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The brother's letter wsald that in his wanderings about town he had found | an excellent stone man in the back shed of an ambitiows tombstone sculptor, The figure had been hewn out of a solld rook the sculptor having followed ab nearly as he could the picture of a man in a school | phystology. The stone man, and the acres, Produced in the mind of Chester an idea. He could sell his friend's land, make some money for himself, and crcate a furore in newspaper circles, If his idea conld be prop- erly managed. The man with the land was agreeable, and after much trouble, expense and caution, the stone man was hauled frem Chicago to Cardiff, and at the solemn hour of midhight the stone man was buried on the land that was for sale, Shertly thereafter the man who owned the land turned up the Cardiff glant while plowing. The land and the glant were promptly sold at a good figure and Hull was left in the | lurch, of course. The giant was carted about over the country and exhibited, and It had a hard time for even a stone man. Oncs It wa ached for the bills of the showman and lay several years, cold and lonesome, In a frelght house at Cheyenne, Wyo. Eventually it was taken on the road Again, and finally reduced to common, every-day Iime, by the destruction of a rallway station In Missouri, which was burned while the poor old glpnt was staying there one night. Once, attired in a sheepskin, spotted with paint to represent a leopard’s hide, and dec- orated with a head-dress of bright feathers and red flannel, Hull traversed central New York as an African explorer and lectured upon the wonders of the reglon of Lake Nyanza and the head-waters of the Nile. Notwithstanding the absurdity of the lec- | ture and the transparent fraud of his cos- tume, he imposed upon the innocents and gathered In many ducats, Then he went to California and In a little while many east- €rn papers published, simultaneously, an account from Hull of an expedition to the North pole under the command of Octave Pavy. This account declared that the expedition had reached Wrangel Island and that Profs. Thomas Newcomb, Harry Ed- wards and others, who were really news- Paper men and actors, well known to the San Franclsco public, were making anato- mical examinations of immense mastodons found imbeded in the ice cliffs of that mys- terious quarter of the globe. George Was a Lulu The Joe, Mulhatton of the eighteenth century was George Psalmanazar, a French adventurer, who, having traveled extensively in Europe, and finding himself everywheve pushed for funds, determined to “raise the wind" in an entirely novel and unheard of fashion, He had a taste for reading, and, In the course of his desul- tory studies, became much interested in China and the east. Heo determined to pass himself off as an oriental, so assumed a fantastic garb which he declared to be that commonly worn in Formosa, manu- factured for himself a ritual of worship and prayer, which he ostentatiously ob- served In public, and with a confederate went to England, where he passed for a Formosan noble. Going diligently to work, he prepared an account of the island, giv- ing @ full description of its geography, botany and zoology, together with its his- tory and the manners and customs of its Inhabitants. Much to his satisfaction the Joke took, his hoax was universally be- lleved, his book sold enormously and he | | became a literary and social lion. Many years elapsed ere the fraud was discoverdd In the meantime Psalmanazar's his- tory became a classic, was translated Into several languages of Europe and quoted by learned philosophers, who, whenever they wished to illustrate an unusually curlous phase of human nature went to Formosa for their material. The fraud was certainly one of the most clever ever per- petrated, for its narratives were so circum | stantial, so much In detall, one part tallied 80 well with another, that In default of other knowledge, nobody could say it was not so. He even Invented a language which he reduced to gramatical form, and gave samples of Formosan poetry and literature | sutficiently clever In style and matter to decelve even the very elect. Not until Psal- manazar himself confessed the deception was the mystery cleared up. Another French Freak, Nearly three centuries aga, or to be ex- act, 299 years ago, there was a great ex- plorét=who sought the northwest passage | which was the dream of explorers in th seventeenth century as the North pole has been the dream of explorers of a later He had made several attempts to find that mysterious and ever-elusive passage to Cathay, and at last had been told of & mighty river far in the interior