A BURIED CITY IN TEXAS. THE ORE AT BOUTHWEST A OF MARVELS. A Pnxr.liitK White f.nUe Srnltlpnly lVmcl In New Mexico The Chk-doiiy I'nrk of Arizona. Arizonn, New Mexico, and North Western Texns liave mtiny surprises in ptoro for sight-seeing travelers. Iiuins of lost cities, envc dwellings, cliff houses, trod other nbodes of extinct man lire now Jicing uncovered to the light of dny, showing that a great, and industrious people onco inhabited the land, who understood something of the arts and sciences, and who cultivated the lields, and plowed the ground at some distant epoch of time much the same as wc do to-day. I A few months ago at Cochite, on the American side of the Hio Grande, says a Port Davis (Texas) letter to the New York Timet, Amanda Chavez discovered tho ruins of an extensive city, the exist ence of which had never been suspected before. Tho place where this hidden city lies has hitherto had tho general ap pearance of a huge swell or rise in the prairie, a perfect desert in outward ap pearance, for it contained no herb, no root, no plant, no verdure of any kind, nothing save a waste of sand alkali and dirt, across which living creatures hesitated to travel unless forced to do so. Beneath this pile of desolation lay the ruins of an ancient city, probably Toltec In origin. . It is not hard to imagine how the old city became buried. Mr. Chavez tells us how lie chanced to stumble across it soon after a waterspout and a gale of wind un covered the ruins to view. Here in the far Southwest, where rains are few and Istrong winds frequent, the surface of the country, which by ages of drought and flisintesratiag processes has become crumbled and loose, is pic'.;ed up and car ried about from place to ;lace by almost any wind that blows. Very often these whirligig stcrms develop into miniature cyclones, and soraetimcs they grow so large and on such a grand scale that their power and destructiveness are almost be yond belief. Sweeping across tho coun try with not so much velocit y as a genuine cyclone, they pick up and carry along rocks, dirt, stoae, trees, sand, and what not, smashing everything they encounter and spreading ruin in their path. They have a habit when reaching a soft, yield ing surface of boring do.vn and sucking up or scooping out the sand, leaving the hollow spot barren and clean as far down as bed rock, and this hollow or hole looks for all the world as if some gigantic auger had been employed in doing tho work Hence they are called "saau augers." So dense is the mass of sand gathered up by this curious phenomenon of nature that tho column, whirling about with frightful rapidity, actually reaches tho clouds, and joins with the latter in forming a funnel from the earth to tho sky. Tho first indication of a sand auger would be the formation here and there of little whirligigs of dusty wind, picking up little bite of straw, leaves and other rubbish, and waltzing about helter skelter with them from placo to place. In this valley, from where I am writing, one can see almost any day a dozen or more of the little funnels, looking like tall, slender pipes of smoke, dancing over the prairie in every direction. One or two of them sometimes meet and join (forces, but when a dozen or twenty come together and happen at tho same time to strike a heavy, low-hanging cloud full of wind and vapor, then the chances are that a genuine sand augur of the first magnitude will be generated. Although formed or created by a succession of small whirlwinds, sand augurs break up very quickly, collapsing so suddenly that the heavens for a time are a mass of flying, falling sand. Anything below is simply swamped out of existence. Such, no doubt, was the fate of the city recently unearthed by Mr. Chavez. A sand augur possibly made the first de posit, and then the continuous accumu lations of windshades and the like piled up the sand and other detritus until the whole was converted into an extensive mound. The uncovering of the ruins was accomplished by a severe rainstorm, which proved to bo a genuine cloud burst. This, sweeping down upon the sandy mound with terrific force, washed away one angle of the mound, disclos ing some heavy stone walls which made the discovery possible. Mr. Chavez ob tained a number of interesting relics. One skeleton had three strands of beads around its neck, of turquois, jet, and bone respectively, also earrings of jet and turquois. The mummy's hair was brown, and some pieces of bright, orna- mented pottery were near it. Arrow heads, broken pottery, etc., were scat tered about. The skeleton was in a chamber of solid masonry, the stones firmly cemented, and it may havo been his tomb, within which he was sealed at the time of his death. One large building, with massive stone walls and a tower at each corner, was ex posed by tho cloud burst. This has tho appearance of a eitadel, the masonry being strong and secure, and in the centre is probably a water reservoir with aqueducts of stone stretching away in many directions, giving the idea that the building was erected for the purpose of standing a siege, borne. Pueblo Indians, questioned regarding the old city, say- that its name was Guato, and that it flourished long before Cortez came to Mexico. Of course this is mere tradition and cannot be relied upon, yet if it is of Toltec origin, the probabilities are that it was built ages ago, and possibly ante dates the building of the hrst Egyptian pyramid. Iu the Halt River Valley, which is now a dessert, the ruins of no less than nine teen buried