Heppner Weekly Gazette
Published Every Thursday.
HEPPNER OREGON.
Fashion note The favorite colors for
1899 are red, white and blue.
Torto Rico appears to be distinctly
the good little girl among the Spanish
orphans.
If Spain keeps up her present pace
and direction she will soon be down to
a size suitable to a boy king.
When a young man demonstrates
that he has money to burn, some young
.woman always stands ready to furnish
the match.
i Adam Zad, of whom Rudyard Kip
ling wrote, must not be confounded
with the notorious Adam Zapple of an
earlier period.
; If the men are not paying much at
tention to the corset trust it may bo
because it presses the other sex more
closely than themselves.
Bernhardt, It appears, has witnessed
an eruption of Vesuvius. She Is suffi
ciently free from professional Jealousy
to admit it was a red-hot show.
! The Minister of War in Belgium has
ordered 25,000 patriotic song books dis
tributed in the army. He proposes to
m.ke Belgium's foes sing small.
i As soon as tho dismemberment of
China can be accomplished without a
war It may be said that the prospects
for universal peace are really pretty
fair.
I There can le no doubt of the sin
cerity of the tribute to Col. Waring of
the New York overshoe dealer who
said the Colonel's street cleaning cut
his sales In half.
i It Is presumed that England has
placed that order with the shipbuild
ers on the Clyde merely to help enforce
the Czar's proposal for disarmament if
the nations assent to it.
I What those raclflc Islands need Is a
dash of American speed and euergy.
Think of a people who could waste the
time of four syllables In pronouncing a
six-lettered word like Hollo.
1 It was a modest Philadelphia maiden
lady who In relating the story of a re
cent shipwreck told her friends that
seven sailors were brought ashore by
the life-savers In the pantaloons buoy.
It's proposed In Greece that no bache
lors shall be allowed seats In the lower
branch of the national congress. This
may bo becauso by their tralnlug they
have less regard for the speaker of the
house.
Spanish books will be admitted to
Cuba free of duty for the next ten
years. Let us hope that by that time
the Cubans will be writing nnd print
ing books of their own that will repre
sent the beginnings of a new literature.
Little Queen Wilhelmlna of Holland
lias again informed her ministers that
she proposes to have a voice In govern
ing her dominions, nnd those staid
Dutchmen are learning that a woman's
voice Is one of the hardest things In the
world to Ignore.
' With ndeqimto compensation and as
sured permanency in the service men
of talent would be Induced to specially
train themselves for consular work and
devote their lives to It. Where we now
have consuls who regard their places
as mere sinecures given them as re
ward for political service or through
the mediation of somebody with a
"pull' at Washington, we should have
men giving nil their energies to the
work with as much enthusiasm as If It
were their chosen profession as, In
deed, it would bo under a proper sys
tem. ' The powers, Russia Included, impel
led to further nrmnment by the
achievements of some one or two of
them, are pursuing a circle from which
they cannot safely step. Some day
they will turn upon each other nnd col
lide, and after exhaustion and ruin
have made it Imperative for them to
put every sound man at work they
may consider a long truce or eveu an
agreement to turn their wasted armies
Into police. But to think they will do
bo while In the flush and vigor of their
quarrelsome military Btrength is to In
dulge In a millennial dream.
One of the model hotels for single
men, built in New York City by D. O.
Mills, and so managed that it promises
to be self-supiMrtlng, Is nlno stories
high and holds fifteen hundred and
sixty sleeping rooms, all of which front
the street or one of the open courts. It
Is elcgautly finished and furnished,
with every desirable Improvement and
comfort; and Its patrons get bed and
board, with the free use of library,
rending rooms nnd baths, for fifty to
seventy-five cents a day. There Is no
bar, and a visitor gets the Impression
that tho men nre clean, orderly and
self-respecting. The Bchenio of Mr,
Mills Includes three of these hotels,
with the possibility of another for
women.
Here Is a story given In the New
York Sun. Its pathos and Its exhibi
tion of a soldier father's patriotic pride
will appeal to feeling and to sympathy.
