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Gleaming w Itlt n shy umpiise,
Wo tmbcrt
When you pass u laughing by,
Since you smile mid uinco you sigh,
You'io a (lilt)
Lady hcr.itd of the bi lug,
Iluda and bees and birds you bring,
Promise, too,
Of tlic shining summer hours;
April glil of sun and fh iwcra,
Hail to youl
OSTARA, GODDESS OF EASTER.
lie Him e.lvpii Her ume tn Olio (it tho
Urcateiit lit nut. in llio Cln lilliin Yenr.
Ostara, the Goddess of Easter and of
Spring, Is one of the most attractive
personage? In German mythology,
which Is also the mythology of what
we ate In tho habit of calling the Anglo-Saxon
race.
This heathen goddess has given her
name to one of tho greatest events in
the Christian year. The name Is a
form of the modern German "Ostern"
tnd of the English "Easter." The early
Church found it wise to adapt to Chris
Man purposes many institutions and
customs of a pagan nature which had
become established In tho affections of
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TUB HUATHKX oodih.s.
the people. So tho observances whict
In heathen times honored the advent
of Ostara, the Goddess of Spring, sur
vive to a certain extent in the Chris
tian celebration of the Resurrection.
Apart from tho religious services
however, those observances vltl
which the heathen Teutons honoreo
Ostara still linger in their primitive
form In many parts of Germany and
possibly of England. In New York
and other centres of Anglo-Saxon civ
ilization they have absumed a more
complex character.
The Gorman rustic's feasting tit
Easter time, according to a German
mythologlst, repicsents the ancleut
sacrifice to the goddess. That bacrl
fice is offered by the urban Amcilcan
In tho form of fine raiment and a bon
net, which his wlfo weirs. When ho
has to pay the bill for these things he
may console himself by remombering
that he is helping to perpetuate an ob
servance of primeval antiquity.
New clothe3, however, are not ap
propriate for woman alone at Easter
time. Man also at this season begins
to notice 'that his winter garments are
shabby and, If ho can afford It, replac
es them in honor of Ostaia.
Ostara is represented in mythologi
cal 'art as a dazzling maiden, simply
but beautifully clad. She is surrounded
by winged bable3, blids, flowers, rab
bits and other things emblematical of
Easter and the springtime. Tho sun,
Jt is reported, used to take three Jumps
for Joy at tho appearance of Ostara on
Easter Day.
Easter eggs are supposed to bo laid
by no common hens, but by Easter
hens. The goddess Ostara was espe
cially favorable to hens, which are us
ually to bo seen with many eggs in her
pictures. Easter eggs should bo red,
because red was the favorite color of
the Thunder God, and the first thunder
storm of Spring was sacred to Ostara.
The Easter Are which German peas
ants make Is the funeral pyre of the
Winter God. Into It they sometimes
Ih'row a stuffed figure containing snow
hovels and sleds. That once repre
sented the defeated giant of winter,
but tho Church substituted Judas Is-
cariot.
C'arlouN Kcnlure of EnNter,
A curmis feature in the serviceB of
the Iloman Catholic Church on Easter
Sunday is the paschal candle, a huge
wax candle, richly painted and decora
ted with flowers. It has, moreover,
five spike3 Inserted in it, which are
filled with spice. They represent the
wounds, of Christ, nnd the candle itself
when-Mlghted. signifies His resurrec
tion, tn ' thb" Greek nnd Armenian
churches the paschal candle is divided
',Into thice branches, to represent the
Trlully.
The lloiiinn Hunter.
In Home Easter Day is observed
with much pomp nnd coremony, The
day Is'iishered In by the firing of can
non from the Castle of St. Angclo, and
in (he evening the dome of St. Peter'i
Is Illuminated. After morning mast
v the Popo appears on tho balcony In
front of the Cathedral and bestows hit
Let'fdlctlon on the crowds assembled
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SULTAN'S EUNUCH DEAD.
lie Wuh Not I'rcUj, I nit Wna Itlch
ami Unit lirmt Influence.
