VOL XXXI PONT Want A Wheel? Just as good time now, as anv, to think of buying, to compare pri ces and merits. We pin our best faith to the CLEVELAND and the PHOENIX. A wheel should be Running. bookings Fully T. Guaranteed. Ladies Phoenix. We have tl"\em i\o\v -—■; ■ •. ; and will have ii\ tl\e Spriixg. J. E. FORSYTH E. NOW FOR NOVEMBER ! In order to greet this winter opening month in a manner befit ting its importance to the Dry Goods trade, we propose to make some prices that will warm the very cockles of the popular heart. We are better enabled to do this because just now in the great textile markets of the world, concessions are the order of the day. Nobody is in better condition to take advantage of these than our selves, and what we get — w© Divide With Von.— 250-36-inch Twilled Bine Cloth p*rice'. 50c 35e —45-Ineb All-Wool Bine Cl»th " £ gr JC 500—46-iuch " Blue Serge .. 05,. 50c—48 inch " N»Telty „ $1 75c—54-inch " NOTBIij Cloth 75«—46-incb All-Silk H«unettas.. „ j 25 Ml 00— 34-inch All-«*ool Covert 65c 50c—Fancy Trimming* Silks, all oolors „ Qoc—per pair, StWer Grey Blankets „ $450 $3 60— All-Wool White Blanket* 10( | 75o —Ladies' All-Wool Skirt Patterns 75p 50c —per unit, Mea '« Natural Wool Suits - fl •100- •' " J Tr , « 35c 25«—Ladies' Fleeced uioed Vests <« " *' tt 4c—Good Dnb'eaobed Muslin ~ 7c sc—B* »t American Blue Prints ~ Yc so—Best Domestic Ginghams Space forbids our mentioning the low prices that prevail in our Millinery and Wrap departments. Our Wrap department is the lar gest and lighted in Butler. We are sole agents for the celebrat ed Rothchild Wraps, the most perfect fitting Wraps ever shown 111 Butler county. Mrs. Jennie E. Zimmerman 8U00E88Q& TO RITTER & RALSTON GREAT SLAUGHTER M OF OVERCOATS, - SUITS, Underwear, Shirts, Hats, Caps, Hosiery, Ties, Gloves, Mittens, Cardigan Jackets, Sweaters, Trunks, Valises, Telescopes, Watches, Chains, Charms, Rings, Pins, Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, Brushes, Purses, etc. This NO CLEARANCE: sale Of Summer Goods, but our regular stock of FALL AND WINTER GOODS. We show you the lar gest stock in Butler to select from and everything goes. Don't miss this -♦Grand + Opportunity.*^ We are the pioneers of LOW PRICES. We never were, never can and never will be UNDERSOLD. Bear this in mind, and don't make your purchases un til you see us. We feel satisfied we can do you good. D. A. HFX'K, 121 N. Main. St., Duffy's Block, Butler, Pa. W 'A Summer Drive /JaK * loses i measure of its pleasure if the carriage is less IUA vMvvwy urious, easy running and handsome than it might be- Fredonia Buggies have nothing but good points. They're the handsomest vehicles you can gei—vt as strong and secure as they're sightly. Ask and insist that you see them at your dealer's. Made by FREDONIA MFG. CO., Youngstown, Ohk). THE BUTLER CITIZEN. It Is Not What We Say But what Mood's Sarsaparilla does, that tells the story. The great volume of evi dence in th.- form of unpurchased, volun tary testimonials prove beyond doubt that Hood JSaraa . poTilla Be Sure to Get Hood s Hood's Pills < *<' MM! =2I c PACKAGES 1= MA.\ /FiKE PREMIUMS C-iVEN FREE 1& DRINKERS CF MOM COFFEE It is unnecessary to bore you with tlie a d vertise men t (>f our largest stock, best facilities, biggest business,etc. You know we have that. The important an nouncement is, We will Positively save you Money on your Fall Clothes. Our stock tables are resplendent with the newest patterns, j See them. ALAND, TAILOK C. 1 •. D. A business that/k'j«.ps grow ing through a season ot de pression, such as ilu country has experienced, is an evi dence that people realize they save money by trading with us. We know, and always have known, t!->e days of large profits are past. Without question we are giving more for the money than last year. Our stock is larger to from than last year. '"ALL AND SEE US. Colbert & Dale. What Yoii Need Is a Dictionary i HERE IT IS! o'»h Webster Int. Dictionary. gHefp, with patent thumb index, together with one .v '» ji.ti.cni ad jUHtuble dictions' 1 * Ijol'^r—all c r pletefor 1 l 2.")0. We urn the <;nlv firm it; ti«- conntv abl« to win Ifhnie i-ohool -tin plies in e< mpetitiou with Urtr'' from Chicago and other fines We sell (or hsH tbao olti«r firms hern pay for thing*, J. H. DOUGLASS, (WnOL* ALL AND RETAIL.) 241 S. Main Street, Near Postofli< <. L C- W r IV K DKALP.R IN Rough and VKurksd Unite OK At- KINDS Dours, Sash, Biluds, (vSouidlri Shingles and Lain Always In stock. LIME. HAIR AND PLASI H. Offlct. opposite P. A W Depot BrTTLBK A BUTLER LUMBER COMPANY Shippers and dealers in aterials Rough and dreur d Lumber of »'• kinds. Doors and Windows, pv Mouldings ot all kind.--. H. E WICK, Manager. Office uud Yard.*, Mt Cunningham and ]l»nroe«tre«t*. 6reat Discovery. < " ,r^ lU!ir ,. nd disfiguring g< Wilis i.■ m.■ v. .1 «jt ut the knife and wiUi«..;t ~«iu. Oir fpecifio medici" ■* m l oel n di*6a p<irti> antl |>.rin<: en. ly . ur-. No fee Until "Urcrl K«. T,»VI<»I:, Vv. 320 Litre/ty tj'ttewt, Pnt»bu.