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% 7_33£. '\Hk WK PATENT ELOPEMENT. i(»^'.~^p. «.. #.-, VISITOR, Jabez:" Old Parmer Smith rose from the dinner-table and picked up bis bat from the side of the ch*ir. ff<*Who is it, wife?" he asked. "X young man," she replied. Tlie .farmer's lip set tight as he wit-' nessed a glance which passed between 111* wife and his daughter. "I understand." he said, severely,, with a determined look at the anxious face of the girl. "That London chap, T<e«iie Austin." '* •* s'."v . "Yes, father," she replied. ^ "I'll settle his business for lilm." and F«rnter Smith strode into the parior, •his heavy boots sounding a death-knell to the faint hopes in the sinking heart pretty, winsome Alice Smith. "So you're here again, eh?" The brusque interrogatory did not «eem to crush the courteous, handsome jonng man, who arose and facet) the •itepsi^r. "Yes. Mr. Smith," was his reply. "And on the same old errand, I sup-, pose?" "Yes, sir; I came to ask your con­ sent--" "Too can't Have it!" Interrupted Faiiiiei Smith, savagely. "Alice ain't going to marry you or anybody else, just yet." "But time---" "• "You've heard me, Mr. Leslie Austin. .Too can't lxave my daughter." "t love her. Mr. Smith." "Nonsense! She's too young to know lM»r own mind. 1 have said my say, and the hardest hands are waiting. ^Good-da y. sir"' Under such determined resistance. Leslie Austin retreated. He bit his Hps angrily, as be walked rapidly down the road to the village hotel. "It's a shame." decided his friend Bob Townsend, as he heard the dis­ appointed lover's story. "We think so much of each other," mrmured Leslie, mournfully. t going to give Up this way, w~- uiringl y. ?" he asked. Bob. "Her father* tvSKffl consent." ^jupp^se he don't." f Leslie started, but shook his head slowiy.. "I know what you're hitting at, Bob-f- «n elopement." .7 i "You're right."§| . "But it could .tmbc." 'iv< «' VWby not?" "Because Alice Is bQundto obey her father, and 1 am. too, for that matter." Bob scowied impatiently. "Nonsense!" he aspirated, angrily.. "See here. Leslie. If you were the ir­ responsible chap old Smith thinks you, I'd hesitate; but you ain't--you're an honest, well-to-do lawyer, respectably connected, and only laboring under a prejudice on the farmer's part, that •because neighbor Jones' girl married a worthless man from the metropolis all •orb matches must end similarly.'* • "O ranted." "Therefore, being in the right, and the old farmer being in-one of his mad moods. I'd outwit him." "How?" i The query was encouraging. ! "Run away with Alice," said Boll, "t can't." , "Why not?" "Her father watehes her too closely." . "That's the only reason, is it?" ft believe so." "She's willing?" ."Presumably." **And you?" "O, Bob, you're talking nonsense! I might as well go back to London and wait until Mr. Smith change* bis Mind." "And let some other fellow have Alice. You're a brave lover!" Leslie was despondent. "I have a plan, if you're plucky enough to follow It out," suggested Bob. Leslie's face grew expectant at the Wat. "What is k?" he asked. "Listen!" j What Bob told the discouraged lover *eed not be repeated. The subsequent acts of the conspirators afford a suf­ ficient expln nation. It was the next day that faithful Bob reeonuoitered the ground, and found ~1&»t Farmer Smith bad Indeed taken dlue precaution to prevent bis daughter meeting or running away with Leslie. But Bob managed to get a letter to the fair prisoner- a letter after reading ich secretly she manifested her ac­ quiescence to its conteuts by an intel- "i reckon I know something about it." "I have come, Mr. Smith," said the stranger, "to show you a new I&Otive po#er for hay rakes." , The farmer's face fell. "A patent right!" he muttered. "I don't want to buy one," he said, aloud, turning to re-enter the house. "Buy one."' replied the stranger. "This is not for sale, sir," declared Bob, with quiet dignity. "I desire your opinion as a scientist in regard to the principles involved in its con­ struction and operations^" ;; The farmer's face grew • pleased again. "Happy to give It, sir. If 1 can be of any use to the world at large by* my knowledge of science--" "Or make your fellow beings happy, you're ready to sacrifice your valuable time--eh, Mr. Smithf' insinuated Bob. "Certainly, sir." "You can--you can, believe me. sir," asseverated the wlckcd conspirator, earnestly and truthfully. "Have you a rake?" , • , , "I'll help you bring it out here, and we'll make a trial trip of this wonder­ ful machine." A few minutes later the farmer's hay- rake was brought out. Bob made iuuch ado of fastening it by a rope to the rear of the vehicle, and the farmer watched him curiously, as he turned the wheels