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out entering the factory ana standing for
hours together watching the machines at
work. This taste has remained with me
all my life. and to-day still have as much
pleasure in watching a steam-engine or a
fine locomotive at work as / have
in contemplating picture by Raphael
or Correglo. NY interest in human
industries has always been a marked
trait of my character, as marked,
indeed, as my taste for literature,
OF which l will speak anon, and my de-
light in the fine arts, which has taken me
to every museum and picture gallery; yes,
may say every picture gallery of any i'm
pnrtance in Europe. This Indret factory,
our excursions on the Loire and my scrib-
Ding OF verses were the three delights and
occupations of my youth.
Il was educated at the Lycee of Nantes,
where remained till l had finished my
rhetoric classes, wheu | was sent to Paris
TO study law. My favorite study had al
ways been geography. but at the time
went 10 Paris was entirely taken up with
literary projects. j was greatly under the
influence of Victor Hugo, indeed very
excited by reading and rereadng of
his work At that time couId
have recited by heart whole pages
of Notre Dame de Paris" but il
was his dramatic work that most in fluenced
me, ana it was under this influence that at
the age of II | wrote number of TRACE
dies and comedies, not to mention novels.
Thus | wrote a iiye-act tragedy in verse.
entitled Alexander VI which was the
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NATURES >HANDIWORK.
A Wonderful House in an Arizona
CANYON.

