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An object of unusual interest to resi-
dents and visitors in Troy, a "steeple
Jack" has for several weeks past been
swinging daily about the steeples of
St. Joseph's Provincial seminary, the
famous "Towers of Troy," as they have
come to he called, occupied, with as
much nonchalance as though on terra
Anna, in the task of making extensive
repairs to those steeples and placing
an eight-foot gilded cross on each of
the four spires. The "Towers of Troy,"
from their elevated position on the
crest of the hill overlooking the cen-
ter of the city, form a landmark _asily
recognized for many miles in all direc-
tions, and like stalwart sentinels they
bare stood guard over the busy com-
mercial section of the city below these
30 years or more.
Weakened by age. a high wind sev-
eral months ago carried away the
pinnacle of one of the spires and drew
attention to a general weakening of
the others, so the Sisters of St. Jo-
seph, who hold the seminary property,
recently awarded a contract for
strengthening the steeples and placing
ft large gilded cross upon each. George
Ferguson of Albany, a famous "steeple
Jack," was selected for the hazardous
undertaking, and for the last six
weeks he has been engaged with two
assistants in performing the work.
A few minutes of observation of the
painstaking, methodical movements of
the "steeple Jack" Is sufficient to con-
vince the observer that his is no easy
task. Beside being a sort of mechan-
ical engineer, the "steeple Jack," to
be a success, must be a master of sev-
eral trades. To observe a man seated
fa his boatswain's chair anchored
against the side of a spire may give
the impression that the work is easy,
bat imagine standing in a loop of rope
and sawing off a section of tower
above one's head weighing nearly half
a ton. Yet that was what was done
«i these towers. The old finial orna-
ments, placed at the top of the spires
when the building was erected back
in the '70'a as a Methodist university,
wtfre each 14 feet high and nearly
four feet in diameter, and in their de-
cayed condition considerable skill was
required to prevent them falling the
wrong way and causing damage to the
building.
Mr. Ferguson declares that the only
part of the work which may be called
easy is the actual climbing. This is ac-
complished in a novel manner, tor the
steeples, rising 75 or more feet in the
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air, present nothing upon which a hold
may be secured, and yet he climbs
without scaffolding. Patiently — it
may seem tediously—the steeple Is
climbed by means of two ropes se-
curely wound around the tower, leav-
ing a loop to slip over the body. Al-
ternating from the lower to the upper
loop, similar to hitching up a pole, the
"steeple Jack" gradually works up to
the very top, carrying tackle and
swing chair, from which he proceeds
to repair or paint as required.
Mr. Ferguson inherited his profes-
sion of steeple-climbing from his fa-
ther. who 'followed that business for
more than 32 years, climbing the high-
est spires throughout the eastern
states and finally meeting his end by a
fall of 30 feet at the Albany peniten-
tiary building in 1891. A decayed wall,
capped by stone, gave way while he
was painting it, and he was killed in-
stantly. The son was nerving at the
time as an apprentice in the navy, a
calling which presents some similar
situations, and when he received his
discharge in 1892 he succeeded to his
father's business. Of modest but
jovial disposition, he credits the fact
that he has had no accidents to his
athletic build and temperate habits,
for, as he strongly declares, drinking
intoxicants and steeple-climbing "dc
not mix."
The illustration lives as idea of the
size of the crosses being gilded be-
fore placed.
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RURAL AUCTIONEER
DREADED CHARACTER
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Last Ad of Tragedy Is Where He Plays the Leadiug Part-Novel
Sights on the Day of the Sale as Old Farm Is Delivered
Into the Hands of Strangers.
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The most conspicuous character in
ths last act of the bumble tragedy
of ths abandoned farm is very often
ths rural auctioneer, says Collier's. He
it is who rings the curtain down with
careless quip and boisterous jest. Per-
haps his burly presence has been
menacing the household through long
years of gripping struggle with ad-
versity. The land has been becom-
ing poorer, the ambitious men of the
family have gone away to seek their
fortunes elsewhere, and on the heels
of misfortune has followed the chat-
tel mortgage. Unsung heroism, in-
credible economies, toil unceasing,
have not sufficed to check the steady
{decadence of the farm and its af-
[fairs. Some day. when the ultimate
'disaster can no longer be held at
arm's length, a printed bill, announc-
ing the sale at auction of stock, tools,
and household, is posted in the vil-
lage store and the postoffice.
