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The herald., 1896-01-05

more of it. The deer knows there is
no need of perspiration to beat such
hand as you hold. He simply drops
his head and sneaks away. You may
perhaps hear the brush snap again and
possibly the sound of hoofs on the
ground. But if you do it shows
green deer. There is no need
of his running fast, or even walking
fast, and he may stand on one side OF
you not thirty feet away and let
you pass again in blissful ignorance of
his existence. And very lonely the
deep chaparral seems at such times.
Possibly the FURNISHED carmine OF the
ruby-throated humming- bird as he
hums about the soft purple blossoms
of the trailing vetch. or the still small
er bush-tit as he hops about the fading
lavender of the lilac's bloom may en-
liven the dullness for you. But you
never want to go into this 70 hunt
deer, though you may occasionally
have to hunt dead one in it that you
have shot from an opposite hillside, or
that has run into it and died. In such
case you had better salt yonr bullets
to preserve your game until you can
find it.
/ tore my way out of this and
reached some open hills at last. They
we're real nice hills, just open enough
to make good easy walking, give you
good view of the game and fair
chance to approach it without being
seen, plenty of nice, shady live oak
bushes for deer to feed on and abund-
ant shade to ruminate under and pass
the heat of the day. The buZzard, too,
was wheeling on every breeze and far
in the dome of heaven the great dark
form of the condor was floating on that
silent and mysterious wing whose
power no philosophy can fsthom; all
ready for the banquet which all the
natural conditions seemed to favor.
Tracks, too, we're here, fresh and nu-
merous. 1t WAS plain that the essen
tials of the banquet were at hand.
But about the time | concluded the
tracks were fresh enough to indicate
immediate business | suddenly found
them too fresh. They we're plowing
up dry dust, and instead of being
about foot or so apart they were now
about fifteen feet and the prints of all
four hoofs almost together.
How did | scare them without seeing
them: without making any noise and
against strong breeze. too?
Dear reader, cannot tell lie. 1
don't know. Did you ever wonder
whether deer did not have a sixth
sense? He either has or he steals your
deal sometimes.
The sun was now getting 80 high
there was little hope of finding any
more deer on foot and [ started on a
roundabout course for camp in the
hope of jumping something on the
way. After awhile | struck the track
of big buck, and as bucks never walk
far at this time of year, and are quite
sure to be fat, [ concluded to follow it
as long as it did not go into too heavy
brush. After awhile it came to the
edge OF little valley and went into it.
The hills were now hazy with dancing
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heat, the buck was certainly lying
somewhere in the shade, the hills
around the little valley we're heavily
robed with brush, and it would be a
mere accident if | should see anything
there. So [ concluded not to 60 into
it, but to take long look with the
glass.
Long and earnestly scanned every
thing, and WAS about to give it up
when under big live oak on pro-
jecting spur of little ridge l saw
something like the fork OF deer's
horn. 1t was in the shade and behind
bush, but there was enough to rivet
my attention. | watched it long to see
if it would move, but it didn't.
l tried by fancy's aid to make out
some ears below it, but the bush was
too thick. 1t was of no use to go
farther to the right, for that only
brought more of the bush in the way.
To go around and get to point of GER
tainty would nave been about as much
of job as to go to it direct, and it was
getting entirely too warm for any OF
| that kind Of work unless there were
something more than chance in it.
So | tusned back and went to camp
afraid even, in this wild and unsettled
country, to risk shot at it, for it is
always dangerout, no matter how
scarce settlement may be, unless you
are certain about the mark.
The next day l happened in that lit
tie valley and curiosity led me to look
under that tIee. There, as plain as the
sun in heaven, was the bed of a mighty
buck, and the tracks in and around it
read yesterday" as plain as print.
Copyright 1895 by T. s. Van Dyke.
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sionally give them small fraction of
the result of their labors.

