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Show FOR BOYS AND GIBLS SOME GOOD STORIES FOR CUR JUNIOR READERS. Dorothy Maud and the Terrible Thins Tht Happened to Her Plaything That Can Be Made from Acorm, Pop-plea Pop-plea and DaiaiM Cleveland Children. Sea Love. I love the sea It's spicy balm Forever waft through storm and calm. Fresh as the blossoms on the lea. Yet old as gray eternity; A mystic scent, whose potent thrill The hand of art can ne'er distil From hidden root or flower fair. Or aught that wood or garden bear. With spicy glee It taketh me; I love the wild, the witching sea. I love the sea the gifts It brings From viewless depths, and laughing fling With merry heart and lavish hand Upon the shifting faithless sand. Rare shells from-ocean caves below With quaint and tender tints aglow. Till grace and beauty richly blent Would make Titanla's heart content. With favors free It wlnneth me; I love the rare, the regal sea. I love the sea its bosom deep, ' Wherein a myriad mysteries sleep. I listen to Its wistful sighs That stir my soul to sad replies. I marvel at its wondrous sheen. Now blue, now pink, now opaline. With which It hides In depths below It wild unutterable woe. Whate'er shall be Of grief to me I love the sad, the sorrowing sea. G. M. Peck. Playthings. It's the most natural thing in the world that little children should grow tired of wax dolls and mechanical tops at this season and want to play out of doors, and kind nature, as if realizing realiz-ing this fact, has been good enough to provide any number of playthings with which to keep her children's miads and little fingers occupied during these long, glorious summer days. Did you ever know that from acorns you can make a perfectly fascinating little tea set, such as our grandmothers used to take delight In making when they, too. were little girls, long ago? For this tea set you must gather, if possible, two kinds of acorns large ones, having hav-ing fit, shallow cups, and the smaller ones, with rounder, deeper cups for the shallow acorn cup3 make the sau cers and the smaller ones the cups. A charming teapot is made from a big acorn by adding a nose and a handle from a piece of match, and by cutting off the top to make a cover. For the cream pitcher and sugar bowl take two more acorns, cut off the tops, scrape out the inside of the nut and put on handles In the same way you did for the teapot. When completed you have a set fit for a fairy queen. Of course there are lots of little mothers who never see the use in anything unless it can be converted Into a doll, so I think they will be interested In knowing how to make poppy dolls. First get a poppy that has gone to seed, and outline a face in Ink. You will not need to provide pro-vide a hat for this doll, as the poppy is already provided with one in the shape of a fluted green ridge, which makes a very becoming piece of headgear. head-gear. A strip of bright colored tissue paper forms the dress and another little lit-tle piece the cape. Two pieces of match can be Inserted for the arms. Very pretty flower dolls can be made from hollyhocks and daisies. Pick one of the hollyhock flowers, take off the stem, then take a small bud, selecting one in proportion to the body, and make eyes, nose and mouth with Ink. The head can then be fastened to the body with a long pin or a piece of broomcorn, which also serves to fasten a gay little bonnet made of a pink or any other flower you may wish to use. All you have to do to turn a daisy into a doll is to make the face on the yellow yel-low center with ink. then pull out some of the petals around the sides, leaving enough on top to look like a bonnet and two petals below for strings. By adding a paper gown you will have a typical old lady in her sun-bonnet. sun-bonnet. Dorothy Maude. Early in the atteiuoou Millicent, hugging her doll, slipped out of the back door and sped as fast as her little lit-tle legs would carry her down the garden path and out Into the lane beyond. be-yond. Nobody saw her, or she would certainly have been brought back, for she was not allowed outside the garden gar-den alone; but everybody happened to be busy at the moment. Only Was? heard the pattering of the little feet on the gravel and the click of the gate as it swung to after her. Now, Wasp wag not at all the sort of a dog to go and tell tales, and, besides, so long as he was with his little mistress, what harm could possibly come to her. So he just jumped at the idea of a walk, and before Millicent had gone more than