SULLIVAN JGGFO REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XI. The seal catch has been so small tbia season that the sealers have lost money. It hardly seems possible, yet figure* are said to prove that the world's entire population could find standing room on a field ten miles square. Oladstone makes the calculation that if the ratio of increase of population continues for a century the same as in the last decade, our population in one hundred years will amount to 600,000,- 000. , We learn now that the famous jubilee shot fired from a twenty-two ton gun in Queen Victoria's jubilee year, to ascer tain how far a shot could be carried, re mained in the air sixty-nine and one-half seconds, and the highest point reached in its flight of twelve miles was 17,000 feet. The establishment of railway hospitals and ambulance cars, to be stationed at round-houses ready for emergencies, is, in the opinion of the New York World, a good idea in some ways, but it is not very reassuring to the nervous passenger to have the thought constantly with him that the services of surgeons may bo needed at any minute. According to the Irish Times the future of the cow looks dark. It is uow proposed—patent applied for—to milk her by means of "two pairs of elastic and feather roller segments, having rocking, approaching and receding movement." The description of the machine adds that "it rests in a self adjusting frame suspended ou the cow." Tho Sailors' and Firemen's Union of England has issued a manifesto warning the public to avoid steamers that arc manned by Lascars or East Indians. The manifesto says that recent disasters, notably the wrecks of the Peninsula and Oriental steamer Bokhara, in the Straits of Formosa, and the Anchor line steamer Koumania on the coast of Partugal, have shown that Lascars are unable to stand rough weather. If British seamen had been employed on these vessels, the loss of life would have been less. The Emperor of Japan, according fo foreign papers, will, visit Europe in 1893, and may be induced to extend his journey to the Uuited States. The Em peror is an extremely intelligent and enlighteucd monarch, and the possi bility of his visit does ~<ot alarm Euro pean courts as much as favors on the part of the Oriental rulers usually do. A nephew of the Emperor is serving as a Lieutenant in the German Navy at present, and several other members of his family have studied in Europe. Ilis Majesty has never visited the countries of the Occident. Among the questions with which Mr, G'adstone's government has to deal, says Frank Leslie't Weekly, is that of the evicted tenants iu Ireland. The de mands of the Irish people as to this question have recently been formulated by John Dillon, who iusists that all tenants "who can show to the new ''commission that they have been unjustly evicted during the past thirteen years must be reinstated in their holdings." Ho expects furthermore "that these tenants will be reinstated on terms that will euahle them to live und thrive in their homes." In a recent report the Minister of Public Instruction of Chile says that thero were 1174 public sc'iools open to scholars in that republic last year. At present there arc in all 1193 schools open. The total number of scholars en rolled last year was 95,450. The num ber of teachers was 1911 last year, while to-day it Is 2043. The number of private schools in 1891 was 413. Of these 161 were* for boys, 108 for girls and 140 mixed. The number of scholars en rolled was 24,344. Of these 13,366 were boys and 10,978 wore girls. Tho total nu nbor of scholars in public and private schools was 119,800. ———————> The adoption by California of an amendment to the State Constitution providing a way for the ascertainment of the popular choice for United States Senator is, thinks thj Washington Star, a significant step in the direction of the -election of Senators by the direct voto of the people, which would only be possible through an amendment of the Federal Constitution, There is so little known in the East as yet of the machinery of the new fundamental law that nothing can be predicated upon the popular action in California further than tho obvious assumption that the amendment merely provides a manner of submitting to the Legislature the choice .of the people, ascertained probably through the üßuial party channels. "The action of Illinois in Senator Palmor's case, seconded by California in the recent election,is," concludes the Star, "a straw pointing to the ultimate change of mode of senatorial elections." AS DIES THE YEAR, The Old Year