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0 1 ' '. old then lonir In thrnll. nwurU climb In nolle of nil. HUa A. Ullet, in the Ectitlinj Wliunuin. l'OLAIt PICTURES. Itecord of the bwrvatlon Made h? Grerlr and III AKite In t Arrtlr-Th Midnight Hiin-The BrU' eit Nlara and the Awfully Oppr-lT Kllfnrt Lieutenant LocUwoodM Jour For tho purpose of obtaining some Idea of the general natnrond probable valuo of the gciontihV observations tnniln hv GronlvatLadrranklin Day en Associated Press Mnt vteitod him at Portsmouth, N. , Greoly lirst stated tho object ofdie Lady Franklin Bay expedition, M To establish a Tolar stntion oo of tho tbirtoon sug gested by Untenant Wcypracht, of AtlStrM, WIIC uiauuvuruu rinua uusci Land NiniA,Anoo"s observations of all nhvsleal ronnomena wore to bo taken. The cop"1lto programme which was to bo foiwwod was arranged by nn Inter natnal Polar Congress, in which the representatives or thirteen nations took part. Tho observations in wiiieh tho greatest possiblo accuracy was to bo had were thoso or the declination and . deviation of the magnctio neodlc, tomperaturo of tlio air and sea, height 01 me barometer, ami mean ana max! mum full of tho tides. All oxplora tions wero Incidental to the main ob jects of tho expedition. The expedition was littcd out und or the authority of Congress; was com posed oi three olllcers of tho army, one acting surgeon, ana ntuoleen enlisted mon from tho array. Stores for twenty seven months were put on tho Proteus. which left St. Johns, July 1, 1881, with tho party. Sho touched at Disco Island and I pemavik to procure sledges, dogs, tkins and dog food. I wo Esqni roaux were added to tho party at Provon. Landing was made at Carey Island in north water and tho provisions eachod by Mares in 1875 in the Alert were found in good condition. At Llttloton Island Grcely personally re- covered tha Knglish arctio mail left by Sir Allan Young in the Pandora in 1876. At Carl Hitter llav, in Kennedy i i vuaiinui, mine ui provisions lor use on retreat was made. It was the original Intention to establish the Polar station at Water Course Hay, but heavy masses of ice rendered Water Course liay ex ceedingly dangerous anchorage., "Mov ing to Discovery Harbor the station was there established on tho site occu pied by tho Knglish expedition of 1875. Tho erection of a house was at once commenced, and stores and equipments landed. On tho ifr'th of August came the parting between the Creel v party and tho men of the Proteus. The little band gathered on the frozen shore and watched tho Proteus as she stcamod slowly down Lady Franklin Hay. On the evening of the' same day tho temperature sank below the freez ing point, ami an Icy aretio winter was ou them In earnest Their house was finished about a week after tho l'roteus left It was named, in honor of Sen ator Conger, Fort Conger. During the tint month the cold art'eoted the men more than at any subsequent time at Fort Conger. Later on In December the temperature sank to from iifty to sixty live degrees below tore, and so remained ' for days at a time. Hut oven in that weal her tho cook's favorite amusement was dancing bare headed, bare-armed, and with slipiwed feet on the top of a snow-dri't. Iuring the day the men dressed in ordinary outside clothing, but their flannels were very heavy. Five men w ere generally for a part of the day engaged iu scientific work under Greely's direction, and in tho duties of tho camp. The remainder wore' employed generally about ono hour a day, and devoted tho rest of the time to amusement All slept iu bunks in the quarters, whieh were heated by a largo coal stove, tho averago heat "maintained being fifty degrees above xcro. Che.kers, cards chess an J read rog vre 'he amusements of tho even ing. Tho life, Greelv said, wvs far from a lonely ono. Many of the men said they had never passed two happier years than those spent at Fort Conger. On tho l.'th of October the suu left them for one hundred and thirty-live days, and a twilight, varying froni half aa har.r to twenty-four hours, suc ceeded. For two weeks it was so dim that tho dial of a watch could not be read by it On April 11 the sun came above the horizon and remained there cue hundred and thirty-five days, giving the party a great sufficiency of