a couple of yards down the lane he was beside her, dancing round on his hind legs and making playful little snaps at the doll. "Oh, Waspie," cried Millicent, "I never said you might come. But as you have you may as well hear what we are going to do. Only, it's a great secret, and you musn't tell anybody. Do you hear? Not anybody." Wasp's tail began to wag briskly, and he did his best to say In dog language that any secret was safe with him. "Well, then, I'll tell you. Dorothy Maude has never been christened isn't that dreadful? and she hasn't really got a name at 11, and we're going to the well by Farmer Young's field, and I am going to christen chris-ten her," and Millicent looked very important,' indeed. Wasp listened attentively, at-tentively, then gave a bark, and ran on, as if to say, "Come along, then!" The well was reached at last, and then a great difficulty presented itself. The water was not, as Millicent had expected, ex-pected, level with the top of the well, but far enough out of reach. Indeed. Millicent. as she leaned over the open-Ing, open-Ing, could hardly tell whether there was any at all. "It feels very damp, though," she said. "I think there must be some water. But how am I to get UT" Then suddenly catching sight of the bucket, she seized it and let it swing over the opening. "Now," she said to the smiling doll, 'you sit there while I let the pail down," and she sat her cn the brickwork of the well with Kur little feet actually dangling dang-ling over the side. "Now for the handle!" han-dle!" cried Millicent, and putting forth all her tiny strength, she managed to turn it a little way. Wasp, who had been sitting quietly watching, spraftg up as the chain began to creak, and with his paws on the edge of the well began sniffing the air to find otft whatever what-ever was making that curious noise. "Get down, Waspie!" cried Millicent. letting go of the handle, and making a rash at the dog. but alas! all in an Instant she slipped, made a clutch at the well to save herself, and in doing so jerked poor Dorothy Maude from her seat. The next moment Millicent. looking over the side of the well in horror, was greeted by a faint plash from far below. She stood staring down into the darkness for some moments mo-ments before she could realize the ireadful truth that her precious doll ra3 drowned. Then as it gradually lawned on her that if she had been obedient and stayed in the garden the ireadful accident would never have happened, she burst into tears. She remembered, too, her mother's words. "Above all things, child, don't go near he well. There was nothing to be done, and very sadly she turned homeward. home-ward. Wasp trotted at her side, feel-'ng feel-'ng rather guilty, for had he not been he innocent cause of the mishap? Presently he tucked his cold nose into her hand to show her how sorry he was. "Oh. Waspie," cried Millicent. 'it wasn't your fault, you dear thing; it was all my doing, and now we shall never have Dorothy Maude to play with us any more," and her tears burst lut afresh. But they did. For when the sad story was told at home, and Millicent's mother saw that the little mirl was really sorry for her naughtiness, naughti-ness, she sent the gardener to see what "ould be done. He went off to the well, and with the help of a long fishing-rod succeeded in bringing the dripping doll to the surface. All her beauty was gone, and the pale cheeks of her favorite served as a constant reminder to Millicent that disobedience and all other kinds of naughtiness have to be "paid for" sooner or later. She served as a warning to Millicent to be more obedient in the future. The Vooth of Famous Folk. John Ericsson, the celebrated navigator, navi-gator, inventor and builder of the Monitor, was born in the province of Vermeland, Sweden, in 1803. His father was a mine owner, and his brother was a civil engineer, who became be-came chief of the Swedish railways. As a boy, therefore, young Ericsson had a chance to learn all about machinery, ma-chinery, and he early displayed great interest in it. Before he was 11 years old he made a miniature sawmill and was able to draw plans of all sorts of mechanical contrivances which he had not tr" materials or the tools to make. His interest in war was encouraged by one of his teachers, a German engineering en-gineering officer, who had served with the celebrated Swedish officer. Gen. Bernadotte. The boy's plans attracted the attention of Count Platen, a celebrated cele-brated engineer, who secured him an appointment with