HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-5-20, Page 7TELE EOU$E FOLD.
The Art ofDish-Washing,
It is hard, writes Mrs. C. T. Herrick, to
make dishnwasbing poetical, titin, even
ordinary mortals, by dint of giving the same
amount of thought to this that they would
to some more highly esteemed occupations,
oan convert it Into something totally differ-
ent from the unsavory busiuese into which
it degenerates when left to the hands of
melees or ill -trained servants. It would
seem ,'most gratuitous to mer tion plenty of
really lot water as an miser tial for the pro-
per purityfng of utensils, were it not that
one is too fn quently ooavinoed, from oloudy
glees, streaky china, or dull silver, that.
their latest bath had keen of extre mein mod•
crate temperature. With water just r fir the
boil, good eery, and an, abundance of towels,
there Ie no reason Why etoaeware amid preen
ed glees should act be as attractive in their
dainty ole ,linees as French ohina and out
oryetal, ,
some aver•
r of -. has e e #
e houaeb
Near! r d.
N_
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euro silver and
bi ht
o for r
,tin
e l?., Lt g
;braaldps. Among theme whiot accomplish
tibia vg theca injuring' the artiolee to NIhroh
they „applied may n eotloned : Fir
atlioon No
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e oa and eve
ally x&
e
it
p
pop %be will eervefor olecning vaeee or trays
r;of ;'73enarea or other tiucly engraved brass.
'MNor ahonld they be touched by a brnah.
The delicate etching Ie too coolly effaced or
clogged to be Ben petted to any but the gent
lent handling, Wash the ornament in clean
hot water and then rub thorougbly with a
bit of soft cloth ; an old handkerchief is bei t
dipped in lemon juice. Wipe dry and pol-
ieh with ohamois akin. Benarea brasses are
especially apt to lose their bright lees read.
ily from the duet settling in the interstices
of the closely engraved surface.
To clean copper tt e old fashioned mixture
of vinegar ana salt, tollowed by an am Lea-
den of silted ashes, does better than any-
thing else, The final friction with chamois
ekin or soft flannel should never be omitted,
Even in our enlightened age, and among
people who eugl t to knew better, the prac-
tice of " draining " dishes is less uncommon
than it ahonld be. Serval is do it almost in-
variably, unless closely watched. ICU a
puzzling question why it should be consider-
ed easier to wipe a pile of plates and oupe
that have all been drawn from the water at
once than to dry each article singly while it
be still so hot that it needs but a few touches
of the towel to make it bright,
]The towels themselvee are not the least
important of the m' ane to tee end of wash-
ing oiehes properly. They require care to
prevent their becoming greasy and malodor•
one. While washing soda should never be
used in any department of laundry work,
the addition of a couple of tablespoonfuls of
ammonia to the nide in which diet towels
are scrubbed does no harm, and desists ma-
terially in the removal of dirt. Tne towels
should never be boiled until waehed thor-
oughly. Otherwise boiling setethe stains.
Notes for Housekeepers.
People who pay allegiance to fashion are
d eing their white lace window curtains
me shade of yellow.
- IN BUTTE —Acaries ona ant of
BUTTER -BOWLS
the National Stockman recommence tin buts
ter -bowls, affirming that, with all posel ile
care, the wooden onus will become tainted
and spoil the butter'.
CLEANING BRASS AND COPPER VESSELS.—
Braes or copper veedele used for stewing
Wruits should be polished while v arm, as
they are easier cleaned to say nothing of the
pleasure to find them ready for use.
APPLE BATTER PUDDING. One quart of
milk, four egge, one pint of flour, one mall
tearpoonfnl salt, three or four large tart
nip ant fine and stirred into the batter
last.; Boil or bake it for one hour. Est
with dauoe.
LIQUID SAUCE (FOR PDDDIF GS).—Two
tableepeone butter, one oup of sugar and
yolks of two eggs beaten together, just be-
fore wanted pour on slowly two cups boil-
ing water and stir until dissolved. Flavor
with a little grated nutmeg and three table-
spoons Catawba eyrap which comes in bot•
ties, or strawberry syrup if preferred.
FrSu BALLL.—Cut up eight good sized po•
tatoee and piok fine one pint of salt oodfieh,
Pat all in cold water and boil until tender
enough to strain through a colander ; add a
piece of butter the size of an egg, a little
cream and one egg ; ealt if needed. Mash
all togonher and fry in boiling hot fat. Use
a epoonffbl for each ball, dipping the spoon
in cold water to prevent the mixture from
sticking to the spoon.
