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THE LUMP CITY MINER,: LUMP CITY, MONTANA: o • h s FAMOUS NAPPY LEON. ORE THAN A century ago, on the Oct uresque island of Cereica, in the Mediterranean, in a certain comfortable barnyard, a fat and handsome hen sat Upon a baker's doz- en eggs of her own laying. Her hus- band, Sieur Bona, was a cock of quiet, reaper table habits, never known to in- dulge in wordy controversies through the fence -palings, nor in crowings an/I challenges of his neighbors. Since his marriage to his spouse, Dame Letitia Bona, lie had not fought a single duel, Which, considering the times, was a re- markable circumstance. Dame Letitia, I fear, did not yield that respect to her lord and master which he deserved; for often when he carne bringing her a particularly juicy worm from the garden, a delicious grub, or some kernels of corn fallen be- tween the bars of the granary, she would reward his attentions by so sav- age a peck upon the head or so fierce a pluck at his gills that he would be fain to retire with a squall. Dame Letitia Bona came of ancient lighting stock. There had been famous game -cock in her family; and, respect- able female as she was, when the white cock residing in the adjoining yard would thrust his head between the pal- ing in contemptuous challenge of Sieur Bona—the latter, according to his cus- tom, giving no heed to the bluster of hie quarrelsome neighbor—Dame Letitia had been known to send the blusterer back to his family with a nip in his comb that all his wives—for he was a Turkish cock and kept a harem—had much ado to heal. It is not to be marveled at, then, that one, at least, of Dame Letitia's brood, when hatched, should exhibit the hered- itary fighting strain. This little rooster, whom his mother named Nappy Leon, after some distant ancestor, fought his brothers before the shell was off his back; and never a day passed but Dame Letitia had to rescue one or another of her downy children from the bill of their fiery brother Nappy. As time went on, the young Nappy became the tyrant of the barnyard. He fought a dozen pitched battles with cocks of his own age. He pecked the heads of all the goslings, and pulled out the feathers of all the ducklings. One day he even confronted a tough old gander, and It might have gone hard with him had not his father happened along, and, by a judicious mingling of persuasion and flattery, soothed the ir- ritated gander and averted the im- pending catastrophe. Dame Letitia was secretly very proud of her mettlesome offspring, and by her hints and encouragement did much to even the soft influence of her husband. The Sieur Bona woutd sigh deeply as lie saw his wife tenderly preening the ruffled feathers of her favorite after one of his daily battles. \Ah wife\ he would say, \I fear you are doing very wrong to lend counten- ance to our son's quarrelsome disposi- tion.\ \Nonsense!\ she would reply, con- temptuously. \He will get on all the better for showing some spirit, as others I could mention should do.\ This was one of her back -handed buffets, which she knew so well how to deliver. For the Sieur was notable in all the barn- yards around for his mild character. \Perhaps would be the quiet an- swer, \unless he should get into the soup in the meantime, my dear.\ After a while even the doting mother began to be alarmed at the pugilism of her favorite, and sometimes went so far as to administer a peck upon the head of the youthful Nappy—which, as every one knows, is the ancient form of chastisement among fowls. But Nappy had gotten beyond maternal control, and with a \squawk\ of pain and 'anger, the spoiled chick would be off to pick up another scuttle with the red bantam, his particular enemy, or the Black Spanish cockerel, who was just sprouting his spurs and boldly de- clared his intention of putting down that hot-headed Nappy some day. At length he hour came when the NAPPY LEON ON HIS CHARGÉR. young Nappy Leon must leave the paternal roost and seek his fortune in the great world. He had grown to the age and proportions of a fine broiler, and it was time that he should begin to lay the foundations of his future career, unless, indeed. he were to end It toe early upon the gridiron with garlic and turnips, after the Corsican ragiii.01 Die father had determined to send him away to school, where, as he put It. he neght win his spurs while getting some sense knocked into that overgrown comb of his. Dame Letitia shed floods of tears, and there wee even a eusteclon of moisture upon the venerable beak of the Sieur himeelf. ae he railed his eon to him and dell‘ , r. , 1 a tew lest words of advice— ad ye e 'o u t - su et e .1 by his practical and ambit men wife ••M v bo l he \alit \you are going f or ts a m ong strsregoeq. from whom you can not expect the tenderness and con- sideration you have received from your '1 1 11E WORLD MOVES Olg• mother and Inc. You must hereafter scratch for yourself, and you must be prepared to submit to many restraints and indignities which your proud spirit has hitherto resented. But let two words guide you in