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WARSHIPS SENT
TO TURKEY
WILL DEMAND PUNISHMENT OF
ASSASSINS OF VICE CONSUL
MAGELSSEN.
PROIW AND VIGOROUS WTION
MINISTER LEISHMAN OFK
"*ED
TO DEMAND THOROUUr*!
INVESTIGATION.
PRESIDENT LOSrS MO TIME
SAFETY OF AMERICAN CITIZENS
AT BEIRUT IS GREATLY
IMPERILLED.
M?
Washington, Aug. 29.Prompt and
vigorous action is being taken by the
United States government to secure
the punishment of those persons im
plicated in the assassination of Unit
ed States Vice Consul William C.
Magelssen at Beirut, Syia, Sunday
last. Minister Lelshman, at Constan
tinople, who reported the fact to the
state department, has been instructed
ACCUSED OF ROBBERY.
But Both Men Declare That They Are
Innocent.
Luverne, Minn., Aug. 29. M. J.
Hefller and Lew Wilson were arrested
yesterday morning charged with rob
bing Mike Dwyer, a passenger on a
Rock Island train. The men were ar
rested upon complaint of Conductor
Davies when the train pulled into the
station. Dwyer, who lives at Hard
wick, was returning from Chicago,
where he had just sold a load of stock.
The alleged robbery was witnessed
by passengers who compelled the men
to disgorge, but Dwyer says they did
not return all the money. When ar
raigned before Judge Reynolds both
men pleaded not guilty. They were
committed to jail to await trial.
JOHN I. DAVENPORT DEAD.
He Caused Hancock to Lose New
York State.
Stamford, Conn., Aug. 29.John I.
Davenport, once a power in Repub
lican circles in New York city, whose
manipulation of a federal office caused
Hancock's loss of New York State
and consequent defeat for the presi
dency, died at his home on Davenport
Ridge on Tuesday, hut the fact did
not become known until last night
He is survived by a son and two
daughters residing in New York.
Wr ter Recommends Dipping the Ver
min in Varnish.
All tradesmen being liable to the
incursions and depredations of rats,
it may not be out of place to mention
a method of getting rid of these pests
which is recommended by a corres
pondent of the B.rmingham Daily
Post. This consists in thinning down
with petroleum ordinary slow-drying
tar varnish such as bedstead makers
and japanners use and pouring the
mixture into the runs of the rats.
The vermin are said to loathe the
smell of the stuff, and will do any
thing to get clear of it. A still more
effective plan is said to be to catch a
rat alive, dip it up to the neck in the
varnish and turn it loose. Its fel
lows will flee from it as from the
de'il. The dipping process is said to
be harmless to the rat. But some
ironmongers may not care to "dip a
live rat up to its neck."
A GOOD PLACE TO BE "AT.
black straw hat. The dominie was
standing in a leaky boat in the midst
of a primeval woods, fishing the boil
ing waters of a mountain torrent. At
his back a cataract roared and
pounded the rocks, churning the water
to white suds above him the eternal
snow glistened on the mountains, and
bv the state department to demand a but a few yards away a gaunt clnna- This new old variety found a ready
thorough investigation of the affair
and the punishment of those involved
in the crime, and the European
squadron, cons'sting of three war
ships, has been ordered to proceed im
mediately to Beirut to enicxce the de
mands of the United StaTes minister it"
if this latter measure should be found
necessary. This was determined upon
after a conference over the teleg-aph
and telephone wires with the officers
here and the president at Oyster Bay.
They felt that no time should be lost
in dispatching Admiral Cotton's
squadron
To Turkish Waters
and he gave instructions to Acting
Secretary Darling that immediate or
ders be given Admiral Cotton to pro
ceed at once.
