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CORNICE FOR ROTUNDA, “THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. BY MARTINY. WORK OF ARTISTS Painting and Sculptare in the New Library Building. SOME OF THE INTERIOR EFFECTS Decorative Details of the Entrance and Rotunda. FORM AND COLOR Written for The Evening Star. LMOST AS GREAT a number of distin- guished sculptors and painters are contrib- uting and have con- tributed their art to the building for the Congressional Libra- ry as were mustered to the creation of the white city. No less than forty such — twenty-five sculptors and fifteen painters— are devoting their powers to the decoration of this single edi- tice. Some of them are preparing their designs in Italy and France, and the-others in this country. At Paris the chosen sculptors are Frederick MacMonnies, Pau! Bartlett, John Flanagan and John Donoghue. In New’ York city they are Augustus and Louis St. Gaudens, Philip Martiny, Daniel C. French, Altert Weinert, Olin Warner, Charles H. Niehaus, F. W. Ruchsthul, J. Scott Hart- ley, George Barnard, Theodore Baur, E. Hinton Perry and J. Q. A. Ward. Besides these are Bela L. Pratt and C. E. Dallin of Boston, Henry J. Ellicott and William R. Boyd of Washington, John J. Boyle of Philadelphia, Herbert Adams of Brooklyn, George Bissell of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Edward C. Potter of Enfield, Mass. ‘The painters are Elihu Vedder at Rome, Gari Melchers,Wm. L. Dodge, Carl Gutherz, Walter McEwen and Jno. Alexander, all at Paris; Charles Sprague Pearce at Au- verssur-O ise, France; Ken- yon Cox, Ed- field, Freder- ick Dielman, Edward _ Sim- mons, George W. Maynard, H. Walker and Elmer E. Garnsey, all} of New York! Thayer of Scar- | Abbott H. The artists who beautified the city, and boro, N. ¥ world’s fair buildings, however, were en- gaged by a private corporation. These are now employed, all at once, by the United States government, pursuant to a policy now adopted for the first time. No other public building has ever been embel- Ushed in this way by our government, and the immediate result of this radical de- parture will be, it is expected, the finest ornamental structure in America. And the ultimate results, doubtless, will be a great impetus to American art and an immeasur- able elevation in the standard of popular taste. Except for the proper and necessary re- strictions, the artists commissioned were in the main allowed free rein. They were | let loose, so to speak, to pursue their own | individual bents, and to produce their best work in their own way. The officer in charge retained an advisory superfision over the whole project, under the general direction of Gen. Casey and Mr. Green. An Imposing Entrance. Entering the ground floor, you traverse four wide corridors along the four sides, lined with finely colored marbles. The en- trance is of white Italian marble; its com- municating corridor is of mottled blue marble from Vermont. The north corridor is of pink Tennessee marble, the east cor- ridor of Georgia marble, richly veined black and white, and the south corridor of red and white Champlain marble. Now, leave the ground floor, and, re- turning outside, mount the sumptuous granite stairway to the main entrance. Over the central doors are three pairs of spandrels, carved in granite, modeled by Pratt in Boston. Above the grand entrance, jutting out from the cirucular win- dows of the second story, are nine co- lossal granite busts of Demosthenes, Dante and Scott, by Adams; Irving, Hawthorne ad Emerson, by Hartley, and Franklin, Ma- caulay and Goethe, by Ruchstuhl. Admis- sion is had through three pairs of great bronze doors, highly wrought in allegorical figures, representing the methods of trans- mission of knowledge in past ages, by tra- dition, by writing and by printing. “Passing in, you enter the vestibule, with its grand double staircase and vaulted cell- ing, seventy-two feet high. This chamber and the next, the rotunda, are the greatest architectural and artistic triumphs of the interior. The vestibule is dressed in pol- ished white Italian marble, and on the sides rise tall columns, with exquisitely carved capitals. The newel posts of the marble stairway are embossed with fes- toons leaves and flowers, and topped by two bronze lamp bearers for electric lights. The upper staircases are ornamented with twonty-six small fgures by ’ in relief, symbolizing the various arts and sciences. In the Rotunda. The reading room or rotunda, octagon- shaped, is one hundred feet in diameter «nd one hundred and twenty-five feet high, lighted by eight semicircular windows, thirty-two feet wide. The walls are of va- riegated Siena marble, with numerous groined arches and balustrades. The eight piers, that rise forty feet to the concave ceiling, are of chocolate Tennessee marble at the base and of two shades of lighter Numidian marble farther up. They are surmounted by eight-colossal female fig- ures. One, typifying Art, is by Augustus St. Gaudens; another, History, by French; still another, Philosophy, by Pratt; Poetry, by Adams; Science, by Donoghue; Law, b: Bartlett; Commerce, by Flanagan, and Re- ligion, by Baur. Sixteen bronze statues of heroic size will be ranged round the gal- Medallion on Interior Frieze. lery balustrade of the rotunda, delineating two recognized masters or expounders of eash of the subjects represented above by the corresponding ideal figures. Thus the statue of Michael Angelo, by Bartlett, and that of Beethoven, by Baur, will