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About The alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1889 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1889)
7 Ml o rUBLISHKD BY THE ALLIANCE PIB. CO. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. The government lira in the field a committee investigating and laying plans t irrigate the western plains, such a scheme is leasable and would reclaim a vast country which in a few years would bo as productive as the valley of the Nile. The banks ale n g the canals would soon be set to timber and with farm groves and arbors, the great waste monotonous plains would be transformed into the most beautiful country on the continent, with landed homes for millions 01 people. But the greatest reason for state or national aid to such scheme is, the importance of the employment of men, on every hand we find idle, willing men in search of work, our country has been flooded with all kinds of foreign cheap labor, so that at present rate of wages and scarcity of work it i almost impossible for men to earn a living. There are several reasons that have brought about this serious state of affairs. First, the influx of contract laborers second, the great labor-saving machin ery, and last a quiet revolution of women displacing so many men in the offices, work shops and professions, together with the hardships of a 45 per cent tariff tax. So taking a fair view of re claiming the great plains, there is a great ileal to argue in favor of such a great beneficial work' to the country at large, the building of reservoirs, or damming up of the deep mountain gorges . to hold the water, and con structing ditches and canals, would give employment to thousands of men for a decade, and Colorado, New Mexico, "Wyoming and portions of Da kota and Nebraska wuld become the world's richest and most productive garden, cereal and fruit lands. There is no place on the map of the United 56 tateswhere public money could be used to a greater or more profitable blessing than in reclaiming the western plains and employing men. INDUSTKIAL NOTES. Factory Inspector Fell of New Jer sey is striving to enforce the truancy clause of the compulsory education law of that state. ' The organized silk workers of Pater son, N. J., and the trade unions of the city are preparing to make a fine show on Labor Day. On Tuesday of this week the annual convention of the Amalgamated asso ciation of iron and steel workers opened in Pittsburg. The Am?rics.n Federation of Labor will not. send delegates to the Labor Congress " in Paris, but ha? recom mended the various unions to elect rep resentatives. - Minneapolis has secured the state The New York eight hour league has invited Grand Master Workman Pow derly to speak at their Fourth of July demonstration. Twentv factories having an aggregate capital of $1,500,000, have been opened in Florence, Ala., in the last seven months, giving employment to over 2,000 people. About 150 men : were discharged from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad shops at Mount Claire, Baltimore. Md., during the past week. The laborers at' the Mabel, Shear man, Claire and Douglas furnaces, near Sharpsville, Pa., are threatened with a reduction of wages. Trade is so good ut the Taunton Lo comotive Manufacturing works at Taunt :n, Mass., that their men are working night and day. Americans in England are engaged in collecting money for the benefit of the sufferers by the " Jonnstown flood. Already a considerable sum has been raised. A central fund is beiBg organized. The contractors for municipal work in Chicago are liable to a fine of $50 for every violation of the eight hour ordinance that was adopted last Jan uary by the city council. There is religious dissatisfaction in New Jersey on account of the Sunday work that is being dona In the con struction of the new brunch line of Baltimore & Ohio railroad. . The organized baker3 in New York and other parts of the United States are still keeping up those efforts that have been tne means of securing im portant advantages for them within the past few years. The business of organization is being vigorously prosecuted by the Lock smiths' and Bailing Makers' Union which has recently welcomed Eiany members of non-union shops who have stood aloft from it in past times. :..' Three hundred men have been . thrown out of employment by the burn ing of the Cellaire Goblet works at Findlay, Ohio. The works were the largest of the kind in the world. Gladstone says there is now the greatest aggregation of wealth in the hands of the few since the days of Jul ius Caesar, and, therefore, on the other --' hand, the greatest poverty and want known to the civilized world for nearly two thousand years. Just in proportion i as the wealth of the world aggregates I in the hands of the few, the common ! peopl9 become poor and dependent. , "Senator" Morgan and Tom Eck, two of the bicyclers who rode in the race here last winter, are now managing rival teams, and Morgan's team con sists of Jessie Oakes, "Beauty" Bald win and Kitty Brown, and he will shortly begin a trip around world, going first to Australia. Tom Eck's team includes .Jesse ; "Woods, - Louise Ar maindo, Hat tie Lewie and