The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 1, 1891, Page 2

) ASG Se Reh entree RS A TIGER OF THE SEAS. = | The Thrijling Siark Yarn Told By a Divte From Honolala. | j | { A diver. who vives his name as Jim Hartley rful encounter he had with a He laid = hark some time aj the plot of th go. rn just off and there is | plentie Diamond Head. fonolula, no doubt s materi ful enough in that locality Hartley i an English in the old country gave out at Hon presented itself sserter from | arned diving When his funds u the job that | 3 | ation of m the outer the story as len ves’ Here is a hardware-ld edge of the told by himse ‘They rigged up the only diving appar- atus on the island I tackled it. They gave me a little sloop to work from and {sound a reliable fellow for a helper. "The only wea. 1 had was a big knife | made out oft the b of asheep shears, [ness anyhow it looked as though it about the te any big bother a diver two descents. among a lot of was. Everybody told me sharks, but I didn't antic ones, and sharks don't much anyhow. [ made The first one landed m sharp rocks and rough coral ledges that I didn’t much like to move around amongst much for fear of cutting my air-hose, which was old and not over strong. J svon went up, and on the next good | uncrowned Kk tide made another descent, and this time I hit the bark just right. I found ahole in her port bow big enough to poke a house through, and was starting to go around to the other side when I felt a jerk at both air hose and signal i i by a swirl of the quiet, clear water that told the story. I knew that some big fish had found my connections, but [ was not prepared for what I saw when I turned my windows upward. <A couple of fathoms over my head was the biggest shark I ever saw, and a man-eater if ever there was one. His underside trap-door looked big enough to take in a whale, and I am dead sure he was one of the tiger kind, though the Kanakas tell me that species is not common in these waters. He was having a look at me, and was at a stand- still when I saw him, just waving his fins enough to keep his position. What did Ido? I dropped flat on my back mighty quick. I knew his game, not from personal experience, but from what some of my diving mates had told me. I knew that he would settle down on me in about a minute and that my chances of winning in a stand-up fight would be slim. S i! T should say so, but a diver has got to keep his nut cool under any ireumstances, and I kept my little thinker a-going at top sp Thad two main fears, one t he would break my hose and another t the fellow: boat would see him and commence haul- ing me up. If they did it: was a sure shot that Mr. Shark would take my rubber snit for the s\ of a Kanaka and bite me in two while | was in mid- water and had no fighting leverage for my feet. [ was lucky; the men in the sloop never pulled a pound. In a minute, that seemed an hour, the shark commenced to — settle. He hauled off a few feet backward and then came slowly forward again a good leal lower down, but. still not low enough down to reach me. Of course I had my knife all ready long before this. He repeated the performance, ind this time passed within three feet of me and stopped with his ugly yellow stomach just over me. He started to back off again, and the next trip, thinks I, would fetch him right at me mouth on. I didn't want to that way, and as he gave him the knife right in the stomach. He went like a when the old shears-blade stung him, and sting him it did, for I drove it good and hard with a pulling slash that ripped him open for a good two feet. The whirl of his forked tail knocked me flat again and kicked up so much sand that [ couldn't seeaninch. I gave the line a vicious tug as soon as I could find it, and away I went for daylight. I passed another one on the way up, but he was a baby compared with the fellow down below, as lam a living man. They got me into the boat and pulled my helmet off, and as soon as I got adrink I felt better. 1 was all of a tremble for a good hour afterward, and a pint of perspiration ran out of my boots and jacket when I pulled them <off.—San Franeisco Examiner COUNTERFEIT CULTURE. , Some Plain Words About Boston's Fads #y # Writer of the Hub. Boston culture has been so genera ridiculed that it is a question if ma intelligent people of other cities have not almost reached the point of entirely discrediting its existence. If Boston -culture is a sham it certainly deserves all the abuse thathas been heaped upon it; but as it has an existence and is real- ly a powerful factor in the intellectual development of the Nation, it can af- ford to smile at the flat jokes which many papers of other cities are so prone to publish at its expense. Every intel- ligent citizen of Boston knows that there is a great deal of literary, scien- tific and artistic culture, of which we have a right to be proud, and that there is also here, as everywhere, a counter- feit culture which is both silly and con- temptible. Why should the man who reads noth- ing but the daily paper and the faces of the cards with which he whiles away his evenings at the club lay claim to the reve: of the outside world as be- longing to intelectual Boston? Why should the woman of accidental wealth, who has hardly write a sentence of her correctly indulge in fads and fanc: began to move 4 with both hands shot ly rence edue native tongue ng and Ibsen wi inments? It is this false assumption of superior- | ity, this hollow pretense and insuffer- able counterfeiting of genuine culture by ignorant peop! has brought | Boston refinement int ed dis- repute. Boston Home —"t am pe dwelling at p rfectly de ed with my > Lhave a dinin room,a recep yom, a Working-room, a smoking-room, and 2 sleeping-room, | and just think how convenient—all in one.”