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They were winding up with one gorgeous
lark. Their idea of fun was to prance
through the train with loaded revolvers, fir
ing out the windows. A train boy passed
through the cars with basket Of peanuts for
sale. The cowboys suddenly took it into
their heads to sell out the peanut fcnd's stock
for him. They drew i'll their pistols from
firing out the window, and brought them
to bear on the passengers instead.
They pointed the cold, persuasive bar
rel successfully at every man in
the train and ordered him to buy or be
shot. There was one tall, thin, dyspeptic
gentleman in black, evidently a minister, who
was plainly outraged with this treatment
He raised his hands and lifted his eyes to-
wards heaven, protesting, but it was no use
He was ordered to shell out and stop his row.
He did it. SO they went through the train
till every peanut was sold. You will see
from this what the cowboys idea of joke is
In civilized region he is an uncomfortable
creature to have around. But out on his
own plains he is "A picturesque looking object
enough. He rides the wiry bucking tough,
SCrubby, untamcd little Indian mustang
pony, as if he and it made n ccntaur. Fixed
in coil to his saddle is the la,so or lariat
with which he catches the wild cattle. The
mustang, the cowboy and the Texas steer are
all nearly equally wild. The cowboy wears
his hair long and SLOUGH hat upon his head.
What he wears his hair long for nobody knows.
A high Mexican saddle is grdcd around
the shaggy pony, and the cowboys blanket
is strapped on behind. There is one thing
about which | cannot make up my mimi.
That is whether the cowboy is an imitation
OF the ideal figuring in the literature of Joa-
quin Miller and Bret lIarte, or whether there
ever was a real rip-roaring, wild man of the
plains whom they described. To me the
cowboy seems rather trying to live up to his
blue china, as it were, and his blue china is {,
sort of dime novel hero
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

The building occupied by the work of this
bureau is shown in the illustration. Here at
little desk sits the officer who is to prognosti
cate the weather for the whole country, and
his method of doing it is briefly this He is in
Geographic communication with the members
of the signal corps of the army. These men
are stationed at various posts over the whole
country from Halifax to San Diego, and
from Fort Garry to Key West. Observations
of the weather are taken three times day,
at intervals of eight hours. Each observation
peing taken all over the country at precisely
the same moment of Washington time, and
are Immediately recorded. The facts thus
obtained are charted upon map of the
United States That is, lines are drawn over
the places reporting equal temperature.
Other lines are drawn over the stations on
the map reporting like barometic pressure.
These last lines are termed "Isohars," and
the lines Of equal temperature "lSotherms.
From careful study of this map of the
United States, with the freshly drawn
"Isobarsn and "Isotherms,' the officer in
charge is enabled to determine the probable
movements of the storms, winds, cold waves,
etc, and makes his prediction for the differ
ent sections. These predictions are immedi-
ately telegraphed over the whole country,
and published in the press and through
bulletins, and 10y the recently adopted system
of signals.
The official head of the signal service is
Gen W. b. Hazen, who succeeded "Old
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26
FARM AND GARDEN,
An Arabian Horse.

Arabian horses are being imported into
America to slight extent of recent years.
Messenger, the famous old stallion from
whom our American trotting stock is all de
scended, had large strain of Arabian blood
in him.
Arabian stations have been brought to this
country from time to time as presents to pub
lie men and others But it is doubtful if full
blooded Arabian mare was ever in the
United States. They are valued more highly
than the stations, and not allowed to leave
the country.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26
To Sow Blue Grass.

