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BEE MOUNTAIN.
ACIevasse Filled With Honey and 0c-
cupied by Snakes.
About twenty miles from Cle‘ourne.
on the Brazos river, is Bee mountain.
On one side it rises several thdl ed
feet above the ecuntry around and .he
other fronts the rive1 and rises per-
pendicularly. for 500 feet. On the per—
pendicular side are several crevasscs
or caves, in which places are millions
of bees and tons upon tons of honey.
One man, a. cowboy, had the temerity-
to have 'some of his co-laborers let
him down with a rope. What he saw
simply struck him dumb with amaze-
ment. There, hanging from the top of
the cave, which seemed to e: tend for
a quarter of a mile back, g1c.1t combs
of honey twenty hr thirty feet long
and from four to-slx feet wide. They
looked like a great lot of fine silk lace
curtains hanging in some grand old
hallway. He had a hunting knife wi..h
him and sliced ofi a pieCe of Lalo lOllr y
and ate it, and was just about to slice
off more to bring to his companions
on the mountain above, and who were
waiting to pull him up, when his at-
tention was drawn to another direc-
tion. ‘ On listening closely he detected
a hissing sound and one unlike that
made by the bees. Presently, from the
direction from whence the sound pro-
ceeded, he saw at least 100 serpents
coming toward him, their little head-
like eyes shining in the glare of the
torch he carried.
phrase, he “tore out, ” leaving his
hunting knife and this Klondike of
honey behind. When his friends had
pulled him up he had fainted from the
fright. When he recovered he told
them what he had seen. At first they
laughed at him, but finally it became
an accepted fact that in Bee mountain
there are tons of money, but no one
since that time has ever been reckless
enough to venture in that cave, where
not only millions of bees and tons of
honey are to be found, but where a
den of serpents greets the intruder.
—Galveston News.
THE BONE SOLO A HOODOO.
An Old Minstrel Avers That It Has Had
Its Day—“Torso Than the Clarionet.
“The bone solo,” remarked an old
minstrel performer, “though once
very popular, is regarded as a hoodoo
in the burnt cork profession, and is
never allowed any more under any
circumstances. It is feared as much
as the yellow claironet, which, accord-
ing to the superstitions of the show
business, is one of the most fatal
things that exist. The yellow clario-
net not only induces bad—that is,
poor—business, but in addition to this
it causes trouble among performers,
producers railroad accidents, and, in-
short, it winds performers and com-
panies up. There was a time in the
minstrel business when it was just
as natural to have a bone solo play- ~
ed by some performer during the
evening as it was to have a ballad
sung, and the public took as kindly to
one as it did the other. There was
scarcely any difference between bone
solos. They all sounded about the
same and the imitations were always
stereotyped. Haverly first put the ban
on bone solos, and one of the clauses
in the contracts he made with per-
formers was that they would not un-
To use a street '
T HE in 111an NG (1.11 z E TIT/E
an CHAMPAGNE SAFE
Towed Into Halifax by Steamer
, Roman Yesterday Afternoon.
THE BIG LINER CRIPPLED
[311d Broken Her Tail End Shaft and
“'11:: Helpless—Ten of Her Crew i’iclfed
After
Ul‘ by the -Rotterdam, Suffering
Great Hardship.
.: Halifax, N. S., Feb. 28,—The overdue
French steamer La Champagne
lowed into Halifax yesterday afternoon
by the steamer Roman. At 5.15 La
Champagne let go the 'hawser by which
she was towed into port by the Roman
and dropped anchor in mldstream‘ off
the centre of, the city, while the Roman
steamed ahead to dock, and take a sup-
ply of coal aboard. Hundreds flocked
to the wharf to watch the two big
steamers move up the h.arbor
Since Thursday two weeks ago, half
)1“? u l11ch time La. Champagne drifted on
the Atlantic, three days and nights
have been filled with anxiety for the
passengers and crew, but last night
they‘slept in peace and comfort, safe
in this harbor; their fears and cakes
on account of danger being dissipated
by the happy knowledge that they were
no longer an the mercy of the stormy
ocean.
After drifting for five days on the
Newfoundland Banks, with her engines
disabled and the screw shaft battered,
the great Boston bound freighter Ro—
man, from Liverpool, came along,
picked up the French liner and brought
her into Halifax without further mis-
hap of consequence. Great was the
joy on board the big steamer when the
cloudy Sunday morning broke with the
shores of Nova Scotia in sight, and the
word was passed that Halifax would be
reached before dark.
