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WHICH WON? "Well, what do you think of her, Hal? I am awaiting your verdict in breathless eagerness. And I warn you beforehand not to say that you are in lore with her, for I mean to marry her myself." Gerald Leighton, who had just entered the private apartment at the Ocean House of his friend and inseparable companion, Hal Lyndon, threw himself into an easy chair with a look of resolution upon his handsome face. Hal glanced up from the newspaper in his hands and puffed lazily at the big cigar between his teeth. "Of whom are yon speaking, Gerald he drawled lazily. "Surely not little Vera Langdon Well, she is a beauty, and no mistake.

But I warned you when I first presented you to her that she is a flirt. She does not mean any harm, you know but Vera Langdon can no more help flirting than a bird can help singing. But I have reason I have now, to believe that she me." Gerald Leighton started with a suppressed exclamation. "The idea! well, now, Hal, old fellow, if this be true, you ought to speak right out and not keep a fellow in suspense. I intend to propose to her myself if she is free, but if, on the other hand, she is engaged to you or anybody else, I want to know it." Hal Lyndon's face flashed.

"No, she is not engaged to me, not yet I have reason to believe that she will be ere long. lam going to put the subject to the test this very night." Leigh ton's face grew dark. "So am I. I must go now and dress. By-by, old boy." "Wait a moment!" Hal Lyndon sprang to his feet, all languor gone, his face wore a look of interest, his eyes with eager light.

"Hold on Gerald. I have a word or two to say before you goout like the conquering hero before whose onward march everything goes down. Mis 3 Vera has shown me marked can't deny that, eh?" Gerald shook his head slowly. "Don't know about that. She walk 3 with you on the beach nearly every evening, it is true, but then when she returns to the hotel parlor she is sure to engage in conversation with me and usually a tete-a--tete talk in some convenient corner where we are not liable to interruption.

On the whole, my boy, I imagine that I have the inside track." "Not so. I'll wager you anything. Let me see. I'll put up my are thoroughbreds, you your yncht. What do" you Gerald "Done.

It is a bargain. One of us must win. Of course that goes without saying, and i'" I prove to be the lucky man you mast not cherish any animosity toward me, Hal. It wouldn't be my fault, you know, and you will acknowledge that 1 am a general favorite with the fair sex. And now I really must go and make my toilet, so much depends upon appearances, and to-night I must learn my fate.

Au revoir." The door opened and closed and Gerald Leighton left his friend to his own reflections. "Confound his impudence!" growled Hal Lyndon, savagely. "He'll never get ahead of me. I believe I'll go down on the beach for a few moments aud then return, for the dinner gong will soon ring." No sooner had Hal Lyndon disappeared than the window blind which secured a neighboring window was opened slyly, softly, and an arch brunette face peeped forth. A long breath of relief, and a girl Stepped through the open window out upon the petite brunette, with faultless complexion, irreproachable eyes and real beauty.

She wore a dainty gown of white and silver, and looked like a picture. "Good gracious!" she laughed softly, and her laugh, like a chime of silver bells, was very sweet to hear. )f all insufferable fops on the face of the earth!" To whom did she refer? To which of the two friends? "To be sure of my favor!" she went 9n, angriiy, the big brown eyes flashing with indignation, "and above all, to make a dare to make a regard to me Oh, wasn't it lucky that I happened to be in Mrs. Allen's room, right next to Mr. Lyndon's, and that Mrs.

Allen had stepped out for a moment and begged me to wait for her, for, being alone in the room, glancing over the new magazine, I him rd to hear my name, and so I kept lilent and therefore heard the whole plot." She smiled sweetly, but there was a twinkle in the pretty eyes. "So I am a flirt, because I cannot help Merci, monsieur, 1 will take pains to deserve the epithet. Ah she went off kito another fit of silvery lautrhter, "quite bo charming," as a certain thought ocairred to her. "I will do it," she cried at after a moment of silent thought '1 will do it! It will teach somebody a lesson! Ah, Mr. Leighton with a start, "really, you surprise me, but I like pleasaat surprises." She had begun to pace slowly down the veranda, usually deserted at that bur for the cool beach, where the shining Wives rolled in an out.

