“4 | | 1 I 5 Don’t pay any attention to the dis agreeable things people say about you —if they are not true, advises the In- dianapolis News. Exclaims the Philadelphia Record, what a paradise would be this earth, especially that part of it known as the United States, if all promises were realized} ante-election “Death by electrocution,” ates _ a New York physician, less it the shock is rightly adminis- ter d. Still, o the Louisville Courjer-Journal, it is undignified and injurious to the repuiation. assever- “is pain- objects The oie of ethics which governs the legal profession -is pzrhaps less, rigid than that which medical men. controls the Perhaps itis ‘more rig- idly enforced, suggests the Louisville Courier-Journal, but as to this there are likely to be two opinions. At any rate the lawyers have a chance at one anot her in public. As Niagara attracts by its very grandeur, muses the New York World, so movement either for good or for ill, and whether every human formidable or insignificant, exercises an influence far greater than those who direct it may imagine. There is a lure to life and progress as well as a lure to disgrace and death, The best defense that is made of boxing is that it familiarizes men with the art of self-defense, maintains the New York World, and the most that can be said in behalf of prize fighting is that it is favored in those countries whose people are more like- ly to resent injury with their fists than with knives or firearms. Prophesies the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: One of the future re- forms for making city life tolerable will be an ordinance requiring milk and delivery wagons to have their wheels shod with solid rubber An iron tire and a brick pavement make a combination as disturbing to the quiet of a neighborhood as an old fashioned Fourth of July. The Louisville Courier Journal con- tends: tires. Legislation or no legislation, its struggle with the problems of farm life—if nothing else be ever done— may do something to arouse the rural population of the United States to the expedience of bringing more ease and more aestheticism into their lot and to the economical on the farm more attractive, that sons and daughters may stay. value of making life Washington letters have been re- It is reported to the Post, that many ceived already pointing out some of the handicaps under labor and suggesting more or which novel remedies. Among the farmers’ roa grievances are 1 middl en, poor educa- tional facilities and scarcity of conipe- charges by tent labor. Doubiless a few score ad- ditional drawbacks to perfect farm life will come to light as the commis- sion pursues its inquiries. It is reported by army officers that Virginia produces the sturdiest and strongest horses known to this coun- try, notes the New York American. The famous Shenandoah Valley, where the waters are clear and pure, the grass and plentiful, and the air bracing and invigorating, the best saddle animals known to the cavalry are raised. Heretofore the be- lief has been that Kentucky was the nutriticus home of the only thorough- bred; and, in-a measure, this continues to be true. a rival. Of late years, too, this indus- try has thrived throughout the coun- try as never before. Prices, also, have more than trebled. It was not so leng ago that a good roadster could be had for $100. Now the figure is from $250 to $400. genuine But now Virginia becomes The author of “The Cossacks,” of “War and Peace,” and of “Anna Kare- nina” is secure of fame. He is one of the glories of Russian literature, which he did more than any other writer to make a living force in the literature of the world, Philadelphia Ledger. There had been Gogol befcre him, but “Dead Souls” is tco narrowly Ru tan; and there had been ian to be cosmopoli- Turgenieff, wut ke was too cosmopolitan to be dis- and his influence tinc.ively Ru was di Istoy, in- tensely Ru intensely buman, and his w depth and thi strength, a searching truthfulness, a ss of pt: icn and a certain- n that modern fi largene ecmed to ty of artistic open a new He cha method, that has been some way showr tion. in cle outlook and its important novel i has in I have looked on marble mansions Crowned with ijrrels, and with domes: I have reveled in the be ty Of earth's rare palati But not one of these With a glery tl at s Like that dear old hom f My fair palace of the past. of the I dwell in grande never K th was hearth And in arms of love dowered with rici For affections were th palace of the pe What a ] Waited on™r Clad each one Richer robes lov $ than princes wear! A PALACE OF THE PAST. > And one fa © For-my —Louis M. How those hands would haste to help me, And those feet would follow fast To supply each childish craving In my palace of the past! And those faces that bent o'er me In that happy home once mine gleam like stars at midnight, rever shall they shine! as touched all those “that ‘linger And o’er some death’s veil .is.cast, But to me they are immortal In my palace of the .pastd: > above all othéPs< peerless str. 1C 1 mother Of my palace Oo oy haunt y thou than recollections ho! y art! os that: mhnsion: be surpassed, 1 transfigt: red, vace, of the pastl- = Waterman, in Christian Herald. Whit rt iriss Abode Abo: ee ee H 1 i Between Bears and Bees : i Bot. oi, a 2 i JC 2 a 2 J PITH bebbbl itt Eb iv Hei r. H. is one of the most successful mining men in California. It seems odd to some that a man of his wealth and influence should