Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,-. FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1889.

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AJIT IN GKOTF.SQUS ' FORM. Curiously Can wl Column ou the Coast of AlaskaIndian Legends. Washington Post. The coast of Alaska is made picturesque by immense columns of wood, rising sixty or seventy feet into the air, carved with grotesque figures and painted in all the brilliant colors known to savage art. Many of these columns are rendered more conspicuous lv beiug surmounted with ravens, cranes anif bears, which stretch their wooden wings or sit upon their stiff haunches in silhouette distinctness against the Fky. Each of these columns stands in front of an Indian lodge. Each has its own story to tell a story which, when interpreted, is full of romance, of tragedy, andof superstition. Over in tno National Museum, in a little corner, shut oil' from some hammering -workmen by maroon-colored screens. Ensign Albert P, Niblack, U. S. IS., is busv finishing a report, which tells not only of these curious columns, but is full of interesting matter about the natives of Alaska. For three seasons Mr. Niblack, who is a son of Judgo Niblack, of Indiana, remained in Alaskan waters, studying the habits and history of the Alaska Indians and bringing back with hira a mass of interesting material and several hundred uhotogTaphs. Many of the latter are instantaneous pictures of bits of nature which struck the young othcer'a fancy salmon leaping a waterfall, the surface of the ocean rippled by immense raus of hcrxing and the edge of a cliff, with nothing else in the picture save an eagle soaring in the sky. "It is the most lonesome picture I ever saw," said Kobert G. Ingersoll, as ho looked at the latter photograph. "It is as lonesome as the old chimney of a burned house." "My visit to Alaska," said Mr. Niblack to the reporter as ho took np tho manuscript and illustrations of his book, "was due to the carrying out of a scheme of the Navy Department in ordering ciehtcen officers to tit themselves for exploring work. Several officers went with the Greely relief expedition, several others are rounected with the Fish Commission steamers, and others, myself amoug them, "were drafted into the Alaska coast survey service. I found that the Indians on tho oast differed radically from those iu the interior. . "They live in primitive villages, spend-, ing most of their time, however, int canoes, and, as their food is easy to seenre, ' life is comparatively eisy for them. The food supply is gathered mainly in the ! summer mouths, and the long winters are' leisurely spent in feasting, dancius and.

gambling, in working raw materials into, iinished products, in relating the deeds oftheir ancestors, while seated around log tires, and in practicing the elaborate cere-' monials for which these Indiana are pecu-' J jar." -What do these villages look likef - ' ; "They are extremely picturesque, tho, most striking feature being tall, elaborately-carved columns in front of the different houses or lodges. These houses aro capable of containing twenty to thirty peo-; pie. and involve in their costruction tho . heaviest timbers and the co-operation of many hands. The builder, too, must go to enormous expense in feasting and enter-" taming his guests. He distributes gifts so m 1 a . m a a. . . proiuseiy mat ue is irequeniiy notning nut a beggar when his horfse is finished. This ceremony of distribution is called pot latch.' and is frequently practiced by those "who aspire to a high rank among the Indians. It takes as much delicacy and shrewdness to distributo these gifts as it does to select partners for an army and navy german in Washington. Tho Indians, however, are net without guile, and they give most largely to those whom they think "Will return in kind." "On what is rank based!" "Position among the Alaska Indians is secured mainly by all the arts of assertion, hargain, intrigue, wealth, display and personal prowess. Tho unit of wealth is a Hudson Bay Company's blanket, of the quality of two and one-half points, and a copper shield is worth about 200 blankets.' .Many of the chiefs are quite wealthy; each family has its totem, representing the nniniaf from which it has descended. Each individual belongs to one of these totems, and may marry only into certain, other toteina. A child takes the totem of its mother. The inheritance of property is through the mother. "A man's nephew (his sister's son) is his heir, and a chiefs son can only succeed to his father's title and weaitb" bv beinz -adopted by tho chief's sister. Descent is practically in the female line, and tho women have tho greatest influence in the tribe. They conduct the bargains, and their word is law. la tho respect which is shown to women theso Indians certainly command the admiration of civilized people." "What do the carvings on tho tall columns rcpresentr 'The carved columns erected in front of. the houses are of two kinds, totemic and mortuary. Tho totemic colanins, which are the most prominent, are heraldic in their significance, and indicate the totem rtf tliA inlilKitant r f tha 1 rwl rrn hnu ulna 41lustrating in a crude pictographic way some legend of ancestral prowess. There is one column, for instance," said Mr. Niblack, taking np a photograph. "It is surmounted by a carved representation of the owner's totem. Below it is an illustration of the legend of Yetl, the great raven, who stole fresh water and the new moon from the enemy of man, and gave them to the Indians. Underneath it is the story, universal on the coast, of the bear and the hunter, which admonishes wives to be faithful to their husbands. The lowest figure, which con-; tains the bolo through which the occupaut of the cottage drives, as it "were, into his home, represents the totem of tho wife. A very common picture is of a white face, with two littlo figures. This commemorates the story of a white man who long ago' carried oil two Indian children. The bear . is very conspicuous iu these legends. There is the story of the