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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1899)
WIDOW OR WIFE. It wu all over. We bad loved this young man, the rising author of tha time, we had wept over his books, we wept over his untimely death, In the orthodox biff railway accident Just out side Southampton, "at the early age of H;" and we talked of "deathless fame" and aaid, "whom the g-ods love die you nr." and then changed the subject. 80 we went on with the world and left Martin Arthur behind. Mlse Rou pell stood before the mirror in her bedroom, leaning her hands on the toi let table, with Its adorning of crystal and ivory, and looked at her face in the glass. "Isn't it written there?" she said aloud. And then she laughed, the aw ful laugh of a woman who is bur lesquing her own real emotion, which has Its source In the very foundations of a deep nature, and which will die when It dies, or kill it; there is no other way. Three people had asked her that day why she was in mourning. The friends and acquaintances had gradually real ised that the touches of color which had of late begun to lighten the wid ow's weeds, had again faded Into black ma before, and that the strange heart wearing, heart-slckenlng time of mourning seemed to have gone back a step, and resumed Its old haggard un certainty. For Maria Koupell was a widow, and no widow. Her husband was dead so Mid ordinary surmise, so said humble probability, so said the newspapers, which gave an account of the sinking of the Atlantic liner Ramadan, with all hands but two. In the bay three years before. There was only one thing lacking positive, Incontrovertl hl. nrnof- and that thing tarried. Bhe had been passionately In love with Martin Arthur. In the old days it racking uncertainty as to her nus band's fate, she had met the rising author whose name was then appearing above fame's horizon, as the edge of the sun's disc looks over into tne world. He became deeply Interested in her. She was a handsome woman of the night-dark Spanish type, a crea ture of the strong emotions, distracted with suspense, torn this way and that by hopes and fears. When a woman Is suffering through her love for one man, another may wrap himself inextricably in the flying threads of her life and become more near, more clear to her than she has any knowledge of, by standing silent but ever in readiness at her right hand. She will turn to him for help. And when a woman goes to a man for help, those feeble hands so plte ously outstretched hold In their open palms the link of a chain which binds lives together loosely. It may be, but there is a bond nevertheless, and "the bands of love are salr to loose." Martin Arthur and Maria Roupel! found their lines laid side by side, felt the fetters that stretched lightly from wrist to wrist were necessary to each other, and knew that it was so. Three yeara passed and George Rou pell did not return, and out of the life nf hi widow his memory was slowly, softly, Irresistibly shouldered by the filmy, insidious gnosi 01 me pci mol ality of another man. One day the ghost put on Immortality, and the likeness of God s own Image and Maria Roupell found the cold. Intangible shape en dowed with flesh and blood eyes that looked Into her very soul, strong arms that held her against a broad breast, llpe that spoke words of passion like a flame of lire, that took their answer from her and would not be denied, and behold! she awoke and there was no friend any more, but a lover In deed and truth. "Martin, Martin," she said, looking up at him with a great love and a des perate fear struggling for the suprem acy In her beautiful dark face, "If I knew! oh. God! If I knew! But I do not. I may not be a widow at all I may be his wife still, and In that case " "In that case I love you Just the same, and nothing can alter It," he answered. "You have no proofs? Then proofs shall be obtained, If we have to search every Inch of the Atlantic. Do you think I moan to let you go to let a shadow separate us? Dearest woman in the world, the thing has got to be done, and I will do It.' ' "Dorlnda, you are looking very 111, my child." "I'm realy quite well, only but per haps It's a mercy to be thought ill when one Is merely miserable. . . . Girls are fools, Mrs. Roupell! And do they always leave oft folly when they become women? Oh, forgive me! 1 am talking nonsense I've got Into the habit of It because It Is easier than saying nothing and feeling a great black curtain coming slowly, slowly down down down, directly one stops to thing. . . . Your mourning 1 envy you! What am I saying? Rut 1 wish I had an excuse for wearing It." "For whom?" Maria Roupell was not the sort of person to ask a tactless question as a rule, and with such blank directness, but there was something In the girl's face that reminded her of her own a she had seen It in the mirror that morning. . Dorlnda Carson moved nervously In . ho.itntiwl and then spoke ner i Mu , ... ... - quickly, and In a low voice, with her face avertea irum nei m"" - m,.rr,t IlhC I Ifflf'W WhO yj : 1 "i " - ----- has died lately some one I had no right to De ronu 01. mwv.., Maria I must speah-may I? You will understand, and nobody elst would" And the girl was on her knees by Ma ria's chair, clasping the hands which lay on her lap, and bowing the golden head till It almost touched them. Into such a ghastly knot! I've nobody to blame but myself; I've taken m happiness In both hands and thrown It The listener Involuntarily wondered what It felt like to have happiness def lnltely within one's grasp for a little Dorlnda Carson paused, panted for 1reath, and went on, with an effort: "I have been engaged to the best man In the world for over a year, and we are to be we are to be marrlec In March The best man in the world!" with a bitter little laugh "the dearest to me. and the hardest. And there are others more superficially fasclnatlng ometlmes. When Egbert was In th State this autumn I aw a good deal of-of that other. I only looked on him as a friend, of course. . . But one night t a dance he waa charming He turned my head. He made love to me. He tried to make me unfaithful to my lover. O, I wanted to bet I was not- but I wrote to him once or twice, and after hi death my letttr were found In a packet directed to Kgtoert Tooi, fool, wor than fool; I. Was to have written them, and to such a man Martin Arthur." And ah clang to the kind hand and sobbed plteously. Ood or the devil helped Mail Rou pell through the next three minute. Then h bent over the mlerable child and ll oftlri "ank,.yo.u ' telling me all this. I will write a let tj "5 Fiber t, and I think he will II- ten to what I say. It will all com right, my Dorlnda. Now leave me and go home. I will send the letter this evening. Don't thank me It Is I who should thank you," which remark will never be explained In this life to Dor lnda Carson. Mrs. Roupell kept her promise. She wrote to Egbert Trevanlon, simply and quietly she asked tier forgiveness for "an old woman's Interference." That Mr. Trevanlon paused, thought It over, relented (being a sensible fel low), and married Dorlnda Carson In March, has nothing to do with this story. The gods are good to fools. Mrs. Roupell put the letter into Its envelope and rang the bell. "I want this to go at once," she paid to the houemaid who answered it. "But where is Thompson?" "I believe he is at the front door, ma'am," was the reply. "There's a gentleman calling, " and the girl left the room. ' A minute later the handle turned, and a single footstep sounded on the soft carpet, while silence followed the opening of the door. "Is that you, Thompson?" Inquired his mistress, vaguely, without turning her head. ''1 am not at home this afternoon." There was no answer. George Rou pell stood on the threshold, drinking in with starved senses the sight before him, every detail of the well-loved, well-remembered figure of his beautiful wife, with all his soul in his eyes as she raised her bowed head and looked toward the door to see who stood there. "Maria!" he said. The Voice. Tha Inky Squid Fish. The squid belongs to a class called Teuthldae, the members of which are distinguished by the horny shell or "pen" found Inside of them. This "pen" contains "ink." and Ink It Is of a very fine quality. Incredible though It may seem, this Ink endures for thousands of years. There was a prehistoric species of squid fish, hundreds of times larger than the fish we see today. One of them waa dug up by members of the great fossil, hunting expedition led Into the fossil beds of Wyoming last July by Prof. Wilber C. Knight, president of the Uni versity of Wyoming. The ink was etlll preserved, and members of the expedi tion wrote their names with it. Concerning the strange fish Rev. John G. Wood, the great naturalist, says in his Popular Natural History: "Our present example of this family is the little squid, or sepiola, of which genus six species are known, Inhabiting most parts of the world, and living on our own shores. "The celebrated 'Ink' of the creatures, from which the valuable color called sepia' was formerly obtained, deserves a brief notice. "This substance is liquid, and Is se creted In a sac popularly termed, from its office, the 'ink-bag.' The sac is filled with a spongy kind of matter, in which the In klies. and from which it can be forcibly expelled at the will of the animal. The Ink-bag is not alwayB In the same position, but some species have It In the liver, others near the si phon and others among the viscera. There is a communication between the Ink-bag and the siphon, so that when the Ink is ejected it Is forcibly drawn out, together with the water. Thus the very effort for escape serves the double purpose of urging the creature away from danger and discoloring the water In which it swims. "The animal can eject the Ink with such force that It has been known to dedecorate a naval officer's