St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 October 1895 — Page 2

SONG OF THE SUMMER TIME. Sing me a song of the summer time, Os the fire in the sorrel and ruby clover, W here the garrulous bobolinks lilt and chime, Over and over. Sing me a song of the strawberry bent, Os the black cap hiding the heap of stones, Os the milkweed drowsy with sultry scent Where the bee drones. Sing me a song of the spring head still, Os the dewy fern in the solitude. Os the hermit thrush and the whippoorwill Haunting the wood. Sing me a song of the gleaming scvthe.

—°oii^ vi ihv £iu<uuius y Os the scented hay in the buried wain, Os the mowers whistling bright anti blythe In the sunny rain. Sing nh' a song of the quince and the R«ge. Os the apricot by the orchard wall. Where bends my‘love Armitage, Gathering the fruit of the windfall. Sing me a song of the rustling, slow Sway of the wheat as the winds croon, Os the golden disk and the dreaming’ glow Os the harvest moon. —Scribner's. TARANTI LA 6I LCH.

Honest John Cooler, of Walnut Creek, Yavapai County, told me a story of how Eb Jones discovered Tarantula gulch. It ts so startling that it may seem improbable. but Honest John stands behind it and two six-shooters hang on to him. Address him at Walnut Creek for terms. “Me and Eb Jones was pards way back in '76. Eb wasn't much on size, but he had more grit and git up and git than any parti I ever had. More'n that, he had twice the heft of him tn luck. Hla luck was simply y emendous. We was prospectin' together on a purty fair layout on the upper Hassavampa, when the grub petered out. We elected Eb to make a forage on the next station end he humped himself accordin'. ‘ The afternoon was so hot you cud fry beans on the bare sile in tiie shade and when he reached the crik the sight of the water overcome him. He shed his butes and pants and lay where the water cud tickle along his spinal column, and he was dreaming of his childhood days when he saw them pants going over the bank with two kyotes tied to ’em. He gets up smart and puts on his butes and made after them kyotes cußsin' tit to make it rain. The kyotes was onto him and put on steam, and If the domed critters had only come to some understaudin’ on them pants he never cud have overhauled 'em, but each of 'em had a leg of pants in his jaw and they cudn't swap opinions ■ without letting out the pants.

“Just as Eb was concluding to make held 'em till Eb got on deck. “If the critters had had sense enough to null back or to let go they might have got away, but they both wanted all the pants on their side. Then they got the Idea that the tree was in the game for the pot, and they slewed 'round and tried to puH up the tree and take It along with 'em But the tree held on. “Eb come up and shook in bls boots to see the fun and the kyotes was so sot on getting the tree that they didn’t take no notice of him. and he laffed and laffed so that he had to lot his belt out. “Eb he Aggers up about what he'll do, and takin' a piece of rope out of his pocket he took their tails, which was 1 stiff as crowbars with rage, an’ tied em fast together. “When they realized what was up them kyotes give a yowl so sharp it i cut a limb off the tree, ami they started off so sudden that the pants fell outen their jaws and th ir backs went up so high that they had to roll over to straighten ’em. I'hen they tried to go , off In different directions, but they was , jlued for keeps. Thou they swung : round the tree and compared notes. ; They must have ’lowed that the game was purty rich. Eb was squatting on the^round just where he'd joined the cHtWK laflin' tit to bust, when al! to onsjlw was swung up off the ground and carried along on 2:40 time. It nearly choked him at first and he didn't know what to make of it Then he re-

elized that them kyotes had turned back J together and was riding him on their tails. Eb had got a grip without thinking just as they struck him. Barrin some rough ground, he got along fine. •*lt was kinder dark when they started and party black when they got there. Eb got there first. The kyotes was so scalrt that they didn't keep a good lookout. and when they come to an Indian tank tliey didn't see it until they were right on top of it; then tliey turned sudden In different directions and Eb slid off and rolled down about twenty feet before he stopped. When he st '.pped ho stopi • ! till over. “lie sat e.p when lie cud and laffed Ba tun "’i t;:;:t Ue lad to loosen bis beit again ami take c!<' hfa bales. It was the most g thi :g he’d -'/.i.-k

eiuce the circus come to Piescutu “Then he tiggered he’d better be glttln' eomewhar mighty quick. It was «o dark he didn't have seen daylight without a candle, an’ he wandered about promiskus. “About midnight he hadn’t got no bearings and concluded to camp for the IJ night Just as he'd done this he herd : a snort like a frog with the nightmare, g Eb thought it was Injuns. The only weqpon he had was a jackknife In his back pocket, but he was dead game. rolled himself to the edge of the ink and peered down, but cudn t see uthln'. Then the bank bust and Eb _ l ed on top of somethin’ soft. nud! He’d got back to the He was riled enough to

