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VOL. XIX -NO. 13.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1888.
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BRIGANDS OF CUBA.
BOLD BANDITS THAT INFEST THE
I QUEEN OF THE ANTILLES.
A Strange Stat of Things Within a Day's
Journey of I he Uuited states Half Wild
I'eaant and Tuwu Boughs Taking to
llrlgniiilage.
Tales of brigandage in Cuba during the
past few years have reached New York
from time to time, but the true situation
is not known save to those who lire on the
island itself, and it has become so familiar
to these as to have little novelty. It is
largely the result of the present almost
bankrupt condition of the once proud and
wealthy Queen of the Antilles. Poverty
is uow almost universal save among the
planters and merchants in the cities, and,
unable to obtain a livelihood save by the
precarious and scarcely remunerative oc
cupations of cock fighting and lottery
ticket selling, which appear to the tourist
to be the main occupations of the Cubans,
many of the half wild peasants of the in
terior and roughs of the towns have taken
to brigandage. They are most numerous
In the central part of the island, between
Matauzas on the north and Cienfuegos on
the south, making their lairs iu the woods
and hills of the center of the island and
operating on the roads every place where
there is any chance of wealthy persons
passing.
The eastern end of the Island has been
singularly free from bandits, and travel
through its still virgin forests and lofty
volcanic mountains is comparatively safe.
The Guordia Civile, as the Spanish
soldiery is called, make periodical incur
sions from Matanzas and other cities
against the bandits, but as a rule these
raids have little result. It is more than
hinted that there is an understanding be
tween the soldiers and the bandit. The
Spanish government is always behind
hand in its payment of its Cuban soldiers'
wages, and there is a general impression
that-the soldiers make up for deferred or
uiijuiid wages by a share in the ransom
paid by some wealthy planter for his re
lease from captivity. Not that the
Guard ja Civile are always unfaithful!
A DREADED BANDIT CHIEF.
Matagas," said our informant, "is
now the bandit chief most feared. He is
n mulatto and rules his followers abso
lutely. He changes his location con
stantly and has been rather quiet of late,
but we may hear of him at any time. He
has placed a price of $50,000 on the per
sons of the Messrs. Stewart, who own the
well known sugar plantation, Ln Caro
lina,' near this city, aud these gentlemen
have been obliged to use much caution in
going to and from their plantation on
Oieir visits to the city."
'Tell us about Seuor Casauova," we
asked.
"Well, Senor Casanova was driving
through the back country one afternoon
in a volaute, over a rough and lonely
road, when the bandits .suddenly appeared
from the chapparal. They surrounded
the volaute so quickly that he could do
nothing but) surrender at once. They
ordered him to mount u mule, and at hid
protestations that he was suffering from
a bladder complaint aud that it would
kill him to ride they only laughed. They
carried him off to a little hut in the moun
tain and kept him there a week. The old
gentleman, -from the .complaint above
described, could only subsbst on milk, aud
as the bandits could not furnish this he
nearly died Iiefore he was ransomed.'
"How did they ransom himr"
"The bandits had a note conveyed
secretly to his friends demanding
$8,000 for his ransom within a week.
This his "friends raised and sent by a
trusted messenger to a place agreed upon.
Senor Casauova was produced, the money
paid over aud the bandit who received it
disappeared as suddenly as if the earth
had bwallowed him. Casanova says that
he was not treated badly during his short
captivity, but imagine his state of mind
aud suspense during the days he was a
captive!"
"Has no concerted action been taken to
apprehend these bandits throughout the
island"
"No. It'isasort of local option with
different places whether (they can drive
them away or not. We're all growing so
poor, however, that unless your good and
great Uncle Sam will pity and annex us
the bandits will soon suppress themselves
for want of prey.
BEAD THEM A LECTURE.
"One place, however, has rid itself of
the pest, aud in this way. You know it
is very rarely that a Cuban becomes an
officer in the Spanish army. The positiou
is not considered worthy of ambition by a
Cuban, and will not be as long as the two
peoples dislike each other as they do now.
But in this place a son of a well 'known
Cuban family was an officer in the Guardia
Civile. He pursued and caught a body of
baudits, Cubans like himself. Then he
read them a lecture in this wise:
" 'You know me and you know I under
stand your position. I sympathize with
your poverty and know the wretched gov
ernment has made your calling possible,
but I do not sympathize with your law
lessness. I'll release you now only on
your solemn oath that you'll leave this
district at once. If I hear of any of yon
here again I'll show you no mercy.' He
meant what he said, and that district was
troubled no more."
"How are these bandits armed?".
