SULLIVAN JHFE REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. The cost of tho great German army for a year uudcr its present condition? is said by military authorities to be $120,000,000. 8o delicate is the adjustment of the most powerful cannon that allowance has to be made for the cuivature of the earth before tho discharge. The New York Mail and Express cal culates that a subscription of §32.27 from every inhabitant of the United States would wipe out all form of public indebtedness—National, Stato aud muni cipal. The city of Cincinnati has for many years been a favorable abiding place of Hebrews, remarks the No v York Press. At a recent celebration there Rabbi Wise said that "Cincinnati would here after be the Zion of Judaism in America.'' There is much in the lingo of tho Wyoming war, confesses tho Now York Commercial Advertiser, which is as per plexing as somo of that in tho Bering Sea quaitel. A rustler appears to be a person who gains a livelihood by steal ing other peoplo's cattle, while a regu lator is a gentleman who is paid 66 a day for killing rustlers. It is stated that a sugar refining com pany iu Chicago, 111., is making 150 barrels of oil per clay from corn. The oil resembles linseed oil and may bo used for similar purposes. There is about four per cent, of this oil in the grain, which has hitherto been wasted by tho ordinary methods of making starch and glucose. Now that ramee culture has begun seriously to engage the attention of planters in the Tropics, it is interesting to .learn ou the authority of a foreign journal that ramee fiber, under great hydraulic pressure, may be made to as sume the compactness of steel. It is as serted that when so prepared it will be particularly serviceable for steam pipes, as it will uot be subject to contraction or expansion and also will not rust. Within three years passenger rate ou i the railroad across the Isthmus of P.ina- i ma have been reduced to ten aud five cents a mile for first and second class tickets. Up to that time the charge for passenger transportation on tho Panama Hail road was tho highest iu the world, being $25 in American gold for first-class and §lO in gold for second-class passen gers between Panama and Colou, or ibout fifty cents aud twenty cents a mile, respectively. It is not u very infrequent occurrence in the London police courts, declares Once-A- Week, for infuriated prisoners to attempt to assault tho presiding magis trate. Mr. Montagu Williams, who sits in oue of th-j East End Courts, often has j boots thrown at him, and ou one occasion j he received a severe blow in the face from such a missile. The habit seems to be spreading. The other week tho newt papers reported a case in whic'i a disap pointed litigant kicked iu open court his own lawyer, for which he may liavo had some excuse, and assaulted the reporters, for which theru could ba no juttillca tion. The remarkable progress of women en gaged in btisiu.ss uiTu'is is instructively set forth iu tho Misvichusetts State Bureau of Labor statistics. According to the figures there prcsente I iu ISBS, there were only ab nit 180,000 women engaged iu industrial pursuits. Now theru aie mure than 800,000, Two thirds of these working w oiueu are under thirty years ot age, aud inasmuch as this I proportion has been maintained during ' the half dosuu years, it seem* to indicate that marriage constantly tend* to deplete the ranks. "Much being the fait," coin incuts the New York News "theie need be little fear that the industrial iude I pendente of the geutler set will result iu au increase of old mauls." The New England Courier, a Gerinan- Autciicau weekly, pu dished iu Bntlou, I Mass., >uiuu vuiy Interesting figures 1 •howlag how gn it sud luilueutial tin ' Teutonic lace has become aa ,»n eleiueut of immigration into this country. la Illinois one half of the toidgu Uoraitopn- 1 jatiuu it Ueruuu Iu Mtn usnt* the pro poitlou Is "M-tbild< "* *ebi ska nn I lowa moit titan one third; iss Wisconttn one half, or uue«ii*i»lh of the wbolt population. In Indiana, the baenet tier. Miit , ut4t i*t ! hO t UOU <ifc *f Utuuau bulb, uf lift) llv* j J*f «*s, "I Ito* Itf.uift),. WW 111111114#tiMU lul" tl|i« Milt M lifo, ft < ItoV* b u UtffiiMMM' t'uMjiUjf (rim* ti*« 'ti tiiufijr »u I fr C' IMlr) IU i 41 ¥*« litf (lltilii, lb U i *U*ll t| wi 4* jiiM « MI4 9 ih'fUg.tUni, frftftotltt fill. e |m» <$ m im s m EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. All along the waysiile is everybody's gar den! There the wilcl rose blossoms through the summer days; Bounded by field fences, and over stretch ing on war J. It is Qod's own garden. For it give Him praise. 