Perry Enterprise-Times. (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 132, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 6, 1896 Page: 4 of 4
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blrtlEli jlibSiUHl'KlIN he* w?st 'kaen'mi"HvInJ*halallnltalj
NORWAY'S SEABOARO AMD IT8
MANY ATTRACTIONS.
Pu(>wl an(l It e, oarers of t far Distant
Country Wlil«h llu IJttle lleshle. Its
r*opl« end Heenerjr-Uriuiil f ln"
Mid Glorious
,FS
I mi
II he cannot get his mo ley out ol th*
land, th .t i- hi' misfortune. The* lav
eminent of Norway is .ust ati hard
hearted in inch matters a-any SUM
in- municipal government in the I nited
States, an I just an pi urn t at enforcing
collections.
in ono way or anothor the govern-
ment of Norway jianages to squeeze
out of the jieoplo $1...' 01,0 o e\ ery yeal
in taxes, and. as may lie naturally sup*
.red in a country so pu >r, the inhao
hunt. are kept busy in tho effort t<
make a living ami pay their taxes. Uut
An Iron Co*wifc I thoy manajjo to lo loth, though it
Tho climate of all \Vo* torn Europe, i munt imj «'oij!ohh m1 that, t • prop o who
so far a> the influence of the sea ex- jlvo out-lde of Norway, their efforts in
lands miami, is so tempered by tho the former direction do not si em to i*
b*imv waters of tho (.ult Stream dur- a brilliant succi hs. i ui no o: o ought
inir both winter and summer that tho to starve with oat4 ii'id liarlov. wi n
population do not seem tu bo in special „ggs and butter and fowls a d milk
need of ffoinjr elsewhere to osca o and reindeer meat in conjnaiatlvo
either the heat or tho cold. In Kng- abundance, and ho the hardy sVer-
land, wl en the summer t -m oral ire I weglans livo, though it cannot ho -aid
vtna above elehtv degree, the h> at that they get fat
1, considered o pre.-sivo; in winter I The contrary, however, may soon t>e
when the t crmometer sinks below the ca o, for thousands of tourists now
twenty degreos the colli is regarded Cr .wd the coast towns of Norway, and
as exceptional. Hut like tho in- ti e 1 otel keepers 'id other clussei
habitants of other regions favor, d in tliu I vo oi tho traveling I"'1'1'"
the matter of climiite. t e p ople take rapidly learn n _ how'tha t publli.may
advantage of the lirst warm wave or be ! ■ o •cd out of I - la ' ' "I• tt'"'11 r"
tho advent ot frost to rush off to acdiurin..' a dexterit.. that will soon
totalities where the climate conditions 1 phico them, in t o traveling mind,
are more la'.orable to comlort. In piano of rospect similar to that oeeu-
wlntor the I Iviera, Italy, (iree o itnd plo.l by tho innke |e s of Jswlt/.eiland.
North Africa are orowded with | Franco, and tho t urUt pnrt_of the
till more than onco tieon covered with
the sails of the Norsemen, whose
dread fame a thousand \oara ago
spread • i 'ar and wide that even in
thu south of France the monks to their
dally prayera aildod t e petition:
A tuiorj Norman oruin LUeru nos, O
Djinlpe.
So nobody tries to a cend th" i eaks,
and, indued, not a few ar.j inaccfssl-
for Norway su cr is so short
that onlv the ml kc t i.rowln.' and
hurdle-,t grains, such as osis or bar ey,
have a chance to in.itu n t t all. I ut
oat cake and barley brent are good
enough for the man V, ho has never
I known anything better, aoi the Nor-
i way peasant has few dainties while
his stylo of living Is on a par with hU
plainness of dial. His house is never
Ayr'^Hl
A A IE* INI). A FIBIII NO TOWN
LAI LAND WOMAN MILKINi
refugees from tho cold of Russia <lor
mS'iv, France and <iivat Britain, while . ^ .
in summer, t ave1 turns a/ain to the by hotel keo
north, and thus the ebb and tlowot the j ers, ami nth
human tide continues as regularly as the c ns. lem
the migration of tho birds
Tho nearness of tho Norway coast
to Great Britain, and the convenience
U
With which It may t>e oah'd
any" part of Western lairop.
during recent years, made it un ex-
ceedingly P pular resort among tour-
ists. steam hip line- have I •■■lies
tal'lished along the eea-t to eurrv the
touri-ts ft em place to placa like
tnagic. bote s have sprung up at every
point whore the lens
|BNd to tha tourists'. -
al curiosities. In | holographs, books ol
descrlpt on-, and t' o thousand and one
articles of which h ■ traveling public
■lands oonsvaut.\ In need, do a thriv-
ing business, and all Norway is ren-
dered richer tiv the sum cr travel.
