Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — Page 3

In Sheep's Clothing.

By Capt. Ormond Steele

CHAPTER XL •OWE ItEP'EKENCE.i TO THE PAST WHICH IT IS NBCESSARV TO UNDERSTAND. Colonel Graham was a very weak man, and at best a very angry one, though it would not do for him to •how it He played Blok and he cursed —to himeelf — the doctor who had turned his mean pretense into a frightful reality. He was in no amiable mood when Othello came in on tip-toe, and, in response to his master’s demand to know “who was making that noise out there," made answer: “It’s my granny, sah." “May the devil fly away with the black hag! Why he hasn’t done so before is a mystery. What does she want?" The Colonel pushed himself higher up on the pillows and glared at the blaok man, as if ready to Slav him if he' did not at once give a satisfactory answer to the question. “She wants foh to see yeh,” said Othello, his tremulous voice indicating the fear he felt of his master. “Yes, en I’ze got to see ye. No use a tryin’ to keep me out Es yer Bick, I’ve got yarbs to cure ye; so in I comes —en ’ow does yeh do, me lod?” The door was opened and closed with a sudden bang, and Dinah stood in the middle of the floor, bowing in a way that to any other man than that sitting bolt upright on the great “four-poster” bed would have been extremely ludicrous. “I ain siok, woman, and want to be alone,” said Colonel Graham, but even Othello noticed that he did not speak with the peremptory voice that usually distinguished him. “So ye does. ” The old woman turned to her grandson,and enforcing her command by extending her lean, black arm in the direction of the door, she continued: “Git out, ’Thello: me en yer mas’r wants to be ’lone. Don’t ye go foh to stan’ dar grinnin’ wld yer mouf open, but go out Tell ’im to go out to once.” Dinah turned to the bed, and the colonel, falling back on his pillows w th a sigh of mingled wrath and pain, said: “Leave me alone for a little while, Othello. ” Amazed at his grandmother’s audacity, Othello went out, but he did not go out of hearing. His curiesity was aroused, and he made up his mad to learn, if possible, the secret of the old woman’s power. So far it had been his firm belief that there was not in all the world a being who would dare to oppose the wishes of his fierce master. Dinah had not been in town for some days, and though she had heard of the departure of the Wanderer, she as yet did not know that Capt. Denham had left on that ship. “I have offered you gold to leave me alone and to keep your cursed tongue quiet,” said the colonel. 'Now, what do you want?” Before replying to this the old woman drew back the bed curtain, so that she might .get a better view of his face, and then, coming so near that she could look into his cold, glittering gray eyes, said in a voice that was not a whisper, but which sounded far away and sepulchral: “I want to keep on leadin’ of a bettah life, en I can’t go foh to do it w’en yer roun’.” “Leave me alone, and I’ll soon be away.” The colonel threw a pillow under his shoulder, so that he could rest on his elbow, and returned the.woman’s look without flinching; Suddenly, as if he had decided on different tactics from those he would pursue if he corntlnued acting ’in accordance with his feelings, he said: “Sit down, Dinah, and let us have a chat; let us be friends, as we were in the old times. You must excuse me, but I have been sick in mind and body for some time. ” “I’d rather stan’ up.” replied Dinah, and she place i both hands on the top of her long staff, and, resting her chin thereon, she still watched him. After a pause, she continued: “Ye’z sick in min’ tn body, en no wondah. W’y ye’z alive arter all de min’ en body sickness ye’z had yarsel en made odders foh to hab is de mos’ ’sprisin’ t’ing I’ze ever heard on, en I’ze been libbiri' now nigh onto sou-ah score en ten " “Never mind that,” interrupted the Colonel, restraining with a terrible effort his tendency to anger. “Let us talk about yourself and what you have been doing since last I saw you. Let mo see, it must be one-and-twenty years ago?” “Jes’ dat time. I couldn’t fohgit it, en you couldn’t fohgit it. We was bofe in Bermooda den, en I was the slave of de Gov-nah. Does yer remimber who that Gov-nah war?” The hag cocked her head to one side, and leaned forward on the staff for an answer. Colonel Graham shot a glance at the door and saw it was closed, then he threw back the curtain still further and looked over the room before he said: “The Governor of Bermuda, at that time, w*s my brother.” “En dey called ’im Colonel Gra’am, too?” “You know thoy did, Dinah.” “En if he’d libbed den dat Gov-nah’d been Lo’d Paliton?" “What of it?” “But dat Gov’nah didn’t lib. Kaze w’y? Doan’t you know, sah?” “He died,” replied the Colonel, with another impatient glance about the room. “En w’y did ’e die?” It is so difficult to reproduce with accuracy the strange dialect of this woman, that for the present we shall discontinue it, and give a summary of the facts developed by her shrewd questions and her ready aind frequently grotesquely humorous answers. Twenty-one years before the date es our story. Colonel—the Bight Honorable Ralph Denham Graham, the eldest eon of Lord Paliton of Ayr and Cumberland—was the Governor General of the Bermudas. He lived at Hamilton, the capital, which was located on one of the Bermu~ da group, known as “Long Island,” though it is much less in area than its namesake in New York. Col. Graham was a knightly man, greatly devoted to his wife and only child, a son, at that time aged between five and six years, and named after his father. The climate not agreeing with Lady Denham, she went to England, but at the earnest request of her husband she left her little boy with him. Capt. George Graham, a younger and only brother of the colonel, lived In his family, and aoted as “colonial secretary,” a position which had but lltUs

