Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 October 1897 — Page 3

THE KING OF BEA8I&

THINGS WORTH KNOWING BEFORE T'? TRYING TO TRAIN HlMr

IThy Does Are So Often Seen With Train* I Iiiou—Edward Darling, the Traine Tells All About the Processes of Traicinff and Teaching Them.

"You have often heard it remarked oJ some persoo or other that Jhn £ould not bt driven,ibut. must bo tied," «aid Edwaro Darling, the famous lion tamer. "If yoo have ever tried to accomplish anything with a person BO disposed, you will appreciate that a great amount of discretion and discrimination must bo exercised if you desire to be successful. Keeping io mind the di&culties that preamt them•elves in a human individual who cannot be driven, you will at once concede thst a lion tamer's task is not an easy one when I tell you that the king of beasts can neither be led nor driven. I mean this literally. If you succeed in having a lion parmit you to lead him—and I tell you that it requires no little patience and work to accomplish this apparently simple trick—you can rest assured that the balance of his training will come easy. "Many people have wondered why dogs always accompanied Hons while performing on the stage. I have heard some offer the explanation that they were there for 'the protection of the tamer. Others claimed that there was a psychological connection between the dogs and the lions, toy which the former had the latter hypnotized, so that the least bark or movement from the dog would bring the lion to a realization of what he was then to do.

While these theories may sound very well, they are all wrong. The dogs are simply there for example. They are of course the most domestic of all animals, and their association with the lions makes the lattor take on some of their habits. "From the time a lion is first placed in the trainer's hands, which Is at about the age of 9 months, young dogs are placed in Its cage. At first there is some antagonism shown, but after they have been together for awhile they begin to rom"p and play with each othor like kittens. Lions are usually trained in paii~—that is, two in one cage. This is done to make them bolder. If they have company, they do not have the same fear of the trainer as they would if alone. And it may seem strange to you to know that a trainer dreads fear in a lion more than boldness. If when you enter a cage a lion sneaks away from you and commences to jump about, striking its head against the bars aj if it would dash its brains out, seeking to escape in every possible way, then look out to protect yourself, for as 6ure as death that lion, after having exhausted every way ho supposed he could gain his liberty, will turn his attention to you and deal with you in a manner not the most polito. A timid lion is to be dreaded, but bold one you can always tell how to deal with. The only protection the trainer takes with him when he flrstenters aoage is a board about four feet long. This is to hold up in front of bim in case the beast makes a plunge at him. The tamer usually enters the cage as if he had some business there, such as sweeping or cleaning, doing his work, apparently not paying the slightest attention to the lions. Ho keeps this up for a long time, and gradually the lions beoome accustomed to hit presence. Then he offers them food out of his hand, cautiously, for the lien usually makes a grab for his food with his paw first, and there is danger of having an arm taken off. After this Is accomplished he begins to stroke the beasts with his stick, which shows them it is not for beating them, then with hie hand rewarding each advanoe with meat. "After a lion has permitted his trainer to stroke his back without a remonstrance ho is considered to know the difference betwoon right and wrong, and from that time on is punished for bad behavior. Before this no punishment has been administered, as the prima object is to first get the confidence of tho beasts and let them know what you want them to do. But after the trainer has petted and rewarded him for it, should the lion shoyf any desire to go baok to his primeval wildness and make any attempt to claw or bite his master, then tho whip is applied and not sparingly either. He is whipped and whipped until his will is broken and he permits a renewal of the familiarity. I have seen lions almost beaten to death before thoy would give In, but at last they were conquered. The trainer has beoome the master, and, strangely, the punishments inflicted are never remembered against him by tho lion. "The first and most dilfioult step, as I have said before, is teaching them to be led. The Idea of being led seems to be contrary to the lion's nature. And no wonder, for what king would not revolt at such treatment? But the king of beasts can be taught, although it requires many long and severe lessons before he will bring himself down to it. Even after a lion has been fully trained you can nevor bo absolutely suro of hiiu. They are very peculiar animals. Sometimes they will not got out of sorts for years, yet in a day will develop nasty traits that make them decidedly dangerous. T'hoso spoils only last, luckily, fir two or three days, whvn thr return to tSo former condition. Wo •woAc upon tho jealous feelings of a lion with great suocess while training one. I have seon some animals that could never have been conquered had it not beon for tho jealousy that was created in them. They booame so jealous of dogs and other lions that were having a great deal of attention paid to them by the trainer that tbey absolutely forgot themselves and came up to him as tho other beasts had done. Naturally we get very much attached to our own animals, but you cannot devolop the same affection for a lion as you oan for a dog, I suppose because you cannot have tho lion always with you. My lions know no one but myself. I attend to them exclusively, with the exception of cleaning out the cages. I feed them every morning and let them exercise, so that they aro almost part of my fniuily." —Pittsburg Dispatch.

