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According to President ITadley, ol Yale, legislators now swap votes in stead of exchanging opinions. A golf club lias been started at San H'nan, Porto Rico. This looks like a sure sign of the progress of assimila tion. Many municipalities of Russia are organizing fire brigades, some of which are similar in character to the old vol unteer companies once so familiar to our cities. A number of Boston women in con vention assembled the other day de cided that the best evidence of a sound mind is tlie ability to enjoy a joke at one's own expense. The overwhelming success of Ameri can bidders against British for Ugan da railway bridge construction is a re minder of how conspicuous are our bridgebuilders among our prosperity builders. The Boston Herald thinks that the average American is a very wretched in dividual when confronted by a holiday. It may lie urged in extenuation that a majority of our fete days come at a season of the year when our climate in most latitudes precludes any at tempt at outdoor enjoyment. Fearing the encroachments of Rus sia, Sweden and Norway have decided upon an elaborate reorganization of the army and the erection of a line of fortifications in the northern part of the Scandinavian frontier. The Swedes and Norwegians are said to be able to put 500,000 men in the field, if necessary. A professional gambler who died in a public hospital in New York City the other day, confessed in liis last hours that his only occupation was the cheating of unwary passengers iu pok er games in the smoking rooms of sev eral of the well-known transatlantic steamships, and that for many years Ills gains by swindling of that kind had been extremely largo. Last year the total number of new books published in the United States reached 6350, or 053 more than in any, previous year. There were 002 new editions of old fiction and 010 new novels, showing a decided reaction to ward novels of established reputation. A special feature of the year was the reissue of celebrated books in flue and carefully edited editions. The late Edward G. Mason, of Chi cago, who devoted much time, research and labor to gathering materials for a history of Illinois that he purposed writing, came to the conclusion that the name Chicago was derived from "Checngou," a place visited by former companions of La Salle in 1087. One of the visiting Frenchmen recorded that it took that name from the quan tity of garlic that grew in the woods there. India is rapidly becoming an Impor tant factor in the- coal market. The output last year was nearly forty per cent., and there will be a still further increase this year. Exportation of coal from India has already begun. The coal is found over wide areas, and the growing shortage in England may be relieved by the expansion of the min ing industry in India. The latter coun try may become a serious competitor of the United States in supplying ling land's coal rpnuirements. Statistics arc at hand showing that in the first month of the last quarter In France horsi s caused 907 accidents, with 83 fatalities. The railways in the same length of time caused 1-15, of which eight were fatal. The automo bile was the cause of 3-S, with two fa talities, and the bicycle was responsi ble for 119, with six deaths. -There will be representatives of -L different tribes of Indians in the Indian i'engross at the Fun-American Exposition at Buffalo next summer. | Tlie Darls:. Room. | BY EDWARD ELLIOTT. Every room in Harley Hall was oc cupied; omnibus, brougham and lug gage cart had been to and from the station so often that Mr. Binder, the head of the stable department, had been heard to murmur something not very complimentary about people who went about with "trunks as big as 'ay stacks," and who expected to find "carriages aud 'osses awaiting for 'em everywhere to drag 'em up the 'ills." Men were glad to be bidden to liar ley; they found they could kill time and pheasant more pleasantly there than at other places; and besides well stocked coverts there was a peculiar ly attractive stretch of lowland, through which a small river ran. which produced a great variety of feathered fowl, and which enabled a man keen about sport to get away occasionally from the everlasting bang, bang and barn door fowl business. Among the latest arrivals were two young men who were as unlike each other in every respect as two young men could be. Gilbert Hurst was a barrister, whose father owned a certain number of acres of land in the country, and who found like many other fathers of the present day that farming your own land and feeding, clothing and educating a family were pursuits that led to a small balance at your banker's and many sleepless nights. Gilbert was doing fairly well at the Bar, and was a steady, right minded, level-headed young man, with a pair of honest gray eyes that told the story of a frank and honest na ture. John