Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1897, Page 21

4) THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1897-24 PAGES. 21 RECEPTION ROOM. THE NEW TREATY Room in the State Department Where the Instrument Was Signed. INTERESTING EVENTS IN ITS HISTORY Furnished Under the Direction of Mrs. Fish Years Ago. DIPLOMATS MEET WHERE NE OF THE DIP- fomatic events of the age is the agree- ment solemnly en- tered into between the representative of the President of the United States and the government of sreat Britain for the settlement by arbitration of ail lifferences arising between the two —_ countries, excepting only those involving a question of national honor. As has been already stated in The Star, a treaty of arbitrati between the two countries named was formally con- cluded in this city last Monday. The Scene of the enactment of this important compact was the diplomatic room of the State Department, and the chief actors were Secretary Olney, representing the President of the United States, and Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassa- dor here, representing the British empire. They signed the treaty in duplicate, and made it an accomplished fact, subject only to the action of the United States Senate. The diplomatic room has been the scene of many important acts in the history of the United States In its relations with the other countries of the world, but it is be- lieved no single one of them, perhaps, can rank with the Anglo-American arbitration treaty in its civilizing influences upon the world in general and the signatory powers in particular. ‘There are many points of interest in the great granite structure sheltermg the te, War and Navy departments, but ne that attracts more visitors or excites as much attention as the diplomatic room. It is a spacious apartment, complete in all its appointments, and compares favorably in beauty with any p room in this city, not even excepting the marble room reserved for the use of the President of the Tnited States in the Senate wing of the pitol. It is situated on the second floor the se midway between the office of ecretary of te and the office of the second assistant secretary. Although separate and distinct in itself, it communic with both the offices named. sixty feet long, seventeen feet wide teen feet high. There are two doors Ing on the main corrider and one at b end. Sunlight imitted through six long windows, which, in addition, afford view of Arlington a, with the Wash- ingten tnonument and the Potomae river in the foregrcun Mrs. Hamilton Fish's Taste. Possession was taken of this room in 4875, when the south wing of the State, War and Navy Departments was complet- ed and turned over to the government. It was decorated and furnished under the rsonal supervision ef Mrs. Hamilton ish, wife of the Secret time. The walls and ceilings were decorat- ed by Tiffany of New York, and the fur- niture was supplied from the same city. The mosaic hardwood floor was covered with two large Persian rugs of rich design and great value, specially imported from Smyrna for the purp Heavy damask hangings of somewhat somber tints show- ing a silver thread and real lace curtains of exquisite hip and design were Provided for s. An immense ry of State at that was made the Two large and covered © placed in the center ar ends, and between n was placed an oval ottoman with an frame pom ni je of ebony and rich- ed in harmon:ous colors were along the walls. Two smaller up- esks completed the furniture. Three chandeliers of artistic pattern ovided. The center one furnished lumix » and the two end ones, are gilt. are more modern electrolears. Two artistic mantels, finish- ed in ebony, of the yp- are rich and nts the lea the room are s which nearly cover the are portraits of ail the Secret: from Jefferson to and Mr. Olney’s por- trait wi tion after he retires from ¢ Df fixing the boundaries between the L States and the British Possessions in North America. They were painted by Healy, and are greatly admired &s works of art. Lord Ashburton, the Brit- ish ambassador, enjoys the distinction of being the only individual represented in the collection who has not held the office of Secretary of State. The pictures accom- panying this article were made trom photo- graphs taken by Miss Frances B. Johnston. But Few Changes. During Secretary Gresham's administra- tion it became necessary to recover the tables and reupholster end revarnish the chairs and sofas, and this work was done under the personal supervision of Mrs. Gresham. With these exceptions and tl addition of a few new portraits the ap- peintments of the room remain the same as when first occupied in 1875. A small equestrian statue of General Washington exhibited at the world’s Columbian exno- sition has been recently placed on the table at the west end of the room. All the diplomatic business of the gov- ernment is transacted in this room. All the treaties made by the United States since 1875, including the Hawalian annexa- tion treaty, have