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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-8-8, Page 7AORIO1JLTURAL. Leon FEEDING PGA Cows. Xime le to be taken by the forelock, and to prepare early for the fell feeding of oows is carry beg out this wise principle. When the season is about to end, feed is 4Sua11Y some and poor, became preparations are not made fen it in good time, and the product of milk f ails off at the very time when it ehould be kept up for the winter profib. Once a cow loses milk it is very difficult, ond homany eases, impos eible to restore it. Hence, fresh. sucoulent food must be pro- vided for. The beet recourse le a field of Aftermath, grass or clover, or a past ure which bas been reserved especially for the purpose. It: may be too late now to remedy a failure for the present season, bue the warning should be kteeded in time for an- other) year. Still, something may yet be done: A. planting of tally km& of sweet corn, sown in rows eighteen inches apart and three iuohea apart in the rows, will very eoon afford very acceptable feed. Millet may be sown for pastures; oats sown in August or September will make the best of pasture for the early autumn, and rye will serve to follow after the early frosts. If no other way oen be found, some of the beet hay, with a liberal ration of corn should be given as soon as the outdoor forage has become amerce. 14teter, the snail pota. toes may serve as autemlent food along with • the hey. Malt sprouts steeped in water and mixed with out hay have increased the milk -yield more than pasture has done. • This food le very pleasant and palatable to the cowe, and exceeding nutritious and pro- ductive of rich milk. It can be purchased oheaply in summer and fall when ib is not much in demand. Bran and shorts have great value both as food products and for enriching the manure, and cotton -seed meal fed with oare and judgment is valuable. Apples aro worth more to feed to cows than for older. MILLET FOR E SILO. This crop is an exceedingly valuable one, although, perhaps, because it is so daily grown it is not popular. Last year a orop of millet was sown in a four.aore field, than had been in pasture for several years and had been well manured. One bushel of seed per acre was sown. The crop grew thickly and tall,—nearly six hien—before the heads began to appear, and ib was cut before half the heads had emerged from the sheaths. The four acres yielded twenty-five large two -horse wagon loads of half.oured fodder, which was pub into a small silo sixteen by twenty and fifteen feet deep. The fodder fed eight head of horses and colts, two yoke of working oxen, fifteen head of two -and. tlune-year-old steers and heifers fourteen yearlings and a bull, equal to forte:•two head for eleven weeks, and the fodder was °Eden greeqlily to the last without any waste. As thirlate one aore would have fed one head for orie hundred and fifteen weeks, or more than two years. Then what better or cheaper crop is there than this, which oc- cupies the ground only three months, re. quires no oultivabion and costs for all ex. penses not more than four &niers per acre? But it needs good soil and earlier sowing than usual. PRGTEGTION AGAINST FLIES. The plague of flies touches a very tender spot—bhepooketbook—for ib causes animals to lose flesh, or at least to make less gain than they would otherwise. By affording protection to the animals we save money as truly as we do by giving them comfortable shelter. The best protection for hogs is the wallow. Though cattle have tough hides, flies occasion them much discomfort, and it Is humane and profitable to make a smudge. In mime situations this is actually necessary at certain seasons. The animals soon learn to take advantage of the smoke. Horses suffer greatly from flies, on amount of a tenderer skin and sensitive nervous or- ganization. When we have them at work, their struggles against their tormentors ate annoying to us. It is unpleasant to nae animals kithing, biting and starapIng ab flies. For farm teams the cheapest protec- tion is leather nets. With reasonable care these will last for years. They should be cleaned and oiled at least once a month while they are in use, or the sweat of the animals will rapidly rot them. They in- crease the warmth of the animal as little as any efficient protection. Cotton nets are a good protection to bhe carriage horse. but are nob abrong enough for farm work. Those who cannot buy leather nets should get the coarsest gunny tacking. This, being vary open, does not much heat the animal. The cover should reach over the neck, with poc- kets to cover the ears. These covers should be washed onoe a month while in use, and when they are put away at the end of fly time. Gnats infest the inside of horses ears. Pure lard is a good protection, applied once a day. The deposit by the bot fly of ita eggs, under the jaw, makes many horses aimed unmanageable. A cloth tan be tied to the bridle in such a way as to protect the jaw. The legs of horses require