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BANGING CUSTOMS.
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Form* Observed nt nn Execu- ;
tion in New York.
Dn‘.hi D vu'ving Upni th» Sheriff.—Hl»
Slavs* of Ofii and the faaqinin.
A great manv <-ti*'.oi:i* surround h
hang ng <» N •«» York. 1 li'y have b 1 »
molillcd byhw, which allow* 01' t• •
•In riff and •*»i*t»nt», twenty G ” y
■ln riff*, a ahoriff » jury, th, jud"' ■ "f I
higher cou'ta, the district attorney, t u
doctor* and the hangmen to be p>' "*■
Form’ r.y the coroner coul I br.ti; a party
of li a friend* • < juror*, an 1 the ah r IT
gave out card* of inv t ition *« he W 4i'd
to a IntU. That ha* Is-en *t'qqicd; „nd j
Sheriff (Inuit ke-p* tin-i urn *r of »p'-<.
Lalor* down to the low “t legal numb ;.
Tho reporter! acted a* both a'ncr h *
an I coroner'* jury at (,’h u r.ii'a hangin
It ia i iHtom try for the sheriff to p > .-. it
the man to be hang I, when he ia p or,
with a black Mill to be hange J in. Tho .
car of the ci’y for hi* burial go** no
further than to *co he get* to Po ter'a
Fold.
It ia the duty of the aheriff to in per
sonally pn ' lit nt a hang.ng. One
•her.ff dodge I thia duty once by going
to I. mg ll..meh. 1.1 II r i like tint the
under aheriff liaa < hnige. The hanging
ia at down for a* early an hour a* possi
ble in die morning to avoid a crowd.
Tin aheriff and hi* deputies, dr,-s -e d in
mourning, gather nt tho aheriff’* ollie i
•nd innrch to the Tomba. Each bear*
hia ataff of i,fllee. At the bunging they
take off their hats as toon a* th, weight!
fall, and put them on when tire body ia
’ rut down.
In a caae on the wall in tho aheriff'*
are a acorn of staves and two
■word*. Tho staves have I* anpi , sent nt
every hanging since u lime that no em
ploye in the office can recall. They arn
about thirty inches long, and are made of
dark hard woo I. Tho middle i* covered
with thin, dink velvet. On cin hend ha
bra«a tip »ha]>c<l like nn Indian arrow
bend Tho aheriff’* ataff haa a crutch ut
on,'end instead of a d irt, and the under
aheriff'* lias n crook. The two swords
have not been taken to n hanging for a
longtime. No matter whore m thestnto
a hanging may be the atave* me mint for
•nd the aheriff'* men curry them. They
would na aoon think of trying to have a
bunging without a rope as without their
•laves. They area relic of colonial day.*,
when a hanging would draw an large an
•sM'inlilago ii* a circus, mid the officer*
who had clinrt'e of it appeared pompously
in their official robes.
Tint Minn gallows, rope, noose, and
weight* are used time after time or
until they are lost or wear out. Tho
gallows now in usu is about four years
o,d. The upright* arc about five inche*
mpinrc and fifteen feet high. The cross
piece ia the came air.e. The construction
ia simple, and it i* easy to take the gal
low* apart and put it away. Tho only
trace left on the gallows by n hanging
ia the mark of the axe where it cuts
through tho rop ■ that keep* the weight
from falling.
Two men do all the hanging in New
York. Ono ia a short, loun man, w ith
Hebrew feature*. Ho haw a thin, full
beard that < urla, dark hair, mild eyes,
•nd a shrinking face. Ho was in tho
box at Chacon's hanging when the rope
was cut. The other man, who pulled
the cap over Clim ou’* head, is a short,
•tout German, partially bald, w.th a
black gray moustache. Ho is in charge.
Those two men have a number of name’.
They do not want to be known, and tho
•hvr.ff himself has nothing further to do
with them than to give them charge of
the nrraiigc'iients mid to pm the bill.
Tim one man is commonly known ns
Isaacs, mid lhe other ns Min? sheimer
The bills are made out to Joseph B.
Atkinson Toe cost of a hanging varies
from |3OO to SSOO, Tie m m uro haug
nicn, not only in New York, but they
travel around over tho State mid country.
