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agreement reached Wednesdajniy the repreBeDatives in 'Hie" Meeting at Montgomery turn out to practically a failure. The men at only' USree mines obeyed the call to strike and they tailing of returning to work. The organisers from Ohio have abandoned the Kanawha' coal fields and have gose to the -New River, where they will make an

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sentiment against the strike among the miners is nttw stronger than at any time for a week.

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PITTSBURG IS EXCITED.

De Armit Will Not Weigh Coal as Required by Law. pgj

Pittsburg, July 22.—-Excitement was at fever heat in local coal mining circles today. The operators were apparently prepared for any demonstration, and before nightfall they were convinced that matters had taken a serious turn. This morning about 500 miners .from Finley district marched on the Bunola mines, on the river, and succeeded in bringing the, men at work out. Sheriff Lowry of this county has a force ofdeputied ready for duty at a moment's notice and trouble is looked for at any time. The deputies are an readiness to go to the mines of the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Co. A. march on the Turtle Creek, Plum Creek and Sandy Creek mines Is expected at any time. It was learned from reliable authority that such a march was in contemplation, but would not take place until the latter part of the week.

At Canonsburg it was reported that 1,000 men would march to the Cook mines tonight and stay there until the diggers came out. Sher.ifT Clark of Washington county was on hand with a large number of deputies and trouble was expected if the strikers attempted to force the men to quit work.

The miners' leaders continue at work in an, effort to get the miners in the Connellsville coke region out, but dispatches from Uniontown and Dunbar Indcate that they are meeting with poor sucess.

The new state law to compel coal operators to weigh the coal before it is screened and to pay the miners on its basis is to be tested to its fullest extent. A large number of operators are putting in scales so as to weigh the coal according to the new law, but others are preparing to fight it. Among the latter is W. P. De Armit, who says the law can be abrogated by the right of private contract and he intends to test it by the contract he has with his men.

A member of the arbitration commission taid tonight that the new anti-screening* law would cut a figure in the new agreement and the law would be thoroughly tested before it is incorporated in the agreement.

The arbitrators were at work among the Pittsburg operators and they are trying every means to -bring about a meeting of the operators/ So far they have been unsuccessful in arranging for a meeting.

SHIPPING COAL EAST.

It Is Being Put In Box Cars To Avoid Detention. gj

Kansas City, Mo., July 22.—Local "packing houses are laying up extra stores of coal. Although coal is becoming very scarce, prices to ^regular consumers have not yet gone up. The railroads are also appropriating for their own use some of the coal being shipped into- Kansas City. They are reported to have seized for their own use about 800 carloads so far, which they are loading and nailing up in box cars.

In the Hannibal yards three long strigs of flat fcars loaded With soft coal stand on the tracks heside empty box cars. A number of negroes were at work shoveling the coal into long Hpss of box ears. It is believed coal'thus transferred is for secret shipment in closed cars to the railways in t^g ^uel famitfe ^gions of the east. '"-.-'4

H. L. Harmon, general southwestern agent of the Burlington, denies absolutely that his company is shipping coal into the eastern strike distrir^ He explained that the coal was being shipped to the company's regular supply stations at St. Joseph, Brookfield, Quincy and Burlington, as has been done for months past, and that the transferring Into box cars was simply done to avoid a double haul..

T. D. McGregor, national organizer in the western statQ6 for the United Mine Workers of America, arrived here tonight. In an interview he stated that should coal be ship, ped from Kansas or Missouri into the eastern district iL would result in an immediate strike in those *tates.

SHORTAGE OF COAL,

Governor Atkinson, of West Virginia, Things Miners Will Win. v-.

Chicago, July 22.—A shortage of coal has begun to make itself manifest in the Chicago market. The Chicago Sugar Refinery, which uses 400 tons of bituminous coal daily has suspeded operations in view of the high prices for fuel. Local men believe that the sugar refinery suspension is a forerunner of a number of similar cases when large consumers attempt to replenish their stock.

Governor George W. Atkinson, of West Virginia, who is here attending the Logan day ceremonies, believes that the miners will eventually win in the great coal strike. He says: "All the indications in West Virginia point to the success of the miners. I believe the miners in my state will leave their work. They have nothing to complain of, but they are in sympathy with the suffering miners outside.

am I, and so is every

body ele I know anything about. There are 25,000 miners out in the state and, of course, It will take time to reach all and perfect organisation, hut there is no reason for the iiscouragement^pf the strikers."

.St. I.onlsSofter* Fop Want of Coal. St. Louis, July 22.—The Tudor Iron Works In East St. Louis closed down three of its departments today, letting out 150 men, on iccount of the scarcity of coal. It is stated that unless these works obtain a supply of toal within a very few days the entire mill will have to shut down, thus throwing 600 nen out of work.

