THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, APEIL 1, 1901.
CAN FALL BACK ON OREGON
"WAB, DEPARTMENT FEARS NO
FAMINE OF HOUSES.
Unreasonable Prices of Eastern Bid
tiers "Will Not Delay Formation
of Itesriments In That Section.
WASHINGTON, March 2L The people
bf the "Mississippi Valley seem to be en
countering some difficulty In selling horses
to the War Department for use In equip
ping some of the new cavalry regiments
being organized under the Army reorgan
ization act. A large number of bids -received
at Fort Leavenworth were recently
rejected because the prices asked were too
feign. This gave rise to a story that the
regiment being organized at that post
would be delayed some two or three
months owing to the scarcity of horses
In the country, or at least In that par
ticular vicinity. Inquiry at the War De
partment failed to reveal any anxiety over
the inability to secure horses. In act,
the Quartermaster Department says,
there is no famine of horses, and when
the Mississippi Valley bidders realize that
fabulous prices are not to be paid they
will come down to a reasonable figure.
The report circulated at the time the bids
were rejected stated that horses were
ordinarily purchased at from $45 to 550
perbeafl. This statement is denounced as
utterly s"un true and ridiculous.
-In this connection it was -stated- that
the horses called for by bids on the Pa
cific Coast were forthcoming promptly,
and that bidders were uniformly reason
able in their prices. It was a source of
much gratification to know that Oregon
horses could be bad at all times at a
reasonable figure, and to meet any emer
gency. In fact, he said, Oregon horses
" could be purchased at any moment andi
shipped to the Eastern States as quickly
and as cheaply as horses cduld be had
in Eastern markets.
The particular feature which brings
Oregon horseowners into favor with the
department, however, is that these ani
mals can be had on such satisfactory
terms for Philippine service. Within the
past few weeks 1S00 horses have been
purchased on the North Pacific Coast to
be shipped to the Philippines. It is true
that as a rule Pacific Coast horses, which
are here regarded as a cross between the
mustang and the "big American horses,
are rather slight of build, and not as
heavy as the horse of the Mississippi Val
ley. This fact, however, does not oper-
ate against their efficiency. In fact. It is
admitteu that light horses are better for
Philippine service than those that -come
up to the weight required by the depart
ment for the regular cavalry regiments.
In this way there is more of a demand for
Oregon horse for Philippine service than
there might be otherwise.
But even with this fact laid aside, the
department is well aware of the economy
of purobasirg horses near the coast, tgus
saving the -cost of transportation, to the
seaboard, an expense that sometimes" al
most equals the original cost of -the horse.
Inasmuch as Oregon horses have-made a
good record in the Philippines, the de
partment has confidence in them and is
satisfied with the prices and methods of
the dealers of that state. There Is good
reason to believe that as long as there
is a demand from the Islands Oregon bid
ders will have at least a full share of rec
ognition at the hands of the department.
WHICH IS WORSE?
Relative Merits of Nevrspnper Men
and LaTvjers.
Chicago Times-Herald.
A- parallelism is often instituted be
tween the hired writer for a newspaper
who argues against his honest convictions
and the lawyer who takes a case about
which he may have his doubts, but which
he Is excused for supporting by the fiction
that represents him still as the servitor
of Justice, one of several Instruments for
bringing out all the facts. The Hon.
Leonard Courtney objects to the analogy
in The Contemporary Review, and de
cides that though the lawyer is exempt
the newspaper man Is not. He puts the
distinction in this way:
""It must be pointed out that the advo
cate Is a recognized person we may al
most say a public official discharging
Without concealment a perfectly well un
derstood function under conditions and
'safeguards formulated by long experience
and maintained by watchful assessors,
while the article writer plays his part In
secret, and his work is put before the
world with a pretense of conviction."
This is not a distinction without a dif
ference, but on a close Inspection it will
be 'found to be a distinction with a differ
ence in favor of the newspaper man. The
ulterior motive in both cases is the same,
namely, to make a living, and there is
also in both cases a seeming surrender of
principle, but the newspaper writer is dis
sociated from his work, as the lawyer
cannot be, since the former's is in reality
Institutional, wnue tne jaiters must al
ways remain distinctly personal.
The difference may be Illustrated In a
thoroughly convincing way by extreme ex
amples. Suppose the case of a political
writer who Is attached for years to a pa
per ,whose views are radically at variance
with his own. Though he is an advocate
of "things In which he does not believe,
his 'character is not affected In the least,
because there is no pretense in the mat
ter at all. He expresses his own opin
ions with perfect freedom wherever he
goes, and it is well understood among his
acquaintances that they are antagonistic
to the paper's while $9 per cent of the
paper's readers or more take them with
out question for what they are the views
of sthc responsible management. Any way
you loolc at it there Is no practice of de
ception. But if a lawyer were to Identify himself
.all the time with cases which he believed
or knew were wrong, he would be a rogue
and swindler. His ""function" would be
absolutely to defeat justice, and no casu
istry about his position as a -'public of
ficial" can alter the fact Publicity serves
only to make him a shameless hypocrite
and to emphasize that demoralization of
the individual which is not Incidental to
the labor of the newspaper advocate.
It Is not claimed, of course, that taking
the two professions as a whole that of the
journalist has a higher morality than
that of a lawyer. There are newspapers
whose columns are used for the gratifi
cation of private spite, a few perhaps
which are guilty of blackmail. But this
is quite aside from the question of the
parallelism, ana we would merely point
out that the war with his convictions
never reduces the newspaper writer to
the condition of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg
as it is exposed in the dialogue where
Mr. Fogg says to Mr. Pickwick:
tTmi infl hotter call us thieves, sir: or
perhaps tou would like to assanlt one of
-us. Pray do It, sir. if you would; we will
not make the smallest resistance. Pray
do It, sir."