protection even more than their bodies. Flies °hood the legs, an the ekin on these parts ist thinner and the blood addle are nearer the surface. it is strange thab we do not oftener see the legs of animals probecbed, as the flies are not much disturbed by stamping. Legging from old overalls, or made of gunny sack, are good material, and the man ashamed to drive a team so protected about his farrn has far more false pride than good sense. Leg- ging made like the leather nets for the body are, in the end, the cheapest and can be made by any harnesa maker. Al3OHT BUDDING Faun TREES. Idle aboub time for thod persons who in- tend to bud their trees to commenoe the work for this Beason. Budding may be done In this latitude any time between the 10th • day of July and the 16th day of Auguet, pro - tilled always that the season ie regular. Vinhat we mean by regular is a season with- out special charaderistios, 09 drouth or ex- • treme wetnees, In order that budding may be succetiefully done it is necessary to ab - tend to ib when the bark will slip °stilly. The bud to lat used must be of the present yen's growth, and it must be put into a branch or :dock, of this yeern growth. That, heve a small -bladed pocket knife—blade with a sharp and smooth edge ; remove the bud by placing the knife blade immediately obey° it, cutting under and downward ao at, to take a small portion of the wood with the • hark, making the bud elip about: three four- ths of ao inch long ; cot off the upper pad immedietely Mader the top of the Mid smoothly ottt acted the twig or stook in. tended tobe budded an bidden deep enough 0 to nett go through the batit without otitting A d the well ; then out a s110 downward along t the dein abOub ohe inch, beginning at the lit micldlo of the °rod Olat ; rattle the bark a th where e incisione ititetsed and slip the a bud under so that the emooth upper edge et II the bud 'will exactly meet and join with the e erosti looision ; then pewit: tho HO of the bark t •dowu over the bud firmly, tie with a woolen atria? and the work ie done, It is well to, out off the branch just beyond the bud. If that is net doe immediately after the butclding, see that it is done late In the fall or early next spring before the new growth comes, so that the growing proode will ad be wasted on a pert' of the tree which is noe needed. SI-JalinER PLANTING STRAwnERRIEs, Vor amateur purposes, where SOWS atten. tion oan be given to watering, a very good crop of strawberries can be obtained next yeer from phenhations made this aummer, To this end ill is as well to eet about ib as soon as healthy young planta can be obtained. This will generally be pretty soon after the strawberry season is over, There is not much art or mystery about the whole bud. nees. Almost any ordinary garden soil will grow them, and a bed of one or bwo hundred plants gives ample for the family and a few 1e10 over for lees fortunate neighbors. The best of all plants for the purpose are young, vigorous runners, to be lifted with all bhe roots possible, and to be transferred to their new eon. withoub any drying of the young roota. This, with a watering once twioe, if a dry spell sets in, is about all than will be required. If a amen' pob is set into the ground where the runner will just strike it so as to root fairly into the pot filled with good soil when this has taken place, there is no more trouble in their transplanting than bhere is with a young preenhouse pint set out for the flower garden. The bebter way for amateur purpoaes as here spoken of, where a good orop wanted next year, is to set them about nine inehes apart. They then form a prebty continuous row, if they do well, clothe themselves well with foliage, which, with a line of straw on eaoh side, placed there before the fruit rip. ens, will keep the fruit free from sand and grib ; and, our word for it, those who try will have no cause to regret ib, aboub next June or July. PEAR•TREE BLIGHT. Laeb year, perhaps in the month of Sep- tember, one of my pear trees showed signs of disease. The leaves on two of its limbs turned very blaok, and ib was very evident to me that the disead was fast progressing, and that unless something could be done for Ib, my tree would soon be dead. I did not know whet to do, never having seen one cured under the circumstances, but conclud- ed to try sulphur. I therefore bored a half- inoh hole into the center of the tree, and filled it with flowers of sulphur, and then n Iv° a cork in upon the sulphur, I watch- ed the tree and soon found that the disease was arrested, no more black leaves making their appearance. The tree is a dwarf, about seventeen years old, and about eight to ten inches in diame- ter. It is now loaded with pears, and is: to all appearances, perfectly healthy. The two limbs that were affeoted are dead—perfectly dry down about three or four fed from the tips or ends. The line of demarkation is plainly to be seen, and presents a marked op- pearance— life and death so near together. Many years ago, I had two damson plum