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MINES AND MINING
Consul BleCook Says Alaska Is Des
tined to be a Wonderful
Mining Camp.
"Alaska is destined to be a wonderful
mining country," says United States
Consul McCook, at Dawson, in a letter
to the state department. The Tanana
district, he says, is creating a stir and
is dividing honors with the Kyokuk
conutry. In the Tanana region the
miners claim they can get 10 to 30
cents' worth of pay dirt to the pan,
and this in summer digging, with only
two or three feet to bedrock, is equiva
lent to $1 a pan where one has to go
25 feet to bedrock.
"The great necessity now in Alaska,"
says Consul McCook, "is good roads,
good camps and the prospecting of com
paratively unknown sections."
Great dissatisfaction was expressed
at Dawson City this spring after the
wash up, he says, by miners who
woiked for men who had leased mining
claims from the owners. The lay men
sign contracts to work so many feet of
the claim during the season, to receive
50 per cent of the gold coming out of
the claims, and the lessee agreeing that
all men working the propetry will be
employed under a written contract by
which they promise not to hold the
claim in any way liable for their wages.
It has turned out in hundreds of cases
that the cost of working the claims has
taken more than 50 per cent of the out
put, the lessees' share. Thus the men
employed on the claims have been de
prived of their wages. Lay men on
rich claims, says Consul McCook, can
do very well, but the majority of the
claims cannot be woiked on thie basis
at the current rate of wages.
E. C. Senkel, gold commissioner of
Yukon territory, has information that
Canada is to introduce radical reforms
in the Klondike. The royalty system
is to be done away with altogether and
a government assay office is to be estab
lished at Dawson and a compulsory fee
of 3 per cent charged for assaying gold
and exchanging for drafts. The 3 per
cent must be paid on all gold taken from
the country, whether the government
assay office be patronized oi not.
Lucky Queen Hill.
A rich strike has just been made by
Corliss & Rush, on Lucky Queen hill,
about 10 miles from Grant's Pass, Or.
It is on the Double Eagle claim, which
was purchased last year for a very low
figure. The stiike is in the nature ol
a very rich seam, one to two inches
thick, with a body of quartz on either
side. The gold is all through the
seam, which is easily pounded up, and
runs $10 to $15 to the pan.
t Reviewing the Gein Aline.
The Gem mine, near Sparta, Eastern
Oregon, now owned by Portland capi
talists who purchased the property sev
eral months ago, has shown exceeding
ly rich ore, acording to Manager N. J.
Jenkins. A depth of 460 feet has been
attained and levels are being run 450,
350 and 300 feet in depth. An uprise
from he 450 to the 350-foot level is
being driven for air. A contract has
been let to sink a prospect shaft 300 feet
south of all previous workings. An
work progresses, large ore bodies an
being exposed, and there is ore enougl
in sight for a 10-stamp mill for years
to come. The old Gem was worked 30
years ago by Captain Ainsworth and
Captain E. M. White, but was a ban
doned by them. The wealth of the
mine was little known, as recent de
velopments show . The property now
bids fail to be a great producer.
Electric Line for Republic.
A petition is before the council of
Republic, Wash., to grant the Republic
Gold Mining Company a franchise for
the laying of track and the running oi
steam, electric or horse cars through
that city, the erecting of poles and the
transmission "of electricty for lighting
purposes for the municipality and for
power. Should the franchise be grant
ed, the tramway system will be built
first. The route for the ttamwav has
been surveyed. From this line, which
will be about three miles long, branch
lines will run through the cross streets.
Northwest Notes.
Denny pheasants are becoming plen
tiful in Rouge River valley.
Klamath Indians have sold 65 horses
to a government buyer at prices from
$25 to $40 per head.
A panther that bad been killing
goats was shot last Sunday by William
Templeton, of Crown Point, Or.
Fire is destroying much valuable
timber in the mountains west of Enter
prise, Or. The fire started about s
week ago.
A Chinese vegetable peddler at Spo
kane cut off his queue to conivnce skep
tical persons that he was not a Boxer,
but a Christian.
An exceptionally large fruit crop is
assured this season in the Rogue River
valley. One farm will yield from 60
to 60 car loads of apples.
Walla Walla's outlook for a fruit
fair is good. Its soliciting committee
got-$l,000 from business men in three
hours, and promises of much more.