white duck trousers with Its liquid missile, the ag grieved Individual always asserting that It took a deliberate aim for that purpose. "Generally the animal throws out Its Ink on the least alarm, a circumstance of some importance In geology. It was discovered by Dr. Buckland that In many specimens of fossil cephalopods, called scientifically Geoteuthls, I. e., earth squid, the Ink-bag remained in the animal untouched by Its long so journ within the earth, and even re tained Its quality of rapid mixture with water. A drawing was actually made by Sir F. Chantrey, with a por tlon of 'sepia' taken from a fossil spe cies, and the substance proved to be of such excellent quality tnat an artist, to whom the sketch was shown, was desirous of learning the name of tho colorman who prepared the tint. Had a Hunch. A middle-aged Maryland farmer, who picked the right bnes to the tune of nearly $800 at the Rockvllle Fair races last week, got Into Washington on the night following the wind-up of the fair. He was hunting for Joyance, and three cheerful workers got hold of him and nudged him Into a four-handed poker game. The farmer dldn t know mucn about the game, but he won Bteadlly for the first hour. Then the cheerful workers went at him In a bunch, and they took his winnings and his own bundle off him so fast that It made him sneeze. One of them got a "squee Jlb," which he explained as a hand that couldn't be shown, and raked down JI35 of the Maryland Man's money. An other got a lallapaloosa, consisting of three clubs and a pair of spades, and toog $5 oSf the farmer's money. The Maryland man only had three queens. Another of the merry grafters caught four diamonds and the ace of clubs on top .which, being a "klfty-nlteh," beat any hand In the deck, as was explained to the man who had won out on the 'air, and the "kifty-nltch" topped his king full and cost him $S0 more. The Maryland farmer began to look pretty olemn when he was more than $300 In (he hole. Then It came to a Jackpot. Al lhands stayed until the pressure be :ame too great, and when two of the grafters dropped r4ut there was more than $350 In the center of the table. The farmer stood pat and he came back at the grafter, who plugged at him every time with $2! raises. When there was more than $00 In the middle of the table the farmer pasted the nmount of the grafter's last raise Into the center of the table and called. The grafter laid down four Jacks. "No good," said the farmer, throwing his hand face down In the middle of the table and raking In the pot. "Hold on there," exclaimed the graft, er. "What are you trying to do, any how? I've got four Jacks. What have you got." "I've got a hunch," said the farmer, sweeping the stakes, which consisted of bills, and not chips. Into his pocket; and he backed out of the room. He happened to be about six foot three, and built proportionately, and th cheerful worker didn't attempt to de tain him. To prAerve oilcloth, put two ounce of alue Into a pint of water: let this tand in a warm oven until melted. If It remain liquid when cool It I lit f6r use; It not a little more warm water may be added to It Having washed the oilcloth and allowed It to dry thor oughly, proceed thu: Dip a linen rag In the glue water and rub the oilcloth. Let It dry. This will preserve the oil cloth and give It a beautiful glos. After this application only dusting will b required' for Mm tin THE FAIRY POD. Tha LeMon Katla Learned White Listening to tha Pea. Katie got very tired after picking a basketful of peas In the hot summer un, so she thought for a change she would begin to shell a few while she sat down In the shade of the coool green rows of peas, almost twice a tall as herself. She burst two or three pods, and ran her thumb down the row of little shin ing green balls so tightly tucked away In their cosy little bed. "Just like mother tucks us up, all snug and com fy," thought Katie, as she threw away the empty pod. Then somehow the next shell seemed a very long time In being stripped of its little inmates, and Katie fancied she heard some silvery little sounds, Just as If some wee fairy bells were chiming. They seemed a little out of tune, and not at all one after the other, as Katie had heard the bells at the big gray church, where she went every Sunday afternoon with mother to hear father talk to the other children who came there. Presently the bells stopped, and Ka tie heard a tiny voice say, in rather a grumpy tone, though it was so small: "I wish you wouldn't push me so; I have hardly room to breathe!" Then came an answer in a little deep er voice: "If we all thought of each other and not so much of ourselves whether we are comfortable or not, no one would know whether they were pushing or being pushed." Somehow Katie thought she had heard that remark somewhere else. "Well," cried the first voice, rather rudely, "I'm not pushing. It Isn't me, It's" Katie listened very hard and tried to catch the name, but she