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VOL. XXII. NO. 1G. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1889. S1.50 PER ANNUM.
Tho Michigan Legislature lias passed
la
new and more cquitnblo libel law.
' Little Denmark expends $55,000 ycai
for the maintenance of dairy schools.
Governor Lee says foreign capital will
not be solicited to settle Virginia's debt,
Tlio Sugar Trust is making a profit of
$3,000,000 a month or $30,000,000 n
yenr.
Says the New York Neirs: "The most
hopeful sign of the times in the political
life of this country is tho rapid spread of
ballot reform."
A movement lias been started by the
Swiss Government looking to a universal
reduction of tho hours of Inbor for em
ployes in factories and on farms.
Brazil has recently celebrated tho first
anniversary of tho abolition law, by which
sho placed herself among the ranks of
tho non-slavc-holding States of tho
world.
Tho New York World finds 125 men
in New York worth over 1,000,000
each, forty women nnd 129 firms, at
least ono member of which is good for a
million, or a total of 201 millionaires in
the American metropolis.
Tho population of the city of London
is now, according to tho most reliable
estimates, 4,250,000. Of these 4,250,
000 people fully 900,000, or somethiug
over twenty per cent., are at present in
receipt of some form of pauper relief.
, Sir John Swinburne has discovered that
the Portuguese Government has been
owing England a trifle of 12,015,205
32 for value received ever xineo 1815,
and has never yet paid any interest on
- the little bill nor given anything on nc
count.
The new eastern express from Berlin
to Constantinople, Turkey, is to run once
Ji week. The event is hailed in Berlin as
marking an epoch in German railway
traveling, for it practically connects
Hamburg and Constantinople direct by
express train.
The Pall Mull Gazette states that many
have been induced to go to Buenos Ay res
from both England nnd Ireland, upon
tho representation that they, would re
ceivo land nnd houses free. Instead,
however, they have metnothing but
misery, want and starvation.
The Austrian troops are being mined
with what is known as the Munlicher
rifle. Tho deadly nature of this weapon
may bo inferred from the fact thnt during
target practice recently n soldier acciden
tally received a fatal wound from a bullet
fired at a distance of two and a half
miles? .
It is just three hundred and fifty-one
years since Don Aloar Nunez Cabe'za do
Vaca, the pioucerwhito man, first entered
what is now known ns the Territory of
Arizona, and yet, ns far I can see, writes
a correspondent to the New York Obter
tw,tho great Eastern public has very little
more real knowledge of it now than
then-.'
The military forces of England, all
told, amount to nbout 017,000 armed
men. Of this number rather more than a
third belong to tho regular army, which
is supported by a first-class army reserve
of 52,000; the volunteers huve reached a
strength of 226,000, but the militia lias
-fallen to 118,000, and only 11,000 Yeo
men mustered for training lust year.
There me in the civilized world an
average of one deaf mute to every 150U
of tho population ; in other words, there
aro at least 1,000,000 of this afflicted
class. In the United Stu'.cs there are 38,
000, in Great Britain, 20,000; in Ger
many, 25,000; in France, 30,000; in
Sweden, 2000; in Norway, 1100; uud in
Switzerland (the country above all others
where deafness is prevalent), 10,000.
Until 1886 Maryland was tho only
Pcsjithern State, nccordinito tho New
York rout, which had a bank that was
exclusively a savings institution. Iu 18S7
North Carolina was added to the list,
nnd the next year South Carolina,
Georgia and Louisiana, these four States
reporting over 23,000 depositors and
' nearly $6,000,000 iu deposits. "Both
us a sign of tho development of thrift,
and us promoter of the habit," adds
the Post "the rise of tho savings hunk
system itt the South is heartily wcl
coined." Yale College may talte to herself the
audit of having, at this year's com
mnycineut, produced a novelty, states
tho Washington Star. The roll of honor
of the graduating class is said to be
made up, to a very largo extent, of the
names of young men conspicuous for
their skill and devotion to athletic
The youth who in these duvs
""Tuciling tho triumphs of
. . f id and race-course with
tw- nil Viaa rArtnin1v tn mnlr.