knocks at the farmhouse door, October, oome with your matron gaz?, From the fruit you are storing for writer days. And prop him in on the granary floor, Where the straw lies threshed and the corn stands heaps; Let him eat of the bread he reaped; He is feeble and faint, and can work no more. Weaker he wanetb, and weaker yet, November shower your harvest down. Chestnut, and mast, and acorn brown; For you he labored, so pay the debt, Make him a pallet—he cannot speak— Anl a pillow of moss for his pale, pinche l cheek, With your golden leaves for coverlet. He is numb to touch, he is deaf to call, December, hither with muffled tread. And gaze on the Year, for the Year is dead, A d over him lay a wan white pall. Take down tha mattock and ply the spade. And deep in the clay let clay be laid, Atpi snowflakes fall at his funeral. My wage well earned and my work-days done. And the seasons following one by one, To the slow sweet end that tho wise foresee; Fed from the store of my ripened sheaves, I>aid to rest on fallen leaves. And with snow-white souls to weep for me. —Alfred Auitin, in London World, [A LEAP-YEAR STORY, BY ANNA SHIELDS. fELDON PARK, Eloisel" said Mr. Luttrcll, as the carriage in which he and his daugh ter had been driv en from Fontenoy entered a broad avenue leading to a stately mansion. Eloise looked with languid interest ai the house, the broad sweep of lawn, the grand trees, representing the estate of Frank Weldon. "Yes, papa,'' she said quietly. «'l remember the place quiet well, although I was only about twelve years when we were here last. I suppose the lady on the porch is Mrs. Weldon." "Yes—yes—and Frank is here too. Dear me, Eloise, I wish you would not look as if you were half asleep." Thus admonished, Eloise sat more erect, and put some animation into her greeting as the carriage stopped at the foot of the flight of broad stairs leading to the porch, where Mrs. Weldon and her son waited to welcome their guests. It had been understood in the families of Weldon and Luttrell for years that Frank and Eloise would oue day unite the fortunes and estates by a marriage. Tho young people did not consider themselves to be formally betrothed, but when old Mr. Weldon died and left his chum and life long friend Mr. Luttrell as one of the trustees for the property his son would inherit when he came of , age, he certainly expected that Eloise would reign at Weldon Park when Mrs. Weldon, Frank's mother, died; ana when Mrs. Luttrell died in Paris, she urged her husband's return to America with the conviction that it would be bet ter now for Eloise to marry Frank, since she had devoted much of her life to her mother's state of invalidism. It was eight years since the Luttrells" had left America to travel for the bene fit of Mrs. Luttrell's health, when she died. In that time Eloise bad been un der the care of a German governess in Germany, a French governess in Paris and an English governess in London and in Italy. She had studied music under the best ma-.ters, had dabbled in art,had gone into society at fifteen to "keep papa company" when her mother was ill. Early developed, she had never yet had auy love-affair, and when Frank Weldon was sent abroad to finish his education, and joined the Luttrells, Eloise gavehim a cool but friendly reception, quite pre pared to marry him on the 'oreign plat form, to "please papa." They were together in many foreign cities, but their love making was of the most languid description, each giving the other cordial liking and thinking ardent feeling quite superfluous under the circumstances. They parted in Paris, and l'rank had been at home nearly two years when he welcomed the Luttrells to America and to Weldon Park. "You must make us a long visit before you go home," Mr?. Weldon had written to Eloise, "it is so long since your house was opened that it will not be habitable for months, and you will be so near that you can easily superintend all the clean ing or re f«rn'.shiug." So, af:era few days' rest in NewTork the LuttreJ* telegraphed to Weldon F»rk aud were met at the station by the carriage. it must bo confessed that Mrs. Wel don was not pleasantly impressed by the entire coolness of her daughter-In-law elect. She was a warm-heartet impul sive little woman, who idolized her only son, and she nude little allowance for the early maturity into which Eloise had been forced. It chiliad her to sea how calm antf self-possessed this girl of twenty was, and even the statuesque character of her superb beauty rather app&lled her. She gave Frank a half frightened look as tho guests