Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 October 1886 — Page 7

SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

SLI.USTRATING HOW A 54-TON CANNON IS CAST. «*?5l1

tn«t will Happen to the Earth Soma Time Hot Alter We Are Dead, We Hope—Wtixt Beat the Galatea—Boston

Cannon Foundry. $ ^k, 'f Boston is the place Where the lar|j#£aElMn I toed in the United States are cast A late number of The Scientific American contains an interesting illustrated sketch of some of the processes of building great gun*. They -are cast within deep pits dug into the earth -and walled with brick. Melted iron is run into a mold or flask to make the gun.

Through the crater of the mold runs a "core," which leaves the hollow through the center of I the gun.

Fig. 1 is an interior view of the large ordnance foundry where the 54-ton guns are cast, the ground lieing broken away so as to show a section of the pit, which Is placed in the center of tlui foundry. On the right are two 40ton roverbt-ratory furnaces for melting the iron for the casting,andanother 40-tou furnace is on tho left of the pit. The combined capacity of these monster furnaces is 125 tons.

CANNON PIT.

Tlio pit is 40 feet deeply KJ feet in diameter, atul its brick walls aru 1 foot thick. In tho center of tho pit stands tho gun flask, which rests on dry sand tupjwrted upon a Arm foundation of masonry anil concrete. Every precaution is taken to prevent the entrance of water within tho pit, since even an extremely small quautity would ruin the work. Tho flasks are flanged sections of iron, which, when placed in position in the pit, form a shell for supiorti!)g tho mold. Tho iladlci are rqmmed, washed mul dried before lieing lowered into tho pit, mid ure not touched after being placed in position.

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BORINO 54-TON QUIT.

Fig. 2 is an interior view of tho ordnance machinc shop, showing one of the ri-toi: in the process of being bored in one nf -the 100-ton hithes. This gun is to have /short steel tube, four inches thick, i.iserted from the breech and extending a little forward of the* trunnions. The tubo is shrunk

Into tho Ixiro of tho gun, the lntte Uing lieutcd. Tlx* gun in tho pictuiv will carry an 800-i»ound shot ten milts. It is a portion of the heavy ordnance recently ordered by congrt*

What Beat the Galatea.

Tho English appear to have learned tnore if win tht defeat of their yacht Galatea by the I Yankee Mayflower than the Americans did. *iir Thomas JJrnssey, the distinguished British •4- ynchtuman, writes a letter to Tho London

Times explaining the failure. It was due, ho /says, to tho form of tho Galatea's hull. Ho writes: "Tho American sloop spreads 9,UUO fwt of canvas the Galatea has a sail area of 7,146 feet, while the ability of the Galatea to carry sail is conspicuously inferior. The displacement is 157.(5 Urns, against the 110 tons of the Mayflower. Tho weight of taltast is 81,50 tons in the Galatea, and 4^.00 tons in tho

Mayflower. "The reasons which have led to the introduction of the present type of English racing cutter are not far to seek. Our models have lteen designed under tho baneful influence of an elaborate system of time allowance based upon tonnage, the measurement being determined by the length and breadth without reference to depth. Toniuvgo has been kept clown by minimising breadth, and the stability formerly derived from a wholesome protiortion of breadth to length has been supplied Ity the less satisfactory expedient of a heavy •weight of ballast carried at an increased •depth below the miter of buoyancy."

In every aspcctof shape he regards the Mayflower as superior to the Galatea, but in the matter of staunch seaworthiness and endurance be belie vm the Galatea better than the Mayflower. Then he declares frankly: "Avoiding exaggerations ou both sides, we may build up on the solid keel of an English cutter a hall not widely differing in form from that of the typical American tdoop. it can be done, and pride and prejudice shook! not be suffered to bar the way to improvement The yachtsmen of a past generation, led by Mr. Weld, the owner of the famous Alarm, were not slow to learn a lesion from their contests with the America. We may improve oar cutters as we formerly improved our schooners, by adaptations, which need not be servile imitations of the Due sloop* our champion mwh have encountered on the further shores of the Atlantic.

