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WHAT IS LIFE? From the Brooklyn Magazine. A. little crib beside the bed, A little face above the spread; A little frock behind the door. A little shoe upon the floor. A little lad with dark-brown hair, A little blue-eyed face and fair: A little lane that leads to school, A little pencil, slate and rule. A little blithesome, winsome maid, A little hand within his laid; A little cottage, acres four, A little old-time fashioned store. A little family gathered round A little turf-heaped, tear-dewed mound; A little added to his soil, A little rest from the harvest toil. A little silver in his hair. A little stool and easy chair; A little night of earth-lit gloom, A little cortege to the tomb. i I SANDWICH’S TWO KINGS. BIS MAJESTY KALAKAUA AND CLAUS SPRECKELS, HIS FRIEND. How the Advancing Ambitions of the Coffee-Colored Monarch Were Grati fied by the Ruler of the Sugar Bar rels—A Cabinet Created from Mem bers of the San Francisco Bohemian Club— Spreckels Finally Supplanted by a Business Rival. From the Chicago Newt. San Francisco, Cal., April SO.—Since the arrival in this city of her Majesty Queen Kapiolani she has been more than busy. A couple of Hawaiian princelings who are at tending a California college near San Mateo hail to lie seen, the Bohemian Club had to be propitiated by a royal visit the opening night to the Art Association exhibition, a sort of excrescence of the Bohemian Club. Several Kindergarten and benevolent aid entertainments had to be assisted, so that the royal progress so far has been full of in cident. The attitude of the Spreckels people to ward the royal party has been that of haughty and chilling reserve. The gallant Sir Claus Spreckels, much as he may like to avenge the wrongs done his plethoric purse, cannot afford to make active war on an old woman, and a benevolent one at that, so that as far as the Spreckels people are con cerned Kapiolani and her suite met with no stumbling-blocks in California. The Queen’s presence here, however, re vives the whole story of Spreckels’ relations with Hawaiian royalty, a tale that is quite entertaining, and could be told in full only within the covers of a voluminous novel. Some six years ago Claus Spreckels was the uncrowned King of the Hawaiian Islands, having obtained a monopoly of the sugar business and controlled the Pacific coast markets. He built palaces for the crowned King, planned European excur sions for his dusky majesty, and formed the Cabinet and swayed the government to suit his own purposes. He was jocosely referred to in the public prints as King Claus, and sometimes satirically alluded to as King Sugar-Barrel, but he kept on raking in the ducats all the time and getting more planta tions and sugar mills within his grasp. Kalakaua gave him no trouble whatever. The alleged descendant of Kamehameha was an easy man to handle. His greatest neces sities were an ever-convenient *2O piece, an artistic barkeeper, a showy suit of clothes, and a first-class baud of hula-hula dancers. All these were provided to his majesty, and in addition palaces on a plan never dreamed of by his projenitors. But the ideas or a King of cbe Cannibal Islands expand like those of other mortals, and when Kalakaua returned from a tour of Europe he was a changed person. His taste for linen dusters, plug hats, and ornamented top boots had gone and a latent passion to shine as a fenuine blood of the semi-English pattern ad been dangerously aroused. The Court of Victoria had filled the Hawaiian monarch with new ideas of what belonged to royalty, and when he again touched the volcanic soil of Hawaii he was a changed man. He ex acted a close observance of the outward forms of deference to established rank, and resented the advances of plebians with king ly hauteur. When be snubbed the purser of the old steamer Ajax by refusing to join in a game of pedro at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, one night society was amazed, but the social strata were destined to be further convulsed. Not long after ho created an immense sensation by declining the invita tion of the Captain of the steamship Wonga- Wonga to join him in a morning cock tail. Several incidents of this kind finally killed all hopes that his majesty was unaf fected by the attention of European poten tates and it,'lias resolved to gratify his new ambitious to eclipse the glories of Northern thrones. A poet laureate was specially imported for his Majesty by Spreckles as an experiment, tho choice fall ing on Charles Warren Stoddart, of the San Francisco Bohemian Club, who had attained some distinction os a contributor to Eastern and W estern magazines and journals. Stod dart proved a great acquisition to the Court of Hawaii, and soon added to the classics of the country several fine poems on the King’s yacht, and the royal hula-hula dancing com bination, with a number of chaste and elegant sonnets on the snub-noses and fine Vandyke-brown complexions of flic favorite ladies-in-waiting. At this time glowing verses to the Queen were not the correct thing in the Hawaiian Court, a* her majesty had become estranged from lier royal spouse by reason of his pronounced ambition to rival Albert Edward of Eng land. The importation of a poet laureate worked so well that the wily King Spreckels concluded to introduce a court historian, and after looking around found the right man for the place in Editor Creighton, of the San Francisco Post, for merly of the Auckland (New Zealand) press, and still more remotely of the Fiji Islands and the Irish Times roportorial staff. Edi tor Creighton had not the poet's eye for the hula-hum dunce, yachting made him seasick, and absinthe cocktails oil an empty stomach were his special aversion. He was, therefore, handicapped at the start, but he went to work and soon earned fame, prestige, and royal favor by his compilation of a biog raphy of Kalakaua. His majesty had long rested under the cloud of a suspicion with