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OT BT BELL POSTING.
Picturesque and Mirthful Effects Produced
With, Paste Pot and Bruah-Devils and
Angels Are Incongroously Mixed Up.
?Post No Bills" Goes.
All trades have their droll aspects,
but that of the billposter is one long
vista of fun. He may become an artist
comedian of the first order. It does not
require much brain weight either. An
old fence is his only arena, and his post?
ers are his stock in trade.
His fun is but momentary, but it is
potent "while it lasts. He accomplishes
it by means of the combinations he is
forced to make when he posts new bills
over the old ones. Some of the combina?
tions are very runny. Thus he is forced
. to become a mirth producer whether he
will or no, but there are seme among
the men who get; their livelihood in
this manner who intentionally place the
new bills where they will produce the
oddest if but momentary effects.
The reporter watched one of these
knights of the paste pot while he pro?
ceeded to cover up a rather flaming pic?
ture cf his satanic*" majesty with a bill
which portrayed a naval officer in full
uniform. The first section put on was
the officer's head. As it fitted exactly
on to MepMsto's shoulders the effect
was comical The next section brought
the naval man down to the bottom of
his coat From a short distance it ap?
peared precisely as though he was mi?
nus his nether garments and stood bare
legged in the rising .flames which en?
veloped him to his knees. The billposter
chuckled as he surveyed his work at
this point and asked the reporter what
he thought of it while he covered the
officer's nakedness with a pair of trou?
sers and shoes.
The billposter was quite talkative in
his way and spoke of the droll side of
bK business. "Did it never occur to
you," said he as he picked and sorted
some flaming colored bills preparatory
to pasting them on the fence, "did it
never occur to you what an odd and
amusing business this is? You saw me
put a uniform on the devil. Funny,
wasn't it? Well, it wasn't a patch to
the effects produced sometimes. These
bills have to be changed nearly every
week, and the posters get fixed up in
the queerest way. I've put angels' heads
on devils and devils' heads on angels.
I've put a man with a dress coat on
where a ballet girl was, so that it look?
ed as though the. skirts branched out
below where the coat was. I left it there
for a moment while I pasted other bills,
and quite a crowd gathered around. A
policeman came along, and I had to cov?
er it up.
"Once I had a Salvation Army poster
to put up, and when I pasted the top
portion of it over a bill advertising the
play of 'Julius Caesar' the large blue
bonnet of the Salvation Army girl fit?
ted Caesar perfectly. It was too bad I
had to spoil it"
"You see that ballet girl on the fence
over there? I have got to paste this big
cat over it Now watch me do it. "
He took a section of a bill with the
head of a grinning feline on it and plac?
ed it so that it fitted to the girl's shoul?
ders. A halo surrounded the cat's head,
and 'the whole affair had a puss in boots
air about it that reminded one of early
fairy tales. Near by on the fence was a
heroic size negro minstrel, whose im?
mense teeth showed through lips which
stretched form ear to ear.
"Now see how I will fix that fellow, "
said the man of the brush as he got
ready a bill on which a large tiger was
represented balanced on a big blue ball.
The tiger's position was on the upper
part of the poster. The first section fix?
ed the animal's head on the fence, and
with the next the body and feet were
pasted up. Then appeared a curious ef?
fect Where the blue ball was to be
pasted the negro's face still grinned,
but the tiger was now standing on top
of the man's head.
"That, " said the billposter, "is what
I call a real artistic effect It isn't often
an artist can create a Samson in almost
one stroke of his brush. '*
Following his pasting of the tiger, the
man proceeded to put up a bear. On the
spot where it was to go an overf at baby
held up a package of a compound much
advertised of late. The kear was built
up from the feet, which rested on a
horizontal bar. The bear's neck and tho
baby's neck touched the samo point, and
before the bear's head was pasted up
there appeared a combination of human
and bruto anatomy which could hardly
be equaled by a monstrosity in a dime
museum.
