Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1893 — Page 4

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THE ' INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11. 1893 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. B. E. MORSS, BEN A,. EATON, President, Vie President. b. McCarthy, f ecralmry and Tnunrtr. (Entered mi the Poofflpp at Indian apolls mm aerond elass mntter.)

TERMS PER YEAR I Finale ropy- (In Advance t NV auk democrats to bear In mind and eiert their own atate paper when they come to take anbacrlptlons and make op olnbs. Amenta making; np rlnbs send for anjr Information dealred. Addrena THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 11, lSiKU The Yale sophomores have invented a new style of hazing. They have Inveigled several-freshmen Into paying $3 for geats In the chapel, representing themselves as agents of the faculty. They send people tn the penitentiary for that sort of thing in the wild and woolly West. The court of appeal for the province Of Quebec has derided that a . broker cannot collect money due for margins from a customer. It holds that buying and selling stocks, or grain, or anything else, on margins, is gambling, and that no contract connected with it is valid. We shall probably now have a demand for the suppression of the board of trade. The sporting world will doubtless learn with regret that Nancy Hanks will not trot any more this season. She was so lame at Evansville that It was thought wise to withdraw her. The beautiful mare has excited the wonder and admiration of the entire country, and it is sad to admit that she is on the wane and must give place soon to coming favorites. The persistence of the obstructionists In the senate is making more evident the necessity of electing senators by popular vote. So long as they are elected by politician. fr legislatures are always composed cf politicians in the main, they will feel afe in defying the will of the people. Toii Cameron would never have dared to take hs present course if he had to go to the people for election. It was his belief that he could pull the strings when the proper time arrived that made him feel safe in doing as he does. The advice to farmers seems to be general regarding their wheat, and that Is to hold it. Indications increase that better prices will prevail before long. Advice is a pood thing In Its way, but the world is full of It. When Count Rudolf was asked In the play what he . wanted, he replied: "I am out of everything but advice." Perhaps the farmers feel the eame way. When a man is obliged to eil his wheat to meet his obligations or to keep the wolf from his door, the advice to hold wheat or anything else for an advance is not available. We are Inclined to doubt the press report that the hope of unconditional repeal has been destroyed by the speech of Senator Blackburn. So far as shown by the report he said nothing that has not been said over and over in this socalled debata. It is to be hoped that the democratic party will not be committed to a "compromise" on this question. It is far better to make an honest effort for unconditional repeal, and If that falls leave it to the people to settle with .he moTi who defeated their will and prolong the monetary troubles of the country. The delay in the senate Is a iine object lesson for the country. People everywhere are learning that this highest legislative body of the nation is as much subject to the evils of pig-headed obstruction a any town council in the country. What the senate needs is a permanent rule by which the majority can require a vote whenever it is satisfied that the minority ha.s had a reasonable hearing. At the present time the country is suffering daily from the lack of such a rule and the farce of senatorial courtesy is very poor salve for the sore. Let us prrC'?ed to business. The tax question is very simple. , The railroads refuse to pay their taxes ami are contesting in the courts. They have Len beaten at every turn. There Is no room for belief that they will not have to pay them. The News says that in the meantime the people ehould be taxed enough to make up the deficiency. The Sentinel says that I both unjust and unnecessary. When the railroads pay their taxes the temporary loans will be cleared up. If the News's policy were followed there would be a large surplus in the treasury when the railroads paid. Times are hard. Keep the taxes as low as possible. It is gratifying to record the arrest of men supposed to be the murderers cf the Ill-fated Wrattan family of Daviess county. They were safely lodged in the plate prison at Jeffersonville Saturday morning. The detectives admit that the evidence is altogether circumstantial but they think It strong enough to convict the prisoners. These arrests bear out The Sentinel's Intimations a week or more ago, in some modest advice that it gave to the Daviess county authorities, that the murderers were not tramps rtraying through the country. Tramps may steal, rob houses or occasionally do a bit of work In the highwayman's art. but they are usually backward about committing murder unless , forced to do so by unexpected circumstances. All the known evidence of the Wrattan bloody affair demonstrated that the murders were committed by a person at naraons who lived In . the . neighbor- (

