Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1884, Page 3

AWAY DOWN East ASammer Trip to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. WuF VOYAGE TO nay HM ACADIA BY HOME RUN. Corresponience of Tae Evestsc Stan Having made Nova Scotia and Wick objective points for my year, I went from V : rail in ew Bruns- summer trip this on to New York by shed the dock of the | Augnst and re steamer “( od time. Amidst ot handkerchiefs, hands y York. passing out ht was scon upon us, ad we soug.t our berths, * be rocked in the cradle of the deep,” most of us for the first ei by the was not hua- undertook, at ash ¢ . of ruining by ALE. es—fin-backs—which ‘fal along the coast, We si:z! told of the passens k to kill ibre re- is not to be wondered at, considering that the whale was about four hundred yards distant, and the “shootist” liad four distinct motions (two of the boat and two of his own Ledy) to overcome be- fore bi an accurate aim. Then, too, je disappeared beneath the su er be oer would-be whale-killer had ger of his revolver, and as he, the both eyes shuthe did not, of ned to the d target, we splinters from the ning and other- til the captain, ¢ crew and passer 1 man who and hang him up to the ly registers. the ofa dialand veling one-sixth index. We ot a mile ¢ expre The next day opened bright and breezy, and after breakfast, which was only such In name, not in fact. to we, who had learned “to keep our sea-legs,” held a council to determine in what manner we should amuse ourselves. There being no unanimity, w i over the boat to find such enj ment as the inelin f each sine: but 3s company soon in, and th ot with- rsome one hi: discovered the would hold us all together, and milk punch plause, and mously carried. se, procuring the neces- | ingredients from the steward, we were | soon intently looking . like astrono- |! mers, thro” our We had overl whom 1 Teupon appointed 2 NK | many of what end proved h Dor’s ea! the “Heathen Ci “PAINT any!” ‘ew York several greenhorns ced to take the places of some of : ‘ged. One of 1 to paint cer- tain portions of the ironwork. was so indus-| trious that there was not rap of iron on the | ship he didnot daub, and it became necessary fety of our w < apparel to intro- phrase. and “Paint ahoy!” ‘nt sound heard during the trip. +t who had composeily seated him- . upen attempting to e, that he was stuck ine was he predicament. had brin: with eager, nm the dark out- k and Halifax is 3 traveled. upon the quarantine heaith « called * the en ‘ectutin 1 to limit our sta; is noted for Its ¢ few hours. The tow rdens and Ss. Wer American unt . except $50 Let the Buatlerite mone cent, Id at par, . at th © boat for St. » across Nova Scotia was e. At Windsor we find dian land, on the shores of the Basin of This is the scene of Loagfellow’s beantitul legendary poem of “Evangeline.” It Is here, on ponds, we find the -water lilies In myriads Tocked,” ant “mists, from the mighty Atiantie, look on the happy valley.” ‘The whole appear- ance of the country through which we passed, it being the time of ebb tide, is most sittingly descriped by the poet— “Back, to {5 nethermost caves, retreated the bel- lowing ocean, ing, adewn the beach, the rattling pebbies, ‘and leaving, Inland, and far up the shore, the stranded boats of the sailors. prosaic train speeds on, stopping at fifteen minutes for dinner, at which vk on @ merry young married cou ends poured Into the car after them handstul of rice; and an old slipper, thrown by a 20 doubt, but indisereet hand, came t! toot! and off we go, arriving at Annap- at 1:50 p. m., where, at 2 o'clock, we take ty little steamer “Empress,” of the Nova mshipCo.’s line, forSt. Johns. We got t dinner on boatd, and hada pleasant cross the Bay of Fundy, which sailors claim the worst sea in the world, but on this trip Wos 28 Gutet as our Potomac. ST. JOUNS. . Johns, N. B., at 7:30 p. m. We aivivedat 5 > THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C.. =. SATURDAY, The town was founded by a colony of loyalists’ from the city of New York, in 1783, and at once became the center of fashion and trade of the whole province. There are very many fine private and public buildings here, particularly custom house, a beautiful stracture of ish stone: and the churches, than which finer. ous and Interesting spectacle to ) and flow of the tide int har- oue knows the tides of the I * greatest in the- world, sixty the ditference between the est flow, and to see the Z. and steamers crees disappe: y wharves is a sigh ers to the harbor front to wind the mists from nd and envelop the entire nof the city, shutting out trom i} di ladies, who ¢ the moist atmo to see persons on clear wuts wita their umbrellas up, r i med to it of a lot of Ss stueet, the prine edt night by el iG whole city seems to turn out on it, presenting a gay seven ye: are still to be seen t ally on Prinee Wiil street. Op St que little town of Carlton. il in St. Johns, and as the Utheir metiow tenes and the 'y ring out a hap) ne, calling | aithful to the “house of prayer.” T con- | eluded to join in the throng of wei Ts. and | was carried into Trinity copal church, a znificent buildi s inner appoint- | meats i . Here [united with | e curate for the Prince of Wales | and all the royal family. RD BOUND. teroom, I embarked at 8 ng trom St. Johns on the | ick, of the International | y's line, for Boston, Mass., Iwas rather timid in re- of the trip from the fact nal Steamship company nad the season, bat it was t not 2 person and, although | thi ars old, n without 2e- t Lepreau, | ed the wreck of | three vessels lost in the day- | s with her steamer ) Steamship cou “homeward bou garil to this por that the Inter: ri of the disuste the New Bri Wick was twe! I felt cident. 