Bill posting has undergone a great
chango in recent years. It is not tho
haphazard business ic once was-that is,
"t is not allowable for men to go around
pasting bills wherever tL.ey could lind
a fence. Most of the big fences are pre?
empted now by firms who pay rent for
the privilege.
The old sign of "Post no bills" is
mofe potent than it was. Its infringe?
ment now may mean a lawsuit It used
to be very much disregarded. There is
record of a very literal man who was
arrested for infringing a sign which
read "post no bills under penalty."
When the judge asked him if he had
any excuse to offer, he said he had not
"posted under penalty. He had posted
further along the fence."-New York
World.
THE ELECTION RETURNS.
They Make the Easiest Night of ?he Tear
In- a Newspaper Office.
There is one night in every year in
every great newspaper office when work
is done that is the least understood of
ali that goes on in the making of a daily
paper, one night when the highest state
of fever attends the excitement and
strain of the most intense work that
fails to the lot of any men, except sol?
diers in war. That is election night.
That is the night when a few men sit
down at 6 o'clock before virgin sheets
of paper, with the knowledge that be?
fore 2 o'clock the next morning they
must cover those sheets with the elec?
tion returns of a nation, digesting
mountains of figures and apprising the
public of the results in the most con?
densed forms, weeks in advance cf the
official announcements, as sparks might
be counted while they fly from the
shapeless iron on a blacksmith's anvil.
And these calculations must stand the
test of comparison with those which the
rival newspapers, working without col?
laboration, as eager competitors, will
publish at the same moment
The election figures come in driblets
and atoms and must be put together as
the Florentius make their mosaics.
Soma of it, we shall see, is plucked
from the very air-as a magician seems
to collect coins in a borrowed hat-be?
gotten of reasoning, but put down be?
side the genuine returns with equal con?
fidence and almost accuracy.
Ah, but that is a work to try cool
heads and strong nerves. I am quite cer?
tain no other men in the world include
such a night of tension and excitement,
periodically, as a fixed part of a work?
aday existence. No other men, regularly
once a year, feel themselves so truly in
the focus of an intense public interest
manifesting itself in so many ways. -
Scribner's.
WEIGH WITH THEIR EYES. .
Expert Dealers In Live Stock Do Not
Often Use Scales.
The dealers in live stock who buy and
sell the thousands of cattle, hogs and
sheep which are daily handled at the
Bourbon stockyards must be expert in
guessing the weight of a live animal at
a glance. In conversation with a well
known stockman a few days ago he ex?
plained why this is necessary:
"It would be impossible to weigh the,
cattle in many cases because of the im?
mense labor involved and the length of
time it would take, while the market
price, which is subject to constant fluc?
tuations, might easily vary from its
highest to its lowest limit while we
were weighing the animals in one of
our big scales. For instance, today,
which has been the biggest day of the
year thus far, there have been received at
the Bourbon yards over 2,400 head of
cattle and about 6,000 hogs. Suppose
we had to drive all of those upon the
scales to ascertain their weight? There
are dozens of old stock men who can in?
spect a herd of animals and form an es?
timate of their average weight which
will be readily accepted by purchasers as
the basis of a trade.
"In a test case which was made some
time since a man who has had a life?
long experience in buying and selling a
herd of cattle, after inspecting a herd
of 500 animals, guessed their average
weight within one-third of a pound of
the actual figure ascertained by weigh?
ing the cattle individually. The feat
was accomplished by Mr. Ben D. Offutt
of this county and is not so extraordina?
ry as it appears, because similar in?
stances of expert 'guessing' occur here
every day."-Louisville Courier-Jour?
nal.
For a Sweet Breath.
Don't expect to have clean teeth or a
sweet breath while there is a tinge of
white on the tongue. It is an unmistak?
able evidence of indigestion. Drink sour
lemonade, eat ripe fruit and green vege?
tables for purgatives, exercise freely,
use plenty of water internally and ex?
ternally, and keep up the treatment un?
til the mouth is clean, healthy and red.
