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' INDIAN JUSTlCE.
)ne Tribe That Seemed to Have Some Ro- -
Agard for the Squaw.
“According to the books I studied
when a boy,” began an oldish man at
the club the other night, “Indians
ooked down on their Wives and made
them simply beasts of burden. That
nay have been in some places, but it
wasn‘t always so, or so everywhere.
"A good many years ago there were
some Penobscot Indians near my peo-
ole’ s place in \ew Hampshi1e, who ev-
‘idently thought a good deal of their
squaws and made one of the bucks ap-
preciate the fact that his wife was not
1 beast of burden. This buck went on
what we now call a bat, and got
'11-'unk—‘d1ank too much occapee, and
Cheepie (devil) got in hi111._’ When he
.got home he was in a bad humor, and
finding his wife in his way he stuck
her feet in the fire and burned them
off.
“The other Indians discovered this
very promptly and t1ied him by a very
summary process. The general opin-
on .was that he should be executed at
nice; but one of the elder bucks inter-
losed and gave this advice: “No shoot
~1im; make him live long as squaw
ive; him carry squaw w hen she want
walk; when squaw die bimehy, then
11c shoot.’
”This advice appealed to the other
men, and they decided to punish the
buck as the old chief suggested. So
the buck carried his wife around on his
lack, wheneve1 the tribe moved,
whenever she wanted to go any place.
So far as I learned, she did not hesi-
tate about moving around. Of course
:he buck hated to carry her; but the
oeauty of the arrangement was that
1e didn’t dare to ill-treat her, much
ess to kill her, because his life de-
iended on her. If she died, he knew
:he tribe would kill him.
“I don’t know how long this punish-
nent lasted—who died first, or if af-
:er her death he was pardoned or ex-
ecuted—New York Sun.
BIGGEST FARM ON EAR": ii.
)Iischinery Used In Cultivating 1.1., and 30
Acres Plowed in One Day.
The largest farm in this country and
)robably in the world is situated in
:he southwestern part of Louisiana.
7t extends 100 miles east and west. It
was purchased in 1883 by a syndicate
)f northern capitalists, by whom it is
etill operated. At the time of its pur-
:hase its 1,500,000 acres was a vast
)asture for cattle belonging to a few
iealers in that country. Now it is di-
rided into pasture stations or ranches,
>xisting every six miles. The fencing
s said to have cost about $50, 000. The
and is best adapted for rice, sugar,
TOI‘D and cotton. A tract, say half a
nile wide, is taken, and an engine \is
alaced on each side. The engines are
aortable, and operate a cable attached
:0 four ploughs. By this arrangement
thirty acres are gone over in a day
With the labor of only three men.
there is not a single draft horse 011
:he entire place, if we except those
ised by the herders of cattle, of which
:here are 16,000 head on the place.
the Southern Pacific Railway runs
"or thirty-six miles through the farm.
l‘he company has three steamboats
)perating on the waters of the estate.
)f which 300 miles are navigable. It
us also an ice house, bank. shipyard,
1nd rice mills—Knoxville Tribune.
“'hen Anthracite Couldn’t Be Sold.
Edmund Garey of Benton was one of
be early residents of Wilkesbarre,
1nd was born Aug. 12, 1822, on a farm
it the lower end of the town. now
{nown as Carey avenue, which has
been named after the family. His
:‘ather, George Carey, was one of the
iettlers who had the handling of the
first anthracite coal in Wyoming Val-
, ley. He helped open a stripping in
Pittston township, in 1815, and in the
spring of that year loaded a raft, with
several others, and took it down the
Susquehanna to Harrisburg, where
they sold the raft load of forty tons,
They were dis:
of anthracite for $10.
couraged at such remuneration, and
left the transportation of coal dor:
mant until 1820, when they took an-
other raft load down and failed to
find a buyer.
aged that they dumped their load of
black diamonds into the Susquehanna
1t Harrisburg, and, so far as these
early pioneers were concerned, the
)pening up of _a coal market was
ended—Wilkesbarre Record.
The Witness' soliloquy.
“I stepped in the court room at Napa
one day,” said Attorney Garret Mc—
Enerney, “while a murder trial was in
progress. A prominent citizen named
Wilson had been shot down in his
field, and the only witness, a half-Wit-
led relative of the deceased, was on.
