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5Tjffbj;rwyfis3!f3 agrer. -vr- j(5?.i5!fiSSTWaBi r -TT T-4vJse asjcp-AassiasK 2ii .JiSl "f J m ,. -'S.T. f " "-' k -&-, p-; 33.1S "tfcr H "&?1 -" - -" :-..;,.':( S!"l'V ? , f " 'rc t 385HK3-i." - 'I I K M h ill' . s i-- eV - - I iJf fefJSL ? THE DODGE CITY TIMES Subscription, $2 per year, in advance. K. X. KLAIHE, - Editor and Publisher. 1 OOOD-NIGHT. With the day's parments lay Thine earthly cares away. At an o'er wearied child cants down its toys; Hid the wild throbbing cease That broke thy hearts deep peace, Amid life's surging waves ot oriels and joys. Take to thy darkened room No shade or inward gloom, Since anjrcls gather thereto guard thy rest; And through the Silent night Gather from Held of light Some healing herbs to bind unto thy breast. From life's perplexed affairs, Its memories, hopes and prayers, Thou wilt lie down toslumlcr sweet and deep, Hut who can say for thee Where shall the wakening be? Will earth or Heaven the future harvest reap? Go, then, forgiving all, Upon thy God to call. Life's crown of thorns no longer on thy brow; And, fanned by angcl' wings Dream of all glorious things And, with thy guides, at Heavenly altars bow. Fresh as the morning dew Begin thy life anew. If Mich thy Father's will, upon the earth; i'luck from the past its llowers, To garland future hours. JJut leave the thorns in boil that gave them birth. X. E. Farmer. CAVES OF THE WIND. tVlieri Tornndorit Arise and Whither Thcy Go Theories Cmierruiug t Ii Origin and I'athway.s of Wiml .Storms Safety I're cautions. The disastrous tornadoes of la-t Fri day afternoon and evening have inve-ted the consideration of ihe phenomena of tornadoes or cyclone florins with un usual interest, not only from the stand point, of news touching the frightful details but likewise concerning their origin, characteristics and niovenienls. If examination he made of the dis patches in the Times of Sunday last re lating to the storm, it will he found that in every instance where the direct'on is given the tornado proceeded from the northwest to the .southeast, and is de scribed as being funnel-shaped, balloon shaped, or of some other similar con formation, composed apparently of clouds, in some cases illuminated by lightning, and in all cases the smaller end touching the earlh where the dam age was done. That is all that common observation covering many years has developed as to the nature of tornadoes. Popular ignorance concerning tor nadoes linds an ample apology in the lack of information in the text-books on meteorology. Loomis dispones of the matter brkily and in a manner that is altogether inconclusive. There is however, a theory advanced, founded on observation of their characteristics, that in the absence of any other ex planation or contradiction may b fair ly accepted as true. Jn the United States all storms originate on the plains east of the Rocky Mountains and move eastward at the rate of about twenty miles an hour, deflecting more or less to the northwest. These stoinn vary in size, but commonly have a diameter of three hundred to six hundred miles. They also have theirestablished routes. Thus those storms which most visit Chicago and vicinity oiiginate in the western part of Nebraska and move eastward, touching with their lower limits the noithern portion of Illinois. Another well-delined storm path lies almost parallel, passing through South ern Missouri and Southern Illinois up the Ohio River. Along these two routes there is a constant procession of storms, some so small as to be easily idcntilied and isolated, while others are so large as to occasion a combination .forming one continuous storm. - If the reader will take a map and out line one circle of about live hundred miles in diameter, having Cairo, 111., for its center, and another circle having St. Paul for its center, he will tind that the edges touch each other. There would be in this nothing remarkable except for the fact that in a storm the winds all revolve, curving inward to ward the storm center in opposite di rection to the movement of the hands of a watch. Tints the wind at Rock Island would be blowing west or northwest, and at Peoria east or southeast. It is presumable that between these two points there is an area of no wind or .shifting winds. Suppose that the two storms having these winds, going in op posite direction, be brought into sudden contact; that is to say. two bodies of nir in motion in opposite directions'at a rate as high as Iwenty-live to thirty miles an hour, it is evident that at the point of contact there intM be consider able commotion or, as it were, fraet'on. This line of eonticl of opposing winds is supposed t set in motion whirlwinds or tornadoes, which vary in intensity according to the force of the winds. This theoiy is the only one that en deavors to account for the phenomena iiid existence of tornadoes. Another ' modification of the same idea is that the .severer tornadoes are caused by the im paet of directly colliding, winds, sending off eddies and producing the same gen eral movements that are produced by the collision of two bodies of water. TJ very nature and frighfulness of tornadoes has prevented any accurate observation of them. It has been shown, however, by the destruction thev cause that their motion is gyratory and forward; that, in fact, they have in a narrow compass all the concomitants of a regular storm. In some cases the iresencc of electrical phenomena and Kill lightning has led some to account for them on a theoiy based on electrics altogether. Prof. Maury, for example, argues that by the commotion of the elements an electrical vaccuum is in duced, ami the electricity rushing from the earth to till it occasions the destruc tion. To sustain this theory the facts thjd chickens are defeatherod, leaves " singed, houses