52 mm 11t WW L. M. BKAJL.E, Ed Uor. "la E-ntiala l'n.;v I:i No:. lH nti i!.- Li-rrv In AS: Things Chant v " : ") Per Vr; VOL. X. POTECASI. NORTHAMPTON Co., N. ( , MAY 24, ls8. a x to i m X. Pope Leo has ordered that the walls' around the Vatican palace at Rome be ! heightened. High buildings have been erefed in the neighborhood which overlook the -garden in which the Pope i takes his solitary iailv walk. Buffalo is about to build a drivewav tUt whole twenty-seven miles to Niagara Falls that is meant to be t he handsomest in the world, and the local papers have a liveiy fightas to whether or not he shal. be styled "th Boulevard." A Swedish farmer has hit upon fhe idea of lighting his farm by electric lights, and ha purchased a dynamo and connected it with a waterfall close by. He intends also to employ it for working threshing machines, and for similai work. It is reported a stock company is being formed which expects to control the en tire sorghum crop of the country through the use of a new patent process. This company claims to be able to produce sugar from sorghum cheaper than cane ! ?"g , Ty noaS et S0In t jj-i- - ' from sunrise to sundown at an easv, sugar. In addition to the sugar works swinging gallop that brought no dijj now at Fort Scott, Kan., the company, comfort to the rider, and at a rate of during the summer, will erect three new sPeec- not much slower than the average factories, one of them in Topeka. - ' frf ght ?ia ia An?erica. Uninterrupted 1 i rides of from one hundred to one hun- ' dred and twenty miles are nothing to the Thoroughbred Turcoman, and it was Wichita, Kan., resorted to a unique due much more to the excellence of his measure to reduce its tramp population, ! 8t,e?1 th?n 8tujdy bravery and love which preriously seemed incapable of diminution. Two freight cars were hired and, after filling them with the stern opponents of work, they were at tached So an east-bound train, several guards going along to prevent any of the tramps .Ha charut. on the living load of freight were paid for fifty miles. The rapidiy growing popularity of savings banks in the South, remarks the Memphis Aralut he, is the best proof which could be given of the solid founda tion upon which its prosperity is based. A' few years ago there were not half a doen of those institutions south of the Ohio Kiver. Now there are several in every one of the larger cities. They are all doing a good business, and it is daily growing in volume. Tn Philadelphia, reports the Xew York Graphic, there seems to be discontent in regard to some statuary, as in other cities. A statue representing "A Lion ess Carrying a Wiid Boarto Her Young," designed for a public park, has been crit icised as "too sanguinary, 'as ' likely to have a bad effect up in children," and as inappropriate. One critic said "he would rather see more statues of -the early men of the country, instead of filling th park with men on horseback all dressed in the same .uniform." An ingenious writer has been figuring out in the Contemporary Rsri c the com parative burden of the natiocal debts and war expenditure of the chief European nations and that of the United States. Taking France and England together he shows that the pay some $407,000,000 a year on their public debt, and $340,000,000 for army and navy, - besides giving up to- military service the productive energy of T:J0, " able-bodied men. Estimating the value ol this labor at $100 ei- h. there is an 'other $7;,000,000 . to bo added to the, annual charge which France and ling land pay for thgir armies, navies an i debts. This, it will be seen, reaches the appalling total of $n.m,m0'VVK to l paid by a p?pulati:n only Z per cent, greitcr than that of the United States, and one cvrtainly very much ies able to bear such a bur" den. As againt this we pay a little more thin $lou.0. . 