The Washington Bee Newspaper, May 10, 1902, Page 7

olumn endeavor to espondence that may rgently request young “this column, and any wished answered »efore Saturday Miss May CLEMATIS, iful if you will at- siness* s and keep good ip is dangerous. urself to criticism. ice be your guide. ir oceupation is, tended is quite - everything that is 1 not|be so quick nk twice before tgivesyoua bad take time and any one. iny esp2cially home. t effort would cea- ve is not unrequit- enjoys the grandil- e all sunshine. ving for, when ffection is not bred people. life like the odustry. s closed and ignorance. proper thing for hat and coat Men have ryices, ow they rown. t disappoint r bond vacant mind. and a slow s other people’s weds for pro- r SOTIOW. s 10t_ worthy of do nothing ow the rules those} who are agines that he e nthe man of rhbors. 5 ! talkative girls. of any s unfit for soci wo- rer should efit to any bus- ies taste wil to thank those ne that you 5 ee ir friends is to e that you ecause you are ive behind it. ellto any one € day. t €s3 sou will cause com comment will ewel d amiable. usually han- SSly. € truth sometimes. when you are tell- Sthe guilty mind. 1 know. i ependent. She eect © man’s company others, except she > conceited neith- " e that yon are ad- Girls are often elves but dis ver disobey you stegard your ad | ‘jive to please and sthe one whe 5 Own good traits. hardest work mn. Dy Best or woman puff Truthful Tale Told by a Columbia River Logger. “Varmints” by the Thousand Inhab- ited a Deserted Shaft—Hole Was “Shot” After the Way of Shooting an O11 Well, The Portland Oregonian says that Several mining men who chanced to meet in the office of a hotel in that eity the other day were discussing the various mines in a certain dis- trict .n this state, when one of them spoke of a “wildcat” mine. A logger who was sitting near pricked up his ears at this, and chipped into the conversation. He said that there was the most produc- tive wildcat mine he had ever heard of near the logging camp where he had been working on the Lower Co- lumbia. One of the mining men remarked that his idea of a wildeat mine was one that yielded nothing but assess- ments, and asked what this wildcat mine produced, “Why, wildeats, of course,” replied | the logger. He then proceeded to ex- plain that many years ago some one had run a tunnnel into the side of a hill in search of coal and had run a number of short branches, and had} gophered about generally in the bowels of the hill, but finding no coal, had finally abandoned the work-| ings. There were wildcats in that sec-| tion, and the parties who had been| prospecting for coal left several The wildcats and the tame cats had affiliated, and had taken up their abode in the tunnel | and had increased in numbers. Finally a celebrated bear hunter of | that region discovered the half- closed entrance to the tunnel and thinking that perhaps some wild ani- mal might be occupying the place, cats at their cabin, sent his dogs in to investigate. In a few minutes the dogs came rushing out, literally covered with and howling like lost spirits. | While the fight was going on the old hunter took a hand to help his | dogs, and killed 27 wildcats wildeats . The cats LOGGER T LING HIS STORY. reports of the} into their The dogs could seared at the rifle and finally hole in the ground. not be persuaded to enter the tunnel retreated again and the hunter did not care to enter himself. The cats killed were a curious mix- and lengths, ture of the colors of the tame wildcats, and had tails of al from the »bit-like tuft of the genu- ine wildeat to the elongated “narra- tive” i Several attempts were made with- in the next two weeks to ¢ the colony of cats, but to no purpose, found of the domestic thomas cz san out as no dog nor man could be who dared to go any distance in tJe tunnel. Finally, a cold-blooded scheme was put up on the They obliged to go out at night to seek for food, so a man was dressed up in} half a dozen suits of clothes which no cat could bite or scratch through, and with giant power cartridges and a ¢ of fuse, penetrated to the extremity of the tunnel. Next day a crowd gathered about the entrance of the tunnel, and the fuse was lighted, As it. burned along into -the tunnel the flame, smoke and smell of powder scared the eats and they began to come out, and as fast as they came in sight they were shot down. The shooting and the dead cats ter- rified those in the rear, and they held back till the tunnnel was fairly choked with a surging, squalling, spitting army of cats, and then the several eats. were furnished seve giant powder exploded and tons of cats were shot out of the hole. “Were there any cats left?” in- quired one of the mining men. *Nary a cat,” said the logger. “The mine was worked out, and was closed permanently with rocks and earth.” Man with Strong Stomach, Phil Melloy, of Dubuque, Ia., is a gastronomic wonder. For a wager he recently ate &5 raw eggs in less than ten minutes. A trickster, watch- ing the feat, smuggled in a rotten egg. and for a few moments this staggered Phil; but he stubbornly THE WASHINGTON a REAL WILDCAT MINE,|"~ Ware's poxer GAME. It Was for a Seat in Congress and the Poet Won, Bat Never Re- covered His Stake, Eugene F. Ware, the Kansas poet and lawyer, who is to succeed H. Clay Evans as commissioner of pensions, once played a game of poker