EXTENSIVE SHEEP FARMING.
Uitrallaa Breeder Will Sbecr Over
1,250,000 Aulmala This SeMon.
Samuel McCaughey of Coonong, Rlv
orina, Australia, is the largest sheep
farmer In the world, both as regards
numbers and, what Is more important,
quality. He is the most progressive
sheep farmer of the age, and has
brought his stock to great perfection.
He shears 1,260,000 sheep this season,
and would have had more, but lost
250,000 in the drouth two years ago,
but thought nothing of it, as every
year he has between 300,000 and 400,-
000 lambs. At Toorak and Dunlop, hla
Itatlons on the Darling river, he shears
500,000 sheep this year. He bought
them from his uncle, Sir Samuel Wil
wn, and has developed them magnifi
cently. There Is literally "water, wat
er, everywhere," what, with dams,
tanks and artesian wells; and all is
fenced in and sub-divided into pad
docks. The area is about 1,500,000
acres In a ring fence. He has also
a fine property in Queensland, on
which he Is shearing 400,000 sheep. His
Coonong station is only his stud farm,
(t is only 41,000 acres in extent, and he
has upon it 15,000 sheep of very high
quality, from which he sends annually
large drafts to Improve the breed on
his other properties.
Mr. McCaughey is able to boast, as
one result of long-continued efforts,
that he has Increased the yield of each
of his own sheep yearly to the ex
tent of one pound of clean scoured
wool. Now, even at the present low
range of prices, a pound of clean
scoured merino combing is not worth
less than 18 pence, so that it follows
that this enterprising man has increas
ed his wool returns by upward of
£IOO,OOO per annum. These victories
of Mr. McCaughey are not merely "no
less," but "much more" renowned
than the sort of victories that are now
being gained on the northwest frontier
of India.
It was only fourteen years ago that
the owner of Coonong first became
convinced of the value of the Vermont
breed of merino sheep. It was in 1883
that he purchased about a dozen of
this breed of rams, which had been
imported into Sydney. So convinced
was he that he had, as it were, struck
oil, that three years later he visited
the states and selected for himself 160
of the finest rams in that state and
the following year the flock was ad
ded to by a further importation of
300 more. From that time to ihe
present almost every year has found
Mr. McCaughey importing more of
these wonderful creatures.
Bow Escallop Beds are Ulicnvered.
It may be a source of wonderment to
one not familiar with the habits of the
escallop to read, as he does at inter
vals, that a great bed of them has
been found —as, for instance, recently
in Great South Bay—in waters that
are well known, that are constantly
fished, and that have been regularly
fished for years. The wonder is that
the escallops there were not discover
ed before. The fact is that they were
not there, and the explanation of that
is found in the fact that the escollop
has the power of locomotion. The
oyster in tho early stages of its exis
tence is a free swimmer, but from the
time that it attaches Itself to some
thing and begins to grow into its final
and familiar form, which it does when
it is still very minute, it remains fixed.
The escallop, however, is able to move
about, and sometimes it comes to the
top of the water. It could do this
easily In four or five feet of water; it
might reach the top from two or three
times that depth. It is sometimes tak
en in nets, the escollop being off the
bottom and higher above it than the
lead line of the net In which it is
taken.
The escallop moves itself by expell
ing a column of water from "its shell.
It can and close its shell freely.
It tab r/ a a water, which it forces out
again the surrounding water.
It moves about, and beds are found
in various places, and escallops bed
ded here to-day might be somewhere
else to-morrow. Fishermen taking es
callops and holding them for the mark
et, if they keep them in the water, put
them Into crates with slats closo
enough together to keep them in.
There is a story of a man not yet ac
quainted with the habits of escallops
who, fishing for them one day, planted
them as he gathered them in the water
around a stake, where they would keep
in good shape and be all together and
handy to take up when he wanted
them to carry to market in the morn
ing. But in the ftiornlng when he
went to take them up, every escallop
was gone.
Hoqm«wlv«i of the Ottoman £in pi re.
