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NEW SERIES--VOL. XI. NO. 22.
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the: touch or thc a and.
Before my love an 1 i ha i met.
Th3 budding larch wa clad with screen;
Iv bitter w-.nd av,o!:'.' to fret
The guld look.-, of the garden's queen,
TLe V'hestniit from his kingly thrn-i
Kfinl o or the dewy lawn, ari l yet
Their iraco they had not wholly fh)vvn
Before my love nnd I had met.
Ec-forf'rny love an I I had met,
'ihe skip? wer s tt as now th?y bo;
The brtz that the violet
Sh'tolc white mi '.v from tho hawthorn tree;
With breath of iila vs freshly blown
My heart was lifted u;, and yet '
There "was a swestne.ss all unkn nvn
Until ruy love and. I had met.
''"ore my itp ami 1 hid m?t,
The vhis;KTH of tli3 pines I heafd;
j Low warbling.- paid the shelter-iebt
! When- loaves oone?ale 1 nhappv blr";
j The river riop'od o'er the stone.
The air was thrille 1 with gladness, yet
-f. Music has qa:n-d a deeper tone
Now that my lore and I have met.
Before my lov ? and I hid met, ,
'f ho earth w is good, tho fi?ld3 were fair,
The land wh'-re t-uns sh ill never et,
Fati .fiol's own hand bo plainer there?
All joy of earth in joys unknown
Is patbere I up, lyit we ha d yet
One hope the loss bet or j tho Throne,
If I and thou had never met.
William Waterfi -Id, in tho Cosmopolitan.
MRS. QTJIGLEY'S RUSE.
r.Y JANET URUCE.
KC1DEDLY Mrs.
vuigiey )s a re
markable charac
ter. There are only
a few who recog
nize this fact. Mrs.
tt&&m Qil-y, beeif.
tlT3--- x'iA- r-i'''" to luar that she
differed from her neighbors in any
way, except in making better bread, pies,
cake, etc., in having the prou 1 distinc
tion of getting hrr washing on the line
every Monday morning when her neigh
bors have only advanced to the point of
washing up the breakfast dishes; and in
understanding all matters appertaining
to hou-ckecping better than any of them.
In these things, Mrs. Quigley modestly
acknowiedgoho docs excel; but if any
I one wore to say to her: "Mrs. Quigley,.
you are a moralist, a philosopher,' satirist
and a strategist," she wuld indignantly
deny being any oneof these things.
That she would- not have the slightest
.notion as to the moaning of t'aewords
would only make her denial more em
phatic. In appearance, Mrs. Quigley is
tall and stout, with a ruddv face, and
hair streaked with gray;, her eyes are
briirht an 1 dark. In front, her form is
what is" commonly called shorl-waisted,
here he r apron baud roaches its highest
point, it descends, as it encircles her
ample waist, and slopes oil in a beautiful
bow in the bik.
Thc other day I went over to Mrs,
Quu:les to buy some butter. Mr?.
Ouiidov makes the best butter in the
coun'ry. but kIio doesn't likj to sell it
to any but a regular customer. I am
not a regular customer; Mr.. Quigley
has had all her cu-t.r.ners for year.. I
won't say lam waiting for one of thern
to die, but I should like to get my but
ter of Mis. Quigley.
Now, you've come fur more of my
butter, ain't you," she said, as I ap
peared before her, dish in hand.
I had my diplomatic speech all pre
pared, so I began1:
"You know, Mrs. Quigley can't get
any butter like yours in town. Mrs.
Brooke and the Doctor are coming to
tea. They always have such good but
ter; vou wouldn't want me. to disgrace
myself by. giving them the stutf that
comes from the store.' Mrs. Quigley
Tiad gseat contempt for "store butter."
"There's others has just as good but
ter a? mine. You're only consatey,"
said Mrs. Quigley, looking highly grat
ified. I dischirae.l any tendency toward
"eonsatiness" so vehuiently that Mr3.
Quigley weakened, as she always did.
"You'd talk an j body over; how much
'ud vou want?" she asked.
As' much as you cai
spare,
I re-
plied.
"I couldn't give you raore'n twe
pound," she said, taking the dish, and
disappearing in the cellarway.
