Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 39, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 December 1896 — Page 3

VEKKLY COURIER.

fASf'K

i ,i n k. PMhllli . - INDIAN.

CARE'S SLAVE.

,. , , ti e buJrtlng Msy time. T whiu bough overhead; i , tii.- i" .'! "', Good Motr Car." 1 ' 1 R just wait and se ni' vive you a bVdy '"vU t.lnung' dona." said ha. n i th glowlsg auromar: 1 "ol the woodland's ahade! ioD an eager corner. rive to-day!" I prayed. Maitter Care hla foreh wd knit; ( . truss la rlpa to mow: - k ob nil hsylng-tiiue Is past. V i ,,. ru M you go. . ta the alad September: nL ma.pt leave were r.n. Master Care! Remember, v ',' imlaed me." I aald. von a ill tlnd." he answered ma.

tea my promise true, may sport when harvest's done, s i i .thing to do " . w inter wlnda are blowing k I feel and old!) j . Iba hearth, bricht glowing; with the cold . ,-,-. rlta down bealde tne. r', Uta up. one by one. . .,. that I have don amiss, ' t i ,,e left undone: . low mur.erlng to myscir. . h t had laughed and sung, x fea I "V atoare of honest Joy

arata strong nu um..

Douglas, in Harpers

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liaiar.

BWIPE8.

I,V HOWARD SEC. IB.

bo ocpnso nou-... k,H-ciution of finding homes for unoiiir the farmer of eastern Ne

c pea e a, to uae the vernacular of 1 n the kid around the telegraph 2 in the little town of Crompton. 5io his parents were-df. indeed, he gaer bad any-wa not definitely known .. coole of Crompton. WO one

ed to take sufficient intereat in him hihncaire. further than that

' ... anv one of the villagers could tell

v.t hi- had been shipped to the town

.. Trs U fore with lour other boys

il.ni his own aire- seven year

b n the orphan' home at Boston, with

the ex

th "I among

loan oiiijijiniona had only stopped v ; ., the fanners to whom they were as- . ...i l,,...r..ouL'li toiret litt.. I out with

innir. hon they silently left for

...v :s unknown. Humor had it that there

w.-re n.iaainjr from tlie various homes

I , v had left numerous articles

nir and jewelry, and one farmer

B, ,1 that he had missed f-'S tnai ne mm , . tsauv left in his is. ketbook on th.

h am table the nigM of the disappear

MM.'.

i idAM r fnr M s

; 'S wnose ru ii. u"b,. Knewwas Harry Russell. did not go v . the other boy a. but a good many f , hat if he could have had his choice h v .Mild certainly have gone. Bo strong waa the talk in the neighborhood against the boys that Deacon Pow lea. who was a hard-fisted, avar.cious farmer, and who had "taken Swipes to raise," finally said: Yes. indeed he must go! How d I know but what he Is stay in' here as a kind of a decoy, to either steal every thing on the place he can lay his hands on, or murder the whole family some nigM in cold blood?"

As the deacon waa a man ol nis vw.r.i. tw ipea was unceremoniously bounced. leing in a Strang.? country, the loy V. Mm knew what to do or where to go.

he been in the city he would ha.e

I n n w hat to do at once. As it was. M finally concluded that he must NMI r in some way. where he would get . t.n.tt mm 1 1 -

a "kit and go to om-Kig bag pnftam, as he had done in Boato. - DtttVCf was a long listance away, and theonlv urneticable meaua of rcachtnaifoinl was by rail, he i:atuially di -f.! to the s.a.ton to inquire cone rnii pj the distance, fare and time f trams. It. met the station agent as he waa startIng for the liverv stable with an impori I ,, ...n-e for Deacon Howies, which

I intended sending to the country by

V e. ial messenger." V. ! en he saw Sw ipea he stopjx'd abr pOj and said: "Hello! you're the rery one I'm looking for. I've a me f..ire for the deacon, and you can ave me t!ie trouble of looking up some one to

t' er It. ain't stayin at hia place now

t i pes. Since when?" "'I his mornin'; he fired me." W oil, is that so? You won't object to ! . half a dollar, will you, by taki g tlus message to him ?" o.Hir: 1 .an take it." Saying which.