-g H1 T TL"RR. PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IT>, 1H94. HERE died last SiSr Lit* year, at Jack tf. /1 fish bay. Lake ■ ji; - Superior, at the | extremeoldage SL of ninety, Mary Matt, the last surviving wit tg§K ' ness of a terri ble drama that took place at one of the Hudson's Bay company's posts, on the shores of Hud son's bay, in the year 1819. Mary Matt was then, at the time of the raid on Hanna bay, a girl of six teen, and the daughter of one of the principal Indian murderers. The history of the Hanna Bay mas sacre, I am rure, is new to the world at large, for it took place three-quarters of a century ago. News in those days was not flashed about the world with the rapidity of the present time, and, besides, the disaster was a local affair. Even the people of the then only two provinces, Ontario and Quebec, or, more properly speaking, upper and lower Canada, did not bear of it for over a year. In those days officers and servants of the company, when leaving or going out on leave of absence, used to speak of going to Canada as if it were a foreign country. Even down to early in the 'seventies, several years after the company had ceded its rights to the new dominion, I have heard old gentlemen in the service say they were going out to Canada next year or that such and such was the news in the last papers they got from Canada. But through the bni'ding of our trans continental railroad and the explora tion of the numerous rivers falling into the valley of the St Lawrence on it 3 north side, the upper waters of which rivers were dotted with Hud son's Bay posts, the residents of these places became acquainted with out siders, and by degrees they recognized the fact that, no matter how far off they were situated, they lived in Canada, and that the vast territories of the company had been absorbed into the dominion of Canada. Before going on with my story I might as well inform the reader that under the charter that the company received from Charles 11. of England, the governor and hi# council hail su preme power vested in them, und all crimes committed within its territories were tried before this body in a sum mary way. Hanna bay, from which the post took its name, is an indentation of James' bay, and again James' bay is a larger indentation of Hudson's bay itself. At the very southern end of James, bay was situated, and is still. Moose Factory, the headquarters of the whole southern department, as the waters emptying into Hudson's bay were called, and from Moose Factory to Hanna bay the distance is one hun dred and twenty miles. With these explanations and refer ence to any good map, the reader will understand the situation of the place at which the catastrophe I am about to relate took place so many years ago. Inasmuch as I knew Mrs. Matt personally and she was present at the time, and hearing of her death last year from a correspondent of mine at Lake Superior, I have decided to write the history for publication. In the year 1819, Ilanna Bay post was in charge of a gentleman of the company named Corrigal. The resi dents of the post in that year were Mr. Corrigal, his wife, a grown-up •on and daughter by a former wife, and three young children by his pres ent one, a young clerk who acted as his assistant, and three man servants, two of whom were married, and their five children. Thus the number of souls within the stockade at the timo was, all told, eighteen. In those days, one of the English ships that came out, loaded with pro visions, clothing, guns and ammuni tion, used to land the partieulai- por tion of her cargo destined for the trade of Hanna bay 011 her way to Moose Factory, and thus save two handling# and transshipping back by schooner from the factory. The Indians that traded their furs at Hanna bay, after several secret couneUs held amongst themselves in the interior, conceived the plot to kill the employes of the post, pillage the place, await the arrival of the ship, take her by surprise, and sail away and take England, the place from which all beautiful goods were obtained. A bold plan certainly, and it took the brain of a savage to think such a thing possible. At New Year's lime the Indians were in the habit of visiting the post for the purpose of trading their furs and getting regalement from the compa ny, and they chose that time for the uprising. In the days of which I write the com pany had not asyet excluded rum from its territory, and it was the custom to give each hunter, after the feast with in the post, one-half pint to carry away to his wigwam. To portion out this rum Mr. Corrigal and his assistant had to go to the trade shop. The clerk would go down the trap-door in the floor to the cellar and begin to draw off the grog. And from the clerk's bands the chief trader bunded the por tion to each man as he handed out his tin pan to receive it. This had been the custom for years. This ceremony of the closing of their annual feast was well knotvn to tho Indians, and this was the occasion chosen for tho I assault. As the clerk was handing up the first measure to Mr. Corrigal, and his head was slightly above the level of the tloor, his I>rains were dashed out with a concealed hatchet brought by one of tha savages under his capote for that purpose. At tha same mo ment three or four others threw them selves bodily on Mr. Corrigal and bore hitn to the floor, and never relaxed their grip on his throat until life wis extinct, and his body was tumbled brutally into tho cellar, and the trap closed. All this had