SULLIVAN JISI& REPUBLICAN.
w. M, CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XI.
Over 1,000,000 Germans live in large
American cities.
It is said that the King and Queen
of Greece set their subjects an ex
cellent example of strict economy in
royal high places.
The New York Marine Journal spins
a yarn to the effect that a whale at
Nantucket got entangled aud excited
and ran away with a bell buoy.
Tho estate of the lato Richard
Jessup, of San Francisco, Cal., valued
at $140,000, was completely absorbed
in four years by the lawyers of the
young heir.
Perseverance wins every time. The
lie wist'm (Me.) Journal relates tjjiftt a
Deering woman severely scalded an
approaching pedler with a dipper of
hot water—but he got in—and sold her
n rug-
The corner 6tono of the National
Capitol was laid September 18, 1793.
It is proposed to celebrate the centen
nial anniversary of this event by a
parade, addresses, fireworks and n night
illumination of the Capitol by means of
twenty-four search-lights.
While the Western movement of
population in the United States for
the century aggregates 605 miles, the
extreme Northern and Southern
variation is a little under twenty-two
miles, and the finishing point of the
line is only some six miles south of the
starting point.
A ten-thousand-mile railroad line is
a Russian project that is well under
way, and is attracting the attention
of engineers all over the world. The
road storts on the eastern border of
the Russian Empire and runs ten thou
sand miles until it reaches Vladivo
stock on the Siberian coast.
The Prince of Wales is said to pre
sent the extraordinary spectacle of n
man in danger of succumbing to old
age while his mother is still in her
prime. He lias crowded about ten
years into every one of life, and he
has, it is said, had fun enough to con
solo him for missing a jol> on the
throne.
A scientific authority now comes to
the front with the argument that rail
way trains of very high speed, under
certain circumstances, are safer than
slower ones. The point made is that
great speed implies the greatest
prudence, the highest skill, the most
perfect construction and equipment.
The subject is of great interest in these
days.
From 1851 to 1892 the emigration
from Ireland amounted to 3,518,383
persons, of whom ninety-one per cent,
camo to the United States. In 1852
the outflow was 190,000; in 1853 it
was 173,000; iu 1854 tha figures were
140,000. Last year only 50,807 Irish
people left home, and the birth rate
showed a considerable per cent, in
crease.
Leonard E. Ladd, of Philadelphia,
has patented an "improved dwelling
house plan," which provides for"the
erection of a block of buildings and
their connection in such a way that
the ordinary kitchen work and gen
eral supply features will all bo cured
for in one central building." That is,
that each house will have its own kit
chen anil dining-room, but these will
be set apart, say in the center of the
block, aud connected with the remain
ing rooms by means of corridors. A
central plant for light, heat, etc., is
also included in the plan. It »
claimed that three-story houses could
be erected on the basis proposed to In
sold for #4500.
The long droughtuf laMyoitr warned
th<- Florida orange-grower* and trtirk
farmer* that irrigation huh almost a*
indin|>en*alde in the maturing <>( tin it
crop* »hit i* found to l>. in tin (Viltt
Coa*t HtutcN, ohacrvea th • Ni w York
l'o-t. At Oviotlo, win r - lint., urt
Home of thu rtn. it orange grovaa in
Florida, irrigation h*» I wen mown
fully te*ted, MII,| Mt Maitlalid tin
whmtlu of tin* irrigating euginr i>
heard daily during tlx- dry wanou.
Tim coat of tin machinery r<■<1111r«><l f«>»
au orange «''»»«' i» well within tin
mean* of tba average grower. .% pluut
at l«ake Choru* which can li bought
for and niv. t natiifu< I ry r< ult<.
la thu* ilfa'tlln d Tin- Upright ladlcr
ha* a twenty ln>r». |miwi i w a
ton inch pump attached to .( I. .<ir in It
main running tlir'iitfh tSi>> e#uir« „l
the grou*# o»cr I'JOO 112,., i stl |
Iwoiueli Irnnli |M|m equally |,,n< >,t
■tated point*. Hi. |.<oii|i M..«, uthr
4T*> gallon* of »ul. r a MIUIII. AN Itlm
•appllua •• i««lj >« *»# l» if»ul* In lb <
GROVC.t" »ach of »IIWIII *II IK ALL >, ln L
a Mfty loot hoax lot ..i *«U|.
LAST NIGHT.
