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SENECA COUNTY JOURNAL. DEVOTED TO TJTE DEST IJTTETtESTS OE TJTE TEOTLE I V CJfVUCJI J l V D 3 TJLTE. VOLUME 6. SENECA FALLS, N Y., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1890, NUMBER 45 Seneca County Journal PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. BY THEJOBRIIAL PUBLISHIBC CO. (LIMITED.) SENECA FALLS, N. Y. FR A N K N . ST E V E N S , B u sin e ss and Local M anager. C ounty SuBSCKir.EKS, - §1.50 per year. when paid in advance. B y C arrier , - - $1.75 per year, when paid in advance. AD7EETISIITG EATSS lin: 2 in Slii 4 in iiS.iijiliiiiS = 1 L egal N otices .—Notices roauim l by law to be published, charged a t the legal rates. BUSINESS C ards —Not eicecdiug five lines, ,3.00 p er year. each subsequent Insertion. ” * L . r o s m o w E L i , receive prompt attentidU W . M .F O L L E T .M .D . H S S H i S S K S s OOVEET & BODINE. S e r v ices at tUe c liu r c lie s . iiin a i i later Irom April Int t„ o. t. 1 st. >1L.K1N. s 0. n , I’lLStor. s i m i i lator Iroiu April Int to oct. 1st. '^UlM T Y fUl'UCll, F all st - sekmces — ^ .sumlaytj, ii» ;>(» a . M. ami n r . m . (.June to .September). Also a . m . except First Sun iillilS ils H. A. HILIMIRE CUSTOM TAILOR THE FINEST IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC GOODS M A D E TO O R D E R A T T H E LOWEST OF PRICES, A N D A POWDER Absolutely Pure. PEPECT IT IMIAMTEEB E.F.SIMMONS FARMERS AND HORSEMEN: At 91 Fall Street, Seneca Falls .Second floor, opposite Stanton House, 1 MAKE THE BEST WORK AM) OF THE BEST .MATERIAL, WARRANTED. Harness, Oollars, Whips, Boots, Brushes, Curry Combs, Eohes, &o. I make to order all .styles of H O R S E B O O T S OLD HARNESS CLEANED oiled and Repaired at the lowest rates. 1 ent and -J^e^all Harnes^^^ n.y store. OAK TANNED LEATHER Repairing Promptly Done Ami to your entire satisfaction in quality and price. G IV E M E A T R IA L OR MOREY REFURDEB. 91 FALL ST R E E T , ^AklK^ boston \ T store 1. n v ^ T i r , A -n A T T e VT rr f o r PURE TEA, COFFEE SENECA FALLS, - N.Y. OR BAKING POWDER AND SPICES. The following are among our Prizes: iE r iiS I ,i lia s Just Received a Very Large A s- 1000 OtllGr BOOflOflfl USOflll ATBCIGS sortment of I ;S1S, RICErSTRCH, S(P TINWARE . ’'BOSTON TEA STORE C O N S IS T IN G OF C. M. BACKMAN, Agt. 101 Fall St.,- Seneca Palls. C a t a r r h .urge Variety of Tinwt rona to mention, at Hott 87 FLL STREET Allay.* 1‘aitis and Heals the Sores. iCoNture.s .Seiisc.s orT u N tc a n d .Smell. Opp. S M o i H ise, S e M Falls, i cdee h a y - f e v e r , '\LLYSTiroTilKIls'ou'tVarrcn St., New York. G oodman & H ock T H E O L D E S T A N D M O S T R E L IA B L E CLOTHING & CLOTH HOISSI in touM, h.i> now on liaiid tlie 1 IXK.Nf A.ND L.ViU'.EM' .ST( iCK in the county of F A L L <St W l l T T E R C L O T H S ! lor .Suits ami Ovrrc<».iu, in Imp- rtcfl ami Domestic Ciomls. GARMENTS MADE TO ORDER AT REDUCED PRICES tiuiiil l'!l ( lU.irantceil. \\t* aDo keep .i 1-uU I uu- ul Rt.a»K Ma»lf C'lutliing for Men, Boys and t hiltlrcii. A full line l*urni'>laiig ( hmh N < acricd in stock, tine us a call. \VI c.vn Imil .ill lilo pt'.tplo Mtn.c of iLc time, and of the pctiple all the time, bu^ you can t I«»ol all the people all tin- lime .— Aht ciitam Lmcnin, '1 luTc’s a gGini deal uf 'Suhil iiutsf sense\ in llic lumieK [diraseologv of “ Honest Old .\l>e,\ as -lUMted ab.ne, appUca!«ic b. the 0..lhing hiuiness in these days'when show win dows ami newspapers u \trdo'\ witli .inmuiiKen fiUs Like thi.> Ainl this. AI’MINI-IKVO' k X n . IVVNKia l‘I SlOlk A'-^iiiNEE's S ale . (h>oii>. At H alf P kice . and we tind .r refrediingun^m.dny m .) reiout “ Ad” which .illets (Inirua/s at $ 15 , worth The l.iet is thire .ire m.oi) “■■iie i.le.i\ men in the cliUliing business now-a-days, who belkwe m r.anmm's theury tli.it “ 1 he \im-ncau pul.lk like t.. be humlmgge.l,’’ who believe tliat “low price\ me.ins “ihe.ip,” wh.. think tliey i.m .ill the people all the time.” We hope you don't take stork in this mos—^rown theory. Ihe purchasing public of to-d.iy are a br.imy discriniin.iting lot of people, who prefer a tirstclass article at a f.iir price nther ih.at iiilerior goods .it lielituiusly low ligures. The an- n.il.s of tr.ide proie there is only om- swre louud.itioii tt r penii.inent success, and that is actual merit in mereluindi-e. i.ooil I 1,thing—.'sulst.inti.il 1 .ibrics— Ihorough Workmanship— Dur.ible Irimnitngs—Style - .in I 1 it .in ti e .idicrtisements which make trade and keeps it, which n.atur.illy calls to niiiid the well known productions of GOODMAN & HOOK, wh m.ikf an«l soil rc.i'Iy niailt . ik ^.uiiaiils v 1 uh n n 1 inc all iLcse desirable points. M AHTLE FINE PHOTOGRAPHS! INSURANCE OFFICE U P T H E O I E E A H O U S E S T A I E S ^ O V E R T H E D R U G STOKf: IN T H E D A N J E L S BLOCK. SENECA FAEES, N. I ADVERTISE IN THE JOURNAL. By H. EIDER HAGGARD. Author o f \Colonel Quarltek, V. C.,” ' Meeson'a W itt” “A TdU o f Th Lions,” \AUa SYNOPSIS OF THE STORY. This story i.s supposed to be foi mwnuscript found in the papers of Allan main, which were given to the author i executor. In It Quatermain tells the st< Alla ■ ,h“ ”7 S extinffuisbed the flames. Stella's mother was Spanish, and she eloped with a cousin, leaving Stella with her father. Squire Carson. He de- teifininetl to leave England on account of , the dis- his men was a Ki doctor Between him and anoth there had two years before been a lightning con test, which resulted In the death of his contestant. C hapter III.