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_ Lieutenant Con
.uarrast Perkins of
the United States Marino Corps writes
** Nijticle entitled “The Last of the
for St. Nicholasr Lieuten-
4^tins says:
T think few know that of all the
time-honored equipments of war
which these days of military progress
have left us, the drum is the oldest;
but, like the sword and iha bayonet,
the drum is fast disappearing. Its
companion, the fife, hallowed by tra¬
ditions of valor even in our own his¬
tory, from Lexington to Gettysburg,
is already gone, and another decade
will still forever the inspiriting martial
music of the drum.
What boy has not felt his pulses
thrill and his heart swell with patriotic
pride and martial ardor while gazing
upon the well known picture of the
Revolution, the “Minute Man of ’76”
forsaking the ploughshare and flying
to take down the old flintlock at the
tocsin of war—the throbbing of the
drum and the shrill screaming of the
life, sounded by two scarred veterans,
bare-headed, white-haired, and in
their shirt-sleeves, inarching through
fields and along the roads, calling the
patriots to arms.
Every New England schoolboy has
read the story of Abigail and Eliza¬
beth, the sisters of Newburyport, who
♦luring the Revolution repelled alone
an attack of the British by beating
furiously an old drum and blowing a
fife. The British troops, who were
about to land, hurried back to their
ships, thinking a whole army lay in
ambush to repulse them!
Thus did a fife and drum drive off
the enemy and save a town from pil¬
lage and ruin.
The military drum is supposed to
have been introduced in Europe by
the Moors and Saracens, during the
middle ages, and was quickly adopted
by armies. The drum of to-day differs
little, and in appearance only, from
the earliest form. It consists, as
every boy knows, of two pieces of
parchment, or batter heads, stretched
over the ends of a holloAv cylinder and
struck with sticks. For ages this in¬
strument has been known among sav¬
age tribes and barbaric nations, who
use its weird music to accompany their
religious rites, as well as for war pur-
pose*.
The tom-tom of the Sioux Indian
is a good example of a primitive
drum.
In civilized warfare the drum has
ever been connected Avith deeds of
martial A*alor, and its voice is dear to
the heart of tho soldier avIio has fol¬
lowed ita pulsing into the deadly fire
of battle, or eren in reviews and
military parades, when rank upon
rank sweep up a street keeping per¬
fect alignment and step to the drum’s
inspiring beat. *
It has found a place in history
through the daring bravery of more
than one beardless hoy who has
sounded at the critical moment the
pas de charge or “rally” just in time
to turn the tide of battle.
Johnny Clem, the “drummer boy
of Shiloh,” who beat the rally Avithout
orders when his regiment had broken,
panic stricken, and thus helped to
save the day, was made an officer for
his heroism, and is now a major in the
United States army.
In fable, song and story the drum
has ever kept pace with the most
A-aliant deeds of men. Iludyard Kip¬
ling’s pathetic little story of “The
Drums of the Fore and Aft,” tAvo
courageous drummer-hoys avJio, at the
cost of their oAvn lives, led the charge
and saved tho honor of their regiment
when routed by the Afghans, tells of a
deed such as is to be found in histoiy
ns well as in fiction. More than once
has the drum claimed a place in the
front rank of storming battalions, or
led desperate charges in the van of a
victorious army.
What wonder, then, that Ave look
sorrowfully into the future, Avhen
battling will no longer he inspired by
the “wav-drum'a throb;” for we knoAv
that the advance of military science,
with all its death-dealing machine-
guns, magazine-rifles, and its smoke¬
less powder, Mill surely sound the
knell of the drum.
Six Costly Things.
The biggest price for a painting M*as
that paid for Meissonier’s “1814.”
M. Chanchard gave <1170,000 for it.
The most costly building of modern
times is that of the Neiv York state
capitol at Albany. Nineteen million
six hundred thousand dollars have
been spent on it. In 1892 I. Malcolm
Forbes paid $150,000 to Senator Stan¬
ford for the horse Avion, making it
the most valuable equine the Morld
has ever known. The most valuable
book in the world is a Hebrew Bible
now in the Vatican. In 1512 Pope
Julius II i-efused to sell it for its
weight in gold, which M’ould amount
to about $103,000. The “Imperial”
diamond is considered the finest stone
of its kind iu the world. The Nizam
of Hyderabad offered $2,150,000, the
largest price ever known, for this dia¬
mond. The costliest meal ever served
was a supper given by Eelius Yarns to
a dozen guests. It is said to have
cost $242,500.
His Connection.
Bannister, the comedian, avrs pre¬
sented to a proud old Scotch dame.
“Who are the Bannisters?” she asked
peevishly. “I do not recollect meet¬
ing Avith them before.” “Madame,”
replied the actor, gravely, “we are
closely connected with the Stairs.”