trees in my yard, neither of which had ever borne any fruit. One day my father suggested that sulphur would make them bear, and I treated them as I did my pear tree, and ever after they never failed to bear plenty of fine fruit. This experience prompted me to try the sulphur for the disease of my pear tree not to make it bear, but to euro Sulphur is a power- ful medicine, and will kill all sorts of germs, if properly applied. It may, there- fore, prove of great valeta to pear -growers In that particular diodes° in which the leaves turn so black, If it has ever been used by inserting it into the tree as I did, I do not know it. W. tree, Saline County, Mo. A.TERING STOOK. During the heated term especially, the watering of the stook becomes an imporbant item of work. Ib is not only necessary that the stook should have all bhe water they want, but also that they should have it when they want it. Turn a lob of stook of differ. ant kinds into a pasture where I/cent:an have plently of grass, and at the same time an range so that they can have access to water whenever they want it, and you will find that they will drink several times during the day. If, then they are compelled to drink all they want at one time each day, they are certainly not getting water when they want ib, and will suffer more or lees inconvenience in consequence. Pure water is essential to health. Ib is not a good plan to force stook of any kind to drink foul water, neither is it healthy to force them to go velthout all day long, and then fill up onoe a day, or, as is sometimes the case, only get water once every two days. Drive horses, cattle, sheep or hogs any dis- tance to water and hack again, on a hot, sultry day, and they will be nearly or quite as dry when they get home as when they started, so that when it men be avoided, it is bed not to drive stoat on a hot day a long distance to water. Sometimes, of course, it is a neoetnity, but in a great many oases, the loss of time, to say nothing of the loss in the condition of the stook, would in a short time pay for making a well or cistern of a sufficient capacity to furnish a good supply of water whenever needed. Because stock can do without water for two or even more days is hardly a sufficient reason why they should be oompelled to do so, and such a course is followed by more or less loss that, to say bhe least, adds nothing to the profini of the farm. Plenty of water is an importent ibein at all times, if the stook are to be kept in a good condi- tion, but more so during the next two menthe, when, in many localities, water becomes somewhat imam. N.J.S. (l'he Clydesdale HorseSocietyof Green:Mite ain makes a very encouraging twelfth annual report. It has 1,164 membere, a gain of about 100 in the year, as against 406 mem. bets in 1880. Where is in the treasury over $8,000, after paying the expenses for the yeer of Over $7,000, The eleventh voltam: of bhe add book, about+ to be issued, is the itergeet yet: compiled. The club has done much to increase he foreign &mend for pedi- igreed Clydeedales, and prices were never before eo high. Co.operating with eimilar soak:hien a suothesful effort Was made to semen) reduced rates stalliona and brood mares during breedittg etheon, an important cohceesion that our Canadian breedertn societies should obtain. The sooloty granten 1,149 certificates for etcported horses, of w hioh 666 vVent to the Chilled Staten 371 to anoxia, 165 to Smith America (thiefly the rgebtine Repute), 6, to Germany, three o Belgium, two to Eddie, and one to °flatlet It aid publishee in lute, july IA August a regieter of Clycleedald for ale, which in largely, drenlated in the nited States and Canada and leads to many ales, Arcihibald Glargow, lo he etairetary, EUNTING HIPPOPOTAMI ON THE BO- TLET-LE, As I sat One night on the driver a seat cif our bullock.wagort in oanap in Africa, a native, named Makate, called to me, "Base! bad 1" ne bat ie it TI called back to him. It had been a terribly hot day, and third had made the van of mien hard to control. The summer drought had been much Pro traoted„ and the watermourees were dry. Fortuuately, we %vete within a day' journey of the Bonletne Oliver, which runs into Lake Ngami. After the fierce heat of the day, I was enjoyicga CISieS melte and doing te liable star -gazing eared the wild, trackless velelt, studded with mimosa thorn scrub and rank grass. "Well, what is it?" I repeated, aa Makata approached and squatted on the tongue of the wagon, " Well, bass, what would you say to a hippopotamus hunt ? We are within a dey's run of my tribe to the eastward. Will you come? They. will treat you like a chief, and the hunting is in full season. We oan rejoin the wagon at Ngemi." Makata was a full.blooded Makoba, who has oome down to the colony wibh a huttt- ing•party, and was worniug his way book with us, who were traders. He was a neon ()ugh bunter,like all his nation, and so, after a few minutes' ooneideration, I deoid. ed, and said, "Call me an hour before sun. rise. I will go." I soon made