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Highland Brewery Bottled Beer
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Against Ratification.
THIS IS NOT AN ULTIMATUM
__.._——n
Filipino Says Insurrection Still 'Existed
When. Our War With Spain-Was Declu- '-
red-«His Countrymcn Want Complete'
Independence.
Washington, D. 0., Jan. 31. --Sixto
Lopez, secretary to Agoncillo, the Phi-
lippine representative, called at the
state department yesterday afternoon
and left with the chief clerk another
communication addressed to the sec—
retary of state, protesting against the
attitude of curtr government tow;_ard the
Filipino “republic.” ,,
The terms 'of the protest do not go as
far as an ultimatum. The same fate
awaits this communication as that
which befel its predecessor—it will be
diplomatically ignored.
Accompanying the communication is
a long memorial, addressed to the Sen—‘
ate, containing a comprehensiV’e argu-
ment' in opposition to the ratification
of the treaty, a-nd which the envoy
asks the president to send to that body.
The letter of transmittal contains more
than the mere request, but Agoncillo
feels that he is bound by courtesy nor.
to make it public until em opportunity
is had by the state department officials
to make a reply. -
The memorial to the Senate is a long
document, both historical and argu-
mentative in character, and says this
government has no jurisdiction, natu—
ral 01' acquired, through any of its
agencies, to adjudicate in any man-
ner upon the rights of. the Philippine
country and its people. He refers to
“the historical fact that a. large num-
ber of my countrymen have never been
subdued by Spanish power; that the
remainder, because of their adhesion
to the cause of liberty, have been in
almost constant insurrection against
the government of Spain; these con-
flicts existing continuously with great-
er or less fury for the last hundred
years.”
The impression, he continues, has
been created in America that at the
time of 'the declaration of war be-
tVV een America and Spain the Philip—
pine revolution no longer existed. He
quotes from communications from
Consul General Williams at Manila
and Mr. Pratt, as. a. result of which
Agoncillo says' that “without addition-
al authority it must be evident to your
honorable body that as extensive-rev-
olution existed in the Philippine is-
lands at the time of the declaration
of war by America against Spain.”
The purpose of the Filipinos in con-
ducting this revolution was, it is as—
serted, to obtain the complete indeo
pendence of their country, and in this
eort they received the encouragement
of the Unite-.11 States and were neve1
informed that the obtaining and pres~
ervation of such indeper- dence would
be regarded as a. hostile act by Ameri-
ca,,a1".r_i they neV er believed that their
struggle in 1." ch :1 cause would lead
to enormous aggregations of American
armies and 11:: vies at their. doors.
Return of the 69111 Regiment.
New York, Ja-n. 31.--The Sixty-ninth
regiment. United States volunteers, re-
turning from duty in southern army
camps, arrived in this city yesterday
afternoon. "
The first section of the train reach-
ed the \Vest Shore Halli-02: d station in
V‘v’eehaVVken at about 3.30 o'clock in
the afternoon. The soldiers were en-
thusiastically received by a large
crowd of friends-and by representa-
tives of the National Irish Society.
Colonel Duffy and his staff and three
companies of the regiment came
this section.
.The other two sections of the train
arrived at 4 and 4.05- ,o'clock respect;
ively.
. The entire
line at the
the foot of
boat.
From Franklin street along the line
of ma..:h, a thickening crowd lined th :
streets This crowd swelled out inlo
a huge mass at the city I-iall Park, 111
which, as caray as nine'o’ciock, the po-
lice VVere abs-est lost to sight. It was
in the park that the feature of the
parade, the review by the mayor and
heads of departments and invited
guests occurred and the crowd can.»
early to get a good place.
All along the line of march, which
was an extended one, the regiment was
greeted by great crowds. Broadway
was quite a bower of the national coi-
01's and all the conspicuous places were
decorated "icr the occasion.
A reception was given at. the armory
last night, and later in the week the
Irish Society will entertain its mem-
bers who are also members of the
regiment.
The final mustering out of the regi-
ment took place to-day under the su<
pervislon of General Randolph.
i1
11
regiment then formed in
:1 tion and proceeded to
1'- ranklm street by ferry
He Had Too Mnny Doctors.
