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Injured Man Improvlnx.

Joseph Nightingale. the young man who
fell on the Long bridge trestle Saturday
and was so seriously injured, is improving.
His internal injuries, 1t is believed. are not
serious, and his fractured arm is in much
better condition than Il was Saturday when
he reached the hospital.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

IN AID OF THE
CHRIST CHURCH REPAIR FUND.
Madame de Messner will give some sketches of
Russian Life with illust tions,, in Iinthicum
Hail. BIG o St. WEDNESDAY EVENING. May
is. at Sis
my14-3ts Admission So cents
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The Presidential Campaign
VIII Cost S25,OO0,OO0

tons, showing portraits of their respec-
tive candidates. and 10000 600 large
photographic portraits.
One most important branch Of the
work Of the campaign committees is
the taking Of the house-to-house can
vases OF the voters. When the great
cost Of taking a federal census is con-
sidered 1t will be understood how large
a hole is made in the campaign funds
by the expense of taking the house-to-
house canvass.
Some novel campaign methods will
be adopted by both the great parties
during the campaign just opening. The
Republicans, 1t Is stated. have decided
TO use monographs to a considerable
extent. Advantage will be taken OF
newly invented attachments, which
add great carrying power to the ma
chine, and II Is expected that several
hundred people at a time will be able
to hear the wit and eloQuence Of the
campaign photograph.
The Democrats, on the other hand,
will pin their fate to stereopticons,
Contracts already have been closed, II
is reported. for covering the entire
state Of New York with the picture
MISUNDERSTANDING Tribune.
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COST ORA
CAMPAIGN

II Is estimated that it costs S25, O0O,-
600 to elect a president OF the United
States. The annual allowance which
the British parliament makes to Queen
Victoria is 81. s25, 900, or $7,7OO,OOO in
four years. These comparative figures
would seem to indicate that 1t is much
cheaper to maintain a queen perma-
nently than it is to elect a president
once in four years.
In the campaign Of 1896 the Demo-
cratic national committee spent about
$25, 900, 900 and the Republican COM
mittee as much more. This year It is
safe to assume that the expenditure Of
neither party will be less than 1t was
then. This makes one item OF 5000, %
900, or one-ffth the total OF the esti-
mate.
Experience in past campaigns has
shown that for every dollar spent by
the national committees Of the two
great parties an average Of 81 will be
spent by the various state committees.
This would mean that II the national
committee spent 5000, 900. the state
committees will spend $50, 600, 900. More
than half OF the money spent by both
national and state committees goes for
campaign orators. Altogether 1t Is es-
timated that not less than $4,000 more
OF Ices eloquent patriots will spond on
an average Of eight weeks Of their
time in saving the country" on the
stump. All this campaign speaking
will cost between 10Y and November s
the sum Of S11 900, 900.
The next largest item on the cam
paign bill Is that fog printing and
stationary. Each Of the national COM
mittees viii spend at least 100000 In
this way. Before the campaign Is over
II is estimated that both the ReDub-
lican and Democratic committees will
send out 100. 600. 900 separate doeu-
ments, a supply sufficient to furnish
each voter with IA pieces Of campaign
reading matter.
During the present campaign Il Is
understood that the Republican and
Democratic national committees will
each distribute 5000. 900 campaign but
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oIANr rnEEs IN oHEaun.
From 30 70 90 Feut 10 Dismo,er and
More rhan $50 roat TAN.

