ided from each other! People who think that the eanaler|and bread. Wo cherish grateful re ranges of Bouth Dakata this season, LOG OF THE MABEL FROM BROOKLYN TO BUFFALO, | When New York ''Lights Up," as Seen from the Cabin of a Canal- Boat Off the Battery--How the Tow of Sixty Boats was Made Up--Up the Hudson to Troy, and Then Through the Great Locks. “We intend to do nothing, and do it all day long.’’ firmly said one of the two women who had made up their minds to ‘boat it'"’ up the Hud gon and the Mohawk Valley. At first we tried to explain to our anxious friends that we did not mind a ‘‘tame’’ vacation; in fact, were just two wandering schoalmarms who proposed to board in the eabin of a canal-boat instead of in the stufly back attic of some place that called itself a popular Summer resort. We found a captain's wife who was open to conviction on the subject of boarders. “I don’t use the cabin of the other boat, anyway, ‘and you'd be a sort of company.’’ We found that the more well-to-do of the canalers usually run two boats In this case the family was and occupied only the cabin boat. That of the * Mabel, was assigned to us. The Mabel is a lake boat—that is, she has her cabin window ab the deck, with k plank outside Her cabin little feet by 16, with a berth toward the stern, lding bed on other, and cl es-presses between them; a china closet and dresser and a cooking-stove in one-half the *'f ard” end and chairs directly hatch, corner. This rooms, kitchen an " she said, small, of consort, one y { the we UeCK 1 Is 8&4 neat af which comprises y two bed- ing-room, that fr w : ——————— i | at AN AFTERNOON » seven windows and a sky- h. ple cabin of a canal-boat the hat of pe % is a’ Every drawers some sort. The first that us was to be towed ove Dock, near South Ferry We saw the Mabel whisked up the shute of vator, and the climbed is utilized for cubby-holes of thine =~ £5 SET grain a shoveled it ips, looking their work 4 big el men who from amidsl 10mes when gi companion boat hie ther side of with the captain's family $3 Mahal : her, and the Mabel was charge of her steersman doors, though, in this would certainly be lim- wy sliding ited. friend on the boat appeared and fitted our trunks into two cubby to ordinary and convenient size. We told him that we could bear every- thing but the rocking-chairs, and he said he would put them down amid- ships, Then our captain came aboard and 00 she was until night. So we mightg ashore if we liked. 2 One of us went on various once the dwelling place of noted men contemporary of Henry Clay and the patron of Horace Greeley-——and she saw the site of the First Presbyterian Church, behind which the battle of Paulus Hook took place, and that of Thatch Cottage Garden, where gentry of 1830 used to view the ities of the bay. did not know all this at the time, however, The other woman nobly retrieved her mistake in having such an she inop- une headache, and cleared up the at it a cozy little home, with everythi trim and shipshape, from dishpan to ink bottle. Then she emerged pink and triumph- became ng trig, sO th 1970 i { 3 returning comrade and we went to tea with the captain's eet her were back on the yulled out our chairs on her being whi i weing VAIN O00 the ei ourselvi i % We were Battery were 1 over to the ust as and harbor i 1 red and green and rhting vhite and unwield [abel Knew r boat ind was lines, and before wi lashed High for the of our vi aay was in the i688 oven } Tif ne ile ris Above Newbu the ith gayly strip nanned by a Kind of nauti Ww ‘ from shore launches, w 10 reels of som Here rresh vender th #, fruit, bread, jee you are ceries milk, cake, soda er, admired ONIORS, Monday morning brought us under the bridges of Albany where worthy citizens nearly precipitated themselves into the river in their as. tonishment at the sight of two women in conventional tourist rig, with field- cream, ci all ii several MARKETING AT A LOCK. We sat on deck in the evening and looked out between the great store- houses to the orange sunset on the | blue water. Mr. Kay came and told us thrilling tales of how the boats sometimes split their sturdy sides | and went to the bottom in a mo-| ment; how they went out through breaks in the canal wall and tumbled | over aqueducts, until we wished! ‘our satirical friends who had talked | about the canal being tame were j 40 hear. we went below and elimbed gar baggage and into our births and slept the oer of the weary. Next morning a tug came snd took on to the Morris Canal Basin, Jersey ity. We were glad to go there because it meant getting our load, and we wero glad to hear later of the historic associations of the region, but-—was ithot 7. After a bit things improved. A friend on shore sent us a huge basket that was a Shing of beauty of fruit, on top