THE PRAISE OF THE PRESENT.
Poets there be who tune their lyres
to days of long ago
And sing a song of sentiment in meas-
ures sad and low.
To them the golden age is past, the
golden fleece is clipped;
The rose of pléasure hath been pluck-
ed, the cup of joyance sipped:
They live in longing for the lost, the
dead of Might Have Been,—
Bui I--a bard most practical—count all
such singing sin.
“go me these days, these present
days.
Have fertile fields and flower
Ways,
Wherein my
strays;
And if I had a song to sing,
about these days.
fancy fondly
I'd sing
And there be bards who rave a stave
concerning Days To Be,
When all things shall be lovely
luxuriant and free,
When Joy shall reach her chalice down |
to thirsty mortal lip
And certain rare elected ones to drunk-
enness shall sip;
and
The bud has yet to blossom and
honey to be stored
Ere hungry souls may sit them down
and sweep the festal board.
But as for me [ say These Days
Hold pastures where my soul |
may graze
And drink delights and gather
bays;
if I knew a stave to
rave about These Days.
the |
And rave, I'd
To me These Days are golden-tipped
with goodly thoughts and things,
And Opportunity but waits to spread
her splendid wings
At my command, to be:
make my vision wide,
That I may sweep the height, the deep |
and know them deified!
The golden Days of Long
golden Days To Be
Are not so wonderful by half as These
Days are to me;
And so These Days, these
den days,
To me are rich with
maize
minstrel-sweet
vest lays:
were 1 piping Pan himself,
about These Days.
tobertus Love in New York Su
ir me up and
Ago, the |
gol
and |
wine
And with har-
And
pipe
HOW HE WAS AVENGED.
By Conan W. Doyle.
The travelers from beyond Morada
bad having reached Kaladoongie, were
discovered to be men of consequence
by the Thanadar, and were invited by
him to join the circle of the great
round his fire on the evening of their
arrival. It was very warm and the
dismal silence was only accented by
the distant howl of a lonely jackal
The sheet lightning flickered fitfully
over the foothills, mocking the
ing Teral with its faint promise
coming change.
The conversation round the fire
ged, and the hookah passed languidls
from hand to hand. Those
would have retired to sleep. had sleep
been possible; but as that was a con
summation not easily attained at this
geason of the year, they preferred their
present miseries to those that come in
the wakeful night watches when the
Teral is athirst. Ram Deen's arrival
was a nightly boon to those who were
wont to assemble round the Tharna-
dar's fire; there was always the possi
bility of his having news
men seemed to acquire fresh vitality
from contact with his vigorous person
ality. The strangers were especially
grateful for his arrival; and when he
had taken his usual place beside the
fire the hookah was at once passed to
him.
“Any tidings, coach-wan Ji?
ed the Tenadar,
“None, sahib, save that the great
frog in the well at Lal Kooah—who is
as old as the well, and wiser than most
men-—gave volee just ere I started, and
the bunnia said it was a sure sign of
rain within two days, as the frog's
warning bad never been known to
fail.”
“Nana Debi send it be 80,” exelalin
ed the little carrier, “for my bullocks
be starved for the lack of green food.
and bhoosa (chaff) is past my means.”
“Thou shouldst pot complain, Goor
Dutt,” sald Ram Deen, with a smile:
“their very leanness is thy passport
through the jungle. Fatter kine wonld
have been devoured and their driver
with them long ere this”
Hint of danger that might be en-
countered in the jungle having thus
been given, one of the strangers was
moved to ask concerning the lume tiger
gasp
of 3
flag
present
: and, besides,
inquir
Lal Kooah on the previous day.
to carry the mail after the slaying of
thy hostler, Nandha?”
may not stop for fear.
fear rode with me a day and a night
after the death of Nandba”
“It is a great thing.” sald the little
carrier. nodding nt the wayfarers,
while Ram Deen “drank tobacco.”
