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An Indian Camp Meeting in a
Michigan Forest.
The Bronzed Worshipers Ex
! ho rted by One of Their Race.
The Indians of Charlevoix county,
1Iic h —Ottawas, Chippewas and Ojib
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ways— have been bolding a camp meet
ing in a pleasant grove bordering on
Pine lake, about two miles north of
Charlevoix. Until the last day, says
the New York Herald , the attendance
W:l* not large and there was as many
m lefaccs from the neighboring resorts
on the grounds as Indians, but for the
closing sessions the children of the for
est turned out in large numbers.
There were between four hundred and
g T! . hundred of the aborigines as
sembled—warriors, squaws, bucks,
maidens and pappooses—of every age
and condition, of all sizes and shapes.
There were aged crones and dark-faced,
gray -haired centenarians, who may have
been frisky and frolicsome when the
Pilgrim Fathers landed; gallant younw
bucks, with pockets fi led with taffy
and peanuts for the dusky damsels of
whom the poets sing, and who dis
played a remarkable aud almost unani
mous penchant for white dresses and
bright yellow ribbons, and auy number
of little red, fat bibies, who, having
yet to learn the habits of stoicism, for
which their ancestors were famed,
equallcd so lustily upon the slightest
provocation that the woods at times
were filled with their infantile clamor.
The Indians may rapidly be fading
from the face of the earth, but the num
ber of pappooses to be seen at the camp
would seem to cast some doubt upon
the generally accepted theory.
The services commenced in the after
noon with speaking by a young paleface
Indian missionary and singing by an In
dian choir of boys and girls. They were
on a platform erected in the centre of a
semicircle of tents in which the campers
hail been living, and the people were
seated on rough benches that were
placed around in front. Tae afternoon
service's were comparatively quiet, the
missionary speaking in English and an
accomplished young Ojibway standing
by his side translating his words as he
pronounced them to the audience. The
singing was in Indian—Moody and
tiankey translate 1—and the whites who
ittended and felt that way joining in
in the original language.
Bat it was in the evening that the
meet ng took on its most interesting
phase. The pale- faces left the Indians
to themselves, aud all restraints were
removed. Several immense bonfires
were lighted, and when darkness de
scended the meetiug opened, and it
soon developed into a genuine revival.
The leader was an earnest, strong
luaged Indian, an eshorter of the most
pronounced type. Under the influence
of his eloquence, and perhaps affected
by the glare of the flames, and the pic
turesqueness of the scene, the Indian
worshippers warmed up. At 10 o’clock
the grove echoed with the voice of the
bader urging the sinners to repentance.
At 11 the responses of those who saw
the error of their way were joined with
the exhortcr’s. At midnight the re
pentant cries and groans of the wicked,
the joyful sUouts and triumphant songs
of the saved were joined in tho chorus.
At ,i or 4 o’ clock in the morning noth
ing hut embers wore left of the fire, and
th ‘ exhausted worshipers retired to rest.
Rut speaking of taciturnity of the red
men, the Indians with their war paint
on may he as silent and non expressive
M a stump, hut it would be a pretty livc
•7 revival meeting that would come up
* a P°int of emotional demonstration
•ud lively interest with the Indian camp
meeting on the last night.
1 decks of the boat going to North,
port, Norwood and other points down
kittle Traverse bay, where the Indians
principally live—some ns hunters and
happen and others as well-to-do farmers
—were crowded with the copper-liued
r *’hgionlsts returning home, and as the
boats steamed out of the harbor the
breezes wafted back the songs and
hymns sung by the Indians in their na
kerchiefs vo tongue, and they waved their hand
as a farewell to the large
>wd of palefaces who had assembled
0-1 the docks to sec them go.
A Consoling Thought.
‘No,’ sobbed the widow', “I shall
ftever find John’s equal, but p-pejhapi
c can fii l( j fi.fi. fij, equivalent.”
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
How Salmon are Canned.
At Mettakahtla, Alaska, we witnessed
the operations of a large
which, as the superintendent cannery,
informed
us, puts up 35,000 cans of salmon for a
full day’s work. The fish all caught
are
by Indians in seines, and all the other
work—the cleaning and salting of the
ihh, making the cans, filling them, sol
dering them, cooking, labeling, making
the boxes from lumber wrought fiom
below cut of proper size, boxing, etc.,
: s done by Chinamen.
