Demorvaic: Wada, Bellefonte, Pa., October 25, 1901. THE HEALTH FOOD MAN. His eyes are bails of polished steel, His lungs are sponges dried ; His blood is bullion concentrate In veins of leather hide. His muscles creak like pulley ropes When hurried into play ; His hair is like piano chords ; Some chords are lost, they say. His heart's a little globe of punk, A house of constant gloom, For love can never burn within, Because there isn't room. His appetite has dwindled down To fit his little food Till fruit is “water in a poke” And bread is “co much wood.” Hot apple tarts and pumpkin pies, He reads of them aghast, And waffles brown and chicken stew Are ‘“‘terrors of the past.” And, smiling, from his vest he slips A tiny box of tin, - With capsules brown and pellets pink, All rattling within. Then, with a gulp, he swallows down His dinner from the can, This product from the health food school, This concentrated man ! — What to Eat. KIRKLAND AT QUARTER. It isn’t a question of ‘standing a good chance’ at all; it’s a certainty of your going in at quarter on our team for the "Varsity game.’’ Croudace got up as he spoke and, cross- ing the room to Kirkland’s pipe rack, se- lected an old briar and filled and lit it. He was a much older man than Kirkland and he was ‘“touring’’ the West in the in- terest of a certain great Eastern university whose foot-ball elevens did not take defeat gracefully. In the course of his trip he bad come to Kirkland’s alma mater in the September .of Kirkland’s Senior year. Kirkland had played on his own ’Varsity eleven during his Freshman, Sophomore and Junior years, and could play again that year—if he chose. Just now this question of clioice was uppermost in his mind. Croudace blew a ring of smoke from his mouth and through it sighted at Kirkland. “You see, Mr. Kirkland,”” he added, “I'm a sort of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and what Isay goes. I can assure you of the place.”’ Kirkland, his hands in his pockets, look- ed carefully at the toe of his boot. “It’s the new ruling of the League that puts me out,”’ he observed. ‘‘Naturally, I'd like to play quarter on such a big uni- versity as yours. But here’s my own college I’ve handled the team for three years now. If I take up your proposition Ican’t play here. You know how the ruling goes. I forget the words, bu: it’s to the effect that a man can’t play for more than four years.” ‘“Yes,’” assented Croudace, ‘‘if you play here this year we can’t use you when yon come on. By the way, you are quite sure that you will come on 2?’ ‘‘East ? To your college ? Oh, yes, that’s settled. I'll graduate here and then. go on for the law courses.’’ ‘‘Well,”’ said Croudace, ‘‘I don’t want to use ‘undue influence,” Mr. Kirkland; but you know how mueh prominence in athletics does for a man at my alma mater. You could bave the pick of the clubs. A man has got to think of those things. The quarter-hack of the ’Varsity eleven is one thing. Joseph Kirkland, one of seven hundred law students, is another.” ‘Yes, I suppose that’s true, too,”’ ad- mitted Kirkland. He hesitated, moving uneasily in his seat, his forehead wrink- ling anxiously. _*‘It’s hard to decide,’’ he muttered. ‘‘I’d like to play on your team, but here’s the old college. and the boys. Contound it, the old place is father and mother to me.’ Croudace, I can’t do it. It’s a fine chance, I know, but somehow I can’t make up my mouth to it. No, I won’t do it. If we should get beaten this year—'’ “Why, man alive !’” declared Croudace; ‘you know the situation as well as I do. You’ll win that game hands down. They baven’t a show this year—not a blither- ing, jibbering ghost of a show. Everybody admits it. And your substitute, little Kuowles, is a dandy quarter; passes the ball like a veteran--good as yom, Kirk- land. If your team needed you I wouldu’t say this, but it don’t; the game is going to be a-walk-over for you, and little Knowles ought to have a show: after all the years be’s tried for it. If I'm wrong, correct me and I'll apologize, hut—well, isn’t it just a little bit of personal vanity on your part — wanting to play ?" As Kirkland was ahout ‘to reply he was interrupted by the entrance of his chum and room-mate, Dolliver, whom everyone called—-of course—-Dolly. He was a Fresh- man,small-made,black-haired and nervous; of Kirkland’s own age, but of half his size and weight; impulsive, preternaturally keen, and, like young ‘men of his tem- perament, quick to jump at conclusions. ‘‘Beg pardon for interrupting,’”’ he ex- claimed as he came in, nodding curtly to Croudace, ‘‘but the air-shaft windows were open on both sides and I couldn’t help hearing a good deal—and a sight more than I wish'I had, too,” he added. : Croudace took the pipe from his mouth and stared, and Kirkland’s wrinkled fore- head contracted to a frown, but more of be- wildermient. than of anger. Evidently Dolliver had only heard Croudace’s offer and not his refusal of it. “Well, I'd like to know what it all means,’”’ Dolliver flared out. “I don’t know, but I’ll bet I can guess pretty close. You're trying to get Kirk to welch, and— and—well, by Jimminy Christmas, it ain’t right ! No, it ain’ !"’ “Listening ?’’ put in Croudace, replac- ing his pipe. : : ‘Listening to dirt ain’t any worse than dirt itself I” cried Dolliver. Croudace turned to Kirkland. ‘‘I wish you would ask your friend to be-a little less direct, Mr. Kirkland,’ he said; ‘I don’t want to lose my temper.’ “Steady, Dolly,” warned Kirkland; “remember, Croudace is the fraternity’s guest. If you’d listened a little better yon would know that I had declined-—"’ ‘‘Well. that’s all right,’* Dolliver inter- rupted, still unable to understand. ‘‘That’s all right, but Croudaceis trying to keep you from playing, go as to get you on his team when you go East. And he says we're gure going to win this year. Yes, if you play we’ll win. But you’ve told me your- self that foot-hall isalways anybody ’s game up till time is called. There’s always the chance of a fluke, and Knowles isn’t a star quarter-back, either. He’s never played in a 'Varsity game, and he’s liable to get rattled and Tose his head; and if the quar- ter gets rattled--the man who es the - ball--how do you expect the halves and ting up. ed, more good-humoredly, ‘‘you’ve got the it were something dishonorable. the full are going to do clean work ? The team needs you, Kirk, to steady em, and the college has got a right to expect you to stay by it.’? “Well, do yon want to stand in your chum’s way?'’ remarked Croudace. ‘‘Here's his chance to make a name for himself and to introduce himself to some of the best men and the best clubs at a great uni- versity —’ ‘‘Here’s his chance to sell ont to you,’ protested young Dolliver, all of a tremble. *‘Here’s his chance to act like a cad —"’ “Quit it, Dolly, growled Kirkland, get- ‘Crazy little Freshie,”’ he add- whole thing twisted. You talk as though Where's the dishonor in it?" “Well, that’s just it !”’ . exclaimed Doll- iver, refusing to be placated. ‘‘I can’t say where the dishonor is, but it’s fishy, that’s what 1t is; it’s fishy. And you’ve no right to do it--no, an’ I an’t going to stand for it.” ‘Look here, yon !”” cried Kirkland, a heavy hand on the Freshman'’s shoulder, ‘‘I don’t ailow under-classmen fo tell me what I ought to do or to insinuate I’m--tishy or dishonorable.” “Don’t get angry, Mr. Kirkland,’ put in Croudace; ‘‘our, young friend don’t quite understand the situation, that’s all.” “I don’t want you to talk to me--I don’t want you to talk tome !’’ cried the boy, the tears in his eyes. ‘‘I know what you are after, right enough. You’re trying to corrupt Kirk and trying to get him to give up the honor--the honor of playing for his alma.mater, for a lot of cheap newspaper notoriety and alot of lush clubs. And you,’’ he shouted, wrenching back from Kirkland and facing him, ‘‘are going to sell us--sell your own college——?’ *‘Quait it, I tell you.” ‘‘——gell your own college, and throw the game. Yes, that’s what it amounts to, for the sake of that. Well, you can do it; and you go ahead and sell ont, but it’s the trick of a cad and a traitor, and—and and I don’t want you to speak to me again.”” With the words Dolliver stormed out of the room, slamming the door. Hé must have met the captain of the eleven, slow-moving, deliberate, dogmatic Tracy Booth, almost at the very door of the house, and told him the news, for Kirkland and Croudace had no more than time to resettle themselves after the fresh- man’s interruption when Booth came to the door. He shook hands with his quarter-back and Croudace and sat down on Kirkland’s window-seat, before he spoke. But his silence was not noted by the others, Booth being the man of the fewest words in col- lege. “Well, how did the squads work this af- ternoon, Tracy ?”’ said Kirkland by way of beginning. “Bum.”’ “Good many candidates this year?” “A few.” Booth spread out his feet and slowly rocked back and forth in his place. Then after a pause, and with that deliberateness for which he was known, he remarked : “Hm, . what is this Dolliver tells me . . about your not playing this ear ?’’ “Oh,’’ began Croudace cheerfully, ‘‘I was only suggesting as a joke that Mr. Kirkland could make his own position on the eleven of my college.’ “Well, . . he can’t.” ‘Indeed, I assure you, Mr. Booth, he could, oh, easily.” ‘ “Dollz went off half cocked as usual,” explained Kirkland. ‘*Well, he can’t play on any other team but mine.”’ ‘I see,’’ said Croudace; ‘‘you mean this new four-year rule.” ‘‘Four-year rule nothing. He can’t play because I won’t let him.”’ *‘Croudace began to laugh. “Well, he has his choice,’’ he answered. ‘‘No, he hasn’t.”’ : ‘‘How do you mean, Mr. Booth ?”’ ‘I have the choice.’’ ‘Yes, but —"’ *‘And I don’t choose.’’ Kirkland began to feel a resentment. He was by far the best player on the eleven, and as quarter-back handled the ball and gave the signals. He was a better player than Booth himself and had come within one vote of being elected Captain the year before. He told himself that Tracy needn’t think he could domineer and try to make him seem small before this stranger. His nerves were still jangling from Delliver’s words and he was not in an easy temper. ‘‘Hello, Tracy; what’s all up?’’ he de- manded. “‘1 guess I would have some- thing to say.”’ “Booth, as if he had already talked too much, merely lifted a shoulder. Kirkland felt that he was set at naught. ‘I suppose you don’t object to my study- ing law after I graduate from here?’ ‘he inquired elaborately... ‘‘Or would you prefer— would you choose—chiropody for me 2?” *‘You’ll play quarter on my team.” Booth could not readily consider more than one phase of a subject at a time. Kirkland’s anger flared up. He felt keenly the humiliation of this assumption of authority before Croudace. “I'll play where I jolly well please. Look here, Tracy, you don’t own Ie, you know.”’ : *‘I own my guarter-backs, I guess.” “By the Lord Harry, here’s one of them you don’t own ! There’s no man that wears shoes can dictate to me; and if you don’t believe it, listen here. claimed, turning to the other—‘‘Croudace, I'm your man.” a At half-past three o’clock, midway in the second half of the ’Varsity game, the foot-ball reporters began wiring to their papers that, barring ‘‘flakes,’”’ the Blues had the game, and that Tracy Booth’s eleven, for the first time in the Captain’s career, were facing an almost inevitable defeat. Up to the very beginning of the first half it had been generally conceded that Booth would have a ‘‘walk-over” with the Blues. But the game had not been in progress ten minutes before the bleachers saw Booth’s eleven “‘stars’’ driven in again and again before the deliberate grim attack of the Blue eleven, inferior as individuals, bus by months of strenuous training wedded together to form a single com pact unit. It was ‘‘team-work’’ against ‘‘grand-stand work,” and the result was practically a ‘foregone conclusion. Kirkland, gnawing his nails, watched little Knowles, Booth’s quarter-back, with fierce intentness. He bad coached the boy all throngh the sea- son to play in his own place and had hoped great things of him. But now it could no longer be denied that little Knowles— it was his first ’Varsity game—was ‘‘rat- tled.” He passed wild continually. The trick-plays from which so much had heen expected were spoiled by his unsteadiness. With the ball on Booth’s ten-yard line, and misunderstanding his Captain’s direc- tions, he gave the wrong signal, and in- stead of punting—it was the third down Croudace,”’ he ex-. with five yards to gain——called on the half for an end run. He passed the ball clum- sily, the Blues broke through and, down- ing the runner without a gain, took the hall almost in the shadow of the goal posts. In three terrific plunges between gnard and tackle they had carried it across for a touchdown, and, kicking the goal, made the score six to nothing. Croudace, who stood at Kirkland’s elbow on the side lines, shook his head. “Kirkland,” he said, ‘it looks bad, don’t it ?”’ Kirkland, too excited to speak, only nodded, clenching his teeth; but a reporter near at hand remarked : “Their quarter has gone to pot. Nothing like a wobbly quarter to demoralize a team.”’ The ball was brought out once more and the Blue eleven, resuming the tactics they had followed since the kick-off, recom- menced hammering away at Booth’s cen- tre, massing on the left-guard and centre- rush. Slowly they advanced, slowly Booth’s line was driven down the field, two and three yards at a time. ‘‘Knolley ought to get on to those wedges,’ muttered Kirkland between his teeth. ‘‘He don’t seem to be anywhere. There, there. look at him now--look at that !--oh, isn’t it sickening !”’ ‘‘What’s wrong with that quarter ?’’ de- manded the newspaper reporter at Kirk- land’s back. “Man’s rattled,’”” answered his com- panion; ‘‘rattled out of his boots. Hi, Hi, Hi! Watch it, watch it ! Look at the fum- ble! Good work, Tracy Booth! Fell on that ball like a shot.” The bleachers thundered again as the great Captain gathered in the ball ona fumble by the Blue balf-back, then, leap- ing erect, the ball under his arm, flung up his nose-guaid and cried the signal like a challenging stag bellowing defiance. - ‘No gain,’’ sang the umpire. ‘They’ve got a defense like a stone wall, those fellows,’’ said Croudace. Tracy Booth, as ever first on his feet, in- toned the signal while yet the scrimmage was disentangling. ‘‘Eleven—nine—twenty-eight—-three-— ends hack; quickly now !”’ ‘‘Now, now, now,” muttered Kirkland to Croudace. ‘“‘That’s the signal for the ‘Dark Horse.” It's the best trick we've got. Watch now, wateh ’em close. See Hollis coming back, and the halves edge in. The ‘Quickly now’ is the signal; all the rest is just to fool the other side. There now, now ! Oh, Knowles; what is it!’ For the little guarter-back had made another wild pass and thrown the ball so swiftly that it had struck the half-back in the shoulder and bounded off to one side. Booth caught it before it fell, only to be swept from his feet as the Blue line came charging through and carried him back, for all his struggles, a full ten yards. How it happened neither Kirkland nor Cioudace saw, but when the men rose from the ground the Blue Captain had the ball. And again the old heartbreaking assault on guard and centre was begun. Steadily, monotonously, grimly the Blue team at- tacked. Booth’s halves and full-back made many superb tackles, many brilliant indi- vidual plays, but the team work of the Blue line told, and told again and again. They had no tricks; they attempted only straight foot-ball. It was the insistent crushing impact of a well-working engine and it was winning the game. The second half drew to its closeand once more the Blues advanced upon the goal so inad- equately defended. ! . “Oh, hold ’em, hold ’em, hold ’em !” groaned Kirkland, kneading his fists to- gether. ‘Play your game, Knolley; play it up! You ain’t beaten yet.” “Fi—rst do—wn,’’ chanted the umpire. “Lord, how they're going through!” exclaimed Croudace. ‘‘Hello, who’s hurt ? There's a man down. Knowles, sure as shooting. He's getting up, though—no, he’s staggering— down again—ah, he’s out of it. Yes, they’re taking him off. ‘“The substitute is worse than he is,”’ observed the reporter. “I don’t know about that. I don’t know about that,”’ vociferated Kirkland. Crou- dace glanced at him. Then abruptly he seemed to understand. ‘‘Don’t be crazy, Kirk.” he exclaimed. “To begin with, you're out of training. and ian down the side-lines to where Knowles’ substitute, a sophomore named Barnes, was preparing to go in. ‘‘Here, here,”’ he shouted; ‘‘wait! I'm going in.” Croudace had followed and now caught him by the arm. “You're a fool, I tell you!’ he cried. “Don’t you know you can’t play on any eastern team next year if you do this ?”’ Knowles, supported by Booth and the trainer, came up from the field. The little quarter, one arm swinging limp, was pro- testing and struggling. “I’m going back; I tell you I'm going back. Booth, listen; it’s not dislocated— oh, say, quit, will you. Look here, you fellows; they’d kill Barnes out there. He don’t know—he’s never played-—I tell you I will go back.”’ ‘‘Barnes,’’ called Tracy Booth. But Kirkland had thrust himself be- tween, and his eyes and those of his old Captain met. ‘I know all the signals,’”’ cried Kirk- land, ‘‘from helping coach.’”’ Already he had thrown off his coat and waistcoat and was struggling into a sweater. ‘‘Listen to me,”’ protested Croudace. “Don’t yon see it’s too late now ? There's only five minutes to play and the game is lost already. You can’t do anything and you’re giving up asure thing for next ear.”’ ‘Oh, what do I care for your Eastern team !’’ shouted Kirkland. ‘‘You’re crazy, I tell you.” ‘And I tell you I’m only coming to my senses,’’ retorted Kirkland. ‘‘Hurry up there,’’ cried the referee from the field. ““Tracy,’’ cried Kirkland, ‘‘I’ve been a cad, and I've treated you wrong. But give me my chance now to make it up. Old man, let me play.’”’ The reporters had come crowding up. On their copy they had written: *‘4:05. Knowles hurt and taken off.”’ “Who is the sub?’’ they asked. ‘‘Can you give us his name.” Booth glanced from Barnes to Kirkland. Then he nodded and turned back to the field. In another moment the bleachers were roaring so that all former cheering was as nothing in comparison, and the re- porters were scribbling : Kirkland goes in at quarter.”’ * * * * * * Bat, as Croudace had said,it was already too late. Nothing now could stop the Blues, and though Kirkland steadied the team and brought it for a moment to its old-time form the victory had already heen wrested from them. Booth punted out of danger and when Kirkland caught the re- turn kick tried heroically to score, but ib was of no use, and the game ended with the ball in the centre of the field and the score at six to nothibg in favor of the Blue eleven. But suddenly Kirkland broke from him- After all was over, and Booth's wearied and dispirited players were boarding the train that was taken them home, Kirkland and the Captain, for the first time since the scene on the side-lines, met face to face on the platform of the Pullman. The oth- er men had already filed into the car and for the moment the two were alone. Kirk- land, almost timidly, waited for the ver- dict of his chief. The Captain, impassible and taciturn as ever, even in defeat, held his quarter- back’s eyes for a moment with his. “‘Good man.”’