the midnight sun. During three months the stars were risible constantly, and the constellations of Orion's Belt and the (ireat Hear were the brightest. The KorthStar looked down from almost overhead. Standing alone outside the fort en one of these night scenes were weirdly grand. To the north flamed the aurora borealis, and bright constel lations wore set like jewels around the glowing moon. OTer everything was a dead silence, so horribly oppressive that a man alone is almost tempted to kill himself, so lonely does he feel. The astronomer of the party said that with the naked eye a star of one degree matter magnitude than can bo een here in the same way might be dis cerned. The moon would remain in fight from eleven to twelve days at a time. The thermometer registered on June SO the bighest temperature at Lady Franklia Pay which we knew during our star. It was titty two de crees above icro. The lowest was in February, 13 sixty-six degrees below aero. In this February our mercury froe and remained solid for fifteen days. 1 he mercury in the thermometer invariably roso during storms or b!gh rinds. The highest barometer wai .een shadow ireely says s snaaow cast re were no electrical bnnccs save those manifested by rumbling, distant thunder heard twlco in tho far away north. In tho coiirso of tho tidal observations made, a very interesting fact was discovered, tfiat tho tides at Indy Franklin Hay camo from tho north, whilo those at Alolville Hay and Cape Sabino came from tho south. The temperature of this north tido is two degrees warmer than that of the south tido at Cape Sabino. Why this was, Grcely would not venture to state. Ho used in meas uring tho ebb and flow of the tides a fixed-gauge iron rod, planted in the mud. The average riso of tho spring tides at Lady Franklin Hay was found to be eight feet -At Capo Sabine the highest tide's riso was twelve foet Surf was only observed twice during the two years. At Lady Lrankiin liay the average temperature of the water was twenty-nine degrees above zero. Wolves weighing ninety pounds were killed around rort Conger, there are foxes and other animals there. Fish is wonderfully scarce. Perhaps tho great est surprise in all was the taking from Lake Alexander, a fresh-water lake fifteen feet above sea-lovol. a four-pound salmon. From tho bay or sea only two very small lisli were taken during the entire two years, and few are found north of Cape Sabino. The vegetation on Lady Franklin Hay is about the same as at Cape Sabino, and comprises mosses, lichens, willows and saxifrage. Tho highest velocity of tho wind was registered during a terrilio snowstorm, and was seventy milos per hour. Lock wood's trips to the North in 1882 and ltWS were productive of tho most val uable results. Standing May 19, in each year, where Dr. Hayes had for merly stood, about tuo same time of day, Lockwood, from an elevation of two thousand feet, and using bis strongest glass on Hall s Hasin and Kobeson's channels, could discern nothing but ice packs. Here it was that Dr. Hayes claimod to have seen his open Polar Sea on tho trip of l.v;i. Lockwood reached tho bighest latitude over attained, eighty-three degrees twenty-live minutes north. This was abouUive hundred miles directly north of Lady Franklin Bay, but to get there he had to travel 'over one thousand miles of open water and broken packs, which frequently caused him to retrace his steps fifty miles. Lockwood sounded sea both veara between Cane Hrvnnt and Cape llrittania, but could not touch bottom with one hundred and thirty five fathoms of line. Markham, a few years before, about one hundred miles lo tho west, found bottom at seventy two fathoms. Lockwood found at his furthest northern point about the same vegetation as at Ijidy Franklin Bay, but no signs of a polar current or open polar sea. In lfWJi he wasstopped near ('app Brvant, 125 miles from Lady r ranklmiiav.bv an open channel extend ing west to tho coast of (irinnell Land. The width of this channel varried from two hundred yards to five miles but on tho north the' ice packs extended as far as could be seen with a glass. ith his supply of provisions, the failure of which had caused his return the year before. Lockwood was confident ho could have reached eighty-five degrees north, if this