Beasley, his companion on arriving, was tall, fair, narrow shouldered, well groomed and very rich. His father had made a large fortune out of small beer and was therefore ripe for the peerage. Moth ers smiled on John Beasley, but John 1 easley smiled mostly (when he had tie chance) on a certain enterprising V/idow at South Kensinyion, who gave charming little dinner parties in a louse so draped with art silks that it vas called "Liberty Hall," the only cbject in the house that was not over craped being the widow herself. Beasley senior had heard something about this lady, and had lectured his lion, and advised him to marry as noon as possible, and if possible to "marry money." As Gilbert entered the drawing-room his heart gave a mighty leap when he saw that Dorothy Lane, whom he had been for two years desperately in love with, was helping Lady Harley with the distribution of teacups. He had met Dorothy often in London, and to make her his wife was the cherished dream of his life, but he feared she would think he cared for the thousand a year which she was supposed to possess, that he was not well off eneugh to marry, and more than all. he feared she did not care for him. John saw her. too. His heart gave no leap—it was not of the leaping kind; but he thought he had never seen her to such advantage as now, as she stood in the soft light of the shaded lamps, her dark red dress edged with sable at the throat and wrists, fitting her to perfection, and showing every curve of her graceful figure. John remembered his father's advice, and, like a dutiful son, prompt ly rushed into conversation with a Miss Green, who was among the guests assembled, and who was fav ored by a fortune to the extent of SSOOO a year, and who thought John one of the most charming men of her ac quaintance. He was not. pleased later in the evening to find himself next Dorothy at dinner, while opposite him sat Gil bert Hurst, who already seemed on the very best terms with his neighbor, Miss Green. After answering some question of Lady Harley's respecting his journey he looked across the table and said: "By the way. Hurst, I did not see you in the train. Did you get in at Euston?" "Yes," answered Gilbert. "I came by tho two-10. and was close to you on the platform some time." "Oh, yes, I remember now. I saw you get into a third-class car riage with my servant." Lady Hartley looked up, and won dered why her husband had asked John Beasley to stay with him. But John did not wonder at all. and he felt a glow of satisfaction when his servant opened the shutters of his bedroom next morning and his eyes lighted on his coronet worked in red wool on the blankets, and he thought of tho societly he was going to dis tinguish himself in during the next 10 days. In the half hour devoted to his toilet he made three resolves— first, that he would make himself so agreeable to every one that he would be asked again to stay at Harley; sec ondly, that ho would "make the run ning" with Miss Green, with a view to matrimony and the possession of SSOOO a year, at the same time amus ing himself with Dorothy, whose looks pleased him mightily: thirdly, that he would write to tho South Kensington widow, omitting in his letter any men tion of either Dorothy or Miss Green. He attired himself with great care, In shooting clothes that wore a great deal too now. and a sou peon of scent hung about him as he walked with a self-satisfied air into tho breakfast room. He east a sharp critical eve over Gilbert, hoping to find that want of moans or want of taste would be tray itself; but not a fault could lie found with the shooting, suit that looked worn, but was well worn, and John realized as..he looked that there was an indescribable something about the wearer that he. John, could never arrive at. He played his cards very well, he thought, during the days that followed —days in which Gilbert had plenty of opportunities for finding himself with a bad headache* as he watched John making secret love to the girl he cared for so much. The men started early one morn ing for an outlying cover that was generally supposed to produce rock eters, and that was kept as a bonne bouche for the end of the week's shoot. The ladies were to drive out to lunch, and Dorothy and Miss Green, who were rival photographers, were to send their cameras out in the lun cheon carts. On arriving at. the side of the wood, Mr. Ridge, the head keeper had a few minutes' conservation with Lord Har ley, and then set about placing their guns. "Will you get through that gate, if you please. Mr. Beasiey, and stand at the end of that hedge; and you, Mr. Hurst, if you please, will you stop about where you are now?" and Ridge hurried off 10 place the great men of the party at the corner of the co vert, at which point the birds were expected to break. Lord Harley taking a middle place. Soon silence reigned in the ranks; it was a perfect early winter day and as Gilbert