Bat Net In Oar Tiae.

In ref-irding the agricultural economies of the future, it most not be forgotten that a certain degree of warmth Is as necessary to plant development potash, phosphoric add, and nitrc^m. If it be true, therefore, that the earth Is gradually cooling, there nay come a Ume when a comic atbereMtry muy cause the famine hk-h srienttHe agriculture will -evented. Fortunately, howeref. for

race, the cereals, the best 4a-

gie article of food, are peculiarly suited u»

cold climate. Barley is cultivated in Iceland, and oatmeal feeds the best brain and moscln of the world in the high latitudes of Europe.

It is probably true that all life, vegetable and animal, had its origih ip the boreal cireumpolar regions. life lias already been pddfed half Way to the equator, and, slowly bit surely, the armies of ice advance their lines. The march of the hnm«n race equatorward is a forced march, even if it be no ir.oro than a millimeter in a milknium. Some time in the remote future the last man will reach the equator. Therewith the mocking disc of the-sua in the zenith denying him warmth, fiat-headed and pinched as to every feature, be will gulp his last mite of albuminoids in his oatmeal, and rlose his straggle with an indurate inhospitality.—Professor Wiley.

What We Eat.

Here is a list of what people put into their fnsides along with their food. It is the tax which thieving grocers, confectioners and milkmen put on the public's life blood, in order that they may get rich.

The Massachusetts state board of health reports that their chemist has found the following adulterations: Milk, adulterated by the addition of water and adoring matter, and by the abstraction of the cream spices, addition of starch and other foreign powders cream of tartar, substitution of starch, gypsum, and other cheaper substances baking powders, alum honey, substitution of cane sugar and glucose molasses, addition of glucose and presence of tin maple sugar and syrup, presence of glucose confectionery, terra alba, poisonous coloring matter, fusel oil and arscnical wrappers canned fruits, vegetables and meats, presence of metallic poisons. Opium, cinchona and other drugs have also been found adulterated.

Whut There is in a Ton of Coal. From one ton of ordinary gas coal may be produced 1,500 pounds of coke, 20 gallons of ammonia water and 140 pounds of coal tar. By destructive distillation the coal tar will yield 69.0 pounds.of pitch, 17 pounds of creosote, 14 pounds heavy oils, 9.5 pounds of naphtha yellow, 0.3 jwunds naphthaline, 4.75 pounds naphtbol, 2.'Jo pounds alazarin, 2.4 pounds solvent naphtha, 1.5 pounds phenol, 1.2 pounds aurinc, 1.1 pounds benzine, 1.1 pounds aniline, 0.77 of a pound toluidine, 0.46 of a pound antliracine and 0.9 of a pound toluene. From the latter is obtained tho new substance known as saccharine, which is 230 times as sweet as the best cane sugar, one part of it giving a very sweet taste to a thousand pails of water.—Science.

Facts of Interest.

Bats migrate southward for the winter. A new metal, very similar to antimony, has been discovered. It is named germanium.

An improved method of tanning—namely, with soap and oil, together with carbolic acid —lias been brought to notico by an Australian inventor.

Tho highest chimney yet built in the world has recently been completed at the Mechanic Lead works in Germany. It is 440 feet high, 11 feet l»ing underground.

If you are tall, light of weight and narrow of chest, your chuuccs of dying of consumption are favorable. Live out doors all yon can and take care of your health.

Bluck pepper has been grown in Florida. Milli-fs should kick against it. Thoy will bo unable to sell buckwheat hulls to tho spice mills any moro should black pepper grains become cheap.

If tho nir of tho cellar is damp, it may 1x3 thoroughly dried by placing in it a peck of fresh 'lime hi tn open box. A peck of lime will absorb about seven pounds, or moro than three quarts of water, and in this way a allar or milk room may soon be dried, even in tho hottest weather.

WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

Jet.