represent Art, embracing painting, sculpture and _ music. Herodotus, by French, and Gibbon, by Niehaus, will rep- resent History; likewise Plato and Bacon, by Boyle, will stand for Philosophy; Homer, by Louis St. Gaudens, and Shakes- peare, by MacMonnies, for Poetry; Solon, by Ruchstuhl, and Kent, by Bissell, for Law; Columbus, by Bartlett, and Fulton, by Potter, for Commerce, and Moses, by Niehaus, and St. Paul, by Donoghue, for Religion. The principal plaster figures in the en- tablature of the rotunda were modeled by Martiny. he whole interior of the dome and elsewhere\ were modeled in the building by Weinert, as chief modeler. In the rotunda also Flanagan will do a large clock piece, eight feet square, in dark marble and bronze; a composition comprising a clock dial, Father Time and other winged figures, with oak foliage behind and the signs of the zodiak on a mosaic background. The crown of the dome and the crown of the lantern overhead are being illuminated with large allegorical paintings by Blash- field, representing “The Human Under- standing’ and “Knowledge of Different Ages.” Works of Art. In the second story museum Cox is doing two pictures, “Art and “Science.” In another museum Melchers will do two anal- ogous companion pictures, “ a” and “Water.” In one of the corner pavilions Maynard is making four pictures repre- senting “Adventure,” “Discovery,” ‘“Con- quest” and “Civilization.” In another cor- ner pavilion Dodge is painting a similar series representing “Music,” “Art,” “Lit- “Science” and “Ambition.” sewhere in the building, on the walls of the larger rooms, Dielman and Thayer are to make mosaic panels for mantel- | pieces; Vedder ts to paint five pieces em- blematic of government, Alexander is to do a series of panels illustrating the evo- lution of the took, McEwen will adorn a number of panels by representations of the Greek herces of mythology and history, Gutherz is commissioned to paint still another set representing “Light” in various conceptions, and Walker is engaged on a series of pictures illustrative of lyric poetry. Besides all the foregoing, an enormous amount of general decoration in color, as yell as in conventional ard other designs, will be done by Garnsey as chief decorator. Bas reliefs and large medallions in stucco. representing the seasons, have been exe- cuted by Pratt. Many other leading dec- crative features in stucco and other archi- tectural finish will be executed from de- s'gns by Edward P. Casey. These include the entire dome and vaulting of the main rotunda and grand stair hall, the tiling and mosaics of floors and ceilings, the entire Intertors of three rooms, and the west crridors of the first story. All these imposing. art works are pro- gressing satisfactorily in different stages of advancement. Some of them were begun some eighteen months back, soon after the building was placed under roof. A fortnight ago the high board fence around the inclosure was removed, and now the grounds are being laid out in lawn, drive- ways and fancy shrubbery. Gen. Casey ex- pects to hand over the keys of the building in January, 1897, fully completed an ready to become the repository of the 700,- (00 books belonging to the nation. -_— First Boy Born in Chicago. From the Chicago Times-Herald. ‘Alexander Beaubien doesn’t look much like the proverbial oldest inhabitant, but he has the honor of that position in Chi- cago’s circle of early settlers. Beaubien is literally a part of Chicago. His father, John B. Beaubien, came to the lake town in 1809, accompanied by a brother, Mark. ‘They had been reared in Detroit, and made ithe change of location that they might deal with the Indians here for the Ameri- can Fur Trade Company, John 8008 As- 3 yncern. John B. Beaubien took .up Buireatl of land extending from the lake west to what is now State street, and bounded north and south by the river and Madison street, respectively. His wife was Josette Le Fronbois, a half Indian, and the couple. had eleven children. Alexander Beaubien is the oldest of the five that-still live, and he will be seventy-four years old January 22 next. +e+ A Boy’s Definitio From the Bangor News. Numerous are the people who have “‘bulld- ed better than they knew.” A small boy in one of the public schools was asked to de- fine a demagogue. “‘A demagogue,” he said, “is a vessel that holds wine, gin, whisky or any other Hquor. ek rane Soren The New Engagement. arlem Life. From “I’m afraid he will find {t difficult to get] along with Maud. She is never satisfied un- less she !s picking flaws in somebody.” “Well, she ought not to be disappointed in him.” -< e2—____ A Questionable Right. From the Indianapolis Journ: “What I want to know,” asked the corn- fed philosopher of his assembled listeners, “is whether the alleged new woman will ever attain the right of having her hat knocked off at the theater by the indig- nant man sitting behind her.” aeEre eres at eee Ss eee ao: reedy, wee Buckinghan's Dye and appear tidy, TOY WAR VESSELS Only Five Feet Long, but Cost Thou- sands of Dollars. BUILT AT THE WASHINGTON YARD They Show the People What the New Navy is Like. A TANK FOR EXPERIMENTS WARSHIP IN MIN- fature is being built at the Washington navy yard. Though only five feet long, it is a perfect likeness of the Columbia, Un- cle Sam’s fighting ocean greyhound. Every detail is reps duced with the ut- most accuracy on a scale of a quarter of an inch to the foot, even the guns being ¥ perfect in all of their parts down to the very breech mechanism. . In