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elephant turned more gf0lnd than the best
team OF horses possessed by his friends;
and as to logs, my lord" made more
account of forest of them than If they
had been SO many mat ches.. This, however,
by no means exhausts the merits of the
oeast from an agricultural point of view;
bis temper unruf1ed, ns. appetite is salts
fled with the rations OF a horse Altogeth-
er most desirable acquisition to the farm
yard, and Mr.. Cahill and his frugal sire
luck and their judgmertN At frst sight it
would seem that brighter day had dawned
upon depressed agriculture. We have such
implicit confidence in the Intelligence of
the elephant that we make no doubt that
he could easily be taught to milk the cows,
and even to shear the sheep; and, as for
r;11ck,making, r. when one comes to think of
1t, the elephant seems built for that very
purpose. Perhaps Lord Salisbury had this
thought deep in the recesses Of his mind
when he recommended circuses-a very
more entertaining to agricultural laborers.
andleven to the farmer, the parson and the
squire tnan parish councils The elephant
might De engaged in playing the piano and
dancing and In the exhibition of his mani
lold social accomplishments In the even
ing, and spend his days in the field making
nay or plowing or laying drains or hauling
timber as the season of the wear demanded
MHat chance for a new election cry
Twenty acres and an elephant!' There
is, OK course the initial difficulty Of cost
ana rarity, which are hardly compensated
ior oy superior longevity. Not every one
Is as lucky as Mr.. Cahill, whose prize is
given away with a few donkeys and a
tent Moreover. there is the question Of
room. An elephant may not eat more than
a morse, but he needs a much larger stall
IN which to dine. America is so big that a
rev millions of these four-footed giants
would would ! not be noticed. but in this over
crowded island they would enlarge the
ioeas OF peasant proprietorship to a revo-
iiutlonary degree. We commend the idea,
however, TO Mr. Rider Haggard. He is not
only on terms of the closest intimacy with
the elephant at home when he is making
nay. SO to speak, on his own account, but
ne is also an agricultural experimenter on
very lntelllgent scale. Besides Mr. HaR-
gard would tell us all about it in that
orlsh breezy style Of which he alone among
psactlcai farmers is master. Perhaps out
.no,,16 ui hoHoay I time the Geological Society
would lend him hath to try with
Evening star., 1901-06-29
CAR PORTER's QUIET WAY.
How He Awakens Sleeping Passen-
ger at the Right Time.

ger at the Right Time.
From the Chicago Tribune
I'm going to tell you something that
nine out Of ten men who travel do not
know" said sleeping car porter on a train
crossing into Chicago the other day. I'm
going to tell you how 1 woke up the pas
sengers this morning and how every porter
in the country wakes up the people on his
car half an hour before they get to the sta
tion they want to get off at. Half an hour?
How did we come to settle on that as the
time people need to dress? Just by listen
ing to complaints from passengers who
were called too late and from the rest who
were called too early. Half an hour Is just
about the right time to allow, but it took a
long time to find that out.
'It would take passenger longer to find
out how we wake him in the morning. Did
you ever notice that few people know Just
what 1t is that wakes them up? OF course
If they have an alarm clock It's different
but II they do not know what the alarm is
going to be they can't ever tell. When peo-
pie say Such and such thing woke me
down to the noise they first recognize, but
that isn't always the noise that brings
them back from sleep. People aren't fully
conscious as soon as they open their eyes,
are they? OF course not.
But the way we wake them up? 1t isn't
by calling to them. That is only done when
they are unusually sound sleepers and when
our regular way fails. 1t isn't by putting
our hands between the curtains and tap
ping them. We'd get fired If we did that.
1t isn't by dropping shoes outside their
berths. That used to be the way, but some
people got so used to the noise of the shoes
that they could sleep through the dropping
of a carload. It's just by walking past the
berth fast and brushing against the cur
tains. The noise doesn't wake them the
first time. but we keep going through the
M Wa
That's the way we wake them up. OF
course you didn't know it before FIJI bet
you're the only man in this sleeper now
VINO knows 1t, unless some porter has told
know, dead easy-just like everything else
is easy after you know the way"
Evening star., 1901-06-29
FISH AS POSTMEN,
Instances in Which They Have Per
formed Such Duty

