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habit in this regard. He ipeateth with
snore ,voice than any man it hath been my
lot to meet in thia world. I grieve me more
' and more that I did miss him. Verily, he
ia dear to me," urged Lazarus with rising
feeling. "Tell me of what he did dis
course." "Of the Roman threat and the Jewish
hatred," said Mary mournfully. "Of the
harriers set before the father's Troth at
every side but it was of tbe Truth that he
did speak; and of the Father. He said few
words concerning himself; he careth not for
himself, LaiarusI He valueth not his own
safety, nor his sleep, nor food, nor rest, nor
health, nor hope of any human comfort. He
careth only for his Father and for miserable
people."
"He is of the Father," said Lazarus sol
emnly. .'He is not as we. This world and
the wars thereof do not tear him as with us,
he is like one who treadeth unharmed a
cage of wild beasts. I am not worthy to
unloose the lachet of his sandals, O my sis.
terl"
Lazarus bowed himself unto the ground,
and drew his breath with the resurgent mo
tion of a man who would weep were he not a
man. Mary looked on with awe and per
plexity. She knew not how to comfort a
distress which she knew not how to try to
understand. Sweet.serene.distautuntouched
by passion, she came no nearer to Lazarus
at that moment than a pure, cold star.
"I innst see him," said Lazarus, abruptly
controlling himself. "I have need of him.
I must suffer no longer time to elapse. It is
the days of many weeks since I have looked
upon his face. It dimmeth before my heart,
yet, as the Lord heareth me, my heart doth
' cling to him! I must make it my busi-
. ness, if it be not my chance I must see the
Nazarene."
CHAPTER VL
THE CONFESSION TO ANNAS.
The morning rose like a princess. The
sun was resplendent. The trumpet-call
to early prayer rang through the bright air
with a long, quivering cry. Lazarus at the
summons stood at his window at the win
dow looking toward Jerusalem, as the cus
tom demanded aid bowed his face in silent
petition. His soul was lifted; his nerve
was calmed; the lever of last night where
was it? Laid by the cool pure morning
breath? Or healed by the diviner art that
comes ot holy thought? Lazarus felt like a
convalescent; he wondered at yesterday's
attack ot leeling; he thought of the daughter
of Annas with a cnrious sense of humilia
tion; she seemed to elude him as a dream
when one awaketh; he reproached himsell
- that bis emotion had pursued her. As he
stood at prayer he had the heart of a penitent.
At the morning meal his sister served him
more silently than usual; perhaps this was
the reflection of his own mood; or perhaps the
soothing influence ot the guest ot yesterday
.lingered yet upon the household. Even
Martha was subdued. Her face wore its best
look. And Lazarus had said:
"Forgive me, Martha," when he came
forth in tbe morning.
Now Martha was so used to being the one
to be forgiven that the reveisal ot position
gave her satisfaction. It put her in excel-
. lent humor when another member of the
. lamily fretted ard had to acknowledge it.
Lazarur parted ironi his sister pleasantly,
. and went to his work with a quiet, thought-
- Jul mien.
"I shall arrange it soon," he had said to
Mary, "I shall make it my duty to search
for him in Jerusalem nntil I find' him."
Lazarus fully intended to do so. He
made bis way to the palace with a brisk
step. At the palace the workmen were al
ready astir. Fine carving upon therenewed
cedar pillars was the order of the day; it re
quired the closest supervision; Lazarus sur
rendered himsell to the work. He had an
artist's nature, rudely cultivated as it wis,
' and crudely expressed in such limited ways
; as bis avocation permitted. He directed
with conscience and enthusiasm the carving
f of a pattern of ines and pomegranates from
f which all outline ofthehnman or animal
, figure was religiously excluded; abas relief
' of little pillars supporting a miniature por-
t tico peered between the vines. Lazarns be-
. came closely interested in the execution of
this design. His day's work set in nrosuer-
w ? rnislv. The entrances to the women's por
tion of the palace were carefully curtained.
No one but the officers ,01 the household ap
peared. "Annas, the high priest, is gratified with
the handiwork ot Lazarus, the builder,"
said one of these men with a pompous gra
ciousness. Lazarus bowed.
"This is as it should be," he replied, with
s slight hauteur. He returned to his task
with renewed absorption. Not well pleased,
as the day wore on, with the execution of
certain details, the master builder rebuked
Lis artists with some emphasis. One of
them, restless under the criticism, threw
. down his burin, or the tool which then cor-
responded to that name, and irritably said:
t "If I cannot please you I will try no
loncer. Finish the work yourself, Lazarus."
"Nay, then, I will," cried Lazajus; and
forthwith did proceed to make good his
, word.
Now, as he worked in this impressive
manner, carving after the imagination of
his own heart upon the cedar pillar, and
scarcely knowing what manner of thought
his hand executed, Lazarus let his soul tree;
it took wings and fed from him and bore
him whithersoever he would not. It was
high, hot noon. His artists and workmen
had betaken themselves without the palace
lor resting space and a meaL The palace
was quiet. Lazarus, adream before the
pillar, stood alone, carving assiduously.
Suddenly his hand fell like the hand of
palsy at his side. Through the stillness of
the warm, soft air a low laugh rang like a
muffled silver bell. The tool dropped from
the hand of Lazarus. The blood rushed to
his face.
"Zahara!" he murmured.
She stood indeed behind him a blazing,
scowling beauty; her eyes mocked him; her
full lips pouted; with one hand she pointed
to the carving on the pillar.
"Verily for a devout Jew, thou hast done
a fine deed, sir builder."
Done? What had he done? Behind the
carven vines, behind the trellised portico,
' behind the miniature pillars ot the designs
the cedar wood gave the faint outline of a
figure a girl's figure, hiding modestly, with
flowing robes, between the leaves.
"The Sanhedrin would be ill pleased,"
teased Zahara. "What an ecclesiastical
crime thou bast committed!"
"Is it a crime in thine eyes?" demanded
the builder hotly. His own regarded her
manfully. His urgent tenderness looked
out of them. A wave of daring love rolled
over him. He would be as he wat! He felt
a sudden, sacred right to the impetuosity or
Ms own nature.
Zahara returned his ardent gaze with a
aueenly lsok; then for she could not help
it her own eyes dropped before his, less
like a queen than like a woman, and more
like a sensitive girl than either.
"Nay, then," she said soltly, "I wrote
.not the law, but Moses. Thou hast broken
no stone table of mine."
