J . THE FOREST REPUBLICAN It abUth4 erary Wednesday, ty J. E. WENK. Offio la Smear bangh & Co.'a Building wut rniirT, tioitota, t Terms, ... .bo pwTur. RATES OF AOVERTISINCi One Square, one Inch, one insertion..! 1 00 One Square, one Inch, one month..,, 3 00 One Bquare, one inch, three months. . ft nq One Square, one inch, one year 10 0c) Two Nqusres, one year 15 nl (Quarter Column, one year, . . ,, ! ' Half Col mill), one year '" ' One Column, one year 10(1 HO 15"' advertisements ton cents per line each inertion. Marriages and tleatli notices gratis. All bill, for yearly advert isements collected quarterly. Temporary advertisements mutt bu paid in advance. Job work cash on delivery." HOREST PUBLICAN Oorre.poDdB toilette (rra a Mrta af the VOL. XXV. NO. 1). TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1892. S1.50 PER ANNUM, The cost of the great German army for a year uudcr its present condition' is said by military authorities to be $120,000,000. Bo delicate is the adjustment of the most powerful cannon that allowance has to be made for tho curvature of the earth before the discharge. The New York Mail and Express cal culates that a subscription of 33.27 from every inhabitant of the United States would wipe out all form of public indebtedness National, State and muni cipal. The city of Cincinnati has for many years been a favorable abiding place of Hebrews, remarks tho Now York Press. At a recent celebration there Rnbbi Wise said that "Cincinnati would hero after be the Zion of Judaism in America." Thcro is much in the lingo of the Wyoming war, confesses tho Now York Commercial Advertiser, which is as per plexing as some of that in tho Bering Sea quairel. A rustlor appears to be a person who gains a livelihood by steal ing other people's cattle, whilo a regu lator is a gentleman who is paid G a day for killing rustlers. It is stated that a sugar refining com pany in Chicago, 111., is making 150 barrels of oil per day from corn. The oil resembles linseed oil and may be used for similar purposes. There is about four per cent, of this oil in the grain, which has hitherto been wasted by the ordinary methods of making starch and glucose. Now that ramee culture has begun seriously to cogago tho attention of planters in tho Tropics, it is interesting to learn on tho Authority of a foreign journal that raineo fiber, uudcr great hydraulic pressure, may be made to as sume tlio compactness of steel. It is as serted that when so prepared it will bo particularly serviceable for steam pipes, as it will not be subject to contraction or expansion and nlso will not rust. Within threo years passenger rate on the railroad across tho Isthmus of Pana ma have been reduced to ten aud Ovo coots a mile for first and second class tickets. Up to that time tho charge for passenger transportation on the Panama Railroad was the highest in the world, being (25 in American gold for first-class arrfl If 10 in gold for second-class passen gers between Panama and Colon, or about fifty cents and twenty cents a milo, respectively. It is not a very intrcqucnt occurrence In the Londou police courts, declares Once-A-Weck, for infuriated prisoners to attempt to assault the presiding magis trate. Mr. Montagu Williams, who sits in oue of the East End Courts, oftea has boots thrown at him, and on one occasion he received a severe blow in the face from luch a missile. The habit seems to be spreading. Tho other week the news papers reported a case Id which a disap pointed litigant kicked in open court his own lawyer, for which he may have had tome excuso, aud assaulted the reporters, for which thcro could be no justifica tion. The remarkable progress of women on gaged in business affairs is instructively set forth in tho Massachusetts State Bureau of Labor statistics. According to the figures there presented in 1885, there were only about 180,000 women engaged in industrial pursuits. Now there are more thau 800,000. Two thirds of these working women are under thirty years of age, and inasmuch as this proportiou has been maiutuiucd during the half dozen years, it seems to indicate that marriage constantly tends to doplete the ranks. 