Ounbrtsi : liMM-man lnlililnt Hrrkl) HI Hr".Klt'lt4j. AMItltl t ft., X ., i;v J tuis a. iianm. A lvcitiKinf- ItntoN. The larva and rel'anle rtrrulatlon l the 'w bia Kkkbma eotnmenat It In the hivnTaMe nimliltmii.il of alvertiet whote luvur will la iaertel .t th lollowiria: Inw run : 1 Inch. 2 -tut .....I I o llnrh.S month........ ! i 1 loeh, 6 monltin. h.M 1 iDrh i year... ft mi t Inrhe e inontti..... 8u 2 Inrbea, t year..... lu.m 3 lw(.n 6 monthi 8.00 Inebe. I year ii.uo 'i column , fl tunnttn..... 10.06 column, ft mnntbi. ao tw Wclumn I year 3ft. 00 . column, 6 month!.. WOO I column. I year 74 no Kulnaa Item, fir: iri'ertli.n, 10c. per line utuent Inrerttona. be. j,cr line AdiuiDiKtrator' aod (Lxerutor'a Notices. $! ao Auditor' Notice ;.S0 tray and aimllar Nolloea X 00 ar-Leiu.lution or proceeding ol any Corp ra tion or aociety and cotnKiunl'-athm ileioirmd to rail attention to any matter of limited or imM virtual Interest rouM ta paid f.r a atlvertmiuenia. Hot.k and Job Printing of all kind! neatly and 1 rxejiouioT executed at Ibe loweat price. And don'tyoa forget It. 11 'ii il ua run toi-l t'l renin ti.-n. I. -co Snlir r Ipllou Utiles Mm- rnpy, 1 via-, rush in aiivani'i- 1 I f" ilo " .1.1 n m l .nul villi. in i 1 1 1 : . . I T.i .1.1 (to II .. . I.I w II I. Ill ti III.. Illl:!". ! no. .1.. do tl nut ..idi niilim iln- car.. i .'i I'o ter..n reiM.lniii ut.Jlle nf the count iw ten's n.l.luUin.il or oar .ll n charue.l to pcft wo. rm no evcm win ttif iit-ore icriu ha iie , arte l ln.ni. tui.1 ilr e '"ti I miii-uIi incir u mlervUK tiy cm in -'i'! mum mite' port to tv fl!..M .1 i.n ilm -i'.ne lixiilim ttne writ rt... nil f.'. t he ilit:cily uoilorMonil iru. trim t!u.e :urwr.l. - r.i v rnr .nr H ier hclnr. you 5tu It. If 8li. I, tun uiiiKl rne hut MVilawaas .to vUierwln. ,l,,n l no a t':ii:twa Ilia I loo Hiori. JAS. C. HASSON, Editor and Proprietor. "HK IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRCTH MAKES FREE AND ALL ABB SLAVES BESIDE." 8I.0O and postage per year In advance. VOLUME XX VII. E HENS BURG, PA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 20. 1S93. NUMBER 3. A' Ifkv A UV Men, Boys and Children OF CAMBRIA COUNTY ! (Jo to GNSMAN'S, ALTOONA, PA., for your Clo.hhis, 1iit; ) on li.iv' 1 1 10 largest soKf' ion and host foot's lor the least money. MKX'S si' ITS r.ovs- m i is I'll i I.DKK.VS M ITS, . .i.:.o . .. . . 'N- Mens, Hoys' ami ( liil.livn's OVERCOATS at equally low priees. Come at onee ami 'et FIRST CHOICE of these Greatest Hanrains. ID. G- .A- 2nT S JSL .A. HST , .;ir;i'v (inlii.T. Il.iid r ai'-l FurnilnT. Hl KliM-nlb lir. L1IU I'V- tt .It. liFXV.NalrDman. "WANT A WAGON?" V.' ! w -."-, ru ':''. ?!i!i--v. W :' rxl.: w ii''it, sir- ; . .'. v.-i .'i. lvttil,!i."i, f.-i.-.'i'.i iv.. L-, ir..'::i.i.i. . i'i p. I'.uilt li. '.: r lv hut. it C". '. .. :k .. I', r.-'l v nir p.I'u'v; ; . . i i , j t siii;-m. : t i.r ' . i;.' w m.ii. Write us. 0 ts v. u ' .V, i 1..'.! l u ::kss 1 v u:.I lv. Seinl l..r i in .''. iii-. I; i i r-uKr i-t 1'iis p.ivr. Lni- ' li.uiili.n V..i'. 11 i'i... r.:n : .imii . Bi:iLT IOR "Seeing is Believing;." ;;ii;Vv; must "e S:mP; -when "r -'" iiijl ou. Mmffft nun s me.-in miir-ii i.ni m will impress the truth more tough an.i seamless, and made in three pieces only,??5$ it is ai'i.tlutfv r.jr's in. i tint, . , A. i ;i 0.1 1: '. tAWS . ,r , ...... M..I -tUMIKi, J-.1IVC viniiiiu s of ol.i, it is indeeil a "wonderful lamp," for its mar velous licrht is purer and brifjhter than rr.t5 lirrhr softer than elertric licrht and I not f.,r this stamp T11 r R.k-iifstkk. If the tamp dealer hasn't the Pennine KiK'iir-ur. aua tiic stvlc you want. s-ad to us lur our new illu-trateii catuhwu" ill 1 ' -I varieties tiuiu t.'it: ..: .unit AtO II fc.Vlfc.it 1.A.T1I :o., Z l'ark Place, New York City. -ztgi "The Rochester." the &-& 5 w$ icf m HAY- AND l"y. fVf.wi llalmix 10 it a lirj'iid, fmiiff 50c piirAi 4i'iMrrMi. j 1 citttnufH trie the wre. th1 " ilrtwqt'xtH ELY BROTHERS. 5G -1 Ill BITTE romhlnlnc lUfH wfth PI' 11 V. TI-fiCTA RI.R TnMts, tuirLly and romplHWy 4l.KlS-S ami t-MCIl lll-S Til K 1I1.4M1. irLcn the tv tinn of th Liter and kidoejH. har th romplexlon, makm the Kkla i.mMiIh. ILdMs not Injure t hf teeth, rmatM liradarhr. or ro.iurfron- Uption -ALL OTIILU 1UOS HKDIi INKS l h inn and lniKfitMTtwhrerwcomintii.i it I'll N S Rnmr.rtl. of Mnrmn. Mto . nyr "I r- nittiTi'l hrmn'i Iron Hit ;4 nlnltU tnio t .r . -nrit tniiir ttm ).m4. itnI r-minir nil tltix-l" nii't.iiitn. It tim not hurt tti t- tti " I ni H M I-IT 7FI.L, Ryn..rM. Iti'l., mv: I it.- j..r--rit.M Kriiwii'ii Inn Iittt-rj in of a 1 nil.) !-l,rfJ iirm-itm-r w 'i-f a t-lilf v tv 1 t., v t.fw .roTtl thortKiictily nitir f i ur.' M . m HfiiNH, a;St. Mry St.. NVw rl.aim, Ij.. " Hrnwn . lr.,1 Hitt'r r'ln'fl ni iu i - t t J---I i-.i.f,i::n' and I heartily cmuui'-iid it U t.'i titIitiK a i.t.Hwi (MintirT. Mh W V M'iH4N, 1 uvnml.in. Aln , n?F: "I r.i, lr..i;hi,-.i fr..rn btituK-l Willi IiN(ur M..J T'!i-ti.n 4n my tiwt- l.nti" l fir- n lr,,n i,t u-n rtf. a t l urv I aiiti- 1 .H-k Vi til Uly ol tlilH valitatiic tiitilHsiim.' (mm- 'in alM)TTnidH Mnrkand rnwl rd!irM t it -mtr TmIa no lhr. Ml only .y hltOW . At. (U HALT IMOKK. MA !Hc Hhfe 5RfBSTtP. ssur -at t;o l'rblc'r'J. ?.