—By Frauk Norris, in the Saturday Evening Post. Eyesight cof School Children. English Reports on Conditions Which Threaten i Methods of Protection. The board of education has issued a cir- cular to managers and teachers of urban elementary schools in reference to the eye- sight of scholars in schools in large towns. It states that the board of education is anx- ious to call the attention of certain condi- tions injuriously affecting the eyes and eye- sight of the scholars, and they do so in the hope that measures that may be gener- ally adopted for arresting the extension of evils prejudicial to the national welfare, in so far as these measures appear to fall within the powers of teachers and manag- ers. The sight of children is liable to be injuriously affected by two distinct classes of conditions—namely, (a) from what are technically called errors of refraction—that is to say, from faulty shape or proportion of the eyeball, producing the several condi- tions of myopia or shortsight, hypermetro- pia® or flat-eye, and astigmatism, all of them liable to occasion much strain and difficulty in using the eyes, and some of them liable to such an extent of aggrava- tion, during and in connection with szhool life, as seriously to cripple the future use- fulness of theindividual ; (b) from various forms of disease, many of which are incon- spicuous in their origin and might easily escape notice unless special atttention were paid to the possibility of their occurrence, and some of which are highly contagious, and might become of serious import, to the school as well as to the original suf- ferers. In relation to class (a) the hoard points out that, by means of ‘‘test type’’ the vis- ion of every child should be tested upon admission, and again at any future time if any saspicion of imperfection .should arise concerning it. For children unable to read, test sheets are provided, exbibitiug as sub- stitutes for letters, figures composed of three sides of a square. Whenever vision falls below the normal standard, or when- ever small print is instinctively brought very near the eyes, the parents should be advised to take the child to an opthalmic hospital or to a surgeon. In the great ma- jority of such cases the use of spectacles will remeve all difficulty. In relation to class (b) it should be the duty of teachers to observe any appearance of unnatural redness or soreness of the eyes, or any tend- ency on the part of a child to be often rub- bing them when at work, aud to take such precautions as the circumstances of each case may require. I'wo especially common forms of disease are the contagious opthal- mia chiefly effecting the insides of the eye- lids, and the contagious opthalmia affecting the lid margins and tending to destroy the eyelashes at their roots. The effects of both these forms of opthalmia upon the sight are frequently serious. Managers and teachers, especially in poor districts, are therefore recommended to be watchful with regard to this matter, to exclude any child that is affected, and to take care that he shall not be readmitted without a med- ical certificate of fitness. The board of edu- cation has learned with pleasure that in a few cases special opthalmic schools have been established in which children can be kept and educated until a cure is ef- fected. The board of education has learned with satisfaction that within a few large cities the employment of school visiting nurses is being commenced. They are provided, it is believed, as a rule, by voluntary asso- ciations to schools applying for them. Managers and teachers as well as his maj- esty’s inspectors, have testified to the value of these nurses in improving the health of the scholars and in increasing the regulari- ity of attendance. The lighting of the schools is a matter of great importance. The aspect should admit sunshine freely. Light talling directly upon the eyes should be particularly avoided, as should also light coming from behind, or. in a less de- gree, light coming from the right hand on- ly. The right position and sufficient sup- ply of artificial light are also matters of importance. Electric light has the double advantage of consuming no oxygen and of being movable and therefore convenient. It gas must be employed, incandescent il- lamination is preferable to the ordinary fish-tail burner. The obscure cases of ocu- lar defect offer the greatest trouble to teachers. The inspectors not infrequently find children described as mentally deficient whose deficiency proceeds from partial blindness or deafness rather than from in- ferior brain power. The teacher should take such steps to exclude any possibility of this nature before presenting a child for admisssion to a defective class. Likewise any child calling forth frequent censure or punishment should be carefully observed for a similar reason. There are, however, many cases less obscure and which the teacher can help to bring under super- vision. The board is glad of this opportunity of expressing its high - appreciation of the de- votion shown by managers and teachers in some of our great centres of population in rendering help to their scholars in this and other directions beyond the scope of their ordinary official duties. The board confi dently expects that it will be found pos- sible, as contemplated in the ‘‘Code of Regulations for Day Schools, 1901,’’ to or- ganize open-air out door lessons by frequent visits to museums, parks, and country places. It is hoped that this will prove beneficial, inter alia, to the eyesight of the scholars, both indirectly by improving the general health, and directly, by pro- viding what is for many town children a rare opportunity of adjusting their sight to objects smaller and more distinct than those which they are accustomed to see in the streets in which their home lives are almost entirely spent.