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BAINBRIDGE, JUNE 15, 1901.
REVEALMENT.
Lot me trll how rhythm with its rhyme »h/*ild
(low:
A* the Jau.h :f ]. av^t chan *''t Mrpbyrt Mow;
At the waves vi*. 1\ pracilo hat. I
Write their ;:jinet upon the fcund.
Let me fell hnv mimic* with It* ver?<? should mat*-
Ai the <!utU with dawn, rtpt, inviolate;
Ah t..«• roil a;: ! run dinricfe
fc'AH-t jotxir..union In a row.
Let me toll how fancy from th*» h?art should
leap;
Ah the t.oud fvtll fraught riae* from the deep;
Am the spring Jt Cod's LcI.lsI
Waives, and, la, the world U l>U*tl
—Clmonic Lrmy In Independent.
ON THEIR SEA LEGS.
Cattle nail Horn fa Do Kr.t Get Fright
en rd In Hunith Wralliifr.
"Do tin* hows mill cattle get fright
ened an I malic much disturbance In
rou^’li weather?" asked tlic writer oi
a New York dealer who ships cattle
abroad.
••Hlona you. uo. They’ve got sea legs
that would put im old salt to shame.
Occasionally a home will lone Ids lull
lillice, liar a bullock Is tlm greatest ha!
Uliccr you evei saw. They are knowing
brutes too. Y'oii know, v.v put them
four lit a pen. Well, you'll never find
nil four standing up or lying down nt
one iliac. They figure the thing out
and decide how they'll get the mom
room and most comfort. So two o;'
them stand up while two lie down.
When they got tired, they shift the
watch.
“The horses like to be talked to when
there's u big sea on and things arc
pretty lively. They always like cer
tain men hotter than others. So do
t.hc cuttle. We have one man who can
do anything with them. livery bill
lock and horse on the boat knows l.ltn
by the time we've been out two days
lie comes In handy when there’s an
accident.
•’It's mighty seldom that a serious
accident happens nowadays, but onci
In awhile a horse or a bullock does
get thrown and breaks a leg or does
some bad damage. We don't carry a
veterinary. The men know ns much
about ordinary cattle nt:d horse all
meats as any vet, and If one of the
brutes breaks his leg there's nothin,
lor It hut to kill him. A veteiluur.
couldn't do anything for him.
“The company charges from £11 ! •
$20 a head for currying cuttle am.
from i?27 to $2.">0 a head for horses
When the government Inspectors stop
ped overcrowding, they cut down tin*
<*rrylng capacity of some bouts 7,"-
head. That made a pretty big hole In
the shl|)'s profits In the course of a
year.”—Exchumre.
Lincoln's S.vear TTitrJ,
One story that Is told of Lincoln re
lates to that extreme, correctively evil
leal attitude which Secretary Seward
always maintained toward the presi
dent.
Mr. Lincoln and the secretary had
manured to escape from a man who
hud been boring them, and as they
reached the house the president threw
himself Into an armchair and ex
claimed:
"ifc 1 .lings, governor, we are here!"
Mr Seward replied by nskiug In a
reproving tone:
"Mr. President, where d’d you learn
tlint Inelegant express'nn?”
Sir. I.'orolu Immediately turned to
several young uteu who had entered
the room In time u> hear the exclama
tion and said:
"Young gentlemen, excuse me for
swearing before you. ‘By J lugs' Is
swearing, for my good old mother
taught me that anything that had a
'by' before It Is swearing. I won’t do
so any more."—Youth's Companion.
Onlr Sunbnrm'il.
Last summer two little girls In n
College avenue family were repeated!;-
remonstrated with by their Indulgent
mother for playing bareheaded In the
sun “You will l>e burned so badly."
said she to them t'nally. "that p-ople
will think you are black children." lier
warning had little effect, however, and
she gave up trying to keep their hats
on.
One day Rhe sent them to a neighbor
» Mock or so distant to make some In-
dairies concerning a washwoman. Mrs.
K.. the neighbor In ip-.es;ion. mistook
them for the children of a Mrs. Black
who lived In another street nearby.
"You are the little Black children,
are you not?" she nsked.
“Oh. no.” came the prompt response
from the elder. "Ouly sunburned.”—
Indianapolis News.
r«4,nt««d •« i.ml
"Hello, Central, (live me one triple
nought South.”
"What?*
“Don’t you catch It? One aero, zero,
tero South.”
"Wb tt-it”
"South one double uouglit. nought." I
"Can't you speak plainer?"
"One thousand South — ten hundred ■
South, (let It now?"
