FREELAND TRIBUNE. 1 PUB 1.1 SHED EVEHY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. rilOS. A. BTJOKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: Main Street above Centre. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $1 GO Six Months 7a Four Months 50 Two Months 25 Subscribers are requested to observe flic dato following the name on tho labels of their palters. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books in this office. For instance: Grover Cleveland 23June9T> Deans that Grover is paid up to June 28,185G, Keep the llKuree in advance of tho present dnto. Report promptly to this office when your paper In not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper Is discontinued, or collection will Re made in the manner provided by law. Dying anarchists arc very brave in their utterances—by cable. Insurance Fraud Holmes seems to have adopted a very bud policy indeed. A dispatch from Austin. Texas, says that a train robbery was looked for ; there but fulled to materialize. Per haps the reporters and detectives were j delayed somewhere. The authorities of Indian Territory complain tlisit they can not hire good Indian policemen to be shot at by the Cook gang for less than sls per mouth. It Is worth the m one v. The French government has (loco rated Kate Field for her eminent liter ary abilities. By some strange over sight it always overlooked Emerson, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whlttier, Holmes, Lowell and others of the lesser literary lights of this country. Tho Governinent of France lias he stowed upon Kate Field the decoration of officer of public instruction in recog nition of the service she has rendered to literature and art The honor is worthily bestowed. In all her public work, by pen, on platform and in socie ty, Miss Field has shown a large, acute ami judicious spirit which has helped dispel fogs, sober thoughtlessness, cor rect standards of Judgment and make her generation appreciate better all that is worth cherishing and promoting. The late Robert C. Wintlirop came near holding the position of our nation al orator. He officiated a greater num ber of times than any other American as speaker at patriotic events of nation al importance. He was called upon on such occasions a greater number o p times than either Daniel Webster or Edward Everett. lie was the orator of the day when the corner stone of tho Washington monument at Washington was laid in IN4S; lie was orator at the 250 th anniversary of tho landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Dec. 21, 1870; at the 100 th celebration of July 4 in Boston, 1870; at the unveiling of the bronze statue of Daniel Webster in Central Park, New York City, in 1.870; at the Bunker IHll celebration in 1881, and at the Yorktown 100 th anniversary Oct. 10, lssl. lie also delivered his oration on the completion of Washing ton monument in 1885, thirty-seven years after his oration when the corner stone was laid. I lis orations always were masterpieces of appropriate rhe toric and elevated patriotic thought. It must he evident to every educated and thoughtful Russian that Russia cannot continue to be the anomaly in Europe that she now constitutes and has for a century constituted. The grand dukes, who are tho natural coun selors of the new Czar and the new Czar himself seem to be agreed in that opinion and to he prepared to take steps to give It effect and to operate reforms In the Russian system. But they ig nore the fact that they themselves —the Czar and the grand dukes—are parts of the system that needs reforming. It is not to In- expected that they will eon sent to reform themselves out of exist enee, and if they did their consent would not convert Russia into a mod ern aiul constitutional country. All modern history shows us that it is by concess ons extorted from rulers, and not voluntarily made by them, that free government has been established. Bo fore the Government can represent the national will and reflect public opinion it is necessary that there should I> : > a national wl.'l and a public opinion. The only guaraiP.ee that we can have foi the permanency of a popular govern ment is that the people demand a share in the govern met. and insist upon hav ing it. Lnrecogizecl Language's. Young people ore prone to form lan guages for their own use; aud of 150 specimens of the kind published by the "Am T'r-quell," a German folk lore journal, a large portion are those of boys and girls; while others were col lected from thieves, peasants, and se cret. societies. For example, there Is "Medical Greek," used by medical