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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-04
SPECIAL. SALE OF
wear.

At this season Of the year every
one needs warmer underwear. Real
izfng this, we have decided to give
our customers a benefit in this line,
making the garments so low in
price that everybody can enjoy
them. Accordingly, on
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15

bons around It, dancing and singing the
joyous song of the solstice.
is this really the North pole" l asked
tltcn, when the cheer with which the
had subsidized.
This is it." he answered "Su and I
came here alone and found it a hundred
years ago; and these later immigrants, as
you see, never tire of thanking us
was about to ask him if he found the
pole put up on that spot on arriving
when we heard the salute, Welcome
home, Col. Fitchr' by some young ladies
near by. They were blooming creatures
full of ruddy health, a little inclined to
gigglehood.
"These ladies have been here" he said.
born"
'Impossibler' 1 exclaimed
And some of US were very passe at
that time said one, laughing.
Belonged to the PalaeozOic Period"
said another.
You do not look at all antique at this
time" ] remarked.
Il flatter myself not We've been do
ing the circuit" said she
What is that, if you Dlease?' I asked.
My friend has just arrived" explained
"wm you come and take a walk with
meY SAID the pretuest OF the beVy. |
gave her my arm with a little thrill Of
regret that l had not known her Before,
and we walked toward the Pole
Il was IS years old when we got here"
she frankly explained. 81 ran as hard as
i could the first day, and went around
the Pole with the sun seven hundred and
thirty times / was dreadfully tired tina.
night, but l knew / had got ahead of the
cruel tyrant OF the skies by about two
years How much better you look said
my friends the next morning. These Cl-
derby people here, walking the same way
younger all the while. OF course they are
just as many days younger as they are
able 10 keep ahead OF the sun. That
s.fI hsaesr
a poke bonnet Uhey revert 10 the cos
tune OF the states sometimes when they
walk very fastl has been here only a few
days she viii be a blooming girl OF u
on ID summers before the sun Rises neSf
spring. You notice she carries a parrot
on her finger? Polly grows young. too
why are some of tho people going the
other Wayg' [ asked.
"Oniy the babies" she answered. "kids
are always nuisance when they are
young 30 their mothers. on the nurses,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15

the ice was uneven, and in places broken
into crevices four or five feet across.
said my companion.
Slight investigation revealed the secret.
Around this boat-wagon, endwise, paral-
lei with the guards ran two continuous
bands of iron hinged together in sec
tons. The part of the hands at any
moment beneath the vehicle formed two
tolerably steady rails on which the wheels
ran; and as We moved forward that part
which was behind was liked up by an
automatic cam and carried forward over
our heads, dropping again in front of the
Wheels. thus making an endless track
As we advanced and the days grew
darker and the weather colder, my at
tentton was invited to a sheet-ron pannel
set in the box. This l found radiated at
high degree of heat.
Cosmical electricity" said Fitch
transportation of forces. What's the
use of freezing?"
We We're something over two months
on the way; but one morning l was awak-
ssIieu 10y Su11huok electric whistle tear
ing away ike mad. l say lone morning
conventionally, merely because it was
the end of one of our daily sleeps. It
was a dusky twilight We had not seen
the sun since September. and / lust man
aged TO keep alive my faith that it was
rolling around the earth somewhere be-
low the horizon of faintish pink. AS we
seuuehly came 10 stop / looked out
OF the cabin window, and through the
semi darkness saw that we We're moored
in the suburbs Of what seemed a popu-
lous village. There were several carria ees
like ours, and snow villas and ice palaces
in every direction. The stars We're all
out, and we stood under the little dipper
onder IS the pole" said Capt Fitch,
pointing TO an upright post about seventy
I'VE feet high, bearing what seemed to
be sun at its peak and moons upon its
side.
by the way he continued Il hap
pen 20 know that you have not kept an
accurate run OF the days during the COM
ing on OF darkness; so YOU viii perhaps
be surprised 20 heir that this is Christ
mas day
- see that the citizens OF PoloDolis are
IN the midst OF their customary Festival
Notice the luminaries on the pole ana tho
stars cresccnts, hearts and other symbols
outlined ia nHmo upon the villas e.
fastened 10 follow him toward the
pole. which seemed The center Of light
for an the region The ice near it was all
ready occupied Most OF the people were
walking around ~ 90 the leff with the
SUM- ana some we've walking very faft
Indeed, while others were weaving rib
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15