swept up the s tail case to the rooms prepared for them, and l'rank, ns soon as they were out of hearing, broke into a boyish laughter. Nearly five years older than Kloise he looked younger, being blond and boyish, while she was brunette and stately. I think in her heart of hearts Eloise rather despised his merry, light hearted nature, but she never expressed any such opinions. When the guest* joined mother and son in tho drawing room, before dinner, tiiey were both surprised to meet a gen LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1893. tlemnn who was introduced by Mrs. Weldou as "my brother. Doctor Ger rish," and to find this member of the 1 family a cripple aod invalid. lie was a tall, slight-built man ot thirty-seven or eight, with a delicate, refined face, and with one shoulder deformed, while there was a decided halt in his gait. Shrink ing evidently from notice, he yet made an effort to aid in entertaining his sister's guests, and conversed in a low, sweet voice, almost womanly in its delicate modulations. It was not until the next day that Frank, sauntering through the garden with Eloise. spoke of his uncle. "No," he said, in auswer to her ques tion, "he did not here before you weut abroad. He was practicing medi cine then in Boston, but he was injured by a fall, and he lost his property in some unfortunate investments; so mother insisted upon his coming bere, to take care of her while I was in Europe. Since then it has been easy to persuade him to stay. He enjoys the seclusion, and he is a close student, contributing largely to medical literature, though he has ceased to practice. He cannot trust his nerves since his accident, and a doctor dare not be nervous." "Does he suffer much?" "Not physically, but I think ho doe* mentally. He was ambitious and an en thusiast in his profession. It was hard to be cut short in what promised to be an unusually successful career." "Very hard," said Eloise, with a great sigh, "It is as bad as being a woman with no great object to live for." Frank looked slightly bewildered, but made no reply. Eloise had never con fided to him the longings of her heart to be a great artist or a great singer, nor the weary disgust to her that it was to know she must be only a fashionable young lady, with plenty of money ot her own and a fortune of her father's in prospect. "1 cannot oven bo Lady Bountiful," thought this disgusted young lady, "for there are no very poor people about here that I know of, and papa would not let me go near them if there were." But Frank's account of his uncle roused her interest, twd she longed to let him know how keenly sho sympa thized with him. It was not easy to break through his reserve, but certainly no better oppor tunities could be found than those af forded by a summer sojourn in the same country-house; and scarcely knowing how the intimacy commenced, Doctor Gerrish aod Eloise became friends. Eloise would have indignantly denied the possibility of her flattering any one, and yet there was the moat delicate flat tery in her respectful deference to Doctor Gerrish's opinions, her habit of turning to him for sympathy in her opinions, her evident- pleasure in his so ciety. She sang his favorite song and wore his favorite colors; and when he would talk to her of his pursuits, his book in progress, she felt a strange sense of elation at being thought worthy of his confidence. Alterations were being made at Luttrell Place, where Mr. Luttrell talked of es tablishing himself for the future; but they were not urged forward very rapidly. The house und grounds belonged to Eloise, being a portion of her mother's property bequeathed to her; and Mr. Luttrell of'-cn spoke of going abroad again, as if the settling down at Luttrell Place was not entirely decided upon. ••It is as well to have the place in or der," he told Eloise. "You and Frank may object to living here, you know, though Mrs. Weldon would be a model mother-in-law." And Eloise had answered only by a burning blusli and drooping eyes. More than once she had met any refer ence to that tacit engagement in the same way, but Mr. Luttrell had asked no questions. In the fall they went to their own home, and Frank became a daily visitor, while there was seldom a week passsd when Eloise did not drive orer in her pony-carriage to eall on Mr*. Weldon. She was unlike the calm, self-possessed woman who had returned from Europe, in those days. She was restless and pre occupied, neglecting her usual pursuits, and often shuttiug herself up in her room for hours together, coming out with red eyes and pale