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The morning call., 1893-02-05
THE DANCE OF DEATH.
WRITTEN FOR THE MORNING CALL.

dress or cotton handkerchief. His children
around him in his own wigwam TO provide
blankets for, his many horses, his life OF
brave deeds ended so untmely had their
share of attention. Then the remains were
lowered and the chant Farewell, rest
tions OF the body, from which the Cauca-
sian game or play neigh Dor, neighbor,
how art thou" may have ger
minated. With arms folded across
the breast the body was swayed first
to the right, then to the left, then the
1oided right arm was lifted or pumped" up
and dgwn, and then the left arm
And now with arms and hody going
the right foot ia stamped, then tie
left foot, and finally, with every limb and
joint swayIng to the right and to the left.
the mourners jumped with both feet as hign
in the air as possible and as long as posi-
Bile, the duration OF time varying with the
strength and endurance OF the Jumper.
until he dropped from exhaustion.
One by one | saw these frenzied partici
pants in this wild funeral ceremony sink tn
the ground, reeking with Precipitation and
gasping for breath; one by one they re-
covered from their WEAKNESS, and 4 Geap-
ing mound Of earth reminding them that
one last wall was necessary TO round off the
departeds burial properly, the men alone
Joined hands in a circle round" and gave
it with right good measure before they
stepped away In single HE TO the same old
refrain, Farewell, rest forever"
In this wise they reached the wigwam
where their old friend was won't to dwell
They crcled around and around il, whiis
the old medicine man, mumbllng a rigma-
role Of incantatOns, crawied under the low
opening and gathering together all Of
Knife's earthly possessions, piled them up
in little heap outside and made bonfire
of them. Not a very large nor lingering
bonfire, for Knife was one VITO wanted
little here below, and bis wants were
satisfied with a tin cup and plale.
pewter spoon, dirk, a ragged PAIR Of
oyeTalls, odd pieces Of twine, odd pieces OF
bed ticking. two or three hats Of various
styles and siZes-accoTding to the taste aud
requirements of the various Caucasian
friends who had gifted them-the barre or
q rifle, the butt OF shotgun. a bundle Of
blankets. a deerskn, a cowhide. red silk
handkerchief, yellow cotton ditto and
few other bits of odds and ends dear 70 the
Indian warriors heart. In some mysterious
manner these articles became mateTaliZed
in the spirit land and found their way 10
their owner. 1t does not occur to these
simple people TO burn perfect guns or full
bladed knives-the broken bits satisfied
him here, and why not give equal pleasure
In the new hunting grOundsl
When the last spark of the bonfire fl ok
cred out the weary women retired TO their
Wigwams for rest and sleep.
The men, giving n shrill whonp, rushed
back to poker and whisky. firing their pis-
tolls recklessly and making the QuyeTing
moonlight night hideous with their drunken
yells that echoed and re-eehoed over The
hills Of Quartz Mountain.
LOUISE A. LITTLETON
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MEASURING THE BABY.

