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Vine Fish Hooks.

A Camden correspondent sends us the
:nllowing fish story: ''On Monday, the
I'd inst, MIR. Graham, the ferryman al
he Lone Pine ferry caught Il Llue cat
sh weighing about l25 pounds. On
lnding his fishship, an examination re
-ealed the following somewhat strange
y e lomena: His blue-grayish color, and
i inv, rugged appearance, taken in con
nection with his colossal size, at once
,ro .laimed him one of the leading citi
ems and "t ldest inhahita nts" of the fin
" kingdom. One corner of his mOutl,
as torn out, and numerous scars about
he head Advertised the fact of many a
,ard fought battle with the trOniline;
mt il was osIY a careful scrutiny of hir
-upacious mouth that discovered nine
,-h-hooks firmly imbeddtd in the Tissue
nd muscle theirin. So firmly imbeddcd
ere the hooks that they had to be Gus
IT. Hi- long rrflre wi h hooks had
vidently made the old fellow fight shy
f these barbed enemies; a-the hook that
aught him al last he resnlutely refused
mix mp with those in his mouth, and
had imr;led himself upon il beneath the
light gill we'll under his belly (probaLl, /,
IL a moment of frenzy when suffering
rom too1hacl e, but when Fishy found
h m-elf in this supreme trouble, his
truggles for liberty were absolutely ter,
rife lie would suddenly dash under Ill,
oat and nearly eapsize the frail struc'
ture; again le would start { fl at great
peed down the river, towing the 'dug
Mt" rapidly through the water; bat the
,ositiun of the hook, and the g:eat ten,
on of the line, always kept him parti,
lily on his side, and thus retarded hir
romotion, until at last, through sheer
xhrustion at the unequal contest, he
rrendeled to his captor, and allowed
,im>elf. as il were. to he taken in ''out o.
he et."-Lihle Rock Republican,
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The City of Peking.

BosToN, September THE City o
Peking met with a very enthusiast
welcome here to day. She anchored OF
Long Wharf this morning, and was a.
once thrown open 10 the public, Tug
mad bern chartered to ply between tn,
fesseI and the wharf, and the great shiI
mas been surrounded with small craft al
III kinds during the entire day. A coli
liant stream of visitors has been passin,
10 and fro, and not less than thirty thou
sand persons have visited the ship dur
ing the day and evening, the wharfs be-
ing crowded ali day by people waitin,
20 be taken off by tugs. A large force o;
policemen was detailed to assist in con
ducting the business of transportation
and preserve order.
At about II o'tlock A. NJ, a messag'
was brought on board from Mayor Cobb
extending an invitation to the directors
in charge CT the eYcurs ion and officers o
the vessel to dine with him. The invi-
taiion was declined on account of ths
necessity for the presence Of thee officer
m the ship, AMI an invitation was sen;
to Mayor Cobb and the city authorities
to visit the vessel. This was accepted
and Messrs. TalcOtt, Alexander and
Forrest waited on the municipal officer.
and escorted them on board at O'Clock,
where they were received and entertain
ed at lunch. and afterward shown over
the vessel, which they examined in ali
It's parts with great interest.
In the evening the Peking was gaily
decorated and hung with lanterns. A
brass band from the city and a number OF
vocalists came on board, and contributed
to the evenings entertainment. Ths
crowd Of visitors is hardly diminished at
Ii o'clock, and the reception will con.
tinue until midnight. Among the dis
tinguished persons who visited the shiI
were ex-Mayor Rice. m, mbers of tie
press nj Comm, n Council, Cffieers Of the
CLarle=town Navy-yard en- masse, and
many II 10 r"!Tg ficers.
] nE ASt rtbh
orably ON the visit Of the Peking and
the new phase of Am ,ric4n enterprise
developed by her construction.
The Journal. this afternoon, sayI
"Thi- magnificent product Of our ship
yards il all the more welcome from its
signalling the final disappearance o
paralysis which has 20 long rested OF
American rhip building, now TO be re
stored, we trust, to the leadership Of th'
world. The people Of Boston are suff
ci. ndy interested, both in her and e
mission, to warmly welcome her 10 OF
port"
Should the weather prove favorable, !
is expected that the return trip Of th'
Peking, which begins early to- morroV
morning, will be devoted TO a furthe
test of Re vessel's speed.
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influence Of the Comet ON the Ger
nam Vintage.

