UNCLE SAM'S MOUNTS.
How Cavalry Horses are Purchased
==Various Methods of Trading-~
Dealers Try to Get the Best of the
Government.
Nearly all of the horses for the ar
my are bought in SL. Louis, and are
gathered by contractors from Mis-
souri and the neighboring States,
says the Washington Post. While
this is pretty far West, they are
what is known as Eastern horses and
although they are, most of them
quite serviceable after they have
been toughened by Western cam-
paigning. the best h ae
to the officers who have had experi
enc in rough campaigning
those of Wyon Montana
Bouthern Calif which are born
and bred to the climatic conditions
they Lave to Indian
paigning. Horses from this section
are a good deal cheaper than the East-
ern horses, and as they come utterly
wild and devilish from the rancher-
ias, it is also a liberal education to
the troopers to have to bre ak them.
The horse buying for thearmy is
done by the Qu uartermaster-General
Office, Lieut. -Colonel Moore, having
for many vears, been the expertin
charge of this work, aithough he has
lately been by
Gillis. A board for horse purchase
consists of an officer from the quar-
termaster’s department, a cavalry
officer and a citizen's expert and vet-
erinary. This board is supposed to
pass upon the merits of the animals
presented and select such as are suit-
able for army use. Bids are adver
tised for to the number of
horses required contractors
bring them in re or the
hundred, as the be. The
only regulatio hin the
horse must come are, that shall
be between fifteen and
high fifteen and on:
that he must be s«
limb, and of
is to say, not
cross-marked.
tail that do not match his gene
complexion
There are a number of
jokes in the ar ab the
ter of horses fur: by
tors and the I
followed by these
the most
The soldie
the horses i
stop li
a bell
of su
on the car |
if a contra
ful city ge
horses
country and g
hundred
and get out
teams he ca:
for private
out all the
say ]
be used
ing
remainder
are any sadd
them out
remnant hi
tract wit
possible tha
on Lhe contra
orL{es
face in
t
superseded Colonel
1
furnis
he
$e iin
Stanqing
charac-
Fong
me
he
what
however, the
lat of hie Ir8es
that can be
§ field there
is to draw from and he manner of
contract
many of t!
they rece
service, live to
is one regiment, 1
West, that is pre
though the av
is thirteen
It is said that
mounted
of Germa:
that
been bu + u
breed reid
farms attered
all ov
these
to ring their
charge. ¥ long course of
tion there has been built up a na-
tional breed of horse, powerful in
bone and muscle, swift and enduring,
and in any the cavalry
force of the German army could be
doubled or trebled without lowering
its standard by simply buying up
the surplus of the farms,
any rate
good CATE
rage
years
hie most spl
the world is that
government in
coun years has
nati
ant
ont i
stud
ntervals
and to
allowed
free of
great
(zGvernm
ire,
are
emi
armers
{ mares
1
golee.
emergency
A Victim of Superstition,
Superstition reig:
many rural districts
a tortunefeller pr
farmer and his sister, living near Noto,
Bicily, that on the evening before a cer.
tain feast day
death.
the poor dupes that they became in
sane and rushed shiricking through the
streets, A of these unfortn
nates then came somehow to the con
clusion that the calamity was due to
the witcheraft of their stepmother,
and in a fit of blind rage killed the poor
woraan with a hoe,
tyrannically In
in Italy. Lately
ophiesied
brother
Deer ''Skinners.’
Gangs of “skinpers,” nen who
slaughter deer wholesale solely for the
hides, are again at work in the moun-
tains of Curry county, Or. A hunting
party just returned from the region
relate tunt it was not unusual to come
across a dozen or more carcasses of
deer in the course ot a day, left to rot
by the law violators. It Is estimated
that more than 700 deer have been
killed In that section this summer
solely for their hives. The “skinners”
find a ready sale for the hides, and
make much money at the wretched
business,
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS,
RECIPE
To write a good letter,
grit.
A plenty of time and a little of wit;
Take patience to ‘set’ it, and stir it all up
With tbe ladle of energy. Then fill a cup
With kind thoughts and helpful thoughts,
merry thoughts, too,
With bright words, and wise words,
words strong and true.
