Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1893, Page 12

LOCKY MOUN FOR THE WORLD 'SF AI An Exhibition to Be Made at Chicago | by the National Museum. \ ALMOST 4 ANTMALS EXTINOT. To Be Stuffed and Mounted With Natural | Sarroandings —Specimens of Sea Otter, Wairas, Rocky Mountain Antelope, Cari- don, Bc. ae if in Life—How the Work is Done. * FEATURE OF THE Natfonal Museum's ex- hibit at the world’s fair will be ao ser of stuffed and specimens of species which appear to be on We the verge of extinction SS Most remarkable among them will be a sen otter believed to be the Bo only perfect preserved hat carious For nt has been trving to PO eg exmmple of t ne scat thirty vears the govern secure « perfect skin, aud to that end thowsands have been examined vainly The difficulty is | that the Alaska: natives not only distort the | Bides in preparing them for market, but, in | ebedience to an odd sn) ther bite off the nose of each beast before fiaring {t ft happens that no museam im the # (et rcimen The aseum at the ceaten Beither nose nor ence. ossenaed p with } al exposition t, being patched mache. y. however, the and skin of 1» male edult sen otter fained through the Alaska Con ; Con It Will be stuffed and mounted on ar vered with seaweed. so k ne lifelike as pos- Sible. The fur of mal is the most valu eit, with the usual imper xceptionally | creature by set! ead Chernok Reservation w! he reserved an by prociams cas 8 ve survive. Hunters are ot rs now with @xplomve Another ir enly specimer hown is the nat bas ever been anted falande to cet it twas Island, whieh i from the Island of St Paul ar rock « few bundred ards long an awash There were 300 8 rock a fow yer ago: last year i now there are none f the merciless man- creature is hunted. quent the Pr ap | tantities of former e tanks This gt n Ber in which this valual Walruses ased to f fe enormous gre eb: ekulie aravevards, aneart walrus for subsistence food, its hide for fuel, ite intest goles of ite tip for nets to capt } not taste anst lettace, thoug! tent with w east is comm: Gtretchet a Th “ comple’ THE SEA ELEPHANT. Yet another nearly extinct aquatic mammal to be exhibited is the soa elephant. It was formerly found in large numbers on the coast ef California. A full-grown male attained « length of twenty-two fect, vielding 210 gallons f oll. Neither the females nor young ones pos- ges the proboscis from wich the creature gets te name, this appendage belonging only to the eduit male. These animals are entirely help- Jess, and sailors used to provision their ships With fresh meat by driving herds of them away drom the water aad sinughtering them at leis- TRE “wootr mons.” Among the interesting beasts to be chown by fhe National Museum in its exhibit of the ant mals native to this country is the Rocky moun- tain antel: This was the famous “wooly Rorse” which figured in the political songs of the Fremont campaign. It is not particularly "are, nor near extinction, but it is one of the least known of American mammals, because fhe regions which it inbabits are almost inac- qeemble. Nevertheless, it is not very alert and fo easily sbot when it can be got at. Fepresented bj group, as will also the wood- lend caribou, which is the reindeer of New- | them.” feundiand. The latter has been nearly exter- inated. Another will show the barren- caribou of ‘as varieties of the same species as the ounted | Tt will be | bis THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1893—SIXTEEN a PAGES. TAIN GOATS. imported by the government from Siberia for the benefit of the Alaskan natives. For them it is expected to supply the place of the walrus, ioasmuch as it ie the most useful animal in ex- tet ite skin serves for clothes, bedding, harness, ropes and fish lines. Its sinews dried and pounded into thread make wonderfully strong nets. Its bones are soaked in seal oil and burned for fuel. From its horns are man- 6, canmor. nfactured weapons, sleds and various house- hold implements. “The flesh is excellent meat. and a reindeer will draw a sled 150 miles » day | over snow and ice. WITH NATURAL SURROUNDINGS, | In mounting these specimens and groups mneh effort has been directed to securing the effect of the original surroundings of the ani- nature. For example, the barren- ribou stand in the midst of a piece of actual Alaskan scenery, moss, lichens and other smail plants having been brought all the way from Alaska to help out the setting. The rocks ‘ 4 the walrus is placed are copied from samples which Mr. Palmer brought home with him from Walrus Island. The counterfeit ¢ made in a very odd