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f BAHLE AMONG ANTS.
DETAILS OF AN INTERESTING FIGHT
WHICH LASTED FIVE HOURS.
A "Hud to Hand" Strassle-"SoUUen"
f Reckless DarlBg Distinction Be
tween Friend and re Dragging Off
the Dead After the Battle.
In tho summer a year ago a swarm of black
ants (Formica Pennsylvanica) built their nests
between tho ceiling and the roof of a shed
near oar dwelling, m the suburbs of Philadel
phia. At a distance of a few hundred feet
from the shed a second colony of the same
species had also built a home in a sheltered
place. Both nests were unusually populous.
Battles between ants of different species
fought for the purpose of capturing slaves,
have been often described. But on a bright
morning in August I was a witness of a fight
between these two colonies of the same
species, which could have been waged for no
auch purpose, and which gave tho occasion
for a greater display of forethought on tho
part of the combatants than is usually con
ceded even to the ant. The nest in tho roof
was the ono attacked. The only approach to
it from the ground was by a post and plas
tered wall about six feet high. A smooth
plank floor fitted closelv against tho wall and
post and was raised above the ground by a
low step. This floor was the scene of the
conflict.
In all my repeated study of these nests and
their inhabitants during the summer months
the small workers were tho only ones who
seemed to labor. They did all the foraging,
and it was unusual to see one of tho larger
workers outside of the entrance of the nest,
which, however, they faithfully guarded.
The conduct of tho latter so much more
closely agreed with that of the soldier ants of
kindred species that in speaking of them in
this paper I shall call them soldiers, because
they certainly performed all the duties of a
soldier, and, so far as could be seen, did noth
ing else.
When I saw them on the morning of tho
battle both the small workers and the largo
ones, or soldiers, were out on the wall, post
and floor in great numbers. There was no
fight then going on. A strong forco of sol
diers held every approach at the foot of tho
post and wall, smaller bodies were formed in
regular lines half way up tho post, and large,
outstanding groups were stationed at close
distances hero and there upon tho floor and
step, and running up and down tho post sup
porting tho nest.
While I stood wondering at tho unusual
commotion I saw at the distance of a few
feet a host of small workers, closely followed
by a great hordo of soldiers, streaming along
a fence from tho other distant nest. They
must have numbered thousands. In a very
short time these hostile workers had descended
tho fence to the ground, swarmed up the step
to the door and poured in crowds upon the
defensive scouts. The antagonists rushed
upon each other, and with their strong jaws
cut oif here a leg and there an antenna, and
sometimes severed the body of an opponent
at a blow. The foremost soldiers of tho de
fensive party came to the rescue, and the
swarm of hostile workers were driven back
toward tho step.
But by this time the soldiers of the attack
ing party had reached the floor, moving de
liberately onward in a dense black mass,
crushiug their smaller foes as they advanced.
In a few moments tho small workers wero
cither all killed or retired from the front.
Then tho battle between tho soldiers of the
opposing forces began in earnest. Halting a
moment till their ranks were close and com
pact, though by no means regular, the in
vaders advanced to the attack in a dense
mass, seeming to completely cover the floor
over which they moved. In this close array
they met the defenders, whom they greatly
outnumbered. Tliey were received , however,
with a courage as great as their own, and
their ranks were quickly broken up and
thrown into apparent disorder.
After tho general charge had been thus
made and the combatants wero mixed in an
undistinguishahle crowd, single champions
wero seen rushing around the floor seeking
foe. When two of these, champions ap
proached each other a mutual examination
with the ends of their antenna? now seemed
necessary to tell foe from friend. Many such
meetings were friendly, and after tho saluta
tion both would rush away at full speed.
But when, by the delicate test of feeling or
whatever serves them to thus distinguish,
each had found on enemy, they rushed upon
ono another with tho utmost rage, clinched
both with feet and jaws, and doubling them
selves up, rolled over the floor, biting and
tearing each other, entirely undisturbed in
their deadly work by being lifted up into the
air with a pair of forceps. At one time the
floor was nearly black with these rolling com
batants. As tho battle progressed the superior num
bers of tho invaders drove tho defenders of
their home slowly backward to the foot of
the post. Then a number of tho small
workers, who had been stationed upon the
post, ran rapidly up to tho nest. In a mo
ment a fresh army of soldiers, numbering
many hundreds, rushed from the nest, and,
descending tho txDst, passed the guards at the
base and fell upon the victorious foe, driving
them back slowly, but btcadily, to the edge of
the step. The guards at tho base of the post
did not appear to leave their station to engage
in the general fight, and only took part in it
at all when the attacking soldiers tried to post
them to reach the nest.
The fight lasted about five hours, and ended
in a total rout of the attacking party.
Toward the close the wounded, doubtless of
the invading party, were seen dragging them
selves off the field, generally carrying with
them some enemy which had fastened upon
them by his strong jaws in a death embrace.
In many cases these attached foemeu were
found to consist only of a pair of jaws mid a
bead, all the rest of the body having been
torn away in the fight With bulldog tenac
ity the head held on firmly, resisting allef
forts of tho wounded ants to remove it To
test the force of his grip of tho jaws I touched
some of the unwounded soldiers with a pair
of steel forceps. They bit the end of the
forceps so firmly that it was not possible to
detach them by pressing them against the
mouth of a collecting bottle without crushing
the ant itself.
When the enemy had been driven off and
the fighting was over the workers came down
from the nest and carried away many of the
dead. But when they ceased their labors
hundreds of the dead were left, and from the
fact that before lifting and dragging away a
body two or more of them at tho same time
carefully examined it with their antennae,
and then with one accord either took it away
or left it where it was lying never once seem
ing to differ in their decision it would seem
that even after death they distinguished
friend from foe.
