St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 September 1893 — Page 2

A SONG FOR ALL SEASONS. Ah I little one, it is n merry world; Say so and bo not thus forlorn! "Tis all in say-so. Dare the sharp thistle and the prickly thorn, And make thy lay so; If 'tis a merry world, then I Will pluck the thorn an 1 whistle though 1 cry. Though, youth, since life is all in love, thou, too, Say so, and be not thus cast down ; 'Tis all in say-so. And if on ihee a maid doth naught but frown, Yet ma e thy lay so; Since life is still in loving, I, When my love frowns, will whistle tnougn r sigh. Nay, man, n kindly and a merry world, Soy so, when tbouHTt nenr thine end, ’Tis nil in say-so. Best-life, if 1 must leave thee, I, Will sijeuk thee fair and wbist:u tnougn 1 die, A BACK FOR LIFE. It was during the summer of ’BG that ;re had our nue with a waterspout, ami won it, too, or 1 would not be alive to te.'l th • story of our adventure. _ ; “We” were Tedd e O Brien, the station agent’s son, and myself, Charlie Cameron. My home is in bt. Lous, but that summer I was a, lanky, spindling fellow of lb, with no more strength than a girl, so my father took me out to the mountains of Colorado to rcugh it and grow vSda he looked after .some m ning claims which he owned in " that State. One of the c claims was a few mile north of Texas Creek, a little station on the Denver A Kio Grande Rai'road just west of the , Loyal Gorge of the Arkan as Liver. ' While father was oveiseeing some ; work on that particular i ropertv, lie and I boarded with the wife o! the station agent, and mv only occupations were hunting and fishing witn Teddie O'Brien. father nde a bucking hr n ho to and tro be- I tween his mines and the station. | One tine day, the vicious little; brute threw his rider and gave him a lad fall. Indeed, so bruised was father’s hip and side that he was unable to ride again for a week or more. Os course, he could not go up to the mine during this time, since it was impo-sible to drive a wagon along t»he narrow mountain trail, so he decided to take a trip down to l ouver fora few days. 1 should have gone with him, but the very morning that we were to start 1 teased Mrs. O’Brien’s pet kitten until itscratched i Eiy face too badly tor me to think of showing myself to our friend-; in the, city. So I was forced to stay behind with Teddie. Now Teddie was the most good-I natured fell -w you ever saw, but how ugly he was! To a round, red face, whose big mouth was forever stretched in a grin, add a pair of white eyebrows beneath which the greenish eyes could be seen cnly now anil then since the white-fringed lids were always winking am’ blinking; j tliis countenance was topped by a shock of bright-red hair that ran straight down from the crown like the straw on a th.itched roof, and I the e you have Teddie O’Brien's picture complete. But that homely face and now that' niy liUlv t.VAL summer; erly introduced to you. 1 must U'-A

II ■■■■« O 111111 X u("v lie Clief IL The morning of the dav that was to br ng my father ba k to Texas Creek had dawned bright and clear. It seemed a week to me before noon came. More and more slowly the minutes dragged by, but at last it was 3 o’clock. Father's train was due at 6:30. Three hours and a half more to wait! What would lever find to du with myself fur all that time? Just then Teddie stepped oi.tof the door of the station-house and glanced carelessly up toward the northern hills. “Look, look, Charlie.” he cried, suddenly. There’s a waterspout coming down Jones s gulch!” In a moment 1 was at his side and looking where he pointed Swooj ing down from the top of a barren mountain came a horrible black cloud that twisted and whirled as it drew on. while its tail-like portion reached nearer and nearer the earth. In a twinkling, this tail had sunk out of sight in Jones’s gulch, and the main body of the cloud floated along as if following the course of the ravine below. 1 looked at Teddie. His face, usually so red was now ashy pale and the freckles stood out like brown blotches, while his eyes blinked at a a fearfid rate. “It’s a-coming down Jones’s gulch and it ’ll strike the river in fifteen minutes more and go down through the gorge. The track’s bound to be torn out. What if it catches the uptrain?” cried Teddie, in a husky voice. My brain whirled. In imagination I saw the train hemmed in between the perpendicular walls of the aoren passes upon the Ar kasas diver, soon to be swollen by the waterspout to an irresistible ^torrent. And my father would be one of the passengers on that train! “Telegraph down and stop the train,” I cried, tremM ng with excitement. “Can’t, Father’s gone up to the springs and in ten minutes more the line will go out at the mouth of the gulch. The drift wood will break off the poles, you know,” groaned Teddie. And that awful cloud drew still nearer. Just then Teddie’s eye fell upon the hand-car standing beside the track. It will beat the water through the gorge. Hurry, hurry!” In a second we had thrown it upon the rails. “Tell father how it was if 1 don’t come back,” said Teddie, jumping aboard while 1 shoved the car off. But I sprung on beside him and together we started on o^r errand of life and death.

