TOPICS OF THE TIMES
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A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
Coaaaaeata aed Criticisau Bawd Upon
ta liirriiap of tbs 1 j-iils-
taricai asd Naws Xatea,
The money question: Uow to get it.
The lazy man rests in poverty and the
energetic man in comfort.
Many men fail in life by taking chan
ces Instead of seizing opportunities.
Burying an evil before you kill It Is
siinply planting the seed for another
crop.
"Where i all the money of the coun-
try?" shrieks a Philadelphia paper, lou
may search us.
Milwaukee wanted a poem to boom
her cat show. Why didu't she make a I
requisition on the mews? j
Rcbuanlieit who was killed in Hon
duras a few weeks ago, has begun his
first series of confessions.
A Colorado woman-claims that a Bos
ton hark driver took her to church and
married her against her will. This was j
hardly fare.
Sam Jones says "Trilby" was bad,
without a redeeming feature. We have
always believed that she stood upon a
pretty fair footing.
The amiable, affable, candid fellow
selis more goods than the other fellows
do. So of good-natured, straightfor
ward advertisements.
In the "down Fast" vernacular, an
lee dealers who cuts rates is called a
"butterfly." Such fellows unfortunate
ly never get beyond the chrysalis stage
uere.
At a picnic lu a New York suburb a '
youngster fell Into a barrel of lemon- j
ade and was drowned. It will be hard j
work to make the average street arab j
feel sorry for that boy.
If tlie strikes of the last six years
have cost the country $luo.ou0,ooo, a
good way to make $1jo,imiu,jO would
be to sweat oft from strikes for a per
iod of about six years.
John Wans maker keeps adding to his
3Ife iusuriiice, that has uow reached an
imposing total of $'i000.000. When he
shall take to his deathbed, among other
consolations it will be his to know that
he will be mourned by the insurance
companies anyway.
A Kansas City paper says that a Mis
souri ju.au caught a cattish which was
so large that it pulled him into the river
and drowned him. We have great re
spect for the Missouri liar, but we have
later itif urination to the effect that the
fish, not the fisherman, was drowned.
The American Pie Baking Company '
has Ijeen organized in Brooklyn with
.the purpose of forming a pie trust. :
There will never be any danger of a 1
corner in pie so long us the pie of tho '
nation is made in the homes of the '.
people. When the Coming Woman!
abaL.di.ns the pie traditions of the eld-
ers it will be time to fear the ravages '
of lis' trust i
Paul Conrad, president of the Louis
iana Lottery Company, is dead. Up to
the last moment he still retained the
presidency of the Gulf Coast Ice aud
Manufacturing Company of Bay St.
Louis, Miss., and all proposals for sup
plies, machinery, etc., as well as all
business communications from persons
having dealings with him, must uow be
sent to some other man. This is a world
of sorrow. j
Mr. Abbey says that after the Bern
hardt tour in the United States next
year .he shall not bring over any more '
European actors speaking only in a
foreign tongue, as such actors barely
pay expenses. This !s a cheering con-
cession to popular demand. When this
reform is accomplished would It not be ;
well for American managers to go a t
step further and decide not to employ i
American actors and actresses who
act only with their coats and gowns !
and Appear to be unable to speak their :
own language audibly or correctly. j
The extent to which street railroads
In cities and towns have become a ne
cessity is shown in their marvelous de
velopment in recent years. There are
now iu our country 076 street car com
panies, and they operate 13,000 miles of
street railway, 1.91-1 miles use horse
power (July, 1805), C32 miles are cable
roads, and 077 miles are operated In a
miscellaneous way, aa by steam mo
tors; 10,377 miles are operated by elec
tricity, which shows the extent to w hlch
the new power has displaced other
forms of traction; 44.750 street cars are
now In use, and $750,000,000 have al
ready been Invested In these roads and
their equipment
A hysterical literary person In New
York City Is making violent and noisy
. protMt against a projected ball fight at
' the Atlanta. Exposition. The press, al-
waft good-natured and easily htim
baggtdt has jrlren him the publicity
which It was doubtless hts desire to ob
late. Tbe facta are simply that the
tMsg'sd ban fight will be spectacular
ffely ad la so sens sanguinary. The
kmm of the balls will he padded, and
ea kVii broad bach, will be laid a sort
4 ttia aaartrsas, Into which tbe darts
af tba baa flirts wSl he throat There
wa be as eraaHjr fa the exhlWOoa and
at of excHenent
T - VJ t as ea,
'-asi ' W aaasa a
yi tp-si i..
