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T1IE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 4—TWELVE PAGES.
hoTHERKP Hf TUB TARIFF. Col. Quay would like to go over Mr.
.......biicitn Committee tlint Is Blaine’s explanation with a blue pencil be
ll '* " ,e “Tow rcrpiexe.1. . fore it U launched on the public. .
York World. I Ex-Congresamnn .Jiiy llubbell arrived
hoc Ul TLnaHi°.n executive committee fr(,ra Michigan Wednesday night. He
Th e li' cession a couple of hours yeij- said that he was hereon private busi-
i .1 when thev adiourned they an- j ness and was out of politics himself. He
"^’i that they had only been discuss- thinks, however, that Michigan Is safe for
»" J line business. Secretary Fusett j Harrison and Morton.
it§ routine o|e ent wt . r e Chairman W. B. Dimond, cliairman of the Bepub-
«D■ urer Dudlev and Messrs. Kew Bean State committee of California, has
Quay, l rea 0ne q( t }, e tof ,; C8 aiseussed ; written the national committee that the
,i ist the Methodist bisitops Republicans arc certain to carry that State.
*“ lh L it to repudiate the KepnblicaniHeaddsthattheDemocratsarewhooping
18 „ j .Irelare for the Prohibitionists. I up Harrison’s Chinese record, but it is
E rtT * nnnt standtthe tree whisky piank j having lilllecffccl.
Tbe* canno * j g 6a jj_ Xhe I I. J. Brittain, of East Palestine, Ohio, a
of llie j ' no t’ entirely credited \ member of the Republican State central
r nA° r , _ Bemibllcan managers, but i committee of that State, has written a letter
tsiderable uneasiness and I declaring that the postmaster at Achor, O.,
. n.iuu Should the Methodist I has received a request from the Democratic
ft" formally renounce the Republican | national committee to contribute $100 for
k * h0f ?k. R*oUOlican leaders admit that it I campaign expenses. The salary of the
a severe blow to them. It would j postmaster, Mr. Brittain adds, is only $75
» . biir increase in the prohibition vote
**£ correspondingly large falling oil in
e Republican vote. The announcement
' Bade yesterday, however, that the Re-
.hlican committee had received no official
Eniation regarding tho threatened bolt
i ike bishops in question. All they had
J 1 ‘i, .Hrumor to that effect. And that
i^nuite enough to suit Colonel Quay.
H.iiarted an investigation at once, and
.?.l do his best to check the revolt. It is
S that a now interpretation of the free
Silky pl» nk in th0 Bcpubhcan platform
Jill be prepared for the benefit of the
M Tbe 0l announcem’ent in the World yester-
, * t |,j t the Republican Senators at \\ ash-
had decided to abandon their tariff
mi and would authorize the Senate
{nance committee to aummon witnesies to
Ltifv regarding the merits, of the Mills
mi and tariff legislation in general created
leood deal of talk tn political circles.
While Colonel Quay made a quasi denial
S announced Wdly that “tie Kepubli-
“ were not in the linbit of turning
under fire,” it was generally accepted that
ihU was just what the Republican Sena-
JJJs had done. And Senator Quay is _ | .
Terr much pleased with the result. How after fifteen iniles of rough tramping, to
tke Republican Senators were brought to get his teacher’s certificate.
ttrms,or to their senses, as many put it, is , The Hon. James U. Blaine was gradua
te interesting story. Colonel Quay and j ted at the age of eighteen years, and took
Jlr. Clarkson were known to be opposed to . up the birch almost immediately after-
the idea of a tariff bill from the Btnrt. j ward. He succeeded as a teacher, just as
Ther protested vigorously, but Senators he lias succeeded as a statesman, author,
Aldrich, Hale and Alljson, who had thej and financier. During the last Presidea-
mitter in charge, paid little heed to them.' tial canvas* a friend asked him, playfully,
’ how he acquired all liis personal magne
tism. “I believe,” he replied, laughing,
“that the necessity of controlling Ken
tucky urchins in my teaching days brought
DIRECTED RY DREAMS.
A TAXI DERM ISPS SIUDIO.