and adjusted the hose to what he called position. "This hose is an air brake, sir. The idea is, if we can make it do so, to have the rake operate as usual. The air brake migbt offer a resistance to the ground, push forward the front vehicle, and ventilate the hay. Man and brute creation demand air--why not ve­ hicles?" "Quite true," replied Jabea, some­ what dubious and perplexed over the apparent uselessness of the machine. "Utility and nonrefragibility, Mr. Smith," rattled on Bob, recklessly. "The hypothenuse of the "curve of the diameter of the axle, you perceive, has a circumferential effect upon the spheroid concavity of the brake. You will understand tbese terms, Mr. Smith, as a mathematician and scient­ ist. All ready?" Farmer Smith, overcome by the lofty words, obeyed mutely, as Bob requested Iiim to get into the rake seat. "I'll drive the preliminary vehicle," ^explained Bob, with a serene chuckle fct the fun of his oratory, "and you will watch the effect of the air brake--if the friction of the wheels generates air --over yonder stretch of meadow. By the way, is one of your hands around?" "They've gone to town," replied Jabea, blumly. He had a vague consciousness that the stranger was a charlatan, for he could not for the life of him see what possible use the clumsy combination of wheels and hose could be. "Ah, there's a young lady! Your daughter, Mr. Smith, I presume?" said Bob, raising his hat politely. "There must be more weight on the seat of the front vehicle. If you'll Jetrher take her seat beside me. in the interests of sci­ ence, Mr. Smith?" He almost lost his dignified gravity as he saw the suspicious look on the old farmer's face. The last words, "in the interests of science," however, decided Mr. Smith. "Jump In, Alice," be said, desper­ ately. . The stranger whipped up the horse. Old Jabez. in the rake-seat behind, clung on wildly as the horse was driven briskly. He almost fell , forward as there was a break caused by the rope parting. Bob had«deftly cut it with a knife. ' H "Held on--bold on!" cried old Jabez, as the new ̂ notor-power vehicle dashed forward. He stared blankly as it traversed the field, made a sharp turn to the road, and, gracefully rounded a curve In the highway, disappeared from view. What did it mean? The boys had taken the horses to town, and be could not start in pursuit; but he grew white as he discerned a fact: He had been tricked! He had cooled down considerably wheuy at nightfall, a carriage drew up l»efore the gate. . He looked grimly up from beneath his shaggy eyebrows as Leslie Austin and pretty, blushing Alice came for­ ward. Bob, following them, was the first to speak. > ' "The new motor power took up a new passenger down the road. Farmer Smith." he said, shly. "You wanted to make mankind happy, neighbor-- WEEP HOLES IN JAIL CELLS. Keeper Can See 1 rlioner, bnt Cannot Him*elf Be „ When the new Chicago jail was com­ pleted it was said to be the most per­ fect institution of its kind in the coun­ try. But the new Jail in New York, which is to supplant the old Tombs, will have many contrivances which are new in prisons. Here the perfection of prison arrangement has been reached. While the Tombs will have the outward ap­ pearance of being nin,e stories high rt really consists of but thre4'Stories. The two main floors, where the cells arc lo­ cated, are very tall, comprising four tiers of cells each. The prison offices will be on* the ground floor." The top floor will be used as a recreation ground for the prisoners. The cells are novel features of the structure. Nothing like them has ever before been introduced in a prison. They are being constructed on plans made by Charities Commis­ sioner Francis J. Lantry. There are 350 cells and each will cost about $1,000. Bach will be eight feet deep by six feet and three idches wide, and will be equipped with a steel, lattice - bottomed folding bunk, a steel folding table and shelf hinged to the wall, a wash basin and a toilet. The cell-tier structure will be of burglar-proof steel and the cells will be re-enforced with four-ply chrome tool-proof steel plate. On th& top of the floor plate will be a finished floor of two-fheh polished bluestone.Through the rear of each cell will be a peephole arangement whereby the keeper may see all that the prisoner Is doing, while the prisoner cannot see the keeper. This inspection hole on the outside is only about an inch and a half wide, but it widens gradually inward, until at Its end it is eight inches in diameter, flar­ ing like the bell of a trumpet. By this arrangement whereby the keeper may a view of the entire cell interior, except two corners always in view of the watch­ man* in front of cell. Running along each tier is a