bear mother, which tho Indian artists delight to illustrato in exquisite carvings. Ages ago some Indian hunter spoke disrespectfully of the bear. Thereupon the latter stole a woman and married her. The child was half bear and half man, and from this mixture of human and animal many of the families proudly trace their descent. So . strong is superstition among these Indians that even now when hunters see the tracks of a bear they talk about the animal in a most complimentary terms to each other so that the bear may not take otfeuse. This is Ua fan 4Viaf -re-.. una among tneir arawmgs tne picture 01 the little demon down in the water who steals the bait from the hooks." Mr. Niblack'8 report goes so extensively into all the habits and customs, tho myths and legends, and the political, social and tribal organization of these original Alaskans, that it is impossible to tell all that he knows in the limits of a newspaper article. Mero mention can only bo made of the facts that these Indians, although 'growing tobacco, never knew until tno white men came that it was good for smoking as well as chewing; of their canoes, sometimes sixty feet long and eight feet wide, with their occupants bandy-legged from much sitting in them; of their bloody wars and peaceful pleasures; their inveterate love of gambling; their ceremonials for tho dead; their marriage feasts, their dances and their immoralities. They are a curious people, about which there is a gTeat deal to learn, and Mr. Niblack's report will do a creat deal towards adding to tho popular knowledge. LKACII AND THE HAT. - . -m a a Senator Quays PrUate Secretary Tells a Good Story on Himself. WAflhincton CriUC. "I do not usually tell a joke on myself." remarked Frank Leach, private secretary t SiMintnr Ouav. to a uartv of friends veaterday. " but one happeued to mo last night about 11 o ciock wnicu is 100 gooa to keep. I was coming up the avenuo at that hour. w hen I noticed a huge rat slipping along 1 . r A V 1- 15 me gutter in iron 01 inc. 1 maue lor mux with mv umbrella as a weapon and lam basted tho pavement around him in a wild endeavor to knock him out, but it was no go. He kept out of the way, and I kept up the fight. He ran along under the curb and 1 charged after him. more anxious to get him as ho showed signs of anxiety to get away. 1 ran him for about a square, and oy mat time a crowd ot hoys ana a dog were following me. and I was tho observed of all observers on the avenue at that hour. It wasn't very light, however, and there were not many people abroad, so 1 didn't care much. Across a street and along the next siiuaro tho rat went and I after him. bound to get him if I had to go clear to Georgetown or perish in the attempt. The chase began to grow exciting, too. and the small boys were having as much fan as I was. if not more. Evcrv now and then the darned rat would stop and I'd jump f.r him with my umbrella aud whack tho pavement a lick, but the rat would be six or eight feet away and I'd go for him atfain. Well, it kept up this way for about three

praxes, wheu i hacpe&ca to look ahead,

and about fifty feet in front of mo I saw a boy on the run, dodging behind the tieeboxes. At the same time I observed that the rat moved about the same time the boy did, and then it struck me that the boy had a string tied to the rat and the rat was a dead body and I w aswell, it doesn't make any difference what I was. I immediately had an engagement up the first 6ide street I came to, and the way 1 gathered up the wreck of my umbrella and went away into the darkness was a sight to behold. If that blamed bov hadn't stonned to laugh I bo-

lieve I'd be chasine that confounded rat yet;" and Mr. Leach kicked over a chair ana went out to get a oream 01 iresn air. THE TIIAMP AND THE DOGS. Bob Bnrdette's Sympathy for an Abused Ca nine Draws Out an Essay from a Wayfarer. Letter in Brooklyn Eale. A dav or two asro I strolled out for a pleas ant March walk in the miry country roads that lead through bottomless nits of mud at this delightful season of the changing year. Wo live out of door3 a great deal in Bryn Mawr. When we can, wo walk, when we can't walk we wade: when somebody offers us a lilt, we ride. Wo strew tho lea, with overshoes of differing sizes. Here and there the plowman, as he homeward plods his weary way, finds one that makes him think of Cinderella, and there and here he picks up another that reminds him of the man in the seven league boots. Oltimes the man of leisure, returning erstwhile from a woodland stroll, is hailed by the anxiousvillager and asked what he will take to dig a well on his place, for the apparel, touched in spots and streaks by the soft lingers of good niothcrearth,seeni8to proclaim the digger. I take these aimless sannterings in the soft days and ways of yielding spring, not so much for amusement as less for health. On the day of which mention was made in the preceding chapter, I paused as I neared the residence of a neighbor. A bulldog stood listlessly in the road, awaitiug my approach. I dislike to see a dog, especially a liery, untamed dog of the Ukraine bree1, unoccupied, for Satan finds some mischief still for idle dogs to do. A busy dog is seldom dangerous, but an idle doz oppressed with ennui and this was an ennuiry -looking dog is ready for anything that promises him a moment's amusement, no matter how painful tho divertisemeut may be to others. -1 lingered, therefore, to give tho dog a chance to think of something that would call him far from the madding crowd. The thouzht occurred to me that he might have read what I had idly penned about the dogs of Bryn Mawr, and was even then chewing the cud of bitter mem ories and harsh resentment, intending to take the tasto out of his mouth by masticating portions of my perishinjr frame. which I had with me at the time. But while I loitered, an occupation for which I am gifted by nature with superior qualifications, a tramp passed mo, carrying with him an air of unconcern and nonchalance, which is so characteristic of the only leisure class in America, and ho lightly balanced