Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — Page 4

CHICKENS (*bME HOME TO BOOST. Tan may take the worid as ft comes and son. And you win be sure to find That Kate will square the account she owes. Whoever comes out behind: And all things bad that a man has done. By whatsoever induced. Return at last to him. one by one. As the chickens come home to roost. You may scrape and toil and pinch and save. While your hoarded wealth expands. Till the cold, dark shadow of the grave 3 Is nearing your life's last sands: Yon will have your balance struck some night. And you'll find your hoard reduced; You'll view your life in another light When the chickens come home to roost. Sow as you will, there’s a time to reap, For the good and bad as well; And conscience, whether we wake or sleep, Is either a heaven or hell. And every wrong will find its place, And every passion loosed Drifts back and meets you face to sac When the chickens come home to roost. Whether you're over or under the sod, The result will be the same; You cannot escape the hand of God, You must bear your sin and shame. No matter what’s carved on a marble slab, When the items are all produced, Yon’ll find that St. Peter was keeping “tab,” And that chickens come home to roost. —Philadelphia Ledger.

THE ADJUTANT'S GRAVE.

It was at the taking of Rangoon. From the Irawaddi the crashing batteries of a dozen steam frigates had leveled the stockades on the river side. Black masses of naked, smokestained Burmese, exposed at their guns, or in shallow trenches, when the teak walls fell or were burned down, were mowed down like grass by a hailstorm of grape. Our artillery was landing. The 18th Royal Irish were already in the breaches and at the water gate. The Burmese dropped their cumbrous shields and lances anddhars and fled, yelling, back toward the great pagoda. Those wild Irish, possessed of the same devil that dashed and slashed and stabbed and hacked and hurrahed in the Enniskilleners at Waterloo, went off in hot chase. Only one regiment I —for they would not wait for the slow boats that were bringing the guns, and the 80th and the Sepoy Rifles, but broke away in pursuit, in spite of the almost frantic officers, who, weak and hoarse with ineffectual efforts to check their mad command, were forced to follow at last, all chasing the bubble reputation together—one regiment at the heels of 10,000 panic stricken savages! One of the glorious fellows of the crack 18th in this tempestuous hur-ly-burly was Fallon, the adjutant. He was the equipped model of a gentleman and a soldier, according to the standard of his proud regiment; a jovial boon companion, generous comrade, fast friend, frank and fearless enemy; in sport a child, in taste a scholar, impetuous in fight, pitiful in victory. As his disordered party charged, shouting, up the broad Dagan road, between the long lines of the inner blockade,over bamboo bridges thrown across trenches, and past grim gigantic idols and poonghee houses fantastically carved, the adjutant, who had lingered behind the rest, striving to the last, in his habitual devotion to discipline, to restrain the men, happened to be in the rear of all. “How now?” jestingly cried Clark, an English ensign of the adjutant’s mess, who was running just before him, ‘ ‘our plucky Fallon at the back of us all! This ih bad enough for me, old fellow, who have my medals to win; but it will never do for,you, with those red ribbons to answer for.” “I am doing my best, Clark, my boy,” Fallon replied, “and shall be up with that crazy sergeant presently- You know lam good for a short brush of foot race; fast running is one of my accomplishments—thanks to my by bog trotting education and the practice Lord Gough gave us.”

