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AN INDIAN MOTHER'S GRIEF.
Pathetic Incident of a Stormy Night on
a Reservation.
In the rounds of duty incident to
the business of stock- raising. I camped
one ni?ht on a littlo creek within the
borders of tho great Xez Perces In
dian reservation, writes a correspond
ent of tho Detroit Free Press. It was
a cold evening in early spring, and no
' notes were taken of the surroundings
before darkness settled over the shel
tered little plat of wild meadow and
brought to a close a day of hard work.
There were Indian cabins of dingy,
unpainted boards, and smoky old log
houses up and down the river, but the
peaceable owners were not astir, ana
I heard not a sound to denote the
presence of mankind. This silence
and inactivity is not unusual in the
settlements of the native redman.
Poor, shaggy saddle ponies were feed
ing about on the scanty grass. The
dogs were barking in answer to the
shrill notes of the howling, hungry
coyotes and the echoes played from
side to side of the rocky canyon. The
river, too. sent up a changing rumble,
rising and falling like sighs from a
troubled heart. But my loneliness did
not keep me from sleep. I was
tired and slept soundly for several
hours when I was aroused by the
beating of rain drops in my face. The
wind had whirled down into my shel
tered cove and carried away the
blanket that formed my tent The
calm, cold evening had become a
blustering stormy night. I gathered
my blanket about me for protection
from the storm as best I could and
tried to sleep again. As the wind
lulled I heard a strange noise. It was
the voice of someone a child, I
thought in distress. It was dark
and it would bo impossible in that
storm for me to prepare a light I
tried to resist the impulse that urged
me to go to the relief of tho one in
distress, but again and again I heard
the cry someone weeping and wail
ing in distress. I hastily put on my
clothes and started in the direction
from which came the pitiful cry. I
clambered over stiff. unyielding
brush and cragged rocks till I reached
a bare knoll that stood out from tho
mountains like a mound. I came in
contact with what I knew to be the
fence around an Indian grave. The
strange cry came to me more distinct
ly. It was the pathetic wail of an In
dian woman. I heard the same sad
cry of hopelessness before. 1 was
within a few feet of her. She must
.have been aware of my approach, but
so intense was her grief that she was
not startled to such an extent that it
called her mind for one instant from
the dead. I turned away and left her
to bear her burden with only the dark
ness of night and the fury of the wind
to help her. When daylight came I
went again to tho grave. It was that
of a very small child. Its heartbroken
mother was tho mourner whom all tho
world could not comfort. There was
a rude fence around the little new
made grave and there were flags wav
ing above it to frighten the wild
beasts that howled so ghoulishly the
evening before. The storm that came
so suddenly that night was the first
to beat upon the lonely resting place
of the little one, and the mother came
from her house near by and threw
herself upon the grave beause it in
some way relieved her to protect all
that remained for her of her heart's
treasure.
A BOY WITH A PURPOSE.
How Cornelius Vauderbilt Worked Hi
Way Up.
Cornelius Vanderbilfs real educa
tion was gained in working on his
father's farm, and in learning to sail
a boat and drive a horse. He showed
in boyhood the very quality which
distinguished him as a man the pow
er of accomplishing things in spite of
difficulty and opposition. When he
was 12 years old his father took a
contract for getting the cargo out of a
vessel stranded near Sandy Hook and
transporting it to New York in
lighters.
It wa3 necessary to carry the cargo
in wagons across a sandy spot, says
Youth's Companion. Cornelius, with
a little fleet of lighters, three wagons,
their horses and drivers, started from
home charged with the management
of this difficult affair.
After loading the lighters and start
ing them for the city, he had to con
duct his wagons home by land a long
distance over Jersey sands.
He left the beach with only $6 and
reached South Amboy penniless, with
six horses and three men, all hungry,
still far from home, and separated
from S'aten Island by an arm of the
sea half a mile wide, that could only
be crossed by paying the ferryman 6.
This was a puzzling predicament for
a boy of 12, and he pondered long how
he could get out of it At length he
went boldly to the only inn-keeper of
the place and said:
I have three teams here that I
want to get over to Staten Island. If
you will lend me the money to pay the
ferryman Til leave you my bes horse,
and if I don't send you back the money
within forty-eight hours you can keep
the horse."
The inn-keeper looked into the
bright honest eyes of the boy for a
moment and said, T11 do it"
He gave the boy tho money, and a
horse was left in pawn, but he was re
deemed within tho time promised.
A Flue Collection.
