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I lite the elt4, r,rve.a•1' '31-,' :,.i.('',':l1il
1 wan111. •
'Tient tikel3 that a ranger from the border
el,r could
Gil a, a stomed 10 the 110l•t•y an' the loud,
unearthly notae 111
Everybody in a hurry, men mi wi011131.11, 1)
an' bole,
All toouehin' eke the Sallee 'mid the rumide
tel' the Jar,
1
Jos' ,if thin,, souls' salvation hung upon Choir
gittin Clay.
bike Its No, I I0v to wander
Mud the vales led mountains green,
Tn the border land out yonder,
' Where to hand01101l Is 80811,
NothIn"ynr but in•ieke and 114,1110, lowerhl
overhead so high,
That you never sou agnarter o' the overhang.
he sl(Y• net a '110(1111'
Noll n Gene or grassy moddar,
brook in sight;
Nothin' but the hulldln'o shudder, motile
gloom o' heaven's light.
I''.'an rho Miele are all Imported 'rote away
across the sen-
tences melting all distorted with the hand o'
misery.
Like it 1 No, 1 love to wander1311 valor and Illmmtailh1 green,
In the borne' hand out yonder,
\vhmr' the hand o' Lion Is seen,
ltonrin' railren81 trains nbovu you, streets by
workmen all deriteud,
Everybody la'yin' to shote you in the gutter In
their 1m8Cc;
Care an' elute !411(1 wagons rumblin' through
• the stealth oowith deul'n in' rear,
Ariveee yolll11', swoarin', gruoblin'. Jos' like
imps from shoot's shore;
Factories Dein' in rho chorus, holpin' of the
din to swell ;
Auotion0ors in tunes sonorous lyln' 'bout the
goods they sell.
Like !t? No, flow to wander
Mid vales and mountains grout,
In the border land out yonder,
\Vhnr' too hand o' God is seam
\'os, 1: love the western border; pine trees
utvtn'lo the ale
Roars piled up in rough disorder; birds ((-sing
M' every -whom ;
Beer a-pinyln' 111 t11011`gladness; elle a-feedin'
gem In the gl;
Not t thewo'pa!n orsadness compile on the
Lll4d1 0' Melt.
Brooks o' rrys1ad olortrnoss flowin' o'er the
rocks an' lovely Bowers
to their tinted beauty glewin'in the mountain
dolls and bowers.
Fairer Mame the Creator
Novor throw on earthly screen
Than tit18 lovely home rename
What,' the hand o' God is soon.
A Proposed Dairy Test.
The dairy test at tho World's fair in
Chicago will endoubtodly bo the greatest
test of dairy cattle ever held in this or any
.other country. It was intended to show the
relative merits of all the leading dairy
broods. But the ll:oksteiu-Friesian asso0f11-
tion, the Devon analtlhe Ayrshire Resocia-
'tions hove voted not to exhibit.
The great central idea is the obtaining
information as to the products yielded byw
cos of different breeds in comparison with
the cost of the food consumed, and to obtain
this information from so large a ntunbor of
cows that the results may be taken to fairly
represent the best that the breeds can do and
also to have these reco•(1s made in so public
a manner, and the tests conducted so care-
fully by impartial and expert scientists that
no question could possibly arise as to the
fairness and correctness of tho results.
The representatives of the three breeds
above mentioned have been unable to enter
the contest on account of inability to raise
the large amount of money necessary to
transport the cove to Chicago and take care
of them while there. The result sought is
information as to cost of production of a
pound of tnilk, butter or cheese and the three
points to be guarded are that cows be offi-
cially selected, that the expeu00s bo not too
heavy aid that the 00000110 be so made that
their accuracy cannot be Dulled into ques-
tion.
The first of these is easily dono, the sec-
ond can be obtained by having the cows
tested at the hone of the owner, and the
third by having the records all made under
the immediate supervision of some inde-
pendent and impartial set of judges.
The managers of the 'World's Fair have
finally caller! in the experiment stations to
serve through their representatives as tho
judges at Chicago, an(1 probably no better
judges could bo obtained to take °barge of
a test of dairy cows at their homes, This
home test could not of course bo under the
official charge of the \\'o'ld's Fair, but by
conforming closely to the methods used at
Chicago the results would be hoirly compar-
able with the Chicago results. Such a test
would indeed hove one advantage twee the
Chicago test since it would allow the cows
to be tested in their natorel sorrohm(lings,
on rho food to which they wore accustomed,
under tho watchful care of those who knew
their individual characteristics,
It would seem as though the Lest might
ho made on somewhat Lhe following lines.
Let the cows bo selected from all over the
Union by the same persons, in the same
numbers and in the sane way that rho
selecting would have been done had the
cows been sent to Chicago. Lot these caws
remain of the farms of their owners, and bo
fedi and cued for by tho owners, --rho
owner to use his own Judgment as to the
1(inel and. quantity of food to bo used, and
to. put the cow through any preparatory
course of feeding ho desires. Let the test
be for thirty days and be at the same date
as the thirty day test in Chicago, ire., the
month of September.
