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killed one. One day while hunting on
the plains the Government scout of a
neighboring post told me he was certain
that there were big-horns about Chimney
Rock, in Scott's Bluffs. | did not be-
lieve him in the least, but rs large
party of us, including some soldiers, were
going through from a post on the railway
to Fort Laramie we determined to spend
few days on Scott's Bluffs and prospect
there for sheep. We started, and very
pleasant time we had, skirting the base
of the hills, following the old emigrant
track to Utah. The month was Decem-
ber the weather fine and open, and game,
that is deer and antelope, abundant, with
an occasional buffalo for change.
"One day | went out alone on foot to
look for deer. had not gone very far,
walking along a ridge keeping sharp
lookout on either side, before l espied a
long way off a party of five or six deer.
Taking care to keep myself concealed, l
got up within good view and took spy
at them with my field glasses to see ii
there was a good head among the gang.
There they we're, one, two, three, four,
five deer feeding quietly, but could not
make out any antlers among them, Cur
iors looking deer, too | thought to my
self, and screwed the glass in a little, and
stcadied myself for a better look. well,
| thought, there is surel y something
strange about them, something odd about
the color. something unusual in the
shape OF sudden thought that felt
red-rot rushed through me-what if they
should be sheep! by Jove, they
are sheepv l exclaimed, as one
moved little into better light
two big rams! Just look at theil
horns-and three small ones. Then there
really are sheep and | have found themV
I declare l felt as excited as if had dis
covered q new animal or attained to the
North Pole. | was so nervous | could
not do anything for me minutes, but
after while set to work in fear anc
trembling to execute scientific st1lk.
was doomed to awful disappointment
tn day. Two Others of the party were
out shooting coyotes, birds, anything they
came across, and when after infinite trou
BILE had crept up within shooting dis
tancc they fred shot and started the
sheep, and l had all my labor to begir
over again. To make long story short
| made three stalks on those sheep anc
three times the same thing happened
The third time they were seriously srarec
and ran so far that (as it was getting
late) l was obliged to leave them, an(
with a very heavy heart set gloomy face
towards home."
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Zulu Beer.

Manzi is the Kafir word for water; and
the fact that it forms an affix for many
Katir and Zulu names, such as Dabula-
manzi, for inst ance, is a proofof the store
which is set by this too often scarce COM
modify in those regions. The Kafirs sup
plement their water and milk with beer
and in Natal it is contrary to law to sell,
or even give, Kafir spirits; though, with
regard to coolies and other colored folks,
this restriction does not apply. 1t seems
part of the utter want Of system that
up to now prevails in the colony, that no
sooner has a Kafr crossed the Buffalo,
and set foot in the Tran>vaal,
than he may buy as much
liquor as he pleases; and the quantity of
ardent spirits these people can drink with
apparent impunity would hardly be cred
tied, if it were not proved and notorious
fact. Drink that would madden a white
man has little or no effect upon the Katir;
and within my own experience | have
known of two soldiers dying within
twenty-four hours of each other, from
drinking the poison known as cape
smoke, the same quantity of which, ! was
told, would only have impaired an agree
ably comforting sensation to the tough
Katir interior. Their beer, however. is,
in moderate quantities, an innocuous
fluid enough, thick, and slightly acid,
not exactly nasty, though hard
ly agreeable to English tastes-es-
pecialIy when you are called upon
to put your lips to the bowl which has
previously gone the round of some hun
dred Kafir ladies and gentlemen. l con
clude it is not particularly heady, as it
takes whole day for the Kafirs assem-
bled at any festivity to get drunk upon
it; and though this may be i'm some MI as
ure owing to the strength OF their diges-
ton, still | have never seen an English
soldier the worse for drinking it, though
] have met many one at the weddings
which have taken place at the kraals in
the nerhborhood of the camps; and |
lament to think that, if it were highly
stimulating, Thomas would in some in
stances, have put up with its unpalatable
TASTE for the sake of its Intoxicating quail
| tiles.
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The Capercail.ic in scotland.
No

