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-jTi-il fihebojrg®n,
Jk Ak • Nov. 12,
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lr »he CITIZIN
PUMPER JIM.
There were tnobs of angry men iu the
j Tuna Valloy. They had collected at va
! rintis points, with the intention of liiareh
j ing to the head office of the Combined
Pipe l.ines Company in a body that repre
sented the nil producers of the entire llar
ford region, ami ilenianditig that their oil
tanks be reli. veil. Failing to obtain thi.-
toncession, the producers meant to lake
| possession of the lines, and run tlieui for
I their self-protection or destroy thetn.
It was a beautiful May day. soft ami
warm, and Jim Croffut felt indolent, as h«
| sst outside of the pump station listening
! to the monotonous strokes of the big en
i gine sending the petroleum with a mtisical
click into the main line. lie had smoked
his pipe so lazily that it had gone out, but
j he still held the stem between his teeth.
| A cheerful laugh roused him from hi*
j reverie, and he swung lorward, dropping
| the chair on its four feet
'•Well, 1 declare, Jim,you aiethe sleep
! iest man on the Tuna. You never can
keep your pipe going.''
"How d'ye do. Mrs. Steam-? Will yon
sit?"
"Xo, thank you; I'm on my way to the
store."
"Will you'blige me by bringing me a
plug of smoking tobaccy? I'm about out
of that consolation."
"Certainly, Jim; but I do think you
about the most easily consoled man I ever
saw. tiood-morning."
"tiood mornin'."
He watched her tripping lightly over the
ground for a few moments, and then, re
suming his seat, muttered, "Perhaps not
so easily consoled as you think, Widow
Steams, when none but yon can do it; and
j it 1 can't tell 3-ou, for it would seem like
fergitting Hill Steams, and me and him
was partis too long for that."
Knowing that he would soon have a new
supply of tobacco, he knocked the ashes
out of his pipe and filled the bowl, packing
it well with the crumbs which he picked
from his coat pocket with thumb and fore
finger. The coal was still lying over his
knees, but he seemingly forgot to fumble
in it for a match, while he rested his el
hows or. it. Again his preoccupation was
broken by a voice, likewise familiar to
him. This time the shed was between
him and the speaker, who exclaimed:
"Whoa, boys! don't kick, or we'll all be
in kingdom come in two shakes of a cat's
tail."
Jim jumped to his feet aud ran around
I lie shed. Before him lay a torpedo man,
thrown from hi box by the breaking of an
it le, ami holding to the lines that guided
his team. The horses instinctively stood
till, and Jim hastened to unhitch them
let the}- should become restless and kick
the wagon, which, the torpedo man grimly
informed liini, was loaded. When the
horses were tied to a tree at a short dis
tance from the wreck, Jim went to the tor
pedo man and helped him to his feet.
"I got a bail twist Pumper Jim; but I'm
thankful that was all."
"Well, you are under obligashuns to be
glad, for you come mighty near being a
passenger on the sky-high route. How
did you get tied up that way, anyhow?"
"Making a short-cut. I was going gen
tie enough, but the wheel got twisted
somehow on the big pipe, and the axle
snapped. I dropped on the pipe, and hurt
something."
"You torpedo men are all durn fools,
anyhow, Jake l'nrdin, and it's a wonder
there ain't more of you knocked into the
tree-tops."
By that lime Juke was comfortable as
he conld be made on the rude lounge Jim
had constructed with a plank and two
chairs.
"I'll look for somebody to send Kogers
word," said Jim; and he went out to the
main road, where he met a detatchinent of
producers on their way to Hartford.
"Say," he called, "there's a man hurt
down to the pump station —Jake liurdin.
Will one of yon men be kind enough to tell
Ifogers?"
Very much like a string of oathj con
demning all sorts of monopolies was the
sentence hurled back at him by the man
nearest him.
"Monoplies ain't got nothing to do with
a man being human, have thoy?" Yon tell
Rogers to send a doctor out here, and then
you can call yourself a man."
Jim guessed the errand of the men, for
lie had heard the liiutterings of the storm
that was to break that day, but he made no
allusion to the discontent which had at last
developed into violence.
"We're coming back to see you, mebbe,
anil we'll fetch a doctor with us."
"You will lind me at home when you
come, but if there's a man in that crowd
he'll go straight to Rogers's office when he
gets to Harford, and let'em know there
that one of their men's laid up here with a
bad hurt."
"That being the case, we'll all call 011
Kogers right off, for we're all men, and de
mand a man's rights."
••Much obliged," Jim called, and then
hastened to Jake.
"Take it easy as you can, Burdiu, Hog
ers will send for you soon."
He was right, for in a short time one of
lingers'* teams dashed up to the pump sta
tion. and the driver leaped to the ground.
Jake was lifted into the buggy, ainl the
driver took up the lines to go, when Jim
asked what wa going on in Harford.
