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■ A daring FEAT.
LAD’S ADVENTURE while
BOBBING AN EAGLE’S NEST.
!att ]j g With Infuriated Birds on a
n
Lofty Crag.
Lee Hemingway, an orphan boy of
years of age of New Braun-
[els, ixteen adventurc few
Tex., had an a
ago with two American eagles, in
lays barely escaped with his life.
riiicli he
Professor Mclnevy, the well-known
Lturalist, who has been located few in
h iat neighborhood for the last
J [al erk-, in the interest of his ornitholog-
collection, offered Lee 850 for a
lest with living eaglets or eggs in it.
[ though rather early for these birds
L hat their young, Lee was soon
Lie. L by watching the movements of a
ir> to find where a nest had been
Iiade. But as it rvas on the summit
If [t,Ie the Big Injun, an almost unsurmount-
bowlder rising nearly 125 feet
L tho valley of the Guadaloupe, there
Las no way of securing it except by
Laling the sides of the rock, which,
iowevor. has in the course of time be-
ome coated by several feet of earth
iul are covered with a tangle of
Fines, Ac.
It was a daring feat, but young
Icmingway is a plucky lad of a stal¬
wart build, and who, dependent on
is own exertions for a livelihood,
ound the money offered a big consid-
,ration, and agreed to attempt the
\ condition that the Professor
feat on
L'ould keep watch with a gun for the
jetura of the parent birds. With a
basket furnished with a lid slung to
Ki; back in which to secure the eggs or
1-oung ing, eagles, he managed, by climb¬
scrambling and pulling himself
lip band over hand, to reach the top of
■lie Big Injun, where he found the
lest, as he had expected, with young
birds a day or two old. Wearied out
with his exertions, he rested for some
ittle time, then placing the nest with
ts contents in his basket and strap-
)ing it to him, lie began to descend.
I He had scarcely accomplished fifty'
|feet of this when he heard the report of
he ITofessor’s gun, and saw the two
iagles returning. Unhurt, they paid
io attention to the shot, but after
blighting and finding the nest gone,
■wide at the boy with outstretched
[wings and hoarse cries of fury.
Lucking his head to keep their power¬
ful beaks and claws out of his eyes,
Lee attempted to heat them off with
Dne arm while he clung to the vines
with the other, but they s.ruck at him
Repeatedly' on* the head with their
beaks, each time bringing tho blood,
(which flowed into the boy r ’s eyes .and
pearly,blinded him, while they bullet-
led him unmercifully with their great
Brings.
Professor Mclnery waited until one
)f the birds was far enough from Lee
|for him to take aim without danger of
hitting him, then fired, and succeeded
in killing the eagle. She—for, as was
(afterward (female—fell ascertained, he had shot what the
into a small treo, or
which (was scarcely more than a large good-sized sapling,
had sprouted from a
krevice in the rock, about eight feet
a h°ve where Leo hung, and seeing her
just above him gave the boy
an idea to which lie owes his life.
1th t! e strength of despair lie drew
himself up to the tree by the sense of
alone, for his eyes were full of
blood. Once there he braced himself
with his feet, and, wiping his face,
)0Ull d his handkerchief about his brow
order that it might absorb the blood.
He then caught the dead bird by the
feet, and, with thi3 weapon, he turned
on die living eagle, which had never
ceased to beat and strike him. At the
n xt ^weep Lee struck it as hard as lie
could dare, not to endanger his posi-
an ^ ron, ” ule< I to nieet its attacks
the same way until, rendered furi-
and incautious by its enemy’s re-
s ' stance > it flow directly in his face,
oiaws distended and beak striking
tight and left. The boy caught it
" both hands about its throat, and
tho ^ furious aU his strength beatings held of it, its in spite wings*
IH| til, choked to death by his grip, the
-' at bird hung lifeless, when be
‘ ‘"PPcd it at the Professor’s feet.
