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The herald., 1894-01-14
FooLINe THE sIRDs.
How They Are Drawn From Their Hiding
Plnces In tho Forests.

How They Are Drawn From Their Hiding
Places In the Forests.
have heard young women whistle
beautifully, mimicking tho songs Of
tho birds, the blackbird and the thrush
particularly. They fashioned simple
instruments by tho fireside, which were
easily carried in the pocket, the whole
let OF them, with which they lnimicked
tho calls for the various species. II
they wished to see whether stoat, wca-
sol, crow or jny were about, they would
place their lips on the back of one hand
and squcal horribly, the cries becoming
weaker each time, exactly like those of
rabbit caught in trap or fixed by a
btoat or weasel.
Crows, magpies and jays know very
well what that cry means. 1t is as a
dinner bell to them, for after the stoat
or weasel leaves a rabbit n foathered
company come to eat him. AS the even
Ing got moro dl1sl1y the boys would
come out in their gardens, which were
surrounded ly the fir woods, to call tho
owls to them. They would hiss and
snore like the whito owl-the barn owl
-hoot, click and bark like the wood
owl-the brown and tawrly owl-and
squeak like 1lico 20, tho pleasure of see
ing the evil sweep toward the place
where tho aoaad OF sounds proceeded
from.
You b.do still az SEQ cf don't fetch
him In this GRO tir close to cur gate"
said ono to re. | did ''bido still"
being vc-, much interested in the
whole porio1 nance. First he locked
his hands together with the thumbs up
right, and into tho hollow Of the hands
he blew between tho thumbs. This was
the hooting machine, and it was simply
perfect. Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo-e, hoo!"
rang out, the fourth note being longer
than the others. Then followed the
click of the bill, as the fine bird snaps
it in pleasant anticipation of mouse,
finishing up with the bark when the
bird springs from his resting place.
All this was done to perfection by
the boy, but the master touches were
yet to come. With small piece of
twig he ratified tick, tick, tick, tick,
tick, like the short patter of mouse
on dry leaves, for all mice travel inter-
mittingly--there is a short rush and
then halt for a few seconds. No owl
was visible yet, but the bird had got
close when he heard the rustic. AS
the lad squeaked as mouse will when
he runs at night, he looked up and
pointed. There was the owl ready for
his mouse. When the bird caught
sight of us, he departed in the same
noiseless fashion in which he had ar
rived. James Budget.
The herald., 1894-01-14
tails to do that

Very rich velvet is used in skirts for
street wear over cloth. The velvet ia
fitted closely over the hips, the cores
spreading to the full width Of the velvet,
and the breadths are then allowed to
spread separately, so that the under
skirt OF cloth appears. The velvet is
silk back and unlined, and the selvages
show. This same idea is carried out for
ball gowns with vevst and tulle, the
tulle bllowing out under the velvet in
charming contrast. In the street dress
pictured dark green velvet is used for
the zig-zag stripe about the skirt, for
the yoke, belt and cuffs, and band of
it edges the shoulder frills. In each
instance, except the yoke. there comes
just above the velvet zig gag pattern OF
chenille. The dress goods are grayish
green woolien stuff.
The final pictured model 10 an exam
pie OF the draped overskirt, of unpieas.
ant memory. which promises to be
fashionable by spring. Elaborate dress-
ers among the actresses display cos
tunes which include the overskirt. and
already an occasional one is seen upon
the street. The material of the cos.
tune shown is silver gray silk trimmed
with dark grayish red velvet. The
foundation skirt OF taffeta eilk is covered
with velvet at the parts exposed by the
opening of. the front. The edges Of the
panel front are finished with gray silk
cord passementerie which is seen in
three rows at the bottom OF the skirt
The overdress ia cut longer than the
skirt and is caught up az indicated. 1t
parts behind to show velvet strip.
similar to those in front. The bodice
has velvet jacket finished at the top
with serpentine ruffle, and the narrow
circular basque is alec made OF velvet
and lined with silk
Street dresses are often made through.
out of material so heavy that a few
years ago it would have been classed az
cloaking. Such gowns have lap seams
and are severely tailor made. The
Bwellest OF these goods comes feeced on
| the under side. and ia SLOWED to turn
The herald., 1894-01-14
A LITTLE BOOK.
fatal injury.
Copyright IS