We measured the riotous baby
Against the Kitchen wall;
A lily grew Oh the threshold.
And the boy was just as tall;
A royal tiger lily.
with spots of purple and gold.
And heart ike a jeweled chaiice.
The fragrant dew TO hold.
without, the bluebird whistled
High up IN the old roOf-.reeS,
And to and fro al the win.Ow
The red rose rocked her bees;
And the pinS fists OF the baby
Were never moment stlll,
Snatc bling at shine and shadow
That danced on the lattice sill.
His eyes were wide as bluebelis.
His mouth ike a flower unknown,
Two bare little feet, ike funny white mice,
Peeped out from his snowy gown:
And we thought. with a Thrill OF rapture
That yet had touched pain.
when June rolls around with her rose,
Wen measure the BOY again.
All me- In a daTxeRed chamber,
Nith the sunsh ne shut away,
Through tears that fell like bitter rain,
We assured the boy to-day;
And the little bare ieet that were dimpled
And sweet as a budding rose,
Lay side by stde together
In the hush OF a long rspose.
I'd from the dainty pillow.
hite as the risen dawn,
The fair little face lay smiling.
with the light OF heaven thereon;
And the dear little hands, ike roSe-IeayeS
Dropped from a rose, lay still,
y ever 70 snatch at the sunshine
That cTept 10 the Shronded sill.
We measured the sleeping baby
with RE bons white as snow,
For the shining rosewood cASket
That waited him below;
Ana out of the dar<eued chamber
We went with a chiidtess moan
To tie height Of the slniess angels
Our little one has grown.
EMMA ALICE BROWN.
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ell at once be will ask question, make
remark Or outline situation. which shows
that bis mind IS far away and that it is dis
eussing great questions ard evolving an
swers to them. His mind is such that he
play any ordinary solitaire without thi nix
ing, and his private secretary told me the
other day that he had lately taken up new
one, which did not come out right. Il
bothered him, but within a day or so he
eliminate the hard parts Of it and he can
now play 1t without hindrance to his work
and win the game almost every time.
Speaking OF Senator Carlisle's mind, there
Is nothing like it among public men of the
dav. IL grasps by Intuition what other
men ACQUIRE by hours and weeks OF study.
n is as clear as a bell, and Major Mckinley
n ce sal that Carlisle never had clOuded
tbonpbt. Senator Joe Blackbu has always
envied Carlisle. He said not long ago:
Carlisle is not entitled TO half as much
credit AS / am. What ! know | have had TO
study. dig, grub and toillor. Carlisle knows
four times as much as ] 90. He has all the
wisdom OF the aneieDts and the moderns
hacked away in his head. and whenever he
enens his mouth great things and good
things naturally roll out Of It, lie ISM. [
entjtlpd 10 auy credit for them. he can't
helm il. he was born that way.
This seems to be a fact. No one ever sees
Carlisle reading. He has no library TO
sneak of and he does not pay much atten.
tion TO books He reads comparatively
little of tho newspapers ana ne IS hot one oi
The library feBds among the CnbRfesshleh
VIM hang around Airsworih Is Spenord'
He docs not have lot OF cefRs getting up
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understood that this Sam Smith whom You
want me TO make a Minister is drinking
man. have been waiting for you to tell
me so, and am astoniShed that You have
not done so, if the charge is true"
why" said Mr. Carlisle, "the man Sam
Smith. who drinks, you have already APP
pointed Consul 10 Madeira"
Here the President laughed heartily.
He thoroughly enjoyed the joke upon HIM
self, and Mr.. Carlisle told him he must be
careful and not embarraSS him by getting
his Smiths mixed.
| asked Secretary Foster last night what
kind of Secretary of the Treasury he
Thought Carlisle would make. He replied:
Il don't know, but think he may make
a good one. He has wonderfully analytical
mind, apd though he has not had much to
do with business matters he is good law
yer. He is very fair man, and | have al
WAYS found him honest in his treatment
with me concerning appointments. Ii l
can't do what he wants j tell him why, and
he is always satisfied with the reason. AS
far as the intellectual work OF the treas
urY Is concerned l think he can manage II,
but don't know how he will stand the
pounding of the office-seekers. The Demo-
cratic party Is very hungry. and the treas
ury has many places.
How do You find the department, Mr..
Secretaryp said /.
1T daZed me for the first few weeks"
things. There were so many branches and
so many details. There are number of
things connected with the department that
have no business there. Take the Super
viSng Architects Office. What has that
got to do with the treasury? The Bureau
OF Engraving and Printing you might bring
into it by a stretch OF Imagination. but the
Lighthouse Board and the Marine Hospital,
for instance. seem TO have no proper cOnuec-
ton with it. ! soon found that | would
have to rely on other men for the details Of
the work. l got to know the chiefs who
understood their business, and in cases
where l had not faith | appointed Others.
After time | was able 10 reduce my own
work to the important matters. ana | have
the thing so SystematiZed now that | get
along very well. IL takes time, however,
and it is big job. There are. you know,
three assistant secretaries of the treasury.
All matters should come TO these men first.
and the business of the department should
be filtered through them, and only the most
important should come TO the Secretary.
The morning call., 1893-02-05
CHINA'S GREAT WALL.
1t Really Exists Just as the Old
Biographies Used to Say 1t Did.

