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CHAPTER I (Continuad.)
But for all tbat the little colony were
poor and wretched, the hearts of the
shipwrecked company leapt up at sight
of them, and In the Joyful gabble of un
intelligible speech between them old
Adam found that he could understand
ome of the words. And when the isl
anders saw that in some sort Adam
understood them they singled him out
from the rest of his Company, falling
-on his neck and kissing him after the
way of their nation, and concluding
union g themselves that he was one of
tlielr owo poople who had gone away
in his youth and never been heard of
After. And Adam, though be looked
eny at uieir musty kisses, was nothing
loth to allow tbat they might be Manx
men strayed and lost.
l or Adam and his followers two
things came of this encounter, and the
-one was to forward and the other to
retard their Journey. The first was
that the islanders sold them twelv
ponies, of the small breed that abound
In that latitude, and gave them a guide
to lead them the nearest way to the
capital. The ponies cost them forty
kroner, or more than two pounds
apiece, and the guide was to stand to
them in two kroner, or two shillings
a day. This took half of all they bad
in money, and many were the heavy
groans of the men at parting with it
hut Adam argued that their money
Mas of no other value there than as
a-tielp out of their extremity, and that
all the gold la the banks, If he had it,
would be less to him then than the lit
tie beast he was bestridine.
The second of the two things that
followed on that meeting with the isl
nnders was that, Just as they had start
ed afresh on their way, now twelve In
all, each man on his horse, and a horse
In the shafts of the cart that held the
victuals, a woman came running after
them with a child in her arms, and be
sought them to tike her with them
That anyone could wish to share their
outcast state was their first surprise
but the woman's terrified looks, her
tears and passionate pleadings, seemed
to say th..t to be homeless and house
less on the face of that trackless land
was not so awful a fate hut that other
miseries could conquer the fear of it
So, failing to learn more of her condi
tion, than that she was friendless and
alone, Adam ordered that, with her
child, she should be lifted Into the cart
that was driven ahead of them.
But within an hour they were over
taken by a man, who came galloping
after tbem, and said the woman had
stolen the child that It was his child,
and that be had come to carry it back
with him. At that Adam called on the
woman to answer through the guide,
ami sne said that the man was indeed
the child's father, but tbat she was Its
mother; that he was a farmer, and had
married her only that he might have a
son to leave his farm to; that havinp
given him this child he had turned her
out of doors, and that in love and
yearning for her little one, from
whom she had been so cruelly parted.
she had stolen Into her old home,
plucked up the babe and run away
with It, Hearing this story, which tho
woman told through hr tears, Adam
answered the man that If the law of his
country allowed a father to deal so
with the mother of bin child It was a
base and unnatural law, and merited
the obedience of no man; so he meant
to protect the woman against both it
and him, and carry her along with
their company. With that answer the
man turned tall, but Adam's victory
over him was dearly bought, at the
cost of much vexation afterwards and
sore delay on the hard journey.'
And now It would be long to tell of
the trials of that passage over those
gaunt solitudes, where there was no
fingerpost or mark of other human
travelers. The men bore up bravely,
loving most to comfort the woman and
do her any tender office, or carry her
child before them on their saddles.
And many a time, at sight of the little
one, and at hearing Its simple prattle
in a tongue they did not understand,
the poor fellows would burst Into tears,
as If remembering, with a double pang,
that they were exiles from that country
far away, where other mothers held
their own children to their breasts.
Two of them sickened of the cold, and
had to be left behind at a farm, where
the people were kind and gentle and
promised to nurse them until their
companions could return for them. Hut
the heaviest blow to all that company
was the sickness and death of the child.