Hanging is their tiado. Yer lori A'ua.
The Imiiiunll) of Physicians.
It is a prevalent yiopulnr impression
that some special providence surrounds
kite physician with protective agencies,
ari l that, although daily exposed to dis
ease iu Iks most malignant founs, ho
esc ip * w hen other* ar.- attacked. Dr.
Oglu, of England, finds that while tho
law yers die at the rate of 20, tho clergy
•t the rule of 10, the dm tors' mortality
is 25 per 1,000. In a million adu taother
than physicians, 10 died of scarlet fiver,
14 of diphtheria, and 2IS of typhoid
fcv< r; while, of an equal numb, r of
physicians, by succumbed tosearb t fever,
St* to diphther.n, mil 811 to typhoid
fever. Suiallp. \, o i the other han I,
claims mno victims among the laity
than in the medical profession; due,
doubtless, to the fact that physicians
have suffi'lent cent': 1. neo in the prv
testivo influence o. va c.n ton to keep
thenvclve* u.sum eptible to the attacks
of smallpox. -.Srwwmr.
Good N'loollng.
Sjwrtsmau "Any sb. smug around
heivF
Farmer —“Yea. sir-cc! It’s ti e bos*
pla.-e fur •hooting. Three m< n shot yes
terday, two to-day, so tar, aud you will
be the third if you don't mosey out of
tey clover patch.— Jml-jt.
FOlt THE FARM ANU HOME.
PrstsetlaM ۥ I'mll.
For mildew on grnp vines, # du»t on
flow, rs of mlpliur, eitlv r curly in the
morning while the dew is on, or nfter a
shower while the foliage is wet. Forth?
gr ipe vim- li etle, shaking the vine early
in the morning, will bring thorn to the
ground, when they can very readily be
destroyed. Spreading a clo hor piece
of paper u derthe vines will n d matci Lil
ly in catching them. Sho-k'd lime |
sprinkled over the foliage will destroy
tle Inrvie P :i-:t-li> •of nil kinds can lie
d -stroyed by dipping the plant or part
nff ctod into kerosene rm 1 sour milk, I
one part kerosine t> three of milk.
Sprinkling with strong tcimcco water i«
ai-’i rec immende I. for the strawberry
leaf roller the wisest plan, if they
have Ik-cooiii firmly established, is to
plow under after the fruit is taken off
and - et out n new planting. If taken in
hand early eno igh h ind picking may
destroy them, but it requ rose m» derable |
car'. For rust, either with tiiu currant
or go iwbcrry, mulching with coal ashes
is n'.rongly rei.oinmendcd. 1 have never
had any trouble on thi* score, as 1 ha*'o |
made it n rulu to mulch w II nroun I
th s- plants soon after setting out. —
Hural Ibaat.
I’lsklnir amt atorlmr Apple*.
Hand picking should always be the
rule for winter apples. Varieties that
ripen irregu ar y ought to be gathered
accordingly. <> nerally speaking, the
later sorts should be left on the tree until |
hit", SO as to give them opportunity to
fully color up. Before picking begin* it
ia well to have a suitable place prepared
in the orchard or near by for tho tempor- ,
ary storing of th fruit, unless there are
two *ets of handi for sorting and pack- I
ingns fl.st ns the fruit is gather 'd. Ap
ple* keep longest if free from atmospheric
moisture when taken from the trees. ;
Hmall baskets holding half a bushel each
and suspi lull d from a hook on the bid
der are more convenient and less liable
to bruise the fruit taan bigs.
(face gathered, the apples should be
securely pr itected from sun and storms
until tin y are sort'- I. Many farmers who
have fruit houses delay sort.ng and pack
ing until the approach of col 1 weather.
Tlie best method is to sort the fruit im
mediately, and lay all that is sound care- |
fully into tight barrel*, shaking the bar
rels gently two or three times during the
pr ice’s of filling, to insure the apples
packing closely; they may then be tight- j
ly headed, with the head sufficiently !
pressed and secured to avoid all move
ment of tho apple* inside the barrel. :
Right here is generally the neglect. The
barrels should be placed on their sides
nn I not stored away until freezing
weather.
The Safest Wax to Hive Bare.
