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if I PANAMAS YELLOW FEVER i No Disease-Ravaged Isthmus Says Dr. C. A. L. Reed. '.'here have been just thirty six i of yellow lever in Panama, with i deaths, since (lie 12th day of ily. when the tirst ease was reI." aid Dr. Reed last February, i is not infected, or at least was hen 1 left there. Sensational re) of tin* widespread prevalence of i o is. are duo chiefly to the fact s every case.of fever that, is sent t< A neon, where till fever eases are :s at once supposed to be yellow f f. " \ a matt t of fact, all such races, i ' so fully developed that diap j. >s iinnii.dakeable, are hold until i this ileal'! is cleared tip In this v ay cventy or ? : ;iitv suspected eases have be ii proven to be yellow fever. Lai no account is taken of this fact, c.a I all are ehurped tip to yellow foVe ' I lived two we 'hs at A neon IIos;I. visited the yellow f % r ward. nHonilotl nut Atieirva ??rt t^incA tL'lin lio.l died of yellow fevor, nnd was In close touch with the yellow fover hoard This body consists of Colonel C.orpas, Major lie Garde. Captain Lyster, and T)r Carter, the strongest attenuation of vellow fever exports in the world They me"t daily in consultation over re nortod cases, and their verdict, wli'eh is arrived at only after every scientific resource Is exhausted, is ant horitative. pipe to the Isthmus. The first earsro was beinef discharged wh?n T left Tbis delay makes it impossible to Kttnnress water barrels and other disease brec't'niT eetili is. The city is )"> vcvor. I eini? very thoroughly fumiprte I ttie sfr,?,.ts are heinp kent elean atel inrbice is heinrr disnosed of by our sanitary officers."?F.veninp Post. Monster Cave Discovered. o monster eu\e w?ui more man Uie quota ot wonders and traditions i . . been discovered near Antlers in tin- Choctaw .Nation. The cave is i...now at the entrance, but once ius?iie (lie opening one liuds no dilhculty in progressing hoo l'eet, when the again becomes difficult. The cave has been explored for nearly a quarter of a mile in the iuti nor, and at the steep inclines there have been cut niches in the rocky iiu-ones evidently by persons who once used the cave as a habitation Tin re is a roaring river in the depths of the cave that can be distinctly heard, Little is known of this river. There is a story that this cave was once the winter quarters of a hand of outlaws and robbers, who v\ n hiding and stored their booty th re. land has been allotted by a Oh. 1 .v woman, and the story is t' t he selected the place as a matt < . eiiliment ami not of value, for i" land is rocky and practically v ."Mess. Tint in her youth this \ umi had a sweetheart who was 1 ' a i tight near the cave, and she \ * ed the land on that account.?St Louis Republic. Old Playing Cards Made New. When one is buying now playing cards nowadays, tliey may he brand new or they may bo old ones made over, and if they are, no one is the w! ? r. unless the price tells the story. This Is a Gorman profession, cleanie and making over old cards, a lii'iness that has recently been removed from Vienna to Berlin. There many processes required to make t> . >s as pood as new. l .i: t, there Is tho cleaning and i ry " irtiele of dirt is removed from ^ ?" les of the cards with l)en/ine, ti <! !'d being nihbed over the cards 1 a I After tiiis they are allowed < \ and are then put into a card where they are made smooth i a ! '' vlhle, as they may have been 1 "1 hv the benzine process They * ' ( rt covered with white h-ad ! ' ' "> to a satin-finishing machine. \v ? tliev get the gloss they have lo ' * use and cleaning. The edges are ' and the cards are ftnlohoa -vefully examined eard hv e?- in expert, before thov are r " 'to !.