Aud just in the niddle of her angry reverie she had lifted hir eyes to see Gerald Leighton standing n-ar. His face flushed at the stift, earnest glance of her beautiful eyes. Ife came swiftly to her side. Langton, may I hope that my peseuee is not altogether unwelcome?" ht asked swiftly. "May I hope tint you will learn to care a little for me?" ie went on, confusedly.

He had caught a glimpse of 'Hal Lyndon's tall, elegant figire coming rapidly toward the hotel, and felt a reprehensible satisfaction in getting ahead of in his proposal fat. Her face grew crimson, then pale; the lo'ely eyes were downcast. Either she a consummate flirt and actress, or she wai really inclined to favor the handsome, fail-haired fellow who stood at her side, gazbg so earnestly into the bewitching face bewilder me, Mr. Leighton sht faltered "so unexpected, I set Mr. Lyndon coming down the veranda, anl auntie is calling me I must go!" 'But" an agony of and will answer me soon.

Yea?" 'Answer you with an upward glance, heieves falling again upon hi; gaze. I mean that in my poor wa- I am" trying to tell you of my love for you, and that I want you to be my wife'!" you, indeed?" Then, Mr. Leighton. I mist'say that 1 A tall, elderly la.ly, in creaincolred albatross, rustled out upon the vernda. "I beg your pardon, dear, but you letter has come important, weijhty smiling simiticantly as Ver made a gesture to indicate that she wisled her to 'Ton will answer me later this evening, Mis pleaded Leighton.

Tie next day Leighton received a note a few lines bade him come to ai old church about a mile from the Oeen House, where he would receive his Half wild with delight, reinemberiig the romantic spot, he made Ucanply. The time appointed was the hour of sunset. Gerald could imagine the interview that awaited him, and afterward the ong walk down the shining white beau to the hotel. Arived at the church, he was joined by Hal Lyndon. The two friends started angily at sight of each other.

Gerald stope'd short. "That doeo this mean he began but Hal urned haughtily away. Jit at that moment the church doors SACOAM'EATO DAILY "RECORD-UNION, SATORDAY, ffOVEMJBER 2, FAfcKES. were thrown open and the two alas! they were upon the ragged edge of enmity now the sacred building. Hal drew a letter from his pocket.

"If you are so anxious to know what brings me here to-night," he began, "read that." And Gerald read: Dear Mb. Lyndon: You asked me a very important question last night. If you would have your answer come to the old church on the beach at sunset exactly. I will be there and you shall be satisfactorily answered. Veka.

No wonder that Gerald started in surprise as he read, for the note, save for the difference of names, was a fac simile of the one that he himself had received. But before he could utter a word there was a little bustle within the church, and then glancing up he saw Vera Langdon and her aunt enter the building. A moment like the phantasmagora of a dream it all passed before the astonished spectators was standing at the altar beside a handsome stranger tall, kingly looking the marriage ceremony was performed by the whiterobed clergyman. After that Gerald and Hal knew no more. They reached the open air somehow, and a little later the bridal party came forth, "Let me present my husband, Ralph Madison," Vera said a little later as they met on the way to the waiting carriage: "Oh, yes; we have been engaged for a long lime a year.

And don't you think, Mr. Lyndon Leighton, that it is better not be too sure of a lady's affections hereafter? It would be too bad to sacrifice your yacht or the thoroughbred ponies on my I account! Please forgive me for saying nothing of my engagement before, but, really, it was quite too interesting to see what length a man's vanity will carry him. Goodby," and she flitted away and entered the carriage with her husband and aunt. The carriages drove swiftly away, and the two friends went back to the Ocean House to pack their trunks for immediate i departure, both sadder and wiser men. Yuuth's Companion.

AN ALASKAN ROMANCE. How a Missouri Miner's Native Wife Led Him to a Fortune. City Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

1 The crowd of passengers in the Union Depot Monday evening were interested in a stalwart young man wearing the garb peculiar to mining districts, and his Es- quimau wife and 2-year-old baby. The woman was clothed in ordinary female dress, but her dark skin, sharp, black eyes, broken speech, and appearance generally proclaimed her nativity, while the baby that nestled in her arms and playfully pulled its papa's long beard, cleared showed its mixed blood. The miner submitted to an interview as gracefully as a politician. His wife proved to have quite a romantic history, and kis marriage to be a very interesting romance. "My name," said he, "is James Steed.

