The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1896, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1896. 19 of about 425 pages. Mr. George’s doctrine seems to have suffered little at the hands of the transiator, but the professor had a bard iime with the technical phrases of American politics. “‘On the outskirts of the political parties,” says tne original, ‘‘are the Greenbackers, who, with a more or less definite idea of what they want to do with the currency, representing vague social dissatisfaction.” Tue translation bas it that the ‘‘bankers” are on the outskirts of the political parties, and that they, ‘‘with an idea more or less precise of their fanction in economy, Tepresent the | mauitiform social disgust.” The lower rt of Broadway is trlnsla!,ed “the most Ithy quarters of Broadway. < The trauslator, in a note occupying more than a full page, cites figures to prove that the total Itslian immigration to this | country has not yet greatly exceeded half | a million persons. His excuse for this| note is the translator’s misapprehension of | the expression, ‘‘and the millions of Italy, INTENJS TO SHCOT THE RAPIDS, Mellon’s Plan for Navigating the Green and Colorado Rivers. TO FLOAT DOWN IN DORIES had preserved them. f brought them up Wwith me to the Academy of Sciences. They are there now and anybody can go over and see them, *It is to find out about the many curious things whose secrets have been locked in the mountains along the course of these strange rivers that Iintend to make the trip. A strange thing happened some | time ago that bas not been mentioned in | the press. T had a dory made by Mr. | Neisz of the kind I have described, and’ turned it over to Lieutenant Po.ter of the United States army. last and Lieutenant would do a little expl ruzged canyons on his own account. | “‘Potter'took the boat to Peach Springs, | on the Santa Fe Railway, 100 miles east | of The Needles. Then b overland to the Cclorado River and | launched her at Diamond Creek. He | floated down quite a ways successfully | It was in November | cessfully carry it out. Potter thought he | company him. Eight will be Indian boate oring of som- of the | men and the othera trusted white man. —_— e took the boat| A Comparison of the S| my boats are finished and the water is hizh enough. I cannot teil just when the rivers will be at their best, for that de- pends on the time of the melting of the snow, but at any rate I will watch the signs of the weatner carefully and get off as speedily as possible.” Captamn Mellon is here buying supolies of different kinds, which he thinks he will need on his trip. He will be in the City three or four days at least. He has had the hazardous journey in view for a good while and now “believes that he can suc- Nine men wlil ac- RUSSIA AND ENGLAND, on the Asiatic S In view of the recent reports regarding until he came to the rapids that Poweil’s | the Teliance of China on the protection of parents of the very poor bind over their | young daughters for a specified number of vears and a money consideration. At the xpiration of the time these children, | grown to young womanhood, may return | to their homes and be considered entirely eligible for good marriages. Usnito said this was the only part of the city that was not asleep—all there was to see by lamplight at this hour. The dis- trict was compact and well defined, cover- ing several streets. They were as well peopled as is Dupont street at the same hour of the night; men and women lounged along the narrow sidewalks; rick- d here and there, with sharp | ud cries of the men in the | in blue uniforms at their s and down at frequent hes and lanterns flared along hile old women crouched T with baskets of nuts or the peculiar aecoctions that answer for 1 bes in Japan. Here and there oue her shawl drawn closely about zed under her lamp. Light strug- mly through the rice-papered win- the houses. re were no doors to the houses, but square alcoves or porches from opened larger apartments. In this cove were gathered the women of e, from one to a dozen, of all om mere childhood to the fifties, upon mats. In their midst was ne of those little charcoal fires encountered everywhere in the SAID that by catching the North Ger- man Lioyd steamer General Werder at Kobe George Francis Train bad made certain of breaking all recordsin his | tour of the world—had already, at the beginning, made Phileas Fogg's eig days ridiculous. For the General Wer es | in- paced tervals, the But the Werder had been hel dsy over her sailing date now the question opened the Preussen would w Preussen sailed from 8 €he was the mam wide, Just Out of