"Very poorly as a rule. They have old
fashioned muskets and now and then a
rifle. It is not their weapons, but their
familiarity with the country and its hid
ing places and the fact that they have
relatives and friends and sympathizers in
most of the villages, and even in the
cities, that make them at all formidable
with the wretched soldiery we have. A
squad of Uuited States cavalry could
probably rid the island of them in two
months' time."
"Does not their presence ra"V it unsafe
for Americans to visit Cuba?"
"Not in the least These bandits do
not interfere with the railroad trains, on
which a squad of soldiers always travel,
more as a matter of form than anything
else, and the bandits are not to be feared
on the beaten lines of travel. Besides,
they do not lie in wait for a tourist. They
generally learn or know all about their
man, his wealth and whether his friends
will or will not be likely to ransom him,
before they prepare to capture him. They
would not be likely to attack a traveler
simply on the chance of securing a roll of
bills and a watch. They have also,
strange to say, a high regard for Ameri
cans. Like all Cubans, they look to the
United States as a possible protector and
ruler some day, and, perhaps, too, they've
heard of six shooters and Yankee pluck.
An American consular agent was caught
by bandits some time ago, and as soon as
he .announced his position they released
him immediately aud apologized for what
they said was a mistake." Cuba Cor.
New York World.
Tb Sikhs a Stalwart Bae.
The people from Benares to north of
Delhi are much more stalwart and manly
than are the Bengalese, but they in their
turn are greatly inferior to the men of
th Punjab. This wood means and ex
presses the country lying between the
live great branches of the Indus. In this
country is a magnificent race of men.
The Sikh soldiers in the army are the
handsomest body of men I have ever seen,
and Indeed I have never seen any Euro
pean or American who came anything
like being a perfect model of manly
beautr as several officers I have seen in
tne native aucn cavalry. Today we wit
nessed the practice of a native regiment
at company target scooting.
The oflicers on horseback are simply
superb; afoot all show one universal de
fact among the entire people of India an
almost total absence of calf to the leg.
Even in Punjab men aud women have
none- I can say this of the women be
cause up here there are two things quite
antipodal to our customs. Men wear
what seem to be skirts and the women all
wear trousers and very tight ones, too,
below the knee. The other singular thing
is one sees hundreds of men with beards
dyed a brilliant red. A gray bearded man
is rarely seen from Lahore, to Peshawer,
for they take on a bright vermilliou, evi
dently not for the purpose of concealing
age. but as a sort of beautitier. The men
of Punjab proved themselves brave by
giving England more trouble to subdue
them than perhaps all the balanco of
India. But when once they acknowl
edged the supremacy of their new rulers,
like brave men they have shown them
selves true. They have none of the ser
vile demeanor of tho Bengalee. They
look a foreigner straight in the face re
spectfully, but with an apparent con
sciousness of their own dignity. Carter
Harrison's Letter in Chicago Mall.
Fascinating bnt Dauzarons Sport.
The most intensely fascinating and by
far the most dangerous way of hunting
the Bengal tigers is the way most of the
natives do it. They collect in throngs of
hundreds and go to the woods, with half
bred bull and terrier dogs, rifles of 40
caliber aud innumerable spears, and drive
the tigers outof their jungles. The vicious
dogs go in and hound them and snarl and
howl threateningly. The tirs are grad
ually driven from point to point by the
howling dogs and shrieking natives, and
are finally worked into a gigantic and
strong netting nine or ten feet high and
with interstices seven or eight inches
square. Then the chetties. as these queer
natives are called, range themselves along
the 6ides, and when the tigers lunge at
them they are met at every ioint by
gleaming spears. Such howling and
snarling, combined with the shouts of the
natives, sounds like the wailing of tho
damned. The native women are on hand,
too, and lend their aid. and when the
government officers join in the European
ladies are perched conveniently in trees,
to lend a bit of life to the scene. San
1'rauclsco Examiner.
A Card or Photograph?
"Would you rather have my curd or my
photograph?"
Two young men who had been discuss
ing a bottle of wine in an uptown picturo
gallery were preparing to part.
"Your card will do; I dont want to put
you to so much trouble."
"No trouble at all. If you like I'll put,
niy portrait on the back of the card."
He thereupon drew from his ocket a
email rubber stamp and imprinted on the
back of his card a very creditable likeness
of himself.
An inquisitive reporter, who overheard
the dialogue, took pains the next day to
learn to what extent tire fad had gone.
lie loiinti that mere are several concerns
iu the city where tiortrait stamps are
made, similar iu style to the rubber
stamps, containing one's name and ap-
pended to It a iockct lead pencil. These
stamps cost from $2 to f a each, and are
from one to three inches square. All the
stamp makers require is a tintype por
trait of the customer and a money order.
