“and. Cullen's Well riences common to 1 nothing that was un- rilenlariy attracted my been sleep Lhe bottom of : the | id | vemter. the ground wis hard as fron, $6 that no scent would le, and doubt. nd | loss the wolves were hungry. He was d | alone at sunset, his only Weapon a light mussie loading gun. { As he was returning from a long a but #s 1 have followed eying I recognized the yuces as a * of some survey, and > Msg nul dl at Congress Junction, af on aro Santa Fe. Prescott and for Prescott artived, met enjoying cigars after supper ng wy friend a history of ind incidentally mentioned 1 the bearing tree, when Bh interest greater than be bad Fou a Sotice signs of an old camp ad anywhere about there?” Rot more than 100 yards from 3 with enough water In their ; one night's dry camp and weeks search without find- : they give it up and went it he isin party who aq a tree, the other two were : tne Ta of pod # that the cook, accord: ‘bad ot with the sor rthing shoot what he 4, or to show his gold, fearing | of the party would rol ber the reason for the name, Some thirty years ago two teams | with provisions for Immbermen were | {chased by wolves on the clear, newly fortned ice. : ! { tired, the drivers staved in a pork bar- rel. and threw out the meat to thelr | oo fension or another the lake bad not J that the water was very shallow Hing | hastily dumped into it for safe-keep- {ine i the wolves, who were greatly lindered m | By their feet slipping on the glare ioe, {and arrived safely at their destioation. | deep at Pork Point, and although many writer was driven to take refuge in ia tree. by three wolves, not very far ‘| and his perch not very uncomfortable. greedy animal, the writer took out one { feet nway when the charge struck him, and the whining of the brute as be eantered away on three legs, was like ihe three sur ship Glencalrd, who have just arrived pres Fast, with a general enrgo and 8 crew | | enuntered fearful weather, Inaten. Wy in getting along the boon, which t] Tock found themseives in a hopeless | plight. They bad no clothiag, were | weak and exhausted, and there was po | being } County, “As the horses lecame puriters. The delay thus cansed enabled the ‘men to make the point, where for some yet frozen over. Ome of the men in- | there and the loads of barrels wera Thos Hghtened, the teams outstripped Unfortunately the water is onasoally | an attempt wis made, the barrels thus jettisoned. have never been re covered. It was some years later that the from the little storage enbin on the shore of Big Take. It was late in No | trip he had as ammunition only sbout two charges of powder, and & small goantity of fine, No. 8 shot. His tree was A good one for climbing purposes, Son after securing his position, two {he enemies trotted off, giving bili as though om the track of 8 Fheding it intolerable after a time | to be guyed In that manner, and fear. ing lest he sbould fall asleep and Jos ing lis befance fulfil the desire of the of his greatly treasured and finely ene graved gold sieeve inks, and carefully loaded 1t on top of 8 good allowances of | shot. “The wolf was only thirty or forty the eries of a whipped cur. Porty Duys on & Rook. A terrible tale of the sea hi told hy ‘sors of the crew of the 8t Soathsmpton, says the London Ex- The Glencaird salled from South Shields for San Francisco on May 1% of thirty-four bands, Aber crossing the equator she en. and was eventually driven ashore at thé soul aust end of Staten Island. The huge seas swept everything from the decks, and man after pian was washed into death on the rocks in sight of thelr "hi aniy hope of escape to those Yeft averiapped a rock. snd, although seve | eral attempted this all but three faled. The Glenesird soon broke un. and thom: who remained on board perished, | | dosblet.