The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1899, Page 3

ong A i Faas The Seattle Star a Comtatning all of the & . | hie terme with his victima. Th . ‘e 9 | “You want to know of the very The Parting was melodramatic 3 best brick we turn out?” sald a} “1 think, Mise Smithkins, | maker “Well, the brick most likely MENt have considered all thene News ~ Wor Crisp ’ Condensed Form, Adapted to the needs of? busy | win be little irregutarities, and there | P . The average man or woman always likes to swiftly sesh the scan the moving globe during the isure haif hour | we coat the brick aver with a gild- that follows the evening meal, and | ing then turn attention to other mat- | red ocher, verdigria, alum and bor- ters. The ishers of the THE oe ee ite this fact and have entirety burned away. It's real gold modeled the paper so that Directness of Statement Will be a noticeable feature. An interesting, breezy style of para- graphing finds increasing favor in these days, as opposed to the old time fashion of ponderous ‘‘write- ups’ and editorial utterances. | ‘ster HE STAR will have All of the Local As well as the Telegraphic News Don’tdoubtit for one minute. The 7 will not claim to be the best , CHA SACTER IN ATS. on earth with the ‘‘largest circula- | that is, not yet awhile, but | the effort will be made to steadily | bat and 1 will tell you what manner In the. meanwhile | of & man he is, Notice yourself how tion’ improve it. please remember that news ‘‘tgs"’ telephoned to the office (Pike 150) | tor. will be much appreciated; also It only costs wo Bits To secure The Ster for subscribers. ONE MONTH |: and TRY IT wiry fu = = HS ) reflective hal | and given to introspection, Thoy ° | Are philosophical and Mkely to fall GUM TRUST into NUH of preacoupation, ‘They at lage to ignore mere details, Consp! |euously of thin class wax the bat | premier, Mr, Gladstone, whose hat W, | brim always showed a disposition CLEVELAND, ©, March 23. J. White, who has built up an enor. | [reach his ears. mous busine through| Men whowe hate are alwayn t the manufacturing and selling of |#Mall for them are vain and fink chewing gum in Cleveland, says that | Of this type are the pretty boys who the attempt to organiae a chewing | @dmire themselves, Noreiasus-li gum trast will ommtul haa | in shop windows. been recently that it has) The man who wears his hat drawn fallen through, but Mr, White saya | Over his eyes may not be a “erool: that the combine will conaiat of #ix| bUt he Is undoubtedly a “#sehemer of the largest companies, including | He excels tn stra he [the White and Neeman plants in thia | U#es bis gifts In an army campaign city and the Adams Tutti Pruttt| or in a coup in Wall street. He | [people in Rrookiyn, ‘The capital | % heerful. He t, given to jatock will be $6,000,000, and the | #! y meditation headquarters may be established in| Much more does the man who ha (Cleveland. In fact, It ts said that bitually wear hia hat pushed off hin Mr, White will be offered a very prominent position tion, forehead enjoy the confidence of his fellow men. The man who wears his hat off bis fore tally frank. He ta admired by those who do not agree with any of hin views for his straightforwardness. If no ture has not gifted him with @ sing Ing voice he whistles. The man who places hie hat on one side is independent, He in self weortive. He t# in danger of be- Me is @ sport by ad ie eMme MAKING OF GOLD BRICKS. |An Industry With Which the | Law Does Not Interfere. | The making of the gold bricks | with whieh confidence men rob the re coming vicious nature, if not by practice. kranger ‘and even the bo He -chesutn cata jamart merchants and bankers, has become an established industry. It Will She Call Him Up. | is not a crime to make a gold brick The crime only comes in when the A Seattle youth and « young girt spurious article ia sold, The value of WhO considered the engaged to marry had a tremendous quarrel the standard “brick” would be about } 9850 If composed of pure gold. The °M* ay last week. The eng | cost to the purchaser when the arti. “#* Pot particalarly hard cle is prepared for the market varies | @%1 both parties felt rather } from $10 to $78 a brick, according to) Whee It was all off | the value of the material used. The |!!! when he gets over th 7 of his dixappointment, and purchaser from the factory m , le tactory Makes ner rumed temper smooth ement nd fast aied At least they effects ‘ax. which is a preparation of to deceive