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DUNS FGB GRIZZLIES. interesting 1 Account of Big 1 Game Hunting 1 in the Wild, Wild West. Theodore Roosevelt Relates Some Thrilling Stories of Bear Hunts. The Killing of a Man Under the Most Peculiar Cir cumstances. Hunting the Grizzly With a Pack of Thoroughbred^ Hounds. The only really dangerous game of the Onited States is the grizzly bear, says Theodore Roosevelt in the Philadelphia Inquirer. It is true that the cougar will, muter very exceptional circumstances, assail the hunter, and so will the bull moose, if his pursuer blunders too near aim; but with both of these animals the element of danger is so small that it may be practically disregarded. With the grizzly it is different. Any man who makes a practice of hunting this great shaggy mountain king must make up his mind that on certain occasions he Will have to show nerve ami good shoot ing in oraer to bring down a charging bear. Still. the danger has become much exaggerated. The average grizzly has but one idea when be sees a man. and that is to get away: it will run as quickly rs a rabbit. Even when wounded a great n.any bears absolutely refuse to fight. Peeking refuge only in llight. Neverthe less, there are plenty of grizzlies that will fight when wounded and cornered. and there are a very few which will rake the offensive themselves without auy particular provocation. Personally, 1 have never been charged tut once, and this was by a grizzly Which I had once wounded and had ap proached to within forty yards, late one evening when I had strolled away from camp, more with the hope of knocking eft the head of a grouse than with the expectation of seeing any larger game. The bear came at me most resolutely, although one of my shots nicked the point of his 1 cart, and although one of the four bullets which I put into him would have ultimately proved mortal. All of the ether bears I have killed Started to run. or fell at the first fire, co that they l;ad no chance of showing tight. It is, however, very nnsafe for a man to generalize in any kind of shoot ing, and particularly in bear shooting, merely from his own experience. Thus, 1 know one gentleman, an officer of the United States army, who has killed six Krizzlies, three of them charging him before they were wounded or even tired tt. The incidents of the three ehanres were curiously alike; that is, he stum bled on the bear in each case at toler ably close quarters, at from ten to twenty yards away from him. and each time the instant the animal saw him it ealloped toward him like a locomotive, only to be rolled over by a well-placed litie balL The grizzly is very tenacious of life, •mi so great are his vitality and pug nacity that a lighting bear will con tinue charging when its body is fairly riddled with bullets. A shot in the brain or spine will of course bring one down in its tiacks, but even a bullet through the heart will not prevent an enraged grizzly from making good its charge at close quarters. A man was once killed near my ranch by a grizzly undar peculiar circuni- Rtances. He was one of a couple of taeu who had been coining down the Little Missouri on a raft in the %uue of the freshets. They stopped our ranch to get lunch. Both of them were rather hard \V-r-7 jdjji L|j f m a pix. looking customers. When they had ••ten tlieir till they pushed off their raft •gain and continued down stream; but • couple of days later one of them turned up with the information that the other had been killed by a bear. They had seen the animal and had followed it into a little basin or valley less than a hundred yards across and ti'.led with dense underbrush. Their utmost en deavor failed to enable them to catch a plimpse of the bear in this thick cover, and after circling round and round and throwing stones into it to no purpose, one ot the men announced his intention ©f crawlinz in after the bear. His companion remonstrated with him in vain, and in he went on all fours, dragging his rifle •fter him and peering ahead in the gloom among the dark twisted stems of the young growth. Before he had gone a dozen yards he cat»e right on the bear, so close at hand that he had neither time to shoot nor so much as call out before tiie ereat paw of the bear smashed in his skull like an egg sliell. His companion finally got the body out. but the bear escapee l , Lcath less. The best way to hunt the grizzly is vrith a pack of thoroughly trained, large and fierce dogs. Ordinary hounds not specially trained for the work are value less, being entirely unable to hold the great animal at bay; and it is exceed ingly difficult to get a pack which can do really effective work. In fact, 1 know of the existence cf - but one or two such. The •11 > legitimate methods of hunting the bear ordinarily in vogue are still hunt ing proper, and lying in wait at a bait. In still hunting one goes abroad early in the morning or late in the evenine, and hunts through the localities where the bear is likely to bo found feeding, keeping a sharp lookout, and trying to creep up on the shaggy monster unob served. The best tiuie for pursuing this sport is in the spring when the biiow is on the ground, and when the bears have just emerged from their holes and are roaming with hungry eagerness all over the land. Success fully to stalk a bear tries all the hunter's knowledge of the craft, for although its sight is not particularly good, it possesses the keenest both of Doses and ears. Another and ordinarily ■uccessful method is to toll the animal to baits and lie in wait beside the latter. In this kind of hunting a steer, an old horse or an elk carcass is left at some likely spot where the hunter lies am bushed and awaits for the aDproach of the bear. It is customary to allow him to feed ou the carcass two or three nights undisturbed lirst. If he is a shy. brute he rarely makes his appearance until miduight,and unless there is a full iroon it is impossible to get a shot at him. Where they are not much hunt ed, how wi:r, bears will come to these carc^eg quite early in the afternoo.i. 1 have oliu'HCil several under such cir cumstances. jam litejjnj* \\%l\ 1!i i^s V^P .ill A LUCKY 650 T. A great many bear are killed by trap ping. This is perfectly legitimate if they art* being killed as a matter of busi ness for their hides, or foi the bounty, or as vermin, but it is not sport at all. No sportsman has any right to kill a trapped bear and claim the animal as of his own killing. It" he can not shoot one legitimately by still-hunting or in some other lawful kind of chase and has to it- ly upon bis guide setting a trap for the animal, then for heaven's sake let him hand the guide the rifle and have him finish the work he has begun. Siiootintr a trapped bear for sport is a thoroughly unsportsmanlike proceed ing, and stands only a decree or two higher than that foulest ot butcheries. shooting a swimming deer in the water from a boat. c lr spite of the meat bulk, formidable teeth and enormous claws of the grizzly, it is normally a trugivorous and Insect ivorous