Allen Pringle says: “Tho safest and
best way to hive n swarm of bees is, of
course, the way I myself do it. Every
old bcti-keep r has the ‘best plan,’ ami
here’s mine. I, ‘of course,’ keep all my
queens dipped. I say ‘of course,’ be
cause I think every first-rate bee-keeper
I clips his queens, the non-elippers to the
contrary, notwithstanding. When a
' sw arm is seen to be issuing I take a little
wire cage to the swarming colony, and usu-
I ally Hud the queen just in front of the hive
trying to fly. The open end of tho wire
eage is put over her, when she itnmedi
■ atoly crawls up into it and is shut in.
• Then as soon ns tho swarm is nil out I
I close the entrance of the old colony and
turn it round facing the opposite direc
i tion and two or three feet from where it
! stood. 1 then place my hive for the new
swarm on tho old stand mid put the
caged queen in it on top of the frames
under the quilt, and tho work is done.
This occupies from three to five min
utes. By this time another swarm or
two may be issuing, when they cun be
to iled in the same way on the double
quick. By this short and easy method I
have hive 1 ns many in eight or ten
■warms in about fifteen minutes. If three
or four are coming out nt once, and you
have no tents to put over them to catch
them, you can manage them nil as above
alone rightly if you “look alive.” Run
around to the swarming coh nies and
cage the queens ns above directed, turn
ing inch colony ar und and placing it off
two or three feet, and ns soon m you get
round th m all, go.back and begin plac
ing your hives for the new swarms on the
o d stands s rapidly as possible. If you
have your hives ready and handy by, a*
every be.-keeper ought to have, you can
go over half a dozen in this way in an
almost incri libly short t me, cveu though
I they nil eon e out nt once.
11 :» nninc.
one who has but a small garden,or
even a flower bed, should be wasteful of
the manure fro.u the fowl r K>-t*, for when
properly manipulat d and ju liciously
applied to vegetation, the benefits de
rived from it* application are very sat s
factory indeed. When it is known that
hen manur? rinks with Al guano as a
• ferti.izer, it does s.-em to us strange that
| more attention is not paid to collecting
and applying it.
The one essential in keeping hen man
ure so as to realiz- the greatest good
from it is to keep it dry, under cover,
where the rains and sun will not destroy
and remove its va uable, though volatile,
quality. The poultry house should be
str. wn with loam, pulverized clay, or
sand as often as i* necc«iiry to pre*erve
cleanHness and to absorb tho moisture.
Dry -trect dirt will readily act as an üb
virlient, as it I* very thormigly pulver
iz'd by the wheels of carriage*. Every
week clean up the floor of the house,
putting the manure into barrels, which
•hou d be rem >vc 1 tz> some convenient
shed where the contents cau lx.' kept dry.
After the tn mure has b- en removed give
the fl >or a goo 1 sprinkling with the dry
road dust, to r c.'iv • future droppings.
By continuing this plan you w ill, ut the
end of a few months, have quite a col
lection of the r.chest kind of manure.
If you have no garden or lawn, or if
y< plenty of other fertilizers, you
can sell your h n manure for forty or
fifty cents .i bushel to the tanners; but
in this case, instead of being mixed with
e-irth, it must be kept pure. Sime
poultrymen derive quite a revenue troni
their sales of the droppings for tanning
purpose’, and find it convenient to have
shelves arranged under the perches,
which are regularly scraped every morn
ing. Thirty or forty cctiu a bushel is
the price commonly paid, and the in
come from this Hourei' goes quite away
towards defraying the cost of the grain
consum'd by the fowl". Hen manure
must not be allowed to decompose or
ferment before being sent to the tanner,
a* its value in preparing leather depends
on its lieing crude. Farmer* and gar
dener* generally pay about $1 per bar
rel lor hen manure for n fertilizer. '1 his
price prrsuppo-' S a very little dry earth
mix' d with the dropping.’, as will gen
erally be the case, but not much, the
manure being nearly pure.— Poultry
\Md.
Urape Vines From Cnttlnas.
No kind of wood w ill more easily groxv
from the eye than tire grape vine. For
this reason the rapid propagation of new
varieties is a very easy matter. The
nurserymen use single-eye cuttings in
greenhouses, and this is a very good way
wherever lotto n heat can be furnished.