.When, on the battle line, tidings came
to Captain Capron of the regulars, an
nouncing the death of his sou, killed at
Las Cuaslmns, he went, when duty
permitted, to where the body lay. The
dead soldier's hut was placed over his
face. Ills poncho covered his body.
Only the feet, clad In mud-clotted
shoes, were visible. White-faced, but
sternly erect, the father stood, gazing
upon the last of three brave sons. Then,
gently lifting the hat from the face of
the dead, and looking at It with tearful
eyes, he said, with proud tenderness,
"Well done, my boy!" Soon replacing
the hat, he strode off, with soldierly
erectness, to where his duty lay, to die,
a few months later, of disease contract
ed at Santiago.
Professor Charles E. Tripler, of
Brooklyn, continues to have unbounded
Imlth iu the practical uses of liquefied
Itlr as a substitute for steam and for
high explosives, nis recent announce
ment of his ability to manufacture
liquid air cheaply and in large quantl
ties is now further supplemented with
the statement that he has Invented a
practical motor, by means of which
the new force can be applied to all
kinds of machinery. In its revolution
izing effects Professor Tripler's dis
coveries with liquid air stand in close
rivalry with Tesla's claims In regard
to his electric oscillator. Both men
have still to give practical proof of their
amazing claims, but their experiments
are profoundly Interesting for all that.
Professor Tripler say3 his motor "re
quires only the perfection of a few
mechanical details" In order to make
It run railway trains, steamships, and
factories. As liquid air has been dem
onstrated to possess from twenty to
one hundred times the power of steam
there can be no doubt as to its ability to
supplant steam if once applied in a
practical way. The few details which
Mr. Tripler admits remalu to be solved
may prove to be larger obstacles than
he Imagines, but the enormous possi
bilities so nearly within his reach cer
tainly ought to spur him on to success
if anything ban. If he can complete
his motor It will assure a place for
liquid air second In Importance only
to electricity itself. The use of liquid
air as a refrigerating agency and as an
explosive, as well as Its application as
a motive power for all sorts of machin
ery, presents such a multitude of Im
portant possibilities that the public will
not fall to watch with keen Interest
the Inventor's future progress.
There are those who would have us
believe that men have degenerated in
heroism since the old days of chivalry.
Not so. There are not only more men
of heroic courage to-day than ever be
fore in the history of the world, but
the number Is greater In proportion to
the population. Excluding our Deweys,
Hobsons and other giants in warlike
courage, there remain untold thou
sands In the humble walks of life who
require only the opportunity to demon
strate the God-like heroism which Is In
them. Every dally newspaper brings
to its readers stories of heroism as
grent, If not so momentous In their ef
fects on history, as were ever Immor
talized in song or story. Two incidents
of recent occurrence will serve as ex
amples. Only a few days ago a locomo
tive fireman, sticking to his perilous
post to the fatal climax, was pinned
under his derailed locomotive In a rail
way wreck In Pennsylvania. His lower
limbs were securely held by the great
weight above them and he was power
less to free himself. The flames which
enveloped the wreck drew gradually
nearer him. Coolly he directed the ef
forts of those who were frantically
working to rescue him until It became
evident that all effort was fruitless.
Then, instead of breaking out In lam
entations and bemoaning his fate, he
calmly shook hands with those nearest
him, bade them good-by, drew his coat
over his face nnd waited the coming of
death In Its most frightful manner. As
tho flames reached him there was an
Involuntary shudder of the helpless
form, a calm "Good-by, boys!" and a
hero had gone uncomplainingly to his
reward. More recent nnd perhaps eve n
more heroic Is the case of William Car
ney, of Richmond, Ind. He was an
engineer In the Richmond Rolling Mills.
He was alone In the engine room, when
he fell against a large gear wheel. One
leg was torn completely from his body.
