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The Gospel of Agriculture.
Not long ago I found a brother farmer in
a very bad case. He said that it had actu¬
ality come to it that a man could not make
a living in this country, and if he could find
anybody to give his laud to, he was going to
hunt new ground. I was sorry for him, for
he did look powerfully long faced. Says I:
“Have you tried to make a living farming.'"
“Have I-tried!” he said, with a look that
indicated that I was a fool. “I have worked
myself and folks nearly to death, and we
have been getting poorer every year.
"That is strange," says I; “some people do
make a living right here in this country, I
have not found it hard to do.”
After taking a long look at me, he said :
“I carried my last cotton to market tother
day, and when I went to square up 1 was
left in debt for meat and bread last year,
and now I have got everything to buy thi«
year. Them merchants just take all a poor
farmer can make and then they ain’t sat
ietied. We all work hard and have nothing,
and we are always ii debt. This is no coun
try for a white man." As he said this his
voice trembled and he shook. It made me
real sorry; for he is a good, hard working
man Said I: “How do you manage,/eke
Pitkin? Do you make a good garden and
have plenty of all sorts of vegetables in their
season?” Looking 4pwn at his feet, he re¬
plied. "Do you reckon I have got nothing
to do but piddle in a garden? I tell you it
is all i can do to work my crop.” "Well,”
says I, “you have been on the grime place
fifteen yesrs—reckon you have got lots of
fruit of different sorts, to eat in summer and
fall and to put up for winter," “I reckon 1
ain’t. I need my land for my crop, and
land with trees on it won’t fetch a crop.”
“Do you raise plenty of Irish and sweet
potatoes to do you?” “Plenty while they
last, that ain’t long.” “Do you keep cows
to give you butter and milk?” “Sometimes.”
“Does your wife raise plenty of chickens
and turkeys, and such like?” “Howcanshe,
when Bhe has to help me with the crop?"
Do you make plenty of corn, oats and hay
fer your own use?” “Of course I don’t
when I am obliged to put in a full crop of
cotton to pay my debts and buy something
to eat,” Several fellows sitting around said:
"That’s what’s the matter with Sallie."
Says 1, “Friends I want to tell you what is
the matter with Sallie, and Mary, and Jane
aud Tom, and Bob, and /eke here, aud all
the rest of you. You say you can’t make a
living, and the truth is, you are not trying
to make a living. You are trying to make
money by raising cotton to buy a living
with, and there is no reason in that. Now,
listen to me a little, for your own good:
You and yours toil the year round to make
cotton, and then you get your meat from
1,000 miles away; corn, flour, hay, and so
on come the same way. The Yankees sell
us their grass at a big price, and we work
ourselves to death to kill grass. If you will
do as I tell you, inside of tLree years every
one of you will be easy.” Several of them
spole right up and sau , “Let us hear it.”
“Very well,” I said, "go home, and to-night
get your wives and children aff round you,
tell them just how you have been doing,
aud how it has worked. Then say, ‘I pro¬
pose to turn over a new leaf. First we will
not spend oue cent we can help—not a cent
for tobacco, whisky nor clothes more than
is necessary. We will get cows enough to
give us plenty cf milk and butter, and we
will attend to them, and we will get some
sows and pigs and look after them. There
will be a good garden and plenty of chick¬
ens raised. We will plant plenty uf pota¬
toes, corn, and what ever is to live on. In
short, we will go in for making a living first,
aud something to sell next.’ You will find
all will agree to it. Then just stick to that
tor three jears, and my word lor it, you will
never eay again that a living can’t he made
in this country.
Now if any of you doubt it come to see
me, and I will show you that it can he done,
and I will show you tha' it is done.”
I saw that it took so 1 follow id up my
licks and said, “Now, friends, don’t flinch,
don’t keep your trouble to yourse’f, aud
when it pinches you do not. buy on credit,
like jour neighbors do and .like you have
done, don’t give up.- Just settle it with
yourself and family, you will be free and
will out right "
you When come J through I thought the world
got
was orettygood sol shook hands all around
me and said, ‘ good eveniug friends, I
you success.” As I walked off. one fellow
said, “I see it—his head is level," and
said, "you’re correct lor a fact,"—Obed
Farmer, in Baptist Record.
