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Terms, - f I.BO prTar.
Tho bcot sugar industry In gaining a
' alrong foothold in tlio United States.
' It i said that an nlilo beggar with a
good get up can make $10 a day on the
streets of New York.
Germany's army is still numerically in
ferior to that of France by 40,000 men.
ermuny possesses 2184 field guns,
whereas Franco has 2880 ready for war.
There appears to tho New York Com
mirrcial Adcerticr tohesomo ground for
tho suspicion that soma great power is
guiding tho strikes in Kurope, which all
seem to bear the appearance qf concerted
action.
It was a big drop that the New York
Legislature) made in the remuneration of
the Sheriff of New York, observes tho
New Orleans 7'nnei-Democrat, when it
fixed his salary nt $12,000 a year. Under
tho feo system it has been nearer
50,000.
The most prominent experts in dogs in
this country ure firm in tho belief that
thoroughbred dogs nro Icrs intelligent
than mongrels. .Nearly nil tho dogs ex
hibited on the stage are cross-breeds and
dogs of low lineage, if they can boast
known parentage nt all.
Tho Kansas Financier is convinced
that "ono of tho greatest atllictions that
can befall a State or community in to
have a boom. Tho recovery is worse than
a plague. Steady growth and honest
business methods should always be en
couraged, but nono other."
It will surpriso many readers to know
that Castle Garden, New York, is noth
ing less than a fortress extended and built
over, and that in tho early part of the
century it was considered a Btrongcr
building than Castle William, which
fronts it across t'uo way on Governor's
Island.
The young Apache children taken to
the Rumonn school, at Santa Fc, Neu
Mexico, promises to soon adopt the waj
of civilization. Tho only Ivay to taicj
the Apache, asserts the Sun Francisc
Chronicle, is to begin with tho children,
and it is doubtful whether much advancj
will bo made with theso it they are per
mitted to return to their parents. It is
to bo hoped that some idea of regular
work may be impressed upon these young
savages, for this is the first step in any
permanent redemption from their old
life.
The latest fad of the famous manufac
turer, food reformer and politico-economist
of Boston, Edward Atkinson, is tho
production of new, cheap and whole
some food from such cereals as oat nnd
corn meal, raw wheat, barley and rye.
Tho material is cleaned, steam cooked
aud pressed into blocks. Out of these
ho proposes to make dishes that will en
able a mau to livo well at a cost of a dime
a day. Ue has also invented a number
of cookers, wherewith a housekeeper can
prepare the daily dishes of a family at an
expense for fuel of three or four cents a
day.
It is rumored that New York thinks of
eclebratiug the landing of Columbus all
by herself. "Such a show in 1892
would," in tho estimation of the New
Orleans Picayune, "be a serious blow to
Chicago's fair tho following year. The
idea is for New York to get up a big ju
bilee with a lot of ancient looking ves
sels. There would be many picturesque
effects. Columbus and his followers
would havo to be gorgeously dressed in
order to attract the crowd, but as the
Indians in the show would require no
costumes nt all, tho cxpenso would not
be much."
Possibly to show how fcrtilo tho
French soldier is in the way of resource,
M. Edmond de Goncourt relates the fol
lowing sensational incident iu the fourth
volume of his "Journal," just printed:
".During the Franco-Prussian war the
wheel of a gun got out of order, and an
artillery officer directed thut it should
be greased. Being uuablo to find any
grease, one of the gunners went up to a
'slovenly, uuhuudsomu corpse,' split the
skull with his ax, took out the brains
and clapped them, all hot, on tho wheel.
This is very horrible, if true, und is
very powerful if it be fiction, and might
be recommended to Rider Haggard.
Eight more frontier forts have b;en
designated us useless as military posts,
and will be abandoned as soon as the gar
rison can be withdrawn. They are Fort
Maginuis, Montana; Fort Bridger, Wyo
ming, Fort Siduey, Ncbntsku; Port
Crawford, Col. ; Little Hock llarracks,
Ark., and McDowell, Thomas and Verde
iu Arizona. In the case of some, civili
zation has got so fur beyoud them that
they are no longer on the frontier, aud
others are to be abaudoued in pursuance
of the policy of concentrating troops in
sufficient numbers to make more impor
tant posts schools of instruction. Tho
military reservations on which the forts
stand will probably be devoted to the
ase of Indian schools.
WHERE THE APPLE BLOSSOMS
BLOW.
Meet me where the apple blossoms blow.
Softly now the fragrant boughs are swing
ing. Greet me when the moon begins to glow.