The capercailie, as Mr. Harvie- Brown,
after much discussion, decides that the
name is most correctly written, was GER
tainly a not unfrequent denizen of the
pine woods of Scotland and Ireland in
former years, but, for some not yet
clrarly-understood reasons, became grad
ually rarer in both countries, and accord
ing to the best evidence was finally
extinct between the years l745 and 1850,
although there are several records of its
alleged occurrence in Scotland at later
date, which Mr.. Harvie-Brown considers
"at least worthy of notice." In 1907 a
capercaillie is said to have been shot in
the Camus-na-gaul woods, opposite Fort
William; but this must have been the
last survivor of the ancient race, for it is
allowed on all sides that at the begin
ming of the present century the caper-
caillie could no longer be reckoned as an
existing British bird"
Its reintroduction was effected by the
late MARQUIS Of Breadalbane in 1887 and
1888, after several Intellectual attempts
Living birds obtained in Sweden through
the instrumentality of Sir Thomas Fowell
Buxton and by the energy of Mr.. Lloyd,
the well-known Swedish sportsman and
naturalist, were transported to this coun-
try and safely delivered at plymouth,
under the care of English game-keepers
About 4S individuals were imported in
these two years, some of which were
turned out. while others were kept in
captivity for breeding purposes. So well
did they succeed til t in 1862 or 1868
their numbers on the Brpadalbane estates
were estimated to b. at least 1000, while
according to other accounts'they reached
at this period to over 1000 in number.
From the plymouth woods the caper-
caillies spread gradually over the adja-
cent districts of Central Scotland,
wherever fir wood prevailed suitable to
the habits and food of the bird.
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Mr.. Cosmo Logic, late Surgeon Major
Royal Horse Guards, Blue, suggests the
following method of saving ships from
sinking when injured at 81. | recon-
mend" he writes, "that every ship shall
have a strong iron rod fixed at given
distanc from her side from end to end
this to be called a tram-rod. 2. That
there shall be on each side given num-
ber of steel plates, say some twenty feet
in length each, coiled up like those for
shop windows, having at the bottom or
last plate several spring hooks suspended.
This coil to be in Il frame work with some
small wheels at the top so as to run on
tral-rod to where required. 3. There
shall be always a rope or ropes long
enough to encirc!e the ship at her great
est circumference hung loosely across the
bow or other point on hook at each
side, fixed on the tram-rod, and at these
point weight shall be attached to thi,
rope heavy enough to sink it (the rope
10 below the level of the ship when un'
hooked; the same arrangement across the
stern. In case of all injury from ram
ming shot, &C., liable to sink the vessel
while a couple of sailors are turning the
coil to cover the injured part, four sailors
will rush to the four hooks 1.-TWO in front
and two to the rear), unhook the ropes
sink them and pull them under the ship
to opposite the coil. The ends next the
eoiliare linked on byeowesponding hooks
oaEe hooks of the coil, which is now let
down to be hauled tight by the men al
the opposite end of the rope, Thus
having steel cuirass vulcanlzad mat
tress, sail or sails may be slipped down
between the steel cuira.s and the ship, tt
The exclusion If every further drop OF
water. This is simple, inexpensive in
.veption and is capable Of being used ir
any sea and by any six of the men OF
board" .+.t
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lished with such considerable success,
"Les Rois EN- Exil" She bears in it the
transparent pseudonym of the Queen OF
Illyria.
The work, by the way, is a very clever
and interesting one; aud while carefully
avoiding the coarseness and naughtiness
of the Zola school, gives graphic ac-
count of the realities of fast life in the
higher circles of cosmopolitan society in
Paris. Several "keys" to the characters
introduced in the book are already cur
rent, as was the case with the previous
novel of the author, ''Le Nabob," but it
is perfectly obvious to the uninitiated
that the intention of the writer was by
no means to limit himself to the portrait
ure of living models, and that the at
tempt at putting a name to every charac
ter in his book is somewhat hopeless
Some of them-the Ex-Queen of Naples
under the title of Queen of 1llyria, Don
Carlos as the Duke of Palma, the
Duchess d'Alencon as the Duchess de
Malines-are entirely taken from life.
But many others-like the King of Paler-
mo, the infant, the agent Tom Lewis, the
broker Lemarey, and the dethroned
Prince himself, on whose weakness and
vice rests the chief burden of the drama
are purposely creatures of fiction, with
only feature here and there borrowed
from living models. M. Daudet has thus
happily eschewed the danger of falling
int libel or caricature, as only his sym
pathetic characters are recognizable,
whilst the others, true and masterfully
drawn as they are, could never be said to
correspond exactly with any historical
figure.
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Lord Dunraven's Decture. ]


