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VOL. XX. NO. 18.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 31, 1887.
S1.50 PER ANNUM.
For
REP
Tho totnl cnpitul invested In 1887 in
the fourteen Southern States is greater
by 1107,574,(300 tlinn during 1880. Ala
bama dhows tho largest increase, with
Tennessee second.
A movement lias been started among
leading business men of Huffnlo to raise
a fund of $100,000 which will bo offered
as prize for the best invention fur utiliz
ing tho water-power of Niagara River.
Competition will bo open to tho world.
Tho English co-operatives hnvo a bank
whoso transactions nmount to $N0,
000,000 a year. They havo 1,400 stores
nnd do a business of $150,000,000 a venr.
Ttinir non onn mot,, ....... ,,.i 1
profit of $1.-), 000, 000. Their prolits
during tlio past twenty-four years have
been fi0,000,000. . .
Thero is a growing belief among civil
engineers of note, who look nfter tho
badges on tho railroads of this- country,
that wherever it , is practicable: stono
bridges should bo built nnd iron and
wooden structures dispensed with, and
that a heavy raifshoirld be placed in the
track, whorevcr the heavy locomotive is
put in service.
Tho London. Timet announces that
photography in colors is now an accom
plished fact f that after threo years of
study, experiment and chemical research,
a Mr. Mayal, of New Uond street, has pro
duced scvoral colorod photographic por
traits without Jho aid of hand-work or
brush, which possess tho brilliancy and
delicacy of highly finished miniatures In
oil.
Speaking of the changes in the cliinuto
or pvuiiii inn iitMriiii'i i-iti :.,
says; "About 3, 000 head of sheep aro
now finding abundant pasturago in tho
vicinity of this city, where twenty years
ago A whippoorwill could not fly over
tho country without carrying a sack ot
provision. Gradually tho summer sea
son has changed. Wo now have season
able showers and grass whero but two
decades ago all was drought and har
mless. "
From 1881 to 1885, inclusive, 148 per
sons w ero sentenced to death In Franco.
Of this number only seven were women,
and seventeen were between tho ngos of
sixteen and twenty. That crime is not
altogether rampant in nnd confined to tho
urban population is shown bj the fact
that of these 148 capital criminals seventy
were agricultural laborers. Among tho
remaining number were forty-eight work
men, fifteen commercial employes, eight
servants, ono notary and one private gen
tlcman, and 113 could read and writo.
Alaska is full of wonders, the half of
which havo not been brought to light.
A great lako has been found at the source
of tho Korrak Uivcr, which is so deep
that no fathom line has been found long
enough to reach tho bottom. Tho na
tives aro strong and hardy, about tho
size of -white men, with small black eyes,
high foreheads, small and flat noses, fine
teeth and coarse, black hair. They are
of a bright brunctto color. Their dress
is- mado from tho skin of tho reindeer
and other minimis. They live in huts
partially underground.
A man near London recently made a
bet that he could kill, clean, cook and
Cat a spring chicken in fifteen minutes,
ii-jiiiiuiui j lu iuu contest, no secureu mo
.chick n and provided himself with a pot
of boiling ivstcr, a bucket of cold water,
a hot skillet a:i-l a hot flat-iron. When
timo was called he jerked the chicken's
head off, doused it in a pot of boiling
water, slipped tho feathers off, cleaned
it and then laid tho fry flat in the pan,
with the flat-iron on top to cook the
upper side. At the closo of eleven and
a half minutes ho had the chicken bones
beautifully polished,
It seems to bo a pretty general impres
sion that, in the next war in Europe,
dynamite, mclanitc and oilier destructive
chemical compounds will play an import
ant part in battles and mining and de
fensive operations. Hut tho frequent
accidents attending the handling of these
explosives suggest that they mRy be more
destructive to those who uso them than
to an enemy. A few days ago a dyna
mite cartridge exploded among a party
of sappers and miners at a town in
Hungary and killed twenty-seven men
and wounded forly-cight others. The
dangerof such accidents us this will make
Soldiers timid ill handling tho new
agents and may force them to be aban
doned. Tho original of a long-lost letter,
wholly written by ticn. Washington,
has recently been found while searching
for other documents in tho State Paper
Department of the Newport (H. I.) City
Hall. It was written iu acknowledg
ment of an address from tho citizens of
Newiiort, where he arrived for the second
and last time in 17'J0, a year after his
inauguration as President. Tho docu
ment is of considerable historic value,
and of great local interest, more particu-
larly as it has hitherto escaped tne notice
of the biographers of Washington. It is
written on both sides of two quarto
pages of the largo letter paper of tho
period, being altogether in the distinct
and readable chirogruphy of the President.
THH EAGLE'S SHADOW.
