2 Ef 4 TEN ed FA ROS gRA LYE So fant Tord.” ‘Some of the SAR RN bringing th +! thre © ~ sbuilt up one : ‘meh Chr! NATIVITY.” Sermon as Deliveied by the Texr: “Andithey came with haste, and / found Mary and Joseph, amd the Babe The black window shutters of a December ht were thrown open, and some of the best singers of a world where they all sin ood there, and iristmag scene though we | never before worshiped at the manger. Here is a Madonna worth looking at. I onder not that’ the fr t “name all lands 1 nd’ g : oud Spanish and English pronounce it dif- ferently, they are all namesakes of the ong | whom we Ind on a bed of straw; with her $ face aga the soft cheek of Christin the night of the Nativity. AN the great ainters have tried on canvas to presént d her child and the incidents of ost famous night of the world’s his- , ‘ef all of them were copies of St. 's Madonna and Luke's Madonna, spived Mpdosns of the Old Book, whieh’ put into'our hands when we were 3 i have under our we h A infants, and that heads when we _ Behold, in th might of Christ's life God | creation. You cannot gi hem bayn without going the mules, the dogs, the oxen. of that stable heard the first nt hey kneel! Hav “Christ came among ¢ "the sufferings of ths : it not appropriate that He should, dur first few days and nights of His life o be surrounded by thé dumb beasts? # the centuries, pot a g out horse on a tow: path, How freezing in the poorly built <OW pen, not a freight car in summer time beeyes to, market without water Bo isand miles’ of B ony, nov a $urgeoil’s rdbm witslessing the struggles of ox’and rabbi n or dog in the hor- | ors vie has an mferest in the act that Christ was born in a stable sur- rounded by brutes. They surely have as much right in this world as we have. In the first chapter of Genesis you may see ‘that they were placed on the earth befors man was, the fish and fowl created the fifth , day, and the quadrupeds ‘the morning of the Sixth day, and man not until the atternoon of that day. The whale, the eagle, the lion, ~* and all the lesser creatures of their kind were predecessors of the human family. They ‘have the world by right of possession. They “have also paid rent for the places they occu- ied. What an army of defense all over the and are the faithful watchdogs. And who can tell what the world owes to the horse and mel and ox for transportation? And robin lark have, by thé cantatas with whica they have filed orchard and forest, mors than paid for the few. grains they have Be or heir 1 imagis 140 ae y ; as 1 imagine now I do in that Bethlehem night, ith en infant Christ on the one side and the speechless créatures e other, jit ho d.- : ub water of _canar, I'hrow out ) umbs to those birds ‘eaught too far morth in the winter's inclemency. Arrest man whois making that one horse draw "a load heavy enongh for three. Rush if upon of transfixing butterfly and sshopper. « Drive not off that old robin, for tis a : Ziothers eradle: and aude Ber | as there may be three or four musicians of the sky in Tonin ."" No‘more did Christ show interest fin the botanical world when He said %Con- ' ‘sider the liliés,” than He showed sympathy for the ormithological world when He said “Behold the fowls of the air,” and the quad- _: rupedal world when He allowed Himself to be called in one place a lion and in another place a lamb, Meanwhile may the Christ of tke Bethlehem cattle pen have mercy on the suffering stockyards that are preparing meat for our American households, ' : Behold, also, in this Bible scene, how on that’ Christmas night God honored child- hood. Christ might have made His first visit to our world in a cloud, as He will de- scend on His next visit in a cloud. In what a chariot of illumined vapor He might have . rolled down the sky, escorted by mounted cavalry, with lightning for drawn sword, Elijah had a carriage of fire to take Him up; why not Jesus a carriage of fire fo fetch Him down? Or over the arched bridge of a rainbow the Lord might have descended. ' Or. Christ might have had His mortality ip ¢ h gut of the dust of a garden, as was Adam, in full manhood at the start, without the introductory feebleness of in- tancy. No, no! Childhood was to:be hon- ored by that event., He must havea chiles light limbs, and a child's dimpled hand, a a child’s beaming eye, and a child’s flaxen hair, and babyhood was to be honored for all tide to come, and a cradle was to mean more than a grave, Mighty