A little book, with here and there a leaf
Turned at some tender passagel how 1t
seems
To speak to me. to I'll my soul with, dreams
Sweet as first love, and beautiful as briefl
Here was her glory, on this page her grief,
For tears have stained it; here the sunlight
streams,
And there the stars withheld from her their
beams
And sorrow sought her white soul like thief.
And here her name, and as / breathe the
sweet,
Soft syllaMes, a presence in thereon
Sheds rare radiance, but may not look.
The yellow,ed leaves are fiuttering at my feet
The light is gone, and l, lost in the gloom,
Weep like a woman o'er this little bookl
Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
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vet shot with green and a dull yellow,
its fronts are trimmed with wide bands
of velvet ribbon, which are ornamented
with three rows OF narrow jet passe-
menterie ard are held down at regular
intervals with lunches of jet leaves.
The cape is lined with pale green elk
and is finished with an epaulette collar
cite. The inner sides OF the tabs, ss
we'll as the standing collar, are trimmed
with dark fur, preferably sable.
For theater wear are shown come
cloaks that recall rather too forcibly
those worn by the gentlemen in Venice
in the time oil Snylock, or OF the sort
dis played by Paulo, the handsone
brother of the hunchbsck made famous
on the stage. These little cspes hang
half off the shoulder and are fnished
with turn over collars. They drop iull
and are made of the richest plush or
brocade, being lined with contrasting
satin or elk. Truth to tell, eucn little
garments are rather an accessory to the
dress than a covering, and they are sui-
ticientiy dainty and cost enough to have
2 more estabi7 shed position in the econ
omy or, to put it in another way, in the
extravaganza OF woman's dress. If you
ere clever enough to make one of these
at home you may use uphclstery or cur
tain goods OF the finer kinds and ex-
pend abaut nali what dress goods would
REQ lire. Some kinds OF upholstery vel
vet are all cotton at the back, but for
all that present most beautiful right
side surface and come in rich and exelu-
sive designs and eolorings. To be sure,
there ia not much wear or the kind
dress goods get in IT, but for sleeves or a
cape Is is most snisAhle, being of splen-
did width and very cheap compared with
the dress material il replaces.
The herald., 1894-01-14

To turn from such studied elegance to
two garments which are 30 simple as to
seem to be made with view to COM
fort first of all is quite a change. But
such things are sometimes lent eimple
touch or two, which, without display
OF great expense or necessitating the
outlay itself, publish clearly to the fem
inine half at least of the world that the
wearer is in touch with Dame Fashions
requirements. A jacket and three
quarter cape appear in the third picture
which are entirely unostentatious and
comparatively inexpensive, yet which
are stylish garments. The cape is gray
armure trimmed with passementerie and
black astrakhan, and the jacket is cut
from seal brown beaver and set off taste
fully with Persian lamb. The rule now
is, put fur on it and have the fur in
narrow strips and small pieces. In
obeying this law many extravagant no
tions are developed, but perhaps the
most extravagant one is that which
makes fringes OF tails" A remarka-
BILE ball wrap of steel gray velvet was
magnificently ornamented with a deep
and close fringe of ermine tails about
six inches from its edge, while about the
lOOt came coIu VI tno taiio t"isscu W
gether. Perish the thought that the
little tails can be initiated, but can one
bear to think that any woman would
allow herself to be the stalking horse
for 80 many poor little dead creatures.
Why do they not cultivate fur-bearing
animals that shall have two or three
tails, or that shall be all caudal extrem-
itv7 Sable tsils are much used to edge
cloaks and capes and winter hats are
close and OF velvet, two tails standing
erect at the side. 1t is so natural OF
tnila tn do that
The herald., 1894-01-14
professor thomson Was snubbed.

AS near to recreation as anything of
the kind ever engages the always earnest
attention of Professor Elihu Thomson
is the interest which he shows in the
alleged applications of electricity, par
ticularly in regard TO the devices by
which the unscrupulous play upon the
credulous and the suffering. While at
the Chicago fair he examined at a sell
ing stand so called electrical appli-
ance to be worn in the shoes for the
cure of various ailments from cold feet
upward. The young woman volubly
described the apparatus in political
phrase, claiming everything" and
then proceeded to explain the "scieu-
tifc principles" by which the electric
current would pass up one limb to the
heart and then down by the other one,
and much more of the like ilk. The
professor mildly. stated that electricity
did not operate in the manner stated.
when the young woman Indignantly
swept the goods back into the showcase,
exclaiming, well what do you know
about electricity anyway" - Boston
Transcript.
The herald., 1894-01-14
Vast Property In Receivers, Hands.

