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SB WORSHIPERS. Wonderful Relic of their Handiwork in Mexico. Stone Roadway Up a Mound 1200 Feet High. Charios j. Wimple, one of the ealthiest miners of Mexico, is a re- ival in the city. To a repro¬ an - Call he told the fol- -ntative of the wing wonderful story: <*Vou have asked me to give an ac- mnt of the interesting mountain my lend, Jesse D. Grant, and myself during our trip through Mexico w city. Well, that route to this is at once one of the most exhibitions of man’s !>andi- and something almost beyond were we not already familiar the works of the Aztecs. «Jost imagine a valley foriy bv miles in area, and from its rising a mound over 1,200 feet jet in height. Then you can realize first eflcct created upon our minds ie the hill I (ten we came before am to escribe. My foreman was with us, id bad partly prepared us for the irprise, but we had treated his story -ith incredulous remarks, and had by d means suspected he had but given a iodest description of the mound. ‘•We gazed to the top and allowed ur eyes to follow the windings of a >ad down to the base. We went round the base and conjectured it ras about one and a half miles in cir- imfercnce. Then ws started for the iminit. The roadway was built of )lid rock clear to the pinnacle, and las from thirty to forty feet in width. [ wali of solid rock formed a founda- ion and an inside wall at the same me. The outer edge of the road was These stones weigh all lie way u-p to a ton each, and are not emented. The roadway is as level s a floor, and is covered with broken lieces of earthenware w r ater vessels. “Half way up the mountain is an lltar cut in solid rock; in tho niche is i bouldcv which must weigh at least is tons. The boulder is of different from that used in tho walls. The in the walls are dressed by skilled but are not polished. We no inscriptions; in fact we had time to spare iu makinga searching We did look for arrow ^eads or other warlike instruments to Satisfy ourselves that the mound had iiot been used for defensive or offen- live purposes. Nor was there any Kidcnce to prove that the roadway lad been built for the purpose of wit¬ ting bull fights and other sports in ihevadey. could only conclude the Aztec kmi worshipers expended years of abor on the hill in order that they right have an appropriate place to "Icbiatc their imposing festivals, in- i-much as the roadwav was strewn ntb broken earthenware, and those (cions of a bygone and notable race re * known to carry at sunrise large __! auantities of water in earthenware f vsto an eminence, and there pour . S|,t liquid and smash the vessels. H heu we descended we brought nth u - a number of small sea shells which had petrified, and if you look it these o n mv table yon will see how [bey have been perforated by the In- pans. AVe again took a long look at mountain and saw' it was oblong in fchape. and that the upward road com- Inenccd on the eastern side. I have traveled on both sides of the moun Iriusfrom British Columbia to Central America, aud on either side of the pierra Mad res where the cliff-dwellers have left such remarkable mementos jOf their skill and customs, but I have pever witnessed anything so wonderful H pnd magnificent as the mound which I (feet [ “The valley is about six hundred above the sea level, and is about seventy miles from the coast. It is situated in Sonora, between the cities J f Altar and Magdalena and Magdalena near *he River. AVe called the well [San Mountain, and it is — Francisco Call. . s r^ The largest' _ en >0nad ^' em * anv J** 0 - e w hich there ^gger record Galle^ ! CC ° nd ^ ound b>’ a of - pearly It weighed ^Moorr, seven 0 *!. ? ^ bc ^ nder was ia „ .k fr° ^ >€Cn -bas Ver ' l' 001 '* been lo-ai* b a s vn Hicate of deal - - * An Arab Four-thing's Career. The public has been reading lately a great many dispatches from France and Africa, giving the progress of the war which the French government has been waging in Dahomey. Lieu¬ tenant Colonel Archinnrd was the officer mentioned as being in command of the French troops, who, although merely a handful of some four or five hundred cavalry, have inflicted great slaughter on their opponents, killing as many as a thousand in one engage¬ ment. There recently arrived in this city e young French officer who is an inti¬ mate friend of Colonel Avchinard, and who relates the following strange history of the dashing young colonel's life: “About twenty-six years ago, at the time France was engaged in a scries of petty wars against the noma 1 tribes in Algeria, -and after one of these en- gagements a certain Gaston Archinard, then a captain in a cavalry regiment, was attending to live removal of the wounded, when one of his men dis¬ covered a little Arab child, who had evidently been abandoned by its par¬ ents in their flight. Being a bachelor, and, liking the bright, intelligent look in the