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The National tribune., 1895-11-14

often the work of two or three days.
have seen in camp a log that had been
; patiently rolled into camp up hill and
down, distance of one and half miles.
When ] entered the camp it was covered
with pine stumps; when left it not one
remained. The afternoons were devoted
to washing, mending, visiting, chess, and
other games, when house building or re-
pairs permitted, while the daily inter-
ments of comrades numbered three to l0
or IL.
Sanitary conditions were governed by
personal taste, for here there was no law.
Multitudes were scrupulously active in
efforts toward cleanliness and had their
reward in life prolonged even to this
day; while have seen scores of men
ROASTING IN THE BOT SUN,
being literally devoured by vermin, too
law to live. Without inyidious dis
tinctions. / do not now recall single
ca,e of dirty bluejacket. This wasdue
to superior advantages and drill on ship
board. / must refer to an interesting
case of cleanliness.
Down the river in Louisiana we ship
ped on the Signal "poor white of
French extraction, most unkempt and
degraded looking subject. He was al
once fitted by the Paymaster with blue
shirt and pants, etc, and sent to duty,
These shirts always crack the skin until
wasaed. The man-of-war service re-
ouiies and maintains the most scrupulous
cleahliness. and the Master-at-Arms is
charged with its enforcement Every
ship!nate is expected, upon any infrac-
ton of this law, to report the culprit TO
the Officer of the Deck, when he is at
once |" ordered to the mast"
First our recruit was reported lousy; the
Masthr-at-Arms had bis hair cut. Next
dirty, his neck and arms being terribly
cracked. He was given a lecture and
ordered to clean himself, but he didn't,
and The Master-at-Arms detailed three
mesgraates to save him the trouble. In
two weeks he was reported dirty again.
The Master-at-Arms was ordered TO
"scrub him with sand and canvas"
Three stalwart nessmates prepared tub
of water and squares Of rigid sail canvas
as hard as a board, used for scrubbing
oars, gratings, etc. They wet the canvas
and added clean, sharp sand, and ap-
piled it to neck, ears and body of the
begging lprit, with circular, reclpro-
eating and every other kind Of motion.
When they reported him clean he
was clean, and what skin he had left
had the color of a pair of New Orleans
shrimps, or the traditional lobster. In
two months the man was in Camp Ford,
where he could do as he pleased; but
during the whole time of his captivity
be was as perfect an exponent of clean
illness as was ever seen.
We'had larger game in camp than l
have mentioned. | have known 75
mice caught in one shanty in single
night They were most enterprising
creatures. Though you wrapped your
sweet potatoes in a blanket and placed
the roll under your head for pillow,
they refused to be "skunked." Oc-
casional snakes sought our bearths to
get warm. Centipedes were constant
visitors, their unexpected rambles over
the naked skin leaving a crimson trail
behind. Scorpions darted from crevices
and loose bark, while innumerable taran-
tulas everlastingly intruded where not
wanted and disputed squatter sovereignty
with energy and tact.
ITO be cnntinuedl
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The week passed, but the schooner came not,
and Mr.. Bryant found himself marooned. He
had collected large lot of rare specimens. and
discovered several new species of birds. From
never having seen the face Of man, many of
the birds could be caught by hand. Delight
ful as the location was for the enthusiastic or
nithologist, the vanished supply of provisions
made his position on lonely island unenviable.
He was reduced to dining shel-fsh and
such birds as he could secure, and did not es-
cape 10 the mainland until three weeks after
ward, when vessel fortunately passed near the
island and took off the naturlist and his spec-
mems.
The nests of nearly all birds most inter
esting and in them the oologist finds much TO
study and admire, from the tiny, lichen-cov-
ered downy home Of that fairy, the humming-
bird, to the gigantic structure of the fish hawk
or osprey. One of the most curious of nests is
that of the California bush-tt, Cunningly
woven of moss down and lchen. 1t is pensile,
like a long purse, with tiny round entrance
hole near the top for the bird, which is not one
tenth as large IS its wonderful nest.
The National tribune., 1895-11-14

The Keystone Publishing Company OF Phila-
deIphia now offering great inducements to
solicitors for the holiday trade. They will give
any reliable man or woman big pay from now
until after Christmas to take orders for their
famous book of war, stories. Sparks from the
Camp Fire." This popular book is now running
in the sixth edition. in which will appear full
account of the Louisville Encampment The
Keystone is financially above question. and
any comrade will do well to write them. Their
address is 234 and 236 South Eighth street.
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1Iormons in Mexico.

