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AN -UNSOUGHT WEALTH;
Or The Mystery of a Brother's Legacy.
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CHAPTER IX.
Ma. Briggs ceased. A buzz of ex-
pectatiou went through the hall.
People settled in their seats. M.
Sohwahe drew himself together in
bis fauteuil as though, for the first
time, the proceedings had interest for
him. The interval, which Mr. Briggs
had so effectually relieved, was oven
rest, as well -deserve
ate: I do not speak without au-
thority when I say •that it is worth
more than twenty thousena
He pouxids."
pauSecl — so as to let the paint
go home. Twenty thousand pounds!
The people looked at eacb. other.
They settled themselves still more
comfortably in their seats. Things
The plena had a
were getting really interesting at
ea a one as piano ever had, last—it is surprising what a tilip is
The curtain drew up. There
given to the average intelligence
was when one speaks of such a sum as
a small table iri the center of the
stage, one of those gnu -creek spe- twenty thousand pounds.
Cilitelle of the upholsterer's art, with "I wouldn't have it if you WAS to
slisti, ebonized legs, and red cloth- giv° ine twenty millions!" cried the
covered tap, which conjurers Ina critic in the gallery. "It's killed one
On the table there was a, small red- gentleman already—let alone ruining
leather case, such as -we like to re-
ceive from a jeweler's now and then
As a present from a friend. On the
right of the table sat Madame Nur-
vetchky. Behind her, resting his
hand on the back of her chair, stood
the long, lean figure of her husband
—seeming as sleepy as ever, and our friend here, Mr. Lawrence Stacy
quite as bored.. On the chair to
the left of the table sat a figure“ "His name's not Stacy! Its
Hookhara — Samuel Hoolcham! I
ought to know; I purled his bro-
ther."
If it Was Mr. Truelove's wish to
attract attention, this tithe he gain-
ed his end. When he stated that he
had. buried M. Hookham's brother,
the people in the body of the hall,
rising .from their seats, looked up to
eee who this persevering person. was.
"Hush!" cried some. "Turn him
out!" cried others. Mr. Willy Pan -
ton's voice wies heard loud above the
others, "Let's bury ban!" he cried.
But M. Nurvetchky appeared to be
quite unmoved.
"The gentleman in the gallery," he
said, "seems to be better acquainted
with the subject than I am." .
"I ought to; I had it for more
then a fortnight. I can't tell you
the number of funerals it brought to
grief. There was hardly one of them
that the coffins didn't come tumbling
out upon the road. Once the ehief
mourner punched my head. He was
in liquor, that -chief mourner was.
Somehow, while I had that stone,
my chief mourner always was."
Something more pronounced than
a titter went round the hall. M.
Nurvetchky addressed himself to
Mr. Truelove personally.
himself to begin witb."
M, Nurvtecliky paid no attention
to the speaker, beyond giving a
passing upward glance in his direc-
tion. He turned to the motioaless
figure .huddled up on the chair.
"The diamond is the property of
suels. as is not often seen at enter-
tainments of that particular kind.
An old man—he seemed to be an
old man just then, a very old•ntan—
dad in the garments of every day,
garments' , which were in striking
contrast to the well -fitting dress'
suit and polished shirt front7of
Nurvetchky, and the glorious attire
of his wife. A black frock coat, and
trousers of some grey mixture, ill -
brushed, and splashed with mud,
which hung upon him as they might
have hung upoe. a scarecrow; a pair
of thick, laced boots, which seemed
. as though they had not been brush-
ed for a year; a black silk, old-fash-
toned neckcloth, which had come un-
tied, and one end of which straggled
ever his waistcoat. A narrow fringe
of grimy, crumpled shirt cuff pro-
• truded from the arms of his coat,
and his stand-up shirt collar seemed
as though he had slept in it for at
least a week. This was not the
spruce costume of the average pop-
ular "entertainer"; nor was the ef-
fect heightened — from the spruce
point of "View — by his unbrushed
hair, by his obviously unwashed
cousitenance, and by his dirty, un -
gloved hands.