•Xothing lint the producers; they're gn
i iug 01. lihr, and there's likely to # lie some
I tliiug suia hc.l lore night."
"Likely," Jim commented, and then
nodded good by to Jake.
An extra man, who hail come with the
I bugiry, mounted oue of the horses Jake
| had driven, and leading the other, was
soon nut id sight. The broken wagon,
with its load of explosive, 'ay on its side.
Jim contemplated it a few minutes, and
then remarked: "If there's to be any
miashin' goin' on, that stutt in there might
be useful. I'll just confiscate it, as they
used to say in the army."
lie lilted the lit) off the box, and looked
at the cans. They were all small, each
containing a quart of nitro glycerine.
"Good!" he muttered. "They'll make
good bombs. I could throw one of them
about one hundred feel, I reckon, on a
pinch.''
He took them carefully out of the box,
and carried them into the shed, as he call
ed the little house that covered the pump
ing engines. When done with that, he
looked around for a pipe, and filially found
it half full of tobacco. Lighting it, he sat
down to resume the meditation that had
been twice interrupted that day. finding
that his thoughts were inclined to wander,
he rose and gave the firco a shaking up.
When he threw the poker down, he said to
himself, as if to another person.
"If they get to howliu' round here, I
guess I'll have to let the fires go out, but
there's no use iu horrowin' trouble."
The sun was ou the slant to to the we»t
when he heard again the Widow Steam's
voice, but this time it was full of alarm.
"They're coram', Jim—the producers!
They're ju.-t at uij heels, but they stopped
down there iu the hollow to smash the
pipe. I saw them breaking with crow
bars.''
She was very much excited,and exhaust
ed aud breathless from running.
BUTLKR, PA., FRIDAY. BKITEMBKR 20, IHH9-
"Sit down, Mr- Steams, and rest up a
hit while I stop the pump There ain't 110
use iu Mjuiri * the grease on to the
ground."
lie looked at her Unshed cheeks, aud
knew that had it not been for the uuusual
liodilv exertion she had undergone they
i would have-been pale,for hp saw her fright
| iu her eyes and felt it in tier tone.
| "But you must run, Jim. They'reeontin'
to smash the pump. an.l if they find you
1 here they might hurt yon."
• Did you briug the tobaccy, Mrs.
Steams?"
"Certainly 1 did; but yon must hurry
out of here."
"No, I must stay here; but you must
run soon as you give me the tobacey."
"Oh. Jim. run! for they will kill you."
She got up, and put her hands on his
shoulders pleadingly.
"No. they wou't. I'll just keep them
away till they cool off. and then I'll come
home to supper, for they will go away."
• If you don't go. I won't; for if they see
a woman here they won't do any damage
for fear of hurtin' her."
"You mustn' stay for that reason. They
would say Jim Croffut had got a woman to
protect him. You give me the tobaccy,
and run."
"But, Jim—"
"I'll take care of myself; and you must
go now, but don't forget the tobaccy."
"Here it is. Oood-by, for I'd rather go
than have them thiuk you a coward; but it
isn't easy, Jim."
He had snatched the tobacco with a
quick "Thank you," anil'was climbing up
to the roof of the station on a ladder. 111
one hand he carried a canof glycerine. Wheu
he reached the platform that he had built
there as a sort of observatory, she was out
on the road. He waved his hand to her,
and ran down the ladder. In a few min
utes he had four cans on the platform, and
then sat down to light his pipe.
•My! that woman hangin' on to my arms
flustered me most. I'd rather face the
whole mob of producers than have her so
beseechin', for 1 don't git so shook up."
He had not long to wait until he saw the
producers coming. When he saw how
many there were of thein, he ran down the
ladder and locked the doors of the station;
theu he went back to the platform. At
the head <d'the crowd of angry men he
recognized the man whom he had request
ed to inform Rogers of the torpedo man's
accident.
• Hello, Ben Harbaugh, what's up'"
"You, aud we want you to come down
and opei. the doors. We want to examine
the pump. 'Tisn't workin'."
"Oh, the pump's all right! I got lazy
and shut her down. Too hot 10-day for
even a pump to work."
"Well, yon can suit your pleasure about
lettin' us in; we'll get in ourselves. Come
ou, boys."
Harbangh held up a light crow-bar as a
of signal to the others to follow him, aud
turned iu from the road.
"Jest wait a second, Harbaugh, and
take a look at this." He rose to his feet
and held up a can. "That's a bomb. It's
glycer'n, and if you fellers git too close
to them doors, I'll drop it on your heads."
Harbaugh came to a halt, and the others
crowded around him, peeriug at Jiin,
whose tall strong figure was in position
for immediate action. They were angry
and verj- determined, those men, aud
would have laughed at a gun levelled at
them, but the mention of glyc jriue made
tlieui pause. It has no aim, but scatters
death in radii from the point of its ex
plosion.
Harbangh plucked up courage, and
called : "You cant fool us with au empty
can, Jim, and we give you just one more
chance to git dowu aud out of the way, for
we are goin' to smash that pump."