— We
ably 8000 saw prob
or 10, 000 salmon, weighing
from three to 15 pounds each, lying in
the fish house and in boats, just caught
and awaiting the processes that were to
prepare them for commerce and con
sumption. One set of Chinamen cuts
off their heads, tails and fins, rips them
open and removes the entrails, and
throws them into tanks of water; an
other set places them on an inclined
plane with sides to it and contracting
into a narrow trough in which are revolv
ing knives which cut them into pieces,
and at the end of the trough they are,
after having been salted, put into the
cans, which are brought to hand by ma
chinery. The cans are then sealed, and
several dozens of them are taken up at
once in round iron crates and lifted by
machinery and dropped into a tank of
hot water, called the tester, because if
any air is emitted from the cans when
heated, making bubbles in the water,
those cans are taken out as being im
perfectly soldered and are rescaled.
After this test the cans, by similar ma
chinery, are placed in other tanks of
boiling water and kept there an hour.
Then they are hoisted out, placed on
round tables, still held together in the
iron crates, and the top of each . can is
struck with a mallet having a pointed
piece of iron in its head, making a
small hole in the can, through which a
jet of hot water spurts into the air, so
that the Chinaman performing this
process, which is called pricking, has
to be wary of getting scalded. The
hole in the can made by the pricking is
then sealed, placed or kept for an hour
in an oven or retort with the tempera
ture at 240 degrees, and then the cans
are ready for labeling, packing, ship
ping and eating. — Washington –tor.
Eel Skins for Rheumatism.
A reporter the other day paid a visit
to Billingsgate and made some inquiries.
One of the largest eel dealers in the
great London fish market gave some in
teresting information on the subject.
“Well,” he said, “I know of num
bers of cases in which they have been
used with complete success. They are
stretched on a board and dried; then,
to make them pliant, they are slightly
moistened and tied around the suffering
limb. They are worn as garters, anklets,
bracelets and armlets. They are even
worn around the waist—next to the
skin, of course — for lumbago and
sciatica. Hundreds of London cabmen
wear them and swear by them; and I
have a number of gentlemen customers
in the country who ask me to send them
eel skins to give away to the poor peo
ple of their districts. Persons who
have once worn them will never be
without them if they can help it. But
I cannot tell you what medicinal prop
erty they possess; perhaps after all it is
only warmth, for of course thej T must
form an almost air-tight bandage, like
a piece of gutta percha or goldbeaters’
skin. Perhaps it is only fancy, aud
(hat goes a very long way, as you prob
ably know. Why, 1 have heard that a
skein of silk tied around the waist will
cure lumbago, or round the knee will
cure rheumatism iu the leg. Now,
what earthly medicinal property can
there be in a skein of silk? Of course
the skins are generally considered as
refuse or offal, and aie consequently
thrown away."
A Novel Frying Pot.
Tho Comm frying pot is a combina
tion of pot and furnace, The furnace
is built inside tho pot, or the pot con
structed around the furnace, which ever
way you are a mind to look at it. These
two parts are in one piece and rest on
an open stand. The furnace has holes
in the bottom for draught and the lid
of the pot has an opening in it for the
mouth or chimney of the furnace. The
contrivance is made of green micaceous
stone, blackened and polished.
All the Difference in the World.
“And will you not be mine?’ he
asked tenderly, as he took her hand.
“No, Percy,” she replied “I can
never marry a horse-doctor; but the
moment you become a veterinary sur.
geon I am yours. — Julge.
WIZARD EDISON.
He Talks of Inventions He Will
Some Day Bring Out
To Reproduce Images a Thou
sand Feet Distant.
While Mr. Edison, the great inven
tor, was in Paris ho was interviewed by
a reporter of the Courier de% Etats
Unis, a French paper published in New
York City.
The reporter asked Mr. Edison if it
was true that he had invented a machine
by the aid of which a man in New York
would be able to see everything that his
wife was doing in Paris.
“I don't know,” said Mr. Edison,
laughing, “that that would be a real
benefit to humanity. The women cer
tainly would protest. But, speaking
seriously, I am at work on an invention
which will allow a man in Wall street
not only to telephone to a friend in the
Central Park, but to see that friend
while he is chatting telephonically with
him. This invention would be useful
and practical, and I see no reason why
it should not soon become a reality,
and one of the first things that I shall
do when I get back to America will be
to set up this contrivance between my
laboratory and my telephone workshops.
Moreover, I have already obtained satis
factory results in reproducing images at
that distance, which is only about 1000
feet. It would be ridiculous to dream
of seeing any one between New York
and Paris. The round form of the
earth, if there were no other difficulty
in the way, would make the thing im
possible.”
Speaking of the phonograph, the re
porter asked if it had reached its high
est degree of perfection.