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Clover Culture.
Many points are to be noticed iu estimat
ing the cost of sowing and harvesting
It is essential to success tnat the soil
well prepared. It should be thoroughly
p> lverized by plowing deep and
often. The cost of this will, of course,
pend on the previous condition of the
When the soil has been well prepared
seed should be sowed on top and a
run over it. Harrowing puts seed too
and often destroys the stand.
It has long been a prevailing opinion
clover woul i not grow successfully on gray
land, but experience proves this to be
mistake, and it is doubtful which is
adapted to its growth, red or gray soil.
laud sr,ould be manured with
guano or lot manure, or, better 'still,
post. Good land needs only
Clover should be sowed in fall with
—not too late—or alone in
Twelve to fifteen pounds per aire are
cient. It is a very tender plant for
months and easily injured by cold,
or weeds. Fall sowing is less liable to in¬
jury fromdr ought or weeds and,
generally to be preferred. When thus
you get two crops the next year after
vesting wheat.
Clover should never be pastured the
year unless it be a^very rainy aeason.
each cutting, land-plaster should be used as
a top dressing, and it the laud be very poor
a dressing of compost once a year will be
very profitable. The cost and profits may
be approximated thus:
Preparing one acre 21 days............$ 3 25
Manuring one acre, guanoor compost 2 50
Seed one acre and sowing............... 1 76
Rolling one acre.............
8 7 75
How the Senses are Pooled. i j
Jmmerse f A the t foreanger Wr of one one hand ban in
water at one hundred and four degrees l a,
«„ b « r ,,d.L„ P h r '.h.»»to of
Irom „bich it .po«.» tta. lb, iotoo.it, of
•be ■«»>*»"” »f -S- fPeot- «
only upon the relative degrees of heat to
which the parts are exposed, but also upon
the extent of surface over which it is ap- j
plied. From this cause a bath which is not
uncomfortable warm, when a few fingers are
•lipped in it, appears scalding hot when the
whole body is immersed. The sense of
temperature is, likewise, entirely at fault
when required to determine which is the
warmer of the two substances, say a piece
of iron and a piece of wood, for if they both
have the same temperature, the iron will
fee! the hotter ot the two, because of its be¬
ing a so much better conductor. A slight
difference of temperature, however, between
two substances of like nature is easily dis¬
cern d, and we may here describe in a few
words, a very simple hut highly entertaining
trick which is founded ou the fact.
The performer, having placed his hat be¬
hind, him, requests the people present to
place iu it three or four pennies. He
shakes it up behind him, aud then asks
some person to take out a penny and exam¬
ine it. He has then to pass it to the others
for examination, the last one pitching it
back into the hat again. The pennies
are then reshaken up, and the performer,
now placing one hand behind him, picks
out the penny which has been examined,
although throughout the whole operation he
has never seen it. When the experiment
has been done some two or three times suc¬
cessfully, a)) sons of unlikely suggestions
are made as to the way in which the feat
has been performed, but very seldom the
right oue, which is exceedingly simple. The
people, m banding the penny which was
selected from the others, make it warm. It
is, therefore, easy to pick it out from the
others when it has been pitched into the
hat again. This sufficiently demonstrates
the fact that at ordinary temperature the
sense of temperature as localized in the fin¬
gers is sufficiently sensitive to discriminate
between several pieces of metal so as to say
which is the Warmest.
But for the extremes of hot and cold,
touch is thoroughly deceived, a piece of fro¬
zen inercnry giving a burning sensation like
a red : hot bar of metal. The touch which at¬
tains to such perfection in persons afflicted
with blindness is readily deeeived. This is
shown forcibly by the experiment of Aris¬
totle. Cross the index and middle fingers
and run them over a maible placed on the
table with the eyes shut. Under such cir¬
cumstances one has difficulty iu avoiding
the belief that he is dealing with t wo marbles
in stead of one. The idea of soundness which
has been obtained by a complex judgment,
founded on the coalescence of several sen¬
sations, is appealed to. but the usual eondi
ions being reversed, we draw a wrong con¬
clusion. The sence of taste may be likewise
confounded by altering the conditions un¬
der which the gustatory operation is always
carried on. Thus if thenostrils be held firm¬
ly between the fingers, it is impossible to
distinguish between applying an onion or
an apple to the tongue.