For reply Jim swung the can around his
head, and let it go at a tangeut. It
struck the ground two hundred feet from
the uieu and exploded, bulling stones and
dirt in every direction.
The producers fell back, for they had
seen the other cuus, and knew well the
folly of risking their lives in the attempt
to dislodge a man who was determined to
use such ammunition in defence of the prop
erty he was guarding. A consultation was
held, aud it was decided to parley with
the pumper. Harhaugh was selected as
spokesman, and he approached with two or
three others to within easy talking distance
of the station.
"Say, Croffut, we want to talk to you,"
Harhaugh said.
"Ho ahead; I can hear you from there,"
Jim replied.
"Why don't you get down and out, and
give us a chance to get square with the
Lines* They've never done anything par
ticular for you, and they have done us a
mighty sight of harm."
"HowV"
"By lettiug our tanks overflow, and the
oil from onr wells run to waste. We can
always get our oil run if we sell it to them
at a lower price than the regular market.''
"So I've heard," Jim commented: "hut
how's suiashin' the pump goin' to help
you?"
"It will bring the Liues to terms, and
wheu they get a new pump up. they will
be afraid to let our oil run to waste."
••What'll become of your oil when the
pump's layin' idle*"
"We can afford the loss if we get satis
faction afterward in having our oil taken
care of."
• Well, I 'ain't got uothin' to do with
that; I'm here to pump, anil to take care id'
the Lines' property." ,
"You're piinipin' water, that's what
you're doio\" one of the producers blurted.
"What come out on the ground when
you broke the line dowu in the holler,
grease or water*"
The producers looked at each other in
amazc-incut, as if to ask how he knew ot
the broken line, and then Harhaugh re
marked: "It was the Widow Stearns.
Come, Jim," lie said, iu louder voice, "sur
render, and we will make it right with
you."
"It's right with me now," Jim answer
ed; "I'm here to protect this pump, and
I'm goin' to do it."
"Well, you can't say that we haven't
given yon ample notice, anil if you get
hurt, it 'II be your own fault."
"Yes, I guess it will," Jim observed,
with provoking calmness.
The producers retired to the main body,
and another cinmiltatiou was held,
(impositions were made to surround the
pump station, and boldly attack it, but the
cooler heads promptly decided against such
measures.
"I've got an idea," said Harhaugh. "Let
us lay quiet until supper-time, aud then
the Widow Stearns will come with some
thing for Jim to eat. When she goes up
to the station, we'll just follow her Jim
won't dare to tire a glycerine can then for
fear of ki Ding her.*'
"Good!" exclaimed a number of the pro
ducers, aud all gave assent to the plan.
A short time after sunset Mrs. Stearns
came up the road, aud turned to go to the
station. Ilarhough and two others inline
diately joined her, and behind them fidlow
ed other producers armed with crow-bars
aud hammers. Of the presence of the main
body of men, who had been concealed iu
the woods, she was ignorant, und with re
; gard to the others, he took no thought
until Jim called to her,
"1 don't waut any supper to-night, Mrs
; Steams, aud you till the other pumper ill
i stay on for the night turn "
"All right. Mr Croffut; I'll tell him,"
Mrs. Sfeanis answered, and turned to go
home. Then she discovered the number of
men who had been behind her. Her way
was blocked, aud she bail to step back to
avoid being tramped upon. The mcu iu the
rear were advancing and pushing tboce hi
frout, who forced Mrs. Stearns nearer to
the station, she wondering what it meant.
Jim made it plaiu to her when, in cold,
deliberate tones, he said, "Ben Harbaugh
and you othet men, yon needn't thiuk that
you can find protection behind a woman,
for as sure as I live, if you come teu steps
further, I'll throw a cau at you."
"Why, Jim. you wouldn't kill a woman!"
Ilarbaugb exclaimed
"Not intentionally: but I'm here to take
care of this pump, as I t..ld you, and don't
you men come ten steps closer, that's all.
Mrs. Stearns had faced about, and was
looking at Jim. She realized her danger.if
he rneaut what he said, and when her eyes
rented on his resolute face her cheeks
blanched, and a shiver passed over her.
The men behind seemed to disbelieve Jim,
for they were steadily advancing, while
Jim was counting their steps: "One, two,
three, four, five, six, seven" —then he
stooped aud lilted a can—"eight, uine—"
"Stop, or he will kill us!" shrieked the
widow, seeing Jim swing the can, and her
words called a halt. Jim lowered the can,
and awaited the next movement of the pro
ducers.
"Ue's crazy," said Harbaugh, "and lie
will throw those cans at us, sure. Let us
fall back and wait till af er dark."
In a minute the widow was left standing
alone, her knees shaking, and her breath
coming in short convulsive gasps. Tears
filled her eyes, and through the mist before
her she gave Jim a reproachful look; then
turned and walked slowly away.
