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were the sporting trophies that adorn
the walls From the hall one passes N.
to Mrs. Langtry's morning room, which
is one of the most delightful rooms IN
the house; ii is papered with belu;i-
full dark powder blue paper nearly
all the chairs and settees are upholster-
ed in crimson red brocaded silk, which
harmOniZes so pleasantly with the blue,
while the mantel piece is very old, and
the tiles with which it is decorated are
old Dutch, all being painted with birds
of different sorts. These tiles Mrs.
Langtry has been some years in get
| ting together, and her collection is u
very fine enc In one corner of the
room can be seen Frank Miles picture
of Mrs. Langtry. which is wall-known,
three different positions of her head be-
ing taken in one picture. The writing
table is always decorated with the NEST
beautiful flowers. In the adjoining
room leading out from this are fitted
the telephone and the tape, which give
Mrs. Jersey" the results of the yari-
Gus race meetings. she is more or less
interested in.
On a little table may be seen one e
the latest portraits of Mrs. Langtry,
whilst pretty portraits of her daughter,
Miss Jeanne Langtry, are also dotted
about the room. Passing up the stair
case-which is very broad and beauti-
fully decorated with valuable rugs and
with brass-one reaches the drawing
room, which, in every sense of the
word, is a room beautiful" 1t is up
hOlstered in dull heliOtrope brocaded
silk, and the ceiling is a very handsome
one. At one end of the room, in the
center, large throne" is erected,
making a very pleasant lounge, being
plentifully supplied with old brocaded
silk cushions. over this throne" is a
canopy of lovely Old silken hangings,
kept upby long Old-fashiOned staff pipes.
| Close by this canopy may be seen lit
| tie minstrel gallery, where on different
| occasions a small orchestra is stationed,
| and plays after dinner when Mrs.
| Langtry entertainS.
| The room is filled with huge palms of
| great height and value, some of them
| being worth $3.50 each. This room con-
| tains knick- kuacks and bric-a-brac Of
| all kinds. and some rare old china, and
| old silver worth any amount of money,
! and in one corner Of the room is a beau
| tiful old silver ship. Rugs are laid
! about the room, and the electric light is
| used most artistically in distributing a
| gentle glow over the whole room. Mrs.
| Langtry's bedroom and bathroom are
| models Of perfect taste and decoration.
The bath is made of marble, and the
bed is raised on a crimson dais;
glimpse is seen of the dressing table,
which is laden with silver gilt toilet
necessar.es. GEORGE T. ARDEN.
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the frogs and at the end of the guard rails
as they do now, to keep brakemen from
getting their feet fast. If We had I would
not have been telling this story, because
it wouldn't have happened.
"As | was poking around the frog I got
onA of my heels wedged in one Of the
numerous openings and could not get my
self free. ! tuggcd away and swore lit
tie under my breath, but a machnists
wise could not have held that heel tighter
than the frog did. You can easily Judge
the extent of my alarm when / heard a
train whistle for a crossing which l knew
to be a mile and a half from the point
where | was fastened. l looked at my
watch; it was the O'Clock cannon vall'
from the West, and / knew that it would
bear down on me in three minutes un-
lees I succeeded in wrenching the heel off
my shoe, which appeared a hopeless task.
The train would shoot around the curve,
the engineer would not have time to even
slow down in response to my signal, and
] would be ground beneath the wheels.
The train was approaching from the d.
rec ton of my men and | shouted. hoping
they might hear me and flag it, but it was
a vain hope, and l heard the train roar
across bridge less than mile away.
was beginning to despair, but east a
glance around to see if help was coming
from any other quarter, when l saw
small-tow-headed boy standing in the
middle of the track behind me.
run up there I yelled, pointing to-
ward the tool house, and flag the cannon
ball
THE boy looked at me, but he did not
bulge.
" Run, rum, l whooped again, or TIL
be killed! Don't you see my foots fast
ami | can't get off the track?'
