! THE GREEN I TOKEN. | By TEMPLE BAILEY. 4 * Copyrighted, 1908, by the Associated j Literary Tress. 2 + +++-:-+-t -M-+*++•:•*+•:• +-M- Miss Mlllicent had decided that on St. Patrick's day there should be a special celebration at the settlement. There were so many little Mickeys and Noras In the neighborhood, and it would he easy enough to tie up little sandwiches with green ribbon and serve the Ice cream In potato forms. Miss Milllcent's coworker, Miss Fa versham, looked dubious when Ice cream was mentioned. "It will be very expensive In forms," she stated. "I don't have to pay for It," Mlllicent told her. "Mr. Barry wants to donate the ice cream." Miss Faversham looked at her friend sharply. "Mr. Barry has taken a sudden inter est in the settlement, it seems to me,'' she remarked dryly. Miss Mlllicent glowed. "Isn't it fine?" she said. "He's going to give tis a picture for the library. 1 am togo with him to pick it out." "Hum," was Miss Faversham's re tort; "I should think he might select it alone." "Oh," Mlllicent told her, "he says he doesn't know anything about pictures. He has lived on the plains, and he says his education along that line is neg lected, but be is big and tine, and he is going to help us a lot with the boys. He says lie knows what It is to be pool and rough and unloved, and now that he lias made his money he is going to give the other fellows a lift." "How did lie happen to get into the work here?" asked Miss Faversham. "Mickey Doyle brought him here to see the club. Mickey had shined his shoes at the hotel and told him about it. And 1 was in the office, and 1 took him over the whole settlement, and he was awfully interested in it, and he has been coming ever since." "I see," said Miss Faversham, with a quick glance at her friend that noted the trim figure in white linen, the hair that rippled away from the low, broad forehead, the earnest gray eyes, the "DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE SHAMItOCK .MEANS V" dimple in the chin that redeemed the rest of the face from seriousness. "I see," said Miss Faversham again. "I ilou't know that I blame him for com ing." Mr. Barry took an immense interest in the St. Patrick's party. "My name," he told Margaret, with a smile that lighted his rugged fea tures, "is John Patrick, and my grand-! father came from the old country." Millicent laughed. "My mother's name was Kate Kear ney," she said, "and there is a tradi tion in our family that we are descend- j ed from Irish kings." "Good," said Barry. "It shall be a feast in honor of the good saint. And ; you must let me give the kids a dinner, please. No little sandwiches, but hot things." And, in spite of the protests of the i economical Miss Faversham, the even ing of the 17th of March found in the gymnasium a long table fairly groan ing with good things. There were little j pigs simply cracking with richness. There were potatoes mealy and white, an<l there were green candies and cakes with green icing and the potato forms of ice creatn and a clay pipe for each of the boys and a tiny gilt harp for each of the girls. And at the head j of the table Mr. Barry presided, and at the foot was Miss Mlllicent, while Miss Faversham was kept upstairs by a headache. "For which let us be thankful," said Mr. Barry -when Millicent told him. She looked at him with shocked eyes. 'Oil, how can you be so hard heart ed?" she chided. "I heg your pardon," he amended. "I j am awfully sorry about the headache, j but I am glad she Isn't going to be down." Millicent looked at him wonderingly I "Why?" He laughed. "Somehow I feel that she is weigh ing me in the balance, and. besides, I ' don't believe she would enter Into the | spirit of it" "Oh, she likes you," Mlllicent told him earnestly. "Everybody likes you." ! He stood looking down at her for a moment in silence, and then he said abruptly, "Do you like me?" Something in his tone sent the quick blushes to her cheek. "Of course," she said hurriedly and turned from him and began to straight- j en the favors on the table. "The children will be hero In a min-! ute," she remarked, and then she stop-1 ped and stared, for at her own place j was a favor different from the rest—a shamrock in green enamel, and on one leaf glittered a diamond dewdrop. "Oh," she said and flashed a glance i •ft Mm—"r»h UAH nnt I#- thflrol" j "Yes." He came and stood besld« ber. "I Dut it there. Millicent" I (sue SHOOK nor neaa. ! "I mustn't take it, please," she said. | "It is too valuable for me to accept." ■ "It lias no value except the senti i rnent. Do you know what the sham j rock means?" "No." | "One leaf means truth and one valor, ! and the other one is love, and all that I have of truth 1 give to you, and all that I have of