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PEOPLE WHO WHISTLE.
WHAT HI3TOKY AND TRADITION
HAri TO SAY OF THEM.
Odd Superstitions Relative to Those
Who Indulge the Habit Women
and Ghosts Figure in Ancient
Legends—Often Called the Devil's
Music.
From the Chicago Herald.
A contributor to a French scientific magazine
of recent date advances the theory that our
•artiest ancestors, long before they knew of
articulated speech had almost as comprehen
sive a method of expressing the mselves- that
of whistling. As there does not appear to be
any proofs to the contrary, there is no reason
why this statement should be denied. In fact,
it is rather probable t ,at they did whistle,
legendary lore will have it that our first parent
was sally deficient In the matter of thought,
and that when asked what name he would pre
fer he replied: "I don't care a d—n! ' M ben
told that this would be his name he gave a pro
longed whistle of amazement at this ingenuity.
This happened long before the Chicago fire, and
i a true story.
In the excavations of prehistoric mounds
there have been found a number of curious
whistl-s, made of stone, shells, bone ‘and other
materials, which go to show that men of every
age have been addicted to whistling. Lir. Bor
dien, who has made this subject a special 6t.udy,
found in a burial mound a very peculi tr whistle
made from a boar’s tooth, which he believes to
be the oldest specimen in the world of its kind
The same gentleman has several examples of
prehl-tonc whistles madef the bona from rein
deer joints
Mythology abounds in deities of more or less
renown who prided themselves on their musical
ability in this line. All of which go to show that
whistling is eminently resjieotable as lar its age
goes. But here, at least as far as general
opinion is concerned, the rosiiectabllity of
whistling seems to cease Indeed, it Is more
than remarkable to find how bitter is the preju
dice and superstition about vhistling even to
this day Among the stem puritans of New
England the belief was current that the mouth
of the whistler would remain impure for rorty
days, which fact no doubt had a dampening ef
feet on many a peak-hatted youth's desire to
whistle the "Mayflower's Hornpipe," ' Tara
boom de-aye," or other of the pilgrim fathers’
solemn ditties.
THE DEVIL’S WHISTLE.
The devil comes In fora large share of atten
tion in relation to whistling, some people be
lieving that when oil "Nick" touches a man’s
body he causes him to emit a hissing or
whistling sound like that of a serpent It is
cbeering to note that women (in the legends)
generally escape being touched, the devil evi •
dently having his hands full attending to the
lords of creation. In far-away loelaud they
not only abhor whistling but believe that “he
who swings a stick or whip or any
other object, thereby producing a whistling
sound, drives the Holy Ghost away
from him" Tn-se eccentricities of
superstition often find expression where you
least expect it. An American lady relates that,
while traveling in a remote part of I relend, she
once tried to coax a dog to come to her and re
sorted to whistling, when a servant girl called
out: "If you please, ma'am, don’t whistle, for
every time a woman whistles the heart of the
blessed Virgin bleeds!"
WHISTLING WOMEN.
There appears to be a firm-rooted prejudice
against whistling women: evils of every kind
from the fall of nations to the fall of a saucer
are sure to be the consequence. This applies
alike to the performer and to the luckless
listeners.
This widespread superstition originated, ac
cording to legend lore, because a woman is said
to have stood and whistled whiie the nails used
for the crucifixion were being forged. Certain
It is, however, that women of to-day are i.ot
hampered about any evil consequences attend
ant upon the r whistling propensities, judging
from the many amateur and protessional whis
tlers that are found among the tair sex every
where. The only reasonable objection to a
whistling woman is that it distorts her pretty
face. This was the reason why the haughty
goddess Minerva used a strong ad jective as Bbe
threw away the whistle that proved fatal to the
Marsyas. Sue happened to see her face in a
pool of wa er while she was whistling, and that
settled it. Wherever you go you will hear the
time-honored couplet:
A whistling wife and a crowing bsn
Will call the old gentlemau out of his den.
There are numerous versions of these lines,
but all with the same purport. Sailors are
loath to tolerate a woman indulging in the
habit of wM-tllng. An amusing instance, illus
trating their prejudice m this regard, happened
some time ago when a gentleman wished to
take a tarty of friends for a pleasure trip on
the water They found a suitable craft and
went on beard, when, much to their surprise,
tie bluff old skipper declared that he would
not carry "that young lady—she whistles."
Nothing could induce the old salt to take her on
bis vessel, and the trie was abandoned.
Why whistling is often called "the devil s
music" nobody Las been able to explain, i’os
sibly it is thal when men are caught ill mischief
they generally assume an air of indifference
and whistle. The habit of whistling has given
birth lo a great many popular expressions em
bodied la every day speech. In "King Lear"
bnakespeare makes Goneal say: “1 have beeu
worth the whistle." la the same play he again
refers to it as a pleasant way to aid a lonesome
jouruey:
I've watch’d and trsvel'd bard;
Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I’ll whistle,
Dryden did not have a high opinion of a
whistling man's Intelligence; he whe
Trudg and along, unknowing what he sought.
And whistl'd as he went for want of thought,
was evidently not bent toward the study of the
Intricate abstruse question of the pre-existenoe
of souls, but more likely to think of prosaic
pork and beans.
On the other hand some poets think that it is
an expression ol placid contentment and pleas
ure. Milton mentions
The plowman near at hand.
Whistled o'er the furrowed land,
and then we hear of a warm-hearted, jolly
Flaxen headed cowboy
Who whistled o'er the lea,
apparently for no other reason than that he
thought it good fun. The loving sweetheart
encourages her beau with the line:
Whistle and I*ll come to ihae, my lad.
There are numberless instances where the
habit is used as a moral instructor. In short,
whistling can be turned to most any aocount.