“Ah! there is a good Rnd ancient fam¬
ily!” cried rnadame. /‘Mr. Bannister,
I am delighted to make your acquaint¬
ance.”—Household Words.
i n Fleuhant ^ and a Rahv
At the circus parade in Middletown
recently a small child on Broad street
got axvay from its mother and toddled
out in the street to see Jumbo. Before
anyone could realize what the child
was up to, it was directly iu front of
the herd of elephants. Everyone ex-
peeted to see tne little one crushed to ] j
death, but the leader of the herd care-
fully picked the little one up Avith his
of * ui “-
Personal PWj and Hot Weather.
and not until its effects actually dis-
qualify one for exertion is it a r‘eason j
for remaining away from the house of 1
God. The truly devout will say: “If
«•»Chrv
AdTO *■
Dittoing r* Pine Au
liver sir. aitiog was a type »uiy
Industry, ,
front AJf** ?-> It k OU
peeted that l^tmi J apparel svuld clothe
women To keep dainty behmsiags in good
order It is ne^cssa*y to have them jirwperly
laundered. This is t-spat iiiiy true in the
laundering of pretty sunune:
me fourth Of a He of Ivory Soo : . (whi-h win |
not fads the most dollcateeoior-,) add i: to tve i
ynAar; wash in? aril-lea through it. rinst* first <
in dear and then in bias wttc:-. tv.iug. dip iu j
““ vec »
the
bes* season EuziS-PitKm
some time.
Some time we shall know why
Our sunniest mornings change to noons of
ratn; shadowed by
And why our steps are so
pain; why lie
And we often
On couches sown with thorns of care and
doubt, hedged
And why our livos are thickly about
With bars that put our loftiest plans to
rout.
Some time we shall know why
Our dearest hopes are swept so swift away,
And why our brightest flowers first decay;
Why song is loeit in sigh. m
Why clasping Angers slip so soon apart—
Estrangement, space and death rend heart
from heart,
Until from deepest depths the teardrops
start.
The Dwarf’s
Little Brother.
A GIRL’S ADVENTURE IN A MEXICAN TOWN.
ISS STANLEY
m was a pink-and-
white English
girl, very
and
m |Vi lip. The Mexican
m ■§^J girls, who or-
mw ^ carriages (lered out if their they
had a block to
go, used to look upon her with amaze-
ment as she tramped down their steep
streets with a fine, swinging, heel-
and-toe gait.
She was picking her way one day
among the vendors in the plaza, stop-
ping once in a while to give some
whining beggar or tattered monstrosity
a centavo, when she felt her skirt
pulled. Looking, she saw voice*piped a tinv hand
held out, and a childish
the usual formula for alms. The little
creature was no taller than a child of
four. But flie face! It was old and
withered. The eyes were sunken and
so old! Miss Stanley pulled back the
rebozo—the hair was gray,
“A dwarf,’’she thought, with a lit-
lie feeling of repulsion. “How old are
you?”
“Fifty-four,” piped up the wee
thing. Then, true to her sex, “The
priest Avill tell you fifty-eight, but I
am not; I am only fifty-four.” She said
fc her name was Rosita.
Rosita, it appeared, did nearly any-
thing for a living, begging preferably,
although that is a somewhat over-
croAvded profession in Mexico. Some-
times she sold chickens or vegetables
on a commission. She had another
source of income, being pensioner on
the bounty of a young man—a centavo
a Aveek—but she confessed sadly he
made her jump for the coin, and if ho
held his arm out straight she might
jump in A r ain, she could not reach it.
“The brute!” said Miss Stanley,
Rosita did not knoAv the meaning, but
she looked up, pleased. That was
good, the English lady Avas taking an
interest in her, for the expletive
sounded profane, and profanity from a
feminine source.indicated strong emo-
tion, which she construed faA'orably.
The poor in Mexico are always hun-
failing, gry, and took Miss Rosita Stanley, knowing this
to a little one-
room restaurant. The menu.Avas con-
lined strictly to Mexican dishes.
Miss Stanley noticed that Rosita put
half her dinner to one side, wrapping
the cavne and frijoles iu tortillas,
When she came to a dulce of some
tropic fruit, boiled in a syrup of cane
sugar, her little Avrinkled eyes looked
wistful.
“How can I take some to my little
brother?” she asked.
Miss Stanley asked another ques¬
tion: “Is this food you have put atvay
for your brother?”
“Yes,” answered Rosita, in her
squeaky \*oice, “I take all the care of
him. YYe are alone, and I Avork for
him. He is locked in the room noAv,
see,” and she held up the massive key
peculiar to Mexican doors.
“Why is he locked in?” asked Miss
Stanley, as she directed the mozo to
put the dinner in a couple of ollas for
Rosita to take to her brother.
“He has combats Avith the children
1 7 -me one
** kmt, she aiiSN\ei ed.
Miss Stanley Avatched her trot away,
1 c ? ° < *’ un i te man y
dwarfs not bulky—indeed, 1 . pitifully
thin. It Avas not until she reached
her home that Miss Stanley remem-
hered she hn<l ’
oerea she had not net asked not i how i old i t the u
little brother” M-as.