>ave *he establlshmnt. ^ s .. " mm 3ARBI Lobster Mortality High. A lobster lays thousands of eggs, most of which hatch, hut few ever live to grow up. This is not the fault of the mother, for she carries them about with her for nearly a year, and with admirable instinct guards them as she docs her own life. When the young are set free, her duty is done, for they must then shift for themselves. Though hardly larger than mosquitoes, being about one-third of an inch long, the little ones leave then parents on the bottom and swim toward the light?to the surface, where, from one to two months, if fortune favors them, they lead a free, roving life. The open sea is a poor nursery for such weaklings, which become the sport of every storm and the prey of numberless hungry mouths. Out of a brood of 10,000 it would he a rare chance for more than one or two lobsters to reach maturity, or Anally to end their career in the kitchen or the chafing dish.?St. Nicholas Ladies are forbidden to wear trains to their dresses in the streets by a new by-law passed by the municipality of Rodenbach, In Austria, under a penalty of a maximum fine of 50 cents. FISH WITH STRONG STOMACHS. Curious Things Are Found in Ttiem, Pocket Knive9, Rings, &c. furious things arc often found In nsn. While ' aim was apparently lira'thy. The knife was not found ni.til sometime after the fish had been 1. When found, the knife bladf w: a < d. and the small, or poster, ior ? no of t..e handle was nearest the tall of the llsli, the flesh at this place helm; about two and a hall Inches thick. The knife when closet was three and five eighths Inches long. In Issl Capt. McEachern of the Gloucester sc.lu?oner A. K (JifTord found a knife?one of the kind known to fishermen as a haddock ripper? tn the stomach of a forty.five pound cod which had been caught on the l.e Have Hank. l.ars Petersen, an able seaman ot the ; team hip Hypatla. which arrived In New York in 190?. from St. IXHla, m; de a < arious find on the voyage. AftCi the M-SS 1 left Si. l.uetn :i lapci grav shark was scon following it. For two (lavs it continued in the wake of the ship, when I'etersen resolved to get it. Procuring a large hook, he baited it with salt pork, and after some difficulty landed the monster, which measured almost twelve feet from tip to tip. Fpon opening its stomach I'etersen discovered there a ring with the initials L. J|. p. en. graved on the inside. "RED SUNDAY." How Police Flogged a Woman to Ex tort a Confession. The St Petersburg correspondent of the Paris Temps gives an account | of ile ihi. . .in; i a woman student bj the police after "Red Sunday." "Though lu r breast had been slash ed open l>\ a sabre cut in the streets she was ta .en fn?m the hospital, do spite ntedleal protest, and twenty font hours afterward an ambulance ea took her to tin hospital in a shockinj stato. Sin- wa> as pale as death an< I could not stand. On being undi -ssot she scr> inn ! with pain. and it wai found that her should srs, her hack ?inii her loins won- black ami blu< nil over. There w? ie marks the si/.i of n man's lit'!'1 flng jr. She waj placed on a bed eov'-n d with mill curds to relievo the pain A Ren darme remained near her da> am night. Nevertheh s. her case be came known \ com nil iry of poiie< had questioned iter on lite i>?\ .; . ion ary plot and th Anaichi i m >vcne ll and she was known to have fr nJ among the revolutionist Sh> r< fused to speak, whereupon she wa whipped with lurch rod- without r? gard for her wound. S e wa q ttoned a second time, but would nothing She was then whippe i ne,?in. wliieh drew front her all t police wanted to know." The informant of the correspon ent ?>r the Temps says that this wt THE I SEL Are Gu we will We mean what be in today? 2R'S riTSl an isolated case, and mat: ro several days tho birch rods did dut at most of tho police ofllces of th capital. Greased Tracks With a Dog. Not because lie lost his life in pei forming a heroic deed but for th reason that he showed superior pre: ence of mind, does Tasker Henks, farmer who lives south of town, d< serve a share of the Carnegie her fund. He was driving to town at fu speed to bring a surgeon to his soi who had been injured by a rifle, whei on coming to the railroad crossing i tlie top of the Bently hill, he saw tin a railroad culvert had been burne beyond a sharp curve in the railroa track. Looking south ho saw freight train coming far away aeros the Bently meadows. He had no tim in which to wait to warn the trail for the hoy at home was in a precar ous condition. After a moment thought Henks sprang out of his wai on and with a club killed his son pet dog. that had followed the tear It was a fat dog. and cutting it u hit cl i 1 V tin trrnn en/l t tin tranl/o u? i t L j for several rods down the sharp grad south of tho crossing and drove o his way on a gallop. On