Hardly were the words done ringing in his comrade’s ears when the gallant Fallon, the pride of his corps, received in his generous breast a dozen musket balls as he sprang up the broad staircase ot the Golden Dagon Pagoda—first of them all, and quite alone. He fell on his face, stone dead, on the stairs, sword in hand, and smiling. When all was over, and his regiment held the post of honor on the very throne of the Boodh, they gave him a soldier’s most distinguished obsequies, burying him in a grove of talipot trees, behind a poonghee house of the most grotesque architecture, and just outside of what were afterward the Sepoy lines of c - the Eightieth. His faithful orderly planted a rude cross at his grave’s head and set an English white rose there. An American missionary gave it to him. In Calcutta, Norah Fallon—beautiful, accomplished, witty, altogether radiant with rare charms of mind and person—waited with her young child for news from her soldier husband, who bad her heart in his keeping within the stockades of Rangoon. .When they told her he was dead, she fell, uttering only a sharp cry, and lay as one dead for many days. But when she awoke to the consciousness of her profound bereavement, a fid her eternal widowhood, she shed not a tear nor spoke a word, but took her boy and went aboard a troop ship that sailed on the morrow for Rangoon. On the voyage still she spoke not, nor ever wept; the silence of her sorrow had something sacred, almost awful about it, that commended a > delicacy of consideration, which was a sort of worship, from the rudest about her. Arrived at Rangoon, no sooner had the ship dropped anchor off the King’s wharf than Norah sent her chaprassey, her Hindoo errandgoer, with a note to General Godwin, commanding the company's forces in Burmah. ‘The wife of Maurice

I Fallon, adjutant in the Eighteenth ’ of her Majesty’s Royal Irish, would be permitted to see her husband’s grave; she awaits the expression of the Generals wishes on board the Mahanuddy.” She waited long. At last the answer came; “It was with unfeigned sorrow ! that Lieut.-Gen. Godwin found himself constrained, by the exigencies of i his position, to refuse the widow of I one of his best officers, wnose loss was felt by the whole Anglo-Indian army, the sad privilege of visiting the spot where his comrades consigned him to a brave soldier’s grave, i But the General’s footing in RanI goon was precarious, hourly appreprehensions o' attack by a strong i body of the enemy were entertained. “It was known that a Burmah ■ chief was approaching with a numerous and well armed force, and had already arrived in the neighborhood ;of Kemmendine. Therefore, for the present, the Lieutenant-General I must forbid the landing of his countrywoman from the shipping On any pretext. He hoped to be forgiven by the dear lady, whose grief he humbly asked to be permitted to share ; but in this case he was not left in the exercise of the least discretion. Such were the regulations.” When Norah Fallon had read these lines she retired to her cabin in silence, and was not seen again that day. On the next she was observed in frequent and eager conference, in whispered Hindoostanee, with an old and faithful bearer, gray bearded, and of grave and dignified demeanor, who had long been in the confidence of her husband —indeed, a sort of humble, but fatherly guardian to the young, inexperienced, and perhaps imprudent pair, who with their darling between them were all in all to each other, and heedless of all beside.

The old Hindoo had formerly lived several years at Brome, whither he had gone in the capacity of bearer to an English commissioner; he therefore knew the Burmese character well, and could speak the language with tolerable fluency. There were many “frier dly” Burmese at Rangoon at this time, deserters from Dallah, shrewd fellows who had foreseen safety in British ascendancy, and, being mostly fishermen, had offered themselves for “Inglee” muskets for the nonce, with a sharp eye to profitable nets thereafter. Indeed, not a few of these calculating traitors had taken to their old trade already, and were busily plying the moles and hooks from crazy canoes at the mouth of Kemmendine Creek. It was not long before some of them, hailed by old Buxsoo, the bearer, came alongside with, as he said, fish for the Mem Sahib, his mistress. On these occasions he conversed with them in Burmese, and whoever watched narrowly the astonished and anxious faces of the fishermen must have observed that neither the freshness nor the price of their finny prizes formed any part of the discussion. It was a dark night, no moon and a cloudy sky; all hands had gone below and “turned in” some hours since. The officer of the deck, night glass in hand, paced the “bridge,” or leaned over the rail and watched the lights ashore, w’hile the quartermaster patrolled the gangways. But these were not alone on deck; on the bull ring of the aftar gun the pale and tearless widow sat, still as a shadow, and peered through the darkness shoreward to where the Eighteenth’s lights gleamed from the Golden Dragon. Such was her nightly wont, and officers and men had become so accustomed to it that she sometimes sat there till after midnight, unheeded and forgotten.