little fel¬ low’s face, the captain determined to adopt him and give him his name. He, therefore,sent him to a Ivcce or French school in Bordeaux, where the lad was educated, and later, in 1875, the cap¬ tain having risen to the rank of briga¬ dier general, he caused him to be en¬ listed as a private in the Seventh Hus¬ sars,under his own name of Archinard. Gaining rapid promotion he was soon sent to the Cavalry School at Saumar, from whence he graduated in 1880, only ten years ago, as a sub-lieutenant of calvary. He wa9 then sent to Tunis, and fought through the campaign of 1882> and the following year 6aw him com¬ manding a battalion in Tonquin. In 1887 he was sent to Senegal as a major in the famous regiment of Spahis Sen- egalais, which he commanded, as lieu¬ tenant colonel, in his late successful campaign in Dahomey. Although a pure-blooded Arab, with a thorough French military education, Colonel Archinard, it is whispered in promi¬ nent Parisian military circles, is next on the list for promotion to tho covet¬ ed rank of general of a division of tho French army.—[New Y r ork Star. Vegetable Immigrants. Naturalists familiar with the habits of the English sparrow seem to doubt the possibility of preventing its enor¬ mous increase at the expense of our indigenous birds, and a similar result may follow the introduction of a tree which in the course of the last twenty years has effected at least a thousand¬ fold extension of its North American habitat. It is the ailantus tree, im¬ ported originally from the Moluccas, but ll0W found 1,1 a,most ever F shel ‘ tered rivcr ' vaIIe v from rittsbui » lo - Southern Alabama - Its fecundity and ra P idit v of growth exceed that of the - Canada thistle * In less than five years a small plan- tatioa of the vegetable colonists will cover a dozen square miles of river- bottoms with their pale green sprouts, and in five years more any one of those sprouts is capable, upon the slightest encouragement, to develop into a tall and really beautiful tree. None of our native arboreal plants seem capable of competing with the vegetative energy of the hardy strau- ger, which prospers in the poorest cal- soils, and t0 . . carCOUS app eals OUr well Southern China , a]lv iu a -jj 01 .^j iern Ohio. Along th° lUC Canal, north and east f Cin- c -, nna ti it has superseded sumac-s a^^ ^ > . y jp oW? - near Huntsville, - l , are smothering ' ,ot 1 ee j 3 , forest trees, and within e five cvcu years to tbc it ro has cky extended uplam ■» H.con^s Carolina.—[New 01 y 0 i ce . Wild Camels in California. As proof that the camels brought to Arizona a number of years ago are not extinct and are breeding rapidly, the following from the Yuma (Cal.) Sentinel is rcprcnluced: A large band of camels, numbering 35 , were seen within a few’ miles of Harrisburg last week. Jim Doten caught one with a lariat, and after bringing it into tho camp was forced to shoot it, a9 all the horses around became badly fright- ened at the sight of the ungainly beast. FOR FARM AND GARDEN. ACITAL COST OF FEKDIXO COWS, A cow may be well fed for fifteen cents a day, and in some cases for twelve cents. Winter feeding will cost considerably more, counting the market value of the feed—fifteen pounds of hay and six pounds of meal is as little as a cow* in milk should be fed, and this may be w’orth twenty- one cents. For winter dairying only the best cows should be kept and but¬ ter of the best quality only made,other¬ wise the food of tho cows will not be paid for.—[New York Tribune. BENEFIT OF ROLLING THE SOIL. Here is a reason for using the roller. It has been found that a rolled soil, when the temperature of the air is seventy-five degrees, is eighty-four de¬ grees at the depth of one and a half iuches, during the warmest part of the day, while the temperature of the same soil unrolled is only eighty de¬ grees. Three inches below the surface the rolled soil is five inches warmer than the unrolled. After cooling over night the roiled soil is one degree the warmer.—[New York Witness. DISCOURAGEMENTS IN KEEPING POULTRY. A man starting into business for himself knows there is a great deal of hard labor before him. Naturally he finds many discouragements. Perse- veran e will win, however. There is no royal road to success in keeping poultry. Fowls are liable to become sick, lay soft shelled cgs, or not lay at all. Young chicks may die of gapes or soms other ailment; rats, minks and other rodents may kill them. These are all common stumbling blocks to success. The farmer cannot expect more tban he does when his crops fail. No class of people are so favorably situated for raising poultry as farm¬ ers. AVith plenty of room and grain, certainly two essential advantages are theirs. Do not blame the hens for lack of success. Determine to over¬ come the difficulty, and the next ef¬ fort will be a success. Never ask a farmer, of the far too common kind that keep no accounts, whether his hens pay, for he will tell you he does not know.