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HOPE FOR THE DISAPPOINTED, j
["ogether on the shore we stand
And connt the sails that fringo the sea,
And wonder if there yet shall be,
Imong the ships that touch the land,
Some heavy-freighted argosy
With treasures just for him and me
To use and give with lavish hand.
Sis arm about my neck is flung,
His brave voice utters words of cheer;
But I remember how eaoh year
Defeat has kept forever young,
While hope grew old, infirm and seer,
And now is ready for the bier;
Dear Hope, to thee so long we clung!)
IVe watch the sails far out at sea
Upon the blue horizon's rim;
We strain our eyes till sight grows dim;
Jut nowhere rideth proud and free
Our ship "Good Luck!"' but specters grim
Across the waves before us skim,?
taught else will come to him or met
But no! we yet shall see our ship, 0 friend,
Come sailing into port with treasure
freighted,
Although its coming may be long belated
ft.nd failure weary us till earth-day's end.
Into the fairest port of that fair world
Where none shall know dark nights of loss
and wrong,
And Hope, reborn, shall sing eternal song,
Ind victory's banner ever be unfurled,?
rhe proudest ship of all that sail the sea
Will come, her bosom holding wealth untold,
And on her prow in characters of gold
Her name engraved?"Good Luck" for you
and me!
What matters?now or then, or here or there?
Eternity is long and triumph sure;
Our failures for a moment may endure,
But all at last a victor's crown shall wear.
?George R. Lewis, in the Current.
CANYON JOE, I
My recollections of Canyon Joe rccall
i unique character, whose brief career !
ind violent end are not recorded in the
innals of the great and growing West. !
He was an exotic?a child of the East? :
5ut he grew to manhood among the '
rough frontiersmen, and the howl of the
soyote, the shriek of the destructive bliz- j
tard, were as music to his ear. His ua- !
tare was gradually transformed to a
toughness that matched well the hardy
eactus and the stunted chaparral. Il?,
was called Canyon Joe because he was
found in a canyon by some trappers and I
adopted by me. He had strayed from a
wagon train on its way to Utah and got
lost. At this time he was fouiteen years |
old, and possessed of an amount of nerve |
which, bv assiduous cultivation, devel- i
oped his capacity to cut a wide and crim-'
ion swath in any community that gave
him the slightest provocation. When I
met him it was several years after the
war. I was with a miuing party prospecting
in Arizona. We were in that
bleak but picturesque mountainous region
where old (I'cronitno so long defied the
United States army. There were fifteen !
?? ?i,? :
ui us> in LUC j/aiij, a
half - bred scout and several old
miners, who knew the country pretty I
well. One evening we had struck
our camp on the mountain side, near a
small stream, and put out the usual
pickets for Indians, when we heard a ;
commotion and very soon the scout came ;
walking in, leading a horse that had a j
rider. The horseman was Canyon Joe, !
*nd he seemed to be very happy to find
white men with plenty to eat and drink, j
He had two Indian scalps, freshly taken,
aangnng at tne pommel 01 nis saucuc,
and be explained that he killed the redskins
in an open, square fight. The
miuers present did not credit this and
rather suspected that he slipped upon
- them unawares. Ilis face looked as if it
had been tanned for ages by a hot sun
and scoured by dirt scooped from an
alkali plain. Although only medium
sized he seemed to possess a wiry frame
and great physical strength ar.d endurance.
His eyes were small and piercing
black, set very close together, and separated
by the bridge of a very thin aquiline
nose. He asked permission to camp
with us that night, and agreed to act as
guide for the party during the rest of the
trip. It was considered better to utilize
him than to have him at large?so we
gave him a cordial reception. After
supper we sat before a small fire in front
of the tent. Cauyon Joo drank freely
and began toreiatc some of his exploits.
mi V If l 1 a. 4.11
ine nan-ureeu auuui, u mil, nunuiu;
man, sat. or rather reclined, on the
ground by the tire, opposite Joe. He
kept his eves fastened on the latter and
listened attentively, but never ventured
a remark.
Canyon Joe related the following adventure
: "It w;is along in the sixties
that I agreed to act as st out for a .party
of nine men who wanted to explore the
country now known as the Black Hills.
These men were a tough lot, some
gamblers, some miners, and all good on
the shoot. I was barely twenty years
old, and looked younger, so when I
offered myself as a scout they laughed at
me and called me a k:d. But when they
made inquiries, and learned that I had
been nearly every where in the West,, and
killprl ns many Indians as the next one.
they accepted my services. If they had
Qot, I intended to ask one or two out to
settle f??r calling tne a kid. These men
lomehow knew that plenty of gold was
in the Black Hills, and had a map that
some miner gave them on his deathbed.
We started up the Little Big Missouri
River in a large yawl-boat, with plenty
of provisions nnd firearms. It was slow
work pulling up the river, but in ten
days we had gone quite a distance. We
hadn't been bothered by Indians, and I
thought it mighty queer. It was iu the
fall of the year and the weather was fine.
At night we tied our boat to the hank
and camped on shore. "VVe always
took precautious, though, against
the Indians, for fear of a
surprise. Just about sunset one
day I got ashore as usual and walked up
the bank to select a place to camp while
the party rowed along in' the boat. I
had not gone far when I heard a volley
of firearms. I rushed to tlie river and
saw the boat a few hundred yards above,
but no one was nulling at the oars.
Every man in it was dead or dying. A
crowd of Indians on both sides of the
river were firing into the boat, and some !
were swimming out to bring it to shore. !