regard to his lineal descent from the great warrior Kainchamelia. The newly-imported court historian showed conclusively that tho hue was perfect, and that the accidental likeness of the ruler of Hawaii to the negro cobbler who did service at the palace was a mere innocent freak of a sportive nature in the tropics. The gifted historian was Promptly promoted to the post of Secretary , Foreign Affairs and the poet laureate became a star of tho second magnitude in comparison; Tho scheme worked so well that Clans Sprocket concluded to import some celebrities. Tho next east of his drag-net among the intel lectual Tritons of the Bohemian Club on >ungled Joe Tilden, the burst stock broker and bon riront, ana Paul Newmann, a tal ented wnl highly educated but, erratic Ger inon lawyer. Paul hiul served in the Cali loniia Legislature for one term, aud made uea a notable record that the lodgings wniish Be honored by his patronage nave since been known as the Robbers Roost. 111 the wake of Messrs. Tilden and New nianii followed several struggling and “Jilt-starved artists, and the Bohemian colony in Hawaii became a large and nourishing institution. It was next, found necessary to import a court journalist, and rjRR O’Connell, copartner of James Connor oche,n°w of New York, the author of I lie Red Fox” and other Irish dramatic UKoti-hoa, was imported to take charge of the i or al weekly newspaper. The court of iIH .vaii nt tlus auspicious moment was some thing to be remembered. It is highly ques tiouubi,, if history can show anything liko •t- l he hand of irresponsible Bohemians, "ho could never manage their own limited excliequnr, directed the destinies of the lit- i *"* kingdom, and us nu inevitable result tho I monarch, the subject and the Cabinot were soon inextricably tangled up and submerged m a quagmire ot debt. Meantime the thrifty Spreckles had gone cm absorbing sugar plan tations and sugar mills but not altogether without opposition. His monopoly of the sugar trade on the Pacific coast nail roused strong feeling against him, and a rival sugar company was formed. At first King Claus laughed at the opposition. He then became serious, and uext lost his temper at finding that the newcomers meant to fight to the finish. He lowered his rates and the opixisi tion went him l-3c. better. He tried to bluff on another startling reduction, but again the opposition saw him and went l-2c. lower. 1 hen Claus made a splurge that meant the loss of half a million, and was expected to wipe the new sugar company off the face of Hawaii and California, but the late arrivals only set their teeth and hung on. They are hanging on yet, but now it is King Claus who seems to be having the liveliest part of the battle. F The change in the relations of the rival sugar combinations was partly brought about by the “talent” which King Claus had imported for the edification and glori fication of the Court of Hawaii. Oik- by one the influential members of the Cabinet had gone back on their creator and prostra ted themselves before the rising sun repre sented by Herman Bendel, the prosperous San Francisco grocer. Finally the climax was reached. The control of the sugar trade was wrested from King Claus and Herman Bendel, and his re finery company got a firm grasp on the chief industry of the Cannibal Islands. While all this was going on the Cabinet and King had with cold blooded dissimulation managed to borrow $250,000 from Sprockets, which sum was speedily exhausted by the living expenses of the court, the laureate’s salary, the histo rian’s rewards, and the perquisits of Attor ney General Newmann and the Cabinet generally. Then the imported and native combina tion of talent got their heeds together and resolved to add insult to the injuries already done King Claus. Spreckels had offered to loan the government the money it actually needed and take bonds for the same. The Cabinet,however, inspired His Majesty Kala kau with the idea that any further transac tions with King Spreckels would be derogatory to the government, that Claus, notwithstanding his wealth and aspirations, was still at heart a corner groceryman and had no thought worthy of an empire as vast and progressive as that of the Hawaiian Islands. It was further suggested to his majesty that as 1887 was likely to be an ex citing year all over the world, it behooved a monarch as potent as the descendant of the great Kamehameha to be properly equipped for social intercourse with the crowned heads of the world. This, it was argued, could only be done by having an iron clad frigate or a couple of them built. The scheme when fully unfolded contemplated the floating of a loan of $4,000,000 in London if possible, but if not possible there, then anywhere that confiding bondholders could be found. When King Spreckels was informed of the project he extracted por tions of his venerable beard in the fii-st paroxysm of his rage. 'Then he rushed on board his fastest steamer, plowed down under a full head of steam to Honolulu, and demanded a reconstruction of the Cabinet, the dismissal of several of the chief con spirators, and an immediate abandonment of the four million loau project. Kalakaua had, however, been well braced for the in terview by logical, moral and other neces sary stimulants, and he manfully negatived all of King Spreckels’ peremptory demands. Then Spreckels, it is said, called for the liquidation of his claims against the royal exchequer. This also was vetoed, and in a towering passion the autocrat of all the Cannibal Islands rushed back to the Hawaiian hotel and got together all his knightly decora tions, presented in days past by the grate ful and submissive deputy monarch, Kalakaua. The scene which took place when the now hostile monarchs again came face to face in the royal audience chamber is said to have been very dramatic. History has unfortunately not preserved the exact language use! by King Spreckles on the memorable occasion, but it is on record and indisputable that