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CHAPTER I,
On, the lith. of March 1878, Mr, Gustave
Peineveate was shot and killed in his pri-
vate conveyance while returning from a
drive with his wife. it was about five
o'clock in the afternoon, and the carriage
at the time was between Sixty-sixth and ,
Sixty-seventh streets on Fourth avenue,
in New York.
Mr. Prineveau was seated to the left of
his wife in the carriage, which was a two -
seated phaeton, and was driven by their
man, John Teodson, who sat on the seat
in front of them. Mr, Peineveau, who
was sixty-three, di.od almost instantly,
and the post mortem, held the next morn- '
beg a ten o'clock,showed that he had been '
killed by a pistol bullet that had entered
his hearb at the fifth intercostal spa
•
veau to diseover the perpetrator of the
crime.
On the 21st Clarkson's wife and child-
ren were found in, a miserable lodging
place in Vitebsk street. But Clarkson had
disappeared. His wife promptly ace
,
knovvledged that he had cotne home late
on the afternoon of the 17th, had hurriedly
changed his clothes and gone out. She
had not seen him or heard of him since.
But she strenuously denied that he had
committed a cringe and refused to be
influenced by any of the damegingeir.
cumstances.
Here the affair threatened, to end, as ao
many ahem of its kind have ended, in
gloncod upward and severed the aosta. A•
small hole was found in his vest .ou the
- • left side corresponding to the•b•ullet.
• The 'post -Morten examinationwas a
long one. As it was impossible foe either
of the other occupants uf the carriage to.
have got around to the left side of Mr.
Prinevean so as to have inflicted the
Wound 'without accomplishing an unprece,
dented feat, that would have been Seen,
and. as there was no assignable motive for 1
suoh an act, the whole purpose of the 1
examination Was directe&i to finding out •
what incentive .some other parson might
have had to commit the deed.
The following facts were then
Mr, Prineveatt had. been married a little;
less .than five years to a WOIllae who, pre- .
vio•us to that marriage, had be knoevn
as the Widow of a Smith American iner-
chant Who died while on it visitto Buenos .
Ayres. At the time of Mr. Prineveen's
marriage he was reported to be very !
wealthy, having amassed a fortune in .
coal speculations: in Pennsylvania. and
New York. •
Be, -boo, had been previously married,
by which marriage there bad been two ;
sons, one of Whom had died three years i
before the father, in California, and. the
other of whom was still living somewhere
in Ohio. The only other relation Shat
could he trattea was a nephew, Jared
Clarkson, about twenty-eight years old,
who was a seapegrace, and bad livea for
several years upon the bounty at Mr. 1
Frineveau, but whose whereabouts at the
tiene of Mr. Prineveau's death could not :
be ascertained. Itwas shown that the
deceasedhad boon a man of singularly ;
week character in the management of his
estate; that he gave away vast sums of
money, Was easily freed:tweed or cajoled, 1
and that from all accounts his wife's ad-
vice and influence alone saved. him from ;
many foelish speetliatioes and MS fortune
in his old age. Anto.ng -his papers were .
found receipts for over one hundred thou. -
sand dollars signed by unknown persons •
and covering the four years immediately "
precedinghis death. His relations with
his wife had always been of the most
amiable and trustful kind. None of his
servants knew of his ever having quarreled
with her. Airs. Prineveau looked after •
all his personal comforts, was contintially
solicitous about his health, accompanied
him everywhere, aud bore the reputation
of being a dIscreet domestic woman with ;
an obvious affection. for a man who was •
twenty years her senior.
There was in his house on Fifth avenue ;
a servant who had been with them for five •
years—her name was Rose honey, and she •
out volition enough to Control thein. Just
the sort of man to do a desperate deed in
the frenzy of drink, without a motive
before it or a recollection after it, but as
devoid of 'methodical vindictiveness as a
znastiff.
T told hint 1 had come to talk with him
in view of conducting his defense,
"Bah," It•e said, "there is no defense.
