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I PEGGING AWAY. ??* Ten seldom mount at a single bound To the ladder s very top; hey must slowly climb it, round by round. With many a start and stop. nd the winner is sure to be the man Who labors day by day; or the world has found that the safest plan To f a Iroan nn T"?or?m T> cr fiTTQt' vv nvvy/ """J* STou have read, of course, about the hare And the tortoise?the tale is oldHow they ran the race?it counts not where? And the tortoise won we're told. The hare was sure he had time to pause And to browse about and play; So the tortoise won the race because He just kept pegging away. ?F. H. Sweet, in the Technical World Magazine. Inj-jjhe Abbot of | 11 s?* San Pietro i ^ j?HN RAFTERY' | The chief cause of estrangement between old Dr. Herman Shumate and his son, Maurice, was tne oia man's old-country idea:; about money. He was already a millionaire, but he refused to extend to Maurice the slightest financial aid or the least encouragement to hope for a rich inheritence. He made two provisos, without the fulfillment of which his son. he said, was to have not a penny of his wealth. First, the boy must marry. The father didn't care who she was provided Maurice married her in the orthodox way, but a wife he must get. Then he must earn, acquire or at least prove the ownership of at least a thousand dollars in his own right before he could expect either countenance or help from his father. These were harsh requirements for a young man of Maurice Shumate's temperament, for he was born in New York, reared among well-todo young Americans, and utterly devoid of those cautious, economical, old-fashioned qualities which made his father a harsh master in spite of his natural amiability. ? Having degrees from half a dozen European universities, Herman Shumate was entitled to the "doctor" epithet, though he had never practiced medicine. An expert chemist and poison specialist, master of the materia medica and inventor of two successful processes of emblaming, he had achieved his greatest success and most of his millions as manager and stockholder of a rich chemical manufactory. The boy, Maurice, was a rake at twenty-one and a harumscarum, popular, utterly irresponsible man-about-town at twenty-five. Then he was stricken with pneumonia and empyema, and his creditors began to harry his father. When he was strong enough to walk ( he weighed only 120 pounds) his fat'nej gave him $100 and said: "You'll get well if you go to a good climate and sleep nine hours a day. You can come back or not as I you choose. But I will pay no more of your bills. I will feed and house you no longer. If you get married and make your first thousand dollars, , 3ll right. I will see." It was a harsh sentence, r.nd it hurt Maurice, but he was very weak, and only smiled wanly as he said: "I don't blame you, dad. But where would you go?"' f "Go to the devil, iC you like!" growled the doctor, who had seen that smile before. "Here's your hundred dollars.' When Maurice was gone, old Dr. Shumate began to fret. ILe became more active than over, more interested in scientific research, more penu' rious, and more solitary in his habits than before. When winter came on he decided to go into the Southwest to examine some of the mummies of the cliff dwellers, with an idta of discovering some of the secrets of their I embalming processes. He explored Mancos and other remote canons in Pnl r? r* orirJ A7 av i onrl thon vviwi ?uv nuu a.iu iuv*u uc came absorbed in the preservative cerements enwrapping the monks buried beneath the old Spanish missions of'"southern California, Texas and Mexico. It was at San Pietro that he stumbled across a bit of information that set his scientific soul afire. He had tried in vain to induca Herr Knav.ss. the German keeper of the old mission, to open the longsealed tombs that lay beneath the altar stones of the chapel. He had become very friendly with the old custodian, who was from Nuremburg, and he had been almost generous with his fees. But no, the property belonged to the Franciscans and he, Knauss, being only a renter, was pledged to protect every part and parcel of the antique buildings and historic grounds. "But there is another ruin.