utility corridor, used pri- to all sheep-stealing dogs, but Ills ca» reer as a shepherd was ended. MAKING ARTIFICIAL SlLtC They Hove In a Measure Smiplanfed tlMS Genuine Article tn France. The production of artificial silk has for some time past attracted the atten­ tion of experimenters in France, it has been usjjd with success to repla.ee natural silk in certain fabrics. Dubef Du Chardonnet, who claims to be the first to have successfully ; carried out the process, exhibited sortie fMe speci­ mens of artificial silk at the Paris ex­ position of 1889. Sluice then he has perfected his system and at the present time a factory of considerable import­ ance is in operation at Besancon, under the direction of Mr. Tricano. This fac­ tory is now capable of producing 150 kilograms of artificial silk a day. • v Natural silk is largely made up of a body called "flbroinf'3ogether witl4 oth- feubstan<fes,*~such~W"gelatin,"albu^ men, wax, coloring matter, fatty and resinous matter, "etc., the cellulose of the mulberry leaf being thus trans­ formed by the silk worm. The natur^ of these transformations is of course unknown, and in order to produce a substance resembling silk a method Is adopted by which the cellulos*. fur­ nished by cotton is used as a base. The cotton having been transformed into nitrocellulose or guncotton by treating it with nitric and sulphuric acids, this latter is dissolved In a mixture of etiaer and alcbhol and the resulting collodion is filtered under pressure. In order to be successfully used for the production of artiQcial silk it is found that the collodion must be al­ lowed to "age" for a certain period of time,-the reason of which has not been definitely settled; however, it is certain that the collodion, on being allowed to stand, undergoes certain modifications by which it is better fitted for the pur­ pose. It Is then run into cylinders which have capillary holes in the bottom, and the collodion is forced out of these holes under a pressure of 40 to 50 atmos- WATCHING THE PRISONER THROUGH A PEEP HOLE. gent nod to the messenger. It was the afternoon of the day fol- ; you've done it low!uk. just as Farmer Smith had senl i Jabez made a feint to declare ho&- his boys to the town with a load of po j fillties, then and there, against the con -tatoes, and was seated, resting for an I spirators. but he sank back disarmed hour or two, on the front porch, with j in his chair as the gentle voice of his Alice industriously sewing by his side, ! wife said, pleadingly: that a \ ehicle dii\en by a single oecu- j "Forgive them, fat ;j»ant came down the road. i Old Jabez looked in profound amaze- flient as the vehicle came to a stop. It ires a kind of skeleton wagon, with a dduble seat, and behind it was attached S. small rubbe^ hose, with several wheels distributed here and there, near father--they are so happy'." And Farmer Smith had not the heart to say uav. tl|e axle, , "In the name of wonder, what have %e hero*!" he said, as he walked to the -m/The driver sprang down. % i,""Jabez Smith V" lie asked. The farmerStiodded a dignified as- *- <sent. ljttle dreaming that the bearded ^•tiMOger was Bob Townsend in dis- 4'jjiifse. , • % , • l e a r n f r o m i n q u i r e s i n t h e v i l l a g e ^ ? ,-&at job are .quite a scientist, Mr. . . Smith Scien|p. of which old Jabez knew ^^iiotliHi^bnt affected "tnuch, was btf • nalieht point. Flattered by the strang- •/*-: ...»w ords, he replied pompously: •lowett'i ExtfitKBitber. The late master of Balliol was so well known as a resourceful antagonist that it is a matter for wonder that any worn an, however youthful and si|pe.of her­ self, should havip had the temerity to take liberties with him. The Hon. Lionel Tollemaehe tells in the Spectator of a young woman who OMk. had the effronte "I want to ki think of God." "1 am more c<>ne< God thinks of me.'1 itous reply. Soldiers' Ha Russian soldiers handkerchiefs at Government. him what you know what wett's felic liter*. pplied with ense of the marily for the piping, ventilation and electric wiring. Along this corridor also the keepers pace to watch the pris­ oners through the peepholes. The steel floor is covered with rubber matting, to deaden the sound of their approach. Each cell is equipped with an electric light turned on from the outside. ' The cell-locking arrangement is new. Each bolt is operated by a lever at the end of the tier. Every door i|i the tier may be locked or unlocked simultan­ eously or any number of loc^s may be! operated at once. If when She prison­ ers are to be taken out f#r exercise there are some who cannot\be let out the lock on their cell doors Is secured by a key. so that it will 4>t unlock at the turn of the lever. All locks are on the outside