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: fl Successiui ii Experiment li Mr«. M—* loohe* for the twentieth at ber watrh. and thro with a <^> waited la tL» *-iBduv, "H# prutttMsl to > hOMe at ( , e'rioc-k to dian»r she murmured. J "**d It If Itv T:«. Am 1 to Imf dis appointed evening after evening m ! this tMt«? Mom I sit down to ac- - «ber solitary Meal. * th servant* to * wo*4« at ar mt eyes? Only aix j Months named! Kr* m the depth* of ! Mf htort I % 1*3 1 had never left my father's tauM"* limner * ftAUhed. then far into the Bdfct tha heart broken wife awaited the am^A of her hnshnnd. At Mat »he heard his footsteps, and AlMaot lireathlea* she rushed to Meet hiM / ~W'hy la the world are yon not In led. AnnieT" was his drat salutation •»t teorge l*jm ould yo.i alarm ■e »r cant nervously from her lips have been no worried “ And *he burnt Into tears Wipe year eyes. Annie, and Just in-re 1 have aoMethtng to ssy to you. When I Mamed you it * as because I loved yon. and supposed yon loved we.. I And 1 am Mlstaaen for no wife who has a regard for her husband will annoy l:n nrtth continual reproaches. **1 shat attend mj club and my bun sens generally, go oat when I plenar and rant la when l feel disposed. Now go to bed ’ Mu wile was thoroughly roused, sad her fare nerved with indignation, and she said: “Yov shall never again be trow hied by My tears or fsjl'.flndiag Love is a Myth, a ridiculous delusion. 1 and hereafter I shall follow your ex a&f’«e—hf n woman at the world a» yon are a Man of the world—and now ' gmd morning." Annie hep! her word. The tender fijfw*:oi of (CijtesiDfc give way to j a wtM 1 *• * Mil Mptt. a good Jkfi >t^uu« Blager mad ptaaiat. what amder tut ter mournf mac eougb' after. tfi< that wUreter tU meat ad mirer* flcriK to Ur ride. >U preatded «rr Ur household with r»<« mad dignity, but there «i %m Bahaa Smg la Ur eoadort tower4c Ur toiiict although cU mac. arefml of Jit*. air coe.'oc mail ai«a>c po Tt ;» ULi .or w*« anything tat agreeable to Sir. XI He Uraau cud- | tenly punctual ta his baste eegage »«*■* »ii arid m !at* to i.caer. mad cemed to m u tw w.a h<r old lore wi|i hack. aum mac exact about nrrj doitea tic err*n*rme*t. and after tbece du- j tie* mere fttttahod. without any word. witUrew to Ur own boodolr or made aai <4 a KMT p*r.| cicewher* lieorg* tried to deoEtokab tui ley barrier, but word* mere uaettsa The reply wu: “Dew t annoy me with jour fault Bal ing-* Tbree laoatha pace*.! a this way. j g-ern pa«a. N* .*ser b siaems mt ptearare bad any (barm tor him. baate Uf C oa la the e*ea teaor of Ur way apparently waeoaoeioui of the change la rU arrtrf o? Ur husband “f oball atar: lor tU South Beat week Ait.* " Cftid be one evening. After cer ral me*ectual attempt* to tagate Ur in coawaraatloa. Her b.t.da dosed tightly ac U «aid this. bat tU proud woman controlled U'erif. a ad aot a muscle of Ur lac* mowed ac cU replied: Very »eiL b there aaytblag 1 can gaf* Xo.“ ie replied; -there I* aot blag fur me to Jb bat to taawe taa*. 1 can t eccr stay here mad U treated aa you are treating a*e »ow. ' Eierytbihg wac coon ready, and there oair remained tU good-by U tareem the husband and wife. "1 Am coinf bow Acute, will you c't gjwe me use pleasant word" be •aid. Certainly," iw ropued, i *:*h yoa tMMi fom» and » mf* return to yoar home." "Ten will writ* to si*. Annie?” tod Li» Up t«iien4. -Certainly. since yon desire it. with * (Ml dial o( pteasorc g| (Mires help me!“ mouned An • ^ uUm> door dosed after him; *nJ. krricU upo* her knees be 114> the CMt| |b* fwiirrd out her mhi! Is paaaiosate ImmsUUoc* Oh h«» M i:m btrk to me. My heart Is tweaking Why did I let him go* Oh. I Jove hint more than nil on earth’" * Annie* Annie* My own precious wiler** And the *e« moment the was in her hnwbnnd » arm* ~ barling. 1 on* hat k tar mr hat bos and overheard your ery. Let us both he thankful” And two bends, never again to be ra ted In pride and dehance, were rev* A often ray to rill r ffct rwtj di®« u'ty in en frtends. Here Is d an evening whu-b l to old and in sending out invitations re* ich gue»t to come with his securely bound up. Let no When the hostess then »he extends her left hand them to write their names la ik. The page re the appearance of a 3 • first attempt to write, may play her own left ta and an eiuen fe. making all her gestures the left hand. The wenu must smashing that will demand l f a spoaa to add to the ask* cf Urn left-hand com»ut:tjr. j A TRUE "HEROESS.? KU*w!