Such a pleasant speculation in roguery,
such personal abasement for the chance
at a damage suit, are, so to speak, beyond
any dreams of avarice which may be con
jured up In the tpsk of earning a salary
by writing protection editorials out of a
free-trade heart.
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"Siouchy" American Soldier, but
Captain W. Crozier. TL S. A., in the
North American Review.
Both in China and on the way there,
at Nagasaki, the men (the American sol
diers) in going about were utterly care
less as' to their dress and bearing The
Japanese and Sikhs, at the rendezvous,
in the camps, and at Pelting, whenever
seen in public, wore their uniforms com
plete and properly put on, carried them
selves with military bearing, and were
careful in saluting officers, and the heavy
and somewhat awkward Russians, while
not presenting so trim an appearance,
iwere.'fpartlcuTar in these .respects. Amer
46aiT -soldiers oft duty walked around or
jodo la rickshaws without blouses, belts,
or leggings; with shirts open at the
throat and breast, the sleeves unbuttoned
and rolled up to different Heights, or
perhaps cne flapping, and with the military-looking
campaign hat worn in ev
er' shape and at every angle. Such
sights were common. The American sol
diers were the slouchlost of all, except
the French. At Nagasaki, in .addition
to disregard of the arrangement of such
portion of the uniform as they might
have on, ''many were to be seen wearing
travelers' caps of various shapes and
styles. Their carelessness as to saluting
officers must have caused some wonder
among the people of the military nation
considered to have recently emerged
from barbarian, and among the Indian
soldiers of lower civilization. The horse
equipments of the British officers and of
the Bengal Lancers' were always cared
for and neat, the leather having good
surface and the metal shining- Let an
American officer try to imagine one of
our soldiers polishing a steel bit on a
campaign! The belts and shoulder pieces
of the British officers were of uniform
pattern, made to carry certain articles
which they all had, American officers car
ried what they liked usually a field glass
and a pistol, the latter on such belt as
suited their fancy.
-It is not Intended to convey the impres
sion that the American troops consti
tuted anything like a mob; their control
was never in the least degree out of
hand, and they showed themselves, as
heretofore, perfectly subject to such dis
cipline as was exacted. They were the
most intelligent of all the troops forming
the expedition, as was strikingly appar
ent from obsenvation of their faces at the
.good opportunity afforded by the march
past the staff at the entry of the For
bidden City, on which occasion also their
neatness and fine appearance were most
gratifying. For such slackness as Is here
noted the fault lies with the officers, the
men being In this respect what the of
ficers make them.
HOW A YOUNG FATHER FEELS
Emotions That Overcome Him Are
Experienced but Once.
Life.
When the average novel writer wishes
to describe a set of emotions for which he
has no appropriate name, he usually re
fers to them as being "mingled," and this,
perhaps better than anything else, re
flects the condition of a man when he first
becomes a father.
Coupled with the feeling of Intense pride
that comes to you as one of the "inter
ested" parties" In such a momentous event,
Is the kindred feeling of utter Insignifi
cance you also have, which acts as an
antidote.
After being ordered out of the room by
the doctor and the trained nurse you wan
der aimlessly down a side street, although
you cannot for the life of you tell what
there Is to be ashamed at and as you ap
proach your office you grow more and
more uneasy.
And yet. while there is guilt written all
over your face there wells up In your
heart a veritable fountain of intense ego
tlsmT which is Immediately on tap to the
first moment of confidence.
You assume a careless, devil-may-care
air, and carry your indlfferepce to the
point of intensity. And then in response
to inquiries for your face itself is a
story bearer you announce, as if it hap
pened daily like the weather report, and
the time table, that it is a boy or a girl,
as the case may be. Thus you run the
gauntlet, and, finding that the world still
moves and breathes and everybody Is In
clined to settle down, you watch your
chance to get the first unmarried man you
can find to consent lo listen to you. You
pour into his sympathetic ear the whole
story. You tell him how much the baby
weighs, who it looks like", how you felt
and how you feel. You describe your as
pirations for that child, talk about love
and duty and education and training, or
der a small bottle, supplement it with
another, get more confidential and finally
leave him, with a sense of your own in
tense Importance which only another In
terylew with the doctor and the trained
nurse and the baby can wipe out. ,
But all things have an end. At the end
of a month, while you are at your desk at
profit and loss, some one comes In, slaps
you on the back and shouts: "Well, old
man, how's the baby?" And you reply
absent mlndedly: "Oh, he's all right!'
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A Woman Buffalo Herder.
Ladles' Home Journal.
Mrs. Mary A. Goodnight, of Goodnight,
Tex., enjoys the distinction of being the
only 'woman In the world who owns a herd
of buffaloes. There are 100 in the herd,
more than half of which are pure bred, the
remainder being "cataloes." as a cross
between a buffalo and a Galloway cow Is
called. The cataloes have the same hump
as the buffaloes, and shaggy hair, but
their color varies from jet black to light
brown, and they are most readily distin
guished from the pure bre,d by their horns,
which are longer. The cataloes are also
much more tractable, and can soon be
tauglft to eat out of one's hand. But the
full-blood buffaloes of the Goodnight herd
- lpgQf npvpr renose. full confidence In
man. Big and powerful, as they are, they
are timid and run away ax tne siignx-esi
oiorm oithniiE-h thv have taken food
from their owner's hand from the opposite
side of a fence; nor wiu tney axxacK umess
wounded or driven Into close quarters.