been signed there, and all the international conventions that have as- sembied in this city since that date have | made it the scene of at least a part of their labors. A few of these bodies have held their sessions there, but the great majority merely met there to pay their re- spects to the Secretary cf State as a cour- teous preliminary to sessions held else- j where. Among the noteworthy assem- blages that are associated with the his tory of the diplomatic room are the inter- rational sanitary congress of 1881, the Spanish-American claims commission of 1882, the court of commissioners of Ala- bama claims of 1882, the United States and xican reciprocity commission, of which ral Grant was a member, of 1883; the | internationai conference, called for the pur- pose of fixing a prime meridian and uni- versal day, of which Admiral Rogers was president, of 1SX#; the British-Americaan fisheries commission, of which Mr. Josevh Chamberlain was a member, of 1888; ihe international marine congress of 1889; the pan-American congress of 184); the Venez- uelan claims commission, also ‘of 188); the Samoan plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Germany and the United States, in 18s8; the intercontinental railway commission, in 1N1; the Hawatian annexation plenipoten- tiaries, in 1892; the Chilean claims com- mission, in 1888; the Venezuelan Steam Transportation Company claims commis- sion, in 18M, and the Venezuelan boundary commission, in 1896. There the Diplomats Talk. The special purpose of the diplomatic room, however, is not for the delibera- tions of irternational bodies, but for the quiet and uninterrupted transaction ot business by the Secretary of State wita the individual diplomatic representatives of the foreign countries with which the United States has relations. Thursday is diplometic day at the State Department, and the forcign ambassadors and ministers have been given to understand that their business with the United States govern- ment shall be transacted on that day. This rule applies only, however, to ordinary diplomatic business. Matters of import- ance, admitting of no delay, always re- celve prompt ccnsideration, and a foreign | ambassador or minister can always secure an audience with the Secretary of State when his business justifies it. In the nego- tiation of important treaties it ts fre- quently necessary to have personal con- sultations two cr three times a week, and sometimes daily. On such occasions the diplomatic room is invariably selected as the council chamber. Its uses are so nu- merous and sc varied that scarcely a day passes that it is not occupied for one pur- pose or another. Secretaries Blaine and Gresham used the room as an office, but not so with their predecessors or successors. It is explained that they did so only to secure privacy for the consideration of their public duties, a thing said to have been impossible in the regular office set apart for the head of the foreign office. Their office door was always open and their visitors were legion. Con- sequently, in order to find time to attend to their official duties, they had to seek refuge in the diplomatic Toom—a_ place supposed to be sacred to the uses of diplo- macy and exclusively foreign interests. It was while at work on his correspondence in that room that Secretary Blaine suf- fered a severe attack of indigestion that confined him to his bed for weeks shortly before the complications arose that re- sulted In his death. a SCREW OR PADDLE. A Comparison of -the Two Methods of Steamship Power and Speed. From Cassier's Magazine. A screw, worked by a high-speed quad- ruple or multiple expansion engine, is, un- doubtedly, the best means of propulsion for a@ merchant steamer engaged in a deep sea trade, but for shallow water navigation a side-wheeler is preferable, for as a propel- ling instrument the paddle wheel is not in- ferior to the screw, while its action is quicker in stopping and starting the hull, and side wheeiers can back on a straight course, which cannot be accomplished by a screw steamer. Moreover, a side wheeler does not sag at the stern when under way, and this is 4 very important feature in its favor. The screw is more liable to be dis- abled by picking up a submerged log or by striking some such obstruction and break- ing two or more blades. This is not an un- usual occurrence. As regards the seaworthiness of side- wheel steemers, the immunity from dis- aster enjoyed by such lines as the Holy- head packets, the Isle of Man steamers and the Queensboro’-Flushing boats should be sufficient to prove thelr stanchness for channel service, but a more signal proof of their safety may be cited. The Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Com- pany has during the last fifteen or twenty years lost a number of screw steamers, ac- companied by loss of life and letters, but that they had never lost a ship, a life or a letter for a period of fifty years, and the remarkable fact in connection with such marked success is that during the whole of that time their best boats were side wheelers, viz., the Persia and the Scotia. - coe A Woman's Ide: From the Chicago Record, She—“There’s just one way to break up the coal trust.” He—“What's that?" She—‘Let everybody use steam heat.” — Ss “Burning thoughts.”"