VOL XXX Jennie E. Zimmerman. Latest Styles, Lowest Prices Wraps, Millinery, Dress Goods, Novelties, Blankets, Underwear, Hosiery and Domestics of all kinds You are cordially invited to call and in spect our stock. JENNIE E. ZIMMERMAN, (Successor to Rittc-r & Ralston.) N\ B.—Hot coffee and lunch served free to all our customers every Saturday during the Winter Season. Commencing Saturday, Nov. 4th. J. E. Z. DOIsT'T YOU THINK You had better be getting your WINTER FOOTWEAR?, The boys and girls are now going to school. The cold, wet weather is here, and they must have boots and shoes that will posi tively keep their feet dry and warm. SHODDY GOODS WON'T DO IT, No one can afford to have cold, wet feet. It costs too much to settle THE DOCTOR'S BILL. It's penny wise and pound foolish. HUSELTON keep* the kind of Footwear 70a are looking for, both in quality and price, and what be tolla, von can rely on ia right. READ A FEW PRICES: Men'* Kip Boot*, tap tole box-t s3.oo and .J3.50 lleo'a Kip Boota. *ole leather counter 250 and 2.75 Hen'a Heavy Bootn, prime 1.40 and 2.00 Men's He**/ Shoe* 70 and 1.00 Men'i Fine Hbom, Con')?, and Bah 95 and l«j Boys' Extra Prime Kip BooU 1.75 and 2.00 Boya' Extra Heavy BooU 1.25 and 1.50 Boys' Heavy Bhoe* 75 and 1.00 Boya* Fine Shoe*, button and lace 1.00 aod 125 Boya' Extra High t'ut Tap Sole Shoe* 1.75 and 2.00 Women'* Fine Shoe*, button 86c , l.ro and 126 Women'* Extra Oil G-a n Hattoo Shoes 1.00 and 1.25 Women's Extra Oil Grain Lace Shoe* 1.00 and 1.2" Women's V«*l Kip Lace Shoe* 75 aud 1.00 Women'* Kiu Shoea, uniined SIOO, 1.25 and 1.50 Mlaaea' Good Heavy Shoea 75 and 1.00 Misses Fine I Kid Button 75 Mi we* Fine DonfcoU Button, Pat. Kip 1.00 Women'* and WimwV Kip and Calf Shoea a specialty. Womcu'i Warm Flannel Lined Shoea 75 and 1.00 Women's Warm Flannel Lined Slipper* 50 WE LEAD IN RUBBER GOODS! 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P«V BERKIMER & TAYLOR, Funeral Directors and Erabalraers iam oid ]!«(!•, next door to Po9t Office, Butler, Pa., prompt attention jjiven to orders, day or night. MRTED- - LAQf,»■ fc* • fcnoH.. >• y tint 4t. Sir! itic'Wm. [Copyright. 1593. by A. N. KeMofcfc Newspa^^o CHAPTER VIL A MTwritrocs rtra The manner and of Mr. Dorion did but increase my anxiety to hear all that he cotild tell about my strangle benefactor. To overcome his reluctance. I gave him the story of my life as it has been set forth in the pre vious chapters, dwelling much upon the deep impression that Mr. Bostock's liberality and his interest in me had produced, how for years I had cher ished the hope of joining' him here, the difficulties I had overcome to do so, and my present deep disappointment. My account evidently touched the listener. "I see I must tell you what I know. .You have a plain right to be told. The whole story has grown into the most disagreeable recollection of my life, and with any ordinary inquirer I should ignore the whole business. And if j-ouwill hear it, you must be warned, at the start, that it will furnish what I should think will be good reasons why you should now abandon your search for Pierce Bostock. Shall Igo on?" "By all means." I will put the narrative in his own language, as nearly as possible. My acquaintance with Bostock be gan about the year 1841, when he came up here from Louisiana to look for a cotton plantation that would suit him. The account that he gave of himself was, I have no doubt, strictly true. He had been raising sugar al most all his life in La Fourche district of Louisiana, and he desired a change. He proposed to keep his great planta tion there under the charge of a competent overseer, aq<l to live here, ne must be immensely wealthy; for seeing and liking this plantation he paid cash for it. If you'll look over it with me in the morning, you can oasily make up your mind that it re quired a fortune to do that. He removed here that September, brinpinp some of his house servants. He had two children —an infant in its nurse's arms, littlo Coralie, of whom you will presently hear more; and a son, Conrad, then fifteen years old. He never said much about his wife. In fact, he never named her of his own accord; to those who thought they had the right to ask questions, he in variably replied that she was Parisian born, and could not live away from Paris, even with her husband and children. All understood from this that it was a case where husband and wife had "agreed to disagree." 