The Plattsmouth Journal
(iKOItr.K It. MANN. , ,
W. K. OX. , Publisher.
PLATTSMOUTH,
NEBRASKA
Costa Rica seems to have blundered
into the toboggan of bankruptcy and
started on the slide.
The suggestion that the anarchists
be sent to the Dry Tortugas Is meet
ing with some favor.
' Senator Depew has gone to Paris on
an intimation that a French Christ
mas tree bears a precious gift for him.
Marconi will soon be ready to mar
ry an American heiress to an impe
cunious British peer by his wireless
system.
The man who can bring about a per
manent peace between labor and cap
ital might be pardoned if he aspired to
the presidency.
Mr. Putnam, librarian of the con
gressional library, recommends again
in his annual report that the institu
tion be kept open on Sundays.
A Kansas woman committed suicide
after brooding over a poem on life and
death. Come, poets, cheer up. Poetry
is still sometimes taken seriously.
Vienna is having it3 first bread riot
of the present winter. Eventually
some one is likely to get hurt by fool
ing with these compressed yeast af
fairs. Little Terry McGovern's determina
tion to fight his way back to a return
match with "Young" Corbett indicates
that his pluck is still in the pink of
condition.
It may interest promoters of the
fight against ragtime music to know
that Emperor William has purchased
a few rolls of "coon" songs for his
Christmas graphophone.
Ship loads of potatoes. are arriving at
New York from Ireland, Scotland and
Belgium. Evidently all the world
doesn't propose to get all its food from
Uncle Sam all the time.
London newspaper men are afraid
that American women journalists .are
going to crowd them out of business.
Why don't they execute a coup by
marrying the lady journalists?
Who can longer doubt the courage
of woman when she not only goes over
Niagara in a barrel, but permits her
self to be inoculated with the germs
of consumption that mankind may be
benefited?
Once upon a time Connecticut was
famous chiefiy for its blue laws and
its home-made nutmegs. Now it
leads the United States In the making
of brass goods and the world in the
making of ivory goods. It is not up-to-date,
therefore, to call Connecticut
the Nutmeg state. It should be called
the Ivory state.
The Prince and Princess of Monaco
have decided to be friendly though
married. The Princess has vacated j
and Is building a villa in Algiers, while I
the Prince remains with his roulette
tables and bis petticoat peccadilloes.
She gets the monthly remittance and
he has peace, while the newspapers are
cheated. What an object lesson to
Holland!
A steamer has reached the port of
London, England, afiT no less than
two years and nine months centlnu-
ous voyaging on transport service, in .
the course of which she ha covered
more than 100,000 miles. The Wan- I
dering Jew himself was not a more ac- j
tive tramp than this steamer. How ;
glad the skirper and his crew must be
to find themselves on home shore at :
last:
A broken four-foot water main in
New York city was allowed to pour
forth a huge volume of water into
Madison avenue for two hours and a j
nair. nooaing basements tor blocks
around and filling the New York Cen
tral tunnel. Finally an assistant en
gineer was found and shut off the wat
er. Damages will cost an immense
sum. This is another instance of how
the most expensively governed city in
the world gets nothing but incompe
tence and neglect for its money.
Vermont is not one of the great and
. growing states of the union. Its pop
ulation increased only 3 per cent from
1890 to 1000. and the total 13 only 343.
41. But the Green mountain folks
are thrifty, as their savings banks
show. Deposits in these " institutions
increased 90 per cent during the past
decade. They average nearly $103 for
every man. woman and child in the
state, the whole amount on deposit be
ing $10,209,059.23. . Of this total $33.
415.771 are the savings of 107.695 resi
dents of Vermont, the balance of about
$7,000,000 being deposited by 15,430
non-residents.
King Edward has decided to wear a
fleur-de-lis on his coronation waist
coat, and Chamberlain covertly whis
pers that it is emblematic of the time
when. France was under England's do
main. Why not add an eagle to the
decoration, as a reminder of the time
before Mad George or a stamp tax?
We would not mind a little pleasantry.
The loss from conflagrations in this
country, for eleven months of 1901,
is $150,000,000. and the most of this
tremendous drain could be saved by
better construction and greater care.
According to the president of Bryn
Mawr, the fair 'students at that insti
tution are -bloodthirsty." But then
the president was addressing a Friends'
peace conference, and all that she
meant, probably, was that the students
are not so vehement "anti-imperialists'
as she could wish.