THE boy said nothing, but put his
h1 md In hip hot a 1n1 SC
jackknife. l thought he would look for
a stick next so he could white while
h" discussed my proposition, as they
do down in Texas I could hear the
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diameter and IS feet deep. which had
somehow to be pumped dry before the
work could go on. This final disaster
was too much for the patience of the
contractor. already tried to breaking
point by nine previous bursts, and he
retired in disgust, leaving the task to
be finished by other hands There were
other awkward moments that must
have brought the heart of the engineer
in charge TO his mouth. At one part a
disused and forgotten quarry, fill
ed up and built over generations ago,
was suddenly tapped and the tunnels
We're almost instantly flooded over a
quarter of mile of their length. Then
the bed of a dried-up stream was run
into, and as the sludge deposit was
forced into the open mouth Of the tun-
mel. the street overhead collapsed and
swallowed a street car alive
In such an underground system
drainage is, of course, a matter of the
first Importance; but, on the principle
that prevention is better than cure the
tunnels have been so carefully built
that very little water enters them at
any part. The little there is is easily
pumped UP at the stations into the
sewers overhead. while, to make as
surance douhly sure, a four foot con-
duit, discharging into the river Kelvin.
has been excavated for two miles under
the tunnels on the north side of the
city.
Such n work may well be classed as
one of the most wonderful feats of the
century, and Glasgow can be con-
graduated on having the most interest
ing railroad i'm Scotland.
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Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
Glasgow, July Undetermined to
have railroad marvel of their own
and thus be up to the times in this era
of narveis, the citizens OF Glasgow
have had constructed for their travel
ing comfort line that compares fav-
orably with any of the wonderful feats
of engineering with which the railroad
builders are making their profession
and the century famous all over the
world. The railroad may be correctly
described as a tube deep down in the
bowels of the earth, through which the
passengers are shot like travellers in
dark and unknown world, who must
close their eyes and blindly trust kind
fate to bring them safe to daylight
and earth again. For six years work.
men have been burrowing out this new
road, and now that it is finished and
opened it is proving one of the most
successful railroad ventures ever un-
dertaken. Ii was freely predicted that
the canny Scots would not risk their
lives to an electrically propelled shell
that shot through dark passage far
beneath the. city's streets, but the con-
trary has proved the case and the COM
pany has been forced to enlarge the
capacity of the road to accommodate
all the passengers.
The tunnels are built at an average
depth of 20 feet beneath the surface,
but in places they descend to the prod
igious depth of lis feet. Leaving the
hot streets of the city, the passenger
descends innumerable steps into a cool
underground region, where he lands on
an island platform between two cable
roads The cables are running at great
speed, and the noise they make is AL
most deafening to those who work IN
the tunnels. Passengers. however,
have no access to the tunnels and at
the stations the track sheaves are
packed with leather and the rattle of
the cable greatly modified.
But the passenger has little time TO
study these features, for there rus1es
up within a few seconds after his ar
rival on the platform a cylindrical
shaped monster bearing little resemb-
lance to the old engine-drawn train Of
the British railroads. The cars are
modelled somewhat on the lines of the
American railroad car, and it may be
mentioned here that many ideas in con-
nection with the road were borrowed
from America, which was extensively
toured by the engineer, f. Home Nor
ton, before he completed his plans. The
cars are constructed on generous lines,
with full allowance of space and light.
The lighting is by electricity, which Is
carried by feeders along the sides Of
the tunnels and taken off by hinged
rods kept in contact with the condu-
tors by means of springs, a plan which,
simple as ii seems, was hit upon only
after several fruitless experiments. The
same electrical installation serves also
to work the block signalling system by
which each car automatically registers
it's own progress as it passes from sta
ton to station.
