SULLIVAN JISI& REPUBLICAN. w. M, CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XI. Over 1,000,000 Germans live in large American cities. It is said that the King and Queen of Greece set their subjects an ex cellent example of strict economy in royal high places. The New York Marine Journal spins a yarn to the effect that a whale at Nantucket got entangled aud excited and ran away with a bell buoy. Tho estate of the lato Richard Jessup, of San Francisco, Cal., valued at $140,000, was completely absorbed in four years by the lawyers of the young heir. Perseverance wins every time. The lie wist'm (Me.) Journal relates tjjiftt a Deering woman severely scalded an approaching pedler with a dipper of hot water—but he got in—and sold her n rug- The corner 6tono of the National Capitol was laid September 18, 1793. It is proposed to celebrate the centen nial anniversary of this event by a parade, addresses, fireworks and n night illumination of the Capitol by means of twenty-four search-lights. While the Western movement of population in the United States for the century aggregates 605 miles, the extreme Northern and Southern variation is a little under twenty-two miles, and the finishing point of the line is only some six miles south of the starting point. A ten-thousand-mile railroad line is a Russian project that is well under way, and is attracting the attention of engineers all over the world. The road storts on the eastern border of the Russian Empire and runs ten thou sand miles until it reaches Vladivo stock on the Siberian coast. The Prince of Wales is said to pre sent the extraordinary spectacle of n man in danger of succumbing to old age while his mother is still in her prime. He lias crowded about ten years into every one of life, and he has, it is said, had fun enough to con solo him for missing a jol> on the throne. A scientific authority now comes to the front with the argument that rail way trains of very high speed, under certain circumstances, are safer than slower ones. The point made is that great speed implies the greatest prudence, the highest skill, the most perfect construction and equipment. The subject is of great interest in these days. From 1851 to 1892 the emigration from Ireland amounted to 3,518,383 persons, of whom ninety-one per cent, camo to the United States. In 1852 the outflow was 190,000; in 1853 it was 173,000; iu 1854 tha figures were 140,000. Last year only 50,807 Irish people left home, and the birth rate showed a considerable per cent, in crease. Leonard E. Ladd, of Philadelphia, has patented an "improved dwelling house plan," which provides for"the erection of a block of buildings and their connection in such a way that the ordinary kitchen work and gen eral supply features will all bo cured for in one central building." That is, that each house will have its own kit chen anil dining-room, but these will be set apart, say in the center of the block, aud connected with the remain ing rooms by means of corridors. A central plant for light, heat, etc., is also included in the plan. It » claimed that three-story houses could be erected on the basis proposed to In sold for #4500. The long droughtuf laMyoitr warned th<- Florida orange-grower* and trtirk farmer* that irrigation huh almost a* indin|>en*alde in the maturing <>( tin it crop* »hit i* found to l>. in tin (Viltt Coa*t HtutcN, ohacrvea th • Ni w York l'o-t. At Oviotlo, win r - lint., urt Home of thu rtn. it orange grovaa in Florida, irrigation h*» I wen mown fully te*ted, MII,| Mt Maitlalid tin whmtlu of tin* irrigating euginr i> heard daily during tlx- dry wanou. Tim coat of tin machinery r<■<1111r«><l f«>» au orange «''»»«' i» well within tin mean* of tba average grower. .% pluut at l«ake Choru* which can li bought for and niv. t natiifu< I ry r< ult<. la thu* ilfa'tlln d Tin- Upright ladlcr ha* a twenty ln>r». |miwi i w a ton inch pump attached to .( I. .<ir in It main running tlir'iitfh tSi>> e#uir« „l the grou*# o»cr I'JOO 112,., i stl | Iwoiueli Irnnli |M|m equally |,,n< >,t ■tated point*. Hi. |.<oii|i M..«, uthr 4T*> gallon* of »ul. r a MIUIII. AN Itlm •appllua •• i««lj >« *»# l» if»ul* In lb < GROVC.t" »ach of »IIWIII *II IK ALL >, ln L a Mfty loot hoax lot ..i *«U|. LAST NIGHT. 