Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1896, Page 15

ats THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES THE EVENING STAR hasa Larger Circulation in the Homes of Washington than all the Other Papers of the City Added Together, because it Stands Up Always for the Interests of ALL THE PEOPLE uf WASHINGTON; does not Strive to Divide the Community into Classes, and Array one class Against “. the others; Contains the Latest and Fullest ' Local ~- and General News; and Surpasses all the Other Papers in the City in the Variety and Excellence ~ of its Literary Features. It Literally ' Goes Everywhere, and is Read by Everybody. It is, therefore, as an Advertising ‘Medium without a Peer, Whether = Cost or Measure of Publicity be Considered. A SKELETON IN IRONS. Curious Relic of Past Crucity Which ‘Was Dug Up in King Geerge Co., Va. From the Philadelphia Times. 5 One of the strangest finds of recent times is that made by an old farmer down in King George county, Virginia, who in the course of ‘his labors came upon a skeleton ercased In iron bands. While it reminds one of Longfellow’s story of the ‘Skeleton in Armor,” there is nothing of romantic chivalry to be attached’ to the-gruesome thing, which is now on exhibition at one of the numerous resorts down the shores of tke Potomac river. In digging on tha opening of a new road in King George ecunty some months ago, Willlam Henry Harrison Caywood began to hoe in some ground which had never before been struck by a spade. Suddenly his instrument struck on a piece of old, bent iron, and as tracings could be detected of some eonnec- tion further on, men were called, who dug carefully about what seemed to be the out- Eres of a human form. in a short time the laborers had uncov- ered and taken out something which struck terror to the hearts of the natives. It was a frame of iron bands fitting about a skel- ten form, of which the bones rémained in their nakedness, the skull grinning through its cage. The bands came around the head, over the top, down past both ears, ending at the neck in a collar, while over the fore- head ran a similar band, so that the un- Lappy victim could not move in any direc- tion.. Down the sides of the form were fron bands, linked around the knees and wrists, at the shoulders and ankles by similar bands, which ran around in rings and joined the upright framework. The Fands were evidently thus pinioned tight- ly to the side, and the whole body main- tained in a rigid, upright position till death, and even afterward. Just as soon as the skeleton was moved out of the earth the bones fell apart from the joints and dropped out of the frame, yet the skull remained, not’ being small rough to get through the four iron strips. The bar from which the cage was sus- pended is also there, and as the uncanny thing swings aloft the skull grins out of its cage of iron, the same cage out of which it looked in despair more than 200 years ago. No clothing was found about the bedy, anything like clothing being soon rotted in the dampness of the earth, but several brass buttons, large, round plain ones, were picked up from the grave. As there was no engraving on them, they were evidently made years before the custom of having names cut on buttons was begun by tailors. ‘That this skeleton is of great antiquity is proved by the fact that the bones are so Much decayed, for human bones must have heen a long period in earth to rot. Another fact going to show that the victim must have met his death at least 200 years ago is the fact that, though records are kept of all executions, none are to be found of this man’s death. As King George county was taken from Richmond county in 1720, and no account is in elther court house, the date must have been prior to the estab- lishment of elther county. It is thought by seme that the skeleton is that of some terrible Indian chief, caged alive for his crimes, or of @ public official guilty of treason to King George I, for Virginia was then a colony. To encase a man in iron bands and hang him in view of the people till he died a maniac was doubtless a mode of punishment visited only on some great criminal. +e. X-RAYS NOT ADMITTED. An Unsuccessful Attempt to Intro- duce Radiographs in a Case in Coart. Frem the Boston Transcript. The trial of the $50,000 action of tort brought by Gilbert Rexford, by his next friend, against Frederick W. Rogers, trus- tee, and the $10,000 action brought by Wright Rexford, Gilbert’s father, against the same defendart, was ended this after- roon in the first jury session of the superior court by Judge Hopkns directing the jury to return a verdict for the defendant in each case. The $50,000 suit was brought for personal injuries cf an extraordinary character to Gilbert Rexford, who is now eleven years of age, sustained