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THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2.1, 1533.
Irterei it tho P::t:2c!, estates, lies., is sesssi
eliss. suttir.
I HAVEN T TIME.
I haven't time to scold and fret
Because tains? don't go rifrht.
Nor mope around in sullen gloom;
Life can't be always bright.
I haven't time to waste, for oh!
God keeps a strict account.
And moments idled or misspent
To days will soon amount.
I haven't timo my neighbor's faults
To pick at and enlarge.
For oh! I've many of my own
That are a constant charge.
I haven't time for unkind words
They leave so sharp a sting:
Nor time touentortain bad thought!
That poison where they cling.
I haven't time to circulate
The stories that I hear,
Kor listen to the venamed tongue
Who'd inako the slander clear.
I haven't time to censure those
Who've Mien on the way:
Perhaps I'd make the same misstep
If tempted just as they.
I haven't time for these dread thing!,
But oh! I sometimes fear
To steal a moment now and then.
And lend them voice and ear!
Burlington Hawk-Euc.
HELEN MANSFIELD'S FIGHT.
A True Staty.
The sun was slowly sinking in the
western sky as Steenie Burton came out
of his cabin, and glanced down the gulch
toward the mesa an elevated tableland.
The hills on both sides were golden in
the light, while here and there dark
hadows between the high points of rock
6ave a curiously arabesque eflect to the
indscape.
"Now, I wonder," said Steenie, reflec
tively, "whether the gal has reached
home."
Steenie paused, glanced at his boots,
and finding that he had, in a moment of
abstraction, put on his spurs, resolved to
addle up and ride over to find out. It
did not take many seconds before he was
going slowly down the gulch on his
mustang. Reaching the mesa, he struck
to the south iu a lope, and was soon lost
to sight around the base of tho hills.
Helen Mansfield stood at the door of
ker father's cabiu, glancing uneasily
northward. The day before she had
come home, and that morning her father
bad started, with his wagon, to make a
trip through the mining towns, leaving
Helen and her little brother, Tom, who
was ten years old, alone on the ranch.
Helen's anxiety was twofold. Site had
heard hor father talking with some men
who were prophesying an outbreak of
the Huallapais, and she was wondering
whether Steenie would como that day or
not. The two had been engaged for
some months, and one of the chief ob
jects of her visit to Los Angeles when
her father went on to buy goods for his
trade, had been to purchase the neces
sary things with which to set up house
keeping. She wanted to see Steenie on
general principals, and she wanted to
show him what she had bought. Of her
two subjects of thought, I imagine that
Steenie's coming occupied her the more,
but as the evening shadows lengthened
she gave up expecting a visit from him
that day, and turning went into the
house. Tom came in soon afterwards,
and Helen closed up the heavy windows
and doors, put the bars into place, and
began to think it was time to go to bed.
About eight o'clock she heard cau
tious footsteps outside. Going to the door
and looking through one of the small
holes cat through it, she saw, to her
horror, an Indian standing about forty
feet away. Site was a border women,
born and raised on the outskirts of civili
zation, and she needed no man to tell
bar what the bright streaks of paint
which stood out so plainly in the moon
light across the redskin s face meant.
Hastily calling Tom. she pointed the
Iudinn out to him and told him to take
down a rifle and watch the other side of
the house. Then taking one of the long
clouded barrels herself, she returned to
her post and waited.
She did not have to wait long. A rap
on the door and a summons to open, de
livered in a mixture of broken English
and Spanish, told her that the light must
be. Helen maintained a dead silence.
Another rap, enforced by a strong kick,
followed, and then she heard, with cars
that were straining for the slightest
sound, some quick, sharp orders given.
A silence of a few minutes, and then
Hclon could sec seven or .eight Iudians
bringing up a heavy post to use as a battering-ram.
Cautiously she put the
muzzle of the rifle through the hole in
in the door, and waiting until she got
four of the savages in lino, fired. 'Ihc
fall of three of them, and yells from the
whole party, followed by a hasty disper
sion, and a search for shelter, showed
the effects of the shot The Indians
were genuinely surprised. They had
supposed that the cabin was empty and
that there was no danger in attempting
to force it open.
In a moment after the shot there was
not an Indian to be seen, but the flight
of some score of arrows and the sound
of three or four rifles, showed that they
were still there. Helen knew that the
cabin would stand all the firing at it that
a far larger force could do, but she also
knew that Indians have many ways of
fighting and that she could scarcely hope
to keep them off for any length of time.
Instinctively, too, her thoughts turned
to Steenie and mingled with the wish
that he was there, was the fear that he
would come and fall a victim to the red
skins. Tom had become wildly excited by the
attack so gallantly repulsed by his sister.
