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VOL. II.
WHEN WIFE'S A GO'N AWAY.
Somehow ,vnr:is around the groe'ry
Ain't so tunny as before.
An' I'm ell the time fortfettin'
Th s or that "ere little chore;
When I g:t out in the kitehon,
Want to hung around an' stay:
Guess I'm foolish onus this ev'oin".
Why my wife's a go'u' away.
She's n fix'n' things up for me
With a thoughtful, levin' care,
Tellin' me that soraeihin s here.
An' sonuHhin" else is over there;
Loohm' sober, spoak;n" low voiced.
Though she hasn't mucli to say;
Ketch her eyes tin me all dim like
Uupss she ha es to go away.
AVl-h 'twos over w sh 'twas way off-.
W sh we didn't have to part :
That's j st what I keep a thinkin".
An" afeelin' In my heart.
P'raps our speerits see mu -h furdor
Than the part n' of to-day.
An' jest hint what they can't tell us.
When a loved one's iro'n' away.
Calls to mind another Journey,
Hy nn' by we all roust go.
Wonder who's a eettin" ready
For the train that moves so slow
Brinirs thn tears to thin:: about it.
So I git nigh her an" pray.
It may be my time forstartin.
Jest when she's a go'n' away.
I.u R. Coke, in 0:mha World.
PANTHER STORIES.
Adventures of Eirly-Djiy Settlers
in Missouri.
Ml P-lu.ky Little Dot- A Little Olrl
Watches a l'anth. r In a Tree
Wlille Hr Sister Gives
W amine at Home.
do not believe there are now aiy,
rtv but very few. p.-mtliers in Missouri.
Perhaps in the deep forests of Smith
e:isteru Missnnri. or amid the fast
uesses of the Oz irk ramje. there aro
in all a dozen, but we do not hear of
even that manv. Fifty years ao they
were very numerous. They were de
s'rnctive, too. and sometimes mala
serious ravages upon the hogs jinJ
young cattle of the settlers. Fr oine
reason they did not often trouble the
-heep; perhaps the flavor of mutton
was not to their liking. They pre
ferred pis, and have been known to
lira re all sorts of peril to gt one.
Their sirength and agiiity starve. 1
them as well as their daring. An old
senior telis me lie saw a panther a
painter" he called it ne day iro -ling
along through a corn-lie. d. with
a 150-pound hog llirowu over his
-houkler, as nimbly a a cat niigh"
ruu away with a rat.
P.tnthers very rarely attacked- a
human being. They often ran from
au unarmed mail. The worst pecu
liarity about them was their fierce
screams. Many a pioneer, brave :i
Caesar, as ha sat by his fiivsi.le in his
Uinely cabin in the forest, hns felt his
blood chill and his heart stand still as
the piercing scream of a prowliug
panther was borne to his ears on the
wings of the night wind. The cry of
a panther is peculiar something like
that of a woman in dis ress and
agony, but much more peueti aiing
and harrowing. It can be heard dis
tinctly a mile or more. My old pio
neer friend says:
Nxihiu' ever sk -ered me like the
rell of a painter. It made the cold
s.reaks shoot over me. I never could
iet used lo if. ofieii as I h ard if, end
somehow it always made me think of
Lijuna."
The Missouri river bottoms in Saline
County were favorite haunts of these
animals in early days. In the Ed
inondsou Creek settlement, sii.y years
,igo, a panther killed and carried
away six large hosrs in one day. H
concealed them in a large cavity in the
ground formed by the uprooting of a
: ree in a hurricane, covering them with
leaves. H; dispatched his victims
within so short a time that all of
the caicas3es were warm when the
p.ld was discovered. This was ahugi
Jog panther, sav:go as any tiger in
the jungles of B.-ngal. The settlers
organiZf-d a pursuit and chased the
animal across the Missouri river into
Chariton County. It swam the river
wilh all ease, and very swiftly. As
it reached the northern bank it shook
tself.
As a dog that shakes his ears
When he leaps frm the water to the land,
i:id rtlerinjr a loud cry, as of triumph
ver the bnffl !,1 hunters on the other
-hore, he sprang up ihe bank and dis
appeared in the heavy bottom tim
bers. Ia the year 1825 a panther was
killed in the Davis bottom, north i f
nhere the low-n of Malta Bend now
stands. Four men. G,;orge Davis, his
s.n, a G -rniaa in Mr. D;ivis' employ,
and a hired negro man belonging to
James M-R y lolds. were at work in a
clearing. For some days previously a
large panther had made its appear
ance in the borders of the clearing,
bui afier gitaing npoi the men for a few
minutes it had uttered a few screuches
.-ind gone away. Oi this particular
day the men had taken their guns with
i hem and had secured the services of
half a d'Z ?n dogs, one of which was
an insiirniticant, fussy little tice, not
bigger than a lomcat, b it as brave
as a gamecock. The men were eating
their dinners, wilh a huge tree trunk
for a table, when the panther appear
ed. The guns had been left on the
other side of the clearing, a quarter of
a mile away. The dogs were with
ihelr masters, but upon the first ap
pearance of the panther slunk away
arid cringed at the feet of the men as
if for protection. Tiie litlle fioe. how
ever did not quail. He tore around
and barked and growled at the in
truder ns if he meant to eat him up.