It is all down grade from Texas । Creek to Canon City, the first stopping place beyond the gorge, so we had nothing to do save to hang on and let the car go. How we flew! “We’ll beat it if we don’t get ditched.” Teddie observed, and as he spoke we Hashed past the mouth of Jone's gulch and caught a glimpse of a black moving wall of water, fifteen feethigh, roiling down toward us. “The car will outrun it,” yelled Teddie in my ear. Don’t get scared.” “What if we meet a wildcat freight?” I screamed back. A wildcat train is one not running on regular time, but whenever the usual trans happen to leave the track clear. | “Got to take our chances on that,” ; yelled Te Idle in reply. And now we entered the gorge | ' pro; oz. The roar of the river as it; whir el along over huge boulders bc- ; t ween the s de of the gorge and the ; stone-bouu.l railroad embankment, united w.th the rattle of our car ; wheels in a volume of deafening sound. Overhead hung the weatherscar, ed granite wails of this cavernous canon and the eye traveled ■ , upward thousands of feet before reach- I ing their summit. I looked up in ; despair at the narrow strip of blue | ; sky above us and thought that the । bright sunshine away up there was j only mocking our hopeless race. But, | up m glancing behind us, my heart j gave a great leap of joy, for that I j death-bringing wall of water bad j been left out of sight in our rear. On and on we Hew. 1 looked up at Teddie’s face. The color had icturne I to his cheeks, but his mouth had lost its usual grin and was firmly! set across his tightly shut teeth, wbi e | h.s exes had quite forgotten to blink and we e lo king stiaig.it down the track. At the sharpest curves he | ste dily appl ed the brake, but n xer | siacki ned our speed as we tore around the slighter ones, though more t an once the little car < areened until 1 tlioueht we must surely fly the track, i Illumined as it was by ca m courage, ! that ugly face oi Peddie’s grew hand- : some to my eye-, while my admiral ion for his cool judgment grew a; ace as 1 noted how he ran no extra risks yet , lost not a second of time that could ( be saved. And time meant life or . death not only to us but t > that train-load of passengers. And now we h id reached the hanging bridge and had flashed mid r ! those \ -shaped beams of solid steel \ inserted in the living rock of the 1 granite walls of thegorgo.tr on which the structure is supported. The grade grew steeper and "teeper, and we i ew the faster. The win 1 created oy our swift motion made my eyes water, wb.ile the rails of the track seemed to be devoured by our little car. Am! still we went taster. I “Here's the last big curve,” screamed Teddie in my car as lie put on the brake Wc slackened our speed and rounded the curve safely, but just a> we reached the straight track beyond, a little stone lying against one of the rails .ip < t the car, 5 bu' us i 011 the uphill side. --*< - s

