Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 September 1897 — Page 3
THE DAILY BANNER TIMES, GREEN CASTLE. INDIANA
I STRANGE STORY OF MARY REILLY. \
From the St. l^ouks Chror'olc
goo.] oduoation.Kbb has not or displayed any such facility in composition or such felicity of expression as that indicated in sonic of her ’‘coniniunications.” The unknown spirit whoso supposed messages -'he records at times assumes various names.but the address
Mary Reilly is <>ne of the most wonjcrful girls of the century. She is ceruinly the most puzzling. Through her mentality, it is claimed, a lost soul communicates with a world where it onrn dweit In the flesh and'reveals therenditions under which it now exisfti. Its melancholy utterances turn the tilood to ice. They are drearier and moro despairing than cries of Prometheus, bound to the side of frosty Oaua siis, wi.h nothing in protp et th ough time and eternity save endless and almost unbearable suffering. This lost soul seems to speak through the frail body of this wonderful girl, and even she does not understand the process nor the source of her pewer. Material-
ists are outwitted by her demonstra- j longing ft . 1 know not what." tions. Spiritualists are delighted. Her | ' Hav» yo ph; si „• -ensa
strange utterances it must have hern in her sleep, as she never remember* to have seen or listened to them before. The rankest skeptic concedes that to suppose her the perpetrator of a willful deception is ridiculous. A few of the learned men who have witnessed the manifestations are of opinion that the observations are the composite thoughts of all those preseut at the seances. Miss Reilly is extiemely unwilling to give exhibitions of her-power, to slrangers, and only a select few are admitted to the sittings.
VISION OF THK BAYOU
OCCURRENCE OF TEN AGO RECALLED
YEARS
ViihIh That an<3 l.utf.r Gave Forth I>ei»oi)la«* Wail* «*n«l Sobs That Foretold the Advent of a
Most Oestructlve Calastrojihr.
is invariably given as hell. \mong its Tlle > <iu iig lady has been repeatedly first communications v as description llr Ked to visit other cities. Idberai of the sights, sounds and sensations ‘ompensation and wide increase of repcharacteristic o* its abode. . utation are promised. She not only When :: died to dr:, ribc t*:- rertures ' refuses all such offers, but threatens, of hell, the s.ip-i.i ed spirit d' livered it j i' 1 '’ase tliey arc continued, to stop her self of ihi. rem;. ii.iljic production: 1 iierformanccs altogether. Interested “A namclc s vo <•:« > . uev«--cca .ng I persons, however, will tiy to induce
regret. An agony without a name for someone or something forgotten. Dreariness unspeakable. A restiecs
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exhibitions surpass anything previous- 1 ly known in their philosophy. Nobody who has witnessed them doubts the genuineness of her power. Skeptics who have investigated say there is not the slightest trace of deceit in her manifestations. either on her part or th* part of those under whom- auspice.- jlie exhibitions are given. She has confounded the wise and temporarily set at naught the arguments of those who have no faith in spiritualistic teachings. .She is a mystery. Miss Reilly resides at Sioux «'ity. la. Her family is well known in that city. She is 19 years old, bright and well educated. None of her 'ajnily are spiritualists, and the discovery of her apparently wonderful ability to communicate with ihe spirit world was made purely by accident. Miss Reilly was born a.. Crete, Neb., and is the youngest of a family of six, all of whom are living. Both father and mother we.re of Irish parentage, and the children were brought, up in tho Catholic faith Several years ago Mr. Reilly retired on a competency and moved to Lincoln,Neh Three years ago Miss Reilly went to Sioux City to keep house for her broth cr, T. C. Reilly, telegraph editor of the Sioux City Journal. She is 5 feet, u inches in height and weighs UTi pounds. Her figure is slender, her complexion blonde. She cares little for society, but is interested in,anything of a literary nature. Among those who have witnessed her perform antes and say they are willing to vouch for them are J. H. Quick and fc2.‘ H. Hubbard, lawyers; J. Perrin Johnson, physician; W. J. Grandy, hanker; William Magivney, assistant manager of the Sioux City stock yards; Miss
be- < give a private exhibition for 1 be benefit of eastern psychologists. They may lie able to determine the sonri'c of these strange manifestations, ( but at nresem Miss Reilly is the won-
! dcr of the day.
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A SCRAPPY RAINBOW TROUT.
ms?"