1 never could see that any one of the numerous slave women that were about this house in those days occu pied the position of housekeeper. There were two or three of them who were quite capable of it; but Bostock was accustomed to get along in an easy, in dulgent way, without anyone to look sharply after the household affairs. Ho there was waste, extravagance and confusion, as there always will be where there is an indulgent m#>ter, and no white woman to hold the rein over a lot of idle, shiftless darkies. The boy Conrad I liad better dispose of at once. It has been many years since I saw him. I certainly never want to sec him again. He was a wild, undutiful fellow, and in con tinual difliculty with his father. When he was twenty he disappeared. I presume that Mr. Bostock knew where he went; but he never men tioned him and nobody cared to know. If there could be such a tiling as a born gambler, I should say that Conrad THK WARimVK. Bostock was one. When but sixteen he woulil go to Vlcksburg and spend days and nights there, in the lowest resorts along the river. He never seemed to mo to btand in tho least awe of his father, but Mr. Bostock always appeared uacaay when ho was about. AVhen ho went away there was a rumor that he received a large sum of money from his father upon condition that ho should never return. This may have been mere rumor; I only know that the people about here never did ' see him again, anil that I, knowing as much as anybody of the family in those days, never saw tho least sign of af fection between father and son. To a person who had never seen l'ierco Bostock, all this would natural ly convey an unfavorable impression. It would be said that there seemed to be something unexplained, and that tho man's life could not have been what it ought to have been. To you, who saw him at the time that every body was charmed ami captivated by him, I ran say that we hardly be- Btowed a thought on these things. Tho man made friends witli everybody. This house was Goodfellow's hall to the men; if the ladies could not como hero because thcro was no Mrs. lios tock, nor even a housekeeper, they nevertheless spoko of its master as the most gallant and men. Especially was thia so after he had got rid of his scapegrace son. There seemed then to bo not a cloud in his sky. Ho was cheerful, even hilarious, tho idol of Ills friends, owning the finest cotton lands in middle Mifsit t ippl. You have heard something of southern hospitality; you should have seen fur yourself how it was dispensed here in the days of Pierce llo' toek. Ye' I have not R'T tried t'l" « hi«-f SOUK • of »1, mi!i. ' ..-.pin.- I' vas hi She was atwjut fifteen when I last saw her; she must be in the vicinity of eighteen now. My young friend, you'll agree that I ain rather too old a man to fro into any raptures about female beauty. You saw my wife and daughters; they aro good enough for me; they are my mod els among women. Yet I must say that Coraiio Bostock, when 1 last saw her, war, the finest girl that I ever laid eyes on; and I suppose that she is to day the most beautiful one at the south. There aro not many pure nativo blonde-, among us; she is one. But her hair, her eyes, her eyebrows and long lashes are dark as midnight. She was slender, but not petite, in Jiami hULMIIS. Wlltf HT T TLTCR. FA.,FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1893. her laugh was more musical than tho song of the mocking bird. Her man ners were winning anil gracious, even from a little girl. She seemed the very apple of her father's eye. At one time he took her down to New Orleans, and left her with the Sisters of the .Sacred Heart to be educated. But ho could not do without her. In less than a month he had brought her home, and from that time he had her teachers here in the house half the year. She learned quickly; music and the languages seemed to come to her like a second nature. And never did child more warmly reciprocate a parent's lavish affection than did Coralie that of her father. Time passed on, and that fatal April of 1853 came round. Bostock had issued invitations fpr a gentleman's dinner party. I was in vited, of course. Alphonse Basnet, a Frenchman owning the plantation adjoining the one I then occupied, called on me in the morning, and asked me if I should attend Bostock's party. I told him that I should. "Well," he said, "I want your ad vice. lam asked, too. A countryman of mine, Castex by name, who has lived in Louisiana, and more lately in Arba, arrived at my place yesterday. When I told him of my invitation he became greatly interested and asked me to take him along." "Take him, then. That, I believe, is one of the usages of society tho world over." "Yes, to be sure; but Castex leads me to think that he has known our host before. He has asked me fifty questions about him. He seems much more interested than he naturally would be, growing out of any ordinary acquaintance in past years. I must take him, of course. What I want you to advise me about is: Shall I go over and speak to Mr. Bostock this morning about him?" I was on the point of advising Al phonse to do so, by all means, as I cer tainly should have done had Castex been my visitor. I have often thought, that, had I obeyed my impulse, the bloody combat that has been described to you might have been avoided. Then came the reluctance to interfere in a matter of other men's social responsi bilities, and I declined to advise him. Alphonse returned