"I conld not help it," said Lazarus im
pulsively, "I can not forget thee. Thou art
in the thought ot my heart and the dream
of my mind, and thou controlled the deed
of my baud as the wind controllest a boat
upon the sea."
"My lather," observed Zahara demurely,
"might not find the carving agreeable." She
had veiled herself as she spoke, and stood
sheltered, a lovely, swaying figure, half re
treating as she spoke.
"Thou warnest me wisely," said Lazarus;
''Annas the High Priest shall not be dis
turbed by the weakness of a moment in
Lazarus the builder. The carving shall be
righted according to the letter of the law.
Fear not, Zahara, I have done no error past
a remedy."
As he spoke he smote the figure with a
passionate gesture The cedar wood gave
out a rich perfume like the protest of a
creature wounded.
"Ah me!" cried Zahara, wincing pret
tily, "you hurt the poor girl!"
The lace of Lazarus became very pale.
Zahara could not know the emotion 'she
aroused by her little feminine play. If she
had known wonld she have spared him?
"Lazarus thought not. His manhood roused
.itself to sudden self-defense. His eyes gave
ZaliHi-a one blinding look. But his lips re
jwtlned obstinately mute. With auiefc.
strong experienced strokes, he struck ths
'graven image from the pillar, and covered
with thin foliage the spot where the outline
of the hiding girl had stood. As he worked
he did not even lookaround to see it Zahara
were still there. He believed she would
stay. And stay she did.
"Behold," he said at last, turning sud
denly, "she is gone. She is blotted from
existence. The law condemneth me not, if
I kill what I have created. Does that please
you, Zahara?"
"It concerneth me not," said Zahara in a
low voice.
"Thou needest not to remind me of that."
urged Lazarus. "Too well I know the truth.
Too sad a truth it is."
"But," suggested Zahara timidly, "if I
were that girl that carved girl I do not
think it would please me to be killed and
forgotten so soon, sir builder."
"Zahara!" cried Lazarus in a voice of rap
ture. "Zaharal Zaharal" called one of her
women from within.
Zanara made a quick movement with both
of her fine hands; it was gesture of entreaty,
it was a gesture of dismissal; it was a wilful,
tender, capricious, untranslatable action.
Lazarus stood gazing steadfastly after her.
But Zahara had gone.
That evening before the workmen de
parted the stiff rustling of the priestly robe
announced to the builder for the first time
since he had begun his work the presence of
Annas. The artists and carpenters bowed
with reverence before the High Priest. Laz
arns saluted him respectfully.
"I come to observe your repairs," re
marked1 Annas. "They have given me sat
isfaction hitherto. It is a workmanlike
undertaking, honestly executed and well
conceived."
Lazarus silently bowed.
"You will not find it too long a task, I
infer?" inquired the High Priest, politely.
"Not beyond a week further," quickly
replied Lazarus. As he spoke the words he
felt a sick sinking at the heart, never known
before to the sensation of his peaceful and
uneventful life. A week? Only a week!
Then was Zahara no more liable to cross the
orbit of his life than Annas the High
Priest to invite him to supper.
"Of course, I wish the work thoroughly
finished, continued Annas, with a keen
look. "Even at the c5st of a few extra
denarii if need were. It is too good a mat
ter not to be a perfect one."
"I need no more time," replied Lazarus
slowly. A struggle set in upon bis nature.
How "easy to prolong the period of service
at the palace the period of delight and
denial within the blessed possibility of her
presence who was becoming to him, he felt
at that moment, incredibly, unbearably
dear. The longing of the lover battled
with the conscience of the artisan. Lazarus
felt that he never knew before the meaning
of a sense of honor.
"No," he repeated firmly, "No. The
work can be done within tbe period agreed.
Why should I intrude upon vour court
esy?" "You are an honorable person," observed
the High Priest, graciously.
"I have enioyed the work," conceded
Lazarns, "it would have been agreeable to
me had the palace required my service fur
ther. It does not"
"At some future day it may do so," con
tinued Annas urbanely. Lazarus felt his
lip tremble and his color change. He bent
over a tool and tried its edge upon his
finger.
"Your politeness is beyond my deserts,"
he replied with Oriental snavity. At that
moment he felt an emotion perfectly new to
him; a sense of kindliness to the old man
replaced his instinctive antagouism; the
father of Zahara became interesting to him.
"You have wounded your finger upon the
tool," observed Annas.
"It is nothing," said Lazarus, binding the
blood with embarrassment.
"What, I pray, is your design at this
point?" inquired Annas, critically observ
ing the carving of the pillar. He placed
his priestly finger upon the spot where
the little "graven image" of Zahara had
been changed (like a heathen dryad) into a
waving tree.
"The foliage appears to me thick in this
spot," continued Annas, "Is it a Greek
imagination ?"
"It is my own design," said Lazarns with
heightened color. Annas gave tbe builder
a searching look who could have said
why? For certainly no suspicion of the
truth could by possibility have been ap
parent to the High Priest. Both men felt
uncomfortable.
"You are a Pharisee, I understand," said
Annas abruptly changing tbe subject.
"Such is my ecclesiastical position," re
turned Lazarus, with dignity.
"Know you aught of these popular dis
turbancesthese religious riot ot the peo
ple? You seem to be a man of intelligence,
in some respects above your situation in life.
Have you familiarity with these pretenders
these false prophets and idols of the popu
lace who lead them astray like sheep shep
herded by wolves?"
"I know none such," answered Lazarus
proudly.
"Tnere is one he calleth himself the Pro
phesied, he nameth the sacred name of the
Messiah he teacheth as a Babbi, and
assumeth to perform the miraculous, be
witching the people vainly. Know you this
man?"
"I know none such," repeated Lazarus
firmly.
"I refer," said the High Priest, "to the
Nazarene; know you the man?"
"Intimately, "said Lazarus without a mo
ment's hesitation. "I both know and do
revere him."
"Surely," said the High Priest with se
verity, "you put no trust in his preposterous
claim?"
At this moment the Jight flashed before
the face of Lazarns, and a faint perfume of
attar of roses filled the hot air. Zahara,
robed in silver-wrought white, veiled in pale
purple gauze, floated up to her father and
laid her small hand upon his arm.
"Go thou within, my child," said the
priest with a caressing frown, "1 do dis
course with the builder."
"Let me stay," pleaded Zahara; "I will
not interrnpt thee. I but pass across the
court to give an order to my women. Let
me stay a moment, father."