valor, and, above every thing else, I give you love"— She was very white as she said, "You must not." "Why?" "I am dedicated to my work here. I shall never marry." He squared his shoulders. "That le nonsense. I'll dedicate my self to it, too, and we will work to gether." "Oh, no, no!" she cried. "I must not listen. If I married you I should care so much that 1 should forget all this, j and I should live for you." "Dear heart," he said under his i breath, "do you know what you are j saying—that you love me?" She caught herself up. "I didn't mean"— she began. "But you have said it,"he inter j rupted. She drew away. "I must not think of it," she inslst ! ed. "My life belongs to these people." And even as she spoke they heard j the children on the stairs, a hilarious, j shouting crowd, pushing through the j doorway, piling into the seats, lighting ' a little for a certain place, but good natured always. a feast as it was! Anil at the | end Mr. Barry made a speech. lie told of a lonely boyhood, of his efforts to rise, of Ills final worldly suc cess. "And any of you boys may succeed," | he finished, "but success isn't every ! tiling, for you must value more the | love of truth and a brave spirit, aud ! more than all you must value love. I And some of you are more fortunate j than I, for you have lots of people to 1 love you. You have your fathers and ynur mothers, and Mickey h-is his little 1 sister Nora, and 1 think little sister Nora's love is worth all the money in the world." And he smiled down at the rosy cheeked child by his side. And Miss Millicent, serin;: him thus nt ills licit, \ as t!i"lllcd and touched and almost convinced by his words. | After all, why should they not work i together? !*e was a king among men! And at t!il.- moment of lier indecision Miss Faversham, somewhat recovered from the headache, drifted in and stood behind Milllcent's chair. "We ought to have Mr. Barry here all the time," she said. "I beard his speech. lie has a wonderful way with the boys. After all, men are more ef fective than women in such work." Mlllicent smiled up at her. "We are going to have him," she said. "How?" asked her friend, watching 1 the big man, who, witli little Nora on j his lap, was telling a funny story to I the boys. "I am going to marry him." said Mll licent as she pinned her green token to her blouse above her heart. FACTS ABOUT" CHELSEA. City Devastated by Flames Has Been Victim of Many Fires. Chelsea, the Massachusetts city which was almost entirely destroyed by lire the other morning, has a population of 40,000. The section which was burned was mostly inhabited by Jews, who had built up in the western part of the city probably the largest rag shop district in the world. Most of the buildings from West Third street, where the fire began, to the water front facing Hast Boston were of wood. In this district there have been numerous destructive fires during the last few years, which generally on in vestigation have proved to be of incen diary origin. Chelsea, according to the last census, had nearly 400 manufacturing estab lishments, aud until the tag shop in dustry attained its present growth the city had some of the finest residences in any of the places surrounding Bos ton. With the building up of the rag Industry many of the older families moved from Chelsea, and their fine homes were converted into tenements, many of which were in the path of the I recent tiro. The brick blocks on Ev erett avenue which were destroyed j were a dozen years ago the homes of j some of Boston's wealthiest merchants, j Chelsea lies northeast of Boston and is reached from that city via the Bos- j ton and Maine railroad, by ferry and by trolleys through East Boston aud ! Charlestown. , Chelsea was originally Winnlsim- j mett, was occupied and was settled in 1030 and was organized as a town in 17:58. An effort was made a few years j ago to make Chelsea a part of Boston, ; but the plan failed because of the op- j position of Chelsea citizens. In May, 1775, there was a skirmish i between a small body of British and ' American forces in Chelsea, in which the Americans were victorious. Chel- i sea was incorporate! as a city in 1557. i The principal public buildings were the courthouse, city hall, the United States naval and marine hospitals, the I Soldiers' home, the Eltz Public library and the Odd Fellows' and Masonic i 1 '•■. Union park and the public play- I grinds are the city's spaces. taster Weather Lore. According to an oi«l English proverb, j a wet Easter is not favorable to the consequent crop of hay: A pood deft! of rain on Easter day Gives a crop of good grais, but tittle good iiay. If the sun shines on Easter morning, it will, according to the same author ity, shine again on Whit Sunday. A Sussex piece of weather lore goes fur ther, declaring that if the sun shines on Easter day it will shine a little ev ery day all the year round, while there is a corresponding notion that if it rains then it will rain a little, if only a few drops, every day during the en suing year.