Can you defend xne against God?"
"Let me ask of you," 1 began, "not to
Odle in that reckless 'manner, Try and
BE volts A RoGGII AND SOILED ovelicaer
testified that about a week before the
murder Mr. Prinevean had been visited
at night by the nephew Clarkson, whom
she had let in, and who was seen by Mr.
Prineveau in the library, a small room in
the wing at the rear of the house. From
appearance she thought the man had been
drinking. He wore a rough and soiled
overcoat and an bnitation astrakan cap
pulled. over his fitce. He stayed over half
an hour in the library, and she heard hini
from the front parlor speaking in loud and
angry tones. She admitted that she had
listened, and swore that she heard him
say: "Then look out for yourself, for you
will not live to accomplish it." To which
the old man i11 a soft voioe made some
kind of appealing reply.
This was about ten o'clock at
night, and Mrs. Prinevean, whe had
gone to a concert at Steinway ball
with a party of friends, had not re-
tuned. She came back at ten minutes
of eleven, and, upon making inquiries
of the nueid, Rosy, leeemed these facts and
showed a good deed of indignation because
Mr. Frineveau bad been sobjected to the
annoyance of a worthless and reckless
scapegrace.
Mrs. Prinevellit herself corrobated
this stat.ement explicitly, but could
give very little information about the
habits or atitecedents of Glarleson, eXcept
that she had learned incidentally from her
hUsbancl that he was a drunkard with 4
wife and two children, and, Owing to his
dissolute habits, had never been able to
take care of himself or his family.
It was also learned that on the afternoon
of the 14th of March Clarkson had been
seen by the coaohnum hanging about the
house, and the hall boy, who had been
sent an an amid, encountered him on
the sorneriancl. was More held ill conversa-
tion by him, Olarkson asking him, eanotg
Other things-, if Mr. •Prineveett did not
take a drive usually in the afternoone, ,
These bits of testimony- led to the polite
efforts to find Clarkson. Mn reeve:watt
Was buried in the Trinity cemetery on the
19th. His funeral was attended by many
old Neve Yorkers, and public attention was
turned to the efforts made by Mrs, Prins -
eltAintSoX WAS slow RANGING AROUND TRH
HoUsE.
idlo onriosity, Police inefficiency and
nftimate forgetfuluess. But on the 2nd
Clarkson was diseovered in hiding be
Troy. He was brought here and lodged
in the city prison, and thou it became
known to the public that the police had
found in the rooms of Mrs. Clarkson in
Varick street a small French revolver
with five chambers, one of which was
empty, and the bullets of this pistol= cer
responded in size with the one taken from
the body of Mr. Prineveau.
THE. wAltnEx Tout :Nils 'wit° stm WAS.
be cool. Blaspheniy may relieve your feel. •
' ings, but ili -will not help your case."
"My case is helpless," he said, with ,
every fleshly indication that it was.
; "But if it is worth while to make a
, plea at all, it is not necessary to announce
' your guilt in advance." •
He sprang. up from the bed—he was six
feet at least in height—and with a olenched .
s upliftedsaid:
_ • "1 ant not guilty, but I might as well
be, for God has decreed that everybody i
shall think so," •
A. gleam of hope suddenly had. shot out
of the darkness of this reply. The luau
might be in some degree insane, and irre-
sponsible.
"If you. are not guilty there are :possibil-
ities ' deiense. 1 don'tHeaven
will object to our availing ourselves of
them."
; "Mueli yen know of Heaven," he re-
plied. "No man could have made such ,
a set of circumstances to tit into my doom.
It re tlires the subtlety and cruelty of a
God. 1 might as well have killed that
man and given myself up. The result I
1 will be the same. But I'm too d—d weak i
to kill anybody. So I am to be killed. •
This is in accordance with eternal prac-
tice."
He looked at ine with a glaring eye.
CHAPTER 1.1.