Abdul Hamid has Just sustained ft
severe loss throuch tho sudden 'death
of Yaver-Aga, tho klzlar agassy or, i
chief of the cunuebs of the Imperial
seraglio, who throughout the present
reign had boon one of tho most Influ
ential figures in Turkish politics, a
personage to whoso advlco many of
(ho most shrewd and clever devices of
tho Sultan in dealing with tho foreign
powers were justly attributed. By
viruo oi nis strnngo omco lie was on- ,
titled to bo addressed as your High-
ness, and ranked immediately next to
m, -..., i iri,.i it, t.i
tho Grand Vizier, and beforo either
tho Cabinet Ministers or the groat
military dignitaries, even Khedive Ab- '
has of Egypt and Prlnco Ferdinand of
Bulgaria, tho latter in his capacity of
Trrklsh Governor-General of Eastern
Houmella, being compelled ut Con-1
btantlnople to yield tho pas to the hid-1
eously ugly monster, for Yaver-Aga
was frightful to behold, being almost
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G feet 6 inches high, coal black, with
a Rmnll ho.-,.! r,nrrmv ciiniii.Wa nn '
enormous stomach and thp squeaky j
nml t1l,.II l.n(.n nnmillnH .n Ittn ntnrn Ut
Hl3 official title was that of "keeper
of the keys of paradise," tho Oriental
Idea of paradise being a place peopled
with bonds as lovely as those of the
Piiltan's harem.
Yaver-Aga had been for the past two
and twenty years in absolute control
of the latter, the despotic master of tho
whole feminine portion of the house
hold of the Sultan and responsible xo
the latter for the safekeeping and fi
delity and tho discipline of every ono
of the women, no matter whether Sul
tanas or mere odalisques. He was
pisbably the only man in tho whole
of the Ottoman Empire whom the
Padishah .implicitly trusted, and whoso
advice was usually directed against
tho Euiopean powers. Yaver-Aga was
a Mohammedan of tho most fanatic
and bigoted type, and there Is much
at Constantinople to Indicato that ho
was one of the principle instigators of
tho Armenian massacies. As chief
eunuch of the harem, it was his duty
to attend to the punishment of those
women who had offended tho Sultan,
and many hundreds of fair one3 have,
by his directions, been sewed into
sacks and pitched, under the cover of
night, Into the swift-flowing waters of
the Bospoius.
There are several hundred eunuchs
employed In tho Imperial seraglio,
two-thlids of them coal black and the
remainder white. Hut they constitute
a form of luxury which is slowly but
sfiiely disappearing from modern Mo
hammedan life, as is also polygamy,
most of tho leading Turkish dignitar
ies, pashas and beya at Constantinople
nowadays contenting the"mselve3 with
one wife, by which matrimonial rule
they not only comply with tho re
quirements of their marriages but try
to avoid all thoso harem intrigues,
Jealousies, and disputes that consti
tute the curse of domestic life In Mo
hammedan countries. The chief eunuch
il the Sultan's eldest married daugh
:er, PrInco3s Zeklo, has been nomlnat
3d to succeed Yaver-Aga as the soc
Dnd dignitary of the realm. Yaver's
colossal fortune, part of which he owed
to the prerogative of his office of
charging 10 per cent, on everything
entering and leaving the seraglio, and
to the costly gifts ho received fiom na
tive and foreign dignitaries, has been
confiscated by tho Sultan, tho Aga hav
ing icit no neirs.
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ills Two Iti-itrtN Don't IU-ut iin One.
A colored man giving his name as
"l-ln Willlorr, VMti" 1. n t, !,., .,-,,,,-tl
'Dr. William King" has been mystl
fylng Pennsylvania doctors. Ho en
Joys the distinction of having two
hearts which ho can control lu their
positions nnd boats at will.
Ho has been examined by several
Bradford county doctors and they have
been nonplussed. King carries a cer
tificate from a Philadelphia medical
collcgo stating that ho has been oper
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ated upon by physlclaps to determine
the freak nature of his heait, and big
scars across his body are a further
testimony to his truthfulness.
Apparently King has two sets of
ribs, ono outsido and overlapping the
other, and by stroking his chest and
by muscular contortions one set of
ribs can bo drawn down to cover his
stomach.
Ills two hearts, ono on each side,
can bo plainly felt to beat. Listening
to tho right heart, and with a hand on
the left pulse, tho observer Is startled
to have tho pulse stop nnd tho heart
beats continuo, yet such is tho cabe.
JoflVrHOiiH 1'upcrH DlMcotcrt'il.
In the course of tho removal of the
books and papers of the Congressional
Library to tho new building in Wash
ington, an unexpected find has been
made in tho sliapo of" a large box of
papers written by Thomas Jefferson.
These were found stored away in a
littlo room next tho entrance to the
llbraiy, which had been under lock
and key for many years.
