Gold Hill news., February 10, 1900, Image 2

the nine-tenths white, and makes th e«
belong forever to tbe colored people.
H ln a u la r A r c h it e c t u r e o f a n O k la h o m a
One Is reminded of some of Cable s
M a n 'a D w e l l in g .
stories, the pathos aud tragedy thereof.
Charles Babcock, a Guthrie Alder- (
Iu the orphan asylum 135 children
man. Is building the most remarkable
are sheltered who wotiUl otherwise bs
house In Oklahoma. Babcock's house
thrown upon the State. These, as well
Is three stories high and as rouud as a
as the sixty poor old colored men and
silver dollar Just from the mint. The
women aud many of the children In the
tipper stories are each smaller !n dlaiu-1
H*** mountains in the world school, are depemlsnf upon the sisters
eter than the one below. On top of the were leveled, the average height of the for their dully bread.-HI. Louis Repub-
third story Is a staff, crowned with a land would rise nearly 250 feet,
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glittering ball. The lower floor la di- I Gold, steel, ulumiuum and lead, when
IS L A N D S W IT H O U T OW NERS.
vlded Into three rooms, each resembling Immersed In tartaric add, a new chem­
ist shape a slice of pie. Aloug the wall leal discovered, become pliable uud G ood O p p o r t u n it y f o r a G o v e r n m e n t
ductile aa putty.
t h a t I la « L d e h th o u s c e to H p a re .
New York’s board of health has taken
Frederick A. Cook, writing of Antarc­
actlou toward the strict enforcement tic exploration lu the Century, tells
of the luw regarding the sale of pois­ of certain Island« that might well be
ons. There have been many cases of fltted with lighthouse*:
suldde lately by carlwllc add poison­
A series of low pyramidal masses ap­
ing, and If this chemical were more peared under the southern sky. It was
difficult to obtain It would doubtless like a bank of blue fog fringed with
decrease the nutulter of cases.
suowy bauds. The whole length of our
Near Ashcroft In British Columbia seuboard formed nu lll-dettued, cloud-
are a number of small lakes, whose like aggregation resting ou the bluck
shores and bottoms are covered with a water and extend.ng the entlie length
crust* containing Itorax and soda In from uortheust to southwest. As we
such quantities aud proportions that steamed on, the center groups became
when cut out It serves as a waabing more distinct, auil tbe whole line rose
compound. Tlie crust Is cut Into above tbe borlzou, where we recog­
blocks and handled In the same man­ nized tt us the northern exposure of the
ner as Ice, aud It Is estimated that one South Shetland Islumls. During the
of the lakes contains 20.UUU tous of this afternoon a gentle but piercing wind
material.
came from tbe land, bringing with It
Fruit Is now being shipped from New a glassy air and uu easy, silvery seu,
; A i . n . n A R c o c K ’s B o r a n a t o v T i i n m .
South Wales pucked In the bark of the over which the new laud stood out In
of one room la a narrow stairway to ti tree and the outer bark of the mein- bold relief. We could distinguish Liv­
leuca leucadendrou, which Is shredded ingston Island over our port bow, and
the second story.
One of Babcock's troubles Is to get Ills into a sort of coarse chaff. These northeastward, melting into tlie blue
furniture to fit. If bis beds and tables harks seems to have some peculiar airy distance, were numerous similar
aud chairs and sofas were round he (lower of (»reserving oranges during Islumls. Over our starboard bow was
could arrange matters with less diffi­ carriage. Tills may la» owing to the Smith Island, its base still uuder the
culty. Somebody has remarked that a elasticity of the packing and the fact water sixty miles away.
lu a general way tlds coast-line re­
stranger would walk himself to death thut it permits of ventilation. Unless
trying to get into the house on a dark the bark Is cut too tine there is no sembles parts of the Greenland luud-
night, going continually in a circle, in sweating possible. 1 he bark costs only scu(>e. About tbe largest Island* there
are many small, lee-free Isles, or rocks,
an attempt to And the door.
