The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, May 18, 1886, Image 2
A 9,000-pound mus of tin ore was recently
exhibited at a smelting -works in
New York. It was taken out of a 20foot
vein in the now well-known Etta
tin mine, in the Black Hills. The speci''
men will be sent to London for the benefit
of those British tin-mine owners who
have so complacently watched our heretofore
unsuccessful search for* the metal.
The Knights of Labor propose to establish
a community farm in the northwest.
There are in the United States
many thriving settlements which are conducted
on the community plan, but in
?? > almost every instance the members are
hound together by religious as well as by
property bonds. It remains to be seen
whether the Knights, on their 600-acre
farm in Minnesota, will be able to work
harmoniously together for any considerable
time while subordinating individual
advantage to the general good.
Some idea mav be formed of the mae
nitude of the higher institutes of learning
in Germany when compared with
those of the United States, by reading
the official reports of the number of
students in any one of them. It is reported
that there are now 2865 students
in the university of Munich. Of these
1067 are devoting themselves to the studies
of medicine, 890 in judiciary tranches,
800 law students, 524 to the study of
philosophy, 180 to theology, 102 to
national economy, and 152 to pharmacy.
M. Charles Girard, chemist, of Paris,
recently amused himself by investigation
of the ingredients of a beautiful red
currant jelly, charmingly put up for export
to the United States. There waa
not an atom of fruit in the mass, as was
demonstrated by the adding to it of methylated
alchohol, which would hare
turned it green had it contained any fruit
acid. It was found to consist of gelatine,
sweetened with glycerine residue, colored
with pichsine (a poisonous mineral
extract) and i&vored with no one knows
what. ? _
Referring to the purpose of the Audubon
Society to prevent bird-debtruction
a correspondent of Forest and Stream
says: 4'As the country became cleared
of timber and more thickly inhabited,
the birds have been destroyed in large
numbers and insects have gained the ascendency.
There are birds worn by our
city belles that alive would accomplish
more good work for mankind than the
average fashionable belle, although she
lived for a century. The eyes and beaks
of these dead birds cry out in shame
against the cruel fashion that causes their
(tlniicrVitor "
An English agricultural journal seriously
urges that in time of abundant and
cheap wheat it should bo purchased in
large quantities by the Government, and
stored away in public ^granaries, in order
to insure the country at least one yeur's
supply in any contingency. *'It argues,"
says the American Cultivator, "that
the home food production in Great Britain
is now so very deficient that, in case
of war, prices would go up at a bound
and cause terrible distress among the
people before a source of supply could
be developed. This measure, involving
the purchase of grain for storage, might
relieve the market so much as to chango
the present agricultural discontent in
England, and put an end to the demand
for protection; but it really reminds us
of the historic, time in Egypt when Joseph
laid up grain in the years of plenty to
serve for food in the years of famine."
The Boston Herald constitutes itself
the champion of New York State in the
following editorial paragraph: "In
seeking to belittle the political importance
of the Empire State, the Galveston
News observes that 'New York does not
occupy milch of the Soil of the United
States.' No, but it has one-tenth of the
population, one-sixth of the property,
one-elventh of the electoral vote; it produces
*>ne-fifth of the total value of
manufactured products, receives the
greater part of the imports of the country,
and ships the larger proportion of its exports.
Even its farms have a value of
one-tenth of the -whole, and nearly ten
times as much as those of the great agri>cultural
state of Texas. New York is
considerable of a state, however you
look: at it."
The American Exhibition building for
1887 is being very ingeniously contrived
v in London. Like Solomon's Temple,
the various parts -will arrive ready to be
"'V-. fitted into oach other without noise or
confusion, and the structure will arise
fairy like. Its component parts are
made td fit any section, and will be bolted
together without the slightest friction.
No skilled labor, indeed, it is said, will
be required in its erection. The cast
iron chair will rest on 700 stout iron
A ? posts, sunk in deep beds of concrete,
jfe Thh will be firmly secured and bolted,
and upon it will rest the wall plates,
tjpon these will be lifted the whole oi
the main rafters, previously bolted to*
gether. The roof is to be of six spans,
' the largest extending to sixty feet. The
frr rafters, pillars and girders are all of iron.
