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uuatic tern.
ESRV. F. SCHF.LL,
somerset. Pa.
Bounty and Pen-oD Agent. Office In Mammodi
BLota.
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DR. P. F. SHAFFER.
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Eu locttcd permanently In Bomer-et for the
prttic o( hif jiroiemiou. Oltce on am nreet,
in nar ot bru swre.
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R. WXL COLLINS,
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al fwji.d al an rime pretred to do all kind
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VOL. XXXIX. NO. 21.
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or
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SOMERSET, PA.,
IN THE BINNENHOF.
(An Episode of tbe History of Hollsnd.)
I s and within the B noenbof,
and think of that dread day
When J-hn of B irnevet.H stood here,
one early mora in Mar ;
The white swan fl ?d graorfu:iy
upon the silver sheet
Of crystal Uke, an 1 beeehen groves
Put on tlw newest green ;
Sweet throated warblers 'raong the tries
-were B.Uing I ere and there.
While bursts of gushing melody
ran ; out un . t'j ; a.
1 aeetheageil Advocate, as bowt d
witb grit f be stands.
And leaning on his starT, he clasps
his thin and feeble bands.
u O. Gxl ! ' he cries. for all my toil
is this my hapless fale ?
Is this the meed of forty years
o'snis for the Stale ?"
Tbe sword is sharp, its ede is keen,
but w a issoimbwd
W.ti. mi tteina', !a;h:s sting
i s ba-e iigratilude 1
The frndof O-are-. of Ibe State,
of Fruity i, ml R gh',
Must Le be martyred to appease
Rank jealousy and spite?
He bows bis head, "Be quick," be cries,
then talis the fatal sword.
Bo perislied John of Barneveldt,
Knigbt. Advocate and Lord ;
But when that headless trunk was raised
and placed upon its bier,
Methinks that Justice blushed for shame
and mercy dropped a tear.
M. A. B. Kellt.
HER UNCLE'S TREASURE.
"Eh!" said Uncle Venable, "You
want to get married ?"
"If you don't mind, sir," said Verbena,
dropping her pretty. head, while a blush
like the lining of pink aea shell crept
over her face.
"But what nonsense is this?" said Mr.
Venable, shutting his cabinet drawers,
leaning back in his chair and looking at
Verbena w ith eyes like gimlets. "Who
is the young man ?"
-Ilcae, I'ncle, it's Fritz," whispered
Verbena, half inclined to run away and
hide herself.
Friti!" roared Mr. Venable. "That
farmer fellow?"
"He's farmer," admitted Verbena,
"bat he owns his farm, sir, and his
mother is very anxious for me to come
thcie, because "
"Oh, I can imagine that," said VI r.
Venable, with a sneer. "Yon a Venable
ta.king about marrying a farmer. You
the heiress of the Malmaisoo emerald'
You that might take any place in soci
ety that yoa w ih, w hen once the value
of the gem is known, to talk of Allying
yourself to a clodhopper like that, who
doesn't know an opal from a moon
stone r
Verbena burst into tears.
"lie isn't a clodhopper," said she.
"And I wish there wasn't any such
thing as the Malmaison emerald in the
world."
Mr. Venable transfixed his niece
through his spectacle glasses, with a glare
that might have paralyzed her.
"Silence, miss !" said he. "Do you
know that it is on the reputation ol the
Malmaison emerald that the Venablee
will go down to fame? The Empress
Josepbice "
"I don't care for the Empress Joseph
ine," said Verbena, who, having drawn
tbe sword, was now minded to cast away
tbe scabbard. "And I'm not particular
about fame, and I don't suppose I shall
be a Venable for ever."
"ThU sort of Ulk won't do. Verbena,"
said the old gentleman solemnly. Where
would society be if every one refused to
bear the responsibilities and shoulder
the cares of their stations ? You are not
merely my niece, Verbena. Yoa are the
representative, the sole surviving repre
sentative, of the Venables. To yoo in
my will is left the guardianship of the
Malmaison emerald."
"I'm sick of hearing of it," vehementty
protested Verbena.
"And," went on Mr. Venable, "I desire
yon to give np all idea of tarrying this
young man. It's entirely out of the
question."
' But what is this about the Malmaison
emerald ?" asked Frits Elcome, in a be
wildered way, when he found Verbena
crying by the sitting room window a few
hours later.