'Such being the fact," com ments the New York News "theie need be little fear that the industrial' Inde pendence of the geutler sex will result in an increase of old maids." The New England Courier, a-Germaa-American- weekly, published in Boston, Mass., gives soino very interesting figures showing how great and influential the .Teutonic race has become as an elcmeut of immigration into this country. In Illinois oue-half of the foreign born popu lation is German. In Minnesota the pro portion is one-third; iu Nebraska aud Iowa more than one-third; iu Wisconsin one-half, or one-eighth of the whole population; in Indiana, the banner Ger man State, out of 214,000 foreigners, 80,000 are if Gorraau birth, or fifty-five per cent, of the whole. Out of 12,000, 000 immigrants iuto this country since 1820, 4,500,000 have been Germans. Coming from tho most thrifty and best educated country in Europe, observes the Boston Globe, theso people, constitu tionally endowed with patience, skill and perseverance, have engrafted a solid, thoughtful, industrious, aud peace-loving element inta the composite structure of the Union, EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. All along the wayside is everybody's gar den I There the wild rose blossoms through the summer days; Bounded by field fences, and ever stretch ing onward. It it God's own garden. For it give Him praise, 'Tis gay with goldenrod, There blooming grasses nod, And sunflowers, small and yellow turn ever in to the tun; -Quaint darkey-heads are there, And daisies wild and fair. In everybody's garden, each flower's the loveliest one I All along the wayside Is. everybody's gar den I Come out and gather posies; the very air is tweet. Come out, with hearts of gladness) ye big and little children, Into our Father's garden, made for our strolling feet. The flitting butterfly, The fragrant winds that sigh, The tiny clouds that hover above us in the blue, The bird's song high and clear, Make heaven draw more near; In everybody's garden the world onoe more is new t William Z. Gladwin, in Christian Union. AT THE RANCHODEL FUEGO BV GERTRUDE ATnBBTON. h- : T was so hot that Xl oven 4 Via Anrra At A not lift their heads to bark at the np proaching horse men; they lay with swollen tongues hanging over their teeth, occasionally ttygzr quivering in feeble protest at tne pre vailing battalions of insects which short- en the life of the California dog. Tho adobe soil cracked anew under the piti- jess sun, tne whitewash on the outer walls of the big adobe house arose iu blisters. The undulating line of brown hills which encircled the Rancho del JTuego were dim under the materialized heat; the creek was dry; the little brown huts of the rancheria in the willows were silent as tombs; even tho Indians wero taxing their siesta. Tho visitor ureed his tired and reek. ing horse to what speed it was capable , anxious to get under shelter himself A . 1 i -, . . . . .na no roacoea tne corral ne roused a vaquero, sleepincc beneath a tree, and bade him follow and tolre chaige of his steed. At the long corridor of the bouse be dismounted, and leaving tho horse to await the pleasure of tho vaquero, entered hastily and without the ceremony of knocking into the coolness ot tne interior. Between these thick l U .1 1 . . . wans me ciunate was .ttiat ot a Northern country. He throw himself on a sofa to rest and await the awakening of the family from the siesta. He had taken his uncomfortable journey in the hot daytime rather than in the blackness of the night, for there would be no moon for two weeks and his business was urgent. But ho was a Now Eng land man and the California summer was more than he could stand without pro test. It sent him to sleep. As he slept he snored, and in a few moments some one might have been heard moving lightly on the bare floor, behind tho thin door set midway in a wall some three feet deep. The door opened and a girl entered and stood gazing with an expression of unmistakable repugnance at the sleeper. She was a beauty of the typo so often seen in California before and in the early days of the American occupation ; douse black hair that hung braided to the hem of her white gown, eyes large, black, with a light in them that suggested an uncomfortable rapidity of chauges, deli cate features, a full, red mouth and white skin, a figure lithe, graceful ; about the whole an indefinable atmosphere of hope and sparkle and capacity for happiness. She looked anything but happy, how ever, as she gazed at tho strong, shrewd features of the sleeping visitor. Her gaze may have been maguetic, for he sud denly opened his eyes, then rose hastily and greeted her with manners as good as though less profuse than thoso of tho caballeros who had adored hor since sho bad lengthened her frocks. Do not think me rude," he said. "I did not wish to disturb any one, and I am afraid the heat overcame me and I fell asleep." "I am glad you sleep," sho said with graceful but unsmiling hospitality. "No one should be awake when it is so hot. Sit down. Nof" She took one of the ugly horse-hair Chairs, ho another facing her, and for a moment they gazed silently at each other, both somewhat defiantly, "It no is proper I all you alone like this," she said finally. "But I have reason so I do it. And," scorufutly, "my father no care so much, I suppose, because is you. Now, I tell you whatteo I waut. I beg you, I go on my knees, si you like it, to no come here any more aud ask my father si you cau marry nie. I no love you at all. Never I can love you. I love always I have love