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A COLOR TRAGEDY.
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lor iiieraiurc lucre
were those among J
us who. s c o. ff e d;
Violet was so
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essing brains. She
was one of those
girls, with alluring faces- Hie sort of
. bcaute-du-diable of which Ouida is
"always writing- .eyes of most" unholy
. blue, and lips-which could milc a man's
"soul away. A .fascinating minx with
".'"tho most .graceful -and winning man
' tiers; a being of moods, tender, rcpcl-
.-Ja"nl', kindly andivy by turns, she had
"created havoc a.nd strewn devastation
wherever r-r dainty feet had trod.
.-" Suddenly-she wearied of the -endless
round of gayety and fashion to which j
from her toons she- had " been ac
customed, and amazed her coterie Jiy
declaring 'her intention flf writing re
alistic Novels. Of course, every ope
'paid it was merely a fad and -would soon
- blow over. Btif Tt-tlidn't.-that'was the
;-tistiunding part, of it. .
."- Her -first novel attracted more than
: passing notice. -She was. commended
. "for' her original and audacious style.
.,her ciee. plot and a-certain dainty
" feminine. . touch. She was. --written
nboiit",intcrviewcd:-hcr beauty and'tal
.. cut "Were praised by the paragraphers.
au't alj the. details of Iter Insurious life
n .-.'' brandished about the - country,
.From being merely a tnir:il society
girl, a young -woman of elegance and
fashion, she suddenly became a some-"
body itt j.o jointed out and stared at,
.'and r,i tsii about '
..This, '.pasniodic ajulation jdeased
..'.Violet. .Sba had always feasted upon
-'- ll.tUivycbui now she'revirlfHl in it. She
. .'Jlfre.-A .""herself into -1 life of feverish
'-."emotion, becalm cynical, disdainful.
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WRATIIKIIHY
, .;.'.i.'i.:t!J;il unjoining out her uusci--afTle
amlution.
:Ior.l-coJoring came to be an absolute
ut.iiTtn with her. - She was always prat-
tliiig oL "atmosphere" and "realism."
clap r-ii.1 Mnnd a lot of infernal non-&T.S-C
ftom a jretty woman, but really
-,.cr det often grew actually tire
Fnrae.vrith her endless-rhapsodies about
".-'"I'lff divinitN.of realism."
l: w,i; it.M after publishing her scc-
" -!:.! novel, a combination of ingenuity
and ..wickedness, a smartish, brackish
Tstonv ynu wouldn't have liked your -sis-
" t ej - to -wxite. tlint Uip girJ decided to go
..ro'-th'e. fr west in search of "local col-
of" for !cV next attempt.
Vos" she drawled, with the fine
ladyair. of disdain she had assumed
"5rt her SJicets." "yes. I am going in
".r-eVrcli of local color and a hero. 1 may
' u:-e a cowboy Jon the latter who
kro-" s" They tell me those fellows are
tb'hphtfunv original and as breezy. ai
i)' winds, from. the Rockies."
he. made un-her mind she lutn not
ici;,4i" nuMniormea.wnen a nionin taier
s-:v' a-iet .-tekVV eatherby.
Weather by was a "child of the plains.
. !e had ::ieve"r leen east of the MTssis
?d.ppr ami had an.-infinite contempt for
''le kind nf the rising sun. -He had
1 -.'V'.e'j for a living; he had been a cow
" 'vv.. and faiswl as much" of a rumpus
it: rafning camps as the next fellow.
. -Xmt he owned his own ranch and herdsr
" '.;F "settled "down" somewhat, and had
begun-0 -think he would like a -wife
and home..
' We. was .a handsome fellow, as fiery
-as'the mustang he roie, and as tender
-h.ear.ted. as a woman sone -women.
. -"-His ranch lay in tfce-'shadow of the
-Sa'ngre de Chrigto range, next to that
"ot-the Athertons, where the New York
-'.girl .was stopping. Its acres stretched
-10 the shadowy foot hills and over
them roanied the sleek, well-fed creat
ures." of "which he was so proud. - .