Her blue eyes sparkled through iheir
veil of tears.
"Yoa don't mean," said she "that you
have never heard of the famous Malmai
son emrald ?"
"That's my meaning, exactly," admit
ted Fritx. "Do consider in my behalf
that I've only been here s year, and have
lots still to learn."
"Well, listen," said Verbena, half cry
ing half angry. "It's a famous unset
gem."
"Oh.iaitr
"Ad it used to belong to tbe Empress
Josephine,"
"Did it, indeed ?"
"And she wore it in those days at
Malmaison."
"Hence tbe name, eh ?"
"I suppoee so. And Queen Hortense
gave it to somebody else, and it was
AS 1 S
finally given to one oi me enaoiea wno
was a surgeon in the English rmy, by
a dying officer out in Ilindoostao, to
whom he bad been able to tender kind
offices ; and so it has come down to us.
It rvally is wonderful atone."
"I should suppose so?" politely in
credulous. "They say," went oa Verbena, "that
when uncle kept it in the little iron safe
set into the guest-chamber wall, whoever
slept there used to dream of a beautiful
sad-faced lady, who walked up and down
on a marble terrace under the trees and
wrong her hands. That was the Empress
Josephine, of course."
"Of course," still more iiicredaloasly.
"And my uncle declares that the color
in the stone is always dim and turbid
when the anniversary of the poor lady's
death comes around," further added
Verbena.
"Yee, that is exceedingly probable,"
dryly observed Mr. Elcome.
"My ancle has been offered a great
deal of money for the gem," said Ver
bena, with a sigh ; and I wish to good
Dess he'd sell it. But be won't, And
what is worse, he wants me to marry a
hateful, spectacled little old man In
New York, who, next to himself, is tbs
best jndge of jewels in New York, and
who own a green ruby which is a dead
set
ESTABIISHE-D 1827.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1890.
match to Uncle Venable' unset emerald.
He calls it an archie-logica alliance.
"Well, I should think it partook
somewhat of that nature," said Fritx,
thoughtfully.
"lie is going np to New York to-morrow
to a lapidaries' convention," said
Verbena.
"And I suppose be will bring Mr.
Twistleton back witb him."
"Oh, Fritx !"
"Don't be alarmed, heart's dearest,"
said Fritz, consolingly, encircling her
waist with his arm. "The only way in
which we can effectually guard against
this complication of ills is"
"Yes, Fritz V
"To get married while Mr. Venable is
gone."
"Oh, Fritx, I wouldn't dare openly defy
him like that. He has been very good
to me,' faltered Verbena.
"I'll be good to you, too, my darling."
"Nonsense, Fritx ' You're spoiling my
hair. Do stop, Fritz!" protested the girl.
"Then promise me, Verbena."
'No, I'll promise nothing."
At the lapidaries' convention there was
a stormy session that year. Ilerr Heidel
grun was there a snuffy, dried-np man,
of great age and still greater arrogance,
who had apparently come out of bis
spider web in Vienna for tlie sole purpose
of discom6tting all the antiquaries of the
Western continent.
"Do Malmaison emeralt'" said Heir
Heidelgrun. "Dat ish a mistake. Vat
you call von big lie. It occupies ail you
time to chase dese lies, and den nail him
down. I haf de Malmaison emeralt in
mine collection."
"How can that be?" said Mr. Ven-ble,
choking with rage, while Mr. Twistleton
stood by, reidy to espose his friend's
cause, "when here it is the very stone
itself r
He opened the velvet case which con
tained the drop of green fire. It i linked
at the circle of eager faces above it like
a baleful eye.
Ilerr Heidelgrun laughed it shrill
cackle of derision.
"Dat de Malmaison emeralt.1" said he.
"Oh, how easy some folks are hoodwink
ed! A ferry good imitation, I grant. Oh,
yes, I can tell yoo ail about bint. But
de genuine Malmaison emeralt it was
sell me in 1850, in Vienna, by one Cap
tain Giles Venable"
("Verbena's father," thought Mr. Ven
able, with a start and a sinking of the
heart.)
