Newspapers / The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, … / April 9, 1891, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
A glxt people's fitSS. . t; - ' ' ' -L. V. & E. T. BLUM, rulllsliers aiid Proprietors JOB PRINTING is mil m siPisTrar U rappUed wlU aU B.rmry mUvUl, aaf U raOy prepared to do vera wtt ' Terms Cash in Advance. One Copy, one yer. ...1.50 ' " six months.... .75 ." " i three month. ....... ....... .43 HCATKEU, DISPATCH. A9 AT' A. Family Newspaper Devoted to Literature, Agriculture and General Information. VERY LOWEST PRICES I Be to rive at a total Redaction to Dabs. Bee inside, ftracilaK wlla an; vol, xxxixl SALEM; C, THTJBSDAY, APEIL 9, 1891. . J i NO. 15. J TJenry-Hayho writes from Paris thai nearly every good siuger on the lyric etage there was bora ia the United ' States. . ' Two newspaper reporters in Boston were fined $50 each ? for incorporating with their reports of a trial 'comments tending to prejudice the minds of the The figure 4 will be conspicuous in 1892. There are forty -four States and the Electoral College will have 444 members; the year can be equally di vided by four. . OPPORTUNITY. Master of human destinies am II Fame, love, and fortune on my footstep wait Cities and fields I walk: Ipentrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by j Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate I I If sleeping, wake; if feasting rise before f I torn away. It is the hour of fate. And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe i Save death: but those who doubt or hesitate Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more! ; . John J. Inyalls, in New York TVuth. When' the Hungarian Government " " , took the operation of the railroads in hand it reduced 7 rates eighty wo pel cent. Bv the purchase of commutation v A tickets a sixty-mile trip costs- five and half cents, and more than one can go on a book together, the increase in traffic amounts to. 1600 percent. Public lands are still to be had, taking States and Territories containing them in alphabetical order, in Alaska, Ala- bama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, .Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missis sippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ne vada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ok lahoma,; Oregon, South , Dakota, Utah Washington, Wisconsin ,and Wyoming, in a little over nan oi tne otaies anu or AN OUTLINE IN UMBER. BY EVA W The mail had H. GLASSOX. just come in, and Uncle Territorial taken together. th was ' Until recently fifty per cent, of immigration to the United States , Irish, about thirty per cent. Cferman and twenty per cent, from various European nations. Now' the Irish immigration has almost ceased, assert3 the Philadelphia Record, and that from Italy, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Poland, Sweden and Norway is rapidly increasing. Mostol these immigrants formerly went West, but now about two-third3of them remain in the ftew England and Middle States, The San Francisco Chronicle feels thai the report of the Arid Land Committee, if it is generally promulgated, will dc much to convince the outside world "thai all American farming is not unscientific. There is a popular European fallacy that all that is done in the United States is to tickle the virgin soil with a plow in order to make it produce good crops, but, as will bo learned by those who will" take the trouble, to look up the question, a great deal of intelligent farming, backed up by considerable investments, has been done in this country of late years. Russia in Europe, with aa area two thirds pf our own,, a greater population and an ancient settlement, has only four cities of 200,000 inhabitants or over, while we,' boasts the Courier-Journal, ; have ..sixteen. Germany, with 250 i habitants to the square mile, against our twenty-one to the square mile, has only eight cities ot 200,000 inhabitants or , over, and France, with an almosft equal density of population, has but four such cities. No European country has more . than one city of million inhabitants or ' over; we have three. In fact, all Europe, withjher 400,000,000 people, has but four cities of a million inhabitants or up ward, while with only 63,000,000 In '. habitants, we fall but ouc behind. ithe leather bag which held it lay on tithe counter of Joel Shattuc's store in a i tan colored heap the limpness of which Sug gested only an elemental notion of con tents. i ' ' Joel Shattuc himself, a midle aged man with a squai e looking head, which fitted into his body like a plug of pine, stood fingering the metal clamps across the sacks upper edge, his heavy face ex pressive of a settled gloom. " ; ' j "Ef this thing goes on," he said, glancing toward a group of men in jthe space about the Btove, , "I . don't k'iow but I'll hev to give up my job." And as he spoke his eyes returned to the ihail sack. "I, wouldn't feel thet ways, Joel, moderately advised an elderly man huddled on a molasses barrel, his booted legs crossed, his chin braced from contact with a blue cotton shirt by a lath like section of stiff gray beard. -"Oh, you wouldn't!" demurred Mr. Shattuc, a suspiciously satiric quality in his voice "you wouldn't hunk.Wsell, the thing of it is, Jake, I don't 'genially regerlate myse'f on other men's notiohts. I say agin, I turn right oneasy in :my stomach -evy last time this yar safcl gits pitched out of number ten I do" for a ftick. I'm that plumb shore thar won't e thing in it for the Swetts - folks that I hain't skercely got the sand to open the bag. I feel like I want to leave it locked." He fetched the counter a smart rap with his shut fist, and glow ered upon the other men, who at once assumed expressions indicating an intense ; . : . it Aji .v.i iuicicsi. in luc stove a siu&ii icu jiui affair glimpsing on its devotees through three triangular openings, like a very ugly idle with a trio of terrible eyes. "Well, for me," presently advanced the man on the barrel, .VI don't loolf to get no mail to-day; but still, Uncle Joel, look like it's unly fair to the town ez thet sack ought to be undid. 