Tenderly the rude sailor men nursed
the little fellow one by one, and when
nothing availed to keep his sweet facs
among them they mourned his loss as
the worst disaster that had yet befal
len them. The mother herself was dig
fraught, and in the madness of her
agony turned on Adam and reproached
him, saying he had brought her child
Into this wilderness to kill It. Adam
understood her misery too well to re
buke her Ingratitude, and the same
night thtt her balm wax laid In his
' rmt with a cross of willow wood to
mark the place of it, she disappeared
from their company, and where she
went or- what became of her no ona
knew, for she was seen by them no
more.
tint nevt mnrnln? thov were Avir.
taken by a number of men riding hard,
and one of them was the woman's hus
band, and another the High Sheriff of
the Quarter. These two called on
Adam to deliver up the child, and when
he told them that it was dead, and the
mother gone, the husband would have
fallen upon him with his knife, but
for the Sheriff, who, keeping the peace,
said that, as accessory after fact of
theft, Adam himself must go to prison.
Now, at this the crew of the ship
began to set up a woeful wall, and to
double their fists and measure the
trength of nine sturdy llrltlsh somen
ogalnst that of ten lanky Icelanders.
Hut Adam restrained them from vio
lence, anil Indeed there was need for
none, for the Hhertff was In no mood t
carry his prisoner way with him. All
he did was te tak out his papers, and
flit them up with the name and de
scription that Adam save him, and
then hand them over to Adam himself,
saying they were the warrant for his
Imprisonment, and that he wag to go on
his way until he came to the next dis
trict, where there was a house of de
tention, which the guide would find for
him, and there deliver up the docu-.
menu to the Sheriff in charge.
With such Instructions, and never
doubting but that thev would be fol
lowed, the good man and his people
wheeled about, and returned as they
came.
And -bein-15 so easily rid of them the
sailors beean to rough at their almple-
ness, and, with many satisfied grunts
to advise the speedy destruction of the
silly warrant that was the sole witness
against Adam. But Adam himself said
no that he was touched by the sim
plicity or a people that could trust a
man to take himself to prison, and he
would not wrong that confidence by
any cheating. So he ordered the guide
10 lead on where he had been directed
l ney reached the prison towards
nightfall, and there old Adam bade a
touching farewell of his people, urging
mem not to wait for him, but to push
on to Reykjavik where alone they could
find ships to take them home to Eng
land. And some of the good fellows
wept at this parting, though they all
thought It foolish, but one old salt
named Chaise shed no tears, and only
looked crazier than ever, and chuckled
within himself from some dark cause.
And indeed there was small reason
to weep, because, simple as the first
Sheriff's conduct had been, that of the
second Sheriff was yet simpler, for
whf Adam presented himself as a
prisoner the Sheriff asked for his pa
pers, and then diving into hiB pocket
to find them, the good man found that
they were gone lost, dropped by the
way or destroyed by accident and no
search sufficed to recover them. So
failing of his warrant the Sheriff shook
his head at Adam's story and declined
to imprison him, and the prisoner had
no choice but to go free. Thus Adam
returned to his company, who heard
with laughter and delight of the close
of his adventure, all save Chaise, who
looked sheepish and edged away when
ever Adam glanced at him.. Thus end
ed In merriment an incident that
inreateneu many evil consequences
and was atteuded by two luckless mis
chances.
the first of these two was that, by
going to the prison, which lay three
Ltar.ish miles out of the direct track
to the capital, Adam and his company
nan missed young Oscar and Zoega
men, whom Michael Sunlocks had sen
out from Reykjavik in search of them
The second was that melr guide had
disappeared and left them, within an
hour of bringing thera to the door of
the Sheriff. His name was Jonas; he
had been an Idle and a selfish fellow
he had demanded his wages day by
day; and seeing A3am pert from the
rest, he had concluded that with the
purse-bearer the purse of the company
nail gone. Hut he alone had known
the course, and, worthless as he had
been to them In other ways, ths men
began to rail at him when they found
that he had abandoned them and left
them to struggle on without help.
1 he sweep. ,-thelr thief! "the was-
tre.! "the gomerstang:" they called
him, with wilder names besides. But
o.d Adam rebuked them and said
'Gc od friends, 1 would persuade my
self that urgent reasons alone can have
induced this poor man to leave us
Wire we not ourselves constrained to
foisake two of our number several days
back, though with the full design of
ft u ruing to them to aid tliem when
t should lie in our power? Thus
I
cannot blame the Icelander without
r;ore knowledge of his Intent, and so
let us push ou still aud trust In God
to deliver us, as Ho surely will."
