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• • e for ip- 0111 titr gh, rs- lug leg 130 111.11 ion Or - Bic per an - 1 th, s is dr. air r . g• .11 sc *eh 141.. an/ 1111y 11111i. .51.9 f 1 A POFT AND A BEAUTI 10. Where %est- the mound buildere? history cautot a:: wet these questicns. .Science only can. 11. Deane flinch, and iise it in a sen- tence. Flinch, to shrink. Fiennel flinches *hen it is wasitted. 12. By what is the earth surrounded and by what is it lighted? It is sir - rounded by water and lighted by gas and electricity. 13. Name six animals of the Arctic zone. Three polar bears and three seals. 14. What is yeast? Yeast Is a vegeta- ble flying about in the air, hitching it- self to anything. 15. Why do you open the dampers in a stove when lighting a fire' To let the oxygen in and nitrogen out. IG. What did the constitution do for the country? It gave the president a head, 17. What ape the last teeth that come to a man? False teethe—Boston Budget. ALTIMC IE GIRL WHO HAS WON RENOWN. Santis Cm! ll ll ghats,. Safely Out dt Mew Teens. li*s Surprised American Schol- ars ui tier Talents . Also a Harpist of I.e. cp.lomal rower. ARTHA Cunning- ham, a young poet- ess, whose fame is ateadilg taking shape and who has flee n compared, even .by some of ous severest critics, to Browning, has accomplish ments that are not con - tined .to the field of poetry. She hae, firstPwhat all women prize above all things, and that is gen- uine beauty, and site speaks French. Italian, and German with fluency. She is also it harpest of exceptional power, her execution being something notable for a woman who has just passed her teens. She was at school abroad for six years, In Paris, Berlin and London, and has' traveled over Eurnse, besides spending several months In the Holy Land. All this for a woman who has not yet gotten be- yond her twenty-first milestone is a 'little unusual, even in this age of rapid development. One of•Cardinal Gibbons' last acts be - 'fore embarking en his late foreign trip Was to write to Miss Cunningham a letter of praise for her recent book of ilberns, \The Ballad of La Jeunesse Doree,\ in which his eminence wa . s . pleased to say that the work of the poet ess displayed \a high order of literary merit.\ Through a large part of the - products of this gifted and versatile young American woman - there is a vein of religious mysticism, as well as a touch of metaphysics:, but here and there the genuine womanly sentiment crops out as in this little gem:— • e ;Give me of thy gold. 0 Sunshine; Of thy silver, give me, Moon. And I'll take them to my sweetheart— She will bid me enter soon. Then it will not matter, Sunshine:: Then it will not matter, Moon, •-• That we have no purse between us— Only love's sweet, priceless boon. • That Miss Cunningham's imagina- tion has also a sublime and powerful range is impressively manifested in the sparkling verse entitled \Dawn which has been highly praisede— barknees. blackness, then a gray; MARTHA CUNNINGHAM. • Blue light that silver glows and pates. St ilinees; silence, then a stir Of breathing life. White trails Of sombre clouds float to the west, And siek within the sea to rest. Peak on peak limps up rose -tipped, And Klee- on slope then swells with Sweet and pipe and call of bird And beast. Then high above the hilis The sun flares up, and shepherd's horn Resounds a'nd echoes --Day is born. QUEER ANSWERS. Replies Made to EsamlnatIon OuestIons In * Roston !School. Since wit has been defined by Noah Webster as the \fe'lcitioun association of objects not usually connecteii. so as to produce a pleasant surprise.\ m a y not the pupils of some of our public echools, who gait- the following an - ewers to their examination questionp. lay claim to it? The record as here giv- en is bonatide. having been read during the last week at the graduation exer- cises of one of the leading grammar iellOOIS of this city. 1. Who were the Pilgrims' A dirty, ,filthy set who lived under the ground. 2. Name a domestic animal useful for clothing, and describe Its habits. The ox. Ile doe'r have any habits because lf -he lives In a stable. 3. If you were traveling acrosss des- ert whee would you choose in. rest? I 'would lest on a Moot 1. Mention five races of men. Men, women, children and babies, „se' 5. Describe the white teterr / and sb ow that it Is superior to the other races A Writes on is Cutting Board. Mrs. Kate Chapin. whose tales of the people of the Louisiana bayous have MRS. KATE CHAPIN. given her high rank as a writer or short stories, lives in St. Louis, where she was famous for her beauty before she gained equal fame from her pen. She is still a handsome woman, though now the mother of six children. She is a creole by bh : th, and her husband was a Louisiana planter. It may be of interest to ambitious young authors of the gentler sex to know that Mrs. Cha- pin writes on an old cutting -board held