Kanawha ey Miners Gone Out. Columbus, O., July 22.—National Secre

tary Pearce received a telegram from Or

ganiser Dilcher that the Kanawha Valley

W. Va., with two exceptions has stopped

uid these will stop Saturday.

Indian* CoibtoUaion Ready to Report Indianapolis, July 22.—After four days spent in the coal fields, the governor's investigating comttlssion has found out that coai miners who are thrifty and who save their money in pro£p£ttty will be able to get along when there is a strike or they are out of work. As alt are not of this' kind, "tfiert ls a great *deal bl suffering, and th£ conir&issioners before their final report is filed will try to devise some plan whereby the needed aid can be properly distributed. There is hardly a totfn in the coal region bin is feeling the injurious effect of (he strike. In some places bttsitaess is'paralyzed and the merchants are fearful that failures will follow.

THE PEEGS DIDN'T SHOW UP.

-i So Match Has Been Made Between Lloyd and Williams.

*v' Last night was the ftme for the making at a match for a fight between Kid Lloyd jj »f Brazil and Billy Williams of Indianapolis. |f-' Williams* called at the Express office seYera! days age and gave It out that hi want^%TnSeet^iJ«ya~yestertlay evenlng to ar

range for a fight Williams said be had money to bet and would put up any reasonable forfeit Lloyd didn't com© over from the mining town yesterday but his representatives were at this office ready to receive any proposition from Williams. The Indianapolis pug failed to come up to his agreement, however. Indeed, he even failed to come to the Express to ascertain whether or not Lloyd was in the city or not George Grant, the negro, was on hand, however, to see Wm. Edwards, the other Indianapolis pug, who has been blowing about for several weeks. The negro is willing to take on a match with Edwards and all Williams has to do to get a fight from Lloyd is to put up some money for his appearance to sign articles.

V^HERE IT IS AGAIN. •, *jJh .. Three More Prisoners Have Escaped From 3' the Rock Pile.

The rock pile at the jail is again in operation and the first day the prisoners worked witnessed the escape of three of them from Superintendent Barnum, from whom so many men have taken leave. The commissiners only put (Barnum to work yesterday and he allowed the men to break a board off of the fence and take to their heels. Two of the men are Terre Hauteans. They are Dan O'Neill and Joseph McGee.

Four prisoners also escaped from the jail yesterday morning. They are wanted for attemped burglary and a case might have been made against them. They are believed to have attempted several Jobs in the north part of the city. They were Ed -Henderson, white, and John Johnson, James Brooks and Pete Wilson, colored. They escaped from the jail by burrowing out under the south window of the jail. The other prisoners in the basement of the jail„..sajrthey knew nothing of the escape.

AFFAIRS OF THE RAIL

THE MICHIGAN DIVISION OF THE VANDALU ORDERED SOLD.

Decree Issued By Judge Woods Yesterday —Road May Be Sold In Sixty Days Ballroatl Notes.

The sale of the Michigan division of the Michigan division of the Vandalia road has been ordered. The decree of sale was ordered by Judge Woods of the Circuit court, Indianapolis* yesterday. The Michigan division of the Vandalia has not been a money maker. It bears the same relation to the Vandalia main line that the E. & I. bears to the E. & T. H. The suit which brought the decree to sell was a suit to foreclose an extension mortgage and was brought by Benjamin Harrison as trustee. The company i3 to receive $93,030 with interest at 6 per cent, from date of the decree, and the road is to bear the costs of the suit. If the amount of judgment is not met by the road within sixty days, the master in chancery is to sell the entire line, which is lte miles in length.

The •decision of the court, has awakened great interest among the Vandalia people at Terre Haute and alii day yesterday they were speculating* as to th-e profa&bls action of Judge Woods.

Changes Operations of Time 'An apparatus will be exhibited in In dianapolls in a few days, which, it 10 expected by the inventors, will make eat changes in the manner of operating railroad trains. It is a system whereoy all railroad trains may be in direct telegraphic communication! with (every other train on the line and with all stations. The inventors of this system are Clarence D.Royse, son of I. H.C. Royse of this city, and Walter A. Royse of Indianapolis. The day of the exhibition will be some time next week. The Inventors claim that the system is very simple, in fact so simple that it is.strange that it has not been pat to practical use a long time ago. It is a adaptation of the common Morse system, there being little change in the conatruc-' tion of the instruments used. Railroad men say that with such a system on a road there* tiould scarcely be a wreck caused by two trains coming-together, and that thiB feature alone would mora than pay for the entire cost of equipping a line. The Messrs. Royse are confident they will secure a patent covering 'their invention broadly. They have recently made a thorough examination of the patent records* and can find nothing whatever to conflict with their principle.

The exhibition, next week will not be public, but all railroad men connected with the management of with the telegraphic department and all men/ interested in telegraphy will be W&lcomed.