They aro entirely public papers, a
note among them stating that all pri
vate papers with tho lot had been re
turned to the writers or contributors.,
it Is believed that these particular pa-1
pers came to tno uougressionai 1..1-
brary ttuougu jonn uantioipn.
Tho papers havo been transferred to
the State Department, where- they will
bo examined and filed away with other
Stato papers by Librarian Allen,
Huveil.
It was nt an afternoon tea and the
crush wna simply horrid. It scorned
that nothing would save tho fow pien
.fA,-AM mlian nnA niltnlr-wlHnrl tnmnr
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exclaimed: "Lnaitw, please remembei
theio bio gentlemen in tho crowd!"
It was all that preserved tho pool
filntE from -a borrluU tatev
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A STRING E RACE.
THE RAMAPO MOUNTAINEERS AND
THEIR PECULIAR TRAIT&
t.unm wiihinneeoroofMlUMoiNeiTYorii
i.y U.tTillio of l'Mtplo Dlitluct from
tliu .i()i.i--ii Aiiioiloau lu Their Wnysai
Aro the ltd Iiulluiia.
Pcoplo''who lmvo never been up in
tho Ham ipo Mountains, in Nnw York,
can have little ldei of how strnngo n
race of eoplo live back In those high
nn,i r()cl:y hills, nilles from any vll-
,ag nRtl wUh not a rod of roa(1 b
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which there huta may be reached by
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waKn- In 0,her W0ri13- ll is uot Ecn-
orally lcnown that wltuln thirty-five
nillcs of Hroadway, New York City,
there Is a community, as curious, al-
most, as can bo found In the remote
mountain rcccsse3 of Tennessee oi
North Carolina. It is a sort of lost
trlb rat an amalgamatlon 0,
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two 'ost tribes. If one can Imagine
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what sort of beings would result from
mr th!,,n a ot intermarryinj
American Indians and Guinea no
groes, with nn occasional dash o:
white blood ridded to the mixture, h(
may form a notion of tho people thai
live back in the rugged hills that rist
about Stiff cm, Hainapo, Sloutsburg
Woodbourne, Tuxedo, and other placet
In the Ramapo Valley. But It would
take a pretty brisk Inclination tc
picture some of tho queer specimeni
of humanity that have resulted from
this mixture. Albinos of the milkiest
haired and pinkest eyed variety art
common, and the dime museums re
el ult their curio halls in that line from
among these mountaineers, as did the
gieat and only Barnum before them.
Back In tho last century and during
the first quarter of the present cen
tury slaves were common tn that part
of New York State and tho adjacent
region ot New Jersey. These slaves
were treated no better by their old
Dutch!:inasters than were their fellow
bondsmen In the South. They were
worked long and hard, and the lash
was not spared, i Consequently runa
way slaves were many. These run
aways Invariably sought the fastnesses
of the surrounding mountains. It is
a very difficult thing to make one'e
way up and among tho Ramapo Moun
tains, o.ven at this day, and it was al
most an impossibility in the slavery
days. As a result, when a negro once
succeeded in hiding there he was as
safe from recapture as It he had gone
to Canada, although ho might bo with
in sight and sound of his master's
home. Scores of runaways In time
peopled the Inaccessible hills, and in
the spots where they throw up their
first sheltering huts of bark or fallen
trees or found refuge In cave3 their
descendants dwell to-day.
The woods had their Indian dwell
ers already and tho two races mingled.
Those are the strange people who are
seen now and then In the little villages
along the Erie Railway In Rockland
and tho adjoining towns of Bergen
and Orange counties, and whose home3
aro far back In the hills. A charac
teristic of , these people is that the
names of tho old Dutch families In
which the original blacks were slaves
have been retained by them, genera
tion after generation. The mo3t nu
merous family of the race goes by the
name of Do Groat, but theio are De
Freeses, Vnn Hoevens and many oth-
or Des and Vans.
