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rhe Search-Light. 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.