for a beat in congress. » This game was played in the Cope- land hotel, at Kansas y. in the early ‘80's, during a session of the Kansas legislature. A bill to redis- trict the state into congressional dis- tricts was to be framed and passed. bers who aspired to congressional honors. Included in the list of would- (Recently Appointed United § missioner of Pens be congressmen was every one of the senators forming the committee whose duty it was to frame a bill re- districting the state. They wrangled over the bill, each member of the committee striving to secure a bill that would forward his ambition to congressional honors. The session was drawing to a close, and there seemed no chance of an agreement. Finally, it wa zreed to play a game of “freeze out,” the winner to report a bill that would suit him. E. H. Funston, father of Gen. Funs- ton; W. J. aan, W. F. Hackney and Gene Ware and one or two other Bueh members of the committee sat down sle in an upstairs room of the Copeland hotel. The stake was worth playing for, and it toa before the One by one they »pped out until Buchan and Ware was hours game seemed bear an end, were the only ones in the game Finally Ware won all the chips. He reported a_ bill congressional district it exists to-day. Following the death of Dudley C. from the forming the second practically as Haskell, the congressman Second district, Funston entered the race for the nomination and was elected. The game was a tentative agree- ment to let the winner go to con- wouldn't gress. Funston stand for the Second district included his own county. In this way he was elected. SIR HIRAM MAXIM. Has Just Offered a Prize of 32; to the Inventor of a Suecess- ful Flying Machine, Sir Hiram Maxim, who has made an offer of £50,000 to anyone who will bring him a successful flying machine, guaranteed to have un- not a balloor breakable patents and navigable in STR HIRAM MAXIM. (Will Pay Prize of £50,000 for a Successful Airship.) any wind, has had some experience in aerial machine construction. He de- voted the past several years of his life to that study and to experiments. Some years ago his aerial war kite, ‘The Monitor,” was advertised to rev- olutionize the world, and by its very demoniac attributes to make war im- possible. But it did everything but fly, even to swallowing up good Brit- ish money. Sir Hiram is an American who deserted his country after he had achieved fame, and is now the head of a great English shipbuilding and armament concern. He is the inventor of the Maxim rapid-fire gun. Loss Was Not Very Great, Gold coins representing $75 were accidentally dropped in the stove by Mrs. Thomas James, of Alliance, O. The money belonged to her son Mil- ton, who did not feel very pleasant when he discovered his mother’s blun- der. The melted gold was !2ter found under the grate, and the Philadelphia went on with his task until the seven dozen were swallowed. Raising Wolves for Bounty. The raising of wolves is a flourish- ing industry in Nebraska. The state pays a bounty for each wolf-scalp, and some farmers breed the animals in pens. One thrifty farmer raised 100 wolves last summer. mint sent him $70 for it Good News for Somebody. A Detroit paper of a recent date contained this advertisement: ‘‘No- tice—If ——, who is supposed to be in Chicago, will communicate with his friends at home, he wi!l hear of some- thing to his advantage. His wile is dead.” —_~ —— ee LOVE IS UNIVERSAL. In the senate were a number of mem- ' the bill and had it amended so that | BEE. | Prince and Pauper Acknowledge Its Mighty Power. ! Some Royal Proposals Which Were Based Upon Mutual Respect and Admiration and Ended in Happy Marriage, { Many people are possessed of the Idea that, as royal marriages have generally to be arranged as affairs of state, the prospective bridegroom has no occasion to woo his bride as the average man would do. This, however, is a totally erroneous idea, , 8 will be found on reading the fol- j lowing authentic accounts, from Lon- don Tit-Bits, of how and where some , royalties proposed to those who ulti- | mately became their wives. { It wis at Rosenberg, the palace of the Danish royal family, that King Edward VII. proposed to and was ac- cepted by our gracious queen. His ; majesty—then, of course, prince of | Wales—first saw is wife in the , cathedral of a continental town, and ; Was so impressed with her beauty that he determined to secure an in- troduction on learning who the prin- cess was. The result of that intro- duction was that a short time after- wards the prince went over to Den- mark and made a formal claim for the hand of the princess. A charming story is that told re- garding the manner in which the late | Emperor Frederick of Germany, then »wn prince, proposed to the prin- royal (the late Empress Fred- erick). The two became separated from the rest of a royal party, who were taking a walk Seotch moor in the vicinity of Balmoral. Suddenly the crown prince spied a bit of white heather, and picking it up gave it to the young girl beside him barely 18 She knew, i over a —for the princess was years of age at the time. THE DUKE OF ARGYLL. (Husband of Princess Louise, One of Vic- toria’s Daughters.) j however, the meaning of the simple gift, and loud enough for her companion to hear. whispered “y During the remainder of their lives Balmoral had tions for the emperor and