The panther came boldly forward, and
at last sprang upon the log where the
n.en were sitting. Ho uttered a scream
as if demanding His sharj of the din
ner. Upon the appearance of the beast
upon the log the negro and the Gor
i.can caughi up large clubs, and as the
animal came nearer they urged for
ward the tlo?s and boldly assaulted it.
The panther turned tail and the dogs
rushed at him. There was something
of a fight, but five of the dogs were
killed in as many minutes lorn to
pieces by the huge, sharp daws and
teeth of Ihe monster. The only sur
vivor among the canines was the lit le
fice. which bravely kept up the
fight. It would .charge up
and snap at the panther's hind
legs, causing him tci turn, then
bound nimbly away, to .return again
and airain-lo the contest,! The, peculiar
tactics of the spunky little dog oiubajr
rassed and hindered the movements of
the panther, and enabled the Gorman
and the negro to get in their work.
They assaulted him "with their clubt,
.striking hi-ti repeate I blows. At last
the negro knocked him down, anil tin?
German ran up and stabbed him to
the heart wilh a largt clasp-knife. Bir
for the plucky little fieo the real
hero of thii occasion there is no tell
ing how the con; est might have ended.
1 ho panther measure ! three lengths
of an nxe-handle about seven feet
and would weigh three hundred
pounds.
D.iwn on the B ackwater, in South,
eastern Saline, about the year 1S3i). a
settler named Samu d Miller had built
his cabin and was opening a sma'l
r: t in. II had two litllo daughters,
J '.inio a d Susie, ng -d seven and six.
0 io morning the mother of the little
;:ii'l9 sent them u an errand to a
neighbor's, nearly two miles distant.
'Ihe road was a mere pathway through
tiie thick woods, bat tho children
knew it very well. II od in hand thy
1 odd led along, unheeding because un
conscious of peril. But half a nii!e
from home, on the upper are of a lare
leaning tree, which bt lit directly over
the paih. they saw a large panther
strerchid out at full length, basking
a the morning sun! They did not
k:iow rigluly what it was.
O'.i. Susie," said Jennie, "there's
a wolf !'
Yes." said Smic. "and I sped it's
the bad old follow that tatched my
lamb and kills papa's pigs. Lot u
go right back home and tell papa, and
j ho w ill come and shoot if w iv his gun."
j "But what if it runs away while
j we're gone?" returned Jannie. Tell
; you what we'll do. S.isie: You Slav
j h re ami watch it, and I'll ru.i a-id
j tell papa! I can run fastes ymi
know."
I Little Susij readily assenttd to the
! arrangement, assuring her sist, r that
j it the had old wolf should coin
j down the tree she wt ul l 'lake a slick
an I punch his eyes o:iU" Then gath
i ering up some acorn cups and a
j q lantity of velvet moss, she set about
! i-ons.ruciing a "play homo" at the
! loot of the very tree on which crouched
'j the panther, watching her curiously,
j Presently he arose and walked back
j and fo.irth, back and forth, along the
j evel extent of th? tree, as if imna-
tient and meaning to descend B .t
; Susie shook her littl.j fist at him
menacingly. a:id soon he lay down
j ag:in with his hea I between his paws,
j lazily blinking his great yellow eyes.
1 "as if." Sasie said. 'Hie was awful
j sleepy. "
I Away ran Jennie, fl-et as a little
! f.iwn. and in due tim : she reached her
j father's cabin and hurriedly told hrr
mother that there w as a "big wolf
on a tree, and that Susie Sia 1 "staid to
! mind it." Mrs. Miiler at once eon -j
i rehended the harrowing truth, and
C:ilied frantically to her husband, who
was at work in his clearing near by
j Mr. Miller came at once, accompanied
i by a young n an in his employ named
j G -orge P.unkett. R-aiiziug the im-
miaent peril of his child, and drea 1
j ing that perhaps already a horrible
f ite hnd befallen it, the pioneer d d
not speak a word, but in afewseconds
be and young Piunkett, rifle in hand,
were running swiftly to the scene.
Nearing the locality, M. Her said:
If we are not too lale, G .-orge, let
nie fire first."
P. ssibly the emotions of the father
at this time may be imagined; cer
tainly I can not describe them. Faint
hopes ami sickening fears alternated
in his breast as he sped fleetly on. I
was hardly possible that the child was
yet alive, but as the panther had not
sprung at first, there was a bare
chance. Meanwhile, in the little
cabin home, the agonized mother had
caught her remaining little one to her
breast, and was praying silently but
fervently.
But O. the joy of it! on coming
within o'ght of the fateful tree Miller
saw his cnild safe and unharmed. The
little innocent was busy at her play,
crooning sweetly the w hile. Doubtless
II? who sto pad the mouths of the
lions had preserved her! High above,
the pan her was on his porch. I.i two
seconds Miller's rill rang out. the
, a ;ther came crashing to the ground,
a b ill at fairly in its brain, and little
Susie sprang up and exclaimed: "O,
papa! How you scared ine!"