An tonio Rivera. He no have the moneys now; the Americanos take oil, but my father letting us marry si you no coming and spoil all. Ay, seuorl Go! Got No makameso sorry 1" S. j leaned forward and clasped her hands, thu tears splash ing; she was a charming picture The American regarded the floor for a moment, let his eyes dwell on her once more, theu shook his head "No," ho said. "You are the only woman lever wanted, dear DonaAruata, and I caunot give you up. I have the less scruple, because I know that you will be fur happier with me than with your idle, shiftless Spanish lover " But he was not allowed to proceed. Dona Aniata sprang to her feet and Lieut her little hands clinched together. "No say one word by him I" she cried, ber voice choked with wrath, her eves II "W-t1 flashing. "No say ono word. You think not man have the right to living si ho no can make the moncysf l,efore the Americanos coining we havo plenty moneys ana live nnppy ; but now you take all. You are very how you call him? smart. You lend my father the moneys and mako him sign tho paper to give you the ranchos si he no can pay. We never sign the paper, one for the other. Al. ways when we lend the moneys we trust, and always we are pay. But you have tho heart like the stone. And becauso it have been bad year, and the cattle die. and my father no can pay, you make me pay. You nave tine chance and you toll him, 'Give mo your daughter, never mind si sue hate me or not, ucver mind si she break the heart or not, give her to mo and I give to you your land.' Oh, you are bad man." He had risen and listened to her out burst unmoved. When sho paused for breath he replied, "My dear Dona Am nta, I at least am aiming to benatit some ono besides myself. You say that I am a bad man. What will you thi ok of yourself when you sco your father beg gared, living on charity in an Indian s hut! I say nothing of the fact that your delicate hands will probably have to cook nis beans. .Now, be reason able." "Oh, I hatcha you," cried the girl with another burst of grief, "and I no want marry old man." "Old man I Why, my dear senorita, I am only forty." He looked at her amutcdly; ho was certainly not old enough to be sonsitive. "But it is very old to us," sobbed the girl. "I only am eighteen and Antonio no is more than twenty-two. When our mens are forty they are very stout and havo the complexion like coffee, so I no can think is young. You," spite fully, "no are stout because you work all the timemaka the moneys." - At this juncture another door opened and an old man entered the room. A black silk handkerchief was knotted about his head, ho wore short clothes of greon cloth decorated with large silver uuttons. no was very stout, and even his features seemed to have relaxed un der tho enervating influence of the Cali fornia life of that period. His black eyes were a trifle bleared, his indefinite features wore a somewhat testy expres sion as he glanced from his daughter to tier suit oi. "Don James Cunningham, I am glad to see you," he said, slowly. "What is the matter! I tell her to marry you aud she do it," and he brought his cano down sharply on the bare floor. "I no do it!" cried Amatha, roused to filial rebellion for the first time in her life. "I no marry him; I marry Antonio. Av, Antonio, Antonio I" aud she flung herself upon the sofa aud went into violent sob bing. "Sho tell you sho no marry you?" asked the old man of Cunningham. "Sho certainly docs uot seem to ap prove of me, but you know the perver sity of woman, Don Pedro, and I assure you once more I shall make the best of husbands and sons." uon reuro placed nis stick upon a chair. Ho hobbled over to his refractory daughter and raising her in his arms, boro into her own room and laid her on tho bed. Ho theu weut out nud returned with a hammer and nails, with which ho fastened her window within six inches of the sill. "Now," he said, in Spanish, "hero thou will stay and have nothing to eat but bread and wutcr until thou marryest Dou James Cunuingham. Dost thou think that I will bo left sitting in the road that tbou mayest marry a man who sleeps in a hammock all day and gambles all uight? Thou art like a silly child to refuse to marry a man who can make tbee like a queen. But I have spoken." 