At this stage of the affair I was called
into it, oddly enough. I received a note
froni 11111111 011113103111 lawyer, JohnGrove,
with whom I had studied, asking me to
call and see Mrs. Prineyeau at her Fifth
avenue home. He had taken the liberty,
he said, of recommenclin„.• me in a matter
Shat would perhaps be of great service to
me. Perplexed. as I was at this, knowing
that John Greve was Mrs. Prineveaues
lawyer and did not ueed associate counsel,
I nevertheless called promptly upon the
lady. I found her to be a very handsome
woman with great dignity of person, a
charming self-possession and all the evi-
dences of a refined and estimable char-
acter.
"This unfortunate affair," she said,
"has perplexed me in more ways than
one. That wretched nem, Clarkson, as
you doubtless know, is in custody and is
now here. The circumstances appear to
leave little doubt of his guilt. But he has
a wife and two children. Their abject
misery is made all the more aente by the
wife's belief in her husband's innocence.
It is a very dreadful state of affairs, but I
shrink from the responsibility which jus-
tice imposes ou me of banging that help-
less wretch without giving hint a show
for. his life. He is not a.ble•to employ
counfea, and I am at best only a woman.
I propose to pay you to try and do the best
1‘-ou cam for him, and, of course, I do not
wish anything said about it. I took the
advice of Mr. Greve, and he said that in
any case the man was entitled to good
coolant and advised me- to ethploy you.
It; seems in such a foregone conclusion a
small concession to gire him the benefit
of the law. At all events. it will relieve
me from the mamma of having been in-
fluenced entirely by a vindictive feeling."
I do not remember all that was said at
this interview,but I recall that I was con-
sciously affected by the woman's sym-
pathy for a nem that she saw had little
or no chance for his life, and who wanted
to soften her own share in the prosecution
los not permitting him to say he bad no
chance to prove his innocence.
promised her to go and see the accused
man and to send her my decision as soon
thereafter as -wm possible.
This interview was ou the teeth. Ou the
26th I went to see Clarkson in his cell at
the city prison. I found a woman in the
warden's office who had also come to see
him. It proved to be his wife. She was
such a picture of abject • misery that she
arrested my attention. She must have
been a very beautiful girl, although now
she was at least twenty -live and suffering;
had drawn its -lines across her white face.
I could see that 'she was made of the finest
material,was in fad one of those delicate,
sensitive, emotional. natures that shrink
from the world, but are capable. of the
greatest saerifices and n teasureless heroism
when a crisis umnes. She *as wretchedly
clad from the biting spring weather, and ,
she Stood with her face turned toward the
but through all her shabby integu-
ments there was a proclamation of natural:
symmetry and even of character. Whew
the warden told me who she was, I went 1
to her and made myself and my mission:
known. Slue grasped my hand and with '
her long cold fingers almost convulsively!
and sweeping away the veil that had part-
ly concealed her face looked at 1310 so •
searchingly and. imploringly with her sad
gray eyes 11110111 started a little.
'0, sir !' ' she said, "bad as my husband
may be, he is innocent of this, and he
has tWO OM he loves, You have
eome to save him. I feel it." .
I patted her band ana tried to say some-
thing that WaS encouragingly non -com-
m ttal. "We shall see, We shall see.
Things are often 1011 (18 bad as they look,.
going to hnve 31 011311 with hiln. In
the meantime, save your strength. You
aro not friendless."
6'he paid no heed at :01 to what I said.
She was looking at me with those gray
eyes very much as if she saw something
behind me, and banging to iny *and like
0 drowl: ig person..
"Yes, yes I" ehe said, with e :tab; "you
will sa ve him," and she 'began to ary• con-
y tilleiNt..11:Y.not the heart to tell her how hope-
less it 1111 looked, I wish that I had been
spired this so that 311y, judgnumt could
come to the interview with the accuSed
man 11 omit rite&
She made lite go Up and see her husband
first, She \voted. wait.
