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from seven 70 eight feet in height. A
section of salt some thirty feet In
thickness Is left between each
room as sapport to the solid mass
above A thickness Of five.or six feet
| Is left above as root. aud a snbatan.
tial rAof il makes, as tho salt in IFS nat
ural state Is almost as hard as rock.
There are no other supports than tho
columns OF salt that arc left
s'Of these rooms mentioned there are
fifty or sixty at the present time. ard
the workmcn are distributed about,
working in several rooms Mt time.
There is no necessity OF foreman in
each room, rs the number Of carloads
OF salt delivered at tho shaft tells the
tale as to whether the mon are shirlx.
ing their duty or not. A railway runs
through the main tunnel and branches
cxte nd in all directions Tho cars arc
hauled from the several rooms by large.
powerful mn les, and there are some
thirty of these In the mine.
There Is n blacksmith's shop In the
mine whore the tools are repaired and
the mules are shod. and there Is also d
large stable where the mules are shell
tered during the night or course they
would be well sheltered In the mine,
anyway, but II allowed 70 roam about
they could find nothing "a eat but salt
and the railroad track, and the average
mule cannot exist on adiet Of thislind.
This stable Is far ahead OF the ordinary
stables about the country, and there Is
every convenience and luxury for his
muleship. The stables are some forty
or fifty feet in length and twenty or
thirty feet wide, with wood floor and
wooden stalls and hangers This Is
the only combustiblc substance there
y about tho mine. and there are no cx-
posted lights anywhere about IL Di-
rcctly In the rear Of the stRAles is what
Is known as the barnyard. This is d
large room cut In the solid salt, and
here the mules arc turned out for re-
cupcration.
"0nc may imagine that q salt mine
Is a bad place to work. but aside from
the fact that II is a little dismal there
are no bad features about IL. Unlike
q coal mine, IL Is clean, and there Ii
almost an even temperature the year
around, ranging from fifty-eight to
sixty degrees, winter and summer.
The ventilation Is perfect and the sya-a
tenn for supplying fresh mir Is not cx-
ccIled by my mine in the world. IN
some Of the passagcways the air rushed
through with such velocity as 70 cx-
tingnish the lights.
''The experience in going up the
shaft Is somewhat different from that
while going down. The signal Is given
from below after you have been safely
stationed IN the car. and away she
goes. Your hat sinks down fitly
on your head and your clothing seems
to sit right down tight whore IT,
belongs A person who Ii lit
tie weak In the knees would also have
q tendency 70 sit right down tight On
the bottom Of the car The roar Of
the wind as you hustle up toward day
light is about all that can be heard.
When near the top the speed Is
lessened, and II Is then that one Inn
agincs that he Is going down again at
the rate Of about thousand miles n
minute. but finally the daylight begins
to peep down at you and you nre landed
safely on top. only few seconds hnv-
ing elapsed since yon walked upon the
car below
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Msmonlgs


The s1mfscf sns "a rink m now.
The western ekY - Al As.low,
A. Nand'rsng thraa-h tho rAeaepW pathA
Tho silent shadows ccrie and ros
Tho meadows eheoa IA chiliish cleo.
] gathered nowSrs or chased tae beo,
I bend and pluck datsy fal-.
While tears my eyts are nlliRg FAST
For memory comes with silent stcn
And lifts The vail that hides the past
While backward roll Ito hyacona ycars,
So fraaght with snrrows. Joys aud tearA
see myself. o slender youth,
So full 81 plans for coming years,
As slowly home drove the cows,
Naught knowing OF life's cares and fcarA
But longing much the world 10 see
And planning all that would b.
on, crgcr, hoTefNi, trusting heart
You did not know lifr's thorny way.
Or. even when carth's laurcls won.
How quick they fade at close Of day
WoGld | could be yont h again,
SO Tree from heartache. care and rain
--lulia Wood, IN Good Housekeeping
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WEEKLY WORLD.
Consists Of Eight Pages
and is sold for 81 90 y
per Year.

