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I have Kit for an h urut my la'jie
And tried t- gvt on r;th mr woric.
There's a p.-in to finish fable
Ali.rjt the Unip'mk.-ihle Turk.
It oukUI to be p-il to the-miiiute,
A fortunate mixture of fun,
Willi a spice of the serious in it
3 lut I can't K't it dona.
Iy thoughts are all thronsini; and fighting,
I feel them at work in my liniln.
Hut a soon as 1 want to be writing
Them down, they are vanished again ;
tiotie hidden, like mites in a stillon
I ir needles in trussi-s of hay;
I wonder if Shakexpeareor Milton
Were bothered thai way.
O for one my of liht to illume
The f.iney and warm it to life!
Just a chut with a friend, and the Kloom In
My heart would be pone. As the life
Unii-s on the youm; soldier to battle
When be would if skulking or worse.
So Joncs agreeable rattle
Coiuiels me lo verse.
There's a footstep ! I wonder now, is it
The postman, a client, a dun.
Or some Tsiol come to pay me a visit.
Just when I had fairly bcj;un !
'Tis my door he is thumping on, drat It!
I suppose I must go. Sure as fate.
Here s Jones with his gossip "Hard at it?"
Well! verses must wait.
Pall Mall Gazette.
WHERE THE TREASURE IS."
II
Very nearly a quarter of a century
ago I was on terms of considerable in
timacy with an oftievrof the Knglish
police who at this hour fills a jsiition
of high trust at Scotland Yard. At the
time of which I write he was a sergeant
iu the force of a great provincial city;
smart, alert, anihitious and resolute to
get on. lie and I were in one or two
big things together. I had got wind of
a gang of Russian formers, on one oc
casion, and was playing detective on
my own account, when the sergeant re
ceived instructions to watch the same
thing. We met, understood cadi oili
er, and conihiucd our fonvs. My si
lence, as a journalist, purchased his, as
an officer, and when at Lift we Imggvd
our men we each, had a:i "exclusive."
We were engaged together i'i conniv
ing at the escape of as thoiou.r.i-jfHvd
a swindler as might have been lotiud
in the Rritish dominions. There was
a reasoa for this connivance which
may some day make the story worth
telling. I lent the sergeant an infor
mal aid and countenance in the capture
of a desperate defrauder in his IkhI
room at the Queen's hotel, and narrow
ly escaped U-ing shot for my pains.
When I went prowling aUnitthe slums
of that great provincial city, as I did
pretty often, ti e eeargeunt was my fre
quent companion. Anil when at last
he gained his hurt's desire, and was
promoted to Iondon, I was the only
person in whom he confided the fact
that the capture which secured his
promotion was due to chat ee.
I have never made notes of these
matters, and the names of the people
concerned in this adventure have long
f ince slipiH'd my memory, but the facts
are clear enough.
Iu the year 1S71, and long before and
after, a manufacturing jewe'er, in a
large way of business, kept shop at 8t,
Paul's churchyard, on the right-hand
ide as you go westward. The com
mon kind of work was doue at Air
minghani; the better and more val
uable jewelry was the product of skill
ed hands employed in a small work
shop in Clerkenwell. The private
clientele of the house was small, but
the business transacted with "the
trade" was probably as large as any in
London. Only one commercial trav
eler was engaged, a Jewish gentleman,
a man of exemplary character and
charming manners; a linguist, a musi
cian, a judge of pictures, a painter, an
amateur, and a finished exjiert in pre
cious stones. He had lieen 17 years in
this game service and his employer's
trust in him was absolute. He drew a
HU-rul commission, kept his own little
family iu solid comfort at his 13 r is ton
home, was a pillar of his synagogue, a
jiearl among commercial travelers, and
deservedly respected. I never saw this
gentleman, ljt I can draw his portrait,
and liefore I close this story I will tell
you why. He had large dark eyes,
which t-hone out of a sort of velvety
dull softness, as a black-heart cherry
shim's when dew or rain is on it. He
had a wel-hafed aquiline nose, and
an olive skin. His lips wer nhapely,
but redder and fuller that is common
with men of western tyjie. He wore
his hair cut short, and his beard was j
trimmed Vandyke fashion. I he nota
ble tiling alsut him was that ha.r, eye
brows and beard were t.f a deep rud.ly
auburu, a color handsome in ilst-If, b-.it
a little startling and bizarre iu a man
of his complexion.
In the year 1S70, whilst the sergeant
and I unwitting of this gentleman's ex
istence, were hanging on the skirts of
the Russian forgers, the commercial
traveler had submitted a scheme to his
employer. He had employed his taste
and leisure in the preparation of a
number of designs for brooches, brace
lets, rings, tiaras, necklets and pend
ants, and he had designed and drawn
with beautiful delicacy a case in which
to display them. He estimated the
cost of the prejtaration of this tray at
aliout 31,000 and his proposal was that
the real tray to be manufactured frori
his designs should be kept in the show
ease at St. Paul's churchyard, whilst
he should carry round with him a
tray of paste and pinchleck in illus
tration .f the style and color.