open chaunel had not barred his way. No fossil remains were discovered on the trip, and the only ones found were trunks of trees on the southwest coast of (irinnell Land. Tho only sea animals seen by Lock- wood at eighty-three degrees twenty five minutes were walrus and seals, and, strange to say, walrus is not to be found at Lady Franklin Bay. At cighty-threo degrees twenty-five min utes the deflection' of tho magnetic needle was 101 degrees west more than one-fourth of the circle. Tho maps of tho new regions he discovered are in the possession of Lieutenant (.ireely and are very carefully made. All through the two years at Lady Franklin Bay the magnetic needle was never quiet except during storms. In February of 1SS3 preparations for a re treat w ere made by establishing a depot at Capo Baird, twelve miles to the south. Day after day anxious men looked off over Lady Iraukhn Bay. ex pecting the ice to open so that they might commence their journey toward nonie. At lat, August 19, 1883, the welcome news that the ice was open was brought All had been made ready, and that very day the party embarked in the little steam launch Behind them they left their dogs as they could not bo taken. Four barrels of pork ahd some seal oil were left for the animals. I.ady Frank lin Pay was crossed to Cape Baird, a distance of thirteen miles, and then tho western coast of Grinncll Land was fol lowed south as far as Cape Hawke. Large quantities of heavy ieo were met Kvery moment they thought the little launch would be crushed. Several times all the boat were nearly last The suffering of the men was "great They were now within fifty miles of Cape SaMue. Striking from Cape Hawkcs for Fafo's Island the party was caught in an Ice-pack and frozen in, ten miles south of Cape llawkes. In thirteen days they drifted south twenty-five miles on floes, suffer ing terribly'from the cold. So they drifted to within eleven miles of Cape Sabine, and were obliged to abandon tho steam launcn September 10, The packs now remained motionless for three days, and several times the party git within two or three miles of Cape isabinc, only to be driven back bv the southwest gales. Five seals were t iled and eaten w hile the party were drifting about Fventually a heavy northwest rale drove them past Cape Sabine within a mile of Breroort Island, but they could not land. September 21 there arose the most terrifio gale they bal yet experienced on the Arctio Ocean. Their ice floe was driven Ithcr by the tempest, and d over them again ami ay freo.ing to tlicm and .ntenso sintering. Night if iuky darkness, and tlio iavy lloes together, and ish of ion breaking over io warned tho men death iliem. No man knew at the floo might break up enguli them. int liirht of dawn showed "'trttiei'emaiuod of the Hoe on which u!ov were. The sea washed another floo close to them. Closer it camo, and at last at the word the men succeeded in getting upon it The storm slowly subsided and they again landed at Esquimaux Point, near Baird's Inlet, September 29. Hore winter quarters were built, and scouts were sent to Cape Isabella and Cape Sabine. In a few days they returned, but their report sont a thrill of horror to every heart At Cape Isabella and Cape Sabine thore were found only eighteen hundred ra tions, and from Darlington's records they learned the fate of tho Proteus. Every ono knew death must come to nearly all of the party long before r ship of rescue could forco its way into Melville Bay. Eliorts were made to sustain the spirit of the men by lectures and light reading. On October 15 the party removed to Cane Sabine. Jan uary 18 Cross died of scurvy. In April the rations issued daily had dwindled to four ounces of meat and six ounces of bread. Man after man died, and all hope had fled when, on May 3, the blast of tho whistle routed tho survivors from the lethargy of approaching death. .... The Young Farmer's Vacation. A young man In the couutry, who is apparently head over-heals in love with a farmer's life (in a horn), writes as follows: "You know this is my birthday, and I have been celebrating it; though I have not told any one but my mother that it is my birthday. I have got my work up square now and am taking a vacation After haying and mowing is all done with, you know, there