is made from a copper Je¢tions before T went so far ax to and aine mixture. Tt i# not the mont Tent & houne and buy a lot of fur- expensive, but it will stand knock- ty img around for five years without; “And I think, Mr. Bluffkins, you lowing tint or tone, I tell you! OFe Bot Acting (he part of a gentie- it's pretty near the real thing. Half) 4" in mentioning auch trivial af- | a dollar's worth of gold ta more than | f!t#, Good evening ‘ Fenough to do the job, Our science ts “Good evening, Miss Smithkin lnown am water gilding because the | N¢ Said, stiffly as he made for his Jiast touch we give the brick ts to| P&t. At the door he look back to lehiii it tn teed water, We buy our | remark -well, if yoy should | cold in leaves from the beater. The change your mind, you can call [leaves are placed tn a crucible with | ¥P over the ‘phone, you know | Mereory, seven parts of mereury to ron nag amin ta one of gold. The mercury is first | heated, and, under the action of a SINGULAR furnace, the mixture is made red- | hot. Then it ts allowed to cool down. | | We saucese the amalgam through | ACCIDENT |chamots leather for the purpose of | ejecting the superuoun mercury, and | the gold, with twice its weight of | Sth sane mercury, remains behind. It inthen| BAY CITY, Mich, March 2 pt on ponge her gin diy A tegremrony Three men, Robert Ridley, jr. Fred er, and w “ | a mi coahell “with 6, betel Ease ta tthe | Seekell and Charles Trombiey, we first step in turning the brick into | tly Injured at $39 o'clock as a re- | wold }wule Of an explosion in the forge |” “After receiving the first coat the| room of Smalley fires, @ (Co.'s ma- ate ad subjected to @ strong heat | chine works, Seekel and Trombicy. lot the purpose of evaporating the | Saw ote oe tembalitag taeroury. It is then tn Baa | COMIN Of the room, were trying form, but far from perfect. There |'® “hloosen a nut on the end of a on head of 4 steam saw feed. are wmoved with a delicate brass used in naw mille, For this purpose brush, After the brushing @ lack of | they placed it tn a forge in order to true golden color is apparent, but | burn away the rust, when suddeniy we have an easy remedy for this.| tne piston head exploded, throwing the fire from the forge to all parte of the room, burning Ridtey, who lax. Then the brick ts again exposed | was a spectator, Seckell and Trom | te the action of fire til! the wax is bley, and setting fire to the bulld- ing. The men were taken to their then, but we are bound to make it | homes, where they were attended by | a few carats finer, so our customers |@ physician, while other mien quick can have no possible ground for the | ly extinguished the fire tn the bulld- questioning of the quality of thetr/ing. The piston head was hollow, treasure. We do this by covering It | it ls believed, and the fire generated with a saline composition and again | a gas or steam, which caused it to exposing it to a high temperature. explode It is finally chilled in cold wal _ a and It is beautiful to look on—a per. fect gota brick. It te proof against | murdered by Chicken Thief. time, moisture and weather of all) M'KERSPORT, March 23.--Halr | kinds, and will stand constant hand- Scott, the 13-year-old son of John years without losing tone or Seott of Camden, three mi from Goods made as I have de-| this town, wan shot by a chicken jsertbed are guaranteed for B¥9) tice this morning and will die, The bees boy and bie father heard a disturb lance In the chicken coop and stert Another Woman P. OL. | AG to investigate, Young Scott dix HENDERSON, Ky. March 23.—/ covered three men in the act of put Henderson county, has now a full-| ting chickens in a bag. They | fledged woman preacher. County | treated and one of them shot the lad Clerk J. H. Hart was amazed when in the abdomen. Mra. Susan Smith stepped in and demanded the necessary, papers for Mw ge in Japan the purpose of solemnising the rights of matrimony. The «papers, Shegetaro Marikubo, an educated were quickty ixsued. Mra. Smith in| Japanese, lecturing before a San |e comparatively young woman. She Francisco audience, eald helongs to the believers In sanctin-| “Few Japanese remain #ingle. It cation. is their nature to marry, and they are careful In the selection of one who ts to be their partner for life Beauty, of course, te admired, but It is not regarded as an element of high quality or of goodness “Marriage ts the momentous event of life, and every effort ts made to thwart a union which Iw likely