The Critic describes at length two
volumes of autograph letters, docu
ments, signatures, etc.. belonging to
J. Pierpont Morgan, the New York
banker, which probably have no mates
anywhere, and certainly are unmatched
in America- One of them contain."
the autographs of almost every ruler
of England from Henry VI. (1450) to
George II.. as well as those of War
wick the Kingmaker. Mary Stuart. Sir
Walter Kaleigh, the duke of Marlbo
rough. Henry IV.. and Louis XIV.,
Frederick the Great William the Si
lent Prince Rupert Bishop Latimer,
Milton, Ben Johnson, Addison. Pope,
Dr. Johnson, Newton. Watts, eta
The other (a much handsomer book)
contains not only the autographs, but
engraved portraits also, of the kings
and queens of England since George
IL, including the present heir appar
ent Nelson, Wellington. Humboldt
Washington, eta. and many of the
most illustrious English and American
men and women of letters of the cen
tury. Mr. Morgan owns also the let
ter in which Cornwallis asked Wash
ington to consider terms for the sur
. render of Yorktown.
'A Xialce "Underground;
Ah underground lake has been dis
covered three miles from Genesee,
Idaho. It was found by a well-digger.
At a depth of sixteen feet clear,
pure lake water ran out over the sur
face for a time, then settled back to
the earth's leveL The most curious
part of it is that fish were brought to
the surface by the overflow. They
hare a peculiar appearance and are
if htlees. indicating that they are un
derground fish. The spring has at
tracted much attention, and many
farmers in the vicinity fear that their
farms will drop into the lake.
WHAT A CAKE WALK IS.
An Institution of Slavery That Is Very
Popular.
The cako walk is one of tho institu
tions of slavery, which has survived
the emancipation proclamation.
Tho evolution or the cake walk is
an interesting study, says the Cincin
nati Enquirer. It is closely allied to
the coonjine, buzzard lope and Mobile
buck dances, which are in turn relat
ed to the South Sea island hulahula
dances, and more remotely, perhaps,
to the South American coombiamba.
All these are exhibitions in movement
and gesture of human emotion, and
necessarily are rude and barbarous,
but wonderfully fascinating. The
cake walk is the highest type of theo
forms of amusement It is easy to
see how the idea of walking for a cake
impressed the imaginative brain of a
colored person and caused it to become
what it is to-day.
As nearly as can be learned for
cake walking has no literature the
custom originated in the lowly cabins
of the colored people in ante-bellum
days. It was customary for the slaves
to dance a homely sort of square
dance somewhat resembling a qua
drille, but not so involved nor intri
cate. There was a time in this dance
when every participant walked around
in a circle. At first the men and
women alone, but in time they began
to walk in couples. The reward was
a hoecake. baked in the hot coals of
the hearth and wrapped in a cabbatre
leaf. This was given to the successful
male, while the victorious female was
presented with the first piece of mo
lasses candy pulled from a batch made
for that purpose.
Cake walking has been for upward
of fifty years a popular amusement
When slavery was abolished it was
carried into the northern states, more
particularly to New York. The first
cako walk that is known to have
taken place north of Mason and
Dixon's line occurred in Turner's
hall In Brooklyn, in 185C. It was
conducted by a man named Dobbins,
who still lives in Vanderbilt avenue
and is 80 years old.
A cake walk was such a novelty at
that time that spectators came from
twenty miie3 around the country to
see it, and there was such a crowd
that half the people were turned
away.
For many years the colored people
had cako walks at long intervals,
which were witnessed by very few
white men. They usually took place,
fifteen or twenty years ago. as an ad
junct to a fair held in the aid of an
African church.
The next step in the progress of
cako walking evolution was its intro
duction at summer and seaside re
sorts by the colored waiters in the
hotels. There are very few of the
big summer hotels in the United
States but have their annual cake
walks at the closo of the season.
AN INDIAN FAKIR'S TRICKS.
After Inliuliug Poisonous 1'uines, He
Huns a Knife Through His Tongue.
An account of the performance of
the Indian fakir, Solomon ben Aissa.
is given by a Vienna correspondent
The exhibition has very properly been
forbidden in public places in Vienna,
but a series of private entertainments
has been arranged. An aristocratic
audience was present at the first of
these. The fakir commenced his per
formance by inhaling the fumes of
burnt powder prepared from extracts
of snake and scorpion poisons, and by
certain quick movements of the head
he produced a foaming at the mouth.
After these preliminaries needles anil
other sharp instruments were thrust
through various parts of his body, in
cluding a stiletto a foot long and half
an inch broad, which was thrust
through his tongue.
