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ALL OWING TO THE SOIL ;
JOHN MOSSBACK, OF WAYBACK,
TELLS SOME TALL STORIES.
Log (irw Into a Pnuue Hooae In
One Night nl Kverythlug Klse Kept
Pee A Flock uf sheep Grew 80 Mjk
twioafily That John Had to Leave.
"Why. hello, John," said a man who
chanced to be passing along the road to
John Moswback, of Wayback, whom he
met, "liow came yon ' in this section of
fiae country? The last I heard you was
in Aroostook county. Me., and here I
ftntl yon way down here; what caused
yoa to leave that place? I hear that it is
the garden of Maine."
"Well, yon see, mister, that it got too
health v for me np there, and I bad to
leave."
"Too healthy ! How do yon make that
out? I did not suppose that yon could
' find a place that was too healthy to live
in."
"Well, yer see, mister, 'at it is this
-way, although I don't hardly like ter tell
"yer, for fear 'at yer will think 'at I'm a
lyin'; but I'll risk it anyway, and tell yer
few facts, and then yer'U diskiver wo't
I mean by bein' too healthy.
NOT BUILT WITH HANDS.
Wen I fust went np there I tnck up
a farm on w'ot I supposed was about
til' richest soil in the county, and I found
arter a while that my jedgment was not
far out o th' way. Th' fust day 'at I
.got there I looked around and selected
-ta' spot where I was goin' to build my
boose, and as I conldn't find any stones
for underpinin' I thought 'at I would
build my honse, which was a log one,
on th ground, hoping that it would
ataud until I could build a better one.
It was pretty late when I got at work,
and I only got the four bottom logs to
gether when I had ter quit, an' I had ter
go about a mile ter th' honse where I
nut boardin' until I could get my house
ready ter move into. Th' nex' mornin"
I started ter go ter my work, an' w'ot
-was my surprise ter find th' four logs 'at
X had laid for th' foundation fer my
house had taken root an' grown into a
two story frame honse, with ell and out
bail dings attached, all shingled and
dapboarded and ready to move into. I
mentioned the fact ter my host, an' he
aid that was no thin': 'at th' soil allera
did that when it was fust broke, but that
rd get used ter it arter a while.
"I sent for my family the next day,
which consisted of my wife an' a 10-year-old
boy, an' in about two weeks they
come np there, an' all went well until I
el my boy ter harrowin'; he bein kind
lazy, lay down and went to sleep on
th fresh grown. In about two hoars he
come np ter th' honse an' we didn't know
him. Grown? Well, I guess so. Wen
be went away he was about the size o'
any 10-year-old boy, and w'en he come
back he was plump six foot tall and
weighed 225 pounds.
"W'en it come time ter shoot deer my
aired man started oat ter see if he
eoaldnt get one. Well, sir, he started a
drove and drew 'em ont inter one o' my
fields and shot three of 'em, an, every
ae of 'em fell on a piece of broke np 'at
we had plowed that week, an' as he
couldn't get 'em ter the honse alone he
came for help, an' my sou and I to--Kether
with a warden who had just got
there ter my honse started back ter get
them, an' sir, you may believe it or not,
bat w'en we got there we found that
them three deer had grown into three
moose, an' it cost that man' $100 apiece
for the two moose which he had, more'n
the law allowed him.
OBOWTH OF RAILROADS AND MORTGAGES.
"Are they goin' to build that railroad,
did you say? No, I don't think they
will, for jesKt as soon as the sleepers strike
the sile the blamed things would grow
until the whole country would be cov
ered with railroads. I 'member one of
ay neighbors held a mortgage on one of
the farms an' he happened to lose it,
and didn't find it for two days, an' when
he did find it it had grown until it had
given him a mortgage of a whole town
ship, and they sent him down the river
fox forgery, even it was all the fait o'
the sile.
Oh, yes! Aroostook county is a nice
farmin' country; all yer have ter do is
tor plant yer crops and they will grow
ter beat thunder. Why I have known
men to go there without a cent and clear
1300,000 the first year all often potatoes,
an' they didn't have only one potato to
tart with, and that being a small one
weighed only 600 pounds.
