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Jabs Simon thinks that France would
accept the proposal to disarm with entbets-
issElsn.di it were made by another power.
'Meet:liter Of the Milan; Mo., Republican
announces: that ha Will "take 'possums on
subscription." - -
An address bas been preheated to Den
etailee s,With 5003sitattirei attachedrthe
10*sluig the:dis yadty 'of many /AO
olteialswho he sworn. allegiance to. the
ntaetit.Eing fjjj
The use of petroleum as .fatel, on torpedo
boatiAnts been decided signinst iiSr the
special eoinniission of the FrenchGovern-
ment, because outeof tea cans of petreleure
experimented with under the conditions„*.
which they Would be placed -On board torpedn'
*rate-neigh:4 became ignitaittoriteopMlisieit
after twelve shots had been ,fired upon the
seiner plate prote.cting them, --
A bg salmon teust fs forminvin Oregon
to control the entire' out'prithUtite Columbia
14Yer''.(tanneries:,, AU the ,---Paekers have
reaelied an agreement, end- the final steps
oVer.ganization may betaken this week
-
The combination resemblethe Alaska sal-
mon packing triest formed lash -year. On the
Columbia River some canneries will be
cld.e
to 46'5,000 eases, mid possibly prices,will -be
.e
advanced.
A young notary of Bakhmont, Russia, fell
in love with a lady's maid and arranged to
marry her. His parents opposed -the mar-
riage, and the young couple determined to
die together. The young man fired a bullet
from a revolver into his sweetheart's body
and then turned the weapon on himself.
Both were badly wounded, but neither
fatally, and after spending three months in
the same hospital they came out recently
and were promptly married. The story had
become known and an • enormous crowd at-
tended the wedding.
The revhsal of Sheridan Knowle's "The
Hanchbacle' was a noteworthy event atthe
Star fbeathe last evening. The consider-
able eisecesis of the venture Was drinto a Cern-
pieta, arid: delightful preservation -of that
manner of romanticist -1i without which an old
comedy .misses the mark.
Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, is threatened with
a rival in -Mrs. Stewart of Fa;rget, N D. Mts.
Stewaithals candidate for Alderman from
her istutd,nand she has annonnoid thit she
means to be city mother, and will "make
it hot" for any man who ventures to oppose
her..
A petition written to Parliament in 1643
bas, it is tad; just been discovered in gaine.
It is written in ink,on hand -made paper, and
the sheetsare fastened together with a brass
pin. That an enthusiast with a completed
petition .8honld have omitted to preeent it
is the only thing that throw's doubt -on the
story.
A man in Walla Walla who sand bagged
a policeman into insensibility was recom-
mended to mercy by the jury, which could
not help but convict him, because he was
under the influence of liquor at the time,
aud "olnims that he did not know what he
wasaloing inconsequence." In some Eastern
eoMmunitree, where there is not so much
glad freedom in the air, the possession even
aliandbag is not likely to recommend an
-individual to any especial merciful consid-
eration.
A large party of hunters, with a pack of
fierce dogs, participated in a coyote drive
on the Fagebrush plains near Boise, Idaho,
last week, which resulte-1 in the killing of
over thirty sturdy wolves. Several of the
houtds were severely wounded. At one
time the hounds cornered four big coyotes
in a hollow of a butte, but after a brief,
fiemeetfight, in which five hounds were badly
inftirednthe hunters were glad to give the
eirCillance in the open again. The
firierWiert fur of the coyote makes an ea-
calleift winter coat, and to secure this was
One of the objects of the chase.
A case was reported recently of an engin-
eer being killed by his head striking against
a sagged telegraph pole as he leaned from
his cab widow, and several instances are
7 -lately noted of brakemen being swept from
- the roof of cars by bridges. But perhaps
the -most singular accident of this kind
neeurred in Missouri last week. An engin-
ter of an iron Mountain train was leaning
eat of his cab window passing Williams.
when he was caught by the mail
latches, the iron pole and hook arrangement
kir catching the mails from moving trains,
and puPect clean from his engine, through
the window, falling beside the track as his
train passed on. He was seriously injured.
.ff•m••0110
The peasants of the Russian village of
Jagodzints, in Lithuania, wreaked their
vengerintie onei suspected horse thief recent-
ly by setting. fire to his dwelling dur-
ing the night while he, his wife, mother,
and, family of five children Were within,
and burning the whole fetidly to death.
The peasants stood- , around the but,
and ;when the inmates rushed out they
were thrust back into the burning
house with- pitchforks and sythes. One
of the women was murdered outrightin the
attempt to force her back into the flames.
The peasants; gave themselvei up to the Rus-
sian --police, 'and Vfillmost probed& be im-
prisoned for a year and then exiled to an-
other part of the cog? try.