A MAID OF WINCHESTER.

ghe Recites an JSptthalaminm Before Qneen Mary and Philip of Spain. Virginia Cabell Gardinor writes a story ©f old England for St. Nicholas, dealing with the marriage of Queen Mary and Philip of Spain. The following is an extract from it:

Rosamund could scarcely believe it when Ned came rushing in and told her that she, too, must j?o and recite before the queen. Tho quick walk through the streets with her father and Ned seemed like a dream to her. So, too, did the arrival at the bishop's palace and the great ball where the long tables were spread and where the English and Spanish courts were, for the present, making the best of •nch other, though regarding with ill concealed distaste each other's foreign looks •ad ways.

Presently Rosamund had reached the dais and had kissed the band of her sovereign and of the king of Naples for such bad Prince Philip been created by his father. according to a paper read afeud that morning in the cathedral. "Thy name, my little maiden?" the fueen's deep tones were saying. "Rosamund Walton, your majesty," answered Rosamund, scarcely recognizing the sound of ht*r own voice. "Thy brother saith thou hast composed certain linns in honor of our marriage, Rosamond, and the king and I would gladly hear theia. Canst thou say them to us?"

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eyes to Philip's, cold and mysterious and wearing forced smile, and somehow she felt very sorry for the queen. This feeling made her forget her embarrassment and added a thrill to her voice, and so she stood up straight and recited h&c simple verses, not knowing what a pretty picture she made nor that all eyes in, the hall were fixed on her.

And when she finished' speaking there was first a little pause, such as Ned had made when she had recited it to him, and then the queen bent forward to 6ay, cordially, "Thank you, my dear," and a buzz of praise was heard to pass around.

Philip spoke in Spanish, and Mary turned to Rosamund again. "The king is very much pleased with thy verses," she said, as if there wore no higher pride in all the world than that. "He savs the English maids are as clever as they are fair, and he gives thee this jewel to thank thee for thy fine poesy. And this," she added, taking a very beautiful and valuable bracelet from her own arm, "I hope thou Wilt wear sometimes to keep thee in mind of how much Queen Mary was delighted by thy poem upon her wedding day."

She spoke also some kind and encourag-ing-words to Master Walton, and then the audienoe was over.

KHYBER PASS.

Situation of the Northwestern Gateway to British India. The Khyber pass, the northwestern gateway of British India, and one of the four chief passes whioh unite our possessions with Afghapistan, is the narrow winding defile, wending between cliffs of shale and limestone rock 600 to 1,000 feet high, which runs through the Khyber range, the northernmost spurs of theSaied Koh mountains, between Peahawur and Jelalabad. Its highest point is 8,400 feet above the sea on the ridge connecting the Khyber with the Safed Koh range, and forming the watershed of two small streams, the one flowing northwest to Jelalabad and the Kabul river, the other south-southeast toward Jamrwo, tho last British outpost, lOVi miles from Peshawur. The pass lies along the beds of these torrents, and, espee^illy in July and August, is subject to sudden floods. The gradient is generally easy, except at the Land Khana pass, but it is covered with loose stones, which become larger as the head of the stream is reached.

To the north of the defile lies the Khyber range, to the south tho Bara spur of the Safed Koh divides it from tho Bara valley, the rivor pf Peehawur. The mountains which shut it in vary in height from 6,000 to 7,000 feet. Hore and there on the vast promontories of rock which run out into the defile rise Buddhist dagobas, monuments of the time, a century after Alexander the Great, when the'' great doctrine" of Sakya Muni reigned throughout northern India. Here and there "written stones" bearing Greco-Baotriom inscriptions are to bo seen in the mountains, while dolmens of unknown origin disposed in rings resembling the stone circles of Stonehenge' rise at the entrance of tributary gorges.—London News.

Most Costly Leather In the Market. The most ooatly leather now in the market is known to the trade as "piano leather." American tanners years ago discovered the secret of making Russia leather, with its peculiarly pungent and lasting odor, but the seoret of making piano leather Is known enly to a family of tanners in Thuringia, Germany. This leather has but one use—the covering of piano keys. A peculiar thing about it is that the skins from whioh it is tanned are prepared almost entirely in Amerioa. It is a particular kind of buokskln. The skin of the common red or Virginia deer will not make the leather, a species of the animal known as the gray deer, and found only in the vicinity of the great northern lakes, alone furnishing the material. The German tanners have an agency io the west, which oollects the skins of this deer from the Indians and the half breed hunters, who supply the market. When the skins are returned to this country as piano leather, tbey cost the piano manufacturers from $15 to $16 a pound. The world's supply of this invaluable and necessary material is. supplied by the Kutzenman family of tanners, who have six establishments in Germany, the largest in Thuriagia.—Washington Star.