In the bummer time you might
climb and clamber and stumble up the
Btcep sides and over tho rocky sum
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mlts of the iiamapo Mountains all day
and not see a solitary sign of a habita
tion, although thero would be many on
all sides of you. They are so deftly
tucked In among the rocks and hidden .
by the trees and follf'go that only one
acquainted with the ways of the moun
taineers could find them. In tho fall,
when the trees nre bare, tho huts star.d ,
revealed to nny ono who may pass that
(wcaicu IVJ 1JJ uuu nnw ium puia ttiut
' Way, and such aro few, for although
i there Is no better ruffed grouse shoot
ing anywhero than in these mountain
fastnesses, tho weary climbing neces
sary to get to tlio hauntH of those
birds Is more than the average sports
man cares to undergo. There U no
ground that might grow anything
nbout any of these huts; not a chicken
nor a fowl of nny kind; not even a
pig. But there arc dogs without limit
mongrel, wolfish-looking dogs, such as
might hang about Indian camps, and
ilwaya from one to half a dozen half
naked, aerie, olfiah-looklng chlldreu,
who, at sight or sound of stranger,
scamper to cover In the hut, in the"
brush or among tho rocks, disappear
ing as completely as a startled brood
3f young quail.
How do these people subsist? They
iro the best hunters and fishermen In
the lnnd, nnd game and trout are
abundant all about them. They hunt
I and snare grouse and labblts and
catch trout for tho market during the
season. The women nnd children pick
berries. For the products of the for
est, streams and berry patches these
people obtain storo goods at tho vil
lages, both the luxuries and the neces
sariesthe latter being chiefly whts-
koy nnd tobacco; the former flour,
meal aJld cheap dr.33 gooda Kor thelr
1 own homo proviainB the 'possum nnd
.., ,nnnn nro ..lontlful nt their verv
. an , the chlcien COops of the
outlying farm3 and villages aro not
entirely Inaccessible. Now and then a
De Qroat or Van somebody or other
will hire out to do work by the day,
but he is looked upon by his fellow
mountaineers as a degenerate. Some
of the female children grow to be ex-
I t..MAln liflnifcnmo nnrl slmnplv vniin.
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I women, but It is rate that there an
W marriages among thoso peoplt
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LORD'S PRAYER BY BOOTH.
Hon the Actor Ktttrnnceil n Coterie
of UliiIouintH (n Noil Vmli Cl(.
"I thlnlc," said James O'Neill, in his
talk about tho Booths, "tho most
thrilling experler.co I ever passed
through was In New York city one
time, when quite by accident a num
ber of foreign diplomats from Wash
ington, a few American statesman,
borae Prominent New Yorkers, and
one or tvo of us professionals were
gathered together In a smoking room
of tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, v. lien
somebody naked Booth, who by the
merest chance happened to be there.
If he would not repeat the Lord's
Prayer for the assomblago. I was sit
ting not far from the tragedian whSn
ho fixed his eyes ufon tho man who
made the request. I think that it
was Lord Sackvllle West, at that time
British Minister to tho United States,
and I shall never forget tho peculiarly
searching expression that Booth shot
out of his dark eyes. They seemed
to penetrate the very soul of the man
at whom they wero directed, and then,
as if satisfied, resumed their wonted
vacuous density.
"Wo were all breathlc33 with anx
iety, at least I was, for seldom would
he ever recite off the stage, but at
length he arose, walked to a little
cleared space at one end of the room,
and began a. recital that even after
all these years make3 me tin ill
through and thiough. He sild 'Our
Father,' and never before had those
two words been clothed with tho ma
jesty and reverence with which his
look and tone enveloped them. And
then he carried us Into celestial re
gions, our spirits seeming to leave our
bodies and to follow his behest; ho
lowered us into depths too dark for
Danto's genius to conceive or Dore's
pen to portray; the power exerted
over us was simply unnatural. His
musically resonant tones sounded
slowly through the room, and as he
swayed his lithe body wc unconscious
ly followed his motion. It was some
thing horrible, beautiful, terrible,
fascinating I can not find word3 in
the language to express It. There are
none. I
"I would not go through the scene
again for a thousand worlds, and yet '
if I had the opportunity I would brave
any danger to hear it once more. Do
you understand? Those few score
words as delivered by Edwin Booth
were the most powerful argument for
Christianity that I ever heard, and
could eveiy being on the face of the
globe have heaid them there would
no longer be atheism. Booth stiode
out of the room when ho finished and
a simultaneous sigh of relief aiose,
while without a woid we stole away
singly and on tiptoe, and I do not be
lieve that any of us think of that
thrilling evening without a shudder.
He was a great man, a great man."
