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came i' ,r" . ' the
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tumor
U6rtried to
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mobbing by
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.- hub xft"8tcmpthe came to.
"'ii.in'gf, the foreman, gave him a job. ,
.. Early the next morning he and an
other man walked down the gulch
" through the sarvis bushes for half a
iniile, turned abruptly to the right,
climbed tho uneven length of zigzag
trail, and at last halted near the - top
Of a ridge. The pine, trees, slim and
tall, grew out of the unevenly carpeted
ground, .through which cropped
irregular slioes of a red-brown,;
crumbling rock. At the very crest
- was a dark-gray "dike" of quart zite,
standing up steep and castellted for
a height of thirty feet or more. ' This
was the "hanging wall" of the prospec-
tiro mine. , Down through the trees
were., glimpses of vast, breathless
'descents to other ridges and other
pines far below. Over the dike was
nothing but the blue sky.
The two men had stopped within a
-Uzndrod feet of the top. The old hand
went over to a rongh lean-to of small
trees covering a rude forge; from be
neath which he drew several steel
drills of various lengths and a sledge
hammer, which ho carried to a scar in
the face of a huge outcropping rock.
After dumping these he returned and
got a can of water and a long T-shaped
implement of iron. The two men then
set to work.
' McCann held firmly while, the other
struck. After each blow !fae would
half-turn the drill. When a dozen
strokes had been given, he poured a
little water in the hole, and thrust the
drill through n bit of sacking to keep
it from splashing. The other man
jammed his hat down closely over his
forehead and struck fiercely, altcr-
natoly breathing in and grunting in
; rhythmical succession. Wheu' the
hole became clogged with fine, gray
mud, McCann carefully spooned it out
with the T-shaped instrument, wiping
the latter each time on his trousers.
While he did this bis companion
leaned on his sledge or threw chunks
of rock, with wonderful accuracy, at
the squirrels that ran continually back
and forth on the ridge. As the hole
grew deeper, longer drills were used,
until at last the longest, of all left
barely enough above tho surface of
the rock to afford a hand-hold. .With
that tho miner expressed himself
satisfied. Ho then' brought three
eylinuncal v packages wrapped in
greasy paper.
"What's them?" McCann inquired.
The miner gruutod contemptuously.
"Hercules powder," he replied. Ho
proaounced the proper name in two
syllables.
With a sharp knifo he cut these in
to lengths of about three inches eaoh,
and dropped them one by one into the
hole - in the rock. He then rammed
them home with a hickory, ramrod,
just as all oia miners win insist on
doing. Because of this a largo per
centage of old miners have no fore and
middle fingers on their right hands.
Tbe last pieco he split, inserted in the
crack a bit of fuso, on tho end of which
was a copper cap, dropped it in, and
- then carefully chinked-in with the wet
grit which had been spooned out of
the hole.
"Mosey for cover," he said, and
touched it off.
f rom behind his tree juevjann saw
the sputtering fnse disappear. The
next instant therock seemed to bulge,
splitting in radiation as it did so, and
ucu the smoke belched forth ia a
canopy, filled with fragments of
quart?. Following'' the miner, he
found a jagged opening in the rock.
Then they sharpened their drills at
the forge and ywont at it again. By
night they had fired two more blasts,
and had made a start toward a shaft
After the third, Bob, the miner, said,
glancing at tho west:
' -"That'll do, rat,"
They cached tbe tools, canght up
the water bucket, and swung-rapidly
down the trail. . Bob was. ahead,
slouching along with the mountain
eer s peculiar gait, wmcu seems so
lazy, and yet which gets over tho
ground so last, in a very lew mo
ments he reached tho gulch below,
pluuging from the bare, rcck-strewn
hill-side under tho pines to the lush
- grasses and cool saplings of the canon
bed, as from a desert to a garden. He
looked around to say something. Mc
Cann was gone. .