possibly Birdie McCamy, and will tour , the state. Moiganlis expected to furnish syndicate letter dming his tour. FOR THE, FARMER: Cut nil dead trees or branches; they areevesores and breed bad insects. : It is a mistake not to plant some sweet corn for food or the cows when the grass is dry an d short. ' ' If tire grape vines refuse to grow, cut them back and allow a new shoot to come up from the ground. Farmers could help the sheep'busi ness by eating more mutton them selves. Mutton is more nutritious than beef or pork. The half-fat sheep is responsible lor the antipathy which so large a proportion of American people have for mutton. It is better for the pasture to get ahead of the cattle than to turn them out early and have the feed short all summer. Mr. George T. Powell mentions that every farmer he has known who has raised trotters as a business bred a good-sized mortgage at the same time. We overheard a noted breeder give expression to the remark, "The bluer the blood the worse the animal." There is some truth in the saying. Mark Lane Express. A sheep's usefulness is one yearless here than, in Ohio. Our sandy graz ing land wears the teeth that much faster. A sheep without teeth must quit- Colorado Field and Farm. If a good account of expenses and sales is kept there will always be a balance in favor of sheep breeding; not so much as a speciality, but as an assistant to other farm animals and crops. Many diseases of hogs are due to inbreeding. The ' conditions under which our improved breeds of swine are kept render a change to "new blood" every year as indispensible for health and vigor. If a horse seems weak do not push him into work under the impression that you are hardening him. By the time you get him hardened he may be like the horse that learned to live without eating die. Be careful in burning out apple tree worms with kerosene, as the limbs of the tree may be injured. It rightly done, however, there is no better mode of destroying the worms than to burn them in haste. It is impossible to whip terror out of a horse or pound courage into one. Kindness and gentle persuasion are the best weapons with which to break up the pernicious habit of shying at imaginary danger on the road. A poor fence is rather more troub lesome than no fence, because it be comes a means of educating cattle in vicious ways a temptation to which they yield readily and soon become proficient; in breaking, or leaping barriers. Prof. W. I.. Chamberlain says it never pays to underfeed. The feed of mere sustenance never brings profit, even with good stock. It is like burning jusl; enough fuel under your boiler not to get up steam for" the engine to work. Prof. W. T. Hornaday, of the Smithsonian Institute, estimates that there are extant only 750 Amer ican buffaloes, wild and domesticat ed, whereas, less than twenty-five years ago they ranged the Western plains in countless thousands. Do not allow the young trees to bear fruit the first and second years. The production of fruit will be at the expense ot growth. The peach will bear the second year after planting. If kept back in that respect it will be in better condition for next sea son. The great contract for supplying the English market with Texas meats has been perfected, and the chill house at Galveston, in which 6,000 head of beeves a month w ill be pre pared for shipment, is now being erected. In applying manure the nature of the soil should be studied . For heavy, clay soils: manure from ' the horse stable is best, as it loosens and ' warms the soils. For sandy or light, warm soils, manure from the cow stables and hog pens produce the best results. The hemp companies at Rantoul and Paxton, 111., have each put in over 300 acres of hemp this year, and the farmers in the vicinity of those towns have put in several hun dred acres more. Binding twine, of hemp of American growth, will be an important factor in the trade next year. v ( , The Illinois State'-Grange offers 10,000 for a machine or Hevice to attach to reapers that will bind wheat or oats with straw. The ma chine may work and twist its straw direct from the reaper, or it may be separate and twist the straw, wind oil large spooLsthat may be re-reeled on smaller spools by. the farmer. Too heavy feeding and want of ex ercise tend to barrenness, not only among fowls, but among all other kinds - of animals. There is : little choice in economical results.between neglect and fashionable pampering. The medium course is generally best. Enough is better than a surfeit. An old man in Southern Indiana was charged with stealing a calf. He was brought up for trial, when he made tke following statement to the jury: "I was always teachsd to be honest, an, most always have been, but when I seen that calf I caved. I never wanted a ' calf so bad in my life, and you all know whea a man wants a calf he wants him." " : No lengthy arguments are needed to prove that owners of dogs should keep them under their control s;smuch as horses, cattle: 4 sheep, swine or poultry. TL" dog. tax i.nlike the tax on other farm animate, is virtually a license permitting the owner to turn his dog into the streets or upon a neighbors premises with no restraint whatever. N. E. Farm er. A farmer had