Mix all these
spice
Some
FOR A GOOD LETTER.
take a handful of |
and
together, and then add for
good news, some news, all
news that's nice.
Then seal with a love kiss,
with care,
funny
and stamp it
and, presto!
'tis there.
Amos R. Wells.
ETHEL'S M1
Little Ethel is
weeks of age,
maturity she
maintain by
attire; theref
rough an
Cire
HOTEST.
two
such
just two years and
and the dignity of
had deemed it expedient to
strictest attention to her
when her t
the
ore,
unavoida
had been
ravages
Was supp
iny shoes,
th ble combination
imstancoes,
cobbler
rectified,
ipidate
have the
she
and
1 pair kept f
i th
the whole
and
{oes
or such
ewe
‘anxiety
» :
HnehH
when she
the sane
indignant
warmth
man
GORE OD
that
waving
* oiher
to him
mmb, and,
snient, £31 striicelin and then
immedintel
i 2 me
the other beautiful arms wrap themselves
and be is drawn into the
and
HCO
around hin
huge, greedy
Then the arms and
again in the water, looking as though they
!
had never touched a fish
IS S8en NO more
love wave
WHEN IT RAINS
There is po doubt that all animals, wild
four-footed or with wings, have
to or wel
fowl seek a
a deep-seated aversion rain
weather. Even water will
dry hiding-place when it rains.
Did you ever watch the actions of cattle
before a big storm? If so, you must have
seen them grow more and more uneasy
as the clouds threatened You also saw
run up and down the fleld, as if
mpending danger.
Finally, when the storm does come. they
draw closely together, and, with lowered
heads, present a picture of despair.
When it rains the domestic animals
always Keep indoors, or. failing that,
seek shelter by the barn. or under
or beneath the hedges
in short. in any convenient
to the downpour.
It is the same with fowls. They dis
like the rain, which soaks their feathers,
They seek sheltered places and creep
under wagons, and squeeze in behind
Chickens do not mind
wetting their feet, as théy will scratch
the muddy ground, soon after a shower,
in search of worms and bugs.
Wild birds do their best to keep out of
the rain. They find shelter in many
ways, Bome of them build & roof over
their nests, in which they keep more or
less dry. Others choose a house under
the eaves, or under a projecting cliff,
where they are safe from the discomforts
that the rain brings. But most of them
sre without any adequate shelter that is
i
the result of their own
They take refuge in nny
forethought.
place that they
hand. If you watch |
them before the coming of the storm, you |
will see them looking around for shelter.
comes suddenly, the small
and helpless ones seem bewildered, flying
from tree to tree, and from limb to iimb,
quite unable to make up their mine. to a
temporary hiding-place.
A SHIP'S LAUNCH.
First Preparations When the
Blocks Are Laid.
It has often sald that
gins to die the moment that he begins
to live. It might said that a
ship begins to be lnunched the moment
The first thing
arrange
ship is to
They
distances
Keel
be
been man
also be
glie begins to be built
in the ne
the
ctual construction is to
keel-blocks on which the
while she is building
be placed at
and eo
neighbor n
ust
apart,
higher
certain
teh must be a Hitt than
the These
onk,
foet
inch
its water,
enrer
blocks are usually the stoutest
of
and are placed from two to three
apart. They must have a regular
ition, or the ship cannot be lnunched
i
like the
is about one half an ine
th
In vessels St, Louis the | incline
foot in leng
Is often m
have so
harp incline Is not as ne
Keel
GREATS
sina ler ones
il on tl
J. howeve
he Keel-hloeks
is to transfer the shin
Keel-blocks to the
takeawny the
the weight
wid to
when
we launching
“anle
tionars
stoned togethe
own weight will
1 water If sh
ral “iacks”
reads
using
be nen
1 ¥ 1 fe
he ana gis
pus
Doctoring Cut Flowers.
There
that the
nection
are a great many dodges
public never dream of in con
of
instance
with the enormous sale but
ton-holes For
by artificial
well.”