"Well, I'm stumped!" he ejaculated,
and yelled loudly,
After a moment's pause, from far
down the opposite slope came a faint
whoop. Bob sat down on a fallen
' tree, and waited philosophically,
shouting at intervals. In a little
while the Irishman camo charging
frantically up the gulch, tearing along
through the vines and bushes at ful
speed,- so tcrnned mat ne passed
within ten feet of Bob without seeing
him. The latter watched him surge
by with an odd little twinkle in his
eye. Then suddenly he shouted again.
; Fat slowed up, looked about for a mo
ment vacantly, and tueu his rugged
Hibernian face broke into a multitude
of jolly wrinkles
"Arrah, it's yerself, darlin'." he
said; "Oi thought it's Pat McCann as
is goin' t slape wid th mountain lines
this night!"
"You stick t' me," was Bob's only
, ' comment.
After a short climb the men reached
the camp on a knoll overlooking two
continent gulches. There was the
' -fiunerintcudentV office " the cook
hoase tha bunk-house, the black
smith's shop, the stables and the
I
J
end set
terward
broken.
look"
and da
MINER
CAN
The
through
rved
Buppe
was
ingHaM
i V
sundown. sat down ling
eir coats. jffinished eating. B t
.
their
word
arose
rose, PQ rmallJ toe throogu -v nedit8 eyea and followed
tered outside. g bunKhouse, Wbebea ter awitch.
? was kf t I , to Vl SdVKll pacing. It was
.
tftiung "r V -Tnor. ra ".-jaw
ma
the horses. - ftndwas
'"'v - . -nrral rrin
into w --?ier-ire nau
i,:Vft(i - f tne ooe
utrr, ' s i a v.xaerii ia w i
"o f Jta BU4 HUl. there
main r . wtr. the creeks all I
i no B. . Wlrock. As I .
nrB w::"" Jrn Are necessary
onieqLWBw. . " Pftt first let
V5 Vyn in tne . r Then he lost the
Whorse get loose, tneu ne L
a... Lvnriri, 1 tt tmni? m nun it nnt. i nn i
boys fished -him ont. with some
fished-mm out. witn some in-
erest. do manifestly inadequate an i
individual it had not been their for-1
tune to meet before, and they looked
on him as a curiosity. On the spotfl
adopted Pat McCann much as
they would have adopted a stray 1
kitten or puppy, and doubtless in
somewhat the same amused, tolerant i
state of mind. .
The next morning Bob and Pat
cleared away the debris of the three
blasts, wrenching off the broken,
adhering bits with a pick, and shovel
ing them out. King came up with an
axe gang and built a rough, square
breastwork of logs down the hill, to
catch the qnartz as in a bin. They
also squared a number of timbers, and
ongued the ends. These were to
timber the shaft.
All this interested the little Irish
man, lie recovered his spirits, and
his Old World blarney came back to
him, The clear, fresh air of the hills,
the abundant food, the hard work, the
sound sleep, the reaction against the
taciturnity of the men, and the calm
grandeur of the mountains, filled him
with animal spirits. He imagined he
had found his vocation at last. He
wanted to do everything. . In time he
learned to strike with the sledge, al
though it was only after long practice
on a state that ne could induce any
one to "hold" for him: he sharpened
drills after a fashion; he even helped
in the timbering-up. The only thing
lacking was the "shooting" of the
charges. He had an ambition to
touch the thing oft". This King
roughly forbade.
"That fly-away fool to risk' his
neck that way?" he said; "I guess
notl He don't know enough now to
make his head ache. I don't want
that man to have the first thing to do
with the powder. Understand that!"
What King said went in that camp.
Besides, the men knew him to be in
the right.' Pat was the unluckiest
man alive, and the most awkward. He
was sure to be in any trouble there
was about in fact, as Jack Williams
said, ho was a sort of lightning-rod
for the whole camp in the way of
trouble; everyone else was sure of ex
emption, if there was only one man's
share of difficulty dealt out. So Mc
Cann pleaded in vaitr.
