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i ii- i ii w o M ESTABLISHED 1H 1878. . -t nto-intain in the "world TV c; .r-taliliobe'l Everest in the vz- M'Iini 'Hercules, ia New' . ..... L- a rrtnr Aoa ttftoy It j3i -1. ' r: Worl I prints a list . r.n f,fKfTS who will iiava tn J'J-' prsriir" tax of 81000 and up W. W. Astor'a tax i set at CM giM (Vt Mrs. Hettie Green pays pore th in any other woman. The 'Ice it -'1 rabbit of Australia is W;n? nmiously inquired for by the I'.riti-h fir:a.v contractor, records the At. rin Agriculturist, who sees a ptv.!! f-ipply of cheap and whole .me f 1 2r the army in that direc tion. The stock of the Pullman Company, c-.f 8''',0.)f,000, Bell for $174 to $172 a fhiro '!'ar valuo being 8100). Tho company rays on this 836,000,000 of ftock a dividend of two per cent. , pay -b!e quarterly, or eight per cent, per i:nu Mi. . TLrco Vmndred Japanese reside in SV York City. They do not live to gether in a colony like many other foreigners because they aro divide J by thf ir interests into distinct classes, and, in addition, they aro wealthy enough to be able to live wherever the-y please. r Alaska's mail service has heretofore teen dependent upon Eskimo dogs. Ileindeers, however, are so much bet ter for the purposo that the Govern raent has imported several families of Laplanders to teach the natives of Alaska how to train and use this ani taaL A promoter in California proposes lo build an electric railway through . ' , loHonnte alley, aud, by utilizing the wattr power, furnish electric light and motors for all that region. About 4000 tourists visit tb.3 Yosemite every year, paying $35 each for the stage rile. Trcaru statesmen, notably M. XjC Tilio, aro endeavoring to extend to lYne the benefit of the American ho:u!-t-a 1, and as there is no word in tho French tongue which is a proper equivalent for it, tho word "home fcb'a I" is rotaincl in a bill that has Wen introduce.! iu tho Ciiu-ierof lAq-uties. rv r old Handel is to be stripped of hi h iu rs, lameuts the New Orleans lVivune. Tbo critics call him a pia-iiirist, and Dr. Chrvsunder is b'.' ) ,t to issuo a learned tcrios o! vo'.u nes c.dlo 1 "Iho Sources of Uan del's Works."' Tho great murician is Ion; a;o demonstrated that there was r.otlnu; original about Shakspearo'a work?, except his goniu. A fcientlst employed by the State t Indiana reports that tho supply of natural gas iu Hoosierdom will onu be exhausted, and that tho same fatp awaits gas fields wherever they nifiy exist. He does not rest this up on iiisbaro assertion, adds tho Detroit Freo Press, but gives reasons at length which admonish tho holders of natural gas stock to iet go if thay can. One of the tricks of tra le is for tad fc'pkeepers iu London to include the weight of the paper in which articles sold are enveloped. It has been shown that a hu.e profit is made in this way. For instance, the report f the Public Control Department of th? County Council states that in a recent ease it was hown that a firm of tea dealers ?o!d a.s quarter-pouuds of tea packets iich contained four drachms weight of paper, an 1 that on this the firm profited to the extent of some thou sands a year. The result of the in vestigation ia London was thit out of 533 bags of flour weighed ready for delivery 427 were found of deacient weight, Xhv deficiency amounting to over two per cent. ; m 40; packages of sugar 377 were fount to be short weight, while out of 23i packages of tea ninety-nine were short weight tj the extent of over two per cent. In addition to the los by weigat of tho wrapper, it was found that in a num ber of eases the gross weight of tho rackets was short EY THE WAVES. Crisp nn ! etmin?, o't unfurling Caps of fiivery loan?, Hte the breakers, frolic maker?, Chasing p'aynaites horn'?. Tripping, skipping, slipping, dripping, F vst th children fly Up th sh:n-Se, toes a-!lnglo Ro the day s by. WavMs cresrainjr, sunshine gleaming, In the shining sin !., Gay nu 1 merry, t old au 1 cheery, I)ph the small brown hanis. Drift in- lifting, rifting sifting, 'Neath the smiling sky On lh: shingle pleasures ming!, And tha day kops by Great eloa is glowln. wild winds blowing, Niht draws ou apao ; ; Eyes dep yearning see the burning L imps in starry space. Flyintr, si-bins, low replying. Thoughts salute the sky Home we r ither, O Our Father, And the iay cops by. Misry Iiuth Rogers, in Harper's Bazar. ASTREA. EY HELEN FORP.EST GRAVES. HE big clock in the City Hall cupola pointed to the hour oi twelve, the chimes of Old Trinity had just cast their mantle of music to the winds, and the roar and tumult of Broadway