When Ram Deen had passed the
hookah to his neighbor, he went on:
“Brothers, on the day that Nandha
wag carried off by thé tiger, I sent
word to the postmaster of Nain! Tal
concerning the killing, and the out:
going mail brought me word that the
sirdar (government) would send me
help, Ye know that a tiger kills not
two days in succession; so I had no
fear when 1 traversed the road to and
from Lal Kooah till the second day
after the slaying of Nandba. Ere I
started on that morning the munshi
told me to drive to the dark bungalow
—————————— A —— RA AAI, RESO
or a sahib who had been sent to slay
the slayer of men. Brothers, when I
went to the dark bungalow there came
forth to me a man child—a Faringi--
whose chin was as smooth as the palm
of my hand,
“1 would have laughed, but that I
thought of the tiger that I knew would
be waiting for us, and taking pity on
him, I sald: “The jungle hereabouts is
full of wild fowl, sahib, and 'twere
pity when shikar is so plentiful you
should waste this morning looking for
forth for two days yet. He answered
me never a word, but went into the
dark bungalow for something he had
forgotten; and while he was gone his
butler spake to me, saying: ‘Coach-
man. make no mistake; thy life de-
pends upon thy doing the sahib’s bid-
ding. He is a very Rustum, and he
knoweth not fear, for all he is so
young! ‘He ix a man after my own
heart, then sirdar; but, mashallah! I
would he had a beard,” I replied.
“presently the young sahib
with an empty bottie In one
hand and a gun in the other. Throw-
ing the bottle into the air he shattered
it with a bullet ere it reached the
Startled by the report, a jack-
came
replenishing his gun, he took his sent
on mail cart,
‘Blow on my bugle, conch-wan, and an
pounce our coming to Shere Bahadoor,
me the
his majesty the tiger.’
“It was a Drave jawan
and
belike he had a mother; so 1 swore in
betall.
meerning the
one who goeth to
speak] ns
Tt fle »
riage
shoot hiack
* ‘He
par
lame, and
us by the Bore
As
coach-wan,
bridge,’ sald the sahlb, SOON
The
and
soekest
of Huldwanl
is no fawn thon
Perchance the
great shi-
lame one is
cunning; it
this morning
will dispatch
kari to help thee in this hunting. Gun-
my not the tiger,
if we should shame befall me if I
to leave ti mail cart
are able to run’
the
some
zn send we meet
bu
thee 1
ilet the horses
or brothers,
calling me a cow
answer, my si-
3
Hib flushed red, and,
ach with soeh force that the reins fell
from my hands. Taking them up, the
while 1 tought for my breath, he turn
ed the horses roun 3 saving
may not want a tiger.
+ th me this mornisg,
Deen. my butler, shall take thy place,
“ *rhe sahih, being a man, will not
blacken my face in the eyes of Kala
[ sald. ‘I spake for thy sake,
« but 1 will drive thee to Jehan
wilt, man hath
me coward before.’ I
ib ipokiug in my face as [ rock
my beard under my pag
my
and Goor
tloongie
saa ftle
as thou for no
oa it
bint 1° 8
eves met 98
ave up the
if thou playest
a dog:
“aaving
+ will kill
showed me
Imad In hi
together, but
when
hook
blast bugle
coach-wan,’
from my
‘Shabash!
med
and
excia
teod
skin
liurt to thy stom
again.’
beyond the bridge, as
the sahib; ‘thou art a man, ine
shalt have Shere Bahadoor's as
the
recompense for
4 3
ach. Bid him come
“Half a mile
river | again blew upon the bugle. The
arcely ceased when We
roar of a charging
had su
heard the
sound
angry
their
the
threw the frightened horses on
haunches, whilat he
ground
Then
road, 1
leaped to
horses flow
back
whilst the
jooked
over
the salib blew on his fingers, as one
would whistle to a dog. The great
beast stopped on the instant wind
the ground, ready to
spring on the sahih ae he advanced to
ward it, and I prayed to Nana Debi to
befriend the young fool.
“When he was within thirty paces or
go from the tiger, the sahib halted and
brought the gun to his shoulder. The
cronehd to
into the air.
“I knew the tiger was dead; and im
mediately thereafter the mail cart rao
into the bank and spilled me on the
road.
to a tree, I proceeded to seek the sa
hib. Wah Ji wah! brothers, we must
pay taxes to Faringis until we can
raise sons like theirs. When 1 joined
the boy sahib he was smoking, and
- : 0
the benst
i saranblice a
tape! His bullet had strock
had died at the hands of a man!"—The
Speaker.
Names of the Bell's Pars
Every part of the bell has a technical
The hoods for fastening the
the axle on which it revolves in the
belfry, are called the “cannons.” The
loop from which to suspend the clap
per has algo to be cast, In many mod.
ern bells the cannons are dispensed
with and the bell is bolted directly on
to ite stock, This hag the advantage
of enabling the bell to be turned. The
clapper in technically divided into ball
or hammer, and the flight or shaft,
which Is fastened directly into the
erown of the bell by an fron staple
lH AAR AB SI
Philosophically Explained.
