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'UNCLE SAM owms
K have a funny way .of wearing
‘ THE U.S.POSSESSION S.
CANNIBALS AND
HOOLA HOOLA GIRLS.
Sixty Difi‘ercnt Islands or Groups Belong
to This Country—Since 1859 \Ve Have
Been Gaining Bits of Empire in the Pa-
_ cific \Vuters.
There is something in one of the
amendments to the Constitution which
provides that any citizen of the United
' States may be a voter without refer-
ence to color or previous condition .of
servitude. Now if that holds good,
Uncle Sam has some queer citizens on
his list who have a right to exercise
the privilege of citizenship. Uncle
Sam is a much more widely diversified
individual than most people imagine.
There are parts of the United States
sticking about all over this globe.
Nothing is ever said about them, be-
cause for the moment they are not
needed, but if some day we become in-
volved in an. unpleasantness with an-
other country, which would necessitate
our operating in the Pacific, it would
be discovered that Uncle Sam c0uld be
at home most any day out there in
that broad sheet of water.
Did you ever hear of Christmas Is-
land? If you have not you may learn
that it is half way around the world.
At least that is what the sea captains
say. They mean by it that it is just as
far east or west from Christmas to
Greenwich, from whence the longitude
is taken. You may go either way from
Christmas, and barring a few round-
abouts llke Cape Horn you will get to
the Eddystone lighthouse in the same-
time.
Uncle Sam is the owner of this half-
way house from everywhere. It is
not a pretentious place. Christmas is
just a coral atoll, that is, a low-lying
island with a coral bed for a founda-
tion and a coral reef for a sea barrier.
You may get inside of this reef and be
safe from the storms, but you will
not find much of a country ashore.
There are some guano beds and some
eggs and a few cocoanut trees, but
Christmas does not look its name, and
the people are not nice.
They are dark, very dark, and the!)r
their.
clothes which wouid not suit your
American taste at all. They have
been known to dine off folks which is
another unpleasant feature of the
place. But this same tall, dark gen-
tleman of the Pacific is a citizen, and
a voter if that famous amendment is
good law, and he might have a say in
the nation's councils if he were not too
busy with his own.
They are making a lot of noise abo :t
the annexation of Hawaii, but Hawaii
is not the only thing in the western
sea. We have been trapesing about
over that area of billows ever since
1859, picking up bits of empire 'here
and there. Along about that year Con-
gress got an idea that we needed fertil-
izers in this country. Bird deposits,
known under the commercial name of
guano, are a. good fertilizer. The
South Seas are full of islands, large
and small, where the deposits of guano
are enormous. So Congress passed a.
law that any time an American found
a guano island which nobody else had
gobbled, he might annex it and take
the spoil. It is not like an American
to overlook a thing of this kind, and
various persons went about annexing
until Uncle Sam became the owner of
half a hundred islands in the South
Pacific.
Talk about your wild, untamed sav-
ages of the West. They are not a
marker to some of the discolored
American citizens who live on our sea
islands. It is not unlikely that if a
person should attempt to do a “coo-
chee—coochee” dance on the lawn at the
nation’s capital a hundred police would
rush virtuously to the front and land
her in jail.
But Uncle Sam owns more “coochee-
coochee” dancers than live in Egypt.
On his public grounds out yonder in
the Pacific the “hoola-hoola,” which is
the ”coochee-coochee” well done, is
danced nightly to barbaric music
made by people in barbaric lothes. A
Washington bluecoat would stand
about as much chance of stopping the
fun as a fly would of moving the City
Hall. And yet these are citizens of
the United States just as much as you
and I are, and Uncle Sam takes care of
them. He is not as attentive as a
married couple to their first born, but
he sends a white ship down now and
then to see that they have not moved.
Right there is a compartively. small
area this Government acknowledges
paternity to sixty different islands or
groups. Some of them are uninhabit-
ed except ,by birds, but'many of them
have large sized native towns on them,
as, for instance, America and Palm"-
ros. While these places were taken up
for their guano deposits, man -; of them
may some day be valuable for pearl
fisheries. ~New York Joui 11a1
The Cl'inamen’s Eye for Business.
