Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 September 1897 — Page 3

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Letters From the Northwest That Will Cool Those Afflicted With Gold Fever. gi'-Bigb Prices and Hard Times—Suffering

JFor All and Death For Many.

tew A letter just received by John Merwin of Prescott, A. T., from his father, George Merwin, a miner •who left Presoott several months ago, bound for the Alaskan diggings, is fall of interest. The letter is dated Aug. 18, in camp, a mile above

Dyea. It says: We arrived here yesterday. Traded a horse to parties who will land us on Cbilkat pasa We get there day after tomorrow. Then we will pack and hire packing to Lake Lindeman. Then it costs $100 for a boat. There are hundreds of people hfire. Some are getting their outfits six miles up the river in boats, wading waist deep in ioe water. It's enough to kill the devil, some losing everything, some getting drowned. One mile in front of where I am writing the whole side and top of the mountain are one solid mass of ice. I expect to land in Dawson about the 1st of September."

Thomas Turner, a member of the same Prescott party, writes a friend, dating his letter "Head of Canoe Navigation, near Dyea, Aug. 12." He says: "We will have our stuff packed to the summit of the terrible Ghilkat pass, and it will be two days before we reach it. The trip is a hard one. The packers are having things their own way and charge 27 cents a pound from Dyea to the lnkes. There are hundreds of people here endeavoring to go on, but 80 per oent of them will fail to get into Dawson. I believe when the snow flies—and it is apt to happen any day—hundreds are going to lose their lives. If you comc on next spring, go via St. Michael's and the Yukon. "Talk about high prices! It is really astonishing. Scrub ponies that you can buy for $10 a head in Presoott are selling for $200 ahead here, and plenty of buyers. We bought a boat for $250 at Dyea and threw it away. We will buy a boat at Lake Lindeman, on the other side of the divide, and expect to pay at least $150 for it "There is no show for anyone from Prescott being able to get into Dawson from now on, as it is freezing here now."

Ben Kreitzbaum, also an old Arizona miner, sends a letter by the same post. He writes: "We are camped a couple of miles from Dyea. As it costs 27 cents a pound to pack, we have sold nearly half our provisions in order to save labor and expense. Our paok weighs 1,500 pounds now, and we made $225 in unloading. Cayuse ponies are worth from $150 up. It is very expensive to oross the country unless you do your own paoking, which. 4s nearly h—1. The paokers wad& in ice water to their waists and pull their boats thus to the head of navigation, five miles. Many times all the provisions aro lost, and several have as well lost their lives. We will get to the summit of Ohilkat pass the evening of the 14th, and from there will hire our stuff packed to the lakes. It will take about a week to go through the pass. It costs you $1 every time you take a long breath, and the farther you go the oftener you breathe. "The proper time to go to the Klondike Is about Maroh 1. The oost of freighting is exorbitant, and besides there is plenty of work for a man to do. Evan the squaws among the Indians are making money packing and guiding. A great many people are sacrificing their goods here in order to move along, and many-are turning back."

Isador Meyer of Prescott has reoeived a letter from his brother, L. Meyer, who left for Juneau and the Klondike by the steamer Willamette about the 1st of August. Describing bis trip to Juneau, Meyer declares it to have been hard beyond belief. "There were over 1,000 people on board, and some of them the toughest on the face of the earth," he writes. "Cutthroats, burglars, penitentiary birds and the steerage passengers cook possession of the boat, and for awhile the rough element was in possession, so the good peopla organized a vigilance committee in order to make them come to time. I have slept in my clothes since two days out from San Francisco for fear they would steal all I had about me. As it is they have stolen quite a number of artioles of clothing from me and from other passengers, -t These people never intend to go farther than .Juneau. They came on board with tho intention of robbing the passengers. "I will get through all right, and I will not pack tons of grub and horses over the mountains. I will engage Indians to dd my packing and will take with me the second mate of this ship, paying all his expenses. He will bo a great help, as we will ba«e to travel 750 miles in a rowboat. I am well acquainted with the road. Half the people will never get through, for they are broke. One of the Dominion regulations is that a duty must be paid of $10 on a gun at the border. A speoial permit must be secured as well to carry it."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

THE TAILOE'S LATEST:.

^Pants Pressed Whlie Yon Eatw Is the New Sartorial Suggestion. At frequent intervals can be seen throughout St. Louis the signs, "Hats Cleanod While You Wait," "Shoes Half Boled While You Wait," etc., but it remained for the proprietor of a tailor shop on Washington avenue to spring anew one on the public. For several weeks past he baa bad sipn out which reads, "Pants Pressed While You Wait," but reoently he changed this in such a manner that it is ittracting a great deal of attention.