The Oldest City iu the World.
Damascus is the oldest city in the world
Tyre and Sidou have crumbled on the
shore; Baalbec is a ruin ; Palmyra i? buried
in a desert; Ninevah aud Rabylon have
disappeared from the Tigris and Euphra
tees. Damascus remains what it was before
the days of Abraham—a esntre-ot trade and
travel—au isle of verdure in the desert; “a
presidential capital,” with martial and sa¬
cred associations extending through thirty
centuries. It was near Damascus that
Saul of Tarsus saw the light above the
brightness of the sun ; the street which is
called straight, in which it is said “he pray¬
ed,” still ruua through the city.
The caravan comes and goes as it did one
thousand years ago; there is Btill the sheik,
the ass and the water-wheel, the merchants
of the Euphratees and the Mediterranean
still occupy the streets “with the multitude
of their wares."
The city which Mohammed surveyed from
a neighboring height, and was afraid to
enter, “because it was given to man to have
but one paradise, tor his part he was resol¬
ved not to have his iu this world,” is to-day
what Julien called the “live of the East,”
as it was in the time of Isaiah, “the head ot
Syria." From Damascus came the damson,
our blue plums, and ihe delicious apricots,
of Portugal, called the dainasco; damask,
our bjiputiful fabric of cotton aud silk, with
vines and flowers raised upon a smooth,
bright ground; the damask rose introduced
into England in the time of Henry VIII;
the damascus blade, so famous the world
over for its keen edge aud wonderful elas¬
ticity, the secret of whose manufacture was
lost when 'Tamerlane carried the artist into
Persi«:aud the beautiful art of inlaying wood
and steel with gold and silver, a kind of
mosaic engraving and sculpture united—
damaskeening—with which boxes, bureaus
and swords are ornamented. It is still a
city of flowers aud bright waters; the
streams of Lebanon and the “silk ol gold"
niuruier and sparkle in the wilderness of
the Syrian gardens.
How Indians Farm.
A gentleman just up from Standing Rock
agency said the Indians were engaged in
planting. In answer to an inquiry as to
how the reds were progressing in the peace
• ful ways of grangering, he smiled and said
their manner was odd Every vear they
t0 kuow iesg Hbout bow l0 Tbis
is attributable to the fact that thev are
learning the ways of the whites too rapidly
They begin to understand that a. soou as j
they ran grow crops their rations will be !
■ cu , ot} - aad bence their growing ignorance
0 f agriculture. If thev ' are given a'hushel I
„ f ^ t0 pIaDt _ lbe wlil Mt nine . tentht
j j of tbe amount and plant one-tenth, and the i
one-tenth will be dumped in three or four j
holes in the ground. Last spring they «ere j
furuished with five bushels of onion seids.
■ They couldn’t eat them, aud eou*eqnent‘y '
Cutting and raking one acre... $ l 00
Hauling and housing one acre. .1 00
This two or three times per year......$ & 00
Total *12 75
Annual yield per acre, average two tons per
cutting, two or tbiee crops per year—five
tons per acre, valued at *1 per hundred,
* 100 net profit per acre, $87.25. After the
,
first year’s cost of preparation and seeding
can bededucted, leaving simple expense of
sowing and manuring $7.50;- profit, $02 50
As to nutritive qualities, there is no bet¬
ter forage, excepting, perhaps, Bermuda
grass. Clover hay is much better than the
best fodder—both for cows and horses, and
is good for hogs. After some years expert
enoe ihe writer considers an acre of clover
worth a profit ol - IWi a - veHr 8 as JUS
* *’ ue ,r0 P 0 c * ovel sowe “ e ' ,en J aro
, .
since. It ia uow growing
corners, and is worwe t an ca > gia.v in a
garden. lie has succecn. on very
gray land.
T h « P rolit ol clover nu8,u * “ ootobtam
ed at the expense of the soil, untie con.
wary, the soil grows rapidly richer, and will
Produce better crops of any kind after the
clover. Thus you get better land fat horses,
Pacing colts, rolling pigs and skipping
^nbs, to say nothing o lowing k.ne, pails
of cream and firkins of Jersey butter as the
result of clover culture.