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tt tou-
Babcock will complete his house by j The heirs of the late Anthony Pollok which are tho resting-places of seals,
building a circular porch urouud of Washington have offered a prize of penguins, cormorants nnd gulls. On
It. His home Is In West Guthrie uud 100,000 francs (120.000), to be awarded the larger Islands, and especial y cn
commaDds a pretty view of the Cotton­ during the exhibition in Faris next Livingston Island, there are high peak*
wood Valley. Babcock drew his own year to the Inventor of the liest .appar­ and rounded, dome-llke hills, which nre
plans aud Is proud of Ills architectural atus for suving life in case of disaster tlp|»cd with snow, but their sides are
production, lie said that be built the at sea. The prize is open to universal bare. Tbe valleys are tilled with large
bouse Just to have oue different from competition. The award will be made glaciers, which send tongues out Into
by a Jury sitting in Paris. It Is pro­ tlie sea. We saw 110 glaciers, however,
any other.
vided that the entire prize may be which came out for ntiy distance luto
H a in a n B o d y 's P e c u lia r O dor.
awarded to a slhgle Individual, or a the water. Tlie limit of tlie lee was
The fact that certain animals, and es­ (tortlou of It may lie awarded to each gem-rally at high-water rnnrk. where it
pecially the dog, will recognize the pro > of several persous, as the Jury may de­ wasted away lu small fragments.
There was no snow on the coastal low­
plnquity of their masters or friends cide.
although it may have been Impossible j Work of the Egyptian exploration lands, but there wus also nothlug to
for them to have seen them or heard fund for the year has lain in the same indicate vegetation. From what we
their voices has long since suggested to district as before, a short distance later learned of the lands farther south.
physiologists aud others the idea that down the Nile from Dendereb. Alto- It Is extremely (Missible that mosses
every human being has a distinctive getj,er aiMJUt 1,250 graves of prehls- nnd lichens nre here abundant, but
odor peculiar to himself, aud which re torlc age aud about as tunny historic there Is no hope for grass or trees.
mains more or less lOiis'ant. Otherwise graves—mainly ubout the twelfth dy­
It Is very curious tlmt this group of
how would it be possible for the blodo- nasty—were o(»eui‘d and recorded. The Islands, uliout oue hundred In number,
hound, for Instance, to take the trail society has already received from the with a thousand miles of accessible
of an individual and follow It for mile« Egyptian government the promise of coast line and several good harbors,
through crowded thoroughfares, as a permission to work at Abydos, one of fn-e of Ice for much of the year, should
well as through open country, aud un- j,ie U1O(,( important sites In Egypt remain unclaimed by any government
errlngly pick out the Individual from Prof. Mnspero will return to Egypt to nnd unsettled by human efforts. It
among hundreds of others?
resume the direction of the depart­ would be a humane mlsalon If our gov­
This idea has recently received a sig­ ment of antiquities.
ernment would take possession of this
nal verltteatlon, us we are told by Dr.
On July 10 last the city of Rome un­ group of Islands and place there a
Bett, In the Archlv der Gesammten dulated with the waves of an earth­ lighthouse, with a supply station for
Physlologie. The doctor states that a quake for nearly half a minute. The tire preservation of shipwrecked sail­
friend of his, with bandaged eyes and famous monuments of antiquity scat- ors. Vessels nre lost In tlds vicinity
every precaution against collusion, was j pred (n <nd ftbout tbe
wenj gtn>ng almost every year, and we do not know
enabled by the sense of smell alone to
fortunately no serious but that some poor seamen are now
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persons
with ».Lzxn,
whom V
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was damage
was suffered by them. The stranded on one of the many desolate
acquainted, and to call their names the great columns In the Forum rocked Islands, nwaltlug the relief which nev­
moment that they came Into the room visibly, and a large stone crashed er comes.
and at the distance of several paces. down from the Colosseum. A strange
The experiments were varied in a num­ atmospheric effect, which has before
LA W A 3 IN T E R P R E T E D .
ber of ways, but with the unerring fac­ been observed during great earth­
ulty of the bloodhound this an detect­ quakes, was very noticeable on this
Death caused by accident Is held, In
ed the Identity of every lnu.^ldual pre­
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occasion. People who rushed In alarm Slevln vs. Board of police pension fund
sented. Other instances of a similar from th<f|r hoUBe„ were drenched with commissioner's (Cal.), 44 L. K. A. 114,
keenness are cited by Dr. Bett. Ac­ a torrent of rain that poured from light not to be a death from nutural causes,
cording to the man who gave ;he exhi­ gray clouds which almost Instantane­ wdthln tbe meaning of a statute pro­
bition, every family has a characteristic ously gathered In a perfectly clear sky viding pensions for policemen who die
odor common to all the members there­ os soon as the earth began to quake.
from natural causes.
of, but the Intensity of which usually
Tbe Issuance of preferred stock by a
varies sufficiently among the various
building and loan association which la
O R D ER OF N E G R O N U N S .
members to enable him to distinguish
based on principles of co-operation,
each Individual—Indian Lancet.