'ne returned to tho sala, locking the door behind him, followed by tho sobs and shrieks of his daughter. "Ay, misericordia! Ay, iofcliz de mil Ay, scnori Santa Maria I Sauta Dios! Ay! Ayl Ay! Ayl Ay!" "She marry you," said Don Pedro. "Now you stay here, nof for few days 'til all is settlo, then can marry and havo be through." Cunningham spent tho next few days listening to his prospective father-in-law's reminiscences of bull fights, horse racing, religious procession, climbing tho greased pole, catching the gmased pig by the tad as it ran, the bulls that lasted a msnth, all the various distrac tions of Arcadian California who-c sun was fotevcr set. The young men of the houso secretly sympathized with their sister, but approved of their father's course in view of prospective pleuty. ono of the vast ranchos hud been sold several years before at an absurdly low figure to an American in order that the eldest son of the house, siuce dead, could gratify his political ambition. Another had gouo for American taxes. Still another had been "squatted" upou, ami although the law hud promised the C it i -forinau redress it was tardy of fiullillnicut nud the squatters wero tilling the soil and making it yield iu an astonishing manner. The two remaiuiog ranchos left were mortgaged to tho American Cunningham, and wheu he haudc 1 them hack they would willingly let him man age them, having the greatest respect for bis hard American sense. Meanwhile, Amutu Sibbe 1 aud starved. Her lover serenaded her tho first mid night, but went tor Los Angeles tho next duy aud forgot to return for several. For three days tho spirited Californiuu wasobdurute; theu her delicate, luxur ious stomach began to cry out for tho daiuties to which it was accustomed. As tho paugs grew sharper she became pos itively terrified, never having felt physi cal suffering before, aud not knowing what awful eud it portended. She begged pitifully for ceruo con ajo, at least for just ono enchilada, a solitary tlulce, but her father was equally obdur ate, and she had no mother to plead for her, She was also horn lied to observe that she was giowiug less pretty. Her cheeks were hollow, her eyes had great black stains beneath them and stared pathetically from her colorless face. "God of my soul!" she thought, '-I shall be an old hug at twenty." On the fifth day she succumbed. A week later she was married. Tho next day Mr. Cunningham foreclosed the mortgages. San Francisco Examiucr, A Wonderfully Dramatic Scene. Benjamin Brewster, afterwards attorney-general of the United States, was somo years auo tho central figure in a wonderfully dramatic scone in a Phila de'phia court. Mr. Brewster's lace, it will be remembered, was frightfully scarred by An accident in his youth. He was extremely sensitive cf his facial mis. fortune, but never referred to it himself nor did any of his thousands of friends ever ask him its cause. The trial referred to was a bitterly contested affair, and Brewster at every point got so much the best of the opposing counsel that his leading adversary was in a white heat. In denouncing the railroad company this lawyer with his voice tremulous with anger, exclaimed, "This grasping cor poration is ns dark, devious and scarri Hod in its methods as is the face of its chief attorney aud henchman, Benjamin Brewster 1" This violent outburst of rage and cruel invective was followed by a breathless stillness in the crowded court room that wai painful. Hundreds of pitying eyes were riveted on tho poor scarred face of Brewster, expecting to tee him spring from his chair and catch his heartless adversary by tho throat. Mr. Brewster slowly arose and spoke some thing like' this to the court: "Your honor, in all my career as a lawyer I have never dealt in personalities; nor did I ever feel called upon to explain the cause of my physicul misfortune, but I will do so now. When a boy and my mother, God bless her! said I was a pretty boy when a little boy, while playing around an open fire one day with a littlo sister just beginning to toddle, she fell into the roaring flames. I rushed to her rescue, pulled her out before she was seriously hurt, and fell into the fire myself. When they took me out of tho coals my face was as black as that man's heart." The lust sentence was spoken in a voice whose rage was that of a lion. It hnd an elec trical effect, and the applause that greeted it was superb, but in an instant turned to the most comt em pt iious hisses directed at the lawyer who had so basely insulted Mr. Brewster. That lawyer's practice iu Philadelphia afterward dwindled to such insignificance that he had to leave the city for a new field. Boston Tramcript. The Tower of the Rivers. The possibility of utilizing the current of our rivers to furnish power on shore has often been a subject of speculation. Thcro are few minds which have not rec ognized tho immense benefits that would accrue from such an achievement if it were possible; but tho majority, both lay and expert, bavo been accustomed to accept tho difficulties presented by tho unreliability of the flow, tho variation of the height of the rivers and the slight fall as practically lusupernblo from the engineering point of view. An expert who refuses to be tied up by precedent, however, declares his be lief that these difficulties can bo over come. It says that it will be done half a ceutury hence, and tho generation of fifty years from now will stand am ,ed ut the wastefulness