he concluded the interview by hauling the knightly stars, medals, and garters out of his small clothes and hurling them on the tessellated floor of the palace. Since then the chasm has liven widened rather than bridged. Soon after King Spreckles got back to San Francisco Herman Bendel, the grocer, who was one of the active members of the rival sugar company was called to Hawaii by special command of His Majesty Kalakaua. Speculation as to the motive of this edict was rife in mer cantile and corner grocery circles while Mr. Bendel was dallying with Hawaiian prin cesses among the banana groves of Hilo and Man). When he came back, however, it was noticed t hat Mr. Bondel walked with a more erect carriage, and that when his old corner-grocery acquaintances hailed him across the street his response lacked the effusive cordiality of earlier days. One afternoon a week after his return Mr. Ben dei called his confidential bookkeeper into the private office, and, after carefully lock ing the door, went to the safe and extracted therefrom a small plush-covered box. Care fully opening this precious casket, Mr. Ben dell lifted from the velvety interior whereon it reposed a Maltese Cross in gold suspended from a ribbon of blue, red and yellow. Mr. Bendel pinned the cross to the lapel of his black cloth coat, stuck his thumbs in hi* vest, and turned proudly toward his book keeper. you haf join the Grand Army, Mr. Bendel,” cried the confidential employe. Mr. Bendel nearly fainted; but, master ing his emotion by a tremendous effort, he corrected the humiliating mistake. “I haf join nothinks,” he exclaimed. “I have been made the Knight—Sir Knight auf Hawaii. I take the place of Claus Spreckels. No longer it is Sir Knight Claus Spreckels. It is Sir Knight Herman Ben dell. Vat you dinks, ehi ’ The admiring bookkeeper thought so loudly and enthusiastically that his salary was raised $lO a year on the spot. “You must no gif it avay—keep it mit yourself,” whispered Mr. Bendel to the bookkeeper, as the happy accountant moved back toward his desk again. Next day the news was in every corner grocery in town and the day after a San Francisco paper published the fact that Herman Bendel was a Knight of Hawaii, vice Claus Spreckels, resigned. Mr. Bendel was so incensed at the expose that he raised the bookkeeper’s salary $lO more and immediately got a corner on all the newspapers with the offensive news in them. For the next week one of the clerks was busy mailing the papers to various parts of the United States and Germany where the intelligence of thejviiightly creation would be most en thusiastically received. Since then" the new sugar company has gone on adding to its advantages. LEMON ELIXIR. A Pleasant Lemon Drink. Fifty cents and one dollar per bottle. Sold by druggist-:. Prepared by H. Mozldy, M. D., Atlanta, Gu. For biliousness and constipation take Lemon Elixir. For indigestion and foul stomach take Lemon Elixir. For sick and nervous headaches take Lem on Elixir. For sleeplessness and nervousness take Lemon Elixir. For loss of appetite and debility take Lemon Elixir. For fevers, chills and malaria, take Lemon Elixir, ull of which diseases arise from a tor pid or diseased liver. A Prominent Minister Writes. After ten years of great suffering from indigestion, with great nervous prostration, biliousness, disordered kidneys and constipa tion, I have been cured by four bottles of Dr. Mosley’s Lemon Elixir; and am now a well man. ' Rev. C. C. Davis, Eld. M. E. Church South, No. 'JH Tattnall street, Atlanta, Ga. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1887-TWELVE PAGES. AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. . The Bicycle, Not tlie Tripod, Camera is All the Go. New York, May 7.— The Girls’ Camera Club has had a field day in Central Park this week. There was a rendezvous at the Fifty-ninth street entrance, and then a capacity for infinite frolic drove through the gateway in a couple of buggies, followed by red cheeks and flying ribbons on a quartette of horses, while vivacious energy on two or three tricycles brought up the rear. The New York girl is going into amateur photography with considerable enthusiasm this spring, and the Camera Club is the first fruits of her zeal. She has not lifted the implements of the bewitching art upon the pedestal of a craze, but they are coming to hold an altogether respectable place in the ranks of her whims. The Camera Club is a devoted body; and on the morning in question had a business-like programme laid down. A series of eight “exposures,” half of them studies of subjects agreed upon be forehand and half of them detective sketches snatched on the spur of the moment from the moving humanity around, were to lie submitted in competition for the honors of the day. Down by the lake you might have come upon the personified mischief of the party lying in wait for a pair of unwary spring lovers in a boat, and taking a chance shot at a rolypoly baby tumbling ou the grass, to pass away the time. Up in the antiquarian region, by Revolutionary forts that still mark one chain of the city’s de fenses, you might have recognized a couple more intent on grouping and composition and bribing a trio of rollicking small boys to lend human interest in the foreground of the view. In the neighborhood of the menagerie the elephant chained by one foot posed as ho munched a peanut, and the bears, pit and the eagles, cage a ffiirded opportunities for glimpses of brute and human nature not to be lost by such an eager baud. The number of women among the amateur photographers of the city is not large as yet, hut it is growing daily, and the sex feminine has some good work to show as the results of its ventures in this field. Tlie newspaper correspondent seized upon the dry plate and the handy little detective camera about as quickly as anybody, and some half dozen women journalists about New York find in the rage for illustrated letters abundant call forthe exercise of their skill. Women