Freeiand Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PEDUM COMPANY, Limits OFFICE: MAI* STBEET ABOVE CENTRE. FREELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year SLSO j Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Mouths 25 The tluto which tho subscription is paid to j is on the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be- ' comos a receipt for remittance. Keep the j figures in u vuace of tin* present date. Re port promptly to this oillce whenever paper 1 Is not received. Arrearages must be paid whou subscription is discontinued. Ma\e all mi ny orders, checks, tic,,payable to '.V Tribune Print Iny Company, Jy-,ailed. Germany paid last year more than $1,030,000 iu pensions to the aged poor. It was a much-needed and graceful charity. But far better would be a social and industrial system uu der which such alms would not be necessary. Yale mathematical professors have been discussing a popular way of writ- j Sug the year 1800 in Roman numerals. According to the present system it ] would have to be written MDCCCLX XXXIX. This is a bewildering array of figure •, and many of the Yale pro fessors favor writing it MC'IM, says the New Haven Evening Register* It is thought that this method will be generally adopted by those who have ] occasion to write the Iloman numerals, ' The London Telegraph Ins profits Y 1 , 1 a Sunday edition. It i- the first of the large London papers to do so,and has been followed by the Mail. Can this he tli? result of the re -out closei communion between England and America. We have been told that I savages when brought into contact with civilization rapidly acquire its vices; but testimony to the reverse tendency is imperfect. Certainly the j rule is that the older civilization cor rupts the younger. It is a puzzling tiling to make facts lit scientific thco* 1 ries. The status of woman in Japan has ' changed to a remarkable extent in the | last few years. It is an invariable rule that with the advance of civiliza tion in any country we find enlarging liberty for women aud the concession of greater rights to them. It appears Hint in spite of the unfavorable condi tions under which Japanese women of tlio generations preceding the present one have lived they at id have asserted themselves to a marked degree in the literature of their country. One writer tells us that a large and important part of the best literature that Japan lias produced was written by women. A good share of the ancient heroic poetry of Japan is the work of women. The two greatest Japanese books which have come down from past cen turies are by women. It would eeem that with her larger liberty aud her immensely improved opportunities for education the Japanese woman would become a much larger contributor to i.rt than she has eve • been before. No other country has shown such a tnpid increase in the production of Coal during recent years as the United {States, according t.> statistics just m.tde public by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics. The quality of coal produced increase 1 from 32,803,G00 tons in 1870 to 117,800,') SO tons in 1 ■) )7, while th } total quuutity export e 1 increased from 227,018 tons in 1870 to 1,008,030 tons in 1837. In the first mentioned year tuo Unite I States sup plied but 17 per cent, of the world's total output; at present it furnishes about 25 per cent, thereof. It is when comparison is ma le with the increases in the production of other countries that the magnitude of the strides made by the United States can be best ap preciated. The average annual out put ot' Great Britain showed an in crease of 45 per cent, in tho period from 1871-75 to 1891-95, that of France an incroase of 70 per cent., that of Germany an increase of 115 per cent., and that of other countries, not in cluding tho United States, a gain of 132 per cent., whereas the increase shown by the United Slate - in the same period amounted to 193 per cent, 4>rlgln of Sllhonetten. Silhouette, a profile in black, is au called from Etienne do Silliouott ■ Control lour des Finances, 1757, who made great savings in the public ex penditures of France. Some say the black portraits were called silhouette in ridicule; others assert that M. Sil houette devised this way of taking likenesses to save expense. Dead Game. Weary Watkins—lf I was to find a dollar an' buy a lottery ticket an' win the capital prize I'd first take a bath- Hungry Higgins—What! "Take a bath. I'd play the whole string cwit. you bet!"