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16 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1893-KIGHTEEN PAGES. TALES OF THE PACIFIC Features of Western Cities From Seattle to Los Angeles. RICHEST CITY OF THE WEST. ‘Western Clubs and Club Life—The Big ‘Western Newspapers and the Money ‘They Make—California’s New Senator — Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest. ——_>—_—__ Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. Los AxoniEs, Cat., June 5, 1898. IrdIN| THE PAST three weeks I have trav- eied almost the whole length of our Pacific slope. {visited Tacoma | and Seattle, the future | great seaports of | the northwest, 8 month ago, and now, amid the orange groves nearly 1,500 milessouth- ward, I write from the metropolis of the South- ern Pacific, the boom- ing town of Los Angeles. You people of the rest of the United States cannot understand how these cities of the west spring into being. You imagine them crude, and you look upon their people as semi-barbarians. ‘The truth is, the center of real culture today is in the west, it already has s 75,000. Its banks are no’ and they represent a business of $20,000,000 a ye, the wholesale and jobbing trade of ity foots up more than one hundred mil- Hon. looks more like an eastern than 8 western, Its houses are older. Its streets are wide and well payed and its business men HUNTING IX MONTANA. have the substantial fronts on their as well as their houses which are indications of prosperity. The state of Oregon, as you will fee from its world’s fair exhibit at Chicago, has become oue of the great farming states of the Union, and Portland ciaims the whole state as her meat. She has water lines and railway Mines which reach to every corner of it, and traveling over Oregon is like travel in Massa- ehusetts—toreach any } pe the one youhave to find Boston and in the other you have to go to Portland to start. SAN FRANCISCO AND ITS DIAMONDS San Francisco, which other parts of the coun- try state is bound to suffer by the growth of ‘the cities on the Pacific slope above and below 4t, has as yet not changed its pace. There: is more life in it today than in any other city of the Union except New York or Chicago and its le rush as rapidly along as ever. They are e no people in the United States and they are among the most cosmopolitan people in the world. ‘The greed of gold still sticks to them, but they do their business in a royal way. They don’t like greenbacks, and gold is the common currency of the Pacific. You get little service of any kind for less than a quarter and you ean’t offer a beggar less than anickel. Pennies won't buy anything but postege stamps and it costs you a quarter to get ashave. San Fran- cisco dresses more gaily than any other town in the Union. Every young business man has ‘ereases in his pantaloons and almost all wear diamond studs. The women blaze with dis- monds and seaiskin sacques are more com- mon here than gingham aprons in New England. The climate is such that fu an be worn all the year round and the ladies take advantage of it. The stores of San Francisco show the wealth of the people. ‘The art shops are fine. The jewelry stores are better by far than those of Washington and the costliest of goods command ready sale. Tho. average of wealth is over $1,000 per head, or more than $5.00 per family. ’ San Franciseo said to have fifty men in it whose checks are £203 fF million or more any day. and the undred-thousand-dollar men are no more noticed in it than in New York or in London. Ithas, like ali of these western cities, a num- Ber of fine clubs. and ite Press Club will com- pare favorably with any in the union. CLUB Live oN THE PactFIC. Speaking of club life in the west, I have told You something of the magnificent club houses ‘of Minneapolis and of Helena and Butte City. T found at Seattle as good a club house, owned Dy the Kainier Club, as you could wish for, and at Tacoma the leading men of the town have Duilt a great frame mansion which overlooks ‘Puget sound for miles either way, and which is @: comfortable a bachelor’s home as any I have ‘seen in the east. It was built very cheaply, its | first cost being only 0 and its 250. mem- Bers chipping in 3100 apiece. Poctland has alsoe magnificent club artistically furnished, | and some of the smaller of these western towns ave social organizations with homes of their own. BIG NEWSPAPERS OF THE WEST. Among the most profitable propecties of the west and the Pacific slope are its newspapers. In many of the cities the best buildings are @wned by daily journals, an St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Omuha Bee have blocks } each of which ix worth more than half a mil- You dollars, and the Zee bas for years been paying a net income ot more than $50,000 an- nually. One inest buildings in Spokane is that of the Review, which 1s such that it would do credit to Chicago, and the finest busi- ness building in Portland is the immense stono structure which the Oregonian has just fin- ished. In San Francisco the tower of the un- gainly Chronicle building overtops everything else, and here at Los Angeles the Times hasa granite building of its own. and it promises to prove an inexhaustible gold mine. Nearly all the rich newspaper men of the west started life poor. The Oregonian built itself slowly into weaith. DeYoung of the Chronicle trotted at for years on his uppers. Rosewater, the proprietor of the Omaha Bee, was telegraph operator during the war, and Col. Otis of the Los Angeles Times was about fifteen years ago one of Uncle Sam's hired men in the patent office in Washington. He resigned hig position and came west. When he landed in California he had only $50 in his pocket. He got an in- terest in the Times on credit, working at first onasalary of $15a week. Now he owns a ma- jority of the stock, and his income is twice that ‘of the chief justice of the United States. A WONDERFUL FOUNDATION. Speaking of the Times’ press, it has the most remarkable forndation of any press in tho country. Col. Otis has ransacked the world for relics and stones to put into it, and it con- | tains every variety of California rock, from the quartz of the Red river gold mine to glass la MARCUS DALY. from the crater of Mt. Shasta. There are stones in it from every state of the Union, and among the curiosities from old Mexico are a rock from the great Aztec temple, a stone from the house of Cortez and branch from the tree under which Cortez spent the night before he was ex- pelled from the city by the Azteca, There are Pieces of all the great buildings at Washing- | fon, bits from the world’s fair, a chip from | Plymouth Rock and a great museum of curios from the old world. Rome has contributed to this press foundation pieces of marble from the of the Cwesars and stones from the Ap- pian Way. Pompeii, the buried city, has given a block or two from one of its poet's houses. ‘The Alhambra in Spain furnishes a tile from the doorstep of one of its most famous towers, and the great pyramid of Egypt has given a stone from the queen's chamber. There aro relics from everywhere, from the borders of Nubia tothe Yukon river in Alaska, and the whole world bas, in short, paid tribute to this Los Angeles newspaper. CALIFORNIA'S NEW SENATOR. Los Angeles itself is one of the best towns of the west. It is growing steadily, and is now a substantial city of 65,000, made up for the test part of Colorado, Ohio and New ‘gland men. It has eleven railroads and is the shipping center of the southwest. It now rejoices in being the home of California’s new Senator, Mr. White, the only Senator Califor- nia has had