It was August. I sat in a rocking chair
in the breezy front hall, waiting for din
Ber. remember hearing my mother say:
Don't go TO sleep. for the chicken pie is
nearly done" At that very moment a
young man leaned over the picket fence
by the rose bush. picked rose with rus
tic freedom, and said "Good-morning."
remarked that it was hot day.
IT'S a stingerl" he said. 81 haven't
seen so hot day for hundred yearsr'
How long did you say?' I asked, rising
from the chair THAT must have been
when you were rather young"
mo" he said. Il was hfty-odd then"
''Fifty-odd what?" I inquired.
81 was fifty-four years DID," he said.
''the last warm summer 1 ever saw. That
was a hundred years ago, down in old
Kentucky"
He smelt a rose, and pinned the white
blossom in his button hole. He was a
youth of about twenty-five, of fiorid COM
plexion, blue eyes, and long black. wavy
hair. He wore a full beard also. neatly
trimmed, but long enough, it occurred to
me. to be of real service in cold weather
Il was in Kentucky" he explained, lin
1874. I didn't exactly live there. I wan
L
ed with the human race But you don [
care to hear my story"
Excuse me-" l said Il do" for It
was apparent that he was harmless, and
he might be amusing. He walked through
the gate, took a chair and continued:
Stranger, my name is John Fitch. Did
you ever hear of me2"
NO" I said But I may have heard
g, a.
That's me-" he said.
where the dickens do you come from
anyhow" ] asked.
North Pole. That's where I got
young"
All! How was that?"
He threw one leg over the other' as il
he We're going to stay all day, and went
on:
Il invented the steamboat some time
before l left here. In fact, / made the
Steamboat. got exclusive patents to
use them on American waters. 1 put a
boat on the Delaware, and ran the Cont
mental Congress and the Constitutional
Convention down to the sea and back
ran that boat all one summer between
Philadelphia and Burlington Everybody
called me crazy, but they bought tick
cts. Then got concession for France
but il was the fourth year of the repub-
lie and Parisians thought heap more OF
the guillOtine than steamboat. Finally
sage home. / left my specifications witt
the American consul, where a man named
Fulton found them afterward. Are there
as many sharpers 10 the square inch "a,
there We're IL those days? Wen, about
year later ] escaped from a lunat 8,
asylum where some kind friends had so1
quarters for me, and died. That Is. / aid
among the Indians of Ohio. From there
went up into British America, and from
what is now Point Barrow ] put of Will
two Eskimo in kaiak, straight north
was mad and SICK, and did not cure
what became Of me Am J getting dire
s0me2"
! treasured him He laughed and added
fugiuNes from the United States come
10 our colony now every year.
What f0rt' ! yuntured TO ask
To prevent the Digit Of time" be re-
piled, and 20 get young
moved little fughar from him
That De- Impossible" / said
la ~ fctorted be-. Just inspect me
am la5 years old-do you notice ans
gray halrfY'
Mill you kindly explain2' ] asked
Very well. First let me ask you aucs
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15

From the Pittsburg Dispatch

singular case is reported from ~
southern end OF Washington coullls,
Hunley Gooch and his son Kit Were cQog
hunting and while they were chdlpAs
down tree for the game, a Kissing souMT'
accompanied by an unpleasant odor' ~
denly came from the notch IN the 49,
Young Gooch struck a match 70 see WI
was wrong, and Immediately fire ha-.ls,t
all over his head and shoulders, buIiil W.
him severely. He made a desperate l.ser
and landed beyond the circuit or ~.
flames The tree continued 10 burn ln
~ the bark was burned on seFeIA -
above their heads. The Ak, when va
left sticking Boz the tree. had the - 40
burned on. The man had chopped '"~
pent-up reservoir of gas.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15
CHRISTMAS AT THE NORTH POLE,
BY w. A. cRoFFUT.

copyrIght lsa5. b BaeheIler. johnson s BaeheIler
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15