animal, feeding on berries, nuts, and the insects it obtains under stones and logs. At times, however, it becomes a flesh-eater, and it then at tacks the largest animals, whether wild or tame. Not only horses, cattle And elk, but even the bison itself has fallen victim to the hungry grizzly. Like all bears, however. It has an especial taste for pork. In the Yellowstone Park the pigs in the sties near the hotels have, on several occasions, been carried off by bears which have leaped the wall, seized the poor squeeling piggy and bundled him out to his doom over the fence. A gruesome trait of the bear is his habit of eating his prey alive, with bland indifference to its "veiling pro tests. CURED OF A CRAZE. In the Clutches of the Little Tin Bank and Out Again. One of these little nickel pocket sav ings banks, of which the street venders are selling so many nowadays, has been the cause of upsetting all the venera tion in which I previously held the old adage about taking care of the pennins and letting the dollars take care of themselves, says the New York Herald. Sonio weeks ago 1 first noticed the hanks. Hundreds of people were buy inir them on the streets. I knew it was a craze, an epidemic like the fifteen puzzle and "pigs in clover," aud wisely kept away. But Dick Smith marked me out for his victim. With Mephistophe lean glee he gave me one. I imme diately became interested and wanted to see how it worked. It was an inno cent-looking lijtle tin tube wjth a slot in one end, which would admit only a 10 --cent piece. When full it held just?s in dimes, arid only when filled could the bottom be pushed out and the coins bo recovered again. Dick assured me that it was a great savings institution: that by slipping all the dimes I got into it I would never miss them, and be $5 ahead of the game before I knew it. In fact, he led me to believe that a fortune could be accumulated t!>at way iv a very short time and without any perceptible effort. I caught the fever. For a week it engrossed all my spare time. Dime after dime was shoved into its rapacious little tin maw. 1 jinglud it in my pocket, "hefted" it and con stantly watched tho progress of the ac cumulation through the holes perforated in the side. Meanwhile I was continually incon venienced by a lack of change. Just as 1 would get to the ticket window during the rusq hours on the 41 L," 1 would recollect that all my change was in that bank. :»nd would lose my place in the line while stopping to fish out a bill. Such incidents forced a habit of pro fanity upon me. It never occurred to me before that I would consider being deprived of the evening papers as very much of a hard ship, but day after day 1 suffered agonies of curiosity to know what was in them. It did aot seem suitable to offer a newsboy a bill for one, aud I never seemed to nave anything smaller. All the change that came my way turned, as if by magic, into dimes. Well, at last the thing was loaded to the muzzle and consented to be opened, lc came to me as a happy thought to give the proceeds of this bank to my wife as extra pin money. Naturally she tuought it would be very nice, too, and received tho S5 bill for which* l ex changed the handful of dimes with no little satisfaction as the beginning of a regular weekly custom. When 1 returned from business that day her face was as long as a December night. She had been shopping. To absolutely insure its safety she refrained from car rying her pocketbook in her hand and placed it in her shopping bag that hung from her waist. In the pocketbook were S23.GS, including the tive-dollar hard hoarded bill, five dress samples, two postage stamps stuck together, part of an "L r> ticket and a memorandum card. Coming from a crowded bargain counter she noticed that the shopping bate was unclasped. One wild uash of the hand inside as sured her that the pocketbook was gone*. And so after all those climes that I so laboriously gathered will probably iro to buy Bock beer for a picKpocket. If that is the kind of luck tsat follows on the heels of an inclination to save I pre fer to die a pauper. This little tin bank is empty now. AFTER FORTY. After forty, locks grow thinner, We grow stouter— there's the rub! Linger longer o'er our dinner, Miirk the matutinal tub. After forty we pet lazy, To the lads the Kirls resign — They may flirt with Dot and Daisy While we loiter o'er our wiiie : After forty we discover Aches and pains distinctly new. Once a lobster salad lover. Now we court the homely stew I After lorty fidgets rind us. Sad to teil, an easy prey; Leaving lightsomen'ess behind vi, We grow graver day by day: After forty, saucy misses Treat us like their own papas; So fear now of stoieu kisses. Billets doux— trate mnmmas : Bin, their white arms calmly resting on our shoulders, if you please, They will ask (I am not jesting) After our rheumatic knees : After forty we're approaching Fogydom— so Ethel thinks: And we growl at aught encroaching On our precious forty winks. O'er a stile we crawl with caution, We. once agile as a roe; For life's autumn is our portion. And its spring went long ago : What's the moral of the matter? Tni«, aud lay it well to heart- After forty cense light chatter. Act no more the stripling's parti Let up take witn resignation In old fogies' ranks a place; 'Tis an art worth cultivation. That of growing old with grace ! — Philadelphia Times. THE SAINT PAUL DAILY CLOTO: SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1892.— SIXTEEN PAGES. BOSTON'S BIG BOODLE Short Biographies of Some of the Eminently Rich Men of the Hub. J. Montgomery Sears Has Been Termed the Typical Astor of Boston. Ben Butler's Fortune Is Rated at Several Millions of Round Dollars. The Ames Family History the Ground-Work of a Commo dious Law Suit The rapid increase in real estate val ues is always a matter of interest, whether it be due to booming, to gain in population or to change of business centers. Here in Boston the advance in valuation has not been so sudden as in many other places, but a remarkable instance of great increase is that of the Sears estate, on the corner of Washing ton and Court streets. In IS2O it was valued at $-24,000. while last year it was assessed for $721. T00, says a Boston cor respondent of the Chicago Herald. J. Montgomery Sears, the owner oj the property, has been termed the Astor of Boston. He ranks thiid in wealth among the capitalists of New England, and is the second largest individual real estate owner in the "Hub." Mr. Sears has a fortune estimated at $15,000,000. Besides his elegant home here in Bos ton he has a costly summer residence at Bar Harbor and a fine farm at Southijoro. Like the other many time millionaires of the Atlantic coast cities he also has a handsome steam yacht, the Novya, in cruising on which in the yachting season he takes no little delight, and entertains Boston and Bar Harbor frie.nc's. He married a daughter of Charles F. (Jhoate, «t one time presi dent of the Old Colony railroad, and has a charming family. Mr. Sears, who is a graduate of Yale, is above medium