the Swedish corps of mechanical engineers when he was but 12 years old. When 17 years of age he entered the Swedish army as an ensign. After he had served several sev-eral years in the army he removed to England and made some unsuccessful experiments with an engine to be run by steam. In 1833 he discovered the important use c-f, the screw propeller in navigation. He came i? America in 1S40, where aid was offered him in putting his inventions into practice. He built for the government the ironclad iron-clad steamer Monitor that successfully fought the Merrimac In Hampton Roads in 1862 and practically revolutionized revolu-tionized the navies of the world, as it made the introduction of ironclad-vessels necessary. He died March 8, 1889. Cleveland Children, Little girls and boys who object to the rule and routine of home life should spend a few days with the three tiny daughters of ex-President Cleveland Cleve-land and his lovely wife. Miss Ruth, who is perhaps the best known and most talked of baby who ever lived in the White House, is now past the age of babyhood, and is quite her mother's companion and adviser. Esther is a demure maiden, who preserves her angelic an-gelic look through the wildest prank, and wee Marion follows closely in the footsteps of her sisters, whatever they may do. Lessons occupy most of the morning hours; the nursery dinner is eaten just after the family luncheon, with a quiet-faced governess to watch over manners. Drives or walks and play fill up the afternoon hours, and then the nursery supper comes, with mamma to preside at the table and cut bread and butter, as much as three hungry little mouths can demolish. The loveliest hour of the day to the three little girls comes after this, when they may tell mamma all they have done and hear her advice, reproof or blame on the subject. Sometimes a fairy story ends the evening hour, or some of mamma's own experiences are related. re-lated. Then three little girls toddle off to bed. No parties, no going out into grown-up society and no excitement is the rule which Mrs. Cleveland follows closely for her three girls, who lead simpler lives than hundreds of American Amer-ican children who deem themselves ill used at two hours of lessons each day. The Sweetest Boy. Little Frank got at the can of new maple syrup which his mamma had just received from her old home in Vermont. He also found a paint brush and began to decorate the parlor furniture fur-niture with the sticky liquid. From chairs and soft legs he went to pictures. pic-tures. After he had turned several horses into odd colored animals he happened to get the syrup on his fingers. fin-gers. Naturally he tasted it, and finding find-ing it sweet, he cried: "O-o-o! Dat's nice!" He found a spoon and fed himself, him-self, but more syrup dropped upon his clean white dress, which his mamma had put on him for 'company," than went into his mouth. When the bell rang his mamma went to the door, la came Aunt Sue and Uncle Ned. When they saw little Frank they said: "Oh! What a sweet little boy!" "Yes," said Uncle Ned, "he is the sweetest boy in all the world." Mamma Mam-ma laughed because she could not help it. So Frank knew that he was safe. But he was sent from the parlor as a "bad boy," and had a good time eating the syrup on the back doorsteps with his kitten, who contentedly licked the spoon and purred, thinking all the time Frankie really was the very "sweetest boy on earth." A Profitable Dre-m. It may not be generally known that the Invention of the automatic lock-brake lock-brake for carriages was the result of a wonderful dream. The inventor, man named Springer, had been puzzling over a means whereby the driver of a carriage need not get down to put on the brake, but might do so through the action of the horses, and was completely com-pletely baffled. Shortly afterwards he had a dream, in which he himself used this lock-brake when driving down a hill. On awakening, he remembered perfectly how it had been worked, and immediately applied for a patent. The first year of its use brought him in no less than $75,000. Hale for Summer and Winter. Visitors at the market one day last week were much amused at a doll in the arms of a little country girl, who had come in with her father seated on a load of produce, says the Kansas City Star. It was evidently a great treat for her to be in the city, and she stood near her father's wagon. Her doll was home-made, but it had the most beautiful suit of golden hair that ever a country doll wore. It was made of corn