to prove unsuccessful. Among the pre liminaries of an engagement is an exchange of courteste parents of the contracting which consists, in most cases, of fv barrels of wine and five apecien of Show me how a man weare his be wears his headgear, and you can | make a fair estimate of his charac Select the ran whose hat seems to have been made for him, and which he has set squarely upon his head as it was igned to do, with nary “8h. The prise she her ey rows P o the right or left, nor fore “* 4 sign that her heart Is ne th aan soothe . ) yf her future humband ¢ F served at the ma He i & methodical man and a : ‘s a r - ct ; r comfortable man, with @ rare en- y feast, and nothing but th | dowment common seni He jn Clinking of goblets wake th not given to fights of fancy. He ‘or some time tired in white, and purple ts} obeys the injunction of the homely phitosopher, who advined 1 man- ‘ted, being the symt of o fading kind to keep its feet on the ground. © er and not Feprosentin Rd ¥ and Men whose hats are always too life. The rule of ateolute submission must be ¢ rved clone by h sald Martkob Pacific Coast Steamship Company fexrading., Once Tai band and wife will suffer a = > ‘ to prevent a disruption Ter San Francisco) €rvst deal to prevent dsription The company’s ele- dom heard of in the country gant Kteamships| 4nd Kenerally marriages are happy Queen, Walla Walla, |/one*. The grounds on which a dix Umatilla leave | solution may be granted are much Seattle 8 a. m. via| the same as the American law on Port Townsend and Victoria, Maren | the subject.” 5, 10, 15, 20, 20, April 4, 9, 14, ———__—__ | 29, May 4, and every fifth day these: | Peck’s Sun to Shine. SEES. + FTO | Eix-Governor George M. Peck, of San Francisco — Wisconsin, tn to enter the | - per fh n He will re For Seattle 10 a. m., via Victori ject ah | Port Townsend, March 2, 7 in 17,22, | Vive Peck’s Sun and try to make it April 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, ™ a | What Hones wae er eee ae fay 1, and | circulated humorous paper in t levery fifth day thereafter. FOR ALASKA ant steamships Cottage ty of Topeka and Al-Ki le Seattle 9 a. m. Mareh 1, 6, 11 a1, April 5, 10, 15, 20, country, With h ed his two sons, and t offices in the Milwauk ening ve |.Winconsin building, as they had by 16, 26, he Sun ceased to shine. When k became governor hin new m Will be associat will hav and every fifth day thereafter, 5 suffered and soon died a na or further information obtain! tural death, but he has strong hopes folder that he will be able again to Inject The company reserves the right to| as much life Into It ag it had in its change, without previous 4 palmy days and make St a« su steamers, sailing date, and hours of! fy), For the two wint Mr sailing. Pook has been ornamenting the t J. F. TROWBRIDGE ture platform in the West and th Puget 8d. Supt, Ocean Dk, Seattle. | south, and if his n myer. co Uptown ticket office, 618 First av.,|(aine as good ‘stories aa those he tel Heattle; Goodall, Perkins & Co,, Gen. | ahout his experiences In the South j Agents, San Francisco, Jit will be interesting at least. THE ~> & @ ee ET ee ee ° SEATTI ‘SMALL BOYS AS ROBBERS, Plunder Stores and Open a| Bank Acconnt. | MHLADELPMIA, Mareh 2A] trle ye, the aldest of whom he } nh carrying on th stemat ry of the depart: | ent * rounded up by De w nd Batt ant ni the youns teed to ha #tolen 5600 art : f various kind I with the proesedas of the robbery | each & had #tarted a bank ac-| count ster state art! n OX then th money “having a & and | what was left they would put In the! bank With one of the several photogra cameras which they st ut ker’ the Httle robber @ent out inte Junty street and took a picture of anamaker'n delivery wagons te a Into cash In the store. The lade cave their names an Chartes White n, Tames Jacksan and a nd they were et turning the car one tim at Wanamakers atore an Meade t# naid to have b rbber- ace of three montha. taken we a cameras, # silverware and sporting The lads have all been hott for trial, United States a World Power. If the United States is going to be 4 great world power In the next cen tury, says Benjamin Kidd in the At lantic, {t would seem to be al t imponsible to conceive that tt will be able to the effect of ite eon- nection with what are really wortd princtples, and these world princt ples will Involve very Important re- lationships to the world in the fu- ture, The first matter with which it will undoubtedly be concerned tx the