She often met Rosita after that
sometimes in the Jardin, Avhere the
roses nodded overhead, and violets
bloomed underfoot, and the band
played softly and SAveetly, as Mexican
bands do. Rosita Avould dart from
the circling stream of pelado into the
inner circle, where the quality walked
under the trees or sat on the iron
benches. Miss Stanley could seldom
resist the little, dirty, badly worked
square of drawn-work held out by the
tiny hand.
Constance Stanley had no father or
mother, and, lh'ing with a brother
who was endeavoring to effect the
drainage of “the richest silver mine
m the world,” she wandered un-
checked through the crowded, narrow
streets of the. old town with a young
criada her only safeguard.
k. he had often longed to explore a
uarii street that plunged downward
from the paved and civilized one. It
was damp and murky. A staircase of
stone, with crumbling adobe walls,
tw o and three stones high. Across the
street s narrow width fluttered strings
of Abashing. The wnmon A-bh
red petticoats and blue rebozos male
bright blots of color ^ged The men loaf >1
about, lean and d^rwa^ It remtoded swimed
her of Naples. The
with babies and dogs_poA-‘ertv fide'with march
nocents. ing always side by * those nose m in'
Down she went The street mode
££
like beast's . s peeling out
%i ^ na eve« the °n f
^< 1
P ! “ ,e •« -U-. ««se, ironstone
china plate, chipped and cracked,
There was a look of intense agony on
her old face, and her wee hands shook
as she drew her treasure forth from
under her rebozo. The plate was im- !
possible, and Constance, breaking !
that fact very gently to the little
wns nstonished tM to see the shriveled tenrs j
For two . days, . senonta, . I have |
dared not I ;
unlock that door," and she
nodded toward shone^7he the mean oortal fllee” where '
the eve. had 1
ha9 uothiug to eat, except the few |
Some time we all shall know
Each other, aye, as we ourselves are
known;
And see how out of darkness light has
grown.
And He—whe loves us so—
Despite our wilfutness and Mind corn-
plaint—
Will show us how Hts kind and calm re-
straint
Can mold a human soul into a saint. — - T-,
Some time our eyes shall see
The silver lining to the darkest cloud,
While silvery echoes follow thunder loud.
Some time our hearts shall be
Content, forgetting all our restless mood,
And knowing everything has worked for
good—
The how, and when, and why be under¬
stood.
—Lillian Gray,
! tortillas the poor around here could
fB ve > aud many of these go hungry
fr01 tt the sun’s coming up until the
sun ’ 9 going down.”
Constance „
sent her servant and
Rosita to the plaza for some cooked
food, and, while she waited, she talked
i u tbe doorways with Pepita and Lola
and J uana. They told her how Rosita
worked and starved for her brother.
“How old is he?” asked Constance,
“Quien sabe?” they said.
“ Is be a child or is he big enough
to work for her?” she asked, impa-
tiently.
“ A b! he is grandote, but also he is
loco - un mauiatico. See, that is Jose
now who glares from the hole in the
door.”
Miss Stanley listened to them with
that rapt attention we all give to tales
of the mad. He dug deep holes in the
eart h floor, burrowing like an animal,
sometimes he escaped in that way and
fben there Avas fear in the narrow
street, and the police, after a bloody
bgbt, Avould drag him shrieking back
to tbe one poor room Rosita called
borne. She had always put food
through the door for him before ven-
turing to open it.
Once, for a long time, he had not
menaced the peace of the street. That
A yas when he killed the sereno. A po-
liceman had jeered him as he peered
bom the hole in the door, much as
P eo P Ie tease a hyena snarling in a cage.
Tbe mad have memories, for Jose, one
n igbt Avhen the moon was big, crept
softly about the dark room, and, find-
big the key Rosita’s small cunning
bad hidden, opened the door, crept
again softly up the street to an adobe
doorway where Avas sleeping a sereno,
bis head on his knees. The police
have a day and night shift, but one
cannot expect a madman to know
everything. So it Avas an innocent
man-who had his neck wrung as the
co °b does a chicken’s. They could
only guess what then happened. There
w ere only the pulsing stars looking
silently doAvn and the great, calm
moon. HoAvever, it Avas evident he
must have dragged and Avorried and
ft nd teased that poor piece of clay for
Hod knows hoAv far or long,
They found him asleep by the dead
sereno, and, although too polite in the
“Landof the Noonday Sun” to manacle
or chain, they took the precaution to
tie Avith stout maguey rope Jose’s
slumbering bulk before six of the
largest policemen would venture to
carry him to the carcel. Jose’s kind
°f people are treated with deference in
Mexico. So, after some time, the man
was sent back for the dwarf to feed and
care for, and Rosita’s face took on more
Avrinkles each day.
By the time Rosita returned with
the food, Constance, Avho understood
Spanish very well, had heard much of
the “little brother.”