This panther measured five feet ten
inches. Miller tanned its skin, and
when his daughters had grown to
maidenhood each of them had a cape
made from it. For soiiiti reason the
M Her fa nily di 1 not long remain in
Missouri nfter this incident. They
went back to Illinois, but in ten years
or more they returned to the Black
water country, where Miller still
owned his farm. Miss Susie and Miss
J -ii ni -t of en wore their panther-skin
capes, and were very proud of them.
In 1849 i ho gold fever carried off Mr.
Miller; he went to California and died
there many years ago.
Some of the pioneers termed the
panth.M's "tigers." or .iger-cala."
Oi a branch of Salt river, ii Shelby
County, old J lin Winnegaii. a f anion -hunter,
kitfed three panthers, oi
"tigers," in one winter, and the
stream, has ever sine; borne the name
of Tiger Fork. In this lacality. pan
thers were, as may be supposed, very
plentiful, but th -y were shy and even
cowardly. There were plenty of bears,
too. and the old settlers tell of a fierce
fight between a bear and a panther
which c ime off on Tiger Fork many
years ago, but the talo is somewhat
musty and the details rather apocry
phal. Burr Joyce, in St. Louis Globe
Democrat. THE GREAT OANJIRO.
An Knthnilastlo American Writes About
Japan's Edwin Sooth.
O.ie would scarcely expect to find
way out here in Japan an actor of the
finest talent, but there are some here
who would be considered fine in any
country, and Danjiro the great Dan
jiro how can I do him justice? Would
you think a so-called heathen could
make a hardened wretch like me
almost shed tears in the affecting
parts? Would you think that I would
be so carried away v, ith the acting of
an Asiatic that I would shout, with
the native andlence: "Torishil! yor
ishii!" (well done I well done!)
W"" vheu J first law this slayer my
LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST
s ri r.so aim iia:n cation wi re so
great i hat 1 cmdd scarcely keep
my enlhiis'asn In reasonable
bounds. and on acquaintance I
am none the les infatuated. His act
ing is almost inai v Ions. L of course,
could not understand any of the stage
language, and my intcrpro;er's E i
glish was little b tier than that of an
average Sioux Iiuli in at a grading
agency; but Da .jiro's ta'cnt made up
for all llghtdisa.lv..litago-i like these.
His support, too, was good, a notable
feature -f the s age in Japan being
that none of the softer '-x take any
part with the mii, all female charac
ters being represented by mates in
female dress. Ui the other haul,
there are respectable theat rs Mn
T kio where there are no male actor',
the male characters being put on the
s nge by wi men in men's attire. The
two s x,-.s never lake parts in the same
theater even; but the audiences of
both are compos.d .f men and wom
en. O.ie ii ore word about D.tnjiro:
Hi is the best and most celebrated
actor ii Japan and lives in
Tnkio, but plays in every city
of importance in the empire. Hj is
said tf b rich, and I pr.sume lie is,
for he lives in a bcauiifu. home hear
'he foreign concession But while he
has prospered some of the theaters at
which he has been from time to lime
the thief altrr.cliou are now closed
for debt, but 1 beii e more from bad
management than fimn lack of patron
age. Vet wi:h all ihis man's wealth
an.i a'l his fame he does not consider it
ii-.c insist nt with Irs dig-iity to accept
money presents from his enthusiastic
an liences. a:id he is frequently, afler
a very clf-ctive rendering of some
part, invite I lo the !) x'' of some
.ne in the aedi.-nce, and. if tho invi
at'on is accepted, n ceives a money
token of admiration any amount
from $1'J $3 ). If thj star can not
accept ihe inv.tatio-i h sends a lesser
: g it to the b x. wIiii recei vrs a small
i snt for hitn-t-Vf a id cirriei o ia o
his chief. 'or. A''aut-t Contitution.
PAPER MANUFACTURE.
ITonilertul Ailv:incet .M i. la Thli Inlaa
tiy Wlitioi K.riy ?sr.
Ihe C.tiiiese ar? suppose. I to have
been the inventors oi papr. They
us -d rice straw or r: gs f cotton or
linen for making tier paper stock.
Modern nations followed their exam
p e, but male few r;Vements on
the ancient proc sses until w ithin forti
years. Sitie-j then v ry decade h is
witnessed great advances in this in
dustry. New met ho Is. processes and
machinery have been devi-el. ne
mat-rials brought into use. and new
multifarious forms of the mauufac -nred
product now eiili r into the econ
omics of modern lif . It tgs are gath
ered in all p.irts i f the world ami
brought by ship-loads to the United
S ates, but they are no longer th
c i -f raw ma'eri-.tb Pqer fibers nr
b ained from old rope, jute butt,
st: aw of the various grains, lrom many
eras'cs and reeds and from the woo'.
ofeyjrvss. ine. poplar, spruce, hen -lock.
