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VOL. XXVI. NO. 48. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1894. S1.00 PER ANNUM.
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There is a movement in llio dircc
ition of woman'n suffrage in France.
About $200,00(1,00!) worth of regis
i tercd United States bonds nre hold by
I private individuals.
( In order to protect an invention ali
rover thu world no loss thun sixty-four
patents aro required nt n cost of about
$17,500.
, The railway miloago of Europe,
lAsia Hnd Africa now aggregates 151),
055 miles. The railways of tho United
States roach 1 8, 5s7 inilcH.
Now Zealand iH bent on preserving
her remiirknbli! wild birds and other
animals, and has net apart two islands
on which all hunting tin 1 trapiu in
forbidden.
Scarcely a stream issues from the
lower h1icr of the Andes, either to
the Amazon on tlto cant or tho I'aoillo
on tho went, thu Hands of which are
not auriferous. Tho amount of gold
in tho country must bo almost fab
ulous. Thomas Godbopraised, of England,
nfter tho rush and excitement of tho
World's Fair, sought rest, appropri
ately enough, observes tho St. Louis
Republic, in' l'hiladelphia. But ono
of tho live reporters of that city found
him out and wrote him up. Of course
his nane pons back to Round-head
days.
A widower's association has been
jformod in Dresden, Germany. No man
can join unless his wifo is dead, and if
,he marries ngain ho becomes an hon
orary member merely. One of the
chief purposes of the association is to
lielp newly-made widowers by looking
after their wives' funerals and earing
for their children.
Samory, the great Mohammedan
chief of iuterior Africa, is about tho
last somi-savogo of tho dark oountry to
yield to civilization and tho force of
arms. The French have been gradual
ly driving them into closer quarters
and now tho British aro conducting
raids against his warriors. Samory is
the greatest ban. lit king in the world.
Metropolitan fashions have long pro
vailed throughout the country. In
no one thing is this more plainly ap
parent than in the uniforms of police
men. In the smaller cities, and even
jn small towis, the policeman nowa
days wears a uniform like that of his
. city brother. He may not have the
city brother's reposo of manner and
. cool jauntiness of bearing, but his
clothes are strictly up to date.
The railway compauies of the L'nitod
States have no reasonable cause, as
serts the New York. News, to complain
of their business for the fiscal year.
Including all the bankrupt and non
paying lines tho aggregate net earn
ings were more than three huudred
und fifty million dollars. This is
equivalent Ho about throe and one
half per cent, of tho capitalization, a
very good rate of interest in view of
the fact that the roads are generally
capitalized at from two to five times
their actual cost.
It is estimated that thero are 10,000
booksof poetry intho National Library
at Washington. Tho rules of tho
library require tho keeping of every
copyrighted book, so that the collec
tion must include an enormous amount!
of trash. The San Francisco Chronicle
believes it is safe to say that nine
tenths of this verso represents work
which no publisher would issuo with
out advance payment of cost, and
which is absolutely worthless. Therd
ought to be some provision for weed
ing out this trash, which is not worth
shelf room.
It illustrates the need of a Pacifiii
cable that the news of tho two most
important events in tho Hawaiian epi.
sodo passed between Washington and
Honolulu only after traveling back
ward round the globo some 21,000
miles in order to compass a direct dis
tance of some &000 miles. The news
of the decision of President Cleveland
to attempt thu restoration of the
Queen reached Hawaii first by steamer
from New Zealand, having traveled by
telegraph under the North Atlantic
audltirougu tho whole of Europe,
Asia, and Australia to reach the port
from which the steamer sailed. Simi
larly, tho first news that tho Provis
ional Clovermeiit refused to accede to
tho President's demands leached
Washington by steamer from Hono
lulu to New Zealand, and thence by
telegraph back over tiie same rouud
a'mt route. A cablb li-VH) miles long,
fioin Honolulu to Sun Francisco.
would have saved '2J,'lMt miles of tele
graphic and st emu "hip travel, am
about lv weeks of timo in each iu
Only about four per cent, of tho
Hea-going vessels constructed at tho
present time are of wood.
Tho development of collego , sports
is indicated, thinks the Chicago Her
ald, by the fact that Harvard now has
a salaried manager.