O n l r C o lo re d S is te rh o o d In t h e U n it e d equality and mutuality Is held, In Bum-
S ta te s a t N e w O rle a n s .
rail vs. Columbia Finance and Tea
C h ild r e n N o t G iv e n f o r P la y t h l n - s .
In the old French quarter of New Company (Ky.) 44, L. It. A. 650, to be
"Mothers must remember that their ' Orleans, with Its narrow streets, lat- void as against public policy.
bables are not given them for their own 1 t|ce4i windows and Jealously guarded
An ordinance requiring a license fee
pleasure or amusement, nor to display courts, where the fig and orange tree
as marvels to their friends,” warns Bar- grow, Is a square of rather mlscellane- to be paid as a condition of buying
nettah Brown, writing of “Mothers’ bus architecture. Its central building, claims Is held, ln Bltzer vs. Thompson
Mistakes and Fathers’ Failures,” !n the 717 Orleans street. Is several hundred (Ky.), 44 L. It. A. 141, to l>e unconsti­
Ladles’ Home Journal. "But mothers years old. It has a stately entrance, tutional ln case of a person who buys,
must consider that from the first mo- I w ith great pillars and old-fashioned, merely as an Investment, a few claims
ment of life the child Is destined toward ornately carved doors. It was once admitted to be Just and due, but which)
growth, development, progression. A j the old Creole opera house and ball are not paid because of lack of funds.
City funds received on deposit by a
dallying with this bit of wisdom in the room of the early days. Now It Is the
beginning makes rare occasions for home of the colored nuns. Yet the or- banker but deposited by him In other
much that Is disagreeable later. And per Is not such a very modern one, af- banks, under an arrangement for shar­
let no mother make the error of being ter all, for It wbb founded In New Or- ing ln the deposits, whereby he receives
baffled by the cry of ’heredity? Much leans over half a century ago. Its the same Interest that he pays tbe city,
of what Is called heredity Is really Imi- members are now well-known figures and agrees that they shall be drawn
tatton of what Is to be seen and felt In on the streets of the crescent city. The only to pay city orders, are held, In
the environment; and the most objec- special object of Its Institution was the Marquette vs. Wilkinson (Mich.) 43,
tlonable human heredity can be oa er- education and moral training of young L. It. A. 840, to be held In trust for
come. The Inheritance of the divine . colored girls and the care of orphans the city as against his assignee for
spark which is ever ready to fly up- an*l »Red Infirm people of the race.
creditors.
One of the most Interesting parts of
ward must be forgotten?'
On the abandonment of Its trip for
the convent Is tbe orphan asylum,
the season by steamer starting
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where children ranging In age from the
V a iu a o ie reoDies.
tota j Ugt beginning to walk to girls from Seattle to Dawson and reaching
Between the northern point of Long of
a r * cared for One Fort Yukon, but unable to go on be­
Island and Watch Hilb off^New York, of the B,sterg ln C(,arge of the babies cause of the low stage of water In the
lies a row of little Islands, two of which, was an ex-slave, She Is a real “main- Yukon River, It Is held, in Smith vs.
Plum Island and Goose Island, possess my” still.
North American Transportation and
a peculiar form of mineral wealth. It
Tea
Company (Wash.) 44, L. R. A. 557,
But, reverend mother, you seem to
consists ln heaps of richly-colored (jjave gome white children here,” said that It Is the carrier’s duty to bring a
quartz pebbles, showing red, yellow,
Northern visitor, commenting on passenger back to Seattle without
purple and other hues, which are locally the falr whIte Bkln of 8Ome of the chn. charge, and not leave him through tbe>
called agate«. They are used In making dren>
winter ln the Alaskan climate, to await
stained glass windows, and there is a , ..Ohf n o » gaid the nun, smiling a bit the carrier’s convenience for complet­
sufficient demand for them In New York wistfully at the Ignorance of her vls- ing the transportation during tbe fol­
to keep the owners of one or two sloops (tor, “they all have colored blood ln lowing summer.
employed ln gathering them from tbs (heir veins. Maybe they ate only quad-
beaches, where the waves continually roons, octoroons; some of them, indeed,
A man does not know what trouble
roll, and polish them, bringing out the have only one-tenth colored blood, but Is until he owns a house and tries to
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that one-tenth black counts more than make a few dollars a year by renting IL
beauty of their colors.