. chaw steel, but It was no use kicking. bo he struggled up and got onto country rock again as quick as he cud. and J concluded he'd have no more amoosements till sunup.” Honest John called for another drink just then, and I ventured to ask him how* Eb got back his pants, but he choked me off rather roughly “Who In Halifax is telling this story you or me? Didn't you ever hear of dog’s pants? Then what’s the matter with kyotes having pants, and only one at ween two of ’em? This yarn ain’t about pants anyhow; it's about Eb Jones discovering Tarantula gulch, and that’s where I’m sheading Them other things is extry!” Then John con-

tinued: J “When Eb woke up next morning he i thought he was petrified He was so heavy he cudn’t lift hisself. The clay had friz onto him. 5 “After a while he got a boost to him self and rolled over; then he drew hisself up a bank for more’n two hours until he was kinder perpendikler, figgering to fall back and break hisself up! “It was a risky thing to throw hisself I down, as he cud^, He^^^otbreak] Ills back as well ft? he’d rw^mtrrn'On the r subjec’ he rnlght’ve started a crack ' somewhere- probly tn bin Head. “He swung hisself a little so's to fall - ...1 - t

even and then let go! “He kinder rattled Inside as he touched the bottom, and was hopeful of gettln’ out; more so ns he felt thar wus some seams’ opened long the front. He wrustled hard to open up, and after a while the sweat kinder moistens the clay long bis back and he wus able io step out like a clam from its shell. “After he’d shook hisself some, he closed up the mud easing so that it looked, for all creation, like a petrified human. It wus so nat, rally shaped that Eb felt as he oughter give it a decent plantin’ for his own sake. So he scraped out a hole ami puts it into It. and Ue takes a smooth rock for a tomb stone and writ on It as foilers, geo whiz, us the lawyers say: Within this shell of clay Dwelt Ebinozer Jones! But Jones is gone away To kinder rest his bones. “Several years after some tenderfoot uncovered that corpse and wanted to ( toat It over the country as a petrified Hassyampan, but when Eb knew on It he stopped their foolin' it looked o like hisself, even to the creases in his pants, that It seemed that tiny wus tryin' to tote hlms- If. He got it away from ’em, and sold it east for “After he'd got out of Ils si < H he kinder rested. The sun wus hot an’ he wondered what In Halifax kept his head so cool. He put his hand up and took a Jump of about twenty feet, for his hair wus gone every timber of it an' Its bald yet! The denied mud had

friz to it an’ It had come out win*** - lb'cry over burnt beans, and then he tiggered that he’d save somethin <-n hair cuttln’ an' other tilings. When he'd got over bein' bald he took a sutvej <■ the location, an' found that he w; s in a narrow gulch about half a mile long an’ more or less broad. M bat sttm k him most wus some beautiful eroppim*. the purtiest he ever seen, an lie calker lated to sample ’em before lie struck tb.e river an’ got bearings for N>me wheres. Just as he got movin' he beam a whirr an' a spat like as If a mountain lyin wus around, an' he dumb up a boulder an' waited for the lylu. "It w.s a lylu, sure enough, about the, size of a heifer or raylhor larger. It v, us bigger n a elephant, Eb says, but Eb wus down below Wiekeberg a spell, an' It spiled Ids morals. “The lyin he crouched just below the ! rock, with his eyes fixed on Eb >:yln ! to ebonlse him." "Hypnotize him. you mean." “Yes. that's It. M ell. 'he hipoteirJsiu didn't work worth a cent, so he m si up an’ swung his tail till he u got a go: J ready on. an' then he pulled the trigger. I Eb saw him comiu and stuck his toes I into the rock an' hung head down till I the cvclone pass? 1. The lyin he swished j his tail agen swisher than ever, a i' it i struck agen a rock, an he got mad at I the rock an' tried to claw it to pieces. I but It wasn’t pullin’stakes for no lyin I “Then Ue tiggered to take a flier at Eb agen. who was siftin' up laflin' at the trick he’d played him. lut lie dove down agen purty suddint when the ovdnne come back.