The stamps wear well aud are much af
fected by young clerks and East side busi
ness men. New York Mail aud Express.
A Once Noted Cavalryman.
A small man, with a gray mustache, n
slouch hat over his blue eyes, and a walk
no longer as chipper as it once was, is
recognized by few people here when he
makes his occasional visits from Wash
ington. He is Gen. Pleasouton, whom
many think one of the greatest cavalry
commanders of the war, aud who un
doubtedly fought aud won, perhaps, the
greatest cavalry engagement of the con
test between the states. It was at Brandy
Station, where eighty regiments of horse
men contended on one field with no in
fautry or artillery nearer than ten miles
away. Sometimes the battle flags of the
contending generals were not further sep
arated tbau the two sides of Broadway.
Pleasonton, Kilpatrick and Custer were
in a single group. Detecting a crucial
point in the opposing line, Pleasonton
cried: "Custer, go right in there!" Cus
ter's mounted band at once struck up
"The Star Spangled Banner," and in ten
minutes he had carried. the position. Cus
ter and Kilpatrick are dead. Pleasonton,
barely 50 years of age, seems to be out of
gear with the world. Cor. New York
World.
The Itursuan and His Food.
The Burman is a rather peculiar feeder,
not being very nice in his selection or
preparation of food. He is not, however,
so varied a caterer, nor does he take in
such a large selection, as his near relation
tho Chinaman. The Burman draws tho
line at rats and mice, which delicacies
form no portion of his daily fare. He is
lorbiddeu by his religion to shed the blood
of any animal for food purposes alone,
although he may and does catch fish, -and
eats them. His conscience finds a salve
in the fact that after the fish arc caught
they are left to die; he will not bleed
them, although he may often give them a
sly knock on the head to accelerate their
decease. He may keep cattle, hogs,
chickens, etc., and, being of a kind and
humane disposition, he feeds them well,
keeping them in good condition, but he
does not do so to replenish his larder. He
uses the milk of the cows, often of the
tame long horned bnffalo or of goats, for
his family or for sale; he will also eat the
eggs of fowls. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Burglar la a Gentleman.
"The popular idea of the average burg
lar is all wrong," said a detective to a re
porter. "He isn't a man with a dark
lantern any more a rough and ready
brute who delights in killing people. The
burglar of today will do everything in his
power to escape, and the taking of a
man's life is his last resort I have
known many burglars in my time, and
they were the most gentlemanly men I
ever met Nervy? Yon could bet on
that They have to be, but they will not
take human life." Chicago Tribune.
Origin of a Phrase.
"It is difficult to account for the origin
of a great many phrases in current use,"
remarked McSwilligen, "or even to sec
their relevancy.
"Yes," replied Suildig.
"Now there's that expression, 'on its
last legs,' meaning something about to
end. Its appropriateness is very doubt
ful. For instance, a kangaroo is nearly
always on its last legs, but where can yon
find a more striking example of vitality?"
Pittsburg Chronicle.
Making Proper Allowance.
Mr. Hoi worthy Believe me, Clara, you
have no reason to be jealous; I have been
devotedly true to you true as as the
needle to the pole.
Miss Vassar I take it then that I am
to make proper allowance for magnetic
variations. Town Topics.
A Sonar Minister.
After one or two gentle efforts on the
part of the collector to awaken Deacon
Jones, the minister said from the pulpiti
"Never mind, Brother Layman, aa
Deacon Jones has not heard the sermon,
perhaps It would not be right to expect
him to pay anything for it" The Enoch.
NAVAJO TRADITION.
HOW
ALL ANIMAL LIFE WAS
FINED IN A CAVERN.
CON-
Freedom First Foasd by a Locust Tba
Itadger Follows Prisoners Free at Last.
Dispate Concerning- the Use of Night
and Day.
The Navajo Indians of Arizona have a
tradition to the effect that while the earth
was young and destitute of auimal life
the Great Spirit created twelve people
six men and six women together with
many species of animals, and confined
I them iu a cavern of the San Francisco
, mountain, where they lived as a great,
happy family for many years. But in
, course of time a restlessness possessed
; the prisoners. Though they bad known
nothing of freedom, all felt the oppres
sion of their narrow limits, and vaguely
yearned for a greater fulfillment of the
dream or reality of living. But what
could they do? All speculated on the
situation to no purpose. Daily they jos
tled each other, little and big, clumsy and
nimble, bipeds aud quadrupeds, feathered
aud furred, winged and wingless, timid
and bold. Every successive period of
time was but a repetition of the past.