I found Clarkson to be the very anti-
thesis 011 115 Wire, He was a large, mus -
cub»; and slightly bloneed fellow with a
purplish face, the resell of debauchery,
but withal a rather handsome man or
what would have been a handsome man
in normal conditions. He sat on the edge
of the fron bed when I entered the cell,
his head between his hands, and he did
not look up until I had spoken to him,
end. then it was with such a flabby des-
pair that I felt repelled, • •
Here was oiie of these large vital natures
that appear to have no internal resources.
I Could see in an instatt why hie life had •
been a failure. lite Was made up 017311 -
regulated appetites and sensibilities With -
His words were hot with a burning ar-
: raignment. There could be no mistake
: aboub the earnestness and sincerity of his
emotion. •
"Either this man is innocent or mad,"
I said to myself, and then hastened to
disavow the thought to myself.
"I tell you beforehand," he went on, •
"that you cannot do anything with the ;
circumstances. Did go to Mr. 'Prineveau ;
; and use threatening words—yes. Did I ,
happen to have a pistol in my possession .
whose bullets exactly correspond to the
one found in the man's body—yes. Did
I disappear after the deed—yes. Is my life :
and. character just sack as would fit me •
, for such a deed—yes. And yet I tell you
that I was not there, didnot kill him,
and never had such an act in my mind."
"Easy," I said. "If you were not there,
, you were somewhere else. We ought to ;
, be able to get at that "
"Yes, we ought to, if we were not fight-
ing against destiny. But just at the time I
that I ought to have known where I was,
unconscious."
"Then. you might have been there un-
consciously and irresponsibly."
"Yes. S03310 demon may have robbed •
me of myself and worked this thing
through nee. That's the safest theory. '
You'd better stick to that. You'll get
scene credit for it after I'm hanged."
Clarkson," said 1, "I met your wife ,
downstairs; she made me come up and see ,
you first "
He staggered against the wall in the
cornet: of the ceul. and broke down.
"Poor girl1 poor girl!" he said, with ,
great sobs "I've been the &use of her
"She believes in your innocence."
. "Of mime she does. She knows nue,
poor tut d sweetheart. She knows that,weak
"00031 GIRL, 00011 " RE SOI3I3ED.
saying X eoUlti get live efffines on it any
time at a Pawn shop, • for it was han1.
sontely silver mounted."
"How long was axle before the murder
of leir, Prinneeen?"
The man turned reend and looked at
3Ile with a blank face and seild, slowly;
"lawns about five days before, and the
day after I had had !the words with Mr.
Prineyeau in the lilwary."
confess that both his looks and his
' words had a knell -like effect. In spite of
myself I felt staggered. •
"Do you know of anybody whose inter-
est would be fulvatutedby the death of Mr.
Prinevea
He hesitated a ittennene. Then he said;
''No, Ma Prineyean's death was a de-
privation to me. lie was the best and iii
fact, the only friena 1 had,"
"Why did you go to hien that night a
Week before his death?"
"TO get »Jolley."
"Did you get it?"
''Yes,'yinttinfiItisw?'1" got it"
'
"No. it was absolute charley. He gave
nue a twenty -dollar bill. ITe always felt
sorry to nee I WaS flush with that money
and, bought the pistol, not because
wanted it; but because the Frenchwoman
was hara up."
"Now tell Inc what. the conversation
was with your unole that night,"
'el. cannot tell it clearly because I had
boon drinking, and I am effusive and. fool -
1511 when I have liquor 1ii me.' •
"Was there not a cmarrel?"
"No. He may have upbraided Me; he
always did, and I may have talked fast
and loud. I always do, but there was no
other quarrel."