3 I think it v the State of } this sea: time duri bow point while her is suber. her sheath land, Me. pected, but had not nt, however, that within a couple of days sie would be got- ten off. A SUDDEN CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE. We reached Eastport, Me., at noon, and no- tieed a very great change in temperature. I had been on deck snugly easconced from the sea breeze, which was quite plereing, wien al- | most instantly, the tiermometer indicated a temperature of over 99 degrees. The sudden | change w: rable, and T was giad | when the we notice that we | would soon leave. Passing out threugh the Narrows,” we were again steaming away, ocexn h We yi Campo- bel n islands on our ‘port nd the pretty little town of Lukee on our d.” Throazh a very heavy fog, during it, we felt our way s called, we p nine, one of tH ch, TUotieve, is the only where mountains lin close proximity to the s We near enough, however, to > for. mal sound ki ahead, out mi from the dec w of the cit y church sp t Por boat_ the ted the prineipal_ places mons,” in which the hand ‘o the men ot Be country, is erected, be notice, but 1 st monument, for their | form, as being strikingly 1: granite h other, | similarly placed other corners. isthe “frog- | ake their dogs r float their miniatare | nt the ee of the “Common : re the older children to swim, whilethe young crafts in s of which Bostonian: rit is a “gem ot a par enclosare are statues to Washington | (which, wes curl Charle 1opied cratt, ated amidship, | man, bieyele ric propelled by a paddle-whee hear the stern, and operated by fashion; in the forward part it contains tour seats, arranged like those in our summer cars. The lawns are decorated with beantiful combl- tions of 1 artic the plants e words “Mizpal,” This last, read b: nish word for love. nut” of the In nal Pari an settler, | d,” is full at 6 o'clock from the Old Colony depot, and, after Hightful ride of about two hours n counties ot Massaciu- of im the pler of oe PI of the noted Fail river line, on which I was to | age to New York. The boat is, as is The company , Known as | U Rirer Line Journal, for gr | ation among its patrons, The paper con- | S th clock, when | tinguished. and | $ or berths. | * has two hundred staterooms, | znps, and an electric bell in | nbects with an aununeiator in the | loon, near which sit uniformed bell-boys, | the alert to attend the yery many and | 1 wants of the thousand or more pa- | trous ofeach trip. Just before passing through Heli Gate the Pilgrim collided with a schooner under tow, breaking her masts off compietely. 1 will not undertake to say who was to blame | for the accident; certain it is, there was no foz, | the sun shone brightly, and the collision was due entirely to carelesshess. We arrived at New a.m.and took the 10:30 a.m, “lim- for “home, sweet home. HOME AGAIN. Soon the magnificent white dome of the Cap- itol is espied, and, to its rigt, the majestic mon- ument towers, and we know that we are near- the “City of enificent Distance which nm boast the highest structure in the world, and the only statute (Martin Luther's) clad a la Mother Hubbard. Toby. oe =o A Mouse in Her Bonnet. From the Boston Globe, First Lady—Oh, dear, I fear I shall faint. Second—Why, whatever can be the matter? “Oh, such a dreadfal feeling on the top of my head. It feels awful queer; its paralysis, 1 know it fa.” A kini-hearted policeman took the lady into ited exp! | barrel o’ silver quarters in his cellar, and they found the same thing in old John Wilbur's cellar, too, an’ one day | cause of it? i | chuck full of them. though, as full as it could | | clean out an oyster bed in so short a time as to | surprise y | government; if, therefore, Ki | peria with tenic to | Would have Lo: | sacrificed by the | destroyed, and the Soudan weuld relapse into | | the frightful barbarism described by Brace a | | hundred years ago. | abdicated her right. | procure con astore. Some one brought some bay rum, and somebody else brought a smelling bottle. “Where do ibd feel the most pain?’ asked a sympathetic sister. “Oh, right on the top of my head.” The policeman gently lifted the bonnet. There was a wild scream of fright, a gathering and grasping of skirts and a wild stampede for chairs and counters as a wee little mouse ran ‘out of the bonnet and hid himself under a wrap that lay on the floor. A physician had to apply restoratives to four- teen feinales who had tainted on the spot, and who did not revive uatil » big lazy cat had par- alyzed the poor little mouse, “DECLINE OF OYSTERIN’.” An Oid Rhode Isiand Fisherman in Piaintive Mood. From the Providence Journal. Oysterin’? Well, oysterin’ ain't what it used to be—oysterin’ is poor business now-a-days. There's three reasons tor it: Sewasnge, five- fingers and ten-fingers. If ‘twasn't for these three things, which spoil the profits of @&e busi- | ness. T would not exchange two acres of good | plantin’ ground on Great Bed for the best farm | in Rhode Istand. Now, that’s sayin’ a good deal, ain't it? Cos there's some ood farms in Rhode Island. But I've seen the time when the | profits of in’ in this bay was some- | thin’ amazin’. Way, to say nothin’ of the Pet- tises, who have all done pretty weil in the busi- ness, ‘specially Robert—but he’s a wealthy man—there was old Uncie Benny Smith and | John Wilbur, both lett property when they died. After Uncle Benny died they found & | when they was rammagin’ in the attic room in his house they come across a bandbox full ot silver 5 and 10 cent pieces. Why John Wilbur, he left houses an’ houses down by Blue Point | there, you know, ‘round Ch ¢ and South streets; he left his widow might and | 80 poor nor pr lazier one