Womnn'N AVny of Keeping Accouutn,
A famous evangelist recently told
this story of a woman's way of keep
ing accounts the other day: They had
been married but a few months and
had begun in the right way, determin
ed to keep track of every penny and
to save a little if possible. He bought
her an expense book and told her how
to keep It and she faithfully scrawled
her accounts every evening like the
thrifty housewife that she was. One
evening the young husband asked to
see the book. His wife beamed with
Pride as he glanced at the red lines
and tho next array of figures. Every
few days this cabalistic sign appeared,
"G. K. W 25 cents," or "G. K W.,
?1," or "G. K. W., ?2." The sums
varied, but tho Initials were always
the same nnd they appeared with as
tonishing regulailty. The young hus
band was disturbed. "My dear," he
asked, "who Is this G. K. W. and why
do you give him or her so much
money?" The brldo laughed. "Why,
that Isn't any one, Tom," she said.
"You &ee at tho end of every week
there is always a certain sum foi
which I can't account, so I put down
'G. K. W.' goodness knows what,
don't you see?"
Another bride, who began keeping
accounts scon after her marriage,
made the following entries In her ac
count book: "Jan. 2. Received from
Bertie, 585. Jan. 7. Spent it all."
Trnc to Ills Colore.
A few year3 ago an Irishman, fresh
from the "ould sod," secured a posi
tion as porter, messenger and man-of-all-work
In a Now York store. It
happened to bo the last day of the
month, and tho merchant was making
out his statements.
"Hero, Pat," he said at noon, "gc
out and po3t these bills. Wheie?
Oh yes; I forgot that you were still a
littlo green. There's a mall box on
the telegraph pole at tho corner. Post
tbe bills there."
Pat soon returned and laid the bills
on the merchant's de3k.
"Ol may be a little grane yet, sor,'1
he said, with n cunning leer, "but be
the slvin slapers, Ol'm not postln"
thlm bills will a big OlrlEh perllce
man watchln' the box."
"Not posting them? Why not?
What about the policeman?" naked the
astonished merchant.
"Thot's all right, but ycz'll not bo
foolln' mo If Ol um grane," Pat ie
piled, with tho same cunning leer,
""Shuro, didn't OI see tho sign an tho
pole over tho box 'Post no bills un
der plnalty nv the law'?"
A Iiiii'Uy l'uruu,
In Louisville, Ky recently n clergy
man who wns called upon by n friend
to perform tho ceremony at his wed
ding refused bt-causu he was in lovn
with the girl himself. The rlrl over
heard the statement, dismissed her be
trothed and mart lei the parson.
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GERMAN MIMIC AVAR.
AN ELABORATE SYSTEM OF DUMMIE3
REPRESENTS THE FOE.
Vint Tract or Land Are Appropriated for
tlio Operiillniio, nml Shut nml bhell Are
Usoil Ju'tt nt In Aittml Ilattio Remark
nhlo Mllltnry hhoolln-.
Though tho Gorman soldiers do not
get tho steady pritctlco In real fight
ing that tho British troops have, the
Kaiser is not allowing his men to
rust. Periodically bodies of German
troops are dispatched Into some part
of German territory that presents as
many difficulties as possible, with or
ders to attack or defend certain posi
tions under all ths conditions of real
war.
If tho cavaliy his orders to charge,
the charge must be mado with the
desperation and recklessness ot men
who are riding through deadly firo.
Artillery is hurled headlong into coun
try that often Is difficult for infantry.
Men and horses go down and accidents
aie common events of tho routine.
Only occasionally are they mado pub
lic, a3, for instance, the great ono ol
last year, when two bodies of heavy
cavalry rodo into each other at full
speed, killing and wounding many
men.
Great areas are "reserved" practi
cally seized for tho purposes of these
evolutions. A circle of sentries la
posted around tho reserved territory,
and tho people who live In It are or
dered to leave their houses and to re
main outside of the line3 until the
practice is ended. In artillery prac
tice, particularly, this, clearing of the
terrltoiy to be used Is done with par
ticular care, for the artillery fire is
genuine, service shot and shell being
used.
A remarkable feature of German ar
tillery mock battle Is tho use of mov
able wooden figures to represent the
enemy. They are exact copies of in
fantry, artillery and cavalry, and aro
worked by an elaborate system of
vir03.
I An official German eye witness de
' scribes nn artillery attack as follows:
"The terrain has been cleared of all
except the military. In long columns
the guns crowd a ravine, the last cov
er befoie they go into action. Six
great horses draw each gun. A mes
senger comes galloping from the front
with the order to move. 'Mount!
Trot!' command the officers. The
long lines thunder up the ravine, offi
cers fre3h from leconnolsance clatter
down the lines and report to battery
chiefs that theio Is no cover where tho
artillery must go into position and
that swift movement of the guns Is
necessary to bring them into action
with the least possible loss of men,
as the enemy's file controls the place.
