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A' It* Tl*. mm ^HA&I.^*''" VOL. 22. NO. a. East Boston'admits it is a suburb, but denies that it is in the class with Lonesomehurst and Swampville, says the Boston Journal. Yet when a deer from the forest walks unmolested and bold down its main street, its claims as a component part of the town might be doubted. It was about" 6:30 yesterday morn ing that a little brown deer came out on Meridian street, having made his way across vacant lots from the Lynn woods, and gazed in wonder at the buildings and the works of man. Suddenly there was a hoarse clang behind him, and a huge tunnel car tore over upon him. Terrified, the deer sprang forward, and it became a. race between the animaj[_ahd the car, which he thought was chasing" him. The short breadth of Noddle Island was covered in a few moments and the victorious deer, his little heart jumping with terror, sped straight down to the sea, to where a Sout'A Ferry boat lay at the slip. Right trough the ferryboat sped the dev* and then, with a mighty An epigram, in its primary signifi cation, was nothing more nor less than an inscription, writes Edmund Gosse in Harper's Magazine. It was^ "something written" to mark a spot or an event it was the form of words attached to an altar, or a monument, or an image, to show whose image or monument, or altar it was. If you consecrated a secular elm to Pan, you pinned an epigiam on the bark to an nounce that fact if you presented to a friend an amethyst cup engraved with a figure of Bachus, you embod ied in an epigram your sentiments. It is a mistake to suppose that these pieces were in their first inception satirical, but the Romans made them #so and, as time went on, the trick of writing them, in Latin as well as in Greek, involved an attention to concentrated effect The epigram matist tried to fill his little glass as full as possible, and there were bub bles of malice round the brim. Grad ually the idea giew that an epigram ought to finish with a snap that the very end of the last line ought to A new Ashanti war is inevitable in Africa, according to a German provin cial paper, the Chemmtzer Allgemeine Zeitung, which publishes the follow fng communication, dating from Tark va, near Sekondi, on the British Gold Coast: "The Ashantis have long been possessors ot a massive gol den throne ot great value and ac counted a sacred and national relic. According to the tradition of the tribe the kingdom of Ashanti would remain in existence as long as the thione remained intact. The British have for many years been attempt ing to gain possession of the throne, but have hitherto been unsuccess ful Several veais ago a certain Ash anti placed himself in communication with the Biitish government and offered to obtain possession of the throne tor the English on con dition that he himself was nominated Tiing of the Ashantis. The British government agreed to the proposal and apnointed the traitor as chief tain. The Ashantis, however, suc- Jim Biidger stands forth as the most conspicuous figure in the brief but glorious reign of the trapper and trailmaker in the far west. The greatest fur hunter and the greatest pathfinder of them all, and possess ing the most intimate knowledge of the Indian nature ever vouchsafed a white man, Bridger will grow in stat ure as time goes on and accurate ihistory is written. No part of the great Rocky Moun tain country held a secret from Jim Bridger. He was the first white man, after John Colter, to view the won ders of Yellowstone Park, and the first to look on Great Salt Lake. Seemingly bearing a charmed life, he wandered through the lands of many Indian tribes, sometimes fighting the red men, but more often living their life and finding the solace of true brotherhood at the lodge fire. Every mountain Jim Bridger climbed, every A, g^Lj^^e^ tf\ ^PHE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT^ P* BECAUSE: BECAUSE 1It aims to publish all the news possible. 2It does so impartially, wasting no words- 3-Its correspondents are able and energetic- DEEVS 'RACE WAS FATAL THE ETIGHAM Iff HISTO*Ry F*ROM ACROSS THE SEA FOVAD CREAT SALT LAKE stream he crossed, and every game in Outing Magazine. An explorer describes a Central Africa'forest: "Ten miles west of* the lake begins the only piece Iff Aff AFIUCAJf FORREST vof real virgin forest Diet""with. It is through out a dense virgin forest, and almost impenetrable. It consists of very large trees of many varieties. 'The upper parts are festooned with a light grayish-green moss, hanging in long streamers, and giving to the forest a very fantastic appearance." When these long streamers are agitated by a storm they make the whole forest seen from one of the hills near, look like a rough sea. Again, when the sun is vertical the whole forest ap pears dark, but when the sun is low the general effect on the sunny side is curiously light. "All the trees are bound together with innumerable lianas and creeping Muffled Voice (under the machine) 'Say, Bill, back her up a little, will i yer? $ BillWhat's the matter?, fo. v\^J|f 4 *My face is caught in the works." J& bound, the frightened animal went over into the harbor.