* whispered Knauss. "I think it is an old burial vault, in an adjoining farm. If you will risk a few hundred dollars perhaps " "Try it, try it, my friend!" exclaimed the enthusiast. "When can youy begin?" The old German insisted that the matter must be kept secret, but he would let his patron know the result of the cxcavation. It was a very | much delapidated structure, mostly | under ground, filled with earth, j stones and the debris of more than two centuries. It would take time. But Dr. Shumate had been in Mont> erey only i week when he got a German letter from Herr Knauss. The digger, toiling alone at night and aided by his daughter, had unearthed many bones, but?most extraordinary of all?a perfectly preserved corpse, probably that of an abbot. Post haste back hurried Dr. Shumate to San Pietro. full of his secret and eager to investigate, hoping against hope that he might become .the possessor of the mummy. It was a seven-mile drive to the mission home of Knauss. but the doctor was there before 9 o'clock in the morning after his arrival at the railroad station. Knauss was from home. Fraulein Matilda, the daughter, who was very pretty and spoke English perfectly, didn't know. The women stared at Dr. Shumate. He decided i to keep sccret the purpose of his visit j and was driving off, when Matilda ! k came furtively through the hedge of niesquite and said: "It is a secret. Dr. Shumate. Mamma does not know. Papa said I should bring you to it." Ke made room for her beside him and she directed him into ?n old trail beyond tho chaparral for a miie in the quivering heat of the sun, and in the blazing dust of the parcnea nosas before she showed him the ruins of the old tomb with the fresh earth of recent excavations piled about the sunketa entrance. "You must only look, doctor," explained Matilda when they had tied the horse and alighted. "Papa says you may not touch the?he calls it 'The Abbot,* because there is a gold ring on the finger?that you may only look at it." He followed her dojvn into the dark hole, stepping among claystained bones and noticing three skulls ranged in a row within. She lighted a candle and motioned him to remain by the dim opening. Then he put on his double-lense glasses and saw the mummy. It was the body of a young or middle-aged Franciscian almost perfectly preserved. Dust, as of lime and sand, i was sprinkled thinly upon the scant hair and thin face. The crown of the head was shaven, the thick woolen cowl was back, disclosing the ascetic but life-like face of the Abbot. The bony hands, clasped across the breast,, held a rosary and a cross. Only the cord, peculiar to tne Franciscan order, showed signs that the remains had been prepared for burial. It was wrapped about the arms and lower extremities of the body, tightly incasing it within the brown gown of the monastic habit. "Papa will show it tp you again." said Matilda, blowing out the light, before the excited scientist had satisfied a whit of his curiosity, "he may be home now." They drove back to the mission and Knauss was there. The doctor stayed for dinner, and at supper time he was still in earnest, eager and whispering consultation with the old custodian. At last he seemed satisfied to go. He drove back to town in a hurry, and at midnight returned alone in a wagon. "There's your money, Knauss," he said to the farmer who came out to meet him ? "in one hundred dollar bills. All you haye to do now is help me load him into the wagon." Before dawn Dr. Shumate had his mummy safe on the floor of his room in San Jose. He put newspapers over the uncurtained window and locked his door. Then he removed the old blankets with which he had covered the mummy, brought the coal-oil lamp nearer, pulled out another pair of spectacles and chuckled: "It's a treasure! A wonderful example of w "For God's sake cut the rope!" said the corose, "I fell like a mummy for sure!" The doctor's glasses fell to the floor as he jumped up, but the Abbot quite calmly, as becomes a deceased clergyman, continued: ' Don't get excited, daddy. I'm Maurice, all right, your son, Maurice. I fixed it up with Matilda. She's my wife, daddy. When you came round here looking for mummies I he?.rd about you, and?well, I had the wife then, and I thought if I only had the thousand dollars?that first thousand, you know, daddy, why maybe you'd take me, that is, us, home with you. Tilly is outside there now, daddy, with the?the thousand you paid for the mummy! Come, dad, cut the rope, please do!" And daddy cut the rope.?Chicago Record-Herald. A Dry Shampoo. People who are susceptible to colds, and who fear to wet their hair during the winter months, will find a dry shampoo with orris, in connection with brushing and massage, very effective. Ten cents' worth of powdered orris is amply sufficient for two shampoos. When ready to retire, and after carefully brushing the hair, apply the orris, rubbing it in well with the finger tips, then put on a cap or tie the head up in a towel and allow it to remain over night. The orris will absorb the oil and dirt from the hair and scalp during the night, and can be brushed out in the morning. Orris is not only an effective shamj poo. but a very agreeable one; imparting a distinct yet dainty evanI escent odor to the hair. By its use the head and hair can be kept in a I ? ? ? /% A n/I i f ? Af> TfArtll AT>f i lWU)' v;itrauij luumuua. x i airing, brushings, and raassagings will add to the beneficial results.? Scientific American. Effect of Steady Work. Dr. John S. Buist, the famous Southern surgeon,, said in one of his surgical lectures at the State college: ' It is always in rather bad taste for a physician to boast of being busy. Physicians, undertakers and gravediggers only cause discomfort when they allude to good times and prosperity. "There was an old man who applied to the minister of the little village of Point Rock for the post of gravedigger. His references were good and the minister agreed to assign him to th? churchyard. He was to be paid so much a grace. "The gravedigger haggled over the price, filially accepting it. " 'Will I get steady work?' he asked. " 'Steady work?' said the minister. 