A giant angle, soaring up on high,
With wings eutapread beneath the sun,
looks down
Where, a mere speck below, a mighty town
Lifts towers ami hattli-mc-nta into the sky;
Ami, In his foolish pride he dares to cry -"Lot
me but hover 'twlxt tho sun's bright
crown
And yonder hive of men, and lo! a frown
Of shadowy darkness on its streets will lie."
So often man, In intellectual prido,
Will stand between the sun of God's great
love
And God's oroatod, deeming he can hide
From fellow-man the glad rays from abovel
Vain, ynin his pigmy efforts to mako night:
The sun still shines and fills tho world with
light!
George Wrtherly, in the Quiver.
A SET OF SA1TU1KES.
BY OI.I YK in:!.!.,
"John" pretty Mrs. Cecil Morgan
stood beside her husband's chair with a
Btrange hesitancy of look and milliner
"could you let mo have a little money J"
John .Morgan, head book-keeper in the
commission-house of Macray A Co., laid
down his morning paper with a stilled
sigh, He looked up kindly Into the
fair, rose-tinted face of his young wife,
whose sapph re bluo eyes were bent on
his face expectantly, llu did not reply
for a moment, but drew her down on his
lap, nnd stroked the curly golden hair
w ith his slim, white fingers, Hie was A
lovely, loving, but thoughtless little
woman she was his wife, and ho loved
her devotedly but sometimes, not often,
her vanities jarred on his liner sensibili
ties; for Cecil Morgan was not the woman
to meet tho wants of a grave, intellectual
man liko her husband, whoso worth,
honesty and nobility of thought was Rim
ply incomprehensible to her tender, but
shallow nature.
"So, you want a little money. How
much, Cecil t"
He smiled as Iho dimples came nnd
wont in the smooth pink cheeks.
"Oh, ever so much, John."
Cecil's spirits rose as she caressed her
jeweled lingers, and she laughed iu a
childish fashion.
"Well, out with it. How much? Tell
me" as she hesitated. "I must hurry
down town, as we are unusually busy
just now,"
"You are alwnys that when I want any
thing," pouted Cecil.
"Htisincss is business," he said, rather
impatiently. "Tell me what you want,
Cecil."
"Why, you know that lovely set of
sapphires in lfaby ii Co.'s window''
MrB. Morgan paused, nnd her spirits fell
a trifle, lor John's face grew suddenly
clouded; "they are just in-rfect, and
would suit my style 'match my eyes, you
know nnd they are only two hundred
dollars. I want them to wear with my
white moire at Mrs. CnsselV reception."
"Indeed!" was John's comment, as he
coughed slightly, and delilx-rutely seated
his wife on an ottoman at his side.
"Cecil" ho roso slowly to his feet "I
am sorry to refuse you, but 1 cannot spare
tl.ttt amount of money at present."
"Hut they are just lovely, John," per
sisted Mrs. Morgan, with hightened
color, "and so unique! The settings are
peculiar in de-igu so chaste and deli
cate, and they ure fo cheap. Ouly two
hundred fur the complete set I"
"Cecil" John Morgan looked as if lie
Was about to tell some Very unwholesome
truths "what would liiy employer's
think of my wife wearing a two hundred
dollar set of jewelry? Some of your
evening dresses have already excited com
ment; but no one knew I had walked to
and from the ollico, denied myself cigais,
and even the daily papers, to pay for your
extravagance."
"My extravagance!" cried Mrs. Mor
pin, with a subdued wail, ns she put her
handkerchief to her eyes nnd burst into
childish tears a w eak woman's best de
fense. "That's always the cry my ex
travagance !"
"No, Cecil,'' he said sadly, as ho laid
his hand on the golden head, "you can
not say that I often reproach you with ex
travagance. Hut I urn tired of living on
fare only lit for a hermit, and the ever
lasting pinching iu everything but dress.
You do not need this jewelry, nnd it
would riot be advisable to wear it, if you
had it; for men with only moderate sal
aries, must put tip with moderate luxu
ries. I will deny you nothing in reason,
but you cannot have those sapphires.'
There was a ring of unmistakable de
cision in his voice. He slowly drew on
his overcoat and gloves, evidently ex
pecting somo reply from his wife. Hut
she hiade none, and sullenly refused to
look up, as he stooped to kiss her.
"Don't let us quarrel over such
baubles, Cecil," ho said gently, as ho
stroked the silken hair. "Life is too
short to be wasted in foolish bicker
ings."
Then the door closed on him, and Mrs.
Morgan burst into a passiou of angry
tears, for she had set her frivolous heart
on the sapphires, And it was not often
she did not obtain her heart's desire. She
was a blonde, of the most attractive type
very lovely, with a flower-like face,
and a graceful figure that she loved to
array in costly raiment. Her husband's
forced economy was oflcu a sore trial to
her, and was the cause of many annoy
ing differences. Had she possessed
ono atom of financial judgment
she would havo seen that their
present style of living taxed her hus
band's salary to the utmost. Hut she
had been a spoiled and petted child,
educated under fashionable influences,
and when, by one of thoso strange freaks
of fancy, John Morgan grave, matter-of-fact
John proposed, Cecil, after the
manner of too many of her sex, married
him, with the expectation that her mar
ried life would lie one long dream of
satisfied wants ; for John was a rising
man, and expected a partnership in the
firm. Hut his wife's evident love of dis
play weakened his chances of promotion,
and Cecil secretly fretted over the self
denial and economy hur circumstances
forced her to endure.