Uoth trays were made. The real
thing went in the showcase, and the
bogus article went on tour. The real
tray was paragraphed in the London
and provincial newspapers, hundreds
of fashionable people went to see it,
orders came in briskly, the new designs
became a fashion, ar.d the clever little
Hebrew gentleman made so good a
tLingof hi liberal commission that he
was more than paid for all his trouble.
His employer was, of course, eminent
ly satisfied on his own account, but by
ami by disaster crept upon him.
The traveler made four j'urneys"4
year, covering the three kingdoms on
ea''h expedition. He had started on
the third round since the completion
of the two trays, when the jeweler, by
a chance examination of his treasure,
discovered that he was i:i pos-:'ssioa of
the imitation, and that his servant had
by some queer blunder, walked off with
t te real thing. To an unlearned eye
the mimic jewels were exactly like the
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real, but an expert was not to lie de
ceived for an instant The two trays
had been set for comparison side by
side outside the showcase, and the
traveler had made an accidental ex
change. It was a little surprising, but
it excited no suspicion. The jeweler
sent a sjiecial messenger down to lirix
ton with a note of explanation, and the
special messenger came back to s:iy
that the gentleman had gone to Bir
mingham. A telegram was sent to
Birmingham, and the jeweler went to
his home in the suburbs quite content
ed and at ease. When a servant had
been faithful for 17 years in big things
and little, when he had had hundreds
and hundreds of thousands of pounds
through his hands, and had never once
been out in his accounts by a f.rthing,
an honest man is not likely to grow
mistrust from so small a seed as this.
But when no answer came from Bir
minghamwhen telegraphic inquiry
elicited the tact that the traveler had
not been to his customary hotel when
further inquiry proved that he had not
been heard of at Manchester, Liver
pool, Edinburgh, Glasgow when, af
ter four or five days, his wife, for the
first time since her marriage, was ig-
norantorhis whereabouts then things
began to grow uncomfortable, and sus
picion began to pLer. Not at all in the
direction of the dapper little Jewish
gentleman. He was above suspicion,
as the wife of Ciesar should have been.
Seventeen years of unstained fidelity
were not to be rewarded so. But it be
came clear that some mischief had be
fallen him there are hundreds of peo
ple in the world who would do murder
for the fiftieth part of such a booty as
he carried. His employer went mourn
fully to the police and offered a reward
for the missing man's discovery. He
was angry at the mere ilea that one
whom he had trusted so entirely, and
whose faithfulness had ntood the test
so long, had at last deceived and rob-
lied him. The honest heart would
have no commerce with that fancy.
No! The poor fellow had fallen ill.
hud tumbled into some aberration of
the mind, of which thec'iaugingof the
tr.iys was the earliest sign, had be. n
robbed, drugged, spirited away, mur
dered. The jKlice accepted this view of the
case with courteous incredulity, and
planned and lalsired ou theirowu lines.
They networked the country through
the telegraph; they woke up every port
in Great Britain, and had every passen
ger list examiued; they haunted way
si Je stations, and sluidowed the great
termini; tiiey sent the news tingling
to every coon try in Europe and to tiie
1'nited Slates. Every pawnbroker iu
Great Britain, every mont de piete in
France, every dealer iu precious stones
and precious metals everywhere had
warning.
Then, as his own lucky star ordained,
the sergeant was sent to London on
professional affairs. - He called at Scot
land Yard to pay a visit of respect to an
old provincial superior of his own;
partly because a little civility is never
wasted "as you know Mr. Murray"
partly because he liked the gentleman
in question, and partly because "out of
sight is out of mind with mauy peo
ple." The late provincial sujierior was
affable to the extent of a glass of
whisky and a cigar; and, at their part
ing, he confided to the sergeant's charge
a packet of handbills, which set forth
a portrait of the missing gentleman, a
full description of his person, and an
inventory of the lost jewels. The ser
geant kept one of these for his own
private reading, packed the rest in his
hand-bag, and having finished his bus
iness by noon on the day following,
strolled down to Euston station in time
for the two o'clock train.
On the way he encountered an old
friend, with whom he had a glass of
whisky. At the station he encounter
ed another old friend one of the de
tectives on constant djty there and
with him he had another glass of
whisky. The day was warm and
heavy, the sergeant had been seeing
"life" in the capital at the expense of
his nightly rest, and ensconcing him
belf in one corner of a second-class
smoking compartment, five minutes
before the train's departure, he fell
asleep. At Chalk Farm he was dimly
aware that somebody got in the car.
riage, and then he slept again. He
was half-way to Rugby before he
awoke. His fellow-passenger was seat
ed in the opposite corner at the far-end
of the compartment, aud the sergeant
surveyed him uninterestedly through
scarce-opened eyelids. It was a Jewish
gentleman of a n.-at and dapper aspect,
with coal-black hair, eyebrows, and
mustache, and cheeks and chin clean
shaven. He smoked a cigar, aud read
a railway novel, but every now and
then he seemed to awake to a sudden
interest in a hat-box which was be
stowed in the light-luggage netting
over head, and at such moments he
would screw himself round and look
upward, as if be feared to find it spirit
ed away.