Lot the stations, through their vegetal'
executive committee or through a special
committee, detail a man to watall each cow,
and record all food oaton, both as to kind
and quantity. Let the owner milk the sow
as often as he pleases, and the station re-
presentatives weigh the milk and take a
snail sample for chemical analysis, from
which the cheese value of the milk ooirld
bo adulated with great aacura0y. Let
the rest of the milk be handled by the
owner and made into bunter in any way
ire pleases, and the better when finished
1 , weighted and sampled by 111e represen-
tative of the 01(ttiolt for chemical analysis
and the weight oalculated to eighty per.
cent butter fat, duo allowance being made
fol' the amount of whole mill( taken for the
sample. Tho station representative should
also make weights and tante samples of all
skim -milks and buttermilks. Aualysie
could be made tut the farm and duplicate
maniples sent to tho station Gus a feathercllook, or all analyses could be made at the
stations. 13y using the same scale of prices
a those used at 0h1cago the two sots of
tests could be readily compared.
The advantages of this test would bo the
cows would not be exposed to risk of ship.
meet, they would be fed by their ragula-
attnndalts who know the individuhll oa-
paoity of each cow, and, lastly, the expense
would be reduced to 00 smell a sem that
there should be no tr01111le in adjusting
this part of the matter equitably between
the associations and the stations.
EMU Breeds,At
111:.1 meeting of the Maesitahusottsboard
of Rai (utero Secretary T. S. Gold of the
l0
1111 -t, Ill. 1114,.',! 1,1)1,.1. 4,•u. ((l( u•d 115;
`.p•'1 i'°ces 11 11 1111 114, ha„ had w,i 11 brt+,rlul_•
,,,11 the last .n yeses, 1)11'111.11 kids.
IMe, the demands oftl a�'..rlu•thas ing-
, d anti \h•. I;uid Iwo el ,11.•.11 hiv anneals to
it aponl. 1n ).he ;mull, r (3, 8 of b1•
L:e•diO3, Lrci !0031 a peel l able 1�rt1 )1 f•a a.
fat to raise, '('hen these w�(1.,1(1 i ere -
ed dearest fee steers which in turn died
away a11(1 mill: for the Now furl( un,l Iter
wee the most adventago,ns eouree of farmincome, The changing conditions, how.
over, 1114011 11111110 Lhoproduet1011of cream for
the creamery the moat (lesirable sourer, of
dairy 111001110 to -day.
To meat these varying demands Seero•
Cary 0uld has made few 0hanges in his cows
but has from time to tin10 changed. the
brood of his Mill. Tie began with a Short-
horn and produced cows that were half
blooded, then three-goarlors, then seven -
eights, do. Next he changed to M Devon
bull which he kept till he had a herd of
cows all .1111(0, ono being hardly distin-
guishable frons another. This animal woo In
tarn replaced by an Ayrshire bull whiell
was kept till his cows were all mottled and
spotted with koleideseopo affects. Next
canto a Holstein bull and now he is Lain;; 1t
Jersey, As a result of all this experience
it is his iulpreasion that half blood aro
better an Miele than higher grades, and that
his (Miry has always done the best for the
first year or two after changing the mete
lend of the herd,
In connection with this (liaouseiou Mr,
Richards of Marshfield said that the do-
00en(lent0 of the famous cow Jersey Belle of
Scituate have not equalled or approached
her wonderful proiiuotian and that her
-blood seems to bo more of less running out,
Farm Yard >ld.anru'e.
Manure exerts a physical motion upon. the
soil as well as a chemical agency. 11 gives
stability to light sandy soils, making them
more absorbent of moisture; renders tena-
0100s clay soils more open and pliable in
their nature, thereby admitting the freer
passage of the rain and atmospheric air ; as
well as promotes the decomposition of those
soils, thereby renderingthem more fertile.
For dung to act mechanically in rendering a
soil more open, and in ovorcomiug its tena-
cious character, the. farmer meet let the
manure retain much of the rigidity of the
straw, or in other words, it mast not be too
rotten.
In using it for very porous soils, which
neon to bo compressed rather than rendered
open, the natured toughness of the straw
should be entirely ov0110ome, and the clung
used in a rotten state, There aro many
other duties discharged by dung which may
grouped together under the term of chem-
ical action. While it devolves upon the
mechanical agency to render the soil adapt-
ed foe being traversed by the roots of the
grouts% crop, the chemical powers supply
that nourishment which is needed for the
development of the crop. It is, therefore,
in their combined adieu that the most de.
sirable results become manifest. Itis, how
ever worthy of inquiring whether or not the
nso of fresh dung for stiff land and rotten
dung for porous land is supported and con-
firmed by the chemical character of dung.
When fresh drag is used upon stiff land
the decay which tastes place ads upon the
land, and renders the dormant ingredients
of the soil active, and thereby converts
,natters which could not nourish la plant
into valuable food for vegetation. It also
imparts to the soil a beneficial warmth
which is favorable to germination and vege-
table growth. Iu addition to this the ab.
sorbent power of the soil seine and retains
the products of this fermentation of the
dung, and secures than until required by
the growing plant.