Her brilliant eyes, moving above her veil
like suns above a cloud, turned slowly
toward the builder. In them not a scintilla
of recognition burned. Zahara leaned non
chalantly against her father's arm. She
was the portrait of indifference. Lazarus
returned her glance with deferent distance.
His heart leaped within him that she gave
herself this little play before her father;
she cherished a petty secret between them
she, Zahara! He set his teeth with the
struggle of concealment and covered his
ardent eye with a soft film of remoteness.
He drew himself together manfully and
took up the conversation where Zahara had
snapped it.
"Concerning the Nazarene," he began
"Oh," interrupted Zahara disdainfully,
the Nazarene!"
Lazarus ceased abruptly. His sensitive
color left him,
"Continue," ordered tbe High Priest.
"Art thou then of his rabble one of his
people?"
Zahara regarded Lazarus now quite
steadily; her beautiful eyes expressed aston
ishment and displeasure. Lazarus hesitated
for a perceptible instant. Then he answered
distinctly: "I see no reason why I should
deny that I number myself among those who
do follow the doctrine of Jesus the Naza
rene." A-well-bred stillness filled the court of the
palace at this announcement.
"Young man," said the High Priest
coldly, "I would fain caution you against
this person. He is a dangerous fellow."
Zahara said nothing. She swept upon
Lazarus one eloquent look; it seemed to him
to express command, reproach, regret, and
something else beside was it entreaty? On
the motion of this look she stirred and
turned and floated across the court. One of
her women, a pet slave, a young girl, came
to her and put an arm about her with pretty,
feminine familiarity.
"Ah then, Bebecca!" cried Zahara.
I Lazarus could have hurled Bebecca over the
I palwall.
Continue your wore." commanded
Annas with a sudden change of expression,
"I interrupt you no longer.".
The two men exchanged cold salutations.
The High Priest walked away in his state-J
THE
liest attitude. The builder bowed his head
over the pillar where the little graven image
had been carved out of existence.
The next day one of the officers of the
palace remained on duty within the portico.
The man yawned and fidgeted: he bad plain
ly nothing to do. Ibe High Priest did not
reappear. Zabara's curtains were closely
drawn. Once Lazarus heard or fancied that
he heard her laugh and call: "Bebecca!"
But he had only his fanoy for his content.
"It is a dull day," said the officer sullen
ly. "What have you done. Sir builder, that
I should be stationed in this stupid post all
day?" Lazarus lifted his head ana stared
at the fellow.
"Verily," said the officer. "I believe you
know not any more than I do. It must be
some whim of the High Priest. He abound
eth in them. I shall make known to .him
that you are quite innocent at all events."
"Innocent of what?" cried Lazarus.
The officer gave a short, sharp laugh.
Perhaps unconsciously, perhaps intention
ally, his conspicuous headdress inclined by
an almost imperceptible motion toward the
women's portion of the palace.
Lazarus worked on in silence. His heart
was sore within him. He felt humiliated
to no end and angered for no cause, and dis
turbed without hope of restoration.
"I am become a miserable man," thought
Lazarus. "Would to God that I had never
struck a nail into tbe palace of the High
Priest! Would to God that I had never
seen "
But he conld not, or he did not, finish the
sentence. Better to have seen heir Oh,
better to have seen, Zahara, by a hundred
fold of what she cost him I Lazarus could
not imagine himself now, without having
seen Zahara.
"We have but six davs' work upon the
palace left," said one ot the artists with a
sigh of relief.
"Six days?" cried Lazarus. "Yes. You
are right. It is but six days."
"It might even be completed in five,"
suggested an industrious workman, "if these
fellows were not so insufferably lazy."
"Possibly," replied Lazarus, standing
hack to survey the repairs, "you are correct
It might it may be done in five."
( To be continued next Sunday.')
SELF-SHAVING THE BAGS.
Washington Men Trying It With More or
Less Disastrous Results.
"They say a great many men have taken
to shaving themselves recently," remarked
a Washington Herald representative to a
popular barber. "Do you find you have lost
many customers from this cause?"
"Well, no, but I came mighty near losing
a couple," answered the barber, with a
smile so full of irony that it almost turned
the edge of the razor he beld in his hand.
"What do you mean?" inquired the re
porter, as he saw there was something in
that smile.
"Why, they had never handled a razor
before in their lives, and their first attempts
at shaving themselves were so clumsy that
they had a narrow escape from cutting their
own throats. One of them did cut a nice,
big slice off the corner of his jaw before he
gave up tbe attempt to shave himself.
"Yes, we've sold quite a number of
razors within the last year to customers ot
ours who thought they were going to do
their own shaving. But I don't think a
single one of them stuck to it a week. One
man dind't even have the grit to finish his
first shave, and he came down here in a
badly mangled condition, with half the
stubble still on, to have me finish it He
swears nothing will ever induce him to try
shaving himself again."
"What is the hardest kind of beard to
shave?"
"Well, beards of variegated color that
is, that have several different shades in
different parts of them are very apt to be
thick, bard and wiry, and the skin is at the
same time often verv tender. All-black
beards are also hard to cut Nearly all
Hebrews have a strong, wiry growth ot hair
that is particularly hard on a-razor."
SO HE HAS TO MAKEX.
A Chinese Student on Returning M7rom
America Finds Himself KuKnged.
New York San.
Tbe way an Americanized Chinese student
looks at China after years of residence here,
and the manner ot his reception at home is
here given verbatim in his own letter from
Foo Chow to an American friend. This
stndent Is now an officer iu the Chinese
Navy:
"When I reached Shanghai my father
wrote to me that while I was away a great
many of his friends have offered their
daughters to be engaged to me, and that he
had at last, without consulting me, selected
one for me from a mandarin. You know that
it is a custom here that marriages are con
tracted by parents without consulting those
who are to be united. On hearing of my en
gagement I tried to break it off, but with
out success, as the Chinese consider an en
gagement the most sacred contract, so that
if it is once made it can never be broken off.
According to the Chinese custom the
younger brother cannot marry before the
elder one. I have two younger brothers who
have to wait for me to get married before
they can. Therefore I was urged very
strongly by my relatives to marry right off.
I did not like to displease my father by op
posing his wishes, so I consented to marry
the last of April. Of course it is not a love
affair, bat I shall try to do my duty as a
husband.
. "It is very uncertain whether the Chinese
Government will send us back or not but I
hope to see you all again in a few years."
IT WOULD HAVE BUIMSD HIM.
Why Uncle Dick Oglcbr Wouldn't Smoke
Twenty-Five Cent Clears.
