Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1891, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, KIPLING ON MORMONS. The Caustic Critic and the Followers of Joseph Smith. A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE ARMY. A Dissertation on the United States Protecting Forces and Their Possibilities of Extension —On the Road to Salt Lake—The City of the Saints as Seen by Kipling. ‘Written for The Evening Star. [Copyrighted C. HAS JUST OCCURRED TO ME WITH great force that delightful as these letters may be to myself—on the same principle that made the commercial traveler frolic lonely among his samples—their length and breadth and depth may be just the least littie bit in the world wearisome to you over there. I will compress myself rigorously, though I shoula very much like to deliver a dissertation on the American army and the possibilities of its ex- tension. You see it issuch a beautiful rey army and the dear people don't quite un stand what to do with it. The theory is that it is an instructional nucleus, round which the militia of the country will rally and from which they will get stiffening in time of danger. Yet other people consider that the army should be built like a pair of lazy tongs—on the prin- ciple of elasticity and extension—so that in time of need it may fill up its skeleton battalions and empty saddle troops. This is real wisdom, be- ‘cause the American army as at present consti- tuted is fs “T Hepa regiments infantry, ten com- panies each. : ‘Ten regiments cavalry, twelve companies hb. “Five regiments artillery, twelve companies b. “*Now there is « notion in the air to reorganize the service on these lines: Eighteen regiments of infantry at four bat- talions, four companies each; third battalion, skeleton; fourth on Fight ‘regiments cavalry at four battalions, four. troops each; third battalion, skeleton; fourth Five regiments pany ot Sune haateiions, four companies each; battalion, akeleton; fourth on paper. ‘Observe’ the besuty of this business. The third battalion will have its officers but no men; the fourth will probably havea rendezvous and some equipment. It is not contemplated to give it anything more definite at present. As- suming the regiments to be made up to full complement we get an army of 50,000 men, whieh, after the need away, must be cut down “80 per cent, to the huge delight of the officers. And the military of the states be three: (a) Frontier warfare, an employ- ment well within the grip of the present army of 25,000 and in the nature of things growing less arduous year by year; (b) internal riots and commotions, which rise up like a dust devil, whirl furiously and die out long before the authorities at Washington could begin to fill up even the third skeleton battalions, much Jess hunt about for material for the fourth; (c) civil war, in which, as the case in the affair of the north and south, the regular army would be swamped in the mass of militia and armed volunteers that would turn the land into a hell. Yet the authorities persist in regarding an ex- ternal war as a thing to be seriously consid- ered, and the power that would disembark troops on American soil would be capable of heaving a shovelful of mud into the Atlantic in the hope of filling it up. Consequently the au- thorities are fascinated with the idea of the sliding seale or concertina army. ‘This is an hereditary instinct, for you know that when we English have got together two companies, one machine gun, a sick bullock, forty generals and @ mass of w.o. forms we say we possess “an urmy corps capable of indefinite extension.” ‘A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE ARMY. The American army is a beautiful little army. Some day, when all the Indians are happily dead or drunk, it ought to make the finest scientific and survey corpe that the world has ever seen; it does excellent work now, but there is this defect in its nature: It is officered, as you know, from West Point, but the mischief of it is that West Point Capen mer the purpose of spreading a general knowledge of military matters among the people. A bey goes up to that institution, gets his pass and Fetarns to civil life, ao they ‘tell me, with a dan- ous knowledge’ that he is a tucking Von Sroitkeand may: apply hislearning when occasion offers. Given trouble, that man will be a nui- sance, because Le is a hideously versatile Amer- ican to begin with, as cock sure of hituself as a man can be and with all the racial disregard for bum n life to back him through any demi-semi- pro‘eesional generalship. | In a country where, as the records of the daily papers show, men engaged in a conflict with too ready to adopt a