of the cell doors, where they cannot be tampered with by the prisoner*. Specif.l attention has been paid to heating and ventilation. Heretofore the trouble with prisons having several tiers o(: cells has been that often the top cells would be hot while the lower ones would be cold. The top cells wonld also catch the greatest part of the foul air. These difficulties bare been overcome in the new Tombs by an elaborate system of powerful heating and ventilating blasts. ^ ---- •»» , HOW DEWEY REFORMEO^A wEK3. Tne Bheep-Killir Waa Taught a Lcmob He Never Forgot. The foilowing story of Dewey comes from Ixrndon County, Va. It happened while he was still a commander and when he was visiting an old acquaint­ ance, Henderson Davis. Dewey" has always been a lover of animals, In wit­ ness of which may be noted bis affec­ tion for his dog, Bob, now one of the members of the Olympia's crew. Dur­ ing this visit in Virginia he saved the life of a sheep-stealing dog, and what is more to the purpose converted the dog to a better mode of life. The subject of the future admiral's kindness was a big collie named Pan, a fine dog and a good sheep dog in the day time, but with the fatal vice that Sometimes develops in collies of killing sheep after dark. When Pan's Jekyll and Hyde mode of life Was brought to light, he was condemned to death, the just fate of every sheep-killing dog, for the vice is a serious one, and gen- rally deemed incurable. Dewey was interested in the case and beggged leave of Mr. Davis to reform Tan or at least to make the attempt A stay of execution was granted and and the big collie was led out to the barn where about a hundred head of sheep had been driven in. Dewey took his patient and prepared for heroic treatment. All four of the dog's feet were tied together, sailor fashion, and he was laid down just outside the barn door. The lower half of the door was losetl and the upper half left open, jiaking a hurdle that an active sheep :ould clear at a jump. Dewey then .vent inside and started after the old >ell-werher with a club. The sheep vaulted through the half-open door and landed with all four feet on the prostrate and repentant Pan. Every other sheep in the barn started, after the habit of sjtet'p* to play "follow my leader" Every one of the bunch hopped over the barrier and every one landed on the sheep-killing dog out­ side. Every sheen hit him with from one to four sharp hoofs, and by the time the barn was empty he looked like a doormat that had been left out all winter. In fact, there was some .question whether he would ever return to active life again. He did in the course of time, but the most ardent persuasions could never thereafter get him into the same ten-acre lot with the mildest mannered sheep that was ever BOYS AS INVENTOES. s" EVOLVED "'"-1® "'"fAyajJ THEm LAZINESS. sheared. He was saved for a warning pberes. It comes out in the form of white, cylindrical filaments; these are united to form threads, which are put up in skeins and all traces of alcohol or water which they may contain are re- jnoved. In this state, however, the threads «,re extremely inflammable, par- taking of the nature of guncotton, and to remove this difficulty they must be "denitrated." that is to say, the cellu­ lose must be brought back into its nor­ mal condition. This part of the process, which is indeed an essential one, in­ volves considerable difficulty and has |1>een experimented upon for some time by 14. Du Chardounet and others. However, a process has at last been Arrived at which accomplishes this in w satisfactory manner. The details of this process have not as yet been made public, but it Is certain that by this operation white, silky threads are pro­ duced which are not.appreciably more inflammable than natural silk. The skeins which have been made up of these threads are then dyed by im­ mersing them in a heated bath of basic aniline color.--Scientific AmerieMi. Boginninv or Next Gentii**. Hundreds of persons contend' that the twentieth century will begin with Jan. 1, 1900, while other hundred's eon>- *end with equal positiveness that the correct date is Jan. 1, 1901. The 1900 contingent argue that, of course, the new century begins with its numeral date, and go on to figure out very deft­ ly that with the last day of the year 18d9 the hundred years will have run their course. They argue that. If tli# first year ended with Dec. 31. of the yeir 1, the nineteen hundredth year must, of course, end with Dec. 31, 1899. and that the 1st day of January, 1900, Is. therefore, the first day of the now century. And, curiously enough, this latter figure is correct, but only in a numeral sense. These statisticians overlook one very important fact, how­ ever, that It requires 100 years to make a century, and it calls for no expert mathematician to figure it out that the full hundred years of the nineteenth century will not have run their course until 12 o'clock midnight of the 31st of December, 1900. Numerically we enter the twentieth century with Jan. 1,1900. But nevertheless we must complete that entire year of 1900, and go through Its 305 days, before the actual 1,900 years shall have run their course.