turned his head and looked away over the beautiful English land scape his thoughts were far more of Dorothy than of pheasants, and it was not until a great hare had come lop ing out of the covert and had run al most between the feet of the keeper's son, who. weighed down with impor tance and cartridges, was acting .as a loader, that he turned his thoughts to the business before him. Soon something more than the "tap-tap" of the "stops" could be heard, and a sound as though Bedlam was let loose gave the pheasants and the guns an idea that it was time to be up and doing. A few shots at some stray birds, then a muttered "Here they come" from Lord Harley. and soon every one was blazing away. Contrary to Ridge's expectation, the birds broke John Bear,ley's end of the covert, and not only did that gentle man let fly at everything that came his way. but he had a turn at every thing that was rightly Gilbert's —a more sysomatic robbery was never perpetrated; and Lord Harley, who was not getting much shooting, had plenty of time to see what was going 011. and to wonder* as Lady Harley had won dered, why he had asked John to stay with them. Gilbert, though a very good shot, had lest his temper and had shot badly; ho swore at the lad for not be ing quicker with the cartridges, and could have kicked Beasiey when he sauntered up to him after the beaters were through, and remarked: "Not quite up to the mark today. Hurst; you let a lot of these birds get away. Heavily handicapped, not hav ing a good loader; my man is a capi tal chan. was with Lord Greystone, you know, six years, and has been two with me—ought to know some thing about it." "I am afraid you were not very well placed Hurst." said Lord Harley, coming up and casting a glance full of meaning at John; "we must look after you better next time;" and there was a kindly ring in the old man's voice that did much to soothe Gil bert's rufiled temper. Dorothy and Miss Green came out before lunch to enable them to see a drive down in the low ground. As the guns were placed behind a high, straggling hedgerow John was sorely tempted to ask Dorothy to stand by him to witness his skill and prowess, but prudence conquered, and Miss Green was selected as his companion. "Will you stand by rae, Miss Lane?" asked Gilbert. "I am afraid you will not see any brilliant shooting, but I will do my best. Let me unroll your waterproof and I can make you a com fortable seat here in these dry leaves, and you will be sheltered from the wind." "I am so afraid." said Dorothy, scanning the sky that had become somewhat overcast since morning, "that it will bo too dark for photog raphy. and I wanted so to get a group; it is getting late, too. and the beaters seem a long time getting into line." She knelt down in the leaves that carpeted the side of the hedge, and peered through a small opening. "Oh, I can see them now quite plainly. Just 100k —they are down by the osiers, and will soon be here." Gilbert knelt by her side, and held back some brambles that intercepted his view, his heart beating furiously and his hands trembling as he found his face so dangerously near to Dor othy's. A sudden peal of laughter, and John Bcasley's voice calling out. — "Are you two saying your prayers?" brought Oilbo-t to his feet and the blood to Dorothy's face. Angry words sprang to his lips, but he was silenced by an appeal from a pair of very soft brown eyes and turn ing toward Dorothy ho &ald: "Yes, I was kneeling by your side; can't you guess what " "Look out. sir. there's a lot of duck coming over." This from tne loader who had been munching twigs in a ruminative manner. Gilbert picked up his gun, but it was too late, and he knew that Beas ley would have another chance of saying something unpleasant about his shooting. After that there was no time for talking; it was hot work for 10 minutes and a big mixed bag was the result. Before lunch was over Dorothy set tled to go home by a returning dog cart that had come out with a fresh supply of cartridges, and as she was leaving she saw Miss Green preparing her camera for action, a young man in attendance busy with the tripod and the legs. John helped her with her wraps, saying as he did so: "I am sorry you are going home, Miss Lane. 1 wanted you to be in the group;" and then in a lower voice, "you know very well I shall not care to have a copy unless you are in it." "Never mind. Miss Green will be there," said Dorothy, as she clam bered up into the dog cart. John made a pretense of settling the rugs around her feet, and whis pered : "Thank goodness she will be busy with her camera; I have had enough of Miss Green's society for one day, and you know very well that at all times I infinitely prefer yours." See ing a doubting look in Dorothy's face, he added. "You do not believe me, Dorothy, but it is true. I swcp.r I will not go near Miss Green today." The cart moved off and Dorothy had plenty to think of during