' luirai Crichtqu In him.
CON EM AUG H
"Fly to the mountain 1 Fly
Terribly rang Hie ery.
The electric soul of the wire
Quivered like sentient Are.
The soul of the woman who stood
Face to face with tho flood
Answered to the shock
Like tho oternnl rock.
For alio stayed
With her hand on the wire,
Unafraid,
Flashing the wild word down
Into the lower town,
Is there a lower yet and another?
Into tho valley she and none other
Can hurl the warning; cry:
"Fly to the mountain ! Fly I
The water from Conetnaugh
Has opened its awful jaw.
The dam is widn
On the mountain side!"
" Fly for your life, oh.fly P
They said.
She liftod her noble head:
' I can stay at my post, and die.''
Face to face with duty and death,
Bear 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 power, you have!"
Grander the soul that can stand
Behind tho trembling hand.
Grander the woman who dares
Glory her high name wears.
" This message is my last "
Shot over the wire, and passed
To the listening ear of the land.
The mountain and the strand
Reverberate the cry:
' Fly for your lives, oh, fly I
I stay at my post and die."
l" torrent took her. God knows all.
fcoly the snvago currents fall
, ' iittoring calm. Men count their
'dead.
The June sky smileth overhead.
God's will we neither read, nor guess.
Fooror by one more horo less
We bow the head, and clasp the hand:
" Teach us, altho wo dio, to stand."
-Elizabeth Stuart Phclps.in Independent.
THE DRESSMAKER.
'Yes, I'm up early," said Mrs. Ford,
leaning over the side paling to talk 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 homo was a litllo out "and
my brother Jim has gone for her with
tho dog-cart. Stowo is her name; I
haven't even seen her. I sent Bob's nurse
girl to engage her."
tftowei There, now, I guess you've
done H" said Mrs. SayleS, raising her in
quisitive -little upturned nose, with
brisk enjoyment to Mrs. Ford's tall
blonde prettiuess. " "It isn't best to have
her if there's a young man m tho house.
They all fall iu love with her so they say.
She's pretty, you know, in thnt. ihimr
sort of way red hair and pink cheeks
and I guess she knows it. Mis. Bitter
had her a while back, nnd Paul Bitter
was crazy after her; nnd they say she
flirted with him awfully, and thcu threw
him over. I presume she thuinrlit. ul,.
could do better. He isn't so well off as your
brother Jim, for instance,'' said Mrs.
Sayles, shrewdly smiling.
"But Jim," said Mrs. Ford, serenely
"Jim never falls in love. He mwrlui
once, do you know! I think it's because
he's so superior to all c-irls. oh w .r
coil!-, I should feel dreadfully! I feel
mat Jim is on my responsibility while
he's with me, and I should be broken
hearted. But there isn't the least danger
with Jim."
Tho dosr-cart wasrollini? in the drivn
nnd Mrs. Ford went across the smooth
lawn, with six-year-old K ob ut her
heels.
Jim tall uud blonde, nml hmnl
like his sister was drivinc slowlv rothr.
horse-block. He was turned suuarclv
toward the dressmaker, anil bis imilv.
enthusiastic toues were audible to .Mrs.
Ford.
Ho did not nimcar to lenntv wVinn lm
had reached the block; ho talked ab
sorbedly on. Mrs. Ford was thankful
that Mrs. Sayles was out of hcariii".
"Jim!" she said.
And Jim .iumncd out. lifted .li-..cu-
maker down, presented her to his sister,
waiKcci wit n Iter up to the porch steps
and pulled forth a chair, lie was bri-ik
and siinlinr
Mrs. Ford siirhcd with relief thnt the
bay window hid them from .Mrs. Sayles.
"WcVe a nice view from hero, .ion"!
you think, Miss Stowe?" said Jiiu,cuuerlv.
"Those woods over there, with tin, l.r.-a
where the sky "
"I have evervthintr readv W I
think. Miss Stowe." said Mrs. FnrJ. lis.
tinctly, and took Miss Stowe indoors.