of u new continent, which would lead him to the salt sea of the west. He wanted to muke another effort to reach that great river, and had gone to Frahce to enlist | the ald of the king and the nobles in sup- plying him with the needed equipment, This great explorer was Samuel de Cham- | plain, the founder of Quebec and the dis coverer of the great lakes. At the same time there wus another who | was ambitious for tame as a great and | successtul explorer. But he wanted to get {his fame without the toll and hardships | encountered by all the others This am- }htlmu! young men spent a winter in Can- One day he sud- was salling for France. His acqualntances | and friends were anxious to hear of what | be had been doing during his winter's ab- sence, but he kept his own counsel, and | hastily boarded the ship, then out In the stream with its prow turned toward the | Atantic and France, | He arrived in Francé, and had wondrous | Sloux City Express.. Omaha Local.. | 8t Cook as the first of the pole | a product of the wilds of | | uttle force |at THE OMAHA SUNDAY ships endured, of difficulties surmounted and dangers dared. He was received by the king and queen and all the notables of the kingdom, and again and again told the story of how he had succeeded where Champlain and Cadillac and Carter and a host of others had falled. He was the hero of the hour, the pet of Paris and France. Honors were showered upon him. He told how he had paddied up this river In his canoe, and down that; how he had | threaded his way through dense forests, and fought with wild beasts as the blessed Paul did at Ephesus, and with wilder and more sa come to the shores of the great salt sea, & boundless ocean stretching ever and ever westward; how he had tasted of the water and found it salt; how the Indlans told him of a people who cume twice a year to their shores in greAt ships to trade for furs; that these people were white and wore thelr halr in a long tall behind. All this, and much more, giibly fell from his tongue a dozen times a day, and the king and nobles vied with one another In their haste and liberality to fit out a new ex- pedition under Champlain to complete the discoveries and set up a claim to the land | and the ocean for the kingdom of France Much against was forced by his will, the ‘“discoverer the king 10 go with this new expedition as iis pllot and gulde. Champlain landed at Quebee, and almost Immedintely started on his quest for the salt sea. Day after day he pushed his through the wilderness, until last he came to a tribe of Indlans, who recognized ails gulde. Then came the end. It was developed that the gulde had spent the winter with these Indiahs, and had not been a mile farther w He had never seen the salt seas, and the Indlans themselves had never heard of any such sea within thou sands of leagues of where they were, Champlain turned back toward Quebec, and Nicholas Vignau, the great faker of the seventeenth century, quietly dropped out of sight. » Boynton's Big Fake. During the autumn of 1888 the news was flashed over the country from New York that a sea serpent had been killed in the Caribbean sea in an expedition sent to that part of\the world by Captain Paul Boyn- ton to gather marine curlosities. A letter had been recelved by Boynton, purporting to come from Prof. Munster, who had charge of the expedition, in which (the detalls of the killing of the serpent were given, and from it the reports were sent out. The New York newspapers contal nid extended accounts of the capture. The sclentists connected with the New York museum of natural history became inter- ested, and raised a purse of $10,000 with which to purchase the|catch., The story In brief was that the crew of the schooner Huntress, then crulsing off the Isle of Pines, were preparing to test the merits of a spring torpedo gun on a school of porpoises that were playing astern. As they were about to relleve the spring, the porpolses became frightened and darted away in all directions under the waves. Then the head of a frightful mon- ster rose some five or six feet out of the water, moving In the direction of the little vessel. Those manning the gun were terror stricken for a moment, but, regatning. thelr courage the gun was sprung and the tor- pedo hit the water within a few feet of the monster, exploding with terrific force and stunning it. Boynton enlisted some con- federates and together had bullt a mechanical sea serpent, shipped It fo smea in sections, and returned with it to New York. Newspapers were filled with storles of the “great sea monster.” Prof. O. C. Marsh of the Smith- sonian Institution, the gentleman who ex- posed the Cardiff Giant fraud, read about It In