of this day. The methods by which ho would harness the river air tight drums on water wheels communicating their power to dynamos which generate electricity to be distrib uted for power and light all over the vicinity do not appear to be as inher ently improbable as those by which any of the inventions of the past were made successful did before their success wag demonstrated by actual practice. Without waiting for the grand chil dren of the next generation to achieve this advance, it is safe to say that the en gineer who can make it work in the present day will confer an immense ben efit. It will create a zone of cheap elec tric power and light along the bank of every river and stream with a living cur rent, and revolutionize a great many of the existing industrial institutions. It is hard to draw a limit to the changes that might not take place when this power is successfully utilized. But we fear that auy invention of this sort will have to depend for its success on adventitious aid to prevent the shrink age of streams in summer to a beggarly eighteen inches or two feet in depth with no current worth speaking of. Pittsburgh Dispatch. Pitting Snakes Against Rabbits. A good deal of attention, writes a South Australian correspondent, has been bestowed upon the subject of rabbit de struction, and some astounding sugges tions have been received from various parts of the world. The lust suggestion is that a number of carpet snakes should be let loose among the rabbits, which would, it is asserted, be speedily eaten up by the reptiles. Wheu from five feet to six feet long they are able to eat two or three rabbits at a meal, but when fifteeu or sixteen feet long they are able to cat six rabbits. Anticipating lnquiiy as to what would happen if the snakes became more numerous thau rab bits, he proposes that carpet snakes of one kind only should be used, aud after eating all the rabbits tho snakes would theu proceed to cat each other. Boston Trauscript. The Summit of Epicurfti n Pleasure. Tho unfortunate who h is not caught a nectarine iu its best stuges has tho sum mit of epicureau pleasures yet to aspire to. It wants to be perfectly ripe, aud then allowed to shrivel just a little in thu suu. The mail who got olf thu sen tence that "doubtless the Lord could havo made a better fruit th in the straw berry, but certaiuly lie never did, "would be ushamed of himself could lie once gut a bite of a perfectly manipulate! nectarine. There is dirli mlty in fruiting tnem ou account of tne ciirculio. The smooth skin is attractive t this insect pest. Some day tho man who liu con quered thu fuiculi) iu the plum mid made plum trowing imtucu-'ilv proiit able, will try hit hand on thu nectarine also. Meehaa'l Monthly. SClEisilt'lC AMI IMlUM'ltlAL. Compressed air is to bo used for run ding the street cars in Leavenworth, Kan, Rain making experiments, conducted in India, have resulted iu complete failure. The signal officer at Capo May, N. J., reports tho discovery of a new fish rc lembling the sea trout. Platinum has been discovered in tho Southern Hills, twenty-five miles south west of Rapid City, South Dakota. The bark of the Australian Mimosa is now used as tannin for bides to mako Morocco leather, as it gives a slightly reddish tint. The redevelopment of lost limbs is do jlared by an English naturalist to be not musual among insects, In which It may take place either during tho lurvcl or pupal stage. It is said that in nil the forests of tho jarth there are no two leaves exactly thu tame. It is also said that amid all peo ples of the earth there are no two faces precisely alike. Wood glucose bread is used in Ger many as feed for cattlo. - The celluloso is transformed into grape su.ar, and added to it is about forty per cent, of meal of wheat, oats, or rye. A specimen of capped petrel, a bird supposed to be an extinct or at least a lost species, was found recently la Eng land. The original home of the petrel is said to have been the islands of St. Do mingo and Gaudaloupo. The viscid Becretion of galls upon tho British oak attract small ants, which, according to Dr. E. Hathuy, benefit tho tree by killing great quantities of cater pillars and other injurious insects. In a single day tho inhabitants of a singlo ants' nest may destroy moro thau 100, 000 insects. An insect of South America has its fangs so like tho flower of the orchid that smaller insects are tempted into its jaws, whilo certain spiders double themselves up in the anglo between tho luaf stalk and tho stem, nnd so closely resemble flower buds that their uususpcctiug prey approach thoir destruction. Wonderful things are related concern ing the work of photography of the stars now in progress at tho Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. One ncgativo, .rep resenting a space only one-fourth thu apparent diameter of the moon, con tained impressions of 50,000 stars, most of which are invisible to the eye even when a telescope of high power is uscl. Of all menagerio stock, the monkey tribe is the most precarious. 