In bile ease of a sandy soil the ciroum-
stences as well as the powers of the soil, aro
totally different. The porous character of
the coil is decidedly unfavorable to its
powers of retaining manure, and consequent.
ly we cannot look upon Buell soils as safe
guardians of manure, and for this reason the
manure should be added so as to be im-
mediately available tor the crop.
The manure, eoneequently, is more suit-
able, when well rotten, upon chemical
grounds as well as upon a consideration of
its mechanical ollaraoter. Tho same prin-
ciple is applicable to all the intermediate
descriptions of soil, modified by the same
rule. ---
Insect Traps.
Superintendent Forbush of the gypsy
moth commission says that a band of burlap
tied about the trees has proved an efficient
trap for rho gypsy 1110111, and that as many
other• apeoies of insects injurious to trees
were also form31 in these traps, ho nrgeo
farhnere to apply then generally. Among
the insects en11ght wore many borers, an
the application of this simple trap will bo
further efficacious in pr0velti ng the spread
of the borers. The trap epeeists simply of
a piece of burlap a few inches wide tied
about the tree, the back having been first
scraped so es to Tarnish a 811100111 place to
tic it on the tree. Tho upper part of rho
burlap is then loosely turned over the string
and all those insects whiO crawl up the
trunks of trees to secret themselves in the
loose bark or other hitting places, will be
found in too burlap if it is put on at the
right time. 111 must be applied at the sea-
son 101100 !1190010 11110 ascending. The trap
should be looped tuner every fow days.
3onroe of Pat in Milk.
Dr. Collier of the Geneva experiment
station has male records of 14 cows (luring
their first entire period of Imitation. Tho
results show that there was produced
4,0513, 7 poend13 of fat in the mill( from these
fourteen COWS, and that there was !present
tho'food eensumed by then dnrlug their
cane period of lactation, of pore fat, 4,104.6
101011(10. It will thus bo seen that was a
little more 11)10,1 one and ono quarter per cent
of pore tat in the food 00ueuned over and
&hove the quantity found present in the
milk.
During the first quarter of imitation the
average quantity of pure fat in tho food con -
seined was but 71).,4 percent of that in the
milk prodncod by these animals, while dur-
ing the last quieter of lactation the pure fat
m the food ens 22.6 percent in oxooes of
that present in the milk yielded.
Corn Ensilage.
We recommend corn ensilage, in perlh001.
lar, wherever corn eon bo matured for the
reason that (v4, clo not know of any drop that
will furnish as nitwit feed for rho same ex -
palms. , Any gond, sweat ensilage has a
Lonl00Oy to increase the quantity of milk
om
boms° cows will eat more and digest bet-
ter. .Furthermore, the ro0ommca11 ensi-
lage because itis the 0heape01 and surest
way of seourieg and storing todde', ILrn081
bo remembered, however, that corn ensilage
10 not a complete reticn. It should himbran, or linseed meal, o' cottonseed meal
ulix0d with it.
Some people ere (0 prompt that they
waste half their time getting there too
00811.
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momAllip w„ II,1',) are1 which for,am,r.Nmel,
(1,l" 1 0,''l repre,amted in the drum ring. Uieie
'('nrpilr'e famous ride free' le e sol 10 York
101•, LakBll ICN phtel+:1(1(1(11; nursery legends;
no'0rthelees, it was actually performed, and
01111030 Its 14 rowed of ire kind. Tllu Melt -
way num, ruling with the very best re1ra011
h, the world, --tib safety of 1114unit—cover.
oil the clistanoo of over 2110 milds in a little
under twelve hours. This performance
stands alone as 1110 (031geet111n1 fastest jour-
ney ever made on the 0111110 horse. Most of
the long rides of which record exists ]cavo
been made for wagers 1 such records aro
therefore t•oli0blu, Squire Oebttldostone s
undertaking to ride 200 miles in ten hears,
1,10011 he a0enmpl(lhed so succees£ully 011
November IL 1831, is one of the most remark-
able feats of endurance in the saddle, and
ham the merit, of fecal -1n from cruelty. The
Squire rode his race on the Newmarket rime -
(mese, changing We !horse every fourth
mile. Four utiles is a !safe limit for such u
purpose, a4, than splendid houseman 1111830.
Three-mile laps could have been covered in
time relatively a little bettor but a sound
horse in fair training ootild do his four miles
without distress in 011011 time este make that
distance, with the ooaserprent reduction in
the number of changes, the moot suitable
for the purpose, Mr, Oebaldestole 1180d
aix10011 horses for his teak, and rode stand-
ing in his stirrups like a jockey, while he
Rept his mount at best speed front start to
finish of its fourth -mile heat, having quite a
set-to" with his pacemaker at the end of
each. The Squire was 11 hard man and in
good training, so suffered no bad offocts from
his exertions.