stu dents; "Dog Latin." or the speech of a baby learning to talk; "Crane lan guage," used in Denmark; "Sa-la lan guage," used in China; "Robber lan guage." "B language,""l.angiiageof the Cat's Elbow," and so on. Many of them are tho ordinary language of the neighborhood, modified by the insertion of syllables, a plan which schoolboys often follow. A ease In point is the "Gibberish, or I log Latin, of American children;" for Instance, "Wlllus yoovus govus withusmeevus?" for "Will you go with me?" Others again are formed by replacing the letters of a word by others, as In the "Tilt language" of Texas, and the "Guitar language" of Hungary. LCVL'3 PARTING. "Farewell, farewell!" Wo breathe the word That tells us where our paths must part. Our breasts with deep distress are stirred, And fondest toars unbidden start. But though tho world shall roll betwoen, With boundless sens and mountains high, Though death itself shall intervene, Our hearts can never say "good-by.". We have so twinod tho sigh and song, Bo closely wreathed tho thorns and flow ers, That to our souls conjoined belong Tho shine and shadow or tho hours. So wedded wo in sight and sound, In dread an 1 dream, in earth an l sky— Each life lias so tho other bound. Our hearts can never siy, good-by." The happy fields, tho brooks, tho birds, The lilies white and ro3es rod, Ah ! they have listened to our words As from our eyes tho truth has sped. And now wo reach the moment whea Our heavy hearts in anguish sigh "Farewell until ws meet again!" But they can never sny "good-by." —Nixon Waterman. M 01)1) NEIGHBOR. ET CHARLES C. ABBOTT. /* \ HERE was a *\x I fHTN* strange silence lolrC everywhere, as is not uncommon in tho month of August, for now tho P r ° raiscl ? 0' summer have been mado good, and i * tho world is at rest. Not a leaf stirred, and, except tho plaintive note of some far-off bird, I could hear ouly my own footfalls. Tho trees and fields and shaded winding lane wero as I had seen them last, when darkness shut them in, but now, in tho early morning, it seemed as if tho sun had brought sad tidings. It has always appeared to me that August days aro days for retrospection, and that tho mind is supersensitive at such a time. It takes notice of thoso things which in the hurry aud clatter of Juno are overlooked. This is no more whim, aud on this occasion tho effect was to convince mo that something unusual had happened or was about to occur. It is not an uncommon experience. Premonitions aro too frequent to be lightly treated as mere coincidences. It was this clearly premonitory action that made the world seem to mo com pletely at rest. There are matter-of fact folks who would testily remark, "Dyspepsia;" there are people of ex cellent intentions who persistently blunder. I had heard of an oaken chest, with huge brass clamps, and to-day set out to find it. There was not a wagon to bo seen when I turned from the lano into tho township road, and so I had the dusty highway to my self, a furthering of my fancy. Even more lonely was tho wood-road into which I turned, and of late it had been so little used, it was as much the meeting-ground of bird-lifo as of hu manity. Everywhere it was shaded by cedars of great ago or by elms un der which the moss had grown since colonial days. Along this ancient way tho rambler has little to remind him of tho changes wrought in tho passing century. What few houses are passed iu tho course' of a long walk are old timo structures, and more than one has been abandoned. Tho reason was plain; tho land i 3 poor, and whatever inducements were held out to the orig inal settlers had not been continued to the fifth and sixth generations. Still, uot all the tract ha l reverted to forest. A little garden-plot about each of the cottages that wero occu pied was still lioid back, by spado and hoc, from tho encroachments of wild growth, and in tho last cottago to bo reached, surrounded by every feature of an old-fashioned garden, lived Silas Crabtrec. As a child I had feared him, and now I both disliked and ad mired him; why—as is so often the case—l could not tell. The man and his house wero not un like. The cottago was a long, low building, one and a half stories high. A window on each side of the door barely showed beneath tho projecting roof of a narrow porch extending the full length of tho front. There was a single step from the porch to the ground. From the roof projected two squat dormer windows. The shingles were darkened by long exposure, and patches of moss grew about the eaves. Silas was like this. Tho windows and door and long low steps recalled his