New York, Feb. 28.—The French line
steamship La. Champagne, which left
Havre on Feb. 12, with nearly 500 souls
aboard, is safe, at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
with a broken shaft. She was towed
into that port yesterday afternoon by
the steamship Roman. The steamship
Roman is a vessel of 4,572 tons, and be-
:‘ongs to the British and North Atlantic
Navigation Company. She hails from
England.
The first news of the La. Champagne
after a week of suspense, was brought
into thisport Saturday night by one
of the steamship’s officers and nine of
her crew, who set out in an open boat
to seek help for the disabled vessel and
spent six days in fog and cold. They
were picked up almost helpless, with
frozen arms and feet, and brought here
by the steamer Rotterdam, which ar-
rived Saturday night.
All the Champagne’s passengers were
well when the volunteers left, and were
taking philosophically theiong delay
in their voyage. The accident hap-
pened on the afternoon of Thursday,
February 17. There was considerable
alarm among the passengers when the
'shock was felt, but the officers soon
reasured them, and they settled down
calmly to wait for help.
The nature of the injury to La Cham—
pagne’s shaft was such that it was out
of the question for the steamer to
make further progress unaided. A
, broken tail shaft is a. bugaboo to ship’s
' engineers, for owing to its inaccessible
. location it cannot be repaired.
All of
g the accounts of the accident agree that
: gan to run away.
der any circumstances While they,
. passengers.
were in his employ, either in private
or public, attempt a bone solo:
‘minstrel performer can explain where
the hoodoo comes in, but they fear it
worse than any of the other omens
of bad luck.”—-Wil-mington Star.
A Rather Expensive Playtlling.
One day the home of Geoffrey St.
Hilaire, the famous French naturalist,
became a perfect pandemonium. Every
room was turned upside down, e-.cept
the study of the master of the house.
' Mme. St. Hilaire had lost a very valu-
able diamond necklace, but she in-
struCted the servants not to mention
the; less ' to her husband, lest the
knowledge of it should disturb him in
his work. Moreover, the missing
bauble could not be in the study, in—
asmuch as she rarely entered _ that
sanctum. The search proved in vain,
but the great savant was still left in
ignorance. A few days flier, at Mme.“
St. Hilaire’s weekly “At home,” one of
her lady friend-s sympatheticallyin-
quired after the ornament in the hear-
ing of her host. In the most airy, but
with-a1 most unvafiected way, the great
naturalist remarked that his favorite
week with a “similar thing to that de-
scribed,” which “similar thing” turn-
ed out to be the priceless ornament.
Mme. St. Hilaire indignantly protest-
ed against M. St. Hilaire’s neglect in
not having taken the necklace from
the animal. “I thought that it belong-
“he
seemed to take such pride in it.” -
. Mark Twain’s ‘Witty Retort.
At a New England Society dinner
some years ago, Mark Twain had just
finished a piquant address when Mr.
Evarts arose, shoved both of his hands
down into his trousers pockets, as was
his habit, and laughingly remarked:
“Doesn’t it strike this company as a
little unusual »tha.t a professional hu—
morist should be funny?”
waited until the laughter excited by
this sally had subsided, and then
drawled out: “Doesn’t it strike this
company as a little unusual that a
lawyer should have his hands in his
own pockets?”
Old Lady: “You said the train that
I should take leaves at 10: 30, didn’t
you?”
Booking Clerk: “Yes, madam; and I
think I’ve told you that about ten
times already " » .
Old Lady: “Yes, I know you have;
' .but my little nephew says he likes to
hear you talk.”
NoI
when the shaft snapped the engines be—
It was the noise of
the rapidly working engines and the
grinding of the two broken ends of the
shaft on one another that alarmed the
In the attempt to convey these tid-
' lngs the brave seamen suffered intense-
ly from the cold, and when the Packet
~Rotterdam came along they had well
nigh given up hope of ever seeing land
again. Their limbs Were almost use-
less and they had to be carried on
board of the vessel.
When the Rotterdam bore down on
the little craft it was high noon on Feb.
24. The captain had observed the boat
at a. distance of three miles away and
3 instantly recognized the craft as be-
steamers.
longing to one of the French line
The boat had the French
5 colors flying on one of the masts and
T on the other waved a colored shirt. The
boat could not go to the‘vessel’s side,
because the sailors were notable to
row her alongside, so the captain .of the
big liner brought his vessel to the boat
-, and throwing a ladder over the side the
.1 occupants were aided to the deck.
acer George Unsworth.