Hongkong the Fog Settled Down. and There Was Nothing to Do but Stop and Whi-tle and Wait. try. and by which they may keep their pipes lizhted. To each of these places there is a male attendant whose it is to induce the pa 3 . These men fell upon Tshito at every step, his passage through the district being a constant quarrel. It was after 1 o’clock in the morning when we pot back and over a bridge be- American fiag. | yond where we had started from and I war Omaha. | Was dropped at Cook’s Hotel. Ushito, asa i; he nad | Teans of securig his engagement the ’ He | next day, refused to take money for his Re- ough to stop the ¥y before we Train paid ept the harbor | night's work. He was at the hotel gate before I was up next morning. wrapped n d a sampan that lay | w it to the Jap at the ons to carry it to , through his glass, he age delivered. in his palace on the heights of the cit out a special edition of the little English paper, the Rising Sun, mailed it to nota- noon. In the meantime, from 6 o'clock in the morning until noon, the Werder had been i p. An army of boysand girls, ing as closely together as they could on inclined planks extending from the vessel’s deck to barges beside her, had | passed up, in baskets, coal sufficient for a the wind | five aays’ journey. And all the time they de through the | were jesting and laughing as though at a Japan Sea was un went down a storm ga d all night after a fashion t ot declared he bad not y vears. We bad had 1 ce sailing out of t day, however, with lowing 2 gale, th rrow channels of t pon S | picnic. _ very fine. 2 2 | " We steamed away with a fair wind and Shortly before ght, with every- | ey for a straight run to Hongkong, a body on’ board but 1d myself | 3oy and a haif behind the steamer’s | asieep, - | time—an_ excellent reason for giving us We were w»takp co Tough | the speed that played to our purpose. Bt the cap- | The distance is 1067 miles from Nagasaki ix hours. | to Hongkong. The Werder began burn- came aboard ing ber coa! = = e X iberally enough and lefta long ena I persuaded them to take me asnore, b | sudden enthusiast in behalf of this big, | | rocm is a large one and filled with glass bles all over the world and ssiled away at | the pier, rose the splendid proportions of the Preussen. She had gotten in only the nizht before, having also been delayved by the fog. What a salute she got. Captain Eichel, his anxiety relieved, became a good-natured American and his tour, and, escorting us across the pier, inducted us into our new quarters. From Hongkong we cabled around the world the single word ‘‘Connected.’’ WORTHLESS GIFTS. SENT BY UNINFORMED PEOPLE TO THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. The greater number of rooms in the Academy of Sciences are open to the pub- lic,” but there is one that is kept tightly ciosed agsinst nearly everybody except the janitor. Itis on the third gallery, but | there is nosign on the door to tell what might be inside. The apartmentis the re- pository of such articles as have no scien- tific, archsological or antique value. that have been donated by good intentioned but uninformed people. In this respect the room 13 most inter- esting because it shows just how siily some people can make themselves. The cases, closets and boxes of different kinds. Everything sent to the academy is prop erly cared for, no matter how worthless. And some of it is so devoid of value that it | is really a waste of time to properly label, catalogue and record it. But ail dona- tions to the academy go through the same process. The donor’s name is entered on | the books of the academy, they receive a | personal cards of thauks and at the next business meeting the donation is an- nounced to the members. To be convinced that some of the stuff | sent in is not worth all this trouble it is | only necessary to take a look through the locked room on the third gallery for instance, is a box labeled * | cario They are only & lot of | spoons and bowls, such as can be obtained | at any bazaar in town. They are decorated | in the most outiandish colors, and cost the | filled the dishes u [ donor not more than 25 cents. To put | such things on exhibition in the museum would make the academy the laughing- stock of a!l educated people who visited it. Another donation isa model of a machine. d be used for ices of aclairvoyant. led with bits of broken 10 more value in any respect | than the stuff our streets are paved with. To enumerate all the worthless tr be fou bopel: here are piles of books of different de- grees of uselessness, dried plants oi the com- monest kinds, broken pottery, and, worst i | R i | Corner