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.ISHMAEL’S MANGROVE TREE.

A Facile Horticulturist from India Works
Wonders in a. Maine 2.1.0.1.

Chief Gllman of the Bangor police
force has.a curiosity up at his .resi-
dence on the west side, which, if it
continues to thrive, will be likely to
prove more of a sensation to people
of this ,vicinity than anything which
may result from the continued fall in
the price of lard. This is a pretty lit-
tle plant, about a foot in height,
which Ishmael, the great circus Hin-
doo now in the county jail here,
tricked out of a Dile~of wet dirt at
the prison the other night. He did it
the other night up in the jail when
Sheritf Brown gave him a chance to
use his apparatus, and Chief Gilman
has the plant as proof.

Ishmael took a little pile of sand
and mud which had been brought for
him in the jail yard underneath the
Window ,where he looks out and
thinks up new tricks every day, and
placed it in the middle of the floor on
a-cloth. Then he took what he said
was a seed, and showed it to his small
audience. The seed was the sane

 

dollar bill a few minutes before by
simply squeezing it, but that didn’t
make any difference to him, but he
put it in the dirt and got ready tc
grow his bush. Nobody thought he
was really going to do it. He swore
that he would produce a mangrove
tree. 4

Ishmael first took a cloth and placed
it over the earth; then he began to say
off some kind of a heathenish incanta-
tion, and in the course of a half min~
ute, when he removed the covering,
there was a little sprout starting up
about an inch above the pile. That’s
pretty good. Ishmael smiled demurely
and winked the other eye.

Again Ishmael put the cloth' on the
dirt, and again rattled off his rub-
bish in choicest Hindoo. Something
suddenly stuck itself up inside the
cloth, which peaked up and wrinkled
as it did so, and then off came the
cover with a swish and exposed a
very healthy young bush standing
there in the dirt.

Of course, everybody wil say‘ that
the bush was made of paper, but it
wasn’t. It was a real thing, and it
was moist and soft and pithy, just
as if it had been newly plucked from
the ground outside. At its bottom was
a full set of little roots which were
covered with the clinging earth in
which it had—well, grown.

Chief Gilman, who was present,
took the bush home with him, and set
it out in his garden. He said on Sat-
urday that it was getting on well, and
that it looked as if it had come to
stay. He can’t understand how Ish-
mael did it. Neither can anybody
else. Some of the men ii} the jail de-
clare that the youngster is a devil in
disguise, but most of them consider
him a mighty smar; lad.

But he is a great vegetation starter:
he beats super-phosphates at their own.
game.

The bush is worth seeing. It is com-

on a straight stalk, and little red blos-
soms are beginning to grow on the top
of it. It is a curiosity.

Ishmael says it’s easy as rolling oil
a log.

Adornment of the Sword.

The glorious epoch of the sword was
reached in the sixteenth century.
Great manual skill and a thorough
training in all the arts were united in
a marked degree in the artisans of
this period, and gave to the products
of the industrial arts a permanent
value and beauty. In the shops of the
metal workers this proficiency reached
a rare excellence. lVar was the main
occupation of kings, and civil and
military pageants were the favorite
pastime of .royalty. The armorers,
therefore, were in constant demand,
and were untiring in their efiorts to
produce costly, brilliant arms and
coats of mail. Great artists devoted
all the resources of their genius to
the enrichment of the sword. No
metal was too precious, no jewel too
rare, no fancy too ingenious for its

decoration. Hilts were encrusted
with gems, set with medalions,
carved, embossed, inlaid;' scabbards

of Spanish leather or Grenoese velvet
were ornamented with gold and silver
embroidery; blades of the finest steel
were polished to a dazzling lustre,
and engraved with inscriptions and
arabesques. Every artifice that a fer-
tile imagination could devise and a
cunning skill carry out was lavished
upon the decoration of the beloved
weapon.

In Han-owing Doubt.

,Willie Washington was gazing into
space with a look of intense anguish.

“.What is the matter, Willie?” said
one of his friends. “Have you been
having trouble?” -

“Y—a-a-s. .I’m afraid I’ve gone and
made myself verwy unpopular with
.Van Diggles and his wife, don’t you
Know.”

“In whaa way ?”

“Why, you know they both ride 5.
bicycle.”

“Yes 19 ‘

“In costume.’

“And I met them this afternooz.
They passed me one aftah the othah.

“And didn’t you speak to them?”

"Y—a-a-s. ,I wish I hadn’t, for, (‘1
do you know, cverwy time I think tl.
mattah ovah I’m half convincedtha
I lifted my hat and bowed to VanDig.
gles and said ‘Hello, old man,” to hi ,,
wife.” .

 

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Her Weakness.
,Clarence Younghub—It is said th:
old maids are very fond of cats;
wonder why that is so?

Miss Moreyears—Not having a bus
band, they naturally take to the nex
most treacherous animal—Washington
Times.

 

MINING AFRICAN DIAMONDS.