The president's determination to
lose no time in get! in 3 squadron
to Beirut was also cfue u. part to in
formation received by Acting Secre
tary Loomis of Che stale dcpartinenv
from the secretary of the American
Board of Missions at Beirut, indicat
ing that an attempt had been made
to burn the Euphrates coll )ge build
ing at Beirut. The dispatch said
"Information jus^ received that, an
attempt has been made to burn the
Euphrates college building. Condi
tions increasingly alarming. Great
anxiety felt for safety of American
citizens taare"
Acting Secretary Loomis last night
cabled to Minister Leishman to de
mand of the porte that
lmme:.i?.te Action
be taken for the protection of all
Americans at Beirut and to prevent
any attack upon the college buildings.
Admirrl Cotton's instructions are to
sntl o: e. It is probable he will go
ahead to Beirut with the Brooklyn,
leaving the Machias and the San
Francisco to follow. It is estimated
that the Brooklyn, going at full speed.
can reach Beirut within six days.
Acting Secretary Loomis received a
rather remarkable cable t'rum Minis
ter Leishman last night in which the
latter stated that IK had called at tne
Turkish foreign office at Constanti
nople to Inquire about tl assassina
tion of the United States vice consul,
and that the minister of foreign af
fairs emphatically denied any knowl
edge of the report. He also attempted
to discredit it The cablegram gave
no other information Under the cir
cumstances the state department of
ficials are inclined to believe that the
foreign office is in to.ich with/Beirut.
Assassinated While Riding.
Minister Leishman's message re
porting the assassination stated that
Vice GonsulMagelssen was assassina
ted Sunday while riding in a carriage.
Minister Lelshman gave no particu
lars of the assassination, and the
state department has no information
as to the cause of the murder.
Ma'gefsseri was appointed from Min
nesota.
mon bear was quietly nosing among
the driftwood.Dan Beard in the
World's Work.
Here's a New "Drink" Cure.
A novel remedy for the "drink hab
rather, for enabling those
who have "sworn off" to remain
"on the water cart"consists of ice
water drunk through a raw potato.
Take a bowl of ice water and a pota
to. Peel the potato and cut down one
end of it until it can be easily insert
ed in the mouth. Dip the potato in
the ice water and suck it every time
a craving for strong drink comes on.
It is claimed that this treatment will
effect an absolute cure. The why and
the wherefore are not stated, but the
process is such a simple one that
there can be no harm in trying it if
any onp is afflicted with a thirst
which they really and truly desire to
lose.
To Cut Record Diamond.
Luncheon a Decided Success.
A lady in Buda-Pesth recently gave
a charitable luncheon party to the
poor of her district. She placed no
limit on the number of invitations,
specimen is altogether new to them.
They cannot hazard a guess as to the
species. The fish has been sent on to
the Melbourne museum.
Corean a College Graduate.
Roanoke college at Salem. Va.,
A-hich has had more foreign students
than'any other college in the south,
will this year graduate the second
Corean to take the degree of bachelor
of arts anywhere in the world, the
first being Kin Beung Surb, who re
ceived his A. B. at Roanoke in lSDS
and his A. M. at Princeton in 1899.
Kinsic Kimm, who will be graduated
this year, is so good a speaker that
he won a prize in declamation several
years ago.
From Immense Wealth to Poverty.
George Kettler, an aged cobbler
who died recently in Argentine, Kan.,
at one time was worth $12,000,000.
Kettler was of German birth, and dur
ing the Franco-Prussian war operated
a large shoe factory in Hanover.
Profitable army contracts swelled his
fortune to the figure named, but he
lost everything in speculation. Then
he came to this country penniless to
begin life anew.
Woman's Logic.
As one phase of life this is interest
ing. A woman was overheard to re
mark to her companion: "Yes, she
was terribly sore about that day she
lost $45 on the races." "What did
she do it for?" asked the man. "Why,
she must have some fun she works so
hard all the rest of the time."
TO GET RID OF RATS. THE SMALL BOY'S LONGING.
Incongruity of Surroundings in a Wild
Country.