thesetimes. But then, it didn’t used to beany trouble to make money oysterin’ in thei days. You put down your 200 bushel on | your bed, and in two to four years you could | take up20v0 bushel, ureat biz fellows with a yel- low cast wed they was plump and healthy and growin’ good. T planted 100 bushe same as to-day, and ina week I went to see how | they was getting along, and found nothin’ but shells. That iittle experiment cost me more’n I could afford to lose. at any rate. -What was the Five fingers. You know whata five finger is, don’t you? You've caught ’em— starfish you cali ‘em—on your line when you've been fishin’ for scup down the river. Well, the five-finzer Is very fond of young oysters,’ and where oysters are, five-flagers go, and if you don’t look out it is pretty soon no_ oysters, and all five-fingers. Why, I set a lob> ster trap—no, an eei pot--down by the mouth of the Warren river. one time. and Iwent to haul it it come up mighty fean tell you. Well, when T pulled i into tie boat and come to empty it, there wa’nt a blessed thing in it but fiv stick. Why, sometimes when we go on to abed to rake for oysters, our rakes will strike such a lid mass of * to make ‘em bound back real hard ain't nothin’ really you can do to get rid ot And they'd They don’t cate so much for old | sters; it’s the young and tender ones th er, aud they get ‘em, too. Plague take ‘em. Ifa man would invent something to get rid of | “em with, he'd make his everlasting fortune. They'll grow aud breed surprisingly, too. A little one, no biuer'n a 10-cent piece, will erow | to be as big as your hand in a few days. You i can’t dredge for ‘em very well, for they lay close | to bottom. same as an er, and any dredge | that will turn them over will catch the oyster, | too. The best way to serve "em that I know of is to do as Mr. Dewing has his mendo. Th go out in boats on to the beds when the wat is low, 80 they can see bottom, and they spear the “five-flngers,” and exterminate all they can | reach in this way. But they grow and travel about so, it’s hurd to produce much of a de- crease in their numbers. If you could get up something to pizen ‘em and not kill the oyster, it would be first rate. Se ee eee Khartoum, Khartoum is a name that is known among | the wildest sayazes of equatorial Africa who | hever heard of Paris or of London; to thei it is | the center of ali that is great, and it is the capi- tal of everything. The abandonment of Khi toum would, in their estimation, be the dis- nore central power, which would imply tence. The slave hu authority he foree required for em rs have been sup- | from Khartoum, and that sup ion has, ted from that center of ngth and | artoum should be | at was the support r would haye been | power would have ave hunters would he resnit would be e been faitl overnment would become the first | victims to these who had been against the gov- | att ded, the prot of loyal tribes of th withdrawn, the supp been ove again be wan n by the im- e trade would be renewed DO y curb the lorable si pts at government, asthe native: all confidence of support: tl that the loyal had been abanondment of the goy- ernment upon which they had depended for protection, while those who had openly defied the laws had triumphed by rebellion. “AN the good resuits of the last five-and-twenty years of exploration and energetic action against the slave trade would have been ent{rely dissipated, and the end of the long struggle wonld have | ylelded victory to. the wrongdoers. The work Of G4 years since the conquest of the Soudan by | Meheinct Ali Pasha would have been utterly | would have se It is ridiculous to suppose | that any Soudan races are capable of selt-goy- | erament. If we retuse this to Ireland. how can we expect a better result from ignorant barba- | rians, who would extinguish all progress by a| chronic inter-tribal strife? As local autonomy. would be impossible should Khartoum be evac- ated by the Ezyptian forces, the Soudan, de- ed of its captial, would resolye into a po- litical chaos until some superior force should take advantage of the general disruption and restore order by military conquest. Abyssinia is dangerously situated ‘as a hostile neighbor. From the frontier at Gellabat the march would be a direct descent upon Khartoum by the river Xahad and the Biue Nile, through a fertile country teeming with supplies. If Khartoum should be abandoned by the imperative orders | of the British government, Egypt will have nd the country will become | an easy prey to the first adventu: were | a Frenchman T sh tunity. French offi it assist the King of sinia in the organization of his army for artoum and the fertile prov- larif, and Taka. Khartoum | fons of Africa would be an- | French iniluence would | tons of land to various office! military ser i ‘reneh settles less time th nexed to inreward fort the embr tablished would believe, firin! inte Nowleenth Century. = — What Shall it Be? From the Philadelphia Record. ‘we three words commonly applied, in the | Eng.ush langnage, to the members of the temale | sex of the animal Man, vary widely in their sig- nificance, ‘Female’ is opprobrious. It refers solely to sex, and Isno more applicable toa woman than it istoacat or hen. It ought to be expunged entirely from print and conyersa- tion, except in cases and places where it is used in contradistinction to male, to express the sex } of homo, which is spoken or written about. | “Lady” suggests a dainty, delicate creature, possessed Of much superficial propriety and pride, perhaps also of culture, but it says noth- | ing of character. Once it was an honorable | title, but now that it 1s commonly applied to | every member of the sex-who can more or less follow the