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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-8-20, Page 2L DEA RI3CKONI THE BB,USSELS POST. CHAPTER XVI. ' Never had the little town of Cum- merbaysbeen stirred to its depths as it was on a certain April morning, when it awoke to find that it bad ren- dered itself famous after a 1as11(0n which would cause its e28.1818006 tolish be- come known wherever an newspaper panel.rated. Its name would bor weeks to cooeverybody's It felt that iA could ild me, never again sink into utter obscurity. For the prisonere—about whose al- leged attempts to rob the train all sorts of wild rumours were afloat—bad after their capture been put into the • train and brought on to Cnmruerhays, and were for the present lodged in the town jail. The magistrate would as- semble at ten o'clock, when t1e pre- liminary inquiry would take plface. tiluut But a deeper interest, were possible, centred Itself in the ar- rest of the alleged murderer of the Baron von Rosenberg, who was said to have actually been working as a signalman on the line for the past three or four months. It Was dread- ful to think that the lives of several hundreds of respectable people should have been at the mercy of such a mis- creantl The town -ball was besieged by an ex- cited crowd long before the opening of the doors. and had the justice -rola been three times larger than it was, it might easily have been filled three times over. Among the foremost ranks of the surging crowd, and main- taining his position with passive ten- acity, was a man on whom many elle- Wu ur!nus eyes were Lent. He was a foreign- er—so much was evident at a glance— and that of itself was enough to exiete the curiosity of the good folk of Cum- merhays, many of whom had never been 0 score of miles from bone. Ile was very lean and very sallow, with drawn in cheeks and sharply defined check -banes. He had deep set eyes Meek and burning with something in them of the expression of a half -fam- ished wild animal. Ile wore small gold circlets in his ears, end was dressed in a coat of brayed velveteen, with a soft felt hat; and a coloured silk hand- kerchief knotted loosely round his thre and no one spoke sPtke to no him nhim; but now and then his lips worked strangely, as though he were holding a silent col- loquy with some invisible companion. tie was. the one men in the crowd who Was the least incommoded by the crowd. Those nearest to him shrank a little from him involuntarily, as it were. He was a being of a different world from theirs, and they knew not what to make of him. Jules Piot—tor he it was—had ar- rived in Cummerhays at a late hour the preceding night, having walked there from smother town about a dozen miles away. By what strange chance hiswandering fs had Bought him bymydevaupath o d this this t sitPractime all will be told a 1 the later on. He bad hired a bed for the night at the Wheatsheaf Inn, a cheap and unpretentious hostelry. lie was up and bad ordered his breakfast by eight o'clock next morning, and it eves while waiting for that meal. to be brought him that his intention was attracted by some conversation in the taproom which he could not help over- deeperashe g The pallor but fwwhattesegrer other emotion• the change might arise from, it certainly bad not its torigin in fear, So 1 It is for this that I havebeen brought here," be muttered, half to himself and half aloud, in French. Now I understand." Going into the taproom, he put a few questions to the men to whose talk he had been listening. Having ascer- tained what be wanted to know, he left the house without waiting• for his breakfast and bent his steps In the direction of the town hall. At a quar- ter to ten o'clock, when the doors were thrown open, JulesPicot was one of the first to push his way forward, or to be pushed forward by those behind him, into the small penned -up space allotted in the justice -room of Cum- rnerhays to the general public. In tree umostlimits. A. place was crammed to A few minutes after ten, the magis- trates entered one by one and took their seals their clerk having preced- ed them by a few seconds. They were Ware an number, all venerable gentle- men. One was partially blind ; one partially deaf, while the third, who had a very red face and took the lead in everything, was quick-tempered and aggreasiva be his manner. There were two cases of drunkenness and one of theft to be disposed of before the great sensation of the day would begin. in one of whom are had at ono recog- nised the man hs bad gagged and bound to his *line in rho amuse la ® Pyienl's Buildings 11e lacked the keY to the situat un, and wanting thee, he could only look on and Helen. and Leel himself becoming more bewildered ut ter 0061 witness thea appeared On the scene. Not that he troubled himself greatly about these things; something of much deeper import lay at rho back of all lis wandereng thoughts about this matter or the other. 