Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 6, 1895, Page 17

ISTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871 OMAHA, SUNDAY MOR 3392990 LPAGES 17 TO 20. 0099 Days More to Show Where Eoston Store “is at” Strictlyl 1A Wool DRESS FLANNELS 40 inches wide. Only one dress pattern 0 & customer. 1ac Worth 350 yd 9 Yard. ik 75 pieces Fancy Black JACQUARDS New and pretty gns. 40 inc fine all wool silk finished German Henriot- ta, Mohair Sicilians, 48 inch_ fine French Serges and Fancy Novelties. ... . Worth 75¢. 25 pieces GERMAN CREPON in silk and wool—never ad- vertised less than $1.25 yd. 60 Imported NOVELTY DRESS PATTERNS Yard, in silk and wool mix- tures, all the latest shades, actual value :}.98 fomorrow $3-98 for wholedress pattern Immense line of SILK and WOOL NOVELTIES B gc in all the now fall shades, really worth $1.00 a yard. Yard. MONARCH OF THE HEAVENS Immensity of {Le Solar Orb and the Heat it Produces, INSTRUCTIVE COMPARISONS WITH PLANETS The E Infin Sun rth's Supply of Warmth an tesimal Fraction of What the Actually Pours Forth— Shrinking in Sise. (Copyrighted by Sir Robert Ball) There is a story told of a well-intentioned missionary who tried to induce a Persian fire worshiper to abandon the creed of his ances- tors. ““Ie it not,” urged the Christian minis- ter, “a sad and a deplorable superstition for an intelligent person like you to worship an in- imate object like the sun?” “My friend,” said the Persian, “you come from England now tell me, have you ever seen the sun? ‘The retort was a just one, for the fact is that those of us whose lot requires them to live be- neath the clouds and in the gloom which so frequently brood over our northern latitudes, Tave but little conception of the surpassing glory of the great orb of day as it appears to those who know it in the clear eastern skies. The Persian recognizes in the sun not only the great gource of light and of warmth, but even of life Liself. Indeed, the advances of modern sclence ever tend to bring before us with more and more significance the surpass- | ing glory with which Milton tells us the sun | is crowned. 1 shall endeavor to give in this article a brief sketch of what has recently | been learned as to the actual warmth which the sum-posesses and afuthe prodigality with | | The Phenomenal Success of Our Grand Supr i, ch all Omaha has taken in it, added to us to continue this sale for three days m BOSTON DRESS G00DS--SILKS And the intense our customers have induced Silks from the great New York stock of PELGRAM & ME/ER At 50¢ on the Dollar. $1.25 Black and Colored DRI SILKS and SATIN S 75 pieces ALL SILK SATIN DUCHESSE in black aud all shades, iu- cluding evening shades,also 24 inch All Silk Dress Gros Grains and black Corded capes, 22 inch all silk Failles, and a great collection of the new ef- fects in TafFetas for waists, dresses and trimming. interest whi Crand Challenge Sale MILLINERY 10,000 Ladies’ New Fall Style Sailor Hats e Toc d8ed1 100 Choice Imported Pattern Hats The very latest creations of Paris. ian, London and Berlin milliners art, worth up to $30.00; will be sold from 316.00""$3.00 « 25 pieces of yard wide SURAH GLORIAS Changeable effects and 50 picces clegant new JAPANESE GREPE SILK, 32 inches wide, all new patterns, 5 flC Ch:fllque Price 50¢ yard, '75¢ Silks for 19¢. CRYSTAL _ ] g[: To prove our determination to make the Challenge Sale what we say it is, we will offer you the choice of 200 EXQUISITE NEW STYLE TRIMMED HATS Easily wortn 1.9 8 §5.00 FOR 400 BEAUTIFULLY TRIMMED HATS In felts or velvet, trimmed with real ostrich plumes, coque feathers, vel- vet flowers and fine laces, made in our own work rooms and Worth up to n $4-98 in grays,greens, blues, reds also Black Surahs, all shades colorad Satins and China Silks worth Challenge Price 19c. a large part of the air. This is the reason Why you feel warmer on the surface of the earth than you do on the top of a high moun- tain. If, however, It were possible to go very much closer to the sun; if, for example, tho earth were to approach’ within half its pres- ent distance, it is certain that the heat would be o intense that all life would be im- mediately scorched away. It will be remembered that when buchadnezzar condemned the unhappy Shad- rach, Mesbach and Abednego to be cast into the burning flery furnace he commanded in his fury that the furnace should be heated | seven times hotter than it was wont to be heated. Let us think of the hottest furnace which the minions of Nebuchadnezzar could | ever have kindled with all the resources of Babylon; let us think indeed of one of the most perfect of modern furnaces, in which even a substance so refractory as steel, hay- Ing