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NO 81 DEER LODGE, MONTANA, FEBRUARY H. 1888,

every possi~4e experiment suggested by a
heterodox or fertile fancy. The Mormons of
Kirkland and Nauvoo, the Icarians of Maui
VOC, the Rappites Of Pennsylvania and New
Harmony, the Owenites, who succeeded at
the latter place, the Shakers of Ohio and
many other sects furnish material for this
branch of inquiry. And, saddest story of
all, Gnadenhutten was founded, grew, -four
ished and was destroyed before Marietta was
located.
In 1749 the British parliament acknowl-
edged the Moravians as an Episcopal church
and invited them to settle in North America
and convert the Indians. The history of
their enthusiastic work in this line is dis
gracefully neglected by Americans; it makes
the blood of any noble minded man thrill to
read of their sacrifices. They soon had sta
tions from the north of Canada to Savannah,
Ca; and in the wilderness of what is now
Tuscarawas county, o., they established the
noted mission Of Gnadenhutten CsTents Of
Grace') Here they soon had 100 Christian
Indians and their fate even now demands
tear Of sympathy. When Col. Crawford's
expedition penetrated the Indian country tie
wild borderers discovered that the savages
from the Wabash, who had lately raided
Pennsylvania, had visited this town on their
way; and without particle OF proof they
decided that Gnadenhutten was refuge for
the hostiles. Before daylight Of March s,
1882, the savage whites fell on the Christian
Indians, exterminated the whole community
Of about 100 persons and destroyed the town.
There is no parallel in our history to this
atrocity, unless it be found in the Mountain
Meadow massacre or the slaughter ut Camp
Grant, A. T. 1t is related here as but one
of a thousand thrilling incidents of the
century which is to be celebrated.
What was the northwest territory now
contains some IL, ,000, 900 white people, It is
a nation in itself, and with the energetic men
at tho head of the enterprise its centennial
should be of equal interest to any i'll our his
tory. The material is overabundant We
may safely prophesy that the centennial Of
the northwest territory will attract an i'm
mense throng of visitors, and exert an cdu-
eating power that will work for the develop
ment of the country, and the culture Of pa
f1,in
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Rocky mountains. The common cinnamon
bear of eastern Utah is comparatively
harmless creature; the black or brown bear,
further north and west, is much more
formidable, though his weight does not often
exceed 600 pounds; but for size, strength and
courage the California grizzly outdoes both
of them in one. HE attacks on sight"
hunters say, while the other species do not
attack man unless cornered. No matter
how thick the dogs may be around him, the
grizzly disregards them when the hunter
comes in sight and goes for the man. Griz-
zlies are still numerous in northern Califor-
MIA, especially in the narrow and wooded
canyons that break out from the coast range
Twenty five years ago Sylvester Scott es-
tablished stock ranch eight miles west of
Cloverdale, on the highlands near the Rus
sian river; and the bears seemed to consider
his cattle and horses their special perquisites
At first Mr.. Scott fought them with common
dogs; but they were too easily cowed. He
therefore crossed his hounds and mastiffs
with tie big Russian terrier and staghound;
and produced an entirely new breed-dogs
without fear or reproach, that will tackle
anything that wears hair.
Since then it has been a war of extermina-
tion on both sides; about half his pack is laid
up at any given time with wounds, and he
has had many dogs killed, but he averaged
killing forty bears year for many years.
His champion year was 1878, in which he
killed sixty-four; since then bears have rap
idly decreased, and now he only gets one oc-
casionally.
Many noted sportsmen from all parts of
the world have been Scott's guests. In 1870
Prince Staunberg of Austria and his attend
.. untss remained there soma days and killed
four bears. In 1879 the noted Henderson
brothers, of Scotland, visited him and added
some grizzly bear skins to their lion skins,
tiger skins and other trophies gained in
many parts of the world. In days of old
mythology would have made demigod of
such man Us Scott, and he would have
ranked in popular worship with Orion and
Hercules, and other half historical heroes
who cleared their countries of serpents and
wild beasts
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BUFFALO FIRE, FROM SWAN STREET.
the city-Barnes, Hcngcrer & Co.:s-was
burned with it's contents, and several other
establishments were badly damaged. No one
knows how the fire started.
Newspaper readers have read full accounts
of this fire of course. but here is pictur-
esquely told incident not generally circulated,
from The Buffalo Express:
Sanford D. Peek: salesman ct t;,e sstine co,,n-
ter, which is also near t.lc head of the basement
stairs, hears the echo ''rirc. fire. ringing
through the upper floors. ana remembers a girl
up there who always faiats at the least excite
ment. He runs to the second floor, then to the
third, shouting, the cry again. and finding the
stairs almost inpassa5le because Of the stream of
people coming down to Escape by the Main street
doors. On tn" third floor he finds score Of
young women doubtful whether or not to believe
the startling words which have just reached their
ears. Mr.. Peck warns them to flee. and calms
them by saying: There i, plenty of time if yo,,
20 now-but don't wait to put on your wraps
They obey him.
Then the brave salesman runs half way up the
stairs to the fourth floor, and shouts but hearing
no response. and knowing that little time is left
he turns to descend. Smoke Eicets him in dense
puffs, which fill the stairways. He reaches the
second floor and is nearly blinded and suffocated
by smoke There are no answer; here to his
shouts, as all have escaped. Remembering that
several pals OF water are standing ct the head OF
the first fight of stairs, he gropes his way to
them, douses the water in his face. feel; for the
edge of the top stair, and on hands AID knees
descends through the hot. black smoke. crawls To
the door and is out on the street, barchca(le ahi
coatless. While passing through the door he /,
nearly drawn back again by the air. which is be-
ing sucked in as through a draft t. feee The nsw
raging furnace within.
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PROFILE OF THE TUXSEL.
Brookly;
New York