—lndianapolis Journal. g MARVELS OF LIQUID AIR, 1 @ • @ ,•0' A Scientific Discovery That May Effect a Revolution in Industrial Methods Dur- Vg: ing the Twentieth ICsntury. © SOME XOTEI, ASD AIHAZIXG KXPEISIIIESTS. The most extraordinary exhibit ever giv*n in Washington was witnessed at the Arlington Hotel a few nights ago by the scientific circle of the city, members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court, Diplomatic Corps and other public men. It was given under the auspices of the National Geographical Society, presided over by Professor Dell, tlio inventor of the telephone, and furnished an opportunity for Charles E. Tripler, of New York, to show for the first time in public the new motive power which ho has dis covered and calls liquid air. Briefly and simply stated, Mr. Trip ler takes 800 gallons of ordinary air drawn from any window and by com pression and cold reduces it to one gallon of a liquid that looks like glyceriuo and retains its form at a tem perature of 312 degrees below zero. As it warms it expands into vapor and then into air, just as water is ex panded into steam by heat. By con trolling this expausion Mr. Tripler proposes to furnish a new motive power for the use of transportation companies on sea and on land, for factories, furnaces and for every other purpose for which steam and electricity aro now used. The expansive force is equal to 2000 pounds a square inch, and without an exhaust pipe the pres sure is so great that there is now no material of sufficient strength to re strain it. lu other words, a pint or a quart or a gallon of this liquid will burst any vessel in which it may bo confiued unless there is an opportunity for its gradual escape. Liquid air is manufactured by ap paratus which Mr. Triplet- lias in vented. The first gallon or two is made by the use of coal or any other ordinary fuel, just as ice is made in a factory, but thereafter lie is able to reproduce ten gallons of the fluid by the expenditure of two. A railway locomotive or a steamship wili there fore create its cwn power from the atmosphere as it passes along its way, and a factory engineer will simply turn tho key of u ventilation jipe, start his machine aud manufacture fuel as he needs Mr. Tripler in sists that bis energy cau be used with 110 more difficulty and at a cost seventy per cent, less than steam, aud, having mastered the secret of its production, ho now proposes to apply it to prac tical use. Mr. Tripler brought six gnllons of liquid air with him from New York, aud in the piesenoe of four or five hundred persons performed tho ex periments that are described in Mc- Clure's Magazine. He dipped the stuff out of his cau with au ordinary tin dipper, just as a milkman would dip milk. He dropped a potato in it, lifted it out in two or three minutes and threw it 011 the floor, where it broke into a thousand little crystals. He took a rubber ball, immersed it in the liquid aud then broke it as if it was glass. He dropped in a piece of beefsteak and in a momout it was broken into little fragments that looked like petrified wood. He im mersed a tumbler of alcohol, aud in a few minutes it was frozeu into a block of ice. Ho tilled a pasteboard box with mercury, which when immersed in tho liquid air became as hard as steel, and he used it lisa hammer to drive nails in the table. He immersed copper, tin, iron and strips cf steel in the liquid air, and they crumbled like piecrust. He demonstrated the ex pansive power of the liquid in a similar manner, and altogether performed ex periments that were not only novel but amazing. The liquefaction of air is one of the scientific achievements of the last quarter century. 111 the first success ful experiments only a few drops of liquid air were obtained, but six or seven years ago the British scientist, Professor James Dewar, demonstrated that it could bo produced iu quantity. The expense, however, was enormous —a pint costing about SSOOO. Mr. Tripler declares that he has produced gallons of liquid ail- at n cost of about twenty cents a gallon. He further claims that liquid nil- can be used to make liquid air in larger quantities— that he lias actually obtained ten gal lons from three. Ho holds that there is no reason to doubt that this process can be re peated indefinitely, and thai, there fore liquid air cau be produced in un limited quantities at practically no cost (except, of course, that of plant and labor), .Mr. Tripler also expresses confidence that the commercial aud scientific applications of liquid air are so numerous and so important that it must efl'ect no small revolution in modern life. "it is a fact of science," said Mr. Tripler, "that air liquefies at a temperature of 312 degrees below zero. The problem has beou how to obtain, and subject air to, that degree of cold. I have discovered that air —compressed air—can be so used as to produce that degree of cold, and, consequently, to liquefy other air; and I have invented a machine by which the liquid product can be made in groat quantities at a low cost." Liquid air is a clear and fluent sub stance, which, upon exposure, evap orates rapidly in a heavy mist. It is so intensely cold that the hand held over it is speedily chilled. If the hand is plunged into it, the sensation is that of burning, and unless it is im mediately withdrawn the skin is blis tered aud scared. When the hand is removed, it becomes almost instan taneously dry, for the liquid which had adhered im mediately gathers in bright beads and drop heavily to the floor. For liquid air, as power, Mr. Trip ler claims that it has about one hun dred the times the expansive force of steam; thai expansion immediately be gins under the influence of the pro vailing temperature, and that every additional degree of heat applied yields twenty pounds of