Another feat which is said to have
caused great sensation consisted in
pulling forward the eyeball and pre
senting it outside the orbit to the view
of the audience between two fingers.
He was "invulnerable" also to th
heat produced by a flaming torch held
for a minute and a half against the
under surfacs of his forearm. Chew
ing glass and playing with poisonous
snakes were among his other tricks.
The Lancet recalls the experiments
of the celebrated "Fire King," who
many years ago created a sensation in
London by advertising h is power to
drink prussic acid without injury to
himself. The history of his exposure,
sudden downfall and subsequent
malignant challenge to Mr. Wakely to
fight a duel form one of the most in
teresting chapters in the volumes of
the Lancet. The Lancet deprecates
medical men lending their counte
nance in any degree to such dismal
spectacles.
A Court IZcKT by Stork."
The owner of a house near Berlin
found a single er in the nest of a
pair of storks built on the chimney,
and substituted for it a goose's egg.
which in due time was hatched, and
produced a gosling instead of the ex
pected storkling. The male bird was
thrown into the greatest excitement
by tnis event and finally flew away.
The female, however, remained on
the nest and continued to care for the
changling as though it were her own
offspring. On the morning of the
fourth day the male reappeared ac
companied by nearly 500 storks, which
held a mass meeting in an adjacent
field. The assembly, we are informed,
was addressed by several speakers,
each orator posting himself on tho
same spot before beginning his har
rangue. These deliberations and dis
cussions occupied nearly tho entire
forenoon, when suddenly the meeting
broke up and ail the storks pounced
upon the unfortunate female and her
suppostitious young one. killed them
both. and. after destroying the pol
luted nest took wing and departed,
and wero never seen there agnm.
Curiosity Ilcbiilted.
A man was on trial in a Southwest
ern stato for a very grave offense.
The jury were slow in coming to an
agreement and many peoplo were
waiting about for a verdict At this
stage of affairs a colored bailiff came
out of the jury room and hastened
down ono of tho corridors.
Hold on! hold on!" called out a
man who was waiting. "Have tho
jury agreed?"
Yis, dey done agreed," said the
bailiff, grinning.
What's the verdict?"
Well boss." said the bailiff. ye
see 'twas dis er way: Dey was some
on "em wanted sandwiches, an' some
on 'em wanted pie; an bum by dey
done 'greed dey'd hab some crackers
an' cheese, an' doy done sen' mo out
fer to fotch 'em.' Youth's Com
panion. A Bi South African Diamond.
A diamond bnycr of Kimberly, South
Africa, has recently purchased from a
river digger a magnificent diamond
weighing 295 carats, said to be the sec
ond largest stone ever found in that
field. The stone is a perfect octahe
dron and of fine color. The buj'er paid
$10,000 for the gem and was subse
quently offered $40,000 for it, but re
fased tescU.
Better Face ike MmU.
Young H-ish 'a1 Why wouldn't yon
advise iuc to tail her my love in a
ra!c:it:ne'.'
Kouiuler- Ikhuso girls don't know
e:iori,'!i ::! xv s usincss to consider
sealed ihmiv ,..
TSie Object.
"That's a beautiful stained-glass
window."
l' e-: it wa. givon by Mrs. de IMche,
whose pow N ju-t below. She wanted
something t -ait titr complexion."
Itaiht-r Strange.
"1'jij Mirpr;s.M at the noise Niagara
makes."'
"You'd think there was enough water
there to drown the sound."
Museum Amenities.
Armless Wonder Will yer come out
ridin' next Sun l:y wid me?
"Circassian l;auty (scornfully) Xaw;
wot's de good even if yer can drive
wid ver feet.
Naturally.
Queriens What is Jliss Autumn's
opinion .f v:il.nlin2a?
CvuLns-Shc doesn't think they
make as nice ones as they used to years
ago.
Fell Value.
Mrs. Lovey How much money
do
you waste on our cigars, Charlie?
IIr. Lovey Waste money! My dear
girl, you c un i vr iste money on the kind
I .smoke.
netting: Square.
I mailed iter such a valentine
I'm -i;re t.he will resent it;
lint .still this consolation's mine,
She do2n't know I sent it.
Hi- Four,
don't you get an
"Why
umbrella
lamp?'
"I'm afraid somebody might borrow
It, and foigct to bring it back."
Simpler.
Servant (to Squibs, in his new boarding-place).
Shall I get some ice, sir?
No; it isn't necessary. Just put the
pitcher of wuter in the stove.
Unencumbered.
"What are your political principle ?'
"I have none I'm a Republican."
Xeir York Winter.