"Now," said the sergeant in telling
me the story, "it's a curious thing, but
this is what set me a-thiuking. When
I was a kid, aud right on to when I left
home, my old mother never let me get
tolled without reading a chapter out
of tha Bible at me. I never got a lot o'
good out of it, as far as I remember, but
I never got no harm anyway. I hadn't
thought of the words for the best part
of 1 years, but when that chap bad
looked at that hat-box maybe a dozen
times, they came into my head as plain
as if a person lied spoken 'em in my
ear. 'Where the treasure is, there will
the heart be also. And 'what have
you got there, my friend?' I say to my
self, 'I wonder.' " By-and-by the ser
geant had something else to wonder at.
The Jewish gentleman drew on" a well
fitting glove of tan-colored dogskin,
and began to finger his cheeks and chin
with a very delicate carefulness. His
face took a cast of anxiety, and he drew
from his breast-pocket a small morocco
case which contained a oomb and a
minor. He combed his mustache, and
scrutinized it with extraordinary care.
He combed the hair on his forehead
and temples, and scrutinized that with
extraordinary care, Tlieu he combed
his thick black eyebrows, aud peered at
then into the mirror as closely as if he
had been examining them through a
microscope. Next he examined bit
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chin minutely and seemed dissatisfied.
Once or twice he looked at the sergeant
who lay with his leg- stretched out.
and the merest hair-breadth sift of
watchful eye quite veiled by the eye
lash. And, occupied earnestly as he
was in these singular details, the dap
per Jewish gentleman never forgot the
hat-box for much more than half a
minute at a time. .
"Where the treasure Is," said the
sergeant, with his heart beating like a
hammer at his ribs, for he had begun to
think what an uncommonly close shave
a dark-haired gentleman like that must
have taken, to lie sure, to have no sign
at all of a beard on cheek and chin.
"For a man as is naturally black," said
the oliservant sergeant, "gets blue with
close shaving, don't you notice, sir? and
this chap wasn't a bit bluer on the chin,
than he was on the bridge of his nose.
Dyed his hair he had!''
It occurred to the sergeant to wake
up and light a pipe, and usume a brisk
interest in the landscape. It occurred
to him further to cross to the other end
of the compartment for a better view
of the landscape on that side. He ven
tured to remark tiiat it was a pretty
country, and that the young wheat was
looking well. Then he sauntered back
to his own corner, and made lielieve to
doze again with his heart beating
more and more like a hammer at his
ribs, until he wondered that the other
man didn't seem to hear it. For at
that nearer view he had seen what he
had fully expected to see an auburn
rime on cheek and chin, namely, and a
touch of auburu at the roots of the
carefully iienciled eyelashes. And all
the while he was thinking, so he told
me: "What a stroke of, luck! Oh!
what a stroke of luek! And here's my
step at last." And yet he had no au
thority to act, and to arrot a man on
such a mere suspicion, and without au
thority was a dangerous sort of thing
to do. The sergeant was mightily
tumbled up and down in his mind, aud
he knew not what to do. '
They came to Rugby, and the gentle
man got out and ordered a glass of milk
and soda at the refreshment bar. Be
fore it was served, he bolted liaek to the
train, and secured his hat-box. "Now,
is he going to slip off here?" asked the
sergeant within doors, "and if he is,
what's my game?" The gentleman
went back to the carriage, however, in
due season, and the sergeant followed.
At Birmingham they both alighted,
and the gentleman went to the Queen's
hotel. He chartered a bed-room there,
ami carried his hat-box u-stairs with
his own hands, a porter following with
a jiortiiiaiiteuu. In half an hour he
came down again, passed into Steven
son square, and on into New street.
The sergeant took hiscounige iu both
hands, aud went to the manager. A
Jewish gentleman with a black mus
tache had taken such and such a num
ber?
"Yes."
"That," said the sergeant, producing
his handbill, "is the man."
The manager stared, and then laugh
ed. No, he knew that man. He was
a red-headed fellow with a red beard
and mustache.
"Shaved and dyed," said the ser
geant. "B.-irad!" said the manager, "I be
lieve you're right."
"You know me?" says the sergeant.
"Yes," says the manager, naming
him.
"Very well. I take all the resjionsi
bility of this move. That man has the
stolen jewels ill his h:it-lox. Let me
into liis room, and we'll soon see."