home, and his guest accompanied him to the dinner-party unheralded. It so happened that these two arrived last. With them there were thirteen in the parlors, tho host making the fourteenth. All who had been invited were present, save one; and I remem ber "iat as Mr. Castex was presented to the company, there was much re mark and jest about our good luck In hnving him there, so as to avoid the awkward thirteen at the table. When he was introduced to the host, a different scene occurred. Mr. Bos tock started, changed color, withdrew his proffered hand and made a slight bew instead. Castex smiled, bowed, and turned away. In my eyes bo had a most disagreeable face, and the smile was very nearly a sneer. It was an awkward incident, and threw a chill over the party at the start; for everybody observed it. Still, there was no outbreak just then. Din ner was soon announced, and Mr. Bos tock led the way to tho hall. Tho host was at the head of tho table, of course; I happened to be at the foot. Next on the right of the head was a doctor; next sat Basnet, his friend beside him. The soup had but just been served when Coralie, then but twelve years old, came to an open door and stood an instant. She evidently desired to speak to her father, but, seeing that he and his guests were seated, she went away. Castex saw her, and stared at her. Directing the attention of Bostock to her, he put a question to him in French. It was answered in the affirmative. Basnet says that the question was: "Is that your child, monsieur?" Then, upon receiving the reply, Cas tex leaned over the angle of the table and made a rapid rejoinder also in French. Basnet distinguished the words: "Wife," "avenged" and "New Orleans." More than these nobody un derstood. Nobody but tho host. The remark, whatever it was, was for his ears, and he heard every word of it. He looked at Castex—horror, indignation, hate, were in the look. The attention of the whole table was fastened upon tho scene. "Gentlemen," said Bostock, "some thing very disagreeable has occurred. I could pardon much in a man sitting at my table and eating my salt; but I say now that cither Napoleon Castex or I must leave this table. Well know ing that his presence in my house and at my board would be idiocyho has taken advantage of a social license to force himself upon me. 'I hat I could endure in silence, out of regard for my friends, that nothing unseemly might occur here. But ho is not content with tbat exhibition of hia malignant heart; he has just this moment put upon mo an insult which 1 cannot and will not tolerate. If I could I know not what next to expect from him. f repeat it— either he or I must leave this table." In the painful silence that succeeded this startling speech, all eyes were fixed on Castex. He rose from his seat, cool and smiling. "It pi ease a roe very much to retire," h«- said. "Witness It, tnossieura'.—yon der gentleman drives me. from his table and his house." He bowed, and immediately left tho room. Alphonse Basnet squirmed in his chair, anil at last blurted out: "Bostock, my dear fellow excuse me—but you see I can't remain. This is a wretched business; 1 hope it will end here. But I brought my friend here, and of course I must go with him." And ho did. Tho soup grew cold, and was removed untasted; course after course of tho choicest dishes succeeded aud were hardly touched. Everybody was under a dreadful constraint; occa sionally there was a solitary remark, but the effort to keep up a conversa tion was a flat failure. I have said so much, that I ought to tell tho whole truth. When tho wine appeared, tho guests turned to it as a relief from the awkwardness of the situation. 1 pre sume everybody drank too much; 1 am certain that I did. I will except Bos tock. He sat pale, rigid and silent through it all. Tho guests departed early, with hardly an effort to make the usual compliments to the host. Tho next morning I was hardly out of bed when Pierce Bostock walked In. Ho looked as stem and white as when he was denouncing ''astex at his own table. "Well, li«-'s challenged you," was my salutation. "No. I shall challenge him. Here's the note. 'Jake It to him, and then go to the man that he names as hla friend." I was thunderstruck. I tried to re monstrate with him. I told him that, so far as an outsider cotild judge, i< anybody had cause to send a challenge, it was Caste x. I begged him to tell tne, in the strict confidence of friend ship, what the language was that Castes had uttered to him. I told him that I could not act intelligently for him in this matter, unless I was ad vised. He peremptorily refused to tell me. "You have been my friend, Dorion," he said. "When I say to you that no human being must know my cause of offense, you will believe that there the best of reason for my silence. Na poleon Caste* knows, no man better knows, the nature of his offense. Ho knows mt, also; and he understands that if he were to