This explains why its circulation has
grown SO rapidly, and why adyestisers
prefer III To constitute good adyer-
Using medium, weekly must be newsy
and interesting. The more news II
contains, The better for the advertisers.
Send for sample copy, and compare
it with its competitors. Examine and
investigate for yourself Give it a
trial and you win bcreadily convinced
that you have made great mistake
in not using its columns long ago i,
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BUSINESS Iocal.s.

FlW Tue LADIES -tluF Mr. n. II Buckley
Will Ne IN youF city AZ the Continental Ms.
iei on Monday and Tuesday. and Wednesday
until noon. with 3 full line % samples from M
menf. All gnods arr offered III the same prices
they are sold for in Baltimore Special things
e new silks and dress gnasis. Hoping yof, viii
laNor HIM with = call. We are respectable
JOEL GUTMAN ii 10,
Importers md Retailers Of Fine Dress Goods
'iis 10 i2s y. Eutaw street Baltimore, Nd.
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Tho Fault Of the Fish.

II remember" said a schoolmaster,
when was boy going out one morn
ing before sunrise to fish for pickeFel.
! had just hooked aSbig one, when along
came countryman. He said nothing,
but, with mouth wide open, stopped to
zee the fun. The contest had lasted
more than half an hour, when sudden
", as was about to land the prize, the
piclSerel, with one last rush for liberty.
made good his escape. With d hump ii
my throat instinctivcly turned to the
lountryman for consolation, and got it
Well. Ideciare, said he, you held on
70 your end. young fellow, but he didn't
hold on to hisl'r--G Golden Days
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sentences ra.sed - .he Jaare.

Life is an agglomeration Of incon-
gruities.
Against vulgarity there Is no de-
fenseA
Il Is easierto out-ridicule folly than
10 onttreason 1t
Kindness too far extended becomes
IN the eyes Of the recipient an obliga-
tion.
A manscan afford to be critical, mot
having been born with theincumb ency
Of pleasing
The last probability Is that money
should produce happiness; what Il does!
Is to make happiness possible somes
times Katlrine Grosjenn. 10 Judge
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TMg IFAsMER.

The farmer i Aroyal nAn.
A lord. king.
lie rcirns on Gods primeyai rian--
OF him sing
Rrarorslxc 70 ! Is daily care.
Earth "a Ida Vi = isast
Isc sfiNs ht plants and hArvcsRs falr
Spring tr0m the dust
nciieiens ft4lits counlless sforo.
From rarths i;rtesi bresst.
Around NJ il.eir rich frasraacc pour.
And make us rlcsE
Tic fssmeg wiclia q seeptcr grand.
hHl NiHa effect itisEs
Pay slcfefsucc 10 his tailsng haad,
fhai teasnfe hringS
Tho monarch az tho railroad guild
M,tt teads The knee;
Thnfa ieesis him ana he's flIled---
Nithholds where's hes
Industrious princci atiii loyal b,
Though hana4 arr brown,
Thy ilnsalirel work VIII win Tor thee
A l4urei grown
Evelyn Traserii, ID Western Rural
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.sWhat are you doing?r asked the
sonTict Of thE reporter, who was writ
ing up tho fe4iee6tiR Tim taking
aotes." ssfInhpFl TAaks shat brought
- here. n-Washington Star.
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THE DAIRY BUSINESS.
Why 1t Is the Most Profitable Branch
Agriculture.

Why 1t Is the Most Profitable Branch Of
Agriculture.
The strong prices which have ruled
for butter and cheese during the whole
summer. even in the face of the worst
financial crash the country has seen for
fifty years, are . wonder TO great
many. Every branch of agriculture
has its ups and downs. but we have
never secn u period OF depression in
dairy products that carried the price
below profit in production hut once in
thirty-six years. That occurred in the
early part of 1879, when cheese. for
some unaccountablc reason. went down
to and o cents, but took n sudden
rise in the latter pnrt OF July to good
paying price. which 1t has steadily
maintained ever since. Every Kind of
grain raising. meat production. wool
growing. the raising of hops or tobac-
CO seem to be affected with frequent
periods Of depression, when the price
goes beloY the cost of production. This
is true at the present time Of wool. to-
bacco and wheat. Indeed, both wheat
and wool have been in the dumps for
two or three years.
The production of butter and cheese
presents cheering contrast in this
particular For years there has been
good, steady profit in the production
of q first-class article Farmers who
are thinking of engaging in dairying
will do well to consider this view of
the matter. The dairy business is sure,
sseadfast and at the same time reason
ably profitable. Where the creamery
plan prevails its returns are frequent,
SO that the farmer has ready cash once
a month. The increase of population
is greatly in excess of the increase of
cows; this fact keeps up q demand to a
paying figure year after year.-Hoard's
Dairvmau
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took no other notice Of my interrupt