fashion, it has become lowered with- out elevating those on whom it is so freely showered. “Woman” is best. The word sug- gests all that is feminine-human, instead of the feminine only. It brings to mind the “perfect woman, nobly planned, to warn, to comfort, to command” of Wordsworth. It Is the true title of man’s partner in life, the sharer in his joys and sorrows. Yet if a man calls his wife “woman” the result is not pleasing. SS Se What a “Heavenly Seraph” Confessed, Clara Balle at Newport. One of the Knickerbocker girls whom 1 met and liked isto be a bride in October. She is philosophic little thing. I noticed that her to- be-husband was being slowly, gently, but none the less eurely, let down from the heights of shadowy sentiment to the solidities of human actuality. Do you tollow me? Let me illustrate my meaning. She waltzed one night with the infatuated fellow; and on seating her at my side, he whispered rapturously, “I really think you have wings on your heels, you danced so lightly.” “Not a wing,” she replied. “The fact is that Thad No. 2 shoes on No. 8 feet, and I felt as though I were stumping round on my ankles. But Just now my pet corn stings through the numbness.” “Ah!” sighed the sistently romantic chap, “then the wings extended invisibly from your shoulders, dear girl.” “Well, it’s safe to bet,” the heavenly Seraph responded, “that it whi are | then pre | of almost every grade of culture. attached to me they are somewhere calside of Ls a for there isn’t room for halfa breath PRINCE KEAPTOKIN ON CATS, vats That Recognize Themselves in a Mirror and Are For a of Music. From the Pall Mull Gazette. Tsee (says the Prince) by reading some in- teresting notes in the Hevuethat there yet exists a doubt as to whether a cat can see its reflection ina glass. Ihave a cat about fourteen months old, which Ihave brouzht up in prison, and as regards it, at least, there can be n doubt upon this subject. When it was little It amused us | much by seeking a cat behind the glass, even when I showed ita very small one. I have just | repeated the experiment by showing it a small oval mirror twenty centimeters long. When it saw itsown refleeted image it immediately as- sumed a serious air. It endeavored to touch it with its paw, but finding that there was glass interposed it peeped behind the mirror. If I drew the mirror backward it pursued until, being quicker than I was in its movements, it dis- covered there was no cat behind and then it went away and did not concern itself about the reflection any more, I should add that my little pupilis asa general thing very intelligent. For ingtance, when it wants my door opened it does not mew; it stretches itself to its full length and shakes the latch with its paw. If the door lad another kind of fastening it would certainly open it by raising the latch. It knows perfectly well the meaning of ail the bells which ring In the prison— | that to bid the inmates rise in the morning, that which sounds before soup is served. Its dictionary is very limited, but it understands pertectly the meaning of the words it knows. Thus, inthe evening wheh I walk in my room, it performs all sorts of gambois and by making certain special sounds endeavors to make me play with it at hide-and-seek (it plays this game exactly as do children and insists that each party should hide in his turn) orto draw a string along for it to turn after. If in reply to its invitations to play I say to it, “What do you want? Food? drink?” it is displeased and goes with a sulky air to sit behind my little stove. But when I say “the string?” it replies immediately by two sounds, concerning the affirmative tone of which there can be no doubt. I could relate other instances of sazacity; but Ido not wish to appear to impose upon the credulity of your readers. There is, however, an interesting point which it would be well to have cleared up—are cats sus- ceptible to music? Without being able to affirm positively. I believe that they are. When my cat was little it several times seemed to us that it found a real pleasure in listening to some air sing cadence—for example, the waltz ‘aust"—provided that it was sung by a very high and pure voice. We even thought that music caused it to assume almost a senti- mental air. It 1s unnecessary to say that my cat, like all others, is very susceptible to caresses, —for I must confess ‘its faults—to flattery. In general cats are less intelligent than dos, but by care and attention their intelligence can be highly develeped. Iam sorry that I nave not sufficient time, or I should undertake the education of my cat by a system of cards, as proposed by Lubbock. ——+e-—_______ Secial Life on the Prairies. Rev. Edward T, Bromfield in the New York Observer For more than a month the writer has not heard the whistle of a locomotive, nor seen a daily newspaper. He has learned how inde- pendent men inay become of these things. To be 50 miles and more from atelegraph station lowers one’s ideas of telegraphy. A telegram | and a letter dispatched at the same time from a great city to an inland prairie town are likely to be delivered together: probably the letter may come first. The mail system grows In import- ance. Riding out upon the prairle 10 or 20 miles from the nearest embryo of a town, one comes upon a sod-house with “post office” | rudely painted on a board over the window or door, or on a box nailed toarough post. A letter or postal dropped here will find ita way | after a definite intervalto any part of the world. After riding 50 miles, perhaps, across prairie, | down into the steep “draws” or “canons.” where at times the track is but a torrent bed, then up again with joits and bumps to the “divide” over a creek, with a rickety