• But, apart from his untidy cos-
tume and his uncleanliness, there
was something about the old man
which at once struck the more ob-
servant part of -the audience as pe-
culiar. He sat back in bis•chair
with his legs stretched out in front
of him, his dirty hands clasped be-
tween his knees, his elan: •liangiag
-forward on his cheet- his eyes star-
ing in front of him with a look
which, at least, was singular. If he
was posing for effect, then the pose
was wonderful. The eyes of the au-
dience were immediately riveted up-
on him. He had taken the stage
with a vengeance. For a moment,
to all intents and purposes, there
was no figure upon it but his own.
His whole bearing was that of a
man who had received some sudden
and overwhelming shock — and it
was so wonderfully life -like too! His
face was -the face of the haunted
wretch who is conscious of some
cause for terror which others can-
not see; and here, again, the realism
was superb!
A pause followed the rising of the
curtain. There was no applause.
• Every person in the hall was star-
ing at the motionless figure huddled
upon the chair. Suddenly some one
rose at the back of the gallery and
addressed himself, in loud, colloquial
tones, to the old man seated on the
stage.
"It is he! • I knew it was directly
, I saw those sandwiches along the
Strand. there couldn't be two
"Although, sir, you are evidently
better qualified to speak upon the
matter than I an; I would still ven-
ture tohope that you will allow me
to continue my remarks to an end."
Apparently Mr. Truelove at least
temporarily acquiesced, and M. Nur-
vetchky went flowingly on.
"The diamond is the property of
our friend Who is seated here. For
our present purpose his name is im-
material. It reached him no further
back than yesterday afternoon. It
was a legacy from his brother—that
brother whom the gentleman in the
gallery appears to have buried. It
was accompanied by a letter. That
letter I hold in my hand. With your
permission I will read it to you."
M. Nurvetchky read the letter.
" 'Dear Samuel,' — I should ob-
serve that our friend had not seen
his brother for sixteen years — 'I
have told Mr. Truelove—'"
"That's me!" exclaimed Mr. True.
love up in the gallery.
"To give you the diamond, which
you will have with this, after I am
dead and he has buried me. Be
good enough to pay his bill!'"
"And which Mr. sHookhata did this
morning, to the tune of three -and -
thirty pounds — I've got the• money
in my pocket now."
" 'Mr. Truelove is a perfect strang-
er to. me. It would seem a rash
thing to entrust such a commission
to el. perfect stranger. But a have
not the slightest doubt that you will
Devil's Diamonds in the world. I get the diamond — sooner or lat-
tont myself, 'Good Lord kielp as if er.
there was!' It's Mr. Samuel Hook- • "Ah! he needn't have had no fear
hans. Didn't I tell you, sir, you• of that."
would find that diamond a teaser?" " 'Certainly eruite soon enough for
The speaker was a big, fat man, you.' "
clad in sober broadcloth, who seem- "Which it was now, wasn't it, Mr,
ed to be perspiring freely. It was. Hookham, sir? Why, you look like
Mr. Truelove, the undertaker. Un- a ghost already."
usual as the interruption unmistak- " is called the Devil's Dia -
ably was, it was almost unheeded by mond' " — M. Nurvetchky paused,
the audience, whose attention seem- and glanced, perhaps again uncon-
ed fully occupied by what was pass- sciously, at Mr. Leicester — 'and
ing oa the stage. • is worth, at a trade valuation, at
. "Queer -looking old cuss:" Whis- least twenty thousand pounds.' I
pered Willy Panton to Mr. Leicester. told you. that I had authority for
But Ye. ancestor made no answer. what I said." M. Nurvetchky read
"If that man's acting he does it to the end.
unconunonly well," commented the "'There is the letter, with the one
Colonel, "It looks real to nee. I've exception of the signature. I think
seen something like that look on the you Will agree that that is a re-
faces of men in a tight place under
fire, with the odds against them, and
who can't turn tail and run."
But so far as Mr. 'Leicester was
concerned the Colonel's little a pro-
pos recollection of his military life
was unheeded, as the young sol-
dier's vulgarity had been.
M. Marvel:chi*, advanced to the
edge of the stage. He ha4 what ap-
peared to bean old letter in his
hand. •.
"Lantos and gentlemen," he began;
his American accent Very pronounc-
• ed, and his • sleepiness and air of
boredom more pronounced than his
aecent, "I am going to tell you a
strange story — so strange a story
that / shall be neither surprised nor
* offended if e-ou receive it with in-
credulity,"
• As he said this his glance fell, per-
haps unconsciously, on Ma. Leices-
• ter, a .foernan with whom he had
measured swords more than once.
