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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-1-22, Page 6DOCTOR •JACK
Hr ST. GEORGE RATHRORNE.
"Where :audi wit go?" asks at
Nolehie, ae they roll Jet° the station,
Ind see the omnibuses and cabs
Waiting in Un e Sleet as in New York.
"Tbere is only one hotel here to
Vey naiad. %tat is Called the Ene
"Becher declares Jack.
t you have been be before,"
;Idea Avis, we shell benefit ley you
knowledge."
eald they Q.
Jack. eecures what laformation
desires to begin with. engages a car-
riage. and in a short time they have
'entered •the city, and are in the Idea -
tient rooms of the hotel, Evening is
;tear at hand. but after enjoying the
luxury of a latie freeh weer, the
party .51art orat view' the crowds on
the Ringetraese near by.
One cam e.yend tnest of his time In
Vienna en the teets or in the cafes
—it :e amusing te study Size characters
10 e streets of the
great city. fer Austree ie nieCie up ef
desan nazialle.atiee„ front
anki keene:;-Ates ZoPaQS and
/night at ars' ether time have
goes ta nee seams., in the everting, for ,
Vienne. is a secerel iTee.eis, and her in- II
haleizeeee raust alaeye izave aumer-
ateuerenents ohne ett-eeeeh
eeeeny tettleverd,
thrensed all day 14.4na---
frera eveey quarter, ara
go'..F1 ea el a teat the viaa,
nese are a ave2y Tie. arse the city
Qt : a:7 the eneet in naireee.
In 1,I:e neeenin-g they leave Vientne.
Aoki (tette more the ie v..)tnne is South-
eas:. A long JeourneysU s be -
tare ienera. arei attee. ene et it 4* tat
Ttaitaet tay. where they eepeet to
reeer seitleaalt Paeata,
Dtg,"2 i5 rowelled be- even, and
to th; sererlee tiey tied a telo.gee,
fleeet. ety et-. teeth .eee'es ef the Da.
• ear: eeed by a eranena eriaae,
eiseee one shwa.; ane on
typ4
Duran; the aftemean they pas$
neer tee heeder of Fervia, but night
*tilt t:'..71.g.; them nAustria, Another
e.passeS—tb:s tinle itS
by toe Tutitieti1as0;re enetigh.
The; make teeev ?regress neva for a.
eneees In Tweeter wetild
etreie novelty that the Sultan's rf,:eple
at:eh', expire them fright.-
Tbse weariseree jeurney draws near
an eel, assi with the raorng they
feed themselves close to their goal.
areas inroede lave been made in the
obi time aeltits of the Tuthe by the
prier ete of eivilizatien rushing et -
w e, The allvent of the railroad has
change; many of their eustume, and
some fee the most intelligent among
the ealieiate would follow after the
waya et: their 'Western neighbours if
the taws of people v. -ere nut so set -
teal a; their old dogmas.
41r.'llaali:v the Turk is being pealed
out lietrepa—ma.ny of his fairest pros
vire el Lave been talten away a.nd
mad eao new states that, formerly
a ettalitien. \%111 intt a nation between
Austiett and the Illaek Sea.
Same day there will be. an upheaval,
and Mr. Tura will exoss the llosphore
us in a herryto return no more. when
eansettatinfele. talren originally by
foree. aid revort to new owner. 'The
Turl: is teething i' riot pitilosopblcal,
arid when this dreadful tlay of dieast-
er eentes lie will probable* say, resign-
edly Elleet Allah is Allah,
lama Mel:mowed is his prophet."
At a quarter to ten Jaek calls tbetz
atteetien to a sight that inspires them
Into a burst of enthueittem. The zun
has elirnbea half way up in the hea-
vens, and as they thance to be upon
au elevation where they can see the
blue waters of the Bosphorus, before
their vvn cOmeS a. glimpee of Con-
stanieneple. Never, while they live,
will tell' ferget that first view of the
Oriental eity. It seems like the
phamasy ef a dream, with the golden
sunleelit ilashing from numerous
domes and minarets, marking the
Ines:Imes, ef whielt there are several
hur.di ed. in Stamboul—as the natives
eall the city.