For years he had'been wanting a chance
to "fight Injuns," and h felt it was a
shame that they should attempt the side
of the cabin on which Helen was, rather
than that on which he was posted, for he
knew that unlike himself, Helen did not
in the least want to take- part in a diffi
culty. Tom watched through his peep-holes
with all his eves, aud in a few minutes
was rewarded by seeing a crouching
form crawling towards the cabin. The
boy leveled his weapon, but shook so
with excitement that he could not aim.
A whispered: "Steady, Tom!" from his
sister seemed to bring him to himself,
and as he pulled the trigger the rifle was
as firm as a rock. A copper-colored
body leaping into the air with a yell
showed that Tom's bullet had struck.
Then there was a long silence once
more. In about ten minutes Helen saw
an arrow, with some mesquit grass
wrapped around it and set on fire, fly
into the air and fall short of the cabin,
where it burned fiercely. Another and
another were shot, until one struck the
mesquit thatch and went out Before
such a move as this Helen was powerless.
She could not see the Indians who were
shooting the arrows, and so could not fire
at them. She knew that she had no
means of putting the fire out if it once
eaught Another and another arrow,
with its blazing band of grass, went flying
through the air, and at last a triumphant
yell from the Indians told the anxious
girl that the roof was on fire at last
Steenie Burton loped slowlj- along the
trail towards the cabin where Helen
lived, divided in his own mind whether
his errand was not a foolish one. It was
Tuesday, and Hlen had said that Wed
nesday, the 16th, would be the earliest
late at which she could return. Yet,
with the wild idea that she might be
there, Steenie had started for a ten-mile
ride, with the prospect of ten more, if the
Oftbim was empty.
The rapid change from daylight to
&k had taken place, and Steenie was
at a mile from the cabin, when he
haari rifle-shot. It banished any idea
STjeatta mod from hie mind -
Btanfly. ' Biding cautiously within a
quarter of a mile of the cabin, he dis
mounted, tied his horse, and scouted in
the direction of the shots. Reaching a
ledge about a hundred yards from the
back of the house he saw the cabin with
the roof on fire, and the Indians gather
ed outside of rifle shot, waiting for the
flames to do their work. Steenie did
not hesitate a moment. Climbing down
a crevice in the ledge he ran quickly,
across the little space, being hidden from
the savages by the walls. On his way,
however, it was only Helen's quick eye
that saved him from being shot, for
'Tom had leveled his rifle, and was just
about to pull the trigger, when the jirl
struck the weapon and the bullet Dew
harmlessly over Steenie's head. To
open the heavy wooden shutter and
fairly drag Steenie into the home, was,
for the excited girl, but a moment's
work. When he was inside, she, for a
second, lost her coolness, but Steenie's
hasty kiss brought her to.
"Steenie, the roof's on fire," broke in
Tom.
"I know it"
O, Steenie, what must we do?" asked
Helen.
"What's under the thatch?" said
Steenie.
"Reed poles," answered Tom,
promptly.
" We've got to git out of this, then.
The reds is on that side, an' I reckon if
we make a dash we'll get to the rocks
afore they kin see us. Here, Tom, go
and fire your rifle off on that side."
Tom did as he was bid, but the bullet
fell short of the waiting group.
" Now, then, Helen, get me some
slow match; an', Tom, you load up an'
put your rifle out of that hole." Sto say
ing, Steenie hastily fixed two spare
rifles in position, lashing them to a table
which he dragged up to the side of the
cabin on which the Indians were. Taking
the slow match from Helen he wound it
in succession around each rifle over the
nipple, and then lighting the end, opened
the window on the cliff side. " Tom,
you go first Run to the cliff and get in
the crevice. Wait there for me." Put
ting the boy out he waited until he saw
him reach the cliff, and then getting out
himself, ran across as rapidly as possi
ble. He had scarcely reached the rocks
when he saw Helen climbing out of the
window and crossing the open space.
While she was doing so the first of the
rifles went off, only to bring a loud yell
from the Indians, who naturally sup-
Iiosed the inmates of the cabin were
iring at them. By the greatest good
luck the bullet struck one of the red
skius, wounding him slightly, and the
party at once moved back some twenty
yards farther.
Steenie and his little party reached the
cliff safely without being seen, and struck
down the rock to where the horse had
been left. Here Steenie put Helen and
Tom on the animal, and taking hold of
the saddle with one hand, ran alongside
as they made their way along the road.
Just as they started they heard another
ritle shot, and another yell from the
Huallapais, showing that the stratagem
to which Steenie had resorted was doing
good work. Moving as rapidly as pos
sible for about a mile, they met a band
of men coming down with a train of
wagon9. Telling them the news, the
wagons were parked at once, forming a
very good shelter behind which to fight.