OPEXIN'G THE WAV OUT.
None of the many puzzled brains could
offer means of breaking the monotony,
till a happy thought struck one of the
most insignificant of the living mass.
For want of other occupation a locust
bored a hole in the wall aud thereby
opened the way for the enthusiasm and
progress of the host of its comrades
throughout the length and breadth of
their underground world. The Great
Spirit had so decreed it. They were there
only for a time of Incubation. At the
destined hour, as the eaglet bursts the
shell that imprisons it, so the locust's tiny
burrow should lead to the escape of all
into the open world, where each could fol
low his inclinations unhampered.
The laboring locust had but a solitary
witness. A badger watohed with growing
amusement the diminutive tunnel making.
His ejeu sparkled with interest as the
locust labored energetically. He lay rest
ing with his head between his fore paws
in a most lazy attitude, but his face ex
pressed animation and eagerness not much
longer to be retained. As the tail of the lo
cust disappeared the time for exertion had
come. To follow the locust's movements
further necessitated like energy. The
locust's hole was too small for the
badger's access, so he started a tunnel
inalriiig of his' own. By the time he
reached the locust he was in no mood to
give up the chase, so he passed on.
scratching his way through the solid
earth until he broke through the outer
crust of the mountain, aud in the joy and
; excitement of the moment he sprang into
the ample space before him. The moun
tain side was steep, and he "landed " in
the shallow edge of the lake in Monte
zuma valley. As he fell his fore feet
struck deep into the mire, and his progeny
even unto today have inherited black fore
paws lwcaiiMj of this incident of the
j world's llrt peopling,
The Navajocs within the cavern, noting
the departure of the badger, began a
prospect Finding the hole large enough
for exit, they crept out, one after the
other, and a train of all sizes and species
of animals followed in their wake, as from
Noah's ark.
FRIGHTENED THEM AWAY.
As soon as all the prisoners were free,
fire and smoke began to issue from the
hole that had delivered them. This
frightened them far away into the valley,
and there they prepared to make them
selves comfortable aud live as their new
advantages permitted. Food was plentiful
iu vegetable forms, but some varieties
needed heat to make them good. At
least the Nuvajoes thought so, but they
had no means of kindling a tire. This
ditliculty was soon overcome by sending a
bat, a wolf and a squirrel after the
needed element, tire. Going to a hole iu
the mountain, the wolf tied some pitchy
splinters to his tail, then turned and held
it over the little volcano till it began to
smoke and iguite. The bat then fanned
It into flames with its wings and the
squirrel carried it away to the Navajoes.
The people were delighted at getting the
one missing essential to a happy life in
the open world, and when, long after, a
time came when the world's plenty had
pampered their wijls and fostered their
greed and selfishness to the point of
preying upon their fellow creatures for
food, they still had the honor to vow
never to eat wolf or squirrel flesh.
Neither would they move camp without
a live coal among their possessions. Aud
even today the Navajoes gratitude to the
trio is observed as tho promise made to
the fire getters of the tradition.
Between the Navajoes and different ani
mals there sprang up a dispute over the
Great Spirit's intended use for night and
day. All agruud that one should be spent
in sleep and one in action, but which
should serve the one and which the other?
It was settled at last. Those that wished
to roam at night should do so and sleep by
day, and vice versa. The heroic badger
was among thoso who chose the mysteries
of the darkness or the immediate da.vn
and dusk for thought pnd action and the
bright and sunny hours as fit to be slept
away in his cool underground nest. As
the sun sank in the west upon their busi
ness meeting, tho owl, bat, moth, and
mauy other animals scattered out into the
valley borders on their foraging exploits,
while many kinds of birds Hew to roost in
the trees. Other animals lay down to
sleep in sheltered parts of the forest, and
the Navajoes spread their waterproof
blankets, the trophies of the women's in
dustry, and enjoyed their couches under
the st-irry sky in peaceful dreams. Over
land Monthly.
VANDERBILl'S MAJOR DOMO.
Ills Theory of Dining as a Fine Art The
Advantage He Claim.
Joseph Dugnlol, the cook to whom it is
said Mr. W. K. Vauderbilt is to give $10,
000 a year, is a well built little man only
about five feet tall. He was born in Bir
mingham, England. He looks like an
Englishman, and speaks the language
with a strong cockney accent, and he has
an Englishman's love for -boxing, and uses
the slang of the ring. His parents, ho
says, were French.
"If I were rich enough not tohavo to
work," he said, "I should still do my
business for the love of it. I am an
artist and I have invented a new school
of dining. Because a man is rich he can
not eat more than a poor man, and yet the
idea of a fine dinner has been to give a
great number of courses. It is a mistake.