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¿>'-¿¿4 Ernest Rodney parted
the yellow, clustering curls from his
young wife's brow as he spoke, and
looked dowu at her heaven-blue eyes
with a troubled light In his own.
"But, Ernest, why? She Is a woman,
this aunt of yours, with all a woman's
tender and femiuine influences,” plead­
ed Lucy Rodney.
"She Is an old maid, Lolu, with all
an old maid’s unaccountable whims and
caprices. And 1 tell you she would
never forgive me If she were to know
of my marriage.”
Lucy's brown eyes glittered through
momentary tears.
“Ernest, I am sometimes tempted to
wish that you had never seen me.”
“Lucy! By darling! Are you so soon
beginning to lose hope and courage?”
he asked, almost reproachfully.
"Only for your sake, Ernest, I am
happy. Just as we are.”
“Then, dearest, dismiss the one shad­
ow irom your heart. We will struggle
along for the present, anyway—and
when my aunt's property becomes
ours---- ”
“Oh. Ernest! it seems so wrong thus
to look forward to the death of one's
fellow creatures!”
He smiled and shrugged his shoul­
ders.
“It is the way of the world, my love.
And I have certainly nothing to expect
from Aunt Esther during her lifetime.
Now, little one, give me a kiss, and
wish me Godspeed. If I succeed in sell­
ing my picture I will be back by noon.
If not—why. then, I shall just try
again.”
And so the young artist parted from
his pretty wife.
Lucy ran after him to the steps.
“Ernest! Ernest! You’ll be sure and
not forget to order the little cradle!
Baby came so near falling off the sofa
last night!”
“I’ll remember,” said Ernest Rodney.
He would have liked to spring into an
omnibus instead of walking on that
sultry June morning; he would have
enjoyed a cigar—but he remembered
Lucy's darned gown and mended
gloves, and resolutely buttoned up his
slender purse.
“No,” he said to himself, “it is these
Indulgences that drain away a fellow’s
Income; I must not give way to a single
one—not until I am richer than at pres­
ent?
While pretty Lucy sat down by the
window. Its seat filled in with roses and
geraniums, tosing her blue-eyed baby to
sleep, and contrive how she could best
turn her only black silk dress upside
down and inside out, to make it seem
like new* again.
The clock in the warerooms of
Messrs. Newell & Moulding, furniture
dealers and upholsterers, had Just
struck 2. and Mr. Moulding entered
with a brisk step.
“Boy.” cried he. breathlessly, to an
overgrown specimen of the genus homo,
who was polishing a bedstead back,
“where is this cradle to go?”
“Name of E. Rodney,” the boy speed­
ily made answer.
“Where?”
The boy scratched his head.
“I—I forget, sir,” he reluctantly re­
plied. “But I know the name was Rod­
ney.”
“You're a blundering-headed dolt,”
Mr. Moulding barked impatiently out.
“Do you expect an article is to stand
here all day after being bought and
paid for? Give me the directory
quick.”
He whirled the pages over with his
finger and presently came to a medita­
tive pause.
.
“Rodney, E.,” he muttered between
his teeth, “No. — General street. Take
It around there at once, Martin. None
of your loafing around, now.”
And Martin, shouldering the cradle,
started with promptitude.
Miss Esther Rodney sat at her worst­
ed work by the front window when
Martin tolled up the steps, his brow
beaded with perspiration. Now, Miss
Esther was a tall, thin old maid, with
a brown face, angular Jaws and irregu­
lar teeth.
“Bless my soul alive!” cried Miss Es­
ther, dropping the worsted needle
which was about to finish a dog’s nose
In gray and white zephyr, “what’s that
thing coming here for?” and she Jerked
up the window. “Boy! boy! there is
some mistake!”
Martin stared.
“Name of E. Rodney, mem!” said he,
glancing dubiously at the door-plate,
which bore a similar legend.
“Humph!” sniffed Miss Rodney,
“what on earth do you suppose I want
with such an article as that? Who
ordered it?”
“Your husband, mem, I s'pose,” an­
swered Martin, hopelessly.
“Never had such a thing in my life,”
retorted the spinster, sharply.
“It was a young gen’leman, mem, a
tall party with brown whiskers,” ex­
plained Martin, “name of E. Rodney."
A sudden light broke In upon Miss
Rodney's bewildered brain.