Illinois may be an octogenarian, but
she still baa all ber teeth, doesn't need
a cane, can get along without glasses
and enjoys three square meals a day.
It might be addea that In certain
places 8he Is a heavy smoker.
Flitting of the "Barber.
;. BY CHARLES HENSLEY.
(Copyright. 190t. by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
"Yaa'm, das what I wants ter do. I
K-nnta tr stick mv knife down the
th'oat er dat vilyun, er dat scound'el
" 'My. sez landy.
"Yas'ra.twell hit go ri' down th'ough
de middle er his black heart. Das
what I wants ter do. En when I git
hit dar. I des wants ter tu'n dat knife
roun en roun'. twell I cut dat black
heart er his'n inter chitterlins.
- Tv bpz Mandv. vou suttinly is
savage
" 'Dar sez I, 'dar. you done said hit.
When you sez savage you des spells my
name. I des so savage dat I eat dat
vilyun's heart en drink his blood en
des mt bat my eyes.
" 'What make you so savage agin dat
barber sez Mandy. 'what he bin doin
ter you?'
"What he hln doin ter me? He bin
doin des a plenty. Ain't he been
traDesin roun' wid de 'omau dat es
good es belong ter me; dat bin prom
isin' dese days en days fer ter may
me? En now he cot ter shove his
ugly se'f 'twix me en her, en try en
keep cump'ny wid her?
" 'En what de name er dat lady dat
you speakin er?' sez Mandy.
"Hit des a fool 'oraan er de name
er Mandy.en kase she des a fool 'oman
en ain't got so ve'y good senses, dey
ain't nuthin' dat I kin do ter her, 'cep
en savin' des ter drap her, enxdat I
reckon I got ter do: fer by dese ways
er gwine on she show dat she little
better'n a hussy. But fer dat barber,
I des suttinly takes hit outer him. I
des brack his back en knock de ugly
head clean offer him, das all.
" "En dat lady you speakin about?
sez Mandy. "I des kin tell you dis; she
got senses enuf ter do a heap er Unkin'
befo she ever ma'y wid a triflin' vil-
un like you is; wid yo big mouf en
yo big tales, en yo Knives, en yo
wcepuns, en yo hussies husey yo'se'f,
suh
"Da3 all ri. das all rl. Yo' de3 do
wid yo'se'f what you tink de bes ter
do, en ef you like ter keep somebody
else cump'ny better'n -my cump'ny. you
es keep hit. Hit don't matter ter me
Z de yeth des gyape open en swaller
yon up. But alier dat am t gwine save
dat barber. Dey ain't no use er yo
cryin en whimperin" roun me; dat
barber des got ter die. - i
" 'I ain't wo'yin' about dat barber
sez Mandy. 'I ain't sceart a bit fer
him. Dat barber des twicet de man
dat you Is. Ef I do enny cryin' hit be
fer you, you misubble scound'el. Dat
barber des ca'y pocketsful er knives
en razors roun wid him aller de time.
You go foolin' roun' wid dat barber en
he cuts de lights er life outer you. Ef
you tackle wid dat barber you better
git you a dray pin fer ter hit "him wid,
fer ef he gits clost ter you, you des es
good es dead en gone en mos' forgot.
"What Mandy sez about dat barber
diden suit me so ve'y better. I know
myse'f fom what I yere Tom dis one
en Tom dat one, dat he a bad man, des
a teh'ble man; a fightin man fom
yere come yonder. He des boas'es dat
enduin er his time he kill mo'n ten
men; en wid one er 'em dat he cuts
out a piece er his heart en toas'es hit
over de fire en eats hit wid pepper on
hit; en wid anudder dat he plarnt
vines on topper his grave en eats de
berries offer dem vine, des ter
strenken his heart. I des sholy got
ter watch my cornders wid a man like
dat. I tink en I tink. Fu3' I tink er
one way cn den I tink er anudder. One
time bit look like a good way des ter
stan' behinder a cornder twell he come
by 'en den ter swat him wid a dray
pin or a crow bar. Das all ri', ef I
don' miss my lick; but sposen dat I
dees miss my lick, dar I is wid my
lick done gone en he on topper me wid
his razor. En den agin I tink dat he
got ter cross de bayou on one er dem
bridge, en I might des sot up dar on
one er de beams twell he come under
en fall onter his head ri' hard. But
sposen dat he jump fom under, dar
I is on de groun', all shuck up wid de
faJi en widout de chanst ter lif my
han. Dat tink In' mos' kep me awake
in de night.