*h:e centlenian had watched the
dosperat e struggle, unable to help the
boy • except by random shots, hoping
4 . Uus
however, to lighten the bird away, which,
as has been said, he failed to
do. Young Hemingway hung in the
slender branches of the liitle tree for
nearly an hour, battling exhausted na¬
ture now with the same courage he had
displayed toward the eagles.
Speaking of h s adventure, he says:
I felt as if I was going to faint, and
I knew if I did I would be killed by
the fall, and I hadn’t fought those
plagued birds so hard to give up to
any such women doings as that, so
just kept fighting against that awful
sinking, and pretty soon I got over it,
so when I rested I climbed down.”
But just as he reached the foot of
the rock the strength born of despera¬
tion gave way, and the brave boy fcl
senseless into the Professor's arms.
IIe was fearfully torn in the head and
face, but the former wounds are for¬
tunately only skin deep, and, with the
exception of one long, deep gash in
the cheek, just below the eye, which is
healing slowly, his face is nearly well,
lie is obliged, however, to keep his
bed yet, so bruised and sore is he from
the buffeting he received. Remarkable
as it may seem, the young birds in
Lee’s basket were living and uninjured
by the fearful journey they had made.
The Professor, in consideration of the
danger he underwent, and for the two
birds not bargained for, has presented
Lee with $100, and the boy is the hero
of the hour.—[Globe Democrat.
Coffee as a Disinfectant.
An old colored man living in a dis¬
trict where the disease often prevailed
once told the writer that one of the
best preventive measures against yel-
low fever was infusion of coffee.
Some years ago he passed through an
epidemic of that grave malady under
the worst possible conditions. For at
least a month he occupied the quarters
of a large number of sufferers, pass¬
ing night and day among them, eating
and sleeping in their midst.
Recalling the homely advice given
him he faithfully tried coffee as an an¬
tiseptic and drank freely of a very
strong infusion five or six times a day,
and continued the practice all the time
lie was under exposure. He was for¬
tunate enough to escape contagion,
but never attached much importance
to the use of the coffee. Considering
the results of recent developments, it
would seem that the old negro was
right in attributing antiseptic proper¬
ties to it.
A series of experiments conducted
by a German professor lias proved that
they are quite marked. Several differ¬
ent forms of intestinal bacteria were
experimented upon, and their develop¬
ment and growth were found in all
cases to be interfered with by the ad¬
dition of a small quantity of coffee in¬
fusion to nutrient gelatine. In pure
infusion the bacteria were x'apidly de¬
stroyed.
The question as to what constituents
exercise tho antiseptic effect cannot y'et
be fully determined. The caffeine is
certainly active in only a slight degree;
the tannin to a somewhat greater ex¬
tent; but, presumably, of greatest im¬
portance are the substances that are
developed by roasting. It is interest¬
ing to note that a cup of coffee, left in
a room tor a week or more, remains
almost free from micro-organisms.
Cruelty to Condemned Prisoners.
M. Bayol, the French Governor at
Porto-Novo, on the West African slave
coast, who recently made an extended
journey through the kingdoms of
Porto-Novo and Dahomey, gives inter¬
esting accounts of some of the bar¬
barous customs- still prevalent in- that
country. The Dahomians are a bigot¬
ed and superstitious people, and all
over the country there are innumerable
“fetiches,” holy groves, rocks, or
huts, consecrated to some pagan deity
or other. Individuals who desecrate
these “fetiches” by touching them are
invariably put to death to atone for
their crime, but before they are execu¬
ted they have to undergo the most pain¬
ful tortures at the hands of the Ama¬
zons, those ferocious female warriors
which constitute the nucleus of the
king’s army. The condemned crimi¬
nal, helplessly fettered, is at the mercy
of the Amazons, and only when his
vital powers are nearly cxnausted is
the death-blow struck by the execu¬
tioner.
Alice Duval (pouting) — Charley
calls writing letters to me hard work,
Blanche Stone—Does he write very
often? Alice—Only three times a
week ; and just think, he only writes a
stingy old thirty-five pages each time.
FOR FARM AND GARDEN,
CHEAP DUST BATHS.
