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TIE -:- TRUE -:- DEM e.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
SrT. FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA.
Kansas is one of the few States in
the Union that do not seem to be in.
creasing in population.
Mexico claims a population of 10,
000,000, 9,500,000 of whom sleep on
the ground and 500,000 live in com
fort and luxury.
More eyes must be damaged or lost
than people suppose, for two million
glass eyes are manufactured yearly in
Germany and Switzerland.
Spain is not yet willing to admit
that such a thing as war exists in
Cuba, but she is spending $12,000,000
a month for what Castelar refers to as
a "combat."
The Washington Times is now agi
tating for a change of the name of the
Congressional Library to the National
Librar~y. That library is so good, it
argues, that it should be Nationalized,
so that people generally may feel that
they have a personal ownership in it
and to arouse National pride in its
behalf.
' The improvement in the business of
the South is shown in the volume of her
exports,whieh for the first ton months
of the year 189G0 indicate an increase
over 1895 of $63,000,000. The South
is really better off commercially and
industrially than ever before, and is
improving steadily from year to year,
declares the New York Tribune.
A plague which is like the pest of
'boils in Pharaoh's time has turned
Bombay, India, into a charnel house.
Over one-quarter of its population has
fled, and it is now admittc.l ollicially
to:have appeared at Karache, away up
in the northern Scinde County. This
brings the epidemic within mescurable
distance of the Persian Gulf, an.d,ouce
there, Europe will be in direct danger
of the contagion-that is to say, that
part of Europe which doesn't wash it
self,
Two Italians are under arrest in CAi
eago charged with blinding their chil
dren in order to mako them more sue
cessful as beggars. They applied
mucilage to the children's eyes until
the boy was wholly blind and tboe two
girls almost so. Then the man would
start out with a barrel organ and the
woman with an accordion, and the un
fortunate children would solicit of
passers by. They are said to have
brought in a handsome revenue to
their parents.
It is rare that one finds an employer
as generous in his lifo bequests and
his testamentary desires as the late
Henry L. Pierce, of Massachusetts,
observes the New Orleans Picayune.
Not only was he noted for remarkable
aid and encouragement given dluring
his long career to hundreds of em
ployes, but by his will he left $750,000
to be devided to the oifficers and em
ployes of the corporation of which he
was the head. Out of an estate of
35,000,000 this is a very large sum to
be so given. The poet Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, who was boefriended ancny
mously for many years by Mr. Pierce,
receives $200,000, his wife a similar
sum, and their two sons $100,000
each,
A brief dispatch from Detroit told
about the selling of a lawyer's hat at
auction to satisfy a judgment, but the
case is curious enough to mnlake a few
of its details worth giving. The
heroine of the story is a servant named
Clara Brush, who had been employed
in the house of Alexander Hurst, an
attorney of some prominence. In
last June the girl was diachargedl, for
some reason not statedl, anld ho sued
Ir. Hurst for a small balance, which
she claimed and he denied wvas due
her. Judgment of $3, including
costs, was awarded in her favor. The
constable to whom the execution of
the judgment was intrusted found no
property to levy on until October,
when he seized a horse and carriage
belonging to the l.wyer. Hurst
thereupon paid $2, and on his promise
to pay the balance next day, the rig
was given back to him. The promise
was not kept, and nothing more was
done until some months later, when
the constable, happening to enter a
courtroom where Hurst war arguing a
oase, noticed the lawyer's hat lying
on a table. The officer quietly
stepped up, seized the hat, and car
tied it away. It was duly advertised,
and was sold at auction from the
Court House steps, in the presence of
,A'?ut a hundred amused spectators.
,ano highest bid was sixty-five cents.
'This the constable accepted, and by
payinu the remaining thirty-lve cents
irom hi- own pocket settled Miss
) rush's cla~i in Iull.