—Life. previous to that it was their proud boast | THE BIKE IN ENGLAND Chats With the Professionals Who Were The Sport in This Country Contrasted With the Conditions Surround- ing It in Their Own Land. The English cyclists, under the paternal wing of Ed. Plummer, who ts short in stat- ure, keen of mind and possessing a dry wit, spent some time recently in this city, and although here on a business trip, their spere time was put in in seeing the sigits. This was the first visit of the racers to this ccuntry. A Star reporter chatted with nearly all the visitors and obtained from them their impressions of this country. “The difference between the roads in this country and in England is very marked,” said Plummer. “You Americans might be ahead of us in some respects, but in this on2 particular The Conduit road, I believe that is what you call it, has been referred as a model Ameriean road. It may be good from your point of view, but it is hardly on a par with the ordinary roads of the island. We have roads over there that are as smooth and as level as the streets in this city, and you can ride over them for hundreds of miles, and find them the same at any point. The English people have paid particular attention to their roads, and they are the equal of those of any country in Eu- rope. That is per- haps why there is W. H. Bardsley. more road riding in England than in this country, and judging by the cnaracter of the reads I have so far seen, I wonder that there is as much road riding in this coun- try as there really is. There are very few reatly bad roads in England. This much can be said to her credit, but it took some time to make the roads of England. I un- derstand a good roads crusade has been begun in this country. All I can say ‘s that you need it, so far as I have been able to judge.” It might be added that, like most Englishmen, Mr. Plummer is not wanting in that particular trait styled egotism. “Another thing that seems strange to me is the way the women ride wheels over here. Some of them on a wheel look more like apple dumplings than anything else. The position of the scorcher may be bad enough, but the way some of the women It is simply abomina- Then again they ride such low geared The women over in our country ride is much worse. ble. machines. J. Platt-Betts. A. A. Chane. use a much higher gear, and do not seem to feel it. I have a daughter that rides an eighty-eight gear, and there are very few women who ride less than an eighty gear. It may be on account of the hills you have over here. In Englan there is a lack of hills, and one may ride for a hun- dred miles sometimes without striking a grade. “The railroads over here are not as fast as those we have in England,” continued Mr. Plummer, in response to an interroga- tion. “We do have fast train service, and another thing, we have more privacy. When you get on a first-class train in England you can get a whole section for a party, and no one will éver enter the sec- tion, outside of the conductor. Here in America you take a seat In a ear with the other travelers, and have ro privacy of your own. In the matter of equipment of your railroads you may possibly be ahead of us. I don’t think that our tratas are finished in the interior as well as those of this country. Another thing, I don't like the sleeping berths 91 the American trains. It must be a hard matter to get used to them, and the jolting of the train is conducive to anything but rest. Cur trains run much more smoothly, and what is more, every passenger can get his rest. “Most of my men cannot get over the strangeness of seeing so many negroes, and the way they are treaied by the white people. In England a negro, compara- tively speaking, is rarely seen. In Wash- ington ‘particularly there seems to be more than I have seen in all of the other cities I have visited.” The American style of racing and the race tracks are also strange to the Eng- lish riders. In that country if a man falls from his wheel while in a contest the o.her Mr. Macgregor. . A. Nelson. riders in the race will stop and wait for him, and renew the race at the scene of the accident. “You don’t do that style of rac- ing here,” said Tom Linton, the world beater in records. ‘If one man falls every blamed maa in the raze sprints as far and as fast as he can to increase the lead. That is not spor:smanlike. J think the people like to see a race, and for that rea- son the race should be started again when a rider happens to fall down, provided he is not too badly hurt to begin over again. Even if he is the others should stop, and start over again without him.” “Your race tracks are different ours," said little Hunter, from who was the F. R. Goodwin. H. Reynolds, only one of the English riders