Various things are suggested to coun?
teract an unpleasant breath resulting
from a bad tooth, wine or garlic scented
dishes. Cinnamon, mint, creams, orris
root, cloves, mastic rosin and spruce
gum will disguise some odors. Ten
drops of tincture of myrrh in a glass of
water will sweeten and refresh the
mouth. A teaspoonful of spirits of cam?
phor or peppermint in the same gargle
is among the very best antiseptics, and
a few drops of myrrh and camphor in
the water are recommended in case of
cold, throat trouble or any slight indis?
position which may affect the breath. -
Philadelphia Times
X-ord Crowe's Collection.
Lord Crewe once, on the occasion of :
soint; charitable entertainment, leaned ;
up against a corridor wall, fast asleep. ?
with his hat in his hand. Soine wild j
youngmen started dropping copers and
half crownsiuto the hat until thechink
ing awakened him, when, with gay hu?
mor, he pocketed all the silver and p lt
ed his impertinent benefactors with the
pence.-London Million.
The "great bell" at Moscow weighs
443,732 pounds, is 19 feet and 3 indies
high and measures 60 feet 9 inclu s
around the lower rim. The bell meta] ;
in it is worth $30<, OOO.
THE SILENCE CURE.
A. Physician Who Says Women Hurt Their
Nerves by Talking Too Mach.
"I have- two or three patients who
are ill with nervous prostration, and
who could be cured if they would stop
talking," said a nerve specialist the
other day. ' 'They waste their nerve tis?
sue as fast as I can supply it, and they
ar' ~i the verge cf hysterics and acute
nc. JUS pain all the time. A woman, if
she be inclined to talk too much, should
time herself just as she would take
medicine and allow herself only just so
many minutes of talk.
"Now, the other day a woman who
is troubled with insomnia came into my
office for treatment. She had been tak?
ing drugs. She told me about her trou?
bles, and her tongue ran like the clap?
per of a farmhouse bell at dinner time.
I thought she never would let up.
Finally I stopped her.
" 'Do you talk as much as that very
often, madam?' I asked.
"She drew herself up and said in an
offende'l tone: 'This is no laughing mat?
ter, doctor, I assure you.. I am worn
out from lack of sleep, and though my
family do all things possible to divert
ix+y mind and I make calls and see peo?
ple all the time I get steadily worse.
I am worn to a shadow. Why, last
smnmer'
"And so her tongue rattled on until
I again had to stop her.
" 'Now, listen to my prescription,' I
said. 'Go home and keep still. Don't
talk. Time your tongue waggings. At
breakfast allow your husband to read
the newspaper without interruption.
After breakfast sew a little in your own
room. Read as ranch as you please.
Walk long distances if you are strong
enough. Do not make any calls. At
dinner talk all you please, but spend a
quiet evening. If you go to the theater,
do not talk much during the play. Ex?
ercise a little self deniaL It will be
hard at first, for you are a chatterer,,
but if you persevere you will succeed,
and your nervous system will get rest. '
"What did she say to that? Well, I
do not think she liked it. But if she
took me seriously I think I can cure
her in a month.
"Do I have many such cases? Well,
I should say I did. It is almost safe to
declare that there never is a case of real
acute nervousness unless the woman is
a talker. With a man it is different.
He may worry himself into insanity or
complete loss of brain power if his busi?
ness goes wrong. But the very nervous
woman is seldom a worrier. She is the
woman of leisure with a small family
-few in numbers, I .mean-to direct.
She buys their food, their clothing,
hires the servants and 'keeps house.'
She has no real worries. But does she
think she has? Oh, dear, yes! She
thinks she has more to do than any
other woman of her acquaintance.
" 'Keep quiet a few hours every day,
and you will be a well woman,' is
what I tell half my woman patients. .
When I can persuade them to try it,
they come back and say, 'Why, doctor,
I haven't been nervous enough to fly
since I began to try your queer prescrip?
tion.'"-New York Sun.
Chinese Hospitality.