0 comrades, lot the song go round And laughter be our gueet, Of all the blessings life has found A woman's love Is best. 1 drink not ; when the cup is crowned I wish you all that's bright: My vintage lies In beauty's oyes, I ktssod my love last night. The jasmine perfumes rose and strayed Like elfln waifs unseen ; The summer moonbeams stole and ployed Her lattice bars between ; She shyly stood, all white arrayed, With youth and grace bodight -, She was so fair, How could I dare— I kissed my love last night. A sudden glory filled the earth It had not known before ; A happy gleam too sweet for mirth The quivering moonbeams were, To think that I of little worth Had won the pearl of light- No song or speech My bliss can reach— I kissed my love last night. I sought my lonely couch to dream ; Sweet waftures thronged my brain ; Blue eyes and lily buds a-gleam, And roses wet with rain, With morning's opalescent beam The glaaiorio took flight. Yet waking brought A dearer thought— I kissed my lcve last night. 3 Moon, laugh down your silver rays, Smile up. O dimpling Sea, O Fountain, toss your tinkling sprays, 0 Stars rejoice with mo ! With twinkling shoon ye tricksy Fays Come guide my song aright, And tip with dew Eaoh measure true— -1 kissed my love hist night. —Samuel M. Peck, in Atlanta Constitution. THE TALE OF jH COMET. BY ROMAN I. ZFBOF, mamma! mamma ! Come out quick; it's •-MBSfizs. 112 on! look at it, papa; ■ isn't it beautiful?" M nu 'l > u the exuberance excitement Milly Patterson squeezed John's arm tightly while she leaned against him and looked eagerly into the sky. Old man Patterson, who stood near the yonng people, also had his face turned upward; but there was no in dication of glee in liis voice when, af ter gazing for a ft>v minutes, he re marked : "And to think that them things, with such beautiful tails, could do us any harm!" There was no response to this re mark, save a loud sigh from Mrs. Pat terson, who turned round abruptly and walked into the house, where Mr. Pat terson soon followed her. Milly and John were still standing and gazing at the heavens. They had not said a word to each other; they were happy in tho consciousness of their proximity. "I don't believe a word of it—do you?" asked Milly some minutes after wards. "What?" "Oh, what Schoolmaster Marten says about this—er—comet- that's going to break up tho earth aud kill all tho people on it and annihilate everything. I don't believe it—do you?" "Bosh!" remarked John emphatic ally. "I think Marten is a slick fraud, that's what he is!" he added, holdiug his arm tightly round Milly's waist. "It's awful!" sai«l Milly concernedly. "He's been coming here every day for the last couple of weeks talkiug about that comet, and he's dinned into papa and mamma's heads that the whole world is comin' to an end, and that we are nigh the day of judgment!" "Rubbish!" commented John. "And he's been talking at me, too, the hypocrite, telling me to mend my ways and not to be so giddy. As if I am ever giddy, John!" she added in an injured tone. John did not reply for a second or two. He seemed to be tliiukiug. " 'Pears to me," ho suid, after a while, "that your father ought to know by this time what lund of a customer he's got to deal with. Has Marten paid him buck the fifty dollars he borrowed last Christmas?" "No, not he." "Why don't you tell your father not to take any stock in Marten?" "It'ti no use, John. He's wheedled them round completely to bis side. It's perfectly iiwiiil how he's talked them into things about this comet. They've been glum aud inopin', mid packiu' away things; and mother's been bury in' a lot of silver iu the garden - "What !" interrupted John. "The old folks huveu't bel li hidili' things in the ground and l>-t Marten know of it?" "Yes. He's shown them the very place where he mtva the entile! Won't strike, aud luother * put a lot of silver Bpooiix in it " "The 112,„! -11. » Weu stt-ahn' them !" exclaimed John. Millie Sprang to her feet and rail into the garden, J.,|111 foil .Ming lor Mho stopped Hear a alight mound of frrnh elwy in which two atleha were firmly stuck aud a Inch ah« began to protm gently. "thank II'IHMIMW. it's not touched!" •he aaiil with a algh of r< lief, evidently satisfied «lib h.i onitiatiou- "You nearly took my breath away with fright, John. W , .ma would go era** rt she wort- •>< flMlli I " "I toll VMM wtist 111 do, Willy, to •Ml I "Von keep a altwfp aat.it wa thu |dae«. aml if Marteu l»iri»a a|> to Morrow k.. c htM tlit I thi >u*h tsft I'll oummi utM le . r«, a#>l w. II LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1893. sec