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Bankar*. THOUSANDS .OF MILES OF CABLE Submarine Telegraph Linm TrsnMc a!! the Water* of the World. Many Noted Actors Acknowledge Giving Way to yueer ttuperNtttions. • Few people have any conception of the silent, ia\i.-ul>k' force that lies stretched beneath the earth's troubh d seas. There are l.frtH) submarine cables now at work, covering a length of 170,- UUO miles and transmitting some 16,000 messages daily. What such a fact means a1 most passes comprehension. A man to-day is n > longer connected merely with thwt p^rt of the globe in which he resides, but his thougncs and wishes circulate under the great oceans and are carried to the remotest parts of the earth. The tirst submarie cable ever laid was stretched across the English channel and was successfully opened for business November 18, 1851, It was a bulky affair, weighing geven tons to the mile, but so great was its utility that it was soon followed by others over compara­ tively short distances. From this small beginning We now find the earth com­ pletely girdled* with submarine wires. There are ho fewer than -sixteen under the north Atlantic, three" under the south Atlantic and three under the In­ dian ocean. The Mediterranean and the Red sea, the Caribbean and the Gull of Mexico are traversed in all directions by wires, thus bringing almost innumer­ able islands into speaking relations with each other. So that really the whole world is brought into touch. Some idea may be had of the worids sabmarien e - tablisbment when it is stated that Great Britain owns 135 cables, Norway 825 (mostlyshort lines,) Frauce 54, Denmark 78, Austria 41, Spain 15, British India 111 and Japan 70. The Uuited States, strange to say, do not own a single ocean cable. Oar Army and Navy, Not until the close of the Spanish- American war, which proved such a brilliant success for our Army and Na­ vy, did foreign powers appreciate the strength and stability of our engines of war. Not only did foreign countries watch the movements of our troops and ships with amusement, but our own people, right here at home, were sur­ prised to find that the United States possessed an ariny and navy of such strength and proportions. In one of the latest books to appear, entitled "The United States Army and Navy, 1776-1899," a grapic description of the operations of both branches of the service, from their inception to the close of the late war, is to be found. It is a beautiful art edition, and no book so complete, both from a literary and ar­ tistic point of view, has ever been pub­ lished. The text is by eminent authorities in both branches, and was compiled after a careful research of all government re­ cords. The illustrations and there are 48 of them, full-page size, are the finest specimens of art ever placed in a book The volume is published by the Wer­ ner Company, of Akron, Ohio, who are making a special offer to introduce it to the reading public. In another part of this issue will be found a more detailed description of the book and how it can be secured. tf. An Exhibit of.HuRHars. An interesting and odd exhibit in the Paris exposition will be a hall devoted to the hussars of the world. Paintings showing the great deeds of men of this arm of the service will form a large part of the exhibit'. Germany and Austria-Hungary will be represented particularly well, for the simple reason that the hussars of these two armies always have been men who did really wonderful acts of bravery and daring. Spain will have an' interesting group, showing her famous Praicesa hussars and Italy will show her Neapoli Burbons. It is very hard to stand idly by and see our dear ones suffer while awaiting the arrival of the doctor. An Albany (N. Y.) dairyman called at a drug store there for a doctor to come and see his child, then very sick with croup. Not finding the doctor in, he left word for him to come at once on his return. He also bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which he hoped would give some relief until the doctor should arrive. In a few hours he returned saying the doctor need not come, as the child was much better. The druggist, Mr. Otto Scholz, says the family has since recommended Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to their neighbors and friends until he has a constant demand for it from that part of the country. For sale by Julia A. Story. To Stop Malaria. Treatment of soil with lime has been suggested to the Paris Academy of Sci­ ence as a possible remedy for malaria, as it has been noticed that countries having a surface rich in lime are free from this malady. An Ounce of Preventive Is worth, a pound of cure. Try a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and, if properly taken, it will positively pre­ vent rheumatism or any other kindred trouble arising from a torpid condition of the bowels, liver and kidneys. Trial sizes 10c, other sizes 50c and $1.00 of Julia A. Story. . ... •• » Growing its Own Tien. The Big Four railroad has planted a large tract of land in Indiana with quick-growing trees, which will be con­ verted into cross ties. - Superbltfoiift hi the ordinary j.CiO* Is J not iif. all surprising, for somehow tht ( stage breeds belief in luck and omens, but it is something, to marvel at that Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry should be the slaves of signs. Sir Henry 's su­ perstitions are more numerous common­ place and pronounced than Miss Terry's. He will not walk under a ladder, nor will he cross a funeral procession, while if he puts a garment on wrong side out he has the'blues for a day or two. It's curious, too, that Daniel Frohman's only deep rooted superstition has to d ) with the donning of a garment in the wrong way. Such a mishap affects him and Irving differently, for. while the actor change* the garment and worries about it. the manager is said to wear it as he puts it 011 till the end of the day believihg that thus he can prevent, the coming of the threatened ill luck. Miss Terry's single superstition is shared by few persons. Apparently she has no fear of the numl>er 18, nor of Friday, nor is she a believer in the virt­ ues of the magic number t 7. But she stands in awe of the numtfer 8. It is her firm conviction that it brings ill luck to her invariably, no matter in what form she encounters it. She will not sit three at a table; she even declines to go. on the stage by the third entrance, right or left, and there is a story that once, when in Chicago, when an enthu­ siastic young Englishman proposed "Three cheers for Ellen Terry" she put her hands to her face and ran away be­ fore the third cheer could l>e given. Mrs. James Browp Potter probably hits a good stock of stage superstitions by this time, accumulated in the theat 6rs of London and Australia, in which she has won her greatest successes, but when she Was in America she had only one worth mentioning--that was faith in the unconscious power of red-headed I^rsons to bring good luck. She had been partial to sandy-haired servants before she went on the stage and after the beginning of her dramatic career she saw to it that only the red haired were allowed to sell tickets in the box office of any theater in which she was playing. Lotta Crabtree, who was about leav­ ing the stage when Mrs. Potter was be­ ginning, always was 4ifraid of bad luck when she saw a black cat, and on one occasion, having encountered a black cat at the stage dooij of the opera-house in Elgin, 111., she feigned illness rather than go ahead with the performances, forfeiting $500 to the local manager without a' murmur. Good Old Mrs. Crabtree, her mother, who used to at­ tend to all of Lotta's business affairs, had an unshakable belief that it would be unlucky to have -any dealings with anyone who habitually omitted the cross­ ing of the letter T. William H. Crane's pet superstition leads, him to avoid playing in a theater the outside walls of which are painted red, and his old-time partner, Stuart Robson, is prejudiced against green curtains. On more than one occasion, it is said, he has declined to go ahead when the curtain in place was green 'till another had been substituted for .it. Adelina Patti believes firmly in the evil eye. She would sacrifice a big pot of money any time rather than sing when the conductor of the orchestra shows a cast in an eye, and she has de­ clared often that many persons connect­ ed with the musical stage suffered ill- luck because of the influence radiated by Offenbach. She always has held that he possessed the evil eye, and, in her mind, the death of Emma Livry in the Paris 'opera-house fire was due to the fact that she was performing in an Offenbach ballet at the time. Mine. Patti firmly believes in the efficacy of amulets, and never fails to wear one to guard against the malignant influences radiating from the eyeballs of certain envious persons. The late Augustin Dply is reported to have struggled bravely against super­ stition all his life, yet his terror when a mirror was broken accidentally on the opening of the Fifth Avenue theater is said to have been intense and genuine. Daly was the lessee of the theater at that time; a few seasons later he left it a bankrupt. .e late John Sleeper Clarke had an ordinary superstition that was re­ vealed curiously at the beginning of one ofj4is Ne w Y ork engagements. Clarke's performance the first night was marvel- ously good, and one or two who did not know hiiri well were about to offer con­ gratulations after the curtain had gone down on the last act. They were waved back, though, by an English actor named Vernon. Walking up to Clarke, Vernon placed his hand on his shoulder and, looking him earnestly in the face„ de­ clared the performance to have been "vile" "diabolically bad," "a flat fail­ ure" and made other derogatory re­ marks. The others {looked for a first- class row, but instead of showing anger Clarke smiled, shook hands warmly with Vernon and then hastened to get away before anyone else could near him. Vernon, being quizzed about it, said Clarke always was upset if ne heard praise of his work th*j first night of an engagement. After the first night Clark was as fond of good words as any one who ever lived, but' uttered then he considered them the most malign of Children of Stage Folk. It is interesting to observe that few of noted people of the stage have children or relatives 011 the boards witfa their permission. Mrs. Kendal comes of a family of actors, but she says firmly no daughter of hers shall ever lie an actress with her consent, because-the work is too hard and the struggle too great. James A. Heme has four daughters, and two of them last se;tsoii were seen ^ ith their father on tha stage, but the situation was different, inasmuch as they were in his company. Sarah Bernhardt put her'"i|^Ott : stage, but in regard to her little grand­ daughter she has o*her idea9. It is her wish the girl should marry some good man and settle down into domestic life, which she says is a great enough career for any one. Eleanora Duse's daughter tias never seen her mother act, and that mother intends she never shall. She wants her daughter to be a cultured, thinking woman, but to keep off the stAge. Lillian Rus-sey's daughter is about. 16 now and is at school. She hits talent, it is said, but her mother does not want her to adopt a stage career. May Irwin is proud of her two boyA, but fihe has no stage ambitions for them. They are destined for the army and for busihess. Annie Russell opposed a stage career for her brother Tom of Fanntle- roy fame, and Margaret Anglin refuses to allow her younger sister to accept several offers made her, Emma Nevada has a daughter who bids fa r to be a brilliant singer, but she does not waut the child to be trained for the stage. Doe* Your Mtomacli Dintremt You ? Do you have pain in the side, nausea, sometimes vomiting, distress after eat­ ing, belching, constipation, loss of appe­ tite, dizziness, flatulence, niqth patches, sluggish.looks, pimples and a repulsive complexion* If you have any of thest symptoms, you have dyspepsi * or stom­ ach disorder. The new discovery, Bail­ ey's Dyspepsia Tablets, brings quick relief, followed by a permanent cure; pleasant to take. W. J. Bailey, writle i on each package. 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