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IF ' zXs? isT . . 5t" - " - ."5- - 0ium Mttrnal '- zJ&' ' X -5rXt.--t B" If ff ' TO 3i i. . 1. 7 i i: - pt l I i VOjLTJME XXvTH. NUMBER -13. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA! WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1898. WHOLE NUMBER 1,447. th; old reliable. cof umbus State Bank "(Oldest Bank in tho State.) .Pays Interest on Tims DBjosits DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR KUBAL READERS. Uow ScpccssTcI Termer Operate This Department or the rarm A Few Hints as to the Care of X.lr Slock and Poultry. aSD Hates Loans on Eeal Estate, i s issues no nr deafts oj Otuaba, Chicago, Xew York and all Foreign Countries. oELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS BUYS GOOD NOTES Azi& beJpa lu custorner3 wben they accd be: j OFFICHK3 A.VD DIRCCTOhS: 'I-saxdeh Gekraro, Trcs't. Iu IL IlExr.y, Vice Trcs't. Ill linuoonn, Cashitr. Jonx STAcrrnK, Yv'm. Ifucitnn. r SBRJimPi8 04IH ! fllH fSirKI 3 K iyr uiSimmoinL ya or GOLprBUS. ?t?SB., MA5 AX Aulhorizei! Tapiia! of - S5Q0.00 Pali! In Oapligi, 90.000 OH'ICSILS: Jl. I. 11. n' HJ,j:i H. VIccTre". iAN?rr, s'iiinM, r.-sMer. i i:amc iiukk::, Assi. casur. nurT t n O. n. Si:r.r.an;, "" it p. if. Ornr.nrcn. .JOxas Wr.i.c:s. W. A McAlmstkb. OaslKicnkc. scCkiv. STOCK II UFIIS: 'i.vitK .ih.t. lis .suv i oj:ke. j )...-: n!.?cixu am. .:-o. .Gwa.v.y, A. T. II. Orni.ISIOT. .T. 1 ItirKEit ITATE, J:cr.nccA Uecker. II. zi. v hlow. HanJc of Deposit: merest alloTCfl on tics deposit: bur and sell eohansro on UnSteii "-tales ant! Turojie. and buy and scl! avail aljlo -ccuritlcs Wo shall to pleased to ru cco your business. Wcsoliot your patronage. n ! $ n ijmnn biilU iiUi n 5- Vatch for Ros. luch c' the ill-success with poultry arises from Jack o" cbservhtiba of the people fcnvins iho care of them. They oxr dlsca-xa lo get into the Cocks ntl eprcsd, when, bv nrnnfr nbsprva. tioa, the trouble would be stopped cro it had obtained a good start. A cv.' "ays ago the writer cl this had oc casion to purchase a dozen laying hens frcm a fanner. The lattPr Was asked if he had toup in his flo-jk. He v,'s at once verjv indigtiant and re plied that when a-fowf in his yards fell tick the axe was the remedy. None &f hia fowls had the roup or any other disease. So the wou!d-b purchaser thought he WGiild bo tafe in purchas ing a few fowls "uncight and unseen." But he wiil never do that again. The fowls wera promptly delivered. At night tha purchaser went out to take a lock at his fowjc for the first tine. What a sound greeted his ad vent in the poultry house. He recog nized its cause at once. The fowis were all safely ranked on tha roosts, but from their midst came mingled snorings, sneezings, coughing r.hd half-crowings. Ivcup, roup, roup, spoke from every corner. He examined two of the worst ones. They were old hens, but mere skin and bones. They both had apparently had the roup for months and become emaciated by it, fol- the i roup a:.ects the ufgeeti'.e organs more ouen than tho head. Not one of the fowis va3 worth keeping. Not one of :Lem would lay an ccc all winter. 1 and it is doubtful if they would ever lay. iney were returned to the farm er, who was duly indignant that his fowls were considered sick, but insist ed that they were in perfect health, he evidently thought his fowis were not sick because they did not ha e the swelled head. Tho niere fact of their mouths being full of stringy mucus told him nothing. The fact that they ate but little should have convinced him that something was wrens. This is one of the worst features of fowls troubled with roup; they eat but lit tle, as their digestion is slow, due to the inflamed condition of the mucous membrane. A healthy fowl will pack tho crop full of grain. Fci of their crops when they have retired to rest after a full supper and it will be found distended by the food. But a fowl tfcst Is only slightly atfected bv roup :j not so. If the crop be felt of at i taat time it will be found only a quar ter or half full, and frequently the pressure of the hand induces the bird to stretch its neck and gasp as if for ilr. Thi3 probably is due to tho in fhimed condition of the air lube. The farmer that had these fowls made a big show of producing egss for ealo at fancy prices. It wns supposed that he was gettJn:: inanv p? i,p ers teed th craters. There are tanners that are very careful to keep from feeding the winds, and keep their barns tight. But they do not hesitate twice a day to give their cattle icecold watefc It is not an uncommon Bight to see a cow drink three pa!ifal3 of water at a single time. When such water is at a temperature of about 32 degrees it means tl; tnft -ter so consumed -tust be raised to a temperature of over 60 degrees. In fact rs are told by idoctors that tae digestive process stops till the water has been raised to blood