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A Cool Horse Thief.
“Where are you going with those
horses?” Policeman Sturges asked a
man whom he met on Nelson avenue,
Jersey City, leading a pair of handsome
bays.
‘Tm going to Newark,” the stranger
answered.
“Well, I think I’ll have to take you
to the station,” said the policeman.
“I wish you-would,” replied the man.
“I’ve been already stopped by two
policemen, and I’m lieginning to be
tired of that sort of thing. Just hold
one of these horses until I mount the
other and I’ll go with yon.”
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his prisoner jumped upon the back of
the other and instantly galloped off. '
Sturges fired at him, but the thief
escaped.
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THE VIRGINIA OYSTERS.
SmnethlnsAbout it l.lvelv Elizabeth Itlver
I mtustry.
This country here is the land of the
oyster, and millions of bushels arc raised
yearly, writes a correspondent from
Fortress Monroe, Va. They grow in the
salt water at the mouth of the Elizabeth
River, and naturally fasten themselves
to the rocky parte of ite bed. During
the season the river swarms with boats
fishing for them. They are caught by a
kind of a rake or tongs which the oyster
catcher thrusts down, catches hold of
them and pulls them up into his boat.
The business of catching them is done
by the colored population, and fish and
oysters form the staple diet of the
negroes of this region. It is a good
business, too, this catching of oysters,
and many of the oysterers make good
wages. A good catch is always saleable,
and the river Is free to all. After the
men have caught a boatload, they bring
them to the oyster packers and sell
them. I visited the largest of these es
tablishments here, and watched their
preparation for the northern market. A
scow containing about 500 tons of
oysters in the shell, all of them dirty
and slimy, piled tip like a big lot of
stones on its floor, hod just come iu.
These were unloaded by means of a der
rick and a bushel tub with an iron
handle. The oysters were shovelled,
still dripping, into this tub, and after
landing were wheeled into a long, low
shed. Each tub was worth thirty-five
cents, and they were counted as they
were unloaded. Stepping inside the
shed, I saw two rows of narrow stalls
with a sort of manger in their front
ends. Each of these was filled with a
big colored oyster shucker. The oysters
were emptied into the mangers and
these men, with a small hammer and a
short-bladed knife, opened them, took
cut the oysters and threw them into a
bucket the size of a common wooden
pail. First they would lift up the oyster
shell, then break off ite end with the
hammer, then inject the knife into the
broken place and pry it open. They
worked very fast, and as they did so
their queer Southern songs mingled
with the short hammering of the break
ing shells. I ate a few of the oysters
just as they were opened, and found
them to possess a delicious flavor,
which I have never found in the oysters
of the North.
When a shucker has filled his bucket
he hands it over to the washer, and this
man empties it into a large vat of water,
where the oysters are washed and
drained of their liqnor before being sent
away. The shuckers sort them as they
open them, and put the little ones into
one pail, the medium ones into another,
and the big ones into a third. They
are paid twenty cents a bucket, and
sometimes they make as much as S 3 a
day. Many of them save their money,
and I find here the same report. I found
on the peninsula, namely, that the col
ored people of the South are doing well,
and that many of them are acquiring
property. After the oysters are washed,
they are packed in tubs and shipped.
When packed, there is no liqnor in
them, and I am told that oyster sellers
tn the North often water their oysters
liefore selling.
. . —.
On the Tort
Tbe reigns of the sovereigns of tbe
trotting turf, with their best records in
harness, and also the time with which
each beat the record of bis predecessor,
may be tabulated as follows:
NAME PF HORSE. YEAR. RECORD.
Lady Suffolk 1814 2:26%
Flora Templelßs6 2:25%
Flora Temple 1859 2:19%
Dexterlß67 2:17%
Goldsmith Maidlß7l 2:17
Goldsmith Maid 1874 2:14
Barns 1878 . 2:13%
St. Julien 1879 2:12%
St. Julien 1880 2:11%
Maud 5..... 180 2:11%
Maud 81881 2.10%
Jav-Eye-Bee 1884 2:10
Maud 8 1884 2:09%
A glance at this review shows that the
record of trotting in harness has been
lowered sixteen and one-fourth seconds,
or a little more than a quarter of a min
ute, during the past forty years, and
just ten seconds or one sixth of a minute,
during the last quarter of a century.
