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MOORE AND WIFE INDICTED.
u AS FORMALLY thss PET
51 .IHAHAS of atlasta.
jlnlioH * Alleged Blackmailer* Held
,„ r l.arceny and Assault— Mrs.
wna Very Merry—Pooed tor
,1,. r Picture In Court—Mahon Tells
I t)( . r Wiles and Charms.
VV!li>-**“ A- B- Moore and his wife, who
ir rtrSted at the Hotel Grenoble, New
y ' rk Sunday night, charged with at
plin g to blackmail Martin Mahon, pro
; ; ~f the New Amsterdam Hotel, have
( indicted for larceny and assault.
V, tri , jiires that Mrs. Moore was until
~, a resident of Atlanta. The Con
i|Utl<l says that for years she resided
jlh ,„. r mother, Mrs. Sarah Strahan, at
r , at 63 Alexander street. She left
A 'iuvo years ago to study art In New
yo , h . and the following year made a trip
to Europe, and while in London met Mr.
tv \ Moore, who is now her husband.
Tht . two were married shortly afterward
, n Xon York city upon her return to this
countt> she was recognized as one of
)V prettiest young women in the city
j or a number of years, and enjoyed a wide
~j aril y. She had a decided fondness
fa the stage, but never entered the protes
ts on account of the objection raised by
\ lather. She will be remembered by
many as the leading character of the
"Kirims,” given by several prominent At
lanta ladies in 1888, when she made a decid
ed hit by her dancing. Mrs. Moore was
a popular, and whenever a local per
furnia; was arranged to be given she
v u - illy offered a leading part.
When uuite young she attended the Cal
f rt street school and later went to the
ifiii- High School, where she completed
jj,! ~ it ion. She left Atlanta in .the
f : !t in of 1896 and went to New York to
: i art school, where she remained
ia , time, finally being sent by her
, ... London, where shecontinbed her
simli's oi art.
: , New York Times of Tuesday gives
, . iat of the arraignment of the
j-.,r, s in the police court:
\\ n Mr. and Mrs. Moore appeared in
fi Hr prisoner’s rail every one rose to
look them. The curious gaze had no
t n .t on Mrs. Moore, but her husband
i . a-l.ed with nervousness. It took the
. several minutes to restore order.
While other cases were being disposed
ot, Mrs. Moore walked over to the report
ers tabic with the grace and coolness of
8 r.ti.-oned belle crossing a ballroom, sat
,i,,... and opened a conversation with
th sc around her. She wanted to know
all about newspaper work. She said that
E ;,. would like to be a reporter, too. She
j,, scil for her picture in several positions,
a ! tii. n admired the rough sketches. She
s. m.-l to enjoy the whole affair hugely,
and was bright and fresh after a night
in ihe Mercer street station.
Mrs. Moore is not over 22. She has big
hi,,. ~yes and fair tresses and a hand
le me face. Her charms were set off by
a w.’.Hitting frock of dark blue, a chipped
ftraw hat, and an array of diamonds.
While Mrs. Moore was posing for her
pi. lure, her husband was engaged in a
e convci-satioA with his attorneys, Ab.
ream Levy and Bernard J. Douras. He
v s asked if he had anything to say re
garding his case, but Mr. Levy answered
for his client by saying: -“There is more
in this case than has yet appeared, and
it will come out later. Then the charges
against these people will not seem so se
rious as they do now.”
When the prisoners were called, Mrs.
lioore tripped to the bar, smiling sweetly
at the magistrate, and answering her
lam, with a pleasant "Yes, sir.” Mahon
.reed the couple with attempted ex
tonion, and Detective Cuff charged the
husband with assault. Moore’s revolver
was shown. It is nearly a foot and a half
I s? nickel plated, and shoots bullets of
Id caliber. Moore was held for assault
in $2,000 bail. He and his wife were then
lad on charges of the larceny of $175 and
a note for $5,000. The examination was
e t for Friday mofning at 11 o’clock.
Husband and wife were taken to police
headquarters, where they were photo
graph, and for the Rogues’ gallery and meas
ure] by the Bertiilon system, by orders
nf Capt. McCiusky. Moore interposed a
sprit's of objections, but offered no resist
ing When it came his wife's turn, shC
•'Vcn offered to / suggest a becoming pose,
lain up to the 1 ' time when she faced the
i id bars of the Tombs, the young woman
"■is wonderfully composed, and her smiles
i 1 jocular air completely astottptied the
others. “It just paralyzed me," said
L'ai'i, McCiusky, after the twain had been
locked up.
Mahon said that he was glad that he
I -1 Mi-ire and his wife arrested, “but,”
h. oinued, "that night, when I faced
that big pistol, I would have given them
'he whole city if I had owned it.