cheeks, but never speaking of illness or sorrow. Christmas came, and there was a ball at Weldon Park, which would be fol lowed, it was understood, by a similar entertainment at Luttrell Place on New Year's Eve. It was between these two festivities that Mrs. Weldon came, one day, to visit Eloise. ' The dear little woman was terribly troubled and took her grief to headquar ters. Quite by accideut, she had dis covered that her crippled brother had given his heart to the beautiful girl who had so gently won his confidence, and I the hopelessness of his attachment was appalling to his warm-hearted sister. It ! was the strangest thing to ask, but she did ask Eloise to stay away from Weldou Park until after her marriage. "Thon my brother and I will go abroad until he is himself again," she said, "and I know you will keep his se cret. You will never let him know I betrayed his confidence, Eloise?"' she pleaded. "I will never let him know." "He feels the fact of his poverty and his deformity so keenly," said Mrs. Wel don, "that he would never dream of speaking of his love; but he has a true, noble heart, and it will not be easy for him to conquer the passion be feels. Poor Stephen I He has had a hard life." Eloise echoed the sigh, but made no comment, and Mrs. Weldon departed, only half satisfied with herself. She might have been less so had she heard a question Eloise asked Frank a few hours later. They were discussing the ball in prospect, when Eloise said: "Frank, don't you think this farce of our engagement had better end? You will never care half as much for me as you do for that pretty May Hilton." And Frank blushingly assented. The night of the ball was clear, bril liant moonlight, and Doctor Gerrish, who seldom left home, astonished his s'ster by appearing in full dtess just be fore the carriage started. "I am going with you," he said, but did not explain that there had reached him a little note from Eloise. "I have a New Year's gift for you, and beg you will come for it on Wednesday even ing." She had never seemed to him so win ning as on that evening when, in one of her exquisite Parisian toilets, she re ceived her friends. Stately as ever, there was yet a soft light in her eyes he had never seen there before, and her voice was low and musical as she gave him cordial greeting. Just before midnight, she took his arm and led him to the conservatory, to ask his opinion of somo new arrangement there. They were standing quite alone among the flowers'when the church clock struck twelve. Silently they counted the strokes, and ns the last one died away, Doctor Gerrish took Eloise's hand in his own, saying, in a low, tender tone: "May I wish you a happy New Year?" She was very pale as she looked into his face and answered; "You alone can make it so. This is tho first hour of 1892—leap-year—and I —l—you ought to know, stupid !" Nobody else was very much astonished, but Mr. Luttrell went abroad when Doc tor and Mrs. Gerrish took up their abode at Luttrell Place just one week after Frank \Yeldon brought pretty May Wel don, nee Hilton, to Weldon Park. "He never would have asked me, papa," Eloise said, when she confessed the truth of her proposal to her father; "and yet he loved ine! Was I very dreadful—indiscreet—or unmaidenlv, do you think, papa?" And Mr. Luttrell, laughing heartily, only said: "Very! But if ho is please< * nit see why any one else should objo>.-. And there was no doubt that Doctor Gerrish was more than pleased with his lately acquired treasure.—The Ledger. The Long: IMslnnoa Telephone. "Strange," remarked a gentleman who was present at the New York end of the telephone wiro between New York and Chicago, at the opening ceremonies, "that a sentence can bo dropped in Chi cago and be heard in New York." "Oh, that's nothing," replied a wit, "by and by you will be able to hoar n London cockney drop his h's in Trafal gar Square." Professor Bell says it is only tho ques tion of a very short timo when all tho civilized world will be in tolepl)onic com munication. The wires in use between New York and Pittsburg ni c about an eighth of an inch iu diameter. They weigh 180 pounds to the mile. - It was concluded to put up a wire between New York aud Chicago twice as large as tho one in use on the SOO mile circuit. Tho new cir cuit is therefore made of wires one-fourth of an inch in diameter, and tho wire weighs 435 pounds to tho mile. The circuit is what is known as a double metalic circuit, containing two wires for tho entire distance. To mako the wire 826,500 pounds of wire were uied. The circuit runs west through Easton, Har risburg and Pittsburg, Peun., You up town and Toledo, Ohio, and South Bond, Ind. Thero is no difference in tho appear ance of the transmitter. It is the same littie instrument, undoubtedly one of the greatest inventions of modern times. Like all long distauce 'phones, it is ar ranged on an oak table. The working apparatus is enclosed in glass to promote the sound, aud the arm of the speaking tube is longer and arranged so as to bo on a level with the face. If tho lino to Chicago is profitable it will be extended to San Francisco.