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IN THE PUBLIC EYE. GROVER CLEVELAND. CREEPERS FOR THE AUTO. ?erlce resigned to Prevent Sipping: of tlie wnccis. An account of the "side-slip" contest which was heid a few weeks ago by the Automobile Club de Sniue-et-Oise was given in those columns, and we | are enabled to present some views of the winning device. The "anti-skid- { anti-skiddbr detached. der" which won the prize is knowu a* Lempereur. As will be seen from the two Illus trations It consists of a number of ?teel plates, connected at their extrem ities by two encircling chains. The plates are corrugated on their Inner surfaces apparently with the object of preventing any "creeping" upon the Tover. It Is claimed for this device that It cannot leave the tire; that It x ANTI-8KIDDER IN P1.AOV. cannot heat, and may be removed or affixed lu a few minutes. When not In uw It can be rolled tip Into a very small compass, and therefore takes np very little room on the car. It Is said to add considerably to the life of the tires, and to constitute an absolute protection against puncture nnd side slip, without reducing the resiliency of the tire. A Hnlldlni of On* Trre. There Is a Baptist church in Santa Rosa, Cal., holding two hundred per sons, which Is built entirely of timber sawed out of a single redwood tr^e. Timbers, weather boarding and lnn?*r lining are all of wood, there being no plaster, bricks or mortar about It. The roofing, too, Is made of shingles ?awed from the same tree, and after It was all finished there were ?i*ty thousand shingles left. A slater tree to the above furnished employment for two years to two lyirdworking men. wlio reduced It to shingle*. ritffcTA> cavalry. (Type ?f thr Force Which Block*4 the British March to Lhatuul TO MINIMIZE FOHEST FIKES. New Devices For Suppression 01 Smoie and Spark ftutsauce. Among tlie numerous causes of for est tires probably the most prolific means of all is (be shower of sparks which are thrown high in the air from locomotives. Various remedies for tills danger have been suggested. Legal pressure has brought into the field nu merous spark-arresters, notably in the Adlroiulacks; but great damage was done before these were dually put into anything like general use. An other arrester has recently been sug gested, which Is now in use on some of the Western railroads, although for a different purpose. This device is sim ple in construction, inexpensive and aduptuble to any style of locomotive. It consists chiefly of a specially con structed hood, which is extended above the top of the stack, nt the height of about two feet, and interferes but lit tle, If at all, with the draught. Its motive consists solely in deflecting the sparks downward, so that they fall harmlessly on the roadbed. Even In case of a high wind the cinders are so effectually deflected downward that SPARK DEFLECTOR] FOR LOCOMOTIV/E^l tliey will scatter only n very abort distance. When not in use this device is released from its upright position, where It is held by a spring, and then it reclines to the side of the stack.? Philadelphia Record. British Admiral Eight Month* Old. The youngest British. Admiral Is only eight months old. The < Infant Marquis of Donegal Is the Hereditary Lord High Admiral of Lough Ncagli, but the office carries with it neither emoluments uor duties. It Is an obsolete naval command, which dates from tbe time of Queen Eliza* betli, when It was necessary to main tain a naval force on I/ough Xcagli to over-awe the natives of Tyrone, Derry, Armagh and Antrim, with whom sev eral actions were fought.?London Daily Mall. Canadian Hlaon. The woods of northern British Amcr. ica are still Infested with a queer species of bison, known as the "wood* buffalo." It is much larger than tli# bison of the plains. JOSEPH F. SMITH. President of the Mormon Church. A CnrloM Tropical Phenomenon. A curious phenomenon has been no tlced In the tropics that can never b? scon at higher altitude*. A mining shaft at Somberete, Mm., Is almost ex actly on the tropic of Cancer, and at noon on June 21 the sun shines to the tK>ttom, lighting up the well for a ver tical depth of 1100 feet or more. K. Phillips Oppenhelm, a popular Kngllsh novelist, is visiting this coun try. 11* is net a stranger here, as he married ? Boston girl eeveral years ago. PLUCK, MOMAKCE MHO AD VENTURE. SIX DATS IN NOKGrS BOAT. HE White Star liner Cedrlc brought three earrlTor* of thf SctBdiuThn Line steamer Norse. which ?track on Rockell Reef on jane 28 last, and went down with more than 000 of her passengers and crew. ] The tbvee men. August Torn berg. Carl Johanaen and