A correspondent from Paris writes that there Ls one accessory among tho many details of the toilet that forms a remarkablo exception to the proverbial fickleness of fashion, or.d thnt, id jet, as it is seen on every haud, cmliellishing and brightening all sorts of gownsand wraps, from the simplest to the richest. At Pari vjet has becomo a national ornament, just as in Spain, and, like in H- .-in, it has risen beyond tho caprices of fashion.

Young Laity'N Jack'.-l.

This j.ieket tnndo of cheeked homespun, with a hi.- collar and cuffs of dark brown plush, and with a fold of plush bordering the lower wig" It i* a tight jacket, fitted by a dart and two side forms, and is buttoned toward tho left side.

JACMT.

Two jfx*tUfon pieces are set into the shcrt skirt of the basque at the back, to be plaited athl give it fulness. Pockets are set] in slits upon the under side, pot back of the dart. Work tho buttonholes at the edge of the right front, and button it over towanl the left shoulder at tbe top.

Infants' Wardrobes.

Mm L. HL Gale makes tbe following suggestions regarding infants' ckrthing: Of late tbe bfcnds worn during the first months of infancy are usually made of ftannd—a real improvement on the oU fashioned doable linen bonis. Ordinarily these bands are worse than useleM after the first month but in cases of weakness, when they seem to be necessary on older infanta, great car* is needed to have them fit easily, yet be securely fastened as to retain their proper position. These bands never fit the body unless there tn two Maall gorrs from two to three inches apart at .is lower edge of aach where it comes door, fccfcrw the bowels. If worn after the babe is six weeks oki, wben it begins to more about 1

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATL.

some, a bit of jape should be sewed between these gores to reach down and be held firmly in place by the safety pin. This prevents slipping np. Shoulder straps of in&t wide tape will prevent slipping down made thus and pinned very carefully, that there may be no suffering from sticking pins, tbe band may be fastened so loosely as not to hinder respiration or freedom of motion, and yet form a safe protection from injury by severe crying and straining. Instead of tho short sleeved linen shirt arid tbe flannel skirt with its straight waist of cotton or linen, make a long flannel sack with gores under the arms and in the back, fitting tbe waist loosely and doping out at the bottom wide enough for a skirt. This sack, made of soft flannel and long, straight sleeves, and fastened in front, with small, tbtn buttons, is a much more comfortable a garment for the helpless baby than the close waists and folds and gathers of its ordinary underclothes. Every invalid knows the luxury of loose wrappers for lying down and this little mite of humanity is fit for nothing else during the first six weeks of its life. Over this along slip or dress may be worn long sleeved, of course, and tolerably high in the neck. A soft thin blanket is useful, especially to protect the baby hands and bead when the little one is carried about.

jBrocaded Velvet Stan tie. The mantle illustrated is made of colored frise velvet brocade with a brown ground. It has a narrow vest of seal hrown plush in the front, and is edged with chenillo fringe that is headed by a dark brown feather baud. The lining is red katin surah.

v. MAITTUL To tho right is shown tho back of the mantle. Set an undcrlapping fly fourteen inches long along the edge of the left front, and provide the fronts with hooks and eyes for fastening. Set a belt tape into the back at the waist. This mantle is handsome when made of black brocaded velvet, trimmed with black plush and fur or feather band of black. Tho feather trimming will be extremely fashionable this season.

Girl's Mantle.

This short mantle with sling sleeves is made of crossbarred ecru homespun. The sleeves are faced with brown satin surah, and the collar is edged with rosary beads.

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GIRLS MANTLE.

It is a pretty, graceful little cloak. Set a plaited postilion into the bottom of tho back, made of a piece six inches deep and twentysix inches wide.

Face the front edges four inches deep with surah. Turn up the under part, which forms tho sling, and sew it to tho mantle. Baste on tho upper part, and finish the neck with the collar. Provide tho front with buttons nnd button holes, and set a belt ribbon into tho back at tho waist line. Tack tbr*

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to the back at the waist line, as shown in tho illustration.

