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VOL. XXIL NO. 1G. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1889. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
;1
The Michigan Legislature lias passed a
new and more cquitnb1o libel low.
: tittle Denmnrk expends $!)5,000 yearly
lor the maintenance of duiry nrhools.
. ' Oovcrnor Lee any foreign enpitid will
Dot bo solicited to settle Virginia's debt.
The Sugnr Trust is making a profit of
$3,000,000 a month or $30,000,000 a
year.
Bays the New York Xeirs: most
hopeful sign of the times in tl. itiral
life of this country is the rapid spread of
ballot reform."
A movement has been started by the
Swiss Government looking to a universal
reduction of tho hours of labor for em-
ploycs in factories and on farms.
Trn7.il has recently celebrated tho first
anniversary of the abolition law,by which
V -. she placed herself among the ranks of
tho non-slave-holding States of the
world.
Tho New York World finds 123 men
in New York worth over $1,000,000
each, forty women nnd 129 firms, ut
least one member of which is good for a
million, or a total of 291 millionaires in
tho American metropolis.
Tho populatiou of the city of London
is- now, nccording to tho most reliable
estimates, 4,250,000. Of these 4,?50,
000 people fully 900,000, or somethiug
ovor twenty per cent., are at present in
receijit of some form of pauper relief.
r ' Sir John Swinburne has discovered that
tho Portuguese Government lias been
owing England a trifle of eM2,01tj,205.
J2jforvaluo received ever since- 1815,
nnd has uever yet paid nny iutcrest on
- tho little bill nor given anything on ac
coutfl. The now eastern express from Berlin
vVl to Constantinople, Turkey, is to run once
H ycck. The event is hailed in Berlin as
V: marking an epoch in German railway
tnpiuig, for it practically conuects
mfflnnrjj nnd Constantinople direct by
1 express train.
j
. The Pall Mall Gazette states that ninny.
, have been induced to go to Buenos Ayres
from both England nnd Irefnfwl, upon
the representation that they, would re
ceive land and houses frue. Instead,
lioweicr, they have metnothing but
misery, -A ant and starvation.
The Austrian troops re being armed
with what is known as tho Manlicher
rile. Tho deadly nature of this wcanon
n B Jjefcrred from the fact that during
tuflfcgjractiec recently soldier ntoAlcn-
J jfally received a fatal wound from a bullet
,Ofcd at a distance of two niuf'a half
miles? .
- It is just three hundred nnd fifty-one
'years' silica Don Aloar Nunez Cabe'za de
Yaca, the pioueerwhite man, first entered
wlit is now known as the Territory of
Arizona, and yet, ns far I can see, writes
a correspondent to the New York Olser-
tvr.thc great 'Eastern public has very little
. moro real knowledge of it now than
then.
o "
The military forces of England," all
told, amount to about 617,000 tinned
men. Of this uuinber rather more'thun a
third belong to the regular army, which
is supported by a first-class army reserve
of 52,000; 'the volunteers have reached a
strength of 226,000, but the militia has
(fallen to 118,000, and only 11,000 Yeo:
men mustered for training last year.
There are in the civilized world r.n
average of one deaf mute to every 1500
of thApdpulntion; in other words,, there
are uf least 1,000,000 of this afflicted
cliiss. In the United Stales there tire US,.
000, in Great Britain, 20,000; in Ger
many, 23,000; in France, 30,000; in
Sweden, 2000; in Norway, 1100; and in
. ' Switzerland (the country above all others
where deafness is prevalent), 10,000.
LJntil 18S Maryland was tho onh
- S Southjjpi 'State, nccording to the New
Yoiki'wf, which had a bank that was
.- exclusively a savings institution. Iu 1887
Norfh Carolina .was added to tho list,
, nnd the next year' South Curoliua,
W Georgia and Louisiana, these, four Suites
. reporting over 23,000 depositors ' d
' ' 'newly fcfl.OOO.OUO in deposits. J'O'th
ns a sigVi of . tho development of thrift,
f 1 usprg;uote,r of the habit," ndds
"""Ttrf "ttie rise of tho savings hank
system iu tho South' is heartily wel
. euuied."
; Yale Kollegc may take to herself the
credit of'huving, ut this year's com
mencement, produced a novelty, states
IheJWashington Star. The roll of honor
of tho graduating' class is said to b.
made up,' to a very largo extent, of the
,".' names of young men conspicuous for
-their skill' and devotion to athletic
", Xhe.youth who in these days
ctly 'J.iieiliii tho trituniihs of
j'jraf Id aud ruce-course with
idTtfict Ym has certainly the mok.
CONEMAUGH.
"Fly to the mountain I Fly I"
Terribly rang the cry.
The electric soul of the w Ire
Ouivered like sentient flre.
