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BELLS OF r . HE ANGELUS. Beilis of (he past, whose force*ten music Still fills the wide expanse. Tinging t be sober I w iligbi of the present With the color of romance! 1 hear yon call aurt see the sun descending On rocks and w ays ami sand, As dow u tlic coast the niissfon voices blending Girdle the heathen land. Within the circle of your incantation No blight or mildew falls: Nor fierce unrest, nor Inst, nor lost ambition Passes those airy walls. Borne on the swell of your long waves receding, I touch the farther past,-- 1 see the dying glow of Spanish glory. The sunset dream and last! Before me rise the dome shaped mission towers, The white presidio. The swart commander in his leathern jerkin, The priest in stole of snow. Once more I see Porta la’s cross uplifting Above the setting sun. And past the headland, northward slowiy drifting. The frighted galleon. Oh, solemn bells! whose consecrated masses Recall the faith of old— Oh. tinkling bells! that lulled with twilight msuic The spiritual fold. Your voices break, they falter in the darkness— Break, falter and are still; And, veiled aud mystic, like the host descending, The sun sinks from the hill —Bret Harte. JERRY’S SKUNK FARM. an astonishing establishment UP IN THE NORTH WOODS. Just as It was Growihg as Profitable as it was Offensive Jerry Disap peared, and Peopie Say that the Skunks Ate Him. From the New York Sun. Northwood, Herkimer County, N. Y., Deo. l6.—One of the stories which the Northwood guides never tire of telling is the history of old Jerry Little’s skunk farm. Jerry was au old bachelor who is supposed to have come from Canada, though no one knows very much about his life before he settled in the town of Ohio, adjoining this. In Ohio his home was a log shanty of one room, a log barn and about 25 acres of land, of pretty poor soil, the greater part of which had been cleared and afterward al lowed to glow up to blackberry bushes. The market value of the place was perhaps $75. Jerry moved into the house early in the month of March, a good many years ago, but attracted no attention to himself, after the neighbors learned that he was a bachelor, for some time. He was seen at ■work as the snow went away clearing off a garden patch and then building a stockade enclosing about half an acre of ground ad joining his barn. This stockade set the neighbors a gossiping. It was made of posts from two to three inches thick, with their adjoining sides hewed roughly but so as to fit together with cracks lietween not ex ceeding half an inch in width. They were set in a trench two and one-half feet deep and stood over four feet out of the ground. The neighbors supposed he was going into the poultry business. “Do you 'low that ’ ere fence ’ll keep skunks out?” said Alfred McKenzie, Jerry’s nearest, neighbor, as he stopped to look at the old man at work setting the posts in his trench. "It’ll keep ’em in. Skunks ain't nonotion of burryin’ more’n two feet, an’ they won’t burry at all ef ye’ll give ’em decent quar ters.” That was all Greek to McKenzie and to this day he holds up his hands ar.d rolls his eyes to show how astonished he was when Jerry said it. But it all came out. Jerry was going to establish what he called a ‘ •skunkerie,” and was thereafter set down by his neighbors as a fit object to mention when obstreperous children were to be frightened into obedience. Mothers would say: “If you don’t I’ll give vou to old Jerry Little to feed to his skunks, just as mothers tell their children to “come in out of that street before the cows eat you.” In spite of the well established belief that Jerry was crazy, the neighbors were all cu rious to know how he was going to conduct the skunk-breeding business, and as he had no fears of rivalry, he good-naturedly told them all about it. He had found one family of skunks comfortably domiciled under his barn when he arrived, it being a common thing for skunk , in spite of the persecution which they receive from the farmers, to make themse ves very offensively at home as near to human habitations as [ossible, instances lieiug not unknown where they have burrowed under the kitchen floor of a farm house and there remained until finally killed by the disgusted farmer. The pair that lived under Jerry’s barn were not per secuted. They were red every day. When the stockade was completed Jerry proceeded to make comfortable nests for his stock within it. These consisted of artificial burrows made out of hollow logs, old soap boxes, barrels, etc., partly sunk in the ground and covered over with about two feet of earth, with holes at one side, so that the animals could get in aud out. The en tries were