Sympathetic Fainter.

The language of hints is Greek to children, as a rule, and they interpret it after a simple fashion of their own.. "Where have you been all the morning, Diok?" Inquired $£rs. Sampson of her 10-ycar-old son. "I've been down by the old sawmill watohlng a man paint a picture," replied Dick, whose chubby oountenance was decorated with patnt of various colors. "I am afraid you must have bothered him," said Mrs. Sampson as she began to scrub her son's besmirched features. "No'rn, I didn't bother him a bit," said Dick in a moment's intermission between the applications of soap and water. "He was interested in me. I could tell by the way he talked." "What did ho say?" inquired Mrs. Sampson. "He looked at his watch," replied Dick, "and told me he knew it was most my dinner time. He knew a boy of my age must be hungry, he said, for he'd been a boy himself. "v-Youtb's Companion.

Offenbach and Beethoven.

When Offenbach was at Ems at the flood tide of his popularity, ho was presented to old hhnperor William. "I know you are a foroigaer ,by naturalization," said the kaiser, "but Germany is proud of you nevertheless, for, if I am not mistaken, you were bom in Bonn." "No, siro," was Offenbach's answer, "I am from Cologne. The other man was born in Bonn." The "other man" was Beethoven.

Harmony In Contrasts.

We have always been taught to believe that one of the canons of good dressing is the harmony of color in eyes and gown, but this theory has been exploded, and is has been clearly demonstrated by women of good taste that nothing is more fatal to good effect than a blue eyed woman gowned in blue or a brown eyed woman dressed all in brown. Colors of contrasting shades arc always becoming and stylish if properly combined, and itjyell suited to the wearer aro very effective.—Woman's Home Companion.

Draft.

The pilgrim went on his way into the adjoining country and presently ho came up with some women at a well. "A woman," they were at the pains to explain to him, "is the weaker vessel, here as elsewhere, but she draws more water than the average man, we can tell you those."

It seems that the oriental mind is peculiarly suscoptible to subtJfe sophistries like the foregoing.—Detroit Journal.

Dumas aad His Money.

Dumas the elder was not in the habit of counting his money, but did once, leaving it on the mantel while he left the room tor a few minutes. When he returned and was giving some instructions to a servant, he mechanically counted the pieces over again and feund a lools missing. "Well," he said, with a .sigh, "considering that I never counted my money before, I oan't say 5t pays."

A great many Bgen .wigs pay »e attention to our International complication* will ge to war in a^iMgneat if anybedj strikes.their 4**.—4KFaaungfan Post.

TEHRE HAUTE EXPRESS. FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 8.1897

A STUDY OF THE SUN.

A FASCINATING RECREATION WHICH ANY ONE MAY ENJOY.m

How It May Be Observed Without Danger. A Method or Getting a Perfectly Fore Beam For Inspection—A Lesson In Astronomy Coached In Simple Terms.

Every dsy a royal presence, attended by numerous unseen courtiers, sweeps across the sky. The sun looks us so boldly in the face that we are compelled to veil ourselves from his aoaursing gaze. Le$ us commence our new studies by contemplating his attractiveness

Apiece of well smoked glass will give ns good service. If this be covered with another piece, with strips of paper at the edges to separate them and prevent rubbing, and other mucllaged strips to bind the outer edges, we shall have a respectable and lasting astronomical instrument.

The eye may now examine the dazzling orb without danger, and it will discover a disk which is apparently no larger than that of the full moon, hut the fact that the sun is about 400 times farther away accounts for the resemblance in size. But the disk is not all of the immense world, for a very Important envelope of vast dimensions is invisible except to special instruments. The limb of the sun Is seen to be not quite so bright as the central portions, because the light from it has to penetrate a greater depth of atmosphere.

Occasionally we see a "spot" upon the solar surface, in which case it must be very large, but if we are fortunate enough to have access to even a timall spyglass we shall many times see spots. There are years when the spots are very numerous (the writer counted 168 one day and mora than 800 on a day in 1893), and years when none is seen for months, and this appears to be governed by a "period" of about 11 years.

If we use a telescope with our smoked glass, the spectacle will be curiously interesting, for the object glass—a very largq eyo—gathers many rays of light and bends them to a focus, producing a magnified image which is yet more enlarged by the eyepiece, which is a microscope. Now, the very grain of the sun, so to speak, is visible, the surface being completely flecked with gray white matter, while here and there huge masses of white protrude. These latter are called faculsB and ore usually associated with the spots which aro depressions in the surface—deep, dark cavities, but dark only as contrasted with the shining regions, for they are brighter than the salcium light. Very recently the writer measured a large group and found that it occupied an area of more than 100,000 miles in length and about three-fourths as wide, into which could be cast 100 earths without orowding them. Still larger groups have sometimes been noticed. Watching the spots from day to day reveals the time of revolution of the sun upon its axis, about 86 days, whioh means that one day on the sun is as long as 25 of ours.