In Canada positions in the Civil Ser
vico are obtainable after examination
and aro held during good behavior,
which, as a rule, means life.
In Japan a man can live Iiko a gen
tleman for about $250 a year. This
sum will pay the rent of a house, tho
salaries of two servants and supply
plenty of food.
Tho Hungarian Government has re
cently passed a law providing for tho
payment of indemnities to prisoners
innocently condemned to penal servi
tude, and to their families in cases
where Biich priBouers havo been found
to have suffered capital punishment.
The Argentino Republic is rapidly
becoming a prominent competitor in
tho business of supplying grain to the
European markets. Shipowners of
Nova Seotia and Now Brunswick are
taking advantage of tho trade and find
ing employment for their vessels at
remunerative rates between the River
Plato and Old World ports.
Tho low price of w heat this year is
due, maintains tho New York Witness,
to tho fact that ft very largo surplus
was held over from the big crops of
the past two years. Tho farmers of
the world are producing more wheat
than tho people of the world can buy,
thongh not more than could be con
sumed if all tho people who need it
were able to pay for it.
A curious lawsuit has just been con
cluded at Brussels. A widow named
Moeus died intestate, leaving a large
fortune. A dispute at onco began
among her relatives and a lawsuit to
settlo the various claims was institut
ed. At tho trial it was proved that no
fewer than 8500 persons were related
to the testatrix. Judgment has been
pronounced in their favor that is, in
javor of relatives, even twelve degrees
removed.
The reclamation of tho arid wastes
of southwestern desert lands proceeds
luarvelously apace. Another reclama
tion company was incorporated at San
Bernardino, Cal., a few days ago, with"
a capital stock of $2,500,000. A dam
is to be erected at Victor Narrows, on
the Mojave River, in San Bernardino
Connty, fifteen feet in height, wnich
will make a lake nine miles long and
about three wide, w hose Waters will bo
used to irrigate about 200,000 acres of
laud on the Mojave Desert, which will
then be especially adapted for growing
raisin grapes and alfalfa.
According ti the Sviet, a St. Peters
burg paper, Russia, unlike other Eu
ropean countries, incorporates in the
army only one-fourth of tho young
men who are drafted every year when
they reach the legal age for military
service. The recruiting in 1892 en
listed 768,072 conscripts, but onlv
200,200 were actually sent into the
ranks. Of these 1!)!,000 were Ortho
dox, 16,000 Israelites and 0000 Mo
hammodans; tho Russian army is
therefore composed of men belonging
to tho National religion. There were
also in tho cont ingent called to service
in 1802 193,000 men of puro Russian
origin, 17,000 Poles, 4000 Germaus,
16,000 Jews, ;)68ti Bashkiros, and a
small number of Lithuanians, Tartars,
etc., bo that tho Russian army can be
considered as being quite homogene
ous iu regard to its nationality.
Every little while tho police arrest
a man with a kit of burglars' tools in
his possession, and one naturally won
ders where they all come from. It is
easy to buy a gun of any description,
and tho most reputable citizen would
not be ashamed to be seen purchasing
the most wicked-looking knife ever
made; but who would know where to
get a sluug-shot, or a jimmie, or a de
vice for drilling into a safe, or any of
the many tools used by the profes
sional burglar iu the pursuit of his
calling? Thero probably aro places in
many lurgo cities where these things
aro made and sold to the users, but
such places aro scarce. Onco in a
while the police find such a factory,
aud then things go hard for tho pro
prietors. It may seem h little strange
to learn that moot of the tools used in
burglaries are made by mechanics who
aro looked upon as respectable men iu
tho community. When a burglar
wants any partielilar tool made he goes
to a mechanic who cuti do thu job, an I
pays hint perhaps live times what it is
uctiwlly worth for making the tool and
keeping all 11 about it.
HOW-DE-DO.
Bay "how-de-do," an' gay "goodtiy,"
Meet an' shake, an' then pass liy s
Ain't much difference twlxt the two,
Bay "goodby" or "uow-de-do."
"How-do-do." with chilly heart,
Ain't much dlffornnno, meet or part
Jes' a look, an' jes' a bow,
Sometimes only Jes' a "how ;"
Ain't much difforence which they ay,
"How-de-do" or tother way.