u,e T"nn-,',,,ui f ,h wt.n
seer that tbe company which held these
humane fights wan bankrupted bn-aiix
they were so exceedingly humane. It
In unt ioiiHiwiibW that the concession
aires at Atlanta may suffer the same
! disaster. Of course W illiam Hosea Bal-
j lou Is right in declaring that be speaks
j for the American people as a whole in
protesting against me implanting or the
wicked Spanish-A merican sport on our
Lu ma lie and virtuous sn.il.
The latest use of the bicycle In cities
Is to enable the rider to commit high
way robbery. Sedate people who go
out of evening in lonely neighbor
hoods will do well to be armed or leave
their valuables at home. If the newest
use of the w heel be persisted in, nianu-1
facturers will have to devise a secret
automatic whistle to go off as soon as
the intent to rob is formed or the vic
tims are In sight and bearing. Or the
possible victims might wear upon their
persons a robtiers' electric alarm that
would give a sufficient shock to Intend
ing highwaymen to balk their fell pur
pose. Something must be done to
avert what threatens to become not al
together a Joke.
A wife must prepare her husband's
dinner, but he Is not justified in boxing
her ears if she fails to do it. Such is
the syllabus of a recent decision of a
learned court in New xork. It seems
that a man went home from his work to
get his dinner. On arriving at hi resi
dence he found neither w if e Dor food.
Then he started out of the house and
met bis wife ou the street returning
from a temperance meeting. The hus
band forthwith administered such pun
ishment as, lu his opinion, the gravity
of the wife's offense warranted, aud the
wife bad him arrested for assault and
battery. The case went to court and
the Judge placed the husband under
bonds to keep the peace, lie also said
to the wife: "You, woman, go home,
aud, temperance meeting or no tem
perance meeting, have your husband's
dinner ready when be wants it." This
decision is all right so far as it goes. If.
however, the man was properly put
under bonds for his part in the affair,
why did not bis lawyer Insist that the
man's wife be put under bonds to per
form her part? The case indicates that
a new branch of Jurisprudence Is to be
opened for the bar just at a time when
all the principles of law have become
well settled. The world may now ex
pect a new crop of Jays, Marshalls and
Taney a, who. in the new relations of
the sexes, will find a vast field for their
legal powers.
Some very singulr statistics relative
to woman's work and wages, drawn
from some source not indicated, are
made by a New York paper the founda
tion for what is almost a new theory
bearing upon the lalsir problem. The
average observer will hold that the
rapiil entrance of women Into employ
ments which for many years were held
by men alone has resulted only in the
heavy reduction of the salaries of men.
This position Is Incontrovertible, the
facts are notorious. .There has been
a steady decrease In the salaries paid
men as clerks and salesmen, and In
many branches of manufacturing in
dustries, such as cotton mills and other
textile manufacturing concerns. These
branches of latr are now monopolized
by womankind. It seems, however,
that there has uow been discovered a
form of labor cheaper than that of wo
men. Men Poles. Hungarians, Italians
are working at making hats, caps,
suspenders, at dressmaking, cloakmak
lntr. laundry work and other industries
naturally fitted to the capacities of wo
men, for smaller w ages than employers
have yet been able to persuade women
to accept. The form of the industrial
complaint has been changed. Instead
of denouncing women for unfair com
petition with men the cry Is now that
men are forcing women out of employ
ment because they will work for even
more puny pittances. There Is social
danger In this constant and progressive
reduction of wages In those Industrie))
which do not demand eseclally skilled
labor, the products of which are sold i
III rl,reell ,tn t ,.,t 1 1 1 imirl-i.t. V,.
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short of complete socialism no remedy J
can lie
applied through legislation
Working people themselves may do
much by combination for self-protection.
A higher ethical sense among em
ployers would, of course, effect a partial
remedy, but under existing commercial
conditions that is not to be expected.
All that society as a whole enn do Is to
apply palliatives Instead of remedies.
A Hospital on Wheels.