Charlie Linn, a boy at Salt cieek,
in Polk county, Or., has caught 163
digger squirrels with a steel trap since
last March. He gets 1 cent each for
their scalps.
Salmon have commenced to make
their appearance in the Wallowa river
below town, and soon Chief Joseph's
gang of Indians will be here catching
The creamery at Chehalis, Wash.,
turned out 10,000 poaunds of butter
and 500 pounds of cheese during June
The Bee-Nngget estimates that with
the Toledo, Browning, Centralis and
smaller creameries in operation Lewis
county's diary product will reach $75,
000 to $80,000 per year.
John Bennett, a logger, was fatally
injured in North River valley recently
ty being hit in the back of the head
with a grab iron, which was pulled
jut of a log and struck with great force
He died the day after the accident.
The Sunset Te!ephone Company's
failure to reach a settlement of tie
strike of its employes, with consequent
poor service to patrons, has led many
business houses at Seattle to order their
phones removed and to employ bioycle
messengers. Resolutions adopted indi
cate that the business men are not
pleased with the company's course, but
side with the. girls wlio are out.
STILL FAVOR THE BUYER.
Trade Conditions Bo Xot Warrant Any
Gnat Activity.
Bradstreet's says: Trade conditions
still favor the buyer; general fall de
mand, though fair in view of the mid
summer condition, is still below expec
tations, and below a year ago; bank
clearings are at The lowest for two
years past, and failures are slightly
more numerous, thuugh no marked ten
dencies are perceptible. On the other
hand, gross railway earnings hold their
percentage of gain previously shown,
and where prices nre made low enough
to satisfy buyers, a heavy business is
uncovered, and readily booked, point
ing to demand being still present and
waiting disposal. The crop situation,
as a whole, is better; the outlook as to
corn is lor a 2,100,000,000-bushel
crop. Spring wheat is turning out
bettor in quality and quantity than ex
pected, and there has been an unques
tionable improvement in cotton crop
conditions. The yield of apples will
be the largest in many years, and fruits
generally are yielding liberally and
commanding good prices.
The iron and steel industry furnishes
the most notable example of reduced
prices, inducing a heavy business,
while the outlook is still a confused
e.
The cereals are all lower this week,
partly on better crop reports, partly on
lower cables, but largely on the growth
of bearish feeling after the late re
action.
Beef products are generally higher
on army demand, while tin is seeking
a lower level in sympatny with foreign
markets and increasd supplies.
Wheat, including flour, shipments
for the week, aggregate 3,327,003
bushels, against 2,366,743 bushels last
week.
From Julv 1 to date this season,
wheat exports are 14,568,869 bushels,
against 18,508,96 bushels last season.
Business failures for the week num
ber 170, as against 183 last week.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, new, ljc.
Lettuce, hot house, $1 per crate.
Potatoes, new. $16.
Beets, per sack, 85c$l.
Turnips, per sack, 75c.
Carrots, per sack, $1.00
Parsnips, per sack, 50 75c.
Cauliflower, native, 75c.
Cucumbers 20 30c.
Cabbage, native and California,
2c per pounds.
lomatoes $1.50.
Butter Creamerv. 24c: Eastern 22c;
dairy, 15 18c; ranch, 14c pound.
Eggs 24c.
Cheese 12c.
Poultry 14c; dressed, 14 15c;
spring, $3.50.
Hay Puget Sound timothy, $ 11.00
12.00; choice Eastern Washington
timothy, $16.00.
Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $25;
feed meal, $25.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$20.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
blended straights, $3.25; California,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra
ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat
flour, $3.00; rye flour, $3.804.00.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $12.00;
shorts, per ton, $14.00.
Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal,
per ton, $30.00.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beet
steers, price 7 Me; cows, 7 c; mutton
7a; pork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 9
11c.
Hams Larse. 13c: small. iS1:
breakfast bacon, 12c; dry salt sides.
8c.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla 55 O! 56c:
Valley, 54c; Bluestem, 58c per bushel.
Flour Best trades. $3.20: uraham.
$2.60; superfine, $2.10 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 36c; choice
gray, 34c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $14.00 15.00;
brewing, $16.00 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $12.50 ton; mid
dlings, $20; shorts, $14; chop, $15 per
ton.
