F KEEL AND TRIBUNE. PUBUBHED KTEKr MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TIIOS. A. BUCKI.KY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREITT ABOVE CENTRA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year go Six Months Hum ! 75 Four Months GO Two Months 23 Subscribers are requested to observe the data following the name on the labels of their papers. Hy referring to tills they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books In this office. For instance: Grover Cleveland 28Junc95 means that Grover Is paid up to June 28,1H06. Koep the llguree in advance of the present date. Ho port promptly to this office when your paper w not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper Is discontinued, or collection will be made in the manner provided by law. Rome time ago California offered a bounty of $3 each for coyote scalps. It was supposed nfc tlio timo that tliere were not more than 2030 coyotes in the State, but the claim for bounties for the last quarter of 1891 already amounts to §33,000 with seventeen ether counties to Hear from. It is probable that Norman A. Mozciv, of Missouri, will bo the youngest member of the next House of Representatives. 110 was born ou a fnrm in ISGu, and worked as a farm hand until 1837, when ho had educa ted himself sufficiently to teach school and study law. Colonel George 13. McClelluD, of New York, who is about thirty, will be another of the youthful members of a House that bids fair to be noted for the young men in it. The totul number of Scandinavians in this country is about 1,000,030, but instead of being distributed through out the various States, they are to be found almost exclusively in the North west, observes the Atlanta Constitu tion. Norweigans are most numerous iu Minnesota, w here the total Scandi navian body amounts to 233,000, double tho number of Germans and eight times more than tho Irish. Swedes are most numerous in Illinois, where they number more than 99,009 in a total Scandinavian population of about 125,030. In tho city of Chicago there are more than 10,033 Swedish, more than 5033 Noriveigan aud more than 2500 Danish voters. The Danes, tho smallest of tho groups of Scandi navian voters iu the country, are most numerous in lowa. Tho Dev. Dr. Rouen Thomas, ol Brookline, Mass., devoted consider able timo last summer to listening to other preachers, and as tho result of Lis cxperieuco makes a report strong ly in favor of written sermons. Ho says: "I have tried to recall tho ser mons which held mo at that timo and which have stayed by nio sinco. To my great astonishment, not one of them was extemporaneous. With one exception, I did not hear a single extemporaneous sermon that was scholarly, with much of iufcellectual flavor about it, logically suggestive or strikingly devout. I did not hear one sermon iu which the proacher used a manuscript which had not about it a delightful intellectual flavor, with logical continuity of thought, devo tional feeling and much of suggestive ncss." Dr. Thomas's observation were made among Episcopalians, Pres byterians, Congregationalists, Luther ans and Roman Catholics. The New York Independent says: There must bo something highly valu able iu tho use of tho bicycle, which i has long passed tho stage of "craze," , and has become so much tho estab- ! lislied order of things as to have ser iously injured tho market for horses. There is every reason to suppose that a moderate and rational use of tho bicycle directly contributes to health —of course tho mental strain and pro tracted over-exertion called for in racing are an immense tax on the vital force. It has long been known that tho violent muscular effort of the hunted hare, who is coursed to his death by dogs, produces just as un natural n condition of tho blood as does a severe infectious fever ; and the occasional cases of persons who have unsound hearts, dying from tho extra efforts of tho "cycle," should bo a warning. Dr. Tussle, of Bordeaux, studied carefully tho effect of the effurts of M. Stephane, whose object wus to ace how many miles ho could ride in twenty-four hours. 110 ac complished 385 miles. Ho lost in weight fourteeu pounds. His food consisted of live pints of milk, one pint of tea, one pint of lemonade, and three ounces each of rum and cham pagne, and seven ounces of mint; au l tho secretions so changed as to show that "his body ate itself." This kind of living will do for a "spurt," bul would be ruinous in the long run. MY CLOCK. In tho silence of the nitfht, If I waken with affright, From a dream that's full of terror and annoy, There's a sound that fills my heart With a melody of art, Full of beauty, full of pleasure, full of joy. 