Speaking of mountain sheep reminds
me Of the first time | ever saw one. /
should tell you first what a mouatain
sheep is. Owls Montana is very closely
allied if he is not identical with Owls
Argoli, the wild sheep of Asia, and is
akin to the Moufflon of Europe. He
stands about as high as black-tailed
deer, but is much thicker and more mas
sively made in the body and limbs. His
head resembles somewhat that of the 60
mestic sheep, but is larger and more poy-
erful looking, and the male carries a
huge pair of curving horns. The females,
also, have small horns. The hair is
coarse, very thick and close, like that of
the deer in texture, but bluer in color
over the greater portion of his body with
the peculiar exception that he looks as if
he was in the habit of sitting down in
the snow and some stuck to him. He is
a grand and noble looking animal viewed
standing motionless on some jetiing crag,
or bounding with gigantic springs down
precipice that apparently ecu d not af-
ford foothold to any living thing.
"Some years ago l doubted the exis-
tence of this animal. / classed him with
gorgons, dragons and unicorns. l had
read about him in books, but in all my
wanderings | had never seen one, not
even a stuffed specimen; neither had
come across any reliable man who had
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Manchester Guardian

Heathcoat's Mill, at Loughborough, a
factory which has for two generations
been the center of many painful ass9cia-
tions, has been totally destroyed by fire.
The founder, Mr.. Heathcoat, in 1909, in
vented an improved twist lace machine
that virtually revolutionized the indus
try. The introduction of these labor
saving machines led to the Luddite out
RACES, and in 1916 gang from Noting
ham, armed with pistols, hatchets and
axes, attacked Heathcoats Mill, over
powered the armed watchmen, shot and
injured one of them named Asher, de-
stroyed fifty-fve costly frames, cut and
burned the lace, and did damage to the
amount of more than 100000. Some &C.
completes in the outrage gave evidence
against their companions, and at Leices-
ter assizes six men were sentenced to
death on a charge of shooting with
intent to murder. They were executed
at the New Bridewell in Leicester, and
it is a noteworthy fact that at those
assizes twenty-three men were condemned
to the punishment of death. The six
Luddites We're hung with man whose
crime was that of setting fire to stack
of oats. The action of the Luddites
drove the manufacture from Lough-
borough to Tiverton, where MIR. Heath
coat amassed princely fortune.
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Training Girl.

Mrs. Abba Goold Woolson has been
giving Boston some common-.ense no
lions about "the Training that Girls
Need" In psper read before the Moral
Education Society she pronounced ILL
health a luxury that enormously in
creased the cost Of living. She advised
mothers to keep their girls from their
own fate, and she asserted that girls
should be made to lead a quiet life on a
simple diet until they are full
crown, that they should exercise freely
in the open air; that housework should
he done by them in carefully venti-
lated rooms, that their dress should be
radically changed 80 that no longer shall
their vital organs he compressed or their
hips weighed down with mass OF cloth
that no man would willingly carry. Com
pliance with these rules, she believed,
would give to the worlda nobler, health
ier race of women. The object of a
eirl's mental training should be, she said
to enable her to reason, not to fill her
brain with superficial ideas. The pro-
ces,es applied to women's minds that are
now devoted to the education Of men,
she considered, would bring about the
same results.
She advised that girls pursue with
thoroughness the disciplinary studies,
Next to this she would place the percep-
tive faculties, in which woman IL now
much more proficient than man. Woman
should also be acquainted more or less
intimately with physiology, natural phi
losophy, the laws of mechanics, chemis-
try, political economy, the characteristics
of a republican form of government,
rhetoric and natural sciences, all Of which
are far more important to the girl than
the modern Languages. First of all pa.
rental duties, Mrs. Woolson placed that
of fitting children, and especially girls
to earn an honorable living, no matter
how wealthy their family may be, since
no one is beyond the reach of possible
poverty. q"
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The q yiug Queea of Naples.