silk ana was fresh that very morning. IN THE ODD COKNER. QUEER AND CURIOUS TH'NBS AND EVENTS. Polynesian Warriors Lizards Some Queer Facts A boo These Fanny Liuie Creatures Some Cariosities of Oar Calendar. Spring's Revenge. Father Time In his office was sitting, When he happened to spy - vtt.imai 11 J it. "Goodness me!" he exclaimed, "how I'm nitting My days are Just scurrying by. The world has used up the whole Winter, And demands the next stage At the turn of the page; I declare one must be a real sprinter To keep up with the pace of this age. Here. Spring, get your garlands and flowers; With laughter and mirth You mu?t skip down to earth. Take plenty of sunshine and showers, And hurry for all vou are worth." Then said Spring, with a pout of unrea son, "Oh, please Father dear. Let me off just this year; 1 hate the earth more every season. It's a silly, absurd little sphere!" "Why, my child," said old Father Time, frowning, "They are waiting, you know. And of course you must go. The poets their Queen would be crown ing. What on earth has offended you so?' "Spring odes, lays and ballads they fash-Ion, fash-Ion, I've known one man to pen As many as ten! And I vow" here she flew In a passion "I never will go there again!" "Well, of course you can't help their ad miring. Said Time, looking wise, "So I would advise That you travel incog, by attiring Yourself in some sort of disguise." " "Oh, Time, what a clever suggestion! 'Tis the very best thing." Kvf:i t r"l tw I crtiTHv , .- 1 1 n cr Snrinp - v " - uuf, - -1 . -f . "Now, what shall I wear? that's the question, When my merry way earthward I wing. "Here's a snow robe of Winter's, that's jolly; I'll take it to wear. And I'll stick in my hair Some mistletoe sprays and some holly They'll never know me, I declare!" "Come, come," said old Time, "you must hurry, Tla February 28, March 1 is your date. And I'm in a sad state of worry. For I'm mortally sure you'll be late." "AH right," answered Spring, "I am going." go-ing." Her mantle she drew Around her and flew Down to earth, where 'twas blowing and snowing She crept in, and nobody knew. Carolyn Wells, In "Life." Polynesian Warriors. All over Polynesia, clubs and spears assume an astonishing and well-nigh abnormal development. They are made of extremely hard woods, so heavy that they will sink in water, and the carv ing of a single weapon of the kind ofter requires years of labor. Some of the spears are barbed all the way up to the handle. At the same time bat ties among the Polynesian islanders have a character that is largely cere monlal, and the object of the military equipment is chiefly to make the warrior war-rior seem prouder and more terrible. Helmets of feathers are worn and breastplates decorated with feathers and shells. The elaborate clubs are not only weapons, but also insignia of rank. In Tahiti the war costume consists con-sists of three cloaks with holes in the middle, put on one over the other one white, one red and one brown; and the natives of that island have a special sort of forked sword ornamented with sharks' teeth, which is a frightful instrument. in-strument. Human sacrifices were universal uni-versal all over Polynesia before the Europeans came, and cannibalism was practiced everywhere. Sacrifices of slaves and war prisoners were invariably necessary at the building build-ing of war canoes. The natives believed that their deities were cannibals, and their faith was that the great god Tangaroa caught souls with a net. and ate them up. Infanticide is extremely common now all over that part of the world, and female fe-male infants are strangled quite customarily, cus-tomarily, because it pays better to bring up boys, who can fight, fish and become priests. One consequence of this custom is that women are scarce, and polyandry frequently results, one woman having several husbands. On some islands women are strangled when their husbands die, and the matron ma-tron from her wedding day always wears the ominous cord around her neck. Lizards. Lizards are little studied and little known. In Shakespeare's day they were thought to be poisonous, and in England today country people hold them in awe. The forked tongue and snakelike movement add to the fear in which they are held. The scaly and the sand lizard are most common, and both seem to need the presence of water, wa-ter, yet they like dry quarters, and a cold, wet day will see every one of them vanish. It is the tongire of the lizard which doee most execution and secures the prey of which it is in