This went to his heart: He would
have given his blackthorn shillalah
from Dublin to have been looked upon
as a full-fledged miner. Ho used to
put on all the airs of one in Sweet
water when he went down there once
a week, swaggering about in copper-
riveted jeans, with his hat on one side,
conversing learnedly though vaguely
on oiow outs,' "horses, '. -"loot
walls" and other technicalities, haul
ing out of his pockets yellow-flecked
bits ,of quartz in short, "putting on
dog to an amazing extent. But as he
turned past the stamp-mill of the
Groat Snake, and began to scale the
heart-breaking trail that led to the
top of the ridge, his crest began to
fall. As h$ followed the narrow,
level summit for the three miles of its
length, standing as it were in the vei'y
blueness ot the air, his spirits began
to evaporate. When he took the
snorter and gentler descent to the
camp; the' old conviction had returned
with thickening force. He was not a
miner! He had never "shot." He
used all his persaasive powers in vain.
For ono thing, the men were afraid
to disobey King. For another, they
liked Pat, and having a firm, faith in
his "hoodoo,", were convinced that
his "shooting" and sudden death
would'bo synonymous terms. So Pat
abandoned persuasion and tried craft.
The old shaft jon which he and Bob
had first begun work had been carried
down fifty feet,' Appropriate cross
cuts and drifts had been made to ex
ploit the lead. It was now abandoned.
Bob and Pat were put to work at an
other spot in the same lead a little
farther along the ridge. The place
marked out for the first blast was be
tween two huge bowlders, or rather
between the two rounded cheeks of
one bowlder. The passage between
them was perhaps rive or six feet
wide. Qne end led out in a gradual
descent to the broad, open park of the
ridge top, the other dropped off
abruptly three or four feet. to another
level place. Around the corner of the
first the miners kept their tools and
forge; down the second they planned
to drop when the blast was fired; and
there they built a little fire, it being,
on that particular day, in the lee of
the rock.
The hole had been all drilled before
Bob discovered that he had forgotten
to bring any powder; so he started
down the passage to get some from the
sheet-iron powder-house in the draw.
Hardly was he out of sight before Me-'
Caun, chuckling softly to himself,
pulled from under a shelving bit of
rook the missing powder. With this
he loaded the hole; he arranged the
fuse, and then dropped down the
ledge to get a brand from the fire. It
was nearlv.oat, so it took a few mo
menta tot Norch. However, he
Tras" in no hn..jr it xraa ithirtA littl a
distance to the powdef-'B5jnUti Job
could not possibly retui. -s-.f
half an hour. At last he coaxeu t
of pine into a glow, and turned to
climb back. A startling sight met his
eyes. .. ; -.
When Bob went to" get the powder
he stopped at the forge fot the water-
pan. as no stooped to pi etc u up
something struck him a
sudden blow
li that knocked bin oret
e blood flowing ha said af-
.
"i-- thought the bone was
"When he could see, he
joutto find what had hit him,
oveved not ten feet away the
Tny body of a puma. .
?jreat ct lay watching him
i'talf-shut eyes, lazily switch-
back and forth. 'From thi
,
L
depths ox r He tried tQ rifi( bnt couM
5 .'Vm lie turned over on his left
?hs f BUrtea to crftwl infall
if
mo
d, and played with
id PrtTcat
lays with a mouse,
man pulled himself
Inch by inch the
-inn!? . leaTing
Am nf Jilnnfl At
l-.f -witnin a m
O' ....
feet or tne ledge, ne
tto no furtKAT... The
t ar he con
tio. P
V At tai8 moi!
nt Pat McCann, a
. ne-br
d in his hand, looked
ied(re.
Bob saw him and
"m; Earned hi back. Thepuma
Sum. too. Tho purring ceased,
m 1nxiv . f o
the skin. The game ws over. The
animal was preparing to make its
spring.
