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3 Adulation and Vituperation 3
A Prehistoric Town.
A dispatch to tho New York Herald,
tinder date of Chlllicothe, O., says:
Dr. M. C. Mills, curator of tho State
Archaeological society, has discovered
a prehistoric village on the Gartner
farm, a few miles southof this city.
He has made excavations which dis
close many valuable relics of the an
cient people who wandered over the
country ages ago.
The site is a little elevation near
the Scioto river and commands a
splendid view of the country. Tho
place was undoubtedly chosen by tho
Indians with a view of fortifying
themselves from attack.
Dr. Mills has opened forty-nine pits,
some of which were used for storing
food and some for burial.
In these were found charred corn
and beans, which leads the archaeol
ogist to infer that the mound build
ers knew something of agriculture,
dispelling the popular theory that they
subsisted entirely on fish and game.
Bones of elk, deer, gray fox, coon and
groundhog were found in prolusion.
Many of the bones had been skilful
ly fashioned into fish hooks and var
ious charms. Broken pottery of va
ried .designs, beautiful necklaces of
delicately colored sea shells and pol
ished heaver teeth, weaving instru
ments, Including needles and small
bobbins of stone, and many other im
plements were unearthed. Several
skeletons and specimens of carved
bones and pipes were also procured.
The Demand For "Change."
There is over ' $100,000,000 in half
dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels and
cents in circulation, about $80,000,000
in silver dollars, $75,000,000 in one dol
lar bills and $45,000,000 in two dollar
bills. And still the cry is for change,
change. In New York the street car
companies instruct conductors to re
fuse anything larger than a $2 bill for
fare, owing to the impracticability of
carrying enough change to break up
the fives and tens that would bo forced
upon them. A majority of fares are
paid in nickels, then come, in the or
der named dimes, quarters, halxes
and pennies. There is an occasional
dollar and now arfd then a $2 bill.
Women are responsible for most of
the paper money that goes into tho
pockets, of conductors. Kansas City
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"Judge," tho pictorial minor. In n
recent issue illustrates tho extremo to
which partisanship can go. The car
toon on the first page purports to bo a
lesson in palmistry, with democracy's
hand under Inspection. The two-page
cartoon has "Farmer Roosevelt" mak
ing an exhibit at Uncle Sam's "fair."
Tho editorial page is devoted to ex
planations of these cartoons, and the
editorials are reproduced in The Com
moner in order that tho readers may
contrast the adulation with the vituperation:
O O
"At the present time Undo Sam is
holding what may be called a na
tional county fair. And he is having
what may be loosely called an irides
cent time, while his spirits bubble
over with that boundless hilarity
which is born of the fact that the na
tional bin and larder are groaning
with a rotundity that is at once large,
fat and rosy. Farmer Roosevelt's ex
hibits have outclassed all others, and
he has a sufficient number of first
prizes to richly decorate the four sides
of his old red barn. Ho is a stren
uous farmer, and to this fact we at
pig-iron hand of tho democracy, for
the simple reason that this hand can
bo read even by people who do not
know how to road. And it is mighty
poor reading at that. Any one that
reads between tho lines of this hand
must havo anything but a lovely vi
sion. It must bo n vision that is
woefully lackinc as a conservator of
spiritual refreshment. Such a vision
is what might be called a burglartool
scapo, with a background of moral
carnage and corruption. When this
hand closes on anything it never re
linquishes its hold, unless the thing
to which it clings suddenly loses Its
intrinsic value. Then tho hand as
suddenly loses its grip and docs not
offer a reward for tho return of tho
samo. It may bo said In passing, and
without any well-grounded fear of
contradiction, that in tho eagle cyo of
tho student of affairs the lines of the
hand of democracy are practically ac
companied by legends which explain
their meaning and reason for exist
ence. Tho lines that are without sig
nificance to the layman aro branded
in letters of the metal similar to that
which constitutes the democratic face,
years. Tho Islanders, though sun
burnod, aro described an being prac
tically "white." Tho mon aro hardy,
but not of flno phyalquo; "the womon
aro docldodly finor specimens than tho
mon; their foaturca nro rogular, plead
ing and of somewhat Semitic typo,
Tho children aro cloan, fat, honllhy
and woll cared for and surprisingly
well clad."
Thoro is no deflnlto sign of mental
or physical deterioration arising spe
cifically from tho system of intormar
rlago. Tho people generally, say tho
officers, wore very anxious about tho
education of their children, and tho
difficulties attending this Boomed
largely responsible for tho viows they
expressed on tho subject of
leaving tho Island. Their Btaplo
food is potatoes, milk, beef, mutton
and poultry produce, and of thoso
thcro Is an ample supply, but for any
thing beyond tho Inhabitants arc en
tirely dependent on paBHlng ships.