*-tb >:»bin. Mndrnt Ht iliincJ Sch<H>L Bwlas. Notwithstanding the marvelous way n which the deaf, dumb and blind are now freed from the ignorance and loneliness which were formerly the greatest horrors of the silence and darkness in which they must dwell, the struggle they have to make to be, at nearly as they may. like other peo ple ran m\er be anything but difficult, it * fin. hud touching to behold how galk nt’y these c hildren of sorrow set themselves to overcome their disad vantages. as it is also to see w hat tire Uaa patience and loving skill our hard old world places tenderly at their ser vice. There is probably no woman in the l imed States for whom there is felt so universally an affectionate re spect and regard as for that simple, sweet and modest young student. Helen Keller: nor does the public ever weary of lis'ening to new anecdotes of others afflicted as she is—especially of their progress on the thorny road to knowledge One of these upfortunates is Elizabeth Kobin. now a student at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, in Boston. Kingsley s “Greek Heroes” fi>nred the basis of the reading lessons of her class at the beginning of the year. In the dit assion of the book. Elizabeth gave prompt answers to questions. She dec la red the difference between a hero and a god to be this: ■*A aero Is half-powerful, whereas a god s all-powerful.” Asked if she had ever seen a hero, she icsponded quick ly: "Edith la companion afflicted like berae’ft is a hero because she is not afraid of anything After a moment's reflection, she added: "We might call her a heroes*, hut she Isn't really a hero ” The story of Elizaiietli's work in arithmetic is one of alternate vic tory and defeat. Her most serious de ll. iecey lit* in the lack of power to analyze problem* She spent a long time over one difficult example, and * her. a*k* d how she w as progressing, replied “He la a Spaniard, but I hope 10 conquer him." 1-ater she said: 1 have been asking the Spaniard all sorts of questions, but he will not ; answer me. My brains are heavy. R* turning to the ta*k on the following morning w h renewed zest, she gained •h** victory. In the solution of one long probl- m. requiring the use of xary ciphers Elizabeth used all the ciphers on her type-slate, and then - u bet It i: led units. “I Imagined the ones were ciphers.'* -he explained, “and it was hard, and I was almost mixed.” j U'livti at the cor- j •Vet conclusion. She shares in gym- j nasi’m work and games, and enjoys them heartily. She is also a good j dancer. She runs with great speed. J md preferably alone. At one time she j hurt her***!? severely by running into a I wall, but her Spartan comment was j only: **I would rather be bumped • han not run *' That ts the spirit of a ! real keroe?*."—Youths' Companion. DINING AT RACE HORSE SPEED. tairrlraM %re (•l\rn to fast Katlng at I heir Snrta! FnnrtkMU. To realise how oar “upper ten” scramble through existence one must •ntrast their fidgety way of feeding wr.th the bovine calm in which a Ger man absorbs his nourishment ana the hoars an Italian can pass over his postprandial meal. An American din ner party affords us *bis opportunity. From oysters to fruit, dinners now are a breathless steeplechase, during which we take our viand hedges and rfcamr-‘gne ditches a: a dead run, with conversation pushed at much the same speed. To be silent would be to im ply that one was not having a good t me. so we rattle and gobble on to ward the finger bow! winning post, only to find that rest is not there. As the hot-tess pilots the ladies away to the drawing-room she whispers to her poute: ’ You won't smoke too long, will you?" So we are mulct in the en joyment of even that la*t resource of weary humanity, the cigar, and are h'istltd away from our smoke and cof f.-e to find that our appearance is a ligmal for a general move. One of the older ladies rises; the next moment the whole circle, like a flock of fright ened birds, is up and off. crowding each other in the hallway, calling for their carriages and rattling the unfor tunate servants who are attempting to cloak and overshoe them. Bearing in mind that the guests have come as late as they dared without being abso lutely uncivil, that the dinner has been served as rapidly as was material ly possible and that the circle broke up a* soon as the meal had ended, one asks one s self in wonder why, if dinner is such a bore that it has to be scrambled through, route que coute, people continue to dine out?—Atlantic Monthly. ( hliMr llutior to an .% merimii. Tb» I rnted States legation at Pekin, China has seat to the Essex institute of Massachusetts, an attested copy of the imperial edict, making a demigod I of General Freuerick Townsend Ward . of Bate*. who was killed In the service of t'hina. General Ward was the crea tor of the Chinese army, afterward « tmn.anded by “Chinese" Gordon. The dornrtent referred to is authenticated I with the seals of the Chinese and Arn ; rrtt jtt governments and is believed to be the only copy in the original Chi nese to be found in this country, as the state department at Washington has only an English translation j thereof. Sir William VfaeCormac, the pres j Idem of the Royal College of Surgeons, is an indefatigable worker. Often, to save time when studying