fashion. First, » board of any desired shape and sze is taken for the base of the rock, and around the SEA OTTER. edges of this a considerably bigger sheet of wire netting is tacked so as to form a sort of | rough cage with a wooden bottom. Over the | wire netting is roughly spread a mixture of Y nd wood fiber. This is again covered of papier mache, and_finally 1 to give the proper tint. Lichens terward if wanted. Use has | made in this work of a newly discovered | s# for preserving all sorteof grasses, ferns, | all plants and leaves. After undergoing a sort of pickling they will last indefinitely, re- taining their natural colors and flexibility. The is much more realistic than can be pro- 1 by artifice and far cheaper. Seaweeds © preserved in the same manner. intended to exhibit representatives of of as many aa possible of the ive to all America, for example, certain scarce armadillos, deer aud rat-like beasts from the south- ern ‘continent. Unfortunately, some are s0 rare as not to be obtainable, only one or two | specimens being known in the case of certain species. The mammals will form only a part of & great series which will extend from man to the ameba. a NO OTHER WAY OUT OF IT. The Doctor's Prescription Had Not to Be Shaken. From the Chicago Trftan The delicate young heiress looked thought- fully out of the window. “My caso is one that requires constant care and watchfulness, is it?” she said. “It is,” replied the young physician. “And Tam habitually carelesa of myself and likely to counteract the effect of your preserip- tions without constant oversight?” “I did not put it quite so strongly as that, but if you will pardon my saying so you have stated the situation correct . Hum—and Tam alone in the world, with no j one attached to me by ties of kindred!” she mstant watchfuiness you think my naturally strong constitutior. would rally in tume and my he h be fully restored?’ “Lam eure of it, Miss Welloph.” “Do you think I could trust myself in the care of a mere hireling whose faithfulness i be of a purely mercenary character?” 1 regret exceedingly to see # case in a I take so deep an interest—as—as a pro- man—imperiled by such a condition yet how can the difficulty be sur- it is necessary that I should be under the | ant guardianship of somebody upon whose lity and regard Lean depend with absolute ty not be answerable for the result other- watchfulness must nielligence, skill and thorough | knowledge of my ease—I presume you would right.” yet I am practically alone in the | ndsome young physician coughed iecoronsly, but said nothing, and the shadows janced up and down and to and fro on the ail, and the Maltese cat asleep on the rug got tched itself, yawned and stole softly out | the young woman, with a | nice, “you must prescribe he exclaimed, with akind ® Do you know of anybody that meets rements that such a—a guardian must ‘Yes. the re 1" he echoed, impulsively, yet hope- “Oh, yes, bu . .d trembling. In the glow of the firelight her face seemed to fush with the rosy hue of returning health already. ‘othing, Miss Welloph!” “You were about to say, doctor, that you knew of some one who could—— “I—I was about to say nothing of the kind, Miss Welloph. If—if a wild hope for a moment occurred to me—" “But no!” “Did Inot tell you, Dr. Goode, that you must prescribe for me as to this—this guar- di Yo you know, Vera Welloph,” he said, with a wild yearning in his look and voice, “what you are driving me to say?" “I think I do, doctor,” she wi ; “but —but [don't see any other way outof it, do He Had Fight of Them. jude. From Ji ‘They were talking of a rising young suthor and one of them said: “I think his ‘Tale of a Kicking Horse’ ishis masterpiece, don’t you?” “His masterpiece!” exclaimed the other, scornfully. “Yes; de you think of any better work of bus he has written at least eight of “Eight of what?” be. rE He’s no slouch of an author ‘Masterpieces. Both of these are | ¥bo’s satisfied with one.” ————— reindeer, which have been newly! up sores axe healed by Salvation Oil. SANTO DOMINGO. Something of Interest About the Haytian Republic. THE OLDEST WESTERN CITY. Interesting Account of the Discovery of the Bones of Colambus—Habits and Customs of the People—Airy Costume of the Chil- dren. aeeeetnegene a Baxto Dourxao, W. I, January —, 1893, OASTING ALONG the southern shores of the Island of Hayti the mountains rise in tier after tier from the water's edge until we get well toward the east- em end of the island, and at the mouth of the Ozama river we find a broad plain stretching from tholittie triangalar bay back to the mount- ains, and at the