"I never wanted anything so bad in
niy life," she murmured, as she dried her
eyes and looked around the. cosy break-fast-room,
with its warmth and sunlight,
tasteful furniture, chaste pictures and
blooming plantain the bay window, "and
I think John might let me have them.
That hateful Sirs. Payn will be sure to
be out in something odd in jewels. If I
could only eclipse her 1 I must have
them, somehow, for they would contrast
beautifully with tho snowy whiteness of
my dress."
She roso up with n languid yawn, nnd
in stepping toward the window, trampled
on some flat substance. She stooped
down nnd picked up John's pocket book I
"Hless me," she exclaimed, smiles
dimpling her rosy cheeks, "what a
lucky find I I wonder what's in it ?''
She smilingly unclasped it, and a roll
of bank notes fell out, w hich she counted
with swift precision.
"Two hundred exactly," she ejacula
ted. "And John said he could not sparo
the money. Well, what belongs to my
husband belongs to me, nnd I will have
that set of sapphires!"
She laughed gleefully as she waltzed
out of the room to dress, for she impul
sively determined to secure the sapphires
before John would miss the money. De
light lent haste to her nimble fingers, and
before many minutes she was on the
street looking so bright and fresh in her
walking suit of (junker drab that many
nn admiring eye followed the graceful
figure.
Poor, heedless Cecil never thought of
tho consequences of her foolish net, al
though she expected John would rebuke
her severely for spending the money; but
she trusted to his leniency and her own
powers of persuasion to soften his wrath.
He hail never, as he said, refused her
anything in reason, and if this was an
apparently useless purchase, she could
easily turn tho jewels into money, if the
rainy day John was always predicting
ever arrived.
On her return from Raby & Co.'s,
with the jewel casket safely stowed
away in her pocket, she was brought to
n sudden standstill by meeting her hus
band coming out of tho dining-room
with A perturbed ami anxious counte
nance. Her face flushed guiltily, for she
knew, or imagined she did, the cause of
his agitation.
"Cecil," he said hurriedly, "I havo
lost my pocket-book. Did you find it?"
"Lost your pocket-book ?"'cchocd Mrs.
Morgan, feigning grcnt surprise and
evading his question not that she meant
to deny finding it, but the confession re
quired more moral courage than she could
muster nt present.
"Yes, lost my pocket-book," repeated
Mr. Morgan in a troubled voice; "and
tho money in it belonged to the firm."
Mrs. Morgan's heart stood still with
consternation, and she grew white to tho
lips.
"John," she gasped, ns if something
was choking her, "tell me how it was!"
"It was this way. Macray gave me
two hundred dollars ns I was leaving the
ollice yesterday evening to pay a bill we
owed 1 Icnby & Sons. Hut they were closed
when I reached their ollice, and 1 brought
the money homo with me, intending to
pay it ns I went down town this morn
ing; but owing to a dentil in the family
the store was still closed, and I never knew
I had lost the money until I luid reached
our own oilier. Cecil, are you sure it's
not in the house?''
"1 1 am sure I don't know," stam
mered Cecil, too overwhelmed with fear
nnd mortification to think rationally.
Not John's money 1 She felt dazed
nnd crushed, and totally unable to con
fuss her folly. She dropped into a hall
chair, looking so weak and ill that John
forgot his own trouble in anxiety for
Cecil.
"You must not be so frightened, wife,"
he said kindly; "it may turn up in the
house. Come, help me to search for it."
Cecil rose up mechanically, and fol
lowed him from room to room, listening
ill mute terror, to his regrets, when the
pocket book could not be found. Invol
untarily her hand went down into the
pocket of her dress, and as she clutched
the jewel case iu her cold fingers a deadly
faintness almost overcame her, for, try as
she would, she could not draw it forth,
or force her lips to confess what to her
Awakened conscience seemed nothing less
than theft. She knew her husband's in
dignation would bo deep, although not
loudly expressed, for dishonesty of any
kind was contemptible in his eyes.
Would he excuse it in his wife? Ah, no !
nnd as tho sinful aspect of the affair pre
sented itself to her mind, her shame and
agitation increased, and she found it
still more ditlicult to confess her error.
"It's strange," commented Mr. Mor
gan, musingly, asafter thoroughly search
ing the rooms, they paused in the hall,
"1 must have dropped it in the hoose,
and it cannot be found. Or, could any
one have picked my pocket, Cecil? A
startled expression came into his eyes,
and he hastily examined the inside pocket
of his overcoat.
