T E F TH E S E A.
WEIRD YARNS OF THE SUPERNATURAL -
URAL SPUN BY THE CAPTAIN.
The Skull In the Chain Locher-The Unlucky -
lucky Bark In the Demerara Trade That
Was Said to Be Ilauntcd-Thu story of an
. ' Exile From Salvador.
Wo were eating dinner one night on
the old cargo ship and talking of the
happenings at sea and on shore that are
called supernatural when the captain
said :
"Ono sees some things at sea not supernatural -
pernatural which are fit to make a nerv-
oils man see g1-t. There was that case
in one of Green's liners to the colonies ,
where a man was sent down to clean
out the chain locker. The locker had
seemed foul all the passage home , and
so they hoisted out the chain and sent
this fellow down with his brush and
soap and bucket , with a lamp , to clean
it out. I'll wager ho saw ghosts for a
year after that , for when he'd got down
on his knees to begin scrubbing ho
found himself bending over the skull of
a'dead man.
"It was most likely a man that had
stowed away out in the colony and had
been caught under the cable when they
were running it down quickly , and so
had the life crushed out of him.
"However , I did know of a case that
seemed supernatural right enough. It
was in the Demerara trade , and I was
acquainted with the first officer of the
hark where it all happened.
a "In the first place , while she was out
there loaded and ready to sail , the captain -
tain had trouble with one of the seamen ,
who drew out his knife and stabbed him
to death then and there. The mate afterward -
ward took her home , but on the way a
passenger took to ailing in some mysterious -
ous fashion and up and died very sud-
donly.
"Of course she was a haunted ship
when she arrived home , and so the
owners had her name changed , and she
was refitted and painted up entirely
different from what she had been. Then
she sailed awaywith a new captain , but t
on the way out he took to drink , and by
the time she reached Demerara ho was '
off his head and killed himself with u
revolver.
t "Now she was haunted , sure enough ,
if you could believe the mate. Mind
' you , after she was refitted the mate said
never a word to the now captain about
what had happened in her before , and
even ! 'hen a new captain came out from
.home to take charge of her , believing
that the last captain was naturally a
drunkard , instead of ono who had taken
to it after coming on this ship , this first
officer noversaid aword , because he did
not believe in ghosts or even in a future
state.
"However , the first night the new
capk ilwys on board thetrouble began.
i The captain at about 9 o'clock went to
his room and retired. An hour later he
was calling the mate and telling that
he had gone to sleep and then had been
awakened by a light in the room. On
! opening his eyes lie saw a short , thick-
sct ma ; : , with silo whiskers , in the
.armchair at tlio desk , leaning over , with
his elbows on the desk , holding his
head between his hands and saying :
'Oh , my poor head ! Oh , my poor head ! '
"That was enough for the mate. He
left the vessel thatnight with all hands.
This now captain knew nothing of the
style or manner of the one who had
killed himself , and yet the -
or what you may call it-in the
chair was the imago in appearance and
dress of the suicide and had complained
in precisely the words and voice of the
! dead man. "
This brought out the story of an exile
i from Salvador whom the narrator met
, in Guatemala. Having got into trouble
with the authorities , Senor Don Sebas
tian Mojarieta saved his life by fleeing
i to Aniapala , Honduras , asmany another
exile has done , and there taking a
steamer north to San Jose , Guatemala.
A friend of his who was involved in
like manner was to havereached Amap-
ala by a different route in time for the
same steamer , and to prevent any possible -
ble delays Dfojarieta engaged staterooms
and secured passes from the Amapala
authorities for hiefriend and himself as
soon as ho arrived. But the steamer day ,
came without his friend , and Mojarieta
was obliges to sail alone.
] 1 "At the usual hour , on the first night
! out , " the story teller went on , "Mo-
jarieta retired and went to sleep , but
had no sooner dozed off than he awoke ,
: hearing his friend's voice , as he says , .
in the nest stateroom , which he had
supposed to be empty. Leaving his berth , t
he went out into the passageway aitd
opened the door to the adjoining room , i
and there , he says , he saw lying in the
berth the body of his friend fully dressed , i
but with three bullet holes in the breast
t
of his'coat and one in the right cheek. .