arriving . tho greased grade tho heavy tral was stopped by the slipping of tl wheels, and the trainmen on lookir for the cause, discovered the burnt culvert. The surgeon soon got tl hoy out of all danger, and to.la when the railroad officials lenr?w 1 ouls Janies, the veteran plo?y? I el .tes a sto;y of the early days of li areer when he was a member of fiy-by-r i;ht' combination doing nu drama in the small towns of tl A-eat. The sonbrette of this company po , sesBcd, in addition to her histrion I ihilitios, considerable skill as a i mist For a long time the youi woman bad been desirous of atlor ing the audiences some example of b musical genius, a desire '...at was ii ally gratified in an ingenious nin tier. , One evening in Dubuque the aut ence was somewhat surprised, at i rise of the curtain to behold a sple did gran I piano placed at the foot . a huge mountain, the scene being t itoeki.s Fn.su tlie flies and down the ste path ?>r the mountain the soubrei sped, with all the haste of one purs ed At tlie bast. of the mountain s paused for breath. Then with a sta ibserving the instrument, sin 8to ped as if enraptured. Clasping li hands in ecstasy, the soiihrett" ?1 livered herself of the following line "The tkndish savages have Kill my parents and my only hrothe they have burned our cottage ai -Uden our cattle; but. heaven 1 praised, they have spared my pian mtioie shall be my cor.:-elation. Ai now, ladies and gentlemen, *ith yo kind permission I shall render th beautiful selection entitled "T L .laiden's ITayer."- Harper's \? eckl f The Dangers of the Houre Fly. The troublesome little pest tb >ve eall the hotise-lly, ami that z<x aista eall Musea domestical. was I subject of a lecture by Mr. f?ord< r Hewitt, 1< turer on economic zool r gy in the Victoria I'niversity. at t :ni ;.i] soiree t ' the Mi < rosoopu ^ doci dy in Man . ster Mr. How ' has made a speeial s;ii?l> i f the hou "* 11 y. but lie has not been able to dl over that it renders tu- any s< * He show. ii. on iho othor hiu h? roircn.ovors pi. t played by it !' lisfrihntion of ili >. nse.product i . < "? i i.i. The feet of tin fly and ot j '' ' is of its body at" -o formed ? e cetive (tnicr of gem L, ' ' Illustration of what a si 1' II' fan do in this way he show a I'ltojoRraidi of a culture plate up ^ w ii?'li n raptured ti> had been alio 1 t,, walk. In the track of its f i - of haeillj had grown. ' been proved, he said by exju that tli.-s could carry si v ti-rla as those which cause an , ra\ cholera, tuberculosis, and 1 1 : >vit. Altogether the house, (h not ?'tn t0 be quite so innocv he > i. Westminister CJazeiti BATSBURO ADVOCATB. .Z ROY; aranteed 1 renlace a we say. Ail the lat I AGENT WANTED. ! Sllus Ward was a "grouch." That 1 was all there was to It I r- And Silas Ward didn't carc, either, s o He said he had no time for women, ? s* and he proved it, for he was never 1 a soon in the company of one. < ^ This morning Silas was in u worse ? mood than usual. He fumed and < " his clerk in the outer room moved 1 about on tiptoe in very fear of ag- ' gravating his master. It was at this moment that the door ] l| opened and admitted a little woman ] in black. Her bonnet was painfully severe and pitifully cheap, and she ] tried in vain to hide the holes in her j black cotton gloves. In her arm she carried a bundle of papers. ] j" "Would you like to bu> a copy of i s the Monthly Magazine?" she asked of i?. the clerk in a gentle voice. Coming s so close upon the sound of Ward's ii. rear, the clerk scarcely heard it. He ip turned round, however, looked fearit fully into the next room and then le shook his head. A shade of disapin pointnient passed over the face of the *t little woman. She bowed her head In and was turning sadly to the door ie when the voice of Ward tuured from ik the Inner office: 'd "Who is that, Martin?" 10 "It's just a woman selling maga i ftliir.i, Ml . Atllii - ~ ? . UUN.UVC v/l lilib illllO WO* mail all his bluster vanished. 'r? "I want one of them magazines," ls he said, unfd fished in his pocket for a the money. Come to think of it, guess I'll buy lie two," he added. "Want one for a ' friend." lS" He produced the money for two of li(> the Weekly Magazines. The little wol!~ man thanked him gently and went l,K out. Silas Ward sat lor a time at his 1 ' desk, and fo.