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.•••,••••••.. WI MEN OF MAINE. NEW THING IN EXPLOSIVES. EVEN DISCOUNT THE ISMAEL- ITES OF THE WEST. - - A Tribe of People Who Are mu Wild as Any Iiin•lege in the Foreete of 1:tilann KILOW No Law, ( onverse Only with Grunts. N TIIF: TOWN OF Brighton, about twenty miles north of Skowhe, in the woods bordering on the little 'village of West Athens, Me., there lives a tribe of men that would, • in some respects, put to blush the un- civilized cave dwel- lers of years agone, and give points to the now somewhat enlightened savages Of the Fiji Islands. For years they have been the terror of the country for ten miles around. They subsist mainly on sheep and cattle - that they steal, and when an honest turn strikes them they vary their stolen bill of fare with part- ridges or trout. There are, as near as can be ascertained, about forty of these uncivilized creatures, a few of whom are females. They are about all known by the name of Brown, and are largely Inbred, according to the testimony of their long-suffering neighbors. They dwell in rude huts or 'shanties, and some of the younger and more enlight-t ened of them make occasional feeble at- tempts at agriculture, at least to the extent of raising a few potatoes or planting a rocky half acre of corn. Only a few of these people are often seen by the neighboring folk, who are thrifty and law-abiding .farmers, and they are not particular about cultivat- ing the acquaintance of the rest, who are supposed to be worse and more degrad- ed than the samples kvhich occasionally visit neighboring towns after an over- indulgence of hard cider, which is their steady beverage, as it is very difficult in that country to find rum to steal. It Is doubtful if any of these people can read or write, and the circulation of newspapers is probably not largely in- creased by the fact of the existence of this tribe of Browns. But among them are many who can not even speak any language, and are able to.converse with each other only by grunts and guttural sounds, entirely meaningless save . to the ears of a brother savage. These will men—for there are none wilder in this country—have no respect for the laws of the land in which they dwell, and it is doubtful if they realize any law. They.are in some respects of an anarehistic turn of mind, in that they believe they have a free and equal right to any property they see, and not only steal everything they can, but do not seem to realize they are transgressing In the least by so doing. The towns of Brighton and West Athens have lost more cattle and sheep during the lait twenty ;ears than any dozen other towns in Maine, and the sufferers lay this wholesale theiving entirely at the doors of the untutored Browns. Dur- ing recent months their losses have be- come so frequent, especially of sheep end lambs, that the good farmers thought it was high time something was done to put a stop to them, and ac- cordingly the sheriff was sent down into the territory of the thieves to try and arrest one or two of the most ac- tive. He was welcomed by a couple of loads of buckshot and returned at once. Thereupon a constable of Brighton, who is also tax collector, and had a slight acquaintance with some of the gang, tried his hand. He called on one or two of the creatures whom he knew, and, by dint of persuasion and promises of dainties, succeeded dn enticing four of the tribe to Norridgewock and into the county jail, where the strong doors were locked upon them. When cap- tured they wore scarcely anything that could be called clothing. and were al- most naked. The bodies of the two elder were covered with a thick growth of black hair The names of these wild people are not savage In sound. The elder, who is about 40 years of age, is called \Gabe\ by the others, who are his nephews.. He is a very tall and strong man and can not talk or speak a word of any language except the standard Yankee oath, which he has learned Se litter. His older nephew. \Asa is a strongly built map about 23 years old, and the ugliest and most dangerous of them all. The other two are about 16 to 19 I visited the jail. When an eighth of a mile distant the shouting of the wild men testrtd - to plalfily heard, and in volume and character it was cat•ulated to send a cold chill down a Oates spinal column. They are all kept In one cell and howl almost perpetually, save when fighting among themselves. They are a hard looking set. Their bands and feet are black with dirt, and their faces not much better, while the tell I ions of their bodies exposed could be es -en to be covered With thick hair, gi , ,ng them much . the Appearance of ieetete The uncle, ' 1 Gair,\ is very atrong. and easily carries the three at hers on his bark round the cell. This man has been harnessed to a rude sled. and in lieu of a horse, hauled many a load of wood to the home of the tribe. 