"By this time the upper end of the
ravine is reached. 'Battery, gallop
march!' and with furious speed the
hetvy cannon go into the open into
unknown, snow covered country full
of trenches and deep cuts. Perhaps
this Is the most exciting manoeuvre of
tho day. Last year an ensign with his
battery rodo over tho snow-hidden
edge of a hill and disappeared
with horses and men, wounding
many serloi sly. Snow-covered water
courses and drainage canals cut tho
country up. A horse falls. Riders and
gun thunder on top of it. Axles
break and men fall beneath iron hoofs.
"Now there Is p.Ue lightning In the
mlbty distance. Then, even during
the rcckle3s charge, the artillerymen
must mark the direction from which
the shots come, for the, flame Is the
only sign of tho whereabouts of the
enemy.
"Quickly the batteries form In line,
the battery chiefs, far ahead, stand
high in their stirrups and raise their
arms to slgnnl 'Halt!' in an instant
tho cannoneers aro out of the saddle,
and almost at ones tho first shot
booms from the right wing. A great
crowd of smoke and snowdust shows
wheie it has stiuck, but the dim flash
ot tho enemy's gun through the vapor
shows that It ha3 fallen short. Tho
next shot comes from our left wing,
and this time wo have dropped it Into
tho woods that cover the foe.
"Now we have him caught between
tho tines of our fork shots, and closer
ami closer we crowd him with the
ever-concentrating firo df our whole
batteries. At last wo throw a shell In
to tho woods in Just the right place
As tho white smoke rises it makes a
shining background, against which the
dummies, representing the enemy's
artllleiy, aie plainly visible for a mo
ment. Merrily the shrapnels fly now
and bmash into thcrn.
"Then, moved from tho sides with
long wires, infantry and sharpshoot
ers appear here and there. The bat
teries must direct their fire in nil di
rections in quick changes until they
have made tho whole lino ot woods
untenable.
"When that Is accomplished there
burst with startling suddenness sev
eral squadrons of cavalry from tbe
tics3. They come swiftly, as If they
had grown out of the earth, and ap
proach the batter le3 with startling
speed.
"Sloyly a few trial shots nro thrown
toward them to get tholr range. There
I3 silence for a second. Then the air
Is full of metal. Figures fall here nnd
thore, more and more, faster and fast
er scream tho shots; at laBt the Una
1 of fire makes a s'eatly roar, In which
I individual guns cannot be discerned,
and the squadrons nro wiped out."
I.ontr Time Uniler Water,
Pearl diver remain under water
from fifty to eighty seconds on an
average, but cases have been reported
of their remaining as ions as slxmiu
ute under water.
I
MIS HAIR FOU AN OFFICE,
llml tto Snrrlllce It Hi furs Senator AIIUod
Wmi hi rrcicnl Illin to (he Vrcildent.
Ono of the brightest lights of tho
editorial profession In Iowa has en-
tered tho consular servlco under tho
auspices of the pretBnt administration.
He Is as tall as a yung sycamore and
as straight as a hemlock. His faco
is long, his feature! are large and bis
skin is tawny, as I.: his race had been
bred tinder a desert sun. His cheek
bones are high nnd his dome of
thought projects ever his eyes and
throws a shadow upon tho lower part
of his face, like tha. of a North Ameri
can Indian. This resemblance has
given ground for a legend that the
blood of the noble red man pulsates
In his veins. To tcccntuate the like
ness he formerly wore his glossy hair
so long that It hl'l the collar of his
coat and fell upon his shoulders like
the water of a blsrk cataract.
The editor's appo '. ranee was peculiar
and very much admired by the people,
but there were sc-me exceptions. It
made him a conspicuous figure In ev
ery assembly that 1 e honored wUh his.
presence, but there uro thoso who pre
fer the commonpla.'e and Senator Al
lison Is one of them. When the edi
tor came to Washington in search of
official honors and emoluments and
asked to be escorted to the White
House and be presented to tho Presi
dent, Senator Allison said emphati
cally: "I won't present you to any
body until you cu'. your hair." The
editor sighed, tool; a long last look
at himself In a in rror and sought a
barber shop. LIkt Samson, he may
. have been shorn of some of his
strength, but he pit an office and oc
cupies one of the best consulates In
South America.
bhi-arlnp CO,000 Sheep by Stentn.