Wllhetm Poulsen, had nothing but the clothea on their backs when thej boarded the Cedrlc at Liver pool. bnt many hours hsd not paased before a purae was made up bj their Xellow voyagers. Torn berg and Poulsen are married and left large families In Sweden. Jo hansen. a lad of nineteen, is s Dane, who left home to join his elder aiater in Chicago. Poulsen waa permitted to land, and went to a relative In Perth Amboy. The other two men will be cared for at the Swedish Home, near the Battery, until they secure tranapor-' tation to the Wcat. The three men were the centre of a blue-eyed, tow-headed crowd of Scan dinavians when the Sun reporter reached Ellis Island. They were tell ing again the story of the wreck. Tornberg was on the lower dock of the Norge talking to n sailor when tlie ship-raspoil lightly against a reef. A heavy mist hung over the aea. But a few hundred feet ahead, rising high above the water, could be seen the great lonely shaft of Rockall. Iu anoth er moment there was n terrllic crash, and Tornberg fell on deck half stunned. He could hear the sound of water rush ing Into the gaping hole in the bow. and then came the cry: "Man the boats. The ship is sinking." Immediately the steerage was in a panic. Tornberg regained his feet as the first boat?the one that was dashed against the side by a giant wave?was being lowered. He lifted a little girl Into this boat only to see her swallowed up by a wave a second later. He turned to assist in the lowering of a second boat when a sea broke over the deck and he was washed off with a hundred others. Tornberg, although a strong swim mer, was nearly exhausted when Third Mate Basse aud another of the crew pulled him Into a lifeboat. Tornberg jumped overboard again a moment later and helped rescue Poulseu and Johansen, who were clinging to a piece of timber. Iu the course of fifteen minutes three sailors and seven pas sengers, all men. were hauled out of the water, making seventeen in the boat. The last mau res<*u?Ml was so weighted down by the gold sewed in his money belt that he could not swim more than just enough to keep his head above the surface. The boat had all It would hold, and Basse ordered those who were strong enough to lend a hand and row out of the zone of danger. They had not made a hundred yards when the Norge pitched forward and disappeared. A boat and hundreds of living and dead who were near the wreck vanished In the vortex. , Basse's boat had aboard a keg of water and a bag of ship's biscuit. It had not gone far when a second boat with twenty-eight men, four women and two childrea aboard came along with absolutely no provisions. Basse, confident that be would reach St. Hil da, 150 miles away. In forty-eight hours at the latest, gave them two-thirds of his supply. For two days these two boats and a third that joined them on the first night were in company. The men rowed In relays two hours at a time. About midnight on June 30 the wind rose to a gale and the boats drifted apart. By this time all of the water and all of the biscuits In the boat Basse com manded was gone and the men were tired and sick. Their hands were cov ered with blisters and Basse and his four sailors had no little difficulty In keeping them at the oars. The man with the gold they could do nothing with. lie was sick and lay in the bot tom of the boat alternately praying and offering the gold for a piece of bread. After about ten hours the gale gave way to a cold rain. They caught sonic water in the bottom of the boat and got a little relief, but salt water soon spoiled the fresh. On the fourth day the men could not work more than an hour at a time at the oars, and on the tifth day not more than half an hour. They had now been three full days without food or drink, and most of them suffered so that they cared little whether they reached land or not. But Basse had left a blue-eyed wife and a two-year-old son In Denmark and meant to see them again. When a man threw down his oar and said be could work no longer Basse would ask him If he find a family. If he hadn't Basse tried on him the photograph of his own boy; or. If necessary, punched his head. On the morning of the sixth day Basse tore up a number of life preserv ers and contrived a crazy sail by piec ing the coverings together. Late that afternoon this clumsy sail was sighted by one of the crew of the Scotch fish ing smack Rattray Bay and In another hour the seventeen"men had be?n taken aboard the smack. ~ The rescued could not make the res cuers understand much about what had happened. The smack got to Aber deen on July fl. The boat with which Basse shared his provisions was