She declined to look through the
peep-hole at him ravening over his
dinner like a wild beast. Followed
by Rosita’s Avordy gratitude, she
climbed to the top of the street aud
there met Mr. Dysart.
Mr. Dysart had but lately risen from
the following letter:
~ ,, ... ^ .. , ,
Mexico is rather jolly. I went SK to the Gov-
ernor ’ s ball last night. Only one English
Won a cup at the three-mile. He’s a pretty
«ood sort. Tell Bob if he can get that
liver -celored dog of Oglethorpe for eight
P iaea s to buy her. Look out for Tobin’s
® on 1 let tho old duffer from the
Clauearty ‘‘old stables fool with it. Tell all the
folk” that Master Tony sent them love
AV l3lli a’ them a good pratie crop. Love
to dad , and y° ur9elf * Toxv.
After Tony Dysart had evolved this
characteristic missi\ f e from his insides,
he Avent out for a bweIIoav of fresh air
and to relieve himself of the strain of
composition by a long walk,
Constance A\-as very lovely at the
dance, in a faint-green brocade, Avith
a quantity of creamy old lace. Some
crimson poppies Avere twisted round
her i\-ory shoulders. One or tAvo more
of the flaming flow*ers shone from her
pale-gold hair. Mr. Dysart completely
lost his head over her; as he had a lot
of possessions in Ireland, among them
a rich father and an ancient and hon-
orable ancestry, he could afford to
do so.
Ha M as thinking of her as she had
looked the night before, when sud-
denly she appeared, with her servant,
coming up from a street dark and
deep, like a well, for alreadv it was
getting dusk.
On the strength of being at college
with her brother, he beo-an M'ith true ™k
manly irascibility y to take her to lOtasu
f™*
stance tiffhtpnp cnvinl^V er ,^ oft haughty
mouth and ’
5 . wfJT ° f ^ * "T ^ ^ - Te
a cW home
The house too Seno^T l to and . SXS . * , ei ‘
occupied had been ^ n 0 Pe z , ’s, but
, ° together
Avith ’
a mtoo P
owned. Howeve^DMr co™
anting lamp Mas lighted in the
f*** f ??*** doors a unchained flood of
melody i and ’
fragrance rushed out to
SteaTrS SLket Kgod o^t ftoVXe^nf. fl r rs
to insist that Tonv, old bov should ^
take tea with them Which he did
That was to* sister^Dick to'fr i
tween the Tony.^ brother and ^everv
adored and mto^or ni 8 c ht toev
pumped out the wde to
hounds over the sala floor But
Constance detostsd him. nnd,
trary bhe tramped to her ns,ml reticence, skid so.
around the disreputable
and filthy streets twice as much as be-
fore, for she knew it snnovaJ ed i •
STShe Sometimes she resje^d tcooIO hfA. , *“ f °‘ l0W
'
would ask. “You know my theory
Connie, that a Bporty man like Dysarfc
makes the best husband.”
“Oh, Dick! who is talking about
husbands? I think that a man
who is utterly doggy and horsey and
takes Browning to be authority on
pink-eye companion. or glanders To is a very ‘poor
quote your ‘dear
Tony,’ ‘we don’t trot in the same
class!’”
Dick gave a contemptuous snort
This was one day at luncheon, and
Constance, instead of the good cry she
pined for, took a walk. She had not
seen Rosita for some time, and she
turned her steps toward what Dr.
Dysart called “those cut-throat dens.”
She had never seen the street so de¬
serted. All were taking a siesta, even
the dogs. As she reached the sharp
corner, she heard a thin little shriek
full of appeal. She recognized Rosita’s
voice, and ran with her criada at her
side into the low, open doorway she
had before so shudderingly avoided,
There, snapping his teeth and roll¬
ing his bloodshot eyes, was Rosita’s
“little brother” tied with strong ropes
to an iron pin in the wall—but his
arms were free, aud he stood there, a
giant in size. He had secured the
key aud had almost pulled the staple
from the wall, but Rosita was clinging
j ! to and his fro arm he and calling her for wolf help. might To
j swung as a
a rabbit.
He had the key in his black, cruel
hands and he bx-ought it down on her
up-turned face. Then again, as Con-
stance rushed forward with a scream,
the key fell with a crunch on the little,
old, gray head.
At that moment the pin gave way,
for adobe walls are not strong, Con-
stance turned with her hands thrown
out wildly. Over Rosita’s body the
madman tripped with a crash to the
earth floor; just as he fell, he caught
Constance’s gown in his grasp. She
fell with him, and, falling, knew the
room had filled with a clattering crowd,
and that-Tony Dysart, smooth-shaven
and blonde, loomed above all.
Constance, with the help of her
criada, got out in the street, where
she listened, with beating heart, to
the cries, curses, and scuffling going
on inside.
There was one dominating, ftAvful
groan—then a sinister silence,
A moment of sickening uncertainty
f or that unemotional young English-
woman, and Tony Dysart, panting, his
clothes torn, and blood-stains on his
face and hands.