410 is a giiitit In stature, and one would scarcely rare to be favored with an in - t rod ection to him in hie- native wilds. Tilpv freely aver that when they get out they will poison all the sheep In fhoir neiglibm II and surely kill the man who .tru-o• , 1 Ii fr. arrest. Bet there Is no prolinbilifr th they will he at large very soon. ;is tip v will remain as unwelcome guests of jailer Smith until fall when t hey will be it .1r to receive a goal 'Pete of Maine la , is dealt out to sheep thievee. Ibm t inqist on riding with th- /river hen you go out with • coaching party. Test• s , Powder Recently love/stead and 1.•••rui for illas•ting Several of the explosles used in blasting within the last few years have been combinations in which chlorate of ' potash forms a conspicuous element.. With petroleum it makes \rack -a - ruck,\ with saltpeter and crude gani- huge the \oriental powder,\ once used in opening wells in Pennsylvania, and with potassiutn-ferro, fern -cyanide and sugar an article known as - white pow- der'' end \German gunpowder.\ This same salt has also been mixed with sulphur and various other materials for the same general purpose. A new compound of the chlorate, with sugar only, is now reported from South Af- rica. It is called \thorite probably after the Scandinavian god of thunder, Thor. -,For several months this explo- sive has been tested in coal mines at Nereeniging and elsewhere with ex- cellent results. It is said to be almost as powerful as dynamite, weight for weight, cheaper to make and virtually free from unpleasant fumes. Sir Fred- erick Abel, one of the inventors of cor- dite and a leading authority on ex- plosives in England, has sent an ex- pert to Cape Town to establish a laboratory for further experiments. Wherein the superiority of thorite over other potassium chlorate powders Iles is not indicated In the brief 'press notices of it at hand. All of this whole group are very sensitive to the slightest friction, and therefore rather dangerous to handle and ship. In some of the mixtures used, especially those con- taining resinous gums, the part it•les be- cortie consolidated by heat, a restsit Im- pairing the efficiency of the product, and one which it would not be safe to overcome by trituration. One would anticipate that moisture would affect 1 sugar in a similar way. But possibli thorite . is guarded from daunt air scrupulously until it is used. Dr. Ts/Image'. Lecture In P:tigland. A gentleman who listened to Dr. Talmage several times when he made his remarkable and remunerative tout' In England, states that the lectures were delivered.yerbatim, the emphasis was always upon the same word and the gesture in the same place, and after hearing the lecture two or three times even the semi -confidential wink could be foretold with the precisioa with which one would pre-announci the motions of an automaton. Mule Fight Teaches A Moral. In a desperate struggle which tool% place recently in Ohio between a mule and a cow with a young calf, the mule was not only beaten but horned to death, for chasing the calf about the geld. This incident signifies that a creature which has neither pride of posterity nor hope of ancestry ought not to go fooling around an animal that has both. Wan Struck by Ills Clievernesa. A counterfeiter on being remanded in a Manchester police court expressed his admiration for the cleverness of the detective who had arrested him by offering his watch to that officer as a memento. The latter declined the gift. The Senate. Since the United States governmeni was organized less than 900 people have served as United States senators, while of these more than 200 had previously been members of the house of repre- sentatives. Salvation Free Lunch. George W. Cobb, chaplain of the Bethel Mission chapel of St. Louis, offers a lunch of sandwiches and coffee to all poor people who will attend an hour's religious service each Sunday evening. EDIIGATIONAL NOTES. Nebraska has fourteen women' su- perintendents of public instruction. One hundred young ladies graduated from Vassar college this; year, the largest class in its history. Prof. Isaac T. Headland of the Peking university writes that the emperor daily and diligently studies the New Testament. The inforniation conies from servants of the palace. It is announeed that Mrs. D. IC. Pear - eons of Chicago has given $10,000 to en- dow a professorship In Anatolia college and the girls' boarding school. Mar- soyan, in the Turkish empire. In Japan there are more than 1.200 places where Christianity Is taught, more than 700 Protestant schools, and every year about 1,800 young parsons go out from these schools into the life of the nation. The students of Newnham anti Gir- ton colleges prop.mse to form a woman's missionary settlement In India. where ladies from the universities may reside and Join In medical, evangelistic, and edu , atIntial work. Pennsylvania now has a compulsory education law which