Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1892 Edition 02 — Page 7

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•or. St. Loeto OldbO'&Mftoevst I

ALWAYS liked hsntiof, bat I never will forget • qaeer host 1 had when f was after big gave.'' The epesker was Vaj. Arcbibaid Wendell, and one of the bees' known dabs in this eitj wee entertaining him. He wm well known a* a man of adventure, and

his story was eagerly demanded. “It wae In Ble Janeiro/' be continued, “the first month after my arrival. I met an old aeqaalutanee of mins. Jack Dora*, who bad »eea nearly Everything nod had been nearly everywhere, from Boston to Siigapora, We bad not met in three years, and there never was anything mare unlikely than our meeting in that oot-of-the-way place; and yet. I'll give yon my word that as 1 sauntered up the sbady tide of tbe etreet and mat him mum taring down wo looked op, recognized each other, and Jack cried, a* coolly ae though wa had parted not so hour ago, ‘Halloo* Arch? Want to go up ^Into the mind*? Lota of fun and good r bunting/ That Jack was a funny fellow. V# bad a ‘puli' with tome man that was making load* of money in the minee, and ha was at that time busily engaged in laying up for a rainy day. lie showed me hia bank-book, with acme very handsome figana to his eredit. Well, nothing suited ms better than to ms the interior of the country a little, and the and of it was that in ten minutes 1 bad promised to go, nod in laae than three hours we were on the way and Were rapidly leaving the city behind us. We bpd flue horses, Jack knew every foot of the way, and was friends with a

road. Jack

ait he said, where we

were going to apond tbe night. Jack kept telling storiee of fun at the mines and of tbe etisnosa for good hunting. Hat on the fourth day, as we jogged along, an accident happened which upset Jack's calculations lor tbat day. My hor*a put hia foot into a holt and fell, laming himself so badly tbat 1 had to walk aud lead him. For several boura we made but little headway, and dark eame down aud found us ten good mils* abort of the place where Jack had expected to atop. Thl* doesn't look very promising/ said Jack, dubiously, trying to peer ahead iulo the darkness. ‘There’s a nasty creak bottom ahead, and I hate like >ks to go throught it after dark. I

k Snake as long as the

Pi

•moke to go

caught a glimpse of

Atlantic eable in that bottom onoe, and I haven't got through running vet/ Hut the next moment he cried: ‘Why, what was I thinking of ? There’s a little hut just in the edge of the bottom on this side; an old herb gatherer llvee there. Why, of course! We'll apead tbe night right there.’ And hurrving ou we found tbe little hut, a miserable place enough, thatched with leaves and with a great hole broken iu wae corner of the roof, but a shelter at any ram. The old herb gatherer was away from home, but wa took poeeossioa, lighted a candied, helped our•elves to some food we found in the great aoraer cupboard, and stretched ourselves tu hia bad to steep. Wa left the caudle burning for fear of ghosts, Jack said, and 1 Remember looking the room over sleepily Ita dim light, and aaelng the tall, gaunt eunboard, whose doors we had left open, and the dark hole in the corner of the roof. The last thing that occurred to me was that

alee ware covered with his blood and the odor was simply horrible. Just as 1 looked oaths feud got himself coiled around a stoat oak chair, and with a tightening of the coils the chair was splintered. I incautiously opened the door a little too far. and be barled himself at me. I had barely time to pull tbe door abut when ho struck it. And then I got Jack to bold the light while I watched the •Bake's motions, took careful aim and fired. That shot finished him. He struggled and wriggled blindly all Over tbe room for a minute or two, but finally straightened himself and lay stUL And then Jack and I Crawled out of that eloeet more dead than alive, and Jack lit a fresh candle mad asked mo if hie hair wasn't gray. And then, there was the sequel; for the old herb gatherer wae never sees again. When wa fotifid that he had really disappeared. Jack aod 1 looked at oae another and cold chills ran over u*. for we felt as confident then as I do now tbat the huge snake, on some previous visit, had killed and devoured tbe helpless old man, and was mereiv looking lot another meal when he dropped himself down from tbat hole in tbe roof. No, we did not look for any more game on that trip. That one hunt in the nif^it and ift the

dark was enough for one time.”

