TEE wcm_ m YEARS.
OVR BECEXT STORM AXD THE
WRECKS IT WJtOCCItr,
Mi© Loss to Property and Life Very
Great—Tloiv It Appear* Wlien Con
tracted with the Uliizurd—i
Our Coa-it Line Resul£!•*; from the
Waters' Fury.
Again has tho "oldest Inhabitant"
keen given a chanco to trlk, which ho
Hasn't had much oppoi unity of doing
ilnce tho memorable b1.^... .1 or lust
fear. Truo, tho grout storm just passed
tamo at a different season of tho year
!rom tho blizzard and was of a different
iharacler, but tho dest ruction it wrought
was parhaps far greater than that occu
lioned by the blizzard. It uus confined
inainly to tho eastern coast regions, and
property all along its path felt.its effects
lo a greater or loss extent.
AH the noted seaside resort i, particu
larly Atlantic City, Long Branch and
donoy Island, suhorod heavily, tho for
ner being cut off for three days from
tho mainland by six miles of water; and
instead of being the "city by tho 60a,"
.tWas really a "city in the sea." During
;he time tho oity was thus cut off
the food and water both ran short, and
this, taken togethor with tho fact that
ihe dwellers in tho famous resort mo
nentarlly expoetod to find death In the
surging wators, will make this storm of
September, 1889, ono to bo remembered
i.nd talked about for many years to
somo.
Aftor a threo days' reign of torror, in
which the storm threatened to blot At
lantic City from the map, after visiting
upon its imprisoned thousands all tho
horrors of starvation, the destructive
Uorthoastor ceased, tho waters in some
iegrees subsided, and the people were
tblo to estimate damages. The storm
had shorn tho resort of i 1 greatest
pride, tho board walk, and bat
tered the beach, its chief attrac
tion, out of all shapeliness. But
READING RAILROAD DIitDGE ACROSS TH
MARSHES AT ATLANTIC CITY.
tile people aro full of hope and spirit and
already promise that all those damages
will be repaired in time to ma ,e Atlanti
City as attraotivo us over for. next sea
son.
Sweeping away every splinter of th
great substantial board walk that ui
From the inlet to below the fo >. of Ocean
avenue, a distance of near .vo mile.-,
the waves stormed up at v:u..mt plaee
against hotels and cottage-, lling th.
bv " ' r<• '; pic - ■ ' . ••
incites to eighioeu leet in d >th. '1!.
foot of Massachusetts avenue seems to
have been the point wi •• ho fullest
fury of tho storm was . jd. Such
a battering was the .uci Leliuc
house horn subjected to i lial i s eurvlva
Is a marvel.
The highest maximum v. locity at
tained by the wind at Atlantic City from
10 o'clock p. m. of tho lltli to 7 o'clock
a. in. of the 12th of March. ' 8, was
miles, blowing from north we t. Fro
V o'clock a. ni. of the 12tli w>3o'oloc!
{). m. of the same day the maximum ve
ocity was GO miles. From II o'clock p
tn. of the 12th to 10 o'clock p. n. of th •
Came day the maximum velocity was <
miles. The extreme velocity during the
blizzard was 82 miles during one minul ,
which occurred on the 12iii of Mar h.
The extreme velocity for one minute
during this storm was 100 miles. 1:
Shows a big contrast, tYs ■ tonn, a
against that of March, l-v.s.
All communication with the city botl,
By rail and telegraph was cut off, some
Of the trains which attempt-; to read,
fcho submerged city being at a.loned in
the midst of tho waters w..ch covered
the tracks for miles.
For three days tho ocean beat madly
t tho Sandy Ilook penin uln. opposite
Che foot of the Highlands of .'avesiuk,
until it succeedod in reopening a pio--
jago In the Shrewsbury river hat lia
Been closed since the days of iho E vo
lution. This Inlet was gradually widened
And deepened and another new inlet cut
between sea and river a mil- north of
Highland Beaoh. Two islands wore
thus formed of the old penin ;ula. A
Soabrlght, Low Moor, Monmouth Beach
snd Highland Be ich the waves tore out
bulkheads, carried away the beautiful
lawns which woro the prid" of summer
residents, and toppled beautiful cottage
into tho boiling surf, where .hey wore
Quickly shivered to atoms.