cities have been found. Ex cavatious show that once a mighty and populous people inhabited the valley, und that they cultivated vast fields of maize, understood agriculture thoroughly, and even carried on irrigation to an extent that surpasses the best efforts of modern nations. Irrigating canals, built sub stantially, cut the country in every direction. The growth of maise indulged in by these extinct nations is something astonishing. Notwithstanding their iriigating schemes, they must have reasoned like Joseph of old in Egypt and laid by two or three years' supp'.y in ease a famine should strike the laud. Even now the Zuni Indians keep stored away a three years' supply of grain, in order to counteract any emergency of drought or war. Another remarkable curiosity to be seen in this vicinity is a dazzling white lake situated in the gypsum sands of Northwestern Texas. To be accurate the luke is situated in Donna Ana County, New Mexico, and i as formed early last spring, from the copious rainfalls that visited this section. Tho place is e val ley of pure white sand, about twenty five miles long by six or seven broad, sit uated in tho hollow of gome low lying or undulations, into which drains all tho rainfall of the neighborhood. There are no springs, lakes, rivers or streams of any kind near by. The lake covers about 350 acres, is several feet deep, and al though formed in the sand, yet the ac tion of the water has converted tho gyp sum bottcm into ft snow-white mass, cemented so substantially and compactly that there is no way of the water escap ing except by the slow process of evapo ration. Seen nt midday when the sun is at its brightest, the human eye cannot sustain for even a few seconds the brill iant and blinding glare from this won- lerful formation of nature. Even m dead of summer, when there is no moisture whatever in tho place, it is a terrible thing for human creatures to Attempt, a passage through this gypsum valley. The heat is intolerable and the refraction so terrirlicj.that it is painful and even dan gerous to experience it. Possibly in con nection with the heavy rains of last sea son a cloud burst or water spout may havo played an important part in the forma tion of this lake. Ages ago there lived in portions of Arizona and New Mexico a curious race of people who evidently could not trust their fellow-men. Their houses wero suspended in the air, so to speak, built against cliffs and precipices, or were carved out of solid masonry in the side of precipitous lulls, and so high that it was impossible to reach them except by means of ladders. The people who lived in these strange abodes kept flocks and herds, tilled the ground, and pursued ag riculture generally, yet so careful were they of their own precious hides that the general custom nt night was to climb up into their dwellings and pull the ladders up after them. There are about six thousand square miles of country covered by these curious dwellings, and though a little oft from railroads and out of the way of travel, yet a visit of inspection to any one of them would richly pay the archaeologist who has the nerve and en durance to undertake the task. Tho average cliff house is of firm, neat ma sonry, attached or cemented to tho cliffs in a most marvelous fashion, and evi dently cost a great outlay of energy and ingenuity in its construction. In some cases the rock and mortar of which they are built have been brought hundreds of feet up the most precipitous places, and this without the aid, apparently, of me chanical contrivances of any kind. Some of the houses were constructed of adobe brick3, for which an everlasting cement was used. Iu the Apache country of Arizona, near the entrance of a wild, rugged mountain gorge, are a series of remarkable clill dwellings. In reality they are not elm but cave dwellings; yet, as in the former case, the only mode of access is by means of lad ders, for they underlie a tremendous rccipice. The doorways arc square holes from four to six feet in diameter, and crawling into one of these murky, damp places one must be careful of reptiles ana vermin, whicn seem to nave lanen nuso lute possession since the rightful owners have departed. The ceilings are seven or eight feet high, walls a square ot auout the same diameter, and tho whole in terior in some cases is decorated with 6tars, comets, and other astronomical fig ures. A ho tho cliff dwellers were no one now can tell. They probably pre ceded tho Aztecs, who emigrated from the region, and, perhaps, they were con temporary with the loltecs, who are said to hove been extinct before the Aztecs were a people. At the base of these cliffs is another re markable curiosity known as Montezu ma's Well. It was built by the inhabit ants of that period, supplying them with the necessary moisture to sustain lite. The wonder of all curiosities, however, in the Southwest is the petrified forest iu Apache County, Arizona. What makes it more remarkable than it otherwise would be is the fact that the forest never grew on the spot where it now lies, but was transported bodily from somo region by a force of nature that we can little imagine. There are no stumps or trunks of trees left in the ground no roots, small limbs, or anything to show that vegetable matter could live and thrive in the volcanic ashes of the section, and yet mammoth tree trunks turned into hard adamantine stone lie here in the greatest profusion, millions of tons in sight, and no definite answer is there to tho puzzle. In some cases the trees arc of