first attained a dazzling brilllance, can be melted so as to run like water; lot us Imagine the heat dispensing power of that glittering liquid to be multiplied sevenfold; let us go beyond Nebuchadnezzar's frenzied command, and imagine the efficiency of our furnace to be ten or twelve times as great as that which he commanded, we shall then obtain a notion of a heat-giving power cor- responding to that which would be found in the wonderful celestial furnace, the great sun in heaven. Ponder also upon the stupendous size of that orb, which glows at every point of its surface with the astonishing fervor I have Indicated. The earth on which we stand fs | no doubt a mighty globe, measuring as it does 8,000 miles in diameter; yet what are its dimensions in comparison with those of the sun? If the earth be represented by a grain of mustard seed, then on the same scale the sun should be represented by a cocoanut. Perhaps, however, a more impressive con- ception of the dimensions of the great crb of day may be obtained in this way. Think of the moon, the queen of night, which cir- cles monthly around our heavens, pursuing, as she does, a majestic track, at a distance | of 240,000 miles from the earth. Yet the sun | I8 £0 vast that if it were a hollow ball, and If the earth were placed at the center of that | which it pours forth its radiunt treasures, I number among my acquaintances an in- | telligent gardener, who Iw fond of speculating | about things in the heavens as well as about | things on the carth. One day he told me that | he felt certain it was quite a mistake to be- liove, as most of us do belicve, that the sun up there is a hot, glowing body. " he sald, “the sun cannot be a source of heat, and | 1 will prove it. If the sun were a source of | heat,” sald the rural philosopher, “then the | closer you approach the sun the warmer you | would find yourself. But this is not the case, | for when you are climbing up a_mountain you | are approaching nearer to the sun all the time, but, as everybody knows, instead of | feellng hotter and hotter as you ascend, you are becoming steadily colder and colder. In fact, when you reach a certain height, you will’ find yourself surrounded by perpetual | fce and snow, and you may not improbably be frozen to death when you have got as near | to the sun as you can; therefore,” concluded | my frlend, triamphantly, “it Is all nonsense | to tell me the sun is a scorching hot fire.” I thought the best way to explain the little delusion under which the worthy gar- dener labored was to refer to what takes | place in his own domain. I asked him | whereln lies the advantage of putting his | tender plants into his greenhouse in Novem- | ber. How does that preserve them through the winter? How is it that even without artificlal heat the mere shelter of glass will often protect plants from frost? I explained | 1o him that the glass gets as a veritable trap | for the sunbeams; it lets them pass in, but | it will not let them escape. The temperature Within the greenhouse Is consequently raised, | and thus the necessary warmth is maintained, | The dwellers on this earth live in what Is equivalent, in this respect, to & greenhouse. There is a coplous atmosphere above our heads, and that atmosphere extends to us the same protection which the glass does to the plants In the greenhouse. The air lets the sunbeams through to the earth's sur- face and then keeps their heat down here to make us comfortable. When you climb to tho top of & high mountain you pass through | enough | only an ball, the moon could revolve in the orbit Which it now follows, and still be entirely enclosed within the sun's Interior. T every acre on the surface of our globe | there are more than 10,000 acres on the sur- | face of the great luminary. Every portion of this illimitable desert of flame Is pouring | forth torrents of heat. It has indeed been | estimated that it the heat which Is inces-- santly flowing through any single square foot of the sun’s exterior could be collected and applied beneath the bollers of A lantic liner it would suffice to produce steam | to sustain in continuous movement | those engines of 20,000-horse power which en- able a superb ship to break the record be. tween Ircland and America The solar heat is shot forth into sp every direction with a prodigality seems well nigh inexhaustible, earth does intercept a ply of sunbeams for conversion to | our many needs, but the share of sun heat that the dwelling place of man- kind is able to capture and employ formns infinitesimal fraction of what the sun actually pours forth. It would seem, In- | deed, very presumptious for us to assume that the great sun has come into existence