of the “Worthless Donations” | Room at the Academy of Sciences, | [From a sketch.] | | s e . | of all, several original manuscripts on cer- 10 | nd in this room would be an almost | | 8 desirable site. If you pitch your tent | pressed by wantas severeas that of Ireland, began to turn to the emigrant ship, as did the Irish.” *“The millionsof Italy’” is trans- lated “‘millions of Italians” (miliioni di| Italiani). The translator not only deciines | to put Mr. George’s phrase “‘to size the pile” into Italian, but entirely omits the 1dea that it conv: in translating a sen- tence where it of This easy way out of difficulties is one he often takes, with the result that his transiation in many | cases, if turned back into English, would | hardly be ideniified by Mr. George as his own matter.—New York Sun. A LESSON IN CHARITY. The Philanthropic Deed of a Liver- pool Man. He Expects to Reach Yuma From Green River, a Distance of 1300 Miles, in Thirteen Days. Among the arrivals at the Lick House i Captain J. A. Mellon, the old-time steam- boatman of the Colorado River, who hasa novel scheme for navigating the tributaries of the Colorado and passingdown through the rugged Black, Marble and Grand can- yons to Yuma. The entire distance to be traversed is no less than 1300 miles. Itis through a very wild region, perhaps not equaled elsewhere on the continent. One of those trie-hearted chaps often qCa;mn Melion ‘propoacs’ o maks the read of in romances made his appearance | were so formidable along the rapids that | Potter’'s men got afraid. | out, and Lieutenant Potter let the boat . He tbought she would come through gelow and that I would see her and pick her up. But in place of that nobody ever set eyes on her again. She must have got all smashed up on the rocks. “These boats I am building for this trip have very sharp sterns and are almost flat- bottomed. I am pretty sure, from my long experience on the Colorado River, that they will be just the thing for this trip. | We may have to steer them pretty care- fully in going through, in fact I don't | doubt that we shall have some narrow chances, but using the good judgment of river men accustomed to go over some of | the worst rapids on the continent, I think | we will get through all right. e = > | trip with his party in two dories, each 22 in Liverpool & few days ago and his sym-| ;i 1500 witn bresdth of beam of 6 feet 6 pathies were at once aroused by the sight “I believe, too, we will be able to collect of three or four men waiting for work. “I'll be hanged if it isn’t tough,” he re- plied, when they told him they hadn’t| bad any work for a month. *“How would | you like some oysters?” They smacked th lips by way of re-| iy, and he gathered up a crowd of eight, | marched them to a fishshop and ordered oyster stews for each one. ‘It just dod ¥ soul good to see them eat,”” he said to owner of the place, as | the bt got to work. “Yes, it's a beautiful sight,”” was the | reply. 2 It makes me feel good in here,” contin- | ued the stranger from Manchester, laying his hand on his heart. “A good deed brings its own reward,” was the soft answer of the shopkeeper, as | he calculated “I can’t rest —I must do further | good arted stranger, and he brought in three negro. sweep, two boys A man, and ordered more | oysters. The en people went for | oyster soup_in a manner to amaze, and their guardian n t ged the the ribs and sai See the g | Ohb, that I could feed the poorof al! Lanca- | saire!” = fed “You are a good man, and heaven will reward you,”’ replied the proprietor, as he The straoger said he wanted to bring in | i re, so as tosay that he had fed d he rushed out after shopkeever sent aiter | d not return. ger. d slang phrases, and expressions, delivered in | hat mattered it who drew e, and resolved “‘that | hed the spot” 7— | to the fifteen s upina line of them o Spare Moments. A TENT IN A TREE How HENRY GissoN WrILL coMm O Or Everybody who has ever camped out in | Niles Canyon knows that there are a num- ber of things to be considered in selecting near the water tne air is likely to be close | 1eichod Jom By on warm days, to say nothing of the nu- | merous mosquitoes. On the other hand, if inches. Each boat will draw about four your gent is pitched on a hillside it is diffi- | inches of watar. Being very shallow, they cult to find a level place to tuild a fire, and | are varticularly well fitted for passing over all water has to be carried up from the | rocks and rapids. Captain Mellon will stream below. Of course it is more con- | start from Green-river station, on the to be near the water, but under | Union Paci Railroad in Wyoming. He