Realizing that no one would come for
hours and thnt disaster would certain
ly result If the fires under the boilers
were left burning, this huniblo hero
dragged himself fully fifty feet to the
boiler room, turned off the natural gas,
and died. When the machinery stop
ped other employes rushed to the en
gine room to ascertain the trouble and
found the dead hero with a smile of
exultation on his pallid face. Death
had been sweetened by the thought
of duty well performed and perhaps
other lives saved. Talk of the heroes
of old! We have their superiors with
us to-doy In every walk of life.
MARKED WITH BRAND OF CAIN.
Michigan Pulmlst Fays Hands of Mur
derers Contain I'roof of Guilt.
Does the murderer bear the mark of
crime In his hand? A palmist of De
troit, Mich., says yes, without equivo
cation. It Is a peculiar, almost triangu
lar mark lu the middle of the palm, con
nected with what palmists coll the
heart line. He took casts of the hands
of Adolph Luetgert, convicted of mur
dering his wife In Chicago, and of The
odore Durrant, who was executed for
the murder of two young women in San
Francisco. In both of these he found
the murderer's mark distinctly traced,
and he has found It In other hands. He
said:
"Let the police authorities provide
half a dozen criminals, one of whom
shall be a convicted murderer only he
must be guilty beyond all question and
submit the hands for my scrutiny. I do
not ask to see the faces and figures of
these criminals; only their hands. I
will pick out the murderer's haud from
the lot"
A ileal Knoeess.
"That motor you are Interested In
never worked, did It?"
"Of course It worked," was the Indlg
uant reply. "It never pulled any cars
or moved any machinery. But It made
money for Its owners, and that's more
than most inventions do."
It's a pity that death doesn't transfer
Its affections from a shlulng mark to
the mlulug shark.
Sometimes marriage Is a failure, and
j sometimes It Is only a ruu ou the bank.
MARK IN MITRnKRKR'S HASH.
HUNTING RABBITS.
Sport Abounds When Snow I Light
and Air Is Keen,
A rabbit hunt Is a thing of yells and
shouts and baying of hounds and wild
excitement. About five hounds and a
cur dog, four boys and a man and a
light snow on the ground are the usual
outfit. On the "crick" there are a lot
of brush piles scattered about and Is
any amount of cover and brush and
hiding places for the game. The bounds
are put In and In about five minutes
there is a grand hullabaloo and a deep
bay from one of the old hounds, fol
lowed by the excited "yap" of the cur
dog, and the game Is afoot. Very much
afoot, for he Is covering the ground
with long leaps and endeavoring to put
as much space as possible between him
and his pursuers. It Is not a very long
chase. The rabbit turns, dodges and
.finally nears where the man with the
shotgun Is standing. There Is a sharp
"bang" as the right-hand barrel Is dis
charged and the rabbit keels over and
Is grabbed by one of the boys just be
fore the foremost hound reaches the
spot.
The forces now begin offensive opera
tions. The cur dog is sent into the
brush heaps and the boys climb up on
top of the brush and thrash around,
stamping on the limbs and making as
much noise as possible. The cur
squeezes around in the maze of brush
and pretty soon the rabbits begin to
move. The first gun Is fired by the
boy with the musket, who hns stayed
with the dogs. It is an awful roar and
it misses the rabbit. But an ofliclous
hound who happens to be close by
grabs the rabbit and the boy slides to
the ground and snatches It from the
hound. Then he "hollers" triumphant
ly, "I got him!"
Then he gets on another pile of brush
and starts to tramp around again.
Meantime the hounds are nervously
trying to make themselves small
enough to get under the brush piles,
but with poor success. It Is the cur
idog's Inning and he Is making the most
of It. Ills eyes are snapping with ex
citement and he Is full of nervous ener
gy. Every hair on his back bristles
with eagerness and his chief ambition
Is to catch just one rabbit all by him
self. There are hurried slides under
the brush, quick plunges and muffled
barks, and the rabbits dodge the cur
dog and dart out from under the brush
heaps, only to be met by the accommo
dating hounds or a blast from a mus
ket, and If they escape all these there
Is still the gantlet of the outer guard to
pass. The hounds are Jumping around
among the brush piles, and whenever
they nip a rabbit as it Is driven out by
the cur there Is a squeal and a muffled
growl from the hound and then a yell
from the nearest boy. But the hounds
do not worry the rabbit after he Is
dead; they drop him and wait until he
Is transferred to somebody's pocket.