Laswoo!. si can ore and oth r
trees Now prent n.ills prepare the
fiber s ok for paper manufacturer,
who buy it by the ton. in bulk,
a d then work it into v. hatever shapes
their business requU-es. As it costs far
l ?ss to cat ry chemicals to the forests
than it would to transport the logs,
wcoil-piilp es ab'.ishmeiiis are gener
ally located near sources of supply.
The chief chemicals are lime, potash,
s. da ash. ami caustic soda. 'Jhese
alkalies, dissolved in wa'er to make
the cooking liquids, have been em
ployed in huge wooden tanks, in
wh.ch, b cause the temjerature could
no' be arried above boblng heat, ii
was t.fcessary to continue the cooking
ro.u two to tlirpe days. The progres
tf invention has recently made it pos
sille to greatly reduce ihe time re
quired for ibis purpose. 'Ihe demand
lor paper in all Ioim-s f. r old nnd new
i:ses is iiniimit d. and is d.diy increas
ing. In no part of the globe is there
a greater variety of vegetable fibers
t it tail ill theSi.illi, whose cane-brakes,
.swamps, forests, ami cotton-fields can
fiil'iiis!) inexhaustible p utilities for all
lime. The cotton la ilations alone
could probably supply every pulp-mill
l.i America with a mater. al cheaply
gatheied ai.d handled, and containing
a Ion . strong, beautiful tbil lia'li
ntjre .Tourm' of ('.- .iy
Carker (in hotel corridor) "Let's
;et out of here. Barker." Barker
What's the matter?" Carker "Those
two big men are having such a violent
li.scussion that I'm afraid it will end in
t fight-" Barker (carelessly) "No
langerof that. They're both pugil
ists." Detroit Free Prcts.
A woman will get u; and tear
iround and rant about female suffrage
tnd demand cqmil rights with man in
i torrent of impassioned chest tones,
nut when night comes she'll get down
nd tremblingly peer under the bed tor
the man she knows isn't there.
Somebody predicts that "Ihe tele
phone will develop in time so that
verybody will bo compelled to have it.
The messenger boy must go." We
hare a great ileal of confidence in
science, but wo don't believe yet that it
will ever be 'able to make the messen
ger boy go. fioHon Port.
And now the Sunday newspapers
have formed a trust; and. as was in
evitable, have raised their prices one
.ent. If these ' f reedy monopolists
persist in their fiendish design of
w ringing four cents out of the pockets
,f the toiling masses, in exchange for
t dollar's worth of reading, they may
rot find that even a circulation-swearer
will not save them from bankruptcy.
Puck.
"You don't seem at all cast down
hy the length of tho sentence the Judge
has given you," said a sympathetic by
stander to the sad-eyed German who
had just been condemned to twenty
years of servitude in the State prison."
"No," replied the prisoner, wearily, "I
;lo not at all it mind. I have thirteen
years the proof-reader on a German
newspaper been." Somerville Journal.
Dame "You are entirely mistaken
as to the object of tho anti-kissing so
ciety. It is not intended to discourage
courtship. No, indeed. The object is
to break up the practice of allowing
ministers to kiss brides." Male caller
"O, that's it. Are the members of
the society engaged young ladies who
expect shortly to be married?" Dame
"Well, no; tb.Sjembers are mostly
ministers' wivimaAa WfirJLd.
WOMAN'S BEST CHOICE.
Or. Holland Taken to Taws: for Ills Ad
vie to Voansi Mra,
The advice of Dr. Holland for young
men to select a wife from the female
society above them would be more valu
able if the learned doctor had defined
in just what tho wife was to bo the supe
rior. That he ha I a clear idea in his
head seems mauifest But does he
mean superior in social position? Does
he mean that the coachman shall
always aspire to the brilliant and ac
complished daughter of his employer
for a wife? Docs ho mean that the
gardener's son should always a'm to
win the Countess on the ground that
love makes alt things even? Does he
mean that the Judge shall alwavs pass
by Maud Mtiller for a lady of high de
gree that the aim of the noble Lord in
the selection of a wife shall be the
daughter of a King that the young
mechanic should seek for his bride in the
home of the coal kings and iron barons
and blue-blooded first families? If this
is his meaning his advice is worthless,
for in cammon every-day life such mar
riages, in nine cases out of ten, prove
to be among the most unhappy
and usually end in divorce. A man of
brains has a better chance for peace
and comfort in a marriage with a
woman who is a c,ood-natured dunce
than a woman of intellect could ever
hope for in a union with an ignorant,
clod or thick-headed boor. The rea -on
is obvious. The man has the worid of
business and society open to him for
the pursuit of happiness. He need use
his home only as a place to sleep and
eat, while the wife wedded to a boor
has a life-long sorrow, a dead weight
of woe, and a penitentiary for a home.
But the gifted women who have mar
ried inferior t?en and v have had any
sort of a fair chance for happiness we
fail to remember, while Mrs. Hemans.