river's Domingo has stood ever since Bartholemew Columbus, the brother and fellow voyager of the great discoverer, founded it there in 1496 to be the metropolis of the new world; and amid its ruins and churches and houses of this the oldest city in the western hemisphere one can find so much of interest to an American, ‘especially at this date of Columbian festivities, that it would take days to sec it When Christopher Columbus found this island, which now bears the name of Hayti or San Domingo, its beautiful mountains and luxuriant valleys drained by crystal rivers | gladdened his sight and he named it Hispanola, | the new Spain, and before his return from the second vovage he directed his brother to found the capital of this new world on the island. On the east bank of the river a little chapel had been built of coral stone and shell mortar in 1494, and across the Ozama river from the littie church Bartholemew built a fort and left a garrison. During the next two years it grew and became the center of what little civiliza- | tion the western hemisphere could boast. A wall was built around the city and a fortress with a square tower guarded the entrance tothe | river. WHERE COLUMBUS WAS BURIED. It was here in 1500 that Bobadilla came from Spain to inquire into the supposed misconduct of Columbus and without trial or inquiry threw | him into prison in the fortress and thence took him to Spain in chains. The brave old admiral never returned as ‘‘Viceroy of the New World” (his rightful title), but on the return to Spein from his fourth ‘voyage in 1504 he stopped in the port for water and Provisions to find his former well-governed city a scene of riot and misrule, a resort for freebooters and reckless fortune hunters. Columbus never saw his capital again, but died in 1506 in Spain, leaving a request to be buried in Santo Do- mingo. He was first buried in the monastery of San Francisco, in Spain. then removed to the Carthusian Monastery, but it was not until 1586 that his wishes were fulfilled and his body, or rather remains. for there were only a few crumbling bones, were placed ina leaden case and removed to a vault at the left of thechancel in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, together With the remains of his son Diego, who died at Montalbian, in Spain. in 1526, Tae son Diego came ont to rule the island in 1509 with a retinue of followers and built a a grand palace at the city gate near the land- ing, and_on the hill above he built a monastery for the San Franciscian monks, the order that had ever protected and defended his father. ‘The palace was filled with gay courtiers and the city grew in wealth and importance and was nearly as large as the sleepy old town that basks in the tropical sun today. RELICS OF THE Past. The old wall still stands about the city and the fortress is still garrisoned and used as a prison. As one lands at the dock a steamer and a few schooners are loading with | sugar, which is hauled to the dock in great creaking ox carts, to which the oxen are hitched, not from a yoke as in our own country, but by thongs passed around the base of their horns. Through an arched gateway in the old city wall the road leads up to the city. At the right stands the time-blackened ruins of Diego Colon’s palace with its arched windows and crumbling pillars, while on its walls some of the original fresco painting shows dimly through the dust of four centuries of the tiling that were once PRESIDENF HIPPOLYTE OF HAYTI. nobility and beanty of the Spanish colonists may be found in the protected corners, The road winds up the hill where an old market place is filled with fat old black women and mulatto girls selling oranges, Lananas, limes and pineapples, the leaves of the cabbage paim and muleteer bringing in droves of energetic little donkeys so overioaded with the produce of the country that all one can see of them is four thin legs beneath anda pair of long oars wagging above. Under the care of Mr. Dur- ham, the United States minister to Hayti and San Domingo, a party of us visited the scenes of interest inthe old city. Going first to the ruins of the old San Franci«cian Monastry we walked through the chapels and courts, the roofs of which had long since decayed except where they were of concrete arched domes, which still show the cornices and groined arches. In the main chapel the sides and ends still stand, with the rank tropical vegetation covering it growing from the crumbling walls, while above, where the altar once stood, a part of the grand dome still hangs, with little to support it save the vines and clinging