and the experience in tunneling at He'll Gate
showed that to be ample, as there the leakage
was SO slight that it was removed by one
pump. The entire course of the tunne, under
the river as well as city. will GO through
that hard gneissoid granite OF. which New
York and vicinity rest; tie tunnel also viii
be lined with brick or artificial stone, AMI
the water seeping in will bc drained to q
"sump" and pumped out
The two ends ard the seven shafts to be for
elevators that is, stations will give faces
enough for work to employ all the men
skilled in that line and al! the available en-
gines; and both men and engines can he
transferred from the new aqueduct, which
will be finished i'll May. OF course steam
cannot be used in such a long tunnel. The
motor will be electric, and as the tunnel will
be lighted by electricity there will be neither
gas, smoke nor dust. But this is not enough;
ventilation will be insured by suction fans,
and the rapid passage of trains will of course
aid to draw in the air from both ends. The
company expects to start with four passenger
cars each way every five minutes during the
busiest hours; but from midnight till near
5 q. m. the roads will be devoted to freight.
1t is unnecessary to present the figures on ex-
pected traffic-from all Long Island. from
Montauk Point when steamers from abroad
make it a discharging point, from the
through trains 20 New Jersey, and from the
ever swift growing passenger custom of
Brooklyn. When the great bridge was FL
ished it was thought the ferries would be al
most useless; now they are more in demand
than ever, though the bridge boasts $500
passengers a day. So, no doubt the great
subfiuvial will soon have its 10, 900 passengers
a day and still the bridge and the ferries
show no decline. There will Is seven ele-
vators in the city to bring up and lower pas
sengers.
Of course the wits and alarmists are al
ready busy with the scheme, for it is just the
sort Of project to excite the great army Of
the queer and crazy. The latter declare that
the Anarchists will gain an immeEoc advant-
age by this tunnel, as dynamite and no1ious
gases will be far more destructive in it.
They also suggest that in case of war the
enemy might thus surprise the city. The
wits retort that if foreigners lombard the
now said to bel defenseless city, the tunnel
would be splendid place for the women and
children to retreat to; that the bank specie
and other valuables might be stored in it,
and it worse came to worst, the whole popu-
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AT TH1RTY-THIRD STREET AND SIXTH AVENUE.
the past forty years the talk of such tunnel
has slowly increased, and few days since
the incorporators presented their petition,
which briefly states: That they constitute a
state of New York, whose object is to con-
meet the city, Long Island and the Jersey
shore by tunnel, with elevators in New
York city. Under the East river there are
to be two adjacent parallel tunnels, which
will strike the New York city side at Thirty
fifth street, join and continue under that
street to the west side of the city, where the
tunnel will reach the surface between Ninth
and Tenth avenues and Twenty-ninth and
Thirtieth streets. One branch tunnel will run
north, under the east side of the city, to tho
Grand Central railroad depot, and the other
will run south, on the west side of the city,
to connect with the Hudson river tunnel.
part of any of these tunnels will in any man
ner interfere with or affect the surface Of
the streets, for the top lines of the tunnels
will have an average depth of sixty feet
below the street surface, and in most of their
course much deeper Among the incorpor-
ators arc such men as Everett P. Wheeler,
lue Hlueut lawyer, 1IduA n. HILL, general
manager of tho elevated roads; Oliver w.
Barnes, and many others Of weight. The
president is Gen. Roy Stone, the civn en-
gineer associated with Gen. Newton in the
tunneling and explosion of the He'll Gate
rocks
Of course the great interest attaches to
that section which is to be under the East
river. The eastern terminus of the tunnel
will be at Hunters Point, Brooklyn, the west
end of the Long Island railroad; from there
twill sink steadily, by as steep grade as the
railroads can use, to the deepest point under
the river, and thence rise as rapidly to the
first place in New York city where an OPEN
ing and elevator can be located-3,2200 feet
from the place of starting, and at the middle
of this grand converse track the roof will be
but eighty feet below the low water line.
But i'll such formation this is ample, as it
will insure fifteen feet OF more, at every
point, of solid rock above the tunnel roof;
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TWO LIVING HEROES.