her home ward drive. She knew very well that she cared for Gilbert Hurst, and that she had cared for him ever since she met him on the river two years ago; they had often met since, and now had been for a week together under the same roof. Surely he must have meant something just now—or was ho only amusing himself, and did John really care more for her than Gilbert did? After dinner that evening she was playing some dreamy German music that seemed to have a particularly soothing effect on Lord Harley, who was half buried and half asleep in a big arm-chair before the fire, when John came up and leaned over her shoulder till his lips almost touched her hair, and said in a low voice: "I kept my word this afternoon; what is to be my reward?" "That you shall be allowed to turn over the next two pages of music for me," she answered. "And this, after," she added, nodding toward a gardenia that she had left with her gloves and fan on the piano. Gilbert's jealous ears heard the an swer and he went off with a rage at his heart to the billiard room. The following day it rained in tor rents. Miss Green and several of the guests were leaving, and Dorothy went off to the dark room at the far end of the house to develop some negatives that she had taken of a ruined castle in the neighborhood. She found all in order as she had left it and soon had everything ready for business, developing solution, alum, kpyo, all in their respective places, the red lamp lighted, the matches close at hand and the candle blown out. She reached up to the shelf for the slide, took out the nega tive, and slipped it quickly into the developing tray for the preliminary wash, and then poured the solution over its surface. She gently rocked the tray to and fro in the dim red light, and saw the high lights make their appearance one by one. She searched in vain for the turrets of the ruined castle, and for the high belt of trees on the hill beyond, and began to fear she had taken two pic tures on the same plate. Presently odd shapes and strange figures be gan to appear which, after a little fresh developer had been poured over them, took the form of folding chairs and benches, and Dorothy saw the shooting party at lunch before her. Her hand groped about for the match box, but the thought struck her that the negative was not hers and must not be wasted, so it was left in the alum a few minutes and after a wash was left in the hypo bath; but her quick eyes had seen enough to tell her that John Beasley had lied to her, for fixed in her memory as sure ly as it was now being fixed on the plate was the picture of that young man sitting by the side of Miss Green, his head turned toward her. his hand almost touching hers. She sat think ing for some time, and was only aroused by hearing footsteps in the passage, followed by a knock at the door. "Yes, who Is It?" "It is I." answered Gilbert's voice. "They are trying some new music in the drawing-room, and Lady Harley wants your help. May I come in?" "Yes; the negative is fixed now. the light will not hurt it. You can come in." Gilbert groped his way into the room, and found Dorothy seated at the developing tabic. "May I see the photograph you have taken? Has the old castle come out well?" She lifted the plate from under the running water tap, and held it up be fore the rod lamp for him to see. She turned her head, and their eyes met for a second as he leaned over her shoulder, but before he could say a word of surprise thero was a sudden flare, a snap and a gurgling sound, and with one wild flicker the lamp went out and they were in darkness. "Where is the door? I know I shall tumble over something and do some damage. Will you lead me? You know this room better than I do." A small soft hand was slipped into his, and though Dorothy did know that room quite well they wor? a.very long time finding the door, but then, you see, the rOom was very dark, and be fore they left It Dorothy Dane had promised to become Gilbert Hurst's wife.—Wavorley Magazine. RLEiiCE OF THE ANGORA. MILLION POUNDS ANNUALLY PRO DUCED IN THE UNITED STATES- A Statement Tinned by tlie Department of Agriculture l{epectin& G rati en and Val ue* _ Goat Meat In Much Better l oot! Tlian Mutton Tattea Like Venison. The department of agriculture an nually receives thousands of letters of inquiry concerning Angora goats, and in view of the interest taken in the subject Mr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal industry, recent ly made some investigations on the subject. It is estimated, he says, that there are about 400,000 Angora goats in the United States, and that their annual production of fleece is over a million pounds. The history of the Angora goat in the United States. Mr. Salmon says, has been marred by the carelessness or indifference of occasional writers for the press, who have often been in accurate as to dates or facts, and also by others whose interests have doubt