The poiygamous Mormons who migrated TO
Mexico when the Edmunds Law was enforced
are said to be doing finely. They are all good
farmers. they have comfortable houses, build
fine roads, have plenty of cattle and sheep and
wives to their hearts content.
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A CALIFORNIA CONDOR CHICK.

The famingo, that beautiful and singular
tropical species. nests in the Bahamas, and as
it occurs occasionally on our southern coasts,
forms part of the American Avifauna. The
nesting habits of the famingo have long been
subjects of scientific dispute Ornithoogsts
have now pretty we'll settled the fact, however,
that this long-legged bird does not straddle a
high nest of mud, as is popularity supposed, but
sits on the mud nest with the legs drawn up
under the body. While society is in the throes
of discussion on the "bloomer" question and
whether or no women should ride horseback
with the divided skirt, it is something to know
that the lady famingo does not sit that way
PHILADELPHIA Press
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FOUND.
ability of the great birds early extinction, is
very great.
More than $500 has been paid for single
egg of the great aux, Of which there 6S
eggs in existence. America can claim two eggs
of the great aux, one at Vassar College and
one at the Academy Of Natural Sciences in
Philadelphia. The latter collection held for
many years, among the rarities, egg of the
California condor; but it mysteriousy disap-
peared few years ago, and it is supposed some
scientific kleptomaniac thought it not sin to
transfer the treasure to his own collection,
where he is holding it for rise in price.
Information as to the nesting habits of the
California condor has been exceedingly limited,
and, until 1889, when an egg was taken for
ii. Il. Taylor. editor of the NidiOl0giSt, no eggs
had been taken since the fftes. The taking
of this egg showed the nesting time to be early
| in May, and that but egg is laid. The col
lector secured the great egg after hazardous
climb down q rope. which be had fastened TO
a bush on the bluff above. The cOndor's egg
was found lying in hollow in the cave, with
a few feathers for a nest. The condOrs had
been frightened off by the discharge Of the
collectors gun, and fortunately did not return
while he in the cave. He had not come
prepared to carry any eggs, but, taking of his
shirt. he wrapped the egg in it and lowered it
to the bottom of the cliff, himself following in
safety.
Mr. Walter F. Bryant for many years Gu.
rator of Birds in the California Academy of
Sciences, showed what a collector may endure
for science Oh one Of his expeditions to Lower
California. Guadaloupe Island, lying 150 miles
of the coast of Lower California. was almost
an unknown territory to bird students, and he
determined to visit it. The island is uninhab-
tied, and vessels do not usually pass near it;
SO that it was some time before he managed to
secure passage on q freight schooner. They
landed him with limited supply of provisions,
agreeing to return for him in a week.
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cal Adviser, he announced
that after 6S0.000 copies
had been sold at the regular
price, S1.5o per copy, the
profit on which would repay
him for the great amount
Of labor and money ex-
pended in producing it, he
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half million free. As this
number of copies has al
ready been sold, he is now
distributing, absolutely free,
500, 200 copies of this most
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pEahomet's Costly Tomb.

The most costly tomb in existence is that
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worth SO, 000,00
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This book was written
mid the world Of fashion
at Saratoga, the proudess
pleasure resort Of Americs,
where Princes Of the old
world, with Congressmen,
Millionaires, Railroad
Kings, and Princes with
their wives, their beautiful
daughters, and all the gay
est butterflies Of fashion
luxuriate In balmy breezesy
display their personel
charms, costly jewels, ex-
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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06
EMBASSIES INSTRUCTED
70 Insist Upon the Passage of the
Dardanelles.
THE NEED FOR PROMPT ACTION.