And, sure enough, the next day after
they came upon a man who undertook
the place of the guide whD had for
saken them. He was a priest and a
cry learned men, but poor as the poor
est farmer. He spoke in Latin, and In
nn.erfect Iatln Adam made shift to
answer him. His clothes were all but
wtrn to rags, and he was shoeing his
horse In the little garth before hi
door. His house, which stood alone
suve for the wooden church beside It,
looked on the outside like a line of
grass cones, hardly higher to their
peeks than the head of a tall man,
and in the inside It was low, dark
noisome and noisy. In one room to
which Chaise and the seamen were
taken, three, or four young children
were playing, the old woman was spin
ning, and a younger woman, the
priests wife, was washing clothes.
Tbli was the living room and sleeping
ro,m. the birth room and death room
of the whole family. In another room,
to which Adam was led by the priest
imself, the floor was strewn with
saddles, nails, hammers, horsehoes,
whips, and spades, and the walls were
co"ercd with bookshelves, whereon
tood many precious old black-letter
volumes. I his wua trie workshop and
sti dy, wherein the good priest spent
his long, dark days of winter.
And, being once more fully equipped
for tho Journey, Adam ordered that
they should lone no time In setting out
afresh, with the priest on his own pony
in front of them. Two days then
passed without misadventure of any
kind, and In that time they had come
to a village, at which they should have
forsaken the roast line and made for
the Interior, In order that they might
croas to Reykjavik by way of Thlng-vt-lllr,
and so rut off the jenlnsula
ending in the Smoky I'oint But a
Havy fall of snow coming down sud
c'.uily,, they wero compelled to seek
shelter at a farm, the only one for
more than a hundred mllea to east or
west of them. There they rested while
the snowatorm lasted, and It was the
same weary downfall that kept d realm
to her house while Red Jason lay In
his brain fever In the cell In the High
Street, and Michael Sunlocks as out
un the sea In search of themselves.
And when the snow had ceased to
fall and the frost that followed had
hardened It, and the country, now
white Instead of black, was again fit
to travel upon. It was found that the
priest wu uuvllllng to start. Then
It appeared that downright drinklnfl
had been bis oole recreation and bis
only bane; that the most serious affairs
of night and day bad always submit
led to this great business; that in Ilia
ir.lervai of wailing for the passing of
the enow, finding himself with a few
kroner at command, he had begun on
his favorite occupation, and that ha
now was too deeply immersed therein
to be disturbed in less than a week,
(To be continued.)
SKUNK FARMS DO NOT PfT.
Oaiclal Beport aft tlia Buujeet t lb
Becretary mt Afrlealture.
A newspaper story of the profits
made by raising skunks fur their sklna
Is giving officials of the agricultural
department no end of trouble. It first
bobbed up about a year ago. It eet
forth that the agricultural depart
ment had been studying skunk cul
ture, and had found that the beasts
were more profitable than a gold mine.
As a result of the story the department
has received many letters of inquiry.
T. S. Palmer, assistant chief of the
biological survey, wants to correct this
misapprehension. In a report to Sec
retary Wilson he says: "Misled by tho
statements about tbe rapid increaso of
skunks and the high prices paid -for
their skins, many persons seriously
considered starting skunk farms. For
several years a list has been kf-yt of
such farms located in various arts of
the country, but so far as ctn be learn
ed, most of them have been abandoned,
Raising fur-bearing atlmals for profit
is not a new idea. The industry, how
ever, has apparently never advanced
beyond the experimental stage, ex
cept in tje case of the farms for rais
ing .ie Arctic or blue fox, established
on certain Islands of the coast of AUv
ka. Minks and skunks breed rapidly
In captivity but the low price of skim
make the profits rather small. Last
season the highest market price for
prime black skunk skins from the
northern states averaged about $1.13
each, hut white skins sold as low as
15 to 20 cents apiece. Skins lhat have
much white or which ara obtained
from the . outhern states usually bring
less than $1 each, a price that leave I
little margin for profit after paying tha
expense of raising the animal in cap
tivity." New York Sun.