—[American Agriculturist. SALT WATER IN TJflE STABLE. A most excellent preventive of gall is to bathe the shoulders each evening with strong salt water, commencing six weeks before active spring work begins, and continuing the bathing during the summer. An English veterinary surgeon, who has tested the above for ten years, says: “In the stable I keep a small fruit can, in which 1 throw a small handful of salt and then add the necessary water. This is stirrod until tho salt is dis¬ solved, and the solution is applied to the shoulder with a doth tied around the cud of a corn-cob. The roughness of the cob holds the cloth well in place. Using this avoids getting the salt water on the hands— an agreeable precaution, especially if the skin on your hands is broken. When the horses are at work T wash their shoulders clean with clear wafer as soon as the harness is removed in the evening, and then apply the salt water. It cools and cases the should¬ ers, and the horses like it. — [Chicago Times. CURING CLOVER. Carelessness or lack of judgement will cause damage and loss in what we call good hay weather, as well as when the weather is showery. For example: We are now having intense heat, mcr- cury ranging high up in the nineties in tho 6hade and 110 degrees or more in the sun, and during this weather 1 have seen, on neighboring farms, clover cut down and left all day with¬ out stirring, with the natural result that it burned until the leaves would crumble like snuff. To make good olover hay it should be turned when partly dry and put up in small cocks to stand till near noon the next day. Then open and air and sun two hours (say from 11 till 1 o’clock),then turn, aud in half an hour begin putting in the barn. Clover will care in hot weather in one day so as to feel per¬ fectly dry to the hand, but if put in bulk, the next morning it will be very damp, and if stored in the bam in this condition it is sure to become musty- But if it stands in the cock aud gets damp, and then is spread and sunned till dry, it will keep perfectly. I can cure timothy so as to get it safely iu the day it is cut, but have never cured clover satisfactorily without cocking and a second drying.— [New York Tribune. THE CHERRY TREES. Until recently, cherries were th(V easiest fruits to propagate, but now they are the most difficult in many sections. This is all due to what they call the “spotting’’ disease, which be-^ gins on the leaves, and extends until the whole tree is stripped of all foli¬ age. The shoots around the trees be¬ come weak and spindling, and the life of once fine, hardy trees seems to have been sapped out of them. This dis¬ ease is still restricted to certain sec¬ tions; but so far no remedy has been suggested that proves effective. Even potash around the trees does not appear to stimulate the trees to better growth and production. The black-knots have made their appear¬ ance upon the cherry trees again this season, and threaten to kill hundreds of fine trees. This disease has been mostly restricted to the choice va¬ rieties, but the malady now infecting the dessert cherries is of a much more disastrous character. After growing well for a few years the trees begin to die, and no remedy seems to be able to save them. Frequently the bark splits, disclos¬ ing the wood below, and occasionally the woody fibre is destroyed. The foliage is only half developed, turns yellow and falls oft'. One twig after another turns black until the tree be¬ comes useless. The proper treatment for this is still unknown, but washing and spraying with a solution of pot¬ ash and lime frequently lessens the amount of damage.—TNcw Yor'x Voice. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Needed—more tillage on less acrea. A weak harness often causes acci¬ dents. Better thin the fruit than prop the tree. Look well to the pullet crop about now. Hogs require a large amount of drink. Use plaster freely in the horse- stable. Good pastures increase milk and butter. Using an inferior sire is breedihjs downward. The shortest road to long prices Is to have the best articles to sell. Do to your animals as you would be done by if you were an animal. An acre of clover is estimated to make about COO pounds of pork. Put coarse manure where you want a mulch and fine where you want it to speedily mingle with and enrich the soil. If perspiration stops when you are working in the sun and your head feels bad get into the shade and avoid sunstroke. AVhen a limb is grafted keep it clear of all sprouts of the parent stock, which absorb vitality that ought to go to the graft. A Clock Stopped By Sparrows. The Sarnia town clock stopped at 4.30 one morning recently, and Mr. AVilliams, on going to ascertain tho cause, found that the hands had been securely tied down by strands of twine aud grass. The mischief had been done by