“Almost, I think,” said Mr. Edison,
“in the last instruments turned out of
my workshops. You must know that
the ordinary phonograph employed in
commerce does not with the
latest machines that I use in my private
experiments. With the latter I can ob
tain a sound powerful enough to re
produce phrases of a speech that can he
heard perfectly by a large audience. My
last ameliorations were the aspirate
sounds, which are the weak points of
the graphophone. For seven months I
worked from eighteen to twenty hours
a day upon a single sound ‘specia.’ 1
would say to the instrument ‘specia, ’
and it would always say ‘pccia,’ and I
couldn’t make it say anything else. It
was enough to make me crazy. But I
stuck to it until I succeeded, and now you
can read a thousand words of a news
paper at the rate of 150 words a minute,
and the instrument will repeat them to
you without an omission. Yon can im
agine the difficulty of the task that 1
accomplished when I tell you that the
impressions made upon the cylinder are
not more than one millionth part of an
inch in depth, and are completely invis
ible eve^ with the aid of a microscope.”
Reporter—And whit new discoveries
will be made in electricity?
Mr. Edison—Ah, that would be dif
ficult to say. We may some day come
upon one of the great secrets of nature,
lam always on the lookout for some
thing which will help me to solve the
problem of navigating the air. I have
worked hard upon this subject, but I
am very much discouraged. Wo may
something new before that comes;
but that will come.
Mr. Edison further said that the great
development of electricity will come
■when we find a more economical method
of producing it. During his trip across
the ocean he remained for houri on
deck looking at the waves, and ho says
that it made him wild when ho saw so
much force going to waste. “But one
of these days, ” he continued, “we will
chain all that—the falls of Niagara as
well as the winds—and that will bo the
millennium of electr ”
How Northwest Indians Catch Fish.
The Indians of the northwest coast,
says the Washington Star, are all skill
ful fishermen. Many of them subsist
almost entirely on fish and neglect agri
cultural pursuits. The sea, bays and
rivers, teeming with fish, offer them al
ways a rich harvest that can be easily
reaped. Tho indolent and dirty Indians
of the Quinaielt agency, Washington
territory, are unusually expert in the
uso of nets and spears with which they
capture salmon and smaller fish.
Tho drag-net is used for fishing in
narrow streams of water. For using it
two canoes are necessary, with strut
from six to eight feet apart, with bows
diverging. An Indian sits in the stern
of each canoe, each Indian holding one
pole of the net in one hand,
whilo the other hand holds tight
the string which keeps the
mouth of the net open. The string al
ways remains fastened to the pole, but
when the Indian relaxes his hold on the
string, as he does in hauling up the net,
the mouth of the net closes, preventing
the fish from escaping. The two canoes
go up the river until 200 or 300 yards
from the mouth; the net is then placed *
and one Indian in each canoe paddles,
while another throws stones to frighten
the fish. Then they paddle down the
river with the current into the narrow
passage near the bar. Thus while
catching salmon in the drag-net, as
they proceed down stream, they are at
the same time driving the fish toward
other Indians who stand in the shallow
water on the bar ready to spear them.
The shaft of the salmon spear is made
of cedar, the fork of the wood of the
salmon berry, and the barbs of wood or
metal. A loop of cord attached to the
spear is held in the left hand.
A surf net is used by these Indians to
catch candle fish and smelt. As the
surf rolls in the the Indian runs rapidly
forward and, bending down, passes the
net under the comb of the breaker,
often capturing at once ns many as an
ordinary w T atcr bucket will hold. The
handle of the surf net is six feet long,
mouth of the net four feet by eighteen
inches and depth about three feet. The
Indian holds the bottom of the net
drawn back under the handle until he
thrusts it into the water, when he lets
the point fall. Another net used for
catching the small Q linaielt salmon on
the river has a handle 14 feet long, a
mouth one by five feet and a depth of
four feet. Formerly the twine used in
weaving these nets was made by the
Indians from the fiber of the common
nettle, but now seine twine is used.
Infants’ Sensitive Eyes.
In an article on “Blindness and the
Blind” in the Journal of the Franklin
Institute, Dr. Webster Fox refers, among
other things, to the need for care being
exercised with regard to the eyes of
young children. The eyes are more
sensitive to light in childhood than in
adult life, yet a mother or nurse will
often expose the eyes of an infant to the
glare of the sun for hours at a time.
Dr. Fox holds that serious evils may
spring from this, and he even contends
that “the greater number of the blind
lose their sight from carelessness during
infancy.’’ From the point of view of
an oculist he protests against the notion
that children should begin to study at a
very early age. He thinks that untq
they are between seven aud nine years
old the eye is not strong enough for
school work. When they do begin to
learn lessons they “should have good
light during their study hours, and
should not be allowed to study much by
artificial light before the age of ten.
Books printed in small type should never
be allowed in the schoolrooms, much
less be real by insufficient light.”
The Curricle.