And in the pine the whlppoorwills are sing
ing. With loyal heart a beat,
Oh, haste with fly ing feet,
And shame the sluggish hours that wing too
slow.
The day was long and dreary.
My heart Is worn and weary.
I count the laggard momenta as they go,
Love.
Oh.
Meet me where the apple blossoms blow,
Meet me where the apple blossoms blow;
Let the floating petals Sake your tresses.
Breathing ua a benison below.
Crowning our bethrothal with caresses.
Far in the upper deep,
The stars are now a-peep,
The drowsy river murmurs in Its flow.
I bear its voice repeating:
"Life's blossom-time is fleeting."
Ah ! let us catch the fragrance ere it go,
Love.
Oh,
Meet me where the apple blossoms blow I
Samuel Minium peck.
A DEBT OF GRATITUDE.
The dny I arrived in Adelaide, Aus
tralia, I was twenty years old, and my
pocket contaiued a dollar for every year
I had lived. I had exactly four pounds
to begin life on in the colony, aud that
was more than some of the English boys
who had come out with me could boast
of. AVe were a queer lot who had sailed
from Liverpool gentlemen, loafers,
clerks, lackeys, whole families, single
men, servants and what not all bent on
a new life in the wonderful island of the
Indian Ocean. We had come in a sailing
ship and been knocked about for months,
and a happy lot we were to be set on
shore in the then small and straggling
town I have named.
Luck was with me. On the second
day after landing I hired to a sheep
raiser who had a ranch on tho Murray
River, near its junction with the Darling,
and on the third we started off up the
country. We had two ox teams that is,
we hnd two covered wagons,each loaded
with supplies, and each drawn by three
yoke of oxen. A part of the goods were
to be left with settlers along the route,
and a part belonged to Mr. Davidson, my I
employer. He did not hire me, not being
present, but the teams were in charge of
an overseer named McCnll, whom I soon
found to be a good-natured, good
hearted fellow. Each of us had a native
to assist in managing the teams, and,
though neither of them could speak ten
words of English, they were valuable
men, and had no difficulty iu being under
stood. It was about Christmas time, ami tho
weather was very sultry, and we aimed
to make only fifteen miles a day. Wc had
a full week's journey before us, and noth
ing of much interest happened until
the fourth day. We went into camp a
little earlier than usual on that afternoon,
as one of the wagons needed repairs. Our
vehicles, nfer coming to a halt, stood
about twenty-five feet upnrt. While I
wus building a fire to cook supper by oue
of tho blocks went oil after rabbits, and
McCall took the other with him to help
cut and briug back a lever with which to
raiso the wagon oil its wheels. I was
thus left alone for A few minutes, and
they had scarcely disappeared from sight
in the scrub wheu a man burst out of tho
thicket on the other side and came run-"
nitig up to me. His faco and hands
were scratched and bleeding, his clothing
in tatters, his hat gone, aud he had such
a wild aud terriblo look that I should
have run away from him bad I been able
to do anything but stand and stare with
mouth wide open. McCall had told mo
of escaped couvicts and hard cases who
had token to the bush to make a living by
robbing, and the man had come upon me
so suddenly that I was knocked out for
the moment.
"For God's sake, young feller, give me
a bite to eat !" he said as he stood before
me. "Don't bo afraid of me I'm a
sheep herder who has been lost iu the
bush for three days."
I stepped to tho wagon nnd handed
him a piece of bacon, some hard crack
ers, and a handful of tea, and then
found voice to ask:
"Hut why not stop with us for the
night!"
"Thanks, but I'm in a great hurry to
get back to my herd. I know whore I
am now, and can get there in three
hours. Any raatehes?"
I gave him some, and ho looked all
around to make sure that we were alone,
and then said :
"Young feller, do me a greater favor
still. Lend me your pistol and knife un
til to-morrow, when you will pass my
station. And, furthermore, be kind
enough not to mention to any one that I
was here. Do this and you shall never
regret it."
1 handed him knife and pistol, prom
ised what he asked, and he shook mo by
the hand and disappeared in tho scrub.
Teu minutes after he had gone I figured it
out that he was a bushman who had been
hard run by the police, but it was all the
same to me. He could have taken what
ho wanted for alt of wc, as 1 felt per
fectly helpless, aud I was thankful that
he had come aud gone without knocking
me on the head. Just as McCall came
up with the lever there was a clutter of
hoofs, and I looked up to see five
mounted men ride into camp. They were
iu the uniform of the patrol, aud the ap
pearance of the horses and the nieu
showed that they had had a long ride of
it.
"Well, Capt. White, what is it?" asked
McCall, who seemed to know every one of
the five.
