The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, June 29, 1894, Image 4
PAUSE AMD THINK,
With many frit-nils to !ov# you,
Whoso hearts nro warm an 1 truo.
Should fortune prove n traitor
You must uot make ado .
And as tho c!ou is nro gathering
Upon hope's futur i saa.
And pleasure's fickle spectra
Leaves naught of joy with thee?
1'aus and think I
Think of trite souls an I kin Ired-*
Loved ones, though far away,
Yhose tears o." ivinn l.n?
May couseernte the clay
That shall ho honpuil a' ovoyoit
When life's short dream is o'er,
Of those who'll strive to me<Jt you
Upon :ho other shore?
l'ause and thiu'c i
And when temptation's linger
Shall bockou you to stray,
Or siren-voice of pleasure
May lure to evil way.
When ri^ht and wron ; coulen lin;* ?
ltoth seoKing to control
The best and worst within you
To save or wreck your sou! ?
Pause and think t
Think that a step once taken
Can never he retrace I,
1'hat naught's s ? hard to burnis'i
As character defaced,
An l ere in so n" weak m >ann%
You listen to tln< fo",
\ay heed the admou>tiont
\oforo you further ffo?
Pause an I think!
Be'ore we
For
It WOllld
An i ere our tonuues be loosen" 1
At character to strik *,
Let this fair thought come to 113 :
"How much we aro alike ' ?
Pause and think I
Think that a word once spokoa
And passed beyond eoatro',
For Koo<l or evil be tn>v?*,
Adown the years inny rod ;
Ami in the distant future,
No knowing when 'twill he,
The fruits of what you've spoken
May all eo:ne Koine to thee Pause
and think !
-William Erieksou, in Home and Country.
"OLD LANTERN?
rtv rtr.r.FN Forrest graves.
"< v IHk IS O," said old Mrs.
lf\ I ?"no, I can't
\ 1 \l 'n,'V ,:o *'nwnre
\ ^ l| tnorniuff, nor yet I
siS\ hain't no old rnjja
KKVt''' UP- No, I
toll you. What l?e
/fv^'T^Vi .vo stoppin'for,.Take
Martin? 'Tnin't n
ft w?'ck since you was
?? tf here before."
t "Got a passenger
/or ve, Mrs. Hail." cheerilv reanonded
the peddler.
Ami out from tho flittering festoons
of tin dippers and wash liaml
basins u vonug girl sprang lightly, a
emile striving desperately with the
traces of recent tears on her cheeks.
Rather an unconventional tableau
Was this under tho yellow June sunshine,
the narrow road friuged with
tall white daisies, and the gnarly old
tTPfi?_ *'isyi?>rr .their snauL.iiJuio
bougns him)vo tuo one-storioil cabin,
in whose doorwav stood old Dorcas
Hall, with her wrinkled hand held up
to shield her eyes from the sun.
"Why," she exclaimed, "it's Kitty
Colton, ain't it? Or he I dreamin'?"
"Xo, Mrs. Hall," sa d Kitty, with a
little quiver in her lip, "you are not
dreaming. It's really me."
"And what brings you here?"
Kitty's blue eyes shone through a
medium of tears starting suddenly
trein sonu hidden spring deep down
in her heart.
"Because ? because I've nowhere
else to go I" she faltered. "The auction
was this morning, and everything
was sold .'111 1 oil till' ..1.1 iu no
dreary! I coiililn't stay there. 1
thought perhaps the woman who ia
moving in hiiglit w ant me to help with
tho housework ; but she has two grown
daughters of her own."
"Jua I ' said Mrs. J lull. "iso yon
come to me. did you? Well, I ain't
very rich, but what I've got, Kitty,
you're welcome to."
"Didu't I tell ye so?" Haul Jake .
Martin, who, up to this poriod, had
been energetically chewing a straw.
"Mrs. Hull, she never went back on
no one yet. It'll be a roof over y6tir
head, anyhow, ami if there's a brand
new tin wash basin wanted in Kitty's
room, here it is, free gratis," and he
inpnrt lied frnin - ? - I
- ??* ?n ?'vu ui nuuw i%
fchiniug new article. "And I only
? ish I >111 I do more."