1t is a grand house and to build one like
it would cost millions of dollars, If it could
be done at all. And yet the man who
lived in it had hardly dollar to his name.
But then he didn't buy the house, because
it was made by nature On the rocky walls
of Sabna Canyon, in Arizona, thousands
OF years ago, and has been ready for an
occupant ever since.
The man who lives in it is a prospector
known as mike" What other name he
has is not known, and besides it don't
matter. He says he was going up the CALI
yon one day wear or so ago when he first
saw the place and thought it was house
built by man. When he saw his mistake
he simply took possession. Mikes house
IS truly most deceptive piece of natures
handlwork. and a very useful one. 1t is
on the canyon walls, probably 100 feet
above the bottom, and flight of natural
stone steps lead up to it.
1t IS hard to convince ones self that it is
not the work of man until it is examined
closely, when its enormous size alone
would make person know differently. 1t
Is only one story, but the outside wall ia
over hundred feet high.
The door, which is in good proportion, Is
over twenty-five feet high. and the room
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the gift Of writing everything aud who
produces as naturally and easily as an
apDie-tree produces apples. My favorite
anthor, however. is, and always has been,
Dickens. don't know more than hun
dTed words OF En- glsh. and so have had to
read him in translation. But [ declare to
you, sir''-Verne laid his hand upon the
table with emphasis-"that l have read
the whole OF Dickens at least ten times
over. | cannot say that l prefer him to
Maupassant. because there Is no CON-
parison possible between the two. But
love him immensely and in my forthcoming
novel, Pitt B0nhomme,' the proof of this
Is given and acknowledgment of my debt
is made. am also and have always been
great admirer of Cooper's novels. There
are fifteen of these which l consider i'm
mortal"
Then speaking as though musing aloud,
Verne added: Dumas used TO say to me
when l complained that my place in
french literature was not recognized, Y on
ought to have been an American OF an
Engilsh author. Then your books, trans
lated INTO French, would have gained you
enormous popularity in France, and you
would have been considered by your cOun-
try men as one of the greatest masters of
felton, But, as il is. l am considered Of no
account in French literature. Fifteen
years ago Dumas proposed my name for
the academy. and as at that time had
several friends in the academy, Labiche
Sandoz and others. there seemed
chance of my election and the formal
recognition of my work. But it was never
carried out, though. and to-day, when |
get letters from America addressed to
Mr.. Jules Verne of the French Academy
| have little smile to myself. Since the
day when my name was proposed no less
than f0rty-two elections have occurred at
the French Academy, which, so to speak,
has entirely renovated itself since then.
But l am passed over"
1t was then that the master said these
words, which, for the pregnancy of their
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and brought before Captain John by his
perspiring young bucks. Stripped to the
waist. with a red blanket covering his
lower limbs, Captain John stood forth, his
face artistically painted in blue and red.
In loud ana consequential voice he
called the names or those for whom he
had expended his coin, and as they came
forward and received from his hands their
presents the assem- bled multitude would
shout out their approval of the giyer's
generosity and his prowess or ''hyas
tyhee." which being translated means
big chief
This distribution was varied, enivened
and diversified by more eating and the
further giving of money. Captain John,
pleased with the plaudits of his numerous
friends, continued to impoversh himself,
until every blanket. every scrap and piece
OF cloth and every dollar he had was gone.
He then gave away his canoes-he had
seYeral-gave away all his seal-huntng
outfit, cleaned out his stock of personal
clothing, and finally removed the solitary
blanket remaining, flung it to the crowd
and stood before them naked. This last
act was the signal for singular chant
by those present, who Joined hands and,
dancing. clrced about Captain john.
When the. syrup ana sugar, the jerked
hallhct and the bareback were all gone
leaving the rich Indian of yesterday.
without one solitary piece of property or
thing OF value to-day.
There appears no possible object for
this strange custom beyond tie temporary
prominence which it affords. The Indians
are VIGOROUSLY covetous, grasping and
selfish; yet they voluntarily give away
thousands of dollars without the hope of
return or reward.
1t is singular paradox in native charac-
ter, and is not easy of solution. The H.
dams about Cape Flattery have another
custom which eXcItes strange speculation.
They are devoted to their children. They
viii endure any hardship, any danger to
care for them. This feeling of parental
affection remains strong until the child be-
comes man and has family of his own.
Then solieitude gives place to Indifference
and utter disregard, which, as time goes on,
becomes absolutely barbaric. When the
parents become old they are literally per-
mitted 10 starve.
l have seen an aged Indian woman
taken by her able bodied son out of a warm
corner IN the hut, her blanket removed
and she placed in an exposed position
astride the house-left there TO die of cold,
In this particular case the woman was
blind and deaf, and her hair was gray.
She was thus turned ont in a snowstOrm
almost naked for the express purpose OF
causing her immediate death. And this
treatment is not objected to by the victim,
who, with the stole and stolid ind lfferenca
or the Indian race, takes his fate as a
matter of course, without complaint or
resentment. K C., w,
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on the inside reaches up and ends in a
black vault that there is no telling how far
away it is.
When Mike wants fire he just makes it
on the floor. and the smoke curs up to the
top and disappears somewhere. This is
somewhat strange, as no water ever comes
IN to the place and the smoke cannot be
seen coming out anywhere. But it very
likely goes through some assure into cave
beyond.
But Mike don't care where it goes. He
Is satisfied with the convenience. and
thinks he is the best-fixed prospector in
the mountains. This house of rock is most
strongly suggestive of Egyptian archtec-
ture and also bears great resemblance to
some of the cave dwellings in the Salt
River Valley. The thing is an interesting
curiosity, and. although tits the house of
prnspecor now, there is a strong posi-
bllity that it NAV in the past have done
duty as a home for some members of the
lost races of this strange country.
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THE ANSWER.