--s. ' TTWT-N X .TT W- j- 1 T tt r: r 7. at ta t t DICIION.UIY A GftAND INVESTMENT " l. mni'y. I s. I10.1l i rilM .ilra.iT. 1 it- work of ri-ii.... . ii.ii-.l ott trn JuiiH. mom ii-.mi, ),..n.lir-l 1. hi. .rial law sL'V.L' ''i:r": te:i mplo -!. niul uti-l M' "' -x.i r.trti h. lorr .r tirst cup! pi-i:trJ. " biLD t ALL P'-K-)K; Etl tRS. l-m !'n!, !;''".' ' M,"V::" 5 '7- "I''raliona. .ui..,. i., . . , ,ir, ,:rMr. , : O C T ThV E tST " lt ' - .r.u-r,,.;,,-,,, ....,, ( i , t.. ni.i rinl ., ' - w. MLFIMIMM 6-. CO La :ni iCLirnc v J S. A I )NAU K. DUKTON. r A1T.1;m..y AT LAW. . Kmcaciti nil, I'mmi ' 1M II. Ufa, tuier rtrcet. RS ri to. . . IKI til. . . .iii ti. . . . . .?i.i.m. . . . s.im. . . . fi.l n i. 1 1 4 ( 1 BUINnSS." I V." S-:, ' "S it is not simple it is jwautijui, itooa those1 n 1 ha ! .. it forcibly. All metal. VfefU? more cheerful thaneither. 1, ,,v CI )Tm -your cuulcu ol over J.OUU Slare in. the li, Li ' cum fo;NJ u.zri- m , ar m av iruhR o W . U-V. . -.VJ J,' VST . FEVER or jxttihr. Appli'd into the mmtriU it is lumi, (iiotti iiijuimnHinon, nfuut r twnt bti vntil on Ttrrht of rAv. t II t. Warren Street NEW YORK. JUb 7,30U BUSHELS OF POTATOES O. V. p. ha st 1 sl.i-:, Fair I-cn, Kent Ov, Mil., mi j : With !) Kiiinl of Pnwrll'n Cmn ltj Frrlillxrr r IViImI.m-h, on p j r.i-ri'S of in ml. In; .airx-it buslirlii iniHitli, tfiH-'.- si.iMi Kt;itiMVH. When ii.-i.it ily 'i riTliliif ntut -ilnlity ol laiiit Is foiisidiTi'il, tl'iM Is larvi'Nt rrup if Mtalix-s ever ntisi'tl in llio world. Why not ra.s l.ii; itiis of Mitatx-s? V "-an ti ll yoi ow to 1 It. unci how to .: 1-fi.t I'-'l ' Kot ami Itllislit. Scir' lo iriu dumps for liook Of J'.'S piiycs. W 5. Powell & Co., Clieniuifj IVrtilier Manufacturers, Ikiltimore. Aid. IT'S-!. 1?-S1. r-o Helen written at abort ooMce In the OLD RELIABLE 1 ETNA" nt other llral t'la, Coin i n T. W. DICK, iJT I'WK THE OLD HARTFORD PIRB INSURANGB CXIMT. IKIMIVIKNCKII IU'SJM-S 1794. Mountniii House m SHAVIIIG PARLOR! CENTRE STREET, EBENSBOBB. 'IM1IS well known anil mnic ealahllaheil Shavina: 1 In rlnr in mi w li-teil n tVotre treei. p pciiie iha 1 1 very nini.le t,i llllnra. Ihitla x l.uih er. "liere the l.iiiMtiri'a wilt ' rsrrliril ml In the lulurn. SHAVINC, I1AIK t l'TIINlt ANII .NllA.MI'OOl.NO il.iiie In Ilia l.eulput muiI lUuat Hrilni if inni.iii r. I'lean Tn.di a upeclall jr. 0.l.:u.lcn wa'teil im at tlirir reindenre. JAMrS H.OsNT. rmprmtor DICK. ATTI K N KY-AT-I-A W. KBKMHMI'Kn. i'BNM'A' - Special allrntl.-n to Riven claim for ln- lou IU nuly. tie. ebJ- w .ri.im. :i.7.". I.. "ill f?T3 rs CIA r . a d-head imm SUNSET AFTER A WORKDAY. The skii'S arc l:irk. the raia ilrops fast, TK'ilivurv r:inl:s of toil IUi- past. 'rii' worUriH.rn's hum sournis tirtsl anil slow. Ttii'tuiml iaovis listless t.i uu.t fro; Kvcii our mi'illfs sis-Hi iii'l'in'U 'ilh rust ily nUliious nioo.1, A:i. I dull rcMiit uiMinst our will. T.iUf ti-asin a sriti'S. to uork us ill, 1-iiiv y uml a isi-ouii'tit'stul in. Wliir-jicriiii? to us through tin- ililL .N'oni- hut i.itm lvis. say t!n-y. must climb Uo'i:'!! p:itl's. u hili-olIiiTs havi fri't tm for all lilt-': joys, lis Lautit's rare. Its iniisir soft, its llowcrs fair, K'nou iii! i.o tasks for whose hunt sake Tm-il hi-.nis must throh ami i-urvi-d spini-s ache. Wo ha..' tin' uhistli-'s lilaiant si n :.in That uaki s lis from this I it I r iln'aui. lln-al- oil tin- t!ir.-.nl uml fol.l away O.ir wor.;. to wail another ilay. I'IihI Iioiii warJ liiroii 'h the larkeninr street, Willi chilly han.lsaml tntnl-soileil f ft The clouils si-m f rov. ninir heaviest, Wli. ii. lo' Hi. v n n in the nest: A f:iiut p'lik toiu'In-s smoke amt mist: uo sp.re. its i rowi.iiiL' cross at wisl Witli .-'oi.le:i r i s. moils uinvaril to A v:wo.--eih.'e.l. rare e! 1111 -e of llui. Ami lhroii'.'li a narrow, hrlck frameJ space Smiles Miilttenly the s: n's ilear f;u-e. Life looks so livc.ih'e aain: Where are I he loir? ilraa n 1 ours .f ruin!" I '..nrai".1 .in. I .aiMence ilraw iii-ur, V. hik ria;' to us. calm an I clear. None hut ourseUi s. s ay they, may know The fulln- ss of tins sunset jrlow. r-Vr we alone. wJio ilruil'-'iil all ilay 'Ta ixi sir'ts of mint ami skies of Cray, fan reail the symhol fair ari-ht: 'At eveiiinulinie it shall ! lifht." Hack to tin' heart comes, Heaen-sent, Thai ruest it cauiio spare Coiilent. Kuth II Si'ssions. iu Far anJ Near. WIXXL(i A WIFE. How a Deserving; Youngr Man Won Ilia Sweetheart. A .hMtly Vision That Matrrlalisril Into Iteitullful SiilistAtire An tiielilfnt That Martini llousrholtl tut of slmiklM-r. Tlm Vliok in the morninjr is an utieamiv hour tin world over except at imlii e liea. l.jii al ters or in tlie ofliee of a iimriiiiie; iieVN:iHT, and it was in this latter pliu-e, at ttie hour named, that fi.nror live i eiorters. liavin sent in all llieir copy an.) listened to tlie f.ire maii swear for tlfteen iiimiites lieeaiisi" he had two columns of space and ten ei iliiiims of m: iter that "must ifo in," sat wit h their feet on the tables and their eliairliaclis kiux-liino; the plaster iii"; olT, talUiii;,' over the stilijeet which is just as new to-day as it was when Adam doiTed-his lieaver and said: "How d'y do?" to Kve. Kvery fel'.ow in the erow.l was a hachelor, and each one was iuformiti" th. other in all serious ness that he should marry. "What for'.' inquired Claude Ilrown of 1 rank Jones. "Uooause," replied Frank, "it's the only proper way to live." "A nice hushand a reporter would make," said Claude in rebuttal, "eotn ino; in at three o'clock a. in. and leav ing home as soon as he g-ot his twelve o'clock break fast." "Hut his wife would always know where he was, and if she ilidn't, she'd know wherever he was be was after an item ami had lo U- back at theolliee on