in his laboratory, he used to have a light luncheon served there. Once his as sistants heard him sigh heavily, and looking up. saw the doctor glaring at two glass receptacles on his table. What is the matter, doctor?" asked t'jmot t.trdra for tonaamptivea, One of the pretty features of a dense neighborhood in the heart of New York is a roof garden belonging to a hospital for consumptives. The windows from the merWs sitting rooms reach to the floor, so thaMhe sufferers can walk out to the roof, and they spend much of their tiipe tending, watering and pruning the plants. Hooater wttlr Two ApprOdicc*. An Indianapolis man. opeimted upon recently for appendicitis, wasKound to have two appendices. h-irnllllr Indlffrmtrr. THE CODLING MOTH. the greatest enemy of the APPLE GROWER. CauMng a Yearly Lons of Folly S25, 000.000—A Destructive Insect Very Seldom Seen Because It Works Only at Night. According to Prof. Forbes, the em inent entomologist, who has made careful experiments and observations regarding the subject, cne-half of the apple crop of Illinois is annually de stroyed by the apple worm, the cater pillar of the codling moth, involving a less each year to the farmers and fruit growers of the state of more than $2, 375,000. The annual destruction to the apple crop by this pest and consequent loss to the farmers in the country at large is estimated to be $25,000.000— and yet. according to Prof. Sllnger land, the entomologist of Cornell Uni veristy at Ithacu. N. Y., not one fruit grower in ten ever saw a codling moth although it is busy at work every sea son in their orchards by the tens of thousands, and moths of almost every other kind are a familiar sight to the farmer and fruit grower. The reason for this is that the codling moth does not have the universal habit of other moths, that of being attracted by a light or flame at night, and it so com pletely secretes itself during the day that the most violent disturbance of its retreats rarely causes it to take wing or to emerge from its hiding places about the orchard trees, the rough, scaly bark of which it so close ly resembles that even if one were resting on the exterior of the bark of the tree it would defy the sharpest eyes to detect it. A flaming torch placed at night under every tree in an orchard would fail to draw a single codling moth from its work of egg laying in the trees, although its nu merous varieties of cousins would be hastening from all directions to meet destruction in the fascinating blaze. The codling moth emerges from its cocoon about ten days after the apple blossoms have fallen from the trees in the spring, by which time the young fruit is grown sufficiently for the moth's purpose. The cocoons are be neath the scaly bark on the apple tree trunks. The meth, which is about half an inch long, comes out at night, and at once begins depositing its eggs. A codling moth's egg is tidi, auu uu 'i iuau a Milan pin head. So small is It, and almost imperceptible on the apple, that al though the codling moth has been Known to naturalists nearly three cen turies, it was only four years ago tha: its eggs were positively identified and described. The moth places but one egg on an apple. If one codling moth finds that another one has already de posited an egg on an apple it does not leave one of its own there, but seeks unpreempted fruit. Each moth lays from eighty to 100 eggs. The egg hatches a tiny worm at the end of ten days, always at night. The worm at once crawls to the blossom end of the apple, enters the cavity there, and tunnels Its way to the core, where it feasts and fattens on the heart of the apple, and tunnels its way to the sur face at the end of a month, emerging a plump, pink worm, three-quarters of an inch long, always coming out at night. It makes its way without de lay to the trunk of the tree, where it spins about itself its silken cocoon beneath a sheltering scale of baric, and remains there in hiding until it in turn develops into a moth, to continue the perpetuation of its pestiferous kind. Tiny as the codling moth's egg is there is a fly so small that it can de posit as many as four of its own eggs in a single egg of the moth. The fly's eggs hatch worms that devour the moth's enibrj o in the egg. and thus hosts of the ravenous insects are de stroyed before they have begun active life. Other parasitic enemies of the caterpillar make way with untold numbers of the insects at that stage of their existence, and night birds de stroy myriads of the moths. Vast numbers of the cocoons are uncovered end their contents devoured by wood peckers and other insectivorous birds, but enough come to maturity to levy on the farmers of the country a boun ty of $25,000,000 a year to keep them in board and lodging. Nothing but spray ing the trees with a solution of Paris green has any effect decreasing the annual loss in crop, and in checking Ihe