Gray Wolves in Montana. The gray wolves are on the rampage In the northern part of Gallatin County, Montana. Already they have killed hundreds of calves and in some in stances have been known to attack steers and cows that became separated from the herd. They do far more dam age than the sneaking coyote, for the large wolves are much stronger, are more fleet, and when hungry they are courageous and take desperate chances. The gray wolf is the fiercest of his species, and many a man in the great woods of the East and North has been killed by them, says the Portland Ore gonian. A few days ago a fanner in the northern part of the county shut two large-sized colts in a corral whilo he took his team to a field. When he came back after the colts a few hours later he found both had been killed by the wolves. Another stockman, while riding over the hills, came across two large steers that had been carying on an unequal light with wolves. The two steers were surrounded by a num ber of big gray creatures and several coyotes, which had been running the cattle about. The steers were badly bitten and they wero nearly exhausted with the unequal stniggle. At the ap pearance of the stockman the wolves and coyotes slunk away. When the winter finally sets in and it becomes a difficult matter for them to get a culf or a sheep, the stockmen fear that these wolves will become desperate. They will then go in bands and will undoubtedly attack almost anything that might furnish them a meal. THE average man knows just enough about whist to be abused by his part ner when he gets into a game. MY BLOOD Beramo overheated, causing pimples nil over m©v developing into lnrge and Dreadful Mrs. Caroline 11. Fuller Londonderry, Vt. Running Sores, the worst on my ankle. I could not atep. Soon after I began to take Hood's Sarsaparilln, the sores healed, and two bottles entirely cured me and gave me renew ed strength and health. MRS. C. H. FULLER, Londonderry, Vermont. Remember Hood's*?®* Cures Hood's Pills cure all Liver Ills, Billiousuosa PN U 1 [lyn p?ARLY to bed, |C=I Early to rise, lifers —- at cakes made ot J/ buckwheat, Ir "i — T° be healthy and JT wise. BUCKWHEAT MAKES The Best Cakes. Always Light and Dainty. n DON'T BE FOOLED.. You want some KIPANH TABULES. Yonr druggist's supply is exhausted. He lias something Just as good." Why does he say this ? He thinks you a simpleton. He has a right to his opinion. liut to express it Ho plainly Is brash. His opinion may bo right, But bis statement Is not true. Tell him bo ! Get what you ask for. Or nothing 1 The "LINENK" are the Beat and Most Economl oal Collars and Cuffs worn; they are inada of fine cloth, both Hides finished alike, and being reversi ble, one collar Is etiual to two of any other kind. 7 lieu fit well, wear well and look well. A boxot Ten Collars or Fiverairsof Cuffs for Twenty-! iva A Sample Collar and Pair of Cuffs by mall for Bis Cents. Nauie style and size. Address REVERSIBLE COLLAR COMPANY, 17 Franklin Bt.. New York. 27 Kllby St., Boston. A HAPPY NEW YEAR^r.riJ'WX'Sa: ofPanatus." All the fresh fragrance of Springtime nnd Sunny Youth movenutl miuule lu-thls happy waltz; u prc-nt that will charm the memory. Sam ple topic C.ood Salary to Representatives. McKenua i ., Publishers, JO \\. HiOth St.. New York. UfAII QT NF.WH LETTER of value aenc WALL vl • FR RE to readers of this paper. Ckaxlu A. M.ldwla* .._#.WtdUS.A X> MINING WHITE ? MARBLE. THE GREEN MOUNTAINS HONEY COMBED WITH QUARRIES. The Largest Opening In the World Is In Vermont—The Diamond Drill Revolutionized the Industry. VERMONT furnishes more than sixty per cent, of the marble used ,in the United States for building purposes, and almost all that goe3 into graveyards and ! public monuments, and tho greater per oont. of thoVermont mar ble comes from Rntland County. Tho man who first discovered the possibili ties of tho quarries in Rutland County traded an old horse for the property. Tho original [owner had beoomo dis gußted with the land, for nothing would grow on it, and he swapped a fortuno for a decrepit nag which was dear at 815. The gold craze of '49 urged men to risk their lives and en dure the greatest hardships to find the yellow metal, and tho marblo craze in Vermont which followed the discovory of the rich deposits of pure white marblo cansed men to pour money into boles and sink fortunes in tho ground. The Green Mountains are pock-marked with abandoned quarries, and the quest for the for tune which awaited a man at tho bot tom of a rich marble