The soul of the womnn who stood
Face to face with tho flood
Answered to the shock
Like the eternal roek.
For sho stayed
With her hand on the wire,
Unafraid,
Flashing tho wild word down
Into the lower town,
Is there a lower yet and another?
Into t he valley she and none other
Can hurl the warning cry:
"Fly to the mountain ! Fly)
The water from Conemaugh
Has opened its awful jaw.
The dnm is wide
On the mountain side!"
" Fly for yovr lifo, oh,11y !"
They said.
She. lifted her noble head:
' I con stay at my post, and die."
Face to face with duty and death,
Dear is the drawing of human breath.
" Steady my hand ! Hold fast
To the trust upon thee cast.
Steady, my wire ! Go, say
That death Is on the way.
Steady, strong wire! Go, save!
Grand is the powor, you have!"
Grander the soul that can stand
Behind tho trembling hand.
Grander the woman who dares
Glory her high name wears.
" Th is message is my last "
Shot over the wire, and passed
To the listening ear of the land.
The mountain and the strand
Revor berate the cry:
" Fly for your lives, oh, fly I
I stay at my post and die." .
,t torrent took her. God knows all.
:ely the savngo currents fall
, jittering calm. Men count their
" i dead. .
The June sky sniileth overhead.
God's will we neither read, nor guess.
Tooror by one more horo less
"tVe bow the head, and clasp the hand:
" Teach us, altho wo die, to stand."
-ElizubethStuai t I'hcljisn Independent.
THE DRESSMAKER.
'Yes, I'm up early," said Mrs. Ford,
leaning over the side paling to tulk to her
next neighbor. "I'm going to have a
dressmaker to-day to start my Henrietta
cloth. She lives iu town" Mrs. Ford's
charming home was a little out '-and
my brother Jim hus gone for her with
the dog-cart. Stowe is her name; I
haven't even seen her. I sent Bob's nurse
girl to engage her."
"towe There, now, I guess you've
done "V"" said Mis. Snylos, raising her in
quisitive little upturned' nose, with
brisk enjoyment to Mrs. Ford's tall
blonde prettincss. ' "It isn't best to have
her if there's n young man m the house.
They all fall iu love with her so they say.
She's pretty, you know, in that showy
sort of way red hair and pink cheeks
nnd I guess she knows it. Mrs. Bitter
had her a while back, and Paul Bitter
was crazy after her; and they say she
flirted with him awfully, and tlieu threw
him over. I presume she thought she
could do better. He isn't so well olf as your
brother Jim, for instance," said Mrs.
Sayles, shrewdly smiling.
"But Jim," said Mrs. Ford, serenely
"Jim never falls in love. He never has
once, do you know? I think it's because
he's so superior to all girls. Oh, yes, of
com, I should feel dreadfully! " I feel
that Jim is on my responsibility while
he's with me. and I should be tiroken-
jiearted. But there isn't the least danger
with Jim."
Tho dog-cart was rolling in the drive,
and Mrs. Ford went across the smooth
lawn, with six-year-old K ob ut her
heels.
Jim tall aud blonde, nnd handsome
like his sister was driving slowly to the
horse-block. lie was turned squarely
toward the dressmaker, and his gaily
enthusiastic tones were audible to Mrs.
Ford.
He did not appear to know when he
had reached tho block; ho talked ab
sorbe.lly on. Mrs; Ford was thankful
that Mrs. Sayles was out of hearing.
"Jim !" sho said.
And Jim Jumped out, lifted the dress
maker down, presented her to his sister,
walked with her up to the porch steps
and pulled forth u chair. He was brisk
and smiling.
Mrs. Ford sighed with relief that the
bay window hid them from Mrs. Sayles.
"We've a nice view from here, don't
you think, Miss Stowe?" said Jim, eagerly.
"Those w oods over there, with the liiv:iw
where the skv
"I have everything ready for you, I
think. Miss Stowe." said Mrs. F
tinctly, and took Miss Stowe indoors.
ono intciuicu sewing iu the dimng
room it was large anil cool and light;
but it was ou that account that Jim was
wont to lounge there. The upstairs hall
would do. There was a window ut the
back.
She took Miss Stowe up stairs.
'It's' rather warm," she apologized,
"but it will be cooler later."
It would not be cooler before fivo
o'clock, but Mrs. Ford congratulated her
self vrmly. For Miss S'.owe was pretty,
with u lithe form iu a bluo "own. nti.l
hair not red but darkly milium, aud
cheeks not vulgarly pink but softly tinted,
aud bright eves.
"It iu very comfortable." she said.
' cheerfully. "I will take your measure.
Shall you like u basque?"
Aud Mrs. Ford forgot Jim iu nlcasur-
able plaunings.
