INLAND,
:>*>;•
•tv homo (a far above the ocean sand*.
Too far to watch the surges roll and breaki
But every day across those meadow-lands
Fly sou-gulls toward tho luko.
Mo sound of dashing wares tho silence brtngat
No foam, like drifting snow,doiightH tho aye;
Instead, a sudden cloud of rushing wings
Gleams while against tho sky.
The sight of graceful schooners sailing fast,
Straight to their harbor, la denied me;
Bui lean see tho fair gulls soaring past.
They are my ships and sou.
-Harper's Bazar.
SCARLET FORTUNE.
IIY II. HKRMANT.
V CHAPTER I—CONTINUED.
Tho bearskin wan raised once
f; again, and a younger man entered.
:|l' Ho was nearly as tall as Ueorgo Mao
lano, and although his east of foa
;>y tnres betrayed a family likeness to
tho elder man, thoro was less of tho
cruelty about his lips, and less of tho
obstinate squareness about his jaws.
IIo was dark of skin, which matched
; ( curiously with the reddish brown of
his hair and heard. Duvo Mac
lane was George’s nophow and Lucy’s
cousin, tho son of a frontiersman
who had paid tho penalty of Ins
•ploncordora and fallen under a
poisoned Tueblo arrow. Pooplo
about the mountain stations said
that Dave was Lucy’s intendod hus
band, and the young man when ques
tioned about the subject, novor
denied tho soft impeachment.
Tho two men foil upon tho food
that stood ready for them with ap
J , potltes sharpened by a long journey.
They had come all the way from
Hatcher's Hole, tho noarest trading
station, a distance of full-thirty
miles, having gone there to obtain a
f fresh supply of powder, and other
necessities. Tho girl stood by while
thoy out groat slices from tho joint,
and spread them upon their corn
oakes. dipping the two togethqy into
the salt, and biting oit tho piocos
without further ado.
Tho hoqrty meal was washed down
with draughts of^the fiery Taos
whisky, tempered in minute propor
tion. with mountain water. That
:fi. over, the two mon wont outsido and
sat themselves down on tho log
t,, stumps, which stood ready there, to
smoke their big sassafras-root pipes.
The conversation was mado up of the
banalities of the time and place, and
Lucy, who had resumed her knitting,
joined in it but little.
On a sudden, tioorge jumped up
and walked aloug the path that led
up hill, with his eyes fixed intently
on the moonlit ground in front of
' him.
‘•Thar’s bin somebody heyar,” he
said, with quiet intensity. “Who’s
• bin by heyarP" he asked, turning to
Lucy. “Who’s gone to Dick Ash
land’s P”
“A stranger, ” the girl roplied,
casually,
“I guess I khow who it is.’’ George
continued. “I guess ho was bound
for Dick’s, when he was that soft and
soapy at Hatohor’s. I might ’a
known be was going to Dick Ash
land’s.’’
••Waal, an’ what o’ that?” Lucy
asked. •
“Yew mind yowr pot. my girl,”
tho elder Maclane retorted, “an’ jlst
look that yowr fat don’t burn. That’s
ij what yew’ve got to do. I reckon. It
, wur a tall stranger—dark, youngish,
wur it notP”
••That’s him,” Lucy answered.
“I told yew, Dave,” the elder man
continued, turning to his nephew.
“I wur sure of it. I wur that sure
of it. that I’d bet a hundred-dollar
5v; bill on It. I tell yew, Dick Ashland’s
jumped gold. He’s got a-head o’ mo.
an’ that thar stranger's come to help
him git it. Damnation! he shan't git
a-hoad o’ me. This is my country.
He’d a never oome heyar, if it hadn't
a-bln to follow my clue.”
His hand wandored instinctivoly
C.‘ to the big knife in his belt, and half
unsheathed it.
/ : ; “Dave,” he said, with a savage
quiet, “cqpie along o’ me. I reckon
; I’ve got something to say to yew.”
Tho two men strolled away into
tho night. The girl, still sitting on
tho log, dropped hor knitting on her
laP- an<1 listened, with a oonfusod
throbbing at heart, to the sound of
tho steps as thoy died away among
tho cedars beyond.
v1 CHAPTER II.