"Oh. von menu Somh onr ought, don-
/
A REMARKABLE DUEL
BOTH OF THE PARTICIPANTS WERE
QUICK ON THE TRIGGER.
An Enforced Pcrnile Preceded (he
Gun Pin,-. Which Was on the Pull
and Shoot Order—Why Oration Was
' Glad lie Lout tils RltfUl Hand.
“The most affectionate looking two
banded gun play that 1 ever saw.” said
a Colorado gentleman in one of the
house committer rooms, "was the one
that happened at La Junta, in my
state, between ‘Big Divide Jim' Brat
ton und George Cannon, ns pizenislf a
pair of t-en! had men of the type that
has now passed away ns ever fanned a
.-15 or twisted u Bowie.
"(lauiton was the proprietor of the
(Jilt Edge honkutunic In La Junta, and
It was at this place that he bad some
trouble with Bratton. The argument
ended by Bratton hacking out of the
door with his hands up. thinnon having
the drop. Gannon didn't shoot then be
cause his gun wasn't loaded. He had
been clennlng It and had forgotten to
replace the.cnrtrldges. He’d have killed
Bratton otherwise aa a matter of
course.
“That same night Bratton sent word
to Gannon that lie meditated shooting
him up some on the following- day.
Gannon wasn’t n man to take ro the
cliffs or the cactus, having plenty of
notches on Ids gun barrel himself, ntnl
he walked around the next afternoon
like a light battery of flrt!ll"ry. 'Big
Divide Jim' Bratton bulged him. how
ever. by turning a corner suddenly as
Gannon paraded dnwn the main street,
and then It was Gannon’s hands that
went up for n change. Bratton had
two gnus covering him. and Gannon
knew his gait.
“ ‘This,’ said Bratton. Ms where 1 get
an even break for my coin. Now. you
like me so piueb. Gannon, that I want
you to sort of show your appreciation
of me by wnlklu around town linked
arms with me for awhile.’
“It was up to Gannon to comply with
this peculiar t-cipiest. 'Big Divide Jim'
Bratton Jabbed his guns hack Into his
hell, and then he clutched Gannon’s
left arm and passed It through Ids
right. The disadvantage of this ar
rangement accrued to Bratton. It left
Gannon's gun ana free, while In case
of argument Bratton would have to use
Ills left gun. Bar 'Big Divide Jim’
wasn't selfish.
"The population of La Junta was
amazed to see 'Big Divide Jim' Brat
ton and George Gannon, who had al
ways been more or less sort* on each
other and who hail had a quarrel that
meant the death of one or both of thorn
on the night before, walking arm In
arm up uud down the main street of
the town. It looked like a peripatetic
love feast between the two of 'em. But
they were Watching each other like
cats. At the end of the street Bratton,
still with Ids right arm linked to Gan
non's left, stopped suddenly and said:
“ 'George, I ain't much on the blow
about any gun suddenness that 1 may
possess, but 1 sure want to give you a
chance. Yon thruug It Into me last
night In a way that's eat up so much of
the atmosphere around here that
there’s not enough air left in this
neighborhood for both of us to breathe
at one and the same time. I'm n-goiti
to count three, and when I say "three"
It's a breakaway ntul n finish. You've
got a loose right arm. but 1 ain’t no
hog. One—two—three!’
"The event proved 'Big Divide .rim'
Bratton the quicker man and the better
marksman. He gut Gannon through
the heurt. whereas Gannon's ball lodg
ed In Bratton's right wrist. Bratton
had to suffer his right hand to be cut
off that same night.
"The last time I saw him was In
Creode. He was sitting on the edge of
n hunk lu his own cabin, close to a
elnlin he was working. I hadn't seen
him since he'd lost his hand.
“'Jim.' said 1. Mt's too had you
should have lost that right band. If
the fellow that plugged you had only-
got the left hand, why'—
" 'Oli. 1 don’t know.’ said Bratton
philosophically. 'If Bd ha' lost luy left.
I wouldn't have been able to play the
fiddle any more.’
"He reached under his hunk uml
brought forth an old violin. Then lie
rigged up an attachment he had for
holding the how lu his right stump,
and he played the Instrument real
sweetly for me for half an hour or so.
'“1 couldn't have done no flngerln If
I’d ha' lost my left hook, you know.' he
said simply when he put the old fiddle
away."— Washington Tost.
The Result «( (Us Study,
"I suppose you have made a study of
human nature.” remarked the friend.
"I attribute my success In life to that
fact." answered Senator Sorghum.
“Were you ever tempted, to give the
world the benefit of your observations,
to put them into book form ns a human
comedy or something of that sort?"