- 11 was two days after her arrival that
"'hV'saw her first. He had ridden over
te-.ee Tom' Atherton, the big muscular
-"-Knsfishjnan. who was his particular
" "crony, and had come down the trail
.with his -.customary "Hark" and
."Whoop.". -As though riding the sightless;-couriers
of the air,, he. dashed up
." tn'-fhe" little"flower garden, spurs and
cha ins. jingling, sombrero flapping, and
failing out ayll .which could have been
'heard in DeT.- -And there by the
.sjde' of. prefty" Mrs.. Atherton .-sat a
-stranger, "a vision an angel!. The. as
tonished ranehmaB- blushed and stam
".juered.'likfe a schoolboy -as he bowed
iiwftwardly- and ..apologized for his
'-.A'iuiche-like ' ubL
'. Who is tbla lTlalty- in palest pluk.
thr-s radiant "eraatore with hair like
gold and ayaat baaT owh Uaa?
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"My -friend. Miss Liugard, from New
."York.V' 3Irs. Atherton said..
P-'shaw! .She." was a celestial "befng
straight from Paradise. " "'
I -ha re always pitted Wcathcrby.
Never for one moment could I blame
him. " He was a primitive man with
savage Instincts Dirking i1 his breast.
Brave; loyal. -straight-forward himself,
how could he dream of the treacherous,
cruel blows one little soft white hand
was 'capable of dealing?
Violet found thi
sturdy, brawny
ranchero a delightful study, and ue-
cided he should be the hero of-her .nest
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cies norn or tne mesxs xtiui mountains,
his forcible and often ungfanimatical
speech were faithfully noted: his emo.
tions were played upon, his heart was
probed. And he hover dreamed he was
being experimented on. "Me loved this
exquisite creature, this- d-iinry, soft,
purring beauty, as he loved- his fife.
He covcteI her .nd longed to shut her
close to his- big, faithful, honest heart.
At last came the night when Violet
carried her passion for "atmosphere"
and "local coloring" to its climax. They
had gene fortheir customary exening
stroll, and had climbed tip n lofty
butte to a broad ledge of rocks. At
their Jeet yawned the canon, tremen
dous, awful, black. . save where the
moonlight touched the. opposite wall
with ghostly fingers. ' Back of them
loomed the range like the battlements
of a phantom city. While far, far be
low sounded, the faint rushing of water
the river tumbling and foaming along
oer its rocky bed. '
"What a weird place." cried Violet,
I wun a pretty summer, "ana want a
ghost-like nights .Why did we never
eome up here befoie. "Jack? What a
see no I"
Weatjierby was ljing at her feot
where he had thrown, himself to rest
after their climb.
He turned hi"? face, white in the
Aon light, toward her. and fixing his
niisky. unfathomable ecs upon her,
said
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STEPPED OFF.
"I kept this place for this hour. I
meant to bring you here when I got
my courage to the point where I could
say all that is in my heart. Many a
time down there," pnintingto the
ranch lying below. "I liave looked up
here and thought of the time I would
bring you to tell you how I love jou,"
For. one instant Violet felt a queer
little thrill. The simple dignity of his
declaration almost moved the worldly,
cold-blooded girl. Then she thought of
her local coloring.
"What a situation for my novel." she
said to herself: then aloud, gently,-
"So you really love me. Jack?"
'Love
you?" he echoed-passionately.
is he rose and sat down beside her.
"Violet, look." taking her hand, "my
heart lies here in this dear little hand."
Then throwing all reserve to the
winds, he seized her and kissed her
madly, tempestuously.
She struggled to free heisclf and at
length succeeded.
"How dare
'how dare "
-you?" she demanded.
"How dare I?" he cried. "Why. dear-J
est. l love you I love you. do you hear?
And you, o love me a little, do vou
not:"
He was approaching her again, when
she said contemptuously:
"Xo, not a bit. I have simply been
studying you."
He stood as if turned to stone.
"Studying me.'-' he. said, in a queer
voice, "studying why whv?" he sav
agely" demanded, as he caught her
wristand held it in an iron grip.
"You were so different." she faltered,
a bit frightened by his sudden ferocity.
"I wanted a new type for my book, you
know. I suppose Tom told you I write
books "
An absolute murderous look swept
over Weatherby's face.
"Xo." he said, "no o.ie told me that.
So you write books? And you wanted
1 to put me in it was that it? Answer
me. answer me!"
"Yes."' she murmured, faintly!
"And that was all? You never locd
me never meant to marry me?"
"Why no. how could 1? I am to be
married in the fall to a man in New
York ;" -
'A- snarl like that of an infuriated
be33t interrupted her . Livid with
rage .he sprang toward her. Once again
he crushed. Her. shrinking ?nd trem
bling to his breast, then dragged her
to the very edge of the canon, gaping
like the bottomless pit to receive them.