At Loug Branch tho fearful storm o
Che winter of 1885, which carried away s
largo part of the shore and frightened
the people into building a break wale,
has been the red-letter event tha
marked the titpe from which •• erythiug
COTTAGES WASHED FROM ATLANTIC CITT.
•also was dated, much as sou - '-nor-- re
fer everything to "before war or
•'after the war," and Chit --oans iix
time by their great fire. On he ISrst
days of this storm the water washed
away bath houses and pavilion - and left
the beach on which beauty and fashiou
erstwhile disported a s<u wi- k
and desolation. Then the s.ives cut
huge gaps all the way from Klberon to
Forth Long Branch in tin- l.lulf which
skirts Ocean avenue, the famous shore
drive. The biggest gap is torn in the
bluff above the old East End hotel pier,
and at this point the surf has eaten its
way half through Ocean to nue. In
other places the great ov-u hanging
bank, notably in front of th • United
States hotel, has been so badl under
(nined and broken that at the next as
sault it may fall to its ba. already
"swilled by the wild and wasteful
ocean."
Groat bowlders weighing several tons
and huge fragmonts of masonry torn
from the sea walls wero tossed about in
tho ocean like wooden playthings. Im
aenso log piles wero picked up and
tshed against tho bulkhead- like bat
tering rams. The surf broke >ver the
ocean pier more than mid war toil"
{Store, retreating and sheltered at tm,
point, only to roll out, re-form and
thunder against the bluff further south,
Tho storm struck Coney Island with
all Its force, and where but a few wooke
ago New York's and Brooklyn's thou
sands bathod, rode, rambled, feasted
and drank In the melodious strains ol
Gllmore's splendid band at Manhattan,
or of Soidl's classic orchestra at
Brighton, only the sullen wators moan
remorsefully over a scene of awful huvoo.
Buildings which had been considered
so far in shore as to be beyond tho
reach of breakers raised by the heaviest
storm are gone, in some cases not a vos
tige being loft to tell where they once
stood. Music stands, bathing pavilions,
and oven parts of the magnillcont hotels
nearest tho boach were carried away.
Tho 500-pound sand bags and the great
pieces of masonry used to protect the
ON TriE TIER IN THE STORM AT ATLANTIC
, CITY.
various buildings on ono part of the
beach from tho heavy breakers were
washed from their places, and tossed
about, and finally used as battering
rams by the angry waters to wreck the
very structures which thoy had been
made to protect. •
Tho raco track at Brlcrhton was sub
merged, and a stable containing 300 lino
horses was washed from Us foundations
and went floating about with its living
freight until ono daring fellow reached
its door, portly by swimming and partly
by floating on wreckage, and liberated
tho imprisoned animals. The water in
some places on the track was five feet
deep, but the course could be distin
guished by tho red and white flags along
its edge, which had weathered the
sto.m and could bo seen sticking out of
the water.
A considerable part of Coney Islnnd
has been claimed by this storm for Old
Ocean, many yards of the beach having
been cut away, and the far-off hotel--
being considerably nearortho beach thai
be lore the heavy blow and the (treat
downpour of rain Some people even go
so far as to declare that the famous re
sort has only a very fow years before it,
and say that it will not require many
storms to g vo all the properly which
now gives so many hours of pleasure to
weary thousands, and which is estimated
to be worth $.10,000,000, over to the
ciutehos of Old Neptune.