A force of expert operators did the
work of shearing the 60,000 sheep
penned in the yaids of the Chicago,
Burlington and (Julncy Railroad at
Montgomery, 111., this season. The
shears used are operated by steam
power, and the lambs and sheep alike
aro shorn at the rate of nearly a
thousand a day. '1 he members of tho
local Humane Soc;ety have protested
to President Shoriall of tho Illinois
Humane Society artulnst the shearing
of the sheep In winter, and Mr. Shor
tall to-day notified the shearers that
ho would interfere in the matter as a
violation of thelaw relating to the i
proper protection of animals from heat
or cold. The sheep men claim that
the animals arc kept In awarm shed
nftpr hplnir Hhnrn. nnH jith thprn Igek
tnan a WMk before belng ghl d t0
Chlcago for slaughter. They also
point to the fact that the sheep fatten
more readily after losing their wool
A I'nthetlo Letter.
The secretary of agriculture at
Washington, has received the follow
ing pathetic communication from Bell
county, Texas:
"Dear Sir: I want to ask you a
question. It my vest on the horse
trough the money in the inernest. A
young horse of mine eat up $30 of
green back notes last night. We pick
ed up a few bits of mestlcated money
to-day. I carelessly left my vest on
the horse trough the money on the
Is
Inside pocket hence the result
there any way for me to have the
money replaced? If you cant tell me
what to do will you kindly site me
to some one who can as I need the
money bad and have to work hard to
support my family. I anxiously wait
your answer."
The secretary cf agriculture pro
poses to refer this matter to the com
mittee in charge ot the bill to retire
the greenbacks.
A Vctldlni; lllnur In a Hori.e Hoof.
Some woman 1st wondering where
her wedding ring is and also whether
she will ever regain possession of It.
Stephen S. Cook, of St. Paul, Minn.,
ordered his driving horse Major,, n
smart-looking brown gelding, brought
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I t n tiln n(T nsi nt iUn T)aini TJn itl A
ier ituiiiie; u uiiu iui. vuun. mow uuicu
his man to take the animal to a
blacksmith shop to be shod. The
blacksmith found wedged In between
the ftog nnd the diamond-shaped
caulk, on one of tbe shoos with w.hlch
the horse was shoi", the ring, bent up
Into the shape of an ellpse. On the
Inside of the ring Is engraved "F. P.
B., Oct. 20, 87." That the ring was
not In the least scratched or Injured,
beyond the bending. Is rather re
markable. IUn Tomb n I.IVInK Tree.
Lumbermen cut down a large oak
tree on the Baker farm, near Dun
kirk, Ohio, that had probably been
standing for over 100 years. They dis
covered, after tho tiee was down, that
It was hollow, and they cut several
feet off tho end. They had not gone
fnr until they came across tho skele
ton of a human being. From the
growth of the tree it is npparent that
this man', who is supposed to have
been nn Indian, had crawled Into this
tree at least seventy-five year ago
and had died, the tree having grown
over him. The bones were In a good
state of preservation.
An AlllKOtor Tlta Slnutliiu Teeth.
A big nlllgator was caught recently
it tho mouth of Salt Creek, In tho
Osage county, Oklahoma. Its mouth
was full of teeth and they all slant lu-
ward. One of tho l'ranklln boys had
his coat caught In the gar's mouth and
camo very near being n victim of tho
big fish. Ho measured about blx feet
In length. The gf.r wns brought to
town by Mr. Northup.
The Turks belle; e amber an Infalli
ble guard against tbe injirlois ef
fects -of nicotine, hence Jts extensive
uso !'." the uaouthulcccs of pipes.
e'MiTRKMi
FIERCEST OF BRUTES
ODD TRAITS OF THE JAVELINA OF
THE NO'lTHWEST.
Cfillontilnllj- tin In IC iiirrn in the Willi linn
Ill Irrmllr In 11 Uy Woriliinil Ho Will,
right l the Drop ol the IJut 1 he l"at
of. Mull Currier.