quarry sent prospectors into New Hampshire and all uloDg tho backbone of the Green Mountain State. Until the diamond drill was invented prospecting for marble was almost always a matter of 'guess-work. But tho faithful detcctivo which bores its way into tho earth's crust and brings back u piece of everything it touches placed marble-bunting in tho list of exact scienees. Tho diamond drill is a cylinder of steel which has black diamonds fixed in tho edge of its cut ting surface. The diamond-studded cylinder is driven into the earth or outcropping stone, and as it twists its way farther into the crust it cuts out a coro which enables the prospector to judge of the quality of tho marble, if the drill goes through marble, and tho extent of the deposit. Somotimes, however, the enthusiastic prospector and his moneyed men who are back of tho enterprise nro sadly fooled by tho diomond drill, for the drill might be bored in tho direction of tho layer and not through it. If the layer is thin, and the drill bored with tho grain, tho core might indicato a thiok deposit, and the truth would not be known thousands of dollars had been spent in opening tho quarry. Over 8100,000 has been expended in opening a quarry before a single dol lar's worth of marketable stono was takcu out. When all the tests show that the marblo is there, and enough of it to pay for tho working, tho top rock, usually of limestono, is first stripped off. Blasting powdor and dynamite ore employed in stripping the quarry, but the blasts aro small, and tho quarry men proceed carefully, for if the powder should penetrate tho marble it would do serious damage. When the top stone is cleared away and tho top layer of marblo is exposed, channeling machines similar to those which are ot work in the rook cut of the sanitary eanal uro sturted. They are worked by steam or compressed oir, and they travel back and forth, catting the marblo into tho widths required. Sometimes tho diamond borer, or quick-acting diamond drill, is used to slice np the marble. It makes holes near together, tho holes being con nected by webs of marble. These borers revolvo about 1500 times a minute and when the marble is not too hard work rapidly. When the channeling maoliinos, or diamond borers, have out the marble into sliees tho stone is cut away at oither end so that the quarrymen can get at the bottom of tho layers that have beon cut. Then steam-drills bore holes into the bottom of the layer from eight inches to a foot apart. Iron or steel wedges nro placed in these bot tom holes and driven in until the wholo block of marble is broken away from its bed nnd lifted up. Some times blocks or strips forty to sixty feet long aro thus cnt out of the solid rock. The huge block is divided into blocks of tho required size by boriug holes nnd breaking it with iron wedges. If slabs or tiles aro wanted tho smaller blocks are taken to the saw and sawed into strips. Several strips are sawed at once. The saw is made of steel strips without teeth. They ploy book and forth over the block and cat the stone by means of the sand and water which are continually fed under the metul strips. The marble quarries of Rutland lie in a valley and extend ever an area of only about half a mile square. The lovers uncovered vary in thickness from two to ton feet. In this limited space tho best marble is quarried, but marble is found over a largo extent of Vermont. Tho farther south from Rutland tho marblo is the coarser grained it is. On the other band, tbe marble found north of Rutland is finer-grained than the Rutland mar bles, but it is full of little cracks, so fine that they aro not noticed in the quarry, but when the marble cutter or sawyer takes the block and begins to work upon it it flies into bits and acts like a pieco of highly tempered steel which has been plunged into cold water when it is hot. Geologists say that in tho remoto ages Vermont was an arm of the sea, and that marble was made of tho remains of corals and shells which had been subjected to a great pressure and a high heat, and that the reason the marbles north of Rutland aro finer-grained and brittle is becauso the heat and pressure wero greatest there. Marble is quarried in New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Tennessee, Georgia and Vermont. Largo depos its arc said to exist in certain West era States, but they have notboen de veloped. The largest single quarry opening in the world is said to bo in Proctor, Vt. Vermonters uso machinory to com pete with