Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 November 1897 — Page 3

A LITTLE WONDEK.

'•"QUNG PALOMA SCHRAMM IS A MUSICAL PHENOMENON.

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Tbousb bu\ Tea Years of Age, She" Plays Witt Marvelous Skill Precision and Persistence Are Her IJf« Keynotes—Her

Remarkable Instinct For Composition.

Out of the great southwest there has sprung a genius. Little Paloma Schramm of Los Angeles, 10 years of ago, is a marvelous musical performer and a meritorious composer. Local critics call her a phenomenon. If indications are reliable, she will be the greatest musical artist thai the west has ever produced.

She was born in San Francisco, reared In Los Angeles, but her training has been essentially German. Her parents are from the fatherland. They are Teutonic to the core and have brought to the land of their adoption much that is sturdy, beautiful, esthetic. Little Paloma has been reared In an atmosphere of music. Though but 10 years of age, she has forgotten when she played her first chord. Though but 10 years are on her sunny head, she plays with the marvelous skill of an erudite musician.

Music is her life, her world. She thinks and dreams of nothing else. The play of children is folly to her. Running her deft fingers lazily over the keyboard is her recreation. She is not happy except when rhythmical cadences are falling on her ear.

Precisioa and persistence is the keynote Df this child's life. Harmony is the expression of her soul. She is known never have struck a false chord. She knew as If by intuition the value of every tone and Its relation to others. She seems so young tnd tender yet to startle the world. But ihere axe those who say that her ability entitles her even now in spite of Her youth to a high place in the world of music.

Paderewski listened to her once during bis last concert tour in the west. The child played for him, and it is said became particularly interested. Charmed with the execution, the musicianly rendering, the soulful expression exhibited by this little artiste, as if to thank her he sat at the piano and played one of his own compositions which had not yet been published. Paloma listened absorbed. The great pianist came to a finale. He rose and left the piano. To his consternation Paloma took his place and played by ear the entire composition through without a noticeable error. Then the pianist prophesied great things.

At 8 years of age, when Paloma was interpreting Bach, Beethoven, Liszt and Handel with great expression, but little correctness, her instruction began. She was not a tractable pupil. She had her own little way and teachers found it difficult to discipline her. Although still tco small to reach the pedals, a contrivance has been made by her father to remedy the difficulty. Straps of brass are made to pass under and over the pedals, which Eupport two upright bars. These in turn have flattened pedals placed at right angles to the bars, on which the feet are rested.

One stfikin^a evidence of Paloma Schramm's gej),ffis^s her instinct for composition. Through' her brain exquisite sound combinattOfls are always passing, like visions in a poet's mind. Her ability to reproduce is remarkable. She hears no composition that she cannot put on paper. Her creative genius is no less noticeable than her imitativo power. Her little brain is so surcharged with melody that many nights she lies awake thinking out new symphonies, and she cannot find rest until the inspiration has passed away.

So deep, so praiseworthy, are her compositions that many people, hearing her interpret her own, are mpvod by emotion at' her achievement. -^Rhose who have listened to her, as she sits rnpt in the spell of her own music, find sympathetic tears coursing down their cheeks. "Dear little Paloma Schramm!" they whisper. "How wonderful!"

Once they took her to the height of Mount Lowe, 6,000 or more feet above the level of the sea. She gassed in childish rapture at the majestic sister peaks, the deep, abysmal canyons. She listened to the wind singing in the tell mountain pines, and she laughed with the echo that traveled across the breast of the secluded mountain side. Nature in all her grandeur was stirring the soul of the child musician.

She went back to the hotel and asked For a sheet of papflC Her fingers flew with the rapidity of her thought as sho put down the notes of a new composition. At last it was completed as she sat in the shade of the quaint mountain house. Then the rendered it for the guests.

What a poem! The wind was in it, whistling mockingly and shrilly. The sunbeams tumbled through it in their baste. The echo of the mountain sang sweeter and gentler than the musical blast af the horn itself. In that musical picture the soft clouds learned to kiss the grand divinity of the mountain, while through It all murmured the strange, prophetic pine, singing of destinies.

To those who heard that little composition as they nestled way up on the brow #f the mountain it left an indescribablo terror at the very wonder of nature. It tpened up an avenue of beauty that their worldly eyes had never, beheld before. It Bras the soul of a little 10:year-old girl ipeaking, but it was the voice of a musi»ian. "Dear littlo Paloma Schramm! How ironderfun" they whispered. Lucie France Pierce in Chicago Times-Herald.

WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT.

the Method by Which a Deaf and Blind Boy Was Taught. William T. Ellis writes a paper for St. Nicholas on "Helen Keller and Tommy Btrinf"»V' telling how the well known blind gin secured means for the education »f a little boy similarly afflicted. By per? lonal Appeals to the public Helen raised a lufficienfc sum to send little Tomisy Stringer to the Kindergarten For the Blind at Jamaica Plain, Mass. Mr. Ellis says of his education at this institution:

Thither on A^ril 10, 1891, came "Baby Tom," as Hek® called this 6-year-old •hlld. It was a pitiful spectacle that greeted his Boston friends when the boy was brought to the kindergarten. His life had been spent mostly in bed (it was the easiest plaoe to care for him), and be could noi walk at all nor even stand with confluence. Of signs for indicating his wants he bad none. He was as a little beast, tear-* leg and destroying his own clothes and all.else destructible that was within his reach. His temper and stubbornness were fearful.

To the appalling task of giving the first •ays of light to this child, Helen and her teacher set themselves until a permanent Instructor could be secured. With almost? Inconceivable patience and love, kiiift friends began the education of this untu-* tored mind. The lessons of discipline, regular habits and obedience had to prelede and accompany the teaching of manMi speech.

How could this child, who had not the vemotest conception of any sort of language, be taught to talk?

The method, simply stated, was this:' Every time that bread was given to hi ui tbt letters "b-r-e-a-d" were formed in the manual alphabet on the boy's own fingers and also in his hand by the fingers of his keacher. Again and again this was' repeated, thousands of times. It was slow work. The mind bad lain too long without knowledge to receive easily the idea of qpeech. Even after the teachers were sure (bat Tom understood the definite connection between the word "bread" and th««w Anger motions be refused to use his knowledge because of his strange p«verglty. At last, after nine months of teaching

spelled "b-r-e-a-d," and the beginning had been made. Other words soon followed, and ere long the mystery of speech was comprehended, Tom took his place in the kindergarten classes and learned all that was taught^lhe other boys. Beading, writing, arithmetic, sloid, gymnastics And other studies were undertaken, and today in* almost all respects, save such as are entirely dependent upon eye and ear, he is as well educated as the average boy of his years.

Helen remained only a short time at the kindergarten assisting ia the teaching of her charge. Before very long she removed to another city, and whih* her interest -a him continued unabated, she was unable to be with him or to meet him.

RAISED A LARGE FAMILY.

The Old. Alan's Method of Starting His Wf !Chlldren Out In Life. "Yes, I've raised up a large family, but none of the children is left with me, replied the old man in answer to my question. "Last y'ar I made up my mind they'd never amount to anything unless they made, a start fur themselves, and so I bought Bill' a shotjgun and says: 'Bill, this yere roost ain't fur you no mo'. Jest go out and do euthin to start you'self along.' "And Bill took that gun and went over to Orange valley and shot a revenue officer and got into state prison fur life and is all settled down. When he hs£ gone, I bought a bike fur Sally and took ic home and says: 'Sally, this yere roost ain't fur you no mo'.. Git on that bike and go out into the world and ketch a man.' "And she didn't lose two mlnits hoppin into the saddle and whizzin up the road, and in two weeks she was married to a feller who saved her from gittin run over by a six mewl team. The day after I called up Joe and says to iim: 'Joe, yer mouth ar' too big and yer knees or' shackelty, but mebbe thar'p suthin in you arter all. I'll gin you that old blind ox^. to make a start with, and don you come back to this roost no mo'.' "Joe took the ox and went, and shuck my hide if he didn't lead him down to the railroad and git him killed by a train and rake in $40 damages! Yes, sah, and hT bought a mewl with the rtioney and is gittin rich by carry in the mails. Jim was next. I oalls him up and looks him over and sez: 'Jim, your too pizen laay to eat good bacon, but I'm goin to send you out to hustle. All I kin spar' yCu is ?1 in cash. Don't come back to this roost till.you've made yer fortune.' "Jim took the dollar and went, and dura my buttons if he didn't hire out to a dime museum man as the champion terbaccer chewer of the world, and he's now drawin a salary of (95 a week and board! Thar was one left, and that was Sue, and I calls her up and says: 'Sue, it's time fur you growed up chill'en to be a-gittin. I'M buy you a pew pa'r of shoes and a sunbonnet, and you must light out.' .• "Sue started right off the next day and got married, and up to tWs time she's eloped three timee, sot the house afire twice and pizened her ..husband once. Looks like she'd do the best of the hull lot."—Chicago News.