who remain- ed in the six-day race at the Ice Palace until the finish. “On every track on the continent there is a blue mark made all around it, just half a meter or about eighteen and one-eighth inches from the pole. The racers follow that line, and no man can pass arother unless it is on the outside of -that mark. There would not have been any marks on the track at the Ice Palace if we had not insisted upon it, This is a custom prevalent all over Eu- rope, and I believe is followed in Canada. In America the racing people leave the mark an imaginary one, letting the riders judge where it should be, but I think the best plan is to have the mark there in reality.” Tom Linton seems to think that the cli- mate of this country is more conducive to speed in cycle records than is that of Eng- land. He thinks England takes a back seat in trials against time as compared with this country, in spite of the fact that up to within a few years ago the English riders held all of the world’s records for short distances. As partly bearing out Linton’s remarks, the wonderful records of thing we far exceed you. , Little Michael are mentioned. He has been doing much better riding while In this country than when he was ‘in England, and the records made by him have electri- fied the cycling world Of more than one occasion. Some cf the records mage the English riders this year may 'ej*interesting. All of the short distanges. professional, are held by J. Platt-! ho was the hardest competitor Johnson, the American rider, ever went against, His records are as follows: Quarter mile, flying start, 0.23 3-5; quarter mile, standing start, 0.28 4-5; half mile, standing s 0.54" 4-5; three-quarters mile, standing ‘start, 1.21 1-5; one mile, standing start, 1.48. He has also ridden a mile, flying start, in 1.41. Nelson and Macgregor, 94,3, Gndem. hold the record for an hour's tide,~covering 31 miles and 610 yards, at the Crystal Palace track, London, the longest distance in the time ever covered by anything but a steam engine. - The world’s amateur mile championship is claimed for H. Reynolds, while the pro- fessional 100 kilometers is claimed for A. A. Chase, though in neither instance is the time given. The English amateur cham- Pionships, according to the National Cy- clists’ Union, an organization similar to the League of American Wheelmen, are as follows: Quarter mile, A. Macferson; one mile, P. Brown; five miles, M. Diakoff; twenty-five miles, M. Diakoff; fifty miles, W. H. Bardsley. The amateur championship, for twenty-four hours, in competition, is held by F. R. Goodwin, with the record ‘total of 476 miles 702 yards. For 100 miles, the amateur record, compe- tition, is 3:37:57 4-5, held by R> Palmer. The 50-mile tricycle record is held by J. Fowler, his time being 2:19746. For twelve hours the record is 264 miles, 1,535 yards, made by Geo. Padbury. ‘ es GOLD-BEARING CLAY, An Alleged Important Discovery in Working Placer Property. From the Denver Republican. For more than twenty-five years the Breat deposits of clay, breccia and cement, carrying gold values and lying to the south and southwest of Denver, have attracted the attention of mining men resident in this city, and experiments have frequently been made with the view to discovering some method of treatment that would save the values. It has generally been assumed by the investigators that the gold carried in these substances was the-source of sup- ply for the free gold known to exist in the sands of Cherry creek. but up to the pres- ent time all efforts to extract values in Paying quantities have failed. These de- posits have been traced from as far east as Akron, along the divide between the Platte and Cherry creek, between Sedalia and Acequia on the Rio Grande, inte the foothills west of Casgle Rock, and recently in the new camp oF Woodland Park. In some places it is a firmly cemented breccia, in others it is a clay more or less solidified, and in still others it is a hard blue cement, but in all cases gold has been found, gen- eraliy in such smail quantities ‘that it would not pay for treatment, while yet sufficiently palpable to excite interest and more or less expensive investigation. The ordinary fire assays have seldom re- turned more than from a trace to $2, but failure seems only to have stimulated in- quiry, and within the last year or two a very decided effort has been made in the direction of chemical analysis, with re- sults which, while not entirely satisfying, are so much beiter than anything hereto- tore obtained that several enterprises are now on foot for a thoruugh test. The Garnet Gold Mining and Milling Compeny bas been diligently experiment- ing with a deposit of gold-bearing clay for nearly a year, and Col. John D. Fredd and J. M. Watt, stockholders of the company, nov claim that they have’found a method which will save the valaés at so trifling an expense for treatment, that ere running as low as $5 per ton will yield a handsome profit. Col. Fredd said yesterday that he would guarantee