Bull fighting statistics show that the
Spanish sport does not decline. Judging
from the taurine statistics bull fighting is
not decreasing in Spain. During the pres-
ent year the ..number of first-class bull
fights in important cities has been 289, the
bulls killed being 1,594. There have also
been 307 fights of young bulbs (novillos), in
which 1.407 were slaughtered. Of the chief
fights% took phiee in Madrid, lg in Seville,
12 in Barcelona, and 11 in Valencia. Two
men—picadors—were killed ; of the espadas
and banderilloresixteen were more or less
seriously wounded. In each course from
six to eight bulls are killed; but -recently
in -Madrid, in a fight which extended two
days, eighteen were finished off. On some
lays a dozen lhorses. or even more,,ariggiv.
id to death. e - - ,
. M. Gaucher, a business man:ef Paris,and
a Mile. Baron lived together for someyears,
and then separated Dy mutual agreement,
GauCher engaging to pay the woman an an-
nuity of POO on condition, that she -should
maintain an honorable reputation, do no
harm to-Gat:cher nor any. n ember of the
family, remain -unmarried,- and live out of
The annuity. siii-punctually -paid judge to IlsX prinone6 gilereateal,ar-
- for _three yearee7aintethen 111; .Gaucher be. ateces are against me, your Honor, was
erimie egictandi-stVried it. Mlle. Baron the frank restionse.-1=-#‘ Ward 'pantie
. 'breed rk before the Paris cian."
Cj 4Miitiolthepayinentof the justice Wright of the English- bench told.
eiranee. She ran testimony as the jury in a.murder trial at the Yorkshire
tgatere ihrepe*Ii .affien - .11.58-7e and Assizes recently tkatitevas his opinion "if
tnIa of .471114 taken to Ore nt aiiptlter a liar a Slight blow
artcf he cont;
where the drivers of all vehicles must tpay
toll. Some time ago a bicyclist in attempt,-
ing to cross this bridge was obliged to -pay
the usual charge. fae protested, but was
laughed at; the law should be obeyed. On
returning, however, he carried his bicycle,
thinking to turn the laugh on the bridge
official. The latter, however, became angry
and had him promptly arrested. The trial;
came up before one of the petty civil courts,
and the judge decided in favor of the
bicyclist. The toilman, backed by all the
bridge authorities, appealed, and the case
came up again before the Supreme Coast,
which reversed the decision ot the lower
court and decided against the bicyclist. But
the wheelman, like most of his brothers,
was game. He appealed, and the caee went
to the Court of Appeals, where fite-Stipreine
Court .deetsion 'was tornto pieces and -tile
right of the bicycliat to carry his wheel was
finally established on the ground thee those
vehicles whose wheel came directly in con-
tact with the bridge could alone come under
the toll.
Some very eerie stories are being told in
Paris and London papers about recent
hypnotic experiments in the former city.
The most remarkable of these plain "ac-
counts of scientific facts" are about certain
weird experiments by Dr, Luys, at the
Charite Hospital, on the "exteriorization"
of the human body. One woman- subject's
,corporeal bodywds so completely-exteriorits
!_ed that Dr. Luys was able to transfer her
sensibility Into a tumbler of water. The
tumbler was taken oat; of- siglefecifethe
hypnotized subject and a reporter wortient
was asked to touch the water. He placed his
linger in the water and the woman started
as though in pain. The experiment was
tried successfully on several subjects. The
water retained the sensibility for a consider
able time, and if drunk beforeetheo-Sepsi-
bility was exhausted the patientlell into a
deadly swoon. Dr. Luys, it i faitherh'ere-
lated, was also able to confirm the discoVery
made by Col. Roche, adminiatratoreir the
Eeele Polyteclminue, that it is possible to
transfer the sensibility of a -hypnotized sub-
ject to the negative of a photograph of the
patient. In such experiments the subject
not -only felt but showed signs of anymark
made on the negative. In Cola Rciehe's ex-
periments the negative was scratched with
a pin, and the subject would -wince with
apparent pain, and elmest iMmediately a
mark would show on lie hands .similiar to
these_madet with thiapin on the negative.
Dr Luys is said to-. halt° tried i this -erne&
tnent at the Charite Hospital with consid-
erable success. ;
John Henry Mack, a young Englishman,
at present of Harwich, has had a ten years'
experience of life ,that is worth noting.
He left school at '17, crenated in the British
army, .and went to India.. ;Five years later
he returned to England and married a
clergyman's daughter with a fortune of $80-
000. ' Mackdost' all this playing the races
in just two years. Then he became a po-
liceman at Watford.A few months after
his appointment his wife inherited $4,500.
This lasted Mack five months. Then, on
his wife's good credit he opened a saloon. A
couple of months -later he was running a pork
butcher shop at Colchester on his own ac-
eount. A little later he was travelling for
a clothing firm, and but a very little later
still he was in business as a tripe dresser at
Ipswich. He had to atone for part of the
indebtedness he acquired here by serving a
Short term in prison. A similar result fol-
lowed some business venture, not other-
wise referred to, at Malden. His wife died
last year and left him $1,000, and with this
he set up in business last January as a
butcher at Harwich. Nine months later at
the age of 28 years, he is in the bank-
ruptcy court With liabilities of $1,200, And
no assets.
A REMARKABLE ACOIDE.NT.
What Came of a Woman with a Stray Wire
Around Her Ankle Entertng a Cable
Car.