A novel departure in the Isolation and
treatment of Infectious caws has been
taken by the local authorities in a town
In Scotland. It consists in putting on
tho streets a movable hospital in the
form of a caravan. This caravan has
four wheels, and can be drawn by two
horses. It has an air space of 1.5U0
cubic feet, bing 19 feet long, 10 feet
high from floor to roof aud S feet wide.
It has double walls, with an interven
ing space of Vi inches. One end can
be dislodged to allow of the vehicle
being placed corridor fashion against
another. Each van has two beds, and
Is thoroughly equipped. It Is propos
ed to provide a tent with each van for
tbe nurse or for cooking. Kaeii vehicle
costs $500. Tbe advantage claimed for
this van Is that It can be taken to tbe
patient, and that the vans In the sev
eral districts can be brought together
wherever an outbreak of infectious dis
ease occurs.
Ctaiaae a World's Jtecord.
The world's record la claimed by the '
Dlrbjo Hose Company, of Ellsworth.
Me., which the other day ran 210 yards
to tbe engine house, then 233 yards
with ass reel, coupled tbe boee to tbe
hydrant and tbe nossls to tbe host, all
la 1 atlaate 1 seoouds, , "
t-t ' ' t '.
, A maa this weather should dress lav
ablet ffaletaad skirt, and ma wild.
THE FARJI AND HOME.
HATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM
ER AND HOUSEWIFE.
Have a Blacksmith bbup i the Farm
How Quack Grass Can Be Killed
Plant Cherry Trees by the Koatlaide
Notes.
Farm Machine ttepairina.
On all well-conducted farms w here
much machinery is Used, farmers spend
great deal of time ruuuing to and
fro'm the blacksmith shop. There are
so mauy different tools used that some
thing gives out almost every day. Now,
a great deal of this expense may be
saved by having a small shop ou the
farm, says a writer in the Agricultu
rist. A portable forge can be had for
$15. This will an twer every purpose,
although It is not advisable to get one
too small. Secure a band anvil weigh
ing about luu pounds, a good hammer,
a ten-pouud sledge, a steel punch, aud
a good blacksmith's vise, aud you are
ready for almost any Job but horse
shoeing. Of course, a beginner cannot
expect to do skilled work at first out
with a little practice time and money
can be saved. My outfit contains sev
eral tools in addition to those men
tioned above, and cost me about $'M.
The money is well invested. A farmer
should not be without an assortment of
good carpenter tools. I say good ones,
because I believe the farmer ought to
have as good ones as the carpeuter.
Mauy a du'ar can be saved by their
use. If tbe farmer does not care to do
bis own repairing, ierhaps the boys
(if there be any) will take hold, aud to
them it will soon become more of a
pleasure than a task.
How to Kill Quack Gras.
If you must plow quack-grass land,
plow for corn, fit thoroughly aud plant
in hills, with a baudful of good phos
phate In every hill, cultivate as soon as
possible, aud keep cultivating and hoe
ing until the corn Is too large, says the
Country Gentleman. In the fall, after
removing the corn, plow shallow and
harrow. If possible, with a tioatiug
spring tooth harrow. Next spring plow
again as early as possible; about the
first of June plow again, aud plow deep
lyas deeply as you can; fit thoroughly
and plant beans. You can begin culti
vating the beans In a week's time after
they are planted. Three times cultivat
ing if you have a good tool, and work
close to the crop, will be enough. I can
safely promise you a clean field and a
good crop of ticitns, also a good prepara
tion of the land for any following crop.
If you do not wish to raise beans, you
can put In potatoes, giving the land the
same treatment, with the advantage
that potatoes will bear rougher treat
ment than will the beans, but you can
not begin cultivating the potatoes as j
soon after . planting unless you make
deep, plain marks, so that you can fol
low the rows before they come up.
Cherry Trees by Hoaliile,
No klud of fruit tree thrives belter
under neglect than does the cherry. It
needs uo pruning except what the cher
ry pickers uaturuily give while harvest
ing the crop. Unlike other fruit trees
Its crop Is not so i-usily gathered that
it would be apt to be stolen by passers
by. Tlie picker earns fully half of all
he can gather. It will greatly add to
the attractiveness of country drives in
neighborhoods where the cherry Is
planted, and the passer by will not feel
as he plucks this fruit and eats that he
fs wronging Its owner, who from what
is left caw make the roadside give him
greater profit than be could make with
any other crop.