' It is*intended to erect a press pavilion,
llgffi;; an Atlantic cablo office, an clectric elevated
railway and reproductions of the
frontages of the more remarkable public
buildings and institutions in the United
v States.
I The number of egg* a hen will lay
depends much on the care and food given.
If you do not believe it glance over the
following, condensed by the Cincinnati
Commercial from reliable statistics showing
the average number of eggs a hen
will lay yearly: Maine, 89 eggs to cach
lien; Massachusetts, 80; Connecticut,
85; New Hampshire, 81; Rhode Island,
76; Vermont, 69; Pennsylvania, 62;
Indiana, 60; Ohio, 57; Tennessee, 55;
Kentucky, 52; Iowa, 51; Illinois, 42;
North Carolina, 42; South Carolina, 37;
Louisiana, 30.
According to a statement of the United
States Potters' Association there are
aboot 175 kilns in operation, not including
those employed in turning out decorated
pottery, of which there is a largo
number. The number of employes is
roughly estimated at about 15,000, and it
may fairly be assumed that not less than
30,000 derive their means of subsistence
from this source. The total of capital
invested in the business is supposed to be
not less than $8,000,000, two-thirds of
which is absorbed in plant, the wages
paid amount to $4,000,000 or $5,000,000
annually, and $8,000,000 worth of goods
is made. The chief centres of the trade
are Trenton, N. J., and East Liverpool,
Ohio, but establishments more or less extensive
are to bo found in more than a.
dozen other places.
A Washington correspondent speaking
of the late Mrs. Benjamin F. Brewster,
explains how she, a very attractive woman,
happened to marry so notoriously
plain a man: Both had been married before,
she to a Frenchman and he to a
Russian lady. When widowed, the only
thing left her by her husband was three
children, whom Brewster adopted as his
own. She was bo entirely without means,
though of excellent family, that she obtained
a position in the treasury for selfsupport.
She was there when the Philadelphia
lawyer, having occasion to call
at the department, passed her desk and
overheard her remark: "That is the
ugliest man I have ever seen." Turning
to her, and bowing very politely, he said:
! "Thank vou. madam: T (llwavs lilrn
hear a lady express herself frankly. This
ackward circumstance was soon followed
by an introduction and his falling in love
with her. In proposing he is reported to
have said: "You are charming and I
am hideous; but it will not be the first
. instance of the meeting of Beauty and
the Beast. You may never love me;
but, if you will accept me, I shall always
try to deserve your love." That is the
way to win a woman, and he won her.
They are believed to have been entirely
harmonious and devoted to one another.
The ex-attorney general, albeit singularly
fantastic in dress, and often in manners,
is extremely polite and kind-hearted,
and has a host of friends.
The Farmer's Choice.
In a speech recently made by "Jim
Hill," President of the St. Paul Minneapolis
and Manitoba Railroad Company,
at the dedication of the Duluth Board of
Trade palace, he said, characteristically:
Down in southern Dakota there lives a
fine old gentleman and farmer who come
me the other day and wanted to know
on what terms we would construct a line
down into his territory. "That," I answered,
"is something out of our beat.
There is only one thing that would induce
us to build a line down in that direction,
and that is a row with our neighbors."
Then the Dakota man said his
neighbors shipped wheat to Chicago and
sold it for 80 cents a bushel, when it was
worth 93 cents in Duluth, paying 85 cts.
per 100 for hauling 450 miles, when, if
they had an outlet to Duluth, they would
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anbody would think of charging them
over 20 cents a hundred. I told him I
thought he was right and that people
who felt as he did about Duluth would
get there in some way. He answered:
"My people are pious, prayerful and
church-going, and mean to gain an entrance
through the pearly gates, but if
they had to make a choice in that country
between Heaven and Duluth there
would be a big majority in favor of Duluth."