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of its composition, and the telescope, unaided, is Inadequate to solve the mystery. Perhaps in childhood we beguiled hours of church service, which were a trifle wearisome to little ones, by noticing the play of color in the "lusters" which hung in profusion from the old fu4bioned lamps. How little we dreamed that the sun was whispering through this siitiple medium intelligiblu messages of iety high importance, for this three faced fiiixi'of''glass is oalled a prism, the cbang"* of tiffeotlon of objects viewed through it being due to the bending (refraction) of the fcaya tif light passing through it, and the ooloV ^fringe along the edges of the'images tho primary rays of which white Mght is composed, whioh is easily proved by passing the colored rays through another -prism, when tbey form a beam of" white light once more. KM.-

The same oolor band, or spectrum, is shown by a grating of parallel wires strung in a frame, or by a'does grained feather, or even by the «yela3heertvhen the eye is half closed.

But we can easily improve upon -these primitive instruments by employing a series of prisms of fine construction or a grating produced by ruling lines with a diamond upon a piece of perfectly fiat and highly polished speculum metal.

To get a perfectly pure beam for inspection we let the telescopic image of the sun fall upon a delicate slit in a metal plate, which is in the focus of the object glass of a little telescope, whose duty it is to make parallel the rays to be examined, and which sends them through the series of prisms referred to or causes them to fall upon a grating. In either oase they are viewed by another little telescope, and the beam of sunlight tells its story in a magnificent spectrum, far exceeding the rarest touches of world renowned artists.

Now for the precious secret! The beautiful color band is threaded with thousands of slender dark lines, which correspond with the bright lines, which are the sign manual of metals in a glowing state, and we need only to put a pinch of salt in the flame of a candle anl let the light fall alongside the sun's image on the slit, when there will be two spectra, side by side, and the two bright y6llow lines of sodium will exactly coincide with two black linos in the orange of the solar speotrum, and the crowning proof appears when the calcium light Is permitted to shine through the candle flame, instantly turning the bright lineB to dark ones. So with the lines of other metals. We have learned from the sun's own messages, after a journey of 98,000,000 miles, that it is a gaseous body that many of the metals of earth are vaporised in its awful temperature, and that the surfaoe is probably a 6hell of luminous clouds surrounded by an "atmosphere" of gases thousands of miles deep, out of which 6purt for hundreds of thousands of miles, with a speed in contrast with which the movement of whirlwinds on earth Is a dead oalin, jets of flaming hydrogen intermingled with the metallic vapors, which, becoming cooled by exposure to the cold of spaoe, fall upon the surface and cause the depressions known as spots.—Philadelphia Ledger.

CHILDREN'S IDEAS OF DEATH.

The Ingenuity of Some of Onr Tonngitcn to Avoid the Inevitable. Like the beginning of life, its termination, death, is ono of the recurring puzzles of childhood, writes Professor Cully in The Popular Science Monthly. This might be illustrated from almost any autobiographical reminiscences of childhood. Here indeed the mystery is made the more Impressive and recurrent to consciousness by the element of dread. A little girl of years asked her mother to put a great stone on her head, because she did not want to die. She was asked how a stone would prevent it and answered, with perfect childish logio, "Because I shall not grow tall if you put a great 6tone on my head, and people who grow tall get old and then die."

Death seems to be thought of by the ansophisticated child as the body reduced to a motionless state, devoid of breath %nd unable any longer to feel or think. This is the idea suggested by the sight of dead animals, which but few children, however closely shielded, can escape.

The first way of envisaging death seems to be as a temporary state like sleep, which it so cloaaly nasambtea A little boy of years, on hearing frem his mother of the death of a lady 'friend, at once asked, "Will Mrs. still be dead when we go back to Laatei'"

The knowledge burial leadu the child to think muafc a! t!he grave. The Instinctive fesndaaep to'easy "Up idea ef Ufa

and sentience with the burfed body is Illustrated in 's fear lest the earth should be put over bis eyes. The following observation from the Worcester eorlcption illustrates the same tendency: "'A few days ago aged 4 years and 4 months, came to me and said, 'Did yoo khow they'd taken Deacon W to Grafton?' I, 'Yes.' 'Well, I s'pose it's rthebest thing. His folks (meaning his ohildren) 'are buried there, and they wouldn't know ho was dead if he was Huried here. This reversion to savage notions of the dead in speaking of a Christian deacon has its humorous aspect. It Is strange to notice here the pertinacity of the natural impulse. All thoughts of heaven were forgotten in the absorbing Interest in the fate of the body. ,1(