From Tit Bits.
A very extraordinary case of fish act
ing as letter carrier comes from Rey-
JaVik, In Iceland. On April 20 Of last year
a certain Capt. Christensen Of the steam
ship Laura received an unimportant letter
from the sheriff of Vestermann while the
ship was lying at the latter port. Having
perused the missive the captain threw 1t
carelessly overheard. and his astonishment
may be well imagined when, on the 10Th
OF the following month, the identical COM
munication. soiled and disigured was
handed to him by the consul of Reyjavik,
to which place 1t had actually travelled In
the stomach Of large Goldfish. and had
been extrfcated from the some by a local
fisherman. Seeing that Vestermann lies
some $50 miles from Reyjavik, the letter
must have travelled that distance between
April % and May 15 the pscine postman
consuming just over two weeks in it's sub
marine journey.
There have. however been cases before
this Of fish undertaking the carriage of
letters. Some fifteen years ago a whale
which was stranded on the south coast of
France. was found, upon being cut open.
to contain mail bag. wherin there reposed
many hundreds of letters. The bag in
question formed part Of a collection which
was being conveyed to Gaudaloupe by
wrecked vessel, and the letters, though
somewhat dingy, were in a perfect state Of
preservation. Ihey were at once sent
to their destination, each letter being
marked on the outside, Delayed through
shipwreck." no mention. of course being
made Of the extraordinary incident which
had occurred since the missives were
posted.
Rather amusing was the following: A
young lady, walking on Brighton pier
dropped into the sea by accident rather
tender communication. addressed to the
man Of her choice. She forgot the incident
completely. but was reminded Of the same
in a rather abrupt fashion by the receipt
one morning some three months later of q
letter from her sweetheart, informing her
that the missive had been posted to him
from Boulogne by a fisherman of that
town. 1t seemed that the latter had found
the note In the interior of huge mackerel,
and that, being acquainted with English,
he had entered into the humor of the sit
uation, and had without delay posted the
communication to its proper owner. Never
perhaps has love letter been conveyed
by a more peculiar postman.
A dolphin found of the coast of Sicily
was the conveyer Of a letter from French
gentleman addressed to his wife in Paris.
Evidently the writer had allowed the note
to fall overheard while journeying on his
| yacht in the Mediterranean, but the letter
| reached the lady in due course, though
| some six months intervened between It's
| date and its receipt.
Evening star., 1901-06-29
The Book Satisfied the Chinaman.
From the Portland Oraponian

Many Chinese who have been for years
in this country have made little progress
in learning English They have not had
time to go to school, and there have not
been books gotten out by any Chinese Oh
dendorf in English and Chinese and Chi
nese and English for their benefit At last
this long-felt want has been supplied A
Jap of Yeddo has published large Chinese
and English dictionary. and some society
in New York has published a pocket die
tionary of the same kind and a reader and
speller with English words and phrases in
one column and their equivalent in Chinese
in another. Seid Back has secured q LOT
OF these books for the benefit Of his coun-
trymen here, and hereafter Chinese en-
ployes in canneries and elsewhere will
spend their leisure hours studying English.
A Chinaman who understood no English
was looking over one Of the readers, and
the picture of boy looking at q pig at
tracted his attention. He read the Chinese
words under 1t, and then asked an Amer
lean to read the corresponding line in Eng
lish to see If they agreed. The English was
II see a pig" The Chinaman smiled and
said: Me see one hog" That settled it,
and he wanted one Of the books. and will
soon be an English scholar.
Evening star., 1901-06-29
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The Salad Season.
From the London Telegraph.

The question OF salad making is now be-
Ing talked of IN Berlin; at least the Kol-
nische Eolkszeitung has some words to say
about II. and that journal Is widely
read on the Rhine because OF its politics,
social gossip and literary notes, We may
take II for granted that its readers are in
terested in salads. AS regards salad max
ing. 1t Is doubtful which country sins the
m0re-England or Germany. In Prussia
people eat salads. but the leaves of the
lettuce are STEPPED IN vinegar and are
generally unpalatable. Their potato salads
are more toothsome. and they have a con-
coction OF meat and picked cucumbers, and
another in which herrings form the chief
ingredient. the former called italian"
salad. the latter herring salad. both Of
which are said to be palatable for a cold
supper. But toward the end of the eigh-
teenth century things were different in
Berlin In the best hostelries a special
servant was kept 10 prepare the salad. She
dined at table, and when the salad bowl
was brought in she took of her long white
gloves. washed her hands, and prepared
the salad with the utmost taste and grace,
In presence Of the guests, mixing the in
gradients with her fingers In a cleanIy and
Sppetizing manner.
Evening star., 1901-06-29
THE POSTAL SHOULDER.
"A very Common Defect Although Gen
orally Not Recognized.