110 bail been led to that place; his footsteps bad home mysteriously guided thither—he could see It all now—foray hersattl purpose, and that purpose, never fur one moment out, of his nailed. The magistrates having brought their brief consultation to en end, in- timated that the prisoners at the Nar would be remanded till the following Monday. They were at once removed; and after a brief ltwee, Ueiald Brooke took his stand in their place. having answered to bis name in the usualgw$Y. the red-faced magistrate leaned for- ward a little to address him. "Gerald Brooke," be began, 'you stand charged on Lha verdiot of a coroner's nthe wilful urile1 Otto vonR sbeg,commolYcald Bar- on von Rosenberg, at 13eaul,eu, in the county of--, on Thursday, the nth day of June last. The crimebaying been committed outside the jurisdiction of this court, all we have now to do is" -- Suddenly a man with gold circlets in his ears and bolding a soft 'felt bat in bis hands stood up in the body of Ilia court, and addressing 1awsel1 di- rectly to the magistrate, voice which all there could hear: 'Par. them was a supplementary charge 01 attemptedmurder, That against the .ourth prisoner was the much more serious charge of murder. 13ut Froin What the magistrates could understaud of the ease at present, this fourth prisoner was so mixed up with the charge against the tither threw—hebe- Mg the man who ihad been assaulted and bounce and after wards shot by one of thein—that the poor gentlemen. who had never before lend (o ionesn` Mesh a cars of such gravity, presented so many peculiar features, were fairly at their wits' end to no itw how to deal with it from astrictly e - gal point of view. Thus fell out that the whole of the Prisoners found themselves in court at the sane time. It was now, however, suggested by the clerk that the prisoner un the uap,tal charge should ba put bunk while the examination of the others w0.; being proceeded with. This sogges0on was at once acted upon• prisoner; had After the remaining p'i answered to the uain6 entered on the charge -sheet. the first witness vas called, but not till the red-faced mag- istrate had intimated that be and his colleagues only intended to take suffi- cient evidence that day to justify a remand. The first witness proved to be Mr. Sturgess, a Loudon jeweller. This evidence went to show thatl nt itc- companied by a trustw•o_ he had left biome the wravinus day oua dennez moi, s'11 you. phut•, but I—Jules Picot—and not thopre,- TH F FARM. Now ie. the time, says a writer in the Country Gentleman, when the average farther has saveral calves to feed. lee wants to feed there so that they w bring hien good returns for his outlay. Some turn them into veal, or dispose of them when a few days old. Under sono conditions it *light be better to do so, but 1 will now speak of feeding the calves on the farm, 1t has e0me to be en accepted idea that the man who turns his crops into pork, beef or milk is the one who makes the money. To do this he must study rations, and the character of the enrol with as much care as he gives the currency question. Ia stating a few simple rules for the guidance of others, I speak zrom long experience and a fair degree of success in preparing calves Tor the market. As soon as lhmens milk is good tis calf may wean- ed. For the good of the calf, as as a saving of time. 1 believe this to be bolter than allowing the calf to stay longer with the cow. In teaching it to drink one will have ample opporiun- ity to exercise patience and sett -Dona trot. But gentleness 1$ 0e5e9 lost 00 a calf, and it will learn much quicker it kindly handled. For this purpose e there have been many s put the market, but so far 1 have seen noth- ing better than the old-fashioned wood- en bucket. It