lisp a hint of my reasons for challenging him. I would seek him and shoot him down like a dog! Don't argue with me, Alfred Dorion; I tell you the man is a cold blooded scoundrel; he has sought me out to force a quarrel upon me, and there are the best of reasons why the affair must go on." There was nothing for me to do but to deliver the challenge. I found Cas tex cool, polite and consenting. "There is not one of my name," he said, with his marked French accent, "who ever refused the request of a gentleman to meet him on the field of honor. M. Bostock thinks him self insulted. Some might think that I was. No matter; here is his chal lenge. Take it to my dear Alphonse; he will arrange everything with you. I only say to you, that my remark to M. Bostock was the truth. He knows it to be the truth; and he has not the grace to sec that I put it in the lan guage of la-belle France, that others might not understand it. So much you may tell him, if you choose." The affair went on to its frightful end. Nobody could discover the truth. Basnet tried his best to make his man divulge the cause of offense, but in vain. "I only told him the truth, and told it in French, that it might not be heard by others. After I have fought him, I will tell it very loudly, in your harsh English, do you be sure. Mean while, I am quite willing to fight him. I knew him long before you did." The wound that Pierce Bostock re ceived was as nearly fatal as a wound can be and leave the victim alive. The ball traversed his lung; nothing but the extraordinary skill of tho doctor saved him. The doctor had served in the Mexican war, and happened to wit ness tho successful operation of a Mexican surgeon upon a similar wound of Gen. Shields, by cleansing it with a silk handkerchief. In this way Bos tock's life was saved; but the fever that followed confined him to his bed for weeks, drained his strength, and loft him only the shadow of his former self. His affection for his daughter seemed doubled, if that were possible, by this dreadful experience. In every waking hour he wanted her with him. In his delirium he would call her name; when conscious, he would hold her hand and look silently into her face as she sat by his bed. I used often to call upon him while he was confined to the house. One day he sent Coralio out of the room and asked mc to shut the door. "You are still my friend, Alfred Dorion—arc you not?" lie abruptly be gan. "To be sure I am. While I am dread fully distressed by what has hap pened—" "No matter about that. I want you to tell mc something. What hap pened after I got that man's bullet? I think iny senses were wandering. What did I say?" I told him. I repeated his expres sions—that he regretted that he had killed Castex; that he wanted to spare him; that he was anxious to hear from him a retraction of the words which had caused the duel. His face darkened as he listened. "Do you mean to say that I said all that silly stuff?" "I have only repeated your own words." "Then my brain vat wandering. Dorion, I meant to kill him. He has gone to be judged, as I must be one day; but, I tell you, I am not sorry he has gone. Ho well knew when he camo up here with his malignant tongue that cither his lifo or mine must be forfeited." You can imagine what effect such a declaration had on me. It showed me a sidoof Bostock's character that I had never suspected to exist. I began to DRAW away from him, as did others of hia friends. * In less than two years after the duel ho had alienated himself from all of us. Ills nature seemed to have changed. Ho became cold, reserved and haughty. He was very little seen away from his home. When ho re moved to Louisiana, ho passed away from all intercourse with his old friends licro. He has answered no let ters. When I bought this place, I ne gotiated with him through an agent. You can sec, knowing all this, that his life before ho came here was cloud ed with something fearful and mys terious. I have wearied my brain in it can be. Ills wife, Conrad, Coralie, —which of them does it affect —or does it relate to all of them? If you can guess, you are shrewder than I. CHAPTER VIII. IIETWEE* DUTY AHD TEMPTATION. I slept very soundly that night. The experience and revelations of tho last twenty-fon* hours had been to mo more f WAS 1.1011TK.11 Mill \ PAIR 0» TAf.f, WAX cAirm.Ks. than incomprehensible; they were staggering. I tried to think about the astounding story that Mr. Dorion had told me, after I had bidden him good nitfht, aod had been lighted with a pafr of tall wax tapers up a broad stairway to a large, square bed-chamber, where a great high-posted, canopied and curtained bed awaited me. I say I tried to think of it; but I could make nothing of it; I speedily tfavo it up, and lapsed away into slumber. Bodily and mentally, 1 was tired, aud I slept late. 1 was aroused by a prolonged knocking at my chamber door, through which ran a continual current of tiogro-talk. "Please, young