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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-11-22

A Scientific SMACK.
Harold Howmuch implanted kiss
upon the ohaste lips Of Im6gene Upto-
date. Then he drew back with strange
expression upon his face.
"What have you on your lipsP' no
cried.
Nothing" answered the fair maid.
Absolutely nothing. Not even
microbes. I have had my lips anti
septioized. Josh Wink.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-11-22

In Turkey the disappearance Of the
sun at night Ia accounted for by. the
eeriodical rstirement of that pfoss
idmFaary sss gay ezR 100 sstssseuc rs
hection,
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-22
WATKINS
Il ss VS.. = -
ARNOLD.

r,-,r rawcctt in Golfers W".kls.
THEH are those in England to-day WI"
rank MIR. William Watson rs the most r1n-
able British poet living. nor ar" thes" Cit
;cs I should say. at al the least intcilicent
,f tn,ir class. However this may be. Nr.
watson has repeatedly shown signs
,at be syInpathizos with the Beers
their present struggle. Not long ago he
NE a letter full, Of oloqucncc 10 one OF the
ninent journals here. Il part of which
thus: "It is possible to he patriotic
vet 10 draw a clear distinction between
country and certain of her actions
cen ones country ana those passing I'M
- and moods of hers which. perhaps,
cal as often as they reveal her n"hl'r
g. ! reErct profoundly that mood which
,rne y.ars has possessed her. a sts;c OF
which in its doadness 10 any hut crude
violent stimulus has often -, med like
state Of mind of a ;lan Ins"rSitizri Il
coiors less oNclamdt"ry Than scarlet, All
Iuusir more seqacstered than the irnmitj-a-
bic sniiercy OF brass. Yet | am a patriot
I'm spite OF myself. As ,rtIly a. they VINO
fiattcr her without ccasinS ! InJu!a with
my country III her cdiamities." t;Iit
nov. &, world see,u, Mr.. Watson does rot
merely mourn with his country in acr ci-
la:r;tics: he exuit. in the .'aiJ:uiti c: Wni, o..
Sulth African geography has indicted up
On her. H.. >cc. Il shcrt tiin" ago, he pub
l.shcd IN The Westminster Gazette these
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-04-22

WRITTEN For THE StNpNY REPrELI'.
There is an exhibition Of architectural
drawings from all the principal arrh!jrr-
,irsI clubs Of the United States ana Lon
don and Paris at the Museum al zine Arts.
II. VS. opened last Thursday evening by
th{st. Louis Architectural Club. The o.
s/nization is a member of the American
Architectural club leagH", one purpose 81
\uhich is 10 show the Development of cor
: tcmporaneous architecture throughout the
world, and for the purpose they have in
stituted an annual circulation Of drawings
contributed by the club. Every club To-
reives and exhibits the collection at a pre-
arranged time. and after its period has
lspseG. sends the pictures forward with
,hose il has decided to contribute.
The exhibition at tho Museum Of Fine
Arts will Hast until April %. and the only
qualification necessary To seq the pictures
IS q card, which may be obtained Icy APP
p,-ing 10 any member "f III" Exhibition
or the secretary of the ST. Louis
Architectural Club. Mr.. Ernest Helfnstel-
Ter is tie chairman of the committee. which
is composed OF Messrs. s. l.. Sh.rec. Ernest
4. Eliprte!n. EG"ard A. EaIiSH. =. Cecil
Dyy.: ana William I. Baicy. Nj. Frank
A. J.. Enrfori is the secrctiry. Tn" club
headquarters t. at NJ. $40 Locus; stree.
where tho admission card il n0rainati'.
Probably tho most interesting work done
b. the local club during the pasi year f.
.he study oc the development Of ar"li-
lecture from its very inception in ST. Louis.
Srch q. study il almost equivalent to
the study of the history Of the community
ard its results from a historical stand
~. ,,, l.,;,, Ia. -.a.act:p..., It,tb
x,.s club and Individual members have
Arnt considerable time and money IN The
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24
DICK RODNEY;
Or. The Adventures Of
An Eton Boy.
ny JAMES RAN

ny JAMES Ran

I fired! I know not whether the ball
hit. but one of the ruffians sprang
wildly forward and fell headlong into
the ventana.
THAT will do" cried Tom; away
now as fast as Wa can-stretch out
bear away for the harbor and the
brig!"
Grasping our newly acquired weap-
ons, which we eve thought of re-
linquishing, we rushed out. and, de-
scending the r%avine, favored by the
starlight, instinctively took the path
which led directly to the harbor.
With a heart that beat wildly, a
head in a whirl of thoughts, and every
pulse quickened by the whole affair
by the ferocious treatment to which
we had been subjected for SO many
hours, by the perils which had men
aced us, by the narrow escapes we had
made from bullets, by the wild and
disastrous tragedy which closed the
adventures of a long and exciting day
I ran beside Tom Lambourne; on,
on, without a breath to spare or a word
to utter.
Ito be c~ontinued.) liza.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24
How Abyssinians Train for Wor.