the necessary arrangements with my partners, and before dawn the next morning the hunter, myself and a young Basuto were on our way to the Makoba lege. The Makoba, natives are accustomed from infancy to navigate their frail canoes and heavy rush rafts on this moso oapricioue river, the Bo-tiet-le, which at one time is like an inland pool, and at another is a roar - Ing torrent. Hence they are excellent boat- men. Their canoes are small affairs, about six. been fed in length and eighteen inches wide. Great skill is required to manage Binh a boat when 10 18 weighoed with antelope, or is tow- ing a dead hippopotamus, When, by chance, O canoe gets fall of water, the native steps to the extreme and, which tips the other end up, and causes the water to flow into the lower end. He then kicks the water out with one foot, his instep and toes serving as o scoop. The hunting of the hippopotamus is the main pursuit of this tribe many of whom deoorthe their houses with "the skull of a hip. popotainus slain by the owner himself. We found the village in a turmoil over a great hunt that was to take place on the following day. I was surprised at the methods employ. ed to capture these great brutes, and at first could hardly believe that suoh means could produce any effective results. The night before the hunt the villagers were busily employed in making harpoons. For these weapons a stout pole of hard and heavy wood, about twelve feet long and three inches in thickness, serves as a shaft. int one end a hole is bored, and into this hole is slip. ped the iron head, which is a barbed, spear. shaped piece of iron about a foot long. This head is attached strongly to the shaft by a wrapping of small strands loosely arranged. If a single stoub lope were to be used as a lashing, the hippopotamus would sever it with his teeth, which, notwithstanding their peculiar formation, are very sharp. The animal, as soon as he feel the wound, snaps at these cords, whioh become entangled among the long, carved teeth; and even if some are severed, the remainder hold. To the other end of the shunt is atbached a strong rope of peltnleaf. Bach boat's orew of three carries three harpoons, and a larger number of ordinary spears. The canoes are not launched in the beginning of the hunt, bub are carried on a rude raft made ef reeds. A quantiby of tall reeds are thrown in a heap upon the water; upon them more reeds are thrown crosswise, and the building up of the crosa-layers is continued until the requisite thickness is attained. The bundles of reeds are not lashed together in any way, but are merely thrown upon the water, and allowed to tan- gle themselves into a mass. As the lower reeds in time become soaked wide water, and sink, fresh material is added above. Although the rafts look insecure, they are really quite safe. If the hunting -ground is a long diebonce from the village, a most and sail are used to assist their progress. On the morning after my arrived, groupsof natives on the river banks were busily en gaged in cutting rushes, whioh they made into rafts on whioh they platted the ce.noen. Makata and his brobher were to accom- pany me,. and I found that, in consideration of my belng a stranger, the largest canoes had been awarded to my tarty, and, for my safety and comfort, the rat was more heav. ily built than the others. Ablest we pushed our rafb off from the shore, and allowed the huge mass to float down with the seam. We lay flet upon ib, perfectly hidden by the fringe or small hedge that it was built all around the canoes. I had nob thinned to take my double eight - bore Express rifle. At last we reached the bathing -place of the hippopotamus herd, and I could hear the sound of their blowing in every direction. I found it rather tiresome to lie atilt within easy shot of the game, for it ie the pm - doe of the natives not to give chase to •any parbioular animal, but to wait until one of thane conies close to the raft. Peer -lig through the rushes, side byside with Makata, 1 oould see the huge head of a hippopotamus as it Warn near us. Only the eyes, ears and nose could be seen. These parts were of a bright scarlet, quite unlike the dull, leaden hue which these:parte:assume n captivity. As we neared the it wimming animal, Ma- kata rose on one knee. When he gripped his harpoon, he trembled with exoitemente I had been told to remain perfectly still, mid to do only what my native companion told me to do, Seguini, the brother, , noiselessly °oiled Otto harpoon rope so that would run out easily, The moat perfect; quiet was observed, as even a splaeh or a strange, eudden shadow would scare the herd, and put ibto flghb and our chance would be lost for that day. When at lasb the brute was so near that I donld Almost have 'touched him, Makata, with one movemeht, rose to his full height and hurled the harpoon ; as he did eo, he toed° a hissing sound, as if he were groom - ng a horse. With a dull thud the heaty pear senk into the nook of the brans, and ttivered with the force that had drivenib elm:. Stang