'Tis gay with goldenrod, There blooming grasses nod, And sunflowers, small and yellow turn ever into the sun; Quaint darkey-heads are there, And daisies wild and fair. In everybody's garden, each flower's the loveliest one 1 All along the wayside is everybody's gar den! Come out and gather posies; the very air is sweet. Come out, with hearts of gladness, ye big and little children, Into our Father's garden, made for our strolling feet. The flitting butterfly. The fragrant winds that sigh, The tiny clouds that hover above us in the bine, The bird's song high and clear, Make heaven draw more near; Iu everybody's garden the world once more is new! —William Z. Gladwin, in Christian Union. ATTIIIj lIANCHO DEL FUEGO BV GERTRUDE ATHEKTON. iT was so hot that even the dogs did not lift their heads ~S to bark at the ap- J proaching horse- P j men; they lay with iff swollen tongues *jt hanging over their i teeth, occasionally quivering iu feeble mKg* protest at the pre vading battalions of j insects which short- | en the life of the California dog. The adobe soil cracked anew under the piti less sun, the whitewash on the outer walls of the big adobe house arose in blisters. The undulating line of brown hills which encircled the Rancho del Fuego were dim under tho materialized ( heat; the creek was dry; the little brown { huts of the rancheria in the willows were | silent as tombs; even the Indians were taking their siesta. The visitor urged his tired and reek ing horse to what speed it was capable j of, anxious to get under shelter himself. I As he reached the corral he roused a j vaquero, sleeping beneath a tree, and j bade him follow and take chaige of his ■ steed. At the long corridor of the' house he dismounted, and leaving the j horse to await the pleasure of tho j vaquero, entered hastily and without the ceremony of knocking into the coolness of the interior. Between these thick ! adobe walls the cliiuato was that of a i Northern country, lie threw himself ou 1 a sofa to rest and await the awakening ! of the family from the siesta. He had j taken his uncomfortable journey iu the hot daytime rather than in the blackness of the night, for there would be no moon for two wicks and his business was urgeut. But he was a New Eng land man and the California summer was more than he eould stand without pro test. It sent him to sleep. As he slept i he snored, and in a few moments some one might have been heard moving lightly on the bare floor, behind the thin door set midway in a wall some three feet deep. The door opened and a girl eutorel and stood guziug with an expression of unmistakable repugnance at the sleeper. She was a beauty of the type so often | wen iu California before aud iu the early I days of the American occupation; dense | black hair that hung braided to the hem j of her white gown, eyes large, black, I with u light in them that suggested an uncomfortable rapidity of changes, deli cate features, a full, ted mouth and white ' skin, a figure lithe, graceful; about the whole an indefinable atmospheio of hope , and sparkle aud capacity for happiness. She looked anything but happy, how ever, as she gazed at the strong, shrewd features of the sleeping visitor. Her gaze may have been muguetie, for he sud denly opened his eyes, then rose hastily and greeted her with manners as good a-, though less profuse than those of the 1 cabulleros who had adored her since she had lengthened her frocks. "Ho uot think luu rude,"he said. "I did uot wish to disturb any one, and 1 am afraid the heat overcame me aud I felt asleep." "1 sin glad you tleep," she said with gran tul but unsmiling botpiulity. "No one should be awake wheu it is so hot, bit down, Not" Shu I auk OIK- of lho hornt turn chair*, br Mother (iiciujj b«r, ami fur a uinuuiit I buy h'uivl tiluiilly at a«ub olbur, both *umowliitt tl> li mlly. •'lt 110 it |(rwj„ l I nil yoil III,111.; likl! lhi»," *liu >aii| liially, "Hut 1 brn rcatou mi I 110 it. Ami," tearufully, "*} father uo call- to umcb, 1 (Mi|i|t hhj, Im. m»o I* you. N .w, I till ><»u « butter I tttiul. | you, 1 (jo mi my kim >,ti you liltir it, tu uo i iuiu Item any iuor< ami u»k uiy lalbti ti you tan iU4iry we, 1 ttu lovu you at all. NeV*f I i'Ml low yi.u. I lovu—alwayt 1 liavr luvt An touio llivrnt. IK iiu liavw tlm inuiay* Hi* i tbe Allium i.i.m taku 4.1, but uiy fatlui UtliuK it* mill) *1 you uo out jiull all. Ay, muoyl tin! tin! No tuakmue imi koiiy I" Hbu b turn! (i<rwar<l ai»4 i .»»|.o.| |mr li4tiil*i lii l«atr» *}iUtli, '"Hi kbti wa* a t baiuiluil jilt'luiu llil -\ll*>iti mi, „ ii.lnl tli. il ior l'»i a lUnUuUI, 111 bit r)it,|»tlll uu but 04110 Hitii «Uo,.k lilt btal ".No, 'bu *4ti|, "Vou *lr tlm iiuly i*Mil, in l»»il « i«|ii.|, .luai lion* Ai.i ili, awl 1 mini 4 yl*»' tuu uii I lu*« tb* U*. »«i ujik'i I, . ~U I kim* I bat i"U will Uk in bu|ii>i, i ttiili Mti lb m witb yuur Mb», tbiill> M N|iaiiiib luhi ' Hill U *4l Unit *llo *l,l til |i|..i«i#.| 1».,i.* Ainal • i i i'., If bt,i tui iml !