While she was gone I sat looking
around the shining kitchen, thinking
what an awful amount of, work it must
be to keep everything in the required
state of polish.
"There's a good two pound," said
Mr. Quigley coming into the kitchen,
and holding the butter Up to my admir
ing eye.
'Thank you ever so much," said I,
gratetully.
Xys' 1
Mrs. Quigley set thc butter on the ta
ble. She always puts it oa the table
instead of handing it to me, ia order to
make me stay and talk w ith her awhile.
'I've a great mind to tell you some
thing," she said, looking at me with
twinkling eyes and waiting to be urged.
"Please do," paid I, all attention.
"Course you'd never tell?"
I swore eternal secrecy, and Mrs. Quig
ley proceeded
"Well, you know Jake has been n-run-nin'.after
Min Smith. "
"Is it possible?" I gaid, seeing I wa
expected to be scandalized.
"Yes; and of all shiftless folks them
Smiths is the shiftlesscst. I wa'n't
a-goin' to work an' slave to get this home
fur Jake, and then have that Min Smith
a-settin' in my parlor, a-wearin' out my
carpet cnac i jm-i sevency-nve cenw b
yard fur." i
"I should think not 1"
"I was most pestered to death.
1
didn't know what oa tarth to do. 1
knowed there wa'n't no use a-talkin to
Jai;e, fur when his head's sot, it's Boi.
Jake's the kind of a fel'.er that's always
a-layin' down the Ikw about how a
woman ought-a be, and then goes and
takes a girl that ain't no more like what
he wants than a cro a."
"I've seen just such men."
'Well, that's the kind of a feller Jake
F is. 1 lata aake nisrhts a-tuinkia
about it. and at last I struck on a plan to
break it up. Y"ou know Jaks always
said he'd nver marry a girl that couldn't
make gooO chicken pot-pie; he's terrible
fond a cheken pot-pie: and plague take
the luck ! if that wa'n't the very thing
Miu Smith could make. I went over to
her house and asked her to come and
spend the day with me. She was tickled
to death to get the invite. Course she
said she'd come. She was a-readin'
when I went in, an' the house wa'irt a
bit clean. I don't believe the sov'd
been blacked fur a week. Pretty
house-keepin' that!
"Whcn I told Jake Min Smith was
a-comiu' to spend the day he
was thc pleasede3t fellow " you
ever see. He begin to talk about wha
a nice girl she was: how there wa'n't no
nonsense about her. Miu was fo come
a-Thursday. That day Jake wore a col
lar to work an' didn't put on no overalls,
but I didn't say nothing'. Min come
over about nine o'clock ail dressed to
kill. I made b'lieve to be in a great
lluster. I said you'd been in an' took
most all my better, so I had to churn
that day, an' I'd promised Jake pot-pio
fur dinner, an' didn't know which way
to turn. Minshe up and said, 'Let me
make the pot-pio lor you, Mr. s Quigley.'
That was just what I was a-fishia' fur. I
was a-goin' to ask her to do it, if she
hadn't a offered, so I said 'twould help
me a sight if she'd do it. Cause I
wa'n't a-goin' to have that pot-pie good.
Jake, he was a-runnin' to the house fur
something or nuther all mornin' ; sit beat
all what a sight of business he had at
the house, . Him an' Min kep' up a
terrible laughin' an' jokin. Jake ain't
much of a hand to joko 'cept when he's
mighty pleased about something, so 1
seethe was pretty fur gone. "Once when
him an' Miu was a-goin' it pretty high, I
slipped into the pantry an' emptied all
the bakiug powder out of thc box an'
put some flour in."
"That was a bright idea!"
Mrs. Quigley winked one eye know
ingly, and continued
"When it come time to make rthe
dumplings I got Min r.ll the thingi. I
see her a throwin' in the baking powder;
she was bound toj have them dumplin's
light. Pete (my husband) Wa'n't home
that day,, so at t welve o'clock Jake came
s
to the h6use alone. I heard hitn an' 3I:n
a talkin' about the pot pie: 'What if it
shouida't be good?' Miu was a sayia'.
That ain't possible,' said Jak?, a-look-in'
as sott as melted butter.
"Well, we are all sot down to the
table, an I took the cover oTn the pot
pie. I declare for't I never see such
dumplin's in all my life'"
"They surpassed your wildest hpes,
eh?"