—New York Herald. Easter Used to Last Eight Days. In the ancient church the celebration of Easter lasted eight days, but after the eleventh century the time was lim ited to three days, and soon again re duced to two days. It was formerly tne favorite time for performing the rite of baptism. The courts of justice were closed, and alms distributed to the poor and needy, who were even feasted in the churches. Slaves were set free, and as the fasting of Lent was over the people gave them selves op to everj enjoyment FLING AT WASHINGTON American City That's Un-Ameri can, Declares Sidney Brooks. NO HUSTLING THERE, HE SAYS Referring to Its Etiquette, English Writer Asserts the Capital Will In Time Reproduce Monarchical and Aristocratic Society Customs of ths Old World. Sydney Brooks in an article entitled "Monarchical America" makes some interesting remarks about the growth of etiquette in Washington. In the course of his article he says: "The beautiful and spacious city on the banks of the Potomac is unlike any capital in Europe or any of its sister cities In America. It is an American community, doing un-American things, leading an un-American life. It lives simply for two things—society aud politics. It neither talks business nor thinks it. The word conveys no more than a remote and abstract meaning to its mind. Commerce and all its banalities are refreshingly, delightful ly absent. There is serenity, almost benignity, in Its ordering of the rou tine of life. Nobody hustles in Wash ington. It is the one city on the con tinent where America Is really at lei sure. , "That indeed is Its great attraction, j That, together with the lure and glit ! ter of the diplomatic corps. Is the rea | son why Washington steadily tends to , become the center of American fash i ion and the liaunt of the nouveaux | riches. "Being a city of leisure. Wnshing ' ton must have something to amuse It i self with. Being also the headquar- J ters of officialdom, the seat of govern | ment and the center of diplomacy, it | is natural that it should amuse itself ! with the problems of a Republican | court and the minutiae of precedence. [ I sometimes doubt whether any capl i tal, even Vienna or Madrid, troubles I itself so much about these questions jas Washington. They nre debated | with a heat, an Ingenuousness and a I bitterness that can hardly be mntch ! Ed anywhere. I"It is not, however, all chaos. Cer i tain rules have been evolved and cer tain customs established which serve to guide each successive occupant of the White House. Thus the number j of state dinners and receptions that the president has to give is now defi nitely fixed. Thus, too, it is now pret ty well understood that an invitation i to lunch or dinner at the White House | is the equivalent of a command. Thus i also it Is now accepted that the presi j dent should on all occasions go in first, that nobody should sit down until he | has taken his place, that he should always be served first, that he cannot accept hospitality under a foreign flag and that if lie has consented to dine at the house of one of his cabinet min isters a list of the proposed guests i should be submitted to him in advance. "But beyond this narrow region there is a whole wilderness still to be surveyed and staked out. Should sen ators, for Instance, be given the pas over cabinet ministers? Does the ad miral of the navy rank above the sec retary of the navy? What is the rela tive position of the speaker and of the secretary of state? The vice presi dent being a sort of heir apparent, ought ambassadors to follow or pre cede him? What is the exact place of the judiciary in the scale of preced ence? If two senators were elected on the same day, which of them should make the first advance? And what about the status of the unmarried daughters of the great officials? "These and a hundred similar conun drums are debated in Washington with a more than monarchical fervor. Tli • mere fact that they can be propounded shows that the American capital Is still in the embryonic stage of social development. But the intensity of emo tion devoted to their discussion shows also that Washington when it finally evolves a protocol will set an inordi nate value upon it. Indeed, wherever a point In the code is definitely estab lished it Is adhered to with an almost comical tenacity. Etiquette, for in stance, prescribes calls as the first of social duties, and calling is indulged