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TH3 CLP TUSNFIKB.
We hear do more the elasglnr ho J,
Ant the itr Co -n mtUing b-;
For the ttetm klng rales the tielol world,
cd Ute old Ht-'i left t ie-
1 he m cwm o'er the flinty path. ,
An J Ui telthy 0'f ies teal.
Whvre or ce tae tiafre-horab Uy by .dar
Lite3 h e uoo heel.
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- Ko mfire the weary stager dreads
The toll of th;rxniltig morn: - '
. 2?o more the battling la-tdlord rana.
. At the sound of the echoing horn;
For the dut liesatiil upon the road.
And br1g&t-erel cnlHren play. - r
, H hereonof? the clattering hoof an4 wheel
KaUttd along the wax.
...-. Jlo ojore we hear the cracking whip.
Or tUeatrong whet-la rumbling, round; '
A h. h. (h attnr 1riM H1MI.
And an Iron horse 1m fonnd 1 ' ,
The coach stattds ruitibg In the yard.
and the horse hath aougbt the plow;
We have spanned the worid with an Iron rail.
And the steam king ralae u now 1
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TtSjAQ, torn bISnrrs t f Tte no mor ; "
ide onen stands the rate: .
We have made u a rsd for onr hone to stride.
Which we tid at a fiylng rate.
We have filled the vaueys and levelled the bills,
And tunneled the m;Hint)n'n side;
And ronud the rouh crab's dizzy verge,
Fearleady oa we ride ! .
On on on with a haagbty front;.
A pan", a shriek, and a oonnd;
WMie the tardy echo a wake too late.
To babble back the aoand;
And the old Pikeroad 1 left alone.
And the tfagerp sovgbt the plow; .
We have Circled the earth with Iron rail.
And tost steam king rales us i ow I
PRIESTLY. TE VTMEXTS.
The solemn mass meeting at the open
ivg of the synod i the votive mass of
the Holj Ghost, says the Catholic Ee
view. If .the temple itssif is fall of
lesson, what a wealth is there in every
thiDg that immediately snrroands the
altar, priest and sacrifice? All the scrip
ture, all the theology, the entire Chris
tian tradition, from our own days back
to the Mosaic and ante-Mosaic periods
when the Messiah was but a promise, are
Crystallized in this altar, its priest and
its rite.
The celebrant, being a bishop outside
bis diocese, sits at the epistle side at the
foot of the altar on a portable chair,
known as the faldstool, a well known
survival of the chair of the Roman. He
is there invested with the mystic dress
of his order. Every portion of it, what
ever its origin, whether in Mosaic type
or in the necessity of the early Christian
days, or in the progress of its liturgical
pcience, bas now, with its accompanying
prayer, a spiritual and allegorical mean
ing as well as a historical origin.
Attendant on the bishop are an assist
ant priest and a deacon, who represent
the law and the prophets, Moses and
Elias, thai; in the mountain of the trans
figuration spoke with Jesus. His sub -deacon
is John the - Baptist, the' pre
cursor. The two deacons., of honor at
tendant on the cardinal are. David and
Abraham, to whom the promise of the
incarnation was made. They are the two
columns whom the king of . peace has
placed before the gate of the vestibule
of the temple.
The vestments cf the Christian high
priest are to be examined in a double as
pect, in their reference to Christ, whom
the minister represents, as well as in re
lation to the work of the priest himself,
and thede principals animate the church,
as Cardinal Lorthaire points out, in
every action that the Pontiff performs in
making ready for the sacrifice.
Preparing to announce the gospel of
peace, the bishop pats on sandals and
buskins, types of the incarnation, for
our flesh was as a shoe to the feet of
Christ, which He assumed to discbarge
the functions of his priesthood. The
sandals are attached to the buskins, re
calling the human soul which serves as
the in ferment ary to the divinity to nnite
itself to our flesh. As the first sustains
the body, so does the divinity govern the
world and makes all evil its footstool.
The sandals further recall the promise of
the Holy Scripture: "How beautiful
on the mountains are the feet of those
who preach the gospel of peace The
open sandal warns the minister that he
who preaches the gospel mn6t be free
from every taint of worldly affection.
In this spirit, too, the bishop washes
his hands, eo that spiritually he may be
pure. "To eat without purifying the
bands defiles no one. What defile him
are the things that come from his month
and heart bad thoughts, homicides,
thefts, impurities, false testimonies.blas
pbemies." The amict, still called the helmet of
salvation, was formerly a covering for
the head, and is even now worn as a cowl
by the Dominicans while going from the
sacristy to the altar. It is placed first
just on the head and then on the shoulders-
It represents the strength of good
deeds 'The string that fanen it in
front are tiro intentions which animate
our work and the end to which we direct
them, fto that there may be no leaven of
malice- or injustice in them, but that
they should be accompanied . with the
azyme of sincerity and truth. Work is
the mission of the priest. "Labor like a
"good soldier ol Christ."
The alb typifies the new life of Christ.