eyes, nose and mouth, overtopped by low projecting brows and uukempt hair, that were well represented by the cottago roof with its moss and dormers. So far tho house aud its solitary inmate; but the open well with its long sweep, tho clump of li lacs, tho spreading beech with initiuls cut long years ago—these wero a poem. While tho day was yet young, I passed by, and Silas was sitting on the porch. Tho quiet of this month of day-dreams was unbroken. Tho catbird hopped about tho grass, but was mute ; a song-sparrow was perched ou the topmost twig of a dead quince busli, but did not sing; a troop of crows was passing overhead in perfect silence. Feeling more strongly than ever tho moodiness of the morning, I strove to break tho spell by shouting, with unnecessary emphasis: "Good morning, Uncle Silas." With a sud den start the old man looked up and stared wildly about him. Straight way the catbird chirped, the sparrow sang, and from over tho tree-tops came the welcome cawing of tho crows. Even a black cat came from tho house and rubbed its arched back against Silas's knees. Tho spell was broken, and tho old man growled (for he could not. talk as other men); "I'm glad you've come." "Ob, I was only passing by; were you asleep ?" "Slcepiu' or not, I was tliinkin' of you. Como in." Stepping rather ueluctantly into the yard, I sat down on tho floor of tho porch near Kilns—for ho did not offer to get rao a chair—and waited for him to speak. "As a boy," said Silas, in softer tones than I had ever heard before, "you had a grudge again* me, as your father had again' mine, and your graudpnp again' mine, and so on away back. It never showed much, that I know of, but the feelin' was there; and yet we started even, for mv folks came from England as long ago as vourn. I know now how it all camo about. It's down in some old papers in the desk that I'vo had a man come and go over. It's plain now why folks never 6et store by tho Crabtrees; but it's all right, and soon tho ground will bo cleared for something better than Crabtrees to grow on." "Why, what do you mean?" I asked, purposely interrupting tho old man, thinking he might bo merely working off the effects of too frequent pota tions—a no uncommon occurrence. "Can't you wait till you find out? I'vo had a man here, I say, who could do tho writin' and read tho old papers. That's enough for that. Now, it was this way. Away back, the old Crab troo of them days had n notion of tliinkin' for himself, and, foolish-like, sayin' what he thought. So tho Friends, as they call themselves, mado him write out why he did this and said that, but it went for nothin', and they turned him onto' meotin'. You'll find tho same in tho meetin' records as you will in there." And Silas pointed his thumb over his shouldor, towards tho house. Even this slight movement was mado with some effort; but it was evident that Silas had not been drinking. "Before all this happened," tho old man continued, after a long pause, "tho Crabtrees were all right. Away back, they wero looked at for their bhade aud shape and swect smcllin' blossoms and all that; but after tho racket, then it was only tho sour crab-apples that peoplo could see, aud this worked again' tho young folks and pulled 'em down. Perhaps you don't see what I'm drivin' at, but—" "Don't see!" I exclaimed: "Uncle Silas, you'ro a poet, a regular poet." "A what?" Silas asked, with a faint attempt at smiling. "You've called mo many a name in your day, like all the rest of 'em, but never that aforo this, that I know." "I mean to bo complimentarj'," I replied, but with somo confusiou, see ing, as I had often dono before, what mischief lurks iu ill-timed polysyl lable. * 4 Worse and worse, with your long words ; but let me do tho talkin'. My folks didn't clear out alter the fuss, as they ought 'a* done, but held on and worked their way, as they'd a right to do. Perhaps it was a bad thing they didn't go to church when they stopped goin' to ineetin'; I dou't know ; but they lost headway, with tho Quakers again' 'em. It soured, of course, the lirst of the Crabtrees, and tho later ones got a deal more gnarly and bit ter, till it come down to me, with lit tle more'n human shape; and now it's the end of us. There's no Crabtrees besides me, and I wanted to get things in shape, for there's some would like tho old cottage that ain't goin' to get it. I don't know that there's any more to tell you." And Silas looked out towards the road and into tho woods upon its other side. I kept my seat. I could not do otherwise. The Silas of to-day was not ho whom I had known in years past. Although there