While the Sultan Delays Further Massa-
eres Of Armenians Are Reported from
Hassankaieh and ZiIeh- Germanys Ac-
tivIty In the negotiations.
LONDON, Dec. 8.-The Times prints q
dispatch from Constantinople, which says
that the embassies have received instruc-
lions from their respective governments
that the guard ships question must be
pushed, and that 10 Is impossible for tho
powers to retire from the positions which
they have assumed.
The Daily News has Constantinople
dispatch TO the effect that the embassies
have unofflcially informed tho sultan that
II the firmans for the extra guard ships
are refused the Dardanelles Will be forced
by the powers. The same correspondent
says:
THE yenal press here congratu1ates the
sultan upon the success OF his reforms and
OF his repressive measures, but II the mas
sacres diminish 1t is merely because vic
Tins are lacking.
"Today's nows Is that 200 Armenians
were killed in Raisariych (C@sarea). A
massacre has occurred at Hassankaleh, in
the vilayet Of Erzcroum, about twenty
miles east Of the city Of Erzeroum, where
the Armenian monastery was sacked and
burned and the bishop, the vicar and other
inmates were killed. A feeling of alarm
still prevails"
The Daily Telegraph has a dispatch
from Vienna which says that sixty three
Armenians were butchered at Zileh and
hfty-seven ct Hassankaleh, with every &C
compartment of ingenious cruelty. This
correspondent af1irms that even in Con-
stantinople the condition of affairs Is far
from reassuring.
A Berlin dispatch affirms that Germany
has been much more active In endeavors
to settle the Armenian difficulty and to
maintain the unity of the powers than is
generally believed. at was upon Ger
many's advice" says the dispatch, ''that
the porto opened negotiations for the sub.
mission OF the Zeitoun insurgents, which,
however, proved fruitless'
Mail advices received at Constantinople
from Jiddah, the seaport town Of Mecca,
dated Nov 25, says that the Turkish au-
thorities there have made several arrests
among the chiefs of the Bedouins, with a
view to force the tribes to surrender those
persons who made an assault upon the
British consul and vice consul, the Rus
sian acting consul and the French con-
sular secretary there on May 30 last. The
Bedouins, as a reprisal, are trying to cap
ture several Europeans to bold as hostages.
1t is feared that unless settlement is ar
rived at the caravans during the coming
pilgrimage season to Mecca will be at
tackled by the Bedouins and there will be
much bloodshed. The whole country is
now unsafe.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

George Augustus Sala, the distinguished
novelist, is lying critically i'll at Brighton,
England.
A terrific gale Is raging in the English
Channel and In Belgium. No fatalities
yet reported.
The Georgia house of representatives de-
feated the Bush bill, which was practically
prohibition measure.
Rev William O'Connell, of Boston, has
been confirmed by the pope as rector of the
American college in Rome.
DR.. s. B. Murray, a leading physician Of
Toledo. o., deliberately starved himself to
death. He had tasted forty seven days.
At GAINESVILLE, Tex, the body of negro
woman named Julia Rogan was found in
the fireplace of her cabin burned to a crisp.
Her body had been covered with coal oil.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06
Charges Against Healy's Accusers.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6.-The wife of
Lieutenant Chester White, of the revenue
cutter Bear, yesterday commenced divorce
proceedings against her husband, whom
she alleges notified her he had deserted to
go east with an actress. In return for the
charges preferred against Captain Healy,
commander of the Bear, by Lieutcnants
White, Daniels and Dorrey thirty of the
petty officers and crew of the Bear have
filed charges against the three lieutenants
who accused Hcaly. The crew have taken
decided stand on the side of their sus-
pended commander, and the charges for
warded to Washington accuse White, Dor
rey and Daniels of various acts punish
able under tho rules of the service.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