always arranged so that even a drenching rain could not wet the inside, while each burrow had a comfortable carpet of old grass and leaves. The interiors were, as a rule, constructed of simply one box : r barrel, but in three or four places near the bai n were underground homes that, for ca paciousness, were comparable to double-deck lenements iu Mulberry street, three or four boxes and barrels being connected together by hollow-log passages. "Kknnks is the sociablest critters ye’ver see,” Jerry used to say when telling his neighbors how he had provided for the comfort of his stock. “You might have dug ’em out by the dozen afore now, when niter their pelts, but ef they only has a chance tbey’H live in flocks like squirrels a trav’lin’.” With the yard completed, Jerry’s next care was to stock up. “There’s a couple over my way y’ c’n hev an’ welcome,” said McKenzie when the scheme had been explained to him, and Jerry accepted the offer by carrying a lx>x trap over to McKenzie’s place and catching two fine black ones. McKenzie, in telling about it, says that if he had supposed they were pure black he would have caught them himself: black skunk skins brought 75c. a piece down at Utica, and that was a sum not to be found on the back of every animal roaming around a farm and well worth bearing the trouble and stink for. How ever, Jerrv got the skunks and ea*rnxi them home and turned them loose in his skunkerie. It had by this time got well along in April and the snow was disappearing rapidly, and with the warm sunshiny days followed by warm nights the entire skunk tribe of the town came out from their burrows and wandered up and down the fields aud around the swamps looking for food in the shape of frogs and field mice, and not hesitating to follow an unfortunate rabbit into his bur row. Wherever thev went they left unmis takable evidences of their presence, and a less wise trapper than Jerry would have had no difficulty in determining where to set the traps. There was nothing novel alxiut the traps. They were made of boards and were simply oblong boxes a foot square on the end and two feet long, with doors at each end that shut down with a heavy Icing when the skunk steppe<l on a little stick in the centre of the box and released them. A live frog ora half of a chipmunk which Jerry caught served as bait. Before May 1 Jerry liad nearly twenty skunks iu his enciosure, the majority of them being females. Thereafter he caught more males than females, but he kept right on trapping. By the middle of May his stock liegun to multiply rapidly, each mother skunk having a family of from six to eight babies. The old man was uow kept busy obtaining food for the animals, hut what with a good uet with whim he easily caught no end <tt frogs in the swamps, not to men- tion a plenty of chubs down in Black creek, and the hawks and crews aud the owls, aud, perhaps, other birds that could not be law fully taken that he caught with various sorts of snares, in the setting of which he was au adept, ho managed to keep his stock in fine condition. About this time the neighbors learned that the stockade was serving the double pur pose of keening the skunks in and the foxes out. Of all the enemies of the skunk none is so destructive as the fox, which is espe cially fond of the young skunks. According to Jerry all the tore- living within many miles had smelled out his skunkerie. There was nothing wonderful about this, the neighbors said, but the foxes were attracted by the smell as much as the neighbors were repelled. Every oveniug Jerry set two or three traps of various kinds close under the outside of the stockade, and it was a rare occasion when morning did not find at least one fox in the traps. They would come to the stockade and, finding it pretty high to jump over, would go trotting around the enclosure seeking a hole to get through and thus were easily taken. The skins were valueless at this time of the year, but the skunks eat the fox meat with just as much relish as the fox would have exhibited in eating the skunks. Of the docility, intelligence and playful ness of his stock, particularly of the younger portion of it, Jerry told most wonderful stories. They became as tame and com panionable as kittens. Jerry handled them with impunity, kept several in his house aud even taught them such tricks as standing on their hind legs to beg for food, jumping over a stick and so on; but not many of the neighbors could make boast of having seen the tricks done. The skunks might not use their peculiar powers against Jerry, but a man must needs have Jerry’s peculiar tastes to be able to approach within forty rods of his skunkerie. Jerry, indeed, said that skunks were just