rose to the open windows of room No. 19 in the Nutley build ings like the hum of a monster beehive. Old Jethro Black sat patiently, with his hands on his pepper-and-salt knees, and the sultry wind lifting the few straggly hairs from his bald head,s his eyes fixed dreamfiy on the floor. "If Keturah Jones were here, them boards "would be scoured whiter'nthey are now, I guese," he thought. Asfrea, ' his grand-daughter, was coiled up in a big leather office-chair, her scared eyes flitting restlessly from one object to another, while the rowa - , , , , , , , of musty law books kept an unwmk ing watch from their shelves above and the little office boy played marbles ia the hall beyond. "Grandfather," murmured Astrea, "I I think I'm just a little hungry. Is there one of those chicken sand wiches left?" The old man slowly unfolded a thrifty brown paper packages that re posed in one of his coat pockets. "Just one," said he, "and cherries, but they're sort o' crushed up." "Rnt rranlfahpr tvhnf will -vtxn t --, " J ri eat?" "Me? I ain't hungry, child, lots o breakfast." I ate Are there not some pious fictions which the recording angel will slur over when he makes up the debit and the credit of us poor mortals? Astrea crept close to the old man's knee, and nibbled eagerly at the re mains of thfr luncheon. "Grandfather," she whispered, "Xew York's an awful big place. I'm almost sorrv wo came here. I-rl'm afraid of New York, ain't you?" Just then the sound of brisk foot- steps echoed on the stairs, the door flew open, and a tall, well dressed man entered.- 4Ilal!" he ..ejaculated. "Why,1 with a penetrating glance, "it's Cousin Jethro Black, isn't it? And little Star Eve-s grown into- a big girlj The oJlice bov told me some one had been waiting here for me; but I never thought of you !" 'We went to vouv house on Madi son avenue," explained Mr. Black, in a subdued way, "but there wa'n't no one to home but a cleanin woman, with her hea l tied up in a red hanke- :her, and she said the folks was gone to Bar Bar-.-some barbarous placed other. I can't rightly recall the 9 nam?.' The' gentleman laughed. 01i. Bar Harbor !" said he. "Well, she spoke truth. They are gone !" for in Cousin Jethro's wrinkled face he traced some lineaments of - doubt. "I've only come back to town for a day or two myself. Going back this afternoon. Well, what can I do for vou?" sitting down with a eenial smile. "It's about Astrea," said the old man. "A trei, she's seventeen now, and there don't ?eem to be nothin' for her to tio m hulas aiiev. one a a smart, handy ga anl that year your little Barbara had the whoopin' cough, and the hull family came out to stay HILLSBORO, N. Cf SATURDAY- OCTOBER 13, the summer, your wife took consid able notice of Aatrea. "Yes, I remember that year,' said Mr. Etdon, "You were rery kind t us. You refused to accept any com pensation, and Mrn. Black nursed lit tle Barbe back to health rerr tender- "Betsey's dead and gone now," said the old man, swallowing a lump in his throat. "And we never expected to charge our relations no thin for breath- in' God's fresh mir and eatin' the ber ries that glowed on every bush. But about Astrea. I've got to go West to live with my eister's husband a poor paralytic creetur. I dun no's Tve eV plained to you that things have sort o' run down in Kidd's Valley. We've had to part with the farm, and now that Uezekiah Hall needs care, it makes sort of home for me. But they hain't no room for Astrea, so I've brought her here. I thought maybo your wife could think up 3ome wy for .Ler to earn a living. She's a tall, strong gal, you see, and nice-ldokin', too" As Uea hung down her head and blushed "aud she might help your gals with the housework, or mebbe get a place somewhere where she'd be treated well and not put to too hard work." Mr. Eldoa screwed his month into a wfcistlinj shape. Help bs girls Elaine and Barbara with the housework I s he thought of those radiant young belles at Bar Harbor, he had difficulty in repressing a laugh. Then, with the recollection of the numerous peculiarities of his lady wife, a loo' of perplexity overspread his face as Cousin Jethro Black maun dered on . "So I guess I'll leave Astrea with you, Uousm Wallace, lor my train leaves at 2 o'clock." A sudden burst of tears from Astrea a feeble wail of "Grandfather! grandfather!" a whispered "Good- by 1" and the old man was gone, leav- Astrea looking piteously into Mr. El- don's face. 