AIT the carshed, when the days work
is done, the cars are lifted to the sur
face by a 12-ton travelling crane, which,
moving freely in all directions, serves
also the purpose of turntable and cross
over. Here they are placed on rails
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Filipino was seen to throw up his
hands and fall out of sight. The bullet
had pierced his heart. On examination
he was found to wear shirt having
cross woven in the front, the emblem
which the natives are taught to believe,
if displayed to the enemy, renders
them quite invulnerable.
AS our little band went over the field
dressing the wounded of both friend
and enemy. the sympathetic side of
warfare was seen, and it would be
callous one indeed who could pass dry
eyed through this struggling and bleed
ing mass of humanity. The dying man,
in preference to having wounds bound.
would ask to be allowed to repeat a
farewell message to a loved one far
away, or silently move his lipe in
prayer 1t was most pathetic.
The fortitude displayed by the cop
per-cOlored little Tagalos was marvel
Gus. With arms torn out of the sock
cts, legs completely shot away, lungs
pierced and their lifeblood oozing out
at every respiration, eyes knoclued out,
Jaws hanging only by a mere thread
they endured with hardly a murmur.
At first the humanity of medical as
siStance was not appreciated by the
native, who lost no opportunity to fire
on our ambulance; ambushing and
horribly mutilating Red Cross attaches.
On one occasion. when conveying four
of their wounded into the hospital, we
were fired on and had the handle of the
litter carried away, and reached camp
with five bullet holes Just above the
second row of cots. Towards the latter
end of the rebellion, however, they re-
spected our rights a bit more and were
content to only take an occasional pot
shot at us.
FRANCIS A. BLAKE, JR.,
Financial Agent Red Cross Society.
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KISSING BUG WOUND TREATED.
New York Physician Describes the Effect
of the Insects Bite.


The Medical Record of New York for
last week has communication from DR..
F. A Burial of that city giving an ac-
count of a casual patient who called at
his Office and showed a wound he re-
celved on his left forearm, as he sup
posed from a kissing bug. He asked for
treatment, and the result of the examina-
tioh and treatment DR.. Burial sets forth
as follows:
1.-The wound was received on the morn
ing of July and | found on examination
that near the capitulum ulnae was an ele-
walton of about the diameter of a silver
Scent piece, resembling in shape small
nasturtlum on this We're four distinct
longitudinal vesicles, the longest about
an eighth of an inch in length. The wrist
AMI back of the hand We're swollen and
flexion and extension of the fingers were
ACCOMPANIED with pain and stiffness.
diffused red, eTysipelatoid eruption eX-
tended from the wound to the bend of
the elbow, covering nearly half of the cir
conference of the forearm at its upper
part. There was no pain on pressure in
the axina. The patient did not complain
of great pain nor was there much cOnstl-
tutional disturbance.
ION the day before my patient said he
had been driving on Long Island and had
been bitten by an insect, which he had
supposed to be 4 kissing bug although
he had not seen it. He had done nothing
for the bite. thinking it would heal spon-
taneously.
my treatment consisted in painting the
iuflamed area with the tincture of iodine
and directing the patient to take a one
tenth grain tablet of the sulphide of cal
cium every two hours. He was also di-
rected to Apply Carbolic acid ointment to
the parts and cover this with a linen
cloth
This treatment was followed by rapid
Improvement. The next day the erup-
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JACkkNlFE SAVED HIS LIFE.
Narrow Escape of Railroad Man From
Terrible Death.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
The bald-headed railroad man who fire.
uuents the rotunda of the Great Northern
hotel these evenings is usually the center
of quite group of loungers, for he has
many interesting incidents of adventure to
relate.
when I was a section boss down in
Texas" he said the other evening, Il had
the crookedest piece of track in the state
couldn't see two telegraph poles at one
time at any point on my section. Right
where the tool house was there was a
curve and at one end of the curve there
was a switch for a passing track. | had
nv men working one day around the
curve, near the tool house, and while they
were filing in a piece of track l moseyed
down to take a look at the switch at the
other end of the curve. The men were
about a quarter of a mile from the switch,
bus out of view around the curve. In
those days We didn't tane the precaution
to put blocks of wood in the chinks OF
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the four-horse ambulance was heard
tearing along in the direction of Bin
onda, in answer to a summons to bring
in a couple of our men, wounded in the
early attack.