"I am going to toll you the story
el a. diamond—so much, at least, as
I know of it • myself—of a diamond
Which, if it can boast of nothing
• blso, is Of aniline beauty, at any
• rate within . my experieace, and I
jia•ve seen 0,omething .of precious
stones. it , will be handed round for
your lespeetion, end nau will be able
markable letter to have been written
by a sane man upon his death -bed."
"But was he sane?"
The inquiry came in an audible
murmur from a gentleman in clerical
attire.
"If, sir, his sanity depends upon
the truth of what is written here,
you will shortly have an opportunity
of judging for yourself."
• Mr. Leicester put out his hand. He
made an interrogative movement
with his head. M. Nurvetchky saw
the gesture — in sane of his sleepi-
non; and his air of boredom, he seem -
to have his senses about him pretty
well, upon the whole.
• "You wish to examine the letter?
With pleasure. I would only ask
you to handle it with care. It ap-
pears to have bten handled . rather
roughly already."
Madame Nurvetehky's eye caught
Mr: Schwabe's. Mr. Schwabe smiled
—perhaps at the recollection of the
undignified usage to which he had
Subjected the last example of the 'de-
ceased Matthew's penmanship, M,
Nurvetchky handed the letter to Mr.
Leicester,
While .Mr. Leicester continued to
examine .it, which he did very care-
fully from beginning to end, M. Nur-
VetelikY, taking the red -leather case
to judge for youreelve.s if 1 exagger- fron. the table, advanced withit to
the front of the staghi
e. Toucn
spring,. the case flew on
"The Devil's Dientond."
Ile held it out at arin's length, so
that all the people could see the
contents of the ease. There was the
dieseinnd reposing on a bed of scarlet
silk. So large it was, so radiant,
so full of light and color, that it
must hove been visible to every per -
in that • hall, The scarlet 'back-
ground „formed an excellent foil. Xt
gleamed upon. it 4ke some huge drop
of magic dew. A buzz of "Olen's1"
—that curious sound that the people
make at the Crystal 'Palace upon
firework nights —, came from admir-
ing throats.
Nervetchner came down the can-
peted board with the red -leather ease
in his hand. Be offered it to Mr.
5 Oa
mah
"May I ask you to examine it'?"
Mr. Schwabe shook his head. He
thrust his hands into his trouser
pockets.
"Thank you," he said; "I would
rather not."
• "You would rather not?"
"I would very much rather not."
po,ueen-edu.,
. a,
"You're sensible man, sir, I
wouldn't toa uch it for thousand
This was from Mr. ,Truelove in the
gallery. Mr. Nurvetchky continued
to address Mr. Schwabe.,
"I am sorry that you will not ex-
amine it, for fancy .you know
eomething of precious etones."
."Considering that I'm a diamond
merchant, I may say that I do. I've
soon that stone before, and, as far
as money goes. I should spy it was
cheap at twenty thousand pounds."
"Thank you. This gentleman is
one of the. ,most famous diamond
rnercha.nts in the city of London,
and you have his statement as to
the value of the stone. told you
that I had authority for what
said, Perhaps, sir, you would , have
no objection to °sensing it." .
He addressed himself to Mr. Leices-
ter •
"Not the least," Said Mr, Leices-
ter. Returning the letter to Mr.
Nurvetchky, he took the case in his
hand. .
beliee-e, sir; you too know some-
thing ox precious stones?"
FOR FARMERS
Aeasonable and Profitable
Of the $011...
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D,A.1RY COWS AND FEEDS. ,
How can the dairymen best man-
age his dairy at present prices of
feed to secure the most profit, is a
very important question, writes Mr.
Geo. L. Gillingham. A problem
num1i harder to solve, perhaps, un-
der our present conditions than 'for
many years. In the first place we
will have to make thisthe weaning
year, That is to say the 'average
dr_iry farmers will have to wean
themselves frointhe old -familiar
faces in their barnyard. Those
which they have been keeping as
boarders just for their compauy and
old associations, and from whielt
there is no profit even when feed • is
sellIng.at reasonable pieces. Those
who have native cattle or grades
would 'perhaps find it niore profita-
ble this winter to dispose of many
to the butcher as soon as their milk.
flow fell below . the amount which
paid for food consumed, without
waiting for thene to .go dry, and per-
haps others, either at once or in the
spring about the time to turn on
pasture.