trade of the world It ip ne ble orth American ¢ y by perhaps 2 the near future, without considering these’ inhabitants ae having behind them a world trade, Bome persona seem to think that a country may have an export trade without an im- port trade. It Is an economic taw that even that Ix tim ble, When we come to look at the world of the Present day, it may be se that mont of the developments that have gone on in the those which have taken place in the temperate rezions, We of the me vigorous ra have been occupied during the last century of two with nizing, apreading ourselves over and taming the temperate regions of the world. That era, it would seem, will not last much jonger; it Ix slow - ly but surely coming to a close. In a time which many of us will tive to nee, the American continent will be settled up; it in very nearly ted up already, tn the agrileultural nenae. The next ora of expansion, which we almost In the midet to concetve the ntinent as occu. 000,000 people in mole of, i* the great era of Industrial ex- pansion, manufactaring expansion an era of expansion which will un- doubtediy bring the United States weortant relations with the trade of the world, The people wf the od State will be drives k the widest nossible outeite | market for thetr Industrial produc- | tlona: they must be able to buy raw materiale tn outeide markets; but will have behind them, as they © to realize more and more + great history, for they will presentatives of tn the devel- Into very f } will ¢ clearly be the leading or very definite principle opment of the world HE TRAPPED HIMSELF eculiar Arrest of am Army Deserter. A peculiar » of mistaken iden- tity yeaterday to the arreat of James 1. Miller, of Freeman, Mo., whe has been a deseerter from the army for four years. During that time he has been a rover in eighteen states, and was successful in evad- ng officers of the law until tart night, when he fell into his own trap Last Monday Miller was arrested on Gray street by one of the lo- al detectives, the officer betleving Miller was wanted in Missourt for violating the internal revenue laws. » evidence could be adduced in th poles eo to substantiat charge, and Miller, who at that time had given an assumed nar was dinminned Last ¥ M came to the Con tral ¢ ta and asked to be Tom b ' n th t : 1 f 7 treds of f in me offen ter of t? hom he had known Milter find the t ” ber pon him he began 1 toward the d Hold Maher called out. “nay aun 1, why don’t you soln th said M I eh like to b and firmly Meer knew of hi past and waa nly drawing him out an br Capt, Maher took him to Jail Loulaville Courier-Journal Why Chinese Eat Rats. The Lahore (indi Tribun n oof the nse hé explained, but every wr an kn that a regimen o i] make a stud emoo' und the nan kno vat » the falling out the locks soft nilky have seen it j tried nfany times,” | f hair and mah and beautiful 2 2 %, ® i mvc \W) theawiftest Meht to wuceess, don't TY & periodical so very far l \ Yet this in about what any one muat be equal to, if he would under | take to found a new monthly or a Kly, People who undertake the T { { adventure without knowing well be forehand what they require are apt ) ) to make the mistake of supposing that when they have fared ow With reasonable cleverness, the cont of producing a single r and have made finantial n for ' Paying such a sum at the quire t provision I* ample numb provisi iting so much, Hterature so Issued vuch, and art, typesetting, printing, e paper, binding, distribution and #0 forth ail Ko much more: this im 4 comparatively easy sum. it -™ out of ealeulat the eo your ublication & is perhaps the. tou ven (that Je, numbers) ¥ good magazine, in edith wiae fo 900,000 ty wn; and that t of all the TO A NEW YORK CONGREGATION twelve Philadelphia Clergymen Talk of been an much Following the & e hums, and of- bd ample spent by a single periodl Thus Set cal in the course of three months eimply in tining in other \- ie odicals, Add to this the cont of clr cular and regular and special no PHILADELPHIA, March 2—The | {ice% distributed for the mort part through the mail, and see what a question of whether women shall OF total result ae the cost merely of shall not take off their hate when at- selling your production. tending divine service is the mubject| The effort a few years ago to con- of considerable discussion just now Jure with a familiar name and re- vive @ periodical long wince defunct in said to have t each of thre or faur successive owners a small