All along the Now England coast did
Old Boreas have full sway, but no where
does the damage seem to have been so
front n, in New Jersey, not onlv the
r'ii.iue ,ucor..o but pr.vai.ii i u > a
and railroad corporations also suf
fered heavily, largo sections of track in
various localities being wa-ho d away,
leaving tho servico for days in a badly
demoralized condition. Sea isle City,
Capo May, Ocean Grove, Asbury Park
and Baruegat were visited by the storm
in all its sovoritv and tho damago done
is something appalling.
Tho cities of New York, Brooklyn
and Jersey Cily also felt the storm se
verely, ail tho lower sections being
flooded, and much loss caused to mer
chants in all three places owing to tlie
d image done to stock of all kind. The
stonu had its funny features too, New
York on one day boing visited by a
veritable "plaguo of rats," which had
WKECK OF BATHING PAVILION AT MAN
HATTAN BEACH, CoNEV ISLAND.
been driven from their dwellings
along tho wharves and in sowers by
the phonomonal high tide, tho waters
having reached to a hoight highct
than in fifty years. All through
the streets in the lower section, the
squealing animals rushed, pursued by
many a "email boy" and his dog, as well
as many boys o larger growth, nr.d the
amusement that it afforded proved quite
a relief, coming as it did In the midst oi
the fury of tho elements,
Many lives were lost in various places
owing to tho storm's mad fury, hut fatal
ities were greatest at the Delaware
Breakwater, no less than forty per
sons going down to death in the raging
tide, and causing mourning In many
household as a result.
The loss to property cannot bo estima
ted, but It will take many millions to re
pair the damage caused by the > toriu
king, Atlantic City alone suffering to i lie
extent of $200,00(1, while tho losses at.
Coney Island will aggregate f .lly u
large an amount, and perhaps will even
exceed It.
Now that the waters have receded, it
is found that the contour of the coasi
has been so changed that all existing
mariners' charts of this coast have been
made ob-olete. and a topography not
yet set down on any map Is presented to
our gaze.
Not only has the ocean encroached
from four to live feet on the shore, but
along stretches miles in lengths has
been drawn a Jagged zigzag line wbor
the shore before was siraiglit, aud ihr>
and inlets have been cut a! various
points in the lowland, and at others pro
jecting point - have been lopped oil't >
to run liuuss of rigid struigh'.ncss wheie
bank or shelving beach had before pre
sented only u series of bold curves.
Nor was the storm confined to the
coast alone, but on tho broad bosom ol
the ocean vessels were tossed about like
oockle-sholls and for days little scorned
to the terror stricken passengers to be
between theiu and death, aud many tale;
have already been told end many more
will bo told for years to co ne of Iho tec.
rors experienced during the awful wat
of the elements.
The storm has passed away, but iti
work will remain, even when ail memorj
of lis terrors has faded and its ravuget
have boon repaired so far as may be lj
the reconsti notion of houses and road
and ships freighted with fullness of net
life.
OUR YOUNG FOLKS,
PVBBY AND THE POPPIEB*
Popplon red, and pink, and white,
In my grandma'a garden beds,
•Gainst the green you look so brightl
How you danco and nod your beadflk
Little kittle, ball of fuzz.
(Brightest eyes I over aawl)
If you try to make him buzz,
That old boo will ating your paw.
You're a lazy pussy cat,
Watching poppies bow and away;
Breezes make them bend liko that,
They don't do It for your play.
Only spo bow fust I sew!
Grandma h lid to pieco this square;
It's no time to play, yon kuow.
Till you've done your work all fair.
You should go and catch tho mice
In my grandpa's corn and meal.
If you take ray good advice,
Only think how proud you'll feeL
There's my gr.tudina calling inol
Oh, wha over shall I do?
For my Hoam's not done, you nee,
Here I've sat and soolded you.
—Youth's Companion.
THETIS.
Little mother-cat, Thetis, sat upon the
wood-shod loft, wondering if, alior ull,
sho had chosen tho best place for her
littio ones, those six wee kittens curled
up on a rug near by. Surely there was
groat noise und confusion below, she
thought.
The woodshod was usually dark and
still, and only her master came and went
with a kind word for her, and a query
for tho babies' welfare.