The idlers scan the bill with curi-
ous Interest, but with no marked
symptoms of surprise. The auction
has been a foregone conclusion for
some time. The storekeeper remarks
to his leisurely customers:
"Old Jonathan Woodman has been
Mvln' alone on the farm for years and
years. He's the last of 'em. All
petered out, ain't they? He's going to
live with his grand-daughter In New-
market, so they tell me. Hung on
longer than 1 expected, the old man
^dld. Too old to do much farming and
Bio money to hire help."
Oa the morning of the sale, the
roads leading toward the Woodman
place are populous with vehicles more
serviceable than elegant—concords,
democrats, buggies, carry-alls and rat-
tling wagons. An auction Is a diver
slon, a mild excitement, and the wom«
en folk forsake their spicy kitchens to
enjoy a day's outing, with the bulging
dinner basket tucked under the front
seat. Long before the auctioneer ia
ready to begin his task the Woodman
ho*Jse, dooryard and barn are overrun
by a curious, shrewdly calculating
crowd discussing the family history
and the values of its goods and chat
tela.
Former Secretary of State to Replao*
Henry M. White, the Present
Ambassador.
Washington.—Robert Bacon, who
was secretary of state for two months
iast winter, has accented the post of
ambassador to France He will suc-
ceed Henry M. White, at present am-
bassador to France, about the first of
next year.
Mr. Bacon was a member of Presi
lent's Roosevelt's "tennis cabinet."
He entered the service of the govern-
ment as assistant secretary of state
under Secretary Root, and succeeded
to that post when Root was elected
senator from New York. Before that
he was erne of Pierpont Morgan's abl«
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Robert Bacon.
lieutenants and a member of the firm.
He directed the Morgan interests in
the famous Northern Pacific corner of
1901. He arranged the British end of
the great steamship merger which ere
ated the International Mercantile Ma
rine company.
It is not generally known, but Mr
Bacon was actually, legally and con-
stitutionally president for the space
of about 15 minutes, his administra-
tion coming in between those of Roose-
velt and Taft. The term of Roosevelt
as president expired by constitutional
limit at noon on March 4. So did that
of Vice-President Fairbanks. But the
change in the inauguration plans, the
result of the storm that made out-
door services in practicable, caused a
delay of 15 or 18 minutes in the ad-
ministering of the oath to the new
officials. During that interval, Mr.
Bacon, as secretary of state with no
limit to his term, became under the
constitution actually president No-
body knew there had been a double
shift of presidents until the attor-
ney general called their attention to
the fact next day. Even Mr. Bacon
was not aware that the sun of great-
ness had beamed hotly down upon his
classic head for a moment.
POSED FOR BY FAMOUS HORSE.
Statuette Called "Spanish Trot," Ex-
hibited at Paris Salon, the Work
of American Sculptor.
London.—There is especial Ameri-
can interest in the statuette called
"Spanish Trot," exhibited at the Salon
de Concours Hippique in Paris, for it
is not only the work of an American
sculptor, Walter Winans, but the ani
mad portrayed is the artist's horsq
WOMAN'S CORNER.
NEW PILLOW COVERS
LATEST MATERIAL CLOSELY RE-
SEMBLES LEATHER.
Burlap Tops Are Embroidered and
Finished with Fringe-—Pretty
Fiewered Lawns and Scotch
Ginghams with Ruffles.
The girl who wishes to render the
Verandas of the summer cottage at-
tractive should take time by the fore-
lock and make up an assortment of
pillow covers. One of the most serv-
iceable tops is of a new material
which closely resembles leather aud
comes in red, blue, green and leather
shades made up plainly and fringed
with imitation leather fringe.