"A very Common Defect Although Gem
orally Not Recognized.
From the London Express
"A trif1e more wadding will do 1t nicely,"
said the tailor, and he made some myste-
rfous chalk marks on the coat of a cus-
toner, selecting the left shoulder for his
work.
Inc customer went out, and another man,
VINO had dropped in to pay something on
account-not because he felt like paying
out because he wanted more clothing and
didn't think he could get 1t save by dem
onstration Of good faith-looked a question
"Oh.' said the little tailor, promptly, "got
postal shoulder. that's all. 1 get lot OF
that sort Of trade"
whats postal shoulder" asked the man
whose 1nstallment gave him right to be
inquisitive.
Why" said the little tailor, "one of his
shoulders is shorter than it really ought
to be, don't you know? Ever notice how a
letter carrier wears his mail bag? Always
has 1t slung over his left shoulder. l don't
know anything about the delivery of his
maJesty's mails, whether wearing the bag
on the left shoulder is a rule of the service,
or whether 1t is just a habit the postmen
have fallen into; butl 1 do know they inva-
riably carry the bag in that position.
The result Is that in course Of time-and
in course Of very short time, can tell
you-they lose symmetry. = The right shoul-
der remains in its natural position, but the
left drops more or less but always enough
to make the defect noticeable. If a post
man wears the jacket of his uniform after
he has finished his work you can notice
the popularity at once.
when he comes to have a new suit made
the tailor has to make up the deficiency iur
the height OF the left shoulder by padding.
There are a good many other persons
besides postmen, however, who are in need
OF cotton. There is not one man in hum
dred who carries himself absolutely straight
and the tailor who makes both sides Of his
garments exactly alike Is sure to encounter
dissatisfaction. l don't often tell a man
who complains that he is crooked, but 1t is
fact, nevertheless. I just study his mo-
tions and attitudes and set to work to make
him symmetrical for a time.
There are lots Of things that will give a
man 'postman's shoulder such as leaning
regularly over a desk or driving a pair of
horses"
Evening star., 1901-06-29
ExTINGUIsHED WITH OIL.
How q Fire Was Put Out With KerO
aene by Mistake.

Aene by Mistake.
From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
IT read a queer story in the papers not
long ago." said one of yarn-spinning
group in an aI-night cafe, about the way
a fire was extinguished in the vineyard dis
trict of Napa valley. Cal. 1t seems that
the conf1agration started in a big store
house full of wine, and as 1t was getting
well under way the one pump on the prem
ises broke down. In a few moments every
thing would have been doomed, but the
proprietor was a man Of nerve and re-
source, and he simply stuck the hose in
the nearest wine vat and put out the fire
with claret. That struck me as being a
pretty good story. but can tell one myself
that beats it to death. and. what's more, I
can vouch for mine as being strictly true
which I hope won't prejudice you against
It. In 1884, when the roller-skating craze
was at its height. made nice little bum
die Of money opening Kinks at several small
towns in the middle west. I chose small
places because I ran up very fimsy build
ings. and in the cities could hardly have
obtained permits from the authorities. The
last point at which did business was the
Evening star., 1901-06-29
PATRICK CAHILLS ELEPHANT.
POnderous British Fun Over It's Use
for Flowing in West Virginia.
From fhA Iondon Telepraph

for Flowing In West Virginia.
From the London Telegraph.
A live elephant is better than a dead Cae-
sar, and since Imperial Caesar, dead and
turned to clay. may stop a hole to keep
the wind away. so, we suppose, there Is
nothing 50 humiliating as would at first
sight appear in yoking live elephant to a
plow. After all the hath piles teak" at
Mandalay. as we know from Mr.. Kipling,
and carries children for penny apiece at
the Zoo. Thus, apparently. moralized Mr..
Cahill. son. as we learn, of frugal Patrick
Cahill. Irishman Of West Virginia, U. s.
It Is sad to think that the animal which
has more claim to be the philosopher of
beasts than the lion has to be king was
picked up at the sale of a circus in a lob
lot which included few donkeys and a
tent. Mr.. Cahill. like the man who had his
waistcoat made to match his buttons, pro-
posed to turn his elephant-thrown in. as
it were, with tent and few asses-into
the nucleus of menagerie. Pending the
acquisition of the other accessories. the
purchaser determined that his captive
should earn his food. and employed him in
farm labor. At once Mr.. Cahill became the
cynosure Of neighboring eyes. Alone the
Evening star., 1901-06-29
sfOnument to . Pig.
From the Phtladelphis Record.