When a man has eaten his oysters, his
soup, his entrees, his fish, what chance
has he to enjoy his mutton or fowl?
When he has eaten all, his stomach is
so!" and he raised his hat with both
hands slowly above his head to indicate
the effect of the fullness.
"I make him want to eat First he
must be hungry, and then I put things
before him so that he wants them. If I
want him to eat oranges, for Instance, I
offer them to his neighbor. He sees them
and asks for them."
He comes from tho Maison Paillard, in
the Chaussee d'Antin. "It is only a little
place," he said, "with only sixteen tobies.
When I went there the business was all
ran down. I built it up by treating each
person as if he were my guest, and study
ing his tastes."
The little director is an autocrat at the
table. He does not let his guests have
whatever tbev like, for fear it may clog
their appetites. i make tneui as tor
things and keep them waiting. Suppose
I have served a dinner like this today: A
soup, some fish, and a woodcock, with
coffee and fruit To-morrow my customer
asks for woodcock. 'I am sorry, sir, but
I cannot prepare it' But in a day or two
he will ask for it again, and then I let him
have it. If I let him tire of anything,
then my art would be gone."
A great odvautage which Mr. Dugniol
claims for his system is that it leaves him
so much greater variety of food to offer on
different days. "Suppose," he said, "I
cook everything that is to be had for one
great dinner, what is there for to-morrow?"
It is not to be supposed from this lan
guage that Joseph is going to cook any
thing with his own hands. He does not
even profess to be able to do this, although
his father was a restaurateur and Joseph
grew up in the business.
"I can cook many things," he said,
"and I can carve as few men can, but I
can tell the cook how to prepare his food
and warn him if he has failed to secure
the proper flavor."
X may be interesting to know how
TJoseplI'will serve a woodcock to Mr. Van-
derbilt. It will be cooked only ten min
utes before it is brought on the table. "I
will bring it on while the fish is beinz
eaten, and I have an alcohol brasier on
the table. It has a sauce of red wine and
gravy iu it. I carve the bird and put all
the bones and back into the sauce. The
odor and appearance of the bird excites
the appetite. It takes twenty-five min
utes to cook a woodcock. The bird has
only been cooked ten minutes when I
carve it. Now I send the meat back to
tho oven for fifteen minutes, and the back
and the bones, in which the richest flavor
is found, are left to stew. When the meat
comes back it is on a hot plate, and I
strain the rich sauce over it" New York
Sun.
Following Slight Mistake.
It is surprising to know that a great
failure of a business house will sometimes
follow the very slight mistake of a clerk.
Only a short time ago I feared we would
have to record an unpleasant occurrence
of this kind in St. Louis. Two young men
are doing a prosperous wholesale business
here, in whose house a small error hap
pened recently, which might have caused
a collapse of the firm. According to cus
tom a list of notes falling due at foreign
luniks each month is given to the book
keeper or some proper person around the
office, who is expected to go to the home
bank with which the firm deals and have
all the notes paid. The bookkeeper of this
particular house was given a list of the
notes for one mouth, but inadvertently
failed to report one of the bills dne in
New York, and, of course, it was not set
tled by the home bank. The note went to
protest before the firm knew that it had
nut been paid, but when the error was dis
covered a settlement promptly followed.
Suppose that the creditors of the firm had
heard that the note had gone to protest,
they would have jumped to the conclusion
that the firm was financially embarrassed.
All the creditors would have rushed In at
once, probably, and under the Immense
pressure a disastrous failure might hnve
Iwcn precipitated. The genius of a suc
cessful mercantile man lies iu his accurate
knowledge and careful supervision of the
details of his business. J. B. Young in
G lobe-Democrat.
Of-trlch Farming in Africa.
The chicken feathers are first plucked
at nine months old, and look only fit to be
made into dusting brushes. In the second
year they are a little like the ostrich
feathers of commerce, but stiff and nar
row, and it is not till the third year that
they have attained their full width and
softness. During the first two years the
male and female birds are alike; but at
each molting tho male becomes darker,
until the plumage is all black, except the
wings and tail, which are white. In each
wing there are twenty-four long feathers.
During the breeding season the bill of the
male bird, the large scales on the fore
part of the leg, and sometimes the skim of
the head and neck, assume a deep rose
color. After a good rain ostriches begin
to make nests. At this time the male be
comes savage and their booming is heard
n all directions, The bird inflates its
neck like a cobra, and gives three deep
roars, the two first short and staccato,
the third prolonged. Saturday Review.