Burlap covers are embroidered with
flower, foliage and bird designs, or
with water, and rural scenes, and are
finished with fringe made by fraying
the edges of the face and the back
and the back of the pillow top.
Lingerie pillows are of muslin all
over emproidery, of batiste banded
and • frilled with embroidery and of
dotted and sprayed swiss. Any of
the flowered lawns are pretty if fin-
ished with wide ruffles, and so are
the Scotch ginghams striped in two
tones of one color. Some of them
have a broken tartan plaid border that
makes an effective ruffle. Scotch
madras in two tone or solid colors
furnishes a serviceable and smart
looking pillow top, and there are most
attractive plain French linens in suph
shades as wistaria, catawba, cham-
pagne, Van Dyke brown and old rose
Ecru scrim is an excellent material
for a porch pillow cover, and is
charming whe" decorated with Dal-
mation embroidery in oriental color
combinations with embroidery silk.
Cream colored scrim is used to carry
the Brenta embroidered, which are
done without a pattern, as is also the
German cross stitch known as serial
work.
For the Doeblinger work, done on
colored monks' cloth, the eight-fold
Germantown yarn is used to develop
art nouveau or oriental patterns.
PRETTY BIT OF NECKWEAR.
Jabot of net. Collar of fine linen
with insertion and narrow edging.
SMART AND USEFUL DRESS.
Pretty Garment in Gray Cloth or
Serge Suitable for General
Wear.
This is one of the smartest designs
of the season for a really useful
dress. Our model is in silver birch
gray cloth, but the design might be
The Day They Celebrate.
djlbways of the Mississippi band
hare regularly each year since 1868
celebrated their acceptance of th«
White Earth reservation In weaten
Minnesota.
Within the limits of Its boundaries
ia northern Minnesota these people
have come out of barbarism Into an
advanced stage of civilization. From
being American wards and helpless
children they are now citizens and
owners of the land, with deeds duly
signed with their own signatures prov-
lng their claims.
Even to this year the days of June
15 and 16 are celebrated instead of
July 4, though it Is possible that, here-
after the Americana' independence
day will be accepted as their own
time of rejoicing.—Fur News.
Alarmed.
Suddenly there was a great commo-
tion in space and Mars was observed
to be whirling away from the earth at
top speed.
"What's the trouble?" queried the
astronomers on the earth. "Afraid we
want to steal your canals?"
"No," signaled the Martians, "we
just beard that that man Castro was
about to pay ua a vis
"Spanish Trot."
Bugle March, who is to be a feature
of this year's London horse show and
was winner of the "school horse'
class in last year's horse show.
Mr. Winans, who has exhibited his
sculpture all over the world and got
the silver medal at the Paris er.hibi
tion of 1990, is showing also at the
Royal Academy in London, his work
there being "The Little Mermaid." il
lustrating the story In Hans Ander
son's fairy tales of the little mermaid
who saw a shipwreck, saved a beau
tiful prince therefrom, falling In love
with him, and thereafter had the mis
ery of seeing him married to a prin
cess. The artist has caught her a!
the moment when she is witnessing
the betrothal.
It was this sculptor who won the
world's championship as the repre-
sentative of the United States at the
Olympic games last yea-r for shooting
with the hunting rifle at the "running
deer" target.
FOR THE BIRTHDAY CAKE.
Convenient Candle Boards That Save
Much Trouble and Keep Grease
from Icing.
The mother who has many birthday
parties to give should by all means in
vest in a candle board. It is a much
more convenient and more pleasant
way to trim a cake than to stick
candle holders into it, with the danger
of grease mingling with the icing.
These boards can be bought, but if
you have cake pans of a certain size
it is w iser to have them made. They
should be circular and big enough for
the cake to slip down easily between
the rows of candles on the outside.
The outer rim of the board is filled
with small holes, into which can be
screwed as many tiny candle holders
as are needed. Often these boards
are made of burnt wood with an ap
propriate motto burnt into it as "Many
happy returns of the day," '"Another
year, another leaf, is turned within
that volume brief."