If there was ever a man, who rep
resented in a worthy and stalwart
^ fashion the bone, tho sinew, tho
pluck, the perseverance, and tho in
domitable courage of tho haixly
English yeoman, driven from a Staf
fordshire homo by hard timos, and a
harder landlord, that man was Dick
.Ashland. His father and his grand
'iM fathor- before him. had farmed some
meagre lands at Chaunccy Green, in
South Staffordshire, and when tho
old man died, an older brother
’« claimed possession of the farm.
.There was an aged mother to sup
i; port. and Dick Ashland shared that
duty with his brother, though ho
did not share the latter’s inheritance.
Dick tried a little farming of his
own, and was uniformly unlucky,
Ivv Rent accrued, and for its payment,
goods, chattels, implements, and
j£'4 stock were seized and sold, until
Dick Ashland, sick at heart, and de
spairing of success at home, .went to
sock fortune in a frocr and. loss iron
hearted country. Eovtuhe did not
smile very broadly on Ashland, even
when ho reached tho vast prairies.
u« worked hard, but year after year
^ passed on. and he was not much the
richer. Ho was hard-witted and
shrewd withal, and in days gone by,
he dab Wed a little in coal and iron
mlhing. When, therefore, he
far up the mountain, and
‘ lived there year in and year out in
stubborn loneliness. George Maclane.
'% ;i\ Uko others beside him, came to the
conclusion that Dick Ashland was
like themselves, hunting for that
fabulous gold, with which according
to rumor, the region teemed, but
which no one yet had been able to
find.
Herbert was a younger — the
youngest son, in fact, of the earl of
Clove, and his lordship had been
blessed, by his lady, with nine
children, which included six then
grown-up and marriageable, but un
married daughters. Ills lordship
was not a hard-hoartod father, but
six marriageable and unmarried
daughters, each of them engaged in
fruntlo efforts to entor the state of
holy matrimony, and each of them
failing repoatedly and decisively, are
apt to sour tho best of tempers among
elderly gentlemen, and the result
was that Lord Clove looked with a less
leniont eye, than ho might otherwise
havo done, upon the escapades of his
younger son. Herbert had the mis
fortune of resembling, in a marked
degree, his mother, who had been
supromoly beautiful, whilst his two
oldor brothers, and all the young
ladles, were juvenile reproductions
of the face and features of ray lord,
who was ferociously ugly. A day
I of reckoning came, and Herbert
I Chauncoy, badgered by creditors,
whom ho could not pay, denied as
sistance by his father "and by his
brothers, followed in the wake of
Dick Ashland, to lead a wild and
hardy life on tho Western plains,
where his genial bonhomie, his
manly and distinguished bear-ng,
won him many friends.
While engaged in hunting tho
buffalo on tho Platto river, where at
that time they woro still to be found
in hugo hords, a letter of Dick Ash
land's rcachod him, begging him to
come to the mountain hut.
"I havo something to tell you,
Mister Herbert,” Dick wrote, “that
will bo worth whilo going to hear, I
want your arm and head both.”
Herbert, in the vigor of his youth
ful impulse, had saddled his horse
and fitted it for the journey ore that
letter had been two hours in his
pocket. Tho journoy of two-hundrod
inilo/i, between tho Platte and tho
Sangre de*Christo range, lay across
barren plains, whero, in many parts,
I both horso and rider wanted for
ordinary nccossitios. But Herbert
Chauncoy was not easily daunted,
and whon he dashed across Blacknosc
Corner, that afternoon, his spirits
wore buoyant as though ho had just
completed a ten-mile journey.
The two men were speaking in
undertones, taking short puffs of
their pipes in the meanwhile.
“There's enough of it Mr. Her
bert,” Dick Ashland said, accentua
ting eaoh word by a tup on his
companion’s knee, “to pave tho
street at the Green. Theer’s tons
on it likely, and no groat job to get
at it neither. The only wonder is
that it hasn't been spotted afore
this.”
"But with all this untold wealth
around us,” Herbert interrupted,
“why havon't you let me know
before?"
“I wanted to make sure of it, I
wanted to know exactly what I was
about.”
“Well, tho best thing we can do
now, I suppose,” said Chauncey, “is
to sond, to Hatcher’s and get some
hands to help us. ■’
Tho yeoman gave a low whistle.
"No, thank you,” ho exclaimed.