Sho intended sewing in the dining
room it was largo ami cool and liMiV-
but it was on that account that Jim was
wont to lounge there. The upstairs hall
would do. There was a wind OW nt tint
back.
She took Miss Stowe up stairs.
"It's rather warm." she unoloidyeil.
"but it will be cooler later."
It would not bo cooler before rivn
o'clock, but Mrs. Ford congratulated her
self warmly. For Miss S'.owo was prcttv,
with a lithe form iu a blue gown, mid
hair not red but durklv aul mm. nml
cheeks not vulgarly pink but softly tinted,
and briirht eves.
'It fct very comfortable." she said.
cheerfully. "I will take vour measure
Shall you like a basque?"
Aud Mrs. ord forirot Jim iu pleasur
able plauniugs.
But at tho end of fifteen minutes thern
was a clatter below unti a rush up stairs.
"Why, I've been looking for you every
where!" said Jim, in iujured tones, lift
ing Bob from his shoulder to the top
stair.
He sat down in the window se:it. li-;
Stowe sat near the window.
"Is there uiivthiuir vou want, .lim?'"
said hi itr, with severe eyes upon
hlin.
But it nu doubtful whether Jim heard.
no was springing after tho spool Miss
Stowe had dropped.
"I want to show you thnt old coin I
told yon about, Miss Stowo" he declared.
"Sec 1710. Oh, stop that snipping and
look at It 1
But Miss Stowe, smiling nnd faintly
flushing, looked at it over her snipping,
"Who drove into tho yard?" Mrs. Ford
demanded, cutting a gore at a wrong
angle with nervous hands.
"Oh, Jeff Lowryl I must tell you
about Jeff, Miss Stowe. He s been wear
ing a beard for two years, and he went
down town the other day without it, and
tho fellows duln t know him. Ho s
"I thought you were going driving
with hnnf Mrs. roru 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 to a young lady, with smiling
gusto and fascinated gaze, nnd foregoing
n drive and the morning papers and his
cigar for this alone I
lie 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
and shining eyes, to be-sure, and if Jim
had told them stories, they could never
have listened so prettily as did MiR9
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
incpiirmg of the girl, bustle up stairs.
Her sharp gaze fixed itself on Jim,
lounging in the whitlow, 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.
Ford- "You don't mean that you're
staying away from the ball game you?"
"Oh, I don't care for it this weather!"
said Jim, unblushingly Jim, who had
breathlessly watched a game last week
from the Bunny side of tho grand-stand,
with the thermometer at 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 and her rejoicings.
But sho was iu a despairing mental
tumult. Mrs. Sayles's small, keen eyes
seemed periods which pointed nnd made
complete and certain what she had tried
not to believe,
He was in love with her. Aud with
Jim, who was ardent aud single-minded,
it was likely- it was certain to b&serions.
Aud 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 and clever
ness, and family histories ftJt both sides
of the family, with a coat-of-nrms in
each the lions on their hind legs in their
centres seemed to pranee before her eyes
and a dressmaker whom they didn't
even know 1
What should sho do? What would
her father nnd 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 agita
tion. She could not tell the right from
tUe wrong side of tho 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
rough liltle Bt'ldcns, for nil she knew.
"Well, I just rau over," said Mrs.
Sayles, airily. "I won't stay, since you're
l all so busy."
And Mrs. lord knew, as she ran down
stairs, that the Dwyers and the Bidwells
at 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 aud raised
wondering eyes.
"And 1 never have my collars so high
" Mrs. Ford stopped. "What is that? '
she cried, nervously.
It was a sound of feet on the porch ;
feet and shrill youug voices and sobs in a
terrified little voice that Mrs. Ford knew.
"It's Bob!" she cried, flying down
stairs.
It was Bob in tho arms of tho Beldens'
gardener, and tho three small Beldens
were close behind and all talking to
gether, rather eujoyingly than otherwise.