111e witness stand for the prosecution.
“ ‘What did you do when he fell?‘_
1sked the prosecuting attorney.
“ ‘I walked up to where he was ly-J
.ng.’
“Then what did you?”
“The witness paused, reflected a mo-
zentrate his scattered faculties on the
batter, and then replied very solemn.
Q?
“There he is. (Pause)
(Pause) Notary pub-
lic. (Pause) Justice of the peace.
(Pause) Delegator. (Pause) All
gone tohades in one pop.””'—San
Francisco Post.
“ ‘I Said:
School trustee.
The Irish of It.
An Irishman whose orchard had been
nvaded by some picknickers was a1-
.alalglng the poachers with no mild
01:11) or re eménce, when one of the
party said to him:
“There, my friend, don’ t get you1self
am such a state of r-xcitement; we’ll
:ompensate you.”
“Compensate me!”
“lBegorra. ye ought to pay me." --
Richmond Dispatch.
They were so discour- \
l AN ALABAS'I'ER CAVE.
lLocated in California and 15 but Little
Known at Present.
One of the greatest wonders in the
world, yet but little known, is an ala-
baster cave, situated in the town of Au-
burn, a pretty little place not far from
the American River, California.
A party, in quarrying rock, made
an opening to this beautiful cave, the
honor of finding it being given to a
Mr. Gwynn. All who have beheld this
magnificent wonder speak of it. in the
most rapturous terms. A gradual re-
scent of about fifteen feet brings one
to the center of the first room, which
is thirty by one hundred feet. At the
north end there is the most. splendid
pulpit, in the Episcopal church style,
that man has ever seen. It seems that
it is, and should be called the “Holy oi
Holies.” It is completed with the
most beautiful drapery of alabaster
sterites, of all colors, varying from
white to pink-red, overhanging the be«
holder.
Immediately under the pulpit there
is a lovely lake of -water, extending
to an unknown distance. To the great
admiration of the tourist, on arriving
at the centre of the first room, he sees
an entrance to an inner chamber, still
more splendid, one hundred by' two
hundred feet, with beautiful alabaster
overhangings in every possible shape
of drapery.
There stands magnitude, giving the
instant impression of a power above.
man; grandeur, that defies decay; an-
tiquity, that tells of ages unnumbered;
beauty, which the touch of time makes
more beautiful;
the service of man; strength, imperish-
able as the globe—the monument of
eternity, the truest emblem of that ev-
erlasting and unchangeable, irresisti-
bly Majesty, by whom and for whom
all things were made.
PEBBLES THAT GIVE LIGHT.
Stones in California. Ditches “'l1ich Emit
Quite a Brilliant Light.
An Italian working in irrigation
ditches on a ranch near Stockton, 03.1.,
has made what promises to be 3. won-
derful discovery.
According to the story he tells to the
San Francisco Examiner, he retired
early one Monday evening, forgetting
to open a certain gate in one of the
irrigating ditches.
awoke, and immediately getting out of
bed he donned his working clothes and
proceeded to the field. He found that
the gate, being closed, had backed the
forced -out the restraining dam and
overflowed the field. .
Upon going to the place where the
water had broken through the em-
bankment he says he noticed a. peculiar
gleam coming from the spot. On clos-
er inspection he obs‘erVed that the wa-
ter had bored a hole in the ground
about three feet deep and twice as
broad, and that in the bottom of the
hole, where the water still remained
to the depth of a foot or more, there
were numerous objects which emitted
light. This was so brilliant that the
water appeared to be a pool of liquid
fire.
The man decided to ascertain
cause and plunged his arm into the wa-
ter. He brought out a small pebble
about the size of a hickory nut. It
was white and smooth, and as it re-
posed in his palm it emitted a light
sufficient- for him to tell the time by
his watch. The stones are declared to
be perfectly smooth and as hard as
flint. Some of them are to be sent to
the science department of the State
University with a view of learning
their true character.
PUBLIC HEALTH, AND DIRTY AGES.
This Period Nobody in Europe
Took :1 Bath, Says Elichelet.
