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4 mi"- S . ' ' HOW 1 POUuni a WILD CAT. BROKEN SWORD OP DREYFUS. UNQUIET GRAVE OF LINCOLN. "1 have heard a great deal about rata nd titers, their similarity of species their tnaatlable desire for blood. Bui I used to think that eata were made to suffer for the sins of their relative tigers. It was difficult for me to Imag ine how such a domestic, friendly, coo lng creature as the cat usually la could turn out to be a blood-seeking beast. Ordinarily the cat rubs against one seeks friendship, loves to be stroked miu usss 10 ne petted. But the horrible beast which attacked me has upset all - my preconceived ldaa about cats, saga Yvette Gullbert In the New York Jour nal. Perhaps that cat was an excen lion. Upon Inquiry, however, I find the exefpyons rather numerous. The hor rible beast flew at me without provo cation. I ws alone. As Ill-lurk would have It, no one was wunjn can. The cat s eyes glared Ilk fiery balls. It showed Its tiger-like teeth. It hissed rorth sounds such as are heard when one throws water upon the Are. It wagged its tail with fiendish de light. Then followed a terrific spring, the wrute. evidently Intending to land upon my throat. Nature has endowed me with very Jon garma. The gestures occasioned by my call ing have strengthened these arms. I had no weapon of defence. With my arms I struck out against the cat. Fortunately I did not lose, my head. The great thing was to prevent the cat from getting a grip on me. This 1 knew. 1 struck with all my might. No prise fighter ever mustered up all his force with more energy than I. Prize fighters usually contend for a championship. I thought I was fighting for my life. The policeman who fought two cats recently in Paris was armed with a word. He lunged and parried as tho he were fighting a duel. He pierced their bodies with his sabre. But sword less as I was. what could I dot Merely keep up the fight as long as the strength of my great arms lusted. I cannot de scribe the fight by rounds, for there was no respite. It was a case of con tinuous action. Every seelnd I hoped would bring some one to my assistance. Alas, no one came! Even my maid, who rarely leaves me, was not within the sound of my voice. On this occa sion every one seemed to have deserted me. I began to think what an awful fate was about to befall me. An artist of my standing to be killed Jy a cat! Perish the thought! 1 struck the brute a terrific blow. It itsigeref; it rallied. It made one su preme Jump at my throat Instead of LOST TRIBE IN THE FAR NORTH. Thomas Campbell's vision of "The Lost Man" came near being realized m mS .o. ory o tuo tnwc uf onklinu recently discovered by Captain Cro mer, commander of an Arctic whal ing vessel, on Southampton island. In the north end of Hudson bay. These people are less than 100 In number, and they believed that they were the only human beings on the earth. For more than 400 years they had been shut up In that lonely retreat, which Is about the size of the state of Maine, living in the most primitive style. In credible as It may seem, not a single article Introduced on the American continent since Its discovery ,by Co lumbus was found o nthla Island. Captain Cromer obtained a large col lection of the weapons and household effects used by this strange tribe. This collection has been secured by the American Museum of Natural History of New York, and It will soon be placed on exhibition in the cast wing of that Kreat Institution. These Eskimo speak a language dif ferent from that employed by the Es kimo of the far North, and different from any other language known, but their size, color and hW" proclaim them -undoubtedly members of the ii asst. general family. The men and wr" are clothed alike. In Jackets at jouscrs of deer and sealskin. The Jae4 Is hooded, with openings for the fa '! bands. The women fashion the skin into clothing and footwear, Hewing ts dona with bone needles and thread of sinew from the seal. Among their hunting weapons the bow and arrow plays an Important part In shooting land animals. The bow is of wood, wrapped with twisted sinews; the arrows are pointed with chipped flint. Bow and arrows are carried In a bow case and quiver that Is stuns; on the back. hi stature they are of medium height and robust and muscular, but the wo men are much shorter than the men, occasionally almost dwarfish. Much of their food Is eaten raw, but they cook It whtn convenient. They will split and devour the back, fat and flesh from the body of a deer killed In the chase and while the fleers are yet quivering. Seal's fat and seal's Mood are put Into a dish and slewed. This oily li quid Is used like butter. Lean meat Is dipped Into It to make It mors pal table. Kalaka or skin eanoss art the water raft of these psopls. They art from Jl to 30 feet lit length. In the middle to a hole for th body, the rest being entirely decked over. The chief outfit t the kalak Is a harpoon and