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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

inently the place TO see the natives in
crowds, and 10 observe native
manners In the mass Saturday
afternoon is the time when IL Is In its
glory. from all parts Of the town
the natives come in swarms, some
on foot. some in haclss, and some in
brakes, while from the outer districts
flower bcdcclSed men and women come
cantering in troops. The visitor finds
himself in the midst Of n crowd OF
from ]. 500 TO 1000 people, laughing,
joking, bargaining and chattcring,
and all seemingly in the best of good
humor, with all the jostling and
erowding ,here is neither rudeness nor
intentional incivility, and not n trace
of ill-temper The women clad In
flowing hololSus OF white, black and
all the colors known TO the dry goods
trade, are hung with garlands of jas
mine, roses, hibiscus and n variety OF
brilliant flowers, which in colder
climes arc seldom seen out
side the dollhouse, all contrast
ing admirably with the chocolate
brown complexions of the wearers.
Many of the men, as we'll, have
wreaths and strings of the same around
their hats, The head gear may be the
worse for wear, but the flowers are
fresh and charming, and the wearers
are content.
IL is quite characteristic of the
Kanaka, that he will often buy dol
lars worth OF fish, and spend half a
dollar in hack hire to take him there
and back, and u quarter for flowers to
put around his hat. "IIut what is the
odds, so long as we are happy AS
fest as the various articles are bought
and paid for, the vendor does them up
in lsf leaves, long, tough leaf with n
thick stock, which the native fish
monger twists around the purchase,
and secures in some kind OF knot which
never slips. performing the operation
with a quicliness, deNterity, and GER
tainty which the foreigner can E, ely
admire but never initiate Then S,
ing the bundle by the stalk of the leaf,
which serves as convenient handle,
the eStravagant purchaser cheerfully
departs happy in the reflection that
he is going TO have n good Sunday feed.
God nlways has somebody preparing
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

INTERIOR CHAMBERS or THE ANT HOUSE.
active. A clayey cement found in this
part of the country is employed in the
definition of the highways and gal
leries OF these ants, such as was used
to so much advantage in the structures
of he mound builders of prehistoric
times.
In excaYating two or three feet be-
low the surface you come upon their
dwell ngs. These are irreg ular recti-
linear vaulted rooms. foot or two in
diameter; and in the upper portions
are recesses for breeding purposes or
for storage. Many of them are empty.
These rooms are not superimposed
directly one above the other. Usually
they are connected by galleries at one
of the upper corners The who re-
minds one OF The system of fats in our
modern tenement houses. This method
of building insures the solidity of the
structure and prevents 0eving. Some
of these rooms are extended into sub
terranean recesses or q feet in depth,
and large enough TO receive the body
of a man. These larger openings are
probably occasioned by the wash If tor
rents OF water, which find their way into
the interior during some freshet or
downpour from the clouds that occa-
sionalIy takes place here. In the river
bank there is a clay deposit bout
thirty feet below the level field above,
and there observed a large tunnel
like hole extending a long distance
into the bank; and on the surface of
the bank At 500 feet distance was
bowl shaped depression fifty feet in
diameter. The ground had sunk at
least eight or ten feet in the center.
A stream of water directed into the
center of the sunken ant heap escaped
from the opening in the river bank,
thus proving that the ant settlement
gave close attention TO drainage.
The raised ground of the ant-hill is
simply the result of the accommodations
from the excavated earth below. 1t
is dump heap, so to speak.
These ants are omnivorous. They
greedily attack grubs or any large
insect found in their roadway, which
they very rarely leave, The absence
of life in any form in their nelghbor-
hood is especially noticeable. Even
snakes and lizards give them wide
berth. And in their underground
apartments, no fragments of bone or
other debris of animal life were found.
! hSA VII roo tIlS ndEu-SnSll NSebAe OF
his food, and then mine away on his
viscera, leaving his shell beautiful
entirety of emptiness, Grain and
small seeds, as of the grasses. they
hurry away to their granaries, and
particularly the newly sprouting
leaves and buds of tender and succu-
lent plants, like the grape and lettuce.
A procession OF these ants, extending
for many feet, each one bearing a
fragment of leaf large enough 10 cover
him, is curious sight.
The live oak tree that has been Sc
lected for its moss is easily recognized
by the heaps of debris at its foot
Large quantities of this moss are found
in special chambers. 1t is cut into
bits of aboat half an inch long, l
could not detect the purposes for which
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