It did not occur to the little Irish
man's, fighting soul to retreat. His
comical features stiffened; his little
blue eyes fairly snapped. Slowly he
drew himself up on the ledge, keeping
his eye fixed on the puma, until he
stood erect, then he shifted bis brand
mechanically into his left hVnd, and
drew his sheath-knife. He did not
know that the fire was his best weap
on, and Bobwas too weak to tell him.
The brand, held point downward,;be-
a"
gan to blaze. The puma's great eyes
shifted uneasily at this, and its mus
cles relaxed. It was evidently dis
composed. Pat did not await the at
tack, but stepped forward, holding
his knife firmly.
When within a few leet of the ani
mal Pat hesitated and stopped. His
nerve was still unshaken, but he did
not know how to begin. The puma
still sniffed, uneasily at the blaze, but
had recovered from its first fear, and
was again gathering its powers for a
spring. For a moment there was ab
solute silence, and Pat heard through
the still air the sharp chatter of a
squirrel and the clank of the ore-
team'a whkHe-trees from" the ore road
far below. While he stood thus un
certain, the fire from the pine, having
run 'up along the torch, began to
burn Pat's fingers. Without moving
his head or 'shifting his eyes, he
dropped it gently plumb upon the
fnse he had so carefully arranged a
few moments before. Then he took
a step backward to avoid the smoke.
There was a splutter and a flash, then
a sudden roar. The man and the
beast were hurled violently in oppo
site directions, and a volcano of rock
shot high in: the air and showered
down again.
Tbe axe-gang found the' puma very
dead and Pat very hard to revive. He
looked hazily about him in evident
bewilderment until his eye caught
sight of the dead animal, but then his
face lighted up with eager joy.
"Glory, Qi'm a miner!" he shouted.
"Oi've 'shat' at last." Stewart Ed
ward White, in San Francisco Argo
naut. Eating Pol in Hawaii.
The eating of poi by the Hawaiian
seems a ceremony of profound mean
ing. The kalo root is an ovate oblong,
as bulky as a large beet, and it has
large leaves shaped like a broad arrow,
of a Biugularly bright green. The
choicest kinds grow in very "wet soil.
The patch is embanked and frequently
inundated, and each plant grows on a
small hillock of puddled earth. The
cutting from which it is grown js
simply the top of the plant and a little
of the tuber. The root when boiled
and sliced is excellent, but the prep
aration of poi is an elaborate process.'
The roots are baked, and are then laid
on a hollow board and beaten hard.
The men do this work, and find it no
easy task. They 'dip their hands fre
quently in a calabash of water to aid
them in removing the sticky mass,
which is anything bat appetizing at
this period of its manufacture. When
it is removed from tho board it is set
aside for several days to ferment.
When ready for uso it is either lilac
or pink, and tastes like sour book
binders' paste, but is very nutritious.
Correspondence in New York Times.
Made the Patient Get Well.
A professional nurse at Leeds, Eng
land, was remarkably, successful in
the care of patients suffering from
smallpox, diphtheria or pneumonia.
In fact, she had never lost a patient
with one of these complaints. Not
long ago, however, she had a pneu
monia -case which was given up by the
physician, much to the nurse's chag
rin. .
"He can't live through the night,"
said the doctor. ?
Sure enough, when the nurse went
to give the sick man his medicine he
only shook his head. The distracted
nurse saw her proud record about to
be broken and she urged the patient J
to take his dose.
"No use," he murmured.
"Well, sir," said the nurse in de
spair, "you've got to take it I And if
you die I'll kill you!"
Whereupon the patient began to
laugh, took his medicine and got well.
New York Bun.
The Old Finland Gorernment.
Finland enjoyed large powers
of
local government till recently. After
it was taken from Sweden by Russia,
Alexander I., in 1810, pledged himself
to maintain inviolate its ancient con
stitution, liberties and customs. The
National Parliament consisted of four
states, the nobles, clergy, burghers
and peasants. These met every five
years. About isju r.ussia . began to
make a radical change in its policy
toward Finland. The use of Russian
money was made obligatory. Russian
had to be .taught in the schools, ' and
now Finland, like Russian Poland,
has became practically a Russian dis
trict Electric Eye. .
