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the second annual carnival was held the decorations were simply marvellous.
 And now at the third carnival, re- gently held, the artistic creations wrought out in corn, corn husks and corn stalks have attracted almost na- tional attention. The people who came to see the show numbered something like 3o,ooo. Three train loads, 30 eoaehes came from what is called the short grass country" or western Kan sas.
 And all Atchison was literally crowd ed with corn decorations. The busi- ness buildings were nearly hidden in designs of corn stalks, and the work was artistic to an astonishing degree. Curtains of strung corn and popcorn served instead of doors, the different colors of corn being harmonious y blended. Thousands of yards cf corn and popcorn for deaeo1tttfse purposes were str s and sold by the different = eh societies.
 I scene in one merchants display window presented the starry heavens, with a yellow sun. made of hundreds of grains of corn, just sinking below the horizon, throwing it's rays upon floating corn husl angels, one of which rccIined upon a crescent moon made of white corn. Under the electric lights
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bats for several days. and orders for them have been received from Chicago, San Francisco. Omaha and many other places.
 The dresses made of corn huslSs were in many cases very attractive. Men also wore corn costumes, hats of corn, and even corn husk neckties.
 A reasonable estimate of the number of costumes of corn on Corn Carnival day placed them at over 2,0o0. Such costumes. though striking in their ef- feet, are easy to make unless very elab- crate results are attempted.
 The originator of the Corn carnival is E. w. Howe, editor of an Atehison' newspaper, and widely known as au- thor of ''The Story of Country Town" and other novels. Three years ago Mir. Howe wrote a three line item suggest ing that Kansas should celebrate it's bountiful crops of corn every fall with a jubilee. The matter was taken up at once, and two weeks later the largest
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the effect was wonderful; and there were dozens of others just as clever. One Atehison artist constructed a scene of grains of corn representing The An gelus," pasting the corn upon card- board The result was astonishing. A peculiar thing about corn is that, when grouped ia design and rubbed with an oily cloth. it resembles ivory. Among the mechanical designs were corn chairs, corn desks, corn covered buggies. corn jewelry, corn shoes, min iature corn harness, and thousand other fantastic notions.
 Many of the corn hats worn during the carnival could scarcely be distin- guished from the best work of the pro- fessional milliner. Indeed. lady of Atchison who has gone into this corn millinery business has more orders than she can fill. She. has had re- quest from Mrs. William Mckinley for q specimen of her handiworl. and will send her a bonnet made from corn, in the most fashionable style of the sea- son She also made a corn hat for Mrs. William Jennings Bryan. Mrs. D. N. Morrill,, wife of the ex-governor of Kansas, recently wore one of these corn
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butter two or three dollars pound, he sells both at the current price, and as his dairy products average better than those of the farmers, they find his com petition almost ruinous.
 Another of Mr. Twombley's hobbies was the raising of hackney horses from English stock, but it is under stood that his losses in this direction were so extensive as to cause him to give up the scheme.
 pr. Seward Webb, who, like 8Ir Twombley, married into the Vanderbilt family, is an entirely different sort of man. It is true that Dr. Webb deYotes a good deal of time and attention to society, but he is a business man through and through, and in this re- speet he differs completely from all the descendants of Commodore Vanderbilt now living-exeept Cornelius, who is practically shelved-as we'll as those who have allied themselves with his family in matrimonial way. The late Col. Shepard strove to be man of affairs, and really worked very hard with his paper, the Mail anu Ex- press, and there never was a harder working business man in America than Cornelius Vanderbilt until he was oyertaken by paralysis. But Willy K.," George. Frederick ". and all the younger Vanderbilts care Httle for work. They do not have to engage in it to get money; they couldn't we'll spend all that is at their disposal if they tried to, and they see no reason why they should subject themselves to needless toil
 II. Walter Webb, fourth vice president of the Central rainoad-its actual ex- ecutiye head so far as the working ad- ministration is coneerned-is a very active, exceedingly efficient railroad man. Although he did not begin a poor boy and work his way up from the bottom, he understands all the details of railroading as well as any man on the line, and is more to be credited with the increased speed of railroad trains in America than anyone else in the country
 The recent frightful accident at Gar risons has worn upon him terribly. In gradually increasing the velocity of the Central's train Mr. Webb has kept ever in his mind the essential fact that solidity of roadbed is as necessary to great speed as powerful loeomo- tives, and he has devoted many anx- ious hours to the problem of making the Central's roadbed perfectly safe.