"I need si new tin dipper awful
bad," observed Mrs. Hnll. "My
hoarder, he's a great liiind to drink
flesh, fool water oiiten tlie well, and I
declare to goodness I'm nslinmed of
my rusty old cup 't bout no handle!"
"W nl. I won't he menu. Hero's a
rlipper foi ye, too," said .Jake?"not
quilt The biggest size, lmt I ruchn it's
large enough. Miud, though, Mrs.
Hnll, von don't pntroiiize Tim Hawkins
next time you need a wash-boiler!
Tim, he's a dretVul. oilv-tongucd foller,
hut his w.-sh boilers is jest whited
Hippulchres that's what they bo.
M ornin', Mrs. Hnll! Keep up good
courage, Kitty !
Ail 1 he climbed to his high seat
nmong the pie-platteis and pudding
bnsim. an I shook the reins at; a signal
tor t oM horse to leave off munching
daisies and resume his leisurely
pace don n t lie rou l.
Kitty jut down mi the doorstop find
burst into tears onci more.
"If you've got a hoarder," said she,
"I surely can't stay!"
"Jiii, child, don't fret!" soothed
Mrs. Kail. " c! o sleeps out in the
barn, for coolness sake, and ain't no
more trouble'n a kitten. '
"Oh, Mrs. Hall, it isn't a tramp?"
"No ? ner vet n book-agent,"
chuckled the old woman. "iTo's a
traveliu' photographer?that's what
In ir. And tie don't mind cold meat a
bit. and he savs my riz bread and
rookies is jest what his mother used to
bnke, and he's jest as reg'lar with his
five dollars a week as the Tuesday
mornin' comes round. What's that
you've got in the basket, Kitty?a
cat y
"(Mi, no!" Kitty answered, springing
it{> with sudden recollection. "It'*
a luwl, Mrs. Hall it's Old Lantern,
the speckled Dominique hen. They
eoiildn't find her when Kli Wardwell
bought in all the others for two (lol
lars nutl a quarter? ami some of them
reni White Spanish, too. So, when
she came clucking ami cawing up from
the swamp, the auctioneer said I
might keep her. Suoh a gentle old
thing! She usetl to eat out of grandma's
hand. I may have her here,
Mrs. Hall?"
"Of course you can," assented the
good old woman. "Mine is oil Black
Top-knots, but \ guess they'll agree,
aud she'll pick up her living somehow
round the yard. Now como in and
h we some dinner. I've got b'iled
pork and damleliou greens to-day.
Mr. Iliggs he ain't to hum, an' it's
kind oi a scrappy dinner, but there's
plenty for you an' me. Set down and
eat all ye can. There's some folks
finds fault with dried applo pier, but
I guess this one's pretty tol'able good.
I put plenty o* fennel Heed in it."
And when Kitty Colton lind eaten
and drunk of the humble fare, she was
better abb to her story to Mrs. Ilall
?how the old homestead, with nil its
outfitting*, ha I been sold to satisfy
the acenmulntion of debt which had
been rolling up since her mother's ill
nesM.
"I surely must find some way of
earning my bread," said the girl. "II
only I knew which way to turn!"
"It's a pity, ain't it," said Mrs.
Hal), industriously shaking the tablecloth
out at the back door, greatly to
Old Lauteru'ssatisfaction, "that Obod
Stilton ain't back from sea? Socoudmnte
he is now, ain't he?"
Kitty colored deeply, an I dropped
a "flowing blue" cup on the table,
fortunately without its sustaining any
damage.
"It would make no difference tome,
whether he was at horns or not," s ii I
she.
Mrs. Hall st ire 1.
"Why, ain't ye keepiu' company?"
she bluntly demauded.
Kitty shook licr head, and stooped
to pick up a. two-tiued fork- vain device?to
hide her blushes.
"No," said she, "ivo never were engaged
!"
"Hut lie used to come to your house
Sunday evenings, stea ly?"
"That was nothing."
"Oiieu Stiiton was a roil smart follow,"
observed Mrs. Hull, as she
spread a red-aml-black table-cover on
the table.