'One of the public drinking places
erected by the Philadelphia Fountain
Society is embellished by a rather
unique design, in the form of a man‘ 3
face. It is rather grotesque in appear—
ance. and this effect is heightened by
the fact that the water comes gushing
forth from the mouth of the stone lig—
ure. Two Chinamen, evidently the
proprietors of 1aundries,sfgppnd in
front of the fountain and seemed clee .-
They cocked their
funny little heads to one side, gazed 9.1.
the spectacle from every possible pOiTJI
of view, and, after a moment of (2.11-
templative silence, proceeded to pass
critical judgment upon it. “Him squir—
tee belly, good,”, said one. ”Yes,” re—
plied the other, "me likee havee him all
alongee my. laundly.”— Philadelphia
Record.
HON EYCOMBED WITH DECEPTION.
Practical Jokes That Were P1113 ed Upm
Visuals.
Practical joking was carried on by
all classes in the Middle Ages, the
well-to-do employing mechanical‘ in-
struments to assist them in their past-
time. The Chateau d’Hesdin, the
favorite residence of Philip of Bur-
gundy, was honeycombed with decep-
tions of all kinds. Some of the ma-
:chinery he worked with his own“
hands, but the rest was woiked by a
guest stepping on a hidden spring or
touching a certain panel in the wall.
For instance. a stranger, on reaching
the middle of a room, would be in-
stantly covered with soot or flour, the
result of a trap- -door overhead having
opened. In one room there was fixed
beside the door the mechanical. figure
of a. knight armed with a short stick.
This figure, so placed, seized. all in-
truders and gave them a. soundthrash—
ing. It is related that once Philip was
himself caught by it, and that before
he could free himself he received a
severe beating. In the great gallery
there was fixed to the wall a figure
known as the “Prophesying Hermit,”
and at the feet pf this figure there was
a trap- -door. While the fortune-telling
was going on, a part of the ceiling
opened, and flour and water poured
down, appropriate thunder and light
ning followed in quick succession. The
trap in the floor then opened, and the
guest fell into a. sack of feathers. But
'the most elaborate trick of all was
that in which all the guests were
duped. Adjoining the great gallery
there was a large room filled with arm-
ed figures. While the guests were
dining, cries would be heardproceed-
ing from this room, and the company
would naturally rush up-stairs to as-
certain the cause. The mechanical
figures in armor then moved from
their places, and drove the victims ol
the joke out of the room into a pass—
age, the floor of which Opened, and
they were precipitated into a cellar
three feet deep with water. Philip
seldom received a second Visit at Hes-
din from the same party.
MONKEY MEN OF NEW GUINEA.
They Live in Tree-Tops and Travel from
Bough to Bough Like Gorillas.
The celebrated “monkey- men of the
Dourga Strait” are not an invention of
Darwinians searching for the missing
link as might be supposed, but an
actual tribe of Papuan savages whose
haunts along the coast of New Guinea
have been explored by naturalists.
There is nothing mythical about them,
The monkey men are so called be-
cause of their tr-ee dwelling habits.
The} are accustomed to travelling in
the t-ree -tops from their infancy and
they swing themselves along through
the mangrove forests from bough to
bough, men, women and children to-
gether, as easily as if they were on the'
ground. ,- _
They sleep in villages built on the.
high ground back of the mangrove9
swamps, but when alarmed they at
once take to the swamps, where the
soft ooze makes it impossible for their
enemies to follow them except by
climbing, as they do, When the swamp
is once gained they climb to the tree-
tops and are soon out of sight, swing-
ing along by the hands, almost ex-
actly as a family of gorillas would do.
In color they are very black, but
their hair is straight and they are not
below the level of the Hottentot in' in-
telligence. They wear little or no
clothing. Their principal weapon is
the bow. They are skiiful oarsmen
and always stand erect when paddling.
They are afraid of strangers and are
apt to take to the trees on the least
alarm, but their inordinate love at
tobacco makes them approachable .by
those who know their habits.
It is said that they are cannibals. If
so they are not worse than most of
their neighbors of the Papuan race
end their life in the tree-tops is not
responsible for it.—New York World.
THE STRANGE COCOA-EATERS.
A Laborer Withstands Severe Fatigue b‘y
Chewing Only Cocoa Leaves.
The question of the eflects of cocoa
has been much debated, but it seems
to be settled by the actual experiments
of Von Tschudi in South America. He
writes that he employed a Peruvian
anian for five days in digging—rwork
:15 hard as he could have been put to,
iluring the whole time the Indian
.3.sted no food and slept only two 01
three hours a. night. At intervals of
two heurs he chewed half an ounce of
cocoa leaves, and on the same diet and
no other he made a two-days"journey
of tWenty-t'hree leagues on foot, keep‘
Lng up with Von Tschudi, who was
mounted on a mule. The village priest
:ave the age of this Indian as sixtyi
‘two years and said he had never
known him to be sick. ,. _
Von Tschudi found, however, that
the habitual use of the cocoa leaf gives
about the same results among the
natives as that of cocaine in the United
States. The habitual “coquero” has
dim eyes. quivering lips and an unf
steady gait. When the stimulant is
:aken away he will sit for hours in a
collapse, brooding, sullen and almost
without sense.