000 a year for army, navy and deb:, leaving $670, 000,001 a year in our favor as compared with France and Eneland together. That, under such condition, this country must go ahead in the race for world supremacv as rapidly and as 6urely as European nations must fall be- j xceprioca! case, dictated more by pol i;nd nd no nrnnhet. to foretelL 1 icy than a lore of gain. - Cumo. HORSES IN THE ORIENT BEM ARK ABLE FEATS AND TBA.IN INO OF THE TURCOMAN STEED I'ninterrnptfMl Rides of Over lOO Miles a Common Occurrence Preparing Equine for a Itaid On hi native heath the Turcoman horse can't be beat. Some of the feats : accomplished by him sound almost in i credible; and jet they are true as gospel. ., I saw a Turcoman horse in Teheran th-.it j had once belonged to a chief of the ! Tekke-Turcomaus. and had been cap tured on the raid during which his master was slain. This horse, standing , eighteen hands high, with broad, flat hoofs, and of an iron-gray tinge, was the , scion of a long line of remarkable an cestors, each one famous in the tradi tion il. .songs of the desert. II is name was liirj dar lieKinht (Ligntning from Heaven , and he deserved it. Poor old ; Lutf Ali Khan, his dead master, ha i once 'successfully conducted a raid into I Khorasaan, a distan e of two hundred miles from the Turcoman border line, riding Barg all the way. During the four days of this raid spent on Persain territory the horse ha d made one hundred and fifty miles in one day, only once diking a few mouthfuls of water and Turkestan, the Tekkesand Ufcbeks, were able to maintain the r independence for so many centuries, although they were u ceaseless go-"d in the sides of their neigh bors, the Persians, Afghans, Chinese and Russians. But the training of these horses is something remarkable too. .JLet, us sup- pose tnat Mohammed Izzet halm, the young chieftain of the Uzbek?, is medi tating a raid into Persian territory. His larder is t mpty and his harem needs re- Elenishing. His de-ert home will give im nothing but fleet horses, herds of cattle, and what they yield. But there is Persia, jut a few days' journey o:i, with its fertile valleys, its rich trad and pretty women: and, since it is inhabited by a race of infidels sSheeites, while the Turcomans are Suuuites), it is r glr co-is and profitable as well to despoil them. So the youthful Khan thrusts his Iool' spear into the turf next to his tent, and one of his dependants at the same time proclaims in a sonorou3 voice that Mo hammed Izzet Khan, a pillar of the Tekke tribe, a young lion whoe courage never faded, and whose prey never escaped, is ready to go forth on a cru;ade against the unbelieving dogs, the Farsees, wor shippers of false apostle of Allah. Th field, will be taken against the indde'.s at the time of the next new moon and all those wishing to j oin him, to swear alle giance to him, bee .me hi true comrades in arms and share in the spoil?, may c6xe forth with n five days. The raid is arranged. Some one hun dred and seventy younmen of the io' (nomad village pledge their faith to the chieftain, and then two weeks ' are left to make everything ready. Now is the time to put "the horses through their peculiar training. Every one of the raiders needs two, one to ride, one to ! carry his baggage and to mount in case '. his own horse is disabled or killed. All, tvac hores are put for a few days to a' laxative renim- n, and then the tool and water allowance of the horse is gradually reduced to inure him to privation. For two days before the departure' the horse is fed exclusively on bills of highly con centrated food, the two principal in- gredients of which are suet and si:te l barley flour. This pjts the hor-e in first-class condition. His coat be .m-s glossy, and his eves gain in mimit.on Thus he starts, and, during a rc:.; last ing often five or six davs, the aaiu.ai ;b--ists on nothing buf the tough, wiry buftalo urass that grew-! w:; 1 :ml a drink of water .ace in a long wh:!