is quite a lull for the farmer. He can compose himself to rest and have a good time generally.. "Now, after getting my general round of chores out of the way this morning (which is but an anthem of joy), I commenced my celebration. I went and helped Mr. A. get in six large loads of oats. I don't think, be twixt the two, it is quite so dangerous as base-ball playing, but it beats ten pins all out ana out There is more life in one forkful of oats than there is in forty tenpins. Well, aftereettinar in the oats, I came home and thought 1 had celebrated almost enough, and would take the rest oi the day in a quiet way with my mother. In the meantime I took my horse and went out and ran 4he cultivator between all the rows of my potato Geld, and tried to shoot a woodchuck, but he was too quick for me. Then I concluded to sit down and talk with mother. So I took the milk pail (after I had gone and cut a wheel barrow load of grass way down side of the road next to Mr. A.'s pasture bars, for the horse) and went down to the pasture and milked the cows, and did the rest of the little chores, and then camo back to talk with mother. I intend to continue my vacation for a number of weeks, and enjoy myself as I have to-day. When the harvest comes, I shall be in good trim, bright as a new dollar, and ready to settle into the harness again. I am going visiting to-morrow forenoon up to Mr. B.'s, to help him get in his oats. I helped Mr. A. throw off a couple of loads early in the morning. "My goodness! how lovely it would be to nave a dear wife to enjoy my va cation with roe; but I have no one to blame for that but myself, for we all know that the farmer can have the ob ject of his heart's adoration by asking." Boston Transcript. Washington Irving Steals His Apples. Own "Speaking of his liking to look at workingmen," savs an old friend of Washington Irving, "reminds me of an other good story w hich he used to tell with great enjoyment no one can tell this story as he used to. One day when he was buildingthe extension to Sun- nvside, as he strolled about watching the carpenters, he happened to pick up an apple that had been blown iroru a tree. The next moment he felt his arm tugged, and turning, saw a ragged lit tlo urchin one of half a dozen who bad come in to pick up the chips left by the workmen looking up into his face. "ay, mister, says ther little chap, 'just you come with me and I'll show you whore to get some good ap ples; but mind vou don t Jet the old man know,' meaning Mr. Irving him self. "'Well,' Mr. Irving used to ssy, tell ing the story, 'the little scamp brought me to the very best tree in my orchard and there we filled our pockets together and ate our fill of my very best apples. We got on very well together, and I behove it's the only case I ever heard of where a man participated in the robbery of his own orerrard.' " Chris (tiin Union. m m m Mrs. W. K. Vandexbilt's last bon net cost fl50. This may seem liko a large price, but if half the wearers of ten dollar bonnets were to buy in like proportion to their wealth their bonnets would nt cost over fifteen cents. V. F. Ik raid. Solutions of chloral should b? fcept in dark glass bottles, unl:ght de composes it Into chloroform. lbe change is not easily perceived, and has can-ed a number of accidents in the past five c&n.lnJianapolii Journal. More money can be made in one days' strict attention to one's own busi ness than by tea davs' minding the afl'airs of one's neighbor. II'AitWf Vims, Ten years ago there were only 150 newspapers published in Japan; now there are 2.00J, The wonderful prog ress of Japan Is no longer a mystery. Ignorance of reading and writing is so prevalent in Mexico that the letter-writer is aa established institution of the country. Journ-iL The Legend or Star Inland. ' During tho troublosomo times before and subsequent to the revolution the Isles of Shoals, off tho coast of New Hampshire, wero tho resort and hiding places of tho freebooters who haunted ho northern coast, and those silent rocks, if they could speak, would tell many a lalo of bloody cruelty and gloomy wrong. The pirates used to come here to divido and lade their booty, and melt up the silverplato they cap tured from the colonists along the coast. For a long timo it was supposed that