The Brakeman'H Peril.
The present method of coupling freight
cars is primitive, costly and dangerous to
life and limb, and for years the inventive
ingenuity of the country has sought to
produce a better way that would be accepted
by railroad managers. Over 4,000
patents for couplers have been taken out,
and yet the "man killer" has not been
displaced. Few people have the remotest
idea of the number of men who have
been crippled or killed coupling cars. I
venture to say that the casualties from ;
this cause for the lost ten years far exceed j
in number the killed and wounded of
any battle of the late rebellion. A nun>
ber of states have passed laws requiring
alt. cars built or owned within their limits
to bo fitted with couplers which can be
operated without going between the carp,
but in none of them is any serious attempt
mudc to enforce the law. Every year the
Master Car Builders* Association and ths
convention of railway superintendents and
the master machinists devote considerble
time to testing automatic couplers, With
but little apparent progress, so far a*
their adoption by the roads is concerned.
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Loaf Aspects.
IN SPRING.
The maiden leaves through veins of sylvaif
blood
Are thrilled to 4ove and sweet Arcadian
bliss,
Whon murmuring 'round litho bough or
-wakening bud,
They dimplo softly to the south wind's kiss!
IN AUTUMN.
How silently abovo the dying leaves
The treacherous frost a fatal network
weaves;,
And slowly robbed of Autumn's V?nr?vnnf.
breath,
The weary foliage lapses into death!
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i LOVE AND HAIR DTE.
Keturah was leaning over the pair of
bare which divided the back garden from
the meadow which wound past the maI
pie swamp, up to the lonely sheep pasture.
Apparently, she was watching a
motherly hen-turkey conduct her downy
brood through the high timothy-grass;
but in reality she was wrestling with fate.
"It's perfectly ridiculous!" said Keturah.
"There never was in all this world
a girl with half as ugly hair as mine. If
it hadn't been for that hair, I might have
had the chance of being married half a
dozen times, instead of drudging on here,
with my father scolding because I don't
accomplish more housework, aud my
stepmother deluging me with good advice.
Oh, dear, oh, dear! I would
pluck it out by the roots, if it would do
any good!"
And she seized the luckless red-gold
tresses, a handful in each grasp, as if she
fain would have twiclied them out of
her head.
"But what a very silly thing that
would be!" said Barbara Decifcr, who
sat on a stump of a tree, hulling the rich
garden strawberries, which she had just
gathered from the 6unny beds under the
stone wall. "Why on earth don't you
dye it?"
"Why don't I?ichatV' said Keturah,
turning around in sheer amazement.
"Dye it!" repeated Barbara, popping a
particularly bright ripe sphere of scarlet
into her mouth. "It's what Mrs. Poller's
city boarder did when I was help there
last summer. She was as gray as a badger,
Miss Perkins was; and yet her hair
shone like a crow's tail-feathers. I seen
her puttin' on the dye once, through the
crack of the door, when I was a-scrubbin'
the hall oil-clotlis, and it was as ensy
as you please. Of course black dye
won't suit you, but there's plenty of colors
would."
Kcturali's eyes glistened.
"Oh, Barbara I" said she, "do you think
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"Think? I don't think nothin' about
it," said Barbara, flinging a mildewed
berry at a squirrel on the fencc. "I'm *wre
of it. You can get the stuff at Mill &
Tweezer's. I've seen it many a time
in their glass show-cases, and?"
Just at this moment, however, Mrs.
IJitchings, Koturah's stepmother, wns
heard shrilly inquiring from the back
door, "whether she was to be kep' waiting
all day long, with the preservingkettle
over the tire, for them strawberries?"
Barbara jumped up and fled. Keturah
stood still, meditating over the disclosure
that she had just heard.
She went down the path to a certain
crystal-clear spring, into,whose depths
fill i* linrl nffon i/\ ^ ? x?
?? un.vu gawu iu iuujv iur iuc traditional
rings displayed by the fairies to
those who are about to find their true
lovers.