• It is true we who have registered
herds can not do this, as we could
not afford to dispose of cows of this
kind at such` prices as we would be
compelled to take, besides we could
,not find others to take their places
as with the natives and grades. But
we can do the next best thing, *hen
our cows get along toward tne last
stages of lactation where . we call•
them sniffers, and are not giving en-
ough to pay as anything over the,
cost of the grain fed, let them go
dry and feed only ensilage or other
roughage, milking and graining only
those which are givi-ng a. paying
quantity. TisePe dry cows can be
fed this winter from the silo just as
.cheaply as any previous winter as
our crops of corn were generally
good and our 'silage
COST US THE SAME.
With ensilage costing $1.40 per ton
these cows giving no milk, by being
fed 35 pounds' of ensilage per day at
a cost of 2* cents, with cheap rough-
age such as cut fodder, straw or sec-
ond crop hay should not cost over
4 or 5 cents per day or even less,
and will come in in fine condition
with strong, healthy calves, and do
good work all the following summer.
If kept milking we must feed grain
at high prices. No feed is costing
less than one cent per pound and
=eh of it was In cents, feeding
these steffers not over six pounds
per. nay would add to the above
from 6 to 10 cents besides the labor
of milking, which would mean a los-
ing; game of the dairyman. The la-
bor of feeding and caring for these
'cows not milking would be more
ithan 'balanced by the fertility left
for the farm. The question will na-
turally arise, will it not be an in-
jury to the cows, drying them off for
such a long period; will it not give
them a tendency to go dry the next
year, even longer, when perhaps it
would pay to keep them milking an-
• deldifferent conditions of prices. To
this question -we would answer
the care of a heifer' in the first per-
iod of lactation before her habits
have become established, it would,.
most -decidedly, and should not be
attempted with the heifer. But for
the .adult cow, with her habits fully
established it would be no detri-
ment, In fact some of them would do
better work the following year, for
• their long rest if carefully milked
and carefully taken care of. After
all we must study the individuality,
of our cows; much depends upon the
man behind her. '
"Something," Mr. Leicester said.
He took the diamond from its silken
bed, and examined it as carefully as
he had done the letter. "You were
quite right in your description of
the stone. It is one of the most re-
markable diamonds I have seen."
"I am much obliged to you. Is
there any other lady or gentleman
who would like to see the stone?"
A clerical gentleman at the back
held up his hand.
.nMay I look at it? I should very
much like to see a diamond which
was worth twenty thousand pounds.
was worth twenty thousand
pounds."
The stone was entrusted to him.
"I don't know much about pre-
cious stones, but that seems to be a
pretty toy — a very pretty toy in-
deed."
A gentleman with irou-grey whis-
kers and a rubicund countenance
took it from him.
• "A toy! You call it a toy, do
you? I wouldn't mind having a few
toys like it. Is it for sale?"
He asked the cniesticin. of M. Nur-
vetchky.
"As I am at present advised, sir,
it is not for sale."
The stone was handed about from
one .to another. At last M. Nur-
veediky returned with it in triumph
to the platform.
• . (To Be Continued).
PEARLS OF TRUTH.
Censure is the tax a man pays to
the public for being eminent.—
Swift.
The miserable have no other medi-
cine, but only hope.—Shakespeare.
It is a. great gift of the gods to
be born with a hatred and contempt
of all injustice and meanness.—
George Eliot.
Any coward can fight a battle
when lie's sure of winning, but give
me the inan who has pluck te fight
when lien• sure of losing.—George
Eliot. , • •
God is the only being- who has
time enough; but a prudent man,
who knows now to seize occasion,
can commonly make 'shift to find as
much as he needs.—Lowell.
The great and glorious master-
piece of man is to know how to live
to purpose ; all other •things—to
reign, to lay up treasure, to build,
are at the most but merely appen-
dices and little props.—Montaigne.
Great and sacred is obedience. He
who is not able, in the highest ma-
jesty of manhood, to obey ,witle
clear and open brow a law higher
than himself is barren of all faith
and love, and tightens his chains,
mbreover, in the struggles to be
free.—James Martineau.
No pure and simple, life, true ,to
itself, true to its Maker, was over
lived on this earth that was stet a
voice on God's behalf, however still
and small, and that did not, in its
sincere and humble way, declare a
hope and reveal a faith which might
well be the evidence of things un-
seen .—Alexander Gordon.