picked up by the British steamer Cervona, and ?11 her people were saved. Of the third boat nothing has been heard. Basse went to Copenhagen. The man with the gold went to a hospital.?Now York Sun. KANGAROO HUNTING. Tiger skins, elephant tasks, antltrt and a dozen other trophies decorated the smoking room of the huntsman. "You can't guess what this Is," he sakl, and he took down from tbe wall a' piece of curiously woven matting. It was about two feet square, green in color, and Ave inches thick. "Thla," he explained, "Is the breast plate that is worn la kangaroo hunt ing. Without it, the kangaroo, with a foreleg and an accuracy that no prlse flgbter could smash in your cheat as thaugh It were a pasteboard box, Thia ImttfUt* I* a lovTnlr of an excltr lac kaiganl haatln Australia. "All bis ffMj enthusiasts are famil* lar with tlgsfefcaattng. tltplwt shoot ing, the chsse ?C the xriasly, of the boar and of hippo, bat I know few men who hm ever banted ksngsroos. "Yet thl|Ja an adtlnf and a dan gerous sport. The kangaroo, when he la brought > bay. will light. He Jumps straight at yoa, like a cat. and with his small forelegs he alms at yonr chest two tremendous blows?first the right and then the left?and these blows, with a " speed and an accuracy that no prise fighter could equal, would kill yon If they landed on anf unpro tected surface. So you wear, for a pro tection. this thick green guard, woven of native grasses by native women. "You hunt the kangaroo In 'sets.' Eight huntsmen compose a set. snd , each set employs half a dozen native runners to stalk the kangaroo. "The kangaroo, on being stalked, comes tearing over the plain straight at you. He travels with the speed of an express train, and he makes great bounding leaps. One minute he Is crouched on the grass, the next he Is ten feet up In the air. and all the while, remember, he is g^ing forty miles an hour. "Hence l?o is a mighty difficult ob ject to shoot. If you fail to shoot him. and If there Is no tree handy, then you must put your trust' In your mat-* ting breastplate. This breastplate of mine, you notice, has a dent in It." CATCHING A TARrON. J. B. Marshall, of Iowa, stopped In the city the other day on bis way home after a trip to the coast, where he s:iy* he cauglit his first tarpou. The tar pon, he says, is about the toughest proposition he ever tackled. "Why." he said. "I never caught an alligator or a whale- with a piece of silk line, or clothes line or wire cable, either, for that matter, but I believe I would as soon catch one as a silver king. ' "You wake up in the morning with the Gulf breeze blowing over the north end of Mustang Island, and bringing the perfume stirred up by the Tana ma Canal with it from the Isthmus, and tind the guide waiting for you. He has a boat waiting. He looks about the color, of Mexican candy, which is about the same as mahogany which has been too close to the tire, and bus a pair of bands on him like n deep sea lobster. You step into the little cockle shell of a boat and he rows you out in the bay. The sun is beginning to furnish the entire outlying coast peo ple with hot water, and you tie the strings of a sort of sunbonnet bat un der your chin and pull on big gloves. "Afier awhile you feel something, and then a flsh about the size of a burn door leaps out of the water and your line begins to smoke. 1 needn't tell you about the rest, But. auyway, wheu I got that fish to where he could be hauled iu 1 didn't care whether he came in or I went out. That's the way I felt about It. And. after all, they said he was only four feet long Just a minnow tarpon, you know. I guess they use 'em for bait for tarpon if they are under five feet long. But that four-foot tarpon was enough for me. I surprised and shocked the guide*, I guess. 'If that's too little,' I said to him. 'I'm golug fishing at the hotel for a lemonade. I don't want to catch a tarpon. Don't know what put the idea into my head. Do they keep liulment at the hotel?'"