bridge of logs and dirt exactly six inches wider than your wagon from wheel to wheel, you may come all at once upon acluster of white buildings skirted with a few sod dwellings or stables, and looki on the bare hill-side, like the pictures of some ancient eastern town in Sunda chool books. ‘There is almost sure © building conspicuous for size and . and this is the public school. Perhaps a chureh spire also appears somewhere in picture. In these littie towns the school is usnally the first public building thought of. and after that a court: hot ant looking affairs. Lumber for building is at least three times more costly than in the middle states. An av and, it may be suid, even a model house fit ing inhabitant,” is a one-story 20, more or less, with parlor, kite or three small bedrooms all on. one floor. droom in which you can get to the other of the bed without climbing over it or ing it is aluxury only just coming into hion. ately dimensions and furnished with the latest appliances. The “principd probably #50 or $60 a month; junior teschers. $20. or $30, This for the towns ranked y of size equivalent. Scattered over the are little township and district sod schools, which are also used as Sunday-schools and preaching stations. In the built-up towns there are sure to be ome considerable stores with large stocks of merchandise. Happily in this region there are, at present, few saloons, and little flagrant in temperance. Nebraska is a “high license” state, but In the newer towns, off the line of the railroad, public feeling practically prohibits the tramic, "Kansas is now a prohibition state, and the good effect of this is apparent to the most | superficial observer. In towns where three or four years ago rowdyism and murder ruled the day and made night infamous, people now feel that life and property are secure. The condi- tion of society has wonderfully changed for the better since prohibition became a fact. A law- less and border population has become trans- formed into a peaceful and prosperous commu- nity. Every one sees and understands this, and the good sense of tlie people condemns the liquor | traffic in any and every sphere irrespective. of politica. ‘The society of the little prairie towns now rapidly growing into centers of influence and trade, is made up of very diverse eiements. Still, the prevailing tone is essentially Ameri- can. Thereare here and there settlements of foreignel ‘Swedes, Russians, ete., but in this region they are the exception. There are very few Irish.” Here and there is a family of Ger- man descent. More frequently still English and Scotch veople. But the bulk of the peoplein town or country are of Armerican parentage. Of colored people the writer has seen but one in the past four or five weeks. Most of the people seem to have come from Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, [linois, Missouri and Ohio. All the eastern and northern states are, however, prob- ably very well represented. There are people The writer has asked the question scores of times: “Do you wish you could go back to your eastern home: In not one case has the answer been in the affirmative. Not a few haye homes of comparative luxury—‘‘celled” and storied houses, and hired’ servants, but, as a rnle, people “rough it,” and learn to do with as few conventional accessories as pos- sible. The writer was honored with invitations to several social and dinner parties. There is nothing ceremonious in these gatherings. The ladies of the family wait at their own tables, and are rather proud of it. In one case the company, assembled in the parlor of a trame farm-house, and the signal being given for din- | ner, foliowed the mistress of the house across the sward to the old sod dwelling, into an ample dining room with an adjoining kitchen, where a repast was served that was both appetizing and abundant. The gentlemen came in to dinner pomney at noon from the farm, washed their hands and faces at the “‘settie” outside, and sat down in their shirt-sleeves. Nobody was em- ed, and conversation flowed freely. This was ata prairie farm. At evening gatherings in towns more formality is observed. Judges, lawyers, clergymen, bankers, merchants, and their. families meet each other on these occa- sions, and with music and conversation while away afew hours. And these little inner circles are, in their way, exclusive too. Character and @ certain fitness of mannerism are indispensable to admission to them, but the mere absence of wealth is no disqualification. ————_--—____ She Went Off in the Rain, ‘From the Detroit Free Press, Avery innocent looking old man who faa been waiting twenty-eight hours for a Lake Superior boat, and who was told to be at the foot of Woodward-ave. at noon yesterday, came slouching down to the wharf about 4 o'clock p. m. and mildly queried: “So the boat ten't in yet?” “In! Why, she’s come and gone! Got in be- fore noon and laid three hours. “Meroy! but I was to go on that boat!” “Didn't the ria tell you when to come?” “Yes, he said at noon, but I was looking around town, and it sot in to rain, and I sup- oe she'd wait until after it cleared up. You lon't mean she’ went off in the shower?’ a “Yes, she did.” operas the pouring rain?” - “ ” “La! suz, but I wouldn't have believed they'd do it! Mebbe it's just as well I didn't go, for Tve nothing but this old umbrella, and getting wet allus brings on the rheumatiz.' ‘The private houses are | I But the school-house is sure to be of | SEPTEMBER 13, 1881-DOUBLE SHEET. WESTERN GIRLS, Whe Can Shoot the Hif_c, and Who Are Accustomed to Outdoor Sports. Correspondence New York Sun. CoLeviite, Car, September 1.