"Women In Turkey," says a recent
traveller, "are not so sadly lacking in
domestic virtues as the American
housewife thinks, and it must be con
fessed that in some things they can
even give points to their sisters of the
complex civilization. If it is washing
day, the hanum, however high her
rank, attends personally to all the
rinsing of her husband's garments,
though It must be confessed that this
is not so much from a fear that his
flannels may shrink as from a belief
that a spell could be cast upon them
by any designing slave who wishes to
supplant her In his affections. Al
though every Turkish family, however
humble, has at least one black slave,
to do the ordinary washing, cooking
and scrubbing, every mistress, even to
the highest In rank, prefers to give
her individual attention to all delicate
and special culinary ventures.
"Extraordinary Fire Sale," read the
tdvertlsement. "Customers are In
vited to call and examine goods, which
will he (OVAA «UU warm."
CHEAP SEWING MACHINES
Frlck Two Sharper* Played on the Gullelen
Sioux and Chicago White Men.
Two months ago two young men
giving the names of Paul Ray and
John D. Jones, of Chicago, went to
Rushville, Neb., as agents for a well
known sewing machine company. They
were apparently selling a high-grade
machine for $lO. They declared that
this was an exclusive offer made to
the Sioux Indians and would not ap
ply to the whites. They explained
that the scheme was promoted by a re
ligious society in the East, which was
paying the difference between the
manufacturers' cost and the price de
manded of the Indians for the ma
chine.
One hundred and sixty fine sewing
machines were sold by the enterpris
ing swindlers. For each machine $lO
was collected. Now a collector of the
company has arrived to investigate
the situation. He has 160 leases for as
many machines, on each of which $lO
has been credited as first payment.
Fifty dollars is still due on each.
The swindle was a very smooth one.
In each instance the Indian purchaser!
were required to sign a "testimonial" lr
order that the religious society might
have evidence that the machines had
been placed according to the sales
men's statement. These testimonials
now prove to be tho leases which the
investigating agent is looking up. They
are the regulation leases that go with
all machines throughout the country
where they are purchased on time. No
title is vested in the holder of the
machine under this form of lease. The
Indians who secured machines under
the deal merely rented them, signing
a contract with the company by which
they were to secure full title whenever
the money paid in rent, from month to
month, equalled the full selling price
of the machine. Now the agent has
the worst contract of his life trying to
explain the situation and secure the
return of the machines. Under the
co npany's rules the fist $lO collected
on the sale of a "time" machine always
goes to the selling agent, so the head
quarters agent shipped the whole car-
Joad of machines, the young swindlers
delivered them, collected their $lO on
each machine, and immediately disap
peared.
The Leaky Missouri Iltver.
F. R. Spearman writes of "Queer
American Rivers" In St. Nicholas. Mr.
Spearman says:
With all its other eccentricities, the
Missouri River leaks badly; for you
know there are leaky rivers as well as
leaky boats. The government en
gineers once measured the flow of the
Missouri away up In Montana, and
again some hundred miles further
down stream. To their surprise, they
found that the Missouri, instead of
growing bigger down stream, as every
rational river should, was actually
20,000 second-feet smallcd at the lower
point.
Now, while 20,000 second-feet could
be spared from such a tremendous
river, that amount of water makes a
considerable stream of Itself. Many
very celebrated rivers never had so
much water in their lives. Hence
there was great amazement when the
discrepancy was discovered. But of
late years Dakota farmers away to the
south and east of those points on the
Missouri, sinking artesian wells, found
immense volumes of water whero the
geologists said there wouldn't be any.
So It is believed that the farmers have
tapped the water leaking from that
big hole In the Missouri River away up
in Montana; and from these wells they
Irrigate large tracts of land, and, natu
rally, they don't want the river-bed
mended. Fancy what a blessing It is,
when the weather is dry, to have a
river boiling out of your well, ready to
flow where you want it over the wheat
fields! For of all manner of work that
a river can be put to, irrigation is, 1
think, the most useful. But isn't that
a queer way for the Missouri to wan
der about underneath the ground?