But all this trouble and expense are not
needed, provided the right course is
taken and enough buds or eye* left on
the cutting. Even nurserymen do not
rely entirely on the single-eye method.
It is only used, in fact, for new vari
eties, when wood is scarce and it is de
sirable to increase tire vines as fast as
possible. Cuttings set in the open
ground should be prepared early in the
spiing, leaving two or, ut most, three
eyes on a piece. The lower part must be
cut off square at the bulge where a bud
, has formed. Then remove this lowest
bud with a sharp knife so as to make a
clean cut. Leave the top eye just at the
surface of the soil, which must be packed
around the lower part very closely. P.ant
in rows three feet apart, and run the cul
tivator through once a week to keep
weeds down. Plant cuttings six to eight
inches apart in the roxv, and keep down
weeds with the hoe. If the season is
' fairly favorable four-fifths of these cut
tings will make strong-rooted plants
Iby tho first of July. There is
no need of being discouraged about those
that nt this time show no signs of put
ting forth a shoot. Pull one up and
you will find the bottom calloused and
tine, white, thread-like roots from it. In
such cases tho shoot will us ally start
from the eye below the surface. Where
; the first eye start* and grows, the one
below it grows also. In the fall or next
spring one of these sprouts must be cut
off, and the other trimmed down to a
single eye. By this method, farmers
and others can easily and cheaply sup
, ply themselves with as many grape
vines as they wish,and of the best varie
ties. Four-fifths of all the grape vine
I growth of the previous season must be
’ cut off this fall or next spring, and it
can be usually had for nothing. A few
very hard wooded and close-jointed
grape vines do not root easily. Eumelan
and Delaware are samples of these; but
it is only necessaiy to take a little
longer cutting and plant nt an angle of
forty-five degrees in the ground. This
will keep the bottom of the cutting
within reach of th ■ air and warmth. No
manure is neees.uy, in fact, it is posi
tively hurtful, its h ating forces the
buds too rapidly, and may cause th?
bottom of the cutting to rot instead of
putting forth roots. —Cu ticator.
lloHwrhnhl Hints.
Vnslakcd lime near mea preserves it
by keeping the air dry.
Drain pipes and all places that are sour
or impure may be cleansed with lime
water or carbolic acid.
New tins should be set over the fire
with boiling water tn them for several
hours before food is put into them.
Should a mirror show defects, apply
tin foil on which you have previously
[vur<d quicksilver rubb - I on with buck
skin, putting on it a weight. In a few
hours it will adhere.
Green cucumber peel scattered about a
budding will rid it of cockroaches. They
are poisoned by the peel, which they eat
with great relislu It is sometimes neces
sary to follow up the experiment two or
three nights, us ng fresh )»eel every ni_ht.
Ginghams and print* wiil keep their
color belter if washed in water thicken
ed with flour starch. Fiour is very
cleansing and will do the work of soap
in one or two washing* in the starch
water. This, with the rinsing, w.ll be
sufficient,*and the goo is will look fresher
than if washed and starched in the old
fashioned way.
Keclprs.
Syrup of Vinryir.— Four quart* vine
gar an 1 two pound* sugar boiled until a
clear syrup. Bottle it. L’*c one or two
tablespoons to a glass of water, an 1 it
will be found a very agreeable beverage.
lemonade uhrnyt Ready.— Squeexe the
juice from a dozen lemon*; boil the pulp
in a pint of water and add to the juice.
To each pint put an equal measure of
white sugar and boil ten minutes. Sea l
up. When wanted use one tablespoon to
a glass of water.
Ciikeefor Tta. W i for fifteen min
utes four eggs with half a pound of sugar,
half a grated nutmeg und ns much pow
der clove* as will lie on the tip of a din
ner knife. Tiien add half a pound of
dry and s fted flour, and mix thoroughly ;
have a greased or wax id tin; drop a
tablcspoonful of the dongh nt intervals
upon it, and bake a pale brown ia a
moderate oven.
A Way to Cook Calf* Liter.— Try this
Austrian method of cooking calf’s liver.
Remove the skin from the liver and cut
it in pieces as thick as your finger and
lay them in milk for several hours.