quest, more especially flies and spiders, which fall ready victims to its sudden dart. Caterpillars are not above the lizards attention, and small earthworms are a favorite food, the greater power of the lizard enabling it to force its way almost under any stones and roots in eearch of food. Small particles of raw beef every few days appear to contajsi nourishment of the right kind when insect food is missing. Irritated by handling, Lacerta agiles turns sharply on his assailant, and, though toothless, clings tightly to the hand and may be even carried about in this fashion. The skinning of the lizard is an event well worth watching, beginning at the ears and progressing gradually tail-ward, tail-ward, taking about a week or ten days in progress. The skin is shed in sections sec-tions of perhaps half an Inch in length, and, going right around the body, in the case of the sand lizard, measures two inches in breadth. The markings are most beautiful, and the skin of the claws is distinctly shed, splitting longitudinally longi-tudinally between each claw and coming com-ing off much like a small glove. The sand lizard seems in no way Inconvenienced Incon-venienced in the process, and scrambles scram-bles about with half-shed skin as agilely as before; nor does his grip of claw or mouth appear to suffer at all by the transaction. The beautiful tints of his side, emerald green in sunshine, sun-shine, seem even more vivid than before be-fore his sloughing from the old skin, though naturally he Is not comparable with the beautiful emerald green Jersey Jer-sey lizard. Voracious White Ant. One of the principal and most immediate imme-diate needs of the hour, especially at this moment, in Luzon is some effective method whereby wood may be rendered absolutely impervious to the attacks of the various epecies or allies of the garni s termites 4he white ants-says ' the Scientific American. Writing our state department in 1893, the then United States consul at Amoy, China, Dr. Edward Bedloe, said: "A fortune lies in store for the man who will discover dis-cover some process for cheaply making wood proof against white ants. These peets are the curse of existence in Amoy and every other tropical or subtropical sub-tropical city. Their voracity Is Incredible. Incred-ible. They ate the framework of a new door in this consulate in three weeks. In the same period they almost al-most consumed a large and handsome cabinet In the courtroom and a heavy pine settee in the ante-room. Their work is invisible. They attack the wood from a. mere point.through which they bore to the interior, and there eat everything until only a shell or film remains. Wood which will successfully resist these Insects must be thoroughly charged with some powerful chemical, both poisonous and non-evaporable. A solution of corrosive sublimate, chloride chlo-ride of zinc, arsenic of antimony would seem to meet the want. But how to force these into the fibers until the latter are saturated and to do so at a merely fractional cost of the wood itself it-self is the problem that confronts the inventor. The American genius is eo prolific In Invention and discovery that I feel assured that the problem will be satisfactorily solved." Six years have passed, and the -consul's faith in the genius of American inventors has net been vindicated, while the great need of some such process as he suggests has yearly grown much greater as clothes-wearing Europeans have attempted at-tempted to penetrate deeper and deeper into tropic wildernesses. A soldier correspondent cor-respondent of a western daily graphically graphic-ally writes from Manila, after having returned from one of these recent Ag-uinaldo-chasing raids: "These Tagals are as elusive and annoying as wasps and not much more dangerous, if you can only catch them. For my part, I consider the white ants much more in vincible. A fellow feels pretty bad after a three days' tramp in mis fern house climate to get back to camp and clean clothes, only to find that a colony of white ants have burrowed into hia chest, and that all his belongings, not made of glass pr metal, have been re duced to a ra. r fine powder." A Sorrowful Tree. There is a tree in Persia to which the name "The Sorrowful Tree" is given. Perhaps because it bloom3 only in the evening. When the first star appears in the heavens, the first bud of the Sorrowful Tree opens, and a3 the shades of night advance and the stars thickly stud the sky. the buas continue gradually opening until the whole tree- looks like one