- once his thoughts *ere er not on business. In. the week that followed he tried ; n" in a uuiei wa\ to lind out who she ( was. He succeeded, as he prided him- | self he always did. She was the widow ! he I of Garfield Rogers, a former hard- j working citizen who had died leaving ] his wife nothing but his good name. ,0 Thereafter a change came over Siias I Ward. Especially on the day when ! ' the widow came with the magazines : r' wa his manner gentle and consid- j crate. One day when Martin happen- ! ed to enter the private oillce he saw a ' pile contain in(s: at least 20 of the 1,1 Weekly Magazines, which was a greater number than Silas Ward could hope to "distribute among his friends." When tho eye of Silas Ward surprised the eye of the clerk ! ou the magazines, Bliss actually ! blushed. 1)0 The next week Martin, who was per() j haps more observant than, he had any r need to be. noticed that the widow did , not come the usual day with the lie ; Weekly Magazine. Nor did she come y the next week, nor the next, nor the next, until the clerk's curiosity overcame his timidity and he ventured to remark upon the fact to Silas Ward. at Whereupon, instead of the rebuke '1- whit h he apprehended, something else ',e happened. For Silas looked sharply C)M at him. Then he arose and carefully closed the door leading to the outer 'ie room. Then he returned and slapped the clerk a great slap on the Lack ltl and smiled benignly upon him. "1 am going to marry Mrs. Rogers ls" next Wednesday," he said. To hide his confusion. Silas Ward then quickly extracted a box of cigais from a drawer in bis desk, and forcing it into Martin's hands, pushed him to the door and through it. Then ho clovd the door, from behind which 'l>' the clerk was astonished shortly to hear the sound of cheery whistling, which he had never heard nor ex1 . pe?ted to hear from that source.? " Samuel G. I'eters. eet A DIPLOMATIC ENCOUNTER. u h (i' 1 will not dwell on how I. a woUy man, got into the foreign secret rerent vice. Father died Insolvent. Mother an<l 1 wore reduced from affluence to positive want. 1 applied tu a ft. ud * . . * ' V ' ' - ' 1_ - ? \L BLL to jrive S new pair est styles are in. BATESBUR* Mfc.??WM. in the foreign ofllce for a cierksnip. of It happened that at the time the loc Americans were aiming at a treaty ,1" with Japan that would be prejudicial to lo our interests. An emissary of the -vo1 stale department at Washington wua an his way via the Mediterranean oul with the treaty. The vessel he trav- sor eled in was to stop at Marseilles. , wis In social life I had been considered what the Americans call "a flirt,'' l,a' but I was never dishonorable. I would never attack a man unless he was inclined that way himself. Now ; a } I was exne^' .i to win one simply for pay. l?v The temptation was too great for me. I yielded. 1 boarded tho Bhlp at Marseilles. Roger Sutherland, Pfr whom I was to snare, was a modest ^ ? looking, quiet man. I soon made IiIh ^ri acquaintance, and he seemed to lake yo' to me at once, lie said that if It j ^ were not for my accent he would QQ not believe me to be Kuglish; that 1 had all the sprightliness of an Amerl- j can girl. The game I was playing mo was natural to me. I didn't have to sb) try to win him. If I had possibly I might have failed. wb But, as to stealing the information, ma 1 didn't know where to begin. We j had passed through the canal before T WAtlturA/l * ? ?-1 ? ? ? .tni.uivu iu iuitKe a move in mat | direction. I began by asking his oc-1 cupatlon. V? ' . ^?ciy question, and truthfu'ly. The treaty was 111 his trunk in his stateroom. Did he net fear it j w<uld be stolen? No. There was a U1J" lock on the trunk''Lat had been madi )nu for it. They key was of a pe-m'alr j kind. The next tit 10 wo were on leci. j , c together, feigning to be moved by a j tie, natural feminine curiosity, I teased him to let me see the key. He took | ,Jt. it out of his pocket ;uid liatided it to me. Feigning an intention to frighten him I ran to the side of the ship ^ and held it in my fist over the water. we He didn't even follow me. So I took it back and gave it to him. 1 had | provided myself with a bit of wax j "" and had squeezed an impression of the key. Pretending that I had lost the key of my own trunk, 1 called for one of lifl the ship's mechanics to make me another front the wax impression. My |jn victim Invariably spent an hour or j.