roots that twist around the stones, helping time to hide the work of past centuries. NOW AN ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. A part of the old monastery has been rebuilt and serves today as an asylum for the insane, and here behind strong iron bars in damp con- crete celis, with little but a picce of old can- vas to cover them, a few chattering wretches are waiting for death, for in such a place re- covery cannot come and it might well be said ‘Who enter here leave hope behind.” But the ‘ruling passion seems strong,” even after the mind is gone, for many of the poor wretches held out their’ hands begging for money, and grimaced and bowed and chattered the same whether they received it or not. From this noisome asylum we take our way through the principal street to the plaza, where stands the cathedral where Christopher Colum- bus’ bones were buried. Along the way we have a good opportunity to observe the people as they crowd the street selling and buying or lazily strolling in the sun. Here is one of the characteristic figures of all the Antilles, an old negro woman, arrayed in gaudy colors, trudg- ing along with » basket of fruit on her head, tly not paying the slightest attention to keeping it there, yet not a single rolls off in the gutters, little fat native babies mouth the quaint old Spanish city of Santo | ——— that! down on the outside of the church. where biack-robed priests have marched along through the centuries while the chimes Yang out on the tropical air. In 1795, at the clove of the war France and 8 the latter country ceded the Island of or San Domingo to the French and the an thorities decided that it would be to re- move the bones of Columbus tosome 5} ial and rather than let them remain under the Frenck. flag. So it was decided to remove them to the cathedral in Havana; accordingly # Spanish fleet proceeded to Santo Domingo and amid of the chancel and a small leaden casket, con- taining a few bones sup to be those of Columbus (the Great), was taken out and con- veyed to Havana, where it was buried in the ‘that these were the bones of the great discov- erer until 1877, when it became necessary to re- pair the old cathedral at Santo Domingo, when, right by the side of the vault from which th supposed remains of Christopher Columbus had been removed, a second little vault was found containing a time-molded leaden casket similar to the one that had been removed. On the ex- terior was the inscription ‘“D. de la 8. Per. | Ate,” while the interior bore the incription, “tre. y Es do Varon Dn. Cristoval Colon, which. when freely translated, is, “To the illus- rious and esteemed Baron Don Christopher Co- jumbus THE REAL BONES PRESERVED. Surprised at this wonderful discovery the Catholic fathers present informed the suthori- ties, who immediately summoned all the repre- sentatives of foreign countries, who after a careful examination took an oath that, to the best of their knowledge, these were the remains of Christopher Colnmbus, while the Spaniards in 1795 had by mistake removed to Havana the reniains of the son, Diego Colon. The leaden casket was then placed in @ glass case, carefully sealed with the consular seals of Eng- land, Germany, Spain, Italy, the United States and several South American states. This case was then placed ina vault in the cathedral, locked with three separate keys, one held by the bishop, one by the ministry and one by the city authorities. Our party visited the cathedral and witnessed the ceremony of bringing out the casket. The | three representatives, of the church, state and city, were present with their heavy iron kes and s few natives peered curiously in the doors, |in gold and placed it on a table in the center |of the church, and here we were allowed to | view the remains, afew crumbling pieces of moldy ‘end blackened leaden box, about eighteen by ten by eight inches, In the box with the bones was found a small iron bell similar to the musket balls of that periord, but how it got there is a mystery, as there is no | record of Columbus ever having been wounded. The vault in the stone at the left of the chancel rail is still left open, as it was found, and over ita marble slab bears the inscription in Span- ish around the arms of Columbus, Resting in this vault are the remains of Don Christopher Columbus, the celebrated discoverer of the new world, since the year 1536, when they were re- moved here from Spain, and they remained here until the 10th of September, 1877, when they were removed to establish their identity and Place ‘them in a place of safety to keep them for