Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Lililfii OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FBEELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION ITATKS: On© Year $1.50 Six Month* 75 Four Months., 50 Two Mouths .'25 The date which the subscription Is paid to IS on the address label of each paper, the change of which to u subsequent date bo comes H receipt for remittance. Keep tbs figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever ptpttT la not received. Arrearages must be puU When subscription is discontinued. Make all money orders, checks, ttc.,payabU to ihe Tribune Printing Company, Limited. Sometimes when we feel that we •re making the most headway it is because we are watching someone else going backward. The new way of measuring the •pace occupied by a building is by the acre. A Duluth firm is planning to erect oue to contain nine acres—not* however, all on the same level. The truth is gradually coming out •bout South Afrioa. That it was the land of the dtisselboom and full of veldts, kopjes, spruits and 001ns was well known, but it has only recently been learned that it is also the home of the tsetse fly. Young men before entering one or the principal medical schools of this country are exaiuiuo.l as to their gen eral knowledge. One of the questions given to tho candidates for one of these schools last year, relates the Ladies' Home Journal, was: "What are the names of the boons of the Bible?" Of 120 answers, only five were correct. Among the names of books given were: "Philistines," •'Marcus Aurelius" and "Epistle to the Filipinos." The movement to ameliorate the condition of tho discharged convict is rapidly gaining ground in England. Judges, prosecuting attorneys, and city aldermen have united in the at tempt to set ex-convicts upon their feet; and St. Giles Christian mission, London, gave 21,224 discharged pris oners last year their first meal out of prison, findiug work for 5998 who were willing to accent it. In the last 22 years this association of Christian men and women has helped 361,000 prisoners after their liberation. The opening up of Africa to civili zation during the past 10 years is one of the wonders of the world's history, thinks the Atlanta Journal. A vast territory with natural resources of incalculable value has been placed within easy reach of capital and enter- j prise, and there is sure to bo a phe nomenal development in Africa in the early future. There is 110 longer a "dark continent;" tho light of civili- ' zation has j enetrated even the most savage land iu Africa and grows brighter every day. Steamboats ply all the great rivers of that Great con tinent and railroads now carry pas sengers through what were only a few years ago almost unkuown deserts and unexplored jungles. The iconoclastic tendency of our time is attacking theories which wo used to consider almost as well estab lished as the laws of mathematics. We are now told, for instance, that the good old rule of "Early to bed aud early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," is not only nou- 1 sense, but really a bad thing; that parsons should not go to be I until they are sleepy,and,as far as possible, not rise until the}' feel like it Now, this new theory is contrary to common sense, observes tho Atlanta Journal. The habit of early retiring and early rising can be cultivated like any other habit, and everybody who has tried both plans will testify that habitual practice of carl}* to bed and early to rise is better than late to bod and late to rise. Night is nature's appointed time for lest, and those who arc com pelled to work at night and sloop dur ing tho day, are, as a rule, loss vigor ous und less healthful than those who get a good night's rest Insect! Committing Sulclds It Is stated that Insects have been known deliberately to kill themselves under certain forms of torture or prov ocation. Experiments have been tried upon wasps, which are extremely sen sitive to benzine and dislike the odor very much. A tumbler was sprinkled with benzine, then inverted over a wasp, which at once attacked a bit of paptr that was under the glass. Final ly the wasp appeared to become des perate. He threw himself on his back, bent himself together and drove his sting three times into his body, then he died. Repeated trials convinced the scientists that wasps would,under these circumstances, take their own lives, as several of them got out of their un comfortable atmosphere in this way. THE UNDER