immense white flower. On the approach of dawn, when the brilliancy of the stars gradually fades in the light of day the Sorrowful Tree closes its flowers, and ere the sun is fully risen not a single blossom is visible. A sheet of flower dust, as white as snow, covers the ground around the foot of the tree, which seems blighted and withered during the day, while, however, it is actively preparing for the next nocturnal noc-turnal festival. The fragrance of the blossoms is like that of the evening primrose. If the tree is cut down close to the roots a new plant shoots up and attains maturity in an incredibly short time. In the vicinity of this singular tree there usually grows another, which is almost an exact counterpart of i'ie Sorrowful Tree, but less beauti ful, and, strange to say, it blooms only in the day time. Some Cariosities of Oar Calendar. A writer in the French scientific journal La Science pour Tous recalls certain curiosities of the Gregorian calendar. He writes: "Since the reform re-form of the calendar by Pope Gregory XIII., in 1582, no century can begin with a Wednesday, a Friday or a Sunday. Sun-day. Also the same calendar can be used every twenty years. January and October of the same year always begin with the same day. So do April and July, also September and December. February, March and November also begin with the same day. . New Year's day and St. Sylvester's day also fall on the same day, except, of course, in leap years. Each day of the week has served as a day of rest somewhere; Sunday among Christians, Monday with the Greeks, Tuesday with the Persians, Wednesday with the Assy rians, Thursday with the Egyptians, Friday with the Turks, and Saturday with the Jews. Finally, the error of the Gregorian calendar, compared with the actual course of the sun, does not exceed one day in four thousand years. As it is quite probable that neither you nor I shall ever verify this, we shall not risk very much by believing the statement." By a Dog's Instinct. An extraordinary duel once took place in Paris between a man and a dog. It was a kind of judicial combat, in which the right or wrong of a charge was supposed to be decided by the result of a fight for life. A cer tain gentleman had been murdered and his body buried in a wood. His dog remained by the grave, leaving It only occasionally in search of food, and it was the action of the animal that led to the discovery of the murdered man's corpse. Some time afterward the dog flew at the throat of a soldier named Macaire. Suspicion being aroused, and the fact coming to the knowledge of the king, the dog was brought into court, and there, from a crowd of courtiers, picked out Macaire and flew savagely at him. As Macaire denied the crime, the king ordered that ' it should be decided by a duel with the dog. The lists were prepared, Macaire was provided with a large stick, and the dog with an empty casls to which it could retire from assault. But the animal attacked Macaire so fiercely as to get him by the throat and fling him to the ground, whereupon he confessed the crime. The Laughing Plant of Arabia. The spprl3 nf thn lanhino' nlant of Arabia produce the same effect upon persons as laughing gas. The plant attains at-tains a h sight, of from two to four feet. with . woody stems, wide-spreading Drancnes and bright green rouage. its fruits are nrnrlnporf In clusters and are of a yellow color. The seed-pods are soft and wooly.in texture, and contain two or three black seeds of the size of a Brazilian bean. Their flavor i3 a little like opium, and their taste is sweet; the odor from them produces a sickening sensation and is slightly offensive. The seeds, when pulverized pulver-ized and taken in small quantities, have a peculiar effect upon man. He begins to laugh loudly, boisterously, then he sings, dances, and cuts all manner of fantastic capers. Such extravagance ex-travagance of gait and manners was never produced by any other kind of dosing. The Creator has divine methods of calculation. He only knows the capabilities capa-bilities of man and all Immortality be-fp?fc?: be-fp?fc?: Rev, George Adams, LONG-DISTANCE EIDE. M. COTTU COVERS 785 MILES IN TWELVE DAYS. Hone Spirited at the Finish The Rider Took the Best of Care of Ilis Animal, and Never Kept It at a Trot More Than a Mile and a Quarter (Special Letter.) A very remarkable feat of horsenan-ship horsenan-ship has just been accomplished by a young Frenchman, M. Charlie Cottu. He rode the whole of the way from Vienna to Paris, 785 miles, in 12 days and 