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By tlio time we have got horseless sleighs we'll probably have snowiest winters. It was au American who paid ehiv nlric tribute to "Victoria's queenliuess as a woman and her womanliness as a queen." Late statistics show that Michigan now leads the world in the production of beans. New York State long held the ilrst place. It is announced that Alaska Indians have abolished totems. They have grown tired of setting them up for curio hunters to tote off. England has started a magazine that will consist entirely of supposed poetry. It may seem uncharitable, but we cannot help seeing Alfred Austin's hand in this. There is no enemy of England too hitter and no professing contemuer of crowns and thrones too fanatical to admit the virtues and services to man kind of Queen Victoria. Mississippi was the only State to pass anti-trust legislation in 1900. Trusts and combinations are now prohibited by statute or constitutional provision in twenty-nine States and Territories. The decision of the West Point cadets to abolish hazing promises to put a happy end to the scandal. The evident truthfulness of the cadets on the stand gives assurance that their pledge, once made, will be kept. It is pointed out that the greatest social change of tho nineteenth cen tury was the "decay of the chaperon." An admirable result of the new order of things is the attendant strengthen ing of feminine character. The girl who is her own chaperon Is slow to invite criticism by transgressing so cial laws. Scientists have at last, as they be lieve, succeeded in actually measuring the earth. They claim that its diam eter, through the equator, is 7920 miles, and that its height, from pole to pole, is 7800 miles. This demon-' ft rates the truth ot the belief that has long existed that the earth is flattened j at the polos. Everybody in the world who is old enough to know what the word spells either has at some time been In love or expects at some time to be in love. This generalization embraces even the most pronounced woman-hater, who, if he be not a hypocrite, is assuredly a man with a past, philosophizes the New York Press. Sofe for breakfast will soon be a tra dition in England. A wail over the disappearance of flatfish proceeds from the London Daily Mail. The price of sole and plaice has doubled in five years and the outlook is that it will double again in another live. It is the steain trawlers and the destruction of young tisli that are doing the mischief. The all-British Pacific telegraph ca ble is to be completed from Vancouver, in Canada, to Australia by the end of 3902, at a cost of $8,973,000. The ca ble is to extend from Vancouver by way of Faming Island and Fiji Islands to Queensland and New Zealand, a branch line taking in the latter. It is a joint enterprise, Canada, Australia and Great Britain taking shares und dividing the costs and profits. — 4 : t Tho Utility of Pain. Although looked upon an evil, pain is kind. It tells that the laws of Na ture havt been violated arid warns us to correct the cause. If it were not fo: pain we should go on doing things that would destroy Pain is a warning that sonu'ihing is wrong, and. instead of trying to hush the pain with some drug \v should -'ek to remove the cause. — New York Telegram. WHAT IS SUCCESS? I it to worship earthy, groveling Gold, And, dollar-blinded, to look only down, lo rake the muck-heap and forget the crown, Until \ outh s bounding blood creeps strangely cold; To dwell with Envy, Arrogance and Dread. To barter all Benevolence for dross, lo lose Companionship— nor feel it loss, because the flower ox Sympathy is dead- Is that Success? To labor for the rainbow bubble, Fame— Aflont so fairly in the morning air— A perfect jewel for a prince to wear- Is it * recompense for ail its claim? I'hro' careful night and crowded, strenu ous day. Thro' iron rebuff or flattery—like snow .and' 1 ] 0 ! 5 °' ie it is grasped, It vanishes in Nothingness away! Is that Success? With comrade Duty, in the dark or day, Jo follow Truth—wherever it may lead; Jo hate all meanness, cowardice or greed; To look for Bcait'.y under common clav; Our brothers' burden sharing, when they weep, But, if we fall, 'o l>?ar defeat alone; lo live in hearts that loved us, when we re gone Beyond the twilight (till the morning break!) to sleep. That is Success! •—Ernest Neal Lyon, in Success. I LITTLE 'dlM J F~I~T HERE were five men of us I and a boy in tbe Fur West- I cm singe coach as it roiled (T over the rough roads of Da kotn. We bad been together for four days. Wo called tbe bov Jim becuuse Ids father did. Wekncw his father lobe Colonel Weston, banker, cattleman and mine owner. The Colonel wasn't a man to whom a stranger would take at first glance, and even after four days of his company none of us could say wo liked him. When you came to study him closely