"Very few people have any idea of
the great hospitality of the Chinese,"
said a Pittsburg Celestial recently.
"Chinamen coming to this country re?
tain their ideas of oriental hospitality
and always keep open doors for any of
their race who may need shelter. A
Chinaman arriving in Pittsburg without
money would never want for a lodging
and boarding place. He would simply
go to the first Chinese laundry or resi?
dence, feeling.assured that he would find
a welcome there. If, after staying a
couple of days, he should learn that the
circumstances of his host were 6uch that
the latter could not well afford to keep
him, he would move away, making his
home with another Chinaman. He
would continue doing this, dividing
himself up, so to speak, until he was
able to get work and support himself.
Of course such wanderers usually en?
deavor to find the most wealthy China?
men and become their guests. I have
known some of the laundries in Pitts?
burg to have 10 and 12 transient visit?
ors-you could not cali them boarders
-to stay over night. ' '-New York Homo
Journal.
Bullock Teams Against Railroads.
An instance of road versus rail com?
petition occurred here on Saturday,
when three bullock teams ladeu with
general merchandise arrive in Casterton
from Portland for Messrs. H. & G. Har?
ris. The goods had been brought by
steamer from Melbourne to Portland,
when they were loaded up by the well
known teamsters, Messrs. G. Humphries,
J. Taylor and A. McEachern, who drove
16 bullocks each. The drivers left Port?
land on Saturday week, where they had
gone with loads of wool. They give the
roads generally a good name and state
that on thc route they wore frequently
spoken to as to the competition against
the railway and a ret urn of the good old
days when the bullocks held full sway |
of the roads.-Casterton (Australia; j
News.
Railway Up the Jungfrau.
Tin- Swiss authorities have ar last :
sanctioned the plans for a railway up
thc Jungfrau. Thc railway will, in its
upper extremity, run in a tunnel, ris?
ing ii: spirals ia the interior of the
mountain and will end on a iitri>'
rocky plateau or. the western sido of
iii-' summit. The last j * ?-T : ? .> i of til-- as?
cent will be made, painful to relate, by
something so intensely modern as an
elevator. The narrow ridge ar tile sum?
mit will be leveled by ulastingfor a ho
FRAUDS EXPOSED.
Some of the Tricks of So Called Mind
Readers Solved by Dr. Hyslop.
Dr. Hyslop of Columbia college, says
a writer in the Boston Herald, has help?
ed to bring down several so called mind
readers who have visited New York.
The Taylors, a man and woman who
gave exhibitions in New York two
years ago and convinced nearly every
ono who saw them of the genuineness of
their manifestations, gave a private se?
ance for the benefit of this Columbia
professor and some of his scientific
friends. They found hidden objects,
they picked out cards that had been se?
lected from a pack and then shuffled in
again, and all the other familiar tricks,
with more than common success, one of
them staying in the room and being in
the secret, and the other coming in aft?
er all was ready and supposedly read?
ing the partner's mind.
All went well until Dr. Hyslop and a
confederate took the Taylors aback by
announcing that they could do the same
things. They had found that the words
used by one of the "mind readers'* in
calling the other into the room were
what gave the desired information. It
was discovered that by skillful arrange?
ment of not mere than six words a sur?
prising amount of information could be
conveyed. This is the first time the fact
that the Taylors were not genuine mind
readers has been made public.
Another "mind reader" exposed by
Dr. Eyslop and coinvestigators was
Guibal, who gave exhibitions in New
York recently and astonished hundreds
of persons, most of whom suppose to
this day that his tricks, -were- bona fide
psjehic phenomena. Guibal's assistant
was a woman called Greville, who sat
.on the stage, and who, so far as could
be seen for a long time, gave him abso?
lutely no sign of what was in her mind.
Guibal apparently read that mind as if
it were an open book. The whole thing
was found to be a trick, and the expla?
nation is no\r in the archives of the So?
ciety for Psychical Research. It is be?
lieved that Guibal and Greville were
the same persons whose performances
had amazed London not long before.