A Good Ucvice for Farmers.
Not long ago we were at the home of
a very ueat farmer aud saw a device
In bis tool-house that struck us as le
Ing pretty good. On one of the walls
there was placed a large blackboard,
gays Farm News, with chalk conveni
ent and on this blackboard were vari
ous records of the operations under
way on the farm. At one side was
written the name of every vehicle on
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the farm, beginning with the farm
wagon, and going dowu to the wheel
barrow. Against these was written the
date when they were oiled. In an
other place was carefully noted the
time when various sets of harness were
oiled, and other matters that might
need referring to were noted on the
board. The operations of the farm for
the week were noted, and the owner
told us that once a week he set down In
a l)ook all the notes that were of perma
nent Interest By this means the work
of that farm Is kept track of.
Cap Sprouts on Apple Trees.
Many old apple trees are nearly ruin
ed by the growth of suckers from their
trunks. These come from buds that
are usually dormant, but which any in
jury to the bark causing a stoppage of
sap will set to growing. If the sprouts
are cut back before the leaves start
new shoots will spring up from the base
of tbe sprouts, even when It is cut Into
the bark and no buds are visible. But
If, after the new sprouts have brown
three or four Indies, so as to be In full
leaf, they are pulled off vpry fev will
sprout a second time. Two or three
clearings of the trunk through the sum
mer will eradicate the buds so that
scarcely any will appear tbe following
season.
Was tad Fertility.
Tbe seepage from tbe manure pita at
tbe Iowa Station was collected la bar
rels and sprinkled on growing com. In
creasing the yield t went-three bushels
per acre oa tbe area where applied; the
liquid also made the plants mora tig
oroas tbaa those not so treated; tbe
endared tM drouth orach, better, and
Jtocrt the ei perim-nt-was regard
ed M rvT marked. rAad yet, mt tbe
Tov York Trlbaoe, fbooeaads of del-
lar' worth ot utost valuable plant food
U running to waste on farm, aud theu
replaced. In part, with costly coinmer
clal fertilizer. Every ounce of Ito'h
solid aud liquid manure ought to t
scrupulously saved. To do this, we need
clay or ueuicut floors lu stables, iihJ
large sheds under which manure maj
be stored. Where the manure is hauled
out as made, or jiermltted to accuuiu
late In boxstalls, the loss la reduced to
a minimum; where it lies spread over
a large yard, eiisjsed to rain and snow
the water from the barn roof run
ning uihiu it for six or eight mouths
little of value is left "Gather up lh
fragmeuts that nothing be lost" app!ie
here.
Helling Butter vs. rw-lllns; Milk.
In a New York farm Institute Mr. I'.
E. Hawley stated In a striking way the
advantage of the butter-maker dairy
man over one who sold milk. A ton of
butter removes only 4S cetits worth of
fertilizing elements, while a ton of milk
removes cents worth. It takes on
an average lu Huml of milk to make
a pound of butter, so that to sell milk
enough to make a ton of lnitter removef
s worth of manurial elements from
the farm. Herein Is o;ie of the ad
vantages of tuing the butler separator
It saves the milk for home feeding
w ithout wasting It by souring. The sep
arated sweet milk is worth more foj
growth than Is that which has all It
butter fats in, as this will make grow
ing animals fatter than they should be
for the best growth.
Handling Brush.
When piling brush use a long-handled
fork. In no other place are the advan
tages of a long handle over a short out
more appareut To lift and stretch It
vain to make a forkful of brush sw im,
clear of the earth Is the severest laboi
known. Brush often contains grapt
and other running vines, as well a
briers, which make it hard to handle
A short handle has convinced man
persons that brush cannot lie handled
with a fork, but such Is not the case
Clear up and buru everything In th'
form of brush before snow falls. Aflet
the snow Is gone in spring work will b
pressing, ami the clearing bus to wall
until after baying, to the detriment ol
the mowings. American Agriculturist
Green Foliage for Fowls
(Hie of the first things to be done In
spring is to plow a small patch neat
the hen yard to be sown thickly with
some klud of spring grain. A mixture
of oat uud peas, or baric' and peas, J
or of all three grains together, ami!
covered by being cultivated under the
surface, will furnish plenty of work for
the fowls. They will roll lu the fresh
plowed ground, will eat such of the
grain as they may find, and when w hat
escapes them comes up. It will make
excellent griK-n feed for them. When it
gi-ls too large to be eaten readily, plow
the patch again and sow a sei-oud or
third crop. The peas are the best
grain to use for lids purpose, but for
the fact that the grain Is so large that
very few of lis seeds will escape tlie
fowls to grow.