spear, Which art used In the hunt for whales and seals. These are from six to sight landing upon the desired spot, It sue-. ceeded In sticking Its fangs Into my arm. The pain was Intense, and the cat was furious to the last degree. I now suf fered a twofold torture one physical, the other menial. The latter waa the worse. I feared that hydrophobia was before me that I should go mad. The thought occurred to me that It were better to die bravely fighting even a cat than to be locked up forever In a mad house. With my unemployed hand I grasped the animal's) throat. I got my thumb on the apple. I squeezed and squeezed as never wo man squeezed before. The ferocious light of the cat's eyes was soon replaced by a glassy stare, It loosed It hold. I flung the brute from me, rushed to the door, slammed It, and I, Yvette Gullbert, waa safe. That feline fight waa the most terri ble I have ever had In my life. I have had maffr struggles. I used to suffer keenly when I knew I had talent and people would not listen because I was not pretty. Still I fought my way with out fear. I cannot say such was the case in my fight with the cat; for I was very much afraid, although my pres ence of mind did not desert me even for an Instant, and this proved to be my salvation. It Is said that women and cats do not like each other. I can well believe It after the attack which the cat made upon me. We frequently hear the expression "Worse than the furies Is a woman scorned," I can only say that I did not scorn the cat which attacked me, yet It was more than any furies which the human mind can conjure up. Hence I Infer that an Infuriated cat Is more rplteful than a scorned woman. Cross-tempered women are called cats although my unhappy experience goes to show that feminine passion com pared with feline rage Is not even as moonlight unto sunlight. A cat has thirty teeth. It has six incisors above and six be low. It has four molars above and four below. I felt as though the whole thirty were stuck In me. The physicians will not admit this, but, no matter, I am speaking of my feelings and not of the mere dental marks. It was fortunate for me thnt there Is a Pasteur Institute In Paris. Otherwise I might now be foaming at the mouth or In a madhouse or In the giave. How- ever. I a mhere, safe and sound, firmly resolved to avoid the Ire of cats for the future and to advise my friends to do likewise. feet long, having sharp points of ivory which become detached when the game is ptereew. 'i-ne long line attached gives ample scope for pluy until the animal is exhausted. vu mini me Bie utawn ny a dog team of from seven to ten animals la the only means of travel. The harness consists of two large noosea, placed one above the other and Joined by two perpendicular straps four or five Inches In length, so placed as to allow the heads of the dogs to pass through, so thai one noose will He along the back and the other between the legs. The body harness Is made of un dressed sealskin, which does not chafe The whips are of plaited thongs of sealskin some twenty-five to thirty feet long, and the natives possess a surprising dexterity in the use of these whips, being able to flick the ear of a particular sluggish dog the full dis tance of the length of the lash. The huts or houses of. the Eskimo are made by putting together the great Jawbones of right whales, which are covered with skins and seem more fit ting for the lairs of animala than for the homes of human beings. There are no windows In tho houses, only a small opening about two and a half feet high scrying for a door. Each building Is occupied by several families. Walrus and seal meat is stored away In caves excavated In the snow. As the temperature never rises above the freezing point, the meat soon freezes solid and keeps Indefinitely. They have no furniture; the sole effects used In housekeeping are a limestone tamp for cooking, a dish made of the same ma terial to hang above the lamp, and a few cups male of whalebone. The most Indispensable of these uten sils la the lamp, the only source of heat and light One of the chief duties of the women Is to prevent the Ismp from going out. Tbejamp Is utilised for cooking and drying clothes, skins, boots and mittens, which are hung around on a rack of bones. Cooking Is done In an oblong dish or pot suspended above the flam. In this their meal of blubber and fat and whalenteat Is always kept slowly simmering-. The people are obliged to make their cooking vessels and lamps out of slabs of limestone, glued togeth er with a mixture of grease and deer Mood. The lamps are burned by meant of wicks of moss arranged around the edge. , At a meeting of the Baptist Social onion In Boston last week an announce ment was mads formally of an offer of John Bv Rockefeller to (Irs 1M,0M to Newton Theological seminary, provided a Ilk sum he raised by the institution. The death of Qulllaume Gambler re vives interest in what was perhaps the most tragic Incident