?Dallas News. THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. An unusual demonstration of physical grit and steadiness of nerve was given at Chalmers Lake, Col.i by E. B. House, professor of mathematics of Chicago Agricultural College. He left Fort Collins a week ago with State Engineer Carpt liter's experimenting company. On Saturday, when he was felling a tree for firewood, the axe glanced and severed one of Professor House's toes, anil cut through the bone of a second. The professor was alone and seventy miles from surgical as si8tance. He removed his shoe, batiied the ragged wounds with whisky, and with needle and thread sewed on tho amputated member and repaired the wound of the ether toe. He is still at work with the party. Ptrli and New York. Walking up Fifth avemv? and out through Central Park the Sunday tliut I landed in New York, among all the varying and s:td impressions inn do upon me. I was especially moved to Inquire. Where are American families? What In the world is the matter with American men, and who taught Amer ican girls their manners? I saw men and women promenading together and I saw not a few children romping un attended by their elders or else in the company of nurses. I saw nowhere what make* the chief beauty of all Paris avenues ar.u parks Sunday after noons?Innumerable family parties fathers and mothers with their chil ?tlren, small and big. ofteu the grand parents, too, gayly going rlong, glad of the sunshine, the fresh air, the ex ercise. and, most of all, glad to be to gether In their pleasure. Then the glHs I saw on Fifth avenue, prom enadlng !n pairs or Jn groups, with swinging stride, laughing loud, and talking louder. Where do they ?et their manners? In Paris, the home of the grisette, les petltes femmes, it li? the rarest possible thing to see a girl' of Immodest bearing on the street? myself, during two years' residence here, I have never seen It. This, I think, results largely from the sub tllely refining Influence of schools taught by rellgeuses.?Harper's Bazar. A Hon'* F??Ui?r*. A feather guessing contest Tvas re cently conducted by a company manu facturing feed for poultry. Five hun dred dollars In prizes was offered for best estimates or guesses as to the number of feathers on a ben. Thou sands of guesses were received, In cluding some very amusing ones. One party, who was probably looking for some catch scheme, estimated "none at all." Many estimates in tho hun dreds of thousands wore received, several In the millions, the highest es timate being 000,000,017. The correct number was found to be S120. The company says: "We feel a pardona ble pride In having contributed to poul? try science an Item of Information ac tually new."?St. Nicholas, AN UNOFFICIAL TRANSACTION. ? young man entered a savings bank tn Chicago recently and banded the paying teller his book, on which ap peared a credit of 9100. "I'd like to draw It all out/* he aald. The teller looked the page* over care fully. "What waa that $45 dollars you de posited yesterday?*' he asked. "Two New York checka." "Sorry, then, but I can't pay that till the checka come back?in about two days more. I can give you the hun dred and fifteen, though." "But I've got to have It all. I've just been ordered to Portlaud. Oregon, and I must go to-day. I didn't know it yes terday. or I wouldn't have made that deposit. I absolutely must have that money to-day." "I'm storry for you." sold the teller, "hut I have no option. You may be honest, but you must understand that that is a very old game which has been tried on us time aud agaiu. The checks from-New York may be worth less. We must have security till re thru on them is made." Argument did no good, and the young man. angry and disappointed, pocketed without counting the $115 which the teller handed him. Two hours later he counted the bills in a ticket office and found that lie had $50 too much. The teller, while talking, had put down a tifty-dollar bill, and absent minded ly counted 115 in fives and tens upon | it. The young mau went directly back I to the bauk. j "As I understand it." he said to the teller, "you nllow I may be honest, but you can't risk $45 on it?" "That is the case exactly." "Please count that pile of bills and compare it with the book. That is just as you gave it to me." The teller started to say that he could not rectify mistakes after the depos itor had left the bank, but changed his mind and counted the bills. He looked at the depositor, then slipping the $50 bill in tha drawer, counted out forty five iu fives, aud put lu out through the slide. "Officially." he sr.id. "I suspect you of plaj'ing a very old prame on this bank. Hut personally I reckon you are all right. There's your mouey."? Youth's Companion. Beat Selling Book In the World. The Bible is the best selling book in the world. It leads, and by ft long in terval. all other publications in copies purchased in the ordinary channels of trade, without regard to what may be called the official distribution. Every book store which undertakes to carry a full line of stock sells the Bible. Several Important corporations coDfine themselves to the manufacture and sale of Bibles, and others tind in the Bible their leading feature. Ot no other book can this be said. Speak ing some time ago of the Insatiable de mand for the Bible as an article of merchandise, an officer of the Metho dist Book Concern, which till recent ly Issued cheap editions of the Bible, said: "Like all publishers, we have to keep watch of the sale of books in general, even the most popular, so as not to get overstocked. But this never occurs in printing the Bible. We just keep the presses steadily at work, and If we happen to tind that we have 40. 