It never ocenes to some women that
they wear clothes for any other rea.
gon except to be in the fashion New
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Is Spain so badly off that even
Portugal can talk of annexing her ?
If the golf links maintain their
popularity there'll be an autumn girl |
as well as a summer girl one of these |
days,
The days of the prairie dog are
numbered, In Texas a trap is now |
being used that in one day wiped out |
12,000 of the little pests on a single |
ranch.
The classes of 1901 in the girls’ |
schools are taking the name of ‘The
Nanghty-Ones,” It is supposed the
classes of the next year will be |
“Naughty-Two."” |
The hill country of the Western
Carolinas used to be called ‘the Over
Hills of Ottalay,” (or Ottoray) and
The Charleston News and Courier
urges that the poetic Indian name be
—————————
The only choice which is being
offered to poor, bewildered China is
whether it is to be eaten with sugar
The wail of the Chinese
Empress about the ‘‘greedy dogs" of
Europe is pathetic, but unavailing.
The health officer of Kansas City,
Mo,, blames prosperity for the nou-
ana
consequently their garbage barrels till
up so fast that the garbage man can-
not keep them properly emptied.
The full name of the Sultan of Sula
is Hadzi Mohammed Womoloil Kiraw.
jut that is no reason why he can’t
become a pretty good American. John
license Chicago the
8 Inarriage in
General Wood says the Cubans in
of their schools, and
American teachers,
indication could be had of
reorganization
demanding
No bette
m tA
he latest specific
has at
for sea-sickness
least the merit of simplicity.
3
the
Ace
w ho
irding to
recommenas
count
roughest
German scientist
eract the effects of the
becanse red
quickens its circulation
Sen,
1
the ana
excites
and
He
sits
In a recent speech he
John Burns is the most noted
able of English leaders,
has visited the United States and
in parliament
administered the f{
to the newly acquired British
subject, Williams Wald Ast «sy
labor
Hlowing flagella
duke
power
tradition and
caste qualitied by service to
the community, the migratory
money bag, a patriot
property is threatened,
by Ww LHOse
feeling is
hut
only when his
a citizen only
when his comfort is encroached upon
he is too
fnean even to be tarred
nstant novel
New York
have little time for
it. But in the smaller towns,
time can found for anything, one
2 ’
Indiseriminate and co
» bere
{re
romantically inclined person
wld the natural vietim of the
novel-devouring craze. But middle.
aged women, so the public librarians
say, are the ones that demand novels
apd still more novels, After their
Ws be
sons, One wonders if the athletic
girl of to-day will take to novels when
she becomes hopelessly middle-aged.
It is difficult to imagine, but one can
never tell
It is proposed in Kenosha, Wis.
to make wheel-women take out a
special license. A lawyer who was
run down not long ago by a girl on a
wheel has drawn up an ordinance re-1
quiring the lipense, and providing |
that before a girl may have one, she
must give a specimen of her riding |
before a committee of three experts,
she can control her wheel, must file
a bond of 8100, to establish the vie.
tims of possible collisions beyond the |
roach of loas,
No American stadent of the signs’
of the times now visible in the United |
States can have failed to be impressed
by the recent rapid increase in the!
number of private schools observes |
the New York Times. The public]
schools, too, are multiplying in all |
parts of the country, but they come |
only under the stress of absolute |
necessity, and. in many localities be- |
sides New York, not fast enough to |
meet an almost despairing demand |
from the largest, though not the most i
influential, part of the populatior |
Their rivals, on the coutrary, are
springing up everywhere under a com
pulsion which if it exists, is well con- |
cealed and almost unmentioned.