"1 have known the woman for more than
' ••• v. ars." continued Mr. Mahon. "She
■v ■ ntiy borrowed a handsome diamond
1 in. which I turned over to her husband
" •it he tried to blackmail me last Friday
1 ' On Thursday last she called me
1 L o "phone and made on engagement to
i* turn the pin, which she had borrowed
"bum t’’ree weeks ago. She did not keep
i " appointment, and on Friday she teje
!’ m i me again, asking me to meet her
"i Metropole for dinner. When I en
'•r. and the waiting room, Moore was there
1 'iking to her. I had never sCen him be
f'■'* As I approached he hurriedly left.
Hhv n,!d me that he was a man whom
t:! had met by chance. We had sotne
'i’l - to eat, and when I asked her for
'ln pin, she said that she had forgot to
1 rin it, but that if I would go over to
' <1 re noble with her she would hand it
to me.
"1 went with her and waited in the eor
rid.ir. Presently she came down and tn
t trai me to come up. 1 told her that it
n' ■ 1.1 not be proper, but she answered
i it her husband was in Washington and
* o''! not be back for a week, and that l
t'.uM Ik- received in her parlor. I want
*' t lie pin, and that prompted me to go.
I seated myself in the parlor, and sjie
k '!. s. and u gam*’ of ’seven-up.’ We played
game. She complained of being too
bum. and went into her bedroom and
h inged her garments. She ordered some
*u >-. and artfully contrived to gqt me to
kk. my coat off. I never knew her to be
r " | e charming. After we had played one
®‘ : c game of cards I demanded my pin,
" ng that I had to go.
Just then she gave a little cough, and
/" door flew open. The man whom I
’• seen talking to her In the Metropole
,:j <’d iii most frantically with the hig
H in his hand. He was holding it by
"■ barrel.
Ybat's this?' he yelled; ‘you here with
,lr v tfe?' and then he dazed me yjf strik
me on the head with the buft end of
' ’ i 'Stol. He picked up my coat, and,
g the pistol at me. ordered me to
' 1 -s. Mrs. Moore began to wring her
is and cry, and told me not to resist
'' usbsnd, as he was a desperate man.
' commanded her to sit down and
He dictated a confession and she
' i it. Then he handed it to me, say
ratat if 1 <lid not sign it he would
’■ my brains out. 1 would have signed
mg then.
!i claimed tHat I owed him some rep
'“l.vii and made a demund on mo to sign
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a promissory note for $3,000. I replied
that I could not pay it ail at once. He
ahgued and agreed to take $2,500 at noon
on Saturday and $2,500 at the same time
to-day. I signed the. note.
“Then he said: ’Now, shell out your
pockets!’ I took out my hank roll. It
amounted to about $175. This he tossed
over to his wife and bade her count it.
After that he took my jewelry and ordered
me to pul on my coat and hat. He went
down stairs with me and bought me a
cigar. Then he walked half the way home
with me. I kept a sharp eye for a po
liceman , but could see none. I thought
the matter over, and, although I disliked
the notoriety that attended it, I made up
my to tell the police and let the whole
thing out."
The Moores formerly lived at the Wal
dorf-Astoria, but left there on Sept. 1.
Then they went to the Grenoble. Manager
Iceland says they were quiet and seemed
to have plenty of money. They had paid
promptly at the Waldorf-Astoria.
'Mrs. Moore lived with her mother in
Atlanta, Ga., up to three years ago. Hei
father Is Judge Strahan of Portland, Ore.
She moved in good society, and was every
where known as “Pet” Strahan. Two
years ago she went abroad to study mu
sic, and returned to Atlanta for a short
while with her husband, whom she in
troduced as the son of a Cleveland (Ohio)
millionaire.
Moore was appointed consul at Durban
by President Cleveland, but was removed
last February by President McKinley.
There were no charges against him.
Capt. McCiusky received a telegram
from Cleveland yesterday stating that
Moore was unknown there.
“Mrs. Moore called on me a week ago,”
McCiusky said, “but I was not In. She
told the sergeant in charge that she want
ed to get a separation from her husband,
and wanted to see me about It. The case
against the prisoners is a strong one. The
people who had the suite adjoining the
Moores in the Grenoble heard a great
deal of the blackmail proceedings.”
The police have also secured proof that
Moore was the man seen talking to his
wife in the Metropole when Mahon met
her there.
In the afternoon the grand jury indicted
both Moore and his wife for robbery and
Moore for assault.
THE 1111ITH OF AN ISLAND.
t nptnin nnd Crew of the Breconshire
Tell of a Remarkable Phenome
non.
* From the New York Herald.
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 7.—An Island was
upheaved on the night of Sept. 15, in the
southern part of the Indian ocean, accord
ing to the captain and crew of the British
steamer Breconshire, which has arrived
here from Java with a cargo of sugar.
The man on outlook, according to the
captain about 4 o'clock In the afternoon
of Sept. 15 saw a cloud looming up direct
ly ahead. The cloud spread until the entire
horizon ahead was obscured by a wall of
vapor, into which the captain did not dare
to enter until the next morning, when he
would have fourteen hours of daylight
ahead of him.