"It was a common lock to the hat
Iwx," said the sergeant, concluding his
story in gre:it excitement. "I begged
a hair-pin from, a chambermaid oneo'
them thick, strong hair-pins, and the
trick was domain a minute. There was
the violet-velvet lining of the jewel
case all tore out loose, aud rolled into a
bundle, and inside it was the whole
20,0rJ worth. Ami while we was a
stariug at each other, like a pair of
stuck pigs, back comes his Nibs, sees
me a-knee!ing over the open hat-lox,
wipes out a revolver, and knock a hole
clear through two sides of my new silk
hat and ruins it, Twelve-and-six it
cost me, and brand-new out of Hyams'
shop only the week afore. The mana
ger knocks his arm up, and the next
shot goes into the ceiling. It was nip
and tuck then for a minute, but we got
him down, and I had 'cm on his wrists
in a jiffy. Seven years he got at the
Old Bailey, and pretty cheap at that.
Five hundred pounds reward is a good
deal to a poor man like me, but a Lon
don chance Is more, and that slice o'
luck brought both. That's his Nilm'
portrait, that there big colored photo
graph over the mantel-shelf. His mis
sis sold up the little house at Brixton,
and I bought that at the sale for a re
minder of him." Chambers' Journal.
The Pious Eobia.
Here is a story of an orthodox robin.
Some time ago I attended morniug
service in Ely cathedral, where during
the prayers a robin kept Hitting about
the building, joining occasionally in
the service with a modest chirrup.
When the clergyman ascended the
pulpit and began to speak, the robin
deliberately perched himself on one of
the pinnacles of the chancel screen
quite close to the orator, and the louder
the pastor preached the louder the robin
sang, much to the amusement of the
congregation. I have no recollection
of what the sermon was about, but the
robin's singing made a deep impres
sion upon me. London Telegraph.
There is Nothing to Good.
There is nothing just as good as Dr.
King's New Discovery for consump
tion, couchs and colds, so demand it
and do not jienuit the dealer to sell
you some substitute. He will not
claim there is anything better, but in
order to make more profit lie may
claim something ele to be just as good.
You want Dr. King's New Discovery
because you know it to be safe aud re
liable, and guaranteed to do good or
money refunded. For coughs, colds,
consumption and for all affections of
throat, chest and lings, Ihere is noth
ing so good as is Dr. Kin.r's New Dis
covery. Trial bottle free it Snyder's
drugstore, Simerset, or at Brallier's
drugstore, Berlin. Regular six 50c.
and 1.00.
if
GRABT AND WASHINGTON.
Two Serial Which "The Century
Magazine" Has Secured for 1897.
One of the best friends that General
Grant ever had was Horace Porter.
Their first meeting was at Chattanoo
ga iu the autumn of IS;;!, and soon af
ter General (then Captain) Porter lie
came a meitiU-r of Grant's stall' and
served him constantly until Lee's sur
render. When Grant became Presi
dent Horace Porter was made his pri
vate secretary, and until General Grant
breathed his last at Mt. McGregor the
two men were close friends. Nor did
General Porter's love for his chief cease
with death, forto him isdue the success
of the movement to raise the half
million of dollars which the Grant
monument in Riverside Park will cost.
T.ie inauguration of the tomb will take
place next spring, o:i General Grant's
birthday, and Genera! Porter will be
the orator of the occasion.
During these years of intimacy with
Grant General Porter kept a diary and
iu his moments of leisure he has ar
ranged his unique stores of anecdote
ami memoranda into a series of twelve
articles entitled "Campaigning with
Grant," and the Century Magazine hits
secured all rights iu the series and will
print it during the coming year. Since
the famous "Century War Series," for
which General Grant himself wrote
four articles (the beginning of his
"Memoirs"), no magazine has had
such a treat to lay before its readers.
Another great serial in the Century
is a novel of American Revolution,
written by the well known Philadel
delphia physician, Dr. S. Weir Mitch
ell. The story is supposed to be the
autobiography of the hero, "Hugh
Wynne, Free Quaker," who becomse
an officer on General Washington's
stair, and tLe characters in the story
include Washington, Franklin, and
Lafayette. It is said that the readers
of "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker," w ill
obtain a clearer idea of the Revolution
ary War than can be had from any
other single source. It is believed that
Dr. Mitchell has written "the great
American novel" for which we have
been waiting so many years.
These are only two of the features of
the Century for the comingyear. Few
of our readers will be without it in
ls!7. It costs $-4.00 a year not too
high a price for what the Century
gives; but many people are arranging
to club together in groups of four, pay
ing one dollar each, and securing the
reading of the magazine one week in
the month. The publishers a-Ivise the
making up of clubs early. Send ?l.0U
to the Century Co., Union Sjuare,
New York, with the name of the per
son to whom the magazine is to be
sent. If you begin your subscription
with the December (Christmas) num
ber, the publishers will send you a copy
of the Novemlx-r number free, in
which the two great serials here de
scribed begin.