Then take them out of the milk and
sprinkle them wih flour; dip them iu
beaten egg and cover them with flour
with which you have mixed a little
salt. Fry them in hot dripping) and
serve garnish-:.I with mince parsley.
French Soup.— Cut up a good-sized
onion into thin rounds and place, with
one-half pound of butter, into a stew
pan; do not let the onion get brown, but
when about half cooked put in three
handful* of sorrel, one of lettuce, all fine
ly cut; add pepper, salt, a little nutmeg,
and keep stirring the vegetables until
they are nearly cooked; then put in one
tablcspoonful of finely-pounded loaf
sugar and a pint and a half of stock;
boil until the onion is thorougly well
done. Toast some very thin slices of
bread; cut about two inches square; ilgy
these, and when the soup is to be served,
after adding the beaten yolks of two
eggs and half a pint of milk, place the
toast in the soup bowl and pour tire soup
over it.
Buddhism.
Buddhism gives no explanation of the
beginning of all things; its starting point
is that the world and men exist, and
that everything is subject to change.
Everything moves to cither destruction
or renovation. Nirvang == -“perfection or
salvation"—is the state toward which
the righteous tend; for the theist there
is the absorption of the individual in
God; for the atheist absorption iu
nothing. A human life is not a separate
entity; it is a portion, so to speak, of the
universal life. The life that sinneth it
shall die, says Buddhism; it shall sink
through lower and lower forms, until it
reaches annihilation. The righteous life,
rising ever upward, attains at length to
Nirvann, and it is reabsorbed in the
Divine Essence. There is ever-increas
ing joy in ever-increasing wi-dom, and
after one life is ended there shall be
another, ever ascending the scale of holi
ness, stretching up to beatific and illimit
able heights. This was transmigration:
not of souls—for Gautama held that there
is no such thing as sou'—but of life;
each individual, according to the good
or bad u-.e he makes of his pre-ent Hie,
bee ones after death another individual
of higher or lower character. And yet
it is almost an error to say that Buddha
taught absorption into God as the stage
of existence beyond Nirvana; for it does
not appear that Buddhism acknowlodges
a God. Perfection can go no further;
it is the vanishing point of the human
landscape. Quiver.
Eccentric Wil s.
Will*, with curious or obscured pro
visions arc rarely carried out according
to the designs of their makers. Indeed,
a will that is a little unusual casts a
doubt upon the sanity of the testator.
John Stuart Mill held that eccentric
wills should be held sacred, and the
wishes of those who made them carried
out. He instance* the case of a man who
left *a large fortune for the care of
wounded birds. The will was set aside,
but, as Mi l pointe 1 out, the treatment
of tbe dis 'uses of bird*, might have
thrown valuable light upon the patholo
gy of the animal economy, especially of
birds. *Y Russian bachelor has just died
who bequeathed his property to his
nephew on three conditions. Before he
inherits, he must give his word of honor
that he will never use tobacco or play
card--, and that within six months after
the probate of the will he will marry.
The nephew was willing to comply with
the first two requirements, but gave up
his titl to the property rather than en
cumber himself with a wife.
Coniracinn vs. Expansion.
F ofessor —“To contract is to make
smaller; to expand is t > enlarge. Cold
contracts; heat expand*. The opera
tion* cannot go on at the same time in
the same thing. If’—
Pupil—“B g your pardon. Prof; **ar.
There are some things the m »re you con
tract the more they enlarge.”
Ah, indeed! Name some of them.”
•‘Debts, sir.”
CLIPIXGS FOR THE CL'RIOVS.
A duty of four pounds was laid in
1703 upon every negro imported into th*
colony of Massachusetts.
There were about 12,300 men in a
Roman legion, and in the palmy days of
Rome she possessed thirty of these
mighty forces.
Thomas Golden, a flagman in Galena,
111., has a tame robin that be has tai ght
to walk out of the flag house and wave
a tiny fl ig whenever a train comes.
A beautiful custom is said to prevail
with the native* of Java. A fat er
when his cliil 1 is born plant* a tree, and .
thus s'gnnl.zes the birth.