No STRANGER monument ever existed than
that which, was erected at the Hotel do
Vile by tie Inhabitants of Lunebure. IA
Hanover. n honor Of q pig. This, which
took the fotm Of kind Of mausoleum. con.
tanned la8ge glass case In which was her.
metically iEclosed a fine ham cut from TIA
animal whEse memory was to he handA6
down to pot,terity Above was a handsome
slab OF blat,k marble. on which enpray.d
In letters sf gold, was the following IN.
scription III Latin: "Passers-by, contem.
plate here Ehe mortal remains of the MD
which acquired for itself imperishable elorH
by the discovery of the salt springs a
Innehure'f
Evening star., 1901-06-29
A Long-Lived French Ministry.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The fact that the ministry Of M. Waldeck-
year of its existence is circumstance of
note. Many ministries have come and
gone at Paris since the institution thirty
years ago OF the third republic. but of them
all only three lasted SO long as the one
actually in power. This Is the more re-
markable and surprising because this lon
gevity was SO very far from having been
expected.
Evening star., 1901-06-29
HOW All Can BE Equal.

From the Chicago Post.
IT tell yoE. SIR" said the pedestrian. with
feeling, at is quite time these automobAist1
were brought up with a round turn. Thex
seem to thiElx they are entitled to EXCLUSIVE
privileges NJ the streets"
mot ct ta,l," replied the automobflisA
I'VE ask oflly privileges that are open e8
all. We EXPECT no consideration that is mob
given to fvery one. We want perfccS
equality"
Equality"
"Yes, sirE equality. II you do not re-
ceive the slime treatment that we demand
It is your Own fault
"How sot"
"You havE, foolishly neglected to buy An
automobile.E
Evening star., 1901-06-29
Eight Thousand Feet High.

beasts to such an extent that 1t Is un-
profitable to keep them mere
Eight Thousand Feet High.
I'VE did not stop to look for the bear
while in that valley and were content to
leave 1t after one nights stay. In doing
so we passed over the summit that divides
the Salmon and Payette rivers. Here, at
an altitude of 5000 feet. we halted to gaze
on a scene that for eXpanse Of mountain
beauty we had never seen equaled- Inc
vision took in miles of mountain tops,
most of them being below US. all Of them
covered with timber and each separated
from it's fellow by gulch and stream. AT
the foot of the mountain. 5000 feet below
U.S. we could see our road lying In loops.
but how to descend We could not see. for
it was only visible few yards ahead.
We pass around and around one point.
then another, until We nearly meet our
selves in the short turns. After an hours
careful driving we reach the bottom, and
then follow trail for fifteen miles down
Deer creek. We ford this stream ten times.
The rushing water Is hub deep and the
rocky bottom furnishes no place for q
horse to set his foot until he has carefully
felt about for 1t, and when found We go
forward with a jerk. We realized at each
ford that there was no assurance of reach
ing the opposite bank in safety. There
was a real sensation of relief when the
last ford had been made
The next morning we forded the Payette
river, q beautiful stream perhaps fifty
wards wide but unless one Is careful to
select the shallowest places he is sure to
get an uncomfortable wetting. After this
crossing we began the ascent Of the op
posite mountain range. Here we encoun-
tered the longest and steepest hill Of our
experience-six miles from foot to top and
in all an ascent of 5000 feet. 1t required
six hours and forty-five minutes to reach
its summit. We camped that night at an
almost deserted mining town fifty-fve miles
D~ln MOI, nm ha nod
to Boise City is through an almost contin-
uous field Of placer mines"
Evening star., 1901-06-29
COLOR RESTORED.

March 5, 1900.
Dear MADAME Yale:-I can conscientiously recon-
mend your Hair Tonic to any one, have found
II just what you claim II to be. My hair fall
frg ont and beginning TO turn gray. ! have used
six BOTTLES Of your Hair Restorer and my hair has
regained Its natural color. the gray hairs having
almost disappeared and have stopped falling out
entirely. / have a great deal of confds nee In all
of your goods. all that have used have given
entire satisfaction. Mrs. G. A. WISEMAN
400 Warren ave. Detroit. Mich.
Evening star., 1901-06-29

bear literally slaughtered them, and they
were driven out with all possible haste
Cattle also suffer from the ravages or the
beasts to such an extent that 1t Is un-
profitable to keep them here
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GROGAN'S 9sEs'q5 afGq?35'' i?eass,
9th St., pet. I'll & I SITS.

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NDti; fir 9ebrer.

Die Oiientli6en 9ebrerpriiun9en ruerbeu
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