Italy in quarrying marble. The beautiful marble of Carrara, Italy, is all quarried by band, but the Italian quarrymen take more risks, for they do not hesitate to use powder for blasting the marble itself. Tho powder penetrates the marble, and though it may not be noticed at first the black specks ore sure to come to the surface in a few years. Tho Tho Italian Government has triod to break the Italian stonecutters of this bad habit, but they persist in banging ou to primitive methods and doing what has been done in the 500 quar ries in the mountains around Carrara over sineo gunpowder was used for quarrying purposes. The Carrara quarrymen literally takes his lifo in his hands in many of tho quarries, for he often is swung over the side of the marble precipice and "chug-chugs" with his hand drill suspended in mid air. When this aerial quarryman has drilled his holes and loaded them with blasting powder, lio is pulled out of harm's way and the marblo block, ripped from its lofty bed by the blast, tumbles down tho mountain side, sometimes being shattered into frag ments. —Chicago Record. WISE WORDS. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant lnißery.—Gibbon. Next to love, sympathy is tho di vinest passion of tho human heart.— Burke. Tho generous heart should seorn a pleasure wliioh gives othors pain.— Thomson. With tho soul that evor felt tho sting of sorrow, sorrow is a sacred thing. —Cowper. Shame on thoso hearts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of anoth er's sorrow!—A. Hill. All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtuo is bnt distin guished selfishness.—Coleridge. More hopeful thau all wisdom or counsel is ono draught of simple hu , man pity that will not forsake us.— George Eliot. Ono of tho greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined, even entered into with sympathy.—L. E. Landon. Open your hearts to sympathy, but close them to despondoncy. Tho flower which opens to receive the light of day shuts against rain.— Beattie. To rejoieo in another's prosperity, is to givo oontent to your own lot; to mitigato another's grief, is to allevi ato or dispel your own.—Lyron Ed wards. Our sympathy is never very deep nnless founded on our own feelings. We pity, but we do not enter into tho grief which wo have never felt.—L. E. Landon. Te commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for monoy is external to a man's self, but ho who bostows com passion communicatee bis own soul.— Mountford. Sympathy wanting, all is wanting. Personal mugnetism is the conductor of tho sacred spurk that puts us in hu man communion, nnd gives us to com pany, conversation and ourselves.— A. B. Scott. No radiant pearl, which crested for tune wears, no gem, that twinkling hangs from beauty's ears, not the brightest stars, which night's blue aroa adorn, nor rising sun, that gilds the vernal morn, shino with such lustro as the toar that flows down vir tue's manly cheek for other's woos.— Darwin. Chinese Discipline. Admiral Lang, of the Chinese ser vice, tells how ono night ho returned to tho deck of tho Chinese warship Ting-Yuen and found it utterly de serted. The sentry's gun was lying against the bulwarks, but the sentry bimsell was invisible. The Admiral proceeded to the stateroom of Admiral Ting, who is now in command of the Chinese Navy, and found that worthy deeply engaged in a ganio of cards, bis partner being tho sentry. Rage leaped from the eyes of tho English officer, and, though ho did not say muoh, tho sentry thought it prudent to return to his duty. Then Admiral Lang "went straight" for his Celestial confrere, and asked whot his strange proceed ing meant. Admiral Ting took it very oalmly, and blandly explained that, all tho officers and men being away from the ship that night, lio felt lone some, and having no ono else with whom he could while away tho time pleasantly, he had sent his boy for tho sentry to play a quiet rubber, which tho entrance of Admiral Lang had interrupted.—New Orleans Pica yune. A Singular French Timepiece. The latest among these curious time pieoes is constructed as follows: A sunflower of silver protrudes from n white crystal vase, graceful, in shape and soberly decorated. The stalk is of brown gilt, the leaves green, tho petals yellow, and tho heurt of tho flower oxidized. Hour and minute marks are engraved around tho heart of this sunflower, which faces the looker-on. A lady-bird of spotted red enamclod gold apparently rests on tho flower, on tho line dividing the heart from tho petals. This pretty insect, which moves imperceptibly by means of a mechanism bidden within tho flower, shows tho time. Ry only closo inspection can ono deteot the time di visions on this original dial, which is granulated all over and is blnish blaek. As to tho hollow circular lino on which the lady-bird travels, it is completely invisible.