gigantic size, having a diameter of eighteen or twenty feet at the base and a height of more than 150 feet. The scene reminds one of Siudbad's dream or Aladdin's cave. As far as the eye can reach pieces of chrysoprase, carne- uan, sard and chalcedony are scattered; bits gf amethyst, jasper, caleite, and agate glitter in the sunlight, blazing with inde scribable brilliancy, and so thick on the ground that one can hardly step without placing his foot on a gem of "purest ray serene. ' This mineralized wood is scat tered over more than two thousand acres of surface. Situated in a desert of lava and ashes, although, as remarked, millions of tons of the material are in sight, yet all this mass must be a mere bagatelle to what is really concealed beneath the volcanic ruin which at one time swallowed the whole country in its deadly embrace. It is scarcely possible to solve the mystery that surrounds the wonderful Chalcedony Park of Arizona. There is something in the soil that silieilies wood, for on the northern border of Arizona, near the Colorado line, is a cabin, built some years ago by a mountain desperado, which has since been converted into stone, probably by the same petrifying action operated upon this as upon tho Arizona forest. An Underground t'aual Id Miles Long. "The strangest canal in the world," said an English clertrvruan "is one I never saw mentioned in any book or newspaper. It is a canal 16 miles long, between Worsley and St. Helens, in tho North of England, and is underground from end to end. Iu Lancashire the coal mines are very extensive, half the coun try being undermined, and many years ao the Duke of Bridgewater's managers thought they could save money by trans porting the cual undei ground instead of on the surface. So the canal was con strutted, the mines connected and drained at the same time. Ordinary caual boats are used, but the power is furnished by men. On the roof of the tunnel arch are cross pieces, and the men who do the work of propuUion lie on their backs on the coal, uud push with their feet against the cross buis on the roof. Six or eight men will draw a train of four or five bouts, and as there are two divisions in the tunnel, boats pass without difficulty. THE FARM AND GARDEN. THE SIZE OP xrri.ES. The size of apples is a more important consideration than is sometimes thought A very large apple is not. desirable, nor it a very small ono likely to be demanded unless it. has somo very decided merit, as with the lady applo or some of thi crabs used for decoration, or making l superior conserve. An apple that unnc-i good culture is of full medium size, will, other things being equal, bo tho mosl profitable to the grower, because tin most satisfactory to buyers either as deal crs or consumers. Two serious objection! exist to very largo apples tho loss in curred by defect or injury of a singll fruit and the difficulty of disposing ol tliem about the person, in pockets or oth erwise. No dealer likes to handle a vcrj large app'.e, unless fotne particular beaut or excellence enables him to get a vcri large price for it. Xew Tori; Voice. TnE rrn.TTY op wtkdmit.i.s. Why is not the power of the winA more often made available on farms foi doing light work? Tho windmill hai long been useful and in many localities has been synonymous with corn or floui mill, cheaply grinding the farmer's grain and adapting itself automatically to tho changeful breezes. And now that these engines have been crcatlv improved they seem to be vanishing out of use. This is to be deplored, i'or the light work ol pumping wetcr, cutting fodder, grinding grain, shelling corn, thrashing, cutting up ensilage, or cutting lircwood, a wind mill may repay its cost nt least onca every year, and with careful usage may last forty or fifty years, or bo replaced piecemeal, as it wears, in that time, and then be as good as new. A windmill at tached to a barn or a silo is an evidence of good sense, thrift, and respectability of the farmer who owns it, and is to be preferred before a great many of those other things over which farmers waste money uselessly. Vw York Timet. tiie kose nve. The rose bug is a hard insect lo fight, and wo have had no practical occasion to experiment with it in the work of tht Botanical Division of tho United Statel Department of Agriculture. Tho old method was to knock the insect from tht foliage or fruit into a pan of kcrosem and water. This, however, is very slow work and not practicable on a large scalo. At Hivcr Edge, !i. J., they found last season that a mixture of pyrcthrura and water made a very excellent liquid to spray upon tho vines. It destroyed all of the insects which it touched and seemed also to have a preventivo action. Th proper proportions can only be obtained by further experiment. Colonel Pearson, of New Jersey, has also found that tb original fungicide mixture of sulphide of copper and lime and water sprayod upon grape vines has both a poisoning and deterring effect upon the rose bug. Thii insect is one which I hope to have a good scries of experiments made upon with t view of determining just, what is best tc bo done. Professor C. V. Jtileij, in f.V American Agriculturist. WHY TttltESU TIIE O.VTst Few thinking farmers are so behind time as not to know the value of bright oat-straw for fodder. Nevertheless thesi men, good calculators generally, go oi threshing tho oat crop and seperatitij grain from straw and then feed both t the same auimals, as if they thus im proved tho feed ! Is not the work on tin farm hard enough without this