"Sometimes ) seem to have. They art- all of pain. Pain (acted i;y • x reme terror and hardly separated from meu-
tal ang.'.ish."
"You speak of terre- Of what?" ,r> ^ , ’ ut *'> “ Tank wiiern lie "Th, awtul shap'-t and frightful ,l “ ,, to sounds that glbh an ring throng! A distinguishing characteristic of the to' Moan* an - I jr. r ®inbow trout it its fondness for scrapting name t > eypr* -- :i. :c.ro. 'hey ' •’’"K There was an illustration of its
inspire.
Do . on trj to at oid them? "Yes. I avoid one by flying to another. There is no escapt. Sometimes then is a stillness tlia' yo i of i the w orld have new - heard. Evcry1 thing is nothing, and yet you exist in , wonder and horror It is as if you I were a new burr, hild with the-mind ! of a man. You cannot prove existence ! tiy sight, sound, taste, feeling or reaI son. Yei you know you are something. I somewhere, with an overpowering de1 sire to Uec ail your faculties and no
ways in this particular the other day at New York city aquarium. A number of rainbow trout weighing from one-half to three-quarters of a pound eai h. which hud been received from tin state fish hatchery at Cold Spring harboi. were placed at the Aquarium in a display tank, in which there was al-eady a rainbow weighing about half pound, which hail been there for
surm time.
The new trout were received in good condition, hut they were tired after traveling, as. fish always are, and
power to do so. Oh, the awfulness of ! they wanted a chance to rest. The
Frances Cobh, teacher, and E. W. Cald- 1 long ago when
being nothing, and yet remembering you were something. “What foundation b there for the doctrine of bell fire?" "It is al! a.crude mind an t-onaiive as terrible. I would like to burn. It Id be something real. Your reason is only a power given you to actiistom you to your surroundings. Life without reason is hell." "But von have reason, but not tin power to make my s roundings seem familiar. 1 can never quite decide if a thing bu- power to
harm me."
"What things?"
■■Shrieking of wim Darkness. Hideous, glia-itly shap<r. Tliey never have harmed me, nut still I fea- th< m. In life I should have .cased noticing Gum
l found them harm-
old trout, however, immediately began hustle them about the tank. It would dart, up to one of the new fishes, which was swimming slowly along, and bit at it. The startled fish would start up and hurry off to the other side of the tank. As likely as not the old fish would not pursue it, but would watt for the next one to come along, and then bite at that one, and start it up. Sometimes the old fish would follow up its attack by dashing after the niher around the tank, and it kept Jbi- up unceasingly, nagging and nipping tin others ontl! they were more tired out Gian ever. It when they were put into the tank, they had been as fiesh and vigorous as their pursuer, they would have turned upon it’very probably and made short work of it. As it was, the single treut bossed all the rest, including fish hull :it big again as itself, and hustled them aboio unnie: •ifully. In half a day i: would have wearied them to
death.
But t;u scrappy little rainbow didn’t ge* that opportunity. It was s moped out with a dipnet and put into another tank, [’hero was a rainbow trout in this tank, too, hut this one was uot tired with travel. It was fresh and vigorous. And it was also big enough to eat Hu scrappy one if It tried to cut up any capers there.
Mtisiciil Kl«*ycle.
musical bicycle has been invented by a man in Pittsburg, Austria. The motion of the wheel grinds out a tune like a hand organ, and the rider rolls along to the strains of delightful har-
mony.
HOW TO CARVE.
Special Letter.)
■ II N a recent newspuIt l !pr ‘•ftl' l''' refer- j
one2 was made to the destruction of Saline pass by a tidal wave some 10 years ago. That reference recalls a trip down Kieknpco bayou. near the mouth
of the Miss at the tinn
years the cypress cutters and raftsmen j on the river had told wonderful tales j about Klckapoo bayou, and the mysterious sights and sounds seen and beard there, i'pon closer questioning, however, they always referred one to old Vedder, the swamp hermit, or, if ins tales failed to satisfy, to get him for a guide down the mysterious waters of the Klckapoo. it was upon such suggestion that I sought out the old man in his retreat in the swamp and induced him to go with me to the wonder places of which so many fales had been told. Our first day's journey was an easy one, and we pitched our camp on a small island in the middle of the afternoon. At the point where we stopped the bayou formed a lake, spreading away in every direction. For some unknown cause old Vedder seemed to be sail and persistently silent. About dusk, however, he prepared our supper, but when that was over, and after carefully putting out the fire, ho went off to himself once more, this time wrapping himself up in his blanket, as if to go to -deep for the night. 1 followed his example, and was soon asleep, it must have been near midnight when I felt a hand laid lightly upon my arm and heard a voice close to my ear, in a whisper, asking me to wake up. When I opened m;
I awoke ivith a smile on my tips, as from a pleasant dream. The dream, however, was not dispelled by the waking. The air around me everywhere was full of *he sweetest, tenderest music to whb h my ears had ever
! listened.