artists in common with their brothers of the craft owe no little help to the sun picture. Women who used to try to sketch and couldn’t are given up that waste of time, having found such satisfactory substitute for preserving travel and vacation sou venirs. Mrs. J. Wells Champney, wife of the artist, and another of that bright book, “Three Vassal - Girls,” is among the most enthusias tic of the New York photographic guild. Sne is blessed with good subjects in a couple of attractive little folk, and keeps a progres sive record of their growth, their doings aud almost of their sayings, catching them in the latest bit of roguery in unconscious childish attitudes. Mr. Constable, of the shopping house of Arnold, Constable &, Cos., spends all of his avaible leisure in photo graphy, and his wife is quite as devoted and rather more skillful than he. The Marquise de Mores, who used to lie Miss Hutton, and is now the wife of the Marquis of cowboy fame, has done some of the clev erest work, I suppose, of any New York amateur. Spirited bits on Jerome avenue, when the horsemen are speeding their trot ters, are the subjects she takes to most kindly, 11,111 1 from her seat in lier phaeton she has ifiade a collection of studies of the horse in motion that it would lie hard to duplicate or surpass. Ranch life in Dakota lias given her another opportunity, and being a dar ing rider she has utilized her chances to perpetuate the wildest of wild West hunting scenes. Mine. Alice le Plongeon, whose work with her husband, August le Plongeon, in Yucatan, has made her known in archeologi cal fields, is an amatur of no mean skill. She uses wet collodion plates—a task that few amateurs attempt—-and has brought back from Mexico pictures of the relics of the cities of the Mayas that are serving as data for study of tlie lost civilization of those aborigines. Alice Stone Blackwell, Lucy Stone’s daughter and junior editor of the Woman's journal, Boston, has gone into photography for recreation pure and simple, as many busy women do. There were numbers of good things shown by women at the first aimual exibitition of the amateur photographers of the country at the Ortgies gallery. New York, last, month, among them the work of Mrs. Robert W. De Forrest perhaps carrying off the palm. WHAT IS MAKING WOMEN PHOTOORAPHETS. Just as it was the dry plate that started the immense development of amateur photo graphy. so it is the perfection of the smaller and more easily portable cameras that is bringing the women into the field. The photoprapher of old, with his black cloth, his blacker dark room, his mysterious toy ing with unknown, and to mortals of a com moner stamps, unknowable chemicals, was an awesome being from whom the last few years have ruthlessly torn off the veil. The substitution for the wet collodion plate, which required technical knowledge and special skill in its preparation, of the gelatine film spread over the glass mouths before it is wanted, ready sensitized and packed for transportation to the ends of the globe revolutionized the business for professional and amateur. So far as outdoor pinitography is concerned, the veriest bungler, if he has artistic instinct enough to choose a pictur able scene, can make the exposure, (levelop his plate and print off the views with the instruction to tie given in a single afternoon. The camera has become a plaything, and one of the most bewitching and satisfactory of the toys that grown up-people affect. The tripod camera is hardly used by women at all. The bicycle camera that screws on a tricycle equally well, and that, without any extra impediment in the way of luggage, gives one instantaneous views of aii afternoon’s outing with barely the trouble of pulling up to eaten them, is coming to be a favorite with women who affect the wheel. The tiniest of all cameras which slips inside the clothing, the lens acting as dress or vest button, is canned by a number of women about the city streets. The photo graphic appartus being completely hidden, piquant life and character sketches are picked up as you demurely pass your un conscious fellow-beings at fifteen feet range. It is the latest form of the detective camera—that which counterfeits a neat little hand satchel in appearance—that is the usual favorite just now, however, with women as with men. Tlie machine can be had scarcely larger than tlie usual handker chief receptacle, the size of the plate it carries being much less of an object than it used to be since the recent perfection of tho enlargement processes by permanent bro mide prints. For tourists and in all cases where the baggage is ait object, the smaller the plate the better, and tho best pictures can afterward lie enlarged at borne. The detective is focused and sprang on the in stant, and is so quick In its action that I have seen a clear picture of the lied of a mountain brook —a much more difficult feat than photographing an object which is it self moving—caught from the window of a train at full speed. The spring brides have set the photographic fashion, and I came across one of them at the counters of a large manufacturing Ann last week, laying in dry plates for a‘‘shot at Niagara” on her wedding tour. Big oiilers have begun to com:: in—so they told me when she was gone—for cameras to go with vacation outfits for European toui - 3, camping parties and mountain climbing. Amateurs arc notorious for putting fabulous sums into photography, ana women have so far taken the cue that, I Was told, their bills have in some instances run up to the three figure lino. Take it all in all the camera is a blessing, for it puts picturesque nature and humanity into the power, of the ap preetiative eye, even if there dosn't go with it the artist’s hand, E. l’. n. HORSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE Improves Nutrition. Dr. A. Trap, Philadelphia, says: “Itpro motes dig - *stion and improves general nutri tion of the nervous system.” STORIES A BOUT SNAKES. EXPERIENCES RELATED