FOR HIS MOTHER'S SAKE.

Sentimental Southern Girl Wanted to Kiss the Dead Lieutenant. "Down in Virginia in the summer of 1868," said oil® of the veterans, "a lot of us were quartered in an old wooden tenement, and in the inner room of one of the wings lay the body of a young rebel officer awaiting burial. The news soon spread to a village not far off, and pretty soon down came a sentimental specimen of Virginia young womanhood, not a bad looking girl at all. 'Let me kiss him for his mother,' she exclaimed, as I aeked her what she wanted. 'Do let me kiss him for his mother!' 'The dear little lieutenant,' she replied, 'the one that lies dead in the house. I never saw him, but I do so want to kiss him for his dear mother's sake!' "I thought she couldn't do us any harm by kissing a corpse, so I led her in. The way lay through a room in which a lieutenant of bur own forces—a good looking dare devilsort of a young, fellow—lay asleep on a sofa.

The Virginia dame spied the lieutenant, and took him for the oorpse she was in search of. Before I could toll her any different she rushed up to him, exolaiming, 'Let me kiss him for his mother,' and the next minute her' lips touched his. "Perhaps you can imagine her surprise when the supposed corpse throw his arms around her neck and said: 'Nevermind the old lady, miss. Go it on your own account. I won't kick.' "The lieutenant got the worst of it, though, for, although he cautioned me not to tell any one of the affair, it got out and every time any of his brother officers met him some one was sure to murmur, 'Oh, let me kiss him for his mother.' "—Buffalo Express.

How D* Birds PereteU ficathf Most sailors beliove that "rats desert a sinking ship"—that is, refuse to go upon the last voyage which a vessel makes. Sailors suppose thatthe rats know instinctively when a disaster is about to occur, and they are induced With great difficulty to ship upon a vessel that has no rats aboard.

A curious story comes from Hamburg to the effect that a few days before the cholera epidemic broke out some two or three years ago all the birds took flight from the city. It was then recalled that in 1884, when tho cholfcra was raging in Marseilles and Toulon, all the birds deserted those cities and took refuge in Hyeres, which remained entirely free from cholera during the whole summer.

In the summer of 1878 all the sparrows in Przeanysl, a town of Galicia, suddenly "departed two days before the appearanc« of the pest, and not a bird returned until the end of November, when the cholera had disappeared. "A little bird told me" is a common expression, but the important question seems to be, "Who#told the birds?"— Strand Magazine. f- 4

The Hears of Fate.

Dr. Richardson tells us that in the period between midnight and 6 in the morning tho animal vital processes are at their lowest ebb. It is at these times that those who are enfeebled from any cause most frequently die. Physicians often considei these hours as critical and forewarn anxious friends in respect to them. From •tim' immemorial those who have been accustomed to wait and attend on the sick have noted the hours moist anxiously, sc that they have been called by our old writers the "hours of fate." In this space ol ,time the influence of the life giving SUB has been longest \wthdrawn from man, and the hearts of even the strongest beat ..with subdued tone. Slegp

minous name.

heaviest and

death is nearest to us all in the "hours ol fate."—New York Ledger. .VT'tL

vr V1 Kept Them Bnsy.

"Blunt is weak financially, isn't he?" "Ho hasn't much money, but ho giv« employment to a great m$ny men. "Who are they?" "Other people's bill collectors.''—Pick Me Up.

The following was taken tam an exam inatioa paper prepared by a Japanese stu dent in the mission school at Nagoy» "American Nation am very kind and po lite, but that nature a*e just like the cat.'

The largest bronze etatue in existenc* it in St. Petersburg. It represents Peter tbt €treat-and weighs iW-teat.

TERRS HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 9 1897

SKIN" DISEASE .JCURE.

TESLA'S LATEST HYGIENIC RESULTS FROM ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS.

He Expects to Bid the Hainan Skin of All Extraneous Matter by the Aid of Bleotricity—He Envelops the Body In Lu

Nikola Tesla is in the midst of intricate electrical experiments which promise most valuable hygienic results, so soon as he declares himself ready to put his recently acquired knowledge into practical operation, for the ridding of the human skin of all extraneous matter, including parasites of every nature, whether they are virulent disease germs or not.