was no evidence of it in the old man's words, I was con vinced he had reference to mo as his heir; but what of that? Ho might chango his mind a dozen times, for ho was not so very, very old—not much, if any, over eighty ; and what, indeed, had ho to leave? Many minutes passod, and then, as I made a slight movement, merely to change my position, Silas spoke in tho same strangely softened voice. ".Don't go, don't go; there's ono thing more—" lie suddenly paused, and stared, with a wild look, directly at me. Tho silence was painful; his strange appearauco more so. In a moment the truth hashed across mc ; ho was dead. I was not surprised to learn, im mediately after tho funeral, that I had been left tho solo legateo of the man whose death I had witnessed; but it was not au altogether pleasaut discovery. I had icurned, too, that it was my own ancestor who ha:l been most active in tho senseless persecu tion, ami it was with no pleasure that I recalled the past as I took formal possession of tho cottago and its con tents, entering tho houso for tho first time in my life. To cross tho threshold was to step backward iuto colonial times. How true it is that it needs at leust u century to mellow a house and make it faintly comparablo to out-of-doors! The hall-way of tho Crabtreo cot tage was neither short nor narrow, but you got that impression from its low ceiling ami tho dark wooden walls, which time had almost blackened. Lifting a stout wooden latch, I passed into the living-room, with its ample open fireplace, long unused, for a little air-tight stove had done duty for both cooking and heating for many years. This was tho only inno vation ; all else was as when its lirst occupant had moved *into tho "new" house and given over tho log hut to other uses. The high-backed settle, tho quaint, claw-footed chairs, a home made tuble, with bread-trough under neath, seemed never to have been moved from their places since Silas's mother died. These made less im pression than would otherwise have I been the cuue, becuusc with them was tbo old desk to which Silas had re ferred. It was a bureau with fivo brass-handled drawers, and abovo them the desk proper, concealed by a heavy, sloping lid. Tho dark wood had still a tine polish, and tho lid was neatly ornamented with an inlaid star of holly wood. It, with the three plumed mirror on tho wall above it, was the eclipsing featuro of the room. All else, well enough in its way, seemed commonplace. Drawing a chair in front of tho desk, I sat down to explore it, but was bewildered at tho very outset. Lowering tho lid, tho many pigcen-holes, small drawers and inner apartment closed by a carved door, took me too much by surprise to let mo be methodical. Everywhero were old, stained papers and parchments, some so very old tho ink had faded from them ; but thero was no disorder. At last, knowing it was no time to dream, I drew out a bundle of papers from a pigeon-hole, and noticed in doing so that a strip of carved wood, which I had taken for ornament, slightly moved. It proved to be a long and very nar row drawer, and this again had a mora carefully hidden compartment in tho back, as a narrow lino iu tho wood showed. Peering into this, I'found a scrap of paper so long and closely folded that it fell apart, when opened; but tho writing was still distinct. It was as follows: "It is his Excellency's, General Howe's, express order, that no person shall injure Silas Crabtreo in his person or property." It was duly signed, countersigned, and dated December 9, 177(5. So Silas, tho great-grandfather, had been a Tory 1 I was prepared now for revelations of any kind. To look quietly over papers, one at a time, was too prosy an occupation, and tho suggestion that thero might be more secret drawers was followed until every nook and cranny had been laid bare, and there were many of them. Silas, in anticipation of just an occurrence as I have described, had placed a roll of papers so prominently in tho desk that 1 naturally took it up with a Serious purpose. The modern red tapo with which it was tied gave it an appearance of importance abovo tho others. These time-stained sheets contained his ancestor's version of tho trouble with his coreligionists, and I soon found is was most unpleasant reading. My own ancestor had beon an unrelenting persecutor, and, in tho name of religion, the cause of all tho Grabtree troubles; and now tho last of his raco had taken this strango revenge, tolling mo tho unwelcome story why his peoplo had beon no bodies of tho backwoods and my people dwellers in fat land. It was some satisfaction to know