Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 September 1897 — Page 2

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'SHE KILLEBTHE BEAR

A YOUNG SCHOOLMISTRESS HAD AN ADVENTURE WITH BRUIN. "ndw

'Hit* Katie Didn't Show fight Until She Had a Shade the Best of the Situation, bnt We'll Call Her Delay Generalship .and Give Her Fall Credit For the Victory.

Katie Rankin, is a. pretty 21-year-old schoolmistress in Cuminingu township, Lycoming county. She is also a heroine,

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volver, for her boarding place 1s fully half a mile distant from the schoolhouse. Diligent practice has made her a proficient markswoman.

One night snow fell in that locality to the depth of 30 inches. Next morning Miss Rankin started for her school, going quite early so that she could have the room warm before the pupils began to arrive. The task of trundling through the deep snow for a half mile was more than she had counted on, and when she arrived at the door of the little schoolhouse she was nearly fagged out. On opening the door she was surprised to find one of the windows in the rear of the room wide open. Tt bad apparently bean open all night, for the snow had drifted in.

Hurrying up the aisle to make fast the window, she was startled to see a big black bear lying on the floor close to the stove. She screamed, for she thought the form that of a tramp who had taken shelter in her schoolroom from the severe storm of the night before. She was about to flee when the black form raised up, and she was surprised still more to find it not a man, but a big black bear. Now, here was a predicament! Ryn she must. She sprang to the door but, behold! in her hurry to get Inside when she arrived, a minute before, she had failed to remove the key from the outside. The peculiar make of lock made it an impossibility to open the samo on either side without the aid of the key after If had sprung shut, and thus was the ncH$*horoughly alarmed girl made a prisoner, with a big blaok bear as a companion.

Old bruin sat up on bis haunches and blinked at the terrified girl. It was evident that lier screams had awakened him from a sound sleep, and that he was still drowsy was more than apparent from his lazy attituda The bear, had found the window of. the schoolhouse open, and the aperture thus afforded being not more than three feet from the ground he easily got inside. That he had made himself at home was in evidence from the topsy turvy condition of affairs. A lunchbasket, left by one of the pupils, in which several extra pieces of cake remained, was on the floor empty. Books and maps and slates were thrown promiscuously about, and as the impertinent fellow sat looking at the timid little sclioolma'am he seemed sorry for the disturbance he had caused in the schoolroom.

At last, having surveyed her to his entire satisfaction, bruin gave a loud grunt, showed two rows of teeth, then turned and shambled toward the open window. With his fore pa\vs on the sill he looked back over li5s shoulder at Miss Rankin, who stood trembling at the door then ho raised his ponderous form and slid out into the snow. It was then that Miss Rankin bethought herself and rammed her hapd.into her ooat pocket for the revolver. With this as a helpmate, and the boar on the outside of the building, all her bravery returned. She knew that bruin could not well get back if she barricaded the windows, and she did want to shoot a real, true bear so badly.

On going to the window she was surprised to find that the bear had not yet gone more than ten feet toward the wood. The snow was so deep and of such a feathery nature that it was next to impossible for the woolly coated creature to move. He first stood on his hind legs, and with his fore paws beat the snow from in front, but when he attempted to move forward he invariably tumbled headforemost into the snow, which at that point had drifted four feet high.

Miss Rankin judged that this was her chanoe. She did net stop to think that bears are not usually shot with a revolver. She watched bruin flounder in the snow and knew that he could not get back to her, even though the first few shots did no more than injure him. She waited until he stood upright, when she leveled the pistol at his head and fired. Simultaneous with the report of the firearm the bear jumped into the air several feet, then wont rolling into the snowdrift. An instant later he was again on his feet, this time with his faoe toward the schoolhouse window. The sight of his pretty tormentor and the pain of the bullet wound in his head maddened the fellow, and his attempt to flounder through the snow back to the window was terrific.

Again Miss Rankin raised her pistol, this time taking aim for the bear's eye. The bullet wont "home," and the bear fell again into the snowdrift. This time he was slow to rise, and before he accomplished this another bullet went plowing into his body, and he lay down to die.

The shooting at the schoolhouse was heard by those at a farmhouse just across the creek, and several of the men folks came hurrying through the 6now, one of them carrying a gun. Upon arriving at the sohoolhouse they were quickly acquainted with the situation.

The man with the gun made his way to where the bear lay and found that the beast was not daad. He raised his gun to fire the finishing charge, but was stopped before he could pull the trigger by Miss Rankin, who exclaimed, "Here, I want to kill that bear."

The man stepped back. Miss Rankin, from her position at the window, sent another bullet into the woolly mass that lay partly hidden in the snowdrift. That shot "fixed him," as one of the men said when tolling of the plucky girl's thrilling escapade.