posterity, under the protection of the chureh and state.” In front of the old cathedral there is an ex- cellent statue of Columbus erected in 1885 and made in Italy. A DUPLICATE OF THE CROSS, In the cathedral there is an old wooden cross said to be the original cross erected by the San Franciscan monks over the first church on the island in 1494. ‘The original was sent to the Columbian centennial in Spain and an accurate copy has been made to send to the Chicago ex- yosition, and in the alcoves and chapels some of the Spanish nobles are buried, who came over in the fifteenth century to start anew world, while on the walis uré pictures of the saints, many of them the work of famous old masters: [am told that the priests have great influence over the common clases among the people, and that they are very superstitions in the exercise of their religion, but owing to the large percentage of Spanith’ blood in the re- public the “voodouism” and snake worship so commonly attributed to the Haytians has no foothold in Santo Domingo. In many of tho jewelry stores little silver arms, lege, eves and even babies are for sale. ‘These are known as “‘millagros” and are hung by the people before the shrine of their patron saint in token of a prayer for whatevor they may represent. THE WATTIAN SOLDIERS. From the church we went to the old fort in the angle of the wall at the river's mouth and found amid the ruins of the old civilization and the dirt of the new a few lazy-looking negro soldiers, barefooted and in a ehiftless attempt at uniform, armed with old Remington rifles, Whose bright work was sadly neglected. But these fellows, lazy and poorly attired as they may seem, can dices ep like a pageant o's fete day and follow the brass bands through the rough streets of the old city; or in the battle field they can strip to the waist and fight like demons. The ruins of the old walls and forts form picturesque scenes, and here and there the mark of shot shows where Sir Francis Drake bombarded the town in 1580, but amid it all the old towered fortress still stands, and in the very room where Columbus was’ thrown in irons four political prisoners, guilty princi- pally of the crime of being unsuccessful in op- Posing the powers that be, are held in chains. An earthquake, which split the cliffs into great boldera and sent a tidal wave over the lowlands, destroyed many of the. ancient land- marks, but left uninjured the old fortress, the first church on the hill across the river and the cathedral where the bones of Columbus rest. Beside the cathedral there are three other Catholic churches in the city, two of which ante-date the cathedral, but one of them is used chiefly as a home for the infirm, the church and monastery of Saint Andrew. CHANGES IN THE GOVERNMENT. The government of the eastern end of the island, known as Santo Domingo, has under- gone a great many vicissitudes since the inde- pendence of France was declared in 1301, going afterward under the Spanish flag and then be- coming independent again, then passing through a seriers of hostilities with the Hayti- ans at the other end of the island, until now it is a sort of semi-republic with a legislature and a president to be elected every four years and not to be his own successor, although the present incumbent has held the office for over twelve years. Gen. Henreaux, the president, is a man of strong judgement and great personal force, and by ® liberal use of his quick, keer perception he has thwarted the many intrigues that have arisen against him and set an exam- ple to others by throwing the leader in chains wt once. He is a brave fighter and has always led his troops in battle bareheaded and barefooted, stripped to the waist and with a naked saber in his hand. His spies and secret service extend over the country and nothing occurs that is not reported to him. ‘The army, the basis of his power, consists of a few thou- sand tried and trusted ‘troops, ready to follow him any place, while the navy comprises one one thousand ton vessel, with no battery, used asa pleasure yacht by ‘the president. At one time five of his officers entered into a plot to assassinate him, but he shot three of them and captured the others, receiving at the saine time @ wound in the arm which left him a cripple. FEELING AGAINST HIPPOLYTE, There is a strong feeling of opposition to him and only a few days ago his body was burned in effigy and another effigy of him was found with wooden daggers stuck in it. The presi- dent is very friendly tv American interests and the citizens of the United States engaged in business on the island