Miss Landon, Mrs. Norton. Fannie
Kemble and others stand out as awful
warnings. Dr. Holland's line of ad
vice, if carefully followed by men.
might trive comparative happiness to
them. Marrying above themselves in
wealth, social position, intellect an 1
piety might perchance not be bad as
world goes, but what of the women
who thus coma down to wed men of
low estate in each or all of these
things? In former days such stuff and
cant mtght hive been accepted as sense
and wisdom, but nowadays no such ig
noring of women will be counted as
gospel. A marriage to be really happy
must be a union of true friends and
real lovers, who have a fair endowment
of reason and common sense between
them. Two fools with but a single
thought will be happier in marriage
than an angel married to a Tommy
Noddy, no matter what Dr. Holland
says. All the talk about "angelic
superiority" may be set down as cant,
or what the English call "rot." Pitt--burgh
Dispilch.
IN YUCATAN'S CAPITAL.
Th Street, Churches and Convents
of
the City or Merlrta,
The streets of Merida cross each other
at right angles, and eight of them lead
out of the Plaza Mayor two in the
direction of each cardinal point. In
every street, at the distance of a few
squares from the center, stands an
ancient gateway, arched high above the
pavement, anil just beyond are the bar
rios, or suburbs. Not long ago the now
dismantled niche over each great gate
way held its Christ or saint or Virgin,
before which people were always kneel
ing and crossing themselves. Formerly
all the streets were distinguished, in a
manner peculiar to Yucatan, by images
of birds or beasts set up at the corners,
and many still retain the ancient sign.
For example, the street upon which we
are living is called La Calle del Flam
ingo, becatise of a huge red flamingo
painted on the corner house. Another
is known as the street of the Elephant,
and the representation of it is an ex
aggerated animal, with curved trunk
and body big as a barrel. There is the
street of the Old Woman, and on its
corner is the caricature of an aged fe
male, wih huge spectacles astride her
nose. The street of the Two Faces has
a double-faced human head, and there
are others equally striking. The reason
for this kindergarten sort of nomen
clature was because whoa the streets ,
were named the great mass of inhab
itants were Indians who could not read,
and therefore printed signs would have
been of no use to them, but the picture
of a bull, a flamingo or an elephant
they could not mistake.
As in all Spanish-American cities.
Merida's distinguishing feature is its
churches. The great cathedral, erected
in 1667. is of quaint and attractive
architecture; and besides there is the
church of the Jesuits, the church and
convent of San Cristobal, the church
and convent of Mejorada, the church
of Santa Lucia and the Virgin, the
chapel of San Juan Baptist and of
Our Lady of Candelaria, tho convent
de las Monjas, and others too numerous
too mention. Though now impover
ished, and some of them iu decay, a
number of them still retain enough rich
ornaments and vestments to furnish
suggestions of former grandeur. Since
the expulsion of the Jesuits, nearly a
quarter of a century ngo, all religious
processions have been prohibited on
the streets, much church property has
changed ownership and eren the
names of streets and places have been
altered to suit the present sentiment.
Thus one of the pleasantest squares,
formerly known as the PUca de Jesus,
ia now called Plaza Hidalgo. In the
old days this park had an exceedingly
quaint and beautiful center, which, sad
to say, has been replaced by an ordin
ary statue of the hero whose name it
bears. Fannie B. Ward, in Trot Times.
Not so Much or a Success.
"Yes," said a business man, "Single
ton has been wonderfully successful,
not particularly on account of any
shrewdness but because he is such a
close collector. He is undoubtedly the
best collector in this city."
"I have heard so," some fellow re
marked, "and I used to believe it, but
I have found that he is not such a suc
cessful collector after all."
"How so?"
"Well, you see, I have owed him a
bill for quite awhile and he never has
fcz&ceeded ia collecting it" Arkaneauf
Traveltr. s
i
17, 1888.
A FEMALE HERCULES.
She Can Lift n Tiirfussntl-Pound Weight
and Walk O.T With n Safe.
A quiet, modest girl, of n e Hum
heigh i and slender, graceful figure,
dressed in a simple brown dress,
brightened up only by a narrow red
ril bon and tiny bow at the throat,
dialling pleasantly away to her visit
or in her qniel room and now and
then interrupted b,f the piercing voice
of a tame canary that is Mine. Vi c to
ri na. Ihe female Hercules, who every
evening astonishes the audience of the
Empire Theater with fea sof her mar
velous strength. For fdx years past
she has ntw- bt;en before the public as
"tho strongest woman in the wor'd;"
she has astonished B r'.iu and P .ris
aud:euces; has been v ctorious in her
competition with many, of ihe world's
greatest athletes; is honorary member
and nxilalislof the Central Athletic
Club of Stettin; honoinry member of
'.he B'ida-Posth H -icules Club; of the
Hercules Citib, Vieon:-; of the Cotn
p. gtiie Hercules of Paris, and a string
of other athletic societies.
How came it," our representative
asked, that yon adopted your resent
profession? II id you exceptional
strength when young?''