A Teti -ladle of tangled telegraph wires lying
on the ground at the cornet of Division and
North Clark Street, Chicago, was the cause
of an accident to Mrs. Bertha Mitchell,
which may result fatally to her. She was
standing at the corner Sunday right wait-
ing for a north -bound cable train, and did
not notice that her left foot had become
entangled in the wire. As the cable train
stopped she entered the last trailer through
the rear door and was about to take her
sea,t when her attention was called to the
wire, which was still wrapped around her
ankle. At the same time the conductor
noticed it ciaalenade an effort to release her,.
but. the signal for the train to start had,
been given.
With a. violent jerk it _shot _forward and,
Mrs. -Mitchell -Mae fora from her feet. The
conductor ,sounded "four bells" the signal
for an instant- stop, but there were three
trailers' to the train and by the time the
signal reached the gripman the train had
gone forward fifty feet. Several men tried
to assist Mrs. Mitehell, but theycould not
reach her in time. The other end of the
wire was attached to a telegraph pole
and as it was drawn taut she was
thrown forward to the 11 or of the car with
terrible violence. The refit door bad not
been closed and she was dragged through it
and hurled against the end board. Had the
train not been stopped then it is probable
that the first thing to yield to the tension
would have been Mrs. Mitchell's ankle. She
was lifted froth the car and it was thought
best to make no effort tat remove the wire
without the aid of a physician. Accordingly
it was cut And the woman was carried into
the.Officeeir Dr. O. :McArthur
Di. McArthur eeelized at mice that the
wounds were offat serious- nature, and with
great care he unwound the 'wire. It was
found that on the back of Mrs. Mitchell's leg
two deep cuts had been ensfliceed, one of
which laid bare the bone. Them were im-
mediately behind thefitnineap, AS the2•Wire
had slipped up when the car first -started.
Serious spinal_ injuries resulted -from. the-
violence'Itith 'MAO 'Ws. Mitchell was
..threvin,againif-the' end board of the car,
and when she was removed to the residence
-"-1.
of her sister she was in a semi-conscious
-condition: etra
Be sure you are left -and then go ahead.
The trade of theauctioneeris a high
"Von appear to le honest," said. the
dertkioaget*ii
0Ifiable." He added :
ry to;Picot - it ie. eomilion
inion in sum -
in: the
trial,of Fred-,
-urtfor killing a
itipute That evening at dineer;fAthile the
IN THE BUOTOW HIGHLANDS:
Sketehee About Balmoral—Manners and
Cuitome of the Highlanders.
There is a part of the Scottish Hiehlands,
beyond Ballater, where the railway stops,
that enjoys a comparative immunity, from
tourists. True, they come, but not in great
numbers. Queen Victoria has used alt her
royal power and infinence to keep them out,
and has succeeded in a measure. It is this
reactionary old lady who is responsible for
the railway ceasing at Ballater, which is
nine miles from Balmoral Castle.' She doesn't
want the wild, romaritic Dee side profaued
any further by the march of improvement,
and Inc Highlanders, who have every rea-
son to respect her whims, are content to
wait until Albert Edward is King before
they make any changes. .And it is by ne
means certain that the changes will be im-
provement, or that_timereentionding oldladyt
isn't rig4tafteh,..aller
If any Pet:4:tle in the world have to
be grateful to the Queenlitasttkese Scotch';
Highlanders. 4-:* looking at the country
with the eyes of one country .iloorn and cie
country bred, it is herd tialiOa.ehaiie a living
could be iiWde leYitheatieati beforethat an-
nual Autumn influx took place. There are
noble mountains, there are lovely stretch-
es of purple heather, and wild water -falls
rushing madly down into the gloomy fells
and glens and valleys full of a solemn and
romantic beauty; but nature when she
created the Highlands seems to have been
in the same mood as the liberal -minded
French gentleman who declared if he had
the luxuries of life he could easily dispense
with the necessaries.
For with all this beauty there is apparent-
ly no provision made for supporting human
life. The land is poor and most of it utter-
ly worthless for cultivation. The thin soil
in the valleys is cultivated admirably, but
the climate is so severe that only the hardi-
est cereals and vegetables can exist at all.
It is not a good grazing country, but by an
almost superhuman thrift and perseverance
sheep of fair quality are raised, and a good
many of them,' too. The Dukes of Buc-
eleugh own much of this romantic and un-
profitable region, and the value of these pos-
sessions is waggishly set forth by a proverb
current in the ,.Highlands
"If heather bells sere corn o' the best.
Buccleugh would have a bonny grist,"
..11111111.611110.1.1.5.- 111111.101•1211MIPMEMEIMIleh,
eauraeos
came back very promptly "-They will na'
play it, Sir—not-for you, Sir, not for any
man, and not for the dell himself l" An-
other tinae, eta great house a Frenchman re-
marked to the head piper that the bag pipes
might be a very fine instrument, but for his
Part he never could like it. "A weel," re-
sponded the piper, calmly " tnaybe ye got
enou' of the skirlin' at Waterloo an' ye can't
forget it !"