"Everybody would be rich if the debt
didn't grow equally with the profits. - 1
nember one man went ter sellin' ma
chinery, an' he didn't pay np for a year,
an' by that time the debts had grown so
big that he never has been able ter pay
it since.
"Wot made me leave? WeUf IT1 tell
yer. I turned my flock o' sheep out one
night, and the next mornin' they had
grown so 'at I had 'bout fifty morn'n 1
tamed out th' night afore, and one o
xny neighbors hed lost his whole flock,
which, strange to say, had drowned, as
he never found 'em, bat he said that I
got 'em, and he made it so nncomf ort
ahle for me that I had ter leave. Well,
good day, mister, I've got ter leave, as I
got ter strike the next town afore night,
as my time for leaving the state expires
then." Bangor News.
A Wicked Broker.
Wall' street is not often reverent. As
proof, or refutation, of this assertion
may be cited the remark made by one
of the street's "kings" when asked to
cease his attacks on a certain stock.
The man who urged the request gave as
aa argument the fact that the "king's"
-eldest friend had invested heavily in
the stock, and was on the verge of bank
wiptcy. '
"Loaded with it, is he?" said the other.
"Well, we're told in the good book to
-bear one another's hardens.' Fm going
to bear his till I can get it at twenty."
JJew York Times.
School limy.
Visitor Do you like going to school,
ay little man?
Little Man Yesm, I like goin', but I
ant Eke stayin'. Good News.
AN ANCIENT FARM HOUSE.
What
the French Hootelrlee Were Like
Daring the Middle Ages.
The houses of the farmers and the
country people differed then as now, ac
cording to their rank and prosperity,
and also according to the district they
inhabited. The yeoman former, and
even the well to do husbandman, dwelt
in a solid house of brick or stone, tiled
or slated, with a paved yard separating
it from the barn and outhouses, the dai
ry and cattle pens. The farm honse
which in England was always construct
ed with a southern aspect as invariably
faced the east in Aqmtame, while to the
rear well open to the west was a long
tiled veranda, where in winter after
noons the hemp picking, the wool card
ing, etc., were done.
Within the vast kitchen glowed in the
light of the fire almost as nnextingnish
able as the vestal virgin's peat, coal and
wood were each abundantly employed,
and for a trifling rent, generally paid in
kind, the lord of the manor would per
mit the farmers on his land to cut their
turfs from his. bog or their boughs from
his forest. Fuel was not only actually
but relatively cheaper in the middle
ages than today, for the bogs were not
drained in those days, the forest covered
great expanses, and the cost of carnage
made it almost impossible to transport
their produce. In almost every shire of
France and England the supply of fuel
was in excess of the demand.
This hospitable fire flared np a chim
ney proportioned to its size, lighting the
huge brick oven, the iron tiredogs, the
bellows, shovel, gridiron, ladles, cal
drons, saucepans, mortar, tin pails and
other utensils that stood on the brackets
of the hearth, and irradiating the brass
and copper pots, the metal candlesticks,
the lamp, the lantern, the not unfrequent
silver beaker, and the glass drinking
caps that were ranged on the chests and
cupboards round the walls. Near this
fire stood a high backed settle, the mas
ter's corner, and nnder the great mantle
of the chimney narrower benches were
set in the brick.
Within easy reach of the hearth a deep
oak chest held the logs for burning. It
was generally matched by a handsome
wedding chest with carved or painted
front, long enough to contain a grown
person full length, but more usually filled,
it must be admitted, with the best clothes,
the trinkets and the savings of the house
hold. The registers of the chatelet record
no crime so common as the breaking open
of such wedding chests; and it is surpris
ing how many clasps of jewels, girdles
of pearls, golden headdresses and rings,
and purses full of gold were stolen from
quite humble households. Onr fore
fathers invested their capital in cups
or trinkets of precious metal, pretty to
look at, easy to hide, and readily con
verted into cash when necessity demand
ed a sacrifice. Fortnightly Review.