It was her favorite mirrior, and just at
this period of the sunny, summer day it
was clearer than any sheet of looking
glass.
"Horrid!" said Keturah, grimacing at
the copper-red burnish of her hair reflected
below.
But just then some languid movement
of the deep, still waters focused the sun's
rays in a sort of circle; for a second it
seemed as if a ring of gold shone far
down, and then disappeared.
Keturah's eyes sparkled, and her heajt
beat rapidly.
"The fairies' wedding-ring,", she
gasped. "I saw it with my own eyes.
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it as long as my hair is such a hideous ?
hideous color. I will get it dyed I"
And, in her mental consciousness, she
remembered that Harry Boycc, whef went
to college with her brother Simeon,
would be there that very week, and that
Harry had once said, "What a pretty
girl that little Kitty was."
"But, of course, he couldn't have noticed
my hair," thought Keturah, mournfully.
' 'It doesn't show so awfully bad
?*hen I sit in a corner where it's pretty
dark. T the sunshine that brings it
out such an Intense carrot co'or. I will
j dyo it!"
So that very evening, in tha friendly
indistinctness of the purple twilight,
Keturah crept down to Mill & Tweezer's,
and waited patiently for an old fanner
to buy an ounce of Paris green for potatobugs,
and his daughter to select a bottlo
j of cheap perfumery, for two tall lads to
' get a physician's prescription made up,
| and a plump-cheeked child to purchase a
cent's worth of peppermint drops, before
she came up to the counter.
"Well, miss," said the sleepy old druggist,
who moved about like a patent perambulating
toy which had got out of
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order, and winked drearily behind his
tpectacle-glasses, "what can I do for
? you?"
Keturah'8 heart seemed to leap up into
her mouth, every drop of blood rushed to
her face, while in a guilty whisper she
murmured:
"Ilair-dyo, sir, please. .
"Dye?" repeated the purblind ana*partially
deaf old man. "What kind of
dye?"
"I?I don't quite know, sir I The
usual kind, I suppose. Anything but
black," she added, remembering Barbara's
remark.
And with a "Yes, yes," and a patronizing
smile, old Mr. Mill put her up a bot
tie of the brightest aniline-red that he
possessed.
"Gills is always partial to bright colors,"
he said to himself.
And Keturah ran all the way home, as
if the whip-poor-wills and rabbits would
know that she had a bottle of hair-dye
wrapped up in her pocket-handkerchief.
Once safe in her own littlegarret-voom,
she rubbed the mixture well into the
roots of her hair, brushing it out to the
very ends, according to Barbara's description
of the "city boarder's" manipulations.
She had scarcely finished, when she
heard her stepmother's voice calling:
4 'Ivcturah! Ke-tu-ra-a/t!"
"Ma'am?" she chirped feebly back.
"Come down stairs quick!" said Mrs.
Ilitchings, in a sort of stage shout up the
back stairs. "Here's your brother, Sim,
and Harry Boyce, come by the night
stage, and supper to get for 'em, and nobody
knows what all! Do make haste!"
And momentarily forgetful of the chief
sorrow of her life, Kcturah ran blithely
down stairs to be kissed by Sim unci
chivalrously greeted by Mr. Boyce.
Both student-lamps were lighted, and
Mrs. Hitchings had even gone *o the extravagance
of a pair of mould candles on
the muntlepiece, and as Kcturah turned
to help set the table there was a unanimous
shout of laughter.
"Why, Kit, how do you come to be
topped off with cardinal-red?" jceringly
demanded Simeon.
"What in all creation ails your hair?"
said her father.
And Kcturah, catching a glimpse of
herself in a cherry-framed looking-glass
which hung opposite, uttered a shriek of
dismay, and took to precipitous flight.
Her head no longer bore the old hue of
coppery-red, but now display the vivid
cardinal hue of Farmer Rumford's new
barn-door.
And as she hastened to hide herself,
she heard the laughter-choked voice of
Simeon exclaiming, incoherently:
"Well, I always knew that red hair
was fashionable, but I didn't know that
the girls were so wild after it as to dye
their bangs the regular blazing vermilion."