Sie the t rain reaches the -station.
jack having been here befere, knows
the atlas. and pilots his party by
'mane of what seems to be an under -
end railway into the eity proper.
Here they emerge, and find them-
eelves in Stamboul—around them are
the thousand and one strange sights
that greet the traveller in Turkey to-
day.
Jaek takes them ta a house—here he
finds an red friend with whom Aleck
and himself lodg-,ed on the former oc-
casion, and who now receives him
evarinly.
Hotels are almost an unknown lux-
ury in Turkey, and what inns there
are Eurcpean visitors avoid as a
general thing, seeking some private
house to which they have been referr-
ed by friends who have been here be-
fore.
Avis watches Jack closely—she rea-
lizes that everything depends on him,
and does not desire to divert his mind
from the business on hand. She be-
lieves he will succeed, but the posi-
tion is grave, and nothing must occur
to annoy him.
As for Larry, he is in for seeing the
sights, and without any leas of time
proceeds to take them be, wandering
about the crooked streets under the
care of a man he has engaged, whose
e. ordinary business is that of a hamal,
or porter, but who nevertheless makes
a good guide.
One can spend -weeks in Stamboul
eight secIng—the paosques, almost al-
ways crowded, are a daily spectacle—
• then there are other things upon the
• streets to attrace attention, such as
the bazaars, with their glass roofs,
where the Turkish tradesmen offer for
• sale the Strangest things one can ima-
gine—where are crowded in their
tails, elbow to elbow, Men who carry
oa every business knOwn to the Orient,
and the display of goods is so varied,
• ranging from the jeweler and seller of
henna, down to the maker of the na-
tional headgear, the fez, that one can
easily imagine himself in an enchanted
such a purpose, however—no man has
a greater weight on his mita than he.
Somehow he has reached the conclus-
ion that his own fate depeeds upon his
success in this game—that if he saves
Aleck he wins his sister, and, indeed,
remembering the desperate natere. of
he work before hire, it is emt out ef,
the way to believe that he must reSeue
Ale,* or lose his even lite in the at.
tempt.
aleving seen the lashes sate in
the IfaUSe. J-3,Clt gives them ,a few di•
reetioes, and, then sets out to make
earargements„ 'Most tourests when
viedttng the Turkish capital lodge et
era, au the outskirts, where the Eng -
Heb and American eopTe ongregate,
and where the coeeulates are getter:ea
ly located. but Jack. prefers to be in
the eity itself. where tie can hear the
lie on St. StiVGItia call the Itesleen
te prayer, or the loud voice of the
Inuctwin upon the minaret chantinh
the adan at sunrise—tnemories that
never leave the mind in later years.
tie has another motive. lf the Pasha
renehvs tamboul ht fore the grand
7...ale of the game, he wilt look for itis
etzersy in Pera cr Galata, the faehion-
. auSsures of the eta (Sty. where, of
,elei not fine aim.
The 1i:etc.:Sive eerie> of Censtantinopie
eaely ewe1 to that of anriseev.-hert
deeires to he hinteelf in the
• hk. can easily do so. and
!7. 1-y at-ch.:efl his where-
. tee : ,eoree Pere-evre
J.., le ?Seven hinirelf sue. Pie
re3See the first thitzet, aPt
eat Ethe thee, rend% rs hie -itself lees feet-
:, weee, fer teeny et the Teas Wive
•". u;?;:ii" usiL suett garinerite
ie:itieleneee—they t•annot quite go ;
eetelley costume of the aver-
-7 .1e.1st,.
down for granted that
- leas ris hands full, but be Is feel-
tra 2.!7*.r.• tieliting ceelie and wee nev-
;he- in his life, so if he ranee he
.ot he: as an excuee that he was
an (. eisersou.