The wild hog of tho southwest,
writes H. S. Caufldd, Is known to na
turalists as the pe-ccary and to Mexi
can herders as the "javeltna," so call
ed because tho spines upon his back
are like spears or Javelins. The ani
mal kingdom doci not hold a morn
cunning, mallcioim, stealthy and pa
tiently ferocious brute. He is not
pretty, but his appearance is as good
as his disposition. He lni3 no morals,
no love of home or family, no grati
tude, no self-respect, no liking even
for his own kind. He will eat any.
thing he can swallow and steal any
thing he can eat. Next to inflicting
useless and causelois injury, he would
rather flght, and, strong in numbers,
ho will fight anything from a 2-year-old
Mexican bay lo3t In the chaparral
to a puma that has gone a week with
out food. Like any other corsair,
however, his namo is linked with one
virtue and a thousand crimes: He
will kill rattlesnakes. He is fond ol
their flesh. Certainly no desire for the
betterment of the world leads him tc
slay them. He Is not in peril in hie
combats Mith the deadliest monstei
of tbe west. The poisoned fangs nre
sent deei- into his body, but he goes
away and eats of an herb that no mac
has been wise enough to And and re
turns to dine upon his late foeman
If everything has its use in tho grand
scheme of creation, the use of the
Javellna is to kill lattlesnakes. He
Is not good for anything else. HI:
meat is not edible to anyone save a
starving man. Hl3 hide is valueless.
Like other wild animals, tho Jave
llna has been beaten back by the ad
vancing waves of civilization. Twen
ty years ago herds of 150 to 200 were
not uncommon in southwestern Texas.
To-day the largest band does not num
ber more than , fifty. Ho will not
stand close contact with the works ol
man. He detests tho wlro fence and
will break It down when he finds It.
I He has a peculiar enmity to the do-
mcsticateu aog. woe oeuue tne
ranch hound that meets him and his
comrades In guilt. The Javellna slays
him forthwith aud then of course eats
him. He will rcot up-anythlng which
he finds planted. Being an omnl-
vorous feeder, he will destroy newly
dropped calves and lambs. He Is a
terror to children who live in lonely
localities. Ten of him will not hesi
tate to attack a man. Providence ha?
been unkind to him in that it has not
gifted him with power to climb a tree.
But for this defect there would be no
escaping him. The Javellna Is quick
to anger. Indeed, he is in a stato of
chronic irritation.
He objects on principle to things
aa they are. He is against the
government. He Is .1 four-legged an
archist, hating water and older and
restraint. His home is any cae in a
I mountain side or hole in a river bank
mat ne aiscovers. 11 it oe a large
cave, ho Is content. If a hole In the
river bank be too small, ho will enlarge
it with a good deal of art. Ho digs
out separate chambers and connects
them with galleries and halls. The
whole Is not unlike the underground
dwellings of the termites, but much
larger.
Manuel Bermala, who "rode the
mail" from old Fort Ewcll to Twohig,
was armed, as were all mall carriers
In that day, with Winchester 'under
knee and revolver buckled to his
waist. He saw a Javellna stardlng in
the road, shot It, Incautiously dis
mounted to examine it, and was sur
rounded in an Instant by fifty of them
that smclled the blood and poured out
of the chaparral. His frightened horse
plunged away. He managed to gain
a hulsache'tree and climbed it. He
used up all ot tho cartridges in his
revolver and in his belt and slew ten
of tbe besieging animals. How long
he remained perched In tho tree nc
one knows. He must have moved
about In the branches, for a rotten
limb broke with him and he fell. Whec
he was found only some scattered
bones and fragments of clothing re
mained ot him. The mail bags had
fallen from the horse, and they, too
were ripped to pieces. The incident
attracted no particular attention. It
was one of the many unimportant
tragedies of the southwest. A new
mall carrier was hired, who let th
Javellnas alone.
Chasing the javellna Is a favorite
diversion of the southwestern ranch
man. He has little to do save watch
the Increase of his Hock3 aud roll
shuck cigarettes, a nil welcomes any
thing that promtson to break the mon
otony. Tho v lid hog Is swift nnd un
tiring and frequents only the roughest
and most Inacewlble country. He
emits a strong scent, which even 0
toarscly hied dog follows easily, am"
Is expert at all dovlce3 for throwing
his pursuers of tho track, doubling
frequently, making ills way through
I 1 ndei ground passages known only tc
' himself, nnd even taking to the watei
' when forced to It. When brought tc
bay he Is certain to afford the llvelies
kind of flght to anything less than 1
dozen dogs. His curved tusks are ai
e-harp as daggers, and he used thou
with wondeiful rapidity and force
The dogs never escape without seriout
wounds, and frequetnly they are dls
embowled. There is no reason whj
the Anglo-Indian sport of pig-atlck.
lug should not be lopular in the zcutu.
weal,, but-U Is-cotv
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