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THE GA1HKB1XO OF TH* COfOTEft. Bow ft Strange, Tawnjr Army Seeuros

Breftttfast on the Iiosert. (Man Francisco Ezsminer.i

In the dim light of the e&rlv morning in certain part* of tbe Humboldt, Peranegat, Mason and other valleys may be seen a oueer, tawny army, marshaled iu some places by dozens and in others by scores. The army is called together by a reveille, and soon thereafter tbe strange music, which breaks tbe stilioess of tlie desert, swells into a chord, participated in by all

the members of the tawny troop.

It is the gathering of the coyotes, and they are dot, their appetites sharpened by tbe crisp air. to gab their regular breakfast of jerked jack rabbit meat. There is a sniffling amooir the sage and greasewood bv the avant couriers of the sharp-toothed brigade. Meantime all the others have been deployed in such a manner that when a fleet-footed jack has been raised from his lair he is passed on and on. The coyotes usually arrange themselves in the form of a long ellipse. Thus the jack, however large and strong he may be, and whether tt-et as the wind, is sure to wearv himself

at last.

He can not get out, for a wily coyote at every turn checks him and keeps him intho ellipse and in the lead of bis pursuer. When the ooyote in pursuit^ tires, another, fresh m the air of the morning, takes up the ehsse. Thus an untiring Nemesis is always after him, and in due time the panting rabbit falls a prey to the yellow troop. At the doatn they all rush in, their jaws working like fast-flying shearblades. The nbbit is cut in pieces, snapped up and eaten, and thou another weird reveille is sounded, another jack is started up, and thus they go for two or three hours sometimes, until the hunger of ail is appeased.

The hunting in troops, as is pointed out For several by Col. Joseph Grandelmyer, the sage-

brush pioneer, enables eaoh of the brigade of coyotes to get a good meal. If but one of the coyotes were to start after the rapIdlv Hying jaok, he would become quickly winded without affecting the jack, but with relays of coyotes, and one aiwavs to take up the chase when the other ia tired, victory soon perches on their banners. Grandelmyer insists that the coyote array is most scientifically generaled. The com-mander-in-ebief, a veteran of the chase, usually sits on some slight eminence, his lieutenant and aids being in full view to repeat

his orders.

“Never was there a better drilled army than this of the coyotes/' said he yesterday. “What they don’t know about maneuyering, ambuscades and the tactics of the field generally, it will take a long time to find out. I have studied them much. It is one of the most interesting sights of the desert to see the marshaling of the coyotes at tho sounding of the weird reveille and watch

their capture of the rabbits."

THIEVES AfLB HIS GAME.

CAKTOW A TEBOOB TO THE GANG OF WYOHUTG THIEVES.

Denfi* of Daring Performed By Him 1« Vindication rf tbe Law—Beard* ing a Deapenldo ia Hia Camp— Invading ad Indian Village.

1 could ••• two fiery eyes gleaming out of

thu darkness through that he

went to alasp. I had a dream that would

far the

hate fiono credit to a candidate for a Keeley Institute it was so full o( snakes uud crawling things; and after 1 hqd worried •ear it until I couldn't stand It any more I woks up. 1 lav there