i
i
The Indians on the Osage Reserva-
tion, Oklahoma Territory, are taking
advantage of the bankruptcy law to
protect their property and Govern-
ment annuities from the post traders
to whom they owe collectively about
850,000, The readiness with which
the gentle Osage takes in the lessons
of civilization inspires the liveliest
hopes for the future. He has lesrned
how to eat Lis cake and have if
thus conquering » problem too in-
tricate for more advaiced races, and
proverbially declared to be insoluble,
It has always been reckoned in eiv-
ilized countries that the production
and price of iron marked the pros
perity of the people better than any-
thing else. Judged by this standard,
the prosperity of the American people
is now much greater than ever be-
fore. We are producing 270,000 tons
of pig iron per week, and yet the
factories which work up this immense
raw material cannot get pig iron to
fill all their orders, The present pro-
was two years ago, though in that
year our iron product was greater than
it had ever before reached, Itis in
the manufacture of machinery from
been made, While the home demand
for pig iron is so great as it has lately
been, we cannot afford to export it in
that state,
In Chicago an effort is being mado
to replace women servants with men,
In these days of demand exceeding
supply the domestic servant question
has assumed a difficult and, unless
the Chicago experiment be a success,
almost unsolvable phase, Men in
household are notable for
quickness, intelligence and respect
for authority, but the trouble is that
80 few of them care to go into service,
The army of the unemployed wonld
dwindle into slim proportions if men
ceased to consider household situa-
tions as menial, and life would be
much less hard passed under the
shelter of a comfortable home with
good food and wages,
service
when the locomo
ive engine was first seen on the
prairies, untutored i
to ride on the tracks and endeavor to
Many years ago,
the savage used
frighten the new monster away.
truins hand seldom paused to gather
the seattered chief, but Jeft 3
kaleidoscopic remains to instruct, or
a! least amuse,
When the Indian g
sport the buffalo took it up,
resnit that
were diminished,
his fellow-savages,
I of this
with
labors of the chase
pros In-
dians, instead of scouring the plains,
jast sat down by the tracks
1, 1 hese réiiniscences « f i i
réew tire
the
the :
nnd ident
and wait-
1
time are occasioned by the
which the cabmen of Ne
are both the
lo in their dealing
now imitating
the pitiless trolley cars
be the height of imprude: Cc
man to
riake
iedintely ahead of
fs
i
track imu
car advancing at a rate «
ber than his vehicl
4
(lesirnct:
it £3
’
Ary
‘cr
of 1
bodily, ruin
tribe of the trolley
as that
creased in the
the
buffaloes,
aven
Comanch
for some
that the trolley cars
. s ‘ $
Certainly the gripmen will nid
“e
court,” which has
ww the Illinois legis.
The ‘‘children’s
been established
ature is an experiment thet will well
Heretofore t
made no distinction bet
erimminals and a init eriminals
iild thing
vn axercised a
worth watching. Lie
Aeen
magistrates have
discretion In deal-
with youthful offenders that the
did not sanction. This
way to teach young pers:
spect the and the Jilin
lature has attempted to of
practice by tf establishment
sepatate court for trial
ess than sixteen years old and by the
adoption of a code suited to the class,
Under this scheme under
twelve years of age ean be arrested or
held in a p A place of
detention for children must be spect
ally provided, and when children are
be brought into court it must be
by summons served on their parents
or guardians, Wide discretion is
then allowed magistrates in dealing
with vouthful offenders. The great
advantage of this scheme is that these
~flenders do not come in contact with
+» police or with hardened criminals.
1 ney are treated munch as a stern
schoolmaster treats unruly pupils.
is hardly
iis 10 re
law, is legis-
rect this
of a
ofienders
sa
Le
of
no child
lice station.
to
Trolleys Used as Freighters.
In Pennsylvania and many other
States many trolley cars now have
compartments for carrying merchan-
dise and produce, and they make reg.
to receive and deliver
freight. Farmers find these trolley
lines a cheap and convenient way of
shipping garden and dairy products to
adjacent markets, and trolley com-
it
no special foresight to see
what this sort of traffic will lead to.
1t will end In establishment of a regu
lar trolley freight service, with cars
expressively adapted to the purpose,
Trolley mail cars are now used in New
York and other great cities to collect
and deliver mail matter, and a trolley
freight service would be merely an
extension of this idea. only with great.
or possibilities of profit to trolley cou
panies,
Klops
Tells Its Owa Story.
In a pretty Wisconsin town not far
from Milwaukee there is a “spite
fence” which tells its own story to ali
the world, 1t is a high and tight board
affair, amd cuts off a view across a
nuniber of beautiful lawns. The man
who lvex on one side of it evidently
feared that the fence would bring
down on his head the condemnation of
his neighbors, Not wishing to be un-
justly blamed, he has therefore paint.
od on his side of the fence, in letters
that can be read a block away, these
words: “He built this fence. 1 didn't
do IL” The man on the other side also
bad no idea of letting a false impres-
sion get out. Accordingly he has paint.
ol on the other side of the high bar
rier: “1 had to do it"
Kansas pays its Governor only $2,600
a year. '
THE BOLO OF THE FILIPINOS.