™ similar to vepeering in woodwork. A The three men who bad resched the sign of any human habitation. For forty days they existed thon, liv. I reaweed and mussels. They liad given themselves up for loat when | they were found by same men from a “hither they were conveyed, and : moat. hospitably nursed throath a ong | nod. trying tiiness, and eventually they were sent hottie by the Argectine an | thoritien. : Engineer Saves His Trats. The Southwestern Limited, the fast. ot passenger train ou the Big Four systivm, was miraculously saved from wrecked near Kansas, Edgar Engineer Wiillam White was | pulling eight coaches, heavily laden | with holiday passengers. at the rate of | sixty miles an hour. Coming down a | grade near Adin Baber's stock farm, | x fo the engineer saw a herd of 200 cattle “f being driven over the track. It was too late to stop. With remarkable | Li presence of mind White pulled the | Is a5 a starter. Be conld gO to oe ae eat you & frhrad continued. “they d probably let you in on it. if Fou em the lost camp. st hills for tampa rin wha $5, ‘and 1 would greatly lke ir If he made the his oo gtation... *] the niddle, killing ten of the aaimals. | 30 | kept it on the track. throttle wide open. and going at terrific | spied, the engloe struck the herd in The engine pilot and coach steps were torn off the train, but its great speed Miraculous Escape in Wreek. In the Ontario and Western's disas | | { trons wreck near Starlight NX. ¥ » when | ri four mien were killed and ap engine | amd forty-four loaded cars of coal wer | derailed and fung down an embank. i ment, Wiliam Sawyer. a thirteen year. old tramp, had a narrow escape from | death. He was riding on ihe rear end | of tle tender, and was almost asleep | when he was aroused suddenly y the | SS Ewaling motion of the train as the an. gine dashed down the mountain. The | tender was whirled far out snd the | boys bold was broken. He was flung about Afty feet, bot tn sone mirncalouy | manper escaped Injury, Tons of eval from the wrecked cars were plled up belitnd and slmost aver him. SAA A Aer Sn A Texas Fiver Plant. A Bber plant, closely allied to the | Mexican thistle or Tampico plant, has! been found growling to great abundance | over a large portion of the arid belt) 1 Hinly w Drove ot great value, 5 an artificial base, i shot, { genuine ones, | lately fries for In Texas, which, in view of the great | { quantity of fiber of other species ol ‘j agate Imported into this country, ls | SMALL RUBIES FUSED BY steric) TY INTO ONE STONE. An Ingenious Frenchman Whe Can Make a Big Ruby Out of Seversi—Some of | courge, the most noticeable features the Cleverest Work Is Done in Imi tating Pearls. Something of real present interest to dealers and the public alike ia the | snecess which has been achieved the manufacture of rubles. While the ‘diamond is the commonly accepted synonym for value (n a precious stone, the ruby, which meets the proper ne quirements, is much mors valuable - When possessing the real pigeon blood color evenly distributed and without Baw, the ruby is worth from three to ten timds as much per karat as the diamond. This stone, therefore, the favorite target for imitation in as before stated, it is in making rables that the greatest skill has been shown. Electricity has dope much for this art. A Frenchman—his identity Is a secret to the world, and as yet he Is known only by his works—has learned to melt ap small rubies, or fragments of robles, and fuse them into one stems The} product is not an imitation. It has all the chemical and physical proper ties of the real thing. It is as hard, has the same specific gravity and I genuinely beantiful im color, But. say the jewelers, it is not gon nine. Buch a stone is known to the trade as a “reconstructed” ruby. None but the most expert can distinguish it from the so-called real one The con- aoisseur will admit that he distin. guishes it by the absence of flaws | rather than by the presence of defects. | A reconstructed ruby is apt to be fw | i perfect. ti deer, The other, a very large. gaunt, ovil disposed brate, sat down, and with | tongae Jolling out, waited fur supper ra 1 to ome down. to share his quarters un-| This reconstructed aby appeared | on the market atont eighteen fionths ago. All came from one source, a wealthy idealer In Paris. At first the stays were In great demand, and sold for £100 a karat: but as the public grad: anlly Jearaed that the stone was the combined result of the work of native and of man, the demand fell off. The buyer