More than 81, 200, 900, 900 of railway
property in this country is estimated to
be in the hands of receivers. 1t is an
imposing total well calculated to give
some notion of the vastness of the trans
portation interests. Five great systems
under receivers-the Union Pacific,
Northern Pacific, Philadelphia and
Reading, Erie and Richmond Terminal
represent close to 25, 600 miles Of
road, with an aggregate capitalization
of $416, 1874, I'll, assets of $1,174, 312,
871 and funded debts of $517, OPS, 500.
On stock exchange valuation the stocks
of these roads are worth about 12 per
cent on the dollar, or say total of
about $50, 600, 900. Railway Times.
The herald., 1894-01-14

The empire styles have for some time
been relegated to house wear. and OF
late the tendency has been toward dis
carding them even for indoor gowns.
But now a newly stylish cut Of coat is
offered, wherein the loose fronts and
back are sewn to yoke the seam being
hidden by wide strip of braid which
recalls the empire belts. The sleeves
are very full, as shown in the accom-
panying sketch Of this garment, and the
collar is composed Of double ruching
made of braid. The whole is lined with
satin and thinly wadded, and is we'll
suited for middle-aged wearers.
Very high collars are generally worn,
and add to the length of the neck. which
is good luck for the average woman, who
is in danger of being swamped in the
detail of stylish covering. Sealskin snd
velvet are being combined in unique
design. The former fits like the little
Jackets worn by pages in fashionable
s.odistes' NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is, fits
The herald., 1894-01-14
When to Wind Your Watch.

During the night your watch is quiet,
as it were-that is, it hangs in your
vest without motion or touch. If you
don t wind it at night, the handspring
is then relaxed. instead of being in that
condition during the day. By winding
it in the morning the handspring re-
mains close and tight all day. II keeps
the movement steady at time when
you are handling it, running about the
city attending to your daily affairs. A
relaxed handspring at this time accounts
for fine watches varying slightly. I'm
dustrial World.
The herald., 1894-01-14
Had Fun With the Policeman.

1t is seldom that one of the finest
gets such scare as member of the
force received the other night on Park
row in front of the postoffice. This
policeman has made himself obnoxious
to the newsboys who congregate around
the postoffice. He seemed to them to
take delight in moving them on The
boys had no redress, but at last they
took up scheme which has afforded
pleakure to small boys more than once.
They secured an old pair of trousers,
together with coat and hat, which
they stuffed with straw. Waiting un-
til the policeman was looking in their
direction, two of them, with the dunn
my between them, boldly walked out of
Beekman street and started across Park
row toward the postoffice. The sight Of
the two buys in charge of man who
apparently could not take care of him
self interested the policeman, and he
started to follow them. The boys
walked on until they reached the mid
die of the street, when they threw the
figure on the track before an approach
ing horse car and fled.
With pale face and an involuntary
cry of terror the policeman ran toward
the body. He had gone but few feet
when he tripped and fell. The driver
of the car put on the brake just as the
horses reached the body. Just then
two boys rushed from the postoffice,
seized the body by the legs, one on each
side, and ran down Reekman street with
it amid the shouts of their companions,
who had been silent but much amused
witnesses of the joke. The policeman
did not follow-New York Sun.
The herald., 1894-01-14
Reducing vibration In Railway Cars.

A new invention embodies princi-
pie which will commend itself to all
railway travellers. 1t is sought to les
sen the disco~fort and annoyance of
travel on many lines on which there is
excessive vibration by the construction
of a pneumatic car (which embraces
the application of an elastic fluid as an
absorbent for vibration and oscilla-
tion." An air cushion is arranged on
the cellular principle between the car
body and the truck frame, ard as there
is an equal distribution of air under
varying pressures all oscillation is pre-
vented. This elastic medium 10 said to
completely absorb all vibration result
ing from rough tracks, jointing of rails,
excessive speed or any other cause, and
the car is carried smoothly and steadily
along. This pneumatic systcln can be
equally we'll applied to street cars, and
instances are not hard to find in which II
unauestionably should be.-Exchange.
The monster water wheel at tho Cal
umet and Hecla copper mine, LaiSe Su
perior region, weighs 200 tons.
The herald., 1894-01-14

sleeves very large. and dropping at the
shoulders and narrowing to the wrists
The capes so popular for shoulder finish
of cloaks are less worn, or take the form
OF epaulette capes that are only over
the shoulder. and do not croes either
front or back. Capes are worn. and
are likely to be always favored. They
are very full at mostly set on yokes.
When the capes are in series, they fall
from the shoulders instead OF from the
throat Capes with long, stole ends,
like that in the first initial picture, are
much in favor. Made of brocaded vel
The herald., 1894-01-14

A merchant at Nagoya, China, has
earned the title of King Henry VIII"
among his countrymen by recently mar
rying his twenty-seventh wife. He had
resolved when he was young to marry
80 women and is delighted that he has
now only three more to marry to keep
his VOW
The herald., 1894-01-14
Tho Marriage Line.