"For de gracious Empress Augusta,
who was making de collection for a neck
lace which should outshine all de courts
of Europe. I pay Captain Venable three
thoosind florins for him, and I engage
my best workmen to make him an imi
tation Malmoison emeralt which shall
deceive de very jeweler himselfl I t'ink
I make my fortune, but I am wronf . - De
captain be pockets' his florins and he
rides away. Ce gracious Empress she
change her mind. She get tired of em
eralts and t'inks she will haf pearls. But
I know dere will some day be a market
for de Malmaison emerjlt, so I keep
him. I haf him yet Here he is, and
here is de letter from Captain Giles Ven
able, which proves its genuineness. Eh !
Are yoa to be satisfy now T"
And the green b'az. ot the real gem
put tbe artificial imitation to shame at
once.
Mr. Venable came home without wait
ing for the adjournment of the lapi
daries' convention. He did not bring
Mr. Twistleton with him.
"A man who couldn't even tell a bogus
stone from a real one," sputtered Mr.
Venable, "and calls himself a judge of
gems ' Verbena, come here."
- Verbena came accordingly, with the
teapot in one hand and a pan of hot
graham muffins, fresh from the oven, in
the otjier.
"I've got something to tell you," said
Mr. Venable.
"Yes, uncle," murmured Verbena, her
little heart giving an ominoue throb un
der the cluster of roses she wore.
"Tbe Malmaison emerald is a hum
bug !" said Mr. Venable, distinctly.
"Oh, ancle!"
"And Caleb Twistleton is a charlatan
and an adventurer !"
And he proceeded to impart to his
niece the w hole revelation of Ilerr Hei
delgrun. "Your father, my dear," said Le, "has
wrecked tbe family fortunes and broken
my heart. Henceforward I will give op
the study of gems. I'll donate my col
lection, such as it is, td the Middlevilie
museum. It may serve as a nucleus for
something greater in time. And III de
vote myself to roses. They can't imitate
flowers. And, Verbena"
"Yes, uncle."
"Yoa may marry young Elcome, if yoa
choose. After thie, Twistleton doesn't
deserve a wife."
"Thank yoa, uncle," said Verbena, de
murely. Nipped in the Bud.
A woman who appeared to be an ex
cursionist was walking up and down
Woodward avenue yesterday with a
man's hat in one hand and a large calf
skin wallet in the other, and an officer
finally approached her and asked :
" Madam, are yoa looking for any one 7"
"Oh, no," she replied, " I know right
where he is."
Are yoa in any tiouble V
"No, sir. I never allow anything to
trouble me," L.
" But you yoa"
" It's just this wit, sir. Me and my
husband came in on the excursion. After
we got here we began to frisk and cut op,
and I proceeded to nip him in the bud.
He's over there on the City Hall steps,
bareheaded and without a cent, while I
hold the key of the position." Vfroif
Frtt Prett. -
Hope Abandoned.
Perhaps the most desolate period in
the lives of us all is when hope abandons
the prospect of evei reaching the goal of
our earlier ambition, and we appreciate
the troth that, after all, we are doomed
to the treadmill of constant toil, to earn
subsistence for -ourselves and those we
love- And it is then that we find eom
pensalion for all our blasted hopes ir the
tact those nearest and dearest to us share
their sympathy with us and wish that
oar paths oflife bad been through more
prosperous Beide, and Jet" ar content as
.things are. Richmond hem.
A Terrible Vengeance.
" Hark, Cyrua? What was that?"
" Nothing, Emily. Let me go to sleep,
will you?"
For a few moments silence reigned in
the sleeping chamber.
"Cyrus Winterbottoin, there's somebody
in the house ! I hear a noise in the
kitchen?"
Cyrus sat op in bed and listened.
It's the cat," he grumbled, drowsily.
"A cat doesn't wear boots and go
aroand opening doors. Hark !"
The baby stirred, and Mr. Winter
bottom soothed it to rest again.
" I don't see what anybody wants to
get into our kitchen for," growled Cyrus,
with a yawn. There's nothing to heigh
ho ! to steal in that part of the bouse, is
there?"
" Nothing to steal ! There's a plate full
of tarts, a pan of doughnuts, and a sponge
cake."
"Some of your heigh-ho! your own
concoction, Emily V
"Yes, some of my own making. Then
there's all the silverware, and"
' He'll never get to the silverware, Em
ily, if he tackles the doughnut first. Yoa
will find his horribly distorted body in
the morning "
"Hash! Hark?"