A MURDEROUS MANIAC),
George Barker of Niagara Falls Tries to
Kill His Beautiful Daughter.
A Niagara Falls despatch says George
Barker, a prominent resident of this city,
suddenly went insane the other night, and
in a fit of raze attempted to murder his
beautiful daughter, Marie Barker. The
tragedy was averted only through Miss
'..Barkier's-escape during a moment when her
Other went to secure a weapon to beat her
brink The particulars of the affair
are`shronded in mystery to some extent.
-At
an early in the evening the resi-
hfentsFeef Buffalo avenue, the fashionable
dindronglifareihni the 'city, in the vicinity of
the Barker lasideifee," were startled by
shrieks of a girl for help. The family of
Alexander Porter responded to the cries and
rescued the girl. Mr. Porter's hostler,
named Richardson, a young engineer
named Standish and Mr. Porter carried
Miss Barker over to the Porter residence.
She was badly injured, but told this story
of the murderous assault: She was corn-
ing down stairs and heard her father
storming about the lower rooms of the
house. She enquired of hitt what was
the matter and he turned upon her like
a demon. He knocked the girl down,
kicked and stamped upon her postrate body
and pulled a handful of hair out of her head
She Legged of him not to kill her, but with
a fiendish yell he said he would finish her
in a moment, and started towards the back
part of the house to secure an axe or club.
Miss Barker managed to crawl up to her
room, Welt the door andraising the window
called for help. After the girl was safely
housed with the Porter family, Barker se-
cured a revolver and came over to the house,
threatening to kill anyone who interfered
with him reaching his daughter. Young
Porter stood at the door with a rifle and
told him to get out or he would shoot
him if he dared to cross the threshold. The
police were summoned and succeeded in over-
ewering .the man anti taking the revolver
ay frotkhim. Both --lather and daughter
re under Medical attendance to -day. The
idjiiiieiare 'considered quite serious.
rhea.* i pliOtograplier of national repute
Uneremsilit of Mnsitsleralfie wealth. He is
high up.lISSM.400,g!efehlewand his friends
surprised -at the violeneeied his insanity.
He has been known to have spells at
times, but never of a dangerous nature as in
the present instance.
From a casual glance at the people and
the country, one would infer that the High-
landers lived on mists and crags and bag-
pipes and " leapin' and flingin'."#These-
people claim to be descended frinn thet
Greeks, and they mint tuthcir kr-ts asther
strict evolution of the G to the
arrangements of their:ewhi.eh is, eit-
actly that of Greektheir
graceful and warlike eta
ic dance. ny-
is the survival of thillkrr
body who associatrWong faces and long
prayers and the iron rule of "the kirk
With the Scotch will have to leave these,
primitive mountain people out. They have
a fierce appetite for pleasure, and "the
kirk" accommodates itself to them, so far
as to admit of much dancing and fiddling
and bagpiping and unlimited quantitiee, of
" whusky. '
John Knox and his followers never
dominated the Highlands as they did the
Lowlands, partly because the Highlanders
were intensely loyal to the Stuarts, and
partly because they didn't fancy a Cal-
vinistic strictness of behavior. Jacobitism
and Catholicism clung together in those
mountain fastnesses and still survive to the
most extraordinary degree. The Queen her
self is a Jacobite and is prouder of her
Stuart blood than any other that flows in
her veins. Asa matter of fact, it is so re-
mote that there is a good deal of -doubt
whether she can properly claim any Stuart
descent at all. It is said that she never for-
gave Lord Macaulay for the reply *rnade
her wherailie said : " Don't you think you
were rather' hard in rene hietom Ririe my -A
poor ancestor, JamegIL
"Bat, Madam," anirehrect MaeaulaY,
was not your a.ncestetett
It is aWan open que3tion iffietliar the
royal family has any special right to wear
the Stuart tartan, but the Queen has got
over the difficulty by herself inventing the
most remarkable conglomeration of color,
which is called the Victorian tartan, and
which covers the sofas and chairs at Bal-
moral Castle and hangs from the windows
and carpets some of the floors. Any Scotch -
man who has no distinctive clan tartan may
wear the Stuart tartan—and that is as much
claim as any members of the royal family
have to it.
The Queen, though, has made the tartan
popular. Fifty years ago it went out of
:fashion completely. The common people
wore it, but the gentlemen never thought
Of such a thing. Now the tartan is quite
the proper caper. All of the great lanued
proprietors put it on as soon as they get to
,Scotland, and their servents leave off livery
and put it on also, master and man wear-
ing the same tartan. In the morning, when
the gentlemen go deer -stalking or shooting
THE UGANDA EXPEDITION.
It is to Have Soldiers and Porters Supplied
by the Sultan of Zanzibar.
The British expedition which is about to
start for Uganda under command of G. H.
Portal is able to surmount the difficulty
presented by the scarcity of porters in a
way that is not open te private travellers.
The numerousexpeditions that have recent-
ly disappeared into the interior have drain-
ed the east coast of its supply of porters, but
Portal has secured all the carriers he needs,
and an adeqaute escort of soldiers from the
Sultan ef Zanzibar. He will be able to march
rapidly to Victoria Nyariza, where he will
study the situation and advise the British
Government as to the best means to estab-
lish order and promote progress in Uganda.