—ZLondon Times. Sitting— Room Drama. “Who comes there ?’’ called little Willie, the [sentry, in [threatening tones, as he brought his deadly wooden gun into shoot- ing position. “A friend !”’ answered little Tommie from behind the rocking-chair. ‘‘Advance and give the countersign,’’ hissed the sentry, ‘‘or I'll shoot your head off.” An ominous silence followed this terri- ble threat, then Tommie said plaintively : “P’ve forgot it.”’ “You can’t remember nuthin’,”’ exclaim- ed Willie in disgust, throwing down his gun, ‘‘Cum over here an’ I'll whisper it to yer ag’in.”’—Ohio State Journal. Big Nuggets from Alaska. One Worth 81,116 Found in the Nome District. Steamer Brings a Budget of News from the Far North—Candle Creek the Latest Rich Discovery— Reports of High Death Rate Among Indians. The steamer Manuenze, which arrived at Victoria, B. C., from Cape Nome and St. Michaels with fifty-six passengers, includ- ing a number of miners and traders from Kuyokuk, Kuskokwim, Rampart, Eagle and other points between the Klondike and the Arctic, brought an interesting budget of news from the far northern dis- trict. From Nome she brought news of the finding of several monster nuggets, the largest being worth $1.776, and from the creeks of the adjacent mining country came news of rich finds. The steamer brought news of the seizure of three British sealing schooners for tres- passing within the three-mile limit of the Pribyloffs. sels were not learned. Among the passengers of the Manuenze were L. L. Bales, a mail carrier, and E. W. Hogg, of New York, who returned from Cape Nome through the Kuskokwim district. They made an interesting collec- tion of Indian curios and secured eighteen phonographic records of the Shaman songs and chants of some of the tribes. They tella pathetic story of the condition of the In- dians huddled in groups of igloos found here and there about that district. The Indians are dying off fast. In one igloo entered by the travelers they came upon four dead Indians. Even the Siwash dog was lying dead of hunger. Last year a large number of the Indians died off. When passing through one village near Bethel, where there is a Moravian mission, they found that as many as eleven had died in one day. Messrs. Bales and Hogg, who made the voyage from St. Michael down the coast to the mouth of the Kuskokwim in a 24-foot sailboat, managed to secure a number of interesting curios from the natives in trade. Mr. Bales had a number of United States army caps and those were eagerly sought for by the natives. In one village he se- cured an ivory axe, which had been held by the Shaman of the tribe for longer than any Indian can tell. He gave 135 of these caps to the Indians for the axe, which was owned by the tribe, and when he and Mr. Hogg left this village, they were escorted by a hand of Indians all wearing the Unit- ed States army headgear. The last discovery at Cape Nome which is engaging attention is the strike on Can- dle creek. Rockermen have heen taking out large quantities of dust from the bed of the stream. Two men rocked out twen- ty-one ounces in five hours. The latest news from this find was received at Cape Nome on Sept. 30th, when the schooner Barbara Hernster returned from the mouth of the Keewalik of Kotzebue Sound with C. D. Lane, the Nome millionaire, and others who went to examine the districs. Mr. Lane says that he found miners tak- ing out all the way from 10 cents to $2.60 to the pan. Nuggets weighing as much as half an ounce were found. Mr. Pepper, another arrival from the new find, says that many miners have been taking out as much as from $200 to $300 a day. There are about a hundred men in Ke- walik county, in which Candle creek flows. Candle creek is ahout nine miles from the mouth of the Kewalik. Other creeks are being prospected in the same neighborhood and a stampede has occurred to the Buck- land river. News was brought to Nome by the Bar- bara Hernster that Alex Patterson, dis- coverer of the rich Candle oreek district, was drowned in Kotzebu Sound while pad- dling out to the schooner in company with two Indians. He moved to one side, up- setting the canoe. The two Indians were saved. Patterson went to Kotzebn where he discovered