'Tis tho steady "tick, tick, took," Of my sturdy littlo clock, As it sits across the room upon a shelf- Ami it says: "Don't be afraid, For I've closely by you stayed While you wore off in tho land of dreams yourself. "With a steady 'tick, tick, tick/ I am never tired or sick, Ami I count tho minutes over as they Myj I'm the truest friend you've got, Ami I share your ev'ry lot, And I'm ready to stund by you till you die." It's a common sort of clock, But 1 like its lusty "toek," And it fills my soul with coungo by its song. In tho storm, or cold, or rain, I hear its bright refrain, As it faithfully pursues its path along. For it tells mo to be true To each thing I hnvo to do, And, no matter if tho world applaud or scorn, That full soon must pass tho night, And tho sweet and precious light Be unfolded with tho coming of tho morn. —Hamilton Jay, in Florida Times-Union. A DRFADFLTIR HEADACHE. ET IV. J. EAMPTOX. MTT&I f, HAD a 11 6 d " M'J nc^c - I don't see p? "y especial rea- son why a young of good .is= moral character '• J-U'S anil temperate tomwk R&YSS seven nights in tho week should have a headache, but I tlnl. It was ono of that popping kind of headaches, that makes one foci as if hislungs hadgono to his head and they wero trying to expand there about four diameters, at intervals of a minute. I believe they call them nervous headaches, but I fancy they wouldn't bo auy more ngrceablo by any other name. Then my heart was as heavy as lead, and onco or twice as I walked aloug, I really feared it was going to pull loose from its fastenings and drop down upon ray duodenum, or whatever it is that tho doctors toll us is concealed in our persons iu that neighborhood. Possibly it was the heavy heart that gave me the headache. But no. I recall now that I was going to see Kitty, the ono girl in the wliolo world that made it any kind of a world for me, and we had a slight misunder standing. It wasn't tho head that gave mo tho heart ache; it was the heart that gave mo tho headache. I beiievo I said that I took eight hours' sleep seven nights in the week. At this point, I wish to modify that statement. In tho week past, I had done so only six nights, for tho night beforo the day on. which I was on my way to iso Kitty wo had disagreed with each other. I don't think I slept at all. I was going now to see tho young woman and settlo tho matter finally, and though I was a promising youug lawyer ready to mako a caso for any body elso, I had no pupers in this case, and was goiug empty handed. I didn't even have so much U3 my brief with me. At tho doer Mrs. Miltby—Mrs. Miltby i 3 Kitty's mother, au I a most exemplary and motherly soul—met me, and on tho instant started back in amazement. "Why, John"—tho always called me Jolra, for she had known me fiinco I was a mere baby—"Why, John," she exclaimed, "whatever is tho mat ter with you? You look liko you were going to have a bad spell." "Oh, that will bo all right in a day or so," I replied evasively. "I have a severo headache. Is your daughter at home?" "You mean Kitty?" tho asked in surprise. "Of course," said I. "You haven't any other daughter, have you?" and I mado believe to smile. "Ob, I didn't know," sho stam mered. "Didn't know what?" and I tried to smile again. "Didn't know whether you had another daughter or not?" "Why, to be—certainly I know that. Why, how queer you do talk," she rattled ou half hysterically, aud laugh ing one of that creepy kind of laughs one dreams of when ho hasn't eaten the right thing for supper, "Ar—ar —you quite sure, John," sho broke out excitodly, "chat that headache hasn't gone to your head?" It was cruel to teae her, and with a supremo effort I talked rationally to her for a few minutes—they seemed liko hours to me, ami then she said sho would go and tell Kitty. As for myself, I went into the little parlor and waited. How sweet and pretty it looked, and how like a sand stone on a gold setting I felt. Every thing was as I hud seen it so often, tho picture of her grandpa over the cottage piano; tho framo in which my picture had been for HO many months, but empty now on the corner of the mantel; tho largo photograph of Saint Cecilia looking heavenward, as wo had so often told each