burst, as if from an ex plosion of gunpowder, metal sometimes melted, with many other similar phe nomena, are advauced. It does not appear, however, that Maury's theory has been sustained by recent" investiga tions. That electrical disturbances should arise where there is so great a commotion of the elements is not sur prising, and while electricity is admit ted to be accountable for some of the effects by the best judges, it is yet held to be itself resultant and nor productive of the storm. Last winter the Signal-Service issued a publication showing the result of in vestigations into the phenomena of six hundred tornadoes in the United States. These investigations were conducted with great care by an officer of the ser vice who visited the. fccver.il localities whence they were reported. These inves tigations show that the. month of June had of the 600 the largest number, 112, with April, 1)7; July, III); May, 81: Sep tember, .r0, and August. 47. The show ing is that most tornadoes occur in slimmer and the next largest number in -the spring. Illinois ranks next to the - highest Sttte in regard to the number Saofloraadois, tjjo following being t en States in which the highest number of tornadoes occur: Kansas Illinois Missouri... New York. Georgia.. . fi2Iowa 31 otohio : 44 Indiana 27 35 Minnesota 21 33 Xorth Carolina IS Of those tornadoes, where the hour of the appearance was given, eight oc curred between one and two p. m., thir teen between two and three o'clock, twenty-seven between three and four o'clock, lifty between four and live o'clock, fifty-two between live and six o'clock, twenty-five between six and seven o'clock, and decreasing during the night. Out of those tornadoes whose courses wo reported, three hundred and ten moved from south west to north east and thirty-eight from northwest to southeast. Of these latter nearly all were either in the gulf or extreme North western States and Territories, not one being in Illinois. Resides these there were others moving in a variety of di rections, but in the general direction of southeast. The supposition from this would be that in watching for storms of this character, especially in Illinois, hey may be confidently anticipated in the southwest. The same authority I which gives these figures produces a map showing the relative area of torna does. From this it appears that ii-'.'tt portion of Illinois that would be em braced in an ellipse drawn with its low er end at Alton anil its upper end at Joliet, would cover the area in which the largest number of tornadoes occur. The width of the path of destruction varied from forty feet to two miles, the average being about one-fifth of a mile, while the average length of the tracks was about twenty-eight miles. Of un usually d"structive tornadoes Illinois had fifteen: Kansas-, twenty-live; Iowa, twelve, and Missouri, twelve. Perhaps the most valuable informa tion concerning tornadoes that can be given the public is an intimation of theii distinguishing characteristics when first they appear, and such precautionary suggestions arc susceptible of applica tion. The Signal Service, in a publica tion, says that the approach of a tor nado is announced from a distance by the appearance of a cloud that is usual ly two or three miles away when first noticeable. It consists of a very black, threatening mass, from the underside of which descends a projection to oi near the earth's surface. Relr.w this point is the place of destruction. When the case is severe, a warning noise pre cedes the approach of the cloud. Sup pose a person, therefore, to see a tor nado, indicated by the funnel-shaped cloud approaching. It will, if it be a mile away, require not less than two minutes to reach him. In that space of time, if he go in the right direction he may be able to save himself or diminish his danger. The cloud or tornado gen erally moves to the southeast. A posi tion not less than seven hundred feet on the right or south side of a line running northeast from the cloud is measurably safe. Very few wooden buildings are safe, especially tho-c with projecting angles. A one-story house is safer than a two-story house. The safest place of retreat is in a cellar; the danger there, however, from falling timber is consid erable; in a cistern, perhaps, is the best retreat if one be convenient. It should be borne in mind that no form of house is safe, but. on the contrary, lying fiat on the open ground is much safer than any shelter afforded byjordinary build ings. Cltiru o Tillies. Tea-Tasters. Tea-tasters are employed by import ers of teas, by great ton, firms in China and Japan, in London and New York. Their duties are very onerous. Their taste has to be instinctively correct, as reliable as a car-condimtor s bell punch and yet the most expert of them could no more ascertain the facts required by the law than could the trained consumer of eating-house hash tell what curiosi ties of the animal, the vegetable, the mineral and the red-haired world had originally been chopped up in the old oaken hash-bucket that hangs out in the kitchen. His whole duty is to nierelj tell the merchantable grade of the tea, and, by tasting a pinch of the haves, to accurately anticipate the flavor that the same tea will oiler to the consumer of it when it has been steeped and served. lie puts a pinch of the tea as prepared for market into his mouth; he works his mouth unpleasantly for a few moments till the tea is softened with saliva; then, with a "click" like the cocking of an Arizona i-shootcr, he obtains the "taste;" then he spits the tea out, care fully rinses his mouth and gives his verdict. His is the most melancholy ol lives. He may never laste intoxicants. His diet must be such that it will nevei deteriorate his lasting powers. Bui he gets an enormous salary. The aver age of his usefulness is only eight