military formation and get heavily shot in a sort of cheap, half instructed warfare instead of being decenily scared by the appearance of the military, this sort of arrange- ment doce not seem wise. “The bond between the states is of an amazing tenuity. long as they do. not absolutely march into the District of Columbia, sit on the Washington statues and invent a fiag of their own they can legislate, lyneh, hunt negroes through swamps, divorce, railroad and rampage as much as ever they choose. They do not need knowledge of their own military strength to back their genial law- lessness. That regular army, which isa dear little army, should be kept to itself, blooded on detachment duty, turned into the paths of science and now and again assembled at feasts of Free Masons and so forth. It's too tiny to be political power. The immortal wreck of the Grand Army of the Republic is a politi power of the largest and most unblushing de- scription. It ought not to help to lay the foundation of an amateur military power that # blind and irresponsible. Be thaukful that the balance of the lecture is suppressed and with it the account of a “thiveree” which I attended’ in Livingstone City. ‘The story of the editor and the sub- mountain lion), who used, they said, skillfully of the Liv- to subedit disputants in the office ingstone daily paper. OX THE ROAD. Omitting a thousand matters of first import- ance let me pick up the thread of things in a voice of a dreaming child; oath following oath as smoothiy as clotted cream laps the mouth of the jug. I don’t think he knew he was say- ing anything sulphurous, but nine or ten of those oaths were new to me, and one even made conductor raise his eyebrows. “And when a man's alone mostly, leadin’ his horse across the hills, he gets to talk aloud to imself as it was,” said the weather-worn re- twiler of tortures.” A vision rose before me of this man tramping the Bannock city trail un- der the swearing and always swearing. Bandles ‘that Indians boarded the train frou: time to time. § 4 ‘Their race priv allow them free transit ou the platforms of the cars. They mustn't come , of course, and equally, of course, the train never thinks of p ‘up for them. saw asquaw take us flying and leaving us in the same manner when we were spinning round scurve. Like the Punjabi, the red Indian gets out by on the ‘trackless plain and walks stolidly to the horizon. He never says where he is going. SALT LAKE CITY. Tem seriously concerned for the sake of Mr. Phil Robinson's soul. You will remember that he wrote a book called “Saints and Sinners,” in which be proved very prettily that the Mormon was almost altogether an estimable SESESEE. ongty elute 4th Flat i i ae paki: Pal eee’ t ae Fi F. i | | ¢ OF jails are all | elections and next we trust that we shall be able to re) Gentile, it for her salvation to Toad the house up with ober women folk. I guess the younger generation are trouble to) the elders, ‘What's penitentiary. He is sent there to consider his sins, and he pays a fine, too. But most of the police in Salt Lake are Mormons I Seek ee eal elders represent. Only ge' into the state and the whole concern is bound a very little time.” FAMILY JEALOUBIES. And the wish being father to the thonght, “Why, certainly,” said I, and began to take in the Valley of Deseret, the home of the Latter Day Saints, and the abode, perhaps, of as much misery as has ever been compressed int forty years.” ‘The folk at home cannot understand, but you will, what follows. You know how in Bengal to this day is taught to curse her possible co-wife ere yet she has gone to her husband's house. And the Bengali woman bas been accustomed to lygamy for afew hundred years. Yet she fas's thoroughly feminine hated of her rival, You know, too, the ai mother-wife and the jealousy that culminates sometimes in the poisoning of the well beloved son. Now and in an English woman enjoys a caste ‘ussamani dhai and in the offices of hire women are apt to forget the differences of color and to unreservedly as twin daughters mutually under Eve's curse. The dhai tells very strange and awful things. She has, and this the Mormons count a pri been born into polygamy, but she loathes an: detests it from the bottom of her jealous soul. And to the lot of the Bengali co-wife—‘‘the cursed of the cursed—the daughter of the dunghill—the scald head and the mute” (you know the rest of that sweet commination service)—one creed, of all the white creeds to- day, deliberately introduces the white woman en from centuries of training, which have taught her that it is right to control the undi- vided heart of one man. To quench her most natural rebellion that amazing creed and