'What will Mrs. Eldon say?"thought the lawver. Sut there seemed to be no alterna tive but to obey the pointing finger of fate, and the evening train bore As trea Black toward the haven of fashion on the far Maine coast, with the dis tant relative by her side. She was only seventeen, and shnad never been out of Kidd's Valley in her life, so that all the surrounding world was full of the indescribable flavor of freshness. She exclaimed aloud with delight? sisrht of the scenery. She was not at all seasick on the boat, but bought peanuts and munched apples, ate green peas with her knife and questioned Mr. Eldon in a very audible whisper as to the use of the finger bowls at the steamer dinner table. "What a wild girl of the woods!" said the New York lawyer to himself; and again he thought of his wife's probable verdict, "But she has got eyes like a young deer, and those straving curls make me think of a J wild grapevine, and I do not like to hear her laugh!'' ! 1 John Eldon was at the pier to meet the Portland boat on which his father was expected. Astrea ran un the can sr-plank like a bitten and stood on tip-toe to kiss him. "It's Jack !" she cried, breathlessly ; "and Jack don't know me I Oh, Jack, don't "you remember that awful day when me and you threw eggs at the old minister's chase? Don't you re member--" And Jack, ai elegant young gentle- l 'i 1 1 -A J man in a wnue auc snu uu eye- glasses, stood appalled. But he im- mediatelv recovered himself. "Why it's little Astrea!" said he. m "Of course I remember you only you've grown so tall." 'Mother" ill be surprised, said Mr. Eldon, with a queer shrug of the shoulders. "Yes," said Jack, hurriedly, "I think she will." Mrs. Eldon viewed the new arrival withconsternation. Barbara, a grace- I fai cirl o nineteen, dressed in the ex- trem$ of .-esthetic fashion, stored at Astrea's pink gingham frock and country boots. Elaine kissed her cordially. "What red cheeks you've got !" said she. "And, oh, what do you put on I your eyelashes to make them grow so Ion; 5J "Wallace," said Mrs. Eldon, "what are we to do with this human pan theress who jumps over the lower half of the colonial door instead of opening it, and laughs so loud, and chews gum like a cash -girl?" "The best we can," Mr. Eldoa promptly answered. "She's an or phan, Cleo, and she's alone in the world." "But couldn't we get her some sort of a place?" "An untamed creature like this? Why, it would be as cruel as caging a thrush ! What could she do in a place?" Mamma," whispered Barbara, its dreadful! With our garden party to night, and Mr. De Ravelle coming, and the Biltervans, and all those peo ple. Aetreais determined to be there. It's impossible to put her off!" "But she has nothing to wearl" era sped Mis. Eldon. "Elaine's maid is fixing her that old heliotrope tulle with the crystal bead trimming," said Barbara. "Elaine is so verv oecodiar about it. She de clares that Astrea is our oousin, and should have every thing just the same as ourselves." V "Elaine is a goose !" petulantly ut ter ed tho matron. '3he don't know that business is getting worse And worse every year, and that our only hope is in this summer's campaign. J wish to goodness this girl had stayed in the country, raisingjturkeys and straining buttermilk if that's the way they do it i But your father is differ ent from any one else, and when h once gets his head set in any one di rection, sixteen yoke of oxen wouldn't turn it?" - SoAstrea stayed at Bar Hurbor, pette 1 by one an I all, when once the, shock was over. Elaine and her maid improvised toilettes for her, and she began to feel at home. Some people called her original; others scarned her as a mar .3 dairy ran id. But she was happy, iu a wild, spirit-like sort of . way, until o.i3 day suddenly changed the aspect of every thing. "I can't help it," aul Jack "1 love her' And I must have her for niv wife !" - 'John," remonstrated his mother, "yixu ought to know " - "L o.ily kuo v one thinr," persisted Jack, the impetuous "1 love Astreil" The girl herself lojke I piteously up in Mr. El don's face.' 4Til go aw.iy fro n h?re," said sh?. "if Jack jvill really be mined by marrying me. I I don't want to ruin Jack not if Idrowu myself first I" And she burt out fcobbiug. "You're tile sweetest little darling in the" world," biu1 Jack, "and I'd like no better fun than to go out West with you und settle on a ranch." "Bui ranches cost money," said Barbara. "Then I'd hire out as a hand," said Jack, rebelliously. "I'm good at breaking horses." "And I'd make the butter and fee J the chickens," said AsJTea, joyfully. "You are two silly children, said Mrs. Eldon. Yet all of a sj(fden something seemed to bring back to her the lost sweetness of departed youth, anl her eves were momentarily