*, .t b#l lit 11* liailll* iillil l'l l t , t'Nw N»y u#» ai'ii| l») l.utt!" *bt. • il»«l, Uw (w*« vbvliiU a.lb *i«lb bn hm LAPOIiTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 17. 1892. flashing. "No say one word. You think not man have the right to living si he no can make the moneys? before the Americanos comiug we have plenty moneys and live happy; but now you take all. You are very—how you call him?— smart. You lend my father the moneys and make hiiu sign the paper to give you the ranchos si he no can pay. we never sign the paper, one for the other. Al ways when we lend the moneys we trust, and always we are pay. But you have the heart like the stone. Aud because it have been bad year, and the cattle die, and my father no can pay, you make me pay. You have fine chance aud you tell him, 'Give me your daughter, never mind si she hate me or not, never mind si she break the heart or not, give her to me and I give to you your land.' Oh, you are bad man." He had risen and listened to her out burst unmoved. When she paused for breath he replied, "My dear Dona Am ata, lat least am aiming to benefit some one besides myself. You say that lam a bad man. What will you think of yourself when you see your father beg gared, living on charity iu an Indian's hut? I say nothing of the fact that your delicate hands will probably have to cook his beans. Now, be reason able." "Oh, I hatcha you," cried the girl with another burst of griof, "and Ino want marry old man." "Old maul Why, my dear senorita, I am only forty." He lookeel at her amusedly; be was certainly not old uough to be sensitive. j "But it is very old to us," sobbed the girl. "I only am eighteen and Antonio no is more than twenty-two. When our mens are forty they are very stout ami have tlie complexion like coffee, so I no can think is young. You," spite fully, "no are stout because you work all the tiuiemaka the moneys." At this juncture another door opened and an old man entered the room. A ! black silk handkerchief was knotted j about his head, lie wore short clothes of green cloth decorated with largo silver buttons. He was very stout, and cveu liis features seemed to havo relaxed un der tho enervating intluenco of the Cali fornia life of that period. His black eyes were a trifle bleared, his indefinite features wore a somewhat testy expres j siou as he glanced from his elaugliter to { her suitoi. "Don James Cunningham, I am glad 'to see you," he said, slowly. "What is j the matter? I tell her to marry you and I she do it,"and he brought liis cane ! down sharply on the bare floor. I"I no do it 1" cried Amatha, roused to j filial rebellion for tho first time in her life. "I no marry him; I marry Antouio. Ay, 1 Antonio, Antouio!"and she flung herself 1 upon-the sofa and weut into violent sob ! biog. "She tell you she no marry youl" asked the old mini of Cunningham. "Sho certainly docs uot seem to ap prove of me, but you know the perver sity of wo.uan, Don Pedro, and I assure you once more I shall make the best of husbands—and sons." Don Pedro placed his stick upou a ! chair. Ho hobbled over to his refractory daughter and raising her in his arms, boro into her own room and laitl her ou the beel. Ho then went out and returned with a hammer and nails, with which lie fastened hor window within six iuclies of tho sill. j "Now," lie said, in Spanish, "here thou will stay and have nothing to eat but bread aud water until thou inarryost Don James Cunningham. Dost thou think that I will be left sitting in tho road that thou mayeat marry a man who sleeps in a hammock all day aud gambles all night? Thou art like a silly child to refuse to marry a man who can make thee like a queen. But I have spoken.' 1 Ho returned to the sal a, locking the door behind hint, followed by tho sobs anil shrieks of his daughter. "Ay, misericortlia! Ay, iufelifr de mil Av, icnort Santa Marin! Santa Dios! As ! Ay! Ay! Ay! Ay!" "She marry yon," suid Don Pedro. "Now you stay here, oof for fc*v tlayt 'til nil is settle, theu can marry ami have be through." Cuiiuiugham spent the next few days listening to hi* prospective father-iu law's reminiscences of bull fight*, horse racing, religious procession*, cluubiug the grease I pole, catching the greased pig by the tail us it ran, the balls that lasted a iu mill, all the various di*tr ic tiinit of Arcadian California who-e *llll Was toiovcr set. Tho young ti:eu of the house tccretly sympathised with their titter, but approved of their father's course iu view of prospective plenty. Due of the vatt rancho, had be a told several yt'itrs before al an absurdly low to au American iu ot I. r that the . 1 Ii ■•'. ,Un ul lb.