The origin of the saying "Wet your whistle"
can be traced to the famous driuking bouts of
old. Avery curious old drinking cup, sur
rounded by a wind mill, was held iu the
hand to be filled and retained there till
emptied, as then only could It be set unou
the table. The drinker having swallowed the
contents, blew up the pipe at the side, which
gave a shrill whistle and set the sails of the
wind mill in motion also. The power of
the blow and the length of the gyration
were indicated in a small dial upon the
front of the mill and also In some degree testi
fied to the state of the consumer. Among the
songs of Burns is one upon a whistle, used by
a Dane of the retinue of Anne of Denmark,
which was laid upon the tabie at the commence
ment of the drinking bout, and won bv who
ever was last able to blow it. The Dane con
quered all comers until Bir Robert lxiwrie of
Maxwellton "after three days and three nights
hard contest, left the Scandinavian under the
table." On Oct. 16, 1789, a similar contest took
place, whioh has been immortalized In Burns'
▼erses
Among the Lancashire miners there is still
prevalent an old superstition of whistling
ghosts, and when a miner has heard Its omi
nous note nothing cau Induce him to descend
Into the mine the following day. A certain
shrill cry or whistle during the night is said to
come from the “seven whistlers," whose iden
tity seems to be a puzzle. Spenser In his
"I aerie Queen," takes cognizance of these sup
posed phantom birds of ill-omeu. Bespeaks
of "the nation of unfortunate and fatal birds"
that hovered about Sir Guyon. IDs allusion
reads;
The whistler shrill,
That whoso hears doth die.
It is thought that this bird is tho queen
plover. Many a belated traveler over a lor. ly
trail at midnight has beeu startled by Its owe
some, shrill, almost human cry, carrying iu Us
weird note something inexpressibly mournful
About these birds there is a tradition that
they harbor t e sou sof those Jews who as
sisted at the crucifixion, and in consequence
are doomed to be ever on the wing, moving
through the lonely hours of the night oewu hnz
their fate by their sorrowing cries.
A RUSSIAN TRADITION.
A tale of totally different nature comes from
the Cossacks of Ukraine, in Russia, it tells
about a robber kuigut who must have lieen of a
gigantic size, as we are told that "at night he
sat on nine oak trees at once.” This gentle
man tail earned the nickname of “the nightin
gale,” because of his wonderful skill in whist
ling. He did not rush upon the weary wander
er and yell, "Throw up your hands!" at the
same time tickling his nose with the muzzle of
a blunderbuss. No. indeed. Mr. Nightingale
simply waited till bis victim was ine arshot ;then
ha began lo whistle, aud so delightful was h:s
execution that his victim soon swooned away
from pure ecstacy. Then the glzantic Mr
Nightingale quietly slid up and brained
his man. But this thing had to be stopped,
as the whistling robber had become almost as
lasu.7er.itfie a nuisance as the cranky old seeker
of the Chicago mayoralty. A valiant man
named Ilja Marotnetz essayed to subdue lm
and succeeded, by shooting him full of arrow .-,
in capturing him, an I brought him to Prince
Valdernir. Tne prince, who, of course, had
bear i of the robber's wonderful power of
whisiling, was very curious to find out if all that
was sat: about tins was true, and thought he
would give himself and his family a treat, so be
ordered the giant to "tune up ' But it came
near proving a costly experiment. The man
began to whistle, and with such intensity and
power of feeling that the prince and Us whole
family would have p-risiied had not a bold
courtier clapped his hands over the fellow s
month.
Now, all this is very interesting, but still more
so is. w hat many readers will no doubt lie sur
prised to learn, that there is a people among
whom even to-day whistling is a full-fledged
language. A French s-rvant who lias recently
v: -ted Gomera. one of the Canary Islands, says
that among the natives whistling is still the
mode of expression. The (launches, as these
people are called, have virtually lost their
identity as a race, having been merged into the
Span sh population, but they nevertheless pre
serve many of the habits of their ancestors.
Being shepherds it will be readily understood
that their language of whistling stands them in
good stead as a m-ans of communication from
long distances. The Frenchman avers that a
couple of there shepherds can "mlk" to each
other by this method from a distance of several
mil . As an illustration of the intensity and
power ot the Guanci.e whistling M. Lajard men
tions that an inquisitive Englishman persuaded
one of these shepherds to whistle in his ear,
which he did, with the result that the English
man remai ed deaf for about three weeks. He
ulso-ays that it was more particularly when
strangers were present that these queer people
couv. rsed by this peculiar whistling. This, ho
Hunks, Is tiecause they are extremely sus
picious. While he does n t believe that they can
whistle an elaborate after-dinner speech ala
Chauucey I >epev, or afuneral oration, still they
manage exceedingly well. V mother going out
in the yard never dreams of shouting: "Now,
Johnny, if you don't stop feeding the haby with
marbles. 1 11 tell your father on you!” She only
whistles some sharp staccato notes, and her
Johnny ctiirps back a few dulcet intonations
and keeps right on.
In China and elsewhere they fasten a com
bination of whistles to pigeons, which then l a
come animated .Eoilan harps, so to speak.
Carrier pigeons are provided with a whistle
emitting a harsh, shrill sound, to keep birds of
prey at a respectful distance. Every boy has
his favorite method of using his fingers for this
purpose.
A WHISTLING OYSTER.
Asa curiosity in its line may be mentioned
the "whistling oyster” discovered some years
ago in London. It was the greatest sensation
of the hour, as It ready did emit a whistling
sound or “eifflement." The proprietor of an
oyster house discovered it among a lot of or
dinary plebeian oysters and quickly
put It on exhibition. It drew
enormous crowds. and countless
jokes were perpetrated on its account. London
Hunch had a very clever imaginary sketch of
It, a copy of which (the sketch) is now used as
a sign over the restaurant. Douglas Jerrold
thought that perhaps the oyster “bad been
crossed In love and now whistled to show that
it didn’t care " Thackeray insisted that he
really was iu the shop when an American camo
to see this great phenomenon. After Uncle
Ram’s representative had heard the talented
bivalve perform he simply shrugged his shoul
ders with contempt, and said that "it was
nothing to an oyster he knew of In Massachu
setts which whistled ‘Yankee Doodle' clear
through, and followed Its master about tho
house like a dog.”
PAY DAY ON A MAN-OF-WAR.
Jack's Little Account With the Navy
Department, and How It Is Settled.
from the .Yew York Sun.
One of the sights worth a landsman’s
seeing Is pay day on board a United States
man-of-war aftor a long cruise. There Is a
monthly pay day even at sea, but It often
happens that the men leave their wages
with the paymaster, sinoe there is no way
of spending money at sea, ana Jack believes
that money was made to spend rather than
jingle In the pocket.
