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R" :- TRUE DE OCRAIT.
PUBILISHED WEEKLY AT
ST. FRANCISYILLE, LOUISIANA.
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Scribner's Magkzine refers to the
women as making up "the unquiet
sex."
M Iiss Crabtree, better known as
:,Lotta," regards the stage of to-day
as distinctly inferior to the stage of
twenty years ago.
SIt1 is a matter of some interest to
mote that London, with its vast com
mercial interests and "a population
estimated at 5,000,000, has only. a few
newspapers. The numLker is even
smaller than that of .New Yorik.
Lord salisbury has beeu elected a
fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society. He has learned a pointer-or
two on geography during the recent
Vene uela controversy, but it is not
stated whether or not this fact pre
vented him from receiving a "black
balL"
Beyond all question Japan is get
ting on. She has not been content
with taking a leaf from the book of
American and European progress.
She has taken the whole volume and
marked, read and inwardly digested
it. Never was there another Nation
that showed such growth in almost
every direction, in so short a time as
Japan has in the last dozen years.
For sixteen years the fate of the
clipper ship Mohawk, which sailed
from Quebec to Troon, was held a
secret by the sea. Now it has been
revealed by a derelict message found
in the Antipodes. The Australian
steamship Warimoo picked it up, It
was signed with the name of John
Franklin, mate, and written just be
fore the crew left the sinking ship in
open boats. None of theri ever
reached land.
A society for the study of mush
rooms has been organi:.ed in Phila
delphia. It will mheet every two weeks,
and members will read papers on such
topics as "Mushrooms That Have
Helped Me." The organizers say that"
there are about 235 edible kinds of
mushrooms to be found around Phila
delphia. and that tons of the delicious
food go to waste, simply because peo
ple have a horror of what is know'n as
toadstools, only four kin:ls of which
are really poisonous.
In Belgium the Anti-Alcoholic
League is directing all its energies to
bringing about the improvement of
the main roads of the country. This
is not because of the danger which the
alcoholist runs when meandering
homeward along.a road in bad state of
repair, but. bceause the League con
siders that the' ticycle is, if not a
remedy, at any rate a pot'bnt rival in
intemperance. Truly the pbtentionali
ties of the bicycle are widen;ing every
day, and no one need feel astonished
if the wheel should eventually turn
out to be the long-sought and hitherto
t"ndiscoverable remedy against sea.
sivkncss.
The convicts 'of- Mississippi are a
sourco of revenue to the State, the
profit derived from them last year
having been $,L0,000. The State has
bought 8000 acres of good farming
land and rented or leased much more,
and on this land its 900 convicts are
worked, humanely but diligently, so
as to secure the best results. The
Jackson Clarion-Ledger sees no reason
why other States cannot profit by
MIississippi's experience and carry on
farming operations for profit. It
says: "In case the farmers of the
Btate object to this sort of "comrupett
-jon,' then the best thing to do with
convicts is to maintain the public
highways with them. 'Goed roads
benefitall classes."
According to the New York 'Times
an ungallant editorial writer on a
Philadelphia paper, in commenting on
the fact that a woman teacher in
Arizdona public schools is praid $72.50
a month while Pennsylvania teachers
are paid only $38.2S8, says that this is
probably because there are fewer wo
men in Arizona and they are better
appreciated. This slurring remark
is balanced by the American Agricul
turist, which considers a "good, old
fashioned family of ten daughters"
worthy of a half-page pjcture. The
young women have all apparently
reached their majority, and it is not
probable .tfiat in the future any of
them.ill ,ive the Agriculturist reason
to bchange its opinion of their value in
the community. Commenting upon
the family, the Agriculturirt sas:
"'The. r.oblest crop of all upon *our
Americn fLarms is the childrCUen. And
3Ir. and Mrs. Ezra P:'criy h:ve cer,
'taialy a glIorious arvest of themi.n
'NEA ING HOME,
I'm nearing hoire,ifull short the hours are
growing.
How long, holy long was chihlhood's sum
mer day!
An ofeningvista of new sights and pleas
,.' ures,
And. rosy Hope: allu.red us on our way.