other wo al ways l'olt when wo wero together ; the two big friendly chairs inviting each other to come nearer, which we al waj's sat in when I first came in the evening, and the snug littlo sofa in the corner that was always my point of departure when I told her good night, and went my way back to my own cheerless apartments in a home loss boarding houso. I looked at them all, ami as tho drowning man sees all his sins before him, so did I see those all thiDgs twice over,and multiplied by a thousand as the greatest blessings of my life. Then I shut my eyes. I could not heli> it. My head felt as if a dozen sets of lungs had gotten into it and wero doing expansion turns for a prize. I opened my eyes suddenly at the sound of a voice. "Mother told mo you wished to sea me," it Buid as chilly as if it had been left out over night iu tho frost. "Ob, Ki—l began, as I stood up before her. "I beg your pardon," I continued, "your mother was quite I right, I did wish to see you." "I can scarcely understand why," she went on, "after what occurred last night. Still, you may be ablo to explain and I am willing to listen, at least for a few minutes, as I have au engagement," she added, with tho faintest kind of a smile. It was such a miserably mean littlo smile, I thought, that it was ashamed to show itself openly, "Oh, don't let rae detain you," I tried to say with biting sarcasm, but I only bit my tonguo in saying it. "I shall not," she replied. "When I am ready to go I will let you know. Pray, be seated," and sho wavod me to my chair again, taking ono of our— "our," think of that—big chairs and nestling down in it so cozily that I wanted to throw a book at her. I really wanted to throw myself at her, but I bad never dared do that, and this was scarcely an appropriate time to begin. "I presume," I said, "your engage ment is with that Mr. Kiimer aud my prescnco here is an intrusion." Kilmer had been tho cauvo of the troublo tho night before, aud Kilmer was such a good fellow generally, that I couldn't help but wish that ho had died several years before with the cholera or some of tho other epidoni ics which visit our shores and carry away so mauy excellent people. "Oh, no," sho sail, "no intrusion at all. At least, not yet. He was hero this morning and told mo ho would uot bo around again until 4 o'clock." Sho looked up at tho pretty brass clock I had given her. Both its tiny hands were clasping tho figure three. Three-quarters of* an hour, aud a whole lifetime thereafter! "Isn't it enough that you should liavo killed me," I said, "without be ing so eager to cut mo up." "I was merely defending a friend," sho retorted. "Aud you claim Kilmer as a friend?" "I certainly do. Isn't ho a friend of yours?" "Not at all. If ho were, ho would not have interfered with my happiness as ho has done." "I beg your pardon," she said. "I didn't know he had." "Didn't I tell you last night he was a scoundrel, intent only upon separat ing us?" I asked hotly. "And didn't I tell you that I would permit no friend of mine to bo callod a scoundrel by anyone without resent ing it to tho utmost?" she replied. "But I did call him that," I in sisted. "Yes, and what good did it do you?" she said, steppiug to tho mantel and holding out the empty frame iu which my picture had formerly been tho nttructiou. "His will tako tho place of tho former occupant?" I said, scornfully. "His or another's," she responded, and actually giggled. A giggle from a girl is dreadful enough under any circumstances, but at this time it wa3 positively galling. "Great Scott!" I exclaimod, stag gering to my feet, "am I then a two fold dupe? Are tho returus all in? Have the back couuties boon heard from, Miss Miltby?" aud I buried my faoo iu my bauds. I could hoar the click of tho framo as she set it back on the mantel aud a mild sort of a dull thud as sho dropped into tho big chair. "Mr. Kilmer is, at least, enough of a gentleman, scoundrel though you say ho is," she said, "not to talk to a lady as you do." "Oh, Ki—l beg your pardon, Miss Miltby," I apologized, "I hope you will forget that I spoke so rudely. In deed, I did not mean it." "I don't see what reason you have for objecting to Mr. Kilmer paying mo any attention he sees lit to pay," sho told me for answer, "I have known him for a long timo and ho is held in tho highest esteem by everyone except you." "But I liavo known you quito as long as bo has," I contended. "Which is hardly a reason for act ing as you