A Sparrow's FalL
A New Orleans dispatch in Philadel
phia Times says: I chanced to see a
queer little episode yesterday, in which
a party of En ulish sparrows were the
actors. At the back door of a little sa
loon down on Royal street a bottle of
champagne had been broken, the
sparkling stun" running out and collect
ing in puddles on the broken stone
pavement. Just alxiut the time I
ct anced along a ubiquitous y uug
sparrow, perhaps not exactly u;on
pleasure bent, hopped down upon the
sidewalk and stuck his investigating
beak into one of these wine puddles.
This young fellow was, no doubt, tak
ing his first drink, for the stuff flew to
his head instantly, and pretty soon he
was done up completely.
I watched him for a few moments
flopping aud toppling about on the
sidewalk wondering what next would
happen, when down flitted two ther
little sparrows, who evidently came to
see what was up. They lost no time
in taking iu the situation, either, for
between chattering and chirping at
their tipsy friend and smelling the
champagne puddle, they apjseured to
comprehend matters. The two held a
caucus for a few moments after their
investigations ceased and then with a
mighty fluttering of wings and peek
ing of lieaks they drove the tipsy bird
to the banquette and dumiK-d him
over in the gutter. At first I thought
they were murdering the por, help
less little fellow, but it soon liecame ev
ident that they were taking the only
means iu their power to resuscitate
him, for presently he came up again
dripp'ng, it is true, and somewhat the
worse for wear, but on the whole petty
steady on his legs.
Thinking everything was over I
went on down to the French Market,
attended to my business, and came
back, having been about two hours
gone, to see the three little sparrows
standing on the pavement just where I
had left them. Wondering what thc-y
could be up to I waited, and was pres
ently rewarded by seeing another spar
row Uy down and join the others.
Then came a mighty chattering and
pecking at the bird that had been
drunk and smelling at the wine pud
dle, and the bird number four flew
away. By and by still another one
came, the same process being repeated
for hint, and by this time I was con
vinced that the first three had taken
up their station by the dangerous liq
uor to warn others against falling into
temptation.
Aching Joints
Announce the presence of rheumatism
which causes untold suffering. Rheu
matism is due to lactic ttcid in the
blood. It can not be cured by lini
ments or other outward application.
Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blod(
removes the emse of rheumatisiU and
permanently eures this disease. This
is the testimony of thousands of peo
ple who once suffered the pains of
rheumatism but who have actually
been cured by taking Hood's Sarsapar
illa. Its great power to act upon the
blood and remove every impurity is
the secret of the wondtrful cures by
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
eraii
Household Hints.
A little water in butter, when used
for frying, will prevent it from burn
ing.
Grease spots In cloth may.be taken
out by applying a solution of salt in
alcohol.
A glass of puw cream or glass of
fresh milk, with a salt cracker or a
crust of fresh bread. Is a good luuch
between meals for a hungry convales
cent.
Liniments and ointments should al
ways be applied to the patient with the
hand; if applied with cotton or a cloth
the gKMl effect obtained from friction
would be lost
Tea should never bo boiled. It
should be made in a china or porcelain
teapot, for the chemicals in it will act
upon tin, not only causing the bever
age to lose its flavor, but making it in
jurious to the system.
Coughs and sore throats may be much
alleviated by glycerine and lemon
juice diluted with water, taken at
night. Hot flaxseed tea with lemon
juice, sweetened with rock candy, is
excellent also.
Pans and kettles will last much
lonjrer if they are placed before the fire
a few minutes to get thoroughly dry
inside. If put away in a damp condi
tion they soon become rusty and in a
short time quite unfit for use.
A remedy for roaches can be obtain
ed by mixing gum camphor and pow
dered borax in equal parts and scatter
ing it around freely, but in small quan
tities, which must be swept up, unless
replaced, until all have disapjieared.
No apple pie baked with the sugar
in it is so delicious as one sweetened
afterward by removing the crust and
adding sugar, a very little butter, and
nutmeg or cinnamon as you wish.
French and German cooks use cinna
mon, but the New England apple pie
is usually flavored with nutmeg.
One of the best household remedies
for bruises, where the skin has not
been broken, is arnica and sweet oil..
Colored centre cloths are no longer
used by people of good taste. They
prefer something that can be washed.
White linen or wash silk is all that is
permitted. These may lie as elaborate
or plain as occasion demand. But in
auy case they should be m-ide to con
form to the shaie of the table they are
intended to fit, square for square, ob
long for oblong, round for round aud
oval for oval.
Oyster sheila laid on the hot coals in
a stove or range will loosen clinkers on
the fire brick so that they may lie tak
en off easily, and a stove that is rublied
oir with newspapers after each meal
will not need polishing ho often.
New National Park.
Dr. E. B. Feruow, chief of the divis
ion of forestry in the department of
agriculture at Washington, is in Crooks
ton, Minn., in consultation with Sujier
inteudeut Hoverstad of the state ex
periment station. One object of Dr.