4 'Will those noisy children over go?"
said she, anxiously peering over the
edge of tho loft. 44 1 want* to go down
for my dinner, but I dure not leave ray
children alone."
Just th n the old loft shook and
creaked with the motion of a swing
hung to a rafter, in which two of th
children wore riding at once, and merry
voices waked all tho drowsy spiders in
ail tho dusty corners.
"Dear me," thought tho littio mother,
"this place isn't safe; I must move to
morrow. What can master bo about to
let those children come here?"
Sho crept back to the rug, just to as
sure herself that the babies were ail
safe, and to give them a little motherly
lick.
But all the wee, blind kittens woko up
at once an I began to cry, so that the
little mother was much more unxlous
than bofore.
"Hush, my dears," said she; "d > try
to go to sleep ngain Some one may
come up hero if you cry so loud."
Just then the children below cried out,
"Kittens! kittens! grandpa! i hear
them. Come and hunt for Thetis' ki
tens."
Alother Thetis listened with growing
fear. Who might the grandpa bo? Bonn"
strange creature oven more dangerou •
than the children, perhaps.
But there was no help for it; they were
surely climbing the ladder.
It was no uso to try to "move" then
because she could carry only one kitten
at a time, and the others might meet
with misfortune in her absence. And it
crossed her mind, mistily, that once
fosp in en absence her little fnmih I
hvvmuieu iroai hvo o wo.
the ladder came a ourly he:.
then another, and a oaby girl in gran .
pa's arms.
"Then grandpa must be another na:n<
for master, and I am suro he won't hm
us," said Thetis to her babies, trying i<
sit up in front of thom as if sho wet
alone.
But, nevertheless, all the wee kitten
u-.-ro discovered, and handed about, t,<
the groat distress of the little mother.
At last the children clambered do r
and ran away, uud the echoes aud tie
dusty spiders all went to sleep again.
Thetis waited anxiously till nightfall
watching the little window panes
aloft till she could see them no longei.
and then, under cover of the dark, began
to "move."
Sho picked up one baby in her mout i,
so tenderly it did not wake even, •• nd
carried it carefully all the way to the
woodpile.
She trotted fast along the pa r,
brushed by the dewy grass as sho won;,
and laid tho wet kitten on a nest of chip
under some logs piled crosswise.
To and fro sho trotted briskly six
times, till all tho little damp kitteic
wore in their now home, and her cares
wee happily ended.
For several days mother Thetis kept
house undor the woodpilo, quite undis
turbed. But tho children found her out
at last, and, strange to say, grandp
aiok four babies away and forgot to
bring them back, and Thetis was > •
much occupied by moving again, .-i,
forgot them, too.
Another leng journey by night, and
the two little travelers woro safo on,
more, hidden under a big burdock leu,
in the turnip field.
Hero they lived for nearly a wool.,
when one day Peter, the farm ban 1
pulled up tho big weed and told every
body whore the kittens were, and every
body came to see.
They were so plump, and sat up among
the turnip tops looking so wisely out o?
their new, blue eyes, tho children cams
oftenor than ever to see them, and
Mother Thetis was obliged to move once
more.
A journoy to the haymow was made,
only to make another move necessary
when the hay was put in.
Thetis grew so troubled at last that
she couldn't remombor how many babies
thoro were, and often went back for a
third when tho two were safo in a now
place.
Sho used to forget sometimes where
she had moved to last, and had to sit
and think and think before she remem
bered.
Even then she was often mistaken,
and visited some of the empty nests be
fore she arrived finally at the right one.
After a time she couldn't keep tho ba
bies at homo and hidden, with all iter
care, for they likod to tumble about and
run far away, and frighten the poor anx
ious mother thoroughly before they
scampered back again.
They would not stay at home, oven, in
tho soft, groop, curly parsley bed, where
their mother had at last taken them for
their health and safety.