"My dear sir. It wouldn't take a book
to do II 1 have figured ou the problem j
of human nature until I know the an- i
swer. 1 should jjst gay. 'Human tut- !
Hire loves motley,' and let it go at
that.”—Exchange.
VAN i f f Or SAVC.UC.S.
Red Men Love to Pose tn Grotesque
Attire Before the Camera.
As evidence of the extent to which
the ornamental precedes the useful Ex
plorer Humboldt noted the. I not that
the Orinoco Indians In fair weather
strutted about attired in all the littery
they were able to procure, their faces
painted gaudily, their heads decked
with feathers, their whole ului being to
strike astonishment to the beholder
and no regard whatever had for com
fort.
When the Weather was bad. Hum
boldt found that the same men would
doff their clothing and carry It about fo
save It for display on future sunny
duys.
The same traits are seen today In the
North American Indians, little modified
by many years of intermingling with
civilization.
That part of Pennsylvania avenue.
Washington, running from Second to
Sixth street Is the favorite promenade
of visiting Indians. Portions of Sec
ond and Third streets, running off the
avenue, are tilled with hoarding houses
especially patronized by the redskins
and especially avoided by the whites In
consol] lienee.
A number of photographers In the vi
cinity are the chief attractions of this
neighborhood for the aborigines. Not!)
ing so delights them ns to strut gravely
from their boarding houses to these art
galleries to sit for solemn pictures at
Uncle Sant's expense, the bill being
charged In with necessaries Incidental
to a visit to the great father.
To deprive the visiting Indian of tie-
privilege to sit for his photograph in
full paint am! feathers and a grotesque
mixture of cheap ready made garments
with blankets and bear claws would bi
the greatest hardship possible to to
chieftains.
Showing the same disposition Hun;
boldl noted, the visitors get themselves
up mine barbarously the closer they
get to civilization.—St. Louis Republic.
A RARE VOLUME BY PENN.
Only Known Copy Is Owned bs
Quakers !n I’hlladeljittin.
The only known copy of Pcun’s issm
of “Magna Charm." published In 10S7
by the Bradford Press. Is the property
of the Meeting For Sufferings, a repre
sentative Imd.v of the Friends' yearly
meeting lu Philadelphia. Us title Is
“The Excellent Privilege of Liberty
and Propriety: Being the Birthright of
the Freeborn Subjects of England."
The copy is not generally open to the
public.
The peculiar significance of this book
is that a half dozen years after Penn
founded his colony he wished to have
the colonists keeijly realize that they
would have to stand for their rights in
the new country as well ns the old.
where they had been so cruelly perse
cuted. He wrote this hook in order that
they might be Informed on the consti
tution of their local government and
know what were the legal bases of
their rights as citizens.
Curiously enough the only proof
there Is that this work was William
Penn’s Is the statement made by Chief
Justice David Lloyd In 172S. a great
Quaker leader who was Penn’s attor
ney general at the time the book was
Issued. Chief Justice Lloyd was also
nt that time an Intimate friend of Wil
liam Penn and consequently knew
whereof he spoke.
The volume was reproduced In fac
simile by the rhllobiblon club In 1S'J7
for a limited number of subscribers.
The original volume, however, must al
ways remain the rare thing that it is.
one of the best expressions of liberty
under law that the mind of the great
founder could conceive.—Philadelphia
Press.
The Boman« hunt London nYmut the
' midou wall was uot
After a Struggle.
“Georgic." said a fond mother to a
little 4-year-old. “you must take the
umbrella to school with you, or you
will get wet. It rains lmrd.”
"1 want the little one.” he snld.
menulng the parasol.
"No. my dear. That Is for dry wenth-
er. You must take this nnJ go like n
good boy.”
Georgle did as be was bid and got to
school comfortably.
After school hours It had stopped
raining, and Georgle trudged home
with the remnants of the umbrella un
der Ids arm.
"Oh. Georgle, what have you beeu
doing with my umbrella?” said bis
mother when she saw the state It was
In.
“Y'ou should have let me had the lit
tle one." said he. "This was such a
great one It took four of us to pull It
through the door.”—Leslie’s Weekly. •
0
One morning our washwoman, a way
»f color—very dark color—came hastily
In and. without any preliminaries, ex
claimed: "Spcrarunlitaul What is spar-
stuallsm. Miss Cora?"
My sister explained as well as she
could and asked why she wished to
know.