Meet a friend yer grasp his hand,
An' jes' stand, an' stand, an' stand
Glad yer mot an' hate ter part,
Kln3er trembly in the heart.
Neighbors lived on "Moody Hill,"
He was "Tom" an' you was "Bill,"
Kinder stop an' look an' say
"How-de-doV" an' then "good day 1"
Been away from home a spoil,
Swing the gate back, stand, an' well,
Kinder don't know what tor do,
Heart thumps like 'twaa bust in' through.
Bald "goodby" a year afore
Betsy standing in the door
Said "goodby," but "how-de-do,"
Seems the strangest o' tho two.
Brace right up an' waltz right in,
Shake tho tremble from yer chin,
Betsy's waltin' there for you,
Waltz right in with "How-dc-do?".
" The Housekeeper.
THAT DOG JAGS,
BX EDNA 0. JACKSON.
uvii Jags was
hungry. In fact,
he was almost
starved. His
riDB were
o u t-
ainethis
hide and
there was au un
quenchable 'crav
ing inside of them
for bones. -It
seems funny when
mm
one thinks of it, whn there
was nothing to him bnt bones,
lie raised his head from his paws
and snapped eagerly at a great, bulgy
bluefly that buzzed lazily around, and
swallowed it with a gulp. But one
fly is not muoh when one has a hollow
within him that feels as big as a
church.
Those hollows were common in Rat
Row. It was the river street of a large
city, where squalid men, women aud
children fought, quarreled, cursed and
stole their wretched lives long to keep
that inner void just sufficiently filled
to ward off the Potter'a Field. "Stole,"
I said. The younger habitants, per
haps, limited their achievements to
this. As for their elders well, if a
man with a comfortably filled stomach
Btrayod into their power and would
give up his "ticker" and other valu
ables like a gentleman and evince no
disposition to "squeal," all right,
perhaps; if he rebcllod, the river was
handy. Then a fresh flow of fire
water, more desperate fighting, curs
ing and cutting for a day or two.
Sometimes a rush of patrol-wagon and
armed police, a bleeding body carried
away, a living, sullen, horrible one or
two to answer for it it was an old
story to the blue-coats.
Thus, Jags was a dog of the slums,
kicked, cuffed and starved, with good
points in him that once led au uptown
clubman to coax him off the street
when Jags inadvertently wandered,
foraging, to a respectable quarter.
For three days Jags was fed, petted
and began to grow handsome. The
first hour of liberty found him fawn
ing joyfully at the feot of Blinks, the
most brutal of all the Rat Row brutes,
whom Jags followed with a worship
ing fidelity only found in some women
and most dogs. He was ready to
starve with his horrible idol rather
than desert him for soft treatment
and uulimited bones with meat on
them.
"Hero ye be, be ye, ye cuss?
Thought ye'd mosey, did ye? Been
feed in', has ye? Thought ye'd sneak !
Tako'that 'ud that 'nd that!"
"That" was a series of brutal kicks
that made the poor dog yelp out in
piteous agouy. When they ceased
one of Jags's beautiful, loving brown
eyes was gone, knocked out of its
bloediug socket by the master for whom
ho had sacrificed wealth and comfort.
That was merely a variation of the
tortures that Jags's master habitually
put upon him. If it ever occurred to
tho dog that he had anything to for
give ho did so, freely, generously and
lovingly, creeping all the more
adoringly to the feet that kicked him.
If he ever thought, wistfully, that his
master might have done a more merci
ful thing and relieved him of a
real trouble by kicking out his
stomach, he never said ho.
Just now he dragged his bony length
to the side of Blinks, keeping a watch
ful eye for kicks, and breathed along,
sobbing sigh of relief when he got
closo to his idol without awakening
him. The man was seated on a broken
chair outside tho tottering tenement
house where he aud Jags had a kennel.
HiB bloated red face was turned up
ward to the sun, his breath reeked bad
whisky, the soft summer breeze stirred
his loathsome rags. One wonders
how even the breeze could touch him.
Blinks was happy. Ho was "full," not
of that unnecessary luxury, food, but
of vile whisky.
His slumber was boou disturbed by
a splash, a chorus of yells from the
gamins on the river bank, a. el w ith
bare, red arms dripping with soap
suds, her frowsy hair Hying in the
wind, Betsy O'Kiley rushed from her
wash-tub.