The steamer hove to and the sailors ter
rified by the unusual vapor waited anx
iously for the next day to come. The moon
came up, and by its light the sea was seen
to be smooth as glass. Shortly after 10
o'clock that night a booming sound was
heard about ten miles to the northward.
At the same moment, borne upon the bo
som of an immense wave, the Breconshire
mounted vertically to a point at least
twenty feet above her former position on
the ocean bed, and to the accompanimeht
of an immense upheaval of water an is
land appeared to leeward, where all pre
viously had been but the sea and sky.
The suddenness of the event almost de
prived the crew of their sense, but they
had little time to comment on the phenom
enon, being obliged to look to the safety of
the vessel. It was many anxious moments
before that safety was assured, but appar
ently as though nature had exhausted her
self, the sea, in a few moments, returned
again to its wonted tranquility and the
looming clouds of vapor disappeared.
When day dawned a clear view was af
forded of the island, and its volcanic ori
gin was clearly established. It consisted
of vertical columns of hard mineral ar
ranged with wonderful geometrical exact
itude resembling very strongly the pictures
of the famous Giant's Causeway. It was
found to be only a small island, possibly
not more than one-quarter of a mile in cir
cumference, and at its highest point not
at a greater altitude than 100 feet. In all
probability the new island has been In
formation for many years below the sur
face and only by an upheaval of extraor
dinary intensity did it emerge above the
surface.
HOW DOGS AllE “FAKED."
Cruel Methods Adopted to Make Pet
Animals Conform to Fnshlon.
From the London Stall.
Time was when dog shows were asso
ciated with beer and the churchwarden
pipe in an east end or wayside public
house, when the owner of a champion bull
dog fed his pet on a pound of rump steak
and ret his family starve upon a crust.
The dog, too, got all the kicks.
In our days we have twanged all that.
The old-time dog siiow stiil obtains, and
you may occasionally see it advertised in
the sporting papers, but there are two
powerful associations who each in their
way, with wealthy purses, have improved
the lot of the modern da* dog and given
him a social status.
F.ut with ail the power of these two as
sociations against them, the tricks and
dodges of the dog fakirs of old still obtain.
They have f=impf> changed their coats.
The dog fakir of the past, to get a very
small breed of pet dogs, kept the lungs of
the animals closed by compression in pup
py hood, and by plugging the nostrils at
stated times stopped a proper system of
respiration. The modern fakir takes the
relic*, of the older days arid inbreeds from
the smallest type of dog, und regulates the
feeding of his animals.
To make the eyes of toy spaniels large,
bulgy, and round, and the coats a rich
color the animals were kept among the
beer barrels in the public house cellars in
perpetual darkness, while the spaniel pup.
were “helped" in the matter of becoming
very short-nosed by having the bones sur
rounding lhe nose pressed to the head
while they were in a soft and tender cart
ilage state. To-day these methods are not
so necessary, for a long course of "faking”
through many generations has at last pro
duc*?d the mai Tor mat ion as a permanent
type, but in the spaniel and many other
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, IS9B.
breeds of dogs the type striven for is still
"helped."
When the modern bulldog is chosen from
a litter of pups, the loosest skinned is
murked out to work upon, and then, to put
it kindly, “the fun begins." As the pup
gets along in life he is submitted to a
process of skin-pulling until his head is
one mass of wrinkled skin and hanging
toils of fur. Painless, of course, but stili
it is “faking."
The more unscrupulous give an artificial
kink to the puppy’s tail by breaking the
vertebra where nature has forgotten to do
it, and pulling the forelegs out at elbow to
give breadth of chest and general all
round looseness of appearance; but this is
confined to few.
Bloodhounds, too, and pugs both have to
be "helped” at times, if nature does not
conform to the fashion. Landseer's lovely
big-eyed bloodhound in his picture, “Dig
nity and Impudence,” is not to the taste of
modern connoisseurs. He must be padded
with roll upon roll of loose skin; his ears
must hang low down, and the eyes be all
but sightless, hidden away, as they are, in
overhanging brown.
Most people will notice how beautifully
the highly bred collie drops his ears over.
Well, there are dog fakirs, who keep in the
dark, who, if they happen to possess a
good pup whose ears are too strong, run a
needle through the ear under the skin, and
keep the head In splints, as It were, for
some time, until the ears drop.
Other methods are followed to weaken
the nerves of the ears. Sometimes a drop
of acid Is put on the nerve, and the ears
are pulled and flaps of weighted wood are
fastened to them.
Other ways of faking dogs Include the
pulling out of white hairs and the dyeing
of patches of white fur too big to be pull
ed out. Cropping and docking still flourish
openly, although the kennel club rules are
framed to stop all faking.
It is left, however, for woman to do a
great work In stamping out the arts and
dodges of a bygone, unenlightened time,
and in the Ladles’ Kennel Association we
possess a power for good which will ul
timately effect a great purpose In doing
away with all fakes and fads of dog deal
ers. Louis Wain.