whether wo can't fix him some how. " In truth it was terrible OH Milly ex pressed it, if half the things were go ing to happen which Marten predicted. The whole village of Stockborongh was terribly excited over the event. Every body recollected that. wars, pesti lence, famine, And other calamities followed the previous appearance of a comet like this—with almost the identical tail. Schoolmaster Marten talked about such uncanny things as tho "stellary system," the cosmic law," and so on. On the day on which Milly and John had conspired to rout him, Marten was.at the Patter son farm holding forth as usual. He had brought a newspaper with him, and read out from it impressively the an nouncement that on the coming Thurs day, precisely at G :34 p. m., there would bo an entire eclipse of the snn, and the inference ho left to be gathered from it was that tho general break-up was to begin at that very second. The old people sat listening and blink ing solemnly. Milly was somewhat awed herself, and she was mighty glad when John came into the room looking ready for action. John contented himself at first by simply denying the arguments. But Marten's superior loquaciousness was rapidly getting the best of him and he was gradually drawn into the meshes of reason. That was oil the schoolmaster wanted. He could reason a bull into a frog any day, if the animal only fol lowed the process of logical deductions; so by and by John found himself lis tening with his hands folded, his rea son silenced, and more than half con vinced of the probability of tho wholo thing. "And ye say it'll all take place on Thursday at 5:34 p. m.?" asked tho old man. Marten had not said it, but he answered: "Precisely. The unerring calcula tion of science." "Maybe it'll only strike one corner of the earth and leave out Stockbor ough and the farm?" he asked timidly again. "That is difficult to say," replied Marten, thoughtfully. "Our wholo planet is sure to sustain a terrible shock, and it will bo felt all the world over. There is a chance—a small chance —that we might escape with our lives here; but everything else -is doomed." That night John and Milly were locked in a long embrace before they took leave of each other. They were both heavily oppressed, and though John entertained a sneaking scepticism of the whole thing, he really believed that before the end of the week tho enrtli might t>c a T)roKen wnntr, with nobody and nothing alive on it. "You will come over on Thursday, John, won't you?" asked Milly in a I trembling voice. "We can dio to ! getlier, if we can't live together, can't I wo, John?" "I'll be here, Milly, by 4 o'clock, ' and God may prove him yet a liar— you see if Ho don't!" said John as he | went off. About a quarter past five on the fol lowing Thursday they all left the old Patterson farmhouse. They were go ing to give up their souls to heaven, iiinl they walked on in solemn silence. It was preternaturally quiet all around them. The gloaming was rapidly fall ing, and it seemed to the old folks as if it were the precursor of eternal dark ness. The group halted near a cluster of trees. Marten held out his watch; there was ten minutes more left them. The old people stood there glum and motionless. Johnaud Milly had locked hands and looked pale. Marten told them to lie down Hat 011 their stomachs and hide their faces in the ground till the thing was over. Tremblingly, fearfully,they obeyed, and lay flat on the ground, dreading to stir, awaiting the sounds of the aw ful crash. Marten retired to another spnt, whence he said he would signal them to rise if they were destined to survive. Ten minutes passed ; a quarter of an hoar followed, and still they lay there, (t was growing darker; they were get ting chilled to the bones; their teeth licgan to chatter, and still no signal from the schoolmaster, no sound of the crashiug doom. Hulf un hour pn:;sod, and then fearfully, cautiously, old man l'attersou begun to move his head. Gradually lie raised it and looked round. Everything was still, deathly still. It was dark, but he could see tlii* farmhouse clearly. Then he suddenly thought that he alone had survived the general destruction -he uud the farmhouse. A terror crept over him that he would have to eud his day* alone and in darknesa. "Wish I hud died with 'eui !" he Kronlteil uloitd. Hut he looked round and saw his wife's head rising, and suddenly her terrified face looked at linn. The next moment he saw iu lu r eye a glance of revoguittati. Ho they wcrebotb alivi * * Milly ! Milly !" called the old man timidly. '' Yea, father?" came a trembling re |dy. "Are ye living?" h« asked a .'am. "I aw, father la John alive¥' **V••", Milly," cam.' the eiuphutie re ply front John, who nat up on the ground. l in y were all sitting lip now. " I'll*• fariuhoiiM' la th>'r», too," *«ld Mr • l'att« r»oii m a «um|»riim «»kv, "an I I h>-itr tin >linrt horn Iduwlug in the yard." "tlmaa We'll lirttcf get Hp," r« iuark>d thv old man, llsm* and aaalai lug h»a wile li Miln the k> «»«•■, aln u they g"l a !