several minute* looking at candle, which was burning

low. After awhile I raised ray eyes and started oil in a yawn which was frozen ou my face, as It were, leaving rav mouth wide open. For there, hanging from the hole in the roof aud gracefully waving to aud fro, waa about eight feet of a snake. And ■ueh a snake! Hors, I don't believe I am etaggeratiug one particle when I tell you that it was as large around as my body. While I lay there and looked at him, and saw those smooth, waving motions, that enormous head, and the darting tongue tbat wae kept iu eonstaut play, I felt per-, fectly conscious that this snake eould have § - swallowed me without a part,vie of trouh le. Aud, however anxious I might have been for sport, you kuow I had no anxiety to explore the interior of a boa constrictor. With some faint idea of selling mv life as dearly as possible, I slipped my hand softlv under the pillow and got hold of mv revolver. The motion, easy as It was, roused Jaek, aud he half turned. Instantly two or threo feet of tho huge, shining body slipped down through the roof, end the horrible heed came nearer. Jaek saw It, then—that cituao •f the world always so fertile in expedients—and with one wild shout of ‘Grvat Beottl Jump tor the cupboard, Aroh/b« flung himself in that direction, With a glimpse of returning reason 1 scrambled after him.and iu an instant we were crouched oh the floor, under the lowest shelf, with the door shut behind us. We were safe, tor the snake could not open the cupboard; and we sat there aodjaughed .gad cried iu the most nonsensical fashion, with cur selfcontrol entirely gone. ‘Well, if that snake ain't sold/ wae Jack's version of it, but 1 think he felt pretty serious when he >aid it. After awhile we began to find that it was too dose ia cur cramped quarters and I opened the door a tiny little bit so that we oeuld get a breath otair. We found then tha*. the candle had gone out aud the room was as dork as Kgyph But we could hear something moving in that dark room—soft, gliding motions teat made us thankful there were good, strong planks between us and the - something on the other side. Time began to pan somewhat heavily in the cupboard. 1 pressed my face close is the crack in the deer to get more fresh air, and suddenly something lightly brushed over mv face, again and again. 1 didn’t know what it was at first, but all at once it flashed upon me that it was the tongue of that snake. That' waa more than I could endure. With a murmured warning, ‘Lookout, Jaek; I’m going to fire/ i put my revolver to the crack and fired at the horrible creature that was caressing me with its slimy tongue. Of ceurse, shat up in that hit}# closet it pounded like the very erack of doom, and we were deafened so that it was some time before we could bear anything. When we reeevered a little such aooude as did greet cur ears! Half a dozen wild horses couldn't have made more noise than that •ftftke was making. We eouid hear it leap away up against the walla and fall and twlat and writhe, lashing about with its tail and knocking down everything iu the room. At the eame time the air

i so heavy with the rank, poisonous

that the mptile emitted that both ef traed deathly sick, and Jack began

At last, wkile the snake wae ' the walls on the other side" », 1 opened the door a little way, out in the dark and found the can-

I had one last match in my pocket. If it should go ont I thought it was all np with us, for I was qaite sure wo couldn't

*" ■' eloeet. Bat fee*

goad one and I tats the room a wrack. Coiling,

BUNNINU A BAIuBOAxi IE UP AXE. Engineers tetop to View tho MghU and

t’anduotors Go Bunting. (.Contemporary Bsview.j

I had been told-about Spanish trains not being punctual, of Spanish clocks varying, and so forth, but between Barcelona and Valencia I found I still bad some things to learn. Of course the train eould not go on till the sUtionmaster bad done his coffee, nor could the engine be got to move till the driver had finished flirting; the swashbuckler guard, armed with sword and carbine, , has also affairs of .his own which may unexpectedly be permitted to control the Spanish pilgrim’s progress. But what is this? Iu open country, miles from any station, the train suddenlypull* up. I had noticed a mao galloping across country. Well, be had been thrown in an adjacent field. The villagers were assisting him to rite; one held his horse. The group caught the engine-driyer’s eya; ha simply stopped the train out of sheer curiosity. Further, will it be believed that most of the people got oat and rmo to join the gaping group? And weactuallv stopped on this idle errand for about twenty minutes, to tbe great conteat, apparently, of all but half a dozen Knglish, including myself, and two Ameri-

can ladies, v

Night came, but no rest for me, the firstc ass carriage being by that time not onl v crowded, but filthy. The official ticket collector was among us. Besides his uniform be wore a hunting-pouch and had brought his fowling-piece. After snipping our tickets he smoked himself to sleep. As day dawned he woke up and got talkative. He then coolly told the astonished travelers that, although bound to inspect tickets for another fifty mites, he should get out at the next station, have a little shooting on the Sierra Morona mountains, and catch the return tram about midday. The train eoou stopped; he wished ns all a polite good-bye, raising his official cap, got out with hitguu and pouch, and we saw h m no more- I ventured openly to disapprove of his conduct. A Spanish gentleman shrugged hia shoulders sympathetically, but seemed astonished when we talked of reporting the inspector, as if Spain could not go on at all if thisaort of foreign intervention were oouatenaueed. I at onoe appreciated the situation. I felt