time," remarked Charlie Smith. "Well," put iu Claude, "if you think it's sucli a "Teat snap why don't you yet married?" "Can't," said Charlie, very positively. "Why not?" "Thnnderation, man. how's a follow to buy a whole steamlxiat when he hasn't money omuio-h to buy a splinter otT a stare plank? How's a man to buy a house and lot when he can't buv a shovel full of dirt? How's a man-" "That's it," interrupted Claude; "how's a man to do anything if he doesn t do it? What's the matter with marry mir a rich p;irl?" "Where's the tfirl?' queried Charlie. "I'leuty of them, tiirls with money always need a disbursinf a,'ont and they will trust a husband when they won't trust an elder in the church, lie sides, what's the tfood of her money if a pirl has her heart set ou a husband and can't yet him?" Smith aryned awhile njrainst matri mony and at half-past three started for homo. lie was t liiiikino- the conversa tion over, and as he trudired alonr it occurred to him that a bach-'lor was not only a knot on a lojr, but he was a very lonesome kitot. His way led him through the aristo cratic portion of the city, and as he passed a fine house his reverie was dis turlied by the peculiar click of a turn ing lock and the matrimonial line of thought was all knocked awry by the reportorial instinct, and he saw, in stead of a blushing, blooming Mrs. Smith, a burglar cracking a million aire's dining-room and makin off with his silver. He thought of the U-anliful scoop he was yoinj; to have on the other fellows nnd, slipping into the shadow, he waited and listened. Click went the lock ayain, as if the burylar was nervous and was more anxious to open the door than he was to preserve the ordinary bur glarious quiet. The reixirter scrutin ized the door closely and discovered that the rohlwr was not on the outside, but was evidently within ami was workinr his way out, and he felt a thud of excitement at the thought of leiiir able to capture his man with the 1 oo.lle on his ihtsoi. I Id slipped his revolver out of his pocket, trained it on the door and an instant afterward the door swiin"' open and Charlie was ready to "throw up your hands." when, instead of a burylar, a phost came out. "It can't 1m a phost," lie whispered in an assuring tone to himself, "for phosts don't unlock doors. They just come riyht through them. Hut if it isn't a yhost, what the deuce is it?" He had lonir to wait, for whoever or whatever it was came out into the ves tibule and down the steps slowly, as if uncertain of its movements, and when about half-way to the pavement stopped. "Ily parry." said the reporter, "it's a woman, and she's pot on a nipht pown. I'll have to see aliout this," and with his revolver ready in rase of accident, he stepjiod out of the shadow and Fpoke to the phostlv walker "Cooxl evening,1 ho tu:.d, nervously. "No, excuse me, I mean pood morninp. If you're poinp la ptarket, may lie you'd iK'tter po back a'ld put on an ulster." Orilinarily Charlie would have lx-en more pallant, hut thin was anythiup but an ordinary atTair, and lie didn't re quire newspapT instinct to tell him so. The sheeted lipure made no reply, hut moved apain and came tow ard him. The cold chills chased each other down his back and be lo-iked for a policeman, with the usual result, "Stand buck," he said, "this pistol ain't loaded, but it mipht po otT." Huton it came anil Charlie found that his leps wouldn't move in spite of all he could do to make them. One step more and he stood face to face with his stranpe discovery, and Charlie saw that it was not only a woman, but a younp and handsome one, and be bopan to feel tatter. "I tap your pardon," he said, "hut the nipbt air is cool and you apjx-ar to be dressed rather liphtly. Can I ren der you any assistance? Is there any oue in the house that has frightened you?" Still no answer, and Charlie, embold ened by his own words, stepped to the younp woman's side and pently toolf her by the arm. She turned her face to him and then the mystery was solved. "Another Amina." he said. " La Soimamhiila' off the stape with a re Hrter as tirst tenor and leading man. Well, this is a po!" "I've pot to take her in the house, anyhow, that's plain." he said to him- I self, and he pently led the willing walk er back up to the door and ranp the tall, anl rang it with a forty-horse power draft. The next minute the beautiful sleep walker was no longer asleep, but wide awake, anil Charlie had a very plump younp woman in his arms in a dead faint, and he made a dash with his burden into the hall, only to meet a healthy young man in even less dis habille. "What's this?" he shouted, making a grab at Charlie's throat. "Shut the ibxir, you idiot: gurgled Charlie, dropping the girl on the tlxr and almost putting Vis f.ot on her, after the manner of sic semper t V rami is. "What does this mean?'' again shouted the young man, and the re mainder of the family came tumbling downstairs, none of them lixed to see company. "l-n't go of me and shut that door and I'll tell you!" wheezed Charlie. "Vnu don't want to raise the ueigh liorhood and briug the patrol wagon, do you?" Some of the other members of the family by this time had rescued the re porter aud shut the door, and, while the mother and the servants carried the unconscious girl upstairs, Charlie told the father and son how he ha I met the younp lady and what the trouble was. lloth men knew l.iin In sight and had mot him on 'change and elsewhere, and it was not ditlicult to ox plain