STATESMEN WHO TAUGHT SCHOOL.
Distinguished Americans ot To-Day Who
Used the Birch nod Rule.
From the New York Mail and Express.
“Many of the most eminent statesmen of
the day began lite as teachers,” said
Speaker Carlisle iu an address not long
ago, delivered at a convention of school
teiiokers in Kentucky. Tiie speaker did
not$ive instances, but there are plenty of
them to thow that his assertion was well
founded. Indeed, the school rostrum has
of late years more titan once been a stepp
ing stone to jhe White House. It is true
that Gen. Harrison does not belong to that
category. I.nt the l.i-t two ri |ii]Mi< an pu-i-
dents did, as docs President Cleveland.
Many of the most prominent political
leaders of the day began life in the same
way. Speaker Carlisle taught school for
four years while preparing himself for the
bar. His appearance to-day is tiiat of
a typical professor. He declared recently
that the happiest day of bis life was that
on which he walked into Covington, Ky.,
miner in i-—" -— — ;
Ihe, went ahead, called a caucus and per
ked the majority that the Republicans
mu<t present a tariff bill as an offset to the
Mills bill. ., ,
Col Quay, it is said, threatened to re-
lira if this" programme was carried out,
bat eventually thought better of it and
ippeared to accept the caucua decree as
Si. All his energies, however, were di
lated to get a reconsideration of the cau-
twtefion in favor of reporting a^ bill at
this session. He was assisted by Whitelaw
Beid, S. B. Elkins and other strong Blaine
men. John Sherman was appealed to, hut
iti Ohio Senator has lest much of his en-
lisassai since the Chicago convention,
and be declined to raise a finger either
•ay. When Mr. Blaine landed in this
city matters were very near a crisis. At
irit Mr. Blaine declined to interfere. He
thought in any event it would be just as
tell to go ahead as to back out. Finally
be was induced to write to Hale,telling him
to hold back the tarifl bill for the pres
ent Meantime, Gen. Harrison was hardly
consulted about the matter. The national
committee thought that his time was so
filly occupied shaking bands with visit-
iag delegations and making buncombe
nceches that lie should not be bothered
r ... .. . .. m.lnak-t 1
■mi iu otter rur. uiaiuo nau wcu y*.
aided to put his foot down on the tariff
bill scheme something iu the nature, ot a
vigorous kick wtis reported from his re-
bellious subjects at the capital. Messrs
Hale and Aldrich declared that it would
be fatal to abandon their tarifl bill after
they had heralded to the country that
they were engaged in preparing one. It
would imply, they argued, that the Re
publicans were incompetent to deal with
the subject, and all their criticism of the
Mills bill would fall to the ground. Mr.
Blaine and the national committee were
Ira, however, and the Republican . Sena
tors responded reluctantly to their de-
aands.
The combined intellect of the leaders
•« at once directed to devising a plan by
which they could withdraw from their po
rtion with the least discredit and embar-
gwment. Col. Quay, when he started for
Wafbington last week, had n rough draft
•' the compromise finully adopted, in his
•mid. To carry it through, Treasurer
Dudley was summoned to Washington
Monday, to lend tho weight of hit in-
•oeocc. It is understood that Col. Dud-
*7 retried a message from Gen. Harrison,
•arising against a tariff bill, and that he
“» daily informed the Senators that the
manufacturers would refuse to contribute
•rent unless the Senate ceased all
|*lk of tinkering witii the tariff'. The
utter argument, it ia believed, induced the
fimaining recalcitrant members to agree
the compromise. Col. Quay and Col.
Hadley returned to New York with victory
upon their bravo. The Senate
“tin bill was dead. It was intended to
i 1 ,“ eW8 gradually work its way out
•tom Washington and appear as the result
on V j "I'euk an hour at tde nepuoii-
ifi'lttarters in consultation with Col.
to the surface the so-called magnetism,
and which might have otherwise lain for
ever dormant.” Mr. Blaine has more
tiian once, in addresses before colleges,
said that lie attributed his earlier suc
cesses in public life to the patience and
self control he acquired at the Kentucky
school.
