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Bat fir’s Dailter.
By GENEVIEVE IH-MATt,
Author of “A Weird Wedding N.ght, ' “Tlm
Love of Her Life,” “The Stolen Bride
groom /• “Cruel ft* the Grave,”
•‘Her Wedding Hight,”
Etc., Etc, Eto.
OHAITEU IX*
AI'TKU THE VthfEHAl*
When Oiulio entered the undertaking
establishment h - was unuwaro of the fact
that watchful eyes were upon him, and that
Mr. Elliott had followed him quietly into
the place.
His mind was absorbed in his mission,
end he at once addressed a man seated at a
desk, who seemed to bo in charge of the
place, and to whom ho made known his
DueinesH.
The mnn listened curiously and the i
gravely to his simple story, and then said
m a kindly tone of voioe:
“Yes, my littlo man, your sister’s body
was brought hero and placed in a ch-up
coffin, to be buried to-morrow. The city
requires that we take obarge of all tho pau
per dead at once, and wo brought her here
Emmediat ly after the inquest.
“She is no pauper,” choked out Giulio,
■obbingly. “The city shall not bury
See, sir; I have money, my savings for over
a year, nearly forty dollars, and I wish to
have her buried from tho house of a friend,
a Miet Lucia, and to have ilowers, and car
riages, and a grave of her own."
Tears of honest svrapathv came to tho
undertaker's eyes as poor Giulio revealed
his plan for giving his dead Bister a decent
burial.
The boy had counted out his money on
the desk before tho man. Th latter
promised to see that a proper robe and
casket, Dowers, and a hearse and carriage
were supplied, and that the body should be
sent to Miss Lucia’s home.
He tried to force a ]>ortion of the money
back upon Giulio, although tho entire
amount did not nearly represent the value
of the casket alone, but the boy strenu
ously refused to take it.
He had completed the last arrangement
for the funeral on ttto morrow, when both
himself and the undertaker started in some
surprise.
Mr. Elliott, au interested and affected
spectator of the entire soene, had revealed
himself.
Tears choked his voice ns ho sought to
vpeak. His hand resting tenderly on the
head of Giulio, ho said in broken tones:
“Do not take his money. This boy’s
sister shall have a ! l he desires in the way of
a funeral, and I will pay for it.”
"No, no.” began Giulio, and then he
Erased abruptly as he recognized Mr.
lliott as the father of the little girl he
rescued from the runaway that day.
"You remember MA*?” said Mr. Elliott,
•then you know how much I owe you. My
poor boy, heaven will bless your nobleness
of spirit, and you shall never need a friend
while 1 am near you.”
“But I must pay for little Teresa’s fu
neral, ” murmured Giuiip. “See, sir; it is
the last kindness I can show her.”
Mr. Elliott saw that Giulio’s heart was
•et on having his own way, and demurred
no farther.
But before they left the plac he man
aged to speak confidentially to the under
taker, and ordered him to make the burial
as beautiful as money could provide.
When they left the store lie insisted on
Giulio accompanyinghiin to an hotel near
by.
There in the sitting-room he listened to
all the sad story of his life.
Giulio had but to glance at his kindly,
sympathetic face to know that he had found
a true, earnest friend.
When they parted, Mr. Elliott informed
Giulio that iie would see him on the mor
row, and that after the funeral he wished
to see him to make arrangement® for the
future.
“My boy,” he said, feelingly, “you saved
the life of my only chilV to-la.y, and you
have andeare I yourself •strangely to me by
your devotion to your dead sister. Out of
all my wealth you must let me do some
thing to make your life happier. ”
That night the silent form of little
Teresa, enc ised in a beautiful casket, was
sent to Miss Lucia’s home.
All that night, too, the motionless form
had earnest watchers, whoso hearts were
lightened in the prepara
tions for the funeral were made.
For all that money or love could procure
to rob death of its iideousness surrounded
little Teresa.
She looked as if asleep, w’ifh flow rs in
ner folded hands. iter mourners iou
heart as a clergyman 1 nt by Mr. Elliott
pronounced a beautiful eulogy on the dead
Xvo carriages follow .1 the body lo the
g TaV( . Xn the second ono Wan Mr. Elliott
and little Mabel.
The last words were spoken as the cas
ket was hidden from view in tho dark and
•ilent grave, the dreary ride homo ter
minated, and the real loneliness of life
came over Giulio’s mourning spirit.
Mr. Elliott had informed him that he
would call that evening to talk with him
about his future plans.
Miss Lucia had asked him to do an er
rand for her to a neighboring store, and
grew somewhat anxious as an hour passed
by and he did not return.
She wag in a wild tlntter of suspense
when Mr. Elliott appeared and asked for
Giulio.
She told him of Giulio's strange ab
sence, and w ith a clouded face the wealthy
banter left the place.
“The padrone he told me about must
have reg lued possession of him," mur
mured Mr. Elliott. “I will soon dissolve
the spell of his power.” And he proceeded
straight to tho padrone's home, the location
of which Giulio hud made known to him
in their interview the evening previous.
A terrible surprise awaited him when he
reached the place. A crowd was gathered
about tho doors, and from the enoted
throng the banker learned of the death of
the padrone.