A Womnr l’s Way.
Maude—Everybody was telling me
1.11 w homely I was looking, but Char-
ley ‘told me he never saw me 'when I
looked better. I'd give more for Char-
:vy'n opinion than for everybody else’s
. Bertha—Yes; but in this case his
opinion seemed to be the same as ev-
erybody (rises—Boston Transcript.
The Wit of a Judge.
Texas Judge—“What’s the charge
against this man?”
Sheriff.— ‘Horse-stealing, your hon.
,1; ." ‘ .,
J 'flza—“Then he mustangl”. < .
‘ *1 BOYS AND GIRLS.
l‘oy Life in iiioderu Greer-o
'1 liough Greece as a whole ht: been
modernized and civilized a‘nd nine-
to :nth centuryized along with the rest
of the world, that part of it which oc-
Cliilics its rocky southern peninsula.
"13 ancient Peloponnesus, and w hich is
still known by its clasicsal ntm: cl
Sparta, has changed least of all. The
Spartans are a nation of athletes. At
work or at play they are always trying.
to develop wind and muscle; their
games are all trials of strength and
skill. There is no other place in the
world where a. deformed. or crippled
person is looked upon with so much
pity as among the modern Greeks.
Spartan begins almost as soon as he
can walk and talk. At the age or 4 or
5 every boy is examined by a physician
to discover whether he is physically
sound and able to undergo the hard
training which is part of his education.
Unless it is found that the boy has
some ailment which would make it
dangerous for him, he is taught to sleep
on the hardest of hard beds, to rise at
4 o’clock in the morning, to.go with
bare feet and head in cold weather,
to run, to leap, to wrestle, and to bear
pain without fiinching. A boy who
cried if he got a. thrashing would be
looked upon as a coward by all his
playmates. It is not difficult to believe
that such a. training builds up strong,
sturdy, fearless men.~
At 5 the Greek boy begins to attend
the governmentschool, where he learns
to read and write, to know Greek his-
tory, and to be patriotic. It is interest-
ing to a foreigner to note how persist-
ently the love of country is drilled into
the schoolboys. Twice a day the chil-
dren sing the Greek national mymn,
which tells how their grandfathers
thr_ew off the yoke of the Turkish op-
pressor seventy-five years ago.
”Of all the Greek boy’s good times the
best are the hours which he spends on
the water, or in the water, for he is a
genuine amphibian, and learns to swim
"almost before he knows how to walk.
The whole of this southern peninsula
is so cut up by narrow bays and deep
estuaries that no part of it is more
than a dozen miles from the sea. Boys
of 5 3nd 6 are taken out by their fath-
ers or older brothers and taught first
of all not to fear the water, then to
swim, and float and dive. Youngsters
who look as though they had escaped
from careless nurse girls go plashing
along in the face of big waves, as
plump and jolly as young cupids. The
boat race, lemmodromi‘a in Greek, is in
high favor, and the Spartans are all
accomplished oarsmen. But the con-
I trolling passion of the Greek youth, is
I to dive from the highest rock he can
find, going straight as an arrow from
a. bow into the water, where he p: d—
dles about below the surface until he
has made his friends believe that he
is dead, when he bobs up serenely,
laughing at their alarm. Swimming
under water is a. trick of which the
young Spartan is thoroughly master,
and races of 200 yards or more beneath
the surface are part of his amusement.
Still diving seems to have the greatest
fascination for him, and the rocky
shore outlines of his native land give
him plenty of opportunity to indulge
his fancy. At the risk of being ac-
cused‘of stretching the facts, I will say
that I have repeatedly 'seen young
Spartans for their own amusement dive
from the summit of cliffs sixty or sev-
enty feet high, and I have been told
that leaps of 100 feet are notconsidered
extraordinary. It makes a. stranger
hold his breath to see these lithe young
fellows go shooting through midair, but
the boys themselves revel in the sport,
returning again and again for another
try.
“It is a grand feeling; it is as if one
were flying,” explained one curly-
headed lad, and in truth it looks very
much like flying.
Every Greek boy grows up with the
expectation of serving in the army.