fan- fastic Jumble of Mohammedanism, the Mosaic Wat imperfectly compre! ents Raaieeeny cally to ite aid all ma peeae of a hell conceived and elaborated by coarse-minded hedgers and ditchers. It is a sweet view, isn't ite ty ‘THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY. All the beauty of the valley could not make me forget it. And the valley is very fair. Bench after bench of land, fint as » table inst the flanks of the ringing hills, marks ‘here the Salt lake rested for s while in'ite col, lapse from an inland sea toa lake fifty miles long and thirty broad. Before long these benches wili be covered with houses At present these are hidden among the green trees on the dead fiat of the valley. You have read a hundred times how the streets of Salt Lake City are very broad and furnished with rows of shade trees and gutters of fresh water. ‘This is true, but 1 struck the town in a season of great drought that same drought which is playing havoc with the herdsof Montana. The trees were limp and the rills of sparkling water that one reads about were represented by dusty paved courses. Main street appears to be in- bited by the commercial Gentile, who has made of it a busy, bustling thoroughfare, and in the eye of the ‘sun swigs the ungodly lage and smokes the improper cigar all da, long. For which I like him. At the head of Mata street stand the lions of the place, videlicet, the Temple and the Tabernacle, the ‘tithing house and the houses of Brigham ‘Young, whose por- trait is on sale in most of tho booksellers’ shops. Incidentally it may be mentioned that the late ameer of Utah does not unremotely resemble his highness the ameer of Afghanistan, whom these fortunate eyes bave seen. And i have no desire to fall into the hands of the ameer. The first thing to be seen wus, of course, the Temple, the outward exponent of creed." Armed with a copy of the book of Mor- mon, for better comprehension, I went to form rash’ opinions. Some day the Temple will be fini It was only begun thirty.years ago and up to date rather more than §3,500,000 have been expended in its granite bulk. The walls are ten feet thick, the edifice itself is about a hundred feet high and its towers will be nearly two hundred. THE UNFINISHED TEMPLE. And that is all there is of it unless you choose to inspect more closely, elways reading the Book of Mormon ss you walk. | Then the won- drous puerility of what I suppose we must cal! the design becomes apparent. I sm wrong; there is no design. ‘These men, directly in- spired from on high, heaped stone on stone and pillar on pillar without achieving either dignity, relief or interest. There is over themain door some pitiful scratching, in stone, represent- ing the All Secing Eye, the Masonic grip, the sun, moon and stars and, perhaps, other skittles. The flatness and meanness of the thing almost make you when you look atthe magnificent granite abroad and the skill that $3,600,000 could have al} called into the aid of the church. It isas though a child had said, “Let us draw a great, big, fine house—finer than any house that ever was,” and in that desire had laboriously smudged along with a ruler and pencil, piling meaningless straight lines on compam-draws curves, with his tongue following every more- ment of the inapthand. Then I sat down on a wheelbarrow and read the Book of Mormot and behold the spirit of the book was the spirit of the stone before me. ‘The simple Joseph and Hiram Smith struggling to create a new Bible when they knew nothing of the compara- tive history of ihe Old and New Testament, an: the inspired architect, muddling with’ his bricks—they were brothers. ‘THE MORMON BIBLE. But the book was more interesting than’ the building. It is written, and all the world has read that to J Smith an angel came down from heaven with a pair of celestial giglampe, whereby he was marvelously enabled to inter- pret certain plates of goli scribbled over. with jots and scratches, and discovered by him in the ground, which plates Joseph Smi translate—only he spelled the mysterious acters “caractors”—and out of the seratches produced a volume of rinted pages containing the Bret und wetond; Jacob, En ‘Mormon, Mosiab, book of Alma Holaman, the third of N fourth. another Book of Mormon, Ether (the whole thing is a e ef ifs il Jarom, ef ne bear solemn witness that the angel spectacles appeared unto them; men swear solemnly that they ha golden plates of the revelation, and testimon| Mormon a cerely did I sym brothers as I duction. Asa humble field of fiction I knew what it was names for one’s characters. been, They creat Paboran, other pri not hold: but of xf tell blocks strewn | in6 iu if E i ; i fae s E 5 ° iy