-. Hi- rider retu-ns t- his - , la len with p il and with a fair n-w iumite or two for his harem a.l due to- th" etra ordinary speed, frugality and en h;ra-v e of hi charger. Is it any wonder that the Turcoman values his h .r-e higher thin anything else on carta and that th- In-: h res in Ti-rketa:i cannot b-s p eh.ised.' C'aes have c a d where an imprisoned Turcoman, one.-ed life -Kid l.berty in exchango for j is: on piece of ransom his horse has in i g nantly refjsed. and s tillered torture an i death" rather than give i:p his cherish-1 idol to his hated a:.d HMpis-d enem.e. the l'ersiaa. A noted Turcoman sta. -ion. l'amagh T-heshme. was re-nt1y sold to the new iovernor of Huss an Turkestan for an immense sum, viz. tifty -three th usan i roubles .tweaty fT(n thousand dollars . but this was aa Whf Bain Does Not Kail Equally in All I'l. ces We have learned t..it rain is caue 1 ' by the coolirjg an 1 toa ien5 iliou of the moisture in the Air. Hearing this in mind, let, us study fLe urfe rf our country and sec why tae rain does not fall equally on all pan of it inMei i d falling very abundant.; in some p! ic s, as ia New ng',;i:.d, aud some of the Gulf Statr-s, and vtry sparingly in many part? of the West, a :n New Mexico and Arizoqa. x The winds which 1 -w to this countrv from the south andvi t, bc.n" warm tropical winds, ranh.M much moisture, and are full of thi i:.vi,:ble vapor of water which they Jure takea from the Gyilf of Mexico and th;. o.eis. Coming to the cooler land, they gradually cooled.' Their moisture, thereTor'.-. falls as rain while they uass over th land, till, by the time they reach western Kansas and Colorado, the moisture being gone, no ., more rain can fall. Br. t the winds which come to thi country f.-om th north and west are colder than the land, and, as they swef p over it, toward the south and east, they gradua'ly become warmer; so that instead of giing up their moisture in the-form of rain, they are constantly taken up moisture fro:i the earth. It is for this reason that our north and wet winds are dry wind. and mean fair f weather; while the so. th and east winds bring rain. For this reason, also, the Eastern and Southern States have an abundadc e of rain , whi.e the Central and ' Western states are very dry. j And tmere is still another point to be considered. We already have noted the fact that at gTeat heights the air is ; cooler. Hence, when a warm wind full ; of moisture comes blowing across the country and strikes a mountain range, ; it binds upward and rises high in the ! air to pass over. In s doing it becomes j cooled, giving up its moisture, and passes over to the other side a dry wind, i t is for this reason that some islands, ' ike the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific ! Ocean, where the win Is bow almost always from the same direction, are sub- I ject to almost ccn ;nuous rain on i one aide while cn the other raia is exceedingly rare. TVs al how why 1 California, weal 'of t Herra Nt uda ' mountains, receives ufhVient rain to make the soil fit for cultivation; while Nevada, on the east, is nearly rainless and barren. The mo :stureco:niiig from the south and east i all condensed by the Alleghany, the Hoiky, -and the Wahatch ranges ; while th it from the west is cut oil by the Sierras. Hence. th great extent of country known to geolo gists as the Great Ba-du v.hi h reachc frodv regon on the north t Mexico on thesouth. an 1 fro.ji Colorado on tha eas' to the Sierras on th-.- west, compris ing aa are i of not less than '2o i," )0 square m les. which is nearly equal to 1 the whole of France re eive? over s great 'part of- its surf an annua! rain fall! of not ovjr four inohes, and is there fore a desert. Buyfn? liack His Lost ( aste. Falhm as tlie rune has in the esteem of Kurope. the c oi:: has not lot all its migic-workicg o.ver in th- Fast, .iud ciously ue 1 as a Inckshecsb. it can still claim "to rank among th governing p )wers of .society. In on- matter, in deed, it& e:h acy appears to be im reasina rather than dinr.nidntig What won) i it not have cos: a high cjaste Hindoo in former times to recver his casta privileges after io-.ng