Forests aud Kalnralu
Forests are known to diminish evapora
tion and preserve moisture, and this has
been explained by the lower temperature
aud greater huindty which exists under
their shadows. The most important fac
tor iu the production of this state of af
fairs is. however, the resistance which is
offered to the winds by the woods. The
force of the winds being greatly reduced
under the trees, the air is changed more
slowly, and the moisture less readily car
ried away. The quantity of rain increases 1
in the vicinity of a forest. During the
rainy season the moss and herbage of
woods store up the moisture for consump
tion during the dry season, and it is in
this way that luxuriant forest growths
are permitted to flourish in regions where
it never rains except in the fall and win
ter, as is the case on the coast of the
Caspian sea. Globe Democrat.
When th Singer Cliokea Down.
It is related of a certain manager of a
variety theatre in Peoria, nis., that every
Monday night when a company of new per
formers open for the week he takes a seat
near a large coal stove at the bock of the
theatre, and, when the serio-comic makes
her appearance, listens attentively to
learn how her singing pleases the audi
ence. If she happens to turn out what is
known as "queer" the manager gets up,
seizes the shaker and proceeds to shake
down the stove as briskly as possible until
the serio etc., has finished her turn. The
reason for this is obvious. Detroit Free
Press.
1 Great Actor's Methods,
Clara Morris, in speaking of actors aud
acting recently, said: 'The really great
actor must be capable of doing something
more than to merely touch the biggest
fool of the audience. He must make his
audience absolutely forgetful of itself and
be himself the direct and not the indirect
cause of the emotional state Into which it
is thrown. To do this the actor must be
himself a person 'of intense feeling and
must for the time at least 'experience the
emotion he is seeking to portray. Really
great acting is a matter of feeling rather
than of reasoning intelligence, and I
doubt whether un actor who studies and
puzzles over the subtleties of the author's
meaning is uot iu danger of checking the
manifestations of his own histrionic sense.
No amount of art can make up the want
of one real touch of nature," New York
Herald.
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and the loser was often made a slave to
the winner, and old in traffic, like other
merchandise.
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THE MILKY WAY.
ITS
ORIGIN AS ACCOUNTED FOR
IN VARIOUS LEGENDS.
Tbe Story as Told la Greek Fable Tne
Sheaf of Straw Saxon Tradition The
Bushmen's llellef Meteorological Phe
nomenaForecasts. The brilliant appearance and prominent
color of the Milky Way have not failed to
give rise to many curious names and to
many legends as to its origin.
According to the Greek fable, it was
produced by the milk of Hera (Juuo).
Children born of Jupiter's illicit amours
could only inherit divine honors if suckled
by this lawful spouse of the great Olym
pian god. Hercules was thus introduced
to the goddess, who became so angered
wheu she discovered tbe substitute Infant
that she threw him from her breast, and
the milk flew across the sky, forming the
galaxy. Ilyginus says the Latin legend
substituted Ops, spouse of Saturn, for
Juno, and the occasion was the presenta
tion of a stone to her for the trne child.
A Sicilian legend says the milk was from
the Madonna's breast, lost while she
searched for Jesus.
A curious class of legends accounts for
the creation of the bright band of stars
across the heavens. One of these, from
Wallachia, relates that Venus purloined a
sheaf of straw one night from St Peter's
mills, and in her hasty flight toward her
celestial abode scattered it across the sky,
where we see it now on cloudless nights.
A Dalmatian tradition ascribes the loss of
the straw to St Peter himself, and calls
the galaxy "the Straw of St Peter." Ac
cording to a Crotian legend, it was caused
by a man who, having stolen a sheaf of
straw from his foster father, was hasten
ing away with his burden, when the bun
dle broke and the straw scattered about
To recall for ever the theft, God placed
the straw in tbe heavens, where it still
glitters. Tlue name given to the galaxy in
Servia and Albania is "Godfather's
Straw." Similar traditions must have
giveu rise to names bestowed upon it in
other couutries. It is known as the
"Strawy" in Boznia; as the "Straw
Road" in Sardinian, in Magyar, in Modern
Hebrew, Coptic and Ethiopian; as the
"Road of the Straw" in Arab, Rabyleand
Syriac, and as the "Scattering of tho
Straw" in the Magyar dialect An Ar
menian appellation is "Stealer of Straw."
and Persian titles are "Path of the Car
riers of the Cut Straw" and "Way of Car
rying Chaff."