Let men tremble to win the hand
of woman, unless they win with it
the utmost passion of her heart.
Else it may be their miserable for-
tune, when, some mightier touch
than their own may have awakened
all her sensibilities, to be reproached
even for the calm content; the
marble image of happiness which
they will have imposed upon her
as the warm reality.—Hawthorne.
DR. A. W. CHASE'S 0,
CATARRH CURE ... AWN
• Is sent direct to the diseased
parts by the Unproved Blower,
Heals the ulcers, clears tho aft
passages, stops droppings in the
throat and permeated). cures
Catarrh and Hay Sever. Bawer
fret, ell dealers, or Dr. At W. Chase
medicine Co„ Toronto and Buffalo.
"I desire an audience with the
manager," remarked the dignified,
smooth -faced person as he approach-
ed the box-office of the theatre.
"Step_ in," replied the man in • the
box-office. "1 think he's looking for
• fsie aodiences himself."
RUNNIN,G WATER.
We are a firm believer in the cover-
ed: barnyard for -cattle. In'it they
tnay have their common wants bet-
ter supplied and with lees, labor end
expense than anywhere else. • The
covered yard should be comfortable
and congenial to the health of the
animals, a place where the cows may
be Shut in and the storms shut out.
It would be much like a big stable
alfd should be supplied with and con-
nected to an open yard to which the
cows should have free' access at all
times in good weather. Nothing is
better for them than to get out into
the open air when they like it. The
covered yard should also bo supplied
with and connected to a goad warm
stable proper, which sbould be dean
•and comfortable for both man and
beast.
Now if we keep the cow constantly
confined in this stable proper it is.
next thing to impossible to supply
her with all of her common wants
and at the same time keep this sta-
ble . in a condition becoming to a
place where we gather for the table
one of . our most important articles
of food. No system of ventilation
can be as perfect in the stables as
out ,of doors where the cows can go
at their pleasure and bask in the
fresh air and sunshine. No system
of waterworks can be easily con-
Atructed and operated for each cow
in the stable as in the covered yard
where she can he,ve free Access to. it
AT ALL TIMES,
If a tub of three or four barrels' ca-
pacity be placed in one corner of the
coveredyard and the water piped in-
to it under the ground from a deep
well or tank at a distance, or if the
water be pumped from a well close
by, no serious impediment fteed
hin-
der the cows from having fresh wa-
ter at all times.
But if this water should be sup-
plied to each cow while confined in
the stable proper it Would recreire
about as much labor and °noise to
water one cow in the stable as to
water all of them in the co -Venni.
yard, nesides that, when the water
is all connueted to one tab in the
covered yard, for all the eows, it
of eourse remains in one body and
will retain its heat and resist freez-
ing longer than if catried. to separ-
ate covas in the stable,: Its is an
easy matter to keep water of the
best kind by the cows in the edver-
ed yard, but it is a very difficult
thing. in cold weather, at leaSt• to
keep sneh Water by them in the sta-
ble. If it were congenial to the
cow's health to be, constantly 'con-
fined and have everything brought to
her, and be all tha time waited on,
then the obstacles in, the way - 01
running water to her could, by soine
labor and expense, be overcome. But
we fail. to see the propriety of suck•
needless expense for a thing that is
not good for the cow. This will be
suggestive to all who are going to
build barns this spring and aro
thinking of putting tho water sup-
ply in tho stables,
POINTS ON TURKEY RAISING.
There has been much difficulty ex-
perienced by eastern farmers in rais-
ing turkeys, especially on late years,
writes Mr. 3. Fred Crangle. I think
it is possible to raise as many . tar-
neys as wore ever .raised if properly
managed. The main trouble has
been weakness in turkey poults. Very
few breeders seem to realize the very
important. things that must be done
in order to raise turkeys successful-
ly, If eastern farmers will start
with tho right kind of stock,. birds
of standard weight, and birds that
are not inbred, they will take the
first step in the right direction.
After you now have your breeding,
stock, a very important thing to be
careful about is to keep them thin iA
flesh, until the laying season starts
in. All the females will lay from
16 to 25 eggs. The largest number
of eggs that I ever knew of being
laid by one hen, in one season was
114. Prom 16 to 25 eggs, if you
have a good ' male bird, your hen
ought to -have 15 .poults. From
these 15 poults every farmer should
raise to maturity at leapt 10 young
turkeys. How many do this? 'Very
!see and ..simtily.because they breed
froth. inbred .stock.