The news just received from Germany.
says the Pal MaH Gazette, seems to
promise that the comet Of 1874 will leav,
,ehind it in the wine countries q pleas.
mt memorial of its visit. A correspond
mt writing from EhrenbreitStein States
hat the vintage in the Rhine and Mo
ellie districts, especially where the high
est class Of wines are produced, is likely
to compensate for the DISASTROUS years OF
869, 1870, 1871, 1872, and 1873. In tn,
lvored spot known a. the Rheingan n'
uch quantity has been recorded since
he celebrated comet year of 1911. A
me time il was apprehended that tn,
arly May fro%ts had, a. in former year
committed much damage among the
ines; but these fears have long been dis
,elled, and there IL now, we learn, tn.
rairest promise that the vintage Of 1874
will be an exceptionally grand one boib
IN quantity and quality. Such delicate
title attentions to wine drinkers on the
1lrt of these erratic heavenly bodies ar
The more appreciated because we are not
ways able TO count upon them. Sinoe
1911 not by any means all Of the numer-
o1s comets which have appeared in thir
.ountry have been careful to perpetuate
heir memories by their handsome pres
.nts of wine. The comet Of 1911, above
-aferred to, and Donati's comet of 1858
With the magnificent claret vintage which
followed it, are perhaps the only two
which can be held in grateful remem.
rance for their effects upon wine. On
he other hand, two famous years, "a
and '34, produced their wines without
my cometary assistance, unless the neal
approach of comet in one case and IN
recent departure in the other can be sup
posed to have exercised any inhuenc'
ipon the vineyards. A comet was visi
bIe in December. 1929, and the year 1884,
vas the date Of the last appearance o.
Halley's comet Of 1882.
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order (, ON Gen. Sheridan Forbid
ding all Expeditions to the Gold
Country.

CHICAGO, Sept. 3.-Lieutenant Gen
eraI Sheridan to day sent the following
rider by telegraph to Brigadier Gen
..ral Alfred II. Terry, at ST. Paul, Min
..esota: Should the companies now or
,anizing at Sioux City and Yankton
trespass on the Sioux Indian reservation,
-ou IRE hereb; directed to u4e the force
t your command to burn the wagon
rains, DESTROY the outfit and arrest the
. e:,ders, confining them at the nearest
Military post in the Indian country
'hould they succeed in reaching the in
erior, Won are directed To send such q
nrce of cavalry in pursuit ar will ac-
nmplish the purpose above named
houid Congress open the country 70,
ettlement by extinguishing the treni>
lights of the Indians, the undersigned
will give n cordial support to the settle
nent of the Black Hills A duplicate
e these Instructions have teen sent to
;ener: Ord, commanding the Depart.
eni of the Platte.
[Signed,l p. II. SHERIDAN,
Lieutenant General.
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Girls Hear This.

Girls do not always know their power
l, is far greater than they think; and,
were they true and brave enough to ex
ert il, they might almost, in generation,
revoIutionize society about them. Ex-
ert your power for good upon the young
men who are privileged to enjoy your
society. Gentle and good, be also brave
and true. Try to exhibit the ideal of n
woman, pure and good woman, whose
life is migety as well as beautiful in itS
maidenly dignity add attractive lo~eli'
ness. Do not let it even seem that dress
and frivolity constitute your only thot's
but let the elevation of your character
and the usefulness of your life lift nI
the man that walks by your side. Some
Of you are intimate associates, which un-
der exchanged promises, look forward tc
nearer and more enduring relation. II
thrse hours do nothing to lower, but ev.
erything to refine and ennoble, each 9th
er's character,
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The Cause of Color in Stars.