Tom-31 tatiou 1.0 Theft So Great that Extreme,

Precausions are Employed by Owners.

The first diamonds discovered in
Africa were found by a trader who
saw some children playing with what
they supposed were pebbles, one of
which, at least, proved to be a dia-
mond worth $3,000. Even at that early
day the news of lthe discovery was
not long in Spreading to d'ifieren't
countries, and not many years passed
before so many claims were taken up
that it was 1--.possi‘ble 'to keep them
separate and the result was one vast
min-Eng district some 15,000 square
miles in area.‘ controlled and worked
by varlous corporations and syndi-
cates. Besides these there is a large
number of individual diggers.

The mining in the African fields is
done by thousands of wild~eyed,
black-skinned natives. These Kaffirs
are large, powerful men, cleanly in
their habits, and during the time for
which their labor is contracted, usu-
ally a month, they are deprived of all
freedom.

Every possible precaution is taken,

to prevent the native workmen from
stealing the gems. A wire netting
covers the top of the compound, mak-
ing it impossible to throw a stone
over the walls, to be picked up by -a
confederate or an illicit diamond buy-
er. Every nigh-t at 5 o’clock, as the
miners leave their work, each is
searched with great rigidity by the
company’s agent. So expert :have the
natives become in their robberies that
every portion of their body is care-
fully examined with a “sounding ham~
mer,” and by the light of a. candle the
sole of each foot is examined for the
telltale refraction of light which re-
veals a diamond pushed under the
thick skin of the foot through an in-
cision so deftly covered that is is
easily overlooked. But the searcher
has become ,as great an adept in his
work as the robber in his robberies,
until it is almost impossible for the
thief to succeessfully secrete a stone,
and the ‘prospect of severe pu-nislh-
ment of several years’ imprisonment
in a South African dungeon has no
doubt had its influence in reducing
the robberies to a minimum.

In the Good Old Days.

“Oh, yes, I played ball in those days.
Baseball was baseball then,” and the
old gentleman sighed over what, he
evidently regarded‘ as the decadence
of the great National game. “Now
they get nine men together and make
a machine of them. The whole thing
is nothing more nor less than ani‘
mated mechanism. Then we had a
live ball, and I used to swing a hick-
ory bat nearly as long as a rake .han-
die. You can imagine what came of
it when I made a hit. The crowd
would hear something like the shriek
of a shell, and then the umpire would
toes out a new ball while I chased
two or three runs in ahead of me.

“Now, just to illustrate,” and the re-
tired veteran of the diamond began

aking a diagram while his hearers

grouped about him. “Here’s where
we played at Newcastle, Pa., with
the old Neshannocks. Charley Ben-
nett was catching. Here runs the
Ohio river way to the rear of the
groundsuwhich lay open to the high
bluff which marks the bank. Now,
Bennett was doing some mighty bat-
ting, and a fellow from a college nine
was giving him a tight race. Each
one of them rolled a’ ball over the
bluff, and I began to fear for my lau-
rels. But the third time up I saw
one coming that just suited. I set-
tled well on my feet, concentrated all
my strength for one supreme etfort,
swung old hickory, and
ball quit going it struck water half
way across the river. Why, they
stopped the game to try and take
measurements, _ while professional
managers were oifering me all kinds
of money. I was the hero of the hour,
the king of batters, the—hello, there,
Judkin, delighted to see you. It‘s
more than twenty years”— -

“Yes, the last time we met was at
the game you just described.”

The old gentleman turned a little
white about the mouth, but rallied
with infinite generalship. “Yes, of
course you were there, and it was a
day of miracles, for you went down
to the river and caught a ten-pound
bass that was served that night at
the hotel.” '

What fisherman could resist such a

temptation with the beautiful lie all
framed for him?
, Judkins flushed and inflated with
pride. The two jolly rogues went out
together. Before the evening was
over that ball had been knocked near-
ly a quarter of a mile into the coun-
try beyond the 'river, and the bass
was fifteen pounds strong—Detroit
Free Press. -,

 

“'hy Tillman Made Her erep.

“I heard a story on Ben Tillman at ‘

Chamberlin’s in Washington the other
day which I have never heard told
down town this way before,” said a
well known railroad man. “When
Dillma-n was making his tirade against
Cleveland in the Senate, the story
goes, he noticed an old woman in the
gallery who seemed convulsed with
grief. The further his 'speech pro-
gressed the more intense seemed 'the
old lady’s sobbing. The South Caro-
lina Senator was curious to know why
she wept so bitterly, and at the con-
clusion of his fierce harangue he
sought her out in the gallery and asked
the cause. ‘ ‘Well, I’ll tell you si-r,‘ she
replied between her sobs. ‘Last month
a'heavy frost ruined my garden, and
only two weeks ago my husband died.
Then my little jackass Ned, who used
to wake me up mornings- n-braying,
took sick a-nd’ died, too, and when I

. heard you a talkin’ it reminded me so

much of him that I just couldn’ 1 keep
from cryin.’ ”—Atlanta Jouinal.

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