In March next the Imperial.British East
Afeica„ compeny will march out of Uganda.
B�Tglish sefirtment was so strong against
abandoning the country, that the Govern-
mentlosteno time in taking steps to assure
-its ,control over Uganda. There is every
prospect -that the railroad to the lake, the
surveys for which are now completed, will
be built at an early day, and the prospects
for Uganda are looking deeidedly brighter.
DYNAMITE IN PARIS..
An Explosion in the Building of the Pre-
fecture of Police.
A Paris despatch says ;—An explosion at
1.30 o'clock this morning in the hall lead-
ing to the offices between the ground floor
and first story of the Prefecture ot Police
has caused a sensation.
An investigation of the premises by ex-
perts shows that the affair was undou ded-
ly the work of Anarchists, who had placed
in the entresol a bomb heavily charged with
chlorate powder.
The result of the investigation has caused
considerable excitement in official circles,
or fishing—everybody ehoots and hunts and r where it is believed that the Anarchists,
fishes in- Scotland—the gentlemen wear taking advantage of the confusion attendant
stout, serviceable tartans, like the gillies
and gamekeepers. But at dinner they are
superb in splendid tartans of silk warp and
woof. The stockings are of silk, and the
knife carried in the stockintleg is kelSveleir
The clasp pneAlieiihouldeeris supertglite
and the catil4 a (*.mond hat. ton. 11014
can wear tlefs liostunte well eXcept a Seci.
man. The Queen is so infatuated *itli it
that sheRitsigldlet guestiiwnilid partAti
ly her (orrnan Eltii-in-law,.into it as ,40
as: they Yet* to'Bahnorat Prince }teny
of Battenberg is the laughing stock of all
the people round about, in his kilt and
plaid, and Mr. T-abouchere is never tired of
poking fun at the handsome pink and white
German, because he looks so unhappy when
hils,kunee: seearare
e bare.
But
tat scotch
gentleman like
the Duke of Fife, the Queen's grandson-i1-
-4aw, for example, marching at the head of
200, Duff men, every one, from Duke to
egamekeeper, a Duff and conscious of it, and
all wearing proudly the Doff tartan, is in-
deed a splendid sight. The Duke is not a
handsome man—on the contrary, he is
rather commonplace -looking and short, and
narrowly missed having a red head—but in
Highland costume he looks every inch a
Duke, and what is a good deal more, a man.
A servile people never would have held on
to this costume, but the most captivating
Duff or Campbell -as the Duke- who is chief
otfhTtihnhgeecaDibanonkft. te fhese Highlanders is their ewhatnot. Allan the piper 18 as good a Scot or
knows his rights and claims his kinship to
the head of his clan, Duke or Earl or what
tire want of servility. Every one of them
Buoeleugh was explaining
once this independent spirit,. and gave as
an , instance that none of the Buaelen,gh
pipers could be niade to play a certain alr
rkhich commemorated the flight of the
Scots from -some rival fig7481:00,:tainnatrakauedeebr:da
century or MO ago. AnEnglishmanpres-
roteetrrehelLoritielI0bencellec**11/Wileervants.
-
upen the revelations of the Panama Canal,
have started to inaugurate a reign of terror
similar to that which prevailed when Rava-
chol and his colleagues caused the explosions
hErattewhen:Many of the wealthy residents
of the city- heettly packed their household
effects and took refuge in the country. The
best'deteetives in Paris have been detailed
on time mese, and arrests of Anarchists,
whether the real culprits or not, are certain
to follow.'
GUARDING MR. GLADSTONE.
Some Results of the Big, Scare Over the
Dynamite Outrage.
The authorities appear to be so strongly
convinced that the Dublin explosion, by
which Detective Synnot lost his life was
part of the work of a band of conspirators
that they have sent a detective to Biarritz
to keep guard over Mr. Gladstone and pro-
tect him from outrage. Mr. Gladstone has
not been made aware of the precaution
taken, as it is known that he would resent
any protection of the kind should he be
aware of it.
Home Secretary Asquith is also protect-
ed when he goes out in public by a detective
in civilian attire, who keeps near enough to
interfere in the event of an attack upon Mr.
Asquith. In view of all the- precautions
taken the opinion prevails that the author-
- ties are in possessiein of. definite and im-
atit-linftiftriatiort; as tn.-the existence of
a formidable dynamite conspiracy,
A Bargain Beyond Doubt.
Oppenstrause—" My frent, dot ring is
wore five huniret toilers and I let you haf
it for sixty-five."
Jones—" But it has the initial letter
" W " on it."
Oppenstrauss—" My frent, dot ring is
such a bargain it Would pay you to haf your
naMe changed."
eneaI _WeOtplaying OntthentereejeYe Pin Dake gent, - Alan considers himself a performing
election. Werdle theta toplay this- elephant.
W ON DZ,EFD L N ORTHWESTERN
TALE.
An Indian Sucked into a Mountain
Maelstrom and Finned Two Hundred
and Fifty Miles Away.