THE CIGARS OF MANILA.
Sow Mach Better Than Those Ameri
cans Used to Smoke.
Manila Correspondence Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Cigars and cigarettes are remarkably
cheap, even in the face of the economic
conditions that exist in the east. The
cheapest cigars are sold for $lO per 1,000,
and the most expensive for SIOO per 1,000.
Reduce that to a gold basis, and you And
yourself wondering how they can be made
for the money. The cigarettes are even
cheaper. The cheapest grades retail for 1(4
and 2% cents Mexican per package of twen
ty-four and thirty cigarettes, and the
grades In most common use sefl at the fac
tory for S2O Mexican, or $9.50 gold, per 1,-
000 packages of twenty-four and thirty cl
.ai cttes each. The best cigars can be
bought at retail at the cigar stands for 5
and 10 cents Mexican, and it 4s recorded
that in the days of the monopoly a very
fair cigar, as Manila cigars go, could be
bought for 1 and 2 cents Mexican. The gen
uine Manila cigar of to-day is not known
in the United States, and if ever it finds
its way there it will at once spring into
immense popularity. The old Manila cigar,
short and stubby, or cone-shaped, is ra
pidly passing, and In its place modern ci
gars are being made. All of the modern
shapes in vogue In Europe and America
have been introduced since the monopoly
ceased to exist, and anything that pleases
the fancy may be had at the kiosks of Ma
nila. The modern cigar made of the best
Cagayan or Isabel tobacco, is not as good
as the Cuban product, but it will bear fair
comparison with it, and is certainly the
superior of scores of the domestic brands
sold in the United States. The tobacco is
milder, and there is no flavoring intro
duced into it nor any chemical process re
sorted to in treating it.
There are 15,000 Americans in Manila
now, and they take very kindly to the
better grades of Manila cigars, and freely
predict a revolution in the cigar industry
in the United States In the event of the
annexation of Luzon or the Philippine
group. The cigarettes are also made of
pure tobacco. The entire industry has suf
fered on account of the inferior grades
that are shipped from here, and Manila
cigars have been unfairly condemned.
The average small native planter grows
no more tobacco and does no more work
than is absolutely necessary to earn a liv
ing. He plants in November and garners
in March, and In the interim raises what
maize he needs for his house and farm.
He has no other cares, and borrows none
He pockets the market price when the
buyer arrives, and it keeps him until he
comes again. He has to sort his leaves
into five sizes and bundle them into manos,
each of which contains 100 leaves, and
there end his troubles. There are eight
large, and between fifty and one hundred
small factories in Manila, and the former
employ from 400 to 2,000 operatives each.
In the manufacture of the bettor grades
of cigars men and boys are employed al
most exclusively, while on the cheaper
cigars and cigarettes women are more gen
erally employed. The former are, as a
rule, paid on the piece system, while the
latter are often contracted for In gangs
and answer to their employers only
through the sub-contractor. Wages vary,
not only as to the grade of the cigars
made, but as to the skill of the operatives,
and there is a wide range in pay. Expert
clgarmakers in the larger factories can
earn $1 Mexican, or 45 cents on the gold
basis, but the average Is nearer to 73
cents Mexican, and among the children
and less expert operatives wages range
down to 20 and 30 cents Mexican per day.
The Kaiser's lllg .Soldiers,
From the London Chronicle.
"The tallest man In his army,” who is
accompanying the German Emperor In his
visit to the East, is a grenadier named
Chiemke, who Is nearly 6 feet 10 inches in
his stockings. This Frederick William
mnnla of the Kaiser’s is an old device of
his for impressing the foreigner. On re
turning from his flrst visit to Constanti
nople in 1889 the Emperor sent the Sultan
I complete set of kettle drums, which he
intrusted to the tallest officer in his army,
Lieut. Pleskow, who is very little, If at
all. under 7 feet. Once, indeed, when this
Prussian guardsman looked over a seven
foot garden wall and asked a girl jncking
gooseberries therein what was the way to
so-and-so, the simple maiden told him to
ride first to the right and then to the left,
and he would find the place he wantedj
The nymph had honestly fancied that an
officer overpeering her garden wall like
that must necessarily be on horseback!
HOODOOED AT THE FALLS.
SOMEBODY ALWAYS WENT OVER
HUES ZOOK ARRIVED.
P. is First Visit Was lit ISSB nml
His Fourth a Few Weeks Ago.
\\ believer He booked at the Water
Somebody Was Straggling for Life
or Hod Just Been Lost.
From the New York Sun.
"I am a subscriber to a whole lot of
country newspapers," said John Gilbert,
the traveling groceryman, "because they
keep me Informal in local matters in the
line of my business and iti other things.
I have been away a few weeks, and have
just finished going through the accumu
lated copies of those newspapers, in one
of them, of issue a month or so ago, I read
a Ihree-line ‘personal,’ a simple, regula
tion, country newspaper personal, saying
that So-and-So had l>een on a visit to suclt
and-such a place. That was all. But it
startled me and set me to thinking.