taken place without the least sound having reached the servants' quarters of the double mur der that had been perpetrated so close to them. The men saw the heretofore I friendly Indians approaching their house without suspecting them of any bad intent. By a preconcerted ar rangement, the squaws, wLile the men were in the trade shop, had gone out side the gates and secured the guns of the party. These they hid in the folds of their blankets and, returning, they ranged themselves near the men's ! house. As each one's husband passed on his way to tlie-servants' quarters, his squaw handed out his gun, and in less time than it takes to write it, the 1 howling band made a rush for the j building and its doomed inmates. , When the attack was made, the single inan of the servants, George Wright by name, was lying in an upper bunk, ' but not asleep. He sprang down to help his companions defend them selves. But he saw at a glance it was even then too late to be of any use, as men, women and children were almost all killed by the first volley, and he himself cscapejl by a mirail'r b» i dashed for the door, and, crossing the open space, made his escape through the gate. But as he ran he was fired at by an Indian coming from the di rection of the trade shop, and as he was seen to drop just outside tha open gate, and as he presumably was dead, no Indian engaged in pursuit. Young Corrigal had seeu the man Wright fired at and fall, and had also heard the shouts and screams from the men s house, and understood the worst had come. As he could see or hear nothing of his father and the clerk, he at once explained matters to his mother in a few hurried words, and got her and the children to take refuge in the cellar. Here, at the door of the cellar, youn Corrigal stood his ground with his father's double-barreled shot gun and pistols. He heard the outer door give way from the rush of Indians that hurled themselves against it. and then of a certainty he knew it had now come to the pass of selling his life as dearly as possible in the defense of bis dear mother and her children. Brave youth! Before he succumbed to the onslaught of savages he killed three of the Indians with his father's weapons, and then fell slain himself. Nothing now to bar the way, the re maining members of the band entered the cellar, and in a few minutes mother, stepdaughter and the young children were butchered in cold blood, and with uplifted hands pleading for mercy. Thus in half an hour or thereabouts, all that had belonged to Hanna Bay { post were dead. At least the Indians thought so, and pave themselves up to ieasting and drinking without re- i straint. We return now to George Wright, ! whom we left as he received what was supposed to be his death wound. He 1 was not dead, as the Indians imagined, ; but badly wounded, his right leg be- j ing shattered below the knee. Crip- ! pled like this, with no snow shoes, and his only provisions the moss from the j rocks, he made his way over the most j rugged and barren country in the world to Moose Factory, a distance of one hundred and twenty miles. And, wonderiul to relate, he reached that place, after untold sufferings on the way. • Great was the lament and dire TOUNG CORRIOAI. STOOD HIS 6ROTTXD. the threats of vengeance uttered by the Inhabitants of the factory when Wright had told his tale. Most of those that had been killed at the Bay post had been related, one way or another, to the older families at the factory. Therefore when Mr. Gladman, the officer in charge, made public his determination to send out a party to capture the murderers, the able-bodied men of the settlement to a man volunteered to go on the expe dition. There was no time wasted in unnecessary delay. Arms and the necessary provisions for a party of twelve or fourteen men were given out, and the men chosen comprised Capt. Swanston in command, Mr. Scott, his second, and twelve men, most of the latter being half-breeds, who, as a rule, look down on the pure-blooded Indians, and, in any trouble, usually take sides with the whites Capt. Swanston's orders were to take prisoner all that could be caught, but if any resisted or refused to surrender they were to be shot down. Wright reported that at the time of the out break there had been at the post sev enteen Indians, but from the shots ho heard he judged that some of them were no doubt killed by Mr. Corrigal, who, he thought, was in hisown house. Capt. Swanston considered that, with Mr. Scott and the men they had under them, the party was quite strong enough to cope with what must be now a band of debauched savages. And again, when he considered the wrongs most of his men had to redress, he was confident they would overcome twice their number. When the party reached Hanna bay they found the place had been desert ed for some days, after the Indians had pillaged and destroyed everything possible. Strange to say, they had not fired the buildings, no doubt leaving them as a decoy to the ship when she should arrive in the spring. The sight of the hacked nnd frozen bodies of their relatives set the men wild for revenge, and it was vvith the utmost difficulty tliat ( apt. Swanston could hold them for a day to bury the dead. It was a painful duty they 'iad to perform, to thaw out the