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SPORTINC BREVITIES.
Tale is the basketball champion in
the Intercollegiate League.
New York has released First Base
man John Gauzel.
Automobiles can run weuty miles an
hour in New York.
In New England there arc 115 race
tracks which are members of the Na
tional Trotting Association.
George 11. Brooke and llugb D. Scott
have won at Philadelphia the racquet
double champion hip of America.
The unbeaten pacer, Dan Patch, rec
ord 2:04%, has been I ought by M. E.
Sturgis, of New York Ciiy, for .$20,000.
The women's golf championship will
be at the Country Club of Brookline,
Mass., beginning September 20 and con
eluding October 4.
Iticliard Croker lias bought from
Lord Clonmell two highly bred year
lings. The price for the pair is said
to have been $-5,000.
August Belmout may place the Con
stitution in commission the coming
summer, Willi the view of having her
ready for the next cup race.
Jack Haskell, who umpired for the
American League lust year, announces
that he has signed a contract to umpire
for the American Association during
the coming baseball season.
The track record for the half-mile
speedway on Lake Monona, Madison,
Wis., lias been broken by W. J. Gamin's
pacer, Diamond J., who wen the lialf
mile in eoiupelitiou in 1:04%.
Both steam and gasolene machines
require mnfilers. In a steam carriage
tlie muffler serves a double purpose—lt
reduces the sound of tho exhaust and
helps to render invisible the exhaust
steam.
It is safe to say tlint at least 4000
young men will m ike a good living
next season playing baseball, and out
of this number there will lie less than
100 first-class men—men who can hit,
held and lteen their hendfi.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
London has an army of 15.500 police
men.
Sugar duties have been abolished in
San Domingo.
A street railway strike at Borne,
Italy, has been averted.
Tlie Indiana Democratic State con
vention lias been called for June 4.
A new salmon combine of forty-five
firms is contemplated in British Col
umbia.
Several German steamship companies
have reported a large decrease in divi
dends.
General satisfaction has been ex
pressed in Anstrin over the intention
to send an Ambassador to Washing
ton.
A Swedish Count will put 300 acre's
of land in Michigan inlo peat beds, an
entirely new industry for tbo United
States.
The Swiss Federal Council will eon
tribute to Harvard's Germanic Museum
plaster casts of representative Swiss
sculptures.
A Referendum League lias been
formed in Chicago to further that fea
ture of municipal rule all over the
United States.
Harvard University will probably
send an expedition to explore Egypt,
Babylonia, Assyria and Palestine for
Semitic relics.
Nearly $10,000,000 was expended by
Belgium last year in establishing new
Government railroads and Increasing
traffic and transportation conveniences.
The proposed gigantic coal combine
of Indiana and Illinois miners has gone
up in smoke. The operators of tlie lat
ter State demanded too high a price
for holdings.
The San Jose scale has wrought
great havoc in the orchards of Ohio,
and it lias been necessary to dig up and
burn thousands of infected trees. Next
season's fruit crop will be short as a
consequence.
An Old American Gold Mine.
The oldest American gold mine is
said to be the Calhoun mine In Lump
kin county. Georgia, It was discov
ered by whites in 1828. The Indians
had known of it before that time.
Senator John C. Calhoun once owned
and operated it, and It received Its
name from him. it subsequently
passed out of his hands and was do
nated to an agricultural college. From
thai time until recently it was worked
In a desultory way. Lately It cams
into the possession of a Pacific coast
miner, who has pushed the work and
the placer deposit i 3 returning him a
clear profit ranging from S2OO to S3OO
per month as the result of tho labor
of six men. A recent clean-up of 35
days' run produced $300.93 In fine gold
anil SSO worth of nuggets, all of which
cost $370 for labor, leaving a net profit
of 50-10.33.
COMPENSATIONS.
He found success most For joy tho keenest seems
Who, having trio* 1 and failed, Where grief has been before:
The lesson of defeat. After night's troubled dreams.
Upon his standard nailed, There, at tho open door,
Then straightway bade his soul Thriee glorious she stands-
Take up the task begun, Dawn, with her roses gay,
Nor paused until the goal And in her outstretched hands
Of his desire was won. The shining gifts of Day.
—Youth's Companion.
j AT THE POINT OF THE UMBRELLA. :
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5 By Helen M. Palmer. J
This was the second stop tho train
had made since leaving Trieste and
no one had got into tho carriage; Bea
trix congratulated herscll' that Uncle
George's fee to the guard had worked
so well, and opened another roll of
shawls and rugs in pursuit of a miss
ing novel.