God! May the res flection of that one child’s face be seen in all infantile faces. Co pd Ld Enough have all those fathers and mothers .on hand if they have a child in the house. A throne, a crown, a scepter, a kingdom un- that scene where boys ars gras a cab or * jder charge: Be careful how you strike him | across the head, jarring the’ Brain... What rou say to. him will be. centennial .and mil- jenial, and a hundred years and a thousand years will not stop the echo and re-echo. Do ‘not say, “Itis only a child.” Rather say, *'It is only an immortal.” Itis only a master- piece of Jehovah. it was a child in Naaman’s kitchen that 4o0ld the great Syrian warrior where he might go and get cured of the leprosy, which at thies. It was tentiono evoked Christ's ¢ i Sak 308d { ih ick ghild that ist se ‘ g siples to teach ‘ths lesson of We mformed that “wolf and d all be yet so domesticated hild shall lead them. A child 9 Star a shexe mh ; Joe {elds when, if the old road allowed, the Prussian general would L eo Up tog | na 4 fold 6 all’ the great thf the laws, settle all the des- in: the world’s salvation or - destruetion. ih, women, nations, all earth ana all heaven, behold ‘the child] Is there "any velvet so soft as 4 child's cheek? Is there ‘blue as a child's eye? Isthere any t e child's voice? Is there any plume so wavy as a child's hair? Notice also n. this Bible night scens God honored science, ho aresthe three wiss men kneeling before the : Divine In- fant? Not boors, not oramuses, but ‘Caspar, Belthasar and Melchior, men who | knew all that was to be known. They were ‘the Isaac Newtons and rschels and Far- radays oftheir time. Their alchemy was ‘the forerunner of our o. chemistry, their astrology the mother of our magnifi- cong astronomy. They had studied studied metals,” studied physiol gveryghing. And when 1° see tists bowing : befora the beautiful babe I .s20 tho prophecy of the time when all the telescopes and microscope and al} the Lex acs and all the al swing ab the greatest phy- them Christian men like our own Jossph & - Hotchinson and Rush and Valentine Mott and Abererombie and have been our gr Henry, who liv: sAbernethy? Who scientists? Josepn and died in the faith of nis students among , his hat and said, ‘Young gentlemen, before we study these rocks let for wisdom to the God who mad .? To-day the greatest doctors and lawyers of Brooklyn and New 'k and of is. land and of all. other lands revers the hristian rel ; ari an reliaion, and are not: ashasnsd to k Oo] © All astro Forsitip the ase of Sharon, a | ast will yet recognizas the Star of Bathishe Behold that first Christmas that God hon: dew and the Bratt have & work with their apparel, but none I hat De tno on $0 hear the. mu \ \ night. The +4 Srinouncembnt of a Saviour’s birth I; had : Nonriy all the messiahs of re- form and literature and eloquence and law and benevolence have come from the flelds.. hadi, Lo) from the fields, Jefferson from ~The ‘presidential mar Gar from ths fiel Instead of ten merchants in rivalry as to whoshall sell that ®ne ‘apple we want at least t hem $0 go out and raise. apples. Instead of tal md ch ants desiring to #ell that one bushel Of Wheat we want af least eight of them to go out and raise wheat. . The world wants OW. more hard hands, more bronzed chepks, more muscular arms. To the fields!’ God honored them when He woke up the shepherds by: $hg miduighs anthem, and He will, while the world lasts; continue to honor the fields. , also, that on that Christmas night God honored motherhood. Two angelson their wings might have brought an infant Saviour to Bethlehem without Mary’s being there at’ all. When the villagers, on the morning - of December 26, awoke, ' by di- ving arrangement, and in some unex- Plain way, the child Jesus might ve found in some comfortable cradle of willage.: But no; nol Motherhood for the tenderest relations’ was , toi bs maternal relation, and one of the sweetest words, - ‘*Mother.” In all ages God has honored good motherhood. John Weasley had a good mother, St, Bernard hada mother, Samuel Budgett a good mother, Doddridge a good mother, Walter Scott a good mother, Benjamin West a good: mother. #1 or pie 90) 2 ¢ Ina great audience, most of whom were | Christians, I: asked that all those who had’ been blessed of Christian mothers arise, and almost the entire, assembly: stoo you see how important it is that all mother- ood be:cohsecrated? : When you hear some one, in sermon