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When bride is married in her traveling dress, at homo or at church, sho uses either gray or brown cloth suit. Her gloves afC gray or tan-color, as best harmonizes

her dress, and tho gloves of the jiiwm may match hers, or if it. i3 a day wedding ho may omit the gloves altogether, or ho may merely carry them in his hand, as fc sometimes done at the elaborate wedding whero the bride goes to church in full dress. At evening weddings gloves aro do rigueur for the groom, but instead of tho pure white gloves that make the hands look larger, the preference is for the groom to wear the palest pearl-tinted gloves, broadly stitched with tho tame shade, whilo tho ushers wear similar gloves stitched with black. Whito neck scarfs arc now fashionably worn by all men at all weddings, oven at the most quiet morning ceremonies at home or in church. At lay weddings tho men guests wear tanolored gloves,

Long Redtngotes.

Long redingotes covering the entire dress are being revived one in black Albert cloth is lined with crimson satin. It is cut with large full plaits at the back, and is double breasted, being fastened with plaid cloth covered buttons. Another, in dark blue rough cloth, also double breasted, is trimmed with blue fox, which, starting from tho left side, crosses the bust and is continued to tho bottom of the coat high collar and deep cuffs nre of tbe fur, and the bine cloth toque trimmed to match. Blue fox will be the most fashionable form of fur trimming this year it harmonize well with the shades of blues and greens. '.»rowns and gray* now chiefly worn, thuu~a why it should be called blue is somewhat of a puzzle. It certainly has a blue tinge, but hi an unmistakable gray for ail that.

The Qneen Wateh Chain.

The queen continues to be the leading style In watch chains for ladies' wear, and it appears this season in more ornate patterns, with decorative effects and enrichments of gems. The principal change, however, from the original chain, Iks in tbe pendant, which is now locket, a tiny pencil, vinaigrette or charm of unique form and finish, rather thaa a cube or baH

FASHION LETS.

gfaioukW seams are as short or shorter thaa ever. Shirred corsages and fnB jfaatroos are all the rage. ,.r.:

Birds are seen to soma extent oo hats again this faU, but ladiea, doct wear tbna. It is barbaric.

Qoth bonnets appear la all colon, ready to trim. Tbfy are not ao heavy as felt and better for the hair, admitting more air.

Tbe present fashiona require a snperabondance of fichus, vests, pfatRnw and pernios to be worn at e\ ery paerfbie time and

THE FARM AND GARDEN.

DIRECTIONS FOR LAYING OFF A HALF MILE TRACK.

Care Bennet and Make Tour Own Cheese. October in the South—Doable Plow*Is City Milk Better than Country Milk?

Bace Track.

A valued contributor sends tbe following directions for laying off the half mile regulation race track, so much the fashion at country fair grounds:

To lay off this track drive two stakes 600 feet apart in a direction to get tho best surface. With each stake as its center, make a circle the diameter of which shall be 452 feet 5 inches. From the circumference of one let straight lines be made to the other, which will be 600 feet long. This will be the inner circle. The outer one should be 18 feet from this for private, and 86 feet for public tracks.

RACE TRACK.

To get the distance measure 3 feet from the pole. The curves should be elevated one inch to tho foot, beginning at the inner edge of the track. Our cut is improvised for the occasion and will guide in laying out a track, though not exact in its proportions. §p •••&'•« Thanksgiving Turkeys.

About throe weeks before marketing time you will want to begin to fatten the Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey. This is long enough if pasture and feed have been plentiful all summer. Cornmeal and oatmeal scalded, with hot, sweet milk, mako the best fattening food.

How to Dry Bennet.

As homo mode cheeso is a very agreeable addition to the farmer's bill of fare, every household should be provided with a few dried rennets. These are tho fourth or true digestive stomachs of tbe young calf, which is fed solely npon milk. The stomachs of deacon calves or of fat veals should always bo preserved for this purpose. The stomach is simply emptied of its contents and is not washed, slender twig is ushed into tho pening so as to 'distend it, in the manner shown in the engraving. The onds of the twig are tied to form a loop by which it

OUTlNO rennkt. can bo hung up in a dry closet. It is filled with salt and dried, nnd gradually becomes stronger with age, as the ferment, which 5s called "rennet," seems to rcpro.!uco itself in course of time. Two square inches of this dried stomach, steeped ia a quart of brine, is enough for 100 pounds of milk.