of the Dreyfus af fair. Gambler waa & non-com mission ed officer of the French dragoons a blond, soldierly looking giant; an hon est and earnest soul. It was he who broke over hla knee the sword of Dreyfus, a part of which ha recently, by a curious chance, found Its way to America, and tore from his uniform all insignia of rank when, In 1895, the-unfortunate officer WOO UrgraUJCU II. 7U Ol IC At that memorable moment the great helmeted dragoon, powerful and stern as the law, looked the very symbol of Justice. Yet in his heart that man was tor tured by doubt or rather by the con viction that he was made the instru ment for a ghastly mistake. He firmly believed In the innocence of Dreyfus, and though he was a taci turn man and spoke little, no fear ever kept him from expressing his belief in plain words when the occasion aroe. In a letter which he addressed to his old mother immediately after the de gradation, Gambler gave an excellent description of the dramatic ceremo nies and spoke of the harrowing strug gle which took place within him when he was ordered to do his part of the work. The letter has lately been pub lished. The following extract from It Is Intensely Interesting: "No guilty man would have acted as he did through that awful ordeal. His eyes were brave and frank. The agony In his voice, on his face, waa the genuine despair of a man condemned unjustly and unable to understand why everybody was so fiercely unwilling to hear him. "Mother!" Dreyfus cried, and then he cried to the yelling, mad multitude: "I am Innocent. I swear before God that I am Innocent." He cried that out lo them In a despairing appeal, yet dignified as I would have said it. And they, vociferated curses at the poor fellow. "Only those who were present can form any conception of the tense ex citement of It all. The companies with shining bayonets were Tlned up at the four sides of the square. Behind those walls the teeming black crowds, a sea of enraged wild animals. And In the Immediate open space Just the Utile group of us the general and his staff on horseback, myself standing four paces before the general, and Dreyfus, between four artillerymen, facing us. "While the decree of degradation waa being read, Dreyfus kept his eyes steadily upon the general. "The very silence of death had sud denly descended from that vast plaza, SURGERY ON THE HIGH SEAS. Philadelphia, Pa. (Special.) One of the most remarkable surgical opera- noun ever uuuet ntucii u . wii, 14 . by a Phlladelphlan recently on board the steamer Ethelwolf, bound for Van couver, B. C. The Ethelwolf Is a "tramp" freight steamer engaged In the East Indian and China trades, and the substance of the story was Includ ed In a letter, written to his family in this city, by the steward, T. J. Crow ley, formerly of Nlcetown, who was present at the operation. The Ethelwolf had taken on a mixed cargo at Hong Kong that taxed but two-thirds of her capacity, and she steamed for Canton, trusting In the season. It being a good one for exports, to fill out her holds. Twelve hours out from Hong Kong a blow was encoun tered, and a sudden lurch of the ves sel threw Andrew Dawson, a stoker, down the narrow, precipitous iron steps leading to the fircroom, breaking his leg. There was no doctor on board, but the Injured man was made as comfort able as possible by his mates; and when port was reached a surgeon was called on board and the limb was s-l. ii ws at once advised that Dawson be sent to the English hospital at Can ton, but the man begged so hard that this was not done; and when the ship sailed, Dawson was still In his cot in the steward's cabin, his injured teg In a planter cast. All was well for a time, but suddenly alarming symptoms were exhibited. The man began to suffer excruciating pains In the locality of the fracture. Then the limb began to swell, necessi tating; the removal of the cast. Then It waa found that the leg was mottled with deep purple spots; and this, to gether with the swelling, could not be mistaken. Gangrene had set In, and it was felt thst, under the circumstances, death would positively follow. The officers held a consultation; am putation was the only hope, but In the absence of a surgeon that was held to be Impossible. But Dawson was a man not only of strong constitution, but of strong character as well; and when the serious nature of hla condition was Im parted to Mm, he pleaded that the op eration be undertaken by soSie man of steady rferve among the ship's com pany. It was death anyhow, he in sisted, and he might as well die, under the knife as give up without a Strug He. An assistant engineer, named Carter, volunteered to do the work. In the Bthelwoir library was an old Scotch medical work called "Carbln on Surgery" Carter bunted this up and began a bunt for a case similar to Dawson's, but the book, with Its tech reading seemed lost and distant. and In the open air the voice that was "Suddenly it ceased, and the sharp order to