labor connected with it and considerable emoluments. As the Governor was a man in good health and on the sunny side of forty, there was every reason to believe that he would survive his father, then an old man, and fall heir to his titles and the large estates thereunto belonging. But should the governor die, his little son, Ralph, would, in the natural course of events, succeed to the rank of Lord Paliton, Earl of Ayr. But should the governor and his son die, then Capt. George Graham would inherit the titles and estates. Many thought it was a good thing that Capt. George Graham’s chances were so small, for he was a harsh, cruel, domineering man, who seemed in rebellion against his. Creator because he was not born first. Capt George Graham was, however, an accomplished hypocrite, for he succeeded in making the Governor believe that he was the most ttevoted brother that ever lived. Bermuda does not bubble over with excitement even in these days of electricity and steam. It is a by-way off the great ocean routes. At this time the officers sent there on duty looked on it as a mild sort of exile, and did everything they oould to get ordered home. Yachting was a sport in which Col. Graham delighted at home, but here he found in it one source of amusement on which he could depend to break up the ennui. His brother George was also fond of yachting, and the sloop in which they took their pleasure was commanded, or f rather sailed, by a daring, handsome young Englishman of sixteen or seventeen named William Kidd. Young Kidd was a great favorite with Capt. Graham. He was a bold, ambitious youth, with a natural aptitude for his calling, and a mind far above the average. Having acquired no principle of right, and being wholly deficient therein by nature, William Kidd had no scruples that would lead him to resist the schemes of the Captain. They held their consultations at the cabin of an old negro woman, the Captain’s slave, named Dinah. There it was decided that the next time the Governor went out with them to sail that the boat should capsize, and that the father and his little boy should be drowned. This programme was carried- out. The Governor could have saved himself had not his unnatural brother leaped upon him and held him under water. The little boy, Ralph, clung to the sailor, Kidd, but when the Captain motioned for him to drown the child, the latent spark of humanity in the fellow's breast fired up. With a dangerous light in his fierce blue eyes and a savage oath on his beardless lips, he said: “No, sir! We’ve done enough for one day. The youngster’s arms are about my neck, and may I sink to the bottom with his father if I do not save his life. You can hide him away.” “But It was your bargain,” urged the Captain. “Men that bargain to murder cannot be held to account if they do not till tiie contract. This boy must live, and I must know that he lives, oth« rwlse I will turn Queen’s evidence and tell the truth,” replied Kidd. The result of this peculiar bargaining, under such circumstances, was that the child was carried ashore and given into the charge of the old negro woman, Dinah.