The boat was in charge of Third Ofi‘l-
, He told Capt.
.iBoujer of the Rotterdam that he and
his companions had been six days on
the waste of Waters and that La Cham-
pagne;_had broken her tail shaft at 5
p. m. on Feb. 17 in latitude 45.27 north
’ and longitude 51.52'west.
Mark Twain ,
1
1
I
I
1
He urged the'captain to go back to
- aid the distressed ship but the skipper
baboon had been playing for nearly a i figured that he was 300 miles away
from her and could not do. so without
lunning great risk. Even if there were
no risk the‘ captain doubted that he
would find her. The Rotterdam sped
on her way to New York." Everything
possible was done to relieve the suffer-
ing of the sailors, eight of whom had
been frostbitten on the feet and hands.
General Manager Bonconde sent a
tug to sea. to search for La. Champagns
as soon as he had conferred with Capt.
Boujer of the Rotterdam. He also tel-
egraphed to Halifax to have a tug sent
out from that port. Later he cabled
Havre instructing the agents there to
dispatch a tug at once over the route
usuallly taken by the French liners to
this port.
Officer Unsworth reported that it was
the intention of the captain of La.
.Champagne to remain off the banks
until a vessel had come to his assist-
ance. The report of the tank steamer
Bremerhaven which arrived here on
Friday would indicate that La. Cham-
pagne had not remained in the place
where the officer left her, if the vessel
which the tank steamer had sighted
was the French vessel. The captain
3f the tank steamer sighted her in lat-
itude 43 and longitude 44 two days after
Unsworth and the sailors left her.
Declines to Name I’lofits.’ .1
Columbus, 0., Feb. 28. —-The Standard-
1ii-C._:mpa.ny has filed in the Suprem
‘r-u.t its answer to the suit brou'gh
11 break the trust in Ohio. It give
1 list of cert} fica. te holders, but declines
arising mm the
to name the profits
lrsu
was
"of the army, says:
. York.
,by the Health Officer.
Shannan 111.1 1.1
Madrid Organ Says There is Ex-
pectation of 3. Conflict.
LIKELY TO BEGIN IN APRIL
\
A'Former Captain General of Cuba Says
3 Conflict with This Country 15 Cum-
ing—Pushing Works in Arsenal and
Dry Dock. .
Madrid, Feb. 28.—The work of naval
construction and armament is being
pushed by the Spanish Government
with the greatest activity at the arse—
131 and dockyard.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Valla-
dolid has published a. pastoral letter
blaming America for the prolongation
of the Cuban war. His Eminence says:
“The hypocritical friendship of the
United States fosters the rebellion and
wastes Spain’s resource in order the
better to attack her when weakened.”
He exhort all true Spaniards to unite
in defending the rights and honor of
the nation. The letter has caused
widespread comment.
The Correspondencia Militar, organ
“The prevailing im-
pression is that war between Spain and
the United States will break out in
April.”
A former Captain-General of Cuba
(presumably Marshal Martinez Cam-
pos) is reported as saying:
“I never entertained a. doubt that if
the rebellion were not suppressed be~
fore 1898 war with the United States
would become an accomplished fact.
Unhappily, my prophecy will be ful-
filled. But I have the consolation of
having done all in my power to avert
it, and therefore I do not regret the
blame which has been heaped upon me.
All that is now possible is that we
should all unite to meet the disaster
that threatens the country.”
Washington, Feb. 28.—Assistant Sec-
retary Day of the State Department
said yesterday afternoon that no cable
message had been received from Min-
ister Woodford announcing that five
Spanish warships had sailed for Ha-
vana. '
Senor Polo y Bernabe, the new Span-
ish Minister to the United States, has
started for Gibraltar, enroute to New
He is fully empowered to con—
tinue ,the reciprocity treaty negotia-
tions. The Government is anxious to
secure firm bases for commercial and
political relations with the United
States before May 1, in case the pacifi—
cation of Cuba. should not have mad:
progress before the rainy season be-
gins.
MAINE COURT NOW .IN KEY WEST.
Still Maintains the Secrecy \That Has En-
veloped Its Proceedings.
Key West, Feb. 28.—-The Maine Court
of Inquiry is here. It resumed its in-
vestigation at 10 o’clock this morning
and probably will return to Havana
on Wednesday at the latest. The ses-
sions of the court will be held in the
United States District Court room, in
the Federal Building.