'SI -say, 1 feel right with you ns boutjSa Jane Swett. Dlaw! I ve knowed thet gyrl sence she wasn't no heftier than a right sizable terbaccer worm. But yit I don't reckon ez the world's goln' to quit jest cuz Sa' Jane's sot her mind on a man thet never showed her no special favor, no more'n bein' sort uh smiley an sof spoken, Jike he was to ev'y person." He cleared his throat, and added: " 'Tain't right goyd jedgement to dq us out'n the mail 'cuz Sa' Jan's beai4-ef you wart to call him thet hev vlcnt plumb back on her." s Mr. Shattuc's eyes, which were gray and had a shifting movement under j his brows as of two steel shuttles, observed the other man with an ominous and .un usual steadiness. "Ef any man 'lows to 'question my jedgement," he began; in a tentative voice, "he'll find hisiself tacklin' thejbiggest contract " ! , , "D'law! yes," Iroke in the object of this, with a deprecatory burst of mifth, which, while it spread his lean cheeks in a wide smile, left his eyes free to - ob serve any tendency of the postmaster's hand toward a hip pocket. "Thejt' so, Uncle Joel. Yes, sir" turning td the i He took a couple of strides, and dis appeared f through a door at his left. When he came back his face wore a look of defiant assurance, and some amberish drops hung in his beard. 'Mr. Rube Hughes,' " he announced, in a vbice of challenge, picking up the first letter. 4,Hyar yar, Rube. Reckon it's from thet gyrl o' yourn down in Liberty."1 Then he took up the second envelope,! and his hand visibly shook. "This un's from your kin in Bracken, Mart," he said, and cast the letter into the black-browed youth s hands. The girl facing him did not move. One slight wrist lay along the dark wood, and her brown fingers clutched at the sharp edge as if it were a plank to which she clung as the waters of disappoint ment went over her. "Uncle Joel," she faltered, in a husky tone, "I-you you don't ever leave no mail stuck eenside the sack, do you?" As she: said this she smiled at him with a pitiful kind of coquetry in her pretty pallid face. "Lord, no, Sa' Janel" exclaimed the postmaster, "I never " "I know! I knowl" she cut in, with a broken sort of laugh; "but look like the bottom of thet bag stan'ds up like 'they might be." Mr. Shattuc took the sack by its bot tom ridge and shook it. "You see?" he said, .with a sort of gloomy pride. She gathered her shawl about her head without it wordit and turned and went out, and the door clanged behind her. , The man on the barrel observed the back of his hand with an air of impartial criticism; "I d put my hull terbaccer crop on iit thet she won't never hear arr word of Jim Crawford agin." He said this slowly. Mart Lype laughed, his booted legs waving in the air as he tilted himself back against the wall. "Jim, he was a folks" addressing a gaping throng of children sent for the mail "git along home! Mail won't be distriberted till 'long todei night. I'm busy. Cl'ar outl" He set a ponderous pair of spectacles on the bridge of his nose, which closed upon the wire-like small toothless jaws. It was apparently quite a short letter, yet the matter of it seemed strangely forcible,? for those who watched the postmaster observed that his mouth opened and hung lax as he read, and that his. hands jerked as he held the ptper cfose, and then at arm's length, as if he strove to focus his reasoning powers. ' j .: "Lord God ha' mercvl" he gasped, taking the sweat from1, his temples with the ball of his hand. "Listen at this: " 'Joel Shattuc: '"Dear Sir we regret to say James Crawford was killed nine weeks azo in - a wreck near Bolingsville, Tennessee. Re mains shipped to his mother at Sadies ville, "Kentucky j aghast WORDS OF WISDOM. 1 great one," he commented; "fine-lookin' "The plan of a half-dozen prominent Boston people to unite for the purpose of investigating spiritualism is," thinks the r V 1 I 1 1 oan rancisco vnronicic, "a good one. The fact that Edward Everett Hale is a member of the company is an assurance that nothing unable to stand the test of good common sense wilt be admitted. There is -much in spiritualism which has never been explained. The Sybert com mission several years ago pronounced all the leading. ' professional experts ' of bpiritualism frauds, but it did not deal with the amateurs, who are certainly more interesting than the 'mediums' who make money out of their alleged power ot summoning spirits. The work of this Boston committee will be watched with much interest." . It sounds somewhat strange, confesses tho New Orleans Times-Democrat, to have the Mormon question transferred to England it is one we have always be lieved, so thoroughly American. It is true that a majority of the Mormon im migrants came from England, but they have carried on their operations so quietly and secretly there