WHERE BEAVERS LIVE."
KILGORE'S BIG FARM INHABITED BY
BEAVERS FOR MARKET.
One Man Who Ilopnat to Crow Itlch Out
of the Scarcity of Sealnkinn A Oueer
Kind of Live Stock to ltale Iteavera
Are as Social a Flea.
"You have never heard of Dick Kil
gore's beaver farm? That's queer." The
Fpeaker was old "Mud Cat" Williams,
who has been a fishemwin in the south
east Georgia streams for forty years.
"Dick's going to make a pile of money,'
he continued.
"You see, Dick has about 200 beavers,
young and old, but there are not more
than twenty to be killed for their skins
this year. It's a 'uevv industry, an ex
periment with him, and ho don't want to
kill any except the surplus males for the
present. But suppose you go out with
oe ami see the farm."
A drive of ten miles through the
swamps along Briar creek and the Kil
gore place, or Beaver Dam Hollow, was
reached.
"Now, here's the farm," said Willi iiii
pointing to the creek, across which even
few yards were rough dams, and abov.
them, in the almost still water, wer
mounds of earth, rocks and sticks coin
ing out a few feet above the surface of
the water.
"You know beavers don't show them
selves much in the day. They do th ir
work at night. Dick owns about 1,000
acres running up and down the creek.
has the land posted and keeps everybody
off, but it is not fenced. Fences would not
keep the beavers in, but there is no dan
ger of them going oil, for this is a nat
ural home for them, and every beaver
here knows old Dick. He feeds them
every night, and they come, when he
calls, like hogs.
Kilgore has been a farmer down here
for years, and beavers have been in the
creek for all time, but it was not until
recently that he began to protect and
care for them with a view to making
beaver raising a regular business. It
will be a profitable business, for the
scarcity of sealskins has increased the
value of beaver skins, and they will con
tinue to increase year by year. A few
years ago beaver skins sold a3 low as
four dollars per skin, but they should
now bring at least ten dollars each.
VALUE OF BEAVER SKINS.
Beaver skins sent to London and prop
erly dyed a seal brown are splendid imi
tations of the seal. The seal fur, you
know, is naturally a gray. The reason I
say send beaver skins to London is be
cause that is the only place in the world,
it seems, that furs can be properly dyed.
However, the fur of the beaver is natu
rally a reddish brown, and is a beautiful
fur.
The beaveT is a queer little animal.
"When full grown it weighs from fifty to
sixty pounds. Its hind legs are its prin
cipal propellers, both when in and out of
the water. The hind feet are webbed
and the front ones have claws, which are
about as convenient to the beaver as a
monkey's hands are to him. They can
carry stones and sticks about in them
vriih. wtse. In the water especially a
bavur can carry a quantity of freight,
for he swims with his hind feet and
arries his load in his mouth.
Just af tor dark Mr. Kilgore went down
to the edge of the stream to feed the
beavers.
"I don't often feed them in the sum
mer," he said, "for they get all they
-want along the banks of the stream.
They eat bark off the trees, and at this
season there is an abundance of fresh,
tender bark and grasses and roots. In
the winter they lay up a supply of food
for themselves along the banks and in
their holes in the dams, wnich they build
of roots and sticks and stona. I feed
iem nparlv all the time in winter, wher.
they flock together ancFunite in building
dam?, but in summer they scatter every
fellow for himself and I only call them
tip occasionally, just enough to keep them
tame. As they are scattered off for
miles around, but few will come to a call
for food."
UOW THE BEAVER WORKS.
But there were' a dozen romping about
in the stream then, and in a few minutes
quite numlier had gathered. Among
them were a score or more little fellows
born c nly a month ago. The females have
from two to six young each annually,
and a 8 a consequence the families in
crease very rapidly.
A mixture of green food and a little
orain was thrown out on the ground to
the hird of little animals, and they
scampered around nd picked it up like
so iniwy hogs. Some of them would
gather up an ear of corn or a young corn
stalk and dive oil witn it into me stream.
They were tame, but, like hogs, would
scaraper off if you tried to catch one.