* The passen gers on the boat shouted, and their shouting attracted the attention of Capt. Baker, of the tug Francis C. Hersey, which was passing. He put his tug about and pursued the deer, which was having a hard time in the water. The little animal had swam fresh water ponds, but the salt choked him and the waves smoth ered him. He swam fast, but the tug came faster, and rap alongside of the struggling animal. This was a greater terror, this huge monster, which was swimming alongside to devour him. The deer tried to get -away, but the sailors se cured hin jwith apne,s and swung him on board" the tug, where he lay pant ing. The men tried to restore the lit tle creature, but between its terror and the salt water he had swallowed, he was too far gone, and died before they reached Commercial wharf. The deer weighed but seventy-five pounds. The fish and game commis sioners took charge of its carcass. contain the essence of the lampoon. This type of the form was amusingly defined by Dr. Edward Walsh, a poet of the latter half of the eighteenth century: An Epigram should beif right Short, simple, pointed, keen and bright, A lhely little thing. A wasp, with taper body, bound By lines, not many, neat and round All ending in a sting The poetical shape was always pre served, since without it an epigram would scarcely have been anything at all. A French wit, La Monnoye, said that an epigram in prose is a cavalryman dismounted. But a large proportion of the Elizabethan and Jacobean epigrams were beggars on horseback, who, if they had been turned off their rhyme, would have been beggarsand nothing else. The idea was that a joke, or a statement of fact, whether grave or gay, had but to be rhymed to become a piece of literature, worthy to be printed and preserved in the archives of a poet'S'writings. ceeded in placing the throne in a safe hiding place and now they demand from the British government the de thronement of .this chieftain. The British govern i&ent, in order to pre serve its own prestige, refuses to con cede the demand of the natives, so that a new Ashanti war is inevitable." Andrew Lang wiites of the Aus tralian natives: "Between tribe and tribe war for purposes of territorial aggrandizement is unknown. They may fight about women, or in the blood ieud, for, as nobody is sup posed to die a natural death, every death is thought to be caused by hos tile magic. Fights are not now reso lutely waged, but merely to draw first blood, as a uile. and, as there are no conquests, there aie no slaves and very little material progress There aie no hereditary chiefs, though among some socially advanced tribes a kind ef magistracy, or a 'moder atoiship' of local groups in the tribal general assembly, is hereditary in the male line." trail he followed, was written down in the most marvelous memory ev er granted a plainsman. As a result, years later, when the white men, bold but blundering, sought the eas iest paths over the mountains, Jim Budger showed them the best trails for their wagons and, when the chief engineer of the Union Pacific had well-nigh given up hope of get ting his rails across the Divide, it was Jim Bridger who showed an available pass which he had trav ersed years before in his trapping days, and the existence of which no other white man knew A few months ago, this chief engineer, Gen. Gran ville M. Dodge, showed his gratitude by rescuing Jim Bridger's body from a neglected grave and interring It at Kansas City, under an appropriate monumentprobably the first act of gratitude e\er performed for the man who had put the whole empire of the west in his debt Arthur Chapman, ^plants. Between the stems is a dense wangled mass of lesser vgetation. ^Thje forest stands to a great extent in the waiter and mud of the swamps A singular feature of it is the abrupt ness with which it begins and ceases on the plain. The grassy swamp or open country reaches to the mighty wall of trees, which continue in the same density from one side to the other, forming a transition from the open plain to the forest. "Inside, the silence and gloom are accentuated by the apparent absence of animal or' bird life. There are some herds of buffaloes that make it a headquarters, elephants visit it oc casionally, monkeys and parrots are sometimes seen, and a harnessed an telope now and then appears at the edge but the general impression left is one of lifelessness *~t,^\ require a man who has a large ac- ManagerNow, for this position we