He listened again. All was quiet. But
piesently an unmistakable sound, as of
somebody moving about on the floor be
low, aroused even Cyrus's dullest senses.
Steps seemed to be approaching the stair
way he took his revolver from under his
pillow, climbed softly out of bed, went to
the door of tbe room and got behind it,
first having cautioned his wife in a whisp
er to make no noise and leave matters
entirely in his hands.
Softly and steadily came the steps up
the stairway, and in a few moments the
dim light of the night lamp on tbe dress
ing case fell upon the stalwart form of a
man whoee face was concealed by a
mask.
Mrs. Winterbottom screamed at the
sight of hira, the baby woke np an howl
ed, and before the burglar could recover
from the momentary confusion into
which this unexpected reception had
thrown him, Cyras confronted him with
the revolver.
"You infernal scoundrel ! he hissed.
Don't you move a muscle or I'll put a ball
through yoa!"
The revolver hadn't been loaded for a
year or more, and Cyms knew it, but
the burglar didn't
The pitiful wretch stood perfectly still.
"Take off your mask f sternly com
manded Cyrus.
The burglar complied. With ashen
face, and mean, hang-dog look, he stood
there and said not a word. Mrs. Win
terbottom had recovered her self-possesion,
but tbe baby continued to howL
"It would serve yoa right, yoa sneak
ing, contemptible villain," said Cyrus in
a deep tragic voice, "if I should shoot
yoa w here you stand. I believe I'll do
it anyhow."
"Mercy ; Mercy ." pleaded the tremb
in wretch. "It's the first time I ever
broke into a house. I'll never do it
again. Piease let me go."
"Dont kill him !" begged his wife.
"Think of the carpet!"
" Listen !" said Cyrus, coming back to
the kneeling burglar. "Hold up your
hands !"
While the fellow's hands were np Cy
rus rifled bis pockets. He took there
from two loaded revolvers, a bowie
knife, a daggar, a slung-ehot, a bottle of
chloroform and a sand bag.
"Your first offense, is it?" said Cyrus.
"For a novice at the business yoa carry a
pretty good kit of tools. Stand up !"
The burglar obeyed.
"Are yoa a man of family 7"
"Yes sir ; O please "
"Stop your whining."
A look of hard, stern relentless purpose
settled on Cyrus's face. He pointed the
revolver at the abject scoundrel's head
again.
"Go and take that baby V he com
manded. "Wh-whatforr
"Nevermind what for! Yoa go and
take that baby !"
"Cyrus!" exclaimed Mrs. Winterbot
tom in dismay, "what do yoa mean T'
"I know what I'm about, Emily. Tick
up that squalling infant, you villain '."
Tbe man obeyed.
"Handle it carefully.'"
"Yes, sir."
"Now walk the floor with it !"
For four long hours Cyrus Winter
bottom held that empty revolver leveled
at the head of the miserable man and
compelled him to walk np and down the
room with the crying, squirming infant
in his arms.
At daybreak the cringing crawling
villain was permitted to sneak away
from tlie premises, a broken-hearted
man.
His raven hair bad turnea gray in the
one night.
It was a terrible retribution, but who
shall say it was not deserved? And thus
we learn, my children, that crime some
times brings its own punishment acd
that the way of the transgressor continues
to be bard.
Kangaroos to Be Imported.
We are assured on what seems good
authority that the project of importing
kangaroos into this country is seriously
entertained ty several enthusia tic and
wealthy sportsmen of the west, Tbe ani
mals have been successfully acclimated
in England and France, and we are as
sured that there is no reason why they
should not thrive here. Tbe practical
extinction of the buffalo has left the
plains wiihoat any big game of import
tance, and experienced sportsmen de
clare that bunting the kangaroo, as prac
ticed in Australia, is second in excite
ment snd interest only to killing the
buffalo. The scheme saot without com
mercial importance. Kangaroo leather
is a very valuable product, and the ani
mals breed rapidly. The promoters hope
to be privileged to introduce the new
game at the beginning of the warm sea
son in Yellowstone park, and to insure
them for a few years government pro
tection and immunity from senseless
eportsmen. Helena Independent.
A Fairly Bad Joke.
