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(t { e lumber the camps trnGj >•’
in this couBfg* started
rested parties lrave
gg, the people of all this
(horrified by the news that
lumberman hr m S at
sock, a and Potter
te ar the Tioga of his
’had murdered four
committed suicide by
self in his bouse. The news
tiosn by Hancock’s wife.
absent from home on the
>en
[tragedy Her story was
gone home and found the
in lying dead, some in the
Lein the yard. mutilate*. They hud
fed and frightfully eldest
hitcher knife- The
[years old. A fifth child, a
Beep and uninjured in a pool
L side of one of its mu*
pparently in the hand writ
husband, was found in the
Mi he confessed the terri¬
fying as his reason his de¬
ls wife of himself and the
bse of her conduct,
toner's ji inquest jealous it was do¬ of
Hancock was
p good cause and that ho
for upbraided her for her
fe. 1; was also shown that
lire [acock the butchery at Blue
[ter and John Coagley,
[g husband had charged
intimate. were nearly all
■ Bestigation in the woods. After the
was over this Coag
Bod and came to place
Be I saw mills.
he made no secret of the
■was in constant fear that
Ire following him, and the
1 every stranger in Austin
■ the greatest uneasiness.
Irew'on Suddenly him, and he finally
I and his where
never been learned. Airs.
I left Blue Run after the
I was over. She was soon
fci abandoned hanger-on of
[nips, inberman. living It with is not this known and
[on [he fate she of made its brothers of the babe and
B bloody night at the Blue
[ago [amp a went messenger to Coudersport, from the
f °f Totter county, with
[story Bp, and that that Mrs. before Hancock
■ a confession dying
■ her husband which not
■pr of the kill
and himself, but de
and two of her
B;'~' By- : , |h; tinrnwl, but whose
11, public, murdered
■T ■*®ct cmldn-n. The eon
that she had be
■* ■r^t itt " threats her hus-
1 ft because of
■LV fulness, and egged
h ' ; resolved, with
Bf W'ptoMomfon.. 1 Hancock out of the
Ice him
aan & hi “‘ to a
■ him i°e te \ u ! i ls P° ckt *t as
■ f «de, stating and that he
fffjW-ed why. in
chloro
he he was
Bortha E - two men > who
Ec entered th<
k a rope, and were
L *„ > ? et ! tlle eldest child
fess she stabbed it
oth I j fn four children, to
bei™
ad been’+ to Wer sdence ? butchered
^ them.
laereb to danger
n°t harmed
written to
ts.
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“ OQl man 7 months.
1 to Italy)”
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’ met it! India.
O e-o! It? on the
>e a more in India
.
..ban either ind are
v.-n more extensively, being raised
.. ,- n Madras,in the south,to Rajputana.
: tee north. They occupy about 83
cent, of the food grain area in
•j. ay and Sinde, 41 per cent, in the
ah’o, 3.9 per cent, in tbs central
in ail about 30,000,000
acres. ’—Popular Science Monthly.
When the Fish Was Caught,
Gfmignoli, the son of a fisherman, a
priest in a rich abbey in Florence, had
net spread every day on the table of
his apartment to put him, as be said,
in mind of his origin. The abbot dy
i n g, this dissembled humility procured
Q ril ignoli to be his successor, and the
Ijet was used no more. A friend who
came to see him the day afterward on
entering ids apartment said, “Where is.
the net?” “There is no further occa¬
sion for the r.'et,” replied Gruignoli,
“when the fish is caught”—Notes and
Queries.
The >irt of Pleasing,
Wc are told that truth is the end of
all art, but too much truth is not part
of the best methods of the art of pleas¬
ing. If your host be a Liberal you
should not point out to him the muta¬
bility of party battle cries. It is true
that when Iasi the Liberals were in
power we were perpetually told that it
was the duty of every citizen to bow to
the sacred majority of the ballot box,
and that now that the ballot box had
decided against Home Rule the Radi¬
cals will not permit legislation until
Home Rule passes. All this is true,
but it would be contrary to the first
principles of the art of pleasing to em¬
phasize its truth before a Radical hose
In some companies, however, you may
treat Mr. Gladstone as you do the
weather—abuse him for lack of another
subject of conversation.
Similarly, if you sit besido a soldier
whose devoted breast is valorously deco¬
rated, it may oecui to you that the ac¬
count of one of tire actions tints com¬
memorated ran something as follows:
■We met with a stubborn and desper¬
ate resistance, Our troops behaved
gallantly, and at length the enemy were
repulsed. Losses on our side, a drummer
boy of the One Hundred and Fiftieth
regiment has a severe hole in his drum.
Losses of the enemy variously estimated
at between 100 and 1,000.” The report
of the action may have been somewhat
like the above, but it would not be in
accordance with the principles of the
pleasing art for you to point out to the
soldier the infinitely greater dangers ol
a day’s covert shooting.—Murray’s Mag
azine.
adventures, with Lions.