heat. Think of the heat necensary td raise water in a cow's stomach to. 60 cegren. Itemember that that beat nun been made by feeding the cow food that costs . great deal cf money. It is certainly much cheaper lb raise the temppraturi by means of the loose wrjci iying around the farm that cost nothing but the effort to gather it. To build a fire for the heating of water on a cold day is a pleasing operation, if the heat from the fire reaches the cows and other stock it will prove a pleas ing operation to them as well as to the farmer. The only cost is therefore the brst cot for a boiler. But these may be purchased at almost any price. The well-to-do fBrmer that can afford to purebas to suit his convenience and fancy can pay a high price if he wants to. If not, he can do as the humbler farmer will moat likely do purchase a good boiler at a moderate price. The saving in cost Of feed will prove a big interest on the investment Remem ber this, that whereas a farmer may lose feed on account of cold winds, yet there are many warm, sunny days In winter, whrn he trill lose little,jn thi3 way. But the man that loses feed on account of icy water must expect that loss overy day in the winter season, ior the water supply does not change its temperature as often as the air, nor dees it respond quickly to the change in temperature. It is hidden away in the ground, locked up with the frost, or waiting in ice caves. When the warm days in winter come the ice and snow zaelt and make still colder these waters. All of these are to be drank by the stock. If we were to figure on the matter, we would say that a full sized cow would lose several cents per day if allowed to drink ice cold water. When we consider that many farmers have all the way from twenty to a hun dred cows we can see what a great loss he must face during an entire winter reason. Dairymen especially should see that their cows have, for drinking purposes, only water that has been raised to a suitable temperature. limz WAS BBAVE. WENT INTO THE CUBAN CAMP OF DREAD. Wm on a MlUioa of Peace; bat It TTa tnly of Uie Brand Teculter to Spain Killed by the BcbeU Well Known In Tnla Country. IEUTENAKT COL ONEL JOAQUIN RUIZ; the Spanish peace envoy who was pat to death by the Cubans recent ly, was well known to Cubans in Nj-.v York. He wa3 a resident of Havana and had held muni cipal. offices in that city, among them the chieftainship of city fire department. He was promoted" from that position to be aide-de-camp to Captain General Blanco when that soldier took charge of affairs in the Cuban capital. Ruiz knew Colonel Aranguren. In fact, tho two men were warm personal friends before the rebellion. Aranguren had been an employe of Ruin when the latter b'ecri Ji&d lliS post of manager of the Vento waterworks. These things determined General Blanco in his selection cf an emissary to hold out peace proposals to the rebels. Ruiz sent a letter to his friend telling him the nature of the mission he was about to undertake, and the young Cuban colonel in his re ply warned the Spaniard that any mes senger from the hated power would be killed. He further told Ruiz that if he came to him in that role he would be hanged. Aranguren's father and sis ter, who are in the United States, say that they have letters from the young colonel in which he declares that Spain cannot tempt him. There now seems to be no doubt as to the fate that ov ertook his old friend. Colonel Ruiz -" . . m compelled to plaw all thtlr feofe nAMPFTRTT. SUTFTrOTrQ "e fagg-a and gyrated like ; joa a single old side-wheeled crer, UAJ!irjJliU!' oAJULdiJLB. y ho iaJ' pni i la gut in seciioss ai ntisovrg-ana alter - tgbsp6rtati6h ifi spiral t Brie, GOOD SHORT STORIES FORTH! fwmched at Erie over fifty-three years J Veterans. b., Since that time the "Commerce of tic lakS V.ni fttirtviad that hf th tfa . .ISara, so far as American vessels are f' Joke o, Grnt-He u.e fiii ncerned anil snlPniHd tmqoIs ram- Snperlor a Cigar h't Made' Him , r.-. . ., fprable only to the trans-Atlantic rec rd Dreakers, have become numerous, it of them built In lake shipyards. Fhile the sole naval vessel has grown tterly obsolete, the revenue cutter ser vice in.ihe same waters has been Equipped with modern;fast; steel .cruis ers, having such refinement as torpedo tubes, and tbVCanadians have built a formidable fleet of patrol vessels with similarappliances. Sick A Battle Twenty Tears old. Thoofsa'd MEXICAN TOBACCO CULTURE. treat Kambcrs of Cubans Have Gone i There and Afa Batsiaa- the Vlaati Sfexican tobacco growers have lilgh hopes of profit from the misfortunes of Cuba, and hot from her misfortunes alone, but from the exhaustion of her soil. Great numbers of Cubans have gone to Mexico, and in the Valle Na cional and the Ozumacin district they are confident of raising the flrieat Ha vana wrappers on a marpin of ,profit that makes the Klondike