WIRE RING DISIrOLOTII.—Many good
housewives have no knowledge of the ex-
cellence of a bunch of wire rings (to be had
for a reaeor able pride at any house-Purnish-
ing store) in cleat ing pots, skiliett, eta, par-
ticularly if the latter should happen to get
scorched. A piece of sandpaper will also be
found very serviceable in rubbing off patohee
of "burned -on " food and it doesn't injure
the glazed surface of the kettle.
, POTATO ROLLS,—Bali six goods'zvd pota-
toes with their jackets ; take them out with
a skimmer, dram and squeeze with a towe
to insure being dry ; then remove the skin,
mash them perfeotly free from lumps, aid a
eablespsonful of butter, the yolks ot three
ggs and a pint of sweet milk. When coo
beat in a teaspoonful of yeast. Put in just
enough flour to make a stiff dough. Wien
this rises make into small cakes. 1 et them
rise the same as bisouit, and bake a delicate
brown. e
E•ow to Advertise,
A contemporary, in some "hints on ad -
e,"(vertising," says : " Another thing which
publishers have to contend with is that the
remitter of advertising are not always vfaabie
to patrons, many of whom can not under-
etand why custom can not be directly traced
to the source where they expended their
money to obtain it. Business is like a river
with many tributaries, and In which it is
impoesibie to trace every individual drop of
water to the spring from whence it came,
But if a journal is aolected for advertising
purposes that reaches time and again the
persons most likely to bo interested in the no.
natation, that paper le certainly a sure
fountain -head of profitable trade in the
stream of patronage far below. Temporary
advertisements in a smallway will not pro.
duce an immediate or permanent increase of
busineeet any more than a light ebowor will
affect the depth of water in a well, but by
pereietenoy in the ono of printer's ink in the
right direction, the result sought will be
gained in the end with interest.
Vicar's daughter—" Well, Tommy, how
are you all getting on ?'' Tommy ---6' Nioe-
1y, thrnk you, ,rales. Oi got a gumboil,
mother she's got the rhoumatios, and father
e'vo got a month in jail 1"
There is actual proof that wood can be
charred by steam pipes, and by the clow
but Tong continued action of moderately
heated steam, Charcoal thus formed it
said to be liable to absorb oxygen setd-
denly, arid break oat into spontaneous cam-
bustion.
WILD ORAS
AE.
I'ureved by a Runaway Engine.
I'. had a run out of Columbus, Obto, ken er
twelve years ago, and several things con-
epired to bring about the incident I am,
about to relate, I had a passenger run of
nine hours, begining at 7 o'clock e, M For
nearly three years t hada locomotive named
after a railroad official, "Ben Davis,," and I
get to know that piece of machinery better
than any man ever knew' his horse, Yon
may buy two watohee of the same make, of
the semenom nem at the same time, and
while one will keep exoelleut time and give
good satf-faotlon, the other will have off
spells. It le the same with two l000mo
ttvee, White •' Bon Davie'' would make
regular tripe, day after day for menthe with-
out giving me the least trouble or wanting
a cent's orth of repairs, other locomotives
from the same shop were in the hands of the
repairers ae often as out on the road.
Oneof our freight engineers wae
a man
n
e mo
named mor a Iv b f1 as on to our
g y
road from some line in New England, and
gave good satisfaction for auout three
months. Then whiskey got the better of
him, and he went to tbe doge, One day,
atter ale fireman had brought the train into
Columbus, with Roby drunk and asleep on''.
the floor of the cab, he got his blue envelope.
The idea eornehow lodged in Ha head that
the effioials were dowu on him, and heswore
he would have revenge for boiag discharg-
ed. One afternoon he turned up down the
road and was noticed to be drinking heav-
ily, and to have the bearing of a man bent
on some desperate deed. That woe at, a
station eightetnil miles from Columbus, and
on a gloomy April evening, I was due
there at 7:28, and it was a two -minute stop.