An interesting discussion has sprung
up among the palmists in regard to the
line of the hand known as the marriage
line. One recognized authority says
that when this line curves upward the
possessor is not likely to marry at all.
Other experts reply that they know
many married and happy people with
such a line. 1t is also alleged that the
transverse limo Oh the hill Of Nor
curry" which ono party says is the mar
riage line, is not 40 consideled by the
Chirological society. "Our opinion, "
says the editor of the party organ, is
that these lines are signs of attachment,
and there is scarcely hand ever seen
without at least one III the hcrd of
either married or unmarried people. .
The herald., 1894-01-14

The autograph letters and historical
documents of the late DR.. j. s. Fogg of
Boston have been willed to the Maine
Historical society. His will also calls
for the establishment Of free public
library in the town of Eliot, Ma.
The herald., 1894-01-14
A Deaerter.

Melancholy Milton-Say, l struck er
snag last week over in dat corner house.
Wandering Willie-How was dat2
Melancholy Milton-Why, you see, l
went up an tried ter work de ole wo-
man for meal an
Wandering Willie dnterrupting)-
Yer tried ter work, did yer. An you
called yerself gent. (Weeps. Prince
ton Tige-
The herald., 1894-01-14

do not so much believe in punish-
ing boys for their misconduct in cases
like these. They are generally
poor lads and know they would be din
charged il they did not pull their
mounts. l believe in Furnishing the
owner by ruling off both him and horse.
Spoil the sale OF few racehorses and
compel their owners to sell them for
livery use, and they won't be so fond OF
giving it to the public "where the chick
en- got the ak" When Chris Moore
pulled The Nun in the Metropolitan
handicap of 1889 at Sydney, the stew
ards ruled off rider, trainer and owner.
Moore was reinstated in two years. the
trainer, Wood, in four, but the owner,
Mackenzie, has never got back up to
the present writing. When Tupper
(who had been ruled off for crooked
work with AL Farrow) was reinstated by
the Blood Horse directors in 1892, Col
Dan Burns resigned the presidency at
once, in which he was right. Don't
rule a. man off without good cause, but.
once off, keep him there for life, and
don't even sell him a ticket OF admis
sion. Make expulsion a punishment in
earnest, or else close up the tracks, as
New Jersey is doing. The punishment
would not have come had it not been de-
served. HIDAfGo.
The herald., 1894-01-14

IN the days OF william the Conquero1
it was more dangerous to kill q reb5ii
than a man. A riurdercr could escape
with payment OF fine; a rabbit slayer
was put to DEATH
The herald., 1894-01-14

In Canada positions in the civil serv,
Zee are obtainablo after examination and
are held during good behavior, which,
as rule, means .lifo.
The herald., 1894-01-14

DVO l. bhC nNhiO
styles in cloaks
and wraps as those
now worn will
prevail next win
ter, so the woman
with a few dollars
to invest is made
frantic by t h c
number of bar
gains offered. The
dIspiay IN cloaKs
is simply appal-
ling, but OF course
you tax risks
from moths and
storing over sum
mer. A popular
design is that with
I'll L.A
The herald., 1894-01-14

other horses OF like character, at the
post, in recent races, goes fai to prove
that they were ''doped" in the stable
and that their jockeys were rot TO be
held responsible their defeat. Pescador
wae ridden for some time by Johnny
Keyane of this city, who was stood on
the ground for not trying to win with
him. l want to bet hat that he was
guilty as charged in the Indictment,
but that he rode the race according to
his orders. He ia a shrewd and still
mouthed boy and don't soueal worth q
cent.
The herald., 1894-01-14