The young officer still chased with his eyes the restiess lights, and dreamed dreams the while of home and of a sweetheart; the gruff old quartermaster paced up and down, and thought of prize money and the “old woman.” Neither had eye nor thought for the poor lady, they were so used to her lonesome ways, d’ye see, else they might have found something unusual in the anxiety with which she watched a singular object in the water astern—only an empty canoe drifting toward the ship! Not drifting either; for now that I point them out to you, you can see two black heads, with long hair twisted in a barbaric knot behind, peering warily above the water in front of the boat which seems to follow them.

The love-lorn youngster, or the gruff old quartermaster on prize money intent, did look toward the bull ring a little later, and saw nothing; the lady was gone. Whither? To her cabin? No; she could not have passed them unobserved. But that was easy to decide; her light still burned; her state room was open and unoccupied. Where, then, was she? Good heavens! It could not be ; and yet it must—poor lady! Poor baby! They gave the alarm; they roused the ship; a gun was fired; a search was made, in vain. Alas! it must be so. “She has gone to join her husband.” True ! but not that way, gruff old quartermaster’s mate. Stop thinkingabout her; have ears and brains for your duty. What was that shot on shore? And, hark now! another, and another, and another! the alarm is given in the British lines; the sentries have discharged their pieces and run in! See! the place,is all ablaze with lights; every ponghee house is illuminated; you can discern the great porch of the Golden Dagon, with its griffin warders, from here. They are beating to arms'; the trumpet sounds the “assembly.” What could that first and solitary jhot have been? Ah! my nautical friends, while your sapient pates were busy guessing, that*, pair of 4 barbaric black heads have drifted under the stern again, and the same canoe has drifted with them—nor empty this time; for, look again, and you will see that her light is no longer burning, and her stat-e----room door is closed, though the window is open; and—yes, you do hear her Wait! spare yeO.r heads the guessing; it will all be cleared up one day. Wait till you dare to ask Norah Fallon why she dares to make so much of that withered white rose. General Godwin’s next dispatch to the Governor General contained a curious passage: "On the night of the 15th the cantonments were

thrown into disorder by a false alarm, caused by the mysterious discharge of a pistol in the talipot grove,which inclosed the grave of the late Adjutant Fallon, who fell gloriously in the attack on the Dagon Pagoda; the spot is close to the sepoy lines of H. M. Eightieth. My men maintained good order, answering the assembly call with remarkable celerity and in complete equipment. At daybreak a sepoy of Major Ainslie's picket found a dead boa of great size, and evidently just killed, lying across young Fallon’s grave; also, suspended to the cross by a ribbon, a gold locket containing two locks of hair —a lady’s and a child's; and fastened to the cross by a short Burmese poiniard through the paper the inclosure, marked “X.” Inclosure X contained the follow-, ing: “There are no ‘Regulations’ for the heart of an Irish soldier’s wife.”

Origin of Street Lighting.

The custom of lighting the streets dates back to remote antiquity. In the cities of Greece the streets were lighted after a fashion by means of very old fashioned lamps suspended or set in sockets in prominent positions. Similar plans were followed in Rome and in the Egyptian cities, and relics of these have been found which date back to the fourth century before Christ. The lamps used were for the most part primitive in form. Many of them were made of skulls of animals or of sea shells of a convenient size and shape. The general principal of these lamps was copied in the stone cups and boxes used in later years. The lights at best were very inadequate, and it was customary for those who ventured on the streets at night to carry blazing torches. Crime of all sorts flourished under such a system. It w’as not uncommon in ancient Rome to find a number of dead and mangled bodies lying about the streets every morning. The lamps used in this period were exquisitely decorated, but for several centuries not a single improvement was made to increase the light. The lamps were made usually of bronze and covered with figures in bas relief taken from mythology or from subjects of daily life.

Corns on Horses’ Feet.