frozen masse.s of humanity and prepare each for burial; but late at night all was completed, to the captain's satisfac tion, and after posting two men on guard they turned in to snatch a few hours' repose before proceediugon the morrow F fear my history of the massacre is already too lon;r and that my readers have sickened with the ghastly details. Still, I have only recorded the facts as they happened, anil have added 110 imaginary horrors to the description. After traveling on the Indians' trail for three days due northeast, over lakes, barren grounds, up rivers and through thick forests of spruw, the party came up with the band of inur v // r * '^r\ "THKBE! THAT III.OW IS FOR MY SISTER." derers, and succeeded in securing four prisoners. The rebt of the men were I shot down, as they resisted capture. | With these, the party started back for headquarters, taking also one or two of the women that begged to accom pany their husbands. Mrs. Matt who, i as 1 have said, was then a girl of sia j tccn, was taken along with her father When the party with the prisoners I came in sight of the factory, all the ! inhabitants turned out into the squaro, 1 while the chief factor, Mr. Gladman, and some of the other officers stood about the open gates. Unnoticed by the latter group was a half-breed by the name of Bouchard, who had lost a sister in the massacre, the wife ot ooe ol the men stationed V*?' Bf wlthrta th«r at a respectful distance behind the officers, leaning on the handle of an ice-chisel, which he either hap pened to be groins' to use, or had taken purposely to the gate Be this as it may. there he stood un til the prisoners were being brought inside the gate; then, without any in timation of his purpose, he suddenly sprang in front of the party and drore his keen inch-and-a-half chisel clean through the breast of the first Indian of the file. "There!"' he said, as he jerked this frightful weapon out of the man's body. "That blow is for my sister!" Bouchard had beeu so secretive in his determination to deal out summary justice that none of the bystanders bad any intimation of his purpose until too late to arrest his arm. Mr. Gladman at once ordered his arrest, and he was marched off between two men to the factory's lock-up, to be dealt with later on. It so happened that the man whom Bouchard had killed with his chisel was the father of the girl Mes keg (afterward Mrs. Matt), and thus she was left an orphan as she entered the precincts of the fort. Mes-keg could hardly be held re sponsible for the crimes of her father and the others of the band, and as she was a nice, tidy girl she was adopted into the family of the head watchman of the factory, and under the guidance of his wife very rapidly acquired do mestic habits. Two years after enter ing the watchman's family her hand was sought in marriage by John Matt, a young carpenter of the settlement. In after years, when their family of three daughters and one son were pretty well grown up. Matt and his wife and children removed to Red Rock, and, after a winter spent there, finally made their permanent home at JackUsh bay, Lake Superior, where the old man died ten years afterward. Two of her daughters married well and went to live with their husbands at Dulutli, Minn. Her remaining daughter became head housekeeper in the Northwestern hotel, Port Arthur, and she herself found a good home with her son up to the time of her death last vear. An examination was held in the Bouchard affair, and under the cir cumstances his act was held pardon able. the verdict being "justifiable homicide." The three remaining In dians of the murderers' band were held prisoners until the arrival of the governor of the company in the fol lowing summer. At the trial held be fore Gov. Sepple and a proper quorum of commissioned officers, the Indians were condemned to be hung. This sentence was duly carried out on the first Friday in August. IS.'O. The scaffold was erected over the main gates of the factory, and the execu tioner was Bouchard, who volunteered for the office. One word in conclusion: The post of Hanna bay was never reinhabitcd, the headquarters of that particular sec tion being transferred to Rupert's house, at the mouth of Rupert river.— N. Y. Ledgei —No great is done by falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain but the steadfast mind, the undivided will to seek the good.—George Eliot. SQUADRONS OF HORSE FLIES. A Frenchman'* Srh.mo for Carrying: Ula eaw Into tli<- Camp of the Enemy. Some amusing particulars of the in ventions that have l>een offered to the French war office since 1871 have re cently been published in a French newspaper, the majority of which, ac cording to the London Court Journal, are about equal to the Laputan scheme for plowing fields, namely, by sowing acorns in rows and then turning in pigs to root them up. One genius sought a patent for the training of squadrons of horse flies. These auxiliaries were to 1)0 fed exclusively on blood served up beneath the delicate epidermis of me chanical figures clothed in the uniforms of members of the triple alliance, so that when political relations in Europe were strained the flies might be given daily a little of the juice of certain poisonous plants, and on actual declara tion of