He oalled in a painter and had him subItitute the word "eat" for \rtiit" in the lign, making it read, "Pants Pressed While You Eat." Directly in the rear of the tailor shop is a little restaurant, which is oonducted by a relative of the enterprising tailor. Tho restaurant faces on St. Charles itreet, and it is only necossary to cross a •mall yard to get from the rear door of the tailor shop to the rear door 9f the restaurant.

The idea of putting up the novel sign was suggested to the tailor by the fact that several of the customers of the restaurant are also customers of his, and the other day one of them entered in a hurry and wanted his trousers pressed. While this was being done the customer donned another pair of trousers, which the tailor provided, and went across the yard to the restaurant, for his dinner. When this was Inished, he returned and found that his trousers were ready for hid).—St. Louis Republic. _-

WHAT IS MARRIAGE?

Vhis Question is Now Answered Officially by the Interior Department. Webster Davis, assistant secretary of the lnt-erior, recently rendered an important decision in a pension claim involving tho definition of a valid marriage. The policy laid down affects a great number of cases. Che issue is made in tho case of the widow if William B. Thomas, who served in Company A, New York volunteers, heavy* irtillery. Mr. Davis holds:

Where it is shown by the evidence that both parties fully intended and consented ro the maintenance of bona fide marital' delations at and subsequent to the time *hen they were competent to sustain such Itatus by removal of a pre-existing impediment and difl constat to the maintenance 0l »qoh jnuiciU relations by-constant and

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continuous cohabitatlpn, acknowledging each other as husband and wife and being universally recognized as such by the community in which they lived, joining in church membership, uniting in deeds and conveyances as husband and wife, deporting themselves generally In accordance with good morals, a valid marriage is essentially established.—New Ycrk Tribune.

DUCK PONDS IN THE STBEET.

Novel Complaint Made to the City Fathers of Cleveland. A unique complaint regarding alleged violations of the street ordinances was received recently by the public works of Cleveland. It was to the effect that people in certain sections of the city dig great holes in the streets for duck ponds.

A street inspector made the report to Deputy Chard, and the latter thought it was the funniest thing he ever heard. Cuba is the portion ot the town whence the complaint caisc. This particular vicinity has frequently been termed "Goosetown" or "Ducktown," because no household is considered complete without a fair portion of the feathery tribe. When no ponds are convenient for the creatures, the citizens make them in the roads. Deputy Chard says this is why his department has been obliged to fill so many holes up out that way and why the streets are in such a frightful condition at times. He could not explain it before, though he imagined some mysterious agent was at work.— Cleveland Plain Dealer.

JUST MILK AND STJGAB.

Light Diet Upon Which a Boy Has SubSistefr For Three Years. 'I^p%fiicVarisy»n,e puzzled by a remarkable case in the neighborhood of Yellow Bud, O. The patient is the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Bungan, well to do people of that section. For more than three years the boy has supported life with nothing but milk sweetened with sugar. Attempts have been made to feed him many other kinds of focd, but without success, as his stomach instantly refuses them. He cannot even eat bread crumbs crumbled in the rallk.

The result of this diet has been that ho has beoome pale, almost corpselike, in appearance and greatly emaciated. That he has been able to prolong life for such a length of time on such a diet is what puzzles the physicians. His condition is the result of a severe accident which happened to him four years ago, and there seems to be nothing jn medical science that can heln him.—Cibdjjltf^ti Enquira*-

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The trade In larks all over the world is enormous and ^iecrifble and is as large in England as in'Itlily- It should at once be made penal by b&thfy fines on the trappers, tho venders antf iffig eaters, or ere long no more will the hirk be heard on tho eartht It is admitted by all who know anything of tho subject that agriculture would be impossible without the aid of birds, as the larvae and developed inseots of all kinds would make a do6ert of the entire area of cultivated laud.

This is well known, yet all over the world the destruction of- birds rages unchecked, and no attempt is made to protect them, to interdict their public sale and to enable them to nest and rear their young in peace. A scientific writer has said that the destruction of the individual is unimportant, but the destruction of the typo is a crime. He was speaking of the d'estruction of the great auk. As matters go now, unless some stringent measures are taken, the birds of Europe will iu the next century be as extinct as is now the dinornis. The ornitbophil societies of France and Switzerland have more than once written to me that unless birds be proteoted in Italy they must perish all over Europe, since BO great a variety of races wing their way to the south in winter and tqere are ruthlessly murdered.— Ouida in Nineteenth Century.

