Evening gazette, Monday, February 3, 1896 · page 5

 

 

 

 

THE SOLlS-EUM CHOSEN

In It Will Meet the Democratic Na
tional Convention at Chicago.

‘ SEATS, FOR 15,000 PERSONS.

The National Committee Selects the Palmer
. House as Headquarters—Jinan”:
Harrity’s Views on the Po-
uncar‘srtiiaoon.

 

CHICAGO, Feb. 8.—The subcommittee
of the Democratic national committee has
selected the ,COliseum: 'as the place for the
convention and has chosen the Palmer
House as its headquarters. The committee
inspected both Tattersalls and the Colise-
um, the W0 buildings offered for the con-
vention. They chose the latter by unanis
mous vote. -

The Coliseum is at presentunfinished,
. but Colonel Dickinson, ex- secretary of the
World‘s fair, who is the manager of the
structure, informed the committee that it
would be entirely ready for the convention

by April 1. It is now being completed
with great rapidity, gangs of men being
employed night and day. _

' The building stands on the ground oc-
cupied by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show
during the World’s fair and is a trifle
over seven miles from the Palmer House.
The means of reaching it quickly are nu-
merous, however, as cable lines, the ele-
vated road and the Illinois Central rails
road pass by the door. Colonel Dickinson
says it will seat 15,000 people when fin-
ished.

Chairman Harrity said: “We will do
nothing more at this meeting. We have
chosen the hall and the hotel for our head-
quarters, and the balance of the details
will go over until the next meeting of the
comnfittee, which will be held at the
Palmer House in five weeks from now.
The Aergeant at arms will be chosen at
that time. We are going to do one good
thing at this convention, and that is, take
care of the press in good shape. We are go-
ing to give them better facilities and more
of them than were ever given at any na-
tional convention ever held. ”

The committee has adjourned for five
weeks.

William Harrity, chairman of the Demo
cratic national committee, is not mortgag—
ing his future as a political prophet.

Chairman Harrity's Views.

“I am not the most sanguine person in

the world, ” Mr. Harrity said, “but I have
hopes. Some of the members of our party
have taken a too dismal view of the con«
ditiOn. Political situations have changed,

are changing all the time and will change
again. We are yet a long way from elec-
tion day. The financial question will be
the leading issue of the coming canipaign,
in my opinion. ”

“Will it take precedence over the tariff
issue?”

“Well, there is no doubt the Republic—
ans will try to push the tariff to the front
as the main issue, but I do not think they
will succeed. The tariff question will be
considered in the national Democratic
. platform and discussed on the stump, but
I believe it will be overshadowed by the
, financial question.

“Ithas been pretty well demonstrated,”
said Mr. Harrity, with a. laugh, “that our
financial system iswrong. The changing
of that system will be one of the issues of
the campaign. A great many of our sound-
est thinkers believe the change should
come in the way of retirement of the
greenbacks. Just how the change shall be
made has not been determined. I doubt
ifathe delegates in' the national convention
will 0 quite So far as to indorse a specific
plan In detail for the change. The finan-
cial question will come before the people,
I think -'on the direct proposition for or
against the free coinage of silver.’

O“What position will the party take?”

“ Speaking for myself, I am not' 1n favor
of free coinage. What the party will do is
another matter. I believe the majority of
the Democrats are opposed to the free sil-
ver doctrine, but there is a very compact,
and very able, and very earnest, and very
energetic minority in favor of that propo—
sition. - We know the situation might be
more encouraging; that we are embarrass-
ed by conditions and circumstances for
which we are in no way responsible, but
that is no reason why we should sit down
and admit that we are already whipped.
We are still a long way from that.

“The Democratic national administra-
tion has been in the position of assignee
of a bankrupt or the receiver of an insol—-
vent corporation. The receiver is in no way
to blame for the insolvency, but he is
blamed.”

If Mr. Harrity has a personal choice, he
is keeping it to himself.

The Republican Convention.