Driver Price and "Butch" Weiss. Who
Rislxed Life for q Woman in Peril.
The New York papers have not yet done
talking of the bravery Of John J. Price,
driver of New York's fire engine No. %, and
Christian Weiss, commonly called "Butch."
There was fire in New York not long ago,
which these two men rendered memorable BY
their splendid daring. The fire was in ten.
ement house at the corner Of Fifty-seventh
street and Tenth avenue, and Mrs Sarah
Keator, who was in the third of the five
stories Of the burning building, was cut off
frcn, all means of escape. When her situa-
ton was apparent, Price and Weiss showed
what sort of men they were.
They climbed out upon the roof of the
burning building, rendered slippery and
dangerous by the ice into which the water
from the laboring engines was freezing,
leaned over the cornice and dropped a rope
within reach of the terrified woman It was
hard to make her understand that she must
tie the rope around her, but she finally
grasped the idea and the rope, secured her
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SfranUpi

II want to tell you little story" said
Senator Robertson last evening, as he swung
into the senate chamber half an hour before
business began and seized the right hand of
Senator Pierce, the Democratic chieftain
from Brooklyn. II was walking down to
the Forty y-second street depot in New York
last week with the father of Congressman
Stahlnecker, of Yonkers; know him:" Like
book intctpolated Mr.. Pierce. "Well,"
resumed Judge Robertson, 1.-THE old gentle
man was telling me how vigorous he felt for
his years. You're not DID, remarked
In what year were you borns Eighteen
hundred and twenty three he replied
Why said I, that's my year, and I don't
cali myself old. What month were you born
in?' October he replied. That's mine,'
told him; and the day Of the month? The
10th,' he replied, the very day on which I
first saw the light. Now wasn't that strange
that in that casual meeting two men should
run across such a remarkable coincidence:'
and the genial senator from the Twelfth
strolled out in the corridor to find some other
friend, while Mr.. Pierce was left in the mid
die Of the chamber muttering, ''Strange, in
deed "-AlbauY journal
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rxpo;;,r1ov BUILDING. CINCINNATI