He walked firmly enough, to give
Constance a helping arm up the stairs.
He said Rosita Avas dead, and he
thought the “little brother” Ai’oulddie
aIso > for, Avhile he was struggling Avith
him, a policeman had crept up and
struck him OA r er the head Avith a heaA r y
b-on bar.
“Here Ave ave at the Casa Stanley,”
she said, as they stopped before the
carvud doors. “Come in. Dick will
want to see you. He can thank you
better than I. ”
“No one can thank me like you,”
Tony replied. ‘ ‘And I must go to the
hotel. This arm of mine pains a little.
No, not broken,” he answered, trying
to smile, “but‘little brother’Avrenehed
it a trifle.”
Constance, however, Avould not ac¬
cept his easy assurance that it Avas all
right. “Yon must Come in, Dick will
Avant you.”
“Do you want me, though?” She
did not answer that; but, as she let
the knocker fall, turned with tears in
her eyes.
“Will you come, Tony?”
“I Avill come,” he insisted, “if you
Avaut me.”
The big doors swung open.
“I want you,” she said, sloAvly.
Aud the doors clanged behind them.
—Edith Wagner, in the Argonaut,
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Who sings in grief procures relief.
He loves thee well Avho makes thee
weep.
That which is lightly gained is little
valued.
A Avoman that marries for a home
pays big rent.
Some of our happiest moments are
spent in air castles.
Yoit can very often count your
friends by your dollars.
Only those can sing in the dark ndio
liaA’e a light in the heart.
A man’s idea of a perfect woman is
one avIio thinks he is perfect.
There is no jewel in the M'orld so
valuable as a chaste and idrtuous
woman.
Even in traveling in a thorny path
it may not be necessary to step on all
the thorns.
He Avho seeks after what is impossi¬
ble, ought iu justice to be denied what
is possible.
Marrying a man to reform him i 3
equal to putting your fingers into a
fire to put it out.
When two souls ha\ r e but a single
thought, they should stop spooning
and get married.
A man’s cynicism is bounded on the
north by his vanity and on the south
by his digestion.
When you say “I don’t care,” try to
see that your tone of voice doesn’t in¬
dicate that you do.
It is alM’ays a mystery to a woman
why her husband doesn’t seem to pity
old bachelors more.
Life is like a nutmeg grater. You
have to rub up against the rough side
of it to accomplish anything.
Every woman has an idea that she
can judge a man by looking straight
m his eyes—but can she?—The South-
West.
The Age of Trees.
^ * s a Midespread idea that the
rings of the section of a tree give data
to its age, the concentric rings be-
“8 °f the same number the years
that have passed. It is knoAvn, how-
ey f> that the data thus furnished are
only approximately exact. Can any
other information be obtained from
British
and Avas more than fh*e hundred years
old. An examination of the spedmen
shows that a part of the annual rugs fifst
corresponding tL to the »nd of the
cemury of tre “ P-
TtW? 1 ^? 5 are Tery c ^° se together TweD ‘ y
and form ? , ®P ecial . .aspect, and
lde y separated from the external
*
thes^T , 11 1 ^ iS de
S * evi “ t that
W formed 1 during
Sna Ire * Tg 3 abu ° r def “ al f ones tire c<mdi Wha t *
-
S™ tW 0 irflu , '“J
quake* n“meton» Ltoe^ms^h riSt th
o’ernioi^n inundation* ’ ’ on £ht., etc., +
with ^ uie ^ ous sapors . coming from
theusands of abysses, and such as in^ho pre-
great epidemic known
attributed to such eata-
clvsms
MADE RICH BY HIS NOSE.
STORY OF JOHN MOOSMAN, A WEST
VIRGINIA “SMELLER.’*
An Extraordinarily Developed Power of
smell Which Enabled Him to Locate
oil Wells with Unerring Certainty—
He Was Deaf and Dumb and illiterate.
One Of the best-known and thor-
oughly unique personages in the West
Virginia oil fields was killed by ft rail-
road train near this city yesterday Barkers-
evening, says ft story from
burg, W. Va., in the Pittsburg Dis-
patch. sixty-three
He was John Moosmau, Switzerland.
years old, and a native of
Till 1889 he lived on a small farm back
of St. Mary’s, and had neither wealth
nor prominence. When he died he
was known personally to every oil man
in the State, and was worth $300,000.
He was What was known as a “smel-
ler.’* He possessed the rare gift, be-
lieved by oil men to be supernatural,
of locating oil by merely passing over
the surface of the ground, without any
of the witchery of hazel switches,
peach-tree forks, or other devices,
supposed years ago to accompany such
efforts to locate water wells. That he
possessed this faculty no one doubts,
for there are hundreds of material
proofs of his Avork.