seem like a stone yard. The Mexican Herald says that all the tobacco land in the Valle Nacional and one-third of the tobacco land in Ozumacin are now planted in tobacco. Wrappers that sell for 80 cents to ?1 a pound, and that rome times sell for ?1.20, can be produced, it is claimed, for 12 cents a pound, in cluding interest on the capital. The paper quotes a tobacco grower as fig uring out that 75 acres will do for 1,000,000 plants. Sixty-two and a half pounds per 1,000 plants and 1 a pound, and this would make the proceeds of seventy-five acres come to $62,500, from which it is not necessary to de duct more than 7,500 for expenses; but if th:3 allowance be increased to kept number of hens. a lares Stp! 1 &esUBlir lt was Earned that he wa Milirnl I seltsns about onc e?c Per dav. The JUili ilfti i i rCaEOa hIs llock d!d aot lal outo- A xrrckly newspaper de voted tbs best interests of COLUMBUS THE C9H3TY OF PLATTE, T&6 v i t. I 1 I l" I i I tl L 111 Ji ob'JbU Ui nouiudM Tnu UNITED STATES MB THE REST GF MANKIND The unit of measure witk ns ia 31.50 7Z YEAR, XT TAID IN ADTAXCB. But cur limit of nsefalnesa ts net prescribed bv dollars and cents. Maniple copies sent free to anv address. HEKRY GASS, Sl Sl&t&t (- I 1 tJSW -- rr- U2St:de:rtlK:;e:r i Cofi'ns : and : Metallic : Cases J ZsTlZimiriag of all kinds of Uptiol elery Ccods. COLr USES. XEDRASKA. j-tr THE ..- . icts me lact mat roup was widely prevalent among them. He said that he had left the care of his fowls to the hired man, to whom he had given In structions to notify him when any thing was the matter with the hens. It is altogether probable that the hired man did not know. If he noticed them at all he merely said to himself that the birds had a slight cold, not worth reporting, of course. The roun will cat up the profits from the best fleck of fowls that ever lived, it must be watched for and fought. When it ap pears it must be eradicated, it is ex tremely contagious and we do not be lieve there is any cure for it. This year it seems to be more thpn usuallv prevalent. Probably it is more to be feared than any other disease. It mav be considered mere dangerous to the profits of the poultry raiser than even cholera. When the latter disease comes its makes its presence known oy its work of death. The keeper at once takes measures to combat it. But it is net so with the roup, it creeps into the flock and develops very grad ually. Most farmers do not suspect its presence. It does net swell the head except in some cases. The fowls run about and often their ccmbs remain bright and healthy looking for months. We have seen fowls that had it so bad taat canker sores formed in their mouths and yet they did not appear sick, their combs showing all the in dications of health. So the farmer sus pects nothing, while the disease is spreading from fowl to fowl till all are infected. After awhile one or two fall suddenly sick with diarrhea or their heads swell up. The farmer inquires and is told that the trouble is roup and that he can cure it by using such and such means. He goes to work and very likely reduces the swelled heads, and thinks he has cured his bird. Very likely he writes to the farm rapcr telling of his success in curing roup. But he has not cured it. He may have separated the bird from the rest to prevent farther infection, but he did not pre-, ent further infection for the reason that the fiock has been al ready infected. His battle with roup will have only begun, as fowl after towi will ultimately fall sick. Corn as a Ponltrr Fet: Much hac bebn said for and against cnln as a feed for laying hens, chick ens, etc. New corn is a good general poultry feed and a cheap one no doubt as well. It is the staple diet of farm poultry, but all this dce3 not disprove the well-known fact that corn is not well balanced and need3 bran, oats, wheat, linseed meal and other feeds to balance it and supply the protein which tho corn lacks. Farm poultry does well in summer upon corn alone, simply because they have the run of the farm, can forage about, get insects, clovers and grasses to supplement their corn diet But in case of birds Closely pcnr.d ic is different, and in the win ter season the poultry keeper must pay more attention to supplying a variety. Feed lean meat, freshly cut green bone, clover, cabbage, wheat, bran, oats and linseed meal to make with corn a round system cf rations to supply every need. It is, of csurse, unnatural for hens to lay freely in the late fall and early winter months, yet this Is just the time we want eggs to get good prices. Mani festly we are to take special pains to get laying hens at this season. We j must hatch cur chicks in good season in spring, keep them growing well without any breaks; feed them from chickcuhood upon egg-producing foeds; get them started laying before very cold weather and then take all pains lo keep them laying