"Been after Ballarat Sam again," re
plied the Captain as he dismounted.
"Aud lost him?"
"Yes; curse the luck ! We struck liiui
near Dobuey's yesterday -morning, aud he
led us a chase of fif'y mile during the
day. We killed his horse about dark last
fUfbt and had Lun surrounded in Iht
scrub. He got out, however, and wc
did not get his truck until about noon to
day. Wo followed it to the creek, two
miles above, and there lost it. Haven't
seen him here, of course?"
"I only wish wc had. There's a re
ward of 500 on his head, I hear."
"It has been increased to twice that.
Show mo his body aud I'll mnkc a rich
man of you."
The patrol turned their horses loose
and had supicr with us, furnishing a
part from their own rations. Then there
was general talk and story-telling until
about 10 o'clock, and then all but one
man turned in for sleep. I had been in
troduced all around, but had taken very
little part or interest in tho conversation,
being sure, from the, first words spoken
by the Captain, thut I had met Rallurat
Sum ani aided him to make a fresh start.
I thought at first of telling the whole
story to the patrol, but they were serious,
sober-looking chaps, and I bad a fear that
they would give me an awful raking
down, even if they did not lug me off
and seek to have me punished as aiding
and abetting. I remembered, too, that I
had solemnly promised Sam not to betray
him, and so I decided to keep a still
tongue and let the case work out as it
would.
The patrol left us at daylight, but their
work for the next three days was thrown
away. They could get no trace of Sam.
We continued on tip tho country nnd
finally arrived at tho ranch, and for the
next six months I was hard at work as a
sheep herder, aud neither saw nor heard
much of tho outside world. Then one
day I was called iu off my range, which was
about five miles from Davidson's house.
Each of his herders had from 800 to 1500
sheep under his care on a range, by him
self, and each lived alone with his dog in
a hut. Once a week the "relief," as we
called him, inudo the rounds nnd left
provisions and heard our rep.irts. Sev
eral of the natives had visited nie harm
less fellows, who wanted matches or to
bacco, but no white man excepting ihc
relief hud come near me for three mouths
before I got tho call to report at head
quarters. I went in to find a couple of
visitors there two gentlemen who had
lately arrived from England. One of
them, a Mr. Cullcn, was from my own
town of Shrewsbury, nnd the other, a
Mr. Williams was from Manchester. They
had come out to Australia to take up a
range and go into sheep as an investment,
neither of them intending to remain, but
to do the business through an' agent.
They had purchased 2000 sheep of Mr.
Davidson as a starter, and hud taken a
range above us on the Darling River. My
flock was to go, as also that of the
herder to tho south of mo, and we hud
been culled in to receive instructions.
Both of us herders were to enter into the
employ of the new arrivals, who had already
secured their land and built tho house
and stubles for the overseer. This man
had come up from Adelaide with them,
und was a Scotchman named McForland.
Tho other, who was un Irish lad of
twenty, was O'Hura.
When wo made ready to start, the two
gentlemen were mounted on horses. The
overseer drove the bullock wagon, as
sisted by a black, nnd O'Hara und my
self were on foot. Some of our neigh
bors had been troubled with bushrang
ers, but wo had seen nothing of them,
and us tho police patrol iu the district
had lately been increased we felt no fear
that the rangers would meddle with us on
our journey. Tho weather was now
pretty cold, but as the country was bad
we had to let the sheep pick their way
aud go slow. Iu the first three days we
made only about tweuty-seven miles, but
this was thought to be good progress un
der the circumstances. Ou the third
night, when nt least ten miles from any ,
settlers, aud more than that from any regu
lar highway, wo found a natural valley in ,
which thu sheep could bo herded, nnd
our own camp was made in a grove of
ironwood, near a waterhole. We had
fiuished supper and were grouped about
the fire, when one of the dogs barked aud
we looked up to find ourselves covered
by five rifles. There were five strange,
hard-looking men forming a half-circle
about ue, haviug crept into the grove so
softly that the dogs had not heard them
until the lost moment.
"Brail up or under you go!" shouted a
voice, and every one of us threw up his
bands.
"Now, then, the first one you who
makes a shy move will get a bullet !
Close in, boys!"
Tho five advanced to our feet, each
keeping his gun leveled, aud when I
could see the man who hnd spoken I at
once identified him as Ballurut Sam, tho
man whom I had befriended months be
fore. He recognized me almost as quick
ly, and, taking a step forward, said:
"Well, boy, you did me a good turn
that day, and I'll not forget it. Move
over to the left. Now, then, gents who
are you?"