"He fell out of the hammock." "We
was swinging him, you know, awful
hard." "And you onylit to heard him
holler." "And I guess he's broke his
leg; he came down awful hard."
Mm. 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 Mif9 Stowe, who
had come down with Jim and stood be
side her.
"I'll see," said Miss Stowe.
It did not seem odd to Mrs. Ford that
she said it, and she was not astonished
when tho pretty dressmaker took Bob into
her own arms and laid him on a sofa.
She watched her dazedly, wringing her
hands. Miss Stowe rolled down the small
black stockings and leaned over them.
"There isn't anything broken," she
said, tremulously; 'but the right leg is
dislocated at the knee. Tho sootier 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 Bob's hands firmly.
"Let you," cried Mrs. Ford. "Oh, if
you can !"
"It will hurt," said the dressmaker;
"but only a minute."
Aud she gave a sudden, quick, strong
jerk to Bob's leg; and then sat down
quite pale and fuiut, while the little boy
cried on his mother's arm.
"I never did it before," she said; "but
I've seen it done, aud I think I did it
right. The doctor will know."
Mrs. Ford went up stairs an hour later, i
Jim was already there, watching Miss I
Stowo make buttonholes. j
"How could you do it?" Mis. Ford I
cried, with eye yet tearful. "The doc
tor ssys you did it right, and hs couldn't
have done it better, and Bob wiU only
have fo keep still a little to get it well.
Oh, I ntn so thankful, my dear girl I
Where did you learn it?"
"My Grandfather Gorham was a doe
tor," said Miss Stowe, quietly overcast
ing; "and I used to drive about with him,
aud I saw him set dislocated limbs two
or three times. It is simple enough
just a jerk. I was sure I could do it; but
it made mo faint."
"Gorham?" said Mrs. Ford, forgetting
dislocations. ".My grandfather was
Gorham. I wonder if it's tho same
family! What was his name?"
"Andrew," said the dressmaker.
Aim my grancllatlicr liau a cousin
Andrew," cried Mrs. Ford, "in "
"Fairfield," said Miss Stowe, smiling
"Yes, Fairfield," said Mrs. Ford, cx
ultautly; and the lions in tho centres of
the coats-of arms, still visible to her men
tal gaze, nssumcd a meek and vanquished
mien. "Why, we re cousins! '
"We're cousins" said Jim, and shook
Miss Stowe s hand with an ardor dispro
portionnte to the degree of kinship.
"Ycsr she is a pretly girl," said Mrs.
Ford, wheeling Bob about the lawn a
week after tho aeeide it in his discarded
baby carriage, and pausing to talk to
Mrs. bayles over the fence. "She s lovely
and so sweet tempered and bright! And
you were right about Jim, too. Ho is in
love with her already dreadfully 1 Ho
told me so. And of course she likes him
How can she help it? And they're to bo
mnrried. She never encouraged Paul
Bitter at all, do you know? She disliked
him from the first. I asked her. And
do you know thnt 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 !"said Sirs. Sayles, intones em
bittered by defeat aud disappointment.
t,mma, A. Vjijer.
A Ditch That Cost 0,000,000.
A party of engiueers wero discussing
the Spring Valley water problem on one
of tho late boats, says the San Francisco
Examiner, nnd their talk fell upon the
engineering feat of brinirinrr the waters
of Alameda Creek from Sunol across
tho bay to tho 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
JMles, atifl tho grade of which the
Spring Valley's pipes now follow when
first the water is taken from the creek?"
Tho others asserted that they knew
of tho ditch, and the speaker con
tinued:
"Well, that flume aud ditch cost t-6,-000,000."
"What!" ejaculated t!i3 others, with
a suspicious inflection.
"Yes, sir 0,000,000," repeated tho
story-teller. "You know old Vallejo, a
brother of General Vallejo, who is still
living, built that mill way back in the
cany days, ffo owned all the surround
ing country and had docks and herds no
cud, but no ready money. When he
camo to builil Jus ditch to bring the
water to his null he wanted some 825.-
000, and mortgaged his estate to get it.