--La­ dles' Home Journal. - -- . -- New York's; Candy Supply. There are 125 wholesale candy firms in New York. The trade of these houses represents a total of $10,000,000. says the New l'ork Herald. New-Yorkers alone do not consume this amount of caidy a year, but it is made for our country cousins aud for some of our relations across the ocean. Mote than $1,000,000 worth of candy U sent abroad, while we Import only about $lt>,000 woilh a year. Most of the candy exported and sent to the country consists of the simple "brokep mixed," but the chief favorite in this city is chocolate in one form or another. Chocolate candies come in 100 differ­ ent forms, so that one has a long list to select from. In every candy sU>:-e the chocolate trays are always more pop­ lar than any of the others, and a box of chocolates is an acceptable present to any girl. • • ' Some doctors shake their heads and tell us the consumption of candy is alto gether too large in this city, but other# agree that it is fattening, and they do not grow alarmed over the prospect. It Is asserted by one of the leadln* candy makers that about three-fourths of the candy made is consumed by women and half the other fourth by children. . Wealthy relatives sometimes a man to deal in futures. Important Machine# that Came Into Existence Through the Deaire of Bora to Save Themselves Exertion--Potter, Kdisod, Watt and the Rest. It is a well-known fact that laziness has been the means of supplying the world with some "of its greatest inven­ tions, and many of them, too, by iazy boys. Humphrey Potter, for instance, when a mere lad, was an attendant on Newcomen's eugine-^-a sort, of link be-, tween the steam pump and the engine of to-day--and h]s jjuty was to open' &nd close a valve. BuC Humphrey^was an Idle lad,1 and he saw that he could save himself the trouble of attending to his work by fixing a plug on a part of the engine that came to the place at the proper time by the general movements. He accordingly did so, and by his in­ genuity thus made the Important in­ vention in Newcomen's engine known as the "hand-gear." Humphrey Potter did nothing else worthy of note; but Thomas Edison, who Invented a contrivance similar in one respect to his, has followed up his success. When the great American in­ ventor was a boy, he was engaged as a telegraphist at Shotford> In Canada. He was a night operator, and had to report "six" every half hour to the cir­ cuit manager. The object of this rule was to prevent an operator sleeping' while on duty. But Edison fitted up a wheel with Morse characters cut in the circumference In such a way that, when turned by a crank, it would write the figure six and sign his ofliee call. By a little bribery young Thomas managed to get the watchman to undertake to turn this wheel and the youthful teleg­ raphist slept with safety. Again at Shotford be tried an experiment which showed his Inventive powers. In the rear of the office where he worked was a large sink filled with beetles that could not be exterminated. One day Edison fixed wires to an electrical ma­ chine,* placed the free end of them into the sink, and turned on the current.. In a few moments all that was left of those beetles was--ashes. A little later, at the age of 17r the fa­ mous inventor worked at Indianapolis,, where he completed his first successful telegraph instrument. It was an auto: matic repeater, an instrument which transferred the writing from one tele­ graph line to another without the medi­ um of an operator. This was imme­ diately recognized as an important achievement for one so young. At this time, too, Edison was thinking about his quadruples system--a system of telegraphy by which four distinct mes­ sages, two In each direction, may pass simultaneously over a single wire. This, however, was not perfected till many years after. The story of Watt and his early ex­ periments to test the power of steam Is too hackneyed to quote. Everybody knows of the scrapes he managed to get Into for being idle; how he kept taking the lid off the kettle and putting it on again; how he held^a teaspoon over the steam as it rose from the spout and counted the drops as they fell. But there are plenty of similar Inci­ dents as fresh as this is stale. Brunei, for instance, of Thames tunnel