his steps with a jack-oak club, which seemed to have been born iu knotty times. As he approached the dog, I, following close in his protecting wake, saw that! had been altogether mistaken in tho animal's mood, lie had dined, and was simply feeling good natured and sociablo after dinner, and was waiting at the gate tor a chance bit of gossip or a passing word with any doc or man who haoDened alonrr. lie wagged his tail pleasantly and looked up into the tramp's face, with as near a smile as a uog can nut on. The wayfarer raised his cudgel and brought it down on the unoffending dog with a mighty whack that made the 1 I .11 A I 1 T 11 .11- l il ! nair 113', ana uueu an me icaness woous and spreading vales with piteous clamor. My wrath was greater than ray prudence. Ah tho stricken dog shot for the protection of the barn I indignantly turned to the man. "v hat made vou hit that dogr 1 de manded; "he was perfectly peaceable; he didn't make a motion to bite you." "Stranger," said the wanderer, T know he was peaceable; I knowed he warn't goin to bite me. But dogs and us is enemies. Ilemight want to bite me somo time; nobody knows. But now he won't dare for to try it. He knows me now; he'll never offer to bite me. I kin go to that house any hour, day or night, an' that dog won't hurt me. He'll bark and raise an awful row. but ho won't come nigh enough to bite. I always make it a rule, always to hit a dog as hard as I kin, every time I git a chance, no matter how friendly he wants to be. Then ho knows me: heromembers me, an' I never worry about him no more. You remember that; it don't cost vou nothing: alwavs hit a doe every time you get a chance, and hit him hard enough an' once '11 lo often enough; ho 11 remember it, an' though he'll bark his lungs out at you every time he sees you he'll never oner 10 one you." inter a muo moie 01 this instructive conversation, I told the wonderer I knew of 41 dog which would be greatly improved in his manner of approaching strangers bv a 50-cent course of instruction at his club,, but when I A nonviltwl rim ilia nrnf nooAr cl rwvlr liiti uvottivvvt a sui aj I'ivivodVA nuuva Alio head. 'That dog," he said, "has been to school to me. 1 came by his house one dav last year and had a few words with him. I passed his house half an hour ago, and Pll bet you money that he won't be 6een in tho front yard agin this day. Thank'v. sin somo timowheu I'm comin by, if there's Anything in my lino I kin do for you, let me know." He disappeared over tho hills toward Conshohockeu, and thinking of tho other backs and heads that would ache be fore ho saw the yellow Schuvlkill laugh and gleam among the oak trees, I forgot my own lighter cares and troubles, ana even smiled when the treacherous clay which received my next footfall, opened the earthy treasures of its hidden spring and squirted a stream of muddy water up my trousers leg, so to speak, and out at the back of my neck. So, answering the March breezes with my inorry peals of mauuiblo laughter, with blithesome sten I tripped inv wav homeward, tra, la. la, la, and soaked my legs in the horse trough a few hours beforo proceeding to lay a cart road through my ansisterai nails. THE TINDEll-BOX. An Indispensable Domestic Accessory in Use for Many Centuries. Boston Herald. Tot many centuries the tinder-box. or something closely analogous, must havo 1 A 1 1 1 1 f 1. A! uceu 1 no uuiy lueuus uy wuicu 11x0 was artitically produced in England. The writer possesses an old tinder-box which has been used for many years, but of course since the introduction of matches it has been cast away as mero lumber. As an original specimen 01 the common Type 01 thoso indispensable accessories of domestic life during many centuries, it is of considerable antiquarian interest, although it is of no intrinsic value whatever. It is a circular box of tin, four inches in diameter and au inch and a half in height. It originally possessed a lid, which was probablv furtiqia1 with ft snrlrof fnr ihn rfarwlf meaus of which the flame developed from tho spark on the tinder was preserved; but unfortunately the lid is lost. Tho steel, shaped to tit the hand, upon which the flint was struck to produco the spark, and Hat pla,te of tin, designed to extinguish the smouldering tinder which the spark had ignited, both remain, and the steel hears marks of loiitr-contmued wear. A frag ment of flint, too. which is in all liklihood that used for producing tho sparks, has been considerably chipped and bruised by repeateu contact wiiu tno eieei; ana it. is interesting on that account, as showing what really is the effect of such wear. Upon comparison, Ave find that there is no important umerenco oeiween mis nini ana those which wo have described as having been found in conjunction with neolithic implements. On the contrary, it bears a strong resemblance to them: nnd what few variations there are, are only such as would necessarily arise from the variation iu the time which has elapsed since tho Hints were chipped ana broken. 41 The Newest Scheme In Women's Clubs. Boston Transcript. The latest surprise in the way of women's clubs is one formed last fall in Chicago for the purpose of organizing tho American Women s College of Practical Arts. The institution is an established fact, and its design is to give women a practical insight into the avenues of business life, such as law, railroads, lifo insurance, journalism and general oilice work. This college has a counterpart nowhere, but it is likely to find many successors. When women learn to manago their own business affairs they will be of far more value to their families nnd to society. The financial question is one which concerns the sex far more than it did a decade ago, and there aro a dozen organizations now for the advancement of industrial interests where there is one for political enfranchisement. Tho brainy women have found out that the first requisite for successful work in any field is capital, and as the sex, as h sex, is poor, tho reformers are all talking tho financial question, and effectively, it would seein.