The incandescent electric
light in a
duio at tne end or a flexible wire,
easily moved about as it may be, is
employed in various uses; a novel em
ployment of it is seen in arr uptown
show window, whero two lights glow,
one in either eye socket of a human
skull. New York Sun.
mm
I IMS STRUGGLE PfiH x
Devices That the Next
In all European armies now great
attention ia being paid to the signal
corps, and each nation every now and
then vaunts itself over the others with
the announcement of the discovery of
some new method of signaling, says
the New York Press.
The really reliable systems of mili
tary signaling are few, and none of
them is exactly new. In our own
army the heliograph and the "wig
wag" system o: Hag signals are moss
relied npon. The captive balloon at
r. . 1 .. . i ......
BAtuuLgo -jas oniy a quaunea success,
but it has not diminished the ardor
wita which European powers are
seeking to solve the balloon problem.
Tho' bravery and the efficient work of
the signal service men in the war with
Spain received high praise from all
the foreign attaches and from our own
Government, but Europe seems loath
to take up our system of signaling.
With every nation on the Continent of
Europe military signaling is a military
hobby, and each rides its own especial
hobby hard, and spends great amounts
of money on it.
All over Europe experiments are
going on constantly in military signal
ing. -( Every bright young officer and
every crank regards the signal corps
as the body which shalL make his fame
and fortune by utilizing his invention.
And it would sc em as if every King
and Emperor and every field marshal
lay awake nighis to tSink up some
new. invention for that branch of the
service.
No matter what branch of the ser
vice has to go short on funds in a Eu
ropean army, the signal corps gets
what-money it wants. That the sig
nal service of an army is of the first
importance ' is not to be denied, and
our own corps will compare in ef
ficiency with any in the world. But
in Europe the corps is a fad.
WIOW AGGERS OF THE TRENCH PIONSEBS.
The . German Emperor is credited
with having said the other day: "So
important will be the part played by
military telegraphy in. the war of the
future that the army having the most
efficient system of signaling will hold
a trump card which may be of most
decisive influence on the conduct and
success of the war."
Another German authority says:
"Electric telegraphy, with and with
out wires, is a main -branch of the
service, and not only . with the
'pioneers, but with every troop, in
fantry, cavalry, artillery and railroad
ers.. The German army, adhering to
its principle of meeting the enemy on
the latter's own territory, must needs
possess greater alacrity in and better
facilities for building electric tele
graph lines than the French and Bns
sians, the Austrians and Italians, who
might bo eager enough to keep war
out of their own territory, but who
are behind Germany in the rapidity of
mobilization." , . i
Neither the German nor the other
European armies rely exclusively upon
the electrical telegraph, which may
fail for various reasons, the principal
one being that the ordinary com
mercial lines, as well as the field lines
established in their stead or for the
purpose of supplementing them, may
be destroyed by the enemy or. the ele
ments, thus robbing the commanding
general of the - means for com
municating with his subordinate com
manders. The Germans, like other nations,
rely largely upon optical methods of
signaling. The favorite device of this
kind in the German army is the sema
phore, which is made more efficient
THE UPPEB PICTURE REPRESENTS
AIN ARTILLERY. TIIE LOW EH PICTURE REPRESENTS THE BRITISH AR31Y
IN INDIA USING THE HELIOGRAPH.
by Redi's system of cones. The sema
phore proper is quite an ' ancient de
vice. It was first introduced by the
French in 1791 for conveying in
telligence from Paris to the armies on
the frontier. As the illustration shows,
tho GeiESta axay Eea&phore i
War Wi!i Bring Into Use.
similar to out. railway signal poles and
is worked by arm. - There is also a
telescope in the top which commands
the mast at; the next station. The
mast can be inserted at any place. As
to the cone, each one represents a
number, 1, 2, 3 or 4. : If 1 and 4 are
down, that means 5, and similar ad
ditions are made vith the other
figures.