1
"At that Mojarieta fainted and was
t
found on the deck by the steward and
put to bed again. Thereafter it was a
most miserable passage , for the vessel
s
touchc ? at both of the Salvador ports
and was about a week reaching San
Jose. Mojarietawas sure his friend had
been shot and expected a force to come
off from each of the Salvador ports to
demand him. Moreover , he was haunted - '
ed continually by that picture of his t
dead Mend.
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"Once in Guatemala he obtained employment -
ployment quickly and than began to recover -
cover something of . his former spirits.
He ascribed his vision to his overwrought - b
wrought imagination and was begm f
ring to hope that his friend would yet c
.appear when a letter was received from
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a relative in Salvador. It not only told f
'that the friend had been shot by the t
government soldiers , but described the
wounds of the body after it was dead.
iojarieta declares that the description
accurately portrayed the vision he had
of his friend , and he believes that his
friend's spirit , being unable to rest or p
wholly throw off its desire to take pas
sage on the steamer , had come on board
and was occupying that berth.New t
YorkSnn. I ,
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THEIR NOVEL HONE'M00Ny '
Beating Their Way on Trains From Chi- I
cue to the Pacific Coast. 1
Three weeks ago last Saturday , while
one of the railroad boys was inspecting
cars that had been sent out here , he dis
covered that one of them was occupied.
Supposing agang of hoboes were concealed -
ed in the car , lid slid the door open and
said , "Well , how many of you are in
there ? " A fairly dressedyoang man replied -
plied , "Only my wife and me. "
The railroad man was astonished and l
swung himself up into the car , expecting -
ing to find that he was being fooled. He
found , however , lying on some pieces of
burlap in one corner of the car , a wom-
an. The man in the car spoke to her ,
saying , ' 'Well , they are onto us , and
we'll have to get out. " The woman
arose and presented a neat , ladylike ap-
pearance. The couple were taken into
the waiting room , where the man produced -
duced his marriage certificate , which
gave thouames of the couple and stated
that they were married in Chicago July
10 , 1894. The young man then told his
story , which is in substance as follows :
Ho was at work and had saved up a
few dollars. They were married and
had bought 1150 worth of furniture on
the installment plan and gone to house-
keeping. Daring the strike he had lost
his place. Ho still owed X30 on the furniture -
niture , and the dealer , finding that the
fellow was out of a job , came around
and took the furuiture away , leaving
the couple in the bare rooms Plans
were talked over at onc9 , and itwas decided -
cided to make the trip out west. and on
the evening of Aug. 7 , at 9:30 o'clock ,
the young people jumped on the platform -
form of a blind baggage andrede out of
the Union depot at Chicago for California -
fornia , having only $5 in money to
make the trip. On platforms and in box
cars they made Ogden , where they succeeded -
ceeded in capturing the car that brought
them here.
The young fellow iQ about 26 years of
age and the girl three or four years
younger. Both were intelligent and
good looking. While telling his experience -
ence the young fellow looked at the girl
and said , "She is a game little wom-
an. " On the evening of the day of their
arrival here they were seen to dart
across the platform hand in hand , and
it is presumed that they got out on No.
4 , which was just pulling out.-Reno
Journal.
MEISSONIER'S HOUSE.
He Hoped It Would Become a Museum , .
but It Is Being Pulled Down.
Meissonior's house in Paris , built on
his own designs , in the Place Melesher-
bes , in front of Gustave Dore's mnonu-
ment of Alexander Dumas , is about to
be pulled down in order to make way
for a six story building , and the work
of demolition is already begun. The
house was somewhat in the style of the
renaissance and seemed a standing reproach -
preach to the vulgarity of modern architecture -
chitecture around it. A conception of
the mostrefined taste , itwas unlike any
modern house and was neither eccentric
nor conspicuous. It looked the abode of
an artist and a wealthy man , but not
assertively so. Its s indows toward the
street , scarcely more than loopholes ,
suggested inner windows opening on a
courtwhich , judging from the exterior ,
must be a renaissance cortile. This
gave an impression of indifference , perhaps -
haps slightly contemptuous , of the outer
world and of a comfortable seclusion
not so much of the hermit as of the satisfied -
isfied bourgeois.