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Couldn't Tell Fanny Stories, hat Knew a Trick Worth Two of That. A drammer, as the word drummer is understood in these piping times of peace, is a man who tells you a funny story and Incidentally takes your order for goods. A faculty of inaking himself "solid" with his customers socially is ono of the most valuablefeaturesof a succcssful drummer's equipment. The commercial traveler is a hail fellow well met wherever he goes. There are houses whose trade is so firmly established and Its hold upon their patrons so strong that their goods sell themselves almost, and the solicitor has very little soliciting' to do. But even with houses of this character a smooth tongue and a ready wit count for much.

Occasionally there is a man who departs from the old lines, invents a method of his qwn and makes a great success of it. "Whet has become of that man Jones who used to travel for you?" asked opo Randolph street jobber «1 another tuo other day. "I suppo3e he has gone off tiie road. I always thought he never w*uld make a suooeps of it. He was too chilly. He was the chilliest man I ever saw." "There's just wlicro jnwa're wrong," replied the other jobir, who deals in linpced oil. "Ivi was the moBt successful traveling man I ever knew. When b* was on the road, he kept us jumping to fill liis orders. The only reason he isn't traveling for us today is that another house offered him a good deal bigger salary lLan we ww willing to pay, and he is representing the other house now. He was V»T chilly, as you say. Ho was thaCt w»y with everybody, his customers included. He never had a word to 6ay to them about politics and couldn't tell a funny story if he tried. He never talked anything but oil. As soon as he got an order ho walked out and never tried to conceal the fact that that was all he had come for. Yet his customers thought he was the best friend thoy had in the world. "This is how ho did it. As a cold blooded business proposition he decided that the strongest hold he could get on a man would be a hold on his pocketbook. He left the other drummers to do the amusing part of it, but he studied the oil market. He seemed besides to have an intul^ioq about the fluctuations of prices which was almost prophetic. When he saw that oil was about to go up, he sat down and telegraphed to all his customers, 'Buy oil.' They followed bis advice, and in nine cases out of ten they saved a lot of money by it. It only took a few experiences like this to oonvince them that it was a serious mistake to buy oil of anybody else. Ho was hardly a solicitor at all. When he told a man to buy, he bought.'

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GIANTS.

For Some Beason the Big Fellows Are Not fyxf)r Mved,. As a rule, giants are not long lived. They have tab" many gantlets to run. Being giants—that being anything over 6 ,6—they nat\irftly' drift "Into the show business and are thenceforth incarcerated in vans, close rooms hnd in'tbe dingy and effluvia laden alrof the exhibition room. Their not overresiBting. lungs here inhale the combined effluvia and aroma that arise from the lungs, skifl pyd not overclean or over well aired clothe of their many admirers, all of which js^ot conducive to either health or to long, jifc.

It would seem reasonable to believe that a giant—be he 7 or 10 feet tall—who is well formed, and who has every organ in a just proportion to his bulk, should live as long as a small man or as long as his hdfedity might otherwiso permit. Reasoning theoretically, this would seem probable, but when we oome to well analyze the subject and compare the actual facts we find tbat something or other always goes wrong) and that, owing to many an "if," wp find that our giant dies early, as a rule. Sogno$ne organ goes wrong, and the great mafibiqe comes to a stop, or some organ does not keep pace with the rest of the increase, in bulk, and he goes halting and sqiuealyr, or cither an overwork or an underwork here or there, and a physiological inadequacy of some sort is the result, with a general deterioration of the whole structure and with a finally premature death.

In other werds, there is sure to be a failing link in the physiological scheme of these abnormal boings which, by giving way, breaks tho continuity of the chain of life, and that independent of any of those moral delinquencies whioh are but too often the cause of an early breakdown. It is simply that the whole structure would not work abnormally in eve-j detail.—National Popular Review.

ZJved Though Terribly Injured. Henry J. Lutton is 60 years old, and his home is in Clarendon, Warren county, Pa. On Aug. 10, 1885, Lotton, who was an oil operator, was working at the foot of a derrick being built on the hillside. Through seme cause or other a threefourths. inch iron bar 21 foet long fell from the top of tho dorriok, 74 feet. One end of the bar struck on the right of Luston's neck, went in between the jugular and windpipe, came out 114 inches from the right nipple, struck two inches below the groin on left limb, out 3)*' Inches above the right knee joint and took off one of his toes, the bar burying itself ei^ht inches in the ground. Lutton was standing on the hillside at the time, and 9 foot 10 inches of the bar passed through him. It passed through 17 inches of his neck and body, and 11% inches went through his limb. The viotlrn was pinned to the ground,but showed his wonderful presenco of mind by sliding down from the slight elevation he was standing on to the ground. He oalled on a man of tho narao of Phillips who extracted tho bar. Lutton'lingered at the point of death for six weeks and lived six days and seven nights on beef blood and brandy, which was administered by means of a rubber tube.— Pittsburg Dispatch.