Leaving Tom and Helen in charge of
the men who remained with the wagons,
Steenie joined a party of twelve and
struck out for the burning cabin once
more. He led the men to a place behind
the Indians, from which they fired, kill
ing seven and wounding two or three
more. Then the white men dashed in,
and a hand-to-hand fight took place,
which resulted, before long, in a victory
for the whites. Steenie received a slight
wound ia the shoulder from a flying
knife, but was otherwise unhurt. That
Indian raid ended within twenty-four
hours after it began, for the signal vic
tory over the thirty warriors who had
inaugurated it discouraged the rest of
the discontented redskins, and they
stayed at home. Steenie and Helen were
married within the week, and although
another trip to Los Angeles had to he
made before they coulusee their cabin
nicely fitted up, they were none the less
happy. The story of Helen's defense of
the cabin became widely known, and as
it is an example of what American
women have done upon the border, it is
worth the telling. Alfred Balch, in
N. Y. Ledger.
Some Typical Paris Charges.
I remember when I first came to
Paris being decidedly amused at the ex
perience of au American lady who had
an electric bell in her apartment The
bell refused to ring one day, so she sent
for the man who had put it up to set it
to rights. He showed her that there
was nothing the matter with the bell,
some mechanical interference having
prevented it from sounding. The next
da- she got his bill. After charging for
the time lost in going to and from his
shop (a legitimate charge enough), he
had added to this item: "For looking
at the bell" one dollar. But this bill
was surpassed by one that was lately
presented to a French lady whom I know
quite well. She was taken ill last
spring with typhoid fever, and was con
fined to bed for some six weeks. Dur
ing all this time a female chiropodist,
whom she had sometimes employed,
testified the most touching interest in the
case, she was never admitted to the
sick-room, but she used to come to the
door daily and inquire into the condition
of the invalid. Finally the patient be
came convalescent, and one day the
chiropodist called and presented a bill
of startling dimensions. My friend was
quite amazed at the amount, as she had
only employed the woman occasionally.
On investigating the items she found one
namely, "Inquiring for Madame," re
peated frequently, with a charge of one
dollar each time. "What does this
mean?" she inquired of the chiropodist,
"Madame, those are the visits that I
made while Madame was so ill."
"What! you expect to be paid for calling
to see how I was?" "Most certainly,
.Madame." "Who sent lor you or
asked you to come?" "No one; it was
only the great interest that I took in
Madame." "And you want to be paid
one dollar a visit for that interest? It is
preposterous. I shall not pay you a
single cent for anything of the kind."
So. despite the indignant protests of the
chiropodist my friend struck out every
one of the charges for "Inquiries after
Madame," which made up no less a
total than forty-two dollars. The bill,
thus shorn of three-fourths of its propor
tions, was then paid, and the woman
prepared to go. "And when will
Madame require my services again?"
she asked. "Never you have tried to
swindle me. and I shall never employ
you any more." Whereupon she burst
into tears and departed, declaring that
it was her great love for Madame that
had induced her to make these constant
inquiries, and, of course, she expected to
be paid for the time she had lost in mak
ing them. Paris Cor. Philadelphia
Telegraph.
The following singular confession
appears in a country newspaper: "An
apology is due our subscribers for the
omission of the regular appearance of
our paper last week. We foolishly yield
ed to a weakness which we would make
any sacrifice to be rid of an appetite
for that which stands to-day the world1
greatest curse and, as we have always
openly criticized the faults of others,
thus plainly do we acknowledge our
own. We propose to use our best en
deavors in the future, to prevent any
further displays of a like nature."
The only toothache drops that will
relieve are the drops of the teeth on tba
dentist's floor after a fttlL
Foot-Priats la the Rock.
About twenty mdes west of Nashville
there is a place called "Narrows of Har
peth,1' one of tho most picturesque land
scapes to be found in Tennessee. At this
Kint Harpcth River forms a horseshoe
nd, making a circuit of six miles, and
doubling back on itself to within eighty
or ninety yards. In the heel of the shoe
rises a ridge, forming almost a perpen
dicular bluff on both sides extending
about half a mile south in the direction
of the tco of the shoe. It rises to the
height of about four hundred feet, and
at the highest point is not more than
eight feet wide on the top, with a per
pendicular face on the east side for one
hundred feet or more that is, a plumb
line suspended from the edge of the
precipice at the top would hang clear
for one hundred feet or more before it
would encounter any obstruction. The
ridge at the bed of the river is some
ninety yards wide, but the slope which
brings it to that width at the bottom is
mostly on tho western side. At the
highest point on the crest of this ridge
is a flat surface rock, and on that rock
are imprinted six and a half tracks of,
human feet These tracks are indented
into the rock as much as a quarter of
an inch, or in some places more. The
tracks arc of bare feet, the toes all point
ing in the same direction toward the
east. Most of the tracks are as perfect
as if they had been imprinted on moist
sand or earth. They are in three pairs.
The first or largest pair is furthest north.