Meissonier hoped that his house would
become a museum. He wrote : "My
hotel was built for a museum. This
apparent to any visitor. My descendan l
might live there as tenants aucl cu'
tors. " Auother time he wrote : "I h
that the treasures of art in my stn
will never be sold. I hope that my son
will give them to the state. I believe
this is his wish as well as my own. I
am sure that he will feel too much love
and respect for his father's work ever to
disperse it. I trust ho will turn this
house into a little museum.London
Exchange.
Ghost Statistics.
The English Society of Psychical Research -
search has issued a sort of "census of
spooks. " The society has been asking
as many persons as it could reach this
gnestion in more technical language ,
Have you ever seen a ghost ? " Out of
[ 7,000 persons interrogated 15,316 answered -
swered in the negative , leaving only a
meagre 9 per cent of people who had 1
been favored by extraordinary experi-
ences. But the relative proportion of a
men and women who saw visions and
dreamed dreams is more remarkable.
Only 655 males answered in the affrmat
ive , but therewere 1,029 females. Mr.
Balfour , who is president of the society ,
s the leading ghost hunter aid golf
player as well as the greatest commoner te
n the Tory party. He discusses some of e
he finest ghost stories in this interest-
and makes earnest 5
ng census an appeal
o scientific men to drop their attitude t
of "bigoted intolerance" and face the
mass of strange phenomena which the
ociety has gathered so conscientiously.
Foreign Blood Helping France.
The conscripts who will take their
places in the French army this coming o
November are said to be much taller
men than any batch of recruits during
he last five years. The reason given for 1
his increase in size is that by the new
aw all sonsof a foreign fatherand of a l
French mother who are born in France 1
are looked upon as Frenchmen and Bale -
le to serve in the army. Our authority
or this statement is Le Ganlois , but it 6t
annot be very gratifying to French t
ride to have it acknowledged that the 1
ew hundred foreigners thus pressed iny
o the French army can so sensibly raise 1
the standard of the recruits.-London d
pun.
Parlaian English. f
A Paris correspondent for a London
rint speaks of Marie Bashkirtseff as
the talented young Russian lady paint-
less and authoress. " A "lady author-
ess" is bad enough , but a "lady paintti
Tass" must be little short of a monster.
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E 1 F THE A
IT WAS REALLY CONSTRUCTED JUST
LIKE A LEYDEN JAR.
The Fire That Came Out of It Was Elec-
trical-Aaron's Sons Were Electrocuted.
Edfdon and Tesla , Had They Lived at That
Time , Could Not Dave Surpassed Aaron.
There is nothing new on the face of
the earth , and there is no doubt that
electricity was well known to the Israelites -
ites and probably to the Phoenicians.
The first record of electrical ' phenomena
is as old as the Ten Commandments.
Moses , when he received the stone tables -
bles on which the Ten Commandments
were written the second time , built a
box out of fir-not the common cedar or
any other native woods , but firwood ,
which had to be imported by Phoenician
merchants from the southern part of
Europe. Was this choice accidental on
account of the great value of the resin-
ons wood , or was it the choice of the
best known nonconductor among the
great number of various timbers ?
Moses had time fir box lined inside and
outside with beaten gold , which converted -
verted the ark of the covenant into a
very expensive but very perfect Leyden
jar or storage battery for electricity. As
gold is by 50 per cent a better conductor
of electricity than copper , was the
choice of gold again on account of its
value , or was it an inspiration or revelation -
lation ? So much is certain-that if Edison -
son or Tesla had lived in those days
they could not have improved on the
choice of material , and the result was a
powerful leyden jar.
How was this leyden jar charged ,
was the next problem. A fire of material -
rial rich in carbon was kept burning on
top of the ark of the covenant , and during -
ing daytime a tall column of smoke
guided the 12 tribes of Israel through
their wanderings , and at night a tall
flame was equally well seen by them.
Now carbon is agood conductor of electricity -
tricity , and the particles of carbon floating -
ing in the smoke would conduct sufficient -
cient electricity to highly charge the
leyden jar. At least the current of elec-
tricty would be amply strong , so that if
a hand were held toward the ark of the
covenant sparks would result. That
this was done by Moses at different
times is a matter of record , and that he
could always depend that his faithful
Levites would obey his instructions to
the letter and have the jar always
charged.
