Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1892, Page 7

raids from the 4 fined to their reservation, but had been raiding bern part of the territory, leav- ing ruin and devastation in their wake. brave enough to face the dangers d those who did accompany like angels of ght m those ‘There wero perhaps a but only three women. at _a_month or two be- ‘Mrs. Barnes, a delicate unused to hardship, had quietly dreary mining camps. hundred men in B ‘There had been four, fore my creature, slipped fheare earth, but bein very soon rechristened Babe. child, womanly in her ways, but as innocent of the depravity of the human heart asa baby. Every miner in the country knew and loved her, Many of them had children in the and Babe crept down into their bardened old hearts, finding unerringly the little spot that ever closes to winsome childhood. them would have shed his own Oaths were strangled at her approach and her abhorrence of whisky iv regarded that I doubt if she er saw one of them, excepting her,old sot of drop. Once a fool fenderfoot, two-thirds full, offered to kiss her, and it took hima week to recover from the basting the Miners gave him when Babe tearfully told of the ins Babe hada voice like an orfole and wasa! debased amon; Dlood to save Was so care @ fath natura the great THE CATAMOUNT’SCRY ‘Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HE sToRY OF KIT Carson's dislike of a catamount’s ery re minds me of an expe- rience of my own,” said ® reclaimed frontiers- man the ether night as he sat with » knot of kindred piri’s in front I don't like the yor! of tho beasts either, Scgsrtimes it is like the * wajiof a humaa being in direst agony and makes's fellow's blood run cold to hear it, and again I've been fooled and ‘thought it the cry of a child and rushed to the Feseue to find myself almost in the paws of s Panther. In 1880 [had some money to salt down and ‘went to New Mexico to investigate the reported Tich finds in the Magdalenas and rounded up ‘one day in Bonita Gulch, a small mining camp up above the foothills in the Magdalena range. t apprehension of ‘Were not con- I ight we counted noses, Everybody, women and all, were account for—all but Babe. . Shorty rushed into his cabin end came ont ing like x maniac. Babe was gone! the redskine had stolen the pride of Gulch. mai i In the -onfusion which inevitably followed lost and the miscreaut was well out of our reach before we got on the trail. | We had hunted Indians before, however, and felt no hope of getting them.’ We knew we simply placing ourselves in the power of | ins by following them into their | mountain fastnesses, where they could turn on us and slaughter us like sheep | not give up our treasure without ut least an j attempt to secure it, no matter how futile. A Bonita to bury Jim and pro- | tect the women and cabins und two set out for ‘the fort to have the troops put in the ficid. ‘A week later, wornont, footsore and disheart- ened, we returned to Bonita from our fruitless jerrand, and the troop, just as unsuccessful; | were again in quarters at the fort. At Bonjta we found fresh fuel to feed our rsons of a Mr. Mal- Mr. Mallory, who was a rich | contractor, had brought his ‘wife and little | daughter, eighteen months old, and a nurvegirl to Socorro with him. After completing hi business there he had to goto the “Hard Luc! about twenty miles away, and bis wife impor tuned him ‘to let her v and, like a fool, he consented. Most of the trail | to the “Hard Luck” wns on the government road to Fort Craig. Teg miles out from Socorro they tacked by Apaches, himself and wife born mimic. The birds unerringly | stunned and left for dead, the drivers killed | answered her call, amd she could imitate the | outright, the carriage aud wagon destroyed. noises made by beasts of prey <o as to maystify | teams run off and no trace of the nurse and the wariest of us and would laugh gleefully at | child left. our discomfiture. As no one tried to restrain | ered their senses they found that they had been her she spent most of her time roaming about | dragged into a da the mountain, on the side of which Bonita was perched. July settled down over the Gulch, warmi malders to white heat. incase, aggravated by the boys suid it) was heart starvation. She left ‘& worthiess husband and a ten-year-old deugh- ter, who wns one of the brightest, most lovabl children I over knew. hi man. once, I sup) forgotten "when, when no! ut Babe idolize Still we could too drunk he was good to her. child had been christened Miriam back on the only kid in camp she was She was a pretty few remained at | consuming wrath in the | Tory and his wife. real” gold mine, ing the day by When Mr. and Mra. Mallory recov @ pine forest. | suffering intensely from flesh wounds and from | the terrible nervous shock. For three day: wandered in the unknown region before | The shim- | they struck the trail which led them xt last td | I guess, Maybe thonght I frees we etraia te en ep away in the dark. I | was dencingTerept away up an arta Fike wolves the pines, It was awfnl scary. ves burked und I heard the panthers cryin’, panthers and Indians can't foo! me no more, and I thought I never covtd find the trail. Pretty soon the Indians came shouting and hunted for me with. torches, but I ekinn up a tree and when they got tired and went back I slid down and ran off. When it come daylight I found something just awful!” and, shuddering, the put up her hands to shut out the vision. 