bushels of doubloons were buried in tho gapins,' crovicos of the rocks, or the little caves that ha vo been eaten out of the ledges by the restless lido; but thoplaco was thoroughly searched by several generations of fishermen,, and nothing more valuable than a rusty cutlass or a bust blumlcrbus was ever found. The grandnmcs tell how Captain Kydd came here often "as ho sailed as he sailed," and there are legends of other pi rates quite as fierce and free as ho. I he Star Island used to be haunted by a beautiful specter with long whito robes and golden tresses reaching to her heels, who used to come out of some undiscov ered cavern at dawn and shadowing her eyes with a hand that was as white and beautiful as a lily's bosom, gaze off upon the sea in hopoless expectancy ot the return of a clipper that sailed away and never camo back again. The story goes that a bloody-hearted old pirate, being pursued b;' a cruiser, brought his beautiful mistress hore and left her while he went out to battle, telling her that by dawn ho would be 1 ack again, but he came not, not even till now. She died of starvation, but i,..r faithful si. Irit still comes to the sum mit of the island as the sun rises each morning, to meet the corsair, who novtr returned. There nro oirht of the islands, the smallest being as large, or rather as small, as a city building lot, and tho largest containing only a couple of hun dred acresnothing but bare, lifeless rocks, carved by the incessant waves into strange grotesquencss, and covered by no vegetation except low clinging vines and the New England blueberry. Vnn r nt ttm lulnmln r inhabited, the largest the Appledore, bears a hotel and a few cottages. Star Island has another hotel and a small settlement of fishermen, a third has a few fishermen's huts, and the fourth has a bold, white lighthouse springing out of ita nmct Tliav VArn itiaiwvpred bv Captain John Smith, the triend of Poca hontas, whoinloM explored the isew Kno-Unrl rnsst in an onen boat aud spent some time here making repairs anu resting. On tarlalanit elanrta thn nnl- monu ment erected in America to Captain John chorvwl shaft nf nurhlp nnnn neiiestal of sandstone, inscribed at length with the record of his valorous deeds, ana some cvclonedias say he is buried here. but that is a mistake. lktroit free rress. They Drove Him la. The owner of a place on Sibley street appeared in front of the hou yester day morning with a step-ladder and a saw and began the work of trimming up his shade trees. While he was at the first limb a pedestrian halted and queried: "(jomg to mm your trees, eh? ' "Yes ' "I'm. I see. First-rate timo to trim trees. Urn. Exactly." Ho hadn't got two blocks away bo- fore number two came along and called out: "doing to trim your trees, eh?" "Yes." "Ah! I see. Ought to have waited a month later." The pjnb was off when No. 3 halted. stood for a minute with his hands in his pockets, and then asked: "iioing to trim your trees, eh? "Yes. fllio-rifr. - ti httva HnnA fdaf loaf month' No. 4 said that April was the proper month. No. 5 wouldn't trim a tree ex cept in May. No. 6 thought Novem ber the best time ot year, and so it went until even- month in the year had been named and there were five or six indi viduals to spare. Before tho last tree was finished the seventeenth pedestrian halted, threw away the stub of his cigar and loudly demanded: uoing to trim jour trees, eh?" Thn mnn tittnrr liia caw frt A limn crnt down off the ladiler. and spitting on his hands he walked close up to the inquirer and said: "Supposing 1 am! What are you going to do about it?" "Oh, nothing,' answered the o'.her. as he dodsred around a pile of brick; "I was simply going to ask you if you nsed tar or porous plasters to cover up the scars." The citizen got his saw and ladder and disappeared in the house, and the remainder of tho work will be done at night. Detroit 1'ree Press. Hawaiian Ilonscs, The houses of Honolulu are always open, day and night, as the temperature is so warm that oue has to sleep out i f doors, as it were, to get enough fresh air. They are built mostly of wood, though many of tne oldest" and more substantial houses are built of coral stone, a few of lava stone, and many may yet be seen within the limits of Honolulu made of grass and