A mixed freight always elide -tracked there
for us to pass, and then followed us down
the line,
Well, I was there en this special evening
on time, as neral, having baggage, expreae
and three ooachea. It begun to drizzle just
before we reached the station, and I saw
that we were in for a dark night and a slip-
pery track. I did not see Roby, nor did
any one tell me that he had enown up there,
I noticed that the freight train was unusally
long and that it was palled by. one ;of the
biggest'cnsines on the road, Three or four
:peeiple`got off and perhaps as many got on,
and wet were ell ore the,'.eaecnd•., , It .;viae a
run of sevenniflea to the next stop, and my
sobedule was thirty-seven' miles -an hour,
We had not yet come to a standstill at the
next stop when the telegraph operator,
whose face was as white as snow, ran along-
side, and called to me :
"There's a wild engine behind you—for
heav—"
He ran back to the conductor, and in ten
seconds that official rushed up and shouted
tome:
• • It's a runaway engine—pullout at once!"
He yelled '- All aboard 1" sprang for the
steps of a oar, and away we went, some of
the people getting cif or on being flung down
as they jostled each other. After we left
the station where the freight was side-
tracked, a brakeman ran down the track to
open the a itch Ashe did eo Robymount
ed the engine with tacked revolve
in hand
and drove the engineer and fireman off. He
had previously uncoupled her irom the train
without being detected. He ran the en-
gine out on the main line and half a mile
beyond. Then he filled up the fire box, saw
that she had plenty of water, pulled the
throttle wide open, and jumped off. That
wae how we come to have a runaway engine
behind ne. As soon as the engineer was
driven from the cab he ran into the station
and informed the operator, and about the
time the runaway started we got the news.
We were about six miles ahead of her. That
meant about six minutes.
When 1 pulled out I supposed the pro-
gramme was for some of the station folks
to run down and open the switch so that
the runaway would be ditched, but it ap-
peared that the agent was so dreadfully rat-
tled that he did not attempt this step until
too late. The switch was forty rode from
the station, and just as an employee reaehed
it the runaway came rearing past. Idly
next stop was ten miles distant. I reasoned
it out in about a minute that if the runaway
was ditched the fact would be telegraphed
ahead, If she wasn't, that foot would also
be clicked ever the wires, and I' would get
some sign or signal as we passed. 1f she
was following us there would be no time to
switch in, and my hair stood up at the idea
of trying to outrun her. I made the ten
miles in twelve minutes and a half. A mile
away 1 began tooting the whistle, and ea
we neared the station, still flying, I leaned
out to look for the agent. He was on the
platform. If be held up his hand 1 would
atop. Bat he ail not. On the contrary,
he waved his arm down the line for me to
keep on, and I knew that *e were in for it,
The runaway could not ba over three min -
uteri behind, and there would not be time
to turn mer in on the siding here,
The next stop was eleven miles away,
and it was a good piece of track. Little by
little I gave her more steam, and after the
first mile I knew that we were reeling off a
mile every minute. There was train enough
to hold unsteady, and the traok was straight
and but for the awful roar It would have
been easy to imagine we were flying. The
agent ahead would let me know by signal,
as the other had done, He was en the
platform, with a great crowd behind him,
and he motioned me en. The runaway was
still after us: She must hove gained some,
but how much I could not say. It wae
eight miles and a half to the next station,
and l could not do better than forty five m
forty-eight miles an hour on'mthe up grade,
The runaway must catch no in the next six
or seven miles, We had gone abont five
miles when I got the signal on the bell rope
to stop, and as soon ae I had slowed down a
little a brakeman camp over the tender with
Instructions to stop at the station,
Tho conductor knowing that we oornld not
outrun the wild engine, and that there wae
no show to ditch her, oould think of but ono
plan to save the train. He called the pas-
sengers from the rear coach and cant it tff.
This was on the eleven -mile tan, and the
poach had about two minutes to lose its me.
mentum before the runaway struck it. The
pilot ran under the platform, the end of the
poach was lifted up, and the next moment
ongfno and car were in the ditch, Neither
ene of them was ever repaired, the w,teck
being too'oomplete; nor did the cffioere of
the law ever succeed in laying hands on
Roby,
Jupiter.
The distance cf Jupiter from the sun is
480,000,000 miles, It is next in brlghtneet
to Venue, end may be seen in daytime in
clear weather from a mountain top, It it
about 300 times the weight of the earth, and
bas 1,200 tlmee the balk of the earth, It re•
fleate nearly one-half the light that fails
upon it.
The Human Heart.
Tt ongh I've travoll'd far and wide,
And haveWaited time and tido,
I never knew iDi honesty to' win,
Or a heart howeverlrard
From all eympathy, debarr'd
Or hat kindness could not touch and enter in,
ray our Mlle,
r,
A well-known business man hailed US te-
day with
"Come here, 1 want to interview you."