—Detroit Free Press. Kit Canon's Family. Christopher Carson, the famous pio neer, guide, aud Indian fighter, was married at Taos, N. M., ou the 2d of February, 1843. His first child, Char ley, was born May 1, 1850, and died April 1, 1851. His second child, Julian (Billy), was born October 1, 1852. He was four years Sheriff of Costilla County, and died thero several years ago. His third child, Teresina, was born June 83, 1855, and is now living at Romerville, near Las Vegas, N. M. His fourth ohild, Curistoval, was born Juno 12, 1858, and is now living at Las Animas, Col., and is commonly known as Kit Carson, Jr. His fifth child, Charles, was bom August 2, 1861, and is now residing at La Junta, Col., and pososses more nearly all the noble chat cteristics of his fa* mom father thau any of tho rest of Tit Carson's children. His sixth child, Re becca, was boru April 13, 1864, and died at Springer, N. M., April 13, 1885. His seventh child, Estefanita, was born December 23, 1866, and is now the wifo of Thomas Wood, residing at La Junta, Col. His eighth child, Josefita, was l>«rn April 14, 1868, and is now tho wifo of William Squires, residing at Glad stone, N. M. All of Kit Carson's chil dren wero raised till of age by Thomas O. Boggs, who resides near Clayton, N. M. Mrs. Boggs IB a neice of Mrs. Kit Carson, Sr. Mrs. Jesse Nelson, resid ing in Otero County, is a sister of tho pioneer. Thero are no bi others or sisters of Mrs. Kit Carson now living.—Trini dad, (N. M.) Advertiser. Ciuv for Ivy Poisoning. Dr. T. B. Stanley reports that he had some timo ago a levero case of ivy poi soning which was not relieved by the or dinary remedies. As a last resort a strong decoction of chestnut leaves was used, bathing tho inflamed parts every three or four hours. In twenty-four hour* all the distressing symptoms had subsided, and tho patient was discharged cured. Since this experiment Dr. Stan ley has prescribed the castanca treat ment for all case 3of rims and ivy poi soning, and in all stages at the inflamma tion, with the single result in every case of perfect relief from all symptoms in from tweotyfour to seventy-two hours.—Boston Cultivator. ; CRUEI, BUT PICTURESQUE. MURDER NOT REGARDED AS A ORIfeB BT THE AFGHANS, Bat Smoking and Drinking Looked Upon as Great Vines—V I'astoral and Pugnacious People. TC KABULI or Afghau always / \ presents a picturesque appear- M ance, despite the dirtiness of £ his clothing, for a clean Kabuli is as rare as a white crow, and half the sentiment connected with an Afghan would be gone if he were forced to look trim, neat and clean. Their bearing is utterly distinct from that of the timid Hindustani, anl every movement shows that they consider themselves inferior to none. Independence is ingrained in them, and even their Ameer is often made to remember that he is simply pri mus inter pares. They are jealous of their rights, and the clanship feeling is very strong. 80 powerful is this spirit as to cause deadly feuds, and though joining together to oppose the natural foe it is not uncommon for one tribe to attack another ere the public enemy is thoroughly defeated. They are brave and vindictive, and being Mohammedans are therefore fatal ists. They expose their lives freely, and believe that he who dies fighting is in sured in paradiso a grossly sensual after existence. Notwithstanding their con tempt of danger, the Afghans showed much military skill in the late war with England, and, being excellent marks men, did considerable execution from behind the vantage of rocks. The Afghans are to be found all over India, but only during the cold weather, -"hen they leave their mountain fast <w for the plains of India, bringing with them the produce of their farms and the cloths which their women weave. In Afghanistan apples aro grown to per fection, and these they sell in India at good, round prices. The fruit when plucked ripe is tasteful and juicy, but the long journey does not improve the flavor, aud though it makes a handsome appearance, is as sawdusty as the Ca