One of the rtrangest sights I ever
saw in a wild country was a little min
ister garbed in solemn black, white velope full of peas, which were said
"dog" collar, buttonless vest and stiff to have been found in the tomb of one
In Amsterdam a syndicate has been
formed which will bear the great ex
pense and risk attending the cutting i then, the "superfluous woman?" The
of what is the largest known diamond, boys die, during the first weeks and
the Excelsior. The Excelsior was I months o* life, at a far greater rate
found at the Jagersfonteiu diamond than the supposed "weaker vessels."
mines of South Africa in 1893. It has In a few months they have sunk to an
the size, of a hen's egg and weighs in equality and soon woman takes the
its present raw state 970 carats, which lead, numerically, and keeps it, nu-
is nearly twice as much as the Kohi- I merically. The reason is not uncon-
noor weighed before it was reduced nected with the larger size of the
to its present size. Specially con- baby boy's head, for which he either
structed machinery has to be em- I pays the penalty very early or reaps
ployed for cutting the Excelsior and the rewardif woman will forgive
greai care is used in insuring its safe- the hintlater.
ty from theft.
and the result was that 3,000 people only one argument in favor of the old
arrived, all eager for the treat, way and that was given by an\ Eng-
Eventually the police had to draw I lish bishop who declared that the
their sabers to keep order among the present method of spelling helped the
revelers. There were no two opin- churches. According to the bishop:
ions about the success of the func- "By the time you can'make a boy be-
tion. The guests to a man declared lieve that 't-h-r-o-u-gh' spells
that they had never assisted at so in- 'through,' that 't-h-o-u-g-h* spells
tense and exciting a luncheon before 'though
in their lives. They were quite cut you can make him believe anything."
up when the time came to go.
Motor Cars in Switzerland
Should the experiments in progress
in the neighborhood of Berne prove as
successful as is anticipated travelers
to Switzerland in the summer of this
year will he able to cross the moun
tains by motor car instead of the
usual post diligence. The actual trials
will be made in tne spring, and the
result, if successful, will be not only
to allow travelers to make the differ-
Remarkable Sea Monster.
A remarkable sea monster was re
cently caught in Port Fairy bay by
some fiishermen. It measured nine
feet six inches in length, had a tail
like that of a screw tail-shaft, no
teeth, a nose like a rhinoceros, a head
like an elephant, two dorsal fins, four
side fins and two steering fins. The
skin was black and very soft. The
most experienced fishermen say the i ent journeys in half the time, but to
Part of the Show That Was Woefully
Disappointing.
Little Willie's father took him to
the show. It was a variety show, end
ing with a sketch called "The African
Belle," in which, after a missionary
had been bound to a stake by a lot of
dancing savages, he is rescued by the
chief's daughter after the manner of
Capt. John Smith. This last part of
the show Willie's father thought
would please the boy immensely but
the son and heir fell into a state of
gloom at its close. On the way home
the fond parent inquired: "Willie,
didn't you like the part where all the
savages come out?" "No," replied
Willie with a sigh. "Me and the other
boys play that. When you pay to go
to a show I should think they might
kill the missionary."
PEAS FROM PHARAOHS' TOMB.
Their Product Unlike Anything Known
at Present.
There are bargains and finds to be
made in the plant world equal to any
picked up in old curiosity shops. Some
time ago a Glasgow gentleman re
ceived from his son in Egypt an en-
of the Pharaohs. He sent them to a
friend of his at Kames, in the Isle ot
Bute, who sowed them. They grew
up into plants quite unlike anything
known, at present, strong and about
six feet high, with a great white flow
er having a red center. The pods
were long and full of excellent peas.
sale at good prices.
Muscular Christianity.
Prof. Bryce, in his biographical
study of Bishop Fraser, of Manches- 1
ter, tells of a clergyman of Fraser's
diocese who had knocked a man down i
who had insulted him. The bishop
wrote him a letter of reproof, point- i
ing out that exposed as the Church of
England was to much criticism on all
hands, her ministers ought to be very
careful of their demeanor. The of
fender replied by saying: "I must re
gretfully admit that, being grossly
insulted, and forgetting in the heat of
the moment the critical position of
the Church of England, I did knock
the man down, etc." Fraser was de
lighted with the turning of the tables
on himself, and afterward invited the
clergyman to visit him.