Jt' Its Equivalent. The prisoner had been before the court 60 me ay times for vagrancy that the judge concluded to give him a dose he wouldn't forget. "Se," he said sternly as he looked down on theohronlc, "you are hero again?" "Yfes, yerosBer," replied the prisoner humbly. "Same eld charge, I suppose?" "Yes, yeronner.'' "All right. I'll just fine you $100 and send you down.''

The prisoner threw tip his hands like a drowning man. "Geerusalem, yeronner!" be exclaimed. "Why don't you give me a life sentence and be done with it?"—Detroit Free Press.

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THE BURIALS OF P0E.

CONTRAST BETWEEN THE EXERCISES AT THE TWO CEREMONIES.

Myntery Veiling the Death of the Pocfe The Latest Account Given by a Man Wh* Claims the Closest Personal Knowledge!.

Killed by a Drag.

In striking contrast were the first and last burials of Edgar A. Poe. On that dreary autumn afternoon in 1849, when the most original of American poets was laid to rest among his ancestors in Westminster churchyard, in Baltimore, only one carriage followed the body of the poet from the hospital whore be died. The ceremony was scant, and the attendants scanter, for eight persons only were present. Poe had died undcT a cloud. His last hours were passed in tho charity watd of a public hospital. Ho was buried in a poplar coffin, stained in imitation of walnut. It was a funeral 6ucb as a poor man, with few friends and relatives, might have had.

The mystery surrounding Poe's death has never been satisfactorily explained. The account given by Dr. John J. Moran, In his "Defense of Edgar A. Poe," is known to be Incorrect and misleading. For instance, he gives the names of eight persons as prusent at the funeral, only two of whom were there. They wero the Rev. W. T. D. Clemm and Henry Herring, both of whom wore relatives of Poe. The other person who attended the first burial wore Z. Collins Lee, afterward judge of the superior court of Baltimore, who had been a classmate of Poe at the University of Virginia Neilson Poe, afterward chief judge of the orphans' court of Baltimore, Edmund' Smith, a well kpnwn schoolteacher in Baltimore 60 years ago, tnd bis wife, who was a first coufin of the poet Dr. J. E. Snodgrass, the last editor of the Baltimore Saturday Visitor, the paper from which Poe received the $100 pri^e offered for the best story.

Another of Dr. Moran's misstatements is ihat the body of the poe* was laid in state in the large room in the rotunda of tho coi.egc bailding adjoining the hospital that hundreds of his friends and acquaintances can:e to see iiim that at least 60 ladies received locka uf Lis bair. Poe had few friends In Baltimore—nota dozen —and if "60 ladies' received looks of his hair" they existed only in Dr. Moran's vivid imagination.

Poe was a mystery to the world during life, his death was mysterious, and, although he has been dead 45 years, ho remains a mystery still. Nine lives of the poet haVe been written, but the time and place of his birth have been differently mentioned by different biographers. The place of his buriak was long a disputed point the cause of his death and the circumstances attending it have not yet been definitely settled.

An old resident of San Francisoo, formerly of Baltimore, gives what^e says is a true account of Poe's last days and death. His story is: "I was an intimate associate of Edgar Allan Poe for years. Much that has been 6aid and written about his death is false. His habitual resort in Baltimore was the Widow Meagher's, an oyster stand and liquor bar down on the wharf much frequented by journalists. It was a respectable place, where parties could enjoy a game of cards or engage in sooial conversation. "Poe was a sort of pet of the old woman, and he bad a favorite seat jc3t behind the stand. He went by the name of 'The Bard,' and when parties came into the place it'was 'Bard, come up and take a nip!' or 'Bard, come and take a band in this pame.' "It was in the Widow Meagher's little shop that Poe's attention was called to an advertisement in a Philadelphia newspaper of a prize for tho best original story, and it was there that he wrote his famous story, 'The Gold Bug,' which carried off the $100 prize. 'The Bard' had been shifting for several years between Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. He had not been in Baltimore for several months when he turned up one evening at the Widow Moagher's. I was there when ho came in. "Ho privately told me that he had been to Riohmond and was on his way north to get ready for his wedding. It was the night before an eleotlon, and about 10 o'clock four of us, including Poe, started up town. We had not gone half a dozen squares when we were nabbed by a gaiig of mon who wore «-n the lookout for voters t*' coop.' It "»as the practice i" these days to seize men, whither drunk or sob*:, lock them up until the polls were open, then march them around toeveiy precinct, whero they were made to vote the tksket of «ho party that controlled the 'coop.' Our 'coop* was in the rear of an engine house, either on North or Calvert street. "It was part of the game to stupefy the prisoners with drugged liquor. Well, the next day we were \ot«d at 81 different places and over and over again, it being as muoh as a man's life was worth to refuse. Poa vras so badly drugged that after he was carried on two or three different rounds the leader of the gang said ihat it was no use to vote a dead man any longer, so they shoved him into a cab and sent him to a hospital to get him out of tho way. "The coirmonly accepted story tljat Poe died from the effects of dissipation is all bosh. It was :iotbing of the kind. He died from laudanum or something of the kind that was forced upon him in the coupe. Ho was in a dying condition whon he was being tasen around the city. The story by Griswold of Poe having been on a week's epree and being picked up en the street is false. I saw him shoved into the cab myself, and ho told mo that he had just arrived in the oity."