Why Stained Hurley 1m Miiht.
It is nearly Impossible to make stain
ed barley hold out to standard weight.
iH pounds per bushel. The grain h
very rarely much above that weight
under the most favorable circumstan
ces. The barley that Is much stained l
usually that which has been kept until
dead ripe, and this never (ills so well
). barley that is cut while the stalk it
somewhat green. There Is another rea
son. In the fact that the wetting which
Is necessary to staining swells Hie bar
ley and starts It towards germination.
This increases the bulk without Increas
ing the weight of solid matter. Wbenj
the grain dries out It fills up more space j
lu proportion to lis bulk than it did be-j
fore being wet There Is also a ditti
ctilty In malting stained barley evenly,
and this Is one reason
Jected to by brewers.
w hy It Is ob-
l'aint Saved the Poultry.
A New Jersey woman painted the
heads of her chickens with a vivid
green pigment a few days ago, and the j
result Is that she litis back In her coopj
all the poultry that had been stolen j
from her, says The Masnachuseits
l'lotighman. Her forly chickens had j
been taken In one night by a gang of j
young men, several of whom were ar-1
rested and locked up. One of the chick
en thieves confessed that he had as
sisted In the theft of uearlj- live hun
dred chickens, which had been sold
alive to jwrsons on the outskirts of
Newark. Detectives who were sent
out to hunt ui) the stolen fowls could
Identify only Mrs. Kraemer's green
heads.
Kcmcily for Garnet.
(Inrget Is oce of the things that ev
eryone has remedies for, and still It
keeps right on raining the best cows
by droves every year. We doubt if
there Is any better lemedy than liberal
applications of hot water and a large
amourit of hand work In the ojieratlou,
and when through .'op.'y a liberal appli
cation of lard, anu at the same time
withdrawing all grain foods and feed
ing non-stlmulatlug milk rations.
Fall Strawberry Planting.
Strawberry plants can be set out In
the fall of the year from the young run
ners, but they cannot be depended upon
for producing a crop the noxt spring,
Tbe advantage of making the bed In
August or Heptember Is that the work
can be done better than when the hurry
of spring operations may retard the
transplanting which should be done
early.
Milk Oood for Laying Bene.
Remember that milk In any form Is
good for laying hens. It contains all
the elements of egg food, la almost tbe
proper proportions. If the fowla here
a free run, glre them a light feed of
grain In tbe morning and a full feed at
night, and they wUI And tbe extras dur
ing the dsf .
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Tv'fde Tires 1'referable to Narrow.
Starting with a wagon aud load
weighing 4.51W pounds, It was found lu
Indiana that a 3 luch tire required V
(Mjuuds less draft to be draw u over sod
than a lVj-lnch tire; lu pounds less
draft on a hard road and pounds
less draft to move a loud ou a dead
pulL The conclusion of this experiment
may he summed up as follow s:
1. Ou hard roads, blink pavements
and other permanent ami substantial
roads there Is no argument, so far as
actual draft Is concerned, iu favor of
the wide lire, tho effect being rather
against the wide tire.
2. In their effect upon hard roads the
wide tires have the advantage. This
benefit Is not sufficiently appreciated by
turnpike and macadam road companies.
3. In soft mud, slush aud under simi
lar circumstances, under which even
tlie wide tire cuts In, the advantage Is
against the wide tire aud in favor of
the narrow.
4. On sod and soft ground, w here the
wide tire does not cut In and the nar
row do-, the advantage Is ou the side
of the wider tire.
Experiments in the Utah experiment
station demonstrated that a given loud
on l'-luch tires drew 41.(1 per cent
heavier than when on a 3-lncb tire, the
draft being on a fairly stiff grass nod.
Ou a moist but hard rotid the l'-luch
tire drew 12.7 per cent heavier than the
3-iuch.