A beaver seems to be almost human
in intelligence. They actually gnaw
down young trees, drag them into a
etrpam' and let them float down, switu
ming with them to the place they want
to build a dam. I lien tney win urag
stones and roots and sticks and grasses,
and indeed everything used to dam a
stream, until they have practically as
tial a dam as a man could con
struct. They do this to make the water
above deep enough to sport in ana piucia
enough to build their homes of sticks
and mud in, which are very warm and
comfortable in winter and large enough
fny a. familv of eiirht or ten.
The beaver's principal tool in building
these homes is his tail. 1 ne tan is a
tmwel sharped anpendaere about
ten inches long and four or five inches
broad. The beaver s main strengtn i 111
tail TTft can take up soft mud on
it, place it against the sticks and stones
used to build his nome, anu pat 11 uou
with the tail as firmly and as well as a
man could do the work with a trowel.
Besides its fur, which is the main reve
nue from the beaver, it furnishes cas
torenm, a product used in medicines,
and its flesh is a food that when prop
erly prepared is delicious. Jascom t-r.
i'Jor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
USEFUL MENDING BAG.
Kvrry Housekeeper Should Ifuve One la
ij.t I'rivate Koom.
This shows an extremely simple but
useful mending bag. The plain sateen
front and back pieces are each made by
covering a piece of cardlxard eleven by
nine inches (narrowed to seven and a
half at the bottom), and a narrow strip,
throe and a half by seven and a half, is
similarly covered for the bottom; the
three pieces are then joined by over
hand seams on what is to be the inside
of the bag.
A piece of figured sateen or cretonne,
twenty-one by thirteen inches, is given
an inch-wide hem across the top, anil is
drawn up closely with long running
stitches at the bottom, and sewed to one
end of the narrow bottom piece; each
side of the gathered piece should now
measure eleven inches, and be sewed to
the corresponding sides of ia plain
front and back. This finishes one side
or end of the bag. The other end is
finished in the same way.
Across the inside of the back piece is
placed a full pocket, eight inches deep,
to hold balls, spools, etc. The topis
finished with a shirring for an elastic
baud beneath a narrow standing mllle.
Above the pocket are tacked flannel
needle leaves and scissors straps. Some-
MENDING BAG.
times an interlining' of wadding is
placed beneath the inner cover of the
back piece, and the whole used as
needle-book or pincushion. Sometimes
the pocket is omitted and a third piece,
just like the front and back, is fitted in
between the two to divide the bag1 into
two equal or unequal compartments.
Small brass or silvered ring's or
homemade ones of wound wire, covered
with, knitting silk or floss in closely
worked double crochet are sewed to
each upper corner of the front and
back, and three more are sewed cross
wise to the hem of each side piece one
in the middle and one four inches from
each corner ring-.
A narrow, stitched band of the plain
sateen is run through the rings, and the
ends are neatly joined. This forms the
means of suspension and also allows the
bag to be opened easily and widely
when in use. The lettering & worked
with silk or floss in colors to match the
figures in the side pieces.
Such bags, though handy to use for
any family mending, are especially con
venient for stockings, which may be
dropped into them every week as soon
as dried, there to wait in company with
thread, yarn, needles, etc., till mending
day arrives. Youth's Companion.
ABOUT SECOND TEETH.
Seme Hint Mothers "Would lo
V'eii to ii?ne Liber.
It becomes mothers, from the moment
that their children begin to eat solid
food, to see that they have meat and
vegetables, and milk, eggs, fruit, bread
and porridges of the unbolted grains, and
as little pastry, fine-flour bread and
confectionery as possible, in order that
they may at once begin secreting the
material for sound second teeth, which
come under any circumstances, to be
sure, but which under hostile circum
stances go without long waiting on the
order of their going. It is equally neces
sary to see that the food agrees with
the child, for if it is not of a kind easily
digested then the gases of its fermenta
tion will rise and injure the teeth, and
the heated blood occasioned by indi
gestion will make diseases of the gums,
also hurtful to the teeth, and create
more sensibility in the nerves to pain
and to heat and cold. Alternations of
heat and cold, by the way, are quite as
bad for the teeth as indigestible food,
the delicate enamel being obedient, as
every other substance is, to th laws of
contraction and expansion, crushing and
splitting under the process and afford
ing opportunity for the beginning of
decay by lodgment of food, or even by
the entrance of the common air. Thus
it is hardly a matter of doubt whether
ice-water and ice-cream are not of great
detriment to the teeth, whether good or
bad for the stomach, and if hot tea and
coffee, or even plain hot water, are not
equally potent for harm.