—DetaiUt the start of the expedi tion. Quatermain describes his first elephant did so, saw the'bull'lurch forward, for the impact of a three ounce bullet in the flanks will quicken the movements even o f an elephant. By this time I had real ized the folly of the shot, and devoutly hoped that the bull would take no fur ther notice of it. But he had a different view of the matter. Pulling himself up in a series of plunges, he spun around and came for me with outstretched ears and uplifted trunk, screaming terribly. I was quite defenseless, for my gun was empty, and my first thought was of es cape. I dug my heels into the sides of m y horse, but he would not move an inch. Tito poor animal w a s'paralyzej r, and he )utstretc On ruslied tlie elephant, awful to see; I made one more vain effort to stir the horse. Now tlio trunk of the great bull swung .aloft above my head. A thought fl.ashed through my brain. Quick as light I rolled from the saddle. By the side of the horse lay a fallen tree, as thick through as a man’s body. The tree was lifted a little off the ground by and with a single movement, so active is one in such necessities,ities, I flunglung myselfyt I f m so, I heard the trunk lephant descend with a mighty 1 the back o f m y poor horse, and the next instant I was almost in dark- ness, for the horse, whoso back was broken, fell over across the tree under wjiicli I lay ensconced. But he did not stop there long. In ten seconds more the 1 had got his trunk Dck, and, with a lund m y dead lighty effort, hurled him clear o f the tree. I wriggled backwards as far as I could towards the roots o f the tree, for I knew what he was Pre.sently I saw the red tip o f the bull’s trunk stretching itself towards me. If he could manage to hook it round ; ■ me I was lost. B u tin Before tliem was a dense forest belt from a hundred to a hundred and fifty feet in width. As they rushed on it fell, so that be hind them was nothing hut a level road way strewn with fallen trunks.'crushed branches, and liere and there a tree, too strong even for them, left standing amid the wreck. On they went, and, notwith standing the nature of the ground over which they had to travel, they kept their distance ahead o f us. This sort o f thing continued for a mile or'more, and then I saw that in front of the elephants the val ley opened into a space covered with reeds and grass—it might have been five or six acres in extent—beyond which the valley ran on again. The herd reached the edge of this ex panse, and for a moment pulled up, hes itating— evidently they mistrusted i t My men yelled aloud, as only Kaffirs can, and that settled them. Headed by the wounded bull, whose martial aydor, like my own, was somewhat cooled, they spread out and dashed into the treacher ous swamp, for such it was, though just then there was no water to be seen. For a few yards all went well with them, though they clearly found it heavy go ing; then suddenly the great bull sunk np to his belly in the stiff peaty soil, and remained fixed. Tlie others, mad with 'ate. In five mini >f them were hop< the more they struggled to escape, the deeper they sunk. There was one e i - oeption, indeed, a cow w ith a c a lf man aged to win back to firm shore, and, lifting her trunk, prepared to charge us as w e came up. But at that moment she heard the scream of her calf, and rushed back to its assistance, only to be bogged w ith the others. Such a scene I never saw before or since. The swamp was spotted all ovet w ith the large forms of the elephants, and the air rang with their screams o f rage and terror as they waved their trunks wildly to and fro. Now and again a monster would make a great effort and drag his mass from its peaty bed, only to stick fast again at the next stroke. It was a most pitiable sight, though one that gladdened the hearts of m y men. Even the best natives have little compassion for the sufferings of W ell, the rest was easy. The marsh that would not bear the elephants carried our w eight well enough. Before mid night all were dead, for w e shot them by moonlight. I would gladly have spared the young ones and some o f the but to do so would only have meant leaving them to perish of hunj it was kinder to kill them at once. The wounded bull I slew with my own hand, and 1 cannot say that I felt much com punction in doing so. H e knew me again, and made a desperate effort to get a t m e, but I am glad to say that the peat held him fast. Tho pan presented a curious sight when the sun rose n e xt morning. Owing to the support given by the soil, none of the dead elephants had fallen; there they all stood as though they were asleep. I sent back for the wagons, and when they arrived on the morrow, formed a camp, about a mile away from thO pan. Then began the work o f cutting out the elephants’ tusks; it took over a week, and for obvious reasons was a disgusting task. Indeed, had it not been for the help of some wandering bushmen, who took their pay in elephant m eat, I do not think \ive could ever have managed it. A t last it was done. The ivory was far too cumbersome for us to carry, so w e buried it, having first g ot rid of our hid) bushmen allies. My boys wanted me to )w n ,' go back to tho cape with it and sell it, and a scream of rage was bellowed but I was too much bent on my journey through it within four inches of my to do this. The tusks lay buried for five head. Now it seemed to elongate itself, years. Then I came and dug them up; Oh, heavens!vens! nowow itt hadad mee byy thehe theyhey wereei but little harmed. 