Signals can also be given without
the cone by moving the arms
horizontally against the body, or by
placing thexn in any other position
agreed upon.
. a night lantern slides ox various
it
LIME LIGHT SIGNALS
colors are placed in the ends of the
cones.
Personally the Kaiser has more
faith in the captive balloon than in
any other optical means for telegraph
ing. The German captive balloon is
furnished with means for photograph
ing, and the parties in the car com
municate with those on the ground by
means of the telegraph ' or tele
phone. For telegraphing an instru
ment similar to the Morse apparatus,
arranged in compact form, is used.
The system is practically that used in
this country. "
For the signal corps of the German
army the brightest men of each bat
talion and regiment are selected.. They
are thoroughly drilled in all the man
oeuvres connected with the transpor
tation, the erection and operating of
the apparatuses. Each German signal
station is manned by five privates, a
non-commissioned officer and a lieu
tenant. . . - k
In the English army a similar num
ber of signal men are employed with
each company, squadron of cavalry
and battery. The French employ eight
instead of five men; the Russians think
four men of each company sufficient
for the. service. ...
The French army employs as opti
cal telegraph flags and lanterns. The
flags are worked according to the naval
code and Morse alphabet. French
signalers are said to be able to execute
120 movements per minute. To sig
nal the dot of the Morse alphabet the
French hold up one flag. Two flags
represent the dash 'of the Morse al
phabet. After each letter there is a
short pause, after each word a longer
pause, the latter, being accentnated by
the flag being held over thehead of
the signal man. If. the telegram is
.finished the signal man repeats the
last word three times. If the receiver
doesn't understand the operator he
raises a flag with his right hand to his
head. Of course, flag signals can only
be used in daytime.
At night tho lantern is employed
when search and flash lights are not
available. .
Signal lanterns are handled after
the fashion of the flag?, dots being
marked by opening and shutting the
slide respectively. A dash is marked
by exposing tho flame four times
longer than in case of a dot. Thus
dispatches of twenty words can be for
warded in a minute.
The Austrians follow the French
method of signaling in all bnt the size
and form of flags. To the standard
colors of black, white, red, .blue and
yellow they add green. Green plays
also a part in the Italian flag signals.
FLAG SIGNALING BY r AUSTRIAN MOUNT
The English largely employ the
heliograph. By means of the helio
graph trained signal men can comma
nicate with each other at a distance of
fifty miles, whether they have a tele
scope or not- General Robert once
tent 120Q ttlegnss by heliograph ia
V5 IMD
a sis si a day. That vas ia Tjjit,
where the sun is very strong.
The English mode cf signaling by
flags differs from the French in minor
details, which -are kept secret. But
this secrecy doesn't amount to , much,
considering that the Britishers, like
other nations, use the Morse alphabet.
The Eussiansvhave adopted the
French lantern system for disti&ces
from one to two miles. These fat terns 1
are constructed on the lines of bicycle
lamps, having a bulls-eye lens, and
being fed by oil. On long distances
the Bnssians nse lime light appara
tuses constructed as follows: There
are two tanks filled with oxygen and;
hydrogen respectively. The hydrogen
is lit and, the oxygen, gas mingling
with it, produces a colorless flame. 'A
lime block placed in the flame is ren
dered incandescent and its light, re
flected from a mirror, is sent forward.
The mirror is a powerful parabolic,
resembling in shape the end of an
egg. - Tbe concave portion is the re-
0
J
IN THE BUSEUN A.B1IY.
Hector. This apparatus is so con
trived that the beam light can be sent
in all directions. The telegraphing is
effected in the same way as the tele
graphing with lanterns by the French.
All the apparatuses described are,
if possible, set up on natural or arti
ficial elevations. The signal officers
must also be careful to find a suitable
background for their operations, so
that the signals from the other side
can be readily interpreted. There is,
however, one great drawback to all
these systems. As all armies nse as a
SEMAPHORE APPARATUS IN USE IX THE
PBUSSIAU ABUT.
basis for their systems the Morse
alphabet, friend and enemy alike are
capable of reading the messages sent
OUt. -.-'
Moose and Caribou Cemeteries.