THE BLOSSOMED BUD.
BY WIIX GABKETON.
’Twas a bal»c—a three-month old—
That Death had come to see :
I> was white and atilt and cold
As any babe could be.
But its features softly traced
A life that God bad planned :
Some ono dreaming this had placed
A ro?e-bud in its hand.
Deeply wept tbe parents when
That spirit fluttered free ;
They were sad and wretched then,
As parents oft must be.
E ch the other’s picture borne
Baw in tbe fleeting face.
When that heart from theirs was torn,
It left so large a place.
But when last iu its repose
They kissed it mournfully,
That small bud had grown a rose,
As sweet as rose could be.
Willi its soft breath it perfumed
The sad and solemn hour ;
And it smiled and glowed and bloomed,
A grand and perfect flower.
Then those hearts grew strangely light,
And bade their doublings flee ;
They were full of hopes as bright
As stricken ones could be.
And the pastor gently said,
“This tells to our dim eyes,
That your darling is not dead,
But blooms in Paradise.”
—Harper's Bazar.
DYING FOR 111 S MASTER.
a shepherd bog’s encounter with a
RATTLESNAKE.
“My name is Thomas Wilman, and I
five in Philadelphia, where my son
Harry is a prominent business man.
Thirfy-one years ago 1 married, in Great
Barrington, Mass., as pretty a girl as
that village (famous for its pretty girls)
ever sheltered. She had been well
brought up, but hail no fortune. I had
$1,500 which I had made by running a
sawmill. We were young and had the
world before us, and we concluded
to go West. Going West in those days
didn’t mean, as it seems to now, going
beyond the Mississippi. Going into
'York State’ was going West then. I
had a cousin in Cattaraugus, a little vil
lage on the Erie Railway, 30 miles east
of Dunkirk, and we concluded to go
there.
It was late in August when we reached
Cattaraugus. My cousin gave us a
hearty welcome, and I set about looking
for a spot to build. Cattaraugus is a
curious sort of a place. The village is
surrounded by hills, and the wonder to
me is that it doesn’t slide down into the
washbowl-like valley on the side of
which it is built. A little 3reek runs
through the village, and a mile to the
west finds itself in a deep, narrow valley,
with almost perpendicular sides, 100
feet high. This valley is called Skinner
Hollow, and is one of the most pictur
esque spots on the Erie Road. I went
down into the hollow prospecting. The
sides, where they were not too steep,
were covered with a heavy growth of
first-class pine, and for miles around the
hills were thick with the same timber.
I saw there was money in a sawmill
right down in that hollow, and I built
one on the stream, which I could see was
a good-sized creek most of the year. It
is one of the branches of Cattaraugus
Creek, which empties into Lake Erie 30
miles west of Buffalo.
“I built my mill there, and close to it
a little house, so close, in fact, that the
two joined. I took Katie, that is my
wife, down there, and we began house
keeping. That was well into the winter,
and I began logging at once. I hired a
gang of men to help me, raised money
by contracting my lumber ahead, and
started in. We cut lugs on the hills
close to the mill, rigged up slides, and
ran them down to the logway. I tell
you it was music to me when the saw
ripped into the first log and a clean-cut
slab dropped away from the teeth. We
aid a little jollification. That was the
first log ever cut in Skinner Hollow, and
people drove miles to see it. Business
was good. There was lots of snow,
which made it easy work getting logs I'
the mill and drawing the lumber out ti.
the village, besides giving me all tbe
water I wanted. In fact water was run
ning over the tail of my flume every
hour from the time I turned it into the
race till the middle of July. Then a dry
spell came on, and I had to shut down
for two or three hours every day to let
my race fill up.