The peculiar whiteness of the Milky
Way is also evidently referred to in it its
Transylvaniau name of the"Floury Way,"
and its Westphalian titles, the "Road to
Mill" and the "Sandy Path." There are
other legends to account for its appear
ance. A Saxon tradition relates that the
world took fire some ages ago and burned
until it was consumed. God gathered to
gether the cinders and united them in a
furrow. They went out little by little,
leaving a whitish brilliancy, in the midst
ot which still burn some live coals. About
the entire heavens are dispersed other
burning emliers. Sometimes a spark
shoots from a hidden bunch of them, be
coming a shooting star.
Bushmen say the galaxy is formed of
ashes cast there long ago by a young
woman, so that her parents might be able
to find their way home. Another legend
assigns a different origin to it. A young
woman, angry with her stingy mother be
cause she would give her but a small
quantity of a certain red nut to eat, cast
quantities of it from her into the sky,
where it became the stars and tho Milky
Way. Like the rainbow and other prominent
celestial appearances the Milky Way is
connected iu popular tradition with
meteorological phenomena. Iu West
phalia it is called the -Weather Stripe,"
"Weather Street" and "Weather Tree,"
and is also given the name of "Wind
Tree." A Welsh name for it was "Road
of the Wiud," and iu Picardy it is called
"Foot of the Wind." Tahitiaus call thj
bright band "Flying Cloud" and "Solid
Cloud." It is "Band of the Aurora" in
Maygar lands, and the "Evening Ray" in
Westphalia. In the latter country the
galaxy is said to be iu the middle of the
world and the suu stops there regularly
nt meridian. It is also believed to turn
with the sun, and hence first appears
from the quarter in which the sun has
set. Similar notions of the cosmugraph
ical importance of the Milky Way prob
ably gave it iu Arab name "Mother of
Heaven." An old Arab poet alludes to
it as the "Mother of the Confused Stars."
Appearing only by night, prognostica
tions drawn from the luminous way are
not so numerous as in the case of the
rainbow. Estbonlans Judge by the more
or less brilliant appearance of the amount
of snow that will fall during the coming
winter. If by the end of September the
northern end of the galaxy is very brill
iant, snow will not fall until Christmas is
past) but if the south eud is more brill
iant in appearance, snow will fall long be
fore Christmas. If the whole band is
very bright, snow will fall before and
after Christmas. Icelanders also prog
nosticate the winter weather from the ap
pearance pf the Milky Way in autumn.
In our own country, many people believe
that the edge of the Milky Way which
is the brightest indicates the direction
from which the approaching storm will
come. F. S. Bassett in Globe-Democrat.
"WORKING ON SPACE."
Results of Paying for Newspaper Work
"by the Yard" The Bohemian's Hope.
One of the most demoralizing features
of newspaper work is the space system as
it is practiced in many newspaper offices.
It may be the cheapest for the paper, but
it is neither fair to the writer nor the
public Under the space system the man
who knows enough to stop when he gets
through has no show. The successful
writer is the man who can reel his story
off through a wearying eternity of ver
biage, and who has the skill to write so
that it is difficult to cut his matter down.
Thus the public, which pays for the pa
pers, frequently gets a minutely circum
stantial and heavily padded account of
some matter which might well be con
densed into a few lines. Quality does
not seem to enter into the question, aud
brains are sold, like calico, by the yard,
and they do not bring much better prices
in same markets, cither. The supply of
wordy writers has become so much in ex
cess of tbe demand that space rates have
steadily gone lower and lower.
It is the conscientious men, too, who
suffer most The writer, honest to his
paper and himself, who writes his story
for all it is worth and no more is handi
capped by the facile "fakir," who has the
knack of writing columns and saying
nothing. Again, tbe unfairness of the
space rule is seen in the fact that in most
offices the writer has no guarantee as to
the size of type his matter may be sec In.
It may begin leaded and run down to
solid, or a story may be finished in a
smaller face of type if the exigencies of
make up demand it The Harper's sys
tem of f 10 a thousand words is fairer,
and, In a weekly publication, is the only
method of fair compensation which can
be made.
But the great objection is the element
of chance iu the space system, which tends
to demoralize the working newspaper man
and keep him poor. His "string" may
only measure up $20 this week, but there
is always the glowing hope of a "big sen
sation" next week, which will run it up
into the eighties or hundreds. As a mat
ter of fact the worsi&s Journalist makes
as mucn money as tne average young pro
fessional man. But his business makes
him a gambler in spite of himself. He is
always looking for a change in his luck.