A·!. ·
We sno,,.
things,
If we had but a day;
We should drink alone at the purest springs
In our upward way;
We should love with a lifetime's love in an
hour,
If the hours were few;
We should rest, not for dreams, but for
fresher power
To be and to do.
e should guide our wayward or wearied
wills
By the clearest light;
e should keep our eyes on the heavenly
hills
If they lay in sight;
We should trample the pride and the dis
content
Beneath our feet;
We should take whatever a good God sent
With a trust complete.
We should waste no moments in weak regret,
If the day were but one;
It what we remember and what we forget
Went out with the sun;
We should be from our clamorous selves set
free
To work or to pray,
And to be what the Father would have us be,
If we had but a day.
-Mary Lowe Dickinson.
LOVE IN A MINOR KEY,
HE inhabitants of Har
plestowe had ceased to
, I- discuss Hannah Fletch
' er's questionable posi
* tion toward her lodger,
and any interest at
tached to her uncon
ventional attitude had
quietly fizzled out along with her
meagre claims to beauty. When the
world had gone well with Hannah,
and she had possessed the irritable
devotion of an invalid mother and the
undivided love of a selfish father, she
had worn modestly the good looks
which belong to a middle class young
woman who enjoys excellent health
and a wholesome temperament. Now
the light in her abundant hair and her
bright color had died for want of vital
sustenance, and her rather prominent
features had bleakened with the un
resting struggle for existence. A
stranger would not trouble to question
if her unsympathetic manner was the
result or the causu of an unsatisfied
existence.
Hannah Fletcher had spent the best
years of her youth subduing the pas
sions and emotions which make
beautiful woman irresistible, but she
had not studied her own ugliness and
mastered it as some women do. A
plain woman's battle in life is defying
her own ugliness. Hannah had fallen
into the way of walking like a plain
woman, and the world accepted her as
such, for the assurance of a beautiful
woman enters into her walk as it does
into her dressing.
Hannah's lodger was, it is true, an
"elderly party," so the maid-of-all
work described him, "always messing
about with them chemisty fizzicks;
'e's wonderful clever, but it don't
bring in no money, and if is wasn't
that Miss Hannah was a bit sweet on
him she'd 'ave cleared 'ir out along
with his rubbishing smells long ago."
Hannah was a "bit sweet" on the
"elderly party." When lier mother
and father had died her lodger had
not given a thought to tte fact that it
would be advisable for him to leave
his comfortable quarters. Hannah had
grown necessary to him in his work,
and he had learnt to depend on her,
as a man of powerful intellect grows
to depend on a practical woman with
an intelligent brain who is his daily
and hourly companion. Habit is
stronger in men than in women. Five
or six years had passed since her p:ar
ents' death, bringing little or no
change into Hannah's life. She slaved,
and toiled, and pinched for the "el
derly party," who was too self-cen
tered to guess at the true extent of
her poverty. He was casual about his
payments; and she would never re
mind him. To brighten up her rooms
and bring a little pleasure into her
day he would now and then go out
and bring her home an extravagantly
beautiful bunch of flowers, or a pair
of palms, and present them to her
with a touching enthusiasm for his
own generosity and thoughtfulness.
Her practical mind would fly with a
woman's quickness of thought to the
lour months' rent which was still
unpaid; but only a feeling of tenooder
ness for his eccentri.,ities would come
over her, and she huggedrl to her heart
the thought that she could help him
in the work by waiting for the over
due rent.
He was poor, and his income would
have barely covered the modest ne
cessities of his simple ihfo if he had
devoted it to them, but "he spends all
his money on them messes and invent
ing things as aren't no use to no one,"
as Arabella remarked when he over
looked her tip one Christmas Day;
"I ain't got no use for the like of his
sort." Clothes he never bought, and
Hannah, with a beautiful regard for
the feelings of the man she loved,
stitched and mended and patched, and
bit by bit replaced his worn and
shabby wardrobe. She was careful
never to put into his room any new
garment she had made until the ruth
less laundress had robbed it of its
newness. Then she would aubstitute
it for one which was beyond even her
clever needlecraft to mend, and the
"elderly party" would put on the
new shirt or wear the new socks with
out the slightest suspicion that the
familiar patches and darns were miss
ing. He acted as intellectual food
and nourishment to her starved brain,
and she became the pratical part of
his unevenly balanced character,
which nature had left wanting. She
often argued with herself that their
existence together in that house was
a proof that purely platonio friendship
can exist between a man and a woman
if they are intelleotual people. It
knew it,
vhich he
nevar lor a moment suspected) was
eating her strength away dly by day,
and undermining her constitution.