The attack was a complete surprise, and
I have no doubt the first volley killed
them a'l. I wanted revenge, but singlehanded
I could not attack them. Luckily
I had my riile and ammunition with
me or I would have starved to death. I
knew that I was rar from any settlement,
and that if I escaped the Indians I might
meet death in some other form. I crept
swiftly from the river, aided by the ap
* ' 1 J
proac&ing nignr, anu iiau guuu uuuui
naif a mile when a big Indian stood
right up in front of me. I was a surprise
to him, and I know he was to me, but I
drove my hunting knife into his breast
so quick that he tumbled back without a
groan. He was astray Indian belonging
to the band who did the murderous work
at the river. For three days I kept up a
brisk p.ice, and managed to kill some
game, which I fitj raw. Then fatigue
bepn to tell upou me.
"On the fourth day I trudged along
weary and dispirited. I knew the Indians
were not giving chase, but I didn't
kuow how soon I might meet another :
- - i 1
band. I came to a shallow stream aua j
waded across. As I stalled to climb the
bank I was struck by the appearance of
the soil. I scratched about a little and
found that gold was plentiful. For a
while I forgot my fatigue and drove two
sticks down to indicate my claim. I
slept near by that night, a when I
awoke the sun was up, and two roughlooking
white men, armed with rifles,
were standing near me. I tried to get
up but I fell back exhausted. The men
came forward and asked me hrw I came
threre, and what my business was. I
explained my escape from the Indians,
and then they treated me better. They
picked me up and carried me to a smail
house some little distance away. When
they entered the house an Indian woman,
who proved to be the wife of one of the
men, assisted them to put me on a few i
skins spread upon the floor. A half breed !
girl, tall and handsome, about seventeen
or eighteen years old, the daughter, was
in the house, aud paid scarcely any attention
to my entrance. I was feverish
from hunger and wanted to gorge at
once, but they gave me food in small
quantities. For two days I did not stir
from the house. In my delirium I must
have talked about the claims I had
staked, for as soon as I became lucid I
noticed that a change hud taken place in
the people. I resolved to play delirious
j in order to discover their plans. I raved
! and talked incoherently, and finally cried
I out: 'I'll come back and work my
I claim.'
"The two men were present. They
looked at each other and one said:
'That settles it; if he doesn't die of fever
he must never leave here alive. He'll
nil * C a lliuu^uuu. itviis m v?i<*u
a mouth.'
"The other responded coolly: 'Yes;
we'll do him up if he happens to get
well. I am sorry wcdidn't leave him to
die the morning we found him.'
"Well, that talk settled me. I resolved
to escape that night. I could not, because
1 found I was a prisoner. The Indian
woman remained awake all night
at the door. In the daytime they frequently
left me alone, and then I managed
to get at the food and eat enough to
strengthen me. The second night the
husband of the Indian woman kept
watch. The next day I was naturally
sleepy and slept soundly until noon. Then
I awoke and raved in a weaker tone of
voice, as if I were gradually sinking.
The half-breed girl, I noticed, was sleeping
all the afternoon. Before sunset she
awoke, and her mother said to her in
the Sioux language, which I understood:
'Tacoma, the stranger may die to-morrow.
To-night you will have to watch
him.'
"Tacoma replied: 'Oh, why not cet
rid of him to-night? We do not wish to
be bothered with him further.'
"They then discussed in detail my
cliauces of getting well. The girl picked
up a large hunting knife and looked at
me. Her mother motioned her to
pit the knife down. I believe
1 would have been settled then and
there but for that girl's mother. I
made up my mind to escape that night,
no matter if I had to fight my way out.
It was a bright moonlight night, and I
felt that I stood a good chance to have a
rifle bullet put in me at long range in
making a dash for liberty and life. The
girl took a seat near the door and the
others soon fell asleep. My rifle was
standing in the corner and my largo
hunting knife was on the pallet. Why i '
they left the knife so near me is a mystery,
unless they expected me to use it j
when eating jerked beef. Tacoma's
death watch on me began at nine o'clock. '
For two hours she scarcely moved in her
chair and appeared deeply engrossed in
thought. I remained perfectly quiet and !
at long intervals groaned feebly, as if my
end was near. Between eleven and 1
twelve o'clock she rose and looked at '
me. I dared not open my eyes. Then .
she turned and walked stealthily to the
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went out. In a second I was on my feet,
secured my rifle and had my knife ready '(
for action. With cat-like tread I reached .
the door and stepped out into the broad 1
glare of the moonlight. The girl was
nowhere to be seen. I had resolved to
level my rifle and threaten to shoot her
if she made an outcry or tried to prevent
my esc.ipe. I turned to the right
of the house and reached the corner, *
intending to run down to the crcek.
Tacoma reached the corner from the !
other direction just as I did, and we
collided. She seized me and gave a 1
lr.n.l vnll Tf- wnc fill fnn Qiirlr?r?n fnr mo
to reflect, I forgot she was a woman
ami plunged by knife to the hilt in her
bosom. As she fell I sprang over her ,
body and made for the creek. I heard ]
the two m n coming and knew that I j
could not escape them by flight. I got (
behind the banks of the creek and shot ,
them both down before they came with- ]
in fifty yards of me. I do not know to .
this day whether they are dead.