"Didn't yoa hear something drop just
then?" inquired Oberon as ha entered
his council chamber early in October,
JYep," answered Pock ; "I guess it's
he fall of the year." Judge.
K3
A Dying Race of Dwarfs.
In a wonderfully picturesque but ster
ile and isolated spot on the east coast of
Greenland are huddled together some
500 people whose origin to obscure, snd
who have almost no commnxicauon
with the outside world. Their place of
residence is called Angtnagsatik, and
they are believed to be descendants of
colonisU located at that place in SSti by
Eric tbe Red. Whatever their origin
they at least have no racial peculiarities
to identify them with the F-squimaox.
They look like Danes. Their lives are
one long struggle for existence, and tbe
continued battle through uncounted gen
erations has reduced them to tbe size of
dwarfs. In Lu:t the colony is slowly
growing smaller, and will probably dis
appear, within another century. The
world at Urge knows something of these
strange people through the visits of two
ethnologist who managed to reach the
ice bound coast, and afterward publish
ed their discoveries, but it has been re
served for one of the Angrnagxaliks to
tell the story of ber kinsmen in detail.
Seventeeen years ago some Icelandic
sailors were wrecked at AngmagsaHk and
given kindly reception. After recupera
ting they decided to make an attempt to
reach home overland and by means of
tbe ocean ice floes. They urged their
hosts to leave the desolate valley and ac-
company them. Una only resolved
to eay the venture. He got together
his wife and two sons, his daughter
his dogs and sleds, and started with the
saiior strangers. After terrible sufferings
the band succeeded in reaching Iceland,
bnt the climate of that bleak island prov
ed to mild for the Greenland exile and
bis family, and all died save the girl who
was then 15 years of age. She was adopt
ed by some charitable people, who edu
cated her, gave her the name of Olof
K rarer, and took her with them when
they emigrated to Manitoba.
Miss Krarer recently lectured before a
church society at Chicago on the subject
of her native land, and created a genuine
surprise. She is 40 inches tall and weighs
140 pounds. Her English is excellent,
with one exception she cannot utter the
"sh "sound. According to her account
the Angmagsalik women have a monoto
nous sort of life. No sweeping, cooking,
dusting or washing is done. The unvary
ing diet is frozen raw meat or fish. The
people never wash, but sometimes grease
themselves with whale oiL Winter is
spent in turf and stone huts, and the sum
mer in tents. Religion and law are un
known, but there is a sort of communism
born of the exigencies of the situation.
When Miss Krarer reached Iceland 1S73
she was given a cake of soap, which she
promptly ate. It was sometime before
she could be induced to indulge in s bath
as she regarded the use of water; for
washing purposes a shameful waste of
precious fluid. At Angmagsalik water is
secured by melting snow.
Self-Made Cranks.
One can not help believing that there
is variety of this gentry who are self
made cranks cranks because they want
to be. They seek some social dispropor
tion whereupon they can posture with
effect. The pleasures of conformity are
humdrum ; unconformity is piquant and
startling. Such a man is not a crank
from abundance of virtue, as he would
have you believe, but rather because he
feels his feebleness in the world of prac
tical affair- and is soared thereby. If he
poses as an advance philanthropist, we
suspect that his love of mankind has
some side glances at personal profit. If
facts be against him he does not hesitate
to invent them, and visits with arrogant
abuse those who would expose his falsi
ties. Ha is especially angry with those
halting disciples who accept his scheme
as something ultimately possible, and
then humbly inquire what they are to do
provisionally as a practical approxima
tion to the distant good. If he be a
rhetorician he has no scrapie in admin
istering the electric shock of paradox,
and seeks the levity of assent that may
be caught by the sudden spring of a false
analogy. No doubt IL'a ra kless shooter
occasionally hits the mark Pope de
scribes the talking bird who berates the
passers by with epithets which well con
ducted periodicals have ceased to print.
But the poet confesses that, though some
times struck with the extreme felicity of
these characterizations, Le had never
been able to extend his admiration to
the speaker whose entire stock in trade
consisted in his very limited and abusive
vocabulary. . P. tfiinrti, inAUuilie.
The supply of Wheat Falling Off
The indications are that the day of
heavy surplus production is fast waning.