Mrs. Hutchings herself got the supper
that night. It was Barbara's evening
out, and poor Keturah was nowhere to be
found. And it was nearly ten o'clock
when the weeping girl, coming up the
long pear-tree walk, met Mr. Boyce face
to face.
"Don't run away, Keturah," said he,
kindly. "Don't make an enemy of one
who would fain be a friend. I have so
much to say to you, Keturah."
I've washed it and washed it, and it
won't come out!" sobbed poor Keturah.
"Washed what!" questioned Mr.
Boyce.
"My hair?my horrid, hideous, hateful
hair!"
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Boyce, gently drawing her arm +hrcyigh
his.
"But?but it was such a dreadful color,
and I dyed it; and tliey gave me the
wrong color. And, oh, I'm almost sure
t never will come natural again!"
"Oh, yes, it v*ll!" said Harry Boyce,
coaxingly?"the prettiest gold-auburn
shade in the world."
"Oh, Mr. Boyce, do you really think
so?"
"Upon my soul and honor I do I But
don't vou want to hour mv nnws?"
"Of course I do," whispered Keturah.
"Well, then, Kitty?iny Kitty?hero
it is: I have received my first call to the
pastorate of a church in Livingbrook,
Massachusetts, with the prettiest little
rectory in the world, of vellow-stonc, all
covered with climbing vines. And all I
need now is a wife to keep house for me,
and ask the deacons and deaconesses to
tea. Will you be that wife, Keturah?"
"Oh, Harry," she gasped/ "do you
think that a woman who dyes her hair is
worthy to be a minister's wife?"
"If we none of us had any earthly imperfections,"
said the young ministerelect,
smiling, "we should bo angels;
and although you're the nearest I ever
saw to one, Kitty"?with a kiss?"I
don't want you to float away and lcavo
me just yet. So I'm rather jsrlad you
haven't arrived at that wing-and-silvertrnmpet
stage."
And Keturah Hitchings never troubled
herself any more about her h^ir. ,
"If Harry likes it," said she, "Jdol"
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Two hives of bees en route to the West
from Kentucky, escaped from their quarters
and invaded thog-j of the passenger*
in tho rear coach of the train. After a
pitched battle, in which cvats were used
with good effect, theintrufeis were vanquished.
They left evident** of their
visit, though.
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A CHINOOK DANCE.
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Propitiate the Diety.
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Woird Incantations and Grotesque Dances j1
in Washington Territory.
A rccent issue of the Yakima (Wash- "
ington Territory) Signal says:
Yakima ("VV. T.) Signal.?The Indians j
are by nature superstitious, but the ag"
| grcssions of civilization in this quarter '
have killed many of the old beliefs of the (
Yakima tribes in signs, "lioodoos," and
the efficacy of pum-pum and Tumanimus
dances, and the incantations of medicine
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men in driving away the evil spirit. ^
There are some, however, who refuse to
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conform to the new customs and revel m
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superstitions handed down by their un- ^
tutored progenitors. This faction held ^
their annual Tumanimus dance and feast j
on Monday last, on the reservation just j
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j was oil liand with the expectation of
capturing an interesting item, but the
mummeries which were weird and fascinating
were at the same time entirely unintelligible.
At the head of the Gap on
a promontory a large white flag floated
from a pole, and two miles further on
blue, white and orange flags marked the
long, low building or shack where the
exercises were being conducted. The
i medicine house, for so it proved to be,
was about seventy feet in length and
completely covered with the matting.