' During the night I tied to the south .
and when daylight came I was many \
miles away. If that girl Tacoma had :
not "
Canyon Joe's sentence was never .
finished. The half-breed scout who had {
listened intently, without moving a
muscle, to the cold-blooded recital j
sprang over the fire tint separated him
from Joe and buried his large hunting
knife to the hilt in the heart of the man |
who killed the beautiful Tncoma. Joo
expired without a groan and before any ,
of Ui could interpose the s -out had cut
IT- 1 I
llid MUi|M IU4U ill'UI UM IlVitM,
Tatoma was the assassin's sister, and ]
lie explained that Joe murdered her in (
cold blood in the day time in order to
make away with the gold dust in the
house. The grief-stricken father pursued j
and was shot, but not killed. His ,
brother, who was with him, was killed, j
The half-breed scout was absent when
the murder occurred. lie vowed
vengeance against the man who murdered
his sister, but had no clue by which to
discover the name or identity of the <
assassin. Canyon Joe had drank too i
much and lost his discretion, or else he i
would never have related the story. His i
body was left on the mountain to the ]
vultures.?New York Mail and Express. j
A Transformation Scene. j
They are very business-like in Europe
ana very exact in their methods. My \
friend was in Vienna, lie had taken i
from here a letter of credit on one of the
best known banks, and he wanted to :
draw on it. So he sought the agency of .
the bank in Vienna, lie wanted into an
ollice which had a big barricade in front ,
of a long desk and two small holes cut .
for the convenience of customers. He
walked up to the first of them. A man
came up. lie handed the letter ol
credit to him. The man looked at it,
and said very grufHy: "Next window."
My friend weut to the next window, a
m..r> noma nn rx-.L- Vii'a Wtnr of rredit.
looked at it, smiled pleasantly, and said:
''That's all right. How much do you
wish to draw, sir?" It was the same
man.?San Francisco Chronicle.
Po'itcncss isthe distinctive attribute j
of the gentleman; rudcucis of the boor.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
Long Island is in the shape of a fish.
It is 115 miles long and twelve miles ^
wide.
Air balloons were invented by Gusmac, I
a Jesuit, in 1729, and revived by Mont- '
ijolfier, in France, in 1783.
Fifty railroad ties, each eight feet in
length and 16x10 inches thick, were cut
from one pine tree of Dooly county,
(Joorgia.
Pine City, "Washington Territory,
claims to have the smallest living woman. {
She is twenty-seven years old, twenty- ~
nine inches tall and weighs thirty-three 'a
pounds. -c
Mrs. Iva Richmond, of Golden, Mich.,
was thrown into the machinery of a
reaper that she was driving, but her life
was sfivnfl hv her faithful doer, who
rushed forward and stopped the team. ^
A North Branch, Mich., hotel dog
takes a bell in his mouth each morning ra
and rings at every door along the hall, ?
and, failing to get a response, bangs the jj,
bell against the door until he does get it. jj.
There is a watch In a Swiss museum ol
only three-sixteenths of an inch in diam- fe
eter, inserted in the top of a pencil case.
Its little dial indicates not-only hours, M
minutes and seconds, but also days of U)
the month. sc
An apple tree on the premises of
Joseph F. Plummer, in Upper Swamp
scott, Mass., has a rose engrattea on it ~
that blossomed beautifully this season. |
It was pure white, and has the fragrance .
of the apple.
The corner stone of the old Capitol tj.
was laid by General Washington, on the ^
18th day of December, 17!)8. This build- ^
ing was set on lire by the British in the j,
war of 1814, at the conclusion of which ^
it was rebuilt. The wings were added in ?
1851, on July 4, the anniversary of tlio _(
Declaration of Independence.
At Russel, in the year 1549, cats hi
formed p irt of an orchestra which per- ar
formed before Philip II. of Spain, fc
A bear was seated on a great car al
at the figure of an organ, which, instead hi
of pipes, had twenty cats of different T
notes and sizes shut up in small cages w
with their tails out, and attached to the p]
register of the orgau in such a manner gj
fhjit. tvhpn thfi bear nressed the kevs the <ri
tails of the unlucky cats were pulled, b<
aud the cats began to squeal. sii
? cr
Picturesque Japanese Customs. ki
The sword is held in special veneration ^
by the Japanese of all classes. It sym- *a
bolizes the divine authority of the fr
Mikado, the loyalty and martial pride of
the warrior; and Japanese writers speak
of it in glowing terms as the "previous ?c
possession of lord and vassal from times ln
older than the divine period," or as "the
living soul of the samurai." Many
treatises have been written on this theme, 8"
the art of determining the maker and u'
date of a sword-blade being one of great
research and labor. Those made before or
1G03, A. IX, are called old swords; those ?n
made since, new swords; and the former fe
was a long, straight, double-edged weapon
called the ken, the latter a katana.
single-edged and slightly curved toward |?
the point. A short sword or dirk, called *?
the wakizashi, was worn with the katana ??
as a sign of gentle birth or military inheritance.
Members of the fourth or co
lifth rank in the Empire wore a short "
dirk without a guard, which doctors and ^r
urtists were also required to carry, and 0
stilettos a foot loug were a part of an J11
officer's and nobleman's dress. Others "c
could be mentionod, but these will suffice 8C
to show their important c haracter among
:i people who inscribe such sentiments as J
the following upon their blades: "In ru.
one's last days, one's sword becomes the ^
wealth of one's posterityand, "One's
fate is in the hands ot Heaven, but a *
skillful fighter does not meet with death."
Tea-drinking and dancing are inti- 251
mately associated in Japan, and both are
carried to a high degree of artistic perfcction.
Tlie tea-houses are to Yoko- Jr?
Iiatna what the Boulevard cafes are to :
Paris. The waitresses arc graceful girls,
who move about with noiseless tread, 80
serving fragrant tea in dainty cups, with w<
slices of sweet cake; and entertainment **
is furnished by fair dancers in silken
robes, who move sinuously to the bizarre
strains of the koto, the kogu, and the ?
samisen. These native dances are a .
species of acted charades, each having a ^
^r*ntr?i1 mntivn nr tn. rlliiQlTAfrp T^hiq
jives rise to an infinite variety of pleasing *ai
notions and tableaux. There are parasol- m(
lances, fun-danccs, flower-charades, il- Sr
lustrations of the seasons, and many *r<
nore.?Frank Leslie a.