But no harm ever eumn to them, and
when they had grown up, they used to
climb up into the old woodshed loft, and
wako the little mother cut out of her nap
to hoar the story of their travels when
they were babies, and the old ioft, their
first home.—Youth's Companion.
Railroad Cats.
There ore eight cats on tho staff of the
Midland, England, railway. The ex
penses connected with them are regu
larly shown in the accounts of the com
pany. These lucky felines have under
tiioir charge, according to the season oj
tho year, from one to throe or four hun
dred thousand empty corn sacks. Tlif
holes in the sacks which are eaten hj
the rats are darned by twelve womeii,
who A co kept constantly employed.—Ex
change.
THE FARMER'S CORNER
A DISCUSSION OF IDE MERITS OJ
SWEET AND SOUR CREAM.
Wliere They Differ—Tne Trouble It
(Succeeding With Sweet Cream Dul.
tor— Sour Creana Oenerally Sup
posed to Make the Most Butter.
The Temperature fot Churning.
In a letter from a correspondent he
asks, ilrst, does sour cream make more
butter than sweet cream? Does soul
cream make better butter than bw< "t
eroam? In answer to the first question
we would say that it is generally sup
posed that sour cream makes the mosl
butter, but it would puzzle anybody to
tell why. Certainly souring siloes not
add to the richness of the cream. The
answer to tho second questiou depends
upon the taste of tho consumer. Wo
like butter made from sour cream the
best, but others do not. One of onr best
dairy writers rather favors sweet cream
butter. He says that it needs no proof
when it is said that ocldity is one of the
processes of docay, though decay is not
necessarily immediate, and that souring
cannot create a better flavor than tho
natural one, though tho consumer by
habit may have come to acquire the
preference for an artificial llavor in
butter, just as one often prefers fruit
pickled to give it a smarl, acrid taste or
llavor.
The great difficulty In succeeding with
sweet cream butter will, as a rule, be
found in imperfect churning, resulting
from churning at the sumo temperature
used with sour croam, so as to make tho
one come as soon as the other. This
high temperature curdles tho caseino
and causes it to adhere to the butter,
instead of being mado independent of it.
The butter thus charged with caseino
gives it a light color, prevents solidity
and does not give sufficient time :i.
churning to bring the smaller butter
globules into adhesion with the larger
ones, and they go off in the buttermilk,
making a double loss, for the butter i
weighed down with undesirable casein .
and tho buttermilk is rich in buttei
globules. If churned at GG degrees it
would have taken a longer time, it i
true, to bring tho butter, but natural ad-
Uesion would have unitod the buttoi
g'.obulos, aud the lower temperature
would have held the uniting of the
oaseino and fats in cheok, and a perfect
separation without loss would have re
sulted.
Anothor serious dofect in the usual
course pursued with sweet crearu is to
mingle creams of different ages or skim
mings under the impression.timt tliey are
alike unehangod, but when together
ea<'h will have its own period of granula
tion, and to churn all overchurns Ihe
oldest and in this way defective bullet
must result. When the amount of cream
at each skimming is sufficient for churn
ing a uniform butter ca be ntado, bul
only under raro circumstances with lix
tures.—Western Rural.
Feeding Hack for Fowls.
The accompanying illustration is of a
device for protecting the food and watei
of fowls from dirt and waste. The base
is e board or clank * feet lone and 1 feet
tnuV. An t i-aU bul..'. .
foot squuro is ilimly nailed crosswise, i
inches from each end. Thin boards .
inches wide are nailed all around tin
edge. Three strips one inclt square an
3 feet long are nailed o the top of tin
vertical boards, one at each upper coi -
ner, and tho third midway between. 0
each side a series of vertical slat- '
inches apart extend front the botton
board to the outer strip. These make c
rack through which tho fowls can cxteu
A KECUBE FEEDING BACK,
their heads to roach tho food which i
placod inside. The ledge along tho outer
edge rotains any .scattered food. Tin
drinking dishes are set at each end out
side of tho upright boards. The lien
are kept from getting into the food with
their feet, yet can reach it easily and
withdraw their heads without danger oi
getting hung by tho neck. It may be
very cheaply constructed by any one ac
customed to tho use of tools.—Agricul
turist.