"In de mo'nin I got up en still I
diden know what de bes fer me ter do.
At de las' I tuck a nickel outer my
pocket en th'ow bit up in de ar, ter
see which way I got ter go dat day.
Well, suh, ef dat nickel diden pint ri
straight ter de shop er dat barber. I
pick hit up en th'ow hit again en hit
come de ve'y same way. Den I see.
come good luck, come bad luck, I des
got ter go ter dat barber shop. En
"My,"' sez Mandy. "you suttinly Is
savage."
widout taken enny mo time ter tink
I des goes. When I come ter de shop
I des walks in en hangs up my coat en
my hat. des like hit belong ter me, en
den I sits down in de barber cheer en
I sez: 'Barber sez I, 'gi me' a shave.
En de barber, he des lafs, en when
he done wuck up de lather en spread
hit over my face, he sez ter me, 'My
sez he, 'I bin tinkin fom what I yeres
dat I boun ter use my razor on you
fer sumpin else beside ter scrape yo'
chin. Not sez he, 'dat I got nuthln
agin you, kase I ain't, but fer aller dat
fire en fury dat I yeres about you, hit
look like I bleedzed ter do hit des ter
take keer er my own hide. 'Barber
sez I, 'people yeres a heap er ting dat
dey ain't no call fer 'em ter yere. en
a heap er ting dat neber wuz spoke.'
'I got nuthln agin you sez de bar-
I XM Wf
mm
ber, 'to be sho', ef I wanted dat 'oman
ri' bad, dat Mandy, I des would have
her ef I had ter skin you fus' to git
her. But I don' wau' her. I des
don. I got mo' wives ri
now den I got enny use fer. I got two
er 'em in dis yere town, en dey fixin
ter gi me trubble dis ve'y minute.
kase dey done foun' out dat I got mo'n
one. I don' wan no mo' er de 'oaians
ri' now. But I is got dis much agin
you sez he, 'dat you bin talkin"
mighty big. en bin tellin yo talcs er
what you gwine do wid me
" 'Barber sez I, 'don you let dat
razor slip; fer fom what you tell me
you is got all de trubble you needs ri'
now Per atter he tell me dat he got
mo wives on nis nanus cien ne goi
enny use fer, I wuz feelin all ri', en
I wuzen sceared er him no mo.
" 'Das so sez he. 'das so, ef I had de
time en wuzen a'ready in trubble. dey
ain't nuthln I like better,' sez he. 'den
des ter take you in han's cn cook yo'
goose, nut at de time presen . sez ne.
'dey is two lady a'ready quarlin over
me. en mv time is all tuck up. All I
got ter do sez he, 'is ter pull my foot
"Barber." sez I, "when do ycu leave.7"
outer dis yere town, en I got ter do
dat quick
" 'Barber sez I, 'whar you gwine
fom yere?'
I is gwine a long way, sez he, 'I
is gwine up North
" 'Barber sez I, 'when you gwine?'
" 'I wuz studyin' sez he, "ter start
termorrer evenin'
'Barber sez I. 'you start dis
evenin". I gi' you fi' dollah sez I, 'fi
good dollah ef you do.'
' 'All ri' sez he, 'I do hit; I go dis
ve'y evenin'.
'But how does I know, sez I. ef
I pays you my good money, dat you
keep yo' wo'd en go?
' 'You kin come down ter de rail
road sez he, 'en put dat fi' dollali
inter part er my ticket, en den. ef you
likes, you kin see me off on de train.'
En so dat evenin' atter de ticket wuz
bought I see him onter de cyars. en des
es de cyars wuz pullin' out he holler
outer de winder, 'you gi' my love ter
de lady. En I sez twix my teef, 'You
misubble scound'el, I des suttinly
win
"Dat same evenin I knock at Man-
dy's do'. I got free, fo" piece er dis yere
pink stickin plarster stickin ter my
chin en acrosst my cheek.
' 'My sez Mandy when she open de
do ter let me in, what you bin doin'
wid yo face; who bin meddlin' wid
yoii
' 'Dat some cr yo barber's doins.
sez l.
" 'En what you done wid dat bar
ber? sez she.
"I sez nuthin, but e'es looks at her ri'
stiddy. 'What you done wid dat bar
ber?' sez she again.