Seye and nighti—that is the
et he can count 'Oa ere Atedells.h
asPabaoup—rerhaps even non;
the is on the v.ear, driving fast
e EIVr ;nn train can take lam
hy en the We -plaices, eager to
• ties eehemes of his shrewd
dee enentir.
.740-: 6 firet desire is to finti this out
here LS gl telegraph line to Pada.
and he sitiee the Hotel de Lendres in
1 tra, here he sends a message te
the prefeet 1pence, carefully worded,
seed dcsires an auswer,
Thera knew lug :het it Will he some
hours before he can receive his reply,
aehs th i operater, a. Frenchman,
beta it for him, after which he
untere ewer,
The Twits are accustomed to :teeing
Franks le all places, and derive meet
income from them, eo that they pay no
ttention to them so long aa they sault-
ter abent.
Hence Jaelr Is too WiSe to rush along,
no matter what eagettives he maY
ainiegs but makes up for this by
reritne, :70 that ha geta there al
Perm, he makes enquiries,
and lly enters the shop of an
rmorer in a bazaar. The man looks
at ban eloaely gives a cry of " Allab
Is great it ie any master," and kisses
les hand impulsively.
This 'I'uter is a man whom Doctor
Tack has made his slave--evben here
before, eireumstances allow ed hirn to
(If Achmed a. great favour, and the
Item fairly werehipe the ground h
walks on.
Jack needs him now—he tells him
.'hut the riolc is, but the man shrugs
his shoulaers. His life would have
been talwa before but for Jack, and
he is quite willing to jeopardize it nu.,
if ley so doing he may prove his gro.-
ude.
Suck words please the American, and
he knows Aelimed means it, too. He
will do wl atever he is told to the best
Of his ability.
Jack becomes more positive in his
belief that if Aleek is alive they will
save him. Ile is very dogged in his
v. ey, and havieg set his course, will
sail it until the mrst is blown out, be-
fore chenging.
He gives the Turkish armorer cer-
tain work to do, and declares that he
will return to the shop to hear his re-
port at dusk. Achmed knows where
Abdallah Pasha has his residence—
just outeide of the great city, and
overlooking the blue Gcsphorus—one of
the loveliest sites the human mind
could conceive. His grounds are not-
ed for their magnificence. Certain
European friends of the Pasha, who
have travelled a great deal, have seen
and admired the palace and its sur-
roundings, but none of them have, with
the owner's consent, ever set eyes on
the interior of the harem or the ser-
aglio, where the beautiful houris of
the Orient pass fheir life of luxury.
Achmed has a hard task before him,
tut he is more than ordinarily shrewd
for a Turk. It was from him Jack
th
1
Yes, Constantinople is a splendid
lounging place, to pass away a inonth
—new Sights can be seen every day,
and one does not even grow weary of
the old ones.
.Jack Evans has not come here for
tor Sack again !arta& It is long past
high rioon. and he has Cione remark-
ably well fer the few hOtars he has
been at work -
Something to eat is easily obtained,
at a Cafe, and jack is enough of a
Turk to know what is best, so he fares
nen where a stranger might aleriost
starve.
After this is over he, again, seeks
the hotel in the Pere. suburb, eeger
to see whet the 4.1CWS may be from
Paris. A dispatch is awaiting him—
it Is brief and to the point.
"fie left Faris en tbe night at the
teurth,"
Jack calculateg consulM bie
ea -covered vnde mecum. witiell .gives
hearrival and clepateure of trains.
e lees the pasha is detained on the
way, he wit& arrive at Stamboul some
titae early onthe second night, but
Jack has never known a train to be
ea time here, and he counts on hav-
ing both nights entirely.
This is as much as he expeeted. The
work is before there, and they 1111,Divt
ustee haste. He hurries to the Shop
et Aeloned. That worthy is not in,
and he has to wait. At duel; he sees
the armotteer coming throuf.fia the
erowa. Already the eitioleinie
lamps have been lighted in matey (,f
Size beanies. giving the scene an O3-
which le situated upon an elevetione so
that the Grand Mogul, of the Turks
may from his fiat root under the she!,
ter of the cane, lannge and look up-
on the fairest scene mortal eyes ever
heheld—the wonderful city, fleshing in
the sun, the blue Bosphorus with its
white sails, and the shore of Asia,
wbe-
yoxid, hithm
er eoe day the last ot the
Turks will retreat when Russia hes
her. will.