for- to the clergymen, laymen and | tune. ry penny of the large ex- nh who are attending the Meth- penditure went for naught, and the odist Mpiscopal conference in Mana-| attempt had finally to be abandoned, yunk, at which some clergymen re- woot sitet gant =~ PERSONAL NOTES move their hate during the ser} vices, ae nate were enormously laree| and the speakers were obscured from the view of those sitting be-|'* Writing @ book hind these head coverings of flow- | ers and other combinations of the milliner’# art, These requests were politely made and were an politely and sraciously acceded to. No murmur of dimsent was heard, but | the sudden change of countenance told ite own tale and portrayed a suppressed protest. . The theater managers have been| struggling w ion fe Cavalry Methodist Kplecopal church | *!*e’ mother has been the manager of New York to take decisive steps |Of Mi* household and order that all women shall take off thelr hate when attending divine vervice. The question war decided by the official board of that chureh apparently to ite own satisfaction, for with the approval of Rev. Dr Willis P, O'Dell, the pastor, it Iesued and posted on the bulletin board in the church vestibule thin notice: All persons worshiping in thi« church are requested to remove their | head-covertngs.” / a | among the church-going community in this city, It is of especial inter- Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson on Washington Queen Margherita, of Italy, speaks German with as much fluency as she does her native tongue. Lord Salisbury has had a special | Dieycle bullt for his own use after a | design submitted by himself. Since Senator Allison became a | Capt. C. Roth, who had charge of the execution of the four Lincoin conspirators in 1865, Is at present a railway postal clerk at Jackson, Mich, ‘The table of the household of Rus- nell Sage is said to be one of the best furnished in New York, both as to meals and the manner in which they are served. The president of the Harvard Re- | JUVENILE: publican club has recetved a tele- gram from Gen. Miles accepting an/ |invitation to address a students’ CRIMINALS; Sr The promoters of the Admiral | Dewey gold mine on Puget sound OAKLAND, Stewart, fourteen years Jack McChesney, .« year his senior, ant that the admiral ha: are not the good little boys that | widower for 20 years. been a their parents and acquaintances | thought Nearly three weeks ago) “Peppermint” Todd, the fushion th two schoolboys left thelr |congressman from the Third District homes, and enough facts were dis-|of Michigan, got his nickname be- vered to show that their sudden |cause he made a large fortune by mind, and bad been well brought up. on nothing but mint grows. ney (* in Jall for stealing a shotiun, | when the bays were put off a freight | trom eight to ten miles in length is of burglary. ‘The Stewart boy i from the east. Work Is soon to be ble, started on a tour of crime, and | oq by the engineering department. The police and the Children’s society —" were notified of the lads’ departure, | but were unable to learn anything and Stewart had made his escape | from the constable. | train at Davieville, MoCheaney wa: ken before the justice, pleaded |'0 be constructed on the Great suppored to be beating his way back started by Foley Bros. & Larson, the to this city. |contractors, who have been award- when arrested were evidently pre- | ne cut off will start from a point paring to arm themselves for the | ,, Quincy station, and will strike departure was premeditated. The! the manufacture of peppermint ex- until this morning, when a dispatch THE NORTHERN This happened tast Sunday, but the quilty, and was held to answer be- | Northern railway, changing the ap- The two lads after leaving home, | «4 the contract for the work. Plans purpose of self-protection. Some | ihe present main line at @ point lads were of a romantic turn of tract. He owns large farms where- from Woodland stated that MeChes- arrest was not made ull pdr veveng SPOKANE, March 22—A cut off fore the superior court on a charge | proach of that line to the Columbia according to the Davisville consta~ | ang details are now being complet- ammunition and provisions were | several miles west of Trinidad. stot from the farm of Charles | geveral high bridges across dry Cufts, between Sacramento and | .outees will be avoided by the cut off Daviaville, and they were beating ang a better grade will be given. their way toward Oakland on