It ha- need of something to enrich
Its population for, with the exception
of Swlt erland. there a'-e few cuntrio.
on the glolie that liu\e fewer ri s tiroes j
of v 'altli than the narrow strip of
Coast, which i us to ha -e is'en cre-
ated ii i' ly for tho making
Hwedeti un inland coimtrv. Hut Norwa
is bv AO BMU se - all a* It looks, j
(ivcr 1,001 m h s from north to south
nearly 11 SI in 1 le- f r. 'in ea-t to west ill
double tho -!/•• of Ml-s, u,-i. containing
more than I o.o .. , , aie inllenif terr •
lory, lnth' iase f • cuntr.t «h c'i 1
In one fo irth ntnlfl It aa I dow i a
fourth iu"ie too 'o. p to c Imb. ail
most of the rn'niiliilnjt half ton rock
to cultivate, sii|>ei tie at ar a co nt« for
llttlo. lor, as wa-« once said in the ease
of the bla k ao, bin I of a Western
llh inc. If ma.'nlficcnco of - en ery
were anv u-titicaluni for roliliory
vaiters, hack uriv
of that per-uasl'in,
el tho orwegiun-
night never to give them a moment's
di-quietnde f. r In no ] artof tho world
save the norl.li coast i : l.ako .-uperior
is there a irrandi r spectacle than ii
almost ury inle' on the \oruav so'i-
line. Some one hu- -niil all Norway I
but on" gi-and niouutHin after another,
and to this statene lit any one wli<
i sails along tho coast i '< reed t . givn
in his iidhesion. It may also lie ro«
marko I that the senlwiard is really only
one inlet after another, fi r so numer-
ous arc tho island ■ al n : tie e a t that
it is nos-il) o in places to sad h r many
I miles in tho narrow i :e-sa es l otweon
[ Islands and the main laud and rarely
| catch more than a plim -c of the sob
l without
The i-lands ire worthv of the inline.
Iliitfe masses of rock rise from the sea,
often 11.00 i or ',n i feet in iierpe ilio-
ular height; their -uiimiits have never
lioen trodden In tho foot of man, \c
attempt I- over n ade to a-eolid them,
f. r the dittlcult and dan erom task
would Ik) utterly fruit "ss of re-
sult l-'roni some of the Alpinj
Iieaks ti e prospect, [or variety and
| lieauty, is un-urpas od. l or a bun-
from dred mil s there U an alternation ol
hie, having not even a landing place
for the smallest boat. Hising iiorpon-
dicularly from the water, their liases
have I een tunnel a by tho bu y waves
heating against them lor lhousai.il of
years: tho billowt rush into tho cav-
orns with a sound like a boom of than
iler, rush out again liko a pent up
Hood, un I with a force that no boat
onuld withstand, so that, sometimes
tor mile-, no spot) ■ an bo found whore
even tho nimblest sailor could leap in
William Tell fashion from the boat to
the shore. Hut tho mighty cliffs and
cone shaped rocks that rear their
heads among the clouds are not loft lu
solitude, even though their tops have
novor been tro doll by the footol man.
.Niilliois of wild fowl if ovo y kind
have their nests among the crass, and
tl\ to and fro in midair, suspended far
above tho ranto of tho .sportsman s
shot. Ordinarily, almo-t unseen, save
for one sailluir o it or la/ily rotur inu,
fish laden, to its nest, no idea
can 1 e (orniod of th dr numbers 'Iho
dischurgo of a gun briii:s them out by
♦housanils: iho air is darkenea wlih
their numliers: tlio ear is offended t y
tli ir noisy remonstrancos against the
invasion "of th ir solit nlo . When
winter approa hes thoy gather and
leave f' r the south in vast flocks,
l-'.very peasant in Central ani sV.-stern
Kurope is familia ■ with tho_ right and
sound of those aerial armies'i a-siug far
above his head, and lias learned y
their movement- to judge of the near
approach of cold or warm weat er.