Ours is the most democratic navy in the
world, when it comes to most practical
matters, but it is constituted upon an aris
tocratloal theory. An officer may draw
two months’ pay in advanoe on going to
sea, and a great many inmates of the
wardroom eet sail in debt to the govern
ment, while weak-minded paymasters are
sometimes bullied or wheedled into further
advances. Jack, however, enjoys no suoh
pfiritblfir-privilege as a loan from the navy
depaftfftfcnfc. On the contrary, the pay
master takes care that the government shall
always be in debt at least a month’s wages
to every sailor aboard ship, and on many
ships, indeed, Jack never, save at his dis
charge, gets more than a moderate percent
age of bis pay.
It must always be remembered in dealing
with United states ships that tho navy is to
a great degree the slave of precedent. There
are liberal ships aud hard ships in the mat
ter of pay. Far back iu the ship’s history
some captain has set the precedent of drib
bling out Jack’s money a few dollars at a
time, and that precedent bolds until she has
an energetic oommander who prefers a dif
ferent course. A liberal precedent is set in
the same way, aud the paymaster on a lib
eral ship goes on paying out to Jack every
thing but a month’s wages until a hard
headed captain of the other sort sets anew
precedent.
When a ship gets home from a long voy
age the paymaster is usually iu debt some
thousands of dollars to Jack. The wages of
sailors and petty officers vary from slti to
$35 a month, and some skilled mechanics
employed on modern steam-drlveu ships
earn as much as S7O a month. Besides that,
everybody gets a ration, whioh amounts to
30 cents a day, and comes to Jack in the
form of a pound of salt horse, a pound of
hard tack, two ounces of coffee, so
much canned stuff of one kind or
another, and a variety of other things.
When the sailors form little messes iu the
forecastle they can commute a certain num
ber of their rations for other things, and
there is a special provision that the pay
master shall deny to Jack from the stores
no reasonable luxury allowed to the ward
room mess. Jack’s ration is really a groat
deal bigger than the man of average ap
petite needs, aud it enables him to purchase
little luxuries without trenching on his pay,
and of course it thus tends to increase bis
credit with the paymaster.
One other important and interesting pro
vision of the navy, not long in operation,
also tonda to enrich the sailor. This is the
naval savings bank, so to speak, now two
or three years under way. Jack may take
what he can out of his earnings, deposit It
with the paymaster, and obtain on all such
deposits 4 per cent, interest. The govern
ment provides for the depositors on account
book, but this Jack usually deposits
along with his savings, and
the paymaster’s clerk is accountant for both
bank aud depositor. When Jack is trans
ferred from one ship to another his new pay
master reoeives a memorandum from the
old one for the amount to Jaca’s credit, aud
interest goes on as before, but it dooe not
oompouud. The savings bauk scheme is
working well, and a considerable percent
age of the men moke deposits.
Betweeti the money that tho paymaster
withholds and that which Jaok voluntarily
leaves iu his hands or deposits in the savings
hank, some sailors at the end of a loug
cruise may draw many hundreds of dol
lars, and perhaps most men draw
throe or four months’ pay. The pay
ing Is done at the pay office, usually be
tween decks, aud otteu near the foot
of the compaiiiouway, where toe light falls
in from the sky. There, on pay day, assem
ble the paymaster with his books," the pay
clerk, the paymaster’s yeoman, and that
picturesque person, the Jaok of tho dust. At
least two of these are required for the ardu
ous duty of paying off. and sometimes all
four lead a band. Every man’s name is
down on the roil with a number opposite,
and the paymaster knows just how much is
coming to each. If a man’s term of enlist
ment is out, he may draw all. If he will,
be may at ouce sign for another cruise, and
if he does, the paymaster immediately cred
its him with three months’ pay. If Jack will
he may take a furlough of three months,
and on returning to the service at the end
of that time he will find three months' pay
to his credit.
Those who remember pay day twenty,
thirty, or forty years aec, note a remark
able change in the blue lino waiting at the
pay offioe. Tho percentage of native-born
Americans is larger than it was twenty
years ago; the percentage of grizzlod vet
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erans is much smaller. The stalwart, whole
some-looking fellows that line up In front
ot the pay offioe average perhaps under 30
years of age. Here and there is au old fel
low who carries i:i the rearward of his mem
ory piotures of Farragut with his windblown
garments urging forward the flagship
at Mobile bay. of the puff from Ripley’s
guns that marked the opening of the civil
war, aud of even earlier scenes. The faces
are of Norsemen, Hwedee, Danes, Dutch,
Germans, Canadians, rarely an Irishmen,
frenchman, Italian, Spaniard or British
lime juicer.
Of the native Americans, some are black.
The forecastle of an American man-of-war
Is perhaps, as yet, the only bit of United
States territory where the color line is not
drawn. The black man here is friend and
comrade. He stands upon his merits and is
cordially accepted if he oomes up to Jack's
somewhat peculiar, but mainly wholesome
standards of manhood.
Every man must sign the book or make
his mark. Fewer take the latter alternative
than at any previous time in the history of
the United Hates navy. Host if the men
can read and write, some in several lan
guages. Those who can do these things
well, and who are masters of their craft,
are sure to I ecome petty officers.
The clerkly sailor may become ship’s
writer, even though be lacks
some nautical accomplishments nec
essary to other petty officers. He looks
after accounts and records for the executive
officer, and might perhaps some time ship
as paymaster’s olerk, a place that gives a
man a seat at tho junior mess table, or even
perhaps iu the ward room. Such a thing
would not come to a writer as a matter of
course in the regular order of promotion,
since the paymaster’s clerk is a civilian,
appointed only for the cruise nr.d without
official relations, to either officers or men.
MR3. FRANK LESLIE.
Home Personal Remarks About a
Famous Southern Woman.
From the Ne'e Orleans Times-Democrat .
"An Interview." said Mrs Leslie to a it "dee
and Fabric as reporter, "why really, I think I
ara the most interviewed woman in the United
States." anl she laughed onarmingiy. “One
reason for this is, I suppose, that everybody
Knows where to find me. I am always here
from 12 to 4 o’clock every dar, wnile other
women are at tlieir homes, or llying about here
and there and aro more difficult to get at.”