war be turned out in the path of the enemy. Another ingenious per son proposed a scheme for educating war dogs. In times of peace he would train French dogs to bite lay figures ; wearing Prussian helmets, in order that on the outbreak of the war the kennels of the whole country might be mobil ized and let loose on the enemy. Then there are numerous proposals for bridging rivers by means of ropes attached to cannon balls, and a pho- ! tographer suggests a novel kind of cap- ; tive shell, which, breaking over the ' fortified position of an enemy, would i disclose a small camera attached to a parachute. The enemy's fortifications j would IK- instantaneously photographed and the apparatus hauled back by the string and the negatives developed at leisure. Two ideas arc very inhuman. One is a scheme for sending large quantities of poisoned needles, as if in charity, to the enemy's generals, who would of course, distribute them to their forces, and so poison their unfor-> tunate user . and the other to charge explosive bullets with pepper. Two objects are pursued by the inventor of the pepper its discharge would blind the enemy und the great demand for the condiment in time of war wouldjp stimulate the trad." of the French col onies and increase the revenue of the j country. There are also many other j equally absurd proposals, such as sug- ! gestions for making soup by machinery, growing potatoes on barrack roofs in December and killing whole army corps of Prussians by post—but they ore too numerous to be mentioned. Why the Hog Turns Hound. Have you ever thought why it is that a dog turns around and around when he jumps up on his cushion or starts to settle himself anywhere for a nap.' Now you arc reminded you can recall that you liavo seen a dog do it many times, can't you? This habit is about all that is left to our tame little dog gies of the days long ago, when they were a race of wild animals and lived in the woods. Their beds there were . matted grass and leaves, and it was to trample enough grass and properly ur range the leaves that the dog always trod around a narrow circle before he would lie down. The dog of to-day keeps up the same old habit, although there is no longer any need for it, and, of course, the animal has no notion why he doss it. Material In Piano*. There are forty-eight different ma terials used in constructing a piano, from no fewer than sixteen different countries, employing forty-five different hands. The Way of It. Her brow was Uke the snowdrift. Iler throat was like Ikt • « ari Whoa she'd bouKhl complexion powders And strewed them thickly on. —Detroit Tribune. I > lra«urc» of Convrr.atlon. Little Dick—Those ladies in the par lor are all talking together. I don't see how they can understand each other. Little Dot—Well, each one hears what she says herself, and that's all folks cares for, I guess.—Good News. A TrlUluK Ovemicbt. Dr. Griffin—l mu: t say that the world is very ungrateful toward our pro fession. How seldom one sees a public memorial erected to a doctor. Mrs. Golightly--How seldom? Oh, doctor, think of our cemeteries!—Pear son's Wecldv. A MARINE GRAVEYARD. Whore Many Mississippi River Steamboats Lie Buried. lhc Fatal Locality In Which .Mauv t'ala tial Steamer* Went !><»wn-Namn of Some of III* Well-Remenn hfpeil Boat*. The recent discovery of a sunkt n raft by Mayor Walbridge in the channel of the river al>ove the Chain of Kocks. says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, will bring 1 to the minds of many of our old stoaml>oat men the disasters that befell the marine craft of this city in that portion of the river now included in the harbor of St. Louis. The char ter harbor of the city includes that stretch of the Mississippi river be tween the mouth of the Missouri and the mouth of the Merrimac. That por tion of the harbor under the care and control of the wharf and Ifarbor com missioner lies between the thuin of Rocks ami the Rives des Peres. From the upper mouth of the Missouri to the foot <>f North Market street there are now lying under the silt and sands the wrecks of over sixty boats and barges. Many of these steaml>oats were the largest, best equipped and speediest that ever walked the navigable water ways of the country. They were in reality marine palaces, such as this generation has not seen. Sawyer's bend was the fatal locality where nearly all these splendid craft foundered and settled under the shift ing sands of the treacherous channel. Among the Ixwits that were lost many now living will recall the following: York State, Southerner, Mary Main, Highland Mary, Grace Darling. Alle gheny, Federal Arch, C. Ruin. \ üba, Raltiuiore. John R. Carson. Philadel phia, Edinburg. Challenge. Moderator, Nebraska, Sioux City, White Cloud, Omaha. New Admiral, Geneva, Warsaw, Empire City. Gov. Sharkey, Submarine No. 13. Saranae No. 2, War Eagle, Ren Johnson, Gerard R. Allen. Fanny Scott, Henry Adkins, Columbia, Silver Row, R. J. Lockwood. Wild Duck. Nile, Vic toria, Champion. Rlue Lodge. Calhoun, Alma. Central City, Raven, Salvor, J. W. Garrett. Hudson, Reaver, John I'. Reiser, Pacific, Lulu Worth, Cornelia and Badger State. The above were sunk between the years 1855 and 1888. In addition to these there were twepty barges lost north of Rissell's