David Progress. (David, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1895 Page: 3 of 4
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IN THE CREOLE CITY
Peculiar Things to Be Been In
Modern New Orleans
ths Old Slave Market Still a rolnt of In-
terest — A Half Hoar In a French
Canteen— A City Impover-
ished by Gambling
Special New Orleans (La) Letterl
The visitor to this “Cybole of the
western waters rising in pride with
her shining crescent of ships” will find
much of interest in a people who have
eyes only for the past and live for the
pleasures of to-day About the only
change noticeable is that of decay
especially in the old French quarter
and in the furrowed brows and totter-
ing steps of its inhabitants who now
as in their prosperity maintain that
“time is man's slave” Freeing of the
slaves was the first step toward the de-
cadence of the old time aristocracy of
New Orleans both French and Ameri-
can The rotunda of the old St Louis
exchange was the principal slave mart
IS ROTUNDA OF OLD ST LOUIS EXCHANOE
BEFORE TIIE WAR
of the city where negroes were placed
upon a block nnd sold as chattels by
another huinnn being with a white
skin This spot is still an object of in-
terest to visitors who are told that the
husband or father generally acted as
master of ceremonies nnd assisted his
wife or children upon the block to be
sold — separated forever I have con-
versed with some of the old infirm ne-
groes who recall those days which now
seem alihost incredible for belief One
seemed to take a prido in the fact that
ho was one of the "best niggers in the
city” nnd was "knocked down to Marse
for $1800 in gold salil” These relics of
a bygone and feudal age are fast disap-
pearing nnd with them their peculiar
idioms songs and olden time dances
which it seems cannot bo transmitted
to the new generation of colored peo-
ple "There are no songs like the old
songs” and only those who have lived
in what is called “do good old days”
can sing those olden-time plantation
songs with that true feeling of sadness
or of glee thut inspired those melodies
The words were mainly improvised
and as neither they nor the music
were written they must soon become
echoes of the past or rather ceuse to
live with the passing generation A
few of these olden-time negroes are
still found in the little shanties or
rookeries on the crooked and narrow
cross streets of the French quarter An
old negress or a bent-up old man is
seen sunning himself at the entrance of
the dingy damp court with head tied
up in the usual red bandana patting a
foot as he hums an olden-time melody
dreaming of the past and sadly “wait-
ing for tie end — " death Around the
corner is a "canteen” or saloon fre-
quented by sailors Italian mafias nnd
the worst elements of French anti
Spaniards kept by an octoroon Night-
ly high carnival is held in the way of
dancing drinking gambling nnd occa-
sionally fighting The cautious tour-
ist visits this place accompanied by a
policeman Then the attraction i3
gone It is somewhnt singular that
such a place should exist on a street
named for St Peter and within two
bloeks of the great cathedral with a
"palace (of justice) and a prison on
either hand”
Impoverished by the sale of their
slaves and the consequences of the
IN FRONT OF CANTEEN' ON ST DETER
STREET
late civil war the next greatest blow
to tills “Cybele of tho western waters”
was the lottery which kept the people
impoverished for a quarter of a cen-
tury Creoles are naturally gamblers
Speculation in cotton and bonds was
too slow for them They must huvo a
lottery and tho country witnessed tho
strango travesty upon law of a state
by its constitution legalising nnd pro-
tecting a moral wrong I am told on
very good authority that the lottery
realized ns profits from fifteen to twen-
ty millions of dollurs a year on tho
monthly drawings nnd from five thou-
sand to ten thousand dollars dally from
tho dally drawings About two-thirds
of rio tickets in tho monthly drawings
were sold out of this state but tho duily
drawings were local and tho octopus
took from tho people this vast amount of
monoy daily for a quarter of a century)
also including nbnutonc-tliird of tho re-
ceipts of tickets sold in tho monthly
drawings A little figuring will show
the amount of money theso pooplo have
poured into tho coffers of a few men
It is no wonder that such poverty has
existed among tho masses that tho mn-
Joi'ty do not pay the Ir taxes that tho
public school fund is always short and
that tho streets nro unpav'ed Tho lot-