"He would have thrown that bomb
whether it had killed nie or not," she mur
mured, "and all for that old pump that
could be replaced in three weeks.
She began to sob, not caring that many
men were looking at her,desirous only that
Jim should not see her. Suddenly the
growiug darkness against the western hill
side reflected to her eyes a yellowish tint.
She looked back. The big gas jet at the
station was ablaze. Jim had taken advan
tage of the momentary discomfiture of the
producers to light it, and the wide circle of
its light made the ground witbiu one hun
dred yards of him almost as plain as it was
iu the daylight. Aml in spite 01' her grief
she was glad he had the protection that the
gas jet gave liini
As the darkness settled, the silence in
the valley was broken only by the crickets,
and from toward Harford came the faint
sound of the whistle of a locomotive. Jim
moved restlessly 011 the small platform,
wishing the officers of the Lines would
send a rescuing party. Again the whistle
sonuded, nearer this time, anil Jim hoped
that the approaching train bore to him re
lief from his trying position. While he
looked down the valley and listened for the
rumble of the cars, a flash illumined the
darkness of the wood, and he fell prone
upou the platform. He was shot through
the side. There was a shout from the mob
as they charged on the pump statiou.
Jim heard the cry ofonslaught, and stag
gered to his feet. By great effort he was
able to uppear strong in *pit.e of the stream
of warm blood on his leg.
"Stop, you devils, or I'll kill every one
of you!" and he threw a can of glycerine
right in the path of the producers. It
burst, and the explosion covered them with
dnst and pebbles. "Stop!" he yelled again,
as lie swung another can into the air.
The producers huddled together, aud
then fell back to wait until Jim was ex
hausted by the flow of hi from his
wound. The swoon came sooner than they
expected. As he sank on the platform, the
short, sharp whistle that to the railroader
means "Bown brakes!" sounded in his ears.
Immediately the producers charged on the
station; but Harbaugh called a halt before
thej T reached it, for he saw the sheriff and
his armed deputies (many of whom were
clerks and employes of the Lines) advanc
ing from the train just come to a stand
still. Seeing the namber ol the sheritrs
posse, the producers fled, and scattered
under cover of the woods.
There was a surgeon with the sheriff's
force, who dressed Jim's wound, and iheu,
on a stretcher, the pumper was carried to
his room at Mrs. Steam's house. His re
covery was slow, and the widow was 1111
failing in her attention to him. She was
kind aud gentle, but there was a change iu
her manner that distressed Jim. Be could
not account for it, and spent many an hour
in silent meditation upon it One day
a light broke in upou him, and he trained
a questiou for the widow.
"Did you think 1 would 'a throwed that
cau at you that day when the producers
was pushiu' yer to'rds the station?"
When he launched the query at her the
widow was confused, and answered dis
connectedly that she bad thought he would
have thrown it.
"You was mistaken, for 1 would have let
'em smash the old pump rather thau ruu
the risk of takin' an innerccnt life, much
less yours, or even hurtin'you, for I've had
j a liatikeriii' after you this mauy a day."
I The widow's cheeks flushed a deeper red,
and her eyes sparkled with the light of
joy; but she could not resist the temptation
to say, "You looked a good deal more iu
earnest when you threatened to throw that
cau ut uie thau you do now, and if I was
mistaken then, mebbe I oughtn't to be
quick in believing now."
"I had to look mighty much 111 earnest
then, for look:: had to do the business, but
now I'm trnstiu' mostly to words."
"Well, if you can trust them, 1 guess I
can too."
After that declaration there was nothing
in the widow's manner that ili tressed Jim.
— l,. KINKE.WI in Hurjjfi'n IVcikly.
Electric Force in a Derrick.
The I'niyn-mire .4 ;/< relates an amusing
exhibition of the magnetic force of elec
tricity as given in Lynn, Ma <., when
seven workmen tried to remove a derrick
against which an electric, light wire was
sagging. They grasped one of the guys
and were unable to remove their bauds.
'l'be I'oreiuitii Iterated his workmen iu the
good old country fashion. He had never
had experience with electricity before, and
was at a loss to comprehend what had so
suddenly bewitched his men. Every one
uf them was hanging to the guy rope with
the energy of desperation, yet powerless
: to move it. The foreman grasped a gay,
and then the real stale of the case came
home lii him. lie, too, was trauslixed.
The electric current fouud him an excel
lent conductor, and ran down through
bint into mother earth The affair, which
had been very amusing, was last getting
serious, when the connection «an as sud
denly broken. The guy, whi.h had made
all the trouble, dropped away Irom the
electric wires and the men were released.
No serious consequences ensued.
A reliable stomach is man's best friend
—The white hat bcgius to fade out o'
sight.
Amiable Barbarians.