WELLsBoRo, Pa, Dec. 6.-The Howell
trial developed several surprises yesterday.
Major Merrick, of counsel for the defense,
Withdrew tho motion made on Wednesday
to discharge Mrs. Howell on tho ground
that no case had been made out against
her Then he opened for the defense, and
occupied three hours in his address. Tho
defense, he declared, would be able TO
show that William Rlghtmire, the former
lover of Libbie Knapp, was the poisoner,
and not Mrs. Howell. They would also
prove that many Of the profans and threat
ening notes alleged to have been written
by her Ind been throHn into her yard
When she was In BEG.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06
4 CONDITIONAL COMPROMISE
REJECTED Between Fsttsburg District xin-
ers aud Their Employers.


ers and Their Employers.
PITrssuRe, Dec. 6.--The joint miners
md OPERATOR convention, with but three
dissenting voices, adopted tho following
resolution, The price fer mining in the
thin veins shall be sixty-four cents from
Jan. to March 81, and seventy cents from
April to Dec. 81, 1895. An company stores
shall be abolished; sixty foot screens, with
~ inch bars, shall be used; miners shall
select their own check weighman; pay
ment shall be made in cash ON the 10th
and 25th Of each month, and any company
dcducting wages in the interest Of COIN
pany stores shall pay twenty cents extra
per ton. A committee of five operators
and miners was appointed, to whom all
differences under the contract shall be re-
ferred.
This committee will meet between Jan.
and 10 to canvass the situation. II they
shall find that the provisions are being
practically complied with. and the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal company Is
paying the district price of sixty-four
cents, then the committee shall declare the
contract in effect. II, however, the said
company is not paying the price, the com
mittee shall declare the price being paid
by said company to be the price for
MINING
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

WASHINGTON, Dec 6-The president
left Washington last night on the light
house tender Maple, to recuperate from
the strain he has been under In the pre-
paration of his message to congress, on a
hunting trip through the North Carolina
sounds. With him We're DIR. O'Reilly,
Commander George +. II. Wilde, naval
secretary of the lighthouse board, and
Commander Benjamin. P. Lamberton, in
charge of the lighthouse district compris-
ing the sounds. If the weather is fair the
president will probably not return to
Washington before the 18th or 18th of the
month
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

Boston, Dec. 6.-Conseryative society Is
dazed at a sensational elopement that has
occurred In the innermost Harvard circle
In the center of Back Baydom. Mrs.
Francis L. Higgnson wife of million
aire Harvard overseer and member Of tho
Knickerhocker club. has run away to Eu-
rope with James Manning Smith, young
lawyer and society faYorite, more than a
dozen years her junior. She is brunette
and the mother of four children, the cid
est daughter of IS. Mrs. Higginson, 1t
Is said, has taken $50, 900 worth of jewels
with her, and about 5000 in cash.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

CHICAGO, Dec. CT cannot see any
thing to prevent these companies from
consolidating. ! cannot see that it is con-
trary to the statutes Of this state," said
Judge Showalter In the United States cir
cult court yesterday afternoon in refusing
the injunction against the gas trust. The
courts announcement, following immedi-
ately upon the conclusion of the attorney
generals appeal for an injunction, was q
surprise. No one had expected an instant
decision. The decision Of tho court was
upon the question of the proper interpre-
tation of the act Of 1882, amending the act
OF March, 1872, referring to corporations.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

DETROIT, Dec 6.-Mayor Pingree issues
an address to the people in which he de-
clares that the Citizens Street Railway
company must abandon its five cent fare,
selling tickets at eight for twenty-five
cents day and night, with universal trans
fers interchangeable with the tickets of
every other road in the city, must allow
joint use Of its tracks within mile of the
city hall by other roads, and must permit
municipal ownership of its tracks at any
time when appropriate legislation can be
obtained for that purpose. The company
desires an extension of its franchises and
would probably compromise If possible,
at seven tickets for twenty-five cents.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-The demand for o
recognition Of the union and uniform
scale of wages by the striking housesmiths
is being vigorously pushed, and the hostil!
tiles waged sixteen days ago against the
Iron League in an endeayer to secure that
result is renewed with new vigor on the
part of the strike leaders. Clarendon Hall,
the headquarters of the strikers, Was be-
sieged last night with an army of over 600
Of the striking honsesmiths who pledged
themselves to President Larry to stand by
him in the present fight.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