in by the Washingtonians on a scale that puts Londoners and Parisians, who pay their calls not in person, but by post, hopelessly to shame. "That, too. is a sign of a society that has not yet found itself, that is at tempting the Impossible and that has not yet learned to limit and regulate its activities. But time and experience are teaching it order and self restraint. "Just as the tumult of the White House has been reduced to dignity, just as the old type of presidential re ceptions at which all were welcome who chose to cotne is giving way be fore the principle of selection, so Wash ington in time will abandon its indis criminate calling habits and will re produce one by one the outward forms and customs and ways of doing things that distinguish the monarchical and aristocratic societies of the old world." Diamonds In California. The discovery of three diamonds is reported nt Cherokee, near Oroville, Cal., on the property being prospected by a diamond mining company. Two diamonds, it Is said, were washed out the other day. On another claim In Oroville itself an Indian panned out another diamond. Innovation For Libraries. A new London library has a room set apart for conversations on literary matters. The Poor Yorkshiraman. The emblem of Yorkshire is one of the strangest things In heraldry. It is a fly, a flea and flitch of bacon. A Derbyshire man told me the slg- j nlficance of that emblem. Maybe you j know It. If not, you will be interested, i It Is this: A fly will drink with anybody. So will a Yorkshlreman. A flea will bite anybody. So will a Yorkshlreman. A flitch of bacon Isn't worth a con- J tlnental until it's been hung. Neither Is a Yorkshlreman. Detroit Free' Press. GUARDING A FINE GEM * Extraordinary Precautions For Safety of Cullinan Diamond. ; ARTISAN EMPLOYED GUARDED Will Take a Year to Cut and Polish Transvaal's Gift to England's King. Stone Worth $4,800,000 —Secret and Uniformed Police Employed as Guards. Some of the particulars about the care bestowed on the Cullinan diamond —the Transvaal's gift to King Edward VII. —read like a chapter from a detec tive story. To account for the anxiety for the safety of the stone, it must be remembered that it belongs to the crown jewels of England, not another of which can approximate it in value, size and brilliancy. The most difficult operation, tho cleaving, was perform ed by an expert, and its success was celebrated with champagne. The dia mond now appears as a pear shaped stone, and when it shall bo polished and quite ready it will weigh about 2,000 carats. In Its rough original state the stone weighed 3,027 carats. The eventual shape to lie given the stone is kept a profound secret by King Edward and tho head of the dia mond cutting firm, says W. J. L. Kiehl, special correspondent of the Chicago News at The Hague. All that is known is that it is to have fifty-eight facets, which is the largest number a dia mond ever had. The intrinsic value of the diamond is about <1,000,000 florins (.$2,400,000), but because of tlie rarity of such large stones it can safely lie estimated at 12,000,000 florins ($4,800,000). The skill ed artisan who lias to polish the stone is a master of his craft, and the great est precautious are being taken to guard him and the diamond during tho long titnl delicate operation of cutting and polishing, which will be perform ed in a large, well lighted and ventilat ed room, situated in the second story : of a Fide wing of the factory, contigu ous to the room of the heads of the firm. It will take a whole year before the stone is ready, and during all that time the working hours for the skilled artisan will be from 7 a. m. mitil 1) p. in. He is not allowed to leave tho room even for his uxrils. Besides the principal workman, there will be two assistants, and one of the members of the firm will be constantly present in the room. This is locked upon the men by the head of the firm himself, who keeps the key. At night it is even more difficult to reach the stone than in tho daytime. In a tremendously strong fireproof room, the walls of which are more than a foot thick and made of cement and Iron, is placed a great iron fire proof safe, and in this lies the dia mond. The door of the strong room can only be opened by means of a fig ure lock, the figures being known only to the heads of the firm. Behind the door is a heavy iron grating, and when this is opened the place is immediately flooded with electric light. Then the great iron fireproof safe becomes visi ble in the middle of the room. This safe is painted to resemble mahogany, and not a single lock is visible. There are nine strong locks, but these are placed beneath a secret sliding panel. Even when the outer doors of this safe