The gentlemen gave him their names
and told him their business. They were
pretty Imdly frightened, as I could see,
while the overseer trembled like a man
in a chill. As he was a big, strong fel
low, and had laughed at tho idea of
bushrangers meddling with us, I could
not understand his fear until Sam spoke
again.
"Better and better!" ho said, as a
fierce look came into his eyes. ' Boys,
here's that overseer who set the patrol on
our track dowu below, aud who wasn't
sutisfiod with that but must turn out to
belli them. I think we have made a
j gooil haul of it."
I All of our arms were iu the wagon, aud
we wero helpless to offer any resistance.
The first thing they did was to despoil
: the two gentlemen aud tho overseer of
'everything of value, and then each one
j was lashed to a tree. O'Hara was ordered
to sit dowu beside me, and the black
took motters so coolly thut nothing was
said to him. The rangers signed to him
j to turn to and get supper, and he cheer
fully obeyed. Wheu they had eaten and
j drunk and lighted their pipes Sam
turned to me with:
I "And soyoudidu't tell the police that
you gave me food uud a pistol C
! "No, sir."
I "I know you didu't, for I was that
tsixoi out Ujat I laid myself dowo for two
hours almost in your camp. Even when
they told you who I was and that a price
was set upon my head you hadn't a word
to sav."
"No, sir."
"Well, you boys have nothing to fear.
Wc have nothing against you. After a
day or two you may go free."
There was no sleep for anybody until
after midnight, and 1 don't think the two
gentlemen or the overseer slept nt all. I
know they wero wido enough awake
when I opened my eyes in the morning.
All of us hail a bite to eat nfter the out
laws had finished, nnd then the wngon
was robbed of whatever they fancied and
hauled off about thirty rods and upset in
a deep gully. The oxen were turned
loose with tho sheep, and when we set
out Sam and two of the men rode the
horses nnd the rest of us went on foot.
One outlaw on foot went abend and the
others closed up behind us, and the geu
ernl direction was to tho north. Every
mile took us into a wilder and more un
settled country, and it wus so broken
that I felt that I could not get out evcu if
turned free.
At nbout four in the afternoon we
reached the rangers' camp, which was in
a wild aud desolate spot. I don't think
they intended the gentlemen any harm
from tho start, but thut the overseer's
doom was sealed wc nil felt certain. He
realized it, too, for I observed that he was
constantly on the watch for an opportun
ity to bolt. It came as wc entered the
camp. Realizing that they meant to pay
off the old score, he suddenly dashed for
a thicket. He took them off their guard,
and if an accident had not happened him
he would have got clear off. Half way
to tho thicket a stone turned under his
foot and threw him, nnd as he got up one
of the men shot him down in his trucks.
They left him lying there and went into
camp, saying that they had meant to tor
ture him with fire. and that he had got out
of it too easy. The two gentlemen were
very closely gunrded, but. O'Hara and
myself wc-e allowed to walk about as we
pleased. They had taken over 1000
from the two and bore them no grudge,
but for five days and nights we were
prisoners and in their power. On the
morning of the sixth day, when it was
plain to be seen they were off for another
adventure, the four of us were turned
loose nnd told to make our way home.
They headed us to the west, which was
the wrong way, und we traveled twenty
miles in thut direction before we found out
the trick. We were nearly a week iu
in the scrub, living on roots nnd berries
and decayed wild fruit, before we reached
a settlement, and were then all of thirty
miles from Duvidfon's. Wc were a sad
looking lot when we finally reached
home, nnd, while Mr. Cullcn was taken
with fever to die in about ten dnys, Mr.
Williams wns so broken up thut he lived
only long enough to get down to the coast .
A year later Sam and two of that crowd
were caught, tried at Sandhurst, and
O'Hara nud I snw them drop from the
gallows. Wete York Nun.
Fight Between a Rnm and Eagle.
Benjamin Shiffer, a farmer of Tunk
hnnnock Township, Monroe County,
Penu., is responsible for an account of a
thrilling fight between a Southdown ram
ami an eagle. Farmer Shiffer was plow
ing on a hillside when an eagle soaring
nbove his flock of sheep in tho valley be
low attracted his attention. The eagle
dropped, und in his swoop attempted to
carry off a small lamb from its mother's
side. He missed his clutch, aud knocked
the ewe down in his flight. Before he
could renew his attack, and while on the
ground, the Southdown rum lowered his
head, butted the bird in the breast and
knocked it over. Before the ram could
follow up this advantage, however, the
savage bird had fastened its talons iu his
back. Bleating loudly, he endeavored to
shake the royal bird off. After he had
been severely beaten with the bird's wing
he managed to shake himself free. The
eagle now tried once more to capture the
lamb, and did fasten his talons in its
back in spite of the mother's frantic at
tempts to protect her offspring. At this
point the plucky old rnm renewed the
fight. Ho butted the bird several times,
and finally got a good one home under the
eagle's wings, which kept him on the
ground. The eagle released the lumb and
sailed into tho ram again. The farmer ar
rived ou the scene by this time, armed
with a fence rail. He dealt the eagle a
blowou the ncck,breaking it and settling
the fight. As soon as the rum was freed
from the clutch of the bird's talons he
fell to butting the dead enemy. The
lamb was dead, nud its courageous father
had lost considerable wool in the engage
ment. tfete York Sun.