by feeding warm mashes in the morning and giv ing liberal rations of animal food. It is quite a business, this getting plenty of eggs in winter and is certainly well worth studying in order that one may become a master cf this sort of craft. Farm poultry too often suffers from the evil effects cf close in-breeding. This occurs by the farmers neglecting to send off the farm to secure a male bird to head the breeding flock. It will not do to pick out the "likeliest" young male raised upon the farm to breed from, and follow such a practice year after year. Send off and buy, or trade for, a cockerel every year or two to infuse fresh blood into the poultry stock This is important. Be satisfied oniy with the best blooded poultry to be obtained. Have thincs corresnond. for upon a farm where blooded horses, cattle, sheep or swine are raised It does not seem consistent to keep a lot of mongrel, nondescript hens. Get some thoroughbred poultry that not only looks well, but dce3 well. Do not de spise the hen, for she asks no favors and will pay a good margin cf profit when more pretentious stock is doing nothing but eating. WM. P. TERKINS. The Monad by tbe Lakew HE grass shall never forget this crave. When homeward footing It In tha stifl After the .weary" ride by rail, , The stripling soldier passed her door. Wounded per chance, or wan and pale. She left her house h o 1 d work un done Duly thewaysldVtatrte spread. With evergreens Shaded, to regal Each travel-spent and grateful one. So wann her heart childless unwed. Who line a mother comforted. A Battle 20,000 Teara Ag& Twenty thousand j-aers ago, accord ing to the announcement of Prof. Wal ters, the arcliaeoiogist, a terribla nal tl wa? foyght on the Arkansas rive?, in the Indian teir!t'"-yl between the mound builders and the Maya3, in which over 75,000 warriors Dit the dust, says the Detroit Free Press. He has reached this remarkable conclu sion on, account of his investigation of a prehistoric burying ground in the Choctaw Indian country, which hd.fi'ag found to cover thirty acres and to contain fully 75,000 skeletons. His at tention was first called to the remark able number of human skeletons to be found there several months ago, when the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf railway was built through the Choctaw country. The workmen, In grading, brought to light tons of human bones and A remarkable number of imple ments of savage warfare, and Prof. Walters set about to lntetiKate the matter scientifically. To his amaze ment he found a large tract literally underlaid with these relics of a forgot ten race. The skulls were pierced with darts or arrow heads, dfla speci men containing thirteen moss agate arrow points. This proved that they died in battle. The skeletons Were found buried in sand and above the sand were two distinct strata formed in geological periods. These facts en abled Prof. Walters to compute approx imately the period when the battle occurred. He has completed the facts just learned with the result of seven teen years' previous study of the mound builders, and formed the theory that the battle was one of a long series of sanguinary encounters be tween that mysterious race and the Mayas, which latter race came from Central and South America and sought to gain possession of North America. COL. RUIZ. was admired for his gallantry, and he went to his death fully aware of the awful risk he ran. WARSHIP ON THE LAKES. is GOlDIDt Journa is FasrjinrD to rcnsisn astthecq StyCIKED OF A ill I m OFFIC TJ PEST PAPERS COUNTRY. prooaoie taat seme fowls have enough vitality to resist the disease, but of this we are not certain. Closer obser vation must be toliowed if the trouble is to be avoided. Wsrmla; fhpco Tr-sicr zot SCeefc. in these times It is necessary that ihe farmer should watch evcrv item of expenditure and husband every re source. There is an old saying "that "the little foxes spoil the vines." This means that little things if unnoticed cause great losses and often result in financial ruin. There are on the farm many leaks through which go out the hard earnings cf the farmer. More than any ether, the loss from lost heat should be guarded against. Heat costs money. Every unit of heat costs some thing, according to the food from which it is made. We may say then that heat is money. To save the Ices of this heat is to save money, for it will save food. Some farmers feed the" winds as well as their stock. Every loose board on a barn is a means by which the farmer feeds the wind. That is, the coM niches away the heat from the bodies of his animal. More arm- "Wood Asbcj for Potato?. Of the fertilizers that can be secured on the farm unleachcd wood ashes make one of the very best that can be used with potatoes, writes N. J. Shep herd in Nebraska Farmer. They can be applied in the hill or in the furrow broadcast, but it will be an exceptional