The woman breathed very heavily, and
the code of s ignals lay in the manner of
her breathing, messages being conveyed
by long and short breaths, something
like the doti, and dashes in the Morse
telegraph code.
SOME PEOPLE'S RELIGION.
Marion Craw; ord Writes a Pointed Little
j Lecture on Intolerance.
There are rery good and devout men
and women who take the world-pres?
ent and to come-quite literally, as a
mere fulfillment of their own limita
? tions; who look upon what they know
' as being all that need bo known, and
I upon what ti ey believe cf God and heav?
en as the u. echanical consequence of
what they laiow, rather than as the
cause and goal, respectively, of exist
tence and ad ion; to whom the letter of
the law is th 3 arbitrary expression of a
despotic pov< er, which . somehow must
be looked upon as merciful; who answer
all question!i concerning God's logic
with the tremendous assertion of God's
will; whose God is a magnified man,
and whose devil is a malignant animal,
second only to God in understanding,
while extreme from God in disposition.
There are jood men and women who
-to use a natural but not flippant
simile-take it for granted that the soul
is cast into the troubled waters of life
without tho power to swim or even the
possibility oi learning to float, depend?
ent upon the bare chance that some one
may throw it the life buoy of ritual re?
ligion as its only conceivable means of
salvation. J ind the opponents of each
particular form of faith invariably take
just such gc od men and women, with
all their limitations, as the only true
exponents of that especial creed, which
they then proceed to tear in pieces with
all the ease such an undue advantage
of false premise gives them. None of
them has thought of intellectual mer?
cy as being perhaps an integral part of
Christian charity. Faith they have in
abundance, ind hope also not a little;
but charity, though it be for men's
earthly ills, and theoretically, if not al?
ways practically, for men's spiritual
shortcomings, is rigidly forbidden for
the errors of men's minds. Why? No
thinking maa can help asking the little
question which grows great in the un
answering silence that follows iL-Mar?
ion Crawford in Century.
.Safety In Speed.
In the course of experiments with the
Maxim gun at Lydd camp bamboo
screens were the targets. The greater
the velocity obtained the less was the
effect on the screens. It was sometimes
almost impossible to see where the bul?
lets passed through. The inference is
that if a bullet struck a human being in
a fleshy but not vital part the injury
would be le? s serious than that inflicted
by a projeciile of less velocity.-Lon?
don Standard.
To Ca rrj- Electric Batteries.
It is probable that large numbers of
the German soldiers will bo equipped
with portable electric batteries weigh?
ing about half a pound. A small lamp
goes with it. and the invention will be
of great v:..luc tv> the men employed
about powdi r magazines. They are also
to be used for signaling from balloons
ar night and rar- be fixed '<> rim helmet
win :i the m -ii have t^ dig trenches alt?
er dark.-B :rlin Exchange.
Philip I of Franco fell out with the
queen, turned her out ot* doors and mar?
ried the wife of a nobleman, giving the
unique reason, '*! like her better than I
do my wife md can provide for her bet?
ter than her husband can. *'
CHANTING PRIESTS.
ft SERVICE OF SONG NO HEARER
CAN EVER FORGET.
An Important Part of the Greek Church
of Russia-The Baying, Bull-like Voices
of Monks Intoning Prayers For the Czar.
A Magnificent Tomb.
The chant of the priests' voices was
the most striking thing that I encoun?
tered in my travels in Russia a year
ago. Never in any place have I heard
music at all like it. More like the cry
of some great animal or the moaning
of a musical wind it seemed than hu?
man tones. Deep, strong, roaring, yet
soft and melodious, it haunted me as
no music had ever done. This intoning,
which forms so important a part of the
Greek church in Russia, is performed
by men who are chosen especially for
the tremendous depth of their voices,
to be used in intoning alone, not sing?
ing. Trained and cultivated into still
greater strength andtlepth, there is in
the whole wide world no human sound
like it.