Klvr (Jailer the Ocean.
A few months bgo 11. Beuest, an
English geographer, published an In
teresting study o( streams of fresh wa
ter flowing beneath the surface of tho
sea. Disasters to ocean telegraph
cables first called attention to this sub
ject. On several occasions, about 1895,
a new and well made cable between
Cape Verde and Brazil broke. Sound
ings were made to discover whether
these b takings were due to the state
of the sea bottom and it was found
that the place in question was near tbe
submarine mouth of a subterranean
river; the alluvial material transport
ed by this fresh water rtream encoun
tered the cable and finally succeeded
in breaking It. The fact is that a river
that flows Into the lagoons of Yof, on
the coast of Senegal, Is finally lost in
the sand. It undoubtedly has taken
its invisible course to the sea, and It
Js this river that has been discovered
In the deep hollow of more than 1.300
meters (4,270 feet) that is traversed by
the Brazilian cable. Also while the
cable was being repaired at a point
Iwenty-four kilometers (fifteen miles)
from the shore the repair shop was
surrounded one day by orange skins,
calabashes and bits of cloth, which
could not have come from the mouth
of the Senegal river, 140 kilometers
(ninety miles) distant.
Surgrrjbr Telephone.
Surgery performed by directions giv.
en over the telephone is the latest In
novation at the Hahnemann hospital.
A physician who is connected with Its
surgical staff was called up by tele
phone the other day by a nurse at the
children's hospital in Gerrnantown,
with which institution the physiciau
is also connected, and was told that his
services were Immediately required for
a child who had dislocated Its shoul
der. "Bring the child right up to tho
telephone," aafd the surgeon. "All
right, I have the child In my arms,'
the nurse replied. "Now, then," said
the physician, "place the child's elbow
against Its side and move its hand and
forearm outward. Ills direction?
were here Interrupted by a sharp click
that sounded through the telephone
as the dislocated member snapped back
Into place. "There you are nicely
done, wasn't It?" said the suigefin to
the nurse. She replied that the opera
tion had been most successful, and the
physician returned to his clinic
Philadelphia Record.
Trm Flantwl Uf lllnrjaya.
An old-time Arizona woodchopper
says the bluejays have planted :no,i
sands of the trees now growing all
over Arizona. He says these blrdi
have a habit of burying small seed In
the ground with their beaks, and that
they frequent plnon trees a;:d bury
arge numbers of the small pine mils
n the ground, many of which sprout
and grow. He was wulklng through
the pine, with an eastern gentleman n
abort time ago when one of these birds
flew from a tree to tho craunri. stuck
his bill In the earth and quickly flew
away. When told what had happened
the eastern man was skeptical, but the
wo went to (lie spot and, with a knife
blade, dug out a sound pine nut from a
depth of about an Inch and a half.
Thus It will bo seen that nature hu
plans of her own for forest perpetua
tion. -InlidnapollH News.
Puck: Miss nuanaby "Perhaps von
haven't read all of Omar Khayyam?
Mrs. Porkchop "Perhapa not. Hns hf
written anything recently?"
Home girls have expensive ha 1)14,
Ivat riding gowns, for Instance.
THE VAVHK Uf BM.D.NKKS.
The hair of the head was evidently
Intended by nature as a protection to
the delicate brajn substance, and it
would no doubt answer this purpose
admirably if it were given the oppor
tunity, as we see It perversely do in
the case of savages, football players
and others who need such protection
little.
It Is generally supposed that bald
ness, like gray hair, Js a necessary ac
companiment of advancing age, but
this is only because the older a man
Is the more time he has had to neglect
and abuse his hair, and so the more
likely he is to have lost it.
Some men are more prone to bald
ness than others because of thinness
of the scalp, which interferes with the
proper blood supply to the hair-roots.