for years who has not been a million- aire at the time of his election. Mr. White is well todo, but not rich. He lives here in a frame house which could be built for $4,000, and he is said to make $25,000 a vear at the law. He is a man of sterling ability, and I find that the Californians all over the state ex- pect him to create a name for himself and them in the Senate. Mrs. White is a North Caro- Kinian who was educated in Philadelphia. She is an accomplished lady and -will be a great ad- dition to the senatorial circle. MARCUS DALY AND THE SENATE. Speaking of the millionaires of the west, the majority of them are full of common sense. ‘They have no frills or farbelows about them and they are accessible to all. Marcus Daly, whom I met at Anaconda and who controls Property, worth from $50,000,000 to €100,- .000, lives in rooms at hisown hotel which could be better furnished than they are for $150, and I venture his personal expenses on clothes, &c., don’t amount to more than $1,000 a year. Still, he spends thousands upon thousands a month’ on extra expenses upon things which cannot pay. His hotel, for instance, is one which I am told loses abont $15.000a year, and he probably gives moro than twice that amount out of his own pocket to keep his newspaper going. His town of Anaconda 1s kept up by him, and he wili spend anything or do anything to gain an end. Shortly before the recent senatorial election he was suspected of wanting to be a candidate himself, and one of his close triends said to him: “i believe, Mr. Daly, that you have got the senatorial bee in your hair.” “You were never more mistaken in your life,” replied Daly, “and I can convince you in just two minutes. Think of it! You know me, you know what my education is and youknow something of the United States Senate. Now, how do you think { would look alongside of DON'T WANT TO BE SENATOR. John Sherman, John G. Carlisle and those other statesmen at Washington? Why, I would bead. little toad in ad big puddle! Well, out here I'm a big toad in a little puddle, and i can tell you I'd a d——— sight rather be a big toad in a little puddle than a little toad in a big puddle, and Tam going to stay in Mon- tana.” THE FISHING GROUNDS OF THE NORTHWEST. In traveling over the Northern Pacific rail- road I passed through some of the greatest huating and fishing grounds of this country. Nearly all the states of the great northwest are | full of game, and there is scarcely a station west of Minnesota in which the hunter or the fisherman cannot find good sport. The moun- tains are filled with trout streams and it is as easy to catch brook trout in Montana hook catfish in the mud lakes of Obio. higher up you get the better the trout seem to be. and Yellowstone Park is just filled with good trout streams. The Yellowstone rivé from Livingston to its source in the mountains of the park is said to be the finest trout stream on the American continent. Its waters are clear and cold, and its trout are large and gamey. Yellowstone lake, which is the source of this river, 1s just about a mile and a half above the sea, and it swarms with trout. ‘There are lots of fine trout in Oregon. Cascade mountains of Washington are fil trout streams. Around about Butte and Helena there is good hunting and fishing, and you don't have to go far away from civilization to get the best of shooting. The game is of all sorts, from deer and mountain goat to ducks, ‘and prairie chickens, and itis a very poor junter whe can't keep his camp supplied. ‘Thousands of go to the northwest every year, ands large number of foreigners are expected here this summer. The English and Germans know our hunting grounds quite ‘as well as our own people, and the hordes of tourists who will visit Yellowstone Park will in- clude many sportsmen. The ratiroads are mak- ing great preparations for them, and I was told at Tacoma that they expected to have at least 100,000 visitors from the east this summer. Among other arrangements a number of tour- ists’ cars have been built which are leased to special parties at $15 day. and which can be taken over the road and left wherever the par- ties who hire them wish to stop. ch of these cars contains sleeping —ar- Tangements for —_ twenty-four rons and each has a cooking range in it. The only extra charge, in addition to this $15, is tho reg- ular passenger fare, and any party, from fifteen ‘up to twenty-four, can hire one. It is a very nice arrangement indeed and comparatively cheap. At nearly every hunting point you find cooks and packers and guides. You can get a ery fair galdo for any of the mountain regions for @5aday. You will do well to bring your cook with you from the east, but you can get one here for about 3 a day and you can get all the pack animals you want for $1 # day apiece. Iam told that the outlook for the Yellowstone Park this year is very promising. ‘The arrange- ments for guides and tours throughout tho park have been changed within the past few months, and Russell Harrison has lost a great deal of money by having dropped his connection with it, Infact you hear very little about Russell Harrison in the west now. His paper at He- lena ciosed its oftices at midnight of the day of the last presidential election, and if they are opened again at will not be with his name at the head, Frank G. Canrexten. —— ee KEEPING THEIR NESTS SAFE. Great Ingenulty Displayed by Some Birds in Deceiving Man and Beast. Birds building on high trees are not so wary about the concealment of their nests as hedge builders and those thut seek the epringing corn or grass land for the shelter of their homes, trusting to the loftiness of situation for se- curity, says London Tid Bits, A nest placed upon the ground isin constant danger of ex- posure. A browsing animal might destroy it; then the scythe with one sweep occasionally lays bare one or more nests, thereby endanger- ing the eggs or callow nestlings. This renders the pareat bird very wary, and causes them to practice great ingenuity in their efforts to protect the young birds, The skylark has been known to carry its eggs or offspring to a place of safety afteran exposure of the nest.and it has been said its long hind claw—the uso of which has puzzled many naturaliste—is specially adapted by nature for more easily grasping and transporting its treasures from the source of danger. When the young birds are too bulky to be thus removed the parent carries them on its back, though this mode of removal is a somewhat dificult one. Nesting upon tho ground the partridge is likewise likely to be dis- turbed. A bird of this species was once startled by a plow passing within a yard or so of its nest. Destruction was almost a certainty, as the plow must pass entirely over it in the next round, and the laborer wondered how the partridge would act. The time necessury for going around the field was about twenty minutes, yet in that almost incredible period the parent birds had effected the removal of some twenty-one eggs to a safe spot. Carefal search led to the discovery of the bird calmly seated upon ber treasures in the bottom of the hedge, out of the reach of the plow. teen Partridge chicks were eventually hatched and uly escaped unmolested. Some birds will forsake their nests if so much asa finger is placed within, but others. suspi- cious that their secret has been discovered. seek to hide them more efticaciously by admirably ingemous plans. Among the thick fern growth ofa banks wood warbler had woven s nest. The bird had evidently selected this bank be- cnuse of the quantity of dead leaves ecattered and heaped thereon, the tawny crispness of these corresponding