as good ratters as ferrets and much more companionable, and he offered to furnish the neighbors with skunks that had had the offensive glands cut away, rendering them as free from offensive smells as kittens, but the neighbors would not believe him and, considering that the bite of a skunk is fatal, it is probably just as well that they didn’t take any of them. The truth is that noth ing but thp fact that Jerry had rid all the adjoining farms of foxes as well as skunks, prevented the neighbors, who were occa sionally obliged to drive along the road where Jerry lived, from complaining to the authorities and having uim abated. What with his breeding and trapping when winter came the old mau hail upward of LOO skunks, all fine and healthy, and there was a very excellent prospect that he would increase the number fivefold by an other winter and would then be able to real ize on his peculiar stock. Skins were worth 40c. each on the average, and the returns that would come from the sales of 300 or 400 skunk skins which, in all probability Jerry could spare by the time another winter set in, would place him on a cash basis that would make him the envy of the entire country side. A yearly income of $l5O cash is something of importance up this way. It is not to be supposed that even so much wealth as that would have admitted Jerry into Ohio society; social prejudices are quite as strong in the North Woods as on Fifth avenue, and society here in the matter of perfumes draws the line at mephitis we phitica., but the possession of such an in come would have insured the old man from being regarded wholly as a public nuisance, and it is quite sure that the talk about his being crazy had grown infrequent. He was destined, however, never to enjoy any re turn from his enterprise. Along in the latter part of October Mc- Kenzie noticed that for two or three days in succession there was no smoke arising from the old man’s chimney, and finally, after receiving no answer to his calls from the road, he went to the door and knocked. There was no reply, and when the door was opened—it was never locked, for no thief could be found bold enough to enter such a place when guarded by such batteries as the old man kept—the shanty was found to be deserted, except by two or three of the old man’s pets. Old Jerry Little had disap peared even more mysteriously than he had come, and where he went to is a matter of conjecture to this day. McKenzie got a couple of the neighbore and ma le search about the place, thinking the old man might have taken sick while visiting his traps, but no trace of him was found anywhere unless pair of old boots and the remnants of a pair of trousers and a shirt in the skunkerie were traces. McKenzie believes and main tains to this day that the old man died sud denly in the big pen he had built and was devoured by the skunks, who dragged such portions of his bones as they could not eat into their burrows. Nobody was brave enough to investigate the burrows until after the cold weather ana snow had driven the skunks into their hibernating state, but at that time nothing but a lot of skunks was found. McKenzie says the skunks eat bones and all. He also believes that the old man was bitten by one of the animals and died as every one does wiio suffers from a skunk bite. The probability is that he was simply' crazy and wandered away. The guides believe that breeding the skunks, an animal that would multiply like the rabbit but for the enemies it has, would be a profitable business, but they say that no amo.int of moliey however large, not even the possible S3OO or SSOO a year that might be made out of it, could induce them to try it. Suicides and Explosives. From the St. James Gazette. The death of the Anarchist, Lingg, by means of a detonator exploded iu his mouth, is not the first self-murder of its kind. In 1870 a native of Alsace put a dynamite cartridge into bis mouth a id fired it, with the result of blowing his head and the upper port of his body to pieces. In June, the same year, at Wickham Market, in Suffolk, a woman named Solomon, the wife of an oil merchant, purchased a quantity of gun powdr, and, having made a circle of it aud placed herself iu the midst, she fired the powder. The experiment was unsuccessful; only slight injuries were inflicted on the weman. Thereupon she put a quantity of gunpowder into a pail, placed her se f over the bucket and applied the match. Ou this occasion her injuries were more se vere ; but for her purpose the explosion was again a failure, and so finished herself with a knife. At Nitshill, in Scotland, in Octo ber of the same year,a miner named Duncan obtained some dynamite and blasting lfise, and went into the street, where he placed the dynamite on the ground, leaned over it and lighted the fuse. At this moment some boys, attracted by his unusual atti tude, came toward him. “Keep back!” shouted Duucan, “for the love of God, or you will be blown into eternity 1” The boys stood aloof. In a few moments there was a loud explosion, and Duucan was blown to atoms. In September. 