In the "Expanse of Heaven" Profess
nr Proctor discusses the subject of color
ed double stars, an describes the way in
which ii has been proved that the coior>
are real and not due to contrast. and al
40 the cause Of color. The existence O
the color is proved by excluding one OF
the doulle stars from the field of view
and viewing the other alone. WheI.
very close together this cannot be done
but one astronomer took advantage O.
the passage of the moon over one of tn,
stars of close pair TO examine the col
or of the other. The star in question was
the red one in Antares, which has a yer!
small green companion. When the moon.
covered the red star, the companion wa
seen to be unmiStakablv green. The col
or of others of these stars has been e.
tabli-hed, as above said, by artifciaIl,
covering one of the pair. This coll T
may come from two sources-either the
star may be colored in itself, or its light
may come to us through colored vapo's
"Every one cf these stars has an amaz-
ingly complex atmosphere of CLOWN
vapors so intensely hot that such Eu
stances as iron, copper and zinc are n"
merely melted, hut turned into vapor
Now all stars are not alike as respect
these vapnrous envelopes. Some have
substances in their atmosphere whic
Others have not. And again some hav.
apparently a much greater proportion o
some substances than of others. Accord
ingly the dark lines across their spectrs
IRE differently arranged. Some have
many dark lines in the red part of IL;
rain-bow tinted streak, SO as in fact t.
have great par, Of the red light cut of
md to shine therefore with supera
'mndance of the yellow, green and blue
Such stars have greenish light. Other
nave most of their dark lines in IL
Yellow, and so assume purplish c"lrI
And Others have most of their lines in
he blue part of fthe rainbow-tintCd d siIt K
md SO shine with an orange light" II.
p, p,ctro~cope is therefore a very delicai.
nd accurate test of the cause of eel
the stars. "The examination with til
instrument" says Professor Proctn'
has been applied very successfully to
eautiful double star called Albirco. 9,
;rta G., gni. tt j. star is seen. even vi l.
small telescope, to be double, and on,
f the stars, the brightest. il orange
lille the other is of beautiful blu
olor Now, when DIR. higgins, the en-
nent spectrosc"pist, examined the sec
ra of these two stars. he fouI that
| hcIeas in the case of the orange sfaI
here are several strorg dark lines in hs
| lue part of the spectrum, in the case c
he blue star there is quite clomd @
! ines in the red and orange portions
Hence we learn that the two staIs owe
their color to the nature of their vapor
o.s envelopes. Each s'ar glows in real
~ with white light; but the whi'e
sight has in one case to pass through va
,ors of somewhat rnddy hue, and ther'
| fore this star shines through BLUSH va
| pOrs, and therefor this star looks blue
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The Must NOrther!y Town in the
h0rlJ.

4 correspondent Of the Alta Californ-
ia. in Il letter from Norway, thus refers
10 the most northerlv town in the w0rIi:
Mex, we visited Ham merfest, the m st
nor.herlv town in the world. Ii has
I,opnIaiIon of 2657. There are many
LstI tuders and Finllnders in the town.
Tie principal business is in cod liver
oil and fish. and the odor from the oil
makes it very diSagreeaLie. Reindeer
and goats abound here, while there are
hat six horses in the town. j don't know
whether it Is because of the fish diet or
of the long winter nights, but any dis
consulate chill Hess cuuP.e had better
come and spend season here. The sun
sets here ON November IS, and does not
rise again until January 2S. Children
90 to school with lanterns for about SIX
weeks. In the summer the sun does not
set from the 1St of June till the 22d of
July. here Is no chance for hot' keep
ers TO make any money on candles, as
thev do in Germany and France. | had
my photograph taken by the midnight
snn. You get demoraliz.d here. Mrs.
X. has already. She sits up TO and 2
O'Clock knitting socks, waiting for night
10 come. On the 9th day of June the
Laplanders brought many childern To
town to have them pabtized or confirm
ed. Renders You can see fifty at a time
on the side hills, and goats by the hund-
red On June % called here St. Hans
Day, or Midsummer Day, they kindled
bonfires on the sides of the mountains
around the town. and had a jolly time.
The weather is horrible. The thermom-
ter stands from four to five Reaumur
There is one hotel here and its manage
ment might be easily improved, although |
the Iandlady is kind and ubiiging. We |
have fish and reindeer for breakfast |
reindeer and fish for dinner, and for sup /
prr some more fish ard reindeer. This /
place is latitude 20 40 IL 3
This is cut on rranite pillar, surmount /
I'd by bronze globe, with projecting |
axis, indicating the plane ofthe C, lesiial
pole; and on two sides of the pillar are
in Latin and Norwegian,
that this is an important station, though /
not terminal; that it is on the north cape
Of the great European are of meridian,
the southern termination being on the
II was undertaken by the so
vereign@ of Norway, Sweden and Russia
in 1916 25. On the same spot, or neaTl.
so, General Sahina made an impOrtan
series of pend exper nts in 1928.
was one of the chain of sta
ions extending nearly from the equator
TO the pole, at Which pendulum ol'serva-
ions were made f r obtailing the varia
lions of gravity On the eartll's surface.
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The Man With the Paper Cap.