Many farmers do not care to spend
a few dollars to get a good male
bird, but if you do not start in the
right way there is no use trying to
raise turkeys. I have letters from
many people who breed turkeys in a
small way that in the peat few years
have had very poor results. These
same people thought well of my idea
of turkey breeding and bought a
Ersteclass gobbler, some with a little
splash of wild blood. ' They have all
had good success the past 'season,
although it was a very poor turkey
year. Another • mistake farmers
make is in housing the turkeys. They
should never be allowed to roost in
buildings. They are very much
healthier and you bave better results
breeding where turkeys roost out in
the open. All our turkeys roost In
trees. ,
4$'
PRANCE AND THE SENUSSIS.
Light on a New Sect That Has
Spread in Africa.
France counts tie her African pos-
sessions about 20,000,000 followers
of Islam. Nothing that relates to
nfoliammednaism can theretore be of
indifference to the French people.
Their attention has been par-
ticularly directed for 'several months
to the sect known as the Senussis,
of whom much has been written of
recent years, thougia information
about them has beeu vague end .con-
tradictory. They are spread through
the cases of the Sahara, are firmly
established ,in the Sudan, and are
found in considerable numbers in
Tripoli and Algeria.
It has been repeatedly asserted
that the Senussis regard their Sheik
as the true Mahdi, who will restore
the power of Islam. On the other
nand it has been said, even by
Christian missionaries, that 'while
the Sen.ussis are carrying on an
active propaganda. they have no
political aim, discountenance viol-
ence, and choose to advance their
cause through organization and
solidarity rather than by arms.
About ten years ago the brother-
hood became the prevailing influence
in Wadai, where over 2,000.,009.
Mohammedans live. The Senussi
missionaries also opened schools in
the central Sudan and most of all
among the Tubu of Kanera,"a little
to the northeast of Lake 'Chad.
,
"George," she whispered softly,
"mark yonder breadth of -cloud,
stretching to the, utmost part of the
heavens — a boundless, infinite sea
of nothingness." "Nothingness?" he
echoed. "Why, goodness gracious,.
Maria, there's a quart of ram in And they pay dividends of from 6e
every square foot of that cloud!"" to 14 per cent.
NVIUUTI DQC4S
Vsefulness• �f These Animals in
QUO. Coal Xinea.
Doge, of the nTew World fare in-
fluitiely better than their cousins of
the Eastern Hemisphere, In the
streets of European .cities and in the
country roads the dog is often met
as a beent of burden, or harnessed
to a cart and pulling several times
Itis own weight. In the Orient and
wherever the faith of Mithomet is
cherished the dog is regarded. as the
most despicable cif ereatures. Here
he is found as the wretched pariah,
or street dog, a mere scavenger,.
which, with the buzzards, feeds upon
the refuse of the gutters.
The dogs of America are not put
to work'except in a few somewhat
out-of.-the-waye-way pieces. On the ice
fields of the Arctic the Eskimo has
been wont fOr centuries to •harness
wolfish species of dog to his sledgen
and has trained hiin to his task so
well that a pack of these animals
numbering not more than, a dozen
are able to draw a half -ton load.
In the country districts of the Unit-
ed States heavy breeds of dogs,
such as the Newfoundland or the
mastiff, are still used to churn but-
ter and do ether chores by means of
a treadmill. But the American dog
should not hold his head too high.
ITe may be compelled to relinquish
some of his leisure as the world, be-
comes more and more practical, and
like his European relatives, be made
to put his intelligence and strength
to material uses. In certain coal
mines of Ohio the dog has already
been reduced to the
GlItA.DE OP A LABORER.,
and the utilitation of dog power in
drawing cars of coal has proved
most satisfactory. As the German
farmer harnesses his dog to a little
road waggon and hauls hie veges
tables tomarket, or the Flemish
millonat ties his mastiff lei the axle
df his cart, so the Ohio miner
hitches a tandem teani of dogs to a
ear and makes them draw out the
coal over a miniature railway.