But at the end of fifteen minutes there
was a clatter below and a rush up stairs.
"AVhy,I've been looking for you every
where!" said Jim, in injured tones, lift
ing Bob from his shoulder to the top
stair. i
lie Silt down in the window seat. Miss
Stowe sat near the window.
"Is there anvtliiuir von want. .liin?'"
said his lister, with severs eves unon
him. j
But it was doubtful whether Jim hear4.
Ho was springing after tho spool Miss
Stowe had dropped.
"I want to show you that old coin 1
told you about, Miss Stowe" he declared.
"Sec 1710. Oh, stop that snipping and
look at it!"
But Miss Stowe, smiling and faintly
flushing, looked nt it over her snipping.
"Who drove into the yard?" Mrs. Ford
demanded, cutting a gore nt a wrong
angle with nervous hands.
"Oh, Jeff Lowryl I must tell you
about Jeff, Miss Stowe. He's been wenr
ing a beard for two years, and he went
down town the other dny without it, and
tho fellows didn't know him. Ho's "
"I thought you were going driving
with himf" Mrs. Ford interposed.
"Oh, it's too warm!" Jim responded,
as blandly as though rattling down shndy
roads were indeed warmer than the up
stairs hall.
His sister watched him wofully, Jim,
talking ton young lady, with smiling
gusto and fascinated gnzc, and foregoing
n drive nnd the morning papers nnd his
cigar for this alone I
Ho had stayed in his room for three
hours to escape the Kenny girls, and
came nigh to dying the evening Miss
Markham had called. The Kenny girls
and Miss Markham did not have red lips
mid shining eyes, to be-sure, nnd if Jim
had told them stories, they could never
have listened so prettily us did Miss
Stowe. But was she the girl for Jim?
Mercy, mercy, no!
It did not serve to calm Mrs. Ford that
Mrs. Sayles should come over, and, after
inquiring of the girl, bustle up stairs.
Her sharp gaze fixed itself on Jim,
lounging in the window, his handsome
head bent toward the dressmaker and his
honest blue eyes unflinchingly upon her.
"You dressmaking, too?" cried Mrs.
Sayles, with a triumphant glance at Mrs.
ForiL. "You don't meau that you're
staying away from the ball game you?"
"Oh, I don't care for it this weather!"
said Jim, nnblushingly Jim, who had
breathlessly watched a game last week
from tho sunny side of tho grand-stand,
with the thermometer ut ninety-eight.
Mrs. Sayles laughed delightedly.
"Yes, I will have a point in the back,
Miss Stowe," said Mrs. Ford, with cold
ignoring of Mrs.. Sayles nnd her rejoicings.
But she was iu a despairing mental
tumult. Mrs. Sayles's small, keen eyes
seemed periods which pointed nnd made
complete nnd certain what she hud tried
not to believe,
He was in love with her. And with
Jim, who was ardent and single-minded,
it was likely- it was certain to baserious.
And who was she? Mrs. Ford did not
know probably noliody did.
She stared at her bastings with unsee
ing eyes.
Jim, with his good looks aud clever
ness, and family histories fdt both sides
of the family, with a coat-of-nnns in
each the lions on their hind legs iu their
centres seemed to pruneo before her eyes
and a dressmaker whom they didn't
even know !
What should sho do! What would
her father and mother say to it, and to
her? It wonld never have happened if
Jim hadn't been visiting her.
She was iu a whirl of helpless ngitn
tion. She could not tell tho right from
tb:o wrong side of the cloth.
Aud where was Bob? His nurse was
setting the dinner table, and his mother
had meant to oversee him, but she hadn't.
He might bo over playing with those
roiigli little Beldens, for nil sho knew.
"Well, I just ran over," said Mrs.
Sayles, airily. "I won't stay, since you're
all so busy."
And Mrs. Ford knew, as she ran down
stairs, that the Dwyers and the Bidwells
nt least would know tho state of affairs
within half an hour.
"You are basting those darts too high,
Miss Stowe," said Mrs. Ford, sharply.
And Miss Stowe, who was basting the
darts exactly right, flushed nnd raised
wondering eyes.
"And 1 never have my collars so high
" Mrs. Ford stopped. "What is thatf '
sIk- cried, nervously.
It was a sound of feet on the porch ;
feet and shrill young voices and sobs in u
territied little voice that Mrs. Ford knew.
"It's Bob!'' she cried, flying down
stairs.
It was Bob in the arms of tho Beldens'
gardener, and the three small Beldens
were close behind and all talking to
gether, rather enjoyingly than otherwise.
"He fell out of the hammock." "We
was swinging him, you know, awful
hard." "And you ought to heard him
holler." "And I guess he's broke his
leg; he came down awful hard."
Mrj. Ford gathered her boy into her
arms.