whose month i.r.A.. <i... v mills of the gorge. Had we fallen a hundred feet on either side of this point, we must have i een dashed to pieceagain* the dills. Picking ourselves up hastily we ran to our faithful car which im-kily lav cluse beside the rails, and threw it on the track again. 1 shuddered as 1 . looked down the rock rip-rapping of the railroad embankment and thought what would have been our fate had we fallendown there into the river that raged below. And now we w. r>’ going once more, but not a moment too soon for close tiehind us rolled that horrible black wall of water. “We’ll beat it yet.” cried Teddie. 1 read the words on his lip., but the air was too full of tiie roaring noise of tlie Hood for me to bear him. The 1 ttle car flew faster than ever, but to my excited fancy that huge wave of liquid mud that reached from wall to wall of the gorge and overwhelmed the track as it came was surety gaining on us. “Now. we’re safe,’’ Teddie shouted so loudly that I heard him above the roar of the waters, and as he spoke we sho! past tiie bridge across drape Creek where the Silver Cliff branch of the Denver and Rio Grande turns oil, and were living down the wideningvalley of the Arkansas River with Canon City right 1 efore us. Barely half a mile down the track was the train running straight toward us! Teddie never touched the brake but began to make the railroad signal that means, ‘ Back up.” while 1 waved his red cotton handkerchief in lieu of a danger signal. The engineer put on the reverse as we tore toward him and then Teddie applied our brake, but we had to' it »»v tuiiu.uv.il tut! eu-l gine and our car ciimled the cowcatcher as if it meant to go in at one I of the cab windows. The train was moving very slowly, having just pulled out of the station a few moments lielore, so Teddie and 1 managed to scramble into the cab. “Waterspout’s coming. Get bzek to the depot,” gasped Teddie. “It ’most caught us just beyond the bridge,” I added. “There it is now,” cried the tireman, and as he spoke we saw the Hood str ke the bridge. The center pier crumbled away before our eyes and the angry torrent rushed down 1 the river-bed toward us. The rail- : road track lies close beside the st,ream 1 for some distance out of Canon City, i hence were in imminent peril. • । 'Throwing open the throttle, the engineer stood at his post with his 1 hand on the reverse, and the huge I engine wheels Hew faster and faster as we backed down the track. But - the Hood was close upon us and the ’ spray from the baTed waves dashed I in at the cab windows as they swept

out the last reach of rails exposed to ] their fury only a moment after we had crossed them. And now we were lying safe at last, . beside the depot platform at Canon I City. Au excited throng of passen- । gers, among whom was my dear old | father, greeted Teddie and rayself as t we climbed out of the locomotive . cab. 1 “Good thing for you youngsters that we were ten minutes late,” icq marked the engineer as he sprung on the platform behind us. “If we had been on time, we would have caught you at Grape Creek bridgeand knocked you into Kingdom Come.” 1’ “Yes, and gone after them, ■. reckon,” added the fireman, “if t ha J water hadn’t ground us up into p cc« too small to put together again J ' Meanwhile 1 was incoherently tr^ ing to explain our presence to h father, but my ears roared and eyeW . thingswam before myeyes until dayjj ness fell upon me. When 1 canny | myself agiin, 1 was lying in a reBU at the McClure Hotel with father^B J a doctor bending over me, while ® n old Teddic was blubbering awaj^^ one corner. He thought I xvas^Bn because I had turned so pale jfe; ■ fainting. When lie found that^^^> all right again, he was so glad^- , । he threw his arms around I j and gave me a regular I ear’s V. ; As a reward for our pluck Tw-w-l sljrlit, tl>e mil 'each with a gold watch Col^^K,^g our initials on the inside of thay^e, while my lather sent us both I4H to ; Su Lou sto school. We have Hen ■ here for the past four years, ■ *ations and all. but the coming aI ust we are to take a trip up throu^lrjthe Loyal gorge, and visit Texas Greek 'mice more. We both sin- i erel■ hope that there may be no occasion di re- ! peat ou' - adventure of ’B6 again for, I can assure you, such a thirl’ is much more pleasant to read aliout than to experience. — American Agriculturist. Tlie Tramp Got Photographed. He was poor and shabby, with all the earmarks of a ver.table tramp, when he applied at a photograph gallerv to get his picture taken. The proprietor looked him over and i 1 pointed to a sign on the wall. It I read: “Cash in advance.” ‘•All right, f-ard: here’s a five dollar M illiam,” and he pulled out the : money touch to the surprise of tlic photographer. ••I’cr'aps you think I'm .limcomb Kiley or some other swell in disguise, , but I’m not in it with any of those fellers.” “i hit of a jo' asked the photographer. “Yep: And out of everything • else." “ oing to sell your j hotograph?'' “Ne ft sir 1 vme to. Who'd want mv picture? Nobody bit so d folks who let a fell r be a prod gal son ail bis life; an’ tie.er killed any fatted calf for him. Th v sent a \ for it for the famih album. Think I’ll to an ornament?” - -n n ' ”vn ;