She had his undivided attention, and
he was fond o; her, but the fact that
she was a woman, and not much over
thirty, had never really forced itself
on his mind, and certainly not on his
feelings. A man, if he could have
made himself as useful and as com
panionable, could have taken her
place.
One day the peace of Hannah's life
was broken by the coming of a cousin,
an orphan like hercelf, who had
written and asked Hannah to give her
a home while she looked for work.
Hannah wrote and welcomed her with
bitter misgiving at heart. She had to
toil night and day to make money to
pay for food enough for herself and
her lodger.
Madeline came, and, like a hot wind
passing over a sensitive plant, she
withered up Hannah's courage. She
was young, and the beauty of her ani
mal health was startling. She stood
in Hannah's humble parlor id the
noonday sunlight, straight as a young
palm tree and beautiful in symmetry,
a pulsing, tingling piece of flesh and
blood, colored like a pale pink peony.
Hannah felt herself grow colder as she
looked at her. Madelino's eyes were
so blue that if you came into the gar
den and she was there it was her two
germanders fringed with black that
caught your notice, and her childishly
perfect teeth closed tight when she
laughed, and her passionate lips quiv
ered into smiles. Blue eyes such as
Madeline's, and white young teeth
alone can make a face provoking to
the dullest sensibilities; when she in
troduced herself tblushing for her own
prettiness) to the elderly party he
cursed the white teeth in his heart and
blamed the beauty of her eyes for he
knew not what. And poor Hannah,
whose eyes had had color in them
once, with a growing numbness at her
heart for her own plainness in con
trast, followed tie pink flower that
moved so glibly about the house, giv
ing her the best that lay in her power,
marvelling at her cousin's beauty,
which was after all principally the
result of perfect health and and a self
ish disposition.
Weeks passed into months, and
Madeline had planted herself firmly in
the house; Hannah could not turn her
out, and she never suggested going,
and never made any serious attempt to
get work. Her orphan and penniless
condition served her as a useful means
of appealing to the sympathy of the
"elderly party." As time went on,
Hannah saw less and less of her lodger,
her cousin appropriated as her charge
his study and laboratory, and it was
bitterness and gall to Hannah to' see
her administer to him all the little at
tentions which she had been wont to
perform, and the last straw was that
Madeline talked as if she gave enough
help to fully repay Hannah for her
room and keep.
Hannah, with her heart smarting at
the bitter injustice of things, could
not tell her that she was day by day
robbing her of all that made life bear
able. Madeline had taken to using
the "elderly party's" study as her sit
ting room; it was more attractive
than the prim parlor downstairs; and
when Hannah was hard at work dur
ing the hot August days-days that
made her look paler and plainer than
ever, her cousin would sit reading a
novel in her favorite basket chair,
with her feet up on the rungs of an
other-a pretty picture of ease and
comfort. She never forgot to look up
at Intervals, with a cat-ike something
in her blue eyes and in her soft, pur
ring vpice, and say to her companion,
"Don't you wish that Hannah would
stop fussing and come and sit down?"
And as, when a woman is partica
larly busy, a man generally does think
she is "fussing" and choosing to do
something totally unnecessary, the
"elderly party" came to look upon it
as quite natural that Madeline should
be his hourly companion, and that
she ahould sit in an easy chair while
HaE'aah, hot and weary in mind and
bode, should toil and strive for them
bot,.
Alter Madeline had been with them
thr:e months Hannah's lodger came
inte a fortune. It was not alarge
onc. but it would enable him tb live
in easo and comfort for the rest of his
life: When Hannah heard the good
news, what she dreaded most did not
happen. He did not suggest moving
into more luxurious lodgings; he
seemed to consider himself a fixture in
the old wainscoted room with its cot
tage window and old oak floor; but he
bought more pretty plants and fresh
hot house flowers, which Madeline now
accepted with a blush and prettiness
that sent his blood coursing through
his veins.