New York Press.
Uncle Dick Oglesby, ex-Governor of
Hlinois, when he was in New York several
years ago, was invited by a friend to dine at
Delmpnico's. This was before his election
for Governor, five years ago, and while he
was a candidate for the nomination. He bad
never been in Delmonico's, and accepted
with pleasure. The dinner over, cigars was
proposed, and as both gentlemen were due
at an appointment, they went to the cigar
stand to be served. The attendant, know
ing the Governor's entertainer, took a box
of fine Havanas from under the counter,
and opened if to serve them.
"What are these?" asked the Governor.
"Cigars," replied his host
"But how much are they?" he persisted
in asking, and the man at the counter re
plied: "Four for a dollar."
A look of something like holy horror stole
over Uncle Dick's face, as he put up his
hand with a deprecatingmotion, and gasped
out half tragically:
"Put 'em back; put 'em right back. Why,
if they knew out in Illinoy that I smoked a
25-cent cigar it would ruin me socially,
financially, religiously, politically and
every other way. No, sir; a S-cent cigar is
good enough for me iu Illinoy and a 10
center in New York."
she was well posted.
The Story Belated by President Hyde of
Bowdoln Collese.
Lewlstown Journal.
S President Hyde of Bowdion tells a good
story of the first marriage ceremony at
which he officiated while occupying a pulpit
in Jersey City. It seems that the bigger
half of the interesting couple was rather
timid and nervons, one of those men whose
diffidence is in danger of leading him into
some awkward blunder. The bride, on the
contrary, was remarkably cool and self-possessed.
As the couple presented themselves
before President Hvde there seemed to be
some misunderstanding in regard to tbe side
on which the lady should stand. The groom
hitched about nervously but the bride was
equal to tbe occasion. Quickly changing
places with her bashful fiance she re
marked confidently. "There, I am sure
this is the side on which I have always been
accustomed to stand." This solved the
difficulty, and tbe timid groom and the
young widow, who knew all about it from
experience, were speedily united.
PITTSBTJTRG- DISPATCH.
THE GREAT FAILURE.
Sains of De Lesseps Panama Canal
as Thej Appear To-Day.
THE ISTHMUS A VAST.GRAYEIARD.
Description of the Citj of Aspinwall and
Its Quarters.
A 8ACEED FLOWER OP THE TEOPICS
iCOaBXSrONDIIfCI OT THE DISrATCH.l
Aspinwall, December 24.
HIS noted town
is one of tbe
many to whose
attractions dis
tance lends en
cha ntment.
Viewed from
shipboard, one
sees nothing but
a foreground of
'''immense sheds
belonging to the
Isthmian Bail
way, backed by
towering cocoa
trees and feathery palms, and in, the dis
tance a dim waste of tropical vegetation.
This is the harbor which Columbus is sup
posed to have discovered on his third voy
age and hence tbe ancient name, Cristoval
Colon, which is Spanish for the same. It
was not very much of a discovery after all,
for the water among those dangerous coral
reefs is extremely shallow and subject to all
the storms that blow.
By the way, though the Isthmus is only
42 miles wide, strange to say the sea-level
here is 6J4 feet higher than the low-water
mark in Panama bay on the other side; and
while at Panama the difference between the
extreme levels of the tides is 27 feet, here it
is scarcely one foot
Getting up to the dock is a bIow and se
rious matter, vessels being brought thereto
by a gang of barefooted negroes, running
THE CANAL A3
around and around a big wooden wheel,
whose revolutions shorten the cable, inch
by inch. The wharf is more than 1,000 feet
long, with a solid foundation of coral reef,
and all its piles that touch the water are
covered with copper, to resist the ravages
of the "ship-worm," here known as El
Teredo.
THE CURIOUS LITTLE SHIP WORM.
This industrious little creature is precisely
like an animated auger, with a boring head,
whether be is born in the wood or enters it
in infancy, nobody knows; but certain it is
that he goes right on boring all the days of
his life, closely following the grain and
never turning aside unless he encounters a
fellow workman who has the right of way.
The teredo can work better, or rather worse,
below salt water than above it and seems to
have an especial fondness for steamers
lying in tropical harbors. Through his in
sidious agency thousands ot human lives
and millions ol dollars have been lost in
ships whose timbers be has riddled, the
injury not being suspected till far ont at
sea, when the first gale blew them in pieces.
The ship-worm, like adversity, has not
been without its uses, however, since from
it Brunei borrowed bis idea for tunneling
under the Thames. As the teredo's head is
furnished with a set of disks that rapidly
cut away the wood, Brunei constructed a
gigantic iron "worm," with windows in its
head, and in each window he placed a man,
who removed the earth before him and tbns
made way for the machine to be pushed for
ward. And now most tunneling machines
are made on the same principle.
A BEAUTIFUL AKD CELEBRATED FLOWER.
But before setting out to "do" tbe town,
let us stop a moment at the office ofthe Pacific.
Mail Steam Navigation Company and inter
view Captain J. M. Dow, tbe genial Super
intendent, who has resided many years on
the Isthmus and is still very much alive,
reports on the "deadliness" of tbe climate
to the contrary notwithstanding, About the
brightest spot in all this section is the com
pany's garden adjoining the office, where
may be found a wonderfnl collection of tropi
cal fruits and strange flowers, among
them the celebrated Flor del Esperitu
Santo (Flower of the Holy Spirit),
known to botany as Penstera elata
a member of the orchid family.
Its waxy-white blossom resembles a tulip,
and inside the flower is tbe perfect figure of
a dove, with drooping wings and head bent
so that the bill nearly touches the breast
The body of the dove is white as snow, the
bill is tipped with crimson and a rich per
fume Is exhaled, like that of the magnolia.
It is said that the earliest Spanish explorers,
those crnel yet superstitious crusaders,
knelt before this flower and worshiped it,
and to this day so much of religious
reverence clings to it that a native, how
ever generous he may be with the rest of his
possessions, never presents one to a person
whom he does not know to be a true Cath
olic. DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY.
As all the world is aware, Coloo, or As
pinwall, occupies the small island of Man
zanillo. Until leased by the Colombian
Government to the Panama Bailway Com
pany, in 1854-55, Manzanillo Island was
nothing but a series of mud flats and salt
marshes. The railroad managers forthwith
constructed an isthmus, connecting it to tbe
main land, established their headquarters on
tbe northern and western shores, after hav
ing filled up a considerable portion of the
mud flats; and subleased the rest of the
island to capitalists, for building purposes.
