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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-04-09
Building a Canoe in Alaska.

If one has plenty OF leisure, it is an
interesting thing to watch q native OF
Alaska shaping n canoe, from the mo-
ment the tree from which it is made
has been rolled upon the beach in
front OF the village until it is finally
completed. Frequently the yellow
cedar tree fit for canoe has to be
tioated in the straits or narrow chan
nels between the islands for many
miles, after having been felled with
great difficulty on steep mountain
sIIe. When canoe capable of carry
ing eight or ten persons is wanted,
that is, one about forty feet long, the
tree is placed upon the beach in front
of the village, and there the builder
works patiently and deity for months
ut his task. He makes no marks and
draws no lines to which to work, but
directs the small adze used in hewing
by sight anil hand alone. FIRST, he
cuts away the outside in small chips,
until he has it smoothly dressed; then
he turns his attention to the inside,
excavating the interior until he has
reduced the sides to the uniform
! thickness of about m inch AMI
quarter. Then the most difficult and
delicate task remains to be performed !;
that is, to impart the graceful curves
for which this kim of craft is noted.
This is done by primitive process.
The cavity made by hewing out the
interior wood is entirely filed with
water, and the incomplete canoe coy
cred closely with hemloc'l bark, old
sailcloth, blankets, or with anything
else of a like kind and red hot stones
are thrown into the water to generate
steam to soften the wooden sides.
Pieces of wood are placed crosswise
OF the interior, and near the waist, To
assist in gradually swelling or bullying
ont the sides, in conformity with the
dies, N. 1T takes weeks frequently of
patient endeavor TO give the canoe the
proper shape and curves by this
process, but when finished no trained
eye can detect any imperfection in the
curves or the sides. After the requi-
site shape is thus given to the craft,
the water is turned out The stays
are allowed to remain, so that when
the wool dries it retains the shape
given it in the steaming process. =
New York Tribune.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-04-09
EYerKdaY Hrnnolisnl

a friend OF mine says he is a firm
believer in hypnotism. He says it
exerts q strong influence in everyday
life. "Men, said he, call have hypno-
tic powers to an extent Some have
it in large degree, others scarcely at
all. In business, in ordinary CONVEX
sation, in any sort of dealing, this
strange power asserts itself. One man
is stronger than the other, not physi-
cally, but in rthat quiet, mysterious
force that is more powerful in winning
business battles than physical strength.
While you may be the intellectual and
physical equal of man, for some
reason you cannot get the better Of
him in conversation, in business trans.
actions or in n quarrel, even. Hypno
tism il the explanation. It an every
day force and not so scarce as We im-
a8ine. "-Atlantl Constitution.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-04-09
The Sacred Bull.

Hinduism is not what it was three
or four thousand years ago. The Hin
dus were never monotheistic, but were
formerly much nearer so than now.
Then they said: ".5uerin, the sun,
drives away the cold aud gives us
light, and should receive alteration /;
Indra, rain, makes our rice and millet
and grass grow, and should he wor-
shiped Agni, fire, is powerful, and
should be an object of our devotions. s"
In Nedic times they reasoned thus,
and had but thirty-three gods eleven
in heaven, eleven on earth, and eleven
in mid-air. Gradually they came to
believe that everything was but 3
manifestation of supreme power, or Il
part of the supreme power, and should
be worshiped; and so their thirty.
three gods multiplied into thirty-three
millions.
Before the Arynns settled down to
till the soil they were but wandering
herdsmcn, and their wealth consisted
OF their cattle. Even after they be-
came cultivators they we're anxious to
increase their herds. The faithful
'NtAoCh plOWtN lutlI ueltS ana pore
upon his back their burdens, and the
COW gave them milk and butter. II
any object was worthy Of alteration it
was these faithful animals; so the COW
and the bull emily became sacred in
the Dyes OF tho devout Hindu
a queen who lived near our mission
m India, realizing that her end was
nenr, had brought TO her side her ia.
yorito COW, and taking his toll in her
hand passed quietly and contentedly
into the spirit land We find q great
many images in the form of q crouch.
ing bull. Some Of those are of ri
gantic size, as the one near the We'll
OF knowledge in tho city of Benaros
others are small. Some are kept i'm
public places, and others in temples
and private houses.
Motherhood is the one great thug
to be desired on the part OF wife iu
India; and no disgrace, scarcely, is
greater than that Of being childless.
Such women are taught that il they
perform a proper worship at tho
shrine OF Mahadab (tho Hindu name
for bull literally, tho great god)
they may become me- 'hors. -Domo-
rest.
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A Great Coal Breaker.