his amuse-

‘robbing the poor ^ ad. The moralist within me became dumb; I sank te the Spanish level, and held my peace. Millions of Oulachan Fish. [Kew York Sen.] A few daya ago the Columbia river was reported to be swarming with millions of delicious little fish known as oolaohana. It was the beginning of the annual great run ef the fivh, which lasts usually about tea daya. The oolechana furnish the Indiana one of their principal items of food for •boot six months of the year. Five canoe loads of fish were canght by a few Indians with the old-fathioned rake the first day of the run. Before coal oil was common*the Indians dried tbe fish in groat quantities to fornish light in the winter. 'Were Almost it Not ttwlxe to Hia Boots. <New York San.i Selectman Bishop, of Chester, Goan., was driving to Uadd&m when his horse ehied at a big snake in the road. Mr. Bishop killed the reptile with hia whip. While examining it he was surprised by feeling another snake curling itself about his leg. He •hook it off and killed it. Thou he found

UBeyeftneftrye.) eer. Chicago Herald. | OB four yearn Frink If. Canton, oae of tho regulator leaders, waa sheriff of Johnson eountv. Before an d after that be arms depa t y United States marshal for northern Wyoming. During all this time he owned a small ranch near Baflhla. Hs is e spirit for a forlorn hope. No undertaking could be so desperate as to eaoas him to hesitate. He is about fire feet nine, will weigh 150, aod of florid complaxion; quick, light eye; alert, yet reposeful; not at all nervous, bnt of instant notion. Hit judsrment is never questioned, and he always leads to show the way of hirown counsel. While peace ( officer of the present rustler district he served personally every warrant placed in kia bauds. This meant 509 arrests, and four-fifths of tbe prisoners were the wont frontier characters. It was bin custom to work alena when after a man without com-

pany.

*‘Teton rt Jackson, the premier horse-thief of the mountains, was arrested by Canton in the Big Horn basin. Jackson had been one of General Crook’s scouts in that country in 1876, and knew every ravine and water hole. He waa ft giftat of six feet two inches stature, and nearly three hundred weight His descript.ou was ft shock of fiery red hair, heavy whiskers of the same color and a mall, black eyas. Jackson waa forever shooting at members of his own gang and strangers. He never made but ooe hilling, and then beat his victim to death with an Indian war-club Id Camp. It was in the fall of 1887 that Billy Hoeford, an intrepid young officer in special service, wired Canton at Buffalo, from Hlackfoot, Idaho, that “Teton" Jackson bad started east with a band of 200 stolen horses. A letter foliewed, and told that the thief Was going to Booth Dakota with bis plunder, and would undoubtedly pass through Canton’s district Frank calculated that Jackson would stop id tbe Big Horn basin for rest The deputy at Paint Rock was instructed to hasten to Buffalo on the appeafnooe of strangers with horses. Canton put his favorite saddle animal in training, and enlisted two trustly men for the expedition. There was a reward of $1,200 for the capture of Jackson. One day the deputy, with his hone 4-foam, dashed into Buffalo and reported that a man, who must be “Teton" Jackson, was camped near Point Rock with five othera and one hundred bead of horses. The buccaneers bad split to quicken traveling. Canton and bis two men and the messenger, freshly monflted, started at once. In ten hours they bad covered seventy-five miles, and from a screen of willows looked upon the cabin of the arch thief and his men. The council was brief, for Canton is almost a silent man. Said he: “I will take Jackson and the man nearest him. You attend to the others." This was his idea of a fair division of toil. Over the grass they galloped lightly to the house of the thieves. Their horses would stand anywhere, and they had but to dismount and rush in. Canton leading. Jackson sat smoking ou a pile of buffalo robes beside the door. The other five were plaving oirds on a blanket. Their rifles were in a corner, and all the six-shooters lay beside the chief. Canton threw down ou Jackson double. Gazing into the muzzles of two navys, Jaokson reached for his own, heard Canton say “Don’t ’, and surrendered. The quintet was helpless. The prisoners were handcuffed and taken to a ranch ten miles awav for the night. Next evening all were landed in the county jail at Buffalo. “Teton" Jaekson waa sentenced to serve fourteen years in the Idaho penitentiary at Boise. In a year be escaped by shooting a guard, having been supplied with a pistol. He ia back iu the Teton basin with a strong gang, aud they handle uo less than 3,000 horses annually. When Jaekson had been in jail a month he wrote an appealing letter to Canton. He consumed enormous quantities of chewing tobacco, and was starving on the prison aliowanee. Hie digestion was poor and he required some light food. Canton sent him a caddy of tobacco and a twenty-dollar gold piece, and received profuse thanks by mail. After the departure of Jackson there was found iu his cell a death list. And lo, the name of Sheriff Canton led all the rest. Perhaps Canton’s most daring bR of work was tbe arrest, single-handed, of Bam and Heaver, two Araphoe outlaws, on the Wind River Indian reservation, two hundred miles from Buffalo. Cowboys rounding up in the Big Horn mountains came upon a couple of Indians dressing a range steer they had shot. The reds escaped much as did Jack Flagg at Nolan’s rauoh. Among other things, they left a hat upon Which waa rudely lettered “S A M/’ They also lost a pony. The case was given to the