A mushroom town at once sprang up. Com
merce flourished, especially when the open
ing of the canal work iu 1880 put millions
of dollars into circulation.
One long street, with wooden houses
facing the sea, comprises nearly the whole
ofthe city; and yet it is divided into "quar
ters" almost as distinct from one another as
though they were separate towns. That
nearest the wharf, where the Americans
mostly congregate, is called Aspinwall, in
honor of Mr. W. Aspinwall, of New York,
one of the railway directors, and is decidedly
cosmopolitan in its character. The same
long street,, merging into a beautiful ave
nue of palms, leads to the French quarter,
which is universally known as Colon.
Among its handsome residences, the two
largest and handsomest are those that were
built for M. de Lesseps and his son. -Near
them is the colossal bronze statue oi Chris
topher Columbus, with a beautiful Indian
girl crouching beside him a gift to the
town from Empress Eugenie. There is a
very large and well-appointed hospital here,
as also another in the American quarter,
and most of tbe offices and buildings of tbe
canal company.
The American quarter has its bronze
"statue, too. though not Quite so pretentious
i, as that of the French one of Aspinwall.
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who gave his name to this end of the town.
Such a heterogeneous collection of national
ities as swarm here, never was seen before
especially since the high tide of prosperity
has passed, leaving a driftwood of human
degradation. There are fully 60,000 people
on the tiny island, and a large proportion of
them are blacks from Jamaica and San Do
mingo tall, powerfully built men and
women, with the thickest lips, flattest noses
and wooliest wool that ever grew on human
craniums. Tbe quarter where these people
swarm and breed like flies bears no compari
son, I hope, to any other under the sun.
The roofs of Aspinwall are mostly tiled,
the upper half of each house projecting far
out over tbe sidewalk, with awning-shaded
verandas above. A large share of the home
lire goes on in these verandas. Electric
lights illuminate many private residences,
as well as the streets and public buildings.
A paper called The Isthmus is published
three times a week, in the three languages
most spoken in this modern Babel. There are
secret societies witbont number Masons,
Odd Fellows, Ancient Order of Foresters,
Knights of Pythias, etc. Beggars, of course,
abound, and disease, deformity, vice and
filth in every form. Leprosy is not uncom
mon. BEMAINS OF TBR CANAL.
Of course, we must see tbe entrance to the
celebrated canal, npon which work was
commenced just nine vears ago. We find it
on tbe main land, behind the island on
which Aspinwall is situated. There are
acres and acres of warehouses and work
shops, and cottages for the laborers and
residences for the officers, now mostly de
serted, all made of wood.
The most astonishing stories are rife con
cerning the methods of robbery practiced
by the canal company's officials. Every
body stole except, perhaps, the father of
the whole scheme, M. Ferdinand de Les
seps, who is now in his 85th year.
Think of it! The proceeds of $350,000,000
in bonds, the hard-earned savings of the
thrifty poor of France, sunk in this great,
useless mudhole, never half completed, and
which is rapidly caving in at the sides and
filling up the cuts already made. The con
fidence of the French people has received
too rude a shock to be ever restored; but
even if a new company could be formed to
morrow.with unlimited capital at command,
it is doubtful if tney could take the gigantic
failure as it stands to-day and bring it to a
successful completion before the American
canal, across Nicaragua, will be finished.
All along the line of the abandoned
cuttings are hundreds of mighty dredges
IT IS TO-DAY.
and engines, mostly ot American make;
thousands of cranes and cars, and a large
amouut of railway rolling-stock rusting
and sinking deeper nnd deeper into the
mud. Such ofthe dredges, cars, etc., as are
not buried in the gravel washed down upon
them by the recent rains, are just now being
dressed in brand-new coats of red and black
paint making ready for the French Com
missioners, who are expected here soon to
inspect the work and report to the Govern
ment as to the advisability of forming a
new company to complete the project.
THE APPALLING DEATH BATE.
The death rate on this narrow neck of land
during the last ten years especially those
employed along the canal has been simply
appalling; tar worse, in fact, as those who
have survived declare, than the world was
permitted to hear of. The company's hos
pitals, containing 1,000 beds, were constant
ly filled; and it must be remembered that
only those who were able to travel afterthey
became ill, were sent there not a fraction of
the numbar who perished miserably by the
wayside. Of the 56 Sisters of Charity sent
from France for service in these hospitals, 23
died. The number of doctors needed inactive
employ was 30; and mortality among them
averaged 80 in five years. During the early
days ot the contract Northern physicians
were very unpopular; but later it was dis
covered that the "Yankee Saw-bones" were
harder to kill than French and Spanish
medicos, and impossible to scare in the line
of their duty.
In sober truth, the whole Isthmus is one
vast graveyard; for besides the consecrated
God s acres," are trenches filled to the
bnm with mouldering bones, and thousands
ot isolated graves scattered all over the
tropic wilderness. And oh! the pity of it!
Most of the victims, were vounp men, hun
dreds fresh from college, full of high hopes
and eager ambitions. The pride oi many a
mother's heart occupies an unmarked grave,
which none but God remembers, where vege
tation riots, and serpents glide and strange
flowers blossom. Fannie B. Ward.
SEW KIND OP FAITH CURE.
An Ardent Worshiper of Terpsichore Be
stored to Heulth Promptly.
New York Sun. J
A beautiful but frail young lady of the
Connecticut Eiver Valley not long ago fell
into so serious a decline that her parents
meditated taking her to a health resort, but
the other night she entreated her father to
let her go to a village dance, and he con
sented, stipulatingonly that she should take
a.pedometer along with her. She went in
a close carriage, attended by two careful
servants, and so delicate she seemed to be,
the attendants would not have been sur
prised if she had not survived the first
quadrille she entered. '
But once on the floor she was transported
by the prevniling mood, and next dav when
the old gentleman examined the pedometer
he found that she had danced just 31,uiiles
and was ready for another ball, the sooner it
came the better it would suit He is con
vinced now that things are not always what
they seem; the health resort scheme has
taken second place and balls have first op
tion in his hygienic calculation.
Just to Avoid a Scenr.
A tramp strolled into the Fourth Congre
gational Church at Hartford tbe other
night, and when the contribution box was
passed to him he reached his hand in and
took what was in it. "To avoid a scene,"
comments a Hartford paper, "the passer of
the plate went on without remark, and the
tramp went out."
Woman's Lore.
Men say that woman's love is bought
With yellow gold and glittering gems.