Superfluous Boys.
A British parliamentary paper
shows that, as usual, nearly 20,000
more boys than girls were born in
the British isles last year. Whence,
Why He Disliked Spelling Reform, i
Senator F. Dumont Smith of Kins
ley lectured on "Words" in Wichita,
Kan., a few nights ago. He is for
spelling reform, and in advocating it
in his lecture said that he knew of
and 't-o-u-g-h' spells 'tough'
open th-? mountain roads, which are at
present closed to them on account of
the horses.
Much Money in Tramp-s Clothes.
A lot of. young fellows in an Ohio
town had a good time with a tramp
last week. They took him into a shed,
gave him a good bath, shaved -him
and cut his hair. They then bought
a new suit of clothes, white shirt and
stand-up collar and dressed him out
complete. But when they attempted
to burn his hobo clothes he objected
and fought for them with tuch des
peration their suspicions were
aroused, and upon searching they
found $1,400 sewed up in the coat.
Girl an Excellent Athlete.
Miss Agnes S. Wood, the champion
basket ball player and all-around ath
lete of Vassar college, has beaten the
girls' record at running and almost
equaled that of men, despite the fact
that her gait was somewhat impeded
by a rather cumbrous costume. She
does not allow athletics to interfere
with her studies and will graduate
near the head of her class.
Few Automobiles in Washington.
Official Washington does not take
kindly to the automobile and very
few persons in the executive or dip
lomatic service are seen in vehicles
other than carriages. The president
is too fond of horses ever to take up
the craze. He has always shown a
preference for surreys and seldom
drives out of town in any other kind
of vehicle.
THE EXPANSION OF RUSSIA.
Nothing Stops th3 Progress of the
Giant of the North.
The progress of Russia is like the
spreading of ink over blotting paper.
There is no natural barrier in Persia I
to throw her back .or head her off,
BUCh as the mountainous frontier of
India. But the prospect of Russian I
absorption of Persia is not practical
politics to-day. Neither is it practical
politics nor healthy patriotism to
hound on Great Britain to occupy,
finance, protect cr claim rights in
every country which lies upon her
road to India or Africa or America or
the South Seas. Such a policy is mere
ly suicidal. We can barely govern
efficiently our present possessions.
Fresh large responsibilities in Persia,
in China and ultimately in Turkey
would simply weigh us down to the
gunwale and finally sink us.London
Chronicle.
FAD OF A FAMOUS JACKDAW.
Bird Took Trips on Buses and Gave
His Foes a Tongue Lashing.
The Brixton jackdaw, which was
found dead recently in the bar of the
Angell Arms at Brixton, London, was
a great celebrity in his own way. All
jackdaws have fads of their own, and
the favorite fad of this particular bird
was to travel all over London on omni
buses, trains and cabs. He was thor
oughly well known to every 'busman
in the Brixton district he used to
take his seat on a bus beside the
driver, and would chatter most volu
bly till the journe- 'o the city or else
where was accomplished, when he
would fly back to his Brixton home.
He was a bird of strorg likes and dis
likes, and when any of his master's
customers failed to find
favor in "ds
sight he would assail th^m with the
most embarrassing flow of language.
Billiard Players.
The game of billiards has grown in
popularity of late with the fair sex.
According to Shakespeare. Cleopatra
played billiards with her favorite,
Charmion, in the year 30 B. C. At
present the best women players are
the French, who frequent professional
games and eagerly follow the billiard
news of the day. Patti is fond of the
game and had a table made in this
country to take to- her Welsh castle,
for which she paid $2,500. Among
American billiard pla/ers of repute
are Mrs. George Gould, Mrs. Edwin
Gould, Mrs. Almeric Paget, Mrs.
Burke-Roche and Lillian Russell. Bil
liards are said to afford excellent ex
ercise.
Minister Bowen's Wife.