He may stumble on to a "big story" to
morrow, which will pay all his debts and
enable him to take a vacation besides. It
is not from choice that there aro so many
Bohemians in journalism. They are
forced to Bohemia by the men who buy
their work. The ambition to make large
papers has been one cause of the space
system. The value of a newspaper has'
come to be judged, not by the amount of
news it contains, but by the number of
pages its news items are stretched out to
cover. When news is beaten out to cover
so much space, like gold leaf, it becomes
very thin. Tho Journalist
When Japanese Children Die.
We stopped one day at a pretty aud
rather modest temple shrine, where sat a
clean polled, benevolent looking priest,
with big rimmed spectacles astride his
little nose. Before and above and about
the shrine hung little children's frocks,
their tiny shoes, pretty little belts, dolls,
aud other playthings.
"What is this?" we asked our guide.
"When little children come to die their
mothers bring their dresses and olav-
thiugs here, and put a little money in this
box. Every day the priest offers prayers
that tbe little ones may be made happy
after death, and have nice things and
pretty playthings when they go to stay
up there with God."
As we talked, a heart stricken mother
came aud tossed her coin into the box,
and as she placed the little bundle of her
dear one's pretty clothes in the tender
priestly hand, we thought there was but
one thing better than this, the saying,
"Suffer little children to come unto me,
and forbid them not." Japan Letter.
Making an Artificial Silk.
Chardonner recently announced to the
French Academy of Sciences the results of
his experiments in making an artificial
silk, which are certainly of a remarkably
ingenious nature. To a solution of nitro
cellulose (gun cotton) in .alcohol and
ether "is added a solution of ferr-
nose chloride in alcohol and also some
alcoholic solution of tannin. The liquid
thus obtained is ejected from flue ducts,
like the apparatus in a silk worm. As the
thread comes from the duct it is received
in water acidulated with nitric acid, from
which it is drawn out, dried rapidly and
reeled up. It can be obtained of any color
by coloring the mixture from which the
thread is made. This new thread is trans
parent, pliable, cylindrical or flat, and in
appearance and feel like silk. It is very
strong. It burns, but the lire does not go
beyond the place heated. In every way it
is a remarkable invention, and no one can
tell to what it may lead. New York Mail
and Express.
Catching Kunaway Slaves.
I learned yesterday a historical canine
fact, which will, I fancy, be as new to
some of my readers as it was to me. A
negro stevedore, as strapping and power
ful a fellow as I have seen for a good
while, fell into conversation in my pres
ence with a bulldog, remarking that be
had a great fondness for dumb animals.
He seemed to greet the dog as an old
friend, and he displayed considerable fa
miliarity with that kind of beast Nat
urally I joined in the talk, and the man
told me that dowu in North Car'lina,
where he was a slave in slave days, bull
dogs, sometimes white and sometimes
brindle, were trained to catch runaway
or refractory "niggers" by the neck. And
they did it so nicely, he said, as uot to
break the skin or soil the captive's shirt
collar; they would hang on until told by
their masters to let go, but without doing
any injury. Boston Post
Earthquakes Versus Nerves.
Many persons who experienced the
eavthqiinku iu the Hiviera have since
suffered seriously from nervous shock,
although they did not at the time appear
to be greatly disturbed. This indicates
that more injury may be done to the
nerves by au undue excitement than is
perceived at the time. The nerve centers
may, as an English medical journal sug
gests, be likeued to batteries, and re
garded as apt to be discharged suddenly
and sometimes unconsciously; aud when
once their residual stock of energy is con
sumed it can be restored only after a long
time and by the exercise of extreme care.
Public Opinion.
Japan's Foreign Improvements.
The regeneration which Japan has in
recent years experienced, through the in
troduction of foreign improvements, is
credited to the United States. While
eminent Frenchmen have been called in
to organize the army, Germans the schools
and English tho navy, to Americans have
been given the supervision of the depart
ments of finance, postofllce, telegraphs,
railroads, telephones and lighting by
electricity, embracing the newer and more
progressive arts. American institutions
are in high favor in Japan, with tho
possible exception of modern politics aud
baseball. Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette, Phase of the "Faith Cure."
The blood of dying gladiators in the
ancient amphitheatres was popularly be
lieved to be a remedy for the "falling
sickness," or epilepsy. It was eagerly
drunk while still warm by the sufferers
from the malady. The practice denounced
by Celsus as a "miserum auxilium," has
not died out even in the Nineteenth cent
ury. Des Etanges. in his edition of tho
Roman Hippocrates (Paris. 1840), men
tions the then recent case of an old epilep
tic woman in Swollen who, on the occa
sion of a criminal being guillotined, was
seen at the foot of the scaffold ready,
when the head was severed from the body,
to plunge into the blood yet reeking from
the victiui, a piece of bread she had dev
tined for her cure. Chicago New3.
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