With titled raraes from o'er seas brought,
With power, and place, and diadems.
Perhaps 'tis so, I cannot say:
I never had such things to give.
And yet, aronnd my humble way,
It shines, and makes life good to. live.
There's other currency, I ween,
More potent far to buy this prize.
To win tor each man's home a queen.
With love-light sparkling in her eyes.
The muscle and the brain we bring.
The force of nerve, the life-blood's flow,
The fond heart's throb! Could any king
A guerdon costlier bestow 7
The eagerness to work, to slave.
To plod, to drudge, to fight through life.
The willingness to pinch: to save.
All for the smile and kiss of wife;
Tbo loyalty that guards her name
And holds it sacred, pure, sublime
Are these hot meet to light the flame
That glows adown the path f timer
if. J. Mesitr in GomerviUt Journal
26, r -1890.
CLABA BELLE'S CHAT.
The f ecnliar Exclnsiveness of Some
Hew York Society.
BRAIHS NOT THE OPEN SESAME.
Sad Story of One of Mary Anderson's Most
Persistent Sailors.
AN EFFECTIVE WEAPON FOE WOMEN
CSFECIAI, COBKISPONDIJfCI OI TUC DISPATCH.
New Yobk, January 25.
OME of the many
different sections of
Hew York's society
ore the most impen
etrable of any in the
world to the unrec
ommended stranger.
In England the im
mediate passport is
birth, but there is the
secondary one of
f brains, and through
out the British realm you will find the most
select drawing rooms copiously peopled with
men and women who were born nobodies,
but have become somebodies by force of in
tellect and skill. In this city the man of
letters, of science, of art, is debarred from
some ofthe mshionable inner circles as com
pletely as the roughest of parvenus, unless
he advances some other claim for recogni
tion beside his genius. Boasting as we do
of a grand scheme of democracy, we outdo
any monarchy of Europe in our social con
servatism, and it is an unquestioned fact
that the greatest men in the country are not
welcome in portions of New York society.
There is not a hostess iu the McAllister
set that has ever numbered among her
guests the few famous men of letters that
tbe country has produced, or that have
visited us from abroad. If Swinburne
were to come over, doors would be closed to
him that were flung wide for the Duke of
Marlborough. Arthur Sullivan, the
musician, Millais, tbe painter, nor Daudet,
the novelist, could never think of entering
some ofthe 400's drawing rooms; but Lord
Garmoyle, Prince Murat, and any of- the
other useless noblemen would be received
with effusive enthusiasm. All this is not
the rule in England, and it is surprising
that fashionable people on this side should
be so uncommonly stiff. At all the English
drawing rooms, from the Queen's down, you
might see the mental geniuses circulating
freely among those of mere birth or wealth.
1 believe that Victoria numbers Mrs.
Kendal, the actress, among her friends, and
yet Mrs. Kendal has not received a solitary
invitation from any "society matron" in
New York.
A CASE IN POINT.
I can mention an instance where a rather
liberal gentleman, who bad the entrance to
tbe best society, requested from a ledy an
invitation for a yonug English friend, rec
ommending him as of tbe best culture and
of noted talents.
"But what other qualifications has he to
make him a fit person for me to entertain?"
inquired the lady.
"None of birth or wealth," was the reply.
"I call only assure you that he is my friend,
and is a gentleman, and also an artist of
high standing."
"Oh, I cannot take that into account," re
sponded the hostess. "I am not in a posi
tion to run risks. My bouse is known to re
ceive no one but the people whose social
position is. clearly defined. I am sorry to
refuse a request of yours, but I see no other
way to act"
At the very next reception of this
haughty matron a guest was escorted from
her bouse by two servants because he was
intoxicated and was insulting in his conduct
toward the ladies present. But this most ac
ceptable gentleman had a title before his
name, and thongh he will not receive anoth
er invitation to visit the same house, yet not
a remark has been made about the hostess'
indiscretion in first asking him. Bnt if he
had been a genius that had sprung from the
people you would have heard often enough
the proverb relative to tbe impossibility of
making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
"WHITING UP THE 'WEDDINGS.
Do our "society people" really enjoy
printed publicity? A majority undoubt
edly do, and a minority do not They are
glad to have their weddings reported, at all
events, and that is sensible. The repre
sentative of a daily journal is apt to be a
basiness-like, polite and agreeable inquirer;
yet there are exceptional cases of unneces
sary cheek. Here is an actual occurrence.
A Bridegroom and his bride have just said
good-night to their guests, and are finally
left to themselves.
A knock is heard at the door, and a maid
enters. "Gentleman, sir; sent up his card;
would, like to see you and madam."
"He would like to see madam, would he?
Tell him to go to the deuce."
Then the bride takes the card; "Oh, no,
my dear, it's a reporter, the same one who
wrote up my sister's wedding so beautifully
and my uncle's funeral. "We must be very
polite to him."
Inaudible remarks from tbe husband are
followed by the entrance of a society re
porter. "Sorry to be late," he blithely says, "but
I had so much trouble finding my way
here."
"That is too bad," and the bride is npt
sarcastic. "If we had only known we
should have been delighted to send the car
riage for you."
"You will permit me to take a few notes
for special articles in the Society Salivator?
You have been satisfied with your presents?"
"Delighted."
The reporter looks around the room.
"Family portraits? Old chap with tbe
Boman nose?"
"Yes, sir," says the bridegroom, testily;
"my father, I would have you remember."
"All right. I'll put him in. Bare paint
ings, costly tapestry, antique furniture,
priceless china there, that will do. Now.
may I trouble you to be shown to some room
where I can write these notes out?"
And the bride effusively said : "Cer
tainly," although tbe bridegroom frowned.
ONE OP MARY ANDERSON'S AFFAIRS.
The report of Mary Anderson's engage
ment to young Tony Navarro calls up a lot
of stories about the affairs of the heart that
the lovely, long actress has taken part in.
It is noticeable that the heart portion of all
such affairs has been contributed by the
masculine party, and that Mary has re
mained so coldly passive that serious doubt
ot the presence of a spark of passion within
her has been entertained. One of her
friends recounted to-day the story of one out
of Mary's dozen of romances. When the
Kentucky maiden was even lovelier than
she is to-day she met an excitable
young man named Jesse Heacock while
playing an engagement in Buffalo. Mary
treated him with the same queenly deler
ence that she conferred upon all who came
within the circle of her lustrous charms.