the new navy of the United States sev- Z, — eral classes of vessels are comprised. The government has adopted the policy of con- structing one small model to represent each type of warship in the service. Thus min- iature copies have been made of the armored battle ship Texas, the monitor Miantonomoh, the ram Katahdin and others. Seven men at the Washington navy yard are constantly employed in building these models, which cost from $2,000 to $8,000 apiece.. These artisans are mechanics of the highest skill, and the work they do is such as to require a special training. Workmanship of the utmost difficulty is needed, many of the parts being so little that an ordinary per- son could not handle them or put them to- gether. Everything must be reproduced down to the smallest block for the runniag rigging. The Columbia’s Guns. Take the guns of the miniature Columbia for example. They are the prettiest toys imaginable. The big.ones, representing orig- inals of eight-inch caliber, are about four inches long. No part of either gun or car- riage Is lacking, and the breech can be open- ed by a touch of the finger to admit a small- sized armor-piercing projectile or an ex- Plosive shell. The secondary batteries of the Columbia consist of a number of small machine guns and rapid-fire guns, some of which are aloft in the military tops. Every one of these is reproduced on its proper scale in the model. Bailding the Columbia Model. The building of the model of the Columbia was begun by taking a number of pine boards, cut roughly to the outlines of the ship, and putting them together under pres- sure with glue between them. Thus a solid block of approximate dimensions was form- ed. The block was then planed and chiselet until the lines of the great war vessel were reproduced with absolute exactness. The hull being made smooth with sandpaper, the rudder and propeller shafts, of cherry wood, were added. At the same time were put cn the “‘sponsons,” out of which the guns look as from windows of steel. Holes having been bored for the window ports, the little craft was ready to receive its armament and other equipment. The model is not yet finished, but the guns are made and nearly all of the other equipments are ready to be put aboard. These latter are very elaborate, and to pro- duce them has required an immense amount of labor. For exammiple, there are a number of boats, including one steam launch in miniature. Each of these represents three days’ work for one man. The false bottoms and every rib inside of them are shown. All of them are of wood, save for the smokestack and rudder of the steam launch. The boats are swung from davits, the tiny metal blocks through which the tackle runs being perfectly practical and just like real ones. The smokestack of the miniature Colum- bia is of brass, painted just like that of the cruiser herself. Attached to it are escape pipes of copper and a whistle and fog horn, otherwise known as a “steam siren,” of nickel silver. The ventilators are of cop- per. They turn their gaping mouths to the wind, which blows down into them and Keeps the air fresh below. One of the last things done is to put the masts into the little ship. They are of wood, but, being painted, they look just like the hollow steel masts of a modern war vessel. The bigger spars on a warship are steel tubes. The rigging of the model is of white wire twisted to imitate the wire rigging on a man-o’-war. In the model of a battle ship the armor is represented by wood painted. What the Object Is. - The models of warships are built in what is called the ship house at the navy yard. The establishment is a huge machine shop, under the control of the construction bu- reau of the Navy Department. The minia- ture vessels are made from the original Plans and drawings for cruisers and battle ships, which are reduced to scale for the purpose. The object of building the models is to show the people what Uncle Sam’s new navy Is like. Several of the models have been sent to Atlanta, where they will be viewed by mil- lions. Occasionally models have been sent by the Navy Department to the Capitol, in order that Congressmen might ‘see them and know what sort of ships they were appropriating money to construct. To Be Tested. In the ship house at the Washington navy yard is now being made a model of the battle ship Indiana, twenty feet long. It is intended, not for exhibition, but for a more practical purpose. It is of wood, cov- ered with an even coat of paraffine one inch thick. When it is finished it will be run on the Potomac river, with an engine inside of it and paddle wheels. Paddle wheels are preferred to a propeller, because the power exerted by them can be meas- ured more accurately. This is exactly what is desired to be ascertained—namely, how much power is required to propel the model through the water at a given rate of speed. What Is true of the model ought to be true also of the Indiana, the form of the hull of the latter being the same. Paraf- fine is employed because it is perfectly smooth and will afford no such resistance as might impair the accuracy of the data obtained by the experiments. Tanks for Models. In Great Britain the keel of no new ship of war is laid until trial has been made of a miniature model. For this purpose is used an immense tank 300 feet long, 23 feet wide and 10 feet deep, filled with water. Above the tank, and running its entire length, is suspended a platform. On the platform is a track and along the track a carriage runs. Beneath the