couldn't. All wondered where all the voices came from, but she could not make out. At last a little rustling on a spray of green leaves caught her eye and to her surprise she saw a vary fat, big pod bumping about most Indignantly on its tiny twig. "It will break off In a minute." thought Katie, "and I'm sure it will burst and the peas will roll out!" While watching it she could distinctly hear some little voices Inside, and thei. she knew it was the little green pea: she had heard quarreling together. "Now," she thought to herself, "I'll keep very quiet, and perhaps they'l say some more." Pretty soon they did. "I never get a turn at being it,' am" you know 1 like that part of the gam best. I hate always being caught." Again she thought she had hear;1 those words somewhere else. When was It? Soon there was a good deal of bust ling In the fat pod, and, to Katie t astonishment, one end came open, and out dropped a little, wrinkled, gray dried-up-looklng pea. "That's the one," thought Katie "that's being so cross. I wonder wheth er there's a maggot In It." She took the pea up, and there sun enough was a white speck Inside which she knew was the cause of its being s. ugly. Just at that moment the whole pod fell down close to Katie's feet, and bursting open, showed a row of nlct little green balls. The noise was so great that Katie sat up and rubbed her eyes. There In hei lap was the pod she had half shelled, but nowhere could she see the fat ont with the quarrelsome peas. She looker all around, but she could not find It. "Why, Katie!" exclaimed a sweet voice, and a loving face looked through the green leaves down at her. Running to her mother, she caught hold of her dress and said: "Mother, do come here! I've had such a funny dream 1" Then she told her of all the we voices she had heard ,and ended up by saying, "and the funny part Is that J have heard all that somewhere else be fore. Where was It, mother?" Mother's gentle face grew a llttlt grave. She stroked Katie's hair very gently as she said: "I think my little Katie is very often like that little gray pea. Instead of be ing happy and cheerful, whatever she has to do, she grumbles, and when little friends come In to play with her she always wants to be first, and she is cross If she Is not. Her temper Is something like the maggot that so up set the little pea that It looked ugly and cross, and at last fell out of the comfy little home it had, upsetting all Its brothers and sisters." Katie's face began to get very pink, and two bright tears fell down on mam ma's hand. Now she knew where she had heard the discontented little voice and she felt ashamed. So with a sob she said, "I'll try to remember, mother." Mother smiled and gave her a very loving kiss, and she did try so hard that every one wondered at her sweet ness. Only she and her mother knew the tittle lesson she had had, and now she Is a very old lady, who Just tells all her grandchildren this story to show them how each little soul in a homt must try to do his or her part to make It happy. Chinese Chess. Chinese chess Is called wei-chi. It Is played on a board containing 324 squares, formed by 19 lines crossing 19 others at right angles, thus making 361 points of intersection; 300 "men" are used, moving along the points of In tersection 150 black andi 150 white. One move at a time Is made by placing a piece on a point. The winner is the one who surrounds the greater number of points with his own men, surrounds an empty point, or a point occupied by the enemy, who Is then removed. At the corners and along the sides a point can be secured Anally; but In the center of the board there Is always the dan ger of a besieging army being besieged by a greater one. An adaptation of the game has been Imported In Europe; but for some reason or other It Is child's play. Wel-ch'l Is not child's play. At chess twenty minutes to half an hour Is some times allowed for a single move; at wel-ch'l one move an hour Is playing recklessly, like a novice. Toward the end of the game players will sit and look at the board for a whole day, at the end of which "white" puts down a checker. Then he suffers a night ot remorse and arony, knowing he has made a mistake. The Anglo-Saxon race probably does not produce more than one Intellect In a generation capable of entertaining all the possible combina tion dependent on a single move: tne Mongolian race produces about 100 In one generation. Dr. Harry Taylor of Chester, Pa., was attacked by a vicious parrot, which caught him by the eyelid and refused to let go, notwithstanding the doctor's vigorous effort to shake him off. The bird was Anally beaten so that he re. leased the doctor. It was at first thought that the sight was Injured, but it l believed that the Injury will be confined to tha lid, which severely lacerated. KANSAS NEWS. The mining district near Galena is scene of activity, notwithstanding the shutdown of most all the plants oper ated by members of the Missouri and Kansas Zinc buyers' association.