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_... THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. SUMMER . RESORTS. it, purchase for a syndicate of friends for summer residences. Only half the station and P. 0. 1 roads. '¥ can be purchased cheap. Will take Showing It to xny_one desiring to in- B. I. WARNER & CO. ct in Sst ATLANTIC CITY. first tem M. all the year; thorougiily appoint. every respect; special retes for Se Octover, J. A. HIGGINBOTHA TE ‘Ocean front, Atlantic City, s 7 Sea water baths In house; cievator from street level. Bor au24- jet free. Gt E. ROBERTS’ SONS. HOTEL BERKELEY. Extreme ocean end Kentucky ave., Atlantic City. N. J. Greatly improved. Elevator to street level.” “Buffet, telegraph office and barber shop bs RGE BEW. —_ au20-20t JAMES & Gi N. is venience; rates reasonabl YX. ave; house; every con- D. KNAUER. aulé-26 THE ACME, Directly on beach. Bath houses free. $7 to $9 weekly. Sy2T-s5t* Mrs. L. R. MADDOCK. KENILWORTH a Ocean end Kentucky ave. Every mdoern convenience. “Passenger clevator from street level. Special rate for September and October. Circular mailed. au5-26t G. F. COPE & BIO. _ ‘THE ALBEMARLE. Modern conveniences. Illustrated booklet E. COPE. CAPE MAY POINT, N. J. CAPE MAY POINT.—DIRECTLY ON il modern ‘conveniences; orchestra; ac- 3 $8 to $12 weekly. L. MADDOCK. ASBURY PARK, N. J. ASBURY PARK, \ «Phe Victoria.” Fronting ocean, all improvements; 15th season; modates terms moderate and reduced after September 1. S. KEMPE. au2i SKASIDE—JERSEY COAST. THE ENGLESIDE, Reach Haven, N. J. pen, until October 1. Sure relief for HAY FEVER. “New illustrated book of Engleside and Beach Haven. ROBERT F. ENGL¥, Proprietor. ap20-117t MANICURE. MADAME PAYN, HIGH-CLASS MANICURE ‘AND CHIROPODIST, OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, 73 15th st. Mme. Payn in attendance ‘all summer. Jed-4 ‘MEDICAL. DR. HERMAN’S GERMAN SPECIFIC FOR THE cure of ali diseases of men. Orders by mail will have prompt attention. W. T. BALDUS, Agent for Washington, D. C., n.w. cor. 30th and 'N sts.* DR. CARLETON, 728 . NW. SPECIALIST ON DISEASES OF Bladder and Kidneys, Chronie Diseases, Blood Polson, Skin Diseases,’ Nervous Debility and Dis- eases of Stomach and’ Bowels. Dr. Carleton’s unparalleled success in effecting cares Js due to his expert skill and the deep Inter est which he takes in every case intrusted to his cére. Consultation free, Hours, ® to 5, 7 pm. to m' THE BERKSHIRE INN, Virginia ave. near the beach. |Table and appoint- ments first-cinss. Reduced rates for June. For farther information apply at the Oxford, this city. Je15-3m MARSHALL, TILLOTSON & CO., Props. Hotel Imperialand Cottages Maryland avenue, 100 yards of beach. jodeled. | Refurntshed. Table First-class. G. KENDRICK, 2 to $3 per day: $10 to $1 cial rates to families for THE CLIFTON, COR. AT cS family house; enter- aves., Atlantic City, N.J.; tains’ 150 guests. ‘Terms,’ $1.50 to $2 per day; $7 to $10 per week. Circular mailed. Mrs. F. M. COP! 58-78 HOTEL RICHMOND, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Appointments first-class. Elevator, sun parlor, ete. J. D. PEASE. THE BREVOORT, 18 So. Carolina ave.. Atlantic City, N. J.; $1.50 $8 to $12 week. B, E. NORRIS. ROTEL SELBY, New Jersey ave. near beach, Atlantic City, N. J. iry roo: xcellent cuisine; $3 to $12 ET DECKE! ~~ myl0-tt HOTEL WELLING’ Kentucky ave. Auartic City, Now open. £26-tf M.A. S._ MILNOR. SPRINGS AND BATHS. MORRELL HOUSE, HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA., will open June 18 under new management; alry rooms; first-class table; grand Shenandoah ‘view. my16-4mo |B. EB. MeDOWELL. THE TOCKWCOD, HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA. Mrs. S. E. Lovett, Proprietress, will open June 4. Lance rooms, plenty of shade, grand views; table fir .” Rates, $6. my8-4m SEASIDE—MISCELLANEOUS. BATH BEECH, N. Y¥. “THE LINWOOD." 45 minutes from Battery; rooins, table and sur- roundings strjctly first-class; reduced rates for September. P. 0. Box 168. au24-10t® Arundel-on-the-Bay. ‘The only place near Washington that can be reached in the evening by taking the 4:28 B. and O. train, arriving there at 6:15, taking a bath and arriving home at 10 p.m. Lots, $75 to $150 each—25x150 ft. Cottage for rent, $125. This cottage part- ly furnished, bas six rooms, near beach. Apply to F. G. AUKAM, 00 F ST. W. Or LAWRENCE CAV. GH, Arundel-on-the-Bay, Md. RINGS SUMMER RESORT, ON THE . For beauty of location, excellence of water, and for general advantages, it has few equals and no supertor in Md. Come and see. R. P. BLACKISTONE, M.D., Proprietor. Je7-3m Hygeia Hotel, Old Point Comfort, Va. Uarivaled as a health and pleasure resort. In- vigorating ocean breezes, full of life-giving ozone. New plumbing, perfect drainage and all the com- forts of the nrodern home. $e10-3m,16 Potoma FN. PIKE, Manager. "COLONIAL BEACH, VA.—(PRI- fer ‘front; beau- most attractive fine cafe— aul-Im “SPRING LAKE, N. J. THE ALLAIRE. Directly on the beach. ‘Opens June 15. _E.M. RICHARDSON. SPRING TAK z Wilburton-by-the-Sea. New el-vator and other improvements. Tene 1 for the season. Jel-3m JeT-T8t Opens R. K. LITCHWORTH. SPRINGS AND DATHS. Virgina Hot Springs. A Delightful ; Fall Resort. Hotel Open All the Year. 2,500 FEET ELEVATION IN THE GREAT WARM SPRINGS VALLEY, On the CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY, about midway between Washington and Cincinnatl ‘The greatest bathing establishment and roost wonderful waters in America for the cure of rheumatism, gout and ner climate of the great Vi al Hotels and cottages under the gement of Fred Sterry. Address Hot Springs, Bath county, Va., or apply at C. and 518 and 142i Pennsylvania a’ WII remain open Septe reception of guests. The hotel has been renovated, repapercd and painted throughout. The baths of these celebrated springs are noted for the cure of rheumatism, gout, skin diseases, &e. For fur- ther. info on apply to CHARLES P. JACK and A. R. GER, Proprietors, Berkeley Springs Hotel, W. x aul7-Imo* Carroll Springs Sanitarium. ly situated on the B. and 0.; ten miles : designed scents and those desiring rest. ress G. H. WRIGHT, M.D., Forest Glen, Nid. Monterey Springs Hotel, SUMMIT OF THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, PA. 1,500 feet above sea level. Three hours from Washington. Magnificent scenery. No malaria No_ mo) Pure spring water. New and modern Newly painted and Open till Oct. 1. Write f A. & HS, MILNOR, P. IN Bolivar Mountain House. Highest, coolest and most picturesque of the Harper's Ferry resorts. Shady groves. Woodland walks to the Potomac. Excellent culsine; good rooms; reasonable rates. Special rates for September and October. aulitm — F. M. PENNOCK, Bolivar, W. Va. AURORA. —Near Deer Park ond Oakland. No fogs; no mos- guetta; hay fever sufferers find entire relief. rge w«ms: best spring beds and hair mat- cellent tale. An unsurpassed pleas- Moderate rates. Apply at THE Movs tresses. E aith resort. Toor Loan and Trust bldg., or address 2 . Aurora, W. Va. aul-10d WHITE COTTAGE, YARPER'S FERRY, W. VA. Best view cn the ‘Shenandcah river.” Open to board (adults). for c'rentar ard terms. 