“Have yon seen the boy who lived with
him to - day - “ he askud hia informant of
the particulars of Santo’s death.
“Yes; he's been arrested.”
“What for?” asked Mr. Elliott, with a
■tart, fearful that in some way Giulio might
be concerned in the tragedy.
“Oh, Santo wanted to get him baok toi
running away, and made complaint against
him to the police before he died. ”
“Then he is at the police station?’’
“Yes.”
Mr. Elliott was soon at the police station
His wealth and influence soon gained him
an interview with the oilicer in charge.
He exnlained that bv the nadrone ° •laois
the complaint against Giulio, whether true
or false, would never lie brought to trial.
A few minutes later Giulio "as released,
and was shocked and amazed to hear of
Santo’s retributive death.
Thev stopped at Miss Lucia’s humble
home for a few moments.
“You can bid your kind friend good-by
for a time, Giulio. said the banker to his
companion.
Giulio looked s( mewhat surprise' l
l so go witn you, Mr he
asked.
“If you will, yes, my boy. I will make
your life a useful and happy one if you
will let me."
“Oh, sir, I am unworthy nil the trouble
you are taking for me. ’
“No; it will make my own life happ or
to rescue you from the dark past. You wiii
come to my home its welcome guest. 1
will send you to school, and later give yon
a position in the bank. I'or your dear sis
ter's sake yon must make a mau of yourself."
“In Teresa’s dear name I promise to be
true to her memory and tine to mvself al
ways,’’ replied Giulio, solemnly.
There was a tender parting between Miss
Lucia and Giulio,
When Mr. Elliott left her humble home,
he left behind a bank-note on the table to
lighten the poor dressmaker’s labors.
That night in the banker's elegant man
sion, with little Mallei for an inter* sted
auditor. Mr. Elliott told Giulio of the plans
khe had form'd for his welfare.
A The day followfiig Giulio, under the
klndl direction of bln new friend, ■torted
for a boarding-school aorne miles from the
city.
“You must stuny hard to prepare your
self for the duties of life," said the banker
as they parted
For all its cores and troubles, 100, he
might have added.
For although neither knew it, down tho
ahadowod road of tho future was waiting
for (iiulio as stra go and stormy a destiny
as mortal being ever knew.
CHAPTER X.
SIX YKAHS I.ATM
One beautiful summer evening, six years
after the ooevrencM of the eveutN detailed in
th last ohapter. a seem was transpiring at
a fashionable summer resort, located about
a hundred miles from tho great city where
(Siiibo had passed his early boyhood, which
had mu* li t • do with himself and those
whose friendship he had gamed iu the hour
of his darkest adversity.
A broad, deep river, fringed with a lux
urious growth of flower, troo and under
brush, retieotod the flashing lights from a
pretentious hotel located on its banks.
Within sight of its illumination, almost
within bearing of the music which filled
its spacious parlors, at a point on the
moonlit landscape where th‘ stream curved
to the pictur -s.jiio waterfall half a mile
below, sat two men.
They had selected a grassy plot, from
whence n u interrupted view of the river
ndings was pi duly visibl ■,
and tho younger of tho two, a handsome,
atbbdie fellow of not more than twenty
years, with absorbed gaze semed drink
ing in rapturously the beauties of the rare
and radiant scene.
Ilia < oinpuiion, who was 'Omewhat older,
was a young man, but his face had not
the frank, ho cst expression of that of his
companion. Weakness of will and vacil
lating imi pose showed plainly in the lines
of bis :arr and at times, too, a crafty, dis
siit l glow illuminated his restless, ever
shifting eyes.
A lovely night, and a lovely scene, a
port and artist’s ideal, if there ever was
one. poke tho younger man, suddenly
arousin'* from his contemplation of the
ait ro lin ■ "Come, Mu my.
you seem immersed in your somber moods
again."
The tone was light, careless, hearty. It
showed that the abstraction of its posses
sor was that of reverb*, w hile the silence
of the man he designated as Marcy, os ovi
denced by his sulh n, lowering face and
bent, scowling 1 ws, was indicative of
moody, unpleasant thought.
The latter started at his companion’s
words, and a feigned or real smile crossed
liis face.
"You were dreaming yourself, Elliott, ’’
ho remarked
“ Who wouldn’t, with such a scone before
him? Hut I was looking at tho landscape.
You w*re wrapped up in yourself. Soine
tiin s I am tempted to believe, Marcy, that
you’ve got a very dark corner in your mind,
haunted by an inmate that worries you."
Giulio Elliott's voi e was only half-serious,
but he was entirely so as he glanced
t aichingly at Marcv’s face.
I ho latt r evidently did not appreciate
his discernment, for ho said almost irri
tably:
“Well, well, don’t allude to it? I have
memories that are bitter and resentful,” he
confessed, “but they don’t quite make life
unbearable. I wasn’t thinking of that just
now. ’’
“What then?” demanded Giulio, curi
onsly.