THE HoLKu, tue KASAKA MOTHER HUB-
BARD.
is all that Is needed for purposes Of
propriety. All beyond this Is for style
and show, or q concession 10 outside
public opinion.
The native women and girls VIII not
80 out 20 service. They can all get a
living in other ways, aud they prefer
10 keep their independence. This is
not because they are unwilling TO
work for living. a considerable NUM-
Der Of them do sewing, work for ress-
makers and milliners. tend stores.
braid hats, and so on, but il Is very
rarely indeed that you can get one OF
them 20 cook or do housework. A few
Portuguese girls 20 out as nurses, and
there are n limited number OF
Japanese servants of both sexes.
But all these are exceptions. As rule.
a Chinnman cooks your dinner, one Of
the same race makes your bed, sweeps
your rooms, and waits on you az tab e.
and II your establishment /, upon
anything but the most moderate scale
yet another one. keeps your yard in
order and takes care OF your horse. II
is safe 10 say that IL takes. on an aver
age, the time aud wages Of al least
three men 20 accomplish the same
amount OF work that would be done in
IN American household by two good
Irish, German, or Norwegian women.
No stranger coming 10 Honolulu
should. on any account, fail TO visit
the fsh market IL Is one Of the
peculiar instItut onS OF the place. The
building itself Is of little account.
being merely a series OF wooden sheds
on the water front But II is prc-em.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

the bar is q little out Of the perpen.
dicular, and TO correct the error il is
only necessary to press the bar into a
vertical position. OF course the
gain or loss is so slight that the bar
never gets very far out of plumb
When the current is closed in the
regulator a. the manufactures build
ing the magnet in the clock at the ter
minal draws the armature up to it.
The armature is attached to a lever,
and when the one end is raised the
other is lowered, and it presses on a
couple OF little tumblers. The tum-
blers, swinging on pivots, come to-
gether somewhat like the jaws of a
wise, catch the bars on the dish, and
pinch il into perpendicular position.
That synchronizes the clock, which
means that its time is CORE ted by a
more relis BILE timepiece."
That may be all right for the Chi
cago clock. but how about these
others. which point TO all sorts Of
timer" was the inquisitive mans puz-
zled query.
That's the simplest thing of al.
The difference in time is made by Sc; :
ting the hands backward or forward
when the clocks are started. The
clocks are made alike, and when il is
IL o'clock in Chicago the bar
on the disk of the finger hand
is pointing to II, no mater
whether the instrument Is measuring
the daylight of the United States or
the w-going hours of Asia's night.
The hands indicate different hours,
because they We're started that way.
They are bound to keep about so far
apart, and any little wanderings from
duty are corrected by the synchroniz-
ing. Madrid time, for example, is FIVE
hours and forty-five minutes faster
than Chicago time. The minute hand
of the Madrid clock is fastened to its
axis forty-fve minutes ahead OF the
Chicago clock, and the hour hand for
Madrid is moved ahead five hours.
"liow about this self-winding bust
ness?"
strictly speaking the clocks are not
self-wiuding, for that is done by the
electrical current from the manufac.
lures building. When the circuit is
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