Miss Rankin has had a rug made of the bearskin. It is an exceptionally fine one, and it will ever prove a ready reminder of the day that she was made prisoner a country sohoolhouse, with a wild beast for her only companion.—Pittsburg Dispatch.

HIS LITTLE CHILDREN.

Caused Aldreman Mangier to 'Tell' About Attempted Bribery. Chicago, Sept. 20 —Alderitilui Wm. Mangier, of the Twenty-second ward, who scene months ago, created a sensation by the declaration that an effort had been made to purchse his vote on a street car franchise for $3,000, has toM this story to the grand jury. He charges Jacob L. Kes&er, manager of a large department store, witfh the attempt to buy his vote. When Mangier first made 'his assertion he was called before the grand jury then sitting and asked for-the name of the man who attempted to "brtlie him. He refused to divulge the name and after the grand jury had cited "him Xor contempt he was orflered by the court to pay #1,000 and go to Jail for three months if he Ssill declined to answer the questions of the jury. The case was appealed and is still pending. Today Mcngler declared tie would tell his 6tory and after he had left the grand jury room ba Mttt "1 toiid tihem that Jacob X*

Kesner was the man who attempted to bribe me to vote for the General Elactrla ordinance. I told the jury that he first offered me 51,000, then $1,500 and finally caned me up bv telephone and offered me $2,000. I rung him off and did not talk witfe him."

The alderman said he dhamged his mind about talking- to the jury, when his children came home from school and asked him when he was going to jail, as the other children had said he*would have to

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could not stand that,"-said the alderman "and I gave up."

The Still* Abduction Case

"VVarrensburg, Mo., Sept. 20.—The latest developments in the Stills- abduwuun

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ing character has proved. A 250 pound the accused parties persuaded Prosecuting black bearwas theother actor in the affair, and Katie's schoolhouse scene of combat. The structure in "which pretty Miss Rankin oonducts her school is located near the banks of Pine creek, in a sparsely settled district. Just back of the one story schoolhouse stretobes a forest, up and across the mountain, which rises 500 feet or more. It is no uncommon thing to see bears or catamounts in these woods. The knowledge that there were wild beasts about caused Katie Rankin to carry a re-

exceedingly sensational. Relatives of

Attorney .(Bradley to go to Jefferson town, chip and investigate., He taken into the woods ten miles from the scene of. the alleged crime and shown a woman in comjpany with a gang of young men, who claimed to be the missing Mrs. Stills. "Wihen questioned she admitted that she was thei wife of Andrew ShSlls, but had left -him willingly to go with Hull, McKeetoea, and Jackson and did not want to return tew him. Mr. Bradley says he satisfied himself that the story of the abduction and outrage of the Wife told by Stills is untrue, buj many persons here are not satisfied with thef revelation made by friends of the accused. Constable Hudslon says he found that Mrs. Stills was with her mother at White Sulphur Springs up to 11 o'clock Saturday .'morning. ^v'^'

"Number Six"?In the Labor iWorld. A businesslike joung fellow with the air of a clerk now began to move among tbe men,'and'they showed the keenest interest in hia approach. I heard them speak of him as the timekeeper, but I bad BO knowledge of such a functionary, and I wondered whether he had any business with me. He bailed me with a brisk "What is your'Dumber?" Hooked at biin in surprise, "He's a new band," shouted the boss from hls»elevation. "What's your name?" asked the "timekeeper as he turned a page in his book. I told him, and when be had written it.be drew from his pocket a brass disk upon which was stamped the number six, and this he told me to wear suspended by its Vetoing and to show it to him as often as'he made his rounds.— "The Workers," byiWaltar A. Wyokoff, in^ Scribner's.

He Got the Tnrnip Back.

An absentruinded* gentleman, jwho^ was a landlord, went onenlay to call'ona/tenant who chanced to be in great distress over the death of a valuable oow. The man garrulously 'detailed the oircumstances of the death. "Nothing ailed her. She just'ehoked like." "Ha, mum!" responded the absentminded man, thinking all the while of something else. "She had been eating- turnips," went on the tenant, "and when it was all over and we looked in her mouth there was a turnip stioking in her throat, whole." "Oh, then," said the absentminded man, rousing with a great show of lively, interest, "you got your turnip, after all I* —Pearson's Weekly.

Affairs of Globe Savings Bank. Chicago, Sept. 20.—The University of Illinois today filed a petition in the Globe Savings iBank receivership case, asking that its claim against President Charles W. Spalding, recently convicted of embezzlement, be made a preferred lien on all assets of the bank. The Chicago Title & Trust Company, receiver, objected to the filing of the petition, but the objection was overruled and all the other par ties interested in •the assets were ordered-to answer the peti-. tion. The claim of the •University of Illinois against the defunct bank amounts to $299,500. The effect of tihe petition will be to prevent the declaration of any division to depositors for a long time to come, as even should the court ruling be averse, the case will be appealed.