Some Common Mlatakea.
It is a mistake to work when you are
not in a fit condition to do so; to take
off heavy underclothing because you
have become overheated; to think thai
the more a person eats the healthiei
and stronger he will become; to believe
that children can do as much work as
grown people, and that the more they
study the more they learn; togo to bed
late at night and rise at daybreak and
Imagine that every hour taken from
sleep Is an hour gained; to imagine
that If a little work or exercise is good
violent or prolonged exercise is better;
to conclude that the smallest room lc
the house Is large enough to sleep in
Confeaaion Aronaea Snaplclon.
"I dunno," remarked Piute Pete. 'Tn
beginnln' to feel kind 0' doubtful about
that case."
"Ye mean about that hoss thief we
jes' 'tended to?"
"Yes."
"But he confessed."
"I know it. An' It wasn't tell he
:onfessed that I had doubts. There
iln't no circumstances whatsomevei
under which I'd take his word for any
thing."
Bare Eiongh Love In Maine.
Do you want to know what true love
really is? Just interview that August:)
(Me.), young woman who recently call
ed on an Augusta der'.ist and request
ed him to extract as fine a set of teeth
as one generally sees, explaining this
strange request by remarking that hei
lover wore false teeth and she wanted
to do the same.
Rndyard'a Name,
Mr. Kipling's Christian name, Rud
yard, is obtained from the charming
Staffordshire lake around which hh
Barents did their oouHJu.
A STEER'S STRANGE DEATH.
His Horns Grew TliroavU Hla Bjrea
and Killed Him.
A squatter in the back blocks of
' New South Wales had a young steer
with horns so perfectly turned that
! they formed two artistic loops at the
i sides of his head. One day "Boss"
strayed with a mob of store cattle in
i to a piece of wild country Infested only
by kangaroos and tho out-statlon
boundary riders' families.
These cattle are rounded up and
otherwiso handled but once a year.
Before this anntal yarding took place
"Bess" had become a fractious terror
to every animal and man in that
range. He had terrified and scattered
tho herd that was once his mates; he
had charged madly every kind person
who was wont to pat him. Because
his horns curled like those of a sheep
he was called "Sheep Head." His
mild, tractahle nature added to this
delusion of likening him to a lamb.
Six months after his entrance upon
the range he began to act strangely.
A wild look shot out of his eye under
the points of the Ingrowing horns,
whose shadow fell heavier and heav
ier upon the retina. He constantly
shook his head, as if trying to rid
himself of some annoyance. Then
"Boss" would stand ami stare at the
points which were pressing the pupils
nearly up against the sockets. He
becamo nicro Irritable and unfriendly.
Ho roared, ctmped, shook hia crazed
head and slurod at tho creeping things
before his viaion.
At last "B023" went mad and bel
lowed through the night like an en
raged demon. Ho chased everything
in sight, and viciously dashed himself
against the forest tress. The mere
I tramp of a foot angered him. The
points of the horns were cruelly press
j ing his helpless eyes back In their
: sockets, and every Jar upon the
ground tortured his brain and enraged
him. "Boss" had scattered the mob
of his ruminating mates and had so
terrorized the few people about that
fences did not give a sense of security.
Women and children lived In mortal
dread of the unfortunate beast.
At length his maddened roar was
hoard no more. About a month after
that the out-boundary rider went out
j with dogs and a Winchester rifle to
end the suffering of "Sheep Head
Boss." After searching for two days
the bullock was found. "Boss" was
dead. He was lying under a clump
I of acacia, ltm sweet than their blcm
j aoms. He had evidently been dead
for a week or more and had been
blind for months. The horns had
grown Into his eyes and almost touch
ed the bono of the skull behind. The
head of tho poor beast waß as strange
un object as ever was wen.