Herein lies'the redemption of our land
from naked hills and empty pockets
Clover versus cotton should be our motto.—
B. Hunnicuttin Coweta Advocate
FASHI0N NOTES
Sleeves are made full or puffed.
The Wattftftu back is admired for indoor
dresses.
The straws in fancy patterns aud color’
predominate.
Evening dresses are studded with small
silk pompons.
A moderate gypsy shape and modified
poke is in demand.
The Jersey and “Jersey shapes” in bas¬
ques have been revived.
Flowers are taking the place of feathers
in hats and bonnets.
Soft puffs are greariy used for the skirts
of thin wool costumes.
The popular bonnet has an upright crown
and close, small brim,
Bonnets take the lead for girls, a cross
between the poke and gypsy.
The “Joan” dress aud “Milk ruaid” cloak
is coming into fashion.
Olive and softer shades iu terra cotta and
strawberry are prevalent colors.
Ash gray is a favorite color, all shades of
gray are fashionable except slate.
l'aniered styles are used in conjunction
with many narrow ruffles upon the front of
the skirt,.
Costumes are made very effective by
making the material and ornamentation of
different Bhades of the same color.
The ruling dresses for maidens under ten
years of age aud over three, are the “Prin
cess,” "KateGreenaway,” the “Sa : lor”"and
the "Fish wife" costumes.
N ew ribbons are wide and brocaded in
tropical leaves and flowers of very largo
size.
Changeable silks iu combination with
rich brocades are coming in.
An Unnsnal Engineering Feal.
At one time it was obvious that the
Washington monument foundation needed
to be strengthened, aud Col. Casey address¬
ed himself to a task which a good many
engineers would have preferred not to
undertake. Going down below the founda¬
tion already bui't, he dng from under it all
around a core of earth forty feet square,
directly under the center of the foundation
and monument; and the 71,600,000 pounds
of weight stood ou this pillar of earth. The
new excavation was of a depth oi thirteen
feet, and made a cellar under the foundation
120 feet square. This was tilled with solid
masonry, except where the core of earth
Btood, which was not removed. Then the
sides of the old foundation above were torn
down for a considerable distance under the
walls of the shaft, rebuilt oi better materials,
and spread out further under the new base
below, thus distributing the pressure over a
much larger area. So, instead of a founda¬
tion only'80 feet square, that is, extending
only 12 j feet beyond each ot the four faces,
there is now a fouudalion 126 feet square,
extending 35 feet beyond each face, and
running 13 feet deeper. A good maDy
engineers have come at different times to
visit the mouument and inspect the inter¬
esting work. One of them looked at it a
long time without saying anything. Then
he quietly remarked “Well, that’s easy
enough to do, hut I don’t kuow oue engi¬
neer in a thousand who would want to try
it.” The result proves how well the work
hhs been done. Since the laying of stone
was renewed 28,355 tons of stone have
been added to the pile, and the settle
ment of the shaft due to this load has been
just one and a quarter inches. The settle¬
ment is so even that the greatest • aria’ion
in the sinking ot the four corners is a
difference of four one hundredths of an inch
between the southwest and northeast cor
ners. The other two have settled exactly
a ike, even to the hundredth part of au inch.
The total pressure uow borne by the bed of
ouudation is 74,871 tons, or ninety-two per
cent of the whole pressure that will be placed
upon it.— Washington correspondence New
York Tribune.
Ihe most agreeable of all companions is
a simple frank man. without any high pre
tensions to an oppressive greatness; one
who loves life, and understands the use of
“ alike « a " a ^° ve
a golden temper, and steadfast as an au
ch°r. For such a oue we gladly exchange
the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit,
the protoundest thinker.-Lewing.
The sister ol temperance is not she who
idle, but she who goes straight for
ward to the work.
planted the entire five bushels on a piece;
of * roun,i fift y b J 0M hunrired feet - Th l y
#r@ t00 ^ to prtp8re a , large patch;
heg ; de it won!d have jj,,, contrary to their ;
of , h , ,
Zt^JSSSTSSTi "" r ‘ mi " P ”“ p !” • p '°“'
not make successful grang<r*
(hunting a Billion
Said a father to his handsome young son
one evening as they were sitting together,—
“Can you count a billion?’’
“Certainly, papa, that’s no great feat,’’
was the. reply.