Fies took the message and walked

li.ck to the deacon a. I hui-irht I told vou to leave the

placet" shouted the dencon, a he fht a glimpse of Swipes through the heilte, as he reached the end of a row of Mm he waa plowing. t.u.ssthey hain't no law ngin a feller 1 :iiriii(T a message to you, ia they'.' queried Swipe, aa he handed the meslUfOagh the hedge fence lo the dca.-on. Ax he read the telegroni, the deacon Iii id with rage, a was 'na custom when things did not go ns he wiahed t i . in to. -Nu. mil. cd!' he exclaimed. TU not take the young upstart to keep thtough vacation to have him ester and

Wortrj the life out o" me," alluding to the contents of the message, which wa from

hi wealthy nephew in Ii-- city, who ask. I the.l. a. onto keep his son through the Hiimmer vacation. The deacon had

kept aim the summer liefore and, ns a e.itip. ns.ition for hi trouble, had r- -

c ...'.I a hundred dollar, w hich was wel come to the hard-fistexi old curmudgeon

"Well, why don't you go'.'" growled

in- i.acon when, after rending the 1 h saw .hat Swipe was still

waning, I aat half a dollar," rejoin

MA half a dollar! What do you went

a half a dollar for?" "For deliverin that me..s ige; I'm jevia) meaa-tiger," said Swije at niighlening ii to his full h. "lit. "A half d4)llar for imi km' fiom the ileegs) with a in. . when I didn't give you thut BSUcfa for i month work! I won't pay it!" and the deacon shook hia list at Sw.p.H iu a incnuciug manner. "All right, ol' man; the. feller that aent it will hae to pay it, then," retorted Sw iM s, a.s he started off. The deacon turned his team; gave his trousers i hiW'h; took off hia 4hoe and "knocked tiic dirt out of it by striking it against the plow beam; replaced it; took a ''Ii w of tobacco; i-Iappcd the old sorrel mare on the rump with the lines, and resumed plowing corn. lie had not gone oel hall way across the 4 '-acre field ere ne regretted that he hail not paid for the delivery of the message. If his nephew were compelled

to pay for it, he would lc notified th.it the deacon had refused payment, which

would be the means of knocking tin-

I, : n out of the if Mi which he so much

Coveted.

By the time he had returned to tin-

side of the fie!i where SHIpi'S lia-l

glrea hia the naegge be had concluded

to hail the loy and pay him the .,0 cents, if he eottld lint jew him ilown to 25.

Swipes was nearly a mile away, and th deacon could not get his attention, al

though he called In til jr. H finally unhitched his team, and. mounting the old - o rel mare, started her tow ard tow n at

her best gait. When he had overtaken

Swipes the deacon said:

I'll give you 25 cents for fetch in

out that air message, an not allot ner cent."

I ain't carry in' messages three milc-

foi 2.". ceirs. answer-1 rwipe. in a

sarcastic tone. "An' sine you re so anxious to settle, it'll take jist a dollar

an' a half to square it," he added.

Phe agent had told Swipe thnt the

telegraph company would allow a mes

senger to collect 50 cents ier nine m

some cases.

The deacon foamed and raged, threat

ening a whipping and arrest, but to no

avail. Swipes st.ak to his price. After making the boy promise that nothing would be said to his nephew

about refusing payment for the delivery of the message, the deacon grudgingly paid the $1.50. When Sw ipes related the circumstance to the agent It to antned him that Um little fellow vi as immediately engaged as messenger boy. which position was recant at the time. The salary was small, though more than epough to pay l isrl)oard. nnd by sleeping in the ofh.v he was able to economize closely enough to clothe himself fairly xvell. He also had the privilege f learning telegraphy nnd station work.