The only important witness to be ex-
amined is Lieutenant Blandin, who was
the officer of the deck when the explo—
sion occurred. The testimony of the
other survivors will take only a short
time, and celerity is the order of the
day with the officers of the court.
It can be announced that the court
itself has arrived at no definite con-
clusion as to the cause of the diSaster,
much less, give out any information
which would tend poitively to decide _
this enthralling question of the day.
This Man is in Congress!
Washington, Feb. 28.—During all the -
discussion in and out of Congress as
the cause. of the disaster to the Maine,
only one man has been found so far who
thinks Spain would have been justified
In blowing up the Maine. This man is
Representative McCleary of Minnesota,
an intelligent and able man, who was
a very conspicuous leader of the gold
men of the Northwest in the Presiden-
tial campaign and in the session of
Congress preceding it. He says that
as .the. Maine entered Havana harbor
with her guns loaded for action Spain
had a right to‘place her over a mine or
destroy her as she saw fit, if she had
reason to suppose that her intentions
were warlike. That the ship was not
on a. friendly mission McCleary thinks
will be generally admitted.
The Monitor Terror in New York.
New York, Feb. 28.——The United
States monitor Terror passed
Quarantine at 12. 50 this m01ning. The
vesel left Han. pton Roads at 5 o clock
Saturday afternoon, where she had
been lving for a. week, fully prepared
to put to sea. Her commander, Capt.
Nicol Ludlow, received instructions
from Secretary Long to remain in New
York harbor until furthr orders, which
Is taken to mean that the monitor will
be on hand until the final settlement of
the Maine question.
Wanfiitn Spain.
Madrid, ”Feb. 28. —The Imparcial
warns Spain to distrust President Mc-
Kinley’s pacific speeches. It declares
that wadwith: the‘Ufiite’d States is in-
evitable if the rebellion in Cuba is pro-
longed beyond 'lvlay.’ . -
Reindeer for the'Klondike.
New York, Feb. 28.—With one of the
most remarkable cargoes of passengers,
live stock, and inanimate freight ever
brought into this port, and certainly
the only one of its kind, the Allan line
steamship Manitoban, Capt. Braes, ar-
rived last night and anchored at Quar-
antine pending the‘ granting of pratique
The Manitoban
is under charter to the War Depart-
ment of the United States, and brings
Dr. Sheldon Jackson and the reindeer
outfit secured by the Government for
relief service in Alaska. The Lapland
reindeer Yukon relief expedition
is
what Dr. Jackson calls the enterprise
under his direction: ' ~
The Manitoban brings 'a collection se-
"ure‘d by months or work in the arctic
anions of the Scandinavian peninsula.
insists of 113 immigrants, 537 rein-
4‘1’3 reindeer sleds, 511 sets of r-ei11-. '
r L. . ess and between 3, 000 and 4 OGC
in at5
' extracted frdm ore without water,
e-f__,_ j neding the re. 1.1.0"-
’ ‘ . , .. .pcctators.
DEATH OF YIN. SllIGERLY
Heart Disease Overcomes Hini
While Smoking at His Home.
Philadelphia, Feb.‘ 28. —William M.
Singerly died suddenly at his home, No.
"01 Locust street, yesterday afternoon.
Heart disease was the immediate cause
of death. Mr. Singerly had been suf-
fering for about ten days fr om a cold,
and had remained at home since last ‘
Wednesday. although his indisposition
was in no way seriobs. While sitting
in his bedroom, smOking a cigar, he
was seized with a. violent fit of: cough-
lng, and immediately afterwa d fell
over, dead. In the room at the time
were Mr. 'Singerly’s granddaughter,
Miss Mabel Singerly Meredith,_and two
servants. His son-in-law, James as. _’
McCartney, had left the room afew
moments before the sudden end came,
leaving Mr; Singerly apparently in good
health, apart from hisslight cold. ,
The physicians say they frequently
had cautioned Mr. Singerly that his
heart was weak, as a result of exoes-
sive smoking, and of late his custom
was to take a “dry smoke.” Yesterday,
however, his cigar was lighted, and it
is thought that the smoke brought on
the coughing spell, the severity of
which ruptured a. vessel of the heart.
Mr. Singerly leaves a daughte1, Mrs.
E. Singerly Balch, who is at present
touring in Europe.