dimmed with tears. "Mamma, pleaded Elaine, "it will hurt Jack if you oppose this thing and Astrea loves him so dearly !" "Bat there's Gwendoline Ballersby, with that great East Indian fortune I sobbed Mrs. Eldon, torn by conflict ing emotions. "What's a fortune," cried Elaine, "if love don't go with it" - "Well," said Mr. EMja, -'i'j'n the natter is settle I. If J.;k g3J Yvst, we all go West tojet'il-r. For since Jennifer k Goldie's bmkin hr.nhvs failed, we're all equally psnaibii.' "Hurrah!" said Jack, flinging np his polo cap. "Then it doalt make any difference whether I marry as heiress or noi'" "Please, my lady." said the solemn footman, "there's a gentleman be low; and when I asked hini for hi card, he said he never bad one in hi? house his principles was ag:n it. "Oh," shrieked Astrea, whohai an conventionally peeped over the Tjalus- ter rail, "it's gT an ifather ! It grand father, come back from the West!" I "Another pauper to maiaUml sighed Mrs. El Jos. 1894.NEW SERIES-VOL. Old Jethro Black came smiling into the group, leanin j on a gold headed cane an I wearing a suit of black fclothes in which he seemed to feel ex. cessively uncomfortable. "Yes," said he, "1'vo com back. Sy brother, he's been took away at last, and he's left me enough to keep me in comfort the rest of my dsya. He was a savin' creetur, Urzekiah was, and there'll be a nice little sum for Astrea. It won't be necessary for Astrea to take no situation now. Don't squeeze rae so tight round the neck, child; don't you s'pose a fel low's got to' hev breathin room? You've been very good to Astrea. Wal lace Eldon, and What! goin to be married to Jack? Why, twa'nt but yesterday Jack was robbin Dtacon Peek'c melon patch an gittiu me into trouble chasm' Squire Olney's young colts round the medders!" "We're glad to see you, Mr. Black, said Jack, cordially wrinjrinsr hi hand. "Have vou got a farm out 4 West for Astrea and me to run?" The old man smiled. . . "1 shouldn't a bit wonder," sail he. Meanwhile there was a buzz of gossip all through the Bar Harbor circles. Out on the decks of white-winged yachts, in the gay streets and on the rocky slopes of Green Mountain, people were asking one another: "Have you seen the Western million sire?" "Have you heard how many gold mines he owns and what those new city lots are selling for?" Everywhere people stopped to shake hands with Eldon anl congratulate him on the great match his son was about to make. The very Biltervans themselves condescended to inquire as to the mine shares. Claude do IUvelle bemoaned his ill-luck iu that he had not "made eyes" at fair Astrea Black. And Mrs. Eldon declared that - she could not believe her ears. "Littlo Astrea an heiress!,' said she. "It's like a dream?'' Again old Jethro smiled. "Astrea is a fortune in herself," aalrt he, "All tiie sam?, mat s no reason there shouldn't go a fortune with her, too. I kind o' suspicioued this when first llezekiaii sent for me. Hut I wa'nt goin' to let on. I wanted to see how she'd bj tratt here. An' I'm suited, down to the ground." While Asirea's soft eyes sparkle I. "Money is all vrv well," sail she. "But what I think most of is thai Jack loves me." Saturday Night. f Ctismeleon Spider. "It has always be?n a hobby of mine," said T. 1j. Clnmshaw, of Ilaleigh, N. C, yesterday, "to collect strange bugs an 1 insects during my travel?, and I think 1 have; succeeded in getting together a prehy choice collection. Of the whole assortment I think the chameleon spider which I got last summer on the coatt of Africa is the most valuable. The capture of this insect was highly interesting to me. One afternoon, while tramping along a dusty roa 1, I notice I in the bushes which grew along the side whtt appeared to be a singular-looking white flower with a blue center. Stop ping to examine it I foun 1 to my as tonishment that it was not a flower at al, but a spider's web, and that the suppose 1 light blue heart of the flower was the spider itself lying in wait for it prey. "The mottled brown legs of the spider were exposed in such a way as to resemble the divisions between the petals of a flower. The web itself. very ueuca.j ou ..- - . 