"Of the gay, butterfly life some people
I'xperiruc ■, while I lead a career thnt is dull
uud dreary as that of a hermit Just hear
tin music youder! see tho llittinß forms,
ni h 1 r the merry laughter! What care
-1 -s enjoyment wealth may know' Ah! if
I ' on id only gain it, if I could live a few
y, ars in the j vous. happy whirl of society
nod mom 7. I'd give the remaining forty I
nia \ drag out, poor and obscure, willingly."
ills voice was earnest, yet hitter. Iu un
aOectcd surprise, t.iu!io regarded his com
puuion fixedly.
“Well, well, Marcy!” he jeered gayly, “I
never dr, amed this ot you. The quiet,
rtveumspect record cleric of the university,
,n envious worshiper of tho follies of so
ciety and the fleeting benefits of money!
>mv, old frieiul, contests, it's only amor
>id emotion that temporarily possesses
rou?”
Giolio’s soothing words did not have
:l.e deseed effect on Marcy. A shade of
crossed ilia dark face,
uud its expression was sinister as he said;
Ai. .a.id ci.-rk! I "ns not always that,
nd, as I toll vou, I will not lie that ajiin.
a iu warn t for your rnoupffiuUTnetwaucr
help, I would have resented the snobbery
i of the students and the hard tasks of the
jiroiessors long since. You pitied my
triendless condition and my povery. You
oven now oiler to secure me a better po
i eition in the city.”
“Well, don’t boro me with applause,"
cried Giulio lightly. “You’re a good fel
low, Marcy, and I like you, and whatever I
can do for you will go to make up for vour
helping me in my Btudies. We’ll jog along
; together for a rime, any way. We may
make something of ourselves yet.”
“We.’" emphasized Marcy. “Your lo is
oast iu far diii'erent lines from mine own,
Elliott."
“i don’t see how.”
"What! and you the nephew of the rich
banker. ”
“ He's no more my uncle than yours."
Marcy stnrod in incredulous amazement
at his companion.
"What!" he ejaculated breathlessly, “not
your uncle?"
“No!”
“But he came to see you at tho univer
sity. Everybody supposed he was your
relative "
“Everbody surmised wrongly, then. Not
but that li' has been kind as a father, dear
old Mr. Elliott!’’ continued (lin io tenderly;
“but lam ua!y a protege of his an out
cast, a pauper he picked up from tho streets
if the great city. ’
ms voice grew soft and earnest, lus man
ner subdued, as lie went over his past life
to his friend and confidant, Howard
Marcy.
With its details, when he was Giulio,
the slave of the cruel padrone, Giusippe
Bauto, the reader is already familiar.
Marcy listened with strange, rapt inter
est, as he glided from the recital of his
boyish experienoo to the brighter career
that began with his first school days.
Giulio told of being sent away to a
private school for two years, of a brief
visit to the banker’s home in the city,
where he found little Mabel as beaut'fill,
and willful, and bewitching as ever, and
then of coming to the university where
Howard Marcy was later employed in a
clerical capacity.
There was a striking contrast between the
almost sullen Marcy and Giulio's fellow
students, but the very loneliness and
friendliness of the college clerk made him
’ remember his own days of poverty and
1 suffering, and he befi i tided him in many
A week previous, Giulio had graduated
with full honors at the university, and
Marey had aided him m iterially in prepar
ing for the final examination.
Sir. Elliott, his kind-hearted patron, had
attended the closing eveiei- s of the col
lege, but had not brought Mabel with him.
Giulio had almost forgotten how she
looked, so loDg had it been since lie had
last seen her, and listened with pleasure to
the banker’s enthusiastic description of her
accomplishments and loveliness.
air. Erhott had insisted on Gluno's tak
ing a brief vacation before he came to the
city. He supplied him liberally with
money, and told him to take a two weeks’
tour of the lakes.
Then he was to return to the city, to take
a position in the bank, and begin his busi
ness career under the most flattering aus
pices.
Howard Marcv had accompanied him on
his trip, which had been quite a romantic
one. They had not sought the resorts of
fashion, but had lingered wherever nature
was at its fairest, and after a pleasant tramp
across the country had that very evening
arrived at the summer resort where they
now were, secured temporary quarters
at a modest hotel in the village, and in
tended to take the stage later for the lake,
where the midnight steamer would convey
them to the city.
All this, and much more, was developed
in their conversation for the next hour. To
Ginlio's simple story Many had listened
interestedly, but had not vouchsafed a
similar confidence regarding the past years
of his own life.
They had arisen to their feet to return to
the village, and stood at the very verge of
Ihe river, when the sound of voices en
chained their attention.
Coming from the direction of the hotel,
floating idly with the current of the stream,
was a small pleasure boat.
It contained two persons, and at them
nnobservedly Giulio and Marcv glanced
carelessly.
Tlje wtil to moonlight plainly revealed
their forms and fno< n The one was a man
not 16ns tha i forty years of nge.'with a
dark, sinister faoe that involuntarily re
elled (iiulio. he knew not why.
1 pon tin* fa 1 1 " m
tiful girl, still in her teens. Giu'io gazed
with unaffected admiration and interest
She was the loveliest woman h" had over
seen, and herspiritm 110 b auty was doubly
enhanced by the marvelous tinting of the
soft, mellow moonlight.