"Xow is the Winter of uur d's.-cntcut."
Male up of ull tbc tur.o .a si.-aoous blent,
Uuaincd Is Business.
"Ve must begin and cut down our
oxpenses, .lake v."
"Vat for, r'adder? 1'iznese i goot."
'Yah. Jakey. And ve must make it
a leetle petter! "
A Cliuiice to Smile.
The cook doesn't burn everything
he set- on fire.
It does not take a mortal long to get
the big end of his life behind him.
When a balloon fails to ,' up as an
nounced it is a .'oar disappointment to
many.
A man's trouble, do not come singly
when his wife presents h:in with twins.
Sound is said to travel over 700 miles
an hour: yet we have known th. sound
of a cat ya wping on the hack fence to
remain right in one spot f.n five mad
dening' hoar-..
A little np-towa girl, on hearing of a
certiin man who was i)0 j'ears old, re
marked: "When ; man lives as long
as that 1 guess it is a matter of habit
with him."
L'irst eleetric wire: "With all their
kiekiug theiv is one thing people never
threaten to do with us. ' Second elec
tric wire: "What is that? ' First elec
tric wire: "Handle us without gloves."
rMiotcgrapbe That is certainly a
good picture for an amateur; very
good. How did you nnnage to get
siwli a pleasant expression on the gen
tleman's face? Amateur I told him
I wasn t goingto charge auj-thing.
Little Dot Ma, may I take the baby
out in my doll's carriage? . lamma
Wiry, what for? Little Dot Susie
Stucrap has a new doll 'at shuts its
eyes an' cries Wah, Wall!' I'm doin'
to betend lh" baby is a doll and let her
hear lain yell. Then I dess she'll stop
puttin' on airs.
Iiinkic I had a great notion to lick
raj' boy for getting to the bottom of
his geography class tc-daj-. Pinkie
Why didn't you? liinkle Well, he put
some of the questions to me that the
teacher put to him, and as 1 couldn't
answer one ot em i let nan go ana
licked the teacher.
A HOODOO.
A Northern Pacific Locomotive
Declared
to Bo So Aiuictcd.
Northern Pa'ific locomotive No. $71
is looked upon by all conductors,
engineers and brakemen on the road
as the rankest kind of a hoodoo. She
was brought on to this division about
three years ago, and has spent the
greater part of that time in the repair
shops! Her first wreck was at lreseott,
the crew escaping with slight injuries.
The next was a head-end wrek one
mile from Buckley. The third was a
frightful collision at Eagle Gorge, at
which time engineer Young and fire
man Cooper were killed. Then, in
trying to butt a train from the track
at Palmer, she was buried into the
Green river, and so, throughout her
life, she seems to be possessed of the
spirit of the evil one. Strang.? stories
are told of a goblin perching itself on
the pilot of 5il, of the hose spurting
blood when an attempt is made to
draw water from the tank to wet down
the coal, and of various mysterious
pranks and caprices that the old engine
is given to. "You may call it super
stition," said an old Northern Pacific
employe, "but there isn't a railroad
man on this division but what fears
571, and they will all rest easier when
he finds her way to the junk shop."
I-jst Mines.
Everywhere throughout the West are '
lost mines. Every state and territory
that has gold or silver lias several of I
them. Around each there climrsahiiln
of romance. The lost Pcrfef? mini, on
the Colorado desert is the latest to have
an inning and be noticed by the press.
There is a Lost Cabin mine near Crater
lake in Oregon. Montana Wyoming,
Idaho and New Mexico have lost mines
of some sort or other, all rich, and
locked in the depths of the Navajo res
ervation in Arizona is another lost
mine. Men with guns and picks and
burros steal in from time to time in 1
quest of the latter. Sometimes in re- j
ferring to the various lost mines they !
I lem is made harder to solve as to jort '
are singularly muted, until the-prob-
l
. VTriNw r,--' -nf - - rvj wis iTir. j
I where "they arc "There are at least a
half dozen or a dozen Lost Cabin mules
in the West," said an old mining man
recently. "Anytmng that is strange
and hard to get at willhavc many hunt
ing for it Ihc lost mines are hard to
find, but there are all the time expedi
tions in quest ol them."
ELECTRIFIED
FENCE.
It K.Tectually Kept the Boys From .Steal
ins the CJentleman'a Pears.