From the inside came the monotonous
chant of many voices and the steady beating
of Indian drums, but although the
Signal representative and a young lady
who accompanied him walked completely
around the structure they could find no
entrance, and were debating a plan of
action, when a fly of the matting suddenly
flew up immediately in front of
them, and the hideous painted face of a
fantastically clad siwash presented itself ,
to view and nearly scared the young lady
into convulsions. A friendly wave of
j the hand, however, disarmed fear and
usacreu uie pilgrims Del ore a scene of
barbaric grotesqueucss which would tax \
the pen of a Dumas to describe. ,
On a platform covered with skins, at ,
one end of the lodge, Indian children ]
were crowded, and in front of the little \
ones was the orchestra of six huge bucks j
with instruments which appeared to be ,
made of sheepskin stretched over empty ,
cheese boxes. Along the length of the j
temple or lodge were ranged the bucks ,
on one side and the klootchmen on the ,
other. They were all clad in gorgeous (
costumes and the many-colored blankets ,
and prints gave a rainbow appearance to j
the worshipers. Their faces were painted
with orange, blue, red and white j
paints, and when there was any consider- ,
able space of solid color there would ap- ]
pear fairly well executed figures of ^
moons, stars, birds and beasts, in con- ,
trasting tints. All had fans of feathers ,
and many wore head-dresses of fine furs, |
feathers, and even the horns of animals. ,
There are various puin-pums ,
during the year for divers objects, the j
one just celebrated being Tumauiinus, or ,
Chinook dance, held for the purpose of (
propitiating the Deity and bringing on ]
the warm winds from the Orient to carry t
off the snows. "When the winters are j
usually hard the Indiana do severe pen- ]
ance, and three years ago, when the cat- {
tie and the Cayuscs were dying by the {
hundreds, the Tumanimus lasted for c
ten days, and the self-inflicted punish- t
ments were of a .rigid nature. Sa-lu- 2
skin, one of the head Indians, took a ^
dull knife and hewed out great blocks of j
flesh from his arms, singing and dancing c
all of the time in religious frenzy. The r
next observance is the festival of the e
"reburial of the dead," when the bones ,
of Indians who have died or been killed c
will be exhumed, covered with new
blankets and exposed to the view of relatives.
Then comes the salmon dance,
at which the Great Spirit is entreated to ^
send a free run of that succulent fish j
which form so prominent a factor in the s
Indian food supply. j
The recent Tumanimus was under the t
direction of Co-ti-ah-kin the head medi- j
cine man, who directed the observances r
by means of a bell. For hours and j
hours the Indians would dance and chant ?]
their songs, which are not devoid of i
hafmony, until tired nature could bear j
no longer, and then they would fall on c
their knees and offer up their "amens' i
to the exhortation's of the medicine man. ,
The singing and prayers were all in the ^
native language, and even the lookers-on r
who were familiar with the jargon were i
unable to catch the drift of the importu- t
rings. ^___________
The Bee.
Here is a Bee. lie is a lively little
Bird. He likes to swarm. This is why *
tho great poet Burns said that Bees of a *
feather flock together. The Bee is most *
always healthy. The only Disease ho has *
is the Hives. Ho is a Builder. He 11
builds cells and calls them Honey and c
then sells them. He bites with his Tail 1
and his Teeth are poor. The Bee is an ?
honest Bird. He never gets on a Spree.
When a small Boy first learns his Letters *
he sees a B, and goes for it.?Chicago *
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jmount.
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The census officials estimate the pop- i
ulation, of the country at present to be t
60,000,000. - i
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The Sinking of the Tecumseli *~l
This accident occurred during the atack
made by Admiral Farragut on the
iefenses of Mobile, Augusts, 1804. Farngut
had been blockading this port with,
is squadron, ever since the beginning of
he year, but had been unwilling to make
ny attack upon the forts, because he had
othing but wooden vessels. In the later
part of July four monitors were sent
o him, the Tecumseli, Winnebago, Manlattan
and Chickasaw, and immediate
reparations were made to attempt thentry
of the bay. Eearly on the morning
if August 5, the fleet, headed by the Te umseli,
moved up the bay. At about 7
>'clock, when the head of the column
:ame abreast of the fort, the latter
tpened fire, and the action soon became
general. The Tecumseli had fired two
juns, and had loaded and was about to
iiu ugmn, wnen a large torpedo exploded
mder her, blowing an enormous hole in
ler bottom, just under the turrets. She
urched from side to side, careened vioently
over, and went down head forenost.