that tho two families were not related, but, reading on and on as fast as tho crude writing permitted decipherment, I learned that a marriage, generations ago, had been contemplated, and suc cessfully thwarted by tho father of tho would-bo bride. Nothing but ill came of it, and the rest we know. Tho wit of tho Crab trees had not quite died out, but smouldered like tho burning of damp wood, never receiving tho quickening of education, and ever struggling against tho curse of alcohol. It was a sad story ; too sad to con template, this dreamy August day. Closing tho desk, I sat by tho open fireplace, as if watching the blazing logs of midwinter. As silenc now in doors as out, aud every object about me suggesting myself as the cause of infinite trouble, I grow desperate, and, for more light, a bit of sunshine, throw open tho solid shutter of tho little south window. Tho bright yellow beams were magical. What a strange little window it was! Three of the eight small panes wero replaced by paper, and tho others wore all dimmed by decomposition that made tho glass prismatic. Through thorn no object could bo plainly soon. Every tree and bush was broken and distorted. Tho world was all askew as seen through the cracked and warped glass; as much gone wrong as in reality it had been to the Crab trees. Though not half explored, I went from tho house to the porch, that I might return from tho past to tho present. How hot and steamy were the far-off woods and the one single clearing in sight! The sizzling rattle of tho noontide cicada was the only sound. I gladly returned to the old fireplace, although it w%s mid-August, aud then to the desk, putting on some show of rationality, for Crabtreo's lawyer was expected. I even made a tiro in tho littlo stovo to warm tho lunch I had brought, aud, after an attempt at eating, awaited the man's coming, with pipe and cofleo. A rattle of wheels, a click of the rickety old gate's latch, and a knock at the dorr, quickly followed each other, and without cerenony the lawyer appeared. With a coolness, precision, aud dry-as-dust manner that soothed my frette I nerves, he proceeded to business, and did what littlo was to be done. Homo papers which ho had taken away ho returned ; aud then, his whole manner changing, he actually smiled, lit a cigar, filled with a true lazy man's twist tho single easy-ehair, and liauded mo a bit of paper, saying, "This Silas asked mo to hand to you, fearing it might bo over looked it' left in the desk." 1 took it with some distrust, but could not fathom its meaning. Tho characters had been printod by Silas aud tho words phonotically spelled. It was a puzzle, and I was in no humor to guess its meaning. "What is it, anyway?" I asked. ••That's •plain enough," tho lawyer repliod; "it reads, 'Do as you'd be done by.' " —Lippincott's Magazine. In Italy the Senate consists of princee of royal blood, and an unlimited num ber of members appointed by the King for life. In lb'JU thero were 355 mem bers. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Schnebilo, the new explosive, is composed chiefly of chlorado of pot ash. Hiram S. Maxim has already ex pended $85,009 upon his flying ma chine. Astronomers claim that there aro over 17,500,000 comets in tho solar system alone. A bat can absorb and digest in ono night three times the weight of its own body. Bats never have more than two littlo ones at a time. General Mercier, French Minister of War, has authorized tho use in tho French army of the recently dis covered anti-diphtheric serum. Tho width of tho Atlantic could bo roducod one-half by lowering its depth GSG4 feet. By lowering it three miles ono could walk from Newfoundland to Ireland. A scientist proves that typhoid and cholera bacilli or germs will live many weeks iu a vacuum, and can endure some fivo or more months of complete dryness. There are ten miles of pneumatic tubes in tho streets of Chicago. They aro used to deliver messages from tho telegraph offices and office of tho As sociated Press to tho newspapers and City Hall. Simultaneous photographs at points distant from each other have already yielded information as to tho height of meteors above tho earth's surface, this being shown to be from sixty-fivo to forty-fivo miles. According to Dr. Chalmers's re searches, tho mean duration of lifo at birth—based upon tho mortality ex perience of Glasgow during the ten years 1881-'9o—is 3G.4 yoars, 35.2 for males and 37.7 for females. Professor Agassiz indicates tho growth of reefs at Key We3t, Fla., at tho rate ot six inches in ono hundred years, and adds that if wo doubled that amount