The Evansville Sc Kinhmond Road. The reorganization of the Evansville & Richmond railway company has been completed. Wednesday the road was taken from the receiver's hands. The following officers will control the company's affairs: President J. R. Taylor of New York. W. B. Salter of New Yorjt and H. H. Roseman of Evansville. The following appointments will be effective rrom July 20: J. W. Thompson, generaS superintendent and purchasing agent. Bedford, Ind.: -H. H. Roseman, general freight and passenger agent and auditor, Evansvi.le, Ind. Gardiner fk Gardiner, attorneys, Washington, In-d.: Dr. A- J- McDonald, chief surgeon, Bedford, Ind.

Railroad Notes.

The C. & E. I. has posted a noticrt to the effect t'hat hereafter all train dispatching will be done from the Danville office.

Albert Louthan. an E. & T. H. switchman, was injured while coupling cars in the yards Wednesday. He was in the act of throwing a switch when his fingers were caught.

The C. & E. I. passenger train rlun h»*e at 10 a. m. yesterday was delayed four hours owing to thtVengine breaking down.

Jacob H. Brown, who for a long time has been a brakeman on the Michigan diviyon of the Vandalia. died in a i^ospital at LogansportiWednesday night. Browns foot was mashed while he was coupling cars one day last week and tlie leg was amputated. "Typhoid fever set in and the 3hock was more than the victim could stand.

EARLE AN EARLY BIRD.

lAnd the Record Shows He Has Been Catching the Worms, Too. Deputy Commipsioner Earle, who has been so busy cleansing the r:ver from all drags, nets and seines which are such a menace to the finny tribes in the Wabash, has not laid down his arms as yet. Yesterday morning he returned from a long drive through Sullivan county and the lower part of Vigo. He' visited Farmersburg. Alum Cave and Jacksor( Hill, beside several othOT small settlements. At the Hill he captured a trammel net from a saloonkeeper named EP.sworth Van Fossan. The owner of the net was on the point of using it when apprenended. The •trammel is much the worst of. any similar methods used in wholesale flfhing. It is made of two strands of netting, placed together. The outer netting is of large meshes and the inner of smaller, so that when the fish pushes through the first hole he is caught in the second and tangled up worse than a fly Jn a spider Web. The net i9 used when the river begins to fall after a rain and the fish run dowu stream. TJie commissioner told a reporter yestetaay that one of these nets will catch and horn every fish of any^size that humps against it.

There fs a great deal of complaint made 'by angler^ in this 'vicinity as to the oily" refute and offal which'flows into the river. Thi$, together,, with,, the o"I. which-j issues froirt the sewers. "Ifefl constiuftly in.a", sort of a scum on fh't uVfare ir^ar the east bank ?bpv« t*e ^Vl men who catch fish near that part, which is not ». fremient occurrence lately, complain that the finest fish in appearance, when eaten, taste of Jhis oil.

John Winters snd Robert Collins, of Tecumseh, whom Mr. Earle caught with a seine in their possession, were fined yesterday for the offense. f«y* .... I".,

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ALLISON TiUKD TO SECURE AGKKEy JUEKt TO VOTE TAUrF »XIX

He Than Served Notice That the Senate^ Will Mot Adjourn Except On Yae and Nay Vote,

Washington, July 22.—Shortly |^fdre {he senate adjourned today. Senator 4*li§09, in charge of the tariff bill, made a etrpng effort to have a time fixed for the final v&te on tfre tariff conference report Failing in, this, Mr... Allison gave notice that the ^easion would be protracted with a view of sfcuring a vote. It was the first definite" movement made thus iar toward bringing the debate to a close. Allison's first proposition was for a vote at 5 o'clock tomor+ow ,but this was objected to by Mr. Pettus. Then he proposed a vote sometime before adjournment tomorrow, which was objected to by Mr. Morgan. The suggestion of Saturday at 1 o'clock met with like objection from Mr. Morgan.

Finding that -there was no" disposition to reach an agreement, Mr. Allison ga-t^ notice that hereafter, while the report was pending the senate would not adjourn at 5 o'clock, without a nay and yea vote.

The debate on the report today was participated in by Senators Chilton, Jones, of Arkansas and Pettigrew, in opposition, while Mr. Aldrich took frequent occasions to defend the report against the criticisms of these senators.

The credentials of the newvsena£or from Tennessee, Thomas B. Turley, who succeeds the late Senator Harris, werfc presented by his associate, Mr. Bate. Mr. Turley was then escorted to the vice president's desk, where the oath of office was duly administered.

Mr. Tillmatflffered a resolution discharging the committee on contingent expenses from further consideration of the resolution for an investigation of the alleged senatorial sugar speculation. Before anything could be said, Mr. Jones, of Nevada, presented a report from the committee on tae same resolution. vf

Mr. Tillman was quickly on his, feet, asking that the report be read. He ftjd not want it sidetracked by any preliminary device and he wished to secure a diretst vote on the resolution.