circumstances not so comfort- | will able as being a few feet above it. T Each dory is to be manned by four Henry Gibson thi: that he has ' stalwart Indians. Ineachend of the boats solved the problem and at the same time | areairtight compartments for storing sup- procur=d a number of advantages he had | plies of all kinds, including gunsand am- not looked for. He is one of the first| munition, for there is a great deal of game campers in the canyon, and intends to re- | along the route and firearm: re absolutely main all summe that it is likely that indispensable. * Dony 01 the later arrivals will take advan- | Captain Mellon is one of the owners of “ff' of hi ¥ of pitck A tamt ool he steamers Gila, Aztec and Mojave. sibson’s scheme consists of utilizing a | o B big cottonwood trae. He selected one | Das been running on the Colorado River with spreading branches, and in the space | thirty-two years, and 1s probably better between them he constructed a platform | posted in regard to the terribie rapids of transport his boats from here there by | He | | Captain J. A. Melion, the Bold Navigator Who Will Attempt to Pass Through the Rapids of the Green and Colorado Rivers, Accompanied by Indian Boatmen. by @ “Call” artist.] 1 So they all got | ; | vedo tubes. She has the E | tected cruiser of | She | and nine smaller | Archer and Porpoise, cruisers of 1790 tons, | 17 knots, | and thre | vessel Alacrity of 1700 tons, 19 knots, and | ten 6-pounder and two machine guns. She | has the sloop Daphne of 1140 tons, 141§ | Redpole, Redbrea-t, | Peacock of 775 to | two machine guns. men refused to go over in 1369. The water | RUssia, increased interest may be lent to & boiled so fearfully there and the rocks |statement in the London Times of the relative strength of the Russian and Brit- h fleets in the far East, at a late date, Great Britain has the battleship Cen- | turion of 10,500 tons, 18 knots, four 10-inch, ten 7-inch, and twenty-six auxiliary guns and seven torpedo tubes. She has three armored cruisers, the Narcissus, Immor- talite and Undaunted, each of 5600 tons, 1834 knots, two 9.2-inch, ten 6-inch and twenty-five auxiliary guns, with four tor- ar, & pro- knots, two 350 tons, 20 9.2-inch, ten 6-inch and twenty-six auxili- ary guns, and four torpedo tubes. | _She has the Eolus, Spartan, Rainbow, { Pique, protected cruisers, each of 3600 to s, d 193 knots, two 6-inch, six 4.7-inch, ourteen auxiliary guns and_ four tube: e armored coast-defender Wi 50 tons, 10 knots, and four S-inch guns. She has the ix 6-inch, eleven auxiliary guns tube: She has the dispatch knots, and eight chine guns. She h and eight h: t She has the 4-inch ana four machine iftand the Linnet els of 756 8 k nd two 7-inch and six has tue gunboat Fire- | brand, of 455 to 10 knots, and two five- ch, two four-inch and two rcachine uns, and the gunboats Esk and Tweed of 63 tons, three sixty-four-pounders and Finally, she haseight torpedo-boats. 2 Turning to the Russian fleet in those it is found to have been consider- augmented during the last few months, and is stronz. It includes the p Emperor Nikolas I, of 8410 s, two 12-inch, four 9-inch, and twenty-two auxiliary guns, and six torpedo tubes. Next come four fine armored cruisers, in which class the ssian fleet surpasses the Brit- Among them will be recog- ea guests of ours a few years oI amyat Azova is of nots, two 8-inch, fourteen enty auxiliaryv guns, with turee torpedo tubes; the Admirai Nachi- 2 tons, 16.7 knots, eight 8-inch, ten 6-inch, ten auxili guns and four tubes; the Ru f P: k nch and s, with six torpedo Donskoi 5893 astchy and Otvazny, tons each and 15 knots, carry- 9-inch, on= 6-inch and ten smalier The Kreuzer ana ynik are corvettes of 1342 tons and 3 knots, carrying three 6-inch and fifteen guns. The Korvets and Manachen gun vesse! d Bohr are | of 950 tons and v ots, carrying | 9-inch, one 6-inch and eleven smaller | o | guns. The Gaidamak and Vsadink are | eunboats of 400 tons and 22 knots, with three torpedo tubes each and small rapid- fire guns. The Aleut and Yakoot are old merchantmen fitted up with a few rapid- N 1 ] ck smoke-streamer clear down to the of flooring similar to those ;:Fnemfl}' used izon behind he under tents when they are placed on the ground. One of the branches had to be | tain subjects written by people who had | no_idea of what they were writing. It | will be noticed that, while all of this trash {is valueless in a scientitic way, it is also { vsil!xe{ehss in a commercial sense. It looks - | asif the donators had things they couid ey s o oyacts noen oocasion, apread | not isell. and' sent them ) to the acedomny | away as level 1s