“The choral sand, said Vedder th( ■ next morning, when 1 told him about I the strange music of the night before “That is the way tliey slug when tb« weather is tine and the ocean waves murmur againkt the shore." Then lie told me that the seashore was only a , few miles away, and between it and ; us were impassable sail marshes where
the foot of man never trod.
But the air and sky had changed since the night, before There were immense banks of black clouds rising in the east, and tflc wind began to ome in heavy gusts, and moaned in ippi i 'be tree,, above u-. The choral sands For i of the night before hanged to the dcm<i)iia> sands that night. It was impossible to put the head anywhere to the ground for the horrible sounds that | it emitted. With daylight, however, the ! ground ceased to give forth its terrible noises, and we tried to sleep. But as . the day advanced the storm increased in its fury, and every few minutes trees would snap and break or he torn up by the roots ail around us. About noon a roaring noise was heard above the howling of the storm. It came nearer and nearer every moment, its sound growing louder as it approached. "A tidal wave! To the skiff! It will save one, but drown two. You take It. 1 can *ake caro'of myself." cried Vedder. 1 tried to remonstrate with him, but In-vatn. 'To the skiff!" he shouted. And as I ran down and cast loose its moorings ho waved his hand and shouted good-bye. The next moment the wave eauie like a wall of water, and swept everything before it. That night i reached high land, and the next day was fortunate in finding a house and hospitality. That was a continuanco of the same wave that swept away Sabine pass. It. also obliterated Klckapoo bayou, leaving only a deep pool here and there where it had wound its way continuously before. Vedder was never seen or heard of afterward, so it I? only natural to sup-
1N THK ()| )|> rORNKIJ wu- a German his courtiers
were all German, ho lived and govern-
QUEFR AND CURIOUS THINGS
AND EVENTS.
%it Islnml llettlh I ru|i L'ivUkttiin Ai** Not IVi mit («»•! to TI»or*» KiijjIiiihI 'MiiinfuinM It for liiva«)lii£ FartL**
•'Gory of Ltttlr Ns-#;
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l<> J I TurUm K wKKr play»iiR the Kan torn #-n ♦Hill, were Nim!
an«l Hill and I
llfll WHS UtJ “Isl Mehoolmato of
ami N«-ii
lif?< only iKiy, A prrtly kid with ilaxtMi r-uris a.wl
of azure
blue.
And a laer ilk*' that, of an angel, it was j»o itockI mi l » true.
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I I'lii fly in s hapt*' wu- * i i li.iMi,
Mi'il only ten yrurM old,
1 Would look like a v«*i - y s* 'aj ii v>
wav In;, nil 1- of fc-old,
^ v tiy in ^ 1 bra the ju*' In M conn shot I'rnm a innc-poiiml gun. And he’d laugh alum! at his hands mine, a; tho t.wore th*; beitt »
lus|>< d fun
playin(
liens
and am!
mri I hut
ml
lates. that summer
me luckless day struck Troy •* two weeks’ stan*I It was. to he ^ 'twaa there we lost our hoy *- hrand new act was pno th'ed h
always with the net,
And ii|> to date had never ndssed
You’d ho safe to bet
* *■ o11111 have dotie it a t houvantl f iin*
wit h never a inishai
hut little Nod didn’t wan* tin net,
* he hliieky lit tie i-hap
Sidd as how "any kid .-ouhl do it way, and he wanted to mak<
mark.