A rose in tatters the garden path
Ca led out to God and murmured 'gainst his wrath,
Because q sudden wind n twIIights hush
HAD snapped her stem alone OF all the bush
And God who hears both sun-dried dust and sun,
Made answer softly to the luckess one:
master, IN that thou s4yest did not well
W hat voices heard'st thou when thy petals fell ?"
And the rose answered: lin my evil hour
voice cried. 'fa,her. wherefore falls the flower ?
For 10, the very gossamers are still!
And voice answered, Son, by Aah's VIII"
Then. softly as the rain mist on the sward
Came to the rose the answer of the Lord:
"Slster, before smote the dark in twain,
or yet the stars saw one another plain.
Time, tide and space bound unto the task
That thou shouidst fall and such an one should
ask"
whereat the withered flower, all content
DIED rs they die whose days innocent:
While he who questioned why the flower fell
Caught hold OF u cd and saved his soul from hell
RUDyARD KIPLING.
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an assed many thousands of notes on ali
subjects and today at home have at least
10000 notes which can be turned to ad van
tage in my work as yet unused. Some of
these notes were taken after converse
lions with people. L love to hear people
talk. provided they talk on subjects with
which they are acquainted"
''How could you do what you have done
without scientific study of any kind?"
Il had the good fortune to enter the
world al time when there were diction-
aries on every possible subject had lust
to turn up in my dictionary the subject |
wanted information upon and there it was
OF course in my reading | picked up a
quantity of information, and. as [ said.
| have a great number of scientific odds
and ends in my head. 1t was thus that,
when one day in q Paris cafe I read in
the Steele that man could travel round
the world in eighty days, it immediately
struck NE that l could profit by differ
ence of meridian and make my traveller
gain or lose day in his journey. There
was my den0uement ready found. The
story was not written until long after. /
carry ideas about in my head for years
ten or fifteen years OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CIV
ing them form.
''Mly object has been to depict the earth,
and not the earth alone, but the universe,
for | have sometimes taken my readers
away from the earth, in the novel. And |
have tried at the same time to realize a
very nigh ideal of beauty of STYLE 1t is
said that there can't be any style III a
novel of adventure, but that isn't true
though | admit that it is very much more
difficult TO write such novel in good
literary form than the studies of charac-
ter, which are so in vogue to-day. And let
me say"--here jules Verne slightly raised
his broad shoulders-"that I am no very
great admirer of the psych illogical novel
| "a a
has to 90 with psychology, and l can't
say that admire the so-called psychology
cal nOvelists. | except, however, Daudet
and De Maupassant. For De Maupassant |
have the highest admiration. He is a man
of genius who has received from heaven
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INDIAN POTLATCH.
Natives Who Give Away
Fortunes.
OF THE ABoRIdINEs
Money Hoarded for Years Scattered in
Day-Inhumanity of Chill
dren to Parents.
Written for THE MORNING CALL.

One of the most peculiar customs of the
Cape Flattery Indians is recognized in the
''potlatch." This is an Indian word, and
there is othing in English which fits il.
1t is a custom which finds its source and
handspring in the desire for notoriety,
which exists in greater or less develop
ment among all classes of people.
The Oldest inhabitant or earliest pioneer
in the extreme Northwest found the pot
latch an established custom among the
natives upon his arrival here. and it is still
adhered to whenever fortune favors the
Indians efforts to hoard up money or
property.
The Indians of the far Northwest are
expert canoemen. Their frail boats, prop
erly manned, are capable Of weathering
very severe storms and ride the waves or
live among the breakers when Uncle Sans
life-saving crew and boats would be help
less sport of the sea or only resist its fury
to be rolled in broken fragments on the
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HE WAS NEAR-SIGHTED.
But His Wife Could See Through Him
at a Glance.