felt that the stone, made np of fragments fosed in an electrle furnace, was not just the sume as the one taken from the earth. oven though the lntler might have more awa, and, unless de. ceived by the desler, be would not pay as wach for it In consequence the price has dropped to $50 a karat, The emerald ix another stone which | x cleverly imitated. A perfect etnerild Is the ravest thing in the world. It is sharacterintic of the emerald to be flawed, and all good imitations cone taln artificial flaws. A flawless en erald I» immediately an oliject of sus. picion., The only ones in eXistetice have been obtained by cutting away | {the greater part of sotse large and : beautiful stone, leaving only the small part free from defect. This In a very extravagant method, since It fs the tolor by which the etiorald In fudgad. The few fawiesy emeralix in exist ence ave Bald at fabulous prices. The color most be a deep rich green. Ime '} the surging sea. some being (sued to | tations are made by chemical pro- cesses, and a good Imitation is nearly as valuable as the real. The paste of which they are made is bhardensd hy beat until it will stand the so-called (fle test—tBhat du ft will not be scratched by a bard English file made for the purposes. Another Imitation is known as the It is made by a process thin layer of real stone Is cemented on This method, which is practiced In France, is also employed to makes imitation sapphires and ra hies. The very cheap imitations are made of glass Sone of the clevereat work Inc fame gedr] is in its sheen, and its face a: depends on sheen, size and color, The gooud artificial pear! i» now given all af these charseteristics to a degree { almost equal to the one made In the aliell of the oyster. Even the “nacre” which {8 the faild in the shell of the oyster which deposita the caleareous ‘layers of the pearl, has been repre duced chemically, and the pearls are put into 4 revolving eylinder and kept (rolling in the uaere until they take on the real coating. Fermerly the arth fcial pear! was Slown, but with all the sare possible this process left a smal aonb, which marked it as artificial. So pow they are dropped In a tower lke The price of pearls, as of other stones, varies in accordance with the demand of the hoor. Just now they {are very high and the best imitations will bring better prices than the poor upposid to be the most valuable, but very dune fresh water pearls have been found WB Tennessee and Wisconsin, The expert distinguishes the real fiom the artificial precios stone In varions ways. The fle test hag been {mentioned Dealers also have a little i pleve of 8 certain Kind of bard quarts which ix worked to a point, and which wil seated glasa and mest imitations, But the expert goes most on appear anoe. He learns to oak for certain characturistion of color and stractural make-up. He recognizes the #aws, Finally an expert will tell you be has an intpivton. Ir fa lke the feminine faculty of Ynowipng withonr alwars knowing the reasons why 86 Louls ¢ Globe-Diemocerat, Dredging Rivers For Gal 8 Dredaing rivers in gold bearing conn. gold bas hecoms a and dredges of and edpacity are rear in i dustry, | power being bulls cto dredge sixty Teet below the water Une and te reach sixty feet above it along the banks, Shap a bm a" Where Balsons Are Grown. Califorzia is the only ralsin growing State in the Union, | portant to the hotel man, bowever, Is fogs amd were long and broad. Now tively low cellings. other why the rooms are so small And | right renson. in tree surgery. or the methods of treat. | er comes pecessary to apply the kaife or | prunin ing if time the wound will probably be healthy Sgais Washingron Star. more enselvalble than that of Archi the problem stl absorbed him The Oriental pearl fs) i fur aot OF Ruow wosinderiul | “The evolution mn hotels during past few years has been Interesting” said Mr. Charles Logan, of New York, who Is In town for a few days. “Of are the extensive modern Improve ments, such as baths, washstands telephones, ete, in each room and the generally improved equipment of the buildings. A feature which Is not paticeable, but one which is very Im the