The idea of a merchant interviewing a
newspaper man was so odd that the call was.
answered riahtawty,
" What made you put that article in the
paper, headed, a Pay your Bilis ?"' he
asked,
"Because," we replied, "it a peara to
be the proper thing to do,"
" Well," be amid, "you are right; it wee.
the proper thing to do, Now let me tell
you that I have been in business here for
several yearn, and before In other pioneer
too, and 1 believe I know what,I em talk-
ing about when I say that it everybody,
would pay the bine he owee to his neigh-
bore once in thirty days, or upon preser}te-
tion, there would be very little of what we
oall'hard times.' Tne man who owea a
dollar and has got it to pay, tut hangs to it,
nrevepts the payment of a groan many debts.
The journey no that a dollar ar trey le the &rat
week of the month, and time it metros,
as we may say when we talk of raoe horned,
would su:prise the man who never investi-
gated. I marked a dollar once and kept.
track of it a few daya, requesting oaoh man
to keep a record of whom it wan received by
him, and to whom payed. Before it disap-
peered, about the end of the first week of
the month, it had paid between twenty-five
and thirty dollars in debts. Not long ago 1
presented a bill of about forty dollars to a
man abundantly able to pay it. I knew he
had the money. But he looked soared and
said, ' I can't collect my bilis, you know;
wait awhile.' Now that tarty dollars be-
longed to me, but he had it in his possession,
and of course I couldn't take it away from
him. If he had paid it to me, as he ought
to have done, I should have paid it out al -
moat immediately, and t he chances are that
it would have been kept going, and by this
time have paid ton times its value in debts.
" Yon see," he went on, "money ie valu-
able when it is in circulation, Like blood
in a man's body, when stagnant it is of no
use. There are too many oowerds. A man
whe gets soared and grips his dollars when
he aught to pay hit debts with them, does
the public a positive iujury. Hie money
would certainly return to him throngh cre-
ditors. The financial coward does more to
bring on hard times than any other cause,
He is a stumbling block and a nuisance.
We talk of the timidity of capital. It is
not the money, but the men who handle it,
who are timid.
" You were right," he continued, "when
you said that if everybody will pay his bills
next week, in three months' time business
will be gond and money plenty. We can
make courage and confidence if we will.
Some men who are ohronio deadbeats put
on a great deal of style. I could point you
out a man who dashes up and down Dela-
ware street behind a hired fast horse, and
his creditors are thinker than bees. He
stands them off and rides, while they have
to take wind for money and walk. He le
' kiting' now, but he le sure to come down
in dishonor and disgrace. Let every hon-
eet man who oan do it, square up with hie
neighbors to whom he owes a few dollars,
and times will ease up at once. There is
plenty of money, plenty of produce, and
plenty of everything except honesty and
courage. Honeaty and courage will restore
confidence. The croaker, whether it be
a newspaper or business man, will soon quit
his croaking, and nobody will remain with
a woeful tale about hard times except the
professional dead -beat, who is always look-
ing for an excuse for dishonesty.
A Royal Printer.
It le not generally known that Prince Lud-
wig of Battenberg, sun of Prince Alexander
of Hesse, is a practical printer. Like most
of the princes of the Prussian Royal House,
who have been taugbt either ant or a trade,
Prince Ludwig of Bsttenberg was early
called upon to choose a calling, and his
choice fell upoa the art of Guttenberg. In
the palace of his father the Prince has a
printing cffice completely fitted up for or
dinary printing and book -work. Prince
Ludwig prides himself on hie ability to com-
pete with compositors and printers who fol
low typography for a livelihood. What ie
still more interesting is that the Princess,
the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke of
Heate, is a priater, too, and that, the high.
born pair work regularly together at the
ease. The latest work which has come from
Prince Ludwig of B tttenberg's press is a
volume of notes on travels written t y the
Prinoe'e dieter. the Counteae of E:oaoh-
Schonberg. The book is said to be executed
in a thoroughly printer -like way.
Happy in His Dreams at Last.
Fond Wife—" Did yon have pleasant
dreams last night, George t"
Rude iineband—" Why do you ask ?"
Fond Wife—" Because I noticed a plea-
sant smile on your facets you slept "
Rude Husband—" Yes ; I forgot for the
time that I was married. Pass the butter,"
PEOPLE.