are now acting," she said. "DOG 3 he love you?" I asked, and I could feel a thousaud throbs in my head at once. "I presumo not," she replied, smil ing. "If lie does, he has been too modest to say so." "Do you love him?" "That is my owu affair," sho an swered, freezingly. I throw my baud quickly to my side, for, as I live, I thought that in stant that my heart would certainly break 100 JO and drop down. I think if I could liavo stopped on a scale that moment with it in my bosom, I would Lave weighed a ton. "It is not altogether yours," 1 said with a gasp. "No?" aud tho interrogation point ran up into her eyebrows and arched them sharply like a spcar-poiut, it seemed to me. "No, and I want you to eo under stand it." I was growing desperate. "1 liavo some rights which I propose to see aro respected and I shall not stand liko a post aud bo dumb as ouo." "And what rights have you, pray, that I should respect thoin?" she asked so sarcastically that it felt as if I had stepped across the path of a cut ting hailstorm. "The right of having 'my claim heard before it is disallowed and thrown out of court," I responded, dropping into shop talk without know ing it. "Ilnve you ever presented your claim?" she inquired with judicial dignity. Had I ? That was the question. Had I? For years I had known Kitty Milt by. We had grown up from child hood together. We had gono to school together. For months I had loved her. By day she was ever in my thoughts, aul by night lier spirit filled my dreams with music. I had given her my heart without the ask ing, but I had never asked for hers. It didn't seem necessary. I thought, of course she knew I wanted it. Now, I was brought face to face with the facts. Had I ever presented my claim? Well, I had not. At least, not with the formality which my training as a lawyer demanded that I should. "Ob, Kitty, Kitty," and I almost cried from the reaction. "I love you more than all the world, and I want you as much as I want tho world ; for you aro tho world to mo. Now, will you say that my claim has not been presented?" It doesn't make any difference what she said, or how she said it or whether my arms were on tho mantelpiece, or where they were; and it is nobody's business how much that man Kilmer had to do with bringing mo to a real izing sense of my situation, or why ho and Kitty smiled when 1 told him it was all right. I think Kilmer is the best follow in tho world, and so docs Kitty, with ouo exception. When I left the house Mrs. Miltby met mo iu the hall. "Here's a sovereign remedy for tho headache, John," she said, handing mo a bag of herbs, "I've used it for forty years, and it never fails." "Oh, that's all right, moth—Mrs. Miltby," said I; "I guess I'm cured of that kind of headacho forever," and if sho hadn't stood iu tho door as I went down tho walk, I'm sure I should have jumped clean over the gate, and acted in a manner utterly unworthy of ray dignity as a rising young lawyer. It was G p. in., and Kitty had not missed her engagement at 4, because by that time it was permanently set tled.—Detroit Free Press. Unite J States ol South Africa. Recently iu tho Imperial Institute, Loudon, at a meeting presided over by tho Prince of Wales, Dr. Jamison gave an account of tho rush of prog ress witnessed in South Africa, and in dicated that all signs tended to the federation of the various colonies un der tho name of the United States of South Africa. In uo part of the world is history made so rapidly, Dr. Jami son declared, as in the country stretch ing from tho Cape of Good Hope to Lake Tanganyika, several thousand miles northward. Tho area now un der the control of British colonizing influence equals that of tho wholo of Europe. Besides gold in large quau titie.l, coal and iron ore, those primal requisites of civilization, have been found and aro under prospect of rapid developm ut. Iu tho last three years nearly 2000 miles of telegraph line* have been established, and tlireo dif ferent lines of railway, from as many points of the compass, aro opening up the splendid country. Tho colonies, together with tho quasi-independent Transvaal Republic of tho Boers, to bo federated, would number some eight or nine members, and tho racial problem, as regards the native Africans, has so far not presented itself. The natives have not been vested with the ballot, nor is it likely that the young confederacy will, for tho next ten or twenty years, troublo itself with the attempt of