thm for crossing the ocean.' Som-thousand of rupees, it leat. in sim-i aes. we believe, the e.pene of expiat ng the dea lly sin ran to rive figures Bit. this being aa age of cheapness, the B'ahnrns have teeu tt to reduce the tariff to qu;".e a democratic level. In a recent instance, a young Hindoo, who had be-.n st .'lying engin eering; in KngHr i was : out -caste 1 the mom nt he s-t 'i in. mis native la. j 1 The lamilv wer- "f .re. plung-d in the de-r e-1 li're-- icy the. cruel e:rcnc e . it cut thui o:! f- si rh - poor pariah. a id rV..lcma- 1 him t Lf-d ng degra l.v.:-n. F.u a knv.vmg ! Hrihmin, on b-iug el e i into . . mi K- rather light of i" matt- ai l :I re 1 to negotiate t r trict v rea-oni'.'le l wnrewi ii. g v, t.-rm. i a-r.ir. ge l "lie e n. ' n e ... - .V . - O Ti 1, -- pa m- nt of r ;.- i-t t ' a .r" w a re". :' i to -) .:f.- -' w'a' r r When afJreat Artist Ilegged for Rread. Jean rraj: i ! . t. thA grtre'. '. .ill mo ierr. art : A sa i so-y of ' l a l.fe of p O ua" w.u u Wai t . 1 t the 1-c-ur-r b-: Bos-on. Thv. z u ac :.-. o ian se-e a-j . th.rtv of M ..'.' rlr.e: works a-.'i among them a - e picture of a j izl n x . w ith i he i . -.hit might br Leoa a d) This pic-u-e Mi let had taken to e- ery p'cture h p in Paris to e 1 for th.rt ' franc ol.j o t j buy Ij'j 1 for h s starving fm:ly, and mw the picture would, fetch H".rJ. This was oae reason why the lecturer alvisi any oae of hi hearers wri- WHhe 1 to pa.nt to paiat ftir love gf the art only. San XV.wm'm .4,.! . 4 ' Mvw4r IX A SCTLPTOR'S STIdHO. ISTS BUILD AND WORK IN. and Mrlil Deaih M.nki It was an ; iral. The M'.-y atm ) w:is d.tlt-r-:it f'r m that outride. par photograph a:. 1 c;t iahi .-:. Bits cf bright r::. . g;iv,: . o juctt;h ciTct. and tontratci -Aith th - sombre irnb o' the moss, just as summer do with winter. The mantel wai covered with pictures, bits of sculpture inilynni plaster, and a s ore of sei (d.-:;s The room was full of model. cimIs, casts and buts. ; ." "Where are vo ir hammer and h sel, and marble.' ' asked a rejor!er f r the Atlanta C" .-. She s-ulptpr laughed heartily. "Now, how many people in Atlanta d,i vr.n e!ttr.e ' )i n L- t ! a cc ' ' . u .4i U u . t. v..y.,-4- nrst and on;y work is in niarb.f, and with a hammer and chisel?' S'o. thwart is all in clay every hit. Putting it m marble is merely mechanical. It i just as if , we moll.- 1 in clay, and then by some chemical process could change the clay into marble. TIitc is no art ia that : it is all in the clay. After a death ma.sk is perfected, a mold in plaster will be taken, and then it will be put in mar';)le '' "What is the use in changing it into plaster? Why not take the measurement direct from this?" "It's too soft, and you cannot allow it to harden, for it will crack and draw. There is the death ma.sk of Judge Loch- rane. I am making a marble bust of ; him, and it is being pui into marble now." The mask referred to is in plaster, and . - . , . . 1 . . being taken bv direct impressions from ; . .c ' j i i v i j 1 the lace of the dead, the mask is a vivid , A ., i i tr 4 u icj)iuuui.t.ua iuc wnoir cucca. uriog heightenel by the pallid cidor. The features were perfect. The eyes were closed as if in sleep, and the general ex pression is one of peace and of rt. ThU was takjn soon alter death, and the features are perfectly natural- "That is taken," explained the sculp- r, Mr. Frauzee. "bv impression, the ft plaster being spread over the feat- tor soft ures, ao i blown caretuliv into earn , crevice and wrinkle. Tha' forms the : mold, and the cat ia taken by sirnjily running in planter." "How do you make a me laHi m'' "From photograi)hs, and th-n j.erfect ! them from life ' ' ".