took no OtneT notlCe Oh my iulSiAup-
tion.
That girl is one of the most valuable
properties on the place; probably the
most valuable. She appears to have
been treated rather too much like one
of the family; but that was my fathers
way. Gardette, you saw her at the fu-
neral-the slim girl in black, with the
long veil, that this chap here was MAX
ing some fuss over. What should you
say she's worth?"
The man addressed suspended his
smoking long enough to give shrin
whistle.
"Why, the DEVIL You don't mean to
tell me that shes your niggerP"
"Just So"
"She's worth twenty-five hundred
dollars. Shed bring two thousand at
the block any day"
"Stayl" | exclaimed. My voice was
hoarse, and | shook with emotion.
Conrad Bostock, she is of your own
blood-your's fathers daughter. The
last evening of his life he gave his con-
sent that 1 should marry her. He sent
for lawyer to draw her free papers,
and TO draw will, leaving her every
thing. The lawyer arrived here after
he had died. Mr.. LIE Fevre here knows
this. Coralie will go with me; you
have nothing to do with her"
An insolent laugh from Bostock's
companions greeted my frantic protest
Conrad looked on me with undissem-
bled contempt.
Young man, your stay in this house
will end right now. Your effects and
those of your friend, Mr.. lie Fevre,
will be set out on the veranda. AS
for all this foolishness about the girl
you've been preaching, I've nothing to
say. It's hardly the thing in Louisiana
for white man to marry slave; the
law don't permit it. If it did, do you
suppose would be fool enough give
you twenty-five hundred dollars worth
of property? Not 1. If it will make
you feel any better, I'll say to you
that, if the girl behaves herself, I'll get
a good master for her. II motif she
goes into any tantrums-oH she goes
to the Orleans slave market"
My head swan, my heart seemed to
stand still. / saw the faces of leering
devils through Iuc N1CdtAAo- ~
strong hand grasped my shoulder. LIE
Fevre stood by my side.
81 make you proposition" he said
to the proprietor. 81 will give you
twenty-five hundred dollars for her"
mo"
Three thousand dollars"
''No. She is not at present for sale"
-Four thousand dollars!" LIE Fevre
cried, with an excitement that had
never known him to betray. -Four
thousand dollars; every cent own in
the world will give you for her. She
is nothing to you more than her money
value; she is everything to Dorr. Con-
sidering who and what she is, you
ought to be glad to let her go in this
way"
The fiend shook his head. I could
bear it no longer. With fists clenched
and muscles strained, dashed at him.
The iron hand of LIE Fevre restrained
me and dragged me from the room.
AS the door was closed behind us,
heard roar of laughter from within.
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CHAPTER XIX
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left her sobbing in her own cham
ber and sent up one of the women to
attend to her. / was half stunned
with the suddenness of the blow; the
effects likely to follow had not the
courage in that hour to face. They
would come soon enough. broke the
news to the house servants and soon
had cause to forget my own sorrow and
situation in the effort to calm them.
The word was carried over to the
quarters and the hands came trooping
to the house. Never have | seen the
strong emotional side of the negro
character SO displayed. They thronged
the verandas, looking into the win
dows and wringing their hands, groan-
ing and crying with grotesque but
genuine grief. The house servants
crowded the stairs and gave free vent
to their feelings.
/ tried to quiet them, but their noise
broke out afresh.
30, yo' nebber know how good
NAUSEA he was"
80, Lordy, Lordy, what we all do
nowl What little missy do widout
himl What she do wiv all us niggers?"
In the midst of the commotion lie
Fevre rode up with Mr.. Coteau. The
overseer was shocked, as everybody
had been, at the news; but the habit
of authority was strong in him, and he
asserted himself at once. He went
among the weeping, clamoring people
on the stairs. and, with few energetic
words, sent them to the rear of the
house. The feld-hands and their
women and children he put to fight
summarily to their quarters, bestowing
2 kick Or a SuF where be thought that
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be guided, but you've the true stuff.
The girls safety and deliverance are a
thousand times more to you than to
me; yet hang me if the fix she's in
don't appeal to me in a way that can't
stand. And if you ask me If we shall