fame, invented, at the age of 12, a night-cap making machine which is to-day used by the peasantry in a little village in Normandy where he first saw the light. Again, Bewick in the early days of his apprenticeship invented a graver with a fine grave at the point that enabled him to cut outlines in the wood at a sin­ gle operation. Of living boy Inventors there lire doubtless many. A boy of 10, in Ohio, a little while ago, fitted to his bicycle aui electric light apparatus of his own invention, the power for which was ob­ tained by the revolving of the wheels when riding. The light wjus a good suc­ cess, and when in working order lighted up the whole of the roadway.. VULGARITY OF THE EXCLUSIVE,. Simplicity o-td Cordiality Are the True Signs of (lood Breeding. In a vt'tv candid and plainrgpoken article on •The (Jraciousness of High Breeding," in the Woman's Home Com- p&nion, Ella Morris Kretschmar makes these pertinent remarks: "Men and1 women who by contact or travel know the world's best society need not be told that simplicity and graciousnes»are the invariable characteristics of the high­ est breeding. If this fact could only reach the minds of that class of people who talk of •exclhsiveness,' of "four hundreds,' of the 'vulgarity of trade,' of not knowing any one outside off •our set,' what a grateful social change would be wrought. That cold stare of the would-be elect is but the expres­ sion of an under bred, poverty-stricken soul. What is 'exclusiveness?' It is that biimau policy which shuts individ­ uals off from the enjoyment of their kind, by which society gains, since an inharmonious element is ^thereby re- moved. How pathetic is the isolation of the determined aristocrat, especially In a small town where, other stirring interest lacking, human relations mean so much. Could even a Divine micro­ scope detect the difference between the naked souls of a banker's and a grocer's wife? How infinitely stupid It is to draw lines in small places instead of honestly enjoying all there is to enjoy. If one lias had superior advantages, is there no obligation to give pleasure, to make sunshine in others' lives because of that good fortune? The time is at hand when intelligence will be too wide­ spread, progress to a more vigorous piane cf thinking too real to admit o-f men and women looking askance at one another to make menta'l invoice of so­ cial, financial or otliei; probabilities? Will it jiot soon ji^lie'trate the dullest brain that wealth, 'rank or leadership are powerless as shields against unhap- piness. or as props to mental, moral or physical deficiencies; that there is pos­ itively no honest or sensible basis for judging individuals excepting individ­ uality?" away from the dock. *MaJuba!" cried the conservatives in the House of Com­ mons when Mr. Morley challenged the government to jastliy - ltf aggression against the Boers, • It has been the Wat cry of the British In the Struggle with the Afrikanders. And there is good reason why the name of a bleak, desolate mountain should excite the revengeful wrath of the British people. Majuba mountain was the scene of a conflict in which the British arms suffered a defeat so crush­ ing that every soldier^ wearing the queen> uniform burns to blot it out. The British troops sustained no dis­ grace in their defeat. They fought with the bravery born of continued success and native temperament. Out they were beaten so completely that the remembrance of the defeat will MONUMKVrS TO BRITONS. Resting place of the Queen's soldiers who fell at Majuba Hill. ' „ < rankle until it has been avenged--If that is tp be. The battle of Majuba mountain was a small affair, as battle go. Fewer than 2,500 men took part in it. It was the completeness of the British defeat and the supreme bravery of the Afri­ kanders which rendered it one of the historic struggles of military annals. Sir George Pomeroy Colley was in command of the British forces on the Transvaal border in the winter of 1880- 81. He was a brave officer, with su­ preme confidence in the invincibility of bis troops, despite the fact tiiat Col­ onel Anstruther's command bad been annihilated by the Boers at BroBker'sc Spruit, leaving him less than 1,000 men with whom to confront 2,000 Afrikan­ ders under the personal command of Joubert. "Ooni Paul" was also with the Boer troops. On the 28th of Janu­ ary, 1881, Colley met the Afrikanders aKLaing's Nek, in the heart of the Drakenbergs. In five minutes he had lost -179 men, killed and wounded. Joubert lost. fehi*ee men. Colley drew off to HatJey's Store, threw up earth­ works and awaited an attack which did not come. "This inspired him with renewed courage and he determined to invade the enemy's country. On the nighf of Feb. 