sberiff.

Signs told that the bucks were Arapahoe#, aud of oourse they lied to the reservation, feeiing that security would he found in the tribe of one thousand souls. Canton eoent a week getting descriptions of the savages aud then journeyed direct to the home of the vagrants. Tbe agent refused to assist the oflieer, and none of the reds claimed the pony. Somehow Canton learned that his men were probably in the camp of Sharpsose, tbe war chief. He prepared te start alone, but the authority gave him au escort of two mea. Dae was of great aid. The other weakened and quit. Canton penetrated the tepee town without awakening a dog. The guide pointed out the home of Bam, a notorious rascal. Caotou gathered a bunoh of white brusb, made a torch aud entered. The fugitive waa not there. Iu an instant the village was in a great uproar, curs yelping, squaws •creaming and bucks grunting and talking

loud.

From the tepee next the one invaded there rushed a young woman greatly agitated. Bering Canton she trembfiaglv questioned: ‘‘You don’t want Bara, do you?" “Yes, I do/’ answered the sheriff, and he jumped through the hole in the canvas and put the haadouflb on Sam. The young woman was Mollie Match, a graduate of Carlisle. She. actad as interpreter in

court.

Canton camped with the Indiana till after sun-up, had breakfast and a smoke, and then demanded Sam’s partner. Sharpnose was irate. He ewere he would scalp the rash paleface before he would allow oue of bis people to he taken away. A runner had been dispatched after Hlack Coal, the shrewd old ehtef ef the tribe. He end Canton had known each other some years before, it developed. After a short pow-wow Black Coal sent one ef his policemen for Beaver, the other culprit. Caaton left at once with his prisoners. He was followed to Buffalo by Indians, but had no trouble. Bam aod Beaver apeat twelve mouths together ia Joliet t»r. MeLeoa On c hnnge ot Creed, rztew York Tribune.]

Caught the Fever. >Herpery Bazar.) “What have you named roar-baby, Kastus?" “Sam Pro Tern Johnson, sah." -What is the Pro Tem fotf" -To ghow dat do name is only temporary, sah. We kind o’ thought Sam might like to choose his own name whoa be growed up, sah, so we jrat the Pro Tem in aa a warnin' to do pub-

Alwajra The second basemen.

Rev. Dr. McLeod, of Albany, preached

day, and de-

two more, and, taking off his coat, he went to work. When he^ot through he ranged

the whole lot beside the road and counted ... ^ th - . „ . . ;:~i '• "* * bi * work £

on “Heresy Hunters" Inst Snn^.,, clared that this appellation shonld not be

Uets of their respeotiv* eburehee. “A man has a right to change his creed, of coarse/’ •aid he. “but it M 'got a manly act for a Christian minster to sfeftnge his creed doles he also at the aaiad tone changes hia

ohoreh relations.”