3 rests, now, Babe,” Shorty. .We sabes the Horrors «too easy, an’ hain? no consoomin’ desire to harrer up yer | Members Who Have Little Besides “Their Congressional Salaries—Not So Much ‘Wealth Represented as Formerly—The Bich feelio’s relatin’ of ‘em. ‘Oh; but I'm just comin’ to the baby,” said Babe; ‘you want to hear abont that. What I saw was a woman all cut to pisces, and tied to the bushes at her side with rawhide strings was the baby. ‘The poor little thing was most too weak to cry, but it acted just as glad when I worked the strings loose. They was tied so oe ee ee I walked long time and carried baby, and we got so hungry. Isaw a little Ingian boy herding ‘goats, but I was afraid to ask him for milk for fear ' he dis- | and powed ourselves as best wo could about the aguinst an attack. we watched and listened, but not to break the dead quict of the loward morning every mother's | son of us went to sleep at our posts. | fore daylight there rose on the morning air a scream of awful terror, which brought every-4 body in Bonita pell meli from tents and cabina. | Up the dangerous narrow trail we could hear the patter of receding hoofs. In the uncertain couldn't ugh | see us, and we went to sleep. Baby screamed avfal snd waked me up, and there was « Nanny goat standin’ right over us, but when she to butt us I caught her and then she wasn'ta bit ugly. Iwas so glad, but baby was soared most to death. I tied Nanny with the rawhide strings and milked her in my hahd and poured it down baby’s throat, and got a little for mo, too. My, but baby was just crazy for more, but Nanny didn’t have very much. “We both felt better after that, but it rained and I cuuldn’t find the trail till this morning, and Ithought maybe we'd die afterall. It wasn’t atealing to take Nanny, was it, boys?” | she asked wistfully. “When I looked for the other goats the herder hnd driven them clear out of sight, so I fast kept Nanny. We'd have starved if hadn’t been for her. 5 ‘The assurances the child received that had coramitted no erimo were strong enough tisfy anybody, and if Babe had beon almost any other.child on earth she would have been ruined by the adulation and devotion showered upon her, and she deserved it all. The story of her wanderings sounds like fiction, but it's the God’s truth. For a straight week she packed that kid round over the moun- tain, drenched ©} jay with rain, in danger | of recapture any minafe, and beasts of prey around them © igi that episode was a convert to the “Danicl-in-the-iion's-den” theory. The Mallorys’ gratitude expressed itself sub- stantially. They adopted Babe und educated her. she is now studving music in Berlin, and her voice gives promise of being one of the phenomenal «necesses of the day. Idon’t like the yowl of a panther any better than Kit Carson did, He didn’t like to drink, either, but I do, and I'm as dry as the Sabara, Come, boys, let's liquor up. QUEER FACTS ABOUT SLUGS. One Carnivorous Species That is as Fierce as Tiger or Shark. HE USES OF SLUGS A&R Some are taken internal ons adic VARIOUS. d_to alcoholic Other kinds, very solid, ere who follow van has done #0 adorn. species of slugs are apt to produce a bad effect on the nose. Yet another sort of slug, to the disenssion of meting wat the afternoon, waitin the tallest peaks. to the Indian subject. Jose, only a dozen miles away, bad been raided hes and not even the children had Suddenly, far up by the 4 escaped bird. gets away off my affuirs, girl like me." Almost with one voi s sermonette, jerking our guns as we sprang to our feet. Flonting down the mountain had come a low, wailing sound, such a» a baby makes when it We listened breathlesaly. than before, but full eries out in its sle; _ Aguin it came, suffering. “"Pachs!” muttered Modoc. more like,” said Broncho Bill. “The cussed catamotnts was this mornin’ when I’ “Panther Bester “God-e-mighty, I clean groaned Shorty end tan. His love for “Tm a goin’ after ber!” He had only taken stride or two, with the Fest of us/at his heels, when Babe at the edge of the cliff and gazed We shouted to her and she turned into the trail, where we kept her in sight ae we climbed to Bares’ cabin, where we met h “What were it Babe? "Puchs er panthers?” questioned Shorty, as she rushed into his arms. I thought it was a bab; couldn't find it,” she replied, flushing and pal- . While the tears came into her “Do you think it wasa baby, boys?” ‘wwil a bit, Mavourneen,” Emerald ‘as he stroked her bright hair. Dabby war thot. skin war joost pla: “Yer wings is sprouted, Babe, T straight t’ golden glory, Ro stopover. ef ye don't quit pervadin' this yere mountin’. claim deed to the airth,” $ut st “The "Pachs wouldn't want to hurt little Kid like me, would they, captain?” she x tearfully. as she slipped » brown hand in “I ain't never doue nothin’ to hurt ferocious, “yp arrer ll pint mine. them.” Isat down and talked to the child, explain- ing the terrible ferocity of Apaches particularly, and fairly terrified her into promising that she ef the Gulch till the Indian scare was off again. “Bat P'm most sure that wus a baby, if I could galy have found it,” she insisted, as ehe slid from my knee to see if her down the trail. sisted on remain “Dad might with ge: The the ear. The soft dewy twilight Dut scrow the valle; the grim un sli é Peaks outlined im. cold Silver as the full moon and their rough contour, and the stare tng eame out one by one till the sky looked Great azure-lined jewel casket. For nearly two hours we lay around of light grew garish and weari- | me, and one day, overcome with the intense sultriness, all work was abandoned and half dozen of us gathered under some trees late it for old Sol to hide behind jar talk naturally drifted Two days before San Bonita. Mrs. Mallory was on the verge of insanity. Oue afternoon eight da: episode we wore lounging under the trees | anathemizing the Indians and government and j everything else instrumental in bfinging so | much grief upon Bonita, when Shorty | his head and with upraised hand checked the | flow of invectives, but he dro} an apologetic sigh. om hunger and grief, after the Apache ped back with | “T kalkerlates I'm hoodooed along of this kid- |. ery time the wind st jorrible butchery. the trail, we heard the clear notes of a mocking T raised on my elbow to listen, aud then smiled to think how even my quick ear had been deceived, for through the interstices of the trees saw Babe's red dress. “This yere kid goes a-tamperin’ round thet bresh once too often, an’ then Bonita hangs erape on her door an” weeps a whole lot,” re- marked Broncho Bill, as he rolled over tos ‘evoler place. an’ I pulls stakes termorrer fer new onless this vere play- Allow, wailing cry cut Shorty's speech off | $71' mighty quick and with an expletive h to his feet, knocking the breath out of Broucho Bill, who was calmly sleeping off a drunk. ighty peevish all fer nothin’, ly, a5 he alowly go’ male don't stand no chance al: for narves these vere days. painter a yowlin’. Babe has located all vat this yere myse’f an’ he allows I | ,, a-mixin’ in his fambly ‘h I regards as some troo, an’ bein’ I @in't no internashunal erbertoatin : beg op by 2 mar to dro: - ated remarks by tryi wn @ young “it's a dadbinged outrage,” saserted fe angrily. ae ly potecwen Babe because be had a little kid down in Texas. “The other day she war up there singin’ like a gherumbim an’ i couldn't stand it nohow, so I lays down my pick an’ trails uy ‘Babe,’ I says, some stern, ‘the ‘Pachs'll take thet yaller mane of ropes some day if yer ain't keerful "bout per- Yadin’ roun" up yer by yerse'f, book them long braids latfed Shorty, 5 Almost on the ‘spot where Babe looked ont | at us the day the Apache panther erice startled us we found her lying a wan little beside her, erring pitifully, a lite ci naked, and so dirty and tanned that’ we couldn't vell whether it was Indian or Anglo- | Saxon, and near by, browsing on the grass, was an old she goat. Babe's clothes were in tattersand her arms | and feet bare and b| her she put up her said_piteousl iy ‘Ob, captain, take me home; I'm so tired, urn to braid lariat she remit ‘Why, y wouldn't hurt a little “Now, Tasks this yere ¢ shun what's ter be did with a kid li ain't no more idee of harm them birds she’s imitatin’, an’ trustin’ thet I kaint bear I stooped over ted hands and in’ her than She's thet neces her in baby, and with and yelling down the trail on the scene and came near known they went us The women cried and the up to the north drift.” “Maybe it was Babe fooling us again,” I sug- forgite the kid,” under the dirt i child was almost Jong. Its first cousin, the quite as big and is very’ plentiful on const and especially in the state of W nxionsly out. + stumbled into the cabin at my dirty paws t> Mallory and in a hare made an enraged parrot ve the poet never bo could have done justice to that you ‘tan just set far dose "not scene, and I won't try, but your to work on pic of those parents As for the camp, it had anot d shouted itvelf black in the women were rubbing Babe and her little skeleton a heard, and with «clatter the ‘Divil a bit of a Soom dirthy baste of a red- to get soute life in was ‘sef ye hed « quit | to li ee a coe she yy," she murmured with smile, as she sank back on her pillows. Then, as she saw the dirty little kid stufling on the bed with ite mother’s tho Indians, and the father wis in sight We lingered till far into the night at Barnes’ eabin, fearing to go and leave Babe, and she in- St = te om ae From Puck. ¥ on the nei peaks towering abov. tthe clouds which forever envelo Down below the flocks of it z i Uj i il wees Pelt Es F % i ct bets i 1 H rH 3 bith: which this writing will be limited, embraces a shells. More shells, arin t disap- Is, sous of living creatures.’ It is e pred mollusk,rep- | reventing on the uiile fish of t rsuer the reept it by tunneling across ite line of retreat. The testaceila will devour a frorm mitch | longer than itself, selzing it by the middle and ! helding it until the qi fo" TT ligosted, i portion. For this purpose its mouth th atrong and sharprecurved When the testavelia tas see softly toward it so as not to fastens its jawe upon an unprot d part of the worm. ‘The Infter has its body rings farnished with stiff bristles, so that the slug tries to get ita bitein between the rings. Then 41 simply holds on entil the captive euccumbs. Other tacked and gobbled in its habits, sali; marauds. ‘This curious animal frequents gard rms in lives to be five or six in winter it buries itself deep in the ground, wi mains torpid. Ite eggs look like hens’ eggs on a | are tagen out of the earth, and exposed to the ait they burst into pieces like diminutive bomb- shells, the fragments flying for quite a distance. | Most species of slugs, are vegetable feeders. | In Europe they are very numerous and do great damage to vegetation, especially in England. ‘The foreign varietics have ail been imported to this counyy, but they vem to inflict no injury here, confitions, presumably, being unfavorable for their propagation. It is hardly to say that they were not brot y sign. One kind, which may have been fetched on wine barrels, ins become unpleasantly nu- merous in damp cellars on this side of the water. It attains a length of four inches and is cailed “limax maximus. Tn Portugal is foand a giant slug e “ari thas adisagreeable way of dropping from the trees. ‘The “imax campestris” is a smaller variety, found all over the mterior of this country, in the woods, beneath the bark of trees and erever it is damp. An imported kind that has become fuirly nnmerous hero, likewise of moderate vizo, is called the “limax agrestris.” There are many other epectes in this part of the world, both native and exotic. Slugs areair-breathing animals. ‘Their eyes, on stalks like a crab’s, have sharp wight and’ their other senses are believed to be quite keen. fied Set koe Parasites of the Mongoose. “Everybody reema to be down on the mon- goose,” said Naturalist Henry W. Elliott. “There is one objection tothe beast that I have not yet seen mentioned in the newspapers. | is infested b. akind of tick that is the worst Parasite of the sort known. All ticks are to be avoided, but this one is horrible. It attacks human beings and cats and dogs as weil, so that | has ‘arms | it isreadily communicated tothe household, and, burrowing in the flesh, it makes frightful sores." 