nadian apple solri in England. Grapes, too, are raised in the valleys, and aro largely exported. In Kashmir the grape did so well that, some years ago, a company backed by English capital un dertook the manufacture of champagne, but with poor success. Beer, too, is made on the slopes of the Himalayas, though the man who has once tasted the bever age would be indeed plucky if 110 re peated his venture. The Afghan has an extraordinarily sweet tooth, and it is most amusing to see these great hulking, shambling fol lows patronizing the sweetmeat shops. The Ilindoostam is a great consumer of sugar, and his tastes in this direction aro the grossest. T.ieir candies arc simply lumps of unrefined sugar formed into fantastic images or made to crudely re semble animals and human beings." The Mohammedan, however, through his hatred of idolatry, would not purchase a piece of caudy which bore likeuess to living thiug, nor would a Hindoo who had respect for his person be bold as to oiler an image to an Afghan. Tho deadly insult would be followed with the exclamation: "Ilut jao' 1 ("Get hence"), and a blow sufficiently power ful to tell an ox aud kill weakly Hin doo. The picture an Afghan presents with his bunds and mouth full of sweetmeats as assuredly excites a smile as does the spectacle of two stout, unwieldy French men falling upon each other's neck and weeping and kissing an affectionate adieu. You fee) morally certain this huge, innocent looking Afghan has re morselessly killed several oi his friends who have made themselves objectionablo to him, and you are equally as certaiu that in the folds of his voluminous chapkan several deadly woapons are stowed away, while his loose, bagiy trowsers, tied fast at the ankle, also cover slaughtering steel. The average Kaluli docs not regard murder as a crime. It is kill or bo killed in his own country, and he therefore re gards the matter of the taking off of a friend most philosophically. "There is nothing to worry about; he is dead, and I killed him," be will tell you if you should iuquire about a companion with whom he was on the best of terms the preceding winter. I have heard an Afghan, while purchasing a weapon, speak with evident gusto of the occasion when he would use the gun to murder a friend. It caused him as little concern, this contemplated crime, as if he had said, "Shall kill a chicken, if God so wills it, to-morrow for my pillau." And yet there is something childish and affectionate about these men. They never seem to forgot a favor and repay it to the best of their ability. Unlike other Mohammendans, they do not ob servo tbe Khoran with blind obstinacy, but occasionally stretch its precepts to accord with their ideas of religion. They do not drink, for that is directly against the law, nor do they smoke. Palgrave, in his interesting book describing his journey to the sacred city of Mecca, gives an amusing accouut of his conver sation with a Mollah. On asking the reverend gentleman which ho considered the most deadly of all sins, the holy man replied: •'Smoking the Shameful." "And next, oh, son of the Prophet!" "Drinking." "Are these the two greatest sins, father?" "Verily, my son." "And murder I" "Ah, that's nothing—nothing. It's forgivable." "And stealing?" "Ah! that's forgivable, too," "But smoking?" "It is the unforgivable crime," replied the Mollah sternly and locking koonly at the fictitious Mohammedan. And this, I think, is the Afghan's creed. Murder and theft are forgivable crimes, but for smoking and drinking there is no redemption.—San Francisco Chronicle. Terms—sl.oo in Advanee; 51.25 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. In sheep and hogs the average cardiac pulsations are seventy-six per minute. Alkali lands can be reclaimed. On the black alkali lands gypsum should be applied. T he salts of sodium are more soluble and of less value in agriculture than those of potassium. A gallon of water would only cover a space of two feet square if spread out in a layer an inch thick. Bees never store honey in the light be cause honey so exposed granulates and is thus useless to the bees. It requires about twice as mucti power to propel a steamship twenty-one miles an hour as it does to move along the same vessel at the rate of sixteen miles an hour. The animals which die in the gardens of the London Zoological Society are rarely of much use for dissection, as they so commonly suffer from tumors of bones and viscera. A sewing machine for use on cotton belting that has been constructed at Leeds, England, weighs five and a quar ter tons and is probably