“But I didn’t mind that I had had
a tip-top season and bod made money. I
had logs enough at my door to keep me
busy for a year, and I knew where there
were plenty more when those ran out.
And, besides, I had two to look after in
stead of one. You wouldn’t think if
you’d see Harry, with all his refined
ways and education, that the first music
he ever heard was a saw tearing through
a pine knot. But it’s so. He was a
pioneer’s son and knocked around a
sawmill till he was into his teens. Well,
when business was slow I worked
around the house, fixing up things here
and there for Katie, so as to make her
more comfortable. She couldn’t have
been more contented. She used to thmk
that sawmill was just about the pleas
antest place in the country. Hour after
hour she’d stay out there with me, and
we’d keep no the conversation while the
log was running back and stop when it
went up to the saw. Dear me ! Dear
me ! Why, I can see her as she used to
look in those days in that little sawmill
just as plainly »s if I stood there with
her to-day. She used to jump on the
log and ride up pretty close to the saw
and then, just as I would get scared and
jump to drag her away, off she’d go.
Nobody was ever happier than we were,
and we have never been as happy since,
though we’ve been pretty happy and are
yet”
The yellow sunlight flickered into the
room where the two sat, and the wine
looked like blood as the dancing rays
shone through it. The old man was lost
in happy reverie, and the young man
ventured io remind him that there was
a snake story promised.
“True,” said the old man, starting,
“I’m just coming to that I lost myself
thinking of those old days. There was
snakes then, and we had killed them.
Rattlers used to come out on the ledges
of rocks and lay in the hot snn. One or
two had come around the mill, and I had
shot one in our door yard. But we
thought nothing of that. People living
in the woods or in wild places get used
to things that would fill them with hor
ror in a settled country. We expected
to find snakes, and as long as they kept
their distance or gave us a chance to
shoot them when they got too near we
didn’t mind them.
“As I told you, I fixed up things
around the house during slack time.
One of the bits of furniture I knocked
together was a bedstead. It was more
like a broad lounge than a bedstead, for
it had neither head nor footboard. One
end was raised a little like a couch, and
that was the head. Wo had some bear
skins and blankets to sleep on, and more
blankets to cover us. It was a big im
provement on the floor where wo had
been sleeping, and after a hard day’s
work handling logs I used to think it
about ns comfortable a spot as I knew.
“Well, it got along into the fall and
we began to have chilly nights. The
equinoctial gave us a big ruin, and for a
fortnight I had all the water I could use.
Then it got dry again. One afternoon,
after several days of threatening weath
er, it began to rain. Hour after hour
the rain came down till about 9 o’clock
in the evening, when it suddenly cleared
off and turned cold. It was lute in Octo
ber and we kept a fire burning on the
hearth nights, more for the baby’s sake
than for our own. Our bed was parallel
with the fireplace and stood out near the
middle of the room. We bad an English
shepherd dog named Leo, which wo took
with us from Massachusetts. He was a
biack and white beauty, and my wife,
who had raised him, thought about as
much of him as she did of the baby or
me—at least, I used to tell her so. The
dog was fond of me and I made a great
pet of him. He was a noble fellow, and
nil he wanted was for me to whistle just
once and he’d come. Wo let him sleep
in the room at the foot of the bed.
Sometimes in the morning I’d wake up
before my wife and I’d whistle just once
to the dog. Up he’d come over the foot
of the bed and wake Katie by licking
her face.
“That night wo were just going to
bed when it turned cold. I threw an
extra pine knot on tbe fire and .wont to
the door and looked out. I shall never
forget that look, for it was the last time
I ever stood there and saw stars above
Skinner Hollow. I closed the door and
went to lied and soon fell asleep. I slept
on the side of the bed nearest the hearth,
my wife slept on the further side and
the baby lay between us. For some rea
son I didn’t sleep long, and when I
waked up I couldn’t get to sleep again.