1 I : a 1 r e m- vntaM m nattern. was white, and tne tnreaai paneru, that suspended it from the busnei 1 , , tL-. . ... were so fine as to be almost invisible. The whole thing had the appearand of being suspended ia th air upon a stem cone Jaled beneath. Upon , the spider from hi perca . .4 4 . i aite gaaze net which I car- knocking into tae wmte gaa ried, tiy surprise was gTeatly in creased upon seein? my $pxiTs in stantly tura in color from blue to white. I shook the at, andaain the spider change 1 color, this time its body becoming a dull greeaUh brown. As often a I wol I thskeithe net just to often would the spider change :tj color, an 1 I kept it up nut:! :t has as sumed absut every hue of the rain bow." St. Louis, Globe-Democrat.' Biids and bee freqaeatly fight pitched b&ttlee over honey stored ia J time to increase the speed to thirty trees. Sometimes lone side and some I aii. Chicajro Herald. I times the other comes oat victorious. : . . - . . XIII. NO. 7 rVeataalf 014 Ate. 'In my eightieth year." wrote llu?a boldria IS 19, "I asv still enabled tj enjoy the satisfaction of cmpletin? a third edition of my work, ramoMin. it entirely to meet the requirement of tho present time. Five year UUt Humboldt was hard at work complet ing his "Cosmos. . Dr. Johnson, when seventy-tar years old, and while staggering under an attack of paralysis snmciently severe -to render him speeehlea. composed Latin prayer in order to teat the lo or retention of his mental faculties. A few years before hU death he upplio t himself to the study of tho Dutch tau- . guage. In one morning shortly be fore his death he amused himself by committing to memory 80 J lines of Virgil. Arnauld translate 1 Josephui wheu eighty years old, and at the age of eighty-two was still referred to as "the great Arnauld." Sir Henry Spelman, who passed his early life as a farmer, began his acien tific studies at fifty years ot age. and before his death came t be kuown ai the most learned antiquary and legal authority of his time. Dante proposed to translate the whole "Iliad" when in his sixty-eighth year, and his most pleasing produc tions were written in his old age. Michael Anjelo preserved his crea tive genius to extreme old a e. His favorite motto i sai l to have been, "Yet I am learning." Sir Christopher Wren, who retired from public life at the aje of eighty six, spent the next five yeara in liter ary, astronomical au I religious studies. The era of three score an I tea ia an agreeable ao for writing," wrots Decker. "Your mind has not lost it vigor and envy leaves you in psase." The opening of one of La Moth lo Veger's treatises is as follows: "I should but ill return the favors Go t has granted mo iu tho eightieth year of my ago should I allow myself to give way to that thameles waut ot oc cupation which I have condemnc I all my life." New York Sun. Tht Smkt Catcher. The selling of snakes to scientific men, to manufacturers who uso the kinp, and to museums is a business which a man and his wife, who live in Mississippi houseboat, engage in. The strange coupio were interviewed the other day by the reporter for m. New Orleann paper. The man does mot of the snake-catching, and, al though he has been bitten several time, ho considers the experience, jnly a trifling incident of his trade. A rattlesnake, for instance, when pursued," he says, "coils and is ready to defend himself. I flip a stone o iraall piece of stick at him ; ho un coils and starts off, but bofore he cast again coil I have him back of the neck. No, I use no stick nothing bat my bare hands. You may laugh, too, when I tell you that our snake lor teaches us not to hunt when tho wind is in the northwest. If we do, we find no snakes. The principal seasons ot the year for us are spring and fall ; the snake are then fat anl produce lots of oil." 01 all the snakes in the United States only three families, he vs, can be classed as deadly. "Bat, he aids, "these families comprise about thirty-two pecie, distributed.; as follows: Rattlesnakes, seven; cot-' tonmouths, eight ; copperheads, seven teen, the two latter being raoscasins and dwellers in the swamps and low nlacis." The snake -catcher's method .... t 4rot. 0f treating bite u as follows : "When , . . , , bitten, I immediately tie abaad above , - . Hi w .'in l tmtttnv tha latter UeftDlV I .. . . . 1 ia or Jer to cause it to bleed freely, sad to reach below the extremity pierce! bv the fsng. Tnt cut u the v ' 9 ..... , sucked, or warm, newly killed fleah .. , x , . , .. - Tht cut is then if. sppHed,' anl the remedies are then rabbei into the woaad, neaUaliiicg; the poison. An ExtrorJloiry Insect, The "raft spider, " foaal ia Terra del Faej-o, is a most extraordinary ta aoct. It derives its name from th fact thit it coastrncu a raft of matted leaves and pieces of wool, whieh it ue to partus its prey oa the water. Baft spiders traTel ia fours. They tnAk their oars oat of twigs aal jrcuerallv row a thirty-two atrok. j although they have been known at l v
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