treck, the wrrckera would rush In and ' : ,"'0 which the iijerator had notified them was hi the express rut) that night, and tin n make their eaeape Km a now ihe inikcieants wer get ' ting the rails iu shape to insure the contemplate. I .Ii aster. How could Bwlpeg acrt it? TnflffC were two liesp. iah- men iu tin- office who werecei taialj aimed. S,ijci had nothing to comliat the-,, with save u Mjckct-knifc. It would be to .it I-nipt, to overpower them lie quietly arose, slipped his clothing on. itepped to the window, ami by the light ol the inoon, jut disappearing mider the western liorion, saw by h'1 vat. h that it oslj lack..! ten minuti of the time when No. 1C was to leave Itrewster, the station west of Crompton. II l line of action was laid out In an ii taat. Quietly op-iiiiig the baggageroom door, he rolled Iiis blcycl outside Rttd, taking a l.-.ntern with a red glob.; in one hand, be mounted, and w a soon needing wrstw.ir.i at a trcm-ndous pate. Kaater and faster he urged hin w heel, lie cool I necr pass the bridge i-i time to stop the train. Then, too. he would be seen by the wreckers if he attempted it. as the wagon rond followed the right of way at the bridge. It wa impossible a go around off the road or account of the meinen, Precious moments were flying. Swies set hit teeth together w Ith a bull dog determination and pedaled for life. In his strenuous effort to get nrnrt epeed out. of his wheel one of the pedals broke, causing him almost to take n l eader. He sprang to the ground and

erked the tool bnir from the wheel; at he did so the wrench fell out, struck the gioba of the lantern and broke it Into fragment. "Greet fiod!" he exclaimed, "what am I to doP Put not a moment did he lose. Seizing a pair of pliers nnd I short piece ol wire which fell from the tool bag. h daehril up the rond like mad. leavinr bis wheel wher it had fallen.

AN ENTHUSIASTIC GOVERNOR lie I rlii.nil) llrli.,e in 1 1- e Nmri Ad- . ii.i.iw of III Own sirti..

"Nowhere m all the republic can more prolific response he had from tin i soil to the intelligent cuitiwitiou of man. Nov ben tan purer water, a more genial climate, or summer tkic be found to bless contented holms." I hi's- wolds were spoken of Alubaina by bee entnuaiastU yovaenor, Joaepb I Johnston, in hi.s recent inaugural ad- j dies and one not li ing th re, is tempt cd to believe it all when that one fi lOWgOoV. Jonnetonn he enumerates the i reso irees and capabilities of his Mat' : U Ith an urea of but little more than .Mi.imo sipiare milt s," Mjrg Mr. JohnIt OO, "there is no territory of like size in the known worhl so prolific in the variety of its resource; were a wall erected mound our state, cutting off all access, we cottfd pnsl uce w it bin out holders geery thing necessary for tho comfort or comeiiience of man. Ureal . ins of iron ore und seams of coal put at our command almost boundless re lOnrcei in fuel, iron and steel. Splendid forests of yellow pine hcie stand ready tohuild homes for millions of oeo- ' DM. Beiiding tone and marble, lire .luv. kaolin and lime exist iu great id lame; walnut, maple, oak, eher i;, , ash and other hard woods, aw ait the hand of man for manufacture or the adornment of our home. "in the production of pig iron we take rank as the fourth state in the ! union; in iron ore, third; in coal WO stand fifth; in the production of cotton, fourth, and in its manufacture, fourth. "In lumber we ure near the head of the list. I "It would Ig unjust should 1 fail to ' include in our minerals copper, lead, i graphite, marl and gold; indeed the j only mineral that we seem to be witbi cut nnd to want most is silver.