—A young girl, pretty and modest, with a rifle on her shoulder, is not a strange sight in these parts. Many young women in the far west are very proficient in the use of firearms, and no one thinks it strange to see them thus equipped on the high- way, or In the mountains hunting. In nothing ts the western freedom from con- ventionalism more striking than In the latitude given young women in their emusements. The typical | her more subdued sisters of the east in many things which here are considered within the bounds of propriety. She hunts, dishes, camps out, rides and tramps with all the relish shown by the sterner sex, and In not a few of these ac- _men. Visitors from the east unfamiliar with | pastimes of this kind have otten been seriously embarrassed on finding that their charming companions of the parlor or the lawn could load and shoot a gun as well asa rifleman, mount and ride a horse like a trooper, or climb moun- tains with untiring limb. A few weeks azo a plump young woman in this town who rides, hunts, fishes and climbs, | had her photograph taken in her tresh ait cos- tume, and sent one of them to relatives in Tili- nois. The portrait exhibited a girl of 18, witha Jaunty turban, her long hair done up tightly in a coil. her face full and fair aud her eyes brisht as dollars. Her dress was tight-fitting at the waist, and sleeves of dark serviceable material, | and the skirt coming just below the knees failed to meet the tops of her hih-buttoned boots by several inches. It was as pretty a picture of health, vivacity and beauty as one would care | to see, but the relatives in the east were pro- | foundly shocked, and, in acknowledying the re- ceipt of the portrait, quietly hinted that they would like to know what the occasion was which demanded the young lady to appear in that strange costume. Probably they will be more horrified than ever when they learn that she isseen on the streets almost daily in just ars attire,and that nothing whateveris thought of it. The girl over whom this section of the state is raving Just now is Miss Lillian Smith, an ex- pert with the rifle, who threatens to carry oif the honors in marksmanship if she ever con- sents to appear in a contest of skill. She is only thirteen years of age. but she appears much older. She a strong frame, abundant dark brown hair, and big brown eyes. Tanned by continued exposure to sun and wind. she is the picture of health end of typical far western beauty. When only nine years of aze she mani- fested a fondness for the rifle, which her parents readily gratified. She often went off into the wilds of Mono county on hunting expeditions, and frequently secured game which she was obliged to procure ‘assistance to bring in. Of Tate she has amused herself at odd times with shooting at glass balls and at targets, and so unerring has her alm become that a failure to hit the mark is considered almost out of the question. On her hunting tours she uses a 22- caliber rifle, which she handles with the ease and precision of an experienced marksman. One of her teats with the ritle which has at- tracted most attention is the breaking of a glass ball traveling 3,000 teet per minute. She shoots Straight forward and also over her shoulder, using a hand-mirror to sight with. SS MATRINIONY IN CHICAGO. Sensational Result of a Husband’s In- The Chicago papers make public a rather startling and complicated social sensation which was brought to light last week. The story as published iq substantially as follows: Mrs. J. W. Johnson and her daughter, Mrs. Nellie Shock, both stylish. petite and pretty, occupy an elegant third-floor flat at No. 4817 Congress street. Mrs. Jolnson’s husband is in Colorado, and Mrs. Shock and her spouse have not been on the best of terms. In fact, he sus- pected her of marital infidelity with a young man about town named Griswold, and ‘swore outa warrant. At2 o'clock in the morning he went with a constable to the apartments and knocked at Mrs. Jolinson’s door instead of b wife's. A lively commotion within was the (suit,and when the door finally opened the | mother and daughter were tound in hysterie: Groans from beneath Mrs. Johnson’s window | | to asearch in that direction, and lying on the | ground, divested of the usual garments in which polite society arrays itself before appearing in | publi, the form of J, M. Gambte, a rich real e tate agent. who represents many millions of eastern capital, was found, bruised and blee Nis under lip was cut off and one of his was broken. To the police patrol, which Hed to care forhi, he said he had jumped | from the third-story window. All the partiesto the escapade hay disappeared or are silent in regard to it, but it ts generally reported that | Shock made the mistake of his life in knocking | | at his mother-in-law’s door instead of at. his wite’s, because the confusion which followed upon ‘the millionaire’s mad plunge from his | elderly charmer’s window, it is asserted, gave the wicked young lover, who was wanted, time to make his escape unperceived by a less pre- cipitous and safer route, viz: the back stairs. ge eee A Countrywoman of Mine. Handsome? I hardly know. Her profile’s nne— Deilghiful, totelligent, aqueline. Her keen eyes light {t_keen, yet often kind; Her fair hitir crowns tt to an’ artist's mind, Fine figure and fine manners, without doubt, Deterinine half her churms, and bear me out. Learned? Well, rather. See them for yourself— Mill, Spencer, Darwin, on her favorite siielf. Well educated, certainty well read; Well born, of course, and (not of course) well bred. Provincial? Never. Cockney? Not at all. Her world is small enough, yet not too smail. ‘To prove she knows tt, only watch a while ‘That humorous, tender, half sarcastic smile. Accomplished? She says not, but who can tell? She does some