an imported ewe, which cost 75, killed by dogs. The owner strychnined the carcass. The next morning a broad grin came over his face when he counted one dead opossum and twenty-six dead dogs. Some say it is not fair to poison the carcasses because inno cent opossums and dogs are apt to visit them. Others think the opos sums and innocent dogs sho Id re main at home and not stray over the sheep pastures. Tenu. Farmer. ; , ' Monster Spiders, : Far up in the mountains of Ceylon and India there is a spider that spins a web like bright yellow silk, the cen tral net of which is five feet in diam eter, while the supporting lines, or guys as they are called, measure sometimes ten or . twelve feet , long; and riding quickly in the early morn ing you may dash right into it, the stout threads twining round your face like a lace veil, while as the crea ture who has woven it takes up his position in the middle, he generally catches you right on the nose, and though "he generally bites or stings, the contact of his large body and long legs is anything but pleasant. If you forget yourself and try to catch him, bite he will, and, though not venemou3, his jaws areas power ful as a bird's beak, and you are not likely to forget the encounter. The bodies of these spiders are very handsomely decorated, being bright gold or scarlet underneath, while the upper part is covered with the most delicate slate colored fur. So strong are the webs that birds the size of larks are frequently caught therein, and even the small but powerfully scaly lizard falls a victim. A writer says that he has often sat and watched the yellow and scarlet monster, measuring, when waiting for his prey with his legs stretched out, fully six inches, striding across the mddle of the net, and noted the rapid manner in which he winds his stout threads around the unfortu naite captive. He usually throws the coils about tha "head till the wretched victim is first blinded and then choked. In many unfrequented dark nooks of the jungle you come across most perfect skeletons of small birds caught in these terrible snares, thestrong folds of which pre vent the delicate bones from falling to the ground after the .wind and weather have dispersed the flesh and feathers, Rare Bits. A War-Whoop From Canada Toronto Globe. Brother Jonathan says in effect; "I mean to treat that sea as my own because it suits me to do so. If you don't like it, Brother Bull, what are you going to do about it?" Broth er Bull knows well that he cannot put up with that sort of bullying much longer without virtually con fessing that he will knuckle down to Brother Jonathan in almost .any thing the latter may demand. Hence it is, as we have said, barely possible that Brother Bull's ships have or ders to stand against Brother Jona than's pretentions. If so, there will be exciting times before next winter. We believe the Washington authori ties will back down if firmly resisted. But what if they do not back down? Then Canada would have to face the worst. What then? Well, the Globe has always been very well disposed to peace and friendship with the United States, but we say with ut most deliberation that it would be far better for Canada and Great Britain to face the worst than to submit much longer to unreasonable unendurable American pretentions. Patience has in this case ceased to be a virtue. Burned at the Stake. What a little wav we are, after all, from the dark ages! How many of my readers are aware that it is only 100 years this month since the last criminal was burned at the stake in London and that criminal a wom an? Here is the account of that event which a correspondent has sent me: "On the 18th of March. 1786, nine wretches were executed at Newgate four for burglary, one for theft and three men and one wo man for coining. After the men were 'turned off,' as the phrase went, the wretched woman was brought out, tied to a stake, and burned to ashes, after the form of strangling her had been gone through by removing the stool whereon she stood and so throwing her weight on the cord which bound her throat to the stake. Christian Murphy was (so far as I can discover) the last woman burned alive in London, though possibly e later victim may have been executed in tjome country town." London Truth, Plenty of Oil, The fear that there would be an oil famine in the near future has been expressed again and again; but the figures given by The Oil City Derrick and indorsed by Bradstreet go to show that the Pennsylvania and Virginia belt alone is practically in exhaustible. So far the yield from this track of 104 square miles has been over 340,000,000 barrels. The estimate is that the possible future yield will not be far from 2,000,000: This estimate makes no reference to the fields that exist in Canada, in Colo rado, California and elsewhere, both at home and abroad: The yield per square mile has been for fifteen years 1,000,000 barrels. There seems to be no "reason to fear that the supply will nil before its substitute is fully established. SI. Louis Globe-Denw-rrat. - Two Gifted Children. Two remarkable children, Ameri can born, startled the literary world with a volume of poems . entitled "Apple Blossoms," which was pub lished bv Putnam in 1878. The