Hay Timothy, $10 11; clover,$7
50; Oregon wild hay, $6 7 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 45 50c;
store, 27a'c.
Eggs 17c per dozen.
Cheese Oregon full cream. 13c:
Young America, 14c; new cheese 10c
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00
a Kft npr dnasn: hens. Sn.OO: snrintrs.
$2.604.00; geese, $4.005.00 forold;
$4.506.50; ducks, $3.004.00 per
dozen; turkeys, live, lofjsiic per
pound.
Potatoes 40 50c per sack; sweets,
2Jic per pouna.
Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 75c;
tier sack; earlic. 7c per pound; cab
bage, lc per pound; parsnips, $1;
onions, lac per pound; carrots, $1.
Hops 2oc per pouna.
Wool Valley, 15 16c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 15 16c; mohair, 25
per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 3c; dressed mutton, 7
i 2C per pound; lambs, oc.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00;
liffht and feeders. S4.50: dressed.
$5.00 6.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef uross, top steers, $4.uu4.&o;
cows, $3.504.00; dressed beef, 6i
7?c per pound.
Veal Large, 6i7c; small, 8
8 c per pound.
an Franelseo Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 1315o per
pound; Eastern Oregon, 10 16c; Val
ley, 18 20c; Northern, 10 12c.
Hops 1899 crop, 11 13c per
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery 2222Jc;
do seconds, 21 21c; fancy dairy,
19c; do seconds, 16 18c per pound.
Eggs Store, 17c; fancy ranch,
22c.
Millstuffs Middlings, $17.00
20.00; bran, $12.5013.50.
Hay Wheat $6.50 10; wheat and
oat $6.009.50; best barley $5.00
7.00; alfalfa, $5.006.00 per ton;
straw, 25 40c per" bale.
Potatoes Early Rose, 60 75c; Ore
gon Burbanks, 80c 90; river Bur
banks, 35 65c; new. 70c$1.25.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia,
$2.753.25; Mexican limes, $4.00
5.00; California lemons 75c$1.50;
do choice $1.752.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.50
2.50 per bunch; pineapples, nom
inal; Persian dates, 66H'c P
pound.
PEST OP THE FARMER.
THE CANADA THISTLE DEFIES
LAW AND SCIENCE.
All Other Forms of Vegetation Are
Smothered by Its Presence Eradica
tion la Difficult Because of Its Being
So Extremely Hardy.
Of all the weeds hated and denounc
ed by the farmer the worst hated and
the most denounced is the Canada this
tle, Carduus arvensls, familiar along
country roadsides in thick patches and
in vacant lots in cities where it springs
up without apparent cause, thrives
without encouragement and perseveres
against any but the most determined
and unrelenting efforts to root It out.
In the city its presence is not impor
tant, but to the farmer it is a serious
matter, for its dense patches smother
all other forms of vegetation and war
fare against it is without glory, but
never without wounds. Weeding out a
thistle patch is one of the bugbears of
country boyhood.
In a recent circular the division of
botany of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture treats of the Can
ada thistle historically, scientifically
and practically throughout its trouble
some career. It appears In this pam
phlet that the thistle may be found to
be a matter of concern to persons who
have never been in the slightest degree
Interested in it and this through the
process of law. it will doubtless be a
matter of great surprise to the suburb
anite to learn that though he may let
the prickly plant flourish upon his bor
ders, If he allows it to go to seed and
scatter its propagating material abroad
the majesty of the law may step in and
fine him. No fewer than twenty-four
States proscribe the Canada thistle,
and most of them prescribe penalties
for permitting the weed to produce
seeds.
The Canada thistle can't prove its
arrival in the Mayflower, but It is a
pretty old American nevertheless.!
M" ooranists neld that it was indi
genous in western Canada, but the best
specific opinion at present holds that it
was probably never indigenous on this
continent, but was Introduced into the
French settlements In Canada early in
the seventeenth century. At present
the weed holds sway from Maine to
irglnla and westward to North Da
kota and Kansas, and on the Pacific
coast from Washington to northern
California. From the Mississippi to the
Rockies it is not luxuriant enough to
ue troublesome and tho ei,
States are practically free from it and
likely to remain so. as It does not thrive
m ium region.