deobonse in the size of the rooms Hotel rooms used to have high ceil they are mostly small, with comparg. “Bometimes [ haar guo~is ask each nowadays, and they seldom hit on the of erecting and operating a hotel is much greater than formerly, while the extent of the patronage is about the same. It ix pecessary to make the rooms small In order that the same space may bring bigger returns. “Take one big room which used to produce, say, £3 a day, and it is now cut in two, so as to make the same space produce 38 of $5 a day. Take the case of your pew hotel just fin- ished bere. The hotel which used to occupy its site contained about 180 rooms. The new one contains 250 rooms, but look at the difference in| the cost of the two hotels and in the of maintiining and operating them. ‘A hotel that gsed to cost $200. 000 now costs $1,000,000.” Washing- ton Powe. Proxress i» Pros Surgery. ; While surgery as applied to man has made great strides in rocent years, thers has also been very great progress A GA Lr RA AS trees and shrubbery when ft be. shears. Many a tree Is liv ay that would have died a fow | geara ago from causes that would have brought on death, but which today | are successfully treated. An lostance | of this progress can be seen in the Simon Cameron tree, as the spreading | elm near the footpath leading from | | New Jersey avenue to the south wing | of the Capitol Is called. The tree re ceived the name by which It ix uni versally Koown now when the eller Olmstead laid out the Capite’ grounds, | and provided for a footpath which, would have siade Decessary the re. moval of the stately old «lm that wns | so greatly admired by Senator Shen | Cameron. Mr. Cameron interested him. | golf in saving the tres with the result | that it was allowed to stand In the fuente of 4 space that would otherwise | have Leen coverad with = granolithic | walk. The tree fSonrished vail a year | or #0 ago, when an amputation besame | neccesary. Ones of its Big mbes show. ug signs of decay. was cut off. The operation was suitcessfol enough, hat the wound belong left open, in the rourse of time decay set in. The de | cay was working Into the very vitals of the om, and would have killed It ina few years but recourse Was taken ia an operation that ix now very fre. quently appiiad in tree surgery, The decayed portion was seraped off, and a cover of asphaltum was placed over it { arrest further decay. The tree ia} now as well off ss would be a man with a Hob amputated apd properiy dressed with antiseptioxs. In the course healed and the tree will be perfectly Ths Ane Anined LE was entrance when the Columbia professor cate along, engossad ing problem weds and Ris alloyed gold erown “Minter,” #id the beggar, “i yer plaise, kin yer belp 8 poor man to a cup of coffee’ 1 ain't had vothin’ to ate for a day.” : The professor looked at the man, ting Hea pulled our a gurrter and looked at it | “That's all I've pot, my man Can | you give nue change for ity” : “Yiu, Sir, I think I Kin” and then be started. “Here you are, Bin” said the beggar, Banding the profissor two dimes and # nickel The profegscr took the change, but | returned the nickel { “This fur you and much oliliged.” be | sad, i “Thank you, Sir!" responded the beg. | gar. And then the two absentaninded ones eguh pursasd bis way.«-New York Times. The Judge Attempt to Get a Cook. The wife of one of the meinbers of the bead judicwmry baa sensidernbie diffeulty in keeping servauts, and the other day she dismissed three Inn baseh. The Judge was rather annoyed | at the copsequent nek of service in| its Begsehold, apd annsunesd that therepalive be hosel? wold engage the servants, amd then perhaps things | wonld go more smessthiy. 