El Reno Daily Eagle. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 231, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 29, 1895 Page: 3 of 4
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SNAKES IN MICHIGAN.
A S*ato Whoro tho Racor la Al-
ways Bluo or Bluiah.
ltpptllfn About Which Rut Little 1* Known
to the Average Hrador- -They Cannot
Outrun a Alan Except Over
ISroken Ground.
In Michigan, writes acorrcspondent of
the American Field, this snake is always
blue or dusty bluish, and is therefore
called blue racer. Do not understand
me to say that we have no black snakes
in Michigan, for that would bo an er-
ror, as wc shall describe them later In
another genus; but the common black
snake of New England and other east-
ern states becomes the blue-racer in the
west. All individuals of this species
arc blue when small, even in the cast,
1 am informed, and here, till they reach a
an engine when lie straightened again,
length of 2 feet or a little more; they are
of a beautiful bright cerulean hue, ami
spotted on their sides with black. At
what age the cerulean racer begins to
turn darker and lose his spots 1 am un-
able to say, but I have captured speci-
mens 3^ feet long, which were un-
doubtedly adults, us they had entirely
lost their bright blue color and were
putting on the dusky greenish blue.
When the blue racer reaches full size it
is brown on the back, with a faint sug-
gestion of blue, which, however, is
more pronounced just after skin shed-
ding. The sides show a shade of green-
ish blue and the under parts a dull
, bluish white. This variation in color
between the eastern and western 11.
constrictor is, perhaps, comparable to
the transition in the pelage of the gray
squirrel Sciurus Carolinensis (Aud.)
which is generally found black in this
vicinity. I understand that in New
York state the t\vo varieties of squir-
rel intermingle, and that nests of young
have been found containing both va-
rieties. I have found this snake almost
black here, but never quite so.
The longest racer I have ever seen,
and it was the lor . pt snake I have
measured in Michigan, was 0 feet 4
inches in length. Many that at first
sight and when running at full speed
looked all of 10 feet long, proved to he
only between 5 and 0 feet, for when
HOW HE SAVED UWE.
Thrilling Story of the Heroism of a Ger-
man Life Saver.
A thrilling story of German heroism
at sea, which goes far to offset some of
the reports regarding the loss of tho
Elbe, comes from Selilcswig-Holstoifi. I
One stormy morning recently a fishing |
village was awakened by a gunshot off i
the coast. Hastening to the beach, the i
people saw a ship wrecked on a reef a i
mile away. The crew were in the rig-
ging. A lifeboat was run out, but |
Harro, tin; leader of the crew, was ab-
sent.
Eight men, however, rode out to tho
wreck. The crew were got into the
lifeboat, with the exception of one who
was lashed high up on a mast. He was
half frozen, and as the storm was in-
creasing and the lifeboat overloaded it
was decided that lu* could not be taken
off. When the lifeboat returned to the
shore Harro had arrived. He asked
COULD HAVE A WAVE.
Lako Michigan Could Riso Up and
Surprise) Chicago.
HOUSEIN WHICH LINCOLN LIVED 1 p|^TlI TO SQUIKRELS.
All It Need* I* an Earthquake to Set It a
Going—What nn Ancient Mar-
iner SayH About Suelt
Matters.
1IE WAS HALF FROZEN.
whether everyone had been saved, and
was told that qnc remained.
"I will fetch him,” said Harro. “Will
you go with me?”
The men refused, saying that it was
impossible. “Then I will go alone,”
cried Harro. and sprang into the life-
boat. At this moment his mother came
running down and begged him not to
venture out, reminding him that both
his father and his brother Ewe had
been drowned. Uwe was his youngest
moving quickly over the ground they I brother, and as he had not been heard
have a deceiving appearance. From
the time when they first appear in the
month of April till well along in the
summer, perhaps all the season, this
species is to be found in pairs. The fe-
male is the more heavily built of the
two, and generally about 6 inches
longer; the male being much trimmer
rfind seemingly more active, and aver- wreck, which was now quite under
of for years he was supposed to be dead.
“For love of me,” llarro's mother
begged, “don’t go!”
“Hut the man on the mast!”exclaimed
Harro. “Are you sure he has no
mother to mourn his death?”
llarro's mother said no more, and her
son and four other men set out for the
aging about GO inches in length. It is
very interesting to watch the move-
water. The waves were so furious
that it was difficult to approach. At
last the lifeboat reached it, and llarro
climbed the mast and fetched the half-
frozen man down. He was laid in the
bottom of the lifeboat, and Harro bent
over him and remained so until the
boat was so near shore that his voice
could be heard. Then he waved his
cap and shouted:
•‘Tell my mother we have saved Uwe
CRUSHED THE MASHER.