Theoilore CUiUi, 1 n llmj'trg Uiiffaziue
for .V/ttemhtr. m
From the Tsar down to the humtdest
inujik, the Rusrians are more or less bar
hariaus, from the point of view of the re
fined We.-t, but certainly must amiable
barbarians, -o far as foreigners are con
cerned. Their Im-pitality knows no limits:
no trouble is too great «heu it is a ques
tion of obliging a foreign visitor; but
i charming as they are, you are 1 onstantly
being reminded of lhe wildness of their
' real underlying nature by the strange
| contrasts of delicacy aud brutality, of
I civilization aud barbarism, which their
| daily life offers. To hear the Russians
' talk about the unwritten coutemporarj
i history of their social and national life is
like listening to the stories of the Arabian
Nights The true narrative of bkobelcfTs
Career aud death, and the narrative of the
j circumstances of the assassination of the
I late Tsar, are far more thrilliug and ex
j traordinary than print has ever told.
As an example of the strange contrast?
of real Russia we will cite two anecdotes
that were related t.. us by a distinguished
official, whose intention was certainly not
to throw dust in otir eyes, or even to as
tonish us beyond measure The conver
sation happened to turn upon General
I.oris Melikofl'. the tain..us chief of the
dreaded "third section." The Emperor,
we were told by onr informant, had given
Loris Melikofl unbounded power to act
against the Nihilists, and had virtually
created him vice-Emperor, as Melikofl
i himself used to say. Now, Melikofl" had
discovered that one of the leading Nihilist
chiefs was in the habit of frequently visit
ing Count Tolstoi, the novelist, and oue
day he went out to Tolstoi's country
house. Hefore the visitor had announced
himself. Tolstoi recognized him, and
said :
"You are Loris Melikoff. chief of the
third section. Do you come to see me
officially, or as a private man ? If you
come officially, here are my keys; search ;
open everything. You are free."
"I come not officially," replied Melikoff.
"Very good," answered Tolstoi; and
c-alliug two innjiks, he said to thein,
"Throw this man out of the house !"
The niujiks obeyed Tolstoi to the letter,
aud Loris Melikofl had to accept this
treatment, for in his way Tolstoi is a
mightier man than "our father the Tsar."
In the eyes of the Russian people he is an
exceptional being, beiug more than a saint,
and almost a saviour
The mention ol Loris Melikofl' brought
up another anecdote. Some twelve years
ago the Emperor sent for Melikoff and
announced to him that the plague was
raging in two villages of the empire, aud
ordered him to du whatever was needful
with a view to toppiug its ravages, at the
same time giving him unlimited powers.
Thereupon Loris Melikofl' went first
of alt to the Minister of Finance, in
formed him that he should perhaps require
a great deal of money iu order to carry out
the Emperor's commands, aud demanded
a credit id' fifty millions of rubles. The
Minister of Finance uiade a long face, but
was unable to refuse. Loris Melikofl
then posted to the villages iu que tion.aud
having observed the situation, he tele
graphed for twenty tire engines to he sent
from the neighboring towns, had the
pumps charged with petroleum, and or
dered the firemen to approach the villages
by night, inundate the cottages with pe
troleum, set them on fire, and save 110
body. The order was executed : the cot
tages and their few hundred inhabitants—
men, women, children, and cattle—were
burned to ashes, and those two villages
disappeared from the niup of Russia and
from the registers of the empire. The
measure was radical, but it stamped out
the plague effectually. Loris Melikofl
thereupou reported to the Emperor that
his commands had been executed, and
then called 011 the Minister of Finance to
tell him that out of the credit of fitly mil
lions of 1 übles granted to him he bad spent
only two hundred rubles to buy petroleum,
and that consequently his Excellency the
Minister could dispose of the balance.
In both of these stories which we have
reason to believe to lie literally exact, we
tind that curious mixture of the grandiose,
of ostentation, aud of barbaric reckless
uess which are characteristic of the ltus
sian temperament.
The Baby and the Bug.
A Boston journal says; Among the
passengers on the St. Louis express yes
terday, was a woman very much over
dressed, accompanied by a bright looking
nurse girl and a self willed, tyrannical boy
of about three 3 - ears.
The hoy aroused the indignation of the
pasr-cugers by his continual shrieks aud
kicks screams, aud his viciousuess toward
his patient uurse. lie lore her bouuet,
scratched her hands and tiually spat iu her
face, without a word of remonstrance from
the mother.
Whenever the nurse manifested any
tiruiuess, the mother chided her sharply.
Finally the mother composed herself for a
nap, and about the time the boy had slap
ped the uurse for the tilth time, a wasp
came sailing iu and tlew ou the window of
the nurse's seat. The boy at once tried to
catch it.
The nurse caught his hand anil said,
eoaxingly:
"llarry mustn't touch. Hug will hite
Harry.
Harry creamed uvagely, and began to
kick and pound the liur.e.
The mother, without opening her eyes nr
lifting her head, cried harph
"Why do you tease that child <o, Mary*
Let him have what lie at mice "
"Bill ma'am it's a'—
"Let him have it, I say."