Amt VOW'd .id Kdl .*>.•■ * ‘hid he. do It in th« dark
a u< I
t hat
his
way
« ha -•ome
• row tied.
t « 0!l i
e*e We let the hoy hu\
op«*nht|/ »dght had
The opera linns* wa*
right up to dum*
‘hir turn was last on tin pro;p'aiiim<
as w*» <-lhnhed Into the air
1 tie shouts and ' beers were deafp*
for we wen favorites then
Pd and
• hi ee f noes had his tiny hand; A'ul as I swing
father to
whispered "f’ouia
Hid let go ot eJnsped mine him ha* 1- the
bird Idft
i ejoi» • fou
»gr lit tie Noth'
t,h» fourth van to »h» opr la$t And I f*dt his small form t.i-nd'h h* Id him i. gl asj
And now t «
wi.ig
Jim; *'!»«
\ leg of muttop should be carved
ai ros.t the middle of tlie bone first and then from the thlckeet part till tho gristle is reached. A few nice slices can bo ent from tho smaller end, but
it is usually hard and stringry.
And then, 'hid h* l|; him he fall*' too short and the next thlnjL that I knonv VV* ai* standing tti«niDd him on it,* stag*
a ini Hill i well Dign mad
A'i*l I snl> and • ry hH*' an Infant for I
lo\ •• th* llttl* had
•d Wh* n Hi* do. h. Ud ii' at hist Id-
• flort' a«ft)| in v.iln
gel right down on my ki»**.v hoy*. . nd P»m\ * to.l n mu* 'ilm paii
• o;*
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las• liin i* seemed hh ed Id* pretty «*ye.M
An«l said in a voi* - ali • h«ike«l with loar-\
a-- he gaze.l up into 11n 1 lln>•
l‘*H. • ween lor me .la. k for l m ull righ Pleafu eoinfoi*t dear olil dftd vvas all my laulI You Weren't to hlaue
alt ho it sei'»n*j| |e<; ! ., |
I'; hav * ini< I up. the a« f that v. a. wan -mil* wreathe*! his fa-. '' *" ,1, "KIhh nx- ,In,' i
W* I.! to 1 ha Id 11« i plaee
VV fieri; I'm kiii c I he hh, . Ih wcl.. m, ,] l„i
v-iili .ill tliep nme mi 1 HpromI A' il that's the stnry of Bill ai«l
c e mail noov lit'li- Nr,i
'■•I from (>ii!'’iil< iIk- liniitc of moclen Franc. Tlie Ah Ik- Kieyen uttered an ethiiologieaI triilHin wluu in Ihe cuurHi of tlie French n vol'dioii he crieit out agmm:f the French at iKtoerai y: ’‘L< um rend them lim l< Ii their Gernutn uiurslit- wlier.ee they came!” Eve' i today tin current of ungrat ion bof.-ireei. France ;in(i Gemutuy m Ih -tlrongly t(. Un ‘south .iiH it ban ncvi i. itoiic in virtue of econoiiiK lawN decpei than nationin prejudico or liortilc legislatior rhe uiovcmeut of iiopuiittinn racially Iiiih tieeu siiongty intiuenced by the geograpliy of the ciuintry. We.* II not lie the | i culi.o confonnp.tlOS of the purl id Europe lIn h would hi no geographical exiici foi Ibe existciiit" ot Hi‘lg,iuui ac a tp.o.bi pniitiCHi entity .ic wi have “iiul anil NortheiiFranct wouhl l:c far moii tlioroiighlr Ti.idoni/.rd tiian it m iiulay I’rofenso VV Z Ripley III Appleton - Popub i S, , nci Moot it.