This man puzzled nee completely. There
was nothhig in hie information that at
all removed the fatal circumstances. 1
had to confess to myself that any gushinfte.
sentimental lont, however guilty, might
present this view of the elle°. But there
was something in the fellow's face and
tones that went past my reason and
awakeneci some, instinct that he was in-
n( ,N) t,,n.
left him I was in a curler's
quandary, 1 could not put my finger on
a piece of evidence to be used in rebuttal
of the circumstances, and yet I found
some inarthadate voice in mo saying:
"That num is innocent."
I thought the matter over that night
without coming to a conclusion, and went
to bed saying I would sleep over it,whioh,
f eourse. is very 11111011 like
face of a dilemma that you will toss a
penny U. In both eases there is an ac-
knowledgment that something outside of
your own will May determine for you.
CHAPTER, III
In my case I suppose that something
did, for I got up and wrote a letter to
:Mrs. Prineveau 111 wh Leh I told hor that
tteeepted the case and would do the best
I multi for the accused, and that it looked
like a hopeless affair. I u response to this
I reveived a note of brief thanks, indos-
ing a, ertsp five hundred dollar bill as a
retaining fee. That the pale face of the
man's wife had determined me is not un-
likely, for it came hackto mein the night
With the strangest persistency and the
same unwarranted look of trust in the
gray eyes.
The trial was set down to come on about
the first of May, and there was about: a
month's time to get ready for it. I
wasted about a week in the conviction
that all I could do Was to dispute the
evidence inch by inch, and in the last re-
tort show that Clarkson was giVon to
-emotional aberrations and was at times
irresponsible. ilut wienevor ine. mind
reverted to the matter that miserable
woman's face rose ttp with 1111 awful re-
proach in it, and then I fell to excusing
myself to myself as if I had not done
right.
One meriting, with an entirely inex-
plicable impulse, I went down to the plume
•Varick _street. I found Mrs. •Clarkson
living in one room meth° third floor of
a dismally itirty barracks, with two ex-
traordinarily beautiful children, scantily
but tidily dressed, playing•about the floor,
and occasionally asking wheo papa would
come beak. She had taken in some kind
of • needle work, which she showed me.
She had to cover the iron frames of the
buttons • with silk, • and arrange them . on
a card, for whi h. 8110 got twenty-Llvo cents•
dozen, and by the utmost industry could .
never quite make two (endsa clay of a
dozen buttons each, Mr linger ends were
cheek wlth needle marks. She looked
weary and sick, bet ehe did not complain.
Nothing that mei had encountered in
•
— . •
nee experience as a lawyer or a man so
mored my sympathy as this woinae. in-
stinctively 1 knew that slue had been gently
th•
bred; that e had loved a worthless nate
• and this MS her penalty for continuing ;
to love him. 1 kneuv that, she would et ing
to him through all miefortarne and be the
lath to leave hint whet' his doom came.
I felt myself treating her with a fine
•
, comeliness that was inspired with respect,
the respect we always fedl. for something
that is a little above 0111* human range.
It was difficult to pull myself out of this
-mood ancl come down to the praotital
business of a lawyer, but it was necessary.
"Mrs. Clarkson," i•said, "it is necessary
that We look at this matter in the inost
cold-blooded way. We have got to inake
and worthless as I ant, I never killed even •
au insect."
"She believes that IWaS sent to—to give
you valuable assistance."
"Yes. She believes in a good God. You
wouldn't think it,'with such a husband as .
the effort to save your husband beset on
almost evely side by ahnost insuperable
difficulties, and shut into one or two
miserably IlatTOW e0l1t8eS: 1 have got to
prove an alibi or establieli ids insanity."
"Do you mean by insanity that you will
admit that he committed the deed in a
I fun, would you? So do I, till He wound 3
VAS mesh teroundene ,
"Tut, tut, man! Pall yourself together
and let your reason work. Sit down there
and auswer my q es • one."
He wiped his cot with his coat sleeeve
and sat down again, helplessly, on the '
edge of the bed.
"Now you., don't know where you were
at four o'cleck on the afternoon of Match •
17?"
"No. The last thing Iremembee was
going down Vesey street toward the
river. ' '
"Where had you beet ?"