DOC. 1 FY MONROE H. ROPKNFIELD, TVho's for the nndor.dog? I'm for tho under <tog! For the nion wtio nobly stand For their own dear native land "With the might of freemen grandl I'm for the under dog! Who's for the under dog? I'm for the under dog! Since the God of Freedom led Where our sires for Freedom bled j Till our starry flag was spread! I'm for tho uuder dog? Who's for tho under dog? I'm for tho uuder dog! While the crave for gHin aud greed To Destruction's powers lead Right and Justice he my creodl I'm for the under dog! Who's for the under dog? I'm for the under dog! Thiuk yon crash ot shot and shell And the battle's horrid hell Oan the right of Freomen quell? I'm for the under dog! -—New York Clipper. *1 know that tho world, tho great big world, Will never a moment stop To see which dog is right or wrong, But will shout for the dog on top. •'But, for mo, I never can pauso to ask Which dog may bo in the right; For my heart will boat, while it beats at all, For tho under dog in tho light." —New Voice. 1 3330^)300030030000000000000 pNE TRIGEOY OF THE SEij 1 o DaDODaOODOOO'JGOOOOOOOOOOCO iN the opinion of American skippers of all the thrilling stories of ship wreck and other horrors of the sea which come into the port, of New York each winter none is more dra matio than the story of the burn * ing of an unknown oil steamship in mid-ocean in the win ter of 1892. Tho vessel was subse quently thought to have been tho British oil steamship Loodiana. al though no absoluto proof of her identity was over obtained. Tho story as told by the officers of the Egyptian Prince, which arrived at New York with tho news of the burning of the oil ship, is often told oven at this late day iu tho shipping offices along South street, and no marine novelist ever penned or imagined a story more pathetic or more dramatic in all its details. It was midnight in December, 1592, aud the steamship Egyptian Prince, bound from Newcastle for New York, was in mid-ocean, plowing through the waves at a ten-knot clip. The night was cold and dark and the wind blew with hurricane force. "Better keep a good lookout to night," said Captain Coleman to Sec ond Officer Jordan, "it's going to be uasty and no mistake." "Aye, aye, it is that," came the re ply, and then the captain wont below. Jordan remained on the bridge si lently gazing at the big combers roll ing toward the vessel as though to en gulf it and then curling away on either side of tho how with the force of a mountain torrent. The wind was be ginning to shift to the northeast and nothing could be heard abovo the roar of the tempest but tho ceaseless chug-a-chng of the engines. Sudden ly from the lookout in the bow there came the hail: "Eight ho! two points off tho star board bow." Jordan looked up and sr.w, way off on the horizon, a faint glow of light. "Ship on fire," roared Jordan, "all hands stand by." "God help that VOSBO! to-night," said the members of the crew to one another. And then tho eonrso was altered and the vessel headed iu the direction of the light. Meanwhile it had begun to hail and the wind screamed with increased fury. Tho light came nearer and nearer and finally the straining eyes of the ship's company mado out great pillars of flame and thousands of flying sparks. That volume of flame iu mid-ocean meant but one thing, and fall speed ahead was sounded down in tho en gine room. Iu rosponso the powerful •hip bounded forward as though anx ious to bring speedy assistance to the unfortunates aboard the distressed vessel. The distance gradually les sened and in a short while the hull of tho burning vessel—a seething, roar ing mass of flames—was sighted, roll ing and pitching in the heavy sea. From the interior of the vessel great sheets of flnmo shot a hundred feet in the air; the smokestake and pole masts were pillars of flame, while the oil with which she was ladeu flowed down over the side like cataracts of Are. Blazing globules of oil floated away on the waves. The captain of tho Egyptian I'riuce brought his ves sel to within a hundred yards of tho burning vessel. Faint cries whioh were brought to him on the wind were tho only evidence that she was not de serted. It would have been fool hardy to bring Iho Egyptian Prince sny closer to the burning oil ship, but the crew was lined up along the leek and Jordan called for volunteers to man a boat with him and go to the rescuThe sea was running moun tain high and only three men re sponded to the call. This was not a sufficient number to man