Lebanon Advertiser

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VOL. 4T---N0. 19.
LEBANON, LEBANON COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1894.
WHOLE NO.—2414.
ixailroaDs.
"PENNSYLVANIA KAILKOAD.
On and after May S7, 1S9U, trains will leave
ltbanon as follows, connecting at Conewago
for all points on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
- Leave Lebanon ut 6.30 a.m. Arrive at Cone-
whvo 7.15 a. m..Lancaster8.05 a. m , Philadelphia 10.20 a. ni., Vew York 1.13 p. m., Harrl.-
.burg 7.45a. ri)., Altoona 1 48 p. ra., Pittsburg
3.50p. ru. This train makes close connection
nt Harrlsbnre lor points on the Northern
Cen'ral and PhUi.dnlohlrx A Brie Railroad.
Leave ltbanon 10."0 a. ra. Arrive at Oone-
wa.ro 1XM a. m., Harrisburg 12.01 p. m.
Pbila .elpbift 3.00 n. ra., New Vortc 5.53 p. m.
This train makes close r-onnectlon at Harrls-
bxatt for points on the Vorthern Central
and' P. 11.1,11.
.* Leave Lebanon 2.25 p. m., arrive at Cone-
'wago 3/8 p.ra., Lancaster 4.45 p. ra. Philadelphia «.•■(' p. tn.. New York 9.38 p. m., Harrisburg 4.00 p. Ot,
Leave Lebanon 6.85 p. ra. Arrive at Oone*
\rmgot.20 p. m., Lancaster MO r. m.. Phlladel
ohla 11.15 p. m.. New York 3.."8a. m., Harris-
bure 7 V)_n m
. 8. M. PREVOST J. K. WOOD.
fJeneval Mauasrer »enl. Fur r. Agt.
July 1, 1*0-2
ntlRIIWAlL AHD UBIIOli  BAIL-
Kj   R04H.
Almost Blind
Inflamed   B_yes    and   Run*
ning   Sores
The   Success  Of   Hood's   Causes
Oreat Rejoicing-A Perfect Cure.
OIKEOT ROU TD rOK ALL POINTS ok tbb
PENN-YLVANIA KAILKOAD.
All—li ninaiaf >—oajoi rrtmlnm.
i >n and alter Saturday Sept. 1,1894, ..assen-
tmr trains win ran as follows :
JLeave—
LK-bunin
Cornwall
Mt. Gretna
Arrive—
Lancaster
Philada.
New York
m   *
6:30
«*1
6:M
__. a
8:05
10:20
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1:13
AM
7:45
AM
1CMS0
11_01
iii ii
r m
12:50
8100
r m
MM
P M
T M
2:16
2:36
2:45
V M
4:45
«:80
P M
tM
P M
3:3S
7:10
U:S0
AM    .
9:30
12:25
2:40
3:1"
12:80
8:00
P M
4:30
4:40
4:50
r m
mts
6:46
6:67
PM
3:40
11:15
AM
8.53
PM
7:50
10:4.
5:50
r m
2:10
4:40
6-45
7:80
4*0
flarrlsburtr  7:45      12:01
Wil'msport Hill      3:00
Pittsburg     6 50       9:00
Leave— a m     am
New York   12:15
Philada 4:30      8:50
Lancaster    6:30      10:55
Harrlsbuvs:   650      11:40
Wil'msport. 3:25      8:15
Pittsburg      8:10      3:33
Arrive—       . am     p m      pm     pm
Ut. Gretna   7:48      12:30      4:30      8:25
Cornwall      7:59      1MB      4:40      *:85
Lebanon M0 12:50 4:50 8:45
. All trains daily except Sundays. Tiokets
for all Western points. Baggage checked
through.
UT. GRKTNA PARK, the finest resort In
Eastern Pennsylvania, located along the line
ot this road, Is tho permanent location ot tbe
Pennsylvania Chautauqua. Camp-Meeting Of
Kast Pennsylvania Conference. United Brethren In Christ, tie Mount Giv tna Agricultural,
Mechanical and industrial Exposition and the
State Klfle Range ot the National Guard.
A. D SMITH,
General Superintendent.
T^HlLAOBLPHtA AND BEADING SAIL-
ANTHRACITE COAL USED EXCLUSIVELY. INSURING CLEANLINESS AND
COMFORT,   IN   EFPECT
FEBffi[JAB_01tl>, 1894.