Here little Ralph was secreted until the story of his death wa3 firmly believed on the islands and in England. ; Then the Captain—now the Right Honorable George Graham—and Willla m Mdd smuggled the child to Long Island, in the Province of New York, where he was disposed of, as has already been stated. The loss of his son and grandson so prostrated old Lord Paliton that he did not long survive them, and so the Captain achieved the one great object of his ambition. Soon after this, old Dinah disappeared, and it was generally believed that she was drowned; but, as she was pld and not particularly liked, her loss soon ceased to be a matter of speculation. But Lord Paliton was not destined to enjoy his criminally procured future undisturbed. The young sailor, Kidd, became a man, and with his Increase of years there came an increase of ambition and a decrease of principle, if that were possible. His old companion in crime was now a great personage in the world, and, having considerable power at court, ividd was just the man to rise by clinging to his skirts, or, ii need be, by placing his feet on his patron’s shoulders. Kidd clung to him, as the old man of the sea clung to Sinbad. Again and again, Colonel Graham—to give him the name he had assumed for use at Sag Harbor, had tried to put, Kidd out of the way, but he was always foiled. At length Kidd, as a means of security, concealed h'a friend—Guy Frenauld, a young sailor of fortune —where he could hear himself and Colonel Graham discussing the awtul past. Then, with an eye to dramatic effect, Kidd brought Frenauld out, and the Colonel saw he had two opposed to him, and giving up the contest, entered into a compact with the young men. It was through Col. Graham that Kidd got command of the Adventure Galley, and it was partly through his confidence of his friend’s powerful influence in the event of detection that he became a pirate on the high seas, while bearing the Queen's commission. It is useless further to disguise the fact that Fox and Kidd were one and the same person. But there were some grounds for change of name in shiD and captain. Kidd, by an act of unparalleled treachery, had murdered a captain named Fox, and all his officers and crew, in the Indian Ocean. Then, appropriating the papers and such plunder as was valuable, he caused the ship to be scuttled, and sailed away to inaugurate a career of crime which, for successful audacity and heartless cruelty, has not been equaled in the annals of marine robbery. All these facts were not brought out during the lalk between Col. Graham ani Dinah, but those with which she was better acquainted were elaborated with an attention to detail that placed Graham in a mental treadmill, and proved that age had not dimmed the old woman’s memory, while time had made her regret the part she took in the cruel conspiracy. “I tell youj it took me long ’nuff time to fin’ dis odder Long Islan’, bul I did it, an’ I’ve staid har nigh dat b’y. never portindiu’ noffin’ but jest a-watchin’. En now, I tell ye de time hev come when jestis has got for to be did. ” “Dinah, you are altogether wrong. But as I believe you mean to do right, I will tell you now that I came here to do justice. There is only one person wfio can prevent it, and I think she has got too much wisdom and too much love for Captain Denham, to balk me with her Interference, said the Colonel, evidently wearied by the long, agonizing conversation.

“En ye mean foh to say ez I’m dal woman?” “I do, Dinah." “Den es I hole back, what’s ye gwine foh to do?” ‘I Intend meeting Captain Denham in New \'ork in a few days.and I will make him independently rich. “ “En w’y doan’t ye tell ’im now?” “He is not here.” “War’s ’er gone?” “To New Xork.” “W’en?” “This morning; he sailed with Captain Fox on board the Wanderer,” “Wid Cap’n Debbel! ye doan’t mean foh to go en say to me ez Ralph Den’m hez gone off wid dat red-beaded mu’d’rer! Did you sen’ ’im? Hev ye oome loh dot?” The hag reached out her long, black fingers, the nails of which were like claws, and gathered herself as if about to spring on the man in the bed, and ren t him in her fury, “I tell the truth, woman!” cried the Colonel, his anger making him desperate. “Make a disturbance here, and I will kill you and throw you out the window. You hag, you lorget that you are my runaway slave, and that I hold your worthless life in my hands.” He sprang out of bed and began dressing, calling at the same time foi Othello, who came in with an unusual display of white about his eyes, for he had been listening to the whole conversation, and was now In that condition which is frequently described as “thunder-struck." The old woman did not move, did not manifest any fear; on the contrary, she bore herself like one who was conscious that she had proved herself to be the mistress of the situation, and was confident of her ability to maintain it against all comers, and more particularly against the opponent now in the field. “Es ’arm should come to Mars RalphDen’m, en if so be It so, we'U soon know it, den dar’ll be lots en lots of trubble to dem ez as brought all dis on. Mark dem words ez 1 ’as jest Bpoke," said Dinah, moving in the direction of the door, but still keeping her wild, bleared eyes fixed on the Colonel’s face. “Where is your home; where am I to speak to you without being disturbed?" asked the Colonel, desperately, yet pleadingly. “Es so be ye wants fob to fin’ me, ax any of de buokras at de inn; but doan’t ye go foh to feah ez we won't meet agin. Ye can’t git away, en I not know it. Es so be I was to ax foh yer life, a ’unerd Montauk men ’ed git um dar bows and lie in de woods war ye was gwine. Mars Ralph Den’m ee’ez got to come back safe en soun’. You ’ears dat?” “Go, Dinah, go, and I will come to see you.” The Colonel looked as if he were going to faint, and the old woman went out. fTQ BE CONTINUED. |

Pneumonia.