" "Oman sez I. 'dey ain't no barber
no mo, an wid dat she "gun ter whim
per an" ter cry-
'Dey aiu't no use er cryin' fer dat
barber," sez I, 'you seen de las' e dat
barber on topper er dis yeth
I don keer fer de barber sez she.
en nebber did keer a bit fer him. I
des wuz tinkin' er you; I don' wan
you ter have de blood er no man on
yo han's 'Dar, dat des hit, honey,'
sez I, 'en dat des what save dat bar
ber's life. De fus' time he git down on
his knee en be.? fer h'.s life, I shuck my
head. De second time he des beg an'
he pray, but I shuck my head. But
de las' time I sez ter him. 'Barber sez
I, 'ef I don' po out yo' blood dis time.
hit des kase er a lady dat don' like dis
yere killin en spillin3 er blood. Take
yo' misubble life sez I, 'en tank de
lady fer hit
" 'My sez Mandy. I diden tink you
could a done de barber dat a way; you
suttinly is a man
" 'En now, 'oman sez I, mighty sol
emn, 'let dis be a warnln ter you;
you des take yo cautions fom dis, en
ef enny er dese yere triflin scoun
d'els, ef dey wuz barbers or des what
dey wuz, come foolin' roun wid you.
you des tu'n em loose en tell 'em ter
o dey ways. Ef dey don. I des po'
out dey blood all over de yeth. Fer
fom dis times on. fom dis ve'y day.
dey ain't no mo' pitty or mussy in dis
bus'm "
Lighthouse and Fort.
One of the most interesting and curi
ous lighthouses in the world has
just been completed on the cape which
forms the southern end of the island
of Formosa. Standing in a region in
habited only by hostile savages, this
structure is not only a lighthouse,
but also a fort. The lantern is pro
tected by revolving steel screens, and
In the gallery around the top of the
tower is mounted a machine gun. The
tower is of steel, and around its base
is built a wrought iron refuge, or fort.
which communicates by bullet-proof
covered passages with the keeper's
house. The station is still further
protected by a loopboled wall and a
dry ditch, flanked by two towers in
which are mounted 8-pound cannon.
There is a large staff attached to the
lighthouse and the station Is well sup
plied with material for standing: a
siege. There are kept on hand con
stantly stores of food and ammunition
and large water tanks in the basement
of the tower always are kept full of
drinking water.
INDIANS AS POLITICIANS.
Electioneering Auiouu the Tribes on
Kather Unique Plan.
The campaigns of the Indians are a
story of sharp moves and deep laid
plans, and, as among themselves they
cannot all be bosses, the game of poli
tics often becomes swift and exceed
ingly dangerous. Electioneering is
carried on in a rather unique manner.
They give big picnics in the back
wot us. Here the candidates meet and
debate on certain subjects. If their
temper gets the better of them, and
it -oncrally does, they fight it out.
At a picnic given by tbe Cherokees
some live years ago three men were
killed tec-ause of the accusation by
one that the other two were guilty
cT ttftline horses. Big feaslo are
held at these gatherings, the ex
penses being borne by the candidate
who is elected. The bills are never
paid v.ntil after election; th-;i; thr:
ninncr takes them all into his office
and ifives vouchers on the foverument.
So it is generally understood that the
expentes of the campaign are borne
cut of the public funds. Thero is no
such thing as taxation among tl e In
dians, all of their money coming :r:ni
invested funds in the treasury at
Washington. It is the aim of the whote
Indian populace not to keep this money
tuc-e. but to get hold of as n:u:h of
it as possible. With that aim in view
they are apt to elect men who lay
stress on their ability as diplomats at
Washington. An attorney in Tahle-
qiiih won a $100,000 fee for securing a
bij: rum of :r.oi;ey as an appropria
tion to tiit inrMans Detroit Ti"n'
Press.
A GIANT FUCHSIA.
Mugnlficeut Specimen of This riant In
Portland. Oregon.
The largest and most magnificent
fuchsia plant in this city, and prob
ably in the state, is to be seen in the
garden of Robert Foulkes, says the
Portland Oregonian. It springs from a
single Kteni some three inches in diam
eter, but divides into three at the sur
face of the ground. The top is seven
feet in height and is twenty-six feet
in circumference, and is loaded with
hundreds of beautiful flowers in every
stage of development, while the ground
beneath is carpeted with fallen blos
soms. The plant would have been
much higher and broader but for the
fact that it has to be put in the cellar
every winter and the limbs have to be
trimmed off. Vhe height has to be re
duced so that it can stand under the
floor above. A rather remarkable thing
is that when the plant is dug up at the
beginning of winter, it is in full foliage
and still loaded with blossoms. Up
rooting almost any plant in this con
dition would prove fatal, but the fuch
sia takes it all as a matter of course,
and soon after it is houses the leaves
and flowers fade and drop off and the
plant goes to sleep. As soon as it feels
the breath of spring it begins to put
forth tender shoots in profusion, as a
hint that it wants to get out of doors.