I "A finnd Si.MIer Never Looks Behind."
"Almost all these pension papers have
a history of public interest," remarked
Pension Examiner Craig. "We have
some actual romances, us strunge us fic
tion, and, of course, instances of bravery
and endurance equal to the bravest of the
brave. Now and then a humorous story
; of the camp and field develops. Iu ex
: amining into a case the other day a phy
' sician of this city tells me a good story.
1 The widow of a soldier made application
, for a pension, her husband having died
I in 1871 from alleged injuries received dur
ing his enlistment. The physician was a
member of the same company, but could
j uot recall the occasiou of the alleged iu
! jury, but he did remember that while the
man was a brave soldier, he was gen
erally considered very lazy. He was par
ticularly averse to blacking his shoes. One
day he appeared on dress parade with his
shoes as bright as a looking glass, much
to the amazement of his Captain. When,
however, the Captaiu ordered the limn to
a left dress it was seen the man had used
the blacking aud brush only on the front
of the shoes, and that the heels were nil
mud. Tho Captain, after the parade, ur
dered the mau brought before hint und
suid : 'I see you had your shoes nieelj
polished iu front, uud that they. were all
mud behiud. What's your excuse!' b
th..t sot' blandly queried the private.
Yes, that's so.' 'Well, Cap, a good sol
dier never looks behiud,' which lejoiudet
proved a sufficient excuse for that occa
siou at Wast." it. ou'i titur-Siyinot.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
TO CI,F.A! AND Cl'ltl, OSTIUCIt FEATHERS,
A clever woman says: "I clean and
curl all my ostrich feathers, and think
that the best milliner cannot do it much
better. In a nolution mndc of good
castile soap and soft water (boiled and
beaten into foam) the feathers are washed,
having some time before soaked them in
clear water. After that process, I put
them on a clean table and rub them care
fully with a fine linen cloth, or simply
pnss them through my hands a few times;
then I lay them between two linen cloths,
beat them gently till they are dry, when
I pull them apart and hold them over a
bed of red-hot coal to curl. This must
be done very carefully and not too near
the coal, as the downy feathers are very
easily singed. A bit of sulphur thrown
on the coal wheu white feathers ure to
be elenned, insures a pure white. This
process seems bothersome, but is very
simple and quickly done."
CniMSEV ClRTAfN.
A handsome chimney curtain to hang
across the fireplace where there is no fire
place under the shelf, is made as follows
Take stripes of blue cross-stitch cauvas,
twelve and one-fourth inches wide, nnd
stripes of old red plush, five inches wide,
united by drawn stripes of heavy white
linen, the seams being concealed by rows
of cross-bars. The plush stripes are left
plain, the rich pile needing no decoration ;
the canvas ones are ornamented with a
cross-stitch border in red, white and gold.
The design is worked with coarse em
broidery cotton, or twist und gold thread,
euch stitch being crossed over two threads
each way. The drawn thread -stripes have
n clean linen ground, and are worked al
ternately with red and blue threads. The
cross-bar row beside the red stripe is blue,
beside the blue one red. The hanging is
trimmed at the lower edge with a fringe
knotted of blue and red cotton. The
knotting is as follows: Tivo.red and seven
blue double threads, niue and one-half
inches long, arc looped in alternately to
the half, so that four red and fourteen
blue double threads arc formed. Thu
red knotting threads are united by a chain
of single buttonhole knots, w hile the blue
ones form poiutcd ribs of knots, nud then
also seven chains of buttonhole knots.
Lino curtain with linen. Yankee Blade.
BERItY BF.ClrES.
No more healthful diet can be put upon
tho tabic at this season, thau fruit, says
the Courier Journal. Leibig says ou
this subject:
"Besides contributing a large pro
portion of sugar, mucilage aud other
nutritive compounds'Jn the form of food,
they contain such a line combination of
vegetable acids, attractive substances,
and diuretic principles, with the .nutri
tive matter, as to act pnrwerfuliy iu tho
capacity of refrigerants, tonics and
antisceptics, nud when freely used at
the season of ripeness, by rural ; laborers
and others, they prevent debility,
strengthen digestion, correct the putre
factive tendency of nitrogenous food,
avert scurvy and probably maintain and
strengthen " the power of productive
labor."