natural. An 1 the kind ' f . expresCon that a teller we irs when he knocks at "omebudy’s ba k dixu , and asks for bread and g f- a "tom'. Is it time,, pa;d, to smile and look pleasant?” The picture was taken, and it was a success. But none of them );:• e yet reached th • family album, The original soul enough copies t > buy himself a- it of clothes, and tho next time he pose- will repre nt a turning tide in his fortune. The phot grapi er had unconsciously hv d out a straw so a drowning man.— ; troit Free Press. Kussian ; p* '"ilk I'rmlucrrs. I'a Urn al ism, as applied to the silk indu-try, and particularly to sericulture in Russia, cannot be de«cril*e ’ , as a pronounced success. The Government his sp. nt more m mey foe the furtherance of the si k industry in the ( aueasus than for any pther industrial purpose, yet despite the fact that the co .nt y has whole forests of mulberry trees eminently suited for feuding silk w inns, anddi - spite the deci ledly favorable cl matic 1 conditions, the estimated production of silk in Transcaucasia to-day is but 36,000 poods, against 30,000 poods in Kim the value being but 6,000,000 roubles, and leaving more than double the value still to be impo ted, It is alleged that considejable improve-, ’ ment has been made in reeling, spinning, and twisting n w foreign machinery being everywhere at work—i yet, in face of protective duties and i exceedingly low wages, the import' arc increasing, while the exports a& . decreasing. * I If Rusaia cannot withstand J a pa® I ese rates of wages with the aid® I the measure of protection he . mon .-n m. bow would American siuM manufacturers m... >r nnv t iJK policy left them at the meicy of iiuT restrained Japanese competition.— l| Dry Goods Chronicle. A Scene from Ileal lase. I A small chil I was walking on * Morgan street recently. She carried ' a pitcher of milk and she wore a hat ' I with a trimming of daisies. A pull of wind lifted her hat from j her head and rolled it into the street ■ in the path of a huge te im drawing | a coal wagon. The child looked apprehensively at the horses as the hat lightly bowled duectly under their hoofs. At that moment the grimy teamster pulled 1 up the animals and the hat nestled i I down between their fore feet. I I The child started forward, and ' i then, afraid of the horses, retreated i . । So the teamster carefully backed ; the horses lifting their hoofs each a’, '' ontT the hat ’ untU they were ' | Then the child ran out and got her I hat, and the team slowly jolted down , I the street.—Buffalo Courier. V °

r — fISHES AT THE FAIR. Most complete collection EVER SHOWN. I Salt ana Fresh Water Specie from All Climes —Appliances Vsed In Their Capture and Preparation for Market—Admirable Arrangements for Dlupluy. In the Swim.

World’s Fair correspondence: A department of the World's Fair that in all probability will load to the establishment of aquaria in different

parts of America is that of fisheries. Besides tho live fish, which I include specimens < of those that live . in salt water, arc .complete collections of the implements med by all nation- in catching and curing them. Fishing has not received

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much attention at international exhibitions. London had an exposition deXOted. entirely to fisheries nearly ten i years ago that, of course, was finer 1 cage w r-. vwwnnt display, but in ChiI to illustrate the imA. Loen done

11 ityp. without any American preeeiiem .. Os all the foreign eonntrioi Canada sent tho biggest display. There are modolH of tish, stalled fish, and fish- | eating birds. A seventy-pound salmon I from Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia, suggests a lot of possibilities to the teller of fish stories. Bark and dugout canoes from tin- west coast of Canada tell the story of the Indian angler, and a little model of his home and its surroundings s hows where he is when not on the water. A right « whale and a shark, well m, unted, show other productions of the Dominion. New South Wales has a group of Australian seMs climbing over some rocks, and many pictures of her fish

—f' —tltrnrff' * t? wfy hr*’ r THE I ISHEIUES HFILPING.