There is nothing a hen enjoys so
well as to dust herself in the yard
when the sun is shining. After each
rain spade up a spot about a yard
square and keep it loose. When first
spaded the earth should be moved .ml
sifted, then returned. If this spot is
kept loose by digging it up with a hoe
after each rain it will afford a better
dusting place than can bo provided in
any other way.— [New York Ilerald.
PETTED COI.TS MAKE POOR HORSES.
Colts raised by hand usually make
very disagreeable horses. Petted and
teased by nearly all who come near,
most of them bite, kick at animals and
people, strike with the fore feet and
are forever yoking noses into pails,
tubs, boxes and barrels in search of
food. They approach persons in the
field, whirl around and kick suddenly.
Sometimes they chase the milkmaid,
and unless she is endowed with
courage they will rob her pail of its
contents, it is often trying to the
patience to train them to the harness,
for the tricks acquired in earlier life
are apt to crop out frequently.—[New
York Tribune.
EXPERIMENTS WITH PEAS.
Peas are more hardy than any other
garden vegetables, and a slight frost
will not injure them. But they may¬
be sown too early, for all that. The
condition of soil and air at the time
seed is put in the ground has appar¬
ently- more influence than heat or cold
afterwards. In some experiments re¬
ported a year ago it was found that
the peas planted during a Avarm day,
and followed by warm weather, for
24 or 48 hours after, grew, blossomed,
and bore fruit ready for picking earlier
than peas planted on like soil a week
earlier, when both air and soil were
too cold for germination. A quick
start in growth, even with so hardy a
vegetable as the pea, counts for much,
and is even more important for vege¬
tables like corn and beans, that only
groAv in a warmer temperature.—
[Courier-Journal.
WHY SALT SHOWS ON BUTTER.
Henry- E. Alvord says in the Chicago
Times: It is not uncommon to see
butter in rolls or prints, of good
quality and tolerably fresh, with a
coating of salt crystals all over the
outside, giving it a stale and unpleas¬
ant appearance. This rr ay- be caused
in several ways. If the salt used is of
poor quality, and particularly if it is
too coarse in grain, it fails to be Avell
incorporated in the butter, and, chang¬
ing to brine after the rolls have been
made up, it comes to the surface and
takes the form of a crust. The finest
and best salt, not worked into the but¬
ter, will act the same way. Again, if
there is more moisture left in the but¬
ter than it will naturally lio’d, the salt
joins w-itli this extra water to form
brine; this brine finds its way to the
cutside, evaporates, and leaves
the salt covering. The best means,
therefore, of avoiding this diffi¬
culty is to make the batter by granu¬
lar method, wash it very thoroughly,
and allow it to drain and dry off well,
while still in the granular form, be¬
fore adding the salt. Then mix in the
salt as thoroughly as possible, having
it of the beit quality and as fine as
can be got; allow it to stand a little
while before working and putting into
its final form. This gives an oppor¬
tunity for all the salt to disolve before
the working and then for removing all
surplus brine. All butter, however,
contains a pretty large percentage of
moisture in the form of brine, and it
must be kept in a moist atmosphere or
else the Avater of the brine will evapo¬
rate more or less, leaving the salt vis¬
ible on the outside. Any good butter
will show this dry salt if exposed long
enough in very dry air.
A PRIZE CROP THAT PAID.
Many farmers, while approving of
large crops,believe they are not profit¬
able. But Milton G. Shaver’s experi¬
ence in competing for the American
Agriculturist oat prize last year, in
Cayuga County, New York, resulted
in a yield of 67 bushels per acre by
methods which any practical farmer
may adopt. A sandy loam soil was
chosen that had been treated as is
common in that region. It grew corn
and potatoes in 1885 with very little
manure, was in barley the next y ear,
und was sown with fall wheat after a
very light coating of manure, yielding
about twenty bushels per acre. Tho
grass seed failing to catch, the land
was planted to potatoes in 1888, re¬
ceiving ten two-horse loads of strawy
stable manure. It was plowed with a
two-liorse team, and worked for half
a day with the spring-tooth harrow.
