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ar-Leiu.lution or proceeding ol any Corp ra
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rail attention to any matter of limited or imM
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Hot.k and Job Printing of all kind! neatly and
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rm no evcm win ttif iit-ore icriu ha iie
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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.
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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
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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?"
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sir- ; . .'. v.-i .'i. lvttil,!i."i, f.-i.-.'i'.i iv.. L-,
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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
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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
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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 "
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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.'
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t t J---I i-.i.f,i::n' and I heartily cmuui'-iid it U
t.'i titIitiK a i.t.Hwi (MintirT.
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DICIION.UIY
A GftAND INVESTMENT
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1 it- work of ri-ii.... . ii.ii-.l ott trn
JuiiH. mom ii-.mi, ),..n.lir-l 1. hi. .rial law
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M' "' -x.i r.trti h. lorr .r tirst cup!
pi-i:trJ. "
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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
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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.
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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.