When it is planted out, it starts in
growing and "blowing" as if to make
up for lost time. Mr. Foulkes has sev
eral other varieties of fuchsia In his
garden, one of which produces beauti
ful blossoms eight inches in length
from the end of the stem to the end
of the petals.
Koyal Family Secrets.
A few months ago the Empress Fred
erick caused her journals and her cor
respondence to be destroyed, including
an immense collection of letters writ
ten by Queen Victoria, most of which
were, of course, of a strictly con Aden -
tial nature. The late Empress was no
doubt anxious to prevent any possi
bility of a repetition of the vexatious
tracasseries which arose about the pa
pers of Emperor Frederick and caused
so much trouble during the summer
of 1SSS, until they were safely de
posited among the Hohenzollern family
archives at Berlin. It is believed that
the famous diary, about which there
were such floods of gossip, was burnt
shortly after this removal. It is well
known that Queen Victoria had a great
deal of trouble and anxiety about the
Prince Consort's confidential corre
spondence with his brother, the late
Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Prince Albert wrote most openly to his
brother and his weekly letters were full
of private family affairs and of social
and political secret history. Ultimately
Duke Ernest handed over the Prince's
letters to the Queen, who also re
covered her husband's correspondence
with his cousin, the late king of Portu
gal. London Truth. ;
Not Croanlnz Sinzlnr.
The following story was related the
other day in the Liverpool (England)
Post. Seated In a third class carriage
of a south bound express were eight
people. Seven of the number were
quietly reading, when suddenly the
eight broke into deep and blood
curdling groans. Horror-stricken the
Tvat gazed at him for a moment, and
then one of them, with great presence
of mind, produced a brandy flask,
and, pouring out a copious draught
forced it on tne sutierer. it was
quickly disposed of. "How do you feel
now," yiquired one of the company,
Prime: was tne reply, wnat was
the matter with you?" was the next
nuprv "Matter with me? Nothtnc'"
was the indignant retort. . "What in
the name or thunder did you groan
like that for, then?" cried the owner
of the brandy. "Groan, sir groan!"
said the astonished man. "Why, I was
singing."
Gold In Kansas Shale.
Professor Ernst Fahrig, chief of
laboratories of the Philadelphia Com
mercial Museum, gives the result of a
test made by him of tbe shale found in
Ellis and Trego counties of Kansas,
which is believed to contain gold in
paying quantities. The test comprises
three mill runs, in which gold was se
cured to the amount of $2.35, $2.56 and
$3.07, respectively, by the electrolytic
process, frot. r anrig visited the shale
fields and gathered the sample lots
which were used In .the above tests.
He makes an official certificate of the
above tests, and states that he ha
no doubt of the existence of gold In
the great body of these shale lands,
and the ore can be profitably worked
upon a yield of $2 per ton.
NEW USE EOR
To Repla.ce Horses
The British war department has de
termined upon introducing zebras into
the army in Africa fbr military pur
poses to take the places of horses and
mules of which there is an ever in
creasing shortage. Experiments which
have been made with these animals
show that they can be utilized to-day
as satisfactorily as they have been in
the past by the Abyssinian and others.
They will fill the existing needs of the
British transport and cavalry cervices
in a way that It would otherwise seem
impossible to meet them. It is ex
tremely probable that in the breeding
stations to be established in Mashon
aland and Somaliland a hybrid animal
will be produced for the purpose of
cavalry mounts by crossbreeding with
English hunting stock, it having been
proved by experiments that good re
sults can be obtained in this manner.