the situation. Half an hour later the reporter was at home, in tad aud dreaming sweet dreams of pretty girls and all sorts of romantic tnines. When he reached the ofTiee next ilay a note was waiting for him and he was invited to call that evening on the mother of the j-oung lady. He jcalleil, ot course. He saw the mother; he saw the daughter, blushing ami Is-auliful, and now if Charlie i, a bachelor much lonper there will ta a breach of promise suit or some other dreadful calamity, for Charlie's mi ml is made up. letroit Free IVess. A furious llHiiiiiet Hall, Some time ago the latar of deepening the harbor of Ciotat was completed. On that occasion the contractor pave to the mciutars of his staff and the rep resentatives of the press a banquet nu-pieci-.h-nted for its originality. The table was set eight meters talow the level of the sea, at the very 1 Hit torn of the harlMtr, inside the caisson in which the excavators had taen at work, and only the narrow walls of this caisson separated the guests from the enor mous mass of water around and atsive their heads. The new fashioned ban queting hall was splendidly decorated and lighted, and but for a certain buzzing in the ears caused by the pres sure of air kept up in the chaintar in order to prevent the inrush of water, nolxxly would have suspected that the slightest interruption t-. the working of the air pump would have su flicod to asphyxiate the whole party. After the banquet an improvised concert pn longed the festivity for several hours, alter which the guests reaseetnled into the open air. Chicago Dispatch. TO REFILL TWO SEAS. The Ol.Ject or a (irrut Morrmrnl That la on r oot 1 1 Lantern Karope. There is a movement on foot in east ern Kurope to cut a canal tatween the I Hack and Caspian seas; also to recon nect the Dead sea with the Mediter ranean. The Dead sea is nothing more than a small but very old salt lake now in an advanced state of evajxiration. It lies several feet talow the level of the Mediterranean, just as the Caspian liis many feet talow the level of the Hlaek sea. In Isith cases the surface must, once have In-en continuous. This taing the case, it is clear that the Cas pian anil the Dead seas have both evap oratcd to an enormous extent. While all the surroundings prove that evap oration has been the prime cause of the shrinkage of the two Ixnlies last men tioned, there is one remarkable fact which deserves particular attention in this connection: W hile the surface of the Caspian has fallen to a point only cighty-tive feet below the level of the Hlack sea, the Dead sea has shrunk to the enormous depth of twelve hundred and ninety-two feet talow the Mediter ranean! 1 am not informed as to what the results would ta if. a canal should ta dug tatween the Caspian and the Hlaek seas, but it is said that a connec tion tatween the Mediterranean and the Dead seas would drown out the whole valley of the Jordan, join the last-named sea to the sea of Galilee and otherwise contribute to the complete change of Scriptural geography. A Snake ('linrmvil by Itrlle. A Denison (Te.x.) dispatch says: Mrs. D. M. Madden is a lady of nerve. Yesterday afternoon, her little girl Mary, aged two years, was seated on the frround under a tree playing with a tin hivip. to which wore attachisl talis. The noise of the talis attracted a large hlacksuakc, which crawled to the feet of the child and stretched at full length, with its head resting on her left fixit. The jingle of the talis seemed to charm it, for the snake closed its eyes and was motionless. Mrs. Madden saw the snake. She did not scream for assistance, as most women would have done under the circum stances. She darted to the child, prablxil the snake by the tail and hurled it through the air. The peculiar music of the tails had evidently placed the snake under a spell, as it did not move until it felt the touch of Mrs. M addon's hand. I 'n DDiVfi r'tvv-Tn..i A Difficult Way For One to Make a Li v in if. Setting Tntpe In the Sierra Foot fail le ft! welcome t; urate That Are 1'leuti ful Trait of the Wntrrn Terror Talka with an IU Hunter. George Peek is an old-timer, having come to California some time in the early fifties, aud has had the usual ex perience of fortune and misfortune, mostly misfortune. He has leng since quit hoping for a "strike," and is now a wandering, poverty-stricken old chap, keeping himself as much as pos sible out of the way of the world, never hxiks at a Ixxik or pajxT, mines "at odd spells," and hunts the greater part of the year. Lately he has taen trapping Kilong the Yuba, and has pitched his tent on a little flat known as the Keystone. There are no valuable furs to ta ob tained in the lower foothills, but the coyotes are numerous on the Keystone, and its the state pays a bounty of five dollars tor each scalp an expert trapper can make enough to keep body and soul together and have a little left over. ISut he must ta an expert. The gaunt, hungry, snarling coyote is more ditli cult to catch than a fox, and his habits, likes and dislikes, runways and diic turnal prowlings must ta learned by the trap(er tafore he can expect to take more than an iK-casional scalp. The Keystone is a favorite yelping ground, and the rugped hills, with thick undergrowths, chaparral, cliffs and eaves that alxiund along the Yuba at that point, furnish cozy retreats for hundreds of coyotes, foxes, coons, pole cats and now and then a mountain cat or lynx. The polecats are ixjrhaps the most