Fresh ripe fruit is particularly whole
some if taken in the early part of the
day. That housekeepers may serve
them with variety the following sug
gestions arc giveu:
Ripe Currants Select largo clusters of
cherries, rinse them by dippiug in and
out of cold water, theu place ou a seivo
to drain. Araonizo on a glass dish.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar, sit on ice;
serve in small saucers around a little
pyramid of sugar.
Frozen Currants Mash a quart of rod
currants, add two pounds of sugar, tho
juice of three oranges and oue lemon, let
stand one hour, add a quart of water,
stir until the sugar is dissolved, turn iu
the freezer and freeze.
Currauts and raspberries (for tea or
lunch) To every quart of large, red
raspberries allow a pint of ripe currauts
and a pound of sugar. Put on a pre
serve kettle, bring to a boil, dish and set
in the ice the juice should jelly.
Currant Sponge Cover half a box of
gclatiue with half a cup of cold water,
and soak for half an hour; then pour over
half a pint of boiling water, add half a
pint of sugar and stir until it dissolves.
Strain half a pint of currant juice, and
put on ice until thick and cold ; theu beat
the whites of four eggs, put in tho mix
ture, beat until smooth, tarn into a fancy
mould, and set ou ice to harden.
Raspberry Meringue Crush a pint of
ripe raspberries with a pint of sugar;
beat the whites of four eggs; stir nil to
gether gently until it stands alone.
Raspberry Tapioca Wash a teacup of
tapioca through several waters, then
cover with cold water and let soak nil
night. In the morning set ou a close
fire; pour over a pint of boiling water;
simmer slowly until the tapiocu is per
fectly clear. Stir a quart of ripe rasp
berries into the boiling tapioca and
sweeten. Take from the fire; pour in a
deep dish; set on ice; when very cold,
serve with sugar aud cream.
Stewed Gooseberries Stem and top
one quart ot gooseberries; put them iu a
porcelain kettle; add one pint of boiling
water; cover the kettle close and stew
teu minutes. Add ono pound of sugar,
staurl ou the back of the stove where it
is not too hot for lifteeu minutes.
Gooseberry Food Stem and top a
quart of ripe gooseberries and stir them
in one pint of water until they are
crushed. Pour through a colander to re
move the skins ; add a teaspnonful of
butter aud a cup of sugar, and tho yolks
of four eggs well beaten, and pour in a
glass bowl. Beat the whites of the eggs
until frothy, nud add two heaping tea
spoonfuls of powdered sugar, and beat
uutil it stands alone. Heap ou top of
the gooseberries.
The largest steam derrick iu the world
Is used by a shipping company at Ham
burg, Germany. It is kept at the docks
and used in liftiug immense weights ou
aud off shipboard. It can pick up a ten
wheeled locomotive with perfect ease.
A PECULIAR OCCUPATION.
WALKING RAILROAD TRACKS FOR
A LIVING.
faithful Pedestrians Who Contin
ually I'atrol the Track in Heard)
of Olnt riK'l inns Their Out tit .
Some of the old railroad track walkers
can boast of records equal to that of loco
motives in the point of miles which they
have covered. Engineers sometimes
claim that they have ridden 200,000
miles or so, but the men who have
walked that far are not often heard of.
Still there are plenty of them in the
branch of the railroad service of which
the "track walker" belongs. They are
the safeguard of travel which the public
knows least about. They prevent hun
dreds of accidents, but their good deeds
are rarely if ever rewarded, ns is the
case with the faithful engineer or flag
man. And it is n peculiar fact that there
is no line of promotion, consequently no
great incentive to careful work.
A New York .Sun reporter got sonic
ideas about their duties from Thomas
Sesnan, now foreman of a section of
truckmen in the yard of the Grand Cen
tral Station in that city. Sesnan has been
employed on tho track work of the Har
lem Railroad for forty-two years, and is
now looked upon as a patriarch among
the trackmen. He has had charge of a
gang for the last eighteen years; before
that he was a trackman himself. He says
that he helped to lay the second track
of the Harlem road in 1HIS, over which
the New Haven road first entered the
city.