The imperial zebra, sometimes found
as tall as fifteen hands. Is a result of
breeding the largest average for any
of the native African breeds not being
over thirteen hands. Zebra and zebra
hybrids have been bred in Europe for
A man who Is Interested in one of
the biggest gushers in the Beaumont
oil fields of Texas thus describes how
one of the big wells starts:
"We knew some time before the
gusher was brought in that what we
hoped for was coming. The drillers
were prepared for it and had removed
their tools from the deep hole. If they
had not done that everything in the
well would have been thrown into the
air. e could hear the tnrouDings or
a great force below. The noise was
like the puff of a monster engine,
dying away and then growing louder
than before. The puffs soon increased
to a mighty roar, and we knew that
the climax would come soon. I was
standing near the well with my watch
In my hand. It was exactly 10:23
o'clock on the morning of October 25
when the first substance was thrown
out. First there was only sand, as it
is called in California, or oil rock, as
they term It in Pennsylvania. Then
SPANISH
SEEK A
if there is any city in the United
States that would like to have a sub
urban colony of i-e "real" gypsies
about 4,000 of them now is the time
to bid. They are not of the type of
roving vagabonds, "horse swappers"
and chicken thieves, against whom
Americans lock their stables and hen
roosts, but genuine, blue-blooded gyp
sies fresh from the cave homes of the
mountains of Granada. Spain.
Queen Stella, the "inspired" leader
of the Gonzalez tribe of Spanish gyp
sies, is in Columbus. Ohio, on a tour
of America in search of a future home
for her band. Society folk, club folk,
and college folk seem to take her at
her word, notwithstanding that Queen
Stella has no aversion to making a
few honest dollars, offering a few
choice Egyptian medical secrets ror
sale.
I scorn the vagabonds who roam
over America and call themselves gyp
sies. Our people at Granada do not
beg, trade horses or steal," declares
the sprightly little queen
e live In
LIFE AT GIBRALTAR.
int.Miilnr Description of tne I'lciur-
qa Old Fortress.
The incoming steamer anchors in
the bay half a mile from shore, pas-
sengers are taken off In boats, and be
fore entering the city they pass a rigid
examination by the police, who ask
a number of pertinent questions. The
name, nationality, occupation and mis
sion of the stranger in Gibraltar are
entered in a book.
He receives a card, which entitles
him to the hospitality of the rock for
twenty-four IIOUIS. 11 ue utfsnt-a i
stay longer a bond of $50 for good be-
havlor will secure him immunn ironi
molestation for not more than thirty
to sixty days. This permission, how
ever, can, with the proper kind of in
fluence, be renewed many times.
The town is quaint, picturesque and
quiet, with its 19.000 people, mostly
English and Spanish, though the num
ber of different nationalities represent
ed makes it one of the most cosrcopo:i-
tan places in the world Jews. Turks,
the natives of Gibraltar.
called "Rock Scorpions," Africans and
refugees from all nations, jolting each
in the three badly built irrl-
tat'ngly narrow streets of the town.
The garrison numbers about 6,000
persons, making the population of the
rock about 25,000. The soldiers are,
for the most part, regulars brought
home from foreign, service for rest
and recuperation. The governor oi me
rock lives in the government nouse,
formerly an old convent.
Everything is done by military rule;
th hours df the day are announced
by sun fire, the morning gun followed
by the bugle reveille wakens the in
habitants from their slumbers, and
the bugle blast that follows the even
ing gun, telling the soldiers to turn In.
has become a signal for the civilian
tn m home and go to bed. The aver
age daily number entering the garri
son for the purpose of trading and of
bringing supplies is 30,000, the great
proportion of these daily visitors lur
ing Spaniards.
The town contains forty-iwo scnoois
and three good libraries. The dwell
ings are small, ill-ventilated, badly
drained and not over clean. They are
very crowded, as 15,000 people live in
one square mile of low houses.
j Hote a Gusher o?iZd a i
ZEBRAS
in African Transport Service
over a century and are quite common
for harness purposes. In their tame
state they are docile and industrious,
some of them also being quite fleet, al
though they do not equal tLe horse
for speed.
Both in his gait and attitudes as in
his mode of fighting the zebra differs
from the horse.
When reconnciiring. he moves at the
trot, holding his head high and flex
ing his fetlocks.
When running away he canters cr
gallops, with his head hanging down
in a line with his stretched neck.
When charging he often carries his
head a little to one side, so that he is
ready to seize his opponent by the leg.
While the home of the horse was
undoubtedly in America, its ancestors
having reached Asia across the Behr
ing strait and found a suitable home
among the Himalayas. Somaliland was
probably the original home of the
striped, dun-colored ancestors of the
zebras, and in the Somaliland zebra of
to-day the principal plan of marking
has been preserved almost unaltered.
came a lot of perfect oyster shells,
showing that at an unknown time the
waters and an oyster bed had been
there. It is the more remarkable on
account of the fact that tbe oyster
shells were thrown from a depth of
1,000 feet below the level of the sea.