The Forest and Stream contains the
following contribution from a Quebeo
correspondent concerning the habit
moose and caribou have of going to
the same place, season after season, to
shed their antlers: .
"The idea of the animals seeking a
definite place for ' this . purpose was
quite new tome, but lately the effi
cient Snp erintendent of Game and
Fisheries at Quebeo, L. Z. Joncas,
Esq., has. told me that they do fre
quent such places, and that this habit
was quite well known to him. He
knew, of many and mentioned several
places where horns could almost cer
tainly be found at any time. And not
only do they go to shed their horns,
but they go there to die. These
places are known as cemeteries, and
whole skeletons are occasionally
found. This, however, would be rare,
as the bones would usually be torn
apart and scattered by bears, and other
carnirorse.
"Mr. Joncas instanced the case of a
gentleman going to a certain region
for geological exploration, who aeked
for a permit to shoot a moose out of
season in order to get a good pair of
antlers. He was told that by diverg
ing a little from his route he might
reach a place where he would find
plenty of them. He did so and se
cured five excellent specimens."
Kew tiame of Lawn Golf.
Those who ara anxious to learn the
game of golf , without all the violent
exercise and immense amount of
tramping up hill and down dale which
the real thing calls for, will welcome
the new game of lawn golf. Of course
golf cranks and enthusiasts will scoff
at it, but lawn golf will give beginners
a very good idea of the rules of the
game, and from this they may gradu
ate into full fledged golfers.
The most particular and cranky
lawn owner cannot object to lawn golf
being played on the velvet verdure of
his cherished lawn. No holes need be
made in the ground, and after the
game is played, the clubs and cups
and bunkers can be gathered np,
packed in their boxes, and put away
out of sight. -
Lawn golf is played with a small
sized golf ball and implements some
thing like golf clubs. The course can
be laid out on an ordinary lawn, and
constantly altered at will. In place
of bunkers little fences provide the
necessary obstructions, and, instead
of the holes of an ordinary putting
green, there are saucers of tin, with
boles in their centres. The saucers
are turned upside down in any de
sired position, and, ait might be im
agined, it is no easy matter to drive a
ball into them. New York Herald.
The EstaUeb Uscutt in Cab. "
Here is an advertisement that ap
peared the other day ia a Havana
paper: "This is without doubt one of
the factories of first class and of the
most universal credit, and we affirm
that no other has this credit with
more merits, by the goodnes intelli
gency and care employed in tLe
preparetion and perfectionment of his
pro4nctioaj,"-ryew York Tribii3e.
AM ELECTING FARM.
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I. C 13earJle, of St. JoltntTllle, Sets
UsMnlns io Work.
Near St. Johnsville
iJ a
farm of S33 acres
Ceardslee.
belonging to G.
R.
On this place is a complete electric
plant,' which produces the current for
lighting and heating, as well as sup
plying the power for other operations
connected wita the farm.
This electric installation is the first
of its kind ever used for doing the
work of farm hands.
All the mechanical energy is sup
plied by nature,' and the cost and
maintenance of the plant is inexpen
sive. It has demonstratad that,
electricity used for tnaaual labor is a
success.
The farm land is situated on both
sides of the East Canadian Creek,
which is a good-sized stream contain
ing two falls within the bounds of the
Beardslee property. These waterfalls.
one of which is sixty leet ana tne
other 183 feet high furnished the
power.. x
The owner of the farm employed
the Westinghouse Company to put
this scheme in operation.
The smaller fall was used as the
operating power, and near it was
built a power house in which was
placed a 180-KiIowatt Westinghouse
generator, connected with a horizon
tal turbine operated by the water."
From this central power house the
current is transmitted by wires to
the dwelling house and other build
ings. One motor of ten-horse power runs
a mowing machine, another a thresh
ing machine, and a third works a
forty-four-inch saw for cutting logs.