: and fish markets. The activity with ‘ which the Norw. gim s search the i ocean is illustrated by their exhibit. Real fishing b at- that savor of the hardy viknig are there, N aring such names as Aafjord, Aven a'o, Kahon. and Tromso-. As far nm-th a’most as Spitsbergen the e shurp-prowed crafts p .rt t' ■■ wanth ir nia-ters on i the hunt for co<! and -eal. A ukhlol i of a viking ship is her,- to show the

, sti ck fish and e d liver oil ate here in i large quantity . They give a sen 1 flavor to the atmosphere, and you can । almost see the fish jumping in The nets ; and hear the beat’s keel rubbing on I • the D'ueb. and the -ua h of the surf if you close y nr eye- sot a moment. All , sorts of canned tish from old Norway ■ are pile i up, and there is a tishe num's h it from DdMen showing how two or thro.- Ixmts’ crew" bunk in a roughly i built pine board boy. Gloucester, ■ Mass., w hich is m t too proud to own up ! that its gr atness is dm- to ts fisheries, I i has staked t ao" of "pace in which . it glories in the fact. It tell- of tho j • past and present condition of its indus- ' ; tries. AmoAl of the town as it was 1 one hundred year" ago, with cob wharves and < heap little fish ‘h-gD. is shown, and then the town proudly I»oints to a m >del of a section of the , town as it is t> -day. How the wharves , ami the warehouse" have grown! Trie \ ! very men who pace the piers in miniature seem to have a sense of their increased worth. Hound to Si^ht 'larkercb A ship's topmast thirty fiet high is shown and on the crusstree is a Glou* . cester fisherman eagerly looking out ; for a school of mackerel. Another nn del is that of a manat a wheel ready t ■ p i’: ’ ' • i ' ■ ■ j direction of there mackerel, in whichever j oint if the c<mp t-s they are sighted. A fine model of a boat, with the men in it hauling in their herring nets, is in the pavilion of the Netherlands, and

I -- s i {WOW ! W ' IN THE FISHERIES B ILDING. there are barrels of herring and pho- ! tographs cn screens of the fishery ! work. Minnesota tends not only fish but fish-eating birds Tho only ma- ■ chinery in motion in the whole buildi ing is an apparatus shown by a Chicago | man for cleaning fish. Bostonians forj sake their devotion to beans and illusj trate their fish markets and the appli- ‘ ances for catching the principal ingre- ! dients for lobster salad, that strange ( dish for which the jaded midnight appetito so often yearns. In the Government annex the tanks are arranged in a. circle, and within that is another circle, a very effective plan as it turns out. Jho design of the fishing schooner Grampus, belonging to the Fish Commission, was the work of Capt.

Joseph W. Collins, and In command of that vessel he made many very interesting cruises. The exhibition of salt-water fish and anemones is an experiment which a good many people who knew shook their heads about. At first the sea water was brought to Chicago in car- I boys, such as are used for the ship- I ment of acids, but this was found to ' bo too expensive and tank cars were substituted. What Sea Water Costs. Sea water in Ch icago is almost as expensive as beer. The greatest care is taken to keep it from being wasted.

About 70,000 gallons of it are kept on hand. Afte^a quantity of it has been kept in a tank for a sufficient length of time it is drawn off and is run into a filter in tho cellar made of stones, gravel and sand in strata, as in natural I VII W or LAGOON, SHOWING WH ALER 1-ROG- • RESS.

; e»J This is to impart new life to it. j reservoir over" tft,.back into a tank । again. Tlio wuter runs in siieiPu as to become aerated again. For the use of big Mississipi fish is an aquarium 72 feet long. 5 feet deep and 12 feet wide. It contains catfish, stur- J geon and pickerel. The lake fish, which include sturgeon, whitefish and bass, wore gatheie I at the Put In Bay । station on Lake Erie. Tae Atlantic * fish were collected at Wood's Holl, . Mass. The government steamer Fish Hawk scoured the Southern waters for specimens. At the extreme end of tho main Fisheries Building is the angling annex, devoted entirely to the consideration of fishing as a pastime. There

' H e si orting clubs, the gentlemen fishing liars and the lly and rod cranks can 11 ck by themselves and argue it out. A New Y’ork sportsman’s paper has a ! pavilion in which it exhibits yacht model- and photographs having reference to the art of fishing. Outside of I the annex is a reproduction, by the • way, of Izaak Walton's fishing house, ir which there is an oil portrait of the ; , old gentleman.