pressure. Hteani pressure is not obtained until water has been heated to a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and each ad ditional dogree of heat produces only j one pound of pressure. He asserts, moreover, that liquid air can be ap plied as a substitute for steam to any engine, with substantially no further change than the displacement of the boiler by the smaller and lighter re ceptacle holding the air. Its general adoption, therefore, as motive power would not mean the discarding of ex pensive engines now used. Hence, the first cost of its adoption would be slight, and with its vastly greater potentiality, it'must (he claims) super sede steam, if it can be made cheaply enougb. For that Mr. Tripler provides by his j application of liquid air to the manu- j facture of larger quantities of liquid j air. He asserts that he has accom plished such a result; that he first ! used steam as the power requisite in j the process of making liquid air; that lie took liquid air thus made, apolied it to an engine as a substitute for steam, operated the engine thereby, ami used the power thus Sjtained as he had used the steam-power. "I find in this matter," he said, "that I hav*- been generally misiiu derst>od. I don't claim to create en ergy, to make somethiug out of noth iug, to upset any of the laws of nature. I do say, though, that the scientists have been wrong in some of their notions, and that they will have to change them. I assert that by the use of a given quantity of liquid air, substituted for steam power, I. can make, aud have made, larger quanti ties of liquid air. I use over aud over again the liquid air employed in the making. It seems simple enough to me, and the principle is so simple that it ought to have been grasped by any scientific mind at once, but, to my surprise, it has not; what my critics say appears plausible, but in fact their contentions uro all aside from the mark, for they have got hold of the wrong end of the proposition, and do not comprehend at all what I am about." "Then, whatever the modus oper andi may be, you do distinctly claim that by the use of any given quantity of liquid air you can make a larger quantity?" I "I positively and absolutely make • that claim." I "You claim also that by the use of j three gallons of liquid air you have produced ten?" "E have done that very tiling," re plied Mr. Tripler with emphasis. "Does its success as a great revo lutionizing agency in modern indus try and life depend upon the, produc tion of larger quantities from given quantities?" the reporter asked. "If I had not achieved the abolition of steam iu the manufacture of liquid air I should have accomplished noth ing. That is, although liquid air might still bo of use in some special application—as, for instance, in snr r j gory and medicine—it could not be • j come the supreme and universal pow- I er-prodnoer which I expect it to be." j "You believe that it wi'l supersede ; steam?" i "I do—for the traction of railway I trains, for the propulsion of ships aud i for the operation of machinery in gen : I eval. As a motive-power its advuu -1 tagos over steam aro great. It will • ' cost far less, it will Rave bulk and ! weight of plant and apparatus, it will be vastly more efficient." | "Do you expect that its use will en > . able railway trains and steamships to attain greater speed?" ■ j "I do look tor such a result. There ■ I is every reason to believe that, given i ! this greater power than steam, higher ; ' speed can be produced." i i "How would it be used—stored or . j made in transit?" i | "It seems to me to be quite feasible ; to mako it iu transit not only on i steamers and trains, but also iu llyiug ! machines." j "You believe that it brings nearer i , the day of aerial navigation?" ' I "Certainly. There is no other ) agency which, with such small weight j | and bulk, can produce such motive • j power us liquid air." , | "To what extent has it been used in I surgery and medicine?" i I "Thus far cancer has been treated i | with it, and the most gratifying re j suits have been obtained. It is too - | early to say just what its valine is. I - : do knotf that its application to cancer i I has stopped the spread of the disease, II aud i>* one case the wound has con- traded to ft very small one. In an* 1 ( other case, after a number of appiiea- J tioua to a cancer on the breast of a woman, it fell out into the operator's band. A number of cases of cancer : liavo been under treatment, and in all which were in incipiency or had not been rendered incurable by the free but vain application of the surgeon's knife, it has arrested the cancerous growth. It has, besides, a marked effect in removing the pain accom panying the disease. A patient suf fering from cancer of the nose said that the shooting pains which had pre- I viously alllicted him disappeared en tirely after the first application of the air. It is quite possible that it may have some special value as a local auassthetie. It appears certain thai gangrene can be arrested long enough for amputations to be made that will save a life. But, of course, lam not a physicinu or a surgeon, and it is not the curative properties of liquid air which have chiefly interested me. Its j U3e iu medicine and surgery is now under careful study by physicians. 