MI/ CONTINUED,)
THg MANAQEMEN OF eigifgfle.
Probably om
ne of the ost common and
expensive blunders made on the farm is
in the maaagemeut of the heifer. Many
wen bred cows turn out to be veritable
sorubs simply begause they were not
properly developed. into sinethaXad. It is
common to glee attention to cows,
young or old, about to eatve. A. heifer
should be well fed. berere calving% First
because there is a greater demand made
on the system.; seeond, the heavy feeding
• of it ration rich in protein will cause it
movie gzeater growth of the udder, Hero
Is the fatal point. There is no dauger
Iran' fever wnen fed up to calving time it
such fools as brap, clover, hay, eilage
and the like are used, it is corn that
does most of the mischief., The caees are
—erzal weir I aSneet as the dare: rerY rat° where any attempt 4"1"1"g
• and manyeeeeereeee ue„,„ts should be done up to time of oaiving. The 1
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foot, in this country in the winter t
time, if you do not have a perfect
fitting Rubber or Overshoe.
Now, this may be news to you, I .
but you will find it to be a fact;
there is only one make of Rub-
bers and Overshoes, in this coun-
try, that are right up-to-eate in
fit) finish) quality.. and durabilitv
I want to see "Grantne• on the;
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1,4—bis veneration fur the sklu- milk or *lop will drink this, eemaingly as yew et-aeue eenup er pat root reevto
emente a' bde
er wouring Wed. ts:h
- Is great- As is blo usual eus- i re's remedy. over allow the wilt to
tallow the cow, AS it keeps the udder
iiiitca out, and distentimi Is proYeuted,
Feed very light 04 hav end e little bran
few daya, gratinally comae; to full
• ••-•,`
tont, Shutt; proteseds to get the filets
fr ern him baniediately.
He learns filet the Turk has been ii
flc eaaeose 4-,E the pasha, briteel out -
.t theeerritars, and even looked. upOn
Aleck Mortozi in his prison, This he
to Jack as a dungeon be -
oath the grown), where 'Meek has
been 'kept all these weeks and menthe.
His Fermenta' are in tatters, his face
thin, but his Yankee Keith. unbroken.
Twice he has attempted to escape
anti 4'ane zieer doing it, but the
vigilance of the guard prevented blue
re is a grating Qt Iron covering an
air bole that lets a, ray ot l/aht into
the dark dungeon during the day thaw.
Could Actuated lead him to It after
nightfall The faithful Tura pros -
rates himself awl declares ft Is ita-
zeible. Jack meta more questions,
an appointment, arid hurtle
e Wes himself to thellorne et the
American minister—it Is :instable that
this gentleman may interfere and Save
lecla for no matter what bis offence
las been, he is an American citizen,
d •entitled to the protection of las
a.
The fates are against him. He
finds that the minister, together with
the British authaseador, has gone oft
for a cruise on a new vessel that has
just been built for the antlquatto3
TurInsit navy.
"When will he be back ?"
"With rare good luck, If the en-
gines do not break down, in it day or
so, but," with a shrug, "we always
allow for aceitlenti in Stamboul."
Just so, and. this mots Doctor Jack
back a peg or two in his calculations.
Ho remembers the Quinnebaug, the
old style American man-of-war. then
In port, and wonders if her captain
dares to tiesist him, shakes his head,
grinds his teeth together, and says,
emphatically :—
"Before I could set the wheels go-
ing he would be here—no, 1 see very
plainly this good arm alone stands be-
tween Aleck and death."
got his hint that his friend Aleck had
not been killed, but was a prisoner in
the Turk's palace, and he is now sent
out, well supplied with money, to as-
certain the exact truth.