A most creditable performance by Austro'
lieu mounted infantry in April, 18S0, also
deserves 1110011n as having been conceived
and carried out in a truly sportsmanlike
spirit. The members of the Gynlpio /fount.
cd Innfantry, having boon out m camp for
maneuvers ata place called Lytton, near
Brisbane, arranged to race home, a die.
lance of 110 Utiles. With a discretion the
German and Austrian executive had done
well to copy, over-riding was provided
against by the stipulation that no horse
shouldw Ina prize if he arrived
AT Tila WINNING; x000
distressed, or in such condition that ho
could not do a further distance of ton
miles. Eleven men, fully equipped in
marching order, started front 13risbane at
2:40 pan. on Wednesday, April 23, The
winner, Private Edwards, riding 12 stone I0
poneds, arrived at (lympie at 2 p.m. next
day, thus traveling the 116 miles in twenty-
three hours and twenty minutes. The route
lay 1110' roads heavy from continuous rain,
and included the crossing of a range of hills
which threw out several of the competitors.
The second man, Sergt. O'Neill, actually
rode a better race than the winner, as his
horse carried 11 stone 3 pounds, and came
in only a few yards behind Edwards'. The
third and fourth mea also arrived home
within fifty yards of the winner. The
horses ridden in this remarkable race were
all thoroughbreds,and were in porfeot train-
ing. It is hardly necessary to observe that
a long course of preparation is essential to
fit any horse for such a journey.
This Australian rape has value as furnish-
ing trustworthy data on which to estimate
the traveling power of mon and horses, for
which purpose the Austro•Germau oompoli-
tion is absolutely useless. Every man who
got home in the butter—and of the 110 Ger-
mans only seventy-two appear to have
rea0hed Vienna—brought in his horse in
such a condition that if it did not sn0el111rb
altogether, its career of utility was at an
end ; each unfortunate animal bore testi-
mony that it had been taxed cruelly beyond
its powers, and peeved in its state not how
far it could travel, but that it could not
travel the diatonic asked of it and survive.
Our 110008 ars perforce made most of then'
journeys on horseback until public convey.
ances became general, and, as might be sup.
posed, long-distance rides against time were
not encomium, uu, One conspicuous case has
lately been unearthed by a descendant of
the rider. Mr. Thos. Cole, in 1014, rode
from London to Shretvsbnry, a distance of
15.1 miles in fourteen hours. He started
from London at 3 o'clock on the morning of
August 4, end reached his (festination before
6 o'clock the same afternoon. \V4, are not
told how often
us 011.13i11 RD 11 nit.W3s ;
but the then condition of the roads, if they
deserved the name nt all, mattes it certain
that he diel so with annsiderable frequency.
As au example of sturdy endurance, taus
performance deserves a more- proninont
place in our records of horsemanship. 11'o
recall other feats of the same kind in the
last cautery, but none quite equal to it.
Finally may be mentis ed tho brightest.
example of pluck and eodnrance in the
saddle known in us—Capt, Charles Dawn-
ley's extraordinary journey on horseback
from Belgrade to C!oustentmopl0, in Octo-
ber, 1849. 111(4 ride of 820 miles was not
inspired by sporting motives; it was a race
for 1110, not the riders ; a splendid response
to the call of duty, old no more. How it
c,alne to bo made is briefly told, It will be
remembered that in the year mentioned the
Hungarian wet' of independence came to a
bloody close, and the varlet 1300311th and
niftily of his friends were compelled to seek
in flight safety from 1111 fate Which threat-
ened 111001 as rebels against Austria. They
trade their wary to Vidin, and there re-
mained, breatiug to the hospitality of the
Turks. Austria and the Porto's hereditary
enemy, Russia, demanded the
analtntxnl/n 010 Tilt I+oulTiVris,
threatening war if their demand was re.
fused. The Sultan was disinOlillOd to give
up men ho regarded, in a mauler, as guests ;
blit fear of !Russia might have overcome his
scruples haat' the British "ambassador, Sir
Stratford Canning, not appealed to his s0nse
of honor and dignity to stand firm. Sir
Stratford Canning was e, power at 1?era,
and the 'lurks hail grown 00 0 110 111 0 31 to
look to him for gmidan00 ab critical 1imo0;
home, when the Czar pressed for a plain
answer to his demand for the 0etradi•
boll of 3os0011t and his con -patriots,
the answer dictated by Canning woo
"No." Russia and Austria forthwith
remelted their representatives from the
Turkish capital, and war seemed inevitable.
1'orkey, gtooking with fear, turned to Can-
ning; his advice had led hoe into the
0crepe ; he should see Igor through it, Air
Stratford 118110 not, a mall who dial things by
halves ; the responsibility was tremendous,
but 110 (lid 1101 01,011lk, 13e took upon him-
self to promise that England would stand
by Turkey in 1114, straggle, and appealed to
Lord Palmerston to ratify 1110 promise
Without an hour's unnecessary delay,
In those pre'Lelegra ethic days the
"(ltueen'o 310ss8nger hold it more rospol•
slide position in his country's services than
he docs new. As in this instan00, the
1111110ti011 " Pone or War 1" might bo (locid•
el by his spend; and \viten 1a11ways did
1 t .•r,•L.r;p, I'fnr' c.!r.0 Lord lalu,ct,'.ud �.
x1,:,1:1. hint for a lulu tol'mv;y hilt
o11iy,n1,. 1nwuly .e 1n1,ru'an,i tu�l:', ('.11 13(1 1)'t..1ll old',CIO/0.0,0 ?