find bim courteous and fair-minded. There are several immense sugar lantations near the city managed by United Biatos citizens, anda firm of New York capi- talists are erecting a brewery near the city. I found all of these gentlemen most courteous f i nes ee an imposing ceremonies the first vault at the left | cathedral with imposing rites. Noone doubted | | while a priest brought out a cloth embroidered | have been sold as Deas If native or Spanish zeal and energy is to be depended upon the city has had its day, for they are a lazy lot, satisfied with li in their morals and too fond of rest, and soon allowed the stricter Puritan to distance them in the race for power and wealth. The Valencia, a ship of the “Red D” line, by a number of New York people for s cruise in the West Indies, mostly capitaliste, Foe ia the harbor at the mouh of the while her gers enjoy riding an driving over the Teinnd Sua abse} the bistorie town, but the populace eye them with distrust, for they fear the encroachment of outside eapi- | tal is a danger to their independence; but an- nexation is in any case highly improbable, for | the people of the isiand, with their political in- trigues and love of plots, would scarcely bi desirable adjunct to any republican govern- ment. After a ride across the country, through groves of palms and bananas, and a visit toa Sugar estate owned by a genial old American, who has spent most of his life among the Antilles, we left the island, gratified at having seen the landmarks of the early discoverers, but more gratified to know that a far more vigor- ous people had settled the new world to the northward. Drox Wittiame. pm ats: DEVILS LOOSE IN THE HOLD. A British Skipper’s Yarn Goes Hugo Sev- eral Better. From the New York Sun. This story may recall to the reader a cele- brated chapter in French fiction from the mas- | ter pen of Victor Hugo, which tells how a can- | Non on boarda little ship manned by half- | savage Vendeeans got loose in agale and came | near wrecking the ship before it was secured. | Hugo endows the cannon with the fierce in- stinct of a living monster. Capt. Creeden of the steamship Elsie, like the true Briton that he is, scorns to read anything | except standard English writers who know the forecastle head from a marlinspike, but he de- clared yesterday that the big spare propeller, jieces stolen from the box weightier than Hugo's cannon, that broke from ite lashings on the Elsie seemed to have threegr four devils in it. It is the habit of every well-regulated tramp steamship to carry usually between decks, aft, a spare propeller anda tail shaft, which is that section of the shaft nearest to the propeller. These extra pieces o; machinery may be put in place by the engineers of the ship in almost any port. ‘The extra tail shaft of tho Elsie, weighing ever four tons, and the spare propeller, weigh ing about two tons, were lashed between decks aft in the ship, which was m ballast. Capt. Creeden says they were made fast in the most approved sailor fashion, and would have stood y strain except the altogether abnormal and | unexpected one they were subjected to on Wednesday last. The Elsio is from St. Cape Verde Islands, and she had a fi until she reached the latitute of frost. Creeden was in his berth at 3 o'clock last | Wednesday morning trying to get a few winks. A frigid gale was howling out of the northwest and every bit of spray that struck the ship froze instantly, weighting her weather bow with two feet of ice.’ She rolled deep in the seas and every movable thing on her decks was carried away. Capt. Creeden was awakened by a thunder-like rumbling aft. The mate rushed forward and reported that the spare propeller had got loose. ‘The little skipper summoned every one of the crew except the helmsman, and flew to the after hatch and scrambled down the Ind- der. He says the ship when she rolled went over toan angle of 65° from the perpendicular. The compartment where the propeller got loose was only dimly lighted. When the skipper re- covered his equilibrium he descried what seemed to be several propellers. whirling and curving like gigantic bats about the hold. He also saw that there were two big holes, one in each quarter, through which the seas gashed whenever the ship weyt on her side. Nota man dared at first to venture within the space where the huge pieces of iron tore about. They were the propeller blades, all smashed from the hub except one. That’ was the most dangerous, Ten men in all were in the hold watching their chances with pieces of scantling and lasaoes to intercept the destructive carter of