years. Much mistaken was the Irish poet whe wrote of whisky: You'ie shtronger, shwater, dayeentcr, You're shpunkicr nor tay. Because "tay"' in eight years leaves the taster a hopelessly palsied invalid, to spend his savings in the vain hope ol regaining health. That tea will inebri ate is proven. When the tea plant is just about to bloom experts go through the gardens and carefully clip the most advanced blossoms just about to burst into llower. These are manipulated generally, as is all tea, but with the most iealous care. The r rcsiilt is a tea iiwi 5ti ri,;.i U1U III I. Ullul, that eon sells in Japan at from ten dollars to eighteen dollars a pound. The traveled Americans arc numerous who iinanimouslv attest that the leisurely drinking of four little china cups of the steeping of this kind of tea has almost precisely the same ef fect upon them as the drinking of a quart bottle of champaign, only that the exuberance is far more lasting and that it leaves them without a head ring ing like a dinner gong and with no pre sentiment of resulting "jim-jams." X. V. Star. ;in The Truth Admitted. Thaddeus Stevens, once defending the public schools that had with diffi culty been legalized, said that the Pennsylvania Dutch cared nothing for educating their .sons and daughters provided they could breed fine pigs and , cattle and horses. This was made the most of by Stevens enemies, and he had to defend himself publicly when he went back to Gettysburg, and did it with the argumentum adiomifiem. "Isn't it true?" he said. "You, Jake Snyder, have got a ram that cost a thousand dollars, and none of youi daughters can read. You, Hans Deit man, paid four thousand dollars for a bull, but make all your sons work winter and summer. You, Jimmy Lootman, own Westphalia boars and brood sows, and can't read yourself. Don't you love beasts bettor than youi children and your minds?" The honest Dutchmen began, to confer: "That i: right," they said; "he told the truth." m "I was so mad at George last night," said a girl, of herL sweetheart' Yes," said her ill-natured brother, " 1 noticed when'lJooked in the parlor; thai you werQWin7wiis.--irfr'i?w(. " How Ca?cs Are Mannffectared The horrible habit of Americans of putting their hands in their pockets has led to the popularity of canes in this country. The Jnpahesc gentleman shows appreciation to the same feeling when his costume is incomplete with out his shutting fan, Avhich he hangs at his belt, over his right shoulder, or in the breast folds of his silken gown. The French or English gentleman for the same reason never attends a full dress party without his crush hat in his hand. The fashion of carrying canes, how ever, among the swells and lah-de-dah lads of New York has each season its rules which are observed with as much exquisite punctilio as those of ladies who wear a poke bonnet one year and scoop hat the next. Most of these fashions originate in Europe. A year or two ago there were two styles the shepherd's crook, shaped like a fish hook, and the Zulu crook, a plain, curved handle. The Zulu came from Paris, the shepherd from London. These styles in canes were introduced in the spring, and were preceded bv the crutch. When our fathers were lads the whalebone cane was the proper thing. Now they are so scarce that they are worth to the dealer from three dollars to .three and a half. Last year the fashion was to carry a silver-ball cane. Then there is a style in carrying a cane, and this varies each year. One year it was to walk with a spring gait, with bent knees and arms akimbo as far forward as possible, and the cane was held between one finger and thumb, correctly balanced so as to swing grace fully. Then came the ajsthetie style. The cane was held in front of the body by the first and second lingers of both hands, and was allowed to hang limp, while the elbows were still further for ward, and the .shoulders, if possible, more round. TJien there was a fashiou lastyvarof holding the ferule down. This year it is to hold it in the middle, with the ferule to the front, just as Mr. Spot Dandridge does after his return from the East. That's the proper " ca per.'' The material is as various as can well nig'h bo conceived of. Many are of im ported woods; some from the tropics. China and the East Indies. The cele brated Whongee canes are from China, where they are well known and cele brated for the regularity of their joints, which are the points from which the leaves are given oil", and the stems of a species of phyllosiachys. a gigantic irras.;, closely allied to the bamboo. The orange and lemon are highly prized, and are imported chiefly from Ihe West Indies, and perfect specimens command enormous prices. The orange stick is known by its beautiful green bark, with fine white longitudinal mark ings, and the lemon by the symmetry of its proportions and both prominence and regularity of its knots. Myrtle sticks possess also a value, since their appearance is so peculiar that their owner would seldom fail to recognize them. They are imported from Algeria. The rajah stick is an importation. It is the stem of a palm, and a species of calamus. It is grown in Rornco, and t:ikes itsjiame from the fact that the Rajah will not allow any to go out of the country unless a heavy duty is paid. These canes, known as palm canes, are distinguished by an angular and more or less fiat appearance." Their color is brownish, spotted, and they are quite straight, with neither knob nor curl. They are the petioles of leaf stalks of the date palm. Perhaps the most cele brated of the foreign canes are the Ma lacca, being the steins of the calamus sceptotium, a slender, climbing palm, ami not growing about Malacca, as the , ,,.., ,,, m , ili;ri-. but im. ted from Stak ou (he onpositc coast I lf c,1vlfr!1 ntw f-L ,.., , I of ebom r0sWood, partridge or "hair- wood, and cactus