You know how tho money-lenders used
to gouge the old Spanish settlers in those
early Uaysf ell, they piled up the in
terest on Vallejo, compounding it about
whenever they pleased. 1 he mill didn't
pay, the interest kept accumulating, and
nnally it nte up all nllcio s belonirimrs.
and he lost his mind." That property is
now worm easily enough ?d, 000,000.
That's tho cost of that ditch."
Connect irnt's Extinct Volcano.
Professor Davis, of Harvard University.
was telling a couple of friends iu the
Brunswick Cafe the other evening of au
extinct volcano he discovered not long
ago near Meriden, Conn. Whilo out
with Dr. Chimin, of Meriden, investigat
ing the mountains aud valleys of tho Nut
meg State he camo across what has since
been a matter of great scientific interest.
'Ml... .1. 1 . e ." . ,
me muw oi im exunct volcano was
discovered between Meriden nnd the little
town of Berlin. The ash bed is an over
hanging eliflt about twenty-five feet high
nnd fifty feet long aud of a greenish
tiuguo. In describing it, he said: "On
tho face of theclilf are occasional pockets
of quartz crystals, some of which shade
lo amethyst and some to rose. Another
feature of the clitf 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
tho active volcano. Another exceedingly
interesting object was a small portion of
the sandstone bed twisted and contorted
by the action of heat and 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 side of the Bocky Mountains. The
volcano which produced the phenomenon
must have been extinct thousands of years
ago. At( York iStar.
How Slate Pencils are Manufactured.
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 in the United States.
It is located at Castlelon, Vt., and em
ploys twenty-five hands, who turn out
30,000 slate pencils every day.
The method of manufacture is a good
deal iu advance of the primitive means
employed some years back. Not long
.since tho blin ks of soft slate from which
they are cut were sawed in lengths and
distributed among the neighboring labor
ers families to bo whittled down to pen
cil shape. Those working at them could
earn about fifty cents per thousand. By
the present system tho blocks, which are
as wide as a pencil 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
cutiu the slubs, then they ure turned and
cut through. The square pencils are
then rounded and polished by holdiug
them sgalnst the emery belt. Ono luau
can cut out and finish about 6000 peucils
per dur. JVto York Journal.
AT A JACK-RABBIT DRIVE.
HOW THE LONG-EARED AKIMALS
ARE ROUNDED-UP.
A IMctiircsqiir Description of a Hue
cpssfiil Hunt In Cnllfoinlit The
t'linno With Greyhounds.
"So you want to hear something nbout
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, and ranchmen aro compelled
to protect their crops and 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 the
ranchmen are using the most effective
means for abatement within their reach,
namely, the now celebrated rabbit drives.
I was at several of them while at Bakers
field, and at each of theso thousands of
the little pests were killed.
"The thing is managed much ns an
Indiana fox drive, with this addition,
that the round-up is in a tight corral into
which the rabbits aro driven, and 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 and lieutenants are ap
pointed to see to tho proper arrange
ments, and on the morning of tho event
several hundred people, mostly mounted,
aro on the grounds. No guns are per
mitted except to a few men, who are be
hind the lines, to shoot what rabbits may
break through.
"The participants nre 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 nre thus en
closed with a human fence, if it may ss
be called.
"At a signal given by the captain the
lines begin moving up the corral, each
man making as much noise ns possible.
The rabbits, of course, attempt to get out
of the way, and nre 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 cars among the scrub aud sage
brush, but as the lines begin to tighten
tho 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, indesesibablc sight to
see thousands of these creatures impris
oned iu tho narrow enclosed space and to
watch their frantic endeavors to get out.
Onco 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 the rabbits will eat up
the country if left alone or killed only in
sportsmanlike manner.
"But," continued the reporter's will
ing informant, "while a drive is butch
ery and palls upon the taste after one or
two doses, a jack-rabbit hunt over tho
plains, with hounds and horse, is as fine
a sport as can well be imagined. For
this you need a couple of greyhounds and
kind of a trailing hound to start the game
and n well-trained pony. This is n sta
ple sport iu the West and men keep
puck of fine grey-hounds for the chase.
