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SUNDAY JOURNAL

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A Few Sample from Eulogies of the Late Senator Vance. Washington Special to Chicago Record The funeral orations pronounced In the House of Representatives, last Saturday surpassed in highfaluting oratory any that have been heard for years, and superlatives were flung around in a most reckless manner. The late Senator Vance was the subject of eulogy, and was entitled to all the praise that might properly be uttered of a gentleman; but no man would have been more shocked than he by the lack of taste and the extravagant imagery used in describing his merits. One of the speakers mentioned that "heaven-born charity is a sovereign remedy for all the Ills of womanhood" as a good reason why the widow should not grieve, and, although Mr. Vance was the most modest and unassuming of men, his eulogist declared in a poetical quotation that "All undaunted he died in the night of his pride." A most incongruous piece of rhetoric was . offered by another speaker, who, after admitting that Senator Vance was subject to human infirmities and frailties "for there is no man that doeth-good and sinneth not; if he sowed poppies he would get gaudy flowers, but what will he do when the harvest comes and he is hungry for bread?" added that he "was married In June, 1880," as if that were evidence of his weakness. Another orator dropped into poetry, and, referring to the death of the genial Senator from North Carolina, said: "He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest. Like & summer-dried fountain,' When our need was the sorest." But the most gorgeous sample of eloquence, what Senator Jngalls wculd call "a purple earthquake of adjectives," was delivered by Mr. Bunn, of North Carolina, who declared that the "wound of bereavement which has been made in the hearts of his countrymen by that cruel dagger, death, which removed from time to immortality the spirit of the lamented Vance, is deeper than the soundless depths of old ocean and broader than the whole Christian church, and will remain until the last ripple in the river of time has been mingled with, the waves of the ocean of eternity." In speaking of the lability of Senator Vance as an orator Mr. Bunn paid the following tremendous, tribute: "All of his speeches were forceful in their presentation of truth and facts, noble in their-ethical teachings of duty to country, luscious with the mellowest fruitage of lofty patriotism, opulent with the gemsi of successfully garnered wisdom, kingly in the imperial sweep of their royal eloquence, and regal in the magnificent drapery of the most ornate diction. They will prove monuments more lasting than marble, for on the adamantine and Invulnerable surface of their imperishable worth, unequal merit, superb splendor and magnificent beauty, the corroding and devastating moth of decay will never fix a fang." And speaking of his personal characteristics, he declared that the late Senator has "left behind a radiant stream of effulgent glory, like the brilliant sun. which sinks behind the distant hilltops and leaves behind a golden stream of gorgeous splendors, making the whole Western horizon seem as if the most opulent dye pots in the studio of the angels had been upset and had leaked through upon the clouds, thus giving them the tinting3 of celestial glories." Then, in conclusion, Mr. Bunn let go his emotions and said: . "And, now. Mr. Speaker, in coming to ray my humble tout sincere and heartnursed tribute to transcendent worth and exalted greatness and loftiest excellence. I feel the poverty of human expression and weakness of strongest language, for words, however expressive and graphic, are at best but poorest vehicles for the transmission- of those feelings when the heart is swept by the rushinsr billows of grief that sweep o'er the ocean of an overwhelming bereavement. And so my tongue is in the coffin, and I cau only bow my head and weep o'er the memories of him who is now sleeping where the myrtles grow and the daisies peep."

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SIBERIA'S TfiUNK LINE

THE GREAT RAILWAY RUSSIA IS

COXSTRrenXG Ul XOnTHERJf ASIA.

A Costly Work Which Is Likely to

Cause Important Chanyes in Political and Commercial Affairs.

(Copyrighted, 18D5, by Frank Q. Carpenter.)