submit to have Coralie sent to New Or
leans and sold like horse to a condi-
tion worse than death I say mol by the
good mother that bore me, i won't"
pass the words said to him, the
thanks l tried to give him He cut
them all short.
"Never mind that, Dorr. I'm with
you, heart and hand; you be guided by
me, and we'll save her or"
He stopped.
Perhaps you didn't know that If
you are caught trying to abduct slave
in Louisiana they'll send you to the
Baton Rouge penitentiary for a term
of years"
Il did not know it. and don't care for
it. Tell me what we shall do"
His own excited feelings found re-
lief III a laugh at my eager reckless
ness. Rapidly he laid his plans before
me. | considered it as he spoke, and
saw that it offered chance of success.
He said that men of the class of Con-
rad Bostock and his companions, upon
such an occasion as this, would be
very sure to spend the night over the
wine bottle and cards He proposed
to communicate stealthily with Coralie
through the faithful house servants,
and after midnight get her quietly out
of the house and drive to Donaldson
vile, taking carriage and ponies from
the place. He knew that the Cotton
Queen stopped at Donaldsonville about
daylight, going up, and that to-mor-
row was her day. We would GO far
enough to reach the vicinity of rail-
road, short of any of the cities where
we might be overtaken by telegraph,
and there go ashore.
1--WE can throw off the pursuit in
this way" he said. I'VE can land at
some obscure wood station. 1t must
be this side of Baton Rouge, il the
Queen stops there, for there the tele-
graph can overhaul us, and we viii
strike across the country to some
equally obscure railroad station. I'll
defy them to find us when we are
clear of the river. I have plenty of
money; that and little adroitness
will carry us safe through to Canada
within a week"
lie Fevre, you're noble fellow. II
/ ever"
Don't bother yourself" he laughed.
"We're not there yet"
A convulsion of mirth seized him.
/ He sat down in the grass and shook
with laughter.
"You needn't fear I'm going crazy,
Dorr. But suppose anyone had said to
me three days ago: Wash LIE Fevre,
you think you're a good deal of q
southern man, now, don't you? And
you think slavery is about the thing
for the nigger, don't you? Well, next
week you'll be trying to run off a slave
to Canada Suppose any man had said
that to me! I'd struck him, If he
was as big as mountain And now
look at mer'
circumstances change all of u.s."
''They do, indeed. Now to work.
I'll go and feel round among the house
people, keeping carefully out of sight
Go get into the shade, and stay there
till you hear from me- | don't want
you with me yet; you're too RASH III
send one of the boys out here with
something to eat. Here's some cigars
these confounded 'sSeeters would eat
you up alive"
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obedience was not ready enough.
When this was done he took the law
yer into the house, had his breakfast
got iOr HIN (ior it was still early), and
sat and talked with him. When Mr..
Coteau had gone lie Fevre came to me.
"We may expect that fellow here
right off, he said.
1 started. The fear of his coming
was shadowing me; but | had not ex-
pected it soon.
"Do you mean Conrad Bostock?"
"Yes. | asked Coteau if he remem-
bered that Mr.. Bostock had a son when
he was here years ago, before he
changed his residence. He said he did
remember such a person distinctly.
That isn't of great Importance; but
what he added is"
lie Fevre spoke slowly and with an
effort.
"He said that he met Conrad Bostock
on Dauphin street, New Orleans. two
days ago, and, though he had not seen
him for years, he recognized him at
once. So you see the fellow won't
have to depend on unwilling witnesses
like you and Miss Coral and myself to
establish his rights here; he can get
people to identify him."
"What do you think"
81 don't dare to think what may
happen when that brute takes control.
/ won't talk about it. Well wait and
see. In the meantime I hope some of
his gambling friends will quarrel with
him at cards and shoot him.
The telegraph from La Fourche
crossing took the intelligence of the
planters sudden death to New Orleans
that morning; it was published in the
afternoon papers. The arrangements
had been made to have the funeral on
the second day after. On the morning
of that day Conrad Bostock arrived,
accompanied by three men of his own
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-12-15
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