"They was the awfullest dumplin's,"
replied Mrs. Quigley. 'Why they wai
that tough you couldn't get your fork
through 'emi I helpel Min, an I declare
I pitied the poor giri; she loo-jtsl Tas if
ihe'd like to sink through the floor.
Thea I helped Jake; he took a bite, an' I
see him a-iookia around fur some place
to put it. At last he swallowed it. 1
didn't have much else fur dinner that diy
a-purpoe, an' I guess that was the first
time Jake Quigley, r any one else, evet
got uji from my table hungry. When
Jake started to
to work he &aid:
"You needn't wait supper for ra?t
mother, I've got to take a load" of hay
over to Spring Holler. Thea I know'd
it was all up with pxr Mia. Mia dida't
stay loag after dinner. 1 told her not
to Jsja hurry, but she seemed ia a
tefntle tiurry," said Mrs. Quigley, inno
cently. "Andyour carpet is safe," sal ns
ing to go.
"And Jake, too, fur yet awhile, aay
way," she replied, tossing her head de
fiantly. As I wended my way homeward with
my butter, I mused on the wihneis of
mothers, and thought Mrs. Quigley's
ruse might be of use" to other mothers
anxious for the welfare of their sons and
their carpet. The Epoch.
A Hook and Ladder Company.
There is generally a misconception as
to what is meant by a hook aud ladder
company. The use of the ladder is at
once understood, and the necessity of it ;
the hook is an implement used to pull
down portions of buildings with. The
hook is among the oldest of implements
ued for scaling walls, and dates back
fro.n me di;eval times. The scalinjrlad
dors are made of a single length of tough
wood, with tho rungs at right angles
with it, and passing through it. Its
upper end terminates with a metal hook,
which permits it to be attached to the
window-sills or copings of a house. In
ordinary cases ladders are used, but there
are many tires where, in order to obtain
access to the upper portions of a house,
the, hook becomes a necessity. Ladders
are not always long enough to reach the
desired heights, and then th hooks sup
plement them.
Hook and ladder companies arc essen j
ti'ally life-saving in their duties. To each
tire battalion in New Y'crk there are
generally assigned two hook and ladder
companies. There are thirty -six tolforty
hook and ladder machines, though they
may not be all in service at one time,
some being under repair. To s
hook and ladder company there is
given au average of twelve men, and it
particular cases there have been as many
its eighteen. These men represent thi
pick of the service as to physique. All
of them have passed through the school
'of instruction, and have been specially
irained for their duties. It is not cool
ness alone that is requisite, but that per
fect reliance which comes from well-
trained muscles.
On the apparatus is carried in addition
to the ladders, which, with their ex
tensions, are ninety feet long, a number
of hooks, with axes, crowbars, ropes,lifo
saving nets, and fire-extinguishers. Or
account of the extreme length of thc lad
ders,the apparatus is extended, and there
13 a 6teering-whecl, acting on the back
axle, which enables the truck to turn
sharp corners. The three horses attached
to such a lumbering machine must be of
the best, for every minute lo3t in reach
ing a oentre of conflagration means
chances of death or destruction of prop
erty. --Harper's Weeklj.
The "Boss" White oak Tr?p.
Th largest pieces of white oak that
were ever probably sawed to-order and
shipped to this market have been re
ceived by Messrs. Hoberts fc Case, of
New York City. This piece of timber
was thirty inches squire and fifty feet
lone, and measure! 3751) feet board
measure. It weighed 22,500 pounds,
railroad standard weight for green oak
timber. The tree measured over 3j
feet in diameter titty feet fro-n thc
ground. Mr. Caseijays he, has handled
ship timber for thirty years in thU mar
ket, and this is the largest piece of white
oak sawed to size he ever received. An
other piece was also received at thc ?ame
time which was 20x24 and sixty feet
long. The two pieces made 615') feet
and were all that was shipped in two
cars, which cam .from Ohio. New
York Recorder.
f
If There Were a Hols Through th Earlh.
As nobody has ever bored a hole
straight through the earth's center of
gravity from one surface to the other, it
is impossible to say what would happen
if a ball were let fall into such a hoie.