"Well, you see." she went on excited
ly. "Sarah— she’s my daughter, you
know, and she went last week to iive
w:th a lady what says she Is a spnrutu-
allst, au;l she says if Sarah takes any-
• i - - sh.-’u >v •. going tc
PUZZLES FOR JUDGES
SIMPLE WORDS THAT HAVE TANGLED
UP ENGLISH COURTS.
Some Terms of Almost Everyday
l : se Thut Proved (o Be Too Pro-
funnel For the Intelligence of the
Learned Bench and Bar,
In a case that came before i>. famous
lord Justice some time ago the counsel
for the prosecution lu the evidence hud
to mention a "blouse."
Thu Judge asked what a blouse was,
and It was explained that this was part
of a lady’s dress. But the case came to
u dead stop for the time, for the Judge
did not know which part, and after
some hesitation the barrlsier admitted
that he wasn't sure. Several learned
brothers gave their opinion, some opin
ing a blouse was the upper half of »
lady's costume, while others insisted it
must he the lower half. The entire
court, filled with learned celebrities
whose heads held all the laws of Brit
ain, from pitch and toss to manslaugb
ter, argued it out. but nobody was sure.
The Judge thought it was the lower
half, but a Junior barrister who had
lately been married said he though;
that that, half was called a skirt, bu
did not feel certain. At length a lady
was called, who set the court right.
Another odd dilemma happened not
long ago when in the Hobson "horse
t'uking” case the word “fetlock” arose.
A fetlock, as everybody knows. Is tin*
ankle of a horse. The court asked
what it was. however, and the prose
cuting counsel was nonplused. The
witnesses were out of court save one
and he knew nothing. The judge
thought n fetlock was a sort of hind
knee, otherwise "hock,” but one learn
ed brother was quite certain it was the
lock of hair that hangs over a horse’s
forehead. The defendant’s solicitor
opined it was that part of the harness
which slips over the tail, the crupper,
anil another legal celebrity agreed With
the Judge. Finally the court had to call
a stable groom to clear up the mystery.
In a ease that was settled some years
since the recorder was broughl up
short by n phrase used by the counsel
for defense, who spoke of a transaction
concerning a pound of "blaeklead."
This is a common and useful article,
hut the counsel on being asked to ex
plain Its nature said it was a black
substance used for boot polishing. Thp
recorder thought It was a mineral used
in lend pencils, hut another barrister
asserted it to he a "tough kind of lead
used for roofing houses.” The ease was
brought to a standstill, and one lawyer,
unsurpassed lu legal knowledge, de
clared that blaeklead was a slang term
for pig Iron as produced in the north
country. A fourth expounder of the
law vaguely suggested It was the op
posite of white lead, and finally a do
mestic servant put the court right, and
the assembly at last learned that It was
used for blacking stoves.
Another dilemma was produced a lit
tie while ago on the western circuit by
the Introduction of the words "dry-
nurse" In an address to the court. This
bewildered the judge, who asked If a
dry nurse was a nurse who dried ba
bies after they had beeu washed. That
solution did not occur to the learned
counsel, who, after some hesitation,
said he thought It meant a nurse who
was uot addicted to drinking and there
fore most suitable to look after infants.
Nobody seemed to know what the term
really meant, though several more
guesses were made, the last of them
that n dry nurse was one who could
not amuse children.
The court was again nonplused by n
statement made that somebody con
cerned In tne case supposed to suffer^
from melaucbolla was really "as Jolly
as a sandboy." The judge wanted to
know what a sandboy was In order to
form some Idea as to the exact degree
of Jollity Involved. The counsel could
not tell him, though one suggested It
was a boy who sanded the roads and
the other thought It might be a lad
building sand castles on the seashore.
The whole court stopped to discuss
u hat a sandboy was and why he was
jolly, but they could not solve the prob
lem.
It Is hardly believable that anybody
should not know what n "snaffle” is,
hut a London magistrate receutly desir
ed to be Informed, and nobody could
tell him what n snaffle might be. A
solieitor thought It was the same thing
ns the "curh." and the clerk had an
Idea It was a kind of cold hi the head
which horses caught, causing them to
snuffle a good deal.—London Answers.
A Famous Temple.
The most magnificent work of archi
tecture tn the world is the Taj Mahal.
In Agra. Hindustan. It was erected by
Shall Johan to the memory of ins fa-
-orite queen. It Is octagonal In form,
of pure white marble. Inlaid wit a jas-
per. carnelinn. turquoise, agate, ame
thysts aud sapphires. The work took
22.000 men 20 years to complete, and
though there were free gifts and the
j labor was free the cost Is estimated at
$10,000,000.