It is affirmed by Mons. I. ssenne that
a needle—puncture in the skin of a living
person will close at once, and *hat if the ;
puncture remains open it is a sure sign
of death.
Tnc longest clock pendulum in the
world is at Avignon France. It is six
ty-seven left long, a id requires four and
aha f seconds to swing through an arc
of nine and a half feet.
The art of sculpture in wood seems to
h ive been native among the early i
Greek’, and carved idols soon took the
place of stones and trunks of trees,
which were at first worshipped as divine
symbols.
The sacred figures in early Greece
were frequently covered with real doll
like clothing. The difficulty of repre
senting the hair of these puppets ap- [
pears, from the later treatment of the
heads in marble, as seen in the Apollo of
Tenca, to have been evaded by the use
of a woolly covering like a wig.
It was considered very honorable to be
a soldier in ancient Rome, much more
honorable than to be a mechanic or I
laborer. Every soldier took a most solemn
oath, which was called a “sacrament.” :
He swore never to desert his standard, to
submit his own will to the co > mand of
his leader, ami to sacrifice his life for the
empire. The soldiers were well paid, j
but very strictly disciplined.
Birds have wonderful appetites, and !
the insect-eaters must do great execution
among the insect enemies of the farmer.
This is illustrated by Prof. Wood’s esti
mate that a man would have to consume
in every twenty-four hours sixty-seven
feet of sausage nine inches in circumfer
ence in order to eat as much in propor- -
tion to his bulk as the red-breast, whose
daily food is considered as equivalent to
an earthworm fourteen feet long.
Thieves’ Bars Hi Berlin.
The underground life in Berlin, which
has recently been exposed in an interest
ing volume entitled “Die Verbrechcrwclt '
von Ber.in,” has some sides which are I
gloomily’ picturesque on which the au
thorities have hitherto in vain sought to
lay hand. One of them is describ' d by the
anonymous xvritcr as follows: “There are
at Berlin some score of public bars the
frequenters of which belong exclusively
to the criminal world. They are kept in
the basements of houses, no bright- !
colored signboard tells of their existence,
and at night the light from the windows
falls faintly through closely drawn cur
tains into the street. The frequenters
are professional thieves, their accomplices J
(who find occasions where strokes of
business may be done) and receivers of
stolen goods. The conversation in these i
places is always carried on in a low voice
and everybody drinks and gaml ies. Dis
putes are rare, for as soon as a quarrel
threatens to become noisy the neighbors
of the party in question interfere in order
to avoid any uproar. Sometimes the
door is rapidly opened, a head is thrust
in, and the new comer cries out ‘Lam- '
pen.’ At this word a general rush to- |
ward the door commences, the innkeeper
hurries the glasses off the tables, and
when the police arrive the room is empty.
Both at Berlin and Frankfoit public
houses of this kind have a chain of out
posts formed by a number of poor
wretcies who, for a few pence, keep a
lookout, and report as soon as any sign
of danger appears on the horizon. If
ever the police succeed in capturing one
of these thieves the malefactor hardly
offers any resistance.”
A Wily B mrder.
Black—lloxv do you get along at your
new boarding house?
White- Very well indeed. lam well
lodged, well-fed, and everything is made
comfortable for me.
Black—l am surpr sed.
White —Wl>y so?
Black—Because I boar led there my
self, and I was half starved. I can’t
understand why they treat you different
ly.
White—l'll tell you. You remember
the landlady’s baby?
Black—That squint-eyed little brat? I
do. 1 can hear him yelling now. ;
White—The baby is not handsome, I
admit. It cries considerable, I allow;
but I can’t made it any handsomer, nor
improve its t< mper, therefore I make the
best of it. I call it a pretty little darling,
a sweet little thing. I make excuses for
the noise it makes by snying all children
arc so. The other boarders laugh at me
but the laugh is on my side when they
are sawing away at tough round steak !
and lam luxuriating on tenderloin. It
doesn't t.nkc much effort to smooths
over the rough places of life. Botton
Courier.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Folly soon wears her shoes out.
A clear conscience can bear any troa.
ble.
zY flow of words is no proof of wis
dom.
Work like a man, but do not be
worked t* death.
The heart is the first pait that quickens
and the last part that dies.
O >e morsel's as good as another when
your mouth is out of taste.