4580-17 WM. H. BELL, Prop. EN'S MOUNTAIN HOUSE. Harper's Ferry, W. Y Located on Fruit HY! ’ drive Farm, Plue Ridge moun 20 Rates—$5. $3 and $7 per week; 3 from ‘depot. | and $1.50 per day. Send for cireular. Convey- | ances meet all trains. G.W.GREEN, Prop. jyl-tf | HILL TOP HOUSE, HARP FERRY, W. = Most’ breezy point. First-class t: one-half hours from ington. Telegraph office in house. T. 8. LOVETT. my6-5m Had CAPE MAY, HOTEL LAFAYETTE, CAPE MAY, Situated directly on the highest standa: iel3a re beach; service of the JOHN TRACY & CO. 8 p.m.; Sundays, 10 till 2 THE OLD FRIGATE CONSTITUTION. Housed in and Almost Forgotten at the Kittery Navy Yard. From the Lewiston Journal. ‘The venerable old frigate Constitution, of glorious memory, now lies, stark and gaunt, at the dock in the almost deserted navy yard at Kittery. She is housed in, and with her cld-fashioned lines, her sides tumbling home, as it is said, when tl.ey incline inward, her stern gallery, in which her captains were wont to take the air and their pipes and arrack in pleasant weather, she presents a quaint sight. Of the origiaal ship only a small section of the deck and a few iron stanchions re- main. But she was rebuilt much upon her original lines in 1848 and 1876, first by the son and again by the grandson of Hart, her original builder, so that she is practi- cally the same ship which outsailed Ad- miral Broke’s squadron and outfought everything at which she backed her topsails. The Portsmouth people regard her as their own individual property, and raise an aw- ful howl every time it is proposed to take her away. It was, however, a mere accident that ske happened to go out of commission at Kit- tery navy yard about fifteen years ago, and the navy being then in the chaoilc state which preceded the creation cf the new navy, she simply was allowed to re- main there. Her guns were of no 1se and of no historic value, as those with which she had walloped the Guerriere, the Java, the Cyane and the Levant had long gone the way of destruction. So her armament was removed and every- thing else of value. She was housed in and left to her fate. Her planking is de- caying, but as long as her stout timbers rand in the water they will keep as hard as ron. It is thought that some time in the next few years the Constitution will be refitted like the Constellation and made into a training ship for boys also. Like the Con- stellation, she has never had steam in ker, but when she has been rigged with great square sails and given a spreading canvas worthy of her, she has been known to leg it at a fourteen-knot gait during the best part of a cruise. These two frigates are the sole survival of the great frigates of the “poetic age” of the navy, and not all the steel battle ships going can altogether deprive them ct their usefulness, The Kittery navy yard is as dead as Hector for the present. The People grumble at it and complain because the modern steel ships are not built or even repaired here. ———_+e+____ ‘The Bravest Woman on Earth. From the Morning Oregonian. Oregon has had a number of women who have distinguished themselves in va- rious ways, some in lterature, some in art, some as slayers of wild beasts, others as inereasers of the population, some by climbing mountains, others by tumbling down them, and so on, but a deed of bravery has lately been done by a Port- land woman which it is quite certain no other woman in the state, and probably no other woman in the world, has nerve enough even to attempt. This woman is employed in a large establishment on 3d street, and her name must be kept secret to prevent tho place being overrun by peo- ple anxious to see the woman who is so brave. There are quite a number of other women employed in the same room, as well as several men. A day or two since a rat strayed into the rcom and could not find its wsy out, and the men started in to catch and kiJl him. This was easier said than done, for the rat was agile and daring and fled from one ambush to another, while the women and girls flew up-on chairs and tables, and would have perched on the ceiling like flies if they had been able. There was one exception—the brave woman who has immortalized herself. She stood her ground, and finally, when the rat had been poked from behind a barrel and was dashing across the floor almost over her feet, she “‘scrouched” dcewn and let her skirts touch the floor and captured the rat, and when it endeavored to push its way out she swatted it over the head and laid it out. This is a fact, and if any per- son in any country can produce a similar case of bravery and presence of mind on the part of a woman he can take the bakery. 200 His Object in Spenking. From the Indianapolis Journal. He--“Miss Perrymead, while I may not be the man of your choice at this moment, yet I venture to hope—” She—“I can only be a sister—” “As I was saying, Miss Perrymead, while I may not be your choice, I don’t want you to forget me when the time comes for you to look for a chance instead of a choice.” —— A Silence Explained. From Life. Carry—‘‘Why was it, I wonder, my poor husband never said anything about re- marrying?” Anna—‘Probably you were not the person he wanted to warn.” ee Wouldn’t Take the Risk. From the Chicago Record. Wiggle Waggles—“W’ot kind o’ pie is it, mum?” Lady—“Grape ple.” Wiggle Waggles—“Excuse me, mum, but I'm afeard; you know de dangers of ap- pendicitis.’ —_——_+e+—___ Proved His Courage. From Town Topics. “What make you think you are qualified to become a base ball umpire? Are you brave? Have you ever put down a riot?” “No, but I have acted as judge at a baby show. ae In Chicago. From the Indianapolis Journal. -Miss Wabash—“I don’t like this speaking of contracting a marriage. It always re- minds me of contracting a habit.”” Mrs. Jackson-Parke—“Well, what is mar- riage but a habit ee ge teresting to Young Gentlemen, From Il Motto per Ridere. Extract from a fashionable lady's ball program:—“Secend polka promised to the gentleman with a big nose. First quadrille to the young man with an {diotic. expres- sion. Third waltz with that little chap who has a pimple on his chin.” ————+ee— Hypnotism. From the New York Jewish Messenger. New boarder—“What’s the row upstairs?” Landlady—“It’s the professor of hypnot- ism trying to get his wife’s permission to go out this evening.” ALL ARE WEALTHY The Little Band of Delaware Indians and Their Possessions. STORY OF THEIR WANDERINGS Once They Were Great Warriors and Their Name Was Famous. NOW WITH THE CHEROKEES Written for The Evening Star. HE LITTLE TRIBE ef Delaware Indians in the Indian terri- tory, the remnant of a once powerful and dominant race in the east, have just come into great luck. In a couple of weeks they will receive about $220,000 cash, in consequence of a judgment of the Court of Claims at Washington in their favor. And this piece of good fortune is only the continuation of a series of wind- falls that have dropped into their pockets during the past five or six years. A little over a year ago they received from the government nearly a million dollars in cold cash, from trust funds lying in the treasury, and shortly before that they re- ceived other large sums, and these, to- gether with the property they already had, and other big lumps of ready money in hand, will make every man, woman and papoose of them worth fully $6,000 per Typical Delaware Indian of Today. capita. Certain other little Indian tribes, like the Osages in Oklahoma and the Puyal- lups and Yakimas in the state of Wash- ington, are even richer; but as compared with the richest white races of Europe and America, the wealth of the Delawares is nearly five times as great per capita as that of the inhabitants of the British Islands, nearly six times that of the gen- eral population of the United States, over nine times that of Germany, and over twenty-six times that of Russia; for the best authorities place the per capita wealth of Great Britain at $1,236, that of the United States at $1,029, that of Germany at $652, and that of Russia at only $225. A Famous Tribe.» This little band of Delawares numbers. only 754 persons, living among the Chero- kees. A fragment of the tribe went to Canada early in the present century, and; has been lost sight of. Another little frag- ment was reported in Louisiana back in the year 1825, but has not been heard of since, and still other fragments joined the Senecas and Shawnees, and thus lost their identity, while a poor little body of some eighty or -ninety is living down in the southwest corner of Oklahoma and receiv- ing rations with the Kiowas and Co- mancaes. So it is that the Delawares among the Cherokees are all that remain intact in a considerable body of that great aboriginal nation which, under the generic name of Lenni-Lenape, once peopled the wilds of Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jer- sey, western Connecticut and southeastern New York. As a race they have bean equally famous in history and romance. For over a century they were moved about from pillar to post, with no perman- ent abode. From their original departure from the middle Atlantic states until their location in their present home they in- habited suceessiv-ly the states of West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Mlinols, Missouri and Kansas, leaving their foot-prints on the soil of each, and bequeathing to the localities they frequented the legacy of their native names. No other Indian tribe, perhaps, has experienced so many and varied vicissitudes. But now their troubles are happily over. They are in a decidedly enviable position, and being assured of permanent occupation of their well-earned land of Canaan, they can look back con- tentedly upon the hardships of their long exodus. A recital of their pilgrimages from the land of their fathers to their present home, 2,00) miles away, and of the successive changes in their conditien from wild sav- ages to wealthy modern citizens, makes a unique stcry. When Capt. John Smith landed in Virginia, the Delawares occupied all of eastern Pennsylvania, that part of New York between the Highlands and the ocean, that part of Connecticut west of the Connecticut river, all of New Jersey, and the upper part of Delaware state. They were a bold, daring and gifted tribe, num- bering more than 50,000 souls. The name by which they called themselves, “Lenni- Lenape,” signified “true men.” The tribe had five branches, all speaking one tongue— the Chihohockis, the Wanaais, the Mun- seys, the Mohicans and the Manhattans. Their neighbors on the north were the Iro- A Modern Delaware Indian Dwelling. quots, or Five Nations, and on the south, the Manahoacs or Monocans, peopling up- per Marylan@ and the eastern shore. A furlous war was raging between the Iro- quols and Delawares when Smith founded Jamestown, and it was long and doubtful, until the Iroquois got the ald of the Mono- cans. Then the Delawares, being surround- ed and hard pressed, were forced to sue for peace, which was granted them on condi- tion that they put themselves under the protection of the Iroquois, and confine themselves to peaceful hunting and fish- ing, renouncing the arts of war. In gther words, the Delawares “were made women of,” and in that condition William Penn found them in 1632, and the Dutch before him in New York, and the Swedes in Dela- ware. This was a humiliating position for such a high-spirited race, and so in 1740-50 many Delawares moved up the Susquehanna, over the Alleghenies and down the Mon- ongahela to Wheeling, W. Va. Presently they obtained from their ancient allies and “uncles,” the Wyandots, a grant of land in Ohio, on the Muskingum river, and went there, though