"Thobal.by! Tliedarlint! It's
drowiidid he is intoirely ! Howlv
Mary ! Run, ye luurtLeriu' divils !
Save 'im ! Hilp !"
It would not havo created much of
a sensation in K:it Row society if a
half dozen Utile ''rats" had been
swept away altogether by the river. A
few drit'iiled Women lounged to doors
JMVV lined ag
WiHal , mangy
or windows, two or three blear-eyed
men, among whom wasBlinkB.lurched
lazily toward tho place whero tho
small, dirty figure had gono nndertho
muddy water, giving it plenty of time
to drown in tho moat leisurely way
before their arrival. Only the screech
ing mother and the dog were really
alive to the situation.
Jags was weak from long fasting,
bnt the instinct inherited from a long
lino of noble ancestors nerved him.
In a flash, it seemed, his gaunt body
was in the water and out, and Betsy
had snatched her soaked "kid,"
drained the water out of him and ad
ministered a ringing Blap.
"Yespalpane? Will yez bo kapin'
away from the wather will yoz?"
Tho child replied with a vicious
squirm and an unchildliko curee.
Betsy went back to her washtub, while
Jags crept patiently to the sido of his
master who, with another, had dropped
from sheer exhaustion ou the" yellow
earth. No one thought of praising or
thanking Jags. Such small, sweet
courtesies were not customary in Rat
Row. Only Blinks's companion, who
seemed more alive thon his surround
ings, looked approvingly at tho dog.
"Fetch n carry?" ho said laconi
cally, nodding in Jags's direction.
"Like I" drawled hiB matter,
with a laziness strangely at varianco
with tho lurid comparison. "Hyar,
dawg! Git it I"
Jags looked np imploringly as a
stick flew far into the water. Ho was
willing enough, heaven knows ! But
when one has had only one fly to eat
for twenty-four hours, and had just
dragged a heavy squnming body from
the woter, he may be pardoned for
feeling trembly and averse to unneces
sary exertion.
"Git it!" snarled his master. Thero
was a kick in the eye, Jags went
meekly out into the turbid water and
came trembling all over to lay the
Btick beside the tyrant. Again it flew
out, farther than before. This time
Jags was almost swept down tho river.
"Let np !" said Blinks's companion ;
"the dawg's nigh croaked."
"Lazy, cuss 'im!" drawled Jags's
energetic owner. Jags gave a whine
of almost human entreaty when the
stick was thrown again, but tottered
away to almost certain death.
Amicable relations are easily dis
turbed in Rat Row. Big Andy caught
Blinks by that part of his garment
where the collar should have been and
shook him into a stupid protest.
"Blame yer mizzable hide !" he
shouted furiously. "Call 'im back or
I'll fling ye in arter 'im !"
Blinks fell limply to the ground and
obeyed. But Jags had already turned
to defend his master and bounded
back with a growl at his assailant.
"Cussed if the dawg wouldn't fight
fer ye now, ye sneakin' hound 1" mut
tered Big Andy with an admiring grin
at Jags. He went into his own nest in
tho tenement house and flung Jags a
bone. "Hyar, dawg I Put that down
your neck !"
Jags snatched it with the fervor of
starvation, but his master was filled
with a sullen spite against the inno
cent cause of his shaking, and, look
ing to see that Big Andy was at a safe
distance, he called :
"Hyar, ye imp."
The dog came, clinging desperately
to the precious food.
"Drop it!"
The poor animal obeyed, eyeing it
wistfully the while.
"Now, come git it!"
Jags bounded joyfully forward to
meet a kick that made him howl. Re
peating this amusing performance un
til he was weary, the human brute
finally threw the bone into the river.
Jags started weakly after it, but
obeyed with something like tears in
his one pathetic eye when commanded
to lie down.
Well, ho had been hungry before,
aud if his master willed this, he must
know best.
It has been seen, long before this,
that Jags was an ideal Christian.
Hours after this even Rat Row was
wrapped iu Blumbcr tho heavy Bleep
of the drunkard or the leaden one of
exhaustion and weakness. Blinks, af
ter taking several more drinks from a
flat, black bottle, staggered into Borne,
corner of the Old Mill, after ordering
Jags in language savoring of brimstone
to stay out, when tho poor dog tried to
follow him iu.