000 or 50,000 copies on hand it gives us no uneasiness. We are sure to sell them, and we go straight ahead print ing."?The Century. Horse Sense. Eat the honey thou canst find; drink the vermouth thou canst not avoid. If thou sayest snow is dirty, what wilt thou say about chimney soot? Even the stupid man is clever enough to make an excuFat, When the 'lightiugale's voice was praised the cart horse began to neigh. "What a pity to lose my splendid boat!" cried the ferryman as he and his passengers were drowning. When the avaricious man has sold bis forest he wants to sell the trees. The bees gather wax and honey; the avurlcious man asks that they should also prepare his mead. Do .i?t look too long at the holes in your coat, but put patches on them. He who receives too much praise grows donkey's ears. Spin flax if thou canst not weave silk. Dull silver is better than shining brass. No brass is prouder than that which has lately been coined.?Westminster Gazette. Mammoth Hmwlt'i Neat. Dr. W. A. Hart, dentist, spends his leisure studying bird lore. On hawks, eagles, their nests and their eggs, the doctor is an authority And he has just sold a monster nest to a million aire collector for the sum of $15, tho largest sum known to have been paid for a native bird's nest. Tucked away in a thre.vl imbed crotch, ninety feet above a marsh. Dr. Hart discovered this valuable nest. It has been used for years, each old hawk adding moro twigs and branches until the whole was bigger than a half barrel. The tnsk of lowering this nest, with its three eggs, of the rare red-tailed variety, was a feat of skill and daring, and the trophy was hung in the dental office, already adorned with hundreds of eggs and many nests. Communication with John Lewis Childs, the millionaire soeilman, florist and naturalist, of Floral Park, New Yortt, resulted In a dicker for the nest, and now Dr. Hart is keeping n photo grnph of the check as a souvenir.?De troit News. A Terse lteply. Caoon Melville, who died In Eng land recently. In his ninety-second year, owed his earliest promotion to a pun. When the late Earl of Dudley, .who knew Mr. Melville sufficiently to remember that his Christian name was "David," had a living at his disposal be received a letter containing only the words, "Lord, remeinber David." The earl's reply was no less terse utid scrip tural; "Thou art the man!" - Used Ace* A?o. Addressing the Antropoftglcal So ciety In London, the Rev M. Collyer. ? missionary, said he had been able to trace the use of the system of Identi fication by finger impressions (recent ly Introduced in Europe) for 1200 years |9 Korea In the deeds of tale of slaves. News of Interest AFRO-AMERICANS Next Mtttlng In Atlanta. Atlanta has been selected (or the next meeting place of the National Negro Teachers' Association. ? ? ? ? African Territory Open to Ua. Bishop C. 8. Smith, In a recent ad dress concerning Africa eald: "All of South Africa Is now open to us ? a stretch of territory greater In area than that of the United States east of the Mississippi river. The area of the territory now open to us Is es timated to*be 1.200,000 square miles." ? ? ? ? N. N. B. League Soon to Meet. The fifth annual convention of the National Negro Business League will fce held at Indianapolis, Ind., August 31. September 1 and 2. This meeting promisee to be the most successful session ever hell by this very remarkable and helpful or ganization. The local committee hav ing In charge the arrangement of the program for the convention 1s dili gently working for success, and we are sanguine that there will be more enthusiasm In the league In the fu ture than in the past. ? * * ? A 8econd Harriet Beecher Stows. We have been blessed with a second Harriet Beecher Stowe in the person | of Caroline Pemberton .whose timely article in The Philadelphia Ledger has set the intelligent world to think I ing. Miss Pemberton has received I numerous letters from colored citi zens in Philadelphia thanking her for her kind and truthful expressions, and .she appreciates vory much their ex pressions of gratitude and good will. Our only regret is that we have not one thousand Caroline Pembertons. ? Indianapolis Freeman. 