Mrs. Bowen, wife of our minister to
Venezuela, talks very entertainingly
of the Venezuelans, whom she de
scribes as models of domestic virtue. I
Many are also very beautiful, but they
go out very little in public, being of
Spanish descent. Mrs. Bowen, who
is slight in figure and of girlish man
ners, was a Miss Clegg of Galveston,
Tex. She is fond of pets, and among
the unusual ones entertained at the
legation in Caracas are several par
rots, a fine peacock and some monkeys
which are allowed to roam at will in
the garden.
The Deacon's Climax.
"Yes," said Deacon Stuckup, "the
works of Providence are manifold.
The omnipotence of the Almighty is
seen in all things, great and small,
high and low. The good Lord who
made the great mountains made the
smallest insect that crawls over them
the good Lord who made the mighty
ocean made the smallest fish that
swims in it the good Lord who made
man, the greatest of His works, made
the smallest flower of the field. The
good Lord, brethren, who made me
made a daisy!"
The Methods of Novelists.
And here is Maxim Gorky paying
$150,000 cash for a beautiful palace on
the banks of the Volga. This is the
reward of the skilful use of his pen
in glorifying the tramp and the out
cast, and vilifying and scandalizing
their opposites in Russian society and
politics. It is frequently thus, though
Tolstoi began at the other end of the
social ladder, sacrificing a title and a
fortune for the rewards that have
come to him as a novelist and a cham
pion of the oppressed.
Few Motor Cars in Portugal.
Motor cars as yet show no signs of
being used in Portugal. Last year only
twenty were imported, of which
eighteen were French, one English and
one German. The bicycle trade is
also languishing only 572 bicycles
were imported in twelve months222
from the United States, 151 from
France and 35 from the United King
dom. The population of Portugal is
about the same as that of London.
London's Army of Horses.
In a recent paper on "Electric Auto
mobiles," read before the Institution
of Civil Engineers, Mr. H. F. Joel
stated that in London alone there were
over 16,000 licensed horse-carriages,
apart from private vehicles, trades
men's vans, etc., and it was estimated
that over 200,000 horses were stabled
each night in London, necessitating
the daily removal of more than 5,000
tons of manure and refuse.
Too Much for Him.
"And do you mean to say," e*-
claimed Farmer Brown to a policeman
in Lebanon, Pa., as he gazed at the
trolley wire, "that that thing is used
for travelin' purposes?" "Yes." "Hu-
man bein's go that a-way?" "Of
course." "Good-byes." "Where fere
you going?" "Back home. I'm get
tin' used to the steam cars, but I'm
durned ef I'm ready to be sent by tele
graph."
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The Roentgen Rays Failed.
Hearing of the efficacy of the
Roentgen rays for the removal of
haire from the upper lip a lady in
Hanover, age thirty-five, applied to
Dr. Karl Bruno Schurmayer, a prop
erly qualified doctor and Roentgen
ray specialist, for treatment. He
operated twice, but instead of remov
ing the superfluous hairs the opera
tion resulted in the skin of the face
becoming red and the lips swollen.
The lady thereupon brought an
action against the doctor and wra.s
awarded $60 damages, against which
he appealed, but the decision has
just been upheld.
The Development of Africa.
In Ethiopia and the Soudan, the
work of development and exploitation
is progressing. The treaty recently
concluded betwreen
THE TRAINING OF A CHILD. HE SOLD HIS HEAD.
Several Important Points That Must
Be Remembered.
To teach a chfld with success re
quires only common sense, good judg
ment and gentleness. There are, how
ever, three other important points that
must ever be foremost in the mind
of the teacher.
First of all, she must remember that
to teach is to impart instruction not
to find fault with ignorance, with lack
of comprehension, with listlessness or
with forgetfulness. Often, indeed, for
these last named faults, poor teaching
is to blame. Second, there is the
inflexible rule that requires a teacher
to prepare every lesson carefully be
fore giving it, in order to present ft
in an interesting and intelligible way.