Pev, Qeorge Washington fa chaplain of
the Britfeh legation at Constantinople,
The pay of a second lientenant in the
French army le but $37,80 per month, and
sword knot ooete, $5,
Esther Dow, of Deerfield N H.,who re.
minty died, aged 88 years,' had serr in her
life seen a railway train, and for years had
not beea off her farm.
:
The romance of the jailer d lovely daughter
has been realized in Belgium, 'l'B►nitg, the
embezzler, woo no sooner released fit in lw-
prieoaxnent then he married the daughter of
the pcieonkeeper of Louvain.
Mies Nellie Arthur was confirmed last
week, at:
St. John r Church, is W:iiehtngton,
the same church in whioh her father ex
President Arthur, Inserted a memorial win-
dow to the memory of hie wife, Ellen
Herndon Arthur.
In McCready', dress for VIrg incus, now
in Mr. I vi '
r n e o
eeeasio n
n tne armor was o1
B P ,
pante-board, covered with tinfoil, and the
dagger of wood. There was a scarf of red
serge, a linen turio and, sandal's, eta. The
whole could not have cost $10,
Mre. Joshee, the Hindoo lady who lately
was graduated from the Woman a Medical
College of Penneylyania, carefully preserved
her caste while in this country to insure he
reeeptlon in high caste families in India,
and even 000kea every one of her own mettle
and served herself at table.
An old man ander the wreck of the care
at Deerfield made known hie presenoe by
cursing the railrsad company. When he
was got out he was found to be terribly
braised, and he fainted. On Doming too he
immediately resumed hie anathematizetion
just where It had been interrupted by his
swoon.
When Mlle. Dudley, of the Corneille Fran
oaise, first began acting in Paris the critics
complained of a certain aibillation of the
voice, which was due to a peculiar fermetic n
of her lower jaw. A dentist said it could
be remedied by forcing book her lower teeth.
So for six mouths, day and night, she wore
an instrument of India rubber, never remov-
ing it anti always suffering severely from it.
Sae obtained perfeut enunciation.
Among reigning sovereigns who 'have
written books are Qaeen Victoria, Dom
Pedro II. of Brazil, Dom Luis of Portugal,
the Saab, ;'Wear II. of Sweden, Prince
Nikita of Montenegro, Ludwig 11. of
Bavaria, and Qaeen Edzabeth of Roumania ;
and among prinoee and princeesese who
have dabbed in literature are the Princes
Christian, the Crown Princess of Germany,
the Princess Theresa of Bavaria, the two
sone of the Prince of Wales, the two sons of
the King of Sweden, the Duke of Edinburg
and the Comte de Paris,
Some six or aeven veers since there came
to Washington from California Mr. and Mrs.
Boyer. Site was a rather small, bright,
ambitions woman, with literary ability,
whose nom de plume was " Dere Marmore.'
It was hie deetre to obtain a position in the
Government Printing Offioe, and she did all
in her power to aid him. When he succeed-
ed, however, she went to New York, secur-
ed a legal separation and resumed her maid-
en name of Dora Tiohenor. Not long ago
she captured Mr, Voorhies, of the New York
yacht fleet, and he has now been sued by
Mrs. Garnne,°a dashing widow for $100,000
for breach of promise,
The Emperor William is the oldest sover-
eign In the world, the Pope being now only
in hie 77th year, while King William of the
Nethertande, the next oldest, is twenty
years younger titan his namesake on the
German throne. Waren the present Emper-
or was born, eighty-nine years ago, his
grandfather, Frederick William II. (the ne-
phew and successor of Frederick the Great),
was King of Prussia, George III, had reiga-
ed in England for thirty-seven years, France
web under the Directory, In 1,neeia Paul I.
had euooeeded to Catherine II., then dead
only four months, and George Washington
was still first President of the United States.
Mr. Rees R. Winans, who is being drag-
ged before the public by one Mrs. 0 Keefe,
appears to be a very much married man.