"In the first place, I will go back a lit
tle. I read in the Sun at the time it oc
curred, which was four or five weeks ago,
about Peter Schemm, the eccentric Phila
delphia brewer, going to Niagara b alls,
jumping into the rapids above the falls,
and meeting the fate that Inevitably fol
lows such an act, and I couldn t help pay
ing to myself:
“ ’Can’t be that Uncle Joe has been
there again, can it?’
"The coming of this thought into my
mind was a little’ s.ngular, because I
hadn’t seen Uncle Joe since 1887. By the
way, Uncle Joe is Joseph Zook of Dau
phin county. One day in the summer ot
1887 I met Uncle Joe In Harrisburg.
“ 'John,' said he, ’I am on my way to
Niagara Falls. This will make my fourth
visit to the great cataract, and I hope
there will be no fatality connected with
** 'What do you mean, Uncle Joe?’ said I.
“ 'lt is a strange story, John,’ said he,
‘but it is true. Just you listen: My first
visit to Niagara was in the summer of
1858 and I had been there not more than
an hour when X witnessed the agonizing
scene of a young man and a beautiful fair
haired child swept away by the swift eur
ient from Goat Island and dashed over
the falls. The young man was Charles
Addington, and the child was little Eva
De Forrest. The Addingtons and De For
rests were prominent Buffalo families.
Young Charles Addington was engaged to
be married to Ada De Forrest, a sister of
Eva. The day that I paid my first visit
to Niagara, Mrs. De Forrest, Ada, her
little sister, Eva, and young Addington
had come from Buffalo for a day s outing
at the falls. They picnicked on Goat Isl
and, and little Eva having strayed away
from the group, her mother sent young
Addington to find her and fetch her hack.
He discovered her not far away, stand
ing on the shore, looking at the swift
water. Stealing up behind her, he thought
lessly grasited the child under the arms,
and, lifting her up, held her out over
the water. She threw up her arms and
slipped from his hands into the river. Ad
dington sprang in and caught her before
she had been carrier! into the swifter cur
rent. He succeeded, after a desperate
struggle, in getting back near enough to
the shore to enable him to throw the
child up on the bank. She had not suf
ficient strength to hold there until her
mother could grasp her and puUher to a
safe place, and she Ml hack into the
water. Addington again seized her, but
he was too much exhausted to make way
against the current, and the two were car
lied into the rapids and disappeared to
gether over the falls. I was on Goat Isl
and and saw the whole occurrence.
“ 'ln the summer of 1864 I again visited
Niagara Falls. I arrived there at night,
and early next morning I walked over to
Goat Island, and, loking down the Amer
ican rapids, what should I see but a man
clinging to an old tree trunk that had at
some time lodged between the small isl
ands off Goat Island and the American
shore. Before I could give the alarm the
man had been discovered by others, and
the news spread rapidly. Who the man
was or how he came to be in his perilous
situation no one knew, but It was sup
posed that he had been rowing across the
river somewhere above the night before,
and, losing control of hts boat, had been
swept down into the rapids, and the boat
striking the tree trunk, he had by some
miracle gained a foothold upon It.
" ‘As soon as possible after the discov
ery of the man’s peril, word was tele
graphed to Buffalo, and a party of life
savers came on a special train to the falls
to try and rescue him. Before 10 o’clock
thousands of persons were gathered at
every available spot where a sight of the
unfortunate man could be obtained. The
railroads ran special trains, and people
•came in conveyances of all kinds from the
surrounding country. No one seemed at
first to know how to get to work to be of
aid to the man, but ho clung to the tree,
watching every move that was made—how
anxiously he watched may be Imagined.
It was, of course, impossible to make him
hear anything that might be shouted to
him, and there was no way to give him
any directions. Finally a lifeboat attach
ed to a cable and let down the rapids
from the bridge toward him. Guide ropes
were tied to it, by which it was directed
toward the log by men on the shore of
the island. The plan was well calculated,
and the hoat made directly for the spot
where the man was hanging between life
and death. The assembled multitude be
gan to feel that In a few minutes the poor
man would lye safely drawn ashore. Sud
denly the boat was caught by a swirl of
the rapids, the cable parted like a weak
kite string, and the boat rushed past like
a flash and was carried over the falls.
“ ‘This sad ending of that effort to res
cue the man showed the life-savers that
there was no hope for the man in that
plan. Several others were suggested, and
finally ono was adopt' and which It took un
til late In the afternoon to get in readi
ness. In all those long hours of suspense
I don’t believe one of the spectators mov
ed from his tracks. Everything else about
Niagara Falls was forgotten except the
terrible scene of a fellow-fating hanging on
the verge of death and patiently awaiting
the success or failure of the efforts that
were being made to rescue him. The plan
adopted was to fasten a strong cable se
curely to the American shore, attach a
stanch raft to It, carry the loose end of
the cable over to the Island and let It
belly down the raft to the tree trunk. By
this means it was hoped that the raft.