 Walter Webb is a man of delicate physique, and he has to make a can stant fight to keep himself keyed up to the duties of his most responsible position. Whenhe was appointed there to there were many who feared his physical strength would not be equal to 1t, although there were none who doubted his ability otherwise. He has, however, pleased and disappointed them all. OSBORN SPENCER
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THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
'Tis Golf That Makes the Social
 World Go Round.
The Playing of Foxhan Keene-Hoyv W. McK. TvombIey Vexes the Fnrmcra-The Webbs and
 the Vnnderbilts.
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It Is not stating the case line too strongly to say that the swells were never before as deeply interested in anything athletic as they now are in golf. Nor is there the least eXaggera- dion in the statement that greater pains have been taken to make it pleasant for golf players than has ever been the case with regard to any other outdoor diversion among the swells, unless it be lawn tennis. This is especially true of the golf links at Morristown, N. Jo where many of the most thiclSly gilded New Workers, including that brother in-law of the Yanderbilts, W. Mex. Twembley, are interested.
 The Morristown links are in no sense
 an auxiliary institution, being the property of a club organized and main tained for golfng and nothing else. The links occupy os acres, and are arranged both for long and n short leourse-the long one being the regula- tion three and one-half miles in eX- tent, and having the regulation IS holes The short course has only nine holes, and is played over by the women, by members who are just learning, and members who are unwilling to give up the time required to cover the longer distance.
 A match over these links is well worth witnessing. The grounds are exceedingly well kept, being covered with turf which is always we'll shayen.
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after bis fathers race horse or the race horse was named after him, l have quite forgotten-but one or the other is true. When James +. Keene was rich the first time. he settled 8 large enough sum upon his wife and Foxhall (the son. not the horse) to make them independent for life. and he settled it in such way that it cannot. be dissi- pated. For that reason young Keene can never be placed in position where be will not be able to indulge his taste for sports.
 The country house of ". Nick. Twom- bley is not far from the Morristown links. It is great rambling struc. ture, and would have cost good deal Of money in the ordinary course of events In fact, more has been expended upon it than upon any other house in the United States approaching it in size and elegance. Mir. Twombley is q man of extreme uncertainty of mind, and be has pulled down and rebuilt his house, bit by bit, over and over again, until now it hardly resembles in any par ticular the house designed in the begin ming. He has laid out and relaid out his grounds, too, at great expense, and in this way has contributed many thou sands of dollars to the support of hon. est worldngmen.
 But he is not a popular man among the farmers who live near his estates One of his hobbiesis the keepingof high bred cows Upon this hobby he has spent an enormous sum, and his barns and stables and silo and his patent churns have been the subject of intending comment among his rural neighbors. They were chiefly amused at first; but when year or two ago Twombley's men began to peddle the milk and butter produce of his dairy. there arose a general cry of indignas tion-for, although the milk must cost Mir. Twombley nearly dollar a quart, if all expenses were figured in, and the
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"We all of us has to run risks what ever callin' we is in, = philosophical the stealer. Mine, expects, is greater than yourn. but I takes my chances and keeps from getting pinched if kin. An they ain't got me yet.
 How do l get 'em back to the city? That depends. The first thing to do is to get rid of the collar and other things that might identify them. If they Is young and little and comes along peace ably. carries them in 6 bag I've got sewed in my coat in place of a pocket If they're too big to carry that way, walks to some other station, takes the train back to town, and runs chances.
 ''Its hard work, though" said the stealer. despondently. Sometimes 1 tramps 20 miles a night for week and don't get thing. Then when I does make a haul there's the trouble and expense of keeping them until there ain't no more danger.