It is donbtful if the actress ever experienced
an emotion of any consequence while in the
young man's society, bnt it is certain that
he was plunged into a hot bath of excite
ment whenever the beauty turned her eyes
upon him. Throughout Mary's stay in
Buffalo Mr. Heacock exerted himself to the
utmost to secure the toleration, if not the
favor, of his divinity, but to no pnrpose.
He was a gentleman of means, and so was
enabled to devote himself entirely to culti
vating the favor of the actress, but do what
he would she discouraged his suit and
begged him to desist in his attentions.
SO HE PINED AWAY AND DIED.
Mr. Heacock was exceptionally persistent
and high strung, and so refused to obey his
lady's commands. Not only did he press
himself upon her while she was at Buffalo,
but when she left the city he went on the
same train. All through, that ismou Mr.
npwr)
Heacock traveled in the path of Mary, and
do all she could to drive him away the
actress had to submit to his persecutions.
He was gentle, meek and respectful in his
attentions; -so she could not bring herself to
tbe point of complaining of ,hla to the
authorities. But the time cams at last
when he .realized tbe hopelessness of his
love, and, after a last talk with Mary, he
went home to Buffalo.
From that moment his health began to de
cline, and before a year passed he was in
the last stages of a deadly illness. One day
he was at a hotel in this city, and a friend
to whom he was raving about Mary, begged
him to pull himself together and cease to re
gret his futile love. With a pitiful oath,
Mr. Heacock cried ont that he wanted to
die, for without Mary life was a torture.
The very next day he was dead.
ZBE LORGNETTE AS A WEAPON.
The latest use for a lorgnette is as a means
of defense for woman against woman. Let
me illustrate. I was a witness of a scene in
a Broadway candy store which will fully
explain my statement A woman was buy
ing chocolates. Near her stood two women
discussing her.
"Do you know who she is?" asked one.
"That's Mrs. Blank. I think her hair is
bleached and I am 'sure her coat is not
seal."
Tbe woman overheard thig confab. She
has fighting blood in her veins and she
turned and pluckily faced the impertinent
pair. She raised her lorgnette and stared
them over from head to foot, with such con
temptuous coolness that they weakened,
turned tail and fled
"I'm not a bit near-sighted," said the
conqueror, as gDe dropped her lorgnette.
I keep this weapon for just snch impudent
females and nd it Tery effective."
DO WOMEN SWEAB?
Do women swear? The dearcreatures are
never behind the times, and as this is an age
of profanity they're in for it, but in a soft
ened, feminine way. "It's a darned nuis
ance," I heard a stylishly-dressed woman
say at the theater. Men swear because it's
customary; women indulge in a weak imita
tion because they enjoy it. If they don't
quite dare to swear aloud, they think it, and
that's just as wicked. How otten have I
heard women say: "I wish I were a man
for just five minutes wouldn't I swear!"
I heard a man rip out a string of appalling
oaths over something which didn't suit him.
His profanity found an echo in the breast of
a pretty little woman who had a similar
grievance, and who bowed to him and
sweetly said: "Thank you, sir?"
Clara. Belle.
THE BET DECLARED OFF.
Scenes In the Bnsr Street of New York
Philadelphia n Used Up.
New York Sun.
A large yellow-and-white cat started to
cross Broadway nearly opposite Park row
yesterday afternoon when traffic was at its
greatest. Where she came from was known
only to herself, but that she was making for
tbe friendly shelter afforded by the5 rails of
St. Paul's churchyard was apparent to all.
Her chances of getting across the street
safely did not seem to be good, and as she
shrank back terrified from a passenger car,
dodged under the wheels of an express
wagon, and escaped being run over by one
of Uncle Sam's mail vans by less than half
the length of her tail.
Two well-dressed men from Philadelphia
stopped in tbe middle ofthe thoroughfare to
watch her.
"Bet you she is crushed," said one.
"Take you," replied the other.
Jnst then the pole of a double truck
struck tbe fifth rib of the man who had of
fered the bet, knocked his hat off. and near
ly threw him down.
"Hi!"roared-tbe driver, "hain't you got
no eyes
At tbe same moment the man who had
taken the bet received a blow on the back of
the neck. from, the off horse's head that
nearly dislocated something spinal.
"Ho!" roared the driver. "Are you a
aleep?" The men escaped to the sidewalk.
"Where's the cat?" asked one.
"How do -I know?" replied the other.
And as the venturesome creature was not
visible dead or alive, the bet was ordered
off.
HUKCHAUSEN LOOSE AGAIN.
This Time He Is a Sewing machine Agent
Who Conld Shoot.
Lewis ton Journal.
The correspondent who sends this story
says it was told by a sewing machine agent
"Gentlemen," said tbe sewing machine
man, "one spring father and I had a sugar
camp down in the edge of the grove. About
half a mile from us was a cornfield owned
by a widow, and this widow never picked
her corn clean. On the other side was a
man who owned a blind sow. She had one
pig, and they used to go over into that corn
field every day to eat corn. Bight in front
of our camp was a creek. At one place
jibout 40 rods from our camp there was a
tree felled across the creek.
"This was the only place that the sow and
pig could cross. Of course the sow could
not see to cross on the log, so the way they
used to do was for the old sow to take hold
of the pig's tail and tbe pig would lead her
across. Well, one day we were sitting in
front of our camp when the old sow and pig
were crossing that log. I said to father,
'hand me the rifle and see me cut that pig's
tail off.' I took aim and fired, cutting that
little pig's tail off smack smooth. The pig
ran for the cornfield but the old sow didn't
know which way to go. So father went
over and took hold ot the pig's tail and led
the old sow clear into camp."
A GOOD DEACON'S TE0UBLE.
He Tried to Start a. Tone, but Broke In
Toocbjr Part.
An amnsing incident occurred in one of
our down-east churches a lev months ago.
The clergyman gave out the hymn:
I love to steal awhile away
From every cumbering care,
And spend the hour of setting day
In humble, gratefal prayer.
The regular chorister being absent, the
dnty devolved upon Deacon M., who com
menced: "I love to steal," and then broke
down. Raising his voice a little higher, he
then sung, "I love to steal." As before, he
concluded he had got the wrong pitch; and
deploring that he nad not his "pitch
tuner," he determined to succeed next time.
All the old ladies were tittering behind
their fans, while the faces of the "young
.ones" were in a broad grin.
At length, after a desperate cough, he
made a final demonstration, and roared out,
"I love to steal." The effort was too much.
Everyone but the clergyman was laughing.