She knew that she had appealed at
first sight to the human passion lat.ent
in the scholar, as Hannah had never
done. Intellectually she was nothing
to him,but for that she did not grieve.
As an intellectual companion only, a
woman has no actual power over a
man's heart; but as a beautilful woman
she can use him as it best suite her
purpose. Hannah's lodger paid his
money in advance now, and she'felt as
a mother feels when her son grows in
to manhood and passes out of her care.
There was no need now to substitute
new skirts for old ones, and the
"elderly party" was conferring a favor
on her by remaining in his humble
lodgings. Her seJlf-sacrifices for her
beloved teacher were useless now.
She comforted herself with the thought
that he never treated Madeline as an
intellectual companion, but she knew
that he was more a man and less of a
scholar when Madeline's blue eyes and
bright head were lighting up the cor
ner of his dark study.
One morning when Hannah wqa
ironiag, with the table piled high in
well bleached linen, the "elderly par
ty" came into the kitchen with Made
jine. He walked straight up to where
Hannah stood, with her hot face bent
over the steaming shirt, and drew
3aleline forward.
"Hannah, your cousin has promised
to marry me. She is young and beau
tiful, and I am only a plain scholar,
but I will do my best to make her a
good husband."
As if it had been thrust through her
body with the point of a bayonet each
word went to Hannah's heart. It
ceased beating. Madeline, of course,
knew why her cousin had so suddenly
fainted, and the poor little bit of
triumph made her heart beat quicker,
but 'when she looked up at her lover
his face was pale with fear. She saw
a look of agony in his eyes as he turned
them to her for help, which told her
that she did not possess the heart of
the scholar so completely as she
thought, and the vixen in her was
roused.
"Oh, you need not be so alarmed;
she has fainted through sheer jeal
ousy."
For one moment he stood transfixed;
all that he had been blind to for years
was made plain to hint now, and in
that moment he recognized the heart
lessness of the woman he had proposed
to only ten minutes Ugo.
"Are you a woman to tell a woman's
secret and,make lihght of it?"
Madeline was frightened at the look
of scorn and contempt in his eyes,
which had always looked at her so
gently. She stood at bay, and watched
his trembling hands eprinkle Hannah's
face with the cold water she had used
for sprinkling the linen. It was kept
in a small white bowl on the ironing
table.
"I've not said anything (that the
whole village does not know, Arabella
included, that Hlannah Fletcher has
been waiting to marry her lodger for
the last ten years."
"Then I'll marry her now. I love
her, I tell you." He chafed the pale
cheeks, and rubbed the thin hands.
"I've always loved her. Oh, what a
selfish fool I have been."
"You loved me but ten minutes ago.
For a simple scholar you are wonder
fully quick at lore."
"Ten minutes vg'o I did not know
that it was Hannah .I loved as a ,man
ought to love the woman he marries.
Your beauty deceived me into believ
ing that I loved you. I had not given
athought to love until you came. I
ask your forgiveness."
Tears, which were always ready,
came into her blue eyes at the harsh
words he had spoke"i, but she knew
that they were true. She had no love
for the grave and elderly scholar; he
was to be her refuge from work, and
she loved ceae. She stood for a mo
ment or two and watched returning
consciousness quiver over Hannah's
pale face, and then she turned to go.
"After all, Hannah is growing old,
and she has been good to me; [ will
not rob her of her elderly lover."
A lover was waiting for Madeline
half a mile out of tho village. It was
a provision dealer, and Madeline
would have preferred being the ivife of
a scholar.-The Queen.
Origin of the Marine BIlui.
A naval officer, who has the history
of the service at his tongue's end, says
that the Marine Baud owes its exist
ence to the eccentricities of one Cap
tain McNeil, who was a gallant if pe
uonliar officer of the United States
Navy at the beginning of this century.