considering tho subject Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Education of Military Bogs. Tho education of military dogs in the German army procoods as follows: First ho is put through a general courso of training, having for its ob ject to teach him prompt obsdienco to command and signals; then ho is taught to ruu errands with certainty, so that he may go from tho advauc€ patrols back to tho rear divisions aud return at tho word of command, and that ho may keep up communication between stationary divisions and posts; finally he is taught to be vigilant and mako known the approach of any stranger to tho post. Training to lit thom for search after tho missing is not usually required. It would have a result ouly iu raro cases—except iu tho use of dogs by sanitary corps, di visions of volunteer nurses, etc., t-.> whom in case of war specially trained dogs will bo assigned—but would rather lead the dogs to expose them selves uselessly to danger and get lost. Even this, however, sometimes enters into the course of instruction, when individual dogs show themselves especi ally fitted for it aud the teacher pos sesses great aptness in impressing ou tho dog his dutios ill this directtou. Native Country ol Indian C.rsi, We believe that both tho Japanese and Chinese claims to have known our so-called Indian corn lor a thousand years or more, but this does not iu any way invalidate the story of its American origin. It may have been carried from thi* country to Japan either by some person or in an aban doned canoe; and, in fact, there aro various ways in which an ear or a few grains of corn might have reached tho Eastern Nations. It wa3 certainly cul tivated here and usod for food by tho prehistoric races of this country nioro than one or two thousaud years ago, because the charred and dried grains of Indian corn, beans aud pumpkin ■oeds are found iu many of tho ancient ruins of tho homes of a people wli > lived here long before tho Indians ap peared, or what wo call the "rod men" began to roam over tho Western plains.—New York Sun. THE COMING SPRING FASHIONS. FOR LITTLE FOLKS. A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN TEREST TO THEM. Something; that Will Interest the Ju venile Members of Every Household —Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings of Muny Cute and Cunning Children. A Kiddie. "Now tell," Cried Nell. "Sometimes it's big—sometimes it's small. It has two hands and no feet at all. But still," Said Nell, "Though it doesn't run up, it does run down. It's face is always healthy and round, And it talks very prim and very precise, When 1 am good it says, so nice, •Pretty—well! Little—Nell.' "But if I'ui naughty, oh, deary me! Us voice is as solemn as it can be! Solemn and sorry and dreadfully clear, And the more 1 don't listen, the more I hoar, 'Do's you, d—oughter, Little —daughter.' "Can't you guess it, you funny folks? Something that runs, but never walks? Well, well!" Cried Nell. "If you can't imagine I have to 'splain, And 1 won't make such a hurd riddle again. You must have a key before it will talk. Turn the key—and there's a!" —Youth's Companion. How to Make u Ball. Boys who are always losing their balls can make them for themselves Take a common cork and cut it round as possible, making it the size of an ordinary marble. Then tear off very narrow strips of rags and wind these, one at. a time, around the cork until the ball is of the desired size. Then cover it with cloth, or if a boy is fortunate enough to have an obliging sister she will make .a cover of crewels by divid ing the ball into quarters, winding the wool several times around it, then but tonholing the quarters all around one half, then the other half, until an edge Is formed on each side of each quarter, then buttonholing with any colors of wool until the quarters are quite tilled up, when a seam linishes them, and a capital ball is the result, costing noth ing to make, but really quite servicea ble. UcokH Instead of Candy. "1 think ambition is never given with out a mind of sulficieut power to sus tain it, and to achieve its lofty object." Who wrote these words? A boy of IS, named Bayard Taylor, us lie looked proudly upon an autograph Charles Dickens bad given him, and felt within him that tire of ambition which was never quenched. The Quaker boy of the little town of Kennett square, near Philadelphia—who was born January 11,1825—grew to be very fond of books, and often when sent