'Lands saks, man. with steady work you'd bury all Point Rock in a week." "?New Orleans Times-Democrat. A Prerogative of the Pulpit. Dr. Eacon, a New England clergyman of long ago, was reproached by a friend with some pronounciation which was not "'according to Webster." Webster lived in his parish, and the douty old divine was not disposed to be snubbed with the dictionary. "What right has Webster to dictate my pronuncnation?" he demanded hoiifhtilv "Hp is nns nf mv nn.r ishioiicrs, and ought to get his pronunciation from me, and not I from him."?Youth's Companion. -*v ? ~si Jr.v': .US/..ii Huge Fililii . > \.| :! - ":''T ' '^' * T>-> monster snake whose skin i {jine I nds. It measured thirty fe boar were found in its stomach! THE NEW DUELLING SCHOOL IK PARISIt seems that after all the absurd pr?_r?n 11 r?A "/? n^l-a" nrMph n,'P rPfld 3V~VUllVU UU^tO (' U1VU " v vv.v. about as having taken place in France, Germany and Italy, may really in the near future turn out to be very lethal affairs indeed. Hitherto, if an officer, a lawyer, a journalist, or other insulted a colleague, seconds exchanged visits, a meeting was arranged and shots fired with, quite farcical results as a general rule, foi ordinarily the average professional man, even in a military nation lik France, is a deplorably bad shot, and there was usually no more visible result after the so-called "duel" thar an amusing paragraph in the papers That the French mean business ic the near future, however, in this matter, will be seen from the fact thai regular dueling schools have jus) been established in Paris, as well .as in Rome and Berlin and Vienna?nol merely for swordsmanship alone, bu1 for regular practice with the long barreled dueling pistol. The princi pals wear long padded overalls, anc curious masks, like those of the deei sea diver, with a very thick glass plaque in front of the face. The "bullets" used are pellets ol clay, which, however, might do very serious damage to the.pupils in these remarkable academies were it not foi A Student at the Dueling School Wears i Mask Which Will Protect Him From Injury, But Which Will Enable Him to See His Target. the glass protection over the face Lessons are first of all given in th< elaborate etiquette of dueling, an< next comes instruction in the neces sary "deportment." Last and most important of al comes the duel proper, with thi measuring out of the ground, th< loading of the powerful spring pis tols with the soft clay balls, and thi aiming on the part of 'each combatan at a vital spot?usually the head. N< tVin IrnntvloHco that thf? Khonf ing is innocuous tends to make th< duelists' .aim very accurate, bu there can also be no question that i familiarizes a man with the entir routine of a procedure which, with out this initiation, would be extreme ly disconcerting to the bravest. Needless to say the majority of th> pupils by no means have real duel upon their hands, but among a pas sionate people like the French, quid to anger and to avenge real or fan cied insult, there is no lack of at tendance at the various; schools, o which three or four have already beei opened in the French capital. Thi largest of these is a handsome salooi on the first floor of the Rue Castig Hone, and its seances are attended b; crowds of the gilded youth of Paris who are attracted thither by the nov elty of firing direct at the living mai and watching the comedy of farcica duels, which may become very rea ones at a day's notice. ? Scientific American. Golf Fatal to Chivalry. In a ball room or a drawing roon a man will treat women with decern if tolerant civility. But the sight o: a skirt on the links rouses him as i red rag does a bull. "Theee confounded females," he mutters, as h< ! misses a shot for no reason whatevei j but his own stpidity, "how can a mar be expected to play if these confound ed women will cackle like a flock oi geese!"?Golf Illustrated. Novel Pocketbook. Why do women fill their pocket f books so full of articles that sides 1 1 ? .4 4.U ~ Ti uui5" uut duu cue Clasps uicaiv.; - xi j ? * ; Folds Up Like a Bag. * A /.' " v- '-i " { opine snaKe. 