An incident is told of her brave
:ommander, Captain Craven, that should
ilways be linked with his name, as Sidley's
is with the cup of cold water. At.
;he instant of the explosion, the pilot and
le instinctively made for the nariow
opening leading to the turret below. Craven
drew back. "After you, pilot," ho
said. There was no afterward for him;
;he pilot was saved, but he went down
ivith his ship. Captain Jouett, of the
Metacomet, on seeing the Tecumseli go
lown, instantly sent a boat to the rescue
>f her crew, in charge of Ensign Nields,
m officer of the volunteer navy. Tho
boat pulled toward the wreck, and succeeded
in saving the pilot and nine of
;he ship's company. Two officers and
!ive men had also escaped in one of the.
Tecumseh's boats, which was towing
Alongside, and four swam to the fort,
where thev were made prisoners: thus
From over one hundred men on the
wrecked ship, twenty-one were saved.
Inter Ocean.
The Pilgrimago lo Mecca. ..
Extraordinary percautions are to betaken
this year, in connection -with the
innual pilgrimage to Mecca, bo as to prevent
a fresh inroad of cholera from Ara- ^.
L>ia into Europe. Especial care is to be
taken by the Indian government in regard
to these pilgrimages, so as to avoid theJread
diseases caused by overcrowding
ind the lack of ample provisions and water.
Every year several thousands of Indian
Mohammedans perform the 7iaj or
pilgrimage to the hol}T cities. The government
has legislated for the pilgrims,
ind has laid down stringent regulations
for their conveyance from Indian ports toJedda.
Special passports have been ea:ablished
to allow them to land at Jedda,
ind a Mohammedan protector of pilgrims
las been appointed at Bombay, in iorder
:o further take care of them. Special provisions
have been inserted in the nativepassenger
ships act with regard to the fit:ing
and provisioning of pilgrim ships,
which are now bound to carry a qualified
nedical officer if there are more than one
lundrcd pilgrims on board, and similar
>ercvitions will be taken in Egypt and
>n the transit of the Turks, through the
led sea. Jedda is the port for Mecca,
,hc holy city being about three days*"
ourney inland. It is the birthplace of
VIohammed, who was driven from that
:ity to Medina, A. D., 622; hence that
:pocli is called the hegira, or the flight
>f the Mohammedan era, from which
heir dates are reckoned. The port for
kfedina (one hundred miles inland),
vherc the prophet died, is Yembo, ISO
niles north of Jedda. The performance
>f the liaj takes place in August. Lastrear
over ninety thousand pilgrims landid
at Jedda alone, while huge caravans
vere directed to the holy city from all
>ther points of the compass.
Don't be too Fine.
Dr. T. Davidson, in his new book for
*oung men, "Forewarned, forearmed,1*
lits out at the "fiue young man" in thia
ityle: "He admires n scarf or a breaatjin,
and, as he must have it, he purchas- .
:s on credit, and, ten to one, before he
las money to Day, the one is threadbare
>r the other is lost, and so he grudges,
layment, and is tempted to evade it.
Hius the mischief grows. Don't seek to
>e too fine. Be manly enough to appear
ust fes you arc. Be contcnt to begin life
it the beginning, and to await, as others
lave done before you, till your income
warrants this or that unnecessary indulgence.
It is an awkward looking arangemcct
when a youth begins with the
nrge end of the horn, and cornea out at
he small end."
How Children Grow:
A remarkable physiological discovery
las been made by Rev. Mailing Hansen,
principal of the Danish institution for the
)eaf and Dumb. During a period of
hrce years, he has made frequent careful
ncasurements and weighings of the 130
hildren under his charge, and has cached*
the conclusion that the body
loes not incrcaso evenly in bulk and
leight throughout the year, but that durng
some months the child accumulates
?ulk and remains stationary in height,
rhile at another time there is growth in
tature with comparatively little incrcaso
n weight. These results aro confirmed
>y similar experiments in several smaller
nstitutions in Denmark.