or oration, ‘speak in the ab- your eyes fill up with tears while you say to Yourself, ‘That was my mother.” , | "The first word a child utters is apt to “Mother,” and the old man; i ‘dream calls **Mother! mother not whether she was bronght up ingtHe su roundings of a city, and in affluent hom and was dressed appropriately with; refer- ence to the demands of ‘modern life or whether she wore the old time eap and great round spectacles, and aproms of her ‘own ‘make,’ and ‘knit your socks with her | own needles, seated by the broad fireplace, with great black logs ablaze on 4 winter night. It matters; not how many wrinkles crossed and recrossed her face, or-how much her shoulders stooped with the burdens of a long life, if you painted a Madonna, hers would be the face. . What a gentle hand she had when we were sick, and what ‘a voice to sooth pain, and was there anyone who could so fill up a room with‘ péaceand purity and light? And what a sad day that was when we came home and she could greet us not for her lips were forever still. Come back, mother, this Christmas day, and take your old place,and as ten or twenty or fify years agoieome and .open the old Bible #ts you used to read and kneel in the sameé place where you used to pray, and look upon us as of old, when you wished us a merry Christmas or a happy: New Year. But, nol That would not be fair to calliyou back. You had troubles enough jand aches enough and bereavements enough while you were here. Po 8 & Hail, enthroned an !' “We are com- ing. Xeep a placeright beside you at the banquet. List Blow footed Fears! More swiftly rug ld of that uusstiing sun; i 83; Calm land beyond the sea. ? ————— THE SPIRIT'S SWORD. ~ On one oceasion Dr. Malan was {raveling by diligence to Paris, his fellow-travelers being a French officer, a member of his own congregation, and another gentleman, a stranger; According to his customs Dr. Ma- lan took out his Bible and read some por- tion of it aloud. ! The stranger remonstrated, avowing infi- del opinions and loudly assailing the Word of God. The French colonel, seeing that the discussion was likely to be a protracted one, and not altogether persuaded of the wisdom of his pastor in thus introducing the subject of religion in a- public vehicle, interrupted it « by saying: “You are well aware how greatly I respect you, Dr. Malan, but I think at this time you err somewhat in judgment. You should first ¢onvinee this gentleman that’ the book you are reading aloud is the Word of God, since he denies it to be so." You can. hardly expect him to submit to an guthority that é openly disavowsu!?.. 0 0 pe ‘Colonel’ said Dr. Malan, “I ask you; of buttie—endeavor to persuade the’ and was & that the weanom 1 sour fi swofd, the colonel. : |." That is just what -I do,” said Pr. Malan; “1 believe the Word of God to be the Sword of the Spirit, and I use 3b accordingly.” } Silence soon followed, snd at the end. of the day the three travellers passed the night: at the same hotel, Dr: Malan and the French’ colonél proposing fo continue: their journey on the morrow. FoAgr 8 Nao ‘At breakfast the next morning, as the friends were seated together at the same table; a waiter entered the room and in- quired of Dr. Malan “whether or ng ‘proposing to go on to Paris by“the gence?” On receiving a reply in mative, he explained, ‘The gentlen travelled with you yesterday desire inquire, as, if jou are purposing to go to-day, he wishes to be your fellow-travel er.’ ¢ od fore the journey was. completed, Dr Malan nd the tossed skeptic had beconts. Sordlal in sheir ntercourse. a aie ; : latter became a. communicant Manse church and his attached friend in the bonds of the Gospel. ~~ = ndin; ith fase ho. Spacing, wip |. all time was to be consecrated, and one of | the {| probable conditién od np: Don't |. stract of a good, faithful, hondst mother, 1 Fed. # £ Nakion: AEE T p Tie a would you—-if you were going into the feld | enemy { WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DOING FOR THE COUNTRY-~AN ACCOUNT TO WHICH ALL REPUBLICANS CAN POINT _ WITH PRIDE. Fhe’ sinluitanecus. publication of the President’s message and the report of the ‘Becretary ‘of the Treasury constituted a ‘striking exposition of the administration of the affairs and finances of the nation by the Republican party. It was, in fact, an gccount of stewardship frankly and fully rendered by the President and the trusted and sterling Républican Secre- tary of