The great Maxwell breaker, recent
ly completed at Ashley, Penn, will,
in n short time, be started up for reg
ulor work. Tests made a day or two
ago show beyond doubt that this is
nearer the ideal coal plant than any
structure of it's use and purpose in
the entire anthracite region. The Gu.
pacity of the breaker is far greater,
and the machinery notable improve.
ment over any that has ever been put
inside IL breaker
The most notable feature is the ma
chinery for screening and cleaning the
coal, which has patent contrivances so
arranged that the slate and bony coal
will drop into receptacles by force of
gravity. allowing the good coal to
pass on to the crushers. These appli-
| ances have never before been used in
the anthracite region, but recent and
thorough tests have demonstrated.
that they will do all that is expected
of them.
The result of all this will be that
the breaker boy, who is so important
a figure in the coal trade, will disap.
pear from it. a breaker like the new
Maxwell would employ 200 or 800 of
these boys, and their earnings 90 fan
toward helping out the sclnty pittance
that the father earns inside the mine.
The appliance will cheaper the price
of production of ton of coal, and
thus, while it will work distress to
few poor families in the coal region,
it will inure to the advantage of the
average poor consumer of coal.
Another significant improvement in
the new breaker is directly in line
with the exhaustive research of coal
men for the past half dozen years, and
that is the almost complete saving of
the smaller sizes OF coal. This has
been principal subject of discussion
at nearly all the great gatherings OF
coal men. and the successful solving
OF the problem will mean revolution
in some branches of the coalindustry.
The breaker contains 3, OOO,O 900 feet OF
lumber and costs $50, 900. -Philadel
phia Ledger
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4 Province Orerrun wien Mice.

One of the most unpleasant places
IN this world to live in Just at pres
emf, according to Russian papers, is
the Province of Kharkoif, in the land
of the Gar. The country 10 now
overrun with mice-millions of mice.
The cats have become so accustomed
to the sight of the little animals that
they no longer catch them or even
play with them. They are said to be
greater pest than the rabbits were
In Australia few years ago. Pro-
visions for the table, candles, soap.
books, shoes-everything, in fact, is
eaten up 10y the animal in the night
time. The furniture, even, is not
spared. Sleep for many of .he poo=
inhabitants has become almost impos-
sible. All of them, virtually, have
been obliged to place their beds il
the middle Of the rooms Some OF
them, ev> n, have been forced to sleep
with their feet in basins of water
the Russians of that district believing
that mice will not touch person SO
sleeping. Ii these precautions are
not followed the mice dancea genuine
''saraband' on the recumbent figures
and on the bed, and even bite the
sleepeIs.
Almost all the wheat has been de-
stroyed. A number of wealthy wo-
men landed proprietors- been
obliged to abandon their homes, and
have gone to st. Petersburg to get
away from the scourge, for such it
has become. In the fields the mice
are SO numerous that men kill two or
three hundred in five or ten minutes.
New York Tribune.
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A Chinaman,s Ideal Wife