26 he led 700 of his men to the summit of Majuba mountain--7,000 feet above the level of the sea. The summit was a crater­ like depression with a rim which served as a breastwork. Below it, on all sides, stretched a steep declivity of 2,000 feet --a slope devoid of shelter save for scattered rocks and bowlders. By all military precedent the place should have been impregnable. It might have been to ordinary troops, but it was not to the Boers. At noon of the next day--disdaining the advantages of a night attack--the Afrikanders filled their cartridge belts, deployed in open order and charged straight up the west slope of the moun­ tain In the teeth of the British fire. Sometimes they ran, sometimes they walked, sometimes they threw them­ selves down and crawled, taking ad­ vantage of the shelter of rocks and In­ equalities of^the ground. It took them an hour to achieve the ascent. It took but a moment to spring over the rim of the crater and bring a bloody con­ test to an end. When the white flag at last floated from the British position it flew over 266 dead or wounded Eng­ lishmen. Nearly one-half of the Brit­ ish force had succumbed to the deadly fire of the Boer rifles. Sir George Col­ ley was among the dead. It is an open secret that he perished by a shot from his owBi revolver, unwilling to survive his defoit. Majuba mountain ended the war. An armistice was soon signed and peace followed shortly thereafter. But the memory of MajubfljjkHill has not faded'. It is a name to stir the Brit­ ish soldier to the depths. Historic MAJUBA HILL. Mountain Where Britain Met it the Hand* of Boers. was the cry of the specta- wimessed the departure of Bullcr from Southampton leaf, of war in South Africa. shouted the soldiers bound Cutw as stoftmM; 4j|»w j? • 4 * > MARRIAGE BY PROXY. Peculiar Ceremony Performed In Aus­ tralia and Africa. An extraordinary ceremony recently took place in Amsterdam, with a coun­ terpart in Africa. It appears that a young man left Holland some years ago to< serve In the telegraphic depart­ ment of the Transvaal. It had been his ambition to make a certain young lady in Amsterdam his wife If he ever attained to prosperity. But when suc­ cess was achieved he was unable, to leave his work for a jotirne# to. Holland; In this difficulty a marriage proxy-- kuown in Holland as a glove marriage-- was suggested. The details were all carefully ar­ ranged, the difference of time exactly calculated, ahd continuous cable con­ nections between Pretoria and Amster­ dam secured. The bridegroom and his friends assembled in the Hotel Ivruger. An operator using a wire ftpm the cahle notified the lady's family in Holland that all was in readiness, and the reply came that the ceremouy would then be­ gin. In the Amsterdam mansion a friend o'f the bridegroom made the responses, and when the time came to clasp hands, ptoduced a glove belonging to the bride­ groom, which he had worn. The proxy, holding one end of the glove and the bride the other, the promises w«y*e ex­ changed and the ceremony completed. A cablegram from*the bride to her husband, 0.000 miles away, gave him her wifely greeting, to which he re­ sponded. There was a wedding feast in Pretoria and another in Amsterdam, and the cable was kept busy with con­ gratulations. Then the bride said farewell to her l'auilly and went on board the steamer to begin her voyage to her new home. The custom of the old glove mar­ riage dates back to old Dutch colonial days, when they were nijjre common thin in these times of rapid and cheap journeys.--Pittsburg Dispatch. Mice ; s I'eis . Mice have long been in rlemarni as pets. They can be trained to perform many tricks, are very fond of music and have been taught to dance grace­ fully to waltz time. Tlie nian who plays the game of poliJ tics Ate&j. does most of the dealing. 'ifet&Skf iow oip MENTS AT CHICK AM AUG A» Heroes of that Memorable Battlefield Are Honored--Speeches by Gov. Tan­ ner, Majair C. A. Connolly, Gen, H. V. Boynton and Senator Selby M.Culloitt. At 10 o'clock Tharsday morning the ex- ercises of dedicating the 107.monuments and markers of the State of Illinois on the battle fields 'surrounding Chatta­ nooga, Tenn., were held at Orchard Knobj the site of one of the principal memorial shafts and famous during the civil war as the headquarters of Gen. Grant. The day was clear and „warm, typical Of -this season in the central South. It is estimated that more than I.000 residents of Illinois and at least 3,000 Chattanooga people attended the exercises and remained until the close of the program. Among the distinguished visitors were Senator Cullom, Gov. Tan­ ner aud staff, Commissioner of Pensions II. Clay Evans, Gen. H. V. Boynton, rep­ resenting the Secretary