A common cause for lameness among horses is corns, and they may be growing for several months before they give evidences of their existence. Horseshoers closely watch the feet of the horses they shoe for evidences of these disturbers, and are often able to get rid of them before they have done much injury. Corns on a horse’s hoofs usually form just above the heel and where the hair joins the hoof. They then grow down into the hoof as the hoof itself grows, and about the first knowledge the horseshoer has of their existence is when he pares the hoof and uncovers the corn. It is often the case that they have festered while in the hoof, and when an incision is made a large sized hole is found. In some establishments ointment is used for the cure of corns, but in others it is considered best to protect them from gravel and stones, and permit them to grow out with the hoof and be cut off with it. The shoes on Arabian horses, which are required to go long distances in the hot sand, are solid pieces of iron, an opening being left only for the frog. They are fastened to the hoof with unsightly looking nails, and altogether are cumbersome affairs, yet they serve the purpose of protection to the hoof.

Bicycles Hurting the Railroads.

The passenger earnings of many roads are not only being cut into locally by the trolley lines, but by the bicycles. Since the warmer weather set in people living out a few miles from their places of business, who have been patronizing the suburban trains, now ride the bicycle. Where there are cities but a few miles apart the passenger men say that between the electric roads and the cycle competition their local earnings are showing marked decrease. A passenger official who has just returned from Boston states that within a radius of eight to ten miles hundreds now come in on bicycles on pleasant mornings and return in the evening in the same manner, and hundreds more find the electric car quite an attraction, so that altogether the Boston steam roads are losing quite heavily on this particular portion of their incomes. He says that Boston passenger men told him that trains that were formerly crowded are now only fairly well filled, and in some instances a number of trains run for suburban business have been taken off, and those kept on are hauling fewer coaches.

Business Puzzles.

There are many places in Philadelphia occupied by business firms which furnish a standing puzzle to the community. Take, for instance, an imposing-looking haberdashery on Chestnut street. At all times the window is filled with neat neckties and the finest kind of hosiery and linen. Yet no one, as far as the general community is concerned, ever saw a customer enter the store and make a purchase. The store is itself a fine property and is well located. The same firm has been there for years, and how expenses are met is the puzzle. A certain restaurant in the heart of the city has an apartment set aside for ladies exclusively. The room is quite large and richly carpeted. The furniture is of the best, and the linen and' crystal-ware are of the finest. A colored waiter stands with towel across his arm at the end of the room, but no man, so far as can be ascertained, ever saw a customer of either sex eating there. It has been conducted in the same manner for years.

Where Shaving is Cheap.

Two barbers are fighting for supremacy on Fort street, in Springwells, Mich. The contest has reached the point where one offers to shave customers free, while the other not only shaves them free but gives them a cigar.

"JACKIES” IN DEMAND.

LARGE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF SAILORS.