The wounded defenders of their home tried
to crawl up to tho nest The loss of legs and
antennas mado this difficult and while some
succeeded many failed. When tho latter
found the task a vain one they crept slowly
out into tho grass and died. For two days
after the battle a strong guard of soldier
was kept at the bottom of the post Finally
these were withdrawn, and tho ant colony
settled down to its usual quiet routine. Phil
adelphia Ledger.
, THE DEAD IN THE MORGUE.
fPeepla Visit the Dismal Place Jast to
Satisfy Their Cariosity.
It was 7 o'clock a. m., and Joe Fogarty,
the keeper of the Morgue, had just turned the
key in the lock of his office door, when an
elderly man and two women crossed the green
extending between the Morgue and Bcllevue
hospital. The night previous the body of a
well dressed young man bad been brought to
the Morgue. It was a case of suicide and the
morning papers had long accounts of the
young man's death, which, as well as his per
sonality, were shrouded in mystery.
"Good morning, sir," said one of the
women, who was young and prepossessing.
"You have here, I believe, the body of a
young man who killed himself last night in
the hotel''
"Yea, madam; would you like to see hiiuP
asked Joe.
Yea; we came here for that purpose.''
Joe led the way into the wooden shed called
the dead house, and lifting the cover from an
ordinary pine box exposed to view the body
of the young man. The visitor looked at it in
Hence for a moment, and then the young
woman said, in the same inatterof-fact tone
fa which she might have remarked upon the
qoaMties of a picture:
How beautiful bo is! Seer pointing to a
snail red spot near the left temple, "that is
. where the bullet entered. Isn't itp she
asked, appealing to Joe.
-yes," replied the latter; "you don't seem
to recognise himr
"Oh, no," she returned; "we did not expect
to. Our curiosity was excited by the .ac
cents ta the morning papers. I was up early
and I got pa and ma to come down and see
the body. What a mysterious affair! And
he so young, too. I wonder what made him
do itl Do you suppose it was a love affairr
The young woman continued to rattle along
in a composed manner, while her parents si
lently inspected the body. They remained a
quarter of an hour, and by the time they
went away a number of other morbidly ca
rious people had arrived. It was with diffi
culty that Joe got rid of them.
"Of all the pestiferous cranks in this world,"
said Joe to a reporter later in the day, Mo
liver me from these curious people who like
to .see nothing so well as a corpse. In the
many years I have been here I have never
known of a single case that was published in
the newspapers that did not bring a lot of
these busybodies around. In cases where
there was considerable publicity I have even
known them to come here without their break
fasts. "Last summer there was a case of a young
woman who killed herself in a prominent ho
tel Nobody knew who she was, and tho pa
pers published columns about it We actually
had to call in the police to drive the crowds
away. They were all well dressed people,
too, and looked respectable. Many of them,
in fact, had the appearance of being wealthy.
When the old farmer whose daughter the
suicide was finally arrived, he with difficulty
escaped them. They seemed to have no sense
of propriety, and plied him with all sorts of
questions. It was a disgraceful scene, and
we had to use force to allow the poor broken
hearted man to get away." Mew York Mail
and Express.
Viticulture In California.
The planting, cultivation, picking and
pruning of the California grape has a great
many advantages over tho same processes in
France and other European grape growing
sections of country. But these are all bal
anced by the low price of labor in those
countries as compared to that paid by Cali
fornia viticulturists. In tho first place, tho
California vineyards are entirely free from
stones, and no fertilizers are necessary or are
used. There is no snow at all and seldom any
rain or hail from pruning timo to vintage.
There are as yet no bugs of much concern,
and the ravages of the phylloxera in Napa
and 8onoma connties have been much sub
dued. The ravages of the phylloxera in
France hnvc been dreadful; for, out of her
area of 5,110,783 acres in 1684, 1,G61,278 acres
wero attacked, mid aro now dead or dving.
Previous to 1884 there had been 1,072,500
acres of fine grape vines totally destroyed,
and her total production of wine in 16S5 was
027,705,322 gallons, 300,000,000 less than the
(mean) product of ten previous reasons. Our
other advantages are double crop per acre
and tho general warmth and equability of the
California climate, where fermentation is
carried on without artificial heat, while in
other grape counti ies fires have to be kept up
in tho cellars during winter. Land is cheaper
in California than in France, and interest on
money nowadays only a trifle higher. New
York Times.
Dangerous Counterfeit Coin.
The inability of counterfeiters to produce
exact or indistinguishable representations of
bank notes will tend, I think, to cause that
enterprise to be given up in tho near future,
and operations confined to alloyed coin only.
I think it will be carried on by persons of
genius, skilled in the working of metals, and
of a totally different stamp from the ordinary
plaster mold fiends. It would be almost im
possible to detect gold coins 10 per cent alloy.
It is possible to get the weight of such exact
ly tho same as the genuine, and the difference
in tho size can be made almost imperceptible.
To do this it would be necessary merely to
subject tho coin to sufficient pressure over
that employed at the mints. Such a coin it
would be almost impossible to detect in the
ordinary run of business. Acids are not to
be relied on always, and tho weight, ring, and
size being near the genuine, it would require
the expertness of one whose life is devoted to
such work to detect tho difference. In places
where a great deal of money is handled, I
have no doubt that in a few years an expert
will be employed to do nothing but weed out
the counterfeits. Globe Democrat
African Hands and Feet.