There Is dancer of ita ini,i,..i
Into the northern prairie States and the
nucsy Mountain retrfnn no th. u
and agricultural conditions are suitable
iw i growtn and It Is now abundant
and troublesome In fnnHh .,.
along the line of the Canadian Pacific
xvanroau rrom Winnipeg to the coast
ine great hindrances in tha .
eradicating the Canada thistle when It
nas once got a start are its hardiness
and the pertlnacitv nf f,..-i
roots. These run along underground
ouiucumes at a aeptu of three feet and
thrust forth shoots Into the upper air
with the greatest vigor, when the plant
itself has been destroyed. As showing
the vitality and nower of th. .t..
a case in Washington is cited where
in vacant lots the thistle had been cut
down and, as was simnni ,-t,i
. I - . w H 11 V U 1
and the places where it grew were cov
ered over with soil from excavations,
packed hard by the Dassair nt
carts, so that the running roots must
nave Deen at least a varri hn)h th.
surface. Nevertheless its shoots
tratcd this soil and started new
patches of the plant.
Various methods of
advocated by different authorities, but
all are slow and Involve considerable
lanor. where the running roots can
be reached and turned up by plowing
this method, If frequently repeated, is
effective, but in light, rieh
is permeable by the air, plowing is al
ways ineffective. Where a dense sod
can be formed this will choke out the
tnistle. Hoeing out, burning, salting
and treatment with kerosene
destructive chemical agencies are suc
cessful in many cases and some farm
ers commend the practice of covering
small patches of the plant with tan
bark or straw, but it has been found
that thistles will lie dormant for as
long as three years in porous soil and
pop out as live and ready for damage
as ever when the straw or tan bark is
removed. New York Sun.
Pay Parties.
Last year an Idea was originated in
London which promises this season to
take much wider scope. Certain pop
ular members of society, whose friends
are legion and whose presence Invaria
bly secures the success of an enter
tainment, started the "pay party." It
is thus arranged: The popular proposer
says, for example, "Let us make up a
party to go to dinner at Prince's, the
theater afterward, and supper else
where when the play Is over." The
suggestion is voted delightful, and each
member of the proposed party agrees
to pay his or her expenses. The same
idea is earned out tor Ascot, for Hen
ley, for a water picnic, for an after
noon and dinner at Hurlingham. Last
year It was but the few who were ad
mitted to take part in these co-operative
entertainments; this season rumor
declares that they will be organized
on a moie extensive scale. Trips to the
Paris exhibition, coaching tours. Sat
urday-to-Monday jaunts here, there
and everywhere will be planned. Lon
don Express.
Sanitary Telephoning.
In Vienna telephone booths are fur
nished with napkins bearing the In
scription, "Wipe, if you please." The
napkins are changed frequently, and
this undoubtedly serves to keep the
mouthpiece of the transmitters in good
sanitary condition.
Her Simile.
Professor "Observe this interesting
photograph of the solar corona, Miss
Myrtilla."
Miss Myrtilla "Oh, yes; Isn't it fun
ny. It looks just like a ragged battel
cake." Indianapolis Journal.
LING CHEE.
Oriental Pastime that Brings Out the
Highest i'ocm of Executioner's Art.
Executing is a favorite amusement in
China, and the ceremony of ling chee
is the height of the executioner's art.
First, the criminal is bound to a cross
and, as the wretch with bulging eye
balls looks upon the scene in horror,
the gentleman upon whom develops the
principal work advances with drawn
sword. Possibly the offense was a light
one, or it may be that the wretch has
obtained partial remission, in which
case he will have the felicity of being
killed in eight strokes instead of twenty-four
or possibly seventy-two. At
the first stroke the executioner simply
whisks off one ol the eyebrows so
neatly as scarcely to draw blood. Hey,
presto! off comes the other. With a light
horizontal sweep he slashes a shoulder
clean from the body, performing a like
operation on the other side a moment
later. Then the breasts are similarly
treated, and with a lunge forward
quick as lubricated lightning the exe
cutioner plunges his woapon into the
victim's heart. After that all that re
mains is to decapitate the lifeless and
maybe still quivering body ,and the exe
cution is complete.
This is the lightest form of ling chee.