uselesi labor! The custom is a relic of tho past, and surely tho day is not distant whet farmers will as soon think of hulling oati for feeding on the farm us of threshing them. Oats for sale will doubtless stil! be threshed, although I incline to the be lief that many shcaf-oats will bo pressed like hay, having their heads all toward the middle of the bale. This will applj particularly to local trade. All stock eat shcaf-oats with avidity, and they constitute nearly a perfect food. Run through a fodder-cutter and moist ened, they become, with addition of t little meal, bran or cottonseed, a good ration for milch-cows, and the hardest- working team-horses keep sleek and fal on tho diet. Why should not farmcn everywhere place tho crop, immediatelj on hauling it from the field, in vermin- proof bays or barns, or, better still, n mouse-proof stacks (which aro so ensilj arranged), there to remain till fed? Tin time usually consumed in threshing oaU for the farm stock could bo profitablj used in vacations, freed from care and la bor, and perhaps in visiting other farms. and learning from other farmers nietu. ods. Neio York 1'ribune. ItAISINQ TURKEYS. The turkey under domestication is I, difficult bird to raise, and requires grea-' care and constant attention for the first month of its life. If tho mother is al lowed to wander out with her brood iutf the wet grass iu the morning or nfta showers, the chicks aro very likely ti take cold and die. The young bird should be confined iu a pen or coop unti they are strong euough to bear the fa tigue of wandering about the field. Foi the first day after the chicks nre hatched ey should not be fed or disturbed. II the eggs hntch irregularly, then tho first chicks to come out should be removed and fed when twenty-four hours old, and returned to the nest when nil the eggi are hatched. The first food should b( stale bread, moistened with milk or water. When a few days old corn meal, cooked rieo and similar food may bo given, but only m such quantities as tho chicks will eat up clean each time they aro fed, which should be at least four times a day. Cice on turkeys and chickens are readily destroyed by scattering flowers of sul lihur in tho nests where the mothei broods them. In setting a hen turkey- tablespoon of sulphur should always be thrown in the nest at the timo of giving the bird the eggs, and this will prevent lice breeding on the old bird or infesting the chicks. In regard to employing com mon barnyard fowls as mothers for tur keys authorities differ. Some claim that the hen turkey is never so good a mother as the hens of our ordinary barnyard fowls, on account of her natural roaming habits, while others are quite as pro nounced in her favor. But as the eggs of our barnyard fowls hatch in from eighteen to tweuty-ono days, while those of the turkey in from twenty-six to thirty, there is danger of the conimoK hen abtndouing her nest at the cud of her natural period of incubation of threo weeks. The Biahmas, Cochins and similar large and heavy breeds of fowls are usually large enough to sit a month if necessary, and for this reason make very good mothers for turkeys. 2'eio Yorl Hun, 1A ITTNT TO CABBAGE GBOWEhS. I As cabbages incresso in growth by tiii heading process they have a tendency! 'sometimes to split open, which vcryj greatly diminishes the valuo of tho Lead.; Ias a remedy, Mr. J. J. Gregory, the noted) market gardener and seedsman of Marble ihcad, Mass., recommends going over the ground and starting the cabbages that ,nppcar to bo nearly manure, tipping them to one side. Ho says this tends to in 'creaso the size of the cabbage heads and' (prevents their bursting. It is certainly.a very simple operation, and one well .worthy of trial. Aew York IndqiendenU, PATtM AND GARDEN NOTES. Little pigs are said to thrive well on oats fed whole. Only the purest and best salt should be used in the dairy. A rubbing-post is one of tho essentials of every cow pasture, i Farmers report that horses like cusilago and hogs do well on it. 1 If a shower drives you out of a hay field, start tho cultivator. It is poor economy to havo a dull blade in the harvest or hay field. If you plant celery choose a piece of low ground somewhat damp. The question is disgusscd w hether it is necessary to weight the silo or not. Condiments such as red pepper, ginger, etc., should be fed sparingly to fowls. Honestly strive to mako your home, field and garden the best in tho world. Cut the grass before it Is too ripe. You will get more milk from the hny it makes. An Illinois farmer of large experience recommends bailing hay direct from tho winrow. Figs should havo nn opportunity to range the fields. A pig-pen in summer is an abomination. Give the growing chicks a variety of food and don't allow them to become stunted in tho first two or threo months. A good housewife never opens a con densed milk can with her husband s razor, nor will a loving husband curry the horse with the nutmeg grater. Ashes and plaster sprinkled on tho leaves when thu dew is on, is a common remedy for the flea beetle, which often attacks potato vines as well as cauliflower and cabbage plants. Persons owning bees and not located near streams ot water, are nuviscu oy Massachusetts Ploughman to furnish them fresh water daily, as it will save time, which to the bee means honey and to the person means money. Though somo recommend chemicals for keeping milk sweet, we know of. nothing that is so good as thorough aeration as soon as drawn and then rapid cooling to 45 degrees or 