Our wheat crop in 1S74 was the magni
ficent total of 512 J60.000 bushels. It has
not kept in that upper notch, and in the
year 18' it figured a maximum yield of
49000,000 bushels. We have a greater
population by nearly 15,000,000 than a
decade ago, and the increase of home
consumption would necessitate a larger
yield and not a smaller. It is not likely
that we can add very largely to the an
nual product. The wheat areas are Cur
ly occupied, excepting those north of
Washington and tha possible .service of
the arid submoontainous districts when
successfully irrigated.
The Canadian wheat fields have an
enemy in Jack Frost, and some sections
of the Dakota are far from being like
the valley of the Nile. The fact is, we
are being fenced in, and in the matter of
food supply (except meats) we are not
likely to glut the markets of the world
with a surplus of wheat, if, indeed, tbe
time does not soon come when we may
have to import to meet our deficiL Age
ofHeeL
How to Locate a Well.
A Kansas exchange tells of a farmer
who wanteu to dig a well. The first
thing he did was to plow a lot of land
and plant it to oats. Every day he
watched the oats, observing the spots
that showed the greatest moisture. Fi
nally he selected a spot and sank a well.
At twenty-four feet he had a fine stream
of water. It is said to be the best well
in the country. Other farmers in the
same neighborhood have failed to find
water at 200 feet
A party of expert oil drillers has just
sailed from New York to India, where
Ltbey are wasted to search for oil.
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WHOLE NO. 2051.
Peasant and Plague.
According to a legend, a peasant was
traveling thnnsh a forest on horseback,
bound toward the village, when he was
stopped by an old woman.
"Give me a ride behind yoa V said she.
"Who are you?" asked the peasant
"I am tbe Plague."
The pea: nt eai J not a won), but put
his whip to hid horse, which gave a big
jump.
"Stop! Stop!" said the old woman,
running after him ; "do you think I shall
not get to-y Mir village just the same,
whether yoa give me a ride or not? I
shall be there a little on, never fear! Be
reasonable, then, and give me a lift In
return I promise you that I will not touch
you nor any of your?."
"Get on," said the peasant, bringing
his horse to a standstill.
The Flagu mounted behind him, and
they rode on. Presently tbe peasant,
growing bold, stopL'"dand said to the old
woman :
"If you want to make me happy, yon
will spare Johnny Smith at the village,
and Billy Weaver and Tom Joiner."
" Very wel!," said the old woman, "I
will spare them."
The man whipped up his horse again,
but had not gone more than a quarter of
a mile farther before he bagged the Pla
gue to spare such an one, and such an
one, and such an one.
"I will spare them," said she.
And this went on until there were not
more than ten people in the village
whom the Plague had not agreed to spare.
They arrived in the village. On the
following day a great many people were
taken ill with the plague, and within a
day or two 30 of the villagers were dead.
The peasant ran to the Plague in great
indignation.
"Look hero !" he exclaimed; "yoa are
a wicked wretch. Yoa don't keep your
promises. Thirty people are dead al
ready." "I have kept uiy promise faithfully,"
said the old weman. "It is true that 30
are dead, but only 10 died of the plague.
Ail of the reft died of fright."
The moral of the story is that, during
an epidemic, people should live and act
pru-ently, but should not be in a stale
of fear.
Do Lighlning Rods Protect?
The question of the degree to which
lightning rods can be relied on to afford
protection has been discussed before the
London institution. The ultimatum ar
rived at seerns to be that in all cases of
steady strain in which a charged cloud,
descending from the upper region of the
air, or approaching front a distance,
might inflict serious injury npon an un
protected building, a weil designed and
properly earth connected lightning rod
is an absolute safeguard. In a case of
"impulsive rush" the rod may often be
of use in bearing the brunt of the dis
charge, though sometimes the lightning
will take no notice whatever of it, strik
ing the building and altogether neglect
ing the rod, and it is even possible that
a high rod might attract a destructive
discharge which otherwise would not
have occurred at al'.
Although therefore a lightning rod is
in many cases, probably in a very large
majority, of the greatest service, it cannot
be depended npon aa affording perfect
immunity from risk, and tbe assumption
which has universally been made by the
"older elee'ricians," that damage by
lightning is in itself conclusive evidence
of some imperfection in the conductor,
is an anfounded one." .V. '. Cummrrial
AJrertuier.
Smut on Corn.