"I had been drinking on Sixth avenue
at several places. ''
"And whre
en you recoved your con-
sciousness where Were gone"
"In Troy."
"Humph! Had you over been to Troy
before?"
eeeee
"Did you know anybody there
"Did you have the pistol with you that
was found in the house?"
"No, I Dover carried a pistol in my
life,"
"Did net your wife then know that the •
pistol was it the house at the time this
murder was committed up -town?"
"NO. She dMnot know anything about
it." '
"Where did you get it 1" •
"I took it in pledge from a little
Frenchwoman who boarded in the house
and wanted to rdi.iin $01/10, money to go
home. I threw it in a chest of draweraf
us; CON'TTN
mut fit?''
"Perhaps that woeld be the most eadi-
dotes coerce, and then throw ourselves on
the sympathy of the jury and the mercy
of the wart:
She shook her head- with a sad dignity.
'Ho did not commit tile deed," she said.
"Perhaps not. net may be a moral
"UV PitOVING THAT sosrx, otse Matt DID rr1,,
certainty with you. But a lawyer ennst
have /ads. How are we to psove that by
did not?"
Hor AnSWOV startled me a little, 1 wa
said calmly, and as if she saWno diffh lass
about it,
wEe. eIlfatt
Sere Is# an Extended Llet of $igne
That Surety Voreteli the Weather.
Prom housetops, steps, back yards
and a multitude of other'places earn-
phor and tar -scented garments flap
from clotheslines in the first chilly
blasts a autumn, The young man who
played the races last Slimmer with dis-
astrous results, the foolish blede who
took his girl too often to pleasure re-
sorts when the balmy zephyrs of slim-
mer swept across the emerald land-
scape and kissed the bosoms of the
waters into multidinons wrinkles, now
mourn the ovgreotits they "stored With
their uncle" early in the season. when
the jocund. springtime days 'were hav
ing their innings.
Buy, your coal, put up your stoves,
stop your windows and doors, for an
old-fashioned winter is coming. All of
nature's signs point that way. Our
readers will do well to study the
weather auguries that follow. They -
are all reliable, and are based on what
has gone before and upon the shrewd.
observations of wise weather watchers:
Hoar frosb is a sign of rain.
Cold autumi a short winter.
If rats and mice be restless, ram,
Trees now dark before a storm.
After a warni autumn a long winter.
It will surely rain if moles cast up
hills,
The more snow the healthier the sea-
son.
Bearded frost is a forerunner of snow.
A clear autumn brings a windy
winter,
winter, St. Martin's Day will bring out
the Indian summer,
If goldenrod biOssoms early- you will
need heavy elothes, for bitter cold
weather will prevail.
If spiders spin the filaments of their
webs long- the weather vU1 be serene
for text or tWelVe days.
When birds of passage arrive early
ina,11,ieieio
r sooiea
ntgheri.
nozpessage severe winter
m5b
A good hydrometer is a piece of
hemp. Roll it into a tamp, and when
111 10 damp it prognostieates rain,
Onion .skins very thin, mild winter
cdming in; onion skins thick and
tough, coming winter cold and rough.
_ The whiteness of the breastbone of a
goose indieates the amount of snow
that will fall during the winter.
The twelve days between December
25 and January 5 are the keys to the
weather for the ensuing months of that
, year.
IL birds preen their feathers and
wash themselves, afterwards flying to
their nests, rainy weather is indicated.
When honey bees are busy laying in
a supply of food you can depend on it
that the winter will be a "corking" cold
If it rains before 7 it will cease be-
fore 11..,
Expect fair weather from one night's
iee; •
A green Christmas makes a white
Easter.
4. fog in February indicates a frost in
May.
Itain is frequently augured by beard-
ed frost.
Tulips anal dandelions close up be-
fore a re in.
The note of a sand mole is a sure sign
of frost '
If it raine after lo at 310031 it '11 rai
ne;Kt day.