of a canal-boat. At 2 p. m. we went into the first lock. | Theoretically, we knew about locks. We had known ever since we tion ’’ in the far-off daysof ourgram- mar school physies, but going through a real lock is different. If you are * locking up'’ your boat slides in be- tween the great stone walls that stand high above her. The lower gates close per gates raises a lever. Then the water firws in under them. You hear it gatesopenip her, glides outon the i A level apparently ag light as a child's paper eraft. Tt makes one re- spect the mighty element, water. At Troy thors are two river locks, and then sixteen successive ones ab the beginning “et the Erie Canal. These are known among the boatmen as ‘the 16 locks,’ although the govs ernment has numbered the locks from those in the river consecutively, us though they concluded that the losomotive engineer had nothing bet- ter to do than go to sleep in his eab. Even to get a boat into a lock means with the heavy ““hbow’' and ‘' stern lines’ that hold her to the posts—and bad man- agement or a weak line hassent many a boat crashing through the lock gates, The is six hours, from 1 to steerman 8 wal Its flowers yacation two We | neariy Eat ink when you're ¥, ired.”’ » took meal day with captain’s family. This was usu- ally breakfast, but it was not the first thing on our day's programme. One of became an early riser, and in the dim light of four o'clock in the morning she rose and made ecoffeo for and her sleepy comrade. had two delightful hours on where everything was shimmer. i with the night's dew, before! breakfast on the other boat. After breakfast we superintended our boat's toilet—that is, we looked on while her decks were serubbed with a broom and innumerable pails of water. Anything cleaner than a well-kept canal-boat like ours it lias not been our good fortune to encoun ter. Until ten o'clock we usually stayed on deck. Then its white glare in the sun became dazzling, and we retreated into the cool and cozy cabin. There we concocted elaborate dinners or delectable cold lunches, as best suited our mood. In the afternoon we slept, and in the cool of the day we had tea on dee k. | Then came the long, delightful | vilowed always when you're t one enchn us horself Then she deck, ing in the moonlight, enjoying the chill, | freah air that never failed to come | with nightfall, and luxuriously pity- ing our friends on shore. The locks no longer suggested such lofty reflections on the elements, but | they became wonderfully interesting as probable sources of supply—that is, we did our shopping at then. There are groceries on mauy of them ~from the nondescript country store to the imposing establishment of the larger cities—and a whiteaproned we began to appreciate the skill and judgment requisite to y boatman, from the passing boats, Our standing wants were ice. milk collections of the obliging young gro- 5 = J KE lock wall to land a nearly forgotten piece of ice on our deck. And we ilked the enterprising small boy whe sold us a plump, warm loaf of home- mude bread with the assurance, ‘Ma just took it out of the oven. We went through Rochester one day at sunset, and two mornings af- ter climbed the grant stairs of Lock- port, where the upper gates of one lock form the lower ones of its This is one of the things that we do not attempt to ces ribe, A veteran boatman said to me, “I never ‘locked down’ at Lockport without a little fear. Suppose the the upper I SUC CORsOr, wk gave way! wood at the ing | At 3 o'clock nhoard tl have us next morning our men- 16 Mubel., who hated of the sights miss any luok out d Beg thie River.” I sleepy oves it seemed nn Niagara my water strip of the that this must be agal and al sunris » Buffalo. woe thin beyond towpath n agai Growing Sponges. ponges will near futur Re centiy the old guestionasto whether spong are vegetable or animal, overturni not vegetable may be, ti can be ner axed in 5 definitely sponge by ply planting small pieces of “them, which grow rapidly.” =={ Washingt: Post. fi The Japanese Navy. American interest naturally at taches to the Japanese navy from the fact that her first armed ship of and her first admiral American officer. The the Stonewall, which was eaptured from the Confederates while at Hae sel, was vessel and {aken to Yokohama by way of the straits of Magellan in charge of Captain George Brown, United States Navy, The first Japanese admiral was Walter Grinnell, who was ap- pointed to that office while an ensign in the United States navy stationed at Hiogo.