Treasury. Tie account is one to which all Republicans can point with ride. It is a recordof faithful service, ntelligently ‘and efficiently performed. The able, clear and comprehensive state- ment of Mr. Foster admirably supple- ments the strong: and dignified message of President Harrison. The Democratic organs who have been proclaiming that the revenue of the Government would not be sufficient to Jeet its expenses, and that a deficit was imminent, owing to the reduction of the receipts from im- ports through the MeKinley tariff, again have the satisfaction of seeing their pre- dictions ‘utterly falsifed by the actual | event. There is neither a deficit nor an un- wieldy surplus. The reductions of reve- nue by the McKinley law have not been excessive. © The revenues have been lowered to a point: that affords a suffi- cient sum for the economical administra- tion of the Government and leaves a moderate balance on the right side ot the National ledger, Secretary Foster shows that for the fiscal year 1891 the receipts of the Governmen twere $458,544,233.083, while the disbursements were $421,304, - 470.46, Teaving a surplus in the Treas- ury of $37,239,762.57. For the present | iséal year the revenues. are estimated as. follows: . ; FFOM CUStOmEY.s. ersuisssss. ss §185,000,000 From internalrevenue.......... 152,000,000 From miscellaneous sources ..; 25,000,000 From postal service. ......ss.... . 11,000,000 Total estimated revenues. .... $435,000,000 The expenditures for the same period are estimated as follows: For the civil establishment. .... $ Fer the military establishment. , Wor the naval establishment, ... 32,000,000 For thé Tidiaf service 1... ] 12,000,000 Fors pensions. . 4 14. i..1125,000,000 For interest onthe public debt. 28.000,000 For postal services iéic. ou... 71,000,000 Total estimated expanditures. $409,000,000 Tieaving an estimated surplus for theyear of.....veeieeennisoes $24,000,000 | ++ Bepretary . roster jobs estimates the ) of dhe United States Treasury on June 30, 1892: Cash in the Treasury:July 1, 1891, including gold rederve. , . $15,803,803 Burplus for year, as above... . 24,000,000 Deposits during the year for re— demption orf National bank no Sareacsrsastreness 8,000,000 $180.893.808 Total amount available....... al bank notes during eli sod FIG interest oes an fractional eurreney to November 1,1891. 20,911,163 Redemption of same . :. Reh’ during’ re Tasso mainder of year,... 4,2; : ; eR He TET 41,165,663 30, 1808. LU HL CL tes $199,728, 45 It is evident that the Democratic cry. of *‘deficit” was without the slightest foundation. It ‘Was" a’ mere partisan scare, as silly agit was; dishonest. A gratilving feature of the report is the in- crease in cash circulation from $1,497. 440,707, or $23.41 per capita on July 1, 1891, to $1,b77,262,070, or $24.38 per capita on November 1. The United States Mints coined. ,moye money in the past year than ever before. They coined $24,172,202.50 in gold, $36,232,802 in silver dollars, or an average slightly ex- ceeding $3,000,000 per month, and be- tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 in sub- sidiary coins, making a total of $63,611,- 159.85. Secretary .Koster also notes that while this country lost by gold ex- ports during the last fiscal year no less than $67,346,768, the return movement: of specie through the port of New York from July 1 to November 1 of the cur- rent year was $27,854,000; and he ex- presses a well founded confidenee that, owing to the great American export of breadstuffs, the movement of gold will continue in increasing amounts for many months, 11a us Fe: A “The report shows that $25,864,500 of the four and a half per cent. bonds ma- turing 'last *September have been con- tinued at two per The number of banks in. operation October; 31, 1891, was 3694, having dni Sex $684, Kash balance: available June 755,565 ; bouds depositel culation; $15,118,850; ban standing; $171,468,943, organized onl thy half | that time has been only one- or should you use ie 3 5 By a «Most undoubtedly I should use if,” sild | one per cent. of their average liability. The magnificent exhibit of the foreign trade of the United States during the last fiscal year is the best ‘answer to the free trade fanatics who ‘predicted that the ‘McKinley tariff would . “stifle” trade. Our exo 1 yeir they. erchiandise, free and dutiable, were {i |. $844,916,196 for the same time. The public debt in the past year has béen