"No," he said, with a light laugh,
" no ono could pick that pocket without
my knowledge. It must have fallen
out." He looked keenly without nny
suspicion of the truth, however at the
lovely, downcast face of his wife.
"Cheer up, little wife," ho said, with
affected gayety. "I must go back to the
ollice; but you keep a sharp lookout for
the money. It may have got knocked in
to some dark corner."
"Docs does " stammered Cecil, hot
with feverish anxiety; "does tho firm
know it ('
"Macra v docs. I told him before I left
the ollice."
And John Morgan shut the door with
a bang, an unusual roughness for him,
leaving his wife standing in the dim light,
as if stricken dumb.
.
The large, roomy office in the com
mission house of .Macray fc Co. was a
blaze of golden spring sunshine, as John
Morgan, flushed with his walk through
the crisp morning air. entered it, after his
fruitless search. His face wore a troubled
expression as he went up to Mr. Macray,
a white-haired, benevolent man.
"I have searched the house effectually
for that pockctbook, and "
"You did not find it, John?" quickly
interrupted Mr. Macray, with a curious
smile.
"No, sir. I did not; and I cannot ac
count for its loss."
"John" Mr. Macray laid his morning
paper across his knees, removed his gold
eye-glasses and looked up into the face
of his faithful book-keeper "I would
never for one moment doubt your word.
Hut did you a-k your wife about it("
"I did."
"And she denied all knowledge of it?"
"She did not find it" John Morgan
looked more troubled than ever "and
we w ent over the house together."
"Ah!" Mr. Macray's tine old face
flushed slightly, and he lowered his voice,
as if fearful of being overheard by the
I clerks in the outer otlice. "Liiiten to me
a moment, John. To-day is my daughter
Sibyl's twentieth birthday, and I went
down to Haby fc Co.'s to buy her a set of
sapphires that have been on exhibition
for a few days. They wero just what I
wanted for a birthday gift, nnd the price
wns two hundred dollars. Tho clerk
regretfully informed mo they had been
sold to Mrs. Morgan, the wife of my
book-keeper, but a few moments before."
"Cecil !" John Morgan grasped the rail
of the desk for support "my wife!
Where diil sho get tho money?"
"That is just the question I want you
to answer where did she get it?" said
Mr. Macray, keenly watching the trem
bling face of tho younger man. "I
asked tho ch-rk if they were paid for.
Yes, ho replied, in full; and ho opened
the snfe, and showed me a roll of bank
notes; and John, much as I regret to say
it, it was the identical roll I gave you
last evening to pay thnt bill at I Icnby Js
Sons. Now did your wife find tho
pocket-book ; or, was it ever lost, John 1"
Jehn Morgan dropped to the floor like
one stricken a heavy blow; and a slight
Stream of blood issued from his pallid
lips. Mr. Macray hastily telephoned for
a physician, nnd Mrs. Morgan. "Don't
bo alarmed," John snid, faintly. "I
have not been strong lately, nnd tho
shock was too much for me. Oh, Cecil,
Cecil 1"
Half nn hour later Mrs. Morgan en
tered the ollice with n white, scared face.
Her eyes were blinded by tears, and Mr.
Macray, and the physician were un
noticed as she hurried to her husband's
side.
"John," she cried, in great distress,
don't let the loss of thnt money kill you.
For I found it, nnd spent it I didn't
know it belonged to tho firm for that
set of sapphires."
She threw the casket into his lap, and
John laid his head against the carved
back of his chair, his face slowly redden
ing with shame.
"S)cak tome, John," she sobbed hys
terically, "I'll never be so wicked again,
never spend a dollar without your con
sent." Mr. Macray stepped forward, and laid
his hand on her arm.
"Don't agitate your husband, Mrs.
Morgan ; he is faint yet. Settle this mat
ter in tho future."
Hut Cecil, in deep humility, went down
on her knees, nntl laid her face on her
husband's breast, breathing words of con
trition, that softened and revived tho
grieved heart.
Mr. Macray, with a gentleness she
could not repel, explained tho sin of
overreaching her husband's salary, nnd
the folly of useless display; ending the
matter by taking the set of sapphires,
nnd promising to keep the whole tran
saction n secret.
And John Morgan in tho peaceful
years that followed, often blessed tho
day he lost his employer's money ; for it
transformed Cecil into a marvel of pru
dence. Auil Cecil well Cecil never
saw a sapphire, without a sudden sensa
tion of horror.
Bringing Up Children nationally.
It is as natural to a child to be happy,
as it is to a fish to swim. Hut for this
they need a certain amount of "letting
alone." It is a great mistake for parents
to hamper their children with foolish re
strictions. We pity the little H's, our
next-door neighbor's children, from the
bottom of our heart. There is a picket
fence in front of the house and they are
scarcely allowed to go near it, lest they
should climb and hurt themselves. They
cannot climb a tree for the same reason.