Capt Storms confirms the consoling theory
of the insensibility of tho nervous organiza
tion of the African natives as compared with
our own. The next object he showed us was
a wooden pillow, such as the Malays use,
calculated to dislocate the neck of any other
but a savage. On the other hand, the Afri
can feet and hands are particularly small and
delicate. I doubt whether even an American
belle could pass the heavy bracelets, formed
out of a section of tho tusk of an elephant,
over her wrist The bangles in use are for
practical as well as ornamental purpose, and
represent a kind of portable capital. They
are made of tho very finest filigree wire, and
are worn in coils on tho arms and legs. A
native unbroceleting or uugartering himself
is tantamount to the action of pulling the
purse out of the pocket in Europe. Chicago
Tribune.
Talk Abont "Soft Snaps.
Steve Rowan, the big iiolicemau who twirls
a club along Madison street, was talking
ubout soft snaps the other night. "When I
first came to town," he said, "I got a job
breaking tho ice around a big water main
they were laj-ing along Sixteenth street and
under the river to the west side. It was a
bitter cold winter and I suffered terribly. I
kept the main clear of ice, however, and
when spring carno it found mo still sitting
around that old pijie. I expected my dis
charge every tiny, but as it did, not coino I
liegan to realize the fact that f was in full
Iiossession of the snap. Very little ice formed
around the main during tho months of June,
July and August, and I hail plenty of timo to
goto horse races and base lull games. That
snap ji-an along until October, and I never
missed a week's pay in all thut time. Talk
alout soft snaps. There is one with a blue
ribbon tied around if Chicago Herald.
Intoxication Among Animals.
"The philosophers," says Houzeau "that os
sert that monkeys that have once used intoxi
cating liquors to excess will not touch them
again are more desirous of giving us a lesson
in morals than holding to the exact truth.
- The majority of tame monkeys are fond of
wine and spirits. They help themselves when
they can. They enjoy getting drunk, and
some of them become such sots that they re
fuse to reform in spite of tho most severe
punishment Besides, their intoxication re
sembles precisely that of man; their legs are
badly controlled, their tongue is thick and its
movements uncertain."
Moreover, this identity of the effects of in
toxication descends much lower in the animal
kingdom. Donkeys have been seen dead
drunk. Horses get drunk: and if, as a gen
eral thing, dogs refuse wine, some of them
are addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages
when well sweetened and sufficiently diluted.
Henry Howard in The Cosmopolitan.
Ills Fads Were Clocks and Shoes.
Speaking of eccentric characters, a gentle
man the other day recalled the idiosyncrasies
of the late Sylvester Bonnaffon, who lived
over what is now Madden's saloon. He died
some years ago. He was a most eccentric but
very methodical man. He was a devoted
lover of horseflesh and always kept a fine
team, in which he drove out every day for
perhaps twenty years, never varying as to
route or time. His action in taking his daily
drive was as regular as a special train, and
he arrived at particular points as punctual as
though ""on time" according to schedule. He
invariably drove out Walnut street to Ninth,
up Ninth to Ridge avenue, along Ridge ave
nue up Broad. He carried a clock to time
himself and returned to the stable at 5 p. m.
After his death 125 pairs of shoes were found
in his room and thirty-nine clocks.- Philadel
phia News.
Settling Matrimonial Disputes.
They have a curious way of settling matri
monial disputes in Nepal, India. On a plain
is a standard. When a wife wants a divorce
from her husband she is given a fair start and
has torun across the plain. Her better half
chases her with a kookree. If the woman
reaches the standard first she obtains a disso
lution .of her marriage. If she doesnt get to
the post at all, it is because her husband hat
caught her and cut her down. New York
Tribuue.
In Germany the park statues are em eloped
In wrappers during the winter.
August Belmont's real name is Schoenberg.
When be came to this country from Germany
he assumed the name he now bears.
A HISTORIC SWORD.
WIELDED BY
HEROIC
CAPT. REID
SEA FIGHT.
AT A
Taa "ThenaepylsB of the Ocean" Seven
Oaas and Ninety Men AgalasJ 13
Gas and t.600 Men The Fight and
IU Results.
There has lam upon the desk of the presi
dent for some time a plain, steel scabbarded
sword, old fashioned in style and and service
able rather than elegant, slightly curved,
somewhat battered and generally a weapon
that looks as though it had seen service. And
it has; and service, too, in one of the most he
roic actions described in the pages of Ameri
can history.
A day or two ago the president sent this
sword to congress, and it will probably be
come the duty of the National museum, in
which so many other valuable relics are de
posited, to give it a place in which it maybe
seen in company with a sketch of the hero
and the heroic contest that make it sacred.
The presentation to congress, through tho
president, by CoL Bamael a Held of this bat
tle saber of his father, the late Capt Samuel
Chester Raid, who commanded the United
States private armed brig of war Gen. Arm
strong at the battle of FayaL in September,
1814, is excuse enough for reviving some in
cidents which have pawed out of mind.
UNEQUAL FORCES ESTaAOKD.
The Armstrong was a little brig of but 240
tons, carrying but seven guns and ninety
men. She was attacked in the neutral waters
of the Azore islands by a British squadron,
consisting of the ship of die line Plantagenet,
the frigate Rota and the sloop of war Carna
tion, with a total amount of 18r) guns and
2,000 men. The British ket over SOO of their
picked men and officers in killed and wounded,
while the Armstrong lost but two killed and
seven wounded. The action has well been
called the "Thermopylae of the Ocean," for no
naval battle in ancient or modern history is
comparable with that of the Armstrong at
Fayal, either as to the unequal forces engaged,
the unyielding and inflexible bravery of her
officers and crew, nor as to the grand results
which followed in the defeat of the British
expedition against Louisiana.
The height of heroism and romantic chiv
alry wero displayed by Capt Reid and his
crow in the last act of this extraordinary
naval drama. After scuttling his vessel 'to
save her from capture he went ashore with
his men and arms, when the commander of
tho squadron. Admiral Lloyd, demanded their
surrender and threatened to send 500 men to
tnko them. Reid retired with his men to an
old gothic convent, which he fortified, knocked
away the drawbridge, ran up the American
flag and bade the enemy defiance. Lloyd
quailed under this last exhibition of heroic
courage, saying they were demons and not
men.