After Moses' death his brother Aaron
took the matter in hand and greatly im.
proved the electrical power of the
strange battery. He had the ark of the
covenant placed in the temple and had
it surrounded by poles 50 ells high , of
150 feet. These poles were covered with
beaten gold , and gold chains were hung
from poles to the ark of the covenant
which made a very expensive but very
complete and powerful electrical con-
nection. In a country where electrical
storms are as frequent and as powerful
as in Palestine at an elevation of 600
feet and a reach of 150 feet of the best
conductor an abundant supply of Frank-
lin's electricity would necessarily always -
ways be on hand.
It is very likely that Aaron knew
nothing of amperes , ohms or volts ;
otherwise his two sons never would
have monkeyed with this powerful apparatus -
paratus , and they would not have been
killed by fire breaking out of the ark of
the covenant and killing them without
any wounds or burns appearing on their
bodies.
Any coroner's jury of today , if it
were to sit on an inquest over the body
of Aaron's sons , would at once bring a
verdict of death by a discharge of elec-
tricity.
Aaron knew this power , and to make
it ellective all he had to do to deal death
from his apparatus was to remove the
costly camel's hair carpets , which are
almost perfect nonconductors of dec.
tricity , and make the culprit stand on
terra firma. Death wouldresult instant.
ly by fire breaking out and leave no
wounds or burns to account for his
death. That several members of revolting -
ing tribes of Israelites were thus dec.
trocuted is also a matter of record in
the Bible.
Solomon in building his temple advanced -
vanced one step further. He found that
copper would do as well as gold. He
had the temple covered with copper , and
capper water pipes led into the cisterns
nside the temple.
On the temple , or rather on its roof ,
number of gilt spears were placed in
vertical positions , ostensibly to scare off
the birds and to keep them from defiling
he temple , but these spears were several -
eral cords high , or from 16 to 24 feet.
Such a height would hardly be necessary
for scarecrows , but it was ample to load
he roof , water pipes , etc. , with a pow-
rful current of electricity.
Franklin , the electric chair in the
tate of New York and the discovery of
he leyden jar itself in Lyyden , Germany -
many , are all back numbers. History
only repeats itself , whether recorded or
not.-C. B. Warrand in Savannah News.
Why the Dial Has Sixty Divisions.
We have 60 divisions on the dials of
ur clocks and watches because Hip.
parchus , who lived in the second century -
tury before Christ , accepted the Baby-
oniau system of reckoning time , that s
system being sexagesimaL The Baby-
oniaus were acquainted with the dec-
oral , but for common purposes they
ounted by "sossi" and "sari , " the
50550" representing 60 and the "saros"
0 times 60-3 , 600. From Hipparchus
bat mode of reckoning found its way t
nto the works of Ptolemy about the
ear 150 A. D. , and on that authority
has been perpetuated to the present
ay.-St. Louis Republic.
t
The "Venus de Medici" was 5 feet 8
nches in height , and this is held by i
many artists and sculptors to be the
most perfect stature for a woman.
Some evils admit of consolations , but
ere are no comforters for dyspepsia
end the toothache.-Bulwer.
-HOW WE WALK.
The iifuscles Used and the MechanicalWork ,
That They Do.
The chief muscles concerned in walking -
ing arc those in the calf and back of
leg , which , by pulling up the heel , also
pull up the bones of the foot connected
with it , and thou the whole body , the
weight of which is passed ca through
the bones of the leg. When walking ,
the trunk is thrown forward so that it
would fall down prostrate were not the
right foot planted in time to support it.
The calf muscles are helped in this action -
tion by those on the front of the trunk
and legs , which contract and pull the
body forward , and the trunk , slanting
forward when the heel is raised by the
calf muscles , the whole body will be
raised and pushed forward and upward.
This advancement of each leg is effected -
ed partly by muscular action , the muscles -
cles used being (1) ( ) those on the front of
the thigh , bending it forward on the
pelvis ; (2) ( ) the hamstring muscles , which
slightly bend the leg on the thigh ; (3) ( )
the muscles on the front of the leg ,
which raise the front of the foot and
toes , preventing the latter , in swinging
forward , from hitching in the ground.
When one foot has reached the
ground , the action of the other has not
ceased. There is another point in walk-
ing. The body is constantly supported
and balanced on each log alternately
and therefore on only one at once. Hence
there must be some means for throwing
the center of gravity over the line of
support formed 1'y the bones of each log ,
as it supports the weight of the body.