Saint on the corn originates in light
spores that are carried about in the at
mosphere. It is said to enter the stem
when the plant is young, and through
out its whole growth the fungus is grow
ing within it, but produces but little ap
parent effect until about the time of
earing. The smut forms often on the
ear, but is also found on other parts of
the stalk. Corn seems to be the only
crop in which smut appears long enough
before maturity to admit of any treat
ment The smut should be cut out as
soon as the swelling is observed and be
fore any of the spores have burst through.
At the time of harvesting all smutty ears
and stalks that have been overlooked
should be kept separate and destroyed,
and not be fed to. stock to perpetuate
the disease. The spores ad tiering to
seed corn may be destroyed by soaking
a few minutes in a solution of blue vitri
ol, but this will not protect againet smut
spores in tlie manure or smutty stalks
left in the field.
A Lawyer's $60,000 Check.
It was John II. Latrobe who acted as
counsel for the Winan brothers in their
railroad contracts with the Russian gov
ernment, and I heird the other day the
story of how he was engaged by them,
writes Fra-k G. Carpenter. He was in
Europe at the time fur his health, when
he met one of the Winans brothers and
was asked by him to gj to Hussia. " I
can't go, and you can't afford to pay me
what it is worth."
" But you must go," said Winans. "We
have got to make a big contract, and we
need a man we can trust We will pay
you any iice you want What will yoa
charge? I don't want to go," answer
ed Mr. Latrobe, "but if I do go I will
have to have fsi,000." "All right," said
Mr. Winans, and, as Governor Cartin
tells the story, he thereupon took out bis
check-book and wrote him out his check
for tbe amount The result was that Lv
trobe dresT up the contract with the Gov
ernment, anJ by this secured tbe control
of the road for 5 years. It was a very
expensive piece of bouneM, but they
made millions out of it. Uuea'jn Herald.
Why the Ear Has Wrinkles-
According to Professor Garrison, of
Chicago, tlie crumpled and crushed form
of the hi man ear was originally caused
and is now maintained by the habit of
Ijing on the side of tbe head, and that
this habit has resulted principally from
the great and increasing weight of the
brain. The question originally seemed
to be whether man's ancestors would
profit most ,by large brains or by sym
metrical and perfect acoustic apparatus,
and nature by selection Lad promptly
decided in favor of large brains. Vkici'jo
-VVh-s.
- - ShaepandCajLUe. nil
Can mutton be more cheaply pro- -duced
than beef ? Aa bearing upon this--subject
Stswart calls attention to the fact
that the sheep ia a source of double
income meat and wool. H refers, tod,
to the experixenta of Sir J. t Lawes In
reference to the percentage of fbtd real
ized or stored np by different animals,
and these' experiments presented tbe
sheep in a very favorable liht Of the
dry food consnmed he foond that sheep
stored np in increased weight Vi js?r
cent, while cattle only Laid up in increas
ed weight 3 per cent
So that, relying upon these experi
ments, sheep roost be considered u ex
cellent ctilizers of food, as producing as
many pounds of mutton, besides tts
wool, from a given quantity of food, as
can be produced of beef ; and as the best
mutton brings as high a price as the beef
it would appear on this taaia that the
sheep would give the fleece as extra
profit over catUe. If thia ia not too fa
vorable a view, the sheep on suitable
lands most be considered among the
meet profitable of f-xai stock. It i true,
tbe dairy cow brings her profitable flow
of milk to offset the wool ; but the dairy
cow does not lay on flash w bile produc
ing milk, as does the sheep while produc
ing wool. A fleece of five pounds of
wool grown in a year requires only a ,
d-ily growth of one fifth of an ounce,
which can take but a small portion of
food to produce. The mineral matter
taken from the soil by the fleece is only
l.G ounces per year, and if six half mut
ton sheep represent a cow, the whole
mineral cooatitueota taken by the six
fleeces would only be t 8 ounces, and
about 1.9 pounds of nitrogen, while the
ordinary cow, yielding 4,000 pounds of
milk, would take IS pounds of mineral
matter or ash and 25 of nitrogen, or forty
thiee times aj rauco mineral n. alter and
thirteen times as much nitrogen as the
fleece of the sheep. .V'x-Xii.m.
An Unkind Question.