court. | rather than throw them away. As we neared Hongkong, however, on | "o people who donate “this undesir- the afternoon of the fourth day a fog 'Set- | gple" clats of rubbich s s content to tled upon the sea that bronght us to a | K it at | standstill. The vicinity of Hongkong is | c2¥¢ it at the academy, but baunt the baw I saw the night side of | por Talk about the tenderloin of | ys’ run under favorable circumstances, and for the first timeat sea the indications were excellent. The Yel- low Sea, where the typhoon tears the at the southern extremity S~ N the Colorado than almost any other man \ in the world. | 2 The strange part of Captain Mellon’s | scheme is that he proposes to make the en- | tire trip 1n no more than thirteen days. | This will seem remarkable, in view of the | | fact that J. W. Powell, Chief of the United | States Geological Survey, who attempted | the trip in 1869, was four months in getting | to the mouts of the Virgin River, which | 15 400 miles above Yuma. Besides he lost | AR D | very treacherous, there being an archi- | | pelago of small islands along the coast, {and the path to the city itself being | through a succession of narrow and de- vious channels. So there was nothing for it but to stopand whistle and wait. Cavtdin Eichel began to perspire and swear deep German oaths in his anxiety. Occasionally the fog lifted, and we would { rush forward for a knot or two, to be again | brought to a stop. The currents were A Run for the Steamer With a’Richshaw | strong, and the vessel would swing round Full of Trinkets, at Nagasaki. | with the fog down, so that when it lifted the captain would have to fi.ure out his reckoning. of Japan, and is still as little tainted by | In this slow fashion we made our way | the foreigner as a coast city may be.|toward the city until night came, when, Thnere are practically no foreign resfdents | al hough the fog lifted, we were compelled in the 100,000 populatien. For this it was | to ancHor in the stream to wait for morn- | interesting. The officers only consented ! ing and a pilot with still the question un- to take me ashore after long conferenceson | answered—was the Preussen waiting ? the side. : ‘With Captain Eichel it was a very serious It was after midnight, but half a dozen | question. rickshaw men were On the quay with eyes | - Train strode the deck perfectly at ease, | on the vessel. I discovered that oneof | studying the phosphorescent water or the them understood and talked a little Eng- | dim outlines of the land that lay on both lish. I told him to run me about town. ~ | siaes, or in a little room on the lower deck He started away at a gait that indicated | rearranged his campaign for Hongkong. he bad had little to do that day. Was the | He had telegraphea from Nagasaki that town zll asleep? No, notall. besaid. At|he would lecture there this Thursdav rm, brisk trot he traveled up and | night. And here he was out in the chan- down strange and deserted streets, with | nel, perhaps twenty miles from the city. here and there a dim lamp that could not | Whether an audience was gaihered in be said to iliuminate; thelow-rooted shops ! some theater awaiting the rise of the cur- nd dwellings showing no sign of life. We | tain to see and hear him did not worry | d at long intervals some solitary dig- | himin the least. He couidn’t be there | nitied pedestrian that I took to be a police- | and so that was settled. He would make | maa. Suddenly Ushito—that was his | some new plans for the short stay by | name—turned abruptly off the thorough- | which other sensations might be created; fare and ran through an open gate under a | if they also failed then, also, no matter. shed, where the night was inky black. He never had a doubt that we would | He dropved the shafts without a word | catch the Preussen. If she was gone, how- | and I felt that 1ay adventure was develop- | ever, then something eise must be done, ing features of uUnusual interest. Itried |and he would attend to that when the to rememter how long since we had passed | emergency arose. the last policem H Howev | | | with Captain Eichel, however, it was | the missing of the mail and his freight | bitls for Bremen, and all on account of this Xrovukinnly polite and devil-may- | care American, going around the worid snother, and this was the station. That | for the mere fun of going around. Here | was all. He struck a match and we were | he was, lying just outside, in doubt for at under way again in 2 moment and shortly | least nine more wasted hours, turned into a narrow, smoothly paved | The fog at Hongkong hss the peculiar nothing. Ushito con- d an all-night