I'm fnesqring home, the shadows gently
falling,
Hide from our view earth's harsher sights
1 and sound;
And voices loved and lost are softly calling
Telling where home -and happiness are
found.
I'm nearing home, and as the weary tav'ler
Counts all the landmarks, passing on his
way,
So count I now thd signals that do meet
moe,
And mark the entrance to eternal dlay.
I'm nearing horiee, e'en as a child school
leaving
His tasks completed, seeks his mother's
t door;
earth's lessons leartlei, far from its pains
1 and grieving.'
I seek a home where I shall grieve no
Smore.
--Lydie L. A, Very, in Boston Transcript.
BEHIND THE COUNTER.
BY HELEN FOrr-EST OGAVES.
T must be a music
I box that plays at
least seven
tunes," said Mrs.
Wrangley, "and
oneof them must
be 'Annie Lan
rie;' and I can't
~. possibly . afford
to give more than seventy dollars."
"I'll speak to Mr. Malcom, the pro
prietor," said Miss Elson, the girl be
hind the counter, a little bewildered
by the loud voice and overwhelming
presence of the stout lady in the seal
skin coat and flashing diamond ear
drops, who stood opposite her.
"But I'm in a hurry," said Mrs.
Wrangles, imperiously. "Can't you
show me home music boxes? It seems
to me that you must all be very stupid
here."
"I'll speak to Mr. Malcolm,fma'am,"
said Ella Elson, who was as accus
tomed, mutely, to receive and endure
insolence as is the "Aunt Sally" of
lawn games to be buffeted and mal
treated.
And Mr. Malcolm came, all smiles,
to minister to the whims of the rich
customer, whose carriage flashed back
the sunshine at the door.
"Ma, ain't she pretty," whispered
Miss Amanda Wrangley, an overgrown
girl of fourteen, leaning her elbows on
the show ease. "I say, ma, won't you
buy me bomething new? Won't you,
ma? What's this? A canaryI I
didn't know they kept birds here."
"It is an automaton," smiled Mr.
Malcolm, who had just reached down
an ebony music box, inlaid with glis
toning mother-of-pearl ornament.
"Miss Elson, wind up that bird. Let
Miss Wrangley hear. Yes, ma'am," to
the elderly lady, "this instrument has
'Annie Laurie' in its repertoire, also."
Miss Ella Elson wound up the arti
ficial songster, set it where Miss
Amandina could feast her ears and
eyes on its beauty, and then turned to
show backgammon boards to a new
customer.
In a second-or, at least, so it
would seem--there was a crash I The
bird.cage was dverturned, the brill
iant plumed songster criushed, and the
sohld sheet of glass that:formed the
top of the show ease splintered into a
score of broken fragments.
Mr. Malcolm's hair bristled with
surprise and indignation, as he turned
to view the general ruin.
"MissE lson!" he exclaimel, wrath
fully, "how didl this happen?"
"I am sure, sir, I do not know,"
said poor Ella, who was an much
frightened as it the ceiling had fallen.
"'I was showing this gentleman a
backgammon board-"
"Do not attempt to cover your
faults by falsehood," sternly spoke
the proprietor. "It could only have
been your carelessness!''
While Miss Amandina Wrangicley,
the actual culprit, stood staring at
the overthrow, and lacked the moral
courage to confess her own guilt.
"Ma would be so cross if she had
to pay for the artficial bird," said
Miss Amandina to herself. "And
maybe she wouldn't bayme the music
box, and, anyhow, I dare :av, the
shop-girl won't mind a littio scolding."
"If you did not do it, Miss Elsou,"
said Mr. Malcolm, majestically, "who
did ?"
"I don't know, sir," Ellas answered,
with varying color, "but it was not
"Don't contradict me,' said the
proprietor.
"I must speak the truth," said Ella,
pleadingly. "You ask me, and-"
"That will do," said Mr. Malcolm,
waving his hand. "I am not accus
tomed to baudy words with my em
ployes. Go to Miss Mason. She will
settle with you to date. I shall not
require your services any longer."
Mliss Elson turned and obeyed, al
though a blur seemed toome before
her eyes and a deadly weight op
pressed the beating of her'heart.