Lynch Lew to Algiers.

IFnlt Matt Ctoaette.)

Lynch law has bean prsetieallv established in Algeria, with tho moral eonaivmm am raf Am AntHAiiftiMH.) 'H'lia nrimiti fa state of thingg has teen brought about owing to the tank of jodgea and goa d'

nrmea. The other day an Arab who had assaulted and Main a little girl near Constantine, under circumstance* of atrocious cruelty, was followed by some of his indignant fellow-countrymen, seised by them, ana flung over a precipice before the police could interfere. In the space of eighteen months eight criminals, some of whom were convicts returned from Cayenne, have been •bet for murder and robbery without the

benefit of trial by jury.

A TOWS BEAMS A MABTf B* Eft ME.

IM Beao'Onia.) ecr. Mew Tort FSeeal Among tbe many new town* that have sprung ap tike magic in th!* remarkable country, one has been named Hennessey. On the choice of tbat name bangs a romantic atory of a tragedy of the plains. At the time of tbe Cheyenne Indian outbreak in 1877, an Irishman named Patrick Hennessey drove a Government freight wagon from Caldwell to Ft. Beno. On one of hie tripe be bad for passengers two soldiers and a young “tenderfoot” New York boy, who wanted to see the wild aide of li/o on the plains.. It was a beautiful fall morning when Hennessey tightened up hia reins and headed for old Beno. It was a dangerous drive, for the country was full ef warlike Cheyenaes; but all that day aod the next the uarty traveled without seeing any signs of Indians. At nightfall of tbe second day they turned into camp at the head of it great “wash.” just above the pretty rallev of Turkey ereek. These “washes” are supposed to have been made by vast bodies of water centuries ago. This one had banks a hundred feet high, which extend out iu the open prairie ia tbe shape of the letter Y. At sunrise Hennessey reconnoitered, saw suspicious footprints on the bluff and decided on no immediate start, bnt a broken harness delayed tbe party until 8 o'clock. Just oa tbe lumbering old train wagon got fairly oat of the “wash" scores of reds came galloping down Turkey creek valley, paiuted and frescoed in all ibeir tints of war. They immediately attacked the freighters. Hennessey and his eomuaDions were well prepared with firearms -and plenty of ammunition, hut the soldiers proved to be cowards. In the bustle ef piling np tbe merchandize in tbe zhape of breastworks they loosened two of the horses end escaped into the forest a mile away, leaving tbe old driver and the New York boy to fight alone. The Indians charged up the wash and fired, killing one of the two remaining horses. They were repelled by a volley from the sixteenshooter carbines in the hsrads ef the occu-

pants ef the wagon.

The next volley shattered one of the New York boy’s arms, ren lering him entirely beipless. The brave-hearted Hennessey bound tbe wounded boy to the remaining horse, and with a cat of the lash seat the animal with its wounded rider into the woods. A few of the Indians charged after the injured lad. At this moment Hennessey made a dash for the “wash," carrying with him two sixteen-shooter carbines arta two large navy revolvers. He found concealment in a crevasse in the rocks that admitted of approach only direotly in front. For two hours that* little niich in the bank belched forth its deadly streams of fire and the victims of the unerring aim of the brave Hennessey were strewn in all directions. He had emptied his revolvers and one of the carbines when the Indians, thinking he had rnn out of ammunition, made a charge. Henoessey fired so rapidly from his remaining carbine that its magazine “heated" aud melted a cartridge. In a moment he was captnred. The Indians bound him to one of the wheels of the wagon, the oats that constituted a part of the load, were piled up around him and

the torch appied.

■ The New Yorker escaped and sent assistance. The rescuing soldiers came upon tbe Indiana as they were in the midst of their dance about poor Hennessey. So hastily were they compelled to flee that they did not have time to carry off their dead. Maj. Wiegal, who was in command of the rescuing party, jumped from hi* mount and cut Hennessey down, but he was dead, in liftbim out of the pile of oats, his legs, burned

to a crisp, dropped from the body.