“Do you know bow mauy make a billion?’
the father next qoirisd.
“Not exactly; but I will see what Web
ster says iu hi« great dictionary. Here
is:—‘a million of millions, as many millions
as there are units in a million.’ ’*
"Now, my son, this is a very large nnm
her, and do think it? '
you yon can conn*
“Certainly I can ”
‘ How long do you <hiok it will take you
if you do nothing else but count?”
“Perhaps all day, easily in days ”
or two
the son.
'"Take your slate and pencil, and let us
make a little calculation. As your tongue
is very nimble, I will allow you can count
two hundred a minute. How many will this
give you in an hour?” asked the father.
“Why only twelve thousand.
“And how many iu twenty-four hours?
"Only two hundred and eightv-eight
thousand,” replied the boy.
“This tells you that two days are not
enough, even if you count without eating or
sleeping, for if would only give you six
hundred and seventy-six thousand, which is
very far short of a billion, yon see,"
“Give me a whole year arid 1 will count
it,” said the son,
"If you do," said the good natured father,
with a twitikle in his eye, ’ll will give you a
hundred dollars, and lake you to France
aud Italy next surnmer. Come, use your
pencil again, and see bow far a year will
carry you toward the billion, allowing that
you work three hundred and sixty-five days,
and twenty-four hours each day, Maltip'y
two hundred and eigbty eight thousand,
counted in a day, by three hundred and
sixty-five, and what result will yon have?”
“Why, papa, only one hundred and five
million, one hundred and twenty thousand
I give it up. for I do not believe I could
count it in my whole life time.”
“This is very probable, my so" ; hut now
you are at it, keep up the calculation, and
find out how long it would take you to count
a billion. Ba careful in your multiplications
and additions, for a email mistake where
the figures are so many will make a great
difference in the result I will look over
you. You have made the calculation, aud
what result have yitu? ’
“Perfectly amazing i To count a million
times a million would most certainly take
nine thousand five huudred and twelve
years, twenty-four days, five hours and
twenty' minutes, at the rate of two hundred
for every minute.’ 1
Were tbs Ancient Hebrews Left-Handsd ?
ThiB is a new problem for the Anglo
Isaaelites. Were the Hebrews a left handed
people? Dr. Erienmeyer gave an interesting
and learned teciure to prove that they were
Most of the Aryan people, as we know,
write from tbe left to the right of a sheet of
paper, and their hooks are so printed as to
read in that direction. Most of the Sem Lie
people, on the contrary, write from the right
to the left of the paper. Hitherto the very
emphatic difference has been represented to
be a mere characteristic of habit, kept up by
the reverence of tradirion which is so deep¬
ly rooted in the Semitic miud. It has never
occurred io any one so far as we know,
that the direction taken by the hand of a
Semitic scribe in writing was due to a
physiological cause. u»tne!y, to the fact that
his left hand was h s better hand, and was
much more ready and “dexterous" than the
hand which we Aryans call the dexter. Dr
Erienmeyer insists that the writers of the
Old Testament, and probably the early
Talmudists after them, naturally wrote with
their left hands, and would have found it
difficult, if not impossible, to write with the
other baud. Heice, it was only natural
that the mauuscript should travel along a
line which started from the right and ended
on the left. Dr, Erienmeyer says that this
hypothesis is not a mere happy thought
his own, but that he found striking confir¬
mation of the^theory in the Talmud. For in¬
stance, he cites a passage w hich insists that
certain prayers and inscriptions are always
to be written with the right band and not
with the left. The execution of this excep
tional prescription was a work of time,
patience and difficulty, and it is implied that
the process of writing with the right hand
wag a departure from the ordinary easy and
natural way of writing. The learned doctor
also cited passages from the Hebrew of the
Old Testament in which a stress seemed to
him to be laid upon the "left handedness"
of the old Hebr ws Jacob and Job he said
preferred to give the pre-eminent blessing
with the left hand instead of the right
Jacob “knowingly and deliberately," laid
his lett hand upon the head of his eldest
grandchild. We commend the question to
the Anglo Israelites. If they can prove
that the majority of Englishmen are
ally left-handed they will be. in
of one more “identity.” In that case we
may expect them to write their letters and
p int their magaz nes in future after the
proper Semitic manner.—London Echo.