Mr. Gallinger, a niember of the committee, suggested that the resoIutionvWQtiid go to the calendar and be reach?3 in improper order. !Mr. Tillman insisted ou 'having it read. ".

The house joint resolution was pflssed requesting the president to make,, investigation as to the exclusion of American tobacco from foreign countries under the^itejgle contract system. ....

At 6 o'clock the senate held an executive session and then adjourned,

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. FRIDAY MORTflNG. -IULY 23.1897.

Mr. Gallinger objected, the presiding officer holding that a single objectioniwas" sufficient to prevent the reading.

Then Mr. Tillman moved that the"repoi-t be read. On a viva voce vote the^ motibn was lost and the resolution went to the calendar

Mr. Allison asked that the tdflffr conference report be taken up, but was nlet with several measures which senators desired to have hurried through in anticipation of the adjournment of congress. Mr. Allison would not yield, and Mr. Allen finally made an issue by moving to take up the bill for a non-partisan commission to inquire into questions effecting agriculture and labor. The motion was lost, and without further delay the consideration of the tariff,,report proceeded.

Mr. Chilton took the floor tor a speech against the bill, as a Whole, with an analytic criticism of the schedules in detail.

Mr. Jones of Arkansas followed with a criticism of the bill in detail. He t»ned his attention to the various schedules comparing the rates 'at the opening statement by Mr. Aldrich that the rates were to be' Wibderate and conservative. In particular he urged that each change in the rates on sugar had given added benefits to the trust.

Mr. Pettigrew announced his purpose to vote against the conference report, although he expected that the bill in its present form with all its iniquities would be a law. The senator closed with the declaration that when he left the Republican party he left it for good and the "caucus dictation in behalf of this iniquitous bill" had amply justified his action.

Shortly before 5 o'clock Mr. Teller was about to begin a speech. He yielded, however, to Mr. Allison, who made the first movement toward bringing the debate to a close.

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Anticipating the New Tari^ Act, Washington, July 22.—The treasyry officials have made preparations to put the tariff act into operation immediately upon its receiving the signature of ther president. Copies of the bill have been sent to customs officers throughout the country in anticipation of its passage, and it is expected that all will have reached their destination by the time the bill becomes a law. Collectors have also been instructed to make the change from the old law to the new upon receipt of trustworthy information, official or otherwise, that the bill has received the president's approval. Officials who have given the pending bill careful scrutiny state that it is exceptionally free from ambij# ties and inconsistencies and little trouble is anticipated in formulating regulations governing its administration.

OBITUARY.

Mias Margeret Kerlin Walmsley, or Madge, as her many friends in «this city knew her, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Euward M. Walmsley, who formerly lived in Terre Haute, died at 'the home in Philadelphia, July ID. The funeral was held at ImmanueQ church, Holmesley, Wednes-r day.

Miss Walmsley had been an invalid for over a year and was t&keii to the seashore in '96. It was declared by the physicians that the malady was incurable. The young woman had many friends and associates in the city, whose recollections of her sweet and patient character art# of the most tender and enduring nature.

Mermice Atwood, the two-year-old daughter of Henry arid KmMy Atwood, died yesterday morning at 4 o'clock at th® residence of her grandparents, Henry and El zabeth Hawtin, 15C0 North Eighth street. Mr. and Mrs. Atwocd live near Ft, Wayne, Ind., and Mrs. Atwood and child were visiting hem when the child took sick ajid died.

Felix, the little son of Mr. Edward Machino, t.he dairyman, living east of the city, died yesterday afternoon of summer complaint.

Gov. Drake Declines Reno&iln&tion Des Moines, la., July 22.—Gov«rhor Drake this Evening Issued a letter th'ahling his friends for the honor conferred up&n him and withdrawing from the contest' for the Republican nomination for governor, because. he 'says, his health is sTfoft fhat! he could not make an active campaign.^

THE CHATEAU CHANTILCY.

How It Came to Be Left to the liuftitute of France. The chateau of Cbantllly was bequeathed by the late Duod'Aumale to the institute, but this was really no new gift, as it bad beeo virtually made in 1884. The) Saturday Review of 1886 speak* of it follows: The Duo d'Aumale has responded by a crushing blow to tbe unmerited indignity offered by the Freoob rspublto to tbe bouse of France. He baa requited tbe penalty of ostracism inflicted on tbe Orteamprinces as'a sop to tbe tyrannous ranoor of tbe extreme. republican party by dowering tbe land of bis bLrth vrith tbe moat splendid and tbe rarest gift ever offered to a natien by an ladividaaL

To the ncrth of PaiAa, aboct

from tbe capital, Cbantilly is situated oc the confines of vast forests, in an undulating region watered by tbe Oisa. About 1840 tbe Due d'Auiuale first conceived the

Idea of rebuilding Cbantilly. His two sons, tbe Prince de Conde and tbe Duo do Guise, were dead.