Samuel Davis. the richest Hebrew In
canada, who died IN Montreal recently.
was an extensive wholesale cigar and Ia
bacco dealer, and Was Interested IN many
az The most profitable projects connected
WIN canada ans the northwest Hls
wealth is computed a. f5.O99.000.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05

lumbus, O., and were all fine looking
men on horseback, with big yellow
plumeS In their helmets. They sur
rounded the barouehe, and they were
awful proud, because Mr.. Hayes and
Mr.. Garfield were both from Ohio, and
Mr.. Hayes had been governor of that
state before he was president, It was
a sort of big Ohio day and the gov
ernor's guards were the Dig men of the
occasion They rode handsome horses,
and everybody eheered as we went
down the broad avenue. There was
snowstorm in the morning, but the sun
came out, melted the snow, and the
street was smooth and glittering as
glass. sat up on the box, proud as
any of them. l was in my prime, and
1 was the greatest driver on earth. I
knew that everybody who saw the
governors guards also saw me sitting
up higher and grander than any of
them, and 1 was awful proud. OF
course never said so then, but 1 can
say so now. 1t was the greatest inau-
guration ever saw, except the second
time Mr.. Cleveland came into the presi-
dency. That was the greatest day and
the stormiest day ever saw for any in
auguration." SMITH d. Fry.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

You can't afford to keep poor ami
NAL If a man has FIVE cows, and
there is one poor one among them, she
will eat up the profits of all the others
WELL-BRED cattle are to the dairy
and feed lot what the self binder is to
the harvest, or the steam engine to
commerce, a necessity to those who
try to keep up with the procession.
The butter our market demands is
such as is produced from sOured or So
called ripened cream, which must be
allowed to attain a certain stage of
acidity in order to develop the desired
flavor.
The most extraVagant and wasteful
method of dairying is to keep the cows
on short commons" during the win
ter, have them calve in the spring and
produce their greatest flow of milk on
grass
If we could only impress upon our
minds and those we employ the fact
that there is nothing so sensitive to
temperature as milk and it's products,
in every stage of their manipulation.
much greater success and prosperity
would attend our work in the dairy and
cresmery,-Fermers Voice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05
The McLeans Ahead.

The following is an amusing instance
Of the tenacity with which the High
landers hold to the honors and antiqui-
ty of their kindred. A dispute arose
between Campbell and Mclean upon
the never-ending subject. Mclean
would not allow that the Campbells had
any right to rank with the McLeans in
antiquity, who, he insisted, were in
existence as clan from the beginning
of the world. Campbell has a little
more Biblical lore than his antagonist,
and asked him if the Clan Mclean
lived before the flood. Flood What
hood?" said Mclean.
THE flood that you know drowned
all the world but Noah and his family
and his focks," said Campbell.
Pooh! you and your food" said Nc
Lean; my clan was before the food.
81 have not read in my Bible" OBJ
served Campbell, "of the name of Nc
Lean going into Noah's ark"
"Noah's ark" retorted Mclean, in
contempt; "who ever heard of Nc
Lean that had not boat of his own?"
Household Words.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05

the hay carrier pulley above and the
other to harpoon. The length of the,
wood piece is such as to just yallowsof
the hay to clear the tie +. To each
purline, B and C in cut, is attached a,
pulley near middle of bay. Overeaeh
Of these pulleys passes a rope; one. end
is fastened to the attachment at E,and
the other end hangs loosely .inrthe bay.
Be sure the ropes are long enough to.
reach to bottom of hay when the har-
pooh is on the wagon.
The operation is as follows. After
the harpOOn is loaded and it is desired
to drop the hay toward the end of bay
marked ID, the man in the bay grasps.
the end of rope at d, and pulls, the
harpoon toward the pulley 3, while.
the man on the load pulls. the. trip,
rope. The operation of:the other rope
is the same. The attachment, A. is VAL
liable in moving clover hay as the hay
does not pack in the middle as,i il does
when every forkful is, in one place
When NOV gets too full to Use attach
ment, remove it and attach harpoon to
carrier in usual way.-C, L Reamers in
Ohio Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05
Goat. Paw B.tter.Th.n. sh-.,.