Mr. Bryan Still Twining Silver. [Des Modntes, la., (Sept. 20.—Wm. J. ®ryan and F. E. White, Democratic candidate for governor were the principal figures in a free silver rally here today. Three meetings wera held, Mr. Bryan speaking in the afternoon to &,000 people. He devoted his time to the silver issue and said that the eyes of the country were on Iowa and Ohio this year. He said free silver tfas more alive than last year. Mr. White 'in the evening also devoted nearly all his time to silver. (Mr. (Bryan spoke.in the evening at Newton. He will spentf the whole week in the state.

Hid: Cut in Freight Kates.

Milwaukee, Sept. 20.—The Wisconsin Central has announced wholesale reductions in freight rates from Buffalo to St. Paul, the rates to apply via Manitowoc. The reductions are as follows:

First class, 51 cents to 20 cents second,! i44 .cents to 20 cents third, 33 cents to 2(V cents fourth, 24 cents to 10 cents -fifth, 20 cents to 10 cents, and sixth, 10 cents to 5 cents. These rates are 60 per cent lower than the present rates from Chicago to St. Paul. The reason given for the reductions is that competing lines have been setretly cutting rates

Starch Knock" Kirharrttton Out •Cincinnati, Sept. 20.—Poe Sturch, of Chicago, and David Richards, of Cincinnati, were to fight 15 rounds tonight for the 105 pound championship of America under the auspices of th6 Nonpareil Athletic C,ub. The fight ended in the tenth round with Richards knocked out, being bady battered up. The purse was $1,000. Sturch had the advantage in height and. reach and had greater skill, using his eft with telling effect at will. In the tenth round Sturch ran to Richards' corner and landed a hard right hand upper cut from which Richards ooud not rally.

Improved Order Knights or Pytii a'. Baltimore, Sept. 20.—The third annual sesion of the Supreme Lodge of the Improved Order of Ifnights: of Pythias opened here this morning. Forty-five delegates, representing twen'cy-eight states of tho Union were iu attendance. Annual reports of the supreme officers were read, Bhowing the order to be in a flourishing condition. The final session will be held Thursday morning when newly elected supreme officers will be installed.

Simple.

A woman living in the north of JEngr land, not being able to tell the time by the olock, was asked one day by a friend how she knew when it was time to get her hus band's dinner ready. She answered, "When the big finger points to the pantry door and the little finger to Mrs. X.'s (meaning her next door neighbor), then 1 know. "—London Tit-BLts.

Ilig Fire at Stockton, Cal.

Stockton, C-al., Sept. 20.—The old Shoppe Harvester IWbrks. known (as the Stockton Car Machine and Agricultural Works, covering an area of.300 feet square, was burned today. Approximate loss $100,000 insurance 545,000.

Cleopatra is said to have spoken all tbe languages used by her subjects, together with Latin and Greek. Altogether she understood 11 or 12.

Spelt is a favorite grain in south Germany and Switzerland.

TO CURE A COr.D 1" ONE BAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure.

LOADING? A STEAMER.

HOW COTTON IS PACKEpTlNTO A TRANSATLANTIC SHIR,

Songs With Which the Black Screwmen Lightened Their Toil—The "Hoeing" Process Which Forces Three Bales Into a

Space Which Two Would Fill.

T. Thomas Fortune writes «s follows from Charleston to the New York Pun: The great world at large, which bas its own business to attend to and dfeldom sees more of an ocean freight steamer than her smokestack and masts as she stands as a chained leviathan at her pier, knows very little of th9 capacity of such a ship or the toil and anxiety which are involved in loading her with the precious products designed for foreign ports.

The loading of a steamship is not such an easy thing as it would appear to be at first sight. The stevedore contracts to*put as many bales of cotton and as mncb of other substances into the big thing of iron within a given time, usually .ten days, as she will bold. During the tiifie the steamer is in port. she ie in the bands of the stevedore. He is responsible to the shipper or broker who bas the contract for her return cargo. The captain may dance and curse and giro all the captious orders his sea dog nature may prompt, but the stevedores and the screwmen waste very little time, attention or sympathy on him. They simply let him "shoot himself out," as they phrase it.

I went through the Urania, a Liverpool tramp here, with Mr. S. W. Bennett, an old custom house employee, recently and was surprised to findthatthe small steamer was under contract to carry 9,000 bales of cotton, SCO pounds or thereabouts to the bale 8,000 barrels of turpentine and 3,000 tons of cottonseed meal, whioh is a very high- grade fertilizer, much used of very late years in Europe and America,: instead of phosphates, guano and other fertilizers.