"Leaving foreBt and mine and coniin'.' to our field we find thnt they produ W generously cotton, corn, wheat, rye. oats, tohacco. rice and thegrasses.ini 1 here is the home of the pear, the panels, I. o-ro.e nnd all small fruits. V, ge-

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HUMOROUS. Ife "Madam, you have mf srur ant e that I am a gentlemanl She "I have no reason to doubt your uui an. c " Harlem Life. An Idea "An' phwat are yer a doin' wid that pig in the sea?" "Share, an' Lin making salt rk av him afor 1 kill him." -Truth. I'aw," said Tommy Tin ker, "nm 1 descended from t he monkey V" "Not on my side of the house." replied Mr. Tucker, with much positiveuees. TitBiu. Mamma- ".lohnny. 1 fear you were not at school jesterday." Johnny ll'in ! I'll Iwt the teaclser told you. A woman never can keep a secret 1'oston 'J'ranscript. Bnaonr "In Venezuela they have trees which l.sik exactly like umbrella." Egbert ahould think they'd lie afraid to leave them out all night 1hen."-Yonkers Statesman. During the Interval. Bobbie

"Papa, do green appleg always give v.. iminv" liiiiiro "I believe

I'WJ J"-- o Why '.'" "1 was wondering if this waa going to be an exception to the rule." Brooklyn Life. Prince de Conti was not fastidious on the subject ol the miLhs. He wished to hae for his almoner Abbe Prevost, the author of "Manoii L-scaut." "Monmlgneiir." said the ablie to him. "I have never said mass." "Never mind." say the prince, "I never hear it." London Figaro. "I've got B 'M.-at mind," said the young man, "lo go west and grow up with the countr." "Mut you don't know anvthing about agriculture." "I know that. Hut tlwre are one or two sections where there seems to be so many politician that 1 believe an energetic man could come pretty near getting a monopoly f the farming." Washington Stai CHANGES IN THE EARTH'S AXIS.

a

so.

Tar awav in the distant city the train

dispatcher was slowly calling Hrewstei j cow n with great success.

nnd this industry is steadily ilev. iopintr Our splendid rivers, the Alabama.

' said

Thus it was that, at the end of ten ... , l ..I . . .1... lw.nr-

.;irs, v.ipes nan cn.tif,trage department of the tution at a eai-

arv of 2A a niont n. The name of "Swies" still clung to him. though he had proven himself not

onlv an honest young man. but a gen

tlemaii in every sense of the word. Although he worked hard anil faithfully for the company, there nppeared tobe no show for promotion for him. "There is no hope for me," he would s.i v. "How can 1. who have not even name for sure, ever expect promotion, when I roust compete w ith young men who have respectable parents and nice homes'. If they want promotion, some one of their influential friends who has a 'tnnd-in' with the suerintendent or some other official of the road, speaks a

good word for them and they go right past me!" He would not even unburden himself to his closest friend -the agent as he had arriv 1 at tl it point in a young man's life w here the COM iction is force 1

upon him that no one . arcs whether he live or die. He plodded nlong during

the day. and attended a night school in the evening. He had mastered station w ork, and w as capable of taking charge of and running a small station with the exception of telegraphine: in this he appeared to lie rather obtuse, slthoiiL'h he could telegraph, after a fashion. The onlv recreation he took was with

his bicvcle. He had become an expert

on a wheel ami was considered authority on anything pertaining to ggellng. Swipes still slept in the office. A a tion of the wainscoting partition lie-

tween the bagtrage-room and the office had Wen cut out and the lower side hung on hinge, and a stationary box bunk had been made in the opening in the hairgage-room. which had a drop door on the haggoga ine side, so there w ould bt a chance for n draught In the warm weather when both doors weic npett, and could be closed when not in use. One nicht in the fall he crawled into

hi bunk fr uii V baggage-room, and. is the niL'ht was rather chilly, he did

not drop the door on the office side. He

soon fell asleep, now i..nK ....

lent he could not s.iv. but suddenly he

found himself wide awnke.

Presently he heard someone eonfern . . 1 A 1 At

Irg in a low tone in tue omee, oirecny in front of his bunk. He recognized in one of the sp. ,ker- th-- new night operator, who had arrived but a dny or two

before. The other voice was strange

to him. As he listened he heard unfolded a plot that almost caused hi

heart 1" c a'c 1 - at ng.