“Not if I know it I don’t want my
throat cut, not just yet. My
find wouldn’t bo no good to mo if I
wore rotting at the bottom of ono of
the canyons. ’’
“AVhut do you mean?” tho young
man asked eagerly.
Ashland looked warily about the
place as if, even in the lonely wilder
noss, he was afraid of being over
heard by a prying car.
"What do I mean?” he asked, with
intense earnestness. “I mean that
if as much as a whisper got abroad
that I’d mado this find—-that if a
human finger could point out tho
spot where it lies, our lives wouldn’t
bo worth four-and-twenty-hours pur
chase. We’d havo all the scoundrels
of ^he plains down upon us, and
they’d think no more of blowing out
our brains from behind, and then
killing ono anothor to get hold of
tho booty, than of eating their din
ners.”
Herbert strotched his legs widely.
“That’s warm,” ho said quietly.
“You’d find it warmer than you
cared for, Mr. Herbert,” Dick con
tinued; “and if wo want to save our
skins and my gold as well, wo’vo just
got to put our heads together, that
wo have. It’s easy that does it this
time, and we’ve got to work slow and
sure. Theor’s enough thoor to set
up a dozen on us for life, and wo
mustn't lose our heads in getting it”
“What do you propose to do?”
Chauncey asked.
••Our only chance is to get govern
ment protection, and they wouldn’t
give us that without an order from
Fort Bent. I'm not much afraid of
anybody else finding the place. It’s
takon mo just seventeen months, and
then I only stumbled across it by a
fluke. All the same I don’t intend
to leave it without one on us keeping
an eye on it. What we’ll have to do
! is to pick out enough to show that
the stuff is theer all right, and then
I you or I will have to ride to Fort
j Bent and get Captain McAfferty to
send a s^uad of soldiers here. All
! these cut throats will light shy of
Uncle Sam's uniform, though wo
shall have no littlo trouble oven
then. ’■’
••Where’s the difficulty in all this?”
Herbert asked.
“Mo difficulty,” Ashland replied,
“if wo only keep our heads clear,
and dur nerves stiff. But theer are
over hulf-a-do7.cn stations between
here and Fort Bent, and if, at any of
these, so much as a breath got abroad
of what wo are about, neither I nbr
you would live to soe the end of it.”
Ho again turned and looked abound
cautiously.
“I thought I heard something ova
among them cedar*," he said. “Don’t
tako any notice of It You may have
been followed. I'll go by-and-by and
look from another place, Did you
tell anybody at Hatcher’* you were
coming hereP"
“No," the young man reDlied, “I
had no need of that; your descrip
tion of the road was plain enough:
but I remember now. I did ask a
girl, about two miles down, how far
It was to your place."
“That was foolish,” said Ashland.
“That girl was Lucy Maclane.
Freckled George's daughter, and
he's the man of all others that I’m
most afraid of. He's always dodging
and dodging me about, but I’ve put
him off the scent so far. lie’s been
on the same game as myself these
months past, and he's as gsoat a
rascal as is to bo found on tho plains.
That killing of Dick Maguire was
never properly explained. George
insists that it was done in fair light,
but I for one don’t believe it. I’m
suro theer's someone dodging about
among them' cedars," Ashland con
tinued.
“I orhaps it’s some boast,” Herbert
suggested.
"Not a bit of it,” Dick repliod.
"Thoor’s no game theer this time o’
the day. You sit here and I'll get
round to the back of the cabin and
from theer I’ll quietly climb on to
the rock, and if theor’s anything
alive among them cedars I’ll spot it.
Keep your weather eye skinned
while I’m away.”
With that he roso and sauntered
carelessly to the door of the small,
rude log hut which formed his habi
tation. He stolidly walked to the
further end of it. and there disap
peared.
The hut had been built on a ledge
of the rock, some 200 yards square,
which jutted out, a smiling headland,
over the gaping jaws of a wild can
yon. The mountain rose sheer and
steep from the chasm, as if heaven’s
lightning had split the solid rock
asunder, and had thus left an all
time token of its fury. The flesh
colored crystalline feldspar gleamed
along - the face of the canyon side,
but stunted cedars and pines, and
insinuating shrubs struggled for life
along a hundred little ledges,
wherever the fierce wind had depos
ited a handful of loose earth, and
covered with their browns and
greens the metallic purplish blue
grey that prevailed more than other
tints.