'Ultimately n i h m b t t w hair, which, luckily for myself, was not I sold the ivory for very long. Then it was m y turn to twelve hundred pounds scream, for next instant half a square for one day’s shooting, inch o f hair was dragged from m y scalp This is how I began my career as an by tho roots. I was being plucked alive, elephant hunter. I liave shot many as I have seen cruel Kaffir kitchen boys hundreds of them since, but have never pluck a fowl. Tlie elephant, however, again attempted to do so on Iiorseback. disappointed with the moderate results. rate, I dropped m y reins, and, raising m y gun, fired point blank at the left- | hand man. The bullet struck full in the middle of his shield, pierced it and passed through him, and over• he rolled upon the veldt. ■■■ h o , from his back, ah did not kno's CARE FOR SICK CATS. he rolled in the veldt. I swung round in the Idle; most happily my horse was ac- itomed to standing still when I fired „ i.:_ V—t. -i_ - he was so surprised which way to shy. outstretched si other savage was almost on ihield touched sprung high into the my horse dead, his s] ihield touched the muzzle I pulled the trigger o f the It exploded, the warrior titntlon In Ireland for the Treat- of Maimed and Disabled Felines* .ppeal for contribulions to an un- nd peculiar charity appears in The 1 World, to which lovers of the feline race w ill doubtless respond with alacrity. It seems that the home for ■‘starving and forsaken cats,’' founded ibout four years ago by Sliss Swifte, is adly in need of money to carry on its id fell against issingjust in . orse dead, h front o f m y face. W ithout waiting to reload, or even to look if the main b ody o f the Zulus had seen the death of their two scouts, I turned my horse and drove m y heels into his sides. -As soon as I was down the slope o f tho rise I pulled a little to the right, in order to intercept tho wagons before the Zulus saw them. I had not gone 800 yards in this new di rection when, to m y utter astonishment, ' ick a trail marked with wagon as the] hoofs o f o xen. Of v _ ) must have been a t least eight, iral hundred cattle. Moreover, a party of emigrant awed it. le to the five fur- e wagons drawn up )u the banks of the track o f thew a g o i bility belonged to The spoor o f the w a gons ran ii rection I wished to go, so I foil About a mile further on I cair crest of a rise, and there, abet longs away, I saw the ' in a rough laager upon river. There, too, were m y own wagons trekking down the slope towards them. In another five minutes I was there. The Boers—for Boers they were—• re standing about outside the little laager watching the approach of m y two wag ons. I called to them, and they turned and saw mo. The very first man my eyes fell on was a Boer named Hans & th a , whom I had known w ell years ago in the Cape. H e w as not a bad specimen o f his class, but a very restless person, with a great objection to author ity, or, as he expressed it, “a love of freedom.” He had joined a party of the emigrant Boers some years before, but, as I learned presently, had quarreled with its leader, and was n ow trekking away into the wilderness to found a lit tle colony o f his own. Poor fellow! It w as his last trek. “How do you do, Meinheer Botha?” I said to him in Dutch. The man looked at m e, looked again, then, startled out o f his Dutch stolidity, cried to his w ife, who was seated on the box of the wagon: “ Como here, frau, ney to carry on its humane and eminently practical and r work. W hile babies starve every kitten re&jives per sonal attention and interest, and none are allowed to leave the home unless guarantee is made that they will better their condition. This home is built at Whitechurch lodge, Rathfarnham. County Dublin, ^lnd its object is to protect cats against brutal neglect and actual torture, to nurse them in sickness, and support them when forsaken, and to this work Miss Swifte gives her personal supervi sion and attention, together with such devotion as only enthusiastic women be stow upon the particular cause they es- This worthy lady has received much odium as pioneer in a new enterprise outside the line of popular approval in variably experienced, but, pinning her faith to the queen's sentiment that “no civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of id’s creatures within the^ sphere of Dome here, frau, come. Here is Al- Quatermain, the Englishman, the of the ‘Predicant.’ How goes it, main, and n ' Cape yoi now wha Heer Quatermain, a what is the news down in the Cape yonder?” thin two I know, for I sentries,” and the news impi ux>ot miles o f the wagon, have just shot two o f theii I showed him my empty gun. For a m o m e n t there w as a silence of astonishment, and I saw the bronzed faces o f the men turn pale beneath their tan, while one or two of the women gave a little scream, and the children crept to their sides. “A lm ighty,” cried Hans, “that must Umtetwa regiment that Dingaan st the Basutus, but who could icause o f the marshes not come at tht and so were and struck not moderate rest iged his tactics. He wound hia k round tlte fallen treo and lifted it. It stirred, hut fortunately the broken branches imbedded in the spongy soil, and some roots, which still lield, pre vented it from being turned over, though he lifted it so much that, had it occurred to liim, he could now liave easily fished me out with lii.s trunk. Again he hoisted with all his mighty strength, and I saw that the tree was coming, and roared aloud for help. Some shots were fired close by in answer, but if they hit the bull, their only effect was to stir his energies to more active life. In another few seconds my shelter would be torn away, and I should be done for. A cold perspiration burst over me as I realized tliat I was lost. Then of a sud den I remembered that I had a pistol in my belt, whicb I often used for dispatch ing wounded game. It was Ic iped. By this time the tree CHAPTER IV. them because o f the marshes, afraid to return to Zululand lorth to join Mosilikaaye.” “Laager up. Carles! Laager up for your lives, and one o f you jum p on a horse and drive in the'cattle.” At that moment my own wagons came ip. Indaba-zimbi was sitting on the box 'he first, wrapped d him and 11 tidings, Macumazahn,” he said; much that 1 feet o f m y head, was the great steps were evident enough. Time upon )wn trunk of the elephant. I placed time I trekked up to what had evidently ;zle of the pistol within an inch been the sites o f the Kaffir kraals. Now The result was instanta- the kraals were ashes and piles of tum- the first, w in a blanket. ] called him and told him the news. “Ill tidings, Macumazahn,” he “ there w ill be dead Boers about to-mor- row morning, but* they w ill not attack till dawn, then they w ill wipe out the laager so,” and he passed his hand be- fore his mouth. ^ E R bury- “Stop that croaking, you white headed ing the ele- crow,” I said, though I knew that his P\®\* I words were true. 'What chance had a a n d having laager o f ten wagons all told against at taken care- (east thousand o f the bravest savages ful notes of ^orld? the hearings “Macumazahn, w ill you take m y ad- and peculiar- time?” Indaba-zimbi said, pres- iti68 of tho ' gntly* c o u n t r y so I “ -What is it?” I asked, that I might he ..xhis. Leave your wagons here, able to find the jump on that horse, and let us two run s p o t again, we for it as hard as w e c an go. The Zulus proceeded on our ^on’t follow us, they will be looking af- joum ey. For a ter the Boers.” month or more , *«i won’t leave the other white men,” ' w e trekked along j gaid; “it would be the act o f a coward. t h e line which if l die. I die.” ige Free state from | “ '\7ery well, Macumazahn, then stay I and bo killed,” he answered, taking a . pinchof o f snuff. “Come, let ____ snuff. “Come, let us see about the country almost entirely the wagons,” and we walked towards I could easily g e t m y hand depopulated. Not very long before Mo- the laager. .... middle and draw the pistol silikatzi the Lion, Cliaka's general, had | Here )iu its case. I drew and cocked it. swept across it in Iiis progress toward ; “ 0 the tree w.as coming, and there, with- what ii three feet o f m y head, ad firei wn sunk tl of it and neous. ing one of my legs a considei squeeze, and the next instant I hea ind. The elephi 5 instanta- igain, giv- ils were .ashes a bled stones, t the rat ' bolted. By this time, struggling, I v what between frif 'ewn about among the bones of hun- leard a dreds of f men, women and children, all t had of whom had kissed the Zulu assegai. I We were trekking parallel with tlio mg river when a herd of blesbock ted the track. I fired a t one o f then fere ash ], and c le rank grass v reds o “ How can we do it?” he answered; “two of the women are too fat to go a mile, one is sick in chfldbed, and we have only six horses among us. ■ight and : igglin g, I w as pretty well done. I crossed the track. I fired a t one o f them mot remember how I got from under ' and hit it behind. It galloped about a fallen tree, o r indeed a n y thing, until thousand yards w ith the rest o f the h e rd, ----- , ------- ^ . the fallen tre e , o r indeed a n y thin g , un til thousan d y£ I found myself sitting on the ground then lay do* m yself sitting on the ground then lay down. As we were in want of drinking some peach brandy from a meat, not having met with any game for flask, and old Indaba-zimbi opposite me a few days past, I jumped on to m y re nodding his white lock sagely, while he maining horse, and, telling Indaba-zimbi fired off moral reflections on tho narrow- that I would overtake the wagons or ness o f my escape, and m y unwisdom in meet them on the further side of a rise not having taken liis advice to go on about an hour’s trek away, I started foot. That reminded me of my horse—• j after the wounded buck. As soon as I got up and went to look at it. It was I came within a hundred yards of it, quite dead; the blow of the elephant’s however, it lumped up and ran trunk had f t ................................................ the framewt h e S : poinu .* down Ihe ' gully, “ .and w e had better go after them, | might as well ride to the ridge and see if Macumazahn. 