your way through life; namely, patience and policy. The annals, written in bird -Latin, and often with npluttering quills pulled from the wings of some captive goose— are not easily read, but we gather that while Nappy was wandering about Pa- ris, roosting in trees, and scratching a living out of garbage heaps, an old tu- tor of his, a parrot of venerable age, and a wise old fowl, met him one day, and learning his situation got him a pest in a flock of Gallic cocks, Burgun- dian ravens, Breton geese, and Gascon drakes, together with a great number of Parisian loons, eulls, snipe, storks, sparrows and what not. It appears that a vast number of hawks and crows, many of English breed, had es- tablished themselves in a place called Toulon, where they defied the utmost efforts of the French fowls to oust them. Here it was that our hero's mil- itary genius first showed itself. Now it shpuld be known that the com- mander of the forces was a certain Major -General Gander, a miserable old rascal, if the truth must be told, one- sided from the loss of a wing, lame from a foot deformed by being frozen, vain and stupid withal, and convinced that the fate of the whole nation lay in his paddles. Nappy Leon, with the adventurous arid unquiet disposition which went so far toward his after suc- cess, and also to his final overthrow. being dissatisfied with the SlOW and fruitless tactics of Gen. Gander, one day flew into an elm -tree which over- looked the enemy's position, and from thence devised a plan for the expulsion of the defenders of Toulon. He laid his scheme before Gander, who hesitated, quacked, hissed, nibbled at his only re- maining wing, billed his unlaundered shirt -front, took a sip from the mud - puddle before which he had established his quarters, pulled out and ate a very large earth worm, with a profoundly reflective aspect, and—consented. Nappy Leon proceeded at once to his quarters. Doubtless there might have been seen a haughtier carriage of his head, a more brilliant gleam of his eyes, a loftier poise Of his comb, as he summoned his flock for the assault. Be this as it may, he selected his storming party with great dispatch. He chose Brienne's \Heavies uniformed in yel- low and black; Thibault's \Whites in snowy vests and green jackets, every fowl of noble family; De Vergne's charge; and, finally. Chambord's \Spar- rows,\ hardy, reckless little fellows, before whose iron bills even the \Royal Eagles\ had more than once taken flight. We need not pause to describe the event. It will suffice if we say that Nappy, at the head of his gallant flock. swooped down upon the surprised and demoralized foe, and, after a short but desperate battle, drove them, pell-mell, out of their works, with terrible cluck - trigs, squallings, screechings and croak- ings. In a cloud of torn feathers, wings, beaks, gills, combs and top -knots. Nap- py himself had a desperate, though brief, combat with Major Flemish, the commandant. Those who witnessed the struggle declared afterward that the sight of It was worthy of a poem. The further history of Nappy Leon is one long tale of bloodshed and vic- tory over his enemies. His grateful followers put him on top of the finest hen -coop, and he was declared to be the emperor fowl of the whole country. But there came a time when Nappy had to abdicate. He could do nothing else If he wished to save his life; for he knew that he must otherwise \gtt it,\ to use a bit of slang frequently in Nap- py's mouth, \where the hen got the axe\—that Is, In the neck. On a far -distant island of the sea, he pined away the remnant of his life, nib- bling his feathers, stalking around his narrow domain, feebly crowing and dreaming over again the vast dreams which erstwhile had kept the world in excitement. Peace to his feathers! He was a won- derful fowl in his time; but his life illus- trates the great truth that, bird or man, If we fly high, we may fall low.—Adapt- ed tram Demorest's Family Magazine. PRINTER'S INK. A true advertisement is the echo of actions behind the counter. Every clerk in your store should echo In actions and words the ring of your advertisements. Curiosity is a keyhole through which many an advertiser pokes hid argu- ment into the public mind. Advertising to a well-stociced store, like rain to a thirsty pled, enlivens and leaves \silver drops\ ll around. It is vastly important, both to adver- tiser and publisher, that the best news- papers shall be known and recognized as such. A catchy advertisement in an even- ing paper is like a rainbow in the east. It is a bright pledge of tomorrow's busi- ness sunshine As a stiff breeze Nweepeth the elnuds from the sky, 50 brisk advertising sweepeth cobwebs from the hustling merchant's store. A long-winded al containing littie reason, like a bin of chaff with a few scattered grains, is /lot worth the trouble of looking over. An advertiser's discretion is not so much indicated by never choosing a false medium as by never \putting his font in '.1 - a 'second time. Mr. Charles N Kent, a gentlemen Well known to many newspaper men and advertiser'', te that