Kitty erie.l a pool deal the first
night or two of her sojourn nt the
Widow Hall's, hi?t. youth aud health
are cheerful elements, an 1 | roxeutly
she began to smile again, especially at
the gradually reveale 1 oddities of Mr.
Benjamin Higgs, the boar.lor.
"Isn't he homely V' said she to Iter,
hostess.
"Well ? no? lot jest exvMv lio n !
ly," said Mrs Hill. "I don't deny
that his nose is a little t ? one side,
and his eyes ain't a pretty color, nor
his teeth ain't exactly reg'lar. Ol
course he ain't got a pro'ilc like Obel
Stilton ha l. But h j'k got a dreadful
pleasant face, especially when ho
smiles, and ho is handy 'bout the
house. He whitewashed my buttery
ceiling lietter'n old Juhal Jones
eould'n done it, and the way ho fixed
the stove-oven can't he heat."
"Do you think he is young?"
"'Bout thirty, I guess."
"Oh, he must be forty."
...... .? oiuei ioiks tnan forty in
the world," said Mrs. Hall. "Young
people, they don't think nobody has
no business to live alter they're sixteen
years old. But they find out
nrterwurds."
One day, however, Kitty?who had
gone to the barn after carers?came
crying buck to the kitchen.
"I'll never speak to that man
again!' Bobbed she?"never! Oh, I
hate him - I hate him !"'
''Laws mike, chihl, what's the matter?"'
cried Mrs. Hall.
"Old Lantern is deal. I saw him
shoot her! "
".Mr. Iliggs! Shoot Old Lantern ?"
"She sat there right on her nest in
the haymow, under the big beam
where th" sunshine conies in. She
knew me, tor I saw her black eyes
sparkle like glnss beads, just ns they
always do when she catches sight ol
me; and then?and then?oh, I never
can forgive him !" wailed Kitty.
"But T never hoerd no gun g<: off,"
sni 1 Mrs. Hall.
And at the sani" moment Mr. Iliggs
cair.e in, beaming and exultant
"I guess I did it thit tim"," said
lie.
Kitty could only (lash nri angry
rrlnnco fit him lint \T r * V-full n.ioarl*'
r. - i ? . 7
inquired .
"Done what?"
"Got a first-rate picture of that oi l
speckled lien on her nest in the hay.
That's the sort of picture," he added,
complacently* "that sells hotter than
all the waterfalls' and picturesque
ruins going. A lathy in a hammock,
a dog asleep on the kitchen floor, a
kitten playing with a hall -that's the
thing that catches the ptihltc eye.
And I've turned a trump car l this
time."
While Old Lantern herself, flying
cackling past the window, set her lit
tie mistress' lieuvt at rest.
"I took his camera for a gun," she
confessed to Mrs. Hall. "Oh, how
foolish I was!"'
"Shoot your pet Dominique, Miss
Oolton! Why," crie 1 Mr. tliggs,
"what do you take nio for? I wouldn't
harm a feather of her old head, not
for a dollar !"
Ami Kitty whispered t > Mm. IIill
that night:
"I think lie is niee.loolcin< when h"
smiles and shows those white tooth ol
his?don't you ?"
Before the little gr ion pears <>n tli
big tree lirt I H hsu mo. I til' 81ZC (?l
vest-buttons, benjamin Higgs ha J
asked Kitty <*??11^?n to be his wife.
"I'm not a rich man,"said lie, "but
I'm able to keep a wife. And that
photograph of Old Lantern on her
nest?it. just went otV like wildfire.
The barn interior, you know, and the
wisps of hay in the sunshine that eaino
through the cracks, and the big beams
o*eiliead<?-everybody bought it. I've
tried half a dozen times to repeat the
experiment, but she never would sit
still for me. '
Kitty bent her head flown ovoi
Lantern, who was contentedly picking
corn out of her hand.
"Hie dear old thing!" whispered
she. "flood luck came here with Lihi
tern !"
"Wal, I swan!" said .lake Martin.
"Kngagcd to that feller! Why I was
a-ealculatin' to ask her to go pardners
with rne in the tinware business one o*
these days!"
"You're too late," said tho Widow
Hall.