And as her agonized sci earns pierced
the soft" Miiuiiitr night. Wt-:ith-rby, still
holding her against' hib outraged heart,
stepped off.
- They found them next day ia the
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bottom of the canon. Violet's lovely
face- was -past" recognition, but .on
Weatherby's lingered a smile-.of such
awful triumph as "would have pleased
Che archfiend .himself. From Truth.
DON'T KILL .THE DOG.
When It Ha Bitten Von Saye It M
(initio to tlir Frohahfe issue.
"If you are bitten by a dog, don't kill
the beast, but take .every precaution to
j let him live for a'few days at least."
, Professor Logorio. chief -of the Pas- !
tcur Institute in Chicago, made this
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unauim oi.iiciiiunL iu a. repuriur ui. uit;
i Tribune, and he is supposed to be an
authority on "-dogs that bite and what
to tlo with them."
"It is a "great mistake people make,"
he said, "to start in at once .to" kill a
dog" that has bitten them or have it
killed for :thcm.. It has been "proven
scientifically-and is admitted now by all
physicians who arc posted that hydro
phobia is not a spontaneous disease
and cannot be given -to a person by a
dog unless the dog be mad "when it
causes the wound. The dog's condition,
if it be mad. will be. manifested within
two days, or two weeks at the latest
By permitting it to live, therefore, the
physician can tell definitely whether
the person bitten is jiable'to have hy
drophobia. If the dog goes' mad with-.
In that time they know that the. person
bitten may be inoculated with the same
tlread disease and. may have the same
fate. If tho dog. docs not go mad then
ther.e is -no fear of hydrophobia and i
the wound can be treated the same as t
any other wound would be. By killing .
I the dog you destroy the chance of cer--,
tainty as to the fate of the person hit
ten and leave the imagination full rein
to fear tho worst results where it might
have leen possible to know in advance
that hydrophobia was impossible.
"Of course," continued the doctor."
"there are exceptions to this rule that .
will suggest themselves to persons.
"When a dog is so vicious that to leave
it alive is to endanger other people,
then the first duty would be to destroy
it unless it could be kept carefully se
cluded where the possibilities of harm
would be removed. But even in such
cases where the dog is killed it should
be done by a physician, who should
keep a portion of the brain by which
can be determined whether the dog had
rabies or not"
PRAYING ON THESIDEWALK.
In BarcUv Street DeVoot Catholics
Kneel Itofore Image.
In Barclay street are several stores
that display images of Christ, the vir
gin and other Roman Catholic emblems.
A bare-headed old man stood on the
sidewalk the other day and gazed rev
erently at a large statue of tho virgin.
After a time lie repeated, in a low tone,
several prayers. His devotions lasted
about five minutes, and then, after
blessing -himself, he walked slowly"
away.
"That old man has been coming here
every day for about two years," said a
truckman, wlidse stand was near by.
"Almost at the stroke of five he shows
up and prays for several minutes." -
"He's not tho only one," the truck
man continued. "Several others, most
ly women, come to this block in tho
early morning, and even get on their
knees outside the windows where
images are shown. From their looks I
should think many of them arc Ital
ians." N, Y. Press.
She ITm Ireed I.Ike a Man. .
Dr. George M. Bassett. of V'andalia.
111., and Miss Allen Bumgardner, alias
Mattie Murphy, alias Mattie Howe, of
Hillsboro, 111., were arrested in St. .
Louis the other night, because the girl
was masquerading in the attire of a
young man. At the police station both
declared their masculinity. The ef
feminate looking one was taken to the
city dispensary, where the wise doctors
soon discovered that .the prisoner was
a sureenottgh woman.
"This Is simply a spree, and I ac-'
knowledge the 'corn." said Dr. Bassett.
"When I get out of here I shall go homo
to my family. I have two pretty little
children, 4 and (Hears old. respectively,
and I love them dearly. While I cannot
get along very well with my wife.-yet
I never dreame'd of eloping wjflf the
young womaiywho is with me?
. High Chrilifafian.
Caller "I am a reporter of the Daily
Blanket"
Bishop "Ah, yes; I presume you
wish a copy of the sermon which I am
to deliver at the Fifth Avenue Sanct
uary." Caller "Oh. no: we don't care any
thing about that. I desire a description
of the dresses which your wife and
daughters will wear at the services."
Ex.
Jelf-Renpert.