The Cinnamon OF Australia, when
they take "A notion to marry, write TO
ii matrimonial agent in Hong Kon E
something as follows: 81 went wife
She must he maiden under twenty
years OF age, and must not have left
her fathers house She must also
have never read a book, and her eye
lGshes must be halt an inch in length.
Her teeth must be as sparkling as the
peerls of Ceylon. Her breath must
be like INTO the scents Of the magnifi-
cent odorous groves of Java, and her
attire must be from tho silken weavers
of Ka-la-Ching, which are on the
banks OF the greatest river i'm the
world-the Overlooking Yeug.tse-
Kiaug. New York Times.
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Capacity Of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Without interfering with any of its
several forms of trd.iic, there ure to
be important aud extensive alterations
and extensions on tho New York end
oil th iomo1s Brooklyn Bridge The
entrance is 60 be considerably en-
large ], a new and cOmmodious 81 ttion
is to bc built, taking ia the size Of the
oil one, and "a new arrangement Of
tracks will double the capacity of the
railroad for receiving and dischargiug
passengers. When the enormous
amount OF travel over this bridge is
taken into consideration, it will be
seen 4 -" the task Is one that will tax
fNilding every ~ efunv. t.,Vr- 80
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-04-09

Concord, California boom site, is
thus described by an impartial writer
Concord is situated on the Atlantic
and Pacific Road, about four miles
southeast of Mojave, and is utterly
worthless for any purpose whatever.
1t is n sandy desert covered with
dwarf cactus, and is even Stunned by
rabbits and birds. The nearest water
that could be used for irrigation is
twenty five or thirty miles away,
which would have 30 he brought that
distance by pipe lines MP hill. The
land is absolutely worthless. A large
number of lots have been sold to
Eastern people, but nothing further
has ever been done. Tho only vege-
tation is small cactus, dwarfed to a
creeping plant, owing TO the condi-
tions that prevent it growing. Con
cord is miles away from timber. There
is no more uniuv'ting spot on earth. ="
Chicago Herald
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Forty 1.-TWO centennrians, thirty wo-
men and twelve men, were discovered
in Great Britain last year by the st.
james Gazette. Among them were the
Dowager Viscouutes5 Sidmouth, 100,
iorty-iour years a wife and thirty
years widow; Evan Baines, in Wales,
at LOG, whose birth is entered in the
parish register for 17SS; Mrs Sarah
Thomas, who on her 1O6th birthday
received l06 shillings 1876 5O) from
the Prince Of Wales and who is an i'm
voterate smoker, and Ellen Roche, who
died in County Cork Mt the reported
age of ll5, and was an ardent smoker
and snuff tnkor.
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EVANSVILLE, W. VA, TUESDAY, APRIL 8 1895

vation Army was speaking breathlessly
with no stops.
"Ho yes my friends come tonight
do not delay. know you're all blacli-
hearted sinners"
"'Ere," said the crowd, remonstra.
lively, "cheese it."
"Ho yes you ARE !" (Still in the
same high-pitchei voice. The 81 eaker
pulled her black bonnet little for.
ward and stuck ont one large foot de.
terminedly.l "Ho yes you are black
come and be washed come and be
made whittier than snow once / was. IL
sinner like yourselves and / went t.
theatres ] did and / used to 20 to
dawnces-"
81 want to speak to her." sail Mrs.
Wester6eld, cas- soon rs she has flu
ished. 1 told you, didn't !, that sho
had been very good in giving me- in-
formation. The poor girl tells me
she is going to be- made capttiu
soon"
Westerfeld put one hanI on her
shoulder.
"And her name ISIS Finch"
you've guessed it. Mister" sal |
Mrs. Westerield, with her comic AZ
fectltion of II nasal twang. you've
guessed it in once"
"I'll say goodnight to you two
young people, said Mr.. Carey. "I'vo
got man to meet Mt TO-"
Zone moment, Carey"
Westerield felt in his pocket and
produced a coin and handed it over.
III Thought you'd lose," said Mr..
Carey.-St. James's Budget.
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YIN PATTY.

II we should be so quick OF heart,
So keen Of sight.
That we could feel each shadows cloora.
Each blossoms blight.
Tho iairest of earth's blue-gold days
Would turn TO night.
i we should grow so swift TO feel
Each human pain
1-ia. for eneh aching human heart
Ours ached again,
j - wore all WEAKNESS. and Joy
Grown poor and vain.
Somc sounds are lost in silence. though
We reverent hark;
Some sights a7a shut from anxious Dyes
BY plying dark.
no limit Of the souls out-gift
Has finite mark.
Grace ID. Goodwin, in Harper's Bazaar
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A THANKFUL souI.