a pair of Engish sparrows, who had selected the angle formed by the hands as a site for a nest. The movements of the hands interfered with thoir plans, and the birds put their wlCs to work to devise a remedy that would secure the stability of the nest. Their first scheme was to wind the shaft on which the hands are pivoted round aud round with grass and cords. That failing, they tied the hands to each other and to the framework in such a manner that it took consider¬ able time and a great deal of labor on Mr. Williams’ part to remove tho ob¬ structions. The engineering skill dis¬ played by the birds in accomplishing their object showed that they possessed reasoning powers of no mean order, besides an amount of industry and perseverance in gathering the material within the few hours at their disposal that is almost incredible.—[Sarnia (Ont.) Observer. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. The light seen through the new eye¬ piece of the Lick telescope in Califor¬ nia, is 2000 times as bright as that 6cen by the unaided eye. , A French engineer proposes to tun- ncl the Straits of Dover, in part; at either end he would erect bridges. The English scheme is to bridge the whole distance. A new launch propelled by an elec¬ tric motor has developed a speed of nine and a half knots. The trial trip, which was in San Francisco Bay, was a marked success. An attempt to get some idea of tho area over which a llash of lightning is visible is to bo made, according to an announcement to the Berlin Meteoro- logical Society by means of simulta¬ neous photographs taken at widely separated stations. A new element, named “damaria,” is said to have been discovered in the crater of an extinct volcano in Damara- land. It is reported to have an atomic weight of only 0.5, or half that of hydrogen; and, therefore, it is tho lightest known substance. Tho long distance telephone is mak¬ ing its way very rapidly everywhere in Europe. London and Pa: is are Shortly to be united by telephone, and Prague and Buda-Pcsth are already united. Brussels and Paris have long been in telephonic correspondence. Automatic pumps for use in houses are now operated by the same electric current that lights the lamps. By an ingenious device the current is shut ofl and the pump stops as soon as the tank is full, and the machinery is started again automatically when the water iu the tank falls. t < The kola nut, of which a good deal has been said lately,” writes the Lon¬ don correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, “is rapidly increasing in favor as an indispensable adjunct to a traveller's kit. The French Alpine Club have just adopted It as a stimu¬ lant and nutrient in their mountain¬ climbing expeditions. ” The influence of tho electric arc on vegetation is said to have been strik¬ ingly shown in Berlin in the spring of this year. On some large lime trees the branches under the electric light displayed new leaves of considerable size, while the buds on opposito branches, where the light does not strike, were only just beginning to do* velop. A Russian Superstition. And old superstition, with specially Russian characteristics, has of late been manifested in Klisbcva, a village in the government of Moscow. At the beginning of June two peasants dug up a spring of water in that place. An old woman dreamed that the newly discovered spring possessed curative properties and she told her dream to the laborers of a factory near by. Thereupon masses of people, mostly women and children, began flocking around the healing waters. As the spring did not yield enough water to satisfy them all a fence was buil around it and a cross was erected on the spot. Several peasants of the vil¬ lage stand inside of the fence aud deal out the water in bottles to the appli¬ cants, each of whom deposits a coin at the foot of the cross. The money is collected by the older of the village every morning ami kept “for communal purposes.” At the foot of the cross there stands a bottle with two dead frogs in it, who had come to their untimely end in a pecu- liar manner. Before the concourse of sick persons around the spring was. great, some of the peasants caught, two perfectly healthy women, them that they were dangerously ill, and, pinning them to the ground, made thorn drink the healing waters until they fainted. When the poor women were picked up from the ground the two frogs were found in their garments, and were declared to he devils driven out by the virtue of the holy water. They are now exhibited in the bottle as a sign of the wondrous properties of the spring. The rush of people to that place is so great now that the authorities have great difficulty keep- ng them in order. An attempt on the part of the authorities to cover up the spring was met with loud protests by the villagers and the duped masses around the place, and had, therefore, to be abandoned.—f?iew York Sun.