A Weapon Which Has Proved Inefficient
Against Our Troops.
Sixth Artillery, who is on
Napidan in Laguna de
the following interesting
Copp of the
the gunboat
Bay, gives
information
the fighting with the Filipinos:
thelr dead if they can possibly get him
away. They leave more now than
they uged to, for this reason: Forier.
gun, and about all these men
good for was to carry away the
wounded and dead, although they were
armed with These weapons
were very effective against the Spani-
ards, as the bolo men apparently cared
nothing for their own lives, and the
bolos,
weapons at close quarters in the
world, It is very sharp and so heavy
that it will smash any sword in pleces
that 1 have seen. They use them lu
the right hand, and a long, heavy dag
ger in the left, 1 had one of the
many amigos who could handle the
bolo through the motions for me
and it was truly wonderful, The rapid
ity of his moves was such that the eye
follow them, and all the
constant guard, 7d
in r is
Zo
could
hardly
pr a
i& to ent, no point; the «
to stab. no edge. When thes
pininingly? If there be such a man in
this audience, let him rise up! 1 should
really like to see him!”
And in the rear of the hall, a mild-
| looking man in spectacles, in obedience
| to the summons, timidly arose. He
wax the husband of the eloquent
speaker, It was the first tim: he had
ever had a chance to assert himself
Dangerous insects In Cuba.
The centipede in Cuba often attains
| a length of from ten to twelve
but it not feared so much as the
tarantula, for the latter grows to an
enormons size in the island and is said
| to be simply overloaded with venom.
In Mexico and Southwestern Texas
there Ig a brown or mud-colored scor-
pion that is not entitled to much re
| pect for stinging powers, but in
| Cuba there is a deadly, black variety
| whose sting has been known pro
i duce fatal results, The agricultural
ants of Cuba are also dangerous to hu
man kind, and there is another equally
| dangerous and ugly, insect which
| translated as nearly as possible from
| the Cuban patols into our language
“pbull-ant.” Its bite
| sidered to be almost as deadly as the
{ sting of a black scorpion. It grows to
| a size larger than the wasp
or hornet, and builds a mound
strong that the dome will easily
| port the weight of a man,
| year old Cuban boy was
ankle recently by one
| and died a few hours later.
inches,
is
its
to
| signifies ig con-
common
®0
sup
An eighteen
stu
$1 ti
ag
on the
of these insects
The writ-
er found in one a well-developed poi
a stinger fully half an
York
New Bun.
the Bpaniards
» pumbers, as
simply shot
these
fewer of
not able
g 1
ag wel
as
fo
“1f vour servant goes away a day or
can he
with
It is
ere when
been ab
certain he is thu
you
100
A Stinging Rebuke.
asi
th an alacrity
the cheerfulness
The lady who took
was stout and
'
= Ow
had an
he same affliction
Gr™ sald the stout lady, with
fons’ ted toss of her head,
“Yea” continued the angular m
save hi
He'd sty
could
with “th to
That's right
and
y give it the sound of ‘s.’
His oldest
osut he al
Had It
he best he
readfl affliction
ed Theophilns,
sim “Sophilus.’
from
she
was dark red
insulting.”
indy
vexation, “You are
snorted
“Well, 1
have anybody
hate
said the an
great cheerfulness
help noticing it when
wonder 10
refer to it’
don't you
gular man, with
“But 1 «
you took my seat and weren't able to
“I'iank youn.'! 1 wouldn't have
minded in the least if you'd said ‘Sank
Oh. do you get off here? Good.
Never mind the thanks.”
silent
say
you :
day, ma'am
—Waxp
Bottles Manufactured Out 27 Paper.
“One of the latest to
paper has been put is in the making of
paper bottles,” said a wholesale deal
paper-made novelties in Now
York City. “Such bottles are intended
particularly for use on ocean steam
ships. The new bottles are a German
Res which
“or ¥
composition which, with the solution
in which they are made water tight,
is the Inventor's secret.
fmpregnated with this fluid, the paper
bottles are slowly dried In gas stoves,
and this process of drying must be
watched carefully.
bottles would remain porous and allow
the fluids to leak out. The great ad-
vantage claimed for these bottles
that they can be handled roughly
without the least apprehension, for
peither the pitching nor the roiling of
a great steamer during rough weather
in
be apt to» damage them. For such rea.
already large, and there is little doubt
that they will soon supersede the use
of the glass-made article on ship-
board.” Washington Star,
His Rare Opportunity.