A Good Fence-Fantener.
A good, yet cheap fence, one that wih
"stay" and still be of easy construction
is shown in the illustration. The spe
cial advantage of this fence is that it mat
be made either of boards or rails, which
need no nailing to tho posts, but are
wired on. Tho posts aro set so that the
ends of tho boards or rails aro lapped
across them. A No. 9 wire is cut long
enough to wrap four times around each
post. The wire is first stapled to the
Bide of tho post noar the top, is crossed
in front of the boards, then back of, and
again around the post, a staple being
driven in at each point whero tho wire
crosses the point under the first staple.
Tho boards aro then drawn snuglv
against the posts, by driving in a ten
penny wire nail close to the wire, and
just above the upper edge of tho board
About three-fourths of an inch is left
protrudihg; this is turned down by two
blows of the hammer, which hooks the
nail over tho wire and draws it close to
the posts, holding tho boa ds or rail*
solid. Ttiere is no danger of splitting
tho ends of tho boards by nailing, aud
FENCE FASTENED WITH WIBE,
they cannot warp off. In building fence
with rails, the posts aro set ten feet
apart; the rails can be "spotted" and
lapped the same way as boards, or they
mny be put on opposite sides of the post.
Or fence wired together in this style may
bo made of ordinary fence-boards, six
teen feet long. In this case, the posts
are set fifteen feet apart from centers, to
allow for the lap of the boards at their
ends. They should bo put on the posts
so as to "break joints" with each other.
—Agriculturist.
Corn Fodder mm Food.
Save your corn fodder. It Is good
food for slock, and when you feed it you
are saving just that much hay. It is
the practice in somo sections to "top"
the com. The stalk about the ear Is cut
off after the corn gets its growth and
thus preserved In good shape for fodder.
—Exchange.
VaxrrisiKßT A\n cheap.
A Ylouhu Junt SiiiUble Tor Iliiral
Dwfllrg,
Because people in rural districts do
not often patronize architects, low of
their building plans are really 'adapted
to thel- needs. The building shown
combines chenpne ,s th beauty and the
conveniences of in' dein life. As it is
nearly souarn and has only on" chimney
amino expeimlv front ball and stairs,
it ought to be built anywhere at from
SI,OOO to $1,500, according to tho linisa.
The kitchen and pantry are of g<l
size; tho back hall givesaiuplo room lor
a farmer's no changes of coat -.
hats, etc., while the porch and its sink
afford a convenient place for men to wash
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f HiO't- bfrj "k*" I
IL ' I
U XV /maßtamam —i —■
LOWER FLOOR,
and await meals without being in iln.
women's way. By entering tli cellar
from the hall tho expense ami increa-ed
danger from frost of an outside cellar
way aro saved.
As shown by the dotted line, the ceil
ing of the hall next the kilchon Is only'
seven feet in hight, so as to permit ike
kitchen stove-pipe to enter the chimney
above it. The vestibule In front is large
enough fora hat-ioekaud umbrella stand
am! is lighted by a glass door. The stair
door might also have a circle of gla-s in
it, and should open on top of the ilrst
■step so as to indicate its character to a
d ranger.
Where nut coal can bo cheaply pro
cured tlio chimney proper may com
nce seven feet six inehos from the
Irst iloor and the coal bo conducted by a
Hide from a bin in the attic into the
base of the chimney, beneath the Hue.
where if tho inner shell lias openings,
ami the outer, small doors, it is always
convenient for each stove. The kitchen
ide of tho house can ofttimes be backed
against a bill-side where a light, tem
porary bridge affords easy means of lid
Tng tho bin.