carriage floats the model, which {s made wholly of paraffine. Of course, paraffine is lighter than water. The carriage tows the model along, and the power used is registered with absolute accuracy by a dynamome- ter. Thus is learned with exactness the speed at which the warship represented by the model will steam with a given horse- power. Great Britain in fact has several such tanks, and similar ones are used for the purpose by France, Germany and Italy. Secretary Herbert will try to persuade the next Congress to appropriate money for building a tank of the kind at Washington. The cost of it would be about $150,000. It would be cheap at the price, however, for it would afford a means of testing all mod- els of proposed vessels in future before the contracts for their construction were given out. Thus the Navy Department would know exactly what might be expected of every warship before its keeel was laid. In a word, the tank experiments make it easy to determine the best form of ship to at- tain a certain speed. | ‘We wii! mail on application free information how to grow hair upon a bald head, stop falling hair and remove scalp diseases. Address ALTENHETS MEDICAL DISPENSARY, 127 E. 3d st. Cinein- nati, Ohio. 012-3 THINGS HEARD AND SEEN € I met a man on F street yesterday. There was something “about him that seemed familiar, and yet I was certain that I had never seen him. His shouldéra were bent and he walked ‘with a listless step. As we approached more nearly he held out his hand and calle@ me by name. Then I knew bim, or rather I knew what he used to be, for there is b wlittle in common between the present ag@ the past of this man’s life. He told §p@ that he was a govern- ment clerk; h®gparty services had been remarded, andstfe reward had taken the elasticity fromfhis step, the brightness from his eyes’and had hushed the clear, ringing laugh that had made him the most popular young man in the little western town where we were raised, for we went to schcol together. He had studied law, and I remember well how proud we all were of him, reading the praises the news- Papers bestowed upon him when he won the prizes for oratory and for the best brief at the law school. Instead of enter- irg into the practice at once, he went into Politics, and was elected to the legislature when he had bur barely attaine] his ma- jority. Then: he went to Washington, and I used to wonder how soon he would be appointed to a cabinet position. Yesterday was the first time I have seen him since. For fifteen years he has sat at the same desk until he seems like a part of the fur- niture of the office. His fellow clerks know him by name, and the census enumefators Probably discovered him. He seems to ex- pect nothing, hope nothing, think of noth- ing, except that under civil service rules ‘he may retain the desk where, for a bare livelihood, he has buried his talents. In the Center market yesterday I saw an old man, smocth shaven, with firm lips, proudly set. His suit was of broadcloth, but very old, cut in the style worn before the war. His linen was immaculately clean, but there was a lack of gloss, which showed that it had been washed at home. Close behind him was a colored boy, per- heps eight or ten years old. Ho went to a meat stall and ordered 5 cents’ worth of steak, then fumbled in his vest pocket for the money. A flush of shame Spread over his face, and in an embarrassed way that was pitiful he said: “I did have a dime.” Then he found the coin, and, receiving the nickel in change, he handed his purchase to the boy, who trotted behind his master carrying the meat. The old man had once owned a large plantation and had plenty of money at his disposal. He had never been able to reconcile himself to the new cordition of affairs, when the close of the war found him a barkrupt, and now far beyond the three score and ten in years, he cannot forget that he is an old Virginia gentleman, even though he must suffer from hunger in crder to keep up the cus- toms of his ancestors. femerree se: te In Washington there is a doll hospital, and the little mothers take their inanimate darlings to have the sick made well and the matmed healed. It is a beautiful thing, the instinct of motherhood, implanted in little girls. They cannot be deceived as to their dolls any more than a grown mother can as to her babies, and when their favorite doll is broken it is no-consolation to them that a better one is bought. Sometimes the dolls get sick in their Jittle mothers’ estimation when they are not broken, and they are taken to the hospital, but usually they have met with an Se ene and it requires the services of a surgéon. There are not many doll hospitals’in éxistence, and when the cheapness of:new dolls is considered it speaks volumes for the natural tendencies and motherly caré of little girls that they are successful where established. - 3 8 ee I was talking to a. well-known numismatic the other day: about the dollar of 1804, for good specimens of which such fabulous prices are paid by collectors, and he gave me some interesting information. ‘The reason the dollars of 180£are so scarce Is that none were coined that year, there being an excess of coins of that dehomination in circulation. In 1803, as ig dlways done, the dies were made for the-aucceeding year, but none were coined until 1856, when Director Pollock of the mint found the old die of 1804 at Phila- delphia, and in‘ order to complete his own collection, offered to exchange with numis- matics. How many were struck off is not