hood or who were at least fully cognllant of the habits of the family and the plan of the house. This theory seems to have been adopted by the detectives, who confined their investigations to Daviess and Pike counties. It was a wise movement to take the alleged murderers to the Jeffersonville state prison Instead of the Washington jail. In the latter case a lynching was probable as the feeling against the exterminators of J an entire family is very bitter. A. P. A. IO Y ALT Y. The A. P. A. professes to be an organization of patriots. It claims to be the special defender of American institutions-. There are two American institutions that it is endeavoring to overthrow, and they are the constitution of Indiana and th constitution of the United States. We would call the attention of our readers to a few sections of these Instruments, and first of the constitution of Indiana: Art. 1. sec. 2. All men shall be secured in their natural right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences. Art. 1.. see. 3. No law shall in any case whatever control the free exercise and enjoyment of religious opinions or Interfere with the rights of conscience. Art. 1-, sec. 5. No religious test Bhall be required as a qualitlcation for any ofTlce of trust or protiu These provisions are openly repudiated by this order. The fundamental principle of the order is war on catholics, but apparently this is not po much on account of their objections to catholics as because a large number of our catholic citizens are foreign-born, and they object to foreigners holding cfllces. the salaries of which might otherwise be drawn by members of the A. P. A. Another section of the Indiana constitution which they violate is this: Art. 9. sec. 1. Knowledge and learning, generally diffused throughout a community, being essential to the preservation f a free government, it shall be the duty of che general assembly to encourage, by all suitable means, moral, intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement, and to provide by law for a general and uniform system of common schools, wherein tuition shall be without charge and equally open to all. It was no part of the Intent of this provision to discourage private schools. The sole object is to give everyone the opportunity of free schools if they desire it. It is expressly made the duty of the general assembly to encourage both moral and intellectual improvement of all kinds, whether in public or private schools. If anyone had suggested to the makers of our constitution the A. P. A. proposition to destroy all private schools they would certainly have made an express prohibition of such a foolish and wicked thing. This constitution was adopted in 1S.V1. Since that time the United States htis made two important additions to its constitution, as follows: Art. 14. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of, citizens of the United States: nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its Jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Art. 15. The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. The A. P. A. is endeavoring to take away from citizens of foreign races their right to vote under the natularizatlon laws, and to require them to live In this country twenty-one years before they can have any rights. And yet this organization, which defies our constitutions, talks about loyalty to the government. It Is a very hot-bed of disloyalty. AN IRRIGATION CONVENTION. Los Angeles, Cal., will be the scene of a unique convention beginning Oct. 10 and lasting five days. It will be devoted wholly to the consideration of irrigation in all its phases. As irrigation in this country means the reclamation of something like five hundred and fiftyeight million acres of the public domain, it is a question which may well engage the atention of the greatest minds of the country. Hitherto considered worthless, this method of artificially watering the land causes It to yield abundant crops and of the best varieties. The possibilities of yield are limtless. In 1801 there was an international irrigation congress in Salt Lake City and the questions were discussed in a more general way than they will be this time. Then the experiments in the way of practical demonstration of the utility of the 'idea were not so numerous as now. Then is was really an almost untried field in this country. The past two years have seen enormous changes in the attitude of the press and people toward the scheme, and the present international congress will call together some of the ablest men in the country. The department of agriculture at Washington has detailed two officials especially to attend the meeting and give all information in their iower about the Irrigation of lands, and the different states in which the application of the idea will be tarried to its perfection will have as able representatives as possible present. In addition some are expected from Europe and possibly Asia. The Interchange of ideas and detailed discussion of methods and results will be a very valuable contribution to the knowledge of the system as practiced in the arid regions of America. Irrigation is not as new -as it seems. It has long been practiced in all parts of the old world, and so long ago as the Israelites were captives in Egypt they understood irrigation. There are passages In the bible which tell of the workmen In the fields turning the water with their feet to make it flow where it was needed. Then Europe and India have been compelled to practice artificial watering to some extent. It has remained for America, particularly the western portion of America, to develop the idea and put It upon a truly commercial and profitable basis. Irrigation Will make it possible for all of what was formerly known as the great American desert to be occupied to troaxrous faxiuern. It