They are less than the average size
man's foot, and larger than the average
size woman's foot, one a little in ad
vance of the other. The next pair is on
the south side, but near to the first. In
size and appearance they represent the
tracks of a child of sixteen or eighteen
months old. The track of the right foot
of this pair is turned in a little at the
toes, and the toes of that foot are turned
down, as we often see children when
first learning to walk seem to endeavor
to clutch the floor with their toes, as if
to avoid falling or slipping. The topo
graphical relation of these tracks to the
large ones indicates that the child might
have been holding to the finger or hand
of the larger person.
South of these little tracks, but is near
to them, the third pair, indicating a
child some four or six years old. These
last were made by a beautiful pair of
feet, and are as pretty tracks as a child
ever made iu the dust or soft earth. AU
of these tracks are within three or four
feet of the edge of the precipice on the
eastern side, as already described. But
I have said there was half a track,
which is the most interesting feature on
the tablet. This half track is printed ou
the very edge of the precipice, aud re
presents the heel and hinder half of the
foot from the middle of the instep back,
and would indicate that the toei and
front part of the foot projected over the
precipice or that the rock had broken
off at that point. The half track is of
the large size foot, or foot of the adult
person, and is immediately in front of
the large pair of tracks already men
tioned. Just here some interesting questions
arise. Who made those tracks? How
were tliev made and when were they
made? I was born within half a mile
of the spot, and lived there until I was
twenty years old. In my youth I often
stood upon the rock to enjoy the wild,
romantic and picturesque scenery sur
rounding, and at one time and anothei
have spent many hours of my boyhood
upon it, but never saw the tracks nor
even beard of them being there. Some
seven or eight weeks ago I was in the
neighborhood, in company with my
youngest son, and took him np to the
rock to show him a spot that had been
interesting to me in my boy
hood days. While sitting on the rock
he discovered one of the small tracks.
They had evidently been discovered be
fore, for they were all covered with
moss except that one, and it had been,
but some one had manifestly been pick
ing the moss out to make it more dis
tinct He called my attention to it. It
excited our curiosity, and we then madi
a careful search for others, and found
the six and a half tracks described.
They were all covered in moss, except
the one which had been partially re
vealed by picking the moss out. I then
inquired of several of the surrounding
neighbors, but could find no one who
had ever seen or heard of them. If they
wero cut by a chisel, it must have been
by an artist of no mean ability such
an artist as certainly never resided in
that neighborhood. But why should an
artist of such capacity have gone to the
out-of-the-way place to amuse himself
cutting tracks where they would not be
discovered by a human being until they
were overgrown with moss, and where
the oldest inhabitants in the neighbor
hood have never heard of them; not
even the owner of the land on which the
rock is situated, and why cut the half
track on the edge of the precipice? Un
der other circumstances it might be
supposed the tracks were made oy the
tread of human feet, at a time when the
surface was soft, and it afterwards hard
ened into rock and the impressions be
came fixed. But this theory is not
plausible, from the fact that in this cli
mate we have constant rains and winds,
aud in the winter time frost, and the
place is so exposed that it is scarcely
possible that tracks made in the soft
earth or sand could have withstood the
action of the weather long enough to
have hardened into stone. But, if made
in this way, when was it done and who
did it? Doubtless it was in the long
ages past, and the size of the tracks
would suggest the possibility, if not the
probability that they were the tracks of
a mother and her two children; that
she may have had the smaller one by
the hand. They were all facing toward
what is now a precipice. Cor. Nashville
(Term.) American.
k Deep Mine.
The depest coal mine in America is
the Pottsville, in Pennsvlvania. The
shaft is 1,576 feet deep. From its bot
tom, almost a third of a mile down, 200
cars, holding four tons each, are lifted
every day. They are run upon a plat
form, and the whole weight of six tons
is hoisted at a speed that makes the
head swim, the time occupied in lifting
a full car being only a little more than
a minute. The hoisting and lowering
of men into coal mines is regulated by
law in that State, and only ten can
stand on a platform at once under pen
alty of a heavy fine. However, care
lessness can not be prevented, and
unaccustomed visitors are appalled by
it. "A person of weak nerves," says a
correspondent, "should not brave the
ordeal by descending the Pottsville
shaft. The machinery works as smooth
ly as a hotel elevator, but the speed is
so terrific that one seems falling
through the air. The knees after a few
seconds become weak and tremulous,
the ears ring as the drums of these organs
are forced inward by the air pressure,
and the eyes shut involuntarily as the
beams of the shaft seem to dash up
ward only a foot or two away. As one
leaves the light of the upper day the
transition to darkness is fantastic. The
light does not pass into gloom in the
same fashion as our day merges into
night, but there is a kind of phospho
rescent glow, gradually becoming dim
mer and dimmer. Half way down you
pass, with a roar and sudden crash, 'the
ascending car; and at last, after what
seems several minutes, but is only a
fraction of that time, the platform 'be
gins to slow up, halts at a gate, and
through it you step into a crowd of
creatures with the shapes of men, but
with the blackened faces, the glaring
eyes, and wild physiognomies of fiends."
m
Prof. Virchow has in his labora
tory at Berlin a collection of six thou
atjia skulls, rwpraeentiig all racee and
The Use of Cera Fodder.