If one does not wish to go to the ex<
pense of a decorated board, any car-
penter will make you a large circle of
white pine or any other wood, which
can be finished with a white shellac,
or can be given a coat or two of white
paint, covered with white enamel so
that it can be easily scrubbed.
ASHES QUICKLY DISPOSED Or
Ocean Liners Expel Them Through
Ship's Bottom by Means of Com-
pressed Air.
The newest liners now dispose of
(heir ashes by forcing them through
the bottom of the hull by means of
compressed air. The old method of
hoisting them and dumping them
overboard was disagreeable to the
passengers, and an attempted im-
provement by which they were mixed
with water and pumped overboard
v,as equally so when the wind was
in the wrong quarter.
In the new "expeller" a hopper re-
ceives the ashes and clinkers and de-
livers them into a crusher, which
breaks up the large pieces. Below
this is a drum revolving in a water-
tight casing and open as it turns first
to the crusher chamber and then to
the discharge pipe below. In order
to counteract the upward pressure of
the water compressed air- at about
0 pounds to the square inch is di-
livered to the interior of the ash
filled drum just before its opening
comes opposite that in the discharge
pipe.
Thus the ashes are expelled with
such force that they are swept clear
of the bottom of the vessel. This
expeller will get rid of the ashes and
clinkers from forty-eight furnaces
under forced draught, amounting to
eight or ten tons an hour.
WHERE WOMEN LOSE CHARM.
Too Many Do Not Realize the Neces-
sity for Maintaining a Pleasant
Expression.
A more than profitable way of en-
tertaining one's self while riding
down town of a morning is to scan
the faces of the women passengers on
the other side of the car. At least
one-half of them have that tired, wor-
ried look. Watch them intently for
a minute or so and It will get on your
nerves. Then glance at the other wom-
en, whose expressions are pleasant.
Isn't it a relief?
Just because those pleasant-looking
women are pleasant looking is no as-
surance that they ought to look pleas-
ant. For all you know, the woman at
the end of the car with the most se-
rene expression is worrying about a
thing a thousand times more vital than
that wrhich troubles the sour-faced
woman just across from you. One
woman has acquired the art of looking
pleasant and the other has not.
If woman only knew it, one of her
chief charms is a placid, pleasing ex-
pression when her face is in repose.
The average woman finds it easy to
look pleasant when her shoes pinch
or an unreasonable pin is making Its
presence felt; but she gives up in
despair if the cause of her unpleas-
ant expression be mental worry.—
Philadelphia Evening Post.
equally well carried out in fine serge;
In navy it would be very useful for
general wear.
The plastron at front is ornamented
with buttons in sets of two; silk
braid trims the foot at the Bides and
back.
The sieves have a wrapped seam up
outside of arm, and are ornamented
with buttons, braid trims the bodice
below the small round yoke, which Is
of tucked net, with high collar of the
6ame.
New Embroidery Stiletto.
A man in New Jersey has earned
the gratitude of all women who do em-
broidery by designing an embroidery
stiletto which will punch any size
holes in a fabric. By any size, of
course, is meant any of the sizes used
In that sort of work. The device con-
sists of a small rod. tapering into a
sharp point and equipped with a han-
dle. Along this rod runs a gauge de-
vice held in position by a screw. The
nearer this gauge is to the point of
the stiletto, the smaller the hole made
and, conversely, when it is run back
toward the handle," the circumference
of the holes may be increased to that
of the rod itself. It can thus be made
to pierce any size holes, from small
eyelets to comparatively large circleB.
Heretofore, unless a woman had an
assortment of stilettos of various
sizes, and few had such a variety, only
one size hole could be made in a fab-
ric with any degree of accuracy, and
neat, graduated, circles were found
only in bought designs.
The Climax.
He was telling a thrilling story out
of his wallet of a thousand and one
hairbreadth escapes over in Santiago,
doncherknow, and his pretty listener
was leaning anxiously toward him,
hanging on his every utterance.