The Trans-Siberian railroad is being

pushed all along the line. Since the breaking out of the Chinese-Japanese war; the "work has been more earnest, and a large force of men are grading the routes and laying the rails as fast as possible. The original Intention -was that the road should be- finished In 1905. The indications are now that it will be completed long before that time. In my last letter I described the city of Vladivostock, the Pacific terminus of the railroad. It was here that the first work was done in 1892. The present Czar, who was then taking a trip around the world, had come across Siberia along the line of the proposed railway, and It was with great ceremony that the first stone of this, the greatest railroad In the world, was laid there on the 12th of May, 1891. The road when completed will be more than seven thousand miles long, and it will cost somewhere between $200,000,000 and $300,000,000. The Russian estimate Is 350,000,000 roubles. It will give a continuous railroad line from Vladlvostock to St. Petersburg, and the probability Is that a branch line will now be run down through Corea, and Japan- will be brought within a day's ride of the terminus. When this is done the Japanese can make a trip to Paris with a water voyage of less than twenty-four hours. I have already written of my trip over the new Chinese railroad. This line now runs to the city of Shanhalkwan, where the great Chinese wall juts down into the sea. There is a breach in the wall at this point, and though the superstitious Chinamen would hardly permit the cutting of the wall for a railroad, they have allowed It to go through this breach, and it is now being pushed on Into Manchuria. It will eventually reach the Russian frontier, and will probably connect with the Trans-Siberian railroad, and then we can go from Peking to Paris by land. v It is Impossible to estimate the changes which this great railroad will make in Asia. The tea trade of Europe will undoubtedly go over it, and the great bulk of the exports If rom China, Japan and' Corea will be carried through Siberia to Europe. As it is now, the fastest steamers are used for the tea trade. The new tea brings the highest prices in the market, and ocean steamers go up to the city of Hankow, seven hundred miles in the interior of China, and as soon as they can load they sail with full steam to London. They go by the Suez Canal, and it takes them forty-five days to make the voyage. The Chinese have already planned a railroad to the center of the tea districts from" TJen-Tsin. where their new military railroad begins, and the tea will be shipped right north to Siberia, and get to Europe within fifteen or eighteen days. Tea carried overland is said to be much better than that which goes by water, and this will make a revolution in the tea trade of the

.world,: At present -the,, foreign, trade of

China amounts to about 30tGUU,ouu per year, and the bulk of this is made up of costly articles like tea and silk. These can pay high freight rates, and they will undoubtedly be shipped by rail. There are now in the neighborhood of six hundred million people in China. Japan and Corea. There are about four million in Siberia, and this road has the trade of nearly one-half the world to draw from. THE ROAD AND MANUFACTORIES. It will probably make Russia a great manufacturing nation, and the Russian Iron will be shipped over it to China. There is no Iron in the world better than that of the Ural mountains, and the Chinese are ready to pay high prices for good iron. Most of their tools are now made by hand, and they must have the best of raw material. At present a large part of the iron used In China is made up of cast-off horseshoes, which are sent out from Europe by the shipload. The, Chinese make razors, knives and all kinds of implements out of this iron, and there is a great demand for it all over the empire. There are great iron deposits at different points along the Trans-Siberian railroad,, and big factories will spring up at all these points. The Russians are good mechanics, and they have vast iron works near Moscow and at Tula, which make as good hardware and guns as you will find anywhere in the world. As the line' is now planned and being built, it is to run from Moscow right through the southern part of Siberia, making an almost straight line through this immense territory to the city of Vladlvostock. It goes through rich gold mines. It taps vast areas of rich soil, and it will probably build up an empire in southern Siberia. The first section of the road is at the west. It begins in the Ural mountains, and there is , an army at work building it. The next section is to run from the town of Omsk, on the river Obi, and the contractors are also at work here. In the middle of Siberia there is another army laying track, and the road Is being pushed as fast as possible from Vladlvostock to the west. It crosses great rivers, which have to be bridged, and it goes through some of the most wonderful scenery in the world. It skirts Lake Bikal, one of the biggest lakes in the world, the average depth of which is more than a mile Near this lake the road passes througn the mountains, and it has many tunnels and stone dikes. The - mountains are of granite, and the work of construction will be very difficult. Throughout the whole central region and the west there is but a sparse population, and it is the same in the east. The workmen have to be sent from European Russia, and all of the rolling stock and iron have to come from there. Some of it is shipped from the west. That for the eastern portion is being taken around through the Suez Canal by sea, and there Is another lot which is shipped down Into Siberia. I am told, by the Arctic Ocean. The road is being constructed in the very best manner. The . rails weigh - eighteen pourds to the foot. The bridges are of wood, and the road la well ballasted. The greatest distance allowed between the stations is thirty-five miles, and it is proposed to equip the road with enough rolling stock to form three sets of army trains every twenty-four hours. The road Is to be to a large extent a military line, and Russia will probably use 't to satisfy her Gargantuan appetite for more territory. The stations are built of wood in the interior, though some of the larger ones are of stones. The depot at Vladlvostock is a big twostory stone and brick building. It is well constructed, and it would be a respectable depot in the United States. A SIBEliLVN r.AlLPvOAD RIPE. 1 shall neviij forget my first ride over the eastern section of the Trans-Siberian railway. I had my permit from the chief of police, and through this I was enabled to buy a ticket to 'Nikolsk, which Is about seventy miles from Vladlvcstock. Only third-class trains were running, and these had been opened to passenger traffic only a few days before.