Wk)di I th" fur" iiltra.'l, Übj d'l IhOtt
clear, sparkling eyes touch a str ingely ro
•|K>nHivo sentiment in bis heart and seem
to awnkon a vogue, misty memory of the
far past?
II" stood riveted to tho spot in mute
contemplation of tho girl, when a sudden
cry from M trey caused him to Nfltfd that
person in (he profoundest bewilderment
ami surprise.
Ills companion had recoiled as if dealt a
suddon blow ivory vtiti •> of color had
deserted his face, and a low cry of evident
fear and dismay nurted his lips as ho gazed
transfixed upon the man in tin* boat.
Anxious to nddress him, and demand the
canse of his strange emotion, Giulio again
fixed his attention upon the inmates of the
row boat as the girl spoke.
Tho accent ’ of her clear, melodious voioe
thrilled him without his knowing why.
[TO 11K CON TIN I'fcJJ. I
SOUTHERN FARMER.
A h'RW IMPORTANT HINTS FROM
VERY PRACTICAL PEOPLE.
Noinelhtnn About Plowing Pine Itnlter—
Cotton Picking-ItuinliiH Turkey* (isinn
Fowl*, hml Chicken Cholera-
PLOW DEEP.
There is much truth in the statement
that the soil contains a large amount of
plant food locked up. llovv to get it,
how to mak' it available, is the greatest
practical problem. Draining and plow
ing under vegetable nmttT#re suggested.
Very good, so far as they go. To soils
originally rich, but exhausted by injudi
cious cultivation, rest, plowing in of veg
etable matter, deep and thorough plow
ing will bring back much of its original
fertilization, but however very large the
original quantity of plant food, it is clear
that constant removal of a part will event
ually diminish the stock. The part which
is available, is evidently removed very
soon; and the question arises, which is
cheaper t> n -dor* so in some available
form, or to unlock those in the soil which
are unavailable. The problem is not fully
solved. The probabilities arc that a
combination of both methods, is most
economical uud pays best. —Atlanta
Southern Farm.
SUPERIOR BUTTER,
That as line butter can be produced in
the South as anywhere else, has been dem
onstrated beyond a doubt. A lady friend
of ours, who lived till over twenty years
of age in the best butter couutry in the
world, had a sample of butter, lately
S resented to her, made on the farm of
Its. J. D. Tillman, Fayetteville, Term.;
and she stated that it was the finest but
ter she had tasted this side of the Atlan
tic ocean. That it reminded her of the
beautiful Scotch butter made up without
any salt in it, and known there as “fresh
oountry,” to distinguish it from the Dan
ish, Irish and American salted butters,
also sold in the British markets. Mrs.
Tillman has a herd of pure Jerseys and
her butter in fibre, color, aroma and
other qualities is equal to any we have
ever seen. —Atlanta Southern Farm.
COTTON PICKING.
The fruition of tho cotton planter’s
hope of a successful, practical machine
for gathering cotton is yet in abeyance,
and the work must still be done by nim
ble human fingers. Cotton-picking by
hand is by far the most expensive opera
tion involved in the production of raw
cotton. Moreover, the cost of nearly
every operation, except picking, may lie
reduced in proportion as the yield per
acre is greater. Mucli has been said and
written of late years about the importance
of gathering cotton free from truth, to
use tlie farmers’ vernacular. Wlule it is
desirable to house the cotton as free from
leaf and hull as may be, it is of first im
portance that the crop be “gone over” as
often as the quantity open at one time is
sufficient to enable hands to do a fair
day’s work. In the interest of economy,
and with a limited picking force, celerity
of movement, nimblemess of fingers, and
the weight of cotton gathered per hand
per day are the points to be observed.
ABOUT POULTRY.
Raising Turkeys:—A successful turkey
raiser gives the following most excellent
plan for raising turkeys: In the first
place give two grains of black pepper
when first taken off the nest, then feed
them on custard made of eggs and milk
(no sugar) until about two weeks old
After this give them egg corn bread
soaked in milk, alternated with scalded
clabber, pouring off the whey.
Game Fowls:—Mr. Dwight, of Priva
teer, B. C., takes great interest in chicken
raising; he has been raising them for
three years, and his experience is, that
game chickens are superior to the other
breeds, because they are less subject to
cholera. Last winter when this disease
visited his chickens, the game and half
game were the last to die. In the spring
of the year he raises his game chickens
off to themselves, hut keeps a game hen
or two and game rooster with his com
mon breed of chickens, and in this way
he has pure game and mixed game. In
the fall he keeps all the/ chickens in the
yard and sells the eggs. He plants rye
for his chickenß, and never feeds them on
corn, except in the winter season, when
the ground Is hard and they are not able
Jto get anything. Mr. Dwight says that
for table use and eggs he would never
swap game for any fancy breed, and lie
! thinks it would be well for every one to
have a game rooster with their chickens.
Chicken Cholera CureCopperas,
alum, sulphur, still rosin and cayenne
pepper, equal parts, pulverize and then
mix it. For a dose, take a tablespoonful
in a gallon of meal, three times a day, to
stop it. Then feed the fowls on it once
a week, to prevent it. At the same time
it is a good plan to make white oak bark
tea for them and put it iu troughs for
them to drink, except the sick ones, and
you can pour it down their throats.—
Southern Cultivator.