Suddenly an uproar of tongues
arose on the platform; the door was
jerked open and a stout woman stum
bled through it, followed by auother
lugging a big basket; behind came a
drove of children, all screaming, push
ing, and smeared, as to mouth and
fingers, with some sticky black com
pound which they were devouring
greedily.
Beatrix gave, one glance of liorror
and began to gather up her scattered
belongings.
"Y'ou must find me a place," she
said to the guard. "You were paid for
this carriage."
"I cannot help it," he muttered; "it
is a carriage for ladies alone; behold,
these are ladies alone —the train is
going, there is no time."
For answer Beatrix cast her rugs
and bags upon him, and snatching up
"-er umbrella, books and dressing case,
j.ade her way through the scramb
ling children, who were fighting for
places at tho windows, and dashed out
upon the platform. Tlie whistle was
sounding; evidently there was no time
to lose; the guard opened the near
est door, threw in tho bags, and gave
Beatrix an impulse that propelled her
tho entire length of the carriage. An
other jolt and tho train was off.
Beatrix was aware that she was be
ing steadied upon her feet by a strong
arm, the arm of the man whom she
had caught a glimpse of sitting at
the further window, and upon whom
she and her traps had descended af
ter the manner of a whirlwind. Stam
mering "Millo pardond, monsieur!"
she sank upon the opposite seat and
endeavored to regain her composure,
her natural color and the dignity
which befitted a young lady travel
ling alone. There were three other
persons in the carriage; two sleepy
looking women, past whom she had
shot without apparently doing them
any damage; and the gentleman oppo
site, who was now reading, holding
a large book quite close to his face.
This gave her a chance to examine
him. He was tall; not too young—
3eatrix was nineteen—and distinctly
"nice" looking, she decided. His
gray tweed clothes looked English;
the scarlet fez he wore byway of a
cap suggested the East. His luggage?
Yes, there was the bag of golf sticks
and the folding bath-tub—he must be
English.
Beatrix had just readied this con
clusion when the book was dropped
and tlie stranger said in a very agree
able voice,—
"I beg your pardon, it is—er—very
warm here, don't you think? Per
haps you would like to have your win
dow raised."
Beatrix assented with thanks, think
ing she would like to ask him how
he knew that English was her native
tongue. She stole a glance at his
face; it was a delightful face, with a
grave, kind smile that showed very
white teeth, and a nose that might
have been supercilious but for a lit
tle irregular ripple in the middle of
it. But what a pity that one of his
eyes was injured! It was closed and
the eyelid drooped. She wondered if
he were in the army and had lost an
eye—perhaps under "Bobs."
Presently she began to collect her
belongings, scattered by her violent
entrance; and again her vis-a-vis
came to her aid so naturally and sim
ply that it would have been impossi
ble for the greatest stickler for the
proprieties to take offense. Before
her various parcels were recaptured
and reduced to order, they had
laughed heartily over her misadven
ture.
"Here's your umbrella," he 'said,
fishing it up from the floor, where it
had fallen. "It's not a bad weapon
for a charge."
"Did I charge? said she. "I'm so
sorry!"
"Oh, well, you Americans are so
impetuous, don't you know? Ono ex
pects little things like that."
"'You Americans!' How did you
know that I am an American? I
thought I spoke beautiful English."
"Why, so you do, I assure you, but
—there is something—l can't exactly
tell what, but you have a quick little
way with you, and you look different
from most English girls I know—and
—and —you must he tired of hearing
about your boots and your gowns."
"I don't know ihat we are ever ex
actly tired," admitted Beatrix, slow
ly. "I know what you mean; we have
a great many faults —oh, I know it!"
she sighed. "But wo do not let our
skirts hitch up in front or on the
sides, and wo always make connec
tions in the back. How frivolous that
sounds!" she thought. "He will think
I am one of those dreadful free and
easy Americans he has heard of who
have no manners and will take up
with any one."
She buried herself in a book, re
solved to be very dignified in the fu
ture.
A shower had arisen; the rain was
beating in and it was necessary to
close the window; he seemed glad
of the interruption, and seized upon
it to make some remarks upon the
country they were passing through.
As she lay down her book and gave
him her attention, she noticed that
lii 3 right eye was no longer closed;
it was almost as wide open as the
other, although it still drooped a lit
tle, as if it had been hurt. It sudden
ly flashed upon her that she must
have hit him when she made her vio
lent c-ntry—that was what he meant
by his speech about the umbrella.