The squadron under Lloyd was on its way
to the island of Jamaica to join the great
fleet assembled there under Admiral Lord
Cochrane, afterward Earl of Dundonald, who
was confidentially intrusted with the secret
expedition for the conquest of Louisiana.
Tho last hope of England to wrest the control
of tho Mississippi river and the province of
Louisiana from France had been foiled by
Napoleon, who, seeing that he bad no means
of protecting it from the conquest of Eng
land, ceded it to the United States in 1803.
THE FORTUNATE RESULTS.
On the declaration of war by the United
States, in 1818, England's eyes were once
more turned to the coveted possession, and,
after making a demonstration against
Washington and Baltimore, she assembled
her combined fleets, no longer needed for the
blockades of the French coasts, at Negril bay,
Jamaica, to carry out this great design. The
crippled condition of Lloyd's squadron bad
created a delay of over ten days in repairing
damages, as they were occupied three days
alone in burying their dead. On the arrival
of Lloyd at Jamaica a further delay of a week
took place, Admiral Lord (Cochrane being
furious at Lloyd's disaster, which finally
proved fatal to the expedition. The fleet did
not arrive off Lake Bosque until four days
after the arrival of Gen. Jackson with his
forces, which barely gave him time to make
a defense, so that, had the fleet arrived ten
days sooner, when New Orleans and the
coast was utterly defenseless, an easy con
quest would have been made, and once in
possession it is doubtful if the treaty of peace
would have been ratified by England. Thus
it is clearly demonstrated that if Capt Reid
had surrendered his vessel against such an
overwhelming force, which he might have
done without the imputation of cowardice,
Louisiana might to-day be under the flag of
St George.
To Capt Reid is not only due the credit of
this victoiy, but its general results in saving
a domain now more than three times larger
than the territory of France, and it is worthy
to be remembered that this gallant sailor be
came afterward the designer of the present
form of the United States flag, as adopted by
congress in 1818. His name and fame deserve
to be commemorated, and congress should
show the gratitude of tho people by making
an appropriation for a substantial and en
during testimonial to his bravery and useful
ness. Cor. New York Times.
VIVISECTING A CALF.
Performing the Operation In Order est
Show the Action of the Hears.
In the presence of a big class of students,
which filled the amphitheatre of the upper
lecture room of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Professor J. G. Curtis, lecturer on
physiology, made a novel vivisection to dem
onstrate the action of the heart, about which
thero is considerable diversity of opinion
among the great physiologists. Professor
Curtis holds that the heart shortens. It be
came old Janitor Mike's duty to keep his eyes
peeled for any of Bergh's men who might be
present in a disguise and put a stop to the
demonstration in its most important stage.
When the coast was clear and Mike satisfied
himself that only those who had business in
the lecture room were there Professor Curtis
began his lecture.
He discussed the merits and demerits of the
famous physiologists, and tried to show that
the heart really shortened by reading from
accepted writers who had made a number of
experiments to support their theory. Before
ho finished speaking four of his assistants,
clad in rough-bed ticking gowns, dragged in
an unsuspecting calf. Tho calf was placed in
a V shaped trough, with four stout slats
nailed to the top and bottom, two on each
side. Straps held the animal motionless.
Sponges saturated with ether were clapped
over the animal's nostrils and soon reduced it
to unconsciousness. Then Professor Curtis
seized a long, keen edged knife and made an
incision extending from the head down to the
belly. In a few strokes he cut away the hide,
and with an instrument like a pair of pruning
shears he cut out the breast plate, exposing
the lungs and the heart in its sac. This was
carefully removed, and then the students
made a rush to see the effect it had on tho
calf.
There lay the heart, bobbing about with
every respiration the animal made. When
the lungs were filled with air they almost en
tirely covered tho heart, but during the ex
piration it came into view again, and its
action could closely be studied. With a pair
of delicate compasses Professor Curtis fol
lowed the jerky movements of the organ and
measured it in several positions, showing that
in systole the heart was a trifle shorter than
during diastole.
The calf was kept alive just an hour, which
was the time the lecture lasted, and just be
fore it died Professor Curtis tied the aorta,
the main artery, at the point of its attach
ment, and with a single stroke of the knife
cut out the organ and pinned it on a board
between two rows of long pins. In this posi
tion, outside the body, the heart made about
a dosen beats, and it became even more plain
than before, by observing itB situation be
tween the pins, that it shortened when con
tracting, resuming its normal size at the end
of the beat New York World.
"Basket Sociable' la Texas.
Tl "basket sodable," popular in Texas, is
described as follows: "Each young lady fa
to provide a handsome basket containing
lunch for two. These baskets will be for
sale to the gentlemen present, and each pur
chaser will be entitled to the privilege of en
tertaining for the evening the lady whose
name be will find in the basket." The New
Orleans Picayune regards this as a dandy
scheme. It gives the girl a chance to eat
part of the contents of her own basket, with
a young man thrown In. The young men
fmd that the homeliest girls always, have the
best lunch, and that sort of evens up things.
-Chicago Times.
IN MINOR KEY.
Itow that the winds are wild and bank the snow
across the paths my feet were wont to know
la summer time,
I att beside the fire and turn a rhyme
Of long ago.
Alas, the music takes a minor key.
It hears the wind's deep rolling melody.
And murmurs too;
Dear heart, twas never thus as long as yon
Were here with me.
For then, together, I could always bring
Prom winter's desolation gladsome spring;
Your sunny face
Was like a garden in which happy place
A bird must sing!
frank D. Sherman in Times-Democrat
CHALCEDONY.