in conse- quence of faliing down an elevator well in the house 2 Washington street, Cambridge- bort, on December 26, 1893, where he lived with his parents, who were tenants of the defendant, the owner of the house. The defendent denied his liability, claiming he had violated no duty which he owed to the plaintiffs. During the morning session, counsel for the plaintiffs tried, but unsuccessfully, to introduce X ray photographs taken by doc- tors who had made an examination of the bey;-and also to have the process explained to the jury. This question was objected to by counsel, W. I. Badger, for the defendant, and excluded by the court. At the conclu- sion of the plaintiff's testimony, the counsel for the defendant made a motion to have the judge take the case away from the jury because of the want of any evidence to show neglige ice on the part of the defend- ant. The court granted the motion, and ordered a verdict for the defendant. The case will probably be taken to the supreme court on exceptions. ———__+e+___ LUCK IN MINING. A Man Missed the Chance of Making a Million Rather Than Leave a Sick Son. From the Durango Deniocrat. “I could have owned half of the Enter- prise mine at Rico for $200 if a telegram from Denver had not announced the deci- sion of the doctors to use the knife on my baby boy for hernia. I lost more than §$1,- 000,000, but I stopped the knife, and my doy is healthy end rugged.” These were the words of a gentleman seated with a group of prospectors a few evenings ago, which led up to a number of stories relating to similar incidents. “I knew a man more fortunate than my- self, however, who grasped his opportunt- ty,” continued the speaker. “Dave Brown of Aspen gave a prospector $75 worth of lumber and one-fourth of the Aspen mine. Brown was then a stock clerk. He is now a millionaire, banker and operator.” “It's not always management that se- cures a fortune,” ventured another of the group. “It was luck, pure and simple, that made Dick Swickheimer a millionaire. He knew ncthing about mining, but a miner told him to sink, and he did sink. He ran cut of money several times, but others, who were interested in learning what greater depths he would encounter on Dolores mountain, loaned various sums, and at last a lucky lottery ticket drew $4,000, and this reached the ore in the Enterprise es, luck had a great deal to do with it,” said the third speaker. “Several peo- pie in Durango had an opportunity a few years ago to get into the Columbus mine in La Platte for a few dollars, when the man who located it owned it. I knew one Durango man who had a good chance to ‘buy the mine for less than $900, the price received, who had spent twice as much in trying to find something Eke the Colum- s. : ot “hances like those are often overlooked in Durango,” said another of the group. “There was a Hittle fellow down there from McQuiety a couple of years ago showing some good-looking ore from a claim, which he offered to trade a quarter of for a rifle. He went to the gun store and all over town trying to trade for a rifle, and the kind of gun he wanted was selling second-hand in stores for $5 or $6, but the little fellow couldn't get a rifle. I saw the property last fall that he offered to trade, and saw some of the ore roasted in a blacksmith forge. Gold boiled out of it very freely and I doubt if all the guns in San Juan county would buy a quarter interest in that prop- erty now.” ‘Watched a Boy’s Heart Beat. From the Boston Globe, June 10. The pulsations of a human heart were watched by scores of trained eyes yester- day in Exhibition Hall at the Mechanics’ building, where were gdthered physicians from all parts of the state. Standing be- tween’ a Crookes tube and a large box, in which the observer shut himself out from the sunlight, was a boy divested of coat and vest. To the youngster it was rome- thing of a “circus,” but to the physicians, who, one after another, took their place in the box, it was an exemplification of an end-cf-the-century achievement of sctence. For the X rays laid open to the human cye the interior of the boy’s chest, and there, pumping steadily away, was to be seen his heart, every throb of which could be dis- cerned so clearly that any irregularity might easily have been detected. So tim- (ae is the apparatus required, and so start- ing the results, that the physicians be- came enthusiastic over what they termed the opening of a new era in medicine and surgery. AFRICAN CANNIBALS, A Traveling Corréspondent Gives Some Queer Details. From the Saturday Review. ‘The story told by Capt. Hinde at the last meeting of the British Association about cannibala in Africa aroused sufficient inter- est to make the subject worth pursuing. He noticed that his followers were in the habit of breaking the legs of their game several