TKAINSiLEAVE LEBANON.
for .New Vork via Philadelphia, Weekdays,
7:03,8:50, 10:S5 a. tn., 2:16, 4:4(5and 6:45 p. m.;
' Sundny. 7:42 a m.. 4:47 p. m.
Kor New York via Allentown,Weekdays, 6:0b
8.50 a. m, 2:16, p.m. Sunday, 7:4 J, 9:41 a. m.
fSt Philadelphia, Weekday*,' 6:05, 7:03, 8:50,
lo:85 a/, m,, 2-J16, 4.40 and 6:46 p. m.; Sunday,
7:42 a. m., 4i47 and 6:41 p. in.
for Middletown, Weekday^,. 6:03, 8:28 a. m,
12.55, _:•*., p. m.i Sunday, 9:66 p. m. •
Flit Beadin., Weekdays, 6:05, 7:03 6:50, 10:35
. a. m« 2:16,4:40 6:45, 9:00 p. m.   Sunday, 7:42,
9:42 a. m., 4:47, 6:41 p. m.
Por allentown, Weekdays,«:05.8:50 a. m., 2:16
4:40,  6:45 p.  m.;    Sunday,   7:42, 9:42 a. in.
tM jr to.
Por Harrisburg, Weekdays, 6:03, 8:23, 11:05 a.
'tn.. 12:65, 2:28, 7:07, 8:50and ilt25p. m. Sun-
. day, 7:36, 9:56. a.m., 6:56,11:25 p. ni.
I. or Pinegrove, Weekdays, 8:45 a.m., 1:00, 6:15
and 8:55 p. m.
I. or Gettysburg, Weekdays, 6:03, a. ill.,2:28 p. m.
Por Shippensburg, Weekdays, 8.0S, 11:05 a. m„
.2:28 p.m.   ,
for Brookslde, Weekdays 8.45 a. m., LOO p. m.
For Pottsville via Pine Grove, Weekdays, 1.00,
'     TKAINS FOR LEBANON.
Leave New York na Allentown, weekdays,
4:00, 8:18 8-45, and 11:30 a. m., 12:30 1:00, 3:46,
4:46 6:00 p. m.   Sunday. 1:00. 5:30 6:00 p.m.
Leave New York via Philadelphia, Weekdays,
8-00,11.80, a. m., 1:80,4.00,5:00 p. ni., and 12:15
midnight; Sunday, 1:30 5:00 p. m. and 12:15
J midnight.
Leave Philadelphia, Weekdays, 4:12.8:35.10:00
a. m., 4:00. 6:00, p. m ; Sunday, 4.00,9:05 a.
m., and 5:30 p. m.
Leave Heading, Weekdays, 5:05. 7:15,10:15, and
11:50a.m., 1:88,6:00,7:57 and 10:28 p. m. Sundays, 6:»0,8:60, and 10:60 a. m., 6.60 and 10:28
p.m. _. .J
Leave Allentown. Weekdays, Ml, and 8:48 a.
nr, 12:15, 4:25, 9:05 p. m.; Sunday,7:25 a. m.,
4:25 and 9:05 p. m.
Leave Harrisburg, Weekdays, 5:10, 6:20, 7:65,
9:10a.m., 1:26,8:46, 5:60, and8:06 p. m. Bun-
days,«-50, and 8:50 a. m., 4:00.6:60, p. m.
Leave Brookslde, M0 a. m, and 12.15,2.56 p. m.
Leave Pine Grove, 4.15, and 7.30 a. in., and
l.oo and 4.20 p. m.
ATLAHTIO ORT JOIYIMOW.
Leave Philadelphia. Chestnut Street Wharl
and sonth Street Wharf
FOR ATLANTIC CITY.
Weekdays—Express, M0, a. m.. 4 oo, 5:01
p.   hi.   Accommodation, 1:00 a   m, 5,45 p.m.
• Sundays—Express, 9:00, 10.00 a. m. Accommodation, 8:00, a in.. Mid 4:30 p. m.
Returning leave Atlantic City Depo'.corner
Atlantis and Arkansas Avenues, Weekdays,
Express 7:86,8:60 a. m., and 4:00 p. as. Accom-
commodatlon, 8.10 a. m., and 4.30 p. m.