de-, . creased $184,947,635.48. "The work of collecting the revenues, administering the Government, constructing the new navy, fortifying our cor on all the ‘various .depar ts of our great’ National business has been trans- acte th) 1 : jo | Burrell town fotal number of ational banks § pa ur -expor jomestic merchandise have never been so ‘great. For the last. i) they. reached the enormous $872,270,283. ' Our imports of ts and carrying re | neighborhood of 500,000,000 ncy 1s on a sound 8, and 1 n increased by nearly $100,000,000; the Treasury has ample reserves for any call that may be made upon it. The facts ‘contained in Secre. tary Foster's report will’ have their in. fluence in 1892.—New Yurk Press. 42 gt; 8, 3, PENNSYLVANIA NOTES. A Few Condensations of Events Occur ring Throughout the State. Diphtheria has broken out’ at Grapevills and the citi zens are greatly alarmed. Sev- eral deaths have occurred. - David West, convicted of robbing Thos. alley of $12 at Beaver Falls, November 12, was senten to four years and three months in the Riverside penitentiary. ‘West's a; mother, who was in court, was mucha . Johnstown reports 500 cases of the grip developed within a week. The storesof W. KE. Alexander, J. L. Malcomar and Dr. Fuller and the meat shop of N. McCormick at Uniontown were robbed Monday night. At Harrisburg B. & E. Goodman, cloth- iers, failed,. Judgement to the amount of $13,200 have been entered against the firm. At Hazelton the Fifth National Bank building, Platt & Co.'s general merchants mills and another small building were burned. , $35,000; insurance, $20,000. Bernard Ready was killed and Henry Linner fatally injured by a massive icicle falling upon them in the: Exeter shaft of the Lehigh Valley Coal company at Pittston, Monday. The U. 8B. senate confirmed the following postmasters:: Charles H. Ruthraaf; Green: castle; Edward K. Fiester, Jersey Shore; Andrew G. White, Beaver; Willis Marshall, Warren; J. C. Caldwell, Sharon; T. A. Book, Hughesville; H. L. Black, Duquesne; J.. 'P. Dunfee, Newyiile; W. N. Hurlbut, West- field; D. 8. Jordan, Mt. Pleasant; A. P, Mec- Donald, Altoona; W. A. Mecllermitt, Bell wood; R. J. Mott, Port Allegheny; © G. P. Olmstead, Conderport; W. H., H. Sieg, “Steelton; J.'R. Way. Curwensville; W. Ei. ‘Wilson, Mechanicsville. ; _Buit was entered in court .at Hollidays burg by James A. Riddle, a depositor in the suspended Tyrone bank, against Caleb Guy- er, A. B. Hoover, Claude Jonesand Patrick Flynn, stockholders of the institution, to recover the amount of his deposits. There has been no development in the bank’s af: fairs indicating the amount of assets or Habilities. An estimate based upon state: ments of depositors as to the amounts of their deposits place the liabilities in that direction anywhere from $50,000 to $75,000. Katie Allen, the 2-year-old daughter of Louis Allen, of Ligonier township, West. moreland county, was burned to death »Tuesday evening by her clothes taking fire from the grate. J. B.Holsinger,a Johnstown jewelryman, accidently dropped a lighted match into a quantity of powder in his store. The explo- sion burned him badly and dgmaged “his stock and building $1,000 worth. 4 Peter Burkhart, a native of Germany, who was returning to Lancaster from a visit to the Fatherland, was struck last night by the western express near Witmer station on the Pennsylvania and ground to death. { The Apollo Iron and Steel company’s large new building was wrecked by a natural gas explosion. Three men were severely ‘burned. A " ; Jacob Grimm of Sharon, died from a knife wound in his: throat inflicted while de- lirious. ; ‘At New Castle, Calvin Hanna, Thomas Evans and Daniel Gunsley were sentenced six years and eight months to the peniten- tiary for burglary; Aartin O'Maley, one year and three months for larceny; Andrew Smith, one year for larceny, and John Vanmeter to Morganza for larceny. Frank Nolock was struck by a train al Moyer station on the South: West road: Monday and di o Aiwntuign Thieves broke.a plate glass window worth £125 in Elliott's store at New Florence and Sole ‘silverware’ and jewelry valued at 3.5 Henderson, of Brisbin, was thrown from his buggy Monday night and killed. While out bunting. John Meyers of Wilkesbarre was accidentally shot and killed by William Cornish. : The Golden Eagle Clothing Houseat Erie was closed nu a $21, 00 attachment issued by L. Rosenbaum. John Yonhaus fel] through a scafto'd at the Cambria Works; Jonhstown, and receiv- ed fatal injuries, John C. Holmes, conductor on the W. N. Y.& P. R. R,, was stricken with paralysis on his train Thursday, and died in Oil City. The sheriff closed the mill of = Alpheus Beall, Uniontown, the largest flouring mill in Fayette county. The dead body of an unknown man was found near Davidson Coke Works, along the Baltimore and Ohio tracks. He had undoubtedly been’ murdered and placed on the track to cover up the crime. It was undoubtedly the work of tramps. Tewis Gamb'e, of near Washington, was found dead in front of his house, on the National road. Heart disease is supposed to ‘have been the cause of death. John J. Strayer has brought suit at Johnse town against the South Fork Fishing Club for $200,000 damages, and against iis Presi- dent, Uolonol Unger, for the same amount. These suits grew out of the Johnstown flood. Strayer at the time owned a large amount of roperty in the shape of dwellings and plan- ng mills. In his statement he complains the defendants built a dam across the: South Fork Creek, whereby there accumuplated a “body of water covering an area of about 424 acres of surface and at an average depth of 30 to 40 feet, which was far in excess of any legitimate, reasonable, or necessary purpose of the ‘defendants, and on account of its weight and quantity was a menace and con- stant. danger to life and property in the town 1 of Johnstown and the valley below.” - Thos. Johnston, a school teacher.of Lower La _ near Gremmshun: was Degten so Vv ‘man nam ingen i ach ef i 3 he will die. Johnston chastised a boy named Townsend in the school room. The boy fell against the bench, cutting his heuslibadiy, Klingensmith is a .relative of the boy! eeting Johnston soon after he gave the latter the beating. Kling- ensmith n arrested. Deputy Marshall Barring lodged Benjamin Gutzel, another Potter county moonshiner, in jail at Scranton. '‘Gutzsl isa son of the man arrested in Potter county for the same offense a week ago. The arrest was made after a remarkab e chase, the government officers pursuing Gutzel hundr of miles over mountain roads. ‘The body of Danitl YcLaughlin, of Gal- ‘litzin, was found ‘on the Pennsylvania track, west of Cresson, Sunday night. Me- Laughlin had been struck by a train and the body was badly mangled. He was single and 30 years old. | Charles Kine, who broke jail at: Butler a month dgo, was taken to the Riverside . Penitentiary, to serve an 18 months’ sen tence for iail breaking. Michael Kelly was fatally injured in the mbria works, Johnstown. Two sons of Frank Johnston, of Shamo- kin, were drowned while skating. : The post office. an 1 store of zs & Kline, of Evans City, was robbed Sunday night of $40 in casb. 12 wolidl wathes, a lot of -slothing and po-tave tamu, \ : 3 vi Pe SR ETE ey Government investigations seem to in. dicate that the total sugar crop in the United States this year will be 32 the n ; very irritable, CATTLE “BOYS” | CURIOUS LIFE OF MEN WHO CONSORT WITH BEASTS, “Window Gazlug” as 4 Ps “Soe that elegantly dreseod Tac gentleman just’ going out there?” Will Shafer in ‘the Auditorium Hotel few days ago. *‘You will be surpr to hear the business they are in; Hardy Routine of the Voyage—From | are a married couple, and as pleasant Canada to Great Britain—Feed- ing, Watching and Caring lor the Sick. / Canada ships about 120,000 head of cattle to Great Britain yearly. The voy- people as I ever met.” “But what 1s there odd about theiy business, Mr. Shafer?” 7 “Well,” said Will with a smile, *‘they might be called ‘gazers,” and I will ex plan it this way: You have heard people standing on the street and looking age is made in vessels equipped for the | up steadily to the sky for a few moments se, and the cattle are tended by a | just to see if it wouldn't draw a crowd? distinct type of individual Known as the | Well, it always does, and it don’t ‘make cattle boy. Visit Point St. Charles any day and you will see a crowd of these fellows— | gather just the same. a particle of difference whether there is anything to see or not. The crowd will Well, these two some men of education who have run to | work on the same principle,only instead seed,some wild youths,born and brought | of gazing at the sky they gaze at sho up with cattle, some old-country men who have become tired of colonial life and are anxious to work their way home. They look an idle lot as they lounge in the sun, dirfy and coarse-spoken, but see them at work