When, however, full ling chee is per
formed it is a lengthened business, and
the various operations of the execu
tioner are watched as keenly by the on
lookers as is a great actor in a new
part on a first night. He rises to the
occasion feeling that much is required
of him. When he has removed the
breasts as in the first method he has
still a long and expert carving opera
tion before him till the moment when
he shall dispatch the wretch; each fore
arm, then each upper arm, then a slash
from each thigh, followed by dexterous
slashes at each calf, and finally after
the heart has been pierced, the hands,
feet and other parts all come under
distinct operations.'
Minor offenders guilty of rebellion or
murder may get let off with strangula
tion. Crucifixion takes place, but the
victim is left to die with a string tied
tightly around his throat
The British empire is forty times
,arger than the German empire and six
teen times larger than all the French
dominions.
Ostriches are often unruly, and when
they are shipped each of them has a
lady's stocking drawn over the head
nd neck, and in that condition they
can be led like lambs.
To the Academy of Sciences (Paris),
M. Batelli reports that when tl- 'mart
of animals has ceased to bea -or t
quarter of an hour, it has been ream
mated by abdominal massage.
There are a number of deep places in
the Hudson, as every one is aware, but
few know that spots ranging from a
depth of twenty to twenty-four fath
oms are frequently met with south of
the highlands.
There are 6,750,000 volumes in the
libraries of the American colleges and
universities. Harvard has five hun
dred thousand volumes, Chicago uni
versity 350,000, Columbia 275,000 and
Cornell 225,000.
Because of the multiplication of gov
ernments in Chicago due to the exist
ence of seven townships in- Cook
County the per cent, cost of collecting
taxes is G.66 as compared with .57 in
New York proper, .07 in St Paul and
1.12 in Boston.
In order to facilitate traffic along the
shores of the Dead Sea it has been de
cided to establish regular intercourse
by means of small steamers, and the
first steamer has been purchased. It
will certainly be a shock to many to
hear of a steamer on this historic body
of water.
In olden days, when tea was a rare
and precious luxury, silver strainers
were used, into which the exhausted
leaves were put when they had been
well watered and drained. They were
afterward eaten with sugar on bread
and butter. This fact is recorded by
Sir Walter Scott in "St Ronan's
Well."
From a lecture delivered in the Sor
bonne by M. Mangin, it would appear
that Paris possesses about eighty thou
sand trees in the streets and public
places in the city. It is calculated
there are twenty-six thousand plane
trees, seventeen thousand chestnuts
and fifteen thousand elms, the re
mainder consisting of sycamores, ma
ples, lindens, etc. Apparently, there is
only one oak and one mulberry.
Searchlights.
Modern science greatly modifies many
forms of danger. By means of electric
lights the interior of a burning build
ing is made as plain as daylight, and
firemen can tell at a glance from the
window ledge whether their presence
is needed inside, says Harper's Weekly.
The lights are made detachable, so they
can be taken from the engine and set
up on standards. They are also pro
vided with two hundred feet of flexible
conducting cables, which enables the
firemen to run the searchlights out on
a pier, or even into a building. One of
the great fields for usefulness of this
apparatus is in lighting up the interior
of boats when on fire. Wrhen a ship at
the pier gets on fire the darkness in the
hold makes it difficult for the firemen
to control the flames. Dense volumes
of smoke further obscure t,he point
where the fire is burning, and some
times ship and cargo are lost simply be
cause the firemen are unable to locate
the exact place of the fire.
Refractory.
Mrs. Peterkin Without exception,
you are the most obstinate, perverse
man I ever saw.
Peterkin What have I done now?
Mrs. Peterkin Why. I have had thai
new cough mixture in the house a
month and you haven't once caught
cold. Harper's Bazar.
"Sparking Buggy."
A carriage dealer in Linn County,
Kansas, announces that "courting is
made easy by the use of the celebrated
new 'sparking buggy,' " for the sale of
which he is sole agent in that locality.
A great deal is said by the elderly
women returning from a wedding to
the effect that "she is happy next, but
just wait!"
"SHANTY-BOAT FOLKS."
the People Who Live on the Great
Rivers of the West.
One cannot travel along any of the
larger Interior waterways, either by
steamboat or rail, without catching
sight of the water denizens' queer ark
Like habitations. Contemptuous refer
ences to them as "shanty-boat folks"
are to be seen in the newspapers of all
river towns, and heard in the conver
sation of all river-bank dwellers, and
qo State watered by the Mississippi,
the Ohio, the Missouri, or any of their
larger branches, is ever clear of them.