Even with this reputation for timidity,
Mrs. Goodnight does not regard the pure
bred buffaloes as trustworthy, and does
not consider It safe to go among them on
foot. Mrs. Goodnight also has a herd of
15 elk. In the great park, two square
miles In area, each animal herds with his
kind. Even the pure-blood' buffalo looks
with a royal contempt upon his plebeian
half-brother, the catalo, and the two keep
wide apart in separate and distinct
groups.
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Value of Telephone Numbers.
New York Mall and Express.
"Telephone numbers have an actual
money value," said an officer of the Amer
ican Bell Telephone Company. "The as
sertion has a strange sound, but if you
think for a moment of the advantage a
business house derives from having Its
location well known, the thing seems only
natural.
"In the course of time people's minds
begin to associate a firm with its tele
phone number and If, when you start to
call up an old friend, they find him. mas
querading under a new number, it is as
much of a shock as if they had called at
a house with whom they were in the habit
of doing business and found It had moyed
away. It allcomes under the legal head
of 'good will," a very elusive commodity,
but one which has its market value.
"So much is this fact appreciated by
some of our old patrons that they are
willing to pay heavy mileage. It they
move away from the neighborhood of
their exchange, in order to retain their
old telephone address. Many prominent
houses have followed the northward trend
of business In the last few years, and
there are several cases of a firm's office
address being In the uptown district,
while its telephone number remains so
and so Courtland or Broad. The firm's
line to the exchange may be several miles
long."
BUSINESS ITEMS.
If Baby Is Cutting: Teeth,
Be sure and use that old and Tvell-trled remedy,
Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup, for children
teething. Jt soothes the child, softens the sums,
allays all pain, cures. wind colic and diarrhoea.
Have you had the "grippe?" If not .jou are
fortunate. But be ready to fight It successful
ly. Take Carter's Little Ller Pills. One pill
after each meal.
Two hundred and fifty thousand cases of
I'grlppe" In. New York. Don't take any
ihances. Guard jourself with Carter's Little
Liver Pills. One pill after each meal.
Do you want to Avoid "grippe"? It you do,
brace yourselT with Carter's Little Liver Pills.
Use them regularly. One pill after meals.
The Ingredients of. Hood's Sarsaparilla
are in effect, strength, vigor and tone
what you want,
TESLA'S WIRELESS LIGHT
MAKES' SCARCELY ANY HEAT. AND
CLOSELY RESEMBLES SUNLIGHT.
Based Upon an Entirely Nevr Princi
pleInventor Says It "Will Purify
Atmosphere and Kill Germs.
Nikola Tesla gave to the New York Sun
recently an authorized statement in refer
ence to his new light, described the lamp
which diffuses the light, and then, dark
ening the windows of his laboratory in
East Houston street, turned on an elec
tric current, and In a moment the rooms
were flooded with what Tesla calls "arti
ficial sunshine." The light was diffused
through a spiral of glass about eight
Inches high and six Inches wide. The spi
ral is of glass tubing, about one-quarter
of an inch in diameter, the ends being
blown to about double the size of the tube
and closely resembling wax candles. The
general effect of the lamp Is that of a
small box made of glass tubing with two
candles lying on their sides along the top.
The ends of the spiral which resemble
candles are covered with a thin coating of
metal and painted white. The lamp illu
minates whether It Is connected by wires
with an electric current or not. Mr. Tesla
operates it with and without wires. The
wonderful thing about the wireless lamp
is that It may be carried about from one
part of a room to another, picked up and
set down at will, just as one would carry
a kerosene'lamp around, and all the time
there is not so much as a flicker of the
light.
But more than all this, Mr. Tesla asserts
that In discovering this process of illumi
nation, he has discovered a light which
will be of Incalculable value in the sick
room and In the hospital ward. The tube
of the lamp before being closed at one
end is partly filled with certain gases, the
properties of which Mr.- Tesla Is not quite
ready to disclose, but which, he says, will
purify the air of a sick room when it
might endanger the life or the patient to
have the. -windows opened, so that the
room's atmosphere will be as pure as If
the room had been flooded with outer air.
The inventor asserts that so perfect is his
invention that the "ozonizing" of a room,
as he calls it, may be continued as long
as desired and stopped at will. Tesla says
that his artificial sunshine, or his "sani
tary light," Is intended to be his first gift
to the new century, the practical result
of years of experiment In the old. Here Is
Mr. Tesla's statement:
"This light is the result of continuous
efforts" since my early experimental dem
onstrates before scientific societies here
and abroad. In order to make it suitable
for commercial use, I had to overcome
great difficulties. One of these was to
produce from ordinary currents of supply
electrical oscillations of enormous rapid
ity In a simple and economical manner.
This, I am glad to say, I have now accom
plished, and the results show that with
this new form of light a higher economy
Is practicable than with the present illu
mlnants. The light offers, besides, many
specific advantages, not the least of which
is found in Its hygienic properties. It is,
I believe, the closest approach to daylight
which has yet been reached ffom any arti
ficial source.
"The lamps are glass tubes, which may
be bent in any ornamental way. J, most
generally use a rectangular spiral, con
taining about 20 to 25 feet of tubing, mak
ing some 12 to 14 convolutions. The total
illuminating surface of a lamp is from 300
to 400 square inches. The ends of the
spiral tube are covered with a metallic
coating and provided with hooks for hang
ing the lamp on the terminals of the
source of oscillations. The tube contains
gases rarefied to a certain degree, deter
mined in the course of long experimenta
tion as being conducive to the best results.