Ages long since, upon the desert waste.
Within the hollowed rock a gem was formed;
liquid st first, it hardened age by ago
The rock, slow crumbling into Band, the gem re
mained. Nourished within my heart, intense love
Of one line nature, earnest simple, rare
Grew crystalline, and erermoro shall live.
Outlasting that poor home wherein it grew.
Emma Pomeroy Greenough in Boston Tran
script ITER HOSPITALITY.
A BIT OF EXPERIENCE IN A ROCKV
MOUNTAIN CABIN.
How a Believer la "Kudo but Geaulno
Hospitality" Met with a Surprise A
Tall. Grim Faced Woman at the Back
Door.
'"Theae mountaineers are the most hospita
ble people on earth. It is a rude but genuine
hospitality. They would share their last loaf
with a stranger within then gates. Tho latch
string hangs out for alL" j
Wo were riding down a steep Rocky Moun-
tain trail, my friend date and I, when Clate '
made the remarks quoted. He was an enthu-
siast over the noble traits of the honest miner
and mountaineer. Certain experiences of my
own had made mo skeptical on the subject
At the base of the mountain stood a littlo
log cabin.
"Now," said Clate, "I'll prove my theory.
It's past dinner time and we're both hungry
as wolves. I'll wager anything you liko that
we'll get a good square meal at that cabin
free of charge."
Five minutes later we stood before the
closed door of tho cabin.
"Hello!" roared Clate.
There was no reply.
"Hello, I say!"
This time Clate rapped loudly on tho door.
There being no response be lifted the latch,
when tho door swung open showing no one
within, although the cabin was evidently be
ing occupied.
"All right!" cried Clate, cheerily. "Come
on in, Ned, mid we'll forage 'round and see
what we can find in tho commissary. The
folks wont care. They've left tho door open
on purpose for wayfarers like us to step in
and help themselves. It's just like them. It's
your westerner who knows what true hospi
tality is."
Clate "foraged around" for some time, but
all be could find was a piece of dry salt pork
and a few potatoes.
A SUDDEN SUnPRISE.
"Woll help ourselves to what there is," said
Clate, cheerily. "You build a fire, NetL
We're welcome to what we've found, I'll bet
on that, for"
He stopped. A tall, lank, grim vtsaged
woman, with a leathern looking face, sud-
aemy appeared at a nacK door. She saw
Ciato, and yelled out:
"Drop them taters !"
"Why, madam, I I"
"You drop them taters 1"
"We are strangers, you see, madam,
and"
"Drop 'em."
A short gun humr on the wall. She snatched
it down, brought it to her shoulder with a
jerk and said:
"Drop them taters too quick."
Clate dropped them.
"Drop that pork."
Clate dropped it
"Now you fellers git"
I had already got, but Clate. abashed and
rebuked though he was, lingered until the
shotgun was again pointed toward him and
the woman said:
"Clear yourself! I'll learn you how to walk
into a body's house and help yourself to one's
vittles. That bacon and them taters ain't to
be bought for love nor money, let alono et up
by you una fer nothin. Now you light out!"
Wo "lit out," hungry and crestfallen, and
Clate has lieen dumb ever since on the subject
of western hospitality. Zenas Dane in De
troit Free Press.
Poverty la Washington.
There is a large class of men in Washington
who are in a most impecunious condition and
who make heavy drafts upon the purses and
patience of those with whom they manage to
become acquainted. Some have been ro
tated out of official duties, which has unfitted
them for any other business. Others imagine
that the party in power owes them an office
either at home or abroad and sonio have
claims which, if allowed, would make them
wealthy, but all wait, and it has been truth
fully said that they are getting "broker" mid
"broker" every day. They sleep in cheap
lodgings, eat where it Is convenient and drink
every time they are asked. They are good
fellows for the most part, and they were once
respectable citizens at home, but they are
stuck fast iu Washington and cannot get
away. They bear a worn and anxious cast of
faco and only smile, as stated above, when in
vited. Political cripples they arc, waiting
for the waters of Siloam to bo troubled, and
it will bo a long time before their wants are
granted. Meanwhile they modestly request
tho loan of a dollar until the first of next
month. Denied, they ask for fifty cents nay,
they will take a quarter, and I once had one
fall back on a demand for a horse car ticket.
I was afterward told that at a neighboring
bar two horse car tickets were regarded as
equivalent for one dram of bad whisky. We
have dark shadows with the bright Washing
ton life. Philadelphia Times.
Developing the Kblne Falls.
The nearest thing in Europe to the Niagara
falls, the Rhine falls at Schatfhausen, has
just been threatened in exactly the same way
as the great American spectacle. A short
time ago it was announced that Messrs.
Neber & Sons, of Laufen, were making ar
rangements to construct a huge dam, by
means of which they hoped to subsidize the
Rhine to the degree of 15,000 horse power for
the service of their factories. There was at
once a loud outcry in the Swiss papers. A
protest was raised against the project and an
appeal sent to the great council of Schaff
hausen, in which the two pleas of beauty and
business were mado on behalf of letting the
Rhine continue on its present course. The
Schaffbausen government has accordingly
forbidden the scheme on the twofold ground
of "ideal interests" and "the interests of the
fremdenindustrie" that is to say, of the
present value of the Rhine falls as a spectacle
attracting the foreigner. Paris News.
Oae of the Flock Died.
An Inverness-shire shepherd was visited
every six months by his priest, to whom he
complained of his inability to remember his
"Pater noster." The priest replied, "I believe
yon shepherds know each of your sheep by
head mark;" and on Duncan answering in
the affirmative, tho priest recommended him
to place his sheep in a row and associate with
each of them a word in the Lord's prayer.