Poultry Breeding:—The climate of
Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, in fact
all of the Southern States which lie up
high and dry, is everything that could be
desired for poultry raising, and the only
wonder is that the farmers of the
South have been so long in finding this
out. But the old adage which says,
“better lute thau never,” will apply iu
their case, and let us, brother fanciers,
go to work with a vim and show the
Northern breeders that we can equal, if
not excel, them in the poultry business.
We now have at least five, if not more,
good, healthy poultry associations in the
South, with more iu prospect. Also, let
us lend a helping hand whenever am
wherever we can, and see that the com
ing winter poultry shows in the South
are made successful. —Atlanta Cultivator.
POISON IN MILK. .
The family of Mme. Mendez, consist
ing of herself and four children, Mrs.
( mcepion de Castra Desintre, Miss Val
t:nb. Miss V,altos and Miss Mestres, liv
ing at Havana, Cuba, were poisoned by
milk. I lie milk man left two cans of
milk as usual: and the family partook of
ihe fluid at breakfast, and were seized
with violeut attacks of vomiting soon.
Physicians weresentfor. Upon their ar
rival they found four dead and the
others dying. The man that sold the
milk, two servants and two outside per
sons tiave been arrested on a charge of
conspiraa/ to wurdw.
SEA nor MIS.
A PUi;i)\TOnY FISH WHICH
Tit A \ *'.S IV PACKS.
Th.* Dug Full -ml It- IV,-ullarlt le*—
rill. Kano or FUhi.rinon—
Tliiiir Feroolt y— Thu Dog
Flail Industry, I'Jto.
Although the animat* of land and act
differ materially in *h|>t' and appearance,
they have a certain murked resemblance
in their habits and customs, writes C. F.
Holder in Youth'* Compitnion. Thus the
birds, from the robin to the eagle, pre
sent a perfect gradation from forma of
mild and gentle disposition to those of
lien c and predatory natures. Turning
to the ocean, we find that thia is equally
true of the tishos,
Tho mullet is the robin, and tho sav
age shark tho eagle, hawk, or vulture.
So in ull groups of animals the various
families arc adapted for different paths
in life, ami some of tho comparisons that
may be drawn are most interesting and
instructive.
Among the land miirnala, the dogi and
certain members of the cat tribe, as the
hunting leopard, or cheetah, are famous
for their hunting proclivities; the wild
dogs of Australia, especially, hunting in
organized hands, and exhibiting marvel
ous skill in running down their prey.
The domestic hound performs the same
service under instruction; and, by con
tinued truining, it has attained a grade
of excellence if anything superior to that
of the wild animals, wbiose wonderful
instinct is alone the instigator of their
actions.
The peculiarity of these animals, as
has been suggested, is that they hunt in
packs; and, curiously enough, among
certain aquatic and msirine forms wo
find many similar cases. The true hounds
of the ocean arc the fishes well known on
tlie English coast 03 smooth hounds,
while the species on our khorea are called
dog-lish, from tho fact that when caught
they utter a series of croaks, that is called
barking by tho fishermen.
The dog-lish are small sharks, from
two to throe and a half feet in length,
extremely ferocious. They travel in large
packs, exactly like the hounds of the
shore, and t heir numbers and their effect
upon the fisheries arc, perhaps, little sus
pected by those not familiar with them.
While these ocean hound b are seen in
vast hordes on our own shores, they are
not to be compared with tfciose that ap
pear suddenly and without warning in
English waters, and a bay ton miles wide
has been observed almost completely
packed with dog-fish, representing un
numbered millions.
The question of tlie food inipply of such
a vast body of living creatures is a
serious one to tlie fishermen, as the edible |
fish are either devoured or driven away j
by them.
It was my good fortune, some years
ago, to witness the arrival of the dog
fish on the Maine coast. It was during
tlie month of August. Every day the
fishermen had been bringing in large
catches of hake, cod, and haddock from
the grounds about ten miles off shore,
ami tlie business was prosperous in the
extreme.
I well remember being out myself with
a crew, and with trawl and line catches
were made that tested to the utmost the
capacity of the boats.
This was on Monday. Tuesday even
ing I strolled down to the little inlet to
watch the boats come in. One by one
the boats under full sail glided in, not so
low down as usual. Investigation showed
that they were empty. In answer to my
inquiry, the reply was: “Dog fish.”
This meant that the sea-hounds were
on the scent, and had come in from the
unknown region where they spent the
winter, and that tlie fishing was over for
the time being. Not a single edible fish
was brought in. and tin; loss of hundreds
of dollars was entailed upon the fisher
men througli hooks bitten off by the fe
ferocious creatures that had charged upon
the lines, some of which were a mile long,
and bore perhaps one thousand hooks,
and which they had severed as though
the lines had been thread.
It was a gloomy outlook for the fisher
men, and the next day a complete change
of outfit was made. Wire-was above par
for ganging hooks; the village church
Btove was rendered useless, as someone
borrowed tho wire that supported the
pipe, and two days later the dogs had
“set in,” as an old Mainer expressed it,
all the fishermen were dog-fishing.