The new onerat- r was. a member of a

e-anc who intended to wreck No. In. the

1 - .i .

cast -hound express tram, one an """-

ton

k- ii e

bagtrag.'-room. anl Sw ipes had made no

noise on retiring, ne gapposee mssi and hi pal were alone. It seemed that part of the gang had gone to n bridge, which crossed n Hide, deep ravine live miles weat of town, and would remove the angle bars from two rails nt the west end of the bridge, and pull the t a ds over three or four inches and spike them, thus making sure thing ol n t i It i I i !..te wreck of li e train. Paring

th. confusion comciiiirat upon

si.-. tion for the icnort of train Hi. fhe

train had been a few minutes late all the waning, ,l,t va! fnWg tad he had Moped to have it reach Hrcwster on time. It was now just due at Brew ster. and he continued to cull: "Bu.. Bu.. Is., Bu.. Bu " There was an interruption on the cir cuit. First a few unintelligible sputters from the instrument, then slowly was spelled out the following: "T-r-a-i-n w -r-e-c-k-e-r-s h-a-v-e r-e-1'p'T 0 d t-w -o r-a-i-l- a-t h-i-g-h

b-r-i-d-g-e. K-o-r ti-o-il-'s- s-t-o-p N-o S-i-x " Then the w ire came open.

The dispatcher comprehended the sit nation in an instant. He sprang to the key on nother line and fairly made the telegraph instrument jump from the. table as he called Beengter. Be annllj raised him and said: "No. MI" "Il. re. go in min.." was the response. "Hold in: don't let her get away!" No answer to his order. r ain he made the sounder hum as he rapidly called "T.u." Presently be was interrupted by the operator at Itrewster answering: "Just in time to catch hind end rear exmch and pull bell cord as t rain :U:rted." "Thank toxi!" exclaimed the dispatcher. In a very few moments orders were given to the section men to proceed to the high bridge ahead of No. 1C and

thorough!) examine the bridge before allow ing the . rain to cross. Andtonlso examine wire No. 1. for an opening between Brew n tat and Crompton. Two rails were found wilh angle bars removed and the spikes drawn and polled out in such shape as would have .'a nt the train to destruction. After getting the track in shajie and lie train safely over the bridge, the tra-knien proceeded to look for a break la line No. 1. As it was now daylight the line could be plainly seen. Three miles west of Crompton the break was found. Swipes was also found at the break, with one broken

arm. and his right leg broken above the knee. He had climbed a telegraph pole which was supplied with a "ground wire." cut the main wire and attached the wire lie bud taken from thetoolbag of his bicvcle to the west end of the r.inin wire, so it would be long' enough

to tap against the ground wire on the pole, lie could just accomplish this by

hanging on to the pole at thecxtuni" top. Then be was able to roughly spell out n message of warning by tapping the main line to the ground wire, although he bad no means of know ing whether he era heard or not. Iteceiving a severe shock from the wires, he had lost hi hold upon the pole ami fallen to the ground, thereby breaking his limb. Sw ies privately told his story to the agent after his fractured limbs had been attended to. and the I : upcrintendent of

the road was sent for. On the arrival of that official the night operator waa placed Itndker arrest, and when confronted w ith the know -ledge of hiscrime he turned state's evidence and furnished information which was the mean Of securing the arrest and subsequent conviction of the entire gang. To-day B lfm is chief train dispatcher of that road. When naked how he came lata that nafjUlon, being younger than nost men hoi ling similar situations, he proudh ints to a queer-

shnped glass case which contains nr. . . i . . i : .. ,t... ........

Conen, Tnllsnnonn. Warrior, lansi IHgbeeand rh Teneesssee are the lkU d arteries of the coinmoiiw cab h. fed b.v innumerable creeks, all fruitful InOOW er to convert our raw products into Hide of merchandise.