the broken blades. There were many close shaves. One by one, by the sudden placing of alever or the dexterous use of n noose, all save the blade attached to the hub were ‘secured. ‘That one seemed to have a positive genius for dodging, and a terribly earnest desire to crush the adventuresome cailorman who tried to get a lever under it or a inseo around it, It resisted all the efforts to make it fast of the men, who sometimes were thrown by the wild motion of the ship into tangled heaps. It was like a propeller that had an invisible engine at- tached to it. While it was flying and pounding fore and aft and athwart the held Capt. Creeden saw the ponderous extra tail shaft tremble and move. Ho knew if that massive cylinder snapped its lashings nothing could prevent it smashing the bottom out of the ship. Bo ro- gardless of the danger from the flying propeller Diade ali hands were called to secured the ti shaft, ‘The skipper himself was the first man toadvance upon the shaft. It had begun to roll. He shoved one endof a piece of seantling under itand braced the other end against a dock beam above. Simultaneously a sailor had gota heavy hawser noosed about one end of the shaft. Just then the propeller blade made the work of tho imperiled sailors compara- tively safe. It secured itself by punching a two-foot hole in the starboard quarter and sticking there. The hub was stuck inside on the deck, and the blade protruded like a wing from the heel of Mercury, outside the hull. The fight with the blades and the tail shaft had been so hot that the men hardly knew that the ship was in danger of being swamped by the seas that camo through the gashes in her quarters. ‘The skipper mopped tho perspiration from his forehead and with his men began stopping up the holes. Burlaps, dunnage and tarpaulin were jammed into them. ‘The skipper feared some of the dunnage, which persisted in work- ing out of the holes,’ might foul the propeller and break tho blades, but he had to take the chancea on that. ‘The gale moderated and the seas went down that day, and mighty glad the skipper was to see the lights of the Delaware Breakwater. He came from that ice-bound | haven yesterday with the propeller blade still sticking from ‘the starboard quarter. ‘The Elsie will go in dry dock, and Donald Mo- Neil & Bro. will fix her up. ———~e+. The Climate of Nebraska, From the Seattte Post-Intelligencer. 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ORDER FOR SAMPLE. pleasure to SATISFY the ON nate that G AFFLI band © ar plan of sendine es tan TED PERSONS BEYOND X BELT suitable in every way foF jo of Belt is sent by return mail, secure from observation, to every ailing person on receipt of It may also be had on application by letter. (ENCLOSE THIS ORDER WITH NAME AND ADDRESS IN FULL.) Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., 172 Race St., Cincinnati, Ohio Send Me by Mail, without Charge, » Sample of the Pulvermacher Electric Belt, as proposed by you. MAME, WITH THE S4MPLE WE MAIL A COPY OF CONTAINING FULL PARTICULAKS OF TH! 7 > OUR ILLLSTRATED PA MPHL NOTED CURATIVE APPLIA’ OF 112 Pages, nES. Address PULVERMACHER GALVANIC CO, 172 Race St, Cincinnati, Ohio G@rPreserve the above “ORDER FOR SAMPLE” or apply NOW, while you have our address before you, only occasionally. as tds appears in the papers MY PARTNERS Rose Ayscough in **The Idler.” ‘There are ten distinct types of dancing men, one who can danceand nine who can’t—at least, [have met only nine as yet. The one who can is generally to be found in the supper room, the nine who can’t are indefatigable and never missa single item. First among them, then, is the conscientions partner. Dancing with him is a sort of religious rite, not to be slurred over. If he misses astep he is un- happy until he has managed to make up for it by crowding an extra one in. ‘Then there is the “smaLt we?” middle-aged man, very much out of condition, who has been told by his doctor thathe is getting too stout. This gentleman takes it as an exer- cise, and takes good care that it is an exercise. He reckons to lose from half-a-pound weight to three-quarters over a polka, You lose half your dress and most of your hairpins, to say nothing of your temper. Next comes the man who has just learnt “waltzing in six lessons” (for a guinea paid in advance). This man kicks you the edge of a cyclone that four blocks away leveled a three-story brick building to the ground; had a hat that I never saw again taken off my head by a Nebraska zephyr; seen a man picked up on the street in Lincoln by the wind and slapped down on the sidewalk like a shingle; seen