"Very proper," daid IMrs. Wrang
ley, approvingly. "The young woman
needs discipline. She seems both
obstinate and stupid."
While Amandiua, clinging clouse to
her mother's side, still maintained a
resolute ikunce.
The late afternoon sunsbine wasjust
ftiding out of the hlittle room under
the roof of a ruinous old building
near the docks, where Mrs. Elson sat
at work, all surrounded with roses,
for she worked for a dealer in arti
ficial flowers, and was making jacqae
ininot roses for a large order from a
Dowery milliner.
Wih was a pale little woman, who
spent her life in a rolling-.chair--she
had long ago lost the use of her limbs
-and on the floor, beside her, sat a
child of cight years, playing with the
damaged bits of red silk discarded by
her mother's quick fingers.
SShe looked up with an exclamation
as the door opened.
"Mamina," she cried, "it's Ella!"
"Ella!" exclaimed Mrs. Elson.
"Home, at this time of day? 31y
dearest, what has happened?"
"1 am discharged, mamma!" said
Ella, endeavoring to speak firmly. "I
have lost my situation !"
And then, flinging herself on the
floor at her mother's side, she buried
her face in the poor cripple's lap, and
burst out crying.
While all this was transpiring, some
thing more singular still had taken
place at the store where the automa
ton bird had sung his last cantata, and
the music-box that played "Annie
Laurie" was being carefully packed
up. Mrs. Wrangley was just turning
to the door, when a stout gentleman,
who had bceu sitting on a red velvet
stool, near the entratice, rose up-a
ponderous individual, with fur lin
ings to his coat collar, and a red silk
pocket handkerchief tied around his
neck.
"Aha !" said the stout man, with a
nod.
"Why, it's Uncle Rob !" said Aman
dian.
"Oh, my brother !" said Mrs. Wrang
Icy. "Why Robert, when did you
come in?"
"i've been here some time," said
Mr. Robert Rudford; "I've been wait
ing for you to get through' and recogs
nize me. Upon my word, sister Ser
ena, you're a capital hand at driving
a bargain. 1 couldn't have bought
that music-box to better advantage
myself. Why, the shopman didn't
have the shadow of a chance."
Mrs. Wrangley bit her lip, but she
smiled. Uncle Rudford was a person
of too much importance not to be
allowed to have his own way, even in
the matter of making disagreeable
remarks.
S"But it wasn't quite the fair thing
of you, niece Amandina," went on this
terrible old gentleman, "to let that
poor shop-girl lose her place for your
clumsiness in tipping that automaton
bird over, and breaking the cover of
the showcase, was it, now? Answer
me, honestly !"
Amandiua Wrangley hung down her
head.
"What !" cried Mrs. Wrangley.
"I saw it all," said the old gentle
man; "I know Malcolm. I've lent him
money to carry on this very business,
and I shall speak to him. Don't look
so frightened, niece Amandiua.
You're not going to be arrested. Only
let it be a lesson to you through life,
that you can't do a mean action with
out its being found out. Is this your
carriage, Serena? Let me help you
in."
And the next half-hour tete-a-tete
with her mother was hot a particularly
pleasant one for Miss Amandina
Wrangley.
"Just as your uncle was beginning
to be a little fond of you, too !" said
the indignant matron; "and now he's
thoroughly disenchanted, Amanudina, I
couldn't believe this of you."
"But, ma," whispcred Amandina,
"you didn't tell tho storekeeper that
day when you knocked the cut-glass
cologne bottle off the counter, and
broke it. You said it was his business
to look after his own godds. You told
me-"
"Will you hold your tongue, miss?"
said Mrs. Wrangl!ey, with acerbity,
"It's strange how little judgment girls
have!"
After due refledtion shes went to
Malcolm's, the next day, to inquire
how much damage she was liable for
in the matter of her daughter's care
lessness, but was told' that Mr. lRud
forn had settled all that.
"Dear, dear." said Mrs. .Wrangley,
things are getting worse an:l worse.