'VVe have Had the bad ' l could get a shot at it on the further luck, now for the good.” side. There was philosophy in this, though, I reached the ridge, which was strewn to tell the truth, I did not feel particu- with stones, looked over it, and saw—a larly keen on elephants at the moment. Zulu Impi! I seemed to have had enough of them. | I rubbed my eyes and looked again. However, it would never do to show the Yes, there was no doubt of It. They i-liite feather before the boys, so I as- were halted about a thousand yards away, with much outward readiness, bythe water; some were lying down.somo irted, I on the second ' and the others on foot. \When we had ing about with spears and shields in their Tied for the best part of au hour hands; there might have been two the down the valley, he water; some were lyin g dowj e cooking at fires,\ others w en rs and si there might have been tw o sand of them in all. • “While I was won dering—and that with no little uneasi- —what on earth they could be doing jest part o f au ht all of a sudden w came upon the whole herd, which nun; bered a little more than eighty. Just ii front of them the bush was so thick that there, suddenly I heard a wild cry to the they seemed to hesitate about entering right and left o f me. I glanced first one it, and the sides of the valley were so way, then the other. From either side rocky and steep at this point that they two great Zulus were bearing down on could not climb them. j me, their broad stabbing assegais aloft. They saw us at the same moment as we and black shields in their left hands. The saw them, and inwardly I was filled with man to i fears lest they should take it into their away, h beads to charge back up the gully. But ten. On they came, their fierce eyes al- they did not; trumpeting aloud, they most starting out of their heads, and I rushed at the thick bush which went j felt, with a cold thrill of fear, that in an- down before them like com before a other three seconds those great “bang- Bickle. I do not think that in all my ex- wans” might be buried in my vitals, periences I ever heard anything to equal i On such occasions w e act, I suppose, the sound they made as they crashed more from instinct than a n y thing else— Uuwugb and over the sbrube and trees, there is no tiise for thought. At if we did w e should starve in the desert. No, Heer Allan, we must fight it out with the savages, and God help us.” “Gtod help us, indeed. Think of children, Hans!” “ I can’tan’t bearear too think.hink,” c b t t he answered, in a broken voice, looking at his own little girl, a sweet, curly haired, bin* eyed child of 6, named Tota, whom I had o ften nursed as a baby. “ Oh, Heer Allan, your father, the Predicant, al ways warned me against trekking north, and I never would listen to him because I thought him a cursed Englishman; now I see m y folly. Heer Allan, if you can, try to save m y child from those black devils; if you live longer than I do, or if you can’t save her. Mil her,” and he clasped m y hand. “It hasn’t come to that yet, Hans,” I Then we set to work on the laag< The wagons, of which, including n two, there were ten, into the form disselix square Iboom of each securely lashed w ith reins to the underworks of that in front of it. The wheels £ were locked, and the space b etween ground and the bed planks of the wag ons was stuffed w ith branches of the “ wait a bit” ! near in < way a bi strength as against from. In a little over an : w as done that could be icussion arose as to the cattle, which had been driven up close to the camp. Some of the Boers were anxious to g e t them into the laager, small as it was, or a t least as many of them as it would hold, I argued strongly against this, point ing out that the bmtes would probably be seized w ith a panic as soon as the fir- and trampk under fi ‘ and the ja i a foe unp with firearms, places being left ;rythiu|ryl hour eve done, and a discussion arose as to iposal of the cattle, which had 1 ing beg£u the laage mple the defenders o f Jot. As an alternative friendly tribe or some other place safety. Of course, if the Zulus saw them they would he taken, but the nature of qONTiNUSD. iiarity and mercy,” she istained effortfort thehe workork i t w she considers paramount, and of which we subjoin an account, published in her fourth annual “The friends and subscribers of this institution will learn with satisfaction that it maintains its position in every sense of the word. We are enabled to state it has held its ground through ad verse times and continues to be <i pro gressive work. We have brought it suc- ssfullj to tlie close o f its fourth year, ►t w ithout having had often stern dif- *uth, tsay that many a pooi ivodved fromrom brutalt treatmen sa f bru death by finding a and shelter u-ithiii c can, in all cat lias been tcliedness, misery •ing ISSS, 326 cats tlie stray dc- agtiiiisC 304 in tlie previous •nnit us to describe ■ing cases, while in lion (hat starvation, partuifiit, “Space will only per a few of the most glari a genertil wtiy we c nutnliers are brought in worn more or le.ss maimed liy boys, ilogs. men, titips, poison, etc. Tliese are timong the enemies tliis iiartieular race of animals hiis to contend with eyery ilay. tiiid yet there are acts of parliament to protect Olio <'ivatiire w.as If llesli .severely lacer- Ii sides. Onee.at. Wits lirought in witli its back bi'olten ami untiiile to stand; tliis creature was in great suffer ing; we knew recovery was inipossilile, and therefore it w.as imniedi.