They may not skate or swim, or havo a
gun. Tho consequence of this training
is that their parents have made cowards
of them all, with the exception of little
Bessie, who is tho most daring little mis
chief that ever woie a sun bonnet, and
she has learned to be deceitful and plays
all her mad pranks well out of sight of
her parents' eyes. We caught her tho
other day walking the railing of a bridge
that crossed the track of a railroad a hun
dred feet below. Tho railing was not a
foot wide, and she triumphantly told us
that she had walked it while tho train
was passing under. It was enough to
in ike one shudder.
Don't fancy your boy is made of glass.
Grant a reasonable request, und let him
feel that when you refuse it is for his
own good. Hctween the Jellybys and
the Gradgrinds of life children have a
hard time of it. The youngest child
needs some sort of ngreeablo occupation,
nnd a certain amount of physical free
dom. There is nothing more painful to
young people than to feel that life is one
dull routine, anil that "nothing ever
happens," as we once heard a disconso
late lad remark. American Agricultural.
To (jueneli Thirst.
A North Side physician states that ice
water does not quench thirst but in
creases it. "I remember a little story,"
said he, "which, 1 think, might do much
good if published during this hot weather,
that I heard from an old sailor. He said
that ho and six shipwrecked companions
lived four days oil three pints of water,
and wero not a bit thirsty. When I
asked him to explain, he said that instead
of gulping the water down, they each
took a teaspoonful and gurgled it well in
their mouths. If any one will try the
experiment, no matter how thirsty ho is,
by thoroughly rinsing his mouth with
not over a tablespoon of water, he will
find that it will queuch his thirst as ef
fectually as a quart of water hastily
swallowed, and w ill not hurt him any. I
believe that fully one-third of the deaths
during the heated seasou are, if the truth
wero known, directly or indirectly duo
to heavy drinking of ice water." IHtts
bury Chronicle 2'clnjrajih.
How to Stop Coughing.
In a lecture once delivered by tho cele
brated Dr. Hrown-Sequard he gave the fol
lowing directions w hich may prove ser
viceable to persons troubled w it ha nervous,
cough: "Coughing can be stopped by
pressing on the nerves of tho lips iu the
neighborhood of the nose. A pressure
there may prevent a cough when it is
beginning. Sneezing may be stopped by
the same mechanism. Pressing also in
the neighborhood of tho ear may stop
coughing. Pressing very hard on tho
top of the mouth inside is also a means
of stopping coughing. And I may say
the will has immense power, too. There
was a French surgcou w ho used to say,
whenever he entered the wards of the
hospital; 'The first patient who coughs
will be deprived of food to-day.' It was
exceedingly rare that a patient coughed
then."
A MILE IN ONE MINUTE.
THE FEARFT TL RIDE OF A MINEB
DOWN A LOO CHUTE.
lie Sticks to Hist Horse and Shoots
Like IilgblninK Down the Moun
tain Side for Two Miles.
"I have mnde a mile a minute on horse
back in the saddle."
As a grizzled stranger with a quartzite
pin made this remark a silence fell upon
the little group of turfmen who sat in
the corridor of the Windsor Hotel, at
Denver, the other evening, says the Chi
cago Jcrnlil. The group drew closet,
and the stranger began :
"I was riding a tough little bronco on
my way to Lcadvillc from a claim I
owned on the other side of tho divide,
on the slope of what is called Gold
Mountain. I pushed rapidly ahead to
ward the pass. The road beyond the
pass led down a long, straight incline for
about a quarter of a mile. This took it
to the fringes of pino timber, and then
it mado a detour of nearly two miles to
get around a spur of the range. Sud
denly my horse staggered, stumbled,
plunged a little, nnd then came down
with a crash, first on his foro legs, nnd
then flat on his Icily, his head down hill.
I can't readily describe it, but ho fell in
such a wny that my right leg, without
being crushed or even niuch bruised, was
twisted in the stirrup strap nnd got fast.
"Wight here let me stop to explain a
little circumstance that will enable you
to understand the situation. Down in
the valley, at the base of Gold Mountain,
was a saw-mill, and extending up from its
yard almost to timber line was what is
called a log chute. This is simply a V
shaped trough, large enough to hold a
good-sized pine trunk; and built solidly
against the face of the mountain. Of
course, it has to be straight, or nearly so,
to permit the logs to slide down without
obstruction, ami use soon makes the in
side as smooth as glass.
Such a contrivance saves n great deal
of hauling, for as tho trees are cut they
are dragged over and dumped into the
trough, and go down to the yard like a
streak of lightning. It had not been
used for about a year, and pine needles,
boughs, nnd other rubbish had in places
almost hidden it from sight. I was well
enough acquainted with the mountains
to know, the instant my bronco fell, that
he had walked into the old log chute.
