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The Huron News-Record, 1894-11-07, Page 6Saved Her Life. Mrs. 0. x. WooLDzc noia, of Wortham, Texas, saved the life of her child by the use of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I ',One of my children had Croup. The ease was attended by our physician, and was Supposed to be well under control. One night I was :startled by the child's hard breathing, and on going to it found it stran- gling. It had nearly ceased to breathe. • Reallzing that the child's alarming condgtlon had become possible in spite of the medicines given, I reasoned that such remedies would be of no avail. Having part of a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in the house, I gave the child three doses, at short Intervals, and ' Vaxiously waited results. From the moment ie Pectoral was given, the child's breathing row easier, and, in a short time, she was @Sping quietly and.breathing: naturally. e child 1s alive and well to -day, and Ido hesitate to say that ' 1 p t o Y r too saved her llte." a Ayer's Cherry Pea AVER'S Cherry Pectoral Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Masa. ,Prompttoact, suretocure The Huren News-Recora 111.60 a Yerr—S1.25 in Advance. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 7th, x1894. HARPER'S MAGAZINE+` Henry Loomis Nelson contributes to the November Harper's a delightful article, entitled Al the Capital of the Young Republic, in which he offers glimpses of official life at Washington at the beginning of the century, investing with all the charm of witty and vivid narration a period of real interest. The initial article in .the. same Number • has also an American theme, and treats of by -gone days— the, days whin sea -robbers of New York carried on what they terrnetl the Red Sea. Trade, regarding it as a business rather than las a crime ; and "agreeable and companionable pirates" (in a town that may still, unfortunate- ly, count among its officials "agreeable and companionable" persons who regard robbery as a business rather than as a crime), are described by Thornos A. Janvier. HARPFR'S WEEKLY As a pictorial history of our own times, Harper's Weekly is much relied upon by its English and other foreign contemporaries, -extracts • from the Weekly (with due acknowledgment, of course) being made by the illustrated press of other lands with increasing. frequency. But not less care is devot- ed by the publishers to fiction, as appears from their °announcement of some of the features that the paper will contain in the immediate future: On October 27th will begin a two-part story, entitled The Judgment Bookv, by E. F. Benson, author of "Dodo" ; November 10th begins a four-part, story, entitled 7'he Parasite, by A. Conan Doyle, illustrated by Howard Pyle; November 3rd there will be a four-page supplement devoted to the Loan Exhibition of Ladies'. Portraits at the National Academy of Design ; November 10th, a four-page supple- ment devoted to the new north wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; November 17th will be the Hot se -show Number, with an illuminated cover. From time to time there will be interesting contributions on topics connected with the present conflict in the Baia. HARPER'S BAZAR Harper's Bazar will devote a great deal of space during the next month to winter wraps, reception toilettes, and furs. C,hildreu's winter cloth- ing will receive special attention, both from the beautiful and the economic points of view. Articles on Golf and other out -door sports will ap- pear, and a very practical series on dinners and evening entertainments as among the prominent features pro- mised. ' HARPER & BROTRERS, Publishers, New York, October 22, 18114. 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It relieves retention of water and pain in passing Relined, im- mediately. it you want, quick relief and euro this is one remedy. Sold by Watts &Co, Druggists. Mr. Fred Bouley, night yardmaster atNor th Bay, had one of his legs cut off while trying to jump on the yard en- gine. 3) CA.PtAIN SWEENEY U. S. A., San Diego, Cal., says: "Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy is the first medicine I have ever found that would do me any cod." Price 50 cents. Sold by J. H. Combe. II JERQUSON'S LAST MK. A cowboy fight 'Ogled funs It is virile and excitieg, It is full of action and is not dulled by the tiresome diplomacy of civilized warfare. A few drinks of red liquor, a few "cracks" or "bluffs" or "saseings," and the guns are barking away in a killing bee. Ubet is a bit of a town in Fergus county, Mon. It is in the heart of the Great Northern cattle range. On its eastward side is a flat, treeless, cheer- less, plain of bunch grass, broken at times by long strips of burning alkali and sand. To the west and south.are the dila, blue -tinged tops of the Rockies extending like a mighty belt and lost in the horizon to the north. The mountain eagle drifts a hundred miles before his flight brings him from his lofty home to the square where Ubet's magnates gather of a summer afternoon to discuss the comparative values of the herds. Ubet was drowsing in a sultry heat in the summer of 1892, when a Salisbury coach drew up before the only hotel and half a dozen passengers climbed from the hurricane deck and shook the white, stinging dust of the alkali plains from their garments. Tho bigRbodied, red - Flirted landlord stood by with a hearty "howdy." The boys in the street ceased shooting at a mark and cr°7feVcled about the leaders. The bartender came forth in his top boots and white sombrero to gossipwith the driver about the new strike in the Cumberland and the pick- ing up of times in Yellowstone Gulch. "I hear Ed Jackson bit a hard game again a hurdy hoUeo dance at Lewis- ton," he said. 'I reckon," said the driver. "Two shots in the lung and one in the 'creel hear a fellow from Yellowstone say"One in the lung an' one in the leg, but the Cumberland's surgeon says Ed'Il pull through with good nus - sin'." "Got kind o' reckless, I reckon." "Drunk, I hear say. Stranger, have suthin' to wash the alkali outen yer throat '1 Come ahead, Charley." Tho stranger, his host, and Charley were soon exchanging "hews" over a pine board bar resting on cottonwood logs: Behind was a long, narrow she!, covered with rude but significant bits of bric-a-brac. There was the gun with which Big Andy Gallagher held up the Livingston stage three times in one week, and for a companion piece was a strand from the rope which sub- sequently choked the lite out of Big Andy on the cottonwood tree by the Triangle ranch. Then there was a bit of dull yellow quartz, the first "float" found by one of the Hanley boys in their long search for the Cumberland lode, and on the.walls were various pos- ters announcing the merits of local breeding horses. "'Bout time I packed another barrel of that `Three Star,' Charley." said the driver. "Next week, I recon," replied Char- ley. "The boys from the T.E. outfit was up las' Monday week an' pretty nigh cleaned us out. Said they reckoned they'd be up agin' to -day." "That so ?" I met of man Jerguson and his boy Aleck at the Cla'rwater ford an' they reckoned they'd be up with the other• boys ot the 'Triangle. Said they was lookui' for a few shots at two russlers in the T. E. that picked up fifty head of Triangle cattle las' spring. Fight to -day, m..ybo. Will want the two bays shod, Charley." "Stay around an' maybe you'll see some fun," said Charley, the bartender, to the stranger. "I wouldn't give a hurrah in hell- for them two russlers if of man Jerguson gets drunk. He's an old hellion when he's drunk." . The stranger walked about the square and past the long, uneven row of log houses with false trame fronts Within the stores the red-shirted clerks were sleeping on the coulters or talking sheep and steers, mavericks and markets. On the walks the village loafers were whit- tling down the edges of dry goods boxes. In the gambling houses the dealers were drowning in their chairs and the lookouts were napping on the billiard tables. Small boys were lying in a bit of bunch grass shaded from the sun by a cottonwood tree. There was not a sound to jar the heated air alive the clang of the anvils, in` the blacksmith's shop where the driver's two bays were being shod. Away in the east there is seen a dim and mistlike puff of alkali dust. It turns and twists and wriggles he the hot air, and scatters upward and• away into whirling clouds. It moves to the west in a flying line, and from its center comes a half dozen galloping horses with as many riders, -slowly uncovered from their smoky disguises. It comes nearer and nearer, until it reaches the ranch that marks the limitations of Ubet, and then the air Is pierced by a shrill, wierd yell, the cowboy's sig- nal : "Oh-he-ee-yo-oceo whoop !" It echoes through • and quickens the drowsy life of lJbet like an electric shock. The village boys