They a:o true tourists. All day long,
with noisy clamor, they travel at
iiiL'ht, well awaro of the danger, they
descend in lerfoe: stillness, feed and
ro-t. A | asser-by might walk within
fifty feet of a thou-an I of them and
not hear a single sound. They are not
bothered with waiting for train, or
making connecti ns, or p tying hotels
or tipping tho la/v walters who do
m ie waiting ir. the k t hen t ian at
tho table, l-'or thousand of ml ns they
travel, and the birds that s| end the
summer among the barren ro-ks of
Norway pa-s tho winter aim n^j the
wild ri« o marshes of Central Africa.
Tho Norwegians the.\ have left be-
hind would be glad t( wit h them,
for Norway is not over cheerful even
when summer is at it-i height, and the
nin wheels round tho horizon instead
of sinking below, but in win op tho
l uxurious, but one thing must be -aid
in it- favor, it i- alw-its comfortable,
oven in the coldest weather It is of*
ten shared bv his poats and reindeer,
and as eeokinj?, eatiiii? and steeping
are all dene in tho same room, tho at-
mosphere is often of o erp .worlng
thickness; but to a Norwegian oxygen
doos n' t appear to be a necessity, hd
lives and thri.es in air that can al-
most bo cut into layers
Ordinarily regardless o personal ap
pea'ance, there is < 11 • occasion when
ever; inhabitant of Norway must look
tine, and that i on the we (jinur day.
Kven then, however, the distinction
between tho rich and tho poor is very
trilling, for in ev«'ry church in tivj
kin ?d< m there are k"i t a set < t wed-
ding ie alia and a uilvor yilt crown,
V . ,^-
' i
■ JL «•" .- \
ol ntiiy < huhcil
I and by paying a small si ra the poorest
I bride can,' for a day, look as porgeout
as a «,ueen. Many of these wedding
I crowns are • «) or T ' yours old. and
I w i re worn by Nor o b ides at a time
when the memo; ie of tho vifvini^ in-
vasions were still Ir 'sh al« ng the < er-
man Ocean, and there is theref; re aa
! odor of Banet ty about the-«* articles or
personal ado nment which render®
their presence a most as uece-sary at
i a wedding as that of the Die che \ !•
; the rural dlstrljta ol this peo ilw
i countrv there still lin or the t a ii*
tions and legends which are found
anion.' tho coma o.i | eople of cyery
counirv in l uro: e nor. any more thai
' the ti reeks or Italian-, hao they for-
l„, 2,ooo ml Th m In •■<•••• Tsrrltorr
Urcw •am,0 0 Uil Year.
It in a fact prohibit unknown to a
na orlty of people that there are
more than imo pensioner* of the
civil war In Indian Te rit ry, **•
elusive of Oklahoma, and that the
amount paid theiu last year was
IllhJ.OOO, the sum contributed to
residents of Ok ahoiu In tli* w1"0
year being IU23.000.
At the beginning of the civil war,
says the Hocky Mountain News it
sceuis to have been the opinion ol
many persons that on account of the
generally warlike character of Amor-
lean Indiats they were well i|ualtil«l
to lake an active part In th« contest*
In May, 1881, the Confederate Con-
gress adrited a resolution including
the wholo of the present Indian ier-
ritory and Oklahoma, too, with the
Confederacy, and, eg|)ecially among
the cherokee®, there we e many re-
cruits from the Indian tribes to ttie
Southern army, but they maintained
an independent organl ation and cut
actually very little tlgure in the lluht.
The War Department, at the begin-
ning of the war, appeared to attach
great importance to th ■ Indians as
auxiliaries of the union forces, and
considerable eltort was giicn to as-
sist in their organization, but with-
out very mu h success.
Tho tnta number of Indians en-
listed on the Northern side between
the years 1 w«l and 1-85 was ••', 5'i0,
but a considerably larger number
served on the other side and o.Tset
the elTo.ts of those who wore union-
ists or, rather, who attached them-
selves to the union side, for the is-
sues involved in the war of the re-
l ellion were at no time very clearly
understood b the Indians, and some
instances are well authenticated in
which Indian troops fought during
the war on both sides, alternately.