If it rains :before sunrise expect a
fair afternoon.
A green Christmas will make a full
churchyard,
Three white frosts will bring a storm
every tirlle.
Rain long foretold, long last; short
notice, soon past.
If gnats are plentiful in spring, ex-
pect a fine autumn.
A rainbow in the morning is the
shepherd's warning.
When wrens are seen in winter ex-
pect plenty of SIIOW.
If October is warm the following
February will be cold. .
Doors and windows are hard to shub
in damp weather,
Much rain in October indicates much
wind in December.
If a cock, crows more than usual and
earlier expect rain.
If it rains when the sun shines it Svill
ram the next day.
Nests of hornets hung near the
gronnd mean cold weather.
When rain comee from the west it
wil not continue long.
If eats back their bodies and wash
their faces. eXpeet rain.
Early frosts are usually followed. by•
a long, hard winter.
nattering bats and flying beetles
forecast line weathee.
The feisty arrival of katydids means
severe winter weather:
Heavy white frost is a sign that
warmer weather is coming.
Elactle frost is a. forerunner of a spell
of •3 , cold Wpatllt11'.
Thender is indicate& by many fall-
ing Stars on a fine night.
Look out for cold weather if the
woodpecker it's •ppeads in the fell, •
11 1 • el: 111 0111 tnnn grow tame the
winter will be too cold, for gime.
Expect cold and hard times if sleek—
rels lay in great supplies of outs.
`When wild ducks fly to the south
is a Siis,11 that winter is coming.
Scarcity ot squirrels in autumn indi-
cates the approach of cold Winter.
Aching eorns, main g toot:1140i es and
distressing neuralgia presage rain.
The first three days in ;Tan:eery in.
dieate that of the coming three months.
No falling stars on a bright evening
mea11 a, contimmeee of brigirt weather.
If ice will bear a man before Christ- ;
mas it will not bear a mouse after-
wards. •
Septeniber 20, 21 and '22 rule the ;
weather for October, November and I
Decembee.
Look one for rata if sea birds fly to-
wards land andland birds fly towards
sea.
one,
Prost that occurs in the dark of the
3110031 kills fruit, buds and blossonis,
but frost In the light of the moon. will
not kill.
When potatoes mature early and
buckwheat grows bushy branches eeld
sazaatr at
tilisatahea,d and not very far
If the moon is reit or has many red'
! spots, expect a cold eaid stormy winter;
j but if only a few spots are visible, the
1 winter will be mild.
When muskrats build their houses
! two feet thiek and begin early you can
1 depend on it that the winter will be a
Ione- and mighty cold one.
:
lf the November goose -bone be thick,
so will the winter weather be; if the
November goose -bone be thin, so will
! the winiter weather be.
Sheep rams and goats that spring
around the meadow more than usual
, and are given, to 211 11011 fighting indi-
cate that rainy weather is at hand.
See a gray deer early 111 October and
, you will know that we are going to
have an old-fashioned winter with
plenty of skating- aud
When the' ivory-hilled woodpecker
goes to work at, the bottom of a tree
and goes to the top, removing all the
outer bark on his way, it is a sure in-
dication that there will be, deep snow.
; If a mole dig a llole two and a half
1 feet deep a very severe winter is at
I hand. If the hole be two feet, the
wiuter will not be quite so severe. If
I the hole is only one foot deep, the
winter will be a mild one.
; An old English authority says that
the saying, "Everything is lovely and
I the goose hawks high" --not "hangs
; high." as 15 frequently quoted—is a
weather proverb, meaning that when
the wild. geese fly high it is a sign of
fair weather.