"Over :i.ooo miles of railroads traverse our state from north to south, and enst to west, fnrttlehing qaiea transpne j tation to market for our product. "When we come to our climate we find that the (.ivcr of all good thing has not slaved His hand, and that He hag blessed u with t poftnnltj to -a-bor 18 months in the year without detriment to health or comfort. Indeed, we can scarcely appreciate the blessings we enjoy' In thi respect when compared w ith less favored r- g ons. foi even now we are seemingly unconscious i that roses are blooming in our gardens. ' ami the fragtant air is weet with their

H-rf nine. "The Piedmont region of our stale ahows thnt its nverage thermometer iff slimmer nnd w inter corresponds aim. -t exactly w Ith that of Berlin and Hamburg. whilst Mobile and the lower part of t Instate correspond largely with the climate of rraiikfoit-on-the-Main. and Cartaruae, The average temperature for the w hole state shows about 40 de green Fahrenheit for January. T.' Iter .Inly and 0 degrees for April and Oc tober. "OBVgtreantanboend innen, our woods are fragrant with flowers, nnd our banutlfnl seaport supplies an nbnntenc of fish and ovsters for all our p.-opl '. Nowhere in all the republic can more prolific response 1m bad from the soil to the intelligent cultivation of OsM. Now here can purer w .iter, a more genia' Climate or sunnier skic be fou. id to hies contented heme. These ure our opportunities, these the substantial gTOOndworil agOO w hich a greet commonwealth can be creeled.' (If gOO rat ail of this was not said w ithout direct object, and continuing he DO nted the way in which his dieam of a great commonwealth could be relined. This for citizens of the state both actual and prospective. We wood r

the same, or similar, wise uimr

if

said of many another

io; hl not be snal

highly favored by natu-ai re

nnd dormant wealth, of our

t -bound express ira n - r . , WBMi B ,,. i sst tno that nisrht, As the o;Krator ! oia-meniow "if- : It .t . bunk belne in the I condition it ws when picked up re, not.,,,., of t ,c . nk Ing i in whteB ite.

the

sh me

near

girled

torn in time to save the train imm wicck. " nd." he kl v t to add. "in time to carry me into the chief trair dispatcher's office." It is MM by geologists that iron It mar' eta Id. (plant it ies has been found in every country on tl"' globe The common copperas of e..mmeree so extei.s.vely usel as a disinfectant, It s salt of iron, the sulphate.

stab

sources

great union. "This I the age of Ind-.i'trinl delelopment nnd lotbnt task tbelegial tor nnd citizen should liend their energtenand weary not ia well doing when we gonslder that we are now cultivating j nnd utilizing less than one-third of tbenr leaoareaa, and thai the other twothirds produce t;ix.-s only, it behoove ns to invite to our borders and give generOIM welcome to men and money to aid In awakening theM dormant reBouree. "(lur pip iron should be incited atl our cotton spun und woven at home. thus giving greater employntent to labor and establishing Imme market for , our agricultural products. "The sntnke of our factories should he found rising in every county, nnd our furnaces, like pillars of fire, should

light the night. "The production of grasses nnd the raising of cattle should be stimulated lltitM we become one of the great beef wising state of the union. "There satna lo be so good rensnn why our productive lands .honld not become n great center for the n'4'iuIteetnro of beeH ingnn, end by its etportation to sister states nwd furthei tore to tin increasing inconj-: canning ! rstnblisliment should utilize fruits and tegetnWce thnt now too often rot on our . farms. "p.eb'md these splendid re4onreenw have a patriotic anil hospi t al.le people. I eqaal lsws nn.i an Ineorruptibtg jntlij alary securing to those who may com n mutigst us generous wel onie an I i ample protection to life, lih rty and

property

I ontlnnsl Slight OBeMsfSg In All I'ttrsllela of l.tltul. Of all the astronomical problems under discussion ol late yenis, one of the moat interesting hag 1008 that ol changes in the earth'saxis. It lias been found tWl the imaginary line about wbi ! the earth rotates once a day is rot invariably fixed with reference to the earth, but i continually changing ,ts position in that body. The term "pole" has. therefore, to be taken in two different senses: (1) As the end of the shortest diameter of the earth Ihia is a fixed DOtnt, with reference to