/ spent a morning at Oneonta last
week and saw the newly-arrived Eng
lieh stallion Duncombe, whose looks are
better than his breeding, were such a
thing possible. He is dark brown
horse with tan nose and fanks, and no
white save few gray hairs on the nigh
fore ankle, which he inherits logically
from Irish Birdcatcher who figures in
his ancestry. He is a different built
horse from anything in this country ex-
cept Don Marcos Fosters stallion Dan
Murphy (who comes OF the same femily)
but he is a much larger horse than the
aristocratio-looking little gentleman at
Capistrano. There are stations in this
country called high-formed horses that
won't begin to measure with Duncombe
He has the head and neck of Voltigeur,
his great grandaire; the exquisitely
eloped shoulders of Fisherman, the king
of English weigbt-carriers and the
hinder parts OF old Coronation who won
the Derby OF 1S4l. Duncombe was not
imported as stallion for public service
and therefore will not be let to any
mares save those of his owner. The
breeding season does not commence till
February 10Th and by that time there
will probably be two other stations
alongside the handsome and good-temp
cred brown horse. He is quite low in hosh
after his Atlantic voyage and that was
all to my liking, for it enabled me the
better to Judge OF his form. He is the
heaviest boned horse OF his size in thii
state, and will outmeasure either Ra-
Gins Elana haau or Salvador at least az
The herald., 1894-01-14

Men talk to me about abolishing
bookmaking and laugh at them. Why
does not England abolish them, and she
has had them for over hundred years
Why has not Australia abolished them
Simply because they are q necessary
evil. The only way is to hold them all
in proper check and expel them at the
first symptom OF crookedness. / don't
know now it is here, but over in Aus
traiia the bookmakers are nearly all
Jews; and my experience has taught
me that the average Hebrew calls every
thing business. The only way that
can see is to do as they do in Aus
tralia-organize clubs composed OF gen.
tlemen and make the bookie fraternity
ineligible to membership. Then pass a
ruls that any steward or director found
betting with bookmakers on credit shall
be expelled for life and his horses for
ever disqualified; and you will come
pretty near holding the tribe of Cad in
check for all time. AS long as they
know that there are none OF the stew
ards under personal or pecuniary obliga-
tions to them, they will rot be apt to do
anything that will create scandal.
The herald., 1894-01-14

The evidence disclosed on the investi
cations that led up to the sxpulsions Of
Grammon, Van Ness, archibald, ct al,
shows conclusively that somebody is
making big fortune by selling rascslly
horse owners fluid by which horses
can be made to run with superequine
gameness and for the lack of which, on
by naturally inferior horses. The be-
hsvior of Pescador, Banknote and some
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BOitOnVllle

This little community was -aduened
upon the receipt OF the news OF the
death of Fred Foster McCrillis, which
happened at Whitefield, N. H., early
Monday morning, the 9th inst. He
was brakeman on the G 81 NJ X Il.
While coupling cars, and stepping
backward, he canght his foot III frog
rail, was thrown down and the train
passed over his body, the accident re-
suited in immediate death. The de-
ceased was station agent at this place
for three years, being the predecessor
of Mr.. Sargent the present agent. lie
| was loved ard respected by this com
munity, his agreeable disposition and
obliging ways eudeared him to this
people, and universal sorrow is ex-
pressed, and words of sympathy spok-
en- for the bereaved family, His home
was in West Randolph where his body
was taken for burial, his funeral be-
ing held on Wednesday afternoon,
Miss Maud Harris Of Bradford visit
ed her friends in Town this week,
Mrs. Louisa Lane of Charleston, N :.
H., and Mrs. French of Washington,
d. c., mother and sister of Mrs. Free
man Tucker, with Master Herbert
French and Marcia McIntire of Dor
chester, Mass, are expected guests at
Mrs, fuckers this friday afternoon,
Walter French is to 60 camping at
Lake Winnipesaukee. for two weeks,
on Saturday.
Lizzie Gardner is at work for DR..
Gould at Newport.
The funeral of Elmer Abbott was
attended by large number of people
from this place,
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South NeWbury.

CoRRECTIoN-In the article headed
Attractions for Tourists in Newbury,
VT" in our last issue the addition of
letter by the type setter changed the
word "beatified" into beuutifed. The
sentence in W ich the word occurs
should have read; "But Newbury
possesses a Unique landscape observa-
tory, where one need only go and gaze,
to feel his sight and soul beatified."
Josiah Rowland and wife of Con-
cord are visiting his sister, Mrs. Edison
Doe.
II. Ell. Runnels & Son are making
thorough repairs on their mill. ,
Mrs. Josie Henderson went to Cana
da last week to visit friends and rela-
tives.
Mr.. Goldman of Boston is the guest
of G. G. Doe.
Mrs. Philips Mason and son of Bar
net visited at Mrs. d. E Hildreth's
Saturday.
Mrs. d. E. Hildreth returned from
the Hanover hospital somewhat i'm
proved, last Friday.
Geo Henderson went to Canada
Thursday to visit friends and relatives.
Misses Lizzie and Jennie TAYLOR and
two lady friends from Providence, r.
l., are boarding at Edison Does.