do my part of the businest came to me. In one wild whirl my mind contemplated a lot of desperate things. Do I obey, do I refuse? "Then the habit of moving forward at the command of a superior pushed me forward towar dthe captain. I be gan. I tore the epaulets and flung them down at his feet. I tore the braids from the cap, from the breast the sleeves. All that had been par- tially unsettled beforehand to mak the task easier. "The last thing was to pull Dreyfus sword from the scabbard at his side I did that with one sweep of my arm and broke the beautiful bright blad on my bent knee. It snapped like glass and the two pieces fell over all thi things I had torn from the uniform. Ai I was unbuckling hts sword belt "'I am Innocent!' cried Dreyfus ovei my Bhoulder. He wante dto say more but the drums rolled and the guards were ordered forward to parade hlrr. before the troops and the people. "It was only faintly that I heard the great din of execration that rose from the mob everywhere as he passed. I had withdrawn to my place, and I re member one thought kept coming back to me as in a dream 'What a pity 1 am a soldier! Why should have fate selected me for this? What a pity It warf I!' " Despite these unwelcome opinions of the affair, Gambler was such a fa vorite among his men, comrades and superiors that he never was molested in any way. He followed the Piennes trial with In tense Interest, fully expecting to see his beloved army set right what he believed to have been an awful mis take. When the second verdict con firmed the first Gambler was much af fected. He never afterward openert his mouth on the subject. A few days ago he died In the mili tary hospital of Lune.ville, where his regiment had long before been trans ferred from Paris. Pneumonia carried away that powerful and kind giant in less than a week. His second term In the army was soon to expire, and h had decided not to re-enlist. Of the two broken parts of Dreyfus- sword, one (the handle piece) Is still j kept among the celebrated criminal relics In the prefecture of police. Th pointed half was picked up from when1 It had fallen. It was given to the general who had presided at the de gradation. The general kept It on his ; desk as a memento till Mathtew Drey fus, who learned of it, wrote the gen eral, questioning his right to display this constant pretext of eonversatior. on a subject definitely settled. nical terms, did little good; if snythin? It shook his nerve and he threw il ssidc, determined to gn blind, rather than, bewilder himself with half-understood instructions. Dawson was stretched out upon e table; a full-page colored plate, rlppec from "Carbln on Surgery" was tacked upon the wall; this was an Illustration fo a leg which had been amputated above the knee, find gave the positions of the main and lesser arteries. Pallor like, this was to serve as a chart, and the most dangerous points, as referred to In the text, were checked oft with a pencil. Dawson grew pale as death from los of blood, but continued to encourage Carter. As each artery was reached It was tie dup like the first, but before the leg was severed, a. id at last the bone was reached. Dawson fainted at this stage, and when he came to, the saw had done Its office, and Carter, faithfully following the chart upon th wall, was finishing his work. Then the stump was bound up tightly and the patient put back in his1 cot. The loss of blood had been consider able, but not at all alarming. Dawson seemed weakened, but full of pluck and It was felt that, should blood poi soning not set In, he would recover. And this proved to be the case. Nc bad results followed and the putlenl grew In strength rapidly. Upon reach ing Vancouver he was taken to a hos pital, but the lejr was SJI but healed and the doctors pronounced the cas entirely out of danger, and said that ii was as extraordinary an exhibition o) nerve and vitality as ever came unde' their notice. Whisked at lightning speed through two two-foot holes In the floor, and ar unknown number cf times around nine-foot flywheel, and finally hurled through the air twenty feet against th far end of the engine room In Milwau kee, Fred Tlede Is still alive. Mor than that, he escaped without a broker bone, and the doctors say he will bi able to go to work In a few days. Tled Is an engineer at the quarry of th Wauwatosa Stone company, went of Milwaukee, and was working In the en. glne room alone. No one witnessed thi awful spectacle. George H. Sylvester foreman at the quarry, entered the en glne room, and falling to find Tlede at his post began an Investigation. At thi farther end of the engine room he no tlced the apparently lifeless form of th engineer, fully twenty-live feet froir the whirling wheel. sirs. Grant Allen, widow of the nov 1st, Is about to open a bookshop If the London West ICnd. All that remains of the earthly body of Abraham Lincoln is at present lying In a metallic casket In a crude wooden box in a temporary