empress. White Lodge the place where our present prince lof Wales 1 won the heart | of Princess May. The prince went on a visit for a few weeks to his sister, the duchess of I Sheen house, near the always great attrac- Richmond park, v as wooed a fe, who lived at park : Every day his royal highness could strolling gates. be seen down Sheen lane, leading to White Lodge, and it was in the gardens round that that he put the all-important ques- tion. In describing how the marquis of Lorne, now, of course, the duke of Argyll, proposed to Princess Louise, mansion one cannot do better than quote the record made of the event by Queen Victoria in her “Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands.” The queen wrote: “This was an eventful day. Our dear Louise became engaged to Lord Lorne. The event took place during a walk from the Glassalt Shiel to Loch Dhu. We got home by seven. Louise, who returned some time aft- er, told me that Lorne had spoken of his devotion to her and proposed to her, and that she had accepted him, knowing that I should approve.” It was at the same palace, i. e., Rosenberg, of the Danish royal family, where our king pro- posed to the “daughter of the sea kings,” that the present czar asked Princess Alix of Hesse in 1894 to be his wife. He had made up his mind long before that if he married it would be to whom he pleased rather than one commended to him by his counsellors. for state reasons. His choice fell upon Princess Alix, and‘a party was arranged at Rosenberg to allow Nicholas to meet this royal lady. Accounts differ regarding the actual spot where the proposal took place. Some say the czar proposed during an evening party; others that he did so in the gardens round the palace whilst out for a walk with the princess. The latter account, how- ever, is generally regarded as correct: the seat Naturalism Among Amateurs, The little daughter of a New York family, who is in school near Washing- ton, wrote home describing some ama- teur theatricals the pupils had, and the letter contained the information that “Susie Jackson played the part of a peasant woman. She was very lifelike, for she wiped her lips witb the tablecloth.” Holds the Talking Record, The most rapid talker in the house; of representatives is Charles E. Lit- tlefield, of Maine. He is a terror to the official stenographer, sometimes getting very close to the 300-words-a- minute record, established by Henry U. Johnson, of Indiana, who served several terms in congress. | 182 rd St. n. w. J] H. 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Catl and inspect our new and modern caskets and jn- vestigate our methods of doing First-class work. 28AUVE AND FINANCE. The record for the price of a seat on the New York stock exchange was broken recently, when H. E. Mont- gomery paid $80,000 for a seat that was bought in 1869 for $400. The crops of 1901 in Manitoba were very large, official returns showing 50,500,000 bushels of wheat, 27,796,000 bushels of oats, 6,536,000 bushels of barley, and 4,800,000 bushels of pota- to The American Sugar Refining com- pany, commonly called the sugar trust, has recently paid off its mort- gage of $10,000,000, which was made in 1891 and would not have matured until 1911. The Association of Merchants in Berlin has sent to the federal council a memorial asking for the legislative reg of trade combinations in order that the artificial raising of prices may be avoided. According to the estimate of the Railroad Gazette, 4,518 miles of rail- road were built in the United States in 1901, Texas leading (537 milgs) in the list of states and with Oklahoma (398) West Virginia third. rulation territories, second, and oDSS AND ENDS. Quite 50 per cent. of the property of England is insured. Belgium has 175,000 taverns and sa- loons for the sale of liquors. The value of the minerals market- ed in England in 1900 was £135,957,- 76. Divers in West Australia receive $97 for every ton of shells of mother- of-pearl. During 1900 no less than 2,717 deaths in Ireland were attributed to cancer. The number of postal cards sold in 1900 by the German postal Ment was 358,000,000. The number of postage stamps sold in Germany was 2,618,489 316 ip 1899 and 2,948,356,308 in 1900. Boy bridegrooms are growing in number in London. There are four under 21 in every 100 bridegrooms. About 16 girls under 21 per 100 get married. depart- A Dime Well Invested. It was an Odessa, Pa., youth, accord- ing to one of the Lafayette county pa- pers, upon whom this advertisement made a deep impression: “Young man—Some woman dearly loves you. Would you know who she is? She would like to be your only sweetheart. Send ten cents in stamps to Occult Diviner, address as above, and learn He sent the stamps and What her name.” got his answer. was it? “Mother.” SCRAPS OF INFORMATION, In Texas superstitious people carry a small bone from a fish’s head, but the luck only comes after the charm has been lost. The Bedouin Arabs are small eat- ers. Six or seven dates soaked in melt- ed butter serve a man a whole day, with a very smai] quantity of coarse flour or a little bal] of rice. As late as 1840 there were neither roads nor coaches in any country dis- trict of Portugal. Gentlemen traveled on horseback and ladies in sedan chairs, carried by men, or in mule litters. It is said that Herbert C. 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