 Young dogs is best to take, of course. They're easier to handle, and if you keep them they fills out and grows so their own masters wouldn't know 'em.
 "I seldom give any of them chance, though The ones I take out on the street with me are just bluffs. They ain't real blooded dogs, but they att tract attention. and when I sees 8 young gentleman like you what really wants good pup. I puts 'em on quiet like. Now, if you takes this pup here, you'll know you hev got just as fine terrier as any rich man ever paid $10o fer"
 ''How do know he is blooded and you are not trying to cheat me?'
 How do you know that he is b1ooded and I ain't tryin' to cheat you?" re- peated the dog stealer, indignantly. q tell you I ain't in that fake business. I'm honest, am When I tell you 8 pups good he's good. I ain't one of these fellers that sells you mongrel pup and tells you he's a mastiff. I'm on the level, and so are my dogs.
 eThe towns full of them fallirs that stands on the corner and puts pink rib bons on pups that ain't worth drown ing.
 "Them's the cusses that is drivin' us honest folks out O the business. There's
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A FATAL OVERSIGHT.
Estimate from the Far North of the
 Real Value of Gold.

Real Value of Gold.
 Col. Digger. one of the Klondike's most genial and popular multi-million- aires. was as pale as ghost.
 The mercury was lower in the ther- mometer tube than the price of silver in New York, and the wind had blown the cold wave flag full of holes.
 The colonel sat alone in the gilt-edged library of his more than palatial man. sion, and there was the look of ex- pectancy in his eye which comes to those who may mount upward to the skies or sink to the abyssmal depths of the darkest despair, depending entirely upon what the news may be that he is expecting.
 For some time he sat as if stunned, but this could not endure, and shalx- ing himself as if he would throw off the burden of his doubt he arose to his feet and strode toward the hall. where over the door hung the antlered head of that mighty caribou which had mas tered the Yukon for a dozen years.
 At the portals of the entrance the colonel met Mrs. Digger, who had but at that moment emerged from the eel lar of the mansion.
 For an instant they looked into each others eyes, and the colonel spoke.
 Well" he said, with illzsuppressed emotion; well, how many barrels did you fnd?"
 ''They are all gone, Henry" replied the trembling woman. 'sWe used the last one last night"
 Col. Digger clutched at his heart as if fatal pain had caught him there, and he gasped like stricken giant ere he spoke
 I've are lost," he shrielzed, "irre- trievably lost. There isn't Q pound of feed in town, and those fool clerks of mine made a mistake and shipped 15 barrels of pickled pork to the San Fran cisco mint instead of the 15 barrels of gold dust they ought to have shipped. Fools, fools that they were" he rayed, and his wife sought to comfort him, but the millionaire refused to be comfort ed. for his soul was above the dross of gold and he had begun to realize what true worth was.-Washington Star.
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crowd in the history of Atehison assem-
 bled to celebrate the first Corn carni-
STRANGER IN THE TANK.
How the sheepshead Was Sized Up
 by the Two Blaclkfshes.

by the Two BIaeISfishes.
 There was received at the aquarium one day lately from Grayesend bay sheepshead weighing 16 pounds which is a pretty sizable sort of sheepshead. It was brought to the aquarium in a transportation can and placed ina tank that contains two big blackfsh, one weighing about II pounds, which is pretty solid sort of blackfsh, and the other weighing nine pounds.
 The sheepshead was tired Whenit was put ir ,-, tht.tasnlk, as all fishes are after I journeyfng in cramped quarters, and it slid down through the water into the depths where it took refuge in one corner and balanced itself there while it looked around and sized things up. The big blackfsh, lying on the bottom over at the back of the tank, in place which it had scraped clean of pebbles with its tail dn-it can make pebbles fly as though they were only so many grains of sand-got up and came around to the front to take a look at the new conner. The big black advanced close
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one of 'em now up on Broadway. He takes a little cur of a bull terrier, cuts his tail off and lets his ears grow, and sells him for a fox terrier
 "Wouldn't that frost you? Actually has the nerve to change that breed of pup. I've known 'em to pick up little worthless cur over here on the East side, comb his hair out smooth and take him over on Fifth avenue and pawn him off for a Yorkshire, CT a Blenheim, CT whatever the woman who was looking at him wanted.