Denver, Col., Jan. 31.--The Rev. My-
ron W: Reed, pastor. of the Broadway
Tabernacle here, and a noted divine,
died early yesterday morning, after a'
long illness, brought on by an attack
of the grip.
Physicians of: two schools. with hyp-
notists and Christian Scientists, have
been ouarreling over his sick bed for
weeks, and it is a. matter of doubt who
was treating him or whether he had
proper care.
He was prominent in Secret societies
and a“. one time was commander of
the G. A. R, Department of Colorado
and Wyoming.
Spanish Soldiers Homeward Bound. _
Madrid, Jan. 31.-~The steamship Ems
has arrived at Ponta. Delgado, Azores,
en route for Spain, with 1,989 Spanish
soldiers from Clenfuegos on board.
Three men- dicd on the voyage and
twen y-nlne others are seriously ill.
The Ems will proceed for Cartagena.
Large Fire in Chicago.
Chicago, Jan. 31.--The mahogany
yards of J. C. Rayner, Morgan and
Fulton streets, and the box factory
owned by F. C. Austln' were burned
early yesterday morning, causing a
loss of“$325,000. '
I
I
l
Cover nor
legs sticking up through the ice 1-.
» mer Walter L. Frost yesterday morn-
‘ of Wiidam Dormer,
COLORADO STORM swep'r. l
Tlir eaten.
-Col., Jan. 31.-~Snow begun '
Denver,
falling on the mountains yesterday and
the storm is in full blast. ‘
At Apex, Co‘..l the wife and twr
small children of Mr. Rudolph w-r-
buried in a slide and killed.
The town of Breckinridgc, forty milf-‘r
from Leadville, is isolated Fuel a. 1.1
provisions are low. Not a wheel has;
moved out of Como on the South Pail.
for two days and reports tell of great
losses to range stock.
The mines about Leadville have been
closed down, as no more can be moved
Hundreds of men have' worked almost
incessantly in vain at different points
on the South Park line, between Como
and Leadvil‘e, tryin'r to open up the
i'oad.
Kokomo is almost hi dd n by banks
of snow on all sides and siidcs threat.
en the town No trains have moVed
west of Leadville on the Colorado Mid,-
land for severale days.
The storm ex nds ale: g the moun-
rains in Wyomineg and the logs of cat
is has been great. Loss of life is
feared.
Very Cold in the “'est.
Chicago, Jun. 31.--The temperature.
was much lower in the Central and
Vv'estern states during the past twen—
ty-four hours than any experienccd
this winter. _
The mercury reached ”thirty degree-5.
below zero at Duluth and twenty—521x
degrees below at Bismarck and St.
Paul.
In Chicago the temperature last eve.
111113 was fifteen degrees below.
Rowdy Soldiers in Havana.
Havana, Jan. 31.—-There were three
cases last week of the abuse of 'citi-
zens upon the part 'of American soi-
diers. Upon two occasions SOldlLl‘S
took entables fiom street V‘eztdezs, 11
fused to pay f01" them and struck [Ll'
vendors and citizens who took the lat.—
ter’s part. ‘ ’ '
Upon one occasion two drunken soi-
diers insisted upon penetrating into 21
private house, insulted the women or?
the household and only desisted upon
the approach of a patrol. '
Mistakes owing to the ignorance of,
Americans with the language occur
frequently. Last week a patrol stop—
ped the do .1icin._, in a private mouse,
suppoSing it to be a public ball, and
insisting wrongly that all dancing-r
mus't stop at midnight.
Chief Surgeon Mans of the Seventh
Army Corps has asked General Fitz—
hugh Lee, its comn'iander, to make the
Vaccination of everyone in the province
of Havana compulsory. Unc hundrul
and sixty-one cases of smallpox have
been reported. W'-
Quay's Elcvienili 11.1101. "” ' ’
I'iurrisburg, 1351.. Jun. 3i.» ‘V’henfl th'
joint session was Called to order" '2'.
President. (lobin at noon yesterday i:
was evident that there was no quorum.