"Your eye"—she stammered, the
image of remorse, "Did I? Did you
mean, oh, I hope I didn't hurt you
very much!"
"It was nothing, really nothing; I
scarcely feel it now," he hastened to
assure her for her eyebrows were
drawn together and her lips were
quivering, and altogether she looked
as if she were going to cry.
"But I might have put your eye
out!" she gasped.
"You might have done many things
with that deadly umbrella. But you
didn't—please don't think of it again,"
he pleaded.
"How good of you!" she murmured,
gazing at him with admiration.
"May I ask," he resumed after a
moment, "whether you were at Shep
herd's some weeks ago with the Van
Duzcrs?"
"Yes," she said. "Mr. Van Duzer
Is my uncle; I went up the Nile with
him and my aunt. Were you in Cairo?"
"Unfortunately I reached there just
as your party was leaving. I met Mr.
Van Duzer, whom I have often seen
at home, in—er—England, but I only
had a glimpse of the rest of hi 3 party.
I was sure, though, that I remembered
you. I am—er—Sir Hugh Chester,"
he added after a pause. "I don't sup
pose Mr. Van Duzer will have men
tioned me."
"But of course he did!" she cried.
"He talked a lot about you, and was
so sorry that we missed you as we
did. Isn't it odd that I should hap
pen on you in this way?"
"It's uncommonly pleasant—for
me."
"But supposing I had put your eye
out with that wretched umbrella?
U'ncle George would never have for
given me."
"'Uncle George?'" he queried with
a quizzical expression, and they
joined in a light hearted burst of
laughter.
"You see he thinks so much of
you," she explained.
"Well, then you ought to feel that
I am properly presented, and you'll
let me take you out to get some lun
cheon. Here's where we stop for
food—such as it is."
"And you won't think I'm one of
those dreadful American girls who
keep 'mommem' and 'popper' in the
background and just stram around
having a good time regardless? There
are a few specimens left, but not
nearly so many as your novelists
would lead you to suppose."
"I won't tell you what I think," he
declared, "but I shouldn't mind tell
ing Uncle George."
The long hours flew by in discus
sions of books and people—for they
found some acquaintances in common
—and the exchange of what Beatrix
called "views of life." Together they
laughed over the queer dishes of their
makeshift dinner, and when Sir Hugh
returned from a smoke at the next
stop, he found Beatrix pensively
watching the rising moon.
"Please, when you next discuss
Americans," said she—"you do dis
cuss us now, you know; the time has
gone by when you confounded us with
the outer barbarians—do not say that
the American girl on her travels is In
the habit of talking a dozen hotirs on
a stretch with the companions Heav
en sends her. They are not all so
spoiled as I am; I confess I am apt
to do what I like."
"I don't think I shall judge the
American girl by you," said Sir Hugh.
Then, after watching her a moment.
"Since you are speaking of yourself,
don't you think you are rather a per
verse little person? Even your dim
ple is in a place where no one else
has dimples."
"Is it?" said Beatrix. "Do tell mo
more about that delightful Political
Reform club; I am so interested in
it!"
It was amazing how much they
found to talk about; one stout old
lady got out and another got In, but
as no tourists appeared to Interrupt
their tete-a-tete, and as the night f ell
and the train climbed the heights . f
the Semmering Pass they were left
alone. The full moon was flooding
the deep blue spaces of the sky and
Ailing the valleys with a mystery of
silvery light and deathlike shadow.
Sir Hugh drew the green silk curtain
over the Impertinence of the glimmer
ing lamp, and lighted only by the soft
radiance they gazed inlo the shadowy
jepths that unrolled below them.
At one station they seemed to pause
high up in air, and from the platform
beneath bouquets of wild flowers were
lifted on poles to the level of the car
riage windows, accompanied by a
shrill announcement of the price. The
biggest and sweetest of these, a great
mass of white and purple rhododen
drons, was selected by Sir Hugh, and
together he and Beatrix detached tha
flowers from the spectral pole and
followed the tinkling sound of the
silver coin as it went dropping into
space until it struck the rocks below.
"It seems like a dream," said Bea
trix, with a sigh, rousing herself from
the charmed silence in which they had
hung over the beauty of the sleeping
land, "and I shall feel like an opera
singer en voyage when I arrive in
Vienna with this." And she buried
her face in the great disk of dewy
petals, framed in a stiff rim of pierced
and scalloped paper.