a4 will- Danse Ton’ ‘int Tike Si an’ es, T ain't m " to say for or against lygamy. ee the elders’ Sesleann an’ be- an’ meI don’t think its going on . You'll ‘ear them in the ‘ouse to- morrer talkin’ as if it was spreadin’ all over America. The Swedes they think it his. I — it isn't.” bndall or “Bat you've got your right?” by yos, po amg our landan’ we never say sught against polygamy o’ course—father an’ mother an’ me.” It strikes me that there isa fraud some- where. You've never heard of the roti-khana- kkiwast! Christian, have you? THE SIONTS OF THE cITT. I should have liked to speak to the maiden at length, but she dived into the Zion Co-op and a man captured me, saying that it was my bounden duty to see the sightsof Salt Lake. ‘These comprised the ped tabernacle, the Beehive and town houses of ham ruffian’s tomb, with as- his wives as around him (just as the eleven faithful ones sleep arot the ashes of Runjit Singh outside Fort Lahore) and one or two other curiosities. But all these —_ have been described by abler ms than mine. The animal houses where ham used to pack his wives villas. The tabernacle is a shin; the tithing house, where all revenue re- tarns seem to be made, much resemblesa stable. The Mormons have a paper currenc of their own—ecclesiastical bank notes, whic! are exchanged for local produce. But the little bors of the place have great weakness for the br of theGentiles. t is not pleasant to be taken around a township with your guide stop- ping before every third house to say: “That's where Elder reo og Amelia Bather- shins, his fifth—no, his Amelia, she was took on after Keziah, but Keziah was the elder's Ret an’ he didn't dare to let Amelia come acrost ‘eziah for fear of her spilin’ Keziah’s beauty.” The Mi are quite right. The minute that all the domestic details of pol: discussed in the months of the peo stitution is ready to fall. I shook off my when he had told me his very last doubtful tale and went on alone. An ordered peace and a perfection of quiet luxury is the note of the city of Salt Lake. The houses stand in gener- ousand well-groomed grass plots nase wees Young, the same are grubby fraud and much worse oF better Creepers grow over the house fronts and there isa very pleasant music of wind among the trees in the vast empty streets, with smell of hay and the flowers of summer. PREACHING TRE FAITE. On a tableland overlooking all the city stands the United States garrison of infantry and artil- lery. The stateof Utah can do nearly anything it pleases until that much-to-be desired hour qyhen the Gentile vote shall quietly swamp out Mormonism, but the are kept there in case of accidents. big, shark-mouthed, ig-eared, heavy-boned farmers sometimes take To'their creed with, wildest fanaticism, and in past years have made life excessively unpleas- ant for the Gentile when he was few in the land. Bat today, so far from killing openly or secretly or burning Gentile farms, it the Mormon dare do to feebly try to boycott the in . His defiance to the United States government, and in the taber- nacleon s Sunday the preachers follow suit. When I went there the piace was full of peonle who would have been much better for a wash- ing. Aman rose up and told them that the: were the chosen of God, the elect of Israel: that they were to obey their priest, and that there was good time coming. I fancy that they had heard all this before so many times it produced no impression whatever; even as the sublimest mysteries of another faith lose salt through constant iteration. They breathed heavily through their noses and stared straight in front of them—impassive as flat fish. ‘And that evening I went up to the garrison post—one of the most coveted of all the army commands—and overlooked the city of the saints as it lay in the circle of its forbidden hills. You can speculate a good deal about the mass of human misery, the love frustrated, the gentle hearts broken and the strong souls twisted from the law of life to a flercer follow- of the law of death that the hills have seen. How must it bave been in the old days when the foot-sore emigrants broke through into the circle and knew that they were cut off from hope of return or sight of friends—were handed over to the power of the fiends that called them- selves prieste of the most high. “But for the grace of God there goes Ric! "a8 ‘that eminent divine once said. It seemed good that fate did not order me to be a brick in the upbuilding of the Mormon Church that has so aptly ostablished herself by the borders of a and ‘hopeless. lake bitter salt Rupyanp Kiruixe. Written for The Evening Star. Betrayed. L ‘The deepening shades and shadows of a cruel winter