BY VERA CIOUS CA LIFORNIA MEN. Stories About Rattlesnakes, Some of Which are True and Some of Which Need a Good Deal of Confirmation How Senator Hearst Got Into a Nest of Them. From the New York Timet. The Hoffman House apothecary shop is practically the New York headquarters for traveling Californians. The Westerner on a tour is very fond of Bouguereau pictures and statuary, and “sich” whonevor ha can look at it through glassware. Everybody knows everybody else in the land of climate, aud one man from San Francisco never sits down to a table in the saloon without every other Californian who drops in comes and takes a seat by him. Consequently the ex change of climatic views ana the telling of stories is a regular thing. The other even ing the conversation ran on snakes. Snakes are a poor subject for cheerful talk in an apothecary shop, but everybody was in terested and had something to tell. Some of the stories had only a scientific value, others merely a romantic worth; but they were interesting. Col. Gillette began by a learned disserta tion upon the virulence of rattlesnake poison. He told of a miner on the Yuba, in early days, who was bitten through the bootleg by a big “rattler” and died. His trails were taken care of, including the boot he wore when bitten. Nobody wore them, however, for eight months. Then a miner put them on, and in doing so scratched his leg slightly. In eight hours he was dead and the needle-like tang of the rattlesnake was found sticking through the bootleg. The poison had kept its strength during all that period. “The strangest thing* alxiut the poison, too,” said another, “is. the fact that the chemical analysis of it shows it to lie com posed of the most harmless ingredients, ox ygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, noth ing more. It can be swallowed without tho slightest injury.” “Oh, yes,” said a gentleman of unques tioned veracity. “I have eaten rattlesnake in Arizona, not because I was snake hungry, but out of curiosity. The meat is as white as milk and very delicate. The Yuma In dians are very fond of it.” “Speaking of Yuma,” said a surveyor just in from tho Phoenix mine, “I was surveying in Sau Diego county in 1878 with Gen. ri. J. Willey,late Surveyor General of California. It’s a bad county for snakes, because they are a grayish brown, nearly the color of the rocks and sand, and you’re liable at any time to walk into one. In the hot season they get blind and silent and strike without rattling, just at the time when their poison is at its worst. There’s a curious fact, by the way, that every plain in Southern California exemplifies. Ordi narily birds make their nests where they can’t be seen without difficulty. You know how hard it is to find a bird’s nest in the average tree. Well, all over these plains there grows a cactus called the ‘choyu.’ It is just a collection of thin prickly sticks, branching and covered with spines. But pretty nearly every ‘choya’ you see has a bird’s nest in it, rising a little above the sur rounding sage brush, and in plain sight of everybody. The birds build in these for protection. The snakes can't slide up to the ‘choya’ on account of the spines. Every snake’s belly is soft, and it takes very little to penetrate it. You’ve heard of sleeping in side of a horse-hair lariat when camping. Well, that’s the reason of it. A horsehair robe is so prickly that a rattlesnake won’t cro it under any circumstance*. “I was going to say,” he continued, “that Willey and I camped by a spring in a pretty dry country, there lieing a grove or oaks near the water. He and I rolled up together at night in two pairs of blankets and, (icing tired, went sound to sleep about 9 o’clock. It was about 1 in the morning when Willey slowly wakened. He told me afterward that he seemed to be under the influence of a terrible fear that had come on him while asleep. He opened his eyes, but didn't dare to move. As he tried to get his wits he felt a slow, creeping motion ot something heavy going over his right arm. His right anil was inside the blankets, and was Between him and me. The General is a thorough bred. He has plenty of nerve and presence of mind. He knew exactly what it was, but without moving he called to me. “ ‘Ned,’ said he, in a quiet tone. “I was sound asleep. He had to call three times before I, fortunately without moving, said: “' What!' “ ‘Do not move a muscle,’ said he. ‘Do you understand me?’ “ ‘Yes,’ said I. You can bet I was wide awake then. “ "There is a rattlesnake in the blankets between us. When I say three kick loose and jump.’ “ ‘One, two, three,’ said the General slow, and we jumped. They were pretty good jumps, as you can imagine. Then we threw a branch on the fire, and when it blazed up we went up for tlie snake. He had coiled In the blankets, and you can bet he was ugly. A pretty big fellow, too —six- teen rattles and a button. “One of the most horrible rattlesnake ex periences I ever heard,” said Col. Jim With mgton, was told me by a lady who is one of the managers of a children's charitable so ciety in Bail Francisco. It happened only a couple of years ago. They have a good many little waifs to take care of in the so ciety’s home, and put them out for adoption whenever they can get a good home for them. Among them was a little oiphan girl, 2 years old. The Child was given to a man and his wife, who Soon afterward moved down to Keru couuty on a ranch. The tie girl had a kitten which she was very fond of. She Was always playing with it, but one morning, a few days after the family hail got settled in their uew home, she lost It, The woman was busy, and paid no attention to the little one until she heard her crying bitterly. She went to look for her, and found that she was under tho house, which stood several feet uliove the ground She crawled under, and when she got near the child almost fainted away. Tlie kitten had been bitten and killed by a rattlesnake. The poor little child, hearing the kitten mewing, bad gone