Mohammedan Tree Worship. To a certain jjegree the inhabitants of all Mohammedan countries are worshipers of the tree known as the date palm. One of the prophet's most supreme and binding injunctions is, "Honor thy paternal aunt, the date palm, for in paradise was it created and from the very heap of dust out of which Adam's body was formed."

The Mohammedans also have a tradition to the effect that when Adam and Eve were driven from the garden they were allowed to take with them a date seed, and that from that single seed sprang all tho date tfcees now known. By soitin admirable providence the original date seed was planted, and'tlie tree grew where the teiflple o¥ Mecca now stands, and fronf"¥6a truirif Was hewn tho cradlo which often lullid "Che infant Mohammed to sleep. Th6 Mohairim^dans declare that all prayers are fulfilled which are made with the knees- prising upon palm wood or with th'o sattiti'kind of wood in the hand.—St.1 Ldui&Rfijfublic.

Hindooism and Islamism.

That the 280,000,000 inhabitants of the continent of India should ever become one nation is so wild an improbability, and, oven if possible, a matter of so many centuries, that its assumed realization cannot be made the basis of practical politics, for Hindooism and Islam show no signs of docay, and tho antagonism between their followers is on the increase.

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most powerful elements of national sentiment, tho prido of tho one is the shame of the other. Tho Mussulman glories in Aurangzeb. The followers of Gobind Singh and Sevajeedetest his memory. Intermarriage is impossible and is a sin even among tbe-jnyriad castes of Hindoos. There is ri Ntorical example of such a miraclo as the JSalgamation into one nation of suoh a multitude of diverse elements, and if it, is to be effected tho first steps have yet to be taken.—National Review.

Instinct Betrayed Him.

A curious story is told by our Vienna correspondent. A young man, the representative of a large firm, who carried a large sum of money with him, recently spent the night at a hotel at Presburg. As usual, ho remained sometime smoking in bod. Suddenly tho burning cigar fell to the floor. He bent over to extinguish it, when ho saw a hand projected from undor the bed put the cigar out. It made him Very uncomfortable. He lay awhile, and then, saying aloud: "How very cold! I' shall get my fur coat!" ho jumped out of bed, flew to the door and cfSGd for help. The would be robber was oaught. Ho confessed he knew the occupant of the room had money, which he hoped to get while ho slept. He had been a fireman formerly and could not resist the impulse to extinguish the burnfng oigar.—London News.

She Told Him.

Mr. Tenaweek—When, dearest, are you going to raise my hopes to the highest pitch

Miss Farsight—When, darling, they raise your salary to the highest notch.— New York Herald.

Tha Gas institute of London, for the purpose of improving the methods in gas engineering, was founded in 1863.

»t a curious foot that In all a man's tVNri*s about how to achieve soooess none of th«m includes hard work.—Cleveland P:*iu Deaks.

The Gila river, in Arizona, parned from a corruption of the Sparr-sh word Gnija, "thepcbblj-.* .,

VERY FOND OF DUELS.

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'RECORD OF GERMANY'S NEW EMBASSADOR AT WASHINGTON.

Von Holleben's Career Has Been Lively. A Favorite of His Fire Eating Sovereign—Promoted Over a Number of

His Seniors in the Service.

Qermany's newly appointed embassador at Washington is not a baren, as has been stated in the dispatches, but oontents himself with the title of "doctor" prefixed to his name of Von Holleben. Nor is his doctorate one of medicine, but of philosophy, In spite of which he is the least philosophical of all the members of Germany's diplomatic service. Indeed he may be described as the champion duelist of Emperor William's representatives abroad. His face is covered with scars of wounds received in duels, some fought while still a student at Heidelberg and other German universities and some since. Indeed his nose presents the appearance of having been sliced off by a saber blow and then Btnck on askew.

Moreover, he returns to this country relatively fresh from serving as second in the deadliest duel that has taken placo in reoent years, sinoe both combatants are dead, one being killed on the spot, while the other succumbed to his wounds shortly after the affray. It took place at Stuttgart, where Dr. von Holleben was stationed as minister plenipotentiary of Prussia, and the principal to whom he served as second was no other than Baron von Wangenhelm, his own secretary of legation, while the other was young Count Uxkul Gy lien hand, who was served as second by the Prussian general commanding the Wurtemberg division of the German army.