Messrs. Martin, Flinn and the big rm:-
on the anti-Quay side Were absent, 21.1111
several of the Quay steer} ng commiL—
teemen were on hand, although some
were paired. ‘ '
Messrs. Crcasy and Hanson were ”the
only conspicuous Democrats on' 1115:.
floor.
Sixty—seven pairs were announced.
and the roll ("all showed only foi‘ty—I'ive
members and senators present.
The eleventh joint ballot recorded
thirty-nine votes, thirty—five of these
being for Quay and four for Jenks.
Most of the Democrats and anti- Quay-
ites not paired abstai. ned from voting
and preventeda qumum.
(lo-.11 Gobln’s Discharge.
Lebanon, Pa., 'Jan. 31.-—'Lleutcnant
Gobin savs concerning his
1s1 barge as a brigadier general 111'
vol unteers:
“I have never doubted that I 1121-].
a perfect right 10 hold to the lieuten<
ant governorship and my commission
in the volunteer army, the latter not.
being such an office of trust as the
state constitution refers to in its pro-
hibition, but when I learned that the
prospect for active duty Cuba or
Porto Rico was gradually growing.
dimmer I determined to resign. Had
the command been ordered to Cuba 02'
Lovarly active duty 1 would not have
left the army. If nA-cessary I would
have preferred giving up my lieuten-
ant governorship.”
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Novel lllethod of Suicide.
Philadelphf a, Jan. 31.-—Robert '1‘.
Rink, Jr.. aged 28 years tool: his life
Sunday night in a similar manner t-:
that adoptl «1 by Mrs. Ayres at Penn
Yan, N. Y.. last veek, by closing him-
self in a trL-z-zlr. and S'ywalh wing poison.
When Rink. who was a picture frami,~
gilder, did not'appear yesterday, his
room was opened and his body was
found in a t:"nk, the lid of which VV:.1
closed. By l1.s side w as a half emptie-
bottle of whiskey and on a table in til.
room were the remains of a crystalliz-
ed powder rezipposed to be poison.
Rink on inturday told his landlady
he would like to meet death as Min..-
Ayres did.
Addicks and Gray is Tie.
Dover, Del., Jan. 31 -—The twenty
second ballot for United States sena-
tor in the Delaware legislature at noon
yesterday resulted as follows:
George Gray, Democrat, 14; J. Erl-
ward Addicks, Union Republican, 11;
Colonel Henry A. Dupont, Regular Re-
publican, 5; Dr. J. H. Chandler, regular
Republican, 1; William C. Sprunnce.
regular Republican, 1; Anthony H15:-
gins, regulu :- Republican. 2; ex— Cm
gressman J. S. Willis, Union Republi-
can, 1; Joseph L. Topham, Union Re-
publican, 1; L. Irving Handy, Silver
Democrat, 5; absent, 8. _Total vote 44;
necessary to 'a. choice, 23.
.s
A Deckhand’s Strange Death.
Buffalo, Jan. 31.--A pair of huma
one of the slips in the harbor attractil 1.
the attention of some men on the etc 1-
ing.
An axe was secured and the bod-cg
chopped 0111.11; was found to be th:1~.,'
a dcckhand on 11-.
Frost. ' l
He had evidently fallen head forr, I
most from the gang plank of the box;
and gone half way throufgh the' in.
and been held in that position unt‘l
dead.
SlTUATlON AT ILOiLC.
Insurgents at Iloilo Elect a. President-—
Mountain Towns Isolated and Snow Slit. es 1 _
Conditions Improving.
Manila, Jan. 31. J—Seér or Melliza. has
.been elected president of the Visayan
States by the insuigents at Iloilo for
a period of two yeais'and has acknowl~
edged his allegiance to Aguinaldo. Sev-
eral representatives of the 110110 gov—
ernment have arrived here for the
purpose oi; conferring with the Luzon
insurgents.
'1
Washington, D. (3., Jan. 31. «The con-
ditions at 110110, according to a. dis--
patch received at the war department
from Major General Otis, are very sat-
., .. ,.,..‘
isfactory: The message in which this .
information is contained came last
Friday. -but forfs‘ome reason the mili-A
'tary authorities declined to make pub—
lic any part of it except the introduc—
,tory sentences, which told of the im—
proved situation at Manila.