simple things, and does them well. She walks well, stands well, sits well—things so rare, ‘To praise as they deserve I hardly dare! She rows, rides, dances—admiratly done! Delights In each, and yet depends on none. What to take up she knows, and what to drop; How to say clever things, ahd when to stop. Few dress so well; sho does what few can do— Forgets what she has on—and so do you! She's not too careless, not conventional quite: Does what she likes—knows what she does is right. Takes New World freedoms with the Old World ease; She's but to please herself the world to please. SLAINE GOODALE, in Century. egg How He Struck the Right Combina- tion. From the Atlanta Constitution. Theard Zeb Vance teNing how he captured the vote of a backwoods settlement in North Carolina when he first ran for Congress. He said he had never been in that settlement and didn’t know the boys. He rode over the mountains and found about sixty sovereigns at a cross road grocery, and he got down and hitched his horse and began to make their acquaintance and crack his Jokes around and thought he was getting along pretty well with them, but he noticed an old man with shaggy eyebrows and big brass spectacles sitting on a chunk and marking in the sand with a stick. The old man didn’t seem to ay any attention to Vance, and after a while Vance concluded that the old man was bell- wether of the flock and that it was necessary to capture him, so he sidled up close to him and the old man got up and shook himself and leaned torward on his stick and said solemni: “This is Mr. Vance, I believe?” ‘*Yes, sir,” said Vance. ‘And you have come over here to see | my boys about their votes, I believe?” ‘Yes, | sir,” said Vance; ‘‘that is my business.” “Well, sir,” sald the old man. ‘‘afore you pro- ceed with that business I would like to ax youa few questions.” “Certainly, sir, certainly,” sald Vance. far western girl would doubtless shock | complishments is she the equal of any of the | A TUSSLE WITH A BUFFALO, The Mad MerrysGo-Hound Piayed by Man and iicast at a Northwestern Camp. From the Manitoba Free Press, On Tuesday a party, consisting of Henry Kelly, Thomas Brown, and J. M. Ross, drove out to Stony Mountain to see Mr. Bedson’s men- azerie and view the premises generally. The buftalo attracted Mr. Kelly's attention particu- larly. In an inciosure was an old bull, solitary and alone. fraternize with the monarch of the plair pat him pleasantly on the back. He ace ingly leaped into the inclosure with a cheertul smile and approached the gloomy brate with an easy nonchalance that made him the eny spectators. In the meantime Mr. Ros Mr. Kelly thought he would like to and and Mr. Brown, onthe other side of the fence, winked unostentationsly at each other and waite’ developments. Presently the loafed dre: yeame. Mr. Keily amily up to the bull, called him a pet o and patted him on the back. The ‘ved him for a moment or two with | Stoieal indifference and ther made a lightning | pass at him with his horns, one of which pierced together with a tittle raw flesh. The scene was instantly changed. struck for the fence at a Mand bull gathered himself together for another charge. In the meantime Mr. Brown, fearing mischief to his friend, leaped recklessly into the arena and grabbed the animal by the tail. This distracted the bull's attention’ from Mr. Kelly j and gave that gentleman time te climb over the jfence. The trouble now was to get Mr. Brown jout of the dilemma. The bull was getting warmed up and had a decidedly belligerent as— pect. Mr. Brown dare not let go of the animal's tall, because the bull would instantly have turned the other end toward him, in which case | Mr. Brown felt that the situation would be ex- | ceedinuly awkward. So he hung on to the tail, and every time the bull turned Mr. Brown would turn. too. Meantime Mr. Ross, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Bedson and old John took up reserved seats on the fence and encouraged Mr. Brown to hold on, as it was only @ question of a day or two when the bull would become tired out. Mr. Brown did not require much encouragement. however. He felt that the necessities of the hour were such that he could not afford to let go. Finally the now infuriated animal and his torihentor approached the fence, when Mr. Brown, to the utter disgust of the spectators, suddenly Jet go ot the tai! and passed over the feuce like a streak of lightning. He was saved. es BATHING SUITS Jersey Costumes Stricly Prohibited on the Pacific Coast. From the Sen Francisco Argonaut. In California alone the ideal bathing suit ex- ists. It is of worsted made upon knitting ma- fluous material to hold water, it covers the body thoroughly. The trowsers, stockings and tunie are all knitted in one piece, and the Californt- enne, inthe first stage of preparation for her bath, looks like a Majilton or a Martinetti, par- ticularly as black is the favorite aud most cor- Tect color for these suits. A petticoat of the same material completes the costume. Some of the more expert swimmers remove the petti- coat after entering the water, and hang it upon the pier till it 1s needed again. But it is not in any case a very serious incumbrance. of the Callfornia bathing suit is as irreproaciia- of them that have appeared upon the eastern beaches have created quite a sensation. Our California brokers who went east were amazed at finding themselves obliged to send home for their bathing suits, this kind being not procura- ble in the metropolis, and a Californian bathing suit has become quite an orthodox present. In this connection it may be interesting to ob- serve that among the hundreds of placards which disfigure Pacific Grove, at Monterey, hi the beach rea JERSEY