Finally I got out of bed and threw an
other knot on the fire. Leo was
stretched out on the floor with his nose
between his paws. Ho eyed me sleepily
as I walked around the room and gave
me a loving look as I stooped down and
patted his head. 1 went back to bed and
fell into an nneasy sleep. All at once I
wakened with a start. It must have
lieen past midnight. I seemed to be
fully awake tbe moment I opened my
eyes, and such a sight as they rested on
God grant they may never see again. I
was lying on my left side facing my
wife, who was lying on her righ) side.
The baby lay on its back lietween us.
As I opened my eyes a dark object glid
ed down from off the baby, and just
then the knot burst into flames and
flooded the room with light. A rattle
snake, fully five feet long, had slipped
down from between my wife and myself
where it had been stretched out presum
ably to got warm, and, startled no doubt
by some movement I had made in wak
imz. had thrown itself into a coil on the
bed at the baby’s feet and just opposite
my knees.
“Somebody asks if life is worth liv
ing. I think it is as a general thing,
but if life had many such moments as
that I should say emphatically that death
was preferable. For a moment I lost
my head.' I did not move, fortunately,
but I seemed to drift entirely out of all
consciousness. For a moment only this
lasted. Then my senses came back to
me, and I felt that from the reaction I
would probably tremble from head to
foot. How I ever managed to keep my
body rigid I don’t know, but by an aw
ful effort I did. I knew that to stir was
death, perhaps for myself, perhaps for
my boy, perhaps—my God, the thought
was agony—for my wife. Outside I
could hear the rain dripping from the
eaves, and I could detect the sound of
water running to waste over the flume.
To-morrow, I thought, I’ll have plenty
of water again. To-morrow I Would I
ever see to-morrow again ? And if I did
would'l not meet it alone ? In spite
of all I could do a shudder ran through
my body.
“The snake felt it and raised its head.
I could see its eyes glisten and dance in
the firelight, and the bright rays glanced
over the undulating coils. I could see
that the snake was irritated, and I knew
that it was liable to spring at any mo
ment. Who would it strike ? Either of
us was within easy distance. It seemed
to mo that I could see the beginning of
the muscular contraction which would
precede the spring.
“All this, of course, passed in a frac
tion of the time I have occupied in tell
ing it. My wife and boy slept on. I
prayed that they might not move, for if
they did I felt the snake would throw
itself forward. I moved my head slight
ly. The snake’s head again arose, and
for the first time it sounded its rattle.
Instantly my wife opened her eyes, and
somo way they rested on the snake. I
could see that every vestige of color had
left her face, but she did not move a
muscle. Then hex eyes slowly left the
snake and came up to mine.
“Looking back over the nearly thirty
years which have elapsed since then
I can see the look in her eyes yet. We
had sometimes talked about meeting
death together. Now it lay between us
and in more horrible form than we had
ever dreamed of. Yet the look of per
fect confi lencc in me which my wife’s
eyes almost spoke was something a man
does not see more than once in a life
time. That look seemed to say, for
baby’s sake, and like a flush I became
as cool as lam at this moment. I could
not speak but my wife understood that
she must keep perfectly quiet and jump.
When the time came, slowly and with
infinite care I raised my head till I could
look down the bed to the floor beyond.
My wife’s eyes followed mine, and we
both saw the dog. The hideous eyes of
the snake swayed to and fro, and I
knew that what was done must be done
quickly. I looked at my wife and she
realized my plan. Her eyes filled with
tears but gave consent. With a prayer
for help I moistened my lips and gave
one short, sharp whistle. The snake, I
think, didn’t know what to make of it,
but the dog, Leo, did. As quick almost
ns thought he sprang to his feet and
bounded on the bed. To this day I’ve
never been able to understand why the
snake did not strike when the dog
moved, but it did not. As the dog’s
body rose in the air my wife caught
hold of the baby’s garments and rolled
out or neo. 1 rolled out on my side,
grasped my rifle, which stood at the
head of the bed, and turned. The dog
and the snake were rolling together on
the bod. I caught sight of the snake’s
head and flred, and the reptile was past
doing any harm. The dog staggered
off the bed to the floor, shivered, moaned
once or twice, looked from my wife to
myself with more love than I ever saw
before or since in any animal’s eyes and
died.