which, when the pith is cut our, presents a most novel ap i pcarance, hollow and full of holes. The manufacture of canes is by no , means the simple process of cutting the sticks in the woods, pcel'ng oil the bark, whittling down the knots, sand papering the rough surface, and adding a touch of varnish, a curiously carved handle or head, and tipping' the end , with a ferule. In the sand fiats of New , Jersey whole families support them selves by gathering nannebcrry sticks, i which they gather in the swamps, i straighten with an old vise, steam over an old kettle, or perhaps s.'iupe down ' or whittle into size.. These are packed in large bundles and sent to New York j City and 'sold to the cane factories. Many imported sticks, however, have , to go through a process of straightening I by mechanical means, which are a mys i terv to the uninitiated. Thev are buried in hot sand until they become pliable. In front of the heap of hot sand in which Ihe slicks arc plunged is a stout board from four to five feet long, fixed at an angle inclined to the workman, and hay ing two or more notches cut in the edge. When the stick has become perfectly pliable the workman places it in one of the notches, and bending it in the op posite direction to which it is naturally bent, stnrghtens it. Thus, sticks ap parently crooked, bent, warped and worthless arc by this simple process straightened; but the most curious part of the work is observed in the forma tion of the crook or curl for the han- ' 'lcs wn'c'1 :ire not naturally supplied t with a hook or knob. The workman I i i - . .... iiui-us um; uiiu ui i ne uauc liniiiy iu a rV"1" lwul onun ," stream oi !c from a gas-pipe on the part which is iu oe uem. vucn suincient neat nas been applied, the cane is pulled slowly and gradually round until the hook is completely' formed, and then secured with a string. An additional applica tion of heat serves to bake and perma nently fix the curl. The under part of the handle is frequently charred by the action of the gas, and this is rubbed down Avith sandpaper until the requi site degree of smoothness is attained. Chicago Times. Jere. Black and Dr. Elder. The Critic recently heard an excel lent story about Judge Jere. Black, the ilistinguished lawyer and politician, and Dr. William Elder, also a prominent Pennsylvanian and now an official in the Treasury Department. Both gentlemen were born in Somer set, Pa., and" were friends from early boyhood. Both were excellent story tellers, and both had a wealth of stories of their early life. Black was particularly proud of a description of the way in which he first read Don Quixote, and was fond of re lating it whenever an appreciative au dience could be secured. The story was that in his father's garret at Somerset there stood an old hair trunk in the earliest days of the embryo Judge's career, when his young mind had just begun to feel the want of more varied literary resources than the standard, dog-eared volumes of his father's limit ed library afforded. Jere. was inves tigating the garret one rainy day for some diversion, when he chanced to open the old trunk and observed that it was lined, as was the old custom, with leaves of a book. Little Jere. was surprised and somewhat in terested. An examination -proved that the bo6k was "Don Quixote," and that almost all the pages had been used in lining the trunk. Jere. soon became interested in "Don Quixote" and his faithful squire, and as he traced the pages further, he grew more and more pleased, delighted, ex cited and absorbed. The opening chapter was found under the lid of the trunk, and Jere. began to read the wondrous story, and page by page he followed the winding plot, rivaling the exploits of the redoubtable Don as he sat one moment with his head in the trunk, then climbed into the trunk to read what was posted on the sides, lay on his back, with the trunk-lid on the top of him, while he perused the bot tom, stood on his head to get a nearer view of the obscure corners, ami in this acrobatic manner mastered the storv. gathered impressions that clung to him throughout his life, and made everlast-1 ing friendships with luckless Sancho i p:vnza and erratic Don Quixote. Judge Rlack told the storv well, and it was well known among his friends, season uot only car-loads but train One evening a large gathering of liter- loads are required to supply the de ary and political people, including mand. Melons have become a common Judge Black and Dr. Elder, were talk article of food. They are found on the ing of the books of their boyhood, and tables of hotels, restaurants and private as there were a few persons present who never heard the story referred to, the Judge was about to tell it, when Dr. Elder began unexpectedly: " I wfll never forget the circumstance under which I first read Don Quixote, when I was a boy. The pages of the book were pasted as a lining in an old hair trunk in my father's garret, and I went through more gymnastics in fol lowing on behind the Don's faithful steed through all the sides, angles and trays of that old trunk than I have ever attempted since. Judge Black listened speechlessly to the recital, and those who had heard him tell the story glanced suspicoiisly from Doctor to Judge. It was evident that somebody had stolen the story or that the Doctor had appropriated it to quiz the Judge, and the latter was not only surprised, but a good deal chagrined. For a long time Black felt hurt over the theft of his story, or the ridicule of his friend; but, after man' months, meeting Dr. Elder on the street one day he said: "Doctor, do you remember our stories of Don Quixote in a hair trunk? Well, that mystery has been cleared up. I have found that when we both lived at Somerset my father bought that, old trunk from your father, and we both read Don Quixote the same way out of the same trunk."