Gerald, tits famous French lion
killer, says in his “Adventures” that
teething is an important crisis in the
life of the lion cubs, and that a large
number of the young die during that
period.
When the cubs have finished teeth¬
ing the lioness leaves them for a few
hours each day, and on her return
brings mutton, carefully skinned and
torn in small pieces.
The Arabs, on discovering a litter of
cubs, watch for the departure of the
lioness, and then rob her of the whelps.
They post themselves on a high cliff
or a tree overlooking the lair.
As soon as they see the lioness go
down to the plain, and are sure that
the lion Is not near, they creep to the
iair, wrap the cubs in the fold of their
burnoose in order to smother their
cries, and carry them to the edge of the
woods, where men are waiting with
horses.
One day sixty Arabs surrounded the
woods where there was a lair, and by
shouts tried to rouse the lioness. She,
however, remained in her hiding place.
Several Arabs then crept into the
thicket and brought out the whelps.
The Arabs, pleased at their success,
were retiring to their tents, thinking
they had nothing more to fear. Sud¬
denly the sheik, who was on Horseback
and a little behind his men, saw tfco
lioness rushing out of the woods di¬
rectly at him.
He called, and his nephew, Mecaoud,
and his friend, Ali, ran to his aid. The
lioness sprang at the young nephew,
who, facing her with his gun at his
shoulder, pulled the trigger when she
came within six or seven feet. The cap
only exploded. The youth threw the
gun away, and presented bis left arm
wrapped in his burnoose.
The lion seized the arm and began
crushing the bones. The young man,
without a cry, drew his pistol and fired
in her breast. She dropped the arm
and bounded on Ali, who fired a ball
•lown her throat as she sprang at him.
He was seized by the shoulder and
thrown down, but the lioness, before
sue could injure him greatly, expired
on his prostrate body. The nephew
died the next dag
• A HELWHO MAK*.
A TRAPPER'S STCRV.
um t }
m
patty die oth -r day, “ana L ha a
dreary time of it up in Hunt-: Tde. We
gathered around the fire in the rain,
and tried to shorten tin:. 1 i.y tolling
stories »f the woods chiefly, as mos’
stories are ih the l ack <• One
old trapper, a character in 1. way, but
not of a romancing disposition, told us
a story something like this:
I . ( A good many years ago, when
trapping was a be tor business than it
is now, I did a good deal of work in the
district back of .Feneion falls. One
summer I built a camp—really a
wigwam like an Indian’s—and stored
away my traps. It was on the bank of
a stream and In the course of the sum¬
mer when I passed up and down in my
canoe .1 sometimes stopped over night
and slept there. One night, as dusk
was changing into dark, I came down
the stream on the way to Feneion falls,
some twenty miles away. 1 felt tired
and decided to sleep at the camp and
see that my traps were all right.
4 « i As I came up to the wigwam I no¬
ticed something white inside. It was
so dark that I could not tell what it
was, but I concluded it was some ani¬
mal that had crept in and made a den
lor itself. In that wild country the
thought never struck me that it could
be a human being, and, besides, it lay
stretched along the ground just as a
wolf would be. I bad my revolver in
my belt, and raised it to shoot, but
lowered my hand again. A second
time and a third I took aim, but some¬
thing seemed to keep me from drawing
the trigger. Then I lit a piece of bark
and went up to the camp.
i i l A woman lay there with A white
dress all torn to shreds, with one shoe
and stocking gone and the other in
rags, but with three magnificent rings
on her fingers. She was almost dead,
and though she looked in my face
gave no answer to my questions. She
was dying of hunger I saw at once, and
running out I started a fire, While it
kindled I gave her biscuit and other re¬
freshments that j, had. Then I cooked
some fish, and the first sign of life she
gaw* was to point at the fish and to her
mouth. She was ravenous and ate till
I was afraid to give her more. But
what to do with her? She could not
stay there in the woods and was fast
becoming delirious. I tied her feet to¬
gether and did the same with her arms
so that she could not move or jump up
and upset the canoe.
44 4 Laying her down in the bottom as
comfortably as I could I set out for
Feneion Falls, and you may be sure I
paddled that night at my best speed.
She was recognized at Feneion Falls as
the daughter of a wealthy American
visitor and carefully tended. After¬
ward we learned that she had been out
boating, and landing, had wandered
into the woods and lost herself. Her
boat was found and it was supposed
she was drowned. She had been six
days in the woods when she found hei
way to my camp.’”—Toronto Globe.
Wliere Perfumes Come From.
Ambergris comes from the sperma¬
ceti whale, and is generally found fioat
ing in the waters where these leviathans
disport themselves. An ounce of this
precious product costs twenty-five dol
lars, considerably more than the same
weight of silver. Neroli is an essential
oil derived from bitter orange blossoms.