of War, and a large delegation from the Confederate caiup of the city. The exercises opened with music. by the Fifth regiment band of Atlanta,, lis. Then followed prayer by Rev. Dr. Wil- laim Pettis of the Episcopal Church of Chattanooga. Maj. Charles A. Connolly delivered the speech presenting the monu­ ments to the Governor of Illinois on be­ half of the Illiuois commissionere. Gov. John R. Tanner of Illinois received the monuments, delivering an eloquent speech.of acceptance, and in turn present­ ed them to the Government. Gen. Hen­ ry V. Boynton, president of the Chicka- mauga Park Commission, received the monuments in behalf of the Secretary of War. Brief informal addresses were made by others of the visitors, among them Senator Shelby M. Cullom of Illi­ nois. Gov. Tanner formally received at the Read House Thursday evening and the Grand Army veterans held a symposium. The visitors spent Friday at Chicka- mauga Park. The Illinois monuments and the mark­ ers at Chickauiauga Park and the vicin­ ity of Chattanooga are 107 in number, erected out of an appropriation of $65,- 000 by the Illinois Legislature. Of the marked there are thirty-three in Chicka- mauga Park and nineteen in Chatta­ nooga and vicinity. The small monu­ ments are distributed so as to give thir­ ty-seven to Chickauiauga Park and eigh- aM, £Sr-'-: fjr "I-9 ' "ft* "*#s- Spj »s5fr fg&l 'IK.* ' T i • V ... ̂ 1c * MEMORIAL, AT ORCHARD KNOB. UUA.V'1 A'i> MISSIONARY RIDS . • ('ofl* teen to Chattanooga and vicinity. The markers are of Quincy granite, 5 feet long and 2% feet wide, with polished shields and inscribed with the word "Illi­ nois" and the name of the regiment en­ gaged at the location of the marker. All the markers and the small monuments are built on plans of striking similarity. The two great monuments of Illinois, which are among the most attractive on the battlefield, are located one at Orchard Knob and the other at Bragg's Hill, Mis­ sionary Ridge. The monument on Bragg's Hill is erected in honor of the brigades of Uens. Gross. Sherman, Jacques, Wagner, Har- ker, Willich, Carlan, Moore and Wood. It is a tall shaft of New England gran­ ite surmounted by a bronze figure. The base is of Georgia granite. Four addi­ tional figures at the base of the monu­ ment, and the flags, shields, etc., are of standard bronze, as is also the great seal of Illinois which appears on it. This monument is very elaborately inscribed. The monument at. Orchard Knob was erected to the memory of the brigades of Gens. Morgan, Starkweather, Beatty, Hecker, McCook, Whittaker, Tindale, Wilder, Long and Engart, the First and Second Illinois Light batteries, Cogs­ well's Battery and the Chicago Board of Trade Battery. In architectural design it is a canopy, with a tall, polished shaft, on the top of which is a bronze figure of a standard-bearer. It is built of New England granite, with base of Southern granite. The polished work is very elab­ orate, the name "Illinois" standing out in bold relief. Among the other polished pieces on the monument are four bails on the corners of the dome, two columns on the cornere and the main column. CHANGES IN ASSESSMENT. Beport of Committee to the State Board of K^inali'AHtion. The committee on town and city lots of the State Board of Equalization agreed upon its report to be submitted to the full board. The following table shows the rate per cent of increase and decrease in the several counties as agreed upon by tile eo^puittee: . t\»f. 1 >«?,! v' lit.Mai'on .. Massac • . .; McHeary 27! McLean «loi Mvreer . i 5i .Morgan . S til Moultr'» *1 lu. IVorln .. ?;• ..' ivrry . . „ 5matt ... . . . . 10| l'uiiiski Pc. Adams'... . . . . Alexander .. 10 Bond 15 Boone . . . . . .: ••. •• Cass i* Champaign.*, *v. 45 Cook Dupage . . Edwards . Hardin ... Henry ... Jasper . . . .lofluu-son . .(<> Davles Johnson .. Knnknkce Kendall .. Knox *,... l.a Salle .. l.eo lwiian ... u . . .w '0 8 i© io ±^25 l>ec- Pc. 10 *5 10 35 it id ii i* 101 liauilolph ... 10 .2.">illoek Island. .. io 5 - . .jHt. Clair ... lO ">; Stephenson ... 1Q ; 10;Washington., aft , 10 . .j Whites hk> . . . . 10 Mi illi.nmson . . 6 ' The equalized assessment, in the coun­ ties not mentioned abdVe remains the same reported by assessors. Brict State Happenlnga. Soft < oal has decreased in price from if-'.oO to Jibout a ton in Chicago with- TheJ^ijsp 4»low works at Monmouth operations for the season Havfaf; < SoNt'ii up the Sunday theaters. Mayor Wln el^i. of Springfield, has is- sued' an edttRVgniust Sunday dances and othe|..|ii!amHs entertainments. A jiew hepse is being erected for JL if. CarfttfcaAt wood. The lumber Is n white oak grove of eighty bad not felt the axe ia v j|Stj 'V .i; M i- VML JViJ . :rf-> life.#-'IS mrn f .