Lord Playfair has recalled the fact
that Queen Elizabeth used to write her
Lord Mayor scolding letters because’
he allowed the city to grow so fast;
During
' it actually contained at the time 160,-
000 people, who, as the Queen wrote,
sort smothered,” and accordingly she
forbade any more houses to be built
within three miles of London and
Westminister. The rate of mortality
19, and is being steadily reduced. No
one was ever a better hygenist than
Moses. The conditions which he en-
jo_ncd were those which we,npw seek
to attain—clean air, clean water,
clean food, clean soil. The Romans
also practiced cleanliness and enjoyed
good health. Unhappily betWeen the
ancients and ourselves, there was 'a
period of 1000 years, when Michelel,
the historian of the period, said that
a man or woman in Europe ever took
a. bath.
from the modern specialist as from the
returned Pat-
311, -~
sciolist; the Dirty Ages Lord Playfair
. would have them called. And yet they '
iient with concentrated brows, to con f'built cathedrals that we cannot even
, restore becomingly, and gave us chival-
ry and an ideal of woman’s purity
that is still transforming life.
Playfair thinks he has characterized
St. Francis when he says that St. Fran-
cis knew nothing of the bath; but we
wondei wnat St. Francis would have
thought of iiord Playfair and the ma-
terialistic ideals that ignore the soul.
~—-F10m Saturday Review.
Richest Baby in the World.
The Czar’s daughter, the little Grand
Duchess Olga, may be said to be the
richest baby in the world. The week
she was born a million pounds were
settled on her, and it is whispered that
this huge sum is. safely invested in
British and French securities, for in a
what is going to happen to members
I of the reigning house. . \,
_\.— .. ‘1 .3 A“, ...
use, exhaustless for.
water up in such a volume that it had 2
About midnight he I
These poor Middle Ages are suffering
. Lord
cbuntry like Russia. no one. knows1-
the .
g
then was 80 in 1,000, whereas now it is ‘
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MRS. HARRIET BEECI-IER STOWE.
Her Personal Appearance Was Not Faith-
Iully Shown by Her Pictures.
Mrs. James T. Field says, in an arti-
cle in the Atlantic, that Mrs. Stowe’s
personal appearance has received scant
justice and no mercy at the hands 01
the photographer. She says' herseli
during her triumphal visit t0v~England
after the publication of “Uncle Tom:”
The general topic of remark on meet-
ing me seems to be that ‘I am not sc
bad looking as they Were afraid I was;
and I do assure you, when I have seen
the things that are put up in the shot
windows here with my name undei
them. I have been lost in wondering
imagination at the boundless loving
kindness of my English and Scottish
friends in keeping up such a. warm
heart for such a gorgon. I should
think that the Sphinx in the London
Museum might have sat for most 01
them. I am going to make a collection
of these portraits to bring home to you.
There is a great variety of them, and
they will be useful, like the Irishman’s
guideboard, which showed ‘where the
road did not go.’ "
I remember once accompanying hei
to a. reception at a well-known house
in Boston, where, before the evening
was over, the hostess drew me aside,
saying: “Why did you never tell me
that Mrs. Stowe was beautiful?” And,
indeed, when I observed her in the full
ardor of conversation, with her heigh-
tened color, her eyes shining and
.awake, but filled with great softness,
her abundant curling hair rippling nat-
urally about her head and falling a. lit-
tle at the sides (as in the portrait by
Richmond), I quite agreed with my
hostess. Nor was that the first time
her beauty had been revealed to me,
but she was seldom seen to be beautiful
by the great world, and the pleasure
of this recognition was very great to
those who loved her.
PRAYING BY MACHINERY.
The People of Thibet Make Devotional
Exercises an Easy Performance.
Thibet is no longer the unknown
country it once was. Recent travellers
have pentrated to its most remote fast-
nesses, and in doing so have confirmed
what had been looked on as myths oi
the earlier visitors. One of the most
curious habits they find in use in this
most curious of all semi-civilized coun‘
tries is that of praying by machinery.
Small wooden drums are set up with
prayers inscribed on them. They are
fixed on a. pivot, and whirling them
with the finger is looked upon as say-
ing the mystical prayer “Om Mani Pad-
mi Om,” with which they are generally
inscribed.
Another sort of prayer machine can
be held in the hand and made to re-
volve very rapidly. This is for ,wor-
shippers of unusual fervor. The de.
mands of the more leisurely class of de-
votees are met by wheels worked by
wind or water power. ——New York
World.