The stars shone as serenely down on
the foul smelling city slums as upon
the clover-sweet meadows far away.
The river murmured aud gurgled along
tho black piers. Sometimes the
"chug-chug" of a steamboat came
clearly through the night; then its
hoarse whistlo one long-drawn, three
short, another long woke the echoes
and it puffed past, its high, colored
lights and trailing smoke making it
look through the darkness like some
fiery-eyed demon of the mists.
JagB, lying prone ou the rickety
steps of the Old Mill, moans and cries
a little in his sleep as vague realiza
tions of his wretched life und empty
stomach visit, his dream.
Suddenly he starts tip, uose iu air,
and listeus. There is nothing uuusual,
Jugs! The river gurgles on softly,
the stars twinkle undimmed, there is
no variatiou of bi-ht or sound that hu
man mind cuu detect. Not huiiiuu
mind, perhaps, but dog instinct
Jags quivers, he sniffs tho air and
walks about uneasily. He stops and
whines, tries to push iu the barred
door aud fails. Then he bleaks into a
long, plaintive howl. Surely that will
awaken some one iu that narrow
street, that crowded house ! But there
comes no other sound but the rippling
river, the ro:ir of the far away, bleep
lea streets.
Again and aiuiu ho howls. Silence!
What is that? A mere bhadow of a
sound, faint, stealthy, as if somo one
had stepped lightly on a dry twig aud
snapped it. It rouses Jags to frenzy.
Scores of human beiimt-', men, women,
liUlo children, alutpiug calmly iu a
tinder-box, that tinder-box on fire ano
only he, Jags, a dumb, helpless ani
mal, to know and savo them I And hs
his idolized tyrant, in there I
Jags throws himself against the dooi
with a yell of agony. It falls open. A.
thin puff of smoke waverB to meet him.
Barking, howling, fairly shrieking,
JagB tearB straight for the room whora
he and Blinks have their kennel. Hd
isn't there ! Out again, jumping
against doors in his frantic search,
choked with smoke, rushing through
curling tongues of flame, goes the dog.
Are they all dead in there I His mas
ter, where is he? It is well that one
in that vast hive is not too tired nor
too drunk to awaken. Big Andy
rouses to realize that the dog is making
"a fuss," takes in the situation in a
flash, and bounds out of tho smoke
filled room.
"Great God! The house is on fire !"
"Fire, fire, firel"
Somewhere a wire vibrates above
the city streets. A great bell tolls out
on the night. Clang, clang, clang t
Rattle, rattle, rush 1 Streams of sparks
in the wake of flying engines. Sharp
and clear tho engine ond patrol gongs
strike, in time with rattling hoofs and
wheels. Over all booms Blowly and
solemnly, with pauses between the
strokes, tho great bell.
All this time a dog was flying, with
feet scorched now by the heated floor,
from room to room, hunting for ono
object. Ho finds him at last, in the
second story, coiled np in a drnnken
heap on the floor. He (-prices upon
him, tugs at his clothing, barks, whines
and tries to drag him toward tfte door.
At last tho man awakes, stolidly, stu
pidly, then to a vague terror and ab
ject fright. Ho bounds to the door.
It is a wall of flames. Ho reaches tho
window ; no thought of the creature
who Baved him comes to the brute's
mind. He raises tho Bash and leapB
out. It falls behind him. Jags is im
prisoned in a tomb of fire.
The people have swarmed out, dirty,
dazed, half-dressed. Tho cordon is
thrown out ; tho engines throb and
scream. The firemen work quietly,
streams of perspiration dripping be
neath their helmets. Floods of water
glitter like liquid fire in the red flames.
The Old Mill is doomed.
"Is every one out !" asks the Chief
brusquely, gazing ux) toward the tot
tering furnace.
As if in answer there is a crash of
breaking glass ut a second-story win
dow and a living thing appears there,
pitiful, pleading, ablaze with little
tongues of flame. It whines implor
ingly. Big Andy has private reasons of his
own for preferring to remain incog,
among a swarm of policemen. But)
now into the full blaze of light ho
dashes forward.