-:- Washinqton Critic. Is Jloncy Worth the Price I Money is a good thing to have in the house. It would be Avaste of time to preach any other doctrine to the Araevi can people, who run such a feverish :.ce with fortune, but the current news of the day yields an abundance of incidents from the lives of the great men in our money world that preach the hollowness of mere riches. One great Wall-street mega thosaurus has so strained his nervous sys tem in the midnight contrivings of snares for his fellows on the street that he at last forgets the secret of the old fashioned honest sic p that used to come unsought to his eyelids. He must build him a galley of more than Asiatic splen dor and sail away in search of the foun tain that no one has ever found when once lost. The railway world is strewn with the wrecks of human life. The collapse of Tom Seott, who believed himself as in vincible in physique as in railway com binations, is only an extreme instance of what is happening all around us. When the greatest of our railway kings died, the list of diseases, as given by his doctors in the trial of the case to break his will, was about as long as the schedule of his property. lie appears to have bequeathed his ailments with his dollars to his descendant. The rail road king who can take a million dol lars to Europe for spending money did not dare, for fear of being kidnapped, to take the Western trip which he had planned over the mountains. His hun dred millions hardly saved him from a shudder when he read in his morning paper that the freight-handlers, during their strike last year, said in one of their desperate moments: "Let us go and look at Vanderbilt's hoifsu on the Avenue!" It was a wonderful stroke, of good fortune for the delvers in the Conistock lode to get their picks into the bonan za. But what happiness does this bonanza appear to have brought its dis coverers or any one else? The specula tion that followed left San Francisco scared and scorched as if by a hotter fire than that which swept over Chi cago. The Colorado and the Nevada bonanzas have each contributed a sad scandal to the divorce courts. One of the great bonanza kings has the. remote satisfaction of knowing that a part of his family is cutting a great swell in the gayest capital of the world, while he is living without his family in the dreariest region outdoors, and another was described the other day as wander ing through the lonesome magnificence of a mansion which he had tilled with books he did not have the taste to read,, and statues celebrating heroes he could not pronounce the names of, and musi cal instruments not one of which he could play. All this is common enough, but there is ouv failure in life which the very rich make so regularly that it almost rises to the rank of a social law. They so con centrate their minds on money-making that they entirely neglect the making of the habits and character of those to whom they expect to intrust the spend ing of it. They can not spend it. The habit of mind which made it possible to accumulate makes it impossible to scatter. But they arc too busy to teach their boys and girls how to use this enormous power of money. It is easier to give the child, who has just awakened to the pleasures that he can buy, ten dollars than it is to teach him how to spend ten cents wisely or to make it by his own labor. The wonder is that it never occurs to these architects of fortune to doubt their own shrcwd- ness in piling up millions which they intend to commit to untrained bands. Chicago Tribune. m m Northampton has been the chief seat of English shoe-making ever since the days of Magna Charta John, avIio was himself shod there, as an ancient recordihows. The spirit of the re doubtable Barons still bears fruit in the radical politics of the place, which to day sends Laboucherc and Bradlaugh to Parliament, and which, when Crom well's army marched through it, fur nished the soldiers with twenty thou sand pairs of shoes. More than thirty thousand persons arc now employed there in the shoe trade: The courts have decided that Sam uel Wood had a right to heqneath $5, 000,000 orr a musical college inNew when heji4.it. V; -L. " ' -- V The Fruit of Creeping Yiaes. Less attention is given by Westeru farmers to the production of melons, ;quashes and pumpkins than is de served. Few of our large farmers pay any attention to them. The boys gen erally raise a few melons on the site formerly occupied by a hay-stack or dung-hill, and the housewife often plants a few squash seed in the garden where the vines run over the vegeta bles and do a large amount of harm. Occasionally a small farmer raises pumpkins in a com field, as is the general custom in the Eastern and Mid dle States. Few, however, devote a considerable amount of land in the pro duction of melons, squashes and pump kins. Within the past few years several farmers in the latitude of the capital of :his Stite, and further south, have turned their attention to the raising of melons as a market crop and found it profitable. The consump- tion of melons is rapidly increasing in all our cities and large towns. Chicago lias become one of the largest melon markets in the world. During their families. The old idea that they are unwholesome is no longer entertained. Physicians now give testimony in favor of t'leir healthfulness. During the past few cars several professional garden ers and amateurs have added to the number of varieties and greatly im plied their quality. Unless a farmer liv ;;; in a location that has a favorable soil and climate and good facilities for transportation, he may not find melons a profitable crop to raise for the mar ket, but every farmer should raise enough for the supply of his own family. Attention has also lately been given to the production of squashes as a mar ket crop. They arc in demand for