that the world heard little about them. It seems, however, that they have at last attracted the at tention of the people of other denomina- ' tions, and are being roughly handled in consequence. The Mormons have a good .organization in England, have their churches and congregations there f.nd do 1 , . . . , ... a greatj ucai ot missionary worK. it is complained that they teach polygamy and defiance of the lawsof both the U&ited States and England. They seem to have gained in strength and numbers lately, for in this way only can the pres ent movement against them be explained. The agitators who ; are leading the at tack on them have asked the House of Commons to interfere and compel "the Saints" to abandon the teaching of poly gamous Mormon ism in England. Should they carry their demand, it will materi ally, help this countrj in dealing with the Mormon question, as the chief sup port of the church comes from the newly arrived and generally ignorant Mormon immigrant, rest of the men, who were taking inj the controversy with the abstraction? of countenance which indicates a stern in tention of neutrality "I've alwaysshelt thet Uncle Joel Shattuc kin down; any man in the district for common jhoss sense an' natchel wit. I honor you, Uncle Joel, for being slack about opejnin' thet yar bag. I got daughters my bwn self, an' I'd hate to see arr one of f 'em lookin' like a Ughtnin' rod thoo pnin' to git wora oi some ua r utner. ; p He drew up rather suddenly. iThe door had opened with a warning dick, and a woman stepped across the tires hold, her slender young figure revealed with' an effect of intense fragility against the oak-crowned knob behind her. A dwindling strand' of yellowish hair strayed across one pale cheekjj and some loose short locks lay on her brows at '-'-f the sad intentness ofwidei'soft C . imming with the pathetic violet oi autumn distances. A gaudy plaid shawl canopied her head, and as she drew near the counter and saw the mail sack lying unopened upon it, her hands gave a nervous flutter, and the shawl fell over her shoulders. s "Mail not handed out yet?" she laid. with a piteous affectation of carelessness. 4 'I'm sort of early. I did'nt keer much about comin' down to-day, but may she hed a sort of feelin' that maybe her folks down in Russell County might have, sent word." ' " She leaned against the counter jwith an air of weariness, her slenderness her heavy yellow hair, and tiny, sharply marked freckles giving her the look; of a cowslip bending a little on its long stem. "Yes yes," said Mr. Shattuc, diving for a key attached below the counter by means of a t long chain ; "I'm . Iatb to day. Look like these fellers git in;hyftr and talk till I am 'bout run destracted. Set down, Sa Jane. I'll run thoid the sack in half a minute now. You jMart Lype, give Miss Swett that yar chair." At this Mart Lype, a lazy-lolcing young man, with low brows thatched in black hair, and a bronze throat girt in a scarlet handkerchief, tilted himself; for ward. . -" i ji' i'Will you set, Miss Sweet?" he iju'es thoned, without insistence. jj 1 The girl shook her head. "I ruther stand up," she murmured, hungrily Jeye iug the postmaster as he shuffled several newspapers in Manila wrappers. I There firere only, two letters. These Mr. Shat uc avoided as if their whiteness; sug gested leprosy to his mind. He had a definite idea that neither of tnemwas lor Sarah Jane Sweet, and he felt himself a poltroon and coward when he thought of turning up the inclosures. "Jest wait a minute," he muttfered, ; 'be back direekly." ' ,;' j ' . . . feller, Jim. Always got me thet he ever paid 'ten tions to Sa' Jane; nothin' to look at, Sa' Jane ain't." "You don't know no more 'bout looks than a ;tadpole does about honey," argued the postmaster. "Sa' Jone's a good-lookin' gyrl an' a good gyrl. Too good Iforj Jim Crawford I whisht he never showed his face hereabouts, turnin' gyrls' heads with his high-colored neck ties and .fine talk. 'Cuz he happened to run the engine from here to Waynesville, he jest nntchelly 'peared to set . hisself cl'ar Hp over country boys." He wiped histrowS. "Whar-at did he go from here? . Blame ef I don't feel like writin' him a piece of my mind." - The man on the barrel gave a cluck of approval. "Firs', trate idy," he com mented, slapping his knee. "'Tis so. Say, uncle, jest you write 'n' tell- him what Casey County thinks of a feller like him. Go on, uncle 1" t "Blame ef I don't, feel like it," mused Mr. Shattuc, bewildered and charmed with the success of his notion. "Any one know whar a lettered reach him? He got a run on the Queen 'n' Crescent,! didn't he? Look like I got the idy off 'n some o' you boys." He glanced at the others with challenge in his eyes. "Reckon 'twas me named it , "admitted Mart Lype cutting a casing of dry mud from his boot-sole with a juck-knite. "Yes I ;1dw I told'you. He got a run to Nashville, I believe, three week) ago come nex' Cbuesdy Heh ! Day he left, him' and r(me was takiu' somethin' to gether, man and man,, and Jim ho says sor-spoken feller Jim 'Mart,' he says, 'I'm kinduh sorry I'm leavin' this town,' he says, 'iand yit kinduh glad. . I'm a gre't favoryte on Dead wood, 'says he. 'Folks here is jest my style, but I'm kinduh 'fear'd Sa' Jane Swett's gittin' too well, it's this way: she likes me misrhtv, well. Sa' Jane does, and I'm a sof '-hearted 'coon,! I am. D'know but I'd ask her to set the day ef I ketched her lookin' at me the ways she does sometimes out'n them big eyes can't tell. I'm aTsof '-hearted feller, Mart.' " 'Well.'j'says I, ef;you like her so well, why on't you ast her to hev you? She's a right sweet girl, Sa' Jane, is' "Uck-uh,' 6aysJim;'my wife's got to be eddercated and book-l'arned,' says he. 