"Begad,” he said to himself,
“this beatsyour pantomimes and sen
sational dramas hollow. And to
think that there’s gold—bushels of
it, tons of it — lying somewhere
about. And I’m to have my share of
it Who says there’s no such thing
as luck in this world. Gold!” he re
peated to himself. "Gold! gold! tons
of gold!”
IIo shook himself together on a
sudden, and commenced to pace up
and down.
“That was a pretty girl,” he
murmured to himself; "a downright
jolly girl. And looked to mo, too? as
though she were a good girl. The
sort of a girl that would stick to a
man through thick and thin and help
him tight it out though the devil and
his'chances were against him. Diok
doesn’t like her father, but he didn’t
say a word against the girl He’d
have mentioned it if there had been
anything against her. No, no. She’s
a little brick, I’m sure.. And if I’d
dress her in a nice gown and polish
her a bit, she’d drive tho girls at
tho Towers mad with envy. A long
way between here and Staffordshire,
but if there isn’t a slip betwixt the
cup and the lip I’ll take her there,
or my name isn’t Herbert Chauncey. ”
A broad hand tapped him on 'the
shoulder. It was Dick.
“I was mistook," said the yeoman.
‘ thoer’s nobody theer. It must have
been some boast after all. But 1
think we’d better wait until it’s quito
night for all that, before we climb
down and have a look at my And.”
[TO BE OONItNL'ED. J
Slgniflcnnoii of Diamond.*.
A lawyorv in explaining tho phrase,
"If I esu manage to hang on to my
diamonds I guess I can pull through,”
said: "If a man is in the habit of
wearing this sort of ornament his
associates are bound to notice it. In
a time when men are going to pieces
all sorts of signs are looked for by
business men that will indicate tho
financial standing of a customer. If
they notice that a man who has been j
in the habit of wearing expensive
jewelry suddenly appears without
any of his usual jewels they are apt
to conolude that he is being pushed
so hard that he had to realize on
personal property, and his credit
goes down."
Killing a Horne by Throwing.
There is a certain way that exper
ienced stockmen know of throwing a
horse down so as to break his neck
and kill him at once* An ordinary
halter is put on the horse, the lead
strap from it passed between the
horse’s front legs, a turn being taken
around the far one near the fetlock.
The executioner then hits the horse
a sharp cut with a whip, and when
ho jumps up pulls sharply and
strongly on the halter strap. The
horse strikes head first, with the en
tire weight on his neck. The fall is
invariably fatal.
,i:;> hv Knew Hi* Hoy.
Orator—Where else will yon find
in one spot such products as marble,
iron, clay, chalk, copper, lead, slate,
glucose, fruits of all kinds, hemp,
flax, and all manner of grains?
Man in the Audience—In my boy’s
pocket ' ,.t . - ,
A True t;l|ri*tlan.
Mabel—What makes you think you
are a Christian?
Blanche—Well, last night when
Fred smaoked me on one cheek 1
turned to him the other.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
THE IMPORTANT MATTER OP
A WATER SUPPLY.
Tara Water for Stock pi Wall ■■ Family
a Kacaaaity—Prompt Rottraa _ Why
Quaana Arc Ballad—Agricultural Uinta
and Honsaliold llal|M.
Water Supply of the Farm*
One of the most important parts of
the management of the farm, as well
as the farm household, is the water
supply. There is far too much igno
rance or neglect in this regard, the
results of which are always ccstly
and sometimes disastrous. Water
is really the most important aliment
of all animals.
Every person should know that the
fatal fevers of fall and winter are ail
caused by impurities in the water,
and in regard to cows, especially
that impure water may infect the
milk so as to carry disease to the
consumers of it, while, by a certain
physiological influence by which the
milk will carry off from a cow the
germs of disease or other poisonous
matters, the animal escapes, but
those who use the milk will receive
the infection.
Thus the importance of securing a
supply of pure water' for the farm
stock is as great as that of the pro
vision for the family. And at the
same time there are some considera
tions of convenience to be thought
of.
The winter is the dry time in the
North, while the summer is the dry
time in the South. And what will
be here suggested may be equally
applicable to the South and the
North, only the seasons will be re
versed. And it is a curious proof of
this reversal of condition that the
fever season is rife during the sum
mer in the South, but in the winter
in the North. .