have been opened the diamond cannot be reached before another secret pi geonhole lias been opened, in which the valuable stone reposes. The factory is guarded night and day by a private guard of its own as well as by secret and uniformed police. The strong room is again specially guarded by two men, who every half hour have to touch an electric controller which sig nals their presence. If the signs of the electric controller point only one sec ontl past the regulation time, tho guards are severely reprimanded. "Picking" Easter Eggs. There is an Faster custom among boys in and around Philadelphia and other parts of the country of "picking" eggs. .V boy will go over the eggs in the pantry (with his mother's consent, it is hoped), and by gently knocking the ends on his teeth will select oue or more of the strongest. Then he goes out among his playmates and soon Is challenged, or he himself will invite another boy to "pick," says Everett Wilson in tho April St. Nicholas. Be fore daring to risk this each boy will try tho other's egg on his teeth, and if he thinks bis chances are good he will accept the challenge. The boy chal lenged will then hold his egg so as to expose only tho very point, while the challenger lightly raps the egg with the point of his own until the shell of onj or the other is slightly cracked. The eggs are then reversed and the "butts" are picked in the same way. The winner gets the broken egg. Plans For the Tippecanoe Monument. Members of the Indiana Tippecanoe battlefield monument commission met the other day with Governor Ilanly to discuss plans for the monument which is to lie erected on the battle field by Hie state and the United States jointly. The commission decided to meet again April 14, at which time de signs and estimates will be received and considered. The last legislature appropriated $12,500 for the building of the monument, and a like sum has been appropriated by the United States government. The legislature of 1887 provided for an annual appropriation of S3OO to take care of the Tippecanoe battlefield. It Is likely that the next legislature will be asked to Increase this appropriation in order that the monument may be maintained prop erly. The Peanut. The peanut grows In the ground, never above It. The flowers above ground are sterile, but after the flower withers a stalk from an Inch to two Inches long shoots down Into the earth and forms the nut. As to the native country of the peanut the opln i"*?l8 of botanists are divided between Africa and America. It is extensively cultivated In all tropical and subtrop ical countries, but seems to thrive best In the southern states of the American Union. The peanut crop in the United States alone amounts to over 300,000,- 000 bushels. BONNER THE FIREMAN Estimate of Him as Citizen and Fire Fighter. COOL IN TIMES OF DANGER. New York Fire Department's Late Commissioner a Strict Discipli narian, but Just to All—His Lighted Cigar a Signal of Victory. Word of the death of Fire Commis sioner Hugh Homier of New York was received by all branches of the city's lire department with sincere sorrow, as he had gained the respect of all who bad come Into coutact with him during his forty odd years as a fire fighter. John It. Sheehan, who has been for many years assistant secretary at headquarters, in speaking of his late chief the other day said: "Commissioner Bonner had the re spect and admiration of all the old hands of the department. lie was a strict disciplinarian and would not overlook any breach of duty, no mat ter by whom committed. I have never heard a single instance where he was accused of dealing unfairly with any ouu in the department." A few weeks ago Mr. Bonner sus pended Superintendent Joseph Burke of the combustibles bureau and Build lug Superintendent Alexander Stevens for being eleven minutes late in report ing at their offices. Friends of the late commissioner at fire headquarters said they had tried to dissuade him from accepting the po sition on account of liis health wlian it was offered to liim by Mayor McClel lun, but he had replied that he had never refused tile call of duty and would not then. During his long career Mr. Bonner invented the battering ram, the wall cutter, the tin roof cutter, the hose hoist, cellar and subeellar pipes, the life net aad many other appliances for fighting fire and saving life. His Judgment was sound, and he never got worried or lost his nerve, no matter how big the tire was. On arriv ing at a fire, tin* first tiling lie did was to get <o the heart of the fire and see what should be done. Then he would retire to the middle of the street and send his orders to the battalion chiefs. He always bad a big cigar in his mouth -at a lire and kept it