|l( more after diuner in the smoking room. 1 took a great risk. I entered his stateroom and with the key made front the impression opened j the trunk, found the treaty, took it ; to my stateroom, e pied it?it was in cipher?and got it back to the gft trunk in plenty of linm to avoid gtt-;',M ting caught. !01, With success came the pricking of u conscience. I t< Id my victim of my1 circumstances, tlte loss of my father, I my effort to obtain employment and i tjc ended by falsely telling him that I was going out to India to be a gov- , ,^( erness. Front that moment his man- j ner changed toward me. 1 had consideied before that my success was t, due to having won hlw heart. Now I (( was sure of it. Then he askod me to be his wife. Now, for the first time, I realized , that if I had won him 1 had been ; won in winning him. Wha ever was good in my nature rebelled at my trickery. I longed to confess it and throw myself upon his mercy. But I dared not. From loving me he would N despise me. I tcld 1:1m that 1 could; never tie tii< wio ?>? ? - - ~ . ? *??? liJi i r <t batrier between us; that 1 was un-f^ worthy of him. He soothingly re- J assured me, said my conscience was sr. abnormally sensitive, that he was ? sure one so lovely could not do anything very wrote;. The night before we reached Bombay we were on deck together under the starry heavens. "Sweethearthe said, "wo part tomorrow. It rests with you whether our parting shall be forever or I shall call on you on my return. You are not cut out for a diplomat, but you will make a good wife for one." "A diplomat! I a diplomat!" He took my hand. "I suspected you ^ the moment you began to play your game, and 1 played mine to trap ^ you. I gave you my key on purpose and knew how you used it by traoes ' " of wa* to tt Certain pa^;es j ^ H IE SHOES I atisfction or ||||H Come to see us Will you I ^ the manuscript |rptt * stOie vers H&fQ you iuM-roo ftauMSfi 0tafi? >.sely tacked together, and 1 found ? in detached. I was disappointed "Now, parson, don't you worry learn all this, but when afterward 'bout that. I'm going right off to n told me how you had been tempt- find her. You'll be here when I get I pitied you. You are a lady and back, will you?'' t of your element. I would 1>? "I'd stay in all day to marry such a ry for you lotting your pay If I fine iellow as you. uo aneaa. Ke- hed you to earn pay In that way." member what General Grant said And inr copy of the cipher dis- when he firBt marched a brigade ch!" I faltered. "I will give it to against the Confederates." j at once." "What'd he say?" Don't hurry. It 1b no cipher, but "That he remembered the enemy iumble intended to deceive you." would likely bo as much frightened And do you mean that you can as he." e one who has made this abject | "Oh, she won't be frightened. Gals enipt?" don't skeer worth a cent." m If we only loved those who were i He grabbed his whip and in a Jiffy feet there would be no marriage, was out of the house and striding u have simply been parted for a down the street. ef time by circumstances from I went back to my sermon and ir natural self."?Gwendolin Ad- wrote for an hour .when my wife 18. threw open my study door, exclaimt THE FIRST SHALL BE THE LIST "They're coming!" | "Who?" I asked, not so readily was at work on my Sundav ser- turned from my subject, n when my wife opened the door. "The young ox driver and his girl. & was laughing. Come." There s a young fellow downstairs ] vvent downstairs, and there in o says lie wislus to see you about ^he parlor were the pair. They had frying him." jUBt come in. The man looked as if didn't like to break off from the he were in a battle and was looking ead of iu\ discourse, but, laying for an enemy and an enemy was lookvn my pen, 1 went into the parlor. jnc for him The *? *'"V ui. """ J v beauty was all err.;le* and blush done it par oil.' said the ax ir- ' driver proudlv. dy wife stood them up before th< ... .rc-1 a 1 ha ruo; trouble to get I Ui-ui r.avt.ii piuj^tciy biue by side ue >011 liie puisuii? he- iUil.cd. than, a jiair uf akiUitui iiurwm. Tueu I am." I niarrled them. Say, parson, if I figger roun* to- j My wife gaVe