This is done in various ways , and hence
the difference in the walk of different
people. There may be slight rotation at
the hip joint , bringing the center of
gravity of the body over the foot of this
side. This "rocking" motion of the
trunk and thigh is accompanied by a
movement of the whole trunk and leg
over the foot planted on the ground and
is accompanied by a compensating outward -
ward movement at the hip. The body
rises and swings alternately from one
side to the other as its center of gravity
comes alternately over one or the other
leg , and the curvature of the spinal
bones is altered with the varying position -
tion of the weight.-Loudon Hospital.
THE POWER OF POETRY.
Scott's Description of the Chase and What
the Ordinary Man Would Have Said.
Take , as a single instance of the power -
or of poetry , Walter Scott's opening
lines in the "Ladyof the Lake , " where
he describes the chase of the stag. The
stag escapes and evades his pursuers ,
but what a picture the great poet has
put into words !
Reduced to prose the ordinary observer -
er and writer would have said , "They
chased the stag several miles , but lost
him in the Trosachs. " He could not
possibly have said in prose :
The antlered monarch of the waste
Sprung from his heathery couch in haste ,
But ere his fleet career ho tool
The dewdrops from his flanks he shook ;
Like crested leader , proud and high ,
Toss'd his beamed frontlet to the sky :
A moment gazed adown the dale ,
Amomeot snuffed the tainted gale ,
A moment listened to the cry
That thicken'd as the chase drew nigh.
Then as the headmost foes appear'd ,
With one brave bound the copseho clear'd ,
And stretching forward free and far
Sought the wild heaths of Uam Var.
The poet began his picture with an
incident that only a poet would have
thought worthy of words , but what a f ,
picture the few words make ! i
The stag at eve had drunk his fill
Where danced the moon on Monan's rill ,
And deep his midnight lair had made '
In lone Glenartney's hazel shade.
-Forest and Stream
Fire Easily Obtained.
The average civilized man would be
hard put to it if he were compelled to
start a fire without matches , tinder boxer
or burning glass. But Lieutenant von
Hohuel describes an African chief as
not only accomplishing this feat but
doing it with quickness and ease The
traveler had asked him to show his skill.
It was really wonderial , in view of
the moisture laden atmosphere , with
what rapidity he did as I had requested.
The materials employed were such as
we saw wherever we went-two simple
bits of wood , one flat about six inches
long and not quite an inch wide , with
a row of grooves on one side , the other
about 12 inches long and of the thickness -
ness and shape of a lead pencil.
The longer piece , fixed in one of the
grooves of the shorter piece , was held
tightly between the palms of the hand
and whirled rapidly round and round.
In a few seconds the wood dust which
was produced by the friction , and which
fell through the grooves , began to smoke.
This dust was carefully nursed into a
blaze , which was fed with fine grass
and bits of cotton stuff.
The whole thing is done so quickly
that our men , even the lazy Wasungu ,
always employed this method on short
halts for lighting their pipes.-Youth's
Companion.
No Word Like the Doctors.
Mr. Sydney Holland enlivened the
, uests at the annual festival of Poplar
hospital by relating an incident which
occurred within the walls of that insti-
tution. A man was brought in who was I
thought to be dead. His wife was with
him. One of the doctors said , "He is
dead , " but the man raised his head and
aid , "No , I am not dead yet , " whereupon -
upon his wife admonished him , saying ,
'Be quiet ; the doctor ought to know
best.London Echo.
Ominous of Unpleasantness.
"Mrs. Blimber is very nervous about
here being 13 at the table tonight. "
"Does she think something unpleasant -
ant will happen ? "
"Yes. She only has a dozen knives
and forks.Chicago litter Ocean.
The German empire has no prison of
is own. Offenses against the imperial
government are enforced by the imperial
attorney , who calls into service the
state's attorneys of the federal states.
a
to Poland it is a penal offense to speak
Polish in any public resort.
rTHE ANGOMANIAC PLAUE. -
tadignant Protest of an American Over
the Marring of Our Language.