0 comrades, lot the song go round
And laughter be our gueet,
Of all the blessings life has found
A woman's love Is best.
1 drink not ; when the cup is crowned
I wish you all that's bright:
My vintage lies
In beauty's oyes,
I ktssod my love last night.
The jasmine perfumes rose and strayed
Like elfln waifs unseen ;
The summer moonbeams stole and ployed
Her lattice bars between ;
She shyly stood, all white arrayed,
With youth and grace bodight -,
She was so fair,
How could I dare—
I kissed my love last night.
A sudden glory filled the earth
It had not known before ;
A happy gleam too sweet for mirth
The quivering moonbeams were,
To think that I of little worth
Had won the pearl of light-
No song or speech
My bliss can reach—
I kissed my love last night.
I sought my lonely couch to dream ;
Sweet waftures thronged my brain ;
Blue eyes and lily buds a-gleam,
And roses wet with rain,
With morning's opalescent beam
The glaaiorio took flight.
Yet waking brought
A dearer thought—
I kissed my lcve last night.
3 Moon, laugh down your silver rays,
Smile up. O dimpling Sea,
O Fountain, toss your tinkling sprays,
0 Stars rejoice with mo !
With twinkling shoon ye tricksy Fays
Come guide my song aright,
And tip with dew
Eaoh measure true—
-1 kissed my love hist night.
—Samuel M. Peck, in Atlanta Constitution.
THE TALE OF jH COMET.
BY ROMAN I. ZFBOF,
mamma! mamma !
Come out quick; it's
•-MBSfizs. 112 on! look at it, papa;
■ isn't it beautiful?"
M nu 'l > u the exuberance
excitement Milly
Patterson squeezed
John's arm tightly
while she leaned
against him and
looked eagerly into the sky.
Old man Patterson, who stood near
the yonng people, also had his face
turned upward; but there was no in
dication of glee in liis voice when, af
ter gazing for a ft>v minutes, he re
marked :
"And to think that them things,
with such beautiful tails, could do us
any harm!"
There was no response to this re
mark, save a loud sigh from Mrs. Pat
terson, who turned round abruptly and
walked into the house, where Mr. Pat
terson soon followed her.
Milly and John were still standing
and gazing at the heavens. They had
not said a word to each other; they
were happy in tho consciousness of
their proximity.
"I don't believe a word of it—do
you?" asked Milly some minutes after
wards.
"What?"
"Oh, what Schoolmaster Marten
says about this—er—comet- that's
going to break up tho earth aud kill
all tho people on it and annihilate
everything. I don't believe it—do
you?"
"Bosh!" remarked John emphatic
ally. "I think Marten is a slick fraud,
that's what he is!" he added, holdiug
his arm tightly round Milly's waist.
"It's awful!" sai«l Milly concernedly.
"He's been coming here every day for
the last couple of weeks talkiug about
that comet, and he's dinned into papa
and mamma's heads that the whole
world is comin' to an end, and that we
are nigh the day of judgment!"
"Rubbish!" commented John.
"And he's been talking at me, too,
the hypocrite, telling me to mend my
ways and not to be so giddy. As if I
am ever giddy, John!" she added in
an injured tone.
John did not reply for a second or
two. He seemed to be tliiukiug.
" 'Pears to me," ho suid, after a
while, "that your father ought to
know by this time what lund of a
customer he's got to deal with. Has
Marten paid him buck the fifty dollars
he borrowed last Christmas?"
"No, not he."
"Why don't you tell your father not
to take any stock in Marten?"
"It'ti no use, John. He's wheedled
them round completely to bis side.
It's perfectly iiwiiil how he's talked
them into things about this comet.
They've been glum aud inopin', mid
packiu' away things; and mother's
been bury in' a lot of silver iu the
garden -
"What !" interrupted John. "The
old folks huveu't bel li hidili' things in
the ground and l>-t Marten know of
it?"
"Yes. He's shown them the very
place where he mtva the entile! Won't
strike, aud luother * put a lot of silver
Bpooiix in it "
"The 112,„! -11. » Weu stt-ahn'
them !" exclaimed John.
Millie Sprang to her feet and rail
into the garden, J.,|111 foil .Ming lor
Mho stopped Hear a alight mound of
frrnh elwy in which two atleha were
firmly stuck aud a Inch ah« began to
protm gently.
"thank II'IHMIMW. it's not touched!"