A New Plow.

Here is a picture of a plow of interest to formers. It is partly of the old gang plow pattern and partly not It has tbe advantage that it can ho turned close to corners nearly as roadily as tho common plow. The wheels Ixxu- it over the ground at the same time that Uid shares cut into the furrows.

PLOW.

One extra horse will be required to poll the machine. An extra furrow will thus be made for half as much again horse power. It does not, however, break up twice as much land as the ordinary plow, but say one half as mncb more. It is simple in construction and particularly adapted to breaking up hard, dry land in the fall.

October in the Sonth.

About the 25th of the month a killing frost usually occurs, and it is well to have everything ready for it—pea vines, forage, hay, etc., gathered c::J boused. Ground peas should also be gathered by that time, that tbe tops may be cured as forage, and the gathering of the nuts facilitated. After killing frost, the nuts quickly lose their hold on the vines, and are left in the ground when the latter are polled up. Sorghum cut and stowed away under shelter, will keep green and sweet lor a long time, prolonging the period of green feed well up to Christmas. Stalks, leaves and beads cot up together, we find to be a most excellent feed for cattle Our people, generally, have not learned yet to appreciate its value as stock feed. We think it superior to Mille Maize or any other of that daak Tbe amber cane is the best variety for this purpos*

Tbe sweet potato vine is another good feed, liable now to be rained by frost. As it fa almost impossible to core them, tbev may be either grazed or polled off and fed. little damage to tho potato will accrue if this is done after the middle of October. Everything should be in readiness also for digging the potatoes. After the weather gets cool and vegetation ceases active growth, the digging may take place at any time wben tbe sgA dir. Where the vines are not fed off to stock, tbe tnnal practice is to pull tbem ootof the way with a plow. This gathers tbe vines In h«ps at the end of tbe row* and deprives t»»

land oft heir fertilizing properties. It would be better to have a turn plow with sharp, revolving coulter, and ran it cm each side of a row so as to cut off the vines and bury them in tbe middles. Then with a plow railed a "potato digger." such as is used by northern farmers for digging Irish potatoes, the tubers might be lifted out'of the ground with great rapidity and without being cut and bruised. Dig in dry weather after tbe plant has ceased growing rapidly putin hills of thirty to forty bushels keep dry wrap with pine straw and cornstalks six to eight inches thick, and cover with dirt, increasing the thickness of the latter as the weather gets colder, until it is one foot thick. At first leave an air holo at top of hill, say for four or five'weeks. then stop it up with dirt and cut off all communication with outside air. A shelter ovor the hill is preferable,though not indispensable, if enough dirt is put upon the hill and it is well sloped so as to shod water rapidly.—W. L. Jones in Southern Cultivator.

City Milk and Country Milk. "I actually believe you get better milk than we do," said a country woman visiting a relative in the city.

It was a fact, too, that was the worst of it. You have heard all your life abuse of the kind of milk tho unfortunate city pcoplo havo to put up with. Its blueness, its thinness, its rottenness, its still-slop quality have been ding-donged into the ears of newspaper readers till they really believe that city dwellers do not know the tasto of pure milk.

Now, the facts are just the other way, more shame to the farmers. Largo dairymen supply milk to city customers who will not put up with any monkey business. Competition is so sharp that milk must be No. 1, and served in the cleanest, daintiest manner, In order for it to be sold at all. Consequently they secure the best breed of cows, and give them tho best feed regularly. They keep them cleaner than tho farmer does, and see that they have only pure water to drink. Their pastures are weedless. One batch of ragweed or wild garlic would ruin their trade. Milk is as sensitive to changes of food and water, to tho health and contented mind of the cow. as a barometer is to weather changes. Milk is the cow's barometer.

The difference between the city dairyman's cow and the farm cow is often one to mako a milk drinker weep, or swear, according to his sex. Contrast tho well kept, sleek creature of the first part with tho poor brute that pastures on ragweed and drinks green swamp water, fights files and musquitoes and is driven home with a dog at her ears and a brute of a boy with a club at her heels. You will then know why your city boardor somehow doesn't like milk."