A. commission. has been sent by thr-
P_a.na.y Filipinos from Iloilo to Manila
to consult with General .Otis about the
disagreements caused by the occupa-
tion of Iloilo by "the'na'tives prior to
the arrival of General Miller’s detach-
ment.
America’s [Great Dry Dock.
‘Nashington,'D; (3., Jan. 31.--Thc bids
for the greatest of the American dry
docks, that is :to be known as the
granite dry dock, and to be construct—
ed at the Charlestown Mass,
yard, were opened to-day. This dry
dock will not alone be the largest in
this country, but will probably sur-
pass in, general availability even those
at Belfast, Ire, at Birkenhe-ad, Eng,
at London, Gibraltar and Liverpool.
Its length over all will be 789 feet:
along the bottom of the outer gate sill
it will be 729 feet. This length may
have to be modified, as experts claim
that the appropriation granted at the
last session of Congress, $1,025,000, is
insufficient to complete a. granite struc-
tureof the dimensions named and the
sum will probably be increased to $2,—
000,000.
navy
New Emperoro: China. 1'
Pekin, Jan. 31.—~The Chinese her“
say the dowager empress has decided
upon a policy regarding the succession
to the throne. It is added that at :1
meeting of her relatives, recently held.
she selected the successor of the pres-
entemperor. But 'his identity is not
divulged.
”All reports, however, agree that :1
change at the palace is impending. The
emperor is still strictly guarded and
in the southwest corner of the island
palace. The drawbridge connecting
the island with the shore is drawn up
at night and every morning the ice
around the island is broken in order
to prevent unauthorized persons from
approaching it.
The Boston Herald Fined.
Boston, Mass, Jan. 31.—-The Bos—
ton Herald Company was fined $500 by
Judge Bond in the superior court yes—
terday for publishing in a headline in
connection with an account of the trial
of the city teaming fraud cases. on
Friday last, the words, “Guilt is Evi-
dent.”
, The publication of the headline was
considered prejudicial to the case and
resulted in the dismissal of the jury
and an order for a. new trial.
The case was that of J. R. Mulrev
and T. F. Scollans, who are charged
with having obtained money from the
. city by fraudulenl. teaming cha‘rges
. A CounterfeilerConfesses.
Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 31.--A building
on the outskirts of Clean was raided
on Saturday night and John and
Charles Blanchard were arrested.
The latter confessed that liimSeif
and John Blanchard were members of
a gang of counterfeiters who are oper—
ating in this state. '
He gave the names of several par--
ties who, he said. were operating in
the neighborhood of Camden, N. Y..
and had been passing-counterfeit mon-
ey for several years without detec—
tion”
Col. Hamilton Jay 21 Suicide.
Jacksonville, Fla, Jan. 31.--Colonel
Hamilton Jav err—postmaster, and lat-
er an editorial writer on the old Flori-
da Times-Union, committed suicide on
Sunday night by taking cyanide of
potassium. He left a letter saying that
horrors of insanity threatened him and
he preferred death to that.
Colonel Jay was born in Connecticut
and commandcd a regiment of cavalry
in the civil war. He was prominent in
Florida reconstruction times.
Rescued Sclionncr‘s Crew.
Halifax, N. 8., Jan. 31.——The Glouces-
ter schooner Polar \Vave arrived yes—
terday at.Louisbur~. C. B., leaking
and with her sails torn. She is loaded
with herring from Placentia. bay.
She had on board the crew of an
abandoned Schooner the Jersey Lily 01'
Lockport, N. 8., taken off twelve miles
from Scaterie, also laden with‘herring
from a Newfoundland port.
The Polar TVave experienced verl
rough weather.
llny Burned t.) Death.
San Francisco, 0211., Jan. 31.-~Thomus
Wilford l-tallet, aged four years, has;
been
Gas Improvement Works. While play—
ing in the back yard of the works 11"
turned on the faucet of a. petroleum
barrel. His clothessoon became sat
urated withihe inflammable fluid. Id:
then' lit some matches to ,see the 11.”.
blaze, and instantly he was surroundlzi'.
by flames and burned to‘death.