50 degrees. Keep it as near this temperature as possible. Silos are not lined with building paper simply to exclude frost. To havo tho silage perfect it is necessary that tho silo be as nearly air-tight as possible. Tho lining is to aid in securing this, so is es sential in the South as well as the North ern States. Professor Fcrnald, of the Massachusetts Station, mentions that a method of some value in fighting the grape-leaf hopper, which develops its wings in that State the last of July or first of August, is to carry lighted torches through the vine yard at night, beating the vines lightly at tho same time. The insects will be tdtracted to the light as they fly from tin disturbed vines and perish in tho flames. WISE WORDS. AVorry kills more men than wars. Experience gets there every time. Great men can outgrow nicknames, t Never borrow money to speculate with. Re cheerful. "A light heart lives long." In discussing business disagreements keep cool. Avoid law and legal squabbles of every kind. No man is free who has a vice foi his master. A man should maintain his integrity nt all times. Spend less nervous energy each day than you make. Shun bad company and the prevalent vices of the day. Don't hurry. "Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." Tho truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. Stilts are no better in conversation than in a foot race. Folly must hold its tongue while wear ing the wig of wisdom. It is easy to find reasons why other folks should be patient. When poverty comes in nt the cottage door true love goes at it with an axe. Never loan a borrowing friend more than you are able to lose if he cannot pay, and never take a loan on importunity. Acquire knowledge. It is only en lightened men who hold their own with the surging masses who throng the road of riches. Make all the money you can and do all the good you can with it, remembering that he who lives for himself alone lives for the meanest man in creation. A work is a tritle so light and frail that tho foam upon the river, tho dew drop on the rose, or a blush that tinges a girl's fair cheek, will live far louger. Love iu its varied phrases can ac quire purity or dignity only when guided by iuward power over our selves; that, is in itself the very germ ti nature. A Banana Kutintr Horse. An Italian in Boston, who had stationed himself close by the entrance to the circus grounds, that he might more easily dis pose of the fruits which he had to sell, became so interested iu the appearance of two Turks who had escaped from the grounds, ami had been strolling about tho Back Bay, thut he forgot all about the wagon load of bananas which were beside him, until ho turned suddenly aud ob served a horse attached to au express wagon calmly eating from the stock of bananas as if they had been placed therfc for his especial benefit. The spectacle cf a horse eating bananas was so amusing to the bvstuuders that they didn't call the owner's attention to it, but when the Italiau who owned the fruit, nnd thu Hibernian w ho drove the horse, began to argue with each other, tlieje was more excitement thun was heard inside the oir- tus XMvA.rBottcn Trateler, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, A great quantity ot copper la now ab sorbed in Chinese arsenals. The blnclt spot juBt discovered on the sun is 24,000 miles wide. Out of a thousand pcoplo bitten by rat tlesnakes not a dozen recover. Tho members of tho London Ornitho logical Society aro greatly excited over the discovery of a new bird by one of their numbers. Tho petroleum pipe lino in tho Cau casus is just about to surmount the Surnm Pass. It will reach a height of 5200 feet nbove tho sea. Tho quickest way to demagnetize a watch is to place it for a few seconds in the solenoid of an alternating current and rcmovo it slowly while tho current is flowing. For railroad tics in wet or swampy land, for shingles, for water pipes, for tanks, cisterns, hogsheads, etc., the cypress is a prime favorite and in genornl use throughout tho world. Any fleshy person can reduce his or her weight from fifteen to thirty pounds in three months by abstaining from thouso of liquids of all kinds nt meals and for nn hour beforo and after eating. A German scientist declares that in egg contains as much nourishment as a pound and a quarter of grapes, a pound and a quarter of russet apples, two pounds of gooseberries and four pounds of pears. Tho Vermont Microscopical Associa tion has just announced that a prizo of $250, given by tho Wells & Richardson Co., the well known chemists, will be paid to the first discoverer of a new dis ease germ. The cypress has been found especially serviceable in decoration and wherever a wood is needed that will bear long ex posure to water. Oiled or polished, it has become a favorite for the inside deco ration of the finest houses in New York. The thousands of tons of culm which has been accumulating at tho Pennsylva nia coal mines is now being rapidly con sumed by tho steel mills, electric light, nnd other works. Railroad companies also use large quantities iu a compressed 6tato on locomotives. M. Sopinard, tho great French anthropologist, has been led by the shapo of the leg bones of the "men of Spy" to the conclusion that these remote ancestors of the human race had their lower ex tremities half bent, like those authro phoid apes that inhabit trees. M. Rcrt, a French scientist, recently sewed tho top of a rat's tail into its back, and it, tho tail, immediately took root iu its new position. Then