'I look ' high, Mart; my wife's got to know how ; to read 'n' write. No, Matt, he says; 'I best take , this new run. Sa' Jane she'll Jergit me arter a spell. Nice gyrl, .Sa' Jane, but not ed deroated.' " Mr. Shattuc came down on this narra tive with a sound remarkably like an oath. "I'm goin' to write that letter," he roared, "ef it's the last lick I put in on top o' yearth ! Whar-at's k thet pen used to be round hyar? I'm goin' to tell thet set-up young calf of a engineer what plain folk that eats fat meat the year round thinks of him! 'Edder cated' nothin' 1 i Sa' Jane was edder cated enough to know when she was bein' made love to, I reckon. A woman don't need no more 1 armn then thet." The letter thus ; projected was not, however, finished in so short order as the heated Btate of its author's feelings would seem to promise. Mr. , Shattuc's spiritual forces had to work against the materia! resistance of an unaccustomed b.and, thick ink, and a pen weighted with the rust of years. It was, accord ingly, a day or so before the matter was brought: to completion, and the postmas ter found himself in the proud position of reading aloud to his friends the letter which was to bear to Jim Crawford the impartial expression, of his former neigh bors' opinion of him. i3'. Crawferd" so the paper bagan uJIe and some of the folks down here that knows you want you should know you Better not show yourself round here no more lest you want to nnd what plane folks think about Rasculs and skampea if we got you Ded wrong none of us but what wan tea to do thee square by you Miss SWeet she thinks rite smart oi you why haint you rote to Her I am sick of my job becus no mail dont come for Miss Sweet if a letter was to come for Miss Sweet : Me and the others would be Mity prond to change our Hidy of you Rite soon yours truely Joel Shattuc Postmaster ana utisers. j "I'm ! goin to stiek it in a invelup," said Mr i Shattuc, to carry off his embar rassed appreciation of the applause which greeted this effort, "and back it like this: 'J. Crawferd, Engineer care Quene & Crescen' railroad C'mp'y pie's hand to Party address Oabeknown.' " In this wise the letter was, sent its way, and tho town had a period of breathless expectancy as to its probable results, j On the. sixth day after its sending, a largo envelope, with some printing across one end, fell out of the mailsack, addressed in typewriter characters to Joel Shattuc. : "Boys," 8aid"the postmaster." solemn ly, "its. cornel-5 This There was only a moment of silence. The shadow of the youn fellow whose end was thus briefly chronicled eeemed to fill the slow smoky room, where lie had been used to lounge of nights with the man now called on to realize their own' doom in his tragic taking off. Suddenly, in an appalled whisper, Mart Lyfe . spoke: "Hyar comes 5a' Jane Swett down the hill. Lord 1 1 What you goin' to tell her, uncle? Let me git out't hyar. I " Mr. Shattuc steadied himself against box of patent medicine a pain-killer concoction, the gay ly; backed bottles of which glimpsed at him with a certain "airy scorn, as if they knew their futility and rejoiced m it. Sarah Jane Swett came into the store a little more rapidly than usual, a bright color in her hollow cheeks from the bit ing .wind. "I'm kinduh late,' she murmured, pushing back the dense yellow hair about her ' eager face. "I didn't know but they might be somethin' to-day." The postmaster looked straight over her head at the men beyond. "I'd like for y' all to onder3tand," he said,' de cisively, "thet my store hain't no place for loafin'. I want you fellers to cl'ar plumb out'n hyar. I got work to 'tend i There was a marked alacrity in the mauner in which the postmaster's friends responded to this command. When the porch had sounded to the last tread, Mr. Shattiic held out the lately received letter. ) "Sa' Jane," he faltered "Sa' Jane, kin you read writin'?" "I kin git the sense of it." "Kin you, Sa' Jane? Well, you study over this yar. I . Mebby I hain't got it straight. I'll be back in a minute." He disappeared in the doorway hard by. When he came back, brushing a hand across his mouth,! he saw that Sarah Jane was standing precisely as he had left her, her face unmoved, the sheet still lying in her palm. "She hain't made it out!" he groaned. "Oh Lord, I'll hev to1 tell her. "Sa Jane, you you hain't-j you hain't; " The girl lifted her eyes, letting fhem range over his perturbed face before they settled restfully back on the page. Her expression was absolutely tranquil. The strained anxiety which had made her features piteous was altogether blotted out, and her fallen eyelids hung heavy, as with some inexplicable rap ture. They were like j white flowers lan guid with the rich luxury of J une "Sa' Jane, that yar jletter," muttered the postmaster, feeling his knees in weak conjunction. "I reckon I best read it to you, Sa' Jane." He reached for it, bub she laid it against her breast, covering it with both hands, protecting it with lifted face. " j ' i "I've made it out," she said. "Jim's dead. Ho's dead, Jim is." Her lips shook.. "Thar 's folks 'lowed he wasn't true," she whispered; "and when he never wrote God God, forgive me ! I I once or