New Warships to ba Manned--Life of a Sailer on an American Man-Of-War and His Pay. American men-of-war’s men have no distinctive title. They are variously termed “blue jackets,” "Jack tars” and "jackies.” The last is by far the most common name given the men who "plough the raging main” on ships of war. It is a contraction of the other two, and it applies alike to the sailors of all navies. Special attention is directed to the American naval sailor just at this time, because of the preparations of the Navy Department to enlist 1,000 men for that branch of the service. The recent rapid increase in the number of vessels of the navy, as a Washington Star reporter was informed, has naturally necessitated an addition to the force of men to operate them. Secretary Herbert represented to the last Congress that 2,000 additional men were needed to meet the requirements of the service during the coming fiscal year, beginning on the Ist proximo. Congress found it expedient, however, to provide only for an increase of half that number. The total enlisted strength of the navy at present is 9,000 men. The authorized enlistments will swell this total to 10,000 during the coming year. Six hundred new men will be needed within the next few weeks for the manning of the second class battle ships Texas and Maine and the gunnery practice ship Lancaster. The three vessels will be put into commission about the Ist of August, the Texas at Norfolk and the Maine and Lancaster at New York. The complement of these vessels will be about 125 in excess of the additional force of 600 men. but for that matter nearly all of our warships are short of their complement. There are other vessels that will soon be readj’ for active sea service, including the ram Katahdin and the torpedo boat Ericsson. The cruisers Boston and Marion, which have undergone extensive repairs at San Francisco, could be put in commission today if crews were available. Men for one or the other of these vessels may be obtained by putting the coast-defense vessel Monterey, or some other ship on that station, out of commission, but not otherwise. The first-class battle ships Indiana and Massachusetts, the finest ships in the navy, will probably be completed this winter. Officials of the Navy Department say there will be no difficulty in getting the additional men, and that it will not even be necessary to advertise for them. The classes of men wanted are seamen, landsmen, firemen and coal passers, and it is expected that most of these will be recruited at New York. Enlistments will also be made at Philadelphia and Boston, if necessary. The men are needed mostly for manning the batteries and for looking after the fires and machinery. New York city is the only place where recruiting goes on in all ratings. Men, physically and otherwise qualified, who have served in the navy, are enlisted in the following ratings at the monthly pay designated: Seamen, $24; ordinary seamen sl9; machinists, S7O; first-class firemen, $35; second-class firemen, S3O. When qualified and advanced to the ratings of petty officers, as vacancies occur, they receive from $25 to $65 per month. Men twentyone years of age or upward, physically qualified, who have not served at sea, are enlisted in limited numbers as landsmen or coal heavers, and are paid sl6 and $22 per month respectively, All enlistments are for a term of three years. Every enlisted man is allowed a commutation of rations at the rate of thirty cents a day . It is a matter of pride in the navy that there is no ration given by any foreign nation that is equal to the ration of the United States navy, either in weight or nutritive qualities. Although the American sailor may be cramped in his sleeping quarters, he has no cause, it is asserted to complain of his food, as it is the best possible under the circumstances, and vastly superior to that of his brethren in other navies, excepting none. Living room is very limited on board modern warships. Everything below decks is sacrificed to engines, boilers and coal bunkers. Consequently “jackies” are huddled together like sheep in a storm. Each man is allowed but fourteen inches room for his hammock, and the hammocks are dovetailed together-from beam to beam, so that the sleeping tars form a solid, compact mass, with hardly room to swing even ina rolling sea. This is the greatest drawback to service on a modern man of war, and is a source of general complaint from the veteran who has experienced greater breathing space in the more spacious wooden frigates of bygone days. With this exception, the lot of the modern tar is much easier in every respect than in the olden days of sailing ships. He is now. better fed and better cared for. The discipline is not so severe and Exacting, and he is afforded better protection against tyranny and oppression on the part of the officers. Their general nature, however, has not undergone any material change since the days of Cooper and Maryatt. They are a jolly, happy-go-lucky set, always ready for a lark or a fight, with an abnormal fondness for grog, and are chronic grumblers over imaginary ills. Nevertheless, it is said, they are stanch and true, and patriotic to the last breath, and will never go back on their country or a friend in distress. The best ratings open to “jackies” are boatswains and gunners, These places pay from $1,200 to SI,BOO a year. They are open to any sailor who has served more than one enlistment in the navy, and who shows special aptitude for promotion. All appointments as warrant officers are* based on the record of the applicants. There are several vacancies in the list of boatswains at present, but none in the list of gunners. Warrant officers are retired on three-quarters pay. Petty officers are pensioned on

half pay If physically incapacitated for re-enlistment. There is a popular impression that the rank and file of the nary is composed of aliens, who hare no patriotic affiliation with this conn try or its institutions. That this is erroneous is demonstrated by the last census of the navy, which allows tha| nearly 70 per cent of the entire enlisted force is composed of citizens of the United States, either by birth or naturalization. The other 80 per cent is made up of aliens, the majority of whom are Scandinavians, Englishmen and Irishmen. There are many Chinese and Japanese in the navy, but they are employed almost exclusively in the mess rooms. Colored men are numerous, but they too, are mostly niess attendants.'