the supply of hotels and families at almost all seasons of the year. Bakers now biiy large quantities of squashes for making pies. Every few years there is quite a demand for squashes to send to the East. The shipment of squashes to England has commenced, and the amount of them sent abroad will prob ably increase from year to year. The long-keeping varieties like the Hub bard can be preserved during the win ter with little liability to loss, and they always command high prices in the. spring. Many squashes are now canned and dried. As a substitute for the sweet potato the squash has no equal. Eight tons of Hubbard squashes have not unfrequently ..been raised on a single acre of highly-manured and well-cultivated land. A crop like this will pay as Avell as am'thing a farmer can produce Avhen . we take into consideration the cost, of raising. The cost of seed is A'ery light and the expense of harvest ing small. Squashes should be raised on dry and Avarm soil. It should be made A'ery rich with Avell-rotted stable manure. Wood ashes and bone-meal, as well as superphosphate of lime, are also excellent fertilizers for squashes, as they are for melons and pumpkins. The ground should be well pulverized, but it need not be plowed deep. Poor squashes will be produced on clayey or damp soil, and they can not be relied on to keep a long time.. The planting can be delayed till most of the field crops are put in. Many plant in rows eight or ten feet apart, and others in hills eight or ten feet distant from each other. But two plants are allowed to grow in a hill, though five or six seeds are planted.. The hill is made slightly sloping, like a 'saucer, and the seed is eoA'ered about an inch and a half deep. The earth above them is flattened, and made tolerably compact Avith a hoe. Pumpkins can be planted in the same manner as squashes, or they can be raised to good advantage in connection with corn by dropping the seed in every fourth or fifth hill. Melons, squashes and pumpkins, when grown in the field, require substantially the same cultiva tion. The soil about the plants should be Avork with the hoe or garden trowel, and the earth between the hills kept nielloAV and free from weeds and gras by the employment of the cultivator, Avhich can be run botliAvays. After the Aveather becomes quite warm the vines will soon cover the ground, and it is often advisable to shorten them so as to prevent too much shade. The greatest difficulty is Avith the little striped bug, Avhich in this latitude puts in his appear ance early in June. The young plants can be protected against this insect by covering them with a small box having a single pane of glass fitted to the top and placed so that the rain Avill run off from it. Small boxes covered with mosquito netting answer the purpose nearly as Avell. The plan of dusting the young plants Avhcn they are Aet AvithdewAvith land plaster is recommended to exten sive growers. Some give no protection to the plant, but seed liberally so that enough plants will survive the AA'ork of the insects. A feAv plant the seed of in ferior varieties of squashes in the vicin ity of the hills and in that Avay provide food for the bugs. Melons, squashes and pumpkins should be gathenul be fore heaA'y frosts occur. A portion of the vin- should be left on the stem and I hey should be allowed to become dry before they are placed under cover. Squashes and pumpkins are valuable as food for foAvls anil animals. Cattle and jroAA'ing hogs will eat them in their raAv state, but it is better to cook them for poultry and hogs that are being fat tened. In many places pumpkins and s piashes furnish, next to grass, the cheapest stock food that can be raised. Chicago Times. Fashion Items.- Silk-worm green is soberly announced as the latest tint in that shade. Plain jerseys of red or blue are much worn Avith lawn-tennis costumes. There is a greater variety in the styles of bathing suits than Avas eAer before displayed. SleeA-cs of dresses and Avraps are worn exceedingly high, and full on the shoulder. The Chinese driving-cloak Avith sabot sleeA-es has taken the place this season of the French redingote. Mention has more than once been made of the extent to which beads are worn as garniture and ornaments. Large Roman pearls, tinted Avith pale mauve, light blue, a delicate pink, and green blending Avith a sheen of .silver or gold, are just now more in vogue than the smaller beads, the former not being so easily imitated in cheaper makes, and their price, Avhich is considerable, in-stirin"- them against becoming common. The most expensiA'e kinds though sup posed to emanate from the Holy City, come really from France, from Avhc-nce the best imitations are imported. There is a marked difference in the quality- of these representative gems, some heing scarcely distinguishable from real nearls. and their price is proportionate. -iV. Y, tost.- Parleyiag With a Molar. Mrs. Buckley is thirty years old. She does not look like an imaginatiA-e Avom an, and she told this story: On Tuesday night last she sat in her front room until eleven and one-half o'clock, reading a neA'spaper. IlertAVo children AA'ere asleep in a bed in the ad joining room, the sliding doors standing open. Before preparing for bed she knelt doAA-n by the side of her chair to. pray. While still on her knees she heard a quick step on the pavement of the court, and then in the hall. The door opened. As the step AA-as like that of her husband she remained on her knees till her prayers Avere said, and then arose to her feet. Turning around she fcund that a stranger aa-:is in the room. The man A'as tall, had dark hair and a light mustache, and AA'as de cently dressed. He had a pleasant face. Bowing, he said: " I lun-e been looking for you for fif teen years." " Looking for me for fifteen years!" said Mrs. Buckley, in great surprise. "You have the advantage of me. I don't knoAv you." " YC'S," he rejoined, "I'vebaen look ing for you all that time." "Thinking he might be some friend or relative of her own family, she in-A-ited him to sit down. He took a chair by the table. " Who are you, and what do you want?" Mrs. Buckley asked. "lAvantedto see you. You are the Goddess of Prayer, are you not?" The question nearly frightened Mrs. Buckley into a faint, for she saAV then that his eyes Aere unsteady and that he was undoubtedly crazy. 