•he aaiil with a algh of r< lief, evidently
satisfied «lib h.i onitiatiou- "You
nearly took my breath away with
fright, John. W , .ma would go era**
rt she wort- •>< flMlli I "
"I toll VMM wtist 111 do, Willy, to
•Ml I "Von keep a altwfp aat.it wa
thu |dae«. aml if Marteu l»iri»a a|> to
Morrow k.. c htM tlit I thi >u*h
tsft I'll oummi utM le . r«, a#>l w. II
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1893.
sec whether wo can't fix him some
how. "
In truth it was terrible OH Milly ex
pressed it, if half the things were go
ing to happen which Marten predicted.
The whole village of Stockborongh was
terribly excited over the event. Every
body recollected that. wars, pesti
lence, famine, And other calamities
followed the previous appearance
of a comet like this—with
almost the identical tail. Schoolmaster
Marten talked about such uncanny
things as tho "stellary system," the
cosmic law," and so on. On the day
on which Milly and John had conspired
to rout him, Marten was.at the Patter
son farm holding forth as usual. He
had brought a newspaper with him, and
read out from it impressively the an
nouncement that on the coming Thurs
day, precisely at G :34 p. m., there
would bo an entire eclipse of the snn,
and the inference ho left to be gathered
from it was that tho general break-up
was to begin at that very second.
The old people sat listening and blink
ing solemnly. Milly was somewhat
awed herself, and she was mighty glad
when John came into the room looking
ready for action.
John contented himself at first by
simply denying the arguments. But
Marten's superior loquaciousness was
rapidly getting the best of him and he
was gradually drawn into the meshes of
reason. That was oil the schoolmaster
wanted. He could reason a bull into a
frog any day, if the animal only fol
lowed the process of logical deductions;
so by and by John found himself lis
tening with his hands folded, his rea
son silenced, and more than half con
vinced of the probability of tho wholo
thing.
"And ye say it'll all take place on
Thursday at 5:34 p. m.?" asked tho
old man. Marten had not said it, but
he answered:
"Precisely. The unerring calcula
tion of science."
"Maybe it'll only strike one corner
of the earth and leave out Stockbor
ough and the farm?" he asked timidly
again.
"That is difficult to say," replied
Marten, thoughtfully. "Our wholo
planet is sure to sustain a terrible
shock, and it will bo felt all the world
over. There is a chance—a small
chance —that we might escape with our
lives here; but everything else -is
doomed."
That night John and Milly were
locked in a long embrace before they
took leave of each other. They were
both heavily oppressed, and though
John entertained a sneaking scepticism
of the whole thing, he really believed
that before the end of the week tho
enrtli might t>c a T)roKen wnntr, with
nobody and nothing alive on it.
"You will come over on Thursday,
John, won't you?" asked Milly in a
I trembling voice. "We can dio to
! getlier, if we can't live together, can't
I wo, John?"
"I'll be here, Milly, by 4 o'clock,
' and God may prove him yet a liar—
you see if Ho don't!" said John as he
| went off.
About a quarter past five on the fol
lowing Thursday they all left the old
Patterson farmhouse. They were go
ing to give up their souls to heaven,
iiinl they walked on in solemn silence.
It was preternaturally quiet all around
them. The gloaming was rapidly fall
ing, and it seemed to the old folks as
if it were the precursor of eternal dark
ness.
The group halted near a cluster of
trees. Marten held out his watch;
there was ten minutes more left them.
The old people stood there glum and
motionless. Johnaud Milly had locked
hands and looked pale. Marten told
them to lie down Hat 011 their stomachs
and hide their faces in the ground till
the thing was over.
Tremblingly, fearfully,they obeyed,
and lay flat on the ground, dreading
to stir, awaiting the sounds of the aw
ful crash. Marten retired to another
spnt, whence he said he would signal
them to rise if they were destined to
survive.
Ten minutes passed ; a quarter of an
hoar followed, and still they lay there,
(t was growing darker; they were get
ting chilled to the bones; their teeth
licgan to chatter, and still no signal
from the schoolmaster, no sound of
the crashiug doom. Hulf un hour
pn:;sod, and then fearfully, cautiously,
old man l'attersou begun to move his
head. Gradually lie raised it and
looked round. Everything was still,
deathly still. It was dark, but he
could see tlii* farmhouse clearly. Then
he suddenly thought that he alone had
survived the general destruction -he
uud the farmhouse. A terror crept
over him that he would have to eud
his day* alone and in darknesa.