The purest water that can be pro
cured is that which is distilled Jrom
the clouds, writes ITenry Stewart in
the New York Times. In nature's
laboratory everything is made pure.
It is only when it is contaminated
by the dead and decaying matter of
the earth that the water or the air
becomes defiled. And this is pre
cisely what is the matter with most
of the water from springs and many
wells. It washes the soil, the most
effective means of disposing of the
dead matter, the wastes of nature
and of mankind, and in the ordinary
operations of nature the water would
carry all this waste to the ocean,
whero it becomes changed into food
for marine animals, upion which the
fishes feed, and thus it returns once
more freed from all impurities into
another round of life. But when we
interrupt this course of nature with
out due care and precaution we vio
late a natural law, and whether it is
done deliberately or in ignorance,
nature claims the unavoidable pen.
alty and wo suffer the consequences.
The cistern must bo underground,
as well for convenience and safety
from frost as for the preservation of
a desirable temperature of tho water.
In this way. in the South, cool water
may be had in the hot summer, and
in the North warm water may be
had in the cold winter. The right
form of the cistern, both for strength
and room, is a section of an egg with
the top cut off.
A strong man can only with diffi
culty crush an egg in his hands by
pressing only the ends of it. The
seemingly fragile shell resists great
pressure, that would crush a per
fectly round body quite easily, al
though a globular form has much
more strength than a square or a
cube.
The material of which a cistern is
best made is hard brick laid end
ways for a large cistern, or sideways
for one of moderate size. The brick
should be laid in water lime, with
two parts of sand added. The joints
should be as narrow as will give a
perfect adhesion between the bricks;
a little less than u quarter of an inch
will be sufficient The digging should
be made from the top to the middle of
the bulge straight down and then be
finished in the shape desired. The
reason for this is that it is not easy
to work in it if the top overhangs.
A flat stone is first bedded in the
cement at the bottom, on which
the workman stands while building
the wall. The joints of tho bricks
with this must be closed, and it is
indispensable that the brick should
be laid tight against the solid earth
as the work proceeds, so that
the pressure of tho water inside
may not crush out the
wall. Quite contrary to common
ideas, the greatest pressure in a cis
tern is from within, and this is often
ignored and the wall is pressed out
by the weight of the water, and, hav
ing no solid backing of earth tho
cistern is apt to give way. So that
when the cistern begins to narrow
in it is absolutely necessary to pack
the loose earth tight against the
wall outside. And to aid in this it
is well to pour water on the packed
earth to make it quite solid. in
this way the wall is carried to th'e
top, leaving only an opening suffi
ciently large for the admission of a
man to thjB inside when it may be
necessary.
It is a wise precaution in laying
bricks to plaster the outside all over.
This is done by spreading some of
the cement on the earth at the lower
part and pressing the bri-ks close
against it, and when the wall is
drawn in plastering the outside.
This prevents leakage from the out
side into the cistern, which has the
effect of loosening the inside cover
ing of cement.
The stone covering the month of
the cistern should be two feet under
ground, wherever the freezing of the
•oil might penetrate so far, and
equally where the summer’s heat is
to bo kept out, this covering Is ad
visable. The usual temperature oi
the 6oil at the depth required is very
near an average of sixty degrees,
which is warm in the winter, but
cool in the sumiher, and this is very
desirable for the water. The sur
face over the stone is covered by a
frame of durable planks laid on four
sills and well spiked down. The
pipe passes through this, and the
pump is screwed on to this pipe. It
is desirable to have a small hole
drilled into the pipe just under the
covering, and to put a petcock in it,
to let the water down to a safe point
to avoid freezing of it in the pipe.
As soon as the water is drawn from
the pump, the water runs down to
the level of that in the cistern, and
thus this danger is avoided. A few
holes are also drilled in the pipe,
four inches above the bottom, so that
the dregs of the cistern are not
drawn up with the water. The bot
tom of the pipe is, of course, plug
ged tight This is quite an import
ant matter that is often lost sight of.
The capacity of a cistern of this
shape is, for one eight feet in diam
eter, about 203 gallons to the foot in
depth; ten feet in diameter, 820 gal
lons to the foot, and twelve feet, 470
gallons. Thus a cistern ten feet
wide at one-third the height
from the bottom and ten feet in
depth will hold about 100 barrels of
water, equal to the supply of ten
cows for nearly three months, with
out any addition to it If the water
is filtered as it falls from the roofs
through a box of beech shavings or
coarse sand and gravel, it will be
clear of sediment, and will make fre
quent cleaning of the cistern unnec
essary.