"The process of light production is, ac
cording to my views, as follows: The
street current Is passed through a ma
chine which is an electrical oscillator of
peculiar construction and transforms the
supply current, be it direct or alternating,
into electrical oscillations of a very high
frequency. These oscillations, coming to
the metallically coated ends of the glass
tube, produce In the interior correspond
ing electrical oscillations, which set the
molecules and atoms of the Inclosed rare
fied gases into violent commotion, caus
ing them to vibrate at enormous rates and
emit those radiations which we know as
light. The gases are not rendered incan
descent in the ordinary sense, for If they
were so, they would be hot, like an incan
descent filament. As a matter of fact,
there Is very little heat noticeable, which
speaks well for the economy of the light,
since all heat would be loss.
"This high economy results chiefly from
three causes: First from the high rate of
the electrical oscillations; second, from
the fact that the entire light-giving body,
being a highly attenuated gas, Is exposed
and can throw out Its radiations unim
peded, and third, because of the small
ness of the particles composing the light
giving body, in consequence of which they
can be quickly thrown into a high rate of
vibration, so that comparatively little en
ergy is lost in the lower or heat vibra
tions. An Important practical advantage
Is "that the lamps need not be renewed
like the ordinary ones, as there Is nothing
in them to consume. Some of these lamps
I have had for years, and they are now
in just as good a condition as they ever
were. The illuminating power of each of
these lamps Is, measured by the photo
metric method, about BO-candle power, but
I can make them of any power desired, up
to that of several arc lights. It Is a re
markable feature of the light that during
the day it can scarcely be seen, whereas
at night 'the whole room Is brilliantly Illu
minated. When the eye becomes used to
the light of these tubes, an ordinary In
candescent lamp or gas Durner produces a
violent pain In the eye when It is turned
on, showing in a striking manner to what
a degree these concentrated sources of
light which we now use are detrimental to
the eye.
"I have found, that in almost all Its ac
tions the light produces the same effects
as sunlight, and this makes me hopeful
that Its introduction Into dwellings will
have the effect of Improving, In a meas
ure now Impossible to estimate, the hy
gienic conditions. Since sunlight is a very
powerful curative agent, and since this
light makes It possible to have sunlight,
so to speak, of any desired Intensity, day
and night in our homes, it stands to rea
son that the development of germs will be
checked and many diseases, as consump
tion, for instance, successfully combated
by continually exposing the patients to the
rays of these lamps. I have ascertained
unmistakably, that the light produces a
soothing action on the nerves, which I at
tribute to the effect which it has upon
he retina of the eye. It also Improves
vision, just exactly as the sunlight, and it
ozonizes slightly the atmosphere. These
effects can be regulated at will. For In
stance in hospitals, where such a light Is
of paramount Importance, lamps may be
des'gned which will produce just that
quantity of ozone which the physician
may desire for the purification of the at
mosphere, or, If necessary, the ozone pro
duction can be stopped altogether.
"The lamps are very cheap to manu
facture, and by he fact that they need
not be exchanged like ordinary lamps or
burners, they are rendered still less expen
sive. The chief consideration is, of course,
In commercial introduction, the energy
consumption. While I am not yet pre
pared to give exact figures, I can say that
given a certain quantity of electrical en
ergy from the mains, I can produce more
light than can be produced by the ordi
nary methods. In introducing this sys
tem of lighting my transformer, or oscil
lator, will be usually located at some con
venient place in the basement, and from
there the transformed currents will be led
as usual through the building. The lamps
can be run with one wire alone, as I have
shown In my early demonstrations, and In
some cases I can dispense entirely with
the wires. I hope that ultimately we shall
get to this ideal form of illumination, and
that we shall have in our rooms lamps
which will be set aglow, no matter where
they are placed, Just as an object Is heat
ed by heat rays emanating from a stove.
The lamps will then be handled like kero
sene lamps, with this difference, however,
that the energy will be conveyed through
space. The ultimate perfection of appara
tus for the production of electrical oscil
lations will probably bring us to the great
realization, and then we shall finally have
the light without heat, or 'cold' light. I
have no difficulty now to Illuminate the
room with such wireless lamps, but a
number of Improvements must be made
yet before it can be generally Introduced."
GIRL'S FANCY BILLIARDS.
Offers 9100O to Any Man Who Can
Beat Her in 100 Dlfllcnlt Plays.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Miss May Kaarlus has succeeded in
opening the eyes of the billiard experts In
this city within the last few weeks. The
young lady has been giving exhibitions of
The "Flying Jump" Shot.
The "fljlng Jump' shot. In which the cue ball
at tho end of the shot bounds to her up
lifted hand.
her prowess with the cue at a billiard
academy, and It Is generally agreed among
the best authorities that for fancy shoot
ing her equal has seldom been seen In this
city. A challenge has been Issued by Miss
Some of her clever shots.
Kaarlus, in which she offers to forfeit $1000
to any bllllardlst living, professional or
amateur, If she be beaten in making 100
difficult shots.
When she was barely able to toddle
about a billiard table, Miss Kaarlus
father, who is an instructor of the game,
began the training of his daughter. The
girl began a system of physical training
by which she has succeeded In gaining a
power and suppleness of muscle which Is
rare even In a man. '"
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Macao.
Blackwood.