A gentleman who lives almost under
tho shadow of old Harvard's walls, at
Cambridge, has for several years em
ployed his leisure 'dabbling in clcc
j tricity." as he expressed it In his
I home all the doors, drawers and win
dows open and shut by this mysterious
j force. Mrs. G-. the gentleman's wife,
j declares that she hesitates to touch
anything even to touch a hair brush
in his private room, for fear it may
be somehow connected with a hidden
wiiu One of his inventions is unique,
and has bean the means of affording
him and his friends no little amuse
ment. In his back j-nrd are several tine old
pear trees, wh .ch have sometimes led
certain boys in the neighborhood to
overlook tho distinction between
meum and tuum. Running along the
ivar of the fruit garden is a board
fence. 100 feet long, perhaps, over
whLh the roguish lads wer:s wont to
climb when they wanted pears, and
which, likowise. too frequently formed
the stage for concert-giving cats.
i n the top of this fenco Mr. C
tacked strips of zinc, which were con
nected with the electric wires leading
to the house, liy pressing a button a
moro or less strong charge of electric
ity could be sent through this zinc.
oJd sections of which wco united to
the earth ly means of wires.
Unsuspecting cats would run along
tho fence, and the moment their fore
feet touched the nou-insulated zinc an
astonished feline rose from one to
three feet into the air. sometimes to
turn :i complete somersault and then
to descend with all four feet out
btretched as if to ily. If the uuluckf
cat in falling chanced to hit the zinc
again, tho performance was apt to bo
repeated wlh variations. The instant
puss touched solid earth she would
utter one shrill meow of terror and
dart away.
One afternon during last fall
Mr V. was sitting hi h:s room when,
chancing to look from the window, he
spied a boy in the act of climbing
the fence, his hands resting ou the
zinc. Mr. C imniediato'y recognized
him as one of the purloiners of his
pears. Ho put hi- finger ot the
elective button, and the ni-.t moment
a startled boy ,u:np3d backward and
tried to let go his hold on the fencj.
But electricity had sst it- grip upon
his ha -ds and ho was a- powerle s to
get away as he wo.ilu he to throw
down Bunker Hill monument with a.
puff of his breath.
He kicked, ho pulled ba-kwards,
he struggled this way and that, and,
finally, in despair, he :houtei lustily
for help.
Mr. C. watched the lad for a time,
and then; thinking ho had punished
him sufficiently, removed his finger
from tho button and released him from
electrical durance. Tho boy, mean
time, had caught a glimpso of Mr.
C.'s smiling face at the window, and
immediately connected him with his
own peculiar sensations. He gave
vent to his feelings, therefore, in an
angry threat that he and tho boys
would "tear the old fence down.' and
ran otf.
A few minutes later half a dozen
ragged-looking urchins, led by tho
electrified boy of a f6w iniuutos be
fore, wero reen approaching tho fence,
as if with a uctermiuation to tear it
down.
Mr. C.'s finger sought the electric
button. Ono of the ragmuffins put
his hands on the fenco and that in
stant uttered a s-hrlek of pain and
terror. JIIec:i-i:ily hud caught him
His comrades stopped jiial long
euough to sec that the boy was held
fast and took to their heols and de
serted in a body. Mr. C. gave the
frightened lad a few words of advice,
and then suffered him to depart, says
the Youth's Companion. Not a pear
was disturbed after that nor has he
since known of a boy's attempting to
climb that electrical fence.
SENDING OUT SAMPLES.
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Seeming; Trifle That Costs a Great Deal
of -Money.
"I wonder whether one person in a
thousand who asks for a sample of a
piece of dry goods ever stops to think
what it costs the merchants of this
country a year to satisfaetoriby re
spond to the simple request?" asks a
dry goods merchant.
"I had a talk with the managers of a
dozen or more big houses not long ago
and among other things discussed was
that of giving away samples and send
ing out samples of dry goods, etc., y
salesmen. Finally we got to figuring
or the matter. Tne result was most
appalling. Some of us had bean con
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as well as other large houses, whole-
t j -i w j .1. i j
sale and retail. Ve found that, placed
nAiinH -ttt V lif frtniMiiac n min 4iia
at a conservative figure, there are
more than 83,000,000 worth of goods
given away, and consequently de
stroyed, in samples every year in the
United States.
' This 23,000,000 or more, eventually,
jf course, comes out of the pockets of
the purchasers, or, more properly
speaking, the consumers of dry goods.
The sample feature of the dry goods
business is at once one of the greatest
nuisances and blessings that we have.
Where the nuisance comes in it is
easily to be seen; the blessing of it is
in the fact that it saves us, or, I should
say, the dearly beloned people, many a
thousand dollars which otherwise
would go for the expense of sending
oat more traveling salesmen. Thous
ands of dollars' worth of goods are
sent out every day to retail customers
aver the country from which we never
hear a word. But do we lose it? Oh,
Qo never! We simply count upon it
is being so much clear loss or neces
sary expense, along with clerk hire,
taxes, etc, and ask the more for the
foods that we sell.
Klectrlcity Gives Age to Liquors.
A New York inventor has invented a
process for aging liquors by electricity.
By means of a series of connected ves
sels, in which are inserted a series of
electrodes, alcoholic liquors are passed
tnrougn tuem; anu, uunnjj wie acuou
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of the current upon them the liquors
wllL when caught in the receiving
tonk pufied, deodorized and aged
t " degree corresponding to the dura- .
tJn of tlie action ana the number of
the vessels employed.
Lobsters Droad Thunder.
The lobster dreads thunder and
when the peals arc very loud numbers
of them drop their claws and swim
away for deeper water. Any great
fright might afso induce them to drop
their claws. But new claws r?gin at
once to grow and in 8 short time aro
as large as the old ones and covered
with hard shells. The lobster often
drops its shell, when it hides until tho
new 8hoU U hard 8n0u!h to Protect it I
GAS STOVE.
It Causes Many Fatal Accidents
by Sot-
ting Things on Fire.
A popular Broadway club man who
wears the uniform of the Metropolitan
police says he has been making an es
timate of the matter and that an aiMMk
age of two persons are burned'jiW
every week in New York that is, they
are burned dead killed by fire. While
an occasional holocaust, like that of
the Hotel Royal, startles the commu
nity, the real loss of human life by fire
comes from the lamps and gas stoves,
and is the result of carelessness. Some
official figures on this subject would
serve as a timely warning.
In New York a great many gas stoves
are in use. The flames are exposed to
catch the dress of the economical
housewife or the hair or clothing of
her children, with every now and then
fatal results. Two, three or four sep
arate cases of this kind have frequent
ly bean recorded in a 'week, until the
old familiar causes of fires the ready
curtain and defective llue are no
longer in it, and the kitchen stove-giri-kero?enc-can
variety of broil is now a
novelty. Even the long excoriated and
anti-iegislated car stove, with all its
unhappy victims, can not shall I say
"hold a candle"' to the little family gas
stovo for genuine omnipresent danger
to human life. The gas stove has a
i..y i.f A-, own luring the innocent
1. i".a ie on by degrees and lying
pi oni.se ? of unmeasured savings, in
sidiously tempting the children to sit
on it, barning with sickly blue flame
that won't melt butter in cold weather,
but will roast the whole family upon
opportunity. Its poisonous fumes
have slain hundreds who couldn't live
long enough with it to be roasted alive,
and the jaw-bone of the ass who talks
people into such things is responsible
for the terrible human sacrifice.
THE CHARGE OF BALAKLAVA.
One Who Took Part la It Does Not Con.
siller It a Heroic Deed.
lieruard McKernan, a night watch
man of Phccnixvillc, Pa., was a private
in Lord Cardigan's immortal regiment
that rode
"Bic'-i from the jaws of death.
Back from the mouth of hell,"
at Italaklava. He also passed un
scathed through the whole Crimean
war, and is the proud possessor of two
silver medals, one of which was given
to him by Queen Victoria and the
other by the sultan of Turkey, "Bal
aklava," he sa3'.s, "was a mistake, a
thing to W ashamed of. None of us,
either officers or privates, did more
than every soldier does obey. Lord
Cardigan said "charge!' and we charged
and that was all there was to it. Why
don't they drop this nonsense about
Balaklava and talk about lukermann
and Alma instead? They were battles,
and they did some good. What good
did Balaklava do?" Upon this ground
the old man refused to be interviewed.
"I'll show you my medals," he said,
"since you came all the way to
Phoenixville to see me, but I don't
want you to write a lot of nonsense
about my bravery. I wasn't any braver
at Balaklava than any other man
would have been, and if you say that
I was it would make me ashamed."
IT DEPENDS".
rho Enjoymont of Getting Home la Sun
shine or In the Kgiu.
"Isn't it a pleasure to get home after
an absence of a month or six weeks?"
he asked as he shook his friend's hand
warmly.
"L'm, yes; ordinarily it is,"' admitted
the friend.
"You come baelc to the place you
nave lived in for years and find the
sun shining and the birds singing 1
tell you it warms the cockles of a
man's heart."
"Well, that depends," returned the
friend doubtfully.
"Depends? Depends?"
"Certainly. Now, if you go away to
escape a spell of bad weather that is
expected along about that season of
the year and come back on a bright,
sunshiny day, your friends are sure to
tell you that that's what the weather
has been right along."