From 80 10 90 Rect 10 Diameter and
More Than $50 rost nan.
I would like to Graw attention to a
bunch Of immense trees in the noun
tains fifteen to twenty miles from my
place. neal Latourell. on the o.. r. &
~, says a correspondent OF the Port
land Oregonian. I used to make every
year a trip to the mountains, lasting
generally eight to ten days. and It
was on one Of my last trips, about
four years ago, that l discovered on
the northeast side Of the divide, be-
tween the waters OF the Bull Run and
the Hood rivers, this bunch Of giant
trees. The like I never saw before
or since. Before / saw these giants
I had measured from time to time
trees at home which girdled twenty
nine to thirty feet around about three
feet above the base, but these trees
could not be compared at all with the
big trees / found in the mountains
They would appear as mere sticks
against those giants. 1 honestly be
lieve that those giants will girdle sixty
to eighty feet around near the base.
and that they are $50 to 400 feet high
They stand on a kind Of fat bottom
and this fat is wei protected from dis
covery, as far as I could perceive, by
steep and high bluffs not only from
the Hood river side up. but from the
main water divide down. These big
trees are, in my mind, somewhere neli
the north line Of the National park,
but It is doubtful II they are in It.
There are two species Of the giant
trees. One species has a yeilowish and
not very rough bark, is straight AID
round as a candle, has limbs to an
immense height, and has a nice, won
derful crown. The father Of this very
aristocratic species in our mountains
is surely the emperor Of our forest.
People must not think that this tree
Is the so called noble fir" because 4
know not only the noble fir" but
many other mountain trees very well.
Nor must they think that this species
is one Of the ommon trees in the
mountains. l cannot say how many
such giants there are. There may be
hundreds, there may be thousands. On
our way home one of my companions
vas drowned in the Bull Run, and,
therefore, 1 neve went to the noun
tain again, but l have always had a
desire to go and investigate furthe,
about those big trees. Cedar is the
second sDecfas NJ fhe hig trees They
rival in size and grandeur the first
species. But the most wonderful thing
about them seems to be that they
are, in spite of their immense diam
eter and age, seemingly sound and
hard, through and through.
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HER LAND REWARDS THIS GIRL
For Fer Goodness.

mother. and a little housekeeDer and
a kitchen maid during her fathers abb
sence, always denying to herself first
childish and then girlish pastimes,
both indoors and Out Of doors. which,
even in the midst Of utter poverty, are
generally sought after by the young in
the growing period Of life. There was
a certain delicacy her mother always
liked. and she went many a time sew
eral miles to fetch 1t for her. Her
mothers, pain increased, and she often
sat up whole nights. robbing herself
Of needed sleep after a hard days
work. Her mothers smile was hers.
and everything hers was her mothers
her only wish being that her mother
might recover.
But heaven decreed that the mother
must not. and she died on January II
last. Riki's heart was broken, but she
must now live for her father. and she
is said to be working harder than ever
at home doing piecework 10 tighten
the burden Of her sole remaining pa
rent.
The story reached the ears Of the
authorities and brought her the honor
and reward. Ia the midst OF all her
sorrow and trouble she had had time
to teach herself reading and writing
Her mother. though an invalid. was
able to help her having been a woman
Of some education. like her husband.
who also assisted his daughter AZ
night.
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JULIAN RAhPH EXPLAINS
BRITISH ~EXCLUSlVENESS.

places for the three social divisions Of
the conservative old race. OF course.
the same thing is true Of a race meet
ing at sheepshead Bay or any other
track at home. but a thousand things
80 to prove that we separate and
classify ourselves for comfort rather
than caste, and according to our
means instead Of according to our
social degree.
The moral Of this long text is TO
be found in the coming experience Of
the new American underground rail-
way in London. With their marvel
u gift for instantly and happily
naming whatever they have to do
with, the English people called this
road the Tuppenny Tube" because It
is a round iron tunnel. and the fare
is two pence, or four cents, from any
point to any point It is more Amer
lean than you would imagine anything
could be over here. It's cars are copied
after those on the elevated railroads
Of New York and Brooklyn. It's
guards swing back the sliding doors
and sing out the name Of the station
ahead, which was never done before.
You drop American tickets into an
American chopping-box, and, in
stead of being a grimy and sufocat-
ing, %sulphurous pit, like the old I'm
derground railway, 1t is as clean as
wax from end to end.
But the passengers have got to sit
together, forty-eight in each car, and
there is the rub. There are even
straps, like ours, for the superhuous
crowd in the crush hours" to hang on
and swing around by. as we are so
used to doing at home. The custom
has been that the mob shall get into
the third-class compartments, pay a
penny a mile and take frst-class ac-
~commodations IL they can not obtain
seats in the third class, for the law is
clear in insisting that II a man or
woman pays a fare he or she is enti-
tied to a seat. The new Yankee road
gives no one a chance to better his
condition when his own class Is
crowded. There are no classes and
no compartments on this railway.
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It is a pretty story, although a sim
pie one. that comes from Japan to
brighten the image that the mention
OF the Orient involuntarily suggests
now. 1t is the story Of the good little
girl Riki Wakayama of Totsuka and
Of the government that watched her
and rewarded her for her virtues and
patience.
Riki Wakayama is 10 years old. and
II is her. devoted conduct toward her
? parents which has just been o~ficially
rewarded by the governor Of Tokyo
fu, who has presented her with a di-
ploma Of praise and a sum Of money.
In the days Of her babyhood her
family was living in a fair way; in
deed, her father Is a man of education,
being the holder Of a decoration which
was given him after the civil war of
twenty-three years ago. But subse-
quently fortune began to turn against
them. when they moved to Totsuka.
(rom Mito City. where they had lived
originally. BY the time Riki had en-
sered on her sixth year the family had
become so reduced In their circum-
stances that the father had to pull a
tinriksha to earn them a living; and.
TO make things worse. the mother be-
came about this time a helpless Ia.
valid. having contracted incurable
rheumatisrc. From that time on for
nine ears Riki remained the eYer-con-
slant nurse and companion OF her
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The Bishop pitched.