< airying ii Sa«U i *»n# #-. In ie ti.icc tlie ciiHi oi cirrying kui h i, enffei whi. t weigha aboi oni-sixti-i iith id a ton, from the plan tation op wliich ii ih grown to tin Hi-aboard Ac tin best coffee grows a - pot It km than S.fitH) (eet nhove sea level it iii'c l go tip avciagi of about eighty null 1 on mulcliack itefor. reaching tie rivii This uieaim bO tmper for Ihi iiioli Kupptmlng d to travel T><)0 mileou tin- Dvci Ilia) freight wilt he |t.!t. ti Harranqililin Mien eighteen mile ot railway travel rnst ;t9 eentu; Iota f IP 7: in Wdouihia pa|M-i or, at Me 'Usual o, hanffeaof* IhO «pei cent'pren mm. the tidal cost of atik mlleH’ travi of out sai Ii ot coffee is |4 30 In gold making an average freight per ton mile o( JO.OI Mh gold From the coae* to New Yoik the freight is 10.40 foi tin sai I- oi 5110032 per ton-mile. Wc have here Ihe startling fact fha to carry a Hack of coffee 2,518 mileby live ralhviaii ami ocean steanji cohIh hut 38 pei cent of what It doeto .any the •sminv-toek eighty mile 1 on a mule Yet in this we see another instance oi Me ■idrowuesH of humid nature to strain ai a guilt, while tin, camel goes down us a mailer of eonrw Tlie iivei steaiuei. the little railway and tin ocean freighter are looked upon by I fie average Colombian as ex tortionere, which, by their high rater art robbing him of his hardly earned protii Inn till' sturdy'+ttMe nintv Is hi tried and true friend,, and he Is bogrtnigeil nothing Engineering Maga-
zine
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mr .'iiid
eyes Vedder was sitting on the ground beside me, and when I also rose to a sitting position he pointed his ting-T out toward the lake, at tho same time admonishing me to keep silence. The moon had risen above the trees, and was shedding its full light upon the water. As 1 looked a small canoe came out from under the trees on the other side of the lake and steered to-
•r it r | ward the island on which we were
Fo i arve a loin of veal or mutton be- , . lbg I camping. As tho canoe came nearer
and nearer I saw that
THE VISION ON THE LAKE.
« &
MARY REILLY AND THE SCENE OF HER WONDERFUL TR ANCES
well, city editor of the Sioux City Times. Several months ago, according to those who pretend to know, she was sitting at a table with a pencil in one hand. Her arm was resting on a newspaper in which were several advertisements printed in large type. All at once her hand commenced to move involuntarily and the pencil to point out letters. At first she gave the matter no attention, supposing it to be only some kind of nervous affection. Then she observed that the letters indicated were in such sequence as to spell out words and coherent sentences. As a test she wrote out the alphabet, and, using the pencil as a pointer, received several communications of ai! astounding nature. Recently she has expen mented by sitting at a typewriter amt receiving messages through the keyboard. Sometimes the keys are struck with sufficient force to turn out copy from the machine, but ordinarily the letters are merely pointed out,and Miss Reilly calls them out while a third person records them. Some of these messages are of no mean literary merit While Miss Reilly is a young woman of
less.” "Any way of avoiding them?” “I don’t know. I know nothing cx cept that I am here. I do not even know that I can only say I think ! am here. o. maybe that I think I think I am here. I am a living spark of anguish that was once someone, somewhere, I think." Many hypotheses have been advanced by scientists acquainted with the case to account for these strange manifestations. Spiritualists are satisfied that the presence is just what it professes to be—a tortured soul from the nether world. Materialists confess themselves puzzled. They endeavor to account for the phenomena on the “subjective mind” theory. Miss Reilly, they maintain, must somewhere have read or heard all the sayings attributed to the spirit. Having forgotten them, she is reproducing them from some recess of her mind where they have remained on file, unknown even to herself. The young woman docs not seek to combat this explanation. She merely avers that if she ever heard any of tho
gin at the small end and cut the apar:. A fillet of yeal should be cut j first from the top and in a breast of , veal the breast and brisket should j first he < ut apart and then cut in pieces. ; A sirloin of beef should be placed eu the platter with the undercut under- j ncatil. Thin cut slices should be taken ; from the side next the carver, then ! turn over the roast and carve from underneath. A portion of both should be i
helped.
A tongue should be carved in very : thin slices, its delicacy depending on ihi> Tlie sliceH'fromithe«center aro , considered the most tempting and should lie cut across and the slices I taken from both sides with a portion of the fat at the root. in carving fish practice is required ! in order to prevent the flakes from breaking. The choicest morsels of all large fish are near the head; the thin parts come next; the flavor nearest tho bone is never equal to that on the upper part. A fish knife should bo used in carving. There is no need to remark that there is a right way and a wrong way to carve. Most of us have sat in our chairs and held on in agony while a disciple of the wrong way attacked Iho inoffensive meat and murdered it cruelly. In the first place the dish in which the meat is should be large and allow ample room for "sliding.’’ A ham can be served in several ways —by cutting long, delicate slices through the thick fat down to the bone; by running the point of tho knife in a circle in the middie and cutting thin, circular slices, thus keeping the ham moist, or by beginning at the knuckle and slicing upward. The last mode is the most economical. Fowls should be placed breast up. Put the fork into the breast to steady the bird, then cut off tho wings and legs. Cut out the breastbone fo as to leave the well browned skin over it and the white meat; cut off the side hones and divide what is left in two from the neck down. Remove the second Joint from the leg and the wing.