that any single ton of the clay taken from any pati of ;their prop- erty would yield $12 per ton at a cost for treatment of not tu excced $2 a ton. The process by wich this result is obtained ts the patent of Julius Jean,’ who has erected @ small plant at Globeville, ahd propuses to make a sample test of five tons some day this week. The process is said to he a combination of amalgamation and magnettim, and the principle upon which Mf.: Jeah bases his discovery is the crushing of the ore ints Particles as fine as the gold contained therein. Fi > Tne location of the clay, deposit from which the test will be made.iasin Douglass county, about five miles gouthgast of Ace- quia. The Garnet Mining Company has ac- quired title to 2,200 acres of land upon which there is a stratum of auriferous elay ten feet in depth. oo HOW GRANT ROUGHED IT. The General Slept Near a Pig Pen After the Battle of the Wilderness. From the Century. The general and staff bivouacked upon the ground. The night was quite chilly, and a couple of fires were lighted to add to our comfort. Gen. Grant Jay down with his officers beside one of the fires, without any covering; when asleep an aid quietly spread an overcoat over him. For about four hours we all kept turning over every few minutes so as to get warm on both sides, imitating with our bodies the diur- nal motion of the earth as it exposes its sides alternately to the heat of the sun. When daylight broke it was seen that a low board structure close to which the general-in-chief had lain down was a pig pen, but its former occupants had disap- peared, and were probably at that time nourishing the stomachs of the cavalry troopers of the invading army. Unfortu- nately, the odors of the place had not tak- en their departure with the pigs, but re- mained to add to the discomforts of the bivouackers. Sheridan's cavalry had had a fight at this place the afternoon before, in which he had defeated the opposing force, and the ground in the vicinity, strewn with the dead, offered ample evi- dence of the severity of the struggle. At daylight on the morning of the 8th active operations were in progress through- out the columns. Gen. Sheridan had ordered his cavalry to move by different roads to seize the bridges crossing the Po river. Gen. Meade modified these orders, and directed a portion of the cavalry to move in front of Warren's infantry on the Spottsylvania Court House road. The ene-, my were felling trees and placing other obstacles in the way, in order to impede the movement, and the cavalry was after- ward withdrawn and the infantry directed to open the way. About sunrise Gen. Grant, after taking off his coat and shaking it to rid it cf some of the dust in whieh he had lain down, shared with the staff officers some soldiers’ rations, and then seated himself on the ground by the roadside to tuke his morning smoke. N ——+ e+ ____ Keeping Up Appearances. From Tid-Bits. “Sir, allow me to shake hands with you, just by way of showing that 1 know some- body here.” “With pleasure, sir, as I am precisely in the same boat with you. ——_+e+_, A Dire Threat.,, From Tid-Bits. tac Father (trying to read.a mewspaper)— “What was that racket in the hall just now?" ‘a Mother—“One of the childran fell down stairs. . “Well, tell thém that if they Fathe can’t fall down stairs quiétly!'I won't let them fall down at all."1i eee. a Denied It as Usuat. From Household Words. feces Sunday School Teacher—“Now, boys, speak right up, and answer promptly. Who carried off the gates of Gaza?! Every boy, promptly ‘and!4in chorus: “Tw'an't me. I don’t touch thm.” = claps She W From Up-to-Date. ‘They were spinning along the boulevard at the rate that caused the accident in- surance company to weep. He leaned toward her with just the sus- Picion of a smile upon his face. “Your bloomers are becoming—” She interrupted him, coloring with pleas- ure. “Now, I'am sure you say that just because—" “But they are becoming—” “—you think that it will please me. Now, father—” xcuse me, but they are becoming—" ‘“—says that I look a perfect fright, and brother — he shrieked inespair of stem- “Ripped ming the torrent. ‘They finished the run in silence. TWO VIEWS. View by Telephoto. Same House at Distance ef 300 Feet. WHAT A TELEPHOTO DOES New Possibilities of Long-Distance Pho- tography. Jungfrau, Taken at a Distance of Twenty-Four Miles—The Little Cylinder Does Its Work. From the New York Sun. The Saturday morning lectures of the state board of education delivered at the Museum of Natural History in the Central Park are illustrated by a series of magic lantern views taken from photographs made last summer for the museum's pur- poses. The pictures were taken in the Windward and Leeward Islands, Trinidad, Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. Five hun- dred of these views were taken by Dr. D. L. Elmendorf, who used in the work a new process of photography which had never had a trial so complete as that which he was able to give it in this =xpedition to col- | One of