8trikers and Strike Breakers. Strikers and strike breakers, like corporations and trust combinations conducted in restraint of trade are new forces in the social order, for which adequate laws of control and regula tion have not been made, but which will be made, as it is not conceivable that the great public will much long er allow itself to be victimized by or ganised capital on the one hand and organized labor on the other. The Negro strike breakers in the Chicago stock yards were "handy with the gun," when assaulted by union strikers, last week. It is the conceded right of a man to defend himself when he is assailed and Ib fearful of bodily Injury. There are those who think that Negroes should not allow themselves to be used to help corporations against striking employees, but we are not of the number, on the theory that a man has the right to quit work If he is dis satisfied and another man has the right to take the Job If lit; wants work nnd Is satisfied with the conditions of em ployment. The theory that a man may not only refuse to work, but that he may also prevent others from working Is an absurdity which cannot be rec ognized or tolerated without, destruc tion of personal liberty and of busi ness enterprise. This would bo the outcome of it if labor unions were allowed to have their way. Equally ab surd and Intolerable is the theory that rates arbitrarily without regard to the Interest of the public, by worae suf ferance they are allowed to exist. The forcing of this condition of affairs on the public In the past two decades by capital and labor has been provocative of great loss, suffering and inconven ience to the masses of the people, and calls more loudly for reasonable ac tion at this time than at any pre vious time. The great drawback to se curing the necessary remedial legis lation is the fear In which both of the great parties stand of both capital and labor. Neither party will force the mat ter of relief until the voters of the country compels It to do so. That time cannot be very far off. The strikers and the strike break ers, as well as the corporations and the trusts, are here to atay, and wlil stay anil fleeco and Inconvenience the mass of the American people until they are taken In hand and given to under stand that they are the servants and not the masters of the people at large ? see Crumpacker on Dlsfrsnchlsement. The A. M. B. Church Review of a recent, date contains a symposium bas ed upon the following proposition sub mitted by Editor H. T. Keating, to tho writers: Since the recent adverse decision of ths United States supreme court In the Alabama disfranchisement case should the Negro still contend for the franchise or demand reduction of representation In the South Instead?" Answers were received from a num ber of gentlemen, among them Hon. E. D. Crumpacker, of Indiana, whose views we present below. Mr. Crum packer." "In my opinion the Negro should In sist upon the fundamental rights that pertain to citizenship. He should con tend for civil sod political equality, Indlanola Postofflce Reduced. The postofflce at Indlanola, Miss., which figured conspicuously last year In a race trouble on account of the then colored postmistress. Mrs. Min nie Cox. and which was cloeed for months by President Roosevelt, has been reduced from a presidential of fice to a fourth class office. The post office department explains that this action waa due to the receipts of that office for the last fiscal year falling below the minimum amount establish ed for presidential offices, and not to any desire of the department to fur ther show it a disapproval of the course taken by certain citizens of the town toward the former incum bent of the office. and by this I nets "he should claim and be. accorded the same rights as are granted to other cltlseas circum stanced as he la. Equality before the law meam equal treatment under sim ilar conditions. **I believe in an educational stand' ard for the ballot where there ia a large percentage of illiterate popular tlon. but the standard ought to bs Impartially applied to white and black alike. It is much better for the col ored man that a fair literary qualifl* cation be imposed upon the ballot. It will give him something to work for and when he secures the right to tote% It will be a mark of honor and will mean something to him. The ballot in the hands of an Ignorant person is of no benefit whatever. It Is a two-edg ed sword and he Is as llble to use It to his detriment as to his advan tage. My Idea Is that there should be but one standard of cltlsenshtp and that the right to rote should be pred icated upon character and Intelligence