after it, and nail tried to take it away from the snake. It bit her repeatedly on both hands, on the wrist and in the face. It mast have struck and struck. Ugh! It makes me shiver,” said he. “The woman attacked the snake and drove it off and got the child out, but.it lived only n few hours.” Then Gen. mude a contribution to reptilian data which was interesting. “I was in tho Yosemite valley,” he said, ■•and wo killed a rattlesnake at tlie foot of the Yosemite fall. Rather u rare thing there, as none hud been seen in that neigh borhood for yours. Well, the same after noon wo were driving down on the floor of tlie valley, after a visit to the Vernal fall, and t he wagon passed close to a big pine, at the foot of which was a small shruo about fen feet high. It hud no leaves at that sea son and was a mass of fine brauehes, aud hanging in these branches was a brightly colored object tliat caught my eye. We stopped the wagon, and found tliat it was the most beautiful snake I ever saw. It was alxmt three fret long, slender and col ored in alternating rings of shining black, snow-white aud scarlet rod. It paid no at tention to us, but slid very slowly along through tho network of twigs without showing either anger or fear. We watched it lor sometime, and then I started to kill it, Ixvause I always kill snakes on principle. •• 'Hold on,’ said the driver. “ ‘ IVlint is it?' said I. “ ‘I wouldn’t kill that snake,’ said he, ‘That’s a king snake?’ “ ‘And what’s a king snake?’ “ ‘lts the only thing in the world that kills a rattlesnake.’ •‘We loft the snak* - unharmed anil asked him alxmt it os we drove along. There was no yarn in It. Everybody in tho valley sold the same thing, and several of the guides ami others bud seen a k’"ig snake and u rat tlesnuke fight at roine time in tlieir expe- rience. The king snake only attacks when the rattlesnake is asleep as they are most of the time when coiled. It grabs the rat Ger just back of the head as a terrier does a rat, and holds on until tho rattlesnake is stran gled to death. “The rattlesnake has one other enemy,” said Mr. W. H. Bullard. “It would sound like a lie if most, of you, I thick, were not familial - witli it All that it amounts to is one of those manifestations of instinct in birds which can’t lie explained. There’s a bird in California which, in the middle and north of the State, is called the trotting jay or road-runner. It is a largo and special variety of the jay, with long legs and high topknot. It’s as big as a young chicken. VV ell, in the south of the State, those birds ore called ‘choya-birda,’ from the same peculiarity that Neil spoke of, of building m the cactus shrub. A pair of these birds, if they find a rattlesnake coiled and asleep, will fly to the nearest choya and pick up little branches in their bills and come and drop them around tho snake in a circle. If he sleeps long enough he will wake up to find himself entirely cooped up in a prickly lx>x, w’hich he can’t get out of. because the minute he attempts to crawl over a bit of choya the spines enter at the curve of the neck and hold him. The snake stays there until he starves to death or is killed by somebody who finds him. It’s a queer fact, but there is no doubt whatever of its truth.” Thus tar the conversation had confined itself to fact. The romantic element began to enter when one of the settlers rehearsed a story from an English piqxM' instancing the extraordinary nerve of a man, nil Eng ligii officer in India, who was waiting at the mouth of a gully, which was being beaten for a tiger. The tiger jumped from the jungle into a clear space alxiut forty yards in front of him. He fired and missed. The tiger made a leap toward him and landed. He fired again, ami tho brute fell over killed. His friends, who were amazed at, his first miss, understood when they sa w him drop his gun instantly upon firing tin l second shot and seize a snake which had swarmed over his arm. He held it l>v the neck and struck its head off with his Kilife. It was a cobra, tho deadliest of the Hindos tan reptiles. As ho had raised his gun to tire the first shot he had felt it around his leg, and he had to choose between tiger and cobra, but killed both. This startling encounter put the company on their mettle. Mi - . Bui laid told of tho, subtropical pithons, Mr. Flood, Jr., of his adventures with monkeys and anacondas in Java, and the narratives trek the color of those stories which ore abandoned by the standard books on the reptilia and left to the sensational weeklies to tell. After sev eral had been told Senator Hearst, who had been an interested listener, trek a hand. He did not propose that the Senatorial toga should lie surpassed bv ordinary dialogue when it came to snake stories. “i was out in ItuKota,” he said, “and there was an old mining friend of mine came to me and wanted me to Irek at a claim of his. He was broke and had had j iretty hard luck, and 1 was willing to help him if 1 could. He said he had a mighty gixxl tiling: that he had sunk down 50 feet on a claim and laid bare a 8 foot ledge that was full of free gold and lreked steady, hanging wall and fret wail solid and clearly marked. Well, wc went over to look at it. He had opened it up with a windlass. A couple of Chinamen had dono all the work, and they had struck six months before Ixtcause he hadn’t any thing to |xiy ’em with. The hole hadn't been touched since then. Well, there was no water in the shaft, aml thc rope being good, I went down in the bucket to take a look at the ledge. I hai a pick with me and he low ered me. Only one could go down at a time, and 1, of course, imd to go, as I was the man that was doing the investigating. Well, the candle I carried went out on the way down, and when the bucket touched I started to light it. “When I struck that match I don’t think I was ever quite so scared in my life. You never Beard suqh a hissing iu all your born days,; The'fact was, that hole was just plump' jjtijl W rattlesnakes. They were