—Fliegende Blatter. meet him | nm enough ‘to } avored of | THE ARABS AS LIARS. They Are Evidently Built Account of the Noted Tippu Tib. Those who have followed ey his last journe pecially the well aware plorer 1. better of the trouble that the exe | d with Hamid bin Mohammed, known as “Tippu Tib.” That ; Africa had accepted of rovernor Stanley | tion for himse] ers (ee 7m Zanzibar to the express condition pply 600 native carriers for the service of Stan- | ley’s rear guard, and to be afterwards | used for the transportation of the ivory known to be in the possession of Emin | Pasha. Tippu Tib failed to keep his promise in this respect but fr time, and al! the time. he his promise that the men forthcoming short; Tippu Tib is an Arab trade: cipal trattic being in Lying came to him naturally as breathing: it is a part of the Arab nature, and itis doubtful if there are any more accomplished liars in the world than Arabs. If you ask a que: tion of an Aral he 1 giv you the correct answer if he happens to know if he does not know it, he will give you the first that ¢ to his thoughts, no matter how from the truth. I was once talking with an Arab sheik, through the aid of my interpreter, and asking hjm about Arabia. He told me that the Prince of Muscat had a body guard of 10,000 men. all horses, whos Ss Were twice as high as my head, and capable of running a hundred miles an hour. The Prince lived in a p that it took a good horseman au whole day to ride around it, and it w that only a man with good could see to the top. He told me other things of the same sort. and then paused, and asked about America. I despaired of being able to exaggerate sufficiently, and referred the matter to my interpreter. “Oh!” said the man, “Thave been in America and will an- swer for my master. He lives in New York, which is a city of 10,000,000 in- habitants. and there aré houses in New York a mile high. When my master travels he has a machine that flies through the air like a bird, far above the mountain tops. and is large enough for him and his 2.000 The trees in America are rye that it takes a whole day to walk around one of them, and they have a cataract, which they call Niagara Falls, where it takes the water half an hour to tumble from the top to the bottom.” his pr slaves and ive as possibly mes far it may be mounted on alace, so large sso high yesight wives. so kind, to which the sheik listened with an appearance of the most child-like credulity, though he probably believed about as much of them as I had be- lieved of his stories the Prince of Muscat. fhe Arabs explain their inability to ell the truth by saying that once the ine on earth with nine bags full of lies. He distributed one bag full in Asia, and in the evening me to Arabia, intending to go the next day into Africa and Europe. When he waked in the mogning he found that during the night the Arabs had stolen and divided among them- selves the contents of the other eight bags.— Boston Traveller. HOW SAVAGES EAT. Cust Ba In all thoroughly the members of a family guests partake of meals whil around a central board. but this so with the majority or even a fraction of the semi-civilized and barbarous na- tions. The Maldivian concerning Curious Istanders dine | alone, retiring to the most secret parts of their huts for the purpose of eatin their food. This custom probab among them in an early period in their history, for fear, perhaps. that another with equally as sharp an appetite and more bodily strength would deprive the fqaster of his meal. The coasters of the Fiji Islands will not eat until they can sit flat upon the ground directly over a triangle made of three small tish bones; then they only handle the food with the left hand. The inhabitants of the interior of the same islands will not partake of food while a clond isin sight. especially if the cloud lies in the west. fearing that the “Great Air Whale,” whose ing (thunder) is often heard in that country, will pounce upon and utterly annihilate them for such irreverence Unlike the Maldivians, the natives of the Philippines are sociable to an extra- ordinary degree. Whenever one of them finds himself without acompanion to partake of his meal he runs till he meets with one; and I am assured that however keen his own appetite may be he will not venture to satisfy it without a companion. The natives of Sakaria never partake of food while on the ground, but sling the meal inte woven grass bag and mount to the thick foliage at the top of some high tree, where the meal is eaten in solitary silence. The Otaheiteans, although great lov- ers of society and very gentle in their manners, feed separately from each other, each particular member of the family taking his or her basket and turning with back to rll others in the room. The Dyaks divide in pairs when the hour arrives for taking food: the father and mother at one platter, two sisters at one and still two brothers lether. When ami divided as to sex a brother may eat te be the younges ily.