Very many of the cases of pneumonia which are con -tantly repo;tPd owe their existence to negligence. The disease, which consists in an Inflammation of the proper substance of the lungs, is often brought on by prolonged exposure to cold; and It is always dangerous, as can be seen by the weekly records of mortality in thiscity, which shows that It destroys more lives here than any other disease. The ordinary symptoms of it are coughing, pain in the side, feverishness, accelerated breathing; and just as soon as any one is affected by these symptoms a doctor should be sent for, while the sufferer must keep indoors. The doctor will at once order the patient to bed, if he be not there, and then try to give him relief by the administration of those drugs that have the approval of experience. A cure can thus be effected In a good proportion of the cases of pneumonia. Many of the diseases that prove fatal can be successfully treated, If treated In time. Americans, when taken 111, are apt to postpone the duty of sending for a doctor, fancying that they will soon be well again; they dislike to bo ordered to bed and kept away from their business, they can’t bear to make a fuss over their ailments; they hate to take medicine; they would rather not run up doctor's bills. Lives are very often lost because of such foolishness. Innumerable people would live throughdlseases that prove fatal to them If they would act with judgment and prudence when first taken ill. Better be particular about catching a cold at this season of the year, and In all the other seasons. If you catch it, better try to get rid of it soon as you can. Many are the diseases to which it renders people liable.— New York Sun.

Don't Eat Potato Skins.

The skin of a nicely served baked potato Is certainly a temptation to any who have tasted it, but it is just as well to resist the temptation. Quite a large percentage of potatoes are shipped in from a distance after having been preserved and packed away carefully to avoid sprouting, which quickly spoils a stack cf potatoes and leaves them almost worthless. In some parts of the country sulphuric acid is used to make sprouting impossible. The potatoes are dipped into a bath with some of the acid dropped in, and as a result the little eyes are killed, and any Intention of sprouting nipped In the bud. It is said that the acid cannot possibly penetrate the skin, and this is no doubt true. At the same time, enough of the poison may have been absorbed by the skin itself to make eating it, even after careful washing, decidedly dangerous.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

The Influence of the Table.

Nowhere is the family life so exhibited as at the table. Here the family is united; here one disposition is contrasted with another: selfishness and generosity, boorishness and refinement, consideration and thoughtlessness—all are more clearly observed against the background of their opposites. Where the table Is regarded as merely a feeding place, it is degraded to the same position as the trough among some lower animals. Three meals a day, a neatly kept and a wellspread table certainly form a delightful adjunct to enhance the pleasures of a home, but when the body craves all attention, at the expense of the intellectual and moral faculties, the dally meal is not elevating, though It may renew the body.

Figures on Coal.

Tne production of bituminous coal in the United States is now double that of anthracite. In 1892 there were 110,009,000 tons of bituminous coal mined, against 52,000,000 tons of anthracite! The area of production of soft coal is ten times greater than the area of production of hard coal. In the form ol coke, bituminous coal is constantly encroaching upon the Sold of anthracib production.

HOME AND THE FARM.

A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. How to Handle Barbed Wire with Convenience—Saving Voung Pigs in Winter —A Halter for Cows-Fruits and Vegetables In CoUars. Barbed Wire. To take up barbed wire where a temporary fence has been thrown around a crop or a portion of a pasture or garden ts a disagreeable task,

but a correspondent of the Rural New Yorker ha 3 found an easy plan for handling the wire with the aid of the contrivance shown in the cuts. He gives the assurance that it is an easy matter to build the simple framewdrk seen in the first cut and to screw it through the sills, A A, to the bottom of a cart. Put the spool on the crank, C, which lifts out of the siot, E, then

one man pushes the cart and another turns the crank, and the taking up of any amount of wire is a pleasure and not a painful duty. The upright pieces, B B, are framed to lean ahead, so that when the cart handles are raised for pushing the frame stands perpendicularly, and when at rest the weighted spool rests ahead of the center, so as not to upset the cart Saving rouug Pigs In Winter. It was a quick-witted Irishwoman, who, when remonstrated with for allowing her pig the freedom of her kitchen, quickly replied: “Sure, and who has a better right? Isn’t he the gintlcman that pays the rint?” In these days, when pork is bringing very high prices, and every pig, however small, seems unusually valuable, the story seems, applicable to many farmers, who. if thoy have not rent to pay, have taxes, interest on mortgages, and the thousand and one expenses, towards whose payment piggy will prove an important factor after he Is grown and fattened. If a litter of fall or early winter pigs should come, must they be lost, or, what is quite as bad, so stunted by cold that all the pork they can ever make will cost more than it comes to. Not at all, and the pig need not be allowed the freedom of the kitchen, either. Put the pigs in a close box, and all the better If enclosed In another close box. In a few days after the pigs are taken off, then the sow may be bred again for a spring litter. All that the pigs will need at first will be milk warmed to animal heat or a trifle abovo. As soon as they will eat more, boil an oatmeal porridge in water, and stir this in with the milk. There is nothing better than this to make young pigs thrifty. The double box will keep them warm In any building, and the pigs will be thrifty in the spring.—American Cultivator.