- house, tiucc ilea I,colli I gratify tut politii 1! ambition, Another lit I guuu lor American tiv*. Mill anotltei had been **. quitted ' upou, and a too igh tin: law bad pi.niii*. d the Call lonian re lie** it wn* tardy oi fliittlllnieut ami the squatter* were tlllio - the soil | and making it yield iu an a*tonishiug maimer. The t.vo retuaiuiug lauctiut left wtre to tt.o A*nciictu Cuuuiugbaui and when be kendo I tkem bat k tbey would willingly let him man age litem, havlug the greatest retpect fot his haul A nut it tn tena«. Mvaumbilw, Ani ii.i * iijim l tail liarvwl. Ilt"i bi*cr miiuii «>b I btif lbif ill»t nit,l iiU'bi, but wi'ul lii 1..« 't* llu in 4i U> nut foiy.it to ihi itl .1 fur <«V4ial. I'm tin** iliy* Out i|iuit« I t'lUbiruuiu *.u uMuutuj ibnu b»r 'lull «ti'. In» if I'llt* *1,1114,11 it ll 44t| til CI V i*4|l fir tbu tlaiitlle* to *% bit blt M4* *i' lttulMnl. A* ll.u LtftU.t ||l I li II |n .lull, t, 11 . itlvnly uuilkl, uovvr litviuj lull |.lit *i cat tiill'iiny laifottfi au I u>l bun*lug alitl «t.ful *uil it |iurlt hImI mii« U igt 'l (iiiiluli) fur i no, ihm 4)" t' l«4>t lur Jut I ottH fu- b il i miliary ilulti , but l*«r I tlflvi 44* fijUtll) ulnlut ♦li . ami dm bail no uiatliu. in («Ut i fur b' r, Urn it 4t a I*, ib uiill< t I** ob I*, litat tbu Hat y|u4 in It > |.iil|. fit i tlitili t«m Mluf, It*l *)tt ba l |f|i it itlai It *tali4* Im>ih.4lli Hinu 4*l »l ii' <1 jillln 111 -ill j It-ii** bet volmk • 11 i "1f,!,! of 111) will 1 ! «bl4 f til,til i<« att w«4 l>4|, at lav*.j. ' On the fifth day she succumbed. A week later she was married. The next day Mr. Cunningham foreclosed tho mortgages.—San Fraucisco Examiner. A Wonderfully Dramatic Scene. Benjamin Brewster, afterwards attor ney-general of the United States, was some years ago the central figure in a wonderfully dramatic scene in a Phila delphia court. Mr. Brewster's face, it will bo remembered, was frightfully scarred by au accident iu his youth. He was extremely sensitive cf his facial mis fortuue, but never referred to it himself nor did any of his thousands of friends ever ask hiin its cause. The trial referred to was a bitterly cautested affair, and Brewster at every point got so much the best of the opposing counsel that his leading adversary was iu a white heat. In denouncing the railroad company this lawyer with his voice tremulous with auger, exclaimed, "This grasping cor poration is us dark, deviom and scurri fied in its methods as is the face of its chief attorney and henchman, Benjamin Brewster I" This violent outburst of rago and cruel invective was followed by a breathless stillness in the crowded court room that was painful. Hundreds of pitying eyes were riveted on the poor scarred face of Brewster, expecting to teo ! him spriug from his chair and catch his 1 heartless adversary by tho throat. Mr. Brewster slowly arose aud spoke some thing like this to the court: "Your honor, in all my career us a lawyer I have never dealt iu personalities; nor t'lid I ever feel called upon to explain the causa of my physical misfortune, but 1 will do so now. Wheu a boy—and my mother, | God bless her! said 1 was a pretty boy— when a little boy, while playing around lau opcu fire one day with a littlo sister 1 just beginning to toddle, sho fell into the I roaring flames. I rushc lto her rescue, | pullnd her out before she was seriously j hurt, and fell into the fire myself. When ' they took me out of the coals my face I was as black as that Tho last scutcnce was spoken in a voice whose rage was that of a lion. It hud an elec trical effect, and the applause that greeted it was superb, but in nn iustuut turned to | the most comtcmptuous hisses directed at the lawyer who had so basely insulted Mr. Brewster. That lawyer's practice iu Philadelphia afterward dwindled to such | insignificance that he had to Irnve the' city for a new field.—Boston Transcript. The Power of the Ittvers. The possibility of utilizing the current of our rivers to furnish power on shore i lias often been a subject of speculation. There are few minds which have not rec ognized tho immense benefits that would accrue from such a'< achievement if it were possible; but the majority, both lay and expert, have been accustomed to accept the difficulties presented by the unreliability of the flow, the variation of the height of the rivers and the slight fall as practically insuperable from the engineering point of view. An expert who refuses to be tied up by precedent, however, declares his be lief that these difficulties can bo over come. It says that it will'be done half a century hence, and the generation of fifty years from now will itaud amazed at the wastefulness of this day. Tho methods by which he would harness tho river—air tight drums ou water wheels communicating their power to dynamos which generate electricity to be distrib utee! for power and light all over the vicinity—do not appear to be as inher ently improbable as those by which uuy of tho inventions of the past were mad* successful tlid before their success was