Trailing hounds are necessary becnuse
the greyhounds run by sight alone, nnd
thus would be unable to start the rab
bits. Kansas, Indian Territory, Califor
nia and parts of Texas are famous places
for this variety of sport, which is really a
combination of race mid 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 ruu in tho open, the hunters
can mostly see the progress of the entire
chase. Imagine that your trailing houiuls
have jumped up a rabbit. It is then
given a short start before the grey
hounds nre loosened, but ns soon as they
are released they fly after Master Long
ears like the wind. He is not letting
any grass grow under his feet, either.
With his ears laid flat over his back ho
sails away tit tremendous speed, ap
parently taking leaps of not less than
twenty-five feet. You follow on your
pony, taking shortcuts to keep the chase
in sit(ht, but if you give your pony tho
bridle he will follow every curve aud
dodge of the game and hounds. On you
fly as f.it as horses' hoofs can go; if
there are fences, you jump them; ob-
sti uclioiis only make the spurt more ex
citing, and now the fuu begins. Master
rabbit is getting tired. He has doubled
the greyhounds end conies back toward
the slow hounds with the speed of
lightning. The dogs try to intercept
him, but he bounds clear over them uud
oil 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 i iTort to snatch
him as he squats suddenly and then shouts
otf ut a tangent. They are upon him
again, nnd again he repeats his manceuvre
and escapes, but he tries it once too of-
n ! See the leading hound has picked
him up on the fly and the race of this
rabbit is ruu.
"Di.es one ever escape? Well, some
times, but if lie docs il is only to go olf
in the bush to die, for the terrible strain
of the run kills them. They aro swift
runners and can, I believe, go better
thau 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
mist have a pretty good start of the
hounds to make spirited chase, and you
Ion t want too until y hounds; it spoils
the spurt."
One alligator hunter bieught to Ar
cudia, Fla., the other day on hundred
alligator skiua, allot which weru between
five aud twelve foct in length,
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
roLTsnrxo a cow's noRrf. '
The inside of the horn must first b
fleansed and the pith taken out by steam
ing or immersing in hot water and using
hot water and soap. While in a soft con
dition rasp olf tho rings and roughness at
the liHse aud scrapo with pieces of glass,
nnooth the surfaco with fine sandpaper
ind remove any scratches or file marks
that may remain with finely pulverized
pumice stone, moistened with water;
tvash this off and polish with prepared
rhalk, applied moist on apiece of chamois
leather, then rub briskly with the hands.
New York World.
TO KEEP EGOS.
Pour two gallons of hot water over one
pint of lime and half a pint of salt.
When cold put your eggs in a jar and
pour it over them. Be sure there aro no
cracked ones and that they arc kept cov
r red. 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 onco a week
turn over tho boxes. The reason for this
Is that by turning the eggs over the yolk
is kept about tho 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 Mar.
PREPARATION OP CALCIMINE.
Calcimine is prepared by mixing ono
pound of pulverized glue dissolved in
hot water with twenty pounds of paris
white, using enough water 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 aud a dash of lampblack ; rose,
three parts vermilion nnd one of red lead
in very small quantity; straw yellow,
chrome yellow and a dash of Spanish
brown ; buff, two parts of Indian yellow
and one of burnt sienna; azure bhie, very
little Prussian blue. To mix the colors,
first make a small quantity strong nnd
then stir in the calcimine until the right
Bhade is made. New York 1'imes.
HOW TO PAPER THE PARLOR.
The parlor, of course, is the best room
iu the house usually and should have the
best paper and tho 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: Maplo
wood, use a yellow, wavy colored paper
with a ceiling paper of bluish tint and 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 lor side
wall, aud a paper for ceiling with a light
silver green metal in it. Theso sug
gestions are the best for the parlor, as in
this room especially the colors should
harmonize. One very important thing in
this room is a frieze, as it bears the same
relation to a side wall 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 tho ceiling is 0 feet high,
use a frieze of 8 or 9 inches wide; if 10
or 11 feet, you can use a frieze of 15 or
18 inches iu width. Do not use a con
ventional design ubove a wall paper
whose pattern is flowered or vice versa.