"Go home, you little wretches!" she
sobbed, hysterically. "Oh, my baby!
And I didn't watch him I didn't know
where he was! Is the leg broken?" she
demanded, wildly, of Miss Stowe, who
had come down with Jim nnd stood be
side her.
"I'll see," saiil Miss Stowe.
It did not seem odd to Mrs. Ford that
she said it, and she was not astonished
when the pretty dressmaker took ltob into
her own arms and laid him on a sofa.
She watched her dazedly, wringing her
hands. Miss Stowe rolled down the small
black stockiugs ami leaned over them.
"There isn't anything broken," she
said, tremulously; "but the right leg is
dislocated nt the knee. Tho sooner it is
set the better, and I think, Mrs. Ford, if
you will let me, I can do it."
The color was gone from her cheeks;
but sho held Hob's hands firmly.
"Let you," cried .Mrs. Ford! "Oh, if
you cau !"
"It will hurt," said tho dressmaker;
"but only a minute."
And she gave a sudden, quick, strong
jerk to Bob's leg; aud then sat down
quite palo and faiut, while the little boy
cried on his mother's arm.
"I never did it before," she said; "but
I've seen it done, and I think I did it
right. The doctor will know."
Mrs. Ford went up stuirs an hour later.
Jim was ulrcady there, watching Miss
Stowe make buttonholes.
"How could you do it?" Mrs. Ford
cried, with eyes yet tearful. "The doc
tor ssys you did it right, sad he couldn't
have done it better, and Rob will only
have fo keep still a liltlo to get it well.
Oh, I am so thankful, my dear girl!
Where did you learn it?"
"My Grandfather Gorham was a doc
tor," said Miss Stowe, quietly overcast
ing; "and I used to drivcubout withhim,
aud I saw him set dislocated limbs two
or three times. It is simple enough
just a jerk. I was sure I could doit; but
it made mo faint."
"Gorham?" said Mrs. Ford, forgetting
dislocations. "My grandfather was a
Gorham. I wonder if it's tho same
family? What was his name?"
"Andrew," said the dressmaker.
"And my grandfather had a cousin
Andrew," cried Mrs. Ford, "iu "
"Fairfield," said Miss Stowe, smiling.
"Yes, Fairfield," said Mrs. Ford, ex
ultantly; nnd the lions in tiio centres of
the coats-of arms, still visible to her men
tal gaze, assumed a meek nnd vanquished
mien. "Why, we're cousins!"
"AVe'rc cousins" said Jim, nnd shook
Miss Stowe's hand w ith an ardor dispro
portionate to the degree of kinship.
"Yes. she is a pretty girl," said Mrs.
Ford, wheeling Bob ubout the lawn a
week after the accident in his discarded
baby carriage, nnd pausing to talk to
Mrs. bayles over the fence. "She s lovely
and so sweet tempered and bright 1 And
you were right about Jim, too. He is in
love with her already dreadfully I Ho
told me so. And of course she likes him.
How can she help it? And they're to be
mnrned. Sho never encouraged Paul
Bitter at all, do you know? She disliked
him from the first. I usked her. And
do you know that her mother was a Gor
ham, too, and we're distantly connected?
We've the history of the family for two
hundred years back, so we know what it
is. e were so glad to discover it!"
"Indeed I" said Mrs. Sayles, in tones em
bittered by defeat and disappointment.
Emma A, Ojiper.
A Ditch That Cost $0,000,000.
A party of cngiucers were discussing
the Spring Valley water problem on one
of the late boats, says the San Francisco
Examiner, nnd their talk fell upon the
engineering feat of bringing the wnters
of Alameda Creek from Sunol across
the bay to the metropolis.
"By the way," said one, "did vou
ever notice that old stone-walled ditch
and flume which ran from a point up the
canyon down to the old flouring null nt
Niles, and the grade of which the
Spring Valley's pipes now follow when
first tho water is takeu from the creek?"
The others asserted that they knew
of the ditch, and tho speaker con
tinued: "Well, that flume and ditch cost G,
000,000." "What!" ejaculated tho others, with
a suspicious inflection.
"Yes, sir 6, 000, 000," repeated tho
story-teller. "You know old Vallejo, a
brother of General Vallejo, who is still
living, built that mill way back in the
early days. Ho owned all the surround
ing country and had docks and herds no
eud, but no ready money. When he
came to build his ditch to bring the
water to his mill he wanted some 25,
000, and mortgaged his estate to get it.
You know how tho money-lenders used
to gouge the old Spanish settlers in those
early days? Well, they piled up the in
terest on Vallejo, compounding it about
whenever they pleased. The mill didn't
pay, the interest kept accumulating, and
finally it nte up all Vallcjo's belongings,
and he lost his mind.' That property is
now worth easily enough $0,000,000.