1 may add iu this line flint liquid air appears to be an irresistible germi- ; oide, and that I think I have inci dentally discovered means by which it , cau be so applied as safely to reach the lungs and destroy the bacilli of tuberculosis. Indeed, the physicians j have succeeded iu npplying it to parts of the body where I thought it could j not be applied, and, therefore it seeni3 a distinct probability that means will be devised by which dis- ■ ease germs, wherever they may be in ! the human body, cau be reached and ! killed. j : "As for its use for refrigerating | purposes, that is as wide as the need ! of refrigeration is. Ice can be made with it; it can take the place of ice in refrigerators; it will be useful in packing-houses, iu markets, in hos pitals, and in hotels and houses in f summer." Mr. Triplor referred to Hudson Maxim, the brother of Hiram Maxim, who had been present in the labora tory a few days before, drawn by re- | ports which he had heard of the pos- [ sihilities of liquid air as an explosive, j Mr. Maxim had been told that a small quantity of cotton waste saturated j Tvith liquid air had beeu placed in a j small iron pipe, which had then beens| encased in a larger pipe, as protection from llio possible effects of tho explo- ! sion, aud that by means of a long fuse | tho waste had beeu touched with fire; ho had been shown the fragments of j the inner pipe and two great holes which had been blown through the outer one. Mr. Maxim desired to see | precisely the quantity of cotton waste | which had been used, and to know j whether the euds of tho pipes had j been closed. The merest palm-full of waste had been exhibited, aud the ends of both pipes, he was told, had been left open. "There is no explosive in use," Mr. | Maxim declared energetically, "which, in such smnll quantity and with so little confinement, could have pro- j duced anything like this effect." His interest was so much aroused that he at once made an appointment with j Mr. Tripler for a business interview \ on tho uso of liquid air in combina- I tion with an explosive which Mr. [ Maxim had invented. Professor W. C. Peckliam, of | Adelplii Institute, Brooklyn, from j whose pen an article on liquid air ap pears iu the Century, has also writteu on tho subject iu the Scientific Ameri- I can. In the latter journal he has given this description of the plant and pro- [ ces3 of Mr. Tripler: "It (the plaiit)cousistsofatriple-air compresser, a cooler and a liquelier. j Tln'i compressor is of the ordinary j 1 form, having three pumps upon one | 1 piston shaft working in a line. The 1 first gives sixty pounds pressure; the | 1 second raises this to 700 pounds, [ 1 while the third brings the air under a I compression of 2000 pounds per square ! inch. "After each compression the air flows i 1 through jacketed pipes, .where it is ' cooled by city water. For this work iibont forty horse power is employed. | ' After the third compression the air ; flows through an apparatus which dis- j poses of some of its impnrities, aod it passes on to the liquelier. It is this ' part of the apparatus which consti- I tutes Mr. Triplet's special invention. : ! By uieitis of the peculiarly construct- ! ed valve, whose details are not made 1 public, a portion of the compressed 1 air is allowed to expand into a tube surrounding the tube through which 1 the remaining air is flowing. This j expanded air absorbs a largo amount 1 of heat fiom the air still under com pression in the inner tube. The eon- : tents of the inner tube are thus cooled, j Iu this way the air is brought below | the temperature of liquefaction and its pressure is very much reduced, so I that, upon opening the valve at the , bottom of tlie apparatus, a stream ot > liquid air is received, flowing out with scarcely more force tbau the water from our ordinary city service pipes. Thus the liquefaction of the air is ac complished by the 'self-intensifica- ' tion of cold' produced by the expan sion of a portion of the compressed and cooled air, without employing any other substauco to bring about this result." Science Crowds Out Pallbearers. The latest novelty in the line of funeral equipments bus just been in- \ troduced into Portland. It is in the nature of a casket-lowering device which does away with the pallbearers lowering the body into theghive. By thio new invention the casket is brought from the liearse and placed on t the device, which is automatic in its 'operation, and at the proper time the undertaker touches a spring and the | casket is, by invisible means, lowered quietly into the grave. Thus does science smooth our passage to the cold ! and silent tomb.—Portland Oregoniau. 