Congressman S. S. Cox of New York
tried to pound knowledge into the heads
of young Buckeyes in Ohio before he en
tered public life. His versatility was not
equal to Mr. Blaine’s, however, and
although lie has been a success ns a legis
lator and in literature,he was a dismal fail
ure as a teacher. His career as a peda
gogue is said to have come to an untimely
end. There is n legend that he resigned
at the urgent request of all the school
trustees, hacked by almost every taxpayer
of the village where he taught. Still,
with his customary genialty,he delivered a
touching farewell nddress at parting, beg
ging that the villagers should not inor
dinately mourn his loss, and declaring
that nothing in the world but the most
urgent'deuiaiius for bis preseuce-eioewuere
could force him to give up the companion
ship of his loved scholars and neighbors.
For a long time afterward it was a mooted
question among the villagers whether the
young teacher had bee poking fun at
them. Ever since that time Mr. Cox lias
been a warm friend of the teachers, help
ing them publicly and privately whenever
Opportunity offered.
Every one knows that Mayor Hewitt
earned, by teaching, the money paid for
tells, in the Congressional Directory, of
his labors at teaching. The mayor, like
Speaker Carlisle, is fond of attending
teachers’ conventions and school com
mencements to this day.
Senator Ingalls, the republican leader
and president of the United States Senate,
has presided on the school hodso rostrum.
Alter being graduated st Harvard College
he went to Kansas, expecting that his
Massachusetts culture might be at once
coined into dollars. It was alow work, so
Mr. Ingalls resorted to teaching until be
could earn a subsistence by the practice of
the law. He taught with great success,
and at this period acquired the distinct
articulation and forcible utteranoe which
liave/since made him the first orator in the
Senate.
Senator Hawley of Connecticut taught
IVlint n Minimting Clerk Tells About Sprcu- |
litlluns In Wall Mreot. 1
“Some time ago,” said a managing cleik
in a Wall street firm to a Mail and Ex
press reporter, “Mr. Wm. Q. Judge, of
theosophical fame, then as impecunious
as I happened to be, for I was young in
business then, unfolded a scheme whereby
it seemed that our fortunes would be
secured. There was a man among the
many who corresponded with him on
occult mbjpcts, who. it seemed, had a sin
gular gift of dreams. He lav asleep o’
nights and saw clear visions of great coal
heaps and mountains of grain. These
swelled and nnswelied beneath his clair
voyant gaze, and lie was long pestered by
a doubt as to what the dickens it all
meant. Somehow lie discovered at least
that these dreams foreshadowed the fluc
tuations in the market price ot certain
coal-carrying and grain-carrying railroads.
“The dreaming chump kept this inval
uable discovery to himself forsomemonths,
h<- s:.'i', ill order lo ti-t the value of the
process. Finding it worked, ho wrote to
Judge, not knowing to whom else to write.
Judge, with that fatuous indifference to
human probabilities which characterizes
the mystic fraternity, came to me, instead
of going to Vanderbilt or Gould, with the
proposition that wo go in and clean out
Wall street.
“ The schedule of visions submitted by
the dreamer certainly corresponded with
the fluctuations of the market for some
three mouths past, and I, believing that it
was an even gamble, since he was no more
likely to be wrong than right, took a flyer
at it. I believe $10 was the amount of the
first sum thrown into a bucket shop. I
know it was all that Judge and I could
raise tiiat day.
“The stock we played for a rise first
staggered fur enough to wipeout our slen
der margin, then scored 14 per cent, to
ward the sky. Before we could scrape
another stake together the dreamer quit
sending his prognostications. I think lie
died, but was always afraid to inquire lest
I should earn that he did not.
•‘You needn’t smile,” continued the
Wall street man. “It is no uncommon
thing for men and women to go into Wall
street with a good deal more money than
I took that time, and venture it on the
strength of their faith in some occult in
fluence. More than that, some of them
have made money. Still more, some of
them have made a great deal of money.
“Very few people know how it happened
that Clara Louise Kellogg received her
musical education. Everybody who knew
her well knew that she was a friend and
in some sort a protege of the late Henry G.