The story goes that Captain McNeil,
when in command of the Boston, off
the coast of Sicily, engaged a band
belonging to a regiment quartered at
M\essina to play on his ship, and that
when it was safely aboard ha sailed
away with it to America, and so the
Marine Band was acquired.
What became of this b'and is not
written, but later, ju, t before the
War of 1812, another naval officer of
reckless and venturesome spirit, when
cruising along the coast of Italy, sent
a boat's crew ashore with instructions
to impress a band of strolling musicians
as American seamen. This was done,
and the poor stolen Italians were
brought to this country. President
Madison failed to aplpreciato the
humor of this escapade and ordered
the musicians returned to their own
country. They were, accordingly,
placed on a manuf-war bound for the
Mediterranean, but on the way out
this vessel met and captured a British
warship, and, having to return with
the prize, brought the men back to
New York with. her. T'his victory,
perhaps, inspired the Itulians with an
admiration bor the scervicea,'for it seems
they abalndoned t!:he idea of returning
home, enlisted shorltly afterward, and
subsequently weore formed into the
M\Iarine Band. There is no doubt some
truth in this story, although it Is not
much more than a tradition, for the
early records of the band show on its
rolls the names of thirteen ltalian
musicians. Its personnel toeday is al
most evenly divided between Germans
and Italians, but its loaders have been,
with one exception, Italians or of
Italian descent.-New York Tribune.
Iligh Prices bor Relies,
The book sale at Sotheby'F, Lon
don, when thirteen signed letters from
George Washington to Arthur Young,
the agriculturist, dated from 1786 to
1793, on farming in America, were
auctioned for $2350, attracted atten
tion on account of the high prices
reached.
Three leaves from Franklin's letter
book, containing copies of eleven
letters, addressed to Dr. Rush and
others, in Philadelphia and New York,
on the canals of America and the slave
trade, brought $10. There was great
competition for the first edition of
Izaak Walton's "Complete Angler,"
the size being 56x3j inches, in the I
original sheep binding. It fetched
$2075.-New York Press.
The tiger's strength excoeds thaot o
the lion. Five men can easily hold
down a lion, but nine are required to
subdue a tiger. i
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"FIREPROOF MAN."'
A PENNSYLVANIAN WHlO CAN
ENDURE INTENSE HEAT.
Mairing Repairs in a Furnace So
Hot That His Shoes Were Near.
ly Burned From Ills. Feet-
Extraordinary Endurance.
I1 ERUIAPS there is no man in
Phoenixville, Penn., better
known than Jacob H. Boyer,
who is a chief bricklayer for a
big local iron company. He is better
known far and near as the "human
salamander," or fireproof man, titles
he has won by his wonderful ability
to stand great heat. The Philadelphia
Press says of him:
Jacob H. Boyer is now a man of
some fifty-fiva years of age, and a
grandfather. He comes from Penn
sylvania German stock. He was bofn
and reared in West Pikeland Town
ship, about three miles from Phoenix
ville. He was educated in the little
eight-cornered school house near his
home. It is said that he often amused
and startled his playfellows by his re
nmarkable ability to stand the heat.
The boys would build brush fires to
see who could stand nearest the blaze,
and Boyer always won the prize, for
he had his hair singed off and his
clothes nearly burned from his back
more than once. He once sat on a
brush heap while it burned from un
der him, and came off with no injury
save the loss of his clothes and shoes.
For that feat he was flogged by his
teacher, and when he reached home
with the charred remains of clothing
hanging to him in shreds his father
gave him another flogging for his
foolhardy act; the Boyers had no
money to throw away in clothing.
When Jacob was a youth of some
seventeen years he went to learn the
trade of bricklayer. In time he be
came a journeyman, and many a front
he helped to lay. In time he found
employment with an iron company,
which work was more to his keeping,
for he could satisfy his abnormal doe
sire by worling about the hot fur
naces: Ho had upt long been in the
employ of the iron company before he
gave his employers and fellow em
ployes some startling exhibitions of
his ability to stand the heat. Some
times the furnaces would get out of
repair, and itwould become necessary
lo repair them while they were still
hot that time might not be lost.