> 11 tin » all baiat ■•it l«H|fking, lint (ill *1 I >l< ii , nil llw Ntofv Ikuy U'liflml IU m li-l, lli.y I. It Milly Ungli 1 miiil llu> |rw< •ttinwr I ■ltiwn hi-f rboU, at»»l John, in trying to rv*tia<u bvl, Ml Uta iktt« laiily ache. The old couple rocked them selves in their chairs with laughter, and amid those peals the old man would gasp out: "And I thought I's the only one alive—ho —ho—ho!" They found the silver where they buried it. Tho old man discovered everything he had sequestered but a bundle and a couple of gold rings; an old brooch, twenty-six dollars in money, and tho schoolmaster's own note for fifty dollars were missing. So was the schoolmaster himself. On the following day John came in and an nounced that the schoolmaster had skipped—"Hung onto the tail of tho comet, they say!" New York Storiettes. Popularity of Embalming. The idea of earning a livelihood out of tho making of mummies is not one to commend itself at first glance to tho female mind, and the ghastly associa tions of the occupation are to many in superably repellent. But embalming has for many reasons established itself in popular favor. It is the oply sure means of preventing the spread of con tagious diseases, through transmission by the undertaker's ice-box or assist ants. It is a preventive against pre mature burial in the case of a catalep tic subject, as tho first incisions and injections of the embalming fluid are likely to induce signs of life if any re main. Another favorable featuro is the possibility of shipping bodies a long distance with convenience. It is not generally known that throughout this country large numbers of women have adopted embalming as a profession, and the head college of embalming has a large proportion of women graduates. Far from showing any horror or unfit ness for tho business, women are said to be peculiarly deft and efficient in the duties involved, which in a general way consists only in opening several of the largo arteries, pumping out tho blood and injecting preservative fluids. Many of the women graduates have been trained nurses who saw an oppor tunity to make more money than at their former profession. One advan tage of the art is that it is easily ac quired. Tho prospectus of tho College I of Embulming sets forth that "past ex perience has demonstrated that ft com plete mastery of the science of body preservation in all its branches cannot be obtained iu the short space of two or three days, and therefore the length of time required to learn the process may extend from one week upward, according to tho aptitude of tho stu dent. " When the student has proved his or her ability to conduct the opera tion of embalming under different con ditions in a satisfactory manner a di ploma is granted, uud the ordinary length of tiiuu raquued for graduation is two weeks.—Chicago Record. Tho Secret of Digestion. •'Tlio secret of digestion is modera tion, " saiil an oKI inuu the other day, who at seventy-eight lias tho com plexion of a girl nnd the relish for food of a schoolboy. ' 'lt seems absurd to me that persons should suddenly discover that many articles of food upon which our ancestors lived to a green old age are extremely dotri mental to health and longevity. I have never considered what I ought to eat, but I have maile it a rule of my life to always leave the table wanting just a little more. "I did not leave tho home roof, which was on a farm, until I was nearly thirty years old, and it was my habit from November to April to eat a piece of mince pie every night just be fore going to bed. It was rather a small piece, but I invariably took it and do not recall ever having even a bail dream in consequence. "And I think, too, that digestion is like salvation—to be worked out in dividually. We are not all Baptists or Methodists, why must everybody be a vegetarian or some other food crank ? When I gut away from the mince-pie country, missing it, I took fruit in its place. A friend who saw me eating an apple one night hurled at lue the old saw: 'Fruit is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at niglit.' 