the daily papers of Philadelphia set advertise ments better than those of any other city In America The brightest and most original ad lrertipters of the day are not nereweawrily en beef:mad , they ruivance new methods. but «Imply because they know how t. say their say as if it had never been sail before INVENTION AND DISCOVERY MARK MILE POSTS. ria. Electric Properties ot Wool Some- thing New in Windmills A Toilet Powder Hefei/tittle Cht y for Pipe Opening Cover. LMOST any one who has the habit tof observation has noticed that woolen garments will some- times crackle and appear to be at- tracted by the warmth of the hand This varies greatly in different temper- aments; some peo- ple being so charged with electricity that It literally ema- nates from all of their wearing apparel. A number of instances are recorded where women have worn as inner wraps what are known as crape shawls, these being made of oriental silk heavily wrought with embroidery and with long, thick fringe. After rapid walking, es- pecially in the cold, if the woolen out- side garment is suddenly dropped off, the fringe of the silk instantly rises in a horizontal line and stands out like rays all around the body. One lady has the power ot creating this condi- tion at will simply by throwing a wool- en wrap over the silk one and walking smartly about the room for five min- utes. This electric peculiarity is much more observable in silk than in wool, although in the latter material it is suf- ficiently abundant to caese no little an- noyance In factories where the raw staple is worked up. Thy electric an- noyance, however, is anost always coincident with the extreme cleanliness of the wool. If it is slightly wet and saturated with oil, there is very little trouble, and it may be so heavily weight ed in this way that all inconvenience disappears. In olden times, when wom- en spun their own yarn, it was often found necessary to use very pure and warm lard in order that the threads might run more smoothly, otherwise the fibers seemed to crinkle and kink, and the thread would be rough. and of inferior quality. Something New in Windmills. The old-time windmill—that towering skeleton of ribs and fans with which we are familiar—has recently been im- proved in a fashion that promises much better results—an increased rate of power and much greater ease 6f man- agement. Instead of the fans or arms turning over and over, wheel -fashion, the conditions are reversed, the axle be- ing perpendicular, and the fans turn- ing from side to side. This arrange- ment has advantages, in that the ma- chinery can be made stronger, and by an ingeniously contrived set of levers the fans open and close automatically. This is of great importance, as a sud- den gale is liable. to wreck an ordinary windmill on short notice. With this new device, It is claimed that no mat- ter how rapidly the fans may revolve they will catch the wind only at the proper time, the other side opening to give free passage to the air; thus the higher the gale the higher the rate of speed and the more effective the ma- chinery. It is said that in windy coun- tries enough power can be generated to run it small dynamo. The greatest value of a windmill is In countries where continual pumping of water is neces- sary for purposes of Irrigation. A wind- mill constructed on this new principle costs no more than the old style, is in- finitely more effective, less liable to get out of order, and has a greater variety of uses than any heretofore made. New Treatment for !turns. A Paris medical man of resources and alternatives hail In hand a case of severe and extensive burning, caused by boiling water. So deep was the in- jury that the healing process was great- ly delayed. The patient's family object- ed to skin -grafting, which seemed to be the only way to accelerate the process of recovery, and the doctor, as an ex- periment, applied the internal mem- brane of the hen's egg—the white film with which everybody is familiar The injury must have progreseed beyond the erippuratIve stage, and shown signs of healthy healing. A freshly laid egg I. broken and the membrane immedi- ately cut into narrow strips and laid carefully across the raw surface, then antiseptic dressings are applied with carbolic solutions, and the wholi. Is cov- ered by tin -foil. In a number of cases this procedure has been eminently sat- isfactory. A Chimer floe Pipe Opening Cover. To prevent gases, smoke, soot or fire from passing Into a room of the house from a pipe opening of the chtmaeY flue, an inventor of Agtell, Neb. has patented the device of which 'leveret views are nrceented in the acenmpatir- ing lituntration it has a dished rover, with an annular flat Mango adapted to Vent on the fe , e of the wall, so that the cover closes the pipe opening, and in the center of the cove; turns a sera« rod, with a knob ou Its outer end, while on its inner end screws a nut in a disk which engages the inner surface of a cone -shaped expansion thimble. The thimble has overlapping side portions connected with each other near the apex of the cone by a rivet