twice I misdoubted if he loved me like I loved him 1" llarger's Weekly. I ' . Love is always doing, and never stops to -rest. No man becomes dizzy while he is ooking np. . No man can live right who does not believe right. The man who has no joy in giving has . no joy in anything. No man has a right to throw his trou bles at other people. No man can be a hypocrite and suc ceed at anything else. j Every foi that' comes and stays be gins in the individual. j You can get some men to go anywhere by daring them to go. . j People who succeed generally aim r to do it, and plan to do it. j ;"Elbow grease" will "gum" like any other lubricator, unless it is used. i No woman but his own wife ever finds out how disagreeable a man can be. One of the hardest things to do is to alarm the man who thinks he is safe. j There is nothing good in the man who does not desire to be thought well of. . If every dog who barks would bite, the world would soon be full of sore legs. ; ; i If you care anything for a man's friend ship, it is dangerous business to lend him money. j j One of the duties every man owes to himself, is to live so that he can respect himself. It ought not to take any more cour age to dare to do right than to dare to do wrong. j j It is seldom that a man ever gets to be wise enough to know what to do with a large fortune. i -. j -1 The man who expects to out-run a lie had better start with something faster than a bycicle. j ' j An easy chair for a discontented man is something that can not be found at a furniture store. t If some people would always think twice before they speak, they would keep still a good deal. " If all people would learn to behave themselves, what a famine there would be among the lawyers. I f As a rule women have poor memories, but they never forget th peoplo who say nice things about their bonnets. I Whenever you hear a man condemning other people, you can mark it down that he is trying to cover up rubbish in his own dooryard. ! 'j When your heart is so heavy that you can't laugh yourself, the next best thing is to do something that will make some body else laugh with joy. -! Try it. j The sun tells the truth! about a man wb.en it takes his picture, but the photog rapher has to do a good deal of lying with his retouching pencil before he can sell it to him. . ' SIBERIAN JUMBOS. LEGENDS AND RELICS OF PRE HiSTO. IO GIANTS. Trapping a Mammoth The Lore and the ltomance of Hunt , in Bij? Animals tu a Bygone Age. When the first Europeans visited China and began to oblain information regard ing the traditions of the country they learned, among other things, that in the natural history of the people was an enormous subterranean rat called tyn schu. This rat was five or six times as large as a horse, had terrible teeth and lived chiefly in the northern country, where it forced its way beneath mountain ranges, so that when a tremor of an earthquake was heard in China the parents would turn to the child and say : "My son, behave yourself. The tyn schu is boring beneath the mountains, making the earth tremble." A MAMMOTH IS THK ICE CUFFS. Thus it came to be believed by all that the big rat was an actual fact. No one could be found, however, who had met with the tyn-schu until a hunter from the far north was discovered who said he had seen one, and here is his story : "1 am a fisherman, and some years ago I traveled in Northern China and Siberia, following up the rivers to the northern ocean. One winter the cold had been more severe than usual and we started down the Lena before the ice had gone. It was still very cold, but wt kept on, hoping to secure many fish to dry and carry into the interior later on. 'sOne day wc were passing a high cliff that was partly undermined by a turn , in the river, when ( my comrade asked me if I had ever seen a tyn-schu. I replied no. 'Well, said he, 'there 13 Facta Apoat Dew. John Aitken, F. It, S., of Falkirk, Scotland, 'says a writer in Longman1 Magazine, ha3 conclusively proved that what ha3 "been so long called dew is merely the exudation of the watery juices of thcjhealthy vegetation. In the course of his painstaking investigation only equalled by his devotion to science in the matter of dust and the counting of dust particles, with which he is now oc cunied at Hveres he selected a small turf, placed it over a glass receiver and left it till drops ere excreted. Remov ing the receiver, he selected a blade hav ing a drop attached to it. He dried this blade and inserted its tip into a small glass receiver, so as to isolate it from the damp air of the larger receiver. The open end of the small receiver was closed by means of a very thin plate of metal cemented to it. In ! the center of this. i. j. : .3 ii ; i a mit the tip of the blade ; but the opening was then carefully made air-tight by means of an india-rubber solution. After a time, though this blade was thoroughly isolated, he saw that a drop was formed on the tip, of the same size as the drops formed on the blade under the large re ceiver. He, of course, was entitled to conclude that the drops on the outside blades, as well as on the isolated blade, were really exuded from the plant, and not extracted lrom the air. What has been for centuries called dew is therefore not dew at ail, but the watery juices of healthy plants. But look over dead leaves and you see a fine pearly lustre that is dew.