Stebbins, who reached the acme of his po
litical ambition when he was made one of
the park commissioners. Very few people
know how great an interest he took in h
education, and Blill fewer knew that he
paid the bills for it. Even of this limited
number, only a small fraction were aware
that Miss Kellogg’s mother was a so-called
“spiritual medium,” and that it was under
the directions which Mr. Stebbins received
through her mediumship that he operated
and made the snug fortune he was prudent
enough to take care of.
“Some years ago the first man who ever
took a piano across the Allegheny Moun
tains to sell it, and who is to-day the lead
ing piano dealer of the West, told me that
he had carried on hia business for over
thirty years, guided by the advice of his
brother, who died almost half a century
ago. He, the dealer, is a nmn of sturdy,
independent thought, and is now extremely
weali by, after many ups and downs, and
he told me, witii a smile, that he had often
disregarded this advice, but never wiiiiuui
regretting it. One instance lie cited of
this noteworthy. 4 A numberof years ago,’
he said, ■‘my brother told me to go over to
the North side of Chicago and buy city
lots in a certain locality. I went, nnd, not
seeing any reason to buy, didn’t buy. A
second and third time he told me to buy
all I could get; to sell and mortgage every
thing I had and buy the lots, even if I
couldn’t pay but $10 a lot on them. All I
had to do was to secure the title. A sec
ond and a third time I went, and I did not
buy. 1 saw nothing in it. Three months
later Lincoln Park was laid out in that
locality, and those lots trebled ill value at
MODEsTY THE BEST POLICY.
Him- an Expert Hilliard Player Met an
Unknown Amateur.
From Ike New York Telegram.
A member of the New Jersey Legislature
was watching a game of billiards at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel the other evening in
which the billiard marker easily and
gracefully defeated the guest of the hotel
who imagined himself invincibe. .
“That reminds me,” said the law maker,
“of a man in my town who kept a billiard
hall and was easily the heat in thevicinity
One day he went to Philadelphia and put
up at the Continental Hotel. In the even
ing, with nothing else to occupy bis atten
tion, he felt dhqiosed to play a game of
for some years before he enlered college. I UillUrds. The tables in the upper saloon
Ex-Senator Mitchell of Pennsylvanis was at the hotel were all engaged, so be strojl-
a teacher when the civil war broke out.
Senator Riddleberger of Virginia taught
a school before entering politics. Ex Sen
ator Camden of West Virginia earned in
the school house the dollars which laid
the foundation o( the millions he owns to
day. Senator Kennaof the same state had
*7 were too elated to keep quiet and the a school on the Kanawha while lie was
_ r 7i *• given in the World, was soon all
°?»r town.
Thee are the facts as reiterated to a
"orld representative yesterday by sev-
fil prominent Republicans. In this eon-
Jtofion an editorial in yesterday’s Press is
"Puficant. It advises the Republican
j™*tors to take the course they had already
3f. We * °»i and it was written after the
ed down into the basement, where he
found a young man, evidently connected
with the place, whom he invited to play a
game with him at un unoccupied table.
“ ‘I suppose I had better give you some
points, as I am a strong player,’ said my
townsman.
“ ‘If you please,’ said the marker.
“How would a double discount dc ?
“•Very well, indeed,’ replied the modest
studying law and farming. He was once
offered the presidency of the West Virginia ' "'-''•i *“ u,rc “> ,uc “"V™
State University, bit preferred to go to young man, who went to work and rolled
7 up point* until he had won the game.
“gfnator Cullon. of Illinois managed . ! “’You play better than I supposed. Try
— another game at a single discouutr
“ ‘Wiin pleasure.’ Again modesty won.
“‘I’m not in very good form to-night,’
said inyj friend; ‘I think we had better
school ten years before the civil war. He
is to-day a type of the old-time back-
woods teacher. Senator Vest of Missouri
taught school in Kentucky. Ife then
^'Tn^ToV^iiis” «co“d“evo“u7ion° a I third ti„e the billi.nl marker won,
eonsetiue Senator Mitchell * of 1 l h en he aaked to doable discount the
“J loser, which he did succesafully.