Your uncle Robert is just enough of a
modern Don Quixote to go .chasing
around town to hunt up theperi shop
miss and restore her to her place. Men
are such fools where a pretty girl is
concerned."
"I don't think she's pretty a bit,"
said Amnndina, sullenly.
"Be quiet, Amandina!" said her
mother, sharply. "YTou've done quite
mischief enc;agh already.:'
Mrs. W:augley proved a true pro
phet. Uncle Bob, who had no par
ticular business of his own to mind,
had an especial penchant for the mind
ing of othezplople's affairs. He ob
tained Mrs. Elson's address from Mr.
Malcolm, and went straight to the old
house on the docks, where a dealer in
marine stores occupied the ground
floor, a family of Polish refugees
worked in ivory on the second, and
the top story sheltered Mrs. Elson and
her twb daughters.
"MyI gi 1 " 'le said to Ella, who sat
disconso by the window, trying
to mend Mary's frock, "it's all
right. " ,go back to Maleolm's
to-mor , ~,2 if nothing at all had
happeed. It e my niece, Aman
diua, isvo broke the bird and smashed
the showcase. - Good gracious me!"
lookinug around him---"y'ou don't say
that you live in this little hole under
the roof?"
And MIr. rudfordl stared around
himn, and drew a prodigiously long
breath.
"We are very glad, sir, to have so
good a home as this," said Mrs. Elson,
meekly. "Rents are high, aud-"
"Yes, yes," said Mr. Rudford, "I
know. Dear, dearme; howunequally
thingsare divided in this worldt
Now, I've got a nice little place in
Harleo, on tho line of the elevated
road-a cottage with a bit of garden,
and an apple tree. I'd be glad to get
some responsible party to occupy it,
just for,the winter, to see that it don't
go o wreck and ruin. I shan't ex
pect any re'nt--only a little reasonable
oversight. Come, what do vou say?'>
"W7e shall be so grateful," wras all
that n1rs. Elson could answer. But
her eyes were most eloquent.
Ella went back to the store next
day. Mr. Malcolm, who knew what
Mr. Robert ,Rudford's favor was worth,
made a meek apology to Miss Elson,
and hoped that she would overlook
any triling asperity with which he
might have spoken in the vexation of
the moment. And all was serene once
mlore.
"What!" Mrs. Wrangley cried.
"My brother has established those
upstarts, rent free, in his Harlem cot
tage! Now I can read it all, from be
ginning to end. He'll marry that
shop girl as sure as fate."
But he did not. Mrs. Wrangley was
mistaken for once.
'What do I want of a chit of a girl
young enough to be my daughter ?"
said Mr. lludford, And 'he married
the pretty, dove-eyed little cripple in
stead.
And if ever you saw a tender-hearted
child playing with a Dresden china
doll, you can form some idea of the
loving care wherewith he protected
his fragile little wife from life's cares
and ills.
"Sister Serena don't like it," said
he. "Very well. I don't marry to
1:lerse sister Serena, but to please my
sell."
Which was sound philosophy, after
all.-Saturday Night.
Bees and Flowers.
A writer in Meehan's Monthly, in
discussing the agency of insects in the
fertilization of flowers, says that there
are few florists who have not been. in
terested in the particular speculations
advanced by writers with a limited
knowledge of plants in regard to the
agency of insects 'in the fertilization
of flowers. - According to those specu
lations color and fragrance have been
made the attributes of flowers, solely
that insects may be aitracted, and
thereby insure cross-fertilization. The
insect is supposed to curry pollen
from the flowers of one plant to the
flowers of another, and it is further
supposed that the progeny of these
crosses have a greater power in what
is called "the struggle for life" than
plants which origin.ato from self-fer
tilization. Those, however, who look
closely into the nature of flowers find
very much that cannot he explained by
the speculations. For instance, the
willow is a plaut that bears male and
female flowers on separate plants.
Female flowers have no fragraneo, and
yet they are visited by bees, probably
just as freely as if the flowers were
ever so sweet. The male flowers on
the other hand, have a delightful fra
grance-bees visit them also with
freedom. As a general rule bees that
collect from the male flowers seem to
collect from these male plants only.