the particular advantages to science of the new plan is showa in views of the Jungfrau made by Dr. Elmendorf. The possibility of photographing from a distance objects which, if taken at short range, would be thrown out of all per- spective, is one of the greatest things that the apparatus makes possible. The large view of the Jungfrau was taken ata d tance of twenty-four miles, and the pic- ture shows the proportions of the view just as they exist. The machine that accomplishes these re sults is a cylinder only a few inches long that is applied to the camera. It consists of a negative lens, which is attached to the rear of an ordinary rectilinear photo- graph lens. The telephoto lens causes the rays converging from the photogr C lens to diverge, more or less, thus it were, lengthening the focus of the photo- graph lens. One great advantage of this arrangement is that with a camera bellows only fourteen inches long one gets the ef- fect of a lens of forty-inch focus, Another advantage is that the lens can be increased almost indefinitely. A subsequent possibility for which the telephoto may be utilized is to take pic- tures of birds in flight, and although they had not been included by Dr. Elmen‘orf in his work, he believes that it can be ac- complished. The use of the telephoto has rot grown much during the five years of its existence, chiefly because it requires an extremely careful worker, and because JUNGFRAU. lect pictures for the museum’s lecture courses. The machine Dr. Elmendorf employed is not altogether a new one, and it was as far back as 1891 in London that the ap- paratus called the telephoto was invented by Dallmeyer. The first machine of the kind ever sent to this country came to Dr. Elmendorf in 1892, and he has been an enthusiastic advocate of the apparatus’ merits since that time. At his the original telephoto was simpi to make it a small and c strument, which produ: effects in photography without any greater preparation or trouble—or at most with very little more—than it takes to use an erdinary camera. But Dr. Hlmendorf has succeeded in photograpning ai a distance of forty-two miles the Alps of the Bernese Oberland, and one of the views is the Jungfrau, photograp! ‘om the town of Interlaken, at least t -four miles from the mountain. ‘The views shown here are taken with a 4x5 Dallmeyer lens, both with and withon the telephoto attachment. THE APPEARING LADY. Secret of a Pretty Stage Trick Now Shown in Europe. From the Scientific Amertean. Of the many new illusions now being pre- sented in Europe, an ingenicus one is that of the appearing lady, the invention of that clever Hungarian magician, Buatier de Kolta. On the stage is seen a plain, round-top, four-leg table, which the magician has been using as a resting place for part of the ap- paratus used in his magic performance. Eventually the performer removes all articles from the table and covers it with a cloth that does not reach the floor. On command the cloth gradually rises from the center of the table as though something were pushing it up. In a few moments it becomes very evident that some one or something is on the table covered by the cloth. The magician now removes the cloth and a lady is seen standing on the table. The secret of this, as in all good illusions, is very simple. In the stage there is a trap door, over which is placed a fancy rug that Ready for the Appenrance. has a piece removed from it exactly the same size as the trap, to which the piece is fastened. When the trap is closed the rug appears to be an ordinary one. The table is placed directly over the trap. Below the stage is a box, open at the top, with cloth sides and wood bottom. To this box are attached four very fine wires that lead up through the stage by means of small holes The Apparatus. _ where the trap and floor join, over small pulleys in frame of table and down through table legs, which are hollow, through the stage to a windlass. In the table top is a trap that divides in the center and opens outward. The top of the table is inlaid in such a manner as to conceal the edges of the trap. The lady takes her place in the box in a kneeling position, the assistant stands at the windlass, and all is ready. The magician takes a large table cover, and, standing at the rear of table, proceeds to cover it by throwing cloth over table, so that it reaehes the floor in front of the table, then slowly draws it up over the table top. The moment that the cloth touches the floor in front of the table the trap is opened and the box containing the the use of the attachment times an undue vibration. The views made for the summer include a great variety of scenes and their great effectiveness was due to the use of the telephoto, which reproduced with particular beauty some of the mou tains of Mexico, although there are also views of towns and villages taken with the telephoto. causes some- museum last The kite photography sense the same thing as telephoto photography. Kite j photography aims to take bird's-eye