maussa, would you get up au' come down to breakfast? Maussa Dorion say, wake yo' up easy; an' yo' pass out yo' boots to be shlned." When, au hour later, I was seated at the planter's hospitable table, it DSimulJil Vvcu Mt. here for a year. Mr. Dorion, clad in a loose linen suit, his wife and three daughters, all pleasant, cool and at least one of them handsome, Enter tained n«e with easy and agreeable conversation. It warms my heart now to think of this, my first agree able introduction to southern hospital ity. As for the feast tliat was spread on that board —I despair of conveying an adequate idea of its profusion. I was the "stranger within their gates:" I was therefore entitled to all that they could set before mc. Coffee, and milk, bacon, eggs, white and corn broad, fish from the river, hominy— where shall I stop? I had an appetite; but it soon surrendered before the great supply that loaded the table. After breakfast, Mr. Dorion took me out on the shady west veranda, and smoked. I declined the weed, and he good-humoredly said: "You'll have to learn, youngster, if you're going to stay in the south. Like the morning cocktail, tobacco is a social force here. And you've been here at my plantation fourteen hours and haven't said a word about politics or slavery. lam beginning to doubt whether you are northern born or not." I saw that he was bantering me, but I replied, serionsl}-; "I have never voted yet, and I know nothing about politics. As to slavery, I hope to get some information about it. I have very little yet." He clapped me heartily on the shoul der. "You talk like a sensible young fel low. I wish all this noise in congress and in the press could stop, and that the northerners could come down here, and see what slavery is like. Come along with me, and I'll show you a little of it." We went back to the negro quarters; a small street of comfortable white cabins. As we passed through, the darkies ran out to see "Ole Maussa." The young children, with hardly an apology of cotton clothing to hide their blackness, laughed and chatted round him. Withered old crones and rheumatic "uncles" hobbled to the doors to see him. Lusty young negroes and negresses gathered about him, eagerly discussing the prt«pects of "the crop." "Here they are," said Mr. Dorion. "Something more than a hundred of them. You see their disposition. All that are able to work are aching to get into the cotton field to 'save do crop.' " "Would you sell one of these slaves?" "Sell one of them? Me? Why, I'd as soon think of selling one of my own girls." "Do all planters feel that way?" "I can't say; likely not. I know of many who do." "Is it not true that at the slave marts in New Orleans and Charleston young girls are sold on the auction block, and that mothers are separated from young children?" Mr. Dorion answered with some warmth: "You said you didn't know anything about slavery, my boy; your questions show me that you have read a great deal about it. I suppose the things that you speak of do exist; I don't know; they are just as strange to mo MR. DORION FAJFNED lIIMBr.I.F WITH HIS KAT. as though my lifo had been passed in Siberia. Here is my south—right here, among these people who raiso a bale of cotton to the acre, and care for their niggerH as no white man at tho north could be coaxed or driven to do. JWell, here we are, at tho edge of the cotton fields. Take a look there!" I looked, and I saw tho sight that I had already seen a dozen times at a distance on my way down the river. Hundreds of acres bursting into tho snowy bloom of the cotton; a mimic snowstorm, with tho contrast of deep green foliage all about It, and azuro skies and unclouded sun above it. The sight was one to remember for a lifetime. Under the shade of a broad-armed oak at tho border of the fields Mr. Dorion sat down and fanned himself with his hat. "See here, my boy," he said, "I've got something to say to you. I want to talk to you like a father. Sit down there and hear me." I complied. "When you camo here, last night, you were no more to me or to my fam ily than any other traveler from tho north would bo. You have been with us but a little while, and, I'm free to say, you have grown on us. You aro a lad of sense and spirit; I like you. My wifo told me this morning that slio hoped I could keep you hero awhile. Now, don't you l>e too much flottered, my lad. My wifo '» a sensible woman; she knows that tw<*of our daughters are engaged to be married, and that the other is likely to be, very soon. I don't expect any danger from you in that quarter. But my overseer is get ting cranky; he is a northern man, and he don't use the field hands Just as I would like. Tho Idea has been pass ing through my mind all night that I would like to keep you %vith me, and learn you all about tho plantation and the hands. Then, In a few months, I can dismiss the'overseer and put you in his place. You are northern born; but I feel as if