A Missouri farmer. writes that he
finds goats profitable for rough land
filed with weeds and bushes. He has
had goats for four years, and they have
destroyed the bushes, sumach and
small persimmon trees His hogs have
been free from disease, while all
aroand him farmers who did not keep
goats lost most OF their hogs by chol-
era. The writer says that the meat of
young goats is better than mutton.
The wool of sheep is now worth so lit
tie that the question is worth thinking
of whether a few goats may not be
kept with profit on rough land insult
ed to cultivation in some of the eastern
states.-Rural World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05
MoLAssEs Eoa STOCK.
Iks, Fzttening Properties Are said to n
Great and Beneficial

Its, FSttening Properties Are said to Bs
Great amt Beneficial
I Owing 20 the recent changes in leg
iislationii in regard to beet-root sugar in
EUROPE. the question of how to dispose
of. the residuum uBOlasses to the best
advantage has assumed paramount i'm
!portance. It Is proposed to turn the
lnolasses. intDs food for cattle. Already
'on,several European markets a product
is-s0ldi FIR stuck feed containing 80 per
cent melassss. 10 per cent. cocoa oil
cake, which costs D fraction more than
one cent per potI-Bt Another fodder is
composed. ef % per cent. cOttonseed
Hour; 4Diper cent. palm nuts and 40 per
cent. mOlasses. Some factories under
take their own mixing. and the sub
stance produced contains IA per cent.
protein, 3per cent fatty matter and so
per cent. non-nitrogenous matter
The-results of feeding cattle on these
ratiOns, have been most satisfactory
Sheep have also been fattened on a
mOlasseS diet One of the best WAYS Of
giving mOlasses to cattle is to mix it
with their drinking water, and aston
fishing success has been obtained by
adding to. the water given to cattle
about two. pounds molasses per diem
per head As cavalry horses have
been. found to- do good work on a con-
.tinuous diet OF sugar, it has
been thought that cattle might
thrive. on mOlasses alone. This belief,
however, has. been disproved by
Prof. Maercker, who concluded that
the maximum of mol&sSes that it was
advisable To- feed per 900 pounds live
weight and per diem was } TO pounds
for oxen and % pounds for mich
cows. That this was wise restriction
has been evident by the results that
have followed when the proportion of
molasses was exceeded. Experts now
say that the best results are obtained
by using 50 per cent of fodder and so
per cant Of mOlasses- The utilization
of molasses for cattle-feeding is not
new; IL has, been practiced in many
countries for over half a century In
the West Indies one of the events of
the beginning of crop" on the sugar
estates is. the first feed of chop
tops" given to the working cattle. The
top part of the sugar-cane is sliced fine
in. a cutting machine and piled into
troughs. Rock salt is then pounded
fine and strewn over the fodder and
over all is thrown a top-dressing of
rich mOlasses- The cattle revel in the
mixture, and after having fairly gorged
themselves, they will linger to suck up
the mOlasses that has trickled down
into the bottom of the trough. Before
many weeks have passed they are fat
and shining, and horses and sheep,
which also take kindly to the food,
give ample evidence of its fattening
and beneficial properties Louis
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05

spoke of the pace at which she was GO
ing. We flashed past barges, steamers,
merchant-vessels, in and out, behind
this one and round the other. Voices
hailed us out of the darkness, but still
the Aurora Numbered on, and still we
followed close upon her track.
pile it on, men, pile it on!" cried
Holmes, looking down into the engine
room, while the fierce glow from be-
low beat upon his eager, aquiline face.
''Get every pound of steam you can"
u think we gain little, said Jones,
with his eyes on the Aurora.
Il am sure of it." said l. 1--WE shall
be up with her in a very few minutes. {"
At that moment, however, as our
evil fate would have it, a tug with
three barges in tow Numbered in
between US. 1t was only by putting
our helm hard down that we avoid
ed collision, and before we could
round them and recover our way the
Aurora had gained good two hun
bred yards She was still, however,
well in view, and the murky uncertain
twilight was settling into clear star
lit night. Our boilers were strained
to their utmost, and the frail shell vi
brated and creaked with the fierce en-
ergy which was driving us along. We
had shot through the pool past the
West India docks, down the long Dept
ford Reach, and up again after round
ing the Isle of Dogs. The dull blur in
front of US resolved itself now clearly
enough into the dainty Aurora. Jones
turned our searchlight upon her, so
that we could plainly see the figures
upon her deck. One man sat by the
stern, with something black between
his knees over which he stopped. Beside
him lay dark mass which looked like
a Newfoundland dog. The boy held the
tiller, while against the red glare of
the furnace 1 could see old Smith,
stripped to the waist, and shoveling
Goals for dear life. They may have had
some doubt at first as to whether we
were really pursuing them, but now as
we followed every winding and turn
ing which they took there could no
longer be any question about it. At
Greenwich we were about three hundred
PAGES behind them. At Blackwell we
could not have been more than two
hundred and fifty.
ITO BE CONTINUAL
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05