1 is here shown was shot in the Philipet in length, and a deer and a wild ' | Machine to Wind Watches. I It seems almost incredible that the services of a machine should be required for winding watches, but is !r~-" ) \ t l Watch-Winding Machine. ) 5 the testing rooms of large watch factories, and in repair establishments, j the winding of the watches each day r by hand is a tedious task. The opera, tion requires a great deal of time, . and is very hard on the fingers of those who are compelled to perform the task. The machine invented for this purpose is shown herewith. It consists of a shaft suitably mounted in a frame, which may be secured in a vise, one end of the shaft is supplied with a handle, and the other is fitted with a clamping apparatus designed to grip the crown of a watch. In this manner the watch is wound by a crank. ^ i Handle For Bags. Scores of practical \ ideas are patented every day, but few of the^m are* ever put upon the market; In this class may be mentioned the combined carrier and fastener for paper bags i shown.in the illustration. Every lady will at a, glance recognize the usefulness of such a bag. The suburban_ ite especially, who generally reaches . home Saturday night loaded down s with bags and other miscellaneous 1 parcels, would weicome the use of - such bags by storekeepers. It can be safely predicted that this bag will 1 never be universally adopted?no b matter how useful it may be?simply 3 on account of the probable prohib - itive cost, me pront or me storea e ^lj ; ix^jsr i prip For the Hand. 1 1 keeper would be eaten up in the cost 1 of the bag, and he is therefore un: likely to adopt it. A glance at the illustration \yill suffice to indicate the formation of the bag. In all probability a dozen of these bags filled with various articles could be carried with J ease in one hand. The carrier at th? top affords a firm grip for the hand and at the same time is not cumber1 some. John Leidy, a farmer living near i Robinson, Kan., has installed a com plete electric light plant on his place, E which lights his house, barns, cowsheds, corn cribs and granaries. is necessary to concede the fact that . the ordinary women's pocketbooks 3 are not very large. Probably ahis t accounts for the fact that pocket books are being discarded and handbags introduced. A New Jersey inventor has devised a unique article which he terms a pocketbook, but which nevertheless, has the carrying capacity of a handbag. It really resembles .vhat might be called a miniature dress-suit case or traveling bag. In the accompanying illustration it is shown in an open position! Across the top is a wire frame similar to those used in a traveling bag, j but, of course, smaller. On each side of the frame are clasps by which the pocketbook can be opened or .closed. When open there is ample space in this pocketbook to place everything needed. At the same time, when closed it is no larger than the ordinary pocketbook in size and appearance. St. Petersburg newspapers bitterly attack the financial department of the Government. I : ! ' * ;' ' X Household f \ Matters, j. How to Test Milk. ' To test milk dip a well polished knitting needle into a jug of milk and quickly withdraw it in an, upright pom'Hrm ? If the milk lias- only a small proportion of water*this will prevent even a drop of milk adhering to the needle. To Restore Black Lace. All restored laces are a little stiff at first, but that soon wears off. If not very brown give it a bath of tea and then wind around a bottle until dry. Quite rusty looking lace may be restored by laying it in the tea, and then it should be taken out and placed the right side downward on a strip of black crinoline. Place a second strip' over the lace and iron until dry, when the lace will be found to be perfectly black and without that shiny look that comes from ironing^ ?Washington: Star. Cleaning Glass. A small paint brush with long, strong, supple bristles is the best thing with which to keep cut glass free of dust. It is the only means of reaching ^he dust which only lodges in the small carvings. To wash cut glass use borax in the water, and the result will be a sparkling, shining receptacle that will glis ten as brilliantly as it aia wnen new. If a cruet bottle has become stained with vinegar sediment,or a vase with sediment from flowers, or any other piece of glass which it is hard to reach into to wash, chop up a raw potato (peeled) and put it into the bottle with sufficient water or suds to just cover the potato; leave it for several hours, giving an occasional shaking; empty and rinse well; if necessary, repeat. Results will be pleasing.?Florida Agriculturist. To Clean the Chimney. Much of the trouble with chimneys filling up with soot may be avoided by burning the potato parings. The chemical action Is such that the soot is entirely cleaned out, so there is no danger of its becoming filled up, even when soft coal is used in the stove. Zinc cut in small pieces and thrown