During 40 years tbe Duct d'Auraalo bad sedulously collected all tbe remnants of the splendor of tbe Montmorencys and of tbe Condes that he oouM Had. M. Daumet was asked to build a palace worthy to receive these precious souvenirs. But, like his predecessors, M. Daumet was limited by certain natural conditions.

The marvelous subterranean rooms and galleries existed still, and .the moats, and the strangely shaped triangular rook, and this subterranean plan dictated and commanded tbe form of tbe structures above ground, because the foundations remained, and on this honeyoombed rock it was next to impossible to displace tbem.

The plan of the castle of the Bou&iliers, of the Montmorencys and of the grand Oonde had to be followed by the Dro d'Aumale. The strange perimeter had to be respected^ and the new facades inevitably reproduced the big. towers at t-Be anles, the strong spun, the posterns and be drawbridges, which existed from the earliest times, in the ground plan. The technical difficulties which the architect had to surmount were immense, especially the works undertaken the honeycombed rook, with a view to supporting the projeoteicLstruotnre above ground.

In brief, bis performance was this: To follow rigorously the perijneter of tbe old renaissance castlo, to provide fine staterooms and.galleries for the reception of certain specified objects of art to accommodate the chatelet for living purposes nrd to build a chapel, in the adornment of which were to be utilized stained glass, sculpture, wood carving, statuary and faience slabs saved by Lenoir from the ohatenti of Econeu.—Exchange.

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Ke«cne.

"Don'tbenervous. There'd be50jackies over the aide after the youngster before he'd have time to strike the water." So paid & naval offloer once in my hearing to the anxious mother of two little chaps who, visiting one of our men-o'-war in the harbor, had gone for'ard among the crew in oompanywith half a score of kindly big hearted bluejackets. And what be said— allowing for some sailorUke pioturesqueness of language—was largely true, for when did one ever hear of man-o'-war's men—at least of those that speak English —failing to take any risk short of .absolute impossibilities to save life or to go to the' rescue of those in peril and distress on the "mighty deep?"

I think it is in one of Clark Russell's stories that tbe hero, storm tossed on sinking wreck, breathes forth a prayer that the sail he has just sighted may fiy English or Amerioan colors, confident of rescue at all hazards at sturdy Saxon bands. On the Trenton, dragging, with colors flying, slowly to destruction on the wind torn waters of Samoa bay, generous hearts yet found means of rescuir^ comrades from .the masts of the- already submerged Vandalia. Only the other day the telegraph flashed from faroff China curt news of the foundering of a steamship with its load of passengers and the prompt response of the orews of our warships near by to the cry for help. Over, and over again the heroio story has been told, and it will be told again and again as long as men "go down to the sea in ships."—Harper's Weekly.

I' ir* The Most Desolate Spot. 1, -V, Perhaps the most desolate spot on earth is a tiny storm swept islet In Bering sea nearly midway between Alaska and Siberia. Nearly BO miles from the nearest land, King's island, is a barren rock, so steep that no beach landing can be found. Here on the poiftbern side, perched like nests aWve the roaring surf and seoured to the rocks by walrus thongs, are the skin dwellings of the walrus huntars. Here the sun is never shining, the sea never smooth. Cold, chilly fogs enshroud the place in summer, while tbe frequent and furious gales that sweep through Bering strait at all seasons render the narrow summit of the island quite uninhabitable. Ice locked during nine months of the year, tbe natives depend entirely upon tbe seal, walrus and Whale as a means of existence. During the brief summer a stray whaler may visit the island for a couple of hours, but this is the sole communication with the outer world. The King's islanders are

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losely allied to the Alaskan Eskimo. are a fine, hardy race, inured to daily dangers and privations and are reckoned the best and bravest sailors in Bering sea. Their boats of walrus bide will carry from 80 to 80 persons in a mountainous sea.— London Graphic.

Tbe Right Sort of a Clerk. A young salesman in one of our dry goods stores has a soheme which is likely to make him his fortune some day, for it is built upon that most solid of foundations, woman's vanity. He keeps a private notebook, and she gives him her name and address. He writes them down, together with a note or two oaloulatad to fix her appearance in his memory. The next time she comes he docs not say, "Tbe name, please." He simply says:'"Thank you, Mrs. Skaggs. The goods will be sent 711 street, isn't it?"

Of course it's 711 street, and Mrs. Skaggs is naturally immensely flattered at being a customer of sufficient importance to be so well remembered. Naturally, too, she prefers to deal with that salesman and at tl»t store thereafter, and I'm sure that if the proprietor Qf that shop only knew what that young man is worth to him, he'd double his salary.—Washington Post. ..

Vegetable Foods.

A learned scientist has been investigating the effeot of food., particularly vegetables) on the human character. He finds that a diet of carrots ameliorates harshness of character and reduces nervous irritability peas create fatty tissuoand encourage joyousncss, while turnips have a depressing influence cabbage is good for pulmonary oomplaints, while lettuce acts asa sedative upon the huinun. frame, owing to the opium contained in its milky juice.