Corn is the great American fodder,
orop, just as roots are the great En
glish feeding crop. Only to have it as a
perfect substitute for roots it must be
ensiloed.
But it must first be grown, and tho
question is how can we grow it so as to
produce the largest yield and the most
nutritious quality. Much new evidence
has been given in the recent "conven
tions" tending to reduce very much
the exaggerated estimates and guesses
.of the hrst few sanguine enauagists,
and crops of ten or twelve tons per
acre are now believed to be reasonably
good products from fairly good fields.
But this is not a profitable yield, nor is
it anything near a possible one. It
should be as easy to grow
twenty-five tons of green corn here
as it is to grow the same weight
of roots in England. It will not always
do to depend' upon figures, but some
times these may be trusted. And the
following appear to speak the truth be
yond a question : A hill of three stalks
of corn ten feet high weighs eight pounds.
Such a hill of corn, grown from Western
seed Ohio or Illinois dent corn is
very common. With the hills three feet
apart each way, this would give 38,720
pounds to the acre; two stalks together,
eighteen inches apart one way and three
feet the other, and the two weighing
five pounds, would yield 48,400 pounds.
And this is well-known by many farm
ers who have grown corn in that way
to be quite a possible yield. With such
a crop there would be a largo number
of half-grown ears, and twenty-four
tons of such fodder, with five to ten per
cent, of grain upon it, (green, of course,
is meant, and not dry,) would be worth
more for feed than an equal weight of
roots.
The question, in fact, as to the possi
bility of largely increasing the yield of
corn grown for ensilage, may very well
be decided favorably and nothing'needs
be done but to do it. The next question
Ls in regard to the use of it. And this
point is open to three considerations.
First, is it best to dry the fodder and
use it dry; second, of to dry the fodder
and cut it up and feed it moist, and
third, or to ensilage it? These questions
are bast settled by reference to common
farm practice, and not by scientific ex
periments. A winter feeding in a work
ing dairy is worth a thousand experi
ments in a college, and the evidence of
a sensible, practical farmer upon the
feeding value of fodder is worth far
more than that of a scientific experi
menter. The results so far of scientific experi
ments have been the clouding up, in
stead of the clearing, of the questions at
issue ; for by selecting a certain number
of results given, of the kind wanted, al
most any desired testimony could be
gathered. It has been shown by one
that ensilage is very valuable, and the
results of feeding it have been far more
profitable than feeding dry fodder; and
again, another Professor has shown the
very contrary. One has proved that
whole corn is the most productive of fat
and flesh in pigs ; another that ground
corn is ; others have stated as positively
that cooked corn is the best, and so on,
until the farmer, who does not know
his own mind, is reduced to despair. It
is too much to expect unanimity. "Many
men, many minds," and the human
mind is nothing if not partisan even in
regard to so practical a matter as the
fattening of pigs or the feeding of cows
in the dairy. - And it might be observed
in regard to ensilage, that those who
believe its value is reduced by the fer
mentation it undergoes because alcohol
is produced, do so on the ground that
alcohol is not an ailment and is .devoid
of nutriment; and yet there are proofs
that alcohol is food that is, if it is given
in small quantities at regular intervals
the weight of the body will be increased.
It it is not food then it produces the
same result as food, although it may be
directly absorbed by the blood and un
dergoes no process of digestion. But
fats likewise are not digested, but are
formed into emulsions in the intestines
absorbed directly into the blood, and
fats differ only in the rafm of their
elements from alcohol. Indeed, all the
carbo-hydrates, as fats, oils, starch,
sugar, alcohol, and acids, are com-
Sounds of gases, oxygen, carbon, and
ydrogen in varying proportions ; and
we do not know, and perhaps never
will know, precisely what chemical
changes the carbo-hydrates proximate
and ultimate in the food undergo in a
cow's stomach.
It is the case of digestion which prin
cipally gives the practical value to a
kind of food, and in this inquiry a good
deal may be left to the cow herself. It
was the cow who first taught us how to
grow corn fodder in the proper manner,
because she declined to cat it, except
under protest, when it was grown very
thickly and broadcast and was white
and devoid of flavor and substance.
And now she says very plainly that she
prefers ensilaged corn to dry corn fod
der, in spite of the chemists who say it
is not so good as this is because it is
sour and contains alcohol. But the
farmer will be apt to think most of the
cow's verdict, especially when she issues
her weekly bulletins giving the actual
analyses of the food as containing so
much per cent, of milk and cheese and
butter, which, after all, is more to the
purpose than so much carbon or oxy
gen and hydrogen and ash. And it
certainly seems to be the case that the
cow every time prefers the ensilage,
although she may have to take a little
alcohol or lactic acid, or even acetic
acid, in her corn fodder when it is thus
Eut up. But the owner can not go
ack upon the cow, for he lacks vinegar
at times and does not object occasional
ly to take "a little alcohol in his'n,"
and moreover believes these are good
for him. N. Y. Times.