Accused of Theft in Dresden.
Dresden, Jan. 31.-—A man of
name 01’ Belt, who was formerly :1
journalist in New York, from which
place he is alleged to have eloped with
a young woman. has been arrested
here charged with stealing diamonds
valued at twenty thousand marks.
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The Sultan tu Prowst‘.’
Cairo. Jan. 31.-~The Diplomatic Jouz'» .
119.] says that the sultan is about 1'.
protest to the powers against the Bri—
tish proier'toratc system reasserting
Turkish suzeiainty over Egypt.
Na val Bull get 1‘:- 5512s.
Berlin, J21n.’31.--The entire
budget. passed its second reading
naval
burned to death at the Pacific
l
' appointed m;
in
the. relchS'lag yesterday by an enor— ..
lllOUS mflJOl‘. ‘ ty.
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AN OLD SUPERS'l‘lTION.
Mnny.Sto1'icsl’rove That Rats Will Learn
.5 ' an Uns'eawortliy Vessel.
The old- superstition which has
grc an into an adage, that rats descr'v
a ship union is no longer sea worthy.
is still an article of faith VV'th the fresh
water-csailors of the’gr‘eat lakes. Sun-
dry well-authenticated instances seem
to justify this belief. The Vernon was
a three-master, which did a trump
business. Built in Buffalo in 1850, she-
was for many years regarded, as one
of the best drafts on the lakes. Late
in the fall. about fifteen years ago.
she unloaded a cargo of grain in Buf-
falo. and reloaded with package
freight for Chicago. She was about.
to sail one rough November night.
Just before the lines were let off, one
- of the seamen saw a rat run over the
haw-sers tothc wharf. In a moment
another was seen. The sea'man called
others of the crew to see the unusual
sight. Between fifty and seventy-five
I'flltS poured out of' the ship and took
refuge along the wharf. The crew rc’
fused to soil. but the captain was ob-
stinate, shipped a fresh crew, and sail-
cd forthwith. The ship was lost with
all hands. ’ The Idaho, a fine passw-
ger steamer. ioundmed in Lake Erie
in November, 18.17. Out of her crew
of twenty-one men nineteen were
drowned. Just before the vessel lei-1‘
«her moorin'zs 21 swarm of rats crawled
over the 111 users to the wharf. This
was known to part of the crew, and
four men deserted at the last moment.
Similar stories are told of other wreck-
ed vessels, and an old lzikcman says:
"It has been provcn a hundred times.
There are 21 whole lot‘of things in this
world that we don’t know anything
about. Ila-1's live in the very filers of
:1 ship. They see what we can’t sec.
\Vlien thclimbcrs are hollowed and
the seams open. those little animals
know that the ship is unsufc.”——Housc~
hold Words.
NOT A HAPPY LOT.
Civil Sci-vim- hquircmcnts for “'ould-be
' soldiers in China.
I)llllClilll(S or llll‘ civil service exami—
nation 211'c ltzullziplicll ten fold in the
requirements set down by law of up-
plicants for positions in the mail scr-
vicc 'of China.
In the first place an applicant must
have strength and courage. To ac-
quire thcse he goes through a very
queer method of training. He won-
ders through mountains and valleys,
forests and caves. The exact time‘ to
be occupied in a trip is fixed by law
and 21 heavy fine is imposed for 1:11-
nccessury dclnv. He must repeat these
trips at night. and if he listens to the
bad spirit and thereby fails to apnea
at the required time at a certain place
.110 is sure to lose his right to a posi-
tion.
This is not all. He is obliged tn
carry an enormous weight for many
miles and return with it within a giv-
en time. No allowance is made for his
inability to defend himself against
thieves and l1i:rli\v'1,v1nen,, his ruo l
1151.111v lcadng llnou"'nl1 district thicl:
with bandit: I
In training the candidate eats very
little— though he is used to this—mud
he tries c'. cry straining exercise. Then
omcs his real cx: 1n1in-ation. under the
dircctiou of the government. officials.