Vhe above account of Poe's last hours agrees in several rcspeoba with the account which the late Chief Justice Neilson Poe gave to the present writer.

The second burial of Edgar A. Poe took place on Nov. 17, 1875. The occasion was Interesting and remarkable. An immense assembly, representing the education and culture of Baltimore, was. drawn together to do honor to an American poet whose fame had gone abroad and whose genius was a Bubjoct of native prido. The ceremonies took place in the large hall of the Western Female higlfteohool, in West Fayette street, adjoining Westminster ohurch, in the graveyard of which the body of the poet had rested for 86 years without a stone to show that it was the grave of the most unique genius that Amerioa had given to the world.—New York Herald.

A PIRATE'S DISCIPLINE.

The Rules at Conduct Observed on Board a Buccaneer. The customs and regulations most commonly observed on board a buccaneer are worth noting. Every pirate captain doubtless bad bis own set of rules, but there are certain traditional articles that seem to have been generally adopted. The captain had a state cabin, a double vote in elections, a double share of booty. On some vessels it was the captain who decided in what 4irc«tien to sail, but this and other matters of moment wers often settled by a vote of the company, the captain's vote counting fer two.

The officers had a share and a half or a share and a quarter of the plunder and the sailors oue share each. Booty was divided with scrupulous care, and marooning was the penalty of attempting to defraud the general company, if only to the amount of a tingle goldploce. Every man

Next in practical importance to the jDg possessed by a purpose of doing some- bed a full vote In e?ery affair of lmpor thing in the world is the being possessed taaee. by the purpose of not hindering others

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their doing whatever they the wodd.—Faith and Werks.

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,AITOS were always to be clean and fit

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service, sn« desertion of the ship or (jnarters in battle was punished with

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death. On one famous pirate'sshipa man. who was crippled in battle received $800 out of the common stock, aud a pro purtionate sum was avrsrdcd for lesser hurt®.' Another allowed $725,. for tho Icsr. rf 8( limb, end other captains institutel r. M-rt of tariff of wounds which extended toviru-s. fingors and toos.

In chase or battle the captain's power was absolute. Ho who first spied a £ail, if she proved to bo a prize, was entitled to tho best pair of pistols on board ber over and above bis dividend. Those pistols were greatly coveted, and a pair would soil for as much as $150 from one pirate to angg other.

In their own commonwealth the pirates wero reported to have been severe upon tho point of honor, and among one crow, it was the practice to slit tho ears or nose of any sailor found guilty of robbing his fellow.—New York Dispatch.

Magical Cleverness.

Dr. Conan Doyle must have some of the pocullar aptness of Sherlock Holmes, tho detective who walks his pages. But, as Tho Bookman tells us, he refers his idea of the oharacter to an old professor of medioino at the Edinburgh university.

This man would sit In tho patients' waiting room, with a face like a Rod Indian, and diagnose the people as they came in, even before they had opened .heir mouths. He would tell them their symptoms and he would give them detail of their lives. "Gentlemen," he would Aiy to the students standing about, "I am notjuite certain whether this man is a cork outter a slater. I observe a slight «—lous or^ hardening on-one side of his l'orofiugor? and a little thickening on tb« outside ol hife thumb. That is a sute sign that he it( either tbo one or the other." ..

His deductions were very dramatic. "Ah," he would say to another roan* "you are a soldier, a uncommissioned officer, and you have s«r*ed in Ber* da. Now, gentlemen, how did know thatfr He came into the room without taking oShis hat, as he would go into an orderly^ room. He was soldier. A slightly authoritative air, oombined with his age,| sb«ws that be was a nonoommissionedl officer. A rash on his forehead tells me he was in Bermuda and subject to a curtain rash known only there."