"It takes a moment for the coolest
head to clear ilsclf in times of unlooked
for peril, nnd long before that moment
had elapsed the bronco and I were on our
wny to the valley, going faster at every
breath, nothing to stop iis, death ahead,
nnd the devil's own railroad underneath.
I was sitting almost erect in the saddle.
The leather flaps had twisted around nnd
kept my legs from rubbing against the
side of the trough, but held mo like
bands of iron. Even had they not, jump
ing oil would hnvo been out of the ques
tion. I have never been on n toboggan,
but I think that people who have will
understand why I bent ull my energies
to holding on. I did not faint and did
not get dizzy; there was a hideous roar
ing in my cars, furious wind seemed to
all of a sudden tear up tho mountain nnd
suck the breath out of my mouth, but
everything was deadly clear and distinct.
"I could see black specks grow sud
denly into big pines and then shoot past
me. I could even sco the snow caught
In the needles as they camo whizzing
up. Every instant, through somo clear
ing, I could see the valley, in a flash,
and over it all was a sickening feeling,
as though tho mountain was sinking
away from me nnd I was plunging out
into immeasurable space. So strong was
this that even now, standing on the solid
marble floor, I can recall the qualm and
nausea as ull support seemed to givo
away, the earth tip up and let me fall,
fall, fall it felt as if forever. A muss
of rock as l uge as this hotel was beneath
me. As I looked it seemed to lenp into
the nir like a bslloou. Thero was a black
line of forest below. I shot through it as
through a tunnel, and out into
the light again. I tried to shut
my eye. It was impossible. I tried
to scream. The air had turned to stone.
"The trees and ro.-ks were indis
tinguishable, when nil of n sudden a
black mass flew- up into my face. 1 felt
that I was being beaten, bruised and
hurled over, and then every thing was
still again.
When tho moon wns well up I camo to
myself. I was lying in a snowdrift, rub
bing nt my head and moaning. After a
long time I crawled a little way and then
fell down and cried for my very helpless
ness. I must have been a little flightly,
nnd heaven knows how I found my way
to Lucy's mill, aquarterof a mile beyond,
but I did some how, and they carried me
in and sent for help. You see, tho old
timber chute had fallen into decay, and
some distance above the yard was a
broken place and that saved my life.
When we reached it tho dead bronco
jumped the trough and the two of us
went sailing and turning and cavorting
over a field of fresh snow until we stuck
into a drift about five hundred yards
away.
" Tho bronco had the worst of it even
there, for he kept on going until he
struck solid earth. 1 broke three ribs
and this arm in so many different places
that the dot tor wanted to cut it off ami
be done with it. What puzzled the
mill men most was that my legs escaped,
but the saddle flaps were worn to fringe
nnd that explains it. From the point
where I started to the break was over
two miles, and tho old hands there said
logs used to make it in less than two
minutes. I had no stop-watch, but I'll
back myself against any log that ever
made the trip."
Hull-Frogs Fond of Turkey.
Lewis P. Hathaway, while fishing at
Clear trick some time since, captured
six or seven largo bull-frogs, which he
brought home und placed in a pond. .Mr.
Hathaway bus a turkey with a dozen
young ones. Some of the latter, it ap
pears, have been disappearing mysteri
ously. The oilier morning Sir. Hath
away was watering his horses at the
creek convenient to the frog pond, when
he heard the mother turkey making a
racket at something in the creek. On
investigation Mr. Hathaway saw a mon
ster bullfrog in the wa'er with a young
turkey in its mouth, endeavoring to
swallow- the young fowl, which had at
tained the age of three weeks. r. Lou it
CU-be- Democrat,
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Spinach.
The New YorkiW tells how they cook
spinach in France: After being washed
in several waters and carefully looked
over, put a quarter of a sicvo to a gallon
of water and three ounces of salt; boil for
ten minutes till tender, drain on sieve,
press a little with the hands to extract
part of the water; chop it fine, put it in
a stewpan with a quarter of a pound of
butter, a teaspoonful of salt, half a tea
spoonful of pepper; place over the fire
for a few minutes, adding a few drops of
hot broth with gravy; proceed as nbove
with the addition of a tnblespoonful of
flour and half a pint of strong gravy;
again proceed as above, and adding half
a pint of crenm instead of gravy, also a
tnblespoonful of sugar; lay three or four
slices of bread on the dish, sift the sugar
over, put it in the oven, salamander it
over, cut in various shapes, and serve
under nnd over the spinach; a little vari
ety can be made by surrounding the veg
etable with small diamonds of bread fried
in butter.
Drinks for tlio Sick.
Oraxoe Witf.y Tho juice of one
orango to one pint of sweet milk. Heat
slowly until curds from strain, and cool.
Eoo Lemonaok AVhito of ono egg,
one tablespoon pulverized sugar, juice of
ono lemon, ono goblet water. Beat
together.
Saoo Milk Three tablespoons sago
sonked in a cup of cold water one hour;
add three cups boiling milk; sweeten
and flavor to taste. Simmer slowly a
half hour. Ent warm.