Steamboat men say they number from
10,000 to 12,000; some of the more in
telligent water folk themselves place
the total at from 12,000 to 15,000 at
least, while all agree that, Instead of
Decoming fewer, they are increasing as
:he years roll round. This, notwith
standing the adverse ordinances of cer
:ain municipalities, and the repressive
Dut entirely inoperative statutes of two
r three States. It is forbidden any
shanty-boat man to "tie up" within the
soundaries of the municipalities refer
red to, excepting in cases of dire emer
gency; the States in question prohibit
:he existence of "shanty-boat folks" at
ill.
Dry land supports no corresponding
Dlass. In truth, they cannot be treated
properly as a single class, for they ar
split up into almost as many subdivi
sions as those who live on shore. Fre
quently these subdivisions are not
sharply defined, however, and, indeed,
it would not be easy to draw an exact
line, separating river from land dwell
jrs in all cases. But, in some respects,
the water folk are a unit. They return
:he contempt of the "shore people" with
Interest Without exception, they are
nfatuated with "the river," as they
jroadly term the entire system, and, no
natter how much they may differ
imong themselves, they bang together
ivhen in trouble with outsiders. They
.'all themselves "the river people," and
miff disdainfully when that title is ap
plied to steamboat men, roustabouts, or
;ven the raftsmen who pilot great fields
)f timber and logs down the mighty
streams.
VANKEE AND SOUTHERN GIRLS.
Naval Officer Mixed Them Up, bnt
Made No Enemies.
Among the visitors to the Kearsarge
tvere two young women, dressed hand
somely. One, in a patterned rose-color
Iress, had black hair, the complexion
jf a Creole and bright brown eyes. She
eminded one of the song, "She Was
Bred in Old Kentucky, lake Her. Boy,
Sfou're Mighty Lucky." She was a
Connecticut Yankee.
The other girl, in a plain gray skirt
and white waist, had brown hair, light
complexion and hazel eyes. She look
sd like a "stunning" New Englander.
She was a Kentuekian.
The officer of the deck was present
ed to them on board. He took the
Yankee for the Kentuekian, and,
speaking to the girl with black hair,
recalled the Kearsarge and Alabama
fight, saying a good word by courtesy
for the Southern boat. The Yankee
girl didn't understand couldn't under
stand. The Southern girl smiled as she
listened, and suddenly broke in with a
suggestion that she'd like to see the
magazines and the engines of the "lat
est thing, named for the ship that
whipped the Southerner." The officer
at the deck turned and looked sharply
it the brown-haired girl with the hazel
syes.
"Now, what does that mean?" he ask
jd. "Am I confused? Which is the
Kentuekian?"
The brown-haired girl smiled again
and a little flush came to the cheek
af the officer.
"I come from Kalntucky," said the
girl with the light complexion and the
hazel eyes. She spoke softly, without
resentfulness.
"You're on the wrong ship."
"The wrong ship?" said the girl from
Kentucky. "What's the difference now
adays? The Kearsarge and Kentucky
are sister ships. We're all sisters now."
Boston Herald. " "
HISTORIC CHARMS OF NEWPORT.
Fashionable Watering Place Was Fam
ous in the Olden Days.
No watering place in the United
States, not even Saratoga, approaches
Newport In the fascination of historic
charm. For more than two centuries
and a half or as far back as the time
of Roger Williams the little island on
which it stands has been the scene of
great ambitions. There it was that
Bishop Berkeley saw in his prophetic
and poetic vision how "Westward the
course of empire takes its way;" there
it was that the quakers, who had fol
lowed George Fox himself to Rhode
Island, established a community which
at one time promised to rival that of
Penn; there the Portuguese and Dutch
Jews eo flourished that the Hebrew
name of Touro is to-day the most fa
miliar that greets the visitor.
Before the revolution the foreign and
domestic trade of Newport was greater
than New York's. Nowhere else was
there a social life more elegant and
scholarly. The Redwood library dates
Its name and origin to a quaker mer
chant of the eighteenth century, a con
temporary of that Col. Geoffrey Mal
bone who had a house as famous in his
day as Marble house of the Vanderbllt
Belmont entourage is in ours. When
It was destroyed by fire one summer
afternoon, while his slaves were en
gaged in cooking a dinner for a bril
liant company of his guests, the colonel
immediately ordered the feast to be
served on the lawn, amidst the illumi
nation from the flames of the burning
mansion. It was this fire and this
feast that did a great deal to make
Newport famous. Ladies' Home Jour
nal. Snn Does the Cooking.