Fernow's trip to Minnesota at this time
is to lay the foundations for some ex
tensive experiments in the line of for
estry which will added to the varieties
of trees indigenous to this country,
many of which grow in other countries
where similar climatic conditions ex
ist. The main object of Dr. Fernow's
trip at this time, however, is believed
to lis afar more important one. He
will go to the country east of Crooks
tou, and will, it is said, look up the
forestry conditions as they apply to the
natural growths.
It is believed, however, that Dr. Fer
now's trip to Minnesota and his jaunt
into the wilds of the Indian reserva
tion lands is for the purpose of investi
gating and reporting to the govern
ment upon the feasibility and practica
bility of establishing a national park
and forestry reserve which shall in
clude the head waters of the Missis
sippi. This has been urged by leading
citizens of the state and by the princi
pal newspapers very strongly during
recent ytars, and the opportunity is
rie to do this at this time, wheu the
Indian reservations are ling parceled
out and a sufficiently large tract of
country is obtainable. The great
blaughterof deer aud other large game
at th:s time emphasizes the fact that a
game preserve would he a feature
which would proliably be added. St.
Paul Pioneer Prcsa.
Stood For Her Eights.
The woman lawyer slammed a pile of
briefs down before the judge and said :
"I move to discharge this prisoner,
on the ground that the prosecution
baTe not proved their case, and that
the evidence is irrelevant and imma
terial." "Motion granted," said the judge.
"No more dastardly outrage was
ever perpetrated," began the lawyer,
"than the incarceration of this, my in
nocent client. He was engaged in the
pursuit of his daily vocation, when
the stong arm of the law deseeuded
upon him. He"
"Madam," said the judge, "have I
not already told you that your motion
was granted ? The prisoner is dis
charged. "He was a man without guile," con
tinued the fair counselor. "He sup
ported his family as. best he could. He
was iD the midst of his family circle
when a minion of the law entered aud
demanded his immediate incarcera
tion." "I have already decided in your
favor, madam, as I have told you
twice," drawled the judge. "What
more do you want?"
"What more do I want, indeed?"
cried the woman lawyer, her face flush
ing to a crimson hue. "Why, I want
to argue this case. I stand upon my
constitutional right as a woman to have
the last word, and I mean to have it."
And she diL New Yrb lit raid.
An Historical Discussion.
"What are the Drk a;?s?" asked
the governess at the morning lesson.
"That must have been before specta
cles were invented," guessed My.
"Oil, no!" interrup'ed Cedric: "I
know why they were e-t'.led th9 Dirk
are. Because there were more knights
t'aen. Hirper's Round Table.
WHOLE XO. 2307.
Pine Cone Fires-
Few dwellers in the tit t, even if they
enjoy the soul-satisfying luxury of an
open fire, know how to make it yield
them all of the aesthetic pleasure which
it Is capable of yielding to those who
have found which of the wooilland
treasures make richest fuel for the
flames and the prettiest pictures in the
coals.
The pine cones that fall from the
trees iu autumn and are now strewing
the ground make a very beautiful fire
wheu laid upon the burning logs of the
fire-place or on the anthracite in the
grate. They Hare up with a bright,
steady flame until burnt to a glowing
red cinder, each cone preserving its
shaie and outline, and remaining a
thing of bcuuty till it dually falls into
kaleidoscopic fragments.
As a pleasing diversion for an in
valid one could not do him a kinder
little service than to colk-ct a lot of
these cones from under the trees iu the
park and send theru with an appro
priate line or two.
Last winter the holidays brought
nothing that pleased one hojieless con
sumptive so much as a large burlap
bagful of selected pine cones for the
tire that made the beauty of his wan
ing days. The donor wrote ou the ba:
"Give me of thy balm, O fire tree," but
a beautifully suggestive verse to have
w ritten under the circumstances would
have lieen this from Lowell's "Singing
Leaves:"
15ut the trees all kept their counsel.
And never a word s.iid they.
Only there sighed trm the pine-tops
A music of sin, faraway.
There are many apropos quotations
about the lines thiit will occur to every
one. The lettering may be done with
a pencil and then outlined with heavy
brown cotton or wool on an ordinary
bushel bag and tied when filled with a
j'ard of brown ribbon. It would sure
ly give pleasure to a weary one.
Small branches or twigs of lichen-
covered ouk or hickory also make de
lightful top fuel for the open fire, the
tiny mosses emitting many colored
lights an 1 the cheery crackling trying
iu Vitin to drown the singiug of the
"pixie" or fairy in the wood, as the
legend has it, but which peculiarly-
southing sound cold science attributes
to an imprisoned insect.