Portuguese guardas clviles watch almost
every corner with sword and pistol, and
there is no admixture of the "Lokung"
or Hong Kong police, where they would
be eminently useful, among a population
concerning whom my China "boy" warns
me, "Take care pocket. Macao man
plenty tlef, plenty pirate, plenty mur
der." "The very shop Inscriptions are more
European than Chinese, one of Inces
sant occurrence being, "English first-class
gaming-house; Caza de Fantam de prima
classe," and a similar notice in Chinese.
These hells were a source of much gain,
and still more disrepute, to the local au
thorities. One which I Investigated was
an absurd parody of Its sister hell, Mon
aco, with its hot and fetid atmosphere,
its ostentation of honest dealing and 'or
der, and Its meretricious decoration. In
stead of green baize tables were brown
paper-covered planks, around which were
seated stark-naked Chinese croupiers, and
for heaps of gold were piles of copper
"cash." Here, too, were the sullen, fever
ish, crowding gamblers and the pushing
spectators. Baskets of coin worked by
pulleys were being constantly drawn up
to, or lowered down from, an opening In
the upper story In fact, "up the spout."
The favorite game, fantam, Is childishly
simple.
Gambling here, as in Spain, is the Na
tional vice, and Is more pernicious than
opium or samshu (rice spirit); yet the
Portuguese do not hesitate to raise a
largo revenue from this polluted source,
the percentage of Items being:
Fantam licenses 25.0
Immoral houses 1.5
Lotteries 42.5
Taxes, -customs and other sources.... 31.0
Total' 100.0
The finance system Is successful enough
If dollars only be regarded. The receipts
are considerably In excess of the expendi
tures, and are pocketed, by Portugal.
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Public Libraries and Public Schools.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The opinions of public school teachers
with regard to the expected branch li
braries under the terms of Mr. Carnegie's
gift deserve careful attention. That bet
ter school libraries are needed there is
no doubt, nor Is there reason to doubt
testimony as to the careless habit of
mind which free text-books have' encour
aged. In counteracting that and at the
same time broadening and stimulating
the pupils In their studies, the branch
libraries would serve an excellent pur
pose if carefully regulated. Experience
In other cities Is favorable to the idea,
and if the experiment were made here
it would partly meet the objection that
can be made with good reason as to the
youth of the city being free to choose un
desirable books without the oversight and
assistance of good advisers. Doubtless
the teachers would be specially charged
to assist In regulating the choice of read
ing matter. But, apart from that, the
city schools would assume a more definite
function as actual sources of systema
tized reading habit, and the pupil would
take with him from the school an aspira
tion for good reading which otherwise
might remain undeveloped.
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CIGAR STORE INDIANS
THEY ARE NOW. MANUFACTURED
OF ZINC INSTEAD OF WOOD.
Process of Construction Is Almost
Identical "With the Manufacture
of Wax Figures.
"A good Indian Is worth from 533 to
$300," said the head of the firm to a New
York Commercial Advertiser reporter. "I
know those prices must seem, high, and
they are higher than they used to be.
But zlnc-castlng costs more than plne
chlselllng; labor's dearer, too. And
people are more particular nowadays
about their Indians than they were 30
or 40 years agot you know."
The speaker was dilating upon the red
man of the cigar store, of which noble
creature his house Is practically sole
maker In America. Fifty years ago "Lo"
of the Impassive physiognomy and the
fistful of perfectos was not the product
of a trust. The building of wooden ships
and consequently the carving of figure
headsand the carvers alternated between
tho figureheads of the high street and
the high seas was still a flourishing in
dustry. And indeed, to produce the
guardian spirits of the tobacco shop
called for no professional chisel-hand. Old
South street sent up half of New York's
supply, for almost every "Jack ashore"
could whittle Tecumseh or King Philip
out of their native woods. And two. or
at most three, colors of heavy ship's
paint sufficed to give distinctive hues to
the royal plumes, countenance and rai
ment. These Indian monarchs were sold
cheaply enough, too, for both sailors and
artists are notoriously poor bargainers,
and their added abilities produce of neces
sity little more than a minus quantity.
Yet their creations, however carefully
whittled, could not but split and warp un
der the frost and sun. Their coats of sea
paint quickly shelled off, too, and re
vealed the bald barrenness of the wooden
man beneath them. The tobacconists
grew dissatisfied; they wanted something
better and more durable. The demand
was supplied. About the middle of the
century some one had an Idea In In
dians. As wooden ones had proved un
satisfactory, why not try making them
of metal? A clay model was Immediate
ly molded, and on this was taken a plas
ter of parls cast. When hard. It was
broken off In sections and pieced together
again. Inside it was poured the melted
zinc, which cooled and solidified. Then
the plaster cast was removed, and lo, a
disjointed Indian! But 'the parts of his
anatomy were rapidly soldered together,
he was given a paint-pot decoration of
gay beads and feathers and a red-and-green
mantle. Not only was he artistic,
but he was absolutely Indestructible.
After the making of this first metal In
dian, the wooden savage began to pass
Into disuse. Of course, there are many
of them still to be seen. West street, the
Bowery and South street, all have them
In comparative plenty, for they are a
race which dies hard. The tribe of zinc
successors also Increases Its numbers very
slowly. One metal Indian will last a to
bacconist a lifetime, and when he goes
out of business his cigar sign Is sold with
the stock. The stolid old fellow must
be refurnished occasionally, but a new
coat of paint sets him up and makes him
as good as ever. x
The process of construction Is almost
Identical with the manufacture of wax
figures. Yet the Indian Is not copied
from anything so common as a life model.