- Dead matter gets equally wet where equally exposed, and the moisture does not collect on it in regu larly placed drops as it does on plants. If radiation continues after, the sap drops have been forming for some time, the dew makes its appearance all over the surface. But true dew is of rarer oc currence than one would expect. On many nights on which grass gets wet, no true dew is deposited on it: and on all nights, when growth is healthy, the ex uded drops always appear before the true, and the false dew can be. easily de tected. The moisture exuded by the grass false dew is always isolated at points situated near the tips of the blades, forming drops of some size: whereas, true dew collects evenly all over the blades. A glance discerns the pearly lustre of the dew film from the elisten- i Begins as a Flue Art. I The artistic quality which marks American industry in all its branches to day is nowhere more apparent than in tho art of begging as now practised in New York City, writes a correspondent. The old-fashioned, plain begging is quito ut of date. - The modern beggar makes a study of his employment, and brings io it a high order of imaginative talent and a degree of that patient industry which underlies most success in this age f competition.1" The knowledge among that large class of peisons of both sexes imd of all ages who decline to work under any consideration that keen eyes ire upon them and that ordinary make shifts and apologies won't fool honest people any louger sharpens their wits and drives them to devise the most ingenious lies or go ' out of the begging business. The stimulating effect of such anti-fraud machinery as the CharitV Organization Society on the minds of the mendicant class .shows that they are' more capable of intellectual improvement than many suppose. Lately I have had brought to jmy attention several most artful cases, where beggars have prepared themselves for the cross-examination they now ex pect with a completeness; that throws even an expert off his guard. Meanwhile at seems harder and harder to get at genuine cases of what used to be known as "the deserving poor," There are bnough of them, alast but the counter-, ifeit is now so excellent that it requires inore study to discriminate than most -people can give. The encouraging fea ture is that tho benevolent people are realizing that in this country the extreme land awful poverty which j marks some other countries is not often linked with isobriety and honesty, and they are there- lore resorting to some sort ot system in sifting the plausible stones that are so glibly told. Washington Star. "I looked up, and there, y about forty feet from the beach, was a big black massj of something. I could see two long teeth, a long tail and its shaggy fur, and it was evidently struggling to get out, as the ice cliff was cracked. rt,' 'When he sees the sunlight,' my comrade said, "it will kill him, and when we come back we shall find- him dead. And this was true, for several months later when we went back there lay the monster oh the beach, dead. It had crawled out of ita holer and died in the sunlight, and was mostly eaten up by bears and wolves. We cut off the big teetbf which were as much as two men ' could lift, and took them up the river, where I sold one, which I heard was sent to the Emperor." Such was the Chinaman's story and that he believed that the rat was really a living creature there can be no doubt; and the belief is supported by the find ing in China of gigantic bones, beneath the surface, of these rats that have acci dentally been caught by rays of sunlight. The origin ol this4 superstition ii a veri table giant of the ice; a huge elephant which existed thousands of years ago in nearly all countries, and especially about Northern Europe and Siberia. In the long ago of geological ages the climate of the far north was much milder than at present, and the Siberian islands in the Arctic Ocean were covered with trees and were the home of vast herds of monster elephants. When the first white men visited this desolate region they found the shore in some instances literally covered with the tusks, everywhere pro truding from the sand,' partly hidden by its tusk protruding from the bank or tunda, and watched it for several sea sons, until finally he found it lying upon the beach. The wild animals had been feeding on it, and, think of it I the mam moth may have been dead - anywhere from five to fifty thousand years, yet its flesh was to perfectly preserved and the eye so fresh that a scientific man said ho could hardly distinguish between it and the eye of a living animal. Thousands of years ago this gigantic creature had perished, perhaps failing in to a crevasse in tne ice, ana ever since had been frozen up like solid rocks. Gradually undermined by. the river the body had fallen out, as we have seen. About thirty pounds of the red hail and wool was collected by this fisherman, the tusks and portions of the feet, and all sold to a Russian official, who im mediate! sent word to St. Petersburg, whereupon the Emperor ordered that the entire skeleton should be preserved. The skeleton was secured, with some of the skin and hair, and all are now in the Royal Museum of St. Pettersburg, illus trating the enormous size of the prehis toric giant. - This was in the last century, and ever since people have been on the lookout for these giants of the ice. Several specimens have been found, the most re markable by a Russian engineer, named Ben Kendorf, in 1846. He was engaged in surveying the" coast off the mouth ' of the Lena and Indigirka Rivers, and his story is so striking that I give it just as it is taken from a letter 'written to a friend then in Germany: "Afterward we landed on"the new Bhore, and surveyed the undermining and destructive operations of the wild waters, that carried away with extraordinary rapidity masses of soft peat and loam. While we.were . all quiet we suddenly heard under our feet a sudden gurgling and stirring which betrayed tho working of the disturbed river.. 