After the shells came mud and frag
ments that had been made by the
drilling. We next saw soapstone. and
this was followed by a strong flow of
gas. Suddenly the action of the gush
er died down, but only for a few mo
ments. The same disturbing process
was repeated, and then came the oil,
shooting out almost horizontally a
distance of 250 feet. The pipe was
quickly changed to an upright posi
tion, and the column of oil. passing
through an eight-inch pipe, was 273
feet high. We let the gusher have its
own way for five minutes, to test it
thoroughly, and then the two valves
in the pipe were turned and the flow
stopped."
GYPSIES
HOME
caves and in a climate where every
thing grows without care, and we are
an indolent people, given to singing,
dancing and delving into the mysteries
of the occult sciences. I am looking
for a future home for my people and
have adopted this method of traveling
over America in the hope of finding
some suitable place for colonization.
"We must locate near some large
city, into which we may go to sing,
dance and practice our arts for a live
lihood. But I never go to any city of
my own accord. That city must in
vite me.
"No, I am not a real queen. The
Gonzalez have no ruler and recognize
none except God. But they have their
leader, and I am she. The leader be
comes such by sheer force cf her rc-cog
nized inspiration. The gyp?y recog
nizes inspiration as essentially femi
nine, hence the sex of their leaders.
I only call myself queen because the
people of this country would not ap
preciate what leadership means with
us under any other name than queen."
There are no springs of pure water.
the great dependence being on rain
water collected In cisterns or on wa
ter brought from the mainland and
sold by pedlers. Prices are high, al
most as high as the Sugar Loaf the
peak of the rock. J. Ronald Walling-
ford in Ledger Monthly.
The Streets of Fez.
The sun never touches the ground
In Fez. Morocco, except in a few Iso
lated spaces, owing to the narrow
streets, the hight of houses and the
habit of stretching trellises covered
with vines across from side to side.
The consequence is that its naturally
dark-skinned citizens, being rarely ex
posed to the full light of day. have
complexions resembling partially de
composed potato sprouts in a dark cel
lar. The so-called streets run in
straight lines the entire length of thj
town and are all paved with round
stones the size of cocoanuts. worn
smooth by the tread of generations of
slippered feet. As these lanes are
never swent and every householder
throws his slops and refuse out of
doors, one must pick his way with ex
ceedinz care. The Wed el Jubai
("River of Pearls") divides the city
into two parts, the new and the old.
The latter, called by the Arabs Fas
el-bali, lies on the right side of the
stream; Fas el djedid. the newer por
tion, on the left. The "River of
Pearls" is fordable in every part, the
resort of every four-footed and two
legged beast in the place; it receives
all the drainage of the city, and is the
general source of the drinking water
supply. Detroit Free Press.
A New Method of Destrojlng- Kate.
A curious story comes from Lisbon.
It appears that the city became In
fested with rats and that cats, traps
and poisons proved of no avail. Finally
the authorities commissioned the
municipal doctors to Inoculate the rats
with some infectious disease. A suit
able virus, harmless to man, having
been found, a few rats were caught, in
oculated and released. The experi
ment, so the account says, proved a
great success, the bacillus spread rap
idly and the rats died so fast that In
a short time the city was free from tho
pest.
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
I A most Important article, glrinC:
, Messrs. Oxnard's and Cutting's flews
, on the Beet Sugar Industry in this
j country, appeared on the editorial pagv
J of the New York Evening Post of De
cember 12th. 1901, and as every house
hold in the land is interested in sugar
the article will be of universal interest.
"The Evening Post bids the heartiest
welcome to every American industry
that can stand on Its own bottom and
make its way without leaning on the
poor rates. Among these self-supporting
industries, we are glad to know, is
the production of beet sugar. At all
events, it was Buch two years ago. W
publish elsewhere a letter written in
1899, and signed by Mr. Oxnard and
Mr. Cutting, the chiefs of this indus
try on the eastern side of the Rocky
Mountains, showing that this was the
happy condition of the trade at that
time. If parties masquerading as beet
sugar producers are besieging the Pres
ident and Congress at this moment,
and pretending that they will be ruined
if Cuban sugar is admitted for six
months at half the present rates of
duty, their false pretences ought to b
exposed. "The letter of Messrs. Oxnard andr
Cutting was probably written for the
purpose of Inducing the farmers of the
Mississippi valley to go more largely
into tbe cultivation of beets for tho
sugar factories. This was a laudable
motive for telling the truth and show
ing the large profits which awaited
both the beet-grower and the manufac
turer if the industry were persevering
ly and intelligently prosecuted. To this
end it was pointed out that farmers
could clear $63 per acre by cultivating
beets, and might even make $100. Bjt
in order to assure the cultivator that
he would not be exposed to reverses
by possible changes in the tariff, they
proceeded to show that the Industry
stood In no need of protection.