Jumps of sugar and bits Of candy,
which they relished and whinnied for
whenever their drivers black face ar~
peared in the doorway. President
Arthurs bays would follow their black
master all around the stable grounds,
and even up and down Seventeenth
street clear to the fish ponds near the
monument. The old man always had
love for horses and the correlative
faculty of making his dumb servants
love him. He always taught them
their individuality by impressing their
names upon their brains; so that, when
driving four horses, if any one of them
needed an admonitfon the mention of
his name by the driver on, the box
would almost mesmerize the animal.
They all knew his voice, and he was so
gentle with them that they responded to
his appeals or commands with alacrity.
Horses are more intelligent than
their drivers in many cases." said Al
bert, recently. 'AThey understand
their business better, too Why, I
never walk down the avenue asingle
day without losing my temper, be-
hearted fellow with reins in. one hand
and whip in the other beating or jerk
ing the mouth of some faithful, intelli-
gent horse who is doing his best, but
trying in vain to respond to, the will or
within of the brute behind. Him who is
torturing the animal without cause.
1 do not think that any driver should
be allowed to drink liquor. Many a.
horse and many a wife have suffered
from the unreasonable meanness of
man with whisky in his, blood. 1t
makes brutes. of men. L have seen so
much of it in drivers, and that has
made me notice il in men,who treat
their families no. better than they treat,
their horses The Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals is a good
society. There was a man named
Bergh in New York started it.. L saw
him once in Washington. and con-
graduated him ON the good; work that,
he was doing.
mo- I was never nervous when .driv- i
ing for the presidents" said Albert,
after had been serving Gen. Grant
for a little while. They are like all
other men, except that great men are
always more. considerate than ordinary
men have known subordinate gov
eminent officials. TO talk totheir drivers
as masters used TO talk to.slaves. But
no president or cabinet officer ever
spoke unlind1y to me-. They are all
kind, high-minded men. Yes, was
nervous when L commenced to serve
Gen. Grant, but I soon found that he
was just Like other men, only better
and kinder. L never felt so proud as
the day was driving President Hayes
and Mr.. Garfield from the white. house
to the capitol. You. see the governors,
guards came here. as a special escort
for Mr.. Garfield. They were. from CO.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05

"We ought to be able to catch any
thing on the river" he said.
well, hardly that. But there are
not many launches to beat u.s."
"We shall have to catch the Aurora,
and she has name for being a clipper.
/ will tell you how the land lies, Wat
son. You recollect how annoyed I was
at being baked by so small thing2"
"Yes."
swell, gave my mind thorough
rest by plunging into a chemical
analysis One of our greatest states
men has said that change of work is
the best rest. So it is. When had
succeeded in dissolving the hydrocar-
bon which | was at work at. I came
back to our problem of the Sholtos, and
thought the whole matter out again.
My boys had been up the
river and down the river without
result. The launch was not at
any landing stage or wharf. nor had it
returned. Yet it could hardly have
been scuttled to hide their traces
though that always remained as a pos
sible hypothesis if all else failed.
knew that this man Small had a GER
tain degree of low cunning, but | did
not think him capable of anything in
the nature of delicate fnesse. That is
usually product of higher education.
l then reflected that since he had GER
tainly been in London some time-as
we had evidence that he maintained a
continual watch over Pondicherry
lodge-he could hardly leave at mo-
ment's notice, but would need some
little time, if it were only a day, to
arrange his affairs. That was the bal
ance of probability, at any rate"
st seems to me to be a little weak"
said 1. sit is more probable that he
had arranged his affairs before ever he
set out upon his expedition"
mo, l hardly think so. This lair of
his would be too valuable n retreat in
case of need for him to give it up until
he was sure that he could do without