got some thirty bushels of extra cleaned
seed, then | went to the saw mill and got
load of sawdust. ! spread a layer of saw
dust on the barn floor, then ten bushels OF
blue grass seed, then another layer of saw
dust, and SO on until the blue grass seed was
all used up. then took rake and mixed 1t
thoroughly. When done mixing shoveled
all into the wagon and drove to the field and
went to work sowing, taking as much in my
hand at "A time as my hand would hold of the
sawdust and blue grass seed and spread 1t
like sowing oats 10y hand, aiming to put two
bushels of seed to the acre. or at least
bushcl and a half to the acre
The advantage of using sawdust over dirt
to mix with is first, it is much lighter to
carry, and the sawdust being about the same
buoyancy rs the blue grass seed, the seed
would stick to the sawdust, which gave bet
ter spread of the seed. The objection to sow
ing dirt besides the weight was that when
you throw your handful out to spread it, the
dirt, being much heavier than the blue grass
seed would spread off by itself and not carry
the seed along with it.
Should you not get the amount of seed you
desire to put ON an acre the first time of sow
ing you can easily 90 over the ground a sec
ond time 10y going cross ways of the way you
went first. The amount of sawdust you use
is not particular but to begin with, as an ex-
pertinent, | would advise to take three bushels
of sawdust and mix twenty-one pounds of
blue grass seed with it, then me lsure Off an
acre as near as you can, and try how evenly
you CO a spread the three bushels of sawdust
and twenty one pounds of blue grass seed on
that acre. by the time you have done this
you have learned about how to proportion
yOur seed and SaWtuSt so as to give Won an
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ceived the wound which destroyed his eye,
and from the effects of which he never recov-
cred In 1864 he was made brigadier gen
eral and the following year brevet major
general for conspicuous bravery.
Mr.. Miller was a firm believer that there is
such thing as luck in business. His own
career he often instanced rs an illustration
One day ships captain called upon him at
his Office in the San Francisco custom house.
The captain showed him the uudrcsScd skin
of a seal, and snid that he knew where mil
lions of them could be obtained He sug-
gested to MIR. Miller that he furnish him with
the means TO fit up his vessel, md lac would
go on "A scal-catching trip for a certain per-
centage of the profits Mr. Miller declined to
have anything TO do with the project, but the
captain was So persistent that Mr. Miller in
duced n few capitalists to subscribe
small sum. None of them had much
faith in it, and Mr. Miller says that he
never went into any business scheme with
less thought. Behold the captain returned
with his vessel loaded with skins, and for u
good consideration he revealed the locality of
the seal islands. Keeping the discovery secret
the Alaska Seal company was formed, OBJ
tanned the exclusive right TO capture seals
from the United States government, and in a
few years had amassed immense fortunes
Mr.. Miller said that, curiously enough, every
investment he made since then wa, profitable,
though he exercised less care and business
caution in so doing than he had in many in
vesments before his luck changed
| Senator Miller was one of the rich men OF
the senate, and belonged to the cotcrie of t.a,
body familiarly known as the "Millionaires'
club" He was man of commanding pres
ence when in good health. Mrs Miller and
a daughter survive him.
PERRY BARTON
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In winter the cowboys have not much to
do. The cattle roam over the plains at will
"hustling' for their living, as it is called.
that is, picking it up through the snow.
They run down to skin and bone and many
freeze and starve to death. During these
months the herder is in winter quarters.
With the appearance of the grass in spring
his activity begins. All the cattle are
branded with their owners mark. 1t is the
work of the boys to select each mans out.
lasso them as shown in the picture, and gather
them in "A herd to themselves 1t is a work of
difficulty and danger with the wild, long
horned cattle; but the horses are trained to it.
The rope Is twenty to thirty feet long. The
end of it is in slip moose. This must be
aimed and thrown exactly around the cows
horns. As the animal struggles and tries to
pull away, the moose only tiGhtcns, and tho
little horse drags the captive to its own herd.
All ere then driven to their several owners
rancho, or herding grounds for the summer
The herder must remain with them night and
day the season through, Watchmcn must
stay up with them in the night, to prevent
stampede -''u thunder storms or other
causes of \ stampede Of drove of
cattle is scl...5 business.
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same COOI were sold
for from 5000 to s., 900 apiece. one whose
mate went for s., 100, had a handle knocked
of and sold for $1,000 making the lost handle
worth s., 100.
The whole art collection, however, is worth
nothing like what the lady paid for it. 1t is
a monument of nothing so much as the
avarice and dishonesty of tradosmcn 1t is a
miserable mean sort of excuse for such
people TO say if they had not got her money
somebody else would have. The good
woman was fleeced right and left. a Pres
byterian preacher named Conkling is sup
posed to have got about 100000 out of her.
Among the collection was vast number Of
rare and costly orchids She paid 500, 900
for them, while they were worth only 10 per
cent of it,
The whole story is remarkable. Charles
Morgan scrimped and toiled and schemed
and lived like beggar most of his life to
heap up millions. After his death fate in
grim irony, took the millions and tossed them
on the wind like thistledown And of them
ell 1t does not appear that one dollar ever
went for the real good Of anybody
A. j. boutwell,
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fame, and Woodruff, and six second lieuten-
tenants, besides several clerks. The bureau
was created in 1870 but did not commence
operations on an extended scale until 1874
1t controls and operates several thousand
miles of telegraph. The system of gathering
reports of the weather, and from them formu-
lating weather warnings, Is likely to be
adopted eventually over the whole globe.
Just now a storm is approaching the
weather bureau in the shape of n congress
sional investigation which may test its sta
bility. 1t has weathered other storms be-
fore this, though this one may develop into
cyclone and leave it shorn of much of its
present Importance. After the pcculations of
Capt. Howgate it was said the signal service
would have to go down under the gale which
then arose; but it was not budged from its
moorings and Howgate went into some safe
harbor where he has been sheltered since
THE LATE SENATOR MILLER
The late Senator John Franklin Miller
exhibited in his last illness an amount of
will power which recalls the heroic patience
of Gen. Grant. 1t is said he lived on his
nerve for "A long time prior to his death,
which was the result Of a complication of
disorders arising primarily from a severe
wound in the eye received during the war,
twenty three years ago. The bullet remained
in his head about twelve years before it could
be extracted, and the wound Slapped his
strength and rendered him an easy victim to
disease.
Gen. Miller was born in Indiana, in 1881
his parents being Nirginians He was law
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