EGGS WITHOUT SHELLS.

Thousands Exported from Italy for Confectioners' Use. The Consular report on the trade of Genoa in 1894 contains the following: A commercial paper of Sept. 5 stated that the exportation of Italian eggs to England had attained considerable proportions, the principal importers being Italians, and the eggs being used by the large biscuit manufacturers and the principal pastry cooks, the latter including three Italian firms supplying pastry to hotels, cases and restaurants. One of these firms were said to consume 5,000 eggs weekly, purchased till recently from the Italian importers, but now from an English firm which supplies eggs from Russia, shelled and preserved in hermetri-cally-seaied tins, provided with a tap by which any required quantity may be drawn off at a time. Lower price and saving of time are mentioned as the advantages of this system, also freedom from damage in transport, and long keeping, so that Italian exporters of eggs were recommended to adopt it. According to information received by the .Chamber of Commerce at Cuneo from the Italian Consulate in London, the tin or drum, packed with straw in a wooden ease, held the contents of 1,000 to 1,500 eggs, the white not separated from the yoke, but the hole getting mixed up in the drum, which was protected by three iron hoops. The circular aperture through which the eggs were poured in was closed by a bung, and sealed, and the tap was supplied by the London pastry cooks. Great care was necessary in the selection of the eggs, as a single bad one would spoil the whole lot. The cases were marked “Russian produce,” those from Italy should be marked “Italian produce.” There were several marks or brands, and prices might be calculated at about 121 cents, per dozen, quotations being sometimes by the gallon. Prices went up to 16 or 18 cents, per dozen in winter. A later report in the same paper showed that the Italian adoption of this Russian system had not been so far successful, the eggs having been found spoiled on reaching their destination.

War Dogs.

The war dogs belonging to the German army, which were shown at the Sporting Exhibition at Dresden, acquitted themselves remarkably well. The trials were not by any means easy ones, and the fact that the dogs satisfactorily passed them speaks highly for the system of training the animals. On a very complicated road, with many cross-paths, and quite strange to them, the dogs, although maneuvering with troops who were quite unknown to them, and in spite of the heat being most intense, did some excellent dispatch duty. “Tell,” a dog belonging to the Jager Guard Battalion, brought dispatches from a soldier to headquarters, a distance of nearly a mile, in less than two minutes, while the dogs belonging to the Dresden Rifle Corps accomplished the journey in about two minutes. Tests were next made with the dogs as ammunition carriers, each animal carrying on its back a weight equal to 250 ball cartridges, arranged in a kind of saddle, and they showed that in this direction they might be thoroughly relied upon, for they supplied the line of firing troops, who were also strangers to them, with fresh ammunition. The trials wound up by testing the power of the dogs in seeking the wounded on the field of battle, and the intelligent creatures were equally as successful in Red Cross duties as they were in conveying ammunition,

A Curious Plant.

There is what is called a musical plant found in the West Indies, Nubia and the Soudan. It is of the acacia tribe and has a peculiar shaped leaf and pods with split or open edge. As the wind blows through them it gives out a sound similar to whistling. In Barbadoes, when the trade winds are blowing across the island, these trees give out a constant moaning, deep-toned whistle, interspersed with sounds similar to “fa,” “me,” or other half tones, which in the still hours of the night have a weird, mournful effect. The sound given by those of Nubia and the Soudan are caused by the ravages of insects, whose larvae insert themselves into the trunks, causing them to swell and become distorted. After these have been hatched and leave their nests, the wind plays upon the open spaces, producing sweet sounding tones similar to those of a flute. Many strange and often pleasing sounds are heard in the dense tropical forests of the East which are caused in the same manner.

Found a Boulder of Silver.