 ''No, sir; as long as them rascals are in the business there's no money in it fer us honest people"
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to the ceiling and the walls, 10 the dog stealer, and to his wife, and to every thing except the fire escape.
 Wont you have a chair?" asked the dog stealer's wife, as she brushed two fluffy, animated brown balls from the only chair in the room, and showed it toward the reporter. Now this seems like simple and ordinary bit of polite ness, unless yon are eonversant with the habits of the dog stealer.
 His calling makes him suspicious, restless, and distrustful of even his stock in trade. When he offers you a chair it is an evidence that he trusts you, and will, for a consideration, un- burden himself to you. Diplomacy, however, as we'll as currency, should be employed in drawing him out. There is no more effective method than to pick out some particular pup from the col lection and ask it's pedigree. This sys- tenn 1 tried. It worked instantly.
 Whats that dogs pedigree?" I in quired
 The dog stealer looked hard at his guest and closed his eyes slowly and eunningly as a man does when he has some great secret to confde.
 That dogs pedigree would make yer eyes water if you knew il, l" he whis- pered, but yer ain't goin t know it, Y'see? l was in such hurry when bought that pup that I didn't have time to write down his pedigree"
 q see"
 "That dog" the canine burglar went on, "cum from Long Island. He's out O one of the finest kennels on the island. I worked all one summer to get him. He's worth $50, Ter he ain't worth throwing in the river"
 How did you get him finally?"
 That's my business. ain't been in this game a whole lot of years for nothing. He come to me just as easy as they all comes when I onct gifts 'em headed my way"
 What do you find the easiest and least dangerous way of getting them coming your way?" the reporter asked.
 Well, has different ways, of course. But the one l fancies best and uses most frequent is to git 'em at night. staules thelf haDlts until learns Just what their programme is.
 Nine out of ten of the people who lives in the suburbs and has dogs lets lem out every night just before they go to bed. That's the time just happen to be walking past with a piece of meat in my hand.
 .'The dog barks and growls at me most probably the first night, but I losses him the meat, and I keeps on tossin' it every night until he gifts friendly. Then some day they calls their dog and whistles ter him and he don't come. He's gone to new climate;'' and the dog stealer chnckled quietly at the memory of whistles and calls for the pets that never came.
 Don't you ever run any risk of get ting caught?"
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Moreover, having received much atten tion from landscape gardeners, the grounds present generally pictur lesque appearance. The landscape gar Ideners, however, have not been allowed Ito do away with any surface features necessary to make the links a thor fough test of the golfers skill, so that whoever makes q record on these grounds may count himself a good player.
 But everything imaginable that eau Joe devised for the players comfort is provided. For instance, whenever there is playing going on, especially if the weather Is a little warm, iced water coolers are so scattered over the course, that thirsty players may drink with out the Inconvenience of going to the club house. Wherever, owing to inequalities ih the ground, there is likely to be uncertainty as to the di- reetion of the course, there are white hagstaffs bearing blue silk flags, which serve admirably as guides In each hole stands a short iron rod bearing red flag. so that there may be nc doubt as to it's exact location. Beyond each of the holes, too, stand regular semiphores, so to speak, bearing aloft great white discs or targets, from which the location of the hole may be determined at a distance.
 Foxhall Keene, the son of James R. Keene, a great horse fancier like his father, is often seen on the Morris town links. Of course, if you know anything about golf as it is now played, you are aware that he is one of the crack performers with the sticks. For this reason, whenever he appears upon the links, he is followed all the way around by big crowd of enthusiastic admirers. Some men might be em- barrassed in their play by continu- ous fusillade of '.oh's" and "ah's" and comments; but it is not so with Mir. Keene. He plays right along exactly as if no one were present, and he al- most always makes n better record than any of his opponents.