One day a furn-.ce partly fell intend
it became necessary for some quick
repairs to be made. The boss brick
layer did not see how it could be done,
as the furnace was smoking hot, and
be thought that no man would :!:are
venzi're into it. Boyer was standing
by, and at once volunteered to make
the needed repairs.
"Why; Jacob," said the old mani,
"you will be roasted alive if you ven
t!re into that furnace as hot as it is
now,"
"Never mind," said Boyer, "I will
fis it."
And he did. He went into that
furnace and replaced the bricks that
had fallen in, and came out iat little
the worse for his daring job. His
hair and beard were singed and
curled by the heat, his clothes were
scorched, and the soles of his shoes
t~wisted and charred.
That daring feat won for Boyer the
title of the "fireproof man." In time
the head of the bricklayers of the iron
works died, when Boyer was immedi
ately appointed tb lill the vacandy.
He was now his own "boss," and had
no one to chide him for his daring
feats. Since he has been in charge of
the bricklayers of the works he has
never asked any one of his 3mployees
to risk his life, alwayslhimself assum
ing any risk to be taken. MIany a time
he has entered furnaseq when his men
nevcer expected to see him return
alive, for the work of a bricklayer
about iron and steel works is anything
but easy. Everything may be going
on all right, when all of a sudden a
brick or two may fall i9 while the fur
nace is in heat. and unless they are
replhaced the whole heat -may be lost
or become a conglomerate of bricks
and molten steel known to iron and
steel workers as a "salamander."
When a brick falls in there is danger
of others following. In order to save
the furnace and the metal theretn the
brick must be replaced. This is an in
tensely hot job, for the furnale is
hoeated to a whitm heat, and the molt,
en steel seethes and boils like so much
water.
In such emergenucies Boyer is in de
mandi. lHe learns the spot fromn which
the brick has fallen, and it is his
work to roplace it with another. He
cannot enter the furnace, for the fur
nuace of Moloch was never heated hot
ter. But he replaces the brick, He
wraps his face carefully with a wool
len scarf, gloves his hands, and with
his great tongs stan~ls at the door of
the furnace and works away until the
brick or bricks have been replaced.
Often the tongs bend in his hands, and
his mask is burned from his face. He
works over seething, boiling steel that
snarls and spits worse than the crater
of a volcano full of burning lava.
Some idea of the intense heat may be
had when it is said that one of these
great Phcenixville furnace contains
forty or forty-five tons of molten steel,
heated to a temperature of 2000 de
grees Fahrenheit. There are several
of these mammoth furnaces, and any
one may need some repair at any time.
Some time ago it became necessary
for Mr. Boyer to repair a furnace in
which some bricks had fallen in and
others threatened to fall. The fur
nace was still very hot, probably 2200
degrees Fahrenheit. Into this fur
nace, heated above boiling, Boyer
went in order to make the repairs
necessary. He clothed himself in
woolen garments, glovedhis hands and
crawled in throuigh the door, andatood
on the iron grates. His shoes were
ocn on fire, when he called for some
one to push a board in f`,=
stand on while he worked.
too, was soon in flames, an(~
curled and crackled about' t]he
mat's feet. The sweat but t
every pore of Boyer's body and d .
onto the hot grates and fl
sleeves, but he kept on at wor
his repairs were completed,
took some twelve or fifteen in
His tools became so Lot thtt
burned his hands; his shoes were
most burned from his feet; his
were scorched and his hair and
curled by the hnat. When. he
out he was as as weak as a child fro t:
terrible heat, but the workwa det
and the furnace saved. This is
one among the many like experi
of Boyer's at the iron works, and
knows not the day nor the hour
he may be called on, for he may
hurried out of bed to repair a for
that has gone wrong. He is a val
man to the company, and eomtma
good big salary, since he eaves
losses sometimes by his rema 
ability.