by the strange and unexptoted pain, he animal gave a Convulsive spring, shook rota the rade tiocket the bead of the harpoon, which still remained attached to the shaft: y its many stranded repo, and clashed down bream at full epeed. Saguia paid out line apiclly, tvhile Makata and I sprang into the abets, and continued te pay 10 out as he enamel us, But on he took hie seen, he old the line taut, and the hippopotainue row the canoe from off the raft: of rushes, towed it along tie if it were a cork. It Was liko whaling Otto Small Soak. Now nd again, tee our opted buena° too great, or 10 hippopottetnue made A eticideli turn to left or righte the rope was paid out or haule Our °Ingot Was to tire the monster out fieiently to be able to deer or drive it shallow water. Our petty of three equatted in a frail or which apparently was nob large enottg carry a boy. Seguini sab in the bow, whole attention directed to the rope, between hialerteesrestedahowtrybladed, lee edged knife; 1 sat amidships, with my aOrmis my knees, and the water waehed finger tips as I gripped the gunwale, the stern stood Meeata, with the paddl his land and a harpoon at hie feet, face was ablaze with exeitemente and looked like an avenging demon. A noise up -stream attraoted our attenti and we saw another hippopotamus wit canoe towing behind it. " Take one 1" shouted oer steeram "you will run foul of us. Steady, Segu Steady 1 wait until I give the word—n then—out 1" As he spoke, the infurieted brute in straight at ue open-mouthed. Sagniai ered the rope attaohed to our animal at out, and with a deft turn of hie vend Makota shot the light canoe sixty feet fr the threatening beast. •Our oourse was e In the direction of our wounded anim above whose back floated and swung the h poen theft held by the fine strands to iron head buried in his nook. Clumsy as the hippopotami appear, th swim with astounding rapidity, and it w only after a long chase thab our light b caught up with it. At Makata's direoti I passed the harpoon to Segall* who ato up in the bow with one foot slightly rale and the war poised above his head. "Sling your rifle on your book, bas said he, "his strength is failing, and wh he feels the iron he may dash at the mho As I seoured my rifle, we ran alongsid the hippopotmus, and See*nini deftly place the herpoon almost side by side with b other one. The brute turned round an oame at the boat. Makate seized a spine and thrust it deep into its throat.; then in flash the boat was overturned, and we we floundering in the water. "Dive, bass, dive 1" said a voioe, and obeyed as well as I was able. When I Dame up, I found Makata by m side ready tohelp me if necessary. Segui was near the shore, carrying the rope's en in his teeth, and the hippopotamus was e gaged in rending the frail canoe. Had I n dived the beast might have wreaked h vengeance on me instead of on the boa But he does not follow his enemies beneat the surface, and the natives, in ease of a upset, dive and hang on to roots and gra to keep themselves under, until he begins 0 break up the boat. It was not easy to swlm with the heav rifle on my back. I felt it gradually dra me down, and, in my struggle to get clear'I unfortunately attracted the brute attention. "Swim,bass 1" shouted Mall' et% and h also calleto his brother to make hastiest get on shore. There was no chance to esoape by speed, bu I swam steadily along, and had not gone score of yards before Mairata slipped bao behind me and, taking the spear from h mouthe prepered to meet the enraged gime in his native element. I must own that I had been badly scare since the upset, but as soon as I saw th plucky black drop behind to cover my re treat, I lost my nervousness, and turnin round, began to tread water, and to watc the strange fight. The greet beast swam rapidly on with hi head level with the water uutil he was with in ten feat of the black. Then he opene his terrible mouth and made straight fo him. Carefully timing his movement's Makata suddenly sank below the surface and in another second a terrific plunge an an angry roar from the hippopotamus show ed that the black's spear had been drive home. As soon as Makata's head reappear ed, the brute made for him again, and t my horror I saw that the black's spear wa broken off at the head. My feet touched something in the water and the next moment I was standing on th submerged brunk of a tree that was slowl drifting down with the current. Twice slipped from its slimy surface, and twioe regained my footing. Then my foot rests upon the fork of a bough whioh gave me footing. I saw Makata, as he dived to and fro, pur sued by the now frantic animal, but the bray black's strength was giving out. Seguin had gained the shore, passed the rope nun a tree and was hauling in the slack for dea life, but it was evident that he would nob ge a purchase in time to be ot much use. It was then, as if by a Ilas'n of memory that I felt the rifts in my hands. I knew my waterproof cartridges would explode and held the rine up by the muzzle to le the