numerous, and as they are not suspicious, prudent animals, relying upon their offensiveness to carry them safely through life, are a great nuisance to the trapper, who must, when ho has caught one, thoroughly disinfect his trap, not a pleasant or easy task in the hills where water is scarce and deodorizing materials not easily obtainable. "Coyote" l'eck. as he is called, thoroughly understands the habits of coyotes. When I met him. a week ago, he was crrrying four traps on his back and doing his best to keep out of sight behind a clump of mauzunita bushes. At first he was surly and pave short re plies to all my queries, but persistent efforts thawed the iciness of his man ner and he asked me to accompany him and see how coyete trapping was car ried on. It was quite early in the forenoon, and the canyon down which we picked our way was yet eooL tin either side were jagged. riK-ky steeps, gashed with innumerable cracks and crevices in which many nx-turnal creatures were probably asleep. In the dust one could see the tracks of coons, foxes, coyotes, polecats, rats, mice and beetles. "They preys on one another," said l'eck. "Tlier's thousands on thousands o' taetles yere, an' the coons an' foxes an" jxdeeats is great fer sieh things. They's in the ncks now." "Do you catch the coons?" "He, he! I should say I do. They's no harder to catch than skunks. You catch one by the end of his littlest Uie an he'll jist get right down an stay there lookin' at his toe an studyin' the trap, an like as not he won't be through studyin when you come in the mornin. Coons is easy, an' foxes ain't hard, but they h ain't wuth notion to me, so I generally lets the coons lay, an the foxes, too, 'cept in the w inter when it's real cold. Then the foxes' hides is wuth thirty cents apiece. They's no good till the fur's on, see ?" We tramped on for half an hotir, and then, leaving the canyon, crossed a little ridge where the undergrowth had taen burned away and a few scrubby pines and oaks clustered about a little spring. Handing me his traps, l'eck stole cautiously ahead with his rifle and a minute later made a rapid shot at something sitting in the shade not far away. The animal shot was a jack rabbit. "I nearly ' alius pits one here," said the old man. "They's the best kind of bait for coyotes. I've tried venison an' beef an' all kinds of meat, but jack rabbit beats 'em alL Coyotes is very particular about their vittles. You'd think a chicken would be tatter, 'cause coyotes is awful "rough on chickens when they finds em in a coop, but Hain't so. The coyotes knows that chickens is domestic fowls, an' w hen they sees one a-hangin by its legs on a tree four or five miles out in the woods they jist looks at it in a suspicious way an' sez: 'What you doiu' out yere, any how?" an' they goes on. They knows a chicken ain't got no business hangin' by its legs to a tree in the woods. Hut they knows a jack talongs in the woods, ami they don't never seem to think there's anything crooked when they finds a jack hangin' by his legs. A jack's their nat'ral food, for sure. That's why coyotes is sich powerful runners. Whenever they catch a jack they's got to earn him fust, see?" As l'eck talked he gathered his traps and .the jackrahbit together, threw them over his shoulder and trudged on again. We hail easier walking now, and it was not long tafore another hare started up in front of us. l'eck dropped his traps, and as the jack, which bait not taen much frightened, loped softly up the hill shot it dead. It was a fine shot and well worth praising, but the old hun'.cr smiled knowingly and said: "That's nuthin. A boy kin do that arter he knows how. That makes bait enough for these four traps, so we'll jist set one of 'em yere. With r. swipe of the hunting knife one of the jackrabbits was neatly di vided and then one-half was fastened to an oak sapling about four feet from the ground. ' A few bits of the fiesh were scattered about the foot of the oak and then a trap was set directly under the hanging bait and made secure with the chain. No effort at concealment was made and 1 asked l'eck about it. "Lord, man. what's the use? If I digs .a hole and buries my trap ever so nice, the coyotes "11 see there's some thin' buried there an they'll get sus picious right away. No, siree. Never bury your trap fer coyotes. Jist set the jaws open an' tie it fast and flop it down an' the coyotes 11 jist think it's sometkin the jackrabbits has dropped there, an when they jumps after that iackrabbit down they comes with their forelesrs into it. The way to catch coy- j otes is to make 'era thiuk you thinks they's all durn fools, see?" Another hour of tramping and at its expiration the other three traps were set and baited. "Now," said Teck, "if you don't mind poin' we'll take a look at the traps as was set yistcrday." Again we set off across the low, roll ing hills, at right angles with the canyon, and tramped through a tangled maze of chaparral until we reached the lower edge of the Keystone range. As we skirted the flat the pungent aroma of the mephitis was w afted to us and l'eck swore long aud loud. "Another of them durned skunks! I've caught more'n twenty this week, an' it 'pears like there's twenty thou sand of 'em left- Sure enough, the first trap held a skunk, and the little animal, which had pulled and squirmed for hours, was standing still, hxiking at us with piteous eyes and trembling with pain. The smell was sickening, and l'eck stopped me