"A country of lions and rugged men
this Ethiopia, as the people call it, not
Abyssinia, which is a disparaging word
In use among the Arabs. An Ethiopian
worthy to wear in battle the lions
skin that Menelik gives to the bravest
must be one who can go three days
without food, fighting the while or
journeying over deserts and noun
tains; n who cares nothing for pain
or death. 1t is a custom among these
men, after battle or warlike maneu-
vers, to squat down on the ground in
long line and fire their rifles in the air.
barrels up, butts between the knees:
no blank cartridges here, but balls that
wound or kill whomsoeVer they strike
In the descent. A cannon shot gives
the signal, and forthwith the firing
starts far down the line, rolling nearer
and nearer, until it swells into a roar
of musketry above the emperor him
self; then dies away at the farther
side. And the bullets come down upon
the soldiers or citizens as may be-: for
this firing, like as not, takes place in
a crowded city. Would it not be wise
your majesty asked a French travel
er, aghast at this reckless procedure.
to use blank cartridges?' Why SOP
asked Menelik. 1T would economist
rifle balls and save life 4 do not
mind losing a few rifle balls, if it makes
my people despise them The Italian
found at Adowa what these soldiers
think of rifle balls; saw them come
bounding on in the charge, pierced
through and through with Mauser bull
lets, and go on fighting; saw the en-
peror himself toward the close rush
in waving his sword, and kill with his
own hands. The Abyssinians Ito use
the accepted world go into battle with
modern rifles, and know how to Use
them; but in the heat of the action
their spirit is to throw these down and
come at the enemy man to man with
saber and shield. Each one carries on
his left arm a convex buckler made of
hippopotamus hide, so thick and tough
that often a swift flying projectile is
detected by it. Of p, 900 men, blacks
and whites, who fought in this battle
on the Italian side, about 1000 ESCAPED.
about 5000 were made prisoners. and
the rest were killed."-Windsor Maya
zine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24
The Czarina and Her Children,

No royal children are surrounded by
such imposing ceremonial or regarded
with such superstitious interest and
reverence as are the three infant
daughters of the emperor and empress
Of Russia. The fact that a son and
heir has been so eagerly awaited in
vain is not allowed to initiate the
smallest degree against the care Law
ished on the baby grand duchesses, al
though, according to present Russian
law, they can lever hope to succeed
their father on the imperial throne.
After the birth of Grand Duchess Olga,
the eldest, the empress wrote a touch
ing letter in which she said: Every
M except ourselves seems disappoint-
ed that baby was not a boy. For us
there is no question of sex; our child
is simply a gift from God" The car
ina prefers hat her children's nurses
should be English or Scotch. Besides
nominally they have twenty such at
tendants each, drawn from various
Russian provinces. Immense sums are
lavished on the dainty lace trimmed
and embroidered garments of the
cars daughters and the magnifcence
Of their surroundings is medieval In
barbaric splendor. Everything in the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24

The man in the street car affirmed
that it was a r story, but the Cleve-
land Leader does not vouch for 1t, al
though giving it in the narn,tor's own
words: / was up at the narket house
night before last, buying stuff for over
Sunday, and | saw an Irishman up
there with a live goose under his arm.
Pretty soon the goose looked up at the
Irishman kind Of pitiful. and says:
"Quawk, quawk, quawk," in that coax
in way a goose has sometimes. The
Irishman didn't say anything at first,
but after a bit the goose looked up
and says, "Quawk, quawk, quawk,"
again. Then the Irishman cooked his
head over on one side, booked the 0
In the eye, and says: "Phat's the mat
ter wild yeZ, ony way? Phwy do yez
want to walk whin Dim wlllin' to car
ry yez?"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24
REMARKABLE AUCTION BIDS.
Relics Which Have Brought Big sums
at Sales