into the stove or ffcmace when the fire is burning brightly also will have the same effect, and a handful used once in three or four weeks will keep the chimney clear and the draft good, no matter what fuel is used. Recently my kitchen range did not draw well, and the oven would not heat properly; so I placed a large handful of zinc scraps in the fire, and went outside to watch results. The smoke came out in clQuds, and was very .black, and in a short time the draft of the stove- was perfect, and the oven soon become hot. The Meat-Chopper. The grater has a black eye in house-wifely favor. In its place the meat-chopper has sprung into popularity. Many of the things for which the former was exclusively used are J ...ui.i.. now uune mure quii;n.ij auu. wilu greater ease by the latter. The meat-shopper is a godsend to one woman, who makes chow-chow so appetizing that she is forced to do it by the job lot. Formerly she cut the different ingredients separately, until one day the brilliant idea struck her?why not put everything through the chopper? In went tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and pickles, one at a time, and all the former work of two days was done in a morning. Apples, pears and quinces for butters, are also put through the meatchopper, with great saving of time and temper. Being cut much smaller, moreover, than they would otherwise be, they boil down more easily. All the juice from fruits prepared in this way must be carefully caught. The chopper itself should be scrupulously clean to remove 'all taste of meat. Boiling the parts in soda water insures perfect cleanliness. Potato Griddle Cakes?Take one cup of flour, add one teaspoonful of baking powder and half a teaspoonful of salt and two large potatoes grated. Make into batter with half a cup of milk and fry on a hot, well greased griddle. Honey Sandwiches?Chop together English walnuts and raisins in equal proportions. To each cup of this mixture* add two tablespoons of honey and one of orange juice. Spread between lightly buttered slices of cream bread and cut into dainty shapes. To Cook Beets?Beets of late have %een attacked by iusocts; therefore they must be examined leaf by leaf, and all which are infested rejected. Do not separate the roots from the leaves. Wash thoroughly in many wa.iei?>. rui iulu a siewimu aiiu wv er generously with boiling water. Add a teaspoonful of salt for every two quarts of greens. Boil rapidly until tender. This will be about thirty minutes. Drain off the water, chop rather foarse, season with butter and salt. Caramel Custard ? Four ctps scalded milk, five eggs, one-half teaspoonful salt, one tablespoonful o? vanilla, one-half cup sugar. Put sugar in omelet pan. Stir constantly over hot part of range until melted to a syrup of light brown color. Add gradually to milk, being careful that milk does not bubble up and go over, or* in 1iol\1a Ati i nnnii r\ f nf Vi i arV* + r?m _ ds is uauic uu UV-V.UU uu vi 1115U twiu perature of sugar. As soon as sugar is melted in milk, add mixture gradually to eggs slightly beaten; add salt and flavoring, then strain in buttered mould. Bake as custard. Chin, and serye with caramel sauca.?Boston Cultivator. ( mm.>,< / NATIONAL PEACE CONGRfSS Opening Session of the Conference Held in New York City. Roosevelt Urges International Arbitration?Differentiates Between Peace and Righteousness. Maw "Vr>r?v f'lfr ?Th a Poq nd flnri gress got down to real business in the great white-draped interior of Carnegie Hall under the joint auspices ,-of city, state and nation, with the hand of Andrew Carnegie at the helm to steer the movement 'for universal peace along a safe and harmonious course. About two-third's o? the 3500 who crowded into the meeting were women, and with these were about 1200 men delegates to the Congress, each wearing the white badge of the movement. Carnegie Hall was filled from orchestra to topmost gallery, the majority of the audience being women and elderly men. The platform was occupied by the delegates and their friends, as were the fows of boxes. Andrew Carnegie called the meeting to order, and immediately introduced Mayor McClellan, who made a brief address of welcome. Andrew Carnegie, the little father of the Peace Congress, came on the stage promptly at 3 p. m., the hour set for the opening of the congress, at tire head of a tiny procession made up of Mayor McClellan, representing the city; Gov. Hughes, the State, and Secretary of State Elihu Root, the national Government. These three made speeches, and the national Government was further represented by a long letter from President Roose velt. A striking feature of the congress was the tremendous reception given Gov. Hughes when he rose to speak. Though there had been much hearty applause for the others, it was brief; but when the Governor stood up there was not only hand-clapping .tbut