Then go and reform your ways. Get every weed out of your pasture. Give the cow only pure water to drink. Have a warm stable ready for her this winter. Do you ever expect to get to heaven if you let your cow stand knee deep in manure with the sleet beating against her humped up back and the icicles hanging from her sides You never will, though you are forty Sunday school superintendents in one.

And don't say anything more about tho superiority of country mills over city milk.

Poultry Vermin.

Alter chicks and turkeys are three months old kerosene may be used for lice and no ill results follow—provided tho oil is used in a sensible manner. Do not wet the chickens all over, but rub a little of tho oil on top of the head, under tho wings, and into the feathers on the under part of the body. Don't mix any sulphur with the coal oil the oil itself is suro death to lice. But let me tell you that if chickens are kept free from lice until they are three months old, and after that age furnished with a wallow of dust and ashes, and their coops occasionally treated to whitewash or coal oil, they will not bo troubled with lice enough to hurt.

About those red mites, or spider lice—well, I do think they aro just tho meanest "critters" that ever vexed fowls and their owners. When they onco get in a fowl house nothing but a "stern, unrelenting warfare" will clean them out. They don't stay on tho fowls during the day, but hide on tho under sido side of the perches, and in cracks and crevices about the roosts and nests. At night they come forth from their "retreats," and just swarm on tho fowls. To begin the war of extermination catch all your fowls and rub coal oil into tho feathers on the under part of tho body, and under the wings. You needn't be so particular as with chicks, for a little kerosene moro or less won't hurt old fowls. After you get through with the hens, utop a minute and think how uncomfortable you feel with a million hen iice crawling up your arms then carry everything that is loose out of the hen house, and whitewash the bouse thoroughly. If there is an earth floor in tho house, or a floor covered with earth, scrape off tho top and put it somewhere where tho fowls cannot get at it then spread on fresh earth and scatter limo freely. This part of tho work done, shut up tbe house as closo as possible, carry in an old iron kettle half full of live coals, pour on a pound of sulphur, shut the door, and turn your attention to tho "movables" out of doors. Wet tho peVches thoroughly with coal oil and set fire to them. If you can get now perches just as well us not, better let the old ones burn all up, but if you must use tho old ones again, put tho fire out with and old broom and a pail of water, and tbe lice will be out too.

Whitewash the nest boxes and pour coal oil into all cracks where the lime does not reach. After you get through with this and have "changed your clothes," the house will be smoked enough, and you can open it to the air.

The next day, and about every day for a week after this house cleaning, examine tbe under side of the perches after the fowls have left tbe most: if yon find a single mite, wet the roost thoroughly with coal oil, for if but a half dozen of the little bloodthirsty wretches escape destruction they will "bring forth after their kind" with astonishing rapidity, and, next thing ynu will know, tbe bouse will be "just swarming" with red mites again.

While I am talking about licc, I may as well tell tbe poultry keepers who do not even suspect'the presence of red mites in their fowl houses, that it wouldn't do a bit of barm if they were to examine tbe under side of tbe perches for the "dark red patches," which are •imply millions of red mites.—Fannie Field in Prairie Farmer.

TMage to Do and to Know. The new governors both of Maine and Sooth Carolina are farmers.

Remove the seeds before feeding pumpkins to your cattle. Tbey act on tbo kidneys too freely.

Nino-tenths of tbe trouble and diseases among poultry arc tbe result of keeping fowls too done.

Tbe stock gamblers are trying to beep down the price of corn. Dont sell them any, bat feed it on the farms.

Don't begin feeding corn to ifie pigs too soon. Grace, milk, roots and refnse vegetables will be better until cold weather approaches. Warn quarters will greatly redoce tbe expense of feeding during tbo winter.

Flow tbe beavy land and leave it in tba rough condition sb that the frost can penetrate and render it fina. There is no better aceacr for pulverizing tongb soils than frafe will also, at tbe same time, destroy tbe cut^

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MRS. HENDEE SAVES NINE 'BtiVS FROM THE INDIANS.