you would be a suc cess in that place. What do you say?' I felt tempted. * hesitated, and knew not what to say. Then I replied: "You overpower me with your offer, Mr. Dorion. If it were not for my duty to Mr. Bostock —" He snatched me up Impatiently: "Your duty to Bostock? Yon owo him none. Let me warn yon not to sacrifice your prospect* to a mere sen timent. The man that you think you owo some obligation to is a changed, embittered man. Do not thinl. that ho will receive you with th® cordiality that he showed you ten years ago in your northern home. Ho may not know you at all. I don't know what manner of reception he will give you. Have you thought of this?" I was silent. Ho was encouraged by my silence, and went ou: "And think, for a moment, what you are exposing yourself to! You aro seek ing to link your fortunes to those of a man who has clouded his life. He has alienated ull tho friends that he mailo hero. There ia a fearful mystery bung ing over his pant life. Ido not know — you do not know-how you may be come complicated with it. If you persist in going on. I only say to you—ahun him!" I heard his words. I reflected; and the temptation to heed them grew less and less. 1 recoiled tho poverty of my lifo on tb© Nevir Hampablro farm; iny yearning to bo with him. "When," I thought,"did he noed friendamore than now?" I was quickly decided. "I am grateful, very grateful to you, M r - X>vd"?i" y "But I must stand by Mr. Bostce!:." lie looked hard ut me, and seized ray hand. "Yon ore a splendid fellow," he sai«l. "I am disappointed; but 1 reckon you are right. " |TO IX COSTISCED.J GREATEST OF LIGHTS. Tho Mighty Senrehor Now in Usa at Chicago. Th© R(fl««et4<d Hrxru Out l»j th« Mam moth Luntcru to Milhoni ('poll .tl ill ion A of C andlt*?. To America belongs the honor of con structing the largest and most power ful electric search light in the world, now being set up at the world's fair. It stands about ten feet .six inches high to the upper side of the ventilator on •Ac top of the drum, and the total jveight is about 6,000 pounds, but so perfectly is it mounted and balanced that a child can move it in any di rection. The reflecting ler.s mirror used in this projector is 150 centimeters, or 00 inches in diameter. It is a concave spherical mirror of the Mangin type, free from spherical aberration, reflect ing a sensibly parallel beam of light. It was manufactured especially for this projector in Paris, France, and is a most perfect specimen of optical work, three und one-fourth inches thick at the edges and one-sixteenth of an inch thick at the center, and weighs aliout SOO poun ls. The metal ring in which it is mount ed weighs about "50 pounds, and tho total lens, ring and cover weigh about 1 600 pounds. This great mirror is mounted at one end of the big drum, the outer end of which is furnished with a door consisting of a metal rim in which arc fixed a number of plate glass strips five-sixteenths of an inch thick by six inches wide. Inside this drum and sliding upon ways arranged on the bottom is placed the electric lamp, the source of the light which is reflected by the mirror. It is entirely automatic in its actiou, is six feet high and weighs about 400 pounds. The carbons used are also made especially for it. The upper or positive carbon is one and one-half inches in diameter and twenty-two and one-half inches long, with a five sixteenth of an inch core of soft carbon running from end to end through its center. The lower or negative carbon is one and one-fourth inches in diame ter. is fifteen inches long und also has a core of soft carbon running through its center. In addition its outer sur face is heavily coated with copper. The positive carbon is set a little in front of the negative, and thus almost all the intense light of the incandes cent crater is cast upon the reflector. The maximum cuirent at which this lamp operates is 200 amperes, and at this current the lamp has u luminous intensity of about 90,000 to 100,000 can diet., the reflected beam a total lumin ous intensity of about 875,000,000 can dles, an intensity which the eye cannot appreciate. In looking at the side of the lieam the spectator only distin guishes a stream of light of compara tively low intensity, but in looking ut the beam directly its brilliancy is ful ly seen and the effect is absolutely blinding. Ventilators at the top and sides allow a constant current of air to pass through the drums and dissi pate the heat generated by the arc lamp, and they arc so arranged that no light can escape through tliem All the connections for adjusting the positions of the cartons and the lamp are brought through the drum to the outside, and are arranged in close proximity to one another at one side, so that all may l>e manipulated :>y the operator without moving from his po sition. Through openings in the drum covered by densely colored glass the opcfltilon of the lamp may be watched and its adjustments