A despatch from Kootenay, B. C., says:
Montana, tells a wend 1 1
Albert Monson, who has reached here from
guide named
Two prospectors, Phil
Barnes and P. Le
struck
kFenrrnyt oinn tah e r70trhthday teof lAugust, and
beaded for the peaks
teKrrieikatgaenrd, amFylasethlfe,adleft InBd ni ann.
white companions trees to and canyons in the
eas r y direction,
of the Rockies. Th
extreme northern range of the maul di Qide
before. Muprprnosspeenotf
day of
to gather facts hitherto unknown and make
them public at my leisure. On the 28th
- y own object was to seek diversion
, an emg a newspaper man,
eve ever entered
fniorYvatmlno-
able minerals in a seetion of country which
few, if any, white men h
and adventure db
August—according to the observe
-
tions taken by me --we were within twenty-
five or thirty miles of the Canadian line
and at an altitude of 7500 feet.- It was noon
of the day mentioned above. On our left
was a craggy precipice about eighty feet
high overhanging a roaring mountain stream
and extending fully two miles to the south.
But we heard more than the swash of the
running stream. There came to our ears a
deep, roaring sound, alternating in force,
stronger and weaker, at intervals of a few
seconds. It came in jarring sounds, with
A VOLUME LIKE THCNDEE,
For some minutes we listened in silence.
Then suddenly Klikat spoke.
"Me know what him is," he said, with a
pleased air of comprehension. "Him is
Big-Flole-indhe-Water. Him heap water
run to hell and put out devil's camp fire."
"Big hole in the water," I echoed.
"What de you mean by that, Klikat?"
"You come look," lie said, advancing to
the edge of the precipice and throwing him-
self flat on the rock with his head and
shoulders hanging over. "Ugh !" he ex-
claimed. "Big-Hole-in-EheeWater heap
mad to -day. Him funny. Water go in
ground; never come out."
Following Klikat's example I cautiously
approached the edge of the projecting rock,
thiew myself on the ground face downward,
and peered down from the dizzy height.
Barnes and Leger did likewise. It was a
curious and awe inspiring sight that we
beheld. Straight down below there was a
deep pool, or lake, about a quarter of an
acre in area and enclosed on three sides . by
high walls of eternal rock, thus forming a
perpetual and insurmountable barrier to he
passage of the water beyond this spot. Th
noisy .mountain stream poured great
volumes of sparkling water into this natural
basin and then lost itself. The water in the
pool ssung rapidly around as on a pivot
and constantly drifted in a steadily acceler-
ated tidal current toward the centre. And
here was the most startling feature of this
wonderful stream. In the very centre of
the deep water was a
LARGE CIB,CLTLAR CAVITY, •
or depression, funnel -shaped -ea great "suck
hole," in face—fully eight feet across at the
surface, the water spinning round and
round, rushing downward with lightning
speed. A tremendous force of gravity was
at work in that awful pit of darkness. In
the centre of this funnel was a great mass
of snow white foam, dancing and whirbng
and scattering flakes of itself around the
dark blue rim of the vortex. At intervals
of fifteen or twenty seconds there would be
a greater downward rush of water, the pil-
lar of foam would disappear with the in-
creased speed of the current ; then the
roar would increase in volume, another pil-
lar of foam would form, only to disappear a
.few moments later as the previous one had
done. It was a gra.mi, a terrrible sight 1
glanced at my two friends, who like myself
were electrified by this mighty freak of
nature.
" If I could find a ledge of quartz with
color in it anywhere near by," observed Mr.
Barnes, "I would erecta stamp mill right
here and drcp a horizontal wheel into
that boiling suck hole. Great Scot ! but
wouldn't it spin, though 1"
I rather thought it would, but at that
moment my attention was suddenly and
and shockengly attracted to Klikat, who
had been lying about eight feet away on
my left. There was a low, crumbling sound
and then a mass of shelving tock right
under Klikat broke loose and..
FELL WITH A FEARFUL CRASH
into the edge of the whirling pool. I startled
to my feet just as I saw the Indian making
frantic efforts to cling to the edge of the
cliff. But his hold was too slight and the
rock crumbled under his grasp. Without
uttering word or sound of any kind Klikat
fell headlong into the mad water beneath.
After a few seconds he came to the surface.
Barnes rushed to one of the pack mules for
a rope, but it was too late. Three, four,
five times did Klikat swing around in a
spiral course that gradually grew nearer to
the centre of the great funnel, at the same
time making frantic efforts to swim out of
it. But it was labor lost. With a movement
that looked like a sudden tense he shnt into
the very centre of the vortex. For one
brief movement he sprung around like a
top, and then down he went with the pillar
of foam, out of sight into the bowels of the
earth and the darkness of death. We
at last reached the south shore of Lake
Kootenay. dustbefore sundownweanchored
on the west shore and pulled the canoe out
of the water. We at once began prepara-
tions for a camp fire aacl it was while in the
act of gathering dry driftwood along the
shore that Leger discovered a very ghastly
object ling in the water within six feet of
land. It was • the corpse of a man—an
Indian. Leger at once called us to him, and
together we draaged the body ashore. The
face of the dead was
BADLY BRUISED AND TORN
and utterly disfigured. The body was
very much bloated, t,
oo and all we eould
see for a certainty was that the corpse was
the remains of an Indian.
