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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
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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.