ST. LOUIS. Feb. 3.——Thc Business Men’s
league of St. Louis met to discuss the
question of building anarmory and con-
vention hall combined in time for the Re-
publican convention. It was finally re-
solved that an effort should be made with
all convenient speed to secule money suffi-
cient to builda suitable structure for an
armory, but that it would be incxpedicnt
to build such a structure at this time for
use by the Republican national conven-

tion, inasmuch as the time is too short to ,

make it reasonably certain that the struc-
ture could be completed in time.

Governor Jones’ Surprise.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3.—-G0vernor Jones
of Nevada, who has been sick with cancer
in this city for almost three months, has
partially recovered to the surprise of his
physicians. Arrangements are being made
to remove him to Ca1 son City in a short
time to avoid an absence from Nevada be-
yond his legal limit of 90 days. '

The Dellc‘ Meade Sale.
NASHVILLE, Feb. 3.—-—Tl1e famous Belle
Meade stud will sell its yearlings in St,
. Louis this year, the sale to take place at
my fair grounds 011 Tune 6, when 70 oi
themawill be knocked down to the highest
bidder.’ "
Sick and Tir cd of Life.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 3. —Samucl Edmonds,
65 years old, of the grocery firm of Sam-
ucl Edmonds & Son, threw himself into
the river yesterday and w as drowned. Ill
health is thought to have caused the sui-
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‘ A Priest Dead. ‘1

NEW YORK, Feb. - 3.-Rev. William C.
Kelly, assistant rector: of St. John the
luv angelist’s Roman Catholic church, died
) esterday at Iselin, N. .I , ef Bright’s dis-
ease. ‘

 

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erratum r011 BAYARD.

Resolutions Adopted by the House Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.——A resolution
censoring Embassador Bayard for the sen-
timents expressed by him in his recent
speeches In England has been adopted by,
the house foreign affairs committee. Two
resolutions will be reported. The ’first cen-
sures Mr. Bayard by name for the lan-
guage used by him in his Boston and Edin-

burgh speeches, and the second expresses ‘

the disapproval of the committee of our
representatives abroad discussing Ameri-
can political affairs and displaying parti-
sanship and the condemnation of political
parties or other reputable organizations of
American citizens.

Twice the propOsition was made to the
Democrats by the Republicans that if the
former would admit that Mr. Bayard’s
utterances had been indiscreet the Repub-
licans would agree to a mild resolution—
that is, merely an expression of the sense
of the house that the embassador’s speech-
es were indiscretions. This proposition
was refused by the Democrats, Mr. Mc-
Creary declaring that they would neither
admit that Mr. Bayard had been guilty of
indiscretion nor that the house had any
power to reprimand him or express its
views upon his course. 'lhe Democrats ar-
gued that the power of appointment of
foreign representatives was vested in the
president, with the consent of the senate,
and that the president and the senate were
the only authorities who had jurisdiction
over these ofiicials.

It is understood that Mr. Draper, Who
was absent, and Chairman Hitt were not
in favor of strong censure. Several of the
new members of the committee, Messrs.
Cousins, Pearson, Heatwole and Smith
particularly, have from the beginning ad-
vocated an unquaufied and direct censure,
as well asMr. N ewlands, the silverite from
Nevada, and Messrs. Hitt and Adams, on
the final vote, were recorded with them.
Chairman Hitt will report the resolution
to the heuse, and a warm debate will
doubtless follow.

Messrs. McCreary, Money, Turner of
Georgia and other Democrats are prepar-
ing speeches in defense of _ Embassador
Bayard.

A WOMAN MURDBBBD.

The Assassin Makes Good His Escape,
‘ Leaving Not a Clew Behind.

BOSTON, Feb. 3.—-Mrs. Grant, otherwise
known as Sophie McLeod, aged 30 years,
was murdered in the 2/ story house at 33
Brighton street, Charlestown, last night.
She and her sister, Mrs. Ida Quinlan,
were alone in the house during the
evening. Mrs. Quinlan went out about
9 o’clock. When she returned at 11 o’clock,

.the house was locked. She procured a

key from the. landlord, and upon entering
the kitchen found Sophie McLeod lying
on the floor dressed in a nightdress, stock-
ings and slippers. She was lying face
down in a big pool of blood, with a deep
gash at the base of her skull and two oth-
ers back of her left ear.