TKAIX DISPATCHING. -' -1 - A rosltlon Requiring a Good Brain and Unceasing Vigilance. St Txmls Republic ; Most important of all thoso into whose hands the traveling public intrust their lives is the train-dispatcher, who, from his office, watches every movement with a trained eye, and with his telegraph instrument directs the coming and the going of all. For this important duty is required a man with a cool, clear head, fertile in expedients and prompt to act. Long cxperi ence in the handling 0f trains must have made him familiar with every detail of his business, aud abqve all, he must be sober and careful, guarding against every contingency which may arise. First, he must have a thorough knowledge of the division which he has under his charge, and must know the exact location and capacity of everj side track, as well as every curve and grade. Ho can tell you tho capacity aud speed of every engine on the line, under all conditions, and lias the traits and peculiarities of every engineer clearly in his mind. He mnst make a careful allowance for tho condition of the track and mnst bo able to judge with exactitude the effect which the slightest moisture in rendering the rails slippery, may have upon the progress of a -tram. All these and a thousand more details of greater of less importance must enter into his calculations, and to 6ay that he is a busy man would but fainty convey a proper conception of the work which he is called upon to perform. In his oflice, at his -desk, with his train 6heet constantly beforo him, ho sits and watches the movements and progress of every train, his practiced eye noting every incident that my give rise to the slightest complication. As each train passes a telegraph station he is promptly notified by the operator there, and this he carefully notes upon the sheet before him, which euables him at any and all times to know with mathematical exactness tho location of every train upon the line. So long as everything goes smoothly his task, provided his training be of the proper kind, is comparatively easy, and his face wears an expression of good-natured complacency, In a moment, however, all this may bo changed, and the complacent look gives way to one of anxiety, the lines of care deeper, and tho evo watches with growing

interest the latest reports. An engine has : broken down upon tho mam line, ana the train which 6ho has been nulling is hope lessly delayed until another engine can bo; sent to tho scene of the mishap. This is a matter of no great importance, ' but while engaged in straightening it out another acciuent, more serious in 11s results, occurs down the line, and then the hard work begins in earnest. A freight train, while running at a high rate of speed, is derailed by somo defect in tho tracks, ot a misplaced switch, and engine and cars are piled promiscuously together, blocking the wav and stopping all traffic. In a moment all is hurry and confusion. A train of wreckers is pushed forward to the scene of trouble, and the work of clearing the wreck begins. : The great object is to clear tho way and allow all trains to proceed with as littlo delay as possible. Gangs of men go to work with a will and remove tho debris, saving such merchandise as is not hopelessly damaged. Disabled cars are hitched on to and pulled by sheer force clear of the roadbed, and in an almost miraculously brief space of time, the torn-up track is replaced, and every thing once more is incomplete working order. In the meantime everything has been delayed, and the dispatcher, with all possible haste, turns his entire attention to the task of hurrying tho trains forward once more. Next in importance to the dispatcher is the engineer, who, from his post in the cab of his engine, controls the monstrous machine which is dashing on through space bearing behind it its cargo of human souls. His horso never falters as ho grasps the throttle, and his eye scarcely for a moment deserts the two glittering lines of steel that stretch away before him. Ho scrutinizes carefullyevery foot 01 the line, ana u the sugntest obstacle or defect appears the air-brake is applied with almost the quickness of thought, and in a moment the train, is brought to a sudden standstill. He realizes fully tho dangers of his position, but with a heroic devotion to duty well worthy of a greater cause ho remains at his post to tho; last, and if need be goes down to his death' with the fortitude ot a hero. No words of; praise too great can bo uttered in his be-. half. ; Of the others, who each perform their re spective parts in the control and manage-. ment 01 our trains, each in 111s place aoes his duty well, and to each is due the grati tude of all who travel on tho 150,000 miles of our American railways. The conductor, : equally with the engineer, bears his part in the great work of caring for the safety and comfort of those under their care, and though his position is less dangerous and laborious, his responsibility is none the less and he displays intimes of danger the samo 1 V ' a. i. . .11 devotion 10 uie interest 01 a 11. And 60 in a lesser degree do the fireman and brakeman help to preserve the property of their emnlovers and to protect tho pas sengers on their trains. if -1 CHARMS OF THE WEST. Some Remarkable Attractions Discovered by a Puget Sound Tourist. ri m 1 1 Mr. E. W. S. 'Iinglo has returned from a visit to Tacoma and Seattle, where he went to look over tho field with a view to start ing a daily paper somewhere in that farj Western land. Mr. Tingle is very enthusiastic over tne country, ana minxs mat it is a trifle more like the Garden of Kden than any place ho has 6cen of late years. "When vou r.linih over the Rnr.kv mountains it is like getting over the garden wall," he said,? in a burst of enthusiasm. "1 am thoroughly convinced that it was on this SDot that tho Deity smiled His sweetest smile. Flowers' bloom perennially in that sunny laud,' and the murmur of the cowslips as they raise their hcad3 in the balmy air chimes in with, singing of tho birds to form the most entrancing melodies. Tho bread-fruit trees grow luxuriantly in Seattle, and I discovered one variety on which grew rve bread with caraway seeds ? ? a 1 r a a. - .1 1 1 in 11, sucu as is oiien imponeu anu used ou free-lunch counters of our modern civiliza tion. Flamingoes and other tropical birds are common there, and in the stream abound purple mullet and goldfish. I caught some of the latter. 1 have seen roses there growing on bushes as large as the ink rollers of mv late printing press. while tho rose leaves are so large' and suc culent that the citizens fry them and use them for food. Attar of roses is a common beverage, and tho entire community is very A i ll II .' ? A k A. sweet-scentea uy reason 01 mis xacu a Tacoma the entire picture is duplicated. Nature has not snared her bounties there. I was shown some samples of wool that grew on tho hydraulic rams. Iam con vinced that a factory for tho manufacture of hydraulic rams could do a paving busi ness at wool-growing. Cows are kept for their beef alone, for tho ingenious citizens havo reduced the cultivation of tho milk weed to such. a high degree of perfection that they furnish all t bat is needed in the way of dairy proancts. Some of those milk weeds produce the rich est kind of cream, and as the warm breezes sway them to and fro. this cream soon turns to butter by tho gentle undulation. I think a newspaper could be made to bring in a rich return to its owner. The county printing there is very fat. for it seems to keep paco with tho other native products. Carrier pigeons are trained to visit merchants aud solicit subscriptions and display advertisements, nnd they do this with an intelligence that is remarkable. The printing press could bo run hy water power, and under that clear sky and healthy atmosphere I am convinced that the oflice boy wnnlrl nnrn nrnnire the linhit. nf writ in if leading editorials and condensed para graphs. So the running expenses aro bound to- bo light. It is possible that I am too conservative in ray views, but I cannot help saying that I was favorably impressed with tho entire country which 1 visited." No Money for the Indian's Wife. Wanhin gton Special to Chicago Times. Whenever I tire of hearing politics I seek tho seclusion which tho department of ... 1 n't sw a jnuian an airs, uuuer jiisuopuoeriy, grants. I was down there or up would bo better, for he is on tho fifth flooryesterday. A real Indian came in. He was attired in red paint and feathers. He had ran away from his tribe and joined a cirens. Some where in the State of New York he formed the acquaintance of a white woman, who listened to his tale of woo and married him. Tho object of his visit was to procure means to reach the wigwam. He had tired of civilization. "Tired of your wife!" asked the Commis sioner. "No; me no tired of her. Mo like Lcr. Mo want her to go back with me. "The government can furnish yon money on which to return4 but it can't send your wife back' said the Commissioner, The Indian couldn't understand that. Then he gavo the Commissioner a letter. It

was from the white squaw, and a well-written plea to be allowed to return with her husband to his wigwam. She wrote that she loved him, and would go with him to the end of tho earth.