lecok back to the poverty and hardships of a prospzacter’s life and say, sometimes a little wist- fully, “Those were gcod old days.” Like most men who have long roam- ed the mountains and deserts, he is an extremely interesting talker. Some years ago, when he came to visit a son who was a classmate of mine at Stan- ford Universitly, I had the pleasure of meeting him. The following is his account of an experience with bees and bears. : I have what is sometimes called a “sweet tooth.” About my only extrava- gance is to buy a dime’s worth of choe- olates occasionally, and eat them at one sitting. This fondness for sweets once made a bear family and a colony of bees and me a great deal of trouble. When I was working a prospect in Shasta county I ran out of sugar. One day, after I had lived several weeks on the plainest of camp fare minus sweet- ening, I discovered a bee cave in a canyon wall that overhangs Pitt river. I at once lost all interest in mining, and hurrying to my camp, worked all afternoon and evening on a bee-smok- er. The finished product. was crude to look at; but when I considered that it was made of a rubber-boot top, a piece of “whang leather,” a couple of shakes and an oyster can with a hole in the bottom, and, moreover, that it worked perfectly, I was very well satisfied. Some people sulphur bees, thus de- stroying every membws of a colony to get their store; but I had learned from an old apiarist that by means of a bee- smoker lcaded with burning cloth, one could render them tco stupid tc sting without deing them injury. Early the next morning I set out af- ter honey. The cave opsned about ten feet from the top of the cliff. A stout juniper-tree afforded safe anchor- age for my rope, and made my descent an easy matter. The aperture, which was large enough to admit me in a half upright p on, went back into the cliff about five feet, to a couple of fissures. T es varied from a foot to a fcot an nd a half in width, and must have contained tens of hone being hung full frcm the humm the bowels of ihe Z So far things had worked ot so weil that I already saw myself return to camp with a couple or water buc full cf honey. Then the tide turr ‘When I began pumping smoke into o fissure, the. bees came boiling out cif the- other. 1 turned fhe bellows on them, and unsmoked re-eniorcemant came from the inner reccsses of the first fissure. They ‘were litile blaek rascals of the wild variely; and to save from being smothered | by: their swal ing on my veil, 1’ turned the bei upon myself, ‘held my breath could get out of the tunnel, then climb- ed my rope. . 1 poped up over cliff, and found myse big she zzly. Evidently emerged fromh the brush. both greatly surpr {eretofore my experienc had been limited to glimpse of cine clawing up the earth in frantic haste to escape the scent and sound of man. There were a doz- en bees under my veil, as many more were burrow in my hair, and 1 awaited the be plunge for the brush with some impatience. Then a fat, saucy cub came rollicking cut from the brush, and the mother, with the stern glint of maternal duty in her eye, made a lunge forward. I retired. I went back to the un- friendly bees. The smoker was lying where I had let it fall, and I grabbed it up and worked the shake handles back forth until punctur 1 volur ing was worltl When I ventured was re pretiy that the a > stream of good air at the ) the cave. The moment I got n breath, I reicaded my mag with rags and pun ped | SMG To into both of those fissures until the wrathful hum of the occupants be- came a low, drawsy murmur, ~ Then I went to the entrance ‘of the cave, cleared my lungs of burnt rag fumes, and reconnoitered the: bear fam- ily. Fortunate it was that with me bee stings cause little cr no swelling, or I should have had no eyesight.for re- connoitering. . There was no trouble in locating the bears. The old grizzly was peering over the edge of the cliff, about fifteen feet from the juniper tree to which I had tied my rope. Apparently she was planning a descent upon me, but did not like the looks of the smoke pouring out of the mouth of my re- treat. The cub was sItting near by, staring solemnly down into the chasm. I new noticed for .the first time that just below Mother Bruin there Were some irregularities running along the slanting face of the cliff, ‘which gave evidence of having been used by bears as footholds in gaining access to the cavern. I had a light trowbar with me, and I took the tool, and knocked off some knobs, which, by their claw-warn surfaces, gave evi- dence of having aided generations of bears in entering “the bees storehouse. By hanging on to my rope with one hand and using the bar as a club, I managed to clear the eliff of - projec- tions for a distance of six fest from the mouth of the cave. : . While I was doing this, Mether Bruin stalked back and forth just above me, eyeing my operations belligerently. The little fellow interested himself with the movements of the rope as it twitched convulsively under the shift- ing strain of nly weight, whereupon his wise mother removed him from possi- ble harm by a rough clout over the head that rolled bim over ahd over, and made him whimper mournfully. The cub was a comical mixture of gravity and mischief, and I touk a lik- ing to him from the first. As a finishing touch in making dan- gerous the trail-of the bears, I im- ed a swab by tying one of the udge rags to the end of my crow- r, and with tl is implement smeared