The wounds had evidently been made
with a blunt instrument. Officers from
station 15 searched the house, but found
no clew beyond the fact that the rooms
had been ransacked, but apparently noth-
ing had been taken. A man called at the
house Thursday night to secure rooms,
but no description of him could be had
from Mrs. Quinlan, as she was hysterical.

LIKE—SAGE THE RIPPER.

A \Voman’s Headless Body Fnund_ In a.
Terribly Illutilated Condition.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 3.———A tragedy, after

the manner of Jack the Ripper Occurred

 

onthe Alexandria road in a lonely part of '

the Kentucky 11,-; 111111115, about a mile
south of Fort Thomas. The victim was a
woman. Her headless body was found ter—
ribly mutilated. No one knows yet either
murderer 0r victim.

Bloodhounds which were put on the
murderor's tracks went to Covington res-
*ervoir No. :3, situated a- mile northwest of
Fort Thomas, stopped at the edge of the
water and burl; cd vociferously. They were
taken away with diiilculty.

ervoir with the Lope of finding the hood of
the dead woman and possibly the body of
her murderer. The scene of the murder

shows signs of a struggle. fit is believed .1
dull butcher knifc was used in severing
the head from the body.- The victim ap-
pears to have been 35 years old. .

 

Ger-nrany and England.

LONDON, Fob. 3.——Thc Observer (Union-
ist) this morning says: "We have good
authority leading us to express the belief
that Germany recently invited Russia; and
other powers to cosoperate in a plan 1105-
tile to F 11gland’s continued occur (Ition of
Egypt. According to om- infouna: 1m: and
belief, this proposition was uccl: LL .1 by
Russia.”

Beckham Elected.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 3.——A special to The
Commercial-Gazette from Bardstown, Ky. ,
says: ’J. C. W. Beckham. (Donn) was

elected to the lower house of the legisla-.

ture from N elson county to fill the. vacan-
cy caused by the death of Representative
Wilson. Beckham’s majority over .T. B.
Weller (Rep) is 700. .

 

. Sullivan Is Much Improved.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills. ., Feb. 3. —John L.
Sullivan is much better today and passed
a very easy niglit. Dr. Ryan refused to al-
kw him to leave his room. Spllivan or
pressed HIS (realm cu rcavc': ‘riic may at Once
and join his trOupe at Dallas, but the doc-

tor says he cannot possibly leave for a cou— l
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POBARBB IS FOR M’RINLBY.

But He Kicks on Making Oath to It More
Than Once a Day.

 

CINCINNATI, Feb. 3.—Senator Elect For?

aker was interviewed yesterday regarding
the stories that he is conspiring to defeat
McKinley for the Republican nomination
for the presidency. He said:

“There is such a thing as getting tired
of what may be called the oath of alle-
giance. I am willing to take it every
morning before breakfast, but I protest
against taking it oftener than once a day.
There is no trouble that I know of among
Ohio Republicans except in the distem-
pered imaginations Of Democrats. .

“Governor McKinley will have the solid
support of the state, and I apprehend no
disappointment as to the outcome. Of
course Democrats want to make trouble
That' Is good politics from their standpoint.

_ They have no other hope of success.

“Regardless of the opposition of the

. ‘Democracy and the inconsequential busy-

bodies, the Republican party of the state
will go forward with a victorious steep
to the full consummation of the pro-
gramme of the Republicans of Ohio. So

. far as I am personally concerned. I have

not sought to have and do not desire to
have anything to do with the management
of Governor McKinley’ 3 campaign. But I
am willing to do and am anxious to do
all in my power to secure for him the en-

~ thusiastio support of our state delegation.