a freight train when they were arrest- ed. The Stewart boy got away from the constable and hid in the wil- lows near the Putah ¢ ‘There ix aid to be considerable rock work in the construction, and it will be by no means a cheap undertak- ing. The advantage is in the avold- nal. arice of the so-called dry coulees Uae 5 ae Ale which in winter become raging tor- A Quarter Ton of Lion. rents and have a habit of sweeping “What does a lion weigh?” Ask | out bridges. that question of any acquaintance, 2Oai The Story of a Kiss. and see what he will say. ‘Those ho know the look of the ‘ Seonte tent, Kad ave dobatt his tithe |The Landon Daily Mail tells this body really: is, will probably come | Pretty story of a kiss sold at auc- furthest from the truth About mo won: A fascinating firl, whose name to 260 pounds ia the usual estimate, Need not be mentioned, being anx- jous to assist a certain charity in the provinces, offered a kiss to be bh thie is below the mark. A ful ow or ty . et ah aia. 5 Pe soaaae wie Wea’ put up at auction, ‘The bidding was brisk and had advanced in three dred and forty pounds is the record f two guineas to ‘thirty, for an African lion. His bone ts as Ce Se thirty, solid and heavy as ivory. n without further parley the ‘ round sum of £800 was offered, The tiger runs the Hon very close. A Bengal tiger, killed two years ago, by an English officer, scaled n A tiger of thin nize ha however, considerably greater mus- cular strength than the biggest Hon, Fow people know that a grizzly bear cive points to any other carniv- ast in point of strength, A ar welghing Just four hun dredweight bas been watched carry Y heifer of more than two-thirds its own lght for two miles up the most steep and rugged mountain aide, and this without pausing for stant torest. The grizzly bear There being no higher bid the kiss to a colonel in one of our line regi- ments, who came forward to meet the blushing young lady. But to the surprise of all pre nt was knocked down by the auctioneer the colonel introduced a dear little fairhaired boy, explained that it was his grandson's fifth birthday, and that he had acquired the kiss as a birthday gift for him. Whereupon Miss took the child in her arms and discharged her debt with inter est. The charity, a local one, in which the colonel took a keen Inter est, was the richer by £800 for the ariazly be is the largest and most powerful of J all the bear tribe, but his cousin, | dad's generous whim. the einam ar, rune him very But the little bird whispered af- close: and the big white polar bear, | terward that at the colonel’s dinner theugh not really so dangerous a/| Party that night he had on also on is capable of performing the strict Q. T." the m extraordinary feats of om th A polar bear hay been CLOTHING STORE FIRE. xeon to move with his paws a boul- je der six men had with diMfculty put aire was discovered In the Boston in provision’ to guard a cache of Gjothing house at the corner of provisions Second avenue and Pike street about 9:0 o'clock last night he fire Cost of Megazines, caught from a gas stove used in It become every year @ more ex-| heating Irons in the tallor shop in pehaive business to float an import. | the rear of the store. The fire de ant lical, suid Mr. Harmaworth | partment extinguished the blaze be if tne London Mall) neste i" fore it gain much headway, The annual meeting Of the shareholders | damage was slight bs of his company, that ft had cost oye ais hune thousand dollars to intro duce the new Harmsworth Maga zine and get out the first four num. | © April 4 bere hat is a pretty good sum ++ 104 West Washington, Dex: $100,000, Y Building. Ne ee ers et ake al March 23, — Samuel | have sent a certificate for 5000 shares | ol4, and to “Mrs. Dewey,” apparently ignor-| NEA SPUDER OF ALASKA Recently Caught by A Klondiker. A OMARROW FREEZING STORY mecpiemcernetltasie Old Wick Himself to Shudder. “If any one requifes a dash of exe citement I can recommend the fish- jing of Alaska sald a returned Klondiker 1 had been fishing above Sitka when one day I found myself near a camp of Indians. As I had some game 1 divided with them, and forthwith was invited to 4 feast of their own providing. We sat around a big wooden dish, tn | Which was something that looked | like frogs’ legs, but frogs so gigan- | te that I knew it was something | els It required some courage to eat this dish, but hunger gives a man stamina of @ certain kind, so | I_whut my eyes and began the feast, The