'Suddenly our jager called loudly and pointed to a singular and unshapely object, which rose and sank through the disturbed waters. 1 nau already re marked it, but had given it no attention. considering it only driftwood. Now we all hastened to the spot on .the shore, had the boat drawn near and waited nntil the mysterious thinu should again show it self.- Our patience was tired, but at last a black,'hornble,giant-like mass was thrust out of the water and we beheld a colossal elephant's head, armed with mighty tusks, with its long trunk moving in tho water in an unearthly manner, as though seeking for something lost therein. Breathless with astonishment, I beheld the monster hardly twelve feet from me, with his half open eyes yet showing the whites. It was still in good preserva tion. "A mammothl A mammoth!" broke out the Tschernoniori ; and I shouted, "Here, quickly 1 Chain and ropes!" As the animal again sank, wc wait for an opportunity to throw thq Topes over his head. This was accomplished after many efforts. We then threw a chain around his tusks, that were eight feet long, drove A pieee of tusk has been found in Franca with a fairly correct representation oi the mammoth engraved upon it, pre sumably by some prehistoric artist. Again; arrow heads have been taken from beneath remains, while the much dis cussed elephant pipes - of the interior Indian mound3 of this country may be evidence in this direction, though this is not positive, j I 1 The mammoth was formerly as com mon as are horses to-day, and the ivory A WHALE FBOZEK Ef AX ICKBKRO. t from its tusks is-still an important com mercial item. Mammoth tusks fre quently weigh 320 pounds apiece, and. ' fine specimens bring largo prices. One tusk was sold some years ago for $500, and fifteen years ago ten thousand were received in' London. They weighed about one hundred and forty pounds apiece, tne price being Is. 6d. per pound. J The' mammoth is not the only ice giant the ice cliffs of the North conceal. Some years ago a hunter, in traveling across a rough country, came to a 'deep crevasse, and upon looking in saw the body of some monster that had been washed out. He lowered himself into th chasm and found ! it to be a huge rhL . eious, aa animal that was as well fitted to live in Siberia aa the mammoth, having a cover ing of thick hair and wool to protect it from the rigors of the 'cold. The head of the! monster was large and the nose armed, with two tusks, one of which was " enormous, being nearly four feet long and large enough to be used as a club, by the natives. If you can picture an ordinary rhiuo cerous! a third larger, or perhaps half aa large 'again, covered with reddish hair and an underclothing of wool, with a tusk four feet in length, another two feet, some "j idea can be had of the strange creature that roamed the country with the elephant and perhaps fought with it, as these animals are known to do in Africa to-day. Thq big rhinocerous is also well known to the Chinese ; its horn is supposed to be the tooth of a big dragon or a uni corn, and when ground up forms a valu able item in medicine. , . We! need not go so far back to find animals preserved in the ice. Whaleis tell ot gigantic whales which have been seen entombed in icebergs, and several authentic cases are on record where big whales have been observed thus impria. oned'held aloft and floating around at the whim of the Arctic currents. Neto Fori Uerald. HEAD OF A GIGANTIC HAIRY BHCfOCEROS PROTRUDING FROM THE CLIFF. Princess Bismarck. The wife of Prince Bismarck has been rarely mentioned in the chronicles of th German Court' because she seeks tc avoid 'any thing like publicity, but for all . that she has been of great assistance to. the man whose name is so closely linked' with the progress of the fatherland in the last thirty years or more. The Prin cess ia a member of a distinguished Ger man family. She married when hei husband was little known. She has al ways been a believer in the greatness of her spouse, and has devoted herself t making his home life as : peaceful . as hii public, career has been full of acrimony. Her tact has had much to do with smooth ing away in social intercourse asperitiet created in the. course of political con- "it s. come!