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after reaching the log and the man had
rrawled upon It, could be steadily drawn
to a small island between the man and
Goat Island, from which small island his
rescue would be easy. Some food and a
glass of brandy were floated on the raft,
with a rope and written instructions to the
man as to what was to lie done and what
he must do. The raft moved down and
reached the tree trunk.in safety.
“ ‘As the man dropped from his perilous
perch upon the raft, lashed himself to it
with the rope, according to instructions,
and then eagerly slezed the brandy and
food, such a shout as went up from the
thousands of people who had watched the
proceedings with bated breath was never
heard before. It could be heard above the
angry roar of Niagara. The raft was
slowly pulled toward the small island. Ev
erything seemed working to a charm. The
tension on the feelings of the spectators
was so great that many fainted away.
People were sobbing on every side. Sud
denly the raft stopped. The cable, drawn
aa it was beneath the water, caught on
some obstruction. All efforts to loosen it
were unavailing. One groan of agony
arose from the great crowd. The life-sav
ers tolled and tugged at the rope, but it
still clung to the obstruction. It was now
near sunset. The man on the raft had
unlashed the ropes that had been his se
curity against the possibility of his being
washed off by the current and Joined Ills
efforts with the others to loosen the rope.
He was pale, haggard and wild-looking
from his hours of suspense. Suddenly he
kneeled on the raft over which the water
was sweeping swiftly, and remained there
for a moment as If in prayer. Then he
sprang into the raging current and pulled
bravely for the island, which was only
a few feet away. At first he gained visi
bly against the current, and the thought
that he would surely save himself found
utterance in another joyful shout from
the spectators. But when he was almost
In reach of the shore his strength began
to fail. The space between him and the
island gradually widened. Then every one
knew that alt hope was gone. He made
a few more < operate strokes, but the wild
waters seized him, and, pitching and toss
ing and whirling him, hurried him to the
brink of the great cataract.
“ ‘When he reached the edge of the
falls he was thrown upward from the
water until his whole length came Into
view, standing upright, and he disappear
ed, as if he had made a voluntary leap
over the precipice. While he was being
dashed to and over the falls not a sound
was uttered by one of that vast crowd
of horror-stricken spectators, and, terri
ble as was the scene, not an eye was turn,
ed away from him as he was carried along
to his destruction. The moment he disap
peared In the face of the cataract one
heart-rending shriek went up from the
crowd, and, the awful fascination of the
scene being broken, the spectators fled as
from It as if from some frightful pursuer.
The poor victim s body was never found,
nor his identity ever established. As on
my previous visit, the place had no longer
any attraction for me, and the first train
carried me away.
"In the spring of 1884, twenty years aft
er my second visit, I made up my mind
to conquer my aversion to going again to
the place, which I could scarcely think
of without a shudder, and resolved to
make another effort to see the greatest of
American natural wondera. Although X
had been twice on the ground, I had not
yet seen the falls from below. In fact, I
could not be said to have seen them at
all. I had business in Huffaio in April,
ami, afte\ getting through with it, went
to the Falls. There was ice there yet, I
remember, and, all things else being equal,
the place was not particularly cheerful.
I made up my mind to go straight to the
Goat Island bridge and brave my feelings
by taking a look at the spot wh* re I had
seen the doomed man struggling for life
twenty years befqre. I did ho, and was
greatly surprised to see the old tree trunk
to which the man clung for so many
hours still rising out of the boiling and
leaping water. I had not been there long
when I noticed a great commotion among
people on the Island, and in a few min
utes learned that not only one, but two
men had gone over the falls some time
during the night before, and that the
clothing of one of them had been found,
and evidences that one of tho men, who
were brothers-ln-law, was a murderer and
suicide. He had lured hU brother-in-law
to the island, killed him, thrown his body
into the rapids, and then Jumped in him
self and followed it over the fulls. The
names of the men were Vedder ami Pear
son. I did not wait for more minute de
tads, but hurried to the Erie Railway sta
tion and caught the first train eastward.
“ ‘Now, as I said, John,’ said Uncle Joe,
‘I am making my fourth trip to the Falls,
this time an enforced one. Do you won
der that I am nervous, and a trifle super
stitious about going there? I hope there
will be no fatality connected with this vis
it, but if you should read about any one
going over Niagara Falls within the n' xt
day or two, you may be certain that I am
there.’
"Of course, I was impressed with Un
cle Joe s story, but I didn’t give it much
thought. Nevertheless, when I read In the
newspapers two days later that a young
woman who for several dteys had been no
ticed as lingering about the borders of,file
island overlooking the rapids, had leaped
Into the rushing waters and had been car
ried over the cataract, on the very after
noon of the day that Uncle Joe must have
reached Niagara—and only a few hours
after he actually did reach there, as I af
terward learned—l went to tell you his
story came upon me again with full force.