It was in one of the compartments of the iron tramp steamship Urania that I* first witnessed the interesting process of packing a large bale of cotton into the very smallest space, much less than an ordinary bale of ootton would occupy. The process of "nosing up" three bales of cotton into the space which :two would ordinarily oocupy cannot be understood or explained by the uninitiatedil There are five men in oach squad, one of whom Is lihef foreman, who does nothing', but diTect which bale shall be fitted infora given space and the manner in which,It?shall be placed.

The four men throw the heavy Mies into position as easily as if they were straws, albeltwith numerous grunts untranslatable. It is a matter of dexterity md not of strength. Tbe three bales ats piled upon each other edgewise, and then a long notched plank is plaoed against one of the iron stanchions resting on t&e 'floor or against a layer of cotton, as thei ease may bo. One end of the screw,'which weighs about 300 pounds, is placed against tbe three bales of cotton, and the other in one of the notches of the plank, which is about 3 inches thick. Then the "nosing" begins. The four men yank the crank of the screw, which has a right and left prong, by a sudden jerk sufficient to disarrange the physioal organism of an amateur.

During this process of "nosing" the four sorewmen become bathed in perspiration and croon the most outlandish gibberish. It is hardly to be comprehended by the untutored ear. Tbe swaying of the black bodies is as regular as if they were automatons. As they sway and croon the three bales gradually yield tc the turning of the arank until they are compressed, fiat sido down, into the spacawhiohtwo bales, unpressed, would occupy. This monotonous and tiresome process is repeated hour after hour until the 9,000 oales are compresscd into tbe space which 0,000 bales would occupy thrown into the ship's hold iu the usual way. Usually only one crew occupies a compartment, but in the Urania I fomd two crews at work, because of the great width of the ship.

As the process of "nosing" proceeded each of the gangs crooned a ditty,, in which the big foreman sometimes joined, which was as intensely diverting as it was nonsensical. One of the songs ran in thiswise:

I lubes Miss Susan, she lubes me Pull erway, pull erway. She hab goue ter de oddeEjshp'J

Pull erway, pull enyay. rlubes Miss Susan, she lub'es me Pvill erway, pull erway. It is impossible to describe ^he peculiar gyrations of the bodies and^ the weird, crooning, musical sound of the voices, especially in the refrain, as this song is sung, repeated over and o-vejr until the three bales are "nosed" up and begun again, when another three bald& axe! placed in position to be "nosed." But the song that struok me most, forcibly WflSk the following: Kiley hab a baby: de baby hab no,head FiWir um in de fryin pan un call umgiuger bread.

U-1' Rio, Riley, Democrat Riley, dtifl t»a Rio, Riley, oh! Rio Riley, oh Thb last line would bo drawn out in a long,'ringing cadence and dio away in a gentle echoing sound. The amount of mu sic which the four men managed to extract from these senseless words would as tonish Mr. Dvorak or Mr. Damrosch.

The cotton shipment movement lasts about flvo months of the year, when Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah and Charleston employ an army of biack screwmen. They receive good -nftges, but I was informed at Galveston and here that they save very little of their money. On Saturday it comcs in one hand and goes out of the other. When the pressing sflltsou is over, they take to fishing, truck driving and whatever else they can' get to do. Tbey toil only that others may grow rich.

THE GLUTTON OSTRICH.

llow the Greed of One of the Animals Was Punished. For odd appetites the goat and the ostrioh stand supreme, with the ostrich just a step ahead, and yet an ostrich finds trouble in swallowing a hot potato. A South African writer tells an amusing story of greed and how it was punished. Hesnys:

These ostriches were a source of endless trouble to us. They grew rapidly and developed great kicking powers until they became sometimes positively dangerous, the dogs and the Kaffirs coming in for most of their attentions. Their appetite was insatiable. We used to inake large quantities of biltong, or sun'dri&l meat, and there were usually dozens of'jltrips of it hanging on reims slung Troiii* wagon to 'Vtagon, and tbese were alWays objects of attention on' the part of tfte ostriches. It was most ainuslng to see ofle trying to swallow a strip a yard long and two inches thick, just as a chicken struggled with a worm that is a little too big for it! Onoe we had to drag a huge strip out of one of the birds' throats to save it from oboking.

But it was the oulinary department that interested them most. They would'always attack the Kaffirs bringing tbd viands from the kitchen to the tent atad sometimes were so pertinacious that the boy would get frightened and throw the disb away and bolt, and we would lose the best part of our dinner. They would even come into thejtent and snatch things off the table, and we would take it out of them by smothering a dainty morsel with salt and cayenne pepper, but after awhile they seamed to flourish on it.