I do not propose, however, to put myself
in an attitude of being crucifieda ain, as
I was in 1888, when. notwithstamfing the
fact that I supported John Sherman with
the utmost fidelity, and, as it has come to
be known, at great self sacrifice, I had for

my reward only charges and insinuations .

of infidelity, treachery and so on. Nobody
has a right to expect of me or to require

of me anything of the kind. And I shall ,-
not subject myself to liability to any such '1‘

disagreeable experience to accommodate
anybody. ”

GONE TO A HIGHBR COURT.

The Condemrfiad Murderer, \Villiam Quasar,
Dies In Sing Sing Prison.

SING» SING, Feb. 3. —William Caesar, the
condemned murderer, died suddenly yes-
terday afternoon in his cell at the state
prison. Shortly before that time the guard,“
in passing the cell, noticed the condemned
man lying on his back, with his head
hanging over the side of the bed. He went
to Caesar’ s assistance and sent for War-
den Sage. Caesar was still conscious, but
very ill, and, notwithstanding the remedies
that were applied, he died a few minutes
later.

William Caesar was sentenced by Re-
corder Goff on June 25, 1895, and the day
of his execution was set for July 29 of the
same year. He was convicted of having
murdered a young colored woman, Mary
Martin, with whom he had lived and
whose terribly mutilated body was found

in an inclosure adjoining the Greenwich "

Savings bank at Sixth avenue and Waver-

ly place, New York city. The murder and

mutilation caused great excitement, and

it was some time before the murderer was

captured. His conviction folloWed' and

Wficase was taken to the court of appeals, 1
re it has since been pending.

THB M’GRBGOR MURDER. ., .

Minnie Swanger, the Victim’ s Niece, Held ,1

by the Coroner's Jury.

. ALTOONA, Pa. ., Feb. 3. —-The coroner’ s"
jury- has. concluded its investigation into?
the death of William McGregor, who died
aweek ago last Wednesday from poison
supposed to have been administered by his
niece, Minnie Swan‘ger. Carrie Sill, who
was poisoned at the same time, testified
that she saw Minnie put something into
the coffee pot. Minnie told Carrie it was
pe er.

. M. Howe, McGregor’ s son- -in- law,
told the jury that he had had a confession
from Minnie this week’ in jail. She said
she bought a package of rat poison-and
put it in the coffee to‘ make the family

sick so she could steal money. A verdict -

was rendered in accordance with these
facts.

Frank \Vilson’s Sentence.

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. , Feb. 3. —-Before
the members of the jury that found Frank
Wilson guilty of the murder of Miser Bon-
necka separated they signed a petition to
the state board of pardons, in which they
requested that Wilson’s sentence be life
imprisonment. The reason for this request
was that one of the jurors was opposed to
capital punishment and persuaded his
fellow jurors to agree to this compromise.

Got a Gold llIedal. _

HALIFAX, Feb. 3. ——A gold medal was
presented to Peleman Bezanson. The
gift is from the president of the United
States to Bezanson for heroic services in
helping to save the crew of the sinking
United States schooner J. B. Jones ofi
Cape God in March last. .

Patent Bloomers.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—After an appar-
ent struggle with ancient and modern his-
tory for the past six months the patent
office has just granted to a Brooklyn in—
ventor letters patent covering the up to
date article of female apparel known as
bloomers.

Fought With Knives.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3.—-W_illla1n Gillhaus
was killed and his brother Charles fatally
wounded in a fight with knives with Hen-
ry Segar and his son- in- -law yesterday.
The men were neighbors and fought over

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The Oldest Conductor Dead.
BOSTON, Feb. 3.-——Elbridgc A. Towle,
the oldest conductor in the employ of the
Boston and Maine railroad and probably
the oldest railway conductor in the Unit-
ed States, is dead, aged 73 years. His home
is in Charlestgwn.

 

The Kentucky Deadlock.

LOUISVILLE, Feb. 3.—The deadlock tor
senator shows no signs of a. break, the
last ballot resulting: Hunter, 54; Black-
burn, 46;McCrea1’y, 5; Carlislc,2 ;Buck—
nor, 1; Evans, 1; Bate, 1.

Electric Plant Burned.
PHILADELPHIA, Fob. 3.-—The extensive
plant of the Wayne Electric Light compa-
ny, located at Wayne, Delaware county,
Pm, was destroyed by fire yesterday, en-
tailing a loss of, $100,000.