cheers which lasted for one minute and thirty seconds. President Roosevelt's sentiments toward international peace were n~l altogether in accord with those v,. Andrew Carnegie. The President's letter came out for peace, not at any price, but with righteousness, and later Mr. Carnegie, in his speech, said the two things were inseparable, and asked the audience to imagine the state of mind of a man who held otherwise. In his letter the President decritd disarmament as impractical, warned against flamboyant utterances, reviewed the many achievements of this country in the interests of peace, declared that the second Hague Conference could not accomplish all that the peace advocates hoped for, though ' it would be a step in the right direction, and suggested the limiting of the size of warships as a jiiost practical means of diminishing the cost of naval armaments. At the evening session Mr. Carnegie was-still belligerent. He took issue with Professor Hugo Munsterberg, who asserted .that Germany's army was not a burden on her people, to the very apparent embarrassment of the professor. I William J. Bryan stioke for a few minutes in the evening. Extra police were again necescary to control the crowds that flocked to the evening session. More than half of the throng was made up of women, many of them showing the white hair of years. TRAIN WRECKERS KILL THREE. Cars Catch Fire After Being Derailed to Louisiana. Alexandria, La.?Three men killed and one probably fatally injured is the result of what is believed to be #the work of train wreckers at Cheneyville, thirty miles southeast of here, on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, when a westbound passenger train plunged into an open switch at a high rate of speed. The wreckage caught fire and the mail car, baggage and express car, and two passenger coaches were burned. The dead are Engineer John J. Covington, of New Orleans; Fireman Michael Kass, of New Orleans, and an unidentified man. Express Messenger William Kough, of New Orleans, oaaiy Durnea, waa mc man injured. An investigation showed that the switch lock had been broken and the switch turned and the signal lantern thrown away. CHIEF OF POLICE A SUICIDE. ; Dead Body of John H. Adams Found in Branch Brook Park, Newark, N. J. Newark, N. J.?John H. Adams, Chief of Police of Newark, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in Branch Brook Park. The bullet passed clean through his head, having enterpd at the side. He had been worried much of late over his indictment for malfeasance in office. Adams had been in the Police Department for thirty-two years. He was about fifty-eight years of age. He leaves a widow and*a married daughter. He was born in Brooklyn, m v hut come to this city when a boy. He was a veteran of the CiviJ War. Excess of Eggs Stored. Storage houses are rapidly filling up with eggs, and the quantities now stored are greatly in excess of thej same time last year. * Wife Kills Husband. Word has been received of the shooting and killing of William T. Hooley, son of John Hooley, of Taunton, Mass.. by his wife at Bingham Canon, Utah. His wife had been ill for some time and the deaths of two of their four children probably undermined her reason. Longworth Favors Taft. Congressman Longworth said at Cincinnati that he was in favor of the nomination of Secretary Taft for President. British Colonial Conference. At the Colonial Conference sessions at London Sir Henry Campbell-BanI nerman made lhe opening address. outlining the subjects to be discussed and the powers of the body; Dr. Jameson 'irged the consolidation of the South African colonies under one Premier. fnequality of Railroad Assessments. Governor Blanchard. in a communication to the Louisiana Board of Appraisers, pointed out the Inequality of low railroad assessments r.s compared to other values. ' Hhtt ~ v * :.v;* ^tS8 CARNEGIE DEDICATES Hlf . $23,000,000 MOTE Turns Pittsburg Institutions Ovei to the People. -ITS ALL LIKE A DREAM TO WE" Denies That He is Entitled to Any Credit For Amassing MillionsDistinguished Gathering at (he \ Ceremonies?Scope of Institute.Pittsburg, Pa.?Surrounded by a brilliant assemblage of world-famous personages, i^parew vjarnegie lormally turned over to Pittsburg the magnificent institute which bears his name and for which he has given $23,000,000 in round figures, the largest sum ever given by any man to any one institution. With 25,000 peopleiining the quarter-mile boulevard between the Hotel Schenley, the headquarters of the visitors, and the Carnegie Institute, Mr. Carnegie and his guests marched to the dedication. The line w*s led by Director Arthur Hammerschlag, of the Carnegie Tech Schools, followed by the members of the faculty. Then came Mr. Carnegie on the arm of W. N. Frew.x chairman of the board of trusteeu, and behind them the guests, with Lieutenant-General Alfred