‘An Unfair-.Advautage.
Dr.. Lasker, the great chessplayer,
when in London, is in'the habit of oc-
casionally visiting a. certain restaurant
in the city well knoWn to many chess
devotees. On one of these occasions
just prior to his departure for St. Pe«
terburg, to play Dr. Stelnitz for the
championship, a. fussy old gentleman
offered to play him for a box of cigars
if he would concede him the odds of a
queen.
The offer was good-naturedly ac‘
cepted; and on Lasker’s winning he be-
came the recipient of a box of doubtful-
looking cigars, which, however, the
donor averred were of good quality.
On visiting the same restaurant, af-
ter easily defeating Steinetz. .Lasker
happened to meet his late opponent,
who asked him what he had thought 01
the cigars.
“Firs t-rate!” replied the champion;
“in fact, I might almost say they won
me the match.”
“Indeed! I am delighted to hear it!"
returned the old gentleman, . much
pleased.
“Yes, ” continued Lasker, with amer-
“became heaped together, and in a ry twinkle in his eye, “I gave them all
to Steinitz! ”—From Answers.
Much Too Goqd Natured.
“My wife has the most exasperating
temper,” said the wiry little man.
“I am surprised to hear it,” said the
other man. “I had the impression that
she was very good natured.“
“That’s just what’s the matter with
her. She won’t get mad when she
ought to. The other morning I went
to the hyd1unt to get a drink and the
water was almost thick enough to
carve. And I began saying things.
‘Never mind, dearie,’ said she. ‘Just
think how nice it will be to scour the
tivnware with.’ ”—Indianapolis Journal.
/
110 Received Free Transportation.
A certain steamboat line running out
of Port Hrron, Mich, has a standing
rule that (tlergymen and Indians can
frayel on its boats for half fare. The
other day the agent of the line was
approached by a man who asked free
transportation. When the agent de-
murred, the man explained that he
was an Indian preacher, thus being en-
titled to one—half rebate because he
was an Indian, and the other half be-
cause he was a. clergyman. He got it.
A Good Thing to Remember.
We are ruined, not by what he really
want, but by what we think we' do;
therefore, never go abroad in search
of your wants. If they be real wants,
they will come home in search of you;
for he’that buys what he does not
want, will) soon want what. he cannot
buy—Cotton.
“Are men marrying less?" asks a
Boston contemporary. Some of them
are. The late Shah of Persia had 1720
wives, but his successor has only 60.
—Louisvllle Courier-Journal. —
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REUNITED TWIN DIAMONDS.
Famous Throughout Europe and India,
They Find Each Other in America.
Diamond dealers the world over are
speculating as to the identity of a mys-
teiious personage of unlimited means
who has recently purchased of a Pari-
sian diamond dealer, two of the most
famous gems in existence, 3. pair of
diamonds so nearly alike in appearance
that they have become known to col-
lectors and dealers as the “Indian
Twins.” The wealthy individual who
has just become possessed of them is
lieved to be Mrs. William Astor.
A jeweler would describe the
“Twins” as a pair of old Indian dia-
monds, cut in cushion shape, weighing
eight and a half carats each, and of a.
remarkable pale blue color. Their tint
is far deeper than steel blue, and much
lighter than the blue of the celebrated
“Hope” diamond. The twins are so
full of fire that many a pure white dia-
mond is pale by contrast. So absolute-
ly perfect are the gems that the slight-
est fiaw cannot be discovered by the aid
of the most powerful magnifying glass.
Their combined weight isseventeen
carats, which is divided exactly be-
tween the two. They are alike beauti-
fully proportioned, and the peculiar
shade of blue is precisely the same in
each. So perfect is their correspon-
dence that experts do not doubt that
they were originally one stone, which
was divided for some reason, probably
because the original shape was such
that, while susceptible of division, it
could not be cut to advantage as a sin-
gle stone without great loss in weight.
The first record of the “Indian
Twins” places them in the possession
of 'Warren Hastings, at the time he
was governor of India. Next they
came into the possession of a; Russian
nobleman, who was afterward exiled.