''ouS"t DIX Suulb
at Sales
The lola sale in France, at which a
little table was sold for more than $50
times it's value, recalls many instances
of remarkable bids at auction sales,
says Tit-Bits. Zola's table was worth
"a les, but the first bid for it was
1920, and the auction became prob
ably unique in the annals of sales by
being closed after a single bid. 1t Is
not the first time that a table has been
sold for such a remarkable sum,
though it is probably the first time
h a such an article has fetched such
a big price. Cicero's table was put up
to auction after his death, but the
highest bid was f75O. Another historic
article for which an enormous price
was paid was Cato's purple robe, which
Nero bought for f6,SO0. The habit
worm by Charles XII. at Pultowa was
sold for f22, 900, and a cup used by Ma
poleon went for 81 guineas. The hat
which Napoleon wore at Eylau was
keenly bid for at auction by thirty-two
persons and was knocked down at Els.
Mr.. Quaritch, the famous bookseller,
recently advertised two Of his rarest
volumes for sale for 10,250, a sum
which may seem ridiculous to most
readers. Mr.. Quaritch, however, once
bid "a 900 for a Latin Psalter, and
f3, 300 for a Mazarin Bible at an auc-
ton sale. Five hundred and forty
guineas for a snuff-box suggests that
the bidder was verging on madness,
but a snuffbox from the emperor of
Brazil's collection was once knocked
down at this price. Another, supposed
to have belonged to Marie Antoinette,
sold for 800 guineas, bids of so and 100
guineas being quite common at snuff
box sales. A vase in the British mu-
scum was knocked down at 1000 gum
cas-, and two violins-a Stradivarius
and a Ruggari-were sold at a sale for
f760 and FL ,280, respectively. A violin
bow by Tourte was sold for f44, and
the autograph of Sir Isaac Newton
once drew a bid of f64. An admirer
of George ". a few years age bid Els
for a walking stick which belonged to
the king. A silver penny of William
the Conqueror's reign was sold nine
years age for f32, and a half-crown of
the reign of Queen Elizabeth went for
f44. Lord Fitzhardinge once bid $500
guineas for a calf at Lord Dunmore's
sale. The previous highest price for a
bull was 1000 guineas, bid at a sale at
Ketton. Lord Fitzhardinge's bid was
the highest ever made in England.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24
Making Merry Over Death,

In the National Magazine, William
Jameson Reid, the famous explorer, in
the narrative of his dash to the sacred
city of Tzuchan, Northeastern Thibet,
writes thus regarding a certain strange
custom of the native savages: Death,
as is but natural where it is of such
frequency, is here not looked upon or
awaited with fear, and suicides, as
stated before, are of frequent occur
renee. The funeral ceremony is a
function attended with great eclat.
Whatever may have been the foibles or
frailties of the deceased, or however
undeserving he may be of the honor,
so soon as he is dead his relatives and
friends, from far and near, are sum-
moned to attend the %obsequies. The
corpse, arrayed in the most gorgeous
habiliments that can be procured, and
surrounded by his possessions, is seat
ed in a chair and placed in the open
air In front of his former dwelling,
and for two or three days the body Is
During that time the relatives and
friends gather round and indulge in
mourning dances and in drinking huge
rotations of fiery punda, compliment
ing the corpse on his newly acquired
state of blessedness, and expressing
the cheerful desire that they might be
in his shoes.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24

hin on the occasion of her sixtieth
birthday, the presentation having been
made in due form by the British and
American ministers. The book is a
royal quarto volume, 2x10x13 inches
in size and was manufactured by the
Presbyterian press and Canton silver
smiths. 1t has silver covers, embossed
with bamboo and bird designs, and is
printed on the finest paper with the
largest type, and with a border of gold
encircling each page. 1t was encased
in a solid silver casket, ornamented
with symbolical designs, the whole
weighing 10R pounds, and upon the
cover of the casket there is a gold
plate which relates that the book is
the gift of the Christian women in
hin Not long after the presenta-
ton of this magnificent volume the
eunuchs were sent from the palace to
the bookstore to ask for a ommon
copy, so that the empress and her
ladies might compare the two texts.
Surely the circulation of such a book
is one of the wonders of the world!
Age cannot wither, nor custom stale,
its infinite variety"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24