he cut the loop thus formed by tho tail, nnd the rat hud two tails. . Ho had found, however, that as a rule, the new tail has no sensation. Recent experiments at tho car hospital in London indicate that stnr.imeriug is not a nervous defect only. In operations for deafness in several cases tho patients were cured of stammering ulso, nnd the result is tho opinion that stammering comes from some defect iu tho hcariug. Twenty-eight irou girders, said to be the largest ever used, will form a portion of the new American Museum or Natural 'History iu New York city. Each girder measures about sixty-two feet in length, and weighs 40,000 pounds. Great diffi culty was found in their transportation from tho river front to the site of the building. The consumption of African teak wood in the East has largely increased within the past few years. Wherever a surface of iron or steel comes in direct contact with one of the wood, this material is in valuable. It contains an oil which pre vents rusting. It is easily worked, but wears tools away rapidly on account of tho quantity of silex. Flax Growing iu tho United States. Outside of Ireland, Russia and Germany produce the finest flax, uud Germany spins and weaves the finest linen iu the world; nnd Russia's nnd Germany's climate and soils for raising, and streams steeping flax, are precisely identical with those in vast portions of our own country. A million acres of flax more than is now grown should annually be produced in tho United States. This would yield 14,000,000 bushels of seed, worth as many million dollars for seed and oil. From it 2,500,000 tons of flax straw, worth $50,000,000, would be secured; nnd from it 500,000 tuns of flax fibre worth $100,000,000 would be obtained. Aside from this increase in value of agri cultural product, tho inestimable blessing of the employment of more than a quarter million people in tho manufacture of this product into marketable goods, would also result. It would seem to any reason able mind that this is a matter worth thinking about in America. The practi cal results aro all shown in Belfast. This city of more than 250,000 souls, the third for customs in the United Kingdom, is, "with her magnificent industries, wholly a result of flax-growing and linen- spinning and weaving. jeio torts com mercial Advertiser. His Bald Head Won Him a Stunoan Wife In the book of Mrs. Laulii Willis, tho Samoan woman, whose husband a con tractor left Alameda several dajs ago and has since been missing, occurs the follow ing quaint story of how she fell in love with her husband : "The flrst thing I saw when wo went alongside the ship was a white man with a bald head. That looked very fuunv to me, as I had never seen a bald-headed man before. He was real fat aud nice look ing, but he did not have nny hair on his head; aud I got my brother, who could talk English, to ask hun just as soon as we got aboard, whero was all tho hair that belonged on his head. And the whito man told him that he lived in California, and they did not havo any cold weather there, but had what they called a 'glorious climate,' and the 'climate' had taken all the hair off his head. We got very well acquainted, nnd I liked him, because wheu another white man kept talking to me this one with the bald head quarrelled with him and knocked him down so he should not bother me." Oakland Tribune. Carp Escaping From Heat. A barn burned south of Crawfordsvillc, Iud., tho other day. Near it was a pond stocked with carp, and the tire heated the water so that the tish leaped out of the water on to the bank at a pciut furthest from the burning building wMle trying to escape from the excessive heat. Cin cinnati Kiiquirtr. A. vein of humor should be made visi ble without the aim of a reduction mill. A Harpoon In a Whtilo't, BlnLLer. There has just been received at the National Museum, in Washington, to be placed in the fisheries section, an interest ing souvenir of the Arctio whale fishery which Captain J."W. Collins, tho superin tendent of that department, greatly prizes. It is en old-fashioned, hand molded swivel harpoon, which has quito a story, as gleaned from the papers ac companying it. While in tho Okhotsk Sea last summer, the ship Cape Horn Pigeon, commnndod by Captain L. Nathan Rogers, captured a whale, in tho blubber of which was im bedded ft foroign substance. On investi gation this proved to bo a harpoon, broken oft at the junction with the lance, which had been in tho whale over thirty years. On tho hinge of the harpoon was stamped in plain letters "S. T. D." ship Thomas Dickerson and tho name of tho maker, not so plain, could also bo made out. This was tho first and only messenger from tho good ship Dickerson, which sailed from New Bedford, Mnss., in 1856 and was lost tho next year iu tho very waters whero the crew of the Capo Horn Pigoon secured tho harpoon thirty-two years Inter. Act York Herald. Birds and tho Insects They Destroy. Tho following birds nre to bo classed among tho most helpful kinds in the gen eral warfare against insects: Robins (cut, and other earth worms), swallows, night hawks, purple martins (moth cntchersj ; pewecs (striped cucumber bugs), wood thrushes and wrens (cut worms), cat birds (tent caterpillar), meadow larks, wood peckers, crows (wire worms); blue throated buntings (canker worms), black, red-winged birds, jays, doves, pigeons and chippies (strawberry pests); quails (chinch bugs, locusts), whip-poor-wills (moths); hawks, all night birds, owls, etc., tanngers and black winged summer red birds' (curculios); nut