It is strange , but so , that the English
don't know how to speakwhat they call
their own language. If they do , they
don't know how to spell it. I am not
referring now to the "lower" classes ,
who take such unwarranted liberties
with the letter "h , " but rather to the
titled trash-the beiizened deadbeats
who drag at the tinseled tail of a rotte
soi disant royalty.
To prove my point that they are
strangers to a tongue they call their
own , I will cite an illustration or so.
For instance , they call Lord Cholmon-
dely "Lud Chumley ; " London they pronounce -
nounce "Lunnoim ; Pall Mall , "Poll
Moll ; " Berkshire , "Berkshire , " and so
on , on and on.
I
They never have known and never
will know how to pronounce the letter
a. They talk of "dawncing" and
"prawncing" and "glawncing" and
don't for a moment comprehend that
they are making' sasses" of themselves
thereby.
Then , in their ignorance of the linguistic -
guistic proprieties , they speak of a locomotive -
motive engineer as a "driver , " of the
fireman as a "stoker , " of baggage
checks as "brawsses , " and so forth.
When they want a bath , they tell
you they believe they will take a "tub. "
They spell color , honor and like
words with a highly unnecessary u in
the last syllable.
I have only cited a feN of their blunders -
dors , but if I had the space to mention
a tenth of them I could fill awhole volume -
ume without half trying.
I wouldn't take the time or trouble
to write this article if it wasn't for the
fact that curtain Anglomaniao "school-
mawms" and ' 'schoolmawsters" in our
own United States are teaching English
pronunciation to American pupils. This
is an evil that ought to be strangled
right off , beginningwitli this very day.
No man or woman is fit to be a teacher
who mars the beauty of our cosmopolitan -
tan language by twisting it out of shape
after the fashion of your "Henglish
miluds. "
I say "our cosmopolitan language , "
and I mean it. There is no such thing
as an English language Four-fifths of
the words we use , even in everyday
speech , were drawn from Latin and
other vocabularies non-English. I am
sick-sick-sick to queasiness with all
claims to the contrary.
Speaking of Anglomaniac schoolteachers -
teachers , I see of late that they have introduced -
troduced another British fad into their
schools-that of teaching boys how to
knit , sew and perform other purely
feminine tasks. If you doubt it , just
drop into a primary schoolroom at Hast-
ings-on-Hudson or at any other place
on the banks of that historic stream. I
presume , if the British school "mawms"
and "mawsters" should order their boys
to wear petticoats , the Anglomaniac
pedagogues on this side of the water
would compel our bright , lively , progressive -
gressive young Americans to wear petti 1
coats too.
The New York authorities ordered a .
general vaccination to prevent the '
spread of smallpox. Would to heaven ]
high there could be a general vaccination -
tion of some kind to prevent the further
spread of the Anglomaniac plague- ! ]
Will Hubbard-Kernan. ,
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DUNNING BY POSTAL CARD.
A Decision at Baltimore Which Permits 1
This Awful Thing to Be Done. ]
United States Commissioner Bond of
Baltimore has dismissed the complaint
against a man who was charged with
dunning by postal card. Inspeaking of ,
this decision the Baltimore News says : t
"The results of this decision are already I
apparent and are very farreaching. Ev- (
cry man who owes a debt and every I
man whom some one else claims to owe
I
a debt is now likely to receive postal I
cards g lore asking him to pay up , and
pay up promptly. Until he does pay up
he need not be surprised to finds gentle 1
postal reminder waiting for him on his
desk each morning. C
"Nay , that is not the only terror I
awaiting him under this decision of
Commissioner Bend. He may find postal
cards beside his plate each morning
when ho comes down to breakfast. If ho
e
happens to live in a boarding house , he
may find his curious fellow boarders
glancing with interest at a printed
1
statement that lie owes his tailor for
that last handsome snit of his that has C
been so much admired and will he kindly -
ly call and settle. " Ii I i
Asleep on the Bottom of the Eiver.
I'
A strange incident in connection with '
time work of clearing away the debris of
the recently wrecked bridge at Louisville -
l
ville is related of the submarine diver
whose duty it is to descend to the hot.
torn of the river and fasten chains about
the heavy ironwork , besides placing 1
dynamite charges in spots where the
most desirableresults maybe had. Yesterday -
terday ho remained beneath the surface 1 ,
for more than an hour. There was no
response when signals were made , and
there was uneasiness felt. At length c
the diver who goes on as a relief reportv
d for duty , and he was at once sent
down to ascertain what was wrong. In
a few minutes both men came up. The fi
diver was found seated on a pile of iron
b
fast asleep.-Marine Journal.