One of tho “New Women" Declined to He
l*ut In a False I’osltion.
The “New Woman” shows to the best
advantage when brought into contact
with a certain kind of man that has
cumbered the earth from the beginning,
without being materially affected by
| the moral advancement of his race.
One of this sort entered a Fifth avenue
stage in New York the other day, says
I Kate Field’s Washington, and seeing a
I tall, brilliant-looking girl seated in the
ments of a pair when out apparently on far corner, he took the vacant place
foraging expedition, or, perhaps, j next her, accosting her exactly as if lie
DAHIIINO OVER HUGE LOGS.
merely for pleasure. With heads from
0 to 1*2 inches from the ground, they
will go across a field or glade in lAi
open piece of woods in majestic style;
sometimes dropping down fiat to the
were an acquaintance. To his surprise
she answered politely, and for a couple
of blocks they affably discussed the
weather. Then she signaled the
driver to stop, and got out, followed
ground, and again turning their heads*' by the inwardly astonished masher
. i ___ .1. :/ :.. 1 *l.n.1 1 stnlxr fn hi< r<»r»ii 1 I
toward one another as if in consulta-
tion. They keep close together at this
time, and generally run neck and neck,
and about 5 feet apart. If a racer's
nest can be found, the snakes may be
seen in the vicinity for years. I recall
one such habitation in the hollow and
roots of a partially dead basswood
stump on the banks of a river. Each
season in May they could be found
there sunning themselves.
The idea generally prevails that a
racer can outrun a man, but this belief
is erroneous. A good runner, can easily
run two rods to the blue racer's one, on
good level ground. However, it is rare-
ly that they are found in these situa-
tions, for, as a rule, it is on low, half-
cleared, irregular ground that they are
seen, and to chase an adult in such
quarters requires some activity, as a
racer dashes through brusli and bogs
and over logs a foot and a half through
as if they were nothing. Nevertheless,
I have repeatedly captured them alive
on their “native heath," and they have
never escaped me unless there was a
neighboring stone or brusli pile handy
for them.
In the month of June, generally the
earlier half, the racer deposits its eggs,
which are all laid in one spot, as with
all the egg-laying snakes of ray ac-
quaintance. One Instance of late egg-
laying has led me to think that per-
haps a second set may be an occasional
condition.
Od«l Horne Ruco In Arizona.
A tourist tells of an odd horse race I
be saw in central Arizona. A straight j
mile wagon road served as a track, and j
four judges were stationed at inter- |
vals of a quarter of a mile to enforce |
fair play. There were but three start-
ers—a gaunt white horse, a wiry bron-
cho and a Kentucky bay. 1 he stakes
were put up—a dollar apiece—and n
start made. Betting favored the bay, ,
but ut tho half-mile post he stepped ]
into a sandliole, and its rider took a
header and was out of the race. At
the three-quarter post the broncho
stopped to buck, and the gaunt white
horse came under tin- wire an easy
winner. It happened, however, that
tho stakeholder hud bet on tho nay,
and, having paid his bet. had no stake
money to surrender, and the last seen
of him ho wa, Hying across the prairie,
pursued by th : irate winner
who had expected only to be repulsed
with the cold stare cultivated by the
average town-bred young woman for
use in such emergencies. When they
reached the curbstone she gave him a
second surprise.
**I have stopped on the beat of the
largest policeman on the avenue,” said
she, in a voice he would not have recog-
nized as that of his companion in the
’bus, “and if you are not a block away
“Apropos of the recent Atlantic tidal
wave,” said nn aneieut mariner to a Chi-
cago Tribune man the other day, “an
account of one nearer home might he
3f interest at this time. It isn’t neces-
sary to have an ocean of water to pro-
duce one of these waves by long odds.
Old Lake Michigan could get up a
prime article in that line and show Chi-
cago a few things heretofore unthought
af. All that would he necessary would
be an earthquako in the lake and then
there would be from six to ten feet of
water here in no time. The story that
I started to tell you has an earthquake
as the prime cause, a tidal wave as the
immediate effect, and a ruined town
as the result.