St.'
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Si?ns of Wind. \V
Father Dominick Navarette in the on
ieventeenth century discovered certain *h
ufallible signs of wind. One never- ov
"ailing token "was the running and llut- re!
tering about of little insects aboard the co
ship, and the more restless they are the t'1
tiigher the wind, and by observing what
place they came irora manners snail
know if it will be fair.'' Another sign, du
iccording to his reverence, is when pigs ??
Ltegin to run and tumble about a ship ' iQi
in a calm. Baumgarten, in his "Trav- ^e
;ls," says he was with a pilot who, by 01
putting his finger in his mouth and
then holding it up, "prognosticated to ?n
js that we should havo wind very speedily,
which, indeed proved accordingly." ba
All that the modern sailor can do by S?
wetting his finger and lifting it is to
feel if there be any movement in the *n1
lir. The digit has long ceased to be a fig
jybil. Formerly the Brittany fishermen ou
raised the wind at will by procuring the on
lust swept out of a certain church and do
Wowing it in the direction irom which ?y
they desired the breeze to come. Sariinian
sailors also possessed the same
useful art. To procure a fair wind they
:iad nothing to do but to sweet a chapel ^a
ifter mass and blow the dust of it after sc<
ieparting ship.?.?London Telegraph.
nt
Bald-Headedness. Jpj
There is much wearisome and needless tii
liscussion about bald headed American in
ren. Wash your head thoroughly once in
i week with a lather of soap and water, cli
rinse all the soap out, and rub the scalp mi
lively till it is entirely dry. Never wear ns
xn unventilated hat, or any hat at all 11
when you can avoid it. Wear a straw hat, loi
instead of felt, whenever possible. Give mi
your .scalp plenty of sunlight, also plenty lit
of air. Don't smoke too much. JPollow T1
these directions, ami you never will be sei
bald-headed. Even if your hair has be- I<
ljuii to get thin, it will revive. Canadians T1
lire bald bemuse they we:ir fur caps. It bv
is the wearing of hot and unnatural head- as
coverings that makes the hair Vail out. it wi
[i quite bald man should ?o bareheaded ki
in the sun and air a year, it is likely that
liis hair would conic in again, and he
would never take cold. Remember this :
Nature meant your hair to keep your head Qf
warm, not for caps or felt hats. Felt bj
hats and silk hats are an abomination. a]
These are the wretches that make Ameri- ci.
can men bald-headed. It is not. their nc
mighty intellects or thoir excessively fine or
nervons systems. If you render the lmir
superfluous by making huts do its dutv for 8e
it. nature tftkf a it away ; she will not tol- q,
erate sens Jess thiaga,?Cultivator $
THE GIANT ELK.
FAST DISAPPEARING ANIMAL
OP THE NORTHWEST.
[abits of this Great Game?Their
Immense Antlers?The Belligerent
Male Elks in
Deadly Combat.
A Fort Kcogh (Montana') letter to
le New York Time a says^Tlie destrucon
of large game in the Northwest of
,te years has been something appalling
? contemplate. How many giant elks
ivc fallen beneath the deadly rifles of
le pot hunters within the past decade
ill, of course, never be known, but
iontana has furnished her quota, and
le number cannot be far from the tens
f thousands.
T? 1 J _ _11_ J. -
AU 1,1113 lUUlUUe Llh. JJI'UW lO UI1 CUUr*
ous size. "We have principally two
iccics, the ordinary brown elk, who inibits
the lowlands and the foot hills of
le mountains, and the monster blue elk
: the Rockies, who ranges high, usually
icding on the shrubs and berries that
row near the borders of the timber line,
id seldom descending from the perpetil
snow district unless forced by the
:ant vegetation to seek sustenance be>w.
The Yellowstone National Park is
jout the only haven of safety left for
lese noble game animals to seek, and
ley seem to understand it, too, for,
thcr by instinct or reason, they have
sen drifting over into the park during
ic last two or three years, until now all
le large bands in the Northwest, with
ie exception of those in the Big Horn
ange, are safely sheltered within our
reat National reservation.
Mountain elk when full grown are
jnerally monstrous in size, averaging
I the way from eight hundred to fifteen
iiudred pounds. The headgear of these
limals is enormous, some of them weighirty,
fifty and even sixty pounds', and
1 handsomely mounted on a graceful
sad about the size of that of a horse,
he legs are long and neck short, for
hich reason, as a rule, it browses on
ants, tree leaves, berries and shrubs
owing high, and when shrubs or close-owing
grasses are to be reached the
5ast either grarcs along the steep hilldes
or else drojw on his fore knees to
op the succulent grasses. One elk
lied by the writer some time since
easured twenty-six inches length of
ce; spread of horns, forty-five inches;
om brow to top of antlers, fifty-four
ches; had twelve tines, or branches,
ie latter being handsomely and most
tautifully incased in a soft velvety cover
?? ?\.l J IIIU^U 1IIVU tiiuos.
When traversing a forest the big bulls
rry iheir antlers almost flat back on the
loulders, and can penetrate with the
most ease and facility the densest
.ickets or masses of brush where man
any other animal would get hopelessly
itangled. They possess the art to perction
of proceeding through the woods
ith the utmost stcalthiness, stepping
:re and there without as much as even
uching a twig, and evading or softly
uching the leaves like the rustling of a
:ntle breeze.