the bride a kiss which >' an* git tilings fixed, could 1 come opened her heart and her lips as l.ere 'long with a gal an' git wen( for she told all about it. She fried'."' had loved him a long while; but, alCertainJy. I shall be bote all the though she had often tried hard, she uning. I have some parochial du- could never Infuse courage enough in s for the afternoon, but it 1 knew him to induce him to propose. Which ; hour you would be here 1 would goes to prove that when be said on hand." "gals don't sheer worth a cent," he I ain't done it a.l i;. i t :ic it was right.?Elbert G. Bentley. cpt one thing. J t my . use. GOING INTO SILENCE, at's all ready. 1 get it more'u u ek ago. j-he People Who Reach old Age. Are That's the only really important Api io be Pijlc6d. it tor," I replied to help him on. ' 'N you got a certificate hain't The secret of the benefit derived u?" from going into the Silence lies In la?ts of them, in L! nk." tbe self-control and the rest to mind 'Weil, that's two thin, the to- and body gained. It is a time for Icate and the license." fixing and focussing the mind upon 'You're right, that's two very itn- tbe real objects of life. Tne energies riant things, one indispensable and can then be centred upon tde desired other convenient." results to be obtained, in this way "N lien's a place to sot married the practice of going into the 811< ence may be made of great benefit. 'Has your fiancee got her trous- Professor Elmer Gates, the father of more than twenty-two hundred inven'What's tlioin*>" tlons, and a scientist of note, con"The first meaus sweetl r-art. the nected with lhe Smithsonian Institution d the clothes b: . itsmtlh g? t t[on' makes a practice of "going into .jetlie; s? thev wo . . haw t .11 th6 Silence" when working out an in. their husbands for some time at- Jtion- 1 ka **en told also that r the wedding tor .ah artahs." Edlfon eomewhat in the same He stood thinking for ? : n.ent, vraJ* en looked up and said wiih anima- More or leas Q^iet Is necessary to )U. the inception of new ideas. You have By cracky, parson, that's a good still the mind and body and ?a. Never thought o' that." ,et go of tl,e old thoughts that have "Has she got it9" been holding possession of your mind Oh." I don't know nothin' lout ?nd ab8?rblng your vital energies be. at. 'Twouldn't be rust rau for n.e fore >ou conceive and execute talk about'that. 'Twomu be ucud f "7 and ,ni?r' rtlfficult work' Hcre , , is where going into the Silence helps an cheap. ? , . . . .. VOll lllvit flQ Qlr?f?n Itolno von T 1 fo "Iheiv are more 1 npo.t. .it t. i . * * ' , , , , itself is cherished and prolonged by r the man to sa\. 1 "ran.. -::d i. -e ? . . , ? ' proper rest and relaxation. The peo. \vb n <> ple wl,? reach extreme old age are u are !.. \ . apt be pjacj^ anj harmonious In We,., n.e in a, thing .s .... p,o- temperament. t>r. S- A. Stephens, who for many, years has been attempting to solve the problem of living forever, from a scientific standpoint, says the first thing to do if you would prolong your life is to "rest your cell neurons until i hew 1 looked at my wife. She y0? that you have a full head t behind the >01111, i .. v. ..s 0j vjm jn organtism, even if a anlniitig her handkerchief lino i.er week or month is required for It oath to sup an o.u rst . t . .i i?- j^est and recuperate until you are tn r. Mv rxplmation ? mr'? i- the best condition possible. This is 1 the necessary first step, a head ot Just you hold on, parson," he vjra tG Work with." id. "I'm good foi it ,u. J-,.st Might as well expect an engine to mine time. llut I'd rather dihe run without steam as to expect the y ox fam up a ston wall, 1 would, body and mind to keep on working te s in town toda> i h. ;i i.er in indefinitely without a frequent turn, store bnyin' some t i.;us. 'ih.a's jng about and letting go, such as we hy 1 come up here.' get by going into the Silence. "Don't you think yo I hive better . Died the matter v.th the g .l Rfo ^ Jane|ro h? OTlly one sky. . scraper, it lias nine stories, and is Well," he frowned. there. d f- offlce. The only other rent ways of doln. Dungs. K. hi hi:lldtng ln ,he clty thHt hag ItK>re ?ked her and shed said >lj, w ..at than flv0 Rtorje8 also belongs to a , thunder would I a done with newgpaj?er# itbtw' flred?''