| cycioue i vuic > i “This racket continued half an hour j ■ or less—Eb says six hours an' his toes i । wus about glrin’ out, when he got a new - deal. “Jest as the crVier was gdn‘ to rmd e . another spring a tarantula about two j feet high come out to sun hissel ’. an' . the Ivin's tail caught him right in the . jaw before he cud put up his hands.'' • “A tarantula two feet high'-'" “Well. It's les' as easy to call it six, i ; cn’ I remember seein' cm six feet high. “For the Lord’s sake'. When?’’ "On a shelf. But t > continer. “The tarantula was so mad he cm.a t - ( speak, but he laid hi<self out to get , , even, and he bit on to that tall so she i . couldn’t be shook off. and p’raps he i cudn’t let go his grip nohow.

“Now, tlie lyin had been jumpin so | frequent over Eb’s rock that it had be- j come second nater to him, and he cudn t ■ keep from doin' it if be tried, so he Jes 1 continnered to spring baokards and for- ■ ards without thinkin', ■while the taran- < tula bit ami bit till the plsm begun to work and the lyin begun to swell. “Eb he jes' got off his perch and laid on the ground, kickin' up his heels ami shoutin’, till he cudn’t do so no more., “An’ the lyin kep' a swellin’ an’ a swellin’ till it was as big as a house, and finally it swoll so much that it got light enough to float off in the air clear outer sight, with tl e tarantula still hangin on." . “John." I observed, “that ‘lyin' was a । ’ corker"’

“It was that, my friend! If It, AGRICULTURAL NEWS I been fer the lyin the yarn wudn t h been interestin’, wud it?” “Well, about. Tarantula gulch; I^ (NQS p ER TAINING TO THE you come to it yet?” AND HOME. Im right there! “When Eb got so's he cud » — — straight ho looked at them cropping* Proper Time to Prepare the found them so good that ho put ba»Gro«nd for Seed-Several t’<”“ a camp Without Stoppin’ for any anurietiea-Cowa Pay Well for Their ments. and we made a location t Keep—How to Break Mules. that was the corner stone of Taran gulch. And I’ve told you now how Fall Plowing. Jones come to discover it. To prepare the ground tor tnc sen , "Some other time I may tell you nt should be deeply plowed in autamn about it, but jes' now I'm tired.” mJ cross-plowed, as the land < ann >t “I believe you are,” said l. Bosbe plowed i» the spring .nout <x, geles Herald. posing a large surface to t n

drying effects of the spring wuu s. am Driftwood .Jones of Astoria, thus occasioning the loss liom I a ■ i “Driftwood Jones, Astoria,” a < evaporation of a quantity oi want by. bald-headed little man wrote oi p r opor tioual to the increase of surface register of a down town hotel yc exposed. By the reciprocal action o i day." jthe atmosphere and the soil, says tn ; “Never heard of me. I reckon '| y e w York Tribune, the lat er ket asked, as the clerk tilled in the Ih s store of availn’de nutritive matters. . ber of his room. ■ The silicates soluble with dit vti y "Oh, yes; often, sir," declared thD<owl. v yield alkalies. lime ami magperienccd liar behind the desk, “’nesia in soluble forms; the sulphides are ii^ vygH^U^wn by reputation are slowly converted into sulphates. Brown of Eureka." and generally the minerals of the soil Well, may be y| pre disintegrated ami mixed under the heardl got the name Driftw.v^« n j|u enc e of the oxygen, the water, the “No. can’t say that I ever did. IB^^oUc acid and the nitric acid of the n-arlng around a good deal, 1 v • jr Again t h e atmospheric nitrocen Is assimilable by the soil in the