! take life jest rs find Il;
II it's hot 1 never mind 1t;
Hunt around fer shady trees
An jest whistle up breezel
If it's snowin' why. go
Jest a-swimmin' crost the snowi
Over try how good II feels
In wagon Oft the wheelss}
Spring or wi 'ter-summer. fall,
I'm Jest Thankful for ON ALL
Folks say this worlds full o. strife;
That jest 'livens up my liiel
When the good Lord made it He
Done the best fer You an me-
Saw the sky had too much blue.
An rolled up n cloud or too.
Give us light to SOW an reap.
Then throwed in the dark for sleep
Every single drop o. dow
Wrinkles on n rose fer you.
Tell you! this worlds full O light
Sun by day an stars by night;
Sometimes sorrow comes along,
But it's all mixed up with song.
Folks that always makes complaint
They amt healthy they amt,
Some would jest live with the chill
il it warn't fer doctors bills!
Always flndin' fault with things
Kill bird because &c sings.
/ take life jest as find it
Hot or cold. never mind it;
II it's a sunshiny day
That's my time fer maxim nay;
fits rain, fills my wish
Makes the lakes jest right fer fish.
When the snow falls white Us foam.
Then 1 track the rabbits home.
Spring or winter-summer. fall.
I'm jest thankful fer 'em all.
Prank L. Stanton, in Frank Lsslie's
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HER LIEUTENANT,

DUNG Dr..
w esterfcl d
hurried from
p din cton
station, and in
n quarter OF an
hour he was ct
home.
-" My dear
Arthur |" ex-
claimed Mrs.
w G sterf cid.
She Dut down
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Brussels has n new executioner. He
was waiter in % saloon and was dared
by his comprehensive betting that he
would try for the place. He won the
bet and the place, which carries With
it q salary OF some S2l0 year. Sap
francisco Chronicle,
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The English language best lends il.
self to oratorical display.
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PINS.
WONDERFUL MACHINES MAKE
THEM BY THE MILLION.
The Material is an Alloy of Copper
ana Zinc-StuciS I'm Papers by
Ingenious Mechanism
Mourning Pins.

7 INNS are made of an alloy OF
- copper and zinc-two parts of
the first to one part of the
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-03-15
CARRYING FREIGHT.

a pleasant days outing can not surely
be surpassed in swiftness, in security
and in comfort. Our electric steamers
put London and Paris among our next
door neighbors. 1 say nothing of our
aero-cycles, whose use is so wide
spread among our modern population
that the skies of to-day have more
men Swimming through them than
there were birds in the prehistoric
times.
"These scientific conquests, gentle
men, have, in addition, increased the
moral and physical health of the in
habitants of our planet; the diseases,
the wars, the revolutions which for so
many centuries afflicted our poor
humanity are at last erased from the
register of our misfortunes. 1t may be
said that all these calamities and
disasters had only one cause, the
stagnation Of being, the egotism
of nations. their provincialism, their
the inability under which human be-
ings then suffered to get outside OF the
four walls Of their own being, to judge
themselves impartially. We have
realized the words Of q now forgotten
poet of whom these barbarously word
ed lines have survived.
Oh, wad some power the gifte gle Us
To see oursel's ~ ithsrs see us.
at is moro than sixty years ago,
gentlemen, that the governments Of
the world, DESTROYS Of escaping from
the follies of socialism and anarchy,
realized this truth. A celebrated
philosopher in an equally celebrated
congress showed in 1888 that travel was
the bulwark of safety Of our social
institutions. But it is unnecessary for
me to recall to your attention the bene-
fits which spread all over the civilized
world from the congress at Washing
ton, which gave America, Europe, Asia
and Africa their first true independence
and assured the tranquility of the
future. BY common international ac-
cord, you will remember, it was deter
mined to develop to the utmost all
methods of transit, all possibilities of
communication, to multiply railways,
electric cables and aerial motors,
and give free passage in these rolling
hotels to citizens of all countries on
the unanswerable plea that as all
roads were in common the means of
transport should, like the road belong
to the individual An admirable sys-
tenn of internal taxes permitted the
realization of this program, and we
must admit that it is this system of
free locomotion which has made ma
tions and cities lose the petty jealous
les, miscalled patriotism, which ar
rayed one against the other, and the
resultant mental stagnation that
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-03-15