occupied by tho natives. These native buis or houses are built by making a frame work of bamboo poles covered with lay ers of the banana tree, the trunk of which can be removed in layers This again is covered with grass i"nd trimmed on the corners and top by weaving the grass into different patterns. One opening or door usually admits enough light and air for the average native, though some huts are divided into sev eral rooms, with two and sometimes three doors. A mat hung down on the inside, covering the opening, is tho common door. Mats mauo of broad grass interwoven or braided, and some times flags form the carpets, and a pile of from two to ten, and sometimes even more, make the bed on whkb the natives and invited guests sleep. Furniture there is none, th natives al ways sitting on the ground with their legs crossed beneath them. Their kitchen is outside, and is composed of a heap of stones and ordinarily aa iron pot Boston Transcript. Pt'RSOSAL AXD UTECARY. -Irish ft Knglish is tho title of a mercantile linn in Uufblo, N. 1. 1J lalo Exprcs'. Professor Tyndall, ono of tho most noted of scientists, docs uot know tlio year of his birth. -Tho Chautauqua Literary Society has enrolled over 60,000 names since its organization in 1878. -A'. F. Mail. -Edmuud H. Kidder, Mrs. Eunice Hollistcr and Mrs. Violot Chappell, res idents of Connecticut, have completed their ono huudrcdlh year. Uartjord Colonel Black Dog and Ma.or Strike Ox wero tho rival candidates for chief of the Osago Nation, in Kansas, at tho last election, and tho Colonel was vic torious. A Providence (U. I.) correspondent claims for that city the home of several poets, among thein Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitney, nn associate of Poe and Wendell Phillips; Mrs. Lucy E. Akcr man, who wrote "Nothing but Leaves; Louise Akorman Payno, who died about a year ago; Nora Perry and Georgo S. Burleigh. Bishop II. M. Turner, of the M. E. Church, South, is said to be the first colored man who ever received the de grees D. D. and L. L. D. He educated himself at night among the cotton-fields of South Carolina, and was the first colored chaplain in the United States army, commissioned by President Lin coln. Chicago Journal. Pullman, the sleeping car million aire; Hill, the pioneer of smelting and United States Senator; Teller, ex-Sen-ntor and Secretary of the Interior; Chaffeo, ex-Senator and Chairman of tho Executive Committee of the Nation al Republican party, and Irving Hole, who has won renown as the foremost of all West Point students, were all resi dents of the little Co orado town of Cen tral, with a population of half a thou sand. Ch'caqo Uerald. Francis Scott Key, the author of the "Star Spangled Banner," who was a native of Maryland and died in Balti more in 1843, at the ago of sixty-four, is to have an expensive monument in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, the trustees of the James Lick estate hav ing decided to expend $ii0,000 for that purpose. It is an interesting coinci dence that a grandson of tho poet, Mr. John li. Key, who resided iii Boston several years ago, nnd is now of Stock bridge, should have painted a picture of toe Golden Gate which took first ize at the Philadelphia Centennial xhibition. San Francisco Chronicle. ' HUMOROUS. Chips buzz when they fly from the tree that a wood-chopper is felling. Hence the expression: "To whirr is hew-man. .V. Y. Journal. A silent partner is one who is ex pected to keep his mouth shut when he sees the confidential clerk speculate with tho funds of the firm. X. O. Picayune, "What are the elements of a sen tence?" asked the teacher of a little Irish girl. "I guess, mum," was the reply, "it's thirty days and a stone pile." Scissors. A New York traveling salesman has married a Hoboken dressmaker. 