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Remarkable Hoistino.

Mines and Minerals: AT the DeBeer,
mine, in Kimberly, some very remark
able work has been don in the hoist
ing line, establishing a wonderful rec
ord III the way OF capacity for hoist
ing from q single shaft. The hosting
engine consists Of a pair of vertical,
tandem. compound. ~condensing engines.
operating with 100 pounds OF steam,
hosting from the 1,20O-foot level, maxi
ing a total lift of about 1850 feet. Two
automatic dumping skips. five by three
and six feet deep, are used, each weigh
ing 4,400 pounds and holding $500
pounds of rock. The skip is loaded at
the bottom by tipples worked from the
chute by a hand lever, and the rapidity
of handling is shown by the fact that
as high as ninety-two trips have been
made in n hour. On one occasion
during a single shift of eleven hours
and for%ty-three minutes, the weight of
rock hoisted was 1865 tons, or at the
rate of 7,400 tons in twenty-four hours.
This record was broken by the same
plant a year or two later by hosting
$500 tons in twelve hours, and on Nav
II, 1899. 9,261 loads of blue ground. equal
to 7,400 IN of 1000 pounds each. were
hoisted 1850 feet by this engine, work.
ing in two compartments, in twenty-
four hours. or course this is not their
regular everyday working. but spe-
cial running to show what can be done.
The skips are loaded at the bottom so
quickly that the engineer sometimes re-
ceives the signal to hoist before he has
completely stopped the engine.
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WILL KILL PROFESSORS
Competition of MiIIionaires May
Cause a Heart Disease
Endemic.

New York World: Andrew Carnegie ha.
assured Pittsburg people hat il they are
really desirious of having q university
which shall beat anything in the country
he will help them.
Imagination faltcrs when If attempts to
picture the struggle that must follow
among the philanthropists when such a
~pacemaker starts in the school-maklng
race. Fancy the scene at the Millionaire's
club five years from now when Mr.. Car
negie will come swinging %1aunt.ly into tho
room with his golf clubs, Under his arm.
We'll. john" he will say, II have just
added 200 acres to the Pittsburg campus
and deposited $5.0OO.0O in steel bonds as
endowment to provide gymnasium facili-
ties"
Mr. Rockefeller wilt rub his hands in
glee Il say:
To late. Andrew. Very good IN its way.
but antiquated. I have Just bought Lake
Michigan for the University OF Chicago
for Its crews to practice on. AN out at
Saul Ste. Marie hereafter"
Mr.. Vanderbilt will look up from his
paper and remark casuakly:
IT might say that the family has lust
purchased all the land Within two miles
of the Yale campus and VIII cover IL
with dormitories."
Mr.. Vanderbilt will say this very mod
estly. but with a CLEAN OF triumph in his
eye. But "Ah!" he will exclaim. as be
returns to his paper. Boy. bring nv
check booli! Gentlemen, Mrs. Stanford
has just bought the Sierra Nevada noun
tains for the school Of forestry OF the Le-
land Stanford. Jr, university"
The three rich men will pale at this
announcement.
There's one thing left to do" they will
cry in chorus. Raise the professors sal
aries. We must stay at the top"
Il give an annual income of S1OO, 900 to
raise the professors Salaries" one of the
mtllionaires will out.
A college professor who happens to be
a guest at the club that evening will be
carried cut fainting.
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wHEN THEY GOT TeaETHER.

What the Women Said About a Very
Charming Rival.
Life: There was once a woman
whose clothes were always becoming.
And the other women united in say
ing:
How can she. on her husbands in
come. afford to dress SO expensively?"
She had been married seven years
and was childless.
And her friends, who had also been
married seven years., and rejoiced in
abundance of little olive plants, said:
How can a woman so disregard her
duty to the racer"
She was shapely and kept her chin
IN when she walked.
And all the women whose waistlines
We're intermediate said:
mo woman that has SO good a figure
can be other thar frivolous"
She kept the same maid for five
years.
And the women that changed SER
wants every two weeks. said:
But we require our housekeeping
to be well done.''
She did not go in for Maeterlinck MOI.
Browning clubs.
And the women that strove to be
accepted by magazines said:
"a true wife should be a
len to the intellectual side of her hus-
bands nature"
h went to dances and was never
q wall flower.
And all the women that knew her.
said:
She is evidently a coquette and a
ms to society,""
But she went away.
And these same women lamented in
secret, saying:
we are indeed bereaved. for, while
0ha wQE orOnnO nc N MO 1vya ~
supplied with a topic for conversations"
A Schooiboy's Trouble.
do you like going to school. John
N.Y." asked the visitor.
Yes, sir" answered the truthful
ufchin, and 1 like coming home, too,
but | don't like staying there between
Mines"
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and every makeshift l tried and all the
medicine l tool had not the slightest
effect. My back continued to grow
weaker until l began taking Doan's
Kidney Pills, and 1 must say l was
more than surprised and gratifed to
notice the backache disappearing grad
ually until it finally stopped"
Doan's Kidney Pills sold by all deal
ers or mailed on receipt Of price. 20
cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co..
Buffalo. n. Y,
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Boarding a Barber.