—St. Louis and sister A class in natu nistory was called up for recitation. The teacher talked [to them awhile about the relatic Ds of friendship between | mals and mals re man and a Do hen asked a ¥ possess the sent “Yes, almost 1 “And now. turning toa little boy, “tell | me what animal has the greatest nat- | ural fondness for man?” ‘*Woman!” said the boy. That Way—An | ee in He went | on with other statements of the same | bellow- | ily is not equally | THE INDIAN POLICE. | | | How the Force ts Recruited, aid and Uni- | formed. 1 It was discovered a number of rears ago that the Indian agent could but ee only he himself was issue them were c ed hals in | plenty. but none of them admitted the rule of the So wh Depart of the I aun age call on | Indians or the rva- !tion. This work when | the friendli see ple at the ined to | n Com- | been made. fi agent and even occ obey the orde missioner, unle backed it uf {and deputy which | gained | necessity. An order Interior first allowed tt | ploy friendly seeeae of the rs of th the has notorie es) the Se tribe tribes under their charge to “preserve lorder and protect the property of the | Government and its At first | two or three members were chosen on | each reservation. The police we | sometimes under the che f | captain: more often they were by some white man. ‘They wer= paid the munificent salary of $10 2 menth to officers and $8 a month to non-canmis- | sioned officers and privates. Fron the time of the appointment ot the | police the discipline of the reser, vations became better. Only the best men, morally and physically were accepted by the Government, which was hus able to secure the best miterial for its at the smallest remtnera- tion paid to any of its numerous em- ployes. The entire Indian polices now musters about 1,000 men, who am the sole agents of the Interior Department | prese rvation of the pea salary they receive the and supplies of wards of the Gevern | the Government and the natives < | cattle thieves, prevent the sale of Iiqu ae the inroads of outlaws and bad whites, lawle. ness on the reservations.” the 4 sombrero and the cartridge Winchester. Oceasionally the unform is discarded, and then the members o' |} the force dress as they please. times a cast-off cavalry suit. or i coat belonging to a missionary or gent, finds the back of a member of theforce its last resting-pl into the rag-bag. brigade, the mem? between the mativ guardians, the most absolute disepline is maintained. Most of the men bdong- ing to it are married, and live nez the agency of whatever reservation they may be attached to. They hae no general headquarters. being distrouted among the Phiadel- phia Times. | WHY THE CANARY SINS. | Asa Relief From sorrow It Pours Foth Its | Song. “You are ugly.” said the blnue-iy to the canary, posing on a limb otside jand pluming her beautiful feahers: “you are only a common yellowcolor and your body is ill-shaped.” “And you are caged.” said ¢ robin. turning her saucy head one side with a superior ai who vould | be shut up forever behind gilded vires? —not I—" and she flaunted away. You are passionless,” said th love bird, cruel in her own happiness-even as some women are—‘“‘you hae no i mate: you don’t know how to lov!” | ‘You are ungrateful,” saic her mistress: “I feed you and you o not sing.” Then the poor canary fell to grving si ently, day by day. less and ungrateful—and not ev Was not that sad? | brought her a mate. and he abodavith her. Yearning for love, she fancid for awhile that this was it; but one weet morna lark called to her from cross the green meadows to come outcome before being cast But among this ‘rs of which itand s and their vhite various agencies gay rfre Then one da the out for the skies were blue, ad the waters were cool, and the very winds were perfumed offlow- was love, love! And she longed to Her little heart panted for freedom. after allthese years, and she beat her poor osom against the cruel wires until was bruised and bleeding. O. to b free, free! But allin vain the desire,o she sunk down, prone, suffering, ershed. Then, all in a moment. somthing leaped up within her little tating breast—something strong and iweet and passionate, and out of thatwell- ing. uncertain throat flowed sch a lyrical gush of melody that thevhole world stood still to listen. So, soz was born in the canary’s soul. ancso it | found its way to expression and ceered | many a lonely heart. and conorted many a sorrowful one. And th mad | world praised her, and those wo had sneered at her were silent of env But {she only said: “I am ugly, andl am passionless and Iam ungratefuland I jam not even free! Is it not sad? And with the flowing fra her lips. and with the hushed wor stil listening. She poured out herlit heart to death.