He arose and said: "Seeing our brother's
propensities, let us pray." It is needless to
add that but few of the congregation heard
the prayer.
HADS'T E1DDEX THE GOAT.
An Anxlooi Wife's InTeitlcatlona After Her
Spouse Took the First pegree. rss&et
New York Star.!
"My wife told me a good story recently,"
said a prominent Mason to me. "My next
door neighbor, who is a big, good-natured
fellow, full of fun and taking life easy, was
to take the first degree in our lodge one
evening, and his wife knew both of his in
tention and the evening set for its execution,
and, from pure love of him and fear for his
safety, was awfully opposed to his joining.
He wanted clean underwear that evening,
and, tbe bureau drawers being locked and
keys missing, asked her for it He might
as well have asked for his life; so he had to
buy a suit
"Next morning she was in to see my wife
they're great friends and curiosity had
taken the place of anger. ' Pon my word,
Mrs. S.'jsaid she, excitedly, 'I can't find a
mark on them. I've searched his drawers
and shirt all over", and there's no break in
'em, or patch on 'em; no blood on 'em, no
hair on 'em! I'm sure he has not ridden the
SQatvet,-!
LIYES BUT! I0NTE
A Micro-organism That Caused Uglj
Growths on Plant Boots.
STATISTICS ON YALUE 0P FOODS.
Tha Indian's Poisoned Arrow is lot So
Deadly as Supposed.
SCIENTIFIC SCEAPS 0P MUCH INTEREST
rwarrnx toe thi dispatch bt washootox
SCIENTISTS.:
Prof. Atkinson, of tbe Alabama Poly
technic Institute, has been studying the life
history of a microscopic worm, which causes
diseased growths on the roots of plants,
called root-galls. Among the plants thus
affected are the potato, eggplant, tomato,
cabbage, parsnip, grape and cow-pea. These
micro-organisms pass through all the stages
of their" existence in about a month, and pro
duce a dozen or so generations in a year,
and as each family lays from 100 to 250 eggs
the worms multiply with startling rapidity.
The root-galls must be carefully distin
guished from the tubercles found on the
roots of leguminous plants. The tubercles
occur only on the young roots, and
though often convoluted "or lobulaled,
are comparatively smooth. The root
galls are formed on roots of all
ages and usually present a scurfy or
cracked appearance. The microscope is,
however, often required to distinguish the
root galls from the root tubercle. The
method of the formation of the tubercles U
still a matter of dispute among tbe scientists,
some believing that they are normal growths
on leguminous plants and others holding
that they are caused by bacteria or fungi.
Their most important role seems to be to aid
tbe plants in tbe acquisition of nitrogen
from tbe air. They are thus very beneficial
to the farmer, while, as far as known, the
worm causing root sails is an snemy to
agriculture and should be gotten rid of by
starvation through a rotation of crops or in
some other way.
Lnnanagp of the Dskotas.
The Bureau of Ethnology has just sent to
press volume vii. of "Contributions to North
American Ethnology," entitled "The Da
kota JLanguage," consisting of a Dakota
English dictionary. The author, the late
S. B. Biggs, prepared a grammar and dic
tionary of the Dakota language, which was
published by the Smithsonian Institution
in 1852. Most of the entries in this work
were in the Santee dialect, the dialect then
best known to Mr. Biggs and his associates.
The present volume contains not only many
additional Santee words, but numerous
entries in tbe sister dialects, the Yankton
and Teton. Explanatory notes have been
furnished and numerous cross-references in
serted, making this edition of more value
to the student than was tbe former one. This
work will be a quarto volume of 66o pages.
It will be followed at an early day by
another by tbe same anthor, "Grammar,
Texts and Ethnography of the Dakotas."
The Tnlns ol Food..
One of the novel and interesting features
of the new National Medical Dictionary
(Lea & Brothers; Philadelphia) is a series
of tables by Prof. Atwater, showing the per
centages of nutritive ingredients in a large
number of food materials; the proportions
that are actually digestible the potential
energy (fuel vaiues) standards for dieta
ries lor different classes and occupations;
dietaries for corpulence; uctual dietaries of
persons in different circumstances in life,
and a comparison of these dietaries with the
standards. Tbe tables are important as con
taining the rein Its of a large amount of new
experimental study and as including invest
igations o' American as well as European
foods and dietaries. They bring ont clearly
the extravagance of the average American
household in the purchase and use of foods,
especially in the excessive use of too fat
meats.
Effect of Poisoned Arrows.
A member of General Crook's staff who
was a participant in several of the cam
paigns of the famous Indian fighter, states
that he never saw a case where injurious re
sults followed from a wound made by a
poisoned arrow, that is owing to the poison
alone. The Indian secures the poison
usually by holding a piece of absorptive
meat to an enraged rattlesnake, receiving at
each strike an amount of poison supposed to
be sufficient to kill a man. If the arrows
observed by this officer were properly tfeated
it would appear that less damage has been
inflicted in this manner than was generally
supposed.
Work of tbo Albatross.
The Fish Commission steamer Albatross
is undergoing repairs at the Mare Island
Navy Yard, San Francisco, preparatory to
a winter cruise off the southern coast of
California to study the fauna of the fishing
banks and the contiguous deep sea areas.
The uniform results of these careful in
vestigations have been to find new species
of food fishes, or such natural enemies as to
show the futility of trying to establish a
fishing industry. All the scientific investi
gations of the commission have a practical
tend whose results in some few cases have
been of such commercial importance as to
compensate for the entire cost of the service
to the present time.
A Tree for the Pacific Coast.
It is probable that the European and En
glish oak (quercus pedunculata) will be
the hardwood timber tree on the Pacific
coast for the future. This species is appar
ently much better adapted to that region
than are the more common varieties ot oak
in the Eastern States, which there make a
slow and unsatisfactory growth.
Grammar of the Klamath Language.
Mr. Gatscheti has just had published by
the Bureau of Ethnology a grammar of the
Klamath language. It is intended to form
not only a complete analysis and exposition
of that language, but to be a model of all
subsequent grammars of the Indian
languages.
Metal Tie for Railroads.
The economics of metal ties for railroads
is now being thoroughly investigated in this
country, not because of scarcity of suitable
timber, but on account of their lasting
character and firmness of the track. At this
time there are several hundred miles of track
in Europe laid on metal ties.
For n Classification of Land.
The California Agricultural Experiment
Station has analyzed over 1,200 samples of
soil from different localities as a basis for a
classification ofthe lands of the State.
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