nicely with ths domed edifice, thereby renderiag diseovery almost 1m- possible. But the fine quality of the ferns led toits detection. Tugging at the frail fronds, a kindly disposed Indy scared the sitting warbler, which flew, with plaintive call, to an adjacent bough, and there exhibited signs of distress. ‘The lover of nature could not resist a peep at the cozy home, which at» glance appeared like ashapeless mass of dead leaves aud grasses. Some few days after, walking throngh the same 3 gain’ tempted to pay the little wood bird « visit. Puzzled and surprised, she could not find its whereabouts, but a few win: utes’ search revealed an alteration from the original mode. The cunning bird had blocked up the old entrance and covered that side of the nest with dead leaves, breaking a doorway through on the opposite side. ‘The magpie ix nothing if not ingenious. Ho # barricades bis bulky nest with thorn is by no means an easy matter; but when circumstances oblige the “‘pie” to build in a low bush or hedgo—an absence of lofty trees being a marked feature of some northern localities—he not only inter- laces his home, but also the entire bush, in a most formidable manner. Nor does be stop here. To ‘make assurance doubly sure” be fashions a means of exit as well as entrance to the castle. so that if disturbed he can slip out by his back door, as it were. A tree spatrow on one occasion built its nest in a tall eim, just beneath the more bulky erection of a crow. Not only did the large nest sereen the smaller, but it afforded a means of protection from the vagaries of the weather. Some time after the crow’s nest was plundered of its contents, while that of the tree sparrow escaped un- touched. A greenfinch once built its side the deserted home of a missel-thrash. Thi deserted nest was well known to the bird-nent- ing boy as forsaken, it being several seasons old and much battered by the storms of past winters, £0 none ventured to climb the trees after it’ The enterprising finches succeeded in bringing off a brood of five successfully, and this in spite of the fact that the tree was almost in the village street and stood quite alone. As if aware of its publicity, the oid birds were very cautious in their journeys to and from the nest, and did not display the marked restless- ness of parent birds in general—otherwise their secret must have been betrayed. ‘The young birds practice deception for their ultimate safety, especially those of the partridge and lapwing species. Ata given signal from the parent they squat close to the groand, hop- ing by such means to escape the eye of the in- trader. In. ach canes their coloring assists them, the feathers of the helpless tledglings partaking of the hues of their general surround- ings. Nestiings taken by surprise feign help- Jessness and encourage the uotion that they have not yet power to use their wings. But no sooner is the means of eseape evident than away they flutter, awkwardly it ia true, but sufficiently well to accomplish their purpose. Expensive Economy. From the Chicazo Times. ‘That there have been extravagant legislators in the republic the billion-dollar Congress demonstrates. Possibly some claim to ecou- omy might be ventured by extravagant repre- tentatives of the people when they pointed to the fact that at the seat of government they utilize old buildings for government purposes rather than put the money of the people into the construction of new buildings, but now that Ford's Theater, a government poseession, has been demonstrated in the most melanchoi: Say sea mse tenp, 20 mabuaber of Congress will plume himself upon having exercised an econ- omy which, whilo voting away a billion of the people's money, saved the cost of the erection of a building that would have taken the place of Ford's Theater_asan office for one of the bureaus of the War Department. We spend 150,000,000 annually upon pensions. but we could not spare the price of a safe building in which to house clerks engaged in searching government records for the benefit of appli- cants for pensions, who hope to swell the ex- ‘ture of 150,000,000 by securing pension jcates for themselves. Our Congressmen have been parsimonious where they should have been literal, aud bave been wild! gant where they should have been wisely economical. soe —__ Experts Striking for a Job. From the World's Fair Puck. AMERICAN REPUBLICS. A Bureau That Brings Them All Tato Close Relations. AN INTERNATIONAL UNION. The Valuable Work That Has Been Ac- complished—Governments That Are in the Union — Publications That Have Been Is- sued—Benefit to Commerce That is Being ‘Manifest. ee NA LARGE OLD- fashioned red brick house on the corner uf Pennsylvania avenue and Jackson place and facing Lafayette Square isthe home of an unique organization _estab- lished in this country in July, 1890. “the bureau of the Ameri- can ropublics.” This bureau is the outcome ‘or creation of the inter- national American conference which met in Washington in 1889-90, and which recommended the organization of an association under the title of “The international union of American republics for the prompt collection and tribution of commercial information.” At the suggestion of Mr. Romero, minister from Mex- ico to the United States, it wos further recom- mended that the international union be repre- sented by a bureau to be established in the city of Washington, under the supervision of the Secretary of State of the United States, and to be charged with the eare of all transactions and publications, and with all correspondence per- taming to the internaticnal union, this burenu to be called “The commercial burean of the Ameri- can republics.” This bureau is therefore an international bureau and reprosents the Cen- tral and South American republics, Mexico and the United States, ‘According with the recommendation of the conference, Con, advances annually the sum necessary for the support of the bureau, and at the end of the fiscal year the various re- publics pay their share of the amount. in pro- portion to their population. In the first year Congress appropriated the sum of $36,000, the amount estimated as necessary by the confor- ence, but this appropriation was reduced in the following year to $30,000, GOVERNMENTS IN THE UNION. The following table contains a list of the gov- ernments comprising the international union: Hayti, Peru, Uruguay, Argentine, Paraguay, Honduras, Bolivia, Venezuela, Salvador, Nicara- gua, Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Mexico, United States, Chile, Ecuador. This union is to continue in force for a term of ten years, dating from the day of 1ts organization, ‘and if the members agree at the end of that term that the union saall be extended for another ten years it shall be con- tinued. A vote of the majority of the republics is necessary to change or modify any of the rules or pians which have been agreed upon for the guidance and proper con- duct of the bureau. As the bureau has become such an important factor im the extension of commercial relations between the republi is likely to be a permanent organization, couraging commerco and trade, and dissemi- nating knowledge of the condition and pros- pects of the countries concerned. CODE OF COMMERCIAL NOMENCLATURE. One of tie most important branches of work which the bureau has undertaken, tho idea of which was suggested by Mr. Romero, the Mexi- can minister, is the preparation of a code of commercial nomenclature, a list of articles of merchandise in common use, which are desig- nated in alphabetical order in equivalent terms in English, Spanish and Portugese; this list