will open up a vast empire of land hitherto considered useless and given over the coyotes and sage brush. This tract is situated In eleven states, comprising all varieties of climate and production from the citrus fruits of the semi-tropical regions to the fruits and cereals of the northern temperate countries. It solves the problem of prosperous farmers in an ideal agricultural region. II makes it possible for farmers to regulate their production and to know absolutely that their crops will not be damaged by drought. Having sufficient water in a canal close at hand. It only remains to open the gates and it flows down, giving life and vitality to the vetretatlon of a neighborhood of farms. There are untold possibilities connected with the solution of this problem which will vitally affect the agricultural interests of these eleven states and through them extend indirectly to the. whole country. No one wilt want a farm of more than ten to twenty acres when he knows absolutely that he or.n control the drought and make his land produce. That will make possible farming communities something like the, farm villages of France, where the agricultural population can be so close together that the bane of all azrleultural life. Its loneliness, will be done away with, and farmers, from being independent of the weather, will likewise become independent in other directions and can I enjoy an ideal existence. The convention will be a powerful impetus to agricultural Interests In those states. Its deliberations will be of value to the whole I country. THE A. P. A. PATRIOTS. The third number of the Loyal American, the A. P. A. organ, makes an effort to hide the horns and the cloven hoof that were displayed so prominently in the first and second numbers, but it still prints the principles of its faith, which are sufficient notice to all who believe In civil and religious liberty and In the rights of naturalized foreigners under our laws. Note these declarations: No foreigner given employment unless naturalized American citizens. Regulated and restriction of immigration. Extension of time for naturalization. We believe there should be an educational qualification to the elective franchise that will require every "American citizen" to be Americanized. We are in favor of laws taxing all church property. The opening of private and parochial schools, convents and monasteries to public- official inspection, and placed on the same plane of morality and law as Protestant institutions are. We are willing to le governed by these principles in our future political action. These declarations are sufficiently plain to satisfy anyone of the knownothing principles of the order. When taken in connection with the declarations of the two preceding numbers, they are as luminous as electric lights. Read them: The parocni.il si hool in the United States is only in opposition to our noble grand public school, and the mission of the A. P. A. will not end till we declare them banished from the country. Our noble order in Indiana can do a great work by seeing that none but loyal and true men are put on gua'rd and kept there until our public schools have been restored to their former and original condition, with the bible as our text book, and the American language only to be taught, as it Is the language of our country and supreme over all others. The suppression of such open declarations as these in the third number shows that the A. P. A. Is becoming frightened at the general sentiment against its odious and un-American doctrines. The A. P. A. organ shows some further Improvements In its tone. It has dropped its forged encyclical letter ordering the catholics to murder the protestants. It has dropped much of Its bitter abuse of foreigners. It has dropped its falsehood that 70 per cent, of the teachers in the public schools are catholics, and now complains that thirty of them less than 10 per cent. are catholics. But it still maintains that no one outside of. the A. P. A. has any patriotism or loyalty to the country. In its account of its "wonderful growth" it ays: From Kansas to New York and Boston we find the same wide awake but quiet organization for self-preservation. At .Anderson last week 10 of its best citizens took the oath of allegiance to the United States constitution and to our flag! n Think of it! America's "best citizens" having no "oath of allegiance to the United States constitution and to our flag" until they are taken into the A. P.-A;. rot-3 anybody want to encourage the bigotry of these violators of our j constitution? Hard times seem to have had a good effect In some parts of the country. It is an 111 wind that blows nobody any good, says the old adage. In Georgia the farmers have been very busy instead of mourning over the low prices of products. In Walton county the News, local paper, says farming Is waking up. "From all accounts," says the News, "more farms have been made self-sustaining this year than for any year in the last two decades. More men have fattening hogs and corn to do them, and j much attention has been given to the reclaiming of waste places. It Is reassuring to see verdant pea vines growing on red hillsides, for more than anything else it shows that the farmers have determined to build up thwlr lands." Gwinnett county also makes a good report. . The Herald says: "We assert that there is more old corn In the ccunty than has been at this season of the year since the war. There Is a large crop made, which will be ready for gathering in a few days. The cotton crop will ba about an average yield. Wheat and 'oats are more plentiful than for several years. And while meat is remarkably scarce and unreasonably high, that very fact has impressed upon the people the necessity of making their own supplies, and we do not believe we will overestimate when we state that there will be frtm &0 to 75 per cent, more made than there was last year." A farmer's life is the most Independent In the world. He can usually have his larder filled to overflowing no matter what else huo-