Economy on the Farm.
On the farm, and in all the various
details of rural and domestic life, pru
dence and a just economy of time and
means are incumbent in an eminent de
gree. The earth itself is composed of
atoms, and the most gigantic fortunes
consist of aggregated items, insignifi
cant in themselves, individually consid
ered, but majestic when contemplated
in unity and as a whole. In the man
agement of a farm, all needless expend
iture should -be systematically avoided,
and the income made to exceed the out
lay as far as possible. Pecuniary em
barrassment should always be regarded
as a contigency of evil boding, and if
contended against with energy and per
severing fortitude, it must soon be over
come. Debt, with but little hope of its
removal, is a millstone dragging us
down and crushing the life-blood out of
us. Be careful, therefore, in incurring
any pecuniary responsibility which does
not present a clear deliverance with the
advantages which a wise use of it ought
always to insure.
A farmer who purchases a good farm
and can pay down one third of the price,
give a mortgage for the other two
thirds, and possesses the heart and res
olution to work it faithfully and well,
enters upon the true path to success.
He will labor with the encouraging
knowledge that each day's exertions
will lessen his indebtedness and bring
him nearer to the goal when he shall be
disenthralled and becomes a freeholder
in its most cheering sense. But without
due economy in every department, in
the dwelling as well as in the barns and
in the fields, this gratifying achievement
may not be reached until Tate in life, or
may be indefinitely postponed. A pru
dent oversight, therefore, over all the
operations of a farm,in order that every
thing may be done that ought to be dado
and nothing be wasted, will exert a pow
erful influence in placing a faxaBy on
the high road to an early indfrpaajleni ej
A White Barbarian.
A gentleman from Hailey, Idaho,,
came to the Comstock the other day.!
plentv of money and went in for style..
plug hat and a blue silk handkerchief:
with one cbrner sticking out of the pock
et of his new diagonal coat. He walked
into the International, anda when the!
gong rang for dinner he sauntered into
the dining-room with the rest of the
fashionable throng. Everybody looked
at him, but he didn't mind it, and went
on eating the brandied peaches while
waiting for his soup. When that came
he bent so far over his plate to suck it in
with the sound like the gurgle of a bath
tub exhaust-pipe that his plug hat fell off
his head and rolled across the table
against the plate of an Eastern lady
tourist. With a grin of apology he half
rose, reached over and recovered it, and
E laced it on the well-oiled and recently
arbered head. He attacked the trout
any other napkin than his mouth. '
Pending the arrival of the beef, the gon
tleman from Hailey placed both elbows
on the table and surveyed the company
with great affability and self-possession
as he converted his fork into a tooth
pick. Then he lifted his plug hat au inch
or two from his head and scratched the
same gently with his four-pronged tooth
pick. When engaged on the beef his
hat fell off again and rolled across to the
Eastern lady, who had grown pale.
Presently the gentleman from Idaho
had need of a handkerchief, and made
use of the only one which nature, and
probably Hailey, provides. The plug
hat fell on the floor this time, and when
he had recovered and replaced it he sat
alone at the table. He looked with sur
prise at the guests jostling one another
to get out of the door.
"Fire?" he asked of a transfixed
waiter.
No," gasped the man.
" No ! What's the row, then P"
"Had enough, I suppose," leplied
the waiter, with a withering look.
"Mighty small eaters, 'pears to me,
and cussed queer manners about gitteu'
outen a room. Give us another chunk
o' beef pooty fur from the horns, if yer
kin."
Presently Landlord Hanak appeared
with a colorless face and bulging eyes.
He walked rapidly up and touched the
arrival from Hailey on the shoulder.
"You seem to be having a pretty good
time," said the landlord, refraining
from gnashing his teeth.
"Well, that's so, boss. You sit down
here and whack up a bottle o' wine at
my expense. Oh, I've got a pocketful
of rocks, and dont you forget it. Say,
do you happen to know any likely gals
that's ou the marry? I'm here on that
lay," and he grinned and once more
(lifted his hat a little and scratched his
head with his fork.
The landlord groaned and sat down
with a thud. Then he gazed determin-
J edly at the Wood River fashionable, and
.said with set teeth :
"Do you know, my friend, what it
costs to stop at this house?"
"No, an' I don't keer. I've got the
tin. But what's yer figure, jist fur
luck?"
"One hundred dollars a day."
The jaw of the gentleman from Idaho
dropped, and he fell back in his chair and
gazed in fear and wonder at the land
lord, who fixed him with his steady
eye. Then huskily, as he struggled to
an upright position on his chair, he
asked:
"How much a meal? This ia my
fust."
"Nothing for a little lunch like this,"
answered Hanak.