point within the same year. No record was kept of the "saw yer" or cut lumber rafts that were lost south of Alton, but it has been esti mated that the aggregate value was over a million dollars. Only two of the above-named boats, the Calhoun and Alma, were raised. The bones of all the others lie many feet beneath the sands, petrifying under the action of the waters. Tlie actual loss in marine property to the merchants of St. Louis by the sinking of these boats was over five million dollars. It is a sad com mentary upon the action of congress in its failure to provide adequate means for the removal of the cause of these disasters, and the general policy of making only dribbling appropriations for river and harbor improvements, that after 18G0 few, if any, of these marine palaces were replaced with others. Many of the owners in the loss of this property lost not only all they had, but also lost courage because of the increasing dangers to the marine commerce of the immediate harbor of St. Louis. To add to the pathetic story of these disasters, many of them fat 1 to life, it might be stated in passing that during the period named above'fifty-five splen did steamers were destroyed by fire within the charter harbor of the city. The hulls of many of them lie just out ride of the present water line and form the retaining dike for the granite wharf. Many of the grandfathers and grandmothers of to-day will remember with varying emotions their bridal trips on the James Howard, the Lej viathan, the Rismarck, the Grand Re public, the Carrie V. Kountz,and others equally as grand. The "upper mouth of the Missouri" within the past forty years, where it empties into the Mis sissippi, has changed its location four or five times, and its present mouth is several miles south of the one that ex isted a few years ago. Opposite these various mouths, and for one mile south ward. many of the disasters named above occurred. The outpouring of the Missouri waters was swift, the eddies and currents were treacherous and the snags and other obstructions so numer ous at that point that unusual eare was accessary in order to avoid the fatal places. The conditions that existed in Saw yer's bend forty years ago exist prac tically to-day, and are still a serious menace to the marine commerce of the city, with the added dangers to the important municipal and railroad in terests that have grown with the re quirements of the water supply and the transportation demands of a great me tropolis. I f the waters in Sawyer's bend could be rolled backward, as the waters of the Red sea once were, and the sands Bleared away and tlie skeletons of our former palatial steamers photographed, what a terrible object lesson would be conveyed from a spot that is now the ' most thickly settled marine graveyard In the world. \ Queflr Cl««w. In course of transit between New York and New Orleans a packet of paper money had been opened and its contents considerably reduced. Two of the seals had been broken and one bad been resealed by thumb pressure. Mr. Carvalho, an expert in matters of identification, endeavored to find out. tlie thief, and with this view obtained wax impressions of the thumbs of all the officials of the express company through who6e hands the packet was known to have passed. The impres sions were photographed and enlarged, Sind one of them clearly agreed with an enlarged photograph of the thumb-im pressed seal. The thief was thus de tected. Irony oT Fata. Mr. Dooley (coming in) —This do be har-r-d luck! Mrs. Dooley—Phut is it, Moike— didn't ye git the job? Mr. Dooley (ruefully)—l did thot, bad 'cess to it! Out o' wor-r-ruk all summer, an' as soon as cold weather comes on I gits a job dhrivin' an ice-wagon.— Puck. In the roar 11)04. Head of Household Alfred, dear, your biscuits are very good this tnorn ing Young Husband (coloring with pleas ure) —1 am glad to hear you say so, love. Head of Household —Still, they are not quite as good as papa used to make —Chicago Tribune. The Only Explanation l*o»»lble. Rirdie McGinnis Ha* Esmerelda Longcoflin acquired the habit of vibit ing iusanu asylums? Sallie Duzenbury I don't know. Why do you ask? Rirdie —Recause she says she has re fused dozens of offcis of ruarriatre -- Alex Sweet, in Texas Siftings. Listening to the Whorls. Ticktack —I never keep books at my office. I carry all my business in my head. Jimcrack —I understand now what you meant when you said you were going to wind up your business. —Town rpjfc IMPROVEMENT. FARM TELEPHONE. How to Construct One at an Outlay of a Few Dollar*. A reader asks if there is not some cheap and simple way that a telephone can be erected that will work satis factorily for short distances, without electricity. Certainly. Telephones can be made that give perfect satis faction for short distances, and 1 pre sume would for half a mile. I hare had one for several years between my house and my brother's, a distance of twenty-five rods, and it conveys sound so perfectly that on a still night 1 can hear their clock tick by putting my ear to the vibrator, or if a watch is held against it the ticking is plainly heard at the other enil of the line, and we converse over it with perfect ease. To make it, we first make a box of light wood, eight inches square and