so easy 10 explain. II you dip into
electrical work you will discover that
there is magnet attached TO almost
every appliance for using electricity
OF course you have been in a tele-
graph Office often, and you al
ways see among the instruments one
that has two parallel black cylinders.
That is one of the Simplest forms of
magnet Across one end of the cylin-
ders you always find a bar of iron,
which keeps up clickety against
the cylinders That's the armature.
When the electricity is turned on il
fills the cylindrical pieces with mag
netism. and they attract the armature.
When the current is cut off the magnet
ic power ceases and the armature is
pulled away from the cylinders by a
spring. That's the simple way in
which electricity is transformed into
mechanical power.
I'm the regulator at the mauufac-
lures building the axis carrying the
minute hand has a disk as big as a but
ter plate. At a certain point in the
edge of the disk is notch or depres-
sion, which of course makes revolu-
ton once an hour with the minute
hand, and every time that hand points
70 - lSNtF febAlnR ON the euge OF the
disk drops into the depression. That
tilts the other end of the lever
in the opposite direction, and 1t
closes an electric circuit that passes
through the regulator. The electric
ity shoots along the wires 10 each of
these terminal clocks and into a mag
net like that of the telegraph Office,
except that il is in vertical instead
of horizontal position. Now I've got
to tell you something about these
clocks. On the minute hands axis is
small disk, but instead of notch in
its edge it has a projection, a
little square bar of iron not
half an inch long. On the Chicago
clock this disk is so attached that
when the minute hand points 10 II the
bar is in a perpendicular position. II
the clock gains or loses time of course
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21


American, European, or Asiatic
What kind will you haye?"
AWhy, Chicago time, of course
Would like 10 accommodate you,
old man, but Chicago time is the
one brand you can't find in Chicago.
There hasn't been any in town for
more than nine years.
Come off. What are you giving me?"
The man who wanted the time was
slangy. but the tax on his creduiity
made him excited.
You see." explained the knowing
man, everybody in Chicago uses CEN
trail standard time, and that is about
nine minutes and half slower than
the true time. Now, IL there is any
other kind of time that
But the man without watch inter
rupted him by pointing up at the wall
of the rotunda, and exclaiming:
There it is, and it's exactly noon"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

whom, to the tune of some delightful
music, marched into town. After an
excellent dinner was served at the
Arlington house, the young ladies
went to their houses to rest until time
to attend church in the evening.
The banker acknowledged lie had no
idea the girls would attempt the walk;
nevertheless he cheerfully paid the ex-
penses and gave each the FIVE dollar
gold piece She had sc we'll earned
The girls declare they are ready to
take the ten mile walk again. but the
gentlemen do not offer TO bet with
them,
The Santa Fe r. Il. Co. presented the
young ladies with large handsomely
engraved calendars, after receiving
word of the walk.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

1t is used, Heaps Of quart or more
would be found in a single chambe
Possibly il has something TO do with
preserving the temperature in develop
ment of the eggs, The young seem to
be constantly en- route fr I'M the lower
reeesses OF the cen to the upper, or
vice versa, and occasionally to the
outer air, as have seen hundreds
living about the holes in the sun
Their nurses hastily hide them away
again if they are disturbed. Their
dead are brought to e surface and
covered with earth. TIER hordes are
readily summoned when disturbed,
but they attack bl ndly, without
leadership, any obstacle, ami with
out any apparent appreciation CT
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

closed the electricity operates second
magnet in each clock, Attached to
the armature is pawl resting on n
ratchet wheel, and little continuance
gives the armature an oscillating mo.
ton. That moves the pawl up and
down, and turns the ratchet wheel,
which winds up the spring that runs
the clock. 1t looks simple enough
when you see il done. The electricity
takes the form of magnetism, the mag
net attracts an armature, the arma
ture works lever, and the lever doSS
the rest
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21
The Lonsfenow Home In Portland.

Mrs. Ann Longfellow Pierce, sister
of Henry w. Longfellow, has presented
TO the Maine Historical society the
Longfellow homestead on Congress
street. in Portland in which the poet
lived during his youth, but not the
house ia which he was born. The
property is valued at $4,000 or more,
and among Mrs. Pierces requirements
are that the two front rooms shall be
forever kept and known as the Long
fellow Memorial Rooms" and that
suitable library hall shall be begun
six months after her death. This
house Is the Oldest brick structure n
Portland. IL was built by Gen. PcleR
Wadswerth, grandfather Of the poet
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