days before they killed them in or- der to make the meat more ten Inquir- ing as to their reasons, he was told that this was the result of experience with hu- man flesh; that they always broke the legs and arms of their captives and then tied them up to their necks in a flowing stream, in such a way that they could rel- ther fall asleep and drown nor commit sul- cide; and that at the end of three days they could be killed with the assurance that they would be very tender eating. As the president of the geographical sec- tion remarked at the time, it is necessary to divest ourselves of all insular prejudices in treating of cannibalism. The idea of eating a part of a deceased human being with the object of acquiring some of his qualities and virtues is widespread and has been so from time immemorial. Such sac- rificial or sacramental eating !s common to most religions. In Peru a figure made of dough is baked and eaten, and the people talk of that as “eating the god.” In cer- tain parts of France a figure is made with the last of the harvest corn and eaten un- der the impreesicn that it contains the spirit of fertility. This was the earliest form of cannibalism, and the very name of cannibal is derived from the Carlbs,who used to devour their enemies with the idea of acquiring their courage. They were the bravest of the aborigines of South Amer- ica, and did not pursue the practice to sup- ply themselves with food. They pretended they could distinguish the flavor of a Span- jard, an Englishman end a Frenchman. A French traveler who has written about them indulges the traditional vanity of his nation by declaring that the French flesh had far and away the superior flavor. In some parts of England it is the custom, when a mun ts lald out, to bake what 1 called a corpse cake. This: is put to rise near the fire on the dead body, and is sup- posed to absorb the virtues of the deceas- ed. In the Balkan states a little baked im- age accompanies every funeral procession, and the mourners eat it afterward, ex- claiming, “God rest him!’ In Wales and Herefordshire there exists a regular paid functionary known 1s the “sin eater.” H¢ 1s described as a “long, lean, lai rascal.” On the breast of a corpse the rel- atives place bread and cheese and beer, which the “sin eater’ consumes, in order to appropriate the sins of the deceased. Formerly he received sixpence for his trou- ble, and took care to make himself scarce as soon as possible after his duties wero performed; but of late years his price has risen to half a crown. Cannibalism has been surprisingly little discussed in books of travel. We are told that in such and such a district cannibals are to be found, but we hear no details, neither how the flesh is prepared, what joints are preferred, nor to what extent the practice is prevalent. Capt. Hinde as- serts that nearly all the tribes in the Con- go basin are or have been cannibals, and that the practice 1s on the increase, not merely for superstitious reasons, but also for the provision of food. There is a cer- tain sturdy, fat race in Africa which has never be2n famous for its prowess, but which is made a regular staple article of diet. Whole cargoes are constantly car- ried up the river and sold to the natives for focd. Inquiries for a fresh supply cf slaves will often be accompanied by the complaint that “meat is scarce just now.” The Batetella are described as a fine race, with no old or infirm persons among the-n. The reason of this is not far to seck, for at the first sign cf decrepitude the sufferer is killed and eaten, parents even being de- voured by their own children. The mem- bers of this tribe consider human flesh the Breatest of delicacies, and are ever on the watch for any excuse to kill and eat their comrades. The fate of the individuals is decided by their king. So soon as a vic- tim is appointed to die, mobs collect out- side the king's house and the victim is given over to them alive. But he does not long remain alive, for the people tear him to pieces as quickly as a pack of hounds will make an end of a hare. Eacn sets himself to cut off his favorite tit-bit, and no one makes it his business to kiil the victim first, lest a coveted piece should thereby be lost. In some districts men will not eat their own parents, but they will allow them to be eaten by others. This may be due in large measure to the ex- treme difficulty of protecting a corpse from these human wolves, however determined the intention of protecting it may be. The ‘people there scem to have no religion, and are not to te frightened off from the ce:ne- teries ty any kind of fetich. The practice at least has this advantage, that,after a battle there is no rizk cf an epidemic from the putrefaction of the corpses, for, like the walrus and the carpenter, the victors “eat up every one.” After a big battle, in which many pris- oners have been taken, human beings have been sold for as iittle as five or six shil- lings a brace for eating purposes. Many anecdotes imight be told of the naive way in which the inhabitants of the Congo re- gion speak of this little weakness of theirs. A man will come to your house and ask you to trust him with food, adding ingenu- ously: “When one of our people dies we will make a return.” Or the members of a caravan will say: “‘We know your supplies sre short just now, and you can’t spare any of your sheep or goats, but you might give us such and such a man; he 1s lazy and not worth his keep.” You make peace and apply for tite return of prisoners, but you are told ‘Very sorry, they are all eaten, save one. If you would like thirty- seven fine cooking slaves in their place, they are very much at your service.” In nearly every case human fiesh is either boiled, roasted or smoked. Any can- nibal so far forgetting }imself as to eat it raw would be locked down upon sadly. ‘When there is a tuperabundance of human meat, as, for instance, after a sanguinary battle, the greater part of it 1s skillfully cured by smoking. Indeed, those who have & repugnance to eating human flesh scarce- ly dare to buy smoked meat of any kind in a@ cannibal district, so difficult is human fiesh to distinguish from ordinary meat. Various cannibals have various preferences for various joints, and it is said that, if you follow in the wake of cannibal cara- vans. you may discover the precise district of their origin by simply noting what por- tions of the human body they have left un- eaten. The majority do not eat the head at all, but some look upon it as the great- est delickcy, and devote their special at- tention to the brain. Most cannibals eat scme or other of the intestines. Perhaps the most generally favorite joint is a steak from the upper part of the leg. The most sinewy parts are usually stewed, and broth made from human shins {s not utterly un- known. As to the flavor of human fiesh, it is difficult to speak positively; it has been compared, by people in a position to know, to sucking pig. All seem agreed that the human fs more delicate and requires more seasgning than ordinary meat. The flesh of the white man is not sought after, ex- cept:by gourmets, on account of its pre sale taste. —__+ INVENTIONS WITHOUT PATENTS. Great Thinkers in the World’s His- tory Worked fer the From the London Truth. If you look back on the history of human Progress you will find that none of the great epoch-making inventions has ever been patented. The man who lit the first fire, whether Prometheus or the party from whom he stole the idea—did not get @ patent for it. Neither did the man who made the first wheel—in every sense one of the most revolutionary inventions in the history of man. The same thing may be sald of the invention of soap, candles, gunpowder, umbrellas and the mariner’s compass, or, to come down to our own day, of the steam engine and the electric telegraph. - Patents are most concerned with small mechanical details and improvemenis—it may be in candles or umbrellas, or it may be in the application of steam and elec- tricity—and by means cf these patents enormous profits have been secured to second-rate inventors, but the great ideas and discoveries which underlie these de- tails have been given to the world gratis. There is a general notion that if you did not protect inventions by means of Fatents, Inventors would cease to invent, and material progress would come to a standstill. But history does not bear this out in the least. Men with great me- chanical gifts do not exercise them solely with a view to commercial profit any more than astronomers search the heavens for new worlds with an eye to registering patents and floating <ompanies on the re- {sults of their discoveries, THE LIV#KG DREDGE. eens Queer Ways of tant Interesting Lit- tle Animal, tlie Pocket Gopher. From the Youth's anion. A human beingiwho should possess = dwelling half a ‘mile long would be con- sidered a very 4 it personage by his fellows; but he would have, et that, an abode only one-hajf as long as the dwell- ing which és often; constructed by a very little animal—the ¢reature called the “pock- et gopher” in the“ ‘and the “‘salaman- der” in the south..A report on this little creature recently issued by the United States Departmenf,of Agriculture declares that the burrows dig by a single animal would, if straighséfed out, in many cases measure more than,a mile. The pocket gopher digs as long as he lives, extending his burrow from year to year. He digs all. summer, and generally all winter, for he does not hibernate. He is probably the completest mechanical dig- ger in existence. All his life is passed un- der ground, except