Bev. Henry Litts Dead.
SUSQUEHANNA, Pa., Feb. 3.—Rev. Hen-
ry Litts of Dcckcrton, N. J., a member of
the New J crscy Methodist conference, died
here yesterday, aged. 73 years.

Indicted F... Bribery.
COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 3. —Ex-Ser;wrs

Iden and Abbot have been indicted for
bribery.

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BlDDY’S CLOTHESPIN. LEG.

An Interesting Demonstration Concerning

Heredity in the Ovlpara.

“If there is one thing I despise more
than another,” remarked a gentleman
the-other day, “it is aman who does not
regard the truth with sacred awe. .I
notice that the local papers are full of
big egg, big pumpkin and other stories
of that sort that have little real merit
in them, and I fear that some of them
do not even have the redeeming virtue
of being strictly true. I believe they
are exaggerated. Now, I have a story
for you that is not only a good one, but

' it is true. What does a story amount to

if it is not true ? Any fool can make up

cube. 1 hate a liar. Here is my story:
‘i‘I was down in Indiana county the

other day and stopped at a farmhouse

old hen hobbling about in a very aw].

.ward way, and I said to the farmer’s

wife:
. ‘.‘ ‘Madam, what is the matter with
that hen?’
“ ‘That hen,’ said she,‘ islame. It has
an artificial leg.’
“€011, it has, has it?’
';~“‘~Yes. You know there was some

Averyscold weather last winter, and one

night the hen froze her leg off. Ipitied
her. I nursed her and doctored her up
and she finally got well. But she
couldn’t walk on one leg. So I just
.tuck a. Clothespin on the stump. of her
leg, tied a string around it to hold it on

~ and she does very well with it. ’

, “ ‘Well, well,’ I said, ‘if that isn’t

, trange. ' ’

1,. “ ‘_Yes,’ replied the good lady, with a
smile, ‘but that isn’t the strangest part
of it.’

5‘ ‘No I},

I ’ “ ‘No, indeed! The'strange partof it
happened afterward, and one- would

scarcely believe it if one hadn’t seen it
with one’ s own eyes. This spring that
hen with the Clothespin leg wanted to
hatch. I didn’t think she could. ’Fraid
she’d break the eggs with her stump.
But' I kind 0’ pitied her, ’cause she was
la cripple, and I put 13 eggs under her.
She stuck right to her business for three

. weeks and ne‘. er broke an egg—hatched

out every chicken.’

‘_‘ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘that is not so remark-
able.’

“ ‘N o ’replied the woman, ‘that was
not so very odd, but that isn’t it. The

;funny part of it was that every one of

those little chickens had a wooden
leg. ’ ”—Punxsutaw ney Spirit.

POPULAR MELQDIES IN CHURCH

“Wearing of the Green" Played During a
, Recent? Service at Washington.

, An incident which, if it had occurred
at the middle of the services, might
have resulted disastrously, caused con-
siderable amusement at one of the
Catholic churches on a recent Sunday.
The service was an especially attractive
one, and elaborate musical numbers
had been prepared. The choir was as-
sisted by a string orchestra, with a par-
ticularly lusty trombone. There was :1
sermon by an eloquent priest, and the
services were carried out without a
hitch until the very last. All those at
the altar. arranged themselves in readi-
ness for the recessional.

The choir leader raised his baton, de-
scribed a grand flourish in the air and
‘a grand burst of harmony burst forth
from the orchestra. But instead of :1
sacred march it was “The Wearing of
the Green.” Its merry and frivolous
strains pealod louder and louder, and
the cheeks of the fat trombonist puffed

vider and wider. But the effect! There ‘

was a. scurrying among the choir sing-
ers to get out of the organ left. There
was an immediately noticeable hitch-
ing into step of the superficially solemn
altar boys, and the holy fathers exerted
all the muscles of their faces to retain
:1 pi oper decorum of counten nce.
They didn’t succeed altogether, fora

broad smile was on the face of more

_ than one as he disappeared from sight.