The Commissioner said there was no law to prevent her from going, bnt the red man would havo to pay her expenses. .die can't uo that now," the Indian replied. "Me go back to-her, and she get money to go with me, and then me come here and get money for myself." WAYS OF WIDOWS. They Hare an Advantage Over Their Younger Sisters and Are More Wily and Winsome. New Orleans Picayune. It is undeniable that widows are the autocrats of society, and men Hock about them wherever they go. No one has ever denied their fascinations, and Weller's advico to his son. if he wished to avoid matrimony to "bevare of vidders," has been quoted thousands of times. In many ways the widow has the advantage of her J ounger sisters. She has tho benefit of a argo knowledge and experience of the world, her arts and coquetries are per fected, not iu the experimental and un developed state of the debutantes, and, above all, she has tho inestimable advantage of knowing men with the accurate and intiinato knowledge gained by association with one who was probably a fair representative of his 6ex. She knows how to give little dinners that make the most hardened bachelor think indulgently of the marriage state. She knows that man likes 1. I - - ! - A A 1? 1 ins ease, ana uoes not insist on ms aancing in perpetual attendance on her. She does not insist on a man's talking about balls and theaters and new german figures. She ioiiows rather his lead to his own ground, and listens with subtle flattery in eyes and face while he descants on his favorite hobby. A young girl is always selfcentered, absorbed in her own affairs, her dresses, her parties; it is only grace and art that teach a woman to sink her own personality in the presence of the person with whom she is talking. Perhaps one of the chief charms of widows is their understanding of the line art of sympathy. The sympathy of a young girl who has known nothing but joy is a crude and unsatisfying aiiair, the very husks op which no love could feed, but the sympathy of a widow. tenderly, daintily expressed, with a gentle melancholy that shows that she, too, has suliered it is like the soft shadows in a picture, or tho minor chorxl in a piece of music that sets the pulses throbbing. Hav ing mourned for a man she knows how most effectively to mourn with one. A Chicago Alderman's Threat. Chicago Journal. A rondnr.tnr on one of the WAlTs-sfrpnf cars is a native of Indiana, and came fresh from his native land during tho last striko to accent his present job. When a reporter boarded his car the other day and paid his honest nickel, tho Hoosier said: l)o von think they will change the name of Goetbo street!" "I don't know. WhyT" "Well, k.4t....:.Vi 1 : .1 iu. .'it. iuo uiucr muni x cauicu an Aiuermau wiiu a pass-boot two blocks past uoethe street, where he had intended to get off. Then ho swore and said that if the conductors, on the North-side couldn't learn how to pronounce Goethe 60 that passengers would know what they meant, he should introduce an ordinance providing that every man of us should have his tongue slit like a parrot's,. so wo could talk. I fit in the war and am lull of lead; fell out of a three-story window onct and broke three ribs; havo been bit by a rattlesnake and by book agents, and have got a wife who has made me bald-headed; but before they can slit mv tongue and bring me down on the level of .1 menslv T.rrot 1M1 onifc this iob. Tint T wish they would change the namo of that street." Shrewd Management Required. Chicago News. . You havo no idea. sab. what a demawlized condition we were all in. after the wah. Fuhst thing they did. 6ah. was to send a Yankee down hvah to be noas'master. One morning Colonel Starbottle, perlect gentleman, sahraembah of one of our fuhst fam'lies Colonel Starbottlo went into the poas'office and handed in three letters at the window, saying; 4Mr. Poas-mas-ter, sah, I'll trouble you to put three stamps on those letters and charge the same to Colonel Starbottle. Now, what do vou reckon that Yankee poas'master did? He says, Colonel Starbottle, sah, we don't do business that way. sah.1 and he pushed ihq'-letters back back, sah. under Colonel fctarbottle s nose. What did Colonel btarbottledoT What could ho dof Why. 6ah. be drew his pistol like a gentleman and shot that Yankee poas'master shot him dead. N ow. to show you how demawljzfd ourinstityutions were: Do yon know. sahf that on account of that personal affair no an iiiu uiu eat iiuio mtuiui: VUHJnel Starbottlo from becoming involved in litigation! 'i' The Wrong Foot. Detroit Free Fresa. 'Dat eands dat." said a colored man who was brought into tho central station tho other day as a suspicious character. "Whati" asked the sergeant. "Disvere." was the reply, as he produced a rabbit's foot and tossed it contemptuously on the desk. "Dat ar de off hind f ut of a rabbit." "What is it, good fori" Nit inn 'tall." "What do you carry it for?" "Bought dat fut of an ole Kainfucky nig ger. r, who said it would keep de ghosts oft." 