in her lap. \(entail's Create° Pleasure. Although Max Nordau is several years tinder fifty, his hair and beard are perfectly white. He is a hearty, genial man, with no trace in his pri- vate life of his professional pessimism. Reading was his only boyish amuse- ment, for his father, a Jewish rabbi, was poor, but possessed of a full li- brary. He began to write when only fourteen years old, and at sixteen he was earning twelve dollars a month from literary work. Dr. Nordau neither smokes nor drinks spirituous liquors, and he takes but little interest in society or the theater. He recently told an Interviewer that the few hours he spends at his writing -table every evening are the one pleasure of his life. Pond' of Figures. Although Jose Echegaray. the Span- ish dramatist, has writteu more than a hundred plays during the past twenty years. nearly all of them sucressful, he aspires to be famousas a mathematician rather than as a playwright, lie writes plays in the intevals of leisure from his scientific studies, and none of them has cost him more than a fortnight's labor. Echegaray is a lively old man of 70, and he has recently 'learned to ride the bicycle. lie makes the curious boast that up to the age of 50 he had read every novel published in England. Lessila a 1111e011C Life. John Burrnughs has just finished harvesting his grapes, of which his vines yield ninety tons a year. and for which he finds a ready market In New York. The naturalist and essayist leads a very bucolic life, for a literary man. at his country home on the Hud- son. He exacts all he can from nature, even to the goose -quills he uses for pens, and the reeds a visitor found him transforming into pen -holders. His currants, peaches, and grapes return him a better income than his books. said hr Madame Marches!. Madame Marches' has trained prima - donnas for the lyric stage for forty years, and what she says; on matters of vocal culture Is law. It is refreshing to hear her statement that the elabor- ate rules of diet for singers on which many teachers lay stress are humbug. \If a girl l's not learned by the time M A DA ME MA Rttli ESL ee white man v, ill nod at you when 11 .•sh\ COWS\: to me what food stilt s her meets you the ylreei , itip rsr. ays Madame Mar W. Of what is suirt;i,'p of the Pitt\ ehesi Tills famous teacher. now a composed\ Dirt and people fine looking %%omen a few years past 7. Name a fruit that has Recite on the sixty, trained Melba, Calve, Barnes, outside. A seedrake Sibyl Sanderson and other Atilfliefl of S Name five forms of water Hot water, cold water. fsuiel water. • well water and ire water. 9. Name and locate the flip senses. Tbe eyes are In the northern part of the face and the Mouth in the southern, almost equally glut fame. She gained celebrity as a concert singer In ig50, end a few years later merrled the Mar- quis de reetrone. an Italian political refugee. She was long a friend of tile Abbe Liszt, AMONG THE SIO1 X. THE MC.4ST RESTLESS TRIBE OF INDIANS ON EARTH. Always Crave for ISlood Intrenehed In the Mad Lands Where They Sulk to Their Hearts' Content—Three Red Warriors. (Special ('orrespondence.) LIE Sioux Reserva- tion is the best pos- sible combination tf prairie, hills, s)ountains and timber lands. The latter is composed if cottonwood. ash, elm and box elder. The levers are eiostly narrow etreams of great length. Water is scarce and of an al- kaline character. Something like $4,000,000 has been expended since 1868 on the support and 1 . i vil izatton of the Sioux, yet the pro- gress has been very small in proportion to the expenditure. One-fottrth of the entire Indian appropriation goes to the Sioux. They are given agricultural im- plements. west:ins, harness and fences. At the serious agencies the Indians employ two days in .every two weeks soing to and from the agencies for ra- tions. They have to be practically driven to do farming, and are forced to attend school. cavorted and howled around the stake until the rope wore through the skin and set them free. When this occurred they, aim,' supposed to be full fledged warriors. Woe to the buck who faint- ed or fell from exhaustion. He was thenceforth regarded as a squaw man and shunned by the rest of the tribe. The tinding of gold in the Black Hills brought the whites and the Sioux to- gether with a clash, In those days that short -legged, game -footed warrior, Sit- ting Bull, was in the heyday of his pow- er. His warriors murdered and were murdered right and left. These trouble e . ',eliminated in the uprising in which General Clutter and his soldiers lost their lives. To Sitting Boll has been attributed the questionable honor of planning that massacre. If reports may be believed it was that fine old barbarian Gail who did the work. Sit- ting Buil was only a medicine man who had outgrown his mummery and his tom-toin. He was by no means a man of person- al magnetism, and it was not long after the Custer massacre before White Ghost, Drifting -Goose and other promi- nent sub 1 . hiefs of the tribe withdrew their support and followed Gall,' Two Bears, Big Head and other leadys. This was a erusher to Bull, but he promptly rallied a few of his faithful followers and started a sort of Clan-na- Gael eoeiety, called the \Secret Eat- ers.