case when a sufficient quantity can be secured to apply broadcast over the surface. Fcr this reason applying in the hill will provo most economical. The ground can be prepared in a good tilth all ready for planting and the fur rows run out and then a small quan tity of ashes dropped where each hill is to be planted and stirred in the soil and upon this the rc?d can be dropped an covered. Potatoes require potaih and phosphoric acid and this can be supplied with unleached wood ashes, wane uust or ooae mcai or in a com mercial fertilizer with less waste than in almost any other way. If farm or stable manure is used it should always be well rotted and fined and then thor oughly incorporated with the soil, if fresh manure is used the application should be made in the fall or early winter and worked well into the solL My experience is that applying fresh manure to the soil just before planting furnishes conditions favorable to the development of scab and also in many cases produces a fungy growth ot tn-ter3. Valuable birds Gold, irgleft. tVby Commander IJusli Favors a Suc cessor to the Michigan. The proposition to build a modern aaval cruiser for duty in patrolling the great lakes in place of the antiquated Michigan, is again energetically agitat ed in the navy department and strong pressure is being brought to bear ca congress for an appropriation and the requisite authority, says the New York Tribune. The plan has been set in motion by Commander Richard Rush of the frigate Michigan, who is in Washington for examination for pro motion, which he successfully passed. He is the grandson cf that Richard Rush who was secretary of the treas ury from 1S25 to 1S29, after having been attorney-general from 1S14 to 1S17, and who is famous for having made the Rush-Bagot arrangement for the limitation of the British and American naval forces on the great lakes. Commander Rush, with the ex perience of a long cruise in command of the only warship in these waters, has not proposed to abrogate the con vention made by his distinguished an cestor, but he is none the less reso lute in his belief that conditions have changed materially since 1S17 and that a fairer distribution of the defense work of the government to afford pro tection to vast inland commerce and municipal wealth is not oniy advisable but essential to the common welfare. In long talks with Secretary Long and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, Mr. Rush gave those officials considerable valuable information regarding the re markable awakening of naval interests in the ports visited by the Michigan, due, in a measure, to the excellent ex hibition of the Illinois, Michigan and Ohio naval militia battalions, which equal similar organizations on the sea coast as military auxiliaries. New di visions of the state maritime reserves are in process of formation at Buffalo, Milwaukee and other points, while those at Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Toledo are rapidly growing in strength and efficiency. The men en listed in these divisions of the auxil iary would prove invaluable in time of trouble, not by assimilation into the regular service, but as" an adjunct to the army and navy. But in addi tion to this Mr. Rush says that ali tha maritime, commercial and ether pa triotic people in the states-bounded by the lakes are enthusiastic for adequate naval protection to the enormous in terests amassed in the last twenty 512,500, the seventy-Jive acres would afford a net profit of 150,000. Thts profit ought to satisfy tre most exact ing, but the area of choice tobacco land is quite limited, and most of It 13 al ready devoted to that crop, so that ev eryone should not rush immediately to Mexico to grow tobacco. Tobacco is hard on the soil, and there is piob ably truth in the complaint of Cubans in Mexico that ar home the soil ts wearing cut and requires expensive fer tilization, which is not now needed In Mexico. THE NEW CARVING TABLE. One of the most ingenious devices for an up-to-date housekeeper is this little carving table. These caning tables are made a fraction lower than the dining table, so they are perfectly con venient to carve upon without rising, and can be lifted to the carver's side just before the roast is brought in; then, by slightly turning, the carving is dene and the centerpiece and table JUST FOR THE ROAST. decorations are left spotless, to the madam's great satisfaction. Government and Private Citizen. To what extent the government touches the private life of a citizen of the United States is shown in a very striking way by Professor Eugene Wambaugh, of the Harvard Law School, in an article in the Atlantic Monthly. From the time that a man rises, all through his business and so cial activity cf the day until he goes to bed again, the government touches him at every step, providing for him, regulating him, telling him