"Every piece of railroad," he said, "is
divided into sections of from live to seven
miles, if it is single track, and from three
to four mile", if double. A foreman
with a gang of live or six men keeps
each section in order. All but one are
trackmen, who are kept busy making
repairs. That oue is the track walker,
who patrols the track all day long with
an eve out for weak points and obstruc
tions that might cause accidents. Of
course, there is a second walker ut night
who does the same w in k.
"The tni"k walker's outfit includes a
hammer, wrench, lantern, red flag, a few
torpedoes, bolls and spikes. No, he
docn't walk at pedestrian "peed. His
gait shouldn't be more than two or three
miles an hour. A man might hurry over
the entire ground inside of an hour, but
he couldn't look at every bolt nnd rail
connection, as his duties require. If it's
a double-track road he walks on the
track facing the direction from which the
train is coming and examines only one
trujk nt a time, lie takes the oilier
track on the way back. A track walker
gets over the ground, ns far as he is able,
just before the trains pass over his sec
tion. But he keeps al work nil day long,
nnd if he has u double track divided into
three-mile sections, lie ought to miiko
about three round trips a day over each
track. This would make a day's average
of twenty-four miles.
"Au experienced track walker can tell a
loose bolt at a glance. Sometimes it will
be caused by a broken rail, and he will
see tha' the joints do not tit. Generally
a loose joint will be indicated by a dis
turbance of the earth, causing u crevice
between the sleeper and the rail. In this
case the track walker props the rail with
u thin piece of wood, which he must car
ry in his outfit. Fish plates and angle
plates ure distributed along the line, and
the track walker sometimes lias to replace
broken plates if there isn't time for the
section gang to come up before a train ii
due. In case of a broken rail or obstruc
tions which he can't handle, the track
walker puts torpedoes on the tracks and
uses his red flag to warn a passing train.
Then he leaves his patrol and informs the
foreman and trackman as soon as possible.
In emergency cases at night the track
walker wraps his red flag about the lan
tern as a signal. Torpedoes are used
also.
"I never heard of a track walker's be
ing promoted to a better paying position.
Once a track walker always u track
walker."
"Anybody can get such a job, then,"
suggested the reporter.
"Not a bit of it," retorted the patri
arch. "You couldn't, for instance. I'd
liV to see you bolt one of those anglo
plates; and you'd have to do it in case of
emergency. A man must have experience
as a trackman fust. The foreman picks
his track walker out of the trackmen.
Their pay is nil the same about if 1,3.1 a
day. But if there is any promoting be
ing done, the trackwalker is never the
lucky one. Some truckman gets the
raise. The track walker must go back to
the section gang again if he expects tc
get up in the world.
"As a rule, track walkers keep at it all
their lives. A man who worked under
me on the section between Philmout and
Craryville, on the Harlem road, a strip
six miles long, made two round trips a
day. He started out at Philmmit ut 5
A. X., uud by the end of the lirst round
trip of twelve miles it was noun and he
got dinner. Another trip and lie gave
way to another man ut 5 J'. m. This man,
Michael McGruth, kept up his twenty
four miles walk ubuut every day in the
yeur for eighteen years. Reckoning IlliO
days to the year, this makes mure than
155, DUO miles. .Many track walkers
have kept it up longer. A man on thu
Erie says he has walked more thau 200,
U00 miles."
Nuts for Criminal Lawyer.
Prisoner was being tried for murder;
evidence ugaiust him purely circumstan
tial; part of it a hat was found m ar thd
scene of the crime; au ordinal)' round,
black hut, but sworn to as the prisoner's.
Counsel for the defence, of course, mado
much of the commonness of the hut.
"You, gentlemen, no doubt each of you
possess such a hat, of the most ordinury
make uud shape. He wire how you cou
demu a fellow -ci i at ui c to a shameful death
on such a piece of evidence," und so ou.
So the man was acquitted. Just as he
was leaving the dock, with the most
touching liumilily and simplicity, he
nulled lib hair and said : "If oi phase,
1 . . . ... L.ll
iny lorn, may i avu in) ui .
Moyatim'.
i'uriihill
THE VOICEFUL WAVES.
The voieeful waves I I love nt night to
stand
Mad with strango yearnings on the shelly
sand.
To watch the foam flowers fade beneath my
feet.
And guess what words the lisping combs re
peat.
Then, if a ship's soars, liken full-spread hand,
Within the round red moon are framed
complete,
I Fceni to fly to tropic islands sweet,
Where dusky creatures list upon the strand
The voieeful waves.
At morning, too, when sea gulls, white and
fleet.
Swim through the mists with measured
pinion beat,
I almost hear in forests old and grand
The unseen winds I hate this gold-cursed
land,
Aud they have told me of som safe retreat.
The voifvful waves.