demonstrated bv tctual practice. Without waiting for the grand chil dren of the next i,euoration to achieve this advance, it is safe to say that the en gineer who etiu make it work in tho present day will confer an immense ben efit. It will create a zone of cheap elec tric power and light tloug the bank of every river and »treaa»»with a living cur rent, and revolutionize*!! great mauy of the existing industrial institutions. It Is hard to draw a limit to the changes that might not take place—wheu this power it tuccestfully utili/.ed. But we fear that auy invention of this tort will have to depend for its success on adventitious aid to preveut.the shrink age of streams iu ouuum-r to a beggarly eighteen luetics or two feet in depth with no current worth spvaliiug of.— Pittsburgh Dispatch. I'ittlutf Miutkvs Atfaiuat KnbbiU. A good ileal of attention, writes a South Australian correapundeut, has been bestowed upon the subject of rabbit do. strtii'tioa, and soum attouudiug sugges tions have been received from varum* parts ot the world.' The ln»t tuggestiou is tlu* a number of eaipet miake* thouhl be let loiuu aMton;{ the ntbbits, which I would, it Is averted, be tpeedlly < • tteu up by the reptile*. NV lieu trout live feel to *i% feet long they are able to | > v 1 two i>r thtei- ri' bilt at a meal, but when fifteen or tillcen feet long tliey I tie able to >at *u tabbit*. Anticipating Ittquliy us to what would liappMi if the snitket bi i t ne ui 'te uumeroit* than lab bit », hep.op ir, that carpet awakes of I Mi a.ii I .oi, ....-lid b - u.i.l, and alter eating all the iabhiti thu tuake* would tl. it piue vI lo eat each othei. llo.tou ' ftauacr.pl. I ii> Hum il ul l.iitvxri-4 u I'lvMNre I lit' *Utt It »» Uw| I infill « III' 141IHIMII ll* l»«»l •1.1-1» ltl» litu >.|||| lint ut «|il< <ltiMU |»'v H'lll'» Jut tn 4t|«llu In. It H'tuU lit ittt |>. llnlv lit*, mi l Itli'll »11u,.. | |«t >li|it>l J<l»l l| Itlllv ll| tin a III! till.' Htfttt wiw M>il lilt I Ittt til. ItHIII |MI "4ul|llllwi tliu I. I<l Ixllt | ItlVll W* it# 4 UlUl It Hit |lmu t<<i tlt.i* 1..1M Unit It lull I ill llti' I 111, '» l I Im »»! till 'I u| tiiui*iMl t tm I liu iwi« ««4 4 k «l* l«| 4 km§h Hf »*4 4*4i|»*4UU I i»( i*u w hiuia i* ili*h ill) HI (*♦*tiu* • Mil m« M4UI '♦! Mil •; 111 |*fut till I* -«Hi w I* Mil* Ui *t % |«* «l ->«M» '*) lb iii 4 l »Ml I*4» » •♦»* til* iU « '4M» Ml Ml <4|« | .. iit j.J *>*« »• . . 4*iU If y Ittt i«ii*=4 fitt (lit,, i4* *•' 112 M • ' SClErtilt'lC ANI> INDUSIItIAL. Compressed air is to be used for run ning the streetcars iu Leavenworth, Kau. Rain making experiments, conducted in India, have resulted iu complete failure. The signal officer at Cape May, N. J., reports the discovery of a new fish re sembling the sea trout. Platinum has been discovered in the Southern Hills, twenty-five miles south west of Rapid City, South Dakota. The bark of the Australian Mimosa is now used as tannin for hides to make Morocco leather, as it gives a slightly reddish tint. Tho redevelopment of lost limbs is de clared by an English naturalist to be not jnusual among insects, in which it may take place either during the lnrvel or pupal stage. It is said that in all the forests of the jarth there are no two leaves exactly tho mtue. It is also said that amid all peo ples of the earth there are no two fuees precisely alike. Wood glucose bread is used in Ger many as feed for cattle. Tuc cellulose is transformed into grape su;ar, and added to it is about forty per cent, of meal of wheat, oats, or rye. A speciuieu of capped petrel, a bird supposed to bo an extinct or at least a lost species, was found recently in Eng land. The original home of the petrol is said to have been the islands of St. Do mingo aud Gaudaloupe. The viscid secretion of galls upon tho British oak attract small ants, which, according to Dr. E. Rathay, benefit the tree by killiug groat quautitios of cater pillars aud otner injurious insects. In a single day tho inhabitants of a single ants' nest may destroy more thau 100,- 000 insects. An insect of South America has its fangs so like the flower of the orchid that smaller insects nrc tempted into its jaws, while certain spiders double themselves up in the angle between the leaf stalk and the stem, and so closely resemble fiowcr buds that their unsuspecting prey approach their destruction. Wonderful things nre related concern ing the work of photography of the stars now in progress at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. One negative, rep resenting a space only one-fourth the apparent diameter of the moon, con tained impressions of 50,000 stars, most of which arc invisible to the eye even when a telescope of high power is use 1. Of all menagerie stock, tho monkey tribe is the most precarious. 