crawl from under the grateful shade of the cotton- wood and gather in the square. The faro dealers call to the lookent and he - gins to shuffle the well-worn deck. The loafers shut their jackknives and leave the dry -goods boxes. The bartender shades his sombrero,. looks down the street, and yells to the old man. The dogs wake up from their noonday sleep to do battle with the newcomers. In a moment more the flying line of cowboys is before the hotel, a cursing, howling crew, with old man Jerguson at the front, his white hair blowing in the soft wind beneath a great, dirt - covered felt hat. At one side is his boy Aleck, a stalwart, bearded young fel, low, and to the left is another boy, Henry, small, wiry, and so young that his place would seem to be in the nur- sery. There are also half a dozen boys of the plains, all wearing red flannel shirts girded by long rows of .45 Colts. "Oh-he-ee-yo-oo-whoop !" And the saloons and stores are de- populated while the natives gather in a semi -circle about the dust -covered group. "Hello, Charley. Take the hosses in the shed, Charley, an' russle back directly an' give the boys some of red eye," shouts the old man. "Go slow on the red eye, of man, The T. E. boys is corrin' upto-day,"charley replies. e W hoop-ee ! Boys,, hear that ! Hear what Charley says. The T. E. is comin'! I done said they might. Boys, we'll get them russlers that took fifty head outen our bunch, Sure. An' if the res(: inter- feres we'll get them, too. Yo' hear ?" "Yo' bet," inn chorus. "An' Charley% right, boys. Go slow on the red-eye till we make 'em lay down, an' then—my God, but we'll havo a jubilation. Yo' there. Aleck, stay in the sq'ie. For Imre don't miss seein' the T. I , corrin'. Xo' Henry watch the bosses, lire May Hood 'em quick ; but feed 'em up fust. An yo', boys, keep your hands on ty-our guns and keep in sight. No foolin to -day. Short-handed on the ranch. Make every shot bring a man. Whoop-ee-e ! I done said we might meet 'em. Stay in the squaro, Aleck, while we uns drink, an' Charley '11 bring your drink out. Come ahead, boys, an' licker up ; but go slow." 'Ile square is cleared for action like the deck of a cruiser. The villagers stand about within. saloons or in front of stores, waiting for the first signs of • battle. Old man Jerguson has for- gotten his warning and stands against the hotel bar boasting about the men he is to going kill and keeping Charley on the run for the brown bottle with the glass ball stopper that holds the "red eye." The sun drops away over the snowy tops of the Belt range. Aleck alone stands watch in the square. his eyes turningin all directions and his gun cockeready for action. His vigil is not alone. Over, in the village hurdy house a window is raised so quietly that the sound does not attract the gossipors beneath. Tho appearance of a rifle barrel escapes notice in the changing light, and the form behind is out of sight save for a head and a pair of bright eyes getting range on the bay. The young- ster rests his gun on the ground, turns to the hotel, and calls: "Charley, bring out that--" His voice is stopped. Tho gun from the window is sighted. Blim ! blim ! a stream of fire shoots out, and the boy, struck in the head by both bullets, falls face to the ground, dead. In a flash the barroom is emptied, and out onto the square comes the old man, staggering from the liquor he has drunk, and at his heels are a half dozen cow- boys of his tribe, all with guns drawn and looking vainly for the enemy. The other boy cries: "Pa, .watch out ! The T. E. has been here all day !" Hardly has he spoken before the hurdy house window is again raised, two guns are swung out, and blim ! blim ! blim ! blim ! away they go right into the little. cluster of men, Two cowboys fall end the others are stampeded. Thd-'olclmen shouts: • "Scatter boys till we locate 'em, an' then get together ! My God ! boys, don' rget that they murdered our Al ck t' lid his voice drops away into a•fierce wail for revenge: - The old man runs to the hotel as an- other form sneaks from around a saloon, raises a shotgun to fire, and then darts quickly across. the street to the end of. the shed. Charley, the bartender, has seen him. He calls to the, old man, who steps trom a window to the roof of the shed attd crawls alone as silently as a snake in the grass. The old man leans over the roof and sees his energy peep- ing from the side waitin for him to come out. He lays his r on the roof and draws his revolver. 