there un llghted uutil the fire had been got under control. When he was seen to strike a match and light up, it was a signal to his subordinates that the enemy was in hand. While Mr. Bonner was lire chief he spent his mornings at his office, the afternoons on Inspection trips and ills nights at the Westmoreland, at Seven teenth street and Fourth avenue, where he was always ready for a call. When asked liow lu- managed to get in any sleep he would reply tersely, "Between the acts." The commissioner belie veil that dumb waiters, elevators and air shafts were sources of great danger in cases of lire in tenement houses, and when the tenement hou?e committee held a meet ing in the old criminal courthouse in November, 1804, he pointed <>ut the ne cessity of having fireproof staircases in all tenement and apartment houses as well as exterior lire escapes. An instance of his judgment at a fire was demonstrated once when he was asked why he ordered his men to stop throwing water on the floor of a big office building that was ablaze in the downtown district. "I told the men to stop," said Bonner, "because I didn't kuow what would happen to that build ing if cold water were thrown on hot Iron and stone, it was better to make sure of saving the lower stories than to risk causing the collapse of the en tire building." After his retirement as fire chief in 1809 Mr. Bonner had intended to start a fire school to instruct people how to save their lives and bow to do prac tical work at lires, especially the em ployees of hotels, theaters, business houses and office buildings. At the time Mr. Bonner said: "I do not bolieve that one hotel em ployee out of u hundred knows how to act in case of fire. A traveler arrives late at night and goes to his room to sleep without having the slightest idea where the stairs or the fire escapes are situated. In the middle of the night he may be awakened by finding his room on fire and in his excitement would probably jump from the window and be killed or crippled for life. If he had been properly instructed it would have given him confidence to know how to act in the emergency. I cannot give any man brains, but I hope to teach him to make the best use of what nature endowed him with." Just about that time Mr. Bonner was sent to Manila to organize the fire de partment there, and his scheme for a fire school was never developed. Signs of Spring. When your shoes begin to pinch, When your toes begin to burn, When your underclothing sticks And you yearn and yearn and yearn For the right to travel far From the job to which you cling, There can be no further doubt— Tou may know that It Is spring. When at night you find the house Uttered up with strips and shreda, When you tind the fashion books And the patterns on the bed, When your wife complains that life Is a dreary, dismal thing Just because her waist won't fit. You may know that it Is spring. When tho cab horse trotting by Splashes mud across her nose. When your hat rolls through the street While the west wind wildly blows, When your neighbor's toothless boy Breaks your windows with his sling And tho cellar's flooded, you May be sure that It Is spring. —Chicago Record-Herald. A Homemade Barometer. A weather man described the other day a cheap homemade barometer. He said it was only necessary to take a piece of string about fifteen inches long and to soak It several hours In a strong solution of salt and water. After being dried the string should have a light weight tied to one end and be hung up against a wall, a mark being made to show where the weight reaches. The barometer is now com plete. It Is as accurate as a SIOO In strument. The weight rises for wet weather and falls for fine. CHER NIAGARA FILLS Fate of a Schooner That Was Used as an Experiment. SHE WAS DASHED TO PIECES. A Thrilling Sight From the Time She Struck the Seething Rapids Until the Mighty Falls Tore Her Into Splinters—A Pair of Tough Geese. The following story of the first pub lic excursion to Niagara Falls was n-ritten at the time by an eyewitness: "The schooner Michigan was the largest vessel on Lake Erie at that time. She was too large. In fact, to enter the various harbors on the lake, and, being somewhat decayed in her uppers, the owner, Major Frazer, got the idea that she would answer the purpose of testing the fate of a vessel that by accident might approach too near the cataract and also the fate of living things that might be caught in the rapids. The proprietors of the large public houses at the falls on both sides of the river and of stages and steamboats made up a purse to pur chase the schooner, aware that they would be amply repaid by the specta tors that the exhibition would attract. "For several days previous to