1881, a miner tat Runcorn filled his mouth with gunpowder, ignited it with a match, and succeeded in blowing the top of his head off. A more elaborate application of explo sives to the purposes of suicide and murder combined was also recorded in 1883. At Dunedi ', New Zealand, a clerk named Stephensou, who lmd been separated from his wife, met her in the street, aud exploded a dynamite cartridge close to her head, his own head being placed at the same moment very near to hers. Both were almost com pletely blown off. But the most remarkable case occurred on the West coast of Africa. The King of Falaha being attackod by a Mahominedau force, and finding resistance impossible, as sembled his family aud principal officers, aud after addressing them and intimating his determination never to accept Mahom medanism, and inviting those who did not agree with him to go away, he applied a light to a large quantity of gunpowder col lected for the purpose, and blew the palace and ail who wero in it to pieces. “'Brown’s Hronrhlal Troches’ are excellent for the relief of Hoarseness or Sore Throat. They are exceedingly effective.”— Christian World, London, Eng. Please the boys by getting them one of those elegant Overcoats at Appel & Bchaul s, One Price Clothier*. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1887. I)KY GOODS. We are too Busy to Say Much, Biit we will say Such Facts that will cause you to spend your Money with us provided Money is an ob ject to you. _ We have determined not to wait until after Christmas, when nobody wants Winter Goods, to make a closing out sale, but we will do it right now, while the public stands in need of such goods. We positively have reduced prices on all of our Winter Goods fully one-third, and therefore offer such bargains as will do you all good. We will close out at these reductions. Our elegant stock of DRESS GOODS. Our magnificent stock of BLACK SILKS. Our excellent stock of COLORED SILKS. Our beautiful stock of Priestley’s MOURNING GOODS. Our immense stock of English tailor-made Walking Jackets, Our Plush Jackets and Wraps, Our Newmarkets, Russian Circulars, and our large stock of MISSES’ and CHIL DREN’S GARMENTS. The same reductions —one-third off —we offer in Blank ets, Shawls, Flannels, Ladies’ and Gent’s Underwear, Hosiery of all kinds, Comfortables, Housekeeping Goods, Gold-Headed Umbrellas, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, etc. NOW IS YOUR TIME FOR REAL BARGAINS. GOODS FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AT OUR BAZAR. Tie Graiflest, Most Extensive, Tie Most Elegant, AS WELL AS THE CHEAPEST To be found anywhere in the city, We can’t enumerate the articles because the variety is too large. Do not fail to examine our stock; we simply offer you such a line as can only be found in a first-class house in New York. Special Bargains This "Week: A 35-cent full regular GENT’S HALF HOSE for - - -10 c. A 25-cent full regular LADIES’HOSE for -----10 c. A 35-cent DAMASK TOWEL for 10c. A 35-eent CHILDREN’S UNDERSHIRT for 10c. A 25-cent GENT’S UNDERSHIRT for -----10 c. A 25-cent NECK SHAWL for 10c. * A 25-cent HAIR BRUSH for sc. A 25-cent RED TWILL FLANNEL for ltie. A PURE LINEN DAMASK NAPKIN for sc. A 5-cent PAPER NEEDLES for -------- lc. A 5-cent PAPER PINS for lc. A 50-cent JERSEY for 25c. DAVID WEISBEIN, MILLINERY To the Public. Propeclis for Spring and Summer 1888. The unprecedented trade in our Millinery Business dur ing 1887 is owing to the constantly adding of Novelties and the immense increase of our stock, which is doubtless the Largest of Any Retail Millinery in America, exclusive of New York, and our three large floors cannot hold them. Already our importations, Direct from Europe, are ar riving, and on Our Third Floor we are opening Novelties for Spring and Summer in Ribbons, French Flowers and Feathers in the Most Beautiful and Novel Shades. Wc are sorry to be compelled, for want of room, to close our Winter Season so soon, which has been so very successful, aud from to-day all our Felt Hats, Fancy Feathers and Trimmed Hats will be sold at any price. Our Ribbon Sale will continue until further notice. S. KROUSKOFF, MAMMOTH MILLINERY HOUSE. FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTING, ETC. CARPETS! CARPETS! CARPETS! Now is the time for Bargains in Carpets. A fine selection