Mr. Drinker "Waiter, another bot
tle. Say, waiter!" -
Waiter "Yes, sah!"
Mr.Drinker"Say-er-is my nose get
ting red?"
Waiter "Y-e-s, fiah. " It is, sah: sorry
to say, sah."
Mr. Drinker "Hum! That won't do.
Never do at all. Send out and get me
a yachting cap."
SHOES OF THE NATIONS. -
The Portugese shoe has a wooden
sole and heel, with a vamp made of
patent leather, fancifully showing the
flesh side of the skin.
The Persian footgear Is a raised shoe
and is often a foot high. It Is made
of light wood richly inlaid, with a strap
extt-ndlng over the instep.
The Muscovite shoe 13 hand woven' on
a wooden frame, and but little atten
tion Is paid to the shape of the foot
Leather is sometimes used, but the
sandal ;is generally made of colored
silk cordage and woolen cloth.
The Siam shoe has .the form of an an
cient canoe, with a gondola bow and
an open toe.. The sole Is made of wontf
and the upper of inlaid wood and cloth,
and the exterior is elaborately ornal
mented in' colors and with gold and
silver.
'The 5andal worn by the Egyptians is
composed of a sole made by sticking to
gether three thicknesses of leather.
This is held to the foot by passing a
band across the instep. The sandal is
beautifully stitched with threads of
different colors.
The Mussulman's shoe is of heavy
lt-ati.er. It is adjusted to the foot by
a wSde leather Mtrap, which runs from
llic htel and buckles over the Instep.
The only ornamentation is the fasten
ing of two feather plumes ou the right
side of the toe.
BACK TO. BARBARISM.
SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS.EXPERI-
ENCE A .RELAPSE. "
Many the White Atrenturni Vtho Set
tled in tho Solomon Group Have Iteen
8erTii lip at . I'easts OJhers Have
Fled tho Place.
KWS HAS JUST
been -received in
this country that
the' -cannibal in
habitants of the
Solomon Islands
have returned orico
more to their barbarous-practice
of
head-hunting and
-man-eating. The
dispatches -s til t.e
that the wliitc" settlers in the neighbor
hood, who,- after a -year's cessation from,
these bloodthirsty pursuits on the part
of. the natives, had begun to-feel, somewhat-
secure, have been! stricken with
terror and are fleeing- to Australia on
every- available vessel. They arc ac
companied in their (light-by numbers
of missionaries, who arc -well "-aware
that the South Sea Island cannibal has
a strong partiality for wliite flesh, and
that he will go to the extent of slaying.
even' these good .and harmless clergy
men when once his. appetite for human
flesh has been thoroughly excited.
In all of the-adjoining islands (he
white settlers have applied to the Brit
ish admiral. Sir A. G. Bridge,
xC" pro-
lection. The admiral has displayed
commendable energy in his. effort to
punish the horrible offenders, and. ac
cording to the latest reports, has em
barked on board of the fina-class
cruiser Orland with the purpose of
shelling the savage hamlets and dwel
lings along the coast. It is doubtful."
however, whether much will be ac
complished by this line of procedure,
as the savages are accustomed to re
treat to the interior while the firing is
going on, nnd. by the deftness and
treachery of their movements, they
have often been known to seize strag
gling boatloads of the whites as they
visited the shore and to make off with
them in triumph. Very few of these
unfortunate captives have ever been
seen again. According to the usual
practice of the Solomon Islanders, ffiey
arc immediately put to death and their
bodies carefully quartered by the chief's
butcher. The pieces are then hung up
on the branches of shady trees and al
lowed to acquire the proper degree of
seasoning.
The latest white victims of the sav
ages were the ship's companj- of the
Sydney trading schooner Amelia. Capt.
D. Kerr, -his mate, Samuel Smith, and
eight or ten men. They sailed in the
schooner Amelia from Ruhiana in the
middle of last April and have since
been missing under circumstances that
leave no. question as to their fate. The'
British naval officers in the vicinity
are naturally enraged over the miser
able destruction of these sailors, and
it is probable that swift vengeance, will
be taken upon the cannibals if they fall
into the clutches of the whites. When
the sailors failed to return to Rubiana
in May, one Nathaniel Wheatley, of
that place, organized a searcli for
. them and succeeded in picking up the"
deck-house, .the hatches and " other
parts of the Amelia, hut every one of
the men had disappeared.