Thus, the first in order was to represent
"Pater," the second "Noster," and so on to the
end of the prayer. In that way he assured
the shepherd be would easily commit his
"Pater noster" to memory. At his next visit
be asked Duncan how he was getting on!
"Grand, your reverence," was the reply.
"Let me bear yon," said the priest Duncan
"Pater noster, qui es in ccelo nomea tuum."
"You're wrong-," said the priest, "you've
missed out a word." "Na, na, your rever
ence," rejoined the Highlander, "aanc
tificetur deeVl last Chrietmasl" Home Jour
nal Staaley and His Tobacco.
When in the civilised world Mr. Henry M.
Stanley smokes six cigars a day. In Africa
he uses a pipe and mild tobacco, which he
finds a solace and an aid to concentration of
mind. On oae of his journeys down the
Congo, as be was abont to eater a dangerous
country where he knew a fight was inevita
bla.be told his awn to auks ready and then
lit his pipe and settled down for a five minutes'
quiet smoke before the battle. Ten minutes I
later they were all ightiag for their lives and I
the battle lasted lor hours. He did not begia
to smoke until be was 23 and did
not master a pipe till be was 30- Living
stone, it is remembered, never smoked. Gor
don was a most inveterate smoker, and when
be went on his last journey to Khartoum
10,000 cigarettes formed an iiniiortant part
of his baggage. New York Tribune. r
PERSIA'S RAGGED REGIMENTS
8ha
bby Soldiers of the 8nal Thlavtas;
OScers and Their Plnnder.
The Persian soldier, even on state occasions,
presents generally a rather ludicrous appear
ance. His uniform is of cotton cloth and
mostly of a deep blue color. It is made of
what we call shirting, and when new is very
suitable clothing in a warm country. But
toon the military buttons, begin to disappear
and are replaced by substitutes of all sorts,
shapes, colors and sizes. The hair disappears
from the warrior's sheepskin shako, which
quickly grows shabby on account of his habit
ually using it as a pillow. Moreover, the foot
covcriugs of no two men hi the regiment are
alike, and the whole crew presents a melan
choly appearance.
But yet the Persian soldier does the best he
can. Previous to a review or festal parade
he may be seen carefully preparing a promo
of white feathers, procured from the nearest
domestic' fowl, and binding them to a piece
of stick. When this martial plume has at
tained the size of a lamp brush he triumph
antly affixes it to a shako. On the occasion
of official illuminations composite candles are
served out by the local governor at the rate
of one to each mau. The colonel has, of
course, a greater number of men on his list
than ever make an appearance; be keeps the
difference. The other officers appropriate
half the remaining candies. The non-commissioned
officers eat (i. a steal) a certain
proportion, and at length ono candle is served
out to everv five men. This is divided into
' five tortious, a new wick
is inserted, and.
when the regiment is paraded, at a given
sigual a box of mutches is iiossed round, and
the regiment triumphantly presents arms
with a lighted caudlo in each man's musket
as per general order.
Tho pay of tho Persian soldier is nominally
seven tomuiw (3 15s) per annum and rations.
Ho is lucky if ho gets half his pay, which does
not reach him till it has passed through the
bands of many persons, his superiors. But
his rations of three mid a half pounds of
bread a day aro quite another matter. If his
rations are tampered with the soldiur mutinies
ut once, and there is no atrocity of which the
Persian soldier robbed of bis rations is inca
pable. St James' Gazette.
Men Full of Whims.
No use charging all whims to tho account
of women. Men are full of thorn. There are
a half dozen tobacco slaves who daily go on
'change, who say they cannot sleep unless a
quid of tobacco reposes beneath their tongue.
Others tell of getting up in the night to
smoke, and there is ono old crank who insists
he cannot sleep unless his head is turned
toward the north. He has a whim that he is
a compass. It is said ex-Attorney General
Brewster likes an open grate, but detests the
color of coal.
The contrast of tho black coal and tho red
and bluo flames was most distasteful to him
so his servant had orders to splash the fuel
with whitewash, which ho kept on hand for
tho purpose. Gen. Butler has a whim. Of
late years ho is seldom without a piece of
slippery elm in his mouth, which ho declares
is an admirable specific for nervousness.
Years ago Butler was a smoker. Then he
took what is known as a dry smoke that is,
ho went through the motions of smoking
with mi unlightcd cigar in his mouth. From
that ho has graduated to slippery elm. Sen
ator Beck's whim is that ho cannot speak
unles he nrfcos with a ticnbolder in his right
hand, which ho always slams down upon his
desk before ho hits s; token a dozen words.
Cincinnati Times-Star "Rambles."
Agreeable Odors for Gas.
Tho fact that several residonts of Troy were
recently killed by odorless gas has aroused
some inquiry as to tho use of this dangerous
agent. It seems that this fuel gas, which is
manufactured and used for various domestic I
purposes, can readily be made safe, or at least
practical 13- so, by giving it an odor which will
enable customers to detect its presence, and
many patents have been taken out to accom
plish ' this result It may not be generally
known that common gas may easily be made
odorless, but that tho odor is retained as a
protection.
This subject opens some curious fields of
observation. Seeing that it is feasible thus
to impregnate gas with mi odor, why does not
modern enterprise combine use and delight
by adopting such odors as shall be most agree
able to patrons? Few, for instance, like the
present smell of gas, and why cannot it be in
fused henceforth with the essence of mignon
ette or apple blossom, or ylang-ylangr New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Electric Photographs.