1t was the writer's fortune to be with
General Kings brigade, held in re-
serve to make the advance on Santa
Ana at daybreak. Here by the road
side, just on the outskirts of the city
with the rattle of musketry from all
sides and the canopy of heaven for a
cover, lay 500 warriors resting on their
arms. while the litter bearers worked
like beavers through the night. OF the
incidents of the day l should like to re-
call just one.
A Filipino sergeant was seen 200
yards away, standing on a prominence,
defiantly shaking his fist at our adj
vance guard; a corporal from our ranks
asked permission to challenge this
solitary little Tagalo, and stepping to
one side the corporal took a try from
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with active effort. When she had fin
ished a woman in the audience arose
and pointed out that one important
occupation of the day had been omit
ted. This was "dawdling," and the
speaker said while indorsing the value
of system she must put in an eloquent
plea for the Incorporation in the work.
ing day of every woman of at least a
half hours absolute rest-not the rest
of fresh occupation. but the rest of
compete anu entire relaxation. mental
and physical The nervous, active
over-zealous American wCman of to-
day scarcely knows how T. est. III
you have found day BE idle
saws some one, "ba idle for a day"
This is a motto that many women will
do well to fasten up on their dressing
tables
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ing, much of which had to be carried
on under high pressure on account of
the presence of water in the surround
ing soil.
Even where it was practicable to
work from above, the necessity OF clos
ing the trench as speedily as possible
obliged the contractor to dig only to
the depth of the upper side of the tun-
mel, and then. after building the arch
on the solid earth, to fill in the excava-
ton Immediately. Thus, when to the man
in the street the work appeared to be
finished, it was really only begun, and
there still remained the difficult and
laborious task of excavating the soil
under the arch and building the invert
Wherever water was present iron CYL
inders were substituted for brick or
cement, metal shields armed with steel
cutting edges being driven into the soil
by hydraulic power. and the cylinders
built up inside of these.
The greatest difficulty was encount-
cred at the eastern river crossing,
where, all unknown to the citizens, who,
in tens of thousands. crossed the Glas-
gov bridge every day within a few
yards of the spot, a really great feat of
engineering had to be performed At
this part a much higher air pressure
than usual was needed to counterfeit
the constant flow Of water from above,
and, as only a thin layer of soft earth
supervened between the roof of the
tunnel and the river overhead, the
problem to be solved was sufficiently
perplexing. In effect, in spite of every
precaution, the result of the increased
pressure against a comparatively
slight resistance was that, before so
feet of the crossing had been accomp-
lished, the bed of the river had been
blown up ten times. On the last occa-
sion the whole timbering of the work
ings was thrown into the stream and
foated away, leaving hole "a feet in
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the shoulder, but aimed too low. Then
our brave little enemy was seen to
bring his rifle to position and fire. He
also missed. A second shot from our
man went too high. then the return
shot tore off our corporars belt buckle
He turned around and said, with a
smile, to his comrades: Pretty close
shave, boys, but l think my third shot
will do the trick" His prediction
proved to be correct. He took DELHI
crate aim, snapped the trigger, and the
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have been going into ecstasies. They
have not exaggerated its attractions.
The entrance hall is large and spac-
ious, and contains many beautiful
pieces of old Dutch furniture, curious
hanging lamps, old armor, and several
very old famous pictures. A huge bear
which serves as a card tray. was shO-
by one of Mrs. Langtry's brothers in
the Rockies" some few years ago as
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From the Youths Companion.
One can hardly he expected to have
music in his soul when there is dis
cord in his stomach.
Husband-What was that you were
playing, my dear?
Wife-Did you like it?
1t was lovely, the melody divine,
the harmony eXQuisite!"
1t is the very thing l played last
evening, and You said it was horrid."