The horns of "Boss" were never
I curved by any art. They grew as na
ture directed their fatal tips, and, un
less sent to the Royal College of Vet
9rinarv Surgeons, England, the pre
served head still hangs upon the door
of the Darling out-statlon, where
"BO3S" lived and died.
One Man Onllda a Church,
Religious enthusiasm In the case of
Andrew Bonner, a Georgia colored
man, is manifesting itself In a unique
but substantial way. His ambition for
years has been to build a church for
the benefit of some of his own race,
the material used to be procured with
his own earnings, and no workman to
assist him in the rearing of the edi
fice.
Andrew Bonner Is a simple-minded
negro, filled to overflowing with what
his admiring wife terms "de ol' time re
ligion." lie resides with her In Col
lege Park, a village only a few miles
, from Atlanta.
With utter disregard of legal meas
ures, Andrew selected, two years ago,
a site for the church of his dreams,
which he expects to be a monument to
his memory long after he has returned
to dust. The fact that he does not
own the ground has never disturbed
him. When far sighted white friends
] urged him to wait until ground could
j be bought for the purpose he paid
no heed to the proposition but kept on
In his original purposes.
Every spare penny was spent by him
for lumber and nails. The work has
necessarily been slow, but now, after
twenty-four months of patient labor,
j Andrew gazes with pride upou tho
j building, which Is almost covered.
It is rumored that the old darky has
j wmetimes denied his family bread
1 that he might save money for this pet
j project.
This Bnrtlar Uaed a Hook and Line.
With a fishhook and line the safe
at the barn of the Stockton, Cal., Elec
tric Railroad Company was cleverly
burglarized Ihe other night. The
money taken In on the cars at night
is deposited in bags, which are placed
in the safe through an aperture at the
top, and forced down through a slide
running at an angle. By the exercise
of fkill and patience the burglar suc
ceeded In fishing up three bags, se
curing about {2O.
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fJ CATHARTIC
CURE CONSTIPATION
25c 50c m
miy®3 I
M i€IS i
Why is it every sarsaparilla !
which tries to sell itself, ranges j
itself against Ayar's as the stand- j
ard ? Why is it that all have to
offer extra inducements bigger
bottles, fancy wrappers, cheaper
price—anything, everything, but
the one inducement of quality 1 j
Sarsapsriiis!
has never been equaled by any :
cheap imitation of it, and quality j
tells, just as blood tells.
if Is ffce Sfaß^rd.
"I hare sold Ayer's Saraapariila for mora
than twenty-five years, and have never
heard anything but words of praise from
my customers ; not a single complaint has
ever reached me. A preparation must
possess great merit to maintain such a repu
tation. I believe yonr sarsaparilla to bo
the best blood purifier that has ever been
introduced to the general public. I often
hear other manufacturers say that this M
"as good as Aver's," but no one ever yet
heard it said that Ayer's was "as good "as
any other kind. They always set Ayer's up
as the standard of excellence." —8. F. j
BOVCE, Duluth, Minn.
GOSPEL GLEANINGS.
FAITH.
I may not pause to reckon present lose,
Nor fear me what a true resolve
awaits;
For Faith looks boldly over and across,
Past the dark gates.
Frank Walcott Hutt.
WHO IS JESUS 1
The spirit to which Christian truth
in its fulness is exclusively revealed is
that of humility. The docile mind
learns of the doctrine. Nothing spirit
ual can be mastered unless there Is
first a willingness at least to be in sym
pathy with the spiritual. It Is so with
respect to any particular doctrine and
to all doctrines. Dr. A. J. F. Behrends,
of Brooklyn, in discussing recently the
question "Who is Jesus Christ?" has
pertinently observed that the moment
a suspicious or critical attitude is as
sumed to Jesus Christ, He becomes "a
psychological riddle and an historical
enigma." For without sympathy even
men cannot be understood. "Love
need not be blind," but suspicion on
the other hand "always distorts the
judgment." The man who does not be
lieve in Jesus Christ "makes it Impos
sible to form a consistent and satisfac
tory estimate of Him." There is sound
sense In these observations. In popu
lar usage the very term critic seems to
imply a measure of preexlstent preju
dice and antagonism. A man who Is
obstinately of such a temper cannot
be critic of the Christ and at the same
time really know Christ. They who as
sume a patronizing attitude toward Je
sus by that very act throw away the
key of knowledge.