The group of islands called the Solo
mon Islands by early navigators, who
vaguely supposed that they were the
original depository of Solomon's gold,
extend from the northwest to the
southeast in. latitude 5 to 11 degrees
south and 154 to 1G3 degrees east.
at a distance of about 800 miles north-
i east of Australia. They are the larg
est of the numerous groups of islands
in the. Pacific Ocean, and were discov
ered by Alverdo de Mendana in 1567.
Yet. though they were thus among the
earliest known islands in this region,
our information in regard to their
topography, resources and inhabitants
has always remained very meagre, ow
ing to the unamiable character of the
natives.
The Solomon .Islanders are 'of a
mixed race, varying between an al
most pure Malay type "and the dark
skinned Polynesian. Though savage
in their habits, they -are nevertheless
intelligent, crafty, thievish and re
vengeful, and they are said, when do
mesticated, to make excellent and
faithful servants. The men" wear no
clothing but a loin band, and the
women wear a small skirt. They are
mostly small of stature and their hair
and skin are intensely black, the
former being closely frizzled. Some J
visitors have described these people as
1 the most savage, brutal and degraded
race on earth, but this opinion is per
haps too severe. Although cannibals,
. they are by no mans degraded aa
compared with other sav:uf.Taces. They
had 'acquired in the process of their
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development and before coming in. cou
tact with" Europeans' a knowledge of
various simple arts, several of which
they practiced with remarkable skill.
They are singularly clever -in surgery,
setting arms and legs with bamboo
splints. .They have also obtained soma
knowledge -of dentistry, though their
treatment, of a patient is somewhat of
a. heroic character.
A protectorate was established over,
the" entire group in 1893. - The British
government thus acquired a total area
of neven or eight thousand, square
miles' and a population of about 50,000
savages, the greater part of whom were
cannibals. At the-, time of the estab-.
Hshment of the protectorate the chief
of the island of San Cliristoval. one of
tho most cannibalistic of'thc-lot. was
one Taki. a converted- man-eater.-whose
picture is given herewith. '
Contrary" to the general impression,
the practice of cannibalism has -by no
means been extinguished.. . It has been
supposed that the increa'sing inter-"
course, between the-whites and sav
ages and the presence. of a large num
ber of devout missionaries in the South
Sea Islands had put '.an end tb-man--eating
as a general practice", but this
is not the case." The inhabitants of
many. of these'islands. ami of the Solo
mon Islands in particular, have always
.been "anthrophagbii" or 'cannibals, ever
since their ' existence first became 1
known to. white men in the sixteenth
centnry: And there is nothing .In .the
presence of .the "missionaries-or. in the
soothing influences of. intercourse .with J
"white traders that would tend to make
these savages abandon the custom.
Among them the practice of devouring
thefr felov-creaturcs in order to sat
isfy the pangs of hunger is regarded aj
entirely natural and .even praise
worthy. t. the. time of the second
visit of the discoverer of these islands.
Alverdo de Mendana. the chief of "tin.
island of Vsabel. one of the largest ni
the gronp,-sent to the Spanish naviga
tor a present of a quarter of a boy. with
the hand and arm. The admiral, horri
fied at receiving so gruesome a gift, or
dered its instant burial, a proceeding
which both angered and perplexed the
well-meaning chief, who did not think
that such a choice morsel as a boy's
flesh should be to recklessly disposed
of.
TRAPS FOR GRASSHOPPERS.
.1 Tin Trough nilh OmI Oil in ll I'rme
K:it:l to 'iCimliel or the l'-t.
Prof. Lugger, the state entomologist,
has in operation in the Red river valley
and in Chicago and Pine counties. Min
nesota. 400 "hoppcr-dosers." These are
machines about eight feet long and two
feet wide, made on the plan of a dust
pan. of tin. and on three runners on
which they are pulled over the stubble
by a team of Iiorbes. At the rear of
each is a trough the einire length of
the machine, in which is an inferior
grade of. coal oil. while at the back is
a" sheet of canvas: The grasshoppers .
jump into the pan to get out of its way. !
Those that -fait into the kerosene die at
once, while those that
touched by the oil mav
;ire mcrelv '
lie two or'
throo ,;.;. . !. ,u .i..,
a sort of paralvsiK. The canvas at the
v.. .v.. ....i....w wiuj v- l .-. SIH.II1UIU i
luck of the machine prewnts them '
from jumping clear over it. It co-,ts the
state i..w io maKe eacn ot tne.se ma-i
chines. They can be made by any tin
smith and are given to the farmers in
hopper-infested communities in order
to encourage them in getting rid of the
pests. Prof. Lugger claims that with
his 400 "hopper-doser" he kills off an
average of 800 to 1,200 bushels of grass
hoppers every day.