Sundays—Express, 4:00,5.16, p. va. Accommodation, 7:16 a. m„ and 4.15 p. m.
Parlor cars oft all express trains.
0. G. HAV COCK,
Oen'l t'assenger Agent,
1. A. SWEIGARD.
General Superintendent.
Apr. 31—tt.
TA
Miam Cora B. Jtbert
Barnesvllle, Pa.
mtS. I. Hood * Co., Lowell, Mass.:
i " I feel it a duty to state what Hood's Sarsaparilla has done for ne. I was almost blind,
being compelled to stay ln a darkened room on
account of Inflammation of ths eyes. I also
suffered with running sores on my body. I was
in terrible condition. My mother tried every
thing sha knew about and I was attended fey
two doctors hut without helping ma Finally
Hood's Sarsaparilla waa recommended and I
had not taken two bottles before I began to get
better. The Inflammation left my eyes and the
•ores healed, and the result was that
I Became Stronger,
and waa restored to perfect health.  At that
time I waa Ottr twelve years old; BOW I am
nineteen and I have not slnoe been troubled
Hood's*s>Cuns!
wtth my eyes or noticed any sign of a return of
the sores on my body. I oan recommend Hood's
Sarsaparilla as an excellent blood purifying
medicine." Miss Cojba Ebekt, Barnesvllle, Pa
'HftOd'ft PHIs act easily, yet promptly and1
efficiently, en the liver and bowels.   _■_. ■
J. H. Seltzer.
B. F. Seltzer
Dry Goods and Groceries.
BIG BARGAINS I
LARGE STOCK I
Come and see and beoonvinced.   A plea*
nre to show oar New Goods.
A fall Urn of MEN'8 GOODS of tbs
latest and beat styles.
A oomplete assortment of LADIES'
DRESS, SHAWLS, OLOVES, EM-
BROIDERY, end all tbe novelties of tbe
season.
A flue line of TABLE LINENS and
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
A FULL AND FRESH STOCK OF
GROCERIE S
TO PLEASE THE HOST FASTIDIOUS.
!_y Orders promptly filled and Goods
delivered.
J. H. SELTZER & BRO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
SELTZER & SNAVELY,
Cor. Ninth and Willow Sts.
CLOCKS,
WATCHES.
J. K. Laudermllch,
DEALER IN
American ai Swiss Watches
JEWBLBY,
SILVERWARE,
SPECTACLES
—AHD—
EYE GLASSE8.
Watches and Jewelry Repaired.
•'* JM Work Guaranteed. !•
844 Cumberland St.,
LEBANON, PA.  ^
Cornwall Railroad.
Lebanon & Lancaster Joint Line suneu pS East and0wtel..aud
On and after HAT -Oth, 189., PASSENiiEU TKAINS will be run aa follows:
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736
7 20
7 3.
7.1
7 S3
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8 IU
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8 SI
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12 80
12 34
12 4-
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9 81
Arrive
Leave
 .......Lebanon	
 Donaghmore	
 Cornwall	
 .Miners Village..	
 Penryn ».,*»,«•
 Ht. Hope......	
 Maulie'fu	
 _J. .Lancaster, King St	
  Columbia	
1 Arrive Leave
A Ml
8 11
8 OT
7 (9
7 fib
7 5»
7 49
7 83
7 ID
A M
A M
10 28
10 21
10 18
10 10
10 01
1'  -M 1" Ml'
1 Stills..!..
1 52 l 31 ..
1 444 21 ..
1 41 4 20 ...
1*85 4 14   .
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5 58
5 48
5 89
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4 22
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6 0.
P __t
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12 80
7 5.
12 34
* 7 59
12 42
810
IS 49
8 IS
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3 44
920
920
F II
A M    J
Leave
Arrive
SUNDAYS
 Lebanon	
 Donaghmore	
......Cornwall	
...Miners* Village....
    Penryn........
......Mt. Hone........
 Munheiin........
.King St., Lancaster
......Columbia........
Arrive
Leave
A X
PM
9 32
_ 3.5
9 28
381
9 17
2 24
9 14
220
8 en
8 4.
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8 05
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P M
4 58
4 48
4 48
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4 23
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Xorth aad South-bound trains connect at Lebanon witb trains on Philadelphia A Kead
log   Railroad to and tmm Harrisburg, Reading, Pottsville, Philadelphia and New Vork
-ouih-bound trains connect at Manheim witn trains on the Reading A Colombia Railroad
(or nolnts between Reading and Columbia.