The vanilla bean comes from Mexico
and Central America; oil of lavender
from England and France.
Patchouly is imported from China
It is largely used to perfume shawls.
Sandalwood is from a tree indigenous
to India. America is not behind the
Old World in producing some scents
used by perfumers. The best pepper
mint oil in the world comes from
Wayne county, N. Y. Long Island \a
noted for its tuberoses.
Florida and California coritrihurt
great quantities of orange blossoms.
The opoponax blossom, used for cer¬
tain combinations, comes from the
southern states.—New York Evening
Sun.
A Short Way with Duns.
In former times, when the Highland
chieftains were not so prompt in their
payment, a tradesman from the low
country, impatient for his money,
found, with some difficulty, the way to
one of their castles. Arriving at night,
ho had his supper and was put to bed.
iriirruio tu the iliddle A?® 1,
fn the Middle Ages, when gteel and
silver mirrors were almost exclusively
used, a method of backing glass for the
same purpose with thin sheets of metal
was known. Small convex mirrors of
glass were made in Germany before the
Sixteenth century, and were in demand
until comparatively modern times.
They were produced by blowing smai 1
glass globes, la to which while the,
were hot woe plowed through . pipe .
mirture o t tin, untimon, »nd nwta.
When the globe was coated inside it
— allowed to oool and t~a attewwawi
into oonvex leases, whh* formed
r } v! ren.
iie su i one which d
Some
fcovet ‘
the se r.
general rale, but t v i a
ceptior It is an undeniab
some of them mo: wild
,1 A.K a n c
accustome I to
many even
old can safely take, and are much ben
efited by. the juices of sweet, mellow
fruit. Children also frequently suffer
from habitual constipation, and these
juices act far better than medicinal
remedies.
Notwithstanding all this, the giving
of fruits to children before they are
two years old should be very guarded,
and limited to the juices of those which
are positively fresh, known also to be
easily disposed. of in the system and
not likely to cause diarrhea. As a
child approaches its third year, its al¬
lowance of fresh fruits may be more
generous, due care being invariably
used in their selection; still, modera
Mon should be the rule, for intemper
ate indulgence in even the most digest
able fruits is quite sure to be followed
by unpleasant, if not serious conse
quences.
These fruits which are very acid, and
require much sugar to make them pal¬
atable, should be withheld. Oranges,
apples and peaches, if perfectly ripe
and sound, may be occasionally allow¬
ed, unless, of course, there is an irrita¬
bility of the stomach and bowels. Pears
are less digestible than these, but if
thoroughly ripe can do no harm if not
toe freely indulged in.—Boston Herald
Do YVe Teach Geology?
The cultural aspects of civilization
are due to geologic structure, but in
how many of our institutions are rtu
dents taught to appreciate the topog¬
raphy or configuration of the earth’s
surface and its relation to structure, or
to observe with inquiring eye the forms
und contours of the landscape? The
jrudent usually learns the chemistry of
certain nicely arranged hand specimens
of hard rocks and memorizes the names
of leading fossils or the crystallography
of minerals uudez the guise of economy
geology. As a result, the study is sup
posi to be merely the study of hard
rocks and curious fossils.
Although the student knows these by
sight lie cannot trace a rock sheet above
t! le ground or below it, or see the great
ioft terrenes void of fossils and rocks
which make up the larger area of our
country, and cannot appreciate the
broader relations of structure to agri¬
culture, hygiene, climate and civiliza¬
tion. Hence the great unfossiliferous
terrenes are unknown; for example,
the nonmountainous regions of the
west and south, over which in places
one may travel from the Rocky moun
tains to the Gulf of Mexico without
finding a fossil, a crystal or a building
stone.—Robert T. Hill fu Popular Sci¬
ence Monthly.
Too Many Lanffuageg.
There is undoubtedly a good deal of
advantage in learning foreign tongues
from a nurse in childhood, but it is
easily possible to do this at the ex¬
pense of English. If the child is not
to know its mother tongue ♦ ■ re is not
a great deal of advantage in having a
smattering of a foreign one.
On I he piazza of a summer hotel
were observed nos long since a group
of overdressed children who were
about setting out for a v* \lk under the
care of a governness who was unmis¬
takably French.
“Maudie,” a small boy of the party
said to ills sister, “ain’t the fraulein
a-goin to come ?”
“Nong,” the girl answered, “elle est
nein gut, and I be awful glad she ain’t
well this morning.”
These children had a French and a
Borman governess vt the same time.
When Leather Was Money.