Candle creek, from Lead City, S. D., in 1898. Miners from Rampart report that Glenn Gulch in that district is turning out rich and pans as high as $30 have been taken. Glenn Gulch is twenty-seven miles from Rampart and was discovered last July. Messrs. Dexter and Thompson, who were among the arrivals from the Koykukuk on the Manuense, tell of recent finds in that district. They left New York four years ago and have not been out of the district since. Miners are working with good results on Emma and Gold creeks and on Gold Gulch and fair results are being obtained on Myrtle. The latest strike made in the Koyukuk district was made by J. Gezet on Aug. 15th, when he found 10 cents to the pan on Discovery claim. During the earlier part of September he found a 35- ounce nugget valued at about $600 on his claim. Six claims have been staked on the creek, which is not a large one. A rich discovery has been made on California creek, which feeds to the south fork of the Koyukuk. The five miners. including Messrs. Due- ter and Thompson, brought out $45,000, and they report that the yield of the coun- try will be about $200,000 this season. A rush is expected there next season, for now that district is being opened up it is found to be rich. Three hundred miners will winter at Bettles, which is the depot of the district. There is plenty of food there for the winter, and it isa fine game dis- trict. 54 At the mouth of Turner creek in Kau- garok district a buried forest has been dis- covered. Trees 100 feet long have been uncovered, some in excellent state of pres- ervation and others that have decayed. The wood resembles California red wood, and some of the treesare very large. About this buried forest other evidence has been found pointing to the fact that at one time this district had a tropical or semi-tropical climate. In the buried forest elephant tusks, deer hornsand mammoth tusks have also been found. Secret Service agents of the United States are at Cape Nome endeavoring to locate the men who are circulating bogus gold dust. The operators are said to come from San Fraucisco, where the ‘‘queer’’ was manufactured and shipped thence to Alaska The fraud was discovered when assays of gold, which from appearance should have gone $15 an ounce, assayed but $5. A big storm swept Cape Nome on Sept. 27th and it wrecked several vessels and sent others ashore. No lives were lost. The schooner Prospect was wrecked on Cape Lisburne and Capt. Stevens and crew of four managed to make their way ashore and lived with the Indians until picked up by the steamer Arctic and taken to Nome. The schooner Abby M. Deering, which re- turned but a short time before from the Diomede Islands with her sixty passengers short of food, was also driven ashore and the Government tug Capt. Warden was stranded. . The miners from Nome tell of the finding of the three large nuggets, one of $1,776 on No. 1 bench, one of $1,552 on Anvil and one of $760 on Dexter. found while a miner was sinking a hole for a post. On Sept. 26th No. 9 on Anvil was robbed of $2.000 stolen from the sluice hoxes. The names of the seized ves-- ‘to show cause w! The latter was | Molineux Not Surprised. When Told That Court of Appeals Granted Him New Trial. Satisfied That He will be Acquit- ted if @iven Fair Trial—Cinvicted of the Murder of Mrs. Catherine J. Adams. Roland B. Molineux was visited at dawn on Wednesday by Warden Johnston, of Sing Sing penitentiary, who notified him of the court of appeals’ decision granting him a new trial. The prisoner was up and dressed and evidently expectant of news. Molineux gazed at the warden’s face in- quiringly : “It’s all right,’’ said Warden Johnston. ‘“The court of appeals is with you. The decision for a new trial is unanimous, and you will probably be out of here before long.” The prisoner stood for a moment silent. ‘It was what I expected,’’ he said, after an interval. ‘‘But it seems too good to be troe.”’ The other condemned men in the death- house when the word was passed around that Molineux was to go back to the Tombs expressed warm congratulations. The parole hoard, which is in session af the prison, called on Molineux. One mem- ber suggested that he make an attempt to get out on bail. “When liberty would be as sweet to me as to any man,’’ said Molineux, ‘‘I do not want my freedom unless I can step forth into the world with a clear record. My father and I have talked this matter over thoroughly. We do not want the indict- ment quashed. I want the new trial, and I want to be acquitted by a jury of twelve men. Iam satisfied that if I get a fair trial I will be proven innocent. A NOTABLE FIGHT FOR LIFE. Mrs. Catherine J. Adams, of whose mur- der Roland B. Molineux was found guilty, was killed December 28th, 1898, by drink- ing cyanide of mercary mixed with the contents of a bottle of headache remedy which had been sent to Harry S. Cornish through the mails. Cornish received the bottle