Philadelphia 4 Readmit Railroad Company mileage books will be accepted on the Cam
wall Railroad
A "HERO" IN CLAY.
■Why Bob Bannister Destroyed His
Best Bit Of Work.
:
It was the luckiest hit old Bannister
had ever made. How he did it nobody
knew. He didn't even know himBelf.
"The thing seemed to grow under
my hands," he would say, quietly,
"aad I had no idea that it was any
thing better than my usual work, until
I had finished it and came to look at it
aa a whole, then—"
There waa no donbt about it, he had
never before done anything to equal
it. It was rather a large statuette of
an ancient warrior, delicately modeled in olay—a slender, sinewy looking figure, the head thrown gracefally
back, ons foot slightly advanced, a
short sword clasped in the uplifted
right hand and a round shield poised
firmly before his breast.
Bob's chief ambition was to be a
great sculptor—to do some great work
that ahould bring him wealth for the
present and fame for all time. But
by degrees he narrowed hia ambition
down until he came to look fbr nothing from art bnt tbe means of living
ia reasonable oomfort from day to
day.
Bob's particular crony and brother
in art, Alfred Maiden, was a man some
fire yeara older thaa himself. The
two men had met rather moro than
twenty years before, and had been
tta closest of Mends ever sinoe. They
rented a small studio between them
on tbe highest floor of a tall building
in the viginity of Oxford street. They
had even shared the sanfo apartments
together in a respectable boarding
house in Mecklenburg square, until
Maiden was married and became the
owner of a small residenoe at Padding ton.
It was past nine o'olock atnight, and
tlw two men sat by tbe fireside of their
studio, smoking a lafi pipe apieoe before going home. Grouped about them
in grotesque confusion were numerous
half-finished and finished day models,
busts of all manner of real and ideal
men aad women, aad all tbo miscellaneous litter of a sculp* * • workroom; on tbe walls hunj .1 lions
aod base-reliefs of all sh.-. i siaea,
crayon sketches aad am /of piotures la olla r ' water iw.oro. Bat
tbe most conspicuous objeot of all-
standing on an imposing pedestal in tho
center of the room—waa Bob's latest
work, ,his maaterpieoo, hia "Hero" ln
clay.
"Certainly," said Bob, regarding his
work complacently, and speaking with
a slow, meditative drawl, between
dreamy whiffs at his pipe, "it's tbe
oaly thing I've ever done that 1 feel
tempted to be proud of, and, as yoa
say, goodness oniy knows how I managed to do it so well. Bat there it is.
I've done it, and I really do think Pm
entitled to be a Uttle proud of it, eb?"
"Of oourse," responded Maiden
moodily; "especially when yon oonsider ttat a rumor of it has caused a
real live marquis to oome up and look
at it, and to he so taken with it aa to
aay he will even buy it."
"Now, Alf; Alf!" oried Bannister,
playfully.
"Faot!" said Madden, shortly. "No
man gives money fork thing unless he
thinks it's worth bis money."
"Well, of course, I'm pleased to have
a purchaser in prospect. Anyone
would be."
"Undoubtedly," grumbled Maiden;
"but it isn't anyone who is lucky
enough to get a purohaser wbo may be
the means of introducing him to aa
aristocatic connection."
Bannister looked thoughtfully into
tte fire and said nothing.
"I never saw such a thing," Maiden
went on, a Uttle bitterly. "Tou have
all tte luok. I can't understand it.
people seem to think ttat my work is
better thaa yours aa a general thing,
yet you always sell easier thaa I do
and get higher prioes. It.a luck Sheer
luok!"
"Well, it doea seem a little hard on
you. All, old man—"
"Oh, well, you needn't keep on crowing over a sallow," interrupted Maiden, testily.
"Why," said Bob, looking- grievously shocke d, "I waa never dreaming of
doing saob a thing. I was only going
to say I may be able to find opportunities of introducing you to people wbo
will recognize yoar worth, aad—-"
"Ha, hal" laughed Maiden, dismally.