Carpenter and Builder.
lir.etPES.
Huckleberry Griddle Cakes Mix in an
ordinary yellow bowl having a lip ono
pint of flour, a sultspoonftil of salt, a
heaping teaspoonful of baking powder,
and one pint of cold boiled milk. Mix
thoroughly and add one egg well beaten.
Pick over half a pint of berries, roll
them in flour, aud add them to the bat
ter. Bake on a hot, well greased grid
dle. A soapstoue griddle is decidedly
the best for cooking griddle cakes, as it
cooks evenly and requires no greasing.
Puree of Green Pens Boil a quart of
fresh green peas in a pint of boiling water,
slightly salted. Bub the peas through u
sieve and pour tho water in which they
were boiled on the skins; add a pint of
clear soup to tho pulp and return to tho
range. Geutly melt an ounce of butter;
add it to a teaspoonful of flour, a pint of
warm milk, salt, pepper and a square of
sugar. Whisk this into the soup. When
quite hot serve 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 beeu in boiling just enough for each
meal; but for potatoes with cream, see to
it that thej are boiled and afterward cut
up whilo warm and seasoned with salt
and pepper. Boil half a pint of cream,
add to it a walnut of butter, nnd add the
potatoes to it. If milk is used, it may
be thickened a little with flour.
Minced Lamb, with Poached Egg
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 slicis and cut theso
very line. Melt no ounce of butter in a
frying-pan. Cut U a slice of onion and
fry it iu the butter; then remove it; add
the meat, a little salt uud pepper, and
soup or water to moisten it; when thor
oughly wanned through put spoonfuls of
it neatly on toast; on top of the meat
place a poached egg.
Stuffed Okru Select u dozen good
sized but tender okra pods, cut olf tho
pointed ends aud remove the seeds. Bnt
the yolks of two eggs, season with salt
and while pepper, add a tabli spoonful of
chopped boiled ham, and bread crumbs'
enough to thicken the egg. Add the
seeds also. Fill tho pods with this mix
ture, stand them upright in u pau; add u
littlo water or gravy; cover the tops with
a layer of bread crumbs and add u layer
of grated Parmesan cheese. Divide two
ounces of butter iu little balls, place them
ou top uud bake to a delicate brown.
The skeleton of the largest elephant
ever killed in India is to bo uxhumud and
sent to the diukuiu at Madru. Tho
k!ton is uactly ten feet six inches la
height.
' A DERVISH.
Like Joseph's eoat his tattered raiment shows
A rainbow blending of Its conntlem hue; (
' The desert dust has stained his pllgrtmi
shoes, ,
ITis frame is gaunt, yet on and on he goes, j
Few are the hours his weary limbs repose,
Few are tho drois that wet his earthen)
cruse:
The path is long, tho sliarp flints cut and!
bruise, j
And yet at heart a dreamful rest he knows. . j
His visions are of calm celestial days j
Of peaceful groves of palm beyond thsj
skies; t
Forever shine before his ardent eyes j
The fountained heavenly eourts throughi
golden haze:
He deems the more he bears on mortal waysi
The greater his reward in Paradise. j
C'fmfon Scollard, in LippincolCu
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The Courier-Journal advocates noiseless
powder for fire-crackers.
Who was Luke's mother? A Mama-f
hike, of course. Hiftingt.
The rudder is a stern necessity to ai
ship. Merchant Traveler.
Children cry for the moon. Men want!
the earth. Boston Courier.
Tho woman who lives in vanity live
in vain. Merchant Traveler.
People who get lonesome realize what;
poor company they nre. Merchant Trat-i
tier.
A dime museum has a cow with thrco
(ails. There are no flies on that beast.
New York Netet.
The lion is the king of tho forest, but-'
the cow is the bass of the barn-yard.