II known as Cannabis Indica, aAd
which we term Indian hemp. 1t is Gull
tivated in India, and has long been
employed as a medicine in Asia. Arabs.
Persians, Indians Chinese and South
Africans esteem it for its intoxicating
powers. Various preparations Of the
plant are employed for the purpose of
producing this effect. A ~favorite mode
of extracting it's active principle is by
boiling the tops and flowers with
water, to which butter of oil has been
added, evaporating and thus forming
an o~leaginous solution of fatty sub
stance. The effect produced by hashish
is that of happiness, and by that Is
meant an enjoyment entirely moral
and by no means sensual. The hnshish
eater is happy, not like the gourmand
or he famished man when satisfying
1'S tp1atite, or the v|oluptuary in the
''tiit1Con of his desires, but like
I'm who hears tidings which fill him
with Joy. One of the first appreciate
effects of the drug is gradual weaken
ing of the power of controlling and
directing the thoughts. Then comes
the stage already described; and ac-
~companying, and in part following it,
there are observed errors of sense,
false convictions, and the predomin-
ance of one or more extravagant ideas.
These ideas and convictions are gener-
ally not altogether of an imaginary
character, but are suggested by external
impressions which are enormously in
terpreted by the perceptive faculties.
Finally, if the dose is sufficiently pow
erful, there is a complete withdrawal
of the mind from external things.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24

lulu Independent. We have seen them
at the auction sales when they made
a bargain" by buying an article they
had no use for whatever, and we have
seen them haggling over the price of
cheap calico for a reduction in price of
one cent a yard, and then triumphant
ly carry their purchase to a fashion
able dressmaker and paying her $40
for making a morning dress. This
morning we could not help smiling
while watching a lady credited with
possessing good business sense, buying
Chinese birds on board a mail
steamer, haggling over the price of the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24

you see a man or woman smiling or
laughing IN a New York sidewalk you
would probably say to yourself: 81
wonder what is wrong with that per-
SON." Such laughter as one hears is
usually aroused by the quotation of
some more OF less stupid joke, or more
frequently by a misfortune hat has
befallen a fellow creature. If a man
slips on a corner, falls or bumps his
head, hat becomes for the time being
a cheerful corner in New York. But
we don't seem to be able to find any
cause for cheerfulness in bright sun
light, or blue skies, or any of the other
little blessings which Providence be-
| slows upon us. What Ia the matter
with us2 There is plenty Of gayety in
France, in Germany, in Italy. There
is even a little In England. Why
should this nation be so gloomy? Dc
we live too fast, work too hard? Whar
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24
Rocking Stones.

Rock1ng-stones or Logans, as they
are called, are numerous In many
places in England, Ireland and Scot
land, and nearly every other country.
One, situated at a place on the island
of Magee, in Browns Bay, Ireland, is
popularity believed to acquire a rock
ing, tremulous motion at the approach
OF sinners and malefactors. These
rocking-stones are large masses of
rock so finely poised as to move back
ward and forward with the slightest
impulse. Some of them appear to be
natural, others artificial. The former
are chiefly granite rocks, in which
feldspar and porphyry are a%bundantly
present; and these ingredients becom-
ing rapidly decomposed, and the dust
and sand washed away by rains, what
was formerly a solid rock soon as
sumes the appearance of a group of ir-
regularly shaped pillars having a
rhomboidal horizontal section, and
separated into portions of horizontal
and vertical assures. AS disintegra-
ton proceeds, the edges of the blocks
forming the pillars become piles of two
or more spheroidal rocks resting upon
each other. If, now, a mass of rock
be so situated as to preserve it's equi-
librium in spite of the gradual diminu-
ton of it's base or point of support, a
rocking-stone is the result. The ar
tlficial ones appear to have been
formed by cutting away'a mass of rock
around the center point of it's base. In
Greece, rocking-stones occur as funeral
monuments, and are generally found
on conspicuous places near the sea.
Some rocking-stones occur near to the
remains of ancient Notifications, which
seems to bear out a statement in one
of the poems of Ossian hat the bards
walked round the stone singing, and
made it more as an oracle of the fate Of
battle.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24