Probabilities, Gen.
Myer, in 1850. He
superintends t h e
instruction of Off
GERS and men in
signal duties, at
Fort Whipple, just
across the Poto-
mac, on Arlington
heights. His head
quarters are here,
though, and he has
for assistants Capt.
Jones, and First
Lieuts. DunwOody,
Wheeler of Arctic
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

Yer and then a state
senator W h ZEN the
war broke out. He
Immediately resign
ed his scnatorship
and organized the
Twenty-ninth Indi-
ana regiment. He
served in command
of a brigade under
Sherman, Buell.,
r ose Grams and
Thomas, receiving
severe wounds in the
battles of Ston e
River and Liberty
Gap, where he re-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

otbnr vessel lint it
;s hard to Get the
Amid ont II i ant
to spill when being
no,lrcd ont. To OBJ
viota this use a
cork having two
c,,,al, lin trLos
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

SANTA FE, ~ NJ, March 15,-When the
cowboy who chases the festive Texas steer
comes to civilization he gets on the rampage
AMI becomes no less a holy terror than the
Texas steer himself My first sight of the
cowboy was on the train coming out here last
spring. A band OF them were returning
home after n visit TO the sites.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26
THE UNTAMED COWBOY.
HOW HE GOES "RlDlNG AFTER
CATTLE ON THE PLAINS"

How He Looks in Picture-"Roplnc
and Cutting Out"-Dinner at Round
Up"-IIis Idea of Fun-Sclling IA Pea
nut Fiends stock In Trade.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

If you would like to know what she did to
make her worth So, 900, here it is in horse
talk:
Dew Drop ran in all ten races last year,
leading off 10y winning ive-furlong sweep
stakes, at Sheepshcad Bay, in June She was
In turn unpaced for the Surf and Seabright
stakes, second to Charity for the Flatbush,
won the Great Eastern handicap, at three
quarters of a mile, from a field of twenty
one runners, carrying 10 pounds, in 1:l64;
was unplaced, with III pounds, to Walter
Fl. for the Adicu stakes at the same distance,
after which she i'll turn won the Nursery and
Champagne stakes both at three-quarters of
a mile, at Jerome Park the former with 1l2
pounds, in l:1S&4, and the latter with 122
pounds in the same time. At Baltimore,
Dew Drop III turn took the Central and
Ecliptc stakes, both at a mile, running the
latter in Az.
Is that satisfactory Dew Drop is as you
sse, of no earthly real use to anybody.
THE MORGAN ART COLLECTION
Charles Morgan was as grouty and stingy
an old curmudgeOn, it is said, as ever pinched
nickel. His head was "A bowlder and his
heart was a flint. He toiled early and late
schemed and planned to overreach others,
and scrimped and lived in a shabby, low
down sort of way, till be got capital enough
TO embark in large enterprises. He embarked,
but still lived in the shabby, scrimpy way
Then his wealth mounted into the millions
He made the largest part of it in the steam
ship business between New York and the
Isthmus of Panama during the gold fever
days. So far as appears he had not n soft
spot or "A kindly spot in him unless it was for
his second wife, Mary Jane, who made the
famous art collection.
The old miser's first wife died His daugh-
ter was put to school at Flushing, n y. One
of her lady teachers went home with her on
= visit. The father set eyes on the good
natured spnster and asked her to marry him.
She did So 1t seems as if Mary Jane was
allowed during Morgan's lifetime to spend
more of his money than anybody else ever
had done. He died worth $l5,O 900 to $50,
000,0 600, He left Mary Jane $5,OO0,oOO of this
to do what She best pleased with. That was
seven years ago. The widow, who had never
In her girlhood had a second bonnet to her
head, set about making the most gorgeous art
collection in America. She spent, as nearly
as | can get from the figures at my command,
s3,S00,0OD for this purpose And for this
great, laundering heap of wealth there re-
mains to show chiefly the peachblow vase.
CYou should call it "vaz," to rhyme with
"was;" but some call it "vaws," to rhyme
with "cawS.
Mrs. Morgan paid her money for it and
called it what She liked. 1t is of a dull gray.
ish pink color, is eight inches high and three
inches across. 1t is smooth, brightly glazed
piece of pottery enough, rather pretty looking
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26
HOW WEATHER IS MADE.
A storm Over the Weather Bureau-The
Late senator Miller.