pens, and he can provide against drj dlnary disaster by the prudent management of his own farm affairs. We in i the city depend very much more upon each other than those who inhabit the great agricultural world. A pamphlet has recently been published giving a resume of the great fires In this country and their extent, origin destructiveness. etc. An analysis of the figures shows that of the 44.141 recorded fire3 which visited the United States last year 3.1 per cent, resulted from exposure to burning property, 4 per cent, from defective flues and smokestacks, over 2 per cent, from stoves and stovepipes and about 2li per cent, from flying sparks. One fire in every hundred was due to oil stoves, three in every hundred to. lamp accidents and two in every hundred to the careless use of matches. Not quite 2 per cent, were due to liirhtning. and less than 1 per cent, each to electric wires, to cigars or cigarettes, and to fireworks. Spontaneous combustion was responsible for only el?ven fires per thousand. As the writer of the pamphlet says: "The fire fiend has had. and Is having, a picnic in this country." Last year he burned up $151,500,000 worth of property, a drain upon the country's pocket-book which if continued for twenty-four years would relieve it of a sum equal in value to all the gold money in the world. What is evidently needed is more solid, slowburning buildings, and improvement, especially, in the construction of flues and chimneys. Accidental fires are inevitable, but their occurrence and their destructiveness can only be reduced to a minimum by the architects and builders. The Buffalo petition to Senators Hill and Murphy in favor of forcing a vote on unconditional repeal presents facts that are as true here as at Buffalo. It says: As far as Buffalo is concerned, we do not know of one business man who does not earnestly desire the immediate passage of the reieal bill, believing this to be necessary to the thorough restoration of confidence. This we understand to be the almost universal sentiment among the business men of the I'nited States, You can readily see that such being the case, no business enterprise is being pushed, conservative men preferring to wait for a certainty in the matter of legislation. A large number of manufacturing concerns are running with reduced forces, or having closed temporarily, continue inactive, and large numbers of wage-earners are thus without employment. Every day of delay is costing the country hundreds of thousands of dollars in curtailment of fall trade, thus increasing the chances of keeping thousands of people out of work this winter, entailing widespread destitution and misery. We submit then that this question rises above all consideration of party and of policy and becomes one of common humanity: a question of right and wrong. making delay a crime. From the senators of the great state of New York, with her enormous commercial interests, the people expect more than mere acquiescence in repeal. They expect aggressive action and a strong and steady fight to speedily bring the repeal bill to a vote. That is what is wanted by business men everywhere. Stop the talking, and act. OLE HILL'S CHILDHOOD. Early Fanclnnllon of tlic Marvelon Musician for the Violin. From his earliest childhood Ole Bull was exceedingly sensitive to music, is the statement of Harper's Bazar. His uncle, who belonged to a quartet club, used, when playing on the viollncello, to put the little fellow in the empty case and keep him there until his nervous excitement made it impossible for him to remain. In spile of this excitement he narrowly observed all that the players did; he knew the sounds of the notes long before he could name them, and when at the age of five his uncle made him the proui possessor of a little scrap of a violin, which he received wih kisses and embraces, to every one's amazement he played upon it at once with remarkable correctness. His next violin was given to him at his earnest solicitation two or three years afterward by his father. He could not sleep for thinking of it. When he heard Iiis father and mother drawing1 the deep breath of sleep he rose and lighted a candle and tiptoed to the room where his dear violin lay, in order to open the case for one delighted look. "The violin was so red," said he. as Mrs. Child reported, "and the pretty pearl screws did smile at me so! I pinched the strings Just a little with my fingers. It smiled at me ever more and more. I took up the how und looked at it. It said to me that it would be pleasant to try it across string. So I did try it Just a very, very little. And it did sing to me so sweetly! Thn 1 did creep farther away from the bedroom. At first I did play very softly. I made very. very little noise. But presently 1 did h.-gin a capriocio which I like very niiK-h. and it did go ever louder and louder, and I forgot that it is midnight and everybody asleep. "Presently I hear something go crack! And the minute I feel my father's whip across my shoulders. My little red violin dropped on the floor and was broken. I weep very much for it. but it did no good. They did have a doctor for it the next day, but it never recovered Its health." Ills father had meant that he should be a clergyman, and in due time the boy was placed at the university of Gottlngen. But it was quite useless study or not, music would get the upper hand.