1 TALES OF FLOCK 1 | AND ADVENTURE. | if) A Trapper'* Narrow Dacapc. Pierre Be Count, nn old trapper, of isconsiu, who died recently, retained a distinct recollection of almost every incident of importance in his long life. Encounters with fierce beasts were of so common occurrence that it was with difficulty lie could be induced to refer to tlieui or to give details once the incident was mentioned. The killing of three bears in as many min utes—one with a. bullet from his old fashioned muzzle-loading rifle, the second with an axe and the third with a knife—was one of Le Count's recol lections, aud four great sears across his breast, which were visible when bis body was prepared for tho grave, bore evideuee of the tierconess of the battle. "That happened in 1813," said tlie old man. "I was trapping on the up per waters of tho Chippewa that fall. It was in the latter part of October, if I remember right, and I was following up a line of traps one afternoon when I broke through au old windfall and fell over a log, landing right in a nest of four bears—two full grown and two six-mouths cubs. I was a trapper and not a hunter, and usually let such var mints alone unless they tackled me; but this time my rille was up to my face before I knew it, and I brought down the old male with a bullet iu his braiu. The other three started off, and as they went I let go nt one of the cubs with my little trapping axe. There wasn't one oliance in five hun dred that 1 would hit him iu a place that would hurt him, and I just threw it more under the impulse than with any expectation that I would bring him down. But as luck would have it the axe hit him square in the head and he went down with a roar. His yell turned the old mother into a devil. She had started off on a dead run, but as soon as she heard the cub cry she turned and came back on a gallop. Twenty feet from me she went up on ber liind feet and came toward me like a snow slide. She looked as big as a buffalo and as ugly as a catamount. My empty gun was of about as much use as a suowsboe, and as there was no time to think of u tree I just whipped out my knife and faced the music. She was about threo seconds in knocking me over the windfall, hut as we closed I drove the ten-inch blade of my knife between her ribs. Her nails found my Bhoulder and breast, and I svas laid up eleven weeks. The scratch didn't amount to much. I would have been well iu a week, but my partner was a greenhorn from Vermont, and when I sent him out to get slippery elm bark for a poultice he got basswood." What Pluck Bill. It is the bulldog fearlessness and tenacity of au Englishman that makes him a conqueror even when he faces a mob of barbarians. After the bom bardment of Alexandria by tho Eng lish fleet had driven tho Egyptian troops out, the city was looted by thieves and cutthroats. Threo or four hundred bluejackets were landed, who stopped the outrages by arresting every person found with plunder in his possession. On arrest a person was tried by drumhead courtinartial, and the sen tence, Bhooting or flogging, was ex ecuted without delay. An English man, Mr. Hulme Beaman, who as sisted in punishing the robbers, de scribes in his book, "Twenty Years in the Near East," a dangerous ex perience from which he was enabled to emerge by cool, fearless, bulldog pluck. He had boon detailed to superintend the flogging of two prisoners anil the shooting of a third, the sentence to be carried out at their native village, a nest of thieves. There were ten thousand of the riffraff looking on. Five policemen (Egyptians) and three Englishmen represented law and order. The prisoner, sentenced to be shot for a murder, was fitted iuto a shallow grave, and the policemen fired a volley, amid the execrations of the mob. Only Mr. Beaman and tlie Egyptian officer commanding the police under stood what the mob were saying, and tlio Egyptian begged the threo Eng lishmen to get awuy whilo yet there was time. They, however, insisted on seeing tho flogging carried out, and remarked that the slightest symp tom of fear would excite the mob to murder them. Tho flogging exasperated the crowd, already excited by tlie execution, and they pressed close round tho Eng lishmen. "It is time to put an end to infidels torturing believers!" said a portly old Arab sbeikb, closo to Beainan's elbow. The Englishman seized the Arab, and told the mob tbey should be ashamed of themselves to sympathize with a murderer aud thieves. A sul len silence followed. The prisoner, placed in a carriage, in which a police | man and two Englishmen also rode— | the third riding horseback alongside j —was driven at a walk through the dense throng to Alexandria, where a I conrtmartial ordered tkein to bo flogged. 