height, of fine address and bearing; yet with all his wealth is modest and unassuming. The care of his real es tate claims a large share of his atten tion, yet he saves time for much practi cal philanthropy. He established a workingmen's club in this city, and presented the Episcopal society, of Marl boro, with a fine church edifice. Mr. Sears is the son of Joshua Sears, an eccentric but successful East India merchant, who married late in life, and died when his son was quite young. Speaking of real estate reminds me of Gen. Butler, who, some time since.in giviiig advice as to how a younsr man may acquire wealth, wrote as follows: '•When a young man has a very little money let him buy some property, pref erably a piece, however small, accord ing to his "means, of Improved real es tate that is paying rent. He had better buy it when sold at auction, under a ju dicial sale, paying in cash what he can, giving his notes for the balance in small sums coming due at frequently re curring intervals, secured by a mort gage on the property, and then use all his extra income in paying ud those notes. It always safe to discount your own note, and if the notes come a little too fast, as soon as he gets anything paid his friends will aid him when he is putting his money where it cannot be lost, and where the property is taking care of the interest, and In a Very short time he will find that he has got a very considerable invest ment, lie will become interested in it. save his nioney to meet his notes and he will directly come into a consid erable possession of property and hardly know how it came to him. That is, he will have had a motive for saving, and will get the result of that saving, and will not be tempted to enter into specu lation. Nothing is so safe for an invest ment as improved real estate. Nothing is likely to grow in value faster. In the last fifty years 90 per cent of all the merchants and traders in Boston have failed. In the last fifty years ninety per cent of all the business corporations have failed or gone out of business, so that their stuck lias been wiped out. In the last fifty years all the improved real estate, on the average, has paid its interest and taxes and quadrupled in value." Butler's Real Estate Porrcskloiis. Mr. Butler's fortune is placed at sev eral million dollars, a large part of which he has made by investing in manufactories in Lowell and elsewhere. Besides possessing a considerable amount of real estate in Boston, Wash ington and Chicago, he also owns vast tracts of land in the West. The Craig ranch, near Puebio, Col., the finest in the state, belongs to him, and he, with one or two others, controls the Mora grant of 000,000 acres in New Mexico, besides which the general has 150.000 acres of coal and mineral land in Vir ginia. Early in the winter Gen. Butler was confined to his house by illness for some time, bat finally rallied, and. as snon as he was able, completed his autobiogra phy, on which he had been engaged for some time. There has been some trou ble over the publication of the book, as the publisher with whom h« first con tracted became financially embarrassed, and the general transferred his work to another firm. The original contractors objected to this, and the great lawyer soon found himself with a lawsuit of his own on his hands. Gen. Butlers pluck and perseverance were weli illustrated in his efforts a few years since to secure the governorship of the Old Bay State. Although de feated time and attain, he was not in the least daunted, and fought on till lie was finally successful as the nominee of the Democratic and Greenback parties in 1882. He was a candidate for re-election, but was defeated, and has not been much heard of in public lire since. A certain district judge, whose home is in Rhode Island, gained considerable un desirable notoriety and excited much sympathy for the general by using his official position to sit down severely upon the old man in a case in court last summer. Gen. Butler, however, said he did not mind the matter at all. as the official in question was "an inferior judge of an inferior court of an inferior state."' Another wealthy Bostonian who has recently been involved in litigation over a book is Frederick L. Ames, widely known in railway circles and nephew of Oakes Ames, of Union Pacific fame. Haifa dozen years ago F. L. Ames was put down in the reports of the United States. Mexico and Canada as a director in fifty-two different roads, and has been elected to other similar positions since then. The fourteen-story Ames build ing on Court street, the tallest in this city, completed last fall, ana directly opposite the Sears estate, above spoken of. will be a last ing monument to his enterprise. Mr. Ames has sat in the state senate,, is a member of the boaid of fellows of Havard university and a liberal patron of art. his residences, both at North Easton md on Commonwealth avenue, in the fashionable quarter of this city, being filled with equisite painting's. Like all in his line. Mr. Ames is tall and robust. He lias a cool head, clear judgment, an even temperament and a warm, kindly heart. This latter part of his anatomy was lately somewhat hardened toward another member of family, however, and a suit at law was the result. Lawsuit Over a Family History. The subject of the controversy was a history of the Ames family, and the ob ject of the suit was to stop its publica tion. F. L. Ames was the plaintiff in the case aud Dr. Axel Ames jr. the de fendant. The plaintiff stated that in ISNS he had a conversation wlthhhe de fendant, the rosult of which was an agreement that the latter should pro cure all of the material which ha could find relating to tha Ames family and prepare a history, for which he w;is to •>e paid for his services and disburse ments. The plaintiff further averred that he had advanced tor tlie purchase of material, lncladiugmsuuscript,book^ etc., $:J,s>l7, nnl |n a.( tuition had paid to the defendant for his services $:2,.V£». The plaintiff claimed that he wa* the lawful owner of the work, and that he had called upon the defiMidnut to deliver it to him. but the defendant refused to do so, and further threateiied to pub lish tho history himself, and was taking subscriptions for it. T»e plaintiff alleged that the work was of such a character that he was in formed and believed that the defendant was able to make changes and altera tions in the work that would injure the rights of the plaintiff, and the court was askeil to issue an injunction restraining Dr. Ames from publishing the history, and an order directing the defendant to turn into the hands of the clerk of the court, or some other discreet person, all material which he had. When the case was called the lawyer who appeared for the defendant said that there was an agreement of counsel that the case should be postponed. Dr. Ames' defense to the suit was that al though he had made a coutract with Frederick Ames, as alleged, there had been a disagreement between them, and that he had a perfect right to publish the