Tlie entire bay was alive with the
savage hounds, that bit at every available
object. As soon as a line was dropped
over, it was seized, and with a jerk the
croaking, barking dog-fish was swung
into the boat.
I have often held by tho line a twelve
or thirteen-foot man-eater in the South
while it was towing my boat, and seen
over the side half-a-dozen others follow
ing it along as if waiting for the moment
when their comrade in the toils should,
by a sudden turn, land me in their midst;
but I think I never experienced the same
disagreeable sensation as looking down
into the clear water off the Maine coast
and watching these hounds, so active and
ready to rush at the first object that fell
over.
They were desperate with hunger; a
fact which I proved by opening a large
number, in no case finding anything in
their stomachs. They hung about the
boats, bit at the oars, and some of the
sails that had been dragged overboard
were rent and torn by tlieir sharp teeth,
and such were their numbers that the
men had but to stand in the boats and
harpoon them as they appeared.
For weeks the dories came and loaded
to the water’s edge with these scaven
gers. The livers were sold at a cent
apiece to be tried out into oil, while the
farmers oame from far and near and car
ried off the bodies to use as dressing for
the soil.
Farther up the coast large buildings
can be seen bearing the sign, “Dog-ffsh
bought and sold,” or more commonly,
“Dog-fish factory.” There are firms who
encourage the capture of the dog-fish,
buy them by the thousand, and convert
them into guano.
The ferocity of these gigantic packs of
hounds has been shown on many an
occasion. Men have been seized by
them, and I have been told authentic
details of such attacks that exceed in
horror any tales of the man-eater shark.
Nickel.
Nickel is an elementary metal. It was
first obtained as n metal about 1751 in
Germany. But the ore hail been long
known to miners, who called it Kupfer
nickel, or Old Nick's copper, because
though it looked like copper ore, no cop
per could be obtained from it. When
pure, nickel is silvery white, and does
not oxidize or tarnish iu the air. It can
easily be hammered out into thin sheets
or drawn into wire; it is stronger than
iron, and almost as hard to melt. Its
chief use is for plating other metals, as
it gives them a beautiful, silverlike sur
face which is quite easily kept from rust
ing. It is also used in alloys. German
silver is made by taking one part nickel,
one part zinc, and two parts copper.
Our five and three cent pieces are made
of three parts t opper anil one part nickel.
Nickel is found in many parts of the
world, but the principal mines are in
Russia, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Eng
land and Scotland. In this country it is
found in the States of Pennsylvania and
Connecticut. — Inter-Ocean.
Professor Neumayer, of Hamburg,
urges tiie necessity of antarctic explora
tions, laying special stress on its import
ance for geology and paleontology. He
anticipates that it will show that the
south pole was a centre of dispersion of
animals and plants of the southern hem
isphere, as the north pole is supposed to
have been for the northern,
KAOTB FOB THE CUHIOUN.
The Japanese make cheese from beans
and peas.
Over 800 people In Rome, Mich., had
the mumps at tnosamo time.
An average human pulse at infancy is
140 per minute; at two years, 100; from
sixteen to nineteen, 80; at mannood, TO;
old age, 00.
Cairo in Egypt was founded in 973 by
the first of thoVatimito caliphs. Saladiii
surrounded it with strong walls and mag
nificent gates.
Six thousand houses were thrown
down, 30,000 inhabitants killed, and a
conflagration kindled, which spread stdl
wider destruction, by the terrible earth
quake in Lisbon in 1757.
The first auction ever held was in
Orest Britain in 1700, when Elishur, a
Governor of Fort George, in tho East
Indies, publicly sold tho goods ho had
brought home to the highest bidder.
If a Chinaman desires the death of an
enemy he goes and hangs himself upon
his neighbor's door. It is a sure euro to
kill not only that particular enemy, hut
members of his entire family will be in
jeopardy of losing their lives.
When a Chinaman desires a visitor to
dine with him he does not ask him to do
so, hut when he does not wish him to
stay he puts the question: “Oh, plcaso
stay and dine with mo!” The visitor
will then know he is not wanted.
Anew trade for women in Albany is
that of “neighborhood darner.” The
woman who follows it has for her cus
tomers a dozen or twenty households,
each of which she visits weekly, and
spends a few hours in doing up the family
darning and mending.
A few years ago Wilton was ono of the
most flouishing villages in Minnesota. A
railroad built through that section left
the village at one side, and now the
place is dead. One of its original pro
prietors has just sold 115 lots to one
purchaser, and the old town site is con
verted into farming land.
A Frenchman recently rode into
Waterville, Me., driving a big New
foundland dog hitched to a small two
wheeled cart, which the animal had
hauled inside of three days from a town
in Canada, a distance of about 150 miles.
The owner said the dog could outstrip in
a day’s journey the best of horses.
Haroun al Rascliid, in 802, sent to
Charlemagne, among oilier presents from
Bagdad, a clock of curious workman
ship. The first clock with a balance was
made by DeViek in 1304, and tho first
with a pendulum in 1041. Watches with
springs were first made at Nuremberg,
about 1477, but the first successful ap
plication of a spring to watches was by
Dr. Hooke, in 1658.