The dog has been found practicable
in these mines, for the reason that
the coal veins are narrow andmules
are too large. The miners them-
selves are badly pinched for room,
and are compelled to work often-
times lying on, oxie side or half
kneeling. The coal is bituminous,
and is all separated by means .of
picks, without the aid of pifrwder.
The Ohio coal mine dog not only
possesses great strength for his
sraall frame, but is far more faith-
ful than the aninials ordinarily used
for traction purposes. None are of
pure breed, - but all have in their
veins good quantities of the blood
of the mastil! or the bulldog. Dogs
of the same team work together har-
nionionsly, but entertain remarkable
jealousy for those of a rival team.
Thus, when several carloads of coal
are travelling out of the mine, one
behind the other, . the. dogs of the
hindermost team strain every muscle
to keep -up with those ahead.
The miners . feed their helpmates
once a day, for a dog will refuse
food while he is working. A well-
trained animal is worth from $13 to
$25, or about tbe sum a miner
earns in a week. Most of the miners
treat their dogs kindly. for they
cannot fail to • admire the patience
and faithfulness with which they
SHE BOUGHT A NEW HOME.
Mrs. Gorham Ware — "1 naust run
now, dear. We're going to have a
dreadful shower. hope your dress
won't spoil. Wily did y.ou come out
to -day without an .umbrella?"
Miss Korton — "Oh, I don't know,
I, suppose because you borrowed. it
yesterday:"
Mrs. Gorham Ware — "How stupid
of me to forget! This is your ume
brella, isn't it? Well, I'll send it
round just as scion as I. get home."
X-RAYS AND CIrrAnn.
NEW AND STRANGE
Electricity is taking the Otte() of
gas end,, ether in dental extraction.
The current, which is of the form
called high frequency, is applied to
the iaw where the operator desires
to render it insensible by means of
a head apparatus, and the patient
feels nothing more thana slight
heating Of the affected. part. This
method is much safer than gas, co-
caine, and other anaesthetics,
boot -scraping and cleaning ma-
chine is ono of 'the contrivances for
enabling us to do without the ser-
vant, girl, There are scrapers for
taking off the cakes of :rind that
stick to one's foot gear, and a ro-
tating brush for finislibig the pro-
cess, The bristles of the brush
touch a rod as they go round, so
that they come back to the boot
quite clear of dust. The machine is
easily operated.
A staircase that can be folded up
is the general -title of a novelty for
carriages and steamboats. It is
composed of folding steps with hand-
rails, of any desired length, which
nialce ascent and descent easy. The
device can be easily arranged to
serve as a plank to walk from one
place to another on the same ele-
vation. It is the kind of thing that
would be of great use in the event of
fire, and it has the advantage of
folding it into a small compass.
The "Planter" is a device for the
assistance of the gardener. It looks
like a pair of large curling, tongs,
which when closed form a. hollow
Ube and taper to a point. The
plant to ,be inserted into the ground.
is plaCed In the -tube portion., which
is tlien, forced into the ,earth, ,. and.
opened by stating the handles. The
plant is left in theearth when the'
implement is withdrawn. The opera -
den of planting and transplanting -is
rendered easy, and the contrivanee is
carried as conveniently as a pair of
scissors.
The idea, of the Ordnance Survey
map is to be improved upou in. the
United States by a piece of "geo-
graphic sculpture." The whole sur-
face of the States is to be reproduc-
ed in a model to a scale of 2*
inches to the linear mile. Railway
lines, swamps, forests, everything
will be shown in this model, which
will be in sections, to admit of easy
alteration when required. Duplicates
of these sections will be sold at a
cheap rate, so that professional and
business men can have them in their
offices just as they at present have
maps.
• A new roller for window blinds
will be welcomed by every man who
runs the risk of being asked to "just
tack the blind on the roller." When
he has got through the task, and
sees that blind go up crab fashion,
he feels eross,. and , wants to have
half a day off. The new blind roller
prevents all that; at the point of
attachment the blind is turned down
and stitched, so that a thin, rod can
run through it, and then the thin
rod slides back into the roller. The
blind is thus attached without tacks,
and will run up straight every time.
A new road -cleaning cart is in use
in New York; it is a combination of
water cart and sweeper. •The roads
are lightly sprinkled to keep the
dustfrom rising, then the brush
sweeps the dust and rubbish into a
covered trough, which slantsup-
wards to the top of the cart. An
arrangement of claws . and blades
takes the dust and refuse up the
trough and...lets it fall over the edge
into the cart, where another auto-
matic contrivance drags the rubbish
to the front of the cart in order to
prevent the mouth of the trough
from getting clogged. The street
rubbish is Sims swept up and carted
at the same time.