the main body, being gradu- ally driven from New Jersey, Connecticut and New York into Pennsylvania, remain- ed in Pennsylvania fer a time. In 1768 still more of them removed beyond the Al- leghenies. By treaties in 1785 and 178 lands were conveyed to the Delawares in Ohio between the Miami, Upper Sandusky and Muskin- gum rivers, the race then being reduced to about 600 souls. Soon, however, they in- creased in numbers from additions cf straggling bands outside, and rose again to importance. : To Missouri and Kansas. In 1819 most of the Delawares moved from the White and Wabash rivers in! 4-4 — Indiana and IilfMdis in pursuance of the treaty of 1818, "by"which they ceded their lands for a ménéfary consideration, and went tc Missou#i,“near the. present site of Springfield, at the?fames fork of the White SKILLFUL BUILDERS river. A little Bad still remained on the| No Man Can Equal the Spiders in Sandusky in Gfiox but these latter sub- sequently, underithe treaty of 1829, re- linquished their heldings there and joined their nation in, Missouri. By another treaty in 1929 all the Dela- wares next sol@ ‘their lands in Missouri in turn, and mostef them agre2] to accept @ reservation if Mansas, at the junction of the Kansas Missouri rivers, not far from the present city of Leavenworth, and the bulk ’of*the nation, numbering about 1,100, emigrated peaceably to Kansas. Incorporated *With the Cherokee Na- oUon. In 1854 the Delawares parted with some of their surplus land in Kansas, retaining their home reserve, and exchanged a par- cel of miscellaneous annuities for $148,000 in cash. Six years. later, in i860, by an- other treaty, they sold more surplus !and to the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western railroad (Union Pacific), and agreed to allot their reserve lanis in severaity. Afterward, when the railroad company found itself unable to fully consummate the purchase, the government undertook, by the treaty of 1866, to make good the trans- action and assume the debt, at the same time agreeing to sell their other lands and procure for the trive new homes in the Cherokee nation in Indian territory. By the language of this treaty the Delawares became incorporated with the Cherokee nation, on equal terms in every respect with the native Cherokees. They paid the Cherokees $1 per acre for the land taken, besides $128,00) as their Proportion of existing Cherokee funds in the treasury. The same year they made a treaty with the Cherokees direct, by which they became members of the Cherokee na- tion, with the same rights and the same participation in the Cherokee funds as the Cherokees themselves. And right there is the interesting point in the luck that has lately befallen the Delawares. Getting Their Share. This point did not appear on the surface of events until many years after the ab- sorption of the Delawares by the Cherokees. But in 1883 Congress appropriated $300,000 to the Cherokees for some land west of tue Arkansas river, “and soon afterward the Delawares conceived the idea that they should partake of this mceney. They ap- plied to Congress, but at first without avail, Meanwhile the money was distributed and none was left for the Delawares. Finally, in 1888, Congress granted an appropriation of $75,000 to cover this share of the Dela- wares, ‘and that of the Shawnees and Cherokee freedmen, who stood on a similar footing, and of this amount the Delawares got $12,500, Small as this sum was, the prin- ciple established was the main thing; and so, pursuing thig line, the Delawares, with the Shawnees, induced Congress to give jurisdiction to the court of claims to deter- mine their rights as incorporated partici- pants with the. Cherokees, with respect tu mcneys derived from the sale or lease of Cherokee lands. Suit was brought in the Court of Claims, and a verdict secured two years ago by the Delawares and Shawnees. Following this, last year the Delawares ‘and Shawnees brought another suit to recover their interest in the, $8,296,000 due the Cher- okees for the sale of the Cherokee strip or outlet in 1893. This suit the Delawares won also, and sécured judgment for about $220,000 as their proportionate share. Ap- peal was takgn to-the Supreme Court, and last winter gment was sustained. The money i ‘ore, now due out of the reserve provigent## set aside by Congress | in anticipatiotet tHe judgment of the court, and the Interjor Department is making ar- Tangements th pagfit over to the Delaware chief in a couple St weeks. ‘pedr Wealth. But a muy site lump of money has lately come Sto jhe hands of the lucky Delawares. i 189% the sum of $36,000 was paid them on:accaynt of ah old treaty pro- vision touchgg t@pde-te- Kansas, .and in 1892! the.further sum of $10,000 was paid then for improvements upon lands sold to the Union’ Mueific railroad, while in 1893 the sum of , trust funds and inter- est from th lands in Kansas, held in the tre: ding $50,500 in Union Pacific ‘bonds $140,000 in’ Florida and North Cai slate bonds, was paid to the tribe per ita, In obedience to the mandate of Congress in 1891 and 1893. Now it is held that the’ late decision of the courts gives the Delawares a proportionate interest also in the old trust funds of the Cherokees, since by the treaty of 1867 the Delawares paid the Cherokees $125,000 as their share in those capital funds. These funds now amount to $2,607,000, and are lying In the treasury-bearing interest, and the Delawares’ share in them, if made good, as is probable, would be $73,138. Add- ing this to the foregoing amounts of trust funds and independent payments received, it is seen that the Delawares have recently become possessed of $1,281,638, elther act- ual cash in hand or funds held in trust. But, besides this, the Delawares have $651,693 worth of buildings and houses,with improvements, stcck, cattle and grain, and 27,878 acres of very fertile land, worth $1,- 394,000, at $50 an acre; and, in addition, they are stated to have individually not less than $1,587, on an average, per capita of money previously invested in trade or in ready cash derived from licenses, intruder permits and rents, or in bulk, approxi- mately, $1,197,000. So that, counting in this amount with the others (respectively, $1,281,638, and $651,693, and $1,394,000), the Delawares can be credited with available wealth aggregating $4,524,000, or $6,000 per capita for each of the 754 men, ae and children in the tribe. D.C. —————— Hankering for Crow. From London Truth. ‘The first great discovery I made is that mushrooms are the most digestible article of diet known, being disposed of by the average human digestive apparatus in one hour and twenty minutes. Being very fond cf mushrcoms, but having always suspect- ed their virtues, this takes a great weight off my mind, and I am looking forward to many happy days during the mushroom season, Another Interesting discovery is that the banana {s the most digestible of fruits, digesting in one hour and forty-five minutes, against four hours for a walnut cr chestnut, and four hours end five min- utes for a raisin. ‘A rook, it seems, ts the toughest morsel a man can eat, taking him six hours to nego- tiate, while a lark or a snipe is assimilated in two hours. If our authority is to be trvsted, you had better tive on roast pork than rook pie, for a dish of roast pork only lasts five hours and thirty minutes before it is finally absorbed. I never heard of any- pody but an agricultural laborer eating a rook, and, if it took him six hours to com- plete the process, it is a question whether we feeble dwellers in towns would ever accomplish it. I fear that a rook would finish me before I finished the rook. oS A Basis for Calculation. From Brooklyif Life. 27 Edwards—“Brow’s system reduces horse racing to ah exadt science.” ‘Does it?” In order to tell how mongy p Fgan Will lose it is only necessary {6 nol how much he has.” pay er Ses PP 3 Hef Plans. the Detfoit Tribhne. ‘I thougift you ‘were going to learn to love me,” hi sishéd. “Have patience,’ she retvrned calmly. “T propose taking that matter up just as soon as I learn meat pies and pillow-shams.”” =o ee ‘Twb Kinds of Good Luck. From the Chicago Retord. Jones lost'a dolldt and he felt so bad ‘That at'once be %egan to pinch, and when He'd quit recovered, he found he had In that time saved a crisp new ten. Brown wasn’t so lucky—he found the bill ‘That Jones had lost in the rush and rout, And when he was done with drinking his ‘fll He found he was just five dollars out. ———-+ e+ In Doubt. Fi From Life. He (on the hotel plazza)—“These electric lights are very unreliable.” She—“That’s so. A girl never knows what minute she’s going to be kissed.” A quarter before five.—Life. Architecture, STRENGTH AND PRECISION Sa Their Work is Regarded as Mar- velous. VARIETY IN WEBS From the Chicago Tribune. There are certain members of the spider family which build structures that could never be ‘equaled by human hands. The aeronautic spider shoots suspension bridges from tree to tree; the geometric spider con- trives snares in which to entrap its prey; the water spider constructs a diving bell of shining silk; and the trap-door spider makes an underground nest which is a marvel of accurate and elegant workman- ship. Compared with any of them man is but a bungler. The tarantula is a well-known variety of the trap-door spider. The site of his house is carefully chosen. Never is it in a hol- low; always upon a dry, sloping knoll, from which the moisture drains in every direction. A hole is first made, large enough for the spider to pass comfortably, and from three to fifteen inches in depth. The excavation is done by two powerful hooks which terminate the mandibles or jaws. These serve as pickaxes and spades for loosening the earth; it is removed and carried above by the mandibles themselves. When finished the tube is smoothed and polished and is then ready for its silken lining. This lining is spun from the body of the spider. It closely resembles the finest Jap- gnese paper, only it is infinitely finer and thinner. No human being could weave a fabric so exquisite, so frail and yet so enduring. 3 Hinges on the Doors. The most wonderful part of the work is the making and attaching of the lid or door. It is perfectly circular in form, and is composed of alternate layers of mud and silk. It swings on a little hinge of silk thread, and as a means of making it fit more tightly has a flange all around, which falls into a corresponding groove. Trap-decr spiders ar3 very careful to ecnceal the location of their unique homes. They make the top of the lid to correspond exactly with the surrounding ground. If that is bare, the lid is bare. If it is cover- ed with any kind of growth, bits of it are cut and glued to the top. When the spider ventures abroad he pushes the lid open from the inside and emerges. The lid then closes of its own weight. Coming home the spider watches to see if he is observed, and, finding the ccast clear, makes a lively scamper, opens the Hd with his mandibles, and vanishes inside. It is a curious fact that when the spider is inside his house the door cannot be opened on its hinges by human hands. Before it will open the clay must he broken. The way a spider makes a cable is mar- velous. Cable it is in every sense, for it is made of many threads. Inside the body are the vessels which secrete the fluid that is to make silk. Thesé vessels have about 6,000 outlets near the tip of the abdomen, through each one of which the spider emits a thread at will. These threads unite about one-tenth of an inch from the body, mak- ing the cablé that we ordinarily see. It ‘would take millions of threads to make a cable as large as a human hair. Uses of the Cable. The wisdom of nature in thus ordering the spider’s spinning apparatus is appa ent. The gummy substance hardens quick- er than if it emerged as a single thread, and we all know that a cable is much stronger than a rope of the same size. Now, when we see the uses to which the spider puts his cable we appreciate the necessity for its being firm and strong. But there is another advantage. When the spider wants to attach the end of a cable to some ob- ject he only has to press it firmly, when the damp filaments spread out and become glued fast. The variety making use of this cable for traveling is called the aeronautic spider. When the desire to make a journey seizes him he climbs a tree or a bulrush and raises his legs at frequent intervals in search of a breeze. ‘che moment one is felt he emits a cable, and waits until the