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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1893-02-09, Page 6illanviewlyeama -LiTE Miet4 jfE,Wa., 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