Mot long since were recorded some inter
esting experiments iu which M. Cb. Zenger
secured photographs in the darkness of a
moonless night through the imperceptible
phosphorescence of certain objects which
had been brightly illuminated during thf
tiny. M. D. Tomassi has now described some
even more remarkable effects under the eu
phonious name of "efnuviograpby." By an
expose of a few minutes' duration he bat
iirpressed upou a photographer's sensitive
plate mi imago of an object through which a
silent discharge of electricity was passing,
this result being obtained when care wat
taken to insure perfect darkness and with a
current of too low tension to give any sign oi
light. The theory of the experimenter i
that a body under electric influence emita
"electric rays" analogous to tho dark rays ol
the spectrum. Arkansaw Traveler.
CUIIizHt ion's Opposite Poles.
Extremes meet. While the toilers aro In
I wttle array for a bare living, tho world
which lives among, and by the trado in, puro
luxuries is enjoying the liveliest season ever
known in America. All the picture exhibi
tions and sales thus far have done better than
ever before in the history of the country.
Collectors are now preariiig to disburse at
least .',000,000 at the auctions of tho Stew
arts, the Graves, the Probasco and other
pictures. A dealer in antiques told me re
cently that at a recent sale of part of his
stock he cleared over $20,000 by the least
valuable part of it and still has its real treas
ures on hand. Architects whom I know say
that they never had so many orders for fine
residences, nor at such prices; and the great
decorating firms aro all busy embellishing
our rich men's palaces as they never yet have
been embellished. New York News.
A Novelist's llirtbplace.
A handsome brick bouse near Jiurf reesboro,
Tenn., standing on an eminence that over
looks the Btone River battlefield, is pointed
out as the birthplace of Miss Mary M. Mur
freo, who, as Charles Egbert Craddock, baa
been so phenomenally successful in literature.
The house was built by the young lady's
grandfather, one among the first men of his
day, and was for years his home. And it is
probable that there, as well as in the moun
tains, she observed the fine, faint marvels of
light and shade that enter so largely into her
word painting. For the camp of two great
armies, Rutherford county is pretty well
denuded of its timber, and from the Murfree
house tho eye sweeps over miles and miles,
and at last rests on a ruin of serrated hills
that mark tho county line. New York
Graphic.
Rivalries of tho City.
Young men who cannot succeed in the
country onust not expect success just because
they move to the city. In the country the
field is large, and the rivalries are not bitter.
In the city the field is also large, but it fa full
of active, sleepless competitions. Young men
remember the hundred cases of conspicuous
success on toe part of those who have come to
the city and worked their way up, but they
forget the thousand instances of failure.
They disregard the unnumbered experiences
of lifelong toil in obscure places. It is well
to aim high, of course, but those who always
aim too high seldom bring down their game.
Baltimore American.
Death to the Fish.
The streams penetrating the Gogebic iron
range near the south shore of Lake Superior
are so black with discoloration from the ore
that fish cannot live in them. This is partic
ularly true of the Montreal river,-the north
ern state line between Wisconsin and Mich
igan. Boston Budget.
A Turkish bath and a horseback trot in
the park before' breadfatt are said by physi
cians to take away some of their most e
teemed patients.
Am AasBstheUc Ballet.
A German chemist has invented a new kind
of anesthetic bullet, which be urges will, if
brought into general use, greatly diminish
the horrors of war. The bullet is of a brittle
substance, breaking directly it comes in con
tact with the object at which it is aimed. It
contains a powerful anesthetic, producing in
stantaneously cosaplete insensibility, lasting
for twelve hours, which, except that the ac
tion of the heart continues, is not to be dis
tinguished from death. A battlefield where
theae bullets are need win in a short time be
apparently covered with dead bodies, but in
reality merely with the prostrate forms of
soldiers reduced for the tune being to a state
of nncoascioosness. While in this condition
they may, the German chemist points out,
be packed in ambulance wagons and carried
off as prisoners. Frank Leslie's.
Tha Globe's Rainfall.
From 34,000 to 35,000 cubic nuke of rain
talk every year upon the surface of this
globe. The rivers carry off barely one-half;
the rest disappears by evaporation, by the
absorption of the earth, and by being taken
up by plants, animals and mineral oxidation.
Chicago Times.
A private ball in a publlo ball Is
described
1 hospitality."
The beet way to manage a man is to
marry him.
A Sound Legal Opinion.
E. Bainbridge Monday, Esq., County
Attorney, Clay county, Tex., says: "Have
used Electric Bittors with most hannv
resulta. My brother also was very low
with malarial fever and jaundice, but
was cured by timely uso of this medi
cine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters
saved my life."
Mr. D. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
Ky., adds a like tostimoiiv. Having: He
positively believes he would havo died,
had it not been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward off, sis
well as cure Malarial Diseases, and for
all Kidney,. Liver and Stomach Disor
ders stands unequulod. Price 50 cents,
and $1 at Dowty & Becher's.
Ericsson, the inventor, us said to have
an income of $100,000 u year.
The llttitielleot
Jiust In fljoluna.
SM,
As well as the handsomest, and others
are Invited to call on Dr. A. Heintz and
get free a trial bottle of Kemp's Balsam
fer the Throat and Lungs, a remedy that
is selling entirely upou Its merits and is
guaranteed to cure and relieve all
Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma,
Bronchitis and Consumption. Price 30
cents aadtl. DciJ-8G
Col. Ingersoll is still Buffering from an
affection of the throat.
Uood Wages Ahead.
George Stinson A Co., Portland, Mai no, can
dive you work that you can do and livo at homo,
making great pay. You are started free. Capi
tal not needed. Both exw. All aw. Cut this
out and write at once; no liaiui will be dono if
you conclude not to go to work, after you learn
all. All particulars free. Boet paying work in
this world. 4-iy
Archbishop Lebastida, of Mexico, is to
receive the red hat.