This is often a family failing; but in
such cases baldness might be prevent
ed or postponed for many years by
care. In a few instances the hair fails
out as a result of some special disease,
but for the great majority of men
there is absolutely no reason why, if
properly treated, the hair should not
last as long as the man.
The chief cause of baldness Is pres
sure by the hat, which constricts the
blood-vessels, and so Interferes with
the nutrition of the hair-bulbs. It is
probable, also, that the shutting off
of light and air by the hat helps the
mischief. An unhealthy condition of
the scalp results, the sign of which is
a plentiful amount of dandrrff.
There are many facts which- go to
prove the truth of this opinion. In the I
first place, women rarely become bald.
They wear bats. It Is true, but their
hats are not air-tight casings, nor do
they make pressure round the head
like a man's hat. Then baldness, is
almost unknown among savagus, who
wear no hats, and is comparatively un
common with men in the tropics,
where very light hats are worn.
Laborers are lens prone to baldness
than professional and business men.
This has led to the belief that brain
work favors baldness by withdrawing
blood from the scalp, but this la only
self-flattery on the part of those wh-
advance the theory. Laborers general
ly wear soft felt hats or caps, which
are apt to be pushed to the back of
the head, so that the scalp gets plenty
of light and air.
As further proof, we find that the
baldest men usually have sufficient
hair at the back and on the sides of the
head below the hat line.
The inference is plain wear a soft
hat or none at all. If custom forbids
this, then the best a city man can do
is to wear his hat as little as possible,
and never to keen it on in the house or
office.
I( K-HKK KI KH UN UKK It WKAf.
The engineers constructing the
trans-Siberian railway have had much
trouble with Lake Buikal, which lies
"xadly on their track and is very deep
and stormy, while in winter it Is cov
ered with lie. The lake is about 400
miles long anil 60 broad, and lis shoresi
for a long distance from the wat.orline,
are marshy and difficult to traverse.
The boats carrying the cars and pas
sengers have sometimes been prevented
from landing for from 25 to 4(1 hour.
At present large Ice-breaking steamers,
built on the American plan, are em
ployed to clear the way as well as to
tow the barges.
hi i:iS THE gMOKK OCT.
The main hindrance to the location
and extinction of a fire Is the enor
mous quantity of smoke which pours
forth to suffocate the fireman who ven
tures too close, aud many fires obtain
great headway because it is impossible
to penetrate through the smoke and
place the stream of chemicals or water
just where it will do the most good.
An inventor of San Francisco, Cal.,
has patented an apparatus which, he
claims, will enable the fireman to en
ter the building and go directly to tho
fire, furnishing fresh air to him for
breathing, and at the same time pro
teeing his eyes from the smoke. It
consists of a mask or protector for the
mouth, nose and eyes, together with
RKNIM HATOR FOR FIREMEN,
means for supplying air thereto, and
a nirclmnlsin by which the air can bo
brought from a distant, point. A knap
sack Is attached to the buck by straps,
snd connection Is made with an air
tube paralleling the line of hose, the
air pump being located on the hose
cart outside the building. If the line
should become fouled tho fireman ran
Immediately stop any waste, and there
will still remain a sufficient quantity
EMCE' 4MB
ESS
of air in tbe sack to enable him to
reach the open air without breathing
the smoke.
KK1 PS TIIK HKU ALIVK.
Vlany a fisherman who prefers live
bait to tempt his game has trouble In
I keeping the bait alive throughout a
day s sport and it is Impossible to
transport the bait for some distance
without losing- more or less of It, sim
ply because there is no means of sup
plying the fist with the necessary air.