Halter for Cows. A useful halter for cows, and one they seemed to like, was employed by owners at the fairs last fall. It consisted

of a heavy strap about the neck and another around the .nose connected to it by straps running from one to the other on the face and under the chin. On the fac9 strap a

ring is strung so it plays from na-e to horns as the tie strap which is snapped in it is tightened or loosened. —Ex. Quinces Not Bearing. It is undoubtedly the fact that more disappointments occur to growers of quinces than to growers of almost any other kind of hardy fruit. The trees often are killed outright by severe winters in exposed localities. If not killed the trees are unpropuctive. Quince trees require rich, deep soil, kept moist enough through the winter so that it does not freeze deeply. Dressing of wood ashes are especially beneficial to quince trees. Ashes not only furnish mineral fertilizer the tree needs to perfect its fruit, but tbey also help to keep the soil moist and open for the reception of rains. Scaly Legs on Fowls. When the legs of a fowl are covered with an unsig'htly, rough crust, which become thicker as the bird advances in age, the time will come when it will walk with difficulty, as the formation of the crust is due to tbe work of minute parasites, which are found in countless numbers, each adding to the crust Grease of any kind destroys them, and if a mixture of one part kerosene and ten parts cottonseed oil, linseed oil, or melted lard be applied once a week, two or three -times the scales will soon begin to soften and Anally disappear altogether. Fruits and Vegetables In Cellars. Apples and vegetables that have been stored in the cellar in boxes, barrels, k>t upon shelves, should be sorted over at least twice during the winter, and all injured, decayed, or decaying specimens removed. In the case of apples, where only a decayed spot is found, the remainder will be utilized by the economical housewife for culinary purposes, especially if the fruit be scarce. Vegetables should be carefully looked over, particularly potatoes, as the emanations from the decaying ones are positively unhealthy, and a decayed tuber infects its neighbor. Perquisites for Poultry When fowls are shut up in the winter they often want for some things which are essential to their well-be-ing, and which can be supplied with a little labor aud thought The dust

bath is tKtessary to Keep them free from vermin, and this should be prepared now while the ground is dry. Hoad dust is excellent for this purpose and a sufficient amount can easily be gathered up and put away in barrels to last until the spring. Keep an open box filled with it all the time in the hen house If you neglect to procure the dust in time wood ashes may be used as a substitute A supply of lime is also necessary, and the best way to provide this is to give pounded oyster shells. Bones pounded fine, so as to have long splinters, may also be u-ed, or fine gravel which contains limostope Attention to the littlo things is what makes poultry pay in winter. Add to these, comfortable quarters, good food and perfect cleanliness, and your winter’s income from the fowls should be very satisfactory. Condition* for Honey Secretions. The conditions necessary for the secretion «f honey are peculiar, and not well understood. There have been days when we thought everything was right, yet the bees were idle. The nights have been warm, followod by hot days and a moist, balmy atmosphere, with plenty of bloom in the fiold, yet there was no honey gathered. The why is a mystery. There must have been some element wanting, or nectar would have been secreted. And how do bees know when it is secreted';* Thoy may be at home one day with very few bees leaving the hive for water, or any other purpose, yet the following day by day-break they aro leaving on double quick, and all is hurry and activity. Who told them there was honey';* Do they scent it in the air?—Field and Farm. Clump for Filins Cross-Cut Haws. Not one owner in ten of a cross-cut saw has a proper clamp for firmly holding the saw while being filed. There are many forms of these clamps, but one of the best Is shown in the illustrations, Figs. 1 and 2, from sketches by L. D. Snook. The sides of the clamp should bo as long as the saw, if patent handles are used, or

FIG. 1. FRONT VIEW OF SAW CLAMP, just the length between the handles if the old style be used. The sido boards should be about one inch thick and ten inches wide. Two common Dolts, four inches long are used, and are provided with winged or handle nuts (Fig. I,) the bolts being located at a point so that the back of the saw resting on them will allow the

FIG. 2. REAR VfEW OF SAW CLAMP, teeth and half an inch or more of the body of the saw to project above the clamp Nall a strip, one-quarter of an inch thick, on the lower inside bottom of one of the clamp 3, thus making the upper edge lit firmly against the saw. The clamp can be put in a common bench vice, or, by having two irons bent at right angles (Fig. 2,) and attached to the back of the clamp and then bolted to tho bench or table before a window. The saw will thus be held socuroly for filing. It takes but little to make these clamps, but they will lastonany years.—American Agriculturist. Sowing Buckwheat. Buckwheat Is the latest of the grains to be sown, ltmaturesqulckly and should it be sown when Spring grains are, or even at corn or potato planting time, it would blossom during the hottest weather, and then could not fill well. Sowing too late exposos it to the danger from frosts, though for a number of years Fall frosts have done little damage to this crop A more important point than anything else is to ha"e tho grain come up quickly and make an even stand. One-half bushel of seed per acre is thick enough, and if on rich ground, one peck is enough, as the plant spreads ?tncl fills best when not crowded for room. It is much more often sown too thickly than otherwise.

Feeding Bed Pepper. Red pepper possesses but little virtue as an eg? producer, and has no more effect on the generative organs of fowls than on human beings. It scryes well as an occasional corrective of the bowels when the fowls are sick from over-feeding, but a teaspoonful in the food of 100 hens is ample for all purposes. Salt Cowi Regularly. During the winter season many farmers neglect salting cows, thinking they need salt less than when at pasture. There is not a week when cattle will not eat some salt if they can get it, and if they have a supply before them all the time they will be less likely to take too much. Chicago's Live Stock Receipt#. During 1892 Chicago received 175,. 144 cars of cattle, 112,207 cars oi hogs, 11,395 cars of sheep, and 6,347 cars of horses. The average to the carload was twenty cattle, sixty-nine hogs, 144 sheep and thirteen horses. Poultry Picking*. It usually does not cost much to keep fowls on the farm, and no class can raise fowls or secure eggs as cheaply as the average farmer. Ik there is any difference between feeding young ducks and young chickens it is in the fact that young ducks require more bulky food than chickens. WmLE ordinarily the keeping ol either ducks, geese or turkeys can be made more profitable than chickens, only the better breeds should be kept. There is one economical result in poultry keeping that Is often lost sight of, and that is the large amount of waste food that the fowls pick up. Quality rather than weight fixes the prices of dressed poultry. This is the same reason it pays a big profit to fatten, dress, and pack for market in the most approved manner. Look to your poultry yard for youi ready cash to keep up the table during the winter, rather than else where, for this will not disappoint you if you use care and judgment

STORIES OF HISTORIC DOGS.

Four-Footed Soldiers Which Fought In Many Old World Wars. A French paperhas published a roll of honor of celebrated dogs which have distinguished themselves in war. This is not inappropriate, considering that the dog has been -pressed into military service. For instance, there was Bob, the mastiff of the Grenadier guards, which made the Crimean campaign with that gallant corps; and also Whitepaw, “Patto Blanche,” a brave French ally of Bob, that made the same campaign with the One Hundred arid Sixteenth of the line, and was wounded in defending the flag. Another, Moustache, was entered on the strength of his regiment as entitled to a grenadier's rations. The barber of his company had orders to clip and comb him once a week. This gallant animal received a bayonet thrust at Marengo and recovered a flag at Austerlitz. Marshal Lannes had Moustache decorated with a medal attached to his neck by a red ribbon. Corps do Garde, a Norval amongdogs, followed a soldier to Marongo, was wounded at Austerlitz and perished in the retreat from Russia. The Sixth of the guard had a military mastiff named Mlsere, which woro three white stripes sewn on his black hair. We have also to name Pompon, of the Forty-eighth Bedouins, the best sentry of the baggage train; Loutoutc, a Crimean heroine; Mlttratlli, killed at Inkerman by a shell; Mottibo, that saved his master in Russia, and was lost or lost himself, but found his way going from Moscow to Milan, his first dwelling place. Tho most remarkable, however, was the last, an English harrier named Mustapha, which went into action with his English comrades at Fontenoy and, wo are seriously told, “remained alone by a field piece of the gunner, his master, clapped the match to the touchhole of tho cannon und thus killed seventy soldiers," and it is further addod that Mustapha was presented m King Georgo 11.- and rewarded s’lth a pension allmcntam.

VERY BIG FIGURES.

Million* Spent for Hlcyclea by the People of Till* Country. Sinco tho bicycle crazo began tho people of this country hnvo invested more than $50,000,000 in wheels. Unfortunately exact figures aro not to be had, for the census does not enumerate bicycles as It does horses and sheep, and Indians not tuxod. This sum represents about 300,000 machines and gives one bicycle to every 209 persons throughout tho country. In New York City alone, it Is computed, there are 40,000 wheels in use. There is every indication that this is largely under tho actual number. These 40,000 wheels cost originally $5,000,000* and the stocks on hand and Investments in manufacturing and repairing machinery in tho city are given at $1,000,000 more, making the total investment for bicycles in that city alone $0,000,000. With a population of 1,700,000 and 40,000 wheels In use the average In New York City is one bicycle to every 42 J persons. A prominent bicycle dealer said recently that he sold 15,000 wheels at the New York offleo last year, and that tho number will reach 25,000 thid year. This is an average of moro than 80 machines for every working day for one maker alone. These machines do not, of course, all stay In the city. Even.of those that aro not shipped, but arc taken away by the purchasers, a large proportion go to the suburban towns. capital Invested In bicyclemaking machinery it is easier to give absolutely definite figures than the number of wheels in usSk. Alt the American manufacturers combined have $12,000,000 invested in plants and stock, and this amount increases at tho rate of about $2,000,000 a year by the improvement of the old factories and erection of new ones. Three million dollars more is to be added to this for investments in bicycle clubhouses and race tracks, making, with the $37,500,000 invested in wheels, a total of $52,500,000 invested in this country in bicycles and tho bicycle Interests. And this is a low estimate.

ABOUT TWILIGHT.

It I* the Hour When MularU Gets In It* Worst Work. The special danger of the sunset hour In malarial regions may be owing to the following conditions: TJhe microbes or spores concentrate at a level a little above the ground, exactly as one may observe the dust of carriages in the road in a thick horizontal layer settle on a warm, moist evening; then there is no lifting by ascending air currents, but a sort of beating down to a low level, and their coherence is caused by the disposition of vapor on the dust particles as the air cools. Thus, over a dried marsh there would be great condensation of microbes, or slwres, which could no longer disperse. They would gather about the height of a man’s head, just as we sec a ground fog In still, moist air after a warm day in autumn; the organisms were given off while the surface of the ground was warm, and they accumulate a little above it as radiation carries off the* heat and cools the lowest stratum of air. About sunset the earth is still warm and exhales moisture into the air above it, and with the earthvapor organisms are largely given off. The human body is at that time most susceptible to their action, because the rapid cooling of the skin, drives the blood to the inner surfaces of the throat, and these congested inner surfaces favor the innoculation by germs drawn in with the breath. Later in the night the organisms have largely sunk by their own weight and that of deposited dew, and, moreover, the cooled body is not so much open to the attack of germs remaining in the air.—Chicago News Record. Well Sqm one I. Wood for tennis rackets requires at least five years’ seasoning; that is to say, it requires to be kept for five years in the rough timber state before being cut up for use. Wood for pianos is kept, as a rule, for forty years before it is considered sufficlent'jr in condition to be used.

HERE’S ALL THE NEWS

TO BE FOUND IN THE STATS OF INDIANA. Giving t DotalUd Account of tho Nntnoron* Crime*, Casualties, Fir**, Sulctdoo* Death*, Etc, Etc John-Grave* In Luck. After being thought dead for over twenty years a man turned up at Huntington, to claim a fortune that had been awaiting its owner. In 1872 John S. Graves went West. From the time of bis departure nothing was heard of him. After he had been gone some time his relatives made an effort to locate him, but did not succeed. After soveral years had elapsed without any tidings Graves was given up for dead. Four years ago his uncle Jesse Griffith, died a bachelor, leaving SOOO,OOO. Ono of the heirs was the missing John Graves. Attorneys started a now hunt for him, and newspapers the country over advertised for him. Over a hundred persons answered, claiming to be Johu Graves, but in each case tho fraud was detected. Finally Graves was legally presumed to be dead, and an administrator appointed in charge of tho ostato. The proporty was all turned into cash. Tho other day Graves appoared attor an absence of twenty-one years, not having hoard of death. Thero was no trouble In proving his identity. He has been all over North and South America, In busiuoss. and as an Indian toacber. He is now located In Washington. Minor Statu Now*. Mrs. George Brisco was fatally hurt in a runaway at Greoncastle. Ciiaiu.es Khineh, hunting ducks near Martinsville, lost an oye by his gun oxplodlng. James Haggard of Morgantown, lost alt tho fingers on his loft hand by sawing them off whllo at work on a (once. Thomas Elpuiuge, an old soldlor, living near Dolphl, was crushed by a falling treo, and dlod from his injuries. White River ts still being dragged in tho hopo of recovering tho body of Oliver Symons, who was drowned at, Noblesvllle. James Murphy, a brakotnan on tho Nlckoi Plato, was so badly crushod at Fort Wayne whllo coupling cars that ho cannot recover. Mr. anii Mrs. G. W. Hester’s 10-months-old baby at Farmland, upset a pot of boiling tea, scalding itself so that tho slosh fell from its limbs. Arthur Shaw, a« employe on the Monon Railway at Lafayette, was run over and ground to plocos. It Is supposed bo fell botwoon the cars. The attorneys of a Mr. Wills, who was rofused a license to run a saloon at Burlington, near Dolphl, on the ground that the citizens of that place remonstrated, have appoaled tho case to the Circuit Court. Terre Haute and Richmond have applied to the Adjutant-General of the State for tho military oncampmont. The placu and date for holding tho encampment will not bo decided for several weeks.

Work has boen boguti on tho now courthouse at Tipton, and tho old shade trees that were set out the day Fort Suintor was fired on havo, with the exception of throe or four, been cut down and baulod away. William Kynett, ono of the old citizens of Dolawaro County, was found dead In his bod by merabors of his family, at Lapel. Ho was 75 year* old, and death is supposod to have boen causod by a recent fall on the Ice. The Seymour manufacturing company has agreed to build at once structures to cost $21,000, providing the city will oxompt it from taxes for ton years. Tho council has agreed to do this and work will be commenced at once. A wreck occurrod a short distance east of South Bend, on the Grand Trunk. A broken truck under one of the cars of a freight train piled up eight cars and tore up about seventy-five feot of track. No ono was seriously injured. Mrs. Sarah Laoro, who recently brought suit against Daniel Hill, a wealthy resident of Elkhart, who is over 80 years old,,for $15,000 damages, for breach of promise, has been awarded 81,000. Tho case has several sensational features. Michael Gechlkr attempted to board a moving' train at Coal City, and was thrown beneath the wheels, receiving injuries from which he dlod. Gechler was a well-to-do inerchaut of Patrlcksburg, and was'on his wav to Terre Haute to purchase goods when tho accident occurred. • „ The crops in this State have not yeif boon killed. If the weather continues good, the yield will bo greater than last year's. Reports from all parts of the Stato show wheat to be vigorous. Tho crop wj!| bo good, if tho weather does notchango, as ft did last year. Fruit Id Central Indiana shows a loss of at least one-half, but the Ohto Valley will v(pld 111 usual large erbps. Strawberries, though not abundant, are remarkable in size and general flavor. Blackberries and the other smalt berrios are not far enough along to judge of their crop or Suallty, but growers prophesy that Inlana will have her share of them, and also of every kind of fruit. Patents havo boon granted Indiana inventors as follows; Fortune L. Bailey, Freeport, assignor to Boston Cash-regis-ter Company, Northampton, Mass., cash register and indicator; August D. Cook, Lawrenceburg, plunger for pumps; Nixon Holloway, Llncolnvllle, chicken brooder; Edgar D. Johnson, Conners* ville, apparatus for moving coal; Loyal V. Lewis, Kendallvllle, feed and water purifier and heater; William S. Novlns, Terre Haute, reflector and bracket for lamps; Charles W. Patton, Clarksville, churn power; Mlchaol Posz, Shelby ville. sash fastener; Joseph N. Stein, Fort Wayne, car reparer; John Tipton, Hymera, post bole digger; George W. Vance, Anderson, cresting for roofs; James Wood and W. W. Haro, Noblesviile, wblffltreo hook. Last December EL J. Hurley, inspector of the Chicago pine lino, disappeared. The other day some boys discovered his body floating in Deep River. There is no explanation] of how he came to his death. Mrs. M. J. Rankin was found dead in her bed In an old and lonely house near the Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Mliiford Junction. Her little dog, sole companion of her solitude, was whining disconsolately, lying in the bed with her. The unfortunate woman was addicted to drugs, and she either got an overdose or heart failure, brought on by excessive use of stimulants, caused her death. Henry Enlow, a prominent farmer, has sworn out affidavits at Cannelton against thirteen persons living near that city for murder in the first degree. About five years ago Enl.ow’s son, accused of criminally assaulting a young woman, was hanged by White Caps. The lather now claims that he knows the men who did the hanging. The executive committee of the State Board of Agriculture has made final settlement with the last two contractors with whom the board had an account, Messrs. Morse and Ayers. There Is now no indebtedness, and the board is in full possession of the 214 acres, with the taxes, under the contract, chargeable to the Indianapolis Driving Club.