"Wish I hud died with 'eui !" he
Kronlteil uloitd.
Hut he looked round and saw his
wife's head rising, and suddenly her
terrified face looked at linn. The next
moment he saw iu lu r eye a glance of
revoguittati. Ho they wcrebotb alivi *
* Milly ! Milly !" called the old man
timidly.
'' Yea, father?" came a trembling re
|dy.
"Are ye living?" h« asked a .'am.
"I aw, father la John alive¥'
**V••", Milly," cam.' the eiuphutie re
ply front John, who nat up on the
ground.
l in y were all sitting lip now.
" I'll*• fariuhoiiM' la th>'r», too," *«ld
Mr • l'att« r»oii m a «um|»riim «»kv,
"an I I h>-itr tin >linrt horn Iduwlug in
the yard."
"tlmaa We'll lirttcf get Hp," r«
iuark>d thv old man, llsm* and aaalai
lug h»a wile
li Miln the k> «»«•■, aln u they g"l a
!> 11 tin » all baiat ■•it l«H|fking, lint
(ill *1 I >l< ii , nil llw Ntofv Ikuy
U'liflml IU m li-l, lli.y I. It
Milly Ungli 1 miiil llu> |rw< •ttinwr I
■ltiwn hi-f rboU, at»»l John, in trying
to rv*tia<u bvl, Ml Uta iktt« laiily
ache. The old couple rocked them
selves in their chairs with laughter,
and amid those peals the old man would
gasp out: "And I thought I's the only
one alive—ho —ho—ho!"
They found the silver where they
buried it. Tho old man discovered
everything he had sequestered but a
bundle and a couple of gold rings; an
old brooch, twenty-six dollars in
money, and tho schoolmaster's own
note for fifty dollars were missing. So
was the schoolmaster himself. On the
following day John came in and an
nounced that the schoolmaster had
skipped—"Hung onto the tail of tho
comet, they say!" New York
Storiettes.
Popularity of Embalming.
The idea of earning a livelihood out
of tho making of mummies is not one
to commend itself at first glance to tho
female mind, and the ghastly associa
tions of the occupation are to many in
superably repellent. But embalming
has for many reasons established itself
in popular favor. It is the oply sure
means of preventing the spread of con
tagious diseases, through transmission
by the undertaker's ice-box or assist
ants. It is a preventive against pre
mature burial in the case of a catalep
tic subject, as tho first incisions and
injections of the embalming fluid are
likely to induce signs of life if any re
main. Another favorable featuro is the
possibility of shipping bodies a long
distance with convenience. It is not
generally known that throughout this
country large numbers of women have
adopted embalming as a profession,
and the head college of embalming has
a large proportion of women graduates.
Far from showing any horror or unfit
ness for tho business, women are said
to be peculiarly deft and efficient in
the duties involved, which in a general
way consists only in opening several
of the largo arteries, pumping out tho
blood and injecting preservative fluids.
Many of the women graduates have
been trained nurses who saw an oppor
tunity to make more money than at
their former profession. One advan
tage of the art is that it is easily ac
quired. Tho prospectus of tho College
I of Embulming sets forth that "past ex
perience has demonstrated that ft com
plete mastery of the science of body
preservation in all its branches cannot
be obtained iu the short space of two
or three days, and therefore the length
of time required to learn the process
may extend from one week upward,
according to tho aptitude of tho stu
dent. " When the student has proved
his or her ability to conduct the opera
tion of embalming under different con
ditions in a satisfactory manner a di
ploma is granted, uud the ordinary
length of tiiuu raquued for graduation
is two weeks.—Chicago Record.
Tho Secret of Digestion.
•'Tlio secret of digestion is modera
tion, " saiil an oKI inuu the other day,
who at seventy-eight lias tho com
plexion of a girl nnd the relish for
food of a schoolboy. ' 'lt seems absurd
to me that persons should suddenly
discover that many articles of food
upon which our ancestors lived to a
green old age are extremely dotri
mental to health and longevity. I
have never considered what I ought to
eat, but I have maile it a rule of my
life to always leave the table wanting
just a little more.
"I did not leave tho home roof,
which was on a farm, until I was
nearly thirty years old, and it was my
habit from November to April to eat a
piece of mince pie every night just be
fore going to bed. It was rather a
small piece, but I invariably took it
and do not recall ever having even a
bail dream in consequence.