ocacn, wi ih a slippery coat of I thought this nius, and. was ny work w a grin of satis- when the bear, obviously { wn oir by the sight and smell of ihe sweets, hurried to the end of the trail and began to descend. My face straightened out with a jerk. Like many a complacent theorist before me, I found myself filled with alarm at the prospect of my scheme being subjected to a practical test. 1 suddenly remembered that I knew lit- tle as to the clinging capacities of the iid family, and was not at all sure L the grizzly, could not reseh me. gd moment later, when I saw the nim- bleness with which she advanced along 1 the cliff, I became quite id enter the eave on trying moment for d, as I tore off the sticky 1 the end cof the crow- finsrs were ail in a. flut- ed in a few seconds, awaited the aphrowch of r in hand, with a.consider- : , but with Iit- 1 for a hand-to-hand fight izzly on the face of . that ASE arently the bear aia not approve of the piace as a site for a battle-field either; for just at this time, to my zreat relief, she halted, and seemed in more than half a mind to back, out. After a few moments she began mov- ing forward again, although more slowly and warily. S She was seemingly drawn on quite as much by the sight and smell of the Loney as by the desire to exterminate me. Reaching the ‘‘greased” approach, stopped and bezan lapping greed- at the crushed honeycomb. She the ho that was evident; t the feast annoyed di right with ner feel a little fo ; But in a few minutes it came out after all, the laugh was on t She became very Lusy . Tr mse to and wor- ried in search for a knob on which to rest her forefoot, and a little later de- cided that she red advance no far- ther. another, a very sour-visaged, disgrun- tled grizzly. I could have laughed her to scorn, but decided to postpone this until 1 was safe within the four walls of my cabin. All this time the cub had been squat- ting above us, watching his mother lapping honey, his jowls dripping sa- liva. I have a sweet tooth myself, and holding nothing against the youngster for. being the son of such a cross- ggained brute of a parent, I tossed him up; three slabs of honeycomb, each aliout the size of a home- Tiade pump- kin pie. ‘A little later his joyful, honey- smeared countenance reappeared over the. cliff. But this time he found me aey. I was working out a deep design against his mother. “Below the sharply slanting cliff, algng which the bears for generations Had worked their way to the cave, the cliff cut inward, leaving a sheer de- scent of nearly a hundred feet into one of the tank-like pools of Pitt Riv- With dark intentions against Moth- er. Bruiun’s footing, I tossed her a piece of héneycomb, as I thought, well be- yond her reach. But instead of mak- ing a headlong dive for it, as I had hoped, she carefully readjusted her footing, and reaching far over with her paw, hooked in the dainty morsel and devoured it with great gusto. I threw her another piece somewhat far- ther from her, but this, she decided, after several cautious trials, was not worth the candle. It was one of the pranks of my thoughtless boyhood to poke old Tige's bone with a long stick, and laugh to see the faithful, friendly old fellow bristle and snarl like a mad hyena. Re- fiecting that the untutored and violent grizzly might likewise forget herself, I threw a chunk of comb within easy reach of her and prodded it with the bar. io I hope never again to witness such an. overboiling of malignity, ..t any rate, not as such close range. The brute’s demonstration left me with a shaky feeling about the knees and no "desire for further experimentation. It instantly occurred to me, however, that I was treed, to all intents and pur- poses, and that after my smudge rags gave out, the bees would question my intentions of becoming a steady board- er. “This thought revived my courage. 1 tossed as generous slab of honeycomb on top of the piece she had considered not worth the candle, and with uplifted bar and taunting shout, made as if to drive her back. For a moment she stood dodging at my feints and snarl- ing terribly; them, with blazing eyes fixed on the morsel, she dared too far, her front feet slipped, and over she went. 1 had always thought that bears had thé faculty of landing on their feet like a cat, and maybe they do; but this bear hit the water flat on her back, mak- ing a hole in the river that would have held a small cabin For a man it would have been a half- day’s journey from the spot where she landed and disappeared in the brush to where the cub was at the top of the cliff. But fearing that the moth- er grizzly would return by some short cut, I delayed my departure only long enough to fill one of my huckets with honey: - Abandoning all the rest of my outfit, I climbed up, to the top of the cliff, said good-by to the cub, and set off for canip on a swinging trol— Youth’s Companion. IN KANSAS. HOG HEAVEN Alfalfa, on 750,000 of Her Acres, Tempis Porker, and Enriches Owner. “An alfalfa ficld is said to be a hog’s idea of heaven.” So says F. D. Co- burn, secretary of the Kansas Depart- ment of Agriculture, in a burst of lyrie rapture. Mr. Coburn has won national fame for the glamor of poesy he has cast about some seemingly pro- saic facts ef rural indusiry, and his muse has never had a more gracious theme than the royal vegetable that has so far surpassed the man who made two blades of grass grow where one grew before thai it makes two hogs grow