Usually individual bees seem to work
wholly on the female flowers; and as
bees visit the sweet flowers and the
scentless flowers indiscritainately,
what.connectton can the odor of the
male have to do with questions of
cross-fertilization? This seems equally
true of color. A large number of
sweetest flowers are extremely insig
nificant as regards color, while num
bers of the most showy- ilowers have
scarcely anything that wopld invite
nectar-loving insects. It may ho
granted that color n:d fragrance may
have some little influence in attract
ing insects, but these ciharacters cer
tainly can have no 'great place in
building up a speculation as to the
great changes in plants involved in
theories of cross fertilization.
Wild lBoar Againsl Tiger.
The wild boart never knows when it
is whipped. Jr India recently GeCol.
0. H.,Trevor saw a bamr fi'ght a iger,
and he tdls about it in the Badminuton
Magazibe.,, L'he fight wius pulled ofl
in a pi ten yardu ,n diameter, with a
sanded' flooa- and) sixteen-foot walls.
Several trap {lora served as entrancese
throug1 a to introduce the ani
mals. A train lof grain through one
of these doors :errvedto decoy a two
year-old boar into the arena. X tiger,
nearly full grown, that for a year had
lived an inofenusive existence in a
cage, was forCd down a pIlano from
another door, and the tkboeasts were
together.
The tiger t.muted to giet. away, his
head hung down like a whippeddog',
and his tail dropped. The fight was
apparently going to be a lEzzle, when'
the natives begau to throw things at
the tiger. Then tha beast began to
howl. Suddenly the boar dived at
him. The tiger leaped into' the air,
and the boar rushed underneath and
went halt a dozen feet beyond. It
puzzled the boar immediately to have
the tiger get away from him in that
way, but he turned and made for the
tiger again. Three times the tiger
leaped above the boar, but the fourth
time the boar thre, up his head, and
.the tiger got a rip with the tusks that
drew blood. Then the cat turned on.
the pig, grabbed him by the nap of
the neck, and shook him as a school
master shakes a small boy. This
done, the tiger dropped the boar aad
walked away. The tiger had:l merel$
intended to punish the little.best.
The boar got'his breath and recov
ered somewhat from hi~ dizziness,
anml, facing the tiger again, mr'ado for
him just as if the tiger wasn't several
times bigger. The tiger eluded the
charge easily. Then a trap door was
opened, and the tiger bolted through
it at full speed, leaving the boar wild
for a fight.
,Washing C'lmn:mils SkiMs.
In washing chamois skins have the
water just warm, and add a little am
monis to it before putting in the skin.
Press and shake, but do not wring the
shin-to remove the moisture, and hang
it where it will dry quickly. Freqient
ly stretch andl pall tbhe skin wahile it is
drying, and hang it from different
corners, so that it will dry evenly.
Treated .in this manner, the skim
should be as soft as wh"n new,
A PEST OF HORSES.
WASII,3GTON IRANCIIHERS HOPE
THEY WILL STARVE NOW.
M3ado Valueless (by the Bicycle and
Electricity, They Are Eating
Up the Grass Necaed for
hceep and Cattle.'
EARLY 100,000 head of horses
are likely to starve to death
in Eastern Washington this
winter,, and, strange to say,
their owners as a rule are glad of it.
Practically valueless are these horses.
Whole bands of them hae been sold
at the rate of fromo $1 to $3 apiece.
Electricity and the bicycle are the
cause. The utility of the one and the
popularity of the other have killed the
glorse market. Instead of being man's
best friend, the horse has become an
actual pest in Eastern Washington.
"An eating machine" is his latest nick
nnme, and his death by starvation e
desired that feed may be preserved for
great bands of cattle and shoee) yet
valuable to man.
And so the most severe winter the
Northwest has seen-at least since
1861-is a thing to be desired, rather
than otherwise, by the great grazing
interests of Eastern Washington and
Oregon. That such a winter is at hand
the Indians, the oldest inhabitants and
the weather prophets all agree.