A Daring Argument.
A quick witted and daring western
lawyer once saved a guilty client from
sure conviction on a charge of poisoning.
It was proved that the poisoning had
been done by means of certain cakes, a
portion of which was produced in court.
When the counsel for the prisoner had
finished his speech, he said: "And these.
gentlemen of the jury, are some of the
alleged poisoned cakes. We declare to
you. gentlemen of the jury, that they
are not poisoned cakes. They are as
harmless cakes as ever were made, and
in order, gentlemen of the jury, to show
yon that these cakes are not poisoned, 1
will eat one of them right here in your
presence."
And he did eat one. He took good
care, however, to leave the room at the
earliest opfortunity, and to make a bee
line for an adjoining room, where he
had an emetic in readiness and an anti
dote. But the jury never heard about
the emetic or the antidote until the law
yer's client had been acquitted. San
Francisco Argonaut.
Onr Son a Star.
Most young folks now know that the
difference between night and day on this
planet of ours arises simply from the
fact, that among the innumerable multi
tude of stars there is one infinitely nearer
to us than all the rest; being so much
nearer to us that when we see it we have
day. When by the earth's movement
on its axis the sun has set in the west
we have night; at which time we depend
for light upon the more distant stars
unless, indeed, the moon is shining.
In the main, it is true that the enor
mous difference in the intensity of the
light that we receive from the sun in the
one case, and from all the stars seen at
night in the other, depends upon the fact
that the sun is the star nearest to as, and
the other stars are suns infinitely re
moved. J. Norman Lockyer in Youth's
Companion.
To Measure the . Sea Level.
A new apparatus for measuring the
mean level of the sea has lately been in
stalled at Marseilles. It is based on the
principle that when a liquid wave trav
erses a capillary tube or a porous parti
tion, its amplitude diminishes and it is
retarded in its phases without the mean
level of the wave changing. It consists
of a glass tube, the lower end of which
communicates by a flexible pipe with a
plunger which is lowered beneath the
lowest water level. There are two cells
in the plunger, the lower being filled
with sand and open to the sea, the result
being that the column of water in the
tube rises and falls very little with the
tides, and the mean sea level can be read
from a graduated scale. New York
Times.
Everything Shipshape.
Small Boy Say, dad, why does
the
leaves fall off the trees every fall?
Dad (an old salt) Bless you, boy,
don't you know? The winds is high ir.
winter, an' the trees has to lower sail.
New York Weekly.
A Drop In the Market.
He Darling, this engagement ring is
worth $350.
She The last one I had cost $400.
He You are older now! New York
Herald.
THE RED MAN IN WINTER j
HOW INDIANS EAT AND LIVE DUR-j
ING THE COLD MONTHS. .
Construction of a Tepee -Furnishings of
the Tent How Their I tread Is Made.
Process of Hunting iud Curing the
Leather for Leggins and Moccasins.
It is not strange that Indians are short
lived nor that there should be so high a
rate of mortality among their children.
The tribes north of an east and west line
coinciding with the northern limit of
New Mexico use for dwellings what is
known as the tepee. An Indian of
wealth in the Ute country sometimes
has an opportunity to purchase an A
tent, and even a wall tent, at some sale
of condemned quartermaster's supplies,
but the very best and newest canvas af
fords poor protection against the snow
storms and freezing winds of the plains.
The tent is usually staked down, with
a shallow gutter dug round it to carry
off the rain water, which would other
wise flood its interior, and, beginning in
the early autumn, a fire is built in the
center of the earth floor, which is sel
dom allowed to go out.- Overhead and
hanging in lines suspended from the
canvas are the rifles and other weap
ons of the family, and the floor is cov
ered with about six inches of dead grass I
or hay. which in time is trodden down
and pressed into a fair and tolerably ;
soft mattress. Wrapped up in his blanket, i
with his head resting on his saddle for j
a pillow, the Indian sleeps through the j
night, depending somewhat on the fire
to keep him from freezing in extremely !
cola weatner. .