Nor must the mother, if it can be
helped, allow the first teeth to be
drawn. Real pain that cannot be al
layedfor there was never yet philoso
pher that could endure the toothache
patiently, says Leonato is the only
thing that should make her yield on
this point; as it is right that the fangs
of the first milk-teeth should be ab
sorbed in their place, and not extracted,
after which absorption the little crowns
will drop away of themselves. Harper's
Bazar.
How to Get Inlt Out of Clothes.
Every housekeeper has many gar
ments spotted with ink. Here is a good
way to get the ink out. Ink spots may
be removed from linen with tartaric
acid while wet. To remove ink from
cotton, silk or woolen goods, saturate
the spot with spirits of turpentine and
let it remain several hours; then rub
between the hands. It will crumble
away without injuring the color or tex
ture of the article.
Xow's the Time to rrofit by This.
Rattan and willow chairs should be
cleaned, like straw-matting, with salt
and water. First thoroughly remove
the dust. Then wring a clean cloth out
of salt and water, rubbing chair or mat
ting dry with the other hand as you go
on, or, at any rate, as quickly as you
can, so that it may retain none of the
moisture.
Military Orders.
Adjutant-General Cole yesterday
announced the following addi
tional appointments on the stuff of
the commander-in-chief:
Dr. N. F. Donaldson. North Platte,
surooti-uviieral, with rank 1A
colonel.
George K. Jenkins, hairhury.
quarter-master and commisary-
reneral, with rank of colonel.
Charles K. Maroon, Lincoln,
judtre advocate-fejeiH-ral, with rank
of major.
Rank of colonel Kramus -I.
Correll, Hebron, a id-de-cainp; Smith
T. Caldwell. Kdjrar, aid-de-camp;
George W. Martin. Kearney, aid-decamp;
K'ohcrt McKeynolds, Lincoln,
aid-de-camp; C. H. Wilkinson,
iirokcii How, aid-de-camp.
Burlinaton Earnings.
Cllic A;. July "JS The statement
of the Chicago, Hurlinton
(Juincy for the month of June last,
in comparison with that of the cor
responding month last year, shows:
Gross earnings, decrease, $131.34;
expenses and charges, decrease,
lD.Oss; ' net earnings, increase,
$1n7,7s for six mouths ending June
30. The last statement shows:
Gross earnings, decrease. $Ll('.7t3;
expenses and charges, decrease.
.flls.'Jii'J; net earnings, decrease.
IHiS4,N7o.
Take vour prescriptions to Brown
A: Iiarre'tt's.they dispense pure med-
it
It'll ICS. 11
N'elirfika Peaches.
The Journal yesterday received a
consignment of a n umber of baskets
of as beautiful and delicious
peaches as one could find in many
days' search. They were contri
buted by J. M. Russell & Son of
Wymore and are a splended evi
dence of Nebraska's productiveness
in that line, being la rife, sweet,
juicy, as pretty a color as one ever
saw and as line a flavor.
They were cling stones. State Jour
nal.
Base Ball.
An excellent game of ball was
played here yesterday between the
Red Kobins of Omaha and the
Klsons, a youthful team of this cit,y.
The visitors proved a little too
strong for the boys and they suc
cumbed to a score of 5 to 3. The
score by innings:
Red Robins 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 05
Klsons 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Base hits Robins 0. KlsonO,
Errors Kobins 3; Klson o.
Batteries Lindsay and (Juinland,
Green and Donelan.
Struck out By Lindsay 11, by
Green 4.
The visitors had as strong a bat
ter' as could be found among the
amateurs of Omaha and were held
down in good shape by the Klsons.
Engineer Jeukins I'resentlmsnt.
Charley Jenkins was an engineer on
the Baltimore and Ohio for many years,
and he had many hairbreadth escapes.
His run was between Garrett, Ind., and
Chicago Junction, O., and nearly every
body along the route came to know him
personally. His friends could tell his
engine every time by the peculiar "toot,"
and whenever the engine was in sight
there would be a wave of the hand as a
recognition of friendship. His engine,
the 720, was the best on the division, and
if a fast run was to be made Jenkins and
the 720 were sure to be on the call board
for it.