To this day the cause of the duel is surrounded by a certain amount of mystery, but it is rumored in oourt circles In Berlin that Baron Wangenheim had felt himself compelled to resent and to demand satisfaction for slurs passed upon one of his nearest relatives, who, bearing the same name, is attached to the household of the widowed Princess Frederick Charles of Prussia, and who has been the subject of an immense amount of scandalous gossip in connection with the princess, the friends of the latter insisting that she is united to her baron by ties of morganatic marriage, although there is no record of any suoh union in the current issue of the Almanach de Gotha.

Immediately after the duel, the fatal termination of which created an immense amount of sensation throughout Europe, Dr. von Holleben proceeded to Potsdam in order to make a confidential report of the entire affair to his imperial master. The kaiser seems to have gathered from the minister's story that Baron von Wangenheim had no alternative but to fight, the good name not only of one of his own kinsmen, but also a princess of the reigning house of Prussia, Jbaviug been impugned. In any case he showed his approval of Dr. von Holleben's attitude in the entire affair by shortly afterward conferring upon him the etar of the order of the Red Eagle and by nowsi«gling him out for promotion to the rank of embassador at Washington over the heads of an immense number of colleagues, who are his seniors in the service of the Berlin foreign office.

These successive marks of imperial favor may in some measure atone in tho eyes of the fire oating doctor for the abuse lavished upon him by the press, both at home and abroad, in connection with the duel, for the newspapers were loud in their denunciation of the envoy and of the gen eral for serving as seoonds, comparing their gray hair and mature years with the extreme youth of tho principals and declaring that it should have been the duty of the two elderly men to have prevented rather than to have abetted the fatal encounter.

It need not be imagined, however, from this that Germany's new embassador at Washington is a disagreeable companion. On the contrary he is, of all Germans sent to represent their country at Washington, the most jovial, frank, hearty and genial of men, utterly devoid of arrogance, pompousness or affectation, fond of a hearty laugh, a! good story and of a well get table, especially in the matter of the liquid refreshments. In one word he is what the Germans oallj"bprBchikoss,"and it is difficult to conceive a greater contrast than that whioh exists between him and his predecessors, the somewhat pedantic Baron Thielmann and the toplofty Baron Saurma. It may be added in conclusion that the new embassador is a bachelor, which may be taken as an indication of his extreme good sense, the members of the diplomatio service of Germany being, as a general rule, unfortunate in their matrimonial affairs.

Thus Baron Saurma, former German embassador at Washington and now representing the kaiser at Constantinople^, is separated from his wife, who is a Hatzfeldt by birth. So, too, was his predecessor, Count Arco, who was wedded unhappily to a popular Viennese actrcss well known in this country. Count Doenhoff, the envoy of Prussia at Dresden, is a divorced man. Count Wedel was compelled to resign his post as envoy to the court of Stockholm and Baron Brandt his embassadorship at Peking for having married foreigners in defiance of the emperor's wishes. Count Hatzfeldt, who had been until now embassador in London, was forced by Prince Bismarck to divorce his American wife, whom he remarried after the fall of the great chancellor.

Count Munster, the German embassador in Paris, divoroed his first wife, a Russian, Princess Calitzin, before becoming the husband of Lady Harietta St. Clair Erskine, sister of the late Earl of Rosslyn, while Baron von Bulow, recently appointed head of tho foreign offlco at Berlin after figuring as embassador at Rome, and who is 'reported to have been chosen as next ehancellor on the retirement of Prince Hohenlohe, is married to a divorced Italian princess, with whom he eloped from her first husband. From this it will be seen that the question of embassadors' wives in the diplomatic service of Germany is a rather troublesome one.— Marquise de Fonbenoy in Washington Post.

A BRAND NEW GAME.

Xt Is Called "Kngagements" and Is the Liveliest Thing Out. The latest thing in the way of social pastimes is the game of engagements. One reoently enjoyed by a lively party is thus described: Upon entering the gates of the comfortable country seat w^ere the affair took place each ono of the large number of guestg received a small engagement book with pencil attached. It was then explained that the game would last an hour and ten minutes. In the first ten minutes each man was to roaka as many engagements, as possible, a prife being offered to him who made the most. The engagements might be oi, any nature rowing, dancing, picking*owers, playing cards, any kind of game or activity possible to the occasion—but he must pledge himself to its performance with some one of the girls present and at suoh and such a moment le the succeeding 60 minutes.

In the engagement books both girls and men registered these various engagements. The ten mlnates up, the work of keeping the engagements began, prizes being offered to the man and girl who succeeded in keeping the greatest number of these. It made pretty lively work. The time put uJon each engagement might be very little. A fellow need only pick a flower and take a turn of the two step or play a round of euchre, but the trouble that he must, first of all, find the

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girl with whom he wns pledged to keep the engagement, and tn the five minutes allotted for accomplishing the whole this was no easy task. At the end of every five minutes a bell would ring, and such a scurrying Aid hurrying as there would be to find partners and places I As a way of keeping tbipgs from becoming slow or stagnated the game of engagements is to be heaxtily xpeoramended.—Exchange.

SPOONS IN HER HAT.

A Fashionable Tourist Adopts a Neat Method to Defraud Uncle Sam. The Dingley tariff law embraces so many novelties in the way of tbeduty paying artioTe that it is not surprising to find women resorting to the moat extraordinary devices in order to evade it. Such a woman debarked from an ocean steamship a few days ago. So far os her luggage was concerned, she was all right. There was nothing, too, to arouse suspicion so far as her clothing was oonoerned, but upon her head was a hat, and this bat was trimmed with souvenir spoons.

It took some little staring to discover them, but there they were, dozens of thtem, partly conoealed behind the wings and ribbon loops with which the hat bristled. The spoons seemed to be of all sorts, and they hailed from every locality. Judging from them, the woman must have traveled extensively. The queer part about it was that the customs officers never noticed the hat at all. It seemed to escape them completely, and not one of the many women tfrbo spied the spoons took the trouble to advertise their discovery.

In these days, when the souvenir spoon is so decidedly out of date, it is just a little strange that tho woman should have wanted to smuggle them. Perhaps, as with other sport, it wasn't so much the objeot of the game as the game itself.— Exohange.

CHINESE DOCTOR'S TROUBLE.

He Aski the Courts to Help Him Procure a license. Dr. Don Sang, a Chinese physician of Crown Point, Ind., whom the state board of medical examination has refusod to license, has brought suit in the federal court to have the state registration law declared unconstitutional,and a temporary restraining order has been granted pending a final hearing' in' N ovember.

The complaint alleges that he is a native of Canton, China, and that his family repreeents .nine generations of mediool practitioners. His father was attaohed to the medical staff of the emperor. All of bis family studied under the most rigid regime in ,tho Sang hospital, whioh was established in 1406, and the laboratory of which contains no less than 8,178 specifics compounded from herbs, plants, barks, berries and roots of Chinese vegetation. Eight ,allegations are made wherein the present law is claimed to violate constitutional rigl^s.

Dr. Curpyear, seoretary of the state board, reports that Dr. Sang was refused a license for false representation to the clerk of Lake county, and that his application, being contradictory in itself, was also sufficient for turning him down.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

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Money to MOTS Crops.

A oanvass of the leading bunks in New York shows that large sums of money are being shipped south daily to help move the crops. One of the most prominent institutions there has sent about $700,000 sinoe the middle of last week, and orders are still coming in. Th'e subtreasm-y has not had as many currency orders as v. .:r usual, but this is ascribed to the lateness of the crops in the southwest.

Altogether it is estimated that fully $5,000,000 of "oropmoney" has been shipped from New York during the past few weeks. The southern credits are in better shape just now than they have been in several years, and the general outlook in that section and the southwest, as viewed from New Yor^, is equally bright.

Nickel'-in-the-Slot Machines Not Patented. In effect United States Clrouit Judgo W. W. Morrow has decided that a niokel-in-the-slot muchine ia a gambling device only and not patentable as a "new and useful invention."

Some time ago Gustave P. W. SchUltz of San Francisco brought suit against Theodore Holtz and a number of others, alleging infringement upon oertain letters patent granted on a nickel-in-fche-slot machine. Holtz in his answer set forth that the machine was not a new and useful devioe, but suitable for use only in saloons, drinking places and places of similar character. The samo view was taken by Judge Morrow, from the evidence presented, and a decree for the defendant was ordered.

Patents on such machines are obtained only on the representation that the device is in the nature of a toy.—San Franoisoo Post.

Dr. Farkhurst on Early Marriages. It is closely in keeping with the whole train of argument to 6ay a word in regard to early fharriages, writes tho Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., in an article on "The Safeguards of Marriage,'' in The Ladies' Home JournrJ. That Ls the natural order of event. Divine intention seems quite distinct upon the matter. Such marriages when properly consummated are a means of personal establishment and Security to the parties implicated. For a young man or a young woman to bo wholesomely married is the next stop to being regenerated. To be out of that condition is counter to nature, and to disregard nature subjects to all kinds of exposure. It is sometimes forgotten that nature's arrangements and intentions are in the nature of a divine ordinance, which may be of the same authoritatlveness as though drafted literally and included in the decalogue.

Arab Churning.

Among tha Arabs a practice from time immemorial has prevailed of churning by placing 'the milk in leather skins, which a'Je shaken or beaten until the butter ottne6. A bag of milk ls tied to a short rope, the other end of whioh is fastened to a toddle and the horse made to trot.

ABOUT PEOPLE.

Alfred .T. Osthoimer, wbojias been appointed honorary consul at Philadelphia by the emperor of Japan, is a well known importer of that city.

President W. E. Slocum of the Colorado coltega announoes his intention to decline the offer of the presidency of Oberlin college.

Jean de Roszks has just achieved two notable successes on the turf in Russia. With liliecznick he won for the sccond consecutive season the Grand Prix of the ozarinaond with Braganza a prize of 40,000 frauds.

One of the finest collections of onrious paintings and carvings in Mexioo is possessed by Signo*a Ruiz. She and her husband, now 87 years old, are at present learning English.

A monument in memory of Chopin is to be erected In Paris after the model of Dubois made from the portrait by Eugene Delacroix. It is to be finished in 1899.

Mr. Quarts, the Socialist candidate for governor *f Virginia, was seen in the streets of Richmond the other day peddling suspenders.

Kin Sik Kim, a young *ean, has arrival at Salem, Ya., to enter Roanoke college this ooming session. He has a fairly good csmmand of Hajlish. •.

WILD BIRDS' EGGS.

MANY KINDS THAT ARE USED FOR FOOD IN DIFFERENT LANDS.

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English Galleries and Holland's Kggland. Egg Thieves Among the Feathered Tribes-—How the Jackdaws Bobbed Their

Custom, whioh rules in matters of eating more than YD any other department of life, has set very narrow limits to the*English idea of what are and what are not edible eggs. This must be mainly due to fancy, for the taste of the eggs of most birds is almost the same, though that of a very fow, such as the plover and the guinea fowl, is distinctly superior. Much has been written as to the sale of other birds' eggs, gulls', guillemots' and redshanks' for pldvers' eggs. They are good enough of their kind, but the difference can be recognized when tha shell is stripped off Not even tnose of the redshank approach the plover's in flavor. Tho gull's eggs are so unlike those of the peewit that the persistence of tho tradition that they are sold as plovers' eggs is puzzling.

The explanation is somewhat curious. The belief had its origin in a confusion of names, which is illustrated by a note of Sir Thomas Browne. The old Norfolk name for the black headed gull was"puet," and these puets' eggs were formerly much more commonly used for food than peewits' eggs. Sir Thomas speaks of the 'puets, in suoh plentie about Horsey, that they sometimes bring them in carts to Norwioli, and sell them at small rates, and the country people make use of their eggs in puddings and otherwise." The black beaded gull was and to some extent is still the principal wild contributor to our egg supply, except the rock fowl Of the coast. At the celebrated gullery in Scoulton Mere, in Norfolk, the first eggs are generally laid in tho middle of March, and none is taken after a certain time, fixed yearly, according as the season is early or late. As late as 1890, according to Mr. Thomas Southwell, from 8,000 to y,000 eggs were taken annually from this one oolony. Several of the ancient gulleries of Norfolk are now extiuct. That near Wangford was destroyed, according to the evidence of a warrener who romembered the "ooddy moddies," as he called them, "by taking their eggs too close." On the other band, fresh colonies have been established elsewhere.

In the markets in Holland all kinds of large birds' eggs appear for sale, and are presumably intended to be eaten. Redshanks', greenshanks', and godwits' arethe commonest in tho market stalls of South Holland, but one sees also the bright blue eggs of the heron and those of wild ducks. Formerly a very large trade was

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This is greatly to the credit of the FrieBians, because egg stealing is not only an almost universal fraility among rustics, of whatever nation, but is the only form of crime which is generally recognized and labeled as larceny in the animal community. Every bird knows that the other bird's eggs are that bird's property. It is not like a young one, but a chattel, and there iB a distinct criminal class among birds whioh knowingly steal eggs, just as there is a respectable class, tho great majority, who know that they have to guard against this. Betwixt and between there is a doubtful stratum, represented in this country by rooks, starlings (which take larks' eggs), and gulls, who are not habitual criminals, but are liable to stray when temptation comes. Tho professional egg) stealers among our birds aro the carrion^ crow, tho magpie, the jay, and the jackdaw. They have no misgivings whatever as to the edible properties of all eggs, though we never knew an instance of them stealing from each other. Thoy are perfectly aware that they aro stealing, and their whole air and demeanor when so employed is different to that which they wear when hunting for legitimate food.

The following oases may be cited: In April, 1896, a wild duck was disturbed from her nest in a copse in the isle of Wight. An hour later a pajr of crows found the nest. It held 11 eggs, rather too many for two crows' breakfasts. They invited a few friends, ate all the eggs and then began such a oliorus of croaks and shouts that the crime was suspected Every egg was gone befora a single crow uttered a sound. In Holland two magpies found a pheasant sitting. They waited until early next morning and then set to work at daybreak, when their proceedings werewatobed. One went behind the pheasant and pcoked its tail^ill the hi I'd turned round and rushed at the magpie. The other magpie at once spiked an egg and Hew off. Two jackdaws which had a nest in a hollow tree near a house in Suffolk showed a touching affection for a bantam hen. They hopped about the yard in her oompany, ate out of the plate of food set down for the bantam and were much commended. The bantam had a nest in the garden known to the household. As no eggs were visible for some days a watch was kept. The two jackdaws were seen sitting by their friend, who was on the nest. When the egg was laid, the bantam flew off clucking, and as scon as she was gone one of the daws flew off with the egg. —London Spectator.

BLACKMAILING IMMIGRANTS.

Charges Made and Money Demanded From Friends of Those Detained. The immigration authorities at the port of New York have lately been perplexed and annoyed by the receipt of numerou* anonymous (letters reflecting upon the character of immigrants. Efforts to trace the writers proved fntilo in all cases. I Where

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Investigation showed them to be fictitious. Tho letters were illiterate and evidently tbe work of foreigners.

At first the authorities wore nonplused as to the means to be gained by the writing of suoh letters. A rigid investigation was set afoot, and then it was disoovercd that anew system of attempted blackmail bad been developed. In some unknown manner the writers seoured the names of immigrants who had little funds, but who had friends in this country. These names were evidently secured from the port of embarkation.

When tbe immigrant arrived, a lettser was immediately written to the commissioner of immigration which volunteered the information that the new arrival was

the information that the

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case him of being & criminal. tTpon any one of these charges an immigrant would be excluded from the country.

The letters, of oourso, were turned over to the board of inquiry) before whom the aooused immigrant was summoned for investigation. This hearing usually resulted in the detention of the Immigrant. It has been discovered that in all suoh cases strangers have gone to the man's friends or relatives and for a sura varying from $10 to 160 offered to secure tho immigrant's admittance into the oountry. It ls net on record that any-such tribuiO has been paid, but it is possible that It may have been. The blackmailer could appear before the board, swear thap he knew the man and that the chargos against him were unfounded.

The matter lias been placed in the hands of special inspectors for investigation. They are now endeavoring to discover the would be blackmailers, and if they are disoovercd the immigration commissioner will push a charge against them and mak# examples of them.—New York Sun.

THESE WOMEN WILL GO.

Plucky Chicago Ladies Who Long For Klondike Dost. Alaska has no terrors for tvt least a score of determined women who have joined a club now forming in Chioago under the direction of Miss Florence King, with the intention of starting for the Klondike on the first boat that loaves Portland next spring.

Miss King has been practicing law in Chicago several years, and came near being elected a justioe of the peace a year ago in ono of the suburban towns. She started recently to form a club of women, and has succeeded thus far in finding about 20 who have backed their intentions with deposits of money toward paying their passage on the first steamer of the North American Transportation and Trading company.

Those who have joined the club are generally business women, the majority of them married. Some want to start boarding houses on the co-operative plan, others expect to follow their professions as dentists and photographers and several propose to wield the razor on tha stubbly beards of the miners. Only two women declare their readiness to try their luck with the shovel and piok, and thoy are seeking somebody who will "grub stake" them. Miss King says they aro physically able to stand just as muoh hard work as a man.—Chicago Times-Herald.

RODRIGUEZ ALL RIGHT.

.all"' Hia.'Mcn Are In Go -d Condition and Buoyant With Hope.

"The Cuban junta at Key Wast has just received a letter from Goneral Alejandro Rodriguez, commander of the Cubun for-

TDIJ inigi- tress in Havana province. The letter was

done in wild fowl eggs with the shepherds ^ost encouraging ono, giving details, so ioln nt

of the islo of The north part of the "Taxel"(«is itis pronounced by tho Dutch) is still oalled "eyor land"—"egg land"— and it was from this distriot that tho supply was mainly drawn. In Friesland, the Dutch Norfolk, where meres, broads, heaths and wild fowl abound, the sheldrakes' eggs are one of the minor sources of pocket money to tho villagers. Sheldrakes like to nest in a burrow, in which they would normally lay one setting of eggs and then hatch them off. The Frieslanders provide ready made burrows, from which a dozen nesting chambers radiate. These artificial nests aro made in a grass covered sand hill, a loose turf being laid over each nesting chamber, which ls removed when the egg is taken, and then replaced. The strangest part of this arrangement is the tumeness of the birds. Several females use the same entrance and will allow themselves to be handled. They go on laying regularly, like hens, until the middle of June, when they are allowed to sit. The late Mr. H. Durnford, the first English naturalist who described the wild life of the Friesian islands, noted that each villager generally owned one of these sheldrake lodging houses, and that they were scrupulously honest in not tnking each others' Qggs.

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a prominent Cuban states, as tothe many raids made by the Cubans rswntly in and around Havana and tha amount of destruction accomplished. ..

The general states that bis troops were all in fine condition, full of enthusiasm, well armed and always ready to meet the foe. He has been using a great deal of dynamite lately, and states that he found it one of the best weapons to use against the Spaniards, as their soldiers -frill never venture into any seotion where they think mines are laid. A request was made by the Key West junta to see that a largo supply was sent by the next expedition.

Rodriguez claims also that cutside of Guines, Havana and shrae ether towns, they hold undisputed possession 6f Havana province, and that their band went from one end to the other without hindrance. He has about 8,000 troops there, with an extra 2,000 in detaohed bands scatteied through thatprovinoe and portions of Matanzas, these latter being mounted.—StiLouis Globo-Democrat.

History of Ivory.

The earliest recorded hir t-ory—we Jgn gay prehistorio, the hieroglyt-fiical—that has come down to us has b6en in carvings on ivory and bone. Long before metallurgy was known among the prehistorio races carvings on reindeer horn and mammoth tusk evidence tlia. antiquity of the art. Fragments of horn and ivory, engraved with exoellent pictures of animals, have been found in oaves and beds of rivers and lakes. There are specimens in the British museum, also in the Lo*"-re, of the Egyptian skill in ivory oarrtsig attributed to the age of Moses. lit the latter oollection are chairs or seats of tbe sixteenth oentury B. C. inlaid with- Ivory and other pieces of tho eleventh century B. C. Carving of tbe. 'fpreaious substance" was oxtensively carried on at Constantinople during the midifle ages. Combs. caskets, horns, bt!£e3, 'etc., of cai'ved ivory ^ind bone, often- aet 4n proemus'stones, of t7he old Roman and AngloSbioW periods, are frequently fbund in tombs:' CruciflxeB and images of the Virgin and saints made in that ago are often gmceful and beautiful. The Chinose and Japanlise are rival artists now in their peculiar xuinutiaa and detail.—N. B. Nelson in Popular Scienoe Monthly.

Chewing Gum,

The habit of chewing gum is not a modern one by any means. It appears that *be soft eyed Hindoo maidens, as far back as in the time of the Vedas, were In the habit of chewing Kashnir gums, if a stanza In an anoient Sanskrit poem is to be believed. These gums were said to sweeten the breath and redden the lips, and if tho almond eyed, indolent daughters of the east chewed in the dreamy fashion of their climate and temperament, perhaps the effect was not so irritating to the nerves nor offensive to tho taste as the vigorous and audible mastication of tho modors Amerioan girl.

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VerestchHgin to Be Honored. Foreign papers say tbut M. Verostcbagin, the Russian painter, whose pictures of the horrors of war and especially of the Indian mutiny are widely known, will probalby be selected as the lir6t candidate foi tho Nobel prize at Stockholm. Although tho prize is giten from the funds left by the inventor of explosives, it is effcred its an incentive to "the propagation of pacific ideas." The German emperor once referred to Verestchagin's works as "th« best assuranco against war." ,•

Horse Swallows a Diamond. Poter Deible, a wealthy meat dealer ot Youngstown, O., is minus his $200 diamond shirt stud. While caressing lift! horse's head ho had occasion to look around, and the horse took advantage of tbe opportunity and bit off tho stud. It seems there is no other way than that tho horse swallowed tho sparkler, for no iraco of it can be found. Mr. Delblo is suffering from nervous prostration.—Cleveland Plain Dealer

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