sionally give them small fraction of
the result of their labors.
The pigs invariably locate the center
of a growth of truti1es, and at once
begin to root up the ground with their
snouts and dig with their forefeet.
The watchful peasant drives the un-
willing animal away, and then carefully
uncovers the ground for space many
feet i'll diameter.
A commission is about to be started
in Germany to make a study OF the
truffle and mushroom farming in
France, and gain all the necessary in
formation, 80 that the farmers OF Ger
many will be in position to begin the
work we'll stocked with knowledge.
Germany has fine fields for the
culture of truffies in the Thuringen
woods, Hartz mountains and Schwartz
wald, but the United States has twenty
suitable localities to one in Germany.
In the culture of the mushroom the
main thing is to be able to distinguish
readily the poisonous and edible
growths. 1t is impossible to guard
against the poisonous article appear
ing in the midst of bed of edible
mushrooms. The artiticially grown or
cultivated mushroom is no better in
flavor than the wild article found in
dark and shady valleys, on the edge Of
woodlands. on the banks of dfy rivers
and the thousand and one corners
where they spring up.
But in regularly cultivated beds the
crop is almost perpetual from May un-
ii! November. The regular growers in
France either dig cave or use cellar,
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there was brush enough to cover the
buck if he ran around the point. Be-
fore | could do anything it was too
late to do anything. Where he went [
don't know yet. L only know he held
the cards.
Musing on the mutability of all
things earthly | started for more open
country some distance ahead. Tracks
we're plenty enough and fresh, the deer
were probably still on foot, and keen
enough eye was all that WAS needed to
get good shot. Some distance ahead
brushy knoll afforded a good view of
square mile or more of good ground,
and [ decided to go TO the top of it and
use the glass long and we'll in eXplor
ing the surrounding brush.
About fifty yards from the top a
crack of brush brought my rife from
my shoulder with quick whirl. ] had
been correct in my conclusions. There
was fine view from the knoll. And
the deer had it. Four were in the air
above the brush at once and how many
more below | never knew. | only know
that by the time | got the rifle ready to
shoot there was nothing to shoot at. 1t
was the old story-"Just a-goin' over
the ridge" had seen their last jump
and going up to the place found they
had been standing where about one
spring would carry them out of sight.
Some folks would have run at top
speed for that point in hopes of get
ting shot before the deer got too far
away on the other side. So would I
once. In fact, | did-once. But I
never tried it the second time in this
variety of brush.
For the next mile or more my course
lay over fairly open ground, on which
it would have been easy to get good
shot had there been any deer on 1t, as
there should have been. But L find
that, even in Mexico, and where little
hunted, deer ignore the fine places you
pick for them to stand up and feed in
and prefer to make their own selections
Suddenly the orush thickened up
again, aud whole hillside was Gov
ered with it as thick as hair or
skye terrier. / wanted to get on the
next ridge, which was more open
again, and it was cheaper to 90 through
the tangle than around it. About half
way down the hill there was a sudden
crash in almost the brush | was touch
ing. The rifle whirled over from my
shoulder, there was a bump of heavy
hoofs on the ground, and the waving
of the next bush. That was all. In
the somber shade of the dense chap
arral deer often lie 80 close, expecting
you to pass them, that you may
almost tread on them before they
spring. And they are never safer
than when the first stroke of their
sharp hoofs almost throws the
dust in your face. VaiDly you try to
see above the brush, looking for rock
to jump on, or an opening to shoot
through. By the time you have
whirled your rifle from your shoul-
der, where you might as we'll have left
it, the crack of the brush is growing
faint, and in moment you hear no
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or any underground apartment shell
tered from the sunlight. Beds are
prepared about three feet in width and
six feet in length, with an intervening
space on all sides of about three feet.
Carefully prepared manure, which has
been freed of all straw, is piled foot
thick in the bed and we'll beaten down.
Iu two weeks time, when the manure
has thoroughly permeated the body of
the bed, a loose covering Of dark, rich
loan is added.
Considerable care must be taken to
keep the temperature of the cellar or
cave between 60 and 65 degrees. Within
six weeks the mushrooms have grown
sufficiently to be harvested, and the
utmost care is used in gathering them.
The earth of the bed is never disturbed,
and the mushroom is cut with a sharp
knife, leaving an inch Of the stem above
the ground. The roots are never pulled
up, as that would injure the succeed
ing crop.
The edible and the poisonous growths
Gus mushroom has sticky, pasty feel
for Judging it is by the color test. It
mas d Dl lsu-Sreen tluRe, anu dIter CUT
ting changes to black or blood-red.
The connoisseur can detect the poison
GUS article by the smell, but the
novice would be unable to dis
tinguish the odor of the good
from the bad. The poisonous mush-
room has bad and bitter taste. If one
poisonous mushroom has been boiled
with a large number Of good ones, the
whole lot should be thrown away, as
the quantity of poison in single bad
mushroom is sufficient to do coneider-
able damage.
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brush. But there was no use in going
directly to it, while the breeze was
still blowing as it was, and to make
detour of the hills ana get above it
without getting in the wind would
have taken longer than to sit down
and await the turn of the breeze, which
was already due. AS the sitting was
good and nothing was likely to dis
turb the game, l sat down and waited.
Fifteen minutes passed away, there
was plain lull in the current coming
down the valley. The deer was still
by the bush. By the time l conld get
near enough to do any harm the sea
breeze would be moving and there
would then be no danger of the deer's
smelling me.
All went we'll, but the deer was out
of sight by the time L got within two
hundred yards of where it was. Moth
ing alarming about this, for it might
have moved into the brush bit. So
went up the nearest little gulch on the
side, elm bed to the top of the ridge
and looked carefully over. On little
fiat at the base of the hill where the
msnZanita and the lilac intertwined
their stiff arms with those of the scrub
live oak, hiding the ground in dense
mass OF green, a big black neck and
head surmounted by some glitteriug
points surged for all instant above the
brush. In twinkle l turned the rife
upon it, but through the sights L saw
nothing but the rocking brush, into
which the object sank like a dolphin
into the wave.
Perhaps you think held the sights
where he was likely to rise again. l
might have been that green, but L
wasn't. l knew he would scud far
across the valley or around the next
point. But what good in that knowl-
edge? The view across the valley WAS
cut off by live oak, always in the
way unless you want shade and then
thousand feet uphill perhaps. while
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a very large sum. Nearly seven-eig ghtns
of the total amount used are imported
from Southern Europe, for the reason
that most people imagine that the
foreign article is much tiner than the
native growths, and they are right, but
the reason OF 1t is simple one.
In the European countries the mush-
room is carefully cultivated. Scientific
knowledge and money are expended
and skilled labor employed to grow the
dainty delicacy, and the benefits reaped
are we'll worth the trouble. II the
farmers of this country should give
the matter equal attention, there is no
reason why more than enough to sup
ply the nations demand should not be
grown and Il well-paying industry
established at the same time.
In France the culture of the mush-
room or champignon is firmly estab-
lished occupation, giving employment
to hundreds of people and represent
ing an annual value of $50000l0. Each
year shows an increase in thu industry
for the reason that the native demand
exceeds the supply, to say nothing of
the export demand. France exports a
very small portion of the annual crop
and imports three times as much as she
exports. The growth Of the present
year amounts 70 three and half mil
lion pounds, and the prospects are that
nearly six million pounds will be har-
vested during 1896
Germany, always jealous of France
is just beginning to appreciate the i'm
portance of the industry, and is about
to take systematic steps to develop the
business within her own boundary
lines. What applies to Germany in
this respect also applies to this
country. Germany also intends to
begin the culture of truttles, w. ich be-
long to the tuberace family, and are of
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greater market value than the ordinary