Munsci's Weclhj.
New York has seen many noble pa
geants lately; but Boston is the real place
for spectacles. Puck.
Somebody says a man can get roaring
drunk on water. Well, so he can on
land. Rochester Post-Express.
Wiggins, the weather prophet, says the
cas are drying up. They set hiin a good
example. ritttb'irg Chronicle.
''I love you well," the stamp exclaimed,
'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 goodfee'ing appears.
Statesman.
Iu commercial circles they have what
are called cast iron notes. It seems as
though it would be hard to forge thenii-
Burlington Jiepullican. ;
The smart young man said he had nob
been iu the drug store very long, but ha
hud been nt the soda fountain long enough
to beafizzician Washington Critic.
They wero talking ubout penmanships
"I like your baud," said he. "Don't
you want it, George?" sho asked, sweetly.;
No cards. Laiennee Daily American. i
With a tightening grasp sne bcized his arm J
I.ilie ono witli horror dumb,
Burgled and moaned, then wildly shrieked
"Oh, George, I've lost my gum I"
Texas Sitings. I
"No, Claribel, the fishermen down
irouud Sandy Hook do not keep their
money iu the Fishing Bauks. They take.
It out of that place whenever they get the
chance." Statesman.
A writer who, when young was very green,
In time grew blue as years passed o'er his
head.
Yuii ask what caused this transformation
scene?
The man grew blue becauso he was not
read.
Life.
'I'm afraid this bill is counterfeit,"
laid the merchant, handing back a hard-"
looking fiver. "I don't see how that can
be," replied the inau. "I got it not ten
minutes ago from an Italian. If it was
a bad bill you may depend upon it he'd
want to keep it and cheat somebody with,
it." Bochcster Post-Egress.
Johnny Dinnpsey "Oh, ma! I wish
you would make ine pair of home-mado
trousers every duy." Mrs. Dumpsey
(much gratified) " AVhy, darling ? "
Johnny Dumpsey "Because the scholars
all laughed at mo so to-day thnt the
teacher hud to excuse me, and I've had a
bully time fishing with Bill Peck."
Burlington Free ihcss.
On one occasion a lady called and pre
sented a check which she wished cashed.
As she was a perfect stranger to the pay
ing teller, he said very politely : "Madam,,
you will have to bring some one to in
troduce you before we cau cash this;
check." Drawing herself up quite
haughtily, phe said free.ingly: "But I
do not wish to know you, air!" llich
mond Dlspateh,
Four Tilen Could Lift the Eiffel Tower.
'i'lisjji hole EilTel tower ia Paris could
be lifted bv four men of average strength.
The case has been proved. When it wiw
nbout half iis present height a few men
actually did lift it. This is not humbug;
the thing is perfectly simple. The cou
st ruction of the tower is based on tlm
canti lever principle, and its bulk of 0400
tons is so ad justed us to press ou the founda
tion with Ic-s weight tliuu that of a man
iu armchair on the floor.
Is the tower beautiful? No. But it
lias the erect, fragile looking elegance of
mi nhelipk, not hew n out of red granite,
but knit of dark lined meshes. And at
liny rate, in the eyes of its admirers, it
plays the part of mountain tops in tho
clouds, producing new atmospheric ef
fects iu our view s of Paris. Tinted vapors
hang round its summit; the gray shading
of i Ion. Hand, ti e palo pink of dawn, the
lurid hues of sunset, furnish striking
backgrounds fur the iron lucework.
The Kilfcl tower never claimed to bo a
work of art. It was never iutended to
stand in the category of architectural
masterpieces with Notre Dumo or tho
Sainte Chapelle. It must be taken for
what it is, and criticized from its own.
standpoint, neither more nor less. It
was planned with the idea that it might'
till the disputed pluce of tho eighth won
der of the world. The original seven
were uot woiks of ait. Tluy were vast
masses of material iuteudud to attouish the'
gaping crowd for the crowd is pereu
uklly givjjlDg. Paris lUiutri,
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