what he may- end what he may not do, until there seems hardly the necessity to dis enss increasing the scope of govern ment, so rapidly is it becoming wider and wider under tbe natural tendency of the times. Satan What's the matter down here? Belzebub Oh, this foolish fiend tackled that half-bank and triaA t year and it is extremely humiliating rush him into the lake of tin. Judj Sheridan's Joko on Grant. From the New York Sun: They had "done" Florida that is, as much of the peninsular state as people gen erally managed to see seventeen years ago, and the party, composed cf Gen eral Grant, General Sheridan, their wives, two nieces of Mrs. Grant, the secretary, Byron Andrews, and a soli tary artist, had just voyaged down the gulf coast, stopping for an evening's "send-off," and a very lively time it was, at Key West, and now they were domiciled in Havana. Grant's perpet ual cigar was a pillar of cloud early in the morning and a twinkle of fire late at night. The Cuban colony of cigar-makers at Key West had stored their staterooms full of their choicest goods, while the famous manufactur ers of Havana had all brought out special brands, sending sample hun dreds to the palace for the approval of the two famous soldiers. It would have been a breach of etiquette to keep a check upon one's smoking under such tempting conditions. So the American visitors puffed away at countless incomparable cigars while the gayly clad officers of the palace household rolled their cigarettes and wondered how long the famous smok er could keep it up. Presently there came a day when the program included a visit to the lofty fortress of Cabanas, over the bay. The heavy state barges rowed the bril liant little party across the breezlcss harbor, and, oh! it was hot. They climbed the zig-zag path which leads up to the portal cut into the grim front of the great military prison, which was, even then, nearly filled with prisoners of state. They were shown through courts, deep, dark pas sageways, parades, barracks and pris ons, which fill the whole vast interior of this great, gloomy, terrible place. General Pocurul, then commandant ot Cabanas, paraded the troops with a fine fanfare from a bugle squad, and then lunch was served at headquar ters, high up on the battlements, com manding a grand view of the city and village-dotted country, which in "those days presented a prosperous and beau tiful appearance. General Grant saw everything and smoked on faithfully. He noted that of the hundreds of can non planted everywhere, from the water batteries beneath the palms far below, up along the precipitous slopes to the crest of the walls cf CaLanr., nearly all were of antique model and interior canuer, practicauy useless in modern demonstration, but over upon Monro's walls, half a mile away, as they were told, there were rows of big new guns, especially just to the right or eastward of the castle. And so hav ing shown an interest In the matter. the party must go over to Morro, trav ersing covered ways and long open spaces in the noonday heat. AH mignt have gone well, however, but, unhap pily, Grant ran out of cigars. He searched despairingly through his sun dry pockets, but. alas! all in vain. Then came Sheridan's opportunity, the chance he had been waiting for, after a long and varied experience of Grant's marked fondness for telling army yarns at bis expense. He had a cigar. It was not particularly large or obstrusive, just a regular Al Havana, but oh! it was black and rich and wicked looking. Sheridan had been shown through a tobacco factory the previous day. While he waited this cigar was made for him, and he carefully put it away and smiled a contented little smile. So General Grant, with a deep, happy sigh of relief, touched a match U General Sheridan's, and Sheridan a bad little on hia teacher's chair. It tcoS little lime for the strongest cigar evef Sskte fa Cuba to get In its deadly work upOfi i well-seasoned old smoker like Grant, and Sheridan began to grow despond ent, but joy once more suffused his rugged but rubicund features as he saw his old commander, with a pallid face, talking hnrrid!y with the in terpreter, a, funny mixture of English and West Point Spanith. and a mo ment later he collapsed in the shade of a wall. There was Instant alsrni among all who gathered around, and even the jolly Sheridan got a bit rattled at his own success, but he cisly winked solemnly at the secretary and said 'Tel 'em to keep quiet and give him air. He'lf be all right in five minutes. I thought it would fetch him." Grant was all right, Indeed, as soon as he got up among the jumble of de fenses at the top of Morro castle, where the cool sea winds blew some of that nicotine out of his lungs, and he gazed at Sheridan with a deep Indigo look of suspicion, but he smoked no more until the next morning. t. - A Sikh Jteglment oa Parade. A Sikh regiment