golely for the benefit of poor humanity. The | heat and light dally lavished by that orb of in- comparable splendor would sufiice to warm | ace in which No doubt the | fair sup- | $12.00 In which the sun manages its affairs, it we are to suppose that all the solar heat is wasted save that minute fraction which is received by the earth. Out of every $20,000,000 worth of heat issuing from the glorious orb of day, we on this earth barely secure the value of one single cent, and all but that significant trifle seems to be utterly squandered, We may say it certainly is squandered so far as humanity is concerned. No doubt there are certain other planets besides the earth, and they will receive quantities of heat to the extent of a few cents more. It must, how- ever, be said that the stupendous volume of solar radiation passes off substantially un- taxed into space, and what may actually there become of it science is unable to tell And now for the great question as to how the supply of heat is sustained so as to per- mit the orb of day to continue in its career of such unparalleled prodigality. Every child knows that the fire on the domestic hearth will go out unless the necessary sup- plies of wood or coal can be duly provided, The workman knows that the devouring blast furnace requires to be incessantly stoked with fresh fuel. How, then, comes it that a furnace so much more stupendous than any terrestrial furnace can continue to pour forth in perennial abundance its amaz- ing stores of heat without being nourished by continual supplies of some kind? Prof. Langley, who has done so much to extend our knowledge of the great orb of heaven, has suggested a method of illustrating the quantity of fuel which would be required, if indeed it were by successive additions of fuel that the sun's heat had to be sustained. Sup- | pose that all tae coal seams which underlio America were made to yield up thelr stores, Suppose that the coal fields of England and Scotland, Australia, China and elsewhere were compelled ' to contribute every combustible particle they contained, Suppose, In fact, that we extracted from this earth every ton of coal It possesses, in every island and in every continent. Sup- pose that this vast store of fuel, which is adequate to supply the wants of this earth | for centuries, were to be accumulated in one stupendous pile. Suppose that an army of stokers, arrayed In numbers which we need not now pause to calculate, were employed to throw this coal into the great solar fur- nace. How long, think you, would so gigan- tic a mass of fuel maiutain the sun’s expendi- ture at its present rate? I am but uttering a deliberate scientific fact when I say that a conflagration destroyed every par. ticle of coal co ed in this earth would not | generate so much heat as the sun lavishes abroad to ungrateful space in the tenth p of every siugle second. During the few min- utes that the reader has been occupied over these lines a quantity of heat which is many thousands of times as great as the heat which | 0 could be produced by the Ignition of all the coal in every coal pit in the globe has been dispersed and totally lost to the sun. But we have still one further conception to introduce before we shall have fully grasped the significance of the sun's ex. travagance in the matter of heat. As the yesterday 50 it shone a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago; so it shome in the earliest dawn of history; so it shone during those still remoter pericds when great animals | ¢ flourished which have now vanished forever: 80 it shona during that remarkable period In earth's history when the great coal forests flourished; 5o it shone in those remote ages many millions of years ago when life began and {lluminate, quite as efciently as the earth 1s warmed and lighted, more than two thousand million globes each as large as | the earth. If it had indeed been the scheme | of nature to call into existence the solar ar- | rangements on their present scale for the solitary purpose of cherishing this immedaite | world of ours, then all we can say is that | mature carries on its business In the most outrageously wasteful manner. hat should we think of the prudence of a man who, having been endowed with a splen- did fortune of not less than $20,000,000, spent 1 cent of that vast sum usefully and dissipated every other cent and every other dollar of his g.lnmlc wealth In mere aimless extravagance? bis would, however, appear to be the way to dawn on an earth which was still young, There is every reason to believe that through- out these illimitable periods which the jm- agination strives in vain to realize the sun | has dispensed its radiant