•‘At daybreak the next morning wo
buried the dog and started for the
village. I sold my mill and house to a
man who was visiting my cousin, and
before sunset we were on onr way to
Massachusetts. I built another mill in
the East, and we prospered and grew
rich. Other children came to make our
home happy, and there are grandchil
dren now. We have enjoyed life, and
enjoy it now. But I tell you, young
man, that if poverty stood on one hand
and even a glimpse of Skinner Hollow
on the other, we would take poverty
cheerfully and think we had made a
good bargain.”
A Land for Tramps.
A Halifax letter to the Boston Trav
eler says: The hospitality of the people
of this district Is a strange contrast to
that which goes by the name among
their city cousins. Here is an instance
of it. Soon after entering this settled
portion of the country we come in sight
of a little dwelling by the roadside. The
door is wide open, and we can see as we
approach that the table is invitingly set
for supper. As we are about passing
along a woman appears at the door, and
after a glance at ns utters a kindly
“Come in.” It is a long way to our
destination yet, and as the bracing
air has given us a somewhat elephantine
appetite, we of course take advantage of
th'e offer. According to the rules of local
etiquette, however, there is no neces
sity of waiting for an invitation, bnt
when you are passing a house at mea
time; you must walk right in and seat
yourself at the table. It makes no dif
ference if you are a peif< • t ranger,
black, white, or copper . ..I. No
honest stranger need fear to starve while
travelling through this part of the
country.
The Franklin Fund. Benjamin
Franklin left $5,000 to Boston to lie
loaned in small sums to young married
mechanics under 25 who had served an
apprenticeship, had good character and
could give bonds for the repayment of
the money in annual installments. The
changed condition of mechanics, the de
cay of the apprentice system and other
causes have made the bequest of no
value to those for whom it was intended
under the rules Franklin laid down.
The fund now amounts to more tnan
$290,000, and is increasing at the rate
of SIO,OOO a year.
THE GREELY SURVIVORS.
TflEiU PHYSICAL CONDITION WHEN
UESCUED.
SlioYvlnu How the IltitloiiH were Divided—
Their Method <»t I Iviiiur—How I.lenten*
mil Greciy Improved After Kcocue.
The official report of Edward H.
Green, M. D., surgeon of the steamship
Thetis, of the Greely relief squadron,
on the condition of the survivors of the
Greely party when found at their camp cm
Smith’s Sound, and their subsequent
treatment, is published in the Medical
News. In the report Dr. Green says:
On Sept. 29, 1883, the party landed at
Baird Inlet, and all were reported as
well. On Oct. 25 they moved to a point
between high ridges of mountains which
screened them from northerly and south
erly winds, and established a winter
eamp. The house which they con
structed was 25 by 17 feet, and 4 feet
in height, making a cubic air space of
only 1,700 feet—a cubic air allowance of
only 70 feet for each of the 25 men. It
was in this hut, into which all could
barely squeeze themselves at one time,
that the explorers were overcome with
asphyxia, and nearly lost their lives on
March 24, 1884. The after effects of
this mishap remained a long time, and
greatly weakened many of the party.
The water supply was obtained from an
artificial lake 200 yards to the south of
the hut by melting ice, which gave
brackish water all the time. For nine
months the party had no artificial
warmth and lived in a temperature of
from 5 to 10 degrees below zero for the
winter. It was decided that the nearer
they could approach a state of hiber
nating the better were their chances for
getting through. So only the cooks and
hunters exerted themselves to any ex
tent, and were given double rations.
The rest occupied their sleeping bags
and slept from 16 to 18 hours out of
every 24.