is greatly superior to the trough ,for where the letter is used the large ones crowd out the calves that need the feed most. 11 Memel is strong his way to Lord Leamington's sea few miles beyond Cumnierbnys, having in his rharge a box containing jewel- ry to the value of several thousands of pounds. A11 bad gone well till he ch place he had too waist anmhourt0.101 h011108 to the branch line; but on his arrival there he found a telegram awaiting him from his partner in London, in which he was told on no account do pursue his journey without first ob- taining an escort of emir or five con- stables. No reason was furnished by the inar9 telegram pgr'ec ut for s sand hech extraord- could only surmise that an attempt was about to bemade to rob him of the box, and weer at the bar, mu the man ed Otto (To RBe °Contin tied.) AMONG THE MINERS. ..991111S are throwing and Prospectors air Doing nustacen. There is much prospecting work going on in the Trout !Lake district, and in consequence Trout ,Lake city is going ahead in greet shape. The re- order is kept busy. 1•✓. L. Hinman has At1uosT `D; AS T kept no other for years, and considers them superior to all others for rapid growth and general thriftineas. Ile cal- culates to have the pigs come in Septem- ber so as to get it good, start before' the woathee gets cold, They are ted ef- ter weaning on bran and oats with slops from11e louse, apples, potato. Parings, dish -water and all the milk. which canbe spared from the calves rations. , lets ieodhave run out have a chanceto root a good time, They have Mean water to drink at will, and a warm bed of straw at take Ile 111)0 es thaatbescanlmak 1 a good profit on such pigs at even the sao�Oeingks this nThrain is cheep, which brings the profit about the same as usual. I naked hint if he fed the pigs any corn, and he replied that they get a little. Ile finds corn not a good thing for the erincipal diet for them during the first few months. A fewears thrown into the pen at noon suffice for the midday mean, while morning and night the two principal ones are giv- en. His pigs never look "pot-bellied," but always straight end thnitty ; they make a steady growth from the day they are born. 1 asked him what be considered the mai'* point in growing such pigs as his. and Ice replied: "Feed- ing ; always aim to feed just the pro- per quantity, not too much one tune andhtoo eytlwill eatxt. 01) oleanhandunto more. 11 is the poorest kind of pol- icy to scrimp a pigs rations, yet it is an injury to overfeed."' As 1 wended my way homeward I found myself contrasting this man's pigs with those of some other farmers which I have seen, pigs so thin and poor that they seemed closely related to the famous "razor -backs" of the South, When it comes to a comparison of weighes, One pig like the ones that I had been admiring will outweigh two of I:he others at the same age. 1 know o£ man whose granaries are full of cheap grain who are keeping their hogs, yes and other stock too, in Ie half-starv- ed condition. Of all the foolish policies it is the worst to starve the pigs for the sake of setting grain at theresent Prices. But that is the way it goes. You can't convince some men that it is to their advantage to feed out their grain to pigs, any more than you can onvinee them that they are losing money by not feedbag more of it to their cows. Our experiment stations have proved.uo 100 Diet it poun s costs lweight ess to than thhe nig pp at any subsequent period. The gain in weight is made atincreased cost from i that time on. It s the quick growth and early sale that bring the greatest profit in hog raising at the present time. last moment had obtained that by some means his partner t,hroubat wind Oahe recorded the discovery of a, tour-foot-footiw:fair. Fortunately, tli• the lead. It w° oC nickel ore. It found three courtesy of the pollee authoritiesat Greenholme he experienced no diffi- culty In obtaining the required escort, and under its protection he resumed his journey by the next train. The next witness to answer to bs name was the driver of the train, who deposedto everything having gone right till he was just inside the dis- tance signal of Ci nder Pit Junction, which showed "line clear," when he and his mate were startled by the ex - explosion of a fog -signal. Ile at anee whistled, mad put on all the brake - power at his