‘New Madrid, Mo., was destroyed by
the ‘great shake,* as it was called, in
the year 1811. The whole Mississippi
valley was affected. The center of vio-
lence was at Little Prairie, near New
Madrid. The vibrations were felt over
the Ohio valley ns high ns Pittsburgh.
New Madrid suffered more than any
other town on the Mississippi. At that
time Indians were dangerous and the
persons engaged in carrying produce in
boats to New Orleans kept in company
for mutual defense. In the middle of
December 10 there was a terrible shock
and jarring of the bouts so Chat tho
crews were all awakened and hurried
on dock, thinking of an Indian attack.
The noise and commotion were dread-
ful. hut soon stopped. In the morning
loud roaring and hissing were heard
and there was a tremendous boiling up
of the waters of the Mississippi in huge
swells, tossing the boats about so vio-
lently that the men were thrown about
on the decks. The water in the river
changed to a reddish hue, then became
black with mud thrown up from the
the bottom, while the surface, lashed
by the agitation of tho earth beneath,
was covered with foam, which, gath-
ering into masses the size of a barrel,
floated nlong the trembling surface.
“The eurth opened in wide fissures,
and closing again threw the water,
sand and mud in huge jets higher than
tho tops of the trees. The atmosphere
was filled with a thick vapor of gas.
At New Madrid several boats were car-
ried by the great waves up onto the
hank of the river just above the town,
and were left high and dry a consider-
able distance from the water. Many
boats were wrecked on the snags,
while others were sunk or stranded on
the sand bars and islands. The scenes
for several days during the repeated
shocks were horrible. The sulphurated
gases discharged tainted the air with
noxious effluvia, and so strongly im-
pregnated the water of the river for one
hundred and fifty miles below tliat it
could hardly ho used for any purpose
for many days.
New Madrid, which stood on a bluff
twenty feet above the summer floods,
sunk so low that the next rise covered
it to a depth of five feet. The bottoms of
several lakes in the vicinity were ele-
vated and have sinco been planted with
corn. People lived along the river in
those days more than in the country,
so the big water disturbance did proba-
bly more damage than the ‘shakes’
where there was no water. So you can
easily see how there can bo n tidal wave
without nn ocean and that wc may
have one of our own some day. When
it comes it should be a good one, so
those eastern people will he satisfied
we did not manufacture it to get even.”
For Many Year* a Ulirino Yialteil by Thou-
sands of Patriots.
The Lincoln homestead stands on the
northeast corner of Eighth amliJnek-
son streets in Springfield, III. Mr.
Lincoln bought it in 1S-HL It was then
a etory and a half house but subse-
quently raised to two stories. It is a
plain frame structure and contains
twelve rooms. Mr. Lincoln lived there
fifteen years; in fact, until he departed
ri:9
Modern Hunter and Hi3 Do-
structivo Mothod3.
: intend of Firearm*. 11® I’nvn Ax, Saw
u:ul Itulldog mill Hut Few of I ho
l.lttle Tree nimher* Ls«
filin' Ulu>.
The old-time squirrel hunter is
for Washington on the 12th of Febru- pictured as tall and stalwart, decked
ary, 1801, to take the presidential chair. |jn the garments of the wildwood, whose
A family by the name of Tilton occu- j ?Very feature displays honor and oour-
pied the house during the war, and in He has come out to get a dinner,
those four years sixty-five thousand ph ks a target on a far-away tree,
people called to see the home of the jje matches his skill against the dis-
president. For eighteen years after (ancc. mul wins. With the flash of the
the war closed tho house passed through j long rifle the nearer squirrels hide
different hands and it was closed to the i nVay, anu a moment aitorwnm imrit
public. For a long time it was unoc- 1 lustily at the retreat of the intruder,
eupied. In November, 1888, ( apt. O. j Daniel Hoonc or Davy Crockett might
11. Oldroyd rented the house ami threw . uie model for such a picture. The
Itsdoorsopen to visitors. In 18S7 Rob- ; acu. squirrel hunter is a very different
ert Lincoln deeded the house to the* [ n>rson. His methods are like those of
and a moment afterward hark
state. Capt. Oldroyd was the custodian
for a long time, hut was removed by
the democratic administration, his suc-
cessor being Herman Iloffcrkamp.
(’apt. Oldsoyd is now the custodian of
the house in which Mr. Lincoln died in
Washington and has taken with him
the grandest collection of • Lincoln
relics *u the world. Oldsoyd spent a
lifetime getting these mementos to-
gether. The state could well afford to
have bought tho collection and set
apart a fund for its preservation.