quaintance. ApplicantWell, I'm acquainted with the secretary of war, Mr. Taft. ST. PAUL AND While-agitation is going on publicly and petitions are being signed to save Old Ironsides from being sold for the copper and iron in her hull, there re mains hidden in a small paint shop on Atlantic avenue a relic as interesting in a way as the Constitution herself. It is the builders' model on the lines of which the famous war vessel was constructed, and which was saved from "threatened "destruction for fire^ wood by Capt. W. S. Nickerson, the present owner of the model. When the newly organized United States of America decided that a larger and more efficient navy was necessary, and it^was decided to build vessels of a size that would compaue Avith those of her principal enemy, Great- Britain, Capt. Joshua Hum phreys of Philadelphia was given the order for the construction of the first vessel. As this first effort he designed the Constitution, which according to his instructions was to be the equal, if not the superior of anything afloat. The shipyard of Edmund Hart at the bat tery, known everywhere as' "Hart's rayal .yard," was chosen as the~hest sJUIes." place to build a ship of her size and requirements. That nothing might be left undone to make her a monarch of the seas, Capts. Barry, Dale and Trux ton were assigned to advise with Con- NO ENCOURAGEMENT TO SAVE. Banks of dity of Mexico Don't Want Small Deposits. Savings banks are practically un known institutions in this city. If a man has a small amount to deposit, with the expectation of being able to add to it from time to time, he will be at a loss to find a bank that will be willing to take care of hits apparently insignificant sums and pay him inter est on the money ttiat is thus gradual ly deposited. As a matter of fact, there are only about two places in the entire city that vtill show any interest in his small savings, one of these being a little bank for working people, which was organized a couple of years ago, and the other ^ilace being the Monte de la Piedad, which receives deposits ofr-any amount and pays 6 per cent in terest per annum on them. The lit tle savings bank has had a hard strug gle to maintain itself. It is a notice able fact, however, that the bank in question has few Mexican working people as depositors, most of its pa trons being Spaniards who are work ing for wages as grocery clerks and bookkeepers.Mexican Herald. Easier to Run Than to Stop. Quite a number of years ago there lived in Bennington, *Vt., several wealthy gentlemen who weighed over 250 pounds each. They were very jolly, and would meet two or three evenings a week to tell stories and have a good time. Finally one of Railroad men of the present cannot withhold smiles when they see repre sentations like the accompanying cut, of the up-to-date railroad train of eighty years ago. This train comprised an engine, tender, four "carriages," for one can hardly call them ears in truth, and two coaches. Railroading was in its infancy and the cars for freight were simply what they appear, stout wagons on wheels, and the passenger part of the train was simply coaches on wheels. One observes ^Kth amusement that the en gineer wears a silk hat In 1827 John Rogers of Baltimore published 9 &a&i* relative to rail- m^ %^w: Defective Page FAMOUS VESSfLf IN MINIATURE Model of the Olid Warship Constitution Preserved in Boston Long Had Hung Unnoticed on Willi of Office in Yard Where "Old Ironsides" Was Constructed Present Owner Will Preserve I* as Sacred Relic. structor Humphrey^ as to drafts, molds a^d building| instructions, and Col. Geo. Claghorne? of New Bedford was selected for his knowledge of ship building to superintend the work of construction. How* well these men performed the work allotted to them can be judged from the fact that the Constitution still remains afloat af ter more than 100 years. The threat of Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte to destroy or get rid of the famous vessel is not the first that was made. A similar threat was made af ter the Constitution had captured the Cyane and the Levant in September, 1830. A storm of protest was imme diately raised all bver the country, and Oliver Wendell Holmes voiced the protest in his famousiinoem, "Old Iron- &* All this time ai'^for years after the model of the Constitution hung on the walls of the office "in Hart's yard, and remained there unnoticed, and unhon ored by the subsequent owners of the them proposed that they organize a CUT lazy man's club, and that no man weighing less than 250 pounds could join it. The vote was unanimous in iavor* of this, a?nd rules and bjlavvs were adopted. Tv\ of the heaviest members of the each tipped the beam at 300 pounds, with James B. Meacheam, a leading lawjer, a close third. One day Mr. Ayres was*seen going down a small bill adjacent