history, the plaintiff having some two years ago abandoned all interest therein. The Ames family occupied a conspic uous place in the history of Massachu setts. The corner stone of its fortunes was laid in lTTti. when Capt. John Ames, great-grandfather of the present Senior representative of the name, be gan the manufacture of shovels at West Bridgewater. The same industry is still carried on by his descendants. The wealth of ex-Gov. Ames, who served Massachusetts two terms as its chief executive, is between $7,000,000 and $10,000,000. When he was gov ernor he annually gave the members of the legislature a magnificent banquet at his regal residence on the Back bay that made the eyes of the country rep resentatives open with wonder. Mr. Ames is largely interested in railroads, notably the Union Pacific, of which his father, Oakes Ames, was the first presi dent. In 1573, when he had been in the shovel business for twenty-five years, his father died, leaving an immense estate, but it was scattered in almost every state m the Union, and was dreadfully involved in debt. The In debtedness amounted to $5,0U0,000, while an appraisal of the assets led to the belief that the unsecured creditors could hardly hope to get more than 40 cents on a dollar. Most of Oliver's earnings in the factory had been loaned to his father, so that financial ruin stared him in the face. But In spite of the panic which came six months after his father's death. In spite of the over whelming load of indebtedness, in spite of the fact that the most iutricate prob lems of financial management presented themselves on all sides, he succeeded in making the estate pay the debts dollar for dollar, and there was enough left to pay $1,000,000 of legacies, and leave a surplus besides for the residuary lega tees. Since that time Oliver Ames has, owing to his srreat ability as a business man, climbed rapidly up the steep hill of fortune. He has 'acquired large rail way and other interests, and has for years been an extensive and successful deaier in railway securities. Without being a mere speculator, he has been what might be called a bold operator in the stock market, being always ready to invest at times when others would tear to touch certain securities, and having the rare faculty of know ins just when to sell, after a reasonable advance had occurred, and having the courage to sell then and not wait for a still further advance which might or might not come. In business matters Oliver Ames is regarded as the soul of honor, and the possession of large means by him and his family has been coupled with a large public spirit, shown in the Oakes Ames Memorial hall In North Easton, and other fine public buildings and many notabie illustrations of liberality. Vanderbllt of the Hnb. The Vamlerbilt of the "Hub," as he has been styled, is Nathaniel Thayer. His father was Nathaniel Thayer, the famous banker and railroad man. one of the founders of the great banking house of Eliot, Thayer & Bro.. of which Kid der, Peabody & Co. became the succes sors. He was widely known in West ern and Southern railroad affairs, and founded the Union stockyards in Chi cago. He lived to be over eighty years of age, and left, in his time," the largest estate in Boston, amounting to J10.000.0D0. "Nat" Thayer, as the younger representative of the house is sometimes called, is essentially a rail road man, inheriting his father's ability for business affairs. Most of his rail roads are in the West, as were those of his father. He graduated from Har vard college in 1871, a university to which his father gave Thayer hall, Thayer Commons hall and the Gray herbarium, besides bearing the expense of the trip of Prof. Aeassiz to South Amer ica. Mr. Thayer is of solid build, six feet tall, has brown hair anl eyes and a mustache of a lighter hue. 'He is a member of the Somerset, Union and Country clubs and the Eastern Yacht dub. He has a fine house on the Back Bay, another at Newport and a third at Lancaster, where the family name is perpetuated by the town hall of Lan caster. His sister. Miss Harriet Thayer. married Congressman John F. Andrew, president of the Algonquin club. Among those who have made a promi nent place for themselves in the finan cial world in the past decade are the Swift Bros., the dressed meat shippers. Both Edward C. Swift, who is frequent ly seen in this city, and his brother, Gustavus F. Swift, who is located in Chicago, «were born in Sandwich, on CaDe Cod. They started with almost nothing as drovers between Brighton and Provincetown, and as late as fifteen years ago were no more than fairly successful live stock dealers and market men. But last year they are said to have done a busi ness of $45,000,000 in their packing houses in Chicago. Kansas City and Omaha, and at their numerous local agencies in various parts of the country. G. F. Swift, the head of the firm arid founder of the packing house business, bus but just passed his fiftieth mile stone in life. He has a family of nine children, seven of whom are boys. The oldest has charge of the Chicago pack ing house and the next other of the house in Kansas City. E. C. Swift has a residence in Lowell. TUey are said to be the largest handlers of beef and mut ton in the world, and no one but Phil Armour handles more hog products than they. The Swifts have a delight ful summer cottage down on "The Cape," where the family passes part of each year. The Old Man Spoke. New York Her aid. ••I'm afraid," sighed the mother,"that our Charles is gutting to be nothing but a fashion plate." "You don't know him." her husband growled. "He strikes me more like a contribution plate." LOVE, AND IN A COTTAGE. She who is mine, whose soul is all my own As mine is hers. Ion? loved and early known. With what w area hands, with what a loving face, She gives me welcome to this quiet place. This cottage heartn, where we two dwell alone : We have the Door for neighbors: we are one: Content with simple duties simply done; And she, nt least, of no ambitious race, Shu- who is mine. All, yes! Life's vain results have come and gone; And the dry heart, like a cold kernel stone Within its withered pulp and shrunken case. Might well have lost such fullness and such grace As once it had, but for this love, full grown And resola. e aud pure, that she hath Bhuwn, She who is mine. —Academy. CHOKED BY A GHOST, A Wild, Weird Tale Frora the Town of St. Louis, Down the River. Hair-Raisingf Experience of Mr. and Mr 3. Weder and Their Boarder. A Ghostly Visitor That Has Created Quite a Decided Sensation. White Figures Rock Chairs and Mysteriously Open and Close Doors. The people living in the neighbor hood of Eighth and Morgan streets are in a perfect frenzy of excitement over the queer and, in some instances.almost blood-curdling antics of a supposed ghost, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. Joseph Weder and his wife occu py the third floor of 819 Morgan street, and have living with them a boarder named Joseph AlbacK, and the story told by all three concerning the ghost is as follows: The