Wh;i'n of lonuniy.
The Maine man who provides all his
berry-pickers v-ith spruce gum so that
they won't eat berries.
The New Hampshire farmer who
made his minister a present of a load
of- hay which was. so weedy that the
boys were going to burn it up.
The llarlemite who slept last night
in the mantle of the darkness, to have
the wear on the bed clothing.
The old gentleman in Indiana who
had a tombstone made with six sides,
on each of .which were narrated the
virtues of a dead spouse.
The wheelwright in New Jersey who
returned an adopted boy to his parents
because the lad wore out his shoes
shuffling his feet on the floor.
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Forgiven l.r llrr Vlrlim ;iiot.
Old Mrs. Nobles, in jail at Macon. :
Ga., for killing -her ""old man" for!
"pestering" her. says his ghost has .
bften to sec her and she is forgiven the"-
murder. - l'fforts are being made to m-
cure commutation of sentence, but nhc
"jes liev's hang's not." Ex. j
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A -ure Men. (
Mrs. Wayupp That new servant girl j
is going to get married ery soon. j
Mr. Wa.Mipp -KIT Why do you think j
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THIRTY-EIGHT MILES AN HOUR.
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Speed Claimed for m Steamer wlth-PrepeK
ler Scattered "All Over Her.
Richard Painton is the inventor and
'patentee of a steamship which he de
clares will bo able to make thirty-eight
.nautical miles. per hour. A model of the
craft is now .on exhibition at the Mari
time Exchange. New York. Mr. Pain
ton wishes to form a, stock" company
with 13,000,000 paid-up capital." The
model represents a vessel 636 feet long.
capable ot carrying 2,300 passengers,
M00 officers and -sailor's. .".,000 .tons of
coal. 4.000 tons of freight. .400. tons of
food for the passengers and 300 tons of
food for the crew, in speaking of. his
model Mr." Painton said: "I gave tho
model a successful trial before the
board of naval constructors and engi
neers at Philadelphia, and I have the
assurance of Chief Engineer Melville of
the navy that my system of distributing
power and." my .patent propellers . will
revolutionize-the construction of "ocean
going vessels.". The distribution of pow
er is the whole secret. We have a" series
of from fourteen to twenty propellers,
four at the stern, four- at the bow and
rrom four to eight on each side of the
vessel. They arc-all worked by Inde
pendent motors arid a. vessel could' be
propelled by any" one of them. Again,
the distribution of power .permits a ves
sel to turn on it's ownaxis. Thc.cngines
are -worked like ordinary ; stationary
cngines ashore. The shafts that work
the propellers" arc froni twelve to iwen-
ty-five feet in length., and weigh from
tire to" ten-tons each. .At-present the
shafts or an ocean steamship are sixty
five feet long and weigh about sixty
ton.. The four propellers on the. bows
have'a two-fold duty, fn the first place
they help to propel the ship either for- (
ward, backward-or sideways. 'and in
the. second place they keep the bow
steady in rough, weather and save the
strain on the stern propellers..- The
motors are not connected witn eacn
other. They Have a capacity of six and
one-eighth horsepower and can work
the propellers at nn average- speed of
j.ovy rouiiiuuus jcr iuuuiif. umici
tho system, the ship would average
thirty-eight knots an- hour. A vessel '
propelled by sich a system would, save t
fully t;i jier "cent in coal. I estimate J
tne cost - oi . a ptssenger sieaine.r at
about $1,500,000. This would cover the
cost of every medcru convenience. The
setrof of- the" alternating propeller is
this: The blades sire constructed HU'e
a .fish's tail. When the blades strike
water they present a. great surface
of resistance, and while recovering they
present a surface akin to" the edge of a
knife, and by having two propellers the
otiier takes up the" work that the first
ne cannot accomplish. Xo power is
lost and no wash tesultsfrom the whole '
series ofpropellers". The whole sys
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vent them from sleeping, an1 the sen
tern ofpropellers is worked by a switch- try ''' required is very heavy. The
board, which is operated in the chart- ' revolutionists live, on the corn -and 6th
house. Any propeller can be run or cr crops that grow wild In'Cuba. and
stopped at will, and in this way the there are cattle enough in the deeper
captain is independent of his officers or j recesses of the forests to last an army
crew.