you saw that be was revengeful and relentless. Tbe boy was frank, chipper and good-natured, and you took a liking to him as soon as you looked into his big blue eyes. His ago was about ten, and he had wit and knowledge beyond bis years. We had yet twenty miles to go to reach the terminus, and the hour was about 2 o'clock in tho afternoon when the eoaeh came to a sudden bait as It toiled up hill. Next moment the driver called to us: "All you folks what don't want your heads blown off had better get down and line up. We've been stopped by a road agent." We had arms in plenty, but no one moved to resist. Every bullet fired by the robber would bore its way through the coach and find a target, while the robber bad the cover of the horses and was safe from out fire. It seems cowardly when you read of it. but to get down and submit to be robbed was the wisest thlug to do un der tbe circumstances. Tattle .Tim was not a bit frightened. On the contrary, he rather enjoyed the situation. It was not so with the Col onel. I saw him turn pale and heard him cursing under his breath, and he was the last man to get down. The robber bad .a double-barreled shotgun in liis bands. He cautioned the driver to bold the coach where it was, and then advanced upon us. He glanced carelessly Into each face until his eyes rested oil tho Colonel. Then he gave a sudden start, drew In his breath with a gasp, and wo realized that there was a recognition. The Colonel grew white under his look and began to tremble. Tbe boy had no sooner looked into the road agent's face than be cried out: "Why, it's Mr. Pelton—Mr. Pelton! Say, Mr. Pelton, I'm awfully glad to i see you. Where have you been this long time?" "So It's you, Jimmy," laughed the robber, as he held out bis band for a sliako. "Well, you have been growing since I saw you last. It's a wonder you knew me at first sight." "Oh, I used to like you so well I couldn't forget your face," replied the boy. "Are there robbers around, Mr. Pelton?" With gentle hand tbe man pushed the boy back into line, and then stepped back a pace or two. As he did so his face grew very sober, and I saw a Hash In his black eyes I did not like. His voice was low and steady as he finally said: "I'm much obliged for your prompt ness in climbing down and lining up, nnd 1 think I'll let you off this time. The four of you may go back into the coach and go on. I'm leaving your j guns with you, but don't attempt to j play me any trick." The Colonel took bis son by the | band aud attempted lo enter the j stage witu us, but tbe robber mo- i tloncd him back. "W what do you want of me?" asked j the Colonel, in a voice which quavered. I "I'll tell you later," was the reply. j As the eoa eh started on we looked I out lo see the three standing in the ] road. Little Jim still had hold of bis father's hand, but had reached out the other and caught the robber's sleeve. When we had gone "00 feet the road turned and shut them from our view. At the disappearance of the stage the man turned on Colonel Weston and pointed to the hillside on the right aud said: "Move on that way. Jimmy, give me your hand aud I'll help you along." The white-faced Colonel entered the pi/cs and held a straight course up the hill. Behind him came the robber and his son. The boy had been full of en- j rioslty at first, but presently be was i awed and frightened by the looks cast j upon his father. Two or three years before he and . Mr. Pel ton had been great friends. Mr. relton had been manager for his father. One day there had been a bit ter quarrel—pistols had been drawn—• the Sheriff had rushed in and Mr. Pel ton had fled to escape arrest. He re membered his father calling the fugi tive a thief, and of men being sent out to hunt liim down. All this came back to him as they followed the father up the rough way, and though he knew nothing of man's vengeance there was a feeling of dread in his soui. Now and then tne robber ordered the Colo nel to the right or left, hut these were the only words spoken until they finally reached a rude camp high up among iho bowlders. By and iiy the robber half turned to look the Colonel in the face and said: "I've waited for this for two years. I could neither die nor go away until I had killed you." "it will be murder —cold blooded murder," replied the Colonel us he folded his arms. "If it was murder a hundred times over I'd do it. Do you suppose I can forget Rose Harper? Who separated j us? Who maligned me? Who wrecked my life and sent her to a suicide's grave? Who drove me to be a fugitive from justice on a false charge? I'd kill you if a thousand men surrounded The Colonel was silent for a time. He did not look at his boy, but past liim. The boy's eyes wore fastened on his face, however, and a chill crept over him as he noted the look of a man standing in the shadow of death. It was tho first time he had ever seen