She Didn't Feci Comfortable. A Glasgow lady in a hurry to go to church took from hordnrk oloset what she thought to be her dolman. 1

She hung the garment over her arm, and did not discover until she had thrown it over the back of the pew in front of her in ohurch that she had brought by mistake a pair of her husband's trousers

She and her lady companion laughed so loud that they attracted the attention of the entire congregation, and no ono except themselves understood the cause of the fresh burst of enthusiasm when' the choir led off with "As Pants the Heart. "-Pcfcr-. son *a Weekly.^

To hunt tbe lion was kingly sport from tbe earliest times, and the Egyptian monuments chow that all kinds of bunting, as well as fowling, were followed for pleasure.

The Oiympio. games were probably tbe oldest athletic sports, and their origin is lost in antiquity. They are said to cele *cate Jupiter's debat of tbeTfcan*.

HORSES IN OUR ARMY

A CAVALRY SOLDIER WRITES WITH FEEUNQ CONCERNING THEM.

Bwrait Hon* Is Very XJkc a Beoruit Soldier—XntelUfeae* Displayed .by tft* Their I*v» of Play—Poor Dandy's Grief*

Perhaps few persons are on more intimate terms with tbe bono family in general than some old cavalry soldiers. To be the friend of his horse the soldier must be a good one. A horse was never known to favor a bad see with his confidence, for horses are infallible judges of soldiers.

In the old frontier days cavalry soldiers thought far more of their horses than they do t|.w, for their lives often depended on them, and if a man negleotad bis horse be was sure to bare to march on foot before long, which is vfelry distasteful to a cavalryman. Indeed, it was necessary to guard tbe forage wagon and tbe water holes to. prevent men stealing more than their allowance for their horses. Even now, if you watch tome old gray haired fellows at the "stables" of a cavalry troop, you will see they have loot forgotten to be greedy on behalf of their mounts.

A reorult horse is like a recruit soldier, apt to be clumsy, unevenly gaited, saucy and conceited. The old horses in the stable yard treat him exactly as old soldiers treat a reoruit. They attempt to frighten him by biting at bim, kicking him, cbasing him from one corner of the yard to another, pulling his mane and ears—in fact, they try to make his life miserable in every way. This lasts for a few days only then tbe new horse gets a ohuni? and they make an agreement to stand by each other. This offensive and defensive alliance prevents the rest of the herd from taking any more liberties with the recruit.

Tho "chum business" is one of tbe most remarkable features of horse life in the army. The chums'' are Inseparable. As soon as the herd is turned out into the yard the ohums seek out each other, as if for a morning''oonfab," and remain together all day. Looking into the yard at any time, one can see them rubbing noses, blinking at one another or following each other around tbe yard. Take a new horse away from his chum and he will greatly resent it. Tie him near the stables and he will whinny plaintively to his chum, who will answer from the corral.

All horses in our service-are taught to lie down. Anew horse, when first thrown in the riding ball, with straps the use of which he little suspects, is greatly surprised. This painless throwing of horses is very effeotive in-disciplining morally, for the horse soon realizes that he is completely mastered, and after he has been thrown a number of times a marked change takes plaoe in his temperament.

Soldiers who abuse their horses in any way are severely punished. There is, indeed, no sight more obnoxious to a good cavalryman than to see a horse abused.

The old cavalry horse seems to have a great disdain for a new soldier. When ridden by a recruit, h# appears as if a little insulted, and I am" sure that some of these old horses oan tell a recruit from a veteran as quickly as can the adjutant_.at "guard mounting."

It is oustomary to turn all the hoi%es out to graze—or"to herd,"as itiscalled—' under a guard whenever tbe grass is good and the weather pleasant. The horses regard "herd time" ag a proper occasion for fun and frolic. They enjoy the herd as muoh as a lot of schoolboys do their recess.

In every troop are some old horses that ate full of mischief oh herd and are inveterate stampeders. If they oan only get the rest of tbe herd to follow tbem and run ahead of tbe herders, they are delighted. Tbe herd guards have to watch these old rogues vigilantly, for once they obtain a start, a stampede is sure to follow. Then, if no obstacle prevents, the herd will run for hours—herds have bean known to run 40 miles hefore they could be stopped. Most bold and daring riding on the part of the herd guards is required to head off a cavalry stampede and turn tbe leaders.

Horses sooa learn all the trumpet calls. "Stable call" in the afternoon is the favorite one, I imagine, as it means dinner.