'i'lie next year that sheikh called on Mr. Beaman at Cairo, brought with liim little presents, admitted the jus tice of his punishment, and he and Mr. Beaman remained the best of friends. The faintest sign of weak ness would have turned that mob into furious wolves. A Perilous Swim. While our soldiers and sailors wore advancing the flag, last summer, a i deed as brave as an,y of theirs was done by a runn of kindred race in far off Sierra Leone. This thrilling in cident of the native uprising is de scribed by a correspondent of the London Standard. At Botofunk, a mission station some fifty-five miles from the coast, four of the white missionaries had been literally hacked to pieces by the natives. It was said, however, that Mrs. Kane, the wifo of the superin tendent of the mission, had suoeeeded in escaping iuto the bnsh. With the hope of rescuing her, a force was dispatched from Freetown, with orders to push through to Eoto funk without delay. On arriving at the Eibbi Kiver, how ever, the force found that the natives had collected at Mabang, a town on the opposite bank, and had withdrawn all canoes and boats. As the river is over one hundred and fifty yards broad aud six fathoms deep, a serious obstacle pre sented itself. The only officer who knew this part of the country was Lieutenant W. E. Howell, of the First Glamorgan Volunteer Artillery, a member of on old Cornish family, who had raised n force of volunteers at the commence ment of the rising. He appealed for volunteers to swim across the river aud bring back as many canoes as possible, but there was no response, as not only would the swimmers be exposed to the full fire of the enemy, but the river was known to swarm with alligators. At length Lieutenant Howell, in spite of the protestations of his fellow officers, resolved to make the attempt himself. The enemy, evidently see ing what he wa3 about to do, assembled in force on the opposite bank, but were driven back some dis tance aud kept at bay by the firing of the British volunteers over Lieutenant Howell's head. When the Lieutenant had just reached mid-stream and was in the full current, ho was eeen to swing round rapidly ou his back; his leg had being seized by au alligator. It was only by swinging sharply round that he succeeded in freeing himself, but even so his thigh had been torn and lacerated in a shocking manner. Notwithstanding this injury aud the work of the enemy's guns, the gallnnt officer continued his perilous journey, and at length reached the opposite bank, only to find that his errand was fruitless, us all the boats and canoes had been destroyed- For moro than half an lionr he con tinued his search, bnt finding the enomv again pro3sing him, and feeling weak from loss of blood, he was com pelled to take to tho river again, and got back in safety. A Hero of tho Zulu War of 1870. It was at the time of the storming of the formidable fortress of Inhlobano mountain. This was a fastness con sidered by the Zulus impregnable, a huge square mass, with precipitous sides, and a flat top, four or five miles long. At either end was a passage up tho mountain, each wellnigh inacces sible. Major-General Eedgers Bullor had charge of the operations at one end, and before daylight his troops began the arduous ascent. All went well for a time, when suddenly they en countered a large force of Zulus ap proaching at au almost incredible speed. It was necessary to retreat, and Buller attempted to accomplish this though the other troops were un able to cover him in the perilous under taking. The Zulus thronged around the pre cipitous path, pouring volley after vol ley at close range upon the deserted band. But for Buffer's heroio exer tions the whole foroe would have been exterminated. Ho rallied them again and again, cheering and encouraging them by voice and action. Many troops were dismounted, and to these he proved an nngel of salvation. He tookl wo who were in imminent danger of being cut off, on his own horse, to a comparatively safe place. He person ally saved six lives, besides all that were saved by his orders aud his ax ample. Although he had been forty eight liours in the saddle, and was suf fering from a painful contusion, he him self covered the retreat, charging again and again at the Zulus, thus gaining time for his men to extricate them selves from the terrible volley of rocks. •Jllsn Ilanua Shot a Wild Cat. Miss Euth Hanua, daughter of Sena tor Hanna, is the heroiue of a wild cat hunt which occurred on her father's game preserve near Thomnsville, Ga., recently. For some time a large wild cat has been annoying the other oc cupants of the preserve, und finally Miss ilanua determined to get its scalp. Accompanied by Howard Hanua, her cousin, both being mounted ou fleet horses, she started on the chase before sunrise. Tho scent was taken up by hounds, and for nearly two hours the two cousins rode over rough coun try. Miss Hanna shot the cat when it took refuge in a tree. She rescued tho carcass from the dogs and bore it home as a trophy. Sportsmen said it was one of the biggest animals of the kind ever seen in that part of the State. Too lloailistic n Drama. 11l Cardiff, Wales, recently, at a tea entertainment given to the parishion ers by the National School, the play "Red Riding llood" was acted. The children had rehearsed in their ordin ary drosses, and consequently the wolf-skin was not seen by some of them until worn on the stage. On the wolf's appearance at the bedside of the grandmother, the child who was playing the part of grandmother gave a realistic yell of dismay and scrambled out of bed head foremost; the sight of her fat little form in a tight nightdress caused much laughter among the audience as she disap peared behind the curtains.