As soon as the water becomes stale the
fish cannot exist and if fresh water Is
not at hand the fish will die. To pre
vent this loss a genius of Napoleon, O.,
has designed the receptacle herewith
shown. The device consists of a pail
to receive the water and bait, with an
air pump and storage reservoir at one
side and a perforated tube located in
RECEPTACLE FOR BAIT,
the bottom of the water chamber. It
will be seen that air may be com
pressed to a relatively high pressure
in the air container and by means of
the peculiarly arranged distributing
pipes a gradual discharge of the air
through the water is permitted, thus
keeping the- waler continually purified
and necessitating the use of the air
pump only at comparatively long in
tervals as the pressure becomes too
low to properly feed the air to the
water. To aid In selecting die bait
for use the inventor has also supplied
a sort of net composed of a ring cov
ered with fabric and mounted on the
lower end of a rod inside the pail,
which will lift the fish clear of the
water until the one desired can be
taken out.
TUB SI.K OF OCEAN-WAVES.
Among the most trustworthy scien
tific measurements of ocean waves are
those of Lieutenant Paris of the
French navy. The highest waves meas
ured by him were In the Indian ocean,
between the Cape of Good Hope and
the Island of St. Paul. Thirty waves,
measured during a northwest gale
there, averaged 29' feet in height, and
six of them, following one another
with beautiful regularity, were 37
feet in height. Some still higher
waves were seen, but not measured,
in a moderate breeze the length of a
wave is found to be about 25 times its
height, but in a gale only 18 times.
FISH THAT CHANOK COLOR.
It ' has been found that certain
prawns, common along the coasts of
England, change their color at least
twice every twenty-four hours, in or
der to harmonize with the stronger or
weaker light prevailing near the sur
face or in the deeper water. As eve
ning approaches, these fish lose then-
distinctive day colors, and all assume
a transparent azure hue. The change
begins with a reddish glow, followed
by a green tinge, which gradually
melts Into blue. The day and night
change has become so habitual that
specimens kept in perpetual light or
perpetual darkness nevertheless under
go the periodic alteration of color.
I K A I HI i: 1 IKK (.I AKDS.
On- of the methods of protecting
broad grass-lands from fire is to burn
a swath called a "fire-guard" around
the area to be protected. A Montana
stockman suggests that this is a fine
opportunity for Inventors to devise a
machine which, passing over the
ground like a horse-rake, shall burn
the grass dean from' a spare about
8 to 10 feet in width. Already an ap
paratus of this kind has been Invented,
using gasoline to set the grass on fire
and a train of steel brushes to extin
guish it before It hag spread beyond
the porper limits, but the stockman
thinks that a choaper machine can be
made. "Fire-guards" 50 miles or more,
lp. length are desirable.
HtlKNTUTC JOTTING!..
Mlirinklng- of l.km Tanganyika.
Captain Hecq, the Belgian explorer,
who recently ( returned from Central
Africa, reports that the shrinkage of
Lake Tanganyika has of late been so
rapid that the post of Karema, founded
twenty years ago on the shore, Is now
fourteen miles from the lake.
Dredging lp tha Klprntrn.
In the operation of dredging navl
gable channels at the mouths of the
Moiuya and Hhoalhaven rivers In New
South Wales, it was discovered that
the mud contained gold dust. An au
tomatic gold saver was then attached
to the dumping machinery, and it is
estimated thai enough gold will thus
be obtained to defray the expenses of
keeping the channels open.
Ufc Is like hanging suspended In a
well; we must either climb to the top,
or slide on down to the bottom.
When a woman denies an accusation
and wants' (o prove Ker Innocence she
cries.
SUCTION OP A FAST TRAIN.
Can Moat
FMpU Win Aro44 tfc Wat
of riylna Eiprti.
There is hardly any person, younjr
or old. wbo does not Ilka to sea a fast
railroad train go by. Tftcre la a fas
ci nation in tbe rush and roar, the en
gine represents .so much reflations
strength, and it Is all such a triumph,
of man's skill that It never falls to
evoke wonder and admiration. Yet
there is danger in a moving; train,
and everyone should tnow enough to
keep at a respectful distance while ad
miring this marvel. "The theory that
a moving train carries along with It an
envelope of airis very interesting,"
says an engineer. "I first had my at
tention attracted to the subject by a
curious incident that happened several
years ago at a crossing near Birming
ham, Ala., where trains pass twice a
day at a speed If about forty miles an
hour. The tracks are seven feet apart
and there would seem to tie' ample
room to stand between them In safety
between two trains. One day a terrier
dog belonging to a section boss was
asleep in the middle space, and woke
up just as the trains closed in from
each side. There was a barrel on the
ground near by, and the dog in his
fright jumped on top of It. That
probably brought him Into one of the
rushing envelopes of air. At any rate,
he was whirled off his feet and thrown
clear to the roof of the opposite car,
where he was subsequently found,
jammed against a ventilator chimney,
with no injury except a broken leg.