"Hold on h' suddenly exclaimed Barnes,
as he bent over the dead body and cut some-
thing from the neck—a piece of ragged
cloth.
egg -1." he cried, as he raised him
selferect and held up the article mentioned.
"This is the remnant of my silk hand-
kerchief, which I gave to poor Klikat 10
cover the gash he cut on his neck by that
dead limb one day—do you remember?
And see! Right here in this corner is my
monogram' P. P B.'—worked in silk."
It was so. We all recognized the silken
Montana. And
knew that the corpse before
ns was the dead body o 1
t awful subter
rag and we all
ted ashore on
this lake, between se
f Klikat, who had
ye
Inman river, fully 250 miles away, far up
fallen iato the funnel of tin.
which and the "big hole
• re
in the rookies of 'Not tite
-
t there was his corpst, drifted
Kootenay, and how
nection, so
in the water" there is not the slightest con-
nortal eyes can see.
long had he b
How came he to Lake
Every Thule
far as
bean there?
has one head and two heels
of his own.
A FATAL CH010E.
He Listens to the Panther Harry Off EN
Sleeping Meat,
On this night we had made ow camp—
Joe and I—on the west side of the Salmon
River mountains,and on the banks of a creek
falling into the west fork of the Salmon
river. Joe was a half-breed boy about IS
years old—an honest, trusty fatly ea and
a reliable guide—and just tleae we bad
nothing to fear from the Indians.
I had been feverish all day, and when I
turned in, with my feet to the fire and the
stars above me, en about 8 o'c'ock, I was a
little bit fidelity. The last I remembered
was hearing Joe collecting fuel tor the
night. His bed had been prepared about
six feet from mine, and he had told me that
a whisper would awaken him if I needed
him during the night.
I awoke about midnight with the fever
gene and all my senses peculiarly alert. It
seemed as if I could hear better than ever
in my life before. Just above us was a
riffie in the creek, and I heard the waters
babbling and caught a splash now and then
as the fish ran up or down. I heard a noise
in the forest, and knew that a dead limb
had fallen. A wolf barked, and I figured
it out that he was about hale a mile away.
There was a rustling among the leaves, and
I said to myself that a mole was running
about.
Step ! Step 1 Step !
If my head had not been in contact with
the earth I could not have made out the
sound. It was faint and light The horses
were lying down, as I knew by the sound
of their breathing, and when 11 lifted my
head a bit I saw that Joe was wrapped in
his blanket.
Step ! Step 1 Step!
Ali, I have it now! It is the wolf whose
bark I heard five minutes ago. The dull
glow of our campfire has caught his eye,
and he is prowling about to investigate. He
is gaunt and shambling, arid at this seaeon
of the year his fur is stained and ragged.
He skulks and dodges, advances and re-
treats, and now and then his lip drops down
to reveal his fangs. There is no fear of him.
Even if there were a dozen they would not
attack. If I were to sit upright this fellow
would drop his tail and make a bolt for it
and not stop running for a mile.
Did I feel the earth jar beside me? No !
If there was any movement at all it was
caused by one of the horses raising his head
to catch the scent of the wolf. The move-
ment of a horse lying down or getting up
can be detected by a man in his blankets
100 feet away. Was that noise made by
something beirg dragged along the earth?
Of course not! A noree when sound asleep
will often move one of his feet with a scrap-
ing motion. A bear maybe prowling about
and his skuff ! sknff ! skuff ! would account
for the peculiar sound.
" Joe ! Joe !"
The fever has left my throat as dry as
tinder, and I suddenly thirsted. It won't take
Joe over a minute to fill our coffee pot with
ice-cold water at the spring. I don't like
to break in on his sleep, but he can make up
for 0 to -morrow when left in charge of the
camp.
"Joe 1 Joe 1"
He sleeps as lightly as a fox, and, Indian -
like, is awake every two hours to see that
the fire is all right. I have called twice and
yet failed to arouse him. The night is a bit
chilly and he may have wrapped his head in
the blanket. I will sit up and see. But
where is Joe? There is the spot where he
made his bed, but he is not there. I can see
clear around the fire, but Joe's form is not
in sight. He is not after fuel—ise in not at
the spring.
" Joe ! Joe Joe 1"
1 am on my feet as I call. No answer. He
would hear me if half a mile away, but there
is no response. I go to the spring and chink
my fill, and return an 1 heap fuel on the
fire and lie down again. Joe is a queer sort
of boy. He may have gone down to the Sal-
mon to set a couple of traps, or he may have
seen Indians pass and followed them. There
is no cause to worry.
It is sunshine as I open my eyes again.
I sit up and look around. Joe is not here.
I stand up and shout " Coo -e -e -e !" but
there is no reply. I look down upon the
spot where he made his bed, and there is a
trail as of some burden being dragged. I
follow it, and ten rod away I find pieces of
his blanket and blood on the leaves; at
twenty rods the rest of his blanket, torn
and bloody. Through a thicket and on the
far side of a log I come upon his dead body,
or the ghastly remains of it.