Washington. He had always been a bellever In the existence of the monsters, and here was proof that his theory about them was correct. He immediately went to New York to see it, and his interest wis %0 great that instead of asking questions or making himself known he mounted some steps that had been carclessly left near the serpent's head and proceeded to examine its mouth regardless of the remonstrances of the attendants. Boyton saw him and hurrledly left the hall in search of his rep- resentative; whom he found on a lower floor. For heaven's sake, he yelled, “go up- stairs quick. Some fellows up there are tearing the mischief out jof that snake's mouth.” After some persuasion Prof. Marsh was induced to step down to the floor, but he had scen the character of the monster, He made himeelf known amd the manager, knowing that it would be usles to attempt to impose on the eminent gentleman, trusted to his mercy and allowed him to thoroughly examine the reptile. When he had finished the examination ha pronouncel it wonderfully made and almost exactly in accordance-with his idea of the conforma- tion of a sea serpent. He promised not to give the “snap” away, on account of its cleverness, and when he was interviewed later In the day by a news- paper man he said it was the most remark- able looking reptile he had ever seen. After a season through the museums the serpent began to out and was sold to a party who togk it to the country fairs before it fingily fell to pjeces and was left to rot in the woods near Muncie, Ind The Maon Hoax. When Sir John Herschel, in the year 1825, was sent on an astronomlical expedi- tion to the Cape of Good Hope, he ‘carried with him a telescope of huge size, from which great things were expected, and ulso private Instructions to the effect that what- aver he eccomplished was to be kept pro foundly secret until he should return sequently, for a long time after his de- parture no news whatever reached Englan in regard to his doings in South Africa Here was the opportunity which gave birth to a luminous idea, and one September morring there appeared in the columns of the New York Sun a long prticle filled with information that wes well calculated to astonish the world. The article stuted that Sir John Herschel with the help of Sir David Brewster, had devised certain apparatus for Increasing In & marvelous way the magnifying power Con- | of the telescope, and the instruments em- ployed were described in the utmost detall So wonderful were the results obtained that, when the great tube was turned upon the moon, the suface of that satellite was brought within an apparent distence of two hundred vards. Flowers, recognizable as rogerpopples, were actually seen grow- | Ing over basaltic rocks and the shifting of a screw brought Into view green valleys, In which browsed animals resembling the bison, with here and there flocks of peli- cans and cranes, and goats that had a single hom, like the fabled unicorn. At length, as the lunar landscapes were made to travel successively across the fleld of the telescope, some winged beings, in other respects human-like were seen to alight upon a grassy plain. Thelr wings were like those of bats, and they conducted themselves in a singular manner. For the time being the article was gen- erally accepted as entirely veracious, and there were few people who expressed skep- ticism. When the joke was reveaed it was at first attributed to Nicollet, a French astronomer, but afterward it was ascer- tained that the actual author was Richard Sioux City Passenger Twin ity Passenger Sloux City Local, Emerson Local..., Alton Locke, a New York journalist. The key to the situation—Bee Want Ads. age men; how at last he had | BEE. JANUARY 23, 1910, WHERE THE MAGICIANS MEET They Try Their New Tricks on Each Other First. CAN'T ALWAYS FOOL RIVALS| | | Are Solemniy Pledged Not to Hxpo th Wonders of Their Art—Plight of ‘Two Fat Men. | ! NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—The members of the Magiclans soclety who meet every month \at Martinka's palace on Sixth avenue during the winter and occasionally have a ladles' evening do not, as a rule, appear to be rich, but what they lack in materlal things they make up in qualities that are not usually in possesion of the common herd. The soclety, which was o ganized In May, 1902, has at present more than 200 members, and while these regular soclal meetings are apparently designed merely for good cheer and fellowship it is | an unwritten law that if any one of the magicians has & new trick he shall try It on the home dog before he asks the opin- ion of his nelghbor's canine critic. The home dogs are pretty well broken, and it's & mighty poor