day, ‘Thief-like, creep o'er the threshold of a cottage by the way; Frost, biting as a serpent, is on the panes of g'sea, While soun bells and laughter come from mumMed sleighs which pass. IL A taper on a table casts its feeble rays around ‘This squalid home of woman that for floor ‘has but the ground. Rude rafters from the forest Keep the thatch, by OL ‘Faint as the first lines graven on youths’ cheek by ‘wanton vice Is the shadow of a pallet and a figure robed in white; But fainter still as rising tides, which shoreward sends 8 moan, Iv. “I believed him, yes, believed him,” the broken accents ring ‘Throughoyt the lonely hovel, in tones that erst- ‘while sang * ‘To the song birds of the forest in her far off coun- uy * ‘With no thought that she should ever wail, “My God, what have I doner” v. “They told me I could trust him on his honor and ‘is word; ‘That by birth he wasef gentle blood, by rank he wore a sword— Point of View of a Scientist. ‘The Actual Manifestation as Opposed to the Spook of Vulgar Popular Conception—It is the Haunting Soul That Takes the Shape of = Phantom. —_—__. 667)0 I BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?” SAID Dr. Elliott Coues, the eminent expert in paychical science, to a writer for Tax Stan. “No, I'do not believe in ghosts in the popular sense of the term, for the reason that the popu- lar sense has the least foundation in fact and is as far as possible from any scientific concep- have seen too many ghosts of the popular type to take any stock in them whatever. “Thave reason to know from my own expe- Tience and observation that certain post-mortem apparitions of persons whose bodies have died do occasionally make themselves perceptible to our senses, apparently by an act of conscious volition on their part and for certain definite purposes of their own. Ecclesiastical history is fall of instances of appearances by the dead to the living. Ordinary history includes num- berless allegations of such occurrences. The entire ‘of modern spiritualism turns upon the pivotal fact of the continual communica- tion of the souls of the dead with the living, whether visually, audibly, tangibly or other- FROM A SCIENTIFIC STANDPOINT. “I do believe in ghosts from the purely scien- tifle point of view. We are not, in fact, singlo and simple personalities. There is in each of us an inner individuality of which we are seldom, if ever, intellectually aware. _I find. as a matter of fact, that this inner individuality, which, for convenience, I will call the ‘soul,’ is very little, if at all, affected by the physical condition’ of its environment on the material plane of oo a yy it — — pear to subject to the law it mn, mitch we know to be universal in the physical world. _ It is not capable of being mecha: a to ite injury or — It mar nope lepend for its bei @ organization of the body which Hinkathie: Uaike our normal consciousness, it is not a product or result of the organization of the body. It exists in its own nature, independent of those chemical combinations which form our bodily structure. Nothing forbids the assumption that the soul may have antedated the body which it now in- habits and there is not a priori reason why it may not survive the lution of the latter. Should it so continue to exist for even an hour after death, retaining consciousness, volition and memory, nothing forbids the assumption that it might manifest iteelf to ux. Whether it ever docs so or not becomes simply a question of evidence. ‘THE EVIDENCE. “Sach evidence is abundant, conclasive and of a kind which by the ordinary laws of human testimony should suffice to establish the fact in any court of law. A very large number of al- leged post-mortem apparitions have ately been subjected to every possible test and scrutiny, ith cross-examination of witnesses,and pay ical researchers have, in my judgment, authori- tatively and finally some of these caves to be genuine. “Now, as to the nature of the ghost of fact as opposed to the ghost of fancy. Aside from any question of mere subjective hallucinations, which constitute the vast majority of popular ghosts, I understand the genuine post-mortem apparition to be the spiritual body of a de- ceased person, sustaining and conveying his consciousness in the same manner that the physical body sustains and exhibits our mental qualities. For, just as with the physical eye We only see one another's physical boutics, so is the spiritual body only to discerned by the spiritual sense of a living person. Inasmuch as this spiritual sense is rarely operative in a liv- ing person, actual apparitions are rare. Hence also the nearly universal denial of their occur- rence. For, as I have said, itis butveldom dur- ing our life in the body that the senses of the soul come into conscious operation. ‘THE GHOST CHILL. “A. premonition of an apparition which fs presently to be perceived is usually given by a sensation technically called the ‘ghost chill.’ ‘This is a symptom of a change in the magnetic stato of the body, during which cl the threshhold of consciousness is shifted to the ex- tent of rendering possible a conscious Lane tion of something ordinarily invisible. ‘The change is almost always very brief, usually lasi- ing but few seconds, during which the mai featation ocenrs. With the return of the in: vidual to ordinary consciousness the apparition necessarily disappears, usually leaving the per- ciptgnt in grave doubt as to whether or not he hés been the subject of an hallucination. This doubt, however, may be done away with by sub- sequently taceriainlng through ordinary chan- nels of fuformation that ant occurrence ‘ay, the death of the person whose spiritual body has thus ap) ‘took place at a corresponding time and under circumstances of which the per- cipient was mado aware during the transitory mn. No other explanation of such an oc- currence appears to me to be equally simple and reasonable, and Iam therefore bound to accept it until a better one can be devised. NO MATERIAL EXISTENCE OF THE 6PIRITUAL BODY. “As I conceive it, the spiritual body, soul or ghost—by whichever name you choose to call it—has no material existence whatever in the ordinary sense of the word. That statement raises the whole question of the constitution of matter as distinct from mind. For my own part I think that nv absolute distinction is sible. The ents of such men as Clerk es and Prof. Tyn have demonstrated the existence of states of matter designated as ‘radiant,’ in which none of the ordinary properties of matter appear. A bar of iron, you know, seems to, us perfectly solid and homogeneous, and yet there is reason to believe that the particles which compose it are as far apart from one another in propor- tion to their size as are the planets and other heavenly bodies in proportion to their re- spective tude. “Our bodily senses take © nce of no forms of matter except those Seakbre ta'eperietn degree of condensation. But we reasonably infor the existence of more rarified and tenuous states of matter. ot marching order, the elder males WHAT REAL GHOSTS ARE LIKE|*" salad fora regiment of soldiers. In those days of long ago everything grew to enormous di- mensions, whether animal or vegetable. Frogs were big and active enough to leap at one hop from the Tressury building to the Capitol, and other creatures, particularly those of a de- structive sort, were in “Only « few little are left to illus- trate the giant crustacean forms of that ancient epoch. It is known how crabs and lobsters are hatched from eggs, resembling upon birth nothing so much as the animalcule shown by the microscope in a drop of ditch water. They are as unlike the shell fish they are to become in mature life as a grub is unlike a butterfly. In the case of the the clusters are at- tached beneath the animal after extrusion, while with the lobster ther become fastened to the tail, which, by its fanning motion, increases the stream of oxygenated air through and among the ova. ‘From the eggs of the lobster. sre hatched creatures not in the leat resembling their par~ ents—little fellows that swim with feather-like locomotive organs near the surface of the water. At the end of six weeks they develop legs, un- Jew, axis highly probable, they have previously y ‘deen devoured by fishes or other enemies, be- coming thereupon small lobsters of familiar shape. Having reached this of growth, the young lobsters become animals, and, sinking to the bottom, immediately seek hiding-places to protect them from their foes. ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF LOBSTERS. “The first experiments in the adaptation of knowledge on this subject to the artificial prop- agation of lobsters were made simply in glass jars with sea water that was changed daily. Even under these primitive conditions the newly hatched fry thrived and grew to be of some size and healthy. Any one who desires to | rear lobsters by hand can accomplish the pur- most quickly by keeping the spawn-bear- fag females in suitable ponds or tanks | ret Ts rge owever, 80] rate the eggs from the lobster and spread them upon trays, allowing the water to percolate among them, as is done with ealmon By this method much trouble would be avoided, as roll as the expense of feeding the adult ben lobsters. “There is no reason apparent wherefore the same success should not be obtained with lob- sters as has been achieved