"It's very good of you to say so aow,
but Bob Bannister, Esquire, sculptor
in ordinary to his high mightiness, tbo
most noble marquis of Pinchington,
basking ln the patronage of Otter
moneyed and titled gentry, will be
much too great a person to remember
poor, luckless, threadbare Alf Maiden."
"Alf!*' cried Bannister, earnestly,
"you can't think I'm such a mean
humbug as that! If I am only to be
fortunate at the expense of losing
the oldest—the only friend I have—
hang itl I hope I never may be fortunate at all!"
"You say so now, old boy. It's cood
of yOu to say so," aaid Alf, dejectedly.
"But change of circumstances alters
one's opinions wonderfuliy. In any
case, how do you suppose I, your senior
in years, who have been working
longer and harder than yoa, could submit to tbe humiliation of being patronized by you even though you are my
friend? It is humiliation enough to bs
beaten by OBS whose work is, I know,
no better than my own. But I couldn't-"
"Pon't say any more," cried Bob,
_5___?___9g-7i ''After all {ho struggling
we bave had together, to think ttat
any success could carry me beyond
your reach! I've been selfish—full of
my own good fortune. It never struck
me till now, but—do you thiak that I
would do anything to humiliate you?
I can't bear the thought of it. Wby,
anything else after what we've said
about each other—eh, old falsifier? Pd
sooner never havo done the 'Hero* at
all. I can't tell you how it grieves me,
old fe.low. Aftor all these years to
think that I should do anything to es*
trange us from each other—-"
"Well, never mind. Can't be helped,"
said Maiden, getting up, with an
uneasy laugh, "it's late. (Ve shall
both think differently in tte morning,
perhapa   Let's be off home."
For some time Maiden harried along
deep la fnll and desponding reflect
tions. So long as they both were ret
garded as men of equal mediocrity he
did not care, although all the wbile he
was conscious ot his superior merit
And to think that one single pieoe o<
work had made all tha difference! Al]
that had been done might in a moment
be undone, if aa enemy of Bob's—supposing hint to have an enemy—oouid
get into tto studio aad maliciously
shatter tha "Hero" witt a few blows
of the mallet
Next morning, when tte faint
wintry sunlight looked la at Bannister's little curtained window, It found
him lying awake ia bed yawning
drowsily. He glanoed at the olook on
his mantelpiece, and saw tbat it was
nearly ten, aad closed his eyee again
with a oomfortable sigh. But Just as
be did so he heard a load knock at tte
street door below, followed a moment
I later by tbe murmur of hurried voices,
then a sound of quick footsteps on the
stairs and somebody rapping sharply*
on the'door.
"Yes?" be shouted. *
•  "BoblBobr
'  "That you, Alf?   Come hv"
'  Tbe  door was pushed open,   and
Maiden   came   harrying   in,   witt  a
whito, soared face and horrified look
in his eyes.
"Oh, Bob!" be exclaimed, breathlessly. "I bave news for you. Bod news.
Terrible news."
"Eh? What is it?" demanded Bob,
sitting up ia bed.
"Whjf-rWhy,"    stammered   Maiden,
"whea I reached the studio this morning, the very first thing I saw as I
went in waa your 'Hertf—"*
"Yes?"
"Smashed—smashed into atoms!"
Bob gave a long, low whistle.
"Well," he said, speaking slowly aad
thoughtfully, "perhapa, after all, it's
tte very best thing ttat oouid have
happened to it."
"What!" shouted Maiden, "are you '
dreaming? Are you mad?"'
'.' "No. I dare say I've been dream-
iagi" said Bob, quietly. "What I mean
ia this—this accident puts us on our
old footing again. The breaking of
tte 'Hero,' as it were, restores what
was broken, or beginning to break, of
our old friendship. Pd rather tto
'Hero' broke than our friendship, Alt"
Maiden looked at bim earnestly for
a moment.
"Look here, Bob," he said, hoarsely,
"I kaow what is la your thoughts.
You think I did it, aad you are making
excuses for me."
"No, no, Alf—"
"But yon are. You know bow jealous and mean I was last night—what
a brute I was—a selfish, unmanly
brute. And you think I did it. It is
only natural tbat you should But, on
my word of honor, I did not do it—I
did not do Itl" cried Maiden, eagerly,
aad with tears ln his eyee.
"I know you didn't do it," said Bob,
positively.