As for Doctor Jack himself, he hies
away to the water front. His idea is
to buy a fast beat of Some sort, and
have it in readiness _ .for immediate
flight.
There are a number of men-of-war
at the Golden Horn, and among others
Jack sees one bearing the Stars and
Stripes. What a thrill the sight of
the dear old flag gives him. If he
could only rescue Aleck, and all of
them get under the shelter of that flag,
they would be safe, but he knows the
commander would not dare shelter
them after they have entered a Turk-
ish palace and defied the power of a
Pasha, so he makes up his mind to de-
pend only on himself.
Making enquiries he finds a vessel
for sale, and discovers she is an Eng-
lish yacht, small in build, but well
manned. He meets the owner on
hoard, has a private talk, and in half
an hour the Thistledown is his. The
crew greet their new master. and Jack
is in charge.
He has a talk with the captain, and
examines the interior of the yacht,
making sorne suggestions regarding
the hold, where a fine hiding-pla,ce can
be made betwren two bulkheads.
Having given eaplicit Oyders. Doc -
CHAPTER X.C.
If ever Doctor Jack was aroused in
all his life, he certainly is now—a lion
at hay could not exhibit more anima-
tion, for success or tailure means
much to him. Thcre are rare quali-
ties about this man that make him
an enemy to be feared—his usually
quiet manner can be thrown off, and
a, fierce aggressiveness takes its place.
Passing along through the streets he
heads toward the bazaar. Crowds
jostle him—they are composed of re-
presentatives of many nations—Cir-
cassians, Arabs, Russians, Jews, ne-
groes, Greeks. Armenians added to
the Turks themselves, Servians, and
natives of Monteaegro—each in his na-
tional costume, make a •spectacle not
to he found elsewhere upon the globe.
Looking neither to the right nor
left, Jack more than once stumbles
over some mangy cur, of which mil-
lions, one eoula almost say, roam the
crooked thoroughfares and alleys of
old Stamboul, where day and night
magnificence and squalor go hand in
hand.
A pilgrim with a camel, direct from
Egypt or perhaps Persia, adds to the
Oriental interest of the scene, while a
fellow who has a performing bear
from the Ural Mountains, draws quite
a crowd but mighty few pla.stres, for
the Turks, as a rule, are close with
their small coins.
So Jack pushes M. He is so wrap-
ped up in thought that he overshoots
his mark, and finds himself opposith
a. mosque, which he remembers in far-
ther down the street than the bazar
in which Achmed has a stall.
His attention is attractedby the
loud voices of a band of howling der-
vishes in the mosque, and he glances
in for a moment to hear their con-
tinual shouts of " La illa ha ilia Al-
lah !" and witness their contortione.
Jack is no stranger to the sight. He
has looked upon • dervishes of all
grades, from the dancers * of Stamboul
to those of the singing tribe, who take
the place of • our " little German
band" in Persian cities.
Turning back, he is soon in the
bazar—it is less crowded now, but
Achrned is there, waiting, ready to
lead the daring American to the prison
of his friend, no matter what the
danger.
They pass out, and once upon the
street, Jack manages to disguise him-
self a little more, so that at first
sight he may be taken for a Turk.
Under the guidance of the faithful
Achrned they gradually leave the busy
mart behind, and enter upon another
portion of the city.