Mrs. Leslie’s ottlce. where we sat talking, is
a charming little room in the Judge building,
on Fifth avenue, where Frank Leslie s publish
ing house is situated. Her dainty little apart
ment looks more like a studio than an editor’s
sanctum. The walls are a dull red, almost
hidden under multitudes of pictures, the chairs
are luxurious and the two large windows com
mand a fine view of the avenue. The only
business like thing In the room is a regular
office desk, littered with books and papers, in
front of which Mrs. Leslie sits. Her little dog,
a tiny Skye terrier, lies beside her, sleeping
soundy in his red-iined basket.
"I was very young, not more than 13, when I
first b gan to write," she continued, “and when
I was about’ 16 I commenced to write for Mr.
1-eslie s magazines. It happened in this way:
< >ne day a friend of mine said to me. ’Why do
you scribble ali the time without taking any re
muneration for it? Now, I know a lady who
writes for Frank Leslie who is very ill and
scarcely able to work. Why don't you take her
place, substitute your articles for hers and let
her have the money?’ I was very glad to do
this and • wrote her articles for four
months, when Bhe died. Then 1 wrote un
til I had pail her funeral expenses. Mr.
Leslie naturally inquired who the substitute
was, and expressed a wish to see me. So that
is tho way I first became connected with the
magazine. Yes. I personally supervise all the
work on my different periodicals aud publica
tions. I have over 300 employes and pay every
thing by check, by which I have a personal
voucher.”
This wonderful woman, busy as she is, can
well afford to rest on her laurels, for by her
tireless energy she has built a magnificent
business.
The main incidents of her life are well known.
Born in New Orleans, of French descent, and
married at an early age; during her husband's
lifetime she lived as a woman of society, sur
rounded by every luxury. He died leaving his
property in the hands of an assignee, and
$30,00) worth of debts. Ills last words to his
wife were: “Go to my office, sit in my placo
and do my work until my debts are paid." But
she did more than this; she made her own fort
une besides. She worked from 8 o’clock In the
morning until 6 at night, and the days were too
short for ad sae had to do So she built up her
husband's business, and to-day her income is
fully SIOO,OOO a year. And now that she has
succeeded so wonderfully, she finds time to
enjoy herself immensely.
"Yes,” she continued. “I go out a good deal,
but only in the evening. I consider that ’all
work and no play makes Jack a very dull boy.’
I am very fond of the theater, and we often
make up little theater parties. lam also fond
of entertaining.but don’t care much for dinners.
I don’t think jeople do as a rule, until they
reach a certain age. A funny little thing hap
pened onoe when Mr. Leslie was alive, that 1
thiuk illustrates this very nicely. We had just
moved into anew house and got everything ar
ranged when a dear friend of ours, a doctor,
came to see us. Ashe entered the door Mr.
Leslie took him eagerly by the arm and said:
‘O. doctor, do come and see our kitohen. We
have got the very finest and best equipped
kitchen in New York.’ And all tho while I was
pulling him the other way and saving: ’No, no,
do come and see the most ipsthetio boudoir In
the city.’ The doctor laughed and said to me;
‘That just shows that you've married a man
over 40. Here you are talking about “a'sthetio
boudoirs." while all he thinks about li his "well
equipped kitchen,” his "fine boilers," and so
on.’”
THE) PRINCKS3 K&IULANI.
What She Has to Say in Her Own
Behalf.
From the New York Sun.
The Princess Kaiulani is a dignified young
woman; tall, slight, straight; has beautiful
black eyes and the musical voice of her
race. Her sight has been affected by over
study and she wears glasses of clumsy Brit
ish make. She talked freely and pleasantly
atiout her life in England, but was disposed
to say very little on thesubjeot of Hawaiian
politics.
“You see, I really do not know what the
situation is,” she said. “You here in New
York know more about that than 1 do.
When I left England the news we had re
ceived made it seem as if I had no home
and no people. I must wait aud see what
has been done and is being done before I can
say more than is contained in my address
to your people.”
The princess referred to an address which
which Mr. Davies had given for her to the
Sun reporter.
“xYbout my studies? I was two years in
a school in Northamptonshire and for
nearly two years have beeu studying with a
lady in Brighton. I have worked very bard
iu music and painting. I like both, paint
ing, 1 think, the best. My people are very
fond of music, but they kuow very little of
painting. 1 want, them to know more. I
do not know what our plans are to be here
beyond going to Boston on Friday and from
there to Wnshlngton next Tuesday.”
“You will see the President iu Washing
ton?”
“O, I don’t know, you know."
This the address of the priucess:
To the American People:
Unbidden I stand upon your shores to day,
where I thought so soon to receive a royal wel
come on my way to my own kingdom. I come
unattended, except by the loving hearts who
Como with me over the wintry seas. I hear that
commissioners from my land have been for
many days asking this great nation to take away
my little vineyard. They speak no word to pie,
and leave me to find out as I can from the runfors
of the air that they would leave me without a
home or a name or a nation.
Seventy years ago Christian America sent
over Christian men and women to give religion
and civilization to Hawaii They gave us the
gospel, they made us a nation, and we learned
to love aud trust Amerioa To day three of the
sons of those missionaries aro at your capital
asking you to undo their fathers’ work. Who
sent them? Who gave them authority to break
the constitution they swore they would uphold?
To-day I, a poor, weak girl, with not one of
my people near me and all these Hawaiian
statesmen azainst me. have strength to staud
up for the rights of my people. “Even now I
can hear their wail In mv heart, and it gives
me strength and courage and I am strong
strong in the faith of Ood, strong in the knuwl
edge that lam right, strong iu the strength of
70,000,000 of people who iu this free land will
hea- my cry and will refuse to let their flag
cover dishonor to mine. Kaiulani.
Mamma— Don’t let me speak to you again,
Tommy.
Tommy—You bet I wouldn't if I knew bow to
stop you.— Texas Siftings.
LAST OF THE •GENERALS.
A NEWSPAPER |WKITER’3 PLEAS
ANT CHAT WITH KIRBY SMITH.
White-haired and Genial, He Now Fil’.a
the Chair of Mathematics In Se
wanee College—Scion of a Fighting
Family and Hero of Two Ware.
From the Neu Orleans Times-Democrat.