'Thinking of the safety of herchildrcn, and knowing if she screamed for help that none would be likely to reach her quickly at that hour, she controlled herself Avith an ef fort and answered slowly: " Yes, I am. Noav Avhat do you want?" "1 will tell you Avhat I Avant. lam a surgeon, a French surgeon, educated at the University of Paris. For thirty years I have dissected the human body to learn of its Avonders. For twenty years 1 have devoted myself espceially to the heart. In all that time I have dissected only dead hearts. Noav I de sin; a live one to dissect, in order that I may sec its pulsations. I kneAv you Avotdd be here, and that your health de manded that your heart be taken out and cleansed. That is why I came. Did you ever hear of cleansing a heart while it Avas al'iA-e?" "Oh, yes," said Mrs. Buckley; "I know three doctors only just a little way from here avIio tried it, but they failed." "Of course they did. I neA-er fail." "No, you will never fail. I am sure of that.5' "Are you, really?" he asked, bright ening up. "Oh, yes, I am perfectly sure of that." Then, fearing that he would see the children,, or that they would attract his attention, she said: "How cold it is. Don't you feel a draught? I think I'd better shut the doors." "You must shut the -doors at once," he said, "for your heart must be kept warm." It Avas a great relief for her to sec the doors safely closed, eA'en though the outer door Avas closed at the same time. She Avalkcd back to the chair she had occupied, hoping only that her hus band would come home. As she sat doAvn the doctor saAV, in a corner, a skipping-rope belonging to one of the little girls. "Just the thing," he said, pointing to it. "I can tie you in the large arm chair, perform the experiment, return the heart safely to its place, give you a dose of my elixir, and you will live for ever. See!" He drew from various pockets half a dozen small knives and scalpels, each Avrappcd in tissue, paper. They AA'ere Blowly unrolled and handed to her, one at a time, to show her that each Avas in "admirable condition for delicate Avork." A knife Avas produced from an inner pocket and handed to her. Its edge was keen. "Now," he said, when she had looked jit them, "I'll take the rope" "Hold on," she interrupted. "That will hurt. You will have to tie mc very tight, because if I moved it Avould spoil the operation, Aouldn't it?" He nodded. "Those other doctors had a table Avhen they tried it, and there Avere broad straps to hold the woman down on it tight. I know where it is. Besides, there's a neighbor of mine avIio is af flicted about as I am. She lives just two doors down the street from the court. She's a particular friend of mine, and I'd like to ha-e her operated on at the same time. If you'll go for that table, aa-c can call anil get her on the way. What do you say?" To her intense relief, the man readily assented. "It's cold out, isn't it?" she said. "Hadn't I better get a shaAvl?" She said this to keep him from think ing she only wanted to get him out i.-f the house. He agreed, saying again that her heart miut be kept Avarm. ThroAving a shawl oA-er her shoulders she led the Avay through the hall to the court, hoping to get him down the street, two doors from the court, to a saloon that Avas open, so that help could b obtained. They walked slowly up t:ie court, toward the street, the doctor frequently directing her to Avrap her self closely in order to keep her heart warm. In passing one of the floor ways, Mrs. Buckley thought she de lected the outlines of a man, but the court Avas too dark for her to make sure, and so she d'd not dare to take the risk of screaming. Just as the tAVO got be yond the doorway the doctor asked her if herheart Aas still A-arm,- and then Mrs. Buckley Avas shoA-ed to one side, and three men grasped the doctor from behind. They "had sprung from the shadoAv of the doonvay. A fierce strug gle followed. Not a Avord Avas spoken, the only sounds being the heavy breath ing of the men and their prisoner, and the stamping of their feet on the stone paving of the court. After a time the doctor AA-as secured Avith handcuffs on his Avrists and ankles. He Avas not wholly conquered then, but had to be carried to the end of the court. There one of the men gave a whistle, and a close Avagon like an am bulance drove up. He was lifted in. and then the others got in with him and drove aAvay. "I hardly- knowAvhatl said or did during the light," said Mrs. Buckley to the reporter, "but I didn't faint. Aft er he was secured, one of the men said something about his being an es caped lunatic, and that I musn't say anything about it. As they passed into the street I think I recognized one of the men as a keeper at the Bloomingdale Asylum, but I am not positive about that." N. Y. Sun. The .late Peter Cooper is men tioned in a Florida paper as " the great novelist-" sale - , ' ' PERSONAL A5D LITEKAKY. Governor Sheldon, of New Mexico, lives in a house which is three hundred years old. It is a mansion of ono story. An American edition of "Under ground Russia." Avhich has created much excitement in England, will shortly be published. A very wealthy New York girl has adopted a Japanese baby of two years. She paid $3,000 for him, and has named him James A. Garfield. X. Y. Herald. Charles Welling, aNeAV York dry goods merchant avIio failed in 1865, pay ing fifty cents on the dollar, has just paid his creditors the balance, $200,000. A. P. Times. Prof. John Fraser, of Chicago Uni versity, has been engaged to Avritc the articles on "Utah" and "Universities" (American) for the Encyclopedia Brit annica. The voungest telegraph operator in the Avorltl is probably a little girl ten years old, Hallie Hutchinson by name, who lives in Texas, and has charge of the telegraph office at the railway sta tion at which she resides. Chicago Herald. Colonel Cockerel, late of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Avho killed Colonel Slayback. a l.