The regular term of enlistment is three
years. The sons of the wealthy man
buy exemption from two years of ser-
vice by hiring, substitutes, but every,
citizen of Greece is required to give at
least one year of his life to the service
of his country. Therefore'every Greek:
has at least a taste of military life and
discipline, and'a smattering knowledge
of military affairs—R. Earl in Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Teeth in Their Stomach.
Can you imagine anything more ab-
surd than keeping a. whole set of pow-
erful teeth in one's inside? Yet this is
what several kinds of snails do, and the
qtioerest thing about it is that natur-
alists can’t make out what use they
are, for the same snails keep a. set of
ordinary teeth in their mouths-not,
one might mention, in their jaws, as we
do, but on their tongues. But there
are other equally queer beasts.
Lobsters and crabs masticate their
food with their horny jaws; but each
and all of them keep complete and ef-
ficient sets of teeth in their gizzard-
like stomachs. And when the shell is
cast, these extraordinary beasts shed
as well their stomach-linings and
whole sets of teeth!
Even yet we haven’t reached the cli-
max of absurdity. Imagine a creature
with so little regard for propriety as
to chew food with its legs! Yet the
common “limulus,” the horseshoe crab,
actually grinds its food between its
thighs!
Being Consistent.
Violet—How did Mr. Bighed come to
accept the doctrine of reincarnation?
Bose-Well, you know _he always had
an impression that the world couldn’t.
get along without him. and if that is
so it stands to reason that he will have
to come back—Truth.
The physical training of the young‘
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‘DELICATE ‘ SCALES.
A Pencil Mark. on a Piece of Paper Will
Make a Difference in the Weight. .
The question most commonly asked
by visitors in a Chemist’s laboratory
‘is “How small a thing can you weigh
on your scales?" It conveys little
meaning to tell the average person
that a good pair of chemist’s balances
will weigh accurately to one-tenth of
one milligramme; but if he is told that
a short hair from a man’s head can
be easily and accurately weighed the
questioner begins to approach the deli-
cacy of adjustment in the scales. More ‘
delicate still are the balances used by
the assayers. The weighing of gold
by the assayer requires the greatest
possibleaccurary since a small speck
of that metal on the scale~pan may
represent very large quantities of it in
the ore or bullion out in the werks.
The balances made for this “gold
work” are the most sensitive of any
used for commercial work,_and, in fact,
are more accurate than those employed
by many scientists. Some idea of their
accuraCy and sensitiveness can be ob-
tained by the following experiment:
A piece of ordinary white paper the
size of a cent is carefully weighed and
then a short pencil mark is drawn on
it and the paper is reweighed. This
second weighing will differ from the
first by just the weight of the graphite
left by the pencil mark. If care is
.taken and the balances are in perfect
adjustment, the result will always be
the same, no matter how many times
the paper without the pencil mark and
the paper with it be weighed. The two
weighings always differ by just the
same amount, and that is the added
weight of the graphite. Of course
such balances require the greatest
care, for they easily get out of order,
and when once disarranged, there is
no telling how long it may take to get
them adjusted again. It may be two
minutes, and it may be two hours.‘
Some good assayers say that it is im—
possible to work successfully with
“gold balances” unless one possesses
a large stock of patience and profanity.
From what I know of skillful assayers,
[ should say that this is approximately
true—Chicago Inter Ocean.
LIKE “THE MARTIAN.”
A Farmer Finds on a Pad Stories That He
Has Dreamed.
A dispatch from Kirkwoou, N. Y., to
the Baltimore “American,” says that
William Hill, a farmer living a few
miles from that village, is an easy-
going, matter -of—f act man, who de-
votes his attentlou to the farm, and
during his waking moments can talk
of little else than the products of the
land.
When he is asleep, however, a curi‘
ous thing occurs. For some time Hill
has ‘told his family that he has dream-
ed of stories that would discount any-
thing heretofore published, but he in-
variably forgot them on awakening.
He, however, conceived the idea of
placing a writing material by his bed-
side, and when he dropped off to sleep
his mind was impressed with the
thought that whatever he dreamed
must be written down. At first there
was no result; then on awakening in
the morning he would find a few in-
distinguishable marks on the paper.
Now, however, he has several times
arised to find the pad filled with a
short story. Those to whom the man-
uscript has been shown pronounce it
of unusual merit, and of a strictly orig—
Inal style. Hill in his waking mo-
ments can not recall a line of the
productions, and reads the manuscript
with interest. While he is a man of
little education, the sketches are well
written.