work contained some hundred odd verses, principally on the subject of Nature in its varying phases, nnd breathing throughout a true poetic spirit. The authors were Dora Read Goodale and Elaine Goodale, the daughters of a gentleman farmer in the Berk shire Hills. At the time "Apple Blossoms" was published the sisters were 12 and 14 years ot age respec tively, though they had both been writing since they were 9. There is no evidence that the children were -helped in their work by their parents, who, though they were people of cul ture and fond of literature, had never dipped in the Pierian spring. Here is a specimen oTf the lyrics pro duced by Elaine Goodale at the age of 10, which, though not profound, is written with a spontainety and a freshness that is charming: ASHES OF ROSES. Soft on the sunset sky Brisrht daylight closes, Leaving when light doth die Pule hues that mingling lie ; Ashes of roses! When lore's warm sun is set, Love's brightness closes; Eyes with hot tears nre wet, , In hearts there linger yet Ashes of roses. - Dora Read Goodale wrote at the age of 10 the following stanzas, which will show the child's aptitude for verse, though it is not filled with 'he spirit of nature that permeates most of her metrical efforts. There s good color effect in these lines, whether they come from a child's aands or not: A sky of scurrying clouds That fly on dappled pails, And with purple oars To the sunset shores Are blown by the evening gales. They reach the golden gate, ''-"'. They catch the golden glow, And with purple oars V At the sunset shores Thy wait while the M ind breathes low. Many children of the older growth would not be ashamed to sign their names to such verses. The writer is a young lady now, and her poems appear here and there in the maga zines. She polishes her poems more than of old, but it is questionable if she has improved on the fresh inspiration that was born in happy-hearted childhood, or if she understands nat ure as well when she lived at Sky Farm, among the woods ofthe Berk shire Hills. Washington Star. His , Complexion Was Against Him. Hadji Hassein Ghooly Khan, en voy . extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from Persia, is one ofthe favorites in Washington soci ety, and he is very fond of going out and calling on the ladies, and is al ways most hospitably received where ever he goes.' That is, almost al ways, for an experience he had Sun day afternoon proved that he was not as cordially , received at one house, as has been his wont in the past. . Ghooly Khan started out with the purpose of mating a round of calls. It is his custom to pay his respects to the ladies of the fashion able world on Sunday the same as on week days. Sunday being an ex tremely pleasant day, his landau was not brought into use. He walk ed from his residence on M street to Massuchusetts avenue, in the neigh borhood of Fourteenth street, where the objects of his first call resided. AValking up the stone steps in an in dolent fashion, he reached the door and rather timidly touched the elec tric bell. After lingering some mo ments the servant appeared, and be fore Ghooly Khan could utter a word she shouted out: "The ladiesare ail busy and cannot be bothered with you now." . "Well," said the minister, complete ly nonplused, "there must be a mis take; take in my card." "Oh! don't worry them now," answered the servant, not allowing him to finish his sentence. "They are all about going to dinner and don't care for any one to see them at this time you'd better come again in the morning; and the side door is always the handiest place for such as yez to call." The minister waited for no mora. The rebuff he had received at the hands of he unruly servant completely- paralyzed him. He made no more calls that day, and had about concluded that he" had a sufficient dose of American society. Theladies ofthe house soonlearned ofthe "horrible" manner in which their distinguished caller had been received, and they at once made hero ic and happily - successful efforts to have the affair settled on a basis satisfactory not only to themselves but to the distinguished envoy from Teheran. New York Tribune. Four Cockroaches In His Stomach. William Amos, proprietor of the St. James hotel, on Hughson street, Hamilton, Canada, on Friday went, up to his dinner about 12:30 o'clock and Mrs. Amos wept dorm-stairs to mind the bar-room. Meanwhile their little infant, 5 weeks old, was left ly ing in a cradle in an upper bedroom. WThen Mrs. Amos returned to the up stairs apartments she heard the baby crying and at once took it up in her arms. She noticed that it was death ly pale and was gasping for breath. In a moment the frightened mother saw a large cockroach in the child's mouth, which she pulled out. Two others came up in a little while, and the now thoroughly alarmed mother rushed off to consult Dr. Lafferty. That gentleman had never heard of such a-case before. He said that the infant could not stand strong medi cine, but he gave the , mother a mild emetic to administer. This had the effect of bringing up another cock roach, bigger and uglier than any of its predecessors. It was nearly an inch long and was caught by Mrs. Amos on the child's tongue. Every one