’ Ao, I’m not much of a floater. 1^ , is the first time I've been outside ( Astoria in twenty eight years. W^ sir, 1 picked up that sobriket by a< dent. I was running a barber shop: Astoria and some smart fellows th >u they would play a practical 3 oke on • s<> they advert! ed in the paper thil wanted I(mi men with boats. Well was just b-fore Hie fishing sense when boats and men are plentiful at j the river is running 'bout full w’ meli*d snow. About a thousand Fim Danes. Swedes, Greeks Italians at Norwegians all fishermen fought get into my shop I knew It would do any good to tell them it was a jo for they wouldn't seo the point a ■ mob me, so I got all down on the whA beck of my shop, climbed up i pile : lumber and addn --cd them. 1 r | minded them of the fact they wc lying Idle and wanted work, and t< : them I would provide them with ct i ploynmnt that would be mutuallv prt liable. “ Now. gentlemen.' said I. ‘I wa ' you to pj t k uj> drlftw.- -d on the Hvt Aott take your boa's, cau h ail the wo. you can ton up to the beach. The ■ you can < tit it up and I’ll sell it to tl steamers and divide the profits rvt up with you.' "1 tool them to consider It. and blar me if about ::m of tt-.om didn’t go work catching driftwood and glvit me half. I made nut of it at ex er since they A tve " ood • i ,s co,,i' n d„.

It mak>^ but little difference whether ’ the weather I* hot or Cold, w aether 1 the times are hard or easy, fashion । drives roughshod along the great high- y way of life, and she lias a great pro cession following a: l»‘T heels. The young and t! •’ . ’d are (hme. and the lords of creation are as anxious to hear her mandate ns the weaker sex. It is amudng to lie..: men laugh a: women for follow Ing s O do- dy the latest styles, when in real.*.' a new way of tying a necks arf will give tl em as much concern a- the "bang 'fa -klr: does the dainty little lady wh" wants to look lust right. We are akk--. we al! want to look our l>est ami be up to date. It Is a duty we owe to ourselves ami our friends that we mak ■ as pleasing an appearance as possible. and we all make a des; crate effort to do it. althong a we may not acknowledge it oven to outves. "My tailor" and "tnV dt'ess;s: Jr er could tell tales if ■ thev chose aldi: the va - ity of the world. Philadelphia Times His Patronage luneeessary. Prince Maximilian "f Bavaria, the "father of ti e Empr -of Austria, was once traveling In the same carriage witli a company promoter, who .'.id him that his daughter was a loader of i society in Vienna. "If you like," he .-aid. condescendingly. "1 will give you a line to hoi', and you will meet all the best people in Vienna at her house.” “Thank you,” the prince replied, modestly, "but I am going to stay with a married daughter, and am not likely to see main ; ■■ >ple beyond just-her in-

timate friends." “Perhaps I know your daughter?" said the man. interrogatively. “Perhaps." replied the prince “Well, what i< the name of her busband'.-" pursued the mh r. unabashed; ' ••I suppose iie has a naim ' "Yes; Ids name is the Emperor Francis Joseph. Tim financial gentleman had no more to say. — To Clean Copper and Brass. Copper tea kettles and other house- ; hold articles having polished surfaces, [ should not be allowed to get rusty, as . rust will destroy the metal. If the sur- | face be rubbed but a little every day ( , the ’alior of keeping them bright will । ,be verv light. In case a rust is formed ( . oil the surface, apply a solution of ox- | 1 alie acid, which, well rubbed over tarj nished Hopper or brass will soon remove I 1 .he mrnlsh. rena.-rmg th.- metal bi g . 1 The acid must be washed oil with ' water and the surface rubbed with whiting and soft leather. A mixturo | of muriatic acid and alum dissolved in i water, imparts a golden color to brass articles thsM are steeped in it a few 1 seconds. To give a finer polish, go over 1 the surface of the metal with rottenI stone and sweet oil, then rub off with a i piece of cotton or flannel, and polish I with a leather. i x London restaurant is said to use au electrically-heated plate to keep one's food warm. There is no danger of receiving a shock from touching the plate.