the boat and the attempt was given up. Not a soul was to be seen ou board of the oil ship, aud the Egyptian Prince bo gun to circle around hor in hopes of picking up some of the boats. Sud denly there came a cry from one of the officers of the Egyptian Prince and he pointed toward the jibboon of tho vessel. Every eye followed bis finger and then there was a cry of horror; woy out ou the end of the jib was a man and a woman. They were standing in the martingale nets, the man supporting the woman with one arm while he clung to the boom with the other. The woman w 8 shielding her face with her hands a8 though seeking protection from the fierce flames, which every moinetk threat ened to euguif thorn. Th e cre w of the Egyptian Prince heard pitiful cries in answer to- their Bhouts of enoouragement, it seemed as though nothing oouii be done to aid them. The oil shii U with her head to the gale, whioh t the flames away from the bows}ll When she yawed, however, ihe flan n shot forward and hid the two viotiru from sight. Then the wind would bi-rw the flames back again and the couple could still be seen clinging to the boon. They saw the steamship no and tli-i:r cries for assistance were continuous. The battle between the wir 1 and ths flames continued. Often a tongue of flame would leap out gree ily toward tho pair, as though to lick them np, and then apufT of wind would drive it back again. The heat \ intensi and it seemed as though the end must come soon. The officers of tho ship could stand the strain no lo coi and although there WHB uotono chnnes iu a million that a small boat could live in such a terrific sea, to say noth ing of launching it, tho three offi. eri volunteered to make up the bo..:' crow with the throe seamen who 1, volunteered. The crew rushed t man the davits and falls and the mem hers of the brave little band took the places iu the boat. Just as they we about to lower the boat, however, cry from the captain caused every on to look toward the burning oil ship. She had again fallen off the wind and great sheets of tlame flew out way be yond the jibboom. The man, with the woman clinging to his neck, could be seen hanging to the martingale, perilously swawing with every roll of the ship like an autumn leaf on a tree. "Hold on, help is coming,"hoarsely roared the captain of the Egyptaiu Prince through his speakiug trumpet. A feeble cry was the only response, and the next moment there was a crash. The bowsprit had burned off at tb< butt. The man and the woman, still elingiug to the spar, fell, and the water closed over them. Wheu the spar arose ou the crest of a wave neither the man nor tho woman were to be seen. It was no use to lowei the boat now, and the Egyptian Prince steamed away 011 its course, which was lighted for many miles by the l-oariug flames. None of the crew of tho ill-fated ship ever survived to tel' the story of the conflagration.—New York Sun. WISE WORDS. Every man's task is his life-pre server.— Emerson. Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.—Simmons. Evil is wrought by want of thought, as well as by waut of heart. —Hood. j Our ancestors have traveled tho iron age; the golden is before us.—St. Piorre. Our greatest glory is not in nevei falling, but in risiug every time wt fall.—Confucius. Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at tho efforts them selves.—Whately. People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.—Goldsmith. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at lost.—Johnson. The lie indirect is often as bad, and always meaner and more cowardly than the lie direct.—Ballou. Lift up thyself, look around, anc see something higher aud brightei than earth worms und earthly dark ness. —Kick tor. There is- no surer mark of the ab. sence of the highest moral and intel lectual qualities than n cold recejition of excellence.—Bailey. The Bible mid Gold Leaf. It is used in the golf-leaf trade, the gold leaf being packed in books made of paper leaves cut from the Bible. There is no intention on the part of the dealers to be irreverent in thus using the pages of the Bible, bnt it has bocome a universal practice in the trade. Most of the gold leaf goes to shops whore artists' materials are sold, and it is packed between printed sheets because the slight indentations in the paper made by the printing serve to hold the delicate ttltn of gold iu place. The reason for using the Bible sheets is that the Bible is usual ly printed in small typo and is always very oveniv sot, and the impression of the type 011 the paper is very slight, hut quite enough to hold the gold leaf iu place without injuring it. Small-type editions of the Prayer book are used for similar reasous.