11)11 ah.,..
- 1!m 1 1 ,III 1,'.110 I an.A,0(Ai1 Lai:, ' 1'.l, '11t -
w„1111111 --8 I 0,111 , 411y, 1(1' 01141 v 111,4'1111"1 , 1.'', 1 !•.11 u' w. llufu'd 1‘1.11? :*;
t tu„•, .o, V"..; Ila. .1 .1'1'1""11, the na•.ull 'u ', ern 11'.'4 141, 1' caul4'1 {I r+1414,1".. or 1.0111.
tr;rrrl 8v1.0LL,41., 11., i'11,W the right 111,1.11 111 ;;r."nlr•r. 'fall, Wisp lviute•ha.irr. 1, ,Luse
( ap'. Iel'•,dey, s lemma rider to huuu,4! eLnern, and always in knee. hn„',',.,-., and
and 1111 1 utrephl soldier. Hint " Old ('1111, long ski:kin:,e, 111 wnr nu antique end roar.
dispatched, with orders to " spare neither! tial figure. " Freshwhits"list:" was Lie cry,
yourself trot' others," On the 10th of Oslo -
Lor the nm)srel3er left Belgrade, carrying
the assurance of
EN( 1,A'tn'8 01!'1'('110(,
Dispat, hes Ind already been sant by the
.0(10tr1al Government to the Porte, and if
thaw arrived before Cape, Townley brought
his, all might be 11011one, Everything wa0
in favor of Austria whining the race ; three
special relays of messengers were waiting
at the various points on the fond to may
011 tho dispatches, and if Townley meant to
arrive first, his work was out out. Ho pros,
ed 1111110011 equal to it in the teeth of 311111 -
unities which might well have pardoned
failure, He had 820 miles to go, changing
horses wherever and whenever he could deep with ud, and he had to cross the There beneath his threadbare old blue
Balkans at night .n utter darkness, coat it lay, always felt by the heart of the
Twice the hare° he rode fell with him ; hero.
and 1100 half the journey had beau cu.
\\'1(y doesn't he wear it outside ?" I
onc0 asked.
ops when en old gunshot h bled worked g4, used to," said my father, "till Hiram
upon and drendmd �um with blood. Savo Souddor, the druggist, asked hen ' what
when ire stopped to change horses, and lame he'd take far the lilt of pewter,'
for six hours to sloop, he spent live days " What did old John say, sir?"
which he delivered has if calling all the v1I•
lags to fall i11 for drill.
Su impressive wee his demeanor that he
dignified his rue pation. For yea•0 .after he
disappeared the puddling of white lisle by
horse and cart wee regarded in that dietriot
as highly reapertable. It was a glorious
trade when old Locke held 1111" steel-
yards and served out thegli tering fish with
un air of Ilieli'ibuting ammunition fora long
day's combat.
1 believe 1 noticed, on the first day 1 saw
!nim, how he tapped his left breast with a
proud gesture when he had done with a
lot of 010t01r101'o and wail about to much
nggSill at the head of We 1101180, That restor-
e( l 11101 from trade to his0nlrliership--ho hall
110 roads, 110(100 of the
hest were I saluted his \waterloo medal
and eleven hours in the saddle, latterly al-
most fainting with fatigue and loss of blood.
But Its won his race: at 6130 on the morn-
ing of the 28111 October he reached the
British Embassy at Tera, and learned that
hie magnificent performance had not been
in vain. Sir Stratford Canning was enabl-
ed to announce that the British fleet had
been ordered to the Dardanelles and Aus-
tria and Russia, Laliled, sullenly withdrew
the demand they 'dared not attempt to 011-
foree.
Without doubt the horses used in this
ride solfl'eredfsevercly. But how world it
have fared wail Capt. Townley's mission
had he been merely a bold and enduring
rider, and not a horseman who 1(new exact-
ly how far 11e might tax the poavere of his
mounts 1 He must have failed. Making
" the more haste, the less speed," he could
have ridden his first horse to death halt -way
through its stage, and would have found
himself hopelessly " thrown ottt."
An Indignant Sohclar.
Seel' a horrid Jogafry .8013001
('11100 and mountain. and lakes,
And the lougeet. e0oo1edeat rivers,
Just wrlgging 110001 like snakes,
T toll you, I wish Columbus
Haln'c heard the earth Wns a ball,
And started tolled now con010101.
That folks didn't need at all.