"How can you know? Wbo sbould
you suspeot but me-, after all I said last
night? I—who should have been tbe
very first to bave congratulated you,
to be glad with you aad proud of you—
to meet yoa with nothing bat miserable envy aad unfriendly, selfish re-
grote. Oh, Bob, I lay awake laat night
thinking about lt; I oouldn't sleep, X
■waa so ashamed of myself Believe
me, old fellow, all my envy was ouly a
passing feeling, springing out of my
bod luck. X didn't really ln my heart
feel what I said It was oaly that
your good luck, by contrast, mode me
more fully aware of my own bad
luck—"
"I knew Itl 1 felt sure of it!" cried
Bob.
"Aad I got up this morning, only
anxious to apologize for my miserable
conduct, aad assure you how truly
glad I was that you ha<$ made a lucky
bit at last; and bere—when I get to
the studio—the first thing I see is the
'Hero' shattered to fragments," said
Maiden. "Aad yet yoa don't seem to
feel it half so much as I do."
"Wall," said Bob, "it Is a relief to
me to think that there is no longer
anything to separate us, to make me
too proud to be your friend, or to humiliate you—'•'
"Ah! you haven't forgotten my
words!" cried Maiden. "You think I
broke it; but I did'nt And I shall
never rest until I have found out the
villain who did it, so that 1 may remove from your mind every shadow of
suspicion against me."
"My dear fellow, 1 know you did not
do it. And I think I know this villain
who did," said Bob, shrewdly,
"You do? Who did it? I shaU never
feel oomfortable till I flnd cut!"
>   "Don't say any  more  about, it.   I
know perfectly who did it" .
vHow do you know?   Who was It?
You won't tell me?   No; because you
think I am the man, though you) wont
own it!"
' "Nothing of tto sort   I tell vou X
know who did it." cried Bob. "Tho
faot is, as I walked home last night I
felt the Injustice of what you had been
saying, and what a brute I was to take
a pride in what so humiliated you.
After all theso years our old friendship was breaking up, and all through
me, as you may say. Hadn't you and
X boon happy together all our lives?
Should I ever be so happy in any circumstances without your friendship?
With the knowledge, too, that 1 had
humiliated you and estranged you
from me! Well, that's how I thought
it all over as I camo home, and
I couldn't stand it. I was paining you and myself, too. Success
wasn't worth suoh a prioe. I felt it so
strongly ttat I suddenly made up my
mind to—to show you that I wasn't
such a selfish, cold-hearted, ambitious
wretch as I seemed. I turned and
went straight back to the studio,
aad—"
"What! You don't mean to say—"*
"Yes, I do," said Bob, cheerfully. "I
fell upoo the 'Hero' witt a couple of
hammers and smote him hip and thigh,
and smashed him up myselt"—Fargo
Argua     '••■  i
DUCK FARMING.
How  tike   Basinets  Jb  Conducted   By tb*
Chinese.
Aa the urban population in America
grows frreater aad more dense, tte
problem of feeding these multitudes of
people becomes always more difficult.
City people are non-producers of food
supplies, but per capita ttey are the
greatest consumers, aad much more
particular as to the quality of what
t___yi"buy> Country people more fre-
qtti*_ttly/ttan not consume what they
canhbt':sejll, ttat ia, they sat the surplus or the leavings. But tte demand
from the cities for some kinds of food
has become so great that the old-fashioned haphazard way of gathering this
food from here and there and everywhere that it happened to be produced
is now no longer satisfactory or economical and the specialist in this thing
and that is called, upon to remedy the
defect. We therefore now have Specialists ia poultry. One will grow
chiokens, another turkeys, another
geese, a fourth ducks,' aad SO on.
Twenty aad thirty - years ago these
were classed as barnyard fowls, and
were in fact that Tba oity people
drew their supplies directly from these
barnyards through the interposition of
itinerant huckster. This method of
rearing fowls was unsatisfactory in another sense than that just noted.
Ohickens and ducks, lf left to forage
for themselves, are most filthy feeders,
and their meat and eggm, timo, ior that
matter, easily become tainted with the
taste of tte unclean things they find to
eat about the stables and bans where
nsed to be their home. Tbe cultivated
palate rejects sueh meat with loathing.
It was, therefore, necessary to feed
chickens and and ducks more carefully.
Turkeys and geese are more particular,
and eat very much as a horse does. .