"That's so; they do."
"And then you feel that you have
been to considerable expense to get the
worst of it.'
"I admit it; I've felt that way."'
"But if it's cloudy, dismal, and
,lopp3T, they can't bluff you. You just
throw your chest out with the proud
consciousness that you know a thing
or two about enjoying life. It all de
pends. Sometimes I'd rather get home
in a drizzling rain.
THE RUSSET ORANGE.
Caused by the Proboscis of aa Infinitesi
mal Insect.
The russet orange is made so by a
minute insect, which comes at certain
times during the summer months in
such vast numbers as to give a grove
the appearance of being covered with
brown dust. A magnifying glass shows
this insect to possess a bill-like pro-
j boscis, with which it punctures the oil
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cells of the orange skin and causes the
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! on the surfao? and discolors it It acts
much upon the rind of the orange as
i tanning upon leather, making it thin
j ner and tougher.
j It is a mistake to say they select only
the "sweet fruit," for they cover an
j entire grove, both fruit and foliage.
Some hold the theory that as they
destroy the oil cells of the rind the
! formation of oil ceases and the food is
i made richer and sweeter in conse-
iquence. Sometimes orange growers
spray their trees with a mixture which
j destroys the insects, but it was found
J that the russet orange shipped so much
i better and was so much finer in qual-
ity that they have abandoned it The
hammock and Indian river fruit is sel
dom attacked by the rust mite, hence
it is not so durable for shipping, the
skin being very tender.
j . Til a World or Cranks.
A Bangor woman's pet dog died re
cently, and the woman, after copious
, tears, gave the cur an elaborate f uner-
aL A casket was made and lined
j with silk. On a shrouded table in a
i darkened room, and banked with hot
house flowers, the carcass, with crossed
' paws, was laid in state. Then the
, family and all the sympathetic and cur
ious women of the neighborhood filed
in for a last look at Towser. The
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casaet was oorne to tne garucn, ana
therc under tll inat.s .M worth of black
walnut. silk and flowers, and :.0 cents'
worth (orjginal value) of dog were
laid away.
Leave It Outside.
A minister, annoyed by tobacco
j chewing, thus spoke to his congrega
tion: "Take your quid of tobacco out
of your mouth on entering the house
of God, and gently lay it on the outer
edge of the sidewalk or on the fence.
It will positively be there when you go
out, for a rat won't take it, a cat won't
J take it, a dog won't take it, neither
will a hog; you are certain of your
quid when you go after it. Not the
filthiest vermin on earth would touch
it."
DANGER IN THE
CODPISH OFF ALASKA.
Large FlihlaX Kaaks tfhera a Great
lndustrr May be Dsvelopad.
Fish is one of tho most abundant
products of Alaska, and the fact that
it is procured so easily insures tho
most thriftless with an easy means of
subsistence. Perhaps it is not known
generally that the codfishing banks
along the eastern part of the Aleutian
chain and in Bering sea may .supply
this country with most of the codfish
it consumes. Two San .Francisco
firms are in tho Alaska codfish busi
ness at the Shumagin islands, south
of the Alaska peninsula, and in Bering
sea. Their catch in 1SJU amounted
to 1.1.!!?. (WO fish, valued at $"Gi. 000.
The bminess is increasing in import
ance, and no one knows yet of what
development it is capable. In fact
nothing was known or the extent and
ralue of the banks until systematic
investigations were made awhile ago
by tho United States lish commission.
A bulletin recording the results of
these explorations in 11-35 on tho Al
batross was issued a yeat ago. Tns
report contained a full account of ihs
fishing banks discovered and record
ed the belief that the entire submerged
plateau from ot? Lnalaska island to
J'airweather is one immense fishing
bank. On these banks good fishing
was obtained at aearly all localities
where trials were made with hand
lines.
Governor Lyman . Knapp. of Alas
ka, in his latest annual report enu
merates a number of these banks that
were discovered during the Albatross'
voyage. There is a bank called Pot
latch, extending northeasterly from
the eastern end of Kadiak Island
about 115 miles. Shumagin Islands,
have an area of about 4, 400 square
miles. Albatross bank, off the south
eastern side of Kadiak. has an area of
S. 700 square miles. Davidson bank,
southeast of lininiak island, has an
area of 1.G0J square miles. The San
nak bank, southeast of Sannak has
about 1.300 square miles. In Bering
Sea tho finest cod are taken, but the
boundaries of the banks are not de
fined. It is known that codfish abound
off the coast west of Bristol Bay for
more than 100 miles, and about
twenty miles north of Unimak 1'ass
eastward to Bristol Bay. 1 airweather
ground also gives evidence ol the
presence of these fish in large num
ber..'. In several localities off the
shoro of southeastern Ahiska cod are
caught for local use, but no careful
investigation hao been made of the
grounds with reference to a determi
nation of the extent and values of the
bank.