Thus encouraged, llarrj' clutched at tin
wasp and caught it. The scream that fnl
lowed brought tears of joy to the passen
gers' eyes.
The mother awoke again.
"Mary!" -he cried, let liiui have it.'
Mary turned in her seat and said confus
e.lly.
"lie's got it, iiia'aiu!"
Slaked Lime.
How ililferently they do things iu dilfer
cut countries. A few days ago liossip no
ticed that a lot of lime slacked by the rain
while iu the ear • had been hauled upon a
farm iu Adams county, because it was no
longer tit for use in building. In Lumpt;
this slacking would not have been consid
erod au injury to it. Home year • agowhen
the Italian artist, Miragola, vas frescoing
the new postoific, liossip a iked him why it
was that the Americans could not rough
cast a house so that it would rcsn-t the in
fluences ot the atmosphere. His reply was
that they did nut understand how to
lime, whereas in Kurope lime was slacked
for one, two, three, and as many as six
years before it was used, aud that it was
kept in bins over which the watei ran con
stautly, und, that, like good whisky, it in
creased iu value as it increased in years.
He also said that he knew nf rough ca.-t
houses iu Berlin, with a climate ideutical
with our own, that had stood in perfect
condition all the changes of temperature
for a century. What say you, master
builders* —Harrisburg Telegraph.
A Spider- Hunting Wasps.
Not loiifr since, while I wa ■ enjoying a
siesta mi tin* porch, my itt«sli<m wan sud
denly nitr.ti ted bjr -eeiug a very large
spider running up the body ol a tree about
ten feet away. The spider seemed to he
Tery much excited, and. alter he had run
up the body of the tree aliout "i* feet, he
ran out on a side limb, and. alter he bad
pone ahout eight feet out 011 this limb, he
dropped urt to thf ground X» sooner had
In- had truck the grouuil than he com
luenced a headlong flight through the
gr«-- of the lawn Alter lie ha>l run ahoat
i fire feet on the ground. I -aw a very large
wa>p. aliont two inches long, following the
track of the spider on the tree. The w B -p
was running and dapping hi* wing, m a
nervous matiuer. I>nt was not flying at all
In a few minutes the wasp arrived at the
spot tthera the spider had dropped off.
off. which, by the way. was about ten feet
from the ground ilere the wa«p became
very much excited, and ran rapidly hack
and forth about a minute Then he took
Hitrht. flew to the root of the tree, w here I
saw him at first, and rau up the track
again Soon he arrived at the jumping-off
place, and again became very excited, ruu
ning round and round, and dapping his
»ILL;S nervously Suddenly the wasp >toji
pi il. and appeared to be tkinkiit _</. Cer
tainly his actions bore out this conclusion,
for he closed his wings and dropped off the
limb, just where the spider had dropped.
Arriving at the ground, he recommenced
the search, and away he went, just exactly
as a hound would have followed a deer.
After running about ten feet on the
ground, he overtook his prey.
The spider either saw or heard his ene
my coming, for without waiting to be over
taken, he threw himself upon his hack,
with his feet in the air. and in this posture
awaited the attack. The wasp lost no time
in beginning, but, to my surprise, seemed
to he somewhat afraid of the spider. The
wasp took to his wings, and would fly
round and round the spider, and now and
then make a sudden thrust at him. The
spider would, at these times, jump forward
and seemed to be trying to catch the wasp.
The wasp was too agile, however, to lie
caught Suddenly the wasp made au at
tack, stuug the spider, aud in less than
half a second the spider was perfectly dead
Electricity could not have killed him thick
er. The wasp, alter satisfying himself that
his prey was (lead, sat 011 the grass nearby
and proceeded to rest himself, for his vio
lent efforts had exhausted him. After rest
ing about two minute - he approached the
filler, and, after examining him critically
with his antciiuie, straddled him, and pro
ceeded to bear him away.
Jnnt lu re I put in it say so, aud captured
wii.sp and spider, and immolated both to
uiy scientific curiosity. This occurrence
would seem to show that the wn~p can
track by smell, aud can likewise reason.
else why did he drop from the limb' I re
gret to say that I neglected lo keep the
spider and observe whether he had been
really killed, or only pnt into the letbariric
condition into which our dirt dauber* put
their spiders.
I uut not rersed in entomology sufficient
ly to give the technical names of either
wasp or spider. The spider wa very large,
his abdomen being about half an inch
long.—L. S. Friersou, in I'ofular Science
Sticn.
Mary Jane Had Him.
"You kin read writiu'. 1 presume?" he
queried, alter we had talked for a while on
the weather, crops, aud matters.
"I hope so," I replied.
"Wall, then, mehbe, you'd like to read
this. No perti'ckler interest to yon. but it
cost me iftilMi —that leetle scrap of paper "
"It seemed to be a receipt iu full of all
damages and account from Mary J l.ap
ham of Blaukville. county of Niagara, aud
State of Mew Vork." •
"That's what she is, stranger. liot it
this forenoon, after three month's hard
work, and I'll be lam slathered if I'm ever
caught iu that boat agin."