'Well, hasn't it!" Yes. de ehosts hain't come, bnt de nnrlicemen has. Walked right up an grabbed me 'fore I knowed it. What ade good to keen de chosts on an' let de coppers crab yo. Doan' believe in cio rabbit's fut no mo.' . You list keen it. Uoan' want numn in my. pocnet dat walks me in yero an 6enus me up lur six moutns." Deadly Poison from the Unman Lungs, "Boston Journal. Prof. Brown-Sequard is reported to have lately informed the French Academy of Science that by condensing the watery vapor coming from tho human lungs he obA 1 1 m taineu a poisonous noma capauie 01 producing almost immediate death. The poison is an alkaloid (organic), and not a microbe , or series of microbes. Ho injected this Jinnid under the 6km of a rabbit and the ef- . feet was speedily mortal without convul sions. Dr. beqnard said that it was fully proved that respired air contains a volatile element far more dangerous than the car bonic acid which is cue of its constituents, aud. tnat toe Human breatn contains a highly poisonous aeent. This ' startling fact should bo borne in mind by the occupants of crowed horse cars and ill-ventilated apart ments. " Li Hung Chang's Name. Pall Mall Gazette. "Why," asks a correspondent, "does your commissioner sometimes call the Un crowned King of China Li Hung Chang, and sometimes Li Chung Tanc!" The answer is easy: "Li Hung Chang" is for the English, for it is by that name that he is here generally known, but he should properly be called La Chung Tang," that is. "Grand Secretary Li." or more simnlv when in his own province, 4The Chung r- . mi . A. a. rri iang." lue loreicn lominunuy ai uenTsin, at least all of them who have much to do with the Chinese invariably employ tho iast expression. ' Feel It, If They Do Not Kip rest It. Cleveland Leader. Deuv it or disenise it as thev mav. there is no douM whatever that to their inner consciousness a very large part of the Democratic party confess a greater degree i commence- in ma aummisiraiion ox President Harrison than they ever had in that . ot President Cleveland, especially during mo last two years oi ms term. The Better Plan. 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GEOEGE JSa.. TELEPHONE 3Hi. Yesr Gicnr font THE SWEETEST AND PLUCKING AN OSTBICH. The Dangers and Difficulties of IT arresting a Crop of Feathers How It Is Done. Los Angeles Letter in San Francisco Chronicle. A pluck at the Kenilworth ostrich-farm having been announced, a party of visitors took the train from Los Angeles for the 6cene of this unfamiliar form of harvesting. The ostrich-farm, which is situated about seven miles northeast of Los Angeles, occupies a very pretty valley at tho foot of one of the coast ranges, not far from the JJurbank station.cn the Southern Pacihc railroad. The ostriches are confined in a number of large corrals, in which the birds have free room to run about, 6coop out their primitive nests, and mate themselves generally' quite at home. Four of these corrals are occupied by pairs of full-grow imported Diras, at the present time occupied ln iaying eggs. In other corrals are young birds. natives of California, which appear to be ouite as healthy and promise to be as line as their African parents. riucKing tne oirus is oy no means an cm undertaking. The one thing which makes ostriches manageable at all is that they cannot either fly or leap, or if they can they are not aware of their powers. Hence, an ordinary post and rail fence five feet high is sufficient to confine birds standing, perhaps, seven feet high, even when they are making the most desperate efforts to escape from the hands of their spoilers. AAV AJ A 1 - nuz ii iney cannot uy tney can run auu kick, and akick from oneof their great strong legs is an experience which nobody cares to try. Thus in catching them it is always neceseary careiuuy to avoiu getting in iront oi them, for they can only kick straight for ward. When plucking is to begin three men en ter the corral and approach the birds. They try to get the one tjiey wish to catch np into a corner, bnt as the bird soon sees that his best chance lies in keeping in the open, he races hrst down one side ot the corral, then up the other, making it appear as though it were an almost hopeless task to try and catch him. His strides are enormous, bnt his great feet and the muscles of his thights are so strong that he comes along with a strangely easy, springy cait. in which very little is seen of the fool ish awkwardness which is the first charac teristic to strike strangers when they see the bird at rest. After several quite vain attempts to reach the bird as he runs past, tho quickest of tho men throws himself upon one of the huge wings, and the first time, perhaps, finds himself sprawling on the ground, with a handful of broken feathers to reward him for his pains. Soon, however, somebody is fortunate enough to get a good hold, and by the time ho has been dragged half way round the inclosure, tho other two men also are to bo seen firmly attached to some part of the body or wings of the bird. Then a sack is rapidly produced from the belt of oneof tho men and slipped over the head and long neck, at the lower end of which it is loosely tied. This greatly facitates matters, and it is now no very difficult job to steer the strange looking creature into a corner of the corral which has been prepared for its reception. Here the fence has been strengthened with strong deal boards, and another heavy board is all ready to bo swung around in such a way as to inclose tho bird and his captors in a small corner, in which no great amount of struggling is possible. The first bird plucked was an old male. Tho young birds for the first two years of their life are all the same gray color which the females continue for their lives; but the males, after they are about two years old, become very handsome. They turn quite black, thus making a very handsome setting for the great white plumes which adorn their wings and tails. As they approach any one who is looking at them their beautiful bright black breasts remind him forcibly of funeral plumes. But when the black feathers come to be plucked they are found to be only black at the tips, and even here they seldom reach, perfect blackness, except in the mass. The feathers singly are of a dark brownish color, shading