One of the largest silver nuggets on record was found about four miles from Peach Springs, Arizona,recently. Two prospectors, William Tucker and John Doyle, on their way from Death Valley to the Colorado River, discovered a boulder weighing several hundred pounds and composed of nearly pure silver. The value of the. find is placed at about SIO,OOO. . A watchmaker of Chicago is the owner of a clock the works of which are in the inside of an ordinary wine bottle, and the dial is set obliquely on the top of the bottle. There is quite a mystery attached to this curosity. Several years ago it floated to the shore from Lake Michigan.

A DESIGN IN SWISS STYLE.

Adapted Ontytaßjral Surrounding* ■nd Boat SaHad to a Mountainous Landscape. [Copyright, 1865.] It is the intention of this series of articles to treat of the various styles of architecture in a perfectly honest manner.

COOP. BUILDING PLANASS[?]. ARCHITECTS N.Y.

The design illustrated herewith is that of a Swiss cottage, a style that is not fitted for this country in general. Swiss architecture is the outgrowth of the needs and conditions of the inhabitants of Swizerland, and like all national institutions is most appropriate to its natural surroundings. The life of the Swiss peasiant is divided by his occupations into two seasons: the summer, when he is watching and tending his cattle on the high Alps, and the winter, when he is forced to find shelter from the rigorous climate with its fierce storms, in the low lying secluded valleys. Swiss architecture, as built in this country, has been, shall we say, somewhat Americanized, and the accompanying sketch shows a structure that would be effective and pleasing if erected in a suitable location. The latter point is one upon which an architect, versed as well in the technical points of landscape, should be consulted, as many a man spending his money freely, but not discreetly in the erection of a house, has found too late that he has made a serious mistake in trusting too confidently to his own taste. It may be found necessary for him to sell a house that has cost him thousands of dollars, and because of its expressing too strongly his own individuality finds he will not be able to realize a third of his investment. It is the proper duty of the architect not only to draw plans but to advise with his client upon the general style, ac-

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commodation and arrangement of the house to be chosen, as well as, and perhaps above all, to see that it harmonizes with its surroundings and suits the artistic demands of the neighborhood. Exterior materials: Foundation, brick; first story, clapboards; second story, gables and roofs, shingles, outside blinds. Interior finish: Hard white plaster; plaster cornices in hall, parlor, dining room and three chambers; soft wood flooring and trim; ash stairway; panels under window in parlor, hall and dining room; bathroom and kitchen wainscoted; interior woodwork finished in hard oil. Suggestions for colors: Clapboards, and sashes, olive; trim, dark green; outside doors, dark green with olive panels; blinds, rain conductors and brick work Pompeian red; veranda, floor and ceiling, drab; underside of roof overhang, medium drab; panels on side of brackets and over bay windows, Pompeian red; wall shingles dipped and brush coated with Indian red stain. The principal rooms and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by the floor plans. The design illustrating this article would be much out of place by the

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seashore, but for a country residence or the suburbs of a city, where the land is not flat but rather mountainous or hilly, its tasteful and striking appearance would be most appropriate. A brief description is given as follows: General dimensions: Width (over all), 36 feet, including veranda, 48 feet, 2 inches. Heights of stories- Cellar,'' ? feet; first story, 10 feet; second story, 9 feet. Cellar under kitchen and pantry. Fireplaces with hardwood mantels in hall, parlor, diningroom and one bedroom and kitchen range included in estimate. Hall designed to be used as a sitting room. The i attic is floored for storage. The cost of this design is $3,516 as described, not including heater, the estimate being based on New York prices for materials and labor, but in many sections of the country the cosfc should be less.

FOOLING A FOREIGNER.