verified. It was observed that the space with in the beum was violently agitated, and closer observation revealed the fnet that millions of moths anil minute insects were hoverinif in it, attracted by the brilliancy of the light. Next morning bushels of dead moths, beetles, other insects and some small birds were swept up from the roof on which the projector stood. They had boen killed by the intensity of the light. How far the powerful beam of light of this instrument can l>c seen is dif ficult to state. The search light set up on Mount Washington, in the White mountains, has a diameter of only thirty inches, and a reflected light from the mirror of about 100,000 candle power, yet the newspaper can be read in its beam ten miles away, and the light can be seen from jxiints 100 miles away. Uow much farther then could this 875,000,000 candle power light be seen in a clear atmosphere, free from moisture, if the projector could be mounted upon ail eminence sufficiently high to clear all obstacles. Titllori' Dummies, Wax figures are slowly disappearing as advertising agencies. The cheap tailors use figures of wire with heads of plaster and papier uiache. and the cheap dentists have taken in some of their horrible heads with staring eye* and teeth that were gnashed by ma chinery. The effect of summer sun on a few of the wax figures that are still used in shop windows is ghastly. There is one figure of a woman whose ftrin in drooping into a half-circle, and there is a tailor's dummy whose fore head is falling into his eyes, giving him a very malign expression. In a certain farce comedy a loud laugh Is raised at an incident in a tailor's shop. A comedian undertakes to sing "White Wind's," when one of the dummies that lias heen standing stiffly against the wall moves forward with clasped hands, makes a gesture of agonised en treaty, and walks off like an autom aton The singer stops. A Kindly I'rlnce**. The princess of Wales is very kind toiler poor nciglmrs at Sandringham. A writer in the Idler say* that oftrn she may be seen picking up the dusty little dots of children from the roods placing them in her own carriage un* 11 It is completely packed, and then duly delivering each at Its own home t< boast of having enjoyed n ride with her Another lilm!. Old Mr. Tenacres < all them cows! f never see no cows that looked like thein. ' Oambosh (who painted them, irrita bly)— Well, I don't suppose you've keen all the cows in the world. Bos ton (Jlobe. I'prplritng. He - 1 do not well see how you can bo a sister to me. She —And why not, pray? || f —Because I can't remember ever having been spanked on your account, and you never told any lies for me. Vogue. _ And It Would liniiilil III'. "What time have you 7" inquired the oily pickpocket, approaching the stout man with the heavy watch chain. "My own," said the stout man, and without taking his watch out. < hieago Record. lllil Him Injustice. Old Lady- I heard you swearing just now. You have a bad heart. Tramp —You do me injustice. 11i tiro. It isn't a bad heart; It's a bsd tooth - N. Y. Weekly. tMO 50 £ -J •' P° PS: THE POULTRY BUSINESS. Fowls Cannot !Jp Xex-irtrd Without D#y rrditb; the Income. The poultry business is enjoying something of a boom. There is a grow ing interest in it. People are learning that it is a source of ready profit and a bank that can be drawn upon at almost any time. They arc learning that while fowls cannot bo neglected and be profitable, that after all they need no more attention than they will repay, and repay well. * They ore learning that good fowls are just as readily ob tained and reared as poor ones; that A hen will lay eggs if she is given any thing to make egg out of, and is kept comfortable, and they are more and more conforming their management to these ncrr ary conditions. Farmers are getting better breeds; they arc building more convenient and mow comfortable houses, and they are feed ing more scientifically. Whoever does those things will be pleased with the results. The hen, like the cow, must be kept comfortable, and the rule shou'd he stated and compliance with it urged as often as in the case of the cow Poultry that in summer is per mitted to roast in a hot poultry house or run, or is foreed'nearly to freeze iu ■winter, eon do nothing. In summer time as comfortable a place as eau be prepared should be prepared for tho hens. The poultry house in hot weather, while it affords shade, is like an oven. In cold weather the house should be warm. A cold hen will not lay. Tile farmer has the best chance in the world to make poultry pay. lie has a variety of food at hand, wheat, corn anil vegetables. lie may need to buy bone.i. Green bones pulverized are the best, but the purchased bono meal is good. In winter corn is best at night, and the fowl should have a gen erous night meal if it has not a full meal at any other time of the day, for the fast from roosting time until morn ing is a long one. Hut the