when, for an instant, on rare occasions, he emerges into the air to push e load of earth from a freshly opened hole. But he vanishes below the earth so quickly that he can hardly be said to be seen at all. Except for one month of the year, the mating season, all pocket gophers live an entirely solitary life; and, Mke most other hermits, they are of an extremely surly disposition. They will fight viciously on ail cecasions, and they have a remrkably formidable weapon in their long, sharp front teeth. They are of all living creatures the ones most perfectly adapted to digging in the ground. They are short legged, thick set, almost neckless, without visible ears and with extremely small eyes. In tunneling in the earth they use their long and powerful front teeeth as a pick to loosen the ground. At the same time the fore feet, which are armed with long, curved claws—the side of the toes being lined in turn with bristles which prevent the dint from passing between them—are hard at work both In digging and in press- ing the dirt back under the body. There the hind feet take it and push it further back. When earth enough has been accumulated behind tne gopher he whirls about, and by bringing his wrists together under the chin, with the palms of the hands held vertically, he pushes the earth out én Yront. He will move backward as rapidly as for- ward, and can push dirt either way. His movement in digging often seems as rapid and automatic as that of a shuttle. Except in times ‘of deep frost the bur- rows are seldom more than a foot under- ground, and generally about six inches. The gopher is-in pursuit of roota of ali kinds— grass roots, tree roots, potatoes and other tubers. He is immensely destructive to crops, and one gopher has been known to gnaw away the roots of a tree so complete- ly that the tree will topple over in a slight wind and fall flat. This is not hard to understand after we have been assured, as the zoologists of the Department of Agriculture assure us, that @ pocket gopher can make 200 complete strokes with his tecth in a minute. Its jaws are so arranged that thirty-eight distinct single cuts are made by the for- ward stroke of the jaw and twenty-eight by the backward stroke. Thus, as will be seen, the little creature's jaws may make @ grand total of 13,200 cuts a minute when in active operation! The pocket gopher—the name ts applied to several species of the Geomys tribe—is, indeed, so destructive that In many parts of the west bountids are offered for its ex- termination. One Iowa county paid $14,000 in such bounties in a single year with out an appreciable reduction of the animal's Tavages. This represented a destruction of 140,000 gophers. out an appreciable ‘reduction of the ani- mal'’s ravages. This represented a destruc- tion of 140,000 gophers. At intervals, seldom more than a few rods apart, and often within a few feet, the pocket gopher comes ¢o the surface to throw up a@ littlé hill of dirt, but the opening which he makes 1s slosed by being packed so full of dirt that no trace of the tunnel fs visible exeept the little mound. The gopher goes on digging in winter as well as in summer; tut if the frost prevents him from coming to the surface he uses a cross section of hig.tunnel into which to pack the earth.which he has dug for his new excavations. "These ‘tightly packed cylinders of eurth ate often turned up by the farmer’s plburh. If, by inadvertence, 4he pocket gopher leaves an exit-open, ‘the “bull snake” is very apt to enter; and if he does, the goph- er’s death is certain.” He is covered with slime by the serpent and swallowed. But the weasel is the gopher’s chief en- emy. The largest weasel easily enters the burrow and traverses it swiftly, and wea- sels have cledred a Whole seccion of coun- try of pocket gophers when bounties have falled. But it is said that even in regions where the pocket gophers are most destructive the weasel is condemned by the farmers. and killed mercilessly. This is one instance of many of the slowness of mankind te recognize friends in the animal world. Owls and hawks also succeed in cap- turing many gophers, in spite of the mere- ly instantaneous appearance of the crea- tures above the ground. The Geomys has a somewhat extraordin- ary appendage in the shape of a pouch on each cheek, in which he stores a little sup- ply of food, and which does not, like the chipmunk’s pouch, communicate with the mouth. It is entirely on the outside, and the gopher is obliged to use his paws both in putting food into it and in taking it out. Given a whole potato, a pocket gopher in captivity will proceed to cut off little slices, trim them to suitable shape -with his sharp teeth and transfer them to his check pouches by a swift movement. To get them out he presses his fore feet firmly against the sides of