Prompt Returns.
Mr. H. G Adams says that when
a man goes into the dairy business,
ho is going to get a return for his
investment before twenty-four hours
are over, the cow declares a dividend
before night You don’t have to
wait twelve months; a farmer in the
dairy business, running it in an in
| tolligent way,.is in a business which
brings him in money every day in
the year; that is above the ordinary
contingencies of the weather, which
may affect your grain crops.
The farmer who is a dairyman is
stimulated by this quick return
which comes into his pocket each day
in the year; he becomes more of a
business man than the other farmers,
lie is a manufacturer and he acquires
business sense and makes that study
of the market which all manufac
turers must liave to make them suc
cessful. He becomes sharpened and
brightened by contact with men in
other lines of business, he becomes
in short more of a busiuess man. An
other important thing is here; when
the dairyman sells #100 worth of pro
ducts from his farm, he is not rob
bing that farm of its fertility. When
the farmer sells #100 worth of crops,
he takes #25 worth of fertility out of
the soil.—Farmers Voice.
Why Queen* Are Balled.
Mrs. Atchley tells a correspondent
that the reason bees from her own
hive balled their queen when he re
turned her, was on account of the
sting poison the bees had saturated
her with. Bees will ball their own
queen just as quickly as a strange
one, when she has sting poison on
her. The next time a queen takes
wing, shake a frame of bees right
down in front of the entrance, and
close the hive quickly, step back out
of the way and she will return all
right. In some instances it may be
better to keep the queens caged a
few days in the hive before giving
the bees access to the candy, but I
never do; I always see that they
have candy enough to completely fill
up the food hole, as when a queen
has come a long way the candy may
nearly be gone; in such cases there
ought to be more candy put in. I
seldom lose a queen by the candy
plan.—Journal of Agriculture.
Agricultural Him*.
The Sonth is buying hay of the
North. The South is capable of
producing its own hay, if it will.
If you have a piece of low land,
marsh perhaps, drain it, and you will
make it the best land on your farm.
It is not best to begin to husk corn
as soon as it is shocked. Often, ow
ing to the weather, it will mold if
husked too soon.
Millet seed affects the kidneys of
animals. If the millet is cut too
late, it must be fed very carefully on
account of the seed.
Keep the dog from barking at pass
ing teamed It frightens horses and
may cause runaways. The place for
a dog is inside the fence.
Thero is often plenty of time and
good weather in winter to put up
fencing. Digging through the frozen
t ground may be a little hard, but what
! else have you to do? In cities the
I ground is broken up for buildings
| when it is frozen pretty deep.
—--—
Household Help*.
i The custom of brushing a table
cloth instead of shaking it as former
| !y tw« good points. It does not
scatter the crumbs abroad, but col
lects them tidily. And it does not
crumple the cloth, which was sadly
mussed at the old time method of
eldaring the table.
We do many careless things which
often involve serious consequences.
It is a very common thing to light a
match when hunting in dark rooms
cr Ciosets for some articles wanted.
This is what a suburban young lady
did the other night. She needed
something in a spare room closet
and struck a match to look for it,
forgetting a tulle evening dress
skirt which hung there and which
blazed up in a very lively way. For
. tunately there was little harm done,
but mademoiselle had to go about
I with a bandaged hand for a week.
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Napoleon has been ChaZ
In so many different wav^r!z64
numerous writ.... _#y* by
numerou. wriu™ who^* by ^
hte career that It n„*ave 8tQdieJ
to find him tooilbil “*
the recent work of a 6
l-ho book is by 1! Mal w ,anth<*
is devoted mainly to th<f ?C er’ an‘
the littfe COr8hloai°U5eh01'
“It describes in derail ’• ,,
reviewer, ‘-the luxury which w ys 1
surrounded his fim « .Napoleo'
could not get along on 300 on1j<,rce
a year- and his saZa °T ,r«ei
and his manner of livfnsr m?le8t °B«
Napoleon was not exSaVa»
*s his own person wa< ®anta8,»
When he had himself crown^"64
emperor 70,000 francs a ,!1 *
set aside for his wardrofc,LtT
never spent more than 20 OM? hl
for that purpose. The price „fa?
uniforms varied between „
francs, and he wore them a “on 241
possible, not considering it h 8 *
his dignity to wear mSfded Zb?