loose end fastens itself to another object. This is detected, not by looking, as might be supposed, but by cautiously pulling at the cable with the legs. If the result of the test is satisfactory the cable is cut off and made fast to a twig, and the spider commits himself to his novel suspension bridge. As security against the first line giving way, a second is drawn over as the spider moves. Occasionally the aeronautic spider will attach one end of his cable to a tree and trust himself to the other, swinging in the air and paying out more line until the desired object is reached. He has not the power of coiling the cable back into his body, as is popularly believed. When he wishes to shorten it he simply gathers the locse part into a packet, glues the ends together and then throws the packet away. The common snare-building spiders are ancther interesting class. One of them, the geometric spider, is so very mathemati- cal in his work. Having chosen a situation for the snare, he surrounds the area with a boundary line, which is attached to adja- cent objects. A thread is then spun entire- ly across, and from the middle point of this another is carried to the boundary line. Returning to the central point, the spider carries another ilne to the margin, a short distance from the first, and so continues until he has a web which resembles a wheel. He then begins at the center again and carries a spiral round and round until the circumference is reached. Every time the spiral crosses one of the spokes of the wheel it is glued, thus making a strong web. Variety in Webs. Another snare-building spider makes a simpler web, very fine’and closely woven. The web is spun In the night, and is what we so often see on the grass in the morning. The spider lurks underneath, head down- ward, waiting for his prey to become en- tangleG in the mesh above. A third snare builder makes a web very similar to the above, but draws a part of it‘downward in the form of a tube. At the end of the tube is the spider himself. The tube is nearly horizontal at the entrance, but gradually becomes perpendicular. It is far more closely woven than the net. The erd sometimes descends into a hole in the ground, though it oftener rests upon a bunch of twigs or grass. It is a very con- venient and safe resting place for the spider. He can stretch his limbs to his heart’s content, and, at the same time, keep a sharp lookout for the next meal. A spider breathes air just as we do, and it may therefore seem absurd to say there is a species living under water. Neverthe- less, such is the case. Its subaaueous nest is a kind of diving bell, and makes a secure and most ingenious habitation. In gently running streams, canals and ditches the bell may be found, shining through the water like a little globe of silver. It is made of strong, closely woven white silk in the form of half an egg. Some- times it is partly over the surface, but at others entirely submerged. It is always at- tached to some twig by threads. The spider dwells inside, head downward, presumably watching for prey. When fresh air is need- ed, he rises to the surface, incloses a glob- ule by spinning a web around it, and then returns to the bell. It is supposed that water spiders live all winter in these bells. If such*is the case, they must be dormant, for it would be impossibie to reach the surface for fresh air on account of ice. There are many other spiders that have novel methods of architecturey One kind forms a raft for the purpose Mf obtaining its prey with more facility. Lashing a few small twigs together with silken cords, it is wafted along the surface of the water upon its floating island. When a drowning in- sect is seen the spider darts after it, drags it back, and devours it at leisure. Spiders form an interesting subject of study dur- ing the summer monchs. Nearly every kind described above is common, and can be readily observed anywhere in the country. The objection that spiders are unclean is not just. They are the neatest insects in the world. When a thread ceases to be useful the spider rolls it Into a ball and throws it away. Bits of web and articles of dust catching on his hairy legs are not permitted to remain. The insect has a very efficient instrument for cleaning in the mandibles, which are furnished with teeth. A spider which appsars to the casual ob- server to be resting idly in nine cases out of ten will be found slowly combing his legs to get the dust off. THINGS HEARD AND SEEN Feminine inconsistency is always a fa- vorite topic with scoffers at the weaker sex, but in one thing at least woman makes an attempt to disprove the accusations made against her, and that is in fitting her costume as far as possible to the fads of the hour. While the Napoleonic fever raged 3he wore cocked hats and imperial violets: till the air was blue with “little corporals.” That the otject of her imitation belonged to the opposite gender did not daunt her one whit, und she sported ker hero’s gar- ments with the audacity of the original. Just row there has been a return to softer ideas, and two factions are arrayed against each other in a sccial combat for the su- premacy of their respective heroines. One side tpholds the Marie Antoinette banner and wears hats with drocping plumes and folds filmy fichus around the throats of the combatants. Opposing this phalanx are th2 followers of Queen Louise of Prus- sla, and their symbol cf allegiance is the national flower of Germany—the blue corn- flower. Everywhere great clusters of corn- flowers are seen waving from the crowns of jaunty hats, and the favorite shade of ee gowns of the noble queen's admirers is uet. A very pretty story is told of the original cause of the selection of the cornflower as the national bloom by the great Emperor Wilhelm. It seems that on the occasion of one of the numerous flights to which Queen Louise was forced by the invading French armies her children, who accompanied her, complained bitterly of the fatigue of trav- eling, and, like the good mother she was, she ordered her coachman to halt and let the little ones out for a breather. The place of resting was in a large mead- cw, overgrown with quantities of blue blos- soms. The children fcrgot all their woes among the flowers and sunshine, and