crackers, fly catchers, chimney swifts, Indigo birds, chipping nnd song sparrows, blackbirds, mocking birds, titmouses, vireas, orchard orioles. Tho Moods of a River. Flint Rive'r, Ga., like a human being, appears to havo its moods. Now it will be all brightness and sunshine, its placid waters scarco seem to bo moving, but In its quiet, crystal depths tho lordly mag nolias along" its banks are reflected, and the wild fowl plume their feathers over its mirror like surface. Again, it looks dark and amrrv. Tho water, of a yel lowish red color, resembles tho complex ion of a choleric man with his bile nil stirred up. On it dashes, rcsistlessly bear ing along great waves of foam, whero it has fretted over the rocks, or tho limbs of forest monarch which it has angrily uprooted and torn away, as worried by un-conntrv rains it has overflowed its banks and swept all before it. Atlanta Constitution. Concerning The Crow. The habits of the crow form an inter- cstiuff subject for the study of the orni thologist. Tho crow has a larger brain than most birds, aud all his energies aro directed toward procuring food. - Crows will destroy the nests of ouail and other birds, taking tho young from tho nests in the absence of the old birds, the favorite food of young hawks is frogs Iowa stands third in tho number of its horses, havincr over a million, valued at. $74, 000,000. Oiirlilrla. Kittty is witty. NettlB is pretty, Lntle is cute aud small; Irene is a queen, Antiotte la a iot, Kollis the holle of i. e ball; llmnt tu is w. nlthy. Bertha is healthy, And health is the Ixmi of nil. Perfect health keiM s her ro.-y nml radiant, beautiful a id blnominc. wisible nnd h eet. It in fterureil bv wholesome hiihlts ft'id the use of Dr. I'leree's Favoiit Prtwription. Hertiia takes it, and alio a'.wi "takes the i-nke." Tho only iiKimiiCril cure for those distressing ull- IlieilUt l'ecuunr Ul nuillDU. cnim nun ' your money returned. For Constipation or Sick Headache, use Dr. Pierce's Pelk-ls; Purely Vegetable. Uuo a dose. Annir Davis, of Mansfield, Ohio, committed suicide because she didn't, take a jirlze at school. A Kchool of Iho Illiibent Order for Youns Ladle. Int'linm University, I.o Hoy, N. Y., estab lUbed over 11 ty years, offo a superior advan tages in its Literary, Music and Art Depart ments. Excellent home. Attention Riven to social culture. Rates moderate, (jcud for catalogue. Address M:ss K. M. Webster, Principal. A hfw railroad Is to be run from a point on the Missouri Kiver to the Pacific coast. 100 l.adlea Wanted, And 100 men to call daily on any druprclst for rce trial package o! Lane's Family Modi cine, the great root and herb remedy, discov ered by Dr. rjilaa Lane while in the Rocky Mountains. For dlaeaaea of the blood, liver and kidneys it l a posit. ve cure. For cons 1; atlon nnd cloarlng up the complexion it dnea won der. C hildren like it. Kveryone praises it. Iirge-size package, .'0 cents. At all drug gisu'. TnK Bible Society has Issued, up to date, totul o. nearly tiu.mo.uuu Bibkn. Five cents suved on soap; five dollars lost on rotted clc.thee. If tha! teunwHyt T..ero la not 6 cents ditferenoo between tho coat of a bar of the pooreet soap made and the bfaf, which isaa all kuow, Dobbins's Klcctric. Thb Auditorium Huildinn at Chicago Is sev enteen btorieg and about -U0 feet high. What In the world is the use of sitting around waiting for onicthinn to turn i p. You might just us well sit down In the meadow and wait for the cow to come up to be niilkcd. tet up and Bhake youi-sclf and make up your mind to turn upsomothing. If on have noth ing definite In volir mind, then write to H. K. Jobnson & Co., iticUmond, Va., nnd they will tell you n thing or two that will make you jump lor Joy. A pocket mlrr r free to smokers of "Tan slll'a Punch" 6c. Cigar. IfafTlicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp eon'slye-water. Druggists sell at UTic. per bottl i Vigor and Vitality Are quickly given to every part of tbe Ixuly by Uood'M Sarsaparllla. That tired feel lug Is entirely overcome. The blood U purified, eurlched and vitalized, and carries health UiKtead of dUouao to every organ. The itomach la toned aud Htrengtu ened, tho appetite restored. The kidneys aud lhror are roused aud Invigorated. The brain la refreshed, the nerves mreugthcued. The whole system Is built up by Hood's S&rsaparllla. "I was all ruu down aud uuflt for business. X was Induced to take a bottle of Hood's barsupurilla, and It built me right up so that X was soon able to resume work. I recommend It to all." D. W, Buatx, 4 Altutlu Street, Albany, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaoarilla Bold by all druggists, fit six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD ft CO., Apothecaries, I.owelt, Maw. . 100 Doses One Dollar .use iM (Jems tor bit ni ne Irirtihk.nc. itiie l)r. Xuehler't Misiur" riaht atony uWJ. 1 the Wat colic rrWu-tjie have ecer seen. ISAAC A (, Jet-M Dealer, lirvoklyn, Sew York. JOSEPH H. HUNTER, fly. . ac?V S3 At Iroair unti DsAins. THI CHARLES s. V08UM CO., Bsttlswrt. NTH C 30 YOU NEED IT! T 1ivn Siiufnirtlmifcrv. but it in0 timeh Wrt tY Hrt 11 fnr sniitinn tht lam incllnM to hlrfc kHtkinifout woiilit, aithmwti rtiroi rf knowledK lonk out wont cm the tnnunt, o th Information t iuipn-KPcd ou my mtud." t'orrrryvndent. Webster'! Illuitrftted KAKDY DICTIONARY rhtmnniti of Words Defined. Ilundreileof 1'lrturei. Abort lallnn Explained. Ordln r Korelan Phraaea Trana. lateil. ftlotrto (ralin ofT Wrlfflita and Meaanrea. Vrlutwl In aniftll, c'mt tyi. on fine bill paln-r; bound in handsome clulll. OBO PAGES -Q20 Who that red doenn't mry dyr come ar-rota aonla h"e mrantn he Aim nirt know and whtelj heiannol rununee nrlel!? Hi nm the d'-nunrt Kir a moderate-aim d Ulrttolnry which onn b Sept tt linlut aiwuya ready f"r refTanee. htK-ty a worn fl I e i-.m-.l hundred tlmea aa much a a Urire nn aleldy volume, anil the refore i a areater educator. A the Kih-IIIiik and Pronunciation of many in ainn ,von have I-ei-n chaiiKrd ilurins the laat m feaea. iHw-pleownintf the old-f hioned lU'-tlcnarlea p.