Mr. Tesla was found in his laboratory recently, and when spoken to of the interest his hints and suggestions of what he was doing had aroused he hesitated for a moment before answering. Then as a foundation the electrician explained that it is a fundamental electrical law, well known, that two bodies charged with the same kind of electricity, either positive or negative, repel each other that if a body be charged with electricity from a static machine the electricity accumulates on its surface. "Now," continued Mr. Tesla, "if there are small bodies of the minutest weight on that electrically charged surface, and if they are conductors capable of taking electricity, they will also become charged with the same kind of electricity that the surface has received. What is the result under the law of repulsion? There is- a force at work between them and the surface which strongly tends to part the two, and the particles are thrown off, frequently with great force. In fact, this force can be increased to pressure of any desired magnitude. Just the form of apparatus I am using and which accomplishes this thing I must keep secret for a time yet. "This repulsion under the pressure I have referred to is increased the more under the law that governs it, for if a given

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electrical pressure is doubled the repulsion is increased fourfold, and even more than this, on account of another law, because electricity preferably accumulates on points, and an extremely small body is practioally a point. So the normal accumulation on the surfaco referred to—say it is of brass—is exceeded by the accumulation on the small bodies that may be on that surface. "I have found ways of producing all degrees of pressure, even to a degree that approaches mere or less to that of lightning, and the repulsion exerted on the small particles—when a body is charged with such a tremendous pressure—is so great as to actually tear asunder not only the firmly adhering small objects, but the very particles of the metal on which they rest. Now, for an illustration, if a brass ball is painted with bronze paint—which is conducting—the whole of the paint is almost thrown away when the pressure is turned. "But, further, you know how firmly bronze paint adheres when it has dried. It requires great force to tear it away, but under the pressure I refer to not only is the bronze torn from the brass surface, but the hard brass itself is subjected to such a pressure that its particles are torn asunder, scattered with great force and thrown away, not only to distances measured by feet, but measured by miles. Keep up the action, and finally the entire solid brass ball would be carried away, but ages would be required to accomplish this result with the present apparatus, because of the smallnees of the particles. Still, if the pressure was sufficiently great—as in the case of a lightning stroke—the brass ball could be destroyed in an infinitesimal period of time. "Now we will see what all of this leads up to. I know that the scientific fact of the result described is accomplished, and we will consider Its application te the human body In cases of skin disorders or any disorders that may arise from the skin being attacked by disease germs or parasites of any sort. Si bee small particles on a body can be thrown from it by the means I have told you of, it is thinkable or even very probable that a human body may in this way rid itself of any extraneous particles that may be on it, and as the disease germs, if any, would be among these particles, the possibility and practicability of such treatment naturally suggest themselves. "I have tried experiments in line with this suggestion and have reached most remarkable and startling results that impress me as being of great value. They will be continued and their actual value positively ascertained before the method is unqualifiedly recommendod. By means of my apparatus 1 have applied an electrical current from a static machine so as to agitate -the air surrounding a human subject in a most extreme and remarkable manner. The startling effect was to malce the person when operated on in a darkened room appear to be clouded in a haze of luminous mist. "Tho electrical pressure not only violently agitated the air around the body, but the repotling force threw off all particles with such violence that their extremely rapid motion through the atmosphere caused a friction that consumed them, and for tho fraction of a second making them luminous, so much so as to cause them to appear like myriads of infinitesimal meteors shooting in ail directions away from the repelling body. I have gone far enough with these experiments to suggest the possibility of completely enveloping the human body in an actual sheet of flame without injury to either the skin or the nerves."—Now York Herald. .v*-

OPIE READ'S MENTALITY." vV

His Information Covers au Astonishing Bange of Sntyects. VWilliam Lightfoot Visscher has an interesting article about Opie Read, the novelist, in The Woman's Home Companion, in the oourse of which he says: "Those who read Opie Read's books may think they have some idea of the man's mentality, but it cannot be obtained in that way. One must be personally acquainted with'-bun. He te one of tho most interesting owaveraationaiiata to be met in a lifetime. Association with him is a literary school, aqd yet he does not 'talk shop.' He seems to have road everything— and remembeted it. He shows this in bis evoryduy conversation aad without the slightest pedantry affectation. No matter whafl the anbfect under consideration, be talks of ii^^rWy and wisely, from th* standpoint of tbwe who have made it-a study, scatteasd with common sense and logic. is not a paliti£iaa» fs thaooBtnugr, nrthrrtdlaflfrs* wait»-