known, but oné of these belonging to ex-Di- rector Lindeman was sold at auction in New York for $470. Upon the early dollars coined around the rim of the coin was cut the words “Unit, one hundred cents.” This is termed the “collar” by numismatics, and there is no collar upon these re-strikes. Hence, it is useless to look among the old dollars that were in circulation for one bearing the date of 1804. es 8 © 6 One of the most vivid pictures of abject grief I ever saw was an old Indian at Ar- kansas City, Kan., before the Cherokee strip was opened and when there were more Indians and fewer white men there than are to be seen now. It was the cus- tom of the Indians to shoot their arrows at nickels placed in crotched sticks. If they hit the coin it was theirs, and they immediately invested it in whisky so mean that it served only to create an insatiable desire for more, while it so unnerved them that they could not shoot. The old Indian had hit two or three nickels early in the morning and then he could hit no more. He stood bareheaded in the hot sun and shot arrow after arrow, but they sped wide of the mark. For hours, goaded al- most to desperation, he tried in vain, and when I saw him about the middle of the afternoon, he would walk up to the line from which he was to shoot, take aim with grim determiration, and when he missed, stoical no longer, the old man would sit on the curbstone and cry like a child, beat- ing his breast and wailing. Then he would arise, wrap his blanket about him and shoot again. I have seen Indians face danger without flincting, and it 1s seldom that they cry, but the grief of the old man literally burning up with thirst was too great for him to stand, when the arrows did not hit the coins that would have brought him oblivion. Finally three nickels were given him, and an hour later the old Indian was sleeping in a fence corner, with a happy smile upon his lips. I was talking to a well-known author the other day, when he complained that there were no titles to distinguish his pro- fession. “It seems strange,” he said, “that the highest office in the land and the high- est profession, rightly considered, are with- out distinguishing titles. If a man has ever been an officer in the army he Is “‘cap- tain,” “colonel,” “major” or “general” throughout his life. If he has occupied a position on the bench, he is always saluted as “judge.” If he has been a Senator, he is so called; Ifa governor, the name clings to him. Shotfd "he become President of the United States, however, upon leaving office he is not greeted as such, but is given the title he had béfore occupying that high office. He Is refetited to as “ex-President” if the office 4s u8ed at all, and he could scarcely be greeted by that term. Physi- cians all have, the, title of “‘doctor,” school teachers of “professor,” lawyers by courte- sy of “judge;" but authorship, no matter how much fame it may bring or influence create, confers %o honorary distinction whatever as to ‘title.” z A Baltimo’ bell.Life. A WEIRD SPECTACLE Besoription of the Great Rattle- snake Dance of the Hopis. WIM RATTLERS IN THEIR MOUTHS How the Serpents Were Captured and the Part They Played. ASTRANGE INDIAN CEREMONY ‘ LTHOUGH I HAVE spent considerable time among the strangest Indians of the southwest,” said Mr. F. W. Hodge of the bureau of ethnol- \ ogy to a representa- tive of The Star, ‘the most weird and yet most interesting spec- tacle which I have ever witnessed in my life was the great rattlesnake dance of the Hopi Ina.ans u: Arizona held in Walpi, one of their settlements, a few weeks ago. “I have spent the last three month: he ecntinued, “in Arizona and New Mexico, making special investigations among the Pueblo Indians.- One of my duties was to aid in solving the mysteries of this strange ceremony, which on account of the sanctity with which it is regarded among the natives has been seen by but few white men. “Think of looking down upon a wide arena high up in one of the mountains of Arizona, @ space literally filled with dancing, howl- ing savages, each holding in his mouth as many tremendous, hissing rattlesnakes as he could place between his teeth! Can you imagine anything more ghastly? Walpi, the princ:pal village of the Hopis, stands upon a narrow mesa, about seventy-five miles south of San Juan. This little city over- looks a wide valley, about 600 feet below, from which there is a narrow winding path almost impossible to climb. “Although this festival has been held al- ternately in each of the Hepi cities, pos- sibly for centuries, it has only been of late years that white men have found their way to these inaccessible towns in the loneliest corner of America. Altogether the ceremon- ies lasted nine days, during which time we camped among the natives. We learned from the chief priests that the dance was to be an appeal to the rain god for a cessation of the long drought whicb each year threat- ens to dry up the crops, until the rainy sea- son regularly comes to their relief. “The first two days of the dance were de- voted to a strange preparatory ceremony performed in the sanctum or kiva of the chief antelope priest. The Snake Hun “The next four days were devoted to the snake hunt. This was participated in only by the snake priests. Each carried a long- handled hoe, a straight wooden rod, a bag of cornmeal and a switch made of long feathers tied in a bunch at the end of a thin stem of willow. For many miles every prairie dog hole or clump of under- brush was searched for