and so I practically took the first , trio over the new route. I was accompanied by a bright young Japanese, Mr. Koboto, who spoke Russian and English, and who acted as my Interpreter. I was living on board the steamer in the harbor, about three miles from the railroad. The train started at 11 p. xn., and a gieat storm came up about 6. The harbor was full of white caps and the waves ran high. The wind was blowing, and a cold, misty sleet ran down into our bones like so many corkscrews as we left the vessel and started for the shore. I can't describe the severity of the wind. It almost split the scalp when it touched the back of my head, and I cowered down in the sampan which I had engaged, while the Chinaman in a waterproof coat sculled us through the darkness. The night was Egyptian in its blackness. A wall of light rose out of the sea in the distance, where the great barracks, with their thousands of Russian troops, covered the sides of the hills. Here and there out of the mist sparkled the lights of a great, black, monster steamer, and we moved right under the shadow of black hulks which were carrying Russian prisoners to the island of Saghalin. We narrowly missed getting the train. We left the steamer at 9:30, Jumping into the boat, which rose and fell like a bolt of papen upon the waves, and we had worked our-way almost to the shore when I found I had forgotten my passport. The possibilities of a Russian prison came over me, and I insisted that we must go back to the ship after it. Both my Japanese guide and the Chinaman objected, but we finally turned back, and In the end reached the land, with only twenty minutes to make the train. Hiring a droschky, with two horses, we drove on the gallop through the mud to the station. This was filled with soldiers and police. There were common soldiers in uniform, army - officers In heavy overcoats and guards by scores who marched ud and down with bayonets and guns. There were police everywhere, and the station looked more like a barracks than a railroad depot. At one end of it was a restaurant, and at the other end was the ticket window. After showing my passport and my police permit I was able to buy a ticket to Nikolsk. The distance was. as I have said, seventy miles, and it cost me $2.95 in silver. The ticket was of about the size of a small business envelope. It was white, and no thicker than note paper. Upon it were printed the date and distance and the names df the stations. Showing It, I passed out of the door to the train, going by more guards and police as I did so. The train composed about twenty-five cars, of which half a dozen were passenger coaches and the others were freight and baggage cars. I made a rush for one of the cars, and my heart sank as I looked at the accommodation, and at the place where, I had to sleep during the night. It was merely a freight car filled with wooden benches running clear across the car, and facing each other. Above the seats there were shelves, and I found that these were the upper berths. The lower seats were all filled when we entered, and I had to climb up on one of these upper shelves to sleep. There were no cushions and no bedding. I rolled my coat up for a pillow,, and wrapped myself in my blanket and lay down. The space between myself and the roof was not wide enough to allow me to sit up. and I rolled over on my side and looked with Interest on the queer crowd surrounding me. The most of the passengers were soldiers, but there were emigrants and farmers, a half dozen Chinese, one or two Tartars and several Japanese girls, who seemed" to be of a very questionable character. They laughed and chatted with the soldiers, and were loud In their way." I found that the soldiers were very Inquisitive. I was approached a ; half dozen timea by officers . and questionedThe guard of the train looked "me over very carefully, and when the men found I could speak German I had to answer all kinds of questions. The cars which are now used on the road are