 Of course he dresses in the regula. tion golf rig when playing-and then he exhibits clearly to every one who sees him what he has sacrificed to the art Of horsemanship, for he is almost as bowlegged as jockey. As soon as he finishes the game, however, he re. pairs to the club house, takes shower bath and rub down. and dons the costume of a gentleman of fashion. Il is not going too far to say that Mir Keene's dressing on such occasions is ultra, not to say loud. When he is yielding the golf stick his garments are of the loosest and easiest, but wher he is not so engaged he is trussed like a fowl prepared for the oven. His col lars are r3ally excruciating; it is quite beyond belief that any man can bs comfortable in such neckwear.
 Whether Foxhall Keene was named
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to the sheepshead, balanceditself in the water in front of the newcomer and took a good square look at it. Though two pounds lighter than the sheepshead the big black could have hustled the stranger then, weakened as it was by travels, but it didn't try any such ex- ploit, and apparently was satisfied with the survey, for it started up it's propeller and sheered off and went back to the place where it had scraped in the gravel, leaving the sheepshead still motionless, except for the waving of it's peetora1 fms
 Then the other black, the nine-pound- CT, came aroundas the big one had done, and halted in front of the sheepshead, looked it over and then. sheered off and went back and lay alongside the IA pounder.
 Next day the sheepshead, rested and in condition, was swimming about, on friendly terms with the blacIfshes, but easily the big fish of the tank.-N. Y. Sun,
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COSTUMES MADE OF CORN
Quaint Effects Which Bid Fair to
 Start Now Fashions
Corn Hats Coming, ToO--0ne Has Been Ordered for Mrs, mcKaniey, and They Are in Great
 Demand.
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The corn carnival, which originated In Atchison, Kan, three years ago, has begun to develop wonderful possibili- ties in corn decorations. The merchants were the first to catch the idea, and had some very clever window creations in corn. Then a few girls and men ap- peared in costumes made of corn and corn husks
 But the thousands of people who at tended quickly "eaught on, and when
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The London Globe refers to the United States in an editorial, as a fourth-class power.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-11-16
HUMID.
''Boiled


Pop, what is humidity" "Boiled
air, my son."-Judge.
Mrs. Howso-"Did the butcher send
the lobsters?" Bridget-"He did, mum,
but + sent thin back. They wuzn't
ripe."-Brooklyn Life.
Borgess. has untold wealth." "How
do you know?" IT just saw the tax
assessor coming from his house,
Cleveland Leader.
When a woman is particularly pleas
ant to a man he never knows whether
it is because she likes him or does it to
torment some man she likes BETTER
Atchison (Kan.) Globe.
An African traveller asserts that "the
most effective weapon in warding off a
tiger is an umbrella" Isn't it too bad
that this information comes too late to
help Seth Low?-Chicago Times-Her-
aid.
Miss Sears Can old rivaD-"You must
feel very sad when you think about
your late husband"
Mrs Tears with sarcasm)-"Yes, but
any husband is better late than never"
Brooklyn Life.
She-"He's fast, T understand"
He-"No; slow"
'You evidently don't know how he
spends money"
"Ah, but I know how he pays his
debts. "-Philadelphia Record
'..Say, another fellow is going to mar
ry my girl! How am going to stop
it,"
There is but one safe way
whats that?"
sect out an injunction. "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Mrs Betterhawse-"I am told that
you allow your husband to carry a
latch key"
Mrs. Greymair-"Yes, but it does not
fit the door. I just let him carry it to
humor him. He likes to show it to his
friends and make them think he is in
dependent. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Oklahoma Belief think pap's ago
in ter favor we, Bill, over all the other
fellers I've been a-talkin' to him about
We, an he never said nothin, but ]
know he likes ye."
Squatter Bill-"How dyer know
Nance?"
Oklahoma Belief told him he was
comm round ternight, and he loaded
up his gun with squirrel shot instead
ov buck. Detroit Free Press.