Third, there is the ever present dan
ger of overdoing, against which the
teacher must always be on guard.
In the beginning short lessons fre
quently varied give the best results.
Ten or fifteen minutes for each study
is enough, and this time limit must
not be overstepped so long as to
morrow represents another day.The
Household.
VITALITY OF BURNS' FAME.
It Is One of the Great Facts of Our
Literature.
"The inquest" on Robert Burns was
concluded long ago, but from time to
time the findings are reviewed by crit
ical writers, as in a recent symposium,
says Collier's. A curious result thus
chances. From every such inquisition
the poet emerges the more radiant and
triumphalthe critics are lost in tne
splendor they have evoked. It is one
thing to make literature it is another
and quite different thing to write about
literature and the makers thereof. This
is a truism, and yet the distinction is
often confused, especially by the writ
ers of criticism. Burns has survived
several generations of critics, many
of whom made a vain bid for remem
brance by their praise or dispraise of
him. The vitality of his fame is one
of the great facts of our literature.
Just an Incident in Georgia.
Mr. Bud Spinks was awakened the
other morning by a Strang, grunting
noise in his room, which proved to be
the voice of a medium-sized alligator
that was warming itself by the smol
dering ashes of his fireplace and inci
dentally trying to swallow his boots,
which be had placed there to dry, and
which he had bought on the install
ment plan and had only made one pay
ment on them. The saurian had suc
ceeded in swallowing one boot and
had the other downclear to the
straps, which Mr. Spinks seized and
pulled it out. The 'gator is now on
exhibition at Minche's drug store, but
will soon he slain in order that Mr.
Spinks, who is going around with one
boot and one shipper, may recover the
other boot.Adams Enterprise.
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King Menelek and
the British government probably
means the early construction of the
Berber-Suakin railroad via Kassala
(costing some $15,000,000) and the
subsequent extension of the Kassala
line southward to Lake Rudolph,
where eventually it will form a junc
tion with the Uganda railway, at the
same time marking a long step toward
the realization of the Cape-to-Cairo
scheme.
This Lunch Was a Success.
A lady in Budapest recently gave a
charitable lunch party to the poor of
her district. She placed no limit on
the number of invitations, and the re
sult was that 3,000 people arrived, all
eager for the treat. Eventually the
police had to draw their sabers to keep
order among the revelers. There were
no two opinions about the success of
the function. The guests to a man
declared they had never assisted in so
intense and exciting a lunch before in
their lives. They were quite cut up
when the time came to go.
Different After Five Years.
William Glackins, who admires
Whistler, cited the other day two let
ters written by a collector of etchings
to a certain print seller. Between the
letters there was an interval of five
years. The first said: "I do not want
etchings by Whistler. They impress
me as if flies that had fallen in an ink
well had walked on old paper." The
second letter said: "Send me every
etching by Whistler the price of which
is not ruinous."Philadelphia Record.
Got It.
At the close of the third act the
gifted tragedian was called before the
curtain. "My friends," he said, ap- i
parently much astonished and embar
rassed, "your kindness overwhelms
me. Ihave striven conscientiously to
win your approval, but I was not pre
pared for so magnificent a welcome
and in the suprise of the moment I
find myself utterlyI hesitate for
want of a suitable word "Rats!" i
shouted a gallery hoodlum.
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Peculiar Condition in Which Wealthy
Russian Finds Himself.]
A curious story comes from ttussia
about a man who sold his head.J About
the year 1865 tnere lived a man at
Keff with an enormous head. A Rus
sian scientist, Prof. Walker, in order
i to secure the head for scientific pur
poses, bought it from its possessor for
500 roubles. The condition of sale
was that it should only be delivered
after the man's decease but when
the transaction got abroad a great
scandal was created. The professor,
however, stuck to his bargain, and the
i big head applied itself to business.
Fortune smiled on the latter he *ell
I heir to a big fortune, and then he
began to feel uncomfortable at the
thought that the head belonged to an
other. He went to the professor, offer
i ed him 1,000, 1,500, even 2,000 roubles
if only he would give him back the
absolute ownership of his headpiece.