After once harrowing, 150 pounds of
phosphate were sown broadcast; it was
again harrowed, a bushel of Swedish
oats were sown broadcast, followed by
the harrow time. Then for the third
two bushels more seed was drilled in
with 850 pounds of phosphate.
Finally, the land was rolled, as this is
considered indispensable for all spring
crops. Mr. Shaver says; “1 am
seventy years old, and never saw a
handsomer or stouter phee of straw,
and but for the wet weather it would
have yielded 100 bushels per acre. It
weighed thirty-nine pounds per bushel,
but no other oats in this region will
weigh over thirty pounds per bushel,
or yield over thirty bushels per acre.”
Good seed, good fertilizers and
thorough preparation of the soil did it.
Why will farmers persist in sowing
common or poor oats on illy-prepared
soil when the same effort can be made
to produce twice the result?—[Ameri¬
can Agriculturist.
SHEEP- KILLING DOGS.
A dog that kills sheep habitually
should be confined. If it is thought
to be valuable by its owner it is worth
being cared for and kept at home
where it can do no harm. The whole
question in regard to dogs and sheep
seems to be considered from a wrong
point of view. There are other points
of value than mere money profit, and
although a dog may not be of any
pecuniary profit to its owner, y-et the
owner has an equal right to keep it as
the owner of sheep to keep them. To
kill ofi' all the dogs would be exceed¬
ingly unwise, for they destroy a large
quantity of vermine and are useful in
other ways, and not one in fifty of
them perhaps ever attacked a sheep.
But the owner of sheep has a right to
the inviolability of his property against
trespass by a strange dog as by a per¬
son ; and the owners of dogs should
be compelled to keep them on their
own premises or suffer the same penal¬
ty for the trespass as if it were com¬
mit ed by r a person. This would be
an equality of rights and of responsi¬
bilities. And sheep owners should
make an effort to secure a law to this
effect. If tlie owner of a trespassing
dog should be fined or imprisoned in
default of payment for a trespass,
sheep would soon live in peace, but to
tax the dogs is clearly unjust.—[New
York Times.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Bad plan—to borrow or lend tools.
This isn’t the year to sow foul seed.
“Haste makes waste” on the farm.
Charred corn is good for poultry—
they relish it.
Manure tramped down by live stock
does not firefang.
Be careful not to overfeed if y-ou
want eggs regularly.
Bran and buttermilk make a good
ration for laying hens.
Never drive milch cows or fattening
stock faster than a walk.
Six trees suitable for special posi¬
tions: Sycamore, Black birch, Ash,
Black Walnut, Chestnut, Beech.
Movable loosts arc the best. Never
put up roosts so that they cannot be
easily moved at any time desired.
Milk is one of the best foods for
young or adult fouls that can be had.
They enjoy it hugely and thrive won¬
derfully upon it. It is also good for
water fowls.| If you have any milk to
spare see that the poultry get their
share.
If you want trees that will grow
where nothing else will, set out these:
Silver maple, Carolina poplar, or Box
elder. They are easily- transplanted,
grow rapidly, but are short lived, lia¬
ble to injury-, sprout at the roots, soon
become scraggy looking unless spe¬
cially attended.
When sheep appear to be blind with¬
out any apparent cause it is probably
due to indigestion and its result on the
brain. The remedy is to give two
ounces of raw linseed oil, to act as a
purgative, and change the food, giv¬
ing only nutritious and digestible feed¬
ing. A feed once a day of bran,
scalded and given cold, with a little
ginger and Peruvian bark, powdered,
will be useful.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Expression is language.
Sensation is self-revealing. I
Polities is diplomatic slavery.
Learning is degrees of inspiration.
Words are out signs of expression.
The best way to find out is to try it.
Liberty is no more of a gift than gravi¬
tation . th(
The effort to keep still continues
motion.
Strife is not smothered by seeking tc
hide it.
The hand can never execute anything
higher chan the character can inspire.
The man that has lived for himself has
the privilege of being his own mourner.
There are persons now in hell who
might have been in heaven with half the
trouble. '
Whenever we vary front the highest
rule of right, just so far we do an injury
to the world.