which forms a pivot, permitting the base end of the thimble to readily expand or contract on moving the disk inward or outward by turning Lite screw rod. The device may thus be readily fixed in position in the pipe opening, and is removed with- out trouble when a pipe is to be placed in the opening. Origin of Shaving the Beard. The practiee of shaving probably or- iginated at first from its being found that the beard afforded too good a hold to an enemy in battle. This is the cadge assigned for the origin of shaving among the Greeks, about the time ot Alexander; and in most countries we find that the practice is first adopted by military men, and that the men of pacific and learned pursuits retain their beards much later. The Greeks con- tinued to shave until the time of Jus- tinian, in whose reign long beards be- came again fashionable, and remained in use until Constantinople was taken by the Turks. The Romans appear to have derived the custom of shaving from the inhabitants of Sicily, who were of Greek origin, for we find that a number of barbers were sent from there to Rome in the year 296 B. C., and the refinement of shaving daily is said to have been first introduced by no less a person than Scipio Africanus At the expiration of the republic, beards had become very rare, and historians mention the alarm in which some of the emperors lived lest barbers should cut their throats. For the sake of con- cealing the scars on his face the Em- peror Hadrian wore a beard, and this, of course, brought that appendage again into use, but the e gu.stom did not long survive him, altpeet - gh his two im- mediate successors .4ere beards in the character of philosophers. A Toilet Powder Receptacle. The illustration shows a holder for tooth powder, etc., arranged to readily deliver a certain quantity upon a tooth t rush, or where desired, without waste. It has been patented. It has a conical bottom and hopper -shaped top, with an apex opening closed by a valve with in- wardly extending stems connected to a head carrying a sleeve with an L-shaped slot, engaged by a pin on the end of a plunger. The plunger is held normally In the position shown by a coiled spring and has on its outer end a thumb -piece, by pressing on which the valve is opened to pass the powder out of the receptacle, the plunger returning to normal position on the removal of the pressure, and at the same time seating the valve. The valve Is removably con- nected with the plunger to permit of conveniently placing the powder in the receptacle Work and Weather. So marked in the influence of the weather on certain temperaments that the employers of large numbers of men are beginning to take this into ac- count in promising to MI large orders. In some establishments, It is said that In very gloomy and what Is called de- pressing weather from ten to twenty- five per cent less work is /lene than on bright, clear days. A little investiga- tion showed that accountants are much more likely to make mistakes in bad than In clear weather, anil scientists sometimes decline to pursue their in- vestigations when the atmospheric con- ditions are uncongenial. This being the case, there is little wonder that foggy, dreary, chilly days have frequently been called \suicide weather.\ Simple and Stylish. A temple and stylish costume is made of blue /eielunere and silk. The plain skirt of cashmere has a band of silk at the hein And two narrow hands abov e It. The waist is plain, and there Is a yoke of net lace over blue silk, the yoke edged with a trimming of gilt like the skirt. The full eleevee are of silk, and there is a stock collar. with a large bow at the back of the neck. Blare Satin. A dress of black satin has the waist made with a collar and pointed veer ot embroidery. From the shoulder \loam to the bodice points five fold. are laid In the material. These are drawn over the bust and narrowed In to a very small space nt the waist -line, where they are held clown by three buttons on «liber side. A Stylish W•Ist. A pretty and stylish waist for a young lady has the collar and yoke of passa - menterie. A veered& front of lace ex- tend* from . yoke to belt. This is worn with a cutaway or Eton jacket. Shoulder Seams. It la to he hoped that the fancy for extending t ‚boulier seams of dresses will meet with the same fate as the ef- f or t to introdure hoops There le no mere uncomfortable or *begird fashion. end women eheuld emprittletany en - test against it Meat Inspection in Chicago. \Inspection of all American meats IS rigid and close at foreign porta, but no ease of actual disease has ever been de- tected. There have been complaints, it Is true, but I will go on record as as- serting that none of these complaints were ever sustained. The fact Is our foreign trade is largely a matter of pol- itics. Men representing different na- tions get together and say: 'If you will let in our sugar free we will admit your beet,' etc. In case of failure to make a trade there is retaliation, and this is all there is to it.