- The farm house is brilliantly
lighted and well heated by electricity.
The kitchen is supplied with an elec
trically heated cooking stove and in
the laundry the flatirons are heated
by the same power. In the dairy the
churns and other appliances all have
electric motor - attachments. The ,
grounds are flighted by several aro
lamps, and their nse in the barns
greatly facilitates the work and lessont
the danger rom fixe. New York
World. -- .. ,
Worms and Cyclones.'
Q-his is the time the small white tor
redo worm does business down South
in the wharf piles ' of cypress wood.
The first warm day of spring the whari
owner looking down into the green
water lapping the edge of his pier sees
a swarm of floating insects about an
inch long and about a yard below the
surface. The next day he looks for
them and they dre gone every one
gone into his good piles. They will
never be seen again this season; they
will come the hext, and by the third,
year the wharf owner will need to put
in a new lot of piling. The torredo
worms eat away steadily until they cut
the hard logs fairly through just be
low high water mark.
In years past it was the custom in
some of the seacoast cities of the South,
to build wharves of a cribbage of logs,
resting on the harbor bottom and
packed In with concrete. But tho
almost yearly cyclones picked up these '
contrivances and set them down bodily
a quarter of a mile uptown in some
quiet street. With seventy feet
of mud for a bottom and heavily loaded
wharves and the torredo worm work,
ing persistently "into the morning,"
"the Lord knows," as a Charleston
wharf owner said the other day, "what
holds us up." New York Commercial
Advertiser. ; ,
A Literary Question."
The citizens of a small Western set
tlement in which there were no school1
facilities decided on a literary clnb, or
debating society, for the improvement
of the mind.
A ' drummer came along and gave
them the first subject for debate
"Who was the greater poet, Tennyson
or Browning?"
As a majority of the members knew
nothing of either, an old inhabitant
rose in meeting and said:
"Seem' as we ain't got no books
here to go by, I move that Tone Green
an' Bill Spurliu' git out in tne raiddlo
o the meetin an' see which th'ows
the "other down fust. We'll give each
one o' them the name o one o the
gentlemen we're debatin', an' decide
the question that a-way." '
Then Browning and Tennyson in
the persons of Tom Green and Bill
Spurlin came forward and went at it.
Spurlin, who masqueraded as
Browning, threw Green four times,
after which the President announced
Browning : was a greater poet than
Tennyson, and the Secretary, was in
fitructed to secure Mr. Browning's ad
dress and tell him how he had come
out. Atlanta Constitution,
Boina Steal Answers by Scbool Children.
Q. What caused Caesar's death? -
A. Caesar died because hiTwaiT as
sassinated. :
Q. Between whom, and what war
the result of the battle of Waterloo?
A. The battle of Waterloo was fought
between the Spanish and English, and
the Russians whipped, '
Q. When and where were railroads
first used?
A. Railroads were used in Arabia
in B. C. 402.
Q. When and by whom was Ameri
ca discovered?
A.' America was discovered by
Columbns in 1782, while lie was mak
ing a voyage from Loidon to San
Francisco. . .
Q. What were General Wolfe's
words when he heard that the French
fled?
A. General Wolfe said be never
died so happy, Harper's Round
Table.
Kooks That Kesll Circulate,
New Sonth Wales has a circulating
library that has circulations within
rirculations and is the most far-reaching
institution of its kind in the world.
The public library in Sydney has 10C
wandering libraries, each of which is
made np of from fifty to ninety vol
ames. The books for this service are
out up in particularly strong bindings
tud. are shipped from place to place
In steel-fastened oak eases.' " They are
lent temporarily to 150 different little
jountry libraries throughout the
jolony. All transportation charges
ire paid by the libraries of Sydney,
shich has an annual Government ap
i jropriatioa of $1509 for tbe scheme.
The .field is to be increased gradually
- md ISO cares of light literature and
iove!s are to be- added to the stock
J levoted to it.
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