his head, and carries them rapidly forward, dumping the con- rents of the pouches on the ground before im. These pouches, or pockets, are often packed so full of pieces of roots, stems and leaves as to give the creature a curi- ously distorted appearance. The fragments are sometimes an inch lang, fitting the pockets nicely, and packed lengthwise. Into ail the crevices leaves are cunningly folded or rolled. The pocket gopher lays up a supply of food for winter, but does not eat it if he can obtain new food by burrowing. It is only when frost or other circumstances prevent him from digging that he falls back upon his hoard. The Geomys does so much harm that it is rather pleasant to be able to enter an item to his credit. “For unknown ages,” the official report above alluded to says, “the gophers have been steadily at work ploughing the ground, covering deeper and deeper the vegetable matter, loosening the soil, draining the land and slowly but sure- ly cultivating and enriching It is in a great, measure the gopher, of one species or another, which has made the western prairies a mellow garden, ready for the farmer's plough. But now his work is done. The farmer tills his own soll, and the earth no longer needs the little animated cultivating ma- chine—which, for that matter, is operated at too high a cost in the produce of #he earth. s The present contern of scientific agricul- ture with the pocket gopher is to get rid ae @8 speedily,and effectually as pos- sible. 5 Drilling With Bullets. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. A novel method 6 perforating iron plates is reported from Salt Lake City. The city- is being supplied with electricity for light- ing and power generated fourteen miles away in the Big Cottonwood canon, It was found necessary for the purpose of pipe connections to ciitfour forty-eight-inch openings in the se¥en-foot penstock, the plates of which were half an inch thick. The workmen beganto cut with cape chis- is, but the progress, made was too exas- peratingly slow for the engineer #f the works, R. M. Jones, who 1s known through- out the west as the “cowboy engineer.” Mr. Jones took up ‘his rifle, and, using steel bullets cased witt-copper, shot a line of holes through the plates from a distance of about thirty feet. The intervening edges were afterward easily cut ‘out, and in a very short time the job was finished. Where Arithmetic Doesn't Come In. From the Chicago Post. : s “I hear you're very good at arithmetic, Bobby,” said the visitor pleasantly. | “Sure,” returned Bobby, without looking up from his play. “Well, if I should tell you when you Papa and your mamma were born could you tell me how old they are?’ asked the visitor. “I could tell you how old pap is,” an- red the boy. s “And not how old your mother is?’ The boy shook his head. “Arithmetic hasn't anything to do with a woman's age,” he said. BAD LUCK WITH MEAL TICKETS. On Instance in Cripple Creek and Another in Chicago, From the Ohieago Times-Herald. “Yes,” said the reformed miner, “I am back from Cripple Creek, and that is the best of my luck. I got away. Here is a sample of the ill fate I had to contend with: I struck the camp without a cent, for I hadn’t done anything but lose all along the line. I hunted up Johnnie Costello, and the best he could do was to get me a meal ticket at the Blue Bell—one of those twen- ty-one-meals-for-$4 affairs—and _ every time you eat they punch a figure. I wasn’t long using it, and stepped out on the side- walk containing the first semblance to a square feed I had held in some days. A gust of wind came down from between ‘Tenderfoot and Mineral hills, where all the puffs originate, and blew the meal ticket out of my hand. It landed face up on the sidewalk ten feet or so away, and before I could recover it a big 200-pound Cornish miner stepped on it. He wore heavy boots, with hobnails in them, and as sure us I am a living man, the nails in his heel punched) out the remaining twenty squares.” A similar melodrama, whose plot swung and rattled about a restaurant ticket, had its scene in Chicago. It was before the days when gold cures offered temporary relief to those addicted to the rosy. One young man, naturally of a thrifty habit, reached a@ point in life when he learned that if he became thirsty he became very much so. In quenching this thirst he was apt to squander all the money he had rav- ed since the last time. So it came that, be- ing philosophic, he rose superior to his pro- bensity for thrift and disposed of his sal- ary as fast as he earned it. Thereby he got due and proper action for his money, and also appreciably shortened the length of his drunks. Having no reserve fund, he could not continue his Mquor-consumning career for long. Ong Monday he detected the stealthy approach of thirst. He had betome