With a long sigh of returning life the
flush marrying man from Hailey got
his feet and made unsteadily for the
door. He sat the remainder of the day
in the waiting-room of the depot with
his hand behind him as if on a pistol,
and fled on the evening train. Virginia
Chronicle.
Digging the Panama Canal.
The largest dredging machine ever
constructed will be launched in this city
within a few weeks. This immense
mud digger is one of the three being
constructed by Slaven Bros., of Califor
nia, at Petty's Island, for the Panama
Canal Companv, the aggregate cost of
which will be over $300,000. The one
now so near completion is 100 feet long,
60 feet wide, and 12 feet deep. When
all the machinery is in place it will con
tain 350 tons of iron. On each of the
three monster dredges there will be
eight separate engines, the pair of high-
Eressure engines which mn the dredge
eing of 250-horse power each. The
dredges are of a new patent and work
with a series of buckets on an endless
chain. There are eighteen of the buck
ets to each machine which can dig and
dispose of 1,620 cubic yards of dirt in an
hour, or a combined capacity per hour
for the three dredges of 4,860 cubic
yards. Thus in four months, working
twelve hours a day, they would dig out
9,290,000 cnbic feet, or a canal eighty
feet wide, twelve feet deep, and nearly
fifty miles long. After the dirt is
scooped up in the buckets it is run up
the long arm of the dredger fifteen or
twenty feet below. The hopper is made
of iron, and weighs five and a half tons.
From the hopper the dirt is forced by
machinery into and through a huge
pipe, three feet in diameter and 150 long
to its place of deposit. The pipe has a
fall of eighteen feet, and to insure the
easy passage of the dirt through it, a
heavy -stream of water is constantly
forced through. The stoppage in the
work of digging is never very
long. The dredger rests upon a
"spud" or pin, upon which it can be re
volved without stopping the dredging
buckets, thus enabling the operators to
dig from side to side at will. The ma
chinery for the first dredger, which was
manufactured in California, is now here,
and as soon as the hull is launched will
be placed on board. Before taking the
big digger to Aspinwall a number of
preliminary teste will be made with it in
the Delaware River. The second
dredger will be commenced as soon as
the first is launched, and work on the
third will be started as soon as the sec
ond is finished.
The Canal Construction .and Banking
Company, of which the Messrs. Slavon
are agents, in addition to the building of
the dredgers, have a contract with the
Panama Canal Company to dig out ten
miles of the canal, for which they are to
be paid $2,000,000. Mr. L. Ward, who
is the Superintendent of Construction in
connection with the building of the
dredgers in this city, has just arrived
here from the Isthmus of Panama, where
he has put up sixty-eight buildings along
the route of the proposed canal in con
nection with this $2,000,000 contract.
He says the work preparatory to the
commencement of digging out the great
canal is about finished. The canal com
pany has so far spent about $20,000,000,
and he has no doubt that the canal will
be completed within the ten years speci
fied by the engineers. There are, he
states, about 5,000 men at work. Phil
adelphia Record.
Editor Logan, of the Montreal Star,
was dying of typhoid fever. Speaking
at intervals in his delirium, he said: "I
have a brother at sea." "A storm ls
coming on." "Will the vessel be able
to weather the storm?" "The waves
are dashing over the ship." "Oh that
he were safe on land." His mind wan
dered to other matters, bat always re
tamed to his brother, who, as it was
afterward learned, was at that very time
drowning ia a storm.
Louis Althoff owned a line of baggage-wagons
In St. Louis. He was ar
ractedonthe charge of systematically
TctbW an elevator. Henvehafl. He
to nia nome. no -awwa
bit
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H05TE AND FABX.
A poultice of fresh tea leaves moist
ened with water will cure a stye on the
eyelid.
Black orn has been raiod in Liv
ingston County, N. Y. It is described
as being as black as an African, as sweet
as sugar, and retains all the attributes
when cooked.
Bread Pie: Two cups of bread
crumbs, one cup of water, one cap of
sugar, one teaspoonfal of tartaric acid,
and one teaspoonful of essence of lemon.
Boil together. Bake two crusts and
place mixture between. The House
hold. Indian Meal Gruel : Use the finest
and best quality of meal. Wet two
spoonfuls in cold water and beat till
there are no lumps; then stir it into a
pint and a half of boiling water, and let
it boil half an hour, stirring constantly.
Season as liked best. Country Gentle
man. A son of Rev. J. R. Battle, of Thora
asville, Ga., has won a prize of twenty
dollars in gold offered by a Southern
agriculturalpaper to the boy under six
teen years of age who would report the
best yield of any crop on a half acre of
land.' Master Battle's crop was 250
bushels of sweet potatoes to the half
acre.
Fruit Cake : One egg, one cup of
sugar, one and a half cups of flour, half
a cup of butter, two-thirds of a cup of
currants, one cup of raisins, half a tea
spoonful of baking powder, three tea
spoonfuls of sour cream or milk, one
teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves
and nutmeg; in place of baking powder
and sour milk you may use, if you
choose, two teaspoonfuls of yeast; in
this case it will not need to stand in the
tin to rise for an hour. Detroit Post.
