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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898-24 PAGES. 18 ROOM (INDIANAPOLIS). LACK OF FACILITIES The District is Behind in Opportani- ties for Manual Training. WHAT OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE Remarkably Good Work With In- adequate Accommodations. CONTRAST, NOT COMPARISON @ritten for The Ev ping Star. OMPARISONS ARE odorous,” says Mrs. Malaprop, but the philosophic dame does not animadvert upon contrasts. Where dif- ferences are great and obvious there is no invidiousness in showing them. The lack of facilities in this District for man- ual training in the public schools is so patent and the exu- berance of such facilities in other places not so latent that the observation of their juxtaposition can leave but one moral. Manual training is a well-recognized and essential factor in the mental training of the young. Its disciplinary value is incal- FORGE SHOP —— “sloid,” and is the title given to wood- working in manual training. While earlier attempts had been made in this country, it was in 1888 that manual training took firm hold . Mr. Gustaf Lars- son came from Sweden hither and holds the seme relation to “sloid” work nere that Saloman does in Sweden. From “sloid’” work the gradated system grew, until now manval training includes wood turning, forging and machinery. Even other arts are represented at some schools. In this country one hundred and twelve cities in twenty-six states have established manual training schools and erected spe- etal buildings and plants for instruction. Except in our city these have been special- ly designed for the work in hand: whereas here only adaptation of ol4 buildings is what we have. Not only in the larger cities, such as Boston and Chicago, are found splendid facilities, but even in cities of lower rank special attention is being given to this branch of education, and care and comfort are shown in the environment. Even the little town of Menomonie, Wi: consin, with a population of about six thou- sand, had erected a special building for manual training. This building was con- structed of brick and three stories in height. The city of Denver, with a popn- lation in 18%) of 106,713, has put up a mag nificent building, with large, airy rooms, well lighted and with high ceilings, in which comfortable quarters the pupils work. The Indianapolis School. But the best example to contrast with cur lack of facilities is that found in the city of Indianapolis. The fo!lowing sta- tistics, compiled from the latest sources, give a view of the relativity of the places, the item for Indianapol ing placed first Population, . population of legal school age, 31,410, 60,306; pupils en- rolled, 27,574, 42,905; average daily attend- 3 d valuation of 55; tax levy, property, $55 1890, $1,105, $1. With such a great disparity between the two places in population, school population and wealth, let us see what has been done in each for manual training. In February, 1895, was completed, at a cost of $165,000, the present Industrial Training School @ISTRICT). culable. By the acquisition of skill In handling tools and machines the reflex upon the brain orderly arranges the mental pow- ers and proce: Attention, observation, apprehension, comprehension, discrimina- tion, care, tact and skill acquired in manual training make their impress upon the men- tal training. The faculties acquired in skilful work with the hands endure in tne brain and are ready for employment in purely mental exercise. Accepting as a postulate that manual training is an essential ancillary of mental training and a determined factor in eauca- tion, it is the social duty of a community to provide due and adequate facilitics. This building, located upon a square of ground bounded by Merrill, Meridian and Garden streets and Madison avenue. Five hundred and twenty-six studenis were first enrolled, chool has niiment of SS3 students (459 boy: The building ts a handsome cture, one of the most imposing in the city, and bears tribute to the enter- prise and zeal of the citizens, who were determined to give their children the very best facilities to be had. And see the contrast with our own poor forlorn little “shop.” Two petty two-story brick buildin: me formerly a beer saloon, have been fitted up, ard to them in the and now. by the last report, the an en: WOODWORK SHOP mos® important branch of an enlightening and broadening culture should meet with free-handed encouragement. In Europe. Man training had its birth in Russia, its grow n and has reached {ts perfe d States. for a cen- had been trade schools in Rus- and in 186) the Technic chools were to mental » goods. But nizing the advantage of Imperial (INDIANAPOLIS). rear has been added a livery stable, and lo! we have our manual training school. All honor to the Instructors and boys who have evolved such splendid results from such unpropitious surroundings. If it were not for the results obtained we should be ashamed that we lag so far behind in the train that is moving ever forward