where before there was none. Although the farmers of Cali- fornia knew thiryt years ago of the magic possibilities of alfalfa, the great plains are making up for. their later start by their present zeal. Kansas is now the first of all the states in its production. Within her borders 750,000 acres .of sun-kissed alfalfa tempt the smiling hog. Prosperity hung up ker hat and settled down to stay about the time wien Kansas farmers began to show a proper ap- preciation of this divine plant. Al- falfa supplies an apparent oversight a Providence by furnishing just the elements that other feodstuffs lack, and fo it puts a solid foundation un- der the dairy interests of Kansas. It is far superior to red clover as a soil restorer, gives two or three times as much hay per acre, and its seed is often worth more than the hay. It is “a meatmalker, milkmaker and money- maker.” It enriches not only the land, but the grower as well. “It makes oor land good, and good land better.” “It is the preserver and the cunserver cf the homestead. It does not fail from old age. it loves the sunshine, converting the sunbeams into gold coin in the pockets of the thrifty hus- bandman. Thus is answered the old question: “What is the matter with Kansas?” Since the advent of alfalfa there has been noth the matter with Kansas. Jollier’s Weekly. = And 2 Bite. e mosquitces.” you don’t.” trving to take a ald. am Age-Her- § NEW IBUTENANT YORK PRIZE POLICE STEED CORBETT MOUNTED ON THE FINEST POLICE HORSE IN THE CITY. Me aking a a : Lawn Swing. Where there are no trees suitable for attaching a swing rope, ah arti- ficial arrangement must be made use of, if the children are to enjoy the delights of a swing. Not only are strong points for the attachment of -—om— yn semen cena, : - ot ar a or - —— =~. ~s a - ° arvas Sse *°) oo “~s es Framework of wing 2. the rope necessary, but shade for the swing is also needed, sinee its use il be in the hot weather of the summe [n absence of suitable trees, then we can erect some such framework as that shown in Fig. 1, the four posts of which are firmly set in the ground, explains Farm and Home. These posts should be four by four inches, with cross pieces and braces three by four. The height may be ten feet, or even twelve, above ground. The width and length can, of course, be what anyone may choose. In any case both length and width should be well proportioned to the height to make the whole look well. To make a roof covering for this frame, bend three thin strips of ash The Swing Completed. or other pliant wood and secure them in the places shown by the dotted lines, running a cross piece of the same along the ridge, as suggested, to hold the whole firmly in place. It remains now oaly to cover ‘the top with an awning, as shown in Fig. 2, to make the whole complete. Thus will be provided not only a shady swinging place, but when the rope is thrown up out of the way, there will be a shady spot to which easy chairs may be brought from the house for the use of the “grown-ups,” while the children will find it a comfortable place for play of other kinds when encugh of swinging has been had. Could Not Plead. Lugi Pina, a prizoner at Bow street Police Cout, London, surprised the presiding magistrate by saying that his criginal intention was to plead ‘not guilty,” “but,” he said, ‘when I heard the prosecutor swear on the Bible that the purse contained £16, I felt bound to tell the truth and say there was only £9. >? T Mik For + China, England sends to China every year 6,000,000 pounds of condensed milk and 5,000,000 pounds of biscuits. Holder For BRiufls. Up to the present time no pro- vision has been made for properly caring for women’s muffs. It is im- possible to support them on the hooks on the hat rack, and generally they are allowed to lie on the table, to the detriment of the fur. To show that they can be very easily cared for a Boston man has designed the simple muffholder shown here. This holder has a frame of wire, the lower wire being movable. The muff is placed in the holder by detaching the end of the lower rod and slipping it through the opening of the muff. The hook is then slipped inte position and the holder suspended in a con- venient place by means of the hook at the top.—Washington Star. Marvelous tric Iaiiroa Genoa and ilan are to bz con- nected by a marvelous clectric ra road, eighty-five miles in Jongh, which is to cost $47.050,00 The excessive cost of it is ait to the nature of the country through which the line will pass. It will i nineteen tunnels, ons of whic be twelve miles long. There will 1 372 bridges and Lhe road will be six years in the course of construct ‘The cost of the line cons trustion alone will be $500,000 per mils. The line will be double tracked and i will be no grade crossings. T will consist of three cars, cac commodating fifty persons. posed to run twenty trains a day, ad it is estimated that the daily irpific will be 6000 passeng complete schedule has i to take care cf the traffic as well as the section of the co . will be der ved power hyd: I- Largest block of marble ever quar- ried in the United ‘States. It was taken out of a quarry near Knox- ville, Tenn., and ‘contains 1060 cubic feet. T=Eatle Harris Tennessde, in Leslie’s Weckly al Frontier FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA. (R ine ing of ta SD mi We thi pri OW mt res aft els till bu: est tio liv. “or ne Cus cas ma VO!
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