When the oil excitement first struck
the A’icinity of Belmont, this State,
about ten years ago, Moosmau tried
to induce some of the prospectors to
pay him a fee to select locations for
Avells. His proposition that he could
find oil, if it existed, Avas laughed at
by some, but when Avells Avere drilled
where he said there was no oil, and
none Avas found, more credence Avas
placed in his Avord.
Later he secured Wilson Hurley for
i client, and located fl\ r e producing
wells for him in a space of ten acres.
This feat made Moosman's reputation.
From that time ou his services wei'C
almost in constant demand, and hun¬
dreds of gushers have been drilled oii
spots Avhich he selected, Avhile as many
projects have beeil abandoned because
he declared there was no oil under the
spots selected by the projectors of oil
enterprises.
Among the Most noted of his loca¬
tions was the famous Lubeck Oil Com¬
pany gusher, near Cairo, which has
made all the members of the original
company Wealthy, and Avhich led to
the deA’elopment of one of the largest
and richest fields iu West Virginia.
For the last few years he Avas able
to command fabulous sums for locat¬
ing Avells, and as he grew more Avealthy
he cared more for his ease than the
offers of clients. Lately he had oper¬
ated in oil himself, and, Avith his avoiI-
derful faculty, his success wad phe¬
nomenal. Wealthy oil concerns, Among
them the local corporations bf the
Standard, kept detectives Constantly
employed to watch Moosman AvbeneATr
he went from home, Avith instructions
to buy or lease land at any price in
the a icinily of places Avkere lie loeated
wells for himself; By this plan many
persons have shared in his prosperity.
He leftA’es a family, and one of his
sons Avas supposed to possess his
father’s faculty, but experiments made
by Moosmau himself pro\ r ed the fal¬
lacy of this belief. The old mau would
take the boy with him on his expedi¬
tions, but in no instance did the
younger Moosman show any ability to
detect Avliat appeared to be an open
book to his father.
How the old man read the geography
of the oil pools, located frequently
from two to three thousand feet below
the surface, is a mystery AA'hich he
never volunteered to clear up, and
Avhich offers of eftsh would ndt irtducC
him to explain. He Avas stonC deaf,
and had not spoken a Avord for more
than twenty .years.
His communications were all by fin¬
ger signs, he being poorly educated;
and not capable of making himself in¬
telligible by written Characters. Even
the deaf and dumb alphabet was of lit¬
all tle his use business to him, and through lie conducted nearly
the interpre¬
tation of members of his family, all of
whom could understand his every
motion.
Persons of a scientific turn have at¬
tempted to get from him some state¬
ment whether he read the presence of
oil by means of nervous impressions,
whether the sensations produced were
akin to electrical phenomena, or whether
the knowledge came to him as a reve¬
lation from some supernatural force,
but these efforts all proved futile,
though his children, who are educated
and interested in the scientific side of
the case, made every effort to aid.
deaf, As stated above, Moosman was stonfe
and that Avas what led to his
death, His children had often warned
him of tile danger of walking ort rail¬
roads, but he paid* no attention to
them, and on several previous occa¬
sions had narrow escapes from being
run down by trains. His death was
instantaneous and painless, there be¬
ing but a small scar on his forehead to
show where tbe locomotive struck him.
Metered Heat
Wd are all familiar Avith water, gas
and electricity being measured for our
consumption by means of meters, but
the supplying of heat through pipes
and meters is rather a novel scheme to
most of us. In Harrisburg, Penn., a
company three miles distributes, of asbestos through covered Borne
varyiug in size from pipe,
three inches to a
foot, heat for M r arming purposes to many
residents and business houses, at a
cost house not exceeding that of ordinary
discomfort heating, to say nothing of the
of making fires, attending
to furnaces, bringing in fuel and tak¬
ing out ashes. This heat is steam
and is metered out to each consumer;
the charges being from three dollars to
three dollars and fifty cents per thou¬
sand cubic feet of space M-armed. The
steam is distributed at only twenty
pounds pressure, and the heat can be
as readily regulated as the flow of gas.
The plant is on the Holly system, and
represents twelve hundred horse
poM'er. The service is available from
the first chilly autumn day until the
Avarm days of summer, and is not only
economical and satisfactory to the con¬
sumers, but said to be very profitable
to the supplying companies. There
is no doubt that our ordinary system
of domestic heating is not only gross¬
ly extravagant and uncomfortable, and
that in large cities such commercial
heating plants must prove highly re¬
munerative to the investors.
Causes of Pauperism.
Investigations made by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics of Massachusetts
showed that of 3230 paupers exam¬
ined, 2108, or 65.26 per cent., were
addicted to the use of liquor; 866, or
26.81 per cent, were total abstainers
while in regard to the other 256, or
<.93 per cent., no information could
be secured. Of the total abstainers 41
per cent. M-ere minors. Ont of 2701
eases 1274, or 47.17 per cent., attri¬
buted their pauperism to their own
intemperate habits. In 1542. or 64.82
per cent, out of 2379 cases one or both
parento were addicted to drink.