the earth, as long as the earth keeps it shape, and may be called the "pole of figure;" (2 1 the pole may be defined ns t be end of t he .1 ia meter al .out M hich the earth is revolving, and this pole maybe . ailed the "pole of rotat ion." It is found that the pole of rotation is continually shifting its position w ith reference to'the pole of figure, along a curved line of considerable complexity. The distance between the poles is very small, never as much as 40 feet. Largely through the unwearied researches ol Ir. S. C. Chandler the motion has been shown to be mainly UUHUnald of two pgtfta. One part is a motion of the pole of rotation about the pole of figure in a circle of radius 12 feet, w ith a timr of revolution of als.ut ttfl days. The .second motion is of soinew hat the same character, but w ith a period of one year, and the amplitude of this motion has varied during the hist half century from four to twenty fee:. Boom idea ef the aetoaJ motion may

be got by Imagining a crnn-orna mnee long attached to tne pole of figure and rew.iv ing once in Ittdnjn, Tothenioving end of this .rank-arm is attached another, whi.ei era.lually change n length and revolves tgacg car. The free end of this traces out the path of the pole f rotation. The actual path is apparently quite compile ited. One of the principal effects of thi shifting of the pole is that the latitudes of all places on the earth ..re continually changing. In fact, it was by this periodic rariatlon in the latitude that the motion of the Kle was detected. All parallels of latitude are continually shifting, wilh a range of , notion of less than 40 feet from the mean position. There is little or no iistrononiical evi deme of any progressive change in the jwisition of the OOM ad rotat ion, by virtue of which it occupied a posit hu. greatly lifferer.t from the present. Apparently the former existence of tropical plants and animals in what are now polar regions of the earth could be ex biined on such a hypothesis-, but no one has yet been able to gnggOgf a prob able cause in the axis of rotation, nnd an explanation must be looked for ebc where. The small, periodic variations are the only ones about which w e can be t all certain.- Popular Science New s.

SCHOOL AND CHURCH. The ajMaff of u Presbyterian church in nr.H.klyn was recently hunting witn a friend when the latter mistook hnu fgg g BOall and tiled hi left arm with birdejsot, monument i iM-ing erected st Kaggrer, la , to MM memory of Misa MoBeth, the Nog Peree Indian snlaaleni gfy, who died in Mount Idaho about gel years ago. On one day recently three Massachusetts churches celebrated anniversaries the Kliot church at Newton, the tuo hundred and fiftieth anniversary of .lohn Kliot' tirnt sermon to the Indians; tike I'nitariuas' church at Ix'Siiigton, the two hundredth anniversary of the settling of the tirat pastor, and the North Congregational church at Springfield, the fiftieth anniversary of its organise! ion. P.ishop Creighton.of Peterborough, who has just been appointed bishop of London, is a man of mark. In lss) he i .e.. me professor of ecclesiastical history in Cambridge, a iss" be nan nreanal at the tern kandred and fiftieth null nee rj oelebrntion id Harvard, and re. . i. d fi i it the degree oi LL. 1. He is the author of several historical works, and is one of the hardest-working bishops on the bench. Mr. T. Thouia Fortune, editor of the Age i Atio-Amcrican), w riting in the New York Sun, gives some interesting facts concerning the growth of tike African Methodist Kpiscopal church. Of the lO.OOü.oOO colored population of the United States, 1,200,000 sre Methodi.sts. while l,:t5i.000 are Baptists. The Ifethodisl church property ia about $12,aOOOO. In all, fully aMOWO AfroAinericans are members of some church, and P.. duo are ministers. Dr. Thornton, an expert in the education of deaf mutes, says that a modification of the telephone promises to ; be of material tuse in the education of those deaf mutes who posses a fragment of hearing? power, and it ha the

following important advantages over the singl. -.-penning tube that is sometimes used: Firstly, that the wire from several receivers can be eOW pled up to one transmitter, and thu a teacher can instruct a group of children at the same time, and, secondly, that, as it i not necessary for the teacher to :p ply his mouth close to the transmitter, the pupils have a full view of his facial expression and lip movement, which Is not the case when he has to direct his attention and his voice into the mouth of a speaking-tube or trumpet.