vault in Oak Ridge cemetery, Springfield, 111. The only preparation which had been made for the removal of the body from the bed of cement In which It had rested for thirteen years, was the preparation of the vault so that it might be robber proof. The removal of the body was made necessary by the fact that the monu- bulld. and vMcSi was completed only seventeen years Ago, had to be torn down because of the shifting of the base of the knoll on which the great shaft rested. When the casket was taken from the cement the outer wooden box was, as might have been expected, badly de cayed. No other box had been pre pared, and the wooden box In which the body of the great emancipator is now resting was made with a hatchet, a saw, a few nails and some unplaned boards. -It was constructed upon the ground within a few feet of the tomb, as were five similar boxes In which were placed the decayed caskets con taining the remains of Mrs. Lincoln, the three sons and the grandson. The matterrpf providing at least a respect able wooden box, .with which to en case the Lincoln coffin, was of so little consequence that the matter was not even thought of. The body and that of the other mem bers of the family will remain In the temporary vault about a year, by which time It is expected the monu ment will be rebuilt. In order that It may never tumble down again, the foundations will be laid on bedrock, which it Is believed will be found at a depth of about thirty-five feet. The new monument will be Just as near a counterpart of the one' now being re moved as possible, except that it wil! be fifteen feet higher. This is the seventh spot on which Lincoln's remains have rested since they were brought to Springfield aftei his assassination on April 14, 1865 Upon their arrival there they wer taken from the C. & A. depot to th- hall of representatives, in the statr house, and there remained in state fr.t several days. From representative hall they were taken to Oak Ridge ceme tery and placed in the temporary re ceiving vault of the cemetery, . where they were under a guard of soldiers for a long time. The body was next re moved to a temporary vault on the side of a hill. Next all that was mortal of Lincoln MAN WHO HAS NO THROAT. j Unable to breathe through his mouth , or nose, which have lost their respira 'tory functions; bereft of his 'throat, j which was recently removed during a ! surgican operation, and capable with j the use of a mirror of seeing his food I pass from his mouth toward his stom ach, August Ecklon of No. 75 Clifton I n. ...... A ekl.ian) t, uHy-m anrl pniovincr avenue, v.ii-p", " better health than he has for the past ten years. Born In Germany thirty-nine years ago and coming to this country when he was only a few years old, Ecklon developed Into a fine specimen of phys ical manhood, and it was only his rug ged constitution and splendid nerve that made it possible for him to wlth- treatments to which he has submitted j since he became affected with tumor of the larynx ten years ago. It is staled by reliable physicians that ICck Ion's case is the only instance of recovery where the throat trouble was so aggravated. Of the minor throat troubles only 10 per cent live for three or four years after the operation; but heretofore extreme cases such as Eck lon's have not survived the operation. He has no wsufflciently recovered to perform light work around his house, such as paperhanging, and expects in a short time to be able to resume his duties at his meat market. He takes a vi a lk every day, and, attired in his or dinary street costume, there Is nothing in hla appearance to indicate that he is such a living phenomenon. Eiklon. has never used alcohol or to bacco to excess, and his health up to 1X90 was perfect. In that year he was troubled with pneumonia and with an attendant hoarseness, which prevented him from speaking aloud. lie was sent to Hot Springs, Ark., but the .baths weakened him. On his return, In 1893, he experienced a difficulty In breathing and an opening was made In his wind pipe and a tube Inserted. In February, IK84, a cork was placed In the tube and the patient was allowed to breathe through his mouth and nose. His voice at this time was Just above a whisper. In July the tube was removed and the opening was allowed to close. In Feb ruary, 1895, his lungs again pained him and he found It difficult to breathe un til July of the same year, when the tube was replaced, and it has never been received since. Dr. Jacob Frank, of the German hospital. Chicago, took up Ecklon'e case In 18M, when the In dications were those of stomach trou ble and throat complications. Ecklon began lo experience serious trouble, owing to a large swelling on the left side of his neck. In February, ISM. Dr. Frank operated ' upon him June ts, 1AM, when a large mast wss sncountered firmly matted to the Im portant vessels and nerves of that side, was taken to the sarcophagus Inside the north part of, the