of the insects were alive. Phila delphia Times. Modern Robinson Crnsoes. Net? York San. It has been suggested that on some ofthe hundreds of uninhabited Pa cific islands there are castaway Rob inson Crusoes waiting for a sail and living on the bounties of 'which na ture is usually so lavish in thoso re gions. One of these castaways, a sailor named Jorgenson, was found fifteen months ago on the little speck known as Midway Island, where he had been abandoned by his sbip mates, who looked upon him as desperate and v dangerous person. There he was living without human comDanionshin, 1,300 miles north west of Honolulu, on the eastern edge of that vast expanse known as the Anson Archipelago, not one of whose little islands is known to be inhabited.. The sailors who found Jorgensen there were castaways themselves from the wrecked bark j Wandering Minstrel. On this little rock they lived for fourteen months, faring poorly on sea birds and fish, Until finally a boat they sent out in October last took the news of their distress to Honolulu, and early last month a schooner released them from their prison. Some wonderful boat journeys are made over the Pacific's waste of wa ters, journeys that would usually be impossible -on the more tumultu ous Atlantic. Two men a Chinese boy manned the little boat that took the newsot the Wandering Minstrel's mishap 1,300 miles to Honolulu. William Marston, who is at the head of the little colony of Palmer ston Island journeyed alone over 1,000 miles from Tahiti in a small sail boat. When his isolation grew irksome he stopped in the Hervey group, took a native wife and went gaily on his way to the island that has since been his home. The news of the wreck of the Henry James on a coral reef was carried by five men last year in a row boat 1,400 miles to Samoa. Some years ago two Eng lish men named Baker and Reid mar ried Samoan girls and took them in a little sailboat 1,500 milos to Sun day Island where foryears they were the only inhabitants. Two foolhardy men left .Samoa in an open boat some years ago to go to New Ireland, about 2,000 miles away. They fared very well until they got out of water and putting into Mausoleum Island for a fresh supply, one of them was drowned in the surf and the other was held a prisoner by the natives until his release was purchased by a passing schooner. The voyagers had traveled 500 miles. Many white men are voluntarily exiles among the natives of little is lands, where they dry copra to be shipped about once a year on schooners which .replenish their stores. We hear now and then 'also of sailors who have abandoned civil ization, married a large assortment of native women, and become very important persons in a limited area. It is not difficult to believe that many a story of adventure and mis fortune in the Pacific never Veaches us, and that while every year brings its wonderful records of the rescue of shipwrecked sailors, other cast aways on islands that were perhaps never seen beiore by civilized men are living on, eager but unable to escape, repeating the experience of Selkirk and of Defoe's famous hero. Ben Worsham's Senseless Dog, Ot all the "ornary" worthless curs I ever knew among" dogs, Ben Wor sham's white dog was the worst. He came to stay at Ben's about half a mile down the road here one St. Patrick's Day. He was a "nigger dog," but Worsham said he was a white Malay setter. He didn't have sense to howl when you hit him. He used to sneak over to the village to steal something, and if anybody looked at him, he would tuck his tail between his legs and run till the ground grew hot under his feet. You never saw such a coward of a dog. Ben used to half starve him, and about all the time the dog wasn't running away from something or somebody, he was hanging around the butcher's or the baker's. Ben was trying to be Postmaster through about five administrations, and the dog got to thinking they lived at the post office, seeing Ben there three-fourths of his time. He would stand in front of the window the dog would till the Postmaster threw him a letter or newspaper Ben took the Northwestern Recorder and thinking it was something to eat, he would streak home with it, and the folks would take it away from him. He never dared to stop on the road; once he started to run he ran faster every jump until he got inside the gate. He went into the chicken 3rard once to forage lor his dinner, and an old lien just about thrashed the life out of him. After that he tried to make friends with her, while he watched his chance to gobble a chick, but so long as she kept her eye on him he didn't dare touch one of them. He always followed the family to church, be cause once a year the Sunday-scho'ol had a picnic on the grounds, and the dog would then gorge himself all day and all night on scraps. He hadn't sense enough to know what time of the year the picnic was held, so he used to go every time the gate was opened, thinking that there was nothing but picnics held there. He would go from neighbor's to neigh bor's every day, and hang around the door for something to eat, and he would stay till he got it or some body went out and yelled at him. They had a red calf over at Ben's and the dog always thought it was