passen- The rickshaw in which I rode was ty in some way and he wanted to get | The curlew calls me where the salt winds blow: | independent Ge museum for weeks afterward in the hope | of seeing it on exhibition with their names | attached. Some go so far as to make in- | quiries at the office to know why it has | not been placea on exhibition. They are generally told that it is still in the receiy- ing-room and cannot be placed on exhibi- tion until it has gone through a certain process of being recorded and labeled. SPRING SONG. About the flowerless land adventurous bees Pickeering hum: the roos debate, divide, With many a hoarse aside, In solemn conclave on the budding trees, Larks in the skies and ploughboys o'er the leas Carol as if the winter ne’er had been: The very owl comes out t0 greet the sun; Rivers high-hearted run: And hedges mantle with s flush of green. His troubled note dwells mournfully and dles; Then the long echo cries Deep in my heart. Ab, surely I mus: go! For there the tides, mo n-haunted, b ‘And there the seaboard murmurs resona.t, The waves their interwoven fugue repeat, And brooding surges beat A’slow, melodious, continnal chant. JOEN DAVIDSON. WHAT A TRANSLATOR CAN Do, He Produces Startling Resnlts With Henry George’s Works. Henry George has suffered many things at the hands of translators. ““Progress and Poverty’” bas been translated with more or less success into all the im- portant European tongues, into Japanese and in part into Chinese. “‘Social Prob- lems'" has also been translated into several foreign tongues, and the letter to the Pope on the ‘Condition of Labor” has bsen spread in like fashion. There are three man editions of “Progress Poverty,” and ome of these is illnminated with foot notes. The annotator found hisopportunity when he came to this sentence near the end of the book, “into the valley of the shadow of death yet often léads the'path of duty; through the streets of Vanity Fair walk Christian and Faith- ful, and on Great Heart’s armor ring the clanging blows.” This passage is starred, | two of his four boats, and four of his men who were wrecked were killed by the In- | dians. . F. Neisz, a boatbuilder of this City, has recently completed one aory for Cap- tain Mellon and in a little time he will fin- h the otier. "l am satisfied that I can make this trip successfully,’”’ said Captain Mellon yesterday. “It may ook likea huge under- taking and I admit that in a sease it is. Nobody has attempted it since Bowell, and {the grim tragedy that surrounded his | efforts bas caused such terror whenever | even the su; tion is made of trying to float down through a wild Indian country, and worse than all through the fearful canyons of the Colorado River, that people generally did not care even to consider it. But there are objects to be attained which | I believe are meritorious. | “The part of the Green River from Green River station to the Grand is largely unexplored. People know next to nothing about it. They don’t know whether the soil is rich or whether there’s gold or sil- ver in large quaniities, or coal or sapphires. "Powel? didn’t have time to do any in- vestigating, and as for the researches of | such lew people as have ever been in that | part of the country, like the cowboys and the straggling hunters, every one knows | how littie newss of a scientific character they have ever gathered. In fact, nothing has ever been heard of this partof the | Green River. *‘From the point where the Green River enters the Girand, on down to the Mormon | settlement in the southern partof Utah, | the country is_similarly wild and largely | unexplored. It is the Green and Grand rivers which make the Colorado. The Henry Gibson’s Tent in a Tree in Niles Canyon. [From a photograph. | i sawed off, but the platform was made to fit in between the others as nicely as could be. On this platform he has pitched his tent the same as he would on the ground. By the use of a Iadder it is easy to get up or down. There are numerous advan- tages in pitching a tent this way, the prin- | river from this point on is large, and has cipal one of which is that it is high and | in places wide vaileys, presumably of dry, and the occupants run little danger of | very fertile soil. The mountains which taking cold. Besides this, it can belocated | | flank the river, many of them snow- close to good water and near a level place | capped and reaching to a prodigious for the campfire. = | height, undoubtedly contain large bodies Another advantage is that “grub” and 8 i of rich ore, cooking utensils can be placed out of the | *I know a place on the Colorado River, reach of prowling