Chairs Rocked. Friday night Mr. Weder, who is a machinist by trade and employed in a foundry at Rock Springs, was detained unusually late at his work, and did not return home until about 10 o'clock. Mrs. Weder, who was aloue in her room about S:3O o'clock, was startled to see a rocking-chair, which was in the middle of the room, rocking violently without any apparent cause. She watched for a few minutes, trying, if possible, to discover the cause of the rocking. Sud denly the chair fell backward to the floor, the back of the chair resting on the floor. She started towacd it to lift it, but be fore she got to the chair it assumed an upright position without any visible as sistance, and again began the violent rocking. She caught hold of the chair and held it to prevent its rocking, but as soon as she let co her hold the chair began locking again, and fust then one of the other chairs in the room turned over. Mrs. Weder picked it up, and had not more than done so before it again fell over on its side. By this time Mrs. Weder had become excited by the strange actions of the chairs, and went to the room of her boarder. Mr. Alback, and asked him to come to her room and see the strange manifestations. As Mr. Alback entered the room there was a crashing uoise, which sounded as if the whole window sash had been smashed, immediately after which the rocking-chair stopped its rocking, not settling into a quiet po sition gradually, as is usually the caae, but stopped suddanly, and as if it were raised several inches from the floor. The Door Op-ncd. Mr. Alback then locked the room door to prevent any thing that might be in the room from leaving, and bega n a search under the bed, in the closet, etc., to see if he could discover any reason for the strange noise and actions of the chairs. After stooping down to look under the bed he was very much surprised on rising to see the door, which he had locked a few minutes be fore, slowly opening without aid from any visible source. The door was again closed, and after a few minutes again opened. A footstool, which was sitting on one side of the room, suddenly flew over to the other side of the room just as if tlirowu by some one. By this time Mrs. Weder was almost crazy with ex citement, and Mr. Alback promised to stay in hor room with her until the ar rival of her husband. While waiting for Mr. Weder, who did not arrive until 10 o'clock, as stated, the most strange and unearthly noises were heard. The noises at times would resemble the moans and groans of a person in great agony, at other times the howling of a dog. Every possible ettort was made to discover the source from which the unearthly noises em anated, but without success. Mr. Wetier finally arrived, ami was told of the strange happenings of the evening. At first he was a little incredulous, and expressed the opinion that the vivid imagination of Mr. Alback and his wife had got away with their reason. It was not very long, however, before his doubts were disptlled, for while he was iv the bedroom washing his face and hands preparatory to eating his supper, which was prepared for him and sitting on the table in the dining room, a spoon which was lying on the table-tii the dining room was thrown by unseen hands into the bedroom. A few inln utes after this, while ha was seated at the ta'jle eating his supper, an iron poker which had been lying on the floor near the stove in the dining room sud denly flew through the air over to the other side of the room, and would have struck Mrs. Weder had she not dodged quickly. A Wblte Figure and a Choking. At 11 o'clock Mr. Alback went to his room and for that nij»ht heard and saw nothing more of a strange character. Not so, however, with Mr. and Mrs. Weder. They had been preparing to retire for the "night when Mrs. Weder left the bed room to go to the dining room for a pitcher of water. As she opened the door between the two rooms she discovered standing in the middle of the dining room (where there was no light) a shadowy white fizure with its arms stretched towaid her. She called at once to her husband to come and see the ghost, and as she did so it vanished. She then returned to the bed room. All the doors were Jocked, and Mr. and Mrs. Weder retired for the night, but not to sleep. They had not more than got to bed before another noise was heard, and ou investigation a pe culiar-shaped stone was found to have fallen into the middle of the room. The doors aud windows were still closed, and. as none of the windows were broken, there is no possible way to account for the stone getting there. Finally Mrs. Weder, worn out with excitement and uerv business, fell asleep. Before she had been asleep many minutes she was awakened by a choking sensation. As she ooened her eyes she says she again saw the ghostly vision that she had seen earlier in the evening standing in the dining room. Mrs. Weder says she could plainly feel the cold, clammy fingers of the ghost as they were pressed against her throat. During the rest of that night Mr. and Mrs. Weder did not again go to sieep. AYiother Visitation. All day yesterday up to 7 o'clock last evening there were no peculiar mani festations of any sort, and Mrs. Weder was beginning to think that his gnost ship had disappeared. Not so, however, for promptly at 7 o'clock the rocking chair, wnich had been Grst to show evi dences of a spirit's presence the night before, again began rockhig. Mrs. Weder, as on the night before, called Mr. Alback to her room, and very much the same experiences were gone through as on Friday night. Chairs rocked and were overturned, doors opened, foot stools flew about the room, and strange noises were heard. When Mr. Weder returned from work and again founa his household in an uproar as a result of the strange doings, he decided that he would not spend an other night in the house, and, accord ingly, he and his wife left and went to the house of their son-in-law, James Alenbeck. living in the rear ot 1520 S uth Fifteenth street, where he spent last night, and where they will remain until they can rent other "quarters aud move their effects. One of the strange things in connec tion with the manifestations is the fact that they seem to be directed solely to ward Mrs. Weder, aud do not take place when she is not present. As soon as she left the house everything quieted down, and up to an early hour this morning nothing further of an unusual nature had occurred. Mrs. Weder §aid that on last Wednes day a lady who occupied the second floor of the house died, and was buried Thursday. Shortly before the death of the lady they had quarreled, and the lady now dead said in a spirit of vin dictivencs3 that she would never for give nor forget Mrs. Weder, and that when she di«i she would haunt her. Mrs. Weder seems to think that the s tran ire happenings are due to the spirit of her late neighbor. Mr. Weder is in a very high state of nervous excitement, and her husband fears that it will result in a serious illness. SLANG, NEW AND OLD. Variety of Expressions Coined by Master Minds of