The Ex-Queen of Naples lies in an al
most hope ess condition at Vienna. 1t is
considered by her physicians improbable
that she will recover. Her Majesty has
long been known to suffer from consump-
ton, and with the present fall of leaves
her condition has assumed such an alarm
ing character as to leave no hope what
ever. The Count and Countess de Cham
bord have been Geographically sum
moned to her bedside. 1t is no mystery
that hers is the likeness attempted by M.
Alphonse Daudet in his novel just pub
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Horses may make noise from various
causes. They may suffer from a thick
ening or from an liberation Of the muc-
Gus membrane or from paralysis of the
muscles Of the respiratory organs. The
same apparent result may be caused by a
peculiar affection Of the larynx. and
many horses which are technically
termed "high- blowers" are very noisy
without being unsound. 1t is often a
nice question whether race-horse who is
noisy is affected in such manner as to
interfere with his speed when hard
pressed THE Saturday Review.
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BALTIMORE a OHIO. VIA PARKEfSBURG.
Depot, Pearl ana Plum.
baltimore FIX. daly.............. S:23am 6:33 u
lnltimnr En- daiIu O.nl,, - c,oo :.
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An exchange says that monograms will
be worn on ear tabs this winter, and it is
understood that several society bel es in
st. Louis have air 'ady received offers
from enterprising Chicago firms to furn-
ish them ear blankets for the privilege of
using the space for advertising purposes.
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when You Fcci Mean

Take Kidney-Wort. advertised in another
column. 1t acts energetically on the how
els and kidneys ut the same time, and SO
cures host Of diseases caused by the mac
tinn of these organs. II you are out Of fix,
buy it al your druggists and save doctors
bill,
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SAMARITAN'S GIFT.
SAMARITAN'S GIFT!

The only positive cure. No Balsam Co.
pabia; no Mercury; no exposure; used in
in the U. s. Hospitals:
"PosT HosPITAL Fort MARSH III, !
"BALTIMoRK, ED.. Feb. Goth. 1864.
II have great satisfaction in stating that
I have used 'TheSamaritan Remedies for
venereal diseases in its most CUSTOMARY
forms that | have used them with jndg.
ment, discretion and properly, and have
found them respond to my authorizations
promptly and effectually. Knowing their
composition. have the fullest confidence
in their efficacv. and as far as my use of
them extends / recommend them strongly.
"ALFRED @. BOWER,
Asst. Surgeon, 9th N. Y. Vols"
Many who are drugged by the quack for
months could be cured in from two to four
days BY one package of Samaritan's Gift.
Male package 50, female S. Sold by ERNST
WILFERT, Fourth and Walnut, and By
druggists.
ap16-lyr.w. So -1vrw
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By the second statute of Elizabeth's
reign prison-breaking was declared to be
felony, and was punishable by death.
But prisoner who, to save his life, broke
prison during fire was held excused.
As a commentator quantity says: ale is
not to be hanged because he would not
stay to be burned"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-09
SENATOR OOOKRELL.
From the Kansas City Mail.l