London Taller: A Highlander who sold
brooms went into a barber shop in Glass
gov to get shaved. The barber bought one
Of his brooms and after having shaved
him. asked the price Of 1t. Twopence,"
said the Highlander. INC. no." said the
other; II will give You a penny. and IL
that does not satisfy ou take your broom
again" The Highlander took it and asked
what he had to pay. "A penny said the
barber. III gle you a bawbce, and IL
that doesna satisfy you pit on my beard
again.
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says. Sc
we're cold set
tied in my
kidneys and
developed so
quickly that
l was obliged
to lay Off
work on ac-
count of the
aching in my
back a II d
sides. For n
time l was
II II a b e to
walk at all.
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AZ tho sohoolboy U]nder.tood II.

Success, Here 10. the exact answer OF
ia New York scheolboy to the questions.
what Ia the meaning OF the word 'hali.''
how man other words are thore that
sound like hail. and what are their
meanings?"
Hall. where you open the dore and 70
In; hawl, aawllng along a boy thai won't
&c TO skool? aul. what the shoemaker
charges you 50 cents for to aul your shoe;
all. all. everybody in the wurld."
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I have used Piso's Cure for Uon.umn.
ton with good results. It il all right
Ohm w: Henry. Box 642, Fostoria, Ohio,
Oct. 4. 1901.
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Caller-Td like to suggest a name for
the new torpedo destroyer hat Is sup
posed to spread so much destruction.
Clerk in Navy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
name do you suggest?
Caller-The Hired Girl.
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Nc pictorial theater posters are to be
posted III Oldham, England. In future,
without first being submitted to q Gen.
sorship appointed BY the local watch
committee,
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new.r. of Ointment. for c.t.rrh ma,

as mercury will surely destroy tho sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole system
Such articles should never. DO used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians. as the
Cure, manufactured by f. j. Cheney g. Co. Tolo-
do, O., contains, no mercury, and IS taken inter
n naIs acting directly upon the blood and nv:
Catarrh Cure be sure you get tho genuine. 1t is
taken internally. and made In Toledo. Ohio. by
Ed Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Getting H]arnessed.

The wedding service clustered him
He was thinking of the halter,
And stepped upon her bridal train
While coming from the altar.
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Every Walk in Life.

n. y. Boyce. a farmer, living thrcs
and a half miles from Trenton. Mo-,
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Having previously borne sixteen chill
dren, the wife Of a shoemaker at Wraz,
in Bohemia, has now had four at a
birth, Of whom three are living.
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The sultan has forbidden the wearing
of red blouses by Armenian women
The color is believed to symbolic the
bloodshed in their country.
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An Invention of Satan

An Invention of Satan.
What is thought to be the largest
turnip eve grown in Colorado WAS
raised near Centerville. 1t weights u
pounds and measures forty inches in
circumference.
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EFFORTS TO STOP
RAILWAY HORRORS
Congressional Legislation TO
the Protection of Passengers
Is Discussed.
RAILROAD MEN TO RESIST
They Do Not Want to Be Confined to
the Use of Certain Signals
in Operating Their
Lines.