Leather was very early used as a cur
rency, the Romans employing it for
this purpose before either gold, silver
or brass came into common use. His¬
tory is full of references showing that
leather was used by the ancients as s>
xort of circulating medium of exchange
^ j s sa j f ] OI1 good authority that so
j ate ^ q ur i n g the reign of Louis XH
p rance the country became so ini
p OVer ished, and as a consequence
moue y wa s so scarce, that little piece*
Q f [gather, with a small silver nail
q r j ven through each, were in general
use as money. Some few specimens of
t jjj s Jeather money are still in existence,
^ ut are only to be found in the pcs
of numismatists, by whom they
ar0 highly prized. — New York Adver-
4 ^ 1 *.
To Kamemlrdi" When Od» *h»ke« Hands.
Those learned in palmistry and kin¬
dred sciences tell us that when we grasp
a 90 tv speak boneless hand, a band
«ni. ***•«»«<** »land w«h » *' no ruu, apparent ‘j^^^ "taht, 7^'
tw aft ha **“*![: W. h^ d I.
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h’K ilsrs concer
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mm ’•hi a j)i
scientists na
Ills
peculiar color.
Perceiving that the waters were >f
«n unusual color, he had some • a up
And examined it with his micro: -opo..
To his surprise he found that ?oloi
was due to the presence of minute
animalcules, each so inconee >ably
small that a single drop of the water
contained upward of 30,001) of thelittU
creatures! At that rate a pint of the
water would show 170,000,000, each
sporting about in his place without dia»
turbing or crowding bis neighbor.--St,
Louis Republic.
Ho Changed His Mind.
“Jack—Is it true, Harry, that you
have given up all thoughts of making
Maud your wife?
Harry—Well, I should say so.
Jack—-That’sstrange; l thought you
were so anxious to get her.
Harry—So I was, but I’ve changed
my mind in that quarter. 1 tried to
get her to give me a kiss, and she re
fused, but in less than ten seconds
after refusing to kiss me she kissed that
pug dog of hers at least a dozen times.
1 tell yon what it is—when a woman
prefers the wot nose of a dirty pug to
the tidy month of a live man there is a
screw loose somewhere, and I congrat¬
ulate myself on my narrow escape.—
London Tit Bits.
The Pepper Vine.
The most common and widely used
of all spices is pepper. It is a native of
the East Indies, but is now cultivated
in various parts of the tropical belt of
this hemisphere. The plant is a climb¬
er, nnd has a smooth stem sometimes
twelve feet long. The fruit is about
the size of a pea, and when ripe is of a
bright red color. In cultivation the
plant is supported by poll's. In some
localities small trees are used instead of
poles, for the best pepper is grown in a
certain degree of shade.—Foods an*
Beverages
Slurried His Gram!mother.
Jft the village of A rreton, in the Isle
of Wight, many years ago, there lived
a young man who was betrothed to a
young woman. Both were poor and
in humble life, but the grandfather of
the young man had money, and he fe.t
in love with the young woman and
proposed marriage to her. The girl
naturally made her young lover ac¬
quainted with this offer, with renewed
assurance of devotion to him alone. lie
wins vexed, but having pondered over
the same, saw a way to extricate him¬
self and his sweetheart from the di¬
lemma. “Marry him," said ho to the
girl; “he is rich; lie cannot live long;
when he dies you’ll have his money
and I’ll have you.” By the marriage
she became the young man’s grand¬
mother. Not long after the old man
died and then she wedded her first be¬
trothed.—London Tit-Bits.
i vi» Peculiar S»#rlni;s.
In Corea there are two springs, situ
ated at a considerable distance from
each other; in fact they have the
breadth of he entire peninsula be
tween them. They have two peculiari¬
ties: When one is full the other is al¬
ways empty, and notwithstanding the
obvious fact that they are connected
by a subterranean passage, one is bit¬
ter and the other pure and sweet.—*
North China Herald.
iiriipr
Heifer in this part of the country
means lumber, rubbish, litter, but more
particular!v worthless lumber which is
in your way riibbis.ii that you may
kick against ->r fall over. That is how
1 have heard il \'sed all my life. It is
quite a eomiuoi. word. Old boxes.
packing cases and /-ueli like in the
courtyard would be k*-ii.. Old gears,
broken buckets and such, drugs about
the stables or in a farmyard »**- v-bo*.
■( went tn tha saale, but thur
nowt wofli buying, thur woz nobbud a
lot o' kelfer. " That is Lincolnshire.—
Notes and Queries
When » I .oil liter Drops HI*
Tl»e lobster is greatly in dread of
(hundf and when the peals are very
loud n z iibers of them drop their claws
and swim - away for deeper water Any
great fright may also induce them to
drop their claws. But new claws begin
at once to grow, and in a short time
are as large as the old ones and covered
with hard shells. The lobster often
drops its shell, when it hides until the
uew shell is hard enough to protect, it.
-Exchange
Carry „ . hi . lea, , t bees tallow
jour war,
etc, to Osborn. He’ll pay \ you moro
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