feeding should be generous all the time, with a variety of foods. There is much neg lect in the matter of providing good water for fowls. This should not be. Pure water is an essential, and to pro vide it only needs a very little exertion. Farmers' Yoice. HONEY EXTRACTOR. One That Con Ito Ma'.o at nn lliprnw of a Few Ccnt«. For a bee-keeper running from five to fifty colonies an extractor can bo made for about 51.23, thus: Four frames 10x18 inches, outside measure, two boards seventeen inches wide, fifteen inches long, seven cents; ouo board twenty-one inches long, twelve inches wide, three cents; six sticks, four cents; nails, three cents; barrel, ten cents; three feet of wire cloth, thirty-three cents; and half a day's work, sixty-rtvo cents; total, *1.25. To make it, nail two sticks about five inches long to the inside of the barrel opposite each other and four inches from the bottom of it, having notchcj in them to receive a cross bar, which make about x 2 inches (off a bunch of shingles.would do). The upright cen ter piece for the basket is 2x2 inches, and two feet long; bore two one-inch holes through it ten inches apart, drive through two round sticks eight and a quarter inches long, that fit nicely —old broom, mop or rakc-handle stuff. The upright stick should be tapered off at the bottom end and made rouud to one inch diameter dear the top eud for a Journal. A board two inches wide and live inches long, with two or thrco ha'.f-incli holes bored in it, and nailed to the lop of it with wire nails, docs very well for a crank to turn it by. Nail two sticks seventeen inches long to the seven teen-inch l>oards, und one and a-half inches thick, and liore two one-inch holes three-quarters of nn inch deep and ten inches apart in each of them, and tit them on the ends of the round inch stocks. Nail on the wire-cloth (which should be twelve inches wide and nineteen inches long) to tho ends of the boards as tight as you can, and then spring tho boards apart, and fasten firmly to the spokes. Let your twenty-one-inch board cover one-half inch more than half the top of the barrel, and place a hook and staple to fasten it to the wall (irmly, and box on your center upright piece. The in sido of the barrel should be sandpa pered and waxed.—lt. F. Will teside.ix American Beo Journal. Iml {cmlon In Fowls. The iuo:.t "frequent cause of indiges tion in fowls is tho *ame us that with humans —overeating. Itiuuy bv stated, however, that tho hens have no teeth, and must have some kind of sharp and hard substances with which t<> assist in grinding their food. In somo sections this cannot be procured by them. In digestion is frequently mistaken for cholera, and all kinds of suggested cholera remedies arc used as cures, which do more harm than good. Tho best remedy is to compel tho liens to fast for forty-eight hours, lirit may be provided by tho use of pounded glass or broken china. There is no risk in giving such materials, as the liens wi'l not swallow more than they may need* If tlio hens are fat (which is usually tho case when they &i e affect ed by indigestion) they should receive no food but that which they can secure for themselves by foraging and scratch ing. ((imp drain* for I'oultrjr. Oral,l may be cheap, but it is costly food if it is used exclusively for tho laying hens in winter, for the reason that while grain cannot b • excelled for keeping the hens warm, it '.'ill not supply the.n with egg-formi'ig ma terial, and if fed very liberally it causes them to Ik'wiuo too "fat. It is not an uncommon occurrence for farmers to meet with disappointment in not pro curing egg's although they r-applied grain liberally, and yet if less grain and a proportion of i n at hpd been given the hens they would perhaps have done belt -r and allowed a profit. We do not condemn grain, but we ad vise not to feed it exclusively to laying hens.—Farm and Fireside. Tii k wlno ponltrytnon avoi <ln ex trernen, but feeds enough t« keep "the fuwlt in a jfootl. thrifty condition. tVoinlrrfulljr T:»klii(f Ar«-i»iti|>li«hm» , nt. William I hoar that Charley Hodg son In ii great mimic. They -ay be eun take off anything. Arthur— Tlmtexplainn it. I couldn't Imagine where my umbrella bad (rone. —Huston tllobe. N.» Deception. "Didn't yon promise to lore, honor and oliey me?" •'Yen; l>ut the minister has known me all my life, und be knew 1 didn't mean It." I 'nek. _ Mllll Emi. Little Mini* Mufcg—l'ne ffot a bicycle, and you ha*n't. Mttle Minn Freckles- Yes, and now everybody known you wear* domed ntoekin'i.. (!ood Newt*. h..mr Urn Ar« Itiilli Tlmt \V«jr. "lle'n lazy, you nay?" "1i87.vl That"* no name for it. He'll run bulfa mile to eat U the omnibus to ride two hundred yard a." Town Top lon. No < .111 *• for llftjrrl. "I've eomo out of thin tltfht Ktjucezc in pretty fx id shape," naid the* new half dollar, fresh from th»> stamping jUffhfo* —(fti}r«yu 'jYiinnns
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