-itely de stroyed. Several were lirought in wit!) an eye knocked out w ith Ihe blow-of a stone. One wa.s tlirown into tlie gniunds with legs [laralyzed; one witli its leg much bi'uisotl by a trap: this cat recov ered and got <a good eoimlry lionie in England, the gentleman, in whom we had every eenfidence, taking it over himself, along with a valuable Persian that had boarded for eigltt week.s in the home. *‘W e are quite aware that oiir work is derided by some, but we do not in the least care what (loople tliink or say. We are above that kind of folly: being eon vinced that our cause is a righteous .e ■, that is sufficient for us. We invite till who deride sttoli a work to suggest a remedy that would cre:ite a lietter state of tilings for c.atsor one that could lessen a manifest evil, seeing they (cats) have n right to protection. W e tliink we can have no loftier aim than in carrying out the wishes o f our queen on tliis subject, wliich are quite d'accord witli our own, iind directing our efforts in an cspecitil tard subduing tlie snffertng.s of animals, whicli her m.ij- manner t( esty lias been graciously pleased to sir gle out for special ineiition in order t elevate them.\ With visions of ravaged larders and depleted supplies, with remembrances of midnight serenades when Tommy meets Ids Tabby upon the. garden wall to toueli our liearts and loosen our purse-strings, we wish success and prosperity to the cats’ retreat and kittens’ shelter. fiard <111 Horses’ Feet. There has among horses among horses m bt. l.ouis during the last few weeks, but there has been a de cided increase in the number of cases of Nearly all of these arc foot the concussion lameness. Nearly troubles, and are d of our liard granite streets. You will see a still greater wear and tear of horse flesh year by year as the streets are ttructed. Carriage liorses wliioh al and the driven down town a gr* draft and delivery liorses of the great firms are the principal sufferers. The fine roadsters are usually so liiglily prized by tlieir owners that they rarely bring them down town, Imt use them e.xclu- sively for driviing boulevards. — tow n, but •iv in tl V Uidn’t-kiiow-lt-wa»-t.ia<leil I A 'West Chester man, who accidentally irrested, if assemi and is to be tried under the a ct ibly wliich makes it a misde- J “ playfully or wantonly point or .rge a gun, pistol or otlier firearm _■ other person.” The penalty may be a fine not exceeding $1,000, and an imprisonment not exceeding one year, or either or both, at the discretion of the court. This law was passed in 1876, and abundant warning lias been given by ac cidents with guns supposed not t*> be loaded to justify the punishment of any one wlio violates it. — Philadelphia Those who have have a given amount of •dly enough for the stock feed, W’ould do well to puted weight by the days they wi feed, say from time of opening I least June 1 of 1890. Those wiio have had siiage to feed, and who fed out the last ere grass came, afterwards regret ted they had not proportioned the ration each day, so that the cows could have at least a little of the appetizing food till turned to pasture.—Hoard's Dairj-man. Hard on the Tr-avelers. Up in the vicinity of Sclioodic lake, a man who htvd a new road to sell failed to make satisfactory terms with the and so, on the theo - . . o w . , , , S r across the way until the town liim for opening it. Travel ers who recently passed through that re gion think the innocent pa'sseuger gets the worst of the c o r * ~ ”“**v.—Lewi.ston Journal. felled tree should pay li \Wholesale fruit dealers o f Chioage formulating a plan to make that citv the distributing point for Florida fruits for the northwest and the stales west o f THE SECRET. I will hide it from my sweetheart. From my inerr.v, dear companions. When they ask. This it i.s: Tli<> clod I trample Was tlic sknil of Alexander, And the waters of tho ocean In the veins of haughty princes Anti the dust clouds of the desert Were the lips of lovely women: JVhere are tliey, and they who kissed them? - P - ' - ‘' ^ “ \abfdes^ Wbt*i*e is JanisliyU, and his beaker? Solomon, and wliore his mirror? Which of all the wise professors Knows when Kausand Jamshyd flourished— Th.‘y were mighty, yot they vanished, Names are all they left behind them: Glory first, and then an echo; Then the veo' echo bushes— Oh, my shall, jisk not my secret! Sweetheart. I must hide it from you) They who hear it are not merri'; Power dies, and beauty passes- _________________ —Atlantic. FRANZ AND ILKA. ' • The summer liad come in the moun tains. The snow and ice were gone from tlie valleys, but liigh up in the peaks of the Alps the glaciers liung, threatening avalanches. In the blithe spirits engenilered by the fresh, warm air, the villagers, whose homes were in the valley of the Drause, sraili'd hack .at the menacing leer of the glaciers. There was happiness in tlie narrow valley, happiness due to the promise of the season, to the mating of young men and maidens, to tlio sunshine warming the gelid blood of the old men and wo men. The cliildren frolicked in the And amid all the gbi.lness there came a tone of Hlirpriso that deepened into the graver voice of alarm, apprehension, “What can it mean'?” neighbor asked of neighbor. The sun shone in their faces, but could not dispel the shadow of fear Tho Drause had dried up suddenly. There was no water in tho narrow, deep channel, and np above on tlie mountains tlie snow and ice were melting and run niug in ever swelling streams into the river. Floods were usual. Tlie villagers always smiled at the torrent; for, know ing tile height to which it wouid rise, they had built beyond its reticli. ^leigh- by the hills; the voices of all tlie mountaine: pitched in a high key, indic.af.iv* of heart. im id all the gbid if Hlirpriso that dt ) each otlier ■r in loud tones above the angry river, and lovers would liokl trysts on the bridges that were swung across it. No, from tho usual summer flood there was no danger, but the drought portended ill. Where but an hour before gladne.ss reignofi. terror But Franz, the light footed guide, sure on a precipice as a goat and strong as a mountain lion, bade the villagers be of good cheer and ho would soon bring back news from tlie hills, fie yodeled a farewell to Ilka, his love, and bounded up tlie valley, the teiTor stricken inhab itants looking after him in dumb fear. lie was not gone long, and when lie came running down the hill the villagers gathered about him an.'tiously. “They are drowning above while you are ahiiost dying of thirst here,” he said. “The glacier has slipped into the river •and formed a gorge that is damming back (he water. It is rising and sub merging the liam letsclinging to llie rock above the tkiin. .Sooti the river will ri.se above tho gorge and break it, or wesbiiil he swept it w ay.” Cries of iiorror, groans of anguish, greeted his story, flelplessiy, strong men looked at each other and .at their homes, wliich they could not carry to places of safety. Women clung to tlieir children, while tliey embraced eacli other and wept. Ilka, pale and trembling, but fearless, .stood by her lover’s side. “Franz,” she said, and her voice never was more sweet to him, who loved every note of it, ‘‘you said it was ice, and ice ’'■'‘Yesrit. t from lip to lip. “ It c.an he c u t.” Re.solution followed tiutckly upoi realization th:it the» the ilunger was to cut :i <-lia'nnel tliroi only way to avert at tl <-ha'nnel through ■ gorge and thus let the w.aters escape gradually. A party of ax men, Franz at their head, w:is formed, aitd, bidding’tlie women fly to the hills with tlie cliildren, the rescuers marched rapidly, with axes on their shoulders, to face the terrible danger, to engage in combat with it, and defeat, if po.ssilile, tho fulfllmenl of its threat. Tlie li.-csty gathering together of provisions for the ax men had not al lowed of farewells, hi tunity to s.ay to Ilka over Ills shoulder: valley until I come for you. Promise.’' She scaled the promise with a kiss, and then gave him her lithe strength to tiie assisting of tlie old and feeble to a place where the flood could not reach The ax men went to work witli desper ation to cut a channel in the solid mass of ice. They were divided into two par ties and worked toward e:icli other. The work did not flag :i moment, for when one man was exliausted, anotlier -took his place. By tlius relieving each other tliey puslied tlie work rapidly. Not one of them faltered or grew weak through fear, and tliey all knew that at any mo- ni<int the dam m ight b reak a n d h u rl them to death against the rocks below. The two cuttings were approaching each other and they seemed to be near together, when it was discovered that a mistake liad been made in tlie course, and that they would pass instead of meeting. This discovery caused momen tary dismay, for tiie water was almost at the top of the dam, and apparently there would bt, no time tr» cut across from one jefo'e it overflow* do not come back t But Franz, tireless and full o f courage ran to tlie top of the glacier, swingii his a x and calling to others to follot Tiiere were soon so many cutting the ice m a n-.irrow place that there was scarcely room for the axes to pass each other in Ju.st when the lookout8h<juted: “ RunI was cut to the depth otlier two, and the men fled for theii lives. The water poured into the sluice they had made, waslied out the blocks of ice t not dangerous A shout of j oy arose from the of the exhausted men, who saw cess of their desperate efforts their homes, and wlio threw themselves on the ground to rest, whil had been watching the work \the mountain sides shouting I ings. The. women heard th* thanksgiving and returned to their homes to prepare food for the men. The chil- dren ran with tliern» but the youths de layed fcolu'lp tlie old and feeble, i _ tl.e glad tid^ linen heard the news with and returned to their h* and their looking and longing for tlie <-oniing of -vranz up tlie liillside. Suddenly th, wliile siie put li( to her heartand terror blanclied hi>r face. Her rosy clieeks, wiiicl) Frtinz loved to kiss, and whiclt were envied liy all the young women of Martigny. lie<-artie white and cold .os snow. A report louder than a s uultaneo liad bui son in tlie valley. Women ran out of the houses asking ttiocause Tlie young lien paused in tlie p.