One day, however, we got the laugh on our side. Dinner was preparing, and one of the birds was investigating the pots around tbe fire. A great pot of huge potatoes took his fancy, and he incontinently fgized and swallowed a redl^"t$l)to*a8

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big as a large pomegranftte. He danced, be jumped, he kickod, be twisted his neck about almost into knots, be flapped his wings and waggled his tail, he ran amuck, knocking things down and banging bim self up against tbe wagons and 6tone walls, and at last tore away into the veld at SO miles an hour until be was out of sight and did not appear again for a couple of hours.

Every morning soon after sunrise these birds-would indulge in a dance. They would rush away into the veld for about a mile and then suddenly stop and oommence waltzing round and round in tbe most ridiculous fashion, often till they dropped. I never could understand the meaning of this performance}. It might be mere gam holing, but if so it must be nearly the only ca^e of young birds playing, as soVnany young animals do.

STORY FROM A MUSEUM. HI

Punching Bscs Were Made and Used Many Centuries Ago. *Jn a Roman museum is a toilet case in wbicb some fair lady kept her combs, brusbes and paint pots about 2,300 years ago, as near as tbe savants can guess. This cista, as it is called, was dug up in Paleetrina, the ancient Prseneete, and is beautifully engraved with pictures representing the adventures of tbe argonauts.

These argonauts sailed to the land of tbe Bebrykes and arrived very thirsty, but were prevented from drinking at the spring until one of them, Pollux, had knocked out King Amyous in a boxing match without gloves. So are argonauts resolved to keep in practice. This Palestrina cista represents one of them banging away at a punching bag hung from a tree limb while fat old Silenus mimics bim.

This bag, by its shape and appearance, was presumably filled with grain, and was not so well adapted for developing quickness as the modern wind bag, but it was pretty good for 2,200 years ago, after all. Perhaps some scientist will yet dig up a pneumatic tired bicycle or a repeating rifie.

George Washington's false teeth wera among tbe first ever used in America after the rediscovery of the art of making them by some Frenchman, but they were not exactly a novelty in one 6ense. At any rate, there hais been dug up in Cornet, Italy, a set of very commodious false teeth which must have been built before tbe be ginning of tbe ChsjystiaB era.

As for safety, pin^rneedles and suchlike small Yankee notions, the troglodytes bad them long "oefora there was any such thing as history invented. It's hard to prove with certainty that any novelty is really new.—Exchange.

Noses.

tecept in regard to shape, theories about noses are varied. There are Roman noses, Greek noses, cogitative noses, hawk noses, snub noses and celestial, or turn up, noses. Tbe Rdmaa is aquiline in 6bape and is said to indicate great decision, energy, firmnass, absence of refinement and disregard for tbe niceties of life. This was the nose of tbe Romans, the conquerors of the world a people who, despite their association with the refinement of Greece, remained unpolished. Says an English writer: "The Roman nose is common-to great soldiers, as it is to others who have been characterized by vast energy and perseverance in overcoming great, obstacles without regard to personal ease or the welfare of their fellow men.

The Greek nose is perfectly straight. Any deviation must be carefully noticed. If it tends to convexity, it approaches the Roman, and tho character is improved by an acoession of energy. On the other hand, wben it tends to ooncavity, it pariakes of the celestial, and the character is weakened. It should be fine, well chiseled, but not sharp. The Greek nose indicates refinement of character, love for the fine arts and literaturo, astuteness, craft and a preference for indirect rather than direct action. Its cwner is not without some energy in pursuit of that which is agreeable to his tastes but, unlike the owner of the Roman nose, he cannot exert himself in opposition to his tastes." As the name and mental characteristics suggest, this was tho nose of the ancient Greeks, whose triumphs in art, philosophy, poetry pnd acute roaaoning are well 1 nown, just as are their craftiness and deceit. —Brooklyn Eagle.

The N«mes of Scotch Towns. There is a mystery about many of the coast names of East Lothian. The inland names are mostly Anglo-Saxon. Witness Prestonkirk, Athelstaneford.. Tyninghame, Auldame, Salton, Bolton, Dirlcton, Fenton and the like, but the names of many places in and on the sea defy explanation^ Tantallon, the Bass, May, the Leithies, Milsey bay, the Lamb (in an old map we find in Bellenden), Firdra, Eyebrougby and tbe like would puzzle the brains of Canon Taylor, Mr.1 Johnson of Falkirk, Sir Herbert Maxwell and other experts in antiquarian place names.

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It would seem that the Anglo-Saxon invasion took fall possesion of the interior of the country, obliterating the older names, but as it di# not master the coast and thq islands th% ancient names, derived probably from various races and languages, continued to prevail. As to islands, it is remarkable that a few miles farther up the frith the names'of tho islands are constructed on a different but more uniform principle. Inchkeith, Inchcolm, Inchgarvie and Inchmyrkie agree in having She prefix Inch, but not in any of the Hebrides, Orkneys or Shetlands. One would suppose this due to some local fancy.— Pittsburg Dispatch.