iosl affairs, but he talks of rack matters with a clearness, strength and spirit that would lead you to believe he had made a special study of parties, their men and measures of centuries and that he was altogether a past master of political economy. It is a part of the man's wide curriculum. He is entirely at home in what is best for one to eat and is versed in hygiene, but he suffers from indigestion. He is informed upon the conventionalities of high life and yet avoids conventional society. He gives strong reasons for pessimism, and yet he is a practical optimist, tie loves literature, but would not allow the greatest author in the world to read a manuscript to him. He is actually more fond of music than any other man I ever saw and knows not a note of it, though he will catch an air the first time he hears it. He loves art, especially in painting, but he doesn't even write a good hand. He is an ardent admirer of women, but does not dance attendance upon them. Withal he is great in body, mind and 6ouL"

TERRIERS HARD TO DOSE.

Doctor Wonld Bather Treat a Bulldog Than One of Them. "Give me any dog to treat biit a foi terrier," said Dr. Rudolph B. Flageman, the canine specialist, the other day. "They not only are getting into trouble all the time, but they are harder to get out of it than all the other dogs combined. They are oo quick and wiry and nervous that it is almost impossible to perform any surgical operation on them, and even when you think you have got them where they can do no harm they will wriggle and squirm around until* the first thing you know, they have your hand or arm between their teeth and before they let go you know that they have been there. I had rather seta broken leg for a bulldog or a mastiff than treat one of those terriers for indigestion, a complaint, by the way, which seldom troubles them. "The. best dogs to treat in sickness or for an accident are the French poodles. They are wiser in the first place than most men, and they have both the sand and the sense to' submit to treatment without making a row about it. "Next to the poodle, I consider the Irish terrier the most tractable. He is, to be sure, of much the same temperament as tho fox terrier, but he is more kindly disposed and is not continually looking upon you as an enemy. "Speaking of fox terriers, it is a curious thing how the styles in them have changcd in the last fow years. It is not so long ago that the fiat, broad skull, with the ears lying olo6eIy against it, was tho only permissible thing. Now a prize winner has a skull round and narrow, with ears drooping down to the side of it. And the coat i6 all different now. Instead of being comparatively thin and soft, the aim is to make it as thick as possible. If they keep on, they will evolve the terrier into a staghound."—New York Press.

The Moon and the Weather. How1 often one hears the prediction of a change in the weather "when the moon changes." A fallacy almost as generally believed as that the crossing by the ear*h of. an imaginary line in its trip around the sun causes an equinoctial storm. 'i The moon and the weather

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May change together,

,«*• But change of the moon Does not change the weather. There is one aspect of our satellite upon which a change in atmospheric conditions may be predicted with some chance of fulfillment, and it is alluded to in the old Scotch ballad of Sir Peter Spens:

Ob, ever alack! my maister dear,• I fear a deadly storm.

I saw the new moon late yestreenW' the anld moon in her arms. And if ye gang to aea, maister, Vikl*.*'

I fear will suffer harm. Of course what ie referred to here Is the faint lumin^ity of that part of the moon, which is in a shadow, occasionally seen with the thin crescent of sunlight shining on its edge. A moment's consideration will show that when the moon is "new" the earth would appear "old," or full, could it be viewed from the moon, the sunlit orb possessing considerable reflective power. If at such a time there should be Yast areas of clouds in o.ur atmosphere, the earth shine reflected from them upon the side of the moon turned from the sun and toward the earth would be much more brilliant than if from the surface of the planet—whether land or sea. How glowing with light are atmospheric clouds and escaping steam when the sun shines upon them! And this, by reason of the' multiplied reflections from the minute globules of moisture. The presence of these unusual volumes of vapor in the air, perhaps not far away, is likely to make itself known sooner or later in the form of rain or snow, depending upon conditions of wind and temperature. And yet, notwithstanding th* prognostic is so old and is grounded on such a .sound physical basis, the true significance of "the old moon in the arms of the new" is sometimes reversed. In tho "Book of Days" Chalmers says that this lunar appearance is a sign of fine weather.—New York Times.

A Dinner at Alma Tadema's. The table was luxuriously spread, in perfect harmony with the elegant dining room. Wherever the eye rested was the same tasteful arrangement, the same originality of design, elegance without being in the least tawdry. We were a cheerful company. Mr. Tadema was merry, as usual. Aftur dinner we went to the billiard room, a lovely hall, where Alma Tadema beats his wife or she beats him. They seem to have got used to beating one another, though I should judge that their honeymoon is not yet quite over. I think I should have enjoyed myself better if I could have beaten one of them at billiards, but the time was limited.