tery has been virtually dead for n few
years but really it Is only scotched
nnd like tho fabled snake when you
cut its body In twain it unites nnd
comes to life Tickets uro sold ut tho
cigar stands and in tho barber shops In
the "American district "and in tho “can-
teens” nnd restaurants or "pensions"
in tho French quarter Of course a
man must first be “identified” as it is
now unlawful
While in one of tho “pensions” of
the French quarter I overheard a shabby-genteel
creole perhaps a descendant
of one of the emigres speak of his luck
at the recent drawing I belioved this
to be a "feeler” Hut I drew him into
conversation and he offered to procure
for me not only a ticket in the concern
that was recently driven from this
state but one also in any of the numer-
ous foreign lotteries So it will be
seen that the vice still flourishes not-
withstanding that the twining ten-
tacles of the octopus have held them in
poverty for a qunrtor of a century
This descending descendant of a proud
family himself too proud to work
makes a small commission upon each
ticket he Bells and thus manages to
make a cheap living at the dally risk
of the Jail There are many of this cluss
in the city — wrecks of a better life and
of better days It was the vice of gam-
bling that made them what they are
and now they live by tempting and aid-
ing others to follow their downward
pace Creoles are “born gamblers”
that is gambling is with them an in-
herent mania and hes existed in some
form among them from Ihe foundation
of the city nnd their speculation in
John Law's “bubble” boom bonds to
the days of the lottery when tickets
were in nearly every show window
cried out upon the streets by peddlers
und sold at the market stands with tho
vegetables and tho fish
"There is not so much of it now”
said a fish vender at the old French
market “nnd the poor people have a
little more to cat Instead of going
home with a light basket and a lottery
ticket they now put the price of that
ticket in the basket andhey live much
better It is a good thing for all of us
that the lottery was driven away”
concluded tho fish man with a sigh
evidently thinking of the money he hud
lost through this almost universal
“crimping" of the market basket Hut
JUST OUTSIDE OF THE CITV
while gambling is not so general nnd
open as in the days of (lie lottery it
still exists largely to the shame of tho
authorities and to the detriment of tho
impoverished city Faro banks and
keno for the Americans and rouletto
and vingt-et-un for the Creoles There
are also numerous “poker rooms" in
both sections of tho city where young
clerks and men of mature age holding
fiduciary positions meet and play
Strangers are lured to some of these
places by the shabby genteel Creoles
who lurk around the hotels and saloons
looking for game as did the chevaliers
tl'iiuitistrie in the corrupt reign of Louis
XIV
These chevaliers nro mainly the de-
scendants of the French and American
aristocracy who were impoverished by
the war They live by gambling when
there is any gaming going on — and
there always is They were never
brought up to work and consider it too
late now to begin They arc never so
happy as when they arc able to pur-
chase a fifty-cent or tweuty-flve-ccnt
dinner at a "pension" nnd lighting a
cigarette adjourn to tho "Absinthe
Corner” an old saloon almost as old ns
the city where they sip tho green
liquid which eventually drives one in-
snne One block from the “Old Abslntho
Corner” and to which tho chevalier
d’industrie is a stranger is the old
cathedral thronged every Sunday by
visitors Here is still maintained tho
ancient French custom of the church
guardian wearing a red velvet coat
three-cornered hut ornamented with a
black plume a silver medal on his
breast a sword nnd a maec In his right
hand which he thumps on the floor oc-
casionally to command silence or to
awaken the sleepers when the collector
is passing around J M Scan land
Iouio New I ucts About Tea
England consumes OOil 000 pounds or
about lOUOOOO gallons of tea each day
which is as much as Is used by the rest
of Europe North und South America
Africa nnd Australia combined Tho
green tea of former days 1ms almost
ceased to bo known while tho Twan-
kav Hyson nnd gunpowder tens nro
seldom heard from China only sup-
plies one-twelfth of the quantity tho
rest coming from India nnd Ceylon
The Indian tea goes half as far again
as the Chinese us regards color nnd
flavor
Mukes All ttm HHTerenco
Mrs t'ppertcn — I’m ufraid Lord Not-
scent has taken too much wine
Jlisa Adora Lord — How charmingly
unconventional!