From the Kansas City Mail.l
The slush-monger politicians who last
winter sold Senator CockrelPs seat to the
millionaire railroad king in St. Louis,
will meet with some difficulty in deliv-
ering the goods. Frank CockrelFs elec-
ton to the senate in the first place was
protest by the democracy of Missouri
against the sickening scandal that atten-
ded the election OF Bogy. They were
determined to elect that time senator
who had no money to bring a swarm of
slush friends about him, and whose manly
simplicity and purity OF character won
the confidence of his bitterest political
opponents. He is not an invincible man,
and may be outwitted or overpowered
by some other aspirant. But the people
are not going to.stand quietly by and see
his seat delivered by contract to Tom AL
len or any other scrub representative of
the Corporation Oligarchy and the Mon
ey Power. The attempt to ratify that
contract will rally the whole vigor OF
Missourl's rural democracy to the sup
port of Senator COckrell, and make him
its representative and leader against all
that is vile and shameful in our politics.
The Jefferson City Tribune says that his
seat last winter "seemed to belong to
anybody who ielt disposed to trado on
it," and that it "was finally sold to .
certain prominent candidate for the sem
ate, in consideration of his gracefully
yielding up the contest, and throwing
his influence in certain direction"
And the Tribune adds: mo one can de-
ny that Gen. Cockrell has made q faith
tul, efficient and useful senator. Mis-
souri, has had no better representative in
the senate since the days OF Benton, and
except as a great debater. CocErell ID
more popular as a senator than Benton
ever was, and Tor all practical and use
don think that the parties promising
can deliver the property.
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partisans paid from the public treasury,
and tell me whether. if the policy which
has impoverished the mass of the people
and piled up vast fortunes which have
risen as rapidly as cloud mountains in
the sky shall be permitted to go on. These
powers, backed by the army and navy,
may soon be strong enough to make
rule by ballot as completely farce as it
was in the republic OF the bogus Napo-
leon. Neither the great wealth holding
powers OF this republic nor the party
which represents them can be trusted
with the preservation of the sacred fire
OF liberty. They have not sufficient in
terest in preserving it; they are at least
as safe under corrupt and aristocratic
rule; they want privilege, exemption
aristocracy; not equal rights, equal tax
alton and the ballot. 1t may be long
before they strike at the mere form OF
our government. but they have struck
and are striking at its spirit l speak
not OF individuals. but OF classes; for
among the wealthiest men are many OF
both parties who love and are faithful to
our democratic system of government
But it is the mass of the people-farmers,
owners OF small industries. and those
whose dependence and hope tor them
selves and their children is in we'll pait
labor-who have the profoundest inter
est in the preservation of every part o
this most perfect form of government
in which is set the jewel OF popular lib
erty. They have it in their keeping in
the free ballot held by independent men
and if they would hand it down to thei
children they must protect themselve
from impoverishment by insidious fin
ancial legislation. and prevent the ballot
box from being wrested from the contro
of their home-government. lr
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the BRIDAL VEIL.

This is not the original "Alice Carey's Sweet.
est Poem,' but it is one among her sweetest:
We're married. they say. and you think Won
Well, take that white veil from my head and
look on me-;
Here's matter to vex YOU and matt.r In orior
you, h
Here's doubt to distrust you and faith to b,liev.
yOu- W. '' Z
am all, as you see. common earth, common dew
BE wary, and mola me to roses. not rue.
All! shake ont the flmy thing, fold after fold
And see If you have me to keep and to hold
Look close on my heart-see the worst Of its
shining
1t is not yours today for the yesterd,v,s ,v,r
The psstis not mine-I am too proud to borrow
ou must grow to new heights if [ love Won tn-
morrow.
We're married! Pm plighted to hold up your
PRAISES
As the turf at your feet does its bandrul y,
That way lies my honor-my pathway of pride
But mar mark you, If greener grass grow eithei
shall know it. and keeping in body with Won
Shall walk in my spirit with feet on the dew.
We're married! Oh. pray that our love do no,
have wing wings hattened down and hid under my
They are subtle as light-you can never undo
And swift in their flight-you can never pursue
And spite Of all clasplng, and spite of all banss
can SID IKE shadow, dream, through your
Nay, call me not cruel. and fear not to take me
I'm yours tor my lifetime. to be what YOU mai , /,
me,
To wear my white veil for a sign or a cover.
-as you snail be proven my lord or my lover:
cover lof peace That Is dead, or u token
VI oiss that Can never Ue written OF spoken,