Hakkij Mii.k Put a half gallon of
milk in a jar, and tie it down with
writing paper. Let it stand in a moder
ate oven eight or ten hours. It will be
like cream, and is very nutritious.
Punch without Liquor Take tho
juice of six oranges and six lemons, add
ing sugar to suit the taste. Put to this
a quantity of pounded ice and some
sliced pine apple, pouring over it two
quarts of water. This is an agreeable
summer beverage for anybody, sick or
well.
Useful Hints.
Do not put salt into soup until you
have done skimming it, as salt will stop
the rising of the scum.
New milk, boiling hot, will take out
most fruit stains. Dip the articles five
or six times in hot milk.
Ammonia and whiting will clean nickel
plating nicely. Mako into a paste and
apply; then rub until bright with another
cloth.
Htitter should not bo added to soups
nnd sauces until after they are taken from
the fire, as boiling makes it taste strong
and oily.
Much of the ordinary bother of wash
ing lamp chimneys on the insido cnu be
saved by using a stick with a sponge tied
to the end.
After having your hands in soapy
water, wet them in vinegar and spirits
of camphor; it kills the alkali and keeps
your hands soft.
Saturate tho edges of carpets with a
strong solution of alum water to destroy
moths: if nn unpaiuted floor, wash tho
floor with it before putting down tho
carpet. Do the same to shelves where
black ants appear.
Oil stains on carpets, if action is taken
at once upon the oil being spilled, may
be removed by scattering corn meal upon
them. Also the application of a hot iron
through a heavy sheet of blotting paper
will have a liko effect.
Grass stains nro troublesome to re
move, but soft soap and soda is usually
effectual. After having wet the stained
parts, rub in the soap and ns much bak
ing soda as will adhere ; let this stand
half an hour and wash in the usual man
ner. Whiting is also used with soft soap
for the same purpose.
To keep hinges in order, big or little,
nnd prevent the disagreeable creaking,
don't oil them. The oil is apt to soil the
hands, the garments and the carpet, and
the remedy is sometimes "worse than the
disease." Hub the hinge that creaks oi
the latch that will not slide with a soft
lend pencil. The application works like
magic.
Sparrows For Food.
Sparrows Are being properly appre
ciated. Hundreds of them arc now caught
by enterprising people for sale to certain
restaurants where reed birds are in de
mand. A German woman on Third
avenue has three traps set every day, and
she catches probably seventy-five a w eek.
They arc cooked and served to her
boarders tho same as reed birds and are
declared quite as great a delicacy. This
German woman bastes them, leaving tin
little wooden skewer iu the bird when
served. They are cooked with n bit of
bacon. She tempts them with oats, and
after the c.itch they ure fed A while with
boiled oaten meal. She sprinkles oaten
meal in the back yard also, ami thereby
fattens the free birds. The females art
the choice meat. The males can be told
by the circle of white feathers at the
neck. The females are as plain as (Juak
cresses. So soon us it becomes generally
know n that the sparrow is a table bird
their number will rapidly grow less.
People don't like to experiment, but
when it is discovered that the sparrow
has been declared good by those upon
whom they have been tried no boarding
house nn ul w ill lie deemed in good form
unless a dish of fat sparrows adorns it.
Sparrow pie is a delicacy fit to set before
a King. A'.-m) York Time.
Crow Conventions.
In tho northern paits of Scotland and
in the Faroe Islands, extraordinary meet
ings of crows are occasionally know n to
occur. They collect in great nutnlx-rs.as
if they had been all summoned for the
occasion; a few of tho fiock sit with
drooping heads, and others seem as grave
as judges, while others again aie exceed
ingly uctive and noisy; iu tho eour-e of
about an hour they disperse, and it is not
uncommon, ufter they have flow n away,
to find one or two left dead on tho spot.
These meetings will sometimes continue
for a day or two before the object, what
ever it may be, is completed. Crows con
tinue to arrive from ull quarters during
the session. As goon us they have all ar
rived a very general noise, ensues, aud
shortly ufter the w hole full upon ono or
two individuals and put theiu to death;
when this execution has been performed
they quietly disperse.
NEVER ALONE.
Never alone. The power that life creates
Ever supports. With hand supreme it
guides,
Weaves all the pleasure that through future
waits,
All the tumult that through life's passion
glides.
Through pearly gates an unbounded vision
Ever watches the many steps we take;
Bees, and guides, to the fickls Elysian,
Where the veil is raised, where new scenes
awake.
Full oft I dream, in wonder and In dread,
Of links that bind us to the source of life,
The many labyrinthine ways we tread
Amid the toilings of our daily strife.
There is a link ah, yesl the chains that hold
The first great cause, to the present given
With love infinite, and refined, as gold,
Connecting the surrounding life we live in.
Boundless its power, in life's every throe
Perfect connection, though unseen the tie,
The grosser ek-mnts, that around us flow.