three inches deep. On the back side of it we cut an inch hole, in the center, for the wire to pass through, and at tach two strips (B C and D E) an inch wide to fasten it to th* wall by. On the front side we cut a circle four iDches in diameter, and over this we securely nail a piece of drumhead (II) for the receiver or vibrator. This should be soaked in warm water before it is put on-so that it will be pliable, and when it dries it will be stretched tight. I bought a toy drum for 15 cents which furnished the two vibrators. It makes the box look better, and holds the drumhead securely, to fasten a mould si FABU TELEPHONE. ing over the drumhead around the edge of the box, mitered together at the corners. You must use brass or copper wire. We pay 50 cents for a spool of 300 feet. I tried a nice, smooth iron or steel wire for one line, and it worked just as well at first, and as it cost but 10 cents for 300 feet, I thought I had made a valu able discovery; but in a week or two the wire broke and after repeated patching we were obliged to give it up. We have had very little trouble vrith the copper wire, and have not had to repair it at all for a year or more at a time. In putting the box up we screw tho projecting ends of the strips to a door or window casing at one end (at B and D) and then set spools behind the other ends of the strips (at C and E). We attach the wire to the drumhead by passing it through the center and then through a button mold, N, an inch in diameter. This distributes the pressure over a large enough space so that there is no danger of tearing it The wire should be stretched so tight a* to depress the center of the drum head about an inch, and if at any time the tension gets slack it should be tightened. Keep the wire from rest ing against the wood where it passes through the hole into the house. This can be done by driving three or four nails around it, leaving the heads out so you can tie strings to them, and pass them around the wire so as to keep it in the center of the hole. Set the poles to which the wire is to be at tached a little out of line, so the wire when stretched will be a few inches from them, and then hold it in place by a short cord or loop of wire at tached to the pole. If the wire passes through a tree top or hedge, sec that the branches are cut away where they would rest on the wire. It seems to me that these directions are plain enough so that anyone can put up a satisfactory telephone. Waldo F. Brown, in Ohio Farmer. Tight Covers for Cisterns. An uofreezable cistern that has run ning water can be made by inclosing with a tight-fitting cover. A New York subscriber has tried cement, but every winter it breaks up as far as the frost reaches. He wishes to make a pond fifteen feet across to contain running water. Prof. Walter Flint of the Maine agricultural college, says: "The only way to make a cement cis tern that will stant? winter weather is to have a tight cover. With running water and a cover, freezing can be prevented, and that is the only way to save a cistern no matter what it is made of. Freezing will destroy even a boiler iron tank. The chances are with a cement cistern, even if the water is drawn off, the outside frost will crack the cement."—American Agriculturist. Shipping Fruit In lias. An experiment is tp be tried in ship ping California fruit in carbonic acid gas, in order to save the expense of refrigerator cars which, front the stale to Chicago, cost 8125 each. Growers who have made the test assert that if fruit is surrounded with this gas all decay and deterioration are arrested and th' flavor of the fr*.iit not im paired. An ordinary car has been zinc lined so as to be practically air tight It will be tilled with fruit and the gas introduced, obtained from an abandoned quicksilver mine near San Jose. A condenser filled with the liquefied gas will be placed in the car to supply any possible leakage. Made a Noise In the World. "What became of the Ilodgkin boys?" asked a New Yorker of a friend, upon returning after many years' absence, to his old home in the country. "Wal, Jim's runnin' the old farm, and Tom's preachin' in the south, and Billy's tend in' the post office at Wav erly." "There was miother," r<*lßfirked the city man. "Wasn't his name Ed? He went west Was anything ever heard from him?" "Heard from him? Yes, I should think ao. He's made noise enough in this world. Why, he beats a gong in a railroad eatin' station." —N. Y. Herald. Found at Last. Inventor—l've hit a money-making thing at last The preachers will go crazy over it and it will sell like hot cakes. It's a church contribution box. Friend—What good is that? Inventor—lt's a triumph The coins fall through slot# of different sizes, and all dollars, halves, quarters and dimes land ou velvet, but the nickels and pennies drop on to a Chinese gong.