'Non sense!' I cried, and retorted with another provery, 'What is one man's meat isauother man's poison,' and I've Continued to eat someting, usually fruit, every uight of my life."—-New York Times. Hrjlng lhimp Shoes. One of the most fertile resources ol cidds and serious incidental ailments is the wearing of damp shoes. When shoes have been saturated with water the attempt to ilrv tlieiu by exposing them before a stove or tire is obviously damaging to the leather, while it docs not insure the expulsion of moisture from tho inside. For accomplishing this a new invention has beeii brought out, consisting of a hollow stoneware last, which cau be tilled with hot water like a bottle ami which is made in a variety of slm|H's and sixes to cor respond to the uisido of ordiuary sin us. Thi! hole it the top of the last is Corked as soon l< the hot Water has been poured in. The hut is kept in position until the inside of thr shoe in thoroughly dry, and the hot water can lie renewed tf uuevssury. Chicago Mceord. i.ikoiif t lutti Htlrr I'runf, A i'orr<ipoieb i* asks for arecijw for luakiuß cloth wftt>r proof Tin rets surely 1111 bitter Method thau putting half a potiiid of of had and half ■ pound of alum k a |>ail of soft water, stirring >1 ofti it ittlil it Incoiiii• clear, |H,UNU|| it off iiilf ait it her pall, and pMtlliin tin' rli>l|int tfarint ul Into 11, to I * mat It Hit (V f«r twenty four li"Ut» The material «ho»l I then IMI bun# Up to dry without <• <<l*lllll la said that gar no nt» the* tr, alt >1 will fcmtp thr wttarer atwoti+adv d»y lu lh» bt*«l Mt raiit-lwriu i Ik lain simply Ua«K» IS |f|ot>ul«a upoii tin- el.ilh Vt tl#i pitttif «lot It im ut«rt tnalthy to m*mt tU*tt ru'l»» ihltatfu Ux ulii SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. At the bottom of the ocean the tem perature remains unchanged through out the year. Tho kangaroo readily leaps from sixty to seventy feet. The longest re corded leap of a horse is thirty seven feet. Great expectations have been raised in the minds of astronomers concern ing the results observations made in South America and Africa during tho solar eclipse. W. H. Preece, tho well-known elec trician, has succeeded in sending a telephone message from the shore of the Bristol Channel, near Cardiff, to tho island of Flatholm, three miles off, without tho intervention of a connect ing wire. The scale in general use is known as the Fahrenheit scale, from the name of its inventor, and iB based upon his in correct views of the the laws of the ex pansion of mercury. He took for his zero point the greatest natural cold ever observed at Amsterdam. Among tho workers at the Harvard College Observatory who have shown special scientific ability is Miss Maury. She is a granddaughter of tho Lieu tenant Maury whose meteorological and other scientific work has been of im mense value to seamen on the Atlan tic. Not so many people are aware that Lord Lyon Playfair is to be credited with having indirectly brought about tho invention of paraffin. His discov ery, when a young man, in a Derby shire coal mine of an oil spring like petroleum attracted .Tames Young, who, after working and exhausting this oil, produced from cannel coal and soda ash its equivalent, the famous "Young's paraffin," and became a millionaire. An account of a thunderstorm in which the rait, was mixed with live land mussels, which is said to have occurred at Paderbom, Germany, in August, 1892, is published in Das Wetter. A yellowish cloud attracted the attention of several people, both from its color aud tho rapidity of its motion, when suddenly it burst. A torrential rain fell with a rattling sound, and im mediately afterward tho pavement, was fonnd to bo covered with hundreds of the mussels. A specimen of volcanic dust from near Omaha, Nebraska, is described by Professor J. E. Todd. It was from a stratum of whitish aspect, about eight een inches in thickness, found in the bluffs facing tho Missouri River. It has tho same general characteristics as the volcanic dust which has been found in quantity along tho Republican River, in southern