Wide tires are not only lighter In
their draft than narrow ones under
dearly all conditions, but cut up roads
very little, In fact when li Inches wide
tend to mike the road Is-tter continual
ly. They could be gradually substitut
ed for the present narrow ones ami
Is'tter roads be the result especially ou
the farm and on turnpikes largely It)
use by farmers.
Great Freluht Wos:a,
The largest freight wagons In the
world are now, it Is asserted, made In
San Leandro, Cal., for steam freight
ing In connection with traction engines,
the capacity of these wagons lcing six
teen tons each and with sullkieiit
wheel surface to sustain that amount
without Injury to the roads. The di
mensions and details show tlie size of
axles to be four Inches In diameter,
front wheels four feet ten Inches high
and sixteen inches width of tire, rem
wheels six feet high and tints sixteen
inches wide; length of lied nineteen and
a half feet, width four ami a half feet,
and six feet high. These are made
wholly of Iron and steel, except the lied,
which Is of wood. The front wheels
track somewhat wider than the rear
ones, due to the fact that the continual
hauling over the road, nud the wagons
always running in the same tracks,
naturally cut down the road into ruts
to a certain extent, rendering It un
even. To overcome this, the engine
wheels are twenty-six Inches wide and
the front wheels of the wagons so de
signed that the tire tracks will lap one
half the width of the engine w heels ou
the Inside.
NOTABLE HORSEBACK RIDE.
One of the Traditions of the luy of
the Sttota Fe Trail.
Not long ago the writer had occasion
to visit Western Missouri. Among one
of the traditions of the little city of
Independence, which, until the days of
the railroad, was the eustern terminus
of the Santa l'e trail, the following
story was told:
In the old days of the Santa l'e trail
the freighters made one round trip a
season. The Americans very gener
ally wintered at Independence, while
the Mexican traders naturally put In
the same season at the town of Santa
l'e. In the spring the teams were made
up, the wagous loaded and the long
caravans of prairie schooners, with
their white tills anil from live to fifteen
yok of oxen, began moving out on
their long voyages across the plains.
As was stated, these outfits made
only one round trip cr season, the
Mexicans getting rid of their freight nt
Independence some time along In mid
summer and loading up again for San
ta l'e, while the Americans threw off
their first load at Simla Fe and reload
ed agalu for Independence.
Along In the late fortfts an energetic
character named Frank X. Aubrey
came from New York to Independence,
bought a lot of teams and started Into
business as a freighter. Such was his
push and vim that lie mode two trips
a season, starting out from Indetend
cnee early In the spring and winding up
his second round trip at that point
rather late In the fall. Aubrey piled up
a great deal of money at tbe business,
and set such an energetic example that
he was soon recognised as a leader.
With all his business thrift and vigor,
Aubrey was also what one might call
"a sporting character." Tbe distance
from Santa Ye to Independence was
about BOO miles. One day while dis
cussing freight and tbe length of time
It ought to take to coyer the distance
between Independence and Santa Fe,
Aubrey made tbe rather bold asser
tion that be could start alone on s single
boras sad push through to Indepead
eacs la eight daa htmeelf. , A dlesats
arose, aad the result was that Aubrey
offered lo wager $.'..'0 that be enoW
tart on a thoroughbred hT' l' h1
of u ti ii -mil sm-sI mid Isdiom, and
with the IHm-iij to buy s"' h h.r- as
lie might need on the way. and so re
mount himself ms often a he had a
chance, and l- iu Independence at the
t . i .1 ....
stage station lu I.-ms than eig.n
f iu ,.i,iv.f..iii- liKtirs each fnuU the
tlm l.o l..ft S.-inu Fe. 'I he luone.
was covered aud the wager made.
Aubrey started and was in Imk-iend-ence.
Mo., In Just seven days and ten
hours from the time he said good-by"
to Santa Fe. He had remounted him
self twice.
Then a second wager was made. The
parties who bad lost the .".,'' H" the
bold New-Yorker, after considerable
dickering, managed to make a wager
of $10,0i" a side with Aubrey. This
time be was to go from Santa Fe to lu
depeudcuce, a run of full miles, in
six days.
It was at the best season of the year.