Mine host is quite a dandy in his choice of cigars and wines. While we were sitting there smoking, more guests, both ladies and gontlemen, came in—interesting, indeed charming, people all, mostly English. It was not long before we were called to the supper table—the English make few full stope between meals. I wasn't hungry, but everything looked so Inviting that I partook with a relish. Mr. Tadema uncorked a lot of fresh jokes and clever stories—the good fellow has such a happy faculty for hitting people on their funny sides—and we had a right jolly time. After the supper it was a delight to see the same beautiful women of the party moving about or sitting before the exquisite backgrounds which the studio affords. It was like a gallery of living pictures, where all the figures were posing without knowing it.—Time andtheHojur.

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Hopod He Wouldn't Grow.' A well known M. P. was addressing an agricultural meeting in tfte south and in the oourse of his remarks expressed the opinion that»farmers do not sufficiently vary their crops and make a mistake in always sowing wheat.

One of $he audience, opposed to him in politics, asked him what crops he wonld recommend. ..s "Everything in turn," he replied. "Well*" said his interlocutor, "if swedes don't pome up, what than?" "Sow mustard," said the M. P. "And if mustard doesn't come up, what then?"

And so he went on through a whole list of crops until, the M.

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patiencc being

exhausted, be put an ond to his questioning, amid roars of laughter, by saying "Oh, sow yourself, and I hope you won't eeme up."—Strand Magazine.

gisiIHa Man.

First Merchant—Why do you advertise so araeb? Seaosd Merchant—For revenue only.— SwmsrTttfe (Moss.) Journal.

HUNTING FOR GOLD.

HOW MRS. MARTIN TRAINS FOR A KLONDIKE CAMPAIGN*

She Goes Frospeetlng In California In Bloomer Costume Her Activity wad Long Tripe Wear Out All the Men Who

Accompany Her.

Mrs John Martin of Oakland, CaL, bas wooed fame and fortune for many years in numerous guises. She has now fbnnd the road for which she has been seeking and in the frigid north expects, next year, to attain her life's ambition—a name ttyat will ring to the ends of the earth and #1,000,000.

She admits having contracted the Klondike fever, but not in the form that would ibduce her to attempt tho passage of the Yukon in low water or through Joe or tempt her to cross the Chilkat.

She has gone to the Trinity mining district and is now staying atCarrville, CaL, where she is training for a noxt year journey to Dawson City.

Mrs Martin declares that $1,000,000 is necessary for her happiness and for the carrying out of certain schemes for the elevating of mankind on which sho haa set her heart. In Klondike she saw a solution of her life's problem and to Klondike she has determined to go. "When she goes, which will be in the early part of nei' year, she Will take her little son John and her Chinese cook and she will go by a route revealed to her by a now deceased Alaskan guide, known to her alone. She will take supplies for the members of her party and provisions and other goods for trading purposes, will build a warm house and fit it up with all modern conveniences, and, while showing the world what a woman who understands her business can do in the way of wresting from nature her hidden treasures, the will give Kloadikers a practical lesson in being comfortable when the mercury freezes.

Meanwhile, however, Bhe is preparing for her struggle with nature as, when she goes to Alaska, it is her intention to do her own prospecting and when the rich spot she knows she will find is discovered to wield pick and shovel with her own hsodfi*

The Graves brothers' discovery in Trinity county, CaL, attracted Mrs. Martin's attention, and she is now in Carrville seeking gold as a starter for her million. Clad in the same bloomers in which she climbed painters' ladders when decorating the outside of her Oakland cottages, her feet protected by a pair of stout, knoe high minors' boots and her head adorned with a saucy sombrero, sho starts out each morning soon after daylight and remains in the mountains until darkness drives her home.

She has looated several claims and declares that she will show the Trinity county miners the way to look for gold. She Is not going to be disheartened if her pick does not turn up nuggets at the surface of the hillside, but will run hundreds and hundreds of feet of tunnels, north, south, east and west, until she finds exactly what her claims contain. "I did not come here to scratch up the grass roots," she declared the other day. "Iam a miner and a pretty good one, I believe, and I intend opening these folks' eyes to what they have been walking over for years and years. Even if I find nothing, by the time the weather is favorable for my Alaskan venture my muscles will be strong and I will be in every way fit to tackle any manual labor that may como along in the Klondike."