thape of ammonia, nitrates and the amide-like matters of humus. The rate of disintegration, as well as that of nitrification, depends in part upon the chemical and physical character of the Foil, and partly upon the temperature .ntul meteorological conditions. ' Moreover, the soil lying in rough win |ter furrows has been subjected to the ' wtlon of frost: it is in its tipper layers ■go broken up and divid'd in all dure Cons by the powerful evett^'m ot t w ' water when converted lnt>- ice as t > 'teduced to the condition of the greatest

po-sible fineness re. .gnizel ami much desired by the farmers under the : term mellowness, li has coa— qm a .. attained that degree of pi.'< . * 1 •• 4 F nd porosity which, with an adequate Ihegree of moisture, affords a solid rl standing around for the young plan • while at the same time enough air for the development of the germ can p 'ne ’ trate the surface - >il. and in the upper ' layers nutritive material for the young plant dissolved by th ■ moisture of wm 1 ter is always present. ’[ It Is. therefore, in accordance wda Ol reason not to plow the land at all in the spring, but to put in the seed witn^^pUt further prepa; c "O than a ptev. rW.Us harrowing. T The vigorous development of plants nefaepends far less upon ti ' weight and t^ixe of the sohl than upon the depth 7to Which It is . .voted With earth and ndJhpon the stor s of nourishment w .mh 7■ k- ■' ■ !■ : 5 - ^,ne»t Station k'lWiruty known as

Mealy. It has given the highest aver age ft>t the las: five years, ami at pres , ent is one of the most promising va rleth’s. yeueva is another productive variety, but in former years It lias seemed to be more susceptible to -mut that most of the other varieties; this Fort and three others were not threshed In but were burned in the field be cans,, of the largo percentage of smut found in them. The Rudy wheat lias promised well the hist five years, but it has given the lowest yield of all the torts in th * comparative test for the past drouihy - a-m. I'or _ > >d. strong ground, the Valley, Velvet ('haff. N' g ger and Mealy are p> .‘haps the b< -t, and the Boole. Demo-rat, Hicks and White t'haff Er are ; • -z o1; d to 1 “h • r and thinner - nJ-. Butter Fa\s All the Tunc. If we want to make our farms - If Mistaialng. we must keep m ire cows and less st- r- and maer as n ■ c»w s pay for their keep am! leave a fair p’ofit, while it c - s as mueii to raise tvo steers as we can get for tnree 11 we sell to the butchers. TliiTciore, says B E. Willey, in the Kura! World, 1 'should advise farmei' to k >p cows make butter ami feed the mnk to pigs. Butti'f alway- brines a fair pr?’ i . witii th? least change in price, during all l of the panic tim swe lmv<' ha i. Bin h"; is the only farm pr dm : uic irn m : j been down to ruinous price , ii. '. i fore, let us keep ail of tb- ' -on ', cows that we can get fodder tor. this can b'grown right at home on the farm as ! the form of arn’m crops, ensilage, wish

a —’ ' ' ~ : js ,<ibE u !-I - and: oa; -. dn‘i “■, ‘ , -.•mu" Thytp our farms w. u be >e.i ■ 11 In Regard to Breaking s When a mule gets to be ‘ , .1, > nnmer ace to ui j ol 1 he is tnen at tin p.-i ■ • - broken; but he should not , ■ hard until font' years o i. 1 ‘ ’ take him in hand to break hm .. - ! the Maryland Farmer, do no ' with if he mice I bi'eaks'hX he does not forget it. and it renders nun nbuedinnni - , i Mules should always »e ‘ ' , wagon will, a Horse or 1 ’ .. He. thov mav be bioKO* I a swift walk, tin y ma. . .i.>w ir plea^UiC. n? i walk swi t or >lo^. *“ > . j accustoming them to either gait at ms. T.e fen ale n ule is console. m , ferable to the male, being more ... a- ! Me. and some say of a greater endm- . । ance. w ■ 1)1,1 Mav Cows Be Kept. How 01(1 .’.oi re . especially valuable for milk • . Ing. s„;,, co „. s generally " l»r llNt ,on.l .1"'I ' will breed and give milk to an a^. ’ twice oreat as is recorded. A a. ’ 13 instanced in Duchess Alice, calve. ■ A «g. 03 IS GI and which produced sev- ’ fU teen calves, the last when 22 years old. Helen Eric was calved Nov. -b,

18GR, and produced sixteen calves, the last when 19 years old. The difficulty in keeping cows much longer than their thirteenth or fourteenth year is in getting food in winter easily masticated ami digested. Ensilage supplies this need, ami those who. have extra valuable cows may profitably keep them several years longer if they will ptovide ensilage for them in winter. Old cows are not worth much for beef, and with animals that are not valuable for milk it may be as well to kill them when but little past their prime. But we think there is a profit in keeping I tiie best milkers to breeding as long las they will. The heifer calves proI ditced after the cow becomes old have ' less tendency to fatten and a greater