not one gf them was merrier and apparently as free from care as the woman whose heart ached at the thought of repeated blows to her throne and home. ‘When continued victories In cabinet and field placed Wilhelm I at the head of the German nation this scene of his childhood lingered in his memory, and to do honor to the beautiful self-forgetfulness and courage of his mother he selected as the emblem of United Germany the blue cornflower. There is one lesson that John Chinaman has imbibed very thoroughly froin his life in this western country, and that is the art of making his religion do him a good bus- iness turn. Four celestials managing four branches of the same laundry have ex- perienced a conviction of their original sin in four different denominations, and in order to help them as far as possible on the right road the members of the different congregations patronize their respective corverts. ith the same smile, “childlike and bland,” he of the queue absorbs everything soiled linen, sheckels and religious dog- ™mas--and continues meanwhile to believe and practice Shintoism and to compare notes about “Melican man muchee foolee.” There is an article of trade which occu- pies a very humble position and yet is one of the most necessary and valuable com- moditles in the mercantile world, and that is the velveteen skirt binding. The shopper foes to the store with a piece of goods to match, aud as it is almost impossible to get velveteen just the tint of a silk or wool dress she agonizes fully half an hour over the yarious pieces, finally selecting ono of the first samples shown. A few days ago in apologizing for keeping the clerk so long over such a small pur- chase the derart'ng buyer said: “I don't sce how you make anything at this counter, anyhow, the material is so cheap.” “But you must consider the demand,” was the quick response; “and so far from not making anything at this counter, I could retire from business inside of two years if I could retain all the profits that are made here.” | From the talk that is heard around the Navy Department it is surmised that the missionaries are not very popular with Ravy officers. Yet the missionaries in for- eign Jands make the navy not only neces- sary, but useful. The protection of these same missionaries makes it strongly ap- parent that we could not do very well without a navy. A cruiser in the Mediter- ranean and our fleet in China waters call attention sharply to the fact that our navy is needed. England makes good use of her mission- aries who are abused and killed. It would not be surprising to see the recent rlois at Ku-cheng result in the acquisition of Chinese territory by Great Britain. She may obserye that the only way in which her missionaries can be protected is by the extension of one of the many forms of government by which the great colonizer seizes and controls so much of the earth’ surface. Anthony Hope in one of his stories illustrates this in a few words. A party was assembled in a London drawing room, the most of whom were interested in a company which was land grabbing in Africa. “And how’s the great scheme?” asked some one. “We hope to get the money raised,” sald the principal promoter. “Everything’s going on very well,” sald a funny mar. of the company. “They have killed a missionary.” “How dreadful,” said a lady. “Regrettable in itself, but the first step toward empire,” explained the funny man. How true it is. Later In the same book the suggestion is made that if some of the traders would also be killed England would then take contro] of the whole country. It has been asserted before by some one that Erglish missionaries go first into a country and are killed; English traders follow, aud English red ceats and marines are close be- hind them. “They have killed a mission- ary” and “it’s the first step toward em- pire” are expressions that are well to keep in mind while the English are settling with China for the Ku-cheng riots. Statesmen who have been In the habit of depending upon garden sceds to secure them votes for re-claction will probably find e great deal of fault with Secretary Morton because be has cut off the seed division of tne Agricultural Department and will no longer deliver seeds to Sen- ators and Representatives. In many cascs seeds have cut @ great figure in .the elec- tion, or rather in the nomination of men for Congress. There are a great many men who come to Congress and remain for several terms upon their seed records alone. It was suggested to Secretary Morton the other day that probably the next Congress would amend the law so that the word “rare,” for it is rare seeds that the statute conte-nplates delivering to the people, would mean any and all kinds of seeds, as in the past. “Tney will have to provide an additional building,” he said, “for when Congress meets again the room which has been devoted to the seed division will be occupied with another branch of the Agri- cultural Department. You can’t run seed division unless there is a place for it?’ asked the Secretary, with a knowing look. So it means that if Congress goes into the seed business again a building will have to be provided, and that will be rather ex- pensive. Speaking of sceds: When John L. Wil- son returned to the capital from Washing- ton state he was still a Representative. He went over to the department and drew his complete quota of seeds for a member of the House. The next day he was sworn in and went over and said: “Did I get all the seeds that were coming to Representative Wilson when I was here yesterday?” “You did,” answered the chief of the di- vision. “Well, I want the full quota of seeds due Senator Wilson.” He got them, and for the next two weeks his clerk did nothing but address packages of garden seeds to John L.’s constituents. ‘Why don’t the people of the Pacific coast state change its name? Here we have to say Washington, adding the word “state” every time. Who named the territory “Washington,” any way, and why didn’t he recognize the fact that it would in lime lead to endless trouble? As soon as the name was given the word “territory” had to be added in order to prevent con- fusion, and to designate just what was meant. And no matter how great the State may become, the name ‘Washington’ will always