Mrs. Martin, if the truth must be told, is not exactly

popular

Mrs. Martin's custom is to ride just as far as possible and then to stake out her steed and, pick and shovel on her shoulders, to clamber over the hills until darkness sets in. During the first part of her visit several of the male guests of the hotel were gallant enough to act as her escort. They only went once, however.

One young man succumbed to the charms of the fair miner and wae dragged to the top of Billy's peak. He returned a wreck, and after two days of rest was taken to San Francisco by his friends. Another Innocent, who had not ridden a horse for many years, started out under the impression that he was going for a little gallop as a sort of appetizer for luncheon. Mrs. Martin galloped gayly up to the hotel about 9 o'clock at night. Three hours later a voice was heard in the darkness: "Somebody come out and lift me down. I'm dead." They had been up to the Nash mine, over 20 miles of a steep, rough trail, and he had been riding a horse with a gait still rougher. He, too, returned to San Francisco.

These experiences have increased M^s. Martin's contempt for mankind, and she declared again and again: "If such miserable creatures as these can reach Dawson City, can live through a winter and even find and dig gold all by themselves, a woman might own the whole counts^ in a few years. I want just $1,000,000. When I get it, I will first of all right a few wrongs that have been done me, and then with my little boy I will renew my acquaintance with some of the dear old cities of Europe, and when John is grown up he and I will go to India and hunt tigers and elephants. 1 expect to start for Europe in about three years. "—San Francisco Chronicle.

THB BLUEJACKET'S BED

His Hammatck on a Man-of-war and the Rules Concerning It. The only men that sleep in bunks on board a man-of-war are the commissioned officers. Everybody el9e—the sailors, the engine force, the marines sleeps in a hammock, which is slung at night and taken down in the morning.

The hammock is made of a sheet of canvas about 6 feet long and 2% feet wide. The bedding consists of a hair mattress and blankets, which are bought by tho sailor, while the hammock belongs to the ship. Tho billet hooks, from which the hammocks are swung, aro about 14 inches apart. If the ship's company is full and the hooks all occupied, this brings tfio men pretty close together. Thero is a foot lashing or rope at the foot of the hammock. If the hooks are all occupied, one maa will draw up on his foot lashing until his hammock is brought a little above the levl of thp two on either side of him. All thus get more room.

A hammock Is not so comfortable to sleep in as bed, but men get accustomed to it. When a man who has been accustomed to sleeping in a hammock first goes ashore, it may be days befoie be gets so that he can sleep well in a bed.

To every man there are allotted two bammocks. The second hammock is stowed below in the ship's sailroom. Every two weeks, when a ship is in port, the hammocks are changed. The clean hammocks are issued and those that have been used are scrubbed. Each man scrubs his own hammock, and it is hung up to dry. When dry. tbey are piped down and stowed below.

Where the hammocks are slung depends somewhat on the ship's size and build. It might be that on one ship two-thirds of the crew would sleep on the main and the rest below on another different eonsfcruotton all would low, some on the gun deck /on the berth deck. ilv

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the morning, each one Is rolled up snugly, with the blankets and mattress ln«lde/ani tightly lashed, making a trim canvas roll about 6 feet in length and a foot in diameter. The hammocks are then stowed:, away in the hammock netting, which, it may be explained, is never a iletting. It may be a space inolosed along the binef side of the bulwarks on the main deck, like along fiat pocket against the side of the bhip, into which the hammocks art thrust, to a stand in a row along tho side, or it may be a platform with a railing is front, to keep the hammocks in placowhcir the ship roll?. Many years ago, when th* hammocks were rolled up for the day, thej were actually stowed in nettings, placed along the bulwarks of the vessel.

It would, of course, be possible to provide all'fhe men on a warship with bunkito sleep in, bnt it would not be possible ta do that and to preserve the vessel's eifectiveness as a warship. The bunks would take up too much room for one thing. Then the hammocks, with their appurte* nances, have always served for purposes of protection. Stowed in the old time ham* mock ncttijtgs they afforded some protection from the fire of small arms, and in. those days sometimes the hammock nettings were triced up as a help in repelling boarders.—New York Sun.

Unoertalntjr of Justice.

"One of the first owes I ever had," mused the old lawyer, "gave me local feme, and my reputation spread till 1 had one of the largest criminal practices in the state. It was not a triumph to be proud of, but a man is not given to harshly critioising any inoidont of life that materially helps him. "I was called upon to defend a fellow who had stolen a horse and wounded its owner when he attempted to interfere. The preliminary hearing was befoie a rural justice, the oraote of his neighborhood and as self opinionated as any other narrow minded man whose estimate of himself is determined by the adulation of his neighbors. I had the good fortune to take his measurement and cater to his weakness. The prosecuting attorney pursued a policy directly opposite. He was crotchety, technical and superior, making matters worse by assuming ail air of oondescension. He explained that the man who stole a mule would not be indictable for stealing a horse, and that one who shot merely to frighten another could not be held for attempt to kill. "As my client was guilty as a dog, I deprecated these instructions to the court, made damaging apologies for the conduct of the prosecutor and broadly intimated that the jmtioe probably knew more about law than did both of us lawyers put together. The affidavit on which a warrant for the accused was issued charged that ha had wounded the owner of the horse in the shoulder with a 44 caliber bullet. I clearly showed that the caliber was 38, sarcastically recalling what the prosecutor had said in regard to the literal construction of penal statutes. The wrinkled face of tha justice shone with satisfaction as,he told how some lawyers 'was entirely too smart to be in tbe business' and let the thieving, murderous villain go because there was a mistaken description of the birilet he-fired.'

—Detroit Free Press.

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makes her headquarters. She ia jtoo ehcrgeOio and when, in the morning, she saddles her horse and rides up in front of the veranda, there is a ceneral disappearance of the menfolk, who are all suddenly too bnsily engaged with important matters to act as her escort on her long daily pilgrimage up tho hill, down dale, through creek, river and canyon.

'He' was one of those cool cards who nod affably to the magistrate and wish him "Good morning!" He was charged with robbery, and in the oourse of evidence it was stated that he had left another town rather abruptly about the same time as a robbery had been committed there. "Is there any evidence to conncct him. with that crime?" asked the magistrate, and not receiving a satisfactory reply, he turned to the prisoner. "Why did you leave that town?" "Now, look here," said the aocused contemptuously, "do you take me for a descendant of Samson, or perhaps you think I'm Sandow in disguise? Or do you think I'm one of those machines that tho Yankees shift houses with, just wrapped up in man's clothes? Why did I leave that town? Did yoti think I'd got strength enough to bring it with me?"

He got an extra fortnight for that,which only increased his contempt for the magistrate's ability.—Pearson's Weekly.

Prince's Old Coal Hods.

One of his sons tells a good one on exMayor Prince of Boston, who has a penchant for old auction rooms and for anything really ancient. One day he stepped Into an auotion room while a sale was in progress and seeing that an antique ooal hod was being offered for sale he bid and it was knocked down to him. It was just what he had been wanting to buy, and he said, "Mr. Auctioneer, you haven't a few more of those old coal hods, have you?" He was not a little surprised when the auctioneer replied, "A few more—why, Mr. Prince, you have bought three grosi already'"—Pittsburg Dispatch.

Something About i'orlcs. I. Before the revolution in France It wa»| customary when a gentleman was invited^ to dinner for him to send his servantef.. with a knife, fork and spoon, or if he had£ no servants, ho carried them with him in his pocket. A few of the ancient regime follow the custom. The peasantry of tho Tyrol and parts of Germany generally. carry case in their pockets containing

knifet fork and spoon.

jyUleunlum In Marion County.

A cursory census recently taken of thk. towns of Lost Springs and Rainona, both in Marion county, Kan., revecls ideal conditions. There is not a vacant house in either, not an idle man or boy, not a tippler and not a doy. There has never been a drop of intoxicating liquor sold in either town. The next crusade by the women of Bamona will be agaiust the 40mon acdT a

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V" Reciprocity. Customer (at small bookstore)—Say*^I've got nine children, and they ajl need T, schoolbooks. I can't afford to,pay the cash "j down, but if you can wait a few days— ~ie

Bookseller—You keep the little shod store around the corner, don't you? "Yes." "Well, I've got nine children, and they all need shoes. Order all the books you want. I'll run the risk of your getting ahead of me."—Chicago Tribune.

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Long before daylight a few morning* ago scores of soldiers gathered outside tho United States land office in Chamberlalnr S. D., and remained there constantly un-. til the office opened for business at 9 o'clock. The occasion was the opening of the military reservation. In the line was a woman who had come over 100 miles to Bee tire a quarter section of South Dakota land. The reservation contains a total of more than 100,000 acres, a portion of which lies in South Dakota, the remainder^, in Nebraska.

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