"Vienna? Of course; we shall soon
be there, and your people will be
meeting you and taking you away,
and this journey will be a forgotten
episode—you Americans run about so
much," he added, as if to strike a less
personal note.
"But I never run about alone —at
least over here. This is a great ad
venture, I assure you. And—l think
I'm net likely to forget that umbrella,
however good you may be about for
getting it. You're sure it doesn't
pain you now?" And she lifted her
brown eyes anxiously to his gray
eyes.
"Oh, well, of course there is the
bunch of flowers, too," she rejoined,
dropping her eyes to the rhododen
drons, which she still held.
He stole a glance at her, and his
voice was steadied a little consciously
when he next spoke.
"One never knows exactly how to
take you—you are quicker than we
are and you may be laughing at me—
but I want to say i m more glad than
I can tell that I have met you, and
I'm sorry the journey Is over; but I
am not going to lose you now, If it is
over. May I come to see you in Vi
enna?"
"Yes," said Beatrix, softly.
"May I come tomorrow?" he urged.
"Certainly," she said, recovering
the self possession which his earnest
ness had shaken. "I shall be delight
ed. and so will mamma, I am sure."
It was midnight when they drew
into the big. bustling station; they
looked at each other and found it harl
to leave the memories or the day
crowned by the poetic charm of the
moonlit night.
"They will be here In a moment,"
Beatrix thought, "the boys and Uncle
Archie, and I shall be going home,
and yet, in away, It seems as if I
belonged here, too."
As for Sir Hugh, he turned away
when the door opened, and her peo
ple seized upon her with kisses and
jocose greetings. But there was an
instant when he caught her hand and
pressed it, whispering, "Tomorrow,"
and they botu knew that tomorrow
meant "Forever and a day."—Waver
ley Magazine.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Wasps may often be observed de
taching from fences, boards or any old
wood the fibres which they afterwards
manufacture into papier mache.
Matwatchin, on the borders of Rus
sia, is the only city in the world peo
pled by men only. The Chinese women
are not only forbidden to live in this
territory, but even to pass the great
wall of Kalkan and enter into Mon
golia. All the Cninese of this border
city are exclusively traders.
The Hawaiian islands must be ■
damp place. It is reported that one
Monday night at Pakalkow it began
to rain and the next morning at 7
o'clock the gauge showed 13 inches.
In Ave hours at Sanpahoenoe the gauge
measured 10 inches. At Papaaloa, in
24 hours, the gauge showed 40 inches.
In the city of St. Louis, Mo., there
is a certain hairdressing saloon the
ceiling of which is entirely covered
by the photographs of stage and music
hall celebrities. Every likeness bears
the autograph of its original, and a
step ladder is invariably kept in the
shop In order that any patron may
Inspect the curious ceiling at close
quarters if he so desires.
A street in Paris, France, that has
been opened to the public is paved
with glass. It was thought that the
surface would be slippery, but on. the
contrary it has proved to afford an
excellent foothold for horses, and will
not become dusty or absorb filth. All
kinds of glass debris was utilized in
the manufacture of the pavement, and
the inventor of the process is sanguine
of its adoption on a large scale.
The Indians of America were gen
erally Polytlieists, or believed in a plu
rality of gods. Some were considered
as local deities, yet they believed that
there was one supreme God, or Great
Spirit, the creator of the rest and all
creatures and things. Him the natives
of New England called Ktchtan. They
believed that good men, at death, as
cended to Kichtan, above the heavens,
where they enjoyed departed friends
and all good things; that bad men also
went and knocked at the gate of glory,
but Kichtan bade them depart, for
there was no place for such, whence
they wandered in restless poverty. This
Supreme Being they held to bo good,
and prayed to him when they desired
any favor, and paid a sort of acknowl
edgement to him for plenty, victories
etc.
A slip on the ice may fracture n leg
but a slip of the tongue may fracture a
reputation.
HOMES OF THE BEAVERS.
FAST DISAPPEARING BEFORE THE
VANGUARD OF CIVILIZATION.
How tli Little Follows Build and Live
in Harmony-tiller Title to Distinction
ltestn on Their Ability us Engiueurs—
lliey Have Exceedingly Thrifty Habits.