— Tid-Bits. Von ice'll Electric Launch. The first electric launch in Venice has been delivered. It accommodates about fifty passengers and is fifty-six feet long and ten feet wide. Jts aver age speed is seven to ten miles an hour, and it is called the "Alessandro Volta." While the introduction of any mechanical form of propulsion other than the gondola ig to be regretted as far as Venice is concerned, still, if launches of this kind take the place of the small steamboats on the Grand Canal, it would bo a great improve ment. —Scientific American. (A the Pronunciation of "Water." Mr. Clerk was pleading in a Scotch appeal before tho House of Lords. The question at issue was in regard to a right of water. Mr. Clerk, more Scotico, pronfmnqed tho word watter. "Pray, Mr. Clerk," said one of the law peers, "do you spoil water with two t's iu Scotland?" "No, my lord," was the dignified and scorching an swer of tho great lawyer, "but'wa spell manners with two n'a."-—Notes | and Queries. GODS OF OUR RED MEN. THE HOME OF ALL INDIAN DEITIES IS IN THE BLACK HILLS. The Oreat Spirit Situ Upon the Highest Mountain, Supposed to lie Httrney's ( Peak—Ancrlbe Supernatural Powers to What They Don't Understand. IT HE Indian has many deities. I To him everything is "Wakan." The mysterious and unknown iB ruled by the gods or deities of greater or lesser Wakan." Anything that is super-, ' natural, mysterious or superhuman is j "Wakan." The Black Hills of South Dakota, rom an Indian point of view, is the nonie of tho gods, from whom all lower originates. Tho wind and the , ightuing are sent forth from the dork I recesses of the mountains and the very foundations of the hills are mode to tremble, when the Great Spirit gives vent to his anger. The old In dian tradition says that the Great : Sp -/it -its upon the highest mountain i in the Black Hills, supposed to be Harney's Peak, and from this exalt • 1 position, ho directs tho move j mee'- if the lesser gods and his own peep! In his pleasant moods, he i K 9 sun to shine, tho grass to grow and tho Indian tribes to be at ! itli one another. In his an gry I. ra nts, he lets loose the winds and Ik'iituiug and tho world is made I dark and tho children of the Great j Spirit are punished by famine and | death. Many years ago the Great Spirit kept a white man chained be neath the big mountain. Tho man tresspassed upon the chosen hunt ing ground of the children of the Great Spirit and he was forthwith captured and made example of before all othor trespassers of the palefaces. The whitle man was n giant, whoso footprints in the sands were twenty foet long and he was so powerful in his right arm that he could break tho bufl'ulo's hick and could twist from its roots tha lofty piuo; yot tho Great Spirit rilled him. PIUMITIVE RAINMAKER. Tho Great Spirit had a good many lesser deities, who were given power over animals; and things. Onkteri was the god oj water. This deity in outward appearanco resembled qu ox, being much larger. A great part of the religion of the Indians came from the wakan influence of this god. There are both tnnlo and female, the former having control of the water and tho earth beneath tho water, and the latter haviug an influence over tho laud by tho side bf tho water. When the god of water wants rain to fall he lifts his tail and hbrns to tho clouds and immediately the rain falls. Onko tri assumes an important part in the juggling and superstitous beliefs of the Indians. The tnedicine men ob tain their supernatural power from this source. The god and goddess are mortals and can propogate their kind. They have power to impart from their bodies a mighty wakan in fluence. Cha-o-ter-dali is the god of the for est. His home is at the foot of the highest mountain and ho lives most of the time in the top of the highest tree on the mountain-top. His com panions aro tho birds of the air, who act as guards and sentinels. When he wants anything he flies to his perch in tho tree-top, which is as smooth as glass. He calls together his friends and sends them hither and thither. He is in constant war with the god of thunder, Wah-keen-yon. When Wah keen-yon passes over the mountain top, casting hero and there his bolts of lightning, Cha-o-ter-dali, the god of the forest, enters the water ut the foot of tho tree and