How in the world he ever made such
a journey and escaped alive Is a mys
tery, unless his fall was deadened by
a cushion of air. Apropos of atmos
pheric pressure, it Is a well-known fact
that there is a 'vortex space,' or 'zone
of suction,' directly behind any rapidly
moving train, and its presence ac
counts 'for a grotesque happening that
took place some tlms ago on tha
Southern Pacific. While the California
bound express was going through west
ern Arizona at a clipping gait a pas
senger who was on the verge of lunacy
rushed out to the rear platform, cllmb-
eu on a rail and jumped off. He was
wearing a very long linen duster, and
a muscular tourist who happened to
be on the platform at the time grabbed
il by the tails as it sailed by and yelled
for help. They reeled the man in like
a kite, and he promised to be good."
WIRE CRASS WEAVING.
Great Development from an Experiment
Hade Near Oihkoah.
"The Creation of a New Industry" Is
described as "a romance of the Twen
tieth century" by Herbert Myrick, who
is the author of a large book with
heavy crepe paper covers in which is
followed the development of the wire
grass industry from the time the grass
was first woven into binding twine
down to the present extensive use of
the grass in the manufacture of mat
tings, baskets, chairs and other furni
ture. It is Interesting to note that the
making of wire grass twine was be
gun near Oshkosh, Wis., on a small
scale, in November, 1897. The grass
twine proved profitable for binding
grain, and the mattings found ready
sale. From this beginning an enter
prise has developed which operates en
larged works at Oshkosh, a large plant
at West Superior, another plant at St.
Paul, Minn., and an immense factory
at Brooklyn, N. Y., for the manufac
ture from wire grass twine of furni
ture, baby carriages and other novel
ties. The utilization of a grass that
had heretofore been worse than worth
less is an economic development of so
much importance that its promoters
are worthy of classification among pub
lic benefactors. Wire grass is useless
for grazing or feeding purposes, as it
is hard and tough, and practically
without nutritive substance. The plant
is, in fact, only valuable for fiber. Mr.
Myrick's book is illustrated with pic
tures showing the development of tha
various establishments of the corpora
tion which has grown out. of the Osh
kosh experiment, and with attractive
colored photographs showing the vari
ous articles that are now made from
wire grass. The furniture is partic
ularly attractive.
The IlrklattiiH of Cappadocla.
Throughout Turkey in Asia and Per
sia there are many scattered tribes
either professing heretical forms of
Islam or wholly pagan in character.
They very naturally enjoy the hatred
of the orthodox, by whom they are
persecuted, it has for a long time
been thought that the devotees of
these peculiar Beets represent the
earliest Inhabitants of the land and
that mixed up with their religion
there are rites tbat extended back to
times far anterior to the rise of either
Mohammedanism of Christianity. l
order to test this supposition Mr. 3,
W. Crowfoot spent last summer at
some villages close to the ancient
Halys In the caatern half of Asia
Minor, which were occupied by a sect
called the Bedash of Klzllbash. In,
his report regarding them, made re
cently to the Anthropological Insti
tute of Great Britain, he states that
the measurements and photographs
taken corroborate the supposition re
garding their antiquity.'biit that evi
dence was also found of an Influx of
some more eastern clement , driven
westward, most likely, at the time
of the great Mogul luvasioas. The
people nominally worship All, but Id
reality worship "heroes" from whom
they claim descent. Phlladelphl i
Times.
The poet writes lines on lime and
tlma fot nllntn. a'plll 1 i t.lM
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volume of th 2 cylinders has been in.
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