— N. Y. Weekly Mary's Little Lamb. Mary bad a Uttle Umt>. Which grew to be a owe: It followed her to school ono day. sod th"n It realized what a fool It was. for the &<-:iool was a culslae college. »uJ there It soju • oiuvwo sit* No 45 the d AWV. MODEL DAIRY HOUSE. Joit Large Knoacb to Accommodate Nice ly Twelve Cows. There at'e at least two indispensable requisites for a perfect honse for cows, and a perfect house might well be called a model. Of course tastes dif fer. but ample space and convenient arrangement are certainly two indis pensable te jaisttes in this connection. The accompanying diagram is a copy of a cow stable that hns been found entirely satisfactory to many persona who have exacted precisely the condi tions of our correspondent. It is roomy. Each cow has four feet ol stall and feeding-box. The depth of floor from manger to gutter is five feet The feeding-boxes are two feet wide, and are so arranged that the food is thrown on the floor but the cow cannot get her feet over the parti t ion, this being made V-shaped for the cow to get her head to the feed, while a low wall in front at the feeding pas sage holds the food from scattering. 50. *-» I fsf fP *| \ "• STABLE FOR TWELVE COWS. S—Slope: SO Silo; C—Calves: F R—Feed Koom; FP Feed Passage: G —Gutter: P—Platform. A water supply arrangement may be fitted in the feed-boxes if desired. The gutter is 18 inches wide and 6 deep, and should drain into some receptacle, manure cellar or cistern, conveniently placed. The feed passage goes right through the building, so that a wagon load of green fodder may be brought through for distribution among the cattle. Sloping platforms are provided for the passage. A silo is provided, as shown, opening into the feedroom. A stable for calves is in the rear, so that they may be fed conveniently from the main passage. The walking stage is feet wide, and a door opens from this into the feedroom for convenience of the at tendant, as also another door from the stalls. Plenty of doors save many steps; but these doors should always open into the stable and have springs to close and latch them, that no acci dent might happen by careless leaving of a door open. Bins, of course, will be provided in the feedroom. It is safest, especially with costly cattle, to have u sufficient partition be tween the cows that each may lie safe from danger of being trodden on by her neighbor. By fitting up such a stable as this with some attention to ornament, it will make a handsome structure, while with the most eco nomical style of building.it will be neat and attractive—at least it has proved so in many instances. The dairy-house should be sufficient ly distant from the stable that no offensive odort may reach it. This is of the greatest importance For twelve cows a building 10 by 24 feet will be large enough. It should have two apartments, one 18 by 8, for the cold-setting-room, in which will bean ice-closet with a door opening into this room, and an outside one for put ting the ice into the refrigerator in which butter is stored. The other part of the building will serve for a churning-room, and for putting up the butt«r. A porch will hold fuel and such things as may need a separate storing place. An attic will be useful for storing packages for the butter. If it is desired to use a separator, a small annex for an oil cngiDe may be at tached as a wing. If the deep-setting apparatus is used, this building will be quite large enough. If a separator is used, the room will serve for the cream room, in which it is Btored for ripening. All needed water supply and drains to carry off waste milk to the pig-pens, and slop from the washing sinks, must be provided. The floor of the dairy should be painted, and the building will be heated by a base burning stove, or by steam, if there is a supply of it.—Henry Stewart, in Country Gentleman. MILK THE COWS CLEAN. The Strlppinics I'iiull; Are the Richest Milk of All. Divide the milking as done into four equal portions, says C. R. Valentine, and there will be ten per cent, of cream in the first part and forty per cent in the last. Cows should be milked regularly and clean, the strip pings being the richest milk of aIL The milk should not be kept any time in the cow house. It would be better to put it outside at once, if it cannot be taken into the dairy immediately. The cream, upon being taken into the dairy, should bo strained through a close sieve at once. If milk was cooled to a very low temperature im mediately after it was taken from the cow. it would keep very much longer. The best position for a dairy is a quar ter under ground, out of the way of odors of gas arising from the cow house and the decomposition of ma nure. The windows looking to the north should be covered with perfo rated rinc, and the floor paved with flags, which should be kept dry. It is a great mistake to think, with a damp floor, the milk will keep better; be cause the damp tends to the develop ment of the organic germs which at tack the milk. Nothing having an of fensive odor should be kept in the dairy, such as onions and parffin oil, which was sometimes the case. If, in churning, tho butter comes too quick ly, It will be well to add a little water to It The butter should never come under twenty-five minutes. Cream should never be completely covered over.— Prairie Farmer. A MIGHT* liOSO TBAMP. Not uu Entire Failure. Mr. Newed -Dou't feel bo badly, dar ling, because your first pk> w»# » fail ure l see a way by whlr.h It cao make our fortune. Mrs. Newed ithrough Ufif t£®T6)^ now? Mr Newed—l'll "ear It u a bullet proof breast-plate, and exhibit in a muac-vuß —• Htyrpw'"# mag-
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