Literature. The present age has a tendency to ward sacrificing elezance ftwraptness in its daily conversation, and this gives rise to many popular expressions not in accordance with the rules of books of the wise men, which are known as slang. The word slang is of obscure origin, probably coming to us from the gypsies, according to the Kansas City Star. _ A slang-whanger is a noisy, turbulent fellow whose language is notof the best, and slang itself is generally considered disreputable. But there are qualities, classes, distinctions and differences even in slang. There is the low. vulgar slang whose origin is in obscurity and whose use is among the vicious and de graded. Above this Is the dictionary slang of known pedigree and traced descent, often classical. "High-toned" is an expressive term which precise peopie generally walk around. It means "nobly elevated," especially in character, and was coined by Sir Walter Scott. Similar to it are "upper ten" and "uppeu crust," mean ing the higher class of society, which are said in the dictionary to be Amer icanisms, colloquial and low, the former being contracted from "upper ten thou sand," and the latter carrying with it th« suggestive superiority of the fancy top crust of a pie. The "brick" is a merry citizen, rarely one of the "upper ten," and usually a grade or two below the "upper crust" in social standing; but he bears his me diocrity lightly, and laughs his cheery way through the world, often enjoying more than his stiff-starched superiors. He is a jolly good fellow, and never lacks friends." W. M. Thackeray first used the word in the sentenco, "He's a dear little brick." "A brick in his hat" is an expression applied to an intoxicat ed person, probably from the fact that in that condition his head feels as heavy and useless as a brick would be if worn in the hat. "The dickens!" does not come from the name of the genial novelist, but is a contraction of devilkins, diminutive of devil, and therefore only a polite Sun day school sort of way of saying '"the devil." Webster calls it a vulgar inter jection. "To play the devil" means to Interfere witli in a ruinous way or to imitate the evil one, and this expression is given a solemn seriousness by the staid old dictionary without any sign of disapprobation, from which it may be concluded it is good English, although it would not add to the elegance of drawing-room conversation. John Russell Bartlett, in his "Dic tionary of Americanisms,' is authority for the statement that "on his own hook" means by himself, or on his owu responsibility, and John Milton, stately and ponderous, is accused of having originated the phrase "by hook or crook," which means in any way or by any method, ana it is in this way that Americans are accused of obtaining the '•almighty dollar." this last being an ex pression fathered by Washington lr vlnz. which is so apt that it has had large use. The modern use of the word "rats" as an interjection can hardly be ex plained. Sometimes it expresses in credulousness, and is uttered disdain fully just after the climax of an exag gerated statement. Sometimes it is used to express disgust, and if rightly pronounced is effective. Its use as a noun has a place in the dictionary of slang as one who deserts his party or associates, among printers one who works at less than established rates. Lord Stanhope, also known as Lord Mahon, an English statesman and his torian who died in 1875, elves this in teresting history concerning it: "It chanced that not long after the acces sion of the House of Hanover some of the brown, that is. the German and Nor way rats, were first brought over to this country (in some timber, it is said), and being much stronger than the black, or, till then, the common rat, they in many places quite extirpated the latter. The word (both the noun and the verb to rat) was first, as we have seen, leveled at the converts to the government of George 1., but has by degrees, ob tained a wider meaning, and come t,o be applied to any sudden and mercenary change in politics." In the Book ot Job, the oldest litera ture extant, and, according to John J. Ingalls, "the highest production of the human intellect," appears the sentence: "i am escaped with the skin of my teeth," which is modernized i4 by the skin of my teeth," and gives the idea of a narrow escape, one so close as to be just by the thickness of the skin of the teeth, which is so thin that no miero scopist has yet been able to find it. "To oast in the teeth" nieans to throw de fiant reproaches or insults spitefully, as one would cast a stone at the exposed teeth ot' a snarling dog. "Tooth and nail" denotes tho manner of an action full of frenzied fury, typified by biting and scratching, as when two belligerent cats make the fur fly. Vaseline. - Philadelphia Press. Every now and then an item goes the rounds of the papers recommending vaseline as a sovereign cure for every ill the feminine complexion is heir to. As a matter of fact it only agrees with about five out of every fen skins. ' On some it has no more effect than so much water, some it absolutely irritates, and to each and every woman who persists in its use it will sooner or later brinir a pronouncedly hairy look. If there is ever so dainty a shade on the upper lip, vaseline will develop it into a distinct mustache, and the smoothest of cheeks will grow downy. If any one is willing, however, to brave all these perils and use vaseline or kindred preparations, don't buy them in bottles, they will be smeary and horrid from the first; get a tube, like those in which moist colors come. You can squeeze out as much or as little as you want, and the rest wili aiways be in order. mm *A WINTEU WOOING. Guess I reckoned that I'd never Pop that question t' Mirandy. First I tried to was one summer, Sittitf on her dad's verandy. Then one August, too, I thought I'd Ask her. In the clever medder: Had a set speech, but somehow she Looked too cold to take the header. Kext time wuz th' slidin' party Out at Crawford's, and Mirandy Said she'd slide if I could find a Extra-sized toboggan handy. That just set me tinglin". so I Asked her if she'd go a joggin' With my arms around her, slidiu* Kight along on life's toboggan. Then Mirandy smiled her sly way, With the color all n-hu<idin' In her cheeks, an' said as how the Question took her kind o" sudden Like, an' left her without breath f ' Say a word, but guessed the flym' Down the h 11. witii winter blowin' In your lace, wuz rather tryin'. But she whispered, if I'd steer her Jest as straight an' jest as clever Down life's groove as thai toboggan She would slide with me forever; If I'd always guard her. keeplir 'Round my arms for safe protection; Watchin" for the bumps and striviu' Always in th' right d'rection. So we climbed th' hill, while all th' Stars that winked above and hovered Slipped behind th' clouds and told th' Other Mars what they'd discovered. And, with Mnudy's eyes t' litiiit me Down the bill, I've found the jogtfin* Just uz pleasant 'n' as easy As that night on that toboggan. —Charles (Joruou Rogers in Outing. LICKED BY A LOBSTER. A Diver's Terrible Struggle for Life With a Deep Sea Monster. The Creature Was Five Feet High and Nearly Ten Feet in Length. He Seized the Man and Dragged Him to His Den to Devour Him. Final Rescue of the Unfort unate Diver by His Fel low-Workers. Sea monsters and their doings are oc casionally given mention in newspaper paragraphs, and most of such accounts are vouched for by this or that scientific man, says the New York Herald. When Victor Hugo wrote in "The Toilers of the Sea" about the frightful monster which clasped its clammy arms around the divsr every one thought that tiie thing was a mere fabrication. But it was not. The monster described was almost identical with the octopus or giant squid. So, too, men relate how. liviDg in the deep and silent caves ot the sea,is a huge lobster, resembling the smaller fish in structure, but being very voracious. It is said that it seldom comes near the shore, if ever, but that enormous lob ster shells are sometimes thrown upon land after a violent storm. Northern fishermen have heard of the monster, and I have seen them shiver in the cud cilesof theirfishing smacks as some one described the size and ano-nrance of the fish. How far the gener; 1 i npression is correct Ido not know, lv let me relate a story told to me by a uwcr: "When the Anglo-Saxon, a ship laden with costly merchandise, ran into Chance cove, on the Newfoundland coast, and sunk by striking a hidden reef, the government at once took steps to have all the unlucky srip contained removed. There were over a hundred persons on board, but not so much as one, if my memory serves me, escaped. When the ship was lifted by a heavy swell upon the sharp ledge she 'hung' there, as sailors say, but with the rise of the tide she was lifted off the ledge and Went Down. Head First. into the deep water lying inside. There was a passage fruru the outside leading to this deep water, so that fishes or sea beasts might co in or out in quest of prey. There was no beach or strand, but upright, naked cliffs in the form of a semicircle rose around to a height of about 300 feet. Giving back a little ou the top was a lighthouse. "As soon as possible divers were brought to the spot, but it was difficult to find it smooth enough to go down. The first day wo got below we could do little but lay out our plan of operations. The ship was on her side, the stumps of the masts turned toward land. 1 had never gone clown before in water so far north, and the place was so wild that I was timid. Lines were attached to our bodies and the ends fast ened to the skiff above, so that if any dryer pulled his line he was at once drawn to the surface. We walked about the bottom and around the ship with our feet weighted to keep us from rising. "The water was a pale green, and I could notice objects quite plainly for inanv yards distant. There was a huge break in the bottom of the ship, Ifer stem was stove in, so was her stern. Already the fishes had discov ered that there was feasting inside, for as 1 was about to enter by the hole in the bow a number of Spanish mackerel, cod, sculpins and dogfish began to tlounder about inside, i moved back, lor I did not know but there might be a shark there. There were, as you know, over 100 bodies in the ship, so I was anxious that they should be saved from the desecration of these fishes. Worst of all to get among the bodies of the drowned are Spanish mackerel and cod. I had charge, so we all went to the top and made arrangements for cet tinz the dead. I shall not give you the details, but after ex tremely hard work two clays saw our ghastly task completed. Then eainq the raising of the costly merchandise. It was mostly silks and cashmere shawls. One afternoon while my two men re mained above repairing their diving apparatus 1 went down alone. We we're now removing the bales from the after compartment of tiie ship, and Had only one way to entei or leave this com partment, namely, by the break in the steru. The method of Raisins: the Goods was to lower down the heavy hooks which could be fastened into the bales after they were pushed outside. Some of these bales or cases would tloat and some would rest lightly on the bottom. I bad selected a large case which I was about to move when, happening to turn ray eyes, I^saw outside a hune creature moving coward the vessel, i had never seen anything like it betore. Its body was four to five feet high and about twice that length, and it had on each side an enormous arm. There seemed to be an unlimited number of legs at tached to the hideous creature. Its color was a dun brown, mottled over with dark spots. Two round, black, shining eyes were in its forehead, and two sup ple horns.each resembling an enormous whip, likewise came out of its head. All fhis I noticed with one glance. A numb terror seized me, and 1 moved for the outlet from the ship. But. as if know ing what I intended, this brute, looking straight at me with its frightful eyes, walked, or rather crawled, directly toward me. I hurried in the hope of being able to seize the hanging ho;>k, now my only means of signaling the skiff; but it hurried, too, and L had barely put my toot upon a gray rock outside when the two writhing horns of the detestable creature were twining about me, and again untwining. Then he would touch me with these and sweep them up and down, as if feeling what description of prey I was. The round, frightful eyes seemed to burn through and thrcueh me. In my hand I held the crowbar whict I used to loosen the cargo;, in my belt I carried a heavy sheath knife. These were my only weapons. Suddenly and without any warning the monster threw out one of its arms and seized me below the shoulder. I felt as if my bones were being crushed, and that ray arm would soon be severed from my body. So sooner had he done this than he turned and began to drag me into a deep cor ner of the nook. The more 1 resisted the more Terrible \Va« the Pain, so 1 had lo co, tinning over in my mind what I should do. J still had the crow bar in my right hand, but it was of no use to me, so 1 let it drop. •'But the horror of that time! Well, I knew why the awful thing was drag ging me to this quiet place. He was go iiig to devour me. "His arm terminated in a claw which opened and shut. This horrible mouth like thine had two rows of shining white teeth. Several of these were piercing my arm to the bone. Some dis tance above this mouthlike hand 1 ob served a joint, and then I drew my knife. But alas! the heavy shell so overlapped the fleshy tissue that I could not injure my captor. Still he draped me on, on, till at last the deepest part of the sea nook was reached. There he stopped and turned those terrifying eyes again upon me. Tho whiplike arms again began to move and curl about my body, and a hideous motion seemed to run through the body of the fish. What this meant I knew. "Ills head was only about a foot dig tant from my body, and drawing my knife again 1 plunged it into the eya nearest me, turning the blade round and round. 