Dom Piatt says in the Capital "Pa
rents may az we learn, especially Amer
lean pare Is, anxious for the welfare
heir sons through life, that the man j.
the paper cap" is coming to the front
The mechanic bids fair to be master q
he situation-tl governing element so
tally and politically hereafter. Whil,
- a body, the mechanics grow moi
,owerfnl and influential, every day froI
heir midst come not only the mastc
minds that lead and control civilized hn
nanity, but the learned men in the pro
.essiona, whose names adorn science an
'rt. On the other hand, the univer-i
ies ard colleges graduate bartender,
ailliard markers and a hundred and on
,;her places of refuge for the sons I,
wealthy families fallen into decay"
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NUMBER 22
The Mysterious End of Five Men.
From The Denver News, August 2s.l

] AAAN DrhNeE 1NtNoF AA gust Z5s
IL is not 20 very long ago that it wa
chronicled in these columns how a part,
by the name Of Pack had arrived AZ n
Norte, declaring he was the sole survivor
Of party Of six that had started ear
in the spring from Utah for the San Juar
mines, the rest having killed and eater
each other 10 preserve themselves from
starvation. According to advices iron
that point, Packers story has been founo
so far true that his FIVE companions hav,
been killed, but there is every reason t
suppose they were murdered by him foI
the sake of plunder.
Some two weeks ago Captain c. II
Graham Of Del NOrte. while ProSpeciin;
on the south branch Of the Gunnison
came across the corpses offve men lyin,
in Some brush at the foot of lofty pit G
tree in a secluded valley. The bodice
were all more or less muillated. Tn,
head of one had been severed from tn
body; the head Of another was badl,
crushed, while the flesh had been cut ia
huge masses from the breast, thighs an,
heshy part Of the legs of all, and bullet
holes gsped in the region of their stiIle.
forever hearts. The bodies of two wei,
in perfect state of preservation, 40 az q,
be easily recognized, but the remaining
three were mutilated 40 that their Owl
mothers would not have known then
Near one Of the bodies was an open poe
et-bOok, in which was a mutilaIed no 6
in favor of Israel Swan for $500, but lie.
sides several blankets and tin cups ! q
other personal property of any kind was
to be seen. The discoverers ofthis fear
full crime did not attempt to alter th'
condition Of the bodies, but started fI
Saguache, where Packer, notWithstand-
ing his cannibalistic story, had Ieet
confined. He had, however, just efor,
contrived to escape, and il Supposed Il
have sloped for New Mexico. Their
seems but little doubt that the five dea,
bodies are those of George Noon, Jame,
Humphrey, Sam. Bell, Israel Swan anc
Frank, with whom Packer started
from Salt Lake.
This, too, does not seem to be the frs
assassination Packer is credited with
having committed. Four years ago h,
is said to have killed three men On the
Divide, in Ell Paso County, the Sheriff
Of which offers a reward Of five hundred
dollars for his head for doing the same
The Sheriff Of Ssguache alsO advertises
q reward Of two hundred dollars fer his
arrest and return to that place. The de-
scription declares him to be atocky,
thick-set man, five feet eight inches in
height, and abont thirty years old. Two
If his front teeth are wanting, and the
first and fourth fingers Of the left hand
TIE fact Of the flesh, being cut in tie
manner above described, off the bodies
found by Captain Graham, might seem
to give currency to the idea that Pack
er's story WAS partly true, and that he
killed them 10 avoid starvation, but
there are enough game and berries in
that district Of country to render such
cannibalistic measures unnecessary; and
the fact that no article Of value wa
found on either Of the dead, confirms the
theory that they were murdered for their
earthly possessions.
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Mr.. And Mr.. Sartoris have been
spending Some time at Baden Baden
The romantic beauties Of the place ap.
ear TO have deeply affected their poetic
and sensitive natures. Upon one Of the
wooded heights that overlook the scene
stands the ruin Of an eneient castle, and
'hither at the sunset hour they were
wont to repair, hand clasped in hand
and tarry till the star" came out and th'
ii shts began to twinkle in the valley be
low. But lAtterly they've stopped IL, Al
Frederick William caught such a bad
cold in his head that he can't Hnee1e nov
unless Nellie first ruba the bridge of his
nose with goose grease.--l Brooklyn Ar
gus.
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Grace Greenwood Is spending the sum
me in her own little rural cottage Rt
MAnitou. Colorado. II is little brown
cottage among the cottonwoods and viii
lows and young oaks and elematis vines
At the foot Of Pixies Peak. She says
"this particular region Of the Rocky
Mountains maintains the character
which Fremont gave Il more than thirty
years ago Of heinz the storehouse Of
thunder storms. We have grand de-
monstration nearly every afternoon.--
The old mountains cAnnnnade each other
furiously-Pike's Peak blansa IKE slnai,
and the heavy elonds roll down hi'
J mighty granite steepa like black ava
lanehes."
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Susan b. ANTHONY : denial Of Bessie =
4.ory is thus given 10y an interviewing
reporter: Il ii in Theodore lap. MOI
much, Young man; that's a grave mir
-,atement Why, Id sooner occup. th,
oof OF red hot oven in July, lad, in
Iced would, NOW, and tbs res no foolins
abou it. Young hoy, when the Unite,
States te.ones situated in the Indian
ocean, when the North Pole is used as &
flag stafl an the desert of Arabia, whel.
honest men go to Congress and Congress
men 90 To Heaven, when iciclts firing
The equator and Ieelanders are sunstruck,
when the Queen of Great Britain st' i
the White House as ruler, and the Whit,
House stands in the Mississippi valley
when bad men go to- glory and good mei
go to Halifax-ts she didn't mean Hall
fax)-when rich men are honest an
honest men get their dues, when Meth
odists preach Catholicism and Jesuit.
teach Protestantism, when truth mean
falsehOod and Heaven means hell, then
.oung man, and not till then, will Surai
b. found nesting and foo4ing around il
the lap Of that unfortunate, and at time.
despic-ble species of the human race
commonly called man. Bessie is al
idiot, for I never did it, 90 help mt
John" She didn't say what John
| hich was bad for the Johns GENERALLY
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A gentleman at Lake George, aheg
waving hia handkerchief for half un
hour or more at un unknown lady, whom
he discovered az n distant point ON the
shore, was encouraged BY a warm ~
uponne 60 hlr signal 10 apPFuach hia
charmer. Imagine his feeiinen wheu On.
drawing neareF, be uw that Il wac ida
own dear wils. whom be had lsft al thg
hosal bat \ short tlms hcgors. Why
how remarkable w shnnld have ronnl-
rlp@l each other NJ nnch disiance, = e1.
risimasl bath In the same hroafh, and
Shan they changed ihe suhisci.
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A Cargo Of Eleven Maids and One
Widow.