more like those of Europe than of the United States. They are only third and fourth class, and they look more like box-cars than palace coaches. The first and second-class cars will undoubtedly be good, and there will probably be a Pullman car running over the line when it is completed. At present the accommodations are -anything but luxurious, and as I lay on -that board shelf and was carried along at the rate of perhaps fifteen miles per hour I thought of the Pennsylvania limited between New York and Pittsburg, with Its library and sitting rooms, and as I looked at the candle which shone out of the lantern above me, and which formed the only light of the car, compared It with the wonderfuf electric light system of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, where the light is set into the back of your berth, and where, by moving a slide, you can make your berth as light as day at any hour of the night. As my bones ground holes into the wood I thought of the good beds of the Canadian Pacific, over which I had ridden in going to Asia, and I longed for the railroads of our own civilized land. TEe-air was stifling and ill-smelling, and the fifty odd people whom we had in the car seemed, on the whole, to be rancid, and I was glad when the guard gave me a rude jerk and told meto get up for Nikolsk. A QUEER SIBERIAN CITY. Nikolsk is one of the biggest towns of Interior Siberia. It is a great militarycenter, and it has vast areas of rich land surrounding it. The soil is as black as your boots, and it makes me think of what Senator Ingalls said about the fertility of Kansas, which is, according to him, so rich that you can poke your arm down into the ground up to the shoulder and pull out earth In your fist as rich as guano. A great deal of wheat Is raised about this point, and the Russians have established great steam mills for the grinding of food for the soldiers. I visited these mills during my stay. Their machinery had been imported from Russia, and it was of the latest modern make. We passed many barracks, and we saw soldiers on guard everywhere. There were, I judge, about ten of fifteen acres of buildings connected with the miils, and the workmen seemed to be Chinamen. The land about Nikolsk is being settled like Russia. There are villages which own a great deal of land in common, and they sell their grain to the government. The town Itself has a number of stores and business blocks. The houses are of wood, and they made me think of our Western frontier towns. We stopped at the hotel, which was run by a Chinaman. It was just daybreak when we arrived, and we asked for a room. He said he had none vacant, and, pointing into the billiard room, I saw four Russians with their boots on sleeping on the tables. I asked for breakfast, and after a time was given some fried eggs, smoked salmon and a cup of tea. The lea was served in a. glass, and we had a big brass samovar, or Russian tea-urn. on the table. After breakfast we. took a ride through the city. The roads wereas muddy as those of a swamp, and the streets were about two hundred feet wide. On the edge of the city there were a number of dugouts, which were inhabited by Chinamen, and we found the Chinese everywhere. This city of Nikolsk Is not far from the Manchurlan border, and it was once a great Tartar capital. There is now an immense wall inclosing a space at one end of the town, and this was the wall of the great Tartar city of the past. The probability la that Russia will gradually move her border line further south. A -3 the boys say in playing marbles, she is always "Inching" on her neighbors, and I heard a queer story or how the Russians got a big slice of Chinese territory a few years ago. There was a dispute about the boundary line, and the Russians had moved the line down so that it included a vast amount of good Chinese soil. A war was imminent, and the Chinese, as usual, wanted to settle matters by compromise. The Russians consented, and they drew a line on the