ravages of the pest and this spray ing the farmer, as a rule, resolutely persists in not doing. High Explosives for War. Melinite as a high explosive is not considered by the Russians equal to pyroxyline. and in future the latter is to be used. In addition to the heavy projectiles 130.000 light shrapnel were made. Melinite shells for eleven-inch guns have not been found satisfactory, and It is uncertain whether their con struction will be continued. More than $500,000 has been spent on setting up a press on the principle of Ergardt, by which working at full pressure 200.000 shrapnel for three-inch quick-firing guns can be turned out every year. The Zlatoustovski manufactory turns out on an average 30.000 projectiles in a year, but it is intended this year, in order to expedite matters, that this manufactory shall cast only the pro jectiles which will be worked up at Satkinskom manufactory. Glucow'a Profitable Street Railways. Some interesting figures have been published showing the growth of the Glasgow tramway undertaking since it was taken over by the corporation. It is only five years and a half since the town council acquired the tram ways, and during that period the week ly drawings have risen from $19,000 to between $40,000 and $45,000. In the first year of the corporation manage ment the tramways carried 60,000,000 passengers. I^ast year they carried 119,000.000 passengers; or, in other words, they carried the whole popula tion of Glasgow three times in a week. Amrrloao Rights In Klondike. The Americans in the Klondike hare exactly the same rights and privileges and pay the same taxes as Caxa dUL MINING CLAIM For Mastodon Bones Flletl by a Califor nia Prospector. Los Angeles (Cal.) correspondence New York Sun: One of the most re markable mining claims ever filed ha3 recently come to light In Los Angeles. A well-known attorney has on his ta ble some parts of enormous tusks of mastodons, literally a bunch of three, found by a client in Death Valley; and It was on the bones of this animal that the claim was filed. Death Valley is a well-known depression In the eastern and central part of California. In winter it is not a particularly at tractive region, but In summer it is several degrees more disagreeable than almost any other spot on earth. The beat which is radiated from the Rocky mountains here is unbearable, and in midsummer tbe vast sunken pit is thf4 home of the sand storm, and given over to the elemental terrors. Mil lions 'of years ago this region, in all probability, was covered with a forest growth and was frequented by large and powerful mastodons. The valley offers few inducements to any but the owners of borax mines and gold, sliver and copper prospectors. It so happened that one of the latter entered the val ley late during the present season and wandered through the mountains look ing for treasure or signs, w’hen he stumbled upon some curious bones. In vestigation showed that they were merely the indications of others be neath the surface, which had not been washed away, and a little work re sulted in uncovering some enormous lusks, which could belong only to an animal of the elephant family. Fur ther investigations showed that in some way three gigantic elephants had died and been covered up here. It was impossible to take them out without appliances, and as the prospector did not wish to remain there, he adopted the ingenious expedient of taking out a miner’s claim and having it filed with all due ceremony, bringing one of the tusks to Los Angeles to exhibit. The excavations made showed that the remains of three mastodons were lying together undisturbed where they had fallen ages ago. The three mastodons thus staked out will soon be taken out. bone by bone, and mounted; and if they prove to he peifect will be as valuable as a good big nugget. SHIPS WITH AIR JACKETS. They Reduce Friction and Render (ireatrr Speed Possible. The air jacket for ships is the latest thing out. It is the invention of a Scotchman, and. it is claimed, greatly reduces the "skin friction” and as a consequence enables a higher speed to be attained. The "aspirator,” as the machine is called which supplies the air, is described as being self-acting and without any moving parts. It is a V-shaped air channel, which passes down the vessel's stem as far as the keel, and in most cases goes a certain distance along the keel. This chan nel may be either Inside or outside the vessel, and is provided with certain j protected openings or ports construct ed in such a way that the water rush ing past them produces a minus pres sure within them and consequently draws out a continuous stream of air, which, passing along the submerged surface of the ship, cuts off the imme diate contact w’ith the water, and, therefore, the water friction. It is the claim of the inventor that by means of his process a steamer makes her voy age in a continuous air jacket. The air, of course, ultimately rises to the surface of the water, but if the ship be going at a fair degree of speed she will pass her whole length through the air current before it escapes. It is said that in the experiments made with steamships on the Tay there was an increase of speed amounting to from 21 to 2G per cent of the ordinary speed of the ship, and it was noted that the greater percentage of increase wras in ships that had the greater speed to begin with.