Nebrnsk.i, an i iu Knox, Gumming, aud Howard Counties in the samo State; but it differs in being stained with oxide of iron and the sharp angular grains coated with car bonate of lime. This locality is the most eastern exposure of the volcanic dust stratum which is found scattered over the most of Nebraska. Dunning a Mait-o'-Wnr. Strange scenes marked the weighing of the anchor of a man-of-war belong ing to a South American Government at Toulon the other night. It is said that the officers had contracted debts amounting to about SOOOO in tho southern naval seaport. Accordingly tho vessel before leaving tho roadstead was surrounded by boatloads of excited and clamoring creditors, who made at tempts to get on board, but were threatened by the crew of the man-of war. Both officers and men, accord ing to the report, said that they would prevent anybody from entering tho ship at the point of tho sword. Tho French cooks and stewards, who had been hired for the messroom of the foreign man-of-war, tl|ou left the ves sol, as they were afraid they might re ceive ba«l treatment during tho voyage. As the creditors were unable to get ou board they had themselves rowed back to shore and lodged a complaint with the Justice of the Peace. A "writter" was soon dispatched out to tho foreigu vessel, lint the captain refused to sec him. Soon afterward the man-of-war stood out to sea, and the creditors, finding that tho naval prefect of the port could do nothing for them, re solved to bring their grievances to the notice of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. —Loudon Telegraph. A Itfiiiurkuhto Huh. Tin' little Kuropt HU Hull o*llctl the "hittorliug," «>•"' <>' tho carp fumily.ia remarkable from the fm-t tlmt the ft mule ih tho only Huh which hitx n hli'inlcr ovijioaitor marly a* long ant ho IHMIJ. With thin oho (It'i)onitH her vol low eggs in tho gill* of the froah-wiiter utUKHcL Tliia lutH loug IH'I'U known, l>ut ill the I ant liiliulur of the llirmM Journal of /oology. Doctor Olt juili linhitt itn exhitimtivtt |>u|» r, UlTDlll |iunii'tl lijr • litlioruti' pint.*, giving tlK*>r«M« of tho embryo* in iliKirvnt kt»ti>'rt, *»*' tlio young Hourly rt-aily to hutch lying k'twrn-n tho luliln of tho UIII»». I'M Kill*, whioli aorvt) IM hrutnl (•httmbera- Tho Hah i» ho imiiio.l from it* bitter Iwti'. Now York lU>IO|HU>I tfiil. ••Mlai Votir IN Mil (*•." Thin tiaiiroaalou la of comparatively rei-tut origin, lUtuig |a-rh*|M fr >iu th<> ii.veuti-.ii of |iriutiuM I*, U, <,» »inl It »r» U ItiK uf th* aaiut- form, IU th* "lu*»r» MM" i|», il, <|, b), illff.itut IV Uar.l , alol tllv »M k a arum* to |'f ii.t. r» to Kvt lli«. Ml, r» lit th« rit»lil bom* (HIM «i|>l»u»lii<u« •il*l , oim> ia thai w beu wtga *«f* «»m It ID <lllti,-i|lt to I* nr«<ttlnl Ml I M MMU lwwi||||> -I, au M«k • 11» uluiiii I«Im <1 to 111111.l llltll |,|| U (fi tI, sill >|||,||,H I*l**l \ llnrl M that tku l*l«li n MMIAI I* for }>iut, mi,l kn i|«Ml agiiMl IKX mini uf mmm *k>< '»« >lji »t « at ill. IIIIM, I •! )« »I|HI«J kj tki l« • lutuMvh tu MHhI tk»ll l'» allll I lit Aral i>mi »tln|| • MMM« Ikt Uml lit * lull M«u Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. ABOUT THE FUR SEALS. THE SUBJECT BEFORE THE TRIBU NAL OF ARBITRATION. How the Precious Animals Are Slaughtered The Patrol Fleet and the Poachers-A Tame Sport. 1 f HOUGH the United States I Government will have "no such | powerful ship as the Yorktown and no snch officer as Fight ing Bob Evans to protect the seals in Bering Sea this summer, the patrol fleet will be strong enongh and quick enough to make it lively for poachers. It is the business of our ships, under the present contention of the United States, k> see that nobody save the one authorized company shall take seals within our portion of Bering Sea or in the Pacific Ocean within three miles of our possessions. That gives the patjrol fleet an arena almost half as large as the Gulf of Mexico to look after. If the tribunal sitting at Paris shall de cide against our claim touching Bering Sea the ships will then conflna their Ef forts to keeping poachers away from the Pribylov Islands of St. George pnd St. Paul, in Bering Sea, and to guard ing the coast within the three-mile limit. Nobody expects, however, that the decision of the court will be gjven in time for it to have much effect upon this season's sealing. The company to which the United States has sold the exclusive right to take