B ■ ashamed to die, until you have
achieved some victory for humanity.
Happiness is neither within nor with
out us; it is the union of ourselves with
God.
Oid friends are best. King James
used to call for his old shoes; they were
easiest for his feet.
The indiscriminate defence of right
and wrong contracts the understanding,
while it harden* the heart.
II ■ that thinks that diversion may not
be hard labor, forgets the early rising
and hard riding of huntsmen.
Commerce links all mankind in one
common brotherhood of mutual depend
ence and interests, and thus creates that
unity of our race which makes the re
source of all the property of each and
every member.
There is more sunshine than cloudy
weather, take it all together, in every-
I one’s life; so sun yourself in the bright
spots and pass quickly over the hard
. lines. Think of the good time coining
and bear the the transient evils that fall
to your lot heroically.
Hunting Mountain Sheep.
A Wyoming Territory letter to the
i Salt Lake City Tribune describes ths
methods of “Mountain Sam,” a hunter
iof mountain sheep. In one of the most
hidden valleys of the Big Horn moun
tains, says the correspondent, the hunter
j has built a house and here lie slays the
| huge sheep whose heads and horns are
■ his stock in trade, for Sam has more
orders than he can fill for these heads,
chiefly from Englishmen of wealth,
i Many an English hall boasts spreading
and massive antlers which were once
proudly carried by a Rocky Mounta’n
patriarch, before he fell beneath Sam’s
l unerring aim. Though the hunter is ia
! debted to his own good rifle for sheep,
: he says he depends entirely upon his
! pack of magnificent dogs to bring the
sheep within range of that rifle. These
dogs, twenty-five in number, are a pure
bull dog and bloodhound cross. Their
mountain birth and training have given
these dogs extraordinary endurance and
i phenomenal activity. These qualities
added to the str.ngth andsagacity inlr ri
ted with their mingled blood strains,
! make the noble brutes enemies the wily
and active mountain sh cp fails entirely
to throw off. No trail is too rcu’h,
no precipica tio steep, no crag too
dizzy, no peak to remote to throw an
obstacle in the way of the pursuit of the
mountain sheep by the mountain dogs.
The pack hunts on a systematized plan.
' When the scant is struck the dogs at once
! divide into small bunches an.l wide cir
cuits are described. The pursued and
doomed sheep are irresistibly forced to
ward a common centre, and soon can be
I seen closely rounded up, no matter what
: the nature of the ground, with the bucks
gallantly facing the common foe. The
pack has been known to bunch as high
as 250 head of the wild sheep of the
mountain peak and crag, and have held
their game frequently six hours, awaiting
i the arrival of their master, detained by
' the difficulties of the way. In case, as
' sometimes occurs, th hunter is unable to
reach the spot on account its inaccessi
bility, he gives warning of the fact to
his intelligent four-footed allies, by
means of a peculiar, far-reaching shout.
. As th s signal strikes their ears, the dogs
> close in on the sheep, select and slay the
largest, and will tumble and push the
J bodies from cliff to cliff, from precipice
to precipice, until they .are placed where
a human foot can safely venture.
In Danger of Tipping l'p.
During the war it was the habit for
delegations of “prominent citizens” to
visit IVashington to consult with Presi
dent Lincoln upon the conduct of the
war. Sometime during the darkest
days a dozen or more of the leading busi
ness men of Wilmington, Del., called
upon the President. They told him that
they represented the “solid men” of I) .-
eware, and that they had come to dis
cuss the situation aud the means of end
ing the struggle. zYfter the chairman of
the delegation (who is still in active
business in Wilmington) had finished his
speech the President asked:
“So you are solid men of Delaware!’
! “Yes,” was the reply.
“All from New Cas‘le county?"
“Yes, all from N. w Castle.”
“All from 'Wilmington, too.”
“Yes all from the same city,” replied
the gentlemen, in a churn*.
“Well,” remarked Mr. Lincoln, as his
l eyes twinkled, “did it ever occxr to you
gentlemen that there was danger of your
little State tipping up during your ab
sence?”
The delegation returned home wiser,
but so full of appreciation of the joke
that their friends were not long in hear
ing of it.— Nets York Sun.