As expatriated noblemen have to eat
and drink like ordinary mortals, ’the
Russian found himself under the pain-
ful necessity of parting with his dia‘
monds. ,
They parted from each other, and for
a long time only one of the gems was
known to diamond dealers. The lone
twin, after many wanderings, fell at
last into the possession of the Duke of
Brunswick, whose agents searched the
world for the lost twin, but were un-
able to find any trace of it, although the
price offered for its recovery was a
tremendous one. Finally, the Duke
was gathered to his fathers, and his
fine collection of diamonds was sold,
the “Indian Twin” coming to America.
The final chapter of the story is told by
Mr. E. August Nereisheimer, of New
York- city, vice president of the Theos-
ophical Society of America.
“I had the diamond in my posses‘
sion,” said Mr. Nereisheimer, “and my
agents were looking for its missing rel-
ative, although we had little hope of
finding it. This was about twenty
1'e .rs ago. A, newspaper at that time
1eccided the story of the strange find-
1:12 of the long lost gem. One of the
?._-.::1ts who had been for so long en-
gaged in the search for the ‘Twin’ that
t had become a. mechanical habit for
him to study the jewelry on _men and
:v'men whom he met, was surprised al-
most out of his wits one day when,
cited in a Chicago saloon, he saw a
Western man enter in whose shirt
L's som blazed the identical ‘Twin’ the
" Wine eabouts of which had been for so
1mg sought.
“He lost no time in negotiating for
and securing the diamond, which was
forwarded to me. The united ‘Twins‘
were valued at $125,000.—New York
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1 Great Find of the Highly Prized Thes-
salian Marble.
The quariies frOm which the an-
cients obtained their highly-prized
Thessalian or verdmarble have been _
discovered, and. are, again being
worked by an English company. The
qua1'ries,swhich have been lost for
more than 1,000 years, are in the
neighborhood of Larissa, in Thessaly,
Greece. The ancient workings are
very extensive, there being no fewer
than ten quarries, each producing a
somewhat different description of mar-
ble, proving without a doubt that ev’
ery variety of this marble found in
the ruined palaces and churches —of
Rome and Constantinople, and like-
1'ise in all the mosques and museums
of the world, came originally from
these quarries. In fact, the very quar-
ry from which the famous monolitlis
of St. Sophia, Constantinople, were ob-
tained can be identified with absolute
certainty by the matrices from which
they were extracted.
In modern times verd antico marble
has only been obtainable by the de-
struction of some ancient work, and it
has, naturally, commanded extraordi-
narily high prices. As a. consequence,
a number of ordinary modern greens
of Greek, French, Italian and Ameri-
can o1igin have been described and
sold as ve1d antique mar.b1e No one,
howevci, who is really acquainted
with the distinctive character of the
genuine mate1ial could be deceived by
these infe1i-'01 marbles. Thessalian
green is easily distinguished from any
other g1een maible by the following
characteristics: It is a “breccia.” of an-
gular fragments of light and dark
green, with pure statuary white, the
whole being cemented together with a
brighter green, while the snow white
patches usually have their edges tinted
lid with a delicate fibrous green, radi-
ating to the center of the white. The
‘ cementing material is also of the same
fibrous structure.—Philadelphia Rec:
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The Fully of Examinations.‘ 2 I H 3
The promotion examination, says W.
G. Shearer in the Atlantic, is a. test
of memory rather than of power. It
may show some things that the pupil
does not know, but it cannot show
What the pupil does know; it destroys
and prevents broad and intelligent
teaching, makes of the teacher a
grind, and turns out pupils 'by machin-
ery. It forces pupils to-go over far
more work than they can grasp or un-
derstand, and it causes many to leave
school. It brings senseless worry to
the nervous, who often fail to pass,
while the less worthy succeed. It‘is,
moreover, a great temptation to de—
ceit. It demands one-third more time
than is necessary to impart the same
knowledge and to give better'training.
It puts a premium not upon the work
done day by day during the year.
but upon.the amount of “stuffing"
that can be done at the end
of the. term. These are a
few of the many reasons why it has
been. condemned as a moral injustice
to pupils and teachers, and as one of,
the greatest of educational blunders.
HefIdea of Heredity.
"What is heredity. mamma?” asked
the little girl, spelling the word Ont
through her falling tears, and waiting
to write down the meaning.
“It is—’m, how shall I explain it?
Oh, ” said the mother,
get from your father or me.’
And the small child wrote down
on her paper of home lessons: —“Here-
dity—spanking.”
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