—Chicago Chron icle. The Wounded iu Hattie An army loses far more of its strength through its wounded than through its killed. There are four or five wounded to one killed, and the dead men give no trouble, while the wounded require an immense number of non-combatants to attend them. A great many of the wounded return to duty; but, as a rule, more than half of them take no further part in the war. Probably the same thing is occurring out in Africa now as occurred in pre vious wars, for the effects of the new weapons do not seem to differ greatly from those of the old. In that case it is easy to calculate what generals lose by having so many men wounded. If they fight a battle In which 100 are killed and wounded, the probabilities are that twenty would die on the field, twelve of the wounded would die later on, twenty-one would be invalided home, while forty-seven would return, cured, to duty. These are the averages for big battles in which there are sev eral thousand casualties. Ca lyle a Kapld Feeder. One day at dinner a gentleman— moved, it may be. by the sight of Mr. Gladstone's eonseientious mastication of his food, for the great statesman v>as not one to eat in haste and repent at leisure—remarked what a victim to dyspepsia Carlyle had been. “Yes.’* said Mr. Gladstone, “he smoked too much. I have been told that he ate quantities of sodden gingerbread and he was a rapid feeder. I lunched with him one day and he tumbled his food into his stomach. It was like postins letters.” After a slight pause, Mr. Gladstone added: “Carlyle did not seem to use his jaws, except to talk!"1 Fist Fight Amid Ball-to. During the fight at Colenso there occurred a truly Irish Incident. The gallant Dubltns, In an attack on the enemy’s left flank, paused at a spot for cover and also In order to regain their breath. Here two of the soldiers had a dispute, and before one could say Jack Robinson they were on thair feet banging their fists Into each other's facfj .Vwlth tremendous vehemence /]J~11*«llets whistled by their ears ^ th%/duat at their tfteh had won the DdV and went tat the THE SIOUX GHOST DANCE Indians Give Up Looking for a Messiah. Ghost dancing among the Sioux In dians, which led to such fierce battles with the whites in years gone by, has died out and the noble red man no longer looks for the coming of a Mes siah who would bring dead Indians to life, reincarnate the buffalo and deer and effectually dispose of the white population of the earth. Ghost danc ing, according to one who has made this custom a study, is nothing more nor less than an adaptation of the frenzy dances of the whirling der vishes of Turkey and Egypt, an exer cise undertaken for the purpose of placing the physical being in a state of exaltation wherein the spirit gains intimate communion with the dead and with the Messiah. It is a curious fact, attested by the better educated Indians, that the idea of an Indian Messiah was an adoption of the Chris tian idea of the Savior,doubtless trace able to the teachings of the early mis sionaries. The expected advent of an Indian Messiah has been among the traditions of the Indians of North Am erica almost from the beginning of their contact with the whites, and when the failure of crops in 1889 and 1890 left the Indians without the sub sistence upon which they depended— the government failed to furnish all of the supplies demanded—their minds naturally turned to the thoughts of the Messiah’s advent. In the summer of 1890 the idea be came widespread and was followed soon after by the announcement that the Messiah had actually come. Twen ty miles from the Pine Ridge agency about 2,000 Indians gathered, many of them belonging to the band of the famous old medicine man. Sitting Bull. They believed the Indian millennium would come with the next spring, when the new grass appeared. Sol diers were hurried from all parts of the country. They herded the Indians into their agencies and pursued the wandering bands of fanatics into the Band I^ands, and there proved to them that their ghost shirt was only painted muslin and incapable of turning the bullet of the white man. The ghost dance was held for six days and nights at the beginning of every new moon, by command of the Messiah. Month after month in 1S50 the dance was kept up. By the influence of the agents and the Indian police, backed by the soldiers, all of the Indians, ex