luiis He Civil. Civility Is a quality that is never wasted. Its effect upon a little street boy who was not used to it Js cleverly shown in the following story from over the sea: It seems that one evening a young lady abruptly turned a street corner and ran against a boy who was small and tagged and freckled. Stopping as soon as she could, she turned to him and said: "I beg your pardon. Indeed I am very sorry." The small, ragged and freckled boy looked up in blank amazement for an instant. Then taking about threefourths of a cap, all he had, he bowed very low. smiled until his face became lost in the smile and answered, "You can hev my parding and welcome, miss, and yer may run ag'ln me and knock me clean down, an' I won't say a word." After the young lady paused on he turned to a comrade and said, half apologetically. "I never had any one ask my parding before, and it kind o took me oir my feet."-X. Y. World. A Hint for Yoonjc Visitor. A person visiting a house should never confine his or her attention to any one particular member of the family; kindness, attention, courtesy shoulj be extended to all. and care should be taken by any young person who is the friend of younger members of the family that deference be paid particularly to the host and hostess. I Cure Dyspepsia, Constipation and Chronic Nervous diseases. Dr. Shoop's Restorative, the great Nerve Tonic, by a newly discovered principle, also cures stomach, liver and kidney diseases, through the nerves that govern these organs. Book and samples free for 2c stamp. DR. S1IOOP. Box X. Racine. Wis.

A TIGER'S PLAYTHING.

A HINTER TELLS OF HI UNENVIABLE EXPERIENCE. A Tljtere Attacks Hint. Knocks Him Down. Then Pirka Him tp by hi Shoulder und Drags film Into the Jan tclr Thr Hnntrr Clin to HI Gun, "Which He I Finally Ablo to t'ae with Good Effect. In India once I went out on a hot, dusty plain near the Ganges with my rifle and one native servant to see what I could shoot. It was a dismal place. Here and there were clumps of tall grass and bamboos, with now and then a tamarisk tree. r.triots screamed in the trees and the Ftartled caw of some Indian crows made me pause and look around to what had disturbed them. Th crows almost at once settled down again Into silence, and, as I saw no sign of danger, I went on carelessly. I was alone, for I had sent back my servant to find my match-box, which I had left at the place of my last halt; but I had no apprehension, for I was near the post and the district was one from which, as was supposed, the tigers had been cleared out some years before. Just as I was musing upon this fact, with a tinge of regret because I had come too late to have a hand in the clearance, I was crushed to the ground by a huge mass which seemed to have been hurled upon me from behind. My head felt as though it had been dashed with icy or scaldir g water and then everything turned black. If I was stunned by the shock It was only for an instant. When I opened my eyes I was lying with my face in the sand. Not knowing where I was or what had happened I started to rise, when instantly a huge paw turned me over on my back, and I saw the great yellow-green eyes of a tiger lookin f?ilown upon me through their narrow black slits. I did not feel horror-stricken; in fact, so far as I can remember. I felt only a dim sense of resignation to the inevitable. I also remember that I noticed with curious Interest that the animal looked rather gratified than ferocious. I don't know how long I lay there, stupidly gazing up into the brute's eyes; but presently 1 made a movement to sit up, and then I saw that I still held my rifle in my hand. While I was looking at the weapon with a vague, harassing sense thait there was something I ought to do with it. the tiger picked me up by the left shoulder and made off with me into the jungle; and still I clung to the rille, though I had forgotten what use 1 should put it to. The grip of the tiger's teeth upon my shoulder I felt but numbly, and yet, as 1 found afterward, it was so far from gentle as to have shattered the bone. Having carried me perhaps half a ndle. the brute dropped me and. raising her head, uttered a peculiar, soft cry. Two cubs appeared at once in answer to '.he summons, and bounded up to meet her. At the first glimpse of me. however, they sheered off in alram. and their dam had to coax them for some minutes, rolling me over softly with her paw, or picking me up and laying me down in front of them, before she could convince them that I was harmless. At last the youngsters suffered themselves to be persuaded. They threw themselves upon me with eager, though not very dangerous, ferocity, and began o maul and worry me. Their claws and teeth seemed to awaken me for the firot time to