requires the at- tendance of all children between the ages of S and 13 years at a school 'if which the common English branches are taught at 'least sixteen weeks in each year. rhe honor system in examinations which has been in 'ogee in Princeton colleRP for three years has proved SO slktinfaCtory and has developed such is hrgh state of honor among attOlentil that a MSS!, meeting of the college was held to adopt a constitution to regulate and perpetuate the system. Merlin college recently rece4ved the handeome gift of $200,000 to be devoted to the erection of a Men's gymnasourq And fi building for the advancement of scientific research The donors are said to he M Werner of Elyria, 0 . and Barber of New York, both of whom are directors of the college. Dr. l. K. Pearson. of Chleago is the lion in the educational world just ikose. His gifts to western institutions alone amount to not less than $2,000,000, eight colleges being .the beneliciarien. of thesfs Beloit hae'rec•ived 11200,000, Knox' 150.000. anti C,hleago Theologies.' school $50.0o0 ilee.belighte to aid email sod worthy Ineeetutions, ARE FOR A BIG SHO SOUTHERN WOMEN WILL MAKE THINGS HUM. - — their Department of the Cotton States if.epoeition Will Kennet Credit on the Set- -They Went to Ars. Potter tn•r• Board. (Special Correspondence.) TLANTA IS GO- ing to have a great Inteseciational expo- eition , ,teis autumn, beginning on Sept. 18 and ending on New Year's Day, and its biggest feature is to be a woman's depart- ment, which was created and has been and will be conducted by women. The merchants and bankers, the rail- way magnets and cotton kings of the metropolis of Georgia came to the con- clusion in January, 1894, that the best Interests of their community demanded a world's fair larger than anything be- fore seen in the south. They organ- ized, raised more than $1,000,000, and entered into negotiations with every- body in the fair line both on this con- tinent and in Europe. After the enter- prise was well under way the women of Atlanta determined that they should have a great department of their own, something like the Woman's building PRESIDENT THOMPSON. I in the Columbian Exhibition at Chi- cago. They wanted to demonstrate what southern women could do and have done; to show southern women what their sisters in other parts of the coun- try were accomplishing; to introduce new industries for their sex in the south, and to increase the attractive- ness of the exhibition. They met sev- eral rebuffs at the start. Many of the men said that all the spare money that could be raised was required for the exposition as .already designed, and that if there was any spare money it could be invested with better results in a Midway Plaisance or a Ferris wheel than in a woman's building. Then two or three of the men remarked that a woman's department did not amount to shocks; that women could not run a big show by themselves, and that even if they did get e an exhibition It would not be attractive enough to draw five persons a day. The opposition fired the feminine hearts, and the women of Atlanta agreed to have a woman's department, a woman's building, and the biggest show of its sort the country had ever seen, even if they all had to go without new gowns for a year. The women met, formed a tempo- rary organization, and picked out the persons they wanted to run the great machine. They selected a board of women managers, forty-one in number, representing all the great social forces of the state of Georgia. 'All forty- one were women of distinction. Some were society leaders; others were writers, amateur musicians, college graduates, amateur artists, or the owners of great estates. They formed a visiting board of per- sons of national fame, consisting of the wives of the President, Governor-Gen- eral of Canada, and the governors of TREASURER THORNTi states. They apPointed representative' from the forty-nine states and' terni torieFI, including the District of Colum bia. choosing as far as possible womet belonging to Georgian fernlike' who ha, prospered in other parts of the Union They also organized committees in th largest cities, and engaged speaker and workers from fifty women's organ isations of the United States. In this way they virtually enrollell a regular army. The general-in.ehief M rs Joseph Thompson of A t II were the managers and Ili. 