"Well, as 1 say, I hadn’t seen TJifcie Jot
since that time, and so It was a little
singular that when 1 read In the Sun the
Item about Peter Schemm going over X
should hove said:
“ ‘Can’t l>e that Uncle Joe has been
there agtiin, can it?’
"It was just at that lime that I went
away, and 1 had forgotten ull about the
Schemm tragedy and Uncle Joe. Now I
come back and run across this personal in
the country newspaper that I spoke of,
and I give you iny word that It set me to
thinking. That paper is printed in the
town where Uncle Joe lives. Before I
read the personal In It I noticed In It the
Item about the Philadelphia brewer go
ing over the falls. ‘Last Tuesday.’ the
paper said It happened. Then, by and by.
1 came to lhls*ln the personal column:
" ‘Our venerable citizen, Joseph Zook,
spent last Tuesday at Niagara Falls. It
was his ilfth visit to the great cataract.'
"Say! Would that set you to thinking,
or wouldn't it?”
FISH WHICH W ALK.
They Wink, Skip Abont and Leisure
ly Air Themselves.
From the London Standard.
When one hears or reads of fish that
walk, one thinks instinctively of the lung
flsh or mud fish—those curious creatures,
survivals of an ancient fauna, that seem to
have made some advance toward becom
ing amphibians, and slopped short on the
road. It 1s only natural that one should
recall them In thifl connection. When the
I Australian lung flsh was first described It
! was said lo leave the streams and go out
among the reeds and rushes on the flats
which are left uncovered at low tide,
and settlers averred that on still nights
they often heard It moving on the river
banks. This, however, has been shown not
to be tho case, though It is probable that
all the three lung flsh-from Africa.Auslra
ils and South America, respectively—can
move easily through,ille masses of aquatic
vegetation in their native rivers and
swamps. The name "walking flsh" Is gen
erally given to some small species allied
lo the gobies of our own coast, and
on The shores and estuaries of West Africa
and the countries bordering the Indo-I’a
clfic. Banks, in his "Journal, ’’ speaks of
the very singular phenomenon presented
by these fish, which, he says, were about
the size of an English minnow, and had
two very strong breast fins. He and his
party often found them in very dry places,
where it was at first thought they had
been left by the tide. Further'observation
showed that the flsh had chosen their sit
uation voluntarily.
Sir Joseph fixed his attention upon one
flsh, ami says that It Immediately fled,
"leaping as nimbly as a frog, by means of
its breast fins; nor did It seem to prefer
water to land, for If seen In the water it
often leaped out and proceeded on dry
land, and when the water was filled with
small stones standing above the surface,
would hap from stone to stone rather than
go Into the water. In this manner I ob
served several pass over puddles of water
and proceed on the other side, leaping as
before.” Other naturalists have "added a
good deal to our knowledge of these
strange fish. Hickson found th m In the
Celebes and described them, as did also
Woodford, who met with them In man
grove swamps In the Pacific, where, he
says, they are exceedingly common, hop
ping and climbing among the aerial roots,
to which they clung by means of their
strong pectoral fins, anil Jumping oft Into
the water when any one approaches. He
also found them in wells a long distance
from other water, In situations to reach
which they would have had to make a
considerable Journey overland. Moseley
saw them during the voyage of the Chal
lenger, arid In his “Notes of a Naturalist”
he tells how he chased one, In Trlncomalea
harbor, which skipped along the water by
a series of Jumps until it reached a rock,
where it sat on a ledge In the sun and
waited till he came up, when It skipped
along to another rock.
Though spirit specimens have Tong Ireen
known, and Dr. Gluther lent one to Mose
ley, who drew It for an illustration to his
"Notes," it wns not till some three years
ago that living' examples were brought to
Europe. The credit of introducing these
strange fish into zoological collections is
due to Dr. 11. Forbes, director of the Liv
erpool Museum, where they have done
remarkably well in shallow salt-water
tanks, kc-pt at a temperature of about 80
degrees Fuhrenheit. When they came they
were exceedingly timid; but this shyness
soon wore off and in a short time they
learned to recognize the attendant us he
came to feed them. Dr. Forbes epeaka of
their having two modes of motion on land
—a hop or spring and a walk. In the for
mer case the peclorai fins are used simul
taneously as a base whence to take off,
and in the latter alternately, when a cu
rious triple track is left in the soft mud.
At the meeting of the British Association
In 188*; Hickson pointed ou* that these fish,
in the Celebes, always kept the tail under
water, and this led Prof. A. C. Jiaidon,
during the Torres Straits expedition, to
make some experlm* nts. which induced
lain to believe that the tail does assist in
respiration, and the microscope showed
that the circulation of the blood was ex
ceptionally vigorous in that organ. But
with these conclusions Dr. Forbes is una
ble to agree. The specimens which hav
lived in the aquarium of the Liverpool
museum have been kept under close and
continuous observation, with the result
that the director believes that no aid can
be lent to respiration the Immersed
portion of the tail. The gill-chamhers of
these flsh are capacious, and in his opin
ion II is probable that a sulileient amount
of water can be retained in them to keep
up respiration during the time the flsh
are out of the wafer. He has timed indi
viduals, both in their natural condition
and in the aquarium, and found that they
would sit for more than half an hour with
out a bath. They would then walk slowly
Into the water and go Inflow the surface
for a second, conn- up and rest for a brief
space, and walk slowly out again on to the
margin.