Walter wellman, in a Washington
special to the Chicago Record-Herald.
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signs of Prince Tuen. To enlighten my
self further on this all-important point,
automatically directed our conversa-
ton. Turning the talk again to the
ccloners experiences on the Western
Continent, / inquired:
But, colonel, you seem greatly to
have appreciated your visit to America
and Europe Did the wish never come
to you to remain and become a citizen
with us? l should think Quelparte
would seem tame to one who had been
once lost in the roar of our great cities.
and who enjoyed the novelties and at
fractions of the new world as keenly as
you
We were just topping commanding
spur. Far up on the face of cliff,
foom which an eagles scream came
rasping down. dark hole showed the
mouth of Buddhist monastery in the
solid rock A tinkling bell. swayed by
the winds, and the dull throb of GYM
bal could be heard above the. eagles
scream, and a thin puff of smoke
showed where some suffering devotee
had just burned a paper prayer. In
notch in the road far above us a pony
boy was singing, and the smell of burn
ing leaves in some hidden hut came to
us on the wind. Colonel Lii pulled up
his horse quickly at my words, and
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dawned on my brain. I was a loyal
servant of the King-I and mine. What
Of him and his2 Had Chinese gold been
of no avail with him? Was going to
Lynx Island with a willy tool Of the
Chinese werewolf? Was I the dupe OF
Colonel Yon Ii and virtually in the
hands Of the Kings enemy already2
1 cannot tell how disconnected these
awful suspicious, bred by my Cossacks
idle talk. made me, and at the first
thought of failure I became sick at
heart. The capture of the Imperial
sarcophagus would, knew well, make
no earthly difference with the length OF
the dynasty. but was not so sure that
the knowledge Of such a capture would
not stagger the Kings brain and that
of every relative. and so. in reality, full
I'LL the direfuI prophecy.
Ny Cossacks were riding their horses
at natural gaits, some near. some far
in advance. Suddenly one Of them re-
turned up the steep path, his horse wet
with lather. Reaching me, he saluted,
and said in French:
Three of the Quelpartien cavalry
have circled US and are riding hard and
far in advance
remembered instantly the rlQer VINO
shad fallen and the two companions left
with him; also, that the accident hap
pened after 1 had spoken as 1 did OF
Prince Tuen to Colonel Ii.
1t may seem, as l tell it, that this
was all that I needed to assure me that
my fears were not groundless- But I
could not distrust Colonel Ii without
rejecting seriously on Colonel Oranoff.
and that I was in no mind TO do How
ever, 1t was only that which kept me
from stopping in the first rocky pass,
calling my Cossacks about me, and
making a prisoner Of my guide and
senior officer
As it was. L felt for my weapons, put
on a cheerful face, and rode at the
head Of my men into the village Of
Wun Chow.
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eyes to catch glimpse Of the sea and
the temple roofs on Lynx Island.
Beneath stolid, commonplace, ORR
entail appearance, 1 found Colonel Lii
to be an interesting, even remarka-
BILE, man. 1 came to know him but
slowly, and found, to my amazement,
that he had Travelled much, and that he
could talk intelligently of Chicago and
Washington, of London and Paris. All
this drew me to him at first, though /
came to fear him as l hope l shall
never have cause to fear another man.
Touching the business before us, Col
onel Ii was to the point. He bore the
Imperial order for the sarcophagus of
the Queen. He had assisted in bringing
it to this lonely island toward which we
were fastening.
But while we spoke OF the work be-
fore us, i could not refer to that which
was uppermost i'm my mind-Tuen. /
did, however, make up my mind to
sound the man cautiously as to any
positive difficulty in our way. This
side of our task had not been altogeth-
er overlooked, but when Colonel Ii re-
ferred to it, incidentally, l could not de-
termir1e whether he was keeping up
courage by inward denials, or was ac-
tually in ignorance Of the suspected de-
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collection of little wooden and hob
nailed shoes lay in and along the road,
indicating a flight quite as uncere-
monious as our arrival.
In more than one village the national
game of kite-fighting was being played,
the total population, with faces up
turned, watching the battle. The two
contestants. crossing their strings,
sawed back and forth until one of the
strings broke, whereupon victory was
claimed by him whose string had long
est stood the test, and the laughter of
the crowd was the unhappy portion of
the vanquished Colonel Lii informed
me that in a village through which we
passed there once arose the greatest
kite-fighter in Quelparte, reputation
gained by series of victories won in
every province in the kingdom. Final
ly the secret of his success was unhap-
PLY discovered. A paste of meal and
pounded glass was made to coat his
kite string. And the victor, whose
praises had been sung so loudly, was
stoned to death by the infuriated in
habitants of the city where the trick
cry had been exposed.
But these visions of villages and VIII
layers came and went before my eyes
as though were in dream, and from
each succeeding height 1 strained my
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a tortuous path after leaving gray
Keinning. Further on we found our
selves in the foothills of the noun
tains, cut up by many pleasant vale,
but somber and dreary because OF the
great rocks which arose on every hand.
Here and there on the mountain-side
white-rcbed figures (for Quelpartiens
dress all in white like Koreans) were
raking dry grass or burrowing for roots
to burn. Now and then we met a ma
tive boy with string of little Korean
ponies loaded with wood, which was
worth its weight in copper /cash in
Keinning. AT times we clattered
through little mountain valley where
diminutive paddy fields were covered
with rippling water, which gurgled to
the roadside on it's way from one ter
race to another, or we awoke the echoes
of a secluded mountain village Of
straw w-thatched mud-huts, from which
uncouth heads were thrust with many
querulous, cultural exclamaticns of
surprise. Little boys and girls dressed
in multicolored coats peculiar to the
youths in Quelparte, as in Korea, sour
ried away as fast as they could in
their ungainly wooden shoes. Some
times. if we came with great sudden
ness upon a sleeping hamlet. an odd
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took in all this with significant sweep
of his arm:
''Lcok, listen, breathe! What is the
turmoil and foolish fury Of your new
world to me compared with these? AS
water in the teapot to the thirsty
drunkardr
And 1 could only hum to myself the
British soldiers song:
If you've card the East a-callin,
Why you won't 'eed ncthin else.
MOI you won't ED rothin' else
But them spicy garlic smells
An the sunshine an the palm trees an
The tinkly temple bells,
But, colonel" 1 pressed on, for L
had my point to make, life here seems
to have so little to offer. For all your
service and devotion to your King what
worthy reward have you? Custom in
excrably compels you, if you gain high
Office, to support all your relatives. So
there is little or no financial gain; and
you must make enemies, who, because
of our triumphs. will be more de-
lighted when you fall
True he said: "but does the
thought of failure keep your politicians
from entering the contest? Triumph is
not less sweet in Quelparte than in
America. And if you are with the King
your triumph is as lasting as the dy-
nasty. by the Kings favor"
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Ism, RE5ZI1yG on
TlO GIPEHT BEHHS.S
E7-E GOZDEH
5HPCOPHHGUS or
ZI1-E OI-EEW OF
QlEZR4RZE