trick that don't et at least a feeble wag. All of them ad- | mit that they had rather play before any | old kind of an audience than the one com- posed of thelr fellow craftsmen. As one of them admitted, you cannot tell at the mo- ment your trick s finished whether the ap- plause means “I'm on, old chap,” or whether the lookerson are applauding because they themselves have been fooled. But it Is not an uncertaln state of mihd which continues for any length of time, and as soon as the magiclan mingles with the audience he finds .out just where he stands. The Information is given in a cipher com- posed of expressive pantomines and verbal phrases absolutely indistinguishable to the visitor, for the most solemn pledge Is re- quired of each new member that he will | not expose magic on the stage, for accord- | ing to the resolutions adopted at the first meetings: “All lovers of the mysterious in enter- tainment should religiously discountenance and discourage by all reasonable and fair opposition the exposing of secrets of mys- | tical creations, whether original or adopted, | published In print or not, on the following grounds, viz: That no good can result from such ex- posure, That it 1s an injustice to all concerned, performers and audience alfke. That it tends to discourage originality. That It cheapens the art, robblng it of its real intrinsic worth. That it “kills the goose that laid the golden egg.” One naturally plctures the “‘magiclan” as & mysterious being, tall as a wand, with drooping shoulders and willowy arms that suggest the wearing of a mantle. He should smile rarely, his hair ought to be long, black and oscillating, ahd he should step lightly. The late Prof. Herrmann ad- hered pretty closely to this visual standard. but his physical example has not been fol- lowed very closely if one judges from the members present at the last soclal meet- ing. All looked as if they heard a dinner bell at least once a day and responded thereto, and not one of them was scen after the entertalnment was over to refuse the soft drinks, the confectionery and the sandwiches. Most of them might be de- seribed by the word rotund, and they had a nice, comfortable, domestic look about them. They are an optimistic class, how- ever, it is dlscovered, and have no mean petty remarks to make about thelr profes- slonal rival Like the Lunnon bus driver, who, when he has a holiday, spends it on the top of a rival Une, so there ls nothing a magiclan likes better, o one of them said, than to wander when off duty into a spiritualistic seance and witness the same old tticks In a new environment. The plump hand of the medium covered with luminous paint | and placed against a black velvet back- ground he loves to have spoken of as the absolute counterpart of “dear Mayme's and he altruistically joins in the applause of the strange doings of “Little Comrade,” the only criticlsm that he has to make is that he rarely learns anything new there, For instance, you might attend spirit- ualistic seances all' yoir days and never learn the service to which it is possible to put the odds and ends of household articles that have outlived their usefulness and for which the ordinary apartment and clty home offers no storage place. Of course you may say that there is nummzi of the occult about this, but after you have witnessed the work of one of the member magicians whose speclalty takes this economic line you will admit tHat his | entertainment is little short of the mar- velous., For the invariable criticism of the skeptic 15 sure to be after witnessing the 1ifting of a chalr, hearing three knocks on the left upper wall and seelng a specter finger dart from a curtained recess, “What good does it do?" No such remark can be made of the maglc performance noted, where two old socks wtih holes in the | neels, a plece of a chalr seat with the | tapestry threads hanging, & black four-in- hand, two clay pipes and a red paper heart appear after a moment's clever manipulation as two impressionistic paint- | ngs neatly framed in passeparfout depl |ing a St. Bernard dog In the icy fastness |of its native Swiss mountains and an | uthletie looking woman seen from the rear | diligently covering some twepty miles of | | | |asserts in a loud volce. going to get a ten back at least. Burlingt T $25 March 1st to April 15th - THROUGH TOURIST SLEEPERS 4:10 P, M. Overland Express-- Daily for California. via Denver, scenic Colorado, Salt Lake and Southern Pacific. ducted excursions Thursdays and Sunday 4:10 P, M. 