His first wife was Miss Ludlum of Baltimore
a very handsome and conspicuous looking
woman. She bad very blonde hair, and,
some eaid, her death was paused by the 111
effeots of the coloring she need to give the
beautiful golden tint to her hair. Sts pre-
sent wife was Miss Whistler, a niece of the
eccentric artist, who was such a fondness
for "symphonies" and "harmonies. The
father of Mr. Winans made his immense
fortune as a contractor for building the rail-
roads in Russia,
rr4411.--l►
Copper -lined tanks are often known to
give trouble by leaking, after a few years,
mach of which arises from the manner of
soldering. Most plumbers nee common sol-
der, masse of lead and tin. For this hind of
work pure tin ehooli be used, and the laps
thoroughly sweated through. The nails
should also be of copper.
S7lr11IIP A,T fil1YW '
Poon,. TnINee I HE'S So DAEADFULLY 2111N lriit. $UItE rBItDt'LL NEVER
EE 1 NOUGar TO 00 ARovx»,
A k,TRU(lGLE TO THD DEATH,
In Locomotive a L conioti o ab withMad E
I 4 a te l
, aYir: racer.
I was in the second Yonne of my appren•
Heirship p as Gramm on No 63 of the Umtata
nal, Hamilton and Daytou Road, when I
get pnuh a bet- been one night as few ,firemen
ever lived through. Tbe incident happen,
ed about ahem years ago, but every feature
of it cornea to my mind ae clear as if the af-
fair occurred last night, My engineer was
named Bob Ripley. Ile was a jovial, whole
soiled fellow, never going beh'ni a glues of
beer, and wae, known all along the line as a
sober and trusty man
Well. all of a eutidsn, boa luck struck.
Tae had a little hone, which was taken
away by a land shark, He. left Cfnoln•
nett one night for Toledo on hieusual run,
and returned to find bla wife :dead, She.
had some heart trouble, and died without
a mon':ent's warning, Within. a fortnight
his boy baby eiokenedand died, and that
left Bob without homeorfa ityI t
e
11
you it made an awful change on him, Ila
was oft for two or three weeks, and when he
came back bo the oab L could scarcely recog-
nize him. He had a wild, queer leek to
bra eyes, a strange sound to his voioe, end
he was so sullen and morose that 1 almost
fearedcto ape ek to him on matters of been
nese. I made two or three trips with him,
and but for the fear of hurting hie feelings
T should have made application to be
changed,
It was the third or fourth trip after he
returned to the road when we left Cincin-
nati one November night for the north. It
was a wild, stormy night, and as we got
out into the country I caught Bob smilsng
and chuckling. The wildness of the night
seemed to strike a responsive chord in hie
soul. 0 d 63 seemed to be in uncommon
epirita, too, eor she was gliding along with
a heavy train,`and making no fuss over itt.
I made some remarks about it, but Bob had
no reply, Indeed, he noted as if he was
alone in the cab. I didn't like the situation
a hit, for I had a euspioion that he wasn't
quite right In his head, and he was also
spurting her beyond schedule time. We
were to pass a side tracked accommodation
about thirty miles out of Ciacinnaii. She
ought to be in eight minutes ahead of
our time, bat 63 was overreaehtug schedule
time so fast that I feared a collision. The
conductor had his eyes open, however, and
at a stop about twenty miles out he dame
forward and cautioned Bob to slow her
down. We had overreauned five minutes
in that short` run. B ib answered surly
enough, but as we pulled out again he obey-
ed orders and obeokod her down to lose the
extra minutes gained.
We had passed the siding all right when
I noticed that his nervontnese increased.
He would whistle for oroseings where none
existed, and he would toot anppositious
cattle off the track. Orme, seeming to
ignore my presence altogether, he opened
tne turner* door and pilea in the fuel, al-
though we wore carrying more steam than
I had ever seen on.
At Hamilton I was fully resolved to speak
to the oonduotor if he Dame forward and
gave me opportunity, but he did not. It
was when I returned to the dab after oiling
up that Bob looked up at me with a start, as
if surprised to see me, and said :
" Jim, I'm thinking of them."
" Yee, Bob, but they are better off," I
eootoingly said. " You must bear up like
a man. it's sad enough, God knows, but
you mast meet it bravely"
" DId you see—?"
" What 1" I asked as he soddenly check-
ed himself.
He did not answer. He looked at his
watch signalled me to ring the bell, and in
a moment more we were off. Tne night
was growing wilder, and we were not ten
minuses out of Hamilton wheal made up
my mind,thatthere wastrenble deal at hand.