'I he com parative comfort of a roof tr.'e docs not compensate for the activity of their natural life, xud, feed ou fresh fruit? ..i shcit j.; mevttl forests, it is not amazing that after a time au unlimited dietary of hazel nuts and stale buns is apt to disagree with the quadrumanal digestion. A new evaporating apparatus for sugar beet juices is attracting attention iu Ger many. The temperature aud pressure are uniform throughout each compart ment. Juices are introduced from the top upon tubes which arc not hermeti cally closed. The concentrated juice tlmt falls to the bottom is drawn off by pumps, and the juices arc not allowed to rem mi at tho bottom of a compartment. Consul-General Playfair, in his report upon the agriculture of Algeria, gives some details about the measures taken there to preserve the crops from the dep redations of the locusts. In the De partment of Algiers the amount of labor with this end iu view equalled 2 ',9311 days' labor of monitors, 234,417 days' labor of soldiers, 1,195,573 daya'labor of natives, ami IB '.MI days' labor of animals, to say not.iing of private meas ures of protection adopted. Ti.o sum thus expended was nearly 3,000,1H)0f., but with the result of saving nearly the whole of the crops. A Successful Submarine Boat. George C. Baker has dan oustrato I that water can bo uaviguted at auy rea sonable depth below the surface. A final test o( his submarine boat, upon which he has been at work »liuo December lv.lu, was made iu tho River Kongo, tl»• utiles from Detroit, aud was entirely sat isfactory. The river is only sixteen feet deep, which admits of the boat beiug tub merged two feet. It was ruu up ami dowu ami across the stream several ti>uc«, turning, sinking and rising at the pilot's pleasure, The boat is cigar thaped, made of oak, the tliell being forty feet lon ;, fourteen feet high, nine feet wide anidship aud sevtn inchet thick. The motive power is a storage battery of 2tlo cell*, which is believed to be the largest ever made. This also gen erates light. The course ot the boat it directed by a pilot who ttaudt in a small conning tower which it provide I with lookout holes. It is ueoestary, in taking bearing*, to lite to the surface, but iu so dotug only a lew inchet of the tup of the tower appears above the tor lace. With the filming tower ha title tr eat I y » tied, the tuteilorof the boat t nil tain* I.VMi cubic leet of air. I lie wheels are on each *.de, midway between bow aud item anil oue foot below the ceuter line. I tic boat is raised aud lowered by lilting water Into the hold aud by de llectfug the title wheels. Mi. Ilaket is euufldeut that tin* will eventually revo- pieieut methods ot uavat wsi ISie,--It. I, oil it ItupubliOi 11 nit and fall as a tti tiding tee, lioitie of the tllbes of India have a mamaae custom which calls for the presence uf a tow and calf at the cc-rtf** Mom), Ihe piiiiaipals and the priests ditt* a tow and a * alt intf the water,and there tb* i*ride and biidegioom, as well %* the titigyinau, ilnU'l t u the cow't l*ll,whlle the ortit laling p iuit watt i upon it (loin a te.tel an I ut t#i* ait li i aula t b*i couple are tut at.lll d lit at Ih .S,ts t Ilia pfie*t, i- is 'i-t part il- Ik* ii iat, ony, . l*>o*t lite mutual, and a• < 11*v• t- * any swim In unity al> > li lite Ihlukt it swm i to piopiitate lit Idol* Vauass Wis it. Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. A (iIiEAT CATTLE RANCH. IT COVERS 700,003 ACRES AND IT CONTAINS OViH 100,000 CATTLE. It In tlio Largest Ititncli in the United States— How Orders lor Cattle nrc micd. THE largest ranch in the United States and probably iu tho world owned by one person is in Texas, and belongs to jMrs. Richard King. It lies forty-five miles south of Corpus Christi. The ladies who come to call on Mrs. King drive from tho front gate, over as good a road as any in Central Park, for ten miles before they arrive at her front door, aud the butcher and baker and ice man, if such existed, would have to drive thirty miles from the back gate be fore they reached her kitchen. This ranch is bounded by the Corpu9 Christi Bay for forty miles, and by barb wire for three hundred uulos more. It covers 700,000 acres iu extent and 100,000 head of cattle and 3000 broodmares wander over its different pasture?. This property is under tho ruling of Robert J. Kleberg, Mis. Kiug's son-in law, and he has under him a superin tendent, or, as the Mexicans call one who holds that ollice, a major-domo, which is an unusual position for a major domo,as this major- doina has the charge of 300 cowboys and 1200 ponies reserved for their use. The "Widow's" ranch,as the people about call it, is as carefully organized and moves on as conservative business principles as a bank. The.cow boys do not ride over its ranges with both legs at right angles to the saddle and shooting joyfully into the air with both guns at once. Neither do they