The scientific theory is that the bill
would be attracted straight to the earth'
center of gravity; thnt, by reson of th
momentum thus acquired, it would pis
on through' this center far towards tho
ther side; that it w&uld again fall back
to and beyond the center, and, after
osciilatinig back and forth like a pen Ia
lum, with constantly decreasing swing,
it would at ia.-t settle to rest at the ecu
ter. St. Loub Republic.
THE 3ILNE RAT.
IT
IM.AYS A PROMINENT I'AUT
IN Till; COAL llKCIlONS.
A Die Strike Settled by tlfe Hodenti
A Fierce ami Hungry ilordo
ouip Miners Never
Kill llifiu.
4TTl T "" mne ""d a former
resident of Luzerne, Penn.,
to a New York Sim man,
"is an institution in the coal
regions, and there is nothing the miners
respect mori when everything i running
right. As long as work is going on ia
a mine on any Kind of detent time the
rats have no quaml wFth any one and
everything is lovely. They insist upon
certain rights which the miners recog
nize aud submit to without a murmur.
It is only when a mine becomes idle and
remains so for any length of time that
the rats and the outside world antagon
ize one another. Evei then the miner's
respect for the mine rat will permit him
to take measures against it on y so far
as it is necessary to preserve himself, his
family and his property.
'Miners' strikes have been brought to
a settlement, more t ;an once through the
persistent efforts of mine rats. I remem
ber one strike in particular that the rats
forced to an end. This strike was a
particularly stubborn one. Both miner
and operators refused to budge one
particle from the stand each had taken.
The bosses declared that grass should
grow about the entrance to the mine be
fore they would consent to the demands
of the men, and the men swore they
would cut and eat that gras, if they had
nothing else to eat, rather than yield a
single point to the bosses.
"The strike lasted so long that the
mules were taken, from the mine and
turned out to pasture, aud when that is
done during a coal mine strike it is a cer
tain indication that there is to be along
cessation of operations in that miae.
That was the signal for tho rats to take a
hand in the difficulty. Miners and their
families may starve for a principleif they
choose, but the mine rat proposes to
live, just the same, and, if the mineri
abondon him and cut oft his supplies of
mule feed, his chances of purloining ot
sharing in the miners' lunches or eating
a mule itself now and then, he will have
to come to the surface and look about
him. That is what the rats -in thii par
ticular mine did when they ot tired of
waiting for operations to resume. The
mine was a. big one, and its rat popula
tion immense. The rats left the mine
and litterally took possession of its con
tiguous village. They quartered them
selves in ami about the miners' shanties,
drove away the cats and dogs, and often
made it unsafe for the goats. They liv?d
on the none too plentiful supplies th
miners possessed and became, a swarming
terror.
"The strike continued and the sup
plies of the strikers gradually became ex
hausted. Miners of neighboring collier
ies, who wore not affected by the strike,
came to thc relief of their impoverished
brethern. They sent a two-horse wagou
load of provisions to then. A commit
tee took the supplies in charge an1
stored th?m in a building from which
they were to bo distributed according to
the necessities of the strikers.
"The very first night of their arrival
the storehouse was raided by nine rats
and everything devoured or carrle I away.
Another wagon load was forwarded by
sympathizing fellow miners, and a guard
set upon the goods. Hundreds of the big,
fierce, hungry mine rat? charge I the guard
at uight, drove him away, a-id the. sec-
oad fcupp'y of provisions disappeared
j ,!e,,'"! luejI- wuinwKvuewiv.
' in? miners revictuaHel in this way, and
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four times the mine rats captured the
tores. Tnis combination of the mine
rats i with the operators was more than
the strikers could hold o against, and
they finally went to wirk oa the best
terms they could obtain, absolutely j
beaten by the determined horde of mine
rats.
'It is i curious fact that if a mine
j aoaaaocea oy me workmen euner on
j strike or because of lack of work, the
j rats will follow them to their homes ia-
variably if the mine lies idle for any
i length of time, but if a mine his to be
abandoned because of accidents, such as
fall of roof, gas explosions or Are, the
the rats will seek : other mines in the
neighbor'aoo! where work is goia oa.
Then there is trouble and plenty of it.