'A drummer and a flitter in one family ought to make it rather lively for the neighbors. Yonkcrs Statesman. The man who was frightened to death by the earthquake may be pleased to know that the shock was "less oscil latory than vertical," and therefore less dangerous. Sorriitown Herald. A girl in Turnor, Mo., smokes, chews, drinks, swears, shaves and wears a man's hat Etchange. That may all be, but we will wager that she can not throw a stone at a barn without knocking an eye out of the woman in the next yard. There is a limit to ev erything. Pittsburgh Chronicle, In tho shop of a boulevard pastry cook in Paris a young masher ques tioned the freshness of a tart The shopkeeper was touched to the quick. and remarked: "I made tirts, young man, a gooa wnuo ooiore you were born." "I don't doubt it,' was tho reply, "and this must be one of them." "Did you read those horrible stories of the Arctio sufferers living off of each other?" asked Mrs. Lumply of her husband. "Yes, I read all the par ticulars." "Dreadful, isn't it?" "Oh, it's nothing when you once get used to having people live off you. I used to kick wnen your mother, and your sister, and all the rest of them came to live off of me, but I ve got so usel to it now that 1 never complain." 1'exas Siftings. Jean Paul Richter, thodistinguishel author, was halted once nt the gate of a small town in Germany aud was asked to give an account ot himself. "What is your name?" asked the gate keeper. "Richter." "What trade do you follow?" "I am an author." "An author! What's that? "That means I make books." "Oh, yes; I under stand. hat new-ian cried names they have for everything nowadays! Here we call a man who makes books a book binder." Old Captain Yarn was a perfect marine philosopher, and no amount of :n i , . .... ui-iiicik eer uepresscu Ills laith or good spirits. Coming into the harbor onco with au empty ship, after a three years' cruise, he was boarded by a townsman, who inquired: "Wal.Cap'n, how many bar'ls? Had a trood v'a"eP ' "No," responded the skipper, "I hain't got a oar i oi ue aboard; but said he, rubbing his horny palms w ith satisfac tion, while his hard features relaxed into a smile, "I've had a mighty good saiL"X y. Ledger. She Uot W hat She Liked. She was young, and sweet, and po etic, and he was young and mischiev ous. They were "sitting out on the ve randa in the moonlight and she grew cthereaL "Oh, how I love to sit out here in the moonlight" she cooed; "to be fanned by the languorous perfumes of the roses and to be kissed by the soft airs from the South!' Then he kissed her and she grew in O'gnant "How dare you?" she almost sobbed. "Why, rm a soft heir from the Sooth," he replied, contritely. She didn't say anything when he kissed her again. Wathinatom JIaickJ. Tfiichlnif n Calf lo Drink. Many t reader, man as well n, y.ov . will loeognizo tho truthfulness and enl' joy mu minim- in mu loilowmir UcHCrin w. v,t...v...,u ,u filyll,jr u,8 L,af iii.ii, irosuuo ui uin iu unnK Dronrtrlw v-.!.,. It ii,.. m. m 1 l"-"T. nn taivu it ivui liiu u wi runners Go.' trtte: Those who havo had tho mourn ful experience know that there Is noth" fug more trying to the temper than tho operation of leaching a young calf to drink. The process is familiar to very man who has brought up a ca. from infancy. Yon seize a pnil of warm milk go into the stable, catch the calf! by tho cars, back him into a corner and bestrido his neck. Tho idiot rather likes this, and whilo you are reaching for tho pail ho employs his time ifi slobbering tho corner of your jacket! You discover what the blockhead is nbout, and box his cars. You can't help it You feel that way, and let him havo it. But the calf can t tell for ii, liie, of him why ho has been struck, and. ho gives a sudden and unexpected: "flounce." He believes he will go and' stay on the other sido of the stable, but' ho doesn't nnnounco this beforehand. Ho starts on tho impulse of the nw mcnt, and you can't tell just when he1 arrives there. You ride along with him' a little wny. But the laws of gravita tion nro always about the same. Your legs, one on each side of the. critter, keeps up with the calf for about a sec ond, but your body doesn't You slide over the calf, and, your back kisses, the floor. Your head is soaking in the pail of milk. When you geti tip you are mad uncommonly so.: fililk runs from your hair, and impreca ions out of your mouth, and you sol emnly declare that you will teach that! calf to drink or break his neck. The calf doesn't know of this resolve, and he glares at youiu a stupid fright across' the stable, lie was not aware that he was the cause of your downfall, and wonders ignorantly what is the matter, i You don't try to explain it to him, but' furiously catch him by the ears, look back