It. seems strange in this day that
capable military leaders, skilled in
the s ience of war and familUr with
the geographical position of the bor-
der states In which the battle was to
be begun, if not, decided, should have
fallen Into the error of suuposlng
that in a country capable of furnish-
ing more than I'.ooo.uoo iouii* ents
a handful of semi-savage alxirlgines,
practically restricted to the plains of
the West, could be a formidable fac
tor In a conflict so extensive, but the
fact must be recalled that the only
nil itary traditions which were pos-
sessed in many States and Territories
teyoml the Mississippi related to pre-
vious conflicts with Indian* They
were the only hostile force which the
local militia, where there was any,
hai known, and the part which thev
wrTe 1 opuiarl \ supposed to have taken
in tho revolutionary war seemed
to qualify them lor actise service
in withstanding the movements of
Southern tro ps in the Southwest.
1 The pre-ent population of Indian
1 Territory, since the establishment of
Oklahoma in 1890, is less thin lio,
000. _____
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Am K.< .p.d "!'• « •* ••
mat Back to a«U id u*or(la. -
havi
mountain and vullev, w lu far away
in the dim southern distan.
tho sunny plains of Italy, dotted witu
tho ilot'es and steep e- of cities,
specked « .til the whit ■ marble vtl al
of tho nobility an I g ntry. A score ol
cities, evorv one famous lu stor,\ anu
,." '.I . 1. ,i sine' a e visible at a single glance
i„„H,ur^ «ni"ol oleiutv ol tho natural (eat
. lij?:' i ^ s •<«?
:
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A KlslllSli ST A I'lN
JOHN BULL IN AFRICA.
On May 18, 1873. M^r0°
a colored convict, wade a daring: *
cane from the I'ulton County cdiln
gang, says the Atlantic Constitution,
llccentl), after twenty-one years ol
uninterrupted freedom, he was cap-
tured and carried back tcit he con
vict caftip lu shacklea Twenty-ono
years ago, when he made his escape,
he was young, strong, and robust
strong enough to overpower two
guards and gi c the bloodhounds a
futile chase for many miles. Ha
was carried back old and decrepit
almost too weak to stand up under
the weight of his shackles. In I8..1
Marshall was given a sentence In tne
county chain gang, when, on ac.
count of good 1 ouduct, tho foreman
made him a trusty, one mo.ning,
while the rest of the cointcts were
at breakfast, Marshall made a wild
break for liberty. Two guards seized
him, but lie pushed them easily aside
and made for the woods. Several
shots were vainly II cd at the fleeing
man. Then the dogs were put on
his track and gave him a good race.
Hut tho negro reached the river in
good time to swim across and escape.
Tha chase was given up and the
guards returned to cam p. \cars
passed, other convicts camo and
went, Marshall was lost sight of and
bis escape had passed from memory.
()n Saturday a negro visited tho
convict camps and volunteered tin
information that he knew tho
whereabouts 01 an cscaiie. He waa
questioned closely con orning tba
man whom he said had escaped, and
as to how he lea nedttie lact. He said
that the mini was named Monrc#
Ma shall and lived on Decatur street.
Some tim • ago lie had told several
other negroes how he escaped Ir un
the chain gang twenty-one years ago.
llis sense of security caused him to
tell all ab dt his IllKhL Tho negro
making the leprot said that he was
one of the men who heard Marshall s
tale. None of the offlcers al the
camp knew of the escape and were
not inclined to believe the fellow.
I ut the books for the year H7:i were
examined, and tlie name of Monroe
Marshall was recorded there as hav.
lug escaped end never recaptured.
The other morning one of gauil
guards came into tlanta. Marshall
was pointed out to him and the ar-
rest was made. At lirst the man
denied that tie was ever In the chain
gang and insiste 1 that he had always
lived in Kulton County. But the
guard was inexorable, and the ex-
convict acknowledged that many
years ago he had c-caped. lhen he
gave a lull account ot his struggle
with the guar.is and his run from
the dogs. He left lieorgia the yeai
of his escape, and made his way tu
Texas, where he reJiulned for ten
years, coming back to Atlanta after
that time. The negro who repoited
linn, he says, did it to satisfy an old
grudge. Marshall was carried oul
yesterday and once 11101 e put in
stripes.
v i.ltKl ,M.KS
\ II I 4 I
IIres <if limn, Ik* c nety that ere.