NO USE FOR HAY.
Which Prefers Meat and risli to
A Horse Diet.
Other
The most extraordinary apP etlt ®
known in a horse belongs to Bil y, -
handsome bay owned by A. Decon -
tienx & Son, the butchers O C ‘ ,,
Fruit Market, Horses are trequeuuy
j to show a liking for sugar, ana
inown where they would
. gtances are re lated horse
drink beer, but who ever saw a
fond of meat and nsa. ^
that was draw the am
Billy’s duties are to
delivery and his stand is in Mercnai
street in front of the shop, Here he
i 3 often on exhibition, eating with an
apparent relish steak, liver, tripe, and
! short, almost any variety ol mea
: handed to him. Sometimes, after ia\ -
| j n g had his feed of oats and hay, lie ro¬
j fuses to munch meat, but this seldom
j occurs. appetite developed . seveiai
Billy’s knew of it unti
months ago. No one
G ne eay he was seen to reach into a
butcher’s cart that was tied ahead oi
him and calmly begin eating a steak,
After that he was fed often with the
firm’s wares, and many a bet has been
W on and lost on his appetite, varied his
The horse formerly fish, but car- he
nal meals by purloining that ludi-
v - as cured in a manner was
crons to the spectators, but very paiu-
f u l for the equine phenomenon.
He reached into a fish wagon one
day when bis olfactories detected the
odor of his favorite smell, but an active
and belligerent crab took offense at the
intrusion and promptly fastened to his
lower lip. head frantically and
Billy shook his
whinnied in pain, but the crustacean
held on until he was crushed by being
banged against the side of the wagon.
Since then the hors© has kept clear of
fish;
Billy is the faA’orite of the market,
and A strange teanister Avlid had the
temerity to lay a AVhip across his back
onC Morning to make rooM, AVas nearly
mobbed by indignant butchers and
fishmongers. He is also the pet rtf his
owner’s family, dnd his sleek hid© and
general e\ T idence rtf good attention.— cAre shoAV
that he does not lack for
San Francisco Call.
The Western Saddle.
Be it known that he avIio has ridden
only on an English pig-skin Avill find
that there are things he has no
knoAA'ledge of AA’hen first he thi’ows a
leg over the stock saddle of the West;
and when he has seen a bronco-buster
ride a bucking mustang on its native
heath, he must admit that although
the cowboy may be neither neat nor
Avell-mannered, he could yet give
points on rough riding to those who
follow the fox-hounds;
As the cowboy’s mode of riding is
And distinctive, so is his horse-furniture,
particular it is admirably adapted to his
needs; The stock saddle,
for instance, is as different front the
English hunting or park saddle as a
park drag is from a trotting-sulky; yet
each is perfectly suited to the pur¬
poses for which it yvas SpanislvAfflericau designed. The
stock saddle is of
birth, aud must be heavily built—
sometimes forty pounds in weight—
in order to have the requisite strength,
for the high horn or pommel is neces¬
sary to the cowboy in all the uses of
the lariat, or “rope,” as it is uoav al¬
most universally called, and thus it is
required to stand the most sudden
and severe strains. The rope is a A r ery
essential article of the cow-puncher’s
equipment. It is ordinarily about
forty feet long, and can be thrown
Avith accuracy perhaps thirty feet by
the average punched; although some
use it effectively at a distance often
Or fifteen feet further if its length is
proportionately greater. In catching
stock or in hauling anything, be it a
mire wagon, a bogged steer, Or AVood
for the camp-fire; the rope is given a
double turn around the horn, and the
saddle Must be strong indeed to endure
such woirk. Moreover, it must be
tightly girthed over the heavy saddle-
blankets; and this calls for the
ciimbevsome cinch-rigging, which in
most parts of the West is double.—
Allan Hendricks, in Lippincott’s.
Florida’s Profitable Pineapple Crop.
From the reports of all those Avho
have shipped pineapples already this
season and have received returns for
them, Ave learn that the prices re¬
ceived ha\ r e been very good so far.
By this we mean they have brought
from seven to eight cents apiece for
poorer quality of common pines up to
ten, tM’elve and fifteen cents apiece
foi* good ones of the common kind,
and in some cases even more than
that;
This is doing very well, and if the
test bf the pine© Shipped this season
average anything like this iri prices,
the growers M*ill be perfectly satisfied,
for at such prices there is money in
raising them. Of course the fancy
pities prices, that in wer© shipped brought fancy
most cases selling all the
way from tM enty-five cents to $1, and
in some instances $1.50 apiece. This
year is the banner year as far as the
crop is concerned, and, from indica¬
tions noMr, it bids fair to be the ban¬
ner year for prices and profits also.
There is surely good money in raising
pines, and our groAvers are finding it
out this year even if they never knew
it before.