it would requiro seven thousand years to form tho reefs in that place, and hundreds of thousands of years for tho growth of Florida. Of tho hundred thousand plunts catalogued by botanists only one tenth part havo appreciable odors. Of fifty specimens ot' mignonncttc, that of our garden is the only scented one, and, of a hundred varieties of tho violet, only twelve havo tho exquisifco perfume that is so popular. In gen eral tho proportion of fragrant to odorless flowers is about ono per cent. Any one living exclusively on jiota toes would cousumo forty grammes of potash salts per day, which explains why we always require salt whenever wo eat potatoes. All vegetable foods aro rich in potash; and it is a fact that peoplo in tho country districts use more salt than tho inhabitants of towns and cities, whero more moat is eaten. In France tho country people use three times moro salt than the town people. Impromptu Maps. Tho "cat" and tho "pig" books, de signed to record people's impressions of those interesting animals (each per son to draw his own without being al lowed a glimpse of any ono elss's work), has an amusing companion in u geography sketch book. In this ono's friends nro to record, in a rapid, off-hand drawing, their best recollections of certain very fa miliar outlines, such as the coast of Massachusetts, or Italy, or England, or North America. To be even fairly correct is difficult and rare, if one is long past daily geography lessons. Tho five great lakes of North Amer ica is one of tho best tasks to sot, this to be drawn in outline with at least tho larger bays and connections indi cated, all to bo done without seeing, first, any other skotch or map. A cor rect map should accompany tho book for oasy reference anil comparison with the amateur work. Tho curiously vague, droll, mental maps that one's friends carry about with them, tbus revealed, aro funnier than even tho sea serpent's portraits in tho "sea ser pent His Album." I have known more than ono person to stop short at a mere M round O" for tho first lake which seemed to lead nowhere, tho other four having neither shape nor substance iu the puzzled artist's vision.—Washington Star. Submarine Torpedo. Seymour Allan, a resident of Syd ney, has invented a submarine torpedo boat, which, ho claims, is capable of sinking to any depth, aud of traveling rapidly under water without revealing its presence. A working model of tho boat was tried in th© public baths at Sydney, New South Wales, in the presence of tho Earl of Ilopetouu, tho governor, tho naval commandant, and a number of naval and military officers l . Tho experiments were a complete suc cess, the model rising, sinking, turn ing, reversing, or remaining stationary in obedience to the electrio current bv which it is worked. Tho inventor claims that a full-sized bout would bo j capable of remaining under water for three days. It would carry torpedoes on tho bow and stern decks.—Scien tific American. Dancing by the Mile. An average waltz takes ono over three-quarters of a mile, a square dance makes you cover half a mile, and a galop equals a good mile. Couut j up for yourself how much tho girl with a well-filled programmo traverses in an evening. Twenty dances is tho average, you know. Of these about twelves are walzes. Thero at once are niuo miles. Three galops aud sho has gone twelve miles. Fivo other dances at a half a milo apiece bring her to fifteen miles, to say nothing of the in termission stroll and tho trips to the dressing-room to renovate ono's gown and complexion.—Appleton l'ost. THE SAND UJLL CRANE. A GREAT GAME BIRD IN THB NORTHWEST. Shy nml Pugnacious, It Affords Mucli Sport to tho Hunters—An Ull - Table Delicacy, k TV ~T" 0 member of the feathered I \ kingdom is keener of 1 X. sight, scent or hearing C, than the sand-hill crane," said a New York sportsman whose rango is wide. "At rest this great bird stands four, and even five feet high, and in flight ho smites the air with wings eight feet in spread. In the newly settled prairie regions of th great Northwest, where he makes his home, he ranks in the estimation of sportsmen above tho wild goose and duck, not only in delighting the eye and heart of the hunter, but as n provider of a table delicacy unequaled in excellence by either duck or goose. "The visitor to those apparently boundless prairies, fringed with the wide farms of the pioneers, may well wonder how tho farmers manage to house even a small portion of their crops, for from tho time the wheat be gins to ripen until the corn is cut tho fields are not only constant prey for the cranes that come down