“ ‘What’ii your name,’ my Jersey- 'riend
asked, a question which fie might have
asked first, and the youth handed him a
card bearing the name of Plunkett, the
champion of the State of Pennsylvania, ar d
one of the strongest professional players m
the country."
The Heactton Game First.
From the SprlngBelil Union.
“How is vour employer, Sambo 7 I heard
he had a bad fall.”
“Yes, tah, but he’s sufierin’ most from
he r>ac inn before he fell, sih.”
“Oh, the reaction came first, did it?”
“Yes, tab, de mule kicked him ober.”
"ho came on ahead of Col. Quay.
* u< { ey Foulke, of Indiana, was one of j Oregon, was a school teacher for many
i r# 11 * ke Republican headquarters years. He attends all the school coiu-
L w .*7- He has been making speeches I meucements while he is in Washington,
* n <l reported the outlook as very xml likes to tell what he knows and wli it
he does not know about the art of teaching.
United Slates Justice J-amar, was a pro
fessor in the Oxford, Miss., university
but w hen he was elected United States Senator.
Secretary Vilas once taught the ’young
idea how to sprout and blossom in the
bleak backwoods of Wisconsin. Congress
man Reed, of Maine, the republican leader
of the house of representatives, also
wielded the birch many years ago.
Reiluelng Hie Surplus.
The dlaposltson of the surplus In tho U. 8.
reaiurr eofSS'S *he attention ot our 8utcs-
III- . 7 ’ 7?“ re putted the outlook as very
,, .V* ,|r Republican success in that State
-tale election next month. They
Mr m t0 “me up to the vote tiiat
- • Hume received in 1884, tie said, but
® a i° rit y t would be just as large as it
P. : i . state election preceding the
V, D| “ ll, l election of four years ago,
to,|j lne i Mr. F’oulkc added, would re-
A,,™ “peaking to-morroiv, ami before
ti(r." n 18 W0U R1 have visited nearly
7 county in the l’ine Tree Stale.
cioheiT f, ** b * e “ rece *' re d at Kepubli-
a siH-ep^; * a ’^ r . Blaine is P rc Treasurjr r enxsir-»ihe'attention ot our States- Nome time ago experiments were made
q. »>|>eecii in reply to the criticisms men kj.# a more vitAlquestion has our atteu* . P t t .l.i , _ ; ,,,i
Plumi t? 1 ** 0 * 1 defending trtliU. The lion,’an.l that U the reduction cf the fitirplu* m trance on the cOlct of >»1 project
Knight will trv In make it amiear I Consumptives. Since the discovery ami Intro- upon hum in bodies, which were obtained
"UwiJ, .hat e‘ .. y lo makc ‘W I iluctinn of Ur. King's New Discovery tor coo- frorn mortuaries and hospitals- Dr». Civ vi-
has alwavs been the' enmntioo. them hm been a marked decrease in . . , v . . , i,„* •
e nemy°f trusts, and that his | the mortality from the dreaded dls«se. and It; land and > k mion
, , t lg possible to *till further reduce the number of future warfare with the Lebel rifle Mir-
°PPonents nm /ti it ,"i i ConsnmptlTSS. How? By keeping constantly «ion- will not be poiplexej by having u>
*Um2u DU oul a >>'l thus enable the I xtbanda bottlsot Ur. King s Nsw Discoicry « . . * * , , -ri „
j^»etic man to state hia true position. I and oalngsaeortiiifUMUiectioi.-. upon thaam extract lulls from woLDdeili I 1 ers. these
t“to. to»y be good enom.li Itlaine lode. I pearanaaol the^Oistsymptoms. •uehasaONzb,, prr]ectiles pass through the body, bonva
. I it will liss.ii. i h ,‘ J a Cold, a Bore Throat a Chest, or Hhle | 11111 . and all, even when fired at a distance of
fir ail. ulrul y 1,0 accepted by the coun-l T - keI , mnum-iy a mre Is guaranteed. Trial , , ’ . . .
7M, arg*. Meantime, It is believed that bottSes free tXU.J. Lamar A Hon s drug store, from 1,J80 to - .00 yards.