Gen. E. Kirby Smith is to-day alone In that
gloomy atmosphere of defeated, but proud and
honored, leader-t.p in which walked and
breathed the seven generals who headed the
lost cause. One by one they have passed away
into that laud where there is no more of slavery,
no more of war, no more or heariach-s nndde
spoiled hopes and ambitions. Robert E. Lee
has gone. So has camuei Cooper, once the head
of all. Gone, too, are Bragg, Albert Sidney
and Joseph E. Johnston and Beauregard, so
that now he whose name begins this artiole
alone remains,
Picture. If you can. an aged, white-haired
man. lean and graceful; a man the fire of whose
Bold shining through his dark eyes seems to
have be!i made but ti e warmer and brighter
for tte snows wh.ca cover his hea 1 aud his
beard. He l 3 not tall—only something above
the middle hight—yet bis manner is such that
beseems much taller The thick dark curls of
youth no longer cluster about his brows; a
few straggling white hairs alone cover the top
of his graceful hea l But on the sides and at
the back of the head the thick hair still grows,
long and soft and w: Ite as the first strands that
burst from the islan ! cotton 3ut it is his long
beard, white, too, as the driven snow, and
sweeping sheer over his dark coat front, that
first attracts attention. This is the more
noticeable bv reason of the contrast with his
sober habit. He is dn-ssed entirely in soft black
cloth; his collar is of tne old fashioned rolling
kind, caught together over the immaculate
white shirt front with a plain white cravat.
NO HARD LINES IN HIS FACE.
There are wrinkles on his face—yet they
should not be called w rinkles; better say they
are the lines of determination, of character, of
achievement. But, they are not hard lines, all
of them. None can smile sweeter than Gen.
Kirby Smith; and when he does so he always
pushes his spectacles hack from his evts and
lets them rest on his forehead, and then smiles
with such excessive good nature and contagion
rhat it is quite Impossible to refrain from join
ing him. He cau laugh heartily, too. in the same
deep voice—mellowed and softened somewhat
with years—in which he speaks. It Is scarcely
noticeable beneath his white mustache,
but when he smiles or laughs you can sis
that his front teetn are very close and
strong, and you oaunot help thinking that they
are teeth that could be set very hard, indeed.
When he puts on his hat he wearhSit somewhat
over the eyes, and as it is a soft black one lie
can pull it down very far behind and then turn
down the brim In front. This is precisely what
he generally does as he walks along the street.
About the only other thing that one would no
tice about Gen. Smith would be the little badg,
in form and color of a confederate ensign, which
he always wears on the left lapel of his coat.
This is Gen. Kirby Smith, with no attempt at
description or the magnificent air of gentility or
tie gentleness and courtesy of manner whicu
are the very essences of his nature.
It was just dusk on a recent evening when a
correspondent of the New Orleans limes-Dem
ocrat called upon Gen. Smith. His resldenoo
while In New Orleans is always with his cousin,
Mrs. Frank Tilton, at her elegant mansion ou
the corner of Canal street and University place.
The general was found in the dining room.
Dinner was just over, the plate had been
cleared away and Gen. Smith sat curled up in a
straight-backed chair, with his feet stretched
out on another, taking, as he said, “apostpran
dial doze." He started up with graceful alac
rity at the entranoe of the reporter, who, after
some preliminary conversation, said:
“General, there seems to be, somehow or
other, a popular uncertainty as to whether or
not you are a full general, I wanted to ask you
the question direct, so as to settle the matter
once for all. Are you or are you not a full gen
eral?”
COMES OF A FIGHTING FAMILY.
“I am proud to say that 1 am, sir. The mis
apprehension, I think, arose from two causes.
In the first place. 1 ain a lieutenant general of
the United Confederate Veterans' Association,
in command of the eastern department, and I
think that has led to the general belief that I
was only a lieutenant general. In the next
{dace, (Jen. Cabell a year or two ago published a
Ist of the officers of the confederacy. In which
he erroneously listed me as a general of tem
porary rank. Hood, you know, was the only
general of temporary rank in the confederate
army.’?,
"You come of a fizhting family, general?”
“Well, yes, I reckon I do. My father and
uncles and brothers were all soldiers. Father
served in the war of 1812 with distinction, and
a brother of mine was killed in the Mexican war
at the baitle of Molino del Key.”
"If I am not mistaken, general, your mother
was somewhat of a fighter, too?"
The general smiled fondly.
"You refer, no doubt, to that St. Augustine
matter. Yes, it was tbe first gunboat that
came to that place and mother wanted the Ma
jorcans and Minorcans to follow under her
leadership and, by manning the fort, oppose
the entrance of the federal*. She was a woman
of 80 then. The men would not follow her; in
deed, would do nothing. Bo mother broke off
the (lag, staff and all, and went and locked her
self up in her room. They came and captured
her after awhile and did everything they could
to make her take the oath of allegiance. But
she wouldn’t do it. She told them they might
kill her If they liked, but they couidnever make
her take tho oath of allegiance. So they car
ried her about from place to place and finally,
when they got to Beaufort, they liberated her,
seeing that they could never make her come
over to the federal ranks."
"You have been wounded, have you not, gen
eral?"
“Yes, sir. That wound was at the first bat
tle of Manassas, a ralnnie hall right through
from one shoulder to the other. T.Vy left me
there for dead aud took me off the field finally,
but a young woman nursed me back and I mar
ried her. Everybody said it was a wonderful
recovery.”
“Did you ever come in contact with Gen.
Beauregard ?”
“Yes, sir, at that very battle. I was second
In oommand to Johnston then and came up
with the troops. Personally, I saw hut little of
Gen. Beauregard during the late war. While
he was in the east I was on the other side of
the Mississippi,practically cut off from commu
nication with the rest of the confederacy."
"General, If it’s not an Impertinent question
how old are you?"
Gen. Kirby Smith pushed his spectacle* back
upon his lofty brow and laughed heartily.
“Ha, ha, ha!" said he. “Well, well! I'm
just 70, but I’ve got thirteen children," laughed
the general, "and that’s pretty good proof."
“Tell the truth about It, general," said
Mrs. Tilton, who was present, with a deprecat
ing smile. "Two of them are spaniels. Ho calls
his two dogs his children, too. ’’
“Wall, then eleven, and that’s a good num
ber,” replied the general, brightening his
glasses.
“Iu holding the chair of mathematics at Se
watiee do you actively take part in the Instruc
tion of youth or do you merely exercise a super
vision over the professors on your staff?"
"1 am actively engaged in giving instructions
in mathematics. Naturally a general supervis
ion is no considerable part of it.”