five other men from Boston and vicin-
ity, he left home for Alaska in Febru-
airy, 1898. He visited Dawson City and
sections, but was better pleased with
Nome City. Mr.. Lowe evidently finds
time to indulge in politics, for he Is
now a common councilman of Nome
City.
Some extracts from a letter which
he has written tell of life in Nome
City more graphically than any of the
published reports from that section.
He wrote: This is probably the
last letter I can write to you before
the winter shuts us in from the out
side world, and perhaps until next
June, unless some mail goes out over
the ice, which | think doubtful, as it
must be carried hundreds of miles by
dogs, and that is very uncertain around
the Behring sea.
Typhoid Fever Plentiful.
"A great deal of sickness prevails,
and in nearly every case it is typhoid
fever caused by sleeping on the wet
ground and living on beans. We have
built a good hospital. In the first two
days four men died in it. Ten have
been buried and a number sent on
stretchers on board the steamers. Ok
police department selected some of -
roughs and shipped them out of the
section, Capt. Jarvis taking them on
the revenue cutter Bear. Here are
some of the prices we pay: Coal, S12G
a ton; lumber, $3.50 to 5000 a thousand;
-four, SIS per cut; all canned goods, rs
cents a can; sugar, % cents a pound.
1t is hard to buy anything at those
prices. No coal or lumber can be
bought. Cigars and drinks are SO
cents each; beer, 81 a bottle; whisky,
S." Mr.. Lowe say the gold deposit
about Nome Is more general than in
the Klondike country. He thinks sew
eral new town sites will be opened up
near Nome before spring.
Plenty of Opportunity.
Mr.. Lowe says there are great open
irgs at Nome "for big companies to
work large pieces of ground by buying
up the claims which would be hard for
q single owner to work.
II feel fully warranted in prophesy-
ing that this country is going to be the
greatest mining country in the United
States, If not in the world. 1t is diff
ferent from the Klondike country,
where the gold is deep and spotted. In
this country the deposit is very gen
eral, and, so far as known, very rich.
I'VE have two serious drawbacks.
The climatic conditions cannot be
plentiful in the upper river country
the poor man could live here as cheap
and easy as in Massachusetts, and al
ways make good wages. OF eourse he
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-02-24
Queer Cases of Vessels,

queer cases of Vessels.
1t seems passing strange considering
the enormous amount of ocean traffic
carried on nowadays, that it should be
possible for a vessel to put out to sea
IN mt condition only to vanish from
the face of the waters and leave no
indication of it's fate. True, there are
hundreds of unidentified derelicts float
Ing about the seas, and some of them
may be the vessels which have so mys-
terlously vanished. 1t is appalling to
think OF such mysteries as the fates
OF these vessels, which, setting sail
with hundreds of passengers to whom
thevoyage perhaps promises happiness,
wealth and all the joys of life, never
reach their destination, and are never
again heard of. Take the case of the
Burvie Castle as a striking example.
she vanished, not in midocean, but be-
tween the ports of London and Ply
mouth. Into the latter port she put
on her way to Australia. But she
v reached Plymouth, and not a
living soul knows how or where she
vanished. 1t is most extraordinary
That she should have peer lost so heal
to land without so much as a spar
being washed ashore to tell of her fear
ful rate. Equally mysterious is the
case of the Atalanta. This famous
training vessel was stationed off Ber-
muda with more than $50 souls aboard.
early in 1880 she set sail for a short
cruise n from that day to this she
has never been heard of.
A very considerable percentage of
the vessels which disappeared forever
In this mysterious manner were run
ming between England and America at
the time. 1t might be thought that the
terrific seas of the vast Atlantic were
responsible, but it has been proved that
many vessels were lost when the ocean
was almost at dead calm. A large
sailing ship left New Orleans some
years ago for London. Thrice she was
spoken and reported all well, and she
was facing exquisite weather and a
smooth sea at the third time. Yet
IL is known she was lost with all hands
within t~wenty-four hours, and to this
day no trace of her has been discoy-
cred. In the early part of 1892 a five
'"Se jain, ChS undll Id, d newly COn-
structed vessel, and at that time the
third largest in the mercantile marine.
set sail in beautiful weather from one
OF the biggest ports in Cochin China
for Hamburg, with every promise of a
fair voyage. But she never reached
Germany. She vanished shortly after
being spoken off the west coast of At
RIGA, and nothing has been found since
to indicate the fate that befell her.
Another vessel running between Eng
land and America which met an end
of a kind none but those who shared
1t ever knew was the first-class steam
ship President. She sailed from New
York for a journey to Liverpool in
the spring of 1S41, having on board a
full crew of experienced hands and
officers and a distinguished ompan
OF passengers. She left New York in
fine weather in splendid condition and
with no reason for fearing anything
she was likely to meet. But she was
eve spoken and never heard of again
n although fifty-seven years have
passed, no n yet knows to what dire
calamity her end was due.