Brave Hennessey Was buried ou the spot where he gav.v up his life, jtnd the Government, to particularly honov the heroism of this noble-hearted man/> placed marble slabs around the grave. On one of them the atory of his valor is. told. Near by in a trench the soldiers buried twenty-seven Indians, the victims of Hennessey’s unerring aim. Iu making theienrvey for the Roek Island road, Hennessey’s tomb •came within the company's right-of-way, and, to do honor to the memory of him who had given up his life so heroically, the comnany laid out a beautiful little town within a hundred yards of this historic grave and

called it the city of Hennessey. > PatriotWw at West Point.

I New York Times.!

Everything at West Point tends to inculcate patriotism, and the chapel is unique in tbat way. One knows instiuctivelv upon entering that it is a chapel from the pew arrangement and the pulpit at the far end. If one gees far enough in, and looks back and up, one discovers tbe singers' gallery and a church organ. But otherwise the place ia a ailent instructor in patriotic reverence and in post military deeds. It is a good place in which to preach sermons to yonng sol-

diers.

Over the pulpit ia an allegorical painting, executed years ago by the late Professor Weir. Upon it is the inscription: “Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." Beneath it, and immediately above the preacher’s head, is a large carved and gilded American eagle, with outspread wings. It stands on a pedestal, from which bangs a blue-silk banner with the words: “God and our

country.*’ «

Facing each other in the western and eastern walls are two niches covered-with protecting glass and containing flags captured in war. One contains these faded •ilk reminders of the Mexican war, the other of the revolution. Surrounding them and all along the length of both walls are tablets to the memory of officers of ths revolution and tbe war’with Mexieo. Those along tbe western wail commemorate the general offioers of the revolution. One reads there the name* of Lincoln, Lee, Steuben, De Kalb, Lafayette, lerael and Rufus Putnam, Montgomery, Hand, aod scores of others. One tablet has a rough blank where the name should be. It is to “Major General /’ Tfiat is, to Benedict Arnold. Cadets retain the suggestive memory of that tablet longer than all the

others.

Opposite arc the tablets of the Mexican war, includinf the names of ail etommisaloned officers killed daring that war. These are grouped, the names of officer* killed in each action being placed together on one tablet. Seme contain thirtv names. The newest tablet is at the right of tbe entrance, on the northern wall. It is te tbe memory of Firat Lieut. Edward W. Casey, Twenty-second Infantry, who was killed by a Brule Indian, Jannary 7, 1391, near Pine Ridge Agency, Sonth* Dakota, during the hostilities of that year. It is the only tablet (in the chapel to the memory of an officer killed during an Indian campaign, ami many officers have gone tbat

way. '

From a Medical Examination.

; Fliegende Blaetter.]

Professor—If a person shonld be thrown into mid-air by an explosion, what would

you do?

Candidate—I would wait until he eame down and then ask him where he waa hart.

From Tito*

*M, the

waves, except when the wind dashes the i lahdward. But at time*, especially when e winter sheets of lee undermine the

! Leaden Btaadaed. I

For ages, for thousands of years. Indeed, the trade ia “elektron"—being one o< the oldest in Earepe—the low aheres of Bara land, in eastern Praseia, and especially the neighborhood of Palmnicken, have been worked. Yet net a year passes without the harvest being as abundant as ever, or pieces weighing several pounds being brought to the surface. Apart, however, from those regular digging*, amber is found all alobg the Pomeranian and Prussian, shores of the “East sea,” aadfcs far wait at the Danish

sound.

Evm in the true amber region there are collectors who explore the coast in boats, watching for places where the winter frosts and the zaanuer rains have revealed lamps, which they detach by means of long Doles. Tbe akfteet tideless Baltic is not ntneh vexed

by waves, exc sea lahdwaM.

the winter a sandy cliffs, noble finds are made. Then, during the spring months, or if perchance

u storm bus come to the help of tbe amber gatherer*, crowd* of leuther-cled fishers

may be seen wading into tbe sea armed with nets fer securing tbe drifting noduiee.dredgingor diving for them in deeper water, or simply picking them out from among the

stone* of the narrow beach.