command, and could not bave gone more than forty or fitly yards farther before a second signal exploded; and then he could just make out the figura of a woman standing on the embankment and beating the air with both her arms as h sign for him to stop, which, as the brakes were o11 already, he was not long in doing. After that the police took charge fee the affair, and he did just as they ,told him. . The next witness called was Margery Shook. She had been sitting out of sight behind a large screen which shel- tered their worships from any possible draughts at the lower end of the room. As she entered the witness -box she shot a glance of venomous hatred towards Crofton, which would have killed him then and there if looks had flower to slay. The nature of the evidence she had to give we know already. More once ber peculiar phraseology caused a titter to run through the court, which was, bowevor, promptly suppres- sed. Clara Brooke was the next person called upon. As she raised her veil her eyes met those of Crofton for it mo- ment, while a faint colour suffused her cheeks, only to die out as quickly as it had come. A low murmur of com- miseration passed like a sigh through the court ; and the eyes of many there filled with tears when they beheld her pale beautiful face, for it had Ibsen whispered about that this was the wife of the man who was accused of murder. The evidence she had to otter was giv- en clearly and unhesitatingly; with the purport of it we are sufficiently acquainted already, When she had told all she had to tell, she let her veil drop and went back to the seat the had occupied before. miles above Ferguson. An assay from float from the lead went seven per cent. in nickel. S'il°oimens brought down from the teed for assay show millerite, an ore nickel which goes 20 to 50 per cent. The well-known Sud- 2uto 4nickel cent. ds' iv esrrs. Byrnesfrom and. Doyle, two Spokane prospectors, bave struck some more good leads on Tenderfoot preek, south of Trout Lake. , -- It is reported from Roseland that one of the big reihvay corporations leas made an offer to the owners of the townsite and water power at Cascade City, to purchase the absoluteright to the magnificent water power at that Point. 1t is stated that should the, company seoure the power, it will es- tablish oar shops and terminal facili- ties at ,Cascade City and develop the water [power to such a degree as to and a god feeder, the first feed only need be entirely df new milk. A pint o1 skim milk may be added to the sec- ond feed, and gradually increased, till when the welt is two weeks old, it can be fed entirely on skim milk. As $on as skim milk is substituted for new, oilmeal should be added. This is best when made in a porridge, and boiled till its the consistency of gruel. A w furnish ample power to the mines of YOUNG FOLKS. WHIAT A BOR: CAN DO. A boy can mace the wand more pure. 1 kindly word and deed So eta beerIs Ives ssunahineeneed. le boy can mwka the world more pure, By 1afps kept ever clean; Siloam oat) In lunll00 shad as sure As apeeeh—oft more doth mean, Al boy ever make the world here trose By an exalted aim; Let one a given end pursue, Others wall seek the name, Full simple things, indeed, these three, Thus stated to mY rhyme; What gradnder,a moredd 68111 mme?r be A, WREN STORY. One day Farmer Bowou took down his saw and hammer and said to Moth- er Bowen: "\N'a've got to have a letter box out at thq gate se that when Jimmy lvlitohell comes along with the mail he'll haven. plana to put ie." So Farmer Bowen found an old stared box and nailed it firmly to a post which! stood not fax from the front gate, and only a step Tram the main road to lodate. In one side of the box he cult a bolo large enough to receive 8.1)00d bigl bulndle of papers and letters. Fon it was a now country, and some times, Jimmy, the postman, came only once or twice a week and there might be a god deal of mail at one time. "Now the letters won't get wet to it happens to rain before we bring 'sea 10," he said. to Mother Bowan. But that very night after Jimmy) went by, Diode Bowen ran down fon the )nail and found the letters lying On rho ground, just as if some one had small tablespoonful. is all that can be given at first and great care mast be taken in increasing it, or it will be apt to cause serious bowel trouble. A hearty oalf should be