oil into something approaching very near to black at tho tips. Occasionally, but very rarely, a truly black feather is found, but nearly all tho black plumes and tips sold in the stores are dyed. Only the wing and tail feathers are pulled, the curly-looking little tips on the breast which arouse the cupidity of some of the ladies, being left untouched. The three men who have hold of the bird force him up tight against the corner of the inclosure, and the one of them who is doing the plucking in this case the proprietorstands on the side away from the wiug on which he is going to commence operations. He raises the wing, and. drawing it toward him over the body of the bird, lie selects the feathers which he considers marketable, and, grasping them one by one firmly in his hand, gives them a good hard pull and out they come. First the great white plumes, then tho smaller whites and then tno larger blacks. It must be a somewhat painful operation for the bird, as the feathers have a tight hold and the wing bleeds more or less at most points from which several feathers adjoining one another have been drawn. Every now and then a renewed struggle on the part of the ostrich and an effort not always unsuccessful, to shake offline sack whicn is over his head, bears wJtncss to bis not relishing the situation. As fast as tho feathers aro pulled, and this is done very quickly, they are handed over the fence to a man standing close by with a box. Then the ladies have their chance. The amount of discussion which is required before the on-lpokers can decide which of the feathers is most worthy to be chosen to remind them of the occasion is surprising. First, nothing lens than one of the great white plumes at tho end of the wing is good enough, and as these are selling to-day at from $1 to $2 they are cheap enough. Bnt when looked at in the hand it is found surprising fact! that the feathers do not grow curled and washed, and ready to be worn on hats, and presently a smaller feather of white and gray prettily blendcdis espied falling into the box. These vary in price from 1S5 to u0 cents, or in the case of very fines reach $1; but just as the purchase is on the Eoint of completion and the fair buyer's aud is searching among the small coins in a lengthy purse for one of just tho Tight dimensions, she becomes aware that her next neighbor has secured quito a pretty littlo feather for 10 cents; "really quite good enough to keep as aCraemento." And so the struggle ends, and economy is triumphant. Meanwhile the two wings have been plucked, and the tail, which produces leathers shorter than the best wing plumes but much wider such as are used for tho best tips. Then the sack is removed, aud the board which incloses the party having been swung back, the bird is set loose, a queer, curtaileddooking monster, shorn of his glory, but probably in a day or two much more comfortable in hot weather, at any rattv-f or being freed from tho burden

SINGLE. 7 1 R &JILLSON Malleable. Galvanized and CaaW EIOHAEDS. 77 South Illinois St. Indianapolis. Ind. Cbjsiths Flow MOST NUTRITIOUS. of his great, heavy plumes. Care has to be taken again, as the sack is removed, that he does not reward his tormentors with a kick, which, if well delivered, would easily break a bone, but his inability to kick any way, except straight in front of him, makes it no very difficult matter. Then tho chase is renewed, aud the royal consort is, in her turn, humiliated by having her proud head enveloped in the sack, and so the game goes on, till all the birds which are ready for plucking have been dealt with. It is very hard work on a hot dayt as not only have great agility and considerable courage and perscverenco to be displayed in catching the birds, but even holding them in the corner while the plucking is going on involves an almost continuous struggle, more or less severe. Tho operation takes perhaps about twenty minutes for each bird after it has been caught, and in this time 6ome 200 to 250 feathers of various sizes are pulled. Each bird is plucked twice a year, the plumes requiring a growth of about beven months to reach perfection. The feathers, if not retailed on the premises or in Los Angeles stores, are sold by weight. Ashort time ago they went as low as $50 a pound, but they aro now going up, the wearing of ostrich feathers in hats bavin g again become fashionable. A full-grown bird will give rather more than a pound of feathers between his two plucks, but as they are voracious feeders there is not much profit to be made out of keepingthem when feathers are fetching low prices. They are fed mainly on alfalfa, supplemented by corn and almost any vegj etable iood that comes handy. DALLY TVEATIIEIt BULLETIN. Indications. Washington, March 21, 8 r. u. For Indiana and Illinois Fair; stationary temperature: northerly winds. For Ohio Fair, preceded by rain on the lake; stationary temperature; northerly winds. For Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota Fair, preceded by light rain in , southern Dakota; warmer; northwesterly winds. For Iowa Fair, preceded by light rain in Nebraska; slightly wanner; northwesterly winds. Local Weather Report. Indianapolis. March 21.

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Maximum thermometer, 45; minimum thermometer, 36. Following Is a comparative statement of the condition of temperature and precipitation on March 21, 188'J: Tern, rrrcip. Normal 38 0.1 J Mean 40 O.oo Ieparture from normal 4 0.12 Kxcess or detlciency since March 1. 0rt 1.37 Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1... StJ 3.95 Plus. General Obserrstlons. Indian Aro lis, March 217 r. m.