~{ Detroit Free Press. He Owns a Volcano. Ia the ownerof a voleano to be ene If so, such a one is General tor of Popocatbpete, the famous “smoking mouniain’’ of Mexico. There has heen recently put forward a scheme for the construction of a line of cables to the summit of the mountain, strung with buckets oper. ating by gravity, such as are seen in many of the mining districts in the States. By a means the intheuse eposits of g ur may ght on the market {New Orleans Pica- yune. hy a wo Aw Ried SOMEWHAT § SEASONABLE HINTS AND MAT ~ TERS OF MOMENT, Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures Which Show that Truth is Stranger Than Fiction, Being a peer of England is not, it seems, an unhealthy heritage. Fif- teen of the lords have died within a year, it is true; but ten of them are over the alloted ‘three score years and ten,” and four of them were over eighty. Evidently high life and long life favor each other KeExTueky raises a lot of bigthings but the biggest we have heard lately are the two daughters of a far- mer living in the Big Sandy Vi The oldest girl, who is 13, weighs 470 pounds, and measures six feet around waist. The 3 is 7, weighs 175 pounds, an four and a half feet of oungest daughter | measures around the waist. WaLtox a farmer lis Guthrie Joux of Okla., came load { ] pr yi il broke found Tu GE Was repli » was valu tO hin Ars telling ACrOEs the « % and hie was subject facd 1 he baad {hat Was ab sank down and began writhing viole Horner was tightly clutel for several was gre atest effort that Horne Pr ed the sufferer from falling from the car and pullir im along. When the man recovered he said he was on his way to the far west Brakeman and by the man and with the prevent. took hold 3 nies Tue Two Republics (Mexico) notes the erection on the summit of Mount Orizaba, or, as the Mexicans call it, Citialtepetl (Star Mountain), of an iron cross seven yards high in place of the wooden one, erected there a long while ago. The Two Republics asserts that this cross is the highest one in America. It has been suppos- ed, it says, that the voleano Mistes, in Guatemala, was higher than Ori- zaba, but recent measurements make it appear that the latter mountain is the Rhghest one north on the Isthmus of Panama, and it is the highest on the western continent on which a cross has been erected. Probably it ia the highest one in the world. A meeting of eattlemen was held recently inJackson Co. 8. D,, to dis | cuss the matter of ridding ranges of | the numberless wolves which now in- fest them, much to the annoyance and damage of the cattlemen, It has’ finally been decided to msssess each owner of cattle or horses one cent per | head, the money thus raised to be converted into a fund and paidout in | bounties of $6 for each gray woll's scalp brought in. This plan is be. lieved to be the only solution of this tieved it will re- | sult in the number of wolves being | ly diminished. Great 0 Deen done 3 ¥ & and these pests are practically the only serious obstacle against which the stockmem have to contend. Aven eareful and prolonged con. sideration, the British Government has at length decided to adopt the Bertillon system of the identification of criminals, in conjunction with the finger-print system originated by Sir William Herschell and by Mr. Fran- cig Galton. The system of M. Ber- tillon consists in recording the mens urements of diverse bony parts of the haman frame—parts which do not alter with any change which age, accident or device may make in the With data establish the iden- measure M. Ber- naving muscular t these igste, 1080 O1 record assistants Carly S500 000 per swig oh rougn ng bait h 5% #503 2 44 Mis ii (iid Nat : King Tawhaio was usal of sho aa need of for his opera- with a very a self and found him small balance the bank He eon- silted the cashier, friend of his, as to how he could get over the emer gency, and the suggested that he should draw on somebody not too near the city. Tha operator said that he knew of no that owed jm, and the cashier insinuated that hat would make no difference, if the draft did not return too soon, The operator reflected a time, and then wrote out a draft on the sultan of Turkey for $10,000, and deposited it in the bank. The draft went to New York, and thence to London, where it came into the hands of the Roths- childs, who forwarded it to Constan- tinople, and it was duly presented to the sultan’s chamberlain, who, not knowing anything about it, referred it to the sultan. “Who is this man?’ asked the sultan. “Don’t know him."’ ions a Casjer one I : him anything?’ demanded his high- ness. “‘No,”’ replied the other. “Then do not pay it." decided the potentate. “Bat, if 1 might advise,” said the crafty counselor, “this draift comes through the Rothschilds, with whom we are negotiating a two million loan, Would it be safe, under the circum- stances, to dishonor it?’ ‘Pay it,” said he x: Itan, 1d oo the 8t. | speculntor wns cher he knew, 80 X's own great astonish
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