! milking capacity than those they bore । I whih* themselves young and in full vig- i ! or. Exchange. The Cream Trade. The next time you go to town see the j ! ice cream man and the summer boardi ing house keeper, says the National j Stockman, and see if you cannot make ) a deal on the cream question. A man * with a separator, a good cream trade ’and young pigs to which to le i his skim milk, is in an enviable position. Some one has said that farmer ought I never to market anything unless he had j two profits in it. For instance, he raises hay. and has a profit in growing ; the hay, then let him feed the bay.

i and make a profit on the animal to which the hay is fed. Then, when he sells the animal for meat, he has two ! profits, one in the hay and one in the 1 meat. Now. when a man feeds skim milk, lie has three profits, one in the cow feed that he raises, one in the milk that he gets from the cow. and one in the meat made from the milk that ho feeds to his pigs. And, while this is just as applicable to the butler trade as to tin* skim milk trade, yet it is a point tliat should not es'ape observation in considering tin' cream question.

Mending: Milk Cans. Milk cans often get very hard usage on carts and railway platforms, and it is no small part of the hardships of the owners to keep them in order. Bits of dough have been used at times to stop leaks discovered when it was too late m have a eohlor application to th • bad pla<e. and cases have been known where soap has been used for such a purpose. But one Is prone to ask if there are not other and more cleanly and durable means available for stopping leak, t'-nd coating over the rust -pots which will appear on milk cans. Beeswr.x would cover the injured parts ami would not injure the milk. But ; soldering is such an easily learned ac- । compllshment that every dairyman ( might be able to help hlnis If in that 1 way. Nine W.o- t<» Mode Hc.is hay. {rent h sueiier uueti lot s bad weather.

Corn should only be given on cold । evenings. AH grain should be burled to induce 1 exorcise. Ma- . -of ground grain wi ll meat -crap- for morning meal. A liberal supply of green food. Eresh water daily, or twice a day in warm weather. A constant supply of sharp grit and ; broken shells. Perft. ’ leanlinoss. Kenicdy for Grape Kot. I’rem h horticulturists report success in keeping grapes free from rot or mold by means of the vapor of ah-ohoi. 1 - -I ■ Rural New Yorker. The fruit is plac d in a brick room, cemented in- ' side ami dosed as nearly air-tight as p- <- h'm. by a common wooden door Th' map - were laid on wood shavings ami an open bode containing alcohol pla. ed near them. Crapes fre-i; from the vine were placed in this room on 1 ict.: 1. ami w ere kept in good condition i rdl Pc-. 24. One tiling is snr-’. this process Is simple and easy, and anyone wl ha- an air-tight, cool p’ ice can ust Dwarf Lima Beans. We had such sue es- with lima beans : season that we mean to grow still mn.o of them this year, llend ’.sons bush lima is goo I for early use. and x -v prolific. The mi! growing kinds u; 'duco larger beans, but some ot the beans are so late maturing iliat the frost ge‘s a considerable I-r-mmce ~r . T ., ; , ? „et" IO .... ’..-tv - ,d. sue.; for several

' .1 ; ■ mii the earliest-ripened beans, I ami lu this way hope to secure the en- , j Ure yield before frost.—Ex. Savins tfquasli from Insects. ( Professor Smith says: "One wav to i save the squash from its ns .-t enemies ■ ; is to have the ground on which the i squash is planted mananal evenly and j in such condition that the vine cay । send out suckers; have it well cult- . vated. one of our vines freak'd in tmfl way yielded twenty marketable squash ! i es and six that were fed to the cows. । the best crop ever groan en that . ground " I'amcuse and Talnian Sweet. In the Eastern and Middle States, ■ i with spraying, both these apples do well, and are fairly profitable. Tal- ; man Sweet, while not of high quality. ' is a superb keeper, and there are plenty in the New York market during Febru- ' ary and sometimes March. I nless put i in cold storage, the Fameuse disappears i in December. Kind Treatment for Stock. Nervousness and vicionsness are en--endered in the ill-treated cow. and are transmitted to her offspring. The more docile the cow. the more are her energies likely to be devoted to the dairyman's interests. Me cannot be too watchful over irresponsible help, who hesitate not to beat, hurry or frighten the cows.