He is taken into :1 long room where,
suspended from a high beam with
strong ropes are very heavy sacks fill-
ed with rocks.
The candidate must give :1 swinging
motion to all those sacks and then run
to and fro between them, chrci‘ullv
guarding against a blow «by one of the
heavy “rights—New York Herald.
“11011 Ice Cream Was New.
When ice cream was first introduced
many funny stories were told about
it. It V'us first offered in the national
capital, according to the authority on
the subject, by Mrs. Alexander Hamil-
ton, who had had it in her home in
New York. She used to tell Vvith
amusement of the delight with which
President Jackson first tasted it, and
how be promptly decided to have ices
l at the Executive mansion.
“Accordingly." says 'the historian,
“guests :11 the next reception “'01":
treated to the frozen mystery, and of-
fered considc 'ablc ion to the initiated
by the 1'clu(t'1ncc with which they
tasted it. Those fro 1n the rural dis-
tricts especially first eye-:i it suspic-
iously, then melted each spoonful with
breath 'bcl'orc consuming it. Their
distrust was soonrvnmvcd, however.
and ”plates were emptied with great
rapidity.
“The man who made the ice cream
'us, oddly enough, a negro by 1111-
namc of Jackson, who in the early
part of the present century kept :1
small confcclioucry store in W~2.1sl1111g-
ton. Cold custards, which were cool-
ed by setting on them on a/cnkc of-in-
were very fas'l1iouablc,‘and Jackson,
at Mrs. Hamilton’s suggestion. from:
them by placing the ingredients in :1
tin bucket and completely covering
them with ice. Enck bucket contain.
cd :1 quart and was sold for $1."
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Thc “Poi“ Cocktails.
Eve'y visitor to Hawaii, according
to Frank Leslie's Weekly, is expected
to become accquainted wit
linnaiia's 51111?“ of life. The taste for
this national dish is undoubtedly at"
quirerl, and .tvennftcr many trials oft-
en fails to tome at all. This paste-
like itllxture is made from the turn
plant. '(Col,..~~:1si:1antiquorum.) from
which originates the “poi” cocktail. In
name. it"is quite as deceiving us the
“oyster” cocktail. and those desiring
it merely for the name are 5:111in (lis-
linding that the 0111;.-
liquid it conluins is' milk; .
The “poi" Cucktnll is prepared by ill
lilting 111111133111 with milk, thou addina.
sugar (11' 5:211. and serving ice cull'
'l‘l1is driul: is found to be very hon.-
hcinl lo dV'spl: piles and those recover
in: l'-:' 1111 fever. »
“poi,” the,
and, tied into bundlzs.
'“slabs.”
.'. fl(,‘ll
. soak
l
MAINE GUM PlCKERS-
'Dolights of the Pursuit—Health and
Wealth Among the Spruce Trees.
Year by year the gum pickers are
obliged to go further intp the woods. .
I‘he quality of the gum must be kept
up. Most of the Maine gum is sent
tway to the city market that demands
for consumption 'by the society girls
in their boudoirs the round red lumps
chat gleam with inner fires like the
oloodstone. This sort of gum is sold
readily by the Maine wholesalers at
51.50 per pound. The metropolitan
price for this tip-top gum is so allur-
mg to the Maine sellers that the pro-
vincials do not get it unless they go
out into the wild woods and dig it
:heniselves. The only peculiarly 1’21-
'vored mortals in this respect are the
Maine, girls who have .best fellows in
:he woods. These girls lollop ovcl'
:lieir tongues morsels that the city girl
ann got only by paying almost the
'weight in silver change.
Compared with his expenses, the
wages of the gum picker are almost
Klondike prices. A few bushels of
maps and some flour furnish him his
winter’s food. Frequently he gets
gum in one (in) that will not him $10
11 the market. But the gum picker
sn’t apt to be a very energetic chap.
EIe makes short days and goes fishing
and gunning about half of the time.
He doesn‘t leave the side of his cozy
ramp fire when a storm is on. And at
:he end of the season, when he comes
out in the spring with his pack of gum
in his back, it will be found that he
has made but little more than day’s
wages.