is to be published in each of the three languages und to be used respectively by all the American governments. This will greativ facilitate com- merce among the republics, for common ar- ticles of every day use are known by difforent names in nearly évery one of the South Ameri- can governments, So much confusion and loas has arisen from this cause as to impede com- merce -most seriously and it is hoped that this code of nomenclature will simplify the present difficulties and will promote and facil- itate trade and intercourse with gratifying re- sults and mutual benefit. ‘The werk of the nomenclature was begun im- mediately after the organization of the bureau in 1890, and has since been carried on without cessation by Messra. J. K. Chandler and J. C. Redman, The English portion of the nomen- clature has been practically finished, and the Spanish and Portuguese parts are being pushed to completion rapidly. There will be not less than 40,000 words in the completed code. In addition to the sppropriaties granted for the support of the burean Congress, in viow of the importance of the completion of the nomencla- ture, voted a special sum of $9,000 in 1891 and $10,009 in 1892 for the catrying forward of the work. Instances are numberloss in the great import- ing cities of costly errors and exasperating lays occasioned by want of « commerci nomenclature officially recognized. Here is an instance of the cae in point: A recent United States consul in Venezuela mentions a curious case of mistransiation which resulted in a se- rious loss toa Laguayra importer. ‘The latter hnd sent toa New York commission house for 100 dozen “azadas,” and the merchant having anish clerk m his house sent the order for translation to a young clerk in the vicinity whose knowledge of English orthography was somewhat dofective, and who transinted “azndas” as “hose” instead of “hoes.” The order was filled accordingly, and tho Venezuela importer was deluged wit adas” of a kind he had not looked for and forced to pay a heavy duty on 100 dozen stockings which he had not ordered. PUBLICATIONS 18SUED. Since January, 1891, there have been pub- lished by the bureau three hand books of a general character, each one replete with maps and illustrations, and full of valuable informa- tion concerning all the nations and colonies in America. Among tho interesting contents of these hand books may be found a complete list of the diplomatic and consular ropresentatives of the United States and the American repub- lies; also a graphic description of each of the republics, including facts about their govern- ment, population, army and navy, religion, ed- ucation, resources and products, railways and telegraphs, banking, commerce, money, weights and measures, patent laws, port charges, con- sular feca and regulations, travelers’ guide, steamship lines, cable and’ freight rates and postal guide. ‘Tho index is full and complete. ‘The appearance of the hand books is attractive, the paper is good and the type large and clear. ‘the hand book on Brazil contains twelve chapters, descriptive and historical, including the constitution of Brazil and the reciprocal ar- rangoments with the United States; also a directory of all the merchants and manu- facturers of Brazil and a table of tariff duties. A map and numerous illustrations add to the interest of the book. The hand books on Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala and Costa ‘Rica are’ modeled ‘after the same pattern. ‘Commercial directories of all the countries have been compiled and published and the burean deserves no little credit for this work, though in many. reepects incomplete. It necessitated an enormous correspondence and the classifying in alphabetical order by countries and occupations of all the names of morchants contained therein. These directories are constantly being improved and enlarged and are in great demand by merchants and ippers. they being furmshed freo of cost. ‘Appended to the commercial directory of ‘Mexico isa newspaper directory, and an official directory containing ® list of ‘the executive officers and the members of congress, with their addresses. ‘Among other interesting bureau may be mentione: Latin America,” “Mines and Mining Laws of Latin America,” ‘Commercial _ Information Concerning the American Republica aud Col- onics,” “Newspaper Directory of Latin Amer ica. ‘Bulletins as soon as publiehed are sent to all the prominent commercial organizations,boards of trade, produce exchanges, merchants and manufacturers. Tho reports of the bureau aro sent to the libraries and educational bureaus, Many of these bulletins havo been translated into the Spanish language for the convenience of those who do not understand English, and tho tariff duties in force in the republics have been published in English and Spanish in par- allel columns. A VALUABLE LIBRARY. The front room on the first floor of the office of the bureau is the reception room, where there are many easy chairs and soft loungos, and a hartdsome oak table that may be ex- tended to accommodate a goodly number of banqueters when occasion demands, Heavy ecuriains drape the windows and doors, and ublications of the readstuffs in pictures and maps adoru the walls. In the room beyond is tho library of the bureau—a library unique in its composition, Here are yolumies, descriptive, historical and political, from all over the world, especially from the South American countries, which send all their government publications to the bureau as soon as publiched. Of biography there is 2 good collection; also a large share of books on travels and voyages, The bureau subscribes to more than seventy papers and maganizes; papers from the United States, Cuba, British Gmana, Hawaii, Curacao, Jamaica, Panama and all the South and Central American nations. There are magazines pertaining to agriculture, man- ufacturing. commerce, finance. &c.. from the United States, Mexico, France, Chile. Brazil, Great ' Britain, 'West Indies and Canada, all the republics being repre- sented by some journal or periodical regularly received. The papers, as they are reccived, are placed on file in the reception room, where they may be read at leisure by any one who #0 desires. ‘The library is well kept by the librarian in charge. There are almost 1.000 bound volumes and more than 1,000 pamphlets and periodicals. There is a set of scrap books containing newspaper clippings of all matter that has been published concerning the bureau, and these are full of interest, as showing what the world has to say regarding this famous or- ganization. There is another feature of inter- est in this library which piays an important part in the dissemination of information, and that is the card index—an index to all matter contained in the library, of whatever kind, as well as a large and miscellaneous collection of data and clippings from many and varied sources. This index is in constant use in the answering of countless questions and applica- tions for information that come to the bureau every day. ‘The library catalogue is arranged after the card system, and is elaborate in detail. Every book, pamphiet and newspaper in the collec- tion is recorded, and under so many headings or subjects that it is almost impossible to fail in finding just exactly what you want on any topic. The books are here to be consulted by any one who so desires, but they may not be taken away from the library. INFORMATION CALLED FoR, ‘The bureau is constantly receiving applica- tions for information from merchants and manufacturers all over the United States who are seeking to establish trade relations with