treasures of light and warmth with just the same prodigality @s that which now characterizes it. We all know the consequences of wanton extravagance. We know it spells bank ruptey and ruin. The expenditure of heat by the sun Is the most magnificent ex- travagance of which human knowledge Bives us any conception. How have the consequences of such awful prodi- gallty been hitherto averted? How is it that the sun is stilk able to draw on its heat reserves from sceond to second, from cen- tury to century, from acon to meon, ever | this Chautanqua assembly, sun shines today on this earth, so It shone | P upon ter of Madagascanis to marry the queen. Ppresent incumbent of office has already ap- OMAHA. Men’s, Ladies’ andl Child’s UNDERWEAR, ‘hildren’s natural gray and white Vests and Pants, ' und girls' Pants and Drawers. camels hair and natural gray, ail sizes Boys' and Misses' all wool searlet Vests and Pants........ Ladies’ Derby ribbed floec lined Vests and Pants. Ladies very flne quality ribbed Vests and Pants, with wool and crochet trimming.......... . 25¢ 39 Ladies' Unien Suits, handsomely made, in very pretty colors, in non-shrinking, part wool and all wool, worth up 10#2.00, go at 49¢, 75¢ and 98c. Underwear. 3¢ 25¢ 30c Ladles' half wool zephyr knit Vests and Pants, turquols, stiver &ray and ceru.. ; Men’s Winter Men's heavy gray Shirs and Drawers, worth 35c....... Men's double-breasted fleece lined; Underwear, worth §0e.., worth wear, 76C.cecuann Men's all wool fleece lined Under- wear, worth $1.26.......0000u0uin.s Men's highest grade, strictly all wool Underwear, worth $1.75 squandering two thousand million times as much heat as that which genfally warms our temperate regions, as that which draws forth the exuberant vegitation of the tropics, or Whick rages in the Desert of Sahara. This is_indeed a great problem, It was Helmholtz who discovered that the continual maintenance of the sun's tempera- ture is due to the fact that the sun is neither soltd nor liquid, but is to a great extent gas- eous. His theory of the subject has gained universal acceptance. Those who have taken the trouble to become acquainted with it are compelied to admit that the doctrine set forth by tais great philosopher embodies a pro- found truth. Even the great sun cannot escape the a plication of a certain law which affects every terrestrial object, and whose province is wide as the universe itself, Nature has not one law for the rich and another for the poor. The sun is shedding forth heat, and therefore affirms this law, tho cuo must be shrinking in size. We have learned the rate at which this contraction pro- ceed for among the many triumphs Which mathematicians have accomplished must be reckoned that of having put a pair of callipers on the sun o as to measure its diameter. We thus find that the width of the great luminary is ten fnches smaller today than it was yesterday. Year in and year out the glorious orb of heaven is steadily dimin- Ishing at the same rate. For hundreds of years, aye, for hundreds of thousands of years, incessant shrinkagé; has gone on at about the same rate as it {goes on at present. For hundreds of years, aye, for hundreds of thousands of years, the shrinkage will go on. As a sponge exudes molsture by con- tinuous squcezing, so the. sun pours forth heat by continuous shrinking. So long as the sun remains practically gaseous so long Wwill the great luminary continue to shrink, and thus continue its gracious beneficence. Hence it is that, for incalculable ages yet to come, the sun will pour forth its unspeak- able benefits; and thence it is that for a period, compared with which the time of man upon this earth is but a day, summer and winter, heat and cold, seedtime and harvest, in their due succession, wiil never be want- ing to this earth SIR ROBERT BALL. English curates are thinking of forming themselves into a professlonal union on the plan of the trades unions, Rev. Elijah Kellogg, who wrote cus,” is still living at the age of 85 years He preaches twice each Bunday at the little church in Harpswell, M., and cultivates a small farm, e Dr. Farley, genlor vicar-general of Archbishop Corrigan, kas been made pro- thonotury apostolic by fhe pope. This is the highest * dignity ~ which & Roman Catholic priest can attain outside the miter. Bishop Vincent, in addition to his work as founder and most ardemt worker for the publishes, edits and ites endlessly, preachds constantly, and rforms all the manifold ‘uties fncumbent @ bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. Russia is turning the tables on the Ameri- can Forelgn Mission board, and s sending W several priests of the Greek church to minis- ter since she sold