plate-glass windows smashed in (not blown out) by the wind, and seen from ‘our office window the second and third stories of a brick building knocked off from the first ito the street by the same oye I have known lightning to strike in @ dozen places within a half mile of me within half an hour. I have seen thunder showers the last day of December and snow storms the last day of May. home with summer ¢! ‘on and no over- coat at 9 o'clock at night, while the people were sitting out of doors on the and have frozen my Seon ‘and ears at 8 o'clock the next morning while walking two blocks to breakfast. Ihave seen the mercury at 46 de- below zero in winter and 113 the shade) above (in the summer). I have in July thirteen days and ta of hot wind, during which the mercury ‘not go 100, and in which corn fields agement 4 ave Ha] seventy-five bushels to worthlessness. Since Raciss Hee “CHE CONSCIENTIOUS DANCER.” steadily round the room, and then remarks, with a cheerful smile, that he doesn’t think our step agrees with his; you ord to a seat, wishing that crinolines never gone out of fashion. Then there is the anxious, silent partner, who never opens his mouth from the to dete ote and. All the Mine he ei 8 eta looks where he's going. ‘this one = res eee Prolonged tour apology. soulagh? stforusaabie partner man who hugs you, holding you so tight that you can scarcely breathe. You naturally struggle to | release yourself a little, wherenpon he exerts { “TAKES IT AS AX EXERCISE.” himsclf to retain you still closer. ‘The impres- 'o be equally avoided is the man who | doesn't hold you at all, but who keeps you at j arm's length and walks round you; as also the man who lifts you up and carries you round, talking soothingly to you the while. With the “THE PARTNER WHO WALKS ROUND Yo! i boy who thinks dancing slow, and who there- | fore seeks to put some life into it on his own | account, one is liable to feel more amused and less angry than one ought to be. For a while, Wearing an expression of bored contempt for the whole proceedings, he spins you round in dignified silence. Suddenly hi ind y he whispers, upset old Jenkins,” and the i: r s e i | é i i, i ; i F z ; iH? i He i i % | | i Hi F L E studs, with bas ru ed to the observer is that you are, From the Chicago News Kecord’s Geneva Letter Almost twenty-seven years ago Mme. Marte Goegg began a career of work for women that has carried her over thousands of miles in ell sorts of weather and among all kinds of people. Mme. Googg isa Genovese by birth, educe- tion and residence. It was in Geneva, back im 1866, that there appeared ber brave litle news Paper, L+ Journai des Dames. Now Le Jour nai des Dames might be a publication of faxb- jon, of elegant employments, or of # certain clase of literature. As it was, its character took the staid Genevese by surprise, for with- out the slighest reserve it announced ite ob- ject—““the emancipation of women through the bestowal of legal nghts and privileges.” The little publication was sent out and in returm there came from the countries all about gibes and sneers and criticisms on what the people Were pleased tocall “the quixotiam of fanatie ” The political journals opened batteries against the “womau's paper. Weekly aud almost daily Mme. Googg received letters, some Signed, some anonymous and of ominous im- | port, menacing her work. But though “the winds blew and the raius fell” the small structure remained intact. Le Journal des Dames grew and extended and ei | Panded and circulated widely in the countries | where it had been most defamed. Before long Mine. Goegg learned with delight and astonishment of the movement started ta America almost simultaneously with ber own effort, and letters were freely exchanged be- tween herself and the American pioneors, It Was another proof that the spiriteof great move- menis “go in the air.” Soon after this an international society for Women was established, with its headquarters in Geneva, and with Mine, Goegg as its prea dent, and Le Journal des Dames opened ite columns to fearless eontributions from the members throughout Europe. The little journal and the far-s ng sock ety became such powers in the land that soon there sprang from them others. Within « decade regularly constituted societies of Women were recognized and honored in France, Italy, Germany, and in at least half a dozen other countries, In 1867 from Geneva the platform of ano! great movement was k In 1868 « conference Of the league was held Berne, and to this yy conference went Mme. if i i AH i F lt it ; i : ! { i i i uf : tal Hi I ii z i if bf Ted i i