Ammonia is very useful in the
kitchen. A few drops mixed in the
water will take off any grease from
plates, dishes, etc., belter than soda, and
does not injure the skin of the washer as
the constant use of soda does. Ladies
will find this a useful hint when they
find themselves in the capacity of im
promptu maids-of -all-work. Sponges,
hair-brushes, etc., are best cleaned with
diluted ammonia in fact, it is a very
useful thing for many purposes in tho
house. -V. Y. Herald.
Sheep should have airy, well-littered
sheds, with plenty of sunshine,
and protected from snow. One great
advantage of keeping sheep is to con
vert straw into manure. Hence much
litter is usually strewn in sheep sheds,
to the distress of the sheep, unless they
have hard places to lie upon, because
their feet and legs get so hot. A few
platforms, like md doors, which can be
shifted about every few days by turning
over, will be greatly enjoyed, and will
promote both health ami comfort. Ex
change. A nice addition to beef soup just
before sending to the table is to drop in
poached eggs which have been cooked
in salted water and neatly trimmed, one
for each person. Some add slices of
lemon or yelks of hard boiled eggs, or.e
for each plate, just before sending to the
table. Bread dice is also a very nice
addition to soup and should be prepared
in the following manner : Cut bread in
to dice an inch square and fry a hand
some brown in butter. They should be
prepared several hours before dinner
and left near the fire to crisp and dry.
The Housekeeper.
A Maine Potato Country.
To see the Aroostook when most at
tractive, one should travel through it
early in July, when the grass is just
ready to cut, and the grain and potato
crop growing. No section this side of
the great West can show such fields of
wheat and oats. But potatoes are the
leading crop, and, no matter where you
are, in the cars, stores, or hotels, every
body talks potatoes. Buyers from Bos
ton have store-houses at the different
railroad stations, where they collect and
ship them in large quantities. Thousand.
of dollars are at this season paid out here
every day, and many farmers are giving
nearly all their attention to this interest.
Several in this vicinity have from
twenty-five to fifty acres plowed al
ready, which will be planted next
spring. The soil seems particularly
adapted to this crop, and four or five
hundred bushels from an acre is not an
unusual yield. My attention was called
yesterday to a young man, formerly
clerk in one of the village stores, with
hardly pay enough for board and
clothe3, who last spring leased a piece
of land, planted it with potatoes, paid
out $325 for seed, labor, and rent, and
raised $1,300 worth. By this little in
vestment he made more money than he
could have saved as clerk in ten years,
and to-day is really more of a man than
he ever before expected to be, having
gained that independence and freedom
that comes with self-reliance and suc
cess. If other young men from the older
towns where the farms are rocky and
the soil poor would just come up here
instead of flocking to the overcrowded
cities, where they are pretty certain to
work hard and remain poor all their
days, how much better it would be for
them and the State. Cor. Boston Jour
nil. Hot Water.
The application of hot water to toe
surface for the relief of pain is an old
and well-tried remedy. The medical
profession now universally recognizes its
value.
At the commencement of a cold the
mucous membrane of the nostrils often
so swells as to prevent the passage of
air through them, and the person is
compelled to breathe through his mouth.
The discomfort may be often removed
by holding the feet in quite hot water.
Many a severe headache can be relieved
in the same way.
Pains in the bowels may be mitigated
or removed by applying to them rubber
bags of hot water, or folds of woolen
cloths wrung out from water as hot as
can be borne. The same thing is true
of face-aches, ear-aches and of most
aches and pains.
The principle on which the relief de
pends is known by the name of counter
irritation. The pains in each case are
due to a congested state of the blood
vessels. That is, the vessels are unduly
distended with blood, and thus press
upon and irritate the neighboring
nerves.
The hot water, by getting up an irri
tation at a distance, enlarges the capil
laries in that part and thus turns the
blood thither, relieving the pressure at
the points of pain.
The quantity of blood diverted, say
from the head to the feet, by plunging
the latter in hot water, may be seen in
their exceeding redness, every one of
their millions of capillaries being dis
tended and crowded with blood.
Youth's Companion.
A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post gives the following ac
count of an electric storm on the sum
mit of Pike's Peak, 14,174 feet above
the sea: "For over two hours every
thing was tipped and covered with elec
tricity. Spanish pack mules, left on the
summit for the night, appeared to bo
all on fire ;the clothes of the men seemed
ablaze; electricity streamed from the
tips of the fingers, from the nose and
from the hair. The anemometer on top
of the building spat fire at every revolu
tion. Every rock on the summit was
covered with line."
Verily, when a fall grown manwfll
place a dynamite cartridge in the oven
of hie cookffltove to thawit oat it is evi
dent that we need idiot asylum as
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