' N , not at once; and when I was
quite young I was not stronger than
Ihe average healthy chibL 1 was born
at S rasbourg, and after my father
died I went to my uncle's, who was a
etc ts proprietor, and he at f-nce
began to train me as a circus rider
an I a performer on the trap. ze. But
my career as an acrobat came soon to
an end, for I fell front height of
forty feet while jwrf .ruling, and ever
since 1 have the greatest dislike to
trapeze perforsnaices Luckily I
only I roke the briitge of my nose in
the accident, and therefore I was in
no way impeded from legiiining to
train for something else. At that
time I became acquainted with my
present husband, who was an athlete,
and who began my athletic training.
This n as done by making me practice
every day with an expander, just as
you see girls use them in calislhenic
ilass(s. with the one difference that
the firmness oi nir expander was
periodically increas -d till at last the
muscles and sinews of the arms the
shoulders and the neck got so strong
that I could without d fficulty work
with ati expatider consisting of an India
rnblier rojn; as thick as my wrist, and I
a'so practiced lifting and handling
weights, beginning ith smaller ones
and - gradually increasing up to a
thousand pounds This of course,
took several years and in my daily
pet form an cos I do not always lift
quite the full weight which I could
i:ft and c: rry. b it there is never a day
on which I Jo not handle from seven
to eight hit ml red pounds at the per
forma' c s
Once we were at B rlin. and. as our
luggage is naturally tremendously
heavy, and expensive iu j rop rtion.
we take as much of it as possible into
the railway carriage when we are
traveling. The porter, who had put
our boxes intoth" vai. saw that I was
carrying what looked like two small
handbags. He ff-re l to put them
into the carriage for me. and I never
saw so nstonishet and overawed a
face than when I handed him Le two
parcels each containiii!; one of my
heavy weights Another lime we
were going up the stairs of onr hotel.
wh-Mi we found six men engaged in
taking an iron safe up-stairs The
owner, who knew ns said, laughing
ly: 'Oh, here comes madame; she
will show you how to do ihis kind of
work.' I had never tri d any thing
ike 'v. but I to k-a firm hold of the
safe and put it on the next step, al
hough I wore my ordinary clothes
Ihe safe was presented to me by the
owner, and 1 have since then often
carrit d it rcross the stage," Pall
AlttU U ize'lt.
A Famous Ohio Landmark.
Among the memories of early
C lit nt bus is "the old Eagle Tavern,"
where, if there were such things in
tiiosedays and there must have been
since the time of Oear many politic
al ri tgs formed At any rate, it was
a fatuous resort in the '20' s, and was
situated on High street, opposite the
public offices Among those who fre
quented the place wer-H'tiry Sla
hery. Thomas E ving. James M. Bell,
Lyne Sinrling, and scores of others
who became rou inen in the political
history of Ohio. The proprietor of the
place was a John Young, who was
noted for the excelence of his mint
j tleps the elegance of his wardrobe,
and his being th;? greatest gambler in
Olio. Perhaps it was Ihis latter faet
that Bell who was at one time Speaker
of the House, owed his passion for
gambling, which afterward proved his
ruin. Ewing was considered the epi
cure of the clique, caring little for
Irink, and Stanbrey never forgot the
lelights of m nny cozy hours at the old
Kaglo, even afler tin became a mem
ber of Johnson's C ibinct, from which,
it will be remembered, ho resigned to
defend the impeachment. Nothing
now remains of this ild Etifr! Coir--II
ouse." 's.'..'er W'e'ch. in llarph 4
Magazine.
A wiaow living in the suburbs of
Montgomery, Ala., found her young
son playing cards with William Oates,
a saloon-keeper, in expressed violation
of her own orders to the latter. Mrs.
French thereupon covered Oates with
a pistol, held in her left hand, and with
her right administered a cowhiding
that he won't forget in many a day.
It was a new brand of prohibition, but
should prove effective.
A prominmt market-gardener and
milkman of South Iladley, Mass, feeds
his peddling horses by clock power. The
cracked corn and oats are pnt into a
hopper over night, and the alarm clock
is set for a morning feed. The con
trivance works to a charm, the horses
thrive by it, it saves labor in the busi
est part of the day, and the machine
tosts about t6.
Glass noors are coming into very
general use in Paris. Although they
cost more at first, they are found
cheaper in the end. The room below
can often dispense with artificial light,
and there is far less fire risk. Glass,
too, will outwear woodmany times.
NO. 23.
GUM FOR CHEWERS.
Bow the Raw Material Is Transformed
Into the Tablets of Commerce.
Chicago has a chewing-gum factory,
a place where ton upon ton of the eter
nal stuff is made. There are twodepart
ments. the laloratory and the packing.
In the laboratory the men are at work
chopping np the gum by means of a
pug-mill, and rejecting the leaves,
bark and other foreign substances that
find their way into the gum, owing to
the carelessness of the shippers.