cept the Sioux, were brought under control. The Sioux were numerous and defiant. They refused to quit dancing and treated the agents’ or ders with contempt. The collision came at Wounded Knee creek on Dec. 29. Several companies of soldiers had surprised and captured Big Foot’s band, the leaders of the deviltry of the times. They were lined up while a search of their tepees was made for arms. This proved fruitless and a per sonal search was ordered. The first detachment of searchers was shot down by the Indians, who had their guns concealed beneath their blankets and ghost shirts. There were 140 bucks and 250 women and children in the band. The signal for hostilities was given by the medicine man grab bing a handful of earth and flinging it above his head. The soldiers were of Custer’s old command and soon ral lied. The Indians retreated to their tepees after they had lost 52 men. Be fore the battle ended 116 Indians, in cluding Big Foot and 60 or 70 women and children, hiding in the tepees, were killed. The soldiers had 25 kill ed. The demonstration of the worth lessness of the ghost shirt as armor had a powerful effect upon the other dancing Indians, and they sullenly submitted after weeks of protest. The ghost dance belief died hard, however. So alluringly did the Messiah idea present the future to the simple minded braves that they were loath to give it up. The following year ghost dancing was again started, but was soon stopped by the Indian police. Pe riodically since then have the follow ers of the craze sought to revive this dance, but each time it was sternly re pressed. The end came last year, when only a score of the believers in all the Sioux could be got together. Then and then only was it finally aban doned. Bible for Prisoners. A precedent has been established by the grand jury, which will probably be followed by members of that body who succeeded the incumbents, says the Indianapolis News. In the statutes of 1879 a provision is made that at ev ery session of the grand jury the mem ber shall visit the county workhouse and jail. Any defects in the manage ment, or discrepancies in the accounts of the officials, are to be reported to the judge of the Criminal Court. Rec ommendations tending to add to the comfort of the prisoners are to be submitted to and considered by them. This section has never been closely observed, it is said. In the report made by the grand jury, yesterday, there was a recommendation that the prisoners of each institution be fur nished a Bible. The county officials have received notice from one of the local charity organizations that the Bibles can be had without cost to the county. Pish Knew the Professor. Dr. Samuel Dixon, the president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences, in Philadelphia, has a large aquarium containing goldfish and ma rine creatures which he is in the habit of feeding every morning. During the winter he wore dark-colored clothing, and as soon as he approached the glass tank all the fish came to surface of the water looking for crumbs. Chang ing his clothing to light-colored fabrics the first of May, the fish failed to rec ognize him. and went without food for two days. At last, however^Jthey be gan to recognize his proached the aquariu the surface-*—•**,»‘* hand tender had ord to pi and allow* f'' J one of the youngsters. “Nothing in particular,” was the reply, “only I am uncertain whether I drank the beef tea or that compound I have been working on.” BET ON SURE THING. Traveler Knew I? Accident Occurred Wager Would Be Off. “Speaking of railroad accidents,” said a veteran commercial traveler at the Cosmopolitan yesterday to a New Orleans Times-Dcmocrat reporter, “I am reminded of a curious experience and incidentally of the most incor rigible gambler I ever met in my life. I was going west over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe some years ago, and one of my fellow passengers in the Pullman was a race horse man from Louisville. He was an interest ing fellow and a good story teller, but his conversation was marred by his habit of leading everything up to a proposition to make a wager. Every statement he mode was clinched by an offer to back it with money, and final ly the thing became rather tiresome, and I made seme excuse for avoiding his society. Our sections in the sleep er happened to be directly opposite, and that night w’e were sitting on the edge of our respective lower berih3 preparing to retire when all of a sud den the whole car was shaken by a series of swift and heavy concussions. We both realized instantly what had happened. The train had jumped the track and was at that moment bump ing its way over the ties preliminary to heaven only knew what kind of a plunge. We were at that time in a part of Kansas that is full of ravines and gullies and short bridges are of frequent occurrence. That disquieting fact flashed into our minds simultane ously. "Bet y’ a hundred we’re on a trestle!’ yelled the Louisville man above the pounding of the wheel* ‘Take y’!’ I yelled back, and with that the coach gave a sickening lurch and rolled completely over. When I ex tricated my self from a broken win dow I found we had stopped on level ground, and while everybody was more cr less cut and bruised no one was killed. I encountered my Kentucky friend wandering about the wreck aril he promptly handed me a $100 bill. ‘What made you take me up so quick?’ he asked. 'Because if we had been on a trestle we would all have been kill ed,’ I replied, ‘and you couldn’t have collected the bet. I stood to win. but not to lose.’ 'That’s so,’ he said, re gretfully. ‘Next time this happens I’ll take the other end.’ ” NAMES FROM CELEBRITIES. Manner in Which tlic Memory ot Noted Persons Is Kept Alive. As soon as a man or woman be comes famous, something or other— generally an article of dress—is sure to be named after him or her. Usu ally the new word sinks into oblivion with the celebrity who inspired it, but not always. Wellington boots con tinue to be worn, although some peo ple prefer to call them bluchers, after the iron duke's great rival and friend. Gladstone bags, which superseded the old carpet variety in the ’60s. are as popular as ever. The brougham, was called after Lord Brougham, one time chancellor of England, who first dis carded for it the old, lumbering hack ney coach, whilst the victoria, of course, received its title out of com pliment to England's queen. “None of your blarney,” on the other hand, can be clearly traced to one Cormack Ma carthv, who was lord of Blarney cas tle in 1602. The fortress was besieged by Gen. Carew, with an overwhelming force, but the wily and soft-spoken Irishman literally talked him into raising the siege. The boycott is an even more striking example of an Irish celebrity-derived phrase. Al though now a recognized English word and incorporated as such in all the best dictionaries, it only came into being in 1SS1, in which year Capt. Boycott, an unpopular Irish landlord, was ostracised by order of the Land league. Neither is it always necessary for an individual to be exactly famous in order to originate a word or a phrase. It is sufficient to get one’s self to be talked about to be notori ous. Mrs. Amelia Bloomer was of no ■particular consequence even in her own locality, while the black maria, which dail conveys prisoners from the metropolitan police courts to the jails, and vice versa, derives its quaint nick name from a certain Maria Lee, a bur ly negress, who kept a sailor's board ing-house in Boston. She was a wom an of such great size and strength that the unruly stood in dread of her, and when the constables required help it was a common thing to send for black Maria, who soon collared the refractory and led them to the lockup. Filiaust Steam By-Product Saved. In the business of manufacturing electricity for public supply, where steam power is used, the only available by-product is exhaust steam. This steam contains much of the heat of the] furnaces which are fired to produce i. i when it is discharged into the air. I is entirely available for steam-hrat- j ing purposes. In certain towns in the western states, notably in Wisconsin I and Minnesota, where the winters are j long and severe, the electric ligJt sta tions have iaid systems of underground pipes and have supplied ste..m heat and hot water to citizens through them. Th experiment has been an unqualified success. Lacked fnllcicnt Boodle. “So you were defeated for the sena torship?” “Yes.” “How did it hap pen?” “Oh, it was a pure case of for getfulness. I had my plans all made, but when I got to the capitol, just be fore the voting began, I found I’d forgotten my check book, and I hadn’t more than $15,000 or $20,000 in my >ocket.”—Chicago Evening Post. Sure Preventive. Id chap, there’ll be collisions after this y, you don’t say! take off the last car on all no more —” Old ” "Yee. t FIND PLENTY OF ADVENTUR Central America Affords a Fine Fit for Men of Roving Habits. There is as much exciting adventuj in Central America as in any oth< region on the globe, says an Amei lean who had an experience there, once went there and opened up a stoi i in a small town. My stock consist* chiefly of whisky and cartridges which were the two articles most i demand in that part of the countr; but I also carried small side lines t tobacco, sardines and fancy percai shirts. One day a big nigger came int the store, smoked what was left < the tobacco, ate the last six boxes c sardines and put on all the fancy per cale shirts—one on top of the othei Then he introduced himself as Gei Tomasso Somebodyorother, and tol me to charge the bill to the army c liberation. While we were arguin about the matter a detachment of gov ernment troops came up looking fo my