toward advancement and culture, and ashamed we should be that we do not furnish to young, ardent and aspiring minds the fitting means for their progress. New let us v! the interiors, the envt- ronments amid which the pupils labor. At Indianapolis in the wood turning shop the this training as a mental exercise, severed from it the merchantable feature | and gav> of tool instruction. Geveloped in Russia, the pup!! was taugnt teol handling oaly, of iouls in the te ‘nical school. not r s: the plant, not the fruit; were the objects sought. Some two years after M. Della-Vos had taken the initiative Sweden took up the cause. It was at first utilitarian, so as to encourage tome in- dustries. But ia 1877 Herr Otto Saloman pruned the system, so as to make it pure- ly educational. All forms except wood- working were discarded. This is termed dis- | the world the “Russian system’ danger of colilsion. lathes and benches are spaced so far apart that free movement is permitted without At our school, in Under this system, as {| space 13x40 feet, there are eighteen lathes and five benches, and the boys fairly touch preparatory to the use| as they work. But a comparison of the Principies, } pairs, with a very narrow ley amidst them, At India .apolis. there is. plenty of space. There is an average of eighty-three square feet to a forge, while .with us, al- lowing for the boiler and wash bench, there is an average of forty-five square feet. The same Ciffesence substantially exists between the machine shops in the two cities. In addition to rooms for teaching, the Indianapolis building has a lirge semi- circular auditorium, with a capacity of 800. Washington Building. In fact, Indianapolis not only possesses what we have, and to a much higher de- gree of efficiency, but also possesses much which we do not have and cannot have while this “pent-up Utica confines our pewers.”* Manual training is the tre ancillary of mental training. Begun in the lower grades, it finds its full fruition in the High School. The corelation of hand «nd brain, of body and mind, having been inculcated, its broad and vitalizing influence is confirmed and energized. In the lower grades the poten- tial is engrafted. To find the resultant the higher grades must be considered. After the child has passed through the eighth grade and his inherent powers have be- Indianapolis Training School. come crystallized and are firm for action he should be provided with full means for forming within himself those mental es- sentials which prepare him for active life. No higher duty, no more important object, presents itself than that of education, And in view of modern enlightenment, advanc- ing sciences and manifold improvements, it behooves us to keep in the van, or, “like a gallant horse fallen in front rank, we shall be trodden by those who come behi Manual training is with us to stay. Wash- ingtcn holds the front rank as an edu- cational center; but if we neglect this most important branch of modern enlightened education the wreath will be plucked from our brow and Ichabod will be written above the portals of our schools. W. H. SINGLETON. THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND. What Was Done With the Old Seal of George IV. From the Pall Mall Magazine. The great seal is not allowed to leave the kingdom without special permission. In 1521 Cardinal Wolsey carried the seal into the low countries and sealed writs with it at Calais, a violation of duty which formed one of the articles of his impeachment. Nowadays, if the chancellor leave London the great seal goes with him, and if nec- essary the traveling sealer attends the chancellor fer the purpose of actually applying the seal to documents. When the great seal is to change hands the retiring lord chancellor goes to the queen, attended by his purse bearer, who the seal in its purs is banded to the queen by the purs given back to tnat official by her majesty, and is then handed by the purse bearer to the in ing chancellor. George IV had one se William IV suce 1 only, and when ed him there was some contention as to the disposal of the pieces of the defaced seal of George. The dif- ficulty came out of the fact that when William's seal was ordered (August 4, 1830), Lord Lyndhurst was chancellor, but when it was fintshed and ready to ‘take the place of George IV's seal (August 31, 1831) Lord Bro! chancellor. Lyndhurst claimed old seal, on the ground that the tran: ion must be refer- red back to the date of the order for the new seal, and that the fruit must there- fore be considered as having fallen in his time; while Lor] Brougham insisted that the point of time to be regarded was the moment when the old seal ceased to be the clavis regni. The matter was submit- ted to William IV. Greville, in his Me- moirs, gives the following account of the incident: “King Wiliam IV js a queer Our council was principally for a new great seal, and to deface the old seal. The chancellor (Brougham) claims the old one as his perquisite. I had forgotten the hammer so the king said, ‘My lord, the best thing I can do is to give you the seal and tell you to take it and do what you like with it.’ The chancellor said, ‘Sir, I believe there fs some doubt whether Lord Lyndhurst ought not to have half of it, as he was chancellor at the time of your majesty’s accession.’ ‘Well,’ said the king, ‘then I will judge between you, like Solomon; here’ (turning the seal round and round), ‘now do you cry heads or tails,’ We all laughed, and the chancellor said, ‘Sir, I take the bottom part.’ The king opened the two compartments of the seal and said, ‘Now, then, I employ you as min- isters of state. You will send for Bridge, my stlversmith, and desire him to conyert the two nalves cach into a salver, with ™my arms on one side and yours on the other, and Lord Lyndhurst’s the same, end you will take one and give him the other, and both keep them as presents from me.” ———~e+____ The Government's Old Gold Business. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Hard times can be pretty well estimated by the amount of gold jewelry, old plate, ard trinkets, says Director of the Mint Preston, presented at the government mints. During the period of extreme de- pression the amount of metals purchased by the government reached high figures, but in the past year it has dwindled con- siderably. At the approach of the holiday season the jewelry sent to the mints to be sold increases in large proportion com- pared to the quantity sold in the dull sea- son. Soon after New Year there is usual- ly a heavy installment at the assay offices and mints. Within the past week a pair of gold Eracelets, which cost $50, were sent to the mint bureau here to be sold for the gold in them. Their owner said he could not keep them, as he required the moncy, and asked Director Preston to dispose of them at whatever value they might bring. ‘The bracelets, on being melted down, were shown to contain $17 worth of pure metal. From 1873 down to last year the amount of money paid out by the government for old gold, plate and jewelry has steadily in- creased. The high-water mark was reach- ed in 1801, when the government paid out for plate and jewelry $4,035,710. The Phila- delphia mint melts nine-tenths of the plate and jewelry presented to the government. Payment is generally made in gold when the jewelry is of that metal. ———-+e+ When Spectacles Were New. From the Youth’s Companion, | In the days when spectacles were intro- duced the world was not all wise. Glasses became so fashiorable that people did not wait until necessity compelled them to adopt the new cuctom. Whether their eye- sight was bad or good, those who would be stylish wore spectacles. In Spain they fcrmed part of the costume of every well- dressed person. The object of the wearer in putting on glasses was to increase the gravity cf his appearance and render himself more direct- ly imposing. A young monk who had, through the assistance of his family, caus- e4 his order to succeed in an important lawsuit, felt himself liberally rewarded when the prio:, having embraced him ham was the fellow. forge shop shows more, sharply the differ- | warmly, testified his gratitude by saying: ences. At Indianapolis this shop is 50x35 feet, or 1,750 square feet; ours is 20x45 feet, or 900 square feet. one forges. In the latter there are seven- teen forges, a twenty-horsepower bolier and a wash bench. In the former the boys do not have to wash, but have a separate “Brother, put on spectacles.” The glasses of spectacles were propor- tioned in size, not to the eyes, but to the In the former are twenty-|rank of the wearer, those worn by the Spanish nobles being as large as one's hand. The Marquis of Astorga, viceroy of Naples, after having had his bust sculp- tured in marble, particularly enjoined the room. A‘ our shop the forges touch in | artist not to forget his beautiful spectacles, © “BASE- BALL an HE - ENJOYS Son of the Noted Hetty Green as Magnate end “Fan.” His Experiences as Manager of the Cuban Gia: 1s and as a Compro- mise Umpire—iIn Politics. peas Written for The Evening Star. E. H. Green, the aby son of Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman in America, is a thirty-second degree: base ball fan. Dur- ing the brotherNood ‘war Mr. Green, who was then a very young man (he is now only twenty-nine years of age), was finan- cially interested, in a large amount, in one of the clubs. During those early days of his base ball experience he was the owner and business manager of the “Cuban Giants," with whom he toured the coun- try. His experiences in connection with this are interesting and amusing. He treated his players royally, and was al- ways ready to pay the limit for first-class artists, and consequently always had a strong aggregation of players. The great- est difficulty he experienced was with the hotels. He would always stop at first-class hostelries and register his combination, but when the boys would show up for as- signment of rooms the proprietor would in. form him that he would accommodate Cu- bans, but ke had no place for “niggers,” and other arrangements would have to be made, which was frequently very em- barrassing. He said he did not accumu- late any large revenue from this enterprise. Yet he had what he went after, a “bushel of fun,” and some very valuable experience. While at college he always played on the nine, and was 2 famous back stop. Being large, robust and athletic, he was well adapted for the position, and possessed the happy faculty of knocking the ball out of the lot. As an Umpire. - He has had some very interesting ex- periences as umpire. One case in point is worthy of mention. A game wes arranged with two of the best clubs in New Eng- land, between which there was a very bit- ter rivalry, and each club was backed by a large and enthusiastic constituency. A large amount of money was wagered by the boys, and when the teams met things were at fever heat. The players went upon the field, receiving the usual college greet- ings from their friends. It was estimated that fifteen thousand people were pres- ent. The umpire who had been secured for the ocasion, seeing the excited condition of affairs, concluded he would not take Mr. E. H. Green. any chanees of being mobbed, in case he made an unpopular decision, and positively declined to officiate. A long wrangle and y followed in an attempt to select a substitute, but without avail. Finally Ed. Green was discovered, and by unanimous request he finally consented to umpire the game. He was fully impressed with the critical nature, of his ppsition. He had friends among both elubs who had a large money interest.in the result of the game, and a bad decision upon his. part would seriously coi cate fraternal relations. But he started the game. The _ pitchers were on their mettle and pitched as they never had before. Strike-outs followed in quick and regular succession, and the end of the inning would be 0-0, and the interest and excitement were intense. This added an additional burden to the responsibility of © n, Who was well nigh overcome. “The score was 0-0 until the ninth in- ning was reached, and here,” said Green, “is where I got in some fast thinking. I knew that if either side won out I would be blamed by the losers, and made_ up my mind that if no run was made in the ninth inning I would get out of the game some- how. The first side went to the bat and went out in one, two, three order, amid the deafening howls of the other fellows. An Exciting Time. “Then the oiher side came up to the bat, and the first man up inade a scratch hit and got first base. The crewd in the stands were breathlessly silent. The sec- ond man up struck out, the man on first stealing to second. The next man up made an infield hit, but was thrown out at first, the man on second going to third. Then pandemenium broke loose. I never,” said Green, “saw or heard such howling and confusion Everybody went cfazy. The pitcher was evidently rattled and it looked as if he was in the air. The game now stood two out, and a man on third base. As soon as the noise and disturbance had subsided, a man went to the bat, who was put in to bat for a weak hitter. He was recognized as one of the hardest hitters in New England. He hit the first two balls pitched into foul grounds, and struck at the next two balls and missed. The next ball he hit on the trade mark and knocked it a mile. The left fielder went after it like a deer and succeeded in getting under it, making a wonderful catch, putting the side out without a run. Well,” said Green, “you talk about excitement on the ball field. There never was anything on this earth like it. Men pounded one another over the heads with silk hats. Women waved their handkerchiefs and broke their parasols over the seats. Solving the Difficulty. “The time had come for me to act. The sun was about two hours high. I walked to the plate and, removing my hat, declared, ‘Game called on account of darkness.’ It seemed to be fully a minute before the crowd appreciated the situation, and then a roar of laughter and applause followed which exceeded any previous disturbances. I was the hero of the hour. The people had witnessed one of the best and most sensational games of ball that had ever been seen in New England, and no one had lost_a cent on the result. “That,” said Green, “ended my umpiring, and I don't want a situation on Uncle Nick Young’s staff." Railroads“and Politics. Mr. Green has: always been a promoter of base ball and Texas, and during his residence there ‘has been the financial backer of some club. He never makes any money in the business, the wrong side of the ledger generally showing the balance, yet, as he says, ft i8'a great source of fun and pleasure. ie 13, the owner of one of the best and -most ;thoroughly equipped railroads in Texgs—"The Texas Midland” — and will doubtlegs jn a short time have a through line from the cotton belt to St. Louis. He is now. ed in an enter- prise that offerg him a more diversified field for fun and adyenture than base ball. He is in politigs, is chairman of the state republican executive committee, and is in the throes of political dissension and disturbances with the national committee- men of that state with reference to the distribution of federal patronage. He possesses much of the good sense and busi- ness qualification of his mother, and ex- pects to win in the fight. RF. R. —_>— Long Walk After Chicke: From the Keokuk Constitution. Bailiff Hawley, who served a writ of at- tachment on some farm products a few days since, there being a number of chick- ens levied upon among other things, ts said to have returned a bill of mileage for 100 miles. He claims, and eye poimeeened say he is t, that there were fifty chick- ens in the beset and that he had to walk two miles to catch each chicken. It isn't probable that he will be allowed his claim, typos all. ett that he te paeps: ante to it, : TERROR TO BAD MEN|ssettussoayrazees tes Noble Could Use His Fists as Well-as. a Gua. FORMERLY NIGHT MARSHAL CF BUTTE | He Was the Inventor of One Kind of Pistol Pray. SOME FAMOUS. ENCOUNTERS Written for ‘The Evening Star. G: NOBLE, WHO was night marshal of Butte when Butte Was ornery and dan- gerous to live in,” siid a Montana man to a Star reporter, “was a notable man among the after-dark peace preservers of the western country, for two distinct »rea- In the first , he was the in- ventor, nd, when oceasion demanded, the most expert prac- titioner, of the gentle art of shooting an enemy to death with invisible guns—that is to say, with guns repesing in the side pockets of his ulster or sack coat. In th way he killed three bad men of Butte who had a clean drop on him. In the second place, curing his two twe-year terms as right marshal, he did mest of his big shar= of the bad man quelling with his fists. He achieved all of his fame as *an invisible gun shootist before he accepted the job of running the town of Butte after sundown. When he pinned on his marshal’s badge he said: ““A gun's all right, and so’s a knife, for a man that wants to be a killer. I never was a killer just for the name of it, and I ain’t a-going to be a killer now that Vin legalized to let the night air into -any h—Lroarin’ maverick that thinks he’s boss in this camp between d>w-fall and sun-up. I never killed no man unless he needed to be killed and it was up to me to do the job, and t’ve always let "em get m2 into a pretty bad fix at that before I'd feel lik putting it on them. A man can get along well enopgh with his bare hands, in Butte or anywhere els2, if he knows how to use them.’ “Having thus outlined his policy, Nobl2> went to work to keep the town of Butte in order with the weapons that nature pro- vided him with, and that he made his pol- icy stick was shown by the fact that whon Noble gave up his night marshal’s job at the end of four years, the town records proved that out of the scores and scores of bad-man mix-ups in which Gus had taken a hand he had been compelled to kill only Sev2n of the bad men with his guns. A Stroke of Genias. “Noble’s invention of the invisible gun game of kill was an inspiration mothered by exceedingly urgent necessity. Gus was one of the first men to strike Butte when the mining boom began. He was a quiet man, and he never let on to anybody where he came from. He probably had a record in other camps under some other name. Instead of prospecting for the metals Noble nosed arcund among the hills for gems. He never found enough of the garnets or sapphires to pay for his time hunting them, however—it was reserved for men who went over the very same ground years afterward to strike the carbons in paying quantities. So Noble came back into Butte and picked up a liying at short-haul freighting and playing cards. He was playing a game of seven-up with one of his freighting pardners” one night in the rear room of the Angel Gabriel saloon when some shooting began in the front room. There was nothing uncommon about this, but when the glass began to crash and a couple of balls came through the thin board partition that separated the front from the rear room of the saloon Noble and the man he was playing with got up from the card table to see what was going on. They iepped together into the doorway leading into the front room. They saw Jim Scars- le, a killer who had several times come ar to being the central figure in lynching gotten up by Butte’s vigilance commit- tee, in the middle of the saloon blazing away with both guns at the lights and looking glasses. The bartender was not in sight, but when it was all over he came out from beneath the bar, very flerce and fe- rocious. Scarsdale was drunk and enjoying himself. He saw Noble and the other man when they appeared in the doorway, and he had them both covered before they had time to exactly take in the situation. Scars- a ept his guns on them and talked. ‘ou two ducks has got a nerve,’ said he, ‘a-pokin’ in here like this when I’m just startin’ in to eat up the camp. Ain't ye afraid o’ me, hey? Ain’t ye both skeart I'll drill so many holes in ye that yell ketch your death 0’ cold on a raw night like this, hey? Because if ye ain’t ye want to be, for I'm a-goin’ to— A Quick Killing. “Scarsdale never had a chance to finish telling what he was going to do. Th2re were two sharp pistol cracks, almost to- gether, and Scarsdale fell dead, with one bullet through his heart and the other through his right lung. Noble’s partner looked mystified until ha saw Gus pull his Blazing Away With Both Gu: guns out of the pockets of his sack coat, lay them on the table and then smother the fire in both pocket linings with his hands. When Noble sat down to his game of seven-up he r2moved his guns from his back pockets to the side pockets of his coat, because they interfered with the back of his chair. He knew, when Scars- dale got tha drop on him, that the man was drunk enough to shoot him dead if be made a move, and as he had his hands thrust in hig coat side pockets when he appeared in the doorway he was Inspired to take advantage of th3 situation to save his life and the life of his friend. He got the thanks of the town for finishing Scar- dale’s evil days. The pocket-shooting scheme struck Noble as being a mighty gocd one for a man in a tight plac:, and, as I said before, he employed it on two other occasions to put the kibosh on bed men who, while engaged in the amiable job of shooting up the town, crossed his trail. It was the good work that Noble thus did in ridding Butt2 of desperate characters that induced the orderly men of the town to urge Gus to také the job of night marshal. : “When Noble made his announcement, upon assuming the office, that he intend2d to run the town by means of fist persuasion entirely, unless he found himself in holes too deep to climb out of without the aid of his guns, we all thought he was only fooling. The thing looked absurd on the face of it, when nearly every man in the camp packed two guns and a knife around with him, when the town was hone: b= the vigilance ‘committe> to ‘run them out; the > run out and when, moreover, three previous night marshals of ne ee a of = = and knife fighters st quality of game- ness, had surrendered thalr badges, after warm to make it worth their while. ~ Meant What He Said. “But we found out that Noble meant what he said three nights after he took the job of after-dark marshal. On that night Gus dropped In at Tim Logan's dance tent to have a look around. There was nothing in particular going on there—only a dozen couples or so gyrating around on the hard- packed clay floor to the muste of an ac- cordon. Noble stood in a corner talking to Logan for a while, and then started to gv out the door of the tent. As he did so he aimost bumped into another man just coming in. The other man was a miner named Lou Prindle—not a bad man when sot but very evil when drunk. He hap- ! to be drunk on this occasion, and he » kad both of his guns in his hands. i.e ved to pass around Noble to get into the door cf the tent, but Noble blocked the and permitted a distance of just about t to separate him from Prindle. “Where you going, Lou?’ he asked the man, with his guns all ready for business. “Prindle glared at the night marshal drunkenly. “Well, said he, ‘while I can’t see that that’s any 0’ your d—d business. I'm ‘goin’ inside yere to shoot up that gal in the sear skirt a whole lov fur givin’ me tne acuble cross an’ fur— “Oh, I wouldn't,” put in Noble, mildly, still standing a foot away from the man with the guns. “Who's a-runnin’ this yere joint?’ yelled Prindle, getting mad because Noble was Biocking his way in. ‘Git out o’ my way or ‘Well, Gus always did have a great way of breaking in cn men before they had a chance to finish saying what they intended to do to him. He saw that Prindle’s hands were tightening on his guns as he spoke, and his left hand shot out like a catapult and landed like a piston red on the danger- ous man’s wind. This doubled Prindle up and brought his head forward, and when his head came forward Noble got him clean on the point of the jaw with his right Prindie was down and out befere he had time to think what was happening to him, and his guns were lying on the sod. Noble picked the guns up and stuffed them into his pockets called a couple of men out of the dance tent to carry Prindle to the cataboose, Fists vs. Guns. “After this happened some of us came to the conclusion that there might be scmething in Noble’s queer policy of fist persuasicn, after all, but it was not uniil he had turned the trick repeatedly and put out a number of the most savage and thor ovghly heeied bad men that ever announce on Butte’s main streets that they dine daily on pickled coyotes’ feet that } succeeded in convincing the entire com- munity that a man who has a comple rderstanding of how to handle his mitts has just as good an end cf most arguments> as the man with the gun or the knife. Noble knew how to use his hands, if any man out in that country did. He'd nev: let on to any of us where he'd picked up his science at boxing, but I guess we were not far wrong in figuring it that he been in the ring a few times when he was younger man. He was a short man, not more than five feet six in height, but he was very bread across the shoulders, with an arm-reach that was almost baboonish. inewy as an Indian and quick as a cat, aud his huge chest and arms were so kno ied that, stripped, he looked almost muscl bound, although he wasn’t. He could strik« a terrible blow. A rampageous miner, » strapping giant over six feet tall, walked up to Noble one night in the Angel Ga- briel saloon and deliberately spat in his face. He was a new man in Butte, and he didn’t know the night marshal, who of course wore no uniform. The miner dit this thing out of pure devilishness, becaus« he wanted to be bad, and because Noble being quiet and inoffensive-looking, he fig- ured that he could do it with impunity. Noble thrust his right leg back, planted his feet firmly on the floor, gave a daz- ziing swift circular swing with his long right arm and then sent the rock-hard fist at the end of it into the middle of th« giant’s chest. The blow sounded like th: impact ot a pile driver. The big miner never got up from where he fell. The phy sician who examined his body said that the blow had stopped the beating of hi heart. How the Trouble Began. oble drifted into Tad Moonlight’s gi mill one night when things seemed to bi kind o' quiet around town. The only cus tomer in the place was a big mule-whack er named Luke nn, @ man whose hard name for cattle rustling out in Idaho had followed him to Montana. Finn was p! ing solitaire at a tabje in a corner of the saloon. He nodded to Nobie when the night marshal came in, but Noble didn’t return the nod. When Gus didn’t like a On the Point of the Jaw. man he never made any pretension that he did. “If an ombrey’s worth nodding to, he’s worth shaking hands with,’ he used to say, ‘and where's the decency of giving your hand to a man that sooner or later you're Hable to have to brand with the Same hand?” “Anyhow, Noble leaned on the bar for a few minutes, talking with Moonlight, when a queer little guy of a tenderfoot caine brstling into the saloon. He had struck Butte with a wagon train that arrived that afternoon, and he was about as raw as they make 'em—gotten up with a regular scout makeup, with fringe on his pants, sombrero, two guns, a dirk, and the whole thing. His tog-out was the regular stage conception of the frontiersman, and, as he didn’t look much bigger than’a pint of elder boiled down, he really presented a funny picture. Noble smiled when the young fellow came in, but went on talking with Moonlight. “-Got any wine?’ the little tenderfoot inquired of Moonlight in a piping voice, throwing down a gold piece. “Krom Kentucky, yes,’ said Moonlight, grinning and setting out the black bottle. “Finn, immersed in his solitaire game over in the corner, had not noticed the arrivai of the tenderfoot, but his ear caught this little talk at the bar and he Dance It, Willie. looked up and leered when he saw the new arrival. Finn had enough whisky in him to be evil, and he was probably sore besides because Noble had not returned his nod when he came in. Anyhow, he got up, stretched himself and walked up to the tenderfoot, looming a good foot over “ ‘Bay,’ _ he, oe the ‘scout,’ ‘you look like you ough know a heap about dancing a hornpipe, Willie.’ “The tenderfoot didn’t seem to under- stand at all what he was in for. “ ‘No,’ he said, looking at the big ‘unsuspi: 5 didn’t teach that a! our dancing ee ‘they school.’ On With the Dance! “ "They -didn’t!’ said Luke. ‘Well, teach it at this dancing school, and it’ dead easy when you're helped along bit. Dance it, son,’ and out came Finn’s guns at the same instant and bullets went through the flooring about an inch away from the tenderfoot's heels. ‘Go on and dance it, Wille.’ “Well, the poor little chap’s eyes al- Most popped out of his head, and it didn’t take him two seconds to begin gyrating | around with his hands on his hips, sailor fashion. ““Why, of course you know how dance it.” said Finn, planting a more bullets dangerously close to the little fellow’s feet. ‘You can dance any- thing in thi pre dancing academy, pro- vidin’ you've got the right kind o’ music, to couple Jest shake her up a little faster, Willie,’ two more balls cut rage floor in and d heles tn spots where the tenderfoot’s a tenth of a second before. 4 an odd way of half closing his es when he was getting riled up ove enything, and they closed up that it almcst seemed 4 he could: out of them. But he nt say ad nor make a move. He could easily have got the drop on Finn with his guns and called him do nd to ndstill, but he had other plans, and he never used his guns while he was night marshal unless he ac- tually had to. He knew that Finn's guns only held fourteen balls, and he wa In roared with the pure joy of the be was having. and after three or four mi: utes he hed made fourteen holes in the loon floor, the tenderfoot hopping up and >wn frantically meanwhile. Then Finn put his guns down on the bar in order to get at his cartridge belt to reload. Noble slipped between Finn and the dar, quick as a flash of light, and the night marsh: stuck his face within two inches of the mule-whacker’s red_ beard. ‘Ombrey,” said he to Finn, ‘this is a peaceable ‘carp, ard it's a camp that's free to all men that behave themselves. down unless and gun plays don't ¢ hen I'm are nohow. You've made is littie gun play on this tenderfoot here , havin’ a lot more rum under your eit than any man’s # to carry on y beat, you think you're sort 0° puttin’ it cn to me. Now, ye going to take off yeur cap and ask that little snipe’s pardon tor giving this camp a bad nam you're going to mosey to your sh you're going to do both 0’ thes right now Finn leaped back suddenly vut his dirk. A Remarkable Battle. “‘Not by a d—d sight, am I,’ he said: ‘but I am a-goin’ to cut you up so a can- nin’ factory wouldn't take you,’ and he leaped in again and made a lunge with his dirk at Noble's face. But Noble's face wasn’t there. Noble dodged suddenly, and Finn fell against the bar with the whirl of the lunge he made. When he turned around Noble was in the middle of the sa- loon, weaponless and apparently content to be weaponles: Finn made at him again sther frightful side sweep with dirk for Noble's head. He missed again, Gus landed a hard one with his right ist on the mule-whacker’s right ear. Finn winced, bat he was a powerful man, and it tcok more than one blow to put him out. Well, this fight between the man with the dirk and the man with only a scientific pair minutes, Finn to land on his maa and never so much as while every time he made a stunning blow either « t. Moonlight would have behind th bar, but he and then s lasted for fully five desperately dirk, ‘3 his his f shet Finn from s afraid of hitiing Noble, the men were ling about so swiftly. Finally, when mule-whacker_m of his swift side lunges with the knife, Nobile ly ducked, ran squarely between Finn's lees and lifted the man off his feet as easily an ordinary man would hoist a pound of salt. Finn came down on all fours, and oble wrenched his right arm until the dirk dropped out of his hand With t dirk at the mule-whacker’s throat, Noble n made him repeat after him a grove ing apolo: he tenderfoot, who stood by, too ¢ 4 with r to get out. n he let Finn up, he handed him his two guns and his dirk, and told him to make for his shack and sleep off his rum. er walked out without # word, a beaten man.” - - INJURIES TO TRADE. A Texas ton pds to Russia, Vice and Acting Consul Smith, at Moscow Russia, has written to the State Depart- meat in regard to certain shipments of cotton “that have recently been made from the United States. It appears that an im- porter in Mc received offers from a Texas dealer, and, after making inquiries from several banks in Texas and obtaining indorsements as to his correspondent’s re- liability, the Russian bought 20 bales of cotton, paying for them in advance. When the goods arrived it was found that instead of cotton the bales contained only wadding, having almost no value and entailing a loss to the importer of about 12,000 rubles (about $6,100, taking the value of the paper ruble as 51 cents, according to the statement of the United States director of the mint Qc- tober 1, 1897; if the gold ruble was meant, the loss exceeded $9,000). The Moscow dealer has brought the matter to the atten- tion of the United States consul and intends to take legal proceedings against the ex- porte: Mr. Smith incloses samples of the cotton actually bought and of the goods received. Attention is called to the matter becaugd of the evident injury to United States trade in foreign countries resulting from ship- ments of goods which do not correspond te sample. Pirates of the Pyramids, From the Sphinx. In taking the visitor to the top the ras- cals wait till they get him about half way up on some particularly “skeery” portion of the ascent, obviously what the latter-day novelists call the psychological moment, and make a unanimous demand for ik sheesh. One does not feel like begrudging a few piastres at such a moment. Your glance strays uneasily down the appalling length and breadth of that h steep stairway of jagged boulders, and you shud- deringly wonder how many piastres it would take for repairs to your anatomy it you were to take an impromptu toboggan slide to the bottom. To keep up their en- thusiasm and give them an object in get- ting ypu back alive you promise them some- thing. You find the whole village waiting for you with open palms at the bottom. ‘They swarm over you like Siberian wolves on a belated traveler, whine and bully you out of all your change, your last cigar- ette. everything you've got, and then nearly 4aob you for not having more. You shake off the last of your pursuers at the door of the hotel, pull yourself together with a sigh of relief and journey homeward, vow- ing that things will be largely otherwise and better menaged before you appeay amid the pyramids again. ——__+e-—___ Boone’s Gun, From the Louisville Post. “We have an old relic up in our country,” sald a gentleman from eastern Kentucky, “which could tell a thrilling story if it were only provided with tongue and brain. It is an old rifie which is said to have been owned by Daniel Boone, the great pioneer. On the stock fifteen notches have been cut