1,ted II fill 01 of" .• th I UISIII le n point-
mi out by llu 11 bu ti Ills du-ky win*,
r el's fn m lie; on I Iho sea mid later
drove ,Vi| olv II - ' Idler- wild, nmply
repays tlm f tin 1 urnl lah.ir of the <•
TOM
m AN"I"^ or A I,At l.lftll I A M M V
Mat*. <*•
kuerur h le
ITT Ire# I
Mm m
Uii«ml#
■ ttH
of* e -
I I itntjr
I nf |l n met) own. i|i*
• this l girnn-l lite 4
rn- of Norway Me v
h ■ «ooh wheft it I" ie
A ef,l P#ti (ft,Wh-
ether, Mint he 9
« ,T 1 |N«,r the lend
II in'i t l#l hi '(Me
■ 1.0 i nd It he en
00 tit, !
Hltn eli
eft -f tti
eli. he 1
■mB
to the
lilMe
| ek.
1 .iieh e ttipetisetlotl «* U
elltnh. e peen ih Norwn,. lof
„«, i,1, if it een tie n de et
■ - 1 • the n r'h end eout
itus ,
Ail*
1 of JflffMit* ....
1ml !•*■ 'h. o,,e i« eiMh |«-teii
ties ilatlon beoome tenfold mere «i>
parent. Bill the iimi cd resource, of
the Inhabitants are t;i e l t« the u'-
in«mt to tf *t through th«'*ea"on. More
tliaii one Arctic poierhai trlvun a
graphic pic ur ■ of the Ih r: t>r^ ef a
w liter in the fro eli n rtli but to iho
Nors men ov< ry winter I an Arctic
wintii -. and tho veiilenc • and
mn'oring of which Hie e loi er. ,0111 I
plain SO h tteru Hi'o by him l«> no as a j
matter of c .11 s" T linn a tem|K ra 1
lure of |o I .dow /eio
.liNis not M-elll e eessl\ 111\ cold, for he
I. prepiired for It. Well | rotee ,*d
wit le ut b\ a ill e ■ ■ of fur from lioad to
fn .t. Wl ll i rutide * I'liin «lljj an
ublin lull' sue; ly of lisli and oily oo.l
nys'ein d'-lies 1 ho cold, un 1 w tlimit
In nr. h . ndi.T" a leMpertttU e tli t
would i eedllj pro o lela' to tho In-
habitant* 11I 11 warmer ,0110.
\\ hnther It Is thai only the -irong
r-in I've In neh a clin ar . or whether
ill. cllmat" inek' • all « o live In It
■ t ring, I a.|lietlon t lint only tho.n
\or-ed In such inat'ars ran answer:
tin' certain It I* that no country I > the
world t roduc n In ter exstnples of tho
hum n allium than h - '' andtnsvlan
poiilll le Tall, wed foi'ined, r bu-t
III" me I of Norway and Sweden a
cap ii. n of enduring aimmt anv amount
of 111>4i' and h iiil«nlp. 1"' .oidlersof
the Heeli h a d Norwegian arinins
av, ret'i I"' lall-et In I'lir p ', in..I al-
Ih" gn .iui'ii.g the U t f. w " tiirlo"
1 ii 1.v have not ha ih" 1 pieiri' nliy to
Weep no the r.'p'i'atloii h y won when
I,., tik.'i hip* were III *11 and
II,, ..led on e* v e 'ii-t from the 11101 1 b
. f th" llhltie to Hi . moil h of t' Ti-
bur, thev ar" -till propa"- to give a
tn .1 a i'ii III of I.,, ve lion d t "
t«t |i|. l e«l le« of their i nuntrjt
. V"r e 11 .leu end th" r ervlee* In
* Their Ii0"ie ll'e I e>«ltn le a« eould
b m tJlH'd. lor there ar ' • tilv two
kailiuf be of .ninet y in orwat
iaiinitii? en I I'.hiflt end t-y "iteli
Imi'Ii ere prollei' l by the «eme ln i
, ,|. a! . w 1 . d' r in! t'" ehi'rt "prlhg
ti,, il. tlie heavy e r 1 "*
cotton their gl .rims past. There if
a great futur • I 0 ore Norway and Swo-
llen. and th" evldenco < f a new na-
tlonal life Is see e\er\wher : in tho
clti' H, where modern Mtructuro* aro
1 taking tho p a e of t e old-fa-hioned
dwellings and o i ce■: in the co untry,
where men and woni.ni dress taller,
| fare li tter and look bettor than did
I their latino an I 1. other" I h"
nutv in■ ver conic W' 1 on 11." 11kIn 1 will
! again earn terr. r to I' ranee and I ji-
glan.i, but t lie day I near at hand
I when the (semi iininian p. wor« will
exert far mo.. inllueii. o in the adalrs
••si 1.