The beaver is another of the ani
mals which are fast disappearing be
fore the barbarian vanguard of civi
lization. From a common and widely
distributed animal, he has become
rare and local, and in most parts of
the United States he is already but a
faint memory, kept alive by such
names as Beaver Fall's, Beaver Dam
#nd Beaver Brook, given to places
which he formerly inhabited. His
beautiful fur coat was coveted by
man, and according to the universal
law of nature he died because it was
tc the immediate interest of a more
powerful animal to kill him. Per
haps he has fulfilled his mission; at
any rate, few animals have lone more
toward forming the contour of the
country. Wherever he has been he
has left lasting monuments to his in
dustry in the torm of meadows, ponds
and waterfalls, and his name will al
ways be associated with peaceful, in
telligent labor.
In appearance, the beaver reminds
us somewhat of a muskrat and some
what of a woodchuck, though he is
larger than either of them. In length
he measures something over two fe„t,
from the tip of his blunt nose to the
root of his tail. His body is roughly
cone-shaped, being largest in the rear,
and covered with the rich, shining fur,
which is at onco his wealth and his
death warrant. This fur is of two
kinds, one composed of long, coarse,
glossy chestnut hair, which is short,
thick, soft and silky. The nose of the
animal is blunt, the eyes small, and
the ears short and rounded. The fore
feet are short and slender, but the
hind feet are large and web-bed to
the toe nails. The former serve the
animal in place of hands, while the
latter are the propellers which urge
him through the water. But the most
peculiar part of a beaver's anatomy
is his tail. This appendage is flat
and broad, and Its horizontal outline
is almost a perfect eclipse, about a
foot long and three and a halt inches
wide. It is about an inch thick and
covered with angular scales. It is
used by the beaver as a rudder to
guide him while swimming, not as a
tray on which to carry building mate
rials, nor as a trowel to plaster the
walls of his dwelling, as some old
writers would have us believe. The
beaver also uses it to slap the water
s a signal to his companions when
there is danger in the wind.
The beaver's chief title to distinc
tion rests on his ability as an engi
neer, which is perhaps unequalled by
any other four-footed creature. When
a colony of beavers take possession of
a body of water, usually a small, clear
river or brook, they first of all make
a dam, which throws the water back,
flooding the surrounding land and
creating a pond, the site of a future
beaver city. The dam is made of mud,
small stones, moss grass and the
branches of trees which have been
cut down by the sharp and powerful
incisor teeth of the beavers. The
branches form the frame work of the
dam, and the mud, stones, moss and
grass are plastered in between the
sticks, forming a strong water-tight
structure. Such a dam is sometimes
eight feet high and almost a quarter
of a mile in lengtn, extending far be
yond the original banks of the stream.
It is perhaps ten or twelve feet wide
at the bottom, but much narrower at
the top, as the sides slope toward each
other.
In the pond thus formed the beav
ers make their lodges or houses, great
dome-shaped structures, six or eight
feet high, and some of them from
twelve to twenty feet in circumfer
ence. The doorways are under the
water, and in front of each the beav
ers scratch away the mud, forming a
deeper channel that they may sink
the wood intended for winter food
without danger of its being frozen in,
and that they may pass freely in and
out, even when the ice is thick upon
tlie pond. Tho tops of the houses are
made of branches matted together and
plastered with mud and moss, and
when this is all frozen together it
forms an almost impregnable fortress.
Sometimes as many as ten or twelve
beavers occupy a Bingle lodge, each
with a separate bed near the wails,
and each sharing the laborious work
which is necessary to the welfare of
every beaver community. When an
accident happens to a dam or to one
of the 'houses, the little animals are
quick to repair it, realizing, apparently,
the value of "a stitch in time." Hunt
ers used to take advantage of their
thrifty habits to work their destruc
tion. After breaking down a portion
of a dam tney would sometimes hide
in silence until the little citizens
turned out to repair the damage, and
then shoot the beautiful creatures in
cold blood. At other times they would
set steel traps under th<f water, and
the swimming beavers would be
caught by the leg. In the struggle for
freedom which followed, the limb was
frequently torn off and beavers witli
one or both of their front legs miss
ing were of quite common occurrence.
The chief food of the beaver con
sists of the tender bark of young
trees, particularly that of birches and
willows, but he also eats aquatic roots
and bulbs, and in captivity he has
shown a liking for many of the com
mon garden vegetables.
Yesterday I paid a visit to the beav
ers in the Zoological Garden at tho
Bronx Park. New York, where n\ost
of the animals are kept under condi
tions as closely resembling thoso of
nature as absolute safety to visitors
will permit. Here these Intel estlng
animals have cut down trees, dammed
the stream assigned to them, and
built their lodges wdth as much confi
dence as though they had been free
in the wilds of Maine or Canada.