That's tho cost of that ditch."
Connecticut's Extinct Volcano.
Professor Davis, of Harvard University,
was telling a couplo of friends in the
Brunswick Cafe tho other evening of an
extinct volcano ho discovered not long
ago near Merideu, Conn. AVhile out
with Dr. Chnpin, of Meriden, investigat
ing the mountains and valleys of tiio Nut
meg State he came across what has since
been a matter of great scientific interest.
The ash bed of tm extinct volcano was
discovered between Meriden nnd tho little
town of Berlin. The ash bed is an over
hanging cliff ubout twenty-five feet hijrh
and fifty feet long uud of a greenish
tinguo. In describing it, he said: "On
tho face of thecliif are occasional pockets
of quartz crystals, some of whicn shade
to amethyst and some to rose. Another
feature of the clift is tho prevalence of
roundish stones, varying from one to four
feet in diameter. These were the bombs,
in geological parlance, and were portions
of the trap rock which were ejected from
the active volcano. Another exceedingly
interesting object was a small portion of
the simdstouo bed twisted aud contorted
by the action of heat aud pressure."
Many scientists have visited tho scene
of his discovery and they unite in saying
that there was nothing e lse of its nature
this sido of the Bocky Mountains. The
volcano which produced the phenomenon
must have been extinct thousands of years
ago. Ati York Star,
How Slate Pencils are Jfiuiufiictiireil.
One of the most peculiar branches of
industry iu this country is the manufac
ture of slate pencils. There is only one
slate-pencil factory iu tho lnitcd States.
It is located at Castleton, Vt., and em
ploys twenty-live hands, who turn out
30,000 slate pencils every day.
The method of manufacture, is a good
deal in advance of the primitive means
employed some years back. Not long
since tho blocks of soft slate from which
they are cut were sawed in lengths ami
distributed among the neighboring labor
ers families to be whittled down to pen
cil shape. Those working at them could
earn about fifty cents per thousand. By
the present system the blocks, which are
as wide as a peueil is long are put into
the mouth of a machine called the croco
dile. This contains six rows of revolv
ing curved knives. As tho slab passes
between these knives parallel grooves are
eutiu the slabs, then they tire turned and
cut through. The square pencils are.
then rounded and polished by holding
them against the emoiy belt. One inuu
can cut out and finish shout 6000 pencils
per its.Stv Ytrh Journal,
AT A JACK-RABBIT DRIVE.
HOW THE LONO-EAREO AKIMALS
ARE ROUNDED-UP.
A Ileturcstin Description of a Hue
cessrul Hunt In Cnlifoiiilii The
I'hnKO With Grey hound.
"So you want to hear something about
our famous jack-rabbit drives, do you?"
queried a gentleman just returned from
California.
"Well, in sections of California the
native rabbit has become almost ns terri
ble a pest as the English rabbit has in
Australia, nnd ranchmen are compelled
to protect their crop3 nnd orchards with
rabbit-tight wire fences. In all likeli
hood the animals will continue to multi
ply and compel the State to do something
for their extirpation. Meanwhile tho
ranchmen are using the most effective
means for abntemcnt within their reach,
namely, tho now celebrated rabbit drives.
I was at several of them while at Bakers
field, nnd at each of these thousands of
the little pests were killed.
"The thing is managed much as an
Indiana fox drive, with this addition,
that the round-up is in n tight corral into
which the rabbits are driven, nnd where
they are slain without chance of escape.
When one of these drives is gotten up
word is sent out through the surrounding
country, a captain nnd lieutenants are ap
pointed to see to tho proper arrange
ments, and on the morning of tho event
several hundred people, mostly mounted,
are on the grounds. No guns ure per
mitted except to a few men, who are be
hind the lines, to shoot what rabbits may
break through.
"The participants are deployed in long
lines, forming a square, open at one end,
where the corral is situated. As much as
four or five sections of land are thus en
closed with a human fence, if it may sa
be called.
"At a signal given by the captain the
lines begin moving up the corral, each
man making as much noise as possible.
The rabbits, of course, attempt to get out
of the way, and are thus driven in the
direction of the corral, which is provided
with flanking fences, forming a wide
mouthed V, the point beiug the opening
of the corral.
"For some time any one not acquainted
with the sport would hardly suspect that
there are any rabbits iu the ring, save for
the occasional bobbing up of a pair of
long ears among the scrub aud sage
brush, but as the lines begin to tighten
the rabbits become very conspicuous in
their efforts to escape ; however they sel
dom break through the lines once the men
approach each other pretty closely, but try
to escape by way of the corral, there to
find themselves hemmed iu.
"It is a curious, indescsibable sight to
see thousands of these creatures impris
oned in the narrow enclosed space and to
watch their frantic endeavors to get out.