Biographies Used TO Say 1t Did.
The Century.
The scenery from the great wall is very
fine The wall is here dividing line be-
tween the high, rugged hills OF China.
which tower above US on the one hand and
the great sandy plains of Mongolia on the
other, with dim mountain SUBMITS beyond
in the far distance.
Over these barren, rocky spurs and ac-
clivIties. ascending to their very SUBMITS.
winding about in irregular curves and zig
Tags, its serried battlements clear cut
against the sky On the topmOst ridges de-
s ending into dark gullies, to appear again
rising on the other sid, the endless line Of
massive stone and brick runs on and on
until lost 10 sight behind the farthest range.
And so It goes for miles and miles. east
ward TO the Pechil gulf and westward,
mostly in two great rambling lines. along
the border OF the Cobb desert and kansu
until 1t ends among the foothills Of the Nam
Shan range.
However we may regard il. whether as a
grand conception for the defense of an en-
pre, as an engineering feat or merely as a
result of the persistent application Of
human labor 1t Is a stupen dou5 work. No
achievement Of the present time compares
with il in magnitude
But it has outlived its usefulness. The
powerful Tartar and MOngol hordes, whose
sudden raids and invasions ii was built to
resist. are no more to be feared. The great
Genghs and Kublai could not lead their
people TO CORY conquest now as they did CEN
turtles ago
The Chinese civilization has endured,
While the once-conqueriug MOngols, the
people " DO In their brightest days estab-
lished al empire from the Black Sea to the
China coast. and court at Picking of such
luxury and spleDdoT as Marco Polo de-
scrbed, are now doomed TO pass away.
leaving nothing behind them but the tradi-
tions and records aud ruins Of brilliant
past
The wall stands as sharp line OF divl-
sion between the north and the Chinese.
The latter, though repeatedly subdued and
forced to bear foreign yoke. have shown
an irrepressible vitality to rise like phe-
nix and TO reassert their supremacy and the
superiority Of their civilization.
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for one single month will be so overgrown
as to require as thorough q clearing as the
original one.
The coffee plant is about five months In
development up TO the rlpening Of the berry,
but 1t Is five years before the plantation
begins to pay.
certain number of acres of land are
cleared by contract labor Al about 80 cents
day IN American money, though the
planters keep the figure secret After the
ground IS thoroughly cleared and the coffee
planted it will not be till the third year that
there is any return at all. In the third year
there is a slight return. just enough to pay
for the cleaning Of the coffee bean. In the
fourth year the crop about pays for sackiDg
and getting it 10 the port Of shipment
From the fifth year onward, III the seasons
are good there are substantial profits pro-
vided labor is obtaineble at a cheap rate.
for on coffee plantations cheap labor Is
everything and the poems can be very re-
fractory at times. Nature is so prodlgal in
providing fruits for food and so little is re-
quired in the way OF clothing or shelter that
II a peon chooses To say he will work
''manana" tomorrow he is subject to no
inconvenience by the delay. whatever his
employer may suffer. In the land of
manana there is Tomorrow for the peon
as for the proudest Castilian. 1t is this
spirit of procras lin alton which has driven
the most irrepressible American settlers 10
despair. In the course OF time they begin TO
manana themselves.
The women and children of the penns
find employment during the coffee. picking
season at a mere Dittance, of course but a
peon can exist on wages which sand
sh0veler would srurn IL starvation stared
him in the face. The male poems are liable
The morning call., 1893-02-05
Hint to Other Merchants.


Orion o. Betlyr-Didn't you say you were
never going 20 pay q at old bill OF Spotcash
IL Co.'S?
/. McKicker-i did.
Il think heard YOU say YOU would thrash
the next collector within an inch Of his life
that came to your office with that bill"
You did"
ct here find it on your desk, receipted
In full"
Yes Old Spotcash took n contemplate
advantage Of me. He sent handsome
young lady Sith the bill this time"
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HE GOT THEIR PASSWORD.
When He Tries to Use 1t There Will
Be Some Fun.