view of towns or sections of couniry, while the telephoto photographs at a distance the objects that cannot be truthfully repro- duced if it is necessary io take a view of them at short range. The picture of the Jungfrau which was taken by Dr. Elme dort would have required, he said, an ordi- nary camera four feet long, whereas the little telephoto accomplished the task easi- ly. The view of the houses shows them taken with and without the telephoto at- techment. The one with the snow on the of is increased five times in size by the hoto. lady is drawn up under the table by means of the windlass and the trap closed. This is done very quickly during the momeni’s The Appearing Lady. time in which the magician is straighten- ing out the cloth to draw it back over the table. All that now remains to be done is for the lady to open the trap in table and slowly take her place on top of the table and close the trap. The top and bottom of the box by means of which the lady is placed under the tabie are connected by means of three strong, elastic cords, placed inside of the cloth cov- ering. These elastics are for the purpose of keeping the bottom and top frame of the box together, except when distended by the weight of the lady. Thanks to this ar- rangement of the box, it folds up as the lady leaves it for her position on the table top and is concealed inside of the frame of the table after her weight is removed from it. +e -—_ BLUFFED THE CONDUCTOR. Two Actors With a Single Wish and One Railroad Ticket. From the New York World. They were two comedians, and they were stuck in Wilkesbarre, with Scranton ever so many miles away. “Well. what are we going to do now?” said one. “Blest if I know,” said his companion. “But I do know that the walking is awful bad, and jumping coal trains no sort of work for two eminent comedians.” “Court the house,” said Hanley. They emptied their pockets, and found that by squeezing a cent or two they could manage to buy one ticket to Scranton. They then conceived a plan for traveling at the rate of two on a ticket. When the conductor came through the cars ‘two hands firmly clasping one pasteboard were held up to him. “There's only one ticket here,” sald the conductor, gru “That's ‘mine, “That's mine, equal emphasis. “See here,” said the conductor, “you can’t both ride on one ticket. I'll have to put one of you off.” “Make it me—that’s easy money, both comedians in chorus. said one of them. sald his companion, with " cried “Put me off if you've got to get off at the next station,” said the conductor, vigorously— “one of you, at least.” . The next station passed, and the next, but no conductor appeared to trouble the two men with but a single ticket. When Scranton was reached the couple sought out the conductor and told him if he would accompany them to the hotel they would make good the missing fare. “That's all right,” he said. “You got one on _me that time. You see, we are under orders whenever there is a possibility of a Suit, to take the safe side. —_———+e0-___ After the Elopement. From the Detroit Free Press. Artie—“Darling, you have no idea how anxious I was while you were coming down the rope ladder. I was so afraid you had not br it eater hn above.” a Busi ‘ou needn't have been alarm dear, Papa tied the knot for me.” A Stroke of “Paral The Patient an Old Mn is. bat Recovers From the Sun, Schaghticoke, N.Y. Peter G. Thompson is the foreman of the car- Penter shop of the Schaghticoke Powder Company, at Schaghticoke, N. ¥. Mr. Thompson recently had a strokeeof parniysis, which at his advanced years may very well have proven fatal what he says. Here is am sixty-seven years old, and have been om: Ployed as the foreman of the carpenter shop of the Schaghticoke Powder Company for many years. In 1894, while coming home f oy with paralysis of the right leg. Very shortly after ward my right arm was affected, and so was my m church, T was str bead and left Tide latter affliction was so serious that all objects appeared double, amd my sight to a certain extent was useless “I had two physicians xttending me, and also two noted scullsis, one from ‘Troy and the of from Albany, though they could not help me, of courme thelr services cist a great deal of money, and as I was not earning anything, this alone was great source of worrl 1 discomfort to for things looked blue t was then that I took notice of an advertise ment of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Peep and read of a person similarly afflicted as myself, Who had been cured in the summer of 1894 “Tat once procured a supply of the pills and began taking them. T osed at least four boxes be- fore I noticed change, on I began to impro vis but t stored to ma “Iam al ad. vanced age seems a little short of a miracke. I really sum better than I was for years before I had that stroke, and Dr. Willinms and bis Pink Pills are the uppermost thoughts in my mind wight and day, and my thankfulness for having, through Provi seen that newspaper advertixement, I can never adequately