- How ever, many are doing dead work, re pairing and enlarging their capacity of the bins, whereby they may store large quantities of ore to be held until sched ule prices are paid. Practically the as sociation has won the battle, as many of the buyers so far this week have paid schedule prices. Glanders has broken out among tht government stock at Fort Riley. Sev enteen horses have been killed. Twenty-five cords of wood have been hauled out to use in burning the carcasses. Five veterinarians are busy examining the stock and vaccinating all not con demned. The disease Is Buposed to have been brought by mules shipped In from the south last summer to pasture on the reservation. E. B. Crissey of Jamestown, N. Y., a creditor of the defunct Interstate Loan and Trust company of Leavenworth, recently sued John J. Ingalls, In the district court of Atchison county, for $5,000. He alleged that Mr. Ingalls was a stockholder in the Leavenworth com pany to the extent of $2,500, and wat liable under the law for double that amount. Mr. Ingalls denied that he had ever had any stock In the Leaven worth concern or was ever interested In, any way. The Jury returned a verdict In favor of Ingalls. In the district court at Atchison Judge Bland decided that John Flynn, democrat, was entitled to the office of marshal of the city court, apd ousted Jake Starr, republican. The Atchison city court was created last spring about a month before election, and Starr was given a temporary appointment as mar shal by Governor Stanley. Starr be came the regular republican nominee for "the position and Flynn the demo cratic nominee. Flynn received a ma jority of 208 at the election, but Stan refused to surrender the office, claim ing that his appointment by Governor Stanley held good for two years. Judge Casey of the court sided with Starr and refused to recognize Flynn, who went into the courts to establish his claim to the office. In the meantime he had reported at the office of the city court for duty every day, and attorneys are of the opinion that while Starr did all the work, Flynn will be entitled to the pay. HAVE AN EYE TO BUSINESS. Topeka, Kan. (Special.) Governor Stanley and his party left here In a special Pullman car over the Santa Fe for San Francisco to welcome the Twentieth Kansas volunteers. The par ty waa made up of: Governor and Mrs. Stanley, State Treasurer F. E. Grimes, Adjutant General S. M. Fox. Mr. ana Mrs. Frank Montgomery of Topeka, Mayor and Mrs. Sellg of Lawrence, Captain J. D. Barker of Girard, Editor E. F. Heisler of Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. Henry Allen of Ottawa, Mrs. R. S. Par ker, wife of Lieutenant Parker; W. H. Sheldon of Paola. Newton Ury of Fort Scott and Mr. T. Little, father of Lieutenant Colonel EL C. Little, left Thursday for San Francisco to Join the party. Adjutant General Fox took along with htm several army commissions signed in blank for use at the coast in case of promotions before the regiment is final, ly mustered out. The people of Fort Scott sent along with the party a box of chest protec tors for the members of the Fort Scott company. One of the great troubles of volunteers returning from the hot climate of the Philippines Is pneumo nia. The Fort Scott people want to guard their boy against this If pos sible. The local committee is making rapid progress In arranging for the reception to be held here. Subcommittees havt been selected to take up different parts of the work, and everything will be In readiness for the reception long before the boys arirve home. A TRAP SET FOR THE BOYS. A scheme has been devised whereby Topeka hopes to get the bulk of the money of the returning Kansas volun teers. It was feared by many here that the boys would spend all their money in San Francisco before starting home, and that all they would have left t spend when they arrived home would be their time. The plan devised to en able Topeka to get the first whack a; their cash Is to induce, the war depart ment not to have the soldiers paid of. until after they leave 'Frisco. It Is ar gued that a paymaster can pay thi troops on the train Just as well as ht can in camp, and that they will all b flush when they get back here. Topeka, Kan., special to Kansas Clt" Times: Wm. Trlmbel, an omnibus driv er, Is walking around today with thret Inches of a hat pin in the region of his heart. The steel has been in his body for three days, entering Just under the shoulder, and when he awoke thl; morning he found It had worked its waj to a location at the side of his heart Trlmbel threw himself on a lounge at his home a few nights ago, and In do ing so he struck the hat pin. He sup posed he was only severely gouged un til the wound commenced to pain, am. later he found the pin with about three Inches of Its length broken off. Tin steel will probably be located by means of X-rays and cut out, as there is dan ger of it intering the