on parade 13 a spectacle which offers some' points cf difference when contrasted with mast European armies witfi which the un professional observer may be famil iar. When fifs seen in the distance they present the appearance of a long scarlet band of uniform thickness,- sup ported by slender black lines; as they approach they are seen to be unusual ly tzll, black-bearded fellows uni formed in red linfcs, And with great red turbans which increase their ap parent height, while close-fitting black gaiters accentuate the thinness of their legs. Whoever has watched the drill of the Grenadier Guards in London may form an idea of the precision which seems to be the standard of the sikbs. They may be, perhaps, a chade more rigid in their "good form," with an appearance of greater effort, due to the fact that European discipline is as yet t them like a strange garment to the wearer. Tho observer will not be clow in realizing that he has before him not only a different race, but . different species of the human animal. As in Europe there does not exist at the" present day a strictly military caste, the conscripts who people the casernes are drawn at haphazard from Workshops, farms, and from the slums of cities, and do not impress one, save in the case of a few bodies of men, as having any special aptitude for the calling of arms. These men, tall, sinewy and Rthletic, supple and feline in their movements, are evidently endowed with a peculiar fit ness for their vocation, and look as if little were needed to arouse their traditional instincts. In the average regiments of the Punjaub no men are taken under five feet six inches in height, and thirty-three inches around the chest; in some regiments none un der five feet seven; but judging from the strapping fellows in the Sikh regi ments, their standard must be still higher. Although the Pathans and Sikhs arc usually given the first rank fcr soldierly qualities and bearing, the "Goorkahs," of Mongolian race, from the hills of Nepal and Assam, are nearly if not quite as efficient. E. L. Weeks. MISS FAY FULLER SHE IS HARBOR MISTRESS OP TACOMA CITY. Baa Jut st1r Mm Apalata to Fill That Important OaWa Got Mar Flrmt Public EsparlMc t Kaportor oa a Xewsoaper. . 4 FEW years agc Miss Fay Fuller of Tacoma, Wash., won distinction among mountain climbers to be the first cf her sex to !hc? ascend Mount Ta- - a coma In Washing,- ! Thn fnlfnn; fctAJ. m ... mrur ing year the adven- " - turous spirit cf tbl-i same woman led her to remain alone. alLmignt an Island In a, -volcanic lake in Oregoa, Mine Fuller nfrf comes into prominence again by being appointed harbor mistress of Tacomn. She is the only Woman in! the worUI filling such a position. Among. Mlsa Fuller's duties will be the keeping, oi all records pertaining to the skipping; business of the city. The tonnage '. all vessels must be recorded, together with the names of their masters and their destinations. This will be no small task, as Tacoma'a exports were 53.S21.813 and her imports I5.S9S.375 during the last fiscal year, according to government customs house reports for the Puget Sound district. The sal ary of Tacoma's harbor master Is f75 per mdhth, and the fees collectcl amount to many times that amount Each day the harbof master muat re port the business done and deposit the money collected with the City treas urer. Miss Fuller is a newspaper womait by profession. When hither the ships' and steamers have arrived at tbe pert of Tacoma from the four corners of tho world Miss Fuller, as a reporter, has been In the habit of boarding them ia quest of news. Now she will be au thorized to demand, in the name of tbo city of Tacoma, that certain informa tion be given her should the sailorman prove reticent or non-communicative. Miss Fuller became acquainted with the duties of harbor master through her reportorial work. She has been of great assistance to the former har bor master, Henry G. Hoflin. in mak ing up his voluminous reports, and when he became incapacitated through sickness she was appointed to fill his place. The necessity for filling the place" immediately was the collection of uiies from come of the shlp3 and steam ers thafc k?tl made use of the city's facilities. Bliss Fuller knew how to make the collections APd was intrusted Bismarck's Contempt of Man. Herr Rudolph Lindau, cne of Prince Bismarck's most trusted subordinates, who has for many years been chief of the press department of the foreign of fice, has just published a very inter esting article about Bismarck, for which he has been collecting material since he entered the foreign office in 1S78, says tho London Standard. I quote his remark on Prince Bismarck's contempt of mankind: "The begging letters addressed to a man like Prince Bismarck number thousands. Some time ago, when he was ill at Varzin, all the letters ad dressed to him that were not of a strictly