’JeniUles of tho Aiitiunl World Collected
(row Jungle anil Field.
There is a large collection of mammal
skins, designed for rugs, says a Washing
ton Star reporter, describing a visit to a
taxidermist’s studio. Among these is the
skin of the giant Himalayan tiger, 12 feet
9 inches iu length, hair ljj inches long
and beautifully marked. The famous
“tree tiger” is also here represented by bis
skin. Probably this is the only specimen
of the kind in the United States. _ Ita soft,
long fur, with silver tips, is not rivaled by
any of the eat tribe. Leopard skins, with
their beautiful spots, jaguar skins from
South America, ocelot tkins from Texas,
panther ami bear skins of every variety;
in fact, skins of every animal of note or
value are found here.
“It is an immensely instructive and fas
cinating occupation,’’said the taxidermist,
in reference to the reporter’s inquiry; “but I
it requires years of careful atudy to master
it.”
“IIow do you rbtain your skins?”
“We get them from collectors in all parts
of the world.”
“How do the collectors preserve the
skins in such good condition?” asked the
reporter.
“The animal, if killed far from camp,
must be skinned on the spot. The first
step is to take important measurements,
then the animal is turned over on its back
and the skinning process commenced. An
incision is made beginning at the tip of the
lower jaw nnd running down to the base,
and in some instances to the extreme end
of the tail. The skin is then parted right
and left with the assistance of the knife,
and skinned down to the hind legs, nnd the
bones cut off close to the body. Each leg
is then skinned down to the sole of tho
foot. If the animal is very large, cross
cuts are made from the central cut on
the inside of the leg and the solo of the
foot. The flesh is then removed from tho
leg bones, and the front legs operated upon
in the same manner, and the skin entirely
removed from the body. The skull is then
removed from the carcass and cleaned, to
gether with the leg bones, to be utilized in
mounting. All surplut fat and flesh is
then removed from the skin by scraping,
and salt and alum applied for the purpose
of preserving it, atter which it is spread
out and dried.
“In very moist, hot countries,” the taxi
dermist went on, “this process is not always
effective, and the new cask pickling pro
cess is resorted to. A large cask, partly
filled with a strong solution of alum and
6alt, is provided, and the skins, after being
removed from the body and thoroughly
cleaned, nre put in and allowed to remain
an indefinite length of time, requiring no
further attention of any consequence until
ready for shipment, when an examination
and a refill ng of the bath is resorted to.”
“How long will skins keep in such a
hath ?” nske l the reporter.
“I have kept skins for a period of six
years and mounted them at the end of
that time making first-class specimens. I
have a large African lion,” continued the
naturalist, "a Suellaud puny, a hulf seal, a
black tail deer and a number of monkevs
that have been in the bath for five or six
years.”
“Does the bath have any effect upon the
skins or hair.”
“It lias no perceptible effect upon tho
skina and does not alter the color of the
hair, li has a had effect upon bones, how
ever, softening them until they are almost
like rubber. Bones are nearly nlwavs
removed before the skin is placed in the
bath,”
The reporter was invited to look at the
skins in pickle, and, peering .through a
small hole in a large cask, the beautiful
tur ot a Diana monkey and the toil, white
skin of an Angora goat were plainly dis
covered.
“To mount an animal, what is the com
mon process?”
“The most recent and improved method
is the manikin method, principally used in
the mounting of large mammals and birds.
It differs from the old methodsin that,first,
a perfect model is made of the entire ani
mal, over which the akin is placed t and,
with the assistance of a small quantity of
clay, modelled and proportioned to ita per
fect form."
"Do yon use this method?”
“Yes. I mounted Stonewall Jackson’s
horse, Old Sorrel, that way, and am now
engaged in mounting a beautiful fawn for
a distinguished woman.”
“In some of the specimens I have 6een
mounted there arc wires visible. What
part do wires play in the mounting of
them?”
“A most important one. Without the
use of wires it would be almost impossible
to mount specimens. None of tne wires
should sliow in a thoroughly mounted
specimen.
Tile Disease That Kills Public Men.
Washington Cer. Philadelphia News.
“What disease carries off more public
men than any other?” I asked.