rattlesnakes, which were put in a bag and carried to the city. Each man as he found a rattler, no mat- ter how large or how fierce it might be, picked it up in his naked fingers, grasping him back of the neck, but none of these hunters ever dared touch a rattler while he was coiled. The seventh day, the hunt being over, the priests spent in preparing their paraphernalia to be used in the final dance. On the eighth day occurred the in- teresting ceremony of initiating new mem- bers of the antelope society. This cere- mony consisted of a simple baptism by water and the conferring of a peculiar title. The remainder of the eighth day, or that preceding the great dance, was spent in preparing the dance plaza. This prepa- ration consisted chiefly in the erection of a kind of tent, about midway between the line of houses which faced the open side. The tent was made of boughs of trees, formed in a conical pile and covered care- fully with a buffalo robe. The Dance. “An hour or more before sunset on the rinth day several large bags containing the serpents were placed in the conical tent in the midst of the plaza. At last, when the sun went down the weird dance began. The first to enter the plaza were the antelope priests. These dignitaries were naked to the waist, below which they wore white kilts, variously decorated. “Their bodies and limbs were painted with thunder clouds and lightning flashes, their legs were bare, but on their feet were san- dals. Their long black hair hung loosely over their shoulders, and plumes decked their scalp locks. Marching in from their kiva in single file, they wound their column several times around a rock which stands near the entrance of the plaza, afterward singing a solemn chant as they went through many strange evolutions. After the antelope priests had finished their chant the snake priests entered, shaking rattles made of tortoise shell. They made a march similar to that of the antelope men, but appeared excited rather than dignified. They were naked to the waist, wore red kilts, red moccasins and red feathers on their heads. Their bodies were colored with daubs of red and black paint, while the upper half of their faces was black, the lower white. Having gone through some evolutions they divided themselves into couples, one man known as the ‘car- rier,’ the other the ‘hugger.’ With Snakes in Their Mouths. “After marching around the plaza sev- eral times, they passed near the snake tent, and as each couple reached it the car- rier stepped in- and drew from the bag a large rattlesnake. Shutting his eyes he put the viper in his mouth, biting it tightly near the midile. His companion, the hug- ger, theroupon put his arm around the car- rier, and led him, since his eyes remained closed, as long as he kept the rattler in his mouth. The couples mcved around the plaza,the dance incomplete unless each held the snake in his teeth until he had entirely encircled the space. This was not always accomplished, and many rattlers dropped on the ground beneath the feet of the per- fermers as they hurried along. About ten of the snake men had been previously de- tailed as ‘gatherers,’ and these followed the procession, picking up the fallen ser- pents, but never touching a rattler while coiled. Although the dancers seemed care- less of any danger, I saw one of the car- riers get badly bitten in the face, but he did not appear to mind It, while the blood trickled down over his neck. After the Dance. “The antelope priests, who remained on either side of ‘the snake tent, singing a weird chant, tcok the snakes from the gatherers as soon as picked up. A group of gaily dressed Indian maidens, the sweet- hearts of the braves, stood at the base of the dance rock, and sprinkled cornmeal on the procession as it passed. But soon the last snake had been taken from the tent and the dance stopped. The chief snake priest made a ring of cornmeal on the ground, and within this all of the hissing vipers were thrown into a squirming heap. At once the saake priests rushed forward, grabbed as many as he could carry, and, dashing down into the valley, scattered them to the four cardinal points of the 3 Returning, they were given a emetiz by their chief. Later each was given a soothing draught, was washed and prepared for the great feast which followed. For this feast the Indian maids brought great baskets of all sorts of food. This was eaten amid much jolli- ee fication, and he who had been the bravest | handler of the snakes was made the hero of the hour. “Thus ended the most exciting spectacle which ethnologists have ever witnessed.” sae His Mendacious. From the New York World. Society actress—“In what direction do you think my art Hes?” Critic—It lies in every: direction.” Actress—‘‘Indeed?” you that you can ac Have your grocer sem sou some of Huler's and Cocolates with your pext Tr. Once tried, always Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U.S. Gov't Report Real Baking | Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE MEN AND D4 'CING. A Girl's Estimate of Those Who Do d Those Who Don’t. From the Chicago Record. She had been to a party the night before, and she was looking correspondingly pale, tired and interesting. When I saw her she had just eaten a hearty breakfast, consist- ing of one slice of cantaloupe and one cup of coffee. “Did you have a gocd time last night?” I inquired, beaming at her with my best smile. “‘No, I didn’t,” she said shortly. “Why, dear? Didn’t you have plenty of partners?” “Oh, yes, of course. But I've discovered one thing (looking very wise and important), and that is that the nicest men either can’t dance or won't dance. They stand around and look bored, while we poor girls have to waltz w:th the clowns. They are splendid partners—oh, yes, but they’re such dummi2s aside from their dancing. In between dances time drags horribly. One says the same old things to each man: “Do you like to dance, Mr. Stupid? Really? How interesting!’ ““Nice floor, isn’t it? Yes, such # pretty ball room. The hostess is sweet, ist’t she? Such a delightful home, too'—et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum. “Then if a girl does get a sensible, bright fellow to ask her to dance this is what hap- pers.” She threw open her closet door and brought out the finery which had been worn the night before. The tulle ruffle around the bottom was torn into rags and the tips of the white satin slippers had been trodden upon till none of their original purity of color re- mained. go to the circus?” asked the girl, “Did you irrelevantly. “Yes,” responded I, wondering what that led up to. “Then you saw the elephants dance a quad- rille. Didn’t they do it well? I am sure that kalf the partners I have don’t dance half as well as those great big, silly looking elephants. A man who walks on one’s gown, treads on one’s toes, tears one’s fiounces and smashes one’s fan is sure to be a college professor. And the fellow who waltzes ci- vinely and can two-step like an angel is certain to be a brainless dolt; write that on your bloomers for future reference,” and this flippant young person began darning Ler ball dress with seemingly needless force. ——_<_§_<oo____ NOT FOR THE SEASICK. The Food Supply Taken on Board a Modern Ocean Liner. From the New York Herold. The immensity of the amount of provi- sions necessary for a passage across can be gained from the following table of stores on the St. Paul when she sailed recently: ‘TS. 1,500 Ibs. ham. 200 Ibs. bacon. 25,000 Ibs. beef. 4,000 Ibs. mutton. bs. 2,000 Ibs. veal. 000 Ibs. corned Lest. 1,500 Ibs. pork. Rea iio POULTRY, 100 capons, 75 turkeys. 250 chickens (roast). 200 chickens (broilers), 500 chickens (fowl). 150 grouse. 150 partridges. 100 Kroodcocks. geese. 300 English snipe 400 ducklings, 200 folden plover. 300 squabs. 400 Ibs. venison. 300 pigeons. VEGETABLES. 20 bags lima beans. 100 egg plants. 12 bags string beans. 125 bbls. potatoes. 12 bags butter beans. 8 bb 1's... :misceflancous cabbages, vegetables (parsley, 3 bbis. beets. lettuce, onions, cel- 6 bbls. carrots. ery, &e.). 200 caulitiowers, FRUITS. 15 cases oranges. 15 cases lemons. 16 baskets peaches. 12 boxes pears, 100 bbls. apples. 1,000 Ibs. coffees TRO exes c . coffee. 0 '. 8,000 Ibs. sugar. * 250 gals. m: 11 chests tea. ee milk. 140 bbls. flour. 1,000 16 800 Ibs. oatmeal. LIQUORS. 200 cases champagne. 200 doz. American lager 100 cases claret. beer. Besides there are quzntities of all manner of distilled liquors, mineral waters and cor- dials, ‘The cafe 1s also stocked with nearly 18,000 cigars, ranging in price from $1 to 6 cents, and nearly 8,000 pounds of tobacco. The linen is all of American purchase, and would supply a number of big hotels, Here Is the list: 1,500 bedspreads. ‘600 mattresses, 12,000 napkins. 7,000 table cloths. 6,500 sheets. 300 bath sheets. 6,000 pillow cases. 2,500 biankets. 10,600 towels (bath, pan- try, cook’s and barbers’). Then, in case of accident, as required by the immigration laws, a large quantity of provisions is carried which on ordinary pas- sages is never touched. The law provides for twenty-fcur days’ extra supply in sum- mer and twenty-eight days’ in winter, but the American line vessels are always sup- plied with a quantity of food which would exceed the limit by several days. ——+e+—____ Coeducation and Marringe. From an Exchange. The president of the Leland Stanford University, David Starr Jordan, asks the questiot “Does coeducation lead to matri- mony then he proceeds to answer it as follows: Most certainly it does; and this fact need nat be, and cannot be, denied. But such marriages are not usually pre- mature. And it is certainly true that no better marriages can be made than those founded on common interests and intellec- tual friendships. A college man who has known ccllege women is not drawn to wo- men of lower ideals and inferior training. He is likely to be strongly drawn toward the best he has known. A college woman is not led by mere propinquity to accept the attentions of inferior men. It is part of the legitimate function of higher educa- tion to prepare women as well as men for happy and successful lives. Some Learned Opinions, From the New York Weekly. First Scientist—“Eureka! What a find! Here ts conclusive proof of all our theories. See this rock? It is as round as a barrel, and just about the same shape and size. It must have been rolled for ages at the bed of some swift stream. Note how smooth it is.” Second Scientist—“It is unlike any rock in this vicinity. It must have been brought from a great distance, probably by some mighty iceberg in the ages that are gone.” Third Scientist—“There are mountains near here. It may have ccme down in a glacier.” Fourth Scientist—“It is unlike any of the rock on these mountains. In fact, it is un- like any rock to be fouid on earth. It must have dropped from the moon. Here comes a farmhand. I will ask him if there are any traditions concerning it. See, here, my good man, do you know anything about this strange rock?” | Farmhand—"That uster be a barrel