another dog. When they sold the calf the dog mixed himself up in the transaction and went off in the butcher's cart. The calf came back about noon, but the dog stayed in the cart and got killed. That's all the sense he had. I've seen him shiver in the piercing cold for an hour right at the door of his kennel until somebody came out with a club and drove him in. Then he'd stay in there till somebody came along some time next day and upset the kennel to get him out. Burdette. THE HOUSEHOLD. By varnishing an oilcloth semi annnally its durability will be in definitely prolonged. Tin nnd copper kettles will shine if rubbed with a piece of flannel satu rated in kerosene. Make starch with soapy water, and you will find it a pleasure to do ap your starched goods. When tan-colored gloves go out of fashion, pale gray-green will take their pi ace. Straw bonnets for summer are almost as soft as lace, and held in shape by fine wire. ; , A salve of equal parts of tar, tuilow and salt will cure the worst case of felon. Eeonomlnize strength by sitting opon a big stool when wiping dishes or dressing vegetables. A very handsome new summer stuff is China silk with a small raised figure scattered all over it. The printed letters may be removed from flour sacks by soaking them in buttermilk. Housekeeper. . Don't banish the stoves. A low temperature in June causes more discomfort' than in January and many times more ills. A little mason's bluing, which may be purchased at any drug store, will scive a desirable pearl white tint to the whitewash. Bonnet; strings are tiny pipings like milliner's folds, which pass under the chin and end in a rosette just below the left ear. A half-cupful of ammonia to a pail of water will cleanse hard-finished ivalls nicely. Change the water when it becomes foul. Paint on windows can, it is said, be removed by melting some soda in very hot "water, and washing them with it, using a soft flannel. Many people take sweet cream in large quantities as a cure for nervous debility. It is said to serve all the purposes of cod liver oil. Tiny cut-glass dishes for bon-bons, olives and small flowers come in sets of four; in shape, the heart, diamond, spade and club of a card suit. White and willow green is an ideal mixture for the .wear of fair young girls with roseleaf complex ions. '" The bodice which has one side flittering with jet and the other side quite plain is more popular than aver. When potters' ware is boiled for the purpose of hardening it, a hand ful or two of bran should be thrown Into the water, and the glazing will never be injured by acids or salt. A pretty fancy seen upon a low, black lace gown was straps of fine openwork jet, passed over and under the arm, and seeming to hold the face folds in place. Mousseline de soie is a favorite fabric for graduating dresses, and will also be used for summer-resort toilets and bridesmaids' gowns. Paris modistes use it for parts of youthful bridal dresses over white silk slips. . Flannel wrung from hot water and applied to the neck and chest of a child suffering from croup will usual ly afford relief. The clothes can be heated in a steamer and the discom fort of wringing from hot water avoided. All poultices should be spread be tween two pieces of old, soft linen, and covered over with a layer of oiled silk. Never let the substance of the poultice come in contact with the skin, or allow it to get cold or hard. v To polishslatefloors,useasmooth, flat piece of pumice-stone, then polish with rotten-stone. Washing well with soap and. water is usually enough to keep the slates clean, but by adopting the above method, not only does the slate become polished, but any stains are taken out. An Albany physician who "never knew a case of cancer among He brews" thinks their exemption due to abstinence from pork. But they take special precautions against all disease in all meats admitted to their bill of fare. It is said that if lamp chimneys, tumblers, or other glass dishes are placed in cold water, with a half cup of table salt to each quart of water, which is brought slowly to a boil and boiled a half hour, then allowed to cool in the water, they, will resist any sudden changes of temperature with out cracking. As an antidote for a consumptive tendency, it is claimed that cream acts like a charm, and serves all the purposes intended to be served by cod liver oil, with much greater cer- taintly and effect. Besides persons consumptively inclined, those with feeble digestion, aged people and those inclined to chilliness and cold extremities, are especially benefited by a liberal use of sweet ciam. To clean lace fill a bottle with cold water; draw a stocking tightly over it, securing both ends firmly. Place the lace smoothly over the stocking and tack closely. Put the bottle in a kettle of cold water con taining a few shavings of soap, and place over the fire to boil. Rinse in several waters and then drain and dry. When dry remove and place smoothly in a large book and press with weights. Very nice lace can be made to look like new by this , pro cess. Good Housekeeping gives the fol lowing: "An old nurse who was con sidered wise in her day told me that an unfailing relief for croup was to s. lilac the child's