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There is no suspicion in the glance, no doubting in regard to its safe return, even though it may form part of an omelet, be torn into shreds, thrown to the four winds and burnt up to lght a cigaretts, but with the exception of the look there is no evi- dence that the platform request has been heard. The speaker does not urge the matter, but makes a wider appeal, Includ- ing the whole assemblage, so that mo one need feel hurt. No one does and no one teels for the $20 bill, a light of unferstand- ing dawns on the magician's comprehen- sion. He nods and compromises on a fiver. The first man he asks has a $5 bill and gives it up without reluctance. The $ bill is torn Into shreds and these shreds are again destroyed by the long, supple fingers of the performer. The re- mains are rolled: into a little ball and the ball unrolled discioses the $5 Intact, with the same Initials on it that the owner had marked and corresponding in number with the number of the original bill, carefully copled for identification. The owner, one of the visiting is visibly disappointed “I saw that trick done when 1 was a little boy,” he “1 thought I was You don't seem to me to have advanced in your pro- fession & mite. Guess 1 might as well go to a speeritualistic seeance.” In order to bring the atmosphere up to the normal, | another member of the society rises and begins to borrow all sorts of things from the audience. His wants are many; he has to have & pack of playing cards and some envelopes, pencils and pens and a chailr and the attention of the people in the room, When he has gathered all thls together he begins to do a most com- plicated trick, through the mazes of which it is quite impossible to follow him, and ay boxes of candy are passed about during nis work and conversation is quite prolific and the trick still goes on to & merry end- ing you B"e quite satisfled. Bits of /talk punctuates the trick. You hear, “‘cut through the middle of the pack. Trank you. Write word and put it into the second envelope. Thank you. I am golng into a corner of the room and turn my back. Please put It I your pokect. Ten from twenty leaves how many. Twenty? Thank you." corps, one open country on a bicycle with thick ver- dure on the sides and a sleeping tramp in the far horizo All the implements for this exlruordmury]‘ | plece of work besides those noted are an | | easel with a stiff background, the frame | | mentioned, considerabie nerve on the part | of the principal actor and a stolld acqules- | ence on \the part of the audience. The red | heart under his manipulation becomes part |of the lady's bleycle costume, the bits of | loose cotton lend tfiemselves easily to the construction of snowy clouds, the drapery | becomes a rural hedge and the socks a line of tender, wavering hills with that untimate note of art, that tender aesthetic- |ism of values, that inimitable toning that deplots the true artist One of the magielans near by speaks in a volce almost inaudible to hiy wite and | says | i | | "I honestly don't see how a man can do | |® trick like that—and get money for it.” | Francls Werner, who is secretary of the club and has adhered more closely to the aesthetic appearance of the Herrmann school than his compatriots, ascends the platform, steps gracefully with no other pharaphernalia of office than s contained in a modest vanity bag which discloses a simple hat brim, He swings It hooplike on his supple wrist, while he introduces | his new art of “Chapeapgraphy” by saying: | “I did this trick before I‘rr\ulep( Roose- velt—went to Africa.” | In the applause that follows this sayving he drapes it carelessly about his head and | with a few changes of expression he be- comes in turn a Polish beggar, Napoleon on the deck of the Bellerophon, & toreador, a harlequip, a Jesult, a Mystic Shriner and weveral others, including a wonderful fac simile of himself, which he denominates the Lonely Man. You know what all these representations are because he tells you. 80 far you have felt, It must be admitted, | cards left In the pocket of the baldheaded | m |away in th | ways do. At the end of half an hour or so the magiclan whispers a long time to My, Oscar Teale, ex-president of the club, and then | announces In & sepulchral tone that he | has requested the president to go Into. the | outer room and returm in a few minutes | with & certain book of magic, His de- parture 18 awaited breathfully, while more candy 15 eaten and more conversation trickles up and down the rows of seats. Finally the messenger returns staggering | beneath the burden of a huge volume, | which he lays down with empressement and | a nolse. All this time the envelope which w mentioned earlier in the trick, a halt hour or s earlier, has had concealed In its in-| terior a slip of paper on which one word written by a strange lady in the