over your shoulder at the milk! pail, and back up toward it, dragging' the calf after you. The calf is out of' wind, and you haven't a particle of prace left in your heart You are astride .the calf's neck, and jamming tho fingers nf ono hand into his mouth, vou place, jthe other on the back of his head and' shove his nose into the pail, fully re-, solved to strangle him if he don't drink.: The calf holds perfectly still omiuously po and there is silence for the space of half a minute, at the end of which time the blockhead, who hasn't drank a drop, suddenly makes a splurge, knocks, jthe pail over; you are again reduced to a horizontal from a perpendicular, and when you rise the excitement is intense. 1'ou have been soaked with milk, "slob bered" on, and hurt Not a drop of hiilk has gone down the brute's throat, and there he stands glaring at you, keady to furnish you with another free ride where ver you want to go. With an affidavit you seize the pail, and hobble but of the pen, fully resolved to let the ' four-footed fool starve; and thus endettr the first lesson. ' History of the Barber's Pole. In the earlier days venesection was the chief resource of the expert called iu to relieve the sick. So universal was blood-letting that he who lived by prac tising the aria of healing was called a "leech." The barber's shop furnished conveniences for practising blood-letting either by the lancet or the applica tion of the leech, and the barber finally added this to the assumed duties of his profession. The appliances were a stall to support the arm, a cord to bind it, and a bowl to catch the flow of blood. These were usually displayed in front1 of the shop; the bandage being wound; around the staff, the cord tied above it, and the metal bowl inverted on the top. After a while these were imitated by an artificial sign. A pole was at first fas tened in the ground, wound with the bandage, and capped with the bowl., Then a painted strip of whito was put on the pole in place of the linen, and a wooden cap of a metal color sur mounted the solid staff. It was natural that the pole should be painted red not only to show the white stripe more plainly, but as suggestive of the use to be made of tho bandage. The bowl be came a ball, and the brass or pewter gave placo to gold or silver-leaf. In some parts of the world the barber still iretains his skill in venesection, but bleeding is now tho rare exception in medical practice even in the heroic, school for treating the sick. But where tho barber is no longer a leech, tho sign shorn of its significance, is still re tained, and tho stripes and gilt cap will mark tho barber's pole we suppose to the end of time. Its use certainly ante dates any completo historical record. Journal of Commerce. m Too Jlany Farm Implements. In the great Northwest, as hitherto in Kansas nnd Nebraska, the reckless, purchase of farm machinery, and the failure to properly take care of it, is frequently noted. The new comer, be-! cause he can buy his reaper and other machines on credit, purchases freely, with tho confidont expectation that good crops will enablo him to discharge his( obligations; but if the crops are not so good, and be is uuable to sell as much as ho expected, ho frequently gets in a close spot financially. Perhaps he has no building beyond a stable for bis horses. Boards are expensive. Ho, leaves his machinery iu an open lot, with no cover, exposed to all the chang ing weather. It often results that he can not pay for his machinery, and, furthermore, it is much damaged sooner or later. Do not go to the Western prairies to farm, uulcssyou have enough money to pay for some "machinery, and enough money to construct a proper shelter for it, after the season is over. It is u oft recurring and painful sight, as one rides over the prairie, to see these farm implements lying around loose in, every direction. American Jgricul turiM. m There was really nothing the mat ter with the young orator but nervous ness.; nevertheless, when he opened his Swh by saung, "Mv cello fitizens, rumthing'is sotten in the IVn of State mark." bis friends led him off the plat form, and next morning published a physician's certificate to the effect that be was suffering from an acute attack of "malarial cerebration." Burdctte.