In the summer and fall these animals
ngregate in herds, but as the winter
eens on, unless in a narrow and coniea
district, each family branches out j
r himself, and wanders where it will j
itil April or May, when the young are !
irn, at which time the mother takes it- J
If off with licr fawns, and will have j
>thing to do with the father of her famr
until Octobcr or November, when the
ttiug season again begins. One reason
by we have so few elk in comparison
other large game animals is that the
male, in the course of her life, seldom
ars more than two fawns, and this
tly once in about every three years,
uring the rutting season the males beme
perfectly frantic, and are nearly as
mgcrous to approach as grizzlies,
leir antlers and hoofs are their weaipons
offense and defense. With the latter
me of them have kept a whole pack of
>lves at bay, trampling the life out of
ares of the big gray timber customers
t?o haibitually bang around the elk
rds like so many skirmishers seeking
devour the new-born young.
An elk yard is a clearing in the timber
litrcin the snow has been trampled
wn, and contains sometimes oue
mily, and again as many as fifty or
jre. These yards are selected with a
eat deal of sagacity, so as to be free
>m winds and storms, well sheltered
)m the weather, and also arranged to
md off the attacks of grizzly and
ver-tip bears and mountain lions,
ith their tremendous horns they carry
. most of their offensive warfare, but
ese are used principally against their
irn kind or against animals of a corsponding
size. AVhen two bull elks j
me together like a pair of billy goats I
e concussion of the blow can be heard I
nost a mile.
This belligerent suirit nossesscs them !
iringthe rutting season, at which time :
> bull elk can see another without com- i
5 to blows. They first set up a terrible j
Ilowing, then lower their heads and !
sh at each other on the same track. |
ack! Something is broken or smashed,
d there they stand pushing and pusher
and pushing, uutil one or the other
cks down, when his opponent either
res or tramples him to death. Not
[frequently their huge antlers become
terminably locked. Then, when the
;ht wanes, or one or the other is worn
t, one or both drop to the ground,, or
e drags the other down, and both lie
iwn to die of starvation or be devoured
' wolves.
A Mexican Sweat Hath.
" The first time I tried a Mexican sweat .
th," said Col. Joe Shelly, the famous j
out, " I thought I would die, but I shut j
y teeth together and said : 11 can stand j
as long as you can, old fellows.* It was i
the close of a long march on a hot day. :
le Indians fixed a tepee until it was air J
(lit, heated a rock, and then rolled it
to the tepee. One by one we crawled
to it, after having stripped off our
jthing. Some of the Indians didn't have
nch 011, and then we packed together
close as sardines in a box. I thought
vould melt. Every few minutes the
rd high executioner, or master of cereanies,
would talk Indian and tlurow a
tie water out of a can on the rock,
lis would till the room with steam. It !
[ liicd an age before they let me go, but i
*i:ess it wasn't more than half an hour, j
leu we all made a rush to the river near
', and a'dash of a few minutes made us
fresh as a daisy. No matter how tired
3 were, the sweat bath made us feel like i
ngs."? Toledo Bitule.
Lives Lost by Tornailoes.
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A recent estimate ptaccs mt nuinu-r
human lives lost in the L'nited States j
r tornadoes duriug the last ten years at '
little less than 2,000. It is also do I
ared that nearly all of these lives \vt>re
icdlesgly saerilieed through ignorance
fool-hardint^s. Those who will heed
ie warning in the sky can put thoinlves
in a pTnce of safety long before the
jstroyer Wsts upon thoaChicago
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Kindling Wood For City Stores.
At the corncr of Eighteenth street and
Avenue B is located one of the largest
kindling wood factories in the world. 1
The factory can turu out seventy cords of
wood per day, sawed, split, and ready
for the burning. Oak, pine and hemlock
are fed to singing buzz-saws and
insatiable chopping knives. The hickory
is brought from the northern part of
this State, and from Connecticut and
Pennsylvania. It is mostly burned in
open fires, and is cut in pieces from eight
to forty-eight inches in length. Hickory
is worth $18 per cord piled in the cellar.
Five vessels, with a combined capacity
of 1,275 tons, arc constantly employed
bringing pine from Virginia to the factory.
These vessels m;ike twenty trips
each during the year.
The oak is grown in this State and C'onncctii
ut, and the hemlock comes from
the lumber districts of New York State.
Hemlock is brought to this city in strips
about four feet long and one and onehalf
inches square. These strips are put
into a machine run by steam, which, at
one revolution of sixteen saws, cuts them
into picccs three inches in length. These
Eieces are then dumped into a big wooden
opper around the edges of which are
ranged benches. Into these benches are
set oval iron machines operated by steam
by means of a treadle.
Men are paid at the rate of 2"> cents a
hundred bundles for forming ths wood
into bundles and tying it with tarred
rope. The machine presses the pieces of
wood so closely together that the rope
j often cuts into the wood. Six hundred
I bundles a day i3 considered a fair day's
I work for a man, although an exceptionally
quick workman has been known to
put 800 bundles together.
The wood in the bundles sold in the
grocery stores conta:ning pieces nine
inches in length is cut with a buzz saw
| and fed into a machine which carries the
sawed pieces under a knife like the letter
X. This knife cuts as much wood in
fifteen minutes as a darkey could chop in
a day.
From May till October very little business
is done at the factory. The sale of
oak wood has fallen off greatly during
| the past few years. Cut oak wood is
j worth $14.50 a cord. Pine brings the
same price. There arc about 128 cubic
I feet of wood in an ordinary stick of pine
timber.?New York Sun.
Hour-Glnsses.
Long before hour-glasses, or sandglasses,
ivere used in churches to indicate
the time occupied in the delivery of
sermons, they were used in tournaments
to limit the duration of combats and prevent
them from being really sanguinary
encounters. Of two adversaries engaged
in "a gentle passage of arms," he was |
accounted victor who obtained the j
i greater number of advantages before the '
j sand had run out from the glass turned
I at the commencement of the combat.
Sand-glasses were employed, also, in
scholastic discussions. Pascal, for in*
stance, in one of his letters, mentions a
discussion in which he took part in the
I Sorbonne, when he spoke for half an
! hour by the sand-glass or sable.
And there were, eventually, so identified
with scholarship, as well as preach- 1
ing, that artists frequently placcd an |'
hour-glas3 as well as a book in the back- j j
1 ground of their portraits of eminent I.
scholars. They were also made use of at
sales. But though thus used in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries, it was in the !
pulpit in the seventeenth century that j
they obtained their wider popularityrand
on tombstones of the same period that !
they were most frequently delineated. .
The high pew, or "pue," as it used to be
written, the long sermon and the hour- (
glass of the pulpit, are as vivid a presentment
of Queen Anne's time, too, as *
would be the snuff-box, th? clouded , 1
cane, or the fans and brocades of the !
fashionable folks who took the air in the '
Mall.?Quicer.
Cause of Dirty Finger Nails.
People who are nice to a scriptural ! i
point about the care of their bodies, 11
wonder sometimes despairingly how it is j *
that their finger nails get so dirty. They 1
may not have been out of dooia or engaged
in any manual occupation, and , <
yet a few hours after a thorough cleans- 1
rng of their nails they may have a black 1
streak under the points and the hand. <
brush must be used again. They will be i
surprised to learn that their hair is the 1
cause of this offensive collection of dirt. '
There are a few persons who do not often !
put their lingers to their hair to replace a <
stray lock, if a woman, cr if a man to ; 1
throw it back from his forehead or run j
b s fingers through it. Each time that :
the hand touches the hair some of the oil j
adheres to the fingers and the nails, and
this attracts and holds the dirt and dust
whose particles lloat in the purest atmosphere.
Anyboly can prove this statement
by watching the linger nails for a
day after the hair has been shampooed
and noting how much longer they remain
clean than they will two days after
the barber has nibbed all of the oil out
of the scalp.?Glebe-Democrat.
Origin* of th& East India Company. s
The East India Company, accordiug to. s
a document just published, was origi- 1
nated by u Dutch 'comer'' in pepper, j
Certain private merchants in Amsterdam, c
who had begun to trade in the Eastern ^
seas in 1595, had bv 1599 fairly estab- <s
lished themselves, and in that year raised I
the price of pepper against us from three r
shillings per pound to six shillings and I
eight shillings. The London merchants v
woujd not stand this, and at a meeting s
oa September 22 at Founders' Hall, un- z
i -lv r %* *1. t-n
uer me l-.OI"U lUilvui, iuuji iiyiuuu m lunu a
an: association for the purpose of trading t
direct with India. Queen Klizabt'tLalso L
sent Sir John Mildenliall, by Constants r
nople. to the Great Mogul, to apply for 1
pririleges for the English company, for t
which sue was t non preparing acnarier; u
and on Dccemlier 31, 10U0, the first Eng- c
glish East India Company wa< incorpo~ ?
rated by royal charter under the title of -v
"The Governor and Company of Mer- ^
chants of Loudon Trading to the East s
Indies.?Liverpool Courier. s
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Water Wheels. E
"The day of the water wheel is over;'* t
said a large manufacturer. "I don't I
know of any bu>inc*s that has sullered t
so much as ours from now inventions. | |
The many excellent portable and gas. t
engines that have bee*i put on the i
market within the last few years have i
almost entirely superseded the cumbersome
water wheel. There will undoubtedly
always b* a certai* demand
for wheels where thi-j have bfen already
in operation and wbcrc the water supply
is krooil. but new factories liml it cheaper
to run by steam than to bujld mill dams.
The new order of things no longer leaves
' the manufacturer at tliv mercy of the
I elements. Fortunes have been lost on
forfeited contracts by mills having to
close down in the busy season on account
of long-oontinued drought. The water
wheel trade is now largely confined to
foreign markets and new countries.
They disappear as population increases
andeas is introduced.ifaw Tori Sun,
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LYNCHING DAYS."
THE VIGILANTES OP SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA.
How Mexican Injustice Drove Americans
to Take Law and Rope
Into Their Own Hands
?A Record of Blood.
A letter from Paso Robles, Cal., to the
New York Commercial Advertiser says:
This part of the State, being off the main
lines of travel, has always been kept in
the background, and until a very recent
period the administration of justice was
very lax. Indeed, it is but a short time
a uiiMi ?yao oavii IU m w?v*
blood, in a village not far from this place,
and the murderer was never even put under
arrest for his crime. The rifle and
the revolver have furnished the only law
known here, and talcs of bloodshed and
crime can be unearthed which make one
wonder if it can be possible that this is
indeed the nineteenth century, and that
we are living under a Government supposed
to be as near perfection as possible.
The history of what is now known as
San Luis Obispo County has been a bloodstained
record. A single incident which
occurred in the early days of its settlement
by the whites will serve as an illustration.
About eight miles north of this
place is the old mission of San Miguel,
founded on the bank of the Salinas
River, ninety years ago, by the coadjutors
of Fra Junipero Serra, This establishment
was the second in size of its
kind in Alta California. After the segre?
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yullULl 111 lliu uiissiuxi [nujn i fcjr uy mv;
Mexican government this was finally
abandoned, and it was supposed to be
open to occupancy by any one who felt
so disposed. Hither carao, in 1847, an
Englishman named Read, with his wife
and family, consisting of three children
and a negro servant. They repaired a
portion of the mission building and took
up their residence there. As this was
the only traveled road from the northern
to the southern part of the State, and
settlements were at widely separated
points, the Reads were often called upon
to entertain travelers over night. Read
had made money before he came here,
and was accustomed to boast of his success?a
custom which cost him his life.
One night there arrived at the mission a
party of sailors who had deseited from
a vessel lying in Monterey harbor,
and who were on their way south toward
the mines, which had been discovered
there long before Marshal made his great
find at the Coloma saw mill. As was his
custom Read entertained these sailors in
hospitable fashion, and in the course of
the evening was led to talk of the wealth
he had accumulated since leaving his
home in England. The cupidity of the
sailors was excited, and after all had retired
for the night they invaded the
apartments occupicd by the Read family
and murdered every soul, even taking an
infant by the heels and dashing out its
brains against one of the pillars of the
corridor. Then they loaded themselves
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witn piunaer ana pursueu cxiuir juurue^
southward. A day or two later the
crime was discovered, and a party was at
Dace organized and started in pursuit.
They tracked the murderers through San
Luis Obispo and^anta Barbara, and
finally overtook them on the seashore,
some eight or ten miles beyond the latter
place. Here a short but determined battle
occurred, at the end of which every
one of the murderous crew lay dead on
the sands, while their bones were left to
aecome a prey to the buzzards and coyotes.
From the very earliest settlement this
action has been "a dark and bloody
ground." It was infested by marauders
)f all nationalities, but especially by
Mexicans, or "greasers," and to this day
;here are less localities where a white
? 1 11 1
nan is doc saie unless wen anncu auu
jonstantly on his guard. The first hanging
of criminals outside the law occurred
is fur back as 183:3. A party of ten men
nurdered a pcdlcmot far from this- place
md then started for Los Angelesy going
iy way of the town of San Luis Obispo,
rhere they were so foolish as to boast of
ieir crime, and for a time were not molested.
After their departure, however,
;hcy were pursued by a committee of
jitizena aud overtaken. One of the
nurderers was killed ou the spot. Three
vere captured, but the others escaped.
Fhe tluee prisoners were brought buck to
?an Luis 04>is]M>T and hanged in public
m their arrival, without benefit of the
uw's delay. Another was subsequently
japtured, and he, too, was summarily
luspended at the end of a rope. But this
lid not put a stop to crime. Ilacdly a
nonth passed but travelers 011 lonely
roads were waylaid and murdered, and
is many as four bodies have been found
it a single time along the highway Leadng
from north to south. Invariably thenurderers
were Mexicans. Althoughniany
vere arrested for the crimes, they
nanaged to qet free again. The Anieri
;uih were very lew, ana it was lmposst)lc
to get a ' greaser' jury to coavict a
eHow-countryman, no matter Low
itrong tlie proof of his guilt.
Ia 1858, however, the Americans wereufticicntLv
strong in numbers to take-tho
aw into their o-wu hands, and now befan
the- efficient work of the vig.ilanco.ommittee.
A party of eight Mexicansvent
to a ranch a short distance south:aat
of this, point, which had. recently
>een purchased by two Frflntluiujii,.
lamed Baratie and Borel. These- the
Ilexicans- ddiberatalv murdered. Thewife
of the-former they turued loose, a<nd
he finaJly found her way back to clviliatioui.
The-news of the murder quickly
preod,. .ind a ''greaser" was soon cau<*lnt
vho hail articles iu liis possession, which
tad been stolen from the murdered main's
anch. lie was put in jail, but the
Lniericans- bail had enough ot the-manicr
in.- which justicc was administered by
lie Mexicans. So a party was quickly
irganized, the jail broken op;?n>, and
Kitli the akl of a riataai ''good grouser"
tas quickly made out of tho' fellow.
1'h.e rest of the gang were closely puruetl
by the vigi'antesy and another was
oori; captured. He was brought l>ack to
>an J.uis Obispo. Tlx Americans made
to secret of their determination to exe
:uce ju<i ice. 1 ncre- uciijjjj uu,n?oii?u i?
? the prisoner's g^ilt, he was at once
tanged in the miiddlc of ftho town iu
>road daylight n?*3 in the presence of a
urge crowd, maajr of wlicui were sytnyathizers
with and friends of the crimu:d.
Not one dared lift his hand ia his
lefense.
Papa's Tc^th.
Pat away the beefsteak. MoIIie;
Chop the cutlet into hash;
Turn the ?olids into sulads;
Crush potatoes into mash.
Bake the rice in little p.itties,
Have the mush with dressing mixed.
For the hour is fraught with dangerPapa's
teeth are being fixed.
mixino ier?n>v ?. ,
Chop the lobster into bits;
Fry the soft and plastic doughnut
That the grinder never grits;
Cut the bread in yielding slices,
Lay an oyster in betwixt;
Banish all the pleasant solids?
papa's te?th are being fixed.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
We are martyrs to our own faults.
To live fast means too often to die
fast.
Misdirected labor is a waste of ac- tivity.
Nearly all great men have had remarkable
memories.
Do the truth you know, and you shall
learn the truth you need to know.
Feebleness of means is, in fact, the
feebleness of him that employs them.
Call not that man wretched who, whatever
ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always
the punishment of extraordinary graces.' i'
We talk of creative minds. That is but
a figure of speech?we can create nothing.
False men are not to be taken into confidence,
nor fearful men into a post that
requires resolutiou.
To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed
at hours of meal, sieep and exercise,
is one of the best precepts of long *lasting.
Let us live like those who expect to- J?
die, and then we shall find that we fe&red j
death only because we are unacquainted
with it.
Inquisitive people are the funnels of .
conversation: they do not take in anything
for their own use, but merely pass
it to another.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, " /
and whosoever procures it at the expense "
of ten thousand desires makes a wise and
a happy purchase..In
free countries there is often found ?-i
more realpublic wisdom and sagacity in
shops and manufactories than in the
cabinets of princes in countries where " > ;
none dare lo have an opinion until they
come into them.