it was a young
girl who wielded the paddle, and so skilfully that it hardly caused a ripple upon the water. The canoe stopped at last within a half hundred yards of the island, and the occupant looked up and scanned the pla 1 o where w--were hidden by the long grass Closely. The moon shone fully upon the upturned fare, it was a face such as one sees only in dreams, pale and sad, and beautiful, a haunting memory as long as life lasts. As 1 looked siim drew in the paddle and stretched out her hand'toward .us in mute appeal, and it seemed as if tears were gleaming in the paddle and stretched out her hands toward ua in mute appeal, and crushed me to the ground, and for some minutes after that I must have been insensible. When I came to myself I found old Vedder bending over me, and when l inquired what had happened he pointed to a dead lynx lying upon the ground close by. The vision on tin lake had vanished. Vedder piomised that night that some day he would tell me all he knew about the vision on the lake, but that day
never came.
The next day we broke ramp and continued down the bayou. Vedder said we passed some planes that day which we would visit coming back, but they were never visited. It was late in the evening when we struck the camping ground which the old man had worked so strenuously all day to reach. We had arrived at the edge of the swamp, and the bayou wound in and out among low sloughs, and sandy ridges, on which tall magnolias in full bloom were growing. On one of these ridges, forming a point around where the bayou wound its way, we pitched our camp. Vedder, on our second evening out, seemed to be in better humor than on our first, and even went so far as to make a tent for me from an extra blanket to Keep off the night dew. But we were both tired, and went to rest almost as soon as we had partaken of supper. How long 1 sleet 1 do not know, but 1 am sure that
pose that he perished. As to the my (cries of Kickapoo bayou, they v ill most likely ever remain unsolved.
Slinlilly IDfTereiil. (rtpn ial Letter )
The p ipular idea of a houseboat is a long, broad craft with flower boxes in gorgeous rows, gay striped awning', dei k chairs galore, a good cook and the River Thames. Here in America the i full beauty of the house boat lias nut .yet .dawned upon ;t \ and wo prefer rushing around from one wateringplace to another and living in stuffy hotel-, or rolling about ov'cr tlie ocean in i rakish ya lit to being squarely anchored on a peaceful and pretty river In the idle sunshine and taking life easy apart from mankind. Other people arc not so foolish. Even in faroff India tliey have houseboats. A European C'Vvhh ibis comfortable craft on a lake in Kashmir, which, while different from the popular English idea, is fascinating to look upon. With the cool, snowy mountains in the distance to watch life in this houseboat in tolerable, in spite of plague and famine in the valleys below. Some enterpris-
^ I' IfcliklliJ II, ul.! f | i-iki. a dispatch from Halifax N S . m•(filling 'in st; (-iigMieniiig of (hat port bY tin Hrlllsi, iiij|iia.-y authorities iiicrdioi wa.- iiiiiili of George s ishui'i, in Gallia., Iiarlio; win re a quick-fir-ing ettery it hr j-!* ed m-x! sum-
mer.
it i piobiiitly not gi-iiKially Known Hillside of th* English offirei--.- m . omnia ic I of (lie station that George’s ilalid Is }> huge pi! filled with wad ; 'ini Mint a ; ii attacking party succeeded oi passing the forts ut tin cntraiu’i 1 to Mu liailioi and landed they would he pre- ipitati u into (lie wntei and drowned. The siirfair oi the giound i.s sodded and -planted with 1 shrubbery, and is apparently solid, hut tlie only really solid part of it is a narrow hoard walk on wlilcli tlie sentries pai e lo and fro. In ease an Invading party took tic island fn: (lie purpose of commanding tin .-ity of Halifax they would break through and fall into tin pit about tift'-en feet In low the sinfad Th'- excavation wa; made about nixty years ago. and the secret was kept foi not lose thun thirty years It wa- no until 1MI7 that, the discovery was made liy two men in a boat, driven ashoio in a gab One of thorn atti-nipt-o.l to make ins way to tin dwelling o- - cupied by tho garrison and suddenly di.-appi ared. His companion I . ppemui [ to get a footing on tin- board walk Discovered by the sentry lie was summarily ejected from tin- island, being placed aboard ids boat ami sent adrift .m the st.qiin lie scci i-ndoil i. v irh ing Halifax The man who hruko through was drowned. The story got spread about, lint, wa nok lielievi-d, and as no civilians an- permitted to land at George’s isltind the peculiar system of protection b; today practically a secret. New York Mail and Ex-
■iresE.