Mrs t'ppertcn — And Jack Flungcr’s
in tho same boat
Miss Adorn Lord — Tho vulgar benst)
—Judge
Tho oung Lawyer
Ilrowu— Is young Flylugwcdgo prac-
ticing law?
Jones— I think not Ho was admitted
to the bur but I think lie’s practicing
economy — Vogue
Ah Fur oa Convenient
Mrs Do Style— I hear that puffed el-
bows are going out
Mr De Style— Uood Hca venal Aren't
they out fur enough already?— Puck
For Obvious llonsons
Clerk— now shall I mark theso ladles’
shoes?
Dealer— Put tho price In plain figures
and tho sizes In cipher— N V World
Too Hooniy
" Dost wear thy hoart upon thy slocvof"
I nikml of tho winsome malil
Bho shook her hood "I'd ho nfrtild
I d Iuho It sir” sho said
—Puck '
BAD FOR BANDITS
Train Bobbers Led into a Trap in
Kentucky
They Hold Up a Train and Are Shot by
Detectives— Desperate PlEht with
Outlaws in the Indian TerrL
toryr— Two Killed
Greenwood Ivy March 28— One of
the most daring and at the same time
most unsuccessful attempts at train
robbery occurred at 2:30 a m yester-
day in the southern part of Kentucky
when six men undertook to rob the
southbound train No S Queen & Cres-
cent which left Cincinnati at 8 p m
Tuesday One of the six was killed
outright another died at 4 o’clock yes-
terday morning and a third giving the
name of Miller died In Cumberland
Falls The other three outlaws have
not been heard from The train was
delayed not more than ten minutes and
reached Chattanooga at 8 a m yeste r-
day on time
The reason for this summary dis-
posal of a body of train robbers is
found in the fact that some tidings of
their purpose had been given to the
railroad or express authorities and
that Mr T R Griflin who serves as
superintendent of police on the South-
ern road had with him two trusty as-
sistants The train had just reached
the south end of tunnei No 0 which is
a mile north of Greenwood when the
robbers signaled it to stop They had
scarcely disclosed their purpose until
Mr Griffin and his assistants on the
train began offensive operations and
in ten minutes three of the robbers had
bitten the dust the other three had
flown and the train was speeding on
its way Not a single injury was suf-
fered by anyone on the train Of
course tho treasure in care of the
Adams Express Co's messenger was
entirely safe
Outlaws Killed
Fort Smith Ark March 29— Sam
McWilliams alius “Verdigris Kid”
Sam Ilutler and George Sanders rode
into Braggs 9 miles east of Fort Gib-
son at 7 o’clock yesterday morning
and begun robbing tho town T J
Madden went out the back door of the
store and hurried to Johnson Manning
deputy sheriff 1 milo away and gave
tho alurin Manning and Iliram
Stevens another Indian deputy
came back and found the out-
laws at Madden's store A fierce
fight ensued between the deputy sher-
iffs and tho outlaws McWilliams and
Sanders were killed and Ilutler was
wounded but bo made his escape Joe
Morris clerk for Madden was shot
through the abdomen and mortally
wounded Tho bodies of the outlaws
were brought here at noon to get the
reward of 8250 offered for McWilliams
who is better known as “Verdigris
Kid” and wtio was a side part-
ner of Jim French On his body
was found a pistol taken from a
doputy at tho Corrcta robbery IIu?