Psychologists who have heard of the
case point to this fact as a demonstra-
tion that the man has two distinct per-
sonalities.
Mrs. Logan s Bet.
The famous saying during and after
the war of “Here’s your mules” was
started by Mrs. Logan, says an ex-
change. Her brother-in-law had a fine
pair-of mules, and one day he came
to Mrs. Logan and said he would bet
them against $300 that her husband
would come over to the Democratic
side. Mrs. Logan took the bet without
her husband knowing it and won. The
team then became famous and Gen.
Logan drove all over the state with
the mules during his political work,
and was greeted on all sides by “Here’s
your mules," as that was the disgusted
expression of Mrs. Logan’s brother-
In-law when he paid his bet—St.
Louis Glo’w-“emocrath
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SOME FAMOUS MEN'S WIVES.
They Are Given to Queer Marriages but
{Many Have Proved Very Happy. ’
It is well known'that the great poet
hardly read and write and who was
quite incapable of understanding what
he wrote.
Goethe, the greatest of Germans,
married his housekeeper. The wives
0f great men have much to bear.
The idea of the great electrician Edi-
son’s marrying was first suggested by
an intimate friend, who told him that
his large house and numerous servants
ought to have a mistress.
very shy man, he seemed pleased with
the proposition, and timidly inquired
whom he should marry. The friend,
annoyed at his apparent want of senti-
ment, somewhat testily replied “any-
one.” But Edison Was not without
sentiment when the time came. One
day, as he stood behind the chair of
a Miss Stillwell, a telegraph operator
in his employ, he'was not a little sur-
prised when she suddenly turned
round and said, “Mr. Edison, I can al-
ways tell when you are behind me or
near me.” It was now Miss Stillwell’s
turn to be surprised, for, with char-
acteristic bluntness and ardor Edison
fronted the young lady, and, looking
her full, said, “I’ve been thinking
considerably about you of late, and, if
you are willing to marry me, I would
like to marry you.” The young lady
said she would consider the matter
and talk it over with her mother. The
result was that they were married a
month later, and the union proved a
very happy one.
“Out, of the strong came forth
sweetness” might be said of many
soldiers. “An eye like Mars to threat-
en and command,” but also a smile
that betokened a loving disposition.
What domestic life was to Lord John
Lawrence may be seen from the fol-
lowing anecdote: He was sitting in
his drawing-room at Southgate with
his sister and others of his family. All
were reading. Looking up from the
book in v. hich he had been eiigi‘OSSed.
' Lawrence had di scoyex ed that his wife
had left the room. “Where’ 5 mother?"
said he to one of his daughters. “She’s
upstairs,” replied the girl. He return-
ed to his book, and looking up again
a few minutes later, put the same
question to his daughter and received
the same answer. Once more he re-
turned to his reading; once more he
looked up, with the same question on
his lips. His sister broke in: “Why,
really, John, it would seem as if you
could not get on five minutes without
your wife.” “That’s why I married
her,” he replied. 3
The great German general Moltke
married Miss Burt, a plain, not very
cultivated girl, and lived most happily
with her until her death, which took
place on Christmas Eve, 1868. Very
touching was his devotion to her
memory. Upon his estate at Kreisau
he built a mausoleum, situated on an
eminence embowered in foliage. In
front of the altar of this little chapel
was placed the simple oak coffin, al-
ways covered with leaves, in which the
remains of his wife reposed. Sculp-
tured in the apse was a finely carved
figure of our Lord in an attitude of
blessing. Above were inscribed the
fwcrds “' ove is the fulfilment of the
I law. ”——New York World.
I
A Dream Invantion. ‘ i
Possibly the most interesting wo-
man’s invention was patented by the
wife of a well-known western man.
There had been some trouble with a
lock, either at her home or at her hus-
band’s office, and she had been ”much
wrought up about it. When she went
to bed at night she dreamed of a new
lock made on a plan entirely different
from any she had ever seen. In the
morning she made a model of ,her
dream lock out of a cake of soap. Then
she took the model to a machinist, who
duplicated the soap luck in, steel, and
it worked so satisfactorily that a large
firm of lockmakers offered a royalty to
her for the privilege of manufacturing
locks after her design, and she is still
in receipt of a considerable income ev-
ery year from that source—Ohio State
Journal.
A Modest Income.
The King of Siam has an incomeof
._bout ten millions a year. His royal
galace is populated by about five thou—
mad people, and is a. little city in it~
all. The ornamental grounds com
.rise twenty-five acres, and are sur-
311'1ded by a wall twelve feet high.
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