heart. COOKING IN SWEDEN. A lady who has just returned to thip country from the Land of the Midnight Sun, said a Philadelphia Press reporter: "After we had seen our fill of rocky headlands and enchanted lakes and fjords, we went to a seaside resort, where we had rooms overlooking the water, and went to a matsal or 'meat room' for our meals, as every one does in Lysekll. We had a special table and were waited upon by the never-falling imiablllty of a special waitress, and we mid for one party of four $10.60 a week for our meals. What did we get? I as ure you, no canned peas or skimmed lllk or tough chickens. For breakfast ,e had meat, eggs, tea, coffee, delicious sh and fancy breads. For dinner, soup, sh, meat and a dessert, the whole pre eded by a Swedish smorgasbord, which s a sort of side table where all sorts f relishes are laid out. Rarebits, eggs, andwlshes, raw or pickled herrings, vlth chopped onions, sliced sausages, avlar, anchovies, cheese, sardlnes.plck e and salted and savory meats are lerved In endless variety, and, though tourist usually fight shy of the smor gasbord, we became perfect Swede at far as It waa concerned. We had such a good time at Lysekll and saved so much of our precious pelf that we were able at the and of our stay to take a trip to Part for a few day' shopping, a dinner at the Ambaseadeur's, and a peep at the budding involution." A young hopeful sat In the window a long time the other night during thunder storm and contemplated the scene with a wis look on hi face. Then he turned to his mother and said: "Oh, Mamma, the angel are scratching match on th sky." MISSOURI NOTES. Th Judge of the Jackson eounty court have recognized the boycott in augurated by the business men of Kan sis City against the Burlington railroad. The Judge instructed the sheriff that so long as the boycott Is in force he must not travel over that road in tak ing insane people to the state asylum at St. Joseph. The fight on the Burling ton, which was begun as a result of the Omaha differential, is being pushed by local merchants. GIGANTIC PLANS. Kansas City, Mo. (Special.) George B. Loving, the well known cattleman, left Kansas City a few days ago after spending some time at the Stock YardB exchange Ln the interest of his gigantic cattle pool. Mr. Loving has spent the past year In promoting his scheme and he stopped In Kansas City on his way to his home In Texas from New York, where he has been Interesting capita) In his enterprise. The plan, if Mr. Loving succeeds in carrying it out, will give to the west one of the biggest companies in the world. It will own over 12,000,000 acres of land divided up into ranches with overseers and managers, while the gen sral affairs of the company will be man aged by a central board. When Mr. Loving visited the stock yards he was cordially welcomed by many commission men and others who firmly believe he will succeed in bring ing his scheme to a successful Issue. There were also many who boldly an nounced that he could never succeed and was wasting his time In attempting an impossibility. Mr. Loving had about forty options on ranches owned by Kansas City stockmen. These options expired last January, but with the exception of a few ranches that had been sold, all the options have been renewed. Opinion seems about equally divided as to Mr. Loving's chances for success. Major Andrew Drumm, of the Drumm Flato commission company, whose cat tle interests in Texas are perhaps as great as any other Kansas Cityan, be longs to the skeptical ones. "It can't be done," said the major emphatically, referring to Mr. Lov ing's scheme. "He will never succeed in the world. No man can secure the capital necessary to swing such a deal for the simple reason that too many men have gone broke on the same sort of proposition. Capitalists are a timid lot, and they are not going to put their money into something they can't see their way out of. They used to do it, but not now." Mr. Flato of the same company, be lieves differently from Major Drumm, at least he thinks there is some chance for the scheme to be successful. "Mr. Loving is not attempting to form a trust," said Mr. Flato, "and his is a perfectly legitimate business enterprise. I am not specially Interested one way or the other, except I think we should all be fair and give Mr. Loving the benefit of the truth. As I understand him he Is simply forming a big com pany, the same as any other company, only with a vast cash capital, and that this company will do business along the same lines as some companies are doing now." The opinion of Mr. Flato Is shared by many others. INDIANS WHO RESEMBLE JAPS. The Kwakiutis are a tribe of light colored Indians of British Columbia, whose faces and expression readily re call those of the lower classes of Japan ese and Koreans across the Pacific. They differ from other coast Indians by having very high-bridged, often hooked, noses, and very long faces. The shape of their heads 1 artificial, Like