"And I think, too, that digestion is
like salvation—to be worked out in
dividually. We are not all Baptists or
Methodists, why must everybody be a
vegetarian or some other food crank ?
When I gut away from the mince-pie
country, missing it, I took fruit in its
place. A friend who saw me eating an
apple one night hurled at lue the old
saw: 'Fruit is gold in the morning,
silver at noon, lead at niglit.' 'Non
sense!' I cried, and retorted with
another provery, 'What is one man's
meat isauother man's poison,' and I've
Continued to eat someting, usually
fruit, every uight of my life."—-New
York Times.
Hrjlng lhimp Shoes.
One of the most fertile resources ol
cidds and serious incidental ailments
is the wearing of damp shoes. When
shoes have been saturated with water
the attempt to ilrv tlieiu by exposing
them before a stove or tire is obviously
damaging to the leather, while it docs
not insure the expulsion of moisture
from tho inside. For accomplishing
this a new invention has beeii brought
out, consisting of a hollow stoneware
last, which cau be tilled with hot
water like a bottle ami which is made
in a variety of slm|H's and sixes to cor
respond to the uisido of ordiuary
sin us. Thi! hole it the top of the last
is Corked as soon l< the hot Water has
been poured in. The hut is kept in
position until the inside of thr shoe in
thoroughly dry, and the hot water can
lie renewed tf uuevssury. Chicago
Mceord.
i.ikoiif t lutti Htlrr I'runf,
A i'orr<ipoieb i* asks for arecijw for
luakiuß cloth wftt>r proof Tin rets
surely 1111 bitter Method thau putting
half a potiiid of of had and half
■ pound of alum k a |>ail of soft water,
stirring >1 ofti it ittlil it Incoiiii• clear,
|H,UNU|| it off iiilf ait it her pall, and
pMtlliin tin' rli>l|int tfarint ul Into 11,
to I * mat It Hit (V f«r twenty four li"Ut»
The material «ho»l I then IMI bun# Up
to dry without <• <<l*lllll la said
that gar no nt» the* tr, alt >1 will fcmtp
thr wttarer atwoti+adv d»y lu lh» bt*«l
Mt raiit-lwriu i Ik lain simply Ua«K»
IS |f|ot>ul«a upoii tin- el.ilh Vt tl#i
pitttif «lot It im ut«rt tnalthy to m*mt
tU*tt ru'l»» ihltatfu Ux ulii
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
At the bottom of the ocean the tem
perature remains unchanged through
out the year.
Tho kangaroo readily leaps from
sixty to seventy feet. The longest re
corded leap of a horse is thirty seven
feet.
Great expectations have been raised
in the minds of astronomers concern
ing the results observations made in
South America and Africa during tho
solar eclipse.
W. H. Preece, tho well-known elec
trician, has succeeded in sending a
telephone message from the shore of
the Bristol Channel, near Cardiff, to tho
island of Flatholm, three miles off,
without tho intervention of a connect
ing wire.
The scale in general use is known as
the Fahrenheit scale, from the name of
its inventor, and iB based upon his in
correct views of the the laws of the ex
pansion of mercury. He took for his
zero point the greatest natural cold
ever observed at Amsterdam.
Among tho workers at the Harvard
College Observatory who have shown
special scientific ability is Miss Maury.
She is a granddaughter of tho Lieu
tenant Maury whose meteorological and
other scientific work has been of im
mense value to seamen on the Atlan
tic.
Not so many people are aware that
Lord Lyon Playfair is to be credited
with having indirectly brought about
tho invention of paraffin. His discov
ery, when a young man, in a Derby
shire coal mine of an oil spring like
petroleum attracted .Tames Young, who,
after working and exhausting this oil,
produced from cannel coal and soda
ash its equivalent, the famous "Young's
paraffin," and became a millionaire.
An account of a thunderstorm in
which the rait, was mixed with live land
mussels, which is said to have occurred
at Paderbom, Germany, in August,
1892, is published in Das Wetter. A
yellowish cloud attracted the attention
of several people, both from its color
aud tho rapidity of its motion, when
suddenly it burst. A torrential rain
fell with a rattling sound, and im
mediately afterward tho pavement, was
fonnd to bo covered with hundreds of
the mussels.