8. “But it kills snakes,” said Tue Svar writer. ‘Well, they say it does. I suppore it was on that account that the ancient Egyptians used to domesticate it. They considered it sacred, youknow. So do I. In fact, I regurd it as too sacred fo approach very near—say, within ten | night feet. A tic ‘cannot jump that fur.” cas hse ata Noble Art. i t intervals dur- Both of there | a be classed } titul | ground. | =| ic re-| * Are Poot. MEN WHO’ MADE FORTUNES. ‘Men From the Pacific Slope. claimed Mr. Kenna the restaurant. “Here in this paper is tho charge revamped less money!” ‘House of Lords’ they also delight to call us,” added Gen. Man- derson from across the table, “when each of us represents the people of definite geographic division and the house of lords represents noth- ing but proscription—the entail of a hereditary aristocracy.” “Yet there are doubtless some attorneys of corporations if not ‘creatures of corporations’ here,” suggested & correspondent sitting by. FROM THE FOOT OF THE LADDER. “So there are in every parliament and every logiclature,” answered Representative Breckin- ridge; “but I judge from what I have heard that almost all of the millionaires in the Senate began without a dollar as, common workmen. And it is the same at our ond of the Capitol. ‘Two began with pick and shovel in Califor- nia without a cent,” said one. ‘One began as a railroad brakeman,” said an- other. “One began by sweeping out a store at 62 a week,” said-another; “and the boy that did that. having got to the top at last, has a perfect 81,900 a mouth board at. the Ar- lington if he wants to; and they say that is what "he actually does pay for himself and | perhaps, two or three ten thonsandaires and ni right to pay wife.” “and I have no doubt.” said another, ‘that a majority of the members of beth houses depend on their congressional salaries for a livin ‘This conversation set me to thinking and in- quiring, and herein are set down my findings. THE MAGNATES THINNING OUT. egan by hoeing corn’ at 10 cents a ad climbed upward till he counted his i Spinola, who climbed to the highest, on which seven figares were written; Adams, with # $509,009 wife, and several other such. An odd thing about it this yer is that three- fourths of the wealth in both houses belongs to m whose names begin with S—Sawyer, Stow- . Stanford, Sanders, Sherman, Shoup, Squire, tockbridge, StahInecker, Steveas and Sam Stephenson—a formid And Spooner, Snider withdrawn from the sib ALONG THE ROCKIES. of course, from the five richest men in the country and worries himeelf all the time about new schemes for spending his income on his pet. resali I don’t know whether heis worth thirty or a hun dred millions, but as the larger amount costs more thought and attention than the smaller without furnishing a particle more of comfort it doesn't make any difference. ’ Nevada has his ups and downs, aniebterrine The heathe® Chines he built during one of bis ups. He Tost his hat time, but is pegging away again, He has a striking physiognoy—put a vardonie smile upon Michael Angelo’s portrait of Jeho- vah and you have Stewart. He is ordinarily | good natured and sometimes rick, but he has several times been brought to the verge of pov- erty by helping his friends. His colleague be- | longs to the wealthy wing of the Jones famil, | and Felton of California has been a bold and | lucky speculator, and hit the bull’s-eye during the oil excitement. : Miicheli and Dolph could foot up, perhaps, $100,000 apiece; Allen is a popular young lawyer and gets large fees and Squire has no nightmare dreams of the poorhouse—indeed a newspaper recently announced that he came ti Washington in “ta car lined with solid silver. N ‘olorade are moderately ri at is, they have outside incomes more than equal to their salaries, The same can be said of Manderson, who has made something in Omaha real estate. THE NEW ENGLAND CONTINGENT. Almost all of the New England members in doth houses began with nothing and have held their own—that is, they ere dependent on their salaries fora living. This is exactly or nearly true of Frye, Dixon, Chandler and the Massa- chusetts Connecticut Senntors, but they are all hard-working men of large’ influence. Hale acquired about #750,000 when he won Zach Chandler's daughter, and he has kept it. Morrill and Aldrich began as grocery clerks and they now count their wealth by six figures, {t is understood that Waikor, in the House from Worcester, is a millionaire, making his money in boots and shoes, where he started as a me- chanic. He could probably buy out all of the highly educated young democrats thrown to the surface in last year's éruption, whom he alludes to collectively as ‘‘very fresh” and “the Massachusetts kindergarten.” Cabot Lodge is said to be rich, as is also Morse of tho Sunrise stove polish. THE MIDDLE STATES. Neither of the New York Senators is rich—in- deed, Evarts was worth a good deal more than Hill is. This may be a proper place to say that Cleveland has quadrupled his property since he became President and_is now probably worth a quarter of a million, The House has bh ma ers—Folix Campbell of New York and