There are only certain parts of the
service that cse thus intoned, such as
"Halleluiah," "Lord have mercy,"
"Lord, we pray thee," "Grant this, O
God, " but above all, "Save long, O God,
the life of the czar!" Over and over
again are these words moaned, sighed
and roared, like a varying wind, through
the arches and galleries of the splendid
churches of therr/jst splendid country
of the world.
There is a priest in the Church of St.
Saveur in MCSCDW who was pardoned?
and brought back from Siberia solely
because of the extraordinary depth of the
tones of his voice.
j These great baying, bull-like voices
bring to their owners, it is said, a very
good income. The last part of the serv?
ice is always the loudest, and the last j
words, in a tremendous final roar, are
always the petition to save long from
death the czar: Unlike the Latin service
of the Roman Catholic church, the com?
mon people of Russia can understand
much of the service of their church, as
a part of it is in modern Russian and
the rest in old Slavonic. Thus that cry
which rings through the churches to
save the life of the czar is understood
and felt by the humblest subject in
Russia.
Although this intoning can be heard
everywhere in the churches throughout
Russia, the best example of it is per
haps in the famous Alexander Nevsky I
monastery in St. Petersburg. At 4
o'clock every afternoon the priests' chant
can be heard there, and no traveler !
should miss this extraordinary spectacle.
In the winter, when the higher classes ;
are in town, there are long lines of ele
gant conveyances at the door, that have
brought the fashionable Russian devo- '?
tees to hear the monks chant But at !
all times of the year it is a resort not
only for Russians, but for the strangers \
from the hotels. The monastery is at i
the end of the fashionable Nevsky Pros- ,
pekt, the Fifth avenue of St. Peters- 1
burg. In the green inclosure there are :
many buildings connected with the ?
monastery, but it was to the chapel j
where the monks chant the evening :
service that we first directed our steps
one afternoon late in June. Far back in j
the dimness, in a chancel behind two
altars, was a collection of large, brawny j
men. Their long black robes, high
black velvet caps and long flowing
veils, all of black, magnified their
height and their imposing appearance. '
Their beards were long, and heavy
locks of hair hung like thick manes on
their shoulders.
They were already chanting, when
we entered, in these peculiar crganlike
tones which I found the most impress?
ive thing in Russia. How that strange
volume of sound moaned and rose and
fell throughout the structure! How it
waiied in our ears, like a mighty wind,
and always, whether loud or soft, in the
saddest, sweetest melody! There were
half recitative solos, chanted first by
one voice and taken up by the others.
"Lord have mercy!" "Lord grant it!"
they wailed and moaned until it seem?
ed as if the sound would never again
leave my ears.
After a time it ceased, and then the
procession of towering black robed
monks came out into the body of tho
chapel, leaving but little room for us
as we crowded ourselves against the
wall. Placing themselves with their
backs toward us and t?:eir facr^s toward '
the altar in a semicircle, they began j
again their chant, in a carr?rent and j
much louder refrain, "God save long '
the life of thc emperor!'' Never shall I ;
forget that semicircle of black monu?
mental figures nor the waves ot sound ;
that still vibrated on the air after their .
voices had ceased.
We turned away and walked across
the green courtyard, where many rich
Russians are buried. AU Klissi.ms es?
teem it a sacred privilege to lu- buried
in the soil surrounding a monastery,
and among those who lie here is t.'.o i
novelist Turgeneff. We traversed nu?
merous cloisters, with now and thea
rlii* tall, black veiled monks passing us i
until"we reached the chapel of Alexan?
der Nevsky, the czar monk who liz*
buried here-buried in such a tc mb a^
no other man ever had, for it is of solid
silver, weighing 3,250 pounds. Nor
only the sarcophagus but the altar near
which it stands and also the rails which
surround it are of solid silver. A like?
ness of the great czar, who was also a
monk, lies on top under a shoot of solid
gold. Diamonds and rubies gleam in
rhe sconces that hang here and there,
and the key of Adriancple, framed in
jewels, hangs near the silver tomb.