Lucky was on trial for the same rob-
bery when the body arrived and was
convicted an hour later Sanders has
been n desperado for several years but
hail just joined Verdigris Kid's band
Hill Cook was brought out of jail and
identified McWilliams Theso are the
last of the outlaws who became famous
as bandits in tills section last year
All the balance have been killed or
captured
THE WALLER CASE
Nothing Onlcllll Iti-reivoil ut Washington
About tho hx-Uoilsul
Washington March 28 — It was said
at the white house yesterday after-
noon that the telegram from Gov Mor-
rill of Kansas urging the president to
lake active measures at once for tho
protection and release of ex-United
States Consul Waller reported to have
been unjustly imprisoned by the
French government in Madagascar
under sentence of a court-martial
hail not yet been received by
the president The state department
has had no confirmation of tile report
from United Ktntcs Consul Wetter at
Tumatave nor from Mr Campbell our
consul at Mauritius which is the near-
est cable point to Madagascar It is
probable that tho governor's message
may cause the state department
to cable to one of theso consuls for
an account of the affair instead of
waiting until a report comes to
hand through the mails from this re-
mote point which though it might be
sufficient in ordinary cases would
hardly meet the requirements of a case
involving the imprisonment of an
American citizen
EX-OFFICIALS ARRAIGNED
The Colorutlo llouso Invrntigstlng Com
mttteo Reports I n li vf u I I’ rurl Im
Denver Col March 28 — The house
Investigating committee submitted its
report to-day It arraigns the ex-
sccretnry of state attorney-general ex-
superintendent of public instruction
ex-state boiler inspector and the pres-
ent fish commissioner Callieotte for
Irregular and unlawful practices
The state printing job is fully ven-
tilated tho report saying: “We find
gross extravagance and carelessness to
have prevailed in the matter of giving
orders to tho btate printer for print-
ing" A clerk in the secretary of
state's office under regular salary the
committee finds received 81000 as ex-
tra compensation for work performed
in six months with tho aid of his
daughter
IH Inina l'ens'ons
Washington March 29 — AU neces-
sary steps for putting into effect the
recent legislation raising all pensions
below S'l to that rating have been tak-
en by tlie pension bureau Low
rato pensioners whoso names nro borne
on tho rolls of tho Huffalo Chicago
Concord Dos Moines Milwaukee nnd
Pittsburgh ngencles will receive tho SU
ruling on April I and all like pensions
in other jurisdictions will he udvnneed
at tho next payment in their district
The change will be about $1 50001)0 to
tho pension expenditures and the cuses
of about 40000 pensionors will bo
affected
Fire Swopt
Canasfraoa N Y March 29— Tho
entire business pnrt of this village and
thirty dwellings were burned to-day
The firo started at 1 o'olouk this morn-
ing and spread rapidly A strong wind
wns blowing and the vlllngo had only
the most primitive means of fighting
tho Humes Not until a special train
had arrtvod from Hornollsvlllo with
two companies of flremon wns tho
progross of tho firo chucked Half tho
people nro homulass The loss will bo
81(10000 with only about half covered
by Insurance No lives woro lost but
uiuuy persons were Injured
NOTED MURDER CASE
rial of tta Taylor Hrothcri Charged with
Murdering the Meeke Family la Lina
County Mo— The State Reato
Carrollton Mo March 28— The
trial of William P and George Taylor
charged with the murder of the Meeks
family in Linn county on the night of
May 10 1894 commenced in this city
yesterday before Judge Rucker The
murder of the family with the excep-
tion of the little daughter who miracu-
lously escaped her story after escaping
charging the defendants with the
crime the flight of the Taylor broth-
ers their subsequent capture and the
prominence of the accused are facts al-
ready familiar to the general reader
The trial comes here on change of
venue from Linn county When the
accused were brought into court yester-
day morning they were neatly dressed
having the appearance of well to do
business men The jury was easily se-
cured T M Bresnehen prosecutor of
Linn county read the indictment and
made a brief statement of the state's
case in which he said that it would be
proved beyond a doubt the Taylors
murdered the Meeks family He re-
ferred to the murders as the most
atrocious that had ever been commit-
ted in Missouri The attorneys for tho
defense announced their readiness for
trial Several persons who were
present when the bodies of the mur-
dered family were found in the hay
stack were introduced as preliminary
witnesses Mrs Martha Meeks mothei