sll.erU ItwilwsT. There is soon to be a new country ro visit und a new way of going round the world. It seem only the other dav that Jules Verne's man went around in j so days, and thought it a considerable j feat '1 be record log circumnavigation j is now tiO day, or thereabouts, liaron IlilKoff, the combination of American i mechanic ami Russian prince w ho was In this country recent ly. said that w hen the railroad acros Siberia is finished, which, he thinks, will be in four or five years, the time of getting around will lie cut in two, and from 30 to 3.1 days w ill suffice for it. He allows ten day to cross Siberia from St. Petersburg, ten days from N'liid i ostok to San Frnn etSCO, and II days from there to St. Petersburg again. Karly in the cex4 century, then, the tired American may turn his face eastward when he .start on his month' vacation, snd keep it

turned that way until he gets bonus, just about in t imc to resume his work. llai r's Weekly. A rXstlnrt-. "I Oppose," sa) 1 t he native of America to the forcigmr, "thai von find our ui miters nnd customs verv interesting." "Not exactly." replied tl S. visitor, eg tit gnned gl fleeting nteycie girl.

I "What 1 find interesting are ynit WMf l tiers and coslui i s." Chicago ii.Ver ( Ocean.

THE UNKNOWN NORTH. Fa, I Al.nul s Hitherto I neiplori-d Kcla In British America. J. 11. Tyrell. of the Dominion geological survey department lately returned from the unknown north, w here he ha been making explorations, lie left Selkirk on the 24th of June. Taking canoes at llraml Lapids, he, with Indian guides, proceeded to Norway bouse, and descended the N'elsou river loo miles to the Pine river, which they ascended to the Wolf river. All thi territory has practically never before been entered by white men. Reaching the Nelson, they again descended it for ubout 7.. miles, and followed the BurntRrood bl " remote Hudson Hay company oat. "This larg" section of the country." savs Mr. Tyrell, "is nof a wilderness of rocks such as lies to the east of here and has been described by many of the nun who have pretended bS have a knowledge of the reglaa. I found a arell-WOOded country, interspersed w ith ttretebee Of prairie; a soil of rich clay loam, with clay subsoil, (ireat stretches that were a few vears ago heavily timber. 1 w ith sprue- have felt the deadly effects of lire and are now n blackened tubl.le Of dead trees. 'There are Large areas of rich, cultivable lands west of the Nelson, and, though wheat is not grow n. simply because it would hi- of no value, all va1 rietie of teg table are produced in the gardens of the Hudson Hay company ssts and proved hardy. Large str. iehes of prairie also . .cur, and I bavS stood on the banks Of the Purntwood river and Mated on just lieh rich stretches a.s might hive lieen seen on the Saskatchewan r Assiniboino land that will lie good for agricultural purpeOOg nnd excellent for stock rnjn 1 ing some time, though now it is practically inaccessible.

"AM this country is bet uoutfann. tion of the Red Kiver valley. N i H the dcjs.sit of a great lake, of which Lake Winnipeg is the sunken representative, which stretches from a short distance east of the Red to the Pembina mountains on the west and from (irnnd Forks on the south to a oint further north than was reached thi trip. "Kxcept for the climate, that great country to the west of the Ifetgon river has been as richly blessed by Providence ns the far-famed Red River valley." Minneapolis .lonrnal.

Prnlrl" ri.ni.le. Southwestern Louisiana is bordered nlong the coat with broad sasdv anil fmenlty plain to which the nme of "pimply prairies" has been given. Thia curious title comes from the circular mounds, arranged in one. and along intersecting fines, with which largo areas of the afjlna Ml tirtltTft Formerly these mosinds. w bieh average Mi feet In diameter and attain occasionally a betghl Of en feet, vu supposed to have here made by ants, with whoso n.sts tlMp abound. Itu r recently Prof. riendein. of the Louisiana state unij veralte, hnu found rniena. for thinking I that the mounds were formed through the blowing up of mud by ras gggap. ' ' i TV.

',, ' from vents in trie groueo. i grrangement of the mounds in nie and 1,,,,-s is accounted rot bJignfMoetagtbti the eng rents existed along the fwctu. es radiating from tn enrtfannajbj ggdmf Yi nob's fotnpanloii.

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