private nature were sent back to Berlin to be read and answered there. The majority of them contain ed 'most obedient' requests, but hard ly one of the writers had any claim on the prince. One of the officials whose business It was to read these letters an orderly man and evidently a lover of statistics amused himself by drawing up a list of all the peti tions for money. The total amount cf the sums begged for was 10,000,000 marks. The prince did not laugh when this was told him, but shrugged hi3 shoulders and put en a look of bit ter contempt. On the other hand, it is natural that quiet, decent, self-respecting people, who ask nothing of him and do not wish to trouble him with their private affairs, never come in contact with him unless they stand in seme ofiicial relation to him or have real busines to transact with him. So it is quite natural that he see3 a great deal cf the low side cf human nature, and it is hardly surprising that he is said to have become skeptical, and even misanthropic. His experience show that human beings, as a rule a rule to which there are, happily, many exceptions do not possess prop er pride; that they arc disposed to abase themselves on account cf mere trifles; that there are many braggarts among them, and that these braggarts are easily duped. Prince Bismarck is certainly well aware that there are many very honorable people in the world, but experience has taught him mat it is his ill luck to have inter course with a comparatively small number of them. He clings firmly to the few men and women he trusts, be cause he knows them to be his true friends: but he is suspicious cf stran gers. His first thought when he sees a new face may naturally be: 'Well, what does this man want of rae'' i ma explains way be is generally fear ed, though his intimate friends warmly testify to his friendliness and amiability." FAY FULLER. -w with the municipal vouchers and col lection books inside of ten seconds after being cloaked with authority to act as harbor mistress by Mayor A. V. Fawcett. HUNTED IN AFRICAN JUNGLES- Young EngUshwomaa Who Has Bagged Rhinoceroses and Leopard. Mrs. J. Bennett Stanford ia a hand some young Englishwoman who has just been engaged in slaughtering rhinoceroses, tigers, leopards an.! ether wild animals of the African jungles. Mrs. Stanford is said to be the first white woman who has ever hunted in Somaliland, a very rough; and little explored country In the east of Africa. She spent four months la this country. During her absence it was reported that she and her party had been massacred by the natives, who have been greatly excited by the fighting in Abyssinia, where Africans have defeated large armies of regular European soldiers. Many of her friends gave her up for lost, but she reappeared in London, looking very well and strong. Mrs. Stanford was most successful la shooting leopards. Night after night she would go cut for them, attended only by a couple of natives, and she seldom returned empty-handed. On one occasion she and her husband were charged by a young rhinoceros while in a narrow path, but a shot from Mrs. Stanford's express rifle stopped him before the animal was near enough to harm them. At times they suffered severely from the heat, but. with the exception of some slight attacks of fever, Mrs. Stan ford bore the trying climate well. All the natives were found to be most friendly en their journey. It was their intention to go into Abyssinia, but the British resident at Aden issued a per emptory order forbidding them, and that portion of their journey was aban doned. Mrs. Stanford's most remark able feat was the shooting of a great two-horned rhinoceros. It was an ad venture which nearly cost the hunt ress her life, and it is believed that no woman has ever achieved so great a hunting exploit a3 this. Among the animal3 they brought back with them were three wildcats, one of which is cow in the London Zoo. The Spider's Thread. An eminent naturalist says that ev ery thread of what we call the spider's web is made up cf about five thousand separate fibers. If a pound of this thread were required it would occupy nearly twenty-eight thousand spiders a full year to furnish it. The author of this statement docs not inform us how long the thread would be, but It Is safe to say thr-t it would reach sev eral times around the universal world, J Another 'ame for It. "Your remarks are ill-timed," said the landlady to the frivolous boarder; "you should remember that there is a time for everything." "Yes," replied the boarder, "and I guess this Is the time; but I never did care for hash." Titled Leaden Cheese Dealer. The earl of Harrington, who has been running a fruit store In London, at which he sells the product of hia gardens, has now added to it a cream cheese branch. F5i-- i-f AT --- S .U. ,j-T4 -.- ni -." -ar;"&s. -j4 . 'rt ' csJSh afirVn-a - -att-jt . i