seals may take them only upon the Pribylov Islands, and may not take more than 7500 in any one year. Fur thermore, the company's agents may kill seals only in the presence of an agent of the United States, and must notjull either the females or the old bulls, but only the bachelors, as the young males are called. The scaling of the company is the tamest kind of sport, as the bachelors are merely driven gently apart from the rest of the herd and are killed with sticks. The agent of the company counts the skins in the presence of the Government's agent, and the latter sends to San Francisco a tally of the number shipped in each cargo. This comes to another United States agent at San Francisco, who makes sure that there are 110 more skins than the Government agent at the Northwest has certified to. Most of our officers who have visited Alaskan waters be lieve that the seal must before long become extinct in spito of all these precautions taken to preservo the species. It the sea shall bo open to all comers and seals shall again be taken with nets, the final destruction will be hastened. The sealing season properly begins about the last of June or the first of July, when the seals have become well established in Bering Sea and breeding has begun. At that time the rocky Pribylovs, and as well a few islands be longing to Kussia over near the coast of Siberio, are crowded with thousands of seals, and the animals swim the sea in search of food. The poachers do not wait so long, but intercept the seals on t&eir way from the ocean into Bering Sea. Our ships cannot inter fere with sealing in the Pacific three miles from our own shores, but wo can watch the passes of the Aleutian, through which seals and sealers enter Bering Sea. The patrol fleet is on the lookout for poachers during May, June, July, August, September and October, and business is liveliest in midsummer, though the seal islands have been raided as late as December. By the last of September, however, things are pretty squally in Bering Sea, and be fore the Ist of November snow storms are frequent, and sealing is no fun. Captain Mike llealy, of the revenue cutter Bear, who knows Bering Sea from the Aleutians to the Arctic, and is known to everybody in that region as the embodiment of Uncle Sam's power, usually stays about the seal islands later than any one else, and the poacher who fall i into Mike llealy'h hands is likely to repent of his temerity. The patrol fleet now anil then sends a ship far to the east, and occasionally, even in mid mimuier, has a landing party statioued on one of the ialauda commanding un important pass, but mostly the work of the patrol is con fined to the region about the Prihy lovH. A disguised poacher might enter the sealing region with a vessel of the patrol fleet looking on. Nevertheless, if a suspicious looking craft should t>e found entering the sea, she would cer tainly be overhauled and made to ex plain. The seal poacher i« usually recognized by her having a great many small boats, an unusually largo com plement of men and an abundance of llr« ariua. 11. r method when a herd of seal* is encountered swimming is to lower maiiy boats with armed men, who shoot the seals as rapidly as poMibJu ami then pick them up. IMd and young, male and female, are thus shot, and many are lost. li.nn. c<l*l sailors estimate that seven! » hve per ceut. of seals killed in tills way are 114.t recov ered by the poacher*. Others my that the loss i|i«« not elCeed tell jar cent. ' As a small tiwl may take #|ih»,i»iM» ' Worth of seals tu a single season, the ' temptation to the poacher is strong. In all ordinary w« »lh« r the »hi|>* of i the patr.d Ilt et can overtake thu swift e»t of thu poach, rs when üBCu the will uder has heeli sighted , but with • lair, strong aVI a turn poeehing sell".>ii. r may easily Any »**• •el rapt'l ted with seals uR hoard M I Usually taken to IHtuaiaaha and llu u. | 4<» | iui e*i ato ttttfc* of Vn'tofia, mo »<>t>liuM as tl»i |nus M tm.n.ru .