—Ella Higginn, West Shore. ers, and here go. ne still A batch of new peers havir | been made. a certain Duchess w sure not whether she was in the bit of ng one of the newly-e and she referred to the iy esses, faman- n-waiting to whom she w: to deliver her cards. | Lady B.?” she asked. * | John replied. “has not visited hesince the creation.” Do visit | for the enforcement of its rules ani the = Sesidestheir usual ritions mst jand t> ppress every kind of vie and tary aspect is lost in the vroad belt and some- Ugly and pasion- | sate peer- | acenomed | our face,” | LAMPS IN CHURCHES. Ancient Contrivances tor Preserving Sacred Fires Perpetually. A nds of t arly Celtic sain c mon than the zy sent to bor! n his lap wit nent Patrick intro “was a temple and was Wr it wa as mixed up was in and a lamp r, not only r fire “x aus liest aoe nis s in the atrium rkable church of Saint net in ontside the Ambrogio at n It is a block of white marble on a molded base, now { broken but banded together with iron. ds 3 feet 10 eee high and i a 2 feet 6 inches in diameter at the top. consists of a flat. surfs in which are depressed nine eup-like hollows. These were originally filled with oil, and wicks were placed in them and ignited. In England one is still in situ. in the Cornwall door. It containing on its which is ehureh of Lewannick, in There it is not far from the consists of a circular block tlat upper surface, 2 inches across. seven cup- hollows, 4%; inches deep. The stone stands on a rudely-molded base, octagonal, and is in all about 2 feet 6 inches high. In Furness Aby among the ruins. has been found another, with five cups in it: at Calder Abbey another with sixteen such cups for oil At York is another with six -leups. and at Stockholm like and wicks. such fire- another with ment the same number in a square stone Their duty, as preseribsd by the | table. At Weol Church, Dorset, is again general orders, is “to obey the insruct- | another example built into the south jion of agents, protect the property of | wall of a smali chapel on the north side of the chancel. beck marble. It is a block of Pur- and has in the top five eup-shaped cavities quite blackened with the oi! and smoke. In some of the examples there are traces of a metal The .adian police wear a unifom, or | pin around which the wick was twisted. least are supposed to. The unform. | In addition to these, in several | which i ade of the national blue | churches are to be found lamp niches. cloth. vurt: of both the civi and | Some have chimneys or flues, whieh military habit It approache. the | pass upward, in some eases passing into cavalry in the ent of the blouse. ad the | the chimneys of fireplaces. Others | trousers with the high-top boots. But | have conical hollows in the heads or roofs in order to catch the soot and pre- vent it passing out into the church. Now, although these sets had their yet this religions afterthought. The origin of them lay in the necessity of there being in every place a central light. from which light at any time could be borrowed, and the reason why it was put in the middle of the church was to dissociate heathenish ideas with it.—Cornhill Magazine. IVORY IN AFRICA. The Elephant Business a Source of Great Profit. Among the wild animals indigenous to Africa which are profitable to com- merce may be cited the elephant first of all. From the African’ elephant, in- deed, the world’s supply of ivory is al- most exclusively drawn. The Ceylon Je ant has no tusks at all, and the phant of India and the Malay Archi- pelage, for w reason IT can not say, turnishes but little ivory to the marke’ so little in fact that the Chinese, Japa- | nese and Indians have to import ivory | from Africa for the hundred and one graceful artistic objects which they manufacture. Next perhaps to gold and diamonds, ivery is the most valuable and profitable African product. Asa rule, people are given to talking of it in a disparaging way as a vanishing quan- tity, and not a source of wealth to be permanently caleulated on. If proper steps were taken toward a judicious preservation ot the elephant—especially the females—and its slaughter were to a certain extent controlled and or- ganized, there is no reason why this beast should become extinct any more than has the Indian elephant. The Indian elephant does not breed in captivity. at least. a once in fifty years. Practically you may that every ele- jphant you see in the East has been caught in a wild state when young. In India the elephants are utilized as beasts ef burden. In Africa possibly the same might be done, but in addition a certain number of the males might be killed annually for their ivory. Britain has secured, fortunately, a good share of the finest elephant country in Africa. In British South Central Africa, that is tosay, all Nyassaland and the country to the north of the Upper Zambvzi, the ele- phant is at present extraordinarily abundant. The same is the case, to perhaps an even greater extent, in British East Africa—Masuiland--whence comes the best ivory in the world. Then again we possess much of the country south of the Benue and at the back of the Oil Rivers, and before long we shall have the Egyptian Soudan. In all these countries elephants are still found in vast herds in spite of the reck- less war waged against them by the na- tives. To have saved and domesticated | this magnificent beast would be one of | the proudest glories that could be a& | tached to England's name.—H. H. John- | son, in the Fortnightly Review. | lamps and eres- religions. signific or, ease only occurs le preferred his but his f. \ ith butter. | ter coming to dine with him one Fontenelle unselfishly ordered that | agus should be dressed his other half Terrasson’s. | ng down to table, o j by apople Terrasson, it v day, tis the boast of an old lady resid- | z California that George IV. once | imprinted a kiss upon her lips. 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