“You were all through the Mexican war. gen
eral:’’
"In every battle of It, sir. I believe lam the
only man alive to-day who was."
"You have fought Indians, have you 'not.
Geo. Smith?"
"I did nothing else, sir, in the interval be
tween the close of the Mexican war and the
breaking out of the civil war.”
"Y ou were wounded In the Indian wars were
you not’'"
“Through the left groin, sir. It was an ar
row. 1 remember l pulled it out and had to
ride cm horseback for some time before I could
get the wound dressed. I hated litters, and
wouldn’t ride in one. So I pulled the arrow out
and rode on my own horse."
HORRORS OF HHATHEN LIFE.
A Missionary’s Graphic Account of
- Atrocities Practiced In Chino.
La Cleile Harrow in the Courier-Journal.
Tsun Hua, China, Jan. 23.—There Is said to
be in a museum In Dresden among other gems
and treasures, "a silver egg, which, when you
touch a _ spring, opens and reveals a gulden
yolk. Within this is hid a chicken, whose wing
beiug pressed, It also files open, disclos
ing a splendid golden orown studded with
jewels. Another spring being, touched, hidden
In the center Is found a magnificent, diamond
ring." one in China will find, from day to duy,
equally as great surprises, but of a far less
agreeable nature. The first sight one usually
gets is the most favorable. One Is astonished
at seeing men do tho work of beasts of burden,
at tbe filth in the cities and the abject poverty
of the masse., of the people. Tills is only the
surface of things. Day by day the secret
Springs are touched and the true inwardness of
pagauism, with its unspeakable crimes hidden
under the gui-e of a system of philosophy, is
seen. Under the cloak of Confucianism and in
the name of civilization one at last finds China's
millions a seething mass, revolting to behold,
and is ready to cry out with a distinguished
divine, “Not to save China from hell, but to get
it out. It is in hell now."
A few days ago a criminal was executed at a
city a few miles from here. He was marched
through the streets to the place of execution.
The headsman, dressed in red, marened in front,
followed by his attendants, who carried his
sword The friends followed tbe condemned
man, urging him to 1 ‘shout" on his way to the
place of execution, and to "die like a man." He
yleided to their entreaties and gave a hideous
yell whenever urged, whioh was repeated by his
fnends The execution was public. The hands
and feet of the condemned man were bound.
He was required to k.ieel beside a bench
and let his body lay across it.
Being securely tied to the bench, a
net was placed over his head and tied. To this
net a rope was attached, and four men took
hold of the rope pulled with all their might,
stretching the neck teariy twice Its natural
length, and while the men were pulling the
head was severed from the body at one blow by
the headsman.
This is only one execution. Fuch things are
common. There is a story that Peug Yu-iin,
the great admiral of the Y’angtse, made Ills
boast that he would cut off 10.000 heads. He
lost no time in getting to work, and got, in due
season, to the 9,978, when it came to his ears
that he would die as soon as he had decapi
tated his Ifi.OuO. He -laved bis hand and exe
cuted few after that, and died before he reached
the goal set before himself. |
Every criminal is required to confess his sins.
In order to compel criminals to do this several
tortures have been invented. One of the most
common is to make the criminal lie down upon
a lable on his back. He is bound, the knees
are securely tied down to the table, then a brick
Is placed under each heel. This bends the limb
the wrong way, and is very painful. If this
does not make the criminal confess a second
brick is put under each heel. The torture is
then indescribable and the criminal either con
fesses or faints Another method is to bare the
culprit’s back and tie a bunch of incense to it
just over the spine. The incense looks much
likearopeand burns slowly. This is ignited
and slowly burns a streak down the back, the
fl 'Bh being cooKed to the bone. These are tome
of the methods used. Asa result every sup
posed criminal, whether guilty or not, is made
to confess guilt.
There are many methods of punishing crim
inals. Decapitation and torturing by cutting
off the various parts of the body until the vic
tim is dead are common. It is sail that the his
tory or the late Mongolian rebellion if written
would be one of bloody, wanton murder. The
Chinese soldiers slew men, women and children
withoutziause or provocation. T eir pathway
was strewn with dead bodies. The slaughter
was so great that the wolves from the moun
tains far to the north were attracted to the hills
and plains devastated by sword and by fire, and
fed upon the bodies of the slain men, women
and caildren for months after. The number of
wolves attracted to the hills near this place be
came alarming, and after they had devoured the
slain they attacked the living. Over HX) persons
were killed by wolves near here during last
summer.
The Chinese soldiers are a terror of the land
and are regarded by those who know them best
as robbers. Hpeaking of robbers reminds me
that the robbers of the land are banded together
and form a powerful compact. If a bank In the
oity wishes to send a large amount of money to
Peking, the banker sends a gift to the chief of
the banditti infesting the territory through
which the money is about to pass, telling him
the time the silver will be sent and requesting
that it be not disturbed. When such a request
is made, accompanied by a handsome present.
It is usually honored. These banditti are not
the oaly robbers. The government is engaged
in the same business. Taxes are very high, and
every time one oomes in contact with the rulers
it costs something.
A woman recently came to the ladles’ dis
pensary in this place for treatment. She had
walked nearly two miles on her knees. This is
her history: She was a slave, belonging to one
of the city officials. Some years ago she saw
her master’s son commit some vile deed The
son, seeing she had witnessed the deed, took a
meat ax and out her feet off. She was then
carried out of the city and thrown into the moat
that surrounds the oity wall and left there to
die. bhe was found, taken to a house, cared for
and finally recovered. This is only one Instance
of the many that could be cited of equally as
vile a nature.
Be it said to the credit of the people, however,
the official was removed, but the son was not
punished.
Tbe uppermost thought in the Chinaman's
mind seems to be to cheat someone. It is a
very sharp man. Indeed, that they caunot beat
in a trade.
A few days ago a friend of mine and I climbed
to the top of a hill which is about 600 feet high.