to rock the baby would forget all about the crying in fant, so deeply would lie be absorbed in a story of travel or delightful poem. Ills father was a poor farmer who had no money to spend on books, so Bayard set out gathering nuts, which lie sold, and, instead of rushing off to a candy store, like some girls and boys, ho invested Ills money more wisely in buying books. At 14 he was studying Latin and French, 15 found lilni deep in Spanish. At 17 lie was no longer the pupil, but the assistant in the school. The story of his life, with its deep shad ows and bright lights, is beautiful and full of inspiration. Every boy and girl of America, Eng land and Germany should know it by heart. And see how the penniless lad at last reaches some of the heights of his ambition, and at President Hayes' request became Minister to Berlin, and was welcomed cordially by Emperor William, and had for a fast friend llis liiarck. Some of his works should be in every library.—New York Press. He lioilcd the Ice. The delight of the little South Ameri can boy who was in New York during holiday week and saw snow for the first time amused his entertainers and led to the telling of some funny stories by those who had traveled in many GREAT BRITAIN'S NEWEST BATTLE-SHIP, THE MAJESTIC. 111 their capacity for turning out the iron ami stool monsters which have supplafitcd our old ships, the royal dockyards seem to he continually improving of late. The record has been altogether eclipsed by the speed which has been manifested in the building of the battleship Majestic. It was laid down on Feb. 5,1801, and floated out this week, says the St. James' Budget. The drawing will give an idea of her ap pearance when she is put in commission. Ilcr principal guns are four in number, each weighing fifty tons and built on the new method of coiling flat steel wire on a steel barrel. The ammunition is put up in brass cases, and the gun is so fitted that it can be fired by an expert crew from five to seven times a minute. As each projectile weighs 100 pounds and iH capa ble of penetrating several inches of ar mor, seine idea of their powers may be formed. Above these, on the upper deck. countries. One was of an army officer In India, who, at great trouble and ex pense, procured some ice to be served at dinner. Ho probably gave the order in that fashion, for ids cook rushed into the dining room in great consternation and told him lie had boiled the ice, and it had all gone into water. She Spoke Ilcr Piece. Hattie P., six years old, is thought to give promise of elocutionary talent. When Auntie May came to visit the family, therefore, and offered to give the little girl some lessons, the offer was gladly accepted. Hat tie's preference for lofty sentt* ment prompted the first selection. It began, "See the eagle! How lie soars!" After a few rehearsals, she was ready for a recitation before the assembled family. And there was great applause when she exclaimed: "See the eagle! llow sore he is!" At the Lecture. Naturalist—l have discovered that snakes go underground during the win ter and stay there- Col. do Tanque (rising)— Professor, I command you to retract that statement. It's a libel on the whole State of Ken tucky.—New York World. Foiling the Landlord. "It's a splendid day outside. Suppose we take a little walk," said Mr. Up town to his wife, who is very close. "Take a walk and leave this expen sive fiat for which we pay high renfgp unoccupied? Not much; I propose stay right here and get the worth of my money."—Exchange. are sixteen twelve-pounder quick-firing guns, twelve of which are on the broad sides, and covered by a steel shelter deck, and the remaining four in the upper sto ries of the superstructures below the bridges. There are, in addition, a large number of small three-pounder rapid-fir* ing guns, many of which are carried aloft in the four "fighting" tops. The Majestic will also have five tubes for the White head "fish" torpedo. A strong steel belt, nine inches thick, protects the sides and incloses the barbettes, which are built of fourteen-inch armor. In length the Ma jestic is 415 feet, and has a breadth of 7f) foot at her widest at the water line, while her total displacement will fall but little short of 15,(KM) tons. I lor engines of 1 !*.<miQ horse power are estimated to drive her at sixteen and a half knots with natural and seventeen and a half with forced draught.
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