Alaska to us the Russian gov- erument has expended $50;000 annually on Greek church missions in this country. in its interests in this country. Ever Sy Thirty-five years ago George L. Harwel and a girl named Batts were slaves on the same plantation in Virginia. They were en- gaged to be married when the war broke out; the plantation -family was broken up and the lovers were separated, neither know- ing what became of the other. It seems that they recently met by accident in Ashland, Wis., and were married about a week ago. sl One of the chief duties of the prime minis- The peared in the role of prince consort three times and the young queen, Menjanka 111 now awaits his pleasure for a fourth cere wony, Udaddaloialesitle N. W. Corner 16th and Douglas, i ore. CHAMPION BARCAINS IN THE BASEMENT. 20 rolls of extra quality Tapes- try Brussels Carpets, worth 39 ¢ a yard, challenge price 31,25 Bxtra fing 11-4 pure wool California Blankets, worth $10.00. slightly im- perfect, goat........,... L} 1,000 yards of fancy Hearietta Sateens, all new patterns, worth 2ic u yurd, go at.. Prints, mill romnants, go at 21 24 as long as they lust...... o2 Double faced 3 SHAKER FLANNEL........ U4 Thousands of yards of very finest upholstery Trpestries, slightly damaged, worth up to $2.50 a yard, goat... One immense table of strictly all wool sample Cassimere, worth up to $2.50 a yard, go at. .. ROUGH RIDING ON THE PLAINS Two Hundred Miles Over a Pathless Country in Twenty-Three Hours, Best quality Opaque Window Shades, worth 75¢ each, chal- lenge pric: b ll-l size Bed Blankets, worth Extra heavy wool Bed Blank- ets pinks and grays, worth Strictly all wool BLANKET 36-inch wide very finest Percales worth 1e yard, go at......... . 1,000 yards of best Standard Extra heavy, full size, Mar- seilles Pattern Bed Spreads, worth 81.25, g0 &t ........... Fine Unbleached Table Linen, e grade, go tomorrow only at, yard RECOLLECTIONS OF GEN, STANTON'S RIDE ding Up to the Battle et and th nes—Day the Saddle. of th Night in Indian campaigning developed and brought to notice the hard riding qualities of cavalry- men and mounted ‘officers, and border records abound with storles of endurance displayed in the saddle, and thrilling escapes from hos- tlle Indians in the trackless west. This story, related in the Washington Post, by an army man, is a type of many, but pos- sesses additional interest because it is an episode in the stirring frontier life of a distinguished officer, until recently stationed in Omaha. Its time s that of the last Cheyenna war; the scene, the wild, unbroken country just west of the Black Hills; while the ciief performer is Brigadier General Stanton, just now paymaster general of the ariny. Tils drama of the saddle Is told Just as it came from the lips of an army officer who knew all about it, and was there at tho time. “The Fifth cavalry; ten companies—this was before the day of ‘troops'—under Gen- eral Merritt, was keeping an eye on tue Cheyennes. “The Sloux were on the warpath, and busy standing things civilized on their heads oyer tc the north, and the Cheyennes were getting the fever. Good judges of Indians, with their thumbs on the Cheyenne tribal pulse, said they were llable to break out at any moment into a war spirit, join the Sioux already out, and unite their energies to Sitting Buil's in teppling over the paleface of the northwest “'So, as I have already said, General Mer- ritt was watching the Cheyennes with ten companies of the Fifth cavalry. He was to hold them in check. “Time went on, and the Cheyennes were still quiet. General Merritt and everybody else began to belleve they would remain at prece. One morning General Merritt concluded that all danger from the Cheyennes was over, and began to move north and west with s command. “He got as far as the War Bonnet, when courlers overtook him with dispatches from General Sheridan—at Chicago or Omaha Sher- idan was—telling General Merritt not to leave the Cheyenne vicinity until he was ab- solutely sure they were quiet, and that all danger of a Cheyenne outbreak had blown by, Sheridan's dispatch said further that he had just received word from a worthy, trusty source that the Cheyennes at the Red Cloud agency were painting up for trouble, and about to leave the reservation and join the Sloux. The truth of this must be discovered, and the Cheyenne uprising, were any on the carpet, must be checked. At all hazards the Cheyennes must be prevented from effecting a junction with the Sioux. “When Merritt got this dispatch he at once pltched camp. This camp on the War Bon- net was just 100 miles from the Red Cloud agency as crows fly. Between lay a rough country without trail or track. Yet some- body must go to the Red Cloud agency at once. “‘You go, Stanton,’ sald General Merritt, to Brigadier General Stanton, who had then climbed as high up the military ladder as the round of major. ‘You go; you know the country better than any man here.’ “Stanton took four half-breed scouts with him and started. The hour was noon, thelr horses the pick of the Fifth cavalry. “This outfit of five polnted straight for the ~STO eme Hi the urgent req\i;ts of thousands of Days More to Add Glory to Boston Store, RE JACKETS--CAPES--FURS Boucle Capes Lined ~ throughout, trimmed with marten or Thibot fur, regular e, $10.00, $4.98 50UkE: CAPES In Imported Perstan Lamb, ‘trimmed with extra fine sutin, regu- lar price $15.00, $7.50 ELECTRIC SEAL FUR CAPE Extra quality. 80-Inch long, 100-incli sweep., worh $25.00, $12.50 All woool BEA Vgl und KERSEY' Jackets 2-button langth, half lined, worth 10,00, $4.98 Imported BOUCLE Jackets ¢ Latest style, mandos Inisleoves, tull rigple buck. sold elsewhord at$12.50, 3 $7.50 Extra fine, all wool Jackets Lined throughout, very latest style, worth §20.00, $9.98 200 Sampw and $25.00 ...... le Capes and Plush, beautifully trimmed or plain, worth $20.00 made of Boucle, Kersey, Choviot $9.98 $20.00 ——500 NEW—— Sample Jackets and 500 new sample Jackets and Capes, each one a different style—(uo two alike) —made in all the latest cloths, fancy and plain Boucles, ‘Warumbo Chinchilla, Clay Worsted and Doeskin, Korseys, mandolin, football and draped sleeves, together with an immense velours, cloth and fur capes, worth from $30.00 to $75.00, go at $12.50, $15,00, $17,50, Capes Persian Lamb Cloth, with full ripple buuk, lot of plush, $22.50, $25.50 Red Cloud agency; what a farmer would call ‘cross lots.” There wasn't the shadow of path or trail. It was as rough a stretch of country, bar some regions in the Reckies, as ever slipped from the palm of the infinite. “But Stanton and his half-breeds knew the direction to Red Cloud, and they kept at it as straight as the flight of a bullet both in the daylight and in the dark. “Down " hill and up, across hollow and over divides, they never slackened or swerved. They never paused for food for themselves or fodder for their horses. Lives might be heavily staked on the game, and man and mount must go through at any cost. “It may be that somewhere in the pigeon holed of his inner consclousness Stanton had a conviction filed away that Sheridan’s line on the Cheyenne intentions was correct. “And it may be for this reason that he dug the incessant spurs into his horse all the more deeply and rode all the more flercely and grimly toward Red Cloud that day in the northwest. The cavalry could better epare a horse than a settler could his scalp. “Thus concluded Stanton, and taking what they call out west ‘a road gait,’ he never drew bridle rein or slackened stride all of the long 100 miles from the War Bonnet to the agency of Red Cloud. “Strung out behind him came his quartet of half-breeds, running mute as foxes and bringing thelr horses forward as inveterately and as remorselessly as Stanton himself. They didn't, being Indians, care so much about a settler’s scalp as did Stanton. But, being Indians, they cared nothing at all for horseflesh, and so came as obdurately on as their leader. “An Indian has no more sympathy for a horse than for the buffalo grass it treads upon, and the moment the spur falls to stir the animal’s flagging energles, will stick a knife in him as a bracer as readily as he would into its sheath. “Stanton left Merritt’s camp on the War Bonnet at noon. Covered with dust and foam, reeling a blt from very weariness of body, Stanton and his four scouts came surg- ing up to the Red Cloud agency at sharp midnight. The last mile of that rough 100 was behind them, and they had made the trip in just twelve hours by the watch, “Stanton was too lame and broken to even o Into the agency, but sunk down on the steps outside. His horse, with drooping head and shaking flanks, stood where he'd pulled him up. ‘How about the Cheyennes? was Stan- ton's question to those who came to him ““They left the reservation eight hours ago and have started to join the Sioux,’ was the reply. ‘Send me Fox, the interpreter,’ sald Stan- ton, ‘and bring me pencil and paper to write a dispatch to General Merritt.’ “When Fox came up Stanton ordered him to take a couple of the agency Indians with a lead horse aplcce and be ready to start back to Merritt at once. Then he wrote his atch as he reclined on the door steps, anton told General Merritt that the Cheyennes were on the warpath; had started to find the Sioux over what was known as the Great Northern trail, and suggested that if Merritt would throw loose from his wagons and take only the Fifth cavalry he could push up the War Bonnet and head them off at the crossing. “Fox and his Indians with two horses each were ready and started with Stanton's dis- patch at 12:20 o'clock; just twenty minutes after Stanton came in. With lead horses they had an advantage which Stanton and his four half-breeds didn't possess. So well did they use it that they rode in on General Merritt at 11:20 o'clock the same morning. They bad put the 100 miles under them In eleven hours; an hour better than Stanton “That's all there Is to the story. It was a simple case of dispatch bearing; a case where 200 miles over a trackless waste was covered in twenty-three hours; half of it in the night. How's that for perishing flesh and blood ? ““About the Cheyennes? That part s soon told. In fifteen minutes after Stanton's dis- patch reached Merritt the Fifth cavalry was In the saddle lined out for the crossing pointed to by Stanton. Merritt got there in time. The Cheyenues came up aud the battle of the War Bonnet was fought. It was the last fight the Cheyennes ever made. They, were whipped and driven back to Red Cloud Thelr effort to make a junction with the Sioux and get in on the war, thanks to Stan- ton's rough riding, was frustrated. Many & man and woman combing their halr these September mornings owe that privilege to tanton. They may not realize it, but they do.” i ——i LA OUT OF THE ORDINARY, 1 Two wheels of a freight car passed over the ankle of a brakeman on the Santa Fé road in Kansas without breaking the bones, In Trigg county, Kentucky, Mr. J. J, Thomas grew an apple that weighed a pound and ten ounces, The bicycle fad has struck Southington, Conn., 0 hard that the people have named one of the thoroughfares *Safety avenue. People in Madison county, Kentucky, who have paid thelr taxes aro entitled to be married free by the sheriff, Linen can be marked by electricity. The fabric is dampened with water containing common salt in solution, and a current Is passed for about two seconds from a silver die, carrying silver into the fabric wherever the die touches. The owner of a pin factory in Seymour, Conn., recently hauled away several tons of defective pins and made of tnem a sidewalk In front of his house. He expects as soon as these useful implements rust and are pounded down to have the finest pavement in this country, Some ingenfous rogues in Calcutta and Bombay purchase favorite brands of liquor in the original packa They remove the g0od liquor without touching the cork or the capsule, and substitute vile stuff. This Is done by drilling a hole in the bottom of the botile. A Danbury, Conn., man has succeeded in ralsing white cucumbers on his farm. In the spring he bought the seed and planted it In four hills, It sprouted very quickly and the vines it produced were unusually thrifty, vigorous and healthy looking. Prese ently they were thickly set with white, ten~ der "cucumbers. They are of good size, ag crisp and well flavored as the best fruft of the kind in the world. When the cucumbers were first set they wers cream colored, but, the color changed in a few days to a chalky hue, and when they were fit for the table they were as whito nearly as snow. They, were at no time green in color. Calling in Corea must be a very diffcult performance, if, as a London journal has re~ cently stated, 'the ordinary “visiting cards there are a foot square. The same journal goes on to say that ths savages of Dahomey, announce their visits to each other by & wooden board or t branch of a tre rtistics ally carved. This Is sent on in advance, and the visitor, on taking leave, pockets his card, which probably serves him for many years. The natives of Sumatra also have a visiting card, consisting of a plece of wood about & foot ‘long and decorated with a bunch of straw and a kol Albert 1. Paine in Ladies’ Home Journal, The red deer hies to his leafy glade, The goat to its mountain steep, The grayling gambols beneath the shade, Where' the brook runs still and deep. The hawk flles home to its mountain nest, The lark to her lonesome | My baby lies on its mother's And the mother 13 here with “breast, e, Oh, r I8 the sea and the sky And sweet 18 the summer land, But what Is the world to a woman's love And_the feel of a dimpled hand? And what do I care for the land—the land, And what do I care for the sea When 1 feel the touch of a baby hand ' 4 above, And the mother is here by me? The gray old world goes on and on, Its labors shall never cease But here is the blush of creation’s dawn And the blossoming rose of peace. do I care for the untan'gy for the lonesome lea? baby lies on its mother's breast, And the mother is here with me.