LIFE d A TEPEE.
In dry weather the ventilator at the
apex of the tent may be kept open, but
during storms, when it is closed, the at
mosphere of the tent is stifliilg and reek
ing with the odor of the unwashed fam
ily and of the many damp" and badly
cared furs which every buck accumu
lates. Far from the agencies the In
dians lay in a small stock of flour, coffee
and sugar sufficient to be used sparingly
through the winter, which, with his
frozen beef or antelope meat, constitutes
his bill of fare.
In a tent ten feet in diameter, a buck,
two squaws and five or six small children
pass the winter months, and considering
their uncleanly habits, it is not difficult
to imagine the condition of the habita
tion in the spring.- They themselves
probably appreciate this, because rather
than clean up they simply move their
tent to some clean spot.
With a little flour, water and salt the
squaws make a thick paste, wMch is
first cooked on hot stones until it be
comes stiff, and then each cake is further
cooked by standing it on its ' edge with
its flat surface exposed to the flames
an til it is thoroughly baked into quite
palatable bread. Their meat is fried in.
its own fat or roasted on a spit stuck in
the ground, while a small child keeps it
turning to equalize the roasting. The
bread cakes serves as plates, while their
fingers are both knives and forks, so the
Indian has no dish washing process to
go through with, for when the meal is
finished he eats his plate and licks off his
knives and forks with his tongue.
MAKING LEGGINS.
The hunting of deer' in the Rocky
mountains has driven them north into
British America, and in a few more
years onr Indians will have no more
buckskins for leggins and moccasins.
Only the skin of the heavy hided deer
can be used, that of the antelope and
white tailed varieties being too tender
for long service. The Apaches make
their moccasins and leggins in one piece,
in the style of hunting boots, while most
of the Indians to the north wear slippers
and leggins. - Whenever a deer is killed
and cut up the bladder is carefully cut
away, cleaned, and filled with the brain
of the animal, and the little bag is most
carefully guarded until a stream is
reached, where the hide may be cured.
The entire skin is then put into run
ning water, and weighted down with
stones. In four or five hours the soak
ing has swelled it and loosened the hair
at the roots, when it is taken out and
stretched on a frame, whilo the owner,
with the aid of a cleaned rib of the ani
mal, Bcrapes it down until all the hair is
rubbed off, very much in the same man
ner as overheated horses are scraped to
remove the foam and sweat. The skin
is then pulled and stretched for three or
four hours, and, at the same time, oiled
with the brain until it is perfectly dry,
Boft and pliable, when it is ready for
use. When a tan color is desired it is
soaked in an infusion of red bark. The
Bole of the moccasin is always made of the
raw hide of beef cattle and sewed to. the
upper with the sinews of the deer's tendon
achilles. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Attorney's Dog.
A Boston lawyer who resides in the
suburbs is the owner of a dog that cer
tainly possesses the instincts of an attor
ney. The, other day he saw another dog
carrying off a tempting looking bone.
A second dog followed at a short dis
tance. The lawyer's dog quickly con
ceived a plan of action worthy of an em
inent legal mind. - He immediately
brought action against the dog with the
bone.- The third dog at once quickened
his pace, and lost no time in instituting
supplementary proceedings in his own
behalf.. This assistance proved equiva
lent to a decree for the plaintiff, for the
lawyer's dog left the third dog to bear
the brunt of the litigation, and seizing
the bone fled to his own kennel, where
possession was truly nine points of the
law. Boston Traveller.
Thompson Was Strong. .-
On March 28, 1841, Thomas Thompson
lifted three barrels of water, weighing
together 1,83d pounds. He also put an
iron bar on his neck, seized hold of its
two ends, and bent it until the latter
met. On another occasion he raised
with his teeth a table six feet long sup
porting at its farthest end a weight of 100
pounds. . He also tore without serious
effort a rope of a diameter of two inches
and lifted a horse over a bar. Cham-'
bars' Journal.
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Convenient to the Passenger
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Also a
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Orange Cider, and the
Best Apple Cider.
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