remember once driving across the
country with Bishop -, while dis
cussing the nature OIL the soul. That
is, the bishop was discussing; l was
only prompting by a question now and
then. We were on the rear seat OF a
wagon. with a driver on the front seat.
It was a very dark night. In the
middle of the bishops exposition the
wagon took a wild plunge, there was
a crash, and over we went into the
muddy ditch. 81 beg your pardon
gents" said the driver, who had re-
tanned control of the horses, as we
scrambled to our feet, II was SO in
terested in hearing the little man dis
cussin' my immortal soul, which
hardly ever khowed that 1 had n be-
fore, that 1 clean forgot where we
was and drove you plump into the
ditch. Ladies' Home Journal.
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BY captain II. n. Iemiy.

When the American governor gem
eral issued his famous order requir-
ing all children to be properly clothed
in the street there was CONSERVATION
in San Juan. Previous to u occu-
patton the lower or working classes
had never thought Of putting clothes
upon a young child. especially in he
country; and as a result the island
was filled with brown little Adams
and Ewes. without even the biblical
hg-leaf 20 hide their %nakedness.
Porto Rico, you must know, is near
ly as thickly populated as Belgium,
and many of the people are very poor.
To some parents It was a positive
hardship to clothe their numerous on
spring. and, moreover, It vas not con-
sidered necessary, because Of the mild
climate. The governor general, how
ever, entertained other views. To his
military and somewhat stern eye the
picturesQueness of the landscape was
not enhanced by any number Of naked
babies. He would have liked to put
uniforms upon them, such is the force
OF haDtt n education.
Clothing them was at least a step
In their "Americanization, and, to
do him justice, he believed that the
somewhat abnormal mortality among
the infants was due to their naked
ness. especially during the season OF
"%northers." And so the fat went
forth.
For a few days the streets we're al
most abandoned by the juvenile popu-
lation of the lower classes. With diff
hculty could l procure a paper or get
my shoes polished; ana when the
street Arabs gradually reappeared in
motley array the style and at Of their
clothes was somewhat startling. An
adults sack coat was not infrequently
the only garment, and in one instance,
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at least, a fathers waistcoat had to
serve his small son in lieu of al
clothing. The working classes usu-
ally inhabit the Easements of the San
Juan houses, where their apartments,
often without windows, are grouped
about a patio or central courtyard.
When an American officer, a soldier,
c. a native policeman approached one
Of these habitations, there would be
a scampering from the main door OF
naked children, who disappeared like
a cyclone in the gloom Of the interior.
I was the fortunate possessor Of a
smattering Of Spanish. and this fact
led me to make a daily purchase of
La Correspondence, the principal pa
per Of the city, which was usually
brought to me by a small urchin,
Jose Santos by name, but better known
by the diminutive of Pepe pronounced
Pay-pay). Pope was old enough to
know better, perhaps. but for reasons
Of economy and comfort his clothing
was generally limited to what might
be called, in his case, 9 suit Of prime
val innocence.
Indeed, clothes seemed to be abhor-
rent to Pope; and when he conde-
scended to wear them at all they were
neve buttoned. Any old thing an
swered the purpose, If handy; and If
not, Pope sold papers and polished
shoes, while he himself was as naked
as on the day he was born. His un-
consciousness of the fact was refresh
ing. After the publication Of the
clothing order, however, Pope disap-
peared from the public view. Indeed,
was now compelled to walk several
blocks for La Correspondence, and !
wondered what had become Of my
smiling and usually alert little friend.
One day, as / passed a densely pop.
ulated basement in the Gale del
Cristo. 1 heard myself hailed in Span
ish by a child's voice: Say, Mister
Omcer, please let me talk to you a
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Pepe, II Storp of porto Rico.