Veil the infinite from the finite eye;
Yet the chain is perfect, that tho makei
holds.
Tenderly it clasps the sentient mind,
Softly as wreaths of flowers it enfolds,
Yet firmly its links our beings bind.
A. Sandert Piatt in Current.
JIl'MOR OF THE DAY.
It's great fun to see a young woman
piny the piano and fight flies at the same
time. Burlington b'ree Piett.
An advertisement reads: "Wanted
A nurse to mind children." It was
probably inserted by tho children.
Wdterbury American.
"Have you heard 'Sing to Mo Only
Once Again?' " she asked sweetly. "No,
but I shall be delighted," ho said, with
unnecessary fervor. Detroit Free Press.
The horscshocrs nro now said to bo
contemplating a strike. It has been un
derstood for some time that they had
something on foot. Philadelphia Xorth
American.
In Washington Territory thero is a
ranch where they shear 2,380 sheep iu
one day. This threatens to rival the
business done in Wall street. Ittxhetter
Po't-ErjircM.
Now that a Chinaman has been arrested
09 a tramp, there is no possililo surprise
for the public except to hear that au
Apache Indian has started a laundry.-
Philadelphia Press.
Pueblo Harber (pausing a moment iu
his reckless pursuit) Wero you going to
say something, sir? 'Customer (faintly)
Y-y-yes; I w-wnut to ask you w-where
you b-bury your dead. Venter Xexct.
There wiw a little girl
Anil she had a little curl
Which liuiig in the middle of her forehead;
When tlio weather was cool
It crimped according to rule,
When the weather was hot it looked horrid.
Sonus of the Season.
Compassionnte Clara Isn't it sadt
Poor Mr. Littlewit has gono out of his
mind. Satirical Sullio I wonder ho
btayed there ns long as ho has. Awfully
cramped quarters, you know. Chicagt
1'ribune.
No man knows how much he really
loves a woman until sho has presented
him with the worked canvas for tho side!
of a natty traveling bag, 1"? n
pnid r-48 for ljaviuyr m,.,ln r
Lowell CitUen.
" Old Tubal Cain was a man of might
in the days when the earth was new,'
but the man of mito now-a-days is the
fellow who puts a three-cent piece in the
contribution box and tries to mako it out
to bo a dime. 4(. Louit Magazine.
A fellow who's bred is the hay
May never be a bread baker;
A man who makes his teas jay
May never be a eaceinaker.
A Shaker who works making- dies,
Muy never be a dice shaker;
A Ouaker who, on the eartli, lies
May never be an earthquaker.
Uoodatl's Sun.
Beacons and Fire Signals.
Tho method of communicating intel
ligence to distant places by means of fires
kindled on watch-towers and far-seen
mountain heights has been in use from
very eurly times. Most countries appear
to havo adopted this mode of conveying
information. It is said that in ancient
Persia tho arrangements for tire signaling
were so complete that within tho space
of a single day the king could receive no
tice of clanger or disturbance in any part -of
his dominions. In the Old Testament
Scriptures Jeremiah, vi,, 1 the proph
et, addressing himself to the children ol
Henjamin, says: "Set up a sign of fire in
Hcth-haeccrcm, for evil apcareth out oi
tho north aud great destruction." Notict
giving tires arc mentioned in the writings
of Pliny and Thucydides.
Although tho use of beacons is of
great antiquity, iu England, until the
reign of Edward HI. they were but
stacks of wood set up on promontories
aud high places, nnd tired when tht
coming of enemies was descried; but
in his reign pitch began to be used in
stead of wood. Hy using this combusti
ble it was easier to control the flame sa
as to give forth a full blaze nt night, and
by covering tlio pitch boxes cause them
to emit dense masses of smoke through
out the whole of the day. These beacons
had watches regularly kept at them, and
horsemen stationed to give notice when
tho tire could not be seen during tin
day. They were kept up by a rate
levied on the counties by the Sheriff.
Tin; money due or payable for the main
tenance of t lie beacons was called Ho- -conagium.
When the Armada was ex
pected they wero carefully organized and
made scviccable. Siuco that time they
have not been needed, science having
given us a swifter and more effective
message bearer iu tho electric telegraph.
In lM.'i.i the Worcestershire beacon on
Malvern Mill was set ablaze in commemo
ration of the close of the Crimean Wur.
jeds (Kittflaiul) Mercury.
A Setting Hen.
The following is from a poultry publi
cation: "Ever hear about our little red
hcu; Well, sir, she was on tho set for
keeps. Couldn't keep her oil. Old door
knobs, soda bottles, lamp chimneys,
match safes, anything was good enough
for her. Finally I put her on three mud
turtles, and 1 hope to die if she didu't
hatch out alligators! One of 'em eat
her up, and when W3 opened him, there
was the hen set tin' on his back teeth,
and they'd swetted up so they'd choked
him to th-Hili."