PERIfJ ON THE OCEAN.
C-iuipanioi St:-uiuo i 3i.!tt ATurt Soma
ot : he (i atdit Uuc?.
The Wasbington patent offico alone
contains some lift- different models of
swimming belts, cork .ackct?, life
buoys, surf boats, life boats and dan
ger signals, and. considering the elab
oration of marine charts and safety
arrangements in naval architecture!
it seems rather straugo that tha num
ber of shipwrecks for tho northern
hemisphere (not including tho Gulf of
1'ersia nor the China Sea) should
reach tho enormous average of 1. 400
a year, involving a loss of i 000 lives.
The fact is that new ocean perils
turn up as fast a? the contrivancas in
tended for their prevention.
The very speed of first-class pas
senger steamers increases the fatality
of such disasters, asserts Felix Oswald
in the Chaulauquan.
Another nw element of danger has
arisen from the fact that the civiliza
tion of the American continent is
working its war farther and farther up
north, involving the establishment of
steamer lines across the drift of polar
icebergs.
Ocean races, indeed, have become
as unavoidable evils as storra3 and sea
fogs, and a plurality of passengers
may continue to accept them as pref
erable alternatives, but considering
the protest of an influential minority
it seoms hard to understand why thoir
risk has not at least been modified in
tho way proposed by Professor Mar
quard of Hamburg, and Captain de la
Gardic, of tho Belgian navy. viz.. the
use of "companion steamers." In
nine cases out of ten the worst conse-
I quences of shipwreck could have been
averted if more emcient help than that
of frail lifeboats had been near at
hand, and as the chance against both
vessels being wrecked at the same time
would be as a thousand to one the
popularity of the fleetest vcean grey
hound" could be eclipsed by the plan
of letting passenger steamers start
pairwise and keeping up communica
tions by means of signal lights and
fog bells.
Kilted tij a Sneeze.
Probably the most remarkable occur
rence ever known happened in Dawson;
Ga., recently. Martha Koandtree, the
well-known negro woman who kept a
restaurant at the south end of Main
street, now occupies a grave at the
cemetery, the victim of a sneeze. The
physicians of Dawson say that they
have never heard or read of a similar
;ase. Wednesday the woman, as well
as usual, was at the restaurant attend
ing to her work. She had just left
the rear of her eating saloon and
walked to the front when she was at
tacked with an excessive spell of sneez
ing and coughing. She had been
afflicted with hernia, and the strain
was so great as to burst a hole in her
stomach. Surgical aid was called in
and her stomach sewed up, which gave
temporary relief. She lingered until
late Saturday afternoon, when she
died. The victim of this remarkable
occurrence was a large woman, weigh
ing 246 pounds.
Talev la Oriental Kns.
To the initiated some of the efforts
to produce Oriental designs in rug9
and other fabrics in this country are
very amusing. As long as a rug has
a mass of yellow, blue, and red in it
and is made up of a mosaic of nonde
script little details, the manufacturer
seems to feel that he has produced an
Oriental design. The truth is, how
ever, that an Oriental rjg. to the na
tive, tells a story as clearly and ex
pressively as a book. The details of
the design are not meaningless marks
or figures; they are symbols, and sug
gest historical events, reminiscence,
and romance. Every portion of the
rug has its peculiar meaning.
The Sevea Sleepers.
The Seven Sleepers were seven
noble youths of Ephcsus, who. in the
time of the Decian persecutions, it is
said, fled to a certain cavern for
refuge. They were pursued, discov
ered and walled in the cave, the per
petrators of the deed hoping to mete
out a cruel and horrible death. How
ever, according to tho legend, they
were made to fall asleep and were
miraculously kept alive for nearly two
centuries. Their names are criven as
Maximian. Malchus. Martinian. Denis,
John. Serapion and Constantino.
C. A. Snow & Co.'s pamphlet, "In
formation and Advice about Patents,
Caveats, Trademarks, Copyrights, etc.,"
may be obtained free at this office, tf
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risk. 1 oa can derotayoar ipara momenta, or all joar time
to the work. This entirely new lead tWajri wonderful toe
cejato erery worker. Beginners are earnmR from S3S to
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