It is interesting to note the variety of
carriages which are driven now iu the
large towns of America, That light
and humane vehicle, the buggy, has al
most disappeared from the fashionable
drives. It was an easy-rid ing wagon,
and the lightest of vehicles for a horse
to draw. But it cannot be said that
(here is much comfort in the average
buggy for a man of stalwart or heavy
build. Dog-carts, buck-boards, gigs,
mail phaetons, and the like have pushed
the buggy to the wall. But, perhaps, the
most recently imported of vehicles, and
one which bids fair to retaiu a large de.
gree of fashion is the curricle. This
has two wheels, like a cart, but it also
has a hood and a rumble behind for a
servant, and two horses are driven to it
with a pole. The buggy is hung on big
“S” springs and drives very easily, and
it is one of the most convenient vehicles
for long drives in tho country which
yet been designed. Besides, it has
indefinable but valuable stamp of
fashion to recommend it to the world.
Knowledge Costs Money.
Irate Patron—“See here, sir. I
dropped a nickel into this machino and
nothing came out.”
Agent—“If nothing catne out, that
shows it’s empty.”
“But sir, what do I get for my
nickel?”
“Information,”— New York Weekly. •
Mother and Child.
“Where is the girl that you were?’ said th#
child.
And the mother smiled back to her lifted
eyes.
“She lives where the faded violets go,
And the old sun shines in the skies!'
“Where last year’s birds sing last year's
songs?”
She caught at the fancy, as children will,
“^it if you should meet with the girl that
you were,
Do you think you would know her still?”
“I remember her eves and her waving hair;
I see them now as I look at you.
My little daughter, when one dream dies.
Another sometimes comes true!”
“Mothers are better than girls, I think;
They wipe your tears, and find out the
pain,
And smile when you smile.—Pray do not go
hack
If you have the chance again!”
“Ah! there is no fear of that, my sweet.
A mother for evermore and a day
I shall be. We will let the girl that I was
With your faded violets stay."
—Harper s Bazar.
HUMOROUS.
The Tailors goose—The Dude.
All up with them—Balloonists.
Something to be kept on hand—
Gloves.
Voice: “Catching anything?” Fish
erman: “Yes—malaria. > I
A baby cuts his teeth before he is on
apeaking terms with them.
The blue bird makes the best fight
gainst the English sparrow.
Names exclusively for the fair sex
constitute a no-men-clature.
The average boy leaves no stone un
turned, except the grindstone.
Goes without saying—The young man
too bashful to pop the question.
Fish makes brains, it is said. Well,
it certainly strengthens the imagination.
i t Did you ever fall in love?” “Yes,
but I got out—with the assistance of
her father.”
The mother of the modern girl says
her daughter is like a piece of cheap
calico—she won’t wash.
When you hear a man give pound
after pound to a door you may be sure
he is trying to lessen his wait.
The women are the ones to settle this
storage battery question, Men don’t
know anything about preserving cur
rants.
Father to his son: “I don’t say that
you are an idiot, but if anybody else
should say so, I would not contradict
him."
Deacon Stubs (from Wayback)—“Pet
rified eggs from the ‘eternal city,’ eh?
some of the days of Aucient Rome,’ as
it were!”
It would be well for some base ball
teams to imitate the example of the
modest, unassuming hen, who never
scores a goose egg.
She: Oh! my tooth aches just dread
fully ! I don’t see why we cannot be
born without teeth. He: I think, my
dear, that if you will look up some au
thority on that point you will find that
most of us are.
“To think that I must leave the world
Reviled by every tongue,"
The culprit said. “I deep’y dread
This thing of being hung.”
“I’d like to live my boyhood days,
In harmless games to cope,
To play baseball, but, most of all.
I’d like to skip the rope.”
— Washington Critic.
Doctor: You need more exercise.
Indisposed: Why, I’m steadily en
gaged in painting houses, now. Doc
tor: Working by the day, I expect?
Indisposed: Yes. Doctor: Well,
you’d better work by the job for a
while.
OXE GOLDEN’ HAUL
A single shining thread of golden hair
Twined in a graceful coil before me lies,
Such hue a.s olden limners loved to trace
And poets dearly prize.
I gaze spellbound; what head did this adorn?
My thoughts l can’t describe nor feelings
utter,
As I behold, gleaming in radiance rare,
This single thread of rubiated hair.
Imbedded m the butter!
Dwarfed for Life by Cold.
There is rather a peculiar case at the
c ty orphan asylum, This is a colored
girl of eighteen years. In infancy she
was abused by her parents, aud was
finally thrown into a snow-bank one
night. She was fouind and taken to
the asylum, and, though nearly dead,
was so carefully treated that she lived.
But the brutal treatment checked her
growth, and she is now no larger than
a child of seven years.-- Nero Haven
palladium.