"Clothe me, O Lord, with the new man,
who, according to. God, is created in jus
tice and the holiness of truth." Great
care is taken in fitting it to the shoulders
and to the body, to show that the life of
the priest onght to be well-ordered and
regulated. It whitenesa expresses pur
ity of heart. It is of linen, because linen
represents the justice and virtue of the
saints. Still another mystio reason the
ilhar of the flx. bruised and torn, re
ceived from the bleacher a whiteness
that did not belong to it by nature. So
the flesh of man, chastised and
mortified by penanon, receives a grace
of purity w Licit it cannot ac
quire by nAae alone. .The
priest is bonml to chasttHfl his body and
reduce it to enbji'ction, lest he who bas
Vreaehed to others become a castaway
lii tost if. In the Jewish priesthood the
alb was straight, because of the spirit of
servitude, which, in those days, com
pelled souls by fear. Under the new law,
its ample folds indicate the holy liberty
in which are placed the children of
adoption. Sometimes the alb' is decor
ated, and this, too, has scriptural signifi
cance. : It is bound up by a cincture to
show that the priest must keep himself
chaste, in spite of the stings of the flesh.
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-L6I your joins ue girt buu your lamps
burning." In the Apocalypse the Son of
Man carried "a cincture of sold." It is
the perfect charity of Jesus Christ, which
anrnuaaaa all nndfirstfindino- . It is n.lar
justice. "J nstice," says Esaias, "will be
the cincture oz his loins, and faith bis
buckler," The tassels at the end of the
cincture are the' natural justioe taught
by Christ. "Do not do unto others what
you would not wish them to do to you."
The stole which the bishop puts on his
neck, is the obedience and holy service
to which the Lord Jesus subjected him
self, "who, being in the form of God.
thought it not robbery to be equal with
God, but emptied himself, -taking the
form of a servant, being made . in the
likeness of a man and in habit found as a
man, he humbled himself , becoming obe
dient unto death, even to the death of the
cross.
What, then, was a humiliation to the
first of our priesthood becomes a stole of
glory to all that, followed Him, take the
yoke, which in His eervicd is light and
makes the burden sweet. ' -
The stole, as worn by the bishop,
hangs pendant and is sot crossed; as by
the priests. It thus explains its name,
"oranum, and indicates its origin, be
ing the fringe of a senatorial robe. The
stele is tied up by the cincture, to indi
cate that the .virtues should mutually
support each other.
Two garments of kindred form, one
somewhat smaller than the other, are now
put on, the tunic and the dalmatic. The
tunic, retained from the Jewish priest
hood, is the figure of the doctrine of
Christ, which is proclaimed by the little
bells formerly attached to it. This tunia
of Christ was spared by the soldiers who
slew him; It was left to heresy to rend
the nnity of Catholic doctrine. To the
pontiff the long tunio farther indicates
perseverance, wnicn alone reoeives tne
erown. .
The ample dramatic indicate the abun-
ant mercy of Christ. "Blessed . are the
merciful, for they Bhall obtain mercy.
"Mercy and not sacrifice have I asked."
As an episcopal garment, with ample
sleeves, it represents the liberality and
generosity of tne episcopal, order.
"Share your bread with the hungry and
receive under your roof the poor and
homeless." . Those who recall the charit
able work of the deacon, as illustated,
for example, in the case of St. Lawrence.
need not be told why the dalmatic is the
delmatio is the garment of thediseonate.
The bisnop s gloves recall the Bkins of
goats which Bebacoa put on Jacob.
!By this skin of kids," save Innocent
III, "we must understand the resemb
lance of sin, with whioh Bebecca, that
is, the disgrace of the Holy Spirit, has
clothed the hands of the true Jacob,, to
wit, the exterior work? of Jesus Christ,
so that the new Adam might carry in
himself an image of these. Jesus
Christ has taken the appearance of sin
without since itself (Romans viii, 3;
Hebrews iv., 15) in order to conceal from
the demon. For, like sinners, He was
hungry, He was thursty, He knew grief
and sorrow. He slept. He labored. For
this, after he had fasted forty days and
forty, nights, He was hungry, and the
tempter, approaching him, tempted Him
as he did the first Adam. ; But this spirit
of evil was conquered ; by the second
Adam by the same means which gave
Him triumph over the first."
For bishops the gloves have this les
son: They are put on after the Dalmatic
to indicate that good works are to be
done modestly, so that : the right hand
may not know what the lett does.
The chasuble, or little house (casula)
was formerly, as even to-day in many
rites, a round garment falling from the
shoulders to the ground. It was raised
at times by the attendant ministers to
permit the celebrant to use his arms
freely. Of this custom we still have a
trace in the action of the server at the
elevation, and at other times in high
masses. But as time advanced the round
garment was out into its present form.
It represents the universal church, of
which the old was the predecessor and
type. One is separated from the other
in the order or of time, by the mystery
of the cross. The moral teaching of the
chasuble is charity, which' covers a mul
titude of sins.. It is the nuptial garment.
The amict is made to touch it to show
that every good work must be animated
with charity. The two parts of the cha
suble indicate love of God and onr neigh
bor, "the whole law and the prophets."
The extent of the cbasuble indicates that
charity is all embracing, including even
our enemies.
The maniple, forming a kind of nap
kin, is not assumed by the bishop until
after the confiteor. It typifies the vigi
lance and labor in the oervice of the
Lord which will produce the sweat of
the brow in which all must eat their
bread. It is worn on , the left arm, to
show that Jesus Christ,. and' every trne
priest, enjoys the recompense of his
labor. "They Tfrent weeping, sowing
their seed; with joy they will return,
carrying (manipulos) their arms full of
the' harvest." J
The crown of the bishop is his miter,
a crown of glory and honor, it is true,
but one which those worthiest of it have
always found, on this earth at least, a
crown of thorns, "With glory and honor
Thou hast crowned him and placed him
over the works of Thy bauds." On the
miter of the Hebrew priest was the in
effable name of God. The miter of the
Cnristian bishop represents, "the name
that is above every name," and the honor
that is due to the humanity of Jesus, be
cause of its union with his ' divinity.
The miter signifies the science of the
two testaments, its horns representing
respectively the' Old and New Testa
ment, and the two posterior binds, the
spirit and letter. ,
The ring is the gift of the Holy Spirit,
who in tho Scripture is often called the
linger of the Most High. The circle cf
gold indicates the perfection of the gifts
of the Holy Ghost, which Christ has re
ceived in a meaHureleas degree. "God
has given Him His spirit without meas
ure." This plentitude of the Spirit
Christ distributes variously to His dis
ciples; to some the gift of speaking with
science and knowledge, to others the
grace of curing the sick, toothers the
power to work miracles. ; These gifts are
made sensible by the 'ministry of the
bishop, who give' to the church priests,
deacons and inferior members, each with
jmwer peculiar to ms oruer. xue ring
also is a sign of the faith which a bishop I
pledges to his chnrch,.bis mystio bride,
on tne aav oi nis espousals. - A
Were the cardinal celebrating the mass
he would wear still another investment,
I the pallium the sign of his metropolitan
authority. He would also carry the pas
total staff or crozier, the sign of his pas
torsi charge. This, in fact, he carries
while presiding at his mass. Its well
known shape is that - of a shepherd's
crook, pointed at the end, straight in the
middle, and curved at the top. it en
ableg the. pastor of souls to punish the
lax and remiss, to direct thooe needing
guidance, and to restrain those slipping
out of the ranks. It is hardly necissary
to recall the faith or the Irish warrior,
who stood next to Pitriok at Tara, when
preaching the Trinity and baptising in
its name. The apostle's staff, pointed at
the end, pierced the foot of the Prince,
who bore the accidental torture unflinch
ingly thinking it was a necsesary part
of. the ceremoni.. - - - - ,
- ior uuuutur reaauu uiau tuit lur wiucu
a bishop, outside of his 'diocese, does
not ordinarily carry . the crosier, the
Pope does not carry it in Rsme.. It is
in remembrance of the fact that St.
Peter sent his 6taff to Eucharions, the
first bishop of Treves, the apostles of the
Teutons. . .
- The color of the vestments of the . day
was .red, red the color of the cross, the
color of the sacred heart,' the - color of
the martyrs, the coloJ of the fire of the
holy spirit, the color, as it seems, "me
judice," the most beautiful and inspir
ing among all used by the churches.
"Who is this that cometh from Edom,
with dyed garments from Bosra, this
beautiful one in his robe, Walking in the
greatness of his strength?" - "I that
speak justice, and am a .defender to
save?". "Why, then, is thy apparel red,
and thy garments like their that tread
in the wine press?" ."I have trodden the
wine press alone."
"Red vestments.," says Cardinal Lo-
thaire, "are worn on ' .the " feasts of the
apostles and martyrs, in memory of the
blood which they have spilled for Jesus
Christ. - l or it is of them that it is said:
"They have come from the midst of a
great affliction, and they have washed
and whitened their robes in the robes in
the blood of the lamb." (Apoc. vii.,
14.) Red vestments appear also on the
least of the Holy Cross, upon which
Jesus Christ spilled his precious blood
for us. ' Why is it, says the prophet,
'that your garment is red, like thnt of
those who tread the grape in the wine
press?' On the day of Pentecost also, to
indicate the fervor of the holy spirit, who
descended upon the apostles in the form
of tongues of fire. It is written in Jore
miaar 'He has sent from the height of
heaven the fire into the marrow of thy
bones.' Red is used on the day of the
martydom of St. Peter and Paul, but
there used white vestments on the - feast
of the conversion of St. Paul and the
chair of St. Peter. Likewise on-the na
tivity of St. Join, white, and on the
feast of his decolatian. red; that is to
say, in honoring the feast of him who
is both martyr and virgin, we elevate
martyrdom above virginity, as the sign
of the most perfect charity, according to
the words of Christ, that 'no man hath
greater love than this, to give his life
for his friends.'"
A Bootblack's Elegy,
Brandy is dead!
So the men said, so the women said,
and so the children called to each other
as a piece of news. " -
A drunken, good-for-nothing. A so
called man, whose brain had. become
dissolved in liquor,' whose mind was en
feebled, and who had disappointed
everybody by not dying in the gutter,
instead of havint? the roof of a tenement
house over "his head.
Why should any one grieve when such
a vagabond passes away? The world
may owe him room for his bones to rest,
but nothing further. So in "Brandy's"
case men said that he was well out of the
way, and women clattered their dishes in
the rooms below, and cared not for the
presence of the dead.
When the undertaker came4o bear the
body away a dozen people crowded into
the room, and among theni was a boot
black. Some said that "Brandy" looked
well in a coffin; others spoke lightly
about his face having at last lost its ruby
color, and the dead pauper was no more
than a dog in their minds, and why
should he have been? One can be a man
or he can be a vagabond. If he beoomes
a vagabond, let him lose the respect of
men. All had a heartless remark except
the bootblack. He stood at the head of
the coffin and looked from face to face,
and said:
. "Brandy was low down, and he died
like a beast, and you are all sneering at
him. Did any one among you ever give
him a chance? Did he have a home
when he was a boy ? Did men try to
encourage him and guide him aright?
Is there a man in this room who ever
took him by the hand and spoke one kind
word ? Didn't everybody abuse and ill
treat him? Didn't everybody look upon
him as a dog?'
There was no answer.
"Aye! Brandy was low down!' whis
pered the boy as. he laid his hand upon
the coffin. "He was ragged and hungry,
and poor and homeless, and without one
single friend. What man among yon
could have stood out agiinst it any bet
ter? Poor old man. They know all
about it in heaven. Lgt me help to carry
him down."
' And when the dead had been driven
away, and the boy had disappeared,
more than one man eaid :
After all, we: might have made it
easier for the poor old man. I wonder
thai; come of us never sought to make a
manrf him, instead of helping him
down." M. Quad
Liquid carbonic aid is now manufac
tured in considerable quantities at the
great iron works of Krupp, in Essen,
Prussia, and is used for a variety of pur
poses. Among its most carious applica
tions is that of removing bauds from
cannon. - The great guns made at this
foundry are bound with iron hoops,
which are driven on while expanded by
a high heat, and become very tight on
cooling. The removal of a ring is some
times necessary, and this is effected by
means of the evaporation of liquid car-
acid in contact with the cannon.
the temperature of the latter being thus)
hnnm arii in
reduced to many degrees oeiow zero.
causing the cannon itself to contract and
loosen the ring, which retains an ordin
ary temperature, ; i
a ccnioirs MiNuscEipr.
Among the manuscripts left by the
major was the following: une day while
roaming with my gun x chanced to go
further than I was wont but when I
tamed to retrace my steps I found that
I was completely bewildered as to the
proper course. I . had' been dreaming
along as l wanted, lor tua leaves, color
ing under the touch of the season's first
frost, the bleaching - grass, the haze
overhead, and the sof tly - sighing air-
all had combined to make me forget my
self. I walked rapidly in what I thought
to be a home direct on. but after an
hour had passed I . f ?und myself even
more bewilderedthflu at .first. ' Arkan-
saw was a wild coaiu; m those days
so-wildrhat you'coala sometimes travel
for days without seeing a human habita
tion. .1 began to get excited. Any one
who is familiar with the woods knows
there is no feeling like becoming excited
in a forest. - It is inexplicable like the
shaking that sometimes seizss a hunter,
especially if he be a new one, when a
deer approaches. When a man in the
woods is convinced that he is lost he
feels an almost irresistible impulse to
run wild. - Children have been lost in
the woods, and in half a day's time they
are, in some instances, so wild that when
found they will bite and scratch and
soream, even if their mothers approach
them. I felt this excitement coming on
me, and I knew that if I did rot do
something to counteract its influence I
would go wild. -Then I reflected how
often I bad been temporarily lost, and
how at any other time I would have
laughed, at the idea of running wild. I
thought that I would Are off my gun
that it would afford some relief. I
looked around, and my hair stood on
end. My gun was gone. "I had it a
moment ago," I thoughtfully mused;
"what could I have done with it?" and I
threw back my head and howled. "I
must not encourage such outbreaks," I
said to myself "for a man will go wild
even in a city if he howls very much;'
and I remembered that when . I was a
boy several of my companions went wild
while shouting in admiration of a circus,
procession, and that the show men
caught them and put them in cages,
where they remained, even defying the
recognition of their parents. One of the
boys was named Luke Horn, and when
his father came along and looked at
Luke, the boy held out his paw he had
paws at that time and the old gentle
man jumped back ' aad exclaimed:
"Why, that devilish monkey wants to
take hold of mo."
I laughed at this recollection and I
got down and gnawed nt the root of a
tree. Then I arose and bowled. I
couldn't stand on my hind feet very
long yes, hanged if I didn't have four
feet and a tt il by this time. The truth
is, I had gradually become a wolf. I
feel that any one who chooses to read
this manuscript will smile incredulously
at this, and produce all kinds of argu
ments to prove the impossibility of a
man retrograding into a wolf; and prob
ably the same man, too, may be a be
liever in the. theory of evolution. I shall
not argue this point, though, for in re
gard to my own experience I am cartain,
while any one who opposes me could
only protest without proof, and hence
arguments would be mere assertions un
sustained by a single fact. .
I had not been a fully developed wolf
but a few moments until several other
wolves came from the valley below and
began to sniff around me. When satis
fied that' I was genuine they sat down,
whereupon we all began to discuss the
advisability of getting something to eat.
It was soon decided that we should go
down into the valley, where there was a
farm well stocked with sheep. The men
tion of sheep made my mouth water, for,
being a wolf, Lwas as hungry as myself.
We started on our expedition and soon
reached the farm. Justr-as we jumped
over the fence to seize the sheep a man
sprang from behind a stump and fired
upon us. A buckshot wounded one of
my hind legs, and, after vainly attempt
ing to leap over the fence, I fall among
a lot of bushes, where I lay perfectly
still, hoping to .escape observation. In
this .1 was disappointed, for the old
farmer ran to me, thrust his gun between
the bushes and aimed at. my bead. I
whined piteously and shut my eyes, ex
pecting to be blown into atoms, but the
farmer did not shoot.
"I wonder what sort of a dog a wolf
would make," said the farmer, turnirfg
to his son. "This fellow whines so that
I don't want to finish him. He must
have been led into this thing. Let me
see if he wants to bite," and he put his
hand on my head. I did not bite him,
but licked his hand. He was so veil
pleased at this that be took me up and
carried me to the house." My wound
was soon dressed, and after they had
given me something to eat I felt pretty
comfortable. Still I was a wolf, and,
although they were so kind to me, yet I
meditated revenge. I wanted to do
some deviltry and then go back to my
companions. One day, after; I had
thoroughly recovered, the , old man set
me to watching the sheep in a small
pasture. He seemed to have confidence
in me, for he did not even look back af
ter he crossed the fence. How I wished
for my companions, and I howlod. The.
sheep became frightened and huddled
together. I howled again, and an an
swer came from the woods. Another
howl, and my companions jumped ovvr
the fence. I selected a young lamb that
had ever looked sweet and tender to me,
and I made a spring for him; when bang
went a gun and L,f ell over, shot through
both fore legs. I looked up and saw
the farmer coming. I whined, but he
frowned and leveled his gun at my head.
I lay in bed at home. . Numerous
friends stood around me, and wheu
told them not to shoot again, they as
sured me that I was out of danger. .
"You have been in a very dangerous
condition," said one of my friends.
"Several days ago you went out hunting,
and as you did not return at your accus
tomed time several of us went out to
look for you, and you may imagine our
horror when we saw your body in a pool.
We drew yoa oat, and were rejoiced to
discover that life was not extinct. You
had evidently been walking very rapidly,
and had stepped into the pool hef ore
discovering it. Your face wore an ex
pression of alarm, and we could not see
that yoa had made an effort to get out,
and I really do not , believe that yoa
had.-. .- , .!. 1 ; :-'
When I recovered I asked my friend
to show me the pool, whioh he did, then
leaving me as I requested; I did not re
member to have ever seen the pool, but
I recognized , a tree close by. Some
thing had been gnawing the root of the
tree, and I could plainly see the print of
a wolf's teeth. From this tree I went
down ' into a valley, along no trail, but
by a way strangely familiar. I soon
reached a fence, and looking over I saw
a flock of sheep feeding. 1 1 wenfeto the
farm house not far away, where I found
a farmer who. did not know me. but
whose face to me was familiar. I talked to .
liim about sheep raisins'. and" finaliv-I
adroitly turned the conversation upon
wolves. - - i
"I had a very strange experience with
a wolf," he said. "About two week ago I
heard wolves howling in! the day time.
which is rare. I did not know but they
intended a raid on my sheep, and taking
my gun I went out to the Sheep pasture
and hid behind a stump. I had not been
there long when the wolves jumped over
the fence. I fired and one of them fell
over in the bushes. 1 loaded my gun.
ran to him and was on the eve of shoot
ing when he whined and gave me a look
so nearly human that I could not shoot.
I put my hand on his head, and he
looked at me by George, sir, no offense
intended, but he had an eye nearly like
yours. ;
"No apology necessary, I replied,
"please go on with your story."
"He was won ndedin the hind leg,
and after it was dressed it healed with
wounderf ul rapidity. Sometimes the
animal's eyes would have a human ex
pression and then again it would glare
like any other wolf's eye; but upon the
whole, he seemed so intelligent and ap
peared to be so anxious to do something
to repay me that one day I took him down
to the pasture and told him to watch the
sheep. Well, sir, I hadn't more than
reached the house when I heard him
howl. I Beized my gun, stole around
and watched. He kept on howling, and
pretty soon 1 saw several' wolves jump
over the fence. J nst then my wolf made
a dash after a lamb and I shot hfm. He
was only wounded and I ran to him and
blew his head off." j
"When did this ocour?"
"Last Thu sday." j :
"What time?" i :
"About 2 o'clock." j
I turned and walked away. It was the
very time when I regined conscious
ness and found my friends standing
around me. Arkansaw Traveler.
Fashions In Alaska.
One Indian village wanders along the
beach below the wharf and another set
tlement is hidden behind a knoll at the
other side of town, and the natives came
from these two places and huddled in
groups on the wharf. Most of them
were barefooted in this cold autumnal
rain, but wrapped in blankets and in
nearly every case carrying an umbrella.
The women and children tripped down
in their bare feet, and sat around on the
dripping wharf with a recklessness that
suggested pneumonia, ! consumption,
rheumatism and all of those kindred ills
from which they suffer; so severely.
Nearly all of the women had their faces
blacked, and no one can imagine any
thing more frightful and sinister on a
melancholy day than to tie confronted by
one of these silent, stealthy figures with
the great circles of the whites of .the eyes
alone visible in the shadow - of the
blanket. : 1 ... '
A dozen fictitious reasons are giving
for this face blacking.' One Indian says
that the widows and those who have suf
fered great sorrow wear , the black in
token thereof. Another native authority
makes it a sign of happiness, while occa
sionally a giggling dame confesses that
it is done to preserve tho complexion.
Ludicrous as this may ' seem to the
bleached Caucasian and ladies of rice
powdered and enameled countenances,
the matrons of high fashion and the
swell damsels of the Thlinket tribes
never make a canoe voyage without
smearing themselves well with the black
dye that they get from a certain wild
root of the woods, or with . a paste of
soot and seal oil. Oo sunny and windy
days on shore they protect themselves
from tan and sunburn by this same inky
coating. Oa feast days and the great
occasions, when they wash off the black,
their complexions come out as fair and
creamy white as palest of their Japanese
cousins across the water, and the women
are then seen to be some six shades
lighter than the tan colored and coffee
colored lords of their tribe.
The specimen woman at Juneau wore
a thin calico dress and ' a- thick blue
blanket. Her feet were bare, but she
was compensated for that loss of gear
by the turkey red parasol that she
poised over her head with all the com
placency of. a Mount Deseret belle.
She had blacked her face to the edge of
her eyelids and the roots of her hair;
she woro the full parure of silver nose
ring, lip-ring and earringB with Ave sil
ver bracelets on each wrist and fifteen
rings ornamenting her bronze fingers,
and a more thoroughly proud and self
satisfied creature never arrayed herself
according to the behests of high fashion.
The children pattered around barefooted
and wearing but a singlo short garment,
although the weather was as cold and
drear as our November.; Not one of
these poor youngsters even ventured on
the croupy congh that belongs to the
civilized hild that has only put its hose
out of doors in such weather.
One can easily believe the records and
the statements as to the terrible death
: rate among these people and marvel that
any of them ever live beyond their in
fancy. So few old people are seen among
them as to continually cause remark, but
by their Spartan system only the strong
est can possibly survive the exposure and
hardships of such a life, j Consumption
is the -common ailment and carries them
away in numbers, yet they have no med
icines or remedies of their own, trust
only to the incantations and hocus-pocus
of their medioine men, and have not the
slightest care to protect themselves from
exposure. Great epidemics have swept
these Mlands at times, and forty years
ago the scourge of smallpox carried off
half the natives of Alaska. The tribes
have never regained their numbers since
that terrible devastation, and since then
black measles and other diseases have so
reduced their people that another fifty
years , may see these tribes extinct.
Globe-Democrat.
The Poet of the bferr&s.
Joaquin Miller, George Alfred Town-
send, Joe Howard; old New York Froth
ingham. Jennie June Croly, Annie Wake
man, Janet Gilder, and a raft of others.
mane it their business to tell the count
less thousands out of Gotham what is go
ing on here -and a good deal that ism t.
Some of them are not. Take the case of
a man like Miller often an interesting
writer or prose, always an attractive
talkr about the wild life of the extreme
west, certainly a poet of nature, and gen
erally as full of eccentricity as a locomo
tive with a wheel off, Miller cuts a strik
ing figure wherever he goes. His pres
ent occupation is the furnishing of ten
rural journals with h weekly letter writ
ten in manifold. In addition, he turns
up a random poem now and then,and he
makes in all about $7000 a year. His
letters bring him about $10 apiece, so
that for actually wnting a column and a
half of matter with manifold pencil, he
receives th handsome sum of $100 a
week which is better pay in comp irison
with the actual work done than any other
writer in America receives. I believe
the Sierran poet has also had a hand re
cently in a new comedy for Annie Pixley
a piece of work in whioh he went
"cahocta" with Archie Gordon, who is
one of the cleverest and brightest writers
in New York. Long ago Miller ceased
to receive royalties from the Danites.
His contract called for a nightly sum un
til the total of ;3 10,000 should be reached.
He received the final $500 two years ago,
and bas never turned - out another oohe
sive dramitio work,- though I believe he
is all the time doing something in the
dramatic line. Miller's long hair of former
days bas yielded to the persuasive shears
of the barber, and he is getting be be
slightly bald. But he wears his blonde
beard just the same, and
forsaken' hi 3 slouched
J j UiiU AJCM U7 V Ol
fti n a w Ar aw
felt bat. Miller
has a fine large bead and a game leg.
He got his latter adornment, he says,
through the agency of some Modoc
bullets. For a long time he lived in a
flat in New York, his only attendant be
ing a colored boy who vainly tried to
keep the place in order, while Miller did
the cooking, slept on the floor rolled up
in a buffalo robe, broke the necks from
his bottles in preference to using a cork
screw, and otherwise conducted his daily
life in a way vaguely reminiscent of his
former times on the border. The great
est mistake Miller, made was in not stay
ing in London the first time he went
over. Haws a line on that side of the
water, where the quaint freshness of his
poem struok forcibly upon the minds of
readers unaccustomed to his method.
He came back - here, was considerably
guyed, and for some years lived in more
or less poverty. But there proved to be
more ttuff in him than he was given
credit for, and he finally came down to
solid, hard work, after giving up the silly
notion that he had been intended by
high heaven to represent the great
American nation as minister to the court
of St. James. Miller is pretty well fixed
at present, and I hardly think he is like'
ly to lose his head again. He is one of
those rarely-found men who have lived
down the animosities of early life, and
whoso ecceutricities, if pronounced, are
t least innocent. -St. Paul Pioneer
Pre. .
A Motor that KecJy Acver 1 bought Of.
The Bodie Free Pross says : "It is re
potted that Jim Townsend has six of his
arastras running to their full capacity.
The remaining four will be started up
next week." The most interesting thing
about these arastros the power by
which they are driven is, curiously
enough, left nnmentioned by the Free
Press. From ai millwright who assisted
inputting up fhe machinery, we have
some particulars regarding the novel
apparatus, which is Mr. Townsend's own
invention. The arastras are placed in a
little sandy flat, where only sufficient
water for drinking purposes and to moist
en the ore is to be obtained. The ar
astras are actually operated by land,
which drives a large overshot wheel.
On this wheels and takes the place of
water.. It was at first Mr. Townsend's
intention to run the arastras by means of
a large windmill, or wind wheel, but as
this wheel .would run too slow at times,
at other .times so fast that it would be
liable to tear everything to pieces,' and
again would not run at all, he bit upon
a regulator. . This regulator is sand, a
great pile of which has been raked up
to the works. The windmill runs a belt
containing a great number of buckets,
and these carry the sand up to a big
tank, just as grain elevators carry wheat
in a "flouring mill. A stream of sand
being let out on the overshot wheel, it
revolves just as it would under the
weight of a stream oi water, and the ar
astras move steadily on : at their work.
When there is much wind, sand is stored
up for use when calm prevails, so the
arastras are never idle. After a sufficient
quantity of sand has been accumulated
there is no more trouble on that score,
the same sand being used over and over.
Virginia Enterprise.
Her Ears il&d Been Bured.
"Don't you think ear-rings would bo
come you?'' inquired Kosciusko Murphy
of Birbie McGee.. Kosciuska had been
paying Birdio very assiduous attentions
of late.
"I don't know," replied Birdie, de
murely. "I sappose the reason you don't wear
them is because it will hurt you so to
hare your ears bored?" '
"Ob, not in the leant," said Birdie,
with animation. "I've had that done
already, quite often, almost evry even
iog in fact, for the last three weeks
Then Kosciusko reached round to the
piano, d fagged his hat off the cover and
commenced to fade gradually from the
room. He fairly melted away into ' ob
scurity, and now a wide chasm separates
the gallant Kosciusko and the charming
Birdie. Texas Sif tings.
A movement is on
children's play rooms
London, - - .."
foot to establish,
for the poor of
. IKDUSTT.IAL ZifTl'M,
Eternal drumming It iL pii a cf tidi
ness.'
Morristown. Tenn., tas a vom'j lar-
ber who does a thriving businais.4-
The women's branches cf tl vrooLr.ra
in New York number 1200 mtn.bcrs.
Prince town. Mass.. has bunled in
about 10,000,000 pounds of cod fish tjia
year.
Ewrhteen thousand and u.""jty tlx
homestead have been entered i 1 i'ioii 1.
during the year. ...
Tennessee claims ta bo t!te i (t:c 1 r.Uxo
in the union irtthd poe:.3j ilo i cf t....or-
oughfcred c.V-i,l. .' . '
Farm aad Garden eajs t.a acre wid
produce five or six times t.'je n:aount cf
strawberries it will wLirat.
Insurance companies claiai to Lata
paid out $IW),000 in Atlanta, G;i., for
losses by fire in the laEt two yes . .
A traot of 1810 acres of picu land in
Clark county. Wis., was sold to t, luuLcr
company in La Crosse for C C3,O;0.
A pasture company recently tTgs.niz.?i
in JJimmitt county, 'lex., nil x. j,. j
acres of pasture land and tS03,X3 cnfi-
t&L
It is said that at the prerent tine be
tween 05,000 and 70,000 Frecc!:. peopla
are engaged in the manufacture of clocks
and watches.
There are two or three hundnid north
ern capitalists in North Carolina uhaVere
attracted thither by the exbiuit ci xuq
state made at the Boston exposition.
In Central Nebraska, along the rail
way, the population of some of t ae coun
ties has increased 100 per cent. ':b pres
ent year, and still the numbtr eoekins
lands is increasing. .
There are probably 175,000 people em
ployed in the woolen and worbtoi indus
try of France, against 200,000 in Ger
many, 170,000 in the United tttea, and
310,000 in Great Britain.
Georiria has a population of 1,542, ISO.
There are in the state eighty cc -ton and
woolen mills, or nearly half the number
of the entire south, and over 2i'00 mills
of various kinds. .
Tho republic of Guatemala, has en
gaged a Ceylon planter to introduce
into that country 500,000 Cinchona trees,
for obtaining Peruvian bark, from which
is distilled the salts known as q canine.
The demand for cotton seed oil for a
variety of uses is increasing, but produc
tion is increasing faster. 2 Tails are
springing up everywhere in th cotton
growing regions. The ree-ult is a dis
couraging outlook for producer!.
Connecticut boasts that it lias built
more ships this year than in rec it years,
but the total is only thirteen vessels,
with an aggregate tonnage of about 10,
000, and all but one of them are designed
for the coasting trade.,
Pittsburg has an establishment which
makes a business of loaning drt as suit.
Its charge for a first class spike tail ia
$2.50 per evening, which price is much
cheaper than paying out froni 75 to
$125 for a suit to wear once a year or
once in two years. .
Getting a Criminal Practice
A murderer in New York can, if ho
chooses, take his pick from a consider
able number of fairly competent law
yers, even though be hasn't a dollar
with whioh to pay. "I was firo years
gutting a profitable criminal practice,"
one of the men in this line ia c noted as
saying, "and I succeeded only" by nerv
ing gratis. I hauntod police courts, and
to every prisoner committed for trial
who had no counsel, I tendered rayer.lf.
In the trial courts the judge m.jr asd-n
any lawyer present to defend a prisoner
not provided with counsel. I made It a
point to be on hand lor these assign
ments. Of course, many of tlie cae.?
were so small -that they didn't cet into
the papers at all, and in some that were
reported my name would not aj-pear.bat
usually each 'hard day's work bronbt
the desired reward in the w&y of pub
licity. My practice grew to immensa
proportions, bat it was a ye&r before I
could get enough money out cf it in a
week to pay my raodost boat.l bill on
Saturday night. At the end of the B60
ond year I had worked up ta barely
living income, but bad a debft left to
clear off, and it is only very l&Ulj that I
have become established firmly enough
to refuse all but cash cases. Indeed, I
do not yet let a good murder (all into
rival hands on account of the prpe
trator's impecaniosity. Lot r e adviee
yoa to commit a sensational , crime, if
any, because then yoa can eeouro law
yers free more eminent ones, Lo:, than
yoa may imagine." N. Y. San.
To EeraoTe Grease Spodu
An exoellent mixture to remc re gre&sa
ipota from boys and men's clothiu
particularly, is made of four pirta cf al
cohol to one of ammonia. ; Apply tlo
liquid to the grease spot and then' rub
diligently with a sponge and clear, cold
water. The chemistry of the c pei&tion
seems to be that the alcohol t ad t ll.-r
dissolve the grease and a tho lmnonia
forms a soap with ft which i . tfu,;ltl
out with water. The result ia tin a
more Mtisfactory than whin iorsttv;.-.;
is used which only seems to t; r; .. t o
spot and make it fainter, but - u tci
aotually remote it. If oil i i pin .1 c i
a carpet and. yoa immei!i;. ' j r, ;
corn meal over it the oil wi t l i t,l
sorbed by it. Oil msy be removed frc-.'.t
carpets upon whioh yoa darn net j :.i
ether or ammonia by lAyiEg tfc c Ma
ting paper over it and pressing alt
flatiron on it. Repeat the opt i it ic a c : v -eral
times, using a clean i;k r r. ; ;
timet.
A Nebraska widow with t;
children is advertising fcr a
There is great virtue in prints
has brought fortunes to bo'b
women; but "we don't btlian
column advertisement, ' insarti
rcaditg matter every day for i.
would bring a husband t j a n
twenty-one children uak j
are kept in too lucfccrorm.l,
ground, or somewhere. V.'t
CO bock on advurti.-ii:' h: .
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