Answers
of doctored
which are
fading, or those which
usually at all. In the
case of the former the flowers are daily
dipped in a weak solution of sal am
moniac, which, for a time, revives them
in the most marvellous way,
“But the chief doctoring is with the
flowers which, as a rule. have little
or no scent, First of all these are put
into a metal box with ice, and then by
a very simple process they are subject.
ed to a continuous current of carbonic
ach charged with perfumes of the re-
quired vivacity, There is an immense
amount of profit made by scenting
those violets which in the order of nat
ure have no perfume
“In certain districts
quantities of violets having no scent
to be found, while the naturally
odorous ones are quite mre by compar.
But in first-class florists’ places
and bouquets
a perfume
flowers we
we often give
means to the said a
florist
“The
flowers
to a writer in
greater number
are either those
and ‘off-color,”
have
Ho seent
coholie solution fixed by means of gly-
corin is used in the case of the scien
It is the same
other appropriate scent Is used instead
| of the violet, of course,
White satin “ribbon shaded with pale
rose and a golden-yellow is one of the
novelties,
A AA SUS EAASIN.
Black moire ribbon with a feathered
edge Is very pretty for collarettrs,
Game in the Blg Park.
Superin tendent Huntley, of the
| Yellowstone Park Company, says:
‘*All large game in the park, ox-
buffalo, is increasing fast,
There is still a small herd of buffalo
in the park, but it is a constant
A buffalo head is said to be
worth from $300 to $500. The troops
give them all the protection they
can, but once in a w hile some es
pot hunter gets off witha hide and
head. In no place in the country is
fishing better than in the park.
Deven years ago the Government
commenced stocking the streams of
Wonderland, and now all afford ex-
cellent sport with the rod. Three
varieties of trout have been furnished
from the Government hatcheries —
the rainbow, the Von Baer. and Loch
leven. The latter is the gamiest
trout in the world. The Fire Hole
River was stocked largely with that
variety , and four-pounders have been
this
lnkes were
Some
with
fishing will not
ar or two longer
expected to be
for many from
by the Burlington
The road opens a new section
country to Montana and benefit
were feit in the park thi
better
summer
of the small stocked
but buss
be allowed for a yi
‘Next year is
one. We look
section reached
black bass,
a big
the
hotels were
Yellowstone
Bappre
Postal Telegraphy.
bt
I sense,
He believes
of
ane
FLING or DOLD Lk about
: words each betwee “tide
New York conld evers
Ivy be couple
wires at a twelve
Ago
profitab
and
das wr
Sent over a of
of
Copper
fifteen
let
cents in the mail
saving of half an hour
of twenty-four hours
on “ma:
has been on
very far.
fo
conts apiece Thousands of such
ters now pay twelve
to insure the
after a
The plan
we telegraphy,’
al before and not
journey
i= based necessarily
which
gone
An Odd Ordinance.
Conncilman Towle, of Oakland, Cal,
recently introduced and engineered to
second reading an ordinance compel
ling all bathers within the city limits
of that town to tie up their heads in a
snack while bathing. The ordinance
provides that all bathers must wear “a
shirt or jersey covering the entire up
part of the body except the asms
The ordinance passed to the printers
amd it was the oftenabused intelligent
compositor who discovered that if it
the Council every bather in
Oakland would be compelled by law
to bag his head. The ordinance was re
ported back, and is to come up for final
per
Absorbable Tissue For Wounds.
J. Lustok has patented a process In
Germany under which the muscular
coating of the intestines of animals
is divested of both the interfor and
exterior lnyers of mucous membrane,
and then digested in a pepsin solution
until the muscular fibres are half ai
gested, This ix then treated with
tannin and gallic acid. The result is
a tissue which can take the place of
the natural skin, and which, when afd
on the wound, Is entirely absoriéd
during the healing process,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
dng in such largely increased num-
| bers imposes upon the United States
lished that a city has no legal right
to pollute the water of a river which
flows thence past other towns
Theodore Parker
he end of the
Forry years ago
predicted that before
century Kaneas would have 1,000
000 inhabitants and be worth $I
000,000,000. The prediction has been
more than fulfilled already. Kansas
has 1.500000 people and is worth
$2,000 000 000
Iris estimated that
westward bound. were
Pennsylvania Railroad
Newport, Penn. a few
What a record of high aims and lov
devices, self-sacrifice and ge
ing, poverty and wealth, happiness
and miegery, was thus wiped out!
But it will all reappear in :
sealed envelopes in the
time.
A BINGLY
has already
poun ds of Copp
expected that
20.000 letters
lost in the
wreck
aAays
near
5 OF
ago.
i{-geek
Amariogy
its
vear will reach
Its net
$2 086 O00
last
These
profits
exaggerate
1e year 610
country was
the country
Compared in
countries
Spain, bel ngab
She is larger t
ireland by G, 93% square ri
eleventh largest country
world. Compared with Great Brit
ain and Ireland she has 7, 100 (xx)
more people, and in population ranks
as the fifth power in the world.
nan Great
of the influence of
the size of seeds upon germination
and upon the size of the plant that
springs therefrom has been recently
studied anew by Mr. B. R. Galloway,
a summary of whose conclusions is
given by the Gardeners’ Chronicle
The weight and size of the seed are
of great importance. A large seed
germinates better and more quickly
and with it one can count upon hav-
ing at the same moment from 8) to
80 per cent. of the total crop, while
with sinall seeds the crop reaches
maturity only in successive periods
of time, so that at no moment in gath-
ering the crop in toto could we have
the same proportion of the whole.
Besides, where with small seeds four
successive crops are obtained, we
have six with large seeds, their evo.
THe question
ity.
THERE is no longer any doubt that
For tro years, notably in 1894 im-
migration to
held in check; in the
has resumed its former volume.
incecase is very apparent. During
September the arrivals of immigrants
in this country numbered 86,599, as
ainst 24,904 in Reptember, 1804.
The nine months of the current year
show an immigration of 249 332 as
against 191,485 for the same period
last year. "The inference from these
facts, exclaim the Boston Common
monwealth, is gratifying; it is a
proof of the reality of the prosperity
which has returned to this country.
These hundreds of thousands of em-
igrants were driven out of Eurspe by
unusual distress in their native
lands; they were attracted by better | said
times in America. But their com-
year 1R95 it
biy than ever before. Our present
laws assume to keep ont the diseased ,
the criminal, the paupers, and, to a
great extent. they are eflective. jut
they need to be supplemented by
laws which shall erect a barrier
against ignorance, and shall enable
the great American Republic to get
the best, and only the best, from the
peoples of Europe
which George
Biltmore,
young mil-
Ix the great outlay
Vanderbilt is making at
in North Cz
lionaire more #e-
rious I general ly
known, says the Nes ork Sun A
gre: } 1 about
enormon
the
has ined a
it deal Lhe
ITATY
chape
arn
one XNows
WHERE HE DREW THE LINE.
Why the Ol:
a Windmill
Farmer Wouldn't Buy
nan barns
attle; He's
feath
now,
sfter 1 ha "11 be ever-
as
em.’
sliory-
nd down on
that {fairl
Of ox arse
10 purchase
his senti-
Independ
8) } an
fowl « many kinds An
stranger
80 mean
Him to pump wats for
d ther '' continued the
LO ask
Al
teller he brought his lis
whack
through the house
urge him
his knee with a
echoed
I couldn't
after that expression of
ments, and 1 left him
ent, wasn't he?”
Then the windmill man
as if he enjoyed the mem
scene he had just described; and his
hearers enjoyed his story so much
that when he left he was richer by
three or four orders.
chuckled
ry of the
Petrifying the Human Form.
It is stated that there are in exist.
ence a number of figures of petrified
human beings prepared by an Italian
specialist. His marvelous achieve.
ments in preserving the features of
the dead have been the theme of
discussion among scientists for many
years. In the Florentine Museum
there are some samples of his work.
One of the most perfect examples of
his skill has been in existence for
sixty years. It was the head of an
extremely beautiful young woman
who had died from pulmonary tuber-
culosis, Its whereabouts has been
for some time unknown, but the de
scendents of this great pastmaster in
petrification have been searching
diligently for it. It has been found
in Bavaria ani restored to its owners
as one of the treasures of Italian
anatomical science. Sixty years’ use
svems to have caused it no appreci-
able injury, asitis described by a
writer as having luxuriant blonde
hair quite wavy and soft like that of
a Hving person.
COXFIDRROR,
to be President some o day.»
proudly, ‘Papa said
wd
might,”
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