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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.