They are aiming for the suburbs it
the direction of the Sults,n's palace,
With 1140 ,Concesleil Reok—Death by ItOtiteeppealtil frout tJi0 'slew oI tie
Torture Wait the Inevitable Plante. ' lattabilita 14411 etaaad enatelft But
"Ilow very hard it. is to pyovitie for feltieebaevuepr tivoiltYlie4e1143ariTcebeearesinhept417177t:i-
ea in a weok, There po clanger ef a Wang, fat growing farall7 1107a' :! entlE0 Of the N'aue it her lataa• Thus for
over with the first eale it Is saw. ibave (lard said the mether sbark, turttnigt tiay aml i night elle fought ainilefely
itever seen it ease. I. think it le notoeoes-
eery to mention warm stables, for those
who would profit by this will hare them,
but63 invested In bantling paper tor line
Ing stables will pay more than IOU per
ent, preflt in milk returns. TLOS0 Wila
can not take so Iamb trouble to develop
the milkina qualities ot the better would
better have her came in irt the epriag that
she may be supplied with alnualattee of
proem tosi. Title ia just the oppesite et
my pi -melee. but I say for those who will
et give the best care to the bolter in fall
or winter they should not allow her to
came tresit at that time. Vas is the ortlY
Means or maintaining er raising the
etaniard ot good cows,—i. S. liallett,
Indiana.
TeRelliAC: Cadr o Drink,
m it email women and cannot tome
s colt to drink by the use of main
strength, se 1 Imo resorted to what I find
very useful. It is nothing more than a
common syringe or pop -gun. Piecing
the tube between the first end second
fingers of my left hand, I introduce it
thus into the calf's month. After the
second lesson the calf will allow himself
to be controlled, for he soon learns that the
dinner stops when he pulls batik, and will
tome to you ashe would ton cow. Having
necomplished tide you oau place his lien
where roe like, I finish ney lesson with
the milk tabe in the bottom of it wooden
pail and there he naturally looks for his
dinner after the last!, lesson or at three
days old. In the first lesson I prevent
the loss of milk by using it two-quarb
pail with the suction of the syringe use-
ing in it. This Is ea -y to carry on the
finger while the bulb of the syringe is
being manipulated with the right hand.
I take the omit from the 00W after lie lute
had his fiat meal, thinking it host to let
Nature supply the first medicine and
tetioh the animal what the tongue Is for.
I lin vo never lost it calf and never had
but ono got one. This I cured with
sweet -oil and mIlk punches, together
with massage treatment twice a day.
The trouble WOO lung fever.—Mrs. S. F.
Beecher.
for the hundredth time that naorning, wail all tile hereee a amazing vitality
upon her bread side in order to re t a f, Fent up iu 1 r lruge body agaiust these
better view of what might be Stirring torturiug disablemeate, merciful -
above. ?or pearly a week she had been 1 ly she fell in with a couple of ravenous
faeting—in fact, ever dinee the wine 1u cangsnere. Sceretiug fresh bleed, they
hureiedly at the close Of a great feast wade tor her etraightway. Like mad
upon the stripped caevass of it Ieeent thinge, they fell upon. her. Long and
Whale. There, by dint of the energy of hard they strove, tearing their way
her naaniVO FbOttlderS, Iter 14 feet of: through the am& framework natal as-
leugth and livefeld rONV8 of trianglalar , sistauce came front all quarters, and a
teeth. dm Mal reneged to Kenna it re- motley multitude et various bungee
speakable propertieu ot the spoil for the cues cleated ap every shred of the wel.
repleniehing of her awn huge maw as ennte banquet, leaving only the deserted
well BA for the up keep of the 14 shark, pilot to seek another partner.—Loneten
lins that were new restlessly darting i spectator,
,
n and out of their coKe cave at the far 11
The care of cows.
C. P. Goodrich has said that hundreds
of cows are destroyed every year in his
county be having their teats stepped
upon by cows beside them, which is a
strong arguneene for having a partition
between the cows in the barns. Mr.