our own Flatheads and some tribes In Mex ico and South America, they deform the head In Infancy, so that the upper fore head, which we consider a sign of In tellect, Is depressed perhaps In order to obtain an approach to the skull of a beast or bird. What the object of this Intentional malformation is forms one of those problems which appeal to the imagination of the archaeologist. A collector of antiquities in Mexico has made a specialty of these deformed skulls, and Is said to argue that they are attempts to produce a head like some four-footed beast, the coyote or raccoon, for which the ancestors ot the tribe in question bad a special rev erence, perhaps in the nature of totem worship. Dr. Franz Boats has not found any record among the Kwakiutis of British Columbia which points to any specific worship of this kind, but the pronounced reverence for animals which is shown in the beast, fish and btrd masks used In ceremonial rites and the dances of their secret societies might encourage such a view. The habit of malformation has persisted very much as the bandaging of the feet of Chinese women has persisted, and Is only now giving way before the changes intro duced by the whites. The heads of a man and a woman of this tribe, given front face and in pro file, exhibit the results of this early training of the bones of the head. Whether it occasions pain to the child or not .there Is a general agreement that It has no effect upon the intelli gence of the people to whom it Is ap plied. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Every housekeeper should know how to put up a dainty luncheon for the fall meeting parties or other autumn pic nics. A crowd of Clnclnnatlans were assembled on the banks of the Miami the other day. The first lunch box opened was large enough to hold Its contents without any crowding. It was wrapped neatly In white paper and tied with a bit of narrow white ribbon, through which a single twig of apple blossoms was thrust. On taking off the cover the recipient found first a Japanese napkin, whose loose white ground was decorated In one cornet with a bunch of apple blossoms. This bit of thoughtfulness In the way of a napkin, It was noticed, was the excep tion rather than the rule among the boxes In the Immediate vicinity. On removing the napkin a bunch of water cress was the next thing discovered. It was placed on a piece of waxed paper that covered the rest of the luncheon. There were four dainty sandwiches, each a small double triangle of perfect sandwich bread, prepared without the crust, the filling a delicious compound of lmnced chicken, cream cheese and chopped almonds. The cress eaten with them gave a finishing touch to their ap petizing quality. A slice of delicious home-made white cake, cut from loaf that had been baked In two deep lay ers, with an Ice filling and top, was part of the dessert, and several sec tions of a choice orange, each section peeled. All were neatly folded In waxed paper. Oxford, Maine, ha a Custard Pie as-' soclatlon, which meet annually In a hemlock grove on th margin of Swan pond and gorge Itself with custard pi. It grew out of a custard-ple-eatlng contest between two resident of th two M year ago. IOWA NEWS. The most serious strike In th history of Webster county has begun at tha coal mines. Every mine In the district is closed down, with 400 workers idle. One serious result of the labor trouble is the coal famine which it ha caused. The local school are closed and all factories are running short of fuel and may have to suspend operation. At a meeting of the city council a special election was ordered to be held October 27 for the purpose of voting on the extension of the franchise of the Marengo Electric Light and Powei company for a period of ten years. A twenty-five-year extension was beaten by a majority of ten votes on the 25th ult., but it is conceded by the citizens generally that the ten-year proposition will carry by a large majority. Malignant diphtheria has broken out in Oskaloosa. Two deaths and eleven new cases have taken place within a week. The board of health met and decided unanimously to issue an order closing the schools. One case was taken from Penn college. All the cases are under strict quarantine. The early frost this fall entailed a total loss to Farwell & Westgate of Iowa Falls in the destruction of their entire crop of celery. The crop last year was so successful that an acre and a quarter was planted this season and was of the finest quality and ready for market. About an acre, consisting of nearly 20,000 plants, was left and the freeze destroyed all. The loss to these gentlemen is estimated at $500. Former United States Senator James Harlan, who resides at Mount Pleasant, the only survivor of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, seems stronger and brighter, but at the very best is weak and in a critical condition. Personally he thinks that he will recover and be up In a few