On Nov. 1, 1883, says Dr. Green,
Lieut. Greely took an account of the
stock ol provisions. They divided up
the rations so as to last until March 1,
providing that a ten days’ supply would
be left at the end of that time. This
gave to each man the following daily
allowances: Meat and blubber, 4.33
ounces; bread and dog biscuit, 6.5
ounces; canned vegetables and rice, 1.4
ounces; butter and lard, .75 ounce;
soup and beef extract, .90 ounce; ber
ries, pickles, raisins, and milk, 1 ounce
—a total daily allowance for the four
months of 14.88. In addition the follow
ing game was added to the stores: Two
seals, yielding 120 pounds of meat; 1
bear, yielding 300 pounds of meat; 8
foxes (4 pounds each), and 60 dovekies,
small birds, weighing about 1 pound
each. All the party were alive on March
1 except Sergt Cross, who died in Jan
uary of scurvy, the only case of pro
nounced scurvy that developed. On
March 1 the rations were reduced to the
following allowance: Meat, 8.6 ounces;
bread and dog biscuit, 3.2 ounces.
Shrimp were now being caught, and
from 1 to 3 ounces of these a day were
added to the ration. On May 12 the
last of the regular rations was gone.
Shrimps, reindeer, moss, and the seal
skin linings of the sleeping bags were
boiled. Black lichen was also used,
though Dr. Pavy advised against it.
Dr. Green says;
“There seemed to be but little acute
suffering from the lack of food. It was
only after the introduction of food into
the stomach that the craving became
great. For days they went without
food without actually suffering. The
deaths seemed to take place finally from
heart trouble (hydrops pericardii). The
feet and face became cedematous; for a
day or so they would complain of pains
over the heart; have a spasm of pain
over the prseoordia; a slight general
convulsion, and all would be over.
Their chief suffering during the winter
was from constipation.”
Dr. Green confines himself particular
ly to the case of Lieut. Greely and does
not even mention the condition of the
others, except the condition of Connell
when found. He fainted on being car
ried into the wardroom, and vomited.
After being placed in a berth Lieutenant
Greely was given a teaspoonful of raw,
fresh meat, minced. His clothes were
then cut off and flannels substituted.
The condition of Lieut. Greely is de
scribed daily as he improved. The next
day after his removal to the Thetis he
was allowed to have some home letters
read. On the fifth day he sat up in bed,
and just a week after the rescue was
dressed and allowed to walk a little. He
wae given food at five stated intervals
each day. He gained 9) pounds the
first week, 15 the second, 8 the third,
7 the fourth, 5J the fifth, and 4 pounds
the sixth week—bringing his weight to
169 pounds when he landed at Ports
mouth, At St. John’s Dr. Green re
ported only two men in good physical
condition—Long and Fredericks. Sergt.
Brainerd was reported in fair condition
and the others weak.
Mixed.—Black walnut sawdust, for
merly thrown away, is now mixed with
linseed gum and moulded into heads
and flower pieces for the ornamentation
of furniture. When dried and varnished
it is as handsome and much stronger,
and more durable than carved work.
Although times are hard the farmers
have not yet resorted to the expedient
of hoeing their corn with half hose,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Butterine is superseding oleomargar
ne. Where the latter is made from
pure ox fat, the former is manufactured
from deodorized lard. A major part of
the butterine sold comes from near Chi
cago.
In 1791 Benjamin Franklin made the
city of Boston the trustee of a fund of
£I,OOO, to be lent to young mechanics,
calculating that in 1891 the fund would
amount to $582,000. His figures must
have been faulty, however, for the fund
now only amounts to $291,000.
On some of the sheep ranches in the
Western Territories there are as many
as 300,000 sheep. Shearing begins in
September, and October is a busy sea
son. The sight of from 300 to 400 men
at work, each clipping a sheep in a dex
trous manner, is very animated.
A company of Mennonites number
ing 80 persons passed through Berlin
recently on their way to this coun
try. They were possessed of a consid
erable sum of money, and were under
the leadership of a fine-looking, silver
haired man, 95 years of age, who had
been recently married to a girl of 16.