'dive committee of fourteen monde , ' a The colonels were the chairmen of twenty eight standing committees, each one eril• W devoted to some occupation or calling I \ • In which women are interested or'em- ployed. The rank and file were the members of these committees, the state representatives throughout the country, and the state and local committees In the more 'amulet's communities. Clerks, stenographers, and typewriters were engaged, and the work went on rapidly. The women used their homes as offices. They had also an office in the Aragon Hotel and another in the busi- ness quarter of the city. The distribu- tion of work enabled the board of wom- en managers to do many things at the same time. While all were raising money, one group were arranging for a woman's building. Thle was designed by Miss Elise Mereur of Pittsburg, who was selected in the competition of some thirtyl architects. The building was begun immediately, and is now com- pleted. The architecture suggests the colonial homes of the south, with a large amount of the classical finish and ornamentation. The women raised the money for the building and other purposes, but it was slow work. The committees subscribed much, and so did their friends and neighbors. They gave teas and musi- cales, plays and entertainments, shows and exhibitions, games and dances. This does not seem so very hard to New Yorkers, but in the south there is little spare money. Nevertheless, they soon got together $50,000. Besides finishing the woman's building, they will beautify the grounds around it, from the little lake in front up to the imposing main entrance. The purpose is to produce the effect of a luxuriant home in the country, surrounded by lawns and blossoms, ferns and shrub- beries. Unlike most exposition buildings, the wornan's building has been constructed, not to be demolished when the fair is over, but for permanent use. After the fair it will be a school as well as a museum. The collections will be chiefly of the kind used in cabinets of indus- trial schools, scientific halls, and col- leges to illustrate lectures on the high- er arts and sciences. In this manner the board of woman managers hope not only to make the woman's department the greatest feature of the Atlanta ex- position, but also to make it an educa- tional institution for the benefit of the women of the south for years to come. Most of the twenty standing com- mittees are devoted to the Nilection of exhibits and similar work. The corn- mItte on agriculture and horticulture will bring together flowers and fruits, vegetables and savory leaves, native flavors and spices, seeds and bulbs, roots and barks. In a second class it will have preparations made from these raw materials—preserves, pickles, jams, marmalades, jellies, dried and crystallized fruits, dairy products; in short, every article out of which the farmer, the gardener, and the florist earn a living. The department of bee culture will show the systems of stor- SECRETARY STULE. ing and treating honey and wax. The colonial committees promises to be one of the mast important of all. Georgia is rich in colonial relics, AS are also Alabama and Mississippi. The women of all three states have offered more relics for exhibition than can be used. The committee will merely pick out the best and the oddest in order to give a complete idea of life as It was in the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century. Among these relics fire muskets and long rifles, such as were used in the old Indian wars, blunderbusses that look like musical Instruments. horse pistols almost as large as small cannon. swords that were worn by Marion's men, saddles and bridles anti spurs and harnesses that were fashtbaable when Washington was young, - jaclorpits which unfartienate iiiigs were obliged to turn by means of nun ail treadmills by the side of the I. i \hen chimneys, ancient clocks, can - 'I Mira, flint and tinder boxes, watches at weigh a pound each, massive Jew- , and guinea gold, state uniforms , 1 ball robes. The exhibition will all the features of colonial life, ,M1 the clumsy log house of the forest in the tnangion of the opulent planter. The committee on confederate re l lea will make a fine display of objects, Il- lustrating the history of the lost cause. There will be tattered flags and rusty guns, swords and torn uniforms, paper money and queer newspaper.. home - shin garments and home-made nitro and gunpowder, dispatches anti docu- ments. boeks and records saved from fire and water, fragments of shells and rusty cannon balls. flattened rifle bul• ' lets and bent bayonets. The committee on culinary art and , school's will give the people of Atlanta an Opportunity to enjoy what the New York public have had for five years. If neither Mrs. Rorer Prof Cornelia C. Bedford, nor le , '1 Tiacy dots the /showy cap aril adi on, urns bright southern girl will bolll lasses in which the raw material • ill be transmitted into toothsome din- • I , Go to THE nINT • For Imported And Domestic Wines, Liquors, Cigars --1 Milwaukee and The Anheuser-Busch SPARL1NG Wickes, St. Louis Bottled Beers. Celebrated \Premium Pale\ On Draught. BEST IN THE WORLD. & SCHARF Proprietors, - Montana. - J. W. MONAHAN, • WICKES, — MONTANA. DEALER IN Hay, Grain, Flour, Rolled Oats, Corn Meal, I=YE Fl__CDUFZ. Lowest Prices for Cash. DEAN & TAYLOR, Wholesale and Retail Deakis in Beef, Mutton, Pork, Hams, Bacon, AND MONTANA LARD. Wickes, Montana. • CO ha Ili He fire for E •