"The dawg, the dawg that sayed all
our lives I Git 'im, boys ; git 'im out I
My God! I hain't got no money,
boys, but look hyar ! They's a re
ward of $500 out fer me ! I'm Big
Andy, the safe-cracker. You know
me! I'll give myself np to anybod
that'll save that dswg. I mean it,
boys !"
There was good in Big Andy ; ho
was sobbing aloud. For the credit of
human nature be it said, no one ever
claimed that reward.
A quiet order through the Chief's
trumpet, and a stream of water from
the hose drovo the crazy window in.
The dog sprang to the sill and tottered
weakly. A fireman ran lightly np tho
ladder and carried him down to the
cool earth. There he foil, bleeding
aud scorched. He roused himself to
gaze longingly around, dragged his
mangled body to where Blinks stood,
staring stupidly, aud laid his head,
with a faint moan, against his master's
feet.
"Speak to him!" bawled Big Andy
furiously. "Pet 'im, or I'll kill ye!"
Perhaps something human stirred
in theheurt of the lower brute.
He stooped aud laid a not ungentle
hand ou tho bleeding head,
"W'y, w'y, Jags, ole fel I"
But with a rapturous look of grati
tude from his one loving, beautiful
eye, the dog had gone. Where? II
there is no dog heaven, what will thu
Creator do with the faithful, martyr
soul of Jags? Tho Voice.
A Snake Story.
"I never realized tho strongth o(
tho instinct of self-preservatiou iu
man," said John F. Thompson to thu
corridor man at the Laclede, "until I
witnessed a test of it ou a steamboat.
Among the passengers was a man who
had a black rattlesnake in a box with
a glass top. The snake was a very
vicious one, ami would strike tho glass
whevever any one approached. Tho
owner of the reptile challenged any
one iu the crowd to hold his finger on
the glass and let the snake strike at it.
There could not be any danger, and
there was not a man who did not think
it au easy thing to do.
"One big fellow, who looked as if
he never knew w hat nerves were, tried
it, and, after repeated attempts gave
it up. Then every passenger ou the
boat attempted, and failure followed
in each ease. It simply could not
bo done. Instinct was stronger than
reason ami will power combined. " St.
Louis Globo-1 femoerat.
Increased ('so t Muttot,.
It is not altogether tho cheapness ot
mutton that is leading people to use
it more freely. They have learned
that it is au excellent and healthful
meat aud the consumption of mutton
in thu United SPttes is six times as
great in lH'JIJ as it was in 1KS7. Wo
are undoubtedly killing offsheep faster
than their natural iuereuse. "This'
must load to increasing scarcity of fat'
sheep for mutton, aud higher prices
for the mutton whou marketed. Sheep
cannot be increased very rapidly ut the
best, aud if our stock becomes de
pleted it takes several years to build
it up i;iu. Bootuu Cultivatur,
rRGPHETIC GROUNDHOGS.
A CROSS BETWEEN A HOUSE AND
A MONKEY.
Their Habits, Home ami Food and
How They Live Through the
Winter Queerest of Mammals.
WHEN the legendary and
prophetical groundhog
comes out of its hole and
looks around for its
shadow, if he sees it, which will natur
ally be the case if the sun shines, he
returns to his underground habitation
tor another long rest, being convinced
that winter is destined to linger in the
lap of tho forthcoming spring.
This interesting animal is equally
well. known as tho "woodchuek." But
it has a great many other names be
Men. In fact, people would seem to
have exhausted ingenuity in devising
varied designations for the beast.
Linnaeus, tho famous founder of the
modern school of natural history, en
titled it "mils monax," which, being
interpreted, means a cross between a
mouse and a monkey. The Canadian
French speak of it as the "sifflonr," or
"whistler." This is on account of the
whistling noiBe which it sometimes
utters when startled. In tho great
fur-bearing region about Hudson's
Bay it answers to the name of the
"thickwood badger," while to the
westward the hardy inhabitants of
Alaska mean woodchuek when they
exclaim "tarbagan," and the wild
Chippewas likewise whon they grunt
"kath-hilloe-kooay. "
The animal's habits do not vary with
the multitude of his titles. He lives
in a burrow remarkable for its extent.
It is dug in the slope of a hill or by
the side of a big stoue, making an ex
cavation twenty or thirty feet long,
which descends obliquely four or five
feet, then gradually rising to a large
round chamber, whero the groundhog
family sleeps and brings np its young.