Lincoln monu ment, th's constituting the third re moval. While here an attempt was made to steal the casket. After this the re mains -were secretly carried to the south side of the monument, conveyed through Memorial hall, and three well known gentlemen were selected from the Lincoln gsard of honor to secrete the casket. These three eprsons took the body Into the superstructure of the monument and hl1 Ir n na.rmnr passage between two brick walls, which formed a part of the foundation of the monument; this constituted the fourth removal. The remains were removed a fifth time thirteen years ago, when they were taken from between the walls and placed in Memorial halt. Here the casket was opened for the purpose of identification. The sixth removal occurred when the casket wan placed in the bed of cement, from which It was removed Saturday a week; ago. Mrs. Lincoln was also buried In the cement beside the grave of her husband. When the remains are again placed in the monument they will have been disturbed from seven resting places since coming to Springfield. Several persons declare that Lincoln's remains were once placed In a vault on the ground now occupied by the state capitol building, but this is untrue. Just after the assassination a tem porary vault was erected there, but Mrs." Lincoln preferred that the inter ment be In Oak Ridge cemetery, and her wishes were respected. Great disintegration and decay has taken place in the caskets and con tents during the past few years. For a week workmen dugin a bed of solid concrete, in an endeavor to locate the remains of the Great Emancipator and his wife. For days the odor was so bad that the workmen could remain In the excavation they were malting but a few minutes at a time, when they would be forced to come out for fresh lir. That this came from the two icdies burled in the cement there is doubt. The moisture had soaked hrough the cement and had forced a rost, possibly an Inch thick, around he casket in which Lincoln was bur ed. This moisture is undoubtedly re sponsible for the advanced state of de cay in which the cedar casket waa found. Fortunately, Lincoln's body was buried in a metallic coffin made oC lead and copper, and were It not for this fact, the probabilities are that the remains could, not have been trans ferred to a temporary resting place in tact. necessitating a tedious dissection and removal of part of the internal Jugular vein. A pathological examination of the tissue removed was made, and a diagnosis given of cancer. A rapid recurrence followed the operation, and on September 13, 1899, a large mass waa again removed, involving the nerves and vessels of that region, as before. The condition of the throat was so bad that a complete removal of the larynx was advised. The operation was performed before, the members of the Mississippi Valley Medical association, who were holding a convention in Chicago in September last. Ecklon was placed on the oper ating table of the German hospital and Chief Surgeon Frank, assisted by Drs. Klein, Fleberger and Storm, began tha grewsome work. On account of being; unable to breathe through the mouth, chloroform was administered by a spe cially devised apparatus through tha opening in Ecklon's windpipe. An in cision was then made from the top of the Adam's apple to the opening in tha windpipe, three inches long and threw inches across. The two triangular flaps of skin thus formed were thrown back and the upward portion of the windpipe cut across and divided. Before separat ing the windpipe from oesophagus a hard tube was passed Into the latter to serve as a guide. A portion of tho oesophagus had to be removed also, on, account of complications. It was sub sequently sewed up, but the thread sloughed away and left an opening at tha epper end of the oesophagus, which, still remains, and communicates with the outside. At present Ecklon's neck looks like a map of the Amazon river, with Its trib utaries. The scars remain to testify! to the work of the surgical knife, bet he Is happy In his recovery and exhibits the wounds with the pride of a veteran warrior. The results In Bcklon's case are most peculiar; one of them refutes the theory that the vocal cords are nec essary to articulation. Ecklon has no vocal cords, as they were removed In . the operation, yet nsture. In leaving the fistula In his oesophagus, has tried ta provide a substitute, for them In tha two flaps which were formed when tha threads relaxed during the operation. These flaps regulate the pitch of bw voice, relaxing and contracting the same as the vocal cords. Ecklon has not breathed through Ms mouth or mm since IMS In fact, his mouth la prac tically at the top of hta breast bone, o far as his respiratory power arc concerned. When he coughs be dosa ss through this tube, and he extlngulshe a match niaced In front of It with th same ease that an ordinary per would Mow it out with his month. Chicago News: Caution la t tlon of prjidenca.