EXPEDITION BUILDING. CINCINNATI.
gee. Indiana, Illinois and Michigan; and those
states have already named five commission
ers each. The city has granted the use OF
Washington park, and opposite the per1na-
nent exposition building all elegant crucl-
form structure is being put up, two stories III
the main, with dome 14O feet high. Other
huildings are to be erected, and all these will
ha rsel in connection with the present expo
s;t;on halls: so there will be over forty acres
of buildings and halls, the largest and most
co,:,nletc exposition grounds on this contl-
nent.
The list of attractions is very long. There
will he exhibits for foreign states, literature,
local history, science and art, music anu
Aoral decorations, manufactures, mlnerals
and agricultural products, curiosltles from
the old civilizations, and an immense dlsPay
~ vomans Landinork of every KIND. fof
e;o,ers can import for exhibition w!t'lcas
,,s,,;n,, duty. and commissioners have v'site"
I'll the principal cities of Europe 1ol' articles,
;deos and plans of arrangement. VI COURSE -
Tho historical department Will ne very !ui''
aud in appointing commissioners ,'ie .aiious
1nvernors have taken care 10 selee' soI'e e,
nerson devoted to local history 1naeeo' 's'e
story of the settlement and deVesop'hcho =.
the northwest is one that never "es1lies -
hos oil the solid interest Of history aud more
than the charm of romance. Almost every
county between the Muskingum and the MIS-, MS,
s;ssinpi has it's local history of interest anu
its local collection of relics; the remains 0,
indian % ian workmanship are everywhere ana
every man whose taste runs in that att. way s,raw av
.,l.;,,ts stone hatchets and idols, and othc.
ps:aas p, ~ the vanished race. It is expected
hate tbat the @ department. devoted to these and
other oe ar archaeological curios will be especially
interesting. ,.;n ,,so fur
,,;sh material of abiding interest; Tor IN Tue
century just closing not only have the St 9%e
1sr denominations toiled earnestly ou1 .ne
GREAT o. territory has been the scene OF aimos'
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III ZR
SECTION SHOWING DoME's CONSTRUCTION.

SECTION SHOWING DoME'S CONSTRUCTION.
Transverse iron rods lettered T r and K.l
From that time till now that wonderful
ceiling has been thing of beauty and hor-
ror, for one of the stones split even before the
last slab was placed. Each successive gov
ernor has directed attention to it, and Gov
ernor Cleveland declared that the proper di-
rection of the work on the state house gave
him more trouble than any other ques-
ton. Governor Robinson named the capi-
tol the "Great Public Calamity" In
1882 an expert commission decided
that the trouble was due to unequal
settlement of columns and walls, and would
cease when that was complete! Not reas-
suring document. Of course rival contract
ors think bad workmanship had much to do
with it, and insist the whole thing will have
to come down. And in this painful condi-
tion does the Empire state find herself with
her s25, 100000 capitol.
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u. S. FISH COMMISSIONER.

Col. Marshall Mcdonald Lately APP
pointed to That Office.
Col. Marshall Mcdonald, the new United
States commissioner Of fisheries, comes of a
Scotch Irish family. More than century
ago numbers of emigrants from Scotland
and the north of Ireland settled the state
Of Virginia and Col McDonald's family was
among the settlers.
He was born in Romney, in Hampshire
county, Va NOW West Virginia), on Oct Is,
1885. His father, Angus Mcdonald, was
one of tho commissioners who defined the
boundary line between Maryland and Vir-
ginia. The son, after studying three years
at the Military institute at Lexington, took
YEARS course at the University Of Virginia,
returning and being graduated at Lexington
with the class of 1860.
The military institute at Lexington is cs-
pecially memorable from having had ON its
roll of professors the Confederate general.
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Result of an Accident.

Even an accident may stimulate the mem
mory in such sort as to recall long forgotten
neutral impressions, and so to convey that
the mind is regularly retentive. Dr.. Abcr-
crons5ie relates case of this kind which
suggests many perplexing problems i'll regard
to memory. A man who had been completely
stunned by blow on the head remained still
partially out of his mind when he had re-
covered from the first effects of the blow In
lis unconscious state he spoke a language
which nobody in the London hospital, to
which he had been removed, could UNDER
stand, but which was presently found to be
Welsh. It was subsequently discovered that,
though Welsh by birth, be had been thirty
years away from Wales when the accident
occurred, and had quite forgotten his native
tongue. On his restoration to full conscious
ness he lost his Welsh again completely, but
recovered his English.-knowledge
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"Stonewall brigade" Mcdonald was ap-
pointed to be inspector general on Jacksons S
staff. In this position and Ill others in the
Confederate service he remained till the close
of the war, retiring from tho Confederate
service major of engineers.
In 1866 he was appointed professor of
chemistry and mineralogy at the Virginia
Military institute, with tho rank of colonel,
and afterward to the chair of mining and
engineering at the same institution, which
position he held till 1879, when he was invited
to take position on the United States fish
commission, having four years before been
appointed fish commissioner of the state of
Virginia Since 1879 he has had charge Of
the distribution Of young fish in the various
states Of the Union, and for several years had
practically controlled the operations of the
national commission. His ingenious me-
chanical contrivances, such as his fishway
and hatchery, have rendered the propagation
and distribution of food fishes practical, and
have saved large sums annually to the gov
ernment.
Upon Mr.. Cleveland's appointment, Col.
Mcdonald sent in his resignation of fish COM
missioner for the state of Virginia. He was
not an applicant for the office, which was
conferred by the president, doubtless, prin-
cipally on account of Mr.. McDonald's expert
ence and especial fitness for the position.
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Rococo Embroidery.