\ Nobody ever found out the par- ticular diet indulged In. Most Of the warriors taughed at it, and finally Sit- ting Bull, disheartened anti grown old, took to farming, in which occupation he was engaged when he met his death. TWO STRIKEe. A Sioux Chier. -- The Resebild agency Is one of the most beautiful spots in Dakota. It is so named from acres anti acres of rose bushes along the creeks. It was at this agency that Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and other great Sioux chiefs have made their moet dramatic appeals for and against ear. RAIN IN THE FACE. A lerientilY Chief. Ntithing earl ever eradicate the Ince of blond and war - from the nature of the Sioux Tlie are a warring nation by tradition 311 , 1 instinct. Generall) speaking, they are tall, large boned and athletic. The school I hi Wren (kens Ilk\ civilized boys and girls. but the older Indiana stIll cling to their moccasins, ea rri [MR. leggin\. eagles' feathers hedgehog quills and paint 'ro tbs. r old fathers of the tribe may be at tribute(' much of the trouble with the whites, although there is nothing quite an hail as an educated Indian boc who harks leek to the eayR of his ances- tors. The Steitz are still permitted to eold their ,in noes. with the single exception of the sun dam e. ills was too bar - barons for government endurance. al- though nohodi wan hurt by it but, the Indianst thenweives it will the core ninny In vv inch the yming bravest \qualified - toll fledged ettrriore It was a sort iir Maypole affnir. In nhieh the Indians danced around a pole while haste-ITU; to rows They dlii not hang with their hands Two deep gashes were cut In the skin of their breasts. and the rope was ganged un- der the skin and flenh and tied. Then the vonng braves danced and Wall ItA Wt. Frosted pl .qznontleated almt butte N o crowsuiore there. 1 . 111 , 11 .1 I party visited hi Ile after butte, hut found no enemies. Then they came hack dis - gusted. Gall is one of the few Sioux chiefs whbse Nye for his people is sincere. He neN er masqueraded as a patriot to secure his own ends, and In all his in- tereour with the whites he has pre- seived dlgnitied personality as an The medicine man is probably the worst enemy to civilization eneoun- tared by the agents among the Sioux. There is no end either to their mum- mery or their villainy. The following story shows the lattions disposition of the tribe. Some four years ago the son of - Red Fish, a young warrior named Frosted, made up hls mind thet he would become a medicine man and a propled. had a vision. Then lie began to howl. Ile was sturrounded by all t tie warriors of the village. who began to suspect that he had the stomach aehe. He enlightened them. \Lot\ said he; \I have seen the Crows coming: they have crossed the Cannon Ball River and are as the leaves of the forest. Our wives: and children are In danger. I have spoken.\ Then he began to howl again. Some lime previously the government had taken the firearms away from the In- dians, but they nianaged to serape up some bows and arrows and old muskets and away they' went in their war paint after Frosted. Ile led them across the tater, where he lay down and hail an- ot lir r The I 'rows were at a cer- tain butte. Away went the Sioux to the te. They found no Crows. Then Sprite time afterward Frosted I had another vision. He ex- I pressed his intention of bring- I tug tint Standing Hock to life. I Standing Rock, after which the ageney is named, is about four feet high and a Coot in diameter. It is supposed to be a e p r i et i il i \ i s fi bi e i ri n( s i quaw ho ran away iron h Agent MeGillictithly. ill order to show the foolishness of the thing. humored the young prophet. If he brotigni the rock to life he was to receive a valu- able prese nt. If he failed he should go to jail. The day arrived, and Frosted began operations in the presence. of a great essemblage of spectators. He pranced and howled around the rock and rattled his bones anti spells and cut up his monkey shines for half an hour or more. The rock did not budge. The spectators began to sneer, and Agent !McGillicuddy seized upon Frosted and thrust hint into durance vile. This proved to be a great blow to In- dian superstition. Geeerally speaking, a Sioue has no Idea of the fitness of things. Sotne time ago a warrior walked into an undertak- er's shop in a frontier town anti pur- chased a coffin for a child whom he ex- pected to die in the following week. The child got well anti the buck hat, a coffin on his hands. He is probably saving it for future use. The