Belknap of Michigan. Felix is happy in the conscious ness that he could pipe off half a million dollars from his bank. Jelknap is, doubtless, also in the proverbial condition. Belden of Syracuse amassed a million or so in railroads and things. Bourke Cockran must be well fixed, for he bought a £100,000 house here last year— which he will have newly frescoed when he is elected Senator im Hiscock’s place. John R. Fellows, who divides with Cockran the reputa- tion of being the most eloquent man in the House, has seared the wolf way off. He dines en Chamberlin’s terrapin and lies down at ight amid his varied sumptuosities, gets trying to hammer skulls of a ‘petit jury and the other day dectined the a of 9 £50, 000 salary to manage a Inrge property. - wood of Buffalo married pr goes e the ene! jui- Foca, hat 000 in reci rove the harbors ores of NOT MANY RICH ONES.| The Great Majority of Congressmen ILLIONAIRES!”" EX- other day in the Senate the Senate is composed of ‘magnates’ and mil- lionaires, I don’t be- lieve there is a national legislature in the world whose membets possess The Senate and House will not foot up in the aggregate so much as they did two years ago within fifty ora hundred million dollars. A few rich men have come in, but more have Fromm the Senate have departed Joe nas the poorest and raggedest olina crackers and became a five million- 70, who has 5,000 miles Foxus; Hearst, the many mil- olden Gute: Plumb, who had rom the “Small Hopes” mine; ‘ho earned a pile by hard knocks; 4 Tich easily but preferred to write: Bolt” and dozen pe If Senator of CI he doesn't take any pains fo show it, league is said to be worth $75,000. Ohio has two Senators calculated to oxcite worth many millions, made in railroading, and Sherman is ri ionaire things are eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth d of Ohio are, curionsly enough, all represented | by Taylors, and they possess two-thirds of the’ wealth of the Ohio tion. - J.D. HIE them all, Judge Holman, han his farm at home—probabl aE # In the Senate are three rich Meo- Millan and Stockbridge of Michigan and Saw- | brother millionaires, Mo- of Wisconsin; they are Mian was originally, T believe, a conductor on the Detroit a1.d Milwaukee railroad, and he did his duty and crept upward till he got rich as & car manufacturer and lumber dealer. Iaskeg Senator Palmer if the Illinois state delegation were wealthy, “Well” he said, ‘we're pretty comfot " r that Callom and Tan measure up 950,000 between us!” The richest and perbape the ablest, and cortainly the best educated, of the whole Ilimois delegation in the House is Robert H. Hitt. As astenographer thirty-four years ago he reported the Lincoln-Douglas debete and afterward studied the modern languages and was found very able and effective in diplomatic relations. One of the wealthy members is known to his friends as “Sam Stevenson” of Menomince, Michigan. He made his monoy in lumber. Chipman and Whiting of the tame state are also raised far above any inclination to be socialists and to request a “divide. Senator Casey is tich; so is Pettigrew; Davis insists that the most valuable quality of money is its transferability, 60 he enlists actively in the transfer business, and though he commands has a moderate bank account. feos Senator Vilas of Wisconsin has us much as | Stn ope Hotehiiss end armed for the he will ever need. Mitchell of Milwankeo in a° soveral times millionaire, and probably no other member from tho state except, perhaps, Bar- Fig jwho has recently had a windfall, if worth Im prxiz’s LaxD. I asked Representative Breckinridge how many millionaires there were in the Arkansas delegation. “‘Not one!” he said. * ‘There are, three or four thousandaires, and I think there is one who may be designated as a hundred and fiftyaire. We have hardly anything in Arkan- sas," he said, laughing, as he vanished within the door of ‘the House, “except wisdom and | There fs not aman here from Tennessee worth $50,000, unless it is Senator Harris, whose boys sre running a big ranch down in’ Texas that niay some time be worth something, or Joseph E. Washington, who is the son of 'a wealt man. Richardson has only his first syllable | that is wealthy, but he is @ professional daw- maker, having “done time’ in the legislature when young and been elected speaker at twenty- eight. He sometimes eats the duck whore back | has been canvaeed, is not obliged to ride always | on the street cars and is an Ancient Scotch Im- | perial Arch Mason of the thirty-third degree. | Not more than three or four men from the | south are worth $100,000, Senator George of Mississippi being one, and I cannot name an- otheraty this moment—perbaps Gorman and Ransom.’ Morgan ,can make a great deal of money. for he has a high reputation os » law- yer, and no man in the Senate possesses more all-round information of an ¢xact sort, but he probably has little more than bi 5 Out of four hundred raembers of both houses there are less than twenty millionaires; about fifty more would be wealthy; a hundred others are in comfortable circumstances, and more than » hundred and fifty are poor and de- pend upon their salaries for their support. How is this for a “plutocracy’ W. A. Cnorror, a es Bulges for the Campaign. “Three-fourths of all the campaign badges with which the country is supplied aro manu- factured in Providence, R. I. writer for Tax Stam, “All the best of them are made in that city by manufacturers of cheap Jewelry. The cheaper badges are turned out by millions from the button works in New York All of the portrait, containing lt idanad pretend tt the i celluloid are met: also. “Tho most artistic badge iesucd thus far in the present campaign is republican—a fou leafed clover bearing on its leaves the words ‘Reciprocity,’ ‘Honest Money,’ ‘Protection’ and ‘Honest Ballot.’ The three leading repub- licsn buttons are this one, a United States in colors in enamel. and the official badge of the Leaguo of Republican Clubs, in white enamel and gold, with a flag and ‘the lottors ‘R. L. “‘A popular democratic button is covered with red silk, bearing a blue horseshoe and the name ‘Cleveland.’ Another is red, with a flag in the center, and a third is of black silk, with the words ‘Tariff Reform’ and ‘Sound Money’ on it, accompanied by the Cleveland moni Grandfnther s hats for both badges aud buttons | ¢) are in great favor. ‘The badges, which are made to imitate ‘gold; are manufactured in Masa- chusett lag buttons anc are in mai ttylen. ‘They slwayy sell walle a read aerate Oscar Wil Little Joke. Oscar Wilde does not appear to have lost his nimble wit. Atadinner party in London the other Aight the coffee had been sipped and the men were becoming weary of the tardiness in bringing on the cigarettes. Suddenly some one remarked that a lamp was smoking. “Happy claimed Oscar, and the hostess took An Inauspicious Debut. PRET et Cit editor (to new reporter)—!‘Now, you interview Congressman Doolittle, do: timid—approach him with an air of familiar nature—that's the way to catch those we!” ‘BAVAL RESERVES aT ROSTON—TWO SHAM RAT- TLES rouenT WiTa GREAT EBCLAT—THE ‘the wrath of socialists and ansrehists. Brice is |, OTFICERS AND RESERVES BOsritaBLY EXTER . Yous, July 15, 1892. ‘The famous “‘white “squadron” is no longer the proud fleot of eight vewsels that skirted the | ‘New England coast frum New York to Bar Har- dor last gummer, with ite princely receptions ‘mall the .cities of the coast, its evolutionary ‘Grills and crowds of interested and often inter- esting vimtors. All that remains of thie fleet is the Chicago, with Admiral Walker's flag at the have just returned from the week's drill of the Massach: owed conclusively that the |} and "then had certainly and benefited themselves by last vear's exer- cises with tho white squadron. This old monitor Passaic, carrving her six- from and shell at Fort Fisher in 1863, was taken up from Annapolis ‘their dis This old vessel and sad tae receiving ‘ship wvided ample quarters for the 260 A’ afTack oO% THE Navy YARD. During the week each day was spent in Grilling aboard the ships of Admiral Walker's | and Commander Soley’ Just as the darkness 2 to hide the boats | the piers and turn ‘blue harbor water | v black the boats of the Chicago were lowered into the water, ata signal of five red | and ‘white lighte from the flagship, Gatlin Ins anc lotchkiss guns were quickly mounted SIAC nk ee tea | Ootinmeny tote beoaake semennen d ray with outlases. pistols and rifles, filed into the boats and took their n places at the gars, and a few minutes later a/ ll of his relatives, The girls assomble and signal from the Atlanta announced that all was ready. As the boats shoved off from the ships +] and started on their two-mile pull uj the guns of the Wabash and Pasraic and charge after charge of powder . to keep up the delasion, Ray en tl ts were well up the river ; s icago and Atl.uta opened fire with their bat- | enter and find themselves confronted by throe ved the dull seo <2 Roemginns! a jed with the sharp crack of t fase guns gud mais a roles that | panion then retire, and, having heaped snow oM@ Boston and rattled the win-| Upon their heads and xhoulders, they return lows of some of her old buildings that may | into the house saying that they have been have scen a real fight there 117 years ago where | unable to endure the severity of the snow stately old Bunker Hill monument now stands, | Stoym outside, Neverthcless they are turned | The boats pulled up to within a few yards of | Ott a second time, but on returning once the chips ‘and were met by a brisk small-arm | again they are permitted to stay and are given nt) | seats of honor. after having bowed to every one k to | Present. The bride's friends offer wine. and side rifles min, fire that (by the preconcerted arran repulsed them, and they pushed sad! their ships. Of course even as a battle was an improbable affair, for after a few minutes’ fire from yundror avery small force wo! ing the Wabash and Paseaic. A LAND BATTLE AT DEER ISLAND. The second conflict was a Ind battle at Deer £ Island, outside’ of Boston harbor. The re-| icing her veil, takes look at her face. Pres- serves held the island with infentry and light | ently steamed down the har- | have no trouble in artillery, and the shi bor and ‘anchored off the islan infantry and artillery, the Soon all was ready—for a moment four va- rious colored signal flags streamed out from their halliards on the Chicago's topsail yard- arm, and the command “Give w: went down the line of boats, while a little red and white pennant waved from each boat to show a aoa Balled steadily for the shore and the cago and Atlanté opened fire with their broadsides to clear the beach of the enemy. When near the beach the light artillery in the bows of the boats opened fire and the reserves retreated back of the sand hills on the beach. The boats pulled swiftly in, the “blue jackets’ jumped into the water, knee deep, and, wading in, quickly formtd a ekirmish line on the shore, ashore to cover the tie started up the bluffs back of, the water front. In f Tas line of batt fe lirley en lefeated Com- and barren fens ees Thus brought to opposing. parade and returned to the ships, which steamed back to Boston under the admiring ¢yes of hundreds of yachtamen and excursioniste. Another day was given to target practice, the reserves manning the guns and doing some excellent target shooting for novices. A BALL AND RECEPTION. When the drills were over the officers and