Altogether, about 320,000 pounds are every year marketed in Prussia, the deposits being for the most part State property, though the Konigsberg and Dantrig trade is almost entirely in the hands of Jewish dealers. In the Konigtberg Museum there is a piece weighing eleven pounds. But this ia not the largest known, tbe Royal Cabinet in Berlin treasuring a lump of fifteen pounds, which ia valned at one hundred times as many sovereigns, though pieces of ten and even six pounds are so very rare that the recent hauls are well worthy of

record.

It is believed that a large area of eastern Prussia contain* arflbef deposits, the remains of vast forests of a peculiar species of pine which at oae time cotwred that part of the country, and as the insects which devoured the wood and foliage are often preserved in the heart of this fossil resin, the study of these deposits has proved fruitful in geological discoveries. pigeons port ottt matt. Experiments With the Carrier Eiro* Which May Result In Their Dae.

)Baltimore Snn.1

The United States practice ship Constellation, which sailed on the cadets’ summer voyage Mouday^ afternoon, had aboard a number of homing pigeons, to be used as means of communication betwen tbe ship and points ashore. The birds will be liberated at intervals and are expected to bring official messages from the practice vessel to the Naval Academr', where aloft or cote ha# recently been established. _ If the experiment should prove successful, the Government will probably find |it profitable to the navy to encourage the homing pigeon Service with the small appropriation needed to carrvout the plans of the projectors of the enterprise. At present the facilities for training birds at the Naval Academy are limited, no Government appropriation being available. At Ft. Monroe the first stopping place of the ship, it is possible several trained birds from Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York will be taken aboard and dispatched with information from the cruising grounds. The headquarters at Washington will also be posted of the whereabouts of the vessel through winged messengers from that city. A loft of the birds to accompany the ship will no doubt be sufficiently trained toward the close of the voyase to be useful in convey-

ing messages ashore.

The practicability of the homing-pigeon service has been satisfactorily tested by communication with the ships* of war anchored off Annapolis *nd from vessels plying between Baltimore, Annapolis and other points. If these experiments should be successful, they will demonstrate the possibility of a vessel cruising along the coast at a distance x>f over one hundred miles, where no other means of communication would be possible, to be kept in constant interoourse with the shore. This prompt service, it is claimed, would $e a great advantage to the Government The experiments will be continued during the entire ernise of th* ship’ and will be watched with unusual interest A. Work of supererogation.

r«ew York Tribune.]

An old resident of Buffalo, sick in bed and likely to die, sent for a lawyer to make his will, that he might dispose of his lifelong earnings and savings. He told the attorney that he had $30,000 and proceeded to dictate Iub disposition*. To his wife be gave $15,000 and $5,000 to each of his three children. These bequests were to be firs't paid, and then he went on to dispose of the residue: “Considering the love and affection that I bear to my beloved nephew John. I give and bequeath to him $5,000. Considering the love and affection that I bear to my two nieces, Sally and Pollv, I give to each one of them $5,000." And* lie was going on, when the lawyer laid down

his pen and remarked:

“This seems to me a work of supereroga-

tion.” ,

“What do you mean?" inqnired the tes-

tator, surprised at the remark.

“Why, said the lawyer, “you say yourself that you have but $30,000, and you have given all that to your wife and children, .and I wm thinking that if you have nothing more, I don’t see hew your nephew and nieces are going to get anything." The old man was nettled, his eyes showed fire, notwithstanding his weak state, m he

answered:

“Git it! How are they goin’togitit! Why, dorg on ’em, let 'em work for it. m I

had to do." # .

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Hard to Flbd Members la That City.

IPhiladelptil* Record,!

That very weird local dub, the Club ef Braiqs, whose members have all pledged themselves to bequeath their gray matter to the doctors for tbe good of science, is reported, whether or no correctly, to have recently blackballed a candidate for membership. “My dear sir," read the letter denying the petition, “we regret exceedingly to be obliged to refuse a member to a club necessarily so short ef members m ours i*. but truly you are ineligible. You could not take our oath without perjuring your-

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