.He Is Inspired by pure fancy; and this
should more than counterbalance the rapid
and prosaic workmanship which goes Into
his making. Inaccuracies are allowed to
pass which would not be tolerated In fine
metal or even in wax. And necessarily
when the figure is once freed- from the
plaster cast there la no further molding
or reshaping of the- zinc. The lines of the
clay model" are preserved with all their
crudities. It Is left for the paint to cover
them as best It can. However, If these
Indians are somewhat rougher-skinned
than those of real life they are also, as
their manufacturers put It, "on the whole
considerably cleaner.? From one zinc orig
inal kept in stock a' whole dynastic line
of red men may be modeled.
These tobacco signs had their birth In
the Dutch plantations of East India, But
there, as everywhere in "Europe subse
quently, they were Moors. When the Idea
of using the figures was introducd Into
this country the Indian naturally suggest
ed himself, for, like the tobacco, he was
native to the soil. He has continued In
vogue ever since, though he has been
superseded ever and anon by Innovations.
HE LASSOED A RACCOON.
Policeman Got Mixed Up and Spec
tators Thought He Had a Fit.
New York Times.
The tenants of the house at 214 East
Seventieth street were thrown Into a state
of panic yesterday afternoon by the ap
pearance In the back yard of the premises
of a wild beast, which got a different
name from each successive person who
emerged from the front door of the house.
The swiftly moving procession of ten
ants issuing from the building was head
ed by a portly Irishwoman who an
nounced hysterically that the "varmint"
was a "hyyaana." Another woman who
was a close second In the spurt for the
sidewalk was certain that the creature was
a wild cat. A third woman, who had
been hanging out some clothes In the
yard, and said she was attacked by the
beast, could not give It a name, because
she did not have sufficient breath left.
The general excitement brought Police
man Bonser of the East Sixty-seventh
street station to the scene. He went to
the back yard and, after having a look at
the beast running about there, at once pro
nounced It a raccoon. He secured a piece
of clothesline, and, making a loop, las
soed the animal In true Western style.
Before he could draw the line tight, how
ever, the raccoon had run up his leg
and, In its terror, clasped him around the
neck.
The policeman gave a whoop that could
be heard a block away, and started to run,
but In his wild haste to get out of the
back yard tripped over the rope and fell
on the raccoon. The officer and the ani
mal then made frantic efforts to part with
each other, fairly tearing up the ground
In the yard In the struggle, but the rope
held them In a close embrace.
Several men running through the hall
way from the street saw the policeman
rolling around in the yard and kicking
wildly in the air, thought he had a fit, and
an ambulance was hurriedly sent for.
Before the hospital surgeon arrived, how
ever, two boys had managed to extricate
the raccoon and the policeman from each
other and the animal was Ipmrlsoned In
a soap box. Officer Bonser then brushed
the dirt from his uniform and took his
prisoner to the station-house. No owner
could be found for the beast, and It was
taken to the Central Park menagerie and
locked up.
Ostrich Feathers.
Ohambers's"Jburnal.
Ostrich feathers are exported chiefly
from "South Afrlqa, and In very much
smaller quantity from the Barbary States
and Egypt. They are packed In large
cases, which are covered with canvas
("gunnle"), and securely wired. They
are sealed In such a manner as to sug
gest that they contain gold rather than
articles of merchandise. As a matter 0
fact, they are considered of such value
as to be treated in certain respects like
the yellow metal. Freight Is charged, as
on specie, 50 much per cent on their value.
In some Instances the rate Is very 'high.
The old catch, '"'Which Is heavier a pound
of gold or a pound of feathers?" does not,
therefore, apply to this case, for freight
calculations are not made on the basis
of the avoirdupois table. The Soudanese
evidently understand their business, for
their bundles are tied with a superfluity
of twine; and, with their instinct for
color, they add what appears to be a per
fectly unnecessary wrapping of gaudy pa
per, heavy with gilt. The explanation of
this is simple, for the string and the pa
per both add to the weight. "Are they
sufficiently civilized to put the faulty
feathers In the middle?" the writer asked.
In reply he was shown the center of a
bundle where, neatly hidden from view,
were several wizened feathers which no
lady with proper self-respect would care
to see In her fan. "So It appears the wily
children of the desert are Just as wide
awake as the London fruiterer who puts
all the big strawberries on the top of his
basket. As in strawberries, so In feathers,
the deception does not pay In the long
run, for -this propensity of the Soudan
ese Is so well known that the market value
of their goods' suffers materially.
BANNA'S UNKEPT PROMISE.
It Was a Campaign Promise, to an
Eastern Newspaper Woman-
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.
There was a promise made by Senator
Mark A. Hanna before the re-election of
President McKlnley that has never been
fulfilled.
The person to whofn the promise was
made has never asked for Its fuflllment.
though the conditions under which It was
made have come about, and the witness
to the agreement was no leas a person
than President McKlnley.
A young woman journalist, who repre
sented an Eastern paper, was In Canton
telegraphing her dally "story" to her pa
per. She was leaving that afternoon for
the East,-and had been sitting with Mrs.
McKlnley talking over things domestic
and playing with the' children, who were
always hanging around the wife of the
President.
The President and Senator Hanna
walked down to the train with her. The
Senator told her that she had no right to
be in newspaper work; that Southern
girls, above all others, should have a
husband and a home.
"Very good," said the young woman,
"and I agree with you. I have no senti
mental view about bettering the world
by writing, or new-fangled ideas about
a woman having public positions; but I
am a wage-earner, as half the Southern
girls must be, to help support relatives.
"Well, you ought to be married." In- 1
fisted the Senator, and the President
agreed with him. ''I don't like to see
women in journalism; I don't like to see
them earning a living, if they can help
it; a woman's place Is out of public life,
and if a woman Is clever enough to fill a
good position on a big paper, she's far
too good for that position, and should use
that cleverness in getting a good, rich
husband."