'sting for a moment over his man, : fires three shots down through the nap's head, jumps lightly to the ground and finds him dead. An hour drags by without a shot. Men with drawn revolvers are peeping from the corners of buildings and watch- ing for pitfalls. The villagers from win- dows are awaiting tine next play. The old cottonwood treeis a favorite gather- ing.place, for it is in the open and just bey o..d range of shots across the square. Between .the fighters it is a gaine of hide and seek and shoot anyway to kill. Old man Jerguson has returned to the hotel, and is in hiding while awaiting developments. It is Charley, the bartender, who saves the day for the triangle. While he stands on the steps a whispered voice almost under his feet asks: "Any ot the Triangle inside ?" "Not a soul," he answers. "Can we sneak in and get a drink ?" "Of course." Three men crawl from the darkness beneath the steps and one by one sneak in the barroom, the last one backing in to guard from an attack. I want to get that old man and then I am ready to go back to the ranch," said one, pulling down the win- dow shades. Charley calls them over to one side of the room and they do not see that the door to the hall is opened cautiously and that a man crawls through on his hands and knees and drops behind the bar. "Give us another drink, Charley, and then we'll go out and get old Jerguson's scalp and take along that other boy for bear bait. I say,but wasn't that a pretty long-range shot I made from the hurdy house window?" The bartender drops a cork on the floor and whispers to the old man while picking it up. Then he talccs'a,deck of cards and offers to show a new trick that he Yarned frorn a commercial traveller, The three men lean forward, one resting his gun on the bar. It• is a fatal move. "W hoop-ee !" and before the smartest boy could say Jack Robinson old man Jerguson is up with a gun in each hand pouring shot across the counter, square in the faces of the rustlers. Two drop back dead. The third jumps to the rear of the room unharmed, and then begins a deadly duel. The rustler's first move is to shoot out the fights, for he suspects that Charley is in the play against him. Each fighter drops on the floor and all is quiet. Tho old man reaches forward until he moves a chair and the noise betrays his position. Two shots are flred in quick: successiou at him. Ho gives a fierce grunt aA he feels a sting in his side. The rustler changes his position and the old man's answering shots aro buried in the wall. But two more shots are left iu his gun. The bartender is afraid to move because if the rustler conquers he will have to answer for his theachery. One more shot comes in the direction of the old man and misses. He is weak from loss of blood, and has dropped over on his side. Ho does not reply, and the rust- ier. sure of his victim crawls slowly forward, with a knife between his teeth and a gun in each hand. A light flashes at one corner of the window left uncovered by the curtain. It falls on the rustler's face, and before he can rise a bullet crashes through the window, striking him square , i the forehead. The knife falls fr m his teeth the guns drop from his hairds,and he fails back dead, "Come right in. It's all right !" yells Charley, and young Henry Jerguson enters at the head of a bunch of four cowboys. "For God's sake hurry 1 i am afraid the old man is a goner,' cries Charley, and he rushes into the hallway and re- turns with a tallow candle. They pick the old man up and, lay him • • on a billiard. table, , Ono oi' tho boys pours a little of the red eye down his throat and the other starts for a doctor. The old man opens his eyes. "Henry, is that you?" he asks weakly. "Yes, pa. Are you hit hard?' "I am done gone in a minute, boy. What luck?'t "Wo got one, pa and druv two more away, and you got the the "I said we'd get 'em. I done saki we'd get them russlers that took our-=" And then some one took the old man. After a time the stranger, who had been watching the fight from a safe distance, wandered up to the hotel and found Charley sitting on the steps. "They have gone dome " said Char- ley • "that is, all of them that ain't at the undertaker's. It• is pretty tough on Henry with the old man and Alecjk both gone. Come in stranger, and havo a drink." They drank while Charley described the fight in the barroom. Then they stepped outside into the cool, soft air of the night. Charley