"Business transaction?"'
"No—love. Paid her #»>«ki in cold cash
to settle a breach of promise suit. I feel
as if a ten ton sand hill hail been taken off
my shoulders "
"Then as I understand it," I remarked,
"you and Mary were in love—engaged—
and you broke your promise.
"I'erzactly. Couldn't hit it stranrhter
The trouble was I couldn't remember that
I bad ever asked her to marry ine. I kin
der loveil to pass away the time. Jist felt
spooney, and so I spooned Stnii k a irirl
alter while whom I wanted to many, and
Mary .lane bobs up with a breach of prom
ise, damage $20,000 Told her to whistle.
Didn't believe she could prove anything
(.'ouldu't remember of writing her more
than three letters. She whistled Mary
dul She also employed a lawyer to wins
tie. He came down and showed me ;>2
ot my letters, every one spouting as a whale
spouts water.
"That was queer.
"I should smile! Hadu't the slighest re
collection of theiu epii-tles, but they were
mine just the suuie, aud. lnor'n that. I'd
signed the bulk of'em. Yours forever aud
ever, with lO.ihhj kisses.'
"Then you bad no defence.
"Not a shudder I was ready to swear
I'd never hinted marriage, hut the lawyer
had marked twenty -ix different paragraph
reading: M» augel one Heaven designed
you to be my wife. Set the day as soon
as possible.' Mary J. had me agiu Then
she had made affidavit of my hugging and
Mjiier/ing and railing her pet names, and
it »•».( no a e for me lo stand out. Wort
gaged my l.md aud dipped down and cried
and got a settlement.
"And it is a great moral lesson to you
"You chuckle? Ii a pan ■■ in my mad ea
reer re a lovi t It's a setback to my l<». •
ways of doing business. No gal on the
face of this earth will ever git that sort of
a bulge on me agin.
"Bat you have another love affair »n
hand.
".list no, but what I done' Taken a copy
of every letter writteu, and done all our
talking in front id' the old mail More't
that. I've obliged the gal to give me a cer
tificatc every Saturday night that I haven't
popped the question up to date kissed
her once, but had two witue. es hid 111 the
sheil to see that it was a calm, brotherly
kiss, and the only time I ever sqnof* her
hand I put the date right down. Oh, no.
they don't Mary Jane me agin—Uut for
Joseph and all his relation*!
Why They Lead.
Mr. I'ieree'n medicines outsell all other*,
because of their possessing such superior
curative properties as to warrant their
manufacturers in supplying them to the
peiqde l as the) are doing through nil tlruk
gista) on such conditions a» no other medi
cines are wold under, vi/ that they -hall
either benefit or i ure *tbe palieut, or all
money paid for them will lie refunded The
"Golden Medical Discovery" i- specific fur
catarrh in the head and all bronchial,
throat and lung diseases, it taken in time
•Hid jriven a fair trial. M"iie\ will lie re
funded it it does not benefit or cure
Mall doesn't feel like writing sonnet*
on "a woman s crowning glury when he
sees it in the top bureau drawer.
The Man-eating Tigress.
A 4 orr*" , p«»ii«lt*nt writing from liuiui to
the f.Mylitli UnhiiHir ly The notonou'
Jmi 11 tar man eating time** h»« at last been
killed by a young foreet i.lb.*r Tb»
tigre-- ha- he« n the scourge of the neigh
horhood of I'hakrata for the last teu yean,
and her victims hare lieen innumerable
On one netHUtjim 'he -cired one ont of a
number of forester- who were sleeping to
get her in a hut, carried him off and de
lilterately made him over to her cubs to
play with, while she protected their in
nocent gambols from being disturbed. Hi*
companions were eventually forced U> take
refuge in a tree from her savage attack*
Here they witue»sed the following ghastly
tragedy.
The tigTess went back and stood over the
prostrate form of her victim and purred in
a cat-like aud self-complacent way to her
Cubs, who were romping about and rolling
over the apparently lifeless body She
then lay down a few yards off. and with
blinking eyes watched the gambols of her
young progeny. lu a few moments the
mau sat up and tried to beat the young
brutes off They were too young to hold
him down, so he made a desperate attempt
to shake himself free, and started off at a
ruu, but before he had gone twenty rard*
the tigress bounded out aud brought him
back to her cubs Once more the doomed
wretch had to defend him-elf over again
from their playful attacks. He made
Dewed attempts to regaiu his freedom, bnt
was seized by the old tigreas aud hroagfat
back each time hefoie he had goae many
yards. His groan- and cries for help were
heartrending; but the men on the tree were
paralyzed with fear, and quite unable to
more.