14 hours, using only one horse, and, what Is still more noteworthy," brought his mount into Paris in thoroughly thor-oughly good condition. As everyone knows, 62 miles is a good deal more than the average horse can be expected to accomplish in a day, and to keep up this average for thirteen days at a stretch, with 188 pounds weight on the animal's back, implies not only the great stamina of the steed, but altogether alto-gether exceptional care aad management manage-ment on the part of the rider. M. Cottu began to train his mount a half-breed Irish mare, Irish Lass, 7 years old, standing just under fifteen hands on Easter Monday, beginning with a gentle ride of fifteen miles or so, and gradually increasing the daily distance up to forty miles. In conversation conver-sation with a Paris correspondent, M. Cottu explained that the great secret of success on long-distance rides is to avoid overheating your mount. "I never," he said, "kept Irish Lass at the trot for more than one and one-quarter one-quarter miles. I always dismounted when we came to a hill and led her up M. COTTU AND IRISH LASS. It. Some days I walked at least twenty twen-ty miles. When we came to our stopping stop-ping place I let her stand a few minutes min-utes to cool, and then unsaddled her and gently rubbed her back with the bare hand, to restore circulation in the parts weighed upon by the saddle. Then I groomed her carefully, took her into her stable, and gave her her food. As soon as she had taken it she used to lie right down at once, but she was always ready for the road again. I gave her between twenty and twenty-four twenty-four quarts of oats and between fifteen and ten quarts of milk every day, with a fair amount of water, if she wanted it, provided the water was not too -cold. I gave her from four to six hours rest In the middle cf the day, so as to escape es-cape the heat, only about two hours at night. I always slept In the saddle with her, and did not take off my clothes after leaving Vienna to arriving arriv-ing in Paris. There was no time for baths or anything of that sort. As we never did more than six and one-half miles an hour, even over level country, we had to spend a good many hours a day on the road." LIFE IN MANILA. Terrible Condition of Affa'rs as Described Describ-ed by a Military Surgeon. Mention has been made of Dr. J. W. Madara, the Kansas man who is serving serv-ing in the Philippines as surgeon in the 23d regular infantry. At present Dr. Madara is doing hospital duty in Manila, and he writes of events in that city as follows: "I get up at 6 a. m., and attend sick calls before breakfast. break-fast. Sick call means that I prescribe for and treat from fifty to sixty men every morning. I also have twelve hundred Filipinos to look after and treat every day. About one-third of them are sick and need doctoring. They are wounded, many of them, and have all kinds of diseases, so you can imagine im-agine how busy I am kept from morning morn-ing till night. The average native Filipino Fil-ipino is, in. looks and build, between the African negro and ape. Many of them are cunning, smart, quick and ready to imitate. They go almost naked, women and men, and speak all sorts of dialects; many of them speak Spanish. We go armed here, as they do not recognize civilized warfare, and will shoot or cut a doctor or hospital POLITICS " V V M i(-Tt i SV tf w -j te" P) w?J f i(f j&ffl v lfji. iJfuHkN KING OF TONGA AND WIFE. Wat here nresent the first nhotograph taken of King George Tubou of Tonga and his bride, Lavina, formerly daugh ter of the mfnister of police. It was the desire of many of tha chiefs that Georae should marry Ofa, a very high chieftainess from "Niua Tobu Tabu," to whom he had been betrothed from childhood. But the king was pleased tn maj-rv his heart's choice, and elevate the daughter of the minister of police to his own high ranK. lie made an entirely new departure from Tongan customs by publicly placing a bright golden crown upon his crlae s bead as corps man Just as quick as a soldier. I wish you could see them swarm around me when I go into the prison yard to doctor them. I cannot understand under-stand a word they say, nor can they understand me, but have an interpreter, interpre-ter, who can understand most of them; but the trouble is I cannot understand him, so we make signs of all kinds. It is a tough job, but I do the best I can. The city is very quiet at night, under martial law, and no one dares go on the streets after seven p. m., and no church bell is allowed