York Ailrertiiing lmli-e.
- Itroadway. Xcw York, merchants are
adopting all sorts of devtcesto attract
the attention of the passersby. The
latest fadis the electrical window sign";
-" uptown ueaier nas one wnicn mahet r
"ou ami ntups- siroiicis. who rm
on it tnesc words: "ir vour sum t
on it these words: It you
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w,n- Another electrical eve" .irre r
.nfyxcr fal,s to draw- ,l ' hown U a
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a large circular case containing a mini-
.her of white, flexible. innous. .-rm. ,
moving from a common center. Tl.es- !
are connected' with the keyboard and ,
follow the motion of the kevS on .;
' niano inside. When .i liveH- ti.np is lw- I
' jng played the bewildering g rations of
I the tumbling bars in the case seem "to
have constant fascination for the pas-strsbv-
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The i.inr,- mi. .'
There is an eccentric hen' in ITop-
kins. Kan., which nersists in eoimr tacli
day to the top of a tall cottonwood 'tree.!
in the yard to lay. The Journal says i
the children stand under the tree with
their aprons spread, to "catch the pre
cious missile as it fail?."
A man in Snco. Main", recently had a
terrific fight with a monster mod turtle. '
When it finally succumbed to his urmv- '
ess and to a fence stake, he found that
it weighed thirt.wwo pound. In the t
same remarkable state a fox trap was '
recently lounn, wnicn. tuougti vl sixty
.-.im urimu, u iii .i ou(i siate o,
preservation. Maine is such a dry state.
it had scarcely rutted at all.
. a(tieti f..ur r;-iteration. i
At a recent baptisin at Litchfield,'
Mc.. was one family consisting of Mas- .
tor" Leonard Merrill, with his father
and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hoiilah Mcr- ,
rill: his grandmother and grandfather.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Merrill; and also
his great grandfather and grandmother.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lunt, the former
86 jears old and the latter 79 years old.
This group of seven persons entered '
th- wain- at the sanj- tini-. Thei
rMe """ prpte l S th" cer,,,ouy
IS A SHEEP'S LEG.
Bone la Transplanted froni Sheep to "Boy
In a rhllaUelphU ll'ospltal.' ' j
A few daS ago.in the bperatitog room
of the Hnhncmann hospital-.i.n Phila
dclphia. a big healthy sheep was sac-'
rificed- that yo'iing Boyd Folwcll might 1
have a well leg. The operation hjch
ensued., that of taking "a bone from "a
live animal arid implanting it In a lnr-.
man subject, is so uncommon, as to
make it worthy .of more 'than. passing
notice. Folwcll -is n bright boy of 1
j'ears. who reccived.an injury to .his leg
about four months ago. which resulted
.In necrosis, or "rotting of .the shin bone
of his.right;Ieg. lie war. admitted to
the Hahnemann hospital, but nothing"
could be done "to stay the. progress of
the mortification". - A feVdsfys ago it
was decided that amputation-, of the
limb would become necessary to save
tho boy's life. and. after the parents
had been so notified and were :pre
pared'for the worst? Dr. Carl V.-Visiter,.
one pf the surgeons of -the. hospital.
staff, decided that bonc-graftinj: might
save the limb. Accordingly A big. ftiie
Jooking" sheep was procured at - the
stock .yards and taken to Tr. "Visiter's
1 laboratory".. The animal was shorn and
shaved:- and kept in first-class conrtl-
tion'for-a few days, when it was lakj'nj
to me nospitnl. The boy was placed
under the influence of ether, and the
"part of the bone of the right leg for
seven inches above the "ankle" joint was
"cut away. The-sheen. in the meantime
had been chloroformed, and., the stirs
geons cut away a portion of'-'its fnre
leg to the exact measurement of the'
part the place of which it was to-take.
As soon as'the bone was't.ikcu Tro'p
the. sheep if was fitted in -the gap and
the joints of the boy's bones were- eo" -
ered with periosteum from the sheen s
bone,-in order-fo alTord The proprr
noiirichment. to the bone. Tlir bov i I
said -to-be feeling well, but mime ttir
imist elapse before ft is- .deiinltnl-'
, known whMimr .. . n... ...... r.:....
a, success. Only a few-operations hae I
I been successfully carried out. If the f
operation comes-up to the expectation
01 me surgeons', roiwell will walk and
run as well as he aver did iu his" life.