map. showing the territory they wanted. The Chinese threw up their hands in horror, and said they could not possibly allow them so much as that. "All right," said the Russians, "we will take less, and they showed them another map, which was made on a smaller scale, but In which the amount of territory taken was the same. The Chinese looked at it and did not perceive the cheat. They made a treaty agreement to this boundary, and that is the boundary between China and Siberia to-day. The way the Russians work is to colonize the country close to the line of China and gradually move southward. They undoubtedly have their eyes upon Corea, and, while they will probably not take the country, they will exercise such an influence over It that they will be able to get what they want. WORKING WITH CONVICTS. , A great part of the work on this eastern section of the Trans-Siberian road has been done by means of convicts, but this has been changed within the past year. The convicts have been shipped off to Saghalin, and the men are new all paid workmen, including a large number of soldiers. I saw them at work, and it looked like a slice out of Russia, and reminded me of the work"' I had seen on the Volga during the great Russian famine. On the way back to Vladlvotock I had a much better chance to see something of the country and the railroad. The station at Nikolsk is a long, onestory building, made of red brick faced with stone. The engine of our train burned wood, and around the stations there were great wood piles, while the wood was stacked In cords at. the back of the engine. We had some fourthclass cars on the way going back. "These were even more uncomfortable than the one I have described. There was no chance to He dowrt In them, and thev were filled with peasants and soldiers. The baggage car was in the middle of the train, and I looked in vain for a postal car. Still, there was a postofflce box at each station, and I am told that the postal service is fairly good. I noted seme of the gravel cars. Their sides are made so that they can be let down. They are about fifteen feet long, and have four wheels to each car. The road is of the standard Russian gauge. The rails seem to be a little lighter than ours, and the ties are of pine. At every station I found policemen with revolvers on their hips and swords at their sides. Many of the stations are built of logs, and a crowd of Russians in caps, and of Chinese with pigtails, stood and gazed at the train as it went by. Just out of Vladlvostock the road turns through low. hills. It skirts the beautiful bay pf Peter the Great, and as you ride along this, going from one gulf to another, now rushing through forests and now sailing along the edge of the water, ybu are reminded of the picturesque lakes of northern Michigan. The road throughout its length will be one of the most picturesque In the world, and It will be a great scenic line. It has now been built about fifty miles beyond the point where I stopped, and the other portions are going on rapidly. No one really knows just how soon it will be completed, but It will undoubtedly form one of the great elements which are now at work ehaneinsr the face of Asia and making