A Tomcat on the Eoost-
An Opelika, Ala., Dispatch in Phila
delphia Times. H. C. Henderson, a
farmer living near here, owns a hen
ooneerning which he tells the following
utcresting fact :
Aliout a year and a half ago the hen
went to setting, stealing her nst in a
corner of the carriage house. Not
wishing to eucourage a migratory pro
pensity among the poultry. Hender
son told one of his children, a bright
little boy named Tom, to break the
hen up and coa& her back to the fowl
house. Tom made repeated elforts to
carry out his father's instructions, but
it is exsit-r said than done, to break up
a setting hen. Day after day the hen
went back to her nest in the carriage
house till Tom was in despair, and he
hit Usii the following novel plan to
oust her from her chosen alsxle :
There chanced to lie a litter of kit
tens on the place that, needed disjio-
sing of, and Tom thought to combine
business with pleasure by putting one
of the mewing young things in the old
hen's nest. This would seem to be a
very effectual way, not only of brcak
ingup the hen's housekeeping, but of
getting rid of the kitten as well, as she
would no doubt turn upon the disturb
er of her peace and destroy it. This
was Tom's idea, at least, but the plan
did net work.
Instead, the old hen, iu lieu of some
thing better, hovered over the kitten
until it passed beyond the stage of
adolescence, thereafter caring for it as
dutifully as it had been the mt lov
ing of chicks. In turn the kitten
seemed well pleased with its new quar
ters aud its strange foster-mother, and
would follow at her heels, answering
her clucks with a dutiful mew, picking
up crumb and stray bits of meat that
found their way into the chicken food.
The strange affection thus engendered
between the hen and the kitten contin
ues unabated, though the latter is now a
full-growu cat, and Henderson says it
is worth its weight in gold in keeping
nits out of the fowl house. Of course
the rodents are not prepared to find a
cat perched upon the pole among the
fowls, and when he pounces down he
bags his game every time.
Did Yon Ever
Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for
your troubles? I f not, get a bottle now
and get relief. This medicine has been
found to be jieculiarly adapted to the
relief and cure of all female complaints,
exerting a wonderful direct intluence
iu giving strength and tone to the or
gans If you have loss of appetite,
constipation, headache, faiuting spells,
or are nervous, sleepless, excitable,
melancholy or troubled with dizzy
spells. Electric Bitters is the medicine
vou need. Health and strength are
guaranteed by its ue. ooc. and $1.00
at Snyder's urug store, Somerset, or at
Brallier's drug store, Berlin.
The Value of Apples.
If the girls understood the advanta
ges of apple eating there would proba
bly be quite a huge run upon the
marktt for the fruit. Doctors say that
apples act directly upon the liver, thus
strengthening the digestion, and, as a
consequence, improving the texture cf
the skin and the color of the complex
ion. Raw apples are the best, hut bak
ed ones may lie substituted for a
change, or if the fivsh fruit should be
found unpalatable or difficult of di
gestion. The old rule that fruit in
the morning is gold, iu the afternoon is
silver, and in the evening is lead, is
quite exploded. Many people find
that a light meal of fresh fruit directly
before getting Into bed iuduees comfort J
able sleep, aud in every way is an im
mense success.
Prevent sickness and save doctors'
bills at this season by keeping your
blool rich and pure with Hood's Sur
t apar'.Ua.
Ki-cp It in mind that like beget like,
as much so among plants as it doe
anion;; auimals.
Soil brought up from depth of .U;
feet in a vault in one of the ileljrijm
mines is said to have vriwn weeds un
known to the Is-lariisls.
As sure a frot wither the grust it
loc in t only its wucuifi.cr but rtitr Ii
of its nutritive value, nn 1 some other
kind of food must Is? given with it or
the flow of milk will !ecpMe.
There are two extremes. You csu
not let your poultry rwnt in trees in
winter, nor can yon shut them up .n
over crowded hotist s, and then vr t
success. Success di not lie nn eit;..-r
of these routes.
The chief reason of quick (It cay r,f
full fruit U sh.iply the matter of t ie
warm weather to whlct it is expo--ii
as now handled. I-'.,:i fruit will ke-p
all winter if put i:it a desirable dece
of low temperature immediately a'.er
packing.
The grower should make the !is!"
snlofhU fruits extend over a lm p-r
time, uit'i a change of nieth'ol in se
lecting, picking anil stjle of packing,
aud the keeping of his fruit at a lower
temperature, will mk? him more iu
dejieiident of market c u.ditioin.
A Michigan cheese factory ha ut
out the following jsiinter to its ; i
trons: Filth cannot lie "trained fr-ia
milk. Miik v:ilc:.i h ar.d hold I el
odors from sta!.!e, wood house a:.d
filthy yard. The Is st milk, if shut
into a can tightly when warm, will
spoil ii;ide of three Lour.
Wheu large iiumU-rs of stock are fed
together the stronger will continually
crowd away the weaker one, w ho fail
to procure enough fissl to keep in gid,
thrifty condition. Such an unequal
division causes an increase iu the cost.