But what of the dynasty?" l hurried
on, heedlessly now, for my chance had
come 'swho can say how long it will
last? Surrounding nations are rivals in
the fight for the land, and all the while
the devil Tuen is plotting to overthrow
Whang-Su and to wreck his throne"
/ held my breath when / said the
words. The man was riding at my
horses ffanks and 1 could not see him.
I dared not look back.
Prince Tuenl" he muttered hoarse-
ly. That was all he said, but the tone
made me shudder.
$50 the Chinese Prince is YOn Lis
enemy, too,'' unused, as we went for
ward in silence. But now l did not
know whether Ii was thinking of
him in connection with our present bus
mess 1 resolved not to give up, how
ever. and was about to renew the sub
ject, when the colonel abruptly left me
and dropped back to the Quelpartiens,
who were tagging behind as usual. In
less than half an hour a cry came from
them, and as / trotted back 1 saw that
a trooper had fallen from his horse and
lay insensibIe on the stony road. AS
came UP, Colonel Lii detailed two men
to stay with the injured man, and we
pressed en-. Then 1 saw, for the first
time, that LIS face was that of dead
mans / started at the sight of it. My
spurs pierced my horse, and 1 was car
ried forward to my Cossacks at a rat
tling pace.
So 1 was not the only one who was
dreading Prince Tuen's emissaries at
Lynx Islandi And that was what I
wanted to know
/ rode on with the Cossacks for a
number of miles. From one of them
with whom / could converse / found
that they were in bad humor over our
business. Moreover, they had become
suspicious of the Quelpartiens, who, I
was told. were armed as no native cav
airy had ever before been armed-even
to dirks concealed in their Jackets. This
gossip / listened to, but minded not, for
soldiers are men bred to idle talk. But
as the day wore on, their words kept
ringing in my ears Colonel Ii kept
closely with his men, and 1 with mine.
Thus, slowly, a terrible suspicion
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the other had broken on the first trial
drop. The present slab had stood one
test, by being dropped upon tempo
rary foundation. A second test was to
be made to-day.
Indeed, we had not gone far when a
strange noise came over the foothills
with the wind. Colonel Ii nodded to
me, saying:
The great tablet has stood tsS test. "
The sound was as though gigantic
hammer had struck a mountain cliff,
and it rang and rang in my ears un-
pleasantly.
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CHAPTER v.
THE ROAD TO wUN CHOW.