He Paid Taxes On His Side Whisk" , ers and Trousers. “I have been in America but two days,"said the talkative foreigner, “but already I have become impressed with some of the strange customs of the country.” “Indeed.' What particular customs do you refer to?” “Well, for one thing, I had not been ashore more than an hour when a spruce, official-looking man came up to me- He showed a silver badge of some sort and said he was a collector of the internal revenue. He asked me if I had payed my side, whisker license yet. I told him that I didn't know that aide whiskers were taxed in America. He saw they were, and that the tax was >4 per year. He added that I might consider myself lucky that he didn’t add 25 per cent, for of collection, because it was ray duty to report at City Hall and pay tax, without putting the nation to the expense of sending a collector after the money.” “You paid him. did you?” “Oh, yes, and I was quite glad that I did not wear a full beard. He said that the assessment on full beards was $lO per chin. Why do you have such odd taxes in America? Is it so very expensive to run a republican government?” “It costs quite a good deal. But was that your only experience?” "No, it wasn’t. About two hours later another man approached me, asked me if I had yet pro, ured the Government permit entitling me to wear trousers of such a wide stripe as those 1 had on. It was the same pair I’m wearing now. 1 asked what the blamed Government would do if I refused to pay for such a permit. He replied that the fee for the permit was so excessively small that no one thought of trying to evade payment. It was only $2, he said. The penalty was the confiscation of the trousers, and it would be his painful duty to take me to the nearest police station and take possession of my garments in the name of the United States Government if 1 manifested any further hesitancy about producing the $2. As I did not want a scene, I paid him the money and he left.’ “You would have done well to let him take you to a police station.” “Why?” “You could have told your story and he would have been locked up on a charge of swindling.” “Do you mean to say he was not an official of the Government?” “That’s what I mean.” “But he said he was.” “I’m afraid he didn’t speak the truth.” “But how about the other?” "He was a fraud, too.” ‘ ‘But he showed me his badge. ” “That cuts no ice.” “I beg pardon! It doesn’t do what?” t “I said it cuts no ice. I mean that was no significance. Thieves can get badges when they deem it necessary to use them in their business.” “But who are the real officers who issue permits to wear striped trousers and who receive the tax on side whiskers?” “There are no such officers.” “And no such taxes?” “No.” “Then they both lied?” “Yes.” “Well, I never would have thought it. Do you suppose that others will try to do me up in this Way?” “It would not surprise me in the least.” “Allow me to thank you for putting me on my guard, sir. I pay no more taxes except at the City Hall. Good day, sir.”

Embarrassing.

A young woman got on a Louisville street car carrying a number of bundles, and while taking her seat dropped her purse. A policeman sprang to help her search for it on the floor. Before he realized that she had already picked up her purse, he bent his head down to look under the seats. Across the car was a colored woman weighing about 300 pounds. She had remained passive during the whole proceeding. The man reached forward and grabbed what he thought was the lost purse. In doing so he discovered that he had grabbed the black rosettes that ornamented the colored woman’s shoes. To make the matter more embarrassing for the policeman she put both feet out before him and said aloud: “What’s you ’spose dat white man want’s to be pickin’ at my feet for?”

She Weighed 700 Pounds.

Miss Manda Steele was buried a few days ago in Mechanic Township, near Millersburg, O. She was a school teacher and took on flesh so fast that she was compelled to quit teaching. She was nearly 40 years of age. The day she died she ate heartily and then complained of her stomach and shortly after was found dead in her bed up stairs. Her weight was nearly 700 pounds and she slept on a bedstead especially prepared for her. It took twelve men to take the corpse down stairs. Her casket was four feet across end could not be taken into the house and the corpse was brought out to it. An old-fashioned wide box wagon was used tc convey the remains to the grave.

THE FUCHSIA IN EUROPE.

It Isa Much Finer Plant There Than Here. Americans who have been to Europe can have but little idea what a fuchsia may become. It grows wild in the hedgerows of Wales and Ireland and in the Isle of Jersey, off the coast of France (which is, however, an English possession), it reaches to the second story windows. Some of the fuchsia berries are eaten with sugar in certain countries, though in Great Britain and Ireland, as in America, the plant is valued solely for the flowers. The value of standing pine timber in Minnesota was officially estimated in the last census at $60,000,0U0.