Now wouldn't it be too lovely
1f all that you had to find our:
Was Just about Sp11dn and England,
And a few other land, there about,
And the rest of the Wraps wore printed
With pink and yellow to 0ny,
"All this is an unknown region
Whore bogies and fairies stay!"
But what is the 1100 of w1011111
Since Columbus sailed over hero,
Anal mon keep hunting aud'0ploring
And finding more things every year.
NOW 01)0w 1110 the Y nmpab River.
And toll nso, whore does 11 flow i
And how do you hound Montana I
And Utah and lfoxioo a
Black Something of Something.
The man was in a brown study when ho
woof into the drug store.
" What elm we do for you?" inquired the
clerk,
" I want black something of something. "
he said "have you got any?"
"Probably we have," replied the clerk,
" but you'll have to be more definite to gat
it."
The customer thought for a moment.
"Gob troy black sheepskin of something ?"
he asked.
"No, we don't steep sheep skins. We have
chamois skins, though."
"That isn't it, I know," said the customer.
"Got any other kind of slrins?"
" No "
"AE 118, skins, skins," repeated the man,
struggling With 111sslipperymemory. "Calf-
skin 000(110 to be something like it. Got any
black calf skins of anything?"
"No, not a ono, " and the olerk laughed.
The customer grew red in the face.
"By jovo," ho said, "if it isn't a slain,
what del thunder Ja it ?'
"Possibly i1 is a hide?" suggestod the
clerk kieelly.
"That's it ! That's it 1" exclaimed tho
man.
fIaso
you got any black slides of some-
thing or anything?"
"Not diet 1 am aware of," and the CU -
tomer became thoughtful again;
"11ide, hide, hide," he repeated. "Gut
any rawhide of anything?"
The olerk shoot( his head sadly as the noun
tramped up and down the store.
"Got any black cowhide of anything?"
he asked after a minute's thought.
The clerk's fano showed a gleans of intelli-
gence and then broke into as smile.
"Possibly itis bleak oxide of manganese
you want: ho said quietly,
The customer Minced throw his arms
urouud the clerk's nook.
"Of course, that's it," he exclaimed. "1
knew Hero was M skill or somothiug 801110•
whore about the thing, " and he oahned
down and waited for what 11e wanted.
I Lovs T3113 SIIAnows 13Ss'r.
A thoasond voices hath the morn
That alto the dreaming liglht;
A thousand shadows hath rho ave,
The children of the night.
Hut though the melodies of morn
Of rapture and of bliss aro born,
I love the shadows hest;
For softly floating, meek and brown,
They kiss my weary eyelids down,
And soothe my heart to rest.
—[Samuel Minturn Peck
Mon sigh for the wings of a dove that
they may fly away and be at rest. 1301
flying away will not llolp ns. "Tho king-
dom of God is within you." We aspire to
the top to look for rest. It lies at the
bottom, Water rade only when it gets to
the lowest plug. So do menu. Hence bo
lowly.
Praying by ma0hinery is done 111 parts of
Tllibet, China, and Japan. A wheel Dix or
eight foot in diameter is covered with rolls
of parchment, which is filled with written
prayers, Tho wheel is placed in 1 temple, rho
faithful each give it a few whits, and the
prayer Is supposed to be repeated 041 many
times 48 it is contaleed on the perehmont,
Sometimes the wheal is 010010d over & run -
!dug strewn. :Tie Keeps the wheal almost
eolstantly in motion, mud the faithful mere-
ly gaze tat it, bow their heads and thus
nekuowledge 14130 prayers ail theirs,
"'Take for 111e hit of pewter 1" said he,
looking hard at Scudder with scorn, I've
took better men's lives nor ever yours was
for to got it, and I'd sell any own for it as
quick as ever I offered it before.'
' ' More fool you,' said Scudder.
"'You're now't, saki old John, very palm
and cold, 'you're nowt but walltin1
From that day. forth 11e world never sell
Scudder a fish ; he wouldn't touch his
money."
Ib n,uet have been late ho 1851 or oarlyin
1865 that 1 first saw the medal. Going
home from school on a bright winter after.
noon 1 met old John walking very erect,
without his 00nal fish supply, A dull,
round white spot was clasped on the left
breast of his coat.
" Mr. Locke," said the small boy, staring
with admiration, "is that your glorious
1Latorto medal?"
" You're a good little lad' He stooped
to lot me see the noble pewter. " War's
(1001,ared against Itooshie." went on the old
and nowit arl
1 ' ' '
man, ,3'it to allow it. The
old regiment's sailed, and my only son is
with the colors."
Then he took mo by the hand and lod me
into the village store, where the lawyer
read aloud the news from rho paper that the
veteran gave him. In those days there was
no railway within fifty utiles of us. It had
chanced that some fisherman brought old
John a later paper thou any previously
received in the village.
"Ay, but the duke is gone," 011'1 he,
shaking his white head, ' and it's curtain
to bo fighting on the saute side with another
73oney,"
All that winter and the next, all the long
summer between, old John displayed his
medal, When the report of Alum carne, 1(18
remarks on the French failure to gen into
the fight were severe. " What was they
ever without Edney?"