Rata, which prevent tho growing of
any grain, are tho curso of the Island.
Fish are plentiful, but the Islanders
are chlolly a farming community.
tribute the dimensions of his pump- that tho expert may read them as dis
kin of prosperity, which Js also an
artistic triumph as regards dainty
curves and color-scheme. In short,
his potatoes of diplomacy and his
beets of expansion are beauties to
look upon, while his star-eyed, dim
pled and polka-dotted pigs, perform
ing the airy sarabands peculiar to vic
tory, arc kaleidoscopic joys pure and
simple. Uncle Sam is justly proud
of this champion dlsclnle of the late
1. Quintus Flaccus, esquire, and it is
no wonder that our avuncular relative
holds his hands up aghast when he
looks upon tho democratic exhibits,
which, to put it mildly, not to say
charitably, aro about as tine an as
sortment of battered junk as was ever
seen outside of a regulation bric-a-brac
bazaar."
O O
"It is not likely that a palmist will
ever be called to read the lines of the
inctly as shop-signs. Ho thus dis
covers such words as 'grab,' 'graft,'
'corruption, 'spoils,' 'robbery,' 'brib
ery,' 'fraud,' and 'peanut.' These
words practically constitute tho bright
lexicon of tho democracy. It is cer
tainly a limited vocabulary, and yet
ono that is capable of many verbal
twists. When it is remembered that
all music Is but a series of combina
tions of eight notes it will readily bo
seen what sleight-of-democratlc-hand
tricks can bo executed with these
eight worcis. There is moral contami
nation In the touch of this rancid
flipper. The old reliable republican
hand knows what tho democratic hand
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not take seriously tho outcry of tho
pessimists that tho peanut party may
ever be on top. At tho political top
there will never be any room for this
I howling mob."
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Worth More Tha.n Gold.
A hundred pounds of ambergris has
been seized at Seattle -as stolen prop
erty. The appraised value is ?30 an
ounce, or $48,000 for the hundred
pounds. A hundred pounds of pure
gold would not be worth as much by
$16,000. And were a hundred pounds
of gold to be stolen at Seattle a great
stir would be made abojit it.
Ambergris is scarcer than gold. It
is more of an uncertain quantity. It
is harder to find and harder .to trans
port. It is found floating in lumps
in the ocean, and occasionally in the
intestines of the spermaceti whale.
There are, however, few sperm whales
available, and the lumps of ambergris
have been growing scarcer as the
whales have decreased in number.
The prico has advanced, but amber
gris always sold well. A piece weigh
ing 130 pounds found inside a whale
killed near the Windward islands for
ty years ago sold for $2,500 on the
spot, and for much more when it
reached market. The Dutch East In
dia company paid the king of Tidore a
fortune for a lump of ambergris
weighing 182 pounds.
Forty or fifty years ago, when am
bergris was worth $5 an ounce, it wad
as much a center of thieving, intrigues
and plans as diamonds. In hundreds
of cases sailors in the Caribbean sea
and in Bahama waters became In
volved in serious trouble through at
tempts to steal lumps of ambergris.
in the old time it was made the sub
ject of sea flglits, and now that it Is
worth six times as much as it was i for
ty years ago men plot to steal it as
they would plan to rob a bank. Ad-
vonturers watch for vessels carrying
100 or 200 or 500 pounds of ambergris
as train robbers watch for trains car
rying gold east or west.
Little wonder Is It, then, that the
Puget Sound country is as much dis
turbed over the stealing of 100 pounds
of ambergris as it would be over the
stealing of a cargo of gold from the
Klondike. Ambergris in' this day is
worth more than its weight In gold.
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A Lonely fcMe.
Among the host of British colonies
which go to make up tho empire on
which it is said "the sun never sets"
there is one, the tiniest of flie lot,
which is rarely heard of, says the
London Express. It is the Island of
Tristan d'Acunha, and is Inhabited by
less than eighty persons. A book just
issued in London, containing "further
correspondence relating to the Island
of Tristan d' Acunha," gives some In
formation of this diminutive colony.
In January Tristan d'Acunha was vis
ited by H. M. S. Thrush, and Lieuten
ant Watts-Jones and Surgeon Lobb,
of that vessel, drew up a report on the
island, which was forwarded by the
admiralty to the colonial office, to be
laid before the secretary of state. The
population, says this report, now con
sists of seventy-six persons, divided
Into seventeen families or households.
All but four of tho Inhabitants were
born on the Island, two of the excep
tions being Italians, who are described
as being probably the best educated
persons there. There havo been no
marriages in the Island for three
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