A Dutch horticulturist has pre-
pared a fluid that enables him to
The representative of the Mikado dwarf trees after. the style of the
has purchased an X-rays machine, Japanese diminutive plants, but
which is to be utilized in the Gov- with even better results. Tho fluid
ernment mints in Japan for the de- is injected into the ,roots of the
tection of dishonest employes. • The plants and trees, and has the effect
machine is used to examine suspects of suspending the growth while not
as they leave the , • and interfering with the vitality in any
has revealed • "the presence 'of coins other ;way.. The strangest. feature of
that had been -consigned for Rafe the process is that temperature does
keeping to the ,guilty ones' stn- not nullify the action of the fluid;
achs. the vegetation' flourishes equally in
• the coldest weather and the hottest
. The joint capital of the Londea of greenhouses. No skill is requir-
water companies is . iS19,641,00n. ed to use the fluid, and every gard-
ener, even the amateur, can have his
own dwarf trees.
The latest nosebag for horses,
nchial C
est ia
Croup, Bronchitis, Asthma, Coughs and Colds Vold
Promptly to Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed anti
Turpentine.
There are niany reasons why ,you
Rhould use Dr. Chase's Syrup of
Linseed and Turpeatine in preference
to any other treatment for diseases
of the throat and lungs. Of these
the most important one is the fact
that it has been tested"for years and
absolutely proven its right to first
position.
Nearly everybody knows of the re-
markable value of tuepentine and
linseed as temedial agents. They
have been so combined with half a
dozen other ingredients in Dr.
Chase's Syrup of Linseed and 'Tur-
pentine as to form a most thorough-
ly effective and at the same time
pleasant medicine.
As is frequently the ease With an
unusually successful article, Dr..
Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Tur-
peritint is imitated. There are now
hosts of preparations with names
similar to this, and some even go so
far as to imitate the bottle and
wrapper. It therefore beconiee ne-
cessary for you to be very careful
when buying. Insist on seeing the
portrait arid signature of Dr. A. W.
Chase on the wrapper.
• We knew that Dr. Chase's Syrup
of Linseed and Turpentine will not
disappoint you, because it has stood
the test of tine, and tho sales,
which are at least triple that of any
similar preparation, aro steadily in-
creasing year by year.
As a positive cure for croup, broil-
chitis, astluxia, throat troubles, and
severe cough and colds, Dr, Chase's
Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine
has a reputation which cannot be
stolen by the cheap and oft in-
jurious cough mixtures whicli are
offered' in place of it by some deal-
ers.
Even the consumptive, who has
reached the latter Stages of bis ine
siclious disease, finds ease and com-
fort in the use of this preparation,
while it le impossible to estimate
the countless number of less severe
cases winch it has actually cured,
Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and
Turpentine, 25 cents a bottle, Pare-
ily size, three times as much, 60
cents, At all dealers, or Ifidmanson,
Dates & Co., Termite.
designed to enable the animal to
get at its food without tossing its
head about in an effort to catch the
grain on the fly, has a portion sep-
arated, as a food store, and a kind
of floor close to the horse's jaw on
which. the food is always to be
found. This constant supply with-
in reach is obtained through the
movement of the janrs in eating; the
action of the mouth works a spring.,
and this in turn moves an arrange-
ment that sweeps the food from the
magazine And throws small quanti-
ties within reach. The animal eats
contentedly, the grain always tum-
bling down the inclined floor to its
mouth.
LOVER'S REVENGE.
At .Kristyor, in Hungary, a reject-
ed suitor of a lady's hand sought
terrible vengeance. He came to
the wedding of the lady armed with
a dynamite bomb'. As the newly
married pair walked down the aisle
of the church,
he threw the missile,
killing' the edtipIe and injuring se-
verely many of the•gueets. •
HOSPITAL POLS SICK FISH.
. Thc director of the public aqua-
rium at New York has established a
hospital for sick !Isla. The most fre-
quent fishing trouble is fungus on
the head or tail, shown by a red
spot. Vish suffering thus are taken
to a special pool co. disinfecting, wa-
ter and operateS on With Seiee0114,