After the clearing has been thorough
ly overhauled there Is a counting up to
see the result, and late In the after
noon the party will be seen traveling
slowly home, all of them, dogs, boys
and man, thoroughly tired out. But
over their shoulders and In their pock
ets are rabbits, as many as they can
carry, and they are nil serenely satis
fied with the hunt. The boy whose
musket went off accidentally does not
say anything about It, for fear It m'ght
be urged against his carrying a gun at
future hunts.
Rabbits adapt their habits to the lo
cality In which they are raised, and this
action on their part makes hunting
them a question of geography, to a cer
tain extent In some portions of tho
country, where the ground is hilly, high
and comparatively free from under
brush, rabbits can only be successfully
HUNTING
hunted with ferrets. They feed mo-tly
at night and lie In holes In the daytime,
and the bnnter who traverses such a
country with the best of rabbit dogs
will have his labor for his pains.
Neither with beagle nor greyhound will
he be able to get a sight of a rabbit,
unless be accidentally runs across a
stray one, and that particular "bunny"
will "hole up" as soon as the dogs get
on his trail.
The only way to get rabbits lu that
kind of a couulry Is to go after them
with a ferret. The ferret Is kept in a
box until the grounds are reached and
the hunters begin operations. It takes
at least two persons to hunt rabbits
with a ferret, if the thing Is done prop
erly. One man to handle ami "groom"
the ferret, and the other to shoot the
rabbits. A dog Is sometimes taken
along, but a dog Is a nuisance under
such clrcumstauces.
When a hole Is found, the box or bag
Is opened and the ferret is coaxed out.
lie comes creeping from his biding
place, and apparently very reluctantly.
When he Is urged to go down and Inter
view the lodgers he goes most, unwill
ingly. After a wait of perhaps three
or four minutes the tip of his nose ap
pears at the other entrance to the bur
row, and thin a diplomatic dalliance
commences with a view to getting the
brute back Into the box again. Some
times he can be Induced to get b u-k to
his quarters without much trouble, but
at other times he gets crafty, and the
hunters will sit around for half an h ur
or so trying to coax him to leave the
hole. There are ferrets that will some
times go down In a hole, grab a rabbit,
gorge themselves with the prey, and
then deliberately lie down and go to
sleep, some six or eight feet below the
surface.
If there la a rabbit In the bole when
HON. NELSON DING LEY.
The death of Nelson Dingley, Jr., father of the present tariff law, ex-Governor
of Maine and Congressman since 1881, removes a prominent man from the political
life of the nation. Nelson Dingley, Jr., was born in Durham, Me., in 1832. At an
early age he began school teaching, meantime preparing himself for college. In
1851 he entered Watcrville College, subsequently becoming a student at Dart
mouth, from which he graduated in 1855. He then studied law, but instead' of
taking up the active practice of his profession he entered journalism, becoming
the owner and editor of the Lewiston Journal. In 181, 'G2, '63 he represented
Auburn in the State Legislature, being Speaker in 18(!3. In that year he removed
to Lewiston and was again sent to the Legislature. In 1804 he was again Speaker
of that body and declined the honor in two subsequent years. In 1873 Mr. Ding
ley was elected Governor and was re-elected the following year. In 1881 he wot
sent to Congress to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of William P.
Frye and he had been continuously In that body since that time. He was a most
influential member in the lower house, being latterly chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee and floor leader of the Republicans. His tariff bill, to which
as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee' he gave his name, lent him addi
tional fame.
a ferret Is put In, the rabbit bolts out
of the place In a hurry. He Is In deadly
fear of this creeping, rat-like little
beast, nnd he conies out with a bound,
and then the man with the gun usually
bowls him over. Sometimes there are
two or three rabbits in one hole, and
the hunter may got rattled, and score
clean misses. But the rabbits only
scurry off to some other burrow, there
to be routed out again and shot at. The
rabbit gets out of the hole so quickly
that It Is almost impossible to see him
come. He is In the air the first you see
of him, and ho Is away in an Instant.