amimals by putting 3 for instance, and I nave run past it on my them in a basket and hauling them up to ! steamer when the water was high, where the platform. At night the iadder can be | tbere are mountains of pure salt. The hauled up and the occupants of the tent | salt is so white that it is like snow and al- will be as secure from intrusion as if at | regard to this enormous stretch of 1300 | smaller animals. eet where, some distance further along, appeared many’ lights and moving figures. It was that quarter of Nagasaki that is to be found in every city of Japan—a quar- ter where license runs riot; that is con- trolled by & great corporation—sa mo- | ,hnbit of gathering in the early mornin, hours, lifting just before sunrise and fall- ng again as suddenly. Preparations were made to take advantage of this interval, the pilot was on poard, the anchor up and in an hour, with the sun just coming out most dazzles the eve. In some places the home in their bedrooms. | salt is overlaid by a sort of caprock of The tent in a tree has already nttracted | sandstone, and when thisistaken off there the attention of a number of prospective | is your pure, white salt, fit for use. There campers. Gibson says it don’t cost a cent | is a curious thing about this salt. I found more than it does to put up a tent in the | in digzing down into it some pieces of and tbe foot note informs the German reader that the reference is to Thackeray’s novel of “Vanity Fair.” Mr. George’s latest translator is a teacher of political economy at the Uni- | Ome of the Queer 22-Foot Dories Which Captain Mellon Will Use in His Attempt to Triumph Over the Fearful Rapids. [Sketched by a “Call™ artist.] a most interesting fund of information in miles, most of which has been scarcely viewed by white men. I have an idea there's big game in there. From what I understand there are many mountain sheep, some grizzly bears, wild goats and € sides these, it 1s un- questioned that there are large bands of elks in the mountains bordering on the Grand, Green and Colorado rivers, Years ago it is known that buffalo was in the country trenching on the Grand. There may be some there yet, but at any rate there is no dount about its being full of other game. *Now this trip I propose can, if need be, be made in thirteen days. 1 speak now of the trip as it would be if we went right along.” And the reason we can accomplish in this short time what it took Powell four months to do. and which he finaily failed in doing, will be solely on account of the superior kind of boat that we will use. Powell did not have the right kind of boats. They drew an enormous amount of water and when he came to where the water was shallow, or where there were rapids, he could not get along at all. Tke boats had to be dragged along by hand. It is no versity of Turin, and he has just expanded ordinary way. It only takes a little more | burnt wood. They were lying right in the nopoly operating throughout the empire. Into the hands of this company the of the sea, we ran into the noisy harbor of Hongkong. From her berth, justacross *Social Problems,” in English, a book of : time, b h ou are th i % less than 250 pages, into an Lialian voirmy me, but when yi ere you are middle of the of salt. I could not see . bhow they got there, but anyhow the salt wonder that it tock him four montbs, and that he was nnally wrecked, and that through it he lost four of his bestmen. “'T intend to start on this trip as soon as | fire gx)l)gs. Finally there are thirteen tor- pedo-boats. Taking the two lists together we find that it must be conceded that the British is rather the stronger. The British show twenty-five ships, against eighteen for the Russians, while the latter have thirteen torpedo boats against eight for the British. England’s total tonnage is 64,387 tons, against Russia’s 54.739; but her average speed, 15.1 knots, very little exceeds Russia's 14.8 knots. In total guns Great Britain is well ahead, with 445 against 350, and also in torpedo tubes, with 43 against 33. Prob- ably in the character of the ordnance the British also bave the advantage. ——————— Truth of It. Only Son—I don’t believe I'll ever amount to much of a lawyer, father. Father—Keep right on climbing the ladder, rung by rung, my son, and you'll get to the top. Only Son—That advice faeher, but the trouble is many young fellows in the profession that I can’t get within a mile or the ladder.— e S — Roxbury Gazette. There is a giant crab found in Japan which measures tweive feet between the tips of the nippers. Inthe Indian Ocean ia also to be found a hermit crab two feet ong. is all right, there are so