Lthe celestial world over on the basis of

our modern civilization, it is certainly an enterprise which will bear watching, and which is already full of mighty possibilities, not only to Russia, but to every civilized nation, and I might say every Asiatic heathen nation on the face of the globe. FRANK G. CARPENTER. THE QUESTIOJT OF HEREDITY. Scientists Unable to Decide tpon the Limit ot Inherited Traits. Philadelphia Record. Herbert Spencer's new attack upon Professor Weismann, of Freiburg, has given a fresh vogue to that never-wearying problem of biologists, heredity. Probably no other question has played so famous a part in the history of the human race. It has passed through three stages the social, which gave birth to totemism, hierarchy, - nation, caste and aristocracy; the practical, which gave rise to fanciers; and breeders, and the scientific, which is now the battlefield of biology. The highest response that man looks for is the hard-sought answer to the interrogatory: "Can acquired' character be inherited? Can we by any means of self-culture, however continuous and persevering, add to the stature, moral or material, of our offspring and descend-, ants?" To this query Professor Weismann ' emphatically and dogmatically replies "No." The acceptance, of any such dictum is repudiated in the name of "all the hopes and aspirations of humanity. In its bald reduction the Welsmannlan doctrine means simply that parents cannot by any mental or moral efforts endow their children with congenital traits. The son cannot, In other words, begin in nature where the father left off. The scion may Inherit his sire's books, instruments and conditions, but not his Individually acquired character. Certainly it will not do merely to oppose this conclusion by the glittering generality that family traits are proverbial. Ancestral tendencies are not always revealed; and the fact is that pride of family is one of the, least reliable of modern social figments. The ground upon which St. George Mivart, the noted Catholic botanist and biologist, seeks scientifically to refute the Weismannian doctrine may be popularly stated in a brief epitome. Weismann asserted that no acquired characters can by any possibility be transmitted to offspring; consequently all variations of species are due to "natural selection," which means an " improved type due to better rexual combination. He believes that the original vital principle, which In Its material form he terms the germplasm. Is alone transmitted from both parents. St. George Mivart declaies, on the contrary, that no such peculiar differentiations would have been brought about by simple ancestral origin as the queer tadpole stages of frog and toad, the gill-breathing epoch of efts, or the sex changes of bees In the egg. Natural selection does not account for the rudimentary first finger on the potto, the small African lemurold animal, nor the the labyrinthodons of the carboniferous rocks, the teeth of which were most beautifully complicated for no seeming purpose whatever. But the Mivartian argument does not overthrow the Weismanrlan theory. It simply casts doubt upon the over-emphasized Darwinian theory of "natural selection.'!. The scientific question overshadows the philosophic problem altogether too much. The inquiry, as it chiefly affects human morals, is whether or no man can transmit inherited intelligence. Despite the fact that man has developed new functions, has he devel

oped a new trait? The old traits may be wonderfully blossomed into new growth, and may be upon the morn of a nobler fruitage; but has mankind to-day one sinprle additon to its brain? Was Bhakspeare any greater in himself than Aeschylus. Darwin than Aristotle, or Hegel than Plato? Where is our Michael Angelo or Paolo Sarpl? Are the babes now In their cradles any wiser than the little Alcibiades? Are boys any less barbarians than they were in the year one? The fact peems to be that, like human bees in the hive of the centuries, men have toiled at laying up the honey of wisdom. But each ntweomer must feed for himself. The pons do not inherit new traits from their fathers: and yet they enter into the legacy of the old traits. Human nature remains the same in kind, but, nevertheless, it changes in degree." In 1005. ' Chicago Record. "You'll do Just as I tell you," said the husband of the advanced woman. '"What?" shrieked his wife. "I mean it!" said the husband. "I'd have vou understand that I wear the skirts In this family."

HERRMANN ON MAGIC

HE EXPLAINS SOME ILLUSIONS THAT STARTLE TUB PfllLia

A Gas Man'M Sad Blander Turned on the Ltehta Prematnrelr and Exposed tbe Magician's Best Trick.

Although perfectly well aware that many books have been published explaining the so-called "black art," or modern ma .H T om . n -

naving Deen written exposing important, illusions, as the writers of works on magic have ever considered these secrets too valuable to be given to the general public. In most cases large sums of money have been paid to Inventors of mechanical tricks or illusions for their dioverles. There is a firm In New York city now that claims the possenslon of a "magical secret" for which they demand the modest price of $20,000, arguing that if properly produced by a good entertainer it is an easy matter to make $100,000 with its invention. Be that as it may, it will probably be some time before any one will care to invest such a large sum of money in an unknown and untried entertainment ef any kind. The old adage that "It is never safe to buy a pig in a bag" will probably be remembered by the manager or artist who contemplates securing this discover, and the result will be an Indefinite postponement of the production of "the latest startling illusion." Managers and artists are not the only, skeptics, by any means.' It is a glorious-

American privilege, and one often ex-' fcrcised, to disbelieve what has not been seen or is not. understood, and it would not be fair to the American public to say that this privilege and the exercise of it are confined to our own fair land. The natives of the far East believe in-

such tricks or illusions being performed as they have seen, and in none other.