An inventor in India has constructed
an apparatus for cooking by the heat
of the sun. It consists of a box made
of wood and lined with reflecting mir
rors, at the bottom of the box being
a small' copper boiler, covered with
glass to retain the heat of the rays
concentrated by mirrors upon the boil
er. In this contrivance any sort of
food may be quickly cooked.
Vessels in Chinese Porta.
During the year 1898, 52,661 vessels,
of 34,233,580 tons, entered and cleared
Chinese ports. Of these vessels, 743,
of 239,152 tons, were American.
SUPPOSE WE SMILE.
HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM
THE COMIC PAPERS.
Pleasant Incidents Occurring the
World Over-Bayina that Are Cheer
ful to Old or Young-Funny Selec
tions that Everybody Will Enjoy.
"Kind lady," he Inquired as he in
spected the staff of a great dally Jour
nal, "what Is your work in this Journal
istic establishment?"
"I write the 'Reveries of a Bachelor,'
kind sir," she replied sweetly.
Woman.
"Billy never tells a funny story when
his wife Is around."
"Does she contradict him?"
"No; but If he doesn't begin the story
correctly in every minute particular
she takes It away from him, tells It
accurately In small details and leaves
ut the point." "
Accommodating.
Tramp Madam, won't you please
give me an ole pair of yer husband's
shoes?
Madam What size do you wear?
Tramp Anything from four up
Compelled to Show Off.
"Mrs. Bllmmerton, next door, Is hav
ing her parlors and halls papered."
"Good; now she'll have to give a re
ception or a luncheon or a tea."
Needed a Light.
"What did the census man ask you,
Larkin?" said Bunting.
"He asked me if I bad a match about
my clothes."
A Deathless Blossom Needed.
Dolly That perpetuated palm makes
me think
Polly Makes you think of what?
Dolly Wouldn't it be a lovely thing
If they would make perpetuated orange
blossoms?
An Error Corrected.
Clara (with thoughts of an empty
pew) You weren't out Sunday, were
you, Fred?
Fred (impulsively) Yes, I was three
times struck out twice and filed out
to Casey at third. Boston Courier.
Always the Way.
'Indeed, I never say anything to my
wife about the discomforts of house
cleaning." "Why not?"
"If I do she gets sorry for herself,
quits and goes to bed." Indianapolis
Journal.
The Usual Cry.
"Are you going to spend the summer
In town, Hilkins?"
"I expect to. My wife will do all the
spending out of town that I can af
ford." Philadelphia Bulletin.
May in Time.
She They've got a new girl at Hi
ram's. He Is that so? Can she cook any
better than the last one they had?
She Well, hardly. This one is only
about 24 hours old. Philadelphia Rec
ord. Love-Making in Boer Khme.
"Where are you trekking, my pretty
maid?"
"To yonder kopje, sir," she said.
"Could I go with you, my pretty
maid?"
"You could if you veldt that way," she
said.
New York Journal. i
Merely a Bint.
He (as the clock strikes 12) This Is
the hour that graveyards yawn.
She Well, they have my sympathy.
Concerning the Summer Girl.
Jack Well, whatever the summer
girl may be, there Is one thing she is
not.
Will What's that?
Jack She is not contagious?
Will How do you mean ?
Jack You can't catch her.
Bis Guess at It.
"What does It mean, Tommy," the
Sunday school teacher asked, "where
It says 'they rent their clothes?' "
"I suppose they couldn't afford to buy
them," replied Tommy.
The Next Question.
"Excuse me, sir," said the census
enumerator, briskly, after the name
and age had been duly recorded, "but
what Is your occupation?"
"I am a poet"
"But what do you do for a living?"
What It Was.
Teacher (after some explanation)
Now, children, what is an epidemic?
Bright Scholar It's where everybody
gets sick and we don't have to go to
school for ever so long.
Noteworthy.
City Editor How did that deaf and
dumb wedding come off?
Reporter Very quietly. Philadel
phia North American.
Quite Proper.
"That girl accepts rings from men
she doesn't know."
"How can she?"