Sept G, IS2B, the day for which the affair was fixed, which was Saturday, the stages and canalboats came to Buffalo crowded with people. On the night of Sept. 5 wagons filled with country people rattled through the village in unbroken procession all night long, and oil the morning of Sept. 0 Buffalo it self seemed to be moving in one mass toward the point of attraction. Five steamboats had been advertised to leave Buffalo Saturday morning. They were the Henry Clay, William Penn, Pioneer, Niagara and Chippewa. The Chippewa was appointed to tow the schooner Michigan to the Niagara river. I was a passenger on her. "As soon as we got well under way the scene became interesting. The oth er four steamers came plowing along In our wake, crowded to the guards with passengers and bands of uiusic playing. The Chippewa towed the big schooner to Yale's landing, on the Can ada side of the Niagara river, where our passengers went ashore, as did those of the William Penn. The pas sengers of the Ilenry Clay and Pio neer landed on the American side. Yale's Landing was three miles above the falls, and the crowds of people were taken from there on down the river in wagons of all kinds. The hour fixed for towing the Michigan from Yale's Landing to the rapids was 0 in the afternoon. "This task, an extremely hazardous one. was intrusted to the oldest sailor on the lake. Captain Bough. W'ltli a yawl boat and five sturdy oarsmen the old captain got the schooner under way. They towed her to within a quar ter of a mile of the first rapids and within half a mile of the tremendous precipice itself—as near as they dared approach. They cut the big vessel adrift, and she passed majestically on, while the oarsmen of the yawl had to bend their every nerve and muscle to remove themselves from the peril of being drawn down by the rushing wa ters. Indeed, such had been the fear and apprehension of the men that they mutinied against Captain Bough and cut the towllne before the time he had set. If they had obeyed the reck less old captain, lie, the yawl and its crew would have preceded the Michi gan over the falls. "The high grounds on both shores of the river were lined with people as the Michigan, unguided by human agency, approached, head on, the first rapid of the seething descent, apparently keep ing tin? very course that a skillful nav igator would have guided her in. The American ensign streamed from her bowsprit and the British jack floated at her stern. The vessel shot the first rapid unhurt, still head on, making a plunge, shipping a sea and rising from it in beautiful style. In her descent of the second rapid, the water momenta rily increasing in velocity and tumult, her towering masts went by the board, giving tlie spectators a startling repre sentation of the crashing of a vessel's spars in a shipwreck at sea. She swung around and presented her broadside to the dashing and foaming water, and, after remaining, as it seem ed, stationary for a moment, swung around until she was headed upstream. "Passing the third rapid she bilged, but carried her hull to all appearances whole as she tossed aud groaned be tween Grass island and the British shore to tlie llorsesftoe fall, over which she was drawn sternforemost ayil hurled Into the thundering abyss. She was dashed to fragments before she struck in the seething waters below. Immediately after she went over hun dreds of people hurried below the falls. The river was covered with fragments of the vessel. * 3 - " "There were aboard the Michigan when she started on her trip toward the falls a wild bull buffalo from a western prairie, two bears from the Lake Superior regions, two foxes, a raccoon, a dog, a cat and four geese. When the vessel left Yale's lauding in ti»,v all these were let loose on the deck except the buffalo. lie was Inclosed in a pen. The two bears got enough of the trip when the vessel began the descent of the first rapid, and they climbed down the side next the Canada shore, plunged into the swift water, breasted Its powerful sweep successful ly and reached the shore. They were so exhausted when they got on land that they made no resistance to being captured. The bears, before they aban doned the ship, climbed the masts of the vessel and, as it was presumed, from that outlook saw what their fin ish would be anyhow and then deter mined to take the chances of getting to land, slim as they were. The raccoon ran up a mast and remained there un til the mast fell. lie was never seen Igaln. The foxes ran frantically up and down the deck and went over with the schooner, as did the buffalo bull end the geese. Not a trace of foxes or buffalo was ever found. Two of the geese swam ashore half a mile below the falls. The other two met tbe