* A-rrr'-tr-tn ATffyh*rr TrtnntmTos fishing boa's, tents and furniture. There is a i display also of the flies, rod", reels and ■ tackle and some young women engaged in tying tlies on the hooks and making fishing ines. I’ennsyhania makesan aquarium exhibit, it has built a small w ''-i ENTRANCE To FISHERIES 11l ll.h SG. hillside down which trickles a stream. This runs through a fishway and into a pond on the floor. Around the pavilion are tanks, the iron work of which is skillfully concealed, and the visitor ’has the effect produced on him that he is at the bottom of a lake, the waters of which are kept away from him in the same way as those of the Red Sea , were divided. Wisconsin also contributes some live fish, and b- th that State and Pennsylvania show small hatcheries in operation. Primitive boats and tackle used by ti e Indians of the j Amazon and the more modern appliances are in the exhibit from Brazil.

They contrast strangely with the steel rods and the graceful flics of North America. I have sketched in a general wav the most entertaining features of the Fish- , eries Building. Outside of these there arc all sorts of exl> il>H" » I< J ! J-atm ! .„ t/uo mt- of absorbing interest i to the specialist. He can flock by himself and devour the literary works ; of aquatic zoologists and botanists. ! He can wrap himself up in maps tell- I ing all about geographical distribu- ■ tions of fish. Fishermen, if they want ! to know all about what there is in this i building, must study alga? (very sticky 1 looking things with arms that wave i in the water), sponges, corals, polyps ■ and jelly fish. Some of these forms of I life so nearly border on the vegetable i that it is a little difficult for a non-ex- i pert to tell to what kingdom they ! should be assigned. But they have j such a quiet, easy, Philadelphia way of ! taking life that they are a standing re- . proach to the superexcited Chicagoan. , Then comes the grand array of worms ; that dwell under water, and that, i spurned by the soaring fishes, get their revenge when they are put on the point of a hook and used as bait. All the bait worms are exhibited, and the leeches. Then are seen the reptiles, such as turtles, terrapin, lizards, serpents, frogs and newts. Some compromise ought to be effected with the United States Fish Commission by which turtle, terrapin and frogs’ legs are not classified with the reptiles. It is decidedly unpleasant to a man of taste. The aquatic birds, mammalia, such as otter, seals, whales and such like live things, aro there in minute detail.

——— ACRES ARE IN ASHES. — RUIN WROUGHT BY THE SOUTH ■ CHICAGO FIRE. I — Many Families Destitute of Shelter, Food I and Clothing-Thieves Pillage the Terror- , Stricken People—Money Loss Not So Great as Reported. A Blackened Waste.

Late reports say that the loss from tcrriblo fir© wliicli nearly swept the village of South Chicago off the earth will be at least one-fourth less than was estimated during the progress of the conflagi ation. The official re- ■ port of the police is that 131 houses । were burned in place of 200 or 25'1 as reported first. Ono who is familiar ■ with the character and cost of the i structures said that the average cost ;of the burned dwellings was 81.500, i and that they weie mostly insured. A I conservative estimate of the losses on buildings, exclusive of the larger ones, ! churches and the like, is 8190,500. It seems impossible, however, to get anyi thing like an accurate statement as to j the irmount and value of property destroyed. By the time the cooler estimates of the fire were complete the total losses were figured like the sums given below: : T.OWF.ST ESTIMATE.