First Neigtmor-eu. my oaugnn
j doesn’t play the piano any worse tb:i
• your son writes poetry,
j Si .-one! Ditto— Perhaps net, hut it eti
: '• no much farther.— Iictrc
COULDN'T CALL H| M C
Jast a ffetvspape* Bendn,
bllttK From Force at
The young man w’th «.
look sat in the rear car of „!
train, staring nnd starim- ,,,
advertisements. "'t
"English beauty shoes." w
to his companion. "That's
says.”
"Yes,” said the other, “bat.
short.”
"Him hm." the haggard ma „
"Beautiful shoes from Et)gi« n p
“That won’t fit. it's i 01is - '
curt reply.
"Well, then, ‘Beautiful
shoes’
“That’s only three words.
to have four, you know." *
"That's so. that's! so. Ah |
he cried so loud that all the 0 |U
sengers In the ear gave a jump?
lish shoes of Ueauty,’ ti |,, r
spaces at last.”
A compassionate old man |-
from Ills newspaper.
“What's the matter s-iu,
friend?” he nsked. "l.s fll
ferlng from delirium treaiens'r
• "Oh. no.” the man adilroswd
aBsurlngly. “You see, he’s just
with his night's work on 0 -j
newspaper. He’s a hendiin;
you know, and after a fellow pj,
hied off headlines of 2:5 1,^^
spaces for nbonl eight hours st
contracts that habit and can’! ^
It. Every advertisement, overj
of paper he sees for several hod
erwnrd until his wlud gets n
well, he begins to count the letter
spaces nnd turn the wording
headline that will fit. It Isn't 1
delirium tremens. It's soiaettiisg-
The headlines of 23 letters am] 1
go wriggling around hi that poa
worked bruin much worse
snakes."—Chicago Chronicle.
MILTON RELICS AT HARV
Signature In urt Autograph
and tlie Poet's Coil} of --rind
The Harvard library numbers 1
Its treasures an autograph at
and n copy of "Pindar” nuuoti
Milton’s own handwriting, with
glnp.l notes in Greek anil Latin,
of these rarities were betpvatlid
the university by Charles Sumner.
The "Pindar” Is dated lt!St aw!
doubtless used by Milton dtiried
stay at Cambridge university, it
end he has added an alphabetic-si
In manuscript, occupying two e
written pages of'ail the authors
in his notes, with reference's to
pages in which their names occur.
Milton’s autograph Is fouud to
pages of an autograph album or
ors' book kept, according to a e
comntoD in the sixteenth c-rcttiry.
Neapolitan nobleman. Catnlllus
doyn by name, who resided in 0
front KIDS to 1 (540. where Milton
parently, visited him. Another 1
graph In this same album among
hundreds which it contains Is to
Thomas Wentworth, the tteforr
Earl of Stafford. Milton's slgnatit
dated Jnu. 10, 1039. nnd is apt*
to a Latin motto—“Travel change!
sky, but not one’s mind," it ntay
freely rendered and a quotation
his own “Comas:”
“I! Vcrtui- feeble were,
Heaven Itselfe would stoope to Its."
The most notable Milton man
known to exist Is a little hook
owned by Trinity college. Comb
England, which contains the
copies of his so called minor poena
eluding "L’Allegro” and "11 rr
so.” In this country, however,
said that the ouly original nif
of the great author of "Paradise
are to be found Id those two time
ed volumes la the possession 0!
Harvard library.
A Cement Which Resists A*
In some branches of Industrj
ment which is proof against tin
ence of acids is absolutely e sl
and such a substance can be pr
by melting together one part ol
rubber with two parts of fins'
This should he gradually incorf
with three parts of v.-filfe Dole *
form a plastic mass. This "'hen
softens but very little. Though
not easily dry upon the stirfiwf
once set It Is not affected at all
drochlorlc acid nnd but very II
nitric acid. Its drying and I)® 1
is materially promoted by wish
one-fifth of its weight of lltks
minium.
!?c« a Bargain.
“J^jw much will you 1 barge f® r ~
rylng us. squire?" asked ike sth
bridegroom, painfully conscious 0
new suit of ready made elothlag-
"I nm entitled by law to n fee o'
replied the justice of the peace.
"Perhaps. Alfred." timidly
the blushing bride, "we might P
done somewhere else for $l.!iS-
cago Tribune.
Marveled Et It-
“Yes," snld Mr. Henry Peck, “i"*,
go to the circus. One sees so n)a n - v
lug deeds. For iDrifanee,did you
anything more reckless than ,,;
In which the ringmaster crort 5
whip at the ladies who riue
he -so* ?" — Bn It 1 more A morlcun.