of Cotton Chains, Union’s Extra Supers, All Wool, Two and Three-Plys, Tapestries and Body Brus sels just arrived. Our line of Furniture is complete in all its departments. Just received, a carload of Cooking and Heating Stoves. So call on us for Bargains. We don’t in tend to be undersold, for cash or on easy terms. TEEPLE & CO. SASH DOORS, BLINDS, ETC. Vale Royal Manufacturing Cos. Hp. SAVANNAH, GA. Sect’y and Trees. LUMBER. CYPRESS, OAK, POPLAR, YELLOW PINE, ASH, WALNUT. MANUFACTURERS of SASH. DOORS. BLINDS, MOULDINOS of all kinds and description* CASINOS and TRIMMINGS for all classes of dwellings PEWS and PEW ENDS of our own (Wien, and manufacture, TURNED and SCROLL BALUSTERS, ASH HANDLES for Cotton Si CEILING, FLOORING, WAINBCOTTING, SHINGLES. Warehouse and Up-Town Office: West Broad and Broughton Sts. Factory and Mills: Adjoimnc Ocean Steamship Co.s Wharves HOLIDAY GOODS. Santa Giaiis WISHES YOU ALL A Merry Christmas! And he is desirous that you should know that his Headquarters are still at Lindsay & Morgan’s And bpgs that .vou rush ahead until you come to the plane where is kept the largest and most varied assortment of Useful and Ornamental Goods, suitable for HOLIDAY PRESENTS, in the city. This is no idle boast of Santa Claus, and all we wish you to do is to come and see for yourselves if what he says is not true. ONE HUNDRED Patterns of Fancy Chairs, In all the latest ideas as to material and covering. The same amount of Rat tan ('hairs and kindred goods. Ladies' Desks, Cabinets, Mimic Racks and Desk Com billed. Anil we must not forget to mention the extensive assortment of Fancy Tables and Easels. We could keep on enumerating articles in our FURNITURE DEPARTMENT, but as our CARPET DEPARTMENT is replete with so many articles which make an elegant present we cannot pass them over—LACE CURTAINS, PORTJERRES. a very handsome line of TABLE COVERS, RUGS of all kinds, MANTEL and TABLE SCARES, LAMBREQUINS of all styles and prices. VELOCIPEDES! TRICYCLES and WAGONS for the children. May t Maria ASPHALT PAVEMENT. Warren Scharf Asphalt Paving Ca, 114 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. CONSTRUCT Gcniic Trinidad Asphalt PAVEMENTS. This Pavement has been thor oughly tested in actual ser vice and is found to possess the following points of su jdeViority: Ist. Cheaper than stone blocks equally well laid. *l. Durability; the company guarantees it for a period of years. 3d. Almost noiseless under traffic. 4th. The cleanest pavement made. sth. A perfect sani'ury pavement. Heine Im pervious to water and ttltn, it cannot exhale in fectious Rases. sth. Easily and perfectly repaired when opened to lay pipes, etc. 7th. Haves wear and tear of hcrses and vehicles. Bth. Being smoother, less power Is required to haul over it than any other pavement. Oth. It enhances the value of abutting prop erty more than any other pavement. 10th. it is therefore, all things considered, the lost and most economical pavement that can be laid on any street, whether tue traffic is light or heavy. HARDWARE. EDWARD LOVELL & SONS, DEALERS IK Parkerand Colt’s Breech Loading Guns. Brass and Paper Shells. Hunting Coats, etc. Chamberlin Loaded Shells. ELECTRIC BELTS. STlils Belt or Regenera tor is made expressly for the cure of derange ments of the generative organs. A continuous ■ ueaai of Electricity pi mealing thro' the pans must restore them to healthy action. Do not confound this with Electric Bella ad vertised to cure all ills; It U for the os* specific purpose. For full in formation address CIiEEVER ELECfttlO BELT CO., 103 Washington St., Chicago 1U SOAI". SOAPS! SOAPS! DEARS", RIEGERS, COLGATE'S, OLKAV- I ER S, KECKKLAERS, BAYLEY’S, LU BIN'S. PEMBLK'S MEDICATED just received at BUTLER’S PHARMACY. CLOTHING. FOR GOOD, RE LI ABLE WELL MADE MEM’S, BOYS’ * AND— CHILDRENS CLOTHING, AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES, GO TO MENKEN & ABRAHAMS * CLOTHING HOUSE! 158 BROUGHTON STREET. HATS AND MEN'S FURNISHING POODS, SHOES, CLOTHING, NOTIONS, BTC. 1 887. ~~ 188 a WE WISH ALL A Merry Christmas & Happy Hew Year! We Have a Present for All Our Patrons in the Way of Shoes. 500 pair of KID BUTTON SHOES, regular price $2, for *1 25. 500 pair GLOVE GRAIN BUTTON SHOES, regular price *2, for *1 2S. 100 pair MISSES’ BUTTON SHOES, regular price #1 50, for sl. 250 t Miir MEN’S EMBROIDERED SLIPPERS, regular price $1 .50, for fL 100 pair BOYS’ BALB. and BUTTON SHOES, regular price $1 50, for $L 500 pair MEN’S CONGRESS BUTTON BALS. at fil 35. Don’t Forget the Leading Cheap Shoe House, COHEN’S, SonHiwest Cor. BfonihW & Barnard Sts. CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, WAGONS, BTC. 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