express. Dr, Williams’ Pink Pils form, all the elements ne and richness tain, in a condensed eautry to give new life to the blood and res shattered an unfailing specific form xia, partial paralysis, nerves. They are . the after effect of In grips of the heart, pale and sallow con of weakness, either in male or female. Pink Pills I dealers, or will be sent post paid of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, by addressing Dr. Williams’ Med- icine Company, Schenectady, N. ¥, at MONGOLIAN ELECTORS, The Chinese Vote im California W Re a nese baby feet in a noisome “China alley” a few years ago would have caused a flut- ter. Almond eyes, olive skin, rustling silken garments, sn a braided “pigtail” which cecil- lated like a pendulum, long finger nails— there was the little »agan who pio- neered a long array of similarly attired other little pagans out from Whinese hovels into the sunshine and fearless freedom in the open air. A native-born citizen, the American eagle seemed not a whit proud of him; a native son, California was ready to repudiate him. w the patier of one pair of f ceeded by the sound of legion: town’s dirty perlieus an infanuile army has been reared. Two years ago the school census takers found 1,50) Chiaese children of school age. There are not less than 000 native sons and daughters in San F' Is Fue, In China- an- cisco’s Chinatown in whose veins Chinese blood flows, American Mcngols dusty box. This pb and who are lawful citizenship. A smail is marching leisursiy highway of time toward heirs of rmy of i the the ballot se of the Chinese stion does not appear to have beea ‘fully compre. hended. But not later than the year 19: at the present birth rate in Chinatown supposing average conditions regard ing mortality to obtain, it is a anything can be that something hke nese children will be entitled to the bal- of Francisco alone. Sacremento, Angeles, San Jose, end, in all communities in California have also their native-born Mongolian ba- bies who are on their way to citizenship. Not less than 4,000 native-born Chi voters will be in the field of politics in 19 in Caiffornia—enough with an alliance with some large political party with a unit- ed front, to carry a state election; cnough to settle the presideatial’ election sf Cali- fornia should be the pivotal state, conce gth of parties should be scmewhat nearly divided. Surely the students of polit lot Stockton, fact, nearly cal history must see something curious in this not very remote contingency. Less than one- quarter of one century may see dragon flags flying from the roofs of Chinese joss houses, from the tops of ouildiags in which fan-tan games abide, and from scores of buildings reeking with filth and “smelling to heaven,” in celebration of the election of a candidate of the Chinese for governor or even for President of the United of America, or Congressman, or mayor, or supervisor. There may even come a time when bonfires will burn in Chinatown and Chinese gongs and other alleged musical instruments be sounded to caten the Mo golian vote, and wagons carry “p and down the steep slopes advice to Chin Americans to vote for Ah Jow or for sheriff or mayor, or some ots importa office. Chin it is well family attachments. direc ‘om Lee r equally known, have strong The heal of a family all others, who obey him implicitly. Unquestioning obedience gives the ideal conditions required for heachmen of a political boss. Another queer feature en- grafted upon the American political sys- tem in San Francisco will be the influence of aged Chinese who have no vote them- selves, but who will have power to insure how numbers of votes will be cast. The Chinese patriarchs, with goat-like beards, will be “bosses” of the most approved scrt. This is certain enough. a ab Saved. From the Cleveland Lender. She was white and apparently lifeless, but after the doctor had made a hasty ex- amination he said that there was still hope. Her clothing had almost been torn off; her hair was disheveled, and there were many bruises upon her limbs. At last she opened her eyes and mur- mured: Where am I?" ‘You are safe,” they said to her, Then she raised one of her hands. purse was still clinched (ightly, gave a long sigh of relief. This happened on the morning that Blu- merton marked all his dollar dress goods down to ninety-nine cents a yard. oo A Prodigious Memory, From Texas Siftings. Spinster of Uncertain Years (to young de butante)—“I remember well, my dear, what a sensation I produced when I made my debut in society. Why, it seems only yes- terday. Young Debutante (inn y)—"“Ah, what a conquest of memory over years! Did know Gen. Putnam of the revolution?” tee Making Herself Plain. From Judge. Teacher—“Now, Thomas, the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Do I make myself plain that way?” Thomas—“I guess so—ma says too much eddication Is what makes you so homely.” — Im the Menagerte. From Fliegende Blatter. Her and she “Mamma, the lip pomade for this animal must cost a great desl.”