thcir licajni tyi*rc sticking out of the crevice* all atpumltUC, I knew I was a goner, but I holjju-cd to the miner to hoist. Before he could one big, black fellow struck at my hamj,,'and fetched it, and before I could get above them my hands and face were bit, I don’t know how many times. It was fearful. There’s nothing so horri ble as the feeling of a snake bite. Well, the miner got me to the surface, laid me down and poured whisky into me as fast as I could take it. We had alxiut a quart with us. Then ho went to sucking the wounds as best he could, and made me chew up some tobacco and plaster it on some oi tho others that he hadn’t time for. But my arms began to swell up pretty fast anil my face turned black, and f began to feel a little flighty and deadly sick,” and the Senator nauseated at the reminis cence, shuddered and stopped with a look of disgust. “But you are recovered, Senator,” ven tured one of the party, earnestly. “Oh, no,” said the Senator. “That’s was the worst of it. I died.” HUNTING ANTS’ EGGS. A Simple Method by Which They Ire Rapidly Sorted When Fourto, One of the strangest of sports, or rather of industries—since to a few men employed in the forests of FVance it supplies a part of their means of livelihood—is the gathering of ants’ eggs. The larvse of those insects, which are often as large as the ants them selves, says the Youth's Companion, are used in zoological gardens and elsewhere as food for tropical bird- reared in captivity. Le Mouiteur tie, la Chasse, a hunting journal, gives a picturesque account of a hunt for ants’ eggs, from which we make a translation of some extracts. “At sunrise we set out into the woods, ac companied by the old forest-guard, Denis, and nis son Juan. The latter carried a big bag and a shovel. We hail tied strings around the bottoms of our trousers and around our coat sleeves at the wrists as a precaution against the sort of game we were after. Before long we came upon one of the little hillocks of twigs which form the ants’ taeuses. “Jean hold his bag open by the ant-hill, simply gave two or three strokes with his shovel, thrusting ants, twigs and eggs all pell-mell into the bag. The sack was quickly tied up, arid another ant hill sought and despoiled, and this was repeated until the bag was full “ ‘Anil now comes what, is more interest ing,’ said old DeniN, ‘the sorting of the eggs. I have an extensive establishment where this is carried on' permanently.’ The old man smiled as he spoke. “We proceeded to a level clearing in the wootls, ouen to the sun, in the middle of which there was a ring made of empty flowerpots laid on their sides, the moutlis of tho pots turned toward the centre. “Jean laid down his bag, with its thous ands of squirming prisoner*, while he rev ered the nng of flower pots over with tho green brandies of trees in such a way as to shade them completely, but not the middle of the circle. Then into this sunny space in the centre he opened his bag and emptied its contents. “Instantly, as if by inspiration, tho writhing mass of ants began carrying their eggs into the shaded pots. They knew that if left many minutes exposed, to the sun their delicate young ones would certainly dio, and they (le)x)sited the larva - in the pots ns fai! as they could carry them. “Before long some of tho pots were half flllixl with nothing but eggs, and these pots Denis emptied, one at a time, into a smaller Lag. While tho ants continued to work at the, rescue of their eggs from the broiling sun, Jeuu returned to the woxls, aud came back at length with stiil another fmg full of his strangely mixed material, wuich ho poured into the writhing arena. • Denis, in the meantime, continued steadily at work emptying tlie flowerpots white with larvse,” Tu* Queen of the Belgians recently took pot luek with the officers of a regiment of infantry. Her dinner was a plate of cabbage soup aud a pickled pig’s foot. WHEN THE WIRES ERR. The Complications Caused by Tele graphic Blunders. From the New York Star. Telegraphy would have undoubtedly found a congenial environment in Sparta. Brevity in words was a quality that the Spartan was trained to from his cradle. When they lajised into speech they were able to get their thoughts into the smallest amount of verbal vesture that would cover them. When verlwwe moderns try to do the same a portion of the idea is generally left uncovered. When the idea has been kneaded again and again to get it into a com modious 1 ittle circumference that will fall within the tariff gauge, the sender will often fail to put in some important punt, so that, the receiver is thrown into a panic by his throes at interpretation. The operator, too, can make a mistake that completely muddles the whole thing up. Sometimes these mistakes are amusing, sometimes they are afflicting, sometimes they are costlv. A firm in New York whien dealt in bats, caps and furs received from a small city in the West, toward tho middle of August, the following telegram; “Send at once 1,000 caps like those ordered before.” The firm rustled around lively to (ill the onier. The cap was a light summer one, and they had very few in stock, as the season was near its end. So all the female operators were nut to work; scissors wuxed hot with cutting and clipping and snipping; the sewing nia ehiuo clicked feverishly, and at last a big box, with tho 1,000 ca{>s, was duly for warded to the address of the occidental dealer. Poor man! he had ordered ten caps, and the operator had centupled the amount by milling two “airy nothings,” so that he was furnished with enough to cover tlio heads of every 1 icing in the place n ’id one or two generations yet unborn. He resented this stress of caps. Tho New York firm claimed tluty had filled the order and demanded payment. The dealer refused it. Tho caps were sold at auction for a trifling sum, and suit, was brought against the telegraph company for the difference io the market value of the caps and the value received. The whole suit depended