Woodward, in a recent artiole, referred to
his caw stalls as having a partition be-
tween every cow. It seems to me no
more important toplo has been referred
to. I have been milking and oaring for
cows since I was old enough to squeeze
the railk out of an easy old cow. My
father ran an all -year-round dairy for
tnany years of from fifty to sixty octets,
carrying his milk nine miles every
morning to the cars, which took it to New
York city. I was a good milker before I
was in my teens. Clean milkers, clean
cows and clean stables and the milk
properly oared for were requisites for the
milk to get to New York city in first-
class shape, • But of all the devices I'M°,
a stall with a partition beetteen the cows
es the best—a box stall just the length of
the cow, and from three and a fourth to
three and a half feet wide, with a rope
drawn behind to keep each cow in her
place. The platform can be kept olean
with a splint broom. A cow can lie with
her head by her side and go to sleep. She
has no desire to back into the gutter and
bring back filth. In being released, the
partition swings and she can leave the
stable without soiling a foot. In the
stocks a oow could be kept pretty olean
if her platform just exactly fitted her
length. But oh, the tail! How often
the tongs were needed to lift it to the tail
holder! A carload ot stalls were taken
by farmers about here just the other day,
which means that hundred! of in ilch cows
will leave their winter quarers next
spring with no manure plastered on
them. It took but about a year to con-
vert the dairymen of this country to the
mercy of elehorning, although the first
ones who had them cut (I was the second)
had to hide for awhile. Dr. Horne did
the cutting, and he is now the popular
superintendent of our Humane Society.—
Cor. Prairie Fernier.
end of her capacious throat. COST OF SABLES,
Within the innnediate range of her
glance a vast bIack*shadow obscured a
wide, irregularly shaped area of the .
blazing sunshine. It was so calm that
the Shadow seemed stationary. In the
direction of this cool penunibrajor,„gaze race of people, half Chinese, half
Tib -
lingered earnestly, for hereditary in- -tioliSh"-Y? Europeans ilavo ovor seen
stinct as -well as long experience gave them. In zaehederth.theeehheptieu of one
two euterprieing exploTatea or ge0-
her the knowledge that from the sub- I, Or
food
static° of enell
grapineal enthusiasts 'who bay° crossZ'd --
shadows ettnie drop. i
ping down, varied and toothsome, ate tile Altrd Tenet European eYea have
tutaly alive on rare eel:melons. Sento. never gazed upon the aboriginal Syots
of
what impatiently she wondered at the northern Mongolia.
long tinae that her little blue and gold Sable taunting in the Sibalan moon -
an
ttendt had been gone, tains and northern Mongolia is confined
ile almost exclusively to the Syots and oth-
1VaS so seldom absent from bis
place between ber eyes for it 71101e er native races, and it would eurprise
ir
good many fur dealers in England te
nte that slie got ratite uneasy, but while
she fidgeted fretfully, with many mewl.know.the prices which are paid by the
Siberian traders to these poor aborigines
for the elcins they collect.
The Siberian trader, knowing his
ow the Stria' Advances Atter this Ulu"
Leaves Siberia.
Up in the great watershed dividing
Siberia aud Mongolia lives it peoullar
rigs of ber flexible "gaff topsail," baek
came the pilot fish in it tearing hurry.
"Now, then, partner, move "0. 1.
There's a lump of fat pork almost as big market, makes periodical journeys into
as your bend hanging over that ship's Mongolia, It is safe to say he does net
stern. I don't quite understand why it take it kopek of money -with him, but he
doesn't sink, but it is good. I nibbled drags behind him a well stuffed caravan
j
a crumb, and you ciin be mire this loaded, with tett, tobacco, gunpowder ust
time that it is no bagful of cinders like null shot, strings of beads for the wom-
am en and roughly made Minciteine for the
that nasty mouthful that gave you
chestache so bad this morning.The men. In due course be will come across
"
a Syot encampment.
The trader sits on his wagon and bar-
ters cheerfully. With tbe eye of a con-
noisseur and with fingers rendered deft
by long practice he sees and feels the
smooth, warm Skins of the little ani-
mals.