"And Obed Stilson, lie's como homo
from sea, 'and he's askin' questions
pretty lively about Kitty Colton,"
persisted Jake.
"Hc'd too Ia1i?," said Mrs. Hall.
"Wai, I don't so much keer," said
Jake, "if the photograph man makes
her happy."
"I guess ho will make her happy,"
Baid Mrs. Hall. "He's buildin' her a
nice new house on Blue lbver, and Olil
Lav.tern's to have a first-class hennery.
Yes, he will mako her happy."?Saturday
Niizlit.
A Remarkable Caterpillar.
In Now Zealand and Australia they
havo an animi.1 which, from all accounts,
cannot ho equaled by auy
other animate or inanimate object
upon the earth's surface. It is the
queerest of the many antipodean wonders
aud paradoxes, and, for the want
of a better name, lias been called tlio
"bullrusli caterpillar" or "vogetablo
worm." The nativo Tasmanian name
for tho oddity is "Awcto-Hoteto."
The above ground portion of this vegetable
worm is a fungus of the order
spliaeris, which grows to a height of
six or eight inches. When pulled up
by the root, this fungus is found to
consist of a large caterpillar, showiug
head, segments and breathing holes ?
every detail of tho grub being perfectly
prosi rved. < >n examination of
the interior of tho caterpillar it is
fouud to bo composed of a "punky"
looking substance, really the root of
the fungus, which has cremated every
fiber of what was once a living, breathing
creature's anatomy. In all the instances
which Buckland records, tho
sphaeria had made its attack in the
fold of skin between the second aud
third segments of the caterpillar an I
had replaced all tho animal substance
of the creature's body with a hard
nrown vogetume growtli reseiulilin;'
tho fungoid growths 0:1 blackberry
and other vines.- St. Louis Ltcpuhlio
Eli'ftrif Treatment ol Hauls.
About thirty venrs ago an intrenions
physician of an inquiring turn of mind
was struck with tlie idea thnt if eloctricity
was good for fecblo people,
might it not bo equally good for feeblo
plants. A row of evergreens had been
put out on his grounds some time before,
and it occurred to him that, as
there was a couple of his best trees in
an exceedingly frail stnto of health,
hero was a good chance to test his
theory. lie accordingly connected a
wire from a battery with tho rootB of
one of the trees, turned on a very mild
current and watched tho results. In
a short time the leaves, which had begun
to turn yollow, took on a livoly
shade of green, new shoots started out,
and tho tree that had been given up
by the gardener as past saving was
soon the most flourishing ono of tho
row, and before loug outstripped its
fellows in beauty and luxuriance of
growth. Thcso experiments in this
direction came to an end by tho doatli
of the doctor, and thus much that
might have been of groat sorvico to tho
gardener and florist remninod undeveloped.
Who will enter the field and
give us accurate, simple and easily
mftihodn of winp? plauid
by electricity ??Now York Lodger,
A fjucer Hut (lilted Bird.
One of the most interesting, and At
Jhe same time relatively most abundant,
birds in the Zoological Garden*
at present is a fowl which is known by
the pseudo-classical name of chauua.
It is of unwieldy bulk, and has grouty
looking legs. But in spite of this, it
iH said by that accomplished ornithologist,
W. If. Hudson, to soar and sing
in a way that rivals the lark. It is
also the most truly amphibious of all
birds, as has been lately pointod out
in the ibis.
lis swimming powers are apparently
quite on a par with those of the
iluck, and it has this advantage over
that bird that it is clothed i:i a kind
of Boynton costume, which is fur*
rushed by innumerable air spaces in
the skin. These various gifts, combined
with an interesting appoarance,
ronder the bird one of the most striking
exhibits in the Zoo; but the drawback
is in the voice, which?possibly
on account of the atmosphere of thia
metropolis ? is far from being larklike
?s Mr. Hudson states of the chauna
when upon its native pampas.?Lou- 1
Aon Daily News.
Moilrnoil Like a Human IJeiur.
There is something pathetic about
the account of the death of the femalo
chimpanzee which Professor Garner
brought from Southwest Africa. The
names givon by tho professor to his
friends were Aaron an I Klishaba, and,
much to his regret, Klishaba has fallen
a victim to the severe Kuglish weathor.