a sense of pain. I threw oft the snarling animals roughly, and started to crawl away. In vain the cubs tried to hold me. The mother lay watching the game with satisfaction. Instinctively I crept toward a tree, and little by little the desire to escape began to stir in my dazed brain. When I was within a foot or two of the tree the tlger made a great bound, seized ine in her Jaws and carried me back to the spot whence I had crawled. "Why." thought I to myself, "this is just exactly the way a cat plays with a mouse!" At the same moment a cloud seemed to roll off my brain. No. words of mine can describe the measureless and sickening horror of that moment, when realization was thus suddenly flashed upon me. At the shock my rifle slipped from my relaxing fingers; but I recovered it desperately, with a sensation as if I had been falling over a precipice. I know now what I wanted to do with It. The suddenness of my gesture, however, appeared to warn the tiger that T had yet a little too much life in me. She growled and shook me roughly. I took the hint, you may be sure, and resumed my former attitude of stupidity; but my faculties were now alert enough and at the crudest tension. AgTln the cubs began mauling me. I 1-ep-slled them gently, at the same timo looking to my rifle. I saw that there was a cartridge ready to be projected Into the chamber. I remembered that the magazine was not more than half empty. I started once more to crawl away, with the cubs snarling over me and trying to hold me, and it was at this point I realized that my left shoulder was broken. Having crawled four or five feet, I let the cubs turn me about, whereupon I crawled back toward the old tiger, who lay blinking and actually purring. It was plain that she had had a good meal not long before, and was, therefore, iu no hurry to dispatch me. Within about three feet of the beast's striped foreshould'T I stooped and fell Over on my side, as if all but exhausted. My rifle barrel rested on a little tussock. The beast moved her head to watch me, but evidently considered me past all possibility of escape, for her eyes rested as mifth upon her cubs as upon me. The creatures were tearing at my legs. but in this supreme moment I never thought of them. I had now thoroughly regained my self-control. 1 Laboriously, very deliberately, I got I my sight and covered a spot right behind the old tigress's foreshoulder, low down. From the position I was in, I knew this would carry the bullet diagonally upward through the heart. I should have preferred to put a bullet in the brain; but in my disabled condition and awkard posture I could not safely try it. Just as I was ready one of the cubs got in the way and my heart sank. The old tiger gave the cub a playful cuff, which sent it rolling to one side. The next Instant I pulled the trigger and my heart stood still. My aim had not wavered a hair's breadth. The snap of the rifle was mingled with a fierce yell from the tiger, and the long-barred body straightened itself up Into the air and fell over almost on top of me. The cubs sheered o!T In great consternation. I sat up and drew a long breath of thankful relief. The tiger lay beside me, stone dead. I was too weak to walk at once, so I leaned against the body of my vanquished foe and rested. My shoulder was by this time setting up an anguish that made me think little of my other injuries. Nevertheless, the scene about me took on a glow of exquisite color. So great was the reaction that the very sunlight seemed transfigured. I know I fairly smiled as I rapped the cubs on the mouth with my rifle barrel. I felt no inclination to shoot the youngsters, but I would have no more of their over-ardent attentions. The animals soon realized this and lay down in the ( sand beyond my reach, evidently waiting for their mother to reduce me to proper submission. I must have lain there half an hour, and my elation was rapidly subsiding before the agony in my shoulder, when at last my man Gunjeet appeared, tracking the tiger's traces wi'.h stealthy caution. He had not waited to go for help, but ,

had followed up the beast without delay, vowing to save me or avenge me before he slept. The cubs, on his approach, had run off Into the covert, so we. set out at once for the post. When I got there I was in a raging fever, which with my wounds, kept me laid up for three months. On my recovery I found that Gunjeet had gone the next day and captured the two cubs, which he had tent down the river to Benares, while the skin of the old tiger was spread luxuriously on my lounge. You will not wonder that the sight of a cat playing with a mouse ha. become somewhat distasteful to me since that experience. I have acquired so ken a sympathy for the mouse! Youth's Companion.