Once in the enclosure they are mercilessly
clubbed to death, and the thing is noth
ing more than the commonest butchery,
redeemed by the fact that it is in self
defence nnd that tho rabbits will eat up
the country if left tiloue or killed only iu
sportsmanlike manner.
"But," continued the reporter's will
ing informant, "while a drive is butch
cry nnd palls upon the taste after one or
two doses, n jack-rabbit hunt over tho
plains, with hounds and horse, is ns fine
a sport ns can well be imagined. For
this you need u couple of greyhounds and
kind of ti trailing hound to start the game
and a well-trained pony. This is a sta
ple sport in the West and men keep
packs of fine grey-hounds for the chase.
Trailing hounds are necessary because
the greyhounds run by sight alone, nnd
thus would be unable to start the rab
bits. Kansas, Indian Territory, Califor
nia nnd parts of Texas are famous places
for this variety of sport, which is really a
combination of race and chase, for the
owners of greyhounds will pit these
against one another and against the
rabbit.
"As the jacks do not take to the
brush, but run in tho open, the hunters
cau mostly see the progress of the entire
chase. Imagine tint your trailing hounds
have jumped up a rabbit. It is then
given a short start before tho grey
houtids are loosened, but as soon its they
are released they fly after Master Long
ears like the wind. Jie is not letting
any grass grow under his feet, either.
With his ears laid flat over his back ho
sails away nt tremendous speed, ap
parently taking leaps of not less than
twenty-five feet. You follow ou your
pony, taking shortcuts to keep the chase
in sight, but if you give your pony the
bridle he will follow every curve uud
dodge of the game and hounds. On you
fly as fast as horses' hoofs can go; if
there are fences, you jump them; ob
structions only make the sport more ex
citing, and now the fun begins. Master
rabbit is getting tired. He has doubled
thu greyhounds ind comes back toward
the slow hounds with the speed of
lightning. The dogs try to intercept
him, but he bounds elear over them uud
off he goes again, much to their astonish
ment. Now the slender greyhounds are
close upon him. Watch what he does!
See him dodge! Over and over tumble
the greyhounds in a rash effort to snatch
him as he squats suddenly and then shoots
off at a taiiirent. They tire upon him
ngaiu, and again he repents his mana-uvre
nnd escapes, but he tries it once too of
ten! See the leading hound hus picked
him up ou the fly and the race of this
rabbit is ruu.
"Does one ever escape? Well, some
times, but if he does it is only to go off
in the bush to die, for the terrible strain
of tlie run kills them. They tiro swift
runners and can, I believe, go better
than a mile a minute, but they can keep
it up for only two or three miles, and
that is a very long run for them. They
must have u pretty good start of the
hounds to make spirited chase, and you
don't want too many hounds; it spoils
tho sport."
One allintor hunter brought to Ar
cadia, Fla. , the other dny one hundred
alligator skins, sllof which were between
five aud twelve fct in length.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
roLisnrso a cow's nontf.
The inside of the horn must first til
clennsed and the pith taken out by steam
ing or immersing in hot water and using
hot water and soap. AVhile in a soft con
dition rasp off the rings and roughness at
Ihe base aud scrape with pieces of glass,
imooth the surfaco with fine sandpaper
md remove nny scratches or file Jnnrks
that may remain with finely pulverized
pumice stone, moistened with water;
wash this off and polish with prepared
:hnlk, applied moist on apiece of chamois
leather, then rub briskly with the hands.
Nca Tork World.
TO KEEP EGGS.
Pour two gallons of hot water over ono
pint of lime nnd half a pint of salt.
When cold put your eggs in a jar nnd
pour it over them. Be sure there are no
cracked ones aud that they are kept cov
ered. Another, nnd perhaps better way,
if you wish to keep them for a long time,
is to pack them, small ends down, in salt
in small boxes, and at least once a week
turn over the boxes. Tho reason for this
Is that by turning the eggs over the yolk
is kept about thu middle of the albumen;
if still, the yolk will after a while find its
way through the white to the shell; then
the egg will spoil. Washington filar.
PREP A RATION OP CALCIMINE.
Calcimine is prepared by mixing ono
pound of pulverized gluo dissolved in
hot water with twenty pounds of paris
white, using enough wnter to make the
liquid of the consistency of cream. For
colors use tho following: Lilac, two
parts of Prussian bluo and one part of
vermilion brown, burnt umber; gray, raw
umber and a dash of lampblack ; rose,
three parts vermilion nnd one of red lead
in very small quantity; straw yellow,
chrome yellow nnd a dash of Spanish
brown ; buff, two parts of Indian yellow
nnd one of burnt sienna; azure bhte, very
little Prussian blue. To mix the colors,
first make a small quantity strong nnd
then stir in tho calcimine until the right
shade is made. A'cto York Times,
HOW TO TAPER THE PARLOIt.