It was a beautiful day, and from the tup of the
hill we had a fine view of a valley twenty miles
long and ten wide. The level and almost treeless
plain spread out before us like a map The
land, though poor from centuries of cultivation,
was cared for like a garden. In this plain we
counted 108 cities and towns, one of them con
taining over 30,000 people, imagine, if you can,
a densely populated district like that living
almost solely on the produots of the soil, and al
most all the labor being done by mail, living
under n cruel and oppressive government, en
slaved by social customs that will not permit
husband or wife to see each other previous to
their marriage, that requires the woman to
bind her feet, thus becoming a cripple all the
days of her life, enduring untold tortures, and
finally to be a mere slave to her husband, whom
he can sell to whom he pleases and when he
pleases. Add to this the fact that the houses
are poor, the food and clothing scant,
and that thousands do not know
what it is to be warm from the time the cold
davs of autumn come unt’l the warm days of
springtime, and to this add ail the diseases re
sultant from vice, ignorance and superstition
that flesh is heir to. When you have done this
you have a glimpse of China Suoh a state of
affairs would make us Americans madmen.
They take everything ns coolly as if everything
was just as it ought to be. In fact, they thins
it is.
Visitors sometimes say the converts to Chris
tianity are few and unfaithful, and that their
experience with them has been unsatisfactory.
It is true, as a rule, that the average Chinese
coevert has not attained to a very high standard
of piety, but when he is eornpared with what he
was the wonder is that he Is as good as he la.
Even tho most skentioal must confess that
wherever Christian influences have exerted
themselves the people have been benefited far
beyond comparison. Surely the only thing that
seems to be doing China any good is the Chris
tian mission.
OVERAWED THE LIONS.
The Green Laborer Poked Them
About Their Cage With a Broom.
From the Neic York Tribune.
An inoident happened at Barnum &
Bailey’s show after it took up its winter
quarters at Bridgeport, Conn., whioh shows
to what danger an ignorant man will ex
pose himself and how he may escape all in
jury. A few few days ago * ‘Tody” Hamil
ton was asked for work by a hulking big
German Darned Hans, and as somebody
was wanted to clean the cages of the ani
mals he was engaged. He was told to clean
the cages containing the lions, tigers, eto.,
thoroughly, both inside and outside. The
man set to work and Mr. Hamilton went
about his business. He oarne back some
time afterward and was wondering what
had become of the new hand, for he was
nowhere to be seen. On making a oloser
searoh Mr. Hamilton was horrified to see
the man inside the cage with the five
Hons. He was goiug about his
work in a most methodical way,
sweeping the floor vigorously with
his broom, whioh he occasionally
“shooed” Into the faces of the astonished
lions whenever any of them came near him.
The animals were evidently so surprised at
the man’s utter indifference to them that
they kept huddled up in one corner until
Haus wanted to dean out that particular
part of the cage. They were unceremoni
ously eviotod with the help of the broom,
aud they scampered around utterly for
getful of their proper dignity. Mr. Hamil
ton never expected to see tbe man come out
alive, as he felt sure the animals would at
tack him as soon as he started to leave the
don. He hastily got some of the older
hands together and then be ordered the
German to come out ot the cage. The fel
low wanted to finish hig job and laughed
at the idea of the animals hurting him, but
be finally obeyed orders and got out of the
cage without a scratch.
VVhat prevented tbe animals from tearing
him to pieces is a mystery, for nobody
dares enter the cage In which these particu
lar lions are, as they are a savage, unruly
lot. The coolness of the deed must bare
utterly astonished the lions, and his steady
use of tbe broom, which was poked in their
faces now aud then, must have oouviuoed
them that they had to do with some new
epeoiee of animal, nnd that under the cir
cumstances discretion was the better part
of valor.
It was some time before the man could
be convinced of the great danger he had been
In and persuaded to use the rakes that are
always used for cleaning out the insides of
the cages. Those are provided with long
handles and tbe man using them can
stand safely out of the way of all danger
while doing bis work.
Abbott's East Indian Corn Taint cure* all
corns, wans aud Bunions. — ad.
QUEER THINGS OUT WEST
NATURAL CURIOSITIES FOUND IN
AKIZDNA AND NEVADA.
Whole Mountains of Salt—Strange
Petrifaction, Subterranean Livers
and Prehistoric Remains.
From the .Vein York Preu.
In the state of Ne vada and the territory
of Arizona ooour the most extensive nat
ural stores of salt in the United States.
Not only are there salt springs, wells, lakes
and ponds, with fields of salt in the deserts,
but also immense deposits of rook salt.
In the early days of silver mining on the
Comstock lode salt, for use in the
amalgamation of the ores, was brought
over the Sierra Nevada mountains by
teams, as it had been seen by the emigrants
to California in crossing the plains,
but the owners of the teams could
not be induced to venture out
into those great wastes and waterless tracts.
In lbtji camels were brought to
the Comstock mines for use in the
deserts, and a train of fifteen of
those animals was employed In packing
salt from Sand Springs. This was in a
desert of sand and alsall, ab ut eighty miles
east of Virginia City. Wagons being used
in the transportation of salt from th.s de
posit, as well as the camols, the price of
the article was soon reduced to S6O a ton.
.Soon the occupation of the “ships of the
desert” was gone; “prairie schooners”
crowded them to the rocks. They were
sold to Mexicans, who used them in packing
wood down the mountains. Among the
rocks the poor brutes became footsore, and
by ill usage were reducea to mere skeletons.
They were then sold to a oompassionate
Frenchman who owned a ranch on the
Carson river. Their new owner turned the
animals out to roam at will. The bitter
and prickly shrubs of our deserts being the
same as or akin to those of their native
deserts, the herd soon increased to over
thirty, great and small. They were at last
sold to parties In Arizona to be used in
packing ore from the mountains to mills in
the valleys. But camels are too slow for
Americans. The Arizona men soon turned
the whole herd loose to shift for themselves
in the wilderness. At last acoounts they
were runniug wild on the Gila river, where
they find a congenial home.
The eaiiniferous lands nearly always
occupy the basins of extinot lakes.
Nevada’s ancient lake system can be
traced from the southern boundary
of Oregon, about the Warren lakes,
in an almost unbroken line to Death val
ley in Southeastern California. South
ward, toward the Colorado basin,
in Linclon county, the continuity of
the system has been broken by the upheaval
of the ohains of rugged hills. By such up
heavals isolated lakes appear to have been
formed or segregated from what was ages
ego one great body of water. As even the
lowest of the wave lines are at a consider
able hight above the dry beds of the lakes
it is evident that the final disappearance of
the waters was due to evaporation. The
waters dried and left their bones, the
minerals they held in solution—the bo im
mense deposits of salt, soda aud borax.