Augustus Squutman is a little bit near
sighted. This afficlon does not trouble Au.
gustus very much, however, as he Is an admIrer
of feminine beauty. ana each aud every woma n
looks beautiful 10 him.
He was walking up Columbus avenue yester-
day, as Journal man was passing by the Com
Danion building. Augustus glanced across The
street. A lady was walking down the avenue
and she happened TO look toward him and be-
gan waving her hand.
Augustus with great alacrity crossed over,
not knowing who il was. His brain wnirled
with sensation OF mingled emotions. had
his handsome appearance attracted some fair
creatures fancy?
He threw his head back and squared his par-
row, consumptive shoulders, and then, raising
his hat. made Chesterteldian bow, saying:
"At your service, madam; pray comma nd
me-"
Don't be fool, Augustus, only wanted TO
ask you for i've dollars. Pm going shopping;
you will find lunch all ready on the sideboard.''
lie passed over a five-doilar bill with great
reluctance. The lady was his wife.
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tragedy of the Borgia Pope. Another five
act tragedy in verse, written at that time.
was The Gunpowder Plot with Guy
Fawkes as hero. a Drama Under Louis
XIV was another tragedy in verse, and
for comedy there was one in five acts and
verse called Les Heureux du Jour- All
this work was done with the greatest care
and with the constant preoccupation after
style before me. l have always sought
after style, but people have never given
me credit for this.
u came to Paris as student just about
the time when the grisette and all that she
meant was disappearing from the Latin
quarter. ! cannot say that | frequen ted
many of my fellow-students' rooms, for
we Bretons, you know, are a clannish
PEOPLE and nearly all my friends were
Schoolmates from Nantes, who had come
up to the Paris University with me. My
friends were nearly all musicians, ana at
that period of my life l was a musician
myself. understood harmony, and
think that / may say that, if had taken
TO musical career, l should have had less
difficulty than many in succeeding. Victor
MasSe was friend of mine as a student
and so was Delibes, with whom l was
very intimate. We used to say thou
10 each other. These were friends |
made in Paris. Among my Breton friend 5
was Ariside Hignard, musician. VINO,
although he won a second Prix de Rome,
never emerged from the crowd. We used
to collaborate together. l wrote the words
and lie the music. We produced one or two
Operettes, which were played, and some
songs.
Zone of these songs. entitled Les Ca
biers,' which used to be sung by the barry
tone, Charles Bataille, was very popular
at the time. The chorus. remember, was
Alerte,
AIerte. enfaDts alerte
LIE ciel est bleu Ia mer est verte
Alerte, alerte.
Another friend whose acquaintance !
made as a student, and who has remained
my friend ever since, is Leroy, the present
Deputy for Morbihan. But the friend to
whom l owe the deepest debt of gratitude
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1t Was a Statement of Fact,
New Y ork Press

"Thats bad cold you've GOT"
"Your reputation for veraciry Is not likely TO
be called in question as far as regards that
Stat-ment."
Il should say not"
"No, for apart from the fact that you are the
twenty seventh person who has told me this
morning that this Is a bad cold never knew
any one to have good cold"
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Went After Dinner.
New York W Weekly.

Patrick-Pts poor advice we've been giyin.
me- Didn't We say th best tonne TO ask mon
a favor was after dinner?
Bnkins-I certainly did.
We'll, OF wint TO ould Buffers wild TIP
schmallest koind of a REQUEST, and he refused
II was after dinner, too"
Are you sure he had had his dinner?"
Faith, IFS little OF know about ouli Bluff
fer's ingoin's and outcomin's, but ORD had
NOME"
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Another friend whose acquaintance !
made as a student, and who has remained
my friend ever since, IS Leroy. the present
Deputy for Morbihan. But the friend to
whom l owe the deepest debt of gratitude
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-10-12
DETECTING A LEAK.
An Invention to Prevent Accidents
to Paintings.

1t has been known that the atmos-
pherc plays i most important part III
the deterioration Of paintings and wa
ter-color drawings, and frequent at
tennis have been made to neutl:liZe
this action by placing pictures in
vacuum. But the difficulty hitherto
has been how to detect as unsupported
leakage of air into the chamber. which
leakage. though minute. would OF
course destroy the vacuum and nullify
all attempts at preservation. The diff
manner by the invention Of simple
but ingenious method of detecting a
flaw in the vacuum.
The painting. water color or photo
graph is placed III an air tight cham
Der, the front of which is glazed, a
space being left between the glass and
the picture as well as at the back OF
the picture. When The air is extracted
from the chamber by means of q
Sprcngel pump, and the aperture
through which the air is drawn is her
mttically sealed, the desired vacuum
is obtained The important feature of
the invention, however, an4 that which
renders the system OF pfeSerFilOn
practicable is Il little indicator on the
principle of the ancroid barometer,
which is placed out Of sight within
the chamber. From this instrument
depends il small arm or semaphore,
which is in view SO long as there is air
in the chamber. but as the vacuum is
being created it gradually sinks out Of
sight.
Should the va ,uum become impaired
by the leaking of air into the chamber.
the little scmaphorc comes in sight and
indicates the fact. The defect is thus
detected, and can ut once be relnedicd
The fact has been established that pig
ments fade generally in, moist air, in a
less degree in dry. While in vacuo the
pigment can be exposed to light with
out the slightest fear of any change
taking place. This Invention. therefore,
cannot fail to be Of immense value to
art, as whole galleries of pictures, pos
sibly of priceless value, which have
always shown deterioration from the
injurious influence Of the atmosphere.
The system is said to have received the
approval Of both painters and scient-
lists, and large number of pictures,
both public and private. have already
undergone the process Of preservation
by this method in England.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-10-12
NEW USE FOR TOWELS.
Dwellcrs in Southern China Turn
Them Into Wearing Apparel.

Dwellcrs In Southern China Turn
Them Into Wearing Apparel.
1t appears from the latest consular
report from Swallow, in Southern
China, that among cotton goods the I'M
port of towels alone has shown any
Improvement. But the consul explains,
this does not imply any increased at
tertion TO personal cleanliness on the
part of the inhabitants Of the district,
for the towels a.r used for clothing.
The breadth of the ordinary towel be-
ing that from shoulder to shoulder, two
sewn together will make Il coat.
Sleeves are dispensed with, and, OK
cept for the armholes, there is none Of
that waste Of material which is es-
pecially rcpugnant to the Chinaman.
and which the size Of his native piece
gods and the fashion Of his clothes
conspire to avoid.
| British manufacturers have been
warned by their agents and others or
this frugal tendency Of the Chinese
mind; but the loom designed to turn
out cloth of the narrow Chinese
brcadths requires as much attention as
one giving cloth twice as wide. This
leads the consul to suggest that the
cloth might be woven so as to bc di-
visible down the center, so that two
pieces of the Chinese breadth could be
woven at the same loom. So far the
circumstances Of importers have avail
ed chiefly to affect the length Of the
piece.
If q piece forty yards long will make
exactly twelve Chinese garments, one
Il few inches less will only produce
eleven similar garments, leaving {; use
less remnant. Thus importers who
know their customers have urged that
the piece, though it canrot be woven
to a given inch, should always exceed
the expected length. and never fall
short OF it, Lastly, the consul suggests
that us Chinese garments fit loosely tC
the figure and can ke transferred from
one person to another without any no
ticeablc mistit, it might be possible fol
British marrfauti,l ers to turn out
goods Of the exact size needed FOL
coats, gowns. and the amOrphouS pan
falcons. Hc asks whether these crude
garments might not be produced en-
tire. and so imported into China.-Lon
don Times.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-10-12
No Hurried Orders,

A competent manager is not salts
fed with settling what is to be done
to-day ALONGSIDE makes everything
clear as far us luncheon tomorrow
Thus assisted. the cook is never kept
in suspense till the day is far spent,
as is too often the case for even lunch
con orders, with nothing in the house. -
While talking to my Mr. Judkins'' the
other day ON the subject of cooking
meat. a GREATNESS woman hurried into
the shop and ordered a piece Of beet
for boiling to be sent up at once fof
lunch.
The joint was dispatched almost inn
n.cdiately, and as the messenger hur.
riried off with it the good butcher OBJ.
served: There YOU are. SIR" laising
his eyes to tht clock. eleven gone;
well, it'll be 'arf past nearly before
that meats put on the fire; it'll be
boiled ever so much too farsi, and come
to table as ard as brick Tomorrow,
probably, the lady herself will call and
complain of my supplying her with
such tough, inferior meat! Believe me-
sir, that it isn't so much the fault of the
cooks as these hurried orders. The
quantities Of good meat that's spoilt
in this way you'd scarcely believe, and
us butchers are blared for it,
This is only too true. Much of the
dissatisfaction that is now expressed III
regard to the Indifferent treatment OF
food should be attributed to incompe.
tent management rather than to incOm-
petent cooks.-The Nineteenth Cen,
tury.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-10-12
August
Flower

Ihad been troubled Eve months
with Dyspepsia, I had a fullness
after eating, and heavy load in the
pit of my stomach. Sometimes
deathly sickness would overtake
INC. I was working Tor Thomas
McHcnry, Druggist, Allegheny City,
Pa, in whose employ I had been for
seven years. fused August Flower
for two weeks. l was relieved Of all
trouble. I can now cat things l
dared not touch before. l have
gained twenty pounds since my re-
coverv. 7. y. Cox. Allerhenv. Pa. O