Upstairs all tho bedrooms have closets ;
trxir j fK/i jjj
A l*4
; Bel R.tern , , txn jv
H irnic tL / r—.':
UPPER FLOOR.
thore is one in the hall for extra beddin
uud the bath room is convenient
towels, soap, etc. The attic stairs sin-'
about two feet from the Iloor. The hr.!
bathroom and two smaller bedroom- a
heated by registers In the kitchen co :•
ing. Tho family and spare bedroom
have access to the chimney. If stow
are closed when not in use, the pipe
from all may enter one llue. Two tank
or eisterns in the attic, filled by pipe
placed in the angles of the double rook
can supply water for the bathroom. •'
pipo entering tho chimney and returnin;
to ono of the tanks would give a choit.
of cold or warm water.
Tho kitchen, hall, etc , of this hous<
could be built first and tho most cost b
front portion could be added afterward
—Agriculturist.
I'orllere In a rteaslde Cottage.
Ilero'is an idea for a portiere in a sea
side cottage, which may bo utilized by
many of our readers next season. The
room itself was as far from commonplace
as may be imagined. Tho ceiling wn
tinted a pale sea greon, the side walls
taking a deeper tone. Fish nets wet"
draped from friezo to flooring, and in the
meshes were tangled many colored fish
bought at Jnpaneso shop >. lobsters and
the long ribbons oi sea mosses. Our
were crossed above tho windows and
doors. In tho largo doorway wa- first a
curtain, hung straight, of small fish cord,
woven into a network, with tho lor.
netting needle.
Many visits to the beach had resulted
in a large collection of scollop and jingle
shells—gold and sliver shells, the little
people call them—and these had been
porforatod and knotted in. Outside the
netted curtain hung a pair of portier. r
made of coffee sacking and decora!";
with rings of green plush and fringes oi
shells. The effect was wonderfully pic
turesque, and haß been obtained at small
trouble and time.—Pall Mall Gazette.
The Piazza Ruction.
Build a piazza on the west side of your
house? Why the west side? So you can
sit and seo the sun sot. Busy people
have not time to see It rise. Whothm
ouo lives in city or country, the piazza in
hot weather is equal to another room
and the pleasautest of rooms, too. Who
has greater need of a pleasant place to
sit down and rest In and read after the
chores are done on a hot summer night
than a busy, hard-working farmer or hit
wife? It will not cost much and will be
a good Investment. Mako it broad and
long, so there will be room for the rook
ing chairs—and tho childron. After you
have read the papor and gone to vout
early rest tho young folks will take thoii
turn.
Don't forgot to owing the hammock
across ono corner. Plant some hardy
vines for shade. A Chlnose wisteria
planted now will, In the years to come,
be a "thing of beauty," and not only
cover the sides but will clamber over the
roof If allowed to. A hardy climber is
like a child. It must bo trained, guldod
is a better word, when young or you can
do nothing with it.
DlMCOvery of a Isost Art.
Tempering of copper is one of the lost
arts, which has been actively Bought for
bybclentists and mechanics for years.
The process has been accidentally dis
covered, and tests of the copper thus
treated have shown most remarkable
strength and wearing qualities. It will
bo especially valuable for uso in the
bearings and commutators of dynamo
machines, und also for the journals ol
locomotives and cars. An establishment
In Pennsylvania Is now placing the metal
on the markot. —Eichango.
BE A RLE ITINS FROM O'CONNOR*
Tli Toronto Oarsman Beaten hf Ten
Lengths.
The event now being talked of among
the sporting fraternity, particularly
among those of an aquatic turn, is the
great rowing match on the Thames,
England, between Henry E. Sairle and
William .T. O'Connor, in winch the
former won, his time over the four-and
a-quarter luiic course being 23 minutes,
■"2 seconds. O'Connor tired very early
in the race, and is said to have been
overtrained. He was ten lengtht be
i ind Teurlo at the finish.
Henry. E. fcearle tirst became cham
pion of the world in professional rowing
ou July 13, 1888. On that day ho sculled
against Htansberg over the Paramatta
course of three miles. Searie, at the
Clarence ltiver Aquatic carnival in Janu
ary, 1888, beat C. Neilcon, and llearn,
t lie champion of Now Zealand.