water run out. Then, as the hippy° tamuti turned his head toward me, I fired He was two hundred feet away ; the bulle struok at the beee of the brute's skull, ond diverted its attention from Makata, who feeb ly mane to my side and took a stand on the tree. The hippopbamtts, apparonbly confused swam round and rental, snorting with fury and I knew my bullet must have injured the spinal cord. I would have given him another shot, but the cartridge had fallen out of the chamber, and my belt was eithe on the raft or had dropped in the water. • Seguini had by this time got a purchase on the rope, "Come to :there I Come to shore before he feels the rope 1" he shouted, Maksaa was now somewhat recovered and we swam to the shore, and began to haul in the rope. As soon as the animal felt the strain o the rope he rushed for the duals. The two blacks, armed with the spears Seguini had mood, attacked him on both sides at once while I drew the rope tighter and tighter It was a curious sight to see the two hunt ers mancetivre in the endeavor to strike the spear into the animal's eye, which is the °illy part vulnerable to the light spears. As the hippopotarnua rushed to one side and the other to meet its assailants, I hauled in the slack, until at last in one of his rushes, he fell forward, clean, in the ehallove water. We towed him into dill shallower water, and then beached him— While Seguin' ran up to the village to get anobher canoe, Ma- kata out off the head for a trophy to adorn his brother's but, took off bhe skin, and cut out mertain theme portions of the body to b 0abe, When the boat arrived We trans. ported th se to the village, • Only thew oiler hunters had been tomodeful ; the hip. popotamus that had (minted us to out our lite had killed two men beiore he had hinV self sucoumbeci. Need morning we left the village for the wagon. Maketa deckled to go with me up country. end huntwith me. The pair of reldit.schoen which he made for me out of the hide of the hippopotamus we had killed were the beat pair. of shod I ever had while ba thab country. A Petition has reached the Department of the Seeretary of State in Obtawee cow taitaiug the Amoco of 4,000 residents of the Province t4 Ombec, asking that the jethib bill be disalloteed, The Earl Who is to Marry the Prio0ees, The Earl of Fifa has, say the wise men who enlighten the public an these matters, O renb roll of $390,000 a year ; or, as dale say, $400,000. All then onion from land, Then he has an Income from personal pro- perty, and espeoielly frmn his share in the benking busioess of Sir Samuel Scott & one of the few remeinieg firms 9f private beekers in London. In this !melt:less he iovested $2,000,000 some yeare ago, Au no benk is eupponed to pay less than 10 per cent., end, ROMS pay 20 per dna and over, the Addition from this source to Lord. Fife's become would carry it well over the hall Million With Which he is credited. He of- fered to settle upon the Princees Louise of Wales a sum the interest ot whion Sbould equal any grant Parliament wenn' make. Bub reasons of state prevailed over oonetder. anions of delioecy, and the grant is to be asked for. 111 sleetoh Lord Fife himself to you, it must be only as he appeared on the platform in Elgin or in his seat at the luncheon whith followed the public meeting If you had been among the audience you would have seen standing before you a man of thirty-five whom, in or out of Scotland, you would have taken for a Soot He has the national conoplexion, which is a florid bronze, and the bine eyes and brown hair which go with ib ; the eyes kindly, the face and features strong and intelligent; the man ner perhaps a lietle shy, bub sympathetic He is of good stature, broad shouldered, powerfully built, athletio ; looks like what he is, a man renowned for hitt skill in deer stalking, a sport which perhaps more than most others requires him who follows it to be hardy, alert, agile and capable of endur- ing much of what, were it not borne in pur- suit of game and happiness, would be thought physical misery. He Fell 300 Feet and Lived. E. L. Godfrey, a big horse raiser of Canon City,Tex., came to Kansas City the other day to receive medical treatment for a twisted ankle, having sustained his injuries by pitch- ing into a canon 300 feet in depth. With a party of friends one day he started to hunt antelope near his home. A. large antelope bounded up before them early in the hunt and led to an exciting chase. About a mile In front yawned a deep chasm that fell from the plain with such abruptness that an ob- server standing some dietanoe away would fail to discover it in the level plain, although well acquainted with the topography of the country, Mr. Godfrey was led'into the canon by the exolk ment of the chase. "1 knew," said he, "thab I was getting pretty clod to the canon, but still I did not notice parbioularly, as I was almost close enough to the antelope to lasso it. The ani- mal reached the brink and darted to dart back. I was too eager in my endeavor to prevent its escape, and my horse tarried me into the chasm. How I escaped with my life is a miracle. My horse was killed stone dead, I lay unconscious for some time, and when I came to I found my friends endeavor. 