The ideal husband of the modern
better than in this anecdote of a pub-
lic speaker.
“I# there a man in all this audience”
demanded the female lecturer on wo-
man's rights, “that has every done
anything to lighten the burden on his
wife's shoulders? What do you know
of woman's work? Is there a man
here,” she continued folding her arms,
and looking over the assembly with
superb scorn, “that has ever got up in
the morning, leaving his tired, worn.
out wife to enjoy her slumbers, gone
quietly down stairs, made the fire
cooked his own breakfast, sewed the
the children's
clothes, darned the family stockings,
scoured the pots and kettles, cleaned
and filled the lamps, and done all this
if necessary, day, after day. uncom.
Sailor.
Wor a
Works as a
A British peer at
{ sailor
worth
unusual
The
ig sufficiently
thy of record. Australian
er Hes
| England,
| Marquis
| Duke of Montrose
{ keenly
rus, Dow
has for
of Graham,
interested
and to be engage
hh insight int
ips, with
Lord Bra
He
spular on
ig descr
board, an
Hip d as
from
» went aiolt
1850
*
&O9n agaist
Peru's President Rides ln State.
of Peru
ihe
elaborate
President rides in an
carriage, similiar to those
i
used by the « rowned heads of Europe.
It i# large, high and handsomely decor
ated, The
i bax Is hung with upholstery
and fringes of scarlet and white
colors of the republic, and the
and footmen and
who stand in a boot at
dre seed] to correspond,
», which
are the
coanchmen
ontriders
rear
cocked hats,
buckles on their boots and all
the two
the
with
gilver
are
silk stockings
the liv
powdered wigs,
the
ery of royalty, except
either door of
carriage ap
of
or
in
The carriage is drawn
with
{pon
pears a representa at
of the republ foot
clzhteen inches in diameter, painted
brilli
by four handsome
and a
1
iver
3
on the «
Arms ic about a
ant colors
bay horses,
harness heavily
and bearing the coat
buckle
tails
mounted in «i
of arms on every
docked
and rosette.
Enormous Fees of Cuban Notaries
One drawback to investment in Cuba
of ti
HOI by the
According to
Spanish laws, which to a gre
r
is the uncertainty the ab
solute authority eX na-
the old
at extent
are yel in vogne, the notaries keep all
records of land titles, and from their
The
notaries
tive
{ decisions there is no appeal of
fice has descended from father to son
through many generations, and. hav
ing had things so long their own way,
the incumbents have grown exceeding
iy arrogant, and demand outrageous
fees. For the copy of a deed $300 is
not considered exorbitant Not long
age $3.000 actually was paid in Ha.
| yanna for recording a deed. One thou
sand five hundred dollars or $1,000 ia
the common charge for recording a
will
A Swag Fights a Man.
That a swan will fight fiercely was
| shown by an exciting struggle between
{a swan and a park constable on the
| upper lake In Waterloo "ark, England,
| Some India-rubber balls had rolled in
to the water, and to get mem the con
stable paddled out in a punt. This
| drew the notice of the male swan,
| which deserted his consort and the
brood of cygnet, and went for the
| constable with great fury. Once or
twice he almost upset the punt by
| cansing the constable to overbalance
{it in saving his legs from the binds
beak. It was only with difficulty and
risk that the balls were recovered. The
| swan then followed the punt to the
sank. making vicious darts at the
| constable.
Buffaloes Plentiful jn Canada.
Inspector Rutledge of the Northwest
mounted police, who has returned from
a prolonged patrol of the vast district
between Alaska and Manitoba, reports
that real buffaloes, so far from becom:
ing extinct, are numerous and increas
ing. A bill has been brought into the
Dominton House of Commons extend.
ing the close season for two years
more, and after that restricting the
killing to maies.— New York Press.
Stops Cattle from Crossing Over.
Cattle are prevented from getting on
the milroad tracks st grade crossings
by a new guard, which is formed of
gigeag plates, bolted Wo the ties to
form ridges and depressions parallel to
{the ties, with sharp spikes set vert
eully on the plates, !