MAHONE IS NO MORE. FAMOUS SOLDIER AND STATESMAN DEAD AT WASHINGTON. Was a Favorite in the Southern Army and Saved Petcrsbursj When Appar- | ently Defenseless After the Great Mine Explosion. Picturesque Figure Gone. General William Mahone died at hia home in Washington Tuesday afternoon. He had been failing steadily since he was stricken with paralysis nearly a week J ago, and it was known that death was ' only a question of time. The veteran.

however, showed remarkable vitality and made a strong tight against the grim angel. The country will long remember Gen. William Mahone as one of the most pic- ' turesque characters in public life during 1 theTast thirty years. Exceptionally slight : In stature and frame, he has been a j marked man in great assemblages. His ' peculiar style of dress, and especially his , jiat, attracted attention to him. This i broart-brimmed, soft felt headgear seem- ! ed out of proportion to the tiny form beI math it. But beneath this shade sparkled a pair of the keenest eyes ever po"»- ■ sessed by man. Gen. Mahone marks an epoch in ths nistory of the United States since the late war. He has been during the last

-si y<< GEN. MAUONK. quarter of a century the central figure in Virginia politics, and at one time he was in the center of on" of the most violent nolitieal storms ever waged in Congress. He was in his 69th year. His favorite sobriquet was "Hero of the Crater," won br his wonderful courage in the attack on i Petersburg, when the Federal forces /prnng a mine beneath the Confederate defense. He fought like a tiger, and later historians give to him almost alone • the credit of keeping Petersburg from tha Union hands by repairing before sunset the shattered Confederate lines. He had joined the (A.nfedi rate army nt once after I i rmsea aaa comma »wte« tne WSW"WR!,r ! meat of Virginia. He was commissioned > a brigadier general in March, 1864. and

six months later became a major general. At the dose of the war he returned to his original work of engineering, and became president of the Norfolk and Tennessee Railroad. He was elected to the Vnited States Senate in 1579. He was like a firebrand cast into a mass of dry tinder, and from the peculiar attitude that he at once assumed he caused oue of the most bitter controversies and stubborn deadlocks ever known in the history of that body. Mahone at last acted with the Republicans and gave them the organization of the Senate. 11is course brought down upon his head the wrath of, the Democrats, but the Republicans received him with open arms, and the Federal patronage ia Virginia was turned over to him. Since that time he lias been the Renublican leader in Virginia. He served in the Senate until ISS7. when he was de- । seated. - kS’ Th® News'ey Holmes has just finished his life--ou« i as them; will justice finish the other? ' i Holmes says that the suspense is kill- ; ing him. He probably will be killed that 1 i way. I It strikes us that the bidding on the 1 j Duke of Marlborough is altogether too ■ slow. Look him over, girls. : Yachting costs Willie K. Vamlerblit ' ’ dmooo a liar. an<l it sa»i that tho "a. fit :»n t his most expensive plaything, ' either.

A Pennsylvania man scared ms wife ' into speaking for the first time in seven : years the other night. No cause is as- : signed for the rash act. A current news note says that “Donna ! Cousino of Chili, who is worth SJOO.qoO.000," is now well on in years." \Ve should ( say she is also pretty well off. If this bloomer wedding business con- ' tinues, some of these days a near-s.ghted । parson will probably hitch two bicycle men or two new women together. New York has decided that the new ‘ woman may ride horseback man fashion" if she chooses to do so. this certainly is astride in the right direction. In June Campos issued a proclamation that said “the war is now ended;’ in ' August he said. “Cuba cannot bo conI quered.” Somebody must have told him. The Princess Colonna, nee Mackay, has got rid of her titled husband by paying him sl.t*UO a month for lite. Ihats a pretty stiff price, but it’s worth every cent of it. “The movement toward the cities has made less farmers." remarks the Boston Globe. Me haven't noticed it; there are ! fewer farmers, but they seem to be fully ■ as large as ever. "As we are a gallant nation it is not permissible to overlook the ladies." says the San Francisco Argonaut. Bosh! Gallantry or no gallantry, we think the theater hat should go. An Ohio woman who has been speechless for six years was cured the other night by hypnotism. There can be no doubt about It; hypnotism certainly is a very danger au power to fool witk