A specimen of volcanic dust from
near Omaha, Nebraska, is described by
Professor J. E. Todd. It was from a
stratum of whitish aspect, about eight
een inches in thickness, found in the
bluffs facing tho Missouri River. It
has tho same general characteristics as
the volcanic dust which has been found
in quantity along tho Republican River,
in southern Nebrnsk.i, an i iu Knox,
Gumming, aud Howard Counties in the
samo State; but it differs in being
stained with oxide of iron and the
sharp angular grains coated with car
bonate of lime. This locality is the
most eastern exposure of the volcanic
dust stratum which is found scattered
over the most of Nebraska.
Dunning a Mait-o'-Wnr.
Strange scenes marked the weighing
of the anchor of a man-of-war belong
ing to a South American Government
at Toulon the other night. It is said
that the officers had contracted debts
amounting to about SOOOO in tho
southern naval seaport. Accordingly
tho vessel before leaving tho roadstead
was surrounded by boatloads of excited
and clamoring creditors, who made at
tempts to get on board, but were
threatened by the crew of the man-of
war. Both officers and men, accord
ing to the report, said that they would
prevent anybody from entering tho
ship at the point of tho sword. Tho
French cooks and stewards, who had
been hired for the messroom of the
foreign man-of-war, tl|ou left the ves
sol, as they were afraid they might re
ceive ba«l treatment during tho voyage.
As the creditors were unable to get ou
board they had themselves rowed back
to shore and lodged a complaint with
the Justice of the Peace. A "writter"
was soon dispatched out to tho foreigu
vessel, lint the captain refused to sec
him. Soon afterward the man-of-war
stood out to sea, and the creditors,
finding that tho naval prefect of the
port could do nothing for them, re
solved to bring their grievances to the
notice of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
—Loudon Telegraph.
A Itfiiiurkuhto Huh.
Tin' little Kuropt HU Hull o*llctl the
"hittorliug," «>•"' <>' tho carp fumily.ia
remarkable from the fm-t tlmt the ft
mule ih tho only Huh which hitx n
hli'inlcr ovijioaitor marly a* long ant ho
IHMIJ. With thin oho (It'i)onitH her vol
low eggs in tho gill* of the froah-wiiter
utUKHcL Tliia lutH loug IH'I'U known,
l>ut ill the I ant liiliulur of the llirmM
Journal of /oology. Doctor Olt juili
linhitt itn exhitimtivtt |>u|» r, UlTDlll
|iunii'tl lijr • litlioruti' pint.*, giving
tlK*>r«M« of tho embryo* in iliKirvnt
kt»ti>'rt, *»*' tlio young Hourly rt-aily to
hutch lying k'twrn-n tho luliln of tho
UIII»». I'M Kill*, whioli aorvt) IM hrutnl
(•httmbera- Tho Hah i» ho imiiio.l from
it* bitter Iwti'. Now York lU>IO|HU>I
tfiil.
••Mlai Votir IN Mil (*•."
Thin tiaiiroaalou la of comparatively
rei-tut origin, lUtuig |a-rh*|M fr >iu
th<> ii.veuti-.ii of |iriutiuM I*, U, <,»
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ABOUT THE FUR SEALS.
THE SUBJECT BEFORE THE TRIBU
NAL OF ARBITRATION.
How the Precious Animals Are
Slaughtered The Patrol Fleet
and the Poachers-A Tame Sport.
1 f HOUGH the United States
I Government will have "no such
| powerful ship as the Yorktown
and no snch officer as Fight
ing Bob Evans to protect the seals in
Bering Sea this summer, the patrol
fleet will be strong enongh and quick
enough to make it lively for poachers.
It is the business of our ships, under
the present contention of the United
States, k> see that nobody save the one
authorized company shall take seals
within our portion of Bering Sea or in
the Pacific Ocean within three miles of
our possessions. That gives the patjrol
fleet an arena almost half as large as
the Gulf of Mexico to look after. If
the tribunal sitting at Paris shall de
cide against our claim touching Bering
Sea the ships will then conflna their Ef
forts to keeping poachers away from
the Pribylov Islands of St. George pnd
St. Paul, in Bering Sea, and to guard
ing the coast within the three-mile
limit. Nobody expects, however, that
the decision of the court will be gjven
in time for it to have much effect upon
this season's sealing.
The company to which the United
States has sold the exclusive right to
take seals may take them only upon
the Pribylov Islands, and may not take
more than 7500 in any one year. Fur
thermore, the company's agents may
kill seals only in the presence of an
agent of the United States, and must
notjull either the females or the old
bulls, but only the bachelors, as the
young males are called. The scaling
of the company is the tamest kind of
sport, as the bachelors are merely
driven gently apart from the rest of the
herd and are killed with sticks.