T>r. Forties has lieen very generous with
the specimens not required for the Liv
erpool Museum. In December last be pre
sented several to the zoological gardens,
but ihcy did not thrive, and 111 a short
lime all died. He has quite recently sent
another consignment, for which a home
has been found in a large tank in the
new tortoise house. These specimens are
doing very well, and It will lie a great ad
vantage for naturalists to have an oppor
tunity of watching these curious flsh,
which seem to be quite fearless, and In
no wise incommoded by the visitors, who
"stream through the house. Their resem
blance to tadpoles Is exceedingly striking,
and their strange appearance i added lo
by their prominent eyes, which are bel
ter adapted for vision in air than in wa
ter, and, from their position, must com
mand an extensive field in all directions.
They can he protruded and retracted, and,
as the flsh lies propped up by Its pectoral
tins. It often appears to wink at the spec
tator. with one eye or both. Dr. Forties
hus, however, explained that what seems
to be winking It* the inversion of the eye
into a depression Immediately beneath, for
the purpose of lubricating the organ when
It becomes dry.
The climbing perch of India seems to
have been well known to the ancients, for
Theophrastus records the existence In
that country of certain little Ashes which
leave the rivers for a time arid then re
turn to them. This agrees pretty closely
with the habits of this species. The Ma
lays cull It by a name which signifies th
"tree-climber,” but while there Is no rea
son to doubt tho truth of Daldorfs story
that In 1791 he took one from a moist cav
ity In the stem of a palm tree growing
near a lake, there has hitherto been no
confirmation of It by any European. In
ibis flsh the hinder border of the gill
cover is armed with spines, the neutral
fins are spinous, so as to afford some sup
port, and It uses its pecto. ai fins to oar
Itself along through the grass and reeds.
There Is no doubt that It can travel for
a considerable distance on land, or that
it can live for some time out of the water;
but that Is no reason for accepting the
mediaeval Arab story that It climbed palm
trees to drink the milk of the nuts. This
flsh and Us allies have a supplementary
glll-ilke organ on each side above the true
gills, which enables them lo exist for a
considerable time out of the water. A
1< ss complex arrangement, serving a like
purpose, is found in the Indian flsh, pop.
uiariy known a ‘‘serpent heads,” which
can travel a good way over moist ground,
moving first one i>ectoral fln and then
the other, in some such fashion as a man
would elbow his way through a crowd.
The uhc of tho pectoral (Ins as means
of locomotion, other than swimming. Is
not unknown among British fishes. Of
this the gurnards are well-known ex
amples; they have, as prolongations of
their pectoral lias, three bony rays, which
servo for walking on the sea bottom,
where they live, and probably also as or
gans of touch. When they are kept in a
large aquarium their strange mode of pro
gression, winch Is extremely slow and de
liberate, may lie observed without diffi
culty. Lydekker writes of them as "hav
ing a peculiarly ghostlike appearance, re
minding the beholder of monsters in a
pantomime." Their weird look caused the
keeper of a large aquarium to doubt If
they could Ire true flsh. and tie used to de
scribe them as "something between a real
flsh and a lobster." And, in truth, the bent
free rays do, to some extent, simulate tho
walking limbs of a crustacean. The
Ashing ,rog, or angler-fish, uses Its broad,
paddle-like pectoral ilns to walk on tho
sea bottom, as well as to stir up the sand
in order to conceal himself from prey
which the long filaments on Its head may
have attracted. The closely related ten
tacle flsh of the tropics, which builds a
nest among the Gulf-weed, clumbers over
the floating mass by means of Us fins, and
also hops about over moist ground or on
the seaweed. The eei Is another British fish
that sometimes leaves the water by night,'
and travels through meadows in search
of food, or to get from one point to an
other, the small external gill aperture en
abling it to remain for some time out of
water. As there Is abundant evidence that
young eels, in their up-stream Journey
from the sea, often travel for some of
the distance overland, as has been describ
ed by Davy, Parnell and St. John.
—The average man if asked what Is tho
most Important crop of tho world would
unhesltulingly say, "Wheat.’ ’This Is true
in the United States, but far from the
case in the world as a whore, says G. B.
Waldron in McClure’s. The first place
must be given the potato. Of all the sta
ple crops of the world the potato takes
the first place, the annual crop being more
than f,000,000,(XX) bushels, against 2,500,000,-
000 bushels of wheat and 2,600,000,000 bush
els of corn. Of the total potato crop Eu
rope produces fuliy seven-eighths, and one
half times as much as her wheat, and all
the cereals together are but 50 per cent,
more.
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