The Massachusetts Bureau of Statis
tics states that in 1868 the chance of a
person being killed on or by steam cars
was 1 in 5,026,281, while in 1882 it had
diminished to 1 in 20,927,034. This is
less than the chance of being struck by
lightning, and much less than that of be
ing injured by a kerosene lamp explo
sion.
The War Department at Rome has
invited all Italian emigrants settled in
foreign countries to return home and
fulfill their military duties,every male of
21 years old being subject to conscrip
tion, regardless of naturalization abroad.
Italy has repeatedly refused to exempt
her sons naturalized in the United
States.
Swiss statistics show that the land o
Switzerland and its natural productions
afford employment for 410,023 men and
147,716 women, and that the labor of
these persons supports 1,168,137 indi
viduals. Those who live on rents, inter
est, pensions, and annuities number in
Switzerland 56,055, or about two in each
100 of population.
Step by step the leading food prod
ucts of Europe are being reproduced in
this country. Macaroni is made by
Italians iu New York, Neuchatel cheese
by Swiss in New Jersey, Schweizer kase
by Germans in Ohio, Albert biscuit by
Englishmen in Albany and caviare by
Russians in Harlem. Nearly all of these
are exported to Europe, and there sold
as domestic manufactures.
Some weeks since an English school
teacher boxed a child’s ears with some
severity. There followed a severe and
long-continued headache, and it is not
unlikely that the child is injured for
life. The medical journals agree as to
the very great impropriety of punishing
a child in this way, and give the many
anatomical and medical reasons against
it so clearly that the brutal practice is
likely to be lessened.
A correspondent writes to an English
paper: “While lying off Madras, in the
harbor, on my way from India, I had
my attention drawn to a white gentle
man with brown legs, on a catamaran.
It was explained to me that the natives
went about the shark-infested harbor
with impunity, and that the European
had had several narrow escapes until he
colored the lower part of his body and
its extremities, since which he had gone
about unscared.”
The Eve of War.
Li Fong Pao, Chinese envoy at Paris,
has received his passports. The French.
Consul at Pekin has pulled down his
flag.
This means war. Unless the Powers
intervene France will proceed to lay
Foochow, as the Jlepublique Francaise
amiably suggests, “in ashes.”
There is very little chance of interven
tion. The war party of China are un
willing to pay any indemnity at all.
France will have to fight for all she
gets.
The result is not doubtful. China
talks of her military strength. She has
built forts and barred rivers. She can
make diversions in Tonquin. As one
army is destroyed she can send others to
take its place. That is the limit of her
strength. In the end she must suc
cumb.
France is conducting a campaign be
side which her adventure in Tonquin
will be a trifle. She will be exposing
foreigners to massacre and may be forced
into quarrels with the great nations of
the world. But in the end she must
win.
Is the prize worth winning ? Has the
cost been counted ? Has France some
dreamy hope of establishing a vast em
pire in the Far East ? Docs she see the
rulers of China at her feet as the princes
of India knelt to Olive ?
Times have changed. England con
quered Hindostan at a moment when
nobody could dispute her conquests
Franco will conquer China at a moment
when every nation that has foreign com
merce is directly concerned in preserv
ing her indepenaence.
As for the moral effect of French
victories on the Annamite and Ton
qninese population, we scarcely think
that worth a battle.
Dresses Well.—More gorgeous
dresses are worn by a lady of Philadel
phia, at Saratoga, than by any other
visitor. Although she has not walked
for three years, and is wheeled about in
an invalid chair by her maid, she carried
a' a recent boll a huge fan of twenty
white ostrich feathers nearly half a yard
long, set in big sticks of solid amber.
Imitation.—The imitation of canned
sardines can go no further. The pack
ing box is made in Jersey City, the
wrapper is printed in New York, the
tin cans are manufactured in Boston,
the fish are caught on the Maine coast,
and the oil is extracted from cottonseed
in Georgia,