"A Dangerous Dog ""Good St cry of a Mother's Bravery at the Burning of Royal ton, Vt,, During the Revolutionary War.

During tho Revolutionary war tho Indians were generally on tbe side of tho British and made sad troublo for tho young colonics that were fighting to be states. Hardly any children in the eastern states have ever seen an Indian, except in a 6how or circus. But at that time they were plentiful enough. In tho war of independence tho Indians did the most destruction when thoy were led ty white men, as they sometimes were.

Wide Awako tells a good story of how a woman saved nine little boys from being put to death or taken captivo by Indians. A party of savages led by a white man suddenly appeared before the village of Royalton, Vt, Oct. 16, 17S0. They burned it to tho ground. Tho farmers had gathered their harvest, and their barns were full of hay and grain. Thoy killed the cattle and stole tho horses. All was destroyed. A number of settlers were killed and others were carried into captivity to Canada.

Among tho women who were left free was Mi's. Hendeo. But the Indians toro her little boy, 7 years old, from her hands and started away with him. But would a mother thus escape and seo her only son led r.way a holpless little prisoner before her eyes? Never.

Tho boy screamed to his mother to save him, and she followed on after the Indians as fast as sho could. If tho child was to be killed, then sho would not cscapo. But she thought sho could savo him.

A river ran past there, nnd tho Indians, with their white leader, tool: their way along down by this, bravo Mrs. Hendeo after them. Sho had her little girl dragging with her, too, and was obliged to carry her much of tho way.

She waded stream of water which was up to hor waist, and tho current was very swift But sho did not stop a moment On 6bo went, and on. At length sho reached the Indian camp. Sho was in momentary danger of death, but she saw in tho midst a white inan, with a red coat on, and to him she went boldly. Sho legged for hor son, and tho sons of her neighbors whom the Indians had captured. Tho officor, Lieut. Ilorton, told her the boys were to be taken to Canada, to lo reared and trained for British soldiers. Ttiey meant to mako them fight against their own country, if tho war should last till they were largo enough. But Mrs. Hendeo soldi "You know as woll as I do that theso children cannot endure such a march as you will mako through tho wildorncss. And when thoy cannot walk any more, what will yon do? Tho Indians will tomahawk aud scalp them to prevent them from being a hindrance in j'our flight, for every man in tho settlements will pursuo you to rovengo us. If you do not kill thom you will loavo them to dio and to bo torn to pieces by wild boasts. Tbey will bo of no tiso to you, and unless you are a wild beast yourself you will givo mo my child, that theso savages havo taken away from me. I)o ono good turn beforo you dio.n

It is said that tears camo to tho officer's eyes, and ho replied: "You shall have your child."

But ho had hard work to get her son and tho other boys from tho savages. Once an old Indian pulled tho little boy away from her after she had got him, and raised a tomahawk over her head. Both mother and son thought they were gone then, and tho boy screamed out loud.

At last though, she got hor own little boy and eight others, and started home. Thoy had to ford a river. It was so deep that tho smallest boys could not wade it. It was a stream 200 yards wido at tho ford, but this heroic woman went back and forth in tha swift, ico cold water several times, carrying tho small boys upon her back. Tho others put their arms around each other's necks. ravH v/c- •.

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e&6h fellow's hands upon tho boy in front of him, and so on in a lino they followed Mr* Hendee across. Snow was falling and tba night was stormy. But they managed to live through it and next day somo men from onr sido found all alive. But they were right hungry, ond when tho mothers saw once moro the sons whose lives they owed to Mr*. Hendee they cried aloud for joy. They nover forcrot her. Tho boys and girls of this department must not forget her either, for it was a most heroic deed she did.

The Dangerous Dog.

Tbe (bogeroaidogln tbe drawing foofii lay. And Mapped at the boost flies that casts la Mi way.

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Bat hit speech wascut short as be happened to^r vv

A tumble bee dose to bis head -St. Nicholas.

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