Relief of Aged Ministers.
"Schemes for the relief of »ged min
isters are frequently proposed," says
the Standard (Bapt.) of Chicago. "It
Is suggested by a contributor to the
Outlook that each church should main
tain for the benefit of its pastor an en
dowment life-insurance policy, the sur
render value of which, at the age of
sixty-five or seventy, should be suffi
cient to provide for his wants during
the remainder of his life. It Is sug
gested that the annual premium on a
$5,000 policy of the sort named would
be but a slight burden on most church
es, though too great for many pastors
to deduct from a small salary. The
point is made that in the end the
churches would actually save money in
this way. We doubt If tho Bcheme
could be easily applied in the smaller
churches, where it is most needed. But
it does emphasize tho truth (which, we
must Insist, is not sufficiently apprecia
ted among Baptists—not to speak more
generally), namely, that, since the
churches so largely demand young or
middle-aged men for their work, and
pay them no more than is necessary
for their current expenses, and object
strongly If the pastors engage or Invest
in any busines/ enterprise, it is their
duty—not charity, but duty—to provide
for old-age pensions when such are
needed."
An Englishman camr.d Bateman,
who has been collecting statistics of
the drink bill of various countries,
reports the reassuring fact that the
Americans art growing more temper
ate than any of the European na
tions.
Jomething to know!
Our very large line of Latest patterns of Wall Paper
with ceilings and border to; match. All full measure
ments and all white backs. Elegant designs as low
as )c per roll.
Window Shades -•
with roller fixtures, fringed and plain. Some as low
as 10c; better, 25c, 35c, 50c,
Elegant Carpets
rainging in prices 20c.,
Soft top mattresses, good ticks, $2.50.
Feather pillows, $1.75 per pair.
COD CANE SEAT CHAIRS for parlor use 3.75 set. Rockers to
match, 1.25. Large size No 8 cook stove, 820.00; red cross
ranges s2l. Tin wash boilers with covers, 49c. Tin pails
14qt, 14c; lOqt, 10c; Bqt, 8c; 2qt covered, sc.
Jeremiah Kelly,
HUGHESVILLE.
HAVING PURCHASED
GRIST MILL Property
Formerly Owned by O. W. Mathers
at this place
I am Now Prepared
To Do All Kinds of Milling on Very Short
Notice With W. E. Starr as Miller.
Please Give a Trial.
FEED OF ALL KINDS ON HAND.
W. E. MILLER,
FORKSVILLE, PA.
N. B. All parties knowing themselves indebted to me will
confer a great favor by calling and paying the amount
due, as I need money badly at once.
Respectfully yours, W. E. MILL R.
Our Spring and
Summer stock.
Is now complete
You are all invited to call and
-xamine our stock of
Hen and Boys Clothing
It aliss' Sapas Gollaretts & Skirts
IN SILK AND ALL THE LATEST
STYLES.
New Skirts, New, Wrappers, New Shirtwaists, New Corsets,
New Neckwear, New Shirts, and in fact we are crowded in every
department more than ever before. We have the largest line of
Ladies', Gents, Misses and Children's Shoes ever brought to
town. We cannot mention every article in this small space.
It is impossible for us to mention all our articles. We c
give you bargains in trunks, valises, hats, caps, umbrellas a
ladies gloves. We carry a big variety of corset
A big lot of men's working pants at 50c. ft
1.00. Overalls, heaviest made .60 Ladies
kinds of underwear. We carry a big as c
we mention and we guarantee to give
possible.
All the winter goods will go at h
capes, overcoats, underwear and t
chance as we are going to pack t
IjfcCome and see forfyourself as
40 per cent on every purchase 1
Jacob Per ££