offer the casual visitor a bucking pony to ride, and theu roll around on the prairie with glee when he is shot up into the air and comes down ou his collar-bone; they are more likely to oiler him as fine a Keu t.icky thoroughbred as ever wore a blue ribbon around the Madison Square Gar den ; and neither do i hoy shoot at his feet to see if he can dance. In this way the Eastern man is constantly tineling his dearest illusions abruptly dispelled. It is also trying when the cowboys stand up and take off their sombreros when one is leaving their camp. There are cowboys aud cowboy', and I am speak ing now of those I sa.v ou the King ranch. The thiug that the wise man from the East cannot at first understand is how the 100,000 head of cattle wandering at large over the range are ever collected together, lie sees a dozen cr more steers here, a bunch of horses there, and n single steer or two a mile off, and even as h'> looks . Sun they disappear in the brush, and as far as his chance of finding them again would be, they might as well stand forty miles away at the other cud of tho ranch. But this is a very simple problem to tho ranchman. .Mr. Kleberg, for instance, receives an order from a firm in Chicago calling for 100J head of cattle. Tho breed of cat tle tho firm wants is grazing in a corner of the range fenceil in by barb-wire, and marked pule blue for convenience ou a beautiful map blocked out in colors, like a patch-work quilt, which hangs ill Mr. Kleberg's office. When the order is re ceived, he sends a Mexican ou a pony to tell the men near that particular pale blue pasture to round up 1000 head of cattle, and at the same time directs his superintendent to send in a few days as many cowbcys to that pasture as are needed to "hold" 1000 bead of cattle on the way to the rail road station. The boys ou the pas ture, which we will suppose is ten miles square, will take ten oi their number ami five extra ponies apiece, which one man leads, aud from one to another of which they shift their saddles as men do iu polo, and go directly to tho water tanks iu the leu square miles of laud. A cow will not often wander more than two ami a half miles from water, and so, with the water tank, which on the King ranch may be either a well with a wind mill or a dam med canon full of rain-water, us u ren dezvous, tho finding of the cattle is com paratively easy, aud ten men can round up 1000 hea I in a day or two. When they have them nil together, the cowboys who are to drive them to the station have arrived, anil take them off. A' the ttatiou the agent of the Chicago firm and the agent of the Kiug ranch ride throu ;h the herd together, ami it tbey disagree as to the Utiles* of auy oue or more of the cattle, an out*hler is called iu, and hi* decitiou is liual. The cattle are theu driven ou the cars, and Mr. Kle berg's responsibility is at au end, Iu the spriug there i< a gcueral round lug np, aud tlioii*amls and thotisandt ol steer* nre trough! iu from the ilillcreiit pasture*, and thoMi for which contract* have been made duiiiig the winter are ttupped oil to the maikels, and the caivt-t are branded. —I In pel't Weekly. X It II lie I'tieori uf the treat luu. The tatage lalatidcrt of the South Pacific believe thai the worltl is a cocoa unl »hcll ol enormous dnueutiou*, al tbe top ot which is a tiugle apiiaiure coin lunuicatiuti with the upper air, where human lwiti|js dw. 11. At the very iwt turn of this imagiunry thill it a tleui gradually t apt tin 4 Its a point, which liji reseuls the ol sit litlugs Tin* ttuinl is a tpirit or dcittott without human form, wiio«i; name it "Hoot of \il I.*i»t euce." lit him the tutile fabric of ciea lion is sutlained. lu (t»f luiurtut ul iltu t Miinui •luall, «i Ma vuty ti'iii >iu, live* 4 {uumUi 'Uuitiu, ■*>l MltU* it (Itv »|MM into w(ii> U »lw it I»>*V»>lu. 1 lliat till It t«Ml||vtl lu til lu|- »»l A Mil kIHUt 111 I tlllll l<llil llllljj lUi ItlMttti t« " l*bv V«<) <*'4>l 11' MM lit I 4ltl •I'IUM J U nualulll t|lllllt I lit J Ullilllll IIVO iliAucml ll'tw't, lUltl *lu<li lit* gi««i i.ii ./mini I* i|i*M#l. fr'luHt Ul-MHH til 1U.411 kill | it 'Uniwu'tit tb« i»l«nluft t ft u<■ Imiu IhtUiu.*(■• t< Mm mil} I il IIIIU »"l*!iu, MeltluMttllf 41« 'I tw M y#i4 *ii«uMt,ia •» »*il »j<niu lu ilm H4IM »l 1.mm.11). »•»>'!« U»»| fcitW'l **b«M liivy utiiiil, iiltvimy lU> «u »• aui NO. 36. A RECIPE FOR A DAY. Take a little dash of water cold, And • little leaven of prayer, J And a little bit of morning gold ( Dissolved in the morning air. Add to your meal some merriment, And a thought for kith anil kin, And then, as your prime ingredient, A plenty of work thrown in. But spice it all with the essence of love, And a little whifT of play: Let a wise old book and a glanc? above Complete the well made (lay. —Amos K. Well, in New York Observer. HUMOR OF TIIE DAY. A whaling outfit—The birch rod. The bacillus has become famous for his ill nature. —Boston Transcript. When one jumps at a conclusion he rarely reaches it.