<» Kugltsh I'he hat* fullj 4la ...uM. .1 that p.swilnlity of a >W« : tetua at l*iu a*ltil» to the I ailed Mtatea, ami if IImI <IuiII '<* tt>- .i|a .... >,l tk» tri lutwai I Ki 11. Ham will •u<ld*>wljr ftu4 Vl« l«al with 'WtMag* suite t*9»ght | awh»ls .t. lu ivd l>u*H **« Umm tuffc j NO. 40. NELLIE'S EYPS. Sweet Nellie's eyes are twilight born, The eyes I love to greet: They never opened (Iret at morn, Or mid the noontide heat . But when the sun was sinking low, Before the stars began to glow, Where southern jesarolnee sway and b!on« They caught their shadows sweet. O Nellie's eyes, sweet Nellie's eyes Illumined with celestial dyes, They haunt my dreams With gentle gleams— Wistful, Tristful, Twilight eyes. Sweet Nellie's mouth is summer-kissed To grace beyond eclipse ; One eve a ruby rose was missed And blossomed on her lips, And softer than the coo of dove Of southern winds that flit above Are all her words, and naught but love From out her rose mouth slips. O Nellie's lips, sweet Nellie's lips, Their dulcet tone like honey drips Upon the ear Serenoly clear—• Blender, Tender, Summer lips. Sweet Nellie's locks are sunset crowned O'er ears of sea-shells mold. And mid their lissome loops are found The gleaming tints of gold. No locks more fair in trancing lure Were ever clasped by fillet pure To wake the lay of troubadour Or Are a bard of old. O Nellie's hair, sweet Nellie's hair My heart lies in its silken share, Nor time nor art Tbo bond shall part- Twining, Shining, Sunset hair I —Samuel M. Peck, in Atlanta Constitution. HUMOR OF THE lUY. A Jack of »11 trades—The Western burro. About the most trying loop-hole of tiie law is the noose.—Puck. The well-bred man who works in a bakery is a loafer.—Troy Telegram. It is the thunder of the man in need that everlastingly sours the milk of human kindness.—Puck. When a man sees that he is being driven to despair he ought to get out and walk.—Yonkers Gazette. By all odds the finest attraction at the World's Fair will be the American girl. —Baltimore American. Knowledge is power, except ia the ease of the man who knows he is whipped. —lndianapolis .Journal. Pluck will tell. Many a man not able to write his own name has made his mark in the world. —New Orleans Picayune. Hicks—"Blitson, they tell me, is quite an athlete." Wicks —"Yes; his last feat, I hear was to run up a board bill."—Boston Transcript. "That Smith girl has cast an awftil spell over Charlie, He—"" "I sup pose so ; sho was a typewriter for sev eral years."—lnter-Ocean. It seems easy enough to name a baby, unless by some extraordinary chauce the baby happens to be your own.—Somerville Journal. It is impossible that there are as good fish in the sea OH over were caught, if the kodaok pictures that tlsherinen bring home are true to life.—Pnok. Drusilla —"I hear you are poor. I think wo will have to break our rela tions." Ten Hroke—"l havo broken ull of mine already."—Now York Her ald. Milkman (apologetically) "The milk is a little blue this morning." Mrs. Housekeeper—"lt must be think ing how everlostingly poor it is gut ting. "—Troy Press. Jinks—"Don't you think that the intentions of French duellists are more honorable than is generally eon ceiled?" Filkins—"Oh, yes; as a rule they aim liigh."-Brooklyn Life "Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr. Dillingham, your lady love has thrown you over. What was the troubleV" "Why, you see, I flattered her so tuuch she got too proud to speak t<» met"—Boeton Hen con. Gabble— "No, my cold doesn't s«-em to bo gettiug any better. I huve giit •o now that I can hardly up. ak.' Htillman— "Home people would call that a improvement," lloaton Transcript. The fears u »;irl c*|>erieucea a lieu she M'C'S M>luc other girl talking to h<»r lover are nothing compared to the paiiK* that torture a woman when a neighbor c»IU her hired girl to the fence a lei talkn to her —Atchlaoll Globe. "Did ,vi>u know that lonud himself loekt I out when lie Mont holue MT V» o'clock la»t uiglit, MII.I LUS wife wouldn't open tie* door " "Whyt" She didn't rvcojjnue hi* Vole*, I ■ cause ■lie h»>l always ue all the talking " Chicago inter I k'« .in, Butler "Tlnwt * a mau U low i>. you, air MayUrry "Wlutl did you tell IIIH* ' KillU r "I told hitu yiin t<dd me if it «aa a 1 ivly to «y tut a t, in, and if it aea a IUUII to aay yon aem out ' V»vl«rry What did tie ay dun- Uutl> r 11, *ait t.. tall you he tw a laly," Herv«td lam Mr Han*| son i«*t*ly) "1 lute FT'H dn*< U TL< MIM T huntl«>, but MY iinuwy atfaii* Ua*e prevented my iu«kitii a il»rlnr»iS'ii until e- » Hut I ti t>'' l>ut > |l< <tgli a»«) It » »•■ hel ).. iirt>d in aaktwg |ua to mf aifi Uie I I ■ 111 sltalliigl), lull >i t 1 I edit U |t.»l I »n. i,i>t •i( llj liei.n. (unl 111 f'H. Mtl !•«! "tint tk«i ik«i '' in* m»IIMJ l< M MNfcdl IWW
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