-cd a im-drrn oua. Here It la at a tnfUlif coat loatpald for 45c. Iu lc. or Jc itamp. HOOK IM nl.l-llINtJ HOUSE, 1H Leonard ri.,N. V. CUT J EST LATEST IMPROVED HORSE POWER nlachlneafOTTIlItlWItlNllM'I.EANINf Uruin.alao Alarhiaea t WAWIXi WOOU Bja aith Circular and ( raw. AakaowUdcad ls,3k -'' Urauj- Bawl. brail lob 5'TS,5-, s nn mrt BEST,; VMavni in HSY DRAFT, DURABILimjliANTITi OF WORK te-SSSSS! GRAY'S SONS, patrarrua ahd Bole H a trr AOTrrExas. i ........ a, .... . . ,aj V-V. 1 JONES nn PAYS THE FREIGHT. o Tn ii t agou rcnlc Iron l.teri Mri Hiwririirs, nraa Xatq lidOin ml l'ota Uof fnr uo. F.rr nlf kVavJf. 'or fre pr.ue Its! it'cntiuu llil paper and (Mr-nap JOMfcS OF 6INGHAMT0N. HINftllAMTOI, N. V. IPE.Tt.ERN PACIFIC. 11 LOW PRICE RAILROAD LANDS & FREE Government LANDS. MILI.K'NSof A'IIKH rfMth In Mlnneaot. North taint. V.ontlui. I latio. Waahnwton U'l On n hrun CflDI ui.l!cauo;ii.wtUiMatiadiH!r hiuictha 9ERU run tid.l ht c.iltmal, tirarlimai A C ma nr l.amta nowoin t -tiler. Meal frre. AMna rtUAC D I lUOflDU liid i'nainilKuinr. C H ASi BaL A m o U KM, im.m ,m o. DUTCH ER'S FLY KILLER Makra a cU-an awei-p. Kvcrjf atit-rt will till a quurt nt file. Mops buii.tiift around enra. living at tlckllus your noae, aklpa bar! woKla and aa I'ure itkci at trtlllnu rapcuaa. Ki-nd -ii rriitafor ft Imili to y. HUH HKH, HU Album, vt. GOLD a5 SILVER FOR 25 cts. r.si'r'.rrt Imndcomo Cahim-t of lli-aiilllul Ore Cpertroon from 20 dllfi'n'Ut mince lu Colorado. Addrea Rocky Mountain Specimen Co., Denver , Colo. AZ.ERcBKsIl BEST IN THE WORLU w . w a l7-ut the oeuuiue. Sold. KreinTaere. WKSTKllN HKSKHVE SKMINARY AND NORMAL 'uMK(.K, W. KurmluifVon, O. l years. Hothj ter. S?vrtt deport miMils. inwru ana i union iwi p-r year. MKV. K. tOVKl WTh.lt. A. M., X'rrw.dt-ut. ii vmm rihtl n P II f t T do you wlttlj 1 lUUn rnm rUil OALCtobuyafanur If so adilr' Cukti tt r.idi.r, icu 1 roadwav. N. x k ftt-nts wanted. $1 an lnur.Su upw artieli's.Oat'rgu aud samplf fn-e. f. K. alAttSHAlx. liuffuJo, N. Y. MORS say P1pos Our for Con uimpUtm Is T1IK hKhT for awi'iufi tha vuica clear. 'Jb ceuta. ! end XValaker XIat ilte cured at home wltlt oat pain. Uook of par l jj n. . wtK 1 J.E V. M D. f SuauLa, V OiSoo fuii Wiutouau 6fc S5 tn a day. Sumnlei worth 8-J.1 H Krrr. Llnr not miller liora' fwl. Wrlci" ltrw eirr Palely ICriu lloldi-r Co., Holljr.UU-U PEERLESS BYES Are the NKxT. fJAivil CHICKENS PAY. If yon know ,,nw to iroifrlr care for them. For'i.l eeuta iu ft aim ye n canproriii.-a lno-l'AOE HOOK (Iviuk xjHTifU. of a pnu-tl-al i'-ultry Raiwr nt au imi tt-ur, but a umu work i uk for Uo. Imn utnl cent. duriiiK iwriodof .ft vt-artt. It tfiM-ht-a VOU how to Iti'f.ft and Cure lHmaaa: to i-'e ti lorfVKH and ttlfo for l-'.tU-iiliiK; vliich VuwIm Lo Havtf for JlreMiup Viirimsi h- miit i vstrvtlilnif. lllilr.!. u rlH mil kin w in us tsuitit-ci io mnso it rm 1 vt-le. tint intdpaid for -..le. lftOOK IM'll 1H1F. 134 Leonard tMicrl, IS. V. CUyj NEW THE ATM EST. As anulled At the lloliuDd Mttili-al ttudCuUL-er Institute, Hun ulo, N. ., rt-moveit I'fiueer without pain or use of kuife. fcwre ?t puticuts speak lu unqualified terms of praise ofl the suet-ma f this treatment. Write for ciicular. 11 )LI,AM MFIU( INKCO., II u Halo, IK. Y, ' Here Et 8s! Want to tram all about an r Ben to Pick Out a . Bond Oner Know Imperfeo tleaa and ao Guard agalnat Fraadt Detect Dlieaae aid tff.ot a Cure whea Bum. ti poaalbler 'If 11 the ate tT be Teeth? What to call tbeDtffcrnt Parti of the Animal? How to Shoe a Hone Property i AU tula ad other Va uable Information can be obtained bA readlne our 100-rA(.K 1 LI.tSTK ATED IIOBbK BOOK, which w will forward, ,!. paid, ob receipt of onlj it 5 coat tu ataaiw. BOOK PUB. HOUSE. " 134 Leonard St., New York City ATI of U.S. and World Rf. t.myi-f tLt-ii.culored. Alo a vast amouut or lulir.,. tU.o r'Utivt tu dill' rut States aud Conn rim, i- oi in of (lovtruiiieut, Krm Products) uud Value, ic. Only JCc. la atAm.. AdJrcan Boon Fes, hmsi, Leonard at, N. T, fc -i H a V ta. em nm V3 CH r-XM " ' araw i.ittiM PAWPITO UAl.bliU AGALTIO TTV UK. KOEIILEK'H VAVOBITB COI.U! MIXTl'BK for all domestic animals, will cure n out ot every 100 cases of collo, whether flat ultnt or riiiuBUitvlic. barely more than 1 or 3 dnaes necessary. It does not ton stlpuie, rather net a as u laxative aud Is eutlrely hurmUns. After W yeurs of trlaf in more than at) cases, our guarautca is worth soinethlai. t'ollo must h i reined ui-tuiiuilv. Eii.?ud a few ceuta aud you liaB a cure ou hand, ready wtu-n ueedt'ti, tii. a perhaps save a tamable uorse. it not ai your uruatfist s, en- cuuie, arm prepaid. HOM.I.F.1X V CO.. lirtblehrni, Pa "Fut'oWf Col it Col'.o Sti We vhterfuUu recummeni ir. Koehler't sua.'. 'frnvrtfc Colic Mixture." Would not t without tt as lent us utj Aqee horsfe. ISA AO MMSES BHO., Sots and fxchuiiue kfables, A'cafun, fta. 1 ATTORNEY, WAIjHtNOTON, . l. Will, ftliT VOt'll .'ESfeiON without. DEI.AV V 1 1. 1. t. KT I Ul II I
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