1 ho com parative comfort of a roof tr?e does not compensate for the activity of their natural life, and, considering that they feed on fresh fruits iu their primeval forests, it is not amazing that after a time an unlimited dietary of hazel nuts and stalo buns is opt to disagree with the quadrumanul digestion. A new evaporating apparatus for sugar beet juices is attracting attcntiou iu Ger many. Tho temperaturo and pressure are uniform throughout each compart ment. Juices are introduced from the top upon tubes which are not hermeti cally closed. Tho concentrated juico that falls to tho bottom is drawn olf by pumps, and tho juices aro not allowed to remain at the bottom of a compartment. Consul-Gcncral Playfair, in bis report upon the agriculture of Algeria, gives some details about the measures taken there to preserve the crops from the dep redations of the locusts. Iu tho De partment of Algiers tho amouut of labor with this end iu view equalled 2 ,i):Jl) days' labor of monitors, 2.(1,117 (lays' labor of soldiers, 1,195,573 days' labor of native?, and 46,!ltfl days' lubor of animals, to say notUing of private meas ures of protection adopted, ii.e sum thus expended was nearly 3, 000,000f. , but with tho result of saving nearly thu whole of the crops. A Successful Submarine Boat. George C. Baker has doironstrated that water can be navigated at any rea sonable depth below the surface. A final test of his submarine boat, upon which ho has been at work since December 1S0O, was made in tho River Rouge, ti miles from Detroit, and was entirely sat isfactory. The river is only sixteen feet deep, which admits of the boat being sub merged two feet. It was run up and down and across the stream several ti ncs, turning, sinking and rising at the pilot's pleasure. The boat is cigar shaped, made of oak, the shull being forty feet long, fourteen feet high, nine feet wide amidship aud scveu inches thick. The motive power is a storage battery of 200 cells, which is believed to bo the largest ever made. This also gen erates light. The course of tho bout is directed by a pilot who stands in a small conning tower which is provided with lookout holes. It is necessary, iu taking bearings, to riso to the surface, but in so doing only a few inches of tho top of the tower appears above the stir face. With the conning tower hermeti cally sealed, the interior of the boat con tains 1500 cubic feet of air. The wheels are on each side, midway behveeu bow and stern and one foot below the center line. The boat is raised and lowered by letting water iuto the hold and by de flecting the side wheels. Mi. Bukcr in confident that this will eveutuully revo lutionize present methods of naval war fare. St. Louis Republic. A Cow a id Calf us a Wedding Fee. Some of the tribes of Indis have a marriage custom which calls for the presence of a cow and calf at the cere mony. Tho principals and thu priests drive a cow and a calf into tbo water, and there the bride and bridegroom, as well as the clergyman, clutcU the the cow's tail, while the officiating personage pours water upon it from a glass vessel and ut ters a religious formula. Th-3 couple are now uuited in wedlock, and the priest, for his part iu the ce.emony, claims the iniinul, and nlso receives any sum Iu money which the groo:u thinks it neces ury to propitiate thu idols. Yaukoe blade. A (ill EAT CATTLE ItANCH. IT COVERS 700,000 ACRFS AND IT CONTAINS OVtH 100,000 CATTLE. It Is the liSritcst Itaocli In I lie I'niteil Statfs How Order lor Cattlo nro PIIIimI. THE largest ranch iu the United States and probably in the world owned by one person is in Texas, b and belongs to Mrs. Richard King. It lies forty-tivo miles south of Corpus Christl. The ladies who come to rail on Mrs. King drive from the front gate, over as good a road us any in Central l'urk, for ten miles before they arrive at her front door, and the butcher and baker and ice man, if such existed, would have ti drive thirty miles from the back gate be fore they reached her kitchcu. This ranch is bounded by tho Corpus Christ! Bay for forty miles, and by barb wire for threo hundred miles more. It covers 700,000 acres in extent and 10 000 head of cuttle and 3000 broodmares wander over its different pastures. This property is under the ruling of Robert J. Kleberg, Mis. King's son-in-law, and ho has under him a superin tendent, or, as the Mexicans call one who holds that office, a mnjor-domo, which is an unusual o-ition for a major domo, as this major-domo has the churg of 300 cowboys and 1W) ponies reserved for their ue. Tho "Widow's" ranch, as the people about call it, is as carefully organized and moves on ns conservative business principles