and the hardships of their curious life are apparent. A train comes rin and all the cattle must be watered and have their heads roped, then examined by the veterinary surgeon and driven down past the locks and quays to the ships. Then comes the voyage. If is best described by one of the boys who had seen better days and had cast in his lot temporarily among the cattle. “Qur herd,” says he, “consisted of 110 bulls and steers. With them were four cattle boys and the boss, Martin. It was a day in midsummer, the atmos- phere was stifling, and the cattle were The stalls ranged along each side of the deck with a passage way through the centre. There were five: or: six head in each stall. - «The routine ol a cattle-boy’s life is much the same day after day. The watch rouses sll hands at 4 o'clock. Then we take pieces of wood shaped like Scotch- hands ‘and thoroughly scrape out the troughs in the stalls so as not to leave a grain of meal to become scur. The. $15,000 a year. hatchway of the lower deck is raised and two mei descend while the others re- main above to work the pulley. The feed is stored on the lower deck, and, of the two below, one swings over the bags of meal, the other: places them on the pulley chain and the two above haul them up. The boss opens each meal bag and fills the pails. The meal is then dis- tributed, the quantity of a patent pail being divided among every three head. ¢¢ After this the boys eat their breakfast. Then comes the duty of looking out for the water, every boss wanting first turn to get his hogsheads filled. .The task of distributing 1t is the hardest work of the day, During the cleaning of the troughs, and the serving out of the meal the cattle are comparatively quiet, but as soon as the. first pail of water ' appears they are all on their feet, straining their necks out over their troughs, running their long tongues out eagerly and bush- ing at the cattle boys with their horns to: attract attention, windows, and they don’t do it for either. You saw how richly they were dressed. Well, they just make lots of money. In the first place, they ares couple to attract notice on the street any time, so it is not hard for them to. their little act. They first make a barzain with some of the big stores that have large show windows. The proprieto have these windows dressed up in pare ticularly fine style and then this pair, looking like a gouple out shopping, wa up and bold an animated talic bef window, evidently discussing the there displayed, at which they occasi ally point in an interesting manner. passers-by naturally become curious one by one or in groups they pause look also. As in the case of thes gazers, a crowd is soon collected, Ww the couple work their way out an around the block. and they do the same act oy is the best kind of an ‘ad.’ ner, is worth good money it, too, for the gentleman in: tal me ‘the other day and teélling scheme said they had made as They go all oy country, from one big city to anot apd.have a regular line of patrot | only work in the spring and all; most of the new goods come out. rest of the time they travel or no they please, but you may be sure the always having a good time.” —G Press. Sx King of the Mound- Builders Warren K. Morehead and Doctor Ci son, who have been prosecuting tions at Chillicothe, Ohio, for three months in the interest of World's Fair, have just made the richest finds of the century in way. of prehistoric ins. \ gentlemen have confined their e tions to the Hopewell farm, upon : are located twenty Indian moun: Saturday they were at work on mound 500 feet in length, 200 and twenty-three feet in height. Att! ‘depth’ of’ fourteen feet, nearithe cen! Often a long horn will ‘of the mound; “they exhumed 1 catch the handle of the pail and spill'thel| sive dieleton” of a man, which was. contents over the narrow hallways, = ** ¢‘When each bedst’ has been served with his ‘pail ‘of water the boys take their. pitchforks among the cattle to shake up ithe old beds and throw in more hay. This work lasts tiil 11 o’clock when the hallways are swept and cleansed for in- spection by the chief officer. . : Dinner and a siesta follow. One stays with the cattle, and the others lie down or go to the forward spar deck fo smoke. “At 3 o'clock comes a’ second visit to the supply deck, and ‘a second serving ‘out-of mealor hay. At 6 o'clock comes supper; and at 8 o'clock the boys turn in, one being left with a lantern to watch the