moment" would be an English equiv
alent Of what was said, but does not
correctly translate the polite Porto
Rican Spanish employed. I must tell
you that Latin-American children are
always courteous. and, for example,
II you ask the name of one Of the
tiniest of them, he OF she will give
II In full and then add. your little
servant, sir" In this instance the
voice came from behind the open door
and, when I stopped, Pepe's head APP
peared.
Come out Of that, Pope. What's
the matter with your" / said.
Il can't come out, Mister. I amt
got no clo'es. And 1 can't bring you
no more papers cause de perlice run
me in II they see me naked" he re-
piled. There is a v%ernacular in Span
ish as we'll as in English.
well. your father must get you
some clothes"
II amt got no father, Mister"
"Then your mother must get them
Il amt got no mother, neither" It..
poor child What do you want
to talk to me about2"
Mister Americana, won't you
stake me? Please lend me some.
money to get a suit Of clo'es with.
ri polish your shoes and fetch your
paper every day for nothing" Pepe's
eyes shone like black diamonds.
OF course the little fellow was ire
sistible and the loan was made, hap
PLY upon more advantageous terms.
for the young borrower. One Ameri-
can dollar was worth nearly two in
provincial coin; and to encourage.
thrift as much as to try Pope, 1 agreed
to let him work 1t out, with the mem
tai reservation Of paying him in full
for his services If he proved trust
worthy.
And for a week no one could have.
been more faithful. Every morning
La Correspondents duly made its ap-
pearance and M shoes we're neatly
polished. And then-Pepe stopped
coming!
More than the paper I missed the.
smiling -countenance, the large and
dark eyes. the shock OF blue-black
hair, Of my little friend. His graft
tude I could not doubt, because, not
content with fulfilling his part Of our
bargain, he had several times brought
me fruit, and only desisted from such
practice upon my resolute and almost
angry command. Apparently Pope
was lost. I was loath to believe him
unfaithful, and inquired for him In
the basement Of the house in the
Gale del Cristo, from which he had
accosted me, but the inmates could
give no tidings Of him. And 1 never
saw him again, which is a bad and
unsatisfactory ending for this simple
little story, but, alasl it is a truthful
one!
Shortly after this episode I left San
Juan, and a few weeks later I re-
ceived a letter from the army surgeon
in charge Of the smallpox hospital in
that city, Of which the following is a
true extract:
From the description given me by
the little fellow, and the fact OF your
speaking Spanish with these people,
I am sure that you must be the officer
in question. He did not remember
your name, but said that his own was
Pepe. In his last moments his chief
concern was not himself, but that you
should receive the dollar bill which
1 enclose. You need have no fear,
as 1t has been thoroughly disinfected. y
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A singular result of the recent ex-
periments Of Professor Angelo Mosso
on the physiological effects Of high al
titudes is that a mountain ascent may
produce such a %hattening of the lum-
bar curve that a man may be an inch
and a half shorter on the summit OF
Monte Rosa than when he is in the
valleys beneath. The height of Monte
Rosa, the second Hottest peak Of the
Alps. is Is, 215 feet. The III Of the
shortening is partly the exertiOn Of
climbing. The human stature always
diminishes slightly during the day.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-11-02