iis th
te
e • MMaAlt kDU'l.
IPS,) . hr..btrfcjJ««Bei
Mtte to tha tNMBW Ma
ani 1 u
agrienl II'
to the 1 wl e
tho Willi." th
1,1 ,-t e CM I
latiai pay inn-
• he I'th'er tasks
a d ehlldie . wliil la
d M.te lh"ir tittiss al-
1 • . the P h '-le' rtia
I, II r bee mi*tf.
of Kuroiethai tlo y have ever dona
tafore, and 1 h. br iidenlng ol thalr
power Wl! led e « II ■ "tea I .let>r«e
to the im < ettient in the eondltioa
of their | eo, le,
IdgMotaa Me«i. the "a|
l.lghtning. when It «trik'« a tfaa^
sotttetitties eolive' Is lite .ap Itlttt
slesm with •ni'h energy that It a -
|.|i.de« seatterihg the fueid In eVeff
ilratU 11
Jsia If I should attempt to klig
you would . ■ u reawf Jeaa—Why,
of eouf.e, if nhyottakia loohitt^.^
Town Tn|M«^i
Mn iy hiakee mm# ■•<••••«•
Ibst ihei hatetndoM
, a favar.
fhe Crafty <>lil llmtlfman >'< w Own*
About 1.IOO.OOO Hquare Mll«s
The lat'st ac lUlsitiou ot African
iorrltory gives lircat Britain au un-
broken line across the length of
Africa from the Mediterranean and
the Nile t > the extreme point of the
continent, says the 1 iu.itia Bee in
all. this territory, held in various
navs, from Cape Colony up to tho
"occupation" of Kgy|)t, Is In extent
about I too,000 square miles, and has
a population of :io,ouo,uOU. In the
Nile s alley It Includes incomparably
the best of North Africa, lu I panda
il hold- the key to the lakes of Cen-
tral Africa, nearly as larga as our
own lake system. '1 he new treaty
gives It the high land west of l.ake
Tanganyika, considerably higher an I
healthier than the Kastern. In i.cr-
man hands Tho new conquests of
tho iiritish South Air.ea Company,
mill the great table lands of the in-
terior of -ui/irop . al Aftiea. in much
of which while men live. Lastly,
there Is 1'ape Colony, the only \lial
lu rope an settlement In all Afrie.t
As it stands, this great highway
holds two-thirds of ail Afrlc.i In
which Kuropeans ran llvo and cany
on citvio.it administration. It bus
the most fertile tract In the conti-
n"lit In Kgypt. Its healthiest in t n|<i
Town, its greatest gold mines and
the only region from which tioplcal
Africa can bo controlled. Still more
Important Is It* ie,ation ti African
water cour.es A steamer can start
at Alexandria and un, wic n the
lua'idi's s.iice.sor cleared away, to
a point on Albert Kdward Nyan/.a,
1 j, mile, from l.ike langanyiks
This runs to wiihm seventy
miles of l.iike N assa. Morn
111is lake 1. 0 shire River,
broken at Murrhison Kails, descend,
to the /11 lute'.1 and the Indian
1 ooaii I mm a navigable point on
the Congo It I" 'han W
miles to l.ake Tanganyika The
Aruwlnl runs as tie* the Nile. It
|« | .sn le to tsrt at the mouth of
the /amie.1 and reach the mouth of
the Congo or Nile with lesa than
iiod tulles of land traV' I and the key
and center to tols • e«t sy.tviu ie
uoW IB I ngllsh hands.