of the murdered man took the stand
and told in a straightforward mannei
what she knew of her son and family
going away with the Taylors and the
subsequent finding of the bodies Both
the state and defense are represented
by the lawyers
THE STATE RESTS
Carrollton Mo March 29 — Inter
est in tho trial of the Taylor brothers
charged with the murder of the Meeks
family lias grown to fever heat
Where one person sat in the courtroom
Wednesday two stood yesterday Fully
one-third of the spectators were
women nnd they stood the heat and
crush patiently
W II Jones of Browning testified
that at 8 o'clock on the evening of May
10 he saw Bill Taylor put some quilts
in George's wagon and then George
drove away The next morning at 5
o'clock Jones who lives next door to
Bill Taylor saw him washing his fueo
and hands in a tub of water and brush-
ing something from his clothes
James McClintock who lives 4 miles
from Browning on tho road from
Browning to Milan met George Tay-
lor’s team in the road at 10 o'clock on
the night of tho murder Bill Taylor
was on the beat with George and they
were driving toward Milan where Gus
Meeks lived
John Hope a 13-yenr-old boy was
with McClintock and he corroborated
his testimony Hope knew Bill Tay-
lor well and knew it was he he said
Mrs John Carter to whose home
Nellie Meeks first went when she
crawled out of the straw stack was
put on the stand She is S3 years old
nnd lives with her son Frank whoso
house is 175 yards from the straw stack
where the dead bodies of the Meeks
family were found
Mrs Carter sent her 9-year-old boy
Jimmie to see if there were any bodies
in tho straw and she stood at the door
nnd watched him She saw Georgo
Taylor harrowing near the stack
and Jimmie went to him and Taylor
stopped the harrow a moment Then
ho drove the horses at a trot to his
barn and took tho boy with him In n
few moments Jimmie went back and
Mrs Carter sent him and Nellie over
to the straw stack nnd she went to the
line fence nnd watched them Sho
saw them dig in the straw and then
little Nellie threw up her clusped
hands nnd cried: “Oh mamma and
papa oh mamma and papa!”
Jimmy Carter was the next witness
and his testimony agreed with that ol
Mrs Carter lie said that when ho
started for the straw stack he found
George Taylor harrowing and told him
a little girl had found some dead peo-
ple in the straw stack He naked
Taylor to go and help him find them
hut George took him to the barn and
made him hold the team while he ran
in the house ne came out quickly
saddled a horse and drove off but be-
fore going asked Jimmy: “Did the
little girl say anything about her pa
and ma?" Jimmie told him she did
and Taylor rode off toward Browning
At the afternoon session J L Harris
was called He was working for George
Taylor at tho time of the Meeks mur-
der He spent the night of May If
at the house of Dave Gibson and re
turned to George Taylor's house at
sunrise the morning the Meeks' bodief
were found He found George Tay-
lor wabhing mud from tho horses’ legs
After breakfast Harris hitched the
team to the wagon ut the barn dooi
and Georgo Taylor scraped the mud
from the wheels Then Harris drove
the team and wagon to the timber 3
miles distiint where he was to do some
work When he removed the wagon
body from the wagon ho found
blood on the wagon bed and an attempt
had been made to wash it off with coal
oil There were big clots of blood on
the coupling pole of the wagon too
It was thick but not dried and ap-
icnred to be not more than a few
lours' old Will Harris was working
in tho timber at 9 o'clock Georgo and
Bill Taylor rode up on horseback dis-
mounted hurriedly nnd disappeared on
foot in the timber
After the introduction of several
other witnesses to complete the chain
of evidence the state rested
The Shiloh Commission
Washington March 23— Tho secre-
tary of war has ordered tho Shiloh
commission consisting of Col Cornelius
Cadle chairman Gen Don Carlos Buell
and Col R F Looney of Tennessee
to meet at Pittsburg Landing Tenn
on April 2 when tho commission will
he organized nnd will rcmuln on the
battlefield until after the reunion of
April 5 nnd 11 making a thorough in-
spection of the bnttlofield und noting
tho various locations ns they will be
marked by the representatives of the
258 different organizations that took
part la tho battle
A New Knllrnnil
Guthrie Ok March 28— The direct-
ors of the Kansas Oklahoma & South-
western Railway Co mot In this oity
yesterdny and completed arrangements
for the building of the proposed road
from Coffeyviile Kan to Vernon
Tex Tho charter of the road has lioou
granted nnd tho line will strike Arkan-
sas City Puwhuska Guthrie and four
county scats In the strip Tho hackers
of the enterprise are St Louis mer-