MONGRELS AND MASTIFFS. Some Facta About Doe and HJtt to f.et One of Intelligence. There are probably many m-re mongrel dopx in America than there are of those belonging to all the distinct varieties combined. A mongrel i a dog of nixed breed. It Is true that many of those now recosrnlzed as distinct vartti's are of mixed breeds, but they have not been so considered until by such breeding a distinct type was developed. For others than those skilled tn the breeding of dogs to breed mongrels is very wrong. There are various reasons for t hls.hu "t the best one is that in nine times out of ten the very worst characteristics of each family are reproduced in progeny in an exaggerated form, while the good traits of both families are lost. Take, for instance, two of the gentlest dogs ever known the mastiff, whose business in life is to protect property, and the Newfoundland, that delights in saving human life in danger. f'ross them and the resulting progeny will be a mongrel having neue of the virtues of either family save that of size and strength. Instead of being gentle and affectionate these mongrels are apt to be very cross and dangerous brutes. Because of the deeds of such as these many good breeds have gained undeserved reputation for savageness and un trust worthiness. It occasionally happens that a mongrel has great intelligence and is altogether a most companionable dog. but 6uch Instances are rare exceptions. It is no more trouble to keep a good dog than i bad one. a well-bred dog than a mongrel. It is therefore much more sensible in the beginning to select a dog upon which to bestow one's care of which there is little chance of being ashamed when he shall have become fully grown. Harper's Young People. THE i REAPED "(iROWM'Il." How Ihr Tontcli Try to Ort Ahral of the Heer Mlnerr. While I was in a "growler joint." or a saloon in the growler district yesterday, a typical tough came in with a large can undo his arm. It had no handle and was badly buttered. "Gimme a pint," he said. The bartender took the can. felt the inside with his finger, smiled and said as he winked, "Yer can't give me the dinky dink, cull. I'm tWd onto your curves." He took a towel and carefully wiped the inside of the can. Putting the can under the beer spigot lie P t the beer run until the froth came over the top. and then returned the can to the tough. "Great game that." said the bartender, "and it's new. too. Only a growler rusher would think of it. I Tow is it worked? This way: One of the gan? gets a piece of fat and rubs it all around the can on the inside. They rub it a short distance from the middle if the ran is large, and near the top If small. You see we never measure out the beer, but just pour it In until the froth reaches the top. Well, as soon as the froth strikes the fat a round the inside it won't go any higher until the beer forces it up, so that they pet all l"r Instead of froth, See the game?" New York Telegram. The Number "Wnn All Kindt. Mormon Elder (to shoe dealer) "I want to get a pair of shoes for my wife." Shoe Dealer "Yes, sir. What number, please? Mormon Elder "Seventeen." Shoe Dealer "Seventeen! Great Brigham, sir, we haven't shoes that large." Mormon Elder (sternly) "I'm not speaking of the number of the shoe, sir, but of the number of my wife." London Tid-Bits. ODDS AND ENDS. Germany produces more zinc than any other country and exports between fifty and sixty thousand tons annually. It is a curious anomaly in the law that if you pay for your photograph being taken no copy can be sold without your consent, while If you do not the photographer may sell to any extent. Yeast for breadmaklng was first manufactured in m. it is computed that over 2,000.000 pounds nter into the dally bread of the people of this country, while treble this amount Is used Europe. The grand lodge of masons Vas founded in Providence in 1791. and two years later the Providence Royal Arch chapter. No. 1. was instituted by a few masons of that degree, who obtained a charter from Washington chapter. Any kind of a ring is lawful in the English marriage service, and Instances have occurred where a certain ring or key of the church door has been used. On one occasion a ring was cut from the finger of the bride-s glove and made to answer the purpose. One sees Arabs coming into Constantinople with a donkey-load of wood, which they sell for 3 francs. They have come twenty-five miles with it. sell it and next day ride the donkey back. A meal costs them but 2 cents, the wood nothing, and the donkey does all the work. A Turin jeweler has made a tiny boat formed of a single pearl. Its sail is to be beaten gold and studded with diamonds, ami the binnacle light at its prow is a perfect ruby. An emerald serves as a rudder, and its stand is a slab of ivory. It weighs less than half an ounce. Its price is 4.0X. A spoonful of chloride of lime in a quart of water will probably remove mildew from your table linen. Strain the solution after it has stood long enough to thoroughly v dissolve and dip the cloth into it. Repeat if a first application is not sufficient, but wash the mixture well out of the goods. Much of the costly .'ed. white and pink coral used for ornamental purposes Is obtained from the coast of Italy. Men go out In boats and drag the rocky bottom of streams with wooden frames or nets, in which the coral becomes entangled, but the delicate branches are crushed In this way. A former Delawaean now living in Chicago wears a necktie made of a rattlesnake's skin. He slew the reptile in Florida Just as it was about to spring from Its coil and strike him.- A taxidermist cured the skin in such a fashion that it should serve for a tie and made up part of the rattles Into a scarfpin.