IF you have never churned granu-
lated butter it is time to begin
II never increases the milk supply to
pitch milk stools at the cows
IF the cows are homegrown" and
are not gentle it is apt to be the boss
fault.
IF You mean to make a success Of
dairying this winter. believe you can
and go ahead
AT the price of feed aud milk this
season it will not pay to feed poor cows
1T never does
IT is not always the man who gets
rid of the most feed that has the best
and fattest hogs Brains help make
pork.
PERHAPS one of the things needed
about your place this winter is an ice
house; If SO do not wait till the crop Is
ripe and wasted before building the
house build it early.
LOOK out for the man that wants to
sell you the right" to get more butter
out of milk than the cow put in It.
Take the right to get out all there u in
it, but pay no royalty for doing it,
fF you have good COWS IL will pay to
feed them well-to feed them all they
will assimilate. II they lay on fat In
stead of putting the feed into milk it is
more than likely that beef rather than
butter is what they are calculated for.
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STRANGE LAW OF BUDDHISM.

Sick Lascars from India Prefer Death to
Food Prepared by Christians.
The British ship Lanark arrived in
port recently, says the Philadelphia
Press. The physician from the British
consulate went aboard to examine the
crew Three-fourths were Lascars,
shipped in Bombay. The doctor found
six suffering from heart affection and
two from other diseases. The last two
were in a serious condition. The doc
tor, through an interpreter, told one
he must be removed to q hospital. The
crew gathered around the physician
and uttered the most furious protests.
The sick man said he would rather die
than leave the ship and his country
men.
A Lascar eats nothing but food pre-
pared by a countryman; a Christian
touching it would cause contamina-
ton, and anyone partaking of it after
this defilement loses caste. This was
why the sick man preferred death to
leaving the vessel. He consented to go
only after the doctor had solemnly
promised that he should have food pre-
pared by one of the crew, and be per-
mitted to leave, whether sick or well,
when his ship cleared this port. Then
he and the o.her sick man, who is an
Egyptian, were taken to the Medico'
Chirurgical hospital.
Not another Lascar could be induced
to leave the ship. They have their own
cook, who mixes the food on square
stone, mashes and boils it. Rice, tea,
currie and water form the main part OF
their diet. Under an agreement be-
tween the Indian Steamship association
and the British government better care
is taken of the Indian than of English
sailors. The Lascars ship under spe-
cial and separate articles, which pro-
vide the kind OF food they are to have.
permit to worship as they please, and
stipulate warmer clothing and plenty
of it in cold climates. Little meat is
eaten. fer only those OF n certain caste
are allowed to indulge. The Lascars
on the Ba mark are Bu3dhists and Mus
sulmsns
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Logic IL Logic.

MAY call you Mae?"
But you have known me such
short time"
"Yes; but Mae Is such short name"
Puck.
One Of the greatest natural wonders
in Java, 1.-The fire island" large lake
of boiling mud, is situated almost in
the center of the plains Of Grobogans,
fifty ''paals" to the northeast OF Solo.
1t is almost two miles in circumference.
and in the center immense columns OF
soft, hot mud may be seen continually
rising and falling like great black tim.
bers thrust forth and then suddenly
withdrawn by a giants hands Be-
sides the phenomena of the columns
there are two gigantic bubbles near
the western edge which ill up like
huge balloons and explode ON an aver
age Of three times per minute
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PIa. 8.

injured in the least. Il is an excellent
arrangement and should be tried to
prove its value to any farmer who
keeps hogs 1t may be converted into
house for young calves when not in
use for pigs, and trough for milk can
be put into each compartment Three
illustrations of the house are shown
Fig. being the rear of the building
Fig. the interior Farm and Home.