The little ones are born three to eight
at a time. AVhen the farmer, with his
horses and mowing machine, chances
to slump into one of these holes, dis
appearing from view until excavated
by charitable neighbors, ho is apt to
feel annoyed and to revile the whole
woodchuek tribe with discrimination.
It is largely on this account that
bounties for killing the creatures have
been offered in New Hampshire and
other Stati, as much as ten cents for
each tail being paid. Hunters will
not kill them, for the fur iB worthless
and the flesh by no means palatable.
It is not true that iu certain parts of
the country farmers have found it
necessary to shovel paths through
groundhogs iu over to reach their
barns.
Save in the way just mentioned, the
woodchuek does little or no harm to
anybody. He is strictly a vegetarian,
feeding mostly on clover and grass.
Rarely does he enter the garden, pre
ferring the open meadows and rocky
hillsides. The first rains that fall
copiously after haying is over cause
the fresh green grass to spring up
anew. This second crop in many
places consists largely of red clover,
which tho groundhog regards as a most
delightful delicacy. It eats so much
during the latter part of August and
the first half of tho following month
that it becomes exceedingly fat and
iuert. About September 30 or a little
later it goes into winter quarters, aud
it does uot come out agaiu to stay un
til tho middle of March.
This ereaturo istho most remarkable
existing example of a hibernating
mammal. It lays up no store of pro
visions as the squirrel does. Its food
is of such a nature that it does uot
keep, and so the groundhog must
sleep to save itself from starving. It
disappears with astonishing precision
within a few days of the autumnal
equinox ard remains underground un
til about tho time when tho sun cuts
the plane of the equator at tho vernal
equinox. Often the weather is vury
warm when it retires, and it w ill come
out in March whon snow is ou tho
ground making long journeys to tiud
places where patches of the coveted
green grass has been laid bare by thaw.
At the euil of the winter the animal is
thin and doubtless feels rather seedy,
having lived on its own tishues aud
without subsisteiH-o for so long a time.
During tho term of hibernation
physical waste is reduced to a very
low point, tho heart's actiou slacken
ing and the breathing becoming so
slight that it cau only be detected by
delicate instruments. Even when
kept iu a warm hotis, through the
cold season a tame groundhog becomes
torpid at the usual date and remains
So until the hereditary habit has been
carried to tho customary term. In
this latitude tho hibernation of the
auimal is not so complete as farther
north, and u few hundred miles far
ther south it iu interrupted by period,
of wakefulness, during which the
woodchuek I'oes abroad and gets its
meals. The piaetie of hibernating
is merely a devico of uature for en
abling the a:iinal to get along without
food at times wheu there is no food to
be had. Otherwise it would perish
and the species would become eitiuct.
No use for the groundhog worth
mentioning has ever been discovered.
It is otherwise with another queer
mammal the porcupine. Porcupiuea
have been used as fuel, for whioh pur
pose they are said to bo superior to
wood. Some time ago at tho Wilmot
luiuo iu Minnesota the porcupine
came to be regarded a.i such a nui
s iuee, being very numerous, that one
day the foreman threw a cuuplo of
dead ones i:.t'j the firepln.-e of the
btcam drill. To hit surprise the b team
and up to eighty pounds in a thort
time. From that time ou the miners
ueie instructed to ki!l u:i.l bring iu
every porcupino they could catch for
u.-.e in the l'urusce. Such, at all
events, is the story. Wa.hingiou Star.
A' SONO OF LOVE1;
What, swoPt mistress, should there be
'Twixt thy heart and mine this day?
There no barrier I see
Which Love may not kiss awny.
Do thou waft one smile to me
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If a rose should bar bis path
Thorny, with a jealous frowr.
Love such winning favor linth
He WQuld quickly kiss it down ;
Then would sweetly, tenderly
Bear it on his breast to the?.
Love will come his own to greet,
ThouKh no light bis day adorns,
Through a world of rosi-s, sweet
Through a wilderness of thorns I
Do thou waft one smile to me.
Love shall find his way to thee !
-Frank L. Htanton, in Atlnnta Constitution.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
A backslider The crab. Hallo.
A spark of genius Winningan heir
ess. Truth.