to the village in a sort of shuffling trot. He -was complained of by another member, arrested, ar raigned and promptly "tried." His defense was that it was harder work to hold back than to run, and he was at once acquitted. Wealthy Youngsters Hard to Curb. George Westinshouse, Jr., who is striving to learn the mysteries of the manufacture of air brakes made fa mous by his father, arrived late at his place of work in Pittsburg twice last week. He is "docked" an hour's time each day and lost 32 cents in his week's pay. George Westinghouse, ,Sr., is fearful publicity will spoil his only son. The millionaire inventor has in mind what happened to Algernon Sartoris, grandson of Gen. U. S. Grant, when he was an apprentice at the Westinghouse plant. Algernon got his name in- the papers. He is said to have strutted about after he had read the display headlines in the-news papers. He became unmanageable and finally quit. Old-Time Train roads and motive power, in which many facts which are_ now accepted without Question by Schoolboys, are announcpd as wonderful discoveries. It appears that Mr. Rogers had given the matter of railroad transportation cdn siderahle study, but it is not surpris ing that lie had no adequate concep tion of the pdssibilities of the rail roading of the distant future, say of to-day. This can be seen frdlfa casual statements here and there. For instance, he says in passing: "It may not be presumption to antici pate the time, not far distant, when persons and merchandise may be con veyed fcy the ftgency of steam and Mrs. club v.ere Enos Adams a pi omment the historic old Astor house, New York, manufacturer, and Oliver A\res, who some time in April, thus setting a new precedent metropolitan social cir cles. This is the second hard blo~v that Gotham society has received this season, Mrs. John Jacob Astor some Zemgft MINNEAPOLISv|MNN., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 24,19Q6. $2.40 PER YEAR. yard until the present owner got pos session of it, and began to tear down the building preparatory to erecting the modem storehouses on the prop erty. The old model, unrecognized by the workmen, was consigned to the lum ber pile to be sold, or given away for firewood. It was given to a man who carried it off to break up,'but he, thinking to realize a desire for stimu lant, tried in vain to sell it in several places, and finally brought it to the shop of Capt. Nickerson, who gave him a half dollar for it. It was not until he heard the story of where it was found that even Capt. Nickerson recognized the model of the famous warship. With patience he cleared away the dust of years from $% ancL restored thejmodel-to its an cient likeness. Since then he has cared for the model with zeal, and has refused to take a. price for it, and it stands among the most sacred relics in his shop.Boston Globe. IN RANKS OF "SOCIETY. John Jacob Astor Will Reduce New York's Fashionables. Some of the prominent members of New York's "400" are not to be invit ed to the ball which is to be held at time ago having reduced the social scale to seventy-nine. This time the mercury of social supremacy will fall even lower, for but few members of the lecognized leaders of society will be invited to this ballan affair that will be the greatest and most fash ionable of its kind in the history of New York. The ballroom of the Astor house, which is now used as a dining room, has an interesting history. It was here that Prince de Joinville ot the court of France was entertained about the year 1840, or shortly after the house was built. Other noted peo ple of this and other countries have also helped to make the place famous A Friendly Act. "Isn't Maud's new hat a perfect fright?" exclaimed the blonde girl.. "Awful! The worst I ever saw!" said the girl with the chocolates. "Wonder where she bought' it?" queried the first. "At Blinker & Dink's. I helped her pick it out," answered she of the chocolates, triumphantly.Tif-Bits. machinery from Baltimore to the Ohio river in about thirty-four hours." In 1827 such a statement doubtless'was received An an incredulous spirit by many, and yet what an under-state ment-of possibilities it was, for now the modern passenger train runs from Baltimore to the "OhioViver," that is, from Baltimore to Pittsburg, in about ten hours, the distance being 342 miles. Trains also run from Baltimore to Parkersburg, a distance of 398 miles, in a little over twelve hours. So, gen erally speaking, passenger trains run three times faster than it wa be lieved possible in 1827. ^rii wmM^m' Very quaint are some'of the letters addressed by George Fothergill, a stu dent at Oxford, England, to his pa rents, nearly two centuries ago. The following is from a letter dated Jan. 21, 1722: "When I consider your cir cumstances I cannot desire you to tend so much, and I believe