The statistics of the present crop
cannot be obtained in full until the
close of the shipping season, but esti¬
mates promise a total of 150,000 bar¬
rels, or 300,000 standard crates* —
West Palm Beach (Fla.) Tropical Sun*
To Make Wolf Kill Wolf;
A Western genius has made a dis¬
covery which, if all that he claims for
it be true, Avill settle the coyote and
wolf question for all time. The dis¬
covery consists of a yelloAvish-broMU
liquid. The mode of extermination is
to trap a Molf or coyote alive and in¬
ject three drops of the fluid beneath
the skin. This operation is repeated
three times in tMelve hours, at the
end of Avhich time the animal, with
green-eyed dilated pupils, frothing at
the mouth aud raving mad, is released
and turned loose. It lives from thirty
to forty hours, after being liberated,
but, like a dog with hydrophobia, it
bites everything that it comes in con¬
tact M ith, and as every other wolf thus
bitten becomes inoculated, the poison
spreads and death follows at a rapid
rate. It is cruel, perhaps, but effec¬
tive.—Northwest Magazine.
About Cables.
Cables have their adversities even
on the bottom of the Atlantic. Icb-
bergs passing over sometimes cut
them in two. \oIcanic eruptions
sometimes injure them. A few years
ago three Atlantic cables went down
at the same time and in about the
same spot. No other explanation has
been found but volcanic disturbance.
Near shore the risks multiply. One
of the commonest is the anchors of
fishing smacks, a whole fleet some-
times riding on a cable at once. Tha
rocks and breakers near the coast are
also dangerous.
The London people are computed
s pend $6,000,000 daily.
facts and figures.
The Vatican at Rome is the largest
palace that has ever been erected. In
length it is 1,200 feet, and in breadth
MOO feet, it contains 4,422 rooms.
The Brooklyn bridge gives employ¬
ment to a permanent force of 778 men
and women, of whom ninety-five de are
policemen and 216 in the tram
partment. sunshine than any
Spain has more The yearly
other country in Europe. that
average in Spain is 3,000 hours,
of Italy 2,300, Germany 1,<00 and
England 1,400. tbe
The surviving members of > ir-
ginia secession convention are to write
out their recollection of its sessions at
the request of the Virginia Historical
society. rock salt
The largest mass of pure
in the world lies under the province
of Galicia, Hungary. It is known to
be 550 miles loug, twenty broad and
250 feet in thickness.
The Austrian legislature has sanc-
tioned the building of an acqueduct will
which will cost $12,500,000, and
supply the Coolgardie gold mines with
5,000,000 gallons of M’ater daily.
It is estimated that $70,000 w r orthof
meat and $90,000 worth of bread are
consumed daily in New York city,
while $21,000 is the average of nul a
and cream per day.
In Holland the birth of a baby is
announced by hanging a pincushion
outside the door, If the baby is a
boy, a red cushion is suspended; and,
if a girl, a white cushion announces
the fact.
At Arnettaville, W. Ya.j a few days
ago, Curtis Miller, a young while man, walking Was
strxlck by lightning Tile bolt tore his
along the street; body, t<p liis
clothing dergarments,ftnd from his removed eren bis shoes.
un
Sirigular as it may seem he was only
stunned a little and ran a square to
his home;
Olie Way TO Find Oiii;
They were sitting ou the sands sidfe
by side; looking out over the ocean.
‘‘Hoav peaceful it Iboks!” said he.
“Yes,” said she, “but Hoav vfery
wet!”
“True,” he obser\-ed, “and yet liow
calm and restful it appears. With you
by my side I could sail ou forex’er. ”
“Yes?” she queried.
“Yes,” he affirmed, “forever, Will
yon, dearest?”
“On one condition,” she replied.
“I am a cautiqus girl, and I do not
Avish to be over hasty. But I will let
you make the test, aud AA'heu the test
is made and you say it is successful, I
Avill go with yoit.’ j
“And that test, love;” he cried.
“You take a boat and sail on for¬
ever; and after you haA'o sailed on for-
eA-er; tell mfe hoAV it works,” she
answered.
And she left him meditating:—Har¬
per’s Bazar.
No Superstition,
“I can’t give tou anything!” snapp-
4d the lady to tlie tramp: * ‘You're the
thirteenth tramp that has Called liCre
today. ”
“Well, mum,” said the tramp, after
a little consideration, “you look a
cleA er, sensible lady that don’t believe
in any nonsense; aud jist to show that
there ain’t any truth in that silly
superstition about thirteen bein’ an
unlucky number, I ’ope you will give
me a trifle, mum.”—Tit-Bits.
Darby Rending' of an old Text,
“Uncle Ben,” said Miss B., “from
Avhat portion of the Bible do you de-
riv’e so much comfort?” Laying bis
index finger in the palm of his baud,
the old fellow proceeded As follows;
.‘‘Well, de Bibie says, H)Cm dAt de
Lord loveth He chases!’ An’ from de
Avay He is bin chasin’ o’ me dis year,I
knoAv I mus’ be one ’er His favorites. ”
■—Augusta Chronicle.
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