The gum. crude, that i principally
used is chickel gum. an exudation
from a Mexican tree obtained by freely
incising the bark and catching the flow
in cans This is allowed to harden,
which it readily does on atmospheric
exposure; is then molded in cubes
weighing about ten or fifteen pounds
each and packed in sacks Each sack
of gum as it is shipped weighs two hun
dred pouuds On arriving at the fac
tory the gum is chipped, ground small,
washed and then placet! on large trays
to dry. being comlied over several
times a day to permit all the moisture
consequent on the washing to evapor
ate. It is now ready for boiling and is
placed in a huge cauldron, beat applied
and the mass grows visibly thick. When
the consistency of the mass is perfect
pulverized sugar is added, equal quan
tities of gnm and sugar being requir
ed. The whole is stirred with a large
wooden spatula and the mixture allow
ed to cool. At the time when the heat
is least, but not before it is quite cold,
the flavoring matter is thrown in pep
e:m:iit, anise-see'!, fruit juice, man
na, or whatever it may be and the
whole thoroughly incorporated.
It is then removed to the tab!e,work
ed by band until the air bubbles are ex
pellej. run throngh heavy iron rollers
until it looks like so much leather on
a s-uldWs counter, dusted with pow
dered magnesia to prevent adhesion to
the trays, and cut in longitudinal or
square pieces by a little cutter for that
purpose. It is not cat through, only
an indentation being made that is easi
ly made a fracture. Now comes a fur
ther hardening process by exposure,
lasting usually a day or so. and it is
then ready to go up stairs to the pack
ers In the packing department, sitting
around half a dozen tables, are twenty
or thirty girls, nimble of fingers and
dexterous to sa degree, employed in
wrapping. The pieces or tablets are
brought to them by a boy, who. when
not engaged in supplying their needs
is found completing the symmetry of
the packages by. tying and finishing
off.
The tablets are put np in lots of half
a dozen and held secure by a small
rubber band. The chips, or broken
pieces are gathered in small barrels
and returned to the laboratory beneath
to be mixed again with the fresh
materia! as it is melted.
The tree from which the chickel gnm
is obtained is of abont the same pro
portion as an oak tree. Its exudation
is a purely vegetable product, and is j
m no wise deleterious In certain
parts of Mexico the natives'cultivat
the trees with great care, as in a large
measure they derive a livelihood from
the annual yield of gum. Southerners
are passionately addicted to gum.
either pure or flavored. Cor. M. 1.
Journal.
THE CREDIT SYSTEM.
The EtTecta on the Knyers Worse Than
- Those on the SeUers.
It is somewhat strange that when
ever the credit system is criticised, it is
as a rule from the standpoint of the
dealer rather than of the buyer giving
the trouble of the man who gives cred
it rather than of him who receives it.
Of course it is an annoyance and a loss
to the seller; but its effects upon tlu
buyer are still worse- It is bad for all
classes of purchasers, and simply ruin
ous to voung men. The one of the j
latter who begins a career of buying
on credit and borrowing ends in mis
fortune and too often in bankruptcy of
character. Many a yonng man has
been ruined by the credit system.
Take, for example, the young fellow
of honest purpose who enters society
believing that his future home and
happiness depends upon his ability to
please, and that to please he must
dress well and liberally spend his money
for theater privileges and ball room
fancies The chances are that such a
young man will soon find that his ex
penses exceed his income, in which
case he usually resorts to the credit
system for temporary relief. He finds
that his tailor will furnish him a new
suit of clothes on time, hence he
dresses well; he finds that his livery
bills can be charged, hence he drives
well because it is fashionable to do so.
He docs all this with honest intent, le
lieving that he can meet his bills when
due; but when pay-day comes he is un
able to keep his promises, so there be
gins the era of broken pledges which
too often ends in bankruptcy of char
acter. Young man, don't put all you earn,
and more, upon yonr back, for the
voting lady who is attracted by good
clothes is in fact not a very rich dis
covery. If yon have a small balance
at the end of the week, take a second
thought before yon pay it out for cigars
or tickets to the theater; but whatever
you do. don't run in debt. In this new
and comparatively undeveloped coun
try there are many fine opportunities
for the industrious economical and
sober young man. And he who guards
his honor by living within his income
is the man whom the public can rely
I'pon, and he is the man, too, that will
make good use of these opportunities
Toietkt B ode.
Henry C. Lea, the Philadelphia
vithor and publisher, spends his life
iu his great library, and not only
writes books that have given him
world-wide fame, but maintains his
activity in advocating wise reforms in
municipal affairs His recent gener
ous gift of $-1)0.000 to the Philadelphia
library for the extension of its accom
modations for the public in its building
at Juniper and Locust streets is a
characteristic act. Mr. Lea's son's
have long since taken his place in the
management of the great publishing
house founded by his grandfather,
largely built up by his father, the
learned naturalist, who died a year
aao. .... .
JOB PRINTING.
Job Printing Done on Sliort Fotics.
Lesral Blanks, BuaineM Cards,
Letter Heads. Bill Heads,
Circulars, Posters, 2to.
Execated ia food atyl and at loves Bviof nrlsaa.
HOW TO RAISE CATTLE.