less would serve till midsummer, and it would perhaps straiten you to send 10 pounds ($50). I can scarce ask you to send me a little money, but I be lieve I could in some things lay it out as well as my tutor and, when I want 1 had rather not have to go to him. If jou can conveniently send me a pair or two of shoes, pretty well made, be cause summer seems now to be com ing. They would be more lastly and cheaper than I could have them here. Our countryman, Henry Hall, gives his service to you, and desires me to put you in mind of your prom ise to send him a little hung beef with the carrier, and if you could have sent me a coliop it would be very good. If I live till Easter I shall be glad of news." In 1723 he was admitted a "servi- tor," which carried an income of S ($40) with it, but "the holder had to wait upon the gentlemen commoners at meal times, carry in their commons irom the kitchen and their bread and A veritable "old maids' paradise" is located in Scituate. That ancient South Shore town bears the distinction ot possessing a fund of which the pro ceeds are devoted to the care of de pendent maiden women. So far as the Scituate Selectmen Know there is not a life fund under the supervision of a town anywhere in the state. More than a quarter of a century ago Miss Eliza Jenkins decid ed that women approaching the sere and yellow leaf of life, who had, like herself, remained single from choice or otherwise, should be provided for when they became dependent wholly upon themselves. The idea of an old folks' home in Scituate was at that time entirely out of the question. Miss Jenkins straightway did the next best thing and left a fund of $3,000, the interest of which is j^early .distributed among the worthy maidens of the town. The Jenkins fund has always b^en in charge of the Selectmen In the last few years they have placed about $20 "You'll never find me standing on the curbstone and shouting, 'Git a horse!' You'll never find me scatter ing carpet tacks in the roadway. You'll never see me wrinkling up my nose and saying, 'Pue!' I rather like Ihe smell of gasoline unless it's too near the gas jet," wiites Eugene Wood in Everj body's. "I always stop andsfollow with my eyes when one honk-honks apast me. It's no use sending me on errands and tellimg me to be light back, if my way is near a fine smooth street I've just got to stand and 'gawp' at them going by. And if there's one on the corner with a man trying to wind up the spring in front (or whatever it is), so that the machine will shudder just light, I join the throng ot messenger bojs, and men taking home the wash, end fellowrs out of woik, and I stand, with my weight first on one foot and New Hampshire people have not yet torgotten the reign of terror which the inauguration of Gov Goodell, fif teen years ago, gave to the liquor deal ers ot the state New Hampshire's temperance gov ernor began his administration by a public proclamation, warning the liquor dealers of his intention to en iorce the laws against the illegal sale of intoxicants. Then he discovered that, while New Hampshire was a pro hibition state, there were no legal tools at hand, in the shape of admin istrative laws, by which the governor "could prohibit" but the rumsellers did not knowr Has the day been dark and the sky been gray? Xe\er j,ou mind, my lad. Whistle a bit in a cheery way Don't take the time to be sad Oh, Worrj-'s a spepter of \isage grim, First imp on the fiendrsh ifst, But smile in his face when look on him, He fades like the morning mist. Did the dream that you dreamed go somewhat wrong? Never you mind, my dear. Out of the shadow will float a song, If only your soul will hear, Ay, Worry's a phantom, and Worry's a ghoul, And Worry's a goblin of night. He flees from a smile, but he comes at a scowl. And a sigh is his cruel delight. Oh, I know of the hope that is buried from sight. Reports denied by Wynne. Robert J. Wynne, consul general to London, while in Washington had his attention called to some stories print ed in a western paper charging that there had been "goings on" in his London career. Mr. Wynne glanced over the publication and and said philosophically: "It's no more, per haps, than might have been expect ed. You see, when I was in the post- HE APPEAL STEADILY GAINS BECAUSE: It is the organ of ALL Afro-Americans. 5It is not controlled by any ring or clique. 6It asks no support but the people's. A/* OLDTIME COLLEGE *BQy AID FOU VETE/fVEffT WO ME J* Al/TO HAS A FASCINATION GOV. GOODELL SCATtEV THEM this, as the ex-governor lecently explained to the writer. "There was a rumor," he said, "that I was going to Manchester to seize all the liquor, and, although I had not the least intention of doing so, they packed up all the liquor in their pos- JiEVETl yO\7 MI/fD. My DEATt HISTORICAO SOeiETY, butter out Qf the buttery." As servi tor he had also to call up three com moners to early chapel, at 6 a. m.