days. He has been failing very rapidly the last month and his sudden collapse caused no surprise. The Norwegian Pioneer association of America held its second trlennnial meeting in Decorah on Luther college campus. Hon. Rasmus B. Anderson of Madison was the principal speaker, but there were a number of short ad dresses. The delegates and their friends participated in a banquet. A number of well known Norwegians were pres ent from various points In the north west. While Horace Beans was moving fur niture from the third story of the old foundry building In Sheldon the chain which controls the elevator, upon which were Beans and the furniture, broke and the elevator fell to the bottom. The chain struck Beans a terrific blow on the head, stunning him for a few sec onds. This was the only injury he re ceived. Governor Shaw has received a great many refusals from the banks to hi proposition for the banks of the state to advance money to pay for the trans portation of the Fifty-first Iowa regi ment from San Francisco to Iowa. His plan is to have the banks of each coun ty advance about $300. The legislative nominees, who were to give the govern or a written guarantee that they would Indorse his action in advancing the money from the state treasury, making an appropriation next winter to cover it, have failed to do so. Not more than one-third have been heard from. Un less the banks come forward propmtly the legislative nominees will be asked outright by Governor Shaw what they favor doing about It, and he will abide by their decision. There is little doubt, however, that the state will pay the transportation, : i The good roads convention waa held In Burlington, with an attendance of leveral hundred delegates from all over the First Iowa district. Each county in the district held separate meetings and organized by electing officers. In the afternoon a large assemblage gathered at a grand stand erected on Summer street and viewed the practical demon stration of good road construction, un der the supervision of E. G. Harrison, the government expert. Mr. Harrison, Colonel Moore of St. Louis, president of the Interstate association, and Con gressman Thomas Hedge made ad dresses. The result of the meetings and demonstrations was a decided boom for good roads. It was decided to send a full delegation, headed by Mayor Naumann of Burlington, to the state good r6ads convention in Des Moines. James McKenna, a brakeman working on a gravel train on the Chicago & Northwestern railway, fell between the cars and received Injuries which re sulted In his death four hours later. The accident occurred about two miles from Council Bluffs, where gravel was being laid as ballast on the second track now in course of construction. McKenna was standing on the end of the rear cars attending to the brake, when In some manner he lost his posi tion and fell between the cars, the wheels of the last one passing over his stomach. He was brought to Council Blurts as soon as possible, but when he aanhaH tha Honnt it WHH RPPT1 that he could live but a short time and Dr. La- cey, the company s pnysician, oraerea him placed In the baggage room. Every thing possible was done to alleviate his sufferings, but after lingering for about Faiip hnura rioath name to his release. McKenna was conscious most of the time and begged Dr. Lacey to give him sufficient morphine to kill him. Rev. Father Smyth of St. Francis Xavier's no. with th unfortunate man and gave him the last rites of the church. The unknown driver of a milk wagon In Des Moines ran down and drove over Gertrude Foregrave, fourteen year of age, while she waa returning from school. She was crossing Eighth and Walnut streets at the time, and hav ing her attention drawn east on Wal nut toward the scene of the Harris Emery fire, did not see the team bear ing down upon her at a swinging gait. The driver gave the team free rein, and rounding Into Walnut from Eighth he struck the child before she was aware of the danger. She was knocked to the pavement and run over by the wheel of the wagon. The driver, without halt Ing to ascertain the extent of the In juries of the child, applied hi whip to the horses and disappeared, going west on Walnut street. Gertrude was ren dered senseless for a moment, but re covered upon being taken to the home of her parents at 213 Walnut street. Hei right leg was terribly lacerated by the shoe of one of the horses, and her head severely bruised by the wheels of UM wagon. An effort Is being mad to dis cover the name of the driver, but a lu disappeared so quickly, no on observed the name of the dairy painted on tlM wagon, and slight hope art entertain! of apprehending hint. At th last meeting of th board of trustee of th North Carolina College of Agriculture it was decided to admit women for textile Instruction and aa special atudenta in Industrial arts, bor. Monitors, dairy work, both better a4 cheese-making, boo-koaptaf, ato. 4 ' .,, ',. , . ' ': " 1 ; -