1 saw that 1 had destroyed Ihe eye, for an inky fluid issued out" of the socket, darkening the water about his bead. This checked the aggressive movements of the thing, but did not seem to hurt it. 1 waited, waited for many seconds, I think, and then its head turned, so 1 supposed, lie might be enabled to see his prey. This was what 1 wanted, and with r sure, swift thrust I sent my knife into his other eye down to the belt This time ie must have touched the brain, for the beast reeled, and the grip on my arm slightly re laxed. But though totally blind tny captor had no idea of releasing me. "The awtny of my arm soon grew un bearable, and the waters around me seemed to by filling with greenish smoke. A strange sound began to buza in my ears, and my pain seemed to dis appear. 1 tiiought. too, that I saw other figures moving about the ship, then the light went out of my eyes, and 1 remem bered nothing more. "When 1 recovered my senses I was in the skirt, and learned how toe divers, alarmed at my long absence below, had come down. They saw my plight, and after a time succeeded in severing the arm from the body of the fish, which, they both declared was the awful desp sea lobster. CHINESE OPIUM SMOKERS. Many Thoueand? of the Natives "Would Bb Free From the Habit. Cheok Hong Cheong, simerintendem of the church mission to the Chinese ia Victoria, B. C, has just arrived in Lon don as the representative of a Chines* society in Australia, which is anxious that the importation of opium into thai continent be prohibited," says the New York Sun. He says the Chinese victims of opium smoking in Australia are themselves eager to have tempta tion placed beyond their reach. "I have met in my time," he says, "thou sands of opium smokers who are anx ious to set rid of the baleful habit, but they cannot sj long as temptation ia within their reach." He adds that li England can be induced to wash hei hands of the traffic there is every rea son to believe the Chinese government will be compelled by the strength of uublic opinion in China to take steps to stamp out the traffic. Li 11 unsr Chang, tne ablest statesman of China, is op« posed to the opium trade, and has writ ten and spoken most strongly against the traffic. A while ago the society for the sup pression of the opium trade was organ ized in London. The society is collect ing a ianre amount of information about the calamities which opium is inflicting. They corroborate the statemeut that even smokers condemn the practice, In a statement of the prevalence of the opium habit in China they say smokera wish to be free, and yet cling to the pipe as its slaves. Fifty years ago the opponents of opium smoking in China bad to contend only with the foreiirn import. They have now in addition the large native growih. Fifty yeara ago there were probably riot "over 2,000,000 smokers in China. The number is now estimated at 20. 0(K»,000. Formerly the habit was con fined to adult males. It now numbers among its victims women, and even children, particularly in the large opium growing regions of the uppar Yanetse river and Southwestern China. The habit is particularly common in these opium-producing regions, where it is es timated that from SO to uo per cent of the men above twenty years of age smoke, and 50 or GO per cent of the women, not to speak of the many young people in their teens. In the non-pro ducing districts trie evil is chiefly con fined to the cities. The villages are comparatively free. In Canton over seven-tenths of the officials smoke opium. In Ilunau not one-tenth of the same class are addicted to the pipe. The imperial family and the high offi cers of state in the capital and through out the empire are tree from the vice, it is said, but the evil seems to be spread ing more every year. It is slowly find ing its way into agricultural districts. i 3 permeating all classes of society, and is not loosed upon with the same abhor rence as formerly. The legalization of the import many years ago <a crime for which the British are responsible, for they forced opium upon Cbiua merely to secure a large market tor the Indian product) did much to spread its use. The society says the reports of its mission hospitals speak in the clearest language or the widespread extent of the evil. Large numbers of opium smokers apply yearly for relief. Lanre numbers are treated in the wards and in refuges set apart for their treatment. The extent of the evil may be inferred from the ereat sale of native and foreign remedies to cure the habit. The civ everywhere is, '"Deliver us from this curse." There are many who under take their own cure by means of opium ashes mixed with some me dicinal Ingredient?. A few heroicailv undertake to give up the Indulgence without help of any kind, no matter what may befall them, and some are known to have perished in the attempt. The ordeal through which a smoker passes who tries to break off the habit is so severe that few have the courane to support it. The victim loses his ap petite, is seized with pains in his bones, an indescribable feeling of prostration and distress pervades the whole body, sleep forsakes him, and the horrors of the day are added to those of restless nights. His sufferings are worst about the third day, partly subsiding by the fifth or sixth day, ami it the victim holds out fora half month he is usually able to withstand further temptation. A Princess' Choice. A sister of the late kins of Spain con sented to mingle her proud Castilian blood with that of the people by marry ing a doctor of medicine wlio had not a solitary handle to his nama. When the courtiers heard of the infanta's choice they turned up the whites of their eyes 10 the sky like ducks in a thunder storm at the bare notion of this superb pa trician lily giving herself to a husband belonging to the professional classes. The doctor in question is well provided for mentally and physically, and his spouse is evidently proud of bint, for when she was twitted with marrying an untitled individual she said: '•! pre ferred a man without a title to a title without a man. Cod-liver oil suggests con*, sumption; which is almost un« fortunate. Its best use is be« fore you fear consumption—* when you begin to get thin* Consumption is only one ol the dangers of thinness. Scott's Emulsion of cocU liver -oil makes the thin plump, and the plump are almost safe. Let us send you a book oq careful living — free. Scott b Bownk, Chemists. 13a South sth Avenu* New York. Your druugist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-livel oil — all druggists everywhere do. $:. I CURE FITS! When I say care I do not mean merely to stop them for a time and then have them return again. I moftn a radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS. EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life long study. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now roceivinc a cure. Send at once for a treatise and a free bottle of uiy infallible remedy. Give Express and Post Offico address. 11. U. ROUT. JH. C, 183 Pearl St., N, Y. 11