It is fortunate that charity covers a
multitude of sins, for in these days there
is a multitude to cover.
The present is the time in which to live
and to work. The past is a recollection,
and the future a phantasy.
The one prudence in life is concentra¬
tion; the one evil is dissipation; and it
makes no difference whether our dissipa¬
tions are coarse or line.
Humility is to make a right estimate of
one’s self. It is no humility for a man
to think less of himself than he ought,
though it might rather puzzle him to do
that.
A man cannot speak but he judges him¬
self. With his will, or against his will,
he draws his portrait to the eye of his
companion by every word. Every opinion
reacts on him who utters it.
We pass for what we are. Character
tekehes above our wills, Men imagiue
that they communicate their virtue or vice
only by overt actions, and do not see that
virtue or vice emits a breath every mo¬
ment.
Most Horses Are Either Gray or Bay.
A near-sighted youth, writes James
Payn, on going in for his medical ex¬
amination. was advised by that guide,
philosopher and friend, his crammer:
“The doctor will ask you about the
horses on the common; say ‘gray,’very
rapidly, for all horses are either gray or
hay.” This was, no doubt, a too hasty
generalization; but it is the fact that to
persons who do not concern themselves
with the equine race, horses are very
much alike. A young gentleman of my
acquaintance, who used that animal
merely as the means of locomotion—
“the means and not the end”—was onco
given a “mount” by the friend with
whom he was staving to visit Reading
races. On coming away he had taken
the animal which was offered to him out
of the crowded booth without investi¬
gation, and rode home on it. His host
met him at the lodge gate, and with the
quick eye of a proprietor perceived there
had been an exchange which might or
might not be a robbery, “Why, that’s
not my horse, Ned.” “Is it not?” re-
plied the enthusiastic equestrian. “It
looked extremely like him.” I know an¬
other case, where matters turned out
much worse. A good man of business,
but one who was a very careless rider,
Mr. A. was wont to come to town on
horseback every day, and pul his horse
up at a certain livery stable. Mr. B., a
friend of his, used to do the like, and,on
calling tor his nag one evening, had an¬
other brought out to him by the hostler.
“That’s not my horse,” he said; “that’s
Mr. A.’s horse.” “Then Mr. A. must
have taken your horse by mistake, sir.”
“If so,” said B., with gravity, “he is a
dead man.” And so, indeed, it turned
out. Poor A., riding home with loose
rein and careless seat, upon, as he
thought, his own quiet steed, was
thrown and killed upon the spot by a
buck jumper .—Frank Leslie's Monthly.
Indians Rich in Land.
The horde of homeseekers in the vi¬
cinity of Guthrie, Oklahoma, have had
their hopes brightened considerably by
the news that the Indian Commission will
soon be in Guthrie to negotiate with the
Iowa tribe of Indians for the reservation
of 250,000 acres of fertile country about
eight miles east of Guthrie. This tribe
numbers only eighty savages; most of
whom are decrepit and aged. They
occupy the land only through the suffer¬
ance of the Government, but, having
lived on it for years and liking it very
well, they are loth to give if up. Still
they are willing to make remarkable
terms. Chief To-Hee, the blind chief,
says that he wants money to build fences
and school-houses, so that the youth of
the tribe shall grow up to be civilized
farmers. It is probable that very little
difficulty will be experienced in dealing
with these Indians. Allotments of land
will be made to them, and sufficient will
remain for 1500 homesteaders, each pos¬
sessing 160 acres. The opening of some
new land would greatly relieve the situa¬
tion here, as every claim in the Guthrie
land district is taken, and some are con¬
tested by from two to ten persons.— Chi¬
cago Herald.
_
What One Lightning Bolt Did.
In Jackson County, this State, a bolt
of lightning shivered a shade tree, up¬
rooted five currant bushes, melted thirty-
eight rods of wire fence, smashed a
smoke-house, killed a dog and knocked
down two horses, “all under the same
liberal management and in the sains ring,
and without extra cost to regular pat¬
rons.”— Detroit Free Press.