One day the old engineer was taken
111, and for weeks he lingered on his bed,
when it seemed that only a thread held
him on to life. He was sadly missed
along the route, and the peculiar "toot"
of the whistle was heard no more, for.
although old 720 was kept running, there
were other hands at the throttle.
The crisis of his illness came. The
family surrounded the bed and watched
with breathless eagerness for any sign of
a change.
The stillness of the room was oppress
ive. Nothing could be heard save the
regular, heavy breathing of the sick en
gineer. Suddenly he arose on his elbow. He
stared wildly around, and his eyes looked
like a madman's. Then he sat up in bed.
clutched an imaginary sheet of paper,
and gasped:
"Tiffin; train five; engine seven-twenty;
prepare to meet thy God."
He sank back exhausted and fell into
a quiet, easy sleep. When he awoke he
was on a fair way to recovery, but by
that time the news had reached the place
that a terrible accident had happened:
that No. 5 had collided with a freight;
that engine 720 was a wreck, and that
the engineer and fireman were dea L
Charley Jenkins insists-that he had a
presentiment from heaven. Cleveland
World.
Maine's Female Tramp.
A city female tramp of giant stature
is annoying some of our western Maine
towns. " She comes to the farmhouses,
generally after dark, and begs to be al
lowed to stay all night. Her request is
generally granted, though unwillingly,
for her person is very repulsive. She
always carries several large bundles cov
ered with a waterproof. In one of them
are a clean dress and whole shoes which
she saves to put on in Boston. They are
too good for tramping in Maine.
To all appearance she hasn't a relative
in the world, and prefers this roving life
to any kind of labor, for she is frequent
ly offered a chance to do housework at
farmhouses, but always declines. Once
she did work for a day or two, but de
clared she'd rather walk and beg. She
expects to go to the poorhouse, but not
until she can no longer travel. It is 6aid
that to hear her talk without looking at
her one would imagine her a lady, so
correct is her language. Lewiston Journal.
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Free Delivery of Newspapers.
"I believe in the extension of the free
delivery system," said Mr. Wanauiaker.
"Free delivery is like gas or water to a
town. It increases its metropolitan
character. It adds to its attractions as
a business and a residence community.
I believe that the introduction of the
free delivery extends the circulation of
newspapers and increases letter writing.
It is not convenient for a man to go to
the postoffice for his newspaper.
"If he could get it delivered at his
door it would be a welcome visitor.
But take a young couple, for example,
living in a small town. The husband is
at work all day. The wife does not care
to go to the postoffice, or perhaps she
cannot go, especially if there is a baby id
the house. That man would like to take
a daily paper perhaps. But he is too
tired to go to the postoffice for it every
evening, and so he takes a weekly paper
or no paper at all.
"As I said, the extension of a free de
livery system would increase letter writ
ing too. It is astonishing to me how
hard it is to convince the people that uu
can increase the business of the ni
office." Washington Cor. Philadelphia
Press. .
TORTURING EXZEBIA,
Ktlitor Iowa Plain Oealer C ured f
Insiiflerble itching and 1'ain ly the
t'udcura Kenienie,
Xo L.eN Than Five rhycyeian ton
suited. Their Combined Wisdom
oliowed Without Itenefit.
tire leii'litl) or my arms in it-K aim aims "w
lv swollen with an itciiint; burning pa'u wltli2ut
cessation. Although the bet medical advice
a'tainable was employed no lees tliau live phy
s'c'arifnf the place belutr consulted and t lie
presciptiOD Teiuj; the resuot of their combined
w iedtim. the disease though apparent y checked
would rvcur in a few days as bad as ever ;dur.
inn the progress my weight fell away about
twenty-eve pound. As an experiment I be
gan to the us of CTtiCUHA followed the sim
pil and plain insUuctious given with the Kfm
EiTiKsaud in four w eks found nivfelf wfH,
with skin soft and natural in color the itching
and pain entiiels gone W H SlhAD
Editor Iowa Plain Dealer.. Creco, Iowa,
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eorge E. Dov?y
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President Caetier.
Potted strawberry plants of
choice varieties will be on gale at
Lew Moore's by July 15th. Plants
put out now will insure a big- crop
next year. tlAiwtf
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