But what :1 tonic it would be for the
maemic mun—a winter In the woods
gum—picking! The long evening by the
worth where the fire riots through the
heaped logs that one piles on with
lever a thought as to the market
price of dry wood; of the crisy side
of the great trees; of the finding of
the nuggets in. the balmy, spicy rents
an the trunks, the savor of the rude
food, the passing of the quiet days—
me so much like another that you get
mixed on the calendar. And though
you. O hustler.
world would worry along through the
winter just the same as though you
were out lifting at the mired spoke
that fate has assigned to your care-
blistered hands. At any rate. when
7011 came out in the. spring and heard
the new. ~ you would realize. that it re
quires more than one man to make 51
W01'ill.—l.("V‘V'lifil'oll. Me. Journal.
DIC"ENS A LOVER OF CATS.
\‘V as a Slzue to His Little
1' clmo Pcis.
Great Ilnvol' 15.:
At :1 rocnm ("it show there was an
Englishman who chanced to know
11111113; llill‘lK‘W‘tl‘JCll tales of Dickens.
and during ."1 lull in the “meows” he
casuallv lllt‘llll '01]: ”Did won know.
:13' the way. that Charles Dickens was
:lcvotczl to cats? lie was indeed :1. lov-
er of all aninm s. and frequently be-
came the slave of his pots. \Villinm-
inn :1 little white cat. was a great fa-
vorite with the entire household. but
1"gn1'dcd the great author as her es-
pecial friend. She selected .51 corner of
his study for her individual property,
and one day committed the indiscre-. '
tion nl‘ bringing in her little family of
kittens from the kitchen. one by 0110..
Dickens had them taken away, but
Willinmina brought them quietl"
back.
the third time of their return the little
mother did not leave them in the cor
ner. Instead she blur-ed them at her
Ag. nin lhcv were removed. but‘
may not think so, the ..
master’s feet. and taking hcr stand bc- '
s-idc them. locked imploringly up at
him. That settled the question.
“Thereafter the kittens belonged to
the sudy. and made thcmsrl‘vcs rovally
at home. SVV'm'mingr up the curtains.
playing about the :eriting table. and
scnmpcring behind the bookshelves.
until they were one by one given
away: all but :1 poor little llcni‘ one.
which from her devotion to Dickens
became known as film mustcr's cal.‘
This; l7tl‘lo creature followed him
about like :1 dog. and sat l‘tesi'lc 111111
while he wrote. One, evening Dickens
was rend-131'! by :1 small table upon
which stood a light-9d candle. As
usual. the cat was at his elbow. Sud
:ienly the light went out. Dickens was
dccplv interns-toll in his book. and he
preceded to relight the. candle. strok
in: the cut while he did so. After-
ward he remembered that puss bad
lOlzl-‘V'tl at him somewhat repronclifully
while she received the caress. It V'. :13
July whcn the light again became dim
that tho rmscn of her melancholy
suddenly dawned upon him. Turning
quickly. he found her deliberately put-
ting out the candle with her paw, and
again she looked at him appealing“.
She V'ns lonesome: she wanted to be
potted. and this was her device for
gaining her end.”
“’lmlcbone as It. Is.
A curious industry to the uninitiated
is the conversion of whalcbone from
its original form into the various pro-
ducts, useful and artistic. Most of
the crude VV'hnlobonc is landed at San
Francisco, and shipped castVV'ard to be
distributed at ' the various centers
Before leaving the Pacific coast the
bone is‘split. sort ted according to color
A.te1‘ splitting
“stalks” or
three to
pieces are called
These arc from
twelve feet in length and weig' from
live to tw-cnly the. pounds each.
When received 11; the 1n~auufacturer
“slab" is fringed "i‘llil stron"
glossy black hair, which possesses ':-1
market value of its own for brushes.
After this: is removed the "slabs" :11“
.vlgoro isly, scrubbed and {Len put to,
in water 1111' about 21 week.
When .sufiicicnily softened the "slabs"
are treated to a steam bath and then
'll‘(;‘. ready to be split into "shell" or
'grain" bone and finally "cut’i'ito
:lays, whip stocks, algrettes and the
lllxt’.
the
Norwalk Chronicler