A Michigan Millionaire’s Career.
A little bit of a man, not five feet
high, stood on tiptoe in front of Cashier
Kelcey’s window at the West End Hotel,
Long Branch, and timidly asked him
for a pair of scissors. When they were
handed to him he pulled a roll of national
bank bills from liis coat pocket. They
were in sheet form, just as postage stamps
come, and he clipped off a *IOO bill.
He wrote his name across its face, in the
space reserved for the President’s auto
graph, and then coolly asked Cashier
Kelcey to change it for him. Mr. Kelcey
accommodated this maker of currency
after carefully inspecting it and seeing
that it was a bona fide note of a national
bank in Michigan. The little man, with
this enviable power as a money maker, was
Mr. Jacob Beligman, who is known all
through Michigan as ‘ ‘Little Jake. ” He
was the leading clothing merchant of the
State until he became a banker and rail
road financier, as well as one of the big
gest lumber merchants in that region. He
is now a millionaire, a director in nine
banks and four railroads, and tlie owner
of considerable real estate in the Sault
Ste. Marie region. Some people say he
will be the richest man in the State if he
j lives to realize on his investments. Y r et
Ihe went out to Michigan twenty-five
years ago with only SIOO in his pockets.
He made his fortune in a strange way.
In order to start in the clothing business
he obtained credit for S2OO worth of
goods. He spent the SIOO cash he had
in hiring a wagon, a brass band, and four
horses, and investing in circulais and ad
vertising. He made it know n that Little
Jake would reach town at a certain hour
and distribute socks and overalls free from
liis wagon in the public square. lie told
me to-day that he emptied his wagon
load to a throng of people, scattering
over their heads at the same time a per
fect cloud of dodgers stating that lie was
going to sell them all sorts of clothing for
the next month. For fifteen years Little
Jake followed this quaint scheme for
making himself known, traveling from
town to town until he had a stoic estab
lished in every important city in the
State. He was not only the biggest
clothing dealer, but the biggest news
paper advertiser as well. Since then he
has made rapid strides toward liecoming
the biggest banker, hut he is still the
smallest man in the State in size.—
Philadelphia I ‘rent.
Green Cadets at West Point.
“Fall in!” the command waS, sharply.
You should have seen those green boys
trying to get in ranks. There were now
about 100 “beasts,” and they looked like
a herd of Texas steers, though more sub
dued. After a while the “beasts,” in
cluding my trem 1 ling self, were strung
out into a long, wavering line, and a ca
det corporal commenced to call the roll
of candidates. Each one was instructed
to answer, “Here!” Some who answered,
“Present,” were nipped in the bud, and
taught a lesson in cadet discipline. Une
poor fellow who was rather tardy in re
plying to his name, was commanded to
“step out” and answer to his name.”
“ Step out ” is the West Point slang for
“make haste, ”ymd when the “beast ”
actually did step out of rank, ho was
surprised at the celerity with which lie
was made to step back. The formation
was for dinner, and we were retained
until the battalion of cadets had started.
They marched off, headed by the drum
corps, with all the accuracy aud beauty
of a vast machine. Finally our time
came. The plebes at the head of the
column interpreted the meaning of the
command: “Forward, march,” and the
procession started for the large granite
structure known as the mess hall.
It was like running the gauntlet. One
cadet in the rear of the line hollered at
me in a voice of spc ini envy: “Drag in
your chin about a yard, mister! I want
to see less slouching among you beasts;
stand up; sir!” I tried to obey. Each
plebe had his coat buttoned full up, the
palms of his hands to the front, and all
the while his toes digging up the gravel
of the area. —Philadelphia Times.
Music in China.
The Chinese play to-day just ns they
did 2,000 years ago, says 11. E. Krehbiel
The art as it was then has been
petrified “by a fantastic system of mental
philosophy and an adamantine conserva
tism.” So that in considering the con
dition of the musical art in China to-day
we have an actual sight of what was the
system and practice at the time of Plato.
The refinement in this knowledge of
music is mostly on its metaphysical side.
The Chinese sages could and do publish
doctrine touching music which is golden
doctrine in the art of to day, but ttie
sounds they produce are a din in which
traces of order and of melodious sequence
are not discernible except by a very
patient and a very well trained ear. A
barbarism rests on the music still, and to
add to the many paradoxes which the
Chinese hold before us, they concede that
the art of to-day is a degenerate one,
but speak with pride of one now lost
which flourished at a time when Greece
wm yet shrouded in pro-historic gloom,
Baker's Teeth.
Home singular statements have been
made iu the Deutsche Momitschrilt con
cerning the effect produced by different
trades and industrial occupations upon
the general health. I’rof. licssc, of LeUj
sic, who points out the deplorable condi
tion of tho teeth of imkciH, and who also
asserts that he is frequently able to indi
cate tho occupation of persons by the
condition of their teeth. In the esse of
linkers, the carles is soft and rapidly pro
gressive; tho principal parts attacked
are in the labial and buccal surfaces of
the teeth. Prof. Hesec believes that the
disease isowing to the inhalation of flour
dust, the caries being caused by the ac
tion of au acid which is formod it* tho
presence of fermentable carbohydrates.