Yoathful Indulgence
in pernicious practice pursued in soli
tude, is a most startling cause of norvous
and general debility, lack of self-confidence
and will power.inipairetl memory,
despondency, and other attendents of
wrecked manhood. Sufferers should ad
dress, with 10 cents in stamps, for large
illustrated treutice, pointing out unfail
ing means of perfect cure. World's Dis
pensary Medical Association, G3 Matin
street, Buffalo, N. Y.
A man and woman are reinirted to
have been lately married on u ear plat
form. We have known lots of brake
men to be engaged there.
With Asiatic cholera raging in South
America nnd several cases reported at
different parts of the United States, re
cently at Detroit, Mich., people liegan to
consider what they would do iu case it
should appear in. epidemic form here
and to ask what can be done. First,
the sanitary condition of the premises
should be looked to; all decaying ani
mal and vegetable matter removed.
Second, drink, no water until after it has
been boiled. Third, procure a 50-cent
bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy and you may
consider yourself and family fortified
against the disease. Sold by Dowty &
Becher.
Parnell is increasing his reputation as
an after-dinner speaker.
f9aae Fovllitki laIe
Allow a coqgh to rua until it gets beyoad
the reach at medicine. They often sag.
Oh, it will wesraway, but in most case's
it wears them away. Could they he in
duced to try the successful medicine
called Kemp's Balsam, which we sell on
a positive guarantee to cure, they would
immediately see the exccllsnt effect aft,er
taking the first dose. Price 50c and SIjOO.
1 rial site free. Dr. A. Iieiutsc.
People who are always running after
comfort never reach it.
Worth Your Attention.
Cut thi out nnd mail it to Alien A Co., Au
KKitta, Maine, who will eiulou free, Homethinu
now, that just coins moey for all worker. Ah
wonderful as the electric liht, at genuine n
pure Rold, it will prove of lifelong alne and
importance to yon. liotli noxe. all ntfe. Allen
& Co. bear expense of startim; joii in Imnint'tt.
It will brinit you in more cnh. riht away, than
anything else in tin world. An j one anywhere
can tlo the work, and live at home alto. Hetter
write at tmce; then, knowing all, should yon
conclude that you don't care to enenne, why no
harm is done. 4-ly
A correspondnt wants to know "if
there is in dead earnest, anything that
will make the hair como out?" There is;
marry a fighting wife.
Advice to Consumptive.
On the appearance of the first symp
toms, as general debility,Iossof appetite,
pallor, chilly sensations, followed by
,night-8weats and cough, prompt meas
ures of relief should be taken. Consump
tion is scrofulous disease of the lungs;
therefore use the great anti-scrofulous
or blood-pnrifier and strengli-restorer,
Dr. PierceVGolden Medical Discovery."
Superior to cod liver oil as a nutritive,
and unsurpassed as a pectoral. For
weak lungs, spitting of blood, and kin
dred affections, it has no equal. Sold by
druggists. For Dr. Pierce's treatise on
consumption, send 10 cents in stamps.
World's Dispensary Medicaf Association,
663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y.
The writing-master's busineea is nour
ishing. English Spavin Liniment removes all
Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and
Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavin,
Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Stifles, Sprains
Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc.
Save 950 by use of one bottle. Every
bottle warranted by C. B. ' Stillman,
drnggist, Columbus, Neb.
The word
"boodler" means one who
"boodles."
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera nnd
Diarrhoea Remedy can always bo de
ponded upon, it is pleasant to take and
will euro cramp, cholera morbus, dysen
tery and diarrhoea in their worst forms.
Every family should be provided with it
during tho Biinuuer months. 25 cent,
50 cent and dollar bottles are sold by
Dowty & Becher.
Irving's friends say that his profits for
last season will not fall short of S100.000.
Don't Experiment.
You cannot afford to waste time ex
perimenting when your hint's aro in
danger. Consumption always seeais. at
first, only a cold. Do not permit any
dealer to impose upon you with some
cheap imitation of Dr. Ivin";? New Dis
covery for consumption, coughs and
colds, but be sure you get tho genuine.
Because lie can make more profit la may
tell you ho has something just as good
or just tin same. Don't hi diivived,
but insiat upon uettisig Dr. King's New
Discovery, which is guaranteed to give
relief in ail throat, lung and chest af
fections. Trial bottlea free at Dowty &
Becher's drug store. Large bottles SI.
Secretary Lamar is said to bo prepar
ing to sit on the supreme court bench.
Ilnsklen's Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve iu the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Bhcuin,
Fever Sores. Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required, ft is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. l-Vr sale by
Dowty & Becher. jul27
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Schools, for I'm Mio Sixvikin. in lii.-truiiit'Utiil
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struction is niwn in all lintneiiet. required for
any certificate from Third (imdi to Htate l'ro
fcKsionnl. Tho I$uiiiefs Coiirw includ- lVnmanphip,
fonitiierrial (orrrminIenc t omnit-rcial Ijiw
unit ltNik-keepiuK, willi the t-t methods of
ki-vpiiiK t'anu, Knclorj, RinkiiiK and Mercantile
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Kxienren are wry lo-. Tuition, Koom Kent
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and a 1EWABB OP jl.5C. ir you fall to
nd It on this small board call on your drutqcin for
full-site. Handsomely Lithographed board, I'KKK;
or send cents for postage to us.
COUGH BLOCKS;
From Mason Long, the Converted Gambler.
Four Watnk, Ind.. Aprils, 18M. I have gtTcn the
By aTlta Couah Blocks a thorough trial.
mr little alrl (3 Tears' old) of CrouD.
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My wife and
mother-in-law were trouDlea with coughs or lomr
standing-. One package of the Blocks has curt-U
them so they can talk '
'as only women do."
masox Long.
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tle child. The child is now well and hearty, instead
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The Hoaaewlle needs it for general family ute.
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