-nvyer of that city, last year, and Avas acquitted qn the ground that he killed him in .elf-defense; is nov the managing editor of the New York H'orW. Horace E. Scudder has been select ed by Houghton, Mitllin & Co. as the editor of their proposed historical series on "American Commonwealths." These monograms -will deal Avith those States which haA-e had a distinct and powerful influence upon the develop ment of the nation. Both new and old States will be treated under this plan. Of the late Bishop Peck, of Syra cuse, N. Y., the Utica Herald says: "Iij the midst of other AAork he found time to Avritc books. 'True Woman,' 'The Central Idea of Christianity, and 'What Must I Do to Be Saved?' re those which are best knoAvn. He AA-as a A'ery industrious man, and very devoted to liis church. His whole life could have hardly been more entirely g"iA-cn up to it had he been a monk in the Middle Ages." Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitz mauricc, Marquis of LansdoAvne, who. according to a cablegram, will succeed the Marquis of Lome in the Govcmor Gencralship of Canada in October, is the fourth bearing his title in the peer age of Great Britain. He is in the sixty seventh year of his age. In addition to his English titles he "is Earl of Kerry, Viscount Clanmauricc and Fitzmaurice, Baron of Kerry, Lixmvw and Dunkeron, in the peerage of Ireland. Chicago Journal. HUMOROUS. Many patients at our best hospitals receive gruel treatment. Life. Why are deaf people like. India shaAvls? Because you can't make them here! "My Watch BcIoav" is the singular title of "the last novel. The Avritcr's time-piece had probably, by reason of a hole in his pocket, found its way to his boot via his pant's leg. Pittsburgh Tel egraph. An Irishman, seeing a Dude emerge from Delmonico's the other night, ex claimed: " Oi say, come down out 1 that Avill yez, from under th'hat. May be ye think oi can't see the legs of yez a danglin down." N. Y. Graphic. An "unmerged" Avonian at tho West, avIio applied for a position as driA'cr of a street-car, Avas asked if she could manage mules. " Of course 1 can," AA-as the ready reply. "I have had tAvo husbands." Chicago Tribune. A Avoman returning from market got into a street-car the other day with a basket full of dressed poultry. To her the driver, speaking sharply, said: "Fare!" "No," said the Avoman, ."fowl!" And eA-ervbody cackled. N. Y. Mail. The fashionable theater hat is now built tAvo feet tall, and it should be decorated on either side with a dozen or so good sized ostrich plumes. This style of hat is always sure to create a sensation in the seat behind you. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. "You Avritc a beautiful hand. I Avish that I had such a hand," said Mr. Flasher to a lady clerk at the hotel. "Am I to consider this as a proposal!" asked the bright lady. " Well cr yes if my Avife is Avilling to let me off," replied the accomplished Flasher. Norrislown Herald. Her father stood at the gate talking Avith a gentleman, and the seven-year-old miss thrcAV out scA'eral hints about supper being ready Avithout success. At length, anxious ami impatient, she called out from the side stoop: "Papa, if you don't come right in to supper, the ice-cream will get cold." Detroit Fret Press. Tracks of a human being have been found in Nevada showing the length ol the foot to be eighteen inches and the Avidth eight inches. If Chicago mothers don't keep their daughters at home, in stead of letting them wander around. Nevada, they avi'H get -the scientific AA-orld into aAA-orsemesS than the Cardiff Giant did. Oil Ci'.g Derrick. m m A Wood Deed. There is nothing so noble and touch ing as a really spontaneous act of gen erosity, after all. The other day a rough, careless-looking stranger Avas walking up Mission street, when he ob served a lot of hoodlums clustered round the gate of a small farm-house, in front of which a poor Avoman Avas AA-ceping bitterly, surrounded by her terrified children. A scanty- array of household goods on the pavement" showed that it Avas a case of ejectment. " What are you abusing- that Avoman for?" demande'd the " man from beloAV," addressing an ill-favored individual who was carrying out the furniture- "I ain't abusing her," groAvled the landlord; " she can't pay her rent, ami I'm going to bounce the Avhole outfit, that's all?' "I've a good mind to bounce you," said the stranger, indignantly; " what's the amount she owes yon?" "Twentv-two dollars." "Here, take it out of that," and the angry -man took out his wallet and handed ove" a one hundred-dollar green back. The evicter respectfully turned over a receipt and the change. Forcing an addional"V" on the happy woman, the stranger walked rapidly away. " 'Centric cuss, that," said the house-OA-ner, looking after the philanthropist, musingly. But the philanthropist said nothing until he turned the corner, when he mur mured softly to himself, as he put on a . .little 'more pedestrian steam: ' .&- " It's no use talking virtueis its own reAvard. I conldn't have gotten another- such chance to work off that fjoniteV feit to ft yew:." Sm Trmciictftoi1 ' m m ly ?"S-'sGSS '' . J S i NS5 jK2 A N9 " J r & '-SI." s . '&.; -A "& -' ..--. .-4KAJ - A : . . ,, ' i-vs?is. fSBSsP