-u;p jse the model is dead " Tlieu th- bc-t ofall aids is the death 1 mask. That's true in making 'a bust as : well. J?ut"if we haven't that we get as'' many photographs a w e can -front, three-quarters and profslt. if po-ible. . Th n we work in cl'ay t.ntil. i a. near ' perfect as we. can make it from whit we have to go by, and th n get critic sms upon the work from thvse tint knew the dead. After the clay model ks perfc.t the art work i ouiplete.' "Is th :t cay m a solid lump ' "OU.no We build a frame ot ,traw usually for a b ist. and for a larger tatue a frame or skeleton of woo or iron. (ia pip-- is splendid' ; r ue.c uoes wj cay come irom "It is pot'er s clay from Ohio. I like the New York potter's clay letter, though, and we shall begin using it soon." "Can you use the fame clay over and Dver?" "h, yes. Th? same c'ay would last i life tim-, but, of course, it is wasting ;ontiauiily. " "Why hot u1 th common c'-?"' "It is never free from mi' a scales and grains of sand. That ru:n. an artist's too s. Then it is not so pliable nor so c ihe'ive " "Where does th ma-bie come from' "Italy. We c a i u.-e only ,arrra rar- b For tw . tho is-.r. 1 yir th- e nir.e hi-e ) ? w-.rked an 1 :h- re has i"---n no sub-t;';.'v liy far tr.e :1 vt iu.i'ati-.ri .m- f' m W.-i'ra North ( ir .iini, and I 1 ;:. e that a ;hev mir.e dee er. the myrtle w;i; Lo :oge ai pj-e a " A Conifuriatd K .oin -u red. A ' i-.er ; a' th - c i-y i) :a .ti' t:. the af'.e-n -m i-. fr Lre- .. a. . reg- :.: - . r, ti- w a-,.- .::.: .rn .n H.s . ,r. -a : " t ert-r ,r. h. re- .rr... i 1 n-gag i:. a : tie He '4 4 : -- i..T.i'.t. an i t od .: ' it V- -I' -k- th bv - :-.:. f. an 1 to-. h - W otfere 1 ' t -1 . 1 r- Arr.o:.g 'h- g r j .r.g .s. i f -tt. 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Suddenly, and w itlvcat i word of warning. h ir.i:ig to hi feet, brandishing the tu..r. and r ihwig it hi wife. pu'.d hi. k h r ha i and with one sweep of the r.i r ut lir threat fr. m e;- to e4r. lb- then pi. ked up bin hat fr.-m the fi.e.r :U1 q run fr,,m the ho i-, taking to the wood H. was p'irMied and ' has been captured, lb- i now in ia!'. at Mockvjlle It hv Ix-eii heheved'f. r .-.me time that hi mind huh uti?,,Urid. I.p;to hi wife', ternblc wound, it i., In-lieved she will not die. A Journalistic ( ban??. c. , ry ,, , , Tlie St. Louis I(tu' ft jmblishe an ,-, , ' . . ,v r . .i . editorial anr.ouix cmont to the efliM-t tat , , ... , , , T r, thanes H. Jones, lati' f tht inw l)mi f-rit. Jai konville, Fii.. ha pnrchawd a largi- intc ret in the Jfju'ifciin. Mr. Jone. who ha been elci ted vice pr'i dent of the company publishing thr lU pxiblicin, will have charge of the editorial dartrrtent rf tVii. j the iV7, will -ur.' ..ut in a uvw 'be of t.vp- and with different .rr.ii-e m'nt "f r-:,dmg matfr. in I annojn.e- . ----- i - ' " - " '' "' ... . o ,y ,M !'''' ;i ' t:: J " ' ' r ! 1 ' The Kentuckv Ib-rbv. Mac'... th the gr-, reejn tinr styii . retai-wi.g fir-: p' to the uit-t ;itig u-.d-r tlr by a ful. I'-i.g'h .th a t--.ii h of th- whip, and ! .ki!.g re.-.d t" g-. a:e.th r qu r : ' Mi.i-th U a magniti' e-.t k;:.g I.;. v n g. Id. tig. and won th: great r i e it, t ,! that place .i:n up wi'li t!i i r ! it. the i and. It w a i' i f,' th- ra- e that Haukir.-. hi -a :,i-r. hi i w..h ?'."Oo J The Difflf ulty Settled. Acting so re arv iLv. s tco-ved i able incsu 'i floTM I ;,..-.! tate, ( o.'iHlll I..-.vi it T ir.gl' r T v i a . in r:.;:.g. wi- in th.t. a!; ..-v '..t d gr. . rn-iit i7w,,.... j,,r, ,, ;t:j j' ,,.- I ? t.- h i b-.-n s.-tl-d. an-l thf he ha i gained , , ,,;..,, , ,..b,.i f ,r A Town Kulnedhj Fire. Th entire bu-lne). port; ,n .f !den dale. Wellington Territory. wa v ' pt away by fire .s-.nd iy. The town hd no fire department, and th- 1 au4ourit to "f I 7 . ' 0 : insrar.. --, $ V.oo) , The Londoner Alarmed ; a crowded m-et;ng of tir.. n in . London on M'ndtT rv. -.;-!. wo re adopted ur:ri::g the governne nt without j '.Jeav to deal erT to .; v with r.iti nl d'-f.-t' A maM meeting w ha arr ngd : f ,r .L:,f . ' Slavery Atolihed la Hrazil. A iv. ' from It. ' Jai.e s't,--hat 'Ii- Ux7...lU fl'lte hi- pi--e j the hir.g s:l' -!..). p"d 'he I ,::.',.-r f ! la' w. . fc Kxportin? th roft-r 1. -:. t :.. Li)-' ' d. 'il-: t''h a;. 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