drawing of redoes by the Sioux is an exciting event for even a cool blooded spectator. It panders to the Indians' love of blood in a way that is unpleasantly suggestive. The steers in- tended for beeves are kept in a pen near the agency. Each steer is calcu- lated to be enough for thirty Indians, whose names are drawn by lot. These Indians station themselves in a line on their ponies about three hundred yards away. At e given signal a steer is released. Then like an avalanche the wild sons of the prairie rush down on the ani- mal with yells and whoops and swing- ing lariats. The steer Is killed in a jiffy. Then come the squaws, anti a scene of blood anti Patmage takes place that is, enough to sicken the heart of a civilized person. The liver is eaten raw, and sometime': I have seen It hung from the neck of a squaw, who chewed away on it while cutting up the treat. Every part is kept and nothing is wasted. This scene Is repeated until the steers are gone. The Sioux are great gamblers and will stake everything. including their wives anti children. on their games of chance. They tire plased generally with -the blue pitn of plums carved with symbols or with bones. While the gambling is going on the monotonous thlimp Oh the tom-tom is incessant. Sometimes a buck will wager his sweet- heart, whore affections he hat; won. pledging to resign her in ease he loses. There hi no tribe in the history of the country that has given the govern- ment so much trouble. The power of Osceola and the Seminoles was com- paratively easily broken; Tecumseh anti the IIVQ110111 were soon subjugated: Red Jacket and Black Hawk anti Brant and other eelebrated chiefs who at times have pitted themselves against the government were brought to terme in short order, simply because the gov- ernment had not then adopted the \civilizing\ policy. Time and again the Sioux have turned on their benefactors. returning a holocaust of evil for good. In 1862 they killed more than a thousand set- tlers. in 1866 they massacred Colonel Fetterman ad forty-ninemen, and in 1876 they initrbered General Custer and five companies. This la Only a small part of their unsavory reeord. At the same time there Is some degree of truth in the statement made by Gall. one of the few old-time Indian's who have not lost their personality, that the United States had made fiftj - -two treat- ies with them - none of which had been kept by the whiles. In a majority of eases, however, the first infractions have been made by the Sioux. And, by the way. Sioux love niaking Ii a very queer thing. The young man and pr w o a m a b rl i a n w k i I f t os r d a e n byosuira so,iund re ascoh . every day for a month. At last the swain will throw his blanket over th? head of the girl, and she e - Ill drop hers to the ground. This settles and they are presumably happy even after. • lila I Hairpins. SOTTIP of the latest novelties are a fine pearl and diamond brooch, which Is convertible into a hairpin. consisting of a heart and wings, while a simliat Idea has beell embodied in an algreti , comb. answering the purpose of brooch, also formed of fine diamond - and pearls. There is also a winged hairpin, with a detachable top. PO that it can also be converted into a brooch. The &align Is of special beauty, fine' single diamonds being placed 00 eithet telde of the serpent In the renter, with pear-shaped pearl above It. all spring - ing from the star between the wings Another of the most fashionable kinds of bracelet, a great Improvement on the curb. consist SS of fine turquoises and pearls, blended with gold chain work and Kupplemented by a pendant ball The Idea asserts Itself in many fash- ions. -- Kings mind queens on scatIon. Kings and Queens, like ot her people nee now enjoying their iii ttu:u i nutting, , ! The Queen Regent of Spain and the lit- ; tle King are at Miremar. tient- elan Se - hearten, the 'Sang of Portugal is Si cascoas, King Leopold of Beiglem is at ; ()sled. Ofteen Vs'iihrlmina of Holland , and her Mother Are al the chateee of entulri th near Ptrerbt. the Csar iviel , rzeirIns are iit Peterhof King es,-tir and his familv are at the palaee of Tuligarn. the Queen of Italy is at Prossemec. soil Kini Minified Is at his rilmeting lodge In the Vette l'ororn, in the Cralaa Alpe. Chocolate Is still tii•eil In the interior of Smith America for a cjirreney, as are cocoanut and eggs. Thayer's IlSerry ItulIntln. For October, 1895. Winter protection is an absolute nec- essity for growing small fruits success- fully in a northern climate. It should be practiced in every locality where, the temperature reaches zero or below. With the high cultivation now prac- ticed. a large anti tender gro,::th is stientilitted; hence the greater neces- sity to maintain as uniform a temper- ature as possible throughout the win- ter. Even in localities where plants show no itaitiri, and among those considered most hardy, the