P. J. von Lowenfeld, General Adjutant to the German Emperor, and Lieutenant Dickhuth, of the German army, la the lead. Following the German officers came statesman and educator, artist and famous manufacturer, churchman and politician. The Catholic Bishop of Pittsburg walked with the Episcopal Bishop. With Booker T. Washington marched two educators of another complexion. ? / m 1 J(. ni. O A C r, J. lie yiutccuiugo uogau av. u.to a. m., when Chairman Frew received the guests in the Founders' room. At 10.30 a. m. came the municipal reception to visiting guests by Mayor and Mrs. Guthrie, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie. At 11.30 came the academic procession from the Hotel Schenley to the institute, under escort from the Faculty and students of the Carnegie Technical Schools. At 2 o'clock the dedication exercises began in the music hall, and at 3 o'clock the rest of the buildings were thrown open to the general public. At night there was a concert of the Pittsburg Orchestra. The ceremonies, while elaborate, were marked with extreme simplicity. When Mr. Carnegie arose to make his address the applause was long renewed. Ha had been Introduced by Chairman W. M. Frew of the Board of Trustees as a man who had ,k long been absent from Pittsburg, but who still needed no introduction. This expression seemed to furnish Mr. Carnegie his inspiration. He put his manuscript down, his eyes . flashed, he stepped far to the front beyond the speaker's table, and raising his arms, cried out: "I have been in a dream ever since I arrived here, and I am still in a 3ream. As I look upon this buildiue. I can hardly realize what has been done in my absence by the men who have made it. I have tried to make myself realize that I have anything to do with it, and have failed to do so. My banker tells me that I have so many bonds; I never even saw them. Did I earn them? Well, I started the machinery going and they came to me. When the institute project was first mentioned I wrote my name to a little slip of paper. That completed my task. I do not even know how many bonds they took, because I don't know how many I have. And still I am given the credit. It doesn't belong to me. "I cannot feel that I own a moun' tain. I don't think any man can really feel he owns a stretch of land. Let him walk over mountains or heather and say to himself, 'These mountains are mine,' and he will not be able to make himself understand the meaning of the words. So it is impossible to make one's self understand that he owns a great fortune. "I don't miss the money I gave. So far as I know there are as many / bonds in the safe deposit vault as there ware before. I.told my wife last nigfct, after I had viewed this wonderful place, that I felt that Alad din's Lamp naa ueen wur&iug, auu she replied, 'Yss, and you did not even have to rub the lamp.' That sizes up my position exactly." Mr. Carnegie delivered this remarkable speech in the most impassioned way with his eye glasses "f thrust back over his head, and his arms gesticulating. At times in It he was vigorously applauded, but for the most part the audience sat silent, not unsympathetically, but rather as if unable to take it in. Having said this, he walked back to the speaker's table, picked up his manuscript, pulled down his glasses over his eyes and delivered his prepared speech. The institute is of marble, and stands in Schenfey Park, one of the most beautiful in the city. The building faces the south, and with its wings and extensions covers an area of four acres, while with the three / floors there is a space for the various departments of sixteen acres, exclus- v ive of two basements and the power house. The total cost of the insti, tute, which occupied thirty months in construction, was $6,000,000. The" bookstacks hs.ve a capacity of 1,500,000 volumes. The art galleries cover 4t,Z,00 square reet ana me museum covers 104,000 square feet. Fremont C'ourt-Martial Begun. The court-martial trial of Major F. F. Fremont, sou of "The Pathfinder," on the charge of conduct unbecoming an army officer In connection with several financial transactions, was begun in New York City. Free Rides For Jersey Congressmen. The Free Railroad Pass bill was amended in the House at Trenton, N. J., to give to United States Senators * and Representatives in Congress free travel on all New Jersey railroads. The National Game. The Dartmouth team is making its first Southern trip. Somebody sets forth the claim for Hana Lobert that be is ttie Best oc the bunters. Each of the New York teams has a bunter that gives complete satisfaction, to wit, George Browne and Willie Keeler. Bob Unglaub is doing brilliant I work at first base for the Boston Americans. The wonder is to those who have seen hira play the bag is that he was not a regular major league first baseman long ago. * i: r. ; 'i-.v. -A- . .? Il