SHE WAS NERVY.
And Didn't Miuddej- at the Tlnu'-ht i,r
K KeHtlnjj ho lnimrritt -iiluvlor
; She w,is a btisihess-like woman.
i'T'ierc was nothing frivolous: in he-.-.
t-'".Ce. if. I am-any reader of count
1 ..inces. . She looked as jf she could
drive a bargain with the skill of an t-v-.pert.
She boarded a Main street car.
walked calmly to the front corner, sat
""" ,,n" 'esan to read a newspaper.
"cr sovc,'a other persons had got on
ie. conductor came forward to collect
,5P J-rc-s- re woman did not hurt,,
Im fmm hor Pper. The' conductpr
"rang up'a number of farea. and then bc-
fcui io iook puzzicii. Kviuentiy.ius re
ceipts did not correspond with the men
tal note he had made of the number lie
should collect.
"I fid I get your fare." he asked or .i
man sitting on the. opposite side of the
car. The reply w.-ts affirmative.
- "And yours?" turning to his neigh
bor. Still an affirmative reply. The
woman continued absorbed in her pa
t per. The conductor looked hard at li
f .-several times, but evident Iv her si
j sayd.-her from an accusation of tr.wjiir
to beat the company. The conductor i
shook his head sadly, anil returned Io j
the rear platform. Then the woman
Mopped reading, and. with just the i
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I k""i nmiif on hit i;icp, negan
looking out of the window. I have seen
' men work the trick oft.en.-bnt This
the first time I ever saw a woman who
had the nerve to do it, Kx.
Vnr fnntfltinn in CiiIm.
A prominent Cuban who left Ih is
land recently and is visiting Xow Or
leans, says there. Is little-doubt in his
mind of the success of the' revolution.
The Spanish army is compote:! of .ct
young men. who are not nwd to much
j exertion or a tropical climate. They
I are constant!- harassed at night by
1 small parties of insurgents, who pre
two years. . The hospitals in the larger
cities arc full of- sick and wounded
Spanish soldiers. Campos Ls virtually
conductipg a defensive campaign, and
his hold upon some of the important
towns is by no mean3 secure.
Cecil Rhorie White ItlilniM--r.
Premier Cecil Rhodes recently came
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senting it to tne boutn African mtt-
I'senm. It is a very fine specimen of a
' class of beasts now nearly extinct 1:
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-aic-ii ma im xuiu uil;ic.-, ..u
shoulders and ts long imd shorf '
hor"s are o fet eleven ami one-ivtfrj
!m'.heS anrl e.lev;u anJ three-quarter ,
mVncs respectively: Mr. Rhodes hast
"- -,l,e ":' " ' '' y"Ivi :
stuffed at his own expense, and the
j value of the gift is very considerable
' Baron Rothschild recently paid -2 "00
for a white rhinoceros, and th puienjn
i
would have been prepared to offer a.
eini Slot mtra Ti'trl Titf ATt fHiAflAt? ohIa
'"to the rcscue. Mr. "Rhodes riiiiioc'cio's '
, was killed in Mashonaland. I
" Cooil raviont. - . . l
A man with nothing much to do has I
r "figured out this: If two ardent !iers I
i spend four hours daily in each other's '
. company, and indulge during that time '
in 200 kisses (an exceedingly moderate
estimate), and occupy ten seconds ovr
each kiss, they will during a r-year '
t niitfultin hnrft oYf.lin nfml HilTi OOO
v-us ;,i h:l tlir li.,s si,.n.i 'to-
cthcr for-forly-to dajs, six hours. J
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Wheel in Their IIi-iIk.
Stranger" in the plate ito native1
What fine, large building tb that -yon-
der? A summer retreat? " j
Native Oh, yes: there are more u
than two hundred men .and. women
stopping there now with their wheels.
Stranger Indeed! A special "resort
for bicyclists, eh?
Native No, a lunatic asylum!
Hrniik nainace-
Albert Hurley, it is alleged, got drunk ,.
in a saloon at Waterloo,. Iowa. Then he ,
tried to walk on the railing of a bridge.!
fell and was fatally" injured.. His widow j
Is uow suiuK the proprietui-s-'of tho a-1
loon for $12,000.
THXOI
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PapIitemtoiTlrDcitda.
Laics UaisnEnl Estate
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