THE ROAD TO WUN CHOW.
We made forty miles over the rough
mountainous. road and rested our
horses the night of the 11th at the little
village Tu Men in the mountains. The
Quelpartiens Jagged far behind, but got
in before midnight. We knew that the
remaining twenty odd miles of the
journey would be more difficult than
the forty We had covered, as the road
would be constantly descending ragged
mountain spurs.
During the long hours in the saddle
had much time to think CT the future,
and I confess 1 never looked it more
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sternly In the face than during those
hon-c. But the best-planned battle in
history was lost by him who planned it,
and won by these who had no plan
The fears of possible encounter with
the agents Of the Chinese Tuen were of
a nature to sober the most dauntless,
and the more 1 pondered upon that
phase of the situation, the more inter-
ested / became. The Queen of Quel-
parte had been murdered by Prince
Tuen's agents, on the weli-founded
suspicion that she was playing Quel
parte into the hands of the Japanese,
who, after the Japan-China war, came
to have, as all the world knows, the
upper hand in Quelpartien affairs. If,
on mere suspicion of japanese ascend
ency in Quelparte, Prince Tuen had
caused the murder of the Queen, there
could be little doubt that, upon learn
ing of Russian predominance, he would
make a bolder stroke at Wong-Su and
his dynasty.
And if the secret of the temple, on
Lynx Island had been discovered, what
could be easier than the seizure of the
sarcophagus to those who had run a
hundred guards, entered palace, and
murdered a trebly-guarded Queen.
/ could have endured with better rel
ish the idea of a contest for the body of
the Queen with Europeans. But China
men. / would rather fight Indians or
Burmese. though they, too. like the
Chinaman, have an absurd way of rea-
soning backward. Prejudice led me to
feel that Cinnamon would never choose
the reasonable or expected alternative.
or do the thing you were prepared to
resist, but would eventually win out
against you by the use of unheard of
expedients, as inconsistent as illogical.
When try to recall those days / find
1 have only the dimmest recollections
of Quelparte. OF this singular journey
over those mountains / remember little
more than my fears. But there were
great brown hills which we climbed by
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lips. ION the night Of the round moon,
that is, If" and he glanced quickly to
a nobleman near him, Prince Ting.
The latter knelt, then rose, saluted,
and spoke:
Your Majesty has been correctly in
formed: the mausoleum is quite COM
pleted" But this did not answer the
Kings question, and he instantly arose
TO his feet
Yes, but the Queens body" he
cried. lowering his voice.
All had arisen with the King.
And now Colonel Oranoff spoke quick
" to him in low tone, and. satisfied,
at length the King called Prince Ting
to his side. to whom, in a low tone, he
gave several orders in swift succession.
You will need me no more, gentle
men," he then said, turning to depart.
Trust Prince Ting and have all in
readiness On the night Of the round
moon. I go even now to invite the for
eign representatives; you will do the
rest" Turning to go, he electrified me
(the others seemed not TO notice IT'D by
turning TO Oranoff and saying with a
laugh:
yes; you will do the rest Ha, ha,
ha,"
Al, having withdrawn but Prince
Ting. we three drew close together,
Colonel Orancff summOning me to a
place beside them.
From the conversation, I learned that
the Queens body was being secretly
kept in a Buddhist temple on Lynx
Island in Wun Chow Bay. sixty miles
westward from Tsi The round moon"
full NOON came on the 18th. This
was the 10th. There were nine days,
therefore. in which to bring the Imperi-
al sarcophagus a distance OF one hun
dred and fifty miles by water and
twenty by land to the Russian Legation
in which we sat
Frequently. as we talked in low
tones. Colonel Oranoff looked quietly
at me, and I felt. long before Prince
Ting left, that was to be employed in
this singular but vitality important mis-
sion. and, as Oranoff returned from the
door through which the Prince passed
out. j could not resist the impulse to
grasp his hand
The spontaneousness of the action