the republics, and from persons on the other side of the Atlantic who wish to engage in trade with those countries, or to emigrate there, attracted, as they are, by the rich min- eral and agricultural wealth of South America. ‘There is no doubt that the bureau is doing & greatand fruitful work in the promotion of friendly intercourse and trade relations among the American nations. The effort that is being made to awaken and encourage interest in this undertaking of the international union is not without promise of success. Germany and Eng- land may well bo alarmed at the progress of the United States trade in this direction; there is reason for alarm. For the bureaa of the American republics there is predicted = great future; let the work go on. eee BROKE UP A SETTING HEN. A Bucolie Myth Dissipated in = Connecti- cut Thander Storm. Mansfield Spectal to New York Suv. It is a bucolic adage of immemorial antiquity in the land of steady habits that nothing on earth can “break up setting hen,” ordinarily resolute, except death; but the hoary maxim has just been successfully impugned in this hill-upholsteredtown—in fact, controverted and rebutted. A thunderbolt did the butting and rebutting, and it was one of the long, dizzy, kinky, twisted, weirdly colored boits that have been extremely fashionable in Con- necticut for the past three months. The term to break up a sitting hen is under- stood in the nutmeg siate to. mean to impover- ish her animal economy of the dogged, heredi- tary, instinctive predetermination inherent in every hen “to set,” and the lightning did just that for the Mansfield hon. The ben has no further desire to sit or set. It all happened one night, and very quickly. ‘Squire Seymoar Dunham! owns the hen the lightning broke up, which has since been waddiing and wabbling about on her two blistered and game legs, with all the fluffy weathers scorebed from her starboard side well aft. The thunderbolt didn’t exactly hit the hon— she was small game fora bolt of its caliber, loaded with twenty or thirty thousand voitage, to be aiming at—bu? it mashed her entire en- vironment, scooped her nest bodily from under her, including one dozen Cochin-China eggs. whieh cooked into an omelet that was liberali with the timothy grass of the nest. carried the composition to a distant part of the hen house and hang it up on a picket of the paling. It was in the electric cooking process that hen had her feet blistered, was torched up aft ima painful way and inoculated with a preg- nant lesson on the fatility todo any more sitting in Connecticut until a change of lightning is ordered for this terri- tory. ‘There was quite a lot of fowls in Seymour Dunham's hen house on the night of the pbe- nomenon, and, though the setting hen un- questiounbly caught the gist of the thunde Dolt fairly and squarely, nevertheless, in get- ting at its principal game, the lightning knocked nearly two dozen hens and the family rooster off their perch on the center pole of the cote, scorched the pole, portions of which it charred, and plowed a channel in the ground, flinging showers of mud agaist the walls of the henuery. Mr. Dunham's hea house is not many fect distant from bis dwelling, but the freuk bolt did no.damaze to his other property. The fact is, he is really gied now that the bolt came, for he had tried every reasonable method in vain to inculcate the leseon that the lightning instilled into the old hen so thor- oughly in abeut an cighth of a second. More- over, the electrical shot not only broke up the sitting hen, but exploded the old bucolic myth to the effect that lightning won't touch feathers or anything that wears them. een Hit tn Battle. From the Bosten Journal. ‘That was.a good story which the Rev. C. J. K. Jones of Louisville told in a Boston pulpit the other day. He snid: “An alarmist always reminds me of a friend of mine, who was a commander at the battle of Round Mountain. It was a hot fight—one of the nottest of the war. At a particularly in- tense part of the action my friend stood beside his horse scanning the field with his glass and directing the troops. He told me it seemed as if the fire of the whole contederacy was cen- tered’on him, the builets thick around him. “Suddenly be heard a minie ball singing in the air, and he felt something strike bis leg. Tut the oceasion was urgent, and he kept up his glass. There was another ‘ping-g-g," and he felt another strike. And go it continued, “The captain at last lifted up bis band and prayed, ‘O, Lord. Tecan go home to my wife and children without either of my legs, but, O, Lord, let me get home.” “Finally there came the shouts of victory. The battio was won. With a long-drawn sigh the captain turned. He shouted to his orderly at alittle distance, ‘I'm wounded, Jim. Come and help me on my horse; I must go home. st battle.’ I guess not.’ replied the orderly. “What's the matter? Come, hurry up, 'm wounded.’ “ ‘If you want me to help you, come here,’ out the orderly. “But what's the trouble? Why can't you come here? Don’t you see I'm wounded and almost dying?” “Oh, no, you are not,’ sang out the orderly, Jome here instantly, you rascai,’ shouted the commander. + ‘No, I don’t, that's the biggest nest of yel- low jackets there I ever saw in my life,’ was ing reply of the orderly. ing swarm of hornets were tho only mimie balls that had struck bin,” —_-o-____ ‘With More or Less Pertinency. From the Ram's Horn. The poorest man is not the one who has the least, but the one who wants the most. People who borrow trouble never have to go far to find it, ‘There are spots on the sunand yet some people expect a twelve-year.old poy to be perfect. ‘How we all admire the wisdom of those who come to us for advice. If happiness in this life is your object don’t try too hard to get rich. ‘The lean pig is the one that squeals the most. Let the faultfinder make a note. ‘The man who does wrong suffers, but those who love him suffer more. More religion can be lost by staying away | from prayer meeting on a rainy night than can be gained on a clexr Sunday. conchae A Gallant Tramp. From the Yankee Biade. Mrs. Strongmind—“Why don't you go to work?” Tramp—Please, mum, I made a solemn vow | twenty years ago that I'd never do another | stroke of work tll women was paid th’ same wages as men.” Gets a trifle. stirred up into a nasty batter and | ted | d peril of trying | WEDDING BELLS. The Month in Which Most Mar- riages Take Place. NAMED AFTER JUNO. ‘Why June is Considered a Propitions Time for Contracting Marital Alliances—Ancient Sayings as to Lucky and Unlucky Days for the Wedding Ceremony. “Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells.” ARDLY HAVE THE joyous Easter anthems died away on the lily- perfumed air when bride roses and the wedding march step forth for favor. There isalot of superstition about wedding months and wedding days, wed- ding skies and wedding gowns, all old world ideas, indulged in from caprice, perbaps, rather than faith in their potentiality for good or evil, but that they do influence the day and the date is not to be denied, and strange to relate church people pay more attention to these supersti- tions than those outside the pale. A bit of doggerel, which comes from very ancient history and is found in the folk lore of every nation, tells in rude jingle how the wed- ding day was chosen by the ancients: “‘Monday for wealth, ‘Tuesday for health, Wednesday, the best day of alls Thursday for econes, Friday for losses, ‘Saturday, no day at all.” While Sunday was simply blotted from the calendar of marriage days. Friday has come to be looked upon as an un- lucky day for any