But the orchestra played blissfully on.

'It changed from the Irish melo y to an-
other popular aii, and nobody knows
but what they might have drifted into
a skirt dance or “The Sunshine of Par-
,adise Alley” had not the last of the
priestly processiOn disappeared as
,quickly as possible within the sacristy
doors. It is safe to say that that o:-

chestra will find dificulty in getting an-
other job to play sacred Imusic.—Wash.~
iington Post.

CO.

_ After dinner I sat down on,
the porch to take a smoke. I saw an

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Agricultural Department Grows ’

Plants by Electricity.

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Startllng Effects of Artificial Light at the
Experiment Station—Results of Prof.
Bailey’s Arc Light and Prof.
Reno’s Incandescent Lamp.

 

Probably the most interesting of the
many miracles which scientific men are
learning to perform by aid of electricity

is the artificial growth of plants, tech--

nically known as electroculture. This
is as yet a new science and little has
been told the public concerning it. In-
teresting experiments in these lines

are now being carried on at several of .

the experimental stations of the de-
partment of agriculture.

The agricultural experiment stations
are testing several different systems of
electroculture. One of these' 13 the di-
rect application of electricity, fur-
nished by at dynamo, to the plant it-
self and to the soil in which 'it grows.
Another IS the distribution of atmos-
pheric electricity among plants by a
similar method. Still other tests are
being made with both are and incan-
descent electric lights for supplying
sunlight, so to speak, at night. The

first mentioned experiments are being.

carried on by Prof. C. D. Warner, of
the experiment station at Amherst,
Mass. Prof. Warner has‘prepared two
plots of ground, side by sitb, each six
by twenty feet long. To compare
plants grown by electric aid with
those raised according to the natural
method one. of the experiment gardens
is furnished with electricity and the
other is' without it. The soil is pf a
rich loam, and that of the electric
garden is surrounded with a timber
frame, on which are arranged nu-
merous porcelain insulators, a ' few
inches apart, holding a. continuous, un-
covered copper wire. This copper wire
crosses the garden as many times as
there are insulators on either side.
The whole framework thus fitted
looks like the string frame of a large
piano.

The wires are covered with earth to?

the depth of two inches, and in both

'gardens various vegetables have been

planted fr .1111 time to time. These
plants are so arranged that the rows
in the electric gardens are continua-
tions of those of the non-electric, in
order that the contrast of development
might be more easily noted. .' The
wires are fed from a. small building
containing the necessary machinery.
1'1 fir-1' applying currents of various
strengths it was found that a certain
flow of electricity" through the elec-
tric garden produced strange results.
Many varieties of seeds sprouted much
more rapidly and many plants blosé
somed much earlier than in the
other. Roots of certain vegetables and
the tops of others were found to be
greatly enlarged under the process.
In fact, all plants were found. tobé
stimulated by a current of certain
strength. The physiological effect of
electricity upon plants, although not
yet definitely understood, is probably

similar to that- experienced by the

human anatomy or by the animal tis-.
sues. Electricity; is applied to par-
alytics lwcause it stimulates the
nerves and muscles, just as exercise
does. A strong current is used to re-
move superfluous hair, while, accord-
ing to letter reports, a milder current
will produce hair on bald heads. In
the same way an electric current too
strong-will destroy plantlife, while a
milder one enhances its growth. There
is also the theory that the electricity
produces a'chemical «effect upon the
soil or surrounding atmosphere, rather
than a direct effect upon the plants.
At the Ithaca (N. Y.).experi1nent sta~
tion Prof. Bailey, by aid of electric
lights burned all night in greenhouses,
makes plant life work “overtime”——-
that is, he forces plants to do both day
work and night work withoutamo-
ment ‘of “sleep.” Sunlight, as well as
atmosphere and water, is necessary for
a. plant’s development. The electric

light resembles sunlight in its compo- "

sition more than does any other artifi-
cial light. It is the common theory
that plants grow mostly .at night,
making use of the air, water, sunlight

and other materials which they have‘

received during the day, when the sun
is shining. It is generally believed,
therefore, that they need rest, just as
animals Deed rest for the build-
ing up of the tissues worn out during
the day. Prof. Bailey, however, does
not believe that plants need rest in the
same sense that animals do.