This man who can stand on hlitral
grates and dehies the heat of the.'6
naces and works with the flames y
ing about his feet wiltsbeforethel
extreme of solar heat. When t
weather gets hot he will fleei0'
ninety degrees of solar heat and
down to the mill and sit down in :
degrees of heat from the furnaeej
to cool ofi: Last summer during:
hot weather he remained most of -t
time about the mill rather than exp
himself to the heat of the suannj-.
body has undergone a complete chtu a
and he is at variance with his enii
ment. The cold weather has a i
distressing oefect on his system,
very often he will be seen going a -
when others are - in light clothes iri
his overcoat buttoned up to his..;i"
flia habit is such that it is hariy
him to find a congenial temperatl
outside the mill.
Mr. Boyer has no little trouble
adjust himself to the temperatrii
his house, for his family are notoi
to the extremes of heat he has so of
endured. Notwithstanding'tho 'hi
wrought in his system, Mr. Boyerii
strong, hearty ruan, seldom is
and has not a gray hair in his gz
shock of auburn hair. He beloni
a long-!lived family, and days he
pects to live to a good old ago l
be gets cremated sorms day.
A iDo Sanitarim m,
Washington is always readtl
adopt the latest fad, no matter
it is. For the laut few years the'k
for pet dogs has become so,gu
that as a sequence the estal lish
of a sanit::rium for these pe i'
most natural. This winter th4r
.been opened in Washington `ie
boarding house and hoaspital :for
dogs, and already, although 'tboli
sou is ju.it beginning, it hasp i
quite successiful. T'h experisment
an idea of a professor of canine i
cine in the veterinary departoe
the Golumbien University, wl
long since had a large praotia
dog doctor. The place he haso
there is especially adapted as a
tarium, and is arranged in:wa
where the patients and boardet
kept. One of these is fitted 'apl
operating room and is modeledi:
the most improvei rooms in r
hospitals. Attached to the infr
is a large bath room, where the
can be slhamrupooed and taje shoh
baths, and the doctor is now pOr .
ing plaus for the construotion o?
Turkish b.th for dhe use of his
ers who require this luxury. '
kind of disease or ailment is tr
and dogs whose owners have go -
of town for a season are boed
the sanitarium until their retaiTf.
The other day the doctor was '
upon to perform a strange oper
A well-known society lady vijit
hospital with her pet King Oh
spaniel, who was suffering wfi
toothache. The doctor want4dt
tract the tooth, hut the la'dyprol
that the loss of one of its front't
would spoil the beauty of her pf 54
asked that the the tooth be flhle,
dctor sent for a dentist, lut the di
on the operating table, and so on
the tooth filled with gold, and reot?
the spaniel to its mistress a ..
ceiveci a large fee for its work.NN.
York Mail and Express.
Reindeer fa'r Alaska...I
In Northern and Central Ali
there are at a moderate estimatelt
000 square miles unadapted to sE
cuiture aznd cattleo; grazing, but:
ered with tundra, a long fibrous i
moss (Cladonia rangiferins), i
is the natural food of the reidd ":
This area would be capableof
porting 0,000,000 head of deer,.A
would make a useless barren Wht
conducive to the wealth and'
parity of the United States. TheOn
way to utilize this tundra mos~
convert it into food and clothiflU
men is by its transformation intoew
meat and furs. Besides the fact.t
reindeer meat is considered a git
delicacy, and that Russia expor'1
frozen in carloads to Germany,
that the Norwegian Preserving ,
pony use large quantities of it for,
ning, the skins when tanned are
and of a beautiful yellow color,
have a ready sale with the maUf#
tirers of military pantaloons,
bookbindings, and furniture Co
The hair also'is in demand fortl
life-saving apparatus (buoys, et@.),
it possesses a wonderful degrW,
buoyancy, while the best existisS
is made from reindeer horns.a :
Church at Home and Abroad .
lust Be Conjurors, , :
At a chapel pleeting in Jamsi ta I
following resolations are repoted
have been adopted: (1) That weba
a new chapel. (2) That we' build *
new chapel out of the maternaleofA,
old for economy. (3) That we
ship in the old chapel till the n-eI
is built. --Boston Budget,