ThcSiousc, says tho Chicago Tribune,
is open to the public now aud is vir-
tually just as Mr. Lincoln left it. Some
repapering and repairing has been done,
hut the proportions in the house are in
no way changed. A year or so ago tho
state officials had the house photo-
graphed and had accurate measure-
ments made of the edifice that it might
be rebuilt in case of lire.
Hundreds of thousands of people have
visited this house, men and women
representing every civilized nation of
the earth, and some of the barbarous
ones, too, for that matter. Some years
ago John Philip Sousa, then the lender
of the Marine hand, gave u matinee in
Springfield. At the conclusion of tho
performance he took his hand, sixty-
live pieces in all, over to the Lincoln
mansion. After appropriate music every
member of this famous body of mu-
sicians made his signature on the reg-
ister book. The occasion attracted an
immense crowd, and numerous and
prominent speeches were made by citi-
zens of note. Sousa held a special
train two hours to accomplish this, he
and his men regarding it a slight testi-
monial of the respect in which they
held Mr. Lincoln’s memory.
LO AS A LABORER.
:ho drag-net fisherman that sweeps
from shore to shore, leaving no way of
‘scape. His work, if unchecked, moans
‘xtermination. ;
The new hunter, says the New York
Star, has nothing to recommend him to
he public except possibly his courage.
Fear seems to he unknown to him. His
•quipment might not suggest peril. It
•onsists of a gun, an ax, a saw, climb-
ing spurs, rope, a stringing belt, and a
bulldog. With the first snow of winter
lie begins his work work, because it
is a vocation, and not a recreation or
dessure. After the first, night the
'RICHEST MAid ,N THE WORLD.
j Film DcnililoiT, u !tu**liiii U hone tVrnltli
Is of Koot'iit Creation.
I Like the English millionaires, those
j >f the czar’s dominions mostly derive
their revenues from landed property.
While the Briton, however, devotes a
large part of his gross income toward
improving his possessions and to the
amelioration of tho lot of his tenants in
one way or another, tho Russian, on
the other hand, extracts every farthing
that ho can from his property and
spends it upon himself, the result being
that agriculture in Russia is going
from had to worse, that formerly fer-
tile and productive estates have now
become lyirren and impoverished, and
that, while the peasantry are in a state
of misery bordering on famine, tho
nobles themselves have been obliged to
mortgage or sell their lands, and are at
tho end of their financial tether. Of
•oarse, there are some exceptions, such
is, for instance, the Yousoupoffs, tho
Demidoffs and the Sehereineticffs. Tho
wealth of the Demidoffs is so vast, ac-
cording to the New York Tribune, that
it is beyond calculation, and strangely
enough the fortune is of relatively re-
sent creation, its founder having been
% country blacksmith in the days of Re-
iter tho Great. It was while traveling
! in the Ural mountains that the latter
i broke one of his most valuable English
pistols. A village smith mended It so
' illicitly and so well that the czar was
: lclightod and asked the man's name.
“Domidoff, 1 shall remember you,” said
I lie as he rode off. The poor man was
I beginning to think that l’etcr had for-
gotten him when there came an official
snow through the forest is lined with a j gotten him when there came an omen,
network of tracks that lead from many I loeument adorned with the Imperial
pmrters to some mammoth tree. There
seal, granting him the freehold of
great tract of crown land in the neigh-
borhood of the village. Domidoff went
to work on his now property and found
there inexhaustible mines of iron, sil-
eer and malachite. Young Ellm Dein-
idoff—ho does not bear in Russia the
Italian title of prince generally pre-
fixed to his name by foreigners—Is at
the present moment the richest man in
the world, Princess You sou puff, with
!ier great turquoise mines, coming next
in rank. Fortunately, both of them
ire moro free-lianded and generous
than their respective immediate pred-
ecessors as head of the family, the late
Anatole Domidoff and the late Prince
POURED OIL ON THE WINE.
HUE GAVE HIM A SECOND 8UUPKI8K.
within five minutes I will have you ar-
rested. I spoke to you because 1 knew
three women on the opposite side of
that stag**, and I wasn’t going to have it
get around that I had been spoken to
by a man 1 didn’t know.”
A glance convinced him that infirmity
of purpose was not among her failings,
and the big officer was coming nearer
every moment, so the offender stam-
mered something meant for an apology
and started down the street with an air
of a man v.ho has just remembered a
very important engagement.