While 1 was lying wide awake, as I have
described to you, a panther crept tup,
sprang upon the sleeping boy and carried
him away. I heard only the faint noises I
have mentioned, none of them giving the
slightest cause of alartn — none of them
loud enough to have aroused a sleeping
warrior.. The boy had made no cry, ne
struggle. Softly as he had alighted the
great cat hed struck him dead with one
blow of hispaw. Two of us lay there motion-
less and helpless. The panther had his
choice. Who can guess what determined it
'More Victims ot the Gambling. Craze.
From Monte Carlo comes the news of two
tragic events, in one ef which an American
was the victim. The Ameriean, who is de-
scribed as 2.3 years ord and of good appear-
ance, lost £3,500 belonging to his mother
and which she had intrusted to his care.
Luck went against him from the first, and
he played wildly in the hope of recouping
his loss. When the last gold piece was
one he walked silently out of the Quiino,
attracting no more attention, however, than
other unfortunate gamblers. Neer Vin-
timiglia, about eighteen miles from Niee,
the distracted young man threw himself on
the railroad track in front of au approach-
ing train and was crushed to death under
the wheels.
Another gambler, whose nationality it
not given and who had lost nearly ev-erything in the Casino, took the train front
Monte Carlo, apparently with the (ntelitiOli
of returning home, and, shot himself dead
with a revolver while on the train. Tho
gambling tables at Monte Carlo are dolt% a
flourishing business.
A Question of Moral Responsibititt.
Willie (at breakfast)'...." Voil can't help
what you dream, can you mamma I"
His Mother--" No, Willie."
"Then if you dream you're !min' a tight
yon ain't to blame for it, are you t"
"No, but if you have been e good tow
you are not likely to have Mil elfettlint "
"Still they ain't wicked, on they, It
you can't help it?"
"N -no, I suppose not. Did you &eat
lart night you were Thing 00 WIeltril a hkt
as fighting?'
" Yep ! An' it would 'a' dime you good to
see how I licked that yelletAiaivetlo
faced, good-for-nothini Rob **Vetoed
he couldn't stand up, dog.on hit*
Young Tutter-0-" Do you wind
ing on your daughter, Mrs.Sliiminnii
nese suit?" Mrs. SI I MC, Att,
„ tier, not if you ...dole live .aktilsilifili"
,e
AGRIC
Whe .-e G
litte the city?
I would!
Tisn't likel,} that
ever could
Grit accustomed t
unua.rthly no
Everybody in a h
e anbos.
Ajti i-rushin' like
an' the jar,
Jes' as if their sem
gittin thar
Like it No 1'
'id the vales
In the border la.
WL -re the ha
Nothirryar but t
overhead so
That you hover .
in sky.
Not a Iree or gr
brook in sig!
Nothin' butir
gloom 0 le
ren the birds a
across the s
face:, melting ••
miser:.
Like it ? No. I
'Mid vales an
In the border ;
WI-Ine the ha.
fluarin' -ailroad
woi kmen al
Everyba v tryin.
their haste
Car's an cartes a
the street,
Drivers yeliin'. s
impfrom s
Factories j'inin' i
riin to swell
Aiuctioneerm in t
goods 1 hey
Like it ? N
valet: an
In the border I.
Whar' the ho
'les, I live the
wavin' in ti
(Locks piled up in
in everywh
Deer a-playin' in
in the glen
Not a trace otiai
trail o' men
Breohs o' cry.it-
rot.k. an' to
In their tinted h
de". and b
Fairer pietur' t
Never threw
• Than this iovel
Whar' the ha
A Pro
The dairy te
.7,1iicago will u
test of dairy cat
other country
relative merit
breeds. But th
tion, the Devon
tions have vote
The great cen
information as
cows of differen
the cost of the f
this information
cows that the r
represent the be
also to hahe the
a manner, and t
fully.by imparti
no question co
fairness and cor
The represen
above mentione
the contest on a
the large amou
transport the co
of them while t
information as
pound of milk, b
points to be gu
cially selected,
heavy and that
their accuracy
tion.
The first of t
end can be ob
tested at the h
third by having
the immediate
pendent and 1111
The manager
finally called in
serve through t
fudges at Chica
Judges could be
a test of dairy
home test could
official charge o
conforming clos
Chicago the res
able with the C
would indeed h
Chicago test si
to be tested in
on the food to
under the watc
- their iadividua
It would see.
be made on s
Let the cows b
Union by the
numbers and
selecting woul
cows been %can
remain ea. the f
led and care
owner to use h
kind and quail
to put the co
course of feedi
tee for thirty d
as the thirty d
month of -Sept
Let the stati
execittive comt
committee, det
and record all
and quantity.
as often as he
presentatives
small sample
which the che
be calculated
the rest of th
owner and ma,
be pleases, an
1 (weighted a
tative of the s
and the weigh
cent butter fat•
for the amount
sample. The s
also make we.
k irn-milks an