— Cir cular. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIKS. INITIAL LETTERS. An easy way of patting largo initial letters on pillow-cases, pillow-sliams and towels is to uso white carnation braid to cover the stamped lines. The braid is so woven that when appliod it has much the effect of raised or padded embroidery. It Bhould bo wet and dried before using to prevent shrinking. It is applied to tho pat tern by sewing it "over and over." The same braid is very pretty when used to outline a pattern on the bor der of a tea-cloth, either on white or colored linen or denim.—New York Post. THE BREAKFAST OATMEAL. Mrs. Borer gives a succinct and simple formula that is infalliblo if carefully followed : Add four heaping tablespoonfuls oatmeal to ono quart of boiling water, add a teaspoonful of salt; mix, and put the whole in a double boiler. Fill the lower boiler with boiling water, stand the inside boiler in this, and boil rapidly twenty minutes, then push tho boiler to ono 1 side of tho range, and cook slowly over night. Tho oatmeal must not be stirred after the first mixing- it can not burn in a double boiler, unless the under boiler becomes dry—as the stirring makes the mush starchy or waxy, and also spoils its flavor. Oat meal mado after this receipt will be light, each grain separate, but swollen to thrco times its original size, and will have a delicious flavor. Turn it out carofully into tho dish, without j stirring or breaking tho grains.— American Cultivator. DUSTING. The ideal maid is tho maid who dusts properly. But whero do we find our ideals? Not in our own par lors, as a rule, but in parlors of other women, who do the dusting themselves. Tho careful housekeeper will have faded upholstery, dull woodwork and badly defaced carving unless she is willing to pay the price of eternal vig ilance. Sho must go over everything herself when sho has a now maid and insist on that worthy looking and listening attentively. Sho must give her a feather duster, soft silk old handkerchiefs for tho piuno and the polished mahogany, and cheesecloth duster for ordinary use. Tho marbles and ornaments must havo a separate duster from the furniture, and a largo soft piece of muslin cau be used to polish the picturo glasses with. A chamois and a littlo oil do for finish ing touches for tho mahogany and polished oak and a soft brush must bo ufied to penetrate tho crevices of carv ing. A whisk broom is also necessary for the upholstered furniture, and a cauo dust beater is well used twice a week.—New York Advertiser. THE SOURING OF MILK. A professor in tho Michigan Agri cultural Collego speaks of atmospheric microbes from tho foul air of stables getting into milk and causing it to "hour and spoil." This language im plies that the souring of milk must of necessity result from its contact with air that is impure. Instead of this tho souring is always tho result of contact of tho milk with tho oxygen of the atmosphere. Thero are always some inpurities in air, and these causo it to spoil, tho oxygen making this spoiling more rapid. If all impurities could be kept out of milk, it would sour without spoiling. But when milk is in contact with air no matter how pure it may seem, this is impos sible. Souring thus necessarily means that the milk will continue to ferment until it becomes rotten or spoiled. The Michigan professor, however, makes a mistako in suggesting the possibility of milking through tubes into close cans, in order to keop out the injurious microbes always found in tho air. Tho air always fills the open space in the cows' teats, and thus the milk even before it leaves them must havo some impurities. The only way to have milk entirely puro is to sterilize it by subjecting it to enough heat to destroy all injurious microbes. No caro in milking can ever entirely prevent their entrance into it. —Boa- ton Cultivator. RECIPES. Chocolate Cookies—One cup of but ter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, four eggs, one cup of grated chocolate, one-half t teaspoonful of sodn. Flour to roll thin. They aro better with age. Home Dabs—One cup of fine hominy boiled two hours in u quart of milk; while