I " See that notch on nvy finger-nail T
said one gentleman of leisure occupying
i a seat in the city hall park to another
equally tranquil person.
- Yep."
" Well, I made that when I borrowed
the last V. " Its the only way I kin re
member. When I borrow a V I cut a
notch close down at the tbottom cf my
finger-nail, and when the notch grows up
to the top I pay up."
" Yep."
" Mn' that don't allow me time to con
sider. Don't it show me about when it's
a goin' tocoiue due? An' ain't I always
got it before me ? It's hetter'n any nieiu
randum book, ain't it?"
" Yep, only"
"Only w hat T
" When ther notch gets to the top, does
yer alius pay up?"
There was a moment's silence, snd
then, with s Sca'liing look of indignation,
the first gentleman of leisure arose, put
his digital memorandum book in the
remnant of a pocket and witb cold con
tempt spread upon his countenance,
strolled away. S. Y. Timn,
Fitted by Experience.
A Massachusetts avenue lady wanted
a coachman, and one was recommended,
who she interviewed.
"I want a very safe and careful driver,"
she said.
"That's me, mum," responded the ap
plicant, confidently.
"I'm nervous about horses and I don't
want to drive fast, and I don't want to
go round the corners with a whirl."
"I know jest what yoo wants. Them
were my orders before, mum."
"Where were yoo engaged Last T"
"Drivin a hearse, mum."
He got the place, and he is giving ex
cellen satisfaction.
An Easy Conversion.
"What shall I do 'with thia money
bank, mamma T
"Put it away, of course. It has a dollar
in it that your aunt gave you, and some
change your p and I put in it"
"Not now. There isn't any money in
it now. I spent it"
"Spent it? Why what did you do that
for?"
"Why the minister preached so hard
against hoardin' up riches that I got con- ,
verted and spent what I had."
About Paint
It is found that in painting wood one
coat takes 20 pounds of lead and 4 gal
lons of oil per 1QO square yards ; the sec
ond coat 40 pounds lead and 4 gullon
oil, and tbe third the same as the sec
ondsay 100 pounds of lewd and l5 gal
lons of oil per 100 square yards for three
coats. The number of square yards cov
ered by one gallon of priming color is
found to be 50 ; of white leal paint, 44 ;
of lead color, .") ; of black paint, 50; of
stone color. 44 ; of yellow paint, 44; of
blue color. 45 ; of green paint 45. .W
Orleam Vie vjuhk.
The Present Englishman.
The present Englishman as we 2nd
him in London, at any rate, is a Jhaa "
who smokes a short pipe ; and hesnikes '
that short tripe at all tioies, in all places '
and un ier all circumstances with a per
sistency which amply warrants the bahit
being regarded as a truly national char
acteristic Peer and plowman are eqial-'
jV devoted to short pipes.
Paper;Barrel3.
After three years of experimental work
an English company Las succeeded in
producing paper barrels which ar able
to compete Javorably with those made of
wood.
Tbe paper barrels are used principally,
for tbe carriage of gunpowder, mining,
fuses, fruit, moLsMes, paint, chemicals,
dyes, sugar and extract of meat The
materials used in making the barrels are
waste paper, cardboard and (for the bet
ter quality) old sacks. When cardboard
is used it is soaked or boiled for six hour
and afterward treated ia the same man
ner as the other raw material. Thia is
carefully sorted and put into a rag engine
or beater, where it is beaten and torn to
pieces by a series of knives for about an
hour and a half. It is afterward mixed
with water until a pulp of suffc.ent con
sistency is obtained. This rolled joined,
shaped and dried, and the barrel is final
ly covered with hoops. Before the tops
and bottoms are put in the barrels are
painted with a waterprof corn posi tion.
made of linseed oil and rosin for ordin
ary purpose barrels, and with a special
varnish where they are used for food
products.
The standard size made is sixteen and
one-half inches in diameter by twenty
eiht inches long. The prices at which
these barrels can be prod'jeed enable
ihem to compete ftvorably with the
wooden ones a wood barrel costing 34
cents and a paper one 2S ctnU. One
great feature is that there is no waste
with the procs-w, all "wasters" being
eaten op into palp again. PUlthurj Lhf
palfh. '
For scrofula,
Salt rheara, etc.
Take Hood's Sarsa pari 11a. '
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