They know little and care less about the dwellers in other lands than their own. Living, as the majority of them do. from one year's end to another under summer skies and amid tropical' scenery and foliage, nothing) would be harder than to convince them of the fact that there are countries where for a certain number of months in the year; the water of the lakes and rivers becomes hard and glassy and may be walked on and driven over with perfect THE HINDOO FAKIRS. Now, we have been since the days of the early Portuguese explorers regaled with accounts of decapitations, mys

terious disappearances and aerial suspension, if not impossible, certainly im-

prooaDie enouga to De aisoeuevea, as it is well known that none of thosa elaborately explained illusions has ever been seen by any travelers of the- present century. The most frequently mentioned aerial suspension of the Orient is the account ofthe old Hindoo fakir who provides himself with a Kn.11 nf nrri ari tVirnwo

it Into the air, allowing the cord to unwind and remain suspended, while the

oan uuroiis umu n disappears in space. Different travelers elaborate this illusion in different ways, some of them declaring that the old Hindoo climbs the cord and draws it up after him, while others assert that he assists a boy to climb the cord, and that after the boy has gone a certain number of feet in the air he. together with the supporting cord, mys- . teriously disappears. Others, wishing to give a little more entertainment for their money than their predecessors, tell of tigers coming from the jungle and following the boy up the rope, until boy, rope and tiger all vanish into thin air. I am free to confess that I must Join

to believe in all these accounts, but I am aware that it is nosblble to suspend the human body a few . feet from the earth or floor and leave it there apparently unsupported. The first "aerial suspension" that attracted any considerable attention showed a page, usually a young woman, brought to the center of the stage, hypnotized and stood erect between two slight wooden rods, which had been previously inspected by a committee chosen from the audience. These rods were placed under the young woman's elbows, and she was then raised from the floor, so that her feet cleared it a few inches only. After this one rod would be removed and the performer would cause the body of the page to slowly rise from a perpendicular to a horizontal position, the only support visible being the rod on which one arm was apparently resting in the lightest and most insecure manner possible. The magician would then pass his wand all around the body of the page in order to convince the spectators that there were no wires or unseen supports aiding in the deception. After allowing the page to slumber in midair for a few moments she would be slowly lowered until her feet touched the ground, then she would step forward and smilingly acknowledge the applause that always followed this seemingly marvelous Illusion. Now. the manner in which this trick was performed was this: One of the uprights or rods was a remarkably strong one. One end of it fitted into a socket fn the stage or the platform used for the performance, while the other end was hollow. When the rods, which were the same In appearance, were placed under the page's elbows a steel plug or joint fastened around the girl's elbows fitted into the socket on the stage. Now. the page's figure was really encased In a network of slight but very strong steel bands all jointed i,n such a manner as to allow her to move about apparently without the slightest restraint. The cage or framework of steel bands was fitted together with noiseless butt joints that set themselves as soon as the page was raised from the floor and straightened out at right angles with the supporting rod, the joint at the elbow being strong enough to sustain the whole figure the moment it was perfectly horizontal, and thus it was that the page was enabled to lie apparently sleeping In the air. with no other support than the tip of her elbow resting on a slender rod. When the performer desired to release the subject he imply raised her body slowly, touched a little spring, released the elbow Joint, lowered her to her feet and the performance was over. .Now, this same Illusion wast done in many different ways. Sometimes both supports would be taken away. In this case the place of the one supporting the elbow would be filled by a slender steel arm going through and concealed by the drapery Immediately behind th recumbent figure. Another variety of this performance was to do it in a sort of bower, among trees and shrubs so arranged as to conceal the slender bit of steel necessary to sustain the figure long enough for the success of the exptrlment. I believe this performance to b the nearest thing to Marco Polo's disappearing man. boy and tiger that has been done in this country LIKE THT2 MAN .WHO SAW A WHAL& There are thousands of persons no doubt who believe that they have seen, persons suspended in midair without any mechanical appliances, but there are few ' whobelieve that the Portuguese navigators saw what they claim to hav sjet-a. Nearly every traveler who h&j