub had been carried off' by the Indians. The Apaches evidently learned how highly the general prlaed his rubber tub, for they placed great store by it after they had captured it, and guarded it as closely as they did their own lives. Sponge Bap. A sponge bag for each member of the household is an absolute necessity. The most sanitary bag is of colored linen, lined with oiled silk. Shirr the bag with wash silk ribbon in any color which fancy dictates, and embroider the owner's initials In the corner. In a large family it Is well to have the sponge bag, laundry bag, bath mat, robe and towel of each member either plainly marked or of some distinguish ing color. xm :-v Vot M||eh Ollol-e," Smithers—I an: going to have my picture taken. A good deal depends upon the pose, don't you know. Now, what kind of a position do you think would be the best for me Brownring —Well, I don't know. I was goiiig to say with your back to the cantera, but then your hair is rather thin behind.— Boston Transcript. BMad la Italy. In Italy bread and. sugar oost about three times as much as they do here. J? THE LAZY MAN. ISLES WHERE LAB6R IS UNNECt ESSARY And Where the People Grow Fat on the Fruits That Nature Has Plenti fully Provided—No Poverty and No Crime. There are places on the earth where a man may live comfortably all his life ^without doing any work, says Lemuel Cooper, who was born on the island of Ruatan, one of the Bay group, a little chain or key lying some SO miles off the coast of Spanish Hon duras. To starve there would be sim ply impossible it would be like try ing to drown a fish. We have no beg gars and no pauper class to maintain. There has never been a murder, theft is unknown and locks are unnecessary. Last year our morta.ity was one-fourth of one per cent. Ruatan, continued Mr: Cooper, is 40 miles long and three miles wide. It has a population of about 3,000 people, mostly Carib Indians, and I doubt whether there is in all the world a more beautiful and prolific spot. The people are lazy simply because they don't, have to work. Cocoaauts form, their mainstay and there is nothing easier to grow. To start a grove one merely burns off a piece oI land, and plants the nuts in rows 20 feet apart. In from four to five years! time the trees are a dozen feet high and begin ning to bsar and after that the planter is fixed for lue. He may bid adieu to care. The nuts are never picked, but as they mature they drop off, and this shower of fruit goes on steadily month after month all the year around. How long a tree will bear nobody can say, but there are some ofi the island that are known to be over ualf a century old and are still dropping their harvest of nuts. Vv uen the native needs something at the store all he has to do is to gather together some nuts and trade them for what he wishes. He hulls them by striking them on a stake driven into the ground ana a man can easily hull 3,000 a day in that manner. My two brothers and myself shipped 1,100, 000 nuts last year, and the total ship ment from the islands would average about 8,000,000. Elsewhere the hull is a valuable by-product and is manu factured into mats and ^rushes and all sorts of fiber ware, but no attempt has ever been made to utilize it on the Bay islands. Thousands upon thou sands of dollars' worth of material has thus been allowed to rot on the ground. Everybody admits ihat a fiber works would be a profitable industry, "but what is the use?" the people say. "Haven't we everything we want al ready?" It is the indolence that gets in the blood. The longer you live at Ruatan the less you approve of toil. Other fruits grow just as easily as the cocoanut and the only reason why that especially is grown is because it furnishes an easy crop, for which there Is always a ready market. We have plenty of bananas, oranges, mangoes, plums and pineapples, and they are all delicious. They grow wild, without the slightest cultivation, and all one has to do Is to pick them. Vegetables are equally prolific, and our native yams easily average 40 to 50 pounds in weight. A piece of cane stuck in the ground takes root and renews itself perennially for years. A stranger who comes to the islands is invariably amazed at the prodigality of nature and the apathy of the natives—that is before the lazy feeling gets into his blood. "Why don't you grow this and "Why don't you cultivate that?" he asks. The natives simply smile. "Why not take thing3 easy and be happy?" The next island to Ruatan is Utilla, which has a population of about 800 and is touched by several steamship lines. There is a good deal of trading from the island along the Honduranian, coast and the owners of the larger sloops and schooners make consider able money that way, but the main business is in cocoanuts. The first 1 Mza islr and of the chain is called Bonaceo and. has about the same population as Utilla. Then there are two very, small, islands—Barbarat and Morat.. The strangers who occasionally, drift to the Bay islands, through one chance and another, rarely leave. They, are like the lotus eaters in Tennyson's poem. The American consul at pres ent Is Mr. Johnson, who comes from Wisconsin. He was delighted', with the spot and sent at once for his. wife and. daughter. They are all there