-*-an of tlianks- giving, tlie youths lialted witli the old 'ried: “W liat <a;m t lia f f men. All qiieri* Tlie men ietiped to tlieir feet from the easy positions in wliicli they Iiad been d wrung their hands in agony, grim irony tiirew their axes into the fiiwd. Tho channel had weak ened the great ice dam and it could not stand tlie lieavy weiglit of tlie water lie hind it, and with a deafening noise it gave way. Tlie .lammed up waters leaped inUi the bod of the river, and swept upon the valley. Tiie men stood helplessly watching it. Ilka from her post <iii the rods .saw it coming and her dear voj(... rang out like a Inigle: “ Run! run to thr .....umahist The flood is upon youl\ And many, heeding, i-an, lint some for gold, the helple stayed hy their .side to assi.st them out of the reacli of tlie water.s, and many chil dren wh d many chil I tile str<-eti playinf ersrs cotilould Ilka on the high roi’k saw thehe dev,-i.s(a- vhere tlieir mothe c not find tbi-in t dev slower than that of the moun- nicu, Imt not less joyous. But Ilka would not leave him. Slie sat. on the rock upon which most of the women liad <-amped. and lis tened to tlie singing ami glad shouts that led to tlie singin g ami glad Dge from the valley, and a tion and di'atli wrouglit hy the flooil that passed quickly in its wild rusli. Bui many were saved, and when tlie men. scrambling along the mountain sides, looking for their wives and chil dren, they leai tied tliat Ilka liad wtirned the villagers Those who found some of their family hle.sseil her, Imt tliose wlio came back to learn that all whom tliej hold dear were dead, gnashed their teeth and clinclii'd their hands until the natiH of their fingers drew blood. But ilka sat still She knew Franz was looking for her on tho mountain, for she had been (old he was not injured by the flooil; and the impulse to yodel was strong within tier. None bad a voice like hers, s and if it slionld ring oi of the valley, w here tliei on tlio silence of was only dumb, ih-spairing grief, he would hi'ar and answ er. But she could not; it w-ould be sn.-h a mockery to be joyous amid all thill woo. Soshe w.aited. and pnisently she In-ai-d Fi .-niz _\ odeling on the mountain, and she cliinhed to him, Imt did not answer She w:ts fleet met and Ui.ssed; hut they were silent, for botli f(‘It the pieseiice of <le:il.Ii in the valley iielow After a few moments of grateful joy that they had h to eaeli oilier, they went s --Ak'xarider L FCinke:id in Drako’e rl been spared swiftly to the “Jerry-Huilt’' Houses of Home. On the outskirts of tlie Glietto a long street led to the p ortico of Octavia, where Titus celebrated liis triumph and Syrian bore the spoils of the temple in lis train. Close by tho colonnade of this Tuin, the ancient fish market,which jeen liei ‘s, might triump! liad been lield h still liave been seen a year or The sight was strikingly picturesque. The many storied liouses of the narrow street almost shut out tlie i)lue sky over- liead, and tht sunshine streamed llirough the meeting roofs on the glittering scales of fish and the worn marble slabs which had been in use since the d.-iys of the Csesars. A few stejis further on was the theatre whicli Augustus built in honor of the young Marcellus. Hero we were met by another of those strange contrasts over whicli Ampere loved to moralize. Under the Doric arches of tlie lowest tier artisans had their shops, and the ruddy light of tho forge glowed upon piles of green vegettibles and watermelon.s and joints of meat wliich dangled from the travertine blocks of the Augu.stan age. p theat built in the middle he lived in Rome as Prust dor. From th<>se windo’ ;lli palac tsian ambassa- he looked ergone a ihorougli cleansing. The ancient fish market and the sliops have been removed, and tlie Ghetto lev eled to the ground. Whole streets were ■ted away last year amid clouds Jof nortar. Only tlie for- ig walls of the ('end palace, of Octavia and the theatre main, i.sohited and carted away last year amid cl white dust and mortar. Only tress looking walls of the ('en d the portico of Marcelh stripped o f their suri oundings. In short, the whole of this rernarkaMe quarter has disappeared to make room for more bou levards and “jerry-built” houses.—Nine- onograph* [press desire to liave some of Strauss's waltzes recorded on tlie phonograph as being one of the most characteristic products of Vieima. Accordingly, the phonograph was taken to tiie music hall yesterday where Herr Eduard Strauss and his famous band were waiting. When the enormous fun nel had been adjusted and everything -was ready, the band struck up - B y the Beautiful Blue Danube.” Musicians and iductor seemed to be fully aware that playing not only to the world, :erity.erity. Thehe famousamous waltzaltz has, but to post T f w li perhaps, never been played witli such purity and such vigor. Herr Strauss ■' ■ latient while the wax cylin- 3 screwed on, and atcii his face as he it was interesting to watcii listened to the fam iliar strains turned to him. He followed every n jritically, and confirmed the ass ,d undergone rward a nr deliglitf the get iisic of whicli V ;o the Forest” came next, and a quartet )f cornets, and th e instrum e n t rendered the loud passa; soft and tende ithfully as the -London Daily A naval awakening is being forced on tlie Sublime Pone, by the visit of the German emperor. The condition of the Turkish fleet is so liad, costly ironclads have been alloweil to rust into decay so long ill tlie water.s of tlie Bosphorus, that the Ottoman government would be wise not to offer any ruavitime display to so keen a critic, so good a judge, as tlie Em p e ror W illiam. Corruption and in capacity combined have made what might have been an important factor in a European war a mass of u seless metal. H o b a rt Pasha was a strong m a n , but he was not strong enough to get the dock yard men paid tlieir wages when they were due. In no part o f the,Turkish treasury is tliere .such gross dishonesty as in that which lias to do with tho navy. If SI .h00,00()_were put a t the dis posal o f the government to-morrow for naval purpo.scs probably not one-tenth of tlie sum woulil he, r eally expende.d in fulfilling them.—Loudon World.