WASHINGTON, March l7.-From this time
until the crops are all in there is one de-
partment of our government whose work
is looked to daily with great deal of in
terest 1t is the weather bureau. On the
accuracy of its predictions depends often
the safety of much valuable property.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

Small convcniences save much labor in the
household. In the way of these there is moth
ing better than the cork for kerosene jug,
shown in the illustration.
A Jug is better to keep kerosene in than any
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

outfit is the smoker,
with which to blow
away the small
enemy when he is
infuriated and tries
to drive away in
vadcrs from his
quarters.
1t consists Of u
sort of furnace with
bellows attached.
The picture ex-
plains itself and
will be appreciated
by everybody who
has tried to hold a
burning torch and
blow with his
breath the smoke
from it among the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26

but Mrs. Mary
Jane Morgan paid
$1,000 for it, cold
money, What do
you think of thati
When her collec-
ton was auctioned
off a few days ago
Mr.. W. T. alters,
of h altim ore,
bought the thing
and paid SIS, 900.
What do you think
of that still morei
1t is probable now
thatpeachblow pot
terry will become
the fashion. Mrs.
Morgan's $15, 900
vase belongs to
what is call d the
Kang-he period of
Chinese pottery. 1t
is about 200 years
old, more or less.
Other vases [ h q
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Happiness

results from that true contentment which
Indicates perfect health Of body and mind.
You may possess 1t, II you will purify and
invlgorate your blood with Ayers Sarsa-
parilla. +. NJ. Howard, Newport, \. H.,
writes: GO suffered for years with Scrof-
ulous humors. After using two bottles OF
AYer's Sarsanarilla [
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NEW YORK, March F.-Quiet people out
ode of cities have no idea of the reckless
crazes for this or that class of objects which
seize people who have more money than they
know how to spend. This time last year
New York was in the throes of hard times.
Working people were in distress, and rich
people complained that stocks were worth
nothing, and there was no investment for
their money. To be sure, there was always
the chance that presents itself Of laying up
their treasures in heaven, but somehow rich
people have never regarded that prospect of
getting their money back as a good one,
and they have never caught on" to that
movement to any extent.
But now times are good again, Judging by
the way the wealthy hereabouts are parting
with their money They are throwing it
away on objects which to plain, honest people
seem like the verest trash.
There for instance is that scruffy-looling,
mule-nozed, blazed-faced, little 3-year-old FLY
Dew Drop. The Dwyer Brothers have just
bought her from Pierre Lorillard for $4,000.
She is a racing creature, running beast
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then force the tubes tightly through them
as shown Keep this cork at home, and use
another when the jug is sent to be reiilled.
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great relief. 1t has entirely restored me to
health" James French, Atchison. HANS,
writes: "To all persons suffering from
Liver Complaint, would strongly rccom-
mend Ayers Sarsaparilla. l was afflicted
years, when friend advised me to take
this medicine. 1t gave prompt relief, and
has cured me-" Mrs. II. NJ. kidder, Al
Dwight ST., Boston, Mass, writes: /" For
several years have used Ayers sarsa-
parilla In my family. l never feel safe,
even
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26
HOW THE MONEY GOES.
A RACE HORSE FOR $4,000 AND A
LITTLE VASE FOR $4,000.

pictures of Dew Drop and tho Peach
blow Nase--How Mary Jane spent
Charles Moraan's Millions on Alleged
High Art.
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AT Home

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