colored friend, and blew the rod off the store with a small shell from mountain howitzer. The general wen* one way and I went the other, but w both got caught, and the commandan promptly put me under arrest for bar ] boring a notorious rebel. I was takei before the magistrate, and, in order tc square himself with the authorities Tomasso turned state's evidence and! swore that I was the head and front! of the revolution. The scoundrel had on all my percale shirts at the time he was giving his evidence, and I was so mad I couldn’t talk coherently. Still, I think I would have been dis charged if it hadn't leaked out that l had a couple of barrels of whisky ini the store. When the magistrate heart ihat he ordered me locked up and con fiscated my property for the use of th< department. The American consul go; me out eventually, and I came horn* in the steerage of a banana steamer/ I DOESN’T KNOW RIGHT HAND. Woman Finds It Difficult to DUilnguial Right from I<cft. In some little things of life womei are absurdly ignorant, says the Chica go Chronicle: “I saw by a paper last week that a colored woman was excluded from tes tifying in court because she didn't! know her right hand from her left, and was, therefore, esteemed too ig norant for her evidence to be of any value,” said an observant Chicago man yesterday. ‘‘Now, do you know I don't believe one woman out of six knows her right hand from her left without stopping to consider the matter. I was standing in the foyer of a theater the other day at a matinee watching the audience, mostly feminine, as it passed in. Well, each maid handed her check to the usher and he called out. First door to the right,’ or ‘Second door to the left,' as the case might be. With hardly an exception those girls turned in the wrong direction; then they'd pause to consider, exclaim, ‘Were going the wrong way,’ and skurry back again. This happened so often that I spoke to the user about it. ‘They always do it,’ he replied, laconi cally. ‘I usually point so they’ll know the way, but I’ve neglected to do that today. They’re all right if they stop to think, but they never do think.’ I myself know an intelligent young woman who has to make a little mo tion as if she were writing with both hands before she can determine the right one. and she declares that all her acquaintances are affected in like man ner. so. perhaps, this is a general femi nine failing, and the colored witnerf was unjustly excluded.” , The yueen’s Numerous Progeny. Queen Victoria's family, include) the infant prince, born to the P1® and Duchess of York recently an< counting in addition to her ir^esty only children, grandchildrr an^ great-grandchildren living, nr num bers seventy-four, as follow' Queen, one; sons and daughters liv^> seven; grandchildren, thirty-twc great grandchildren, thirty-four.*be Prince of Wales’ own family relatively small—four children (c*‘ son aTKl three daughters) and e grandchild ren (three grandsons a* taree grand daughters). The line direct *ucces sion to the throne cornues »nbr«ken in Queen, Prince ofva',es’ Qf York and the sons*^ the ^uke of York. Their birthdi* and tbeir ages are as follow’s: Q,en* birthday. May 24, aged eighty; Fnce °* ^aIes* No vember 9, fifty-eht: Duke of ^°rkj June 3, thirty-fe* * Prince Edward of York, June 23. f6 Crown Jewels. On the nig1 of the 16th of SePtem ber 1792 tY Garde Meuble in Paris, where* the fOWn Jewels of the *allen monarchy *ere stored‘ was broken open andrifled of its Priceless con tents MJt of these, including the fa mous “-cgent” diamond, now at the Louvre were, thanks to an anonymous Comn>"ication- found in a ditch near :he (lamps Elvsees. but it was not till t\vere years later when a man who wa, on trial for forgery confessed to b*ng concerned in the robbery that ue mystery of their disappearance i-as solved. Another regalia robbery cas that of the crown of Holland, chieh in 1829 was carried off by bur sars, who having kept it intact for wo years disposed of some of the tones in America. These were found Lt Brooklyn, and recovered, the re nainder being eventually discovered n Belgium. / Tie Haversack, a War Paper. Mr. Chas. Meinhart. living in Peters burg. Ind., who was drummer in the Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteers, has in his possession a copy of the Haversack, a little four-column paper, printed on one side, and published in the camp of the Twenty-seventh, with an outfit captured in Berryville, Va. Journalism Good Training. Senator Baker, of Kansas, says he started his son, E. Burgoyne Baker, in newspaper work because he believes journalism is the best of training for any young man, no matter whether he Intends to keep it up or to go into some other profession. _ Pew English Travelers In France. The Paris, Lyon and Mediterranean railroad reports a loss of 560,000 in traffic from the diminution of English travel in Frances