This small black one—well, a two
ounce packet of tobacco is enough for
that; that large black one—a 'Handful
of shot and an equal quantity of gun-
powder; a packet of tea for a lovely
skin with it long black stripe down the
center; this one, a fine skin, but a lit-
tle bit hurt by the shot entering the
back—well, say a string of beads for
that.
fish. Is le going to eat up that pretty In their original undressed state it is
little one, do you think?" "Ob, no, my safe to say that the skins do not cost
the Siberian trader ranch more than a
little man," struck in the mate, "but
few pence each on the average. As the
you watch him now!" As he spoke the
great gray body took a curve latterly, a poor sable travels farther westward,
however, he gets dearer and dearer. Li
Tomsk one can buy a very good sable
for something like 6 or 6 rubles, about
1115. In Omsk few are sold under 10 ru-
b1es—£1 is. In Moscow 100 per dent
goes on. In. St. Petersburg no one ex-
cept the middle class or a functionary
would wear a sable under £5. In Paris
and London a real Siberian sable skin
will fetch anything up to 420, but the
imitation sables of the present day have
Had a Practical Education.
The following is a copy of a sign in a
remote Georgia county: "A Few Bright
Seholards Tahiti to Lern Wfitin, Spailin
an Figgers."
A traveler, noticing the sign, asked
the prinoipal where he had graduated.
The principal pointed to a cotton field
near by and said, "Right over their, sir,
behind a Georgia mule, under a July
sun."—Atlanta Constitution.
lattcr part of this energetic exordium
Vas lost upon mother shark, being
drowned in the wash set up by her
great tail fin, which was going in grand
style, starting her off at sech a xate
that two or three stragglers of the fam-
ily had to skip like shrimps to get in-
doors before they were left behind and
lost.
Straight as an arrow to the mark went
the tiny guide, keeping just in front of
his huge friend's snout. Together they
swept into the shadow, where, sure
enough, a mass of meat hung just below
the sea surface, though gently lifted al-
most out of water every now and then.
"Oh, do look-, mamma I There's a big
dazzling glare of white appeared, and
there beneath the speaker was a tires-
centic gap in the smooth, livid under-
side fringed with innumerable points
like chevaux de frise and as big as the
gap of a coal sack. Around it the small
pilot circled excitedly at top speed.
Slowly the mate as gently slacked away,
there was a gulp, and the big joint dis-
appeared. There was a flash, a splash
and an eddy. Then the rope attached to
done much to depreciate this wonderful
the shark hook concealed in the pork
groaned over the rail as it felt the strain. trade.—London Mail.
"Lay aft the watch," roared the
mate, and amid the trampling of niany
feet, a babel of directions and a tremen-
dous tumult alongside, through the
writhings of the oaptive monster, she
was transferred forward to the lee gang-
way, where, by the aid of a stout watch
taokle, she was hoisted out of water.
"Don't take him aboard," cried the
captein. "Make such an infernal mess
if you do. just spritsail yard him and let
him go agen." So a piece of scantling
was got from the carpenter, pointed at
both ends, about four feet long. This
they drove between her jaws from side
to side. Another wedge shaped piece
was planted diagonally down through
her broad snout, the upper end pointing
forward. Then they cut off the wide
pectoral fins, letting the quivering car-
cass fall into the seaagain by the sim-
ple expedient of chopping the hook out.
"What abominable cruelty," muttered
a gentle faced man among the crowding
passengers, as he turned away sick at
• heart. But the bustling seaman looked
pityingly at him, woeclering doubtless
at his lack of spOrtino' instincts. Thus
• Sheep Ticks.
Every one who has sheep knows the
tick, the worst pest of this animal, that
does serious harm to the young lambs
without suspicion of the cause to the
shepherd. This reddish brown creature
is a wingless fly and a very greedy blood-
sucker. A dozen of them mea lamh,wi
qpickly suok the little one dry. It is
be looked after at the time of shearing,
when these insects go for shelter to the
Iambs. It is found mostly where the
animal caranot reach it—on its head,
buried in the skin, sucking the blood.
Its skin is tough and it is not easily
crushed with less than a blow of a ham-
mer. In small flocks it is not much of a
job to go through, with a pair o
small scissors to cut the ticks in two,
but where the flock is over a score it
will be necessary to dip the lambs.—
Exchange.
Welsh inothers put a pair of tongs or
a knife in the cradle to insure the safe-
ty of their children. The knife is alSo
used for the same purpose 'in some parts
of England.