“I should say,” replied the statesman,
“Bright’s disease of the kidneva. A care
ful diagnosis shows that this lias more to
do with our great funerals than any other.
The public man of the United States lives
high. Here at Washington he gets in the
habit of wining and dining, ho disturbs
liis stomach with highly spiced terrapin
and heats his liver with cold champagne.
This was the cause of Salmon P. Chase’s
taking off. He might have lived to a ripe
old age had lie stuck to the cold water
temperance diet of Waukesha Springs.
He went to Waukesha a few years before
lie died, when he was in a had way. By
eating oatmeal and beefsteak and drink
ing pure water he rapidly improved
and he soon regained his old
vigor. He came hack to Washing
ton and hia table, and it waa a
table that fixed disease upon him. It wss
the same with Senator Anfimov of Rhode
Island. Anthody stood the big dinners ot
Washington for nearly a gem ration, but
they carried him off at last. He was one
of the greatest epicures we have ever had,
and he nnd Ben. l’erley Poore bad their
happiest hours when their legs were under
some other man’s mahogany. Poore had
enough bills of fare in his "memento col
lection to start a L-aper mill, and he used
to smack his lips when lie told the story of
the good dinners he had eaten. There are
a number of the leading public men in the
United States who are atllicted with
liright’s ditea.se to day. They say little
about it, however, and as a rule tney do
not appreciate that it is carrying them
closer and closer to the grave.
Pnril I’layer* Afralsi .»r Ti>eir Weas*on»
fl..n .-1111 Frum-lvo Argntu-.iit.
“There were hut few soldiers in the war,”
lays a veteran, “who were no* rani play-
;rs, and they Marly ail like! to own a
leek,but they liu 1 a die.- ! of being killed
with a deck on their pern ,. Wen ver »•
heard the cannons begin to bo mi and the
gnn- of the pickelinen l*c-;in to clatter, we
knew that the battle w-o coming, ami you
would see men by the hundreds drawing
their cards from their pockets ami throw
ing them along the road.”
Q FISHING WITH A WHEEL.
Tlte Lnzleat Scheme Invented for Captur
ing the Finny Trtlir.
The man whu iuvented the Columbia
river salmon wheel was a genius, says the
Livermore Herald. The laziest Hibernian
who ever baited a hook could a6k no easier
way of landing fish. And only the tact
that it can only be used at certain points
on the stream prevents this machine from
exterminating the salmon in one season.
Imagine a common undershot wheel, with
the. buckets turned the wrong way about.!
This is set in a high, narrow flumo near
the bank of the river, where the current ia j
very swift. From the down Btreain end of j
this flume, extending outward at an aiigle '
of 45 degrees, arc two upright fences, form-1
cd by pickets driven close together into
the bottom of the river, and wired to keep i
them from washing away. Just above the
wheel (which is some 10 feet in diameter),
at the up-stream end is a platfoim, from
which a box lluiue runs to the shore. '
Now let us see how it works. When the
salmon arc running, as everybody knows, :
they come up in the Columbia river by
millions. The stream is very deep, and a ,
large percentage always succeeds in getting '
to the breeding grounds in 6afety. When
salmon arc running up a river they are
constantly on the lookout for small Streams
in which to spawn. Also where the cur
rent is very swift they are Unable to make
headway in the renter of the stream, and
consequently seek the more quiet water
tear the hay. Of these twu instincts, the
inventor of the fish wheel took n mean ad
vantage. At the Cascades, |for instance,
where the water is very swift he sets his
wheel. Here comes the fish, hugging the
bunk bv tl.iin-am!-. — great Mark fellow-,
from two to four feet long, heading reso
lutely upstream Nothing can turn them
backward. That wonderful instinct of
nature which insures the preservation of
species is nowhere better developed than in
a salmon. But in this instance it proves his
destruction. Now they are just below
that widespread fence. The current which
is rushing through the flume and turning
the big wheel at a lively pace attracts their ,
attention. The upper Is nee, which sits
nearly square across the Btream, makes j
quiet water here, and this flow seems to
come to the bank. This, to the salmon’s j
mind, is evidently the mouth of a shallow |
creek. Here is a spawning ground to our j
liking, and up this little stream we go. i
So they crowded up between the two nar
rowing fences toward the fatal wheel. The
Ant flah raach— It, got* with a rush to
overcome the current, is caught by a
bucket, and up he gees high in the air,
while evciy bucket brings up another and
another, till there is a procession of ascend
ing fish. At the top the velocity throws
the fish violently upon the platform, from
which he shoots down the flume to a great
tank on the shore. Here come tho fisli,
crowding eacli other forward to that busy
wheel. None can go under nor to one
Bide. None will go back. And once n
school starts for a wheel, the owner can
consider he has a title deed to the entire
lot.
One wheel will run a cannery. Day and
night while the run lasts, they come fly
ing up the wheel and shoot down the
flume in a continuous stream. Fortunately,
there nre lut few places on the river
where the wheels can he worked with this
result. Where the fish can keep in the
middle o i the river, few can be caught iu
this way. But the men who control these
points nre making fortunes. As it is, sal
mon are rapidly disappearing from the
Columbia Many canneries are idle this
season, and the fishermen’s price per fisl
is raising every year. Surely this engine
of destruction is largely the cause.
A REMARKABLE CASK.
Slngulnr Condition In TYlilcli n Peunsylvii-
ntnn Found Himself.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
A most singular case nos just come to
light in Strasburg, Lancaster county.
Two years ago Edward Martin, son of Dr.
J. C. Martin went to F’lorida, where he
embarked in the banking business. On
the 22nd of January he suddenly disap
peared. His affairs were examined and
lound all right. He was finally discov
ered at Key Fast, and has just been
brought homo from that place..
He says from tho time he disappeared
until found everything was a blank to him.
He found himself on shipboard on Janua
ry 27, hound for Key East, and registered
as J. P. Williams. We believed that to be
his name and went to Key East, where he
secured work. After a time he went to
Baltimore, and from there came to this
city.
While here he failed to recoenize any
thing familiar, not even the University,
from which lie had graduated in the de
partment of pharmacy. He finally board
ed a sponge vessel and returned to Key
ICast, where he found a letter awbiting
him. It had been written by his brother,
J. R. Martin, making inquiries about the
lost Edward Martin.
The latter, still unconscious as to his
identity, said lie did not Know Edward
"Martin" and signed the letter “J. P. Will
iams.” W’lien he was brought home he
failed to recognize his parents. While still
in good physical condition, his mind i
mams a blank to all that has occurred
prior to the 27th of last January.
l lto llllss ot Ignorance.
From the Detroit Free Press, Augost 19.
She walked into a fashionable shoe store
and said to the polite clerk:
“Yon may show me a pair of walking
boots, No. 4; 1 used to wear 3's, but I go
in for solid comfort now.”
The clerk tried the boots, butthey would
not go on.
“Strange,” she murmured, “it must be
rheumathm. Try 4’s, B width. I know
I can swim in them, but my feet are so
tender."
While the clerk waa getting them on she
“I used to have a beautiful foot, not
small, but such a good shape. I never
had a small foot, but I wore two and a
half sizes for years, until I walked so much
and grew heavier.”
"Your foot is a peculiar shrpe, the in
step is so high—that is why you require a
large size,” said the clerk, who had no fear
of Ananias before his eyes.
“I’ve heard,” she said “that the Venus
dee Medeechy wears No. 5, and she is a
model of true proportion.”
“Exactly,” said the clerk, growing red
in the face as he tugged and pulled to get
them on. lie had never heard of “dee
Medeechy,” but he waa up to a trick or
two himself. “After all," he l said, “these
are too Urge. You’ll find the 4’s just
right.”
He was only gone a minute, but ir. that
time he hail erased 5 E from the inside of
pair uf -hiii-n ami -iihslitiikil 4 li.
"There, I thought it was strange,” -he
said when they were on anil paid fur;
“why, those are jusl as easy as my old
,nes. 1 believe I could just as well have
had .Vs after all.” And the young-man
ithout-a-conscience went back to his
duties witii the air of one well satisfied
ilh himself.”
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