LOW EST ESI 1 RAI h. 131 buildings at L»ouis Frey’s estimate of average cost of 51.5C0 $196,500 German Lutheran Church, oiat street an<l Huv<*rlor avenue 11,000 ' Fcliool, OiHt, Htreet and oUpvilvr aveuun ^OO Fir»<t M. E. Church, Superior avenue, between 90th an f yist streets. 5 000 Sunday Creek Coal Company. George K. ’ Edwards' estimate so.oco ; A. T. Thatcher estate, coal plant. Harbor avenue and river 25,000 Total $291,000 HIGHEST ESTIMATE. 131 buildings at George K. Edwards’ estimate of average cost of $2,203 $280,000 German Lutheran Church at !)ist street and Superior avenue ll,o€o Zion's Lutheran School at 91st street and Superior avenue 3,500 First M. E. Church, on Superior avenue. l><t ween I* th and 91st streets 5,000 Sunday Creek Coal Company, Superintendent L. 11. Bullock's estimate.. . . 175,000 ; A. T. Thatcher estate, coal plant. Har-

bor avenue and river 25,000 Total $505,500 Various rumors were current as to the origin of the fire, which those be t informed declared was caused by a i sn.all b nfire built by the children of ; Conrad Papp, who lived at 142 Ninetyfirst street. In some manner a spark । from this bonfire fell upon some hay i which was stored in a barn in the rear ;of Papp's house. A hot breeze from । the northwest had blown steadily all • day, and everything was like tinder, j When the flames were seen bursting through the roof of the barn, the combustible material with which the Papp residence was surroundt d proved to be ready fuel for their progress, and it was evident from the start that a serious blaze was inevitable. The flames were spread rapidly by the flying sparks in every direction, and seeing j tnat the surrounding property was in i imminent danger, Captain Wilson at ! cnee turned i i a 4-11 alarm. j Another theory is that 9-year-old Birdie May, daughter of John May, ! who lived at 9048 Superior avenue, i started the conflagration while at play ! in the yard of Patrick Tulley’s house I in the rear of William Giles' residence !at 159 Ninety-fust street. It is said

cbAd tbrev. uuuy a burning piece of paper she had lighted and it lodged under the porch of the Tulley house, setting the rubbish on fire, the flames from which caught the house. Mrs. Tulley barely escaped from the house with her two children. From there the fire spread to the Giles’ house and soon through the entire burned district. Nearly ore hundred and forty buildings went down before the flames like straw in a furnace, and an immense district, twenty acres in extent, is all that remains in blackened and dis-(o.-ted u, iir ss of what was the site of a multitude of happy and contented. 1 omes. Immense lumber yards and huge coal sheds vanished before the fierce onslaught of the fire, and hundred" of South Chicago's population, stood panic stricken and appalled around the charred fragments o's their former homes. Utter desolation prevailed among the homeless. Women and children roamed the streets until 3 o'clock in the morning. Some of them wore given shelter by kind neighbors. Others slept on the bare ground in back yards and vacant lots, j Children were'crying for food and . their parents had none to give them, j Tho community seemed paralyzed by , the misfortune that had overtaken it. j If the stories of the homeless ones : around those ruins are to be believed I the excitement attending the fire was j made the occasion of wholesale robbery. Men with wagons drove up- to the hou"es nearest the fire, coolly loadj ed on their vehicles everything portable in ihe places and drove away in spite of the protests of tho rightful owners. SINGLE TAX CONGRESS. Advocates of That Vocteioe Meet at the .irt Palace, C2ii<ag(v. A congress in which much interest is centered met at the Art Palace in Chii cago. It was the single tax congress, i Advocates of the doctrine of equal tax i on all land and that nothing should be ; taxed but land were there and I listened to speeches by the most I noted advocates of that belief. Henry | George, the Rev. Edward McGlynn, i Jerry Simpson, and others nearly as i w 11 known were in attendance. Henry i George spoke on “The Single Tax." ; The Rev. Mr. McGlynn followed him. i His subject was “The Single Tax and I the Church.” The relation of single tax to the temperance question, the commercial crisis, education, the press, sanitary reform, arfd many other measures were di cussed. The women advocates of single tax met in hall 3 and several female speakers were heard. Notes of Current Events. The graduating class at Chautauqua numbers 225. A new case of yellow fever is reported at Brunswick, Ga. Railroad property in Indiana is assessed at $160,000,000. The George H. Lain Furniture Company, St. Paul, assigned. Liabilities, SIOO,OOO. Miss Opie Kinrisch, passenger on the steamer Majestic, died on the voyage between. New York and Queens* toxyn.