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' t-s not enough to urge au en.,cat, 0
threstec aad t0 w ***'
men and women to do one thing aud
* r0 ' d another ; We must rather open up to
the ’ r minds ’\ e reas0n wh? one th,D * * S
r ' eht ^ “■’-other wrong, we must teach
oode ' i * ? te bunsm J 01 aouoa hffi aad and tbus P nn fP‘ e8 tha ’
-
to a living common . ot duty which will be,
v88t1 ’ «■>« as an authority their eves,
50 any " <c tual ol o^ ers.
^__
No man ever offended his own conscience
but first or last it was revenged upon him
it.—Fuller.
Jack Hays’ Famous Shot, I
In the summer of 1844. John Hays, bet
knQWrj ftg c , ftin Jack , iu company
, ,. , , n „ Pr wh ; )e
.bo. b«f boo. oo the ... p.tb „«d put ■«
*? W "
Besides those they have bu'chered,” the
excited messenger went on, "they have
carried off several women captives, among
them my wite. I pray you will go with me
to rescue them, Captain Hays, foi I will die
upon the trail but they shall he saved."
“Have yon any idea of the direction
taken by the redskins, Hallet?” asked Hays,
as the other sonn-what recovered his wonted j
composure
“Yes, they are not far to the west and
B0U th 0 f us, Captain."
"Wbat say you, boys, shall we follow the
rad demons and rescue the females?" cried
Hays, quickly, to his followers.
“Ay. that, we will. Capt" replied Walker
ins’sully. “Follow the inbumau horde
tight into their own camp fire, ii it is neees
SBrr l0 i iav e the poor whites."
Without stopping to inquire the number
of their foes, or counting the odds of their
undertaking, and only knowing tl*t helpless
friends were in perii who needed their as¬
sistance, the generous hearted Texans urged
their fleet-footed horses over the plain until
they almost seemed to fly.
At the end of half an hour’s riding Hays
suddenly reined up. As his companions
came alcngside with eager looks they dia
covered nearly a score of mounted Co_
maoehes drawn ap on a slight eminence of
land, and directly in tront of ft piece of
scrubby growth. With scarcely a moment s
hesitation, Hays struck the rowe’s ii to bis
horse’s sides, and shouting for his rangers
to follow, he boldly charged upon the In
dmns.
Giving expression to wild cries, among
which was distinguished the name of "Cap¬
tain Jack,” the savages retreated as the
whites advanced Motioning rapidly to the
east, “Captain Jack," without a word, turned
his horse and led the way around a patch of
growth to a safe position. This had been
barely accomplished when the savages came
into sight to the number o! more than three
score, while it was certain that others were
still concealed in the undergrowth,
“Ha!’ exclaimed Hays, grimly,” it’ia just
as J expected, and they mean to fight, too
But, let's get a better posish, boys, and then
the varments may come on if they want
to,"
Hays then led his followers rapidly for
waiddowu the defile, until reaching the
lower end and turning the ridge, they gained
the foe’s rea
“Now, boys," the leader cried, "don’t
waste a single shot, but give the reds par'
icnlar fits! Ready, charge!' 1
t had of their
The first warning the savages
danger was the report, of the rangers fire
arms and their sudden appearance upon the
scene. Then succeeded a melee hard to
jescribe. As tbe Indians prepared to make
a stand, Hays ordered his men to draw their
revolvers and continue the fight, at the same
time forming them into a circle. At this
moment the cries of the helpless captives
rang out on the air, nerving them to still
greater action, if that were possible.
For nearly an hour the contest was thus
kept up, the two parties alterna'ely charging
and retreating At the eod of that time a
Btartling discovery was made by the rang
ers. Their last grain of powder was gone!
At this critic>i moment tbe red chief as ii
comprehending his advaniage, was forming
his warriors, fully halfft hundred in number,
into a line for a fiaftl charge. For once in
his life Jack Hats hesitated. Turning his
powder flask in his hand, be exclaimed:
“Not a grain! 1 hate to do it, but it is
our only chance. Boys, we must get out of
this!”