-? Ibis is it, 'y eum! ing diamond drops of the health v plant's from the fienerai office. Hvar. vouhuice. ' ! . : Y A Large Gum Tree. What is probably one of the largest specimens, of the tupclo or sour gum in the United States was found recently growing in the Ocmulgee ; River swamp, near Abbeville. Gaj 'It towers, above the surrounding forest of immense trees, and is more than twelve feet in diameter. There is a large hollow ;at the base, which extends upward for a distance of fifteen feet, with an aperture large enough to admit a foil man. The tupelo gum delights in swampy places, where it is frequently found growing among deciduous cypress, and endeavoring, apparently, to imitate it by sending from among its roots rudimentary 'knees,"' similar to that great soutnernmonarcn. Detroit Free Press. x The Newsboj's Last Question. "Oh, mister, am I dead?" This was the plaintive query of George Monelle, a newsboy, fourteen years old, as he ran into a saloon on the northeast corner of Main and Houston streets.; With a more definite response than his hearers could give death answered the question in a few minutes. The poor boy was dead. He had just been accidentally shot with a target rifle in the hands of another newsboy known as Pat. ; The ball en tered the front of the neck a little to the riobt of a medial line and ranged down ward. . lodcinsr in his body. Dallas Texas) News. - r An acre of bananas I will support twenty-five times as many persons as an acre of wheat. i A Michigan man is making a fortune by raising skuokh for their fur. HORH OF HAIRY BHTKOCEROS. it, showing that here was a graveyard of monsters of the olden time. When the account reached the centres of civil ization men went out to see if it was true, and in a short time an extensive ivory trade in these ancient relics sprang up. ; There was then an indefinite idea of the animal which bore them, but grad ually the fact became -known that they were the tusks of an enormous elephant known as the mammoth. Imagine Jumbo a third longer, a third higher and covered with a coat of woolly hair from two to three feet in length; imagine him armed with huge recurving tusks ten feet in length, and some idea can be formed of this king of the ele phants that lived in the long ago. For a long time a very exaggerated idea of the animal was entertained and some cu rious pictures of it were made, but final ly a specimen was found and then an other. The first and best specimen was dis covered by a satire fishermaa, Be nn a stake in the ground about twenty feet from the shore and made chain and rope fast to it. The day went by quicker thau I thought for, but still the time seemed long before the animal was se cured and the water . had loosened it. The soft peat or marsh land, on which he stepped . thousands of years ago, gave way under the weight of the giant, and he sank as he stood on it, feet foremost, incapable of saving himself, and a severe frost came and turned him into ice, and the moor which had buried him. The latter, however, grew and flourished, every summer renewing itself.. Possibly the neighboring stream had heaped over the dead body plants and sand. God only knows what causes had worked for its preservation." If this specimen could have been pre served the entire skin of one of these monsters could have been mounted. In recent years other specimen have been found, and there is hardly a locality but his produced its teeth and bones, show ing the wide range of the great elephant. Near Colchester a fine specimen was unearthed, and at Scarborough the teeth have been dredged up in numbers, show ing that where the water now flows for merly was a grazing ground for the hairy elephant. Ia Italy the Txmes have been discov ered in the volcanic sravcl of Ponte Molle, showing that they roamed Italy when the site of Rome was covered by a river of lava. In Germany prehistoric man undoubt edly hunted the mammoth. Near Cro:: stadt its bones have been found in grci quantities, packed as closely as if the had been placed so artificially. In t village o Tbicde. near Brunswick, clevi ir.sks were found in a heap. In the southern portion of this cou' try an al'ied form probably as larg j but without ths hair w4 found an called the American elephant. Recently one was discovered near San Juan, Southern. California. The writer as soon as he learned of the find attempted to reach the spot, but little was left to tell the story. The railroad, had cut directly through the skeleton, so that the tusks were all that could be secured and some of the teeth. Tho locality was examined afterward by the writer, who found that the body must have laid in a bed of fine sand that was undoubtedly a, quiiksand, and in this trap the big animal had been caught thousands of years ago, to be held until to-day. . The mammoth has lived its time, and belongs to past geological ages, the ex act, cause of its extermination being a mystery. That it was known to man and hunted bj him ia very probable. The evideacc of this are rare, it U true. r- asr. 41 FKIXCE69 BISMARCK. troversy. It is said of Princess Bismarci that she is happier, now that she and her husband are permitted to live quietly upon their estates, than she has been at any time since the King of Prussia made her husband his ministerial representa tive, tin this connection the story ii told that once, in company, Princes! Bismarck expressed a longing for tin life of a plain German gentleman's wife, when the Prince said, in a manner at once crave and gay: "That time wiB come, j my dear, when, grown old nation, will have no more use . for If there is regret in the Bismarck maosioo that the day of retirement has arrived it is not' harbored by the wife. Chicago Post. A Youthful Spcculalioa. 'IH tell you, Harry, you hit me and IH howl, j Then Til get some cake and whack up." "Take any twenty-five tall, lean men," said aa old court officer to a reporter, 'and you can secure a jury in a murder case. (They have no conscientious scru ple against the death penalty. Aa a rule, short, thick men have doubts oq this point." A t t II
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 9, 1891, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75