chants who have ugrood to put up 81-
000000 Tho town of Vernon Tex
biters 850000 and tho right-of-way
through tho county
ORIGIN OF COLO WAVES
A Mountain Valley In Ilrltleh Columbia
Where They Take Their Rise
It is frequently asked Where do cold
waves originate? The coldest portion
of the North American continent is in
all probability in the Saskatchewan
valley' east of Mount Hooker and
Mount Head both of Which are situ-
ated in the Rocky Mountain range
that divides British Columbia from
this valley and tho Alberta country
The height of this mountain range pre-
vents the eastern trend or flow of vapor
from the Pacific ocean from crossing
over into this valley as it would were
it not for the presence of this high
range of mountains Yet it must not
be supposed that extreme cold always
prevails here because at certain inter-
vals the vapor from the Pacific
flows east by way of the
Alaskan peninsula through the
upper valley of the Athabasca
river Into Alberta and the valley of
the Saskatchewan and there meeting
with a more southern and eastern flow
of vapor that flows through the gap in
the mountain range made by the bay
of San Juan it warms and expands
the utmosphere crosses the path of
the cold wave and a warmth of from
twenty to forty degrees Is the result
as we often see graphically marked on
the weather map by red dots here and
there on its surface But this does not
satisfactorily unswer why it is that
the cold wave leaves its home in the
above-mentioned valley to go junket-
ing on a southern tour To find
the cause of those successive cold
waves we will have to look
In quite another direction down
to the northern tropical lati
tude where tho great evaporation of
those warm currents nnd ocean sur-
faces is carried westward from the At-
lantic ocean by the trade winds and is
massed together between those winds
of the eastern off-shore winds blowing
sometimes from Florida and at other
times from Texas but in either case
promoting a cyclonic action which has
Ihe effect of enlarging the area of the
storm and the immediate result is an
inormous expansion of the atmosphere
usually denominated "low” As this
ow moves ncross the surface of tho
middle or eastern states it pours down
large quantities of water in the shape
of rain and is constuutlyireceiving ac-
cessions of cloud matter to replenish
its cucrgies nnd thus in this mannei
it creates more or less of a vacuum in-
to which the air from the northwest is
drawn with more or less momentum
and the cold wave is completed — Wash
ington Post
TRIALS OF A HOSTESS
Soclnl und Domestic Dlim-nltles to bo En-
countered nod Overcome
A hostess may be said to have many
trying moments whilo fulfilling liei
hospitable obligations Social and do-
mestic difficulties have to be encoun-
tered and surmounted more or less
successfully nnd the best made of the
inevitable Then there are two chan-
nels through which a hostess is made
to tremble or to feel something very
much akin to that fear mingled with
annoyance with which so many are too
well acquinted A point is scored on
every occasion when contretemps nnd
dilemmas ure not allowed tonppeur on
the surface or to become apparent
through preoccupation of speech or
manner and to carry off a difficulty
with ease and graco is one of the
most useful lessons to f notice It is
easier to say what sho Id not be done
than what should but to make light
of an annoyance rather than magnify
it into a grievance is a rule sufo to
follow
A host is quite as prone to err in the
matter of making u grievance as is a
hostess and a displeasing husband
whose smart cook happened to get out
of her deptli in borne of her courses
drew attention to these culinary fail-
ures by ungrily indicating each one to
tlie lady seated at his right hand The
intense chagrin and discomfiture of
tlie hostess may be imagined Things
will not always go smoothly in the
best ordered households and when
anything unexpectedly goes wrong the
received rule is to let it pass by ns
quietly as may be and not to make it
a subject of conversation and comment
Competition is a serious matter to
cope with It is keen nnd alert and a
hostess can not escape from its influ-
ence If unequal to taking tho lead
she must at least follow close in the
wake of those who do she must be up
to date in surroundings and accesso-
ries in what is of importance as well
ns in mere trifles To keep pace with
others she must observe she must re-
member she must keep her eyes open
nnd she must bring her intelligence to
bear upon even the pettiest details
she must instruct she must admonish
and bear with patience and equanimity
shortcomings and disappointments oi
the pnrt of her domestic — London
Queen
A CAT'S ACHIEVEMENT
Tuss Adds a Mite to the Knowledge of
Naturalists