able to eat hall a pint when two months old. But I find a great difference in animals, and often the best feeders will get out of order if given that quantity at six months. There can be no set rule about it. Each one must use his own judgment. As son as the calf is two weeks old it can be fed a very small handful of corn and oats ground together. This also may be increased as the calf grows older, but great care should be ob- served not to overfeed. If an animal once gets "off its feed" it will lose that whole district and light and heat to the many camps in that °ountrY. There seems to be some trouble, how- ever, over the title, The owners of the Cascade City towensite claim to have had the eight to the water (power given them under their crown grant, and therefore assert their rigbts as owners, while other parties at Van- couver and Victor! `lavLho securea y ars the charter last session, sole owners of the newer. Unless this dispute is settled m short order, the whole railway whams will fall to the ground, much to the detriment of min- ing lnteliests in the Boundaey Creek country, includ ng Cascade City, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Fairview, and the other western ;camps. The next and last witness whose evi- dence it was proposed to take at pre- sent was the Greenliolme sergeant of police. He told how he had been in- structed by bis superintendent to ,take tour men and accompany the gentle- man from London as far as Cummer - hays. Then he narrated how the train had come to a stand in consequence of the explosions of the fog -signals; and how when he and his men alighted from it, they had found the witness Margery Shook, who gave them to understand Met the train was about to be attack- ed a little way farther on. How the girl bad scarcely finished telliug them this when up ran the signalman, who had been released by his wife; and bow, under his guidance, he, witness, and his men had succeeded in surprising the would-be thieves and in capturing three of their number; and finally, how the signalman had been severely wounded by Crofton, one of the prisoners, fir- ing his revolver point-blank at him. You have omitted one little epi- sode," said Crofton in cold measured tones as the sergeant was about Ito step down from the witness -box; "you have forgotten to tell these worthy, gentle- men that it was I who recognised the so-called signalman as Gerald Broke, lbs man charged with the 191.1C111,mur- der of the Baron von Rosenberg, 1141)1 that I denounced him es such then and there." That is to, your worships," said the eergeant. We quite understand that already;' remarked the reel -faced magistrate but it is a point on which we need not enter at present, more especially seeing that the prisoner in question has already admitted that his nacre is Gerald Brooks, and that lee he in point of fact the man whose lrppre- bensiona reward ofthree hundred pounds is still unclaimed,' With that the magistrates laid their heads to- gether and consulted for a little While among themselves. the By Picot, sitting quietly among eeneral. public and watching everything with restless burning eyes, all these proceedings were only imperfectly nn- derst0od, Why Gerald Brooke had been brought in a prisoner and el - most Immediately taken oat 1ain without any charge being brought against him, was a mystery to the 1 k Neither could ho under. w a more than can be made up in aweek. It would be impossible to give any rule for ascertaining when a calf has all the feed it will assimilate. It is in- stinot, rather than reason, and not ev- en experience can give it, As soon as the calf will lick out the last speck of meal. anduantifor tyFrom theoit is me to time increase thea qq . it is taken from the cow till it isputr upon the market or placed in the dewy it should be pushed to its utmost cap- acity. There is no profit in letting ate animal of ane kind stand still; if it is worth ,reeling at • all it is worth pushing• .H a calf Is dainty when young it had hest be knocked in the head, or sold, for it wilt not unprove with age.No amount of feeding and fussing will ever make such a calf a first -clang CO);mals will t somgeetimes the strongest ut of order. Usually a reduction of feed will remedy the trouble, but not always. If treatment is necessary, water turned off from charoal is at once simple and easily