“No—no!” cried Hallet The prison
| ere will all he tortured to death* Ob, my
w ;( e i''
But, unheeding the frantic husband’s
cries, the rangers wheeled th‘ ir horses to
gee, just as a wilder yell fiom the Co
manebes told them that they were ready for
them.
“Hold on© second!’ cried Gillespie, a 4
this junclifre spurring his horse forward to
the irout, “I have one shot left and I must
wipe out another red before I go!”
He raised his rifle to draw bead upon the
nearest savage, just as Hays snatched the
weapou from his grasp, crying:
“Are you mad, Tom? ’
Before the others could divine their lead
er's real intentions, he had taken aim upon
the Comanche chief and fired, when the
latter felt.
"Quick—quick! Now or never!” thunder
ed Hays, and before the Indians could rally
from the loss of their chief, the Rangers
were in their midst, when they broke aud
fled in wild disorder, leaving the captives in
the hands of their friends.
The Texans were always wont to say that
they were saved by “Captain Jack's famous
shot."
Victims of Fashion.
A shoe-dealer savs that mothers ruin their
j children's bring her feet baby through and ask vanity. me to “One try pair will
; Lf me a
gho es on* it that will look ‘real sweet’
| ! I know what that means, but I’m always
sorry for the baby, who is usually in its first
j dress, and as skittish as any old maid about
having its feet meddled with I don’t say
that I’m going to put a shoe on it a size
larger than the foot seems to be, but I do;
1 feast I it well could
at get on as ae any one
fit a foo: operated by a perpetual motion
power. Then 1 trust to the mother's sense
fox results. If it is her first baby she will
indignant aad say that she doesn’t want
‘,he treasure’ to ‘look sloppy in its shoes.’
^ mn8t fit exactly or she won’t take
them _ i lns ; Bt tbat the child’s weight will
push the foot out at least a fourth of au
^ , he ^ ig jag , rig( ., If
she objects again I give up and find what
she wants. The foot is squeezed into a tight
^ and , he h&QJ prote8t3 -^ equaiiing .
^ ^ ^ wr . pb ig ^ ething or collckv ,
or - &asD ’ t had its usual nap, and she shakss
it up vigorously, while declaring the shoes
are ‘just lovely,’ and that its papa will he
delighted. Tfte changes are that when eho
wants another pair she will leave the baby
at home and bring down its shoe literally
burst out at the toe She wants several i
pairs to take home for trial, and I notice
that the only ones I considered unsuitable
are the very pair she prefers. Child reo
would have better looking feet if they had
wiser mothers, and the fault liesin the first
shoes worn. One pair too short will ruin
the feet, no matter how loose subsequent
ones may he. Yes, but after the little peo¬
ple have laid a foundation for corns and
bunions. I know many children between
two and three years who have both these
afflictions beeau-e their mothers wanted
them to look ‘cute,’ as they terra this
phrase of foot squeezing.’’
la a Cattle Town.
Miles City, M T., is the headquarters
and principal shipping point of the great
catt e interests of the Territory, and its
proximity to Fort Keogh, which is only
two miles distant, gives it additional prom
inence as a trading place. The town itself
has a cartons interest for the stranger, being
in many respec‘s different in its character
istic from the other towns on the line. It
is more.like a typical border town and more
in consonance with the generally accepted
nature of what a border town should be.
Cowboys with lariats banging on their sad¬
dles are seen at every turn, riding on th?
stout little broncho ponies of the plains;
rough-looking men are loafing on the street
corners; occasionally a “big Indian,” with
a squaw or two following him, stalks across
the scene, and on each side of the street
are innumerable places of low tesort, in
which the combined attractions of rum and
gambling are openly advertised. These
places are so numerous, indeed that they
seem at first, glace to constitute the chief
industry of the town. At night ihey pre¬
sent a curious spectacle. Nearly all are
large rooms opening on the street. The
doors are kept wide open when the weather
will permit and inside may be seen a motley
crowd of men and women. On oue side of
the room is a long bar (rom which beer and
whisky are iiispen3ed, and about wh'ch there
is always a crowd. Scattered about, the room
are three or four faro 1 lay-outs," with grim
and intensely interested groups of players
standing around them. Scattered
the groups are several Chinamen, for John
thrives on the frontier even as he
in the large cities, and if he escapes
lassoed by a miscievou? cow-boy, is allow¬
ed to pursue in peace the usual
ol his race. At some of the tables women
act. as dealers of the game, and apparently
they are regarded with the utmost respect
by the rough men who are tempting
and wasting their hard-earoed saviugs.