We'll, the steak was burned last
evening.
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pany. The brawny cook described what
occurred as follows:
We'll, Nurse Blank, she come down
and got inside the door. Four covers p
she says. Four? Who's the fourth p
Me says l. 'Youn she says, and with
that she losses her head and walks
away"
Here the cook drew a long breath,
then continued: IF it hadn't "a been
Sunday, gentlemen. | should have let
her have it for calling me 'you!'"
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DOMESTIC MACN|F|CENCE
Of THE JERSEY LILY

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
London, July l5.-I called at the
house of Mrs. Langtry. No. Cadogan
place, and found that erstwhile favor
lite of American play-goers very will
ing to show me over the artistic man.
sion concerning whose beauties visitors
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The ritual of society, as women make
it, is very eXacting the world over, even
in almshOuses. The London Outlook
reports a serious trouble among a set
of work house officials.
The infrmary nurses, three in num-
Der, had demanded "a separate sitting
room and the delight of Sunday dinner
therein, and the matron had sought to
humble them by sending the cook to
enjoy her Sunday dinner in their COM
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tident Filipinos. Now it was our Red
Cross attaches got emergency cases,
first aids, stimulants and other reuuf-
sites in readiness, knowing Sunday
would be the day to render assistance.
Our forces went in twos and thraes,
acting as assistant surgeons to the
medical corps while all nurses that
could be spared from the hospital were
assigned to the operating room in he
division" rendering most valuable
service. Already the doleful rattle of
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tior had retreated to within two lnches
of the wrist and now the fingers move
freely and painlessly. and the eruption
has almost entirely disappeared. The pa
tient called but once at my office, but
followed the case, as 1 was interested in
it's course. The tncture of iodine was ap-
Dled only once"
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peace had an inning for six months,
but the outbreak Of hostilities with the
Filipinos on the night of Feb. gave
the Red Cross much work to DO. BY
10 o'clock that night every bridge. ave
nue. of approach and point of Vantage
was held by our troops, whilst the fire
of our troops could be distinctly seen
on the west side of the river, as voliey
after volley was hurled at the over-Con-
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At a recent club meeting in a subur-
ban town a member presented the
Value of System in Work" and gave
a model day in which every minute
from breakfast to bedtime was filled
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continue to advance until the world
only safety is in righteousness toward,
God and justice toward man. II we
forget the goodness of the Lord to this
land, and break his Sabbaths, and i'm
prove not by the dire disasters that
have again and again come to US as
people. and we learn saving lesson
neither from civil war nor raging cpl
demic, nor drought, nor mlldew, nor
scourge of locust and grasshopper; "
the political corruption which has
poisoned the fountains Of public viz
tue, and beslimed the high places OF
authority, making free government at
times a Kissing and byword In all
the earth; If the drunkenness and IL
centiousness that stagger and BIAS
pheme in the streets of our great cities
as though they were reaching after
the fame of Corinth and Sodom,
are not repented Of, we will yet sea
the smoke of our nations ruin; the pill
lars of our National and State Cap
itols will fall more disastrously than
when Samson pulled down Dagon; and
future historians will record. upon the
page believed with generous tears, the
story that the free nation Of the West
arose in splendor which made the
world stare; it had magnificent posi-
bilities. 1t forgot God. 1t hated JUS
tice. 1t Rugged its crimes. 1t halted
on its high march. 1t reeled under the
blow of calamity. 1t fell. And as it
was going down, all the despotisms OF
earth, from the top of bloody thrones,
began to shout: AHA! so would we
have i'll" while struggling and OPP
pressed peoples looked out from dun
geon bars, with tears and groans, and
cries Of untold agony, the scorn OF
those, and the woe of these, uniting in
the exclamation: Look ycnder!
There fell great star from heaven.
burning as it were lamp, and it fell
upon the third part Of the rivers, and
upon the fountains of waters; and the
name of the star is called Worm
wood!"