In rainy and cold weath«r°h °tb
pel himself in a simperZ Wr4p
for which his tailor charged hK
franca As is well known, Napoleon
preierred generally small tP°,
ha“For°rthehiCh hi P8id 48 flanc8°S
the emperor Was 7^1^
He used incredible quantities ofTau
de cologne, as he considered it „„
only refreshing but wholesome an
washed his body in it every moraine
Between June and September is.jk
he used no fewer than 162 bottle! 0i
for them°0l0Hne’ Pay,lD8 423 ,rancs
He w«s also exceedingly
m °l th® SmeU ot tha al°6. In
1808 he gave 723 francs for ten
ounces of aloe. Costly soaJ. tS
w»d five francs a cake, he alsoused
He was also a good customer of the
glove-makers. In 1808 he had forty
eight pairs made of deerski
twenty-four pairs of goatskin,
long these lasted is not told
there were many similar purcl
“Napoleon, however, was
tremely particular as to his
He was very cleanly, and ch;
pis underwear and dress shirts
The finest linen was used ft
dress shirts, as can be seen froi
fact that in 1808 more than
francs was spent for the materi
six dosen shirts. One hundred
kerchiefs cost him 1,400 francs,
linen of various kinds the en
spent 10,000 francs in 1808—a
half of the sum which he u
spent on his wardrobe.
“At no time, however, di
court purveyors enjoy greater
vest than when he was crowne
annointed emperor. Never 1
were so many magnificent pri
sent from the Tutlleries, and
before did the royal palace o
banks of the Seine see such di
The coronation clothing of th
peror and empress cost togethe;
000 francs, and that of the cou
150,000. For ornaments of vi
kinds, 700,003 francs was expe
and for memorial medals, 20,00
told, the cost of the coronatio
about 5,000,033 francs. No mo
of the ancient regime expend
much on a similar occasion,
leon I, however, was never e
rassed financially. He kept hi
Oate treasury, as well as the
treasury, in the best order,
from allowing his purvey ora ti
advantage of him, be examined
bill, even for the most insigni
thing which was purchased fi
coart. Almost invariably the
chants were obliged to lower
prices. ”
Jinay Nnw York State.
New York grows 5,000,003 tons o
hay and raises 30,000,000 bushels o
potatoes. The internal trade ol Ke\
York exceeds $2,000,0 )0,000 a year
$1,650,000,000 of freight passes ove
the railroads, $150,000,000 over thi
canals and $250,000,000 over th
sound and lakes. New York sustain
over 1,000 newspapers and periodic
als, has $600,000,000 in the savins
banks, $300,000,000 in insurant
companies and $700,000,000 ineapi
tal and loans of the banks. Thor
are 6,000 miles of railroads, whirl
I cost over $600,000,000. 'ihere an
23,000,000 acres of farm lands, val
ued at $1,056,000,000, and annua.1,
producing $178,000,000.
Pollard Wll ows.
••Powder willows’’ is the name i
Northern Delaware for those poda.i
swamp willows commonly seen 1
meadows. The powder-making “
ponts established a market for
wood in Delaware a century a?
and every stream for a dozen mi
above Wilmington is lined w*
these trees. Some have gr
to enormous size, and all the o
ones are picturesque with g*
fluffy green balls of foliage in ®
spring, and dense spheres of ® -
gray twigs in winter.
It Reminded Iter.
The young man was premature
ray, and was not a littleprou
“Looks quite poetic, don -
think?” he could not forbeai as *
of the young woman he was ca 11 a,
“It does remind me of a ce
poem, I must admit,” said she.
“And what poem is that.
“When the frost is on the p
And his hair went on whitenm„
a more rapid rate than eve:.
A Jewel In the Country’* Crown
The cereals, hay andl root «rop 0
California are valued at * • (J
yearly. There are over 20, wu.
fruit trees, and 17,000,000 ga ^
wine and 1,000,000 gallons ghee
are made every year. 7 w00], ai|
yield 85.000.000 pounds o woo
15,000,000 pounds of hutte
cheese are annually produced.