The parlor, of course, is the best room
iu the house usually and should have tho
best paper and the majority of people
will be more particular with this than
any other room. A good plan is to go
by the woodwork, as, for instance : Maple
wood, use a yellow, wavy colored paper
with a ceiling paper of bluish tint und a
little gilt. Cherry, natural or colored,
use old gold paper or "metals" for side
wall, and blue or white ceiling. Ma
hogany, a light terra cotta pink for side
wall, uud a paper for ceiling with a light
silver green metal in it. These sug
gestions are the best for the parlor, as in
this room especially tho colors should
harmonize. One very important thing in
this room is a frieze, us it bears the same
relation to a side wnll as a cornice does
to a house. It should give dignity to a
room, nnd should be wide enough to ad
mit of ornament that will not seem
cramped or insignificant when seen from
the floor. If the ceiling is i) feet high,
use a frieze of 8 or 9 inches wide; if 10 J
or 1 1 feet, you can use a frieze of 1 5 or
18 inches iu width. Do not use a con
ventional design above a wall paper
whose pattern is flowered or vice versa.
Carpenter and Builder.
ltr.ciPEs.
Huckleberry Griddle Cakes 5Iix in an
ordinary yellow bowl having a lip ono
pint of flour, a saltspoonful of salt, u
heaping teaspoonful of baking powder,
and one pint of cold boiled milk. Mix
thoroughly und odd one egg well benten.
Pick over half a pint of berries, roll
theni in flour, and udd them to the bat
ter. Bake ou a hot, well greased grid
dle. A soapstoue griddlo is decidedly
the best tor cooking griddle cakes, us it
cooks evenly and requires no greasing.
Puree of Green Peas Boil a quart of
fresh green peas in a pint of boiling water,
slightly salted. Bub tho peas through a
sieve and pour tho water in which they
were boiled on the skins; add a pint of
clear soup to the pulp und return to tho
range. Gently melt tin ounce of butter;
add it to a teatfpoonful of flour, a pint of
warm milk, salt, pepper and u square of
sugar. Whisk this into the soup. When
tpiite hot servo with bits of toasted
bread.
Potatoes with Cream Tho mistake
usually made in preparing this excellent
dish is that many economical housewives
use cold boiled potatoes left from tho
preceding day. True economy would
have been in boiling just enough for each
meal; but for potatoes with cream, see to
it that thej are boiled and afterward cut
up while warm aud seasoned with salt
and pepper. Boil half a pint of cream,
add to it a walnut of butter, and add tho
potutot-s to it. If milk is used, it may
be thickened a little with flour.
Minced Lamb, with Poached Kgg
The cold lamb left from tho preceding
dinner may be converted into a very ap
petizing breakfast dish as follows: Cut
the meat into thin sluts und cut these
very fine. Me't tip ounce of butter iu a
fryiug-pan. Cut 1 p a slice of onion and
fry it in tho butter; then remove it; add
the meat, a little salt und pepper, and
soup or water to moisten it ; when thor
oughly warmed through put spoonfuls of
it neatly on toast; on top of the meat
pluce a poached egg.
Stuffed Okru Select a dozen good
sized but tender okra puds, cut oil the
poiutetl ends uud remove the seeds. B.-nt
the yolks of two eggs, reason w ith salt
uud while pepper, add a tablespoouful of
ciopped boiled ham, and bread crumbs'
enough to thicken the egt. Add the
seeds also. Fill tho pods with this mix
ture, stand them upright in u pau; add u
littlo wuter or gravy; cover tho tops with
a hyer of bread crumbs and udd a layer
of grated Parmesan cheese. Divide two
ounces of butter iu little balls, place them
ou tup aud bake to a delicate brown.
The skeleton of the largest elephant
ever killed in India it to bo uxhumud und
lent to the muaijuiu at Madras, The
skiltton is exactly ten feet six laches la
height.
A DERVISH. :J
Like Joseph's eoat his tattered raiment showoj
A rainbow blending of its conntlen hues;
The desert dust has stained bis pilgrim)
shoes, "
His frame is gaunt, yet on and on he goes, j
Few are the hours his weary limits repose,
Few are the droits that wet his earthen
cruse;
The path is long, the sharp flints cut andj
bruise, 1
And yet at heart a dreamful rest he knows, j
His visions are of calm celestial days j
Of peaceful groves of palm beyond thj
skies; ,
Forever shine before his ardent eyes j
The fountnined heavenly eourts through
golden haze:
He deems the more ho bears on mortal ways;
The greater his reward in Paradise. ;
IVt'nfon Scoltard, in Lippincott's,
IIUMOK OF THE DAT.