greater market value than the ordinary
mushroom.
Trutfl9s are found beneath the
ground surface in wooded land, and
the peasant fo of France, if they are
fortunate, sometimes make a good liv-
ing by gathering them. The method of
harvesting them is most unique. There
is no external indication of the pres
ence of the truffie. and to locate the
hidden delicacy trained pigs and dogs
are used. Their acute sense of smell
locates the truffles, and then the earth
is dug up and the delicacy brought to
light. Pigs are better for the work
than dogs, for they are passionately
fond of trutaes and work with greater
diligence. To keep them in good humor
and encourage then, the peasants occa-
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A Well Paying Industry
in the European
Countries
HOW 1T IS MANAGED THERE
1t Could Be Worked TO Advantage in
This Country as the Demand Is
Steadily Growing---Pigs TO
Track TruifIes

As popular table delicacy the mush-
room is steadily increasing in the
larger cities of the country, and even
the cheaper restaurants now serve a
mushroom sauce with various dishes
of meats at a nominal price.
There is no way of computing the
commercial value in dollars and cents
of the mushrooms consumed annually
in this country, but it would aggregate
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tlemen of San Francisco, confess to
owning more than 14,000,000 acres of
land in three states. This estate is as
large as Greece with the Ionian isles.
1t is four times the area of Alsace-Lor-
raine, over which France and Germany
fought 1t is bat little smaller than
Ireland and half again as large as
Switzerland. 1t is twice as large as
Belgium and one-third the size OF Eng
land and Wales together.-Westmin-
ster Gazette.
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Contracts have been made with the
Middletown Car works for the con-
struction of $50 cars, fifty of which
will go to Mexico. The building of
these cars will put large number Of
Idle men to work.
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-13
COURIER TUESDAY

the judge that they knew what they were talking about they had a train like the one the accused conductor was running made up, and got a bag of sand of the estimated weight of the boy who was killed They went out on the track for a few miles beyond Dlaz, where, while running at speed similar to that maintained by passenger trains, the judge was invited to kick off the bag of sand from the rear platform, as 1t had been represented that the con- ductor had kicked off the boy. He did this repeatedly, but instead of being sucked under the wheels the dummy bounded several times upon the track, and then shot off into a ditch. His honor being thoroughly convinced by these curious experiments acquitted the conductor, released him from imprison- ment and furnished him with certifi- cate which not only exonerated him. but confessed that the suit should nev- CT have been instituted.
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NO MEXICO uAsrED HERE.