A trumpeter's horse in a certain troop at a western post was condemned for disability and sold to a milkman. One day, when the milkman was driving near the drill ground Where the troop was drilling, biB horse at the sounding of the "charge" by the trumpet bolted for the troop. Of oourse the funny sight of a milk cart obarging with a troop of cavalry caused great merriment to all exoept the milkman,

During the Geronimo campaign some years ago in Arizpna, a Remarkable illustration of how great an affection can exist between a soldier and his horse occurred in a troop in whiob I was serving. An old Irish sergeant had a splendid brown horse oalled Dandy, to which he was so singularly attached that the care and caresses he bestowed on it would have satisfied the most exacting sweetheart. The beautiful and intelligent animal seemed to be almost human, so muoh did be appreciate the affection of bis master.

Now it happened that during a long march tho sergeant beoame very tipsy by drinking some fiery Mexioan mcscal. Reeling in the saddle to and fro he jerked the horse's sensitive mouth with the cruel curb till it bled profusely, arid every little while his sharp spurs would tear Dandy's flanks. Suffering all this pain, the horse calmly walked in ranks without showing any resentment and apparently knowing that his master was out of bis senses.

Shortly after this happened we were fired upon from an ambush. Tbe sergeant, who was in the lead, was shot dead in the saddle while riding along the brink of one of those steep canyons which abound in that part of Arizona. So he pitched head foremost out of his saddle down hundreds of foet into the oanyon bed.

During the »eit few days Dandy ate almost nothing and appeared dull and listless. All the men being mounted, he was lt?d and a paok saddle put on biifc. About a week later, as we were riding along tbe brink of another canyon, very similar to that in which Dandy's master had found a grave, the command was halted for a rest, and the men, dismounting, lot their horses graze on tbe few bunobes of dry grass in the vicinity.

Presently we saw Dandy walk to the edge of tho cliff and look down into the black canyon depths. There was something in the horse's manner that attracted attention, and we were silently watching him when he crouobed on bia haunches, gave a quick spring far out into the air over the edge of the cliff and w«mt turning and twlstipg down 500 feet to bedashed to death

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A Democratic member of the bouse re-, ccived a letter from an active politician of that party in bis distrlot calling attention to the fact that he is reported in The Congressional Record almost every day as being "paired" with a Republican. "I don't doubt your loyalty to the party." reads tbe letter, "but I think tho boys would Ilka it a good deal better if you paired With Democrats instead of Republicans." —Chicago Record.

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"Us clear a case of suicide as I have ever seen," our captain said. PoorDa»dy! His honri vra« broken!

Cun ir. bo that .the horse is onsfiitv away from us? Let us boyo no*. If ,he ?£, wo are losing a noble friend,—A .Qsj,?flry SjV Uier In Youth's Companion .• i-.-

T'Ht CROCODILE.

A Few of Bit Peculiar Ways or Trans* acting Basin***. Them is lit.tic in tbe animal kingdom that oan look so dead and be su much alive as a crocodile. The number of unsuspecting persons who have mistaken him for a log and have failed to discover their mistake until was too late to be of any benefit to tbem will never be known.

In ancient times, several years prior to tbe British occupation of Egypt, some of the people of that country worshiped the crocodile as a god, there being noting «se like bim. They fed him on dainties and togged bim out with jewelry. In otber parta of Egypt, however, tbe natives looked UDon bim agnOoTU. Having no fbwjms,

tap Mt 311 Mm with Ua^L but the? TnaaagwV to inmalat« bim sueowwfull? with re oh weapons aa ware fashionable at tha time*.

The darooodlle la not so nnmaroos In the Nile as Bo w** in tba days of Barneses family. "In fin* be *atb«r shuns the river now b^low Uw second astaract on account of ffce anoayaaaM inseparable from tourist' tMEo: It seems impossible for a tourist to crocodile without trying to plug blm with, a revolver, and to a reptile that is fond of a quiet life this sort of thing is sia&piy insufferable. He will not molest a man-unless he can take bim at a disadvantage, and so long as man does unthinkingly step on bim, the crocodile will go Ijis own way and calmly await bis opportunity...

He feeds On fish, but for a course dinner be woulii rather have humanity, black preferred, which shows that there is no accounting. for taste even amopg reptiles. His methods of capturing large game are plural as Well.as singular. Sometimes he will lie on a river bank, partly covered wlth sand or mud, until an absentmlnded native wanders within reajh. Having grabbed Bis prey, he Will waddle into the water and there drown the struggler. He will then drag his victinAehore and bury him in sand or mud and wait for days before he gorges himself.—Pall Mall Gazette.

^HISTORIC QUEBEC.