I’umj'ii I.one Illtlo In » Flywheel.
A eat was chased into the flywheel of
a Iloston engine room, tho other morn-
ing, and while there the power was
put on and the cat was carried round
with the wheel for five hours, traveling
one hundred and fifty-four miles. When
tho wheel was stopped the cut came
back apparently unharmed, though
covered with grease and dirt. The an-
imal lmd clung to a projection on tho
inside of the wheel, which saved her
from being thrown out.
How Kina Kalakaua Preventod PoJt-
Prnndlal Internal Disturbance*.
The abdication of Queen Liluokalani
recalls an incident in which her pred-
ecessor, King Kalakaua. figured when
ha visited this country eleven or twelve
years ago. The Rambler, says the New
York Commercial Advertiser, does not
recall the exact date, but remembers
that he met the distinguished monarch
in Philadelphia ut the Continental ho-
tel. Kalakaua was fond of the good
things of life, including all sorts and
descriptions of liquid refreshments. It
was his proud boast that he always
drank “like a gentleman,” which, ac-
cording to his interpretation, was the
power to consume vast quantities of
champagne without affecting his men-
tal powers or his equilibrium. And he
could do it; and so could his private
secretary. They were in Philadelphia
for a oouplc of weeks, and in that time
were wined und dined lavishly by the
best people in town. The king became
a sort of gastronomic mentor for young
blades who wanted to emulate him,
and they thought they had learned
something wonderful when his majesty
confided to them the secret of his abil-
ity to dine well and show no after ill
effects. He drank a teaspoonful of
olive oil after each bottle of fizz. This,
ho explained, caused the surface of the
wine to remain covered while in tho
stomach aud prevented the fumes of
carbonic acid gas from going to tho
brain.
Kalakaua wan regarded with cx
traordinary favor by the bon vivnnts of
the day, and would probably have
maintained his reputation as a gentle-
manly diner if it had not been for nn
unlooked-for happening.
II®r I'ndcntandlnft of It.
A woman living In one of tho fashion-
able avenues had a bit of statuary hear-
ing tho inscription: “Kismet.” The
housemaid was dusting tho room one
day when tho mistress appeared.
“Shure, mam, what’s the mailin’ of the
*ritin* on the bottom of this?** asked tho
maid, referring to the inscription on
the statuary. “ ‘Kismet’ means ‘Fat©,’ ”
replied tho mistress. Bridget was
limping painfully when she was walk-
ing with Pat not long afterward, nnd
ho asked: “Phwat’a tho matter, Brid-
get ?** “Faith,” was her answer, “I
have th© most terrible pains on me Ues-
met!”
An Officer of Thirty Years' Frontier Ex-
perience Gives Ills Views.
A man who has been on the frontier
for thirty years and has put in a big
part of that time fighting Indians, is
Capt. P. II. Ray, of the regular army,
now in charge of the Shoshone and
Arapahoe agency in Wyoming, (’apt.
Ray has practical views touching the
Indian problem, based on his long con-
tact with tho red man. He believes that
the Indian can he made a self-support-
ing and useful citizen, and all that is
needed is to furnish him a sufficient in-
centive to work for a living, the same us
his pale-face brother.
“During the war just ended,” said ho
to a writer for the Washington Post, “I
had tho Indians at work on a big irri-
gating canal, of which seven miles have
been completed. They made as good
laborers as I ever saw and worked
cheerfully for one dollar per day. In
addition to that they raised enough grain
for tho reservation and to supply the
neighboring military post, having a
surplus besides to sell. They hauled
every pound of freight from the railway
terminus to the agency, a distance of
one hundred nnd fifty miles. The men
who have been living off the Indians by
supplying all their needs for the past
quarter of a century hate to see them
beginning to get on a self-supporting
basis, for then there will he no moro
money to he made out of them. For
that reason every obstacle is thrown in
the way and all sorts of misrepresenta-
tions iWade by these parties, who dread
to soft their occupation gone. During
all my experience in the west I have
never known an administration that has
dealt with the Indians in as clean nnd
conscientious a way as the present. The
secretary of the interior has, without
any partisan hius, done in every in-
stance his best to promote the interests
of the tribes and the government, and,
from my own observation, I think that
he has thus far been very successful.”
l ive Million* for a Husband.