But a letter from his sou after Inkermau
changed all that.
" Half of us was killed, and the rest of us
clean tired with fighting," wrote Corporal
Locke. " What with a bullet through the
flesh of my right leg, and' the fatigno of us-
ing the bayonet 00 long, I was like to. drop.
' Tho Russians were coming on again as
if there was no end to them, when strange
drums came sounding in the mist behind us.
With that we closed up and facial half -
round, thinking they 11x1 outnanlod us
and the day was gone, so there was nothing
more to do but make out to die hard, like
the sons of Waterloo men. You would have
been pleased to see the looks of what is left
of the old regiment, father.
"Then all of a sudden a French column
came up the rise out of the mist, roarine
l.mporenr 9' their 'drums boating
the charge. 1Ce gave thein room, for we
was too deal tired to 110 first. On they
went like mad at the Russians, so 11110 WAS
tho end of a hard morning's work. t was
down, fainted with loss of blood, but Iwill
s non be lit for duty again. When I. came to
myself thee was a Frenchman pouringbran-
dy down my throat,and talking in hisgibber-
ish as kind as any Christian. Never a Word
(0111 I say agiu them red -legged 11Onelh
again.'
8110W 111e the man that would," growled
old John. " It was never in them French
to act cowardly. Didn't they beat all the
world, except only ns and the duke?"
With the euliug of the Crimean \\'111' our
village was illuminated, (lows of tallow
candles ho every window. fireworks in a
vacant field, and a torchlight pr1)0.88(11 1
Old 'John maroie, at ins hear! intuit regi-
mentals, straight as a ramrod, the hero of
111e night.
Ilia sort had been promoted sergeant for
bravery on the field. We boys thought the
old army of Wellington kept ghostly step
with John Locke, while aerial drums peal -
el and beat with rejoicing at the now- glory
of English-speaking men.
After that the old mall again wore his
modal 000000led. The Chinese \\-ar of 1837
was too contemptible to celebrate by dis-
playing his badge of Waterloo.
Then came the dreadful tale of the Se Toy
mutiny—Meerut, Delhi, ('awnporo 1 After
the tale of Nana Sahib's massacre was read
to old John he never smiled, I think,
Week alley week, month after month, as
hideous tidings poured steadily in, his face
became more haggard, grey and dreadful,
The feeling that ho was too old for use seem-
ed to shame ilial. IIe no longer marled his
head high, as of yore. That This 0011 was
not marching behind Havelock with the
avenging army seemed to cut our vacatur
sorely. Sergeant Locke had sailed Wit h the
old rog.ment to ,join Outram 111 Persia be-
fore the Sopoys broke loose.
It was at 1111s time that old John was first
heard to say, " I'm feared somethiil's gone
wrong with my heart."
Months went by beforo wo learned that
the troops for Persia had been stopped on
their way and thrown into India against
the mutineers, Al: that 110ws old john
marched into the village with a prouder air
then the had worn for many a day. Ills
medal was again displayed on his breast.
It was but the next month, I thin!(, that
the village lawyer stood reading aloud rho
account of the capture of a Brent Savoy
fort. Tito veteran entered the post.ollioo,
and all made way far slim. The minding
wont 011 :
"Tl10 blowing open of the Eastern (late
was tlto grandest personal exploit of the
attack. It was performed by native sap-
pers covered by tho lire of the 01001 regi-
ment and headed by Lieutenants Howe and
elelke1,1, Sergeants Smith, Carnliohael,
liorgoe" std 14,,311,"
1'lu) law> 4,r 530(1001. 10,very eye tnrnod
to the face of the old Waterloo soldier. He
iglltelle1 up to keener attention, threw
f,( < '1,,,.1113,
pro— ,1, n,y N.(11 lain ow, 1, he
=yid. '• I:.Istd 1111.'.
rut t :n 10,drtel, whfh• laving the
po,:1,I, was killed, x11.1 til" (('hive (v)11ae
1. Tile 1,113,.10( /laving been laid,.
the ? u,",: p,u(y dipped deism into the
,114,11
1 141 1111ow the 1)11(13 I/Art.)0, under Lieu
(010.14,11401114,1,1, 10 do its dory.
while trying t.4, fire the charge he was
shot through ono arm and leg, Ile soak,
but handed the match to Sergeant Burgess,
W110 14110 at (net, shot dead. Sergeant Locke,
already wound'1 severely in the shoulder,
t110,, seized the mate!). and seccoeded in fir.
ing the train. lie fell at that moment, lit,
orally riddled with bullets,'
" Bead on," said old .John, in a deeper
voice, A11 forebore to look twice upon This
face.
' Others of the party were falling when
tine mighty gate was blown to fragments
and the Oxford Light Infantry, under Col-
onel Campbell rushed into the breach."
There sva0 a long silence in the post -office •
till oil John apoko 01180 more.
"Tho Lerd God be thanked for all deal-
ings with us. Sty sots, Sergeant Locke,
died well for England and duty."