^ who were willing to pay extra for the service, and by this means he earned another 5 ($25) a year. Feb. 2,1723, he writes: "I humbly beg and en treat you not to think much if I should desire you to send 7 or S pounds, or 6, if you cannot well spare more, for my tutor, and what you can well spare more for myself. I hope you will not think it unreasonable if I should desire a guinea this time, since I laid out 4 shillings for an Horace out of my half one last time^ and would not, therefore, have much left for this long winter. But if you wft be pleased to send what you can spare to my tutor, I will endeavor to make some shift or other." There are many passages like the following: "God will send some means to effect whatever He sees necessary, I have just had an instance of His providential care since I had wrote a great pait of this letter, which I am the more joyful, the more thank ful tor, as I know my joy will be the joy of jou all. I was this morning sent for by a lady, who has brought hei son to be entered under Mr. Steadman, and to have a subtutor of his recom mending, and he recommending me, I was pitched upon each in the hands of hrlf a dozen per sons. This odd fund has benefited pei sons in Scituate lor so many years that the townspeople have come to regard it as a very common institution it jis available only for nathe born wyBmen, and this is about the only restriction its donor made. Many a person has been helped in the last twenty-five years to pay off mortgage, buy fuel tor the winter months or purchase seeds for the spring planting through this fund The Selectmen know pretty nearly eveiy one in the town, and it is comparative ly easy for them ,to discriminate be tween the worthy and unworthy. Soon after Miss Jenkins thoughttully provided for the "old maids," another maiden woman, Miss Lucy Thomas, originated the idea of a similar fund for widows. She left $1,000, also un der the case of the Selectmen, for native born widows Interest has been urawn from this fund nearly as many vears as from the Jenkins fund.Bos ton Globe. then on the other, trying to puzzle out what it is he does with the handle. "I look at the folks liding in them, leaning back so giandly with their jaws tied up as for the mumps, and trying their blamedest not to let on how tickled with themselves they are, trjins to pretend that it's an oldstoiy to them, and that they have had au tos ever since the machines came out. It is mj daily effort to figure to my ,elf how il would be with me it it was me instead ot them I was in one once for a little while. Honest was Now that's no ioke. I was Rode quite a ways, too. Anyhow, halt a mile. I can't leally describe my sensa tions The luxuiy got me rather rat tied in mj mind I came as near a .seat! to making the worst bargain IV my life, just on account of that auto mobile, because* the main thing in my mind was that I ought to have one session and sent it out of the city "But the funniest thing happened when I did go to Manchester. The re port of my actual approach to the city did not arrive until the evening be fore. When I reached the city 1 met a very weary and morose looking sher iff. 'I ha\e you to thank for being kept up all night,' he said. Much aston ished, I asked him to explain. 'Why, those fellows didn't have time to pack up this time, so they got their credit ors to attach all their stock in hand, ttius preventing your seizing the wet goods. It has taken me all night te serve the papers.' This has furnished the ex-governor with a laugh that will last him the rest of his life. Later effective legis lation gave the New Hampshire sa loonkeeper, for a while, well-founded grounds for his fears. But bravely we'll bear it, my dear, For the sunlight Is born of the womb et the night, And the comforter ever is near. Yes, b$a?7ely we'll bear it, my dearyou and 1 And strength to our souls will be giwen. Though Wort-y doth whisper and mu?te his lie. Earth swings to the solace of heaven. I would fain hold your head on my com forting breast Till a smile glimmers out through th tears, But the battle of each is for each, and the rest Know little that gladdens or cheers. So we'll both do our best, whatever it be And we'll smile through the pitiful rain, Till the phantom of Worry forever shall flee, And we know that e'en Sorrow is gain, A. J. Waterhouse in San Francisco Call. office department I upset the calcula tions of more than one daily paper which enjoyed special privileges in connection with the rural free deliv ery. That ithere theirs way of fighting back.r 5 Bu i nothing to the tales.' I need only tell you that ij^ have never been a guest at such a dinner as is described and I have, unfortunately, never been'' presented at court."Exchange. $&&%'$ Jk i 4*y