eHeMH side world by Capt.
..a..sa X M Cooks discovery,
7. !: !: !. !.
1l5 years ago, the
~ ~ MMs Hawaiians were
w %yyA, like other Pacific
HSslS-~ !aM NJ islanders, emphati-
tE5zg@s 2sRS5ES cally children
MA T3| VIZ nature. Over cen
Ak HEN1.N I&Sef fury of intima Q
NS III contact with repre-
%sss $500 sentatives OF tn e
very best and worst
elements In American and European
civilization has rubbed away some OF
the naturalness and brought about
various changes, some of which are
unqnestionably improvements, but
much of the child.ishness still remains.
IL not essentially children in character
and thought, they are, at least, men
and womrn with many childish char
aeteristics, and are likely 10 remain
such for considers BILE time to come.
The native lacks business qunlitica.
lions. The money OF other people
which may happen TO be in his posses
sion is apt 10 90 into the same pocket
with his own, and, In too many in
stances, be paid out as occasion may
seem 10 require, with a very imp rfect
realization Of what belongs 10 himself
and what 70 others When called upon
for an accounting, he Is unable 20 fur
nish H. and seemingly Is incapable Of
realizing what has brought him 10
grief. IL he undertakes 10 keep store
he seems 10 have An almost irresistible
tendency 70 regard his receipts as
clear profits, and 10 disburse the same
In blissful oblivion Of future bills pay
able.
Ii must not be supposed. however.
that ali this n the effect OF knayish.
meas; il results rather from Unborn
improvidenee and thriitlessness The
average kanaka Ii not rascal. In his
Way lie Is about AS honest rs the gen
erality OF mankind, but his ideas Of
finance are Of tho crndest kind. When
lac undertakes 70 figure as q legislator
and statesman he only exhibits on
larger and more conspicuous field the
same defects which make him SO gen
orally failure in the management Of
his own affairs lie triilcs with pub
lie money and public interests pre-
clsely as he does with his own. lie
lives In the present, aud neither the
experience OF the past nor the respon-
sibilities Of the future seem 10 have
much Influence with him. The result
- ~ 49, AfNt AsaA1N hhA NAa 'AAa4tf
compelled the foreigners, who own
the property, control the business OF
the country. and who. as taxpayers.
have 70 foot the bills, to take matters
into their own hands
Neither Is tho native MS lazy as Is
often asserted and very generally be-
licved. His way Of working Is some.
what peculiar, being spAsmodlc and ia
spuris rather than systematic. but IN
HIS own way he does deal Of hard
work, and much OF II he does exceed
ingly well. They are good sailors,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

it agree in time with another clock.
These timepieoes, in the terminal, are
synchronized once day with clock
in the National observatory at Wash
ington, and once every hour with n
regulator ut the booth of the self-wind-
ing Clock company in the manufactures
building, which does the job for all
the official clocks Mt the Fair.
at isn't so hard to understand when
you can see the apparatus work, II you
know something about the properties
of electricity, for the mechanism is
comparatively simple, but IL Is not
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21
The cEar's Prospective Daughtcr-ln.Law,

Mile lsch, the young telegraph OPP
orator in Tiflis with whom the second
son of the car, Grand Duke George.
has fallen in love, is said 10 be beau
titul girl She is the last descendant
of one OF the oldest noble families of
the province. She is poor, however,
and was obliged TO earn her living.
She choose telegraphy. and became the
head of the Titiis station. There the
Grand Duke met her when he was sent
to the Caucasus for the benefit of his
health. He was first introduced to
Mile. Isch at ball at the house of the
provincial marshal Of nobility. II is
said that the car and Czarina favor
the marriage OF their son and the
Young woman.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21
WON THE BET.
Three Irstty Kansas Lassies Walk For
Money.
ITopeka Cnrresn.ndenc

Topeka Correspondenee.1
Not many weeks ago a young banker
of {. John. Kan, made a bet of SIS
and the expenses, with three young
ladies, that they could not walk from
Stafford to St John, distance of ten
miles, IN five hours, and then attend
church in the evening. The plucky
young ladies concluded TO show the
eastern gentleman that Kansas girls
are strong as they are fair. so one sum
day morning they boarded the c:33
eastern bound train and arrived in
Stafford after the short ride.
The Stafford band getting word met
the young ladies at the train and es-
corted them 10 the Midland hotel.
where they breakfasted. They were
then escorted back to the depot from
which point the walk, by rail. began,
The Stafford station agent had tele-
graphed to st, John the time of start
ing, so when within a mile of st
John they were met by that city's
band and several young men, all Of
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

y W AN DEkI Nj
over the wild fields
near San Antonio
my attention was
directed TO irregu-
lar circular eleva-
tions Of denuded
land. from O inches
10 6 feet in height.
and from 3 feet in
diameter even to
30 feet in favorably
located positions.
These areas had ir-
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21
words Fair correspondence.l