rammed his hands into his pockets and looked upward at the stars glistening over the snowy peaks of the Belts. Finally he stretch. ed out his arms over Itis head and yawned: "Stranger, i' 's been a hell of a day in Ubet—a dell of a day. Let's turn in." CAPTURE OF THE FORBES GANG. "It is a very difficult thing," said De- tective Arnold, "to met rid of a large• amount of counterfeit money in this country wit nolet detection, because of the sateguards which are thrown around the genuine bank notes. The plan of protecting money has received the greatest attention from the treasury officials, and marks and characters havo been put upon the bills which it is in- tended shall escape the counterfeiter's notice. It would not , be policy to tell what any of these marks are, but it will not be giving anything away to say that defects are put into bills sometimes in order to testify to their genuineness. This is done on the supposition that if a counterfeiter goes to work on a bill and discovers what may 4hein to be a slight defect he will correct it and by doing so will f work. "I was put tow •k upon a gang of counterfei tens, .hon ever, which beat the government atits own .game. o g e, The treasury dept received notice of a counterfeiter from Boston of a $1000 bill on the First National Bauk of that city. The bill in question aroused sus- picion because the serial number was duplicated. There was nothing else about the bill that would excite suspi- cion. In the vignette of Lincoln on the bank note an intentional defect had been made in one of the lines in the forehead and it was reproduced in the counterfeit note. There was, how- ever. no doubt about it being a counterfeit, and a warning was sent out calling attention to it. Within two weeks we had plenty of work on our hands, for the banks, in scrutinizing bills after receiving notice, discovered several other counterfeits of different banks. Reports came to Wash- ington from New York, Chicago, Phila- delphia, Boston. St, Louis and other places of the iinding of counterfeits, and it became very evident the country had been flooded with bogus money by a very shrewd gang of counterfeiters, A Comparison of all the bogus bills itr- dicatcd that they had all been made by the same hand, for they were just as good as the genuine bills, with the ex- ception of tie duplicate serial number and letter. "The fact that the bog -us money had' appeared in different parts of the coun- try at about the same time showed that there had • been concerted action in getting rid of money in large batches by the gang, but this alone did not give any clue to the operators or their head- quarters. So far as we know they might have been located in any of the five large cities. Secret Service operators were put to work in these cities with the intention of working hack from the time the money was put out. In every city where the thieves did business they bought bonds and securities which could be disposed of anywhere, from bankers and brokers who were experts in detecting bogus money. In each city we got a good description of the man who bought the bonds, and it showed that it was a different man in each place. The descriptions were good so far as they went. Natur- ally the Government printing Bureau came under suspicion because .of the quality of the work, and every man at work in that department was examined with a search light. 'Well, we wasted a lot of time proving the innocence of Government employees, but the work turned out to be of some value after all. "While I was working in Washington I came across Richard Osgood, an ex - Secret Service operator, and lie told me a yarn which came from his mulatto servant girl. The girl was good -look. ing, a bit of a flirt and had picked up a white fellow on Pennsylvania avenue on a Sunday night. She accompanied him to a disreputable house and stayed part of the night. The fellow became confidential, and told the girl that he would soon own a' part of the Govern- ment Printing Office. He also told her to call him Little Jack, The girl the next day reported to Osgood what she had heard, but Osgood, not being very friendly with the Setret Service people, because he thought ho had not received a square deal when lie was dismissed, thought over the matter for a day be- fore reporting the story, and when the Secret ervice operators went to look for Little Jack, he had 'flown the coop.' "This information might mean much or little, for investigation showed that this fellow, under another name, had been in the company of some of the Government engravers, and while they admitted this they said that' they did not know him, and he had not Spade any dis- honest proposals to them. But who was Little Jack? This query kept going through my mind day and night tor several drive, • and then the name of Little Jack Vaughn, the New Orleans card sharp, flashed upoh my memory. He had been mixed up with several swindles in the South, find I sent to the chief of police in New Orleans, to see if ine could get me his picture. 