It, l.l in. Wolf from Mit- l>,ior. Rev William Dixon and his wife,
strange to say, have to eat, same h otiici peupb Mr Dixon has for souk tinn been pastor of the Ferry strec: Onngri'giit.ional churph, in New Uuven Conn A lew days ago the pastor resigned Wliy, Mr. Dixon,” said the good members of the church, "what ot- | ‘-arth's liu miilter?'’ They got for then unswei what tliey already knew
I hut foi' a year and a half their mil'
istei had received only $125 for living expense- and had been compelled to eki out a precarious existence on pink lias io cream festivals and short cake suppers. On mature deliberation the reverend gentleman had concluded to stampede for some place where Mu monotony will occasionally lie broken, even if it is with nothing more than
*ro ned boot ami cabbagf
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THE HOUSEBOAT. ing American could have just as good j a time by anchoring his houseboat on the broad Mississippi, along whose j banks Is scenery to spare, variegated j and charming. The big river steamers | now in use would make fine models to I pattern a houseboat after, with their ; broad decks and comfortable prupor-j lions, ami the wonder is that some wearied millionaire lias not seteed -ui>on the idea before Ibis
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The northern third of Frrince and half of Belgium are today more Teutonic than the south of Germany. This is clearly attested by the mups which show the distribution of each of tho physical characteristics of race. U should not occasion surprise when we remember the incessant downpour of Teutonic tribes during Ihe whole hbtoric period, it was a constant procession of Goths from all points of the compass—-of Franks, Burgundians, and others. France was entirely overrun hy the Franks, with tin exception of Brittany, by the middle of- tlie sixth century. All through the middle ages this part of LOurope was not only ethnically Teutonic; it was German in language and custom; ;-s well. The very name of the country is Teutonic. It lias the same origin ,is Franconia, in Southern Germany. In 812 the council of Tours, away down south, ordained that every bishop should preach both in the Romar.c' d the Teutonic languages. The ;-*••• "ks preserved their German -.-pci c'; ym years after the conquest. Charle-
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ini Heu'.-dicllfiPH; whdtn t'ariliiui Vaughan is re-establishing at West minster and Ealing, were in pre-refor mathm times the most numerous an - most widely distributed religious o' der in England. Tliey bad !n(|I ss Mu I8tl abbeys, priories and nunneries. The London establishments were at Westminster, Glei kenwell and 8t. Hoi cn’s Hishoimgute. The head of their I'uniuiuiiity at Westminster abbey ha * a seat in the house of lords. Abbott Fcekenham, the lust, holder of the office, delivered a remarkable speech tithe uppei house against the religious changes introduced la tlie reign ot Elizabeth. At present the Bencdictino- [ have .1 dozen houses in England, t! - 1 three principal establishments In i; . at. Downsidi Ampleforth and K.-un
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OruKd Harshly •>» ••eUcil" l :n ii .1 i'ii'vv'.h i'vpy ’inuii who delicate e.ii i‘ not attuned to prol'aniD in any form whatsoever. It was llntraii which brought him before tin coni' the other day as plaintiff in a novel suit Ills name in James (kilter. Several year", ago hi went into partnership with August Morris in the planing mill business in Hoboken, t’olter is a pillar in the Socond Presbyle rian ctiiifqli, w ,,1 h' tyurrjs isn’t. Goltei say; that his partnci swears enough at tinier. Ii ritiso _Hu> roof off the plan mg mill and that lie must either stop hi;; ears with Ills fingers or gel out, so shocked does sucli language make him He wants ,01 order from the court f dlsuolvi tin partnership Meanlim* the offending partner says nothing, but in probably thinking hard dcnriiuls In I'urlM. in round numbers there are 2,5b 1 Journals in Paris. One hundred anr j seventy of these are polit e tl organizations, over 100 eaeii of fashion pipers and illustrated journals, some 1"> I medical papers, over 200 financial papers, and abont si^,.,deai|ng with ih : turf and other bruin bee of v|inrt HlltilllKM* K I’. Tin smallest republic in ihe worli is Franceville, one of the islands i tin New Hebrides. Tlie inhabitants consist of forty Europeans and r>hii black workmen employed hy a Freni'! company.