When Lady Margaret Grosveno.-,
third surviving daughter of the duke of
Westminster, gave her hand to Prince
Adolphus of Took, the other day, says
the Philadelphia Times, her father gave
with it a marriage portion of live mil-
lion dollars. The bride, the daughter of
probably the richest man in the world,
is rather a good-looking girl whose per- I
sonality, to say nothing of such a fabu- I
lous dot, would seem to entitle her to I
something better in the way of a bus- |
band than the impecunious young lan-
cer whose name she now bears. The
prince is an officer in the seventeenth |
lancers, tho full uniform of which regi-
ment he wore when married. The
wedding presents numbered about five
hundred, and included enough jewelry
to start a store. The newly wedded
pair will in future be known as “their
serene highnesses the prince and prin-
cess of Took.”
II® Understood Womankind.
It Is related by Tlt-Ilits that a cer-
tain man was recently very sad because
his wife had gone on a visit, which sin
would not shorten in spite of his ap-
peals to come home. Ho iluully hit
upon ft plan to Induce her to roturp.
lie sent her a copy of each of the local
papers with one item clipped out, and
when she wrote to find out what it was
ho had clipped from the paper® he re-
fused to tell her. Tho scheme worked
admirably. In less than a week she
was homo to find out what it was
that had been going on that her hus-
band did not want her to know about.
nay be a dozen trails all centering m
his point, some from the distant corn
iclds, und others from near-by logs,
where a supply of nuts was garnered
Cor winter. Probably with the pot-
lunter’s coming a red fox squirrel,
.mldor than the rest, barks from the
ipper houghs at the intruder, and
ashes its long fiery tail through the
sunlight. Its position would delight u
sportsman, for it would afford u superb
{hot, but the pot-hunter has no senti-
nent. There is no quickening of his
pulse as he unslings his gun, for it is
not to be used, but is piled with the
ither accoutrements at the foot of the
riant tree while lie enquires fertile Youwmpoff having been nlilie renowned
mining slaughter. &»• ll“'ir meanness in .1 avarice, of
The climbing spurs are already 'vhlcli almost Incredible stories are re-
buelded to his hoots. The ax and saw [ lated. ___.
ire slung to his belt, and with extend-
'd arms he measures the tree; then, set-
ting his iron heels into the bark, the
iscent begins. With each reach of liis
ong arms he leaves the younger forest
below. The line of the pawpaw tops is
uissed, the silver birch is distanced in
die upward reach, and at last the
•limber comes out into the open sky.
Long before the hunter lius reached
half the height the fox squirrel,
Harmed, has hurried to his nest. The
climber reaches the point where the
squirrel disappears and finds the en-
trance to the nest a hollow knot which
bad been enlarged by the sharp teeth of
the little fellows. The hunter now
knots the rope about the tree and un-
der his arm. Then, imbedding his iron
heels deep in the hark, he hangs out
from the tree at an angle of forty-Av«
degrees. It is
bis safety lies in his ability to keep hi
muscles rigid and the iron spurs buried
deep in the tree. Should the spurs slip
jr the muscles relax the death of the
)ot-hunter would he assured. Afttv
ittaining this position he removes his
mw from his belt und makes u deep cut
just below tho entrance to the squirrel
den; the black dust telling him when
he has cut deep enough. Then the saw
is dropped to the ground, and its crash
awakens the bulldog to the fact that
his part of the programme is about to
begin. Be.’oro this he has sat motion-
less. Now his dull eyes flash. He
takes up a position at the foot of the
tree, his short neck bent backward as
lie looks steadily upward awaiting de-
velopments.
The climber begins splitting out the
block with the ax. There is a rain of
chips, and ut last the ax penetrates the
interior and the slab is pried open.
Already the squirrels have been plan-
ning to escape, and as the light enters
their home one of them springs out of
the knot hole. The others would have
followed, but the climber sets the steel
blade of his ax across the opening, and
the slab springs hack to its place, barr-
ing further escape. The squirrel that
jumped from the tree strikes the snowy
ground and endeavors to escape the
rush of the bulldog. A quick spring to
a neighboring tree would save it, hut it
does not recover from the shock of the
fall quickly enough.
The sharp fangs of the dog are set in
its hack. There is a cry of pain, min-
gled with the crack of bones, and a
vigorous and prolonged shake of the
dog’s head ends the squirrel’s life.
Then the climber releases another vie
tim, and in this way the slaughter con
tinues until half a dozen dead squirrel?
are scattered In the snow.