(sn't Attempt It Cnleas To Are WllOsur
co Work Uaro,
We should endeavor to make a calf
?ain every day of its life. I do not
raise many cattle, but buy and fat
quite a number during the year. Last
winter I fed fourteen head of two-year-old
steers I weighed them every
month for five months The average
ain per day was po and from the
time I took them off from the pasture
until the 1st of March. They had no
hay, only corn and stalks I fed the
fourteen head 8 bushels of corn per
lay daring this time, and after that,
hay and not so mnch corn
There are a few fixed principles that
a farmer should keep in mind. First,
that it takes a certain amount of food
to supply the waste of the system. If
the animal is merely fed what will sup
ply this waste dur ng the winter? We
have made no rofit, but the addition
of a small amount of ftod will give cs
a profit- Another thing that requires
our attention is the warmth and shel
tering of our cattle. It is equivalent
to food, for one of the purposes of
food is to maintain anima! heat and
food used for that purpose will
not add muscle or fat. Therefore the
warmer we keep oar cattle the more
they will repay ns for the food they
eonsume by potting on more f!?h.
The old saying is: "An animal well
wintered is half summered." I find
cattle well wintered and fed so as to
make a little gain every day will be
gin to gain rapidly when turned out to
pasture in the spring, and before the
half-starved one has shed its old
hair the well-fed one will be good
beef.
Another essential thing is properly
watering onr cattle. I bePeve onr
windmills are a great detriment to the
health of cattle. The water is so cold
that they can not drink It without hav
ing the toothache. If they do manage
to get some down they stand haruped
np all day in the fence corners, trying
o keep their teeth from falling otst.
My cattle will not drink out of the
tank, but will come for water freshly
pumped out of the welL The better
we feed and care for our cattle the bet
ter the nurture pile will be. and the
larger that is the better crops our far
mers will produce, and the more they
produce the more stock we can keep.
A good many have said to me: I
don't see how you can keep so many
cattle and make it pay." With the
markets the way they have been, for the
past four years (I will take the past six
years) I claim I have made more money,
sri made it easier, out of what cattle I
have handled than from any other
branch of farming, and ray farm is ia
better condition to-day than it was six
rears ago- You can't say that of wheaL
I have bought and sold during these
fix years 101 bead of cattle. I received
for them more than I gave. $2.14-5. ?2.
an average gain of $2L 24 per head, and
kept them from five to seven months
Who made the most money, the man
who raised and fed them two years, or
I? Yon will say it was not ai! profit
I think the manure will pay for the
coarse fetd and yonr work. I did not
feed them much gTAin; only to keep
them growing, and turned them over
to pasture in June; besides I usually
winter from twenty to forty hogs after
my cattle, with a small addition of
corn, so I calculate the above figures
to be nearly all gain. I do not think
it pays to fatten cattle for the winter
market; it takes too much grain. I am
feeding shock eorn this winter, and like
it very much. I was a little prejudiced
against it at first, for I had an idea
they would mass it over and pick out
the corn and leave the fodder, but they
eat it np clean. Next season I shall
plant fifteen acres thicker than com
mon, on purpose for cattle. It is a
great saving, as two men can tie np ten
acres in two days; so it saves the ex
pense of husking, drawing corn and
carrying it from the corn-house to feed.
1 have been experimenting this winter
with cutting stalks that I feed in the
barn, and am well pleased wi h it One
eommonsized load will make S0O bush-
els after it is cut I feed it at night a?
ter the cattle have eaten their shock
torn, giving them a bushel a piece. I
feed twenty-seven bushels at night, and
in the morning there is not over one
or one and one-half bushel left in their
mangers. One other thing I wish to
speak of is kindness Do not throw
elnbs and scare your eattle half to
death if they dont happen to get out
of your way; make it a point to go
around them if they are lying down in
the yard, and not give them a kick. I
have two steers now that I bought thia
fall that have been mauled so much
that their eyes stand right out of their
heads and every time they go into the
stall they will crouch down expecting
to get a pounding. If you don't
like to take care of cattle don't raise
them, because you can not make it a
success J. 11. Lane to Wisconsin Insti
tute. Satisfactory Explanation,
"What is ih matteT -
yon:
asked a Washington la'?v a.idreieg
her husband, who h&a come home
late at night
D I look as if any thing ia the
matter?"
Yes. you keep nodding all the time.
There yon go again. Why. you can't
keep you eyes open."
Til tell you why." he said, with an
ffrt. "I attended the au hor read
i.tg" Arkansaw Traveler.
The Advice of a Sage.
A young man who was abont to
start in business on Michigan avenue,
went to an old retired merchant the
other day to secure business advice.
"How much cash have you got?"
was the blunt inquiry.
About $300."
And how much stock will jou put
in?"
"About $2 000."
'Urn! Then your first move roust
be to engrave your name on a flag
stone in front of your store; your
next to paint your signs on all tSe
fences for ten miles around the city.'
And why, oh. Sage?"
"That the public six months hence
may recall the fact that you weut into
business instead of going into a luna
tic asylum! Good morning. auT
Detroit Vee - -
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