Strange mingling of austerity with splen -
dor is this wonderful chapel ! In this
same monastery are the famous coffers
of jewels and gold and gems untold that
were brought from Persia on camels'
backs during the reign of Alexander
Nevsky.-Cor. New York Sun.
Hungry Pike.
One of my sons, aged 15, went with
three other boys to bathe in Inglemere
pond, near the Ascot race course. He
walked into the water to about the
depth of four feet, when he spread out
his hands to attempt to swim.
At that instant a large fish came up
and took his whole hand into its mouth,
but finding itself unable to swallow it
relinquished its hold, and the boy, turn?
ing round, prepared for a hasty retreat.
His companions, who saw the fish,
scrambled out of the pond as fast as
possible.
My son had scarcely turned around
before the fish came up behind him, and
seizing his other hand crosswise inflict?
ed some very deep wounds on the back
of it. The boy raised his free hand,
which was still bleeding, and st ruck the
great fish a hard blow on the head,
when it disappeared. The other boys as?
sisted my son to dress, bound up his
hand with their handkerchiefs and
brought him home.
We took him to the surgeon, who
?tressed seven wounds in one hand, and
so great was the pain the next day that
the lad fainted twice. The little finger
was bitten through the nail, and it was
more than six weeks before it was well.
The nail came off, and the scar remains
to this day.-Fishing.
SHOSHONE FALLS.
Phenomena Which Give Rise to Stories
About This Wonderland.
Strange stories are told of phenomena
that appear at the Shoshone falls. Some?
times when the air is perfectly still the
spray arises several hundred feet above
the walls of the canyon and can be seen
on the plains at a considerable distance.
Then for days and weeks at a time there
is scarcely any spray at all. Often the
whole canyon around the falls will be
filled with spray, and every bark and
rock will drip with moisture. Again it
will be as clear as a frosty night under
the same conditions from influences that
no one has been able to discover or ex?
plain.
Often above the monotone of the fall?
ing waters weird sounds may be heard
unlike any that were ever named and
can be compared to no other, a::td again
from time to time a sudden throbbing
is audible, measured Ly regular inter?
vals, like the beating of a human pulse.
These, too, proceed from no apparent
cause, and science has been unable to
solve their mistery.
At the crest c." the highest rosk in the
center of the Shoshone fails is the nest of
an eagle, and for 34 years the same bird
has come regularly on the 20th, 27th
or 28th of March to repair and reoccu?
py it and raise a brood of young. Char?
ley Walgomet first noticed her when he
located here in 1800. The nest was
standing then, and as long as he lived
there, until five years ago, he kept a
record of her reappearance. She never
varied more than three days in her ar?
rival. Since his time the record has
been kept by others, who testify to the
same regularity.
The spray from the falls (tarries a
sediment which clings like frc st to the
windows of the little hotel and can be
scraped off with a knife. Mr. Keller,
who keeps the place, says that they
clean the glass every spring by laying
the sashes flat and pouring upon them a
solution of vinegar and salt. After they
have soaked for three or four days the
coating can be wiped ctr with a cloth,
but in a few weeks the glass is covered
again, as if it was frosted. The s crapiugs
look like the dust of lime. The same
sediment clings to the leaves of the
trees and vegetables that aro grown
around the place and can be scraped off
the rocks and the face of the bare clay.
-Chicago Record.
Made Bold by His Brush.
D?taille, the French painter whose
studies are all of military life, looks ev?
ery inch a soldier. He is tall, slender
and has a martial air. D?taille knows
absolutely nothing of the life of a soldier
except what he has read. At the age of
20 he was rather timid, but his charac?
ter began to change as soon as he de?
voted his brush to military subjects.
The name of Lake Ontario was first
noted as Skanodairo (beautiful lake1, lt
was also, at various limes and by dif?
ferent menn denominated Lac de Fron?
tenac, Lac de Iroquois, and Lac de St.
Louis. The Mohawks called it Cainda
racqui.
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