men of the reserves gave a ball and reception to the officers of the squadron on the Wabash, w y one not accustomed to p Vife—the girls thought “it was too sweet thing,” the naval officers felt that they cen well treated and the reserves knew hind done the “right thing at the right tim . The last day the citizens of Boston ‘gave a 1’ Hull to the oficers and men of the naval reserves and white squadron. The parade before the dinner extended from the navy yard in Charleston and old South Charch and the Commons to Mechanics’ Hall. In most cities and coast towns visited by the government juadrons the officers are toasted and feasted, je the “bine jackets” go unnoticed alto- gether, but it {s a relief to see that the Boston banquet was given to all alike, and though they | are often accused of being h T can say that every one in the big crowd of “blue jackets” that partook of the banquet was dignified and was an honor to the “navy blue” he wore. ‘The neatness of the men’s clothing was especig!ly commented upon. THE OLD NEW HAMPSHIRE. The squadron left Boston on dast Sunday, the Atlanta going to New London to convoy the old receiving ship New Hampshire to New York, to be used as quarter. for the 400 men of the New York naval reserves during next week. The old ship was long since dismantled and roofed over and was used for several ip for bovsat N e was taken to New the dock at the naval station, but little or no use was inade of her there. ‘She was built in 1818 and saw service in { as the training Two years ago and moored to Mexican war and bellio: An officer of the Atlanta, as he viewed the New Hampihi decks” above the water, enterprising person would purchase her and, summer resort hotel, anchor pihire towering “four suggested press each other's cheeks ‘The "a rela- ves are asked to assemble at the house of the bride on the nextday and the second day's “On the third day the father of the girl pre- pares a feast in his house, to which he invites weep with the bride, whose and eyes they cover with a veil. Whon the relatives and demanded river | friends of the groom arrive money fe the | of them at the door, and this being paid accord- ing to the circumstances of the groom a second demand for money is addressed to them at the inner door. Payment having been they of the girl's relatives, who ask them to leave the house at once. The groom and bis com- eating and drinking continue all through the day, the girland her female friends not par- heavy guns | ticipating in any of the festivities, but contin- uing to weep in the corner occupied by them. Eating and drinking being finished, all of the year would be indeed « paradise. I am ensured that they are troublesome only when the breeze brings them from the inland marshes. Certainly the wind seems often to come from ‘that quarter, but my own belief is that the it isapt t do, about sunset, Scarcely bad it Tulled when dense columns of mosquitoes rose Upon audibly whirring wings from grass and | other shelters and moved in the direction of the }town. Tecan state from my own expericnce of resent bow and rub noses, complete confidence Exting been established on beth sides ‘The room then takes a seat next to the bride and, ¢ rises and leaver, and the same cere- mony is repeated by the young man’s father, mother and friends. They then address the * crews tanned | young woman's father, saving, ‘Have we now t the boats that extended in 2 long line parallel | received this girl from you?’ To which he re- | STUctive to the objectionable culicids. Nowa- to the shore, with the boats of the hospital corps, fying the ‘‘red cross of Geneva,” a plies, *You have, indeed. Now, do as you Shything you choces, Tha er for anything you choose. e no longer any power over my daughter.’ The at tempt to dress the bride in her trav cos- tume, beginning by taking off the clothes which she has worn in her father's house. However, the bride makes this task difficult b: kicking, jumping and shrieking, so that are finally «bli to dress her by forpe, pat- ag on her a veil, which she rust wear until after she has arrived at her destine- tion. Two of her girl friends then con- Snot hee te the reladosr clsigh, in whieh han si- ready been stowed her personal property. Wrapping her ina blanket they fasten her se- curely in the i Joa! home the bride is conduc’ dwelling. The loaf of bread is taken by the groom's mother, who throws it into the house- saying, “Here thou shalt be mistress!” Spay ater a Lathe and Dyed. “Celivloid has altogether superseded ivory as ‘© material for pool balls,” seid « manufacturer toaSrar writer. “A set of sixteen celluloid balls will outwear three or four sets of ivory and they cost only $25, whereas you cannot buy sixteen good ivory balls for less than $115. The condition of the atmosphere which causes the ivory balis to shrink and swell and crack just as | if they were made of wood has no effect upon the éelluloid. “Of course you know that celluloid is a mix- ture of gun cotton and camphor. Nafurally it would be yellow, but zine white is put in to | make it white. After the ingredients have been properly mingled with the aid of steam heat the celluloid is pressed into blocks which are a | little bigger than the balls that are to be made. | In order to render them as hard as possible the | material is subjected toa pressure of 300 tons | foreach ball. Next the blocks are turned in lnthe to perfect spheres of precisely the diame- ter required by means of knives which work eutomatically and cannot cut bevond a certain distance from the center of each ball. “When this has been done the perfect of celluloid are ready to be dyed in various col- ors: For this purpose they are dipped and al- parte colored being protected by means of little cups