the giant of all sewing machines. In consequence of the growing diffi culty of procuring wood suitable for tbe manufacture of matches, Oerman factor ies are making them of compressed peat, which is said to be an excellent sub stitute. It has long been known that diamonds —especially the class known as "rose diamonds"—are likely to explode if sub jected only to what would seem a very ordinary degree of heat, such as strong rays from the sun. A PortsD- nth (N. n.) man has put his bicvcl' jn a boat. It is connected with a/ .ing which turns a propeller set in m >tion by treading the pedals, and the boat is said to move swiftly through the water. A new u?e for aluminium is mentioned which consists in intercalating a very thin plate of this metal between the two soles of a boot, with the object of pre venting the penetration of damp while retaining the warmth of the foot. It is almost certain that the increa«o of brain ond nervous diseases among smokers and their children, and increased disturbances of circulation known as heart failure, etc., are in no small meas ure attributable to the free use of tobacco by the American people. A powerful lamp, which distinctly il luminates objects over half a mile dis tant, by means of a great reflector, is to be adopted in the French Army. It is carried Oil a light wagon, behind the soldiers, aid they will be iu obscurity while the\ eneroj and all objects in front will b • made conspicuous. M. Marey,\tlie French scientist, whose investigations of animal movements by means of instantaneous photography aud the zoetrope arc well known, has now succeeded in rendering the beating of a living heart visible to the eye. It is said to be possible by this new method to follow and properly examine all the phases of the heart's movement. "The richness of the ores found 111 Tas mania is marvelous. Recently some Zeehau chloride was twice tested by private analyses and found to assay nearly 20,000 ounces of silver to the ton. The accuracy of these tests doubted, two specimeus were submitted to the Governrcent analyst for trial in his laboratory, with the result that in both samples he found over 20,000 ounces to the ton. Wild Horses Only Walk or Gallop. "Speaking of gaits," said a cattleman to a Cincinnati Times-Star writer, ''did you know that in its native state the horse has but two gaits—the walk and the gallop? All others—such as the trot, pace, canter, fox-trot, rack and single-foot—are acquired and artificial. True, a colt will be born that may paco on the day of its birth, but you will find some of its ancestors have been taught to pace. I have chased and captured wild horses in their native wilds, and know this from observation. I never saw a wild horse trot. A queer differ ence between wild horses and domestic is exhibited in breaking them. Now a wild horse tries to dismount his rider by pitchiug and bucking, and it is the aim of the trainers to make him run. Oct a wild horse to run straight ahead, and he is conquered and will in a short time be come docile. But with domestic stock just the opposite Is the case. A tame horse does not buck, as a rule, but wants to run. Let him run and he is ruined. The philosophy of the business is plain. The idea in both cases is to bend the will of the horse to the rider's desire. The wild horso runs straight ahead because he is cowed and afraid of his rider and has despaired of throwing him. The tamo horse runs because he has no foar of the tider and imagines he la escaping. lie is made togo slow quietly only through fear and rospect. Thus, you sec, the wild horse runs to slavery, while the tame horse runs to freedom." Why Mountain Air is a Ton'c. It is the atmospheric depression which, In conjunction with good hygienic con ditions, acts on invalids who goto mountain resorts, and promotes in their blood the formation of now sanguineous globules fit for the assimilation of oxy gen. The more abundant nutrition an"! the augmentation of the appetite observ able in a sojourn in the mountains are not the cause but the consequence of the improvement which such sojourn brings. Indeed, even admitting that the action of elevated sites on the blood may owe something to other causes, it is difficult to resist the induction that climatic es tablishments are m geueral to be pre ferred to mineral-water reports—certain ly to those whoso reputation is c liefly built on fashion, on entertainments or on the ensemble of adventitious attrac tions, from which health pure and sim ple has little to gain.