obtained. This remedy 1 found at daa. te Team number n Unable to sof ay,p ndrit peeved very effective in two cases this winter —the only serious cases 1have had in urs issybettexperience. rrtha.n any cBut ure and if proention of perly fed the calf will never have ie. When the calf is five or six months old it may be found more profitable to feed the skim milk to younger stock. If this be the muse, the change aid. tm in plat° grain to grain only silo gradually. Some prefer wetting the meal when no milk is given, but I have always obtained better results by feed- ing it dry and providing plentyof fresh water. If milk can be had with- out stinting eans' themo °re th°eegb feed t byall mbetter. One of the best feeders 1. ever owned drank four buckets of milk per day, beside half a pint of oilmeal and three quarts of meet when s;s months old, This same steer dressed 406 poueds when nine months old.. This is nothing phenomenal, but it is ler above the average, The corn and oats I believe an ideal food for cattle of all kinds. The corn furnishes the necessary fat, arida the oats give the bone and mus- cle so much needed. Where bran is cheap, it would be advisable to mix a totfouritn oftth gof corn and oats ould forma good proportion, I think. Where olm ml ; it can be mixed with the ain't ther feed and fed dry. I always try tomar- ket my steers before they reacb the two-year mark; it seems to me &w'aste of feed to keep them after that. A steer eighteen months old 1v111 relish from four to five quarts of the corn and oats. I have often tried to fed more, but so far have failed. I must not end withoi?•t mentioning clover hay. Iwould not think of trying to raise a calf wth- tit; as e meat Give11 all as n pf it w ionthe ill eat, and 1501611 your steer grow. Things continue to look up around Slocan City. Tho Enterprise mine, on Ten Mile Creek, has just completed a shipment of 1,590 sacks of high grade silver ore to the Omaha smelter. This makes over 100 tans thus lar shipped by this mine. It will give average es- says of ever 200 ounces of silver and 25 Per omit. lead to the ton. There are now 40 men'emplayed. on the property, and Superintendent Gorge Aylard states that he is arranging 10 inorease the force to 100 men at once, they Everybody seemed re presently o flut- tertery were over; tar of intense excrement ran though the court as three men, in charge of as many constables filed in, and were were placed in the dook. Then after a brief pause, a fourth man was ush- ered in whose tett arm was supported by a sling, and a murmur ran round that this was the alleged murderer of the German Baron. A moment later an - ether door opened, and there, glided in e female in black, closely veiled, who set down on a chair in, the l:ackgrcund Which one of the officials handed her with ,a bow. The prisoner with bis arm in a sling was also allowed to he seated tae other menle way rom hadt een°Paced. W111011 n o When the mountebank beheld Gerald Brooke, wham he still knew only by the name of ' Mr. Stewart," marehed in as a prisoner, and when he saw, and his blank eyes recognised the veiled 11gure in black who entered immed- iatelyigo, Whichdsche aused theeroom,the a vertigo, which up midrdtwn befareehiseeyesrasto though up and tow tempest-toesed at sea. they were being "Mon Dieu! ealoud. hen % he be claimed half his hands for a time, while hie brain and much became Activity reigns in Nielson. During the month of June the mining recorder of psis face in i a cloud seamed to left itself al syr from i t had been dark before. to him that Mratge against the first three deotters was One butaesai151 0910 01 ;emot d robbery; Nelson district tested 250 certificates of improvements, equivalent to $25,000 in work. For • the first eight days in July 76 certificataes were issued. So far this season .botween 700 and 800 cer- tificates have been issued, demonstrat- ing,that the numerous claims located during the past year are worth staying With. Trail district s noted more for gold HE WANTED TO KNOW. Several Things Aboral ►Yhaels and ,in and Other Things. The subjoined letter, published by the American Field, is said to be an order sent by a Kansas man to a bicycle company: "Dear surz,-1 live in mi farm near Hamilton, Ilan., am 57 years old and just a little sports. My neffew iuIn- dina bat himselt a new bicycle and sent me lila