with salmon, which have been made to swarm once more by myriads in streams depopulated by imprudent fishing. Already the lobsters on’ the North Atlantic coast are rapidly vanishing and, unless meas- ures are soon taken for supplying their place by artificial propagation, there will be none loft. Apparently, however, it will be entirely practicable to turn out upon the depleted grounds many millions of young lobsters yearly as soon ae proper plants for this object have been established. One thing in favor of lob- ster raising, as to chcapness, is that they prefer food that is partially decomposed, and the waste food of the towns, now thrown away, might be most usefully employed by the lob- ster hatcheries. Stale fish is esteemed by lob- sters an especial delicacy. SUITABLE LOCALITIES. “For the purpose of « lobster farm rocky ground should be chosen, because that is their natural haunt and there they find suitable places to hide. Inasmuch as they do not walk abroad very much, but are addicted rather to adopts home and keep itexcept when making excursions in search of food, the water farmer who sows the pasture lands of the sea with a crop of lobsters may reasonably hope in time to reap the result of his labors. There are no lobsters on the Pacific coast and the efforts 60 far made to carry them across the continent for transplantation have failed, chiefly because the creatures have died on the way. INTERESTING POINTS. “There are many curious points about crabs and lobsters. Every one of either genus is provided with a big claw for crushing and a small claw adapted by ite shape for cutting as ucissors do. With these two claws they tear the food they capture into fragments and feed themselves literally ‘from hand to mouth.’ But there is every reason to suppose that the claws are intended quite as much for fighting as for eating purposes, inasmuch as such powerful hands are not needed for devouring the soft food they prefer. Crabs particularly are fight- ing animals; in fact, they will fight anything. Thave sven a crab, in conflict with a lobster, catch the latter over the fore part of the head, where the shell is hardest, and crush it in by one effort. And it rather bears out my idea that the claws of these creatures are particu- larly weapons of war; that the moment one of them receives severe injury in a claw it drops it off by voluntary amputation, severing its con- nection with the body at the shoulder by an act of its own will, It seems to me probable that if the claw was necessary for feeding, nature would rather seek to cure a injury to it than let the animal discard it altogether. “The species of crab which is most conspicu- ously a fighter is the hermit crab. Its first idea of independent life is to eat a harmless whelk and occupy its shell; its next notion is to give battle to every crab of the same persua- sion as itself that it comes across. Altogether hermit crabs are undoubtedly the most quar- relsome creatures in existence.” —— eee DEER CAPTURED BY TRICKS. dail | How South American Indians Lay in a Sup- ply of Venison. From the Detroit Free Press. The manner in which the South American Indians hunt deer in the Cordilleras is very in- teresting and somewhat ingenious. They first ascertain the locality in which the animals con- gregato to graze and then the men, women and stampede they blow horns, yell and make other bewildering and outlandish noises. As a nat- ural consequence the frightened deer quit their grazing places. They form in line in regular leading the way, followed by the females and’ young, while the rear of the column is brought up by the coarse and blunt; by their function whic! of the threshold have young bucks, who act as protectors to the cen- ters. The Indians now close in upon them, which the animals todo battle for lives. The hunters Proceed to prepare the instruments of destruc! ing of resinous. torches and nooses a 5 tite 1H i i FEBRUARY 14, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. MADAME ROWLEYS TOILET MASK (OR FACE GLOVE). 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It took two porters and all the bell boys to get him upstairs to bed. The next night he went out toa chicken fight and licked a couple of hackmen onthe way home. He was pretty e, I tell you.” “The next vight—it was 1 a.m.