Marsh <'o|> Water I'laiil.
The plant th#t I f und 111 the Hud-
son Bay region which is most worthy
of notice, grows In the inossj
muskegs, In places where there is lit
t e ur no grass. It is r mar*able foi
two reasons the lieuuti of its flower
and its water conta nlng properties.
The I mi ian name ot this plant II
Mashki'iucmucha*. This 1 transla
ted by the Knglish one of marsh cm
water plant. It bears a qimntity ol
foxglove-sha|ied flowers standing uj>
right on the stem.
These flowers arc cither palo green,
with a little red dark green, aud
light red, dark red alone, or tlualiy
brown, according to age The leaves,
wii eli giow flat upon the ground are
b ond and green. Tho lell of the
lower senilis adapted us a natural
rese voir tor water, of which lr.uu a
large one, there canaeasily lie ole
tamed as much as an Egyptian co .ee
cup will h Id but the I. auty of It
was that lu Hie early Autumn, when
the nights were frosty, but the beat
still ' scesslve by day, tlio water It
contained wa< always iced Kol
these charming flower bells are evl
deiitly constructed to resist frost:
and as they close in toward the top,
they protect from the rays of lb.'sun
the lump of dear Ice formed wlihm
the caly x at night.
The re.uli of this was that often,
when Vdll"g along al midday, hot,
and weary, through a stagnant
swamp all I had to do to sluke my
tlnrsi whs tu pluck a !• w of these
miraculous flow, rs to obtain so many
-m ill • ups tUll " de || ..in Water,
each Willi a little lump ..I *a float,
lug ou tho top lllui'kwood's Mag a
sine.
I oalish Hartmrs.
Tli* hat *t the enirsnce of the river
Mersey, and which hs* l*'en surh a
aouft*e nf ti,mb,e to the * ity of l.lier-
i mil, bas how mi laf Inwared that
there I" a minimum depth i f niae-
teen lei t 01 er a cbahhal 1,00# feei
wide, and a minimum of twanty laet
liter a width of rn.it feat, and tha
rhet nti' hot il ies say ihst al ho its.
tant ilat" the i hah. ei at l.ivef|s d
•ill la open lo all vee«el# at all stales
nMhe I hie It i« sl«i«tatel that ve«
aei. Hawing t ent me faet su
lliehas fail h"« sue eaifuily tia*lgsl«
the Maot'he.laf cahal
Wi thihk the funhleat Ihlhg la the
mm\4 ta s eriv old thin#
Huiuoariiie Warfare.
lit atitiiuarlno t« r|w.lo i...,it wi .« .
It s. ol course a malt r of decislvi
Imp nance to kin.w how fur the "lib
tu" 1 g•*• I era!I must keep swav troiu
the |H'llit or el plosion IB ordai U
avoid Is'ing damaged. A series of rs
l oinieiits conducted at tbe Newport
I Ifp. .In Station ti.lie estabii.hed the
fact that tie di'tuaatlnh of a mine ill
| - ..I | mill.I of gun cotton lagan U
tlsll.lt sltect the S'll meigi'd toi|ieiU
Isial at a ill.tan eighty feet, al<
though nut siirticieiit to destroy ths
lite ol the ahlmais. Which had l>eea
,'ontliie I wttlnti b.r the purp ..e o Ih#
e*pot 1IIH'ut. It is possible that (If.
ings . aa ie- made much riiwer. am?
that III" torp" lo li.it Will hot col
ls|nn until Its dlstgnee ftohl the mint
■I,all |,., lata than ih" di.isiuc 1*
tw en the mine and the surfaca ot
tli« water, u|« ii th> theory that tbt
pressure ..' an espl'Silou Is chlelly lit
a V. rtfle line If this theory should
I*, •ulataaiiated the utility of sub.
marine wuf.i'e would is) gr.ataf
than has aenefiiiiy te^n sup|sisei|,
ft
Wttrs we ste living tn do good
ran drpend aB litsl aa.l angels 4
bat*
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