together now and Insist that they will never leave. The climate, by the way-,, is singularly equable The tbeomometer has never been known to fall below 66 or to rise above 88. Baltig paute of Spanish Honduras, we are*. of course' under the government qf that republic but we are too far away to, ever be disturbed bjr the storms of revolution* and at present things axe peculiarly serene. The Bay islands have the distinction: of having the largest sharks in the •world in their waters. They are found three or four miles from the coast awl frequently grow, to a length of B0» teat. iH'Vv i' v. fefeT Perquisite of the Sailed*. It has been estimated that any eraek steamer leaving New York takes, with it bouquets wortkirom iMQft to tUr 000. In a few lioua.tho passengers be gin to feel quMr ^nd amd the flowers out of their rooms. Tt»e« they are collected* by the stewards, carefully sorted over aadputintothe ice-house and when the vessel reaches her Eng lish port they are sold and the profits divided among the men. A loafef never allows h'wself ta get oat of practlo*. There Was Sorrow There. :.The colonel halted his horse in front of a Dakota dug dut and utt^ped a vig orous "Hello!" and after ajninute a tow-beaded girl of about sixteen ^ea» of age showed up and looked him over and said: "Now, then, what ye whoopin fur and who be ye?" "Can I get anything to eat here™ "Not a thing." "Any water for my horse?" Oar Increased Trade With China. England can no longer compete with us in the shipment of many products to China. This is merely natural. The best wins in everything. For a like reason, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has for fifty years acknowledged no superior, because there Is nothing bet ter to cure constipation, indigestion, dyspepsia and biliousness. Her Reason. "I often wonder why yora don't get married." "Because I'm too fond of men's soci ety."—Life. "Nature Abhors a Vacuum." Soothing in the world' stands still. If yoo are well and strong day by dap the blood supplies its tide of vigor. If you are t&r the blood is wrong and carries increas ing quantities of diseased germs. Yowean not change Nature, but you can aid her by keeping the blood pure. Hood's Sarsapa rUta does this as nothing else can. Be- sure to get Hood's, because A CoRirralal Style. 'T just heard of a good property for Senator Billy Mason to buy." "What is it?" "It's a country newspaper office, where they recently ran out of the cap ital U, and have to print United States like this—'united States.'"—Cleveland Plain Deafer. PRESIDENT KRUEGER AHEAD. Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, Dec. 7, im. Messrs. Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company, Chicago, 111.. U. S. A.—Gen tlemen: Your last shipment and com munication received. I am very much pleased with the information which you have so kindly given me. Please find enclosed bank draft to the amount ot £412 10s. for which send me twenty-five (25) gross of Swanson's "6-DROP&* Ship same as before in order that there may be no delay, as this medicine will be greatly needed before it reaches us. The last shipment is almost disposed of, as the medical department of our army uses large quantities. This order Is entire ly for use in the army. I have been told that our success on the battlefield is due to a certain extent to the use of "5-DROPS" Rheu matic Cure, which has relieved and prevented a great deal of suffering among our men from Rheumatism, Neuralgia and other acute pains caused by exposure. Your "5-DROPS" Is as good as a Transvaal soldier!' In one of the battles, a small quan tity of "5-DROPS." together with other medicines, was captured by the Eng lish, which was a great loss to our men. The Ruinecke won't do it again. I am, respectfully yours, PETER HAAS. "5-DROPS" is the most powerful specific known. Free from opiates and perfectly harmless. It is a perfect curs for Rheumatism, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Backache, Asthma, Catarrh, La Grippe, Neuralgic Headache, etc. Large sized bottles (S00 doses), $1.00, or three (3) bottles tor $2.50. Sample bottles 25 cents. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURB CO., 160 to 164 B. Lake St. Chicago, 111. A Brief Blfcvatlon. "I was at the head of my class to* day, pa." "That's good A3,. "Yes jteacher was illustratln* what it says in the Bible about th' last bein' first."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. V' Too (ha. Qefr Mini Foot-Ease hw Write today to Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease-, a powder to shake into shoes. It cures chilblains, sweal damp, swollen* aching feet. It mal new or tight shoes easy. A ceri cure for Corns- and Bunions. All drug' gists and. aho» stores sell it 25c. A VmkIMs Example. Jimson—E hear France is going to ose electric van* for the transporta tion. of trodps. Weed1-What of lt? Jimson—They automobollze veir readily.—Mew York Press. 929 A WEEK TO AGENTS Belllnc our new OAS LaMP. AGatPUmt. Brlshtsr^i' than electricity or Welibaeh clty ga*. Cheaper thaav kerosene, 1U0 eaadle light, eent a day. Poltabed. .. braaa. Ful'y guaranteed. Retall.ns.CO. Blcinoaw maker. Lire acenta wanted everywhere. Standard, OsaLampCo. 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