Some stretches of country are rid
dled with these holes, and fifteen or
twenty rabbits may be gotten In a day.
Tie rabbits In this kind of ground are
swift of foot, and usually In the fall
and w'nter very fat. There is a great
deal of uncertainty about this kind of
hunting, for sometimes there have been
other hunters there before, and every
hole drawn is a blank. It is splendid
e::erclse, though; the climbing up and
down the steep hillsides and walking
through the woods In crisp weather
brings many sets of muscles Into play,
am1 the air is chuck full of ozone.
Advantages of the Nicaragua Canal.
Capt. Crowiiisbiekl, writing In the
Century of the "Advantages of the Ni
caragua Canal," summarizes some of
RABBITS.
them In this wise: When the divide be
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific Is
cut through part of the waters of the
lake, which for untold ages have flow
ed enst to the Cnrlbbeuu Sea, will flow
west to the Pacific. Lake Nicaragua,
covering as it docs nearly three thou
sand square miles, becomes not only a
part of the water route Itself, but a
grand reservoir located exactly where
it Is most needed at the summit level.
Thus It will be seen that while nature
has not quite opened through Nicar
agua a complete water route to the Tn
citlc, she has come very near to It. In
fact, of all the routes for an lutcr
oceaulc canal that Lave received con
sideration, It must be admitted that so
much has already been accomplished
by nature toward this end that the
work which remains for man to do will
be far less than by any other route.
Queer Name for Women.
The wives of some of the Indian
braves have names as odd and often as
droll as their husbands. They seem to
have cognomens of their own, too, and
not to take those of their spouses only.
Some of the actual names given In a
census of the family of the scouts at
one place Include Mrs, Short Nose, who
was before her marriage Miss Piping
Woman; Mrs. Big.Uead, formerly Miss
Short Face; Mrs. Nlbbs, formerly Miss
Voting Bear; Mrs. White Crow, form
erly Miss Crook ripe; Mrs. Howling
Water, formerly Miss Crow Woman;
also Mrs.. Sweet Water, Miss Walk
High, daughter of Mr. White Clf, and
Miss Osage, daughter of MrN Hard
Case.
An hour-glass Is the kind some men
prefer.
Cold weather contracts Ice bill and
expands coal bills.
WORLD'S STRANGEST BRIDGE
It Is Buitt of Vine Over the Omo
Kiver in Abyssinia.
Many and strange were the things
seen by the French expedition of Bon
valot de Bonchamps In Africa, but
nothing stranger than the bridge of
vines over the Omo River, In Abyssinia,
which is pictured In "L'lllustration"
A MARVELOUS BItlDOE.
from a photograph taken by a member
of the party. In most parts of Africa
bridges are undreamed of; big rivers
nre crossed by rafts and little ones
forded. But In the mountains of Abys
sinia the torrents that pour down to
Join the Nile are not so lightly stem
med. Over one of these the Abysslnl
aus, who have something like a settled
country and stable government, have
thrown the bridge. Unlike the Brooklyn
brldje or the suspension bridge at Nl
agara, these Abyssinian engineers had
no cables, no scientific bands of steel.
Instead they had only nature's force.
It Is built upon the suspension plan,
hung from big cables made of twisted
creepers; from these depend the up
rights bearing the floor supports. The
roadway is very narrow, for no one
ever travels across the hills except
with caravans of porters bearing trade
gods. The skill with which tho bridge
Is built Is something marvelous. The
Bonvalot de Bonchamps party set out
from Djibouti, on the Red Sea, and
traveled across the Somali desert and
the Abyssinian hills to Join Marchand
at Fashoda, which he reached from
the west coast. Thus they planned to
throw a strip of French soil right
across the dark continent It reached
the head waters of the Sobat and went
boating merrily down the river; but
meanwhile the British gunboats reach
ed the junction of the Sobnt with tho
White Nile and the expedition Is now
tolling back to Djibouti. The road go
ing out Is a good deal longer than It
was going In.