—Boston Cultiva tor. NO. 13. \ -WINTER. m frigid is the weather, '■«■«» • sheep out ia the heather Are huddled close together In the storm; The leaden skies are snowing The coldest waves are Mowing— We don't know how we're going To keep warm. It's taking all we're earning To keep the fire burning— Milk on the stove is turning Into ice. In spite of blankets heaping We shiver when we're sleeping, And frozen while they're creepin< Are the mice. With colds the coughing shakes ur Jack Frost's sharp biting aches And rheumatism makes us Merely wrecks. If out we show our noses Boys, looking meek as Moses, Throw snowballs in big doses Down our necks. The merry sleighbells jingle • But those who aren't single Can in tbe frolic mingle Never more; The snow which makes the sappy Young lads and lassiei happy Is to the older chappie But a bore. We're tired out with lugging Coal scuttles up and hugging Hot stoves and snowball slugging We despise. And we don't think it's funny To shovel snow—for money, O, won't we hail the sunny Summer skies. This poom may be pleasing To weather growlers wheetfnx. But winter bright and freezing Is sublime. With health our bodies tiugle, Our heart's glad sleighbells jingle And Cbrismas brings Kriss Kringle Every time. —H. C. Dodge, iu Chicago Hun. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Under the weather—The earth. Generally speaking—The ladies. A trim figure—The milliner's bill. The best material for a dress—Money or unlimited credit. As paradoxical as it may appear, the oarsman gets ahead by going backwards. —Puck. The man who has confidence in him self is often taken in by that kind of a game.—Puck. A man no sooner gets a pair of shoes broken in than they begin to break out. —Atchison Globe. A successful chase of the ideal often helps us amazingly in catching up with the material.—Puck. Merchants studying poetry should re member that advertiser rhymes with wiser.—Texas Siftings. "So old Skinner is dead and buried, I hear." "Yes; he was always wanting the earth and now he has it."—Puck. A weather bureau might not be paying business in Africa, yet the natives might live on the prophets.—Boston Courier. "What did Miss Morcll say when you proposed." "Said she wasn't under taking kindergarten work just now." Chicago News Record. Pastor—' 'ls everything goin<r smoothly with you now?" Farmer—"Yes, every thing except some hauling I've got to do over a rough road."—Detroit Free Press. I wrote upon the last pige in her book A tender wor«l of love, beciuse I knew That she would ljok upon the last leaf llrst Ere she had read the title of it through. —Puck. "I used to be well acquainted with this man," said the doctor as he pre pared for the autopsy, "but new I will be obliged to cut him dead."—Buffalo Express. "Hotel clerks are human beings," says an inn-keeper's journal. This ia important, if true. Wo had supposed them demigods, at least—Boston Transcript. "I'll have tp put a check to your pro ceedings," said the father. "Yes, sir," replied the son, genially. "It will have to have three figures tJ it, though."— Washington Star. Lancaster—"Are you nmking as much fuss over your baby now as you were two months ago?" Forrester—"Oh, no; I've quit all that. Tic b3by is making all the fuss now." —New York Mercury. "If map-makers nre justified in selling maps on a scale of two inches to the mile," said the grocer, "I don't see why -1 ain't justified in selliug sugar on a a scale of seven ounces to the pound."— Truth. Cawkcr— "Did you ever try a Cincin nati sandwich?" Lirkin—"No. How do they make them?" Cawker—"They are made of two slices of water with a thin piece of boiled ham between."— Judge. "I tell you," exclaimed Mr. Blossom, of St. L mis, debating with a Chicago man."l tell you that St\ Liuis is the banner town 1" "Yes," admitted Mr. Livewaytc, of Chicago. "I understand it is a flag station." Docior (to patient who has come two miles to the doctor's office iu order to sitve the extra cost of a visiting foe) — "Good gracictis, man, you are net fit to be out of the house! Go home at once and I will call in a couple of hours and prescribe foi you."—Life. Eight years ago, while a Philadelphia man was tryiug on a new suit of clothes in a clothing store, some one stole his watch. Tne suit he bought was worn out years ago, but the suit ho brought against the pr«prwtew for the value of his watch is still as go<»d as new.—New York Tribune. The hop yield of Ne.v York last sea son is given at about 115,000 bales, that of Washington at 2),000 hales, Oregon 17,000 bales and California protobly about 10,000 bales.
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