to be rung. This is curfew in dead earnest. If a woman were taken sick, she could not send for the doctor. You can hear the sentinels' sen-tinels' rifles all through the night. This is necessary to keep down the mob. No one is safe, because no one can tell just when trouble will arise, and, as the streets are all very narrow and run irregularly.the city is hard to manage. man-age. Monkeys run wild out here, and there are about twenty of them, young and old, here in the arsenal yard. They stay in the trees cocoanut, pineapple, mango, banana, and other kinds most of the time. They often come into our rooms and examine things in general. They are great thieves. One of them stole Capt. Stevenson's mirror and took it up a tree and sat there admiring himself him-self till the captain got so mad he fired a shot at him. They are very cunning cun-ning and smart and very fond of tooth powder." QUAINT CUSTOMS. As to the Wearing of Engagement and Wedding Kings. New York Tribune: To the question often asked why the marriage ring should be placed on the left hand many answers are given. Some say because the left hand is much less used than the right, and therefore the ring is less liable to get broken. In the British Apollo of 178S it is stated that for the same reason the fourth finger was chosen which is not only less used than either of the rest, but is more capable ca-pable of preserving a ring from bruises, having this one quality peculiar to itself, it-self, that it cannot be extended but in company with some other finger.where-as finger.where-as the rest may be singly stretched out to their full length and straightness. The rigid notion of married women never putting off the wedding ring is supposed to have originated in the ancient an-cient custom of hallowing the ring, besides be-sides the remembrance of the expression expres-sion "till death do us part" in our marriage mar-riage service. A ring is not, however, how-ever, or need not to be, a legal necessary neces-sary to a marriage; for, not so very long ago in Scotland it was quite a usual us-ual thing to use a key as a symbol, and at a fisher's wedding (a gay and interesting inter-esting function), the most select emblem em-blem of unity was a monster curtain ring. But as "gold is but the guinea stamp, a man's a man for a' that," according ac-cording to the immortal Burns, so a ring ie but the outward sign; a wife ia a wife for the same reason. NATION OF KINGS. The Only People Over Which European Powers Claim No Sovereignty. There now remains only one people and one little valley south of the equator equa-tor whose sovereignty has not been claimed by some European power. It is the valley of the Barotse, fifty or sixty miles wide, north of Lialui, in South Africa. And the only reason why the Marotse, who inhabit it, have preserved pre-served their independence Is that England Eng-land and Portugal both claim it, and therefore the work of "civilization" is at a standstill. It may not be so easy to conquer the Marotse when the time comes, for they are a tall, well-set-up race, very black in skin.' In manners they are very courteous and in bearing dignified. Every full-blooded Marotse is by birthright a king, and takes his place in the aristocracy of the empire. In fact, as every one is king, there Is no head ruler. The bare fact that he is a Marotse insures the respect of the subservient tribes, and as he grows to manhood a sense of superiority usually implants in the native the dignity of self-respect. All labor is done by slaves who have been captured from neighboring tribes. Could Not Stop Laughing. Opiates finally put to sleep Julius Mattas, who was taken to a Chicago hospital suffering from an apparently uncontrollable fit of laughter. He was quite recovered from the attack wb.au he awoke the next morning. He was not able to give any explanation of the cause of the attack, which came on immediately after he had taken a drink in a saloon. IN TONGA. she knelt before him after the wedding ceremony, and, raising her from the ground, said in a clear voice: "Lavina, I crown thee queen of Tonga." He further broke all well-established conventionality con-ventionality by insisting that his bride sit by his side to partake of the wedding wed-ding breakfast, a proceeding diametrically diametric-ally opposite to Tongan religion, for man and wife never are supposed to partake of food together, the men of the family eating in one part of ths home and the women in another. 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