Large bands of cattle and shoop
which are usually herded nearly ;all
winter are now under shelter consum
ing hay. The horse alone is left to
roam the trackless plains of the semi
arid belt and die. The winter of 18i1
caught Bon Snipes, then the cattle
king of that section, 'with 30,000 bead
of cattle on the range. They died of
starvation for there were no railroads
then to transport hay. It was a lesson
to cattlemen, and that is why careful
preparations have bey; made for this
wiutt'r.
legarding the proposed extermina
tion of the range horses, E. F. Ben
son of the Northern Pacific land ile
partment, who has made a special study
of the situation, says:
"Hot :winds, squirrels and grass
hoppers are bad, but the horse pest is
becoming still worse in Eastern Wasi.
ington, particularly the cayuse
variety. Horses have become so cheap
that many bands are running loose
without being branded or cared for in
the least. There being no demand,
they have multiplied rapidly, and are
now eating bunch grass that should
otherwise support thousands of cattle
and sheep, which bring in revenue.
These horses are not worth $1 apiece.
There is absolutely no market for
them. Up to three years ago we were
shippihng horses East in large numbers.
Eicotricity and bicycles have killed Ihe
market. This year Traffic Manager
Hannaford, of the N rtiiern Pacific,
has made vigorous efforts to find a
market for horses in the East. Horses
very cheap have been offered to glue
factories and rendering establish
mncts of various kinds. They do not
want them. A few car loads are being
shipped to the Atlantic coast for ship
ment to France, where horse meat is
in demand, but these shipments make
Ino inpression on the supply. Thec
horses are destroying the ranges twelve
months in the year. There are over
100,000 head in.Eastern Washington,
and they are destroying ranges that
would support 500,000 head of cattle.
The situnhtiou is appalling, from the I
cattleman's standpoint.
"There are but few stockmen that
handle both horses andd'cattle who will
not vwelcome a winter that will destroy
the range horses, jiroviding practically
all of them are taken. I will cite an
instance of wlhat the horses are doing:
In 1,S0 the Cow Creek and Low-er
Palonse ranges, between Sprnague and
the Snake River, had over 100,000
head of cattle and some sheep on
them. Tihn the bunch grass was knee
high over the ranges. This year 30,
000 head of horses htve kept the grass
down so these ranges will barely sup
port 10,000 cattle and .10,00;) heoep.
Since July t:cy ha.v:: presented the
auppea'rancl ,. absolute ,desolation.
The horscs eat twenty-four hours a
(lay and have kept ithe grass conm
pletely down.
"No taxes a:re l,,id on these horses.
The lhar winter we e:.pect will sta:rve
them to death. Owners will takle out
their good horses and care for them.
If ninety per ,cnt. ot the total num- i
ber are hilled oil', the ten per cent.
left will be' worth as iuch as, if not
more than, the entire lot now. Once
killed off, they will never become as
numerous again, for no efforts will be
made to breed range horses, there :be
ing no money in the business. The
number needed for farming, and the
city demand can easily be supplied."
On one or two small ranges, where
horsesahave not been feeding during
the summer, for lack of water, the
bunch gras-s is high, sticking out of
the snow. These ranges will support
most of the horse expected to survive.
The horses can paw through three feet
of snow to reach the bunch grass, un
til the heavy crust is formed. After
that the most vigorous pawing gives
but poor results. So numerous have
the horses become that the picking
has been poor for two years past. Tte
range animals are in very poor condi.
tiori and mnuy have already starved.
Several other things intlidate a hard
winter. Not sindo 1881 have the Arc
tie owls been so numerous on Puget,
Sound. Within a week a doze.n of
these great white creatures have bocn
shot between Tacoma and Spokane.
The Indians and othersasaytheir conm
ing mea:ns a severe winter and heavy
storms. A severe and early Arctic
winter drives them South.
"For five or six years the sqnirr61
post has caused great trouble. SpIo
kane County alone this year paid a
cent a scalp bounty on 366,000 squir
rels., They are the barne of wheat.
growers, especially along the edge,
where the wheat belt merges into the
seni-arid region. This is bWecaus the
squirrels multipip );
grazing district :: ..
where there is
drown them out.- A 4
heavy snow, will r
the spring, practicall
the squirrels. 'hat,
the winter of I881,d
caused no more roubl
1887,"--Nw York Sn.