The Farmer Was Keady.

A well to do Georgia farmer invito^ is merchant friend to dlno with him. Tho merchant was known for his crankiness and had once or twice tried to shilfc people for imagined wrongs. The farmer had considerable business dealings with him, and they were on the best of terms. However, the farmer always kept a wary eye on him.

Several days after the dinner at the farmer's house the merchant said to him: "I can't account for the queer feelings and impulses I have occasionally. For instance, the other day when I was dining at your table it suddenly came into my mind to kill you, though I had nothing in

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the world against you. I had a pistol in my pocket at the time, and once I had my hand on it, when the strange feeling passed from me." "Don't let that bother yon,"

Bald

the

farmer. "I knowed all about your failin's in that line, an I wasn't asleep when I saw your hand to your hip. My son John was standin in the hallway back of you with a shotgun leveled at yovi, an you just did save your bacon by changin your mind. Ef you hadn't, he'd er blowed daylight through youi"—Atlanta Constitution.

Kasy Sum.

"What does 'quartered oak' mean, father?" Inquired little Dennis McKay, wljp had been reading the advertisement of a large furniture manufacturing .company. "An here's the resoolts av indication!" ejaculated Mr. McKay, with an expressly of great contempt on his ruddy face. "Here's me b'y that's been a-addin an subthractin, mooltiplyin an dividto for the lasht sivin years coom nixt Daycimber, an has to ask bis poor owltl fnyther the manin of a simple little soom loike that.'' "Why, I didn't know"— began Dennis, much abashed, but his father gave a d« precatory wave of his right hand. "And fwy didn't ye know?" he broke in. "Fwy? Because the cooltiv»tion av common slnse is not included in your coorycoolum at school, that's fwy. Stan me oop in a row, an ask me how manny lselivlc, sivinteen, twinty-wan and fo*r*yfour, an iff mesllf that ud have nlvvtr a wurrd to say. But let me oasht mo oy inter a windy where there's chapc chairs an •. tables an other furnltoor, marked 'quartered oah,' an the ewld shtory av the applo on* inB«:r fsur paoee, that was larnt me as a b'y, oooms roigbt baok to rae. "There's four quarthers to iver- blisssd thl.» in thiB wurrM, Dennis, me s-»n, an whin a table is'quariherwd oak' acc«erdln to the man that sellc io, br tinvsame tokoa you may know it's ttuy quarthers poJ»e, aven if he snakes no mintion av it. Youth's Companion.

Curran'n Wit.

Cnrran's ruling passion was his joke, and it was strong, if not iu death, at least in his last illness. One nomine his physician observed that be seciaed to "oough With more difficulty." "That is ?athfe^f^»rrvsing," answered Cuxtan, "for I hr*e b*n practicing all night."

While thus lying .H, Gurran was visited by a friend, Father O'Leary, who also loved his joka. "I wish, O'Leary, said Curran to him abruptly, "that you had ttio keys of heaven." "Why, Curran?" "Because you could let me in," said the facetious counselor. "It would be much better for you, Curran," said tho good humored priest, "that I had the ke}« of the other place, beoause I could then let you out."—Green Bag.

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Hie HUM,

One may, it seems, lose one's wits without altogether losing one's wit. The late Henri Meilhac, a French dramatic author, who always had some clever thing to say, was troubled in his last days b~ a sad lose of memory. One day he exclaimed to a friend vho oalled: "Hurrah, I've got my name back! Yon know 'twas forgotten." "Why, nobody forgot your name"— "Yes, I did, and I should1 say that wae quite enough!"

This was Meilhac's It- joke. He died within a few days.—Youth's Companion.

There Is a Class of People.

Who are Injured by the use of coffee. Recentiy there has been placed in ail the grotery stores a new preparation called GRAIN' 0, made of ?ure grains that takes the place of ceffee. The most delicate stomach receives it with out distress, and but few can tell it from coSfee. It dees not cost over one-quarter as much. Children may drink it with gr^at benefit. 15c and 25c a package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.

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Perhaps you would lik» to do tho shopping for the family yourself," she ex-9 claimed." "Perhaps yon would like to undertake the responsibility of psovktlntf the funda," he retorted.

Then both shuddered and reaHred that there was no uso of trying to settle tha question. It was the old, old dispute between capital and labor.—Washington Star.

Don't Tetarce Spit and

SMSIM

Your life An ay.

To quit tobacco easily apd foanevor, be mo# netic. Ml «r nre, •erreanffYtcer, take We-to-Bac, the wonder- worker, tkae mates wedt mea strong. AU druggists, sec ar-tl. Oture«uarAnte e«l Booktep and. ana pie tme. Adtfreaa aterttsf JBenKAy'C»f CUba#» ecSffnr Yotk.