After beating Wolf, Searie iinally
rowed his groat race against Stansberg,
in which ho beat all records. The next
nest record to it was that made by
Touch of 20 minutes 29 seconds, wuen he
beat Hanlan in 1884.
Searie is 5 feet 10 inches in height;
his chest measurement is 41 1-2 inches,
and his rowing weight 100 pounds.
Searie is a tall, slender blond, with a
fair, rosy comploxion and an incipient
blond mustache. Dressed in civilians
olothos he appears exceedingly spare in
build, and does not impress one as
a great sculler. His arms are long and
smalt, and ho takes evident pleasure in
permitting people to feel of them and
confound thorn by their comparative
softness. Ed Hanlan, the ex-champion,
•ays Sear.e'saim is as soft as a woman's
HENRY E. BEARLE.
nrl senrce suggests the brawny appoav
. uce which his arms present in the
hotos of the oarsman in rowing cos
uuie Where Kearle gets his wonderful
cull-propelling power from is a mystery,
■ianlan ascribes it to a remarkable
-t length of the thighs. Searle won't
INcurs it, and when asked about it las:
ail he remarked laughingly: "Oh. I've
col a new movement that the other
are nut 'onto' yet."
William J. O'Connor was born at To
ronto, Canada, in 18G4. His greatest
achievement was defeating John Teermv
:.! a- ' D.C.. OU Nov. i
or champion rower of America. As ur.
amateur, O'Connor, with Enright as
ai nner, won many single and double
cull races in 1884. In 1885 he became u
• rofessional, and sinco then has won
ifteen races, llanian was the man who
icveloped O'Connor's rowing abilities.
"As far as I have beefi able to judge
oy personal inspection," says President
Voting, "two changes would be ndvisc.-
lile in the national game, aud it is very
i.kely that they will bo brought before
ho league at its annual meetiug in No
vember. First and foremost there is no
doubt in my mind that the patrons of
;ho game would be better pleased wV. h
wo umpires than one, ahd the experi
ence of this season has demonstrated
this fact to my entire satisfaction.no
that there is any objection to the staff of
leaguo umpires as it exists today as fat
as tho ofllcinls of the leaguo are con
earned, for wo think our selections for
these trying places have all endeavored
to do their duty conscientiously and
without favor to homo or visiting clubs
as often alleged. But there Is a demand
for two umpiros, which cannot be ig
nored, and for my part I shall favor eigli
good men being chosen for those place s
next year.
\ \
WILLIAM J. O'CONNOR.
"It will not do to have home umpire-.
That experiment has been tried too
often, and invariably resulted in more
evil than good. What is required is to
have an octet of umpires, who shall be
subject to orders, as at present, and thus
all talk of favoritism will bo reduced to
a minimum. It is but a comparatively
short time before the playing season will
end, and, despite talk to the contrary,
our staff or umpires will remain as con
stituted itoday. At the last meeting of
the lcaguo iu the spring a suggestion
from me for a fifth umpire was agreed
to, and at once Knight was chosen for
the position. By the way, we have a
little taste of civil service reform, so far
as promot ion is concerned iu the national
league. Umpire Curry was the fifth um
pire at one "ime, but when a vacancy oc
curred he was put in as a regular at
$1,500 per season and expenses.
"The other features which I think the
game requires is that foul tips shall be
oounted as strikes. In many instances
some of the prettiest plays In tbo game
are spoiled by the rule now in voguo,
and there Is" no valid reason why a
eatcher should be deprived of credit for
a clever piece of work by not allowing
foul tips to oount anything when he is
tfoso up behind the bat."
Joe McAuliffe and Pat Killen have
fought before the California athletic club
at San Francisco, and the former has
proved himself the best man. It took
only seven rounds, but Klllen's friends
olaiinod the knock-out below was a foul,
but the referee would not allow the claim.