venture, Possibly because of the odium attached to it as the day upon which the Savior was crucified, and the one upon which legal hangings usually take place. Yet in Scotland, that country of rock-ribbed superstition, Friday is considered » particularly lugky day! THE BEST DAY OF ALL. “Wednesday, the best day of all,” says the doggerel, and Wednesday is more honored by Hymen's devotees than any other day in the week. Tuesday is considered fairly favorable, but stato weddings seldom occur on Monday. In Scandinavia Thursday is considered the day of ill omen, corresponding to our Friday. and Dean Swift’ evidently concurred in the dinavian theory ashe made “Thursday” rhyme with “cursed day” and not a very good rhyme either. Marringes on Sunday are infrequent in s0- ciety. When they do take place they are usually “expedients” and not always smiled upon by Cupid and not often by fortune. “The better the day the better the deed” seems to have no show in a Sunday wedding, and a marriage on that day is usually devoid of all its picturesque features of bridesmaids and best men, flowers and maids of honor. Society never marries during Lent, though it is not at all probable that the ancient rhyme, Marry in Lent Live torepent, hasanvthing to do with it. Still it isa fact thit a society devotee would rather wear rue the rest of her life than invoke a rics shower during the Lenten season, An old church crnon forbade marriages between Rogation and Whit Sunday. and another old-time jingle rhymes some of these church canons as follows: “Advent narrinzes doth c Bat There are many dave throughout the year that the ancients looked upon ax ominous for those who entered the marital state on those daies. A very old Scoteh folk-lore writer says: y of the weck upon which the 14th of as to fail in any year is esteemed None marry or begin any business upon None chuse to marry in January or May or to have their banns proclaimed in the end of one quarter of the year and to marry in the be- aing of the next.” Another _tabooed day is nnocents’ day,” upon which Herod killed the babies. The Romans never contracted mar- ringe on the “ides” or “nones” of any month, anda marriage contracted on certain of the saints’ days was invalid, A student of folk-lore gets to wonder how the ancients came to marry atail, since the prohibited days far outnum- bered the free ours and « free one in one nation was acrime agai fhe church in another, st as the marriage and divorce laws of the arious states make aman a happy benedict in one commonwealth and a felon in another, COLOR OF THE WEDDING GowN. Even the color of the wedding gown is sha owed by superstition, ey that 2 Theirsonuw ie soon seen, the rhyme goes. “Blue is true,” the old say- ing bas it, and blac bas been favored for wed- ding drestes since time began. Red is a happy coior, but “yellow is jealousy,” and by the an- cients was considered atrocious taste. The wedding dress must not be tried on is another sunerstition. ‘The fitted wedding dress is sure to become its wearer's shroud. Weeping brides are not pretty objects, but it, is considered an exceilent omen if the bride cries on her way to the church or before start- ing, and the Scotch think that if she does not cry she is a witch and wedded to Satan, ‘Happy the bride the sun shines on,” is another superstition, and a rainy day is con- sidered an ill omen indeed. “In tears and trouble shall her days be spent” it is said to prophesy. The Scotch rhyme has it this way: “if the day be foul a ir bride eats hame, Barth pleasure and peace Before ler are sane.” ‘The canny Scote will not marry in May. Pet May, their rhyme rans—the ancients rhymed every- thing. For this strauge superstition Sir Waiter Scott is good euthority. He says: ‘The Scot- tish people, even of the better rank, avoid mar- riage in the month of May, which goneral sea- son of flowers and breezes might in other respects appear fo peculiarly favorable for that purpose.” The ill-fated Queen Mary mar- tied Bothwell in May. The euperstitions Seots say that she cast an “evil eye” upon all mar- riages made in that month, and an old Scotch maxim says, “It is only bad women who marry in May.” if Thatth ORIGIN OF THE MAY SUPERSTITION. Nevertheless the May superstition originated with the Romans. Ovid says this was because the funeral rites of the Lennialia were held in May. The Chineve prohibit, absolutely, all marrying in May. The orientals cull May the love month and devote its thirty-one days to adjudicating all affairs of the heart, so that when June rolls round with her roses marriages may take place without deiay. When Ovid found a fitting mate for his beloved daughter he consulted the oracle for = lucky wedding day. ‘The ancients had signs and talismans for every deed aud endeavor, and Ovid consequently — Sinle nope Tiga to fina iat Seonbredide tangy are Good to tie maau and happy to the maid.” This superstition had its origin with Juno, the Roman goddess, who was queen of heaven. June was her birth month. She was eupposed to take a special interest in marriage, and her name means ‘the yoke maker.” Her attributes or titles were “*Virginalis,” or “The Goddess of Virgins” and ‘‘Matrona”—“‘of mothers.” ‘Through eighteen centuries the pleasant superstition of Juno's protecting caro enhances her birth month, and in June more weddings occur than in any other month in the year. Se A Birthmark That Earned a Reward, ¥rom the London Daily News, Accurions decree of the conventionals Roger Ducos and Lacoste has been brought to light at Lille. It was to grant an aid of 4001. to a female infant named Mercier of the parish of Quesnoy. in French Flanders, who was born with a mark on herleft side over her heart ex- actly resembling a cap of liberty. The decree says: “This phenomenon proves not only that nature chooses to stamp with her seal this reign of liberty, but it attests the attachment of the mother of the infant to the republic. In con- sideration of the child coming into the world bearing over her heart the sacred sign of lib- erty we grant the mother, for her, tho sum of 400%. to aid in rearing her honestly in repub- liean principles.” FLOUR FROM THE BANANA, How It is Prepared—One Acre Will Far- nish 20,000 Pounds. T farina. is a very palatable and easily digested food. Attempts have been made to make macaroni out of this banana flour, but the stuff always put into warm water. Bread can be made from it only by adding some kind of imeal that contains more gluten. ‘The fresh pulpfurnishes about 20 per cent of dry farina, and it is stated that the produce of bananas compared with that of wheat is as 133 to 1, and to that of potatoes as 44tol. One acre of ground will furnish over 20,000 pounds falls to pieces when of the flour. ‘The next annual re; Agriculture, from above fects’ are ob! port of the in boxes and kept dry. that are very dry. In damp, tropical they are prepared for drying br ret rapidly boiling the ripe fruit for a short time in water that contains sulphate of lime. In some parts of South America the fruits are pecied, grated and the moisture expelled The mass is then baked in an oven, after which it is ground into a coarse The latter is inferior, however, ve propertios to that obtained from the dried slices. Bananas baked in their skins, then peeled and boiled in wate: are considered good for coughs and inflammation of the lungs. The Malays use a variety of the same fruit, to arrest junntities of potash are obtained from the ashes of the plant, by pressure. kind of flour. in nutri which tonic i Giarrhos. In the Antilles large ¢ which are used to wash clothes. Many spirituous drinks are made from the