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Domiciled In a handsome modern house at Hohokus. that charming suburb of New York on the high road to Tuxedo, one may find Mrs. Lucy Williams Hawes, a matron cf fourscore and a delightful gentlewoman, who can bridge the years with reminiscences of Channing or descant upon the salient features of Talmage's latest sermon; who can tell you how her emotions have leen stirred by Rachel and EIanore Duse; who recollects Tyrone Power and th" eldr Booth and has seen Salvini; who can recall Lola Montez and Fanny Ellsler as she watches the gyrations of Carmen-Jta; who kn--w Irving, Emerson. IIawthora Whlttier and Bancroft and takes a lively Interest in Kowells and Whitcomb Riley, if p.rc.hance. lost in the thought of a bygone day. hr still deft fingers glide over the keyboard of a Stxinway grand attuned to the melodies sh? learned tfventy years ago. she will tell you of the time when she sat entranced by th songs of Jenny Lind or was held spellbound among a bevy of matinee girls at the last Paderewskl recital. Mrs. Hawes was born in New Bedford in 1R12 of pilgrim and Quaker ancestry and received the best e. 'cation New MRS. LUCY WILLIAMS HAWES. Er.glönd afforded in those days an education that did not cease when she ised the doors of the young ladies' f-mlnary behind her. As on? sits in her drawing room, a crack of a whip! and a tallyho bowls past bearing- a burden of beauty and fashion for Tuxedo festivities. Then perhaps Mrs. Hawes will teil about that ball in the town hall at New Bedford when -he was a bud, full sixty years ago. In those days there were no discussions alxjut decollete coinages, but all dresses were mao with low necks and short sleeves, with very long white kid gloves, and feet daintily shod in silken hose, with frail slippers of satin and the hair dressed high, with a "fcronier"' crowning the forehead. The beaux were resplendent in coats of blue broadcloth with bright buttons, and light colored trousers mad-? very tight and strapped under the clippers, which were omaxncntvd with line buckles, while ruffled 5hir;.s, high neckcloths and hair curled et the barber's completed the toilet. 1 is iiueret-ting to liPten to Mrs. Hawew's description of her visit to the executive mansion when Mrs. FiUnyr t'guied as the first lady of the land. She F.4VS the Fillmore- found th while house in a mlserabl. condition, with n suggestion of a home, but after the president's wife had th carpet in the besi. living ro.m takn up and cleaned, sent to Buffalo for her piano and harp. sh l-'ssened the dimensions of the spacious apartment with screens, and by many feminine devices succeeded in creating a degree of coziness that was gratfful. The old black cook, who could prepare a state dinner for thirty-five people in a huge fireplace filled with hooks and cranes, had the system of his Kitchen entirely disordered by the introduction of a small hotel range, and the president was obliged to make a Journey to the patent office to inspect the model and demonstrate the modus operandi of the disturbing innovation. One day Mrs. Fillmore expressed her desire to see the Aztec children, and in, response to her request they were summoned to the white house. When thny took their leave the president's vife bestowed upon each a bright new gold dollar, and Mr. Barnum, who was exhibiting them caused the papers cf tb following day to state that Mrs. Fillmere had presented them with necklaces of enormous value. To a social festivity that winter came Mme. Bodisco in a gown of corn colored brocade, with the black bugles of her bertha so fine they appeared like lace, and a wreath of wild roses surmounting her brow; Mrs. Riggs. with her coronet of auburn hair; Miss Cutts. who married Stephen A. Douglas, and a hot of matrons in moire antique and brocade, caps of blond with marabout plumes and flowers, hiarh waists with vet and flowing underpleeves of rlcn embroidery or lare. Mrs. Fillmore wore a costume of red velvet, a fabric, rarely seen in thoe days, and her daughter Abigail blue silk and white lace, festooned with water lilies. Mrs. Hawes's birthday occurs on the same day a.s but three years later than, that of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and sh relates that more than a half century ago she danced with the antevrat around the old elm on the green at Harvard at her brother's commencement, sipped cream with hitn in Winthrop place and walked with him later on the shores of the Naushon. Recalling the circumstances under which she first heard tlie great Ir. Channing preach, she says: "He had a look of sweetness, Mended with an air of patient determination, as though he bore the cross of an unpopular f.iith which in time would bless the earth." It is only when Mrs. Hawes recalls from her well-stored mind such memories of the past that one can realize her age. If women are as old ns they look, then iL would seem as if Mrs. Hawes were far younger than the family bible and her reminiscences would indicate, for there Is nothing in her bearing, manner or speech to Indicate the octogenartnn. ADA CKIfcP. Her Port off the Worry. One of Washington's bright women was present while her husband discussed the financial situation. "I must confess," he said, "that th money market has worried me a great deal." "It wasn't the money market that worried me." observed his wife. "What was it?" "It was the market money." Washington Star. t'nllfornia. New and interesting books about California, its climate and productions, an 1 general information. ent free. Address A. Phillips & Co., 101 S. Clarkst., Chicago. III.

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