"Suppose she doesn't know any rich
man," the newspaper woman suggested.
"Well, I know plenty, and I'll get you
one," said the Senator. "I'll tell you
what we'll do. We three will make a
bargain right here. If President McKln
ley Is re-elected, I'll get you a rich, single
man." The three shook hands and part
ed. The President was re-elected. Senator
Hanna knows many a rich, single man
In Ohio. But the girl remains unmar
ried. GAINED HER POINT.
Mention of Former Rival Causes
Husband to Change His Mind.
Detroit Free Press.
"John," said the wife three years after
their wedding, "am I as attractive In
your eyes a3 I used to be?"
"Of course you are. What's the use of
asking me a Billy question like that when
I'm trying to read the paper?"
"But It's important. You never wanted
to read the paper when you came to see
me. You took me to the theater once or
twice a week, had a carriage for every
party, and Insisted on sleigh rides when
ever there .was any. snow."
"Oh, I know what you're going to say.
I've told you that you can so to all the
matinees you want to. If you. feel like
sleigh riding hire a cutter and a driver.
Go right ahead and do as you please,
but I'm too busy as a bread winner to
frivol along like we used to. I see that
the Legislature "
"What do I care about the old Legisla
ture? You never used to talk Legislature
to me when you came a-courtlng. It was
'dearest this' and 'dearest that,' and Til
send you some flowers, and I bought a
box of candy,' till papa told me to marry
you or get rid of you."
"He did, hey? Well, you had your
choice."
"Yes, "I hesitated a long time between
you and Bob Jones."
"You did? How" flattering! I never
liked a hair on his head. There was the
most conceited cad In town."
"But I liked him," and he turned out a
mighty fine man, too."
"Oh, forget him. Say, dear, I was thlnk
lnng of getting up a regular old-time
sleighing party. The fact Is, I've ar
ranged things so I can go out evenings
a good deal more. I've been planning to
that end for some time. But confound
Jones."
Then she hid her head on his shoulder
that he might not realize how she had
played upon the jealousy he had almost
forgotten.
Gold Mlnlnsr in the Philippines.
National Geographic Magazine. ,
The mines In the Parade district are
at present operated by natives, but In
such a rudimentary and desultory manner
that only a small portion "of the gold Is
saved. The workings are seldom carried
to a greater depth than three or four
meters, but It Is a fact which promises
better results, whenever more scientific
and practical methods may be brought to
bear on them, that the ore always be
comes richer as the depth Is Increased:
but In all tho hundreds of years during
which these deposits have been known
It Is safe to say that their true value
has never been tested. The natives carry
tho ore to the surface In baskets, and
when water Is struck they bale It out
with buckets, either pulling them up with
a rope or carrying them up a bamboo lad
der. The gold-bearing rock Is emptied
from the baskets Into a concavity In a
rock or large stone, which serves as a
mortar. The pestle or stamp consists of
a stone about 25 pounds In weight, which
Is tied with a 3trlp of bejuco to the end
of a slender pole, which Is rested
obliquely against the fork of a tree. The
laborer, taking advantage of the elasticity
of the pole, uses it like a trip-hammer
and crushes the rock. The broken rock
Is then pulverized in a rude mill, consist
ing of a rough stone roller, which Is re
volved In a circular base by means of
buffaloes. The pulverized material Is then
washed, generally by women, until there
remains- only a dark sediment, which Is
afterward smelted by placing It In a shell,
covering It with charcoal, and using a
small piece of bamboo as a blowpipe. A
sample of the metal obtained by this Im
perfect process gave the following analy
sis: Gold, 77.94; sliver, 19; Iron, .05.
Some South African Fun.
Klmberley Bandolier.
During the month we have had some
distinguished visitors. Including the editor
of The Bandolier, who, I am sorry to say,
had the misfortune to fall Into the sheep
dipping tank In the dark; we understand
this was owing to his leaving his eye
glass' In Klmberley.
This week a detachment of D. E. O. V.
R. passed through on their way to Griqua
town, staying a night here. So well
pleased were they by their stay that they
took away with them the Cape Boys ra
tion tin of ham as a souvenir.-
Well, now, I must dry up. as I have Just
been ordered to put my foot through a
concertina which Is sweetly warbling near
by. Ta-ta. Yours, to a cinder. BILL.
During the season of 1S93-1900 there
were In Spain 41 beet-sugar mills, of which
25 utilised 490,647 tojis of beets, produc
ing 50,426 tons of sugar. Of this amount
47.535 were sold, leaving a stock of about
3000 tons.
SNAKE AND FISH IN FIGHT
FISHERMAN GOT BOTH ON HIS
HOOK.
He Also Succeeded In Landing Them,
but Not Until He Had Had a
Thrilling Experience.
New York Sun.
"Did you ever see a duel between a fish
and a snake?" asked a cross-eyed mun
with a corn-cob pipe In his mouth, ad
dressing a half-dozen villagers as they
sat on the platform of the Erie depot at
Ramapo, N. Y., one evening last week,
waiting for the mall train to come In.
None of the natives Vouchsafed any reply,
and the cross-eyed man got down to busi
ness. "It was out on the pond." said he. Jerk
ing his thumb over his shoulder in tho
direction of a pretty good-sized body of
water lying north of the station. "I was
fishing for pickerel in a boat with a chap
from down the road. The day was cloudy
and we had fine luck. We'd almost mndo
up our minds that 25 good-sized fish were
enough for one day's match, and pulled
for the shore, when my friend allowed
that he would like to 'skldder' a few times
more along some Illy pads just above tho
point where the old Icehouse used to
stand.