Bab turned to look at me new and then in a
way to prove that he meditated evil, and
from the way he kept the whistle going the
passengers behind must have supposed the
track to be swarming with living obetruc•
Vona. We were about half way to Day-
ton and I had just replenished the fire,
when Bob suddenly gave her all steam. It
aeemed to mess if old 63 took a clean jump
of ten feet as she felt the extra steam, and
I shouted my alarm. The words were
hardly uttered before he was upon me.
" You've got to die with me 1' he scream-
ed as he clutched my arms, and I'm not ex-
aggerating a bit when I tell you that hie
eyes looked like coals cf fire.
I was by far the stronger man of the two,
but in his first rash he dialed me about in
a dreadful way, and had almost pulled me
to the steps before I called up my muscle,
Then I aid my beat to save him, He was
bound to go cif, and I was bound to pre-
vent, it and as we pulled and tugged at each
other, the train was running so close to a
mile a minute that none of the pattaengers
cared to reduce the fraction. I think our
struggle lasted about five minutes, I was
gradually drawing him back into the ten-
der, and was wondering how I could se-
cure him, when he , uddenly shut hie teeth
on my right wrist, and bit and tore like a
dog. I had to let go my clutch, and as I
did so he turned and leaned off, uttering
a ory which rang in my earn for weeks
after.
is was high time the steam was shat off,
As I afterward learned, every passenger
was hanging on and praying to heaven, for
the dullest of them knew that something
had happened on the locomotive. I brought
her to a stand -still as soon as possible, and
when the conductor reached the cab we
baoked up to look for poor Bob's body,
We found it about two miles back, and it
was a shocking eight. He had struck a
stump head first, and bead and face were
simply a bloody mass of flesh.
I ran the train into Dayton and we had
scarcely come to a standstill before I was
seized with a ohill, and had to be helped to
the hotel. I wae just olean broken down
under mental strain, and it wan plump six
weeks before I crept out of my bed. 1 was
determined never to step foot on an engine,
but when health oame back I got my
nerve again, and the result was that I
finished my apprenticeship, and took the
other side of the cab.
17itality of Males and Females.
Some intermitting facts concerning the
relative vitality of males and fernelos are
shown in the forty-sixth annual report of
the Eogliah register general, In eaah 1,000
living porsono there are 487 melee and 513
females ; bus for every 100 females 103.5
males were born, At every age of life the
death rate was lower in the females, and
the difference is greater in early years.
in both sexes a diminished death rate is
taking plane, This is more marked in fe-
melee than in melee, at all ages; Tho im-
provement iseapeotaily notable in women
tip to 45 and in the men to 35, The mean
expectation of life of a male at birth is 41,-
85, and of a female 44,62 years, The
annual expectation of Innen] le, counted by
the daya, nearly the same in both saxes,
Satan always rooks the cradle when we
sleep at our devotions, -[Bishop Hall,
HARE ,SND THERE.
Speculators have bought a little old house
in Sion, Me., formerly occupied by an allege
ed female miser, .cud are touring it down i,n,
search of hidden treasure, Thus far they
found $28,
'The .North German Gazette admits that
the feeling in ]'ranee against l;rmany ha;treated a similar feeling in Germany against.
France and the actzotte warde France that
r
her official elutions will gruffer if the anti-
French feeling In Germany be much furtheit
aroused,
The experts from Germany to the United
States during the &rat quarter ot 1886
amounted to $2 635,000 more than the ex-
ports during tae tame period of 1885. Thea
newspapers oall atteution to tae large in-
crease in exports to America, which they at-
tribute to tbe great strikes.
A gang of thirty thirsty toughs from Bea.
ver broom the
nthe
r nightht took posseesion
of
George Morgan's cider mill, in which were
several barrels of hard eider, When Mor-
gan found them in the morning they were all
drunk, and some of thorn ugly, but he pitch-
ed into them single handed, drove them
out of the mill, and threw the leader inte
the mill race, where he was nearly,drownecla
Charles Patterson, a notorious chicken
thief, of Rtohmend, was in the habit of kill-
ing and omoeeing the chickens he stole before
quitting the premises. Unfortunately for
him, he fell asleep while picking chickens.
ton Monc ay night, and in the morning the
owner found him calmly snering by the side
of eight well-dressed fowls and a pile of
feathers. Richmond roosts will not be dis-
turbed by Charles for many moons.
John Ackerman, who Yves near Poplar
Bluff, Mo., was attacked by two large blank
wolves while going home from work the
other evening. 6,,a he ran. he fell and the,
wolves were right upon him ; but the rattle
of his dinner gait caused them to halt, and
noticing this, Ackerman jumped up, and,
furiously shaking the pail, frightened the
wolves away and went home unharmed.