'It might be only a waste of time,' I thought,but I could not tell, and it never does to miss any chances in my business. In about a week I got a picture from New Orleans of Little Jack, and the mulatto girl said it was the same fellow she had seen. "The next step was more important. The description of the men who had passed the bogus money in Philadelphia referred to him as being under the aver- age size. I took, the picture to the brok• vidence of his emoted er who had seen him, and he said Little Jack was the Ivan, without doubt. This cleared up something, as It was learned frorn the south the munos of some' of the gang that Little Jack trained with, and that he had been in the counterfeit- ing business during the war. But where was Little Jack and his partners ? A large reward was offered for the cap. ture of the gang, and a description of some of the winch had been bought was sent to all the financial centers of this country and Europe with a description of Little Jack. We got word from Lon- don that a man answering his descrip- tion had disposed of a lot of bonds in that eity,and we commuieated with Scotland Yard. "We worked steadily on the case here for weeks and found meats lot of•infor- mation about the gang. We were reasonably certain that Ed Forbes was at the head of it, but, did not have the positive proof or the man. While rack- ing our brains to clear up the business, a cablegram was received from Scot. land Yard to the effect that a man who answered the description of Little Jack had taken passage on the Cunard steamer Scotia, and was apparently alone. The Cunard pier then was in Jersey City, and I was there when the steamer arrived with several other operators. I picked up Little Jack in spite of his full beard and English make- up. I did not recognize any of the other passengers as crooks, but those who looked the Least bit crooked were fol- lowed by an operator to their hotel, and lett under surveillance until their iden- tity was cleared up. •`I went after Little Jack. He had charge of some barrels of wine consign- ed to J. M. Kearns, Flatbush, L. I. The gauger, in examining the wine, found that there was somo foreign body in one of the barrels, and I had the bar. rel opened, with the consent of the Col- lector. I found an hermetically sealed box., fastened to the bottom of the barrel, and on opening it, discovered a dozen perfect counterfeit plates of bank notes. The plates were returned to the box and the barrel was shipped to Flatbush. I went with it, and found that Mr. Kearns lived ; at • the Eureka Club. When I delivered the wine. I saw little Jack and Ed Forbes in the house, and concluded that the gang had returned to this country to begin operations again with a new set of plates. 'I raided the place in the evening and captured Ned Ormsby, Ed Forbes, Little Jack Vaughn, Sam Stetson and Curley Peters. FRUIT STAINS. Some That WIll Colne Out and Others That Can nut be Removed. As the fruit season waxes it becomes burdensome to keep napery spotless. Who has not beheld with dismay one's favorite damask hopelessly discolored with peach, cherry and berry stains ? Some suggestions may be of assistance in remedying the mishap. Lr the first place do not wash the linen before ap- plying other remedies. To do so sets the stain almost indelibly, and it then has to pass through all stages until time and the laundry, leave but a pale yellow reminder, which consummation does not follow usually until the fabric is thread- bare. For berry stains have someone hold the cloth so that it sags.a little and pour absolutely boiling water through the spot; rub well. If this fails, light a bit of sulphur and hold under the wet spot—a lighted match will answer ; the sulphurous gas usually does the work, the stain gradually disappearing. But there are some that will not "out" —peach stains, for example. Then you must have recourse