Forecasting, the "''
TWhile atmospherico tb
not be predicted for r
time, it is nob'imposa
the principal changes ba
four hours next'sueedee
the observation. Th
based upon the conditi o
from the stations alloa,
The state of the weat i
tions is reported to the a
where the weather maps
The wind is desiguate,
which have barbs of
strength, depending on
or velocity of the wind. 0
cter and thermometer ar
figures, and the spot i
tries are made iidicatt
which has furnished them'
The followinh account, A
eminenit meteorologist,
eiting to the scientifia
"'When all the reports bap
lines are drawn joining il
the barometric pressuifire
(isobars) and through the
the temperature is thei"
therms.) 'A distinct relsti
diately evident betweben°
of the wind. lRoughly, I
pa'lleled with the isodba4s
more barbed-that is, Yt`
stronger the closer the'is e
gether, Generally these d
curved and enclose an ar
low or of high barometi r
In the former casethere ~t
a cyclone, in the latter anal
If the central barometribpt
very low and the isobars e
cr, a violent storm is- in.
the central pressure be hi
isobars wide apart, thereil
in winter generally a fogi
culty for the forecaster, e
a small area, is to tell -h
this cyclonie or anti-eyel&
will move. There are, mo
shaped depressions, secon
other varieties of distribiitig
sure to be detected and i
cqunt, so that, on the whol
caster probably requires' 
mucli as he needs knowle
value of the weather servi
be overestimated. It is s
to the business mqn, the
seeker and those who go o0
sea in ships. Many livesa: ~
amount of property have;
because of the predicto
Weather Bureau, crude, ii
and uscientiiile as they.atiei
Poisoningu From lone
The old sayving that evei
its bitter might be adcentu
statement that honey soniet
tains the most active and:i
poison. A ca'se in point ia
a moedical review as follow
and his wife ate honey.
but a little, as they observ&
ing seusation of the mouth
as soon as the honey wasi~
Within a few minutes botihi
ill. There wreo, unausea, ie
and vomiting; then' a 4
sciousncs.,col, unss of theei
feeble anction ofthe heart d
No pulse could be deteet
wife remained insensible f
i hours, iut the hus'band:ws.
Itirely restored 'until thef
day. Evc ilthen strength
very slowly, and ti ere wa
cation of extruemeexhaustio
tion of the honey was treaei
Sa!ly, and ,n extract was~
cats; to one a sInall dos"
other at large dose was
the small one prodadedit
',:tion, relaation of tt(
lusncles and g.ueral depre
large one took effect at~ i
diately, producing relaxati
ingu, purging. prostrationfa
coroplete los: of control o0
nntary muscles., The catd
galn its normal condition for
four houars. A fairly thoroU
I lnatian. of the honey wats inId
der. it plossiblel, to dtiscoverth
of the poisonous clement. .
tivre con:lusiou was arrived a:
cheminsls 'ara reasonablYi
that the rhododenhron an
other phlats of that elss~~
the objectionable substanS
also stated tha:t plants bela
the health family have beei '
ists looked upon with app
for the reasoni that they R
suspected of harboring thet
ities which accounted for
honey poisoning.-New Yok:.
President Kruger.as as
Kruger had no equal as a~
He was also tfamous for his ,
the rifle. Indeed, he owouldh
lenged the best of iBuffalo sB
fit and given a good sacounft
self. Au old friend of Eru
me, of his own knowledge, tha
wa: once on horseback ad i4
an infuriated burffalo., is I
a good one, but onil this occ
hecomo rather fatigued, and 
falo commenced to gain. Tb
chaset promised!o end disss;t
the horse .rnd its rider, for the
kept gaining, and would soPo
horns in action. Then Kr5
formed a feat which his oldi
called to mo with great pr
turned in his saddle, raised il
took deliberate aim while
horso was in full galop,fired,
utfalo fell, shot straight thro
orehead..--Harper's Mfagjfzn
Careful estimates by tno b
of Agricu!ture placethe e1stf o
for treq distribution dlringtBh
fiscal ycn:r it over $2,003,+0