of brass ingeniously fastened upon the balis, “In. the plain balla of red, bine" gresn, purpleand yellow only the round spot where the number is to go needs to be covered, but in the treatment of the striped balls the matter is not so easy. After they have been fished out of the pots the dyed ballsare puton a lathe and made to revolve rapidly, while fine sand- keen knife, manipulated by hand, removes from them the thinnest conceiv- able shaving all over, which does not tike off ‘THE NEW YORK RESERVES. On tomorrow the New York naval reserves spheres | hensive scale over the sandy plain and bogs of is delicately a) 0 as to smooth their | %° Farfaces. “ FLIES TO PREY UPON THE Viclobs INBEOTS— SPIDERS AS MOSQUITO KILLERS. Ox rae Jenser Suomn. July 20, 1892. ANNOT SOMETHING BE DONE TO insects are never far away. ‘Yesterday afternoon there was « brisk sea Dreeze and I took advantage of the absence of mosquitoes to indulge in « stroll to the south- ward of the town. What was my astonishment, on extending my walk a little way inland, to find the coarse grass filled with ferce and pes- tiferous hordes, while on the lee side of the sand hills the limbs of stunted trees and otber objects which afforded a hold for clinging were actually swarming with millions on millions of them. It was near evening and the sea breeze fell, as few hours later that they got there. This “land breeze” notion is = palpable delusion. The fact is that mosquitoes cannot #tay in the air when the wind blows strongly from any direc- tion, and, inasmuch as the mea breeze is usually vigorous, they lie low while it provails, All the same, they are never far away. When the wind is blowing off the ocean and all is Pour | peaceful on the Jersey shore their myriad hosts are simply Iving i it, ready to descend upon the hapless summer visitors who come hither for rest and recreat At night, whe the breeze fails, they make human existence a torture with their ere & price in blood for my own part I have in the gallinipper, which i alifgod to make ite moc- furnal Might with a brick under ite wing for sharpening its beak. Nor is there any faith to be had in the existence: the so-called “twin- screw mosquito,” with a bill at each endo | However, the culicid of reality is hogrible enough. PRIZE POR A MOSQUITO KILLER, Tt is not long since a philanthropic gentle- man, Dr. Robert H. Lamborn, offered » prize of $150 for the best suggestion as to bow to rear Aragon flies artificially for the purpose of de- stroving mosquitoes. Everybody knows that dragon flies are great enemies of mo ‘One may often seo them flying through the air and making swift grabs this way and that, every grab meaning the death of = mosquito. "A sci- entific friend ‘axlungton told me that be had on one occasion swept up nearly @ bushel of moxquitocorpmes from windows in the don the lee side of a «mall stagnant pond on ‘The stagnant water produced great numbers both of mosquitoes and the latter bn the wind and the mosquitoes wi + they rose, «ucking the from their bodies aud throwing their vie~ time away Tecan believe even so “tall” # mosquil as that because I have seeu mosquitoes my in numbers to which the plague of the Jersey shore is as nothing. It certainly did seem @ very plausible suggestion that mosquito-breed- ing waters might be stocked with artificially dragon fly larve with results very de- days entomologists are doing great deal of work in the hne of propagating harmless insects to prey upon hostile ones. Why not the fume methods be applied to this mosf numer- ous and widely distributed of all winged foes of mankind, the house fiy alone et fortunatdly there soem to be iny the dragon fly requires nearly a year for ite de- Felopment, while mosquitoos will bi ds of generations in « summer. TRE DRAGON FLY'S METAMORIHOSTE, The larve of the dragon flies are very ugly ‘and fierce-looking worms. You can obtaly some for examination by going to any stagnast Pool and raking from its bottom « «mall quap- tity of slimy weeds and mud, in which the creatures will usually be found crawling. They would be of no use ut this stage of their being for destroying the larv® of mosquitoos, because they prefer other things to eat and are partion: larly fond of gol ‘one another. ‘This latter trait would render it exceedingly difficult w breed them by artifice. It ia ng things im to behold one of these horridd: the act of being metamorphosed. When the time comes for it to undergo that process is climbs up on a dry stalk outof the water, ite back pen and out steps» beautifal winged creature, with gauzy wings and brilliant hues, for all the world like « transformed in the Arabian Nighte under the ae beneficent fairy. Another trouble with dragon fies as catchers is that it would not be possible to de pthem. They would not stay in the d capture the game, but would @y away assoon as they were wot at liberty to the nearest marsh or pond. Then again, they dy not fly at night, when the mosquitoes are most fond of going abroad, so that the nocturnal depredations of the latter would not be inter= fered with by them. But the main point agatuat the project suggested is found im the fact that the mosguitoes breed everywhere, each little puddle of stagnant water contributing to their countioss hosts. . The only practicable method for their general destruction suggested by any of the contestants for Dr. Lemborn's prize wae to drain all the mendows and swamps, fill the stagnant pools end level rain-holding jows near dwellings. Even auch processes hardly be successfully carried out on compre: New Jersey, slightly elevated as they are above the level of the sea. ‘MOSQUITOES 48 TROUT KILLERS. ‘Thus it is to be feared that the Jersey shore will always be a favorite haunt of these abomi -