An amusing Illustration Of the grow
ing demand for athletic clergymen was
recently given by a country curate,
who received notice to quit because,
though unexceptionable in other re-
epects. his vicar declared that what
this parish really needs Is a good, fast
bowler, with a break from the off," No
doubt the worthy vicar perceived that
no village could possibly reject the
theology Of a curate capable of win
ming the annual cricket match against
the %aeighboring hamlet by his own
prowess.-London Telegraph.
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A shovelful of earth, Mr.. G. Clark
Nuttall tells US, contains eleven thou
sand million of bacteria. These are
various species, performing such work
as breaking up refuse matter, and nor
the least interesting is the new found
germ Of earth-smell. This germ ST.
free a little understood volatile COM
pound whose vapor is perceived as the
familiar odor Of damp soil. The vapor
is evidently prevented by water from
escaping, and increase In the air after
rain, when the odor becomes most
noticeable.
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HORNE roAps.
owner Started with One. but Now Has
Twenty-sIx.

Started with One, but Now Has
Twenty-slH.
A horned toad from the plains Of
New Mexico came to Kansas City
about a week ago, slowed away in the
pocket of a hotel cook, who brought it
along as a curiosity. For awhile the
cook carried it about and finally gave
the toad to George P. Huckett, who
placed it in a box of sand in the win
dow. The horned toad is a member
Of the lizard family, and this peculiar
specimen, with its spiked back, at
tracted considerable attention. Yes
terday morning when he went to look
after the toad he found 1t busily en-
gagged in catching flies, but the reptile
was not alone. Basking in the warm
rays Of the morning u were twenty
FIVE little horned toads, perfect coun-
terparts of their mother. They are
odd little fellows, no larger than a
thumb nail, looking very much like
baby turtles. Their coats vary in color
from the gray Of a dusty road to the
rich red-brown Of desert sand. They
are as lively as crickets, but when
handled roughly will curl up and play
'possum." But alas for maternal de-
Yotion! Mrs, Toad has forsakep her
children. She pays no attention to
them, and in the farthest corner of the
show window she stands with her face
against the pane, looking for some one
to take her away. However, the de-
sertion does not weigh heavily on the
little horned toads, They catch flies
and scuttle about as nerriy as if shift
ing for themselves was an old expert
ence to them-Kansas City Journal,
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Bottom Water of ocean.

Sir John Murray is authority for
the statement that n~inety-two per
cent of the bottom water Of the ocean
has a temperature under forty degrees
Fahrenheit. Between the shore and
the hundred-fathom line the tempera-
lures were higher. Speaking OF the
surface water, he said that eighty
seven per cent OF the maximum tenn
peratures. and seventy-hve per cent Of
the minimum temperatures we're above
forty degrees Fahrenheit.
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II Is known that many deep sea ami.
mails are phosphorescent in a high de-
gree, and Mr.. C. C. Nutting, discussing
this phenomenon In the American Nat
uralist, maintains that the quantity
OF light emitted by such animals is SO
great as TO supply over definite areas
OF the sea bottom a sufficient illumina-
ton to render visible the co;ors of the
animals themselves. Some cephalo-
pods are furnished with apparatus
which reflects the light from their
phosDhorescent bodies upon the sea
bottom owe which they float. This
rejecting apparatus is spoken OF as
IAN efficient bull's-eye lantern for use
in hunting through the abyssal dark
ness"
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Want 1nsulntlnr nInre..

A prize of 5000 is offered by an in
dustr.al association Of France for the
best insulating gloves for electrical
workmen. They must be strong enough
to resist not only the electric pressure,
but also accidental p%erforations by
wires, etc, and must in addition be.
easy to wear by hands of any size, and
allow the workmen's fingers sufficient
freedom to execute their work. The
competition is International.
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A New England manufacturing COM
pany, which has taken a contract 10
make a large number Of hats for the
United States government, has aban-
doned the old plan Of fines for care
lessness and consequent mistakes on
che part OF rs employees. and herewith
viii reward skillfui work by advances
Al wages and by money prizes. There
A. little doubt that the plan viii prove
a good one. both for the nrm and fof
ite employees. aud that Uncle Sans
soldiers win get better hats 90 conso
cueuce Of ~