cattle. Hels relieved at midnight, and at 4 o'clock. the relief rouses all hands. “The cattle can never be left. To allow them to lie down, they have long head ropes. Sometimes one will lie down first, and his neighbor lie over him. If both are not speedily aroused, the under one will be pressed to death. Then others takesick and require a great deal of attention. “Of course, cattle die on board and sometimes it'is deemed wise by the boss to assist nature. ‘The insurance compa- nies ingist that every dead beast shall be inspected by the captain before being have overboard. That’s all right, bat it is easy enough to drive a tenpenny nail in between the horns under the shaggy hair, and who would notice it? ¢In winter a cattle boy’s life is much harder. The beasts must have warm mashes, and it is awful work to stagger along an ice bound deck in the dark on a biting morning, carrying two pails of warm mash, slipping, sliding, sometimes falling and spilling half of it till your own overalls are frozen stiff. '—ZNew York Recorder. A Smelling Contest. The most unique and novel entertain ment yet tried was at ‘the Y. M. C. A. rooms, at the young people's gathering the other evening. A smelling : contest was the thing that made the most fun. Mr. Singer had got the druggist to put up eight bottles containing as many dif- ferent liquids of different odors, all com- mon but one, and each numbered on the corks. The game ‘was to smell. of these and identify them, and write the decision opposite numbers on a card. « Now, it is a well-known fact to those | who have studied the matter that the sense of smell is the most deceptive of all the senses, for the reason that after smelling of three things in quick suc- cession the nose refuses to do daty with most people, and beyoud that everything is mixed and confused. A youug lady and gentleman each identified seven out of eight of them; nine more identified all but two. But generally the things written down were wide of the mark, Bisulphide of carbon—the only uncom. mon one—proved a sticker. It was wri.“en down as extract ouions, oil of brimstone, laudanum, boiled cabbage and white rose. The contest was the funniest Kind of fun.—Lewiston (Me.) Journals i 4 : a 1'cfised™"in ‘éoppér armor. The head "covered by an oval-shaped copper The jaws. had copper mouldings ant arms were dressed in copper, Copp plates covered the chest and: stoma On:each: side of the head, on protrud stieks, were wooden antlers, ornamen with “copper. The mouth was ‘stuffe with “gériuine "pearls of immense but’ much ‘decayed by the ravag time. Around the neck was a : of: bears’ teeth set with pearls. = By the side of the male skeleton v also found a female skeleton, the tw being supposed to be man and wife is estimated that the bodies were where they were found fully 600 y ago. Messrs. Morehead and Cres: consider this’find one of the most i portant they have yet made, and bel they have at last found the King of th mound-builders. Besides the ar named above there were found a pe studded sceptre, many jars contain corn, ete.; bronze and stone implen and ornaments, evidences of ashes bones of animals. There ate indi that the adjacent soil is full of valuabl articles!‘ The finders are rejoiced att find, and there is great excitémen hundreds of people have flocked ti scene.—St. Louis Republic. : Statistios of Human Life, An eminent statistician of Gi The average length of life is thirty-sev yesrs; twenty-five per cent. of manking dies betore dttaining the age of seve teen. "In the civilized world 85,214,00 die every year, 97,480 every day, 4020 every hour, sixty-seven every minute, the births amount to 36,792,000 every year, 108,800 every day, 4200 every hour, seventy every minute. . Mar people live longer than the unmarrie and civilized nations longer tha clviiged, Tall persons spjor ‘longevity than small ones. Women| a more favorable chance of life befo reaching their fiftieth year than men, bi a less favorable one after that Persons bern in spring have a bust constitution than those barn a other season. Births and deaths o more frequently at night thanin the time.-—Lancet. ? fi Effect of the Sun on Too It has been found that the sui and heat have an injurious effect the plate buckled by even one day’ posure. ' This should be known owners of costly implements wrongly supposed to wit weather with impunity becav made of metal an have no
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