to salts of lemon, which is good, but apt to leave a hole in lieu of the stain. By extreme careful- ness in its use, however, it will not do such dire damage. Take a sunny day for the task; first moisten the spot and then rub on a very little of the salts of lemon; lay the linen in the sun for two or three minutes and then wash thor- oughly with soap and warm water. Sue-' cess nearly always follows. Other stains, like iron rust, are more easily removed. After washing the article squeeze lemon juice on the spots and then cover thickly with salt. Lay in the sun all day, wash and if the rust is not entirely removed repeat the application. This is equally good for ink stains. Philadelphia Times. Interesting Wedding souvenirs. Honeymoon albums are said to be a part of the wedding preparations of the up-to-date bride. They are simply put together, being as a rule made of a number of sheets of heavy linen paper cut a fancied size, usually wider than long, and inclosed in covers that may be anything, the satin of the wedding dress over Bristol board, pieces of rough card- board on which are painted the bridal blossoms, white chamois, vellum, duck— anything. One bride had hers got uptat a stationer's and bolted in a softly -tinted vellum, and dove -gray leather with sil- ver hearts was the caprice of another bride. Those most representing the spirit of the thing are made by the bride's own hands, ornamented with painting or embroidery, or whatever decoration she is skilled in. Into the album go various souvenirs of the wed- ding journey that most brides collect and preserve, but only late ones have thought of arranging. A menu card frorn the first hotel meal, a picture of the steamboat in which they crossed lake, river or sea, the seat check of the first theatre they attended together as husband and wife, pictures of various places at which they stopped, these and more put in with a pressed flower or a scroll of desighation, with date and any addenda the happy two may design, make a collection that will long be treasured. Great iron and Their Cats. Not a few great men have been par. tial to cats. Petrarch had his cat ern. bnlmed. Rousseau shed genuine tears over the loss of his. Dr. Johnson, some- times called the "Great Bear," nursed his cat day and night during its illness, and went for oysters himself to tempt its appetite. Southey raised one of Iris cats to the peerage, with the high- sounding title of "Earl of Tomlemagne, Baron Iraticide, Waowlher and Skar- ntchi." To Napoleon, however, cats were n mortal terror. Just after the battle of Wle ram an aide-de-camp,upon entering the Emperor's room, saw tum half undressed, with protruding eyes and perspiring forehead, making fre- quent hinges with a sword at the tapes- try around the room. In explanation lac said that there was a cat behind the tapestry, and that he had hated cats from his vere infancy. He had crossed the bridge at Lodi with sublime courage, yet quivered with excite- nent, and terror over the presence of a cat.-•-Harper's Young People. fl HOMEMADE RAIN GAUGE tat is Slade or Glass end Uu the 3tlelsec wud Vrwotlutts Pormwnepti! At. • For measuring the amount of a xatn-, fall a glass gauge with the inches' and fractions thereof permanently attached to its side is most convenient, and fiueh an arrangement is readhly made byany ono. Take a r¢und. bottle ot clear glass three or more inches in diameter, cut of! the top at thh point where itis of a pisi- form size from t ppoint to the boat . 1 his is done by dip• ping a cotton string in kerosene oil, then tying it about the FIs. 1. GLASS RAIN GAUGE. indicatebottleatd, athe let d setpoint the string on fire. It will soon burn to cinders and if the unequal expansion does not cause the glass to separate at this point, plaoe it quickly in a vessel of cold water. Sometimes a second trial will be needed, A glass fruit jar will answer equally as well, but both the jar and bottle usually have raised a projection at the bottom on tho inside. If it should be flat then place a rule inside and mark off on the outside the inches, halves and quarters, with pen and ink, then with a new file make the marks permanent upon the glass as seen in Fig. 1. Should the bottom be uneven, set the vessel in a perfectly level position pour in an inch or more of water, with a pen mark the height upon the side of the glass then with a rule mark oft the quar- ter and half inch marks just below, pour into another vessel until