Young beavers are usually born in
April or May, but sometimes as late
as July. There are generally from
two to five little ones in a litter, and
about a month after birth they begin
to follow the mother in the water. I
have not yet seen very young beav
ers, but I am told that they are born
with their eyes open.—Hartford
Times.
HOT HOUSE SPRING LAMR
Mode of ITalnint; a Delicacy That Sell*
Now at #1 a round.
Spring lamb is for sale now at $1
a pound or thereabouts. "
"We don't sell much of it," said a
butcher; "we*pay wholesale from sl4
to S2O a carcass for it, and a carcass V
weighs from fifteen to twenty pounds.
That make 3 the cost to us almost $1
a pound.
"Retail dealers do not like to handle
much of It because we do not have •
much call for it, and the wholesale
price being so high we are able to
make only a few cents a pound on it.
If by chance anything happens to
what we have on hand the loss of
one earcas3 knocks the profit off a
considerable consignment.
"All spring lamb now in the market
if known as hot house lamb. In the
last dozen years sheep raisers have
discovered a means of forcing their
products just as tile vegetable, fruit
and flower growers have discovered
how to give us strawberries, peaches,
cherries and radishes and other deli
cacies in the midst of winter.
"The season for the hot house
lamb 3 Is from about this time until
the last of March. Before their In
troduction those wno like good food
and have the money to pay for what
they want were satisfied to eat their
first spring lamb about Easter time.
"How to raise hot house lambs was
first discovered by raisers in New
Jersey. They had a monopoly of the
market for a while. Then the busi
ness was taken up by sheep raisers
in Kentucky, Missouri and southern
Kansas.
"Within the last two years several
raisers on the eastern end of Long
Island have started in, and I under
stand they have made money at it.
But by far the greater amount of the
lamb that comes into the market here
comes from Kentucky.
"The natural mating time of the
sheep in temperate climates Is just
after cold weather sets in. The
lambs are then born in January and
February. They are ready for market
about Easter or a little before.
"But the Kentucky and Missouri
raisers along in June and July pack
up their breeding ewes and ship
them north to l.tchigan and Canada to
graze. The cold nights there hasten
the mating, and the sheep are brought
south about the first of December.
Shortly after this the lambs arc born.
"The sheep when they are brought
•south are kept in hot houses. These
hot houses are usually long rambling
buildings with a southern exposure
having in most cases glass in the
sides and roof.
"This glass permits the ewes and
the lambs to get a good supply of so
lar heat on clear days. They are
kept from the cold winds, and this
helps fatten them.
"These buildings must be large, for
you cannot confine sheep in a small
enclosure or they will get restless.
Did you ever notice how a flock of
sheep ramble about when they are
grazing? So In the hot houses the
sheep must have plenty of room.
"The Kentucky raisers have also an
Interesting way of getting good food
for the ewes. Wherever possible they
have small streams on their places.
These streams are banked up so that
Ihe water will overflow the grazing
land.
"After the water has covered the
land for a day or two It is run off,
and then soon after the young grass
springs up fresh, green and tender,
just as In spring time. This grass
's then cut and fed to the ewes. They
are not permitted to graze on it or
they would overeat themselves.
"This grass gives the ewes rich
'bilk, and it hastens the growth of
'he lambs. The lambs are most suit
able for market when they are three
months old, though some raisers send
them when they are a week or two
younger."—New York Sun.
Tim Su!!i dmorienn Cowboy.
As the firelight shows them in the
darkness of the hour that precedes-,
the dawn, they are swarthy of com
plexion, dark-eyed, slight of figure, > ■
clean of build. They remind you of
Gypsies, also of Moors, and in their
veins flows the blood of the Indians
who once owned the pampa and lost it
to the Spaniards. There is Spanish
blood in them, too. The flourish with
which he touches his hat, the grace
with which ho waves you to a stool
made of a cow skull, the grave hospi
tality with which hp hands you the
teacup, the politeness with which he
receives your remarks about the
weather—everything about him when
he is at his best has a Spanish sug
gestiveness. But still the gaucho is
not a Spaniard. The pampa looks out
of his eyes, is in his voice, his dress,
his manner. The wilderness speaks
to all who love it and teaches them
things which make them different from
other men.—Wiliiam Bulfln, in the
World's Work.
It is calculated that in London ,i
alone there are Jiseharg d into the
mosphere daily 18,000 tons of uncon
sumed fuel.