80 he cut ois a aomiber of advertisements from the “sitgations want!” colnmu of a sew spanner. aml siarred ont In his eal to visit We various adar vi, Hig | frst stop was in front of adits house na prtow streel Ff 1owhich & ccok bad advertised, Fi saw hier and was faverably mpressed, “1 am looking 8 “Sarre, anti soiled the cool. | “Of anly eft your house yestidday © | The Judoe nade a hasty and undige aided retreat and devided to allow his wile to voptinige in ber direction in the housebeld dfairs~Philadeiplia | Revord. New South Wales has an agricultu ral college geand con” Be sald. TH Fs It is beenviap the cost | though most of the vitality send thelr meds down through it parting the plants, the lack of moisture, Foed ad eo in erence to ‘the : mew. #0 is to allow the Dew corr. te dry. It old corn ls gone, feed outs with the new doin, as the sew corn sometimes does harin when fed wo Hberally. AR Crops Have Sores Vales. All crops grown on a farm are vale. able for some purposs not be suitable for market, but may serve ax food for stock, thus liberating sonsthing mare valnalde to be soll There i» ove receptacle for all mn { terinls that cannot be utilized the | maviure heap. It ia Fr the mange heal that the refuse of the farm Is | distributed, to be harvested again I other forms. The Fat in the Milk, It fs not the fat (cream) in the milk thar causes iin incrense In cost for food, but the solide potiish nnd phosphates are in the skim | mill. The difference between the solids | #0 far as actual value is concerned. is but ibtle, as the skim milk oan be utilized on the farm to: and the fat, advantage. Fat in milk costs less in proportion to its market prices than aay other article produced on the farm. | When » Cow 4 Goes Pry. “Iioes any one believe & cow should | 0 dry two months before calving to get rest and to nourih calf? was 8 Cquention asked at a farmers’ just tute. One dpswer was: “1 hive some cows with Jersey cross, seven years old, thit bave not been dry in, four years, and gave thirty pounds of | milk & day right along: just as they came ba the quantity would shrink to ten or twelve pounds, and the ealt | apparently wis as strong as those fed | frome the other cows that bad gone! dry.” Apether was: “I have foond betior results by allowing a cow six or elght weeks’ reat bofore ealving than | to rush them. I have known sulnials Kept up continually, to give a phenom “nal record for one year and fall off the next” Flere ary two representa tive answers to this perplexing ques tion. Tet experiopes teach the better plan.~The Dairyman. Heeriasiand Mash Kio is by pressure, moel the sime 8g is required when ple crust 1s rolled with o rolling pin. farvaer, who has only on small dairy, the style of butter worker shown ip : the accompanying flvstration will ydve Rood satisfaction, oxy of construction. It consists of a long, hrge rolling pin, In the end of | which ls put an roy pin that. in turn, is tu : erably higher than the roller. Thus, by taking Bold of the handle at the other end, one can use it both as lever und roiling pin. The roller may be ronnd, ar sfx or elghtsided, just as It 8 pre! ferred; As ein be seen in the pleture, the ; butter worker is trigngunlar In shape, and ir shendd be about twenty to tween. by hur mehes wide, by three feet long. | Io pafng {tthe roller should be moved and pressed down hard, | right and lef More ar less practice will be required, of course, his, vonpled with returns — New York Tribuge mA Pall Plowing. The deener we can plow in the fall the Letter will the sail be! : for the crops 0” ¢ Bhallow plowing las Hx mivantages, and its place, but of the year, the following season. Wa down fo the subsoil some time fervility and plant food stay near the surface; thers Is much good wmwaterial that ually turned over with the plow, mast ger ax th #iitk, That Ir will save and strength way throngeh the tough, elastic soil Take some nds and examine pail below the frst Sew inches, It will be found so bard and compact that you eannot womler that phints refuse fs atinest a physica sequently. wo ve saolive roots sup. cares they wither ap amd die, What wir fre} ale craps with toed far down ig the sail fact, that they will never #0 deep, complished only the ehanienl comiid inl far Below {he surface. i aevomplishiient thoroughly, by milking HNN it ane will plow antl the thoroughly smashed and beokon to pleces, mad plow when pear fall and winter Lio not be afraid of subs Gin plowing Iwill «do the best of ads good, It will tear up soil that has not been touched, Bt may be, for centuries, If will sometimes revesl unexpected stovepuuses of fertility. American