the height is lowered to the quarter mark below, empty the FIG. 2. TIN rime gauge, pour in the GAUGE, quantity first turned out and its height will indicate the first quarter inch fall of rain. This is the starting point for marking the remainder of the distance to the top. By this plan of regulating the first quarter inch almost absolute accu- racy is obtained in determing the rain- fall, Instead of marking the glass per- manently, mark off the inches and matl- tiples upon thin paper wits} in iste on the outside of gauge baits; pro e''jllace. When dry cover with two coats of var- nish and' it will stand the storms for one season, after which it has to be re - varnished. Place the gauge on top of a four foot post located in some ac- cessible open space, and you will be surprised how often you will consult it during the season. The glass gauge is shown in position in Fig. 1. Wooden pegs. are placed upon four sides to pre- vent its becoming jarred or blown off, Of course its position should be perfect- ly level. A tin can guage is shown in position in Fig: 2. A small section of rule is attached to some portion of the inside, as shown. Of course both guages must be removed on the approuchqt freezing weather. +� heir/ to its SWIM. THE CLOUD WAS ALIVE. A Vast. Swann of IVinged Ants Moving Swiftly in the Sky. "Whiledriving home from Oneida last Friday," said a farmer who lives in the extreme western part of the county, lana big cloud moving due north over the fields and woods. There wasn't any wind blowing, the air was still, and I was unable to account for the presence of a big dark cloud speeding away across the heavens on such a still, bright day. At first I thought that it was a cloud of smoke from the railroads, but then when I first saw it the cloud was it: such a position that it could not pos- sibly have come from the West Shore Railroad, and even if it had there never was a cloud of smoke that hung so close- ly together and so long as that did. As i sat in my wagon it appeared to me to be a mile long and perhaps half a mile wide, but, of course, that part of it was all speculation, for no one can make a very accurate guess of the size of a cloud. The body in the sky was as dark as the smoke from a locomotive, and looked to be quite dense. It tra- velled quicker than any cloud ever scud- ded before a thunder shower in this section. When it first attracted atten- tion it was high up in the heavens, but it rose and fell several times like „ the soaring of a bird. Once it was but a few feet above the top of some woods. Again it took an upward course and continued onward in an unswerving north course. It was about 5 o'clock that the cloud passed. That evening I noticed a number of reddish -winged wood ants about in the grass and in the roads. It occurred to me that the strange cloud in motionmight have been a cloud of these flying ants. The more I pondered over the phe- nomenon the more I became convinced that it was a cloud of ants that passed over the coun- try. Such a story was too big for me to tell, although there was proof enough of the fact for my mind, so I held my peace and Pimply spoke to my family of the strange cloud. Others had seen it, too, yet none suspected what it was, and we finally dismissed it. A day or two afterwards I was in Con- stableville and there the farmers told mo they had seen the samo thing. There was no doubt about it either, tor anum- ber of them watched the cloud and at that place it passed so low that they caught the insects in their hands. They were tine samo flying ants. We com- pared notes and found that it required just an hour for the swarm to move from the place where they were first seen to Constabloville. The distance in e straight line is thirty-one miles: They were in Oneida county at 5 o'clock and at just six o'clock they were seen in the north. The ants continued northward and nobody has told me whore thtli1 stopped." Snips Through the Snez Dana/. Three thousand three hundred and forty-one ships, of 7,659,000 tons, passed through the Suez canal in 1898, yielding' 868,000,000 in dues. Three thousand and eighty-two of the ships or 924 per cent. passed through by night. As to the nationality of the vessels, the Eng. lish were 2,40ii; German. 272; Frenal, 190 • Dutch. 178: Austro-Hungarian, 71 ; Italian, 67 ; Norwegian, 50; Ottoinnn, 84 ; Spanish 29 ; Russian, 24 ; Porttr-• guese, 10 ; Egyptian, 5 ; American, 3 ; Belgian, 1; Brazilian, 1 ; Japanese, 1.