(jewjr Ilorton. in Chicago Herald.
HUMOR OF THE DAV.
Conflicting dates Candidates.
Kidnaping A sleeping infant.
The huileof fortune Petroleum.
Shaking for driuks The tremulous
toper.
Can a bird drinking be said to be
liquidating his bill? Full Jlircr 1'rihune.
Pothumous works should e published
in some dead language. VHtiburg
Chronicle.
-It is comparatively quiet when so still
you can hear the dew drop. Binyhamtwn
Ji'l'jlullliCUI.
A sulky horse can usually bo cured by
driving it iu some other kind of a vehicle.
Yfie York JYVfM.
Put two doors side by side nnd tho
small boy will go through tho oue thut
squeaks. Mercury.
When two racing stenmers make the
same number of knots an hour, the re
sult, naturally is a tie. Xrw York Voice.
The papers at this trying time
All sp:-nk of death, the killer;
We're bold to take, in prose and rhyme,
Somebody's sarsaparilla.
Judy?,
The ancients excelled us in many
things. Now , there was .lob. a boiler
that never exploded. Sin Franciteo
Alia.
The humorist seldom gets rich from
his ideas, but he is usually nbte to make a
good thing out of ono and another.
Puck.
A dentist of this city puts iu false
teeth so naturally that they look und
nche exactly like the originals. I'iila
deldiia I'res.
The health journals and doctors agree
that the most wholesome part of the or
dinary New England country doughnut
is the hole. Troy Timet.
In ancient times 'twas Ajox bol l
The lightning did defy:
111 modern times 'tis Kemmler, who,
This feature will supply
Oooilall's Sun.
Popinjay (passing store) "Good gra
cious I What is tlic matter with that
man leaning over the counter there'"
Blobsou "Got a counterfeit, I guess.
Mercury.
Bunk Cashier (of Hibernian extraction
opening his mail and smelling the docu
ment '-Hello, this note must hare been
drawn in the Oil Regions, I see there are
three days grase on it."
Truinhlo (to office boy) "Can you tell
me if the sporting editor is in his office?"
Office Boy "He ain't got any otHis.
He's outside making the baseball score op
till! bulletin." J'ittxtiury Preiu.
Mrs. Brown "Why do you like to
have the doctor come to see you, Johnny I
Is it because you get nice things to eat?"
Little Johnny "Xaw; 'cause I cau put
iny tongue out at him." Hilar,
"Girls areipiccr." "Why so J" "Why,
when that pauper Bolus was married to'
Miss Stcickaubouds, tho heiress, sho
looked tickled to death when ho en
dowed her with all his worldly goods."
Jii;ar.
5Irs. Jinks "I declur-vTAlVe Smith is
to be married! It is ' fftghtfur the way
girls marry nowadays. A wouanhU'ht
never think of it until she has peached
the age of discretion!" Mr. Jinks "In'
other words, you would nirtier havii
them stay single all their liv''--ii'-rence
American.
There is a postofficc ill Idaho called
Deer Valley, with a mail twice per week.'
For six weeks last winter the only letters
received came for a young man from his
girl in Chicago, and the inhabitants fin
ally became so wroth that they arose in
their might and ruu him out of town.
Detroit Free J'reiut.
Jack Wheeler "I say, Louis, how old'
do you suppose Miss Smith is! Her aunt
says she's just twenty-one." Louis Waite
(who has not been in the wholcialu dry
goods business for nothing) ".w, yes;
marked down from thirty-three; to bo
disposed of ut a burgiiu, old chappie."
Morning Journal.
Island of Malta
Malta is a British possession in the
Mediterranean, including the islands of
Malta, Gozo aud Comino, und the unin
habited islets of Coininotto und Kilfa, tho
entire group lying about six miles south
west of the southernmost point of Sicily
ami 200 north of Tripoli, in Africa. Tho
urea "f -Malta proper is about 100 s piare
inilis, and population about 140,000.
There are neither rivers nor lakes ou tho
island, and no lorestsor bnishwoo l; aud
most of the surface is a calcareous rock
exposed to the winds from the Afycun
deserts, and but thinly covered with an
artificial soil chieri) brought from Sicily.
This is, howccr, by careful cultivation
made to yield abuuduut crops of cotton,
greens, beans and grass, aud excellent
fruits, of which the orange, olie and tig
are renowned. Iu summer ihe heat is
excessive day and night. The sirocco
prevails, especially iu auuuuu. and theio
is little laud or sea bivc.e. Hut iu win
ter tho cliuiuU; U tjwlihu'ul. .Yii Yo.'k,
UiyatcA.. i