But the professor heid out, and for
aught that is known to the contrary he
is still holding out.Pearson's Week
ly.
TO CURE A COLD.
Uncle Allen Sparks Knew of Many
Infallible Remedies.
"Uncle Allen," asked the young
man, "do you know anything that's
good for a cold?"
Mr. Allen Sparks opened his desk,
took from one of the pigeonholes a
large number of newspaper clippings
tied with a string, and threw it oyer
to him.
"Do I know of anything that is good
for a cold?" he echoed. "My boy, 1
know of six hundred and twenty-seven
infallible ways of curing a cold. I've
been collecting them for forty-nine
years. You try these, one after the
other, and if they don't do' you any
good, come back and I will give you
one hundred and sixteen more. Bless
me!" added Mr. Sparks with enthu
siasm, you can always cure a cold if
you go about it the right way."
He dug up a bundle of yellow, time
stained clippings out of another pig
eonhole and the visitor hastily left.
Good Word for Mosquito.
The announcement comes from
Washington that the New Jersey mos
quito is really a blessing in disguise.
Not only is its bite not dangerous,
but, it is asserted, this voracious in
sect destroys poisonous immigrants
of its genus that come from the south
to threaten people with malaria, yel
low fever and the like. All this jjiay
be true enough, but it is not finely
that the long-billed New Jersey variety
will be cultivated as household pets
until some way is devised to muzzle
them during their working hours. Few
of us can stand the loss of blood nec
essary for their salubrity.Indianap
olis News.
Necklace Awaits an Owner.
A strange story is told about a dia
mond necklace which was found at one
of the English court balls some years
ago. One of the late queen's ladies
in-waiting picked up a diamond neck
lace from the floor. A lady came for
1 ward and claimed it. The- finder, how-
ever, declared it was her duty to give
it in to the lord chamberlain's office,
as this was the rule with regard to
anything found in the palace. The
lady protested in vain, but the oddest
thing was that this necklace never
was claimed, and is probably still at
the lord chamberlain's office.
Hare as a Universal Provider.
In the economy of nature the hare
is the one creature that stands he
i tween most of the carnivorous animals
and starvation. In the northern woods
i where snow lies on the ground for
more than half the year, and where
vegetation is of slow growth, the hare
serves as a machine for converting
I birch twigs into muscular, lean meat,
and providing it in such quantities
that hawks, owls, wildcats, weasels
i and foxes can live in comparative
luxury. A pair of hares under favor
able conditions produce 70,000 indl
viduals in four years.
Cats to Kill Prairie Dogs.
The owners of an enormous sheep
ranch in Montana suffer so much loss
from the consumption by prairie dogs
of the tender shoots of grass, that
they have determined to import cats
enough to exterminate the dogs. The
first company of 100 cats is being re
cruited at St. Paul. A facetious writer
in the New York Post shows anxiety
for the future of the cats, their work
being accomplished. He says if they
do kill the prairie dogs they will have
the choice, subsequently, of starva
tion, cannibalism or brigandage.
A Healthy Spot.
The healthfulness of a certain sum
mer resort is advertised by this story.
Recently a visitor began to talk to
an old resident of the town in question
and asked him his age. whereupon he
said: "I am just over seventy."
"Well," said the visitor, "you look as
if you had a good many years tc Jive
yet At what age did your father die?"
"Father dead?" said the man, look
ing surprised. "Father isn't dead
why, he's upstairs just now putting
grandfather to bed!"
A Real Bargain.
"In time," said the struggling artist,
"that painting will be of great value.
All you have to do Is to tuck it away
in an attic somewhere and keep it
for about 200 years, by which time
I will have become one of the old
masters. Then you can sell it easily
for $10,000. You see, I know the rules,
but unfortunately I am not in a finan
cial position to carry them out So,
if you want a real bargain, I'll let you
have this little gem for $1.50."