audience is inscribed. The envelope has been put pocket of one of the profe ~1 sional gentlemen, who, judging from the expression of his face, doss not belleve n:e‘ trick will ever be finished successfully. No one knows the word except the| woman, It I8 her last word and she has | separated herself from it with facility. She remembers it too, which women do not al- | If an amateur had been doing the trick he would just carelessly open | the volume and point out the famillar com- bination of vowels and consonants, but the true artist delays with finesse the moment of exposurd: This is why the cards and the | chair and the pencil and the other phara- phernalia. With the cards cut and rear- ranged and one selected which s put back among its companions and later discoverid on the top of a corner cupboard inside of @ cloissonne jar, bearing the maglc num- ber nine, it is easy enough even for the| visitors to see that there is only one thing to do and that s open the volume at the page number indicated, ni multiplying that number by the 1 mber of gentleman who has fallen asleep in dan- gerous proximity to the base burner, said number being three, count twenty-seven words from the lower left hand corner and that word is the identical word that is written on the slip of paper In the envel- ope. Two stout gentlemen are borrowed next. The magican states that they must be stout, and after several demurs a couple who aré“unanimously admitted to fill the requirements step ponderously on the plat- form and face each other sheepishly. One fumbles with a huge watch chain and the other with a striped waistcoat. The magiclan for the nonce talks lghtly and breezily on several subjects, all the time manipulating a deck of cards. His flow of eloquence coming to a full stop he shows how the four honors that you saw with your own eyes tucked away in the breast pocket of the baldheaded gentleman, who | still sleeps on undisturbed, are on the top of a table behind a hat, which nobody has taken any particular notice of, in another | part of the room. Everybody is politely | surprised, especially the gentleman | did the trick, (but your surprise is still greater when the same cards that he has thrown down again very nonchalantly are now found in the striped waistcoat pocket | of one of the fat mer, while in the corre- sponding pocket of the vis-a-vis are dragged forth the magican's own clgar case and handkerchief, HURRY RUN TO = EUROPE American Automobiles Are Rapidly Push Past Those of Euro- pean Make. With one automobile show In full swing and another but a few days distant, there | is timeliness in the publication by the | Department of Commerce of several con- sular reports on trade openings for the export of American-made motors. It is within easy 'wecollection when the idea would have been an absurdity, but it Is already as little absurd to ask who uses an American motor car as to ask who reads an American book. The answer de- pends as much on the judgment of the man who wants the book or the car as on the excellence of the article wanted, That time Is past. Americans goiug abroad now prefer thelr own country's product for forelgn use. This s the best advertisement they could have, It is a natural compliment that foreign cars are leas in demand for home use, They are still wanted for a certain quality of trade and use, but there Is an immensely larger trade which cannot supply its.needs equally well from foreign makes. We excel In this trade exactly as we have long ex- celled In others—that is, In the standardiza- tion of manufacture and large-scale pr duction. .We have not displaced the high- est grade of hand-made watches, but we bave made our teachers in the art wonder at the faclity and cheapness with which we produce very excellent timekeepers at prices which put them Into the pockets of those who could hever hope to have & watch made otherwide. We have done the same thing for the motor trade. Price and quality considered, our cars “cannot be beat.” It there are better foreign curw, they may not be worth the higher price. | It will not be long before these facts muke thelr way whevever our cars are in | performance. Therefore It is well for those plating a foreign trade—if they ahead of thelr home demand—to know | thet in all Scotland there are only two factories making complete cars, and they ure small concerns. Russia offers a good opening, and in all Russia there is but | one American seeking ocustom, lllhuu[h‘ there is not one Russian factory in the | American sense. In both countries a few | mac made to offer to suit Indi- vidual tastes. The machine for the many | has yet to be introduced. But our pride should not outrun discretion. Our