'T was willing and slowly rowed tho
boat over, while he stood In the bow and
made ready to throw out his bait, the red
belly of a sunfish. He jerked It along tho
top of the water a few- times, and then a
lively commotion suddenly took pfeico
near his hook. I thought that a big pick
erel had made for his bait, but I knew I
guessed wrong when my friend yelld:
" 'My God! there's a sea serpnt. or
something worse and he sank Into hla
seat.
' 'You chump,' says I, getting mad.
'What a I's- you? You don't hoar of crit
ters of that kind hereabouts unless you
happen to stay at Suffern too long on
pay day. That must have been a darned
big pickerel. Try for him again.'
" 'I can't, says he, trembling all over.
Try yourself. Then looking at mn In a
pained sort of way, he added: 'Plekerel
be b!owed! Pickerel ain't black all over
and they don't have tall" five feet long.
I was sure that he had 'em for fair ant
looked forward to see what made him
collapse, but there was nothing doing but
a few ripples- on the surface, made by
what I supposed was a big pickerel.
'You're a peach of a fisherman, suys I.
taking the pole. 'I'll show you how to
catch him.' I threw out the bait and tho
water began to boll again.
"I then saw the thing which almost
made my friend gray-headed. The chap
nearly fell overboard when he clapped his
eyes on it the second time and murmured:
'Say, BUI. let's go home.' I did not know
what It was at first, but I made up my
mind that I would find out or bust. By
thlfl time the thing was churning the wa
ter at a great rate and flipped Its tail In
the air at least two feet above the sur
face of the pond. I grabbed an oar,
banged the thing across the back several
times, and It stopped splashing. I lifted it
Into the boat on the blade of the oarr and
my friend collapsed.
"The principal part of the catch wu'a a
blacksnake, five feet long. The front part
was a catfish weighing nearly three-quarters
of a pound. That Is a pretty good
sized fish, you know. You see, the snnko
caught the fish In the shallow water and
tried to swallow It tall first, but made a
bad Job of It, owing to the catfish's pro
jections. That saved It from going all
the way down. I pulled the fish out of
the snake's gullet and threw It overboard.
The fish was In good condition and wig
gled Its tall hard as It headed for deep
water.
"The snake was badly crippled, and
Just sunk out of sight. He must have
been powerfully hungry when he tackled
that fish for his lunch, and I'll bet he was
mad all the way to the end of hla tall
when he reached the catfish's horns and
couldn't swallow It any further. The fish
made a game fight for his life, and It did
my heart good to be of some use to It
when It needed a friend."
HEROISM OF A BRAOMAN.
Bcsrsed to Be Hidden So His Mother
"Would Not Knovr Him.
Baltimore American.
With his shoulder terribly crushed by
the wheels of a heavy freight car, his left
arm literally hanging by a thread, a
brakernan of the Northern Central Rail
road Company yesterday, who was being
carried to a hospital, had himself so cov
ered that when carried by his mother at
Calvert Station she did not know that
the bloody form was that of her own child.
Eugene S. Miles, of 1210 Clifton Place. Is
the unfortunate man, and he now Ilea
at the City Hospital In a very critical
condition.
Just previous to the accident Miles was
walklngon the top of a train of freight
cars which were running near the Eager
street bridge. The cars were backed Into
some others,, to be coupled to the train,
and the brakernan. it Is said, not expect
ing the Impact so scon-lo3t his balance
and fell between two" OTThe "cars. As he
rolled to escape the revolving wheels, hlaj
arm went under them, and 'In n twinin
ling his left shoulder was almost crushed
In two above the arm Joint.
The Rabbis and Cleanliness.
Saturday Review.
The Jewish rabbis would never have de
duced from the Mosaic law their gro
tesquely Interesting Interpretations of
cleanliness It they had not been prompted
and guided by some curious human In
stinct with whose origin the law had
nothing to do. One rabbinical party, as a
recent writer has reminded us, maintained
that a cup must be washed before It was
filled with wine, because otherwise the
cup and the wine would be retfdered un
clean by the perspiration of the fingers
which would remain clinging to the cup.
Another party maintained that this view
was erroneous, and endeavored to demon
strate that the real danger to be obviated
was the contamination of the fingers by
the cup. They accordingly taught that
the proper time for washing the hands
was not before the filling of the cup, 'but
after It. One school taught that after the
hands were wiped the towel' should be
placed on the table, and not on a cushion,
lest the perspiration of the hands should
contaminate the cushion, and the cushion.
In turn, contaminate whatever touched it.
Another school taught that equally terri
ble consequences might arise from using
the table as n rest for the dirty towel;
because the Impure towel might be made
yet more Impure by the table, which
would thus Infect thepersplratlon which
the unfortunate towel had Imbibed, and
render legally Impure any hands that
might touch It subsequently. Another
matter of dispute between these two
schools was whether a servant who waj
sweeping a house wth a broom would
contaminate the broom with his hands,
or have his hands contaminated by the
broom: and whether, consequently. In tha
Interests of legal purity, he ought to
wash his hands before touching tho han
dle or afterward.
Colored people are still willing to brave
the disadvantage of emigration to Mon
rovia, in West Africa. Only recently It
adventurous members of the raoe nailed
from New York for that country, where
land -will be given them by the Llberlan
Colonial Society, of Birmingham, Ala.
More of them contemplate going to Llbe-j
rla. within a few weeks.