The history of the Commonwealth o
Virginia, says the Richmond Whic
commences with an auction sale-no:
however, in a store, but beneath tn,
green trees of Jamestown, where probs
bly, the most anxiuus and intereste,
habitues ever known in the history
the world were gathered. In letter
stiil to be seen, dated London, Angus
II, 1921, and dated to worthy colOnie
of that settlement, the writer begins b,
saying:
1--WE send you shipment, one wido,
and eleven maids, for wives of the peo-
pile of Virginia There has been espec
ial care in the choice of them. for ther,
hath not one of them been received but
upon good recommendations. In case
;hey cannot be presently married, W
desire that they may be put with several
householderstha, have wives until the.
can be provided with husbands"
But the writer of this epistle had Ii;
lie reason to fear that any of H..
"maidens faire" would be LETT over. Til,
archives contain evidence to prove tha'
these first cargoes of young ladies weI,
pilt mp at auction and sold for one hun
dred and twenty pounds of tobacco each
and it was ordered that this debt shouI'
| nave precedence of all others. Tt.
solitary lone widow" went along witt
the Others, for they could not be partic
llar in those days. The good minstei
Of the colony no doubt had busy tim,
that day. He did not mention any fee,
nor did the bridegrooms think of tend
ering any. All was joy and gladne--
no storms ahead, no inquisitive clerk tc
stand and say, Heres the license. forl
over that dollar" Nothing of the sort
From some of these couples the frs
families of Virginia descended.
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Ex-Gos. Curtin, Of Pennsylvania, has
gone over to the Democracy. lie IL sup.
posed 10 be q victim Of morbid impulse.
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GIROUX.

Nearly two years ago a man named
Giro TX killed another man named Lane,
on Baronne stree near Perdido, for an
ilIeced insult to his wife. This case has
dragged i's weary length along, through
apl ,ls and new trials, and finally he
war sentenced Inst summer TO n Iife's i'm.
prisonment in Baton Rouge. The auth.
critics thought they saw some pnlliaiinp
ircumsti mes in his case, aud have in.
ervened in every case since To prevent
him from being sent to the penirentiary
II il nnd ,rstood now, however, hat he
will be sent with the next draft of con
yfcta
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woops-HANrILroH.

The murder of the colored man at the
gambling-house on Dryndes street, about
five months ago. caused the arrest Of
Henry Hamilton and jesse Woods.
Hamilton's did the cutting. and Woods
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The latest Irirh fashion is a home-rule
hat. 1t has no crown.