The profits of his calling net the bun
ter only a scanty living, because the
law prohibits the general sale of squir
rels. The pot-hunter has been defended
by many who believe that no other call-
ing is open to him, hut this excuse has
little merit. A climber of such daring
could easily earn frouf two dollars to
three dollars a day as a telegraph line-
man, and not work half so hard or so
long.___
Tho Ocean*® Suit.
The Pythagoreans held that the sea
was salt by reason of the tears shed by
Kround, father of Zeus. According to
the old Hebraic tradition the ocean
was originally a great body of fresh
.t. i but which was made salt by the
'Uiu nit tears of the fallen angels.
I sect of Buddhists believe that Lot's
■(that is to say tho “pillar of salt"
. •), V as once the wife of the humble
;U in named above) lies ut tho
i - i.i if the ocean inn certain nar-
i . ,i , and that once each year the
\ - of all oceans flow through that
II . channel. The Talmudic writers
It was never salt until Moses
ntance after breaking the ta-
THE DREAM OF CHEMISTRY.
Hope* In Time to Produce Palatable Hccf-
Ktcnks Out of tho Elements.
The electrician has one dream and
the social philosopher has uuothcr.
But the chemist has also a vision of the
alchemist of the dark ages. This is
how he would solve the problems of
comfort and happiness which have been
put to tho human race:
“The chemist hopes for a synthetic
beefsteak, for a chemical loaf, for a
2up of coffee made, like his sodawater
extracts, out of inorganic matter. IIo
wants to see the day when a synthetic
climate sliall envelop tho earth, when
tho rainmaker shall boa prophet and
man shall hold the string to tho unruly
hags of Aeolus.
“In that day the fcxxl and raiment of
dangerous position; j mankind will be produced in the
•rucibles of the chemist. Onco moro
verdure will clotho the fields now de-
faced by human toil, und the shaggy
woods will spring anew on the de-
spoiled slopes of tho hills. There will
he no tilling or harvest, no slaughter-
ing of tamo beasts. Out of the original
elements chemistry will compound
chops and cutlets, knead the dough
and brew ale.
“The battle has already been partly
won in the ease of medicines and drugs.
The wine at the table d’hote never saw
the vineyard. The ‘prize fruit flowers'
of the drug store are innocent of tho
orchard and garden. Synthetic chem-
istry is yet young. It has made great
advances in the production of glycerine
and sugar. It lias four thousand devo-
tees in this country who hope to make
the dream a reality.”
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Wl
ble
LOTTERY HATED HIS JOCKEY.
Strang® Antipathy of tho Oltl-Tlui®
NtoppluchiiNrr Tor Jem Mason.
• The following story is told in tho
London Field of the famous old liuglisli
steeplechaser Lottery, foaled in 1830,
winner of the Grand National in 1839,
carrying one hundred and sixty-eight
pounds: Lottery und Jem Mason made
up a combination which delighted tho
eyes of every horseman whose good
fortune it was to seethe pair across a
big country together. Yet, strange to
say, Lottery had the greatest antipathy
to the man who rode him in nearly all
his races and who certainly cannot bo
accused of any cruelty toward him, for
Jem Mason was by no means one of
the whip and spur school, lie had fine
hands, and believed in them, as he was
entitled to do. Still he was hated by
Lottery, and when the old horse was
about twenty years old and was located
at Mr. Hall's at Neasden Jem .Mason
chanced to go down, nnd naturally
enough asked to be allowed to have a
look at the old chaser. Just before the
doors of the box were opened Lottery
heard his jockey's voice and gavo him
one of Ills old greetings—that Is to say,
he flew at him: but Jem, being not un-
prepared for a reception of this kind,
was soon out of harm's way. During
Lottery’s steepleebasing career Jem
Mnson often lmd to hide ids colors
when ho went to mount the horse, but,
when the rider was onco seated and the
horse cantered to the post, the two were
apparently on the most friendly terms.
An Inxt*nlon® Widower.
A practical man lately became a wid-
ower. He was devoted, In Ills own self-
ish way, to his wife, so that her friend."
were surprised when they heard that
he lmd sold all her wedding gifts—prin-
cipally silver—without delay. Ills in-
genious excuse was this: “I needed a
good watch, as she well know. The
presents were of no use to mo, anil 1
thought that, if I sold them and used
the proceeds to get a watch, it would
he like having it come from her." Cer-
tainly a curious way of gutting around
the facts.
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