the lightning cannot touch him. To tho Indian, Wah-kcen-yon is a mighty bird, and the noise that is made, which shakes the foundations of tho mountains, is caused by tho big bird flying through the air with his young ones. The old bird will not injure tho Indians, but tho youug birds ore foolißh and do all tho harm they can. The name Wah-keen-yon signifies a flyer. There are four varieties of tho gods among tho Wah keon-yon. The image of the first one is that of a groat bird, black in color, with a very long beak and four joints in each pinion. Tho second variety is yellow in color, beakless, and also 1108 four joints in its pinions. The fourth god has remnrkably long wings, each of them containing eight joints. It is scarlet in color. The fourth god is bluo in color, and has no face, eyes or ears. Immediately above where the face should appear is a semicircu lar line, resewibliug an inverted half nioon. Tho Wah-kecn-yon gods livo on tho top of a lofty mountain at tho western end of the earth's surface. Guards stand at tho open doors, which look out to the four points of the com pass. A butterfly Btauds at the east door, a bear at the west door, at tho north door a reindeer, and a boarci at the south. The Wah-keen-yon are destructive and are at war with most of the other gods. Tho Indians be lieve that the fossil remains of the mastodons that are found so fre quently in tho bad lands are the bones of the fallen god of water, and the burial places are held as most sacred. When the white man discovered these remains and, knowing their origin, commenced excavating them for rare relics, the Indians resented this in vasion of the burial ground of their gods. OOP OF GRASS AND WEEDS. Wkitte-ko-kak-gah is the god of the grass and weeds. The won', trans lated, means "to make crazj." The god is aw eed himself and he has the power of giving whomsoever ho will fits which make them crazy, Tho god has the figure of a man. In his right hand, he carries a rattlo of deer hoofs with sixty-four deer claws. In his I left band he oarries a bow and arrow, Fiorn bis cap streams of lightning flow, BO bright that they dazzle the wild animals. In his mouth be bus a whistle, which is used in the dance to invoke the assistance of the Great Spirit when the Indians have bad bud , luck in bunting. We-hun-de-dau is the goddess of war. She is always invoked when the Indians go to battle. Sbo is repre sented with hoofs on her arms and as many of these as she throws at the feet of each warrior indicates tha number of scalps that will be returned to the oanip by the warrior. If tha party is to have poor luck, the god dess will throw to the ground as many broken arrows as there will be warriors wounded and killed. One of the greatest and most revor enced gods is Tah-koo-sbkan-shkan, who is invisible, but all prevading. He is in the spear and the tomahawk, in'boulders and in the four.winds. Ha delights to see the warriors fall in bat tle. Ho is the most dreaded god of the Indians. He directs the move ments of the fox, raven, buzzard, wolf and other animals of similar nature. HAVE MANY GODS, The Indiaus have as many gods and goddesses as there nro imaginative minds in the tribe. Anything that is out of the ordinary or that appeals to the imagination is a god. Contrary to the opinion so gener ally held, the Black Hills were never the home of the Indians. Influenced by the over-present superstition, the Indian tribes held in reverenco tho pine-covered mountains and deep canyons, believing them to bo the home of deities. The early pioneers in the Black Hills found evidence that tho Indiaus frequently came to the foot-hills for tepee poh)3 and firewood, but boyond an imaginary line the tribes rarely ventured. It is not to be wondered at, perhaps, that the Indians fought so bravely to retain possession of the Black Hills. To them the country was as sacred ns tho white man's heaven. The Indian battles in the '7os around and in the Black Hills were battles ot a nation against a for eign people, who sought to dotbroue and destroy a religion. Many of the Indians of to-day, surrounded as they are by the civilization of tho whites, still hold in reverenco the lofty peaks and the deep canyons of the "Pa-Ha- Sap-Pa." Legal Cngliftli In Kngland. Legal English and the English of the plain man were again in conflict yesterday. It was not "place" this time, but "bedding." A distress may not bo levied npon "wearing apparel and bedding," and a distress had been levied upon a bedstead; was that right or wrong? In other words, is a bed stead bedding? One counsel quoted Chaucer to BIIOW that it was, which is rather weak, since, as the other said, so many people slept on shakedowns on the floor in Chaucer's day. "The Absent-Minded Beggar" also was cited—"they'll put their sticks and bedding up tho spout;" but that also is weak, since "sticks" rather than "bedding" probably covers "bed stead. " Tho plain man will agree that a bedstead is not bedding. But it is pretty clear that what the law meant in this case was "what a man sleeps on," which makes a bodstcad bedding and tho distress illegal, and it was so held. It might bo well to invest one's wealth in a gorgeous bedstead for seourity, much as Indian women in vest theirs in bangles.—Pall Mall Gazette. • Pointed ParuernpliH. If yon are in doubt about it, don't do it. In the world's groat drama tho ocean plays tho principal role. A sample room is dangerous when too many samples are taken. Tho man who has nothing to do but clip coupons cuts quite a figure. Every man has been, is, or will be handsome in the eyes of some woman. Tho opinions of a child may be of no value, but they aro at least honest.; A girl is invariably in love when she refers to tho twilight as tho gloam ing. . The woman who paints her cheeks and the man who dyes his whiskers' fool only one person. A bnchelor says that widows weep not beoause of the loss of a husband/ but because of the lack of one. Probably no person living ever saw a picture of Cupid that looked as though the little fellow had good com-, mon sense. Figures may not lie; but when a girl looks like 160 pounds and only pulls tho scales down at 116, there isi something wrong somewhere.—Chi cago News. Incrcduloun nn to Itn Origin. A party was being shown over the British Museum. In one of tho rooms the keeper pointed out a collection of antique vases, which had recently been dug up at Herculaneum. "Dug up, sir?" echoed one of the party. "Yes, sir.' "What, out of the ground?" "Undoubtedly." "What, just as they now are?" "Perhaps some little pains have been takou in cleaning them, but in all other respects thoy were found just as you see them." Tho wise man turned to one of his; companions, and with an incredulous t shako of his head, whispered: "He may say what he likes, but he shall never persnnde me that they dug up ready-made pots outof tho ground." —Pearson's Weekly. Lake VOMCU. It is only a few years since tho launching of a lake steamer with a carrying capacity of 4000 tons was bo lieved to have marked tho maximum limit to the size of such vessels. Now a steamer has been launched with a capacity of more than 9000 tons.— Cleveland Leader. LIFE OF BOER WOMEN. THEY ARE EQUALLY AT HOME IN DRAWING ROOM AND KITCHEN. An Article by One of Them, TV'hicli Show# That They Are Not as I'opular Fancy Ha# Caricatnred Them —'Very Many of Them Are Highly Acrottip!lulled. Miss Sannie Kruger writes as fol lows in Harper's Bazar: Today the Transvaal occupies the centre of the political stage, and the Boer women have nuturaly taken first place in human interest.' Gallons of ink are being spilled over them, some truth and more nonsense finding its way into print. The Boer woman Btnlks the popular imagination clad in the scanty garments of a Hottentot, as ignorant as a Kaffir, as bloodthirsty for battle as a Zulu chief. I am a Boer girl, descendant of a long line of Boers. My grandfather was half English, half Boer; my grandmother, a Boer girl, was a sis ter of the present wife of Oom Paul. My father is a nephew of President Kruger. Therefore lam doubly re lated to them—a grand niece to both the president aud his wife by ties of blood as well as marriage. I am prouder a thousand times of this, my Bqer ancestry, than of the slight English strain that is also my birth right ■Let me show you ray countrywomen a> they are, not as popular fancy has caricatured them. All Boer women have oue striking accomplishment in common—the use of the pistol. The Boer girl of this generation aims as surely as her mother who guarded the wagons from beasts of prey when trekking the veldt, or, in time of war, loaded gnns for the men, and, if need be, fired them. Yes, the Boer women go to battle with hushnnds and fathers. Was there not a time when the women of America risked their lives that a re public might he born? Somewhere I have seen a picture of the Revolution ary heroine, Moll Pitcher, firing a cannon. Boer women are strong. They hunt with their brothers, sitting their horses with superb ease, disdaining a saddle, shooting game, with unfalter ing aim. General Joubert's wife carf be taken as the type of Boer woman, who does not fear the whiz of bul lets, ready to risk life thnt her chil dren may enjoy liberty. In peace or war Mrs. Jonbert is always at her husband's side. I have often heard her tell that during the last war she drove sixty miles in a Cape cart, ac companied only by a little negro girl. It was a very dark night, and the enemy fringed the way, but the men gallantly fighting at the front were in sore straits for food, and her cart was freighted with a precious load of rusks nnd bread. So Mrs. Joubert, forgettiug tho danger that beset the way, drove ou to the starv ing soldiers. The women are ready to play any part that necessity demands. Not love of carnage, bnt devotion to her country, steadies her aim and stillH her pity. The Boer woman does not tire upon tue indi vidual, but upon the vandal who would drag Freedom, soiled and bleed ing, from her high estate. I have only spun the woof in the Boor character; threads of a more domestic texture go to make the web. Our grandmothers are the essence of industry—a trait no doubt derived from our Hollandish ancestors. They rise at 4 o'clock in the morning, when the cooks are crowing their shrill matins. Breakfast is usually eaten between 6 and 7, and consists of boiled meat, home-made bread, fruit and coffee. At 11 o'clock, a cup of tea, with cake, is served. At 1 o'clock the dinner-bell rings and the family sits down to a dinner of soup, meat, vegetables and dessert. But the Boer puts the wagon before the oxen, for soup is served after the meat, just before the dessert. A supper of cold meat, bread, fruit and tea is eaten at (>. Coffee is kept on "tap" all day long and punctuates every hour. At. 8 o'clock they assemble for family prayers and at 8.30 it is "lights out and bed." Now for the Boer girl of the rising generation. The discovery of the rich mines and consequent influx of strangers have naturally broadened her horison and taken her out of the rigi 1 groove of Boer custom. Her ac tions are largely governed by her elders, but her ideas are iconoclastic to Boer tradition. She may obey the letter but not the spirit of the laws. She is bred-in-the-boue religious and industrious, but contact with foreign ers has made her more cosmopolitan than her ancestors. The town-bred Boer girl of today is given a modern education. She goes to school with the foreign children, learns both Eng lish and Dutch and loses much of the Boer elanuishness. Her people frown on Anglo-Boer marriages, but oft times tho Boer girl braves these pre judices and marries tho Englishman of her choice. The best Boor families are connected by one, sometimes two or three, ties, owing to intermarry ing. The Boer swnin who goes a-wooing chooses either Friday or Saturday night to visit the maiden to whom he would pay his addresses. It is understood that these two nights are set apart for "courting'' calls, and n visit on either night is practically the equivalent of n proposal. Many of tho Boer girls are highly accomplished, studying music and dancing, with Fieuch and flerman in structors. They are, many of them, very prepossessing, with Hashing black eyes and olive complexions. Tho Boer girl is equally at home in kitchen or drawing-room, and a ner vous temperament, kindled by foreign contact, promises to save her from becoming the colossus of fat that is the phlegmatic Boer's fate. The Boer girl wears a short skirt and simple bodice for riding and hunting; for dress occasions th.-y pattern their gowns after the English, choosing rather gayer colors ti:an the English wear. A PLAYFUL BREED OF HORSES. Tl Hiifflfngem of tho Tyrol—A Rough Game. Of horses the most companionable j are doubtless Arabs. They have lived j for generations in the tents of their i masters and assimilated human ways j of thought. Barbs and Atalf-breed i Arabs in Europe run the pure Arabs ! very close in this respect. (J hey make noble friends, but 011 a lower level, as playmates for the lighter hour,l know no breed that comes up to the Haf fiiuger, writes a correspondent of the Loudon News. In the Tyrolese valley from which they . t %ke their name I suppose they live as much in the com pany.of their owners as do the Val j vognian cows with theirs. But they : are exported far and wide. An Aus trian baron, who buys them up and does what he eau to impart "style" and fine manners to these queer look ing cobs, has sold two to the Prince of Wales. The traveling carriages of Switzerland are largely horsed by Hattiiugers. In thnt popular health resort, Meran, tlicy do nearly all the draught work. "Cob" is perhaps a misnomer. They are cobs in their low measurement from the ground,but big horses as regards girth, leugth of body aud size of hoof. The heads are huge and very plain. Hajllingers have beeu compared with ' hippopotami and giant "sea horses," and with very good reason. Spiritually they are described as "tho duchshnnden of the stables," because daxies are "the ways of the kennel." It may be that people have refused to take seriously the oddly shaped horses and the oddly shaped dogs, and that both have thus come to look upon themselves as a good joke. Comical ity sits in the Hatlliuger's little eye. He laughs in his sleeve, just like a daxie. Both waddle in their gait,ow ing to their absurdly short legs. Halfiingers ought to make the for tune of any circus master. They (like daxies again) delight in playing tricks, and will learn rough games, such as schoolboys love, and will play them, too, strictly according to rule. I havewatche l two Hartlingers, with their owner and his man,playing a sort of hide aud seek, hurryiqg aud scurrying about a cobb'o paved yard in pursuit of the men, loyally abidiug by the marks that meant "safe home" and never punishing a player that had not blundered. They understood thnt they might kick or bite the man who, (being hiddeu, sought and fouud) failed to run fast enough to a "sale home." One who was not quick enough I saw taken by the waistcoat, shaken gently and dropped, kneeling, none the worse! The horses who were playing were over 12 years old. They relinquished the gume most re luctantly when their breathless owner called "Time!" and enforced his menu ing with flourishes of a formidable four in hand whip. Then these ma ture but "noble boys at play" rushed for each other—squealing like pigs in articolo mortis, showing enormous rows of teeth, twisting around in sudden gyrations to lash out at each other,one sometimes catching the other's hogged mane or getting a pinch of his smooth coat in a bite, but never doing real mischief! One of the two I speak of taught a little game to a lider, and insisted on playing it, to while away the tedium of a three hours' ascent at a foot's pace. The game on tho horse's part consisted in catching the rider's toe between his teeth. It was tho rider's part to prevent this. All tho way up hill the rider had the best of it. But, returning by the almost perpendicular track, the HnfHinger gained an easy victory. He did not squeeze the 1 oot, but shook it as you might shake a friend's hand—heartily, not roughly— and for the remainder of the road he rested on his laurels, playing no more that day. Halfiingers show their affection by lavishly kissing with the tongue, like dogs. They are extremely self-willed —again a trait in common with tho dachshund. Their paces are neces sarily slow, but their staying power is enormous and their surefootedness a proverb with Tyrolese mountain guides and drivers. Hor Dronin Wa< Fulfilled.' A young lady who lives in Boston was summoned to Portland a short time ago to attend tho funeral of hor father, u well-known citizen who died suddenly from heart disease, the im mediate cause of his death being over exertion. The morning his death oc curred, the young lady was late in ar riving at her place of business, and remarked, in explanation, that she ovei slept (an unusual circumstance), and had a dream iu the morning which had caused her great distress of mind. She saw her father climb into a win dow, and then strike his head against a chair ciusing instant death. It is understood that the doctor attributed his death to his striking the side of his head against a chair as he entered the room byway of a window, a re markable confirmation of the circum stances of the sad affair as iudicated by the dream of his daughter.—Port laud (Me.) Transcript. T*at* of Wllow Fine, The civil engineering department of tho Uuiversijy of Nebraska receutly made an interesting test of the crush ing Ktreugth of blocks of yellow pine. The blocks were about four inches cu bical measure. One was placed on its oide, aud was crushed when the pres sure reached 1215 pounds a square inch. The other block was placed on its end, and it was not crushed until the enormous weight of 10,507 pounds a v-ah had been reached.
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