o' cement.” —-—_—-+ 0+. Initials on the Umbrellas. From Pick-Me-Up. “My darling,” said the wife as, at 9:30 a.m., she found her husband strapping up all the umbrellas tn the hall, as if he were off on a railway journey—“my darling, surely you are not going to take all these to the effice with you!” “Sweetest,” he responded suavely, but firmiy, “surely you remember that you have an ‘at home’ this afternoon.” She raised her hands in horror. “Surely you do not insinuate that my guests would steal—” 3 “Steal! Nonsense. But it’s a million to one they would recognize the initials on the handles.” She hung her head in silence, knowing full well that the man but spoke the trut!:. From the “Will the low neck and short sleeves be fashionable this winter?” he asked. “Certainly,” she replied. “Why?” “Oh, ‘I'm only trying to get the thing Critic—“Yes; particularly when it tells! straight in my head,” he explained, as he h I “It's ‘ow neck and short sleeves in the winter and watched the bloomer girl go by. high neck and short trousers in the sum- mer, as near as I can make it out.” WHAT MR. DOOLEY SAYS. The Carey Kid and a Policeman Who Died With His Face Front. From the Chicago Evening Post. “They scragged a man today,” said Mn Dooley. “They dil so,” said Mr. McKenna, “Did he die game?” “They say he did.” “Well, ne did,” said Mr. Dooley. “I read it all in th’ pa-apers. He died as game as if he was wan iv th’ Christian martyrs in- stead iv a thief that'd hit his man wan crack too much. Saint or murdhrer, ‘tis little diffrence, whin death comes up face front. “I r-read th’ story iv this man through, Jawn, an’ barrin’ th’ scraggin’ ’tis th’ story iv tin thousand like him. D'ye reymim- ber th’ Carey kid, ye do? Well, I knowed his grandfather, an’ a dacinter ol’ man niver wint to his jooty wanst a month. Whin he come over to live down be th’ slip "twas as good a place as iver ye see. Th’ honest min an’ honest women wint an’ come as they pleased an’ laid hands on no wan. His boy Jim was as straight as th’ r-roads in Kildare, but he took to dhrink, an’ whin Jack Carey was born he was a thramp on th’ sthreets an’ th’ good woman was wurrkin’ down town, scrubbin’ away at th’ flures in th’ city hall, where Dennehy got her. “Be that time around th’ slip was rough- an’-tumble. It was dhrink an’ fight ivery night an’ all day Sundah. Th’ little lads come together under sidewalks an’ rushed th’ can over to Burke's on th’ corner an’ listened to what th’ big lads tol’ thim. Th’ first insthruction Jack Carey had was how to take a man’s pocket handkerchief with- out his feelin’ it, an’ th’ next he had was larnin’ how ‘to get over th’ fince iv th’ re- form school at Halsted sthreet in his stockin’ feet. “He was a thief at tin yeer, an’ th’ po- lis'd run f’r him if he showed his head. At twelve they sint him to th’ Bridewell fr breakin’ ‘nto a freight car. He come out, up to anny game. I see him whin he was a lad hardly to me waist stand on th’ roof iv Finucane’s Hall an’ throw bricks at th’ po- lisman. “He hated th’ polis, an’ good reason he had fr it. They pulled him out tv bed be night to search him. If he turned a corner they ran him f’r blocks down th’ sthreet. Whih he got older they begun shootin’ at him th’ minyit they see him, an’ it wasn’t many years before he begun to shoot back. He was right enough whin he was ip here, I cud conthrol him. But manny a night whin he'd had his full iv liquor I've see him go out with his gun in his outside pocket, an’ thin I'd hear shot after shot down th’ sthreet, an’ I'd know him an’ his ol’ inimy Clancy’d met an’ was exchangin’ compliments. He put wan man on th’ polis ees fund with a bullet through his igh. “They got him after awhile. He'd kep’ vundher cover f’r months, livin’ in freight cars an’ hidin’ undher viadocks with th’ pistol in his hand. Wan night he come out an’ broke into Schwartzmeister’s place. He sneaked through th’ alley with the Ger- man man’s damper in his arms, an’ Clancy leaped on him f’m th’ fince. Th’ kid was tough, but Clancy played foot ball with th” Finertys on Sundah an’ was tougher, an’ hin the min on th’ other beats come up arey was hammered so they had to carry him to th’ station an’ nurse him f'r trile. “He wint over th’ road an’ came back gray an’ stooped. I was afraid iv th’ boy with his black eyes, an’ wan night he see me watchin’ him, an’ he says: ‘Ye needn't be afraid,’ he says. ‘I won't hurt ye. Ye'’er not Clancy.’ “I tol’ Clancy about but he was a brave man, an’ says hi ‘Tis wan an’ wan an’ a thief again an honest man. If he gets me he must get me quick.’ Th’ nex’ night about dusk he come saunterin’ up th’ sthreet, swingin’ his club an’ jokin’ with his frens, whin some wan shouted: ‘Look out, Clancy.’ He was not fast enough. He died face forward, with his hand on his belt, an’ befure all th’ wurruld Jack Carey came across the sthreet an’ put another ball into his head. “They got him within twinty yards iv me store. He was down in th’ shadow iv th’ house, an’ they was shootin’ at him from roofs an’ behind barns. Whin he see "twas all up he comes out with his eyes closed, firin’ straight ahead, an’ they filled him so full of lead he broke th’ hub iv th’ path-rol wagon takin’ him to th’ morgue.” “It served him right,” said Mr. Mc- Kenna. “Who?” said Mr. Dooley. “Carey plete Statement. From the Detroit Tribune. “Wherever there's smoke there is fire.” The learned one answered: “I guess rot, Wherever there's smoke there's imperfect combustion. That’s all.” a Social Episode in the Cyclone Region, From Life.