Foor pussy lias often served the pur-
poses of seieiice but generally not to
her own comfort and frequently with
the loss of her life Recently how-
ever u cat in Australia proved her use-
fulness in the advancement of human
knowledge without being competed to
sacrifice herself on the altar of science
This remarkably gifted or remark-
ably fortunate eat belonged to one of
the troopers who accompanied the re-
cent exploring expedition into tho in-
terior of Australia One day it brought
to its master a strange little animul
which it had captured umong tho
rocks The trooper lniuded the animal
over to Dr Stirling the anthropologist
of the pnrty who saw at once that
pussy hud made an important discov-
ery Tho animul she had caught was a
new and apparently rare species of tho
tribe of lusoct-eutlug marsupials which
nro scientifically named pluiscogale
belonging to tho great family of which
the giant kunguroo is tho most con-
spicuous representative The great-
ness of pussy's good fortune was shown
ivhon the delighted men of science
whom sho had favored with the prize
of her hunting employed several of the
native inhabitants of the country to
find some more specimens of the little
marsupial
Several days of hunting by men in-
cited by the offer of valuable rewards
resulted in the discovery of only two
more specimens The uuimnl lives in
holes among the rocks and feeds upon
ants nnd othor insects Tho uutivo
nanio for it is tho “uinpertn"
We nro not Informed whether the cat
discoverer got any reward hut she
ought ut least to be decorated with a
blue ribbed— Youth's Companion
Highest of all b Leavening Power— Latest U S Gov't Report v
Absolutely pure
IN THE JAPAN OF TO-DAY
Tna plum the nightingale and the
noon a poetic spring night form the
intlcipation of happiness the odor of
ihe plum blossom sanctifies the cham-
er which it perfumes Kosia the iris
ymbollzes victory and good fortune It
e the favorite flower of the peasant
An article in Current Literature gives
"the language of flowers” as under-
itood in Japan Shldn the fern sym-
bolizes conjugal life according to the
languages of the peaches of Seibo eaoh
of which gives 10000 years of existence
Uma tho plum means gentleness and
happiness
Yakagi-ni Tsubakura the swallow
and the willow typify grace and placid-
ity Dadai the orange flourishing
posterity Sakiirn the cherry patriot-
ism Poten the peony and Shishl the
lion royal power Uadankyo the al-
mond 1b the flower of spring and per-
sonifies beauty
In an English manufacturing town
one Is awakened early in the morning
by an unearthly rackot made by thou-
sands of hobnailed shoes clattering on
the paved street In Japan a sorao-
what similar sound is made by the
wooden clogs worn by men women and
children They servo the purpose of
rubbers or overshoes lifting tho feet
out of the mud and dust In a public
place like a railroad station the noise
is nearly deafening
CITIZENS OF THE U S
Thomas B Reed says he Intends to
take a long vacation this summer in the
woods
President Cleveland is said to bo
arranging tho preliminaries for a trip
around the world at tho end of his
presidential term
Paul de Casbaonac says It was
Comte de Paris and not Duchesse d’Uzes
who furnished $000000 to the Boulang-
1st committee to overthrow tho French
republic
J Summfrfield Brown who died in
Philadelphia a few days ago wns the
foundor of Godey’s Magazine anil as
such his deuth would have been of
more than passing notlco twenty years
ago
Henry Hfrrick who was the oldest
living graduate of Yale hns just died
at North Woodstock Conn lie was
ninety-two years old was graduated In
the class of 1822 and was a Congrega-
tional minister Dospite his old ago he
retained his faculties until a short time
before his death
TOLD OF WOMEN
Mary Queen of Scots had red hair
ind a cross eye and in spite of the en-
comiums of her contemporaries is be-
lieved not to have been a handsome
woman
During the past year Lady nenry
Somerset attended 1 15 meetings and 27
conferences traveled over 8090 miles
and spoke in 20 counties to about
200000 people
Tue princess of Wales Is a fine skater
and before her marriage was one of tho
best in Denmark She has been cutting
figures on the ice in England this win
ter
Princess Beatrice the youngest
duughtcr of Queen Victoria is her
mother's favorite child She has been
the queen’s constant companion for
many years and exercises great influ-
rnco over her
“Don’t pull yer gun til this here court"
said the Judge "You vo got to respect tho
dignity what yoh see lyin’ ruuu’ louse here
an' if you kill u lmm whilo court’s ill session
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“I see that Hoyt is going to have his now
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