The soaring of a mra may be com-
, pared with a boy sliding down hill on
'a sled. If a hill is, say, 100 feet high,
and the sides slope • off in a horizontal
direction. 2,000 feet from the suuamit,
and. if the snow is smooth, a boy can
• mount a sled and advance 2,000 feet
- while he is falling, as relates to the •
earth, 100 foot; that is, the sled with
the boy on it in falling through a dis-
tance of one foot develops sufficient
, power to drive the sled forward twenty
; feet, but when the boy is at the bottom
of the hill and can develop no more
; power by falling, the sled S0011 eomes
to a state of rest. Suppose, now, that
a hill could be glade in such a manner
that it would eonstantly rise at such a
velocity that the sled would. never
reach the bottom of the hill, the boy
I Birds and Upward A i r Currents.
•
would then be able to slide forever,
and this is exactly what occurs with a
: bird. A bird Haves its wings iu such a
position that, as it falls in the air, 0030
one TOOt 10 oyes forward throogh the
air twenty fort, that is, it slides along
031 the surfaee of the air nnderneath its
wings ie the same manner that the boy
slides down the hill. Suppose, now,
that the \plot. ity of the bird should. be
' about thirty milee an hour, this would
account for the NvhoIe 'phenomenon of
• soarieg toll an upwartt current of only
one mut one -11 a If miles au hews With
en upwarcl content of two miles an
heur the bird evould rise, as relates to
the earth, onc-half it mile atlhouirr, 0
vhile ttotualty falling through thea
at the rate of one and one-half miles au
hour. There i8 110 doubt that a bird,
by home 31 003' . a e, 801180 ef feehng
and toneh, is able to ascertain whether
it is falling or rising in the. air. It is
well-known that fish have this power.
If a surface fleh *Wks too deeply in the
WS. ter tit e coin p115881 011 of its swim blad-
der produees a sensation oe impression
upon its twain, wit la causes the. fish to
change its coarse, ai,a relieves the pres-
sure by coming nearer to the surface,
and a, similar thing is tr1:10 of the deep
sea fish. If they approach the surfac,e
their Willi bladder bee om es enormous-
ly distended, and no doubt produces a
seusat•ion the fish know is reliev-
ed by engin eiekiog into very deep
water. If t1ie:4e lish are (laugh 13
drawn to the surface the distension of
, the swim bladder becomes so great that
it disphtees all the ether °mane of the
body. In all probability the numerous
air cells which are fonnd in the body ef
a bird are pi or i (led 5531113 delicateness. s
Which operate in a similar manner o
those of the swim bladder of a fish, o
that as the bird is moving TOr\Vt
through the -air • it is able to take 1 (1 -
vantage of a rising column of tier. As
a whole, We may eonsider that the eie-
ing colinone of air wonlei be half of the
total area of the earth's' surface, so that
a entering bird WO11 I d always ha,ve ris-
ing columns of air which would Serve
*as it support,
Mindy Piece of Etivaltatee.
Poet—Do you digest, all the poeina
yott road ?
Editor—Oh, no, X haste 111 goat to do
that for Me.
Partridges drum cioljr in the fall
when a, mi Id. and open winter follows. ;
Rain from the, south prevents the !
drouglell, but rain from the west is
always beet.
Chipmunks that disappear early are 1
sure signs of colcl and extremely ugly !
weather. .
Blaekbirds floeking together in the
fall indicate a cold spell of weather:
INTIten the leaVes Of the trees owl.,
with the wincl from ,the south, it ,iadie
cates Nein. •
When the birds and badgers are fat 1
in October a very cold winter inety be I
looked for.
An. unusually clear atmosphere
when distant objeets may be easily ,
seen moans rain,
If the crow flies south cold weather
wilt follow ; if north, a warm spell
may be expected.
Turkeys perching on trees and solos-
ing to &mewed indicate that snoW will
shortly fall,
11 October brings heavyiroas and
winds the following l'anuary and Feb-
ruary will be mild.
'When rheumatic People eomplain of
pains anti aehes then leek 'outlet. rains
and storms, .
If cattle kite off feeding and chase
,,ether around the field you 'Say
safely expeet rain,
If All Saints' Day will bring out the