fate •112 the buffalo and the foxes," HIDING IN A"GLIDER" Simple Flying Device Tried by Aero Club Members. MANY SHORT FLIGHTS MADE. Other Experiments to Be Made With Machines Equipped With Motors. New Device, It Is Said, Can Be Easily Operated and Constructed. Members of au "aviation committee" from the Aero Club of America spent the week end recently on an estate on the north shore of Long Island experi menting with a "glider" of the Her ring model. Members of the party were reticent about the precise loca tion of the experiments, but It is learn ed that members of the party succeeded in "aviating" for short flights of from thirty to forty feet with the glider at a distance of from ten to fifteen feet from the ground. The delegation from the Aero club consisted of Augustus Post and 15. L. Braiue, members of the aviation com mittee, and George 11. Guy and Mr. AVard of the club. The committee was appointed at a recent meeting in New York of the Aero club, when Court landt Bishop, the president, observed that the balloon had no further worlds to conquer and that henceforth the mission of the club would lie iu the de velopment of aerial flight. The investigators arrived at the Long Island estate early the other day. They carried with them material for their machine. In a few hours Mr. Braine had put together the first glider of the club. This consisted of a framework eighteen feet long and five and a half feet high as it lay on the ground, with a width of five feet. At the top of the machine and at the bottom were muslin covers stretched to the upper and lower planes of the ln ln the center was a space for a man to hang suspended by his arms. The top cover was over his head, while the bottom one would be on a level with his arms as the ma chine was in the air. The whole weighed forty-five pounds. The machine was carried to the top of a hill near the place of its birth. There was a stiff breeze blowing at the time. A member of the party was placed in the central position, while one lifted the machine at the head and one at the foot. The passenger stood on his own legs, with the machine par tially supported in the air by the two others. At the word all began to run. Within a few moments the machine would glide through the air and the two assistants would let go at the shout of the passenger. According to members of the party, many flights were made whose great est distance from place of starting to place of alighting was forty feet. The machine would rise in a curve which gradually came to earth again. For ward of the suspended position of the passenger was a bar which the pas senger used to aid him in altering the Inclination of his body and hence the center of gravity of the whole, so that the angle of the muslin surfaces to air currents was altered. All of the members of the aviation expedtlon took turns in riding in the machine. Further experiments will be made to lay the ground for work with machines which employ a motor. Those Interested regarded the success of their experiment as an example of the ease with which such machines can be made and operated. The club at the present time is search ing for a place where experiments may be carried on regularly without too great publicity. Shingles of Cement. A company has been formed at Sagi naw. Mich., for the manufacture of re enforced cement shingles. They will manufacture plain and ornamental shingles, liip covering and ridges, orna mental tile and other roofing material now made of terra eotta only. A large and complete factory will be erected in Saginaw and operations commenced at an early date. Brand New Crimes. A writer in Harper's Weekly won ders if certain "brand new crimes" will not result from the increasing use of wireless telegraphy. A recent spe cial message to congress urged legisla tion to prevent interference with gov ernment wireless telegraphy. A boy lu Washington, it seems, had put up t. ptafC for wireless experiment and had prevented the sending of a wireless message to the president when he was on a warship bound for Panama. A Brooklyn lad had caught a wireless headed for the navy yard, and in other eases boys and amateurs had got in th» government's way. "Behold in sight a new class of rights and easements un known to Blackstone. Kent or Parsons, Invisible. Intangible, Inaudible and yet existent and, we suppose. Important. Let us see now if congress can legis late that boys must not be boys In this matter of playing with magnetic cur rents." siifsnri A. Relia ble TO SHOP Tor ali kind of Tin Roofing? Spoutlne nnd General Job Work. Stoves. Heaters. ftan«»s v Furnaces, sto. PRICES TBE LOWEST! QUiLITY TOE BEST! JOHN HIXSON SO. IV 6. FRONT BT.
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