00 fish me out." Is This Beat Engaged. She was pretty as a picture, not over eighteen, wore a punby traveling costume and occupied a soot by herself in the oar. He was abright.eyed, slick young fellow, wore flowing trousers, a, low.ont vest, sail or collar and a billycook hat. "Is this seat engaged ?" "It is not," The young man seats himself, deftly ar- ranges hie gripsaoks, settles back in the seat, and, with a tit willow smile, opens the cam - pudgy. "Are you traveling alone ?" "1 am." "May I ask your name ?" "Certainly," in e, breezy sort of way, "10 is Milly Hortense Smith, I am not eighteen, my father is a merchant in Pasadena, I live with my parents, I am to graduate at the Normal School this year, and am now re. turning home to remain over Sunday." The sliok young man's eyes bulged out as though he bad internal pains and he mentally ejaculates; "In the soup 1' Recovering hinn self, he says, hesitatingly : "Here is my card. "M, Clareroe Joblot, with Blouse & Co.," reads the young woman and demurely con- tinues; Oh, yes I you are one of the gentlemen who sell goods on commission. Perhaps you get a salary? My father has several in his employ and he tells me the most ridiculous stories about them—ettys they are neoessary evils in business. I hope you are not like those who, my father says, in order to drink wine and make a show, get half -rates at the hotels and travel on passes they wheedle out of the railroad men. I am real glad to meet you Mr, Joblob. This is my station. Good albernoon." The slick young man did nob recover speech and motion until after the train had moved on and left the well-informed young lady smiling on the platform. Mr. Joblot has never told his friends how he mashed the Pasadena girl.—[Los Angeles Life. A Poetic Crank. "Is this the place where you get licenses?" asked a long-haired, seedy -looking man as he entered one of the antes of the city goverr- mann sir." "Well. I want a poetio license." "A what ?" "A poetic license. You see, the editors have been finding fault with my poetry; they say thab my rhymes are too awkward and far-fetched. I told one of them that that was poetic: license." "What did he any ?" "He said I ought to get my lioend re- newed. That's what I'm here for." Franoe Past and Present. The bitteresb enemies of Napoleon III.— the Roolaeforts, the Hugos, the Gambettas, etc., warned the French people over and over again of the rottenness and venality of hia government rested on so very frail props as the year 1870 demonstrated that it did 1 It is past 17 years since the chronic Bonapartist eelfambition has drained Frenod sinewa, and the Republic still lives. In calamity, and tinder the humiliation of defeat, the Feenth spirib has grown chasten- ed and wonderfully wilier, and what hot. headedness made an impossibility in the 18012 Century the cooler judgment of the 190h century has made a glorious reality. An obeerver of human nature has disoov. ered that when a Chintiman ie pleased he takeoff his shoes nod opene his mouth, The dimouesion den.bequent upon the in. crease of leprosy in the East: leads to curious conflicts of opinion regarding its cause. One authority dealaree it to be beyond question the result of a hot and damp olitnate : another says that it °mute from bathing when in a state of perspiration; t. third frott sitting in a draught; s, fourbh says that it is hereditary ; a fiftla that it is con. tagieus, and so is °Might like small -pox or ecatieefever ; an another aacepte the meta of the andent (laws, and ameerts a be. lief faits being a 9unishment for sin. After the North Pole. An expedition with the purpoth of reach+ beg the North Pole will eel: oua font Nora way next year, There is plenty of money behind the enterpriee, Mr, Gemel, the merohmab who bitted out the little party which eroded Greenland led summer under Pr. Nand; le its chief capiatliet. About $100,000 ban been aubscribed and more sari he had if needful. Dr, Nensen hes adepted ette command,' ond for the next few montha ae will be a bud youtne man. He has to write it book on his adventures in Green- land, to be publithen in Europe and Witt country. Heeled to superintend building a stout little yodel for the North Pale, The North Polo quest is a mania that will probebly afflid daring young eplribs, eager for Ardio laurel, until the goal 11AS been reached and photographed, If lb is ever attained, it will probably be by a small ex- pedition of picked men in charge of a loader like Nansen, who has plenty of death, vigor strength, and intelligence. If next season proves to be an unfavorable foe year, the expedition may return to await a more hope id °tension . but if Nausea, finely eq,uip- pad, has such" a chane to steam as far north as Leigh Smith enjoyed on some of his trips to Franz Josef's Lend, he will be likely to make a nobable Archie journey whether he