This happened In little town In Southern
Illinois not many days ago. 1t is in Sec
ton where the Farmers Alliance is strong
and lodge Of that organization exists In
the town. They meet Monday nights.
There is only one lodgeroom in the town
and on Tuesday nights it is occupied by the
local branch of the Knights of Pythias
The president of one Of the country SUBJ
alliances came to town one Tuesday. He
had visited the town alliance, and when he
saw lights in tie lodgeroom concluded he
would 20 over and condole with tie brethren
over the defeat of Buchanan.
He gave the proper knock at the outer
door. The wicket was raised and an ear
was placed at 1t TO heal the password.
II pillow, hoe, / spade" whispered the
alliance man.
The ear was replaced by an eye. and 1t in
turn gave place 10 mouth, which whis-
pered in reply:
"The HI you do" and the wicket dropped
with bang.
The indignant farmer shortly afterward
met brother" to whom he told his tale
of woe
.'Why, dad blame It," was the sharp COM
ment of the brother, "them's Knights OF
Pythias, and you've given 'em our pass
werd."
'Dogged II amt" was the responses;
but Frightening ur). durn 'em, I've got
theirs"
The morning call., 1893-02-05
JOHN q. CARLISLE.
Characteristics Of the Fa-
NOUS KentuCkIan.
HIS WONDERFUL MIND.
lie Grasps Crest Subjects by lntui-
tion-His Financial Niews-his
Home Life.
MIND.
WONDERFUL N
COrrespon dence of THE MORNING CALL.

have spent some time this week with
TWO men who are to run the Treasury De-
partment during the next four years.
These are Charles Foster Of Ohio, the pres
ent Secretary. whose term will expire
March /. and John g. Carlisle Of kentucky,
whom President Cleveland has chosen for
his Secretary of the Treasury. The two
men live within a block of each other.
Governor Foster resides on Vermont avenue
within stones throw of the statue Of
Thomas. in big double brick house, which
he rents. and John G, Carlisle lives inst
around tie corner on K street in another
red brick, which belongs to him and for
which he paid shortly before lie entered
the Senate something like So coo. This
will be enc of the great Cabinet houses of
the social seasons IF ltveland's admins
tration 1t is a bay-wind0w structure Of
three stories and a basement Wide stone
steps. now covered with their winter
coat Of wood TO prevent slipping
lead YOU into a mosaic vestibule sep
arated from the hall by doors of en-
graved glass, back OF which are curtains
Of delicate lace. The hall is wide and Its
floor is covered with great fur rugs At
your left are long parl0rS Of the oid-fash-
Toned kind. which have ceilings about twelve
feet high. and these par!ors are twice as
leng as they are wide. Their floors are
carpeied with rugs, and the great sofas and
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soon toss them ashore, and the lighters are
towed cut mile r more TO the steamers
side.
In no way can the extreme conservatism
of Guatemala and other Central American
republics be better shown than in the rude
coutriysnce by which passengers are swung
into the leh ters and then into the gangway
of the steamers. The traveller who has once
gone through the ordeal seldom cares to
necessity. i. G. d.
The morning call., 1893-02-05
THE DANCE OF DEATH.

Farewell. rest forever" is free trans
Ia ion of the song words.
Before the chant commences, the braves
recite. with motion illustrations, the ex.
PLOTS of the dead from childh God. His first
happy hours basking in the sun with moth
ing TO do. nothing to think of but TO enjoy
life. AS he grows older, he loves, and he
seeks the love of his dear one with gifts of
squirrels, rabbits and other game, or red
The morning call., 1893-02-05
A Slow Young rlan's Trifling.

Miss Keediek Ito her sister)--Mr. Linger
has been coming to see me for several years.
so told him that If he had anything to say
it las time he said IL.
Miss Margaret-What was his replyP
Miss Keedick-The horrid thing said he
never was much of a conversationalist.
The morning call., 1893-02-05
A Categorical Answer Demanded.


He-Are you superstitiousp shall put
you to the test.
She-Not at all.
He-TEen would you consent TO marry
me on the first Friday in May?
The morning call., 1893-02-05
A Sure Test of Culture.

New York Times.
A distinguished man remarked not long
ago that there Is no surer test OF culture
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-24
Hawaiian Stamps
WANTED.