Mr. Singerly was born in this city on
Dec. 27,1832, and,with the exception‘
of a brief period inhis _ea.rly manhood,
when he conducted a. commission busi- .
ness in Chicago, had lived here ever
since.
William M. Singerly was proprietor
of the Record Publishing Company,
president of the Chestnut Street Na—
tional Bank and the Chestnut Street
Savings Fund and Trust Company,
which recently collapsed, and president
of the Singerly pulp and paper mill. He '
was a. member of the Fairmount Park
Commission, and until recently its
terasurer, and a trustee of the Phila-
delphia Commercial Museum.
Mr. Singerly always was an active
Democrat. In 1894 he was unanimous-
ly made the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania, and entered
with great energy into the canvass,
speaking in nearly every county in the
State. In all- he made more than sev-
enty speeches upholding the cause of
Democracy. The natural Republican
majority of Pennsylvania. was too
great to be overcome, however, and his
competitor, General Hastings, carried
off the prize.
In the last national campaign Mr.
Singerly supported the Palmer and
Buckner gold ticket making many
speeches in its behalf in Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Maryland, and organiz-
ing a local association inaid of the
movement. He also took an active
part in forming the Pennsylvania.
Bankers’ Association. ,.
Financial misfortunes overtook Mr.
ISingerly in the last few months of his
glife, when on Dec. 23 last the Chestnut
,Street National Bank and the Savings
IFund and Trust Company were com-
pelled to close their doors. Messrs.
iEarle and Cook were made assignees
'of the trust company and managers of
in. plan looking to the liquidation of the
gaffairs of both organizations. Mr Sin-
gerly promptly turned over to them ev-
3 ery personal asset he possessed, includ-
T lng his interest in the Record.
Since then a. receiver has been ap-
pointed for the bank, and the affairs
of it and the trust company are in
process of settlement.
A report that Mr. Singerly’s death
was due to other than natural causes.
gained considerable credence here last
night, but it is denied both by his
friends and physicians, It is the gen—
eral opinion that it was caused, indi-
irectly by worry over the affairs ’of his
broken bank and trust company, in the
isettlement of which there seemed to
arise considerable opposition to the
plan proposed by Assignees Cook and
Earle.
Britons on to Dawson City.
I New York, Feb. 28.—Twelve young
1 Britons, all arrayed in heavy light
'coats, arrived here on the Ame1ican
linei Paris from Southampton on their
,way to the Klondike. They comprise
fdoubtless the best organized private
expedition that has left New York for
the polar gold fields. 011 the Paris they
brought a. score of rough canvas
pouches, duly numbered and marked,
filled with rubber boots, coats, caps
and the lighter wear required.
l At Halifax fifty tons of material will
arrive from England, while at other
points they will buy horses, dogs and
furs. They brought four dogs with
lthem on the Paris and among their ef-
{fects at Halifax will be found a. large
steel boat in sections which can be used
either as a boat or a sledge. The young
.men are all from London, and. they in-
tend to stay in the Klondike three
years.
Fitzismmons Will Fight lVIcCoy.
Cleveland, 0., Feb. 28.—Champion
Bob Fitzsimmons has expressed a will-
lngness to fight Kid McCoy. Fitz says:
“I will fight McCoy any time he puts
up enough money to make it worth
my while. McCoy and Ruhlin have no
more right to fight for the champion—
ship than a yellow dog. I will fight
McCoy any second that he puts up the
stuff. McCoy is a miserable upstart,
and has a. swelled head. I will show
him how to fight, if he has the long
green.”
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Seven lives were lost in a tenement
house fire at Charleston, S. C., Satur-
day morning.
. A cable'dispatch from Madrid says a
miniSterial' statement declares the;
there is no fear, of complications with
the United States." 7
Dr. Charles E. Brigham made a com—
plete excision of a woman’ s stomach in
a. hospital at San Francisco, Cal. The
patient is doing well.- _ ~r
. Mr. Edsion announced that .he has dis—
covered a. process by which g‘o‘ld can be
and
that great wealth heretofore beyond
human reach, will" be made 11.1...ilable.
Six'men were killed and ten :2 tally
injured by an explosion the Hall
ZhemicaJ Works at Kalamazoo c:1S-.t—
:1rday night. There u e1e two exp! 0—
sions,- causing the building. ’11 0011.11); A.
1, few minutes aftEr miduig ., anl
,ouryino a score'of firemen and mania .
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