vitality is often af- fected, and the succeeding crop very Much reduced. The best winter protection for black- heeries, raspberries and grapes, con- sistsi; w ia i s t - t iitte l diit hem down and covering Hgliti All old canes and weak new growth s p i l l: I : i t: . I be cut out and burned soon after fruiting, leaving only strong vigorous If plants have been well mulched in summer s ith green clover, Clean straw mulching. In manure, as they should be, lessmutti is required by using this In laying plants down, the rows ruin- ing north and south, commence at the north end, remove the (lilt from the nor' hi side of the hill about four inches deep, gather the branches in close ; form with a wide fork, raising it to- v. - ard the top of the bush and press gently to the north, at the same time placing the foot firmly on the base of lie hill, and press hard toward the If the ground is hard, or buehes old, a second man may use a potato fork instead of the foot. inserting 'same deeply, close to south side of hill, and Press over slowly, bending the Inisli in the toot until nearly flat on the ground. The bush is then held down with a wide fork until properly covered. The top of succeeding hill should rest near the base of pieceeding hill, thus mak- ing a continuous covering. This process is an important one 1 but is easily acquired with a Bute prac- tice. In the spring remove the dirt ears'- frilly, ush. with a fork, and slowly raise the b With hardy varieties, and In nrlid winters, sufficient protection may bo had by laying down and covering the ;tips - only. Grapes, being more flexible are laid down without removal of dirt near the vine. There is no more important work on the fruit farm, or garden, than winter protection, and there is no work more generally neglected. It it be done thoroughly, after frosts have come, and before winter sets in. Strawberries grow rapidly* In Octo- ber, and make many weak plants. Re- move all rueners starting this month, allowing four or five inches square space for each plant. This is neces- sary for beet fruit. M. A Thayer. Sparta. Wis.. Value of Sheep I,, (tracing. About the most protit secured from sheep is by the service they perform in ronsuming plants that are of no value. Some weeds are luxuries to sheep, anti are nipped oft as soon as they appear above ground. Many -of the poisonous weeds are harmless when young, es- pecially to hogs and sheep, and as sheep crop off the grass when it Is very short ' they do not allow anything in the shape of green food to be wasted. Vermont is credited with Die largest wool clip. per sheep, east of the Missis- sippi river, which is seven and one-half pounds, with other states intiell lower. It Is almost surprising that farmers will depend upon wool for profit in the face of such light fleeces, when they enn do much better by aiming to produce mutton and limb as specialties instead of wool. The beet mutton breeds are capable of 5lolling fleeces much above the averagt. Massachusetts Plough- man. Pruning Frequently.—One trouble In pruning is that. in many eases, the work is put off from time to time and then too rnin•h Is done at ones. and a considerable Injury to the tree is the result. It would he much better in every way to do a little at a time and do the work oftener, allot chug hack or cutting off a branch here and there wherever it iteems neetifill. The first anti most lint ortant pruning mast be given when the tree Is first transidant- rd. Then the taps musa tue vie slid: in proportion to the roots and it 14 ;it this time that the general shape or form of the tree sheuld lie decided. So far as the natural growth of the tree will per- mit a spreading, open head that will admit air and sunshine all through the tree is best In securing this another beneet Is derived that is. the trunk of the tree is hailed and this offers a good motet lion, anti. to some extent at i le a i r ts g.„] t. Ii\ pens the liability to their be- im infested with the borer. This pest depends upon the warm sun to hatch out their eggs, and shielding the tree thoroughly will in a great meas- ure avoid this. Journal of Agriculture. Fire from 1- ricrion w rather un- took place on the ermal nerve - retire farm of A A Hartshorn, in Wool - stock townehip, on Tuesday afternoon. • A crew of hands were stacking hay tiv means of a patent stacker when the friction ratified by the rapid prissily of a rope over a small pulley sot the hay on fire end in less: than half a minute it spread over the entire stark. Some. fort - , tons of time hay, a 'granary near ht. the hay starker and about Ion bushels of oats were de- stroyed nt a very few minuter There wait Or no insurance. Clarhim (lc :: a : t Ninn o it I r. I. he pnjn . of mold hortleultur- ists that In an old orchard te not the place to set young trees, owing to the eslieneted condition of the soil. It is hotter to start a new orchard in a new' place.