\ It was in these words P. D. Armour answered the charges that the federal bureau of animal industry is riot doing its work of inspection properly. So far as the assertion that diseased animals and meats rejected for export are put on the market for home consumption is concerned, Mr. Armour denied it vigorously and referred to the work of the bureau in this city under charge of Dr. Melvin. Up to three weeks ago there were three distinct systems of inspection ot live stock and meats in Chicago. The federal inspection was confined to ani- mals and meats intended for export, and a force of inspectors was constant- ly kept at work in the pens and slaughter houses where this branch of the trade Is handled. The State kept several veterinarians at work solely among live stock for the purpose of condemning lumpy -jawed animals with the exclusive object of stamping out a contagious disease and not for the purpose of keeping bad meat off the market. In addition the city had a force of health officers whose duty It was to see condemned animals were destroyed, and to make frequent rounds of local markets to seize and \tank down\ bad meats. This three -headed division of labor worked all right so far as federal inspection for export was concerned, but the live stock exchange officials found certain sharpers who had been making money by trading in diseased animals could not be stopped by any ordinary methods. As a result the exchange adopted stringent rules which brought about a co-operation of the state, city and stock yards officials, and the lumpy -jawed trade is now well under control, with every prospect of being completely stamped out. Recently the federal authorities found there was a loop -hole of escape for unprincipled men in the handling of bad meats in other states. For in- stance, the dealers who succeeded in getting diseased animals away from the yards could ship them out of town with little fear of detection, as the in- spection of meats was confied to the ex- port and local trade. Out of this has come a new system of co-operation by which the federal, state and city in- spectors all work together, and the only trouble now known is that the rigid watch has driven the disreputable dealers to smaller towns where there Is no inspection. Of the work, Dr. Mel- vin, the federal veterinarian in charge of the Chicago office of the bureau of animal industry, says: \I am sure there is no ground for complaint so far as Chicago is con- cerned. The new system is working nicely, and it is well -night impossible for any diseased animals or meats to get out. I have twenty-eight inspec- tors continually at work in the yards looking at live stock before it is sent to the abattoirs. Then I have six vet- erinarians and twenty assistants at work in the slaughter houses. The state has, I believe, five inspectors. How many the city employs I don't know. We all work together. If one of my men finds diseased animals or meats he reports to the state and city inspectors, and there is no let up until the bad stuff has been condemned and put Into the rendering tanks. We watch the pens, the slaughter houses and the gates, and I don't think any bad animals or meats get out.\ Big Poultry Farms.—Dr. Green. on Long Island, Lake Winnepiseogere New Hampshire, has $120,000 Invested in the business, and $115,000 of it represents the accumulated returns from an origi- nal investment of about $5,400. He has 16,000 laving hens, 4.e00 laying ducks and thirty Incubators of 600 -egg capac- ity each. The annual product of chick- ens and ducks Is from $1211.000 to $140,- 000, anil the buildings and yards are very extensive. Gov. Morton of New York has $60,000 invested in the poul- try business, and Ilavemeyer— the Sugar king is another large producer of poultry They both find It a profit- able as well as an Interesting business There are dozens of other large plants scattered through the East. The busi- ness has been reduced to a fine system. and has been rid of the unpleasant fea- tures that characterize the ordinary slipshod methode in %mole among far- mers anil others who have not etudied It up thoroughly. Ex. Ban Francisco Egg Supply Poultry and eggs to the value of $2,500,000 are conatimed by the people of San Fran cisco each year Strange as It may seem. two thirds of this consumption, as to quantity, is supplied from the east, chiefly from KatIMaR. Nebraska and MIRROUrt Think of it' A million dollars going out of the state annually for what might and 'ghoul(' be profit- ably produced at home! And San Fran else() is by no means the only place in California conatiming eastern egg' and poultry Every city and lam town in the state contributes to tht revenure If eastern producers of The same commodities. It is safe to say that the extent of this ridiculous con- tritoition of California to eastern pro - die era Is not less than $2. 0 00,000 a year This, at lenet. Is the estimate of as eastern expert who has carefully in eeetigated the subject. Pacific Irtura' Press To prevent the preeetbalty eR cones- ei,me areeeeee spreading thrtfugh the of the telephenc Paris physicians re/ emmend the Inge of s specially pre pared antluepti , paper • •