and not upon the accident of race or color. "An educational law will necessari ly disfranchise a large number of citizens In the southern states and. under the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution, the represen tation of those states should be re duced proportionately. The purpose of this constitutional provision is not to Inflict a penalty upon, a state thst seeks properly to elevste the st*>nd' ard of its electorate, but to prompt all of the states to educate their cit izens and thus qualify them for the ballot An increase In the voting popu lstion of the state among ltB mnle in habitants over twenty-one years of age. according to the constitutional policy, means au increase :u repre sentation and a larger share of fed eral political power. I. th* refore. l>e lieve that colored men who are fitted lor suffrage ought to insist upon it. and that the constitutional provision respecting representation should he enforced as a promoter tu states to educate generally in order that the standard of intelligence may be pro rooted throughout the country gener ally. Very truly yours, E. D. Crum pacekr." BEATS A CONFIDENCE MAN. Cook on Atlantic Liner Neatly Foilt Alleged American Millionaire. The classical confidence trick has been neatly played on a would-be swindler In Paris by his intended vie tim. The latter, a cook ou a trans Atlantic liner, had been done himself before and waj too old a bird to be cauKht a^ain. He struck up an ac quaintance with an engaging hut ob viously sham American millionaire io the train to Paris, confiding to hint that he had 40,000 francs in his hag and meant to amuse himself on the boulevards. "Well met, Indeed." said the millionaire; "I have also made my pile and intend seeing the merry side of life in gay Paree." They started the evening with an expensive dinner, paid for by the American millionaire. At coffee the latter exclaimed: ' Hullo. I have not any cigars; suppose you go and buy some. You can leave your bag here, whore It will be quite safe. But, as you might be suspicious here's my pocketbook. Keep it till you join ine again." Ah soon as the cook's bark was turned the American millionaire, of course, bolted with the bag, but the latter only contained old newspapers and the cook's card, with the words: "I have been hail before; you have met your match this time." In the would-bo swindler's pocketbook was a sum of ?24 In French notes, which the cook took to the police station, flaking the officer to whom he told his tale with understandable relish to give the money.to the poor. $100 FOR AN EGG Of an East Indian Game Fowl Impori ed Into England. Not often does the price of a single e?g climb to $100.but that is what was offered for each of the eggs of a cer tain Indian game hen, which was brought, to England some time a^o. says Country I.lfe in America. F/>r centuries the Indian game, or A zee I fowls, have been the very apex i t the game breed, for tlx* purer.ess of blood and pedigree have been most carefully preserved fer fo long that the date or the origin of the race ha? been lost in the past. It Is almost Impossible to proevre specimens of the purest blood, for the; are treasured by the Indian sportsmen at the highest value, and tho be.<t fowls are not allowed to go out <<f their native country. As game fo.vl, they are grcrt fight ers. Thoso who have seen them In India?for the finest birds never reach our colder climates?tell of their prow ess and ungovernable teuactly in bat tle. With them It Is always victor) or death. In America, however, the gamr fowls aro seldom raised for fighting purposes, but are for show and as pets and hobbies for poultry fanciers. Forced Contribution. efot long ago in New York some philanthropic effort was started In a church to rp^e funds, and It was de cided to have a special sermon and collection. Mr. H was appointed one of tho members to pass the plate. Meeting a friend on Broadway, and being very anxious for a large collec tion, *"e urged his attendance. The frle-.id was compelled to leave the city that very day, but stated that he had given his wife a five-dollar bill for the collection. As tho plate was passed, the lady put In $3. Mr. H , Instead of pass ing on, stopped and, In an undertone, said: "No you don't. I want the other $2. You know your husband gave you $6." The lady, very much astonlshotL said:' "Do mora on, Mr. H??" "If?," replied H-??, "I'll remain hero till I get the other |2."~Phil*. ftAlpfcia PuMIe ledger. First AmeHcan Newspaper. Mrs. Clute of the Pettaplng bona* Essex, Conn., has a copy of th? flrst newspaper printed In America, date* At Boston* A?rU 44. A4.