Under this new order of things the
men who went lato tte culture of
ducks went to the far east to learn tbe
economies of the business, and they
have adopted, ia a modified form, the
Chinese method of culture—a method
pursued successfully by these plgtailed
Orientals for four or five centuries.
These economical and thrifty duck-
breeders have taken advantage of the
dude's fondness for fish, and have so
located their duok farms that the fowls
may be largely fed on a fish dist. The
Chinese use boats in which threo or
four hundred duoks are housed; the
boats are paddled out into the water
and tbe ducks asked to do their own
fishing. So far as I know, this method
has aot been adopted la America. Here
the ducks are housed ashore, and drivea
tO tta water, where they catch mum-
machogs and other small fish. The
American breeders supplement the
catch of tte ducks with other fish food,
sueh as eels and horsefeet, and alao
with grain. Tba Chinese do not need to
stop the fish diet before sending the
ducks to market, for tta fish taste in
ducks is not objectionable to mandarin
gourmets. In America, however, this
fish diet must be stopped at least two
weeks before tte duck is killed, and
during tbe interim and before execution tbe fowl ls fed all the clean grain
that lt will eat
Besides the economical side of fish
food for ducks, it has been demonstrated that they develop and fatten
on it much more quickly than upon
grain and pickings alone. At eight
weeks of age, on fish and grain alone,
a duck is in prime condition for the
table; oa other kinds of food eleven
and twelve weeks are required Duck
farming is a considerable industry on
parts of Long Island, the sheltered bays
on the Sound side affording admirable
feeding grounds. The breeders are
spoken of as duck farmers, and they
have houses and yards near the water,
and everything is kept in excellent
order. The incubator is used almost
universally, as being more trustworthy
even than the patient hen.
It is worthy of note that the Chinese
very, very long ago hatched out their
ducks by artificial heat, and the incubators that seem so wonderful to us at
the poultry shows and country fairs,
were ap old story In the east long before our great-grandfathers were born.
It Is likely that we got the domesticated duok from China, so long ago
that we know not when, and the writers on natural history content themselves witt telling us that it is derived
from the mallard, mixed in some cases
with the musk duck and the gadwall,
and perhaps the black duok. The domestication of the duck has had'an effect
the opposite of that usually produced by
civilization on man, for tte mallard is
strictly monogamous. Walterton, the
naturalist, assures us, indeed, that the
wild duok Is a most faithful husband,
and remains paired for life, while the
domestic drake is most notoriously
polygamous.—John Gilmer Speed, in
Harper's Weekly.
KEEP CLEAN.
Some Useful Hints on Securing: a Plentiful
Supply of Fresh Linen.
Among people of limited moans there*
is a popular superstition that frequent
changes of underclothing is a gross
extravagance. On the contrary, if properly managed, nothing is more economical in hot weather than to wear a
fresh suit of linen every day. When
one walks much it is a matter of sheer
necessity to have clean stockings every
morning. Nor is anything oasier than
to rub out a pair of hose in a basin
kept for the purpose; with castile soap
and two changes of water the job is
completed in a few minutes, and pinned
where they catch a breeze tte stockings dry immediately. Witt half a
dozen pair itt hose and a determination
to bs tidy the poorest woman can be as
charmingly dainty as a bloated bondholder's wife.
Nor is it impossible to follow this
plan with cambric garments. If left
to soak in a lather of soap and water
ovor night and rinsed clear in tte
morning, ttey are as fresh as need ba
Of oourse, they must be thoroughly
laundried once a week, and such perfunctory washings only apply where
•lothes are not actually soiled, but fee)
sticky aad awry. No scrubbing or injury to the hands is necessary, and run
through a small mangle they come out
smooth aad delightfully fresh ia feeling. —Toledo Blade.
Filling; Ells Want.
Smithr-Tommy, see if you can't get
mo a spindle of some kind
Tommy (a few seconda later)—I wont
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It Turaod Ont All Right.
Young Wife—Just to think, Harry,
dear, my new hat blew into the street
to-day and' was run over by three wagons, four carts and an omnibus.
Harry—Humph 1 Tbat means a newj
bat, of com*, e.
Young Wife—No, truly., It was Tes
cued, and I look it to Mme. Wayuppei
who was perfectly charmed. Tne waa
ons and things had mangled lt into th?
most fashionable shape iraaginable.-
Tit-Bitt.