"Has to. She's a telephone girl."
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Ber' Instrument.
"Does Miss Giddy play?" asked Prof.
Dalsegno of Mr. Hunker.
"Oh, yes. She's playing young Cal
lowhill now." Detroit Free Press.
Bard and Soft.
She She has a soft spot in her heart,
if you can only find it.
He Perhaps, but I fear I'd find it
hard to find it. Philadelphia Press.
Ber Little Joke.
He Her beauty quite intoxicates me.
She Perhaps It's her smiles.
Fhe Knew Ber Ser.
He I've Just been dancing with Miss
Sharp. She was talking about you.
She (Indignantly) Was she? The
nasty, spiteful thing! Judy.
Numerous Times.
Little Mike (nursing his aching Jaw)
Feyther, did yez iver hov a toot'
pulled?
McLubberty (encouragingly) Hun
dreds av 'em, me b'y; hundreds av 'em.
Judge.
For Resumption.
Tramp Gimme a dime, mister?
Philanthropist (suspiciously) You've
been drinking, haven't you?
Tramp (meekly) Yes, sir, and I'm
broke. I want the dime to resume bus
iness with at the old stand. Detroit
Free Press.
It Touched Ber.
Excited lady (at the telephone) I
want my husband, please, at once.
Voice (from the exchange) Number,
please?
Excited Lady (snappishly) Only the
fourth, you impudent thing. Tid-Bits.
Getting Even.
"Please play something more, profes
sor." "With pleasure. But It is 11 o'clock.
What will the people In the next flat
think?"
"Oh, don't consider them. They poi
soned our dog yesterday."
Rich.
"They say Jones Is making all kinds
of money in Nome now."
"How's that?"
"In the day time he stakes his claim
and In the evening he claims his
stakes."
A Lesson from Sonth Africa.
"To outmaneuver the enemy means
what, ma?"
"To outnumber them, my boy."
Any Language.
Gazzum What! You are going to
the Paris exposition alone? Why, you
can't speak a word of French!
Singletree No; but I can spend
money.
The Price of Envy.
Mamma Why dou't you eat your ap
ple, Tommy?
Tommy I am waiting till Jimmy
Post comes. It wouldn't taste half as
good if there was nobody to see me
eat it.
And Temper.
"Do you think, professor, that bump
on a man's head indicate anything as
to his character?"
"As to his wife's character, I should
say."
The German Idea.
"In America, am told, they have
buildings twenty stories high."
"What bliss to lean out of the win
dow and smoke a pipe fifteen stories
long."
No Advantage.
Young Bride (ecstatically) I can nev
er begin to tell you all the exquisite de
lights of married life. Now, every
night, after dinner, my husband sings
to me.
Old Maid My teakettle does the
same thing.
Bis Prospects Good.
"Do you think he can support yow
in good style after you are married,
dear? I hear he is worth nothing."
"I know Harold Isn't rich, mamma,
but he has his life insured for $20,000,
and I could get along quite comforta
bly on that." Chicago Tribune.
U n progress! ve.
Kassock Rev. Stiggers has lost the
chance of being a very famous man.
Knaver In what way?
"He resigned the pastorate instaed
of undergoing a trial for heresy."
Life.
Extra.
"Here, waiter, why are you charging
me $3 for this pigeon?"
"It was no ordinary pigeon, sir."
"What?"
"It had been tamed, sir." ;
Women's Cause in Japan.
Obviously the Japanese do not agree
with Tennyson that "the woman's cause
is man's," for the Tokyo correspondent
of the Nagasaki Press announces that
there will appear shortly a weekly pa
per entitled the Fujo Shimbuu (wom
an's paper), under the auspices of well
known men and women.
The prospectus Just Issued says that
the paper will be devoted to the promo
tion of interests affecting the fair sex
in Japan, and will also conduct war
fare against social abuses, to which no
quarter will be given. Editor, report
ers and other members of the staff will
consist of women.
Probability as to "Papa's" Return.
"Is your father going to be ba-k
soon?" asked the stranger.
'T dunno," answered the small boy
in leather clothes who stood at the door
of a Crimson Gulch dwelling. "Pap
has a purty good hoss, but so has some
of the folks on the vigilance committee.
I reckon I'd rigger on pap's gettln' home
In about twenty minutes, or never."-
Washington Star. t . y
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