After learning of these wonderful re-
sults from experiments as yet in em-

bryo it would seem that we may yet ,
see the day when there will be many ‘

harvestings on a farm each summer.
The modern farmer will erect lines of
highpoles throughout his fields, sup-
porting not only mechanisms for gath-
ering thp atmospheric electrlcity, but
also immense electric lights for sup-
plying sunshine by night. Who can
say but that forests will some day
be made to grow up from seeds in but
a few months, or that the builders of
new houses may not grow shade trees
about their homes in that) time?

 

 

Fly iii a Soprano’ s Throat.

While mass was being celebrated at
the cathedral of the Immaculate Con-
ception in Portland, Me., on a recent
Sunday a young lady from Boston,a
fine vocalist, was assuming the leading
soprano part. When the solo “Salve
Regina.” was. reached the lady sang the
solo, and had just reached the con-
cluding measure, her pure, crystal-like
notes falling most. agreeably on the
ear, when the members of the choir
noticed that she turned pale and placed

her handkerchief to her lips, giving

aspasmodic cough. A fiy had flown
down her wvindpipe and shut off her
wind. ,For‘tunately at that moment
the full chorus had to sing, thus pre-
venting any break, and when her turn
came again the lady was able to re-
spond. The poor" fly was afterward
found on the bosom of her dress. He
had paid for his temerity with his life.
-—Chicago Choniclc. . .' j g.

' Tradition of

 

ORIGIN OF__ THE FEMALE.
Cheyennes and Are
Gives Women the Interior Poaitlon.
Among the many interesting tradi-
tions that have recently been brought
to light by a. man who has been making

I a careful study. of the legends and folk— .
lore of the Cheyenne and- Arapahoe Ins

dians of Indian territory” Is one that ac-
' counts in a singular way for the origin
_of woman. The Indians of these tribes
sniff disdainfully at the “rib theory”

When the resident missionaries try to.

teach them the initial lessons of the Old
Testament regarding their first par-
ents. _
-, ‘- The wise men'of their tribes wrestled
with the fundamental facts of the crea-
tion long ago, and evolved theories con-
cerning it which with the lapse of tiine
have come to be looked upon by the In-
udians of to—day as historical truths.- It
is little wo‘nder that the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe braves look down upon their
women as inferior beings. in view of
their supposed origin.

The legend says that originally all
men were created with long, sleek and
comely tails. These tails were their de-

' light, and they adorned them with paint,

beads and wampum. Then the. world
was at peace, wars and discerd were un-
known. Men became prosperous and
proud, forgot their Maker and became

envious and quarrelsome. Their Maker

became displeased with them and sent
a scourge upon them to teach them hu-
mility and make them realize their de-
pendence upon the Great Spirit. He am-
putated their tails, and out of these
beautiful members fashioned women.
-—Chicago Chronicle.

-—-To know how to grow"-old is the
masterpiece of wisdom, and one of the
most difficult chapters‘ 1n the great art
of living. —Amiel.

" RECENT FINDS. ~

In an old rat’s nest found in 'the
chimney of an old house at Ligonier,
Pa., were found some papers hearing
date 1770, a. Mexicanedollar of 1774, and
a Mexican quarter of 1772. .

At Rochester lately, in cleaning up

 

-the loft ,of the Guildhall, a number'of

documents, records and books of Queen
Elizabeth’s time were found, together
with the ancient whipping post of the
town.

Robinson Crusoe’ s musket is ofiered

for sale in! a collection of curiosities in .

Edinburgh that includes 120 instru-
ments of torture,chiefiy Spanish, and
relics of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

A large number of hymns and other
poems in Charles Wesley’s handwrit-
ing were recently feund in a pile. of old
documents at Wesleyan conference of-
fice 1n London.~ Many of the poems are
political and relate to the American
revolutiong _

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