The agent of the company counts
the skins in the presence of the
Government's agent, and the latter
sends to San Francisco a tally of the
number shipped in each cargo. This
comes to another United States agent
at San Francisco, who makes sure that
there are 110 more skins than the
Government agent at the Northwest
has certified to. Most of our officers
who have visited Alaskan waters be
lieve that the seal must before long
become extinct in spito of all these
precautions taken to preservo the
species. It the sea shall bo open to
all comers and seals shall again be
taken with nets, the final destruction
will be hastened.
The sealing season properly begins
about the last of June or the first of
July, when the seals have become well
established in Bering Sea and breeding
has begun. At that time the rocky
Pribylovs, and as well a few islands be
longing to Kussia over near the coast
of Siberio, are crowded with thousands
of seals, and the animals swim the sea
in search of food. The poachers do
not wait so long, but intercept the
seals on t&eir way from the ocean into
Bering Sea. Our ships cannot inter
fere with sealing in the Pacific three
miles from our own shores, but wo can
watch the passes of the Aleutian,
through which seals and sealers enter
Bering Sea.
The patrol fleet is on the lookout for
poachers during May, June, July,
August, September and October, and
business is liveliest in midsummer,
though the seal islands have been
raided as late as December. By the
last of September, however, things are
pretty squally in Bering Sea, and be
fore the Ist of November snow storms
are frequent, and sealing is no fun.
Captain Mike llealy, of the revenue
cutter Bear, who knows Bering Sea
from the Aleutians to the Arctic, and
is known to everybody in that region
as the embodiment of Uncle Sam's
power, usually stays about the seal
islands later than any one else, and the
poacher who fall i into Mike llealy'h
hands is likely to repent of his temerity.
The patrol fleet now anil then sends
a ship far to the east, and occasionally,
even in mid mimuier, has a landing
party statioued on one of the ialauda
commanding un important pass, but
mostly the work of the patrol is con
fined to the region about the Prihy
lovH. A disguised poacher might enter
the sealing region with a vessel of the
patrol fleet looking on. Nevertheless,
if a suspicious looking craft should t>e
found entering the sea, she would cer
tainly be overhauled and made to ex
plain. The seal poacher i« usually
recognized by her having a great many
small boats, an unusually largo com
plement of men and an abundance of
llr« ariua. 11. r method when a herd of
seal* is encountered swimming is to
lower maiiy boats with armed men, who
shoot the seals as rapidly as poMibJu
ami then pick them up. IMd and
young, male and female, are thus shot,
and many are lost. li.nn. c<l*l sailors
estimate that seven! » hve per ceut. of
seals killed in tills way are 114.t recov
ered by the poacher*. Others my that
the loss i|i«« not elCeed tell jar cent. '
As a small tiwl may take #|ih»,i»iM» '
Worth of seals tu a single season, the '
temptation to the poacher is strong.
In all ordinary w« »lh« r the »hi|>* of i
the patr.d Ilt et can overtake thu swift
e»t of thu poach, rs when üBCu the
will uder has heeli sighted , but with •
lair, strong aVI a turn poeehing
sell".>ii. r may easily Any »**•
•el rapt'l ted with seals uR hoard M I
Usually taken to IHtuaiaaha and llu u. |
4<» | iui e*i ato ttttfc* of Vn'tofia, mo
»<>t>liuM as tl»i |nus M tm.n.ru .<»
Kugltsh I'he hat* fullj 4la
...uM. .1 that p.swilnlity of a >W« : tetua at
l*iu a*ltil» to the I ailed Mtatea, ami
if IImI <IuiII '<* tt>- .i|a .... >,l tk» tri
lutwai I Ki 11. Ham will •u<ld*>wljr ftu4
Vl« l«al with 'WtMag* suite
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NO. 40.
NELLIE'S EYPS.
Sweet Nellie's eyes are twilight born,
The eyes I love to greet:
They never opened (Iret at morn,
Or mid the noontide heat .
But when the sun was sinking low,
Before the stars began to glow,
Where southern jesarolnee sway and b!on«
They caught their shadows sweet.
O Nellie's eyes, sweet Nellie's eyes
Illumined with celestial dyes,
They haunt my dreams
With gentle gleams—
Wistful,
Tristful,
Twilight eyes.