so wise that he could tell it cigh- teen hours away. It was his salary day, and knowing his weakness, the first invest- ment he made was in a meal ticket. On the Thursday following he next saw the sun. The interval was part blank and part confusion of red lights, cabs and schooners. He had not one cent in his clothes, and was as hungry as a shipwreck- ed sailor. He dug up his meal ticket and went around to Calhoun place—the restau- rant was situated therein—but Calhoun place was blocked. Firemen were half way up the alley playing their hose on the smoldering ruins of the restaurant. ———__+«- __ GREAT FISHING IN OREGON. One Way of Transporting Eels—Gov. Pennoyer's Impassable Fish Ladder. From the Morning Or-gouian. Last week was an unusual one for fishing with hook and line for young salmon on the island below the falls at Oregon City. Wednesday Bob Inman, Charley Swigert, H. C. Campbell and Joe Hatfield caught fully 200 pounds of fish. Several good catches were made by other sportsmen from Portland and Oregon City. P. F. Morey hooked and landed 108 pounds with a spoon in two and a half hours Saturday. C. H. McIsaac and John Bowie made a fine haul Saturday. Sunday about a dozen fish- ermen made good catches, among them F. M. Longshore and John Bodley. The falls at the present time present one of the grandest sights ever witnessed any- where. The amount of water pouring over is something enormous, and the way it is Jashea into white foam by the mad rush of waters is awe-inspiring, and one realizes his utter insignificance. In this yortex of. churning water are to be seen thousands of huge salmon trying to leap the obstruc- tions. Out of the water they leap ten feet into the air, only to be carried down with the mad current. Some do make it, and hide in holes between the rocks, rest awhile, and then rush forward, only to mect defeat, as it seems impossible for them to gain the upper river. Thousands of lamprey eels are dipped out with a net, to be shipped down the river for sturgeon bait. These eels are tied up in sacks; the sacks are fastened to air- tight barrels and then cast into the rush- ing water. They float down stream, and are picked up by boatmen in the eddies about the bridge. It is interesting to hear the visitor ask for the fish ladder built by Gov. Pennoyer, and when a broken wall of water thirty feet high and twenty feet wide is pointed out, the blank look of astonishment tells its own story. The fish never lived that could ascend that perpendicular wall of foam, and the effort to make a fishway is complete failure and money wasted. A fish wheel has been built, and catches the salmon. After vainly trying to ascend the Jadder they become tired of the struggle, and are willing to commit suicide rather than make an effort to return to the sea. eee ee a eas Remedy for the Theater Hat. From the New York Herald. “There is a legal remedy for the nuisance of big hats in theaters,” said a Broad street lawyer as he came from a crowded theater last night. “It is an existing rem- edy and requires no special legislation like that recently had in Ohio. “The legal fact is, if a man buys a cer- tain seat in a theater there is an implied contract with the manager that he shall have an unobstructed view of the stage. If he don’t get it on account of a hat or any other object being between him and the stage the manager fs responsible in damages. If this remedy was enforced in a few instances theaters would soon have a rule requiring the removal of ob- jectionable hats.” SS To Make the Stopper Come Out. From the New York Sun. There are several ways of loosening the glass stoppers of decanters and bottles. One is to stand the bottle in hot water, another is to drop a Lttle oil with a feather between the stopper and the decanter and stand it near the fire. After a time: strike the stopper gently with a piece of wood on all sides, and if it does not move repeat the process. A strip of flannel or wool wound around the neck of the bottle and smartly pulled backward and forward to produce friction will sometimes loosen the stopper. Gladness Comes Wits better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- teal ills, which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis- ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, pt- ly removes. That is why it rethedy with millions of families, andis every where esteemed so highly by all who value health. Its beneficial effects are due = aa fact, cant at Site one remedy w: promotes int cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have Sie Fenuine arti- cle, which is manufactured by the Cali- fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, aon | well-i everywhere, ip of Figs stands highest and is largely used and gives most general satisfaction. JUST LIKE A WOMAN. She Got the Fun Out of the Old Athlete and Smiled at His Disco: fAture. From the Detroit Free Press, Morton is not his name, but it will serve to conceal his identity. In years gone by he played base ball, rowed and gained more than local Gistinction as an all-around ath- lete. He has heavy shoulders, big, strong hands, and an elasticity of movement that can only be had on the shady side of life when a man has not neglected his physical education. In addition to this he is a man of the world, who would laugh at the smooth confidence worker and make quick work of the wily bunco steerer. But who can pre- dict when there is a woman in the case? He went to the house of his old friend and met the pretty sisterin-law. She was exu- berant with animal spirits and wanted to learn to ride a wheel. He was not only will- ing, but anxious, to coach her. For about an hour on one of the hottest nights that has been visited upon Detroit in a century he ran up and down the street, steadying the bicycle and trying to encourage the handsome amateur. Her sister was there urging caution and pleading with the rider not to take such dangerous chances. With perspiration and exertion came maledic- tions. He thought the wheel possessed be- cause it rushed at every post and tree. He mentally condemned her as one of the most awkward women now on the footstool, There was profanity in his mutterings and an ugly glint in his eye. But what can lay the spirit of an old war horse or a one-time athlete? He might fall in a fit or compro- mise on a stroke of apopiexy, but surrender, never! After his blood had’ reached blast- furnace heat, and his face looked as does the sun in the luring atmosphere of Indian summer, she seemed to pull herself together and while he gritted his teeth, wondering angrily whether there was a God in Israel, she said: “Now, balance me for a start, and I will try {t alone.” Away she went, like a flash. Fora moment he stood stupefied, and then he thought, ‘That fool girl will run straight into the river, for she can’t stop.” For blocks he chased her. He was in a lather of heat and a self-supplied deluge of perspiration. Finally, when he was a fit subject for the fire department, she drew Sracefully up to the curb, sprang from her wheel and saluted him with a mocking lavgh. She 1s one of the cleverest riders that ever mounted a saddle. But what could the old athlete do? She's 1 woman. : es Life’s Little Irontes.” From the New York Recorder. Because a lady with a No. 7 foot wishes to Wear a No. 5 shoe, no matter what Du Maurier may say, the manufacturers of shoes have devised a new scheme of num- bering, whereby No. 4539.5 means 7 FF, and the other numbers in proportion. A Kansas editor is preparing an {llustrated issue of his paper, which will contain, be- sides other things, “a sprinkling of the prominent babies” of his town. A Lewistown (Me.) bicyclist has just been crippled for life by a wagon, and nobody seems to care a cent, either, because just one year ago this same scorcher killed a pedestrian with his too impetuous wheel. The recent electric storm at Norridge- wock, Me., is ascribed to the sulphurous language used by a burglar who entered a house there and got away with three x20 confederate bills, worth one-eighth of a cent a pound. No up-to-date lady now suffers from kie; tomania. If a well-dressed woman in a dry goods store sees something which she really must have without paying for it, hyp- notism is just what aifs her. oe Statue of Victory for a Warship. From the Boston Transcript. A bronze statue of Victory will be placed on the forward turret between the two great guns that will point over the bows of the battleship Massachusetts. Bela Lyon Pratt is the designer of the statue, and he is now at work on the clay model from which the bronze will be cast. It repre- senis a winged woman, life sized, clad in armor, and carrying a sword on which is the word “Victory.” Beneath will appear this inscription: ift of the Common- Wealth of Massachusetts—By Duty Done is Honor Won.” Secretary Herbert has given assurance that if the statue is in readiness for pres- entation on the Fourth of July the ship will be ordered to this port on that day. FELS-NAPTHA SOAP FELS « C0., Phila, Receiver’s Sale of Fine Groceries. D S S Bs hurry up before it’s all gone—if you want to save money on your _ flour bill. It will pay you to lay in a year’s supply at these prices. 4 vor.., $1.25 or ‘Superlative, $1 25 $1.13 | bbl $1.00 F FIXTURES FOR SALE including 2 Iron Safes, Counter and Plat- | form Scales, Shelving, Casing, etc. ‘Jas. L. Barbour and Son, 612-614 Penna. Ave. Jno. A. Hamilton, Receiver. 5e12-604, ee Pa ae TT Dentists. Largest office in Washington. Expert specialists of many years’ experieuce. All work guaranteed. 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