The man who agrees with us doesn't
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Ram's Horn.
The stock exchange is where hope is
exchanged for experience. Florida
Times-Union.
A man with an elastic imagination
is too liable to use it for a conscience.
Rochester Democrat.
This is a world of compensations
men who lack long heads generally
have long faces. Truth.
The worst of the rosy colors in
which some things are painted is that
they are not fast. Puck.
"How much is this dress worth?''
"I really don't know what it's worth
the price is $3." Hallo.
The pen may be mightier than the
sword, but it's tho uniform that takes
young women's eyes. Judge.
"Johnny, add seven apples to two
apples, and what will yon have?"
"Colic, sir." Harper's, Bazar.
A dog's tail is not necessarily a "has
been" because it always points to tho
past. Bimghamton Republican.
One reason why somo men are so
lean is because they have thrown ail
their fat into the fire. Dallas News.
Tommy (with pride) "My pa's a
banker." Willie "An' my pa's re
ceiver for his bank." Chicago Rec
ord. "The foreigu husband is the absorb
ing idea !" said the American million
aire as he wrote the wedding chock.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
He "Do you believe in such a
thing as lovo at first sight?" She
"Certainly. A hasty glance does
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Transcript.
Hungry Higgins "Wot's right
nowadays--t'auk you, or t'anks?"
Weary Watkins 'T guess tanks
would hit us about riglf." Indianap
olis Journal.
The man who is always careful to
keep out of debt is seldom so well
supplied with tho modern conveni
ences of life as his less considerate
fellow. Puck.
He "What would you do if I were
to kiss you?" She "Are you vtry
curious to know?" He "Very!"
She "Well, you might try and see !"
Boston Traveler..
"It makes no difference to me." said
the old theologian, "whether I came
from a tadpole or a monkey. How to
get out of the scrape is what botheu
me." Newport News.
Iu the cannibal islands. Mother
"What is the matter with you, my
son? Havo you eaten anything that
disagreed with you?" Sou "That is
why I ate him." -Bostou Transcript.
Tommy -"I guess he must be the
best dentist iu town. " Papa -"Didn't
he hurt you?" Tommy "No; I just
went up to tho door ami my tooth
stopped hurting." Chicago Iiiter
Oceau. "Did you get anything from that
mau you jm-t applied to for help?"
"Only good advice." "What advice
did he give you !'' "I said 1 was cold
and ho told mo to go to blazes. "--New
York Press.
The scarcity of food iu Rage lias
compelled the boseiged troops to re
sort to canines dished up iu various
stylos. There is a havoc among the
dogs of war in that locality. l'hila
delphia Ledger.
First Belle -"Then both Herr
Schulze and llerr Leliuninu had made
her an offer of manage; which was
the lucky man?" Second Ditto "llorr
Schulze, Herr Lohm iiiu married her."
Ohcrluudcr Bote.
"Have you had your new house in
sured, Mrs. Dwight?" "Yes." "Your
husband is afraid of tire, thou?"
"Mercy, y i s ; he will leave the house
any time before ho will make one. " -Chicago
lutei-t )ecuu.
"ilow do you know that DeVore is
Hot in love with Mabel Sweet briar?"
"liccaiiKO I lieai. I him tell her the
other evening, wlieii they oume from
church, that he knew of a short cut
home." Detroit Free I'ress.
"Diil o:i kii w that Miss lijoiies
was going to marry young Smith?" "1
know it ; but 1 cannot understand how
u girl as intelligent as she is cau con
sent to marry a man t-tupid ouough to
want to marry her." Brooklyn Lite.
"Angels have wing-', haven't they,
grandma?" ' I've always heard so."
"I heard I'liclu Gerald tell Mademoi
selle she was au angel- in the shrub
bery this morning - and she hasu't got
wing." "So, but she'll lne to lly."
Punch.
"An' is vour man wovkiu' now, Mrv
Mullay ?" ' 'ib' is that, Mrs. Tooloy. "
"I'hwat do lie be doiu', Mrs. Mullnyy"
"('oachiii' convicts, Mis. Tool, v."
"i'hwat's that, Mr. Mullay?" "Dri
in' the Black M.iris, blmre, .Mr-.
Tooloy, "'-Eliuira Gazette.