article was not so bad as it aps peared. It tasted like crab, and some of it had the consistency of rubber rings which babies chew on Altogether it was not to be despised, combining food with exercise. ‘It was sea spider, so the natives told me, a member of the cuttlefish. family. As they were going out on | the following morning to fish for more I persuaded them to take me | with them. We dropped anchor tn | the lee of a little point of rocks and began fishing. It is a famous coun- (try for fish and it was nothing but pull tn for the natives, while I did not have a bite. |_ “My time was coming, however. f | had on a heavy #inker, so that every, | time the boat lifted I felt a sharp | Jerk, which deceived me. But once, when the boat rose on a big wave, my line did not give, and I shouted to the Indians next to me that I was foul. He took the line, gave a tremendous jerk, and received one in return; then, bracing himself back, he began to pull and scream; then all hands screamed, and I under- stood that a sea spider had the line and also the bottom. I expected @ ery minute to see the cance go over, as the men went from side to side, |ngw forcing the rail down so that the water poured in, now Hfting with |& mighty yell, then slackening off so suddenly that they fell in a heap. “One man armed himself with a knife, while a companion heid a short-handled case knife between his teeth—movements suggestive of the coming of an enemy. Suddenly a | member of the crew seized a sharp boat hook, which, after another look, he Jabbed into the unknown and in- | visible. In response a long, slender tentacle shot Into the air and form- \ed a wierd interrogation point, then | it grasped the pike; then three more appeared, creeping insiduously over the edge of the canoe at which the natives struck wildly, some shouting to slack the line, others to haul in. “In the midst of the confusion the sea spider concluded to come aboard, Torn from the bottom, it had come |up easily; then, seeing the canoe, and possibly thinking it a vantage ground, it grasped it and slid over | the aide, a mass of living, slimy, red- | dish-brokn snakes. When they rear- ed up I could see rows of suckers, each of which was a veritable air | pump, and as there was seemingly | thousands of them, the sucking pow~- ler of this apider of the sea was ap- parent. Blows were aimed at it whenever opportunity offered, but |the weird animal fairly slid over the rail, winding one of its arms around ‘an oar. Its head or body hung on the ratl-—a brown mass the size of a man's head—from which gleamed | two greenish-yellow eyes. The ani- mal changed color like a chamelon; rushes of red, brown, and gray fol- lowed one another over It, while from its lower portion oozed a stream of ink which splashed in our ft the tentacles flew about. It 8 fifteen minutes before they had the life hammered out of the fright- ful creature, and then it was a ques- tion who had won. “The canoe was now half full of water, as a hole had been knocked In the side, which was finally stop- ped with a piece of skin. Tt was five miles to camp, but I preferred walk- ing, and so the men put me on shore. I got to the camp in time to meet them and see the sea spider taken out, It had a spread of near- ly 25 feet, measuring from the tips of the outstretched tentacles.” * BIC BOARD | BILL A Sequel to the Tragedy of February t2th. el Bollong brought suit againet the administrator of Andrew Annatt, in the superior court, to recover the price of board and lodging alleged to have been furnished to the stayer of his son The evidence several times referred indirectly to the tragedy of February 12, 1898, when s killed by Andrew Annan, who afterwards committed suicide, Bollong sued to collect from H. A. Davis, administrator of Annan’s estate, the sum of $ on an ac unt for board dating bi H. C. Bollong wa « to November 13, 1891, ‘The admin- isirator set up in defence a counter claim for $2150, alleging that the house occupied by the Bollong’s stood upon tide lands, in which Annan had a half interest The jury brought in a verdict for $1149.25 for Rollong Customer (at shirt counter) Here's a shirt I bought of you the other day, [Us too small for me, I tore it trying to put it on. Salesman — ‘That's too bad, but you've spolled it so we can't take it back. I'll tell you what you can do, though jo over to the drug a partment and you can get a smi j bottle of anti-fat for 14 cents—= | Chicago ‘Tribune, . * 233 rer re ene ie if é