mean the spot chosen by the father of his country as the capital of the Union. Washington the capital will not suffer, but Washington the state will. And that suggests the fact that the dele- gation in Congress from Washington state are going to try and have one of the new battle ships named Washingtcn. It has been said that one of the ships should be called Alabama and the other Kearsarge, but it would take an act of Congress to name one of the battle ships Kearsarge. Under the law, the battle ships must be named for states. Alabama might go, but not the name of the ship that was lost on Roncador reef unless Congress should so Provide. A battle ship might be called Washington, after the state, and Secretary ss may be persuaded to gratify the wishes of the Washington delegation. “s In these days of first-c machinery, when everything of any sietese is ace plished by something besides main strength and awkwardness, it is rather disgusting to go Into the Treasury Department of this great government «nd notice the primitive, not to say slovenly, system employed ifi transporting goods from one story to another. The old windiass that has been rigged up in the southeast corner of the treasury would be a disgrace to the South eS pneoneey, while the ancients would ave been ashai - ment. A bag of books or a bundle of paper is tied with a rope and hoisted on this red contrivance, -o e cement contrivance, or lowered tothe basement creakings and groanin; ing a Red river Indian cart. It pare be relegated to the Smithsonian as a relic suited toa collection of curios. It might be interesting a few hundred years hence to see what sort of machinery was used In the treasury at the close of the nineteenth century. No wonder there is difficulty in maintaining the gold reserve. Frank H. Hosford of the Detroit Free Press tells this one on himself: One day his rival, then Chas. A. Hamilton, who was looking out for the Detroit Tribune, had a very large beat on alm. The subject was regarding a prominent Michigan man, against ae sult had been filed, and it was a choice and meaty story for Michi; readers, involving several prominent men of the wolverine state. Of course Hosford got a kick and set to work to'find out how he got left. He asked a number of men, supposed to know, and they could not tel him how the story was made Public; the man most deeply interested -aying that 1] Pupers were in the hands of the lawye: and inquiring if they had been filed. Final- ly Hosford -went to Hamilton and asked him the straight question: “Charley, where did you get that story?’ “Where dia I get it?” repeated Charley, in blank ainazement, learning for the first time it was a beat, ‘why, I got it out of The Star.” —_—-—__ CHILDREN NOT WANTED. A Mother Finds This Notice When Search of a House. “Motherhood fs a crime,” was the start- ling remark of a young matron to a Star writer recently. “At least it seems to be in this city,” she went on, dropping in a chair and mopping her heated face with a wisp of linen and lace. “I’ve been house ‘hunting, ard I have lost my faith in hu- man kind. I am the happy mother of two promising cherubs, that is, they promise to be the means of turning me into the street, for I meet everywhere I go the no- tice, ‘No children permitted.’ It isn’t grammatical, and it is physiologically illog- ical, but all the same I find that I am al- most absolutely barred from living in the ‘swell section unless I will turn my bables over to some crphans’ home, which would be as illogical as the notices, seeing that they are not orphans. Seven houses I hive seen, seventeen times seven agents I have interviewed in the last three days, and up to the present moment I am homelesr. Really, the situation grows alarming. Ncw, do you k1ow, I think the mothers are to blame for this state of af- fairs. If they gave more time to the man- ners of their children and less to the modes de Paris, if they exhibited as much inter- est in the rights of children as they do in the rights of women, there would be less childish vandalism and a heap more com- fort all around. If mothers ‘mothered’ their children as they ought to, instead of looking on them as an unavoidable evil of married life, there might be some hope of reform among inexcreble house agents, because the tendency then would be to con- trol and gestrain boisterous young Amer- ica, but the tendency of the times seems to be right away from that idea, and young America comes near being a young anarchist. I have an idea if I could only get some enterprising house or flat builder to take hold of it. It 1s this: In every row of apartment houses or flats I would have one large central room clear at the top cf the house. It should be half of glass, so there would be sunshine and air, and it should be fitted up as a kindergarten and nursery. I would furnish it with all the apparatus for running it, and then I would offer it for rent .with the announcement that an accomplished young lady would herd all the children in the flats under ten in this play school from 8 o'clock a.m. to 8 o'clock p.m. without extra charge. owner of that house would have is cants for the privilege of living in his high-priced helghborhood standing as thick as cn Mr. Spofford’s list for situations in the new Congressional Library. Well, I feel a little like the Wandering Jew, but If I don’t want to sleep on the sidewalk with my ‘not-wanted’ children I will have to be moving.” = —— Did’t Want to Marry Her. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Pilker—“Dreadful about Bilker drowning, wasn’t it?” Jilker—“Yes! A pew woman swam out to save him, but when he saw who it was he threw up bis hand with one wild, de- spairing cry and went under.” ———_+e+—____ Considerate Burglar. From the Richmond State. Magistrate—“If you were there for mo dishonest purpose, why were you in your stocking feet?” Burglar—“I heard there was sickness in the family, your worship.” ————— A Woman in Spite of Bloomers. From ths Chicago Record. “She’s a thorough woman even if she does wear bifurcated clothes.” “How do you make that out?” “Ske can’t find the pockets in her bloom- ers.” —+0+ BUZI AND WALDL; Or, the Struggle Over a Nursing Bottle from Fltegende Blatter. |

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