less led them into exaggerations. The real facts of its history, however, are so few and so simple as to prompt that venerable breeder. William M. Landrum, to say that they would make but a very small book. During the ad ministration of president Polk the Sul tan of Turkey rccuested of him that he recommend some one who would experiment in the culture of cotton in Turkey. Accordingly, Dr. James B. Davis of Columbia. S. C., was rec ommended, and he received the ap pointment. The work done by Dr. Davis appeared to be highly gratify ing to the Sultan, and so, upon his re turn, in 1849, the Sultan, desiring to reciprocate the courtesy of the Presi dent. presented him with nine of the choicest goats in his dominion. Col. Richard Peters, writing in 187G, says of these animals: "These doubtless were selected from the herds of An gora. a district of country lying among the Taurus mountains, which trav erse Asiatic Turkey, and which do rives its name from its principal city, situated about 200 miles east of Con stantinople." It docrfcnot seem, there fore. that Dr. Davis encountered any great difficulty in securing this first im portation of Angora goats into this country. "Of the nine Angoras imported by Dr. Davis, seven were does and two were bucks. Besides these, according to Col. Peters, there came in the same lot one pure-bred Thibet doe, several head of crosses between the Angora and Thibet goats, and quite a number of grade does bred from the common short-haired ewes of the country and his Angora bucks. "Tho soft undercoat of the Cash mere is known as 'pashum.' and is the product from which the famous Cash mere shawl was made. Mr. Wm. M. Landrum, who was probably the first in this country to discover that our so-called Cashmere goat was the An gora instead, through investigation made about J SGI. also states that there Is a difference between the Cashmere shawl and tho Paisley shawl. These are often referred to as being the same shawl. While the filling of both shawls was of pashum. thechain ofthe latter was made from the kid fleece of the Angora. Pashum is combed out in the spring, and is worth, when cleaned, in the country where it is produced, from $1.50 to $2 per pound. "A large class of people in some Way have become possessed of tho opinion that tho goat is practically a useless animal. They do not reach conclusions upon investigations, how ever. and do net discriminate between tho different breeds. To them a goat is a 'goat.' and there the argument ends. Investigations prove that the Angora goats are not only classed among the most useful of the domestic animals, and have been so classed for thousands of years, but their useful ness is manifested in a variety of ways. The fleece, called 'mohair,' fur nishes seme of the finest of fabrics among ladies' goods and is used in various other manufactures: their habit of browsing enables the farmer in a wooded locality to use them to help In subjugating the forest; their flesh is exceedingly delicate and nutri tious; the milk, though not so abun dant as with the milcli breed of goats. Is richer than cow's milk; their tanned skins, though inferior in quality to the skins of the common goat, are used for leather; their pelts make the neat est of rugs and robes; they are excel lent pets for children: a few of them in a flock of sheep are a protection from wolves and dogs; their manure is no ticeably helpful to the grass which follows them after they have cleaned away the underbrush. These are all vital subjects of varying degrees of im portance, and will be considered here under appropriate heads. "In those localities where valuable land is completely subdued by brush the goats are considered of more value for tho purpose of clearing it than for their mohair or meat. They thus be come one of tho farmer's important tools. Their value in this respect must be measured by the value of the land which they will render cultivable. It is said that in Oregon, where China men had been paid as high as S2O an acre for clearing off brush goats had done the work even better. Sprouts will spring up behind men's work, hut goats will keep them down until they ccaso to appear. True, the goats re quire more time than men. but their work is better. "One of the first questions to be considered by a man vho is about to embark in stock raising of any kind is the markets for his surnlus. This question in first because It is the prin cipal one and all important. The one wh ,. efo begill wjth a flo< , k n( thoroughbred or high-grade Angoras, j such as will yield merchantable mo hair, will not need to consider mar bets, as the increase will be employed to produce mohair; but a large num ber of flocks will be built up in the future, as they have been in the past, by the use of does of the common breed. It will be ascertained that the fleece of low grades is barely worth Lhe cost of clipping it; that the skin is not so valuable for leather