“It's my nephew, Ernest,” cried she,
"As true as I live and breathe. It’s my
nephew Ernest. A cradle! Then he's
been and gone and married that urtlst’s
daughter, after all. But I’ll be at the
bottom of the mystery, or I'll know the
reason why.”
"What be I a-goln’ to do with the
cradle?” vacantly demanded the unsuc­
cessful embassy of Messrs. Newell <&
Moulding, after waiting In valu for
some further advice.
"Take It to Jericho, for what I care,”
said Miss Esther sharply. “Only dou't
bring It here. We want no cradles in
this house.”
Jericho being manifestly out of the
question, Martin took the cradle back
to the warehouse, where Mr. Newell
swore at him until ho was out of
breath.
And Miss Rodney, whisking on her
bonnet and shawl, hurried round to the
quarter of the city, where she knew
her nephew had secured lodgings.
"Married! and never to tell me,” said
she to herself. “A cradle, and never to
let me kuow. I wouldn’t have believed
it of Ernest. Some flue lady with fold­
ed hands anil rings on her fingers, and a
nurse to take care of her baby, I'll go
ball. Poor Ernest; he never did have
common sense about those things!”
It was a pretty, one-story cottage,
just on the edge of the suburbs, on
whose door Miss Rodney knocked—a
cottage where, as her quick eye at once
perceived, the window glass was fault­
lessly clear, and the muslin curtains
daintily white. No one answered the
sound and, pushing the door open, Miss
Rodney entered.
In a little room, at the end of the hall.
Mrs. Ernest Rodney stood, her sleeves
rolled up, her pretty arms Immersed
in soapsuds, while with one foot she
gently agitated the bread tray on the
floor (In which lay a blue-eyed baby,
wide awake and smiling). Miss Esther
stood still and gazed at the fair, cherry-
cheeked little woman In her gingham
dress and checked apron, her curls pin­
ned back nud her energies devoted so
earnestly to the task of washing Er­
nest's collars and wristbands.
“Not such a helpless flue lady as I
thought,” said Miss Esther. “A pretty
baby, too. and the very imnge of poor,
dear Ernest when he was a child.”
Suddenly Mrs. Ernest, thrilled by the
unconscious electricity with which
one’s presence, however unsuspected,
will Inspire another, turned around.
“Who are you?” she asked, with a
slight start. “How came you here?”
“I am your husband's aunt, my dear,"
said Miss Esther, quite gently. “Will
you come here and kiss me? Yes, yes.
you are pretty—and you have a sweet,
truthfu’ look. I do not believe that It
was through your fault that Ernest has
kept me In Ignorance of all this.”
“Indeed—Indeed, It was not,” sobbed
f.ncy.
“Oh, Aunt Esther, I have
di earned about seeing you so many
times—but you never folded me In your
arms like this. And you’ll kiss the
baby, won’t you?”
“I shouldn't wonder,” said Aunt Es­
ther.
And when Ernest came home, he
found Lucy all smiles and radiance, and
Aunt Esther tending baby as if she had
served a life apprenticeship at the busi­
ness.
“Aunt Esther!” he cried, starting
back.
“Nephew Ernest!” she retorted.
“You have discovered my secret!”
cried he.
“I have.”
“And who told you?”
“The cradle,” answered Aunt Esther,
with a laugh, as she pointed down to
that useful article of household furni­
ture which, having at last blundered
Into the right place, stood at her fe e t
“And oh, Ernest, she has forgiven us
both, and she has promised to love me!”
ecled Lucy, “and we are all happy!”
“God bless the cradle, then—that Is
all I have to say,” said Ernest, rever­
ently.—New York Daily News.
The C zar a t Home.
Alexander I I I . , the late Czar of Rus­
sia, was said to be an autocrat even In
the bosom of his family. Nicholas II.,
however, Is the very reverse. He re­
gards his consort as a good comrade
and when In urgent cases ministers
seek an audience late In the evening
he Is Invariably to be found in her
company, chatting and laughing with­
out restraint. The Czar Is generally oc­
cupied at his desk, while the Czarina
busies herself with embroidery work.
Immediately a minister enters she rises
as If to retire, but more often than
otherwise the Czar informs her that
she Is not one too many.
L o n g e s t Y e a r o a ll e c o r d .
The year 47 B. C. was the longest on
record. By order of Julius Caesar it
contained 445 days.
The additional
days were put In to make the seasons
conform as nearly as possible with the
I solar year.