Parts of It Suggestive of Sceae* In Old World. From Quebec a correspondent writes to the Paris Messenger: "Id on parle francais" might be written on the portals of this -quaint and picturesque old city. Strolling in lower Quebec, you might easily fancy yourself in Amiens or Dieppe. In the upper town there is more English, but everywhere an amusing mixture. On the same card you will read,'^Maison a loqer," "House to let on one side of the I door "Pas d'admission sans affaires," and on the other "No. admittance exceift on business." This bilingual necessity causes a little extra painting and printing. Each railway orossing must be marked likewise, "Traverse du ohemln de fer," and every official "notice" must be printed also in full as an "Avis." The blending is often curious, as when two adjoining shops have their announcements one in French and the other in English. Along the

Grande A He, running right across the Plains of Abraham, you might be in Brussels or Paris, only that Clifton terrace seems to recall you to Kensington. American travelers for whom Europe is too distant are advised to go to Quebec, there to find a bit of themedireval old world transplanted to tbe new, but still embalmed in its ancient religious sentimentalism, upon which tbe rusb and roar of modern ufjre&t produoe as little effect as the Atlantic, breakers on the cliffs of Cape Breton. French continues uppermost until you pass Montreal, but from Ottawa and Kingston to the Pacific tbe legend of the nearly universal tongue is like that of tbe ParJs shopkeepers*, who announced "English and American spoken." In most of the best schools English is taught, and a large numbe? of the people are oonversant with both languages, English being indispensable for commerce.

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Goternpr Drake of Iowa tells a story of a meeting between Lincoln and A. H. Pickerifeg of Chicago. Mr. Pickering, who is a very tall man, was a resident of Iowa at the tihie of Lincoln's election and was en-

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j. The Circulation of Water. Scientists are speculating on the oaut6( of some water currents that have been foi centuries uninterruptedly flowing into some unknown receptacles far beneath tha surface of the earth. These currents ars continuous a&d could not, of oourse, be merely filling an unoccupied space. Thai there must be an outlet as well as an inlet is evident from the enormous quantity of hwater which is perpetually pouring through these openings in the limestone ledges. After exhausting all other theories it is arg&d that .the inrush of water may be caused by the tremendous volcanic heat in some subterranean cavern, the heated water flowing otit at some point more or less distant. This volcanio and subterranean heating was-spoken of some years ago as furnishing a platisible theory as to the 5 causes of theliigh temperature of tbe gulf stream: if* as is- generally supposed, tbe interior of thfe earth is in a condition of intense-beat, the water that flows into fissures and. crevices in the surface of the earth must come out somewhere either in steam or hot-water. Hot springs and tho gulf streamers,, perfectly reasonable phenomena ^vben viewed from this standpoint. —New York Ledger. S

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gaged in shipping cattle. He and Mr. Drake came to Chioago on business, and, hearing IhaTLiiiooln was in tbe city, they sent up their cards and were shown to the president elect's room. "When we got to 'J Lincoln's room," said Governor Drake in his Speech, "he opened tbe door, and on seeing Pickering asked, 'How tall are you?' Pickering said, 'Six feet four.' 'Why,' ft cried Lincoln, 'that's my height. Let's measure.' And then the president of

To Choose Poison or Marriage. Nellie McConkey of Shreve, O., refused to marry Arthur Lucas, 25 years old, and the other day he met her and tried to force her to swallow poison. While the girl, with Stewart Hickman, was in the Lake FBrk church, Lucas went in and demand-

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the United States and the cattle shipper stood back to back, while tbe first lady of the land, Mrs. Lincoln, who was a little woman, after standing on tiptoe and reaching to the tops of their heads, decided that it was a tie._

ed to see hor. She went outside. $ Hickman came out and endeavored to draw tbe girl away and was stabbed by Luoas. Lucas then forced the girl to ac- r"~ company him to tbe woods near by and insisted that she either marry him or take some poison, which he had with bim. She took tbe poison in her mouth, but spat it j* out and ran. She took refuge with a farmer, where her father found her later. Lu- T! cas was arrested.

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and Luoas was released on a $60 bond. He was promptly rearrested on a peace warrant, and being unable to fnrnlsh bail was sent to jail.—New York Sun. i-.Qft&'ti i"/ •_ Boudoir.

The much, used word "heudoir" really means Bk sulkery. It is derived from tho French verb bouderie, meaning to sulk. t,gTbackeray bad a room in bis boose upon *:J' the door of which was the sign, "My Sulkery." Whenever the door was locked, he was never to be disturbed.

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'iThis is a genuine Havana cigar, la lt?K said the baker to the tobacconist. "AbQutasgeiiuiccusycioy Viacna bread, I should judge," rc^ikd 41k Vvhsspi dealer.—Harper Is Bazar. '1%^

iin Paris it lias "been decided that gam-. bling on the part of a wife constitutes suf ficient grounds for divorce

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(Thcre alrt't no sense In glttin riled Air haim» all yer temper spiled. 9bere ain't no use o' sbowin spite Because tilings don't torn oat jest right, flare up like an ole blame fool*

Keep cool!

"Vh6n things is gittin in a mnss. PonH rskve aroun an start i»/u3s Gol da'rn yer eyes, it might be wnssl

Keep cool)

*d'U-Steep a good deal sounder, too. JCn jr»y yer meals and won't get Wae, ,^e?H find tbe sun ain't dropped away

Because there is one clondy dayDbn't tot jerself be dull care's tool.

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