Rocco embroidery is extremely pretty for
decorating articles for the toilet, scent sachet
and similar objects. This embroidery is exc
cuted with narrow ribbons of various colors,
which form the leaves and flowers, and q
chain stitching of embroidery silk, for the
stems and veirings. The pattern is first
stamped on the goods, and care should be
taken to completely cover the outlines; the
satin or silk needs to be secured i'll an en-
broidery frame for this work.
In the cut here given is illustrated how
each leaf is formed with single stitch, the
ribbon being folded lengthwise, and drawn
through the goods at the beginning and end
of each stitch, to give it the proper form.
Longer or shorter stitches are arranged
singly or III groups to compose the different
flowers and sprays of leaves, as shown in the
main figure in the cut
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CLARK II. WELLS. TOOK pafC III lne
battle which occurred at that time, the fleet
forming in circle and sailing round past
fort OIL each side of the harbor, giving
broadsde as they passed each fort, until both
were silenccd 1t was one of the earliest sue
cesses of tie war, and was received with
great eciat at the north. He served at Port
ROYAL and OIL tho Vandalia at Charleston
harbor until July, 1862, when he was pro-
NOTED to DO lieutenant commander, and i'll
1868 he was executive officer of the Phila-
delphia navy yard.
His next active service was in 1864, with
Falrasut at New Orleans. He asked and re-
ceived the command Of the Galena and took
part in tie battle Of Mobile, and was es-
pecially commended by his commander,
Farrasut, for the manner &c handled bis ship
on that occasion. From New Orleans he
ioined the lcct of Admiral Porter in the
James river, wherc he remained till the close
of the Wal. He rose through the successive
grades OF the navy until he was appointed
rear admiral in 1884. By resolution of coz
grcss he was permitted to accept the decora-
tioa of the legion of honor offered him BY
President TLiers, of France.
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SyruO for Preserving Fruit.

Preserves put up in self sealing glass jars
need not lie made as sweet as with tue old
methods. Three-quarters of a pound of sugar
to pound of fruit is now the usual rule in
preserving in hermetically sealed jars or cans.
Not few people find half pound of sugar
to pound of fruit more agreeable i'll the
case of the less tart varieties. In making the
syrup for preserves allow half pint of water
to each pound of sugar. Put over the fire in
Il white porcelain saucepan, and before the
syrup becomes hot stir well into it the white
of All egg partly beaten up. When it begins
to boil remove tho scum, and let it boil till
scum 10 more rises, then put in the fruit and
boil gently.
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Home Made Chair Bottoms

An experienced housewife tells how to re-
place the worn out bottoms of chairs with a
substitute which she says is nice and durable:
Take strong, heavy wrapping paper, cut out
just the form that you desire, and with a
firm paste stick six thicknesses of the paper
together, making thick pasteboard. Trim
the edges smooth like the pattern you cut and
with round headed tacks nail it to the frame.
After it is well dried varnish it and you have
a neat, strong seat to the chair with little
trouble or expense.
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An Invention Useful in the Laundry.

A recent English invention to prevent
shrinkage in flannel shirt collars consists in
the application to the collar after washing of
metal hoop having a stud attached. The
flannel collar is stretched around the metal
hoop or collar, and its button holes fastened
on the stud. In this position the flannel is
left to dry. The flannel collar is thus effectu-
ally prevented from growing smaller in size
during drying. The metal invention is made
in tue various sizes TO suit different shirts,
and is japanllcl OF painted.