as that of the common goat; and that, as a rug or robe, the pelts are not so val uable as those of the higher grades. Therefore, if there is to be any profit from this part of a flock, there must bo a market for the meat. "The reason goats are not seen oftener in the market reports of re ceipts and shipments is that they pass as sheep. It is stated, however, that increasing numbers are seen in the , larger markets. In the Union stock "v yards of Chicago as many as SOOO were received in one week last year. V.'hile the goats pass as sheep, they are also sold to consumers as sheep. The dif ference is very slight in some places. In Kansas City, for instance, the sheep bring about one-half a cent per pound more than goats. The packers buy them as goats and sell them as sheep in the form of dressed meat or canned." In one week recently SOOO goats were received at the Union stock yards in Chicago. They were slaugh tered and sold, and yet no butcher bought anything but "sheep" and no housewife served anything at dinner but lamb or mutton. The agricultural department wrote to many goat raisers and asked them it they had any difficulty at all in selling goats for food. No joke for which Billy was ever the butt had more genuine humor than had this ex tract from a letter written in answer to the question by Thomas H. Mastin of Kansas City: "You ask if I have any difficulty in disposing of goats for meat. None at all. The packers buy goats as well as sheep. They make a differem o of about half a cent a pound in favor of sheep when buying, and as they never sell goats they save that difference in selling." The government's goat expert de clares that goat, meat Is much better food than mutton, and that nothing except the prejudice against the goat born of the paragraphers' jokes pre vents there being a demand for goat's flesh as food and a willingness to pay a higher price for it than for mutton. If this publication of Uncle Sam, which really should bo called "In Praise of the Goat," is widely read and believed in there doubtless will soon be an extraordinary demand for goat flesh and no one need yearn in vain at any time of the year for a hit of venison. It is the opinion of half a dozen goat authorities quoted that Billy's flesh, when Billy is properly fed, cannot be distinguished from ven ison. In fact, some of the enthusiasts say that goat is gamier and better than deer, provided the animal gets its entire subsistence by browsing. One correspondent of the agricul tural department living in New Mexico tells of a certain St. Louis community which ate Angora "venison"' and never knew that it was killed by the knife of a butcher instead of by a rifle ball of the hunter. Another correspondent tells of a woman who kept a boarding-house in the country for summer sojourners from New York, and who fed them regularly twice a week on goat meat and was complimented by her board ers on the prime quality of her mut ton. One Texas enthusiast says: "Any body who ha:; ever tasted a roasted or barbecued piece of Angora mutton will find It better than any moat he ever before ate." Still another goat advocate says that the flesh Is 50 percent better than mutton, and yet it sells to the butchers for less money. So much for preju dice. In view of these encomiums it is not so hard to forgive one's butcher for delivering an occasional bit of Billy in lieu of a ram. Artiflciul Fertilization by Chemical*. The American Journal of Physiology contains an account of the progress of Prof. I.oeb's experiments in artifi cial parthenogenesis. He has been able to develop eggs of chaetopterus, an annelid or species of worm, into free swimming larvae, by placing them in solutions which caused them to lose water. Chloride of potassium solutions and hydrochloric acid, when added to he sea water, are effective in causing the eggs to develop. The ar tificially developed larvae do not differ from those produced by natural fertili zation, and it was concluded that the processes of segmentation are a func tion of the constitution of sea water. Observations were also made in the production of giant embryos by tho fusion of two or more eggs. Those experiments have an important bear ing on the theory of fertilization and other phenomena of life. A Feat Itcynm! llim. A Scottish prison chaplain, recently appointed, entered one of the cells on his first round of inspection, and with much pomposity thus addressed the prisoner who occupied it: "Well, my man, do you know who I am?" "No, nor I dinna care!" was the noncha lant reply. "Well, I'm your new chap lain." "Oh, ye are? Then I hae heard o' ye before!" "And what did you hear?" returned the chaplain, his cu riosity getting the better or his dig nity. "Well, I heard that tho last twa kirks ye were in ye preached them baith empty: but ye willna find it such an easy matter to do the same wi' this one."—Tho King.
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