She really died in tho arms of poor
Aaron, the male, who ha I boon most
assiduous in his attentions to his consort
during tho whole of her illness.
Professor Garner was present during
the last moments of tho chimpanzee,
and when lie put hishaudsto hor heart
to seo if it had ceased to boot Aaron
put his hand there too, looking up in
tho professor's eyes as if inquiring if
that was all they could do for her.
Ao-^r. i.i c.tv.... i.;..
love to to ho takon from him, and
clung to tier hotly with such ionaaity
tlmt tho professor was com pel In, 1 to
lay it down on its hod of straw, when
tho distressed lmsh in I released his
hold. When Professor (1 iraor visited
his protege next day poor Aaron would
not he consoled until ho ha l Ins han 1
:u that of the professor, and hy sound
and signs was tolling him of his distress.
Killed l?y a Drea n.
The hurinl at Altoon.a. Penn., of a
young wife, Mrs. Mary (iruhlo, (levelopes
facts that illustrate most
tragically the power of nnnd over
matter. Mrs (Iruhlewenl to had and
!?!! r. ii. . ji. seemingly in her usual
good health, remarks the Pittsburg
Dispatch. fifteen minutes later she
woke in a terrible condition <?f uervour
shook an I prostration. producad
by n dream. A*, soon as sh" con hi
speak, she related that in a dream she
sa.v a man trying to kill her husband
iti the celler. Sh regained her reasoning
faculties to tie- extent of reali/.ing
fully that the horrible scene
spoken of was the illusion of
a dream, but the shoek to hei
nervous organi/,atien was so great
that the could no! rally, and in a few
hours she was cold in death.
f
i FORMIDABLE WEAPON
THE TORPEDO WHICH SUNK THE
WARSHIP AQUIDABAN.
The Invention of a t'nlted States
Naval twicer?Method of Working
the Deadly Machine.
RECENTLY from Brazil lias
come, in tbe sinkirg of tho
well-known battleship Aquid
ovent tnat promises
to shed more -lght upon the powers of
the torpedo than all the experiments
of tho last two decades. Tho first news
concerning the downfall of tho Aquidabau
was to the effect that tho vessol
was sunk l?y on auto-mobile torpedo,
but the naval department has recently
been led to tho suspicion that it was
not an auto-mobile, but a dirigible torpedo
that d'd the effective work. That
is to say, a torpedo that is operated
and controlled from a base, instead of
one which when launched relies upon
its own mechanism for its subsequent
action.
The affair accumulates special interest,
not only to Americans but to Bostouiaus,
for the only dirigible torpodo
in the possession of tho Government
forcos of Brazil was tho invention of
an olllcer now resident in Boston. Tho
officer in question is Lieutenant N. J.
L. T. Ilalpin, U. S. N.
A few words regarding this remarkable
weapon. " Not tho least interesting
thiug concerning it is the fact that
it is a torpodo but little knowu. It is
tho result of many years of study and
experiment by its inventor, and is better
known outside of this country than
it is bore. It has been used by at least
three South American nations, although
the Brazilians, as far as known, are
tho only cues who have subjected it to
the conditions of actual war.
Unlike other torpedoes, tho Ilalpine
weapon is not destroyed after it is 6xploded
and its mission is accomplished.
Its explosive charge is separate, and
after it. is emitted by automatic moaus,
the torpedo itself, which is operated
by electricity, withdraws and returns
to iho operator. Herei.i is a merit
that at once appoals to the economist.
The explosivo charge, which is in the
form of a cartridge, costs but ft'J, aud
the torpedo itself being used over and
over again, this is tho only expense attending
ii'sTTse." Other forms of diri
giuio torpouo cost any wnero irorn siu, 000
to $20,000 a shot, as they are tbomselves
destroyed theroby.
The following is a briof description,
not too tecliuical, of the Halpino torpedo,
which is iu reality a hybrid, between
a torpedo proper aud a torpedo
boat. In fact, it may bo regarded in
the latter light, as it is but the vossel
carrying and discharging the deadly
missile.
It is cigar-shaped, seventeen feet in
length aud two foot in diameter. II
contains a storage battery of thirtythreo
colls, weighing 300 pounds, and
from these is obtained the power which
by means of a two horse-power motor,
drives the screw propeller, which is
brass, one foot iu diameter, and is
proteoted by a circular motallic guard.
A balance rudder is also attached by
wlwch tho torpedo is steered. In the
forward end, pointed obliquely downward,
?s the chamber for the charge,
which is 125 pounds of any high explosivo,
gelatine, dynamite or gnu
cotton. The charges furnished tho
weapon carriod by the Nictheroy were
wet gun cotton.
Tho caitridgo is also cigar-shaped,
four feet long and ten inches in diameter,
aud is inserted by tho mere removal
of a hand-hole plato on tho top
of the torpedo.
At the station occupied by tho operator
there is a battery of 160 dry
ecus, mm communication is nail witli
the torpedo after it is launched by
mcaus of tin extremely lino and carefully
insulated wiro, which is rolled
on a rool inside tho torpodo as the lattor
advances. All tho operator has to
do is to watch tho torpedo travel
through tho water, its progress Vicing
observed by means of two tiny masts
upon it, and by means of a switchboard
ho can causo it to advance or
retrehi, auy path lie wishes.
He cau also discharge the cartridge,
but there is likewise an automatic
method of doing this upon impact with
tho vessel attacked.
The operation of tho torpedo presents
some very interesting features,
l'rojooting from tho front of tho torpedo
is a spar, with an arrow-head,
and automatically released arms.
When this eonios in contaot with any
resisting object, tho cartridge is released
mid advances toward the objoet.
By nioans of an ingenious system of
springs and clutches, tho cartridge
upon being roleaso 1, dives down and
then ascends, describing a curved
path, concavo upward. Thus the torpedo
uots with which most of the battleships
are provided, would not avail,
as the spar would meet the net while
the cartridgo would dive down beneath
it and then proceed direct to the vessel's
hull.
The saino act ot impact that dis
i;uru t.iiu (;rti I 1 rOTtTHOS 1 11 '3
motor in tho torpedo, which rapidly
recedes nud returns to its base, t ? he
a ;*in cha.tfed, if noodoC.. un I again
r int. out oli its mission of destruction
Tho Halpiu torpodo has some nut
ts not possessed by any other kin I
.n the lirst place, it is tho only oih
that can ho used successfully against a
vos el protocted by nets. It is not
injured or destroyed in operating; it
can ho operated from a moving base,
such as a boat, as the operator's plant
is so simple ami light; its motive
power does not suffer by being store I
or delayed, and it is not of such a
nature as to he in itself a source of
danger to those handling it; it can he
loaded with the facility of a broochloading
ritle; should it be captured,
the operator can make it destroy itself
by exploding tho charge within it
The Aiihimiii.otticers of the Nictherov,
who returned to tins nountrv
about n week ago, Rpeak in high term'*
of this torpedo, mi l they incline to
the belief that its many advantages
offset its lack of simplicity. However
complex it may be, experiments held
with it indicate that it is quite as
reliable as nnv other kind of dirigible
torpedo. The one 011 tho Niethoroy,
indeed, had already been used, ami
its cartridges discharged with sticcoea
over fifty times. ? Host on
The highest inountaiu in Oironl
' ritain ih llfu Novo, }*Vjl)and ? iJ'i'J
r
THE LONG-LIVED TORTOISE.
AN ANIMAL THAT FREQUENTLY
LIVES FOB CENTUBIES.
A Giant Specimen That Carried Children
on Its Broad Back, and Lived
SOO Years.
IF you want to be old, observe and
imitate the tortoise. That reptile
apparently knows how to live as
long as it likos. It is rather hard
on man, who is constantly being told
that ho is the highest of tho animals,
that he should be so inferior to the
tcstudinal family in this important respect.
It is impossible to Bay how long a
tortoise, under favorable conditions,
may live. There are tortoises in the
Galapagos Islands, ofT South America,
where the species with tho handsome
shell is mostly found, that were probf
i 1 i r . it. .1! -- / 11.1
amy nnve oeioro me uiscovery ui vms
continent by Christopher Columbus.
In the Zoological Garden nt Philadelphia
there is a snapping turtle from
the Mississippi whose ago is calculated
at flOO years. He is moss-grown, but
halo and hearty, and his jaws are sp
vigorous as an alligator's. A small
tortoise that had lived at the time of
Charles I. 's Archbishop Hand was lulled
by a cart in tlio grounds of Lambeth
Palace a few yeate ago. Ho was doing
his best to get out of the way, but a
tortoise, though sure, is no match for
a horse.
There arc now many famous old tortoises
and turtles in the world. One
of thorn has just died at Colombo the
capital of Ceylou, ouo of the stopping
places on the route from Australia to
England. Tho tortoise was of the
species tcstudo elephantopis. He
passed the greater part of his life at
"Uplands," a resort on the coast near
Colombo, where ho was visited by
thousands of passengers annually.
His ago was estimated at 200 years,
and he measured six feet from snout
to tail, the shell alone being four feet
six inches in length. The species to
which lie bcl??h\;ed originates in the
Seychelles and Mauritius Islands. lint
from early times they were found convenient
to carry on ships as a reserve
supply of live fresh meat. Now they
aro almost extinct. They were preserved
from total extinction by Sir
Arthur Gordon, who as Governor of
Mauritius, ordered that two specimens
should bo sent to him annually by the
natives as tribute.
The Colombo tortoise was sent from
Java to the Governor of Ceylon, which
wRi then a Dutch colony. When the
Uritish annexed the island in 17'.)o the
torto'se was transferred to their care.
Like most tortoises he was of a placid
and peaceable disposition, but soeius
to have been by no means averse to
human society. From time to time
he carried children on his broad back,
a task which he performed with apparent
cheerfulness. On one occasion,
however, he successfully resisted tho
efforts of .neveu men to remove him
from the garden where he resided to
the grounds of sn exhibition.
F.seentlv the local government acquired
"Uplands," where tho tortoise
lived, as a graving dock. He was removed
to Victoria Park, about a mils
inland, where he sickened and died in
a short time. Had he been left in his
A i -,i i... i;?.v.i
HVJUMUiuuu irinuu ii\) iiii^uv n?*c urun
to a far greater age, as ho had hIiowu
ho signs of ill health prior to his removal.?New
York World.
The Sioux Dinner Pot.
"There is a verv peculiar custom
among the Sioux Indiana," said Emailucl
French, of liismarck, N. 1). "The
Indians take kindly to European cookin.t;
utensils and aids to comfort, and
it ir. quite common for an exploring or
picnic party to trade oft' kettles, frying
pans and the like for skins or curiosities.
A cooking utensil thus acquired
becomes practically the common
property of the tribe, on the
general understanding, however, that
whoever borrows it shall pay for its
use by leaving in it. a portion of the
food Cooked. As the Indians seldom
waste any time in washing or cleaning
eating or cookiug vessels, this practice
has some conveniences from a
red man's point of view, and often
a saucepan is returned with quite a
large quantity of meat or potatoes
clinging to the bottom, and perhaps
covering up some of the remains of a
preceding and entirely different proparat
ion.
"It is not long sinco that an explor
ing pnrtv i was out, will) lost its kettle,
which had evidently jolted out of
the wagon on the had road. After
considerable hesitation, one was borrowed
from a friendly squaw, and,
after the water had been boiled in it
three or four times, and it had been
well scoured out with sand, it answered
its purpose admirably. When
we were through with the kettle,
we thoroughly cleaned it again
and returned it, and it was not until
an Indian guide explained the custom
that we understood the look of supreme
contempt which came over the
red lady's bice when, on looking into
the inside of the kettle, she saw that
it contained no relic whatever of our
evening feast."?St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.
It Is Not
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Hood's
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history of medicine. Even
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Hood's pS.
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Korean Sports,
Curator Stuart Culin,of tho University
of Pennsylvania Museum, who has n
gathered together the ilu'est collootion a
of games evor mado in the world, hai w
made an interesting discovery in hit 1,
study of Korean sports. Tho Chines* ?
games arc all marked by n literary 0
character, the game of logomachy, or ^
word-building, which has gained such j
popularity in this country, having t
been played long ago by Korean school K
children. "A number of their games,' j
ho declares, "had their origin froir c
mystic concepts. Many of tho child- ]
ish sports had orgiually a serioiw t
diviuistio or expiatory significance. ^
Tho tug-of-war, for instance, was j
played by tho pooplo of villages r
and districts to ascertain which would f
be the luckier. Kites were used a? 9
scapegoats being released with in- j f
scriptions to the eflfect that they were ' 1
carrying away misfortune. Mere toy* ^
wero not numerous. Some of the y
games possess a decidodly ethnic char- (
actor, and their stu ly promises to fur- f
jjish conclusions of some importance.'
? Philadelphia ltecord.
The (Queen's Name. p
It is probable thai most of her Maj- I >
csty's 1 oa a I subjects know the Queen o
only by her royal style, Victoria, and ,
that such of the remainder of them an *
are aware that she bears another name, P
nnd that ttiat in Alexandrian, believo *
that the latter is the second, and,
Iherelore, in some sctiso the inferior
name. The we'l informed, however,
know that the < >ii?>o??V. names are A'o.vnudrina
Victoria, and a Hcntenco or
two in a letter of her father, the Duka i
of Kent, written within a couple of !
months of her christening, and sold a
few days since in Paris, may account '
for the choice of the second as tho
principal name. "Her lirst namo,"
the Duke wrote, "is Alexandrina ; Victoria,
by which name sho is always
called at home, is her last, being that
of lier ilear mother. The lirst sho
hears after her godfather, the Emperor
of Russia."? St. James Gazette,
Unknown bead in a Ureal City.
Albert H. White, keeper of the
morgue in New York City, testified in
a murder trial the other day that 110,000
bodies have passed through his
hands since ho has been the keeper.
He added that ho know many eases
where mistakes had been made as to
identity of dead bodies, and cited tho
case of a woman who claimed a body
as that of her husband and had the
body buried in Calvary Cemetery,?
Scientitio American.
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Miss IJ. F. CnAwronu, of Limestone, Afe.,
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Periodic pains which at
times were so acute as
/frefrUi w to render life a bunion. I
began using Dr. Pierce's
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tw a used seven bottles In as
ill 1 many inontbs and deI
wl'f r,v? '? 80 much benefit
J/CK- .j?*~l Wl'lf from it and the liomcl/ici\\
lliW treatment reeoinmendI'SJM
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1 L J I wish every woman
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TilO a Pre ot Meet.
The Eiffel Tower, lmilt wholly ol
tetal, is nil example, and a good exmple,
of a step in tho direction
i-liich architects will be driven to fol-'
?w in tho future. Tho great railway
tntions, exhibition buildings and
thcr structures of steel, concrete,
apcr and glass, which the needs and
nventions of our day havo called ino
existence, show which way flows tho
tream of tendency. The new buildng
material has come to stay. In an?iher
century houses may not merely
>c built with steel girders; they may
>c made of metal frames bolted together,
and gripping walls of papier
nache. Then the age of tho tent will
eturn. A man will buy his house
roiu a manufacturer and will liiro a
lito to set it. upon. When he moves
rom one place to another he will take
lis home with him. Building leases
vill die a natural death. Towns will
vander about, and a great mauy on rims
results will arise. ? St. Louis Starieyiugs.
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Dunn's Rkyiew or Thade report# conInuoil
Industrial Improvement.
J'ioiiiI ot III- II-Inea- lln.worlirri.
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men ami women we have to represent us in thw
t-nriou* parts of t lie eoiinlry; many of them at >
11110111; tIn* lio*t men ami women that eve*
ivalkeil t lie soil, ami we wish to employ a few
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of the IInil of It. K. .lohlisoii A: Co.,
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market.
IJ n 11's Cninrrh Cure
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Kn*-P>? Clover Root, the great Wool purifler,
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ami < ure? constipation, 'Hi ct<? aU cts., $1.
The annual cost of the British navy Is
#70,000,000, of the army #83,000,000.
If a:' licted with ?ore syes urs Dr I<a c Thomp on'sEy*
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