Sweet Nellie's mouth is summer-kissed
To grace beyond eclipse ;
One eve a ruby rose was missed
And blossomed on her lips,
And softer than the coo of dove
Of southern winds that flit above
Are all her words, and naught but love
From out her rose mouth slips.
O Nellie's lips, sweet Nellie's lips,
Their dulcet tone like honey drips
Upon the ear
Serenoly clear—•
Blender,
Tender,
Summer lips.
Sweet Nellie's locks are sunset crowned
O'er ears of sea-shells mold.
And mid their lissome loops are found
The gleaming tints of gold.
No locks more fair in trancing lure
Were ever clasped by fillet pure
To wake the lay of troubadour
Or Are a bard of old.
O Nellie's hair, sweet Nellie's hair
My heart lies in its silken share,
Nor time nor art
Tbo bond shall part-
Twining,
Shining,
Sunset hair I
—Samuel M. Peck, in Atlanta Constitution.
HUMOR OF THE lUY.
A Jack of »11 trades—The Western
burro.
About the most trying loop-hole of
tiie law is the noose.—Puck.
The well-bred man who works in a
bakery is a loafer.—Troy Telegram.
It is the thunder of the man in need
that everlastingly sours the milk of
human kindness.—Puck.
When a man sees that he is being
driven to despair he ought to get out and
walk.—Yonkers Gazette.
By all odds the finest attraction at
the World's Fair will be the American
girl. —Baltimore American.
Knowledge is power, except ia the
ease of the man who knows he is
whipped. —lndianapolis .Journal.
Pluck will tell. Many a man not
able to write his own name has made
his mark in the world. —New Orleans
Picayune.
Hicks—"Blitson, they tell me, is
quite an athlete." Wicks —"Yes; his
last feat, I hear was to run up a board
bill."—Boston Transcript.
"That Smith girl has cast an awftil
spell over Charlie, He—"" "I sup
pose so ; sho was a typewriter for sev
eral years."—lnter-Ocean.
It seems easy enough to name a
baby, unless by some extraordinary
chauce the baby happens to be your
own.—Somerville Journal.
It is impossible that there are as
good fish in the sea OH over were caught,
if the kodaok pictures that tlsherinen
bring home are true to life.—Pnok.
Drusilla —"I hear you are poor. I
think wo will have to break our rela
tions." Ten Hroke—"l havo broken
ull of mine already."—Now York Her
ald.
Milkman (apologetically) "The
milk is a little blue this morning."
Mrs. Housekeeper—"lt must be think
ing how everlostingly poor it is gut
ting. "—Troy Press.
Jinks—"Don't you think that the
intentions of French duellists are more
honorable than is generally eon
ceiled?" Filkins—"Oh, yes; as a rule
they aim liigh."-Brooklyn Life
"Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr. Dillingham,
your lady love has thrown you over.
What was the troubleV" "Why, you
see, I flattered her so tuuch she got too
proud to speak t<» met"—Boeton Hen
con.
Gabble— "No, my cold doesn't s«-em
to bo gettiug any better. I huve giit
•o now that I can hardly up. ak.'
Htillman— "Home people would call
that a improvement," lloaton
Transcript.
The fears u »;irl c*|>erieucea a lieu
she M'C'S M>luc other girl talking to h<»r
lover are nothing compared to the
paiiK* that torture a woman when a
neighbor c»IU her hired girl to the
fence a lei talkn to her —Atchlaoll
Globe.
"Did ,vi>u know that lonud
himself loekt I out when lie Mont holue
MT V» o'clock la»t uiglit, MII.I LUS wife
wouldn't open tie* door " "Whyt"
She didn't rvcojjnue hi* Vole*, I ■ cause
■lie h»>l always ue all the talking "
Chicago inter I k'« .in,
Butler "Tlnwt * a mau U low i>.
you, air MayUrry "Wlutl did you
tell IIIH* ' KillU r "I told hitu yiin
t<dd me if it «aa a 1 ivly to «y tut
a t, in, and if it aea a IUUII to aay yon
aem out ' V»vl«rry What did tie
ay dun- Uutl> r 11, *ait t.. tall
you he tw a laly," Herv«td lam
Mr Han*| son i«*t*ly) "1 lute
FT'H dn*< U TL< MIM T huntl«>, but MY
iinuwy atfaii* Ua*e prevented my
iu«kitii a il»rlnr»iS'ii until e- » Hut
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