Hal TIN Il Is TIP
asked one gentle
man of another as
they dropped into
the terminal stat on
at the Fair for a
quiet retreat.
That depends on
the kind of time
you want" was the
response. "You can
get almost any
brand a reasonable
man might call for
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21
TIME OF THE WORLD.
A LESSON IN TIME AT THE
WORLDS FAIR.

when It Is nigh Noon in the Worlds
Fair city 1t Is Midnight in Slam and
10 A. M. in San Franclsco-ReguIat-
ing Big Clocks.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21
THE KANAKA GIRLS.
WHO WOULDN'T ANNEX THEIR
FAIRY LAND2

we May Have a Better Glass of People
In This Country hut There Are
Many Worse Than the Kanakaa I'm
spoiled Children of Nature.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21

God always has somebody preparing
food for the man who Is faithful.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21
lHonolulu correspondenee.l

HEN FIRST IN
troduced 10 the out
side world by Capt.
Cook s discovery,
1l5 years ago, the
Hawaiians " err Q
like other Pacific
islanders, emphati-
cally children 0 I
nature. Over a cen
fury of intima I 0
contact with repre-
sentatives OF tn e
very best and worst
-
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-21
SOME TEXAS CURIDS.
TRAVELS ACROSS THE PRAfRiEs
AND NATURAL HISTORY
The Red Ant or Forage Ant as-a,Honnd
Buiider-Insects and serlents- Give
Him a wide Berth some Ant
Mounds.
So Antonlo correspondenee.l

n WANDERING
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02
IN OCEANS DEPTHS.
Strange Creatures of the Deep
Brought to Light.

brought 10 LlSnC.
The new submarine world now ex-
plored and mapped out presents very
different picture from that painted for
US by the poets. But short time has
elapsed since the bottom Of the oce an
was supposed to be the Counterpart of
the face of the earth above water
with hill and valleys, with precipitous
mountains lifting toward the surface
and profound gorges sinking to un-
fathomable depths. The ocean floor
is far less diversified than the land.
Here and there, to be sure islands
in midocean are the SUBMITS OF enorm
Gus mountains, rising more or less
abruptly from a generally level surface
and the sea lying over a narrow, de-
pressed region in the northwestern
Pacific reaches Its greatest depth. But
this is exceptional. In its general
character the ocean bottom consists of
vast fiat or slightly undulating plains.
An extraordinary circumstance that
that has been noticed with interest and
that always creates surprise when first
learned is the entire absence OF foreign
matter in the deeper part of the oceans
floor.
OF all the vessels lost in midocean
of all the human beings that have been
drowned; OF all the marine animals
that have perished; Of all the clay,
sand and gravel let fall by dissolvine
icebsrgs of all the various substances
drifted from every shore by shifting
currents, not trace remains, but in
their place water from 1000 to 1000
tathoms in depth covers the uniform
deposit of thick blush, tenacious
slime called globigerina ooze. A BIZ
of this under powerful lens is a revel
alton of beauty not readily forgotten
The ooze is composed almost entirely
of the daintiest, most delicately beauu,
full shells imaginable.
At depths greater than 2, 500 fathom:
the bottom of the sea consists mainly
of products arising from exposure, foI
almost iucaIculable periods, to tht
chemical action of sea water, of pumict
and other volcanic matter. Thi
finally results in the formation of tht
red clay deposits that are considered
characteristic ofthe profoundest depth
OF the ocean. Carbonate of lime
which ID the form of the shells O
foraminifera makes so large a part o
the globigerina ooze is here almos
entirely absent.
Sea water is very nearly universe
solvent, and before any shell, large o
small, reaches the bottom of thes
tremendous abysms it is chemical
eaten up, literally dissoIved--a resul
which the enormous pressure of tn
water must materially hasten. At I 90,
f fathoms the weight of the water press
ing on all sides of an object immersed