It Ls belter to divide up into reasonably
small lots, according to size, age and
coudition.
A nurt'-erof breeders complain of a
peculiar skin disease that is breaking
out on their fall piir. Small scabby
sores break out on the pig's back, and
sometimes back of the ear and on th e
neck. Wash them thoroughly with a
solution of one part common coal oil
and a sm:dl quantity of laundry soap,
and three part rain-water Uii'ed until
it become an emulsion. Apply with a
scrubbing brush.
A vcterau brone'io breaker givesi th
following as a sure way to cure a horse
of kicking: "Tie one of hi fore leg
with a rope to hi hind leg nn the oth
er side. A soon a he Marts to kick
he jerks his front logoff the ground
and he goes down in a heap. Two or
three dose of that kind w ill cure the
worst case you can find."
Grains need to be rif e.-v.tl wholly on
the vine. They will inr, L'-:e peurs
aud apples, rien iu the cellar. Ti:e
really ripe grapes v.ill endure several
degrees of frost. If this occur ear'y,
so as to warrant some warm weat! r
after if, some trspe grower leave ?i.e
grapes on tl.e vines f.;r some ti.'lie a.r it
most of the leave have l en fr.vd.
The graes will ripen, thu, I ut v. ry
slowly. It is a ri.v b '-lues, for a
heavy frost somttirtits cpxis :.nj
spoils those grape left to ripen later.
When most needed it i not unus ial
for your family plivs;. i;.ii to av ay
from home. Such was the experit-iii-e
of Mr. J. Y. Schciik, editor of thet '.:il-
do, Ind. Ter., Runner, when his li.Je
girl, two year of sge, va tLreatet cl
with a severe attack of croup. He
says: "My wife insisted th-Jt I go for
the doctor, but a our family physi
cian was out of town I pureha-sed av
bottle of Chamberlain's Cotigli Reme
dy, which relieved her immediately.
I will not be without it in the future."
:J3 and oO cent bottles for sale bv B-.n-
ord's Pharmacv.
Major C. T. Pieton is manager of '!.e
tate Hotel, at Deuison, Tcxa, which
the traveling nit n say is one of the I -st
hotels in that section. In -peaking of
Chamberlain's Colie, Cholera i-ml
Diarrhoea Remedy Major Pit-ton s:i:
"I have used it myself and in uiy fam
ily for several years, and take pleasure
in saying that I courider it an infalli
ble cure f;r diarrhoea and tlyseiittry.
I always recommend it, ti.J have
frequently admin L-iervd it to my eutts
iu the hotel, and in every ws- it Las
proven it-lf worthy of unqualified en
dorsement. For sale bv Benford'a
Pharmacv.
As the Soliier D;e3.
A British army surgeon is authority
r the statement tliat the cause tf
death is clearly shown in the expres-
iou or tae face of a corpse on the i.e. a
if battle. He ?tutes that those who
have been killed by sword thrusts have
look of repose; while those killed by
ullets Usually have Pain of an intense
nature clearly depicted.
Backlcn's Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Com, and ullSkiti Erup
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It i? guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refuutkd.
Price ti" cents jier box. For side at J.
N. Snyder's drugstore, Somerset, or
at Brallier's drug store, Berlin, Pa.
Potash plays an important part in
the development of the tleshy part of
fiuits and for this rn n uriktr iitts
would do well to iuviV.i -ate into th
wisdom of appl ing it lo their trees.
a fertilizer. Tnis i an especially im
portant piiut waen a.iite 1 t:i . :
calilies where the soil is Sia.iiru.il v Se-
fieieut in potash. In s:m cist tiiis
deficiency can be supplied by W"od
ashes but In general, the Use of ihe
potash salt muriate, sulphate or
Kainit will be i!ces.sary.
The wife of Mr. I). Robinson, a prm
lu-ent lumberman of Hart wick, N. Y.,
was sick with rheumatism for ive
mouths. Iu sivakiiig of it, Mr. Roi i;
son says: "ChamUrlaia's Pain liuliu
is the only thing that gave her sny
rest from pain. For the relief of pain
it can not be beat." Many very lad
cases of rheumatism have been cured
by it. For sale at o0 cent per bottle
by Benford's Pharmacy.
Eighty-three tests involving s) hor
ses were recently made to determine,
the relation which the weight of a
horse hears to its pulling power. Tiiey
were grouped into three classes gt !
fair and ptmr. The Rood group aver ;
ed a dead pull of 7.." per cent, of he
weight, the fair group per cent,
and the poor group tv".t jr cent, of
their weight. Thus the best could pull
nearly four-fifths of their weight, while
the poorest pulled less than two-thirds
of their weight.
"I contracted a severe cold from ex
posure. Coughed all winter. Could
get no relief. Dr. Wood's Norway
Pin? Syrup broke up the cold, and
drove away the coujrh. Never took
anything that did me so much good.''
J. II. Brooke North Harerhill, N. It