liotj add a little salt, two eggb well beaten, a piece of butter tho size of an egg. Drop from a spoon on u tin sheet, and bake a light brown. Salt Mackerel Broiled—Soak the mackerel for a whilo in lukewarm water ; take up and wipe dry. Dip in melted butter, then in beaten egg, and roll in bread crumbs. Broil and serve with lemon juice und parsley, or maitre d'hotel butter. St. Georgo Pudding—Ono cup each of raisins, suet and molasses; three cups of flour, ono teaspoonful each oi cloves and cinnamon, half a teaspoon ful of allspice, ono teaspoonful salera tus, two eggs. Boil or steam four hours. Servo with wino sauce. Busk—Melt half a pound of butter and mix it with two-thirds of a pint of milk, add Hour to make a thick batter and threo tablespoonfuls of yeast. Set the butter iu a warm place until light. Beat two eggs with half a pound of granulated sugar and work it into tho batter with the hand. Add a teaspoon ful each of Halt and cinnamon, and flour enough to make it sufficiently stiff to mould into cakes tho size of biscuit. Let them rise till a spongy lightness. Bake fifteen minutes iu a Uot oveu. You can make better food with ABSOLUTELY PURE Lighter, sweeter, more wholesome. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK, A Bond of Sympathy. I was in the saloon of a steamer on the west coast of Scotland last Christ mar. holidays, and there fell into con versation with a melancholy man, a brother Scot, sentimental, like all the race, and also, as presently appeared, lamentably drunk. "It's a sair warld this," said he. I said I though there wasn't much the matter with the world, as far as 1 knew it. "Aye. weel," he said, "but yo ken I'm a plumber, and it's aye a sair warld tae a plumber." I condoled with him, though secretly glad to hear that that perverse and evil race were thus af flicted. "And what's your trade?" he asked. I said 1 was a schoolmaster "Gie's yor hand," said he; "I'm fu' o' seempathy; we baith belang tae a puii despised calling."—London Spectator Wild Fire*. Tho devastation und suiToring causod by tho fl lines of tho wild pralrio and forest fires iu tho West, last summer, has a horrible oo ami $1 bottles, hut it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whoso name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, anil hieing wcl! informed, you Mill not accept any substitute if ottered. General Itulc. Among Baron Haussmann's recol lections of his earlier experience as a public administrator, is one of an in terview with Casimir-l'erier, grand father of tin; French President, not long before that much lamented statesman died, in 1882, of cholera. Young Haussmann had been making an offi cial tour of the district of Poitiers, and on his return to Paris was summoned before Casimir-Perier, who had recently become President of the Council. The young man had to answer a thousand questions, many of them ot a delicate nature—about the condition of political parties in the department, the possible influence of the adminis tration in the legislative elections, and : so on. In the course of the conversation j something was said about the wife of one of the prefects, whereupon young Haussmann spoke warmly of her do mestic virtues, with which lie had been greatly impressed. "Oh yes," said M. Casimir-Perier, "but she is too common a body for a town which contains so many well-bred and cultivated people." And he added, laughing: "I shall be obliged to establish, by the side of my cabinet, a marriage bureau for my functionaries. Look out for yourself I" But the wary statesman gave his youthful subodinate a practical hint about the diplomacy to be observed in the treatment of such themes. As IJaussmann had his hand upon the door, the President called him back. "By the way," said lie, "a young of ficer ought always to lintl the wives and daughters of deputies amiable and even pretty." That was all; but as Haussmann went down the stairs, he remembered to have spoken slightingly some time before of the wife of a certain deputy, who was as tiresome as she was ugly. He wondered, he says, how the Presi dent of the Council could have heard of the matter, but he accepted the re buke and laid to heart the lesson. His I.ove for Liquor. A Wllkesbarro U'a.) man, overcome by the craving for drink and having ex hausted all his resources for procuring more rum, emptied the ashes of tils wife's first husband out of a silver urn and sold that. W. L. Douglas SSlTiiWli FIT FOB AKINC. 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