it. He turned from his father after awhile to look at the robber. There was another look strange to liim. It was a set determination to kill—the look ol' a man who had haled and thirsted and waited. "Take the boy away first," said the Colonel, with a touch of entreaty in his voice. "Yes. that will he proper." answered Peiton. "Come, Jimmy, let's take a walk." "What—what you going to do with father?" whispered the boy as he walked slowly over and put his liaud in that of the would-be murderer. "Never mind. Do you see that big rock up there? Well, go up there and see what is hidden behind it. Shake hands with your father before you go." The hoy crossed over to his father in a puzzled way, and the father lifted him up and kissed him. When he put liim down lie said to liim: "Run along, Jimmy. If you don't find me when you come hack Mr. Pel ton will take care of you." "O, yes, Mr. Peiton will take care of me and see that I get home," replied the lad. "I am awfully glad to see him. Wasn't it queer to meet him way off here? I was saying only a week ago that I wish ho was back with us so that he could mend my wagon and help me make kites. Mr. Peiton was always good to me. I won't be gone long, and you and Mr. Peiton must be good friends. Don't you remember that mother said she was sorry for liim? We want him hack, don't we?" Little Jim started off for the rock, but he hadn't taken ten steps before he was back again to say to the rob ber: "And I want you to make me a new waterwheel and the handle has come out of the hammer, and nobody will sharpen my knife for me. If you don't come back I don't know what I shall do." "Perhaps I'll come back." whispered Peiton, as he turned liis head away. "Oh, but you surely must. I've heard lots of people say you were a good man. anil shouldn't have gone away. Mother told mo if I ever met you I might speak to you just as I I used to. I'm going now, but remem ber that you are coming back." The boy went away almost glee fully, and the two men heard his foot steps and his voice as he made his way toward the roek. The father looked after him until he was hidden by the vi-eea, and then turned to the robber an* cp-deily said: "Before he comes back. And you'll help him 'to get home?" "Yes, before lie eom.es back," replied Peiton, as he drew his revolver. "It won't be murder, Colonel Weston. It'll simply be retribution. Do you want a minute or two to ask God to forgive you?" The Colonel sat erect with folded arms. He close d his eyes, and his lips moved. By and by he heard the click of the pistol. He did not open his eyes, but he felt that it was leveled at his heart, and that his life was meas ! ured by seconds. Of a sudden came a ! call from Little .Tim. Half way to the i rock lie had turned about to shout: "Oh, ML Peiton, don't forget to ! think up some new Indian aud bear ! stories to toil me. Nobody has told i me a story since you went away." The Colonel's eyes opened. The re volver was lying on the ground, and i Peiton had his bands over his face. ! When he dropped them there were tears in ids eyes. He rose up. put the pistol in his pocket and said to the man waiting for death: "I eau't do it. Little Jim would know it some day. When he comes back take him and go down to the road. It's only three miles to Cedar villc." With that he walked off into tho brush and was out of sight in a mo ment. When Little Jim returned he found his father sitting as lie had left iiim and gazing into the woods. "What is it, father?" he asked. "What's tho matter with you, and I where is Mr. Peiton?" j The man rose up slowly, tool; his j boy's hand in his, and, without a word I in tnewer, he led the way down to the stage to. d and safety.—Butte Miner. LONG ISLAND WAMPUM. THE MOST SOUCHT AFTER CUR RENCY OF COLONIAL DAYS. (iardlnar's llay tha Site nf a Calakralad OUltima Mint, and It. Indian Colnara Mali'hlaaa in skill—Tliair Handicraft a Saurca of l'araacutlou br t>tliar Tribes. By far the greater part of all gen uine wampum in circulation through out the colonies was manufactured mear Gardiner's bay and upon Long Island's shores to the westward. The flats and marshes swarmed with sea life, furnishing shells found nowhere else in such abundance, or so well adapted for transformation into the currency universally recognized among both aborigines and colonists. The historian Weeden wrote: "Long Island's shores abounded in these shells, and Long Island Indians were the chief manufacturers of wampum upon the whole Atlantic coast." John Fiske, indorsing this statement, adds; "The Long Island shores were a kind of primitive mint." On Gardiner's bay, called by the Indians "Cromme gouw," were found, however, the largest shell deposits; here the Montauks and Manhansetts established their mint and carefully kept watch over the mines of New Netherlands, as these shores had al ready been designated by the envious Dutch governor of New York. Tho island itself was known to Dutch colo nists as Sewanhaeky, or land of the sewan shell, and traces, it is said, of the sewan, or wampum industry, are still indicated by the large refuse shell heaps left by the Indians in prof cess of coinage. Weeden thinks wam pum originated with the Narragan setts; Fiske affirms that for untold ages it was the red man's currency and there is authentic evidence of its use by the mound builders in the quantities discovered during explora tions of ancient mounds. The word wampum, or wompan, is derived from wompi, meaning white; and wampum, in its primitive sense, was restricted by the Indians to white beads manufactured from periwinkles. There was also used for convenience, and to expand the currency, black wampum called suckahock, made from the common round clam or quahaug. Black wampum was considered worth twice as much as the white. Long Is landers are said to be endowed with a skill and ingenuity unsurpassed by like characteristics usually accorded in greater abundance to their nearby Yankee neighbors; but that similar traits predominated among the Indian elans is clearly demonstrated by the degree of perfection to which they brought the manufacture of wampum and suckahock, making it thereby a generally accepted coinage—every where current —a legal tender in mer fixed valuation, equivalent to a gold standard. rue crude shells were transformed into highly polished'cylinders, about one-eighth of an inch in diameter and one-fourth of an inch long, drilled lengthwise and strung upon fibres of hemp or tendons of wild beasts. Con sidering the tools at their command, the finished product was a wonderful exhibition of mechanical labor and Indian patience. So perfect, indeed, were these coins that efforts to inflate the currency by putting upon the mar ket a similar combination of shells elsewhere made were detected at the original mint, and thus counterfeit ing failed to become a productive in dustry. Dutch settlers early recognized the value of a monoply in handling this wampum—hence their persistent op position to immigration and the set tlement of Lord Stirling's colonists; a persistency practiced by the Indians in turn, when Montauk's sachem re pelled incursions upon the minting ground made by interior tribes to se cure both wampum and shells in prim itive form. But the demand for wam pum so increased that more powerful tribes, headed by Narrangansetts, Pe quots and Mohawks, united to compel annual payment from the Great South and Shinnecock Bay clans of tribute money, expressed in wampum for a protection and service never rendered. The demands were com plied with, however, from sheer ina bility to resist, and so constant fear kept tho clans toiling to manufacture and pay tribute, their mint thus be coming a source of untold misery. Governor Kieft from New York tried a similar experiment, hut met with utter failure. He levied a tax, payable in wampum, for the rebuilding of Fort Amsterdam. But the wily red man sent back his collector with a message that they did not want the fort. It was no protection to them, 90 miles away and they failed to see any rea son for giving up valuables at the governor's request when they wer6 to receive from him nothing in return. Styuvesant, too, "the valiant, weather beaten, mettlesome, obstinate, leath ernsided, lion-hearted, generous-spirit ed old governor," as he is called by Father Knickerbocker, had his eyes turned toward the Long Island minting grounds, but never seems to have realized anything therefrom. In 1628 the Bradford papers record "no inconsiderable profit in the trade with wampum peake," and from the same source comes this statement: "The Kennebec colony bought 50 pounds of it. At first it stuck, and it was two years before they could put of this small quantity, till ye inland people knew of it, and afterward they could scarce ever get enough for them, for many years together." In 1629 wampum Is referred to as being in a manner the currency of the country. In 1642 good wampum passed for four <nd loose heads at six for a stiver. It Is also reported that same year to the Lords of Trade as being the currency usen in the United Netherlands— eight white and four black beads pas sing for a stiver. Wampum was received in payment of taxes, judgments and all court fees and. as Weeden says, was the magnet which drew heavers out of Interior forests. It passed current in contri bution boxes on Sunday and served all purposes for which tobacco was legal tender in Virginia. In 1683 the Flat bush schoolmaster received his salary in wheat at wampum value, and in 1693 the ferriage of each passenger be tween New York and Brooklyn was eight stivers of wampum. Kieft, after a quarrel with the Raritans, offered a bounty of 10 fathoms of wampum to every one who should bring in a Rari tan's head. A fathom was 60 pence. The unit of measurement for wampum was the distance from one's elbow to the end of the little linger, and Dutch men complained that Indians always sent an agent with a very long arm whenever the measuring was to be done on their side. Belts of wampum were in various designs, but the most common ex hibted alternate white and purple strings in rows attached to a deer skin base. As many as 10,000 shells wore used in a single war belt not more than four inches wide. These belts played an important part in all transactions both public and domestic. They were inviolable and sacred pledges, and every promise confirmed by them was binding. By means of an interpreter could be told the exact rule, provision or transaction talked into the belt at any convocation at which it was the exclusive record. Wampum belts were also used large ly for personal adornment. Says the historian Wood: "A Sagamore, with a humming bird in hi 3 ear for a pend ant. a black eagle on hi 3 occiput for a plume, a good store of wampum pealce begirting his loins, his bow in his hand, his quiver at his back, his six naked spatter leashes at his heels for his guard, thinks he is one with King Charle3." Wampum was manufactured until the close of the 18th century. Incidentally, it may be stated as an historical fact that the early colonists found the Long Island Indians far more civilized than those further north, and this was said to be due to their circulating medium, current in New Neathcr!ands, which brought them first in contact with the white settlers.—New Ycrlv Sun. THE TEL C PHONOGRAPH. A Wdrfut Instrument Sncceufullr Tasted In I.ttndnn. A new invention, called the teleplion ograph, or recording telephone, has just been tested in London with excel lent results. This test was merely from one room to another in the same building, although the length of wire used represented a considerable dis tance. The invention is the work of J. E. O. Kumbcrg, and its mechanism is exceedingly ingenious, though simple, and the result combines the phono graph with the telephone, and takes and records telephone messages by automatic means, giving to a limited extent an answer in the name way. The message is spoken by the per son sending it into the telephone in the usual way, but the vibrations 3ct up by the voice are caused by means of the Impact of the sound waves to act upon a recorder connected with the telephone of the receiver and a phonogram is produced which can be read off at leisure. If it be de sired, the instrument may be so ar ranged that two wax cylinders or phonograms may be inscribed; the one being retained In the office of the sender and the other one reproduced exactly in the oflico of the receiver. To effect this end tho transmitting instrument has two channels or tubes for the waves of sound produced by speaking into the mouthpiece. One advantage of the instrument Is the fact that it is possible to throw the phonograph action out of play and use the telephone in the ordinary fashion. Attachments are also devised by which the use of the transmitter by unskilled persons is made more suc cessful than in the case of the ordi nary telephone. Another test recently made in Eng land was over a line five rpiles in length. The engineer reported that when the conditions were favorable and articulation good the impressions on the cylinder were as deep as the impression produced by speaking into an ordinary phonograph. Large bat tery power is, of course, needed and a reinforcing rurrent is required at tho receiving and registering line. The piactical utility of tho telephon ograph promises to be great in busi ness or professional offices where the clerical force is small. For instance, it the office Is temporarily Left without an attendant, the phonograph ran be so set as to reply with the message that the proprietor is out and also to state the time of his return. The instrument is fitted with a telephon ograph which will automatically take down a message, in case the caller is unable to await that return. The ar rangement of the mechanism is so per fect that a Rerles of messages aggre gating 15,000 words may be taken in this way. 30.000 Caribou in Herd. J. M. Bell of the geological surrey department has just returned to Otta wa, after an absence of about 18 months, during which time he trav eled across Canada, from the Arctic to the boundary. He saw immense bands of caribou. There must have been, Mr Bell says, over 20,000 of them in one hand. Ho never saw anything iiko It- Toronto Truth. SCIENCE AND INDUSTR4 Cargoes or other masses of ccal of ten take Are spontaneously. The pop ular belief Is that thlß Is due to the actjon of moisture on the pyrites and other impurities in the coal. The Ma rine Review, however, now quotes the results of Professor Threlfall's experi ments on the subject, and shows that popular tradition is again wrong. The investigations showed that dry coal is more likely to take Are than wet. A lecturer at the London Polyclinia declared at a recent meeting that the progress of leprosy could be arrested if sufferers would abstain wholly from eating Ash. He cited several case 3 In his own experience. One was that of a man who was blind from leprosy and who had had muscular atrophy for 15 years. After 18 months' abstinence, talcing at the same time small doses of arsenic, all traces of patches had dis appeared from his hands and feet. An extensive botanical garden has recently ljeen laid out at Dahlem, a village within easy distance of Berlin, which possesses some novel features. It is situated in very rough country, and unique advantage has been taken of this fact by reproducing, as far as possible, the natural scenery from which the various specimens of Hora have been collected from all parts of the world. By this means a more com prehensive idea 's obtainable of the native habitat of the plants and trees, and the conditions under which they thrive. An outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred in Lambeth, Eng., owing to infected mangles. Forty-one cases: oc curred in 24 houses, all within a re stricted area. There was much inter communication between places and families living in different houses. Many of the inhabitants after washing their clothes in their own homes took them to some neighbor to bo mangled. Owing to this custom, bedding and clothing of those ill with twphoid fe ver were mangled in the same, ma chine, thus spreading the disease. Four different Infected mangles were traced. Professor Koch, in describing his ex periences with the government expedi tion in Java and New Guinea, stated that he had reached the conclusion i that gnat bites introduced and devel oped parasites into the human body. The germs are passed by a gnat from one human body to another, hut. they develop in the body of the gnat during the passage. Children are specially lia ble to impregnation. In a village in New Guinea, 137 inhabitants out of 700 were infected by the disease. All inoculations have hitherto proved to be failures, but the success of quiuine is very gratifying. The liquid crystals with which 0. Lehmann so startled the world a few years ago have now been proven to lack no quality that can be logically made part of the deAnition of a crys tal. The only general characteristics of crystals aje that they are not iso tropic, and that they possess a molecu lar directive foree that governs their shape and the disposition of their par ticles. The directive force is preserved by surface tension, so that crystals may be liquid or solid but not gaseous. Liquid crystals may be produced by depositing solid crystals from a mother liquor on the cover glass of a micro scope and gently heating them above the fusing point. A Scientific Vlelln. The science of the violin, as may lie supposed, is but imperfectly under stood. The present form of the in strument was worked out more than 200 years ago by the Italian makers, but resulted from experiment rather than an intelligent application of acoustic principles, and i. gives vary ing results. When the curves of the ribs or sides are uneven or incorrect the sound waves interfere, causing some tones to he imperfect. After much study of tne subject, Dr. Alfred Steisner, a German, has brought out a new model, in which sections of ellips es are adopted for the ribs and the op posite sides are made carefully sym metrical, so that the sound waves from each side are reAected to the some foci, in the middle. Whether the theory of the violin has been fully mastered or not the new model is said to produce a remarkably Ane tone. Sea Cnrn.fi n,| Migration.. A French scientiAc journal calls at tention to a recent report of tho French consul at Hawaii which it thinks, throws light on some proli- ■ loins of ethnography. Not long ago a little schooner, dismantled and with its rudder gone as the result of a tempest, was drifted by winds and ocean currents from Tahiti to Hawaii after 81 days of helpless wandering. Hawaiian traditions declare that in ancient days people came from Tahiti, drifting with the currents, and settled Hawaii. Tho adventure of the dismantled schooner seems t.a prove the possibility of such a migra tion, and it is suggested that tho curremte of the PaclAc, which have not yet been sufficiently studied, may throw much light on the distribution of the native races among the island groups.—Youth's Companion. T* *rikiant (he "And if your party came suddenly to a stream," said the story teller, "too deep for your horse to wade over, too wide for it to jump over, and too swift Aowing for it to swim over, what would you do?" "Why, that's easy," said one of the party; "we'd sit down and think it over." —Ycnkers Statesman.
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