Mortuary ilellc.
Mrs. Helen Struthers Dunn, of No.
723 Tine street, Philadelphia, is the
owner of a curious relic, which Is noth
ing less than a locket made from the
cottin of George Washington. It came
to Mrs. Dunn through her father, John
Struthers, who gave to the United
States the sarcophagus In which Wash
ington's body now rests. When the
coffin containing the body of the great
American was being removed to Mount
Vernon a little piece of It was chipped
off, polished, then set in gold and fash
ioned Into the strange ornament, which
is Itself coffin shaped. Instead of a
name-plate there Is a little piece of
glass, and beneath this rests a lock of
hair said to be taken from the head of
the famous revolutionary leader. This
relic and tho trowel that was nsed to
cement the sarcophagus lie side by tide
In Mrs. Dunn'o treasure drawer.
After looking at her troubles up one
way and down the other, a woman de
cides there Is no other thing to do but
put them on her shoulders, and trudge
along. A man, however, will put them
In a bucket and kick them over. Which
ta the better way I
OUEL WITH SNAKES IN INDIA.
Kival Hindoo Serpent Charmers in a
Blooil-Curdl nil r'ceue. ,
On the morrow (which was the third
day) there was a long delay; the pro
logue was spun out and out. Each of
the masters was in a very keen anxiety
as to the snake the other had been re
serving for the great effort. At last
Souter came to the end of his patience,
and bade them peremptorily play or
pay. Thereupon Anant Ram set a small
cloth on the ground very geutly, and
called loudly to have the first go. The
"Lord of Devils" did not stand upon
the order of his going, agreed on the
instant; and his two pupils turned up
a large basket in the middle of the ring,
and shook out of It about nlue feet of
that poisonous constrictor, the great
hamadryad, or king cobra. It is the
only snake In India that attacks of It
self at all times. Its fierceness nnd
courage are only equaled by the bright
ness of its colorings and the strength
of Its colls. It can poison as mortally
and strangle as surely as any snake in
the world. The Egyptian cerastes at
tacks and bites; the fer-de-Iance of St.
Lucia drops from the tree, vicious nnd
fatal, on the horseman. But they are
not constrictors. The great hamadryad
rears Its green length of active, two
fold, ferocious death In unparalleled
dreadfulness.
Anant Ram threw up his arms over
his head as tho double horror rushed
hissing at him; In a breath Its coils
were around him, its fangs tearing his
arms. He flung himself down at the
pain; and, put about by this sudden
act, the snnke stopped biting a moment
to tighten Its colls. Then It reared a
quarter of Its body above his head, and
as quickly as it could bend and strike
bit him horribly in the neck under the
left ear. On the instant it Jerked out
Its fangs with a shrill whistle, and fell
all slack about hi in; he had bitten clean
through Its back, and was tearing its
body asunder with frenzied hnnds. He
rose bleeding, dusty, wild-eyed, and
ghastly; staggered to the cloth that hid
his snake and yelled: "Quick! to the
trial! All three of you! Quick!"
The "Lord of Devils" and bis pupils
hustled round him; he whipped away
the cloth, and bared to their eyes a lit
tle, crooked, gray-brown stick. They
stared at It, they stared at one another,
and slowly knowledge came to them.