—Weekly Telegraph. Weak-Growing A]>pto Tree*. There is a great difference in varie ties of apple trees as to their habit of growth, and judgment is needed in portioning out the manure to be used on each. The strong-growing varie ties like Northern Spy will need very little stable manure uutil they begin to fall from old age. But there are other kinds of slow and feeble growth that even while young can bear some stimulation with stable manure, es pecially if it is composted, aud its de ficiencies of potash and phosphate are supplied. Coarse manure ought never to be applied to apple trees at any age. It is the fermentation of manure in the soil that is the prolific cause of the fungus growths that iujure foilage and fruit more than the manure can help the tree. The only fertilizers that can be always used with safety are the minerals potash and phosphate. SeeillcHH Fruita. We fiavo not taken much interest in talk about seeflleas fruits, for the rea son that the trees or plants on which they grow must be propagated by lay ers or cuttings, both of which involve much skilled labor. Bat one advan tage may make these fruits profitable. They would be exempt from, attacks by insects which place their eggs at the blossom end of fruits, that being the place where the egg may be most safely and securely deposited, and from which there is an open way to *he core. The seedless apple would be like a navel orange, solid all the way through, and with no blossom end. But if all orchards were seedless would not the always enterprising in sect contrive some way to meet this emergency, and perhaps becomo more destructive thau ever. Savins Brush For Klnilllnc- In pruning orchards the branches cut out are often piled in heaps and when dried aru burned, often injuring the trees in their vicinity. There is a much better way than • this. Apple, pear or peach wood makes when dried a very hot fire, and snould be saved for the stove when the branches are too large to cut readily. Even the twigs have their value. They make the very best of kindlings'wlien dried, and if they somewhat crooked they are all the better, because they will uot pack closely together as the straight sticks are pretty sure to do. An old story is told of a farmer who onoe boasted among his companions what a good, patient wife he bad. She never complained of anything he did. One of them suggested that tho next time he drew np wood for the house, he should make a load of tho crookedest sticks he could find. He did so, aud as he drew up the load to the house bis wife came out smiling to meet him. "Mary, how do you like this load ol wood?" was the inquiry, while the farmer's companions stood by dxjiect mg a storm of abuse. Instead the re ply was given in the sweetest tones, "Oh John I that is capital wood. We always usod it at home when I was a girl, and mother used to say that the rounded pieces made the hottest fire because they fitted so nicely around tho kettles." The Cure of lloaes. June roses require pruning bn. once a year. This should bo done in spring, as soon as one is able to soe where the strongest and healthiest shoots are going to be. Tho old wood should be cut back nearly half, and all weak, unhealthy branches should be removed. If the branches are thick, they should be thinned out well. Air should have free circulation through the plant. Hybrid perpetuals require a differ ent treatment. As their ttowers are produced on now growth only, they shonld be grown on a system whiob insures the constant production ol such growth. This is done by making aud keeping the soil very rich, and by cutting tho plants back Bharply aftor each period of flowering. The term perpetual is a misleading one, because it carries with it the idea that tho rose 3 in this olass are, under all con ditions, ever bloomers. Bat such is not the case. They bear a profuse crop of flowers in June and July. After that, by pursuing the treatment advised above, they bloom at intervals during the season, but never in such profusion as in early summer. With out the treatment advised they will not do this. Many varieties are shy bloomers, and will only give au oc casional flower after July. The freest bloomers are not prolific enough to suit the lover of fine roses, but their flowers, though few in number com pared with those of tLo first crop, ure so large, so fine in form, so rioh in color, and so fragrant as a general thing that we cannot aflord to overlook this class in making our collections of roses. It requires more attention than any other, but tho results are well worth all the care we expend on it. Of the June roses tho best for gen eral use are tho mosses, in red, pink and white; tho Province and the good old dumask, both delightfully sweet, large, double, and of fine shape, and produced with wonderful freedom; the yellow Persian, which woll merits the nanio "Cloth of Gold," so rich is the color; and the small low-growing Scotch aud Austrian varieties. There aro others in this general class which deserve a place in any collection, but I have named those with which the amateur gardener will bo most likely to succeed. Wheu he or she learns to grow these well, other sorts oan be added with a reasonable chance of suc cess.—Harper's Bazar.
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