at the Knick- erbocker Athletic club, New York, where he was a physical instructor: It had been mailed December 23rd, together with a sil- ver bottle holder. Cornish took the bottle to Mrs. Adams apartments, where he board- ed. She complained of having a severe headache, and drank the fatal dose to re- lieve it. Her death followed a short time afterward, though physicians were prompt- ly summoned. Cornish tasted some of the Sontenis of the bottle and became violent- y ill. Molineux’s name was first brought into the case because it was remembered that he had quarreled with Cornish. It was suggested that he might have sent the bot- tle to Cornish out of revenge. At the cor- oner’s inquest, which began on February 9th, 1899, suspicion early was fastened on him, and this was strengthened by the facts brought out in the examination. The in- quest lasted until Febroary 27th, 1899. Soon after it was over Molineux was ar- rested and indicted. His counsel attacked the indictment on the ground that the statements before the grand jury included testimony relating to the death of Henry C. Barnet, which had occured at the Knickerbocker Athletic club about a month before the death of Mis. Adams. Barnet, while ill received ‘an af- fectionate note signed ‘‘Blanche,’’ which figured in the case and was supposed to have been sent by Blanche Chesebrough, who a few days after Barnet’s death mar- ried Molineux. It was alleged that Molineux had poisoned Barnet through jealousy, and then tried the same plan on Cornish. i ai The indictment was dismissed = April 12th, 1899. Molineux was released from custody, but was rearrested before he could leave the criminal ‘ court building, and was again locked up in the Tombs, His case was presented to the grand jury again on May 9th. but that body refused to find an indictment, and he was ‘once more momentarily at'liberty. He was re- arrested on the charge of assault. : Bail for this accusation was provided, but he was tak- into custody on a charge of murder and led back to his old cell in the tombs, His release was demanded on a. writ of habeas corpus, but the motion was denied. ‘Again the case was submitted te the grand jury, and on July 20th he was, indicted forthe second SHE..i1 tf: Hn veilinsa din Su Molinepx’s trial began before Recorder Goff in the New York criminal court’ Nov. 14th, 1899. ' Bartow'S. Weeks and George Gordon Battle represented: Molineux, ; and Assistant Distriet Attorney James W., Os- borne conducted the case. for the prosecu- tion. It took twelve days to get a jury, and the whole trial lasted fifty-five days. It was delayed for a little. time: owing. to the illness of Manheim Brown, one of the jurors. On February 9th, the case was given to the jury, and after deliberation of several hours a verdict of guilty was ren- dered. fagon ve baby Molineux was sentenced to death on Fri- day, February 16th, 1900. , He was sent to Sing Sing prison. and placed in the con- demneftoell. “0 oOo nt Theh éanie the voluminous work of pre- paring his case for appeal. Over 2,000,000 words have been taken in testimony at the trial. The witness fees are said to have amonnted to $30,000, and the whole cost of the trial to havé been $175,000." * °°’ In July,:1900, the law firm’ of Weeks. Battle & Marshall. took an unusual :sfep in the, interest of Molinen: Fearful thas, Recorder Goff, who had the papers in the case, would leave ‘the city for his vacation of thrée months béfore giving the case, his consideration; thelawyers applied to Judge Dugro, of the supreme court, for an order hy a mandamus should not issue ‘to' compel the recorder tosettle’ the case on appeal ' before he iéft. The case and proposed amendments had been sub- witted $0, the recorder two days before that. i Ae i 1 iid 3) sa Recorder Goff departed ‘on’ his vacation and the application of Weeks, Battle & Marshall to’ Judge’ Dugro was ‘denied on technical: grounds: fo: oo soaaul anny At last, in June of this year, the case was argued before the court of appeals in Buffalo. Former United States Senator David B. Hill represented the prosecution in the/argument before the:court.: The case was submitted June 19th, and, as previous. ly stated, the decision, has just been an- nounced. ne ‘Molieux’s father, Gen. Leslie Molineux, is a paint manufacturer and 1s: reported to be a millionaire. The prisoner has gone in good society, being of excellent address any manners and the prospective heir to a goal fortune. - iF i SEES Bit a0 O BE — ——_____E What She: Remembered. | = : ‘Small’ Mabel has received a parental 'in- junction to remember at léast one thing the minister said at chnreh, and upon her ire turn home exclaimed, {I remember, some: SHOE” Li BGS. ails do. coh sion] “That's right’ dear,’’ rejoined her 'fath- er. ‘Now tell me ‘what’ the minister said.”? i “He said,’’ replied Mabel, ‘‘A collection, will he taken up.”’—Chicago News
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