They knew how Anant Ram had con
quered the hamadryad; that he had
won the devils to fight for him. They
moved around the little stick, with out
stretched, twitching hands, their star
tling eyes glued to it, striving to beat
down their dread, to force themselves
to touch It, to awake It to malignant
life. Slowly their dread mastered them;
their faces grew gray and then green;
one man gave back a step, then anoth
er; one by one they tore away their
I eyes from the dormant horror; glared
at one nuother In the agony of utter
fear; turned with one accord,, and fled
fled as men flee with the fear of
death at their backs, and the devils of
the lone night and the waste on their
heels. But Anant Bam lay, heedless of
the screaming Joy of the victorious
Panjab, sucking the blood of the dead
hamadryad for dear life, while his pu
pils, In fevered haste, plied him with
remedy on remedy. In the confusion
Souter secured yet more material to
make surer his discoveries, and to ren
der this mystery of the East a working
medicine against the terror of the ser
pent. Anant Ram came out of It alive,
nnd rich; but he swears that in win
ning his great flght he lost the secret
of ages. He dreads Souter as he dreads
nothing else; and to him alone will he
reveal the uiysterles of his craft Pall
Mall Magazine.
NIGHT IN THE STORM.
Perilous Experience Upon the Open
I rairle in the West.
George F. Ryxton gives, In "Adven
tures lu the Rocky Mountains," a thrill
ing description of n night spent on the
open prairie in a blizzard. The advent
of the storm was sudden and terrible.
Black, threatening clouds descended
until they touched the earth; a hollow
murmur swept through the bottom, but
not a branch stirred lu the wind; the.
naked cottonwoods stood like ghosts.
I knew what was coming, and turned
roy horse toward the timber two miles
distant. Before we had covered half the
distance the tempest broke upon us.
The clouds opened and drove In our
faces a storm of freezing sleet, which
froze upon us as It fell.
The first squall of wind carried away
my cap, and the enormous hailstones,
beating on my head and face, almost
stunned uie. My hunting shirt was
soaked in an Instant and as quickly
frozen hard, and my horse was a mass
of Icicles. To ride was Impossible, and
I Jumped off and covered my head with
the saddle blanket.
The horse and the following mules
turned their sterns to the wind, and
made for the open prairie. I was un
able to drive them to the shelter of the
timber.
Ferfeet darkness soou set In. Still
the animals kept on, and I followed or
rather was blown after them. My blan
ket, frozen stiff, required all the strength
of my numbed fingers to prevent Its be
ing blown away. In an incredibly
short time two feet of snow covered the
bare prairie, and through this wo floun
dered on til we could go no farther.
The animals stopped, huddled togeth
er, nnd would not move. Exhausted, I
sank down, and covering my head with
the blanket crouched like a ball In the
snow, expecting certain death.
The wind roared over the prairie,
driving the snow before It, burying me
nnd the animals. For hours I reinalued
with my head on my knees, with the
snow pressing like a weight of lead
upon it At short Intervals the mules
would groan aloud nnd fall upon the
snow, and then again struggle on their
legs. All night long the piercing howl
of the wolves was borne upon the wind.
I was just sinking Into a stupor when
i the mules began to snort and shake
themselves. I roused up, but was In
total darkness, buried under the snow.
I thrust out my arm, and through the
opening saw the stars shlnlug la the
sky. ' The storm had ceased.
I tried to stand, but fell forward In
the snow. Finally I freed myself, man
aged to mount my horse, and reached
the camp on the Arkansas that even
ing, half dead with cold and hunger.
Egyptian Dislike of the French,
The Frenchman In Egypt Is an nn
ple&Mnt person from the native point
of view. French artists, wandering
from place to place In search of sub
jects for their paintings, carry with
tbem, in addition to their artistic para
phernalia, their own peculiar notions
of civilization. The Arab Shlekh, who
with dignified kindness offers to the
perfect stranger the most frank and
generous hospitality, Is treated us dirt
of stvlliznliou. The Arab sheik, who
passtng along the village street, with
only her lustrous eyes visible above her
flowing veil, is favored with a stare
the like of which cannot be conceived
by an American man who has never
left his own chivalrous country.
The little children of five or six years,
who come and stare at the wonderful
stranger, and who get In bis way, are
whacked with the Frenchman's stick.
The dogs of the native villages, which
for protection are trained to sleep In
the Anytime nnd keep awake In the
night, know them, and hate them. At
intervals through the night these dogs
bark and howl in a desultory fashion,
calling to their canine friends and rela
tives in other little villages a mile or
two away. If the dogs fall asleep the
Arabs stir and awaken In the unaccus
tomed silence. Then they think their
dogs cannot be keeping a proper look
out, and, getting up, they arouse them,
and the monotonous ynp-yap-yapplng
Is resumed.