TWILL PAY CASH, FOR EITHER
4 large or small quantities of used Ha-
waiian Postage Stamps, as follows:
(Thesc offers are per hundred snd any
quantity will be accepted, no matter how
small at the Same rates !
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TaPERTURBABLE MID DUST AND NOISE.
newspapers, carrying the gossip from
farm to farm, and as such were highly
regarded by all the women.
How you used to envy the ''thrashers'
because of their wide experienced Very
likely you hired out TO a man who ran
machine when you were young man,
and it is as likely as not that when all
the romance of "tbrasher's' life disap-
peared you met your first disillusion-
ment. 1t was not the last you We're to
encounter by any means.
Some years after you had seen the
first horsepower and its circling horses
YOU began to hear about portable ''steam
ingines" that were to be used to furnish
the power to run the separator. You
had never thought of steam engine as
being on any of the valley farms. Steam
engines belonged to the town, not the
country, and were apt to burst, or the
fire would cause 4 conflagration. Ev-
erybody protested, but some one bought
one, and the entire valley turned out to
see it work 1t was so successful that
horsepowers were relegated to dead
past with greater suddenness even than
had been the fail, and in a couple of
seasons every one was used TO seeing the
smoke and hearing the steady puff of the
steam thrasher.
But it is only in civilized countries
that the primitive methods of thrashing
have been done away with. In Mexico
they still tread ont their grain, and so
they do in India, and in this country
the fail is yet used on buckwheat.
Beans were generally trodden out until
a few years ago, when machine was'in-
vented that will thrash them as well as
the big separators will wheat.
l. d. MARSHALL.
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ana crack your whip and get sl.5O a day
for doing it you would have not lived
for naught.
There was another man who used to
inspire you with admiration, and he
was the feeder who stood on a platform
and showed the grain into the cylinder
all day long. He was a man of nerve
and skill, and he got bigger pay than
any one else who went with the machine.
His work was hardest, too, and 1t was
possessed Of IN clement Of danger that
made you shudder when you thought
about 1t, FOX while he stood there mid noise
and dust and turmoil imperturbable as
a sphinx, ne might at any moment, If he
carelessly let his hand go too far toward
the swiftly whiriing wicked teeth Of the
cylinder, lose that hand or perhaps an
entire arm.
You will not soon forget the horrible
accident that happened to Sam Lawson,
tall, straight and blue eyed-Jim Allen
older sisters intended" He was ga
master hand at feedin," but one day he
turned to speak to the man at his right,
who was "cuttin bands" and his left
hand was drawn in. 1t was but a mo
ment's lapse, but it cost Sam his hand
and most of his arm, and it was thought
for days and days that he would die
from shock and loss of blood. JiIn's sis
ter Tilted him, too, when he got well.
She didn't think she could afford TO mar
~ man with only one hand, and he
went away, out Of the life Of the valley
neighborhood.
when the thrashers come" was al
ways a great day on the valley farms.
There were ten or "a dozen of them all
told. Three or four went with the ma
chine" from farm to farm. The rest
were farmers and their hired men, who
changed works" and helped one anoth-
er out. The women folks used to dread
''thrashin time" for it meant hard work
in the kitchen. a dozen tired, hungry
men can eat a great many doughnuts
and power o. pies, to say nothing of the
boiled potatoes and pork and bread. The
men who went with the machine as
sumed sort of professional superiority
over the rest and were freely accorded
i the respect which they demanded. No one
else was really ''thrasher," and no one
else could tell quite such good stories In
the evening or during the ''noonin" after
dinner Besides, they were animated
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Collecting Cancelled stamps.

What is apparently more useless than
Cancelled postage stamps? And yet there
is store ON Michigan avenue where
they seem TO be in demand. One of the
windows is entirely heaped up with
present day United States stamps, most
" of the cent denomination. There
must be thousands of them, and the OBJ
server can only wonder what in the
world can be their value. They cannot
possess any particular interest to the
stamp collector, for they are neither
rare nor valuable. To the ordinary per-
son the Cancelled 2 cent postage stamp
seems n worthless thing indeed. Prices
paid for such stamps, however, are ~
cents per 1000. 81 per 10000, and Sl3
per 100000. Many an industrious lad
will probably be moved by this offer las
the appearance of the window indeed
testifies), and yet the immense labor of
collecting 100, 900 stamps can be appre-
ciated.
Yet during the Centennial stamps
were bought in the same manner, and
those who purchased them are today
reaping a handsome profit, for the Cen
tenniaI postage stamp has increased Won
derfulIv in value IN a Cancelled condl-
tion during the last few years. As time
goes ON stamps increase greatly IN value,
especially stamps issued for one year
only on a special occasion like the Cen
tennial or fair To show how valua bic
a stamp NAV become, the writer of this
nav mention the fact that eight years
400 no purchased a first issue English
envelope stamp in London for $50, and
II was at that time worth a great deal
more in this country. Now it has prob
ob1v increased still more.-Detroit Free