Nervously fingering the treasure on his
breast, the old soldier wheeled about and.
marched proudly straight down the middle
of the village street 10 his lonely 0abin.
The viIlage•s never saw him in life again.
Next day he did not appear. All refrained
from intruding on his mourning. Iletin the
evening, when the Episcopalian minister
hoard of his parishioner's loss, lie walked to
old John's home.
There, stlelchod upon his straw bed ho
lay in Ilia antique regimentals, 011(10,' than
at attention, all hie modals fastened below
that of Waterloo above his quiet heart,
His right hand lay on an open bible. His
face wore an expression of looking forever
and ever upon Sergeant Locke and the Groat
Commander, who tastes hack Onto Intim tut
heroes He fashion0 to sweeten the world,—
[Edward W. Thompson in Youths' Compan
ton.
The World's Annual Coal Output.
The coal pit is not inexhaustible. The
bottom'may not be in sight, nor its future'
cleaning up be of any immediate concern,
but its eventuality is none rho less a
predetermine'! fact. It may or it may not
be of any appreciable concern when its last
contribution to human service is dumped in
e' coal bin, as in rho unseen process of its
manttfaetnreand storage it has evidenced
a creative design, in which the provision
of fuel for man's use was not limited to an
exhaustive article, The formation of fuel
was not arrested 1011013 anthracite and
bituminous coal became a mineral fact nor
was 'the process of formulation stopped.
when what is known as the creative week
had its Saturday night. This may qualify,
but it does not annul the fact of a limit to
future coal supplies.
The world's annualoutput of coal has, it
is estimated, reached a total of 485,000,000
tons, and the countries contributing to that
enormous total were as follows, together
with the amounts they produced in 1800
Great Britain and Ireland, 128,000,000 tons;
America, United States (estimated for 1801)
141,000,000 tons ; Germany, 00,000,000
tons , France, 25,000,000 tons ; Belgium,
20,000,000 thus ; Austria, 9,000,000 tons ;
Russia (1888), 6,000,000 tons; others
0,000,000 tons.
During the last twenty years there has
been a narked increase in the consumption
of coal, which was, no doubt, commensurate
with increased industrial activity. Thus,..
comparing European countries alone, the
average annual output for the period. of
1881-00 was upward of 62,000,000 tons
greater than during the previous decade,.
and that rate of increase bade fair to be
maintained, so that the world's consumption
of coal would soul reach 600,000,000 tons
per annum, if it had not already done so.
In an investigation made by a royal com-
missioner as to the ascertainable sources of
coal in Great Britian it was ascertained that
not more than l46, 7 73,000,000tons wereavail-
able at depths not exceeding 4,003 feet from
the surface, a reserve which, at the present.
state of increase of population, and of coal
consumption, would be practically exhaust-
ed in loss than 300 years.
Tho law of limit in this, as in all other
mineral products is, of course, without ex-
ception, It is simply a difference in ton-
nage. industrial activity, to which under
present conditions the nee of coal is indis-
pensable for steam and power pnrpeses, is
not only multiplying the dementia of con-
sumption, but has a widening area of use,
to which the harp of the two hemispheres is
the only limit,
1\'c cannot add a pound of coal to nature's
deposit or build. an addition to the planetary
Collar, but it is possible 10 economize a pro-
duct in the use Of which ciriliration has been
ignorantly wasteful.—fAge of Steel
.140,4'1314 Constrnoiou,
The world's railroads employ 1n0,0C0loco.
motives.
The highest avenge speed attained by
railway trails in Englund is fiftyone miles.
nt1 310110'.
'('110 Cluladiau 1'aailie has completed ar-
rangements for a line of steamers next year
between 'British Columbia and Australia
A 101111 in Columbus, 0., Inas patented an
electrical device intended to automatically
lower and raise railroad gates at grade
crossings at the approach and after the pass-
ing of trains. The apparatus is expected to
supplant flagmen and gato-teudors.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
which maintains an excellent feature of life
011,5 accident insurance, finds itself obliged
to warn the members against curtain catch-
penny as0oeintions pretending to represent
railroad employes. Some of rho latter,ti5'
assorts exist only on paper.
A system of membership meetings or jolld-
fi0ations for the members of the ('0111005
divisiosls al, convenient paints has been
tnaugtu'ated by rho Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers. The harmonizing and,
solidifying effects of the system aro said to
be very gratifying_.
Rad Heard Him Onoe.
Bil10—" Come up anal hoar Dur 11101ist01.
1)0.1111yp"
Nobbs—" No, thanks 4 I heard hint endo.
And always regretted it."
" Why, I guess you aro mistaken." ,
" Not a bit of it; he is the minister who
married us:"
It has been observed that the children of
very yot10g parents rarely attain vigor of
mind or body, while the children of aged
parents aro usually old-fashioned and so•
date.
A method of compressing wood, so that
it boaonies as hard as iron, hap been 3118-
covcred, A hotel in Hamburg, built, of
bricks of compressed wood, is said to he
fireproof, •