At last the tigress herself joined in the
gamltols of her cubs, anl the wretched
man was thrown about and tossed over her
head exactly as many of ns hare seen our
domestic cat throw rats and mice about
before beginning to feed on them The
man's eliorts at escape grew feebler For
the last time they saw him try to get away
ou bis hands and knees toward a large fir
tTee, with the t übs clinging to his hubs
This final attempt was as futile a« the rest.
The tigress brought hnn back once again,
and then held him down uude* her fore
paws, aud deliberately begau her living
meal before their eyes.
It was this formidable beast that the
young Cooper's Hill olheer and a student
attacked on foot. They were working np
her trail, fifteen yards apart, when sudden
ly Mr O uiaston heard his younger com
panion groan, aud. turning round, saw him
borne to the ground by the tigreas. Mr.
Omnastou fortunately succeeded in shoot
iog her through the -pine, and a second
ball -topped her iu midspnng Meantime
his companion rolled over the bill, and was
eventually discovered insensible a few feet
away from his terrible assailant. Ha i*
terribly mauled, but hopes of hi* recovery
are entertained.
The F.I led of Tight Clothing.
Now that rational ideas as to drea* have
acquired a definite place in public esteem,
it may be imagiued that the practice of
tight lacing and customs of a like nature,
known at all. are n>t what they used tn
be A case of sudden death lately report
ed firoin Birmingham proves that it is too
early to indulge in such illusory ideas.
The deceased, a servant girl of excitable
temperament, died suddenly in an epilep
toid fit. and the evidence given before the
coroner respecting her death attributed the
fatal issne to asphyxia, doe in a great
measure to the fact that both need and
waist were unnaturally constricted by her
clothing, the former by a tight collar, the
latter by a belt worn under the stays. We
have here certainly those very conditions
which would lead ns to expect the worst
possible consequences from a convulsive
seizure There l» no organ of the body
whose free movement is at such tunes
more iiuportaut than the heart. Tet here
we find, ou the oue hand, its movement
hampered by a tight girdle *o placed that
it could with difficulty he undone at a
critical moment, on the other, a coatnv
ame admirably adapted to allow the pas
sage of blood to the brain, while impeding
its return. This is uo isolated case as re
gard* its essential charactei "Vnyh. hap
pily. somewhat singular in it* termiu."—*«.
Miuor degrees of asphyxiation. w« fear, are
still submitted to by good a many self tor
turing children of vanity. The tight cor
set and the hich heel still work mischief
on the bodies of demoted wearers Taste
and reason, indea. combine to deprecate
their injurious and ml«ar bondage, and by
no means unsuccessfully Still, the evil
niaiutaius itself Cases like that above
mentioned ought, if they do not. open the
eyes of some self worshipper* wf the other
sex, who heedlessly stnve by such means
to excel in a sickly grace. We would
strongly impress on all of this clase the
fact that beauty is impossible without
health, aud would ad rise them, in the
name of taste as well as comfort, to avotd
those methods of i outortiou. one ami all.
by which elegance is only caricatured, and
health may l>e painfully and permanently
injured. l.anrtl
Bill Arp's Sound Advic*.
Rill Arp in Atlanta Coaetitatioa.
It is au old saying that if a young man
saves his fir t 91.1M10 he will get rich—thai
is so in uine cases out of ten —yes. if he will
save bis first <I«H> he will succeed, and any
young nian can save that in a year M he
will let whisky and tobacco and the *•
ciety girl alone Society will keep a poor
ynmtg man poor It keep* married folks
poor I am thinking now of a married
man Itowed down with debt while his fa«a
ily is trying to keep on the r»rr«l edge of
society. Such people are the town talh
and don't know it. There are nice yoaa*
tnen iu every town who hare been rlerkia«
for years and haven't laid up a dollar
Capital is very particular nn* a 4ar-
Kamily influence isa t worth a cent aow
A yonng man stands on hi* merits, hie
| habits, his associations. Yonng man. there
is a blue I took in every toWn and ywar
name is on it. Ilut there is ao exrnse for a
man failing to get employment in this
blessed couutry. If he does not it Is hi*
own fault If be mil tie fin young aad
work bard and brhaTe himself he will
accumulate a plenty for his old age Old
age wants some money. It want* rest and
should have it. 'Otiuiii •um dignitate is
l.atiu for dignified leisure, but 1 heant
Judge I'nderwood «ay it meant - rest
comes alter digging " Ihg hr«t and rest
afterwards
The bustle dies hard
There i*u'l much ptdlbe* afloat
—There is no nere ,||r for a man being
idle in this town
—Sly Cupid did his Work well this
uier, aud the lesults are appareut
l»r I'ietce'. I'ellets— genUy laxative or
actively cathartic according to do*e. i*>
Cents
Miow fell iu Dakota last week,
"Unn't h< aidi. ted with yoarself
Or Judge by thimble measure
Dou t hate your humor* like your aches;
Ooji i nouuee ou other folks' mistake*.
Don't lie that gruesome ass wb<« rr.ake*
\ svlemti thing a pleasure.
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