"The beet sugar Industry, these gen
tlemen say, "stands on as firm a basis
as any business in the country." They
point out tbe fact a very Important
one that their product eomeri out as a
inished article, refined and granulat
ed. It is not, like cane-sugar grown
in the West India Islands, a black and
offensive paste, which must be carrie.i
In wagons to the seaboard and thence
by rhips to the United States, where,
after another handling. It is pui
through a costly refinery, and then
shipped by rail to the consumer, who
may possibly be in Nebraska alongside
a beet sugar factory which turns c;f
the refined and granulated article at
one fell swoop. InderJ, tbe advan
tages of the producer of beet sugar for
supplying the domestic consumption,
are very great. We have no doubt that
Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting are within
bounds when they say that 'sugar can
be produced here cheaper than It can
be in Europe Tho reasons for this
are that
" 'The sugar inductry Is, after all,
merely an agricultural one. We can
undersell Europe la all other crops,
and sugar is no exception.'
."It follows as naturally as the mak
ing of flour from wheat. If we can
produce wheat cheaper than Europe,
then naturally we can produce flour
cheaper, as we do.
"But the writers of the letter do not
depend upon a-prlori reasoning to prove
that they can make sugar at a profit
without tariff protection. They point to
the fact that under the McKInley tariff
of 1S90, when sugar was free of duty,
the price of the article was 4 cents per
pound. Yet a net pro3t of $3 per ton
was made by the beet-2ugar factories
under those conditions, not counting
any bounty on the borne production of
sugar. They boast that they made this
profit while working under absolute
free trade, and they have a right to be
proud of this result of their skill and
industry. Many beet-sugar factories
had been started in bygone years, back
in tho sixties and seventies of the nine
teenth century, and had failed because
the projectors did not understand th
business. Since then great progress ha3
been made, both here and abroaJ, in
the cultivation and manipulation of the
bett. What was impossible thirty- years
ago Is now entirely feasible. The In
dustry is already on a solid and endur
ing basis. There are factories In tho
United States, these gentlemen tell us
in their letter, capable of using 350,00.
tons of beets per annum at a profit of
$3 per ton, and this would make a
profit of $1,050,000 as the income to
be earned under absolute free trade.
"It must be plain to readers of this'
letter, signed by the captains of the
beet-sugar Industry, that the peop.-e in
Washington who are declaiming
against the temporary measure which
the President of the United State
urges for the relief of the Cuban peo
ple, are either grossly Ignorant of the
subject, or are practising gross decep
tion. The tenable ground for them is
to say: 'Other people are having pro
tection that they do not need, and
therefore we ought to have more than -
we need This "would be consistent
with the letter of Messrs. Oxnard ami
Cutting, but nothing else Is so."
A "Itrxl Iaachter" Dud,
Mrs. Jincey Bacon, a real daughter
of the Revolution, though she does nor,
seem to have belonged to the order,
died suddenly at Laurel, Del., Tuesday,
being 95 years old aud in full pos
session of her faculties, so that sho
had confidently hoped to pass the cen
tury mark. She was a daughter of
Colonel Isaac Fooks, a noted Dela
warean and a friend of General Wash
ington, with whom heTjtvintercd at
Valley Forge.
Croker's Wicked Doable.
The sory that Richard Croker has
a double who is responsible for much
of the remarkable talk recently cred
ited to the Tammany chleftarn by the
New York papers is suggestive of the
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde romance, but
Mr. Croker says Ms talkative counter-
felt presentment is a real man, for
whom he Js going to bunt.
No Cltlssos' Mass Meeting In Rnssla.
In Russia no meetings ot privats
citizens for any purpose are permit
ted; the privilege of holding meetings
is granted only to chartered corpora
tions or associations. All crowds, ex
cept in places of amusement, or wor
ship, are dispersed by the police. No
premises can be hired for the purpose
of holding a meeting without a permit
from the police-
This season the Maine woods have
yielded an albino moose, three or four
albino deer and two pure albino squirrels.