pecullar excellence lies in our methods. Our pro- duct cannot equalifiedly be sald to be bet- ter, and our materials are certamly less §00d. Tho nature of automobile work is such that it demands materials of excep- tional fitness as well as superior quality It is useless to place the hardest metal where toughness (s wanted, and a meial soen contem ever get ines are und then | may be both hard and tough and yet fall | in qualities adapting it for eas pufacturs y and cheap It muy be excellent metal, whe | bonanza, and yet suffer from heat In manufacture or vibration in use. In these qualities we are not hopelessly distanced, but we are far enough behind to put our chemists on notice that they must place themselyes on a par with our mechaniclans. We should still be modest, but we have a growing cause for pride.~New York Tribune. LAST OF THE BONANZA KINGS Mills Drew Milllons from Comstock Lode, but it Was Not the Mak~ ing of Fortune. Darius Ogden Mills was the last of the bonanza kings of the Comstock Lode, But unilke Flood, Mackay, Fair and O'Brien, the lode was not the making of his fortune. Rather, his fortune made his partners mul- timillionaires. Long before the Comstock was discoveréd Mills had made mlillions, and was the richest man in California. When the four partners found the Com- stock Lode in 1872 they knew it was a but they didn't have the money to develop it. Mr. Mills had and he bought an interest in the mine, Nobody knows what the profit on his in- stment was, but Is was enormous, Many years later John W. Mackay, pointing to a shaft opening out of the Comstock mine at Virginia city, sald to a fried: “I have taken $150,000000 in silver bullion out of that hole." Others have said that $400,- 00,000 was nearer the amount. Mackay, Flood, O'Brien and Falr died years ago and now Mills is gone, He began life as a poor boy, without a dollar, but he could look ahead. Thus, when the gold digging excltement broke out in California he saw at once that there was more money to be made by selling necessaries to the miners than by grubbing for the preclous metal. Accordingly, he Invested his little capital in clothing, tools and other goody and started for the Pacific coast by way of Panama. This was In December, 148. He opened a store at Sacremento and In one year he made a clear profit of $0,000. From that time on he grew steadily richer; for he be- gan to deal in bullion, with large gain te himself. Everything he touched seemed literally to turn to gold. In 1% D. O. Mills went back to New York. Popularly considered, he was th¢ first of the great western multimillionares to come east and settle down, and fabulous accounts were printed of his wealth, Muny people In New York belleved Mr. Mille would prove an ‘“easy mark.” They tried & groat.variety of “little games” on him but were surprised to discover that he did not bite. On the contrary, he preceeded to make money in the metropolis almost as rapidly as he bad made It in the west Being struck with the good prospect fol real estate investment in the nelghbor hood of Wall street, he picked up, bit by bit, half @ block of land directly oppost the Stoek exchange, and on it erecte | the first great modern steel office bulld Ing put up, the Mills building, Although his active participation in busi ness affulrs had ceased, Mr. Mills, up iy the time of his death, remained a directos In many corporations, His raflroad inter- esta including the hflding of a director ship In the New York Central and Lake Shore companies, and he held a place, well, in the directorates of several New York banks' and trust companies and numerous industrial interprises. He largely responsible for the harnessing the Niagara—a feet of Ingenuity, accor plished &t an expense of $80,000,000, by which an energy equivalent to 160,000 horse powe I8 made avallable for a great varlety purposes.—Kansas City Star. kS Wi t Of Interest to Skater Consldering the many lives lost every year by breaking through. or still oftener, by skating into holes in ihe ice, a simple and practical means of saving oneself from drowning should be of interest to skate everywhere. 1 nds on the use of a life-saving awl d the method of rescuing oneself is about as follows 1 As soon as you break through the ice, tend the arms. Don't get excited 2, Bwim to the edge of the fce whence you came. Rest one hand on the lce, Gentl tread water 8 Take the awl In the other hand and |remove the cork from the point with teeth. Reach over on the lce as far as possible, and plant the point firmly in the urface. 4 By drawing in the arm you can now easily bring the hips onto the lce. Stand up. put the cork back on the point of the awl and skate off.—~Popular Mechyaias