BATHING Strts STRICTLY Prouterrep, es ALMOST THE CRACK @F DOOM, The Sunset Gun at Fort Wadsworth Goes on a Sunday Excarsion, From the New York Herald. Among the thousands of people who went to Fort Way orth on Sunday to enjoy the breeze and the view from the ramparts were a young couple who soon found what they e ntly | considered an admirable spot to sit while they | looked at eachother and at the narrows. ‘This | Was amony some shrabbery close under the big cannon which is fired at sunset. | _ They were still sitting there when the sun | disappeared beneath the horizon and the cannon was fired. Its deatening report was followed by a series of shrill feminine shrieks from the shrubbery. The young lady was frightened nearly into hysterics by the concussion so close to her ea The next moment the shrieks grew even more wild and shrill, as the cannon pitched forward over the embankment, down among the bushes. The charge lad been too heavy and had thrown the cannon out of its e upon the rampart, over which it had |. Its downward course was within a fe feet of the terrified couple, who started up the slope almost as fast as the cause of their alarm was going down. When the young lady reached the top of the embankment her hair was disheveled, her skirts were torn and her voice was all broken up, while the young man followed with his pearl- colored trousers hopelessly torn and stained with the grass. his face the color of his white shift bosom, and his knees in a yery uncertain condition. They walked hurriedly away, arm in arm, evidently fully determined not to choose Fort Wadsworth for their next Sunday's excursion. An officer of the fort said too heavy a charge had been used in the cannon. ——_-e-____ A Drop Too Mucl From the Detroit Free Preas Judge Wm, Carter, of Sheboygan, and Judge Caswell Marks, of Selma, were both natives of Lexington, k In boyhood they had jammed the same cat’s head into the same milk pitcher, stole peaches from the same tree, got trounced by the same farmers, were otherwise enviously intimate friends, afterwards chums at college, and then errand boys at the same office. Later in life they parted and rose to sublime honors in their separate places. Last January they met for the first time since their parting in Lexing- ton, and brewed a convivial b@wl in honor of the event. About midnight, tull of affection and enthusiasm, they retired in the same bed. It was a hu the ceiling while the room was being cleaned. It was a very cold night, and they placed their clothing upon the foot of the bed. they feli asleep tour friends entered softly, drew tne bed by the ropes nearly to the ceiling, and then left them thns suspended about ten’ feet from the floor. ‘They then locked the dvor out- side and retired. At 3 a. m. Judge Carter awoke with that species of thirst which usually comes after Ken- tucky punch and technically known as “hot coppers.” Leaping lightly out of bed to get the ice pitcher he went whirling down ten feet, alighting with asoul-stirring thump on all fours, There was a locg and paintul pause. Then He pened upward through the darkness and cal = Caswell! [No reply.} “Oh, Caswell!” [Feeble cries.] “Eh?—um—what?” The Judge was awaken- ing. “T’ve fallen through a trap!” yelled the now ffrighted Judge. ‘Get up and light a candle.” “Where are yon?” queried Judge Carter, slee} ily, framing the opinion that his honorabl “What church mout you belong to?” sald the old man. That was a sockdoleger—Vance didn't belong to any church, He knew that religion and meet- ing was a big thing In the backwoods and con- trolled their politics, but he didn’t know what their religion was, for North Carolina was power- fully spotted. But he squared himselt for the responsibility, and said he: ‘Well, now, my friend, I will tell you about that, for it isa fair question, Of course it is. Well, you see my grandfather came from Scotland, and you know that over In Scotland everybody is Presbyte- rian.” Here he paused to note the effect, but saw no sign of sympathy with his grand; “But my grandmother came from England, and over there everybody belongs to the Epls- copal church.” He paused again, and the old “Bat my father was born in this oonntey tn a Methodist settlement and so he grew upa Meth- odist.” Still no. sign of approval from the old ae and so Vance took last shot and said: But m, ree a he spat th ti Don't get “Down here. rough . in" 1 oe on oil meee of = teailignt — a farke, spri out own side, aa three somersaults and landed on the small of his back. Both were now convinced that they had fallen into a den of thieves, and Closed ‘the heavy wooden shiutters, so no ight cl eavy wooden shut 80 nO could enter, and removed all the furniture. The around on hands and It Paralyzed Her. “Oh”—short, quick, almost breathless—ex- ciaimed a young lady at the Grand opera house a few nights ago, as one of the stage lovers aloud and hot kiss on the lips of of the | } and ripped off about six inches | chines, and, while it has not an ounce of super- | The style | ble as its comfort. Simple as they are, the few | | ING THEIR APPEARAN affair, standing in the middle of the | rooin and capable of being drawn up by ropes to | Just after | SERY AC REDUC to tt Cant Engraving and Printing ed, Langes! assortinen! of BLANK BOOKS in the 3 s Sole arent for JOHN LLAND'S CELERR, GOLD FENS. ae NC PARKER, _se12 B atient Lorthweet, ’ y Gaesvnszs A. W HITAKER, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, 2165 Pennsy? ia Avenue. Boox ay ing Bela Xs will do well to exemina thes will fad a til line « ks tnedd jouls, which we will sell aa t door te Galt, ourewek w iu he Pui Where the Re Adventures of Uueersoll). WM. H. 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