Cultivator. sduw deonly 2 « werd iw A crop miny Each snowflake ix a tiny "a : And Juny sparking ans ww : When with our dear old sill we catch the: And oid snowball hurtling fang Miter SERA desl an The nitrogimn, | Now, for the average nnd will be found | ied in 8 bole at the end of the! feanse, the sides of this belong consid | hut it should always diminisb | In size towmxd the cad farthest fio : , : the handle i standing on Park Row pear the bridge aed tO get way Ad ; gradually | winks down Delow the sell that 18 use We! i& to abtsin the Dest pee! Moll and sobssil may be turned aver, pulverized and broken ap. im the oBleet of plowing. the roots of plants Drowusing up their in pushing their this | Tad jr I inpossibitity. Con. | amt when dronght their feet bars in suffur fram This can be ae off the soll Copgens This in easy | pone Mra Ven Blumer-“Ths minister - preschied the most touching sermon [ ever hegrd.” | Von Blumer—“How much did he raise i" Judge. Boer Are ‘Worth Cultivating. : He-“What do you think about the microbes in kisses theory? 4 She (cheerfully "I've geard that we coukin't get along without certain kinds of microbes.’ ro Pack. A Bad Sigs, Jiffer-*] don't belleve that Stubbs writey Lis poems at all” Juff—*You dent?" tof Jiler--“ No: he pever offers to recite them.” =Detralt Free Press! She-*You wen claim to be the wit of tha earth?” : He (mildly)-"“But, my dear, we have never dented your claim to belug the pepper’—San Praneiseo Bulletin, Deckied to Stay. “Oh, George, what do you think bap pened to-day? “Ing you fing a 320 gold plece®™ i “Better than that! Our sew cook has sent for her trunk." —Detroit Free i ¢ The Vulnerable Polat. : i Perty.~"Pve made Pauline sorry tae she thiréw me over" © Guy-tIan what way? . : Perey "Why. I'm attentive now 8 girl five years younger than she Is” | ~Detrolt Free Preso. The Coming Vielter, Edpar—Alice, my mother is rather brusque in speech and manner” Allpe--0Oh, well, 1 don't cave how she treats me, but | do wish you would she trests cook” Detroit Free Press. A Britiimnt Conception. 4B by our ~Puck. "Twould Bs Too Many Conlis. oH Mra. Hiram Offen—~"Amd do you think you could do the cooking for the { family with a little help from me? Apphlieant—"No, ma'sm, i do notT™ Mrs Hiram Offen—"You don't ™ Applicant—“No, ma'am, but Om ware Of cud do it without auny belp from you "Philadelphia Press Nap-Comanittal, “Ira yon think the world is growing worse of hatter?’ “1 uhouldn't venture an opinion.” sald the man who makes po pretensions far a4 new hand to do extra’ work, nt enough of t | good Judgment, is sure te bring sats ; {ying to being a philosopher "One's ime pressions on that point are Hiely to depend largely on the kind of society | he bappeus to get into.”—Washiogton % KRtar. The Ren “1 suppose you realize that yon are pow al a oritical period in your ose reer,” said the friend “1 do," answered the new member of Congress. "1 am kept awake wonder ing which of the old, old stories the people who get up apecdotes are going to make me the hero of V-Washibgton Star, J Eiterary Sulijects. “Whom did vou discuss at your He erary club this afternoon, dear asked the lasband in the evening. “far me see,” murmured his wile, “Oh, yes [ refoomber now! Why, we | discussed that woman who recently | movil into the house across ihe street tron us aud Longfellow "—Ohie State Jouraal. A Ditculty of Language. “amy afraid,” ssid the eminent Chinaman, “thar our people are very Cue misunderstood” Nea" answered Miss Cayenne; “svhanpver 1 hear owe Chinese in cons versation § am reminded of the ovles hratid retnark thet language was given for the econceasiment of Though —— Washington Stan Sey Bravery. “11 takes a brave man to be a puyshk clan, sald the tHnorous person, “What makes you think so!” “ferme” “Rut we all hove to fight them” “Yes but the phssicinn is the ane who his to meet them face to face Wis der th microscope. 1 dun’t hesitates to minait that Ff 1 were to find a germ looking me squarely In the eye I should get stared and ron-Washington Star. caution her about being careful how The proper way of working butter
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers