Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — Page 3

In Sheep's Clothing.

BY Capt. Ormond Steele

CHAPTER XVlll—Continued. Tineas arose and again set the lamp on the table. “Wait, worthy sachem, before you leave, a few questions more; but first sit down," said Graham, motioning him to the bench. With a look of surprise the chief obeyed him. “Did Fox say anything about—about Captain Denham?" t “He did,” said Uncas, cautiously. £ “What?” “I cannot recall all that he said, but I’ll tell-you something wonderful that I know. ” “What is that, Uncas?” “Captain Ealph Denham Is now sleeping with the dead; ” i “You are sure of this?" “As sure as that I see you sitting up in that bed before me,” replied Uncas. Colonel Graham coughed to keep back the shout of joy that trembled on his Ups, and then he pressed his long, white fingers to his eyes, and so remained for several moments. “The news pains you,” said the chief. “It surprises me. It is so sudden. Denham was so young," gasped Graham. “Death loves the young. Is that all you want to ask?” “No; there was one question more, but, perhaps, as you are weary, and it is so late, I had better defer It” “I am not weary; early and late is all the same to me. Ask me the question now. ” l “It is about your sister. “What of her?” “She is very beautiful.” "So I have heard white men say before. But what’s the question you would ask?" said the chief, turning his strong black eyes on Graham’s agitated face.

“Do you know of any man that she is going to marry?” asked the colonel, with a slight tremor in his voice. “I do not. Why do you ask?” “I am single, and in my own lands I have great wealth and large estates. I have seen none of my own countrywomen that I would care to marry, nor have I seen any other woman in any land, though it has been my fortune to see most lands under the sun. I shall leave your beautiful country as soon as my "mission here is ended, and if your sister would go with me ” “Stop, Colonel Graham,” interrupted the chief, “You were about to say you would make Untilla of the Montauks your wife if she would promise to go with you?” “I was.” “You should ask her.” “Oh, of course, I shall do that.” “But,” continued Uncas. ”1 would advise you not to speak to Untilla of love or marriage.” “Why should I not? lam gray, but I am still a man in my prime. My troubles are over, and I can give my time to the happiness of a wife. * Uncas was about to reply; but before the first syllable passed his lips, a shrill, croaking voice called through the chinks in the logs. “Ha, ha, ha! de troubbles hez only begun! you keer foh a wife? how did you keer for de brudder dat loved en trusted ye? you kilt him! kilt hhn! kilt him! trubble never leaves de murd’rer.” “Curse the hag!” cried Graham, his eyes protruding from his head, and his sharp face ashy with fear. Uncas was even more excited. The lamp fell from his hand, and was extinguished on the floor, so hiding his timidity. “I w’in go. I shall sef you again;” this was all he could say. And the tall, strong man now as frightened as a child at an imagined bugaboo, dashed out of the house.

In the meantime Captain Fox drew the precious boxes up close to the fire, and arranging them into something like a couch, he lit a cigar, and stretched himself out on top of them. Don sat down near by, with a weary look on his shrewd Scotch face, and his doubled up hands under his chin. “Tired, Don?" asked the Captain, anxious to talk to 6ome one rather than from any interest he had in the poor lad’s condition. “I am, sir,” replied Don. “Let me see, Don; how long have you been with me?” “A year next August, sir,” said Don, still looking at the hre, but with a harder expression upon his young face. “Ah, Don, I lear you will never be sufficiently grateful to me for saving you. You were the only one on that ship that did not perish. ” “ADd I sometimes wish I had perished at the same time,” said the lad, with a bitter ring in his voice. “Then I would have had no cabin boy, eh?” “You saved my life to make me your slave. ” “Come, come, my lad, some day you will be a captain in command of a ship like the Wanderer; the ocean will be your home, and every land will pay you tribute.” “If I over command a ship like yours,” replied the boy, “I hope some, man-0,-war will catch me and my crew and swing us all up to the yardarm. I’m afraid that will be my fate if I stay with you long. ’ Instead of being angry at this retort, Captain Fox blew out a long puff of smoke, and laughed long and loud. “Egad, Don, you are very hard on me, very hard, indeed; I have no doubt but you would hang me and all my crew in the morning if you ha 1 your way. Now, tell me the truth, wouldn’t you?” “Yes, I would,” replied the toy, bluntly. “Gad! Ido like boyish candor. I was once a boy, just like you, but I had not the same hatred of pirates; indeed, I was in much trouble to decide whether, when I became a man, I should rob on horseback or on a ship. But you’ll get used to this life after a bit. Now, lie down and go to sleep. Don’t think of killing me as I lie here, for I shall be awake all night Good night, lad.” “Goodnight,” growled Don, and he stretched himself before the fire; and, being a very healthy boy, he was asleep in no time.

The first glimmer of daylight saw the Captain and Don up and about. By the aid of the map Frenauld left Captain Fox was enabled to find the cavern; it was only a few yards away. After examining the place and taking fresh bearings, and comparing them with the map. the Captain called to Don to help him, and together they carried the boxes to the cave. This done, they closed up the entrance with stones. They were nearly

through their work when Uncas returned a'one. Instead of being startlod, Fox said to the chief: “I have just concealed in this place a great deal of treasure, consisting of diamonds and other jewels ” "The Montauk women prefer flowers and shells," said the chief. “So I have heard, though I have retained a present for your sister. I now ask you to consider this property as left in your charge, and that of your people, by me. ” “We shall guard it sacredly, though my people have a superstitious dread of the cave. ” “I wish all the white men in the world with the exception of myself had the same feeling. But let us go over to the fire; the sun is rising, and I am very hungry.” They went back to the fire, where Don set out the food, wine included, that had been brought from the ship. Uncas accepted the invitation to help him.elf, saying, “I have given orders to have food ready when we reach my house.” “That was thoughtful; I am a great worker, but I am also a great eater,” said Fox. When the meal was over, the Captain asked it there was any man near whom he could get to carry his bag. The chief said there was none; and as he made no offer to help, Fox threw the burden across his own broad shoulders, and raid he was ready to start. Don took up his own lighter load, and they went away. On the road they halted for a few seconds while the chief, by means of his rifle, pointed out the hill and the vault in which Capt. Denham was guarded.

CHAPTER XIX. RUMORS FROM THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE. With the morning sun behind her, the Wanderer came sailing proudly up the bay, where the Sea Hawk lay at anchor; and the Indians to the east and the dwellers in the cozy town of Sag Harbor watched her progress with much interest, though with a different feeling from that with which they greeted her arrival when she first appeared in company with Captain Denham’s ship. Valentine Dayton was on shore talking to his cousin Lea and his betrothed, when the report reached him that Captain Fox’s ship was coming up the bay. As a good officer, who felt implicit obedience to superiors was the first requisite in a sailor’s character, Valentine was quite willing to do whatever Captain Fox ordered; tut it must be confessed that, at heart, he felt the prospective duty to be anything but pleasant, and, without being able to account for the feeling, he silently blamed Balph Denham for permitting any other man to assume even a temporary command of the Sea Hawk. The sailors growled about this change among themselves, and the older ones shook their heads ominously. The good people of the town, being untrammeled by naval rules, and entirely ignorant of the training that gives a blind obedience to superior officers, did not hesitate to give forcible expression to their feelings. The Sea Hawk, if not altogether the property of the dwellers in Sag Harbor, at least was owned by the province of New York. Her hoaie was in these waters. Because she volunteered to aid the motherland, that did not make her a queon’s ship. “If one of the provincial officers was to take command," said Squire Condit, who on all occasions was the oracle of the place, “why we’d submit, and say that was all right, so long as Ealph Denham was doing more good at headquarters, where he is now advising with the Governor, and no man can do it better. But for a stranger to come in, and be able to order our Sag Hart or boys about, and say to Lieu - . Hedges, •Come,’ and he’ll have to come, or ‘Go,’ and he’ll have to go, I must confess it rubs against the grain.” “And it goes against all our grains, Squire,” said a sturdy old farmer in the crowd gathered about Squire Condit. “And if so be that George Hedges he don’t want to obey, and this man Fox, who’s a stranger, wants to make him, why, I guess there’s plenty of men in Suffolk that knows how to handle matchlocks or flintlocks either, and we’ll drive this fellow off bag and baggage in no time, if need be.” This bold expression met with general approval, but, as a man of law, Squire Condit pretended to frown down what he at heart indorsed. “It’ll all come out right when Ealph Denham comes back'. Keep cool, neighbors, and depend on that,” he said, as he turned away to avoid saying anything imprudent. Valentine Dayton was going to take Lea and Ellen on board the Sea Hawk to spend the morning; but the unexpected appearance of the Wanderer caused them to change their plans. “I am sorry to disappoint myself and you,” said Valentine to the young ladies, “but as soon as the Wanderer comes to anchor. Lieutenant Hedges will want to go on board to report to Captain Fox for orders. We do not known what those orders may be; but it is best that he should find the Sea Hawk in good shape.” “But, surely. Valentine.” said Ellen, her pretty face pale with anxiety, “'Captain Fox will not order your ship away at once?”

“Hardly, as the Sea Hawk needs some more repairing; but if the necessities of the service demand it, we may have to leave just as we are,” replied Valentine. The young officer was about to step into the boat that had come for him, when Lea drew him to one side and said: “Are you quite sure. Cousin Valentine, that it will be right to obey this man?” “Do you mean, Lea, if it will be right to obey Captain Fox?” She answered that that was what she meant “It would be treason to disobey him, and there is not a man on the Sea Hawk who could be guilly of that crime. Captain Denham has himself written that Mr. Hedges is to report to Captain Fox for orders, and it would be disloyalty to Kalph, as a man—to Ralph, who, himself, could be disloyal to no one —if we did not implicitly obey." “You must be right. Cousin Val; but something tells me. it is a something for which I can’t give a reason to myself, that all is not right, but that a great wrong has been done to Ralph Denham, ” said Lea, her beautiful face showing the menial anguish she was suffering. Valentine, believing that her depression was due to the absence of her lover, and the fact that she had rfflt, heard from him directly since he left; tried to laugh away her tears; and believing he had succeeded, he kissed the young ladies, as he had a perfect right to do, and went on board the Sea Hawk. He found Lieutenant Hedges in full uniform, nervously pacing the deck, snu at every turn turning his eyes up aloft, as if the sails were set, and he had some doubts about the weather. On shore, these men addressed each other as “Uncle George,” and “Val, my lad,” but once their feet touched the

deck of their ship, they became officers, and all their intercourse was marked by the rigid formality and punctilious etiquette that is observed on board a man-of-war, as in no other place. After saluting, Lieutenant Hedges said: “Mr. Dayton, I have ordered the gig alongside, and I am going on board the Wanderer to report to Captain Fox.” To this Valentine responded with a “Yes, sir.” “I have ordered everything mad* ready for inspection," continued Lieutenant Hedges; “and as you will be in command during my absence, you will see that my orders are carried out promptly and properly. ” “I shall see to that, sir.” “And I may invite Capta'n Fox on board to dine, though properly it is hia place to invite me. so, on second consideration I shall not invite him.” “I think you are right, sir,” replied Valentine, consc.ous that his uncle was not himself, and would not be, until the business now on hand was over. Lieutenant Hedges, looking as if there was a great deal more he should like to say if he had the time,.turned and went down to the boat. Valentine went to work at once, and though the habitual cheerfulness of the Sea Hawk’s crew seemed to have left them for a time, they worked with their accustomed energy to get the ship into inspection condition. In a half hour Lieutenant Hedges came back, looking still more nervous and perplexed, and the moment he got on board he hastened to the cabin and sent for the second officer. “Mr. Dayton, I did not report for orders,” said the Lieutenant, as Valentine approached him. “May I ask the reason, sir?” "Becau e, sir, Captain Fox is not now in command of tho Wanderer.” “You Surprise me.” “The Wanderer, Mr. Dayton, is commanded by Lieutenant Freuauld, and Captain William Fox is now, sir, at this blessed moment, away among the Montauk Indians, whither I do not propose to go for orders.” [TO BE CONTINUED. 1

A PATRIARCHAL ALLIGATOR.

The Pet of a Southern Family for Over a Hundred Years. In the bayou flowing through the large sugar plantation of Gabriel Montaigne, lying seven or eight miles south of Thibodeaux, La., there was recently killed, says the Philadelphia Times, an alligator known to be something over 120 years old. In 1773 Mr. Montaigne’s father’s grandfather, immigrated to this country from France, purchased this tract of land from its original Spanish owner, and in an attempt to clear the bayou of the ferocious and aggressive alligators, which tilled it to the number of thousands, succeeded in killing many of them, and among them the mother of several young ones, three of which he killed also, butthe fourth got away, leaving five hr six inches of his tail behind. This one was afterward seen from time to time and always recognized by the missing portion of his anatomy. He grew to be something of a pet with the succeeding generations, but they thought It safest to keep him at a distance despite his friendly advances. It has been a favorite task with the younger Montaignes to go after each meal with tidbits for old Shorty, as he was called because of his deformity. There was much grief therefore a day or two ago when an Eastern visitor, returning from a day’s shooting along the bayou’s banks, came across an enormous ’gator stretched across his path, and, firing on it, buried the contents of his gun in its head. Most of the shot was ineffectual because of the scaly armor of the reptile, but several penetrated the eyes, the vulnerable points, sought the brain and killed the animal. The visitor, who had been some yards in • advance of his host, was just congratulating himself on his prowess in slaying so fero-cious-looking a creature, when Mr. Montaigne, coming up, showed by his consternation that the victory had been at the cost of a loss to the entire family. The assassin of old Shorty was conscious stricken. The dead alligator was buried on the banks of the bayou amid the lamentations of the younger membqrs of the Montaigne family. This age of 120 years is not unparalleled with these animals, many being said to attain the age of 100, though this is difficult of proving, except in cases where the creature is marked in some such way as old Shorty was.

Saratoga Chips.

Saratoga chips, or fried potatoes, are prepared in thin, paper-like slices and crisped, but not burned, in hot fat. The secret of preparing them properly lies in cutting them first in the thinnest slices possible, and soaking them for at least six hours in Icewater. This last process draws the starch out of the potato, and is positively necessary to success. The famous Moon, of Saratoga, who originated these “chips,” is said to have soaked them in large vats of ice-water for at least twelve hours. When you are ready to fry them, drain them out of the water and use a cloth to absorb all moisture. Have a large pot of fat—at least three quarts—over the fire, heated very hot. It must be hotter for this purpose than for any other frying done by the cook, unless it be for potato croquettes. Do not attempt to fry more than a piDt of sliced potatoes at once. If more are put in they cool the fat too much to cook them properly. The kettle containing the fat should be rather deep, otherwise it is liable.to boil over when the potatoes are first put in. There is at that time a violent ebullition in the fat, caused by the moisture in the potatoes. The moment this boiling ceases, in about two minutes, lift the kettle on top of the stove, where it is not so hot, and let the potatoes fry for five or six minutes longer. They should be crisp and a yellowish white, but not brown. Drain them out of the fat as soon as they are done, onto brown paper, to absorb all grease. Dredge them with salt, and serve them on a hot platter.—New York Tribune.

An Editorial Admonition.

While callers, are always welcome to the office of the Kidder (Mo.) Optic, the editor makes the following severe remark in a recent issue of his paper: “We want it distinctly understood that this office is not a place for giddy young girls or loafers. The two young ladies (?) who invaded our sanctum last Friday afternoon are kindly requested to never repeat the visit until they know how to behave.”'

AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.

A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. The “ Fanning-Poesn’t-Pay” t m iner—Spoil lorn Should be Carefully Selected—High Cost Not Necessary in the Construction us a Ice House. Complaining fanners. One of the jolly kind of farmers who is always happy, in writing to an agricultural paper, exp.esses himself as having no sympathy with that class of farmers who are all the time complaining that “farming doesn’t pay,” and claims that the difficulty lies with the complainant rather than with tho business of farming. He said that of the class that complain, you can usually find them and their families at the ci cus and indulging in matters of pleasure from which no benefit can he derived; and further, that the complaining class are those who snend from fifteen to twenty-live cents per day for tobacco. There is much truth in the writer’s remarks. Given health, strength and an enesgetic disposition, there is little occasion for complaining on the part of farmers. One great, trouble is the change in conditions from what existed fifty or seventy-live years ago. Then the labo:s of farmers, as well as of others, were blessed bv some increase and there was a gradual saving. There was less disparity among the masses of the people. While there might occasionally be found one more sucoessful than the mass, theie were few that were really wealthy; but in more recent times, by means of booms and speculation, men have become wealthy in a day, and wealth appears to he more concentrated, This has caused a feeling of discontent—a desire to grow rich without labor, and there can be found many who are waiting for something to turn up whereby they may be safely landed in the lapof luxury and ease. But this is wholly incompatible with the business of the farmer; it is necessary that he should prepare the soil and tend the crop if he hopes for any returns. And it makes no difference in what department his efforts are directed—fruit culture, cattle raising, the dairy or general crops—it means the ;putting forth of effort, and with that there will be sure to come a moderate increase of wealth. The process of saving must of necessity he slow, hut it will bo sure, and with care in the investment there will he an accumulation ample for all necessities; with a surplus for pleasure and ease In old age.

Tho Use of Kran In tlio Ilairy. As a plant makes all its substance from food, and it is necessary for the production of a crop to supply it with every element of its substance in due proportion, so with animals, every element of the body and the expected product, is to be supplied iu excess of those needed to sustain life. Bran, in the opihion of the American Agriculturist, is a valuable food for certain purposes. It supplies the material for making bone, and this is needed by old animals as well as young, for it is known that the bones of an old animal are leplaced to some extent during the whole of its existence. It is also an ex client fleshproducing food, and it provides the elements of milk except the fat. Bran has all the needed elements of nutrition for the sustenance of life in the proportion requi.ed, hut it is deficient in the fat needed for butter. Thus alone. It is not a suitable food for the dairyman. To furnish the quantity of fat for a pound of butter, a cow must eat forty pounds of bran, allowing for the unavoidable waste. But twenty pounds of corn meal would supply the needed fat, if no other food we e used. In practice it has been found that six pounds of bran and the same of corn meal is a good ration for a cow that may be expected to give one pound of butter a day in addition to good clover hay. But as bran is an excellent food for making bone and flesh it is one of the best for growing animals or for sheep rearing a Jamb, and making a fleece. An excellent food for calves consists of cut hay, wetted and mixed-wlth—-for ten pounds of it—one pound of corn meal, and three pounds of bran. This, with as much good clover hay as will be eaten clean, is enough for two calves per day.

The Selection of Seed Corn. We should all bear In mind the fact that there is a general law that seeins to pervade nature, that “like produces like,” and yet there is a difference to degree of quality which, when applied to seeds, should have a governing influence in this selection. In all kinds of cropping, especially of annual crops that come only from the seed planted, selection should be careful, and especially is the case with corn. There is no question but that the yield of the crop may be very much influenced by the seed planted; increase or improvement may result, or deterioration and a diminishing. What is desirable is to select those ears for the seed that appear to-be-most productive, have grown upon normal but vigorous, stalks, and this can be best done in the field before the corn is cut. and so marked as to be readily distinguishable at the time ol husk ng, and then should be put away in a dry, airy place for keeping till the next year. If selection can be made from stalks bearing two or more ears, we much prefer it, as that tendency is favorable to large production. We much prefer two well developed, medium sized ears upon one stalk to one car enormously large and imperfect in the matter of being capped out. Wo consider it a mistake in the selection of seed corn to pick out abnormal ears—monstrosities—in the hope of. improving either seed or crop. It is the best specimens of stalks of normal growth, fully matured and perfected in all that goes to make model ears, that should receive attention. As a rule, little good can be hoped for from attempting to reproduce the Ireaks which from some unknown cause are liable to occur.—Germantown Telegraph. Curing Hams. The Northwestern Agriculturist gives a rule for the curing of pork bams that may prove useful to our readers. Well cured hams are a luxury in every family, while poorly

cured hams are likely to become spoiled and so lost, for which reason it is test to exercise a good degree of care. The rule is as follows: For every 100 pounds of meat take five pounds of sugar, tire ounces of salt* peter and six and one-fourth pounds of salt, and water enough to cover all the hams when packed down. Tho hams should remain in the brine thus made until they are completely pickled, which will requiro longer time in cold weather. After being sufhciently pickled they may betaken to the smoke house and smoked to the taste. Fork hams are frequently spoiled by being taken from the brine before theyjare pickled through. If oven a small portion of the meat around the lmne lacks the elTect of tne salt, if kept into warm weather, it will liecome tainted. A Cheap 100 Hnuso, Once more we say that high cost is not necessary in an ice house. The essentials arc ground from which the water will run away, sides stiff and tight enough to securely hold tho lino packing with which it must be surrounded, a roof good enough to turn rain and free ventilation over tne top of the material with which the ice is covered. “Any shed which will furnish these requisites and eighteen inches of chaff,sawdust, tine charcoal, cut corn, foddoT.or straw packed hard and tight under, on all sidos and above the ice. with both gable ends wide open, will keep the ioo better than a $250 stone building,” says one who has tried it in the Philadelphia Farm Journal. A pile of ice Bby 10 feet and 6 l'cet high will hold enough for any ordinary farm tamily, with a dairy attachment —N. W. Agriculturist

Tho Ilc«t Food Tor Horne*, Oats is the bestgrain to food horses in good health. Barley is next best For a steady diet, corn is not wholesome and, it fed alone for any length of time, is certain to produce ill effects from indigestion. Oats havo about the right proportions of nutritious and coarse matter to bo healthful, while corn has a very largo per cent of strong food, a good mixture being four bushels of oats to one of corn. Twelve quarts per day of this ground mixture will prove a good feed for any horse whllo plowing or doing other heavy farm work. Whole corn should he soaked in warm water six hours before feeding. Once a week give horses a feed of wheat bran. An occasional feed of potatoes, apples or roots will prove beneficial, and the animals will relish the change of diet

Hinull Parmer*’ HpeelalUott One of the advantages of the small farmer is that he is obliged to get out of the usual ruts? He cannot afford to grow on a small scale the grain and other staple crops that must compete with like products jyown by the hundred .or thousand acres. But this disadvantage of the small farmer in the end helps him. Selecting some specialty and devoting his attention mainly to that, hc'soog earns more from a few acres thas those who go in the old ruts "get from their larger farms. , Poultry Picking*. A good dust box is a good llcc exterminator. Poultry may be made to return a considerable ingome. Stagnant water is one of the first steps toward cholera. It is not quantity, but quality In water that promotes health. Poultry should always have access to green food when it is possible. Ducks will rarely crowd together for warmth as closoly as chickens. The hen that is too fat Is the one that is laying the soft-shelled eggs. In confinement fowls require ( loser attention than when given a range. Tarred paper is good to drive away lice, and can he whitewashed if desired. The best plan in feeding ducks is to put water where they can help themselves. Do not buy an incubator because it is cheap; generally that will prove a poor economy.

MtucelluncauA ItuclpcM. Light Fkuit Cake.— Four eggs, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one cup of milk,.ope cup of stoned raisins, three cups of flour, three tcaspooufuls of baking powder. Eggless Cake. —Two cups brown sugar, butter size of an egg, two tablespoon fuis milk, one tfip chopped raisins, one and one-half cups of light bread sponge, one-half teaspoonful cinnamon nutmeg and cloves, and flour enough to make a still dough. Orange Jelly. —Soak a half a box of gelatine in two teacups water, and the juice of three lemons, the grated rind of one and one quart of boiling water. Stram and stir into three cupfuls of sugar, Remove the skins and seeds from eight or ten oranges, cut them into a dish and pour over the jelly and orange juice. Set in a cool place until next day. Pumpkin Pie. —For three pies take a quart of sifted cooked pumpkin, one and a half teacupfuls sugar, onehalf teacupful molasses, one quart of milk, three eggs, (or less egg will answer if two tablespoonfuls of flour or cornstarch are well scalded in the milk,) a pinch of salt, one and onehalf teaspoonfuls each of cinnamon and ginger and a little nutmeg grated on top as placed in the oven. Bake in a moderate oven. Mock Cherry Pie.— Chop together a cupful of cranberries and threefourths teacup of raisins; add oce teacupful of sugar, one-half teacupful boiling water, one tablespoonfuJ of flour and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Stir up the flour with water and cook it thoroughly in the boiling water before adding the other ingredients. Have a deep pie plate lined with a good crust, pour in the mixture,cover and bake at once. ISutCake. —One cup sugar, onehalf cup butter, two eggs, one-half cup milk, one cup English walnuts or shellbarks, one cup chopped raisins, one-half teaspoonful soda, one Leaspoonful of cream tartar, two cups of flour. Mix the sugar and butter ro a cream, add the eggs beaten, also the milk with soda dissolved in it, one cup of flour containing the cream of tartah the nuts, fchopped a little, then the raisins with the rest of ths flour.

BUCEPHALUS IN A BALLOO[?],

Osmiiji Pasha, an Equine Aeronaut, making Daily Ascensions in llorlln. The latest novelty launched on tho circus-going public of Berlin is designated on the programme of tho famous Corty- Athol circus as “Osman Pasha, tho great and only equine aeronaut of the nineteenth century.” Osman Pasha is described by the New York Press as a proud black stallion with fine head and symmetrical proportions. The trainers found little difficulty at first in inducing the stallion, who was very docile, to step in the* car of the balloon, and in order to prevent accidents two stout straps connected his bit with heavy iron rings fastened to the sides of the car. After his first aerial trip, however, he strenuously objected to leave terra tlrma, and it required several months of patient and careful coaxing beforo Osman could perform his feat grace*, fully. And even now, after many trials, he exhibits a certain lack of confidence. When Osman receives his command to step into the balloon conveyance he acts like a woman on. the point of taking a cable car—he wants to be sure that tho thing does not fly away before he is comfortably installed. During the pscenslon ho behaves phlegmatically and stands perfectly still, notwithstanding tho manipulations of his keepers below, who aio constantly pulling on tho ropes attached to the car, swinging it violently back and forth so that screams of terror escape tho ladies, who fear that tho poor beast may tumble down at any moment. The only symptoms of fear the horse evinces occur during the pyrotechnical finale. From the moment tho attendant approaches with Ids flaming torch with which ho kindles tho fireworks the stallion begins to stamp and snort furiously. During this part of tho performance his fiery eyes and pricked cars denote his interest, and when ho is finally released there is a sudden dash for the stable, under the uproarious applause of the appreciative multitude

A HOLIDAY - LOVING PEOPLE.

The Colonist* of New Zealand I’roler to Take Life Hal her Kuslly. Tho colonists of New Zealand arc a holiday-making people, says Pearson’s Weekly. There Is almost an average of one recognised holiday in a month, and it is a common practice for all working people to take two or more days at Christmas, the New Year, and Easter, so as to make an unbroken playtime of three or four days, including Sunday. Then the great mass of tho people give themselves up to amusement. Ilorse races, athletic sports, boat races, and excursions are carried on In every available spot, and are attended by large and well-behaved crowds. Tho commonest of all holiday amusements, howevor, is the picnic. The several trades, sects, and societies havo picnics of their own, to which tho public are cordially welcome on tho payment of a small sum toward the expense of the entertuinmont. It is amusing to tho railway traveler to note, as he passes through some pleasant countryside, not phe or two but perhaps fifty different picnics in full swing, each numbering scores or hundreds of guests. It has been said with much moro truth than is usually to bo found in epigrams of this kind that: “In New Zealand people are like cattle. You need only turn a number of them Into a pasture and leave them aloae, und they will be perfectly happy." On a warm and tempting New Year’s Day an enterprising burglar might walk through a New Zealand city and help himself undisturbed to tho contents of most of the houses. Dwellings and streets are alike deserted, and tho casual sojourner who does not understand the ways of the place seeks in vain for some one to speak to. By 6or 7 o'clock in the evening *ho streets are lively with returning crowds.

A i Occult Impression.

“If we would but heed the inward monitor which so often warns us in times of danger, many of our perplexities would be removed,” said the Doctor. “I remember a curious incident in the early part of my career. 1 was sent for at daybreak on ono occasion in a great hurry. A young lady was dying with all the symptoms of poisoning. The messenger did not know what she had taken or how it had happened, but was sure she could not live. I seized some remedies, but was conscious of a doubt. I must work in the dark, for I did not know what antidotes would be needed. Then, as plain as I ever beard anything in my life, a word came to my inner senses, a name spoken only to the alert ears of my mental being: ‘Laudanum.’ I never disputed it, but seizing the antidote for that particular poison I hurried away with the messenger, who had waited outside. Sure enough, the woman had taken a dose of laudanum, not with suicidal intent, but to Induce sleep. It proved an overdose, and I found her very ill, but was able to restore her, after a few hours, to her normal condition of health. The remarkable impression to which I unhesitatingly responded had enabled me to save her life.”

Writers.

The worst class of authors, from the printer’s point of view, are those who alter, and add and transpose until a proof is a rivulet of type meandering through a meadow of apparently chaotic inky cobwebs. Carlyle, it is well knoMn, was a terror to compositors. The late Rev. J. G. Wood was another. W hen he sent back his sheets to the press little bits of paper were gummed along the edges, each containing two or three lines of writing. Burke was a third, for he returned his proofs in such a condition that sometimes the whole had to be set afresh. But Balzac was the terror of all terrors. With him it was not a question of resetting once; he would send fifty lines in manuscript, and, receiving proof after proof, would alter and add until he had evolved a story. His corrections probably cost more than those of any dozen, or even twenty, of his contemporaries. Bowser thinks he would like to be a physician. When a doctor treats, he says, it is the other fellow that puts up the money.—Boston TrauWipt.

THESE ACTUAL FACTS

ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. An littnnilng Summary of tha More Important Doings or Onr Neighbors Crimes, Casualties, I>oat!i». Etc. Minor State Nows. TriE Muncio rubber works were destroyed by lire. A strong stream of sulphur water has been struck at Paoli. The G. A. It. of Valparaiso, let the contract for their new Memorial ,Ilall. It will cost $1),U50. An election to decide whether Lebanon should put in water-works aud control the same was carried by a largo majority. Tippecanoe County Commissioners havo closed negotiations for the salo of court-house bonds to tho amount of 8175,000. Aha it of red bot Iron was forced through the hands of James Souler, at the Muneie Nut and Bolt Works, and the employe 19 threatened with lockjaw. Bv order of tho Circuit Court, at Columbus, the Weekly and Daily Republic can were sold to Isaac T. Brown, the founder and former proprietor, foi 87,000.

Fort Wayne is to havo another National Bank In tho early future, making livo at that city. The capital stock of tho now bank will uot bo lossthau $200,000, and may be made $250,000. Deputy Prosecutor Thompson of Knox, has (lied twenty-one casos against tho I„ I. & I. Railroad Company for Iti failure to bulletin trains at Stark County stations as provided by tho law of Indiana. A son of Henry Ilileman, aired 11 yoars, was killed at Dlskoe. Ho had climbed on a frolglit to ride und fell between tho ears, the wheels passed over both logs, necessitating amputation. During tho operation he dlod. The dead body of Thomas O’Brien, a printer, wlioso homo Is in Chicago, was found by the side of the railroad track. Just out of Elkhart Ho had evidently fallen from a train. He was a member of tho Typographical Union of Chicago. William Springer of Fortvlllo.ls constructing a novel throshlng machlno which is designed to cut tho bands and do Its own feeding and stacking the straw, thus doing away with more than half of tho help required with tho old stylo separators. The dead body of Elmer E. Wolf of tho Marlon Soldiers’ Homo, was found In Doer Crook, near tho home. Ho Is supposed to have been drowned when trying to cross the stream. He had boon a member of Company B, Eighth Missouri Infantry. A runaway team at Flora dashed Into a carriage containing Philip Voorhoos and a little 2-year-old grandchild. Mr. Voorboos died soon after the accident and tho child was fatally Injured. Ho was one of the most prominout farmors In Carroll County.

Mrs. Charles Johnson, aged 48, while crossing tho track of tho Big Four Railroad at tho east end of the depot platform, at llatosvllle, was strung by an ongluo and Instantly killed. Sbo was the wlfo of ono of Batosvllle’s most prominent citizens. During a recent storm lightning struck tho 15-vear-old daughter of Albert Mitchell, north of Liberty, killing her Instantly. Charles Magee und wlfo, returning to their homo west of town, wore also killed by tho electric currents. Magee was Instantly killed, his wife lived two hours after the stroke. The City Council of North Manchester has awardod contracts for tho construction of water works to tho following firms: C. E. Coon & Co., of Upper Sandusky. and the Muskegon Boiler Works, of Muskegon, Mich. The contracts umount to 828,000, and tho work of construction will commence at once. At Mitchell, Dennis Davidson, aged 11, was shot and killed by his brother Dora, aged 14. The boys were playfully throwing water on each other, when Dora seized tho shotgun and ordered Dennis not to throw any more water. On his refusal to comply with the order, Dora pulled the trigger, and tho load tore a largß hole near the heart of ills little brother. The following patents havo been granted to citizens of Indiana: James F. Roman and J. Cornelius, Flat Rock, hog trap; Alfred Heine and W. K. H. Woerner, Evansville, typewriting machine; William T. Klmsov, Michigan City, car coupling: Jeremiah H. Matthews, South Bend, transportablo circular sawmill; Jeremiah H. Matthews, South Bend, door socuror; John J. Newman, Elkha«t, machlno for water-proof-ing or coating paper; James Nortney and F. Schefold, New Albany, electric lamp support.

A society sensation was created at Elkhart, recently, when a large company. in response to regularly-issued invitations, gathered at the house *of Charles Walloy, a prominent business man of that city, to witness the marriage of his daughter, Miss Hattie, and Benjamin Lyons. Just as tho mlnlstor was preparing to perform the ceremony the young couple announced that they had been married in Cassopolls, Mich, last August. Neither the parents nor any of the friends had suspected the truth, and a sensation ensued. The ceremony was not re nested, James Petty, tho well-known saloonkeeper of Frankfort, was found dead In his carriage house tho other morning, where he had hanged himself. His suicide cannot be accounted for, except on tho thoory of insanity. He was prosperous in his business and his home life was happy. He left a letter containing instructions as to the settlement of certain business affairs, but made no reference to his Intentions, further than to say that he was“golng to the happy hunting grounds.” Ho was Known to have money hidden about the bouse, and 82,055 in gold was found in an old iron box in the attic. Mrs. Harriet L. Fisher, widow of tho late Hon. Stearns Fisher, for many years a , prominent citizen of Indiana, was probably fatally burned at her home In Wabash. While gotng through the wash house carrying a lamp she fell, and the lamp breaking to pieces covered her with the Ignited oil. She ran to a refrigerator and threw water on the flames which enveloped her, but she could not extinguish the blazes, and her dress was burned off. Neighbors Anally came to the rescue and smothered the fire, but she is so badly burned about the back and arms that the physicians think she will die.

Robert Robinson, the veteran of the Northern Prison, is dead. He was sent to Jeffersonville in 1857 for life, for murder. When the Prison North was, completed he was transferred there. He had been a trusty for several rears and during Gov. Williams’ term refused a pardon. Arthur McWhorter, the 4-year-old son of Mrs. Elia McWhorter, residing with his grandfather, J. A Machtetl, at Riverside, was found unconscious at the heels of a pony in the sthblS, with his head crushed In wijeye tbs ssin)*l had kicked him. The bov was ah admirer of the little horse and had gone to the stable to see nis pet. He cannot recover. His parents were bot^mutos.