ole one by 'trete, endive learned to ride sum. Its a pile o1 fun, but ml bicycle jolts considerable. A feller came along yesterday with a bisiele that had hollow injun rubber tires stated with wind. He let me try his0en, and mi it runs like et kushin I He told must he same s 3issen l iHowv rubbermem How mush it be to fix mine up like hissen? Mine is all iron wheels. Do you punch the hollow hole threw the input rubber or will I have to do it myseif t How do you stick the ends together after you get it done? If your injun (rubber is already hollow will it come any cheaper empty? I can get all thewind out here in lianas free. "Ebenezer Y. Jenson. "P.S.—How much do you charge for the dryou into the ubber with, stuff the o (Fou start'!" , i i I t thrown them cwt of the box. The next day Mother Bowen put 0i letter in the box for Jimmy to take alp wben he mane hack that way, but 138 the afternoon Dtiik found it lying in the genes some distance from the Ilex. After that the letters were throw,l1 cwt of the box regularly. Slaney said he couldn't explain it and Dice: w•a8 sure that ho couldn't. "P'r'ops it's imps,"said little Sue* 'Way liked fairy stories. 'I'll watch and sea,' said Dick, "I can find cwt." The next tieneeletter was placed in the lion Link Wad hidden away behmdll the big evergreen. He watched and watched, Met no mecums along. Then. soddenly he saw the letter flutter to the ground, as 10 111(05 n by unseen hands, Up he started andran toward the box. Two lnttlebrown w.renswent fluttering away, cheeping jet a frightened voice. De* put the letter back aced bid a seeand tame. In a. few minutes thea wrens mime back/ and threw the letter one again. I've foulnd 'em 1 I've found 'em I" shouted Diok. And Farmer Bowen, Mother Bowen and: all the others ran down from the hoose to see what the matter was. Poor Mrs. Wren," said Motbea+ Bowe'*, who had a tender heart; "she thought We. put up the house for her, and she didn't want letters in it." After ers to hold them down and tEIS placed he twwohe lwrene ool.dn't tumble the out any more. than silver, bat a discovery on the Bryan claim, recently located on Cham - Pion Creek, above Trail, seems to estab- lish the feet that the tatter mineral is there inpayrng quantities, Sir Chas. Ross The nmianterelis In quartz. l this O'Connor Bros• are about to sell the Bumming Bird on the north Fork for a handsome sum to a Colorado Com - puny. Assays from the 000991ng. lenge even g.2$. to 1911 values, i 1 t ; 1 ,e1 report iromGrandForks says that the first cleanup of the. Eighteen Carat placer group has taken place after a 24 hour run, and resulted in $01,00 SIMPLE FIRE EXTINGUISHER. 018,. is Slake 11, and Ibe Way to Use 'rheas. Band grenades, the simplest form of fire extinguisher, can be made athome cheaply and easily. And it is well to have at hand a simple contrivance for extinguishing a small fire at its start. Take twenty pounds of common salt and tea pounds of sal ammoniac, ea trats of ammonia, to be had of any druggist, and dissolve in seven gal- lons of water. Procure quart bottles of thin glass, such as are ordinarily used by druggists, and fill with this Dorking tightly and sealing, to prevent evaporation. In ease of fire throw so as to break in or near the (flame, U the fire is in such a place as't0 prevent the bottle trona breaking, as in evool or cotton, knock off the neck andscat- ter the contents, The breaking of the bottle liberates a certain amount of gas, and the heat of the fire gener- ates more Lhus working its own de- struction. I , t . =- 11,4 " .; >a ,.1, WEDDING OMISNS. Few girls are dauntless enough to risk biding married on a Friday, and a1 - so 1n the month of May, which is con- sidered a very unlucky time, while June, September, October and Decem- ber are deemed the luolaest moatbs of the year, but June is the greatest of all. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are considered the beet days to be married. on., if assurance of happiness is de- sired, Monday for wealth, I Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all! Thursday for croesea, , Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all. All bridesteleet rejoice when the marriage day dawns brightly rememb- ering the old adage, "Blest s the bride upon Whom the sun doth shine." And all are egaally certain Lhat: worth of gold. This wee taken from about four yards of pay dirt, The own- ersof the Eighteen Carat have arrang- ee, with e. eer. M4Doogell, of Roseland, to put $1,000 worth of machinery on the ground for the purpose of separat- ingthe free gold. from the blackssiid, Mr, 'McDougall has, lead 15 seem' ex- perience in placer mining, and expresses the ginnlon that this greeted can tb worked ea as to average man. SUGGESTION FROM A TRAVELLER,. " Bailreed men are subjected to tests for color blindness, said a traveller, "but I don't suppose they are tests for enutioietket and pronunciation, as I uld say they ought es be. I should mounts ran S tand tr "1 belle m0camo" and ssay, for i)letan1s, that a railroad man Margotx as he farmed tram. camp ought to be •able to call the names of to he mixed he in such a strange (tier, stations distinctly and accurately," fan with the . pr`nsonrs at the tier, GOOD CARE mhatGS Goon PIGS. Come out and Deo my pigs," said my neighbor the other day, as I was leaving his 11ouse, "I've got• some good ones 1" and as I always like to look at god pigs, I Wont with him. Ile had not exaggerated the omit, for they were god ones. He said they were four months old, and that one of them weigh- ed 180 pounds upon the scales the oth- er clay. Of course the matter of feed and cane cslme up, and I found out, says 0 writer, that he le doing about' the same as has been recommended through your columns frequenlly,keep' g in them warm nddry and giving d nourishing food. them plenty of go The breed represented by this litter of pigs: is the Duroc 7•ereby. This turn has To change the name and not the let - Is a Change for the worse, and not the The postponement of a wedding is. regarded Witt, such horror that many wdll be wedded on a sink bed or in e Mouse of mourning rather than change the date. It is an overbold woman, indeed, who will let her vanity so far get the het, tar of her as to don her bridal robed in their entirety before the hour set for the ceremony, as such an act pre- sages death and dire misfortune. 1.Vbite us the Molar usually chosen for, bridal robes signifying purity and in- neoence; but anthers may be ohosenl wisely, as the following rhyme as- selrts A Il3ARSI OF PROGRESS, The new single arch bridge across the Niagara gorge, which is to aFoy a double traok railway, a track trolley cars, a driveway and d walk for foot passengers, has been completed, tested and found perfect -0s everybody expected it would be. ;A quarter of a century ego such a structure would have beea a marvel, end columns would have been written about it, aei a grand triumph of engineering skill; but en- gineering skill is accustomed to such triumphs now, and splendtd as the ao- bievcment is, it is looked upon as rath- er a commonplace affair. Nevertheless, it eeryea as a marker to show what rapid strides are being made in the science of engtneerimg and in the me- ohanio arty. TrteCRPD BY THE NATIVES. Burma grows it hard wood gelled Py- inkadoe, which the British have found, wakes excellent railroad sleepers, Tibc wily Burmese, however, who soil the wood, having discovered that the Bri- tish engineers know Tittle aboa T it, have taken to dyeing cheap wooded- dish color end panning it off for Py- iatkahee. I , i , I _, r. i , ., i--, Married in whiten You hale chosen all right, , Married in gray, You will go far away. Married in black, You will wish yourself back. Married in rade ' Yon'd better be deader , _ I ; i Married in. green, I .1 L_i9 let 1 'Ashamed to be seen.. 1' 1 1 I Married in blueb i 1 You'll always be true. Married in pearl, You'll live in a whirl. Married in yellow, Ashamed of the fellow. Married in brown, You'll live out of town, Married in pink, Your spirits will sink. To try on a wedding ling ,before 1 he ceremony is unpropitious, Should the &halting hand of the groom drop this symbol of hove in elm act of putting it on the bride's finger, 1110 Ceremony had better be stopped at on°e. To lose it is prolihnt10 of evil, and to remove it after it ice pieced on the finger is un- lucky, throwing of rice and old slip- pers is descended from antiquity., rice meaning fertility and Aleuty, while the old ahoo is supposed to invoke the Woe of the fickle goddess of fortune. No bride or groom must turn bade) after starting, and the bride incest be sure when she leaves home to place in het ps 0. eelasmet1c foe Lute earellilmay ceo wsea