on the telegram written by the shopkeeper. If lie had inscribed 10 and the operator had added two zeros, the company hail a sorry outlook. The clever young lawyer to whom tho company en trusted the case, secured this original tele gram as his first move, and while the plain tiffs begged adjournment (until they could hunt up tho all-important telegram) the telegraph company insisted on having the cast' come on. The cap firm acquired an unpleasant lesson which made them very w'iry in the matter of telegrams forever after. cm une time ago a telegram was sent, to a man from his brother in New York, bidding him come to a certain station. This brother a little while tefore had run a nail into him at Asbury Park, and the whole family Imme diately conceived that he had had another driven in, and was probably in the horrible contortions of lockjaw. The telegram was dated from the wrong station, and for hours the family were wildly searching for the be nailed brother. It was a day of torture till in the evening the gentleman showed up with no nails, except what nature had in serted in his extremities. "Why the deuce didn't you come this morning to street! I had two posses to the tench show, and wanted you to see the prettiest liver-colored bitch in the world I” Lockjaw and dentil dwindling down to a prize pup I Telegraphically, sounds that, represent different things are often identical, and some judgment is required on the ns-eiving operator’s part in interpreting from the con text. A New York society woman, fatigued with the wear and tear of an incessant whirl of social duties, went to Saratoga to take the waters as a means of rallying. They failed to do the work properly, and she wrote her family physician for advice. She received a telegram “Take a dozen pills.” ’Twas heroic treatment, especially when the cathartic globules followed a course of Huthorn Spring water. She took the pills, and almost took her departure from things terrestrial as a consequence. The doctor had telegraphed “Take a dose of pills.” “ Done of" and “dozoa” are the same telegraphically. By a mistake of this kind, the Associated Press at the time when Samuel Tilden had !>een counted out of the Presidency, were galvanized by a report wired in tho midst of the intense excitement that James A. < rarflelil would play a game of lxi.se hall in the House! Instead of “play a game of base ball,” Garfield was to “accept the gage of battle." The similarity of telegraphic symbols was again the cause of the mistake. Frequently telegraphic mistalios in mes sages have been trie cause of death by the shock communicated to*the receivers of ,the message. The humor of telegraphic errors is not apparent in such cases. One of the funniest things of tho kind oc curred last winter. The correspondent of the New York Herald telegraphed a long -account of the ioe carnival at Minneapolis. “Ice king” is telegraphically the same as “Yo king.” The Herald came out with big head lines about the “Yo King,” and went through a column seriously expatia ting on this mystic royalty. Every tele graph man in the country saw how the mis take was made, and there was a general laugh at the Herald's expense. “Yo king” seemed a carnival creature, and probably ranked in the mind of the man who re ceived the inossago in the category with vikings. Having the message insured by repeating it does not always secure certainty. Once, when the matter was as simple as tho mono syllable “yes,” and repetition was ordered to make certainty doubly sure, the message was reoeived as “no.” A lawyer telegraphed to a legal friend in Boston tor some imjxirtant papers in a case he was conducting. The Boston man was laid up with a cold, and told his clerk to send this tews to the inquiring lawyer as an excuse for not sending tho papers. How ever it was, it was flashed ovor the wires that the Boston men was dead. The greatest excitement was created by his sud den taking off, and the family rushed wildly on to Boston to take care of the re mains. The corpse was found actively em ploying a handkerchief. His cold was not the <old of death, and he soon recovered. The operator takes down the words or sounds that are sent, and his duty is to get those correctly and not to have any views about style or sentiment on the sender’s part. Messages sent in cipher, or where some word has lieen conventionally agreed to as signifying a comjiany's long name by a short one. mav look oddly enough when compounded with other words. This ac counts in some measure for the mistakes that may occur. So if a message comes over the wire that “Lil is on the top ladder and Kip’s shoulder is thoughtful" he lias not got to wonder at Lil’* exaltation nor at the extraordinary mentality of Kip’s body. It is an unusual way of presenting a clear fact, and the charity is there for the proper man. Thus it is that the sienuer wires that stretch like spiders’ threads over the country often entangle tho swift-footed message tliat runs over them and it arrives lame. And the Bell Says "Dong I Dong I” . From Peck's Sun. I happened to be walking behind a couple of school children the other day, when one, a lad of about! years, turned to his compan ion. and said: “Say, Skinny, we don’t say ‘ehest-nuta’ no more down to our school, wo say church tell.” "Aw, g’long. Yer tryin’ to get off some gag on me.” “No, I hain’t. Hope to die, and cross my heart., if I am." “Honestly and truly?” “Ah, ha!" “Well, then, if there ain’t no gag, why do you say church tell ?” “ ’Cause it’s lx*en tolled before.” “Huh! 1 don’t see anything so very funny about that.” “O, Charley,” she exclaimed, "what beauti ful arbutus! and did you really pick them your self r” “Yods," said Charley, “I Licked >m hysef. begauagitkaughed you'd prige 'em bore than if L Ooughd Jißi ad a (chew ha*p-k'client! eggs oLugelHjMndt'ti.’'-Aea York Sun. BROWN’S IRON BITTERS. TIRED OUT! At this season nearly army asm needs to nse soma sort of tonic. 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