"Tii-e rats aluaiy inhibiting that
mine object to the horde of newcomers,
and regular pitched battles ensue. These
continue for two or throe days. Thea
the situation teems to bo accepted by the
home rats, and the miners have to take
it. The combined armies of rata over
run' the mine, and, the regular means of
sustenance not being sufficient for the
increased demand, the rats become so
bold and persistent that not even the
males are safe whea left ty themselves.
I have often heard miners say that on oc
casion of this kind it was a common
thing o"find the stable floors covered
with hundreds of rats that had been
trampled to death by the mules, as it
seemed to be a passion with the rats to
gnaw the fetlocks of the mules, and they
often succeed m eating them entirely
away, despite the frantic kicking and
tramping of the animals and thc scores
of their own members that were crushed
beneath their feet.
"In one mine, a few years ago, mat
ters became so desperate from the enor
mous increase of rata, owing to the car
ing in of a neigboring mine, that the
miners haa to take desperate measures or
surrender the mine to the invalers. It"
was impossible to keep enough feed oa
hand for th? needs of the mules, and the
poor beasts grew so thin that they could
scarcely do their work. Even the miuera'
soap, lamp oil, and other supplies used
in their work were devoured by the army
of rnts that overran the chambers.
The persistent animals would gnaw
through the tool boxes ia incredibly
luief time end empty them in a twin
kling of all portable ami edible stores.
The miners were forced to bury their
dinner buckets beneath piles of coal to
keep the contents away from the rati, and
even then the hungry animals often ex
cavated tho hidden food. Not a day
passed but one or more miners would be
compelled to light with a diorde of sav
aire rats that disputed with him for tho
possession of his lunch. The miners at
last laid aside their tools and devoted
their time to decreasing the rat popula
tion of that mine. The mules were
taken out. and i$ all Darts of tha tnino
poisoned food was scattered plentifully.
This was keep up for three days, and tho
rerult was most satisfactory. The third
day three mine cars were heaped full of
dead rats that were gathered from tho
tunnel floors, and the two tons of car
casses were carted to tho outside and
buried in one great pit dug for the pur
pose. Operations were then resumed,
the rats left bein'g on a peace footing."
"As a general thing a miner will not
harm a mine rat. Some miners, especi
ally of the old school, would almost as
soon think of killing their children as a
min rat excent uu such occasions as I
have mentioned. Thcn miners regard
the rats as safeguards and infallible pre
eagers of dinger in a - mine.- They have
an instinct, the miners Kay, that warm
them of a pending fall of roof or similar
disaster, and when they are been eurry
ing away from one m ction of a mine to
another the workmen know that the
rata are giving them a danger signal,
and they hurry away in response to it.
The chance are ten to one thnt thero
will eoou be a cave-in mor i or lew seri
ous in the part of the mine thus aban
doned by the Tr, as long experience and
observation ha v 3 amply proved. Tho
superstitious miner b'dieve that the JaiQO
rat gives warning of this by somr super-
natural it osmscs, but the practical
man expituns it by the theory that whea
j a mine begins to work, as tho quiet'
j settling of one preparatory to a cave-ir
in called, the rats arc disturbed in their
hiding places, and 'they hurry away to
seek place- of safety.
"The mine rat is ordinarily as big as
two of the common house rat, and is
possessed of amazing intelligence. To
1e called fis smart as a rain; rat it to re
ceive the hig'-.et compliment in tho
mining re;io.n. .It is uo infrequent thing
for a miner tn i some pirticuUr rat to
form a strong attucSmc-nt .'or &ch other,
and I have often a mii'-r and a big,
bright-eyed mif-e rat lunching together
like two old er mie., a quarter of a mile
do au in black depths of th; earth.
A Nw I r. dm try For America.
Preparations are being mide ia this
country for the manufacture of a now
mteria! for lining vessel. It is made
frm the cellulose of cooanu'-a, which
his the property of absorbing eight
times its weight of water. The materia',
which is made iav sxeki. is used as a
lining for vessels, and it is not only ex
tremely dirScult to make a hole ia It,
but should it be puncture 1 by shot of
aay otUcr meais the inrush of water will
'wiVK ta-r e'Tect
of instantly expa ling
th-- milcrtal and tiding u
Nca York Tc-ieiriaui.
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