banana. Banana wine is obtained in Cayenn by pressing the fruit through a sieve, after ‘ich itis made into cakes, dried in the sun and dissolved in water when wanted for use. Vinegar is made by suspending the fruit in bas- kets, where it liquefies, and the juice collected soon becomes vinegar. In 1887 nearly 6,000,000 bunches of bananas were imported into the United States from Central America. In 1890 the importation was 12.582.550 bunches. The bananas imported into the United Siates during the last fiscal year were worth €5,000,000. os FASCINATIONS OF THE SHY MAN. Advantages of the Youth Who Can Still Blush, From Girl's Gossip in London Trath. One of the characters ina modern novel is ¥ man, He is getting so scarce.” Perhaps that is why ine is so really delicious, When he blushes palpably, but without looking upward, one is drawn toward him by a certain sentiment of affinity, and so long as he is just shy enough, but not too shy, made to say “I love he wins more and more upon one. To draw a really chy man out of his shyness isa pleasing task, andthe more so as he is generally enchanted to give expression to the thoughts and idens that he usually keeps locked ‘One comes upon « stray jewel or two now and then, in such cases, in the +hape of an unexpected thought that as- toniches the discoverer because it seems #0 dif- ferent frcm the person from whom it emanates, Tassure you, I think shy men are sometimes very charming. but, then, one must be just a little bit shy one’s self in order to appreciate fast away within himself. them. Do you know any nice ones and do you find that they only come out of their shell in a tete- a-tete, and not always then, so that there isa pleasing element of uncertainty about them which adds to the interest they it pire? So you've had another proposal. It was nice of you not to tel! me who the man is, though I am, of course, simply dying to know. But girls A really nice girl would not dream of telling all her sct that a man had proposed to her and had are often very unfair to men in that been rejected. Would she? Bat do tell me, what did he sas? I think it must be a dreadfully difficult thing to propose artistically. In the cases that have come under my notice very little attempt was made in this direction. Obvious nervousness prevented a that and made the proposce *o uncomfortable that the difficulty was to remember afterward what had really been said. A sort of haze of unfinished sentences, chiefly questions, is all SoIam told by that remains in the memors. persons who have undergone the experience. pr ei Se Garden Tools for Women. It is strange that no manufacturer of garden tvols bas put in market light spades, hoes and other tools for woman's use in the flower gar- den. The ro-called “ladies’ garden sets” are really suitable only for children or women of exceedingly short stature. The handies are about half the length of the ordinwry handles of the regular rake, hoe, spade and digging medium height must stoop uncomfortably to make any therefore, almost restricted to the trowel and weeding fork, in a stooping forks, and a woman of use of them. She is, which can be used onl; An iron rake with a little shorter, tion Eandle, and oven a small hoo and diaging fork, very convenient tools for women who would delight to work in the flower garden. Not even tennis is uch a health giver as this garden work, and nothing i more fascinati to a woman who loves flowers. The blades of the best sets of the tools that are now put in excellent, though they might well bea little heavier and longer for practical use. But the handies are vers “Iadies’ sets” are much too short, and there ix no reason why they should not "be made of some lighter ma- terial than the heavy wood used for the or- \ brushes and some of the brooms are made with handles of especially light wood, which is not the less dinary garden tools for men. Our wi strong because it is hight. ———_+e+____ A Pocket Night Lamp. From the Philadelphia Press To instantly obtain a light sufficient to read the time by a watch or clock by night, withou! danger of setting things on fire, isan easy mat- ter. Take an oblong vial of the clearest of glass, put into it a piece of phosphorus about the size of a pea, pour upon this some pure oil, heated to the boiling point; the bottle then cork To use the light remove the cork, | allow the air to enter, then recork. The whole | empty space in the’ botile will then become luminous, and the light obtained will be a good one. As soon as the light becomes dim its ning the bottle oli is to be ‘filled about one-third full tightly. power can be increased by 0) and allowing a fresh-supply of ait to enter. In very cold weather it is sometimes neces- sary to heat the vial between the hands to in- crease the fluidity of the oil, and one bottle contrivance may be carried in the pocket, and is used by watchmen in Paris in all the magazines where explosives or inflammable materials are stored. wili last a winter. This ingenio +o. Modern Housekeeping. From Truth. Maud Von Blumer—“Mamma, there's Mrs. Bing! carriage at the door, and she evident) wants to leave something without getting out, Shan’t I send the servant out to her?” Mrs. Von Blumer- swept today. ————_-s ee ‘Where He Was at Home, From the World's Fair Puck. Old Judge D'Otard—“My way of seeing the fair is this: To go at onee to that part that has interest for me, and not to tire myself chasing after things I don't understand.” HE MANUFACTURE OF FLOUR FROM bananas is ® growing industry in Central America. Before it is ripe the fruit is cut, sliced and dried in the sun. However, a prefer- able method is to do the drying in an oven, be- cause the quality of the productdepends mainly on the quickness of this process. The slices are coarsely ground and sifted, forming a sort of ‘The dried slices are hard, brittle and of a horny appearence. The meal obtained from them in the manner described is white and sweet, with a smell like new-mown hay. It Department of roof sheets of which the tained, makes mention of several other methods by which bananas are preserved. They aredried very much as figs are, the bunches being cut when fully ripe and exposed to the sun until they commence to wrinkle. The skins are then removed, for. if they are not peeled, a disagreeable flavor is im- parted to the fruit.’ The latter are exposed to the sun until crystals of sugar appear on their eurface. Then they are pressed into masses and wrapped with leaves of the plant, or placed ‘They have been kept in good condition in this way for many years. ‘This method can only be adopted in climates ical regions » my dear. Let her walk up the front steps, They haven't been TO MAKE THE DESERT ELOSSOM. An Irrigation Dam Which When Completed WII Hold 8,000,000,000 Gations. Over 4.000 feet above the sen and nearly 6,000 feet below the great peak of San Jacinto, in Riverside county, there bas now reached the height of 110 feet what is probably the best built dam in America, It is ina very narrow Gorge of solid rock and built of blocks of Granite from three to five tons each, no small stone being used. The epaces between these are filled with rich concrete. mixed by machin- ery and rammed into place by steel roads. This makes what the Irrigation Agecalls 2 monolith wd the whole structure, with the advantage of wing more flexibility than any other dam of — strength could have. Its factor of safe rid yee — ~y peculiar construction wi Powible for a dum to be. With stone of wtch size it couk omen ~t stand for a long time a very heavy mple waste way will be | pied toa height of "t80 feet, where it wil Boa .000.000,000 