G, M Dupree of Warwick, is 60 years old
the father of eight children, and eighteen,
times a grandfather. Three months ago he,.
sent his friend James Hobby out in search.
of a wife for him. He tela him not to pink
a young one, for she might be giddy, bat to
find, if possible; a nice chunky woman,
" nigh on to 30 years old," Hobby was enc -
metal, and Mr. Dupree and hies Saliie�,.
Jones were recently married,
George Moore, a clerk in an Augusta, Me,,. -
hotel, hate been in the habit of wr,ting
an order for the porter to call Andrew Jaok,
railway postal clerk, who goes out on an
early train, at 4 30 in the morning. The
other night Moore dreamed that he had not
pat down the order. He thought he saw
Jack stagger up to the depot with an im-
menee load of mail bags met as the train
was drawing out, and the eight of the mail
olerks efforts to catch the train ao impress-
ed him that he awoke. He harried down
stairs to make sure that the order had been
written. It had not been. He looked at
the clock. It watt just 4:30. Then he went
and palled Jaok himself. to be sure that the
dream shouldn't oome true,
Slow Trains.
A man was one day making a trip en a
" mixed" train on a Cauadianroad. Passes
on these trains is never taken except en
journeys of considerable length ; walking is
as easy and much faster for short distances.
On this occasion the movement was much
more deliberate than usual and the passen-
ger called the conductor to his seat and
said :
" Isn't tbie motion pretty slow ?"
" Well, we ain't flying, I'll admit,
" Sure everything is all right ?"
" I think so."
" Wheels all greased ?"
" Yee, I greased them myself."
"Tires all on 2"
" Yes, we run through the creek back
here and soaked up the wheels so thatthey
would stay."
" Any spokes loose ?"
"No.'
" You are certain the wheels are all on
the rails ?"
" They was when I oome in,"
" Couldn't be possible that any of them
are off and the axle dragging, could it ?"
" I guess not,"
" Are we going np hill ?"
" No, this is pre:tymidd'lin' level."
" Do you always run at this gait?"
" No, we generally hump along a little
faster'n this."
" May I ask what as tne trouble then ?"
" Certainly. We found a fine two-year-
old steer stuck in a trestle back here, be-
fore you got -on, and stopped and helped it
out, You know the rules of the road: are
that in such oases the animal belongs to
the company," f,
" But I don't see why that should make
you run so thundering slow."
" Why, you blame fool, we'ie takin' tha
steer along to headquarters ; got it tied b
hint', and it ain't used to leadin, and do
walk up very well, I'm doing all c
got the brakeman prodding it up wit
umbrell', and an ear of c .rn tied to the
of the bell rope. If you think I'm go
start up and go howlin' along, and yen
horns off as good a steer as there le
territory, why you're mietaken, tha
IIs trainmen can't expect our pay unl
bring in some stock once'ner while."
A Pathetic Tragedy in Real Life.
The evidence of little Frankie i Gari;
in court in Soranton, Pa., against
MoAndrewe and wife for the deatho
tnirteen year old sister (whom they
adopted) was another proof that tru
stranger than fiction, and told a story of
life Wiese narration Dickens might hay
vied. The child, ()lad in a calico dress;
without shoes and stockings all W
beaten and starved, lay at last on a b
straw in the garret in the early morn
a raw March day, dying. There we
bedclothes there, and she was shi
with gold when her bro`her a littl
nine, came to nee her at five o'clock,
Frankie," pried the dying girl
brothereas he drew near, "it le to
and so cold here—so very cold, Llf
little, please."
Tenderly the boy raised his fragile'
to a sitting posture and molatene
parched lips with water, Per an mate
girl revived, but soon relapend Into
soiousnees, The boy thought her de;
started to summon a neigh bar, but 1
tive voice caused him to halt. Hie.
was speaking faintly.
"I just saw a beautiful angel,"
"It wae mother, and she wore
too, Yes,"—brat here her mind w
for moment. "Oh, I'm no cold..
ie, bring Prince (the family dog) an
him on my feet to keep them warnt.t'
The boy did so.
et Water 1 Water 1" whispered tl
sufferer. ''Angela are owning 1
thom, Frankie, see—eh, mother
that was all, fol the little girl was t`