Tho Courier-Journal advocates noiseless
powder for fire-crackers.
AV'ho was Luke's mother? A Mama-i
hike, of course. Siftingi.
Tho rudder is a stern necessity to oJ
ship. Merchant Traveler.
Children cry for the moon. Men want
tho earth. Boston Courier.
Tho woman who lives in vanity live
in vain. Merchant Trateler.
People who get lonesome realize what;
poor company they are. Merchant Trail-
tier.
A dime museum has a cow with thrco
tails. There are no flies on that beast.
Aetc York JS'eics.
The lion is the king of tho forest, but
the cow is the boss of the barn-yard.
Miinscy's Weekly.
New York has seen many noble pa
geants lately ; but Boston is the real placo
for spectacles. 1'uek.
Somebody says a man can get roaring
drunk on water. Well, so he can on
land. Boctester Bast-Express.
Wiggins, the weather prophet, says the
seas are drying tip. They set him a good
example. Bittflurg Chronicle.
'I love you well," the stamp exclaimed, j
'Dear envelope so true; '
In fact its evident to all
That I am stuck on you."
Minneapolis Tribune.
Drinking is said to be an indication of
good feeling. But it isn't the following
morning that the good feeling appears.
Statesman.
Iu commercial circles they have whatj
are called cast iron notes. It seems ns
though it would be hard to forge thetu
Burlington BepuUican. ;
The smart young man said he had nob
been iu the drug store very long, but ho
had bejn nt the soda fountain long enough
to beatizzician Washington Critic.
They were talking about penmanship;
"I like your hand," said he. "Don't
you want it, George!" she asked, sweetly.;
No cards. Laimnce Daily American.
IVith a tightening grasp sno seized his arm j
Like one with horror dumb,
Ciuickd and moaned, then wildly shrieked
"Olt, George, I've lost my Rum 1"
Texas Sitings, i
"No, Claribel, the fishermen down
round Sandy Hook do not keep their
money in the Fishing Banks. They take,
it out of that place w henever they get tho
chance." Statesman .
A writer who, when young was very green.
In time grew blue as years passed o'er his
head.
Vuti ask what caused this transformation
scene':'
The man grew blue becnuso he was nob
rend.
Life.
"I'm afraid this bill is counterfeit,"
taid the merchant, handing buck a hard-"
looking liver. "I don't see how that can
be," replied the man. "I got it not ten
minutes ago from nn Italian. If it waa
a bad bill you may depend upon it he'd
want to keep it and cheat somebody with
it." Bochctter Bost-Eress.
Johnny Dumpsey "Oh, mat I wish
yuu would make us a pair of home-mado
trousers every day." 3Irs. Dumpsey
(much gratified) " Why, darling f "
Johnny Dumpsey "Because the scholars
nil laughed at me so to-day that tho
teacher had to excuse me, and I've had a
bully time fishing with Bill Peck."
Burlington Free Press.
Ou one occasion a lady called and pre
sented a check which she wished cashed.
As she was a perfect strunger to the pay
ing teller, he said very politely : "Madauir
you will have to bring some one to in
troduce you before we can cash this
check." Drawing herself up quite)
haughtily, she said f reezingly : "But I
do not wish to know you, sir!" Rich
mond Dispatrh.
Four Men Could Lift the F.iffcl Tower.
The whole Eiffel tower in Paris could
be lifted lv four men of average strength.
The case has been proved. When it wass
about half its present height a few men
actually ilid lift it. This is not humbug;
the thing is perfectly simple. The cou
structiou of the tower is based ou tht
canti lever principle, and its bulk of U4Ut
tons is so ml justed as to press ou the founda
tion with les weight than that of a man
in armchair on the floor.
Is the tower beautiful? No. But it
has the erect, fragile looking elegance of
uu obelisk, not hewn out of red granite,
but knit of dark hucd meshes. Aud at
nny rate, in the eyes of its admirers, it
plays the part of mountain tops in thu
clouds, producing new atmospheric ef
fects in our views of Pttris. Tinted vapors
hung round its summit; the gray shading
of cloudland, ti e pale pink of dawn, thu
lurid hues of sunset, furnish striking
backgrounds for the iron htcework.
The KilTcl tower never claimed to be a
work of art. It was never iuteuded to
stand in the category of architectural
masterpieces with Notre Dame or the
Sainlo Chapelle. It must be taken for
what it is, and criticized from its own.
standpoint, neither more nor Kss. It
was planned with the idea that it might
fill the deputed place of the eighth won
der of the world. The original seven
were uot woiks of uit, Tltey were vast
masses of mutcriul iuteuded to astonish the
gaping crowd for tho crowd is peren
nially gaping Farii Hlustrt, t