fa IhermomcCr tj 2 Station. 5 bi b b 2. Weather. M ? s ; : s New York city. 23. 39 84 88 .82; Rain. Buffalo, T. Y... 30J0 34 32 40 .... Cloudy. Phil'delphiA,Pa 29.98 36 32 3 .38 Kain. Pittsburg, Pa.. 30.0c 36 so 40 .08 1 tain. Wash'ton, D. C. 30.00 38 32 40 .22 It- Cloudy. Charleston,S.C. :.00 ftc to 6C .... Cloudlew. Atlanta, Oa.... 30.03 64 30 62 .... Cloudless. Jacksnv'le,Fla 30.04 64 60 74 .... Cloudless. Pensacola, Fla. 30.04 62 4$ C8 .... Cloudless. Montff'm'ryLL 30.04 64 44 72 .... Cloudless. Vicksburg.Mlss 30.02 66 60 74 .... Cloudless. N. Orleans, La. 30.04 64 6C 74 .... Cloudless. Llttlellock,Ark 30 06 62 48 6c .... It. Cloudy. Galveston, Tex 29.98 62 60 68 .... Cloudless. B'nAntauioTi 29.8.S Ch 64 76 .... Cloudy. Memphis, Tenn 30.12 68 46 ec .... Clondle. Kashville.Tenn ao.io 64 3$ Co .... Cloudless. Louisville, Ky. 30.20 . ic 3fi 62 .... Cloudy. Indian'plis, Ind 30.18 44 86 44 .... Cloudless. Cincinnati, O.. 30.18 44 36 44 .... Cloudy. Cleveland, O... 30.1C 64 82 36 .... Cloudy. Toledo, 0 30,16 38 32 46 .02 Kain. Marq'ctte.Mlch 30.2C 34 22 42 .... Cloudless. H.St.MariMJch 30.20 84 24 44 .... Pt. Cloudy. Chicago, 111.... 30.22 38 30 42 .... Cloudless. Cairo, ni 30.16 62 40 66 .... Cloudless. Ppringneld, ni. 30.22 46 28 62 w... Cloudless. filwaukee,Wis 30.22 40 32 46 .... Cloudless. Buluth. Minn.. 30.24 84 26 40 .... Cloudless. Ht Paul. Minn. 30.22 64 46 00 .... Cloudless. Mooreh'd,Minn 30.38 62 S2 68 .... Cloudless, fit. Vincnt,Mi'n 30.30 62 32 6a .... Cloudless. Davenport, la. 30.22 48 so 62 .... Cloudless. Dubuque, la... 30.24 48 30 64 .... Cloudless. Des Moines. Ia. 30.20 62 30 64 .... Pt. Cloudy. HU Loilis, Mo.. 30.20 60 36 66 .... Cloudless. Kans's City.Mo 30.18 60 42 53 .... Cloudy.. Ft. SiU, Ind.Ter 30.00 60 46 tH JSC Cloudy. Iodpe City, K'e 30.18 60 so 62 .... Cloudy. Omaha, Neb... 30.24 w 42 GO .. Cloudless. N. Platte, Neb. 30.32 40 34 42 .10 liain. Valentine, Neb. 30.32 46 36 66 JO Cloudy. Yankton, I). T. 30.24 64 40 60 .... Cloudless. Ft. Sullr, D. T. 29.92 46 88 60 .10 Cloudlens. Bismarck, IXT. 30.36 62 36 66 .... Cloudless. FLBuford, D.T. 30.34 64 22 68 .... Cloudless. P.Arth'r,sL,d,fir30.2i 32 16 42 .... Cloudless. Qu'ApeUe. N.W 30.20 62 2 66 .... Pt-ClouCy. Ft As'nab'ne.M 30.34 64 30 68 .... Cloudless. Helena, M.T... 30.44 2 2s 62 .... Cloudle. Boise City, I. T. 30.40 68 32 Go .... in. Cloudy, Cheyenne, W.T. 30.38 32 25 38 .... Cloudy. Ft-McK'n'y VT 30.30 41 26 4C .... Clouiles. Ft.Vasnak!e,W 30.3O 44 1 4 .... Cloudless. Denver, Col.... 30.3 40 do 42 .... Cloudy. i Pueblo, Col 30.26 44 36 48 .... Cloudy. Panta Fe, X. M. 30.16 8o 82 40 .Oi now. Bait Lake City. JO. 34 62 86 64 .... Cloudless.

T Trace ot precipitation. Note Ono Inch of melted snow equals ten Inches of enow. Clever Chinese Thieves. London Figaro. Apparently Chinese thioyes aro as clerer as English ones. A goldsmith placed a bor containing several articles in gold and silver on a table in oue of his shops. A wily thief went iishing, and by means of a long hook succeeded in pulling oil' the box and the contents, lint if thieves are cute, so are somo shopkeepers, for they understand the difficult art ot getting Mood out of a stone. A man bought a clock and paid in a bad coin. lie was detected in his vile practices, but the shopkeeper conld get nothing better out of him in the way of cash, so ho helped himself to the coiner's wadded coat anu waistcoat. This might be called giving a man a cold shoulder. A Poor Guesser. Philadelphia Ttecord, Father Well, how did you come out on tho bean-guessing contest! Dull Hoy I guessed there was 150 beans in t he jar, and t hero' was O.OfX). Father (sadly) 1'in afraid you'll never be fit for anything but a weather bureau chief. Test the garden 6eeds by sowing a fewpinches of each kind in a shallow box of soil, which should bo kept moist. 1 That sense of extreme weariness indi ca tea disordered blood. Ayer'sbarsaaskM purine iu