A 3Ian With Electric Fingers.
Anton Saverne, a Belgian cabinet
maKer employed at a ivensingion snipyard,
has the wonderful power of produciag
electric sparks by rubbing his
fingers. Saverne is a little, swarthy fel? f
low, about forty years old, with a bushy ^
head of Wack hair, keen blue eyes?very
rare among his countrymen?and very
small hands. His motions prove that he \v
is excessively nervous, and his senses of '
hearing, sight, and smell, ns he assured
a reporter of the Daily News yesterday. '
are unusually acute. His parents still
live on a farm in Belgium, near Brussels,
and he is the youngest of a family of
eleven children.
"I know not how I do it," he said last 7
evening, as the reporter saw sparks shoot
from Saverne's fingers. Tne cabinet :
maker rubbed his finger tips rapidly up ."s
and down upon his trousers. Then, holding
his hands out with the fingers widely
J /%P if wol Irtnf flomaa of '*
QAtCUUCU^ JU13 Ul LiUJ JCllVII UdUiUD) v*
long sparks, shot out. They seemed propelled
by some unseen force ten or twelve
inches into the air, when they vanished.
The right hand appeared more charged
with electricity, if the sparks are elec*trie,
than the left. The lamp in Saverne'i . 7
front rocm was put out so tnat the sparkfl
might be seen in all their brilliancy. It >
was a wonderful sight. Again and again
did the bushy-headed Belgian rub his
fingers and hold them out while tiny :
showers of bright sparks darted out as if
from toy fireworks.
''I was not always so," said Saverne,
lighting the lamp and his black pipe, \
filled with villainous tobacco at the same time.
"When I had been sick ten years iQ
ago it was said I would die. I lay 80
weak one night in my lather's house
when there came up* a storm. Such
thunder and lightning I never knew before.
And my body had such queer sensations.
While I lay, covered up with
bedclothes, my mother fat holding her; ^
face in her hands by my side, and I
I ooomnd fonl n tV>rm?nnd. noorMpf* nrink
CV<tUiV/U VU iVVI u hMWMwu.?w |...
ing my limbs and chest and the soies of
my feet. It was not so painful,, for queer
thrills came with every prick,, and when y ^
the thunder rolled away and the rain
j stopped I rose up, leaned back, and put i
out my hand to take that of my mother's.
My eyes were closed,, bat I heard
her cry, 'Anton!' ; J~(%
" 'What?' I gasped weakly. is
" 'Your hand.'
"I looked at it. The one nearest to
her. It was all aflame. I was- terrified. ~
[ My cry brought iny father ana MStere to
| the room. They looked atme in, horror
: I took my other hand from, the- clothqfl
to rub the right. Sparks shot from the
fingers of the left. Soon they died 53J
away, but I haveonly to rubmy hands-as
you have seen and the lights oouie:"
i Saverae told of the hardships- brought '
upon him by his singular faculty. The
neighboring peasants in Belgium, avoidied
lum and told awful stories of his- being
in league with the devil. Men, would
not hire him to plow or in harvest time.
Ilis own family clung to him, but the
e o,J 1n> fioua
Jill ill UO OIUU11 UUU VMU.v
try live years ago. Here he-learned tb? I
i cabinet-making trade and got employ- ~jjfl
I ment at finishing ship interiors But
when his companions saw his faculty or
infirmity they treated him: ooldLy. HisI
ignorant neighbors in Schleswig street I
: regard him as possessed of an evil spirit. J
' Saverne's electric fingers are the-ourse of 3
his existence.?Philadelphia. Press..
Suffer and Be Strong; , ,j|
A-writer says that the- men of to-dky J
lack the patient, brave endurance of suf'
fering that made our- fathers- noblfe. ^
"Lack nothing," retorts Burdebte- ia the- a
I Brooklyn Eagle; "our suflferinc^are cast
j in a dilterent mom. 1.0 cuuu. mo- ouua.^ ^
I ings; all are men condemned alike to.
; groan. Our fathers-never paidl a dollar
i extra for a seat in a .parlor car, , in order
to seaare increased.aud exclusive comfort
and then carried a three cornaried cindsr
in out eye for seventy miles. They never *
brought a cheap rate excursion ticket
and then got ground up in a nailway
smash?no rebate-; never a.father jaid $4
, a cbiy for the privilege of being burned
, up in a hotel; w}ien they want to. mar-*
tyrvlom they didn't have- to pay their own
funeral expens i* and furai&h the- matches.;
they weren't blown up. by nr?tural gas;
they didn't line in a town whe<cthe waia
sewer emptied into tin water works dam;
* 1 rrn+ tiind*
' mey UUUl I mi juuai IIUH ,
when they :*>kcd their luth.cc for bread be
didn't givfr them alum and plaster of
' paris; they didn't eut artificial eggs and
J chemical Gutter and chrome yellow buna
j?we dcsai't endure suffering? There are /?
men of to-day who don't do anything all
day hut jnst stand around and suffer. H
This is the suiter-age; especially foi
women."
How a Snake S'imIs Its Skin.
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The snake siieus icj skui uy ruouiag
against a sajtplii g or )ther hard surface
until the delic.itc tkin about the mouth
is parted and tunica back a few inches,
" linn the snake seeks a narrow place to
tit the bf>ily, and thus held, the skin
stays, while the reptile crawls "out of
his hide." The cuticle is turned "inside
out" when found. Snakes are believed
to be blind just before sheddiug; at i
least the eyes are as thoroughly covered ]
by the old skin as any other part ol the
body.
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