upon them in countless thousands, but to the daily visitation of such myriads of wild geese and ducks as no hunter who has never visited these regions ever droamod of in his wildest imaginings. The sand hill crane is several minutes later than the geese, and, as tho early morning is the favorito and surest time for bagging this over shy and suspicious bird, the crane hunter must either resent all inclination to lay low the tempting goose or mallard or give up hope of getting a shot at the ex pected cranos. Tho single report of a gun between tho advent of tho wild geese and tho time tho cranes would appear will destroy tho sportsman's chances for a shot at tho long-legged game for that day. "Tho hunter either for sand hill cranes or wild geeso and ducks may always be euro of a warm welooino among the prairie farmers of tho Northwest. Thoy spend all their spare time themselves bauging away at the marauding birds and in devis ing ways and means of dispersing them, but the greody flcoK are so numerous and persistout in their raids that it would require a small army to keep them on the move. "When the corn is ripe and tho nights grow crisp and frosty, toward the end of October, sand hill crane shooting is most enjoyable. Along the edge of every cornfield thoro are always wide spaces where the long prairie grass has been mowed away. Tho dried grass 'lies in bunches, and with it tho hunter makes his blind, close to tho border of tho corn. The blind must bo made in a loopo and scraggly form, as if tho wind had tossed it there, for tho crano is the most suspicious of birds. "The cranes do not plump blindly and unconcernedly among the corn, us tho geese and ducks do, but alight on tho further edge of the mown spot, between tho field and tho prairie. From that vantage ground they re connoitre tho field, carrying their heads high in the air and advancing cautiously, step by step, toward the coveted corn. They seem instinct ively to keep as far apart from one another as they cau. Before tho days of repeating guns this peculiarity of the cranes kept the hunter in great suspense, oven after tho fiock or the advance portion of it had come with in easy range. He knew that two shots were all that ho could by any possibility get at the fiock, and ho was naturally anxious to make these two do tho best execution possible. "A prairie cornfield after a gun has been discharged in or near it in the early morning is a sight to see, and its sounds aro something to hear. For half a minute after the report tho field will be black with geeso and ducks and cranes rising in I'rightened flight from among tho stocks, the noise of their great wings being like rumbling thunder, and the various harsh cries making pandemonium of tho previous ly peaceful scene. "Frequently a sand hill crane will bo wounded so that he cannot riy, be ing otherwise uninjured. Away he will go over tho prairie, his long, slim legs carrying him at a surprisingly rapid rate, if the hunter has plenty of bottom and wants an exoiting cha so ami a livoly scrimmage at tho end of it he will follow the woundod crane. Ho will have to be a good sprinter if he overtakes tho big bird iu less than a quarter of a mile run. When ho does come up with the crane ho will find a fight waiting for him that will put him on his mettle. A wounded sand hill crane brought to bay is a fiery antagonist. It can uso its powerful six-iuch bill with telling effect, and a stroko from one of its wings is sufficient to knock the etrong est man off his feet. Tho prudeut hunter who gives chase to a wounded crauo with the intention of running it down and risking a fight with it will have his revolver with him. I havo known moro than one presumptuous sportsman to undortake the task of conquering a crane under such cir cumstances without having his pistol to aid him, and to cuius back from the prairie not only without his game, but badly used up as well."—Now York Sun. Elcclric Cooking lor Royalty. Quapn Victoria will use electricity for cooking purposes. Tho neoossary apparatus has been installed at Os borne, in tho Isle of Wight. It is, however, only used for the most deli cate dishes.—Atlanta Constitution. A woman of Calais, Me., has won re nown by mending a broken doorhiugo with a hairpin. Women's work in India lias mado great progress. There aro now 711 women mission aries—foreign and Eurasian—in India. The averago ago at which women marry in civilized countries is said to be twenty-three and a half years. Mrs. Emma Scott, of Birmingham, was elected enrolling and engrossing clerk by the Alabama State Senate. Opalescent colors are again coming into favor, and garnitures of opales cent beads are in the very height of fashion. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Selous are now makiDg a wedding tour in tents through Asia Minor, attended by livo servants. In Paris hair dyo is considered so detrimental to long life that ono in surance company rofuses to insuro tho lives of women that use it. Black aud yellow are a favorite corn combination. Fine, soft black not over lemon-colored silk is specially becoming to a spirited bruuette. Miss Francis E. Willard says that good cooking is essential to humun happiness, while bad cooking ha* driven thousands of men to drink. Bluet blue, cerise and magonta pink aro tho three colors now most favored by modistes and milliners aud tho majority of the fashionable feminiuo world. Tho Georgia Senato passed a bill making it a penal offense for any per son to make remarks or write articles that reflect upon tlio good name of u woman. Among tho members of tho class '95 in the Chautauqua Beading Circle is a young Japanese girl, who expects to graduate with her class at Chautauqua next term. Opera cloaks with big sleeves are vexing problems to women. One of tho new models is so voluminous that the owner is obliged to go sidewiso through an ordinary door. Miss Emma Frances Dawson, ono of tho best women writers on tho Pacific coast, is a Maine lady by birth, and her most notable poem is "Old Glory," u song in honor of tho American flag. The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in its recent con vention again passed resolutions con demning vivisection, and deprecating the slaughter of seals for women's gar ments. Dr. Y. May Kin was tho first Chinoso lady to receive a medical degreo in America. Sho has now a large prac tice in Kobe, Japan, and was the first scientifically educated female practi tioner in that country. Says tho Drapers' Record: "Arti ficial whalebone is now made from leather strips, by means of chemicals, high temperature and heavy pressure. Originality, even in whales, promises to be at a discount soon." Miss Florence Marryat, the novelist and daughter of tho famous Captain Marryat, is to deliver a series of lectures in this country on tho follow ing topics: "Tho Mistakes of Mar riage," "Tho New Woman" and "Can the Dead Return?" A peachy complexion, like that of e young girl, was possessed by the Marquis de Crequy even to tho close of her long life. She died at tho age of ninety-eight, and for tho last forty years lived almost entirely on oranges. She often ate a dozen of them for breakfast. A lady in South Kensington, Lon don, has found a new uso for dogs. One muddy day lately she was seen in tho street with a parcel iu ouo bund, an umbrella iu tho other and an Irish terrier holding tho trail of her dress in her teeth. He never let tJO dross touch tho ground. Tho neglected womorf of India have now tho prospect of skilled medical treatment. There uro sixty-five hos pitals and dispensaries now affiliated to the Countess of Dufferin's fund for supplying medical aid to them, teu of these having been buil,t, and kept up by native Princes. Mme. Casimir-Perier has received so many disgusting and insulting letters since her husband became President of France, and has been so upset by the many ugly drawings in closed, that her correspondence is now opened by a secretary beforo being handed to her for perusal. It is said that a rod parasol destroys in a great measure the uctinie power of the sun, and must therefore keep the skin from freckles. Photograph ers long ago availed themselves of this peculiarity of light transmitted through a red medium, and it seems reasonable to suppose that a rod shade might protect the complexion. The most noteworthy feature in general stylo is tho continued popu larity of tho bodice unlike tho skirt. With tho exception of tho huge sleeve, which often matches tho skirt, the corsago is generally in contrast to it. As many HS three corsages aro fur nished with ono expensive velvet skirt: a low-neckod bodice for elnborito wear, a high-necked bodioo,with demi sleeves, lor dinner, and a long-sleeved, high bodice. The collar has becomo almost as much an objective point of the waist as tho sleeves. Large rosettes on either side and at the back, and some times iu front, give fulness around tho throat in the effect of a ruche. Sometimes a huge bow of lace and chiffon is placed high up on the left side of the collar, which no longer lies in closely-drawn folds, but is oiten puffed and fulled iu various ways to increase its size.
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