A Panorama Three Miles I,ong. The most remarkable piece of panoramic painting ever attempted was a 2,000 mile view of sccnery along the Mississippi river which was executed by John Banvard, tho artist, who died at Watert-own, S. D., in the summer of 1891. This wonderful panprama, which gave faithful and dear cut pictures of bluffs, river mouths, farms, prairie dells and wooded promontories along the Father of Waters for a distance %hnost as great as that which separates £t. Louis from Now York, was painted on strip of canvas 22 feet wide and nearly 3 miles long. Nothing similar bas ever been

ittempted on such a gigantic scale, and

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Terribly Afflicted.

A woman living in one of the fashionable avenues bad a bit of statuary bearing the inscription '/Kismet." Thohoupemaid was dusting tile room one day when the mistress appeared.

Shure, ma'am, what's tho m'anin of the 'ritin on the bottom of tWa?" asked the maid, referring to the inscription on the statuary. "'Kismet' means fate," replied the mistress.

Bridget was limping painfully when she was walking with Pa( not long afterward, and he afked: "Phwat's the matter, Bridget?" "Faith," was her answer,'• I have the most tirrible korns on me kismet!"—New York Herald.

Unnecessary Trouble.

Hogan—Oi have a jokeonHoughlighan. They was a felly kem into his place an took three drinks in rapid secession av his whisky an thin pulled a gun an shot himself.

Grogan—Oi think the joke is "cm the man. Fwat for did be go to the trouble av usln a gun uftber throe drinks av Hoaghlighan',e whiskyP—Cincinnati TribWQK

SENATE HERCUEIES.

THE BRIGHT LITTLE FELLOWS WHO WAIT ON THE SENATORS.

They Mingle Von With Work and Are Full of Spirit—Their Antics Amnio More Than They Annoy the

Senators—The Many

Duties That Occupy the Days.

Life is one glorious mixture of work and pla jr to a senatorial page. He can get in more fun to the square inch in his leisure moments, and can do more hustling and quick work with his nimble feet than almost any other individual alive. It would be a benefit to society if the average district messenger boy could be taken to the capltol occasionally and given an object lesson by being shown a senatorial page doing an errand for a statesman. It would make the heart of a schoolboy burst with envy to see this same page a minute after his errand is finished enjoying himself as only a page can. As a bundle of contradictions a page is an eminent 6uocess. His equal is soarcely to be found in any other department of life, either private or public.

In tbe first place, the pages are selected from that age of humanity that is most devoted to the utilization of every moment of leisure as well as of every muscle in the body. Activity and ingenuity are the page's watchwords. His first rule of existence is to do whatever he bas to do in the shortest possible time, so as to have all the more leisure for bis many and varied modes of entertainment. As a rule, his mornings are mostly his own, and these he uses to a oertain amount of good effect by diligent work in a small room in the basement of tbe capital with the ath letic apparatus that bas there been accumulated for the use of this interesting corps of young Americans. Here diminutive sets of dumbbells, boxing gloves and Indian clubs have been stored from time to time, and srme of the pages have become quite proficient in their use.

Some good hard Uowsare rtruok in this basement room, and occasionally a black eye merges into the full light of the senate chamber. As facile with their tongues, however, as with their fists, the boys always have a ready answer, and they are seldom pressed very hard as to bow they came by their bruises, for it is one of the luxuries of being a page that tbe senators are not hard masters, but are, on the contrary, disposed to bp very ieuient and easy going.

As a matter of fact, the antics of the boys amuse ratber than irritate them, and it is astonishing how much confusion a senator who strolls into the chamber in the morning will endure before he enters a mild reproach. The boys use this morning hour with a great deal of freedom. They are divided into watches, so to speak, each boy having certain duties to perform in the axrangement of the desks, the straightening of the chairs, tbe distribution of documents and the'pens. A boy is placed, on guard at each of the doors to the cloakrooms to prevent overcurious visitors from strolling into these forbidden precincts, and it is one of their duties generally to keep tourists from entering the rows of desks within.

As the hour of 12 o'clock approaches, calm begins to reign among the pages. They cease their romping as senator aflar senator enters the chambe^ and their surreptitious games of roar Dies are discontinued. A minute or so before the hour of noon tbe pages separate into two groups, one on each side of the chamber, and each page takes position in front of the desk before the first row of the semioircle around the vice piasident's.ohair. Each boy has bis place allotted to bim and assumes as nearly as possible the position of respeotful silence. Of course this is. only approximate with these youngsters, who are fairly boiling over with fun and frivolity. A8 the gilded hands of the great blue clock over the south door point to 12 there is a bush throughout tbe chamber, the pages straighten up into stiff and unnatural positions, the doors on tbe east of the vice president's seat are thrown open, and a little procession formed of the secretary of the senate, Captain Bassett, the vice president and Chaplain Milburn, led by one of the pages, enters the room.

Tbe boys standing by the front row of desks bow their heads and remain as though petrified throughout tbe prayer. Once in awhile one of the more mischievous lads will disturb the solemnity of the occasion by a surreptitious poke into the side of his neighbor, but, as a rule, tuey are well behaved and do not chafe under the restraint of a couple of minutes. The moment the "amen" is sounded the pages scurry to their seats on tho steps leading to the desks of the vice president and the clerks, being equally divided between the two sides of the house, and a few moments later they are to be found in all parts of the senate wing as tbey flit about on their errands for tbe senators.

This senator may want a book from the library, that one a document from his committee room. Another may desire the presence of his cle^f in the senate chamber, or still another Shay simply wish to send a message to a senator on the other side. Many of the errands which these boys perform are confidential, and they never betray tbe trust imposed upon them.

It is only occasionally that a boy is retained from the staff of pages in some other capacity about the senate. Of course the shining example of Senator Gorman, who was a page at ono time, and who afterward became postmaster of tho senate after passing through successive stages, acts, of course, as a strong incentive to these lads to remain in the service as long as possible. But, as a rule, they are retired when they reach the age limit of 15 years. Places are found for some of the brighter boys as riding pages, clerks in tbe postofljeeand in the other offices of the senate.—Washington Star.

WHAT BERKSHIRE HAS DONE.

It Has Wrought More Than Its Share to Shape the I.lfe of the Country. It is a little land, but one which has contributed moire than its share to the forces which have shaped and are shaping

.. the life of our country and qur time. Be-

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irbile Artist Banvard was not known »s Lj10 fam0us Mecklenburg convention of "the Michael Angclo of America" he will' long be remembered by the lovers of the curious in either art or nature as the man who painted the largest painting ever known.—-St. Louis Republic.

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1775, a congress of deputies from the several towns in Berkshire met at Stockbridge, John Ashley being president, Theodore Sedgwiok secretary, and some 60 delegates being in attendance. A covenant was agreed upon, to be sifrnod by the people of tho country, engagffcg not to import, purchase or consume or suffer any person for,. by or under them to, import, purchase or consume in any manner whatever any goods, wares or manufactures which should arrive in Amerioa from Gre^t.Britain from and after the first day of Ootobor next, or such other Lme as should be agreed upon by the American congress, nor any goods which should.be ordered from thence from and after tbat day until our charter and constitutional rights should be restored."

Before the battles of Concord and Bunker Hill a regiment of minute men had been formed, and tke Berkshire men were on the march for Cambridge and Bunker Hill' tbe day after tbe news of the battle of Lexington was received. In the trying times and critical periods which followed the Revolution the hardest blow which was (struck at Shays' rebellion was at Sheffield. It was Mumbet, the ex-slave and faithfulservant in the Sedgwif family, whosecase drew forth the judicial decision tbat the soil of Massachusetts could not hold a slave. Under the haystack at'Williams-, town began tbe movement whiqli has girdled tbe world with a Chain of American missions, while in Stock bridge WM born nop lks.faffledt^e man, oyer whose

grave aire csrred fbe siinpleand significant woi54t "Cyras Wert Field, to whose courage,' energy and perseverance the world owes tbe Atlanticoabku" Ins-little study, haadly larger than a ekwet, looking out 'Upon Bear mountain, was done much of the work of tbe codifying of procedure and of laws which the civilized world associ- I ates'Wltb the name of David Dudley Field.

Yale university boasts that three of the, nine jpdges who sit upon the supreme bench of tbe United States are her graduatas. One-third of those nine judges went to school ir the single village of Stockbridge., *The sesthetic movement which finds expression In numberless village improvement societies all over the land beg%n in Berkshire the Laurel Hill society fS" of Stockbridge is the oldest of them all.— "Bryant and the Berkshire Hills," by Arthur Lawrence, in Century.

^VHITTIER'S COURAGE.

Ho Hazarded Life and Popularity In ihl Cause of Abolition. Before Whittier was 80 he had made up his mind that it was his duty to do what he could for the ralief of tbe unfortunate negroes who were beld in bondage in the south. In 1888 be wrote a pamphlet called "Justice and Expediency," in which he considered tbe whole question of slavery and declared that it should cease forever. Three years later be became secretary of the Antislavery society. In 1838 be went to Philadelphia to edit, the Pennsylvania Freeman, and so boldly did he advocate tho right of the negro to own himself that the printing offico was sacked by a mob and burned. "Fhen, as more than once »fterwgurd for tbe same cause, Whittier ivap Iq danger for bis life. .Whittier showed physical courage in facing the„r^f8ans who wished to proTent free speech^ but he bad revealed the higher moral courage in casting in his lot with the little band of abolitionists. Up to this time he had looked forward to holding public offico, as well he might, when many another journalist was stepping from .the new.fivpC desk Jnvo publio life. Wben he br un one of the &^all hand who denounced slarery, he gry? i?all chance of office. He a5'«o ba4 l£*-*5ry ambition, but so strong vas the power of the slave owners then. tnd so intolerant were they, that most editors and publishers were sorely Intimidated and declined fr print not only any attack on slavery, but even the other writings of an author who was known as an abolitionist. Thus Whittier, in identifying himself with the antislavery moVoment, thought that be was civlng up bis literary future Also. He mad

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promptly, and he never regretted it. indeed in later life he said to a boy of IS to whom he was giving counsel, "My lad, if thou wouldst win «mccess, join tbyaeif to some unpopular but noble cause."—Professor Brander Matthews Jn St. Nicholas.

OVERWEIGHT LUGGAGE.

He Didn't Dispute the Weight, hut S«l'asod to l'sy For It. A young man was standing beside some luggage waiting for a fcrain wlien a porter came up to him and toid: "Sir, that luggage is overweight." "Who says it is?" asked the man, wh« stammered badly. "Well, I think it is," answered the porter, but we wiil weigh it."

During, the conversation a crowd had collected round. tbem, and another porter came up and asked what was the matter. Tho man stammered out: "F-fivst be says It is overweight, then he—sajs he tb-thlnks it is overweight, and tb-thpn he says he will weigh it."

The porters then took hoid of tbe luggage and carried it off to the office and weigbqd it. "It if overweight, and you have got 1 shilling, sjnepenoe to pay,", said porter No. 1. vt "Sb-shan't- pay It," tbe man said. "Well, It you won't pay it, we shall fetch the station master," said the porter.. "Fetob wb-who you like sb-shan't pay it," again stammered the man.

Tbe 6tation master was duly fetched, and on arriving asked what the bother was about, wben the man again said: "F-ftrst- he «ays it is overweight, and then be weighs it and says it is overweight, and I have 1 shilling ninepence to pay. Sh-ahan't pay."

Wall, sa-d the station master in a rage, "why won't you yay?" "Beoause it is not my luggage," answered the map and walked off.—Rockdale News, _"-v

""1: 4dlnd and Music.

I suppose tbe relation between mind ancl musio is pretty generally admitted and recognized. On the susceptible person the influence of music is often most marked in producing ui pleasant frame of mind, in calming irrigation and eve.i in inducing sleep. The tnan "that hath no music in himself" is of course exempt from such effects and results, but it would indeed bo a strange and anomalous thing if one of the oldest of the arts should have exhibited no direct relations to tbe mental phases of individuals and nations alike. On the body and working through the mind, of course, or rather through the nervous system, I should say, the influence of rausio has been but imperfectly studied.

My readers will probably remember how Canon Harford undertook of late days to induce repose in hospital patients by the playing of soft music. His efforts in many cases were crowned with success, and I suppose we may now rank musio among those aids in mental therapeutics the action of which deserves to be more prominently studied than has hitherto been possible.—James Payn in Illustrated London News.

Shark and Blaetfiih.

In the big central pool at the aqonriutt. at Castle Garden there are two sharks, one about 4 feet long, the other about 8. In the same pool there are a number of blackfish. It may be that one of the blaokfish, perhaps one of the largest of them, a fish 15 or IS inches in length, tbat is swimming along in a leisurely manner as though he had just set out for a circuit of the pool, is seen suddenly to turn with a more businesslike air, as though he had thought of something that ho must really go back and attend to. Presently coming from the direction in which tbe blackflsh had been beading is seen one of the sharks, silent and surly looking and weaving its tail from side to side as it swims.—New York Sun.

The Swimming Cure.

Professor Kadisb, an oldandex^ferieaced master in tbe art., believes swimming to t* a sure cure for rheumatism and maintilni that continued natatorial practice will prevent all pulmonary troubles. A tendency toward consumption, be claims, will be overcome, muscles will be developed, chest broadened and lung power greatly improved. Especially is it said to be good for the brain. Floating with the back of the head stibmeiged allows the water to-tact upon tbe btain in such a way as to dispel all gloomy forebodings and drive away care and buffering.—Chicago Times-Her-altl.

v- i. Evidently Feminine. "How do you know that creature who passed here on a wheel was a woman and not a man?" "Because her costume looked considerably more like a roan's than those most of the'men are wearing."—Chicago Record.

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