feet in hnt. t apply hot flannels to the chest and givo the following mixture until vomiting was produced; one table spoonful of powdered alum dis. tolved in half a teacupful of hot wa ter and sweetened well with molnsspj. In membraneous croup pnt kettles ot water on the stovo producing all th Bteam possible, by inserting a tun nel in the nose of the teakettle and removing the cover, put the feet in hot water giving ipecac syrup or the above mixture, and hastening vom iting by placing hot tobacco leaves on the stomach, being careful not to leave them on too long. A Ghost Tolled the Bells. Before the earthquake shook it down, the old guard house or police station was just across the street, in front of the church. Every night for years an old policeman, who had grown old and decrepit in the service of his country and lastly xf his city, kept watch at the door. He had seen many strange sights, nnd he al ways said that the strangest ho had ever seen was the dead man ringing the chimes from the belfry of old St. Michael's. He had seen the shrouded figure, time and again, climb up to the bells, and, not touching the ropes, which had been pulled so often by living hands, swing the heavy iron tongues against the sides ofthe bells and clash out a fearful melody which thrilled while it horrified the listener. He would tell you, if you cared to listen to his story, how the ghost had been murdered, for in its normal state it had been murdered by tho thrust of an Italian stiletto in Elliot street. The spirit was "to walk the earth," "revisit the glimpses ot the moon." ring the old chimes, and do other horrible things, until the murderer was cap tured. A few minutes betoro midnight the old watchman would see this spectral" chimer enter the church doors, for getting to open them, swiftly and in a ghostly way glide up the steps of the winding stair, pause under the bells by the ropes where Gladsden rings them, pass swiftly on without touching thein, climb on into tho gloomy belfry and stop beneath the open mouths of the bells. They yawned down upon it, as if striving to swallow up the restless spirit. Suddenly, as if the inspiration had come, the shrouded hand would move silently and rapidly from iron tongue, and the wild eldritch music would swell the air. Atlanta Journal. Pistols in His Pants. "Frank James, the brother of tho dead outlaw Jesse James, isuUlicted with consumption, and it is only a question of time until he dies," said Charley Buckthorn, a traveling man. . "I have just returned from Dallas, Texas,where I met Frank. The strain upon him must be something terrible as he is ever upon the alert, not knowing at what time or from what direction trouble may come to him. He told me that he trusted no man living. "When introduced, he invariably places his hands in his pataloon )ockets, and simply bowing.ncknow edges the introduction by saying: 'I am glad to know you, sir. Whenliis hands are shoved into the pockets they grab two ugly guns. They are always in his pants pockets. His eyes are small and piercing. Not long ago he went into a saloon in Dallas,ownedby Tom Angus, a gam bler and sport. Years ago, .7 nines claims, Angus gave the James gang away to. the police. James, with his hands in his pockets, walked up to Angus, and such a scoring I never heard in my life, nnd all tho time Frank James' eves fairly glittered like a cat. He watched every move ofthe man and Angus weakened, and I did not blame him, either." Fooling the Judge. The judge's blood is not very thin, but through force of habit ho likes the temperature in his room to be nearly 80 degs. . His porter is some times late, and if the room is not up to the temperature where it should be a "blowing up" results. Recently, on a chilly morning, the porter over slept. He hurried to the office, ar. riving but a few minutes in advance of the punctual judge. The temp ra ture was under 50 degs. The porter turned the steam on, but it was im possible to get the required heat be fore the judge would arrive. So the Eorter pressed his thumb against tho ulb at the bottom of the thermome ter. He. was none too soon, for the mercury had no sooner reached a sufficient point than the judge's key was in the lock. The porter dusted away as the iudsre entered. Th judge, as is his invariable custom, went uireeuy io ino tnermometer, and, seeming satisfied that the tem perature was sufficient, sat down nt his desk with a satisfied air and went to work. Albany Journal. ' k . This 3Iay Be True, Scranton (Pa.) Correspondence. While farmer Solomon Titsworth w as sowing grain in Tunkhannock township op a cloudy afternoon last month, a flock of 200 or 300 pigeons began to gobble up his grain at a rate that he didn't like at all. Far mer Titsworth couldn't scare them away. As fast as he drove them from one part ofthe lot they flew to another, and picked up his grain as if thev hadn't anv food for t three days. Then the farmer got a uwcu yuu uuu eec io Dealing the huncrrv birds, but thev wtr tnr. hungry for him, even though ho had Kiueu a uozen or so. ;i ne Hunger of the nijreons overcame their fenr nr,i they stayed in the field until thev nau niieu ineir crops, wnen thev roso in a body and sailed awav to the north. i 1 4 ' ft n I)