The Piute Indians have many traditions
pointing back to a time when the whole of
Western Nevada was covered with water
and the present mountains were only seen
as islands. In their language * ‘pah” is the
word for water, aud though at present
called Plot by the wnitee, Pah-Ute is the
real name of the tribe. Pah-Ute means
"water-Uce.” and the name must have
been given the tribe when their country was
filled with lakes or covered by the waters
of one g. eat lake.
WONDERFUL PETRIFACTIONS.
Great quantitlej of petrified wood are
seen in many places. In some localities the
trunks of whole trees, 8 or 4 feet in diame
ter, lie stretched along the ground. These
are now solid stone.
Many years ago there was a desperado
and cattle thief who ravaged Northern Ari
zona and Southern Nevada, but when close
pressed managed to escape, leaving no traoe
or trail behind him. When the ilush of per
suit had cooled he always came baok to hiß
old haunts, ran off horses or committed
some other deviltry, and was off to his
hiding place before a pursuit oould be or
ganized to stop him. Where he fled to or
what became of him was not known until
long afterward. With a party of prospec
tors crossing the mountains of
Northern Arizona we came to a rocky and
almost impassable gorge, and there, hang
ing against the basaltic wall, half concealed
by a huge bowlder, waß a.cabin built of
pine logs. But remarkable to relate, the
whole building had become solid stone. It
was six feet high and 7xß feet in the in
terior. Even the flooring was adamant,
ana the side walls, particularly from with
in, presented a glossy, transparent surface
that was quite pretty and curious.
Cloudbursts, sweeping the eoil out of ra
vines and cutting through mountain flats,
have often hrought to light thick strata of
logs and boughs, or long lines of stumps of
large trees standing as they grew, the roots
and all parts thoroughly petrifled.
It is evident that at one time trees and
vegetation must have been abundant in the
great basin region, as it was the home of
animals now only found in the forests and
jungles of tropical countries, Under a
stratum of sandstone about twenty feel
thiokatthe state prison quarry, Carson
City, in a layer of tine grained stone that
appears to nave once been the soft oozy
margin of a lake, are to be seen hun
dreds of tracks of various kinds of ani
mals and birds. These tracks look as
fresh and distinct as those we fre
quently at and about ponds after the
mud see domestic animalsiu the
sott material has hardened under the heat of
the sun. There are tracks of elephants,
rhinoceros, horse, deer, lions, tigers, wolves,
hyenas. of many kinds of birds, large ana
small. There are also the tracks of what is
supposed to have been a man of prehistoric
times. The tracks ore such as as might
have been made by a big-footed
man wearing clumsy moocaains of undressed
hide.
The tracks of all the larger animals lead
in one direotion and all were evidently
moving toward the same objeot, which ob
ject must have been water—a lake or
spring. As the soft mud, all now stone, is
seen to have been squeezed up or splashed
aside by the feet of some of the heavy beasts
the traoks cannot be far from where lay the
ancient lake or ponds, and by stripping off
the superincumbent strata for a short dis
tance farther some wonderful discoveries
might be made.
A MOUNTAIN OF SOLID _£ALT.
The greatest single deposit of salt in
Nevada is that which is sometimes called
"Salt mountain,” and is a range of hlus of
pure rook salt situated In the south weasteru
corner of the state, in Lincoln county, This
mountain mass of rock salt is of unrivaled
purity and possesses the solidity of marble.
It lies on the Rio Virgin, a tributary of the
Colorado river, in the northern portion of
the Colorado basin.
A solid wall of salt is exposed on each
side of Cave Hill canyon, which is so hard
that it is necessary to blast it down. It is
worked like an open quarry and the salt is
taken out in large blocks, which are so
transparent that a newspaper can be read
through them. From this mountain ridge
of salt might be quarried an amount of
thut article sufficient to tmpply the whole
United States for ages.
In several p'.aoea in this region, Linoolu
county, Nevada, and the adjoining country
about Death valley, California, are
found traces of former occupation
by some race of civilized people,
probably tho Spanish. In the Kingston
range of mountains, on the eastern face of
Clarke mountain, near its summit, is
a perpendicular cliff of iimstone
250 feet in bight and with a smooth surface.
On the face of this cliff, at a bight of 100
feet from its base, are engraved the follow-*
ing characters: "X L D." The cross and let
ters are of mammoth proportions, being
not less than sixty feet in higbt. They ara
cut iu to solid rock to a depth of two feet,
and are plainly to be seen .
tance. at a £ dis-
No one in the country knows
or by whom the letters 7 "
dians living in the vicinity have no®?
tion in regard to the insoriution
inscription is in Roman lettw, tQ< *
ceded by a croes.lt is suppose l that Dre '
was done by Jesuit imWm an J w hn Work
known to have established in 1633 , are
further south in Arizona In om lom
carve the huge letters either a sentf
feet in hight must have been !°°
worsmea must have been lowered T.- 8
face of the cliff, a distance of 150 fee;^
DIB OF THIRST WITH WATER N Ea „
Far . down in Southwestern Arizen.
n ; ar Mexican border, there is
of mountains which appears to hav K g !
one face of hard, smooth granite
of this bunch of mountains is m the
of a gigantio basin. Here the rainfall n
been gathering for ages, until unit. M
tensive lake is the result. 1 an ex*
The overflow tumbles into another bairn
below and so on through a series of
the last one Doing near the ground end
\ h l d Jr\ tr ° m Yuraa * ““ocoraVh 0 ,
h, f *?“ k \ are o* access and are often
drained by travelers and animals
The great upper tank oan only be
is: set**®
human beings, famishing for water k,„.
expended their last strength In reacHn.
this spot, only to find the lower tank drv®
and, gnorant of the great upper lake. wh
thousands of gallons were to be had for .
little climbing, have laid down in despair £
die. Later travelers, passing have ,
the unknowns’ remains, and always mark*!
the grave, Mexican fashion, by a cross of
There is in Western New Mexico a sort of
lava formation running through an im
moose oauyon, which shows plainly that
some tremendous upheaval of natur- cirl
visited the country and probably
everything it encounters for miles around
about. In the dryest part of this most das
olate sport a largo stream of water com*
gushing out of a iiigh cliff, as if it cams
from the gigantio nozzle of a great how
and foils a cataract into the abyss below'
Before reaching the bottom, however the
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