GAIEsBURe, Ills, Dec. 6.-President
Evans, of Holding college, publishes an
article denouncing football, and declaring
that he has prohibited the game at He'd
ding. He terms the game n disgrace to
college life and Christian civilization, and
compares it to prize ring contests and bull
fights. He claims that in this country
and England during tho last few years a
hundred young men have been killed in
football games and he defines these kill
inpS as murders
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

NEW York, Dec 6.-Theodore A. Have
meyer, the sugar king, is about to be created
baron. Tho imperial emissary from tho
court Of Austria, bearing patents of no.
hility and insignia of the Order of Leo
pold, is expected to arrive in New York
next week. He is Franz Ritter Won Stock
niger, and will succeed the sugar king in
the office Of consul general, which Mr..
Havemeyer intends to vacate as soon as
possible, In accepting an order of nobility
Havemeyer will renounce all political am
bition he may have SO far as this country
is concerned. The title is hereditary.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

OMAHA, Dec. 6-S. G. V. Griswold,
sporting editor of The Bee, and the recog-
nized authority on sporting affairs in tho
west, was exoncrated yesterday, at Platts-
mouth, of completely in the death of Ar
thur Robbins, who died there a year ago
after engaging in a prize fight with James
Lindsay, in which Griswold was referee.
The jury declared him In no wise respon-
sible for the fatal termination of the affair.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-Next summer In
New York's streets the old soldiers of the
north and south, uniformed in tho blue
and the gray, will march shoulder to
shoulder. In answer to a call issued Dec.
9, and signed by Mayor Strong, Chauncey
NJ. Depew, Martin L. Mcmahon, Andrew
G. Dickinson, Charles A. Dana, John J.
Garnett and other well known New York
ers, met at the city hall yesterday and or
ganized for "A reunion and parade of the
veterans Of the civil war in the streets Of
New York. July 4, 1896.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. 6.-The investiga-
ton into the charges made by Rev. DR..
Charles &c. Robinson that members of the
.'cranton police force were in the habit of
showing young men to immoral houses,
was begun by Mayor Connell last night.
DR. Robinson named Police Lieutenant
John David and Patrolman Joseph Bloch
as the principal offenders. The defendants
pleaded not guilty and were represented
by counsel. -Four young men corroborated
the clergyman's assertions The investi-
cation will be resumed tonight.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

CLEVELAND, Dec. 6.--gshe Marine rays
that contracts have bean closed for ten
stael steamers and tow barges, two Of
which are for the Minnesota Steamship
company and eight for John d. Rookie
Teller The vessels will each be Of 1000
gross tons capacity on IA feet Q inches
draft Of water, and will be Of the best
modern construction In every way. The
steamers will be 4o6 to AIS feet over all,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

New YORK, Dec. Cdr. Herman ALL
wardt, Of Berlin, the celebrated anti
semitic agitator, arrived yesterday on the
North German Lloyd steamship Spree.
Herr Ahlwardt expects to give several leo
lures in this country under tho auspices
OF New York anti-semite club. 1t Is
said Herr Ahlwnrdt's mission to America
is to start campaign against the He
brews, his doctrine being that they are en-
croaching upon the wealth of the world,
and are menace to the prosperity Of other
races Of the earth. He does not believe
they should hold office, enjoy the rights of
citizenship or have any share in public
Affairs
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-06

NEW YoHK, Dec. 6.-The volunteer life
savers Of New York have sent request to
the board of education asking that swim
ming be taught as part of tho school cur
riculum. Colonel J. Wesley Jones says
that the reports for the past year shows
that o great number of children's lives
have been lost from inability to swim, and
suggests that swimming be taught regu-
larry in the public baths or in large tanks
provided In the basement Of schools.