Everything is conducted quietly and in
most orderly manner. To be sure there
a relvolver or two ostentatiously displayed
at the side of a heap of money and chips on
the table, or sticking in a menacing
from a player’s broad buckskin bell; but they
are seldom used and seemed to be carried
more in a spirit of reckless bravado than
for offensive or defensive purposes. In
warm weather the gaming tables are re
moved to the edge ot the plank sidewalks,
and on a pleasant summer evening
spectacle is one that does not impress a
Strang r with the high moral tone of
inhabitants.
Such is one phase of life in Miles city, the
cattle metropolis of M ratana. Another is
furnished by the "cattle kings” and ranch
owners, who congregate in the hotels
making the,re shipments and talk of their
business prospects, the state of the market,
the chances for a favorable winter, and
respective merits of bunch and buffalo grass.
As a rule they are quiet, reserved men, with
rouah exteriors, but gentlemanly in manner
aud thoroughly in earnest id the pursuit of
ibeir lucrative calliug They are mostly
men above the average in intelligence, aud
the deference paid to them by the smaller
fry aud the cowboys is noticeable. They
are mm who own or have -a controilim
interest in vast herds of cattle, and have
a large interests at stake.—Correspondnce
New York Times.
Two Remarkable Festers in the Pueblo
Asylum.
A correryojdeiit of the Greely (Col.)
"Tribune" has discovered a ease of fasting
in the insane asylum at Pueblo that beats
Dr. Tauner’s entirely. The patient, an in¬
curable religious maniac, refused to eat.
He told that it was God’s will ihat he should
not. For forty-nine days be lay upon his
bed, until death overtook him. Food might
have been introduced to the stomach by
means of a stomach pump, hut it. was thought
best not to resort to such means. The
doctor tried in every way to tempt the ap¬
petite, but without any success whatever.
Strawberries and ether delicacies were stead
i!y refused and only water and a little
lemonade taken. On the morning of the
forty-ninth day the patient’s tongue was
clean, the skin healthy, the eye clear.
Religious man’acs are more stubborn than
any otbeis.
The institution developed another partial
faster, hut he was saved by accident. This
oue bad cut the bars of a window with a
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...... h,s bed cl h BDd J * "f/ i
coaming t ^’ e ^ reel * ota WaS mountains, g0ne B ’ X w eie
je sa)l e saw wild beasts, an on ae
t wo ePlrs °* co1 ^- ©came buea a mos
a skeleton, VY en e went way e a
ea * en nothing but potatoes an rea or
S ye years,.but this experience cure
°* t * Jat w ^ m now 6418 a '’- 1 ln ^' an
he is also willing to wear woolen an step
0D carpet. He is a dangerous man, as
l® 8 * a thumb, whteh be says te s. ot o
get ^' 8 discharge from t. e riUs ar,uy
Part of the he ls Gen ' Napoleon and ]
he is God. Occasionally he has been
bnow “ *« b cat another inmate terr.ffly >f
left with him
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As in walking it is your great care not to
run your foot upon a nail, or to trend awry, ,
and strain your leg; so let it be iu all the !
affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind >
or offend your judgment And this rule if
carefully observed iu ali your deportment.
will be a mighty security to you ta your an-,
dertakings.—Epictetus.
Small
mnst h° concedi
can * )e3t done up<
a ^ y w ^ f;re one’s ca
tendency to improve,
pared more thorough
apparent in every j
Small farms indn ce th
The owners are stiuJ
obtain means for the!
implements and ec
Many a man is burdet
be has more land th
profit. It the same de;
more precision of app
a smaller space, it won
comfort, happiness and
wealth. l
The mania for ownid
and as many as possible
>y on the increase in ta
taxation of unsettled !ai
residents for speculative
he but a partial remedy
ev ‘f To every thinkin
terested in the ge neral
country, it is evideut fha
is better every gray than
undertake the extensii
tracts, resulting as it
diminishing production
We ought not to wait ut
before attempting to do ri
say kind words and do kij
ately, even when we shoui
them instinctively and ior
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