—hoe came in loaded as usual. There was a theatrical troupe in town _ two of the netgear wd were se = tiring as he upstairs whooping like a lot on the actresses’ duor, ard as they wouldn't open it, of course, he through the keyhole a1 “Made a panic, “That's no word for it. Looked like a sheet and pillow-case party inan insane asylum. We read the riot act then, but he put up a warm talk with the proprietor and squared it come- how. He was a velvet talker as sure as you're Dorn. The night after that he coaxed me into ‘8 dice game and skinned a hundred and sixty outer me quicker'n a wink.” “Mede his — “Exactly. Well, the morning he came down with head swelled and his grip ‘ked. He said he hated to leave us, as he'd had such a quiet, pleasant, genial sort of time. but duty called and he must away. SoImade out his bil ‘Made it pretty too, didn’t you?” Bout the ustal; but weit. I handed bim his account, and what do you think he said?” “Can't imagine.” “Why, he said, ‘Great Scott! don’t you make a reduction to clergymen?” blew cigarette smoke illed ‘Fire.’ ” LONDO: FIRE DEPARTMENT. A Year's Work by the Brigade and the Appli- ‘ances They Have to Work With. In view of the adverse criticisms upon the inadequate and out-of-date efforts of the Lon- don fire brigade in grappling with large confia- grations it may not be out of place to call attention to the following report by Capt. Shaw fires, | ret Dusen, a widow of Bank street, Newark, eee of shleh 10 = of 1890 com with of increase of 217, or compared with the a of the past ten’years an increase of 422. number of persons seriously endangered by fire was 212, of whom 151 were saved and 61 these 81 were taken out saves its user money. while you have onr address before you. WRINKLES, with proofs ad isement appears only occasionally. THE CONDUCTOR WAS POLITE. But the Lady Was Not Much Benefited by His Good Intentions. That the big bridge has been of infinite service to Brooklyn, says the Brooklyn Eagle, it appears to be quite euperfluous to say, but it would scarcely do to hazard the statement that it has been an unmixed blessing. For instance, ite malign influence has been such that there are times when it is not deemed advisable to send clear to the ferry every car that starts from the Atlantic avenue stables. It was rain- ing heavily one day last week wher. one of the cars which roll over Mr. Richardson's tracks stopped at the bridge entrance. With a single exception all the passengers alighted. The ex- ception handsomely attired woman who wanted to the ferr; “This car docs not go any further, madam,” suid the polite and considerate conductor, “but if you'll ride back with me I'll transfer you to another car that does. a Down came the rain in a perfect delnge, and the woman naturally hesitated about alighting. “I think you had better remain on this car, suggested the conductor, “and I'll stop the first car we meet.” The woman said she had an important engagement to keep, but as she didn’t quite see her way clear to inyiting complete saiuration she concluded to keop her seat. On wet days the Atlantic avenue cars do not run at very short intervals and it was some little time before the conductor rang the bell for starting. Finally the horses moved and they were not far from the city hall when a car going in the opposite direction made its appearance. The conductor hailed it and the transfer was effected, the woman gracefully acknowledging the courtesy with which she had been treated. In due course of Atiantic avenue railroad time the car to which she had been transferred slowed up at the bridge and again all the sengers, with one exception, alighted. exception was, of course, the woman who bad been ferred and who had an important engagement to keep. “This car does not go any further, madam.” pawl — second polite considerate con- jue! The rain had not slackened up in the least and the ferry was just as for offus ever. There was some conversation betwoen the woman and the conductor. but the president of the Atlantic avenue line did not happen to be listening to it, so that its results were not at all tangible. ‘The woman had had enough of riding buck. She stepped out into the deluge and ran from the bridge entrance to Fulton street. ‘Tho dis- tance was short, but it was long cnongh to give ho mai an opportunity ae show what it could lo in an emergency, and it certainly did ail that could be reasonably expected of. it, con- sidering, pe ited time at its dis- posal. 1 bridge was at the bottom of all this trouble there is, of course, no doubt whatever, though from the drift of the woman's remark: tbe inferred that the Atlantic avenue railroad was somehow mixed up in the air. A BOARDER’S TOUGH JOKE He Fires Off the Phonograph at the Lady ‘With Whom He Feeds. Emmond, who is recorded as occupant of the boarding house of Mrs. Marga- N.J., was allowed to go on his own recognizance in Justice Blauvelt’s court recently to answer toacharge of conspiracy and defamation of SBre* | the most novel which has character. 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