gallons, it may be built still higher if necosary. Though gait 3 *o high, it is Laing Pennie on account of the San tex ang very marrow for the first M feet. The watershed is over 100 square a one eye Getatets watershed as there state. It is all hi; mn With step open nea at nal igh moun of about forty-five inches in six months. “Wh the gate was ehutafew dara ago one sone filled it to a depth of ninety feet, making nnn some two miles long. ‘The lowest summer flow is enough to balance the evaporation, whi average will furnish a large amount ‘of and early summer water after the loke is full, This water will be used upon what is called the meza in the rich valley of San Jacinto. In this valley are many thousand acres of the richest land, and 250 artesian weils are there pouring out over 2,000 inches of water. This will build up one of the most prosperous settlements in the new county, with quite a town and alfalfa fields and orchards on every hand. On the west, and some twenty to foriy feet above the main valley where the artesiau belt is, lie some 30,000 acres of bench land that, with’ water, is the finest of fruit land, and upon which the are tesian water cannot be taken. Upon this the water from Lake Hemet will be led by pips and cement ditch and flume down the canoa with « fall of 2,500 feet ina few miles, which will give power enough to run electric roads and lighting plants, besides considerable for manufacturing. Upon this mesa or bench land the company already owns some 8,000 acres of choice land, over which it will distribute water, and it will undoubtedly sell water to the adjacent lands if the owners prefer to keep them instead of «cll- ing them to the company. While considerable has been done here in the past without any ire rigation, the use of water so far surpasecs the best results without it that the sale of all the water they can reservoir is assured. This type of dam was selected mainly on account of ite economy of cement. The hauling of cement up along mountain road was a serious item, But this 1s not its only advantage. It is much stronger than ordinary rubble masonry, less apt to crack under any sudden shock, and’ also heavier for the same bulk of material. Where ‘a savage stream has to be fought and there is any question about the sufficiency of the waste Tay it is the best trpe of dam if the cloaraze e permit the getting out of la: blocks. The overflow cennot tear them loose nor can any ordinary pounding of water at the base jar it so as to injute the joints of the structare. Itseconomy over rulble masonry will depend upon the price of cement at the work and upon the cleavage of the rock, it being assumed that in the case of ordinary rubble work wire rope carriers would be uscd to deliver stone into place. With some rock the waste of stone, too small for this trpe of dam, yet large enough for common rubble Work. ight be great enough to overbalance the difference in the amount of cement naed. Atal events, this form makes a most nafe and imposing picce of work, that will endure as Jong as the hills in which the dam is so firmly WHICH DID SHE WEAR? Both Determined to Have Their Way About Her Bonnet. ‘From the Courler-Journal. ‘They bad been married three months and the odor of the orange blossoms was still sweet in ‘their nostrils, It was alla lovely dream. She was so kind and he was so kind; she was “angel” and be was all the dear names she could think of, Never frown, never a cross word had broken the eoft, even echo of the marriage bells. Thus they believed that they had come to live in Eutopia forever and ever, and they went and told all their friends about it, especially those who were single. ‘He came home one evening with the news that he had bought tickets to the theater. To sce her thank him was to behold « beautiful justration @ poet's two souls ‘g Alvar sapget bs wont oot anh GO, tat setae. until a few minutes before the time tostart She was just putting on her hat. “My dear,” he said, “I wikh you would not wear that white bat. Ido not like you in it Won't you wear the back one’ “Why, certainly, dearest,” she oooed in re- pirs,"L mill do whatever you sar, though, the ck bat isnot suitable. You know I had the white bat made especially for the theater. It is suitable at no other time.” “I did not mow that, Wear the white one, of course.” “No, want to please you. I don't careif do ay I'am “tacky. | Pelfhen wear the white hat. ‘That will please ‘You know it won't You are simply making lf-sacrifice.” «But nothing. Wear the white bat and say no more about it.” “You needn't get cross,” the cooing all out of her voice. “I'll wear the black bat.” “Cross? Do you think I reaily want you to wear the black hat?” “Yea, or you would not have talked so much,” was her crisp reply. “I'm going to wear it, too.” “Wear the white one.” “I won't.” “You will.” Andso on until they barely reached the theater in time. Now which bat do you think she wore? ——+e2—___ A Sermon Heard for Righty Miles, From the Boston Globe. The Rev. George N. Howard, D. D., of Lowell, whom I met in this city the other evening, had a unique experience two years ago, when ue was a delegate from this state to the national con- vention of the Sons of Veterans, New England sent a large delegation to Minneapolis. The delegates traveled in two special cars and made a very jolly party. Sunday found the party om the road, and it was suggested by some one that it would be a proper thing to hold some kind of a religious service. The matter was brought to Mr. Howard's notice, and he immediately ap= proved of it, An extemporaneous choir was organized, and one of the musicians of the party took his station at the piano in one of the cara. The occupants of the other cars were notified of what was about to take plece, and by the time that evervthing was in readiness the car that had been chosen as a chapel was filled to the doors. ‘The train hands and even the porters took their places among the rest, The service was an interesting one, and Mr. Howard preached au eloquent sermon. From the time that he began to speak till the time he had finished the train bad made a ran of over eighty milex From that day to the resent Mr. Howard has claimed to be the only living clergyman who has preached a sermon that was beard for eighty miles, and his friends are fond of referring to him as the “champion long-distance preacher of Aterica. ———_+e- A Queer Indian Ceremony. From the Harford Courant Miss Kate Foote spoke at the monthly meet- ing of the Hartford Indian Association in the parlors of the Center Church yesterday mora- ing, and mentioned a number of interesting experiences she had among the Riscon aud Aqua Caliente tribes of Indians. She gave a vivid description of the “bur: of the eagle,” one of the customs of the tribes. When the young eagles are nearly old enouga to fly the tribe goos to the cliffs ladders and one climbs a tree wh nest. capture a young oni line to the village, fe is catight the announcement is passed along the line, +0 those in the village hear of it at once. In the evening all the members of the tribe gather around a fire, and from 7 o'clock unui the next 5 it ly Men ares stati morning they sirg and dance. ‘The eagle Killed by having itr neck squeezed. ‘Tho rongt sung reminded Miss Foote of “-Nency ae” Later at night the eagle is p an a dang packet and thrown on the fire. ‘The fires made to burn fiercer than ever, ad the cagle is burned so that it can carry messages te the Indian in the happy har friends of the In ever hemi grounds. At this ceremony ¢' the poor of the tribe. — An Excelent Way. ood morning, Bensoa. How doves “By jndicious advertising.”