fetches the Pole or not. Dr. Nansen says there is only one route by which the North Pole can be reached, and bhat route he intende to take; but for the present he deolinea bo :meek more precisely on this imporbent question. It is learned from other sources, however, that he hopes to reach a higher point on the east coast of Greenland than that attained by the German expedition, and then advance along the wash to Lockwood's furthest point, practically completing the mapping of Greenland's coast line; and thence finally start over the frozen sea for the Tole. Many expedition's to the white north have pent about as much energy in securing their retreat as in diminishing the distance between themselves and the Pole. It is Nansen's idea that the only way to go to the Pole is to go bhere or perish in the attempt. He says he will waste no time in securing his rebreat. An old Norse proverb, "There Is before US only heaven or hell," is his motto, He will establish no base of oper- ations, but push for the Pole. He nemarked in London the other day that he expected it would be "the North Pole or death ;" but he added incidentally that it mighb be the west dad of Greenland. It is quite cer- tain that after his northern explorations he hopes to cross Greenland in its broadest; part to the west coast settlements, having learned by his reoent trip thee he diffi- culties of this iceibound country canbe over- come by skill and determination. He does not expect to land on the east wad till autumn next year, and the following semen. will be spent in explorations. It Had to Corm Out. "Were you ever engaged in a train robbery ?" asked the prosecuting attorney looking at him keenly. "I was never indicted for train -robbing," answered the witness evasively. "That is not the question," said the lawyer "I will ask you again. Were you ever in a. train -robber?' "Jadge," said the witnessi turnng 'raptor- ingly to the dignitary on tie's) bench," must. I answer that question?" "You must," answered the Judge. "And remember, you are under oath." The witness turned pale and his knees knife:lad together. "1 suppose it's got to come out. I sold books and bananas on the cars for a whole year when I was a young fellow." faltered the miserable man.—[Chicago Tribune. Always in The Van. "It has always been my aim in life," ex- claimed the candidate, haranguing the prim- ary, " to keep to the front. In whatever the issue that presents itself, gentlemen, you will alwava find me in the van." "There's where you were the last tinae 1 saw you," shouted a bystander, "and you were on your way from the courtwoom so the lock- up." A Wise Mother Daughter (who is engaged)--" Mother, John is coming to tea to -night. Let me make him some oaken" Mother—" Not for the world, nay dear, unless you have an intention of suinge hira for breach of promise." The Wedding Prelude. Little 13oy—" Say, ma says you are going to take alder off." Engaged Youth (soon to be married)— "I es, in a few weeks she's going to my home, and my ma and pe, will be her me and pa. See 1" "I see, Then she'll be your sister, same as she was mine. Say, don'b you do anything she doesn't like, for it you do she'll bang you around awful when your ma and pa ain't look- ing." --(New "York Weekly. Changed Oircumstanoes, "You were doing some rather loud talk: ing to -day, Jack," "Well, 1 only stated fads," "Glad to hear ib; when you were saying that you feared nothing that walked your wife was within ten feet of you." "Christopher Columbus 11 hopeishe didn't hear me." It is predicted that garneb jewelry will again be fashionable. Among the lateet projeots of this enter. prising age is a railway through the Holy Land. (the undertaking conveys with it the idea of desecration, and bids fair to deprive Palestine of at lead one of its romantic foa. tures—difficult travelling throegh a country that is attractive Only for the ennead associ- ations attaching to it. When the conductor shouts "all aboard for Jericho or thrum!, lem " the traveller will reflect upon the passenger rates, and determine from theni whether or not he hat fallen among thieves. There can be little doubt, however, thab the application of science to the Holy Lend Will popularize the desire to see it, The eader the pilgrimage to the oity of David the more nunierotte the pilgritne Will be, President Ilarrison is doing well, tJp to the present he has appointed to officio hitt brother, his brother -in -Idly, hisfather.in.law, his son's father•ln.laW1 his wife's domain* hits wiien condo, hisnephew, his daughter's brother-in-law, his brother's eon.in.law, his wife's niechhi husbend, his eon's father -in, niede'S husband. Apparently the only diffiteilty that is looming up ahead is that Otto list of officee is nob at large as the family connection. The Albany "Argus" states Viet' the President recently remarked "The only way to got satisfaction Ott of a pnbito Oftle Is to plaint° yourself while you are in it," Pie is apparently doing his best to gee all Olio edit:fat:bleu oib1e oht of hitt positic:n.