as a bank. The cow boys do not rido over its ranges with both legs at right angles to the saddle and shooting joyfully into tho air with both guus at once. Neither do they offer the casual visitor a bucking pony to rule, and then roll around on the prairie with glee when ho is shot up into tho air and comes down on his collar-bone; they are more likely to olTer him as fino a Ken tucky thoroughbred ns ever wore a bluo ribbon around tho Madison Square Gar den; and neither do they Bhoot at his feet to see if he can dance. Iu this wny the Eastern mnu is constantly finding his dearest illusions abruptly dispelled. It is also trying when the cowboys stand up and tako off their sombreros when one is leaving their camp. There are cowboys aud cowboys, and I nm speak ing now of those I saw on thu King ranch. Tho thing that the wiso mnn from tho East cannot at first understand is how tho 100,000 huad of cattle wandering at largo over tho range are ever collected together. Ilo sees a dozen or more steers here, a bunch of horses there, and a single steer or two a milo off, and even as ho looks at them they disappear in tho brush, and as far ns his chance of finding them again would bo, they might as well stand forty miles away at tho other end of tho ranch. But this is a very simple problem to tho ranchman. Mr. Kleberg, for instance, receives an order from a firm in Chicago calling for 100 J head of cattle. Tho breed of cat tlo tho firm wants is grazing iu a corner of tho rango fenced in by barb-wire, and marked pale blue for convenience on a beautiful map blocked out iu colors, liko n patch-work quilt, which hangs iu Mr. Kleberg's office. When the ordur is re ceived, ho sends a Mexican on a pony to tell the men near that particular palo bluo pasture to round up 1000 head of cuttle, and at the same timu directs his superintendent to send iu a few days as many cowboys to that pasture as aro needed to "hold" 1000 head of cattle on tho way to the rail road station. Tho boys on tho pas ture, which we will suppose is teu miles square, will take ten of their number and five extra ponies apiece, which one muu leads, and from ono to another of which they shift their saddles as men do in polo, nnifgo directly to the water tanks in the ten square milcc of land. A cow will not often wander mora thau two and a half miles from water, ami so, with tho wuter tank, which on tho King ranch may be either a well with a wind-mill or a dam med canon full of rain-water, as a ren dezvous, tho finding of tho cattlo is com paratively easy, ami ten men cau round up 1000 head in a day or two. When they have them tall together, the cowboys who are to drive them to thestution have arrived, and tuke them olf. At thu station tho agent of the Chicago firm and thu agent of the King rauch rido through the herd together, nnd if they disagree us to tho fitness of any ouo or more of the cuttle, an outsider is culled iu, and his decision is filial. The cattle are then driven on the cars, and Mr. Klu- berg s responsibility is at an end. in tho spring there is a general round ing up, aud thousands and thousands of steers are brought in from the d liferent pastures, and those for which contract! havo been made during thu winter are shipped off to thu maikets, and the calves aro branded. Harper's Weekly A Undo Tlieorr of the Creation. Tho savage fslunders of the South Pucitic believe that thu world is a cocoa nut shell of enormous dimensions, at the top of which is a single uperature com municating with the upper air, where human beings dwell. At tho very bot tom of this imaginary shell is a stem gradually tapering to a point, which rep resents thu begiuuing ot all things. This point is a spirit or demon without human form, whose name is "Root of All Exist ence." By him thu entire fabric of crea tion is sustained. Iu tho interior of iho c.icoanut shell, ut its very bottom, lives a female demon. So narrow is thu space into which she is crowded that shu is obliged to sit for ever with knees and chin touching. Her name is "The Very Beginning," aud from her are sprung numerous spirits. They inhabit tlvo different doors, iuto which thu great cocoanut is divided. From certaiu of theso spirits mankind is defended. Tho islundcrs, regarding themselves as thu only real men and women, were formerly uccirtomed to re gard strangers as evil spirits iu the guise of humanity, whom they killed when they could, offering them as sacrifice. Waihington Star, , A RECIPE FOR A UAV, Tales a little dnh of water cold, And little leaven of prayer. And a little bit of morning goM Dissolved in the morning air. Add to your meal some merriment. And a thought for kith and kin. And then, as your prime ingredient. Aplenty of work thrown in. But spice it all with the essence of love, And A little whiff ot play: Iivt a wise old book and a glauc above Complete the wall made dav. Amos R. Well, in Ne York Observer. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A whaling outfit Tho birch rod. The bacillus hns become famous for his ill nature. Boston Transcript. When one jumps at n conclusion. Uo rarely reaehos it. Dallas News. If you want to keep up with the times you must go slow. Dallas News. It is unkind to refer to the choir boy as a noto shnver. Washington Star. The least overworked institution in this country is the oflieo that seeks tho man. Life. Money is not exactly a religions article, but still it has a denomination of Us own. Rochester News. The man who points out our faults to us is a true friend; but we feel like kick ing him just the same. Puck. It is not every bicycle rider who can lower the record, but it is a poor bicyclo that cannot lower tho rider. Truth. Waiter "Will you havo salt on your eggs?" Guest "No, tliatik you. They're not at nil fresh." Pick JIu Up. If you have rowed against the i.K And all your ready cash is sp nt; If you have nothing loft hut pride 'f'he landlord's sure to raise the rent. Said Franklin, "lie who takes a wifo takes care." Therefore, my son, tako care nnd do not take a wife. Iloston Transcript. Mrs. Enpcc "You ennnot fay I did the courting; you were crnzy to marry me," Enpec "I must havo been a gibbering lunatic." New York Herald. The rooster now his rival hunts With crow and proud para, te lle quit forgets his motlier oiico Laid him in the sua le. Truth. There is no porfect statu in this world. While tho poor uiuu lias no food for his stomach it often happens that tho rich man has no stomach for his food. Bos ton Transcript. Person in Authority "Aud how do you like going to school, boy?" Tho Coming Man "I liko goin' well 'miff; it't th? sto,tpiu' w'ou I guts there I hol lers nt." Fuu. Dressmaker "Miss Fussbu lget, will you havo your dress cut with a truiuf" Miss yussbudget "Yes; but for good jess's sakes have it an accommodation." Springfield Union. Primus "They didn't think my speech was cut aud dried, did they?" Sccuudus "No; they wouldn't possibly think any of it had been cut." Kato Field's Washiiigtou. Dicker "I urn told (hat A 1 is a very different man in liM faaily man ou tho street." lioud "Yes; Mrs. Wuhl says bo's a bull on the street nnd a bear at homo." Now York Herald. He wrota a weather poem. Full o( miuttmeiit and wit, And the weather promptly shifted, ISo the Kxjiii wouldn't lit, Washington Star. It '.3 amusing to watcii a man working his head of to rave money to buy a home, whilo anotiier who owns a home, is trying to sell it a a sacrifice iu or.'cr to save money by boarding. Puck. Bachelor "Say, Hcnpecqne, as your wifo is away let'.' go to a lectiiM to night." Benedict (shuddering) "No, thanks; I prefer achani o from my usual domestic routine. It t's mo to a deaf and dumb asylum." New Yorlt '.lur nal. He "Do you c-nr mean to .lurrj ?'' She "Perhaps I tu.j some time." Ho "Havo you made up your mini: win the man will oe?" She Meicy! no!" Ho "Still you th:i.-c. you'll many somebody some time (" Sac "I uuy. ' He (desperately) "Well, wl t's tho matter with ine?" Somenillo Jojrnal. A dissipatod c d mnn applied at tho Quartermaster office in San Antor'o, Texas, for a'positiou as clerk. Do vo.i ki ow anything atiom, general .iianagu inent of the office?" asked thu officer. "Do I know anythiu. about U ;nerul Management? I shoulj sur'lc. i knew him when he was Lieutenant.'' Texas Siftiuj-s. She sits her down a.i I ith mu -ii caro I'l-oceeds to scan tne bill cf lure. Kite reads it up, she read it Ut.wo, And heoiileiui r( the wi'-umN frown. She K"utly irfl an I turns it o'ei And if she tho. 'Lit (.hei-a -h i.H in more Aud theu ex Janus, ' f'casj t-'injj to lue A biscuit a.i 1 a cup of u-a." Wuhiugtou .Star. Had All the Solvations. A man aium.'d John Harusha-.v piv formed tho ighont Iughuid . ider .ho high snuuding title of Mmieur UiulTo, giving practical exuibiti.ns of hanging from the gallov s, Iu t'. 's pcrfoiii.auco he relied for security on the strongth ol the muscles of hit throat and nc k alone. He had a rop with a fixed Knot, and always pafse l both ends of the loop up behind oue ear. The wolo act was so adroi'ly managed that ho prevente I any pressure of thu rope upon thu windpipe or thu jugular vein. He Could even sus tain a weight ot 1"0 pouid- in addition to that ot his own body. On three separate ocean i is Harushaw misinaiiuged thu rope aud toon became, uucouscious, but was Kicky rescued euch time. Dr. C'hon. who wrote tho accouut, very truly suys it cannot bo doubted that as ar as so satioii aud consciousness nro ccrcernud, Harushaw passed through the whole or leal of death by hangiuK, aud h..d he b-ou permitted to remaiu hanging until actually ue id he would have pissed out of el tcncu with out further knowledge his misery." Ludou Lancet,
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