at a safe distance. "You stay yere, lest you pet the smell on yer feet, an' 1 11 fix im." A well-directed shot killed the skunk, and the old man pulled it from the trap and heaved it away with a prunt of disgusL Then he untied the trap, and taking from his rxx-ket a flannel rag and a tattle with a large neck rubbed the contents over the trap. "What is that stuff?" "Alcohol an asafitty," returned l'eck, testily. "It kills the smell, some of it, an' the coyotes like it too, but 't ain't as goixl as it might!:." The disinfecting process did not re quire much time, and when it was finished l'eck hail acquired a new flavor which was not pleasant, but he did not seem to mind it- The trap was taken up and carried to a new ligation and set iu a runway without bait- "It'll ta a day or two afore I catch anything in that trap." said l'eck. "Some fellers buries their traps to make 'cm clean, but 1 jist uses alcohol and asafitty. The best stuff for clean in' is sulphuric acid an water, "cause that cuts off everything, but you've pot to put asafitty on anyway to kill the smell of the acid, see? Coyotes likes the smell of asafitty an I've caught some by drapging a little bag of it over the ground fer a mile or so an' then sett in' down with my rifle to watch the trail. They'll foller it sure if it's early in the mornin" an' the grass is damp." Nine more traps were visited. Five of them held skunks, one a fox, two were not sprung and one hail captured a coyote. The skunks and the fox were killed at once and l'eck was fairly wild. "It does seera's though there ain't nothin' here but skunks. If they was worth ten cents apiece an didn't smell so infernal I'd make a fortune sure. The ornery things is jist swarmiu'. and they gits caught to spite me. I know it." The coyote was a large specimen of muscular starvation. The long, lithe bixlv, with its shaggy hair, the small, furtive eyes and sneering, tnsrling mouth made a threatening picture. Long tafore we reached the trap we could hear the chain rattle as the coy ote, frantic with fear and pain, sprang back and forth in fruitless efforts to escape, l'eck was in a better humor now, and when he had shot the captive, taken off the scalp, flung the carcass away and reset the trap he "talked coy ote" at a rapid rate. "It's funny, they alius pits caught by the fore feet; alius. Now. a fox or a coon or the wildcat '11 get caught by the hind legs sometimes, but a coyote never dix?s. It's alius the front foot that gix?s into the trap. This ere feller is the third I've caught in the last week. That ain't bail; but I expect to do tat ter afore long, 'cause the sheep's comin down from the mountains now, an' the coyotes follers the sheep. No, I couldn't do tatter on the plains. I've tried it there. There's no trees to hang your bait on. an' it's tx settled up; there's too many dogs." "Did you ever try to raise any coy otes?" "Yas, nncL I had two cus in the mountains last year. 1 thought I'd go into coyote raisin' on a big scale an bankrupt the state, bnt it wouldn't work. As soon as the culis was growed up they kep' me so busy huntin for feed for 'em that I jist got tired an' shot e-n. They's treacherous brutes, too, an' they bites wicked. A big one'll whip a pretty good dog if he's cor nered. "I've seed a good many different ways of trappin' of 'em, but this war. with steel traps baited with jackrab bits, is the best. I c'll tell you an aw ful lot 'bout coyotes, but I ain't pot time now. I've got to go out an' hunt up some meat for myself. Come to my shanty some day 'an mebta we'll have some o' the state's venison." And "Coyote" l'eck, giving his Win chester a flirt that landed it on his shoulder, turned quickly away and tramped out of sight in the thickets, leaving me alone, tired, hungry and burdened with the faint flavor of some thing which makes the most fearless chicken shudder with fear when it steals over the roosL San Francisco Chronicle. HISTORICAL DATES. Woodex pavements were the inven tion of Nicholson in 1$T4. The first omnibus appeared in Paris in lHi5; in New York five year later. Stekkotvpixo was the invention of Didot. lT'.t.'l, and came to America IMS. Umbrella have taen made in the United States since 1S02, and in consid erable number since lso2. but, except for the cheapest gixxls, until late years the sticks, the ribs, the stretchers and the coverings were imported. Is 1S01 war was declared against the United States by the ta-y of Triixdi to whom the United States hail paid tril ute for the privilege of navigating the Mediterranean. Hostilities continued with slight practical fcsult.much to the credit of the American navy, till peace was made in 1SJ5. Kaleea Her Own Tea. Mrs. Increase Sumner, of Starke, Bradford county, raises her own tea. and has treated her guests to cups of the homemade beverage, which was pronounced delicious. She sa3s that owing to rapid growth she has to cut off the bushes every three or four years while in China this is done only once in seven years. She gathers three cr ps a year; the finest tea costs fifteen dollars a pound, but will not stand a sea voy age, and never goLs farther than Russia, but her bushes furnish it to her for the picking. MUD LAXD STOCKS. Ono Experience on 'Chanare Was Enough for Mrs. Curtias. "It must ta distinctly understood," said Mr. Curtiss "distinctly." Certainly," said his wife. "Heyond making a sufficient allow ance for all ordinary household ex penses, I w ill have nothing to do with it." "1 understand. I am quite w illing to accept the entire resixmsibility." "Then, if you like the house, accept the agent's off er, send to the warehouse for the furniture, have the house put in order by Jayne's ix-ople, pack your trunks, hire your servants and move in. 1 shall ta absent ten days or longer. I shall find you there on my return?" "Yes. I shall lose no time." Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss had taen ma ried five years. During their first year of housekeeping, Mr. Curtiss discov ered that the drainage of the house in which they were living was uefective. lie notified bis landlord. He waited a month. No notice was taken of his complaint. He promptly canceled his lease, stored his furniture, aud txik his wife to a Ixiardiiig-house. Mrs. Curtiss, after a year or two. found the life a wearisome one. She limped for the comforts of a home, and the agreeable occupation of the home- maker. Mr. Curtiss, on the contrary, pre ferred taarding. He was a man who disliked the small responsibilities of housekeeping. His business, he urged, was suflicient to x-cupy his mitid. Yet now, to gratify his wife, he had acceded to her desire, stipulating, how ever, that he was to ta utterly free from all the daily can's. Mrs. Curtiss gladly agreed. She disliked interfer ence, and welcomed the assurance that she was to have the sole charge of the establishment. A year elapsed. The contract was scrupulously carried out by lxth par ties. Mr. Curtiss provided ample means, Mrs. Custiss gave time and en ergy to the making of a pleasant home. At the end of the year, Mrs. Curtiss had a balance of two hundred dol lars. "Do what you will with it. It is yours," her husband said. "You have earned it." She was planning the uses she would make of it, when a friend came in. She could not resist the temptation of tell ing her how- well she had managed. "What shall I do with it?" she asked. "You know all ataut money, Aurelia. Advise me." Aurelia wore eyeglasses. She specu lated in sUk-Ics. Her friends said she made enormous profits; her enemies declared her grandfather would turn in his grave could he know of her losses, lie had Ix-eti a day laborer in his youth, they added. ' Stocks, of course." replied Aurelia. "Stocks.'" helplessly. "Stx-ks," with decision. "You have two hundred dollars, you say. You shall buy twenty shares of the Mud Land Company. They are a sure thing. It is a bull market now. you know." "Dear me!" ejaculated her bewild ered listener. "The bears have had it quite ton long." continued Aurelia. "Kverything is lxioining now. Put on your tan net at fini-e. Delays are fatal. 1 will go with you." Mrs. Curtis hesitated. "I do not think I can spend all the money that way. Aurelia." "Why not?" sharply. "I ordered a new sirk yesterday from Madame Orettine. It will cost sixty dollars." "Madame Orettine must wait for her pay." "Oh. no!" shuddering. "I have never had a bill unpaid." "You'll clear it fast enough. Mud Land can ta taught to-day for nine and three-quarters. It is worth more: it will ta worth twenty next week. Put on your tanncL" The stronger will conquered. Mrs. Curtiss yielded. In a week she should have four hundred ilollars.she re fleetoiL She would pay madaiue. send a ton of coal to the widowed washerwoman she occasionally employed, and put three hundred dollars in a savings bank. Her husband would have his little joke ataul her capacity for business but what mattered that? Aurelia oroke in upon her pleasant meditations. "Hurry!" she called, from the fixit of the stairs. "Mud Land may go up a couple of points while you dally." Aurelia prided herself upon her knowledge of brokers phrases. "What's a point?" asked Mrs. Curtiss, coining downstairs, her gloves in her hand. 'Surely you know. We must take a carriage. It may score twelve, if we wait for the right car." Score was (Ireck to Mrs. Curtiss, She hail a confused feeling that it had something to do with a baseball match, but she asked no questions. At the broker's office, Aurelia gave the order. Mrs. Curtiss signed it, a feeling akin to terror sweeping over her. If it rises to thirty! she thought. A notification of the purchase of twenty shares of Mud Land at 'J-'i reached her the next day. She carried it to Au relia. "What must I do now?" "Pay for your stock, of course. You could have taught it on a margin. I should, but," with a laugh, "I am used to taking flyers." "Yes," with a feeling of humility, llow wise Aurelia was! how daring! "I'll go with you," said Aurelia. "There'll ta the commission it's on the statement, probably." Mrs Curtiss counted her money twice tafore handing it to the broker's clerk. "That's right." said Aurelia, approv ingly; "I'll make you a woman of business yet-" "Sell the stock at twenty," said Aurelia. "Not a fraction talow." Mrs. Curtiss signed this order. A mine of wealth seemed suddenly open ing tafore her. She thought of the surprise of her husband when she told him of her successful venture. A week passed. Mrs. Curtiss waited in agitated suspense. She consulted Aurelia daily. ""When will it ta twenty?" she asked from day to day, trying Aurclia's scant patience sorely. "I cannot telL The market has sagged a little. The reaction will soon co i no." At the end of the week, Mrs. Curtiss sent for Aurelia. "Madame has sent my dress," he said. "Can I have the money lo-duyJf" "Madame must wait. Mud Land dropped a couple of points yesterday. The taars got control. You mustn't sell now." "I would rather pay madamc prompt ly. This is her first dress." "She can wait. Mud Land is sure to rise. It'll touch twenty within two weeks." A month passed, during which Mrs. Curtiss suffered an anxiety she hail never ta-fore exjHTiencod. Point by point. Mud Land fell to five. For a week it held at that figure. Then, in one day, it rose to seven. "It's on the way to twenty now," said Aurelia. "It is a rampant mar kcL The bulls arc in iL Haven't you anything to spare? Isn't your gas dividend due? What! you haven't cashed the check? Put your tan net ou directly. You must buy some more shares. Hurry! 