The report of the Chicago working men who were deputed by their asso- ciates to go to Mexico and find out whether the people of that country were gaining such wonderful advan- tages from the siiver-money standard as the silver advocates have been claiming in this country is a good cam paign document, but 1t is not good campaign document for Bryan. The investigators went on their mission in the right way. As they said in their report, they did not go loaded with credentials, to be entertained by the people of the better classes, or as schol- ars, to describe the monuments of his- toric interest, or to have their poetic fancies inspired by the landscape and azure skies or build up wasted ener- gies in the healthful air of that South ern cline. They went at their work in a business way, and the result of it will not encourage American workingmen to go to Mexico, or to vote to bring about condition of things in this country like that which exists in Mexico. The report knocks out all the claims of the silver men as to the advantages of a silver standard for the working people. Candidate Bryan says he would rather live in Mexico than in Turkey. This Is where he shows some sense. The sensible people of this country would rather live in the United States than in either Mexico or Turkey, and they don't want to have Mexico or Tur- key come here.
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THE MIGHTY DoLLaR,

The Boy Orator continues to point out
 that as one of the results of the "crime of '73" the dollar will buy more and more all the time. This seems to him a
 terrible thing-terrible enough to elect him and bring about legislation that will effectually and largely diminish
 the purchasing power of the dollar. Will anybody who has to work for the dollars he gets stand up and honestly say that he is sorry that his dollars will buy too much and that he hopes to see the time soon come when they will Bryan brings this indictment of buying
 more than it ought to is the dollar in which the pensioner receives; it Is the dollar which is paid to the savings bank | depositor when he withdraws any part of his deposit. MT. Bryan insists that | 1t ought not to go so far as it does in Uuy HE IHS LleCeSSdIleS anu CO1fllOTLS Ol | life Is he right? Would it be sensible | for the workingmen of this country to
 strike for reduction in the purchasing l power of their wages?
 | Isn't dollar that buys too much
 better to have than dollar that will
 not buy enough?
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in front and closes with stick pins. The puffs of the chiffon are attached to the jacket, and on the shoulders are heavy bead ornaments. Iridescent beads also furnish the belt and the or naments on the hips. Sleeves and col lar show outings of chiffon with bead finish. The jacket is unlined.
 Plaids are always in style for little girls, and the other figure in this pie ture presents very good method for making up such stuff The skirt Is made of ungored breadths, is lined with foulardine and is trimmed at the hem with band of dark velvet. The blouse waist hooks in back and has a puffed yoke of plain material of one of the colors shown in the plaid. The belt is of the velvet used for the edge, as are cuffs, bows at the shoulders and stock collar. A pretty combination would be beige and pink plaid with black velvet for the garniture.
 The newest coat for little girls is a dressy little affair of dark green, red or brown cloth, with loose sleeves and an adjustable collarette cape. The gar ment is made into belt at the waist and the skirt portion is jaunty, full and long enough to cover the dress. When | in place the effect of the garment is that of stylish little cloth dress with short cape above. This is especially advantageous for the little Mndergar- | ten or primary school maid, for under it she can wear, and be quite warm, Q | little school cotton gown. The jaunty short jackets in reefer cut sold last year for little girls are so reduced ir price now that they are at once to be classed as no longer stylish, and at the same time wise investment for schoo and general wear. The little butterfly | girl will find herself supplied witt dainty box coats like her mammals.
 FLORETTE.
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NOTHING.

Her Meaning.--Angry Father--What do you mean by being engaged to half a dozen men at once? She-Nothing.-- Detroit Free Press.
 Old Gruff-Waiter, you don't mean to say that this is spring lamb? Waiter Indeed. it is, sir. Old Gruff-H m! What year?-Harper's Bazar
 mbiguous.--Ardent Lover-For you, miss, l am ready to go to the ends of the world. Coy Maiden-Oh. sir; you go too far.-Fliegende Blatter
 An Exhausting Topic.-"Flopperton how do you stand on politics, this year?" "I don't stand at all; whenever anybody mentions politics sit down. .' Chicago Record.
 Better Places Than Home.-The Bride Why do you stay away from home every night, Fred? The Brute-It must be the result of the habit acquired while counting you.-Truth.
 Mons. X-Before married my wife I thought she was an angel.
 Mons. .Z.AAnd now?
 Mons. X.--And now know she was an angeL-L'Ilus de Poche.
 ''If Dobbs pays me what he owes me I shall go on the continent this autumn D
 And if Dobbs doesn't pay you what he owes you?"
 Well it will probably be Dobbs who will go there. e."-Tid- Bits.
 The helpful man, who was always on the lookout to do what good he could as he passed along this vale of tears, noticed that a man he knew by sight, and who usually got off at the next crossing, was making no motion to- wards leaving as the car approached that corner on this particular after noon. He seemed absorbed in his newspaper, and the helpful man be- came anxious lest he should be carried beyond his destination. The car was right at the street, and still the man read on, when the helpful man pulled