earth will be covered with network of
railways comparable to the interlaced
ropes which .envelop balloon. The
oceans will be dotted with powerful
boats which will dominate wind and
tide. We may be almost certain that
the problem of aerial navigation will
have been partly or entirely solved.
In order to abandon the odious repe-
ton of the future tense, let us suppose
that the writer of this humble little
sketch has suddenly transported him
self into the year 1905; that he is a
spectator looking back upon accom-
plished facts.
'Yes, indeed, gentlen~ n" he says
proudly and pompously, "a century
ago our fathers. absurd alike in their
skepticism and in Their naivete, would
never have dared to predict the reali-
cation of so many projects. What
meets our eyes as we look back upon
New York? A miserable provincial
town, badly lighted, with few fine
streets and an innumerable number of
dirty, narrow alleys, badly paved,
lined with unsightly and unwhole-
some tenements, where the seeds of
vice and disease were propagated and
nursed to an evil maturity. Nine
tenths of it's citizens were either i'm
moral or ignorant, knowing little
or nothing of neighbor, cities,
ridiculously narrow and jealous
in all their judgments. 1t took six
hours to go TO Boston, and twenty-four
to Chicago, while San Francisco and
the now magnificent metropolis of
Helena, Mont, were long, serious
journey. Take peep into any museum
of antiquities and see what hideous,
uncomfortable cars were used for those
journeys.
Now, gentlemen, look at our
modern New York, emerged from the
limbo in which it was plunged by the
barbarbity and unscientific stupidity
Of our predeceSsorsi Let US admire
the efforts which have permitted us to
cover our great city with innumerable
means of Communication, with aerial,
terrestrial ana subterraneous routes
Let us admire our elevated railroads,
raised upon magnificent iron edifices,
which add to rather than substract
from the general elegance. One hour
Of to-day is werSA C year ID tho pas&
Don't you think, my dear fellow
progressionists, that in the way of ma
terial needs, we have gained the sum-
NIT of human ambition! What of all
the problems left to us by our an
cestors remains to be realized? We
have tanned and domesticated the cleo
trical forces to perfection. Aerial
navigation, which for SO long tortured
the brains of inventors and had at last
almost been abandoned as an abso-
lutely Utopian idea, is with us a mat
ter of the most elementary nature.
To employ an old saying of the past,
it has entered definitely into
our manners. The aerial cleo
tro-cable, which in less than
two hours puts us in communication
with any point from Maine to Florida,
the San Francisco, Chicago and New
York limited aerophagus, which
makes journey across the continent
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-03-15
A TOO MODEST WOMAN
Is such thing possible?
II &c

Is such thing possible?
1t is.
Many a woman suffers month
after month, whole years, because
she shrinks from talking about her
complaints.
Foolish do you say?
No, it is simply due to natural,
commendable modesty. Still she
owes it to herself either to con-
suit good Physician or else to get
the Zoa-Phora Medical Book on
Diseases of Women and Children,
and, after satisfying herself that
Zoa-Phora is what she needs,
obtain bottle or a box of it and
use it faithfully. Both the book
and medicine may be obtained
either direct from the Zoa-Phora
Medicine Co., at Kalamazoo, Mich.
or through your druggist. All cor
respondence is kept strictly conf
dental.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-03-15
Her ldea of Art.

She wandered about the young ar
lists studio exclaiming and admiring
in the approved style. "How lovely, I"
she remarked, Ito go through life
always seeing and searching for the
beautifully" Eyes," agreed the young
artist, looking longingly toward his
pipe. "You paint marine pictures,
don't your" she went on, looking at
the walls. Eyes" answered the
young artist, "or, I try to-" 'Are
they er-oil or water color?" she con-
tinued. Mainly oils" replied the
long-suffering youth. ''Isn't that
funny?" she said. "Do you know I
thought pictures Of water were al
ways done in water colors?" And the
young artist fell back among the
cushions of his divan.