1 dare say it has touched eleven by this time. Never mind how you lixik!" Mud Land was still at seven, they found. Mrs. Curtiss ordered seven shares at that figure. "Sell it at twenty," said Aurelia. in a loud commanding voice. Now up, now down. Mud Land drove Mrs. Curtiss to the verge of hys terics more than once. She grew thin arid pale. She could not sleep. She l ist all appetite. During this exciting month, madamc sent in her bill three limes. Mrs. Cur tiss took Aurclia's advice and said nothing. Upon the third presentation, she wont to inadamc and explained matters. Madame was cold. "In thirty days," she said. "I can wait no longer. Then my lawyer will collect." Mrs. Curtiss hurried to Aurelia. "She threatens to sue." she said, breathless ly. "What shall I do?" "Nothing." "Nothing?" "A mere threat," explained Aurelia. "She holies to frighten you." "I wouldn't have it come to John's knowledge for the world!" "Leave it to me. Mud Laud will re vive in a day or so." If Mud Land showed no sign of re viving, Mrs. Curtiss' spirits arose at once. "A month is a long time," she saiL "It will rise, surely, as you sav." '"Certainly," with decision. "You will double your money." Mrv Curtiss flew to Aurelia at the expiration of a month "Head!" she stammered, thrusting a letter into her hauiL Aurelia frowned as she read it. "Monstrous imiiertinenee!" she ex claimed, flinging the lawyer's letter ujHin the llixir. "Premeditated insult!" "What sha 1 I do?" soblx-d Mrs. Curtiss. "Oh, what shall 1 do?" "You must sell your stix-k. I see no other way, unless you go to j-our hus band and " "Never!" interrupted the unhappy woman. '-Can't you can't you h ud it to me, Aurelia?" "If I only could!" sighed Aurelia. "Hut, my dear child, every iciiiiy 1 possess is in copper. I exjx'ct to realize a very handsome profit. Now if madame can ta induced to wait " "No! ' said Mrs. Curtiss, "she must ta paiiL 1 never had a letter of that nature sent to me, and never will again! She must ta paid at once." "Then your stx-k must ta sold. It is a pity. Hut yeu are the one to de cide." "Sell it!" repeated Mrs. Curtiss. "You must give the order." said Aurelia. "I w iil go with you, of course." Aurelia wasenjoyingthe luxury of a late breakfast the next morning, uheu Mrs. Curtiss was aunouneed. "Show her into my den," ordered Aurelia. She found her friend pacing the flixir. Her face and mauncr betokened great agitation. "What does this mean?" she ex claimed. "Here is a check for only one hundred dollars!" "It is correct, no doubt," replied Aurelia.' Correct! Why. I paid that broker over two hundred and fifty!" "Mud Land has dropped, you must remember." "You said it would ta worth twenty. You said I would double my money," sobbed Mrs. Curtiss. "So you" would. So it will." "When?" spiritedly. "Your money is in copper." "You have managed badly." said Aurelia, coldly. "You should not have ordered that dress. You did not need it." 'I'll never buy stocks again!" ex claimed Mrs. Curtiss. "Mud Laud may go up or stay down I'll never put money into it! Never!" "You did not need the dress," re peated Aurelia, serenely. "Mud Land will rise to twenty. You might have made a gixxl thing of it." Mr. Curtiss sat in his library that evening. Everything around him gave a sense of satisfaction; everything told him of the loving sujxrvision of his wife. The fire burned brightly in the grate, the latest magazine, ready-cut, lay upon his reading table, the dog slumtaTed at his feet, lie was in a miMxl, therefore, to listen sympathet ically to his wife, when she falteringly tagan the recital of her humiliating exix'rienee, "So you consulted Aurelia?" he said, smiling into the troubled face. "Pixir Aurelia! She must lose far more than she gains. On !y a very inexix rieneed person would have advised the pur chase of Mud LamL It is practically worthless." "Well," with a long-drawn sigh: "I shall lose no more money in stocks. And, possibly, it is well that 1 have had this experience. For, if I had doubled my money, I might have " "Consulted Aurelia again?" "Never!" Mary A. Sawyer, in Yan kee Klade. llahlt of "tiente." The "gents" have a contempt for the ordinary decencies of life- They "cuss, chaw terbacker. and drink red licker," nnd they desire that you shall ta made aware of the facL They were "raised" to do it, and if you don't like it you can "lump it see?" They "pa.v their way." and "don't ask no man no txlds." As they see him the gentleman is uln ars a "dude," the lady a "high-flyer." They rush against you, jostle you, outrage your ser.se of propriety and rejoice in the discomfort they cause you. They "sport" paste diamonds and "take iu the town," and are not afraid of the "whole police force." They will have you know they are "gents" and priv ilege,! under the law to outrage decen cy. ISirtuiughatn Age-lleraU.
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