—Dallas News. If you want to keep up with the times you must go slow.—Dallas News. It is unkind to refer to the choir boy as a note shaver.—Washington Star. The least overworked institution in this country is the office that seeks the mau.—Life. Money is not exactly a religious arlicle, but still It has a denomination of its own.—Rochester News. The mau who points out our faults to us is a true friend; but we feel like kick ing him just the same.—Puck. It is not every bicycle rider who can lower the record, but it is a poor bicycle that cannot lower the rider.—Truth. Waiter—"Will you have salt ou your eggs?'' Guest—"No, thank you. They're not it all fresh."—Pick Mo Up. If you have rowe.l against the tide, And all your ready cash is spent; If you have nothing left but pride The landlord's sure to raise the rent. Said Franklin, "lie who takes a wife ttikes care." Therefore, my son, take care and do not take a wife.—Boston Transcript. Mrs. Hupec—"You cannot say I did the courting; you were crazy to marry rae." Enpec—"l must have been—a gibbering lunatic."—New York llerald. The rooster now his rival hunts With crow anJ proud parade- He ipiit > forgets his mother once Laid him in the shale. —Truth. There is no perfect state in this world. While the poor man has uo food for his stomach it often happens that the rich man has no stomach for his food.—Bos ton Transcript. Person in Authority—"And how do yon like going to school, boy?" The Coming Mau—"l like goiu' well 'null; it's, tlw w'eu I gets there I hol lers at."—Fun. Dressmaker—"Miss Fussbudget, will you have your dress cut with u train?" Miss .Fussbudget—"Yes; but for good aess's sakes have it an accommodation." —Springfield Union. Primus—"They didu't thiuk my speech was cut and dried, did they?'' Secundus—"No; they wouldn't possibly thiuk any of it had been cut."—Kate Field's Washington. Dicker—"l am told that Wahl is a very different man in h'i fair ily than on the street." Bond—"Yes; Mrs. Wahl says he's a bull on the street and a bear at home." —New York llerald. H<' wroU* a weather poem. Full of sentiment and wit. And the weather promptly snift hl, So the |toeai wouldn't lit. Washington Star. It .3 amusing to watcU a mau working his head o'T to »avo money to buy a home, whilo anotner who owns a home, is tryiug to sell it a* a sacrifice in or Vr to save money by boarding.—P«.ck. Bachelor—"Say, Iltnpecque, as your wife is away let'. - goto a lectui t to night." Benedict (shuddering)—"No, thanks; I prefer a chant e from my usual domestic routine. It t's goto a deaf and dumb asylum.''—New Yorlt "jur ual. He—"Do you e~er mean to .mrjT 1 ! She—"Perhapt IIU j lomo ♦line." He | —"Have you r.jatle up your luiiut win the man will net" She—' Mftcy! uo!" He—"Still you th'.it< you'll man-y •omebody some timet" S.ie—"l m..v," ' He (ilu-jwratfly) —"Well, wl-el't tho matter with inef''—Somernlki Jojmal. A ilik*i|>at«>l t t man a|>|tlic I at thu olhce in Sau Aator o, it-la*, (or a |»oeitioii a» clerk. IK> • on Id ow anything atioiu general .nauagt ntcut of the ortlcef" a»ke<l the ofßcnr. "Uo I know auytUiu • about O-nt-riil Management I I ahouli im'ie. i knew luiu when he wtu Lien<«unil."--Tc*ai Hiltinj-». >ltt> »ti» Iter tluwu ami itu UIUJH oaro I'ruiiHiU to WMtu tn» L>IU litf* mum ro*>U it ui>, rea't It •!< wu, And limxtlrw • ( the w • «n'» fruWM. Hlte gentl* »lgl • an t I Unit It i> ui Aul if »h« tin- ;Ut ilu-ro jh a.ll IMMNI Ami Hull «* Itino. ' I lug tu iu« A tiiM'uit a.i I a euj' of tea," Wf.ibiu«t«Mi star. Hlii All IHe Semmioim A man .I»IU •«! Juhu Haituhaw |»« fuiiiuii tho igluuii !!nglait<l uler .he high »>uii<iluj tltlu Of MwilUl (i)tllti giving (irai'lii'Mi tk'iihili u> of luugiug from the g.»llo» t !u !»''» p*rfori».att<!« he lelietl (or aeturity on ihe atrcnglh o. the utuMiiw of hit threat ami net k alone. IU ha>! a run- with n lUe'i KUut, aul alwa)> |IIWM>I iwth niiill of the lo»|> il|i lahiuil HUM ear. Ilw w.eie a> t i»» w M'liwi'l) manage I that Ue |tr»**«t» I auy |ue«me of the r«|<e the *iu>l|ii|>e >«i the jugular *« »• lie n-uM euu «ua taln a ati.fhi ot l'l*» iaiu .il» in * hlttiun tu that ol hiao»n l«»l> tin thiee u|>iutn on aeieie llainaHaai oiumauag' >1 the hi|W aa*t ••>>"» hei'-aiuu uneuuet low, hut *aa lotk'')i ttaeuetl eat h litM. lit.i Uoaa. , wilt* wrote the amount, »♦<* ttuljr «»)' tl aun-it he •l«uMt>l that a* ai a» w aalim ami ennaelMMteeae ale t>< itemed, llaiuaha* ii4t>«>i ti>i ••tirfh Iha ali-iie ujtual uf liitlt \i) n-teg I it*, h• I u *M| |it.i<ullU l tu Hmain hanging utitll w imiif iwi to wuuht hare i<*»»« I -ml »Jet *t«ue« a nit ••iM lin Hit i know M*e • lit* L u4*ti I. luvet.
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