Chloral Drunkards.
Physicians in New York feel some
alarm at tho increasing number of young
women who indulge to a great extent in
deadly stimulants and narcotics, like
chloral or opium. Botl* here and in
England “ her drops" are as much a part
of a fashionable married woman’s toilet
as her cologne bottle, and are used with
as much freedom as men employ in call
ing for cocktails at the club, “ with a
dash of absinthe.”
Tun prize offered by the French gov
ernment of SIO,OOO for the most valuable
discoverz relating to the utilization of
electricity, is 1o he awarded next Decern
tier. It is for any use or application of
electricity, namely, as a source of host,
of light, or of chemical action, as a means
of transmission of mechanical power, or
of verbal communication in uny form, or,
finally, as a curative agent.
Carelessness takes the lead in causing
fires. Out of 706 fires, which are recorded
in the last quarterly report of the New
York lire department, 385 are put down
as the result of carelessness. Smokers
were responsible for 59 and fireworks for
19. _
Jovis, the French aeronaut, made an
ascent near Paris, and rose to a height of
over 7,000 metres when he whs obliged
to descend for want of ballast. The de
scent was made in Belgium.
“Wlmi i Woman’s Worth?”
Asked a fair damsel of a crusty old bachelor,
lie did not know, so she said: “W. O- man
(double you. Oman). Hut a woman reels worth
little if disease has invaded tier system end is
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weaknesses. Ylv. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescrip
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and builds up the system. Send 111 cents in
stamps for pamphlet to World’s Dispensary
.Medical Association, IW3 Main Sjtreet, buffalo,
N. Y.
Miss Content is the name of one of the most
popular of tlie belles at Long Branch.
(’liildren Starving To Death
On account of their inability to digest food,
will find a most marvelous food and remedy In
Scott’s Emulsion of Pur© Cod Liver Oil with
Hypophogphites. Very palatable and easily
digested. Dr. S. W. Cohen, of Waco, Texas,
says: “ I have used your Emulsion in Infan
tile wasting witli good results. It not only
restores wasted tissues, but gives strength and
increases the appetite. 1 am glad to use such
a reliable article.”
A Yale lock is capable of G 0.000.000 combina
tions, but bank cashiers know’em all.
Those who are trying to break up the bane
ful habit of intemperance will experience
groat benefit from the use of Prickly Ash bit
ters. Liquors derange tho system. Prickly
Ash Bitterß will remedy the evil results and
restore the brain, stomach and liver to healthy
action, thereby strengthening the will power,
thoroughly cleansing ami toning up the sys
tem and remove every taint of disease. It is
purely a medicine, and while pleasant to the
taste, it cannot bo used as a beverage by reason
of its cathartic properties.
No Time To Soothe Her Own Baby.
Norse (to fa.-hi nable mother).-—Tlie baby is
very restless, ma’am. 1 can’t do anything with
her.
F. M.—She’s teething, 1 suppose.
N. —Yes’m. I ihins if you was to take her
in your arms a little a liile it might soothe her.
F. Al.—l? Impossible, i haven't tirnetn-pare.
I am just making ready to alien : a mooting of
the Soc ety for the Prevention of Crue ty to
Aiding b. Give baby some of Dr. Diggers’
Huckleberry Cordial.
No investment pays so well as a good educa
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Alumni of tlie Kuubv School, Louisville, Ky.
It offera the best advantages, and enjoys tho
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Lmli s of the W hite House
Have found that their sometimes excessive
duties produce a low, weak, tired and tremu
lous state of the system, and that iron restores
richness and color to tho blood, caiisaya hark
a natural, healthful tone to tlie digestive or
gans, phosphorus mildly stimulates tlie brain
—all combined in Dr. Hartbr'B Iron Tonic.
Crawford County, Pa., has a “polecat farm”
where l'ur is ruiseu for ladies’ cloaks.
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The railway system of tlie United States now
aggregates in round numbers 141,800 miles.
Use the great specific for “cold in the head”
and catarrh -Dr. Sage’s Cataarh Remedy.
If tliits is any particular dog’s day lie can
come and get it, and no questions asked.
If a cough disturbs your sleep, take Piso’s
Cure for Consumption and rest well.
The Confidence
Of people who have tried Hood*B Sarsaparilla, In this
preparation, Is remarkable. Many who hare failed
to derive any good whatever from other article* are
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“Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier ha* no
equal. It tones the system, strengthen* and invig
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complaint, with the bast results.”—D. R. Saunders,
81 Pearl Street, Cincinnati, O.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
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lng and thoroughly testing remedies for the
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is tho greatest earthly boon, being unequided
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Asa soothing uud strengthening
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Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
In a legitimate medicine, carefully
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pepsia and kindred symptoms, its use, In small
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“ Fa V4rite Prescription ” Is a post,
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painful menstruation, unnatural suppressions,
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female weakness," nnteversion, retroversion,
bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion,
Inflammation and ulceration of the womb, in
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Golden Medical Discovery, and MRU hetatirs
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