There were no ruins, while the grass
was good ami the trail as hard as a"
pavement. Aubrey had the same lib
erty to remount himself as ofieu as he
came upon a horse that he preferred to
bis ow u. liut he was Hot permitted to
arrange relays or post horses In ad
vance along the trail. Indeed, he had
uo time wherein to make these arrange
ments, even if he had desired to and
they had been allowed.
lie started out of Santa Fe the even
ing of a June day. It was Sunday. The
Mexicans looking on argued success to
the daring rider from the holy charac
ter of the day. All he had w llh hlui as
provender was a llltle dried beef. He
exectcd to get food at the stage sta
tions along the trail. Saturday after
noon of the same w eek he rode Into the
public square at Independence, win
ning the race by live hours. He was
Just five days and nineteen hours rid
ing the HO0 miles, uud had used elev
en horses. lie bud had two brushes
wth the Indians, mid had been chased
by them at the Clmmarou crossing of
tho Arkansas, and again at I'uwneo
Hock. Ho escaped, however, with
nothing worse than an arrow through
his arm.
It Is related that when be slipped
from the saddle at Independence he
hadn't slept a wink for fifty -six hours.
Ilystanders asserted that be was sound
asleep tho Instant he touched the
ground. Aubrey was carried Into the
hotel and put to bed, and never open
ed his eyes again until Monday morn
ing about 2 o'clock. He then came
around us fresh as a daisy and as hun
gry as a wolf. He routed out tlie cook
of the hotel, made him come down to
the kitchen ami cook him something
to eat lb' won lfl"i.""0 on these two
races, and In the last one made a rec
ord for long distance riding never sur
passed. Just to show how such a man of stel
and zeal may end. It might be added
that Frank X. Aubrey was slabbed to
death In a brawl In a Santa Fe dance
hall. This was some live years after
his great ride, old plainsmen wiH-tPlI'
you, however, of the exploits of Aubrey,
and he Is reverently mentioned with
such worthies ns Sublette, Kit Carson,
Hen Holilday nud old Jim I'.iidger.-
Washington Siar.
Tbe S.ioomn Mascot.
Ill time of war It Is the lupo's duty to
lead on to combat the warriors of her
village, uud she is often In the thick of
the skirmishing; but should she be
wounded or killed. It Is a pure accident
as the Hatnoans have the greatest hor
ror of hurting a woman lu any way,
and would not even injure their
enemy's tapo. There Is a story told of
how, during the war which was car
ried ou in Fpolu for a considerable
time, five or six years ago, two armies
had met and were drawn up, blazing
into each other's lines, when a native
woman appeared with a cw she winlied
to place in safety. The entire firing
was Immediately suspended ou Isnh
sides till she ami her charge had crossed
the lines and were completely out of
harm's way.
The women could rely so thoroughly
on the gallantry of their couiiirytneii
that they had no fear during the light
ing, and would take food to their hus
bands and brothers at any time, and
pass through the ranks of the warriors
of the belligerent nnny with perfect
Impunity; us long as the daylight last
ed, and they could be easily seen, they
were qulle safe. Iu Stevenson's Sa
moaMarie Frascr.
A li.VCeiil Hall lUiml.
The bottom was knocked completely
out of the bull business In Chicago
when Judge Goggln released Mrs. Fiz
zle HolTmau on a iVeent bond. Fizzle
Is accused of horse stealing because she
sold an animal which her husband left
In their barn before he descried her.
Mrs. Hoffman was being held In $500
bnll for the grand Jury. I'uuble to get
bondsmen, she was held In the county
Jail. This week Judge Goggln was In
formed that tbe woman had been re
duced to want and hud sold the horse
In order to keep herself and a 4 year-old
child from starving. The bond for 25
cents Is the smallest ever executed In
Cook County, The Judge may have
strained the law In releasing Mrs. Iloff
man on such small ball, but be showed
bis good sense. Buffalo Express.
Why the Egyptians Kmbalmed.
The Egyptians believed that the soul
lived only as long as the body endured,
hence their reason for embalming the
body to make It last as long as possi
ble. It la estimated that altogether
there are 400,000,000 mummies In
Egrpt
Teacher-Well, Tomm. you were not
present yesterday. Were you detained
at bona la consequence of the Inclem
sacy of the ; weather! Tommy-No,
au'am: I coutda't cone 'cause of the
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