The turning back of the waters of the
Red Sea by a strong wind, as told In
Exodus, was repeated last, spring In
presence of Major Tullock, who has re
ported the facts to the British Govern
ment. A wind arose so violent that it
drove all the waters buck, leaving all
the sailing vessels stranded on the
sandy bed of the sea.
Electric power derived from tho wa
terfalls of Tivoll, which constitute one
of the most famous gems of Italian
scenery, Is now transmitted about Of
ten miles across the Campagna to Illu
minate Rome and to drive the tram
cars, whose presence in the streets of
the Eternal City Is so striking a re
minder of the universality of modern
practical science.
Some plants stow away starchy ma
terial In their leaves, seeds or roots foi
future use. The slow chemical com
bination of this Substance with oxygen
Is a form of combustion, and produces
warmth. It is by this means that the
tiny Alpine flower is able to melt a
passage for itself up through the Ice,
and find Its way to liberty and sun
shine. In Bavaria an effort has been made
to introduce into commerce what may
be termed solidified petroleum. Soda
lye, fat and petroleum are heated to
gether for an hour, and give a soap
like product, which solidifies on cool
ing. Sawdust or other combustible
may be mixed with the material, and
it can be made into bricks for fuel. It
would give a very smoky flame.
Among the most wondertul monsters
of the Age of Reptiles was tho ichthyo
saurus, or "fish-lizard." Last summer a
very perfect specimen was uncovered
in a quarry at Stockton, in Warwick
shire, England. The creature is twenty
feet in length, Its head alone being
almost four feet long. The Ichthyo
saurus possessed gigantic eyes, whose
lenses could be focused at will for dif
ferent distances. It hunted Its prey la
the sea.
An Instrument has been made In Eng
land to be sent to Japan. Its use Is to
measure the blow of a wave. A similar
apparatus was used to measure the
wave-blow off the Skerryvore Rock,
Scotland. There the waves sweep in
from the wide Atlantic. In summer a
force of over COO pounds to the square
foot was recorded. In winter as high as
a ton to the square foot was attained.
This gives an Idea with what ships,
lighthouses and other similar struc
tures have to contend.
On the Oth of last September an im
mense sunspot which, with its attend
ant smaller spots, had unexpectedly
made its appearance more than a week
before, crossed the central meridian of
the sun's disk, and that same night
magnificent displays of the aurora bo
realis were seen. At the same time
magnetic needles were disturbed. This
is one of the most striking instances In
recent years of the connection between
spots on the sun and magnetic disturb
ances on the earth. While the great
spot was crossing tho sun, uncommon
ly warm weather for the season was
experienced on both sides of the Atlan
tic, and some have suggested that this,
too, was a phenomenon connected di
rectly with the solar disturbance.
One on the Rector.
The little daughter of a local clergy
man has reached the ago where big
words are apt to floor her, and where
she Is very sensitive to the remarks of
an older brother.
Not long ago she came running In to
her father.
"Papa, papa, George called me
names."
"Why, what did Georgle say?"
"Oh," said the little girl with a
strong expression of disgust, "he said
I practiced what I preached. I don't
do IV"
"Well, my child, I "
"But 1 don't, do I, papa? I don't any
more than you do, do IV"
And then the rector choked up. But
he took a half hour from his sermon
and explained the meaning of the ob
noxious expression to the best of bis
ability.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Unaccountable.
Amorg the several unaccountable
things which one sees in Russia, one Is
struck forcibly with the differences In
shop signs In the large cities. It ap
pears that the Jews are made to write
their names out in full, giving the Jew
ish form of their given names Instead
of those actually in use by them, while
the signs of the Gentiles bear only the
Initials.
There Is one thing about a boiling
piece of meat there Is always enough
of It There Is never enough steak.
Marriage will change a woman'a
name, but It seldom alters her nature,
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