"The wolves were upon us," he said
"bellowing and roaring, as I have so
often heard them. We fled for our
lives. I don't deny It; but every sec-
ond we knew the ravenous pack was
gaining on us. At last they were so
near that we could feel their muzzles
against our legs—"
"Ah!" gasped out the lady. "How
glad you must have been they had
their mua*lea on! "—Anawera.
For Fluffy Hair.
The girl whose hair will not curl
I naturally, can save herself many a
j bout with hot tongs by wetting the
| hair thoroughly with equal parts of
| green soap and water. This should be
j carefully rinsed off with fresh water.
! While the hair is still damp It can be
I fluffed by running the fingers through
| It or by tying narrow ribbons tightly
j around the head, as a fillet is worn,
! and combing up the hair between.
Unless the hair has a tendency to oil-
Iness, the green soap mixture should
not be used too often, as it is drying
In Its effects.
Pretty Silp Covers,
Slip coverings for the furniture are
especially pretty this year. They
| eome in the figured cretonnew and
! cost no more than the dull linen o«je«
! which have been used for go long.
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Shoes for Summer.
The new fabric shoe is one of the
! most attractive of the new footwear.
I The shoes are shown in all the pop-
ular shades of cravenetted cloth, with
the flowers of the same color, but sat-
in striped.
The white shoes of the coming sum-
mer are to be of linen, canvas and
kid, and many will be very high boots,
although the white-beaded tie will be
popular.
Suede in all colors still holds It*
own.
One dainty house slipper H delicate
colors has set at one side a bewitch*
ing little bow of a matching chiffon.
Use Piam Flower Pots.
Do not buy overornamented pott for
your plants; they should serve as
foils rather than attract too much in
themselves.
Flipped Coin to Choose Husband.
Marj' Karpowicz of Worcester,
Mass., was greatly perplexed. She
was courted by twins, liked them
equally well and, perhaps, would have
been willing to marry them both as a
way out of her dilemma but for the
law. Finally she flipped up a coio
saying; /
"Heads Michael wins, tails I marry
Alexander." Down came the quarter
with the lady uppermost Alexander
Kalnouska said glumly:
"You win, Michael."
"Will you be best man, Alexander?"
asked Michael.
"I will not," satd Alexander. 'Til
take the next steamer back to Russia.
You can have Mary. Good-by, MichaeL
Good-by, Mary." And Alexander de-
parted to pack his trunk.
The Kalnouska twins, 21 years old,
followed Mary Karpowicz 7,500 miles
from Russia. They roomed and worked
together and pooled their savings,
both courting Mary assiduously. Al-
exander called one evening, Michael
the next
Strike of Besshi Miners.
In the recent strike of the Besshi
miners In Nilhama, in northern Japan,
the 'systematic military organization
adopted by the mob in its attacks
upon the police and troops was im-
pressive. The rioters marched as well
as soldiers and fought under com-
manders as in battle. Evidently these
men had not gone through the Man-
churian campaign without learning the
art of united _self-defense. They
showed regular signals during action
and they deployed and maneuversed
like a fighting column. They were
pleased to regard hospitals and
schools as neutral properties, but ail
the property belonging to the mining
company was reduced to ashes.
The Roman Senate.
The Roman senate, said to have
originally been composed of 100 mem-
bers, was raised to 300 by Tarquinius
Prlscus; to about 600 by Sylla. about
81 B. C., and to 900 by Julius Caesar.
It was reformed and reduced to 600
by Augustus, and gradually lost its
power and dignity under the emperors.
The mere form existed in the reign of
Justinian. A second senate, formed
at Constantinople by Constantine, re-
tained its office till the ninth century.
S. P. Q. R. on the Roman standard
stood for "Senatus Populus que Ro-
manus" ("the Roman Senate and Peo-
ple"). A senatus cor.sultum was a law
enacted by the senate.
Khaki in Use Sixty Years.
It is now just sixty years since the
khaki uniform was first introduced
into the British army, being worn by
the Punjab frontier force in 1849. The
mutiny spread its use, and it became
general In India during the Afghan
war. Though still further employed
In the Soudan campaign, it was not
until the South African war that
" khaki" became a familiar word to
the majority of Englishmen
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