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The Silver Dollar's Centennial.
The silver dollar of Uncle Sam will I
celebrate the centennial anniversary of c +
its birthday upon Oct. 15 next. On July t ]
18 , 1794 , the Bank of Maryland de- sl
posited at the Philadelphia mint French
coins of the value of $80 , 715 for coinage
into silver dollars under the act of 1785.
The first lot of there finished coins was Sc
delivered on Oct. 15 , 1794. There were T
1,758 of them in all , and they were the ii
precursors , the first waves of the vast a ]
flood tide of silver dollars that has poured
out upon the country during the hundred -
dred years that have elapsed. Truly the
Sherman purchasing act repeal has been al
timely bill' and a proper celebration of f1
the centennial of "the dollar of our
tl
daddies.Philadelphia Record.
PROSPECT PARK.
There was a very gentle rainfall -
fall here , Wednesday night.
Frank Cain left , Sunday of ter-
uoon , for southern Colorado to obtain -
tain work if possible.
Our teacher , Miss Marsh , visited -
ited over Sunday with her parents
who live near McCook.
1' Te wish to correct a mistake in
last week's items. Miss Duffey is
teaching in District No. 67 instead
of 73 as stated before.
Mi' . Pickrell talks of going to
the eastern part of the state for
the winter. It is the earnest hope
of all that he will decide to stay
with us.
There is a rumor of a watermelon -
melon party in this heighborhood.
All our African blood is thrilled
at the thought of such a thing
happening.
The Sunday school entertainment -
ment was a grand success , considering -
ering tile numler that took part ,
and reflects great credit on the
managers , Misses Shears and Holbrook -
brook and Mrs. Wade.
The Tariff , Financial , Hawaiian
and other questions of the day do
not interest the people hereabout
as mucli as the question where can
I get the most and best groceries
for the money. C. M. Noble can
answer the question to the satisfaction -
faction of all.
The Barnett Lumber Co. is selling -
ing eastern hard coal cheaper than.
ever before.
Send your orders to the Barnett
Lumber Co. for hard and soft coal.
Tablets , inks and pencils at this
office.
LEBANON.
Quite a rainfall here ell. Friday
° vening.
Heavy frost here on Saturday
uight last.
B. F. Bradbury cut a second
prop of alfalfa , last week.
Charles Piing and wife have
peen visiting eastern' points , the
past week.
JOllll Abbott and sister , Mrs. T.
T. Cress , are visiting at their old
some in Iowa.
farmers that have begun to
glow sac that the ground is in
rood condition.
Quite a windstorm preceded the
Vain on last Friday , overturning
laystacks and small buildings.
You can buy 100 pounds of
rood flour for $1.40 , in 1,000
) ountl lots , from the McCook
) onlmission Co. They have a fine
sigh patent flour fear sale at $2.00
) er 100 pounds , in 1,000 pound
ots as well.
The McCook Commission Co.
seeps a large stock of all kinds of
] fop feed , coin and oats , at lowest
uarket prices.
'Buy your writing paper at
'HE TRIBUNE office. All kinds in
took and prices very reasonable
Leave your orders with the Bar-
iett Lumber Co. for all kinds of
oal.
DANBURY.
Powell Bros. shipped a ear of
Logs to Denver , last week.
W. F. Everist came back from
is Illinois visit , last Tuesday.
A nice shower here , last Friday ,
ut it rained harder east of here.
Quite a number of people from
ere attended the fair , Thursday.
Rev. Huntzinger of Lebanon is
arrying on a meeting here , this
Peek.
Frank Barker's stable got on
re , last Wednesday night , and
urned up sip head of horses and
11 of his hay and fodder.
Eev. Meyers bill go to Custer '
) unty > next week and will preach
iere the coming year. Mr. Weber -
er will take his place here.
Russell McClung and family
ill start , next week , to the Indian
erritory , where they expect to
ye. George McClung will go
eng and probably stay.
Fnipple always leads in fruits
id vegetables. He carries the
eshest and largest assortment
to market affords.