I live in Alaska, and I am en route to my parents' home, in Dallas county, with my wife anil baby for a visit. My wife is an Esquimau, about 22 years of age. I bought her three yeais ago while 1 was in the Forty-mile River placer gold district. She belongs to the tribe that makes its headquarters at Fort i Recovery, 1,800 miles above the mouth of the Yukon. "In the first place I hired her as a serv- ant to assist me in exploring the placer gold diggings of the Lawrence river, a small stream about 100 miles up the Forty- i Mile river, paying her husband $10 for her i services three months.

When I arrived at Forty-Mile three years ago and staked my claim I heard wonderful stories about Lawrence river, but no camps had been established there and the bars above the i mouth had not been prospected. I determined to go and see for myself. The jour- i ney had to be made in a canoe, and I gave out word that I desired to employ a native to pole the boat and take care of my camp- ing outfit. I confess that I was surprised the next day when a stalwart native led a woman in to my hut and offered her as the servant I desired. I consulted with other miners and learned from them that the I native females were the only ones that could be trusted, as they were diligent, strong, faithful and honest, while the males were exactly the reverse, and liable to murder their sleeping employer if there I is the least chance to get away with the body.

1 learned that the woman was the wife of the man who brought her to me. The woman seemed anxious to be employed and I concluded a bargain with her husband. "The next mcrning she appeared at my claim with a small bundle of clothing in her hand. She set about and had my boat fitted up ready for the trip by noon, and we pulled out soon afterward. She poled the boat swiftly, while I sat on the stern musing over the degraded condition of the i Alaska females.

When the time came for stopping she drew the boat to the shore, made it fast, and drew a canvas over the part designed as the sleeping apartment, She could not understand a word that I said, but by signs I instructed her to prepare supper. When I sat down to eat I invited her to join me. She seemed sur- prised and blushed like a girl, but ac- cepted my invitation. I was a little surprised when I fouud that my invitation meant to her that I should treat her as a wife and not a servant, and that was the cause of her confusion. "I found her assistance invaluable.

She hmght me how to wash a pan of gold, and her native geological knowledge enabled her to tell the gold value of any district we struck at a glance. "She learned a few words of English and we got on together amazingly well. The day before we returned home I noticed that she downhearted about something and I inquired the cause. Her eyes were full of tears as she turned her honest-look- ing face toward me and said 'I don't want to go back to my husband again. He will beat me.

He don't treat me like you She finally informed me that her husband would sell her forever for $50, and pro- posed if I would buy she would work the gold out of my claim after working hours. I agreed to her proposition. Her eyes brightened up and from that hour to I tiiis she has been the happiest woman in Alaska, I found her husband on a big spree, and he readily sold the woman for and a pair of boots. The money proved to be his ruin. He filled up with i Alaska Fur Company whisky and was drowned in the Yukon a day or two afterward.

Now that the woman was mine I pro- vided her with clothes like American women. It cost her a considerable effort to learn to wear them, but she did. 1 did not, of course, let her work in the mines, but treated her like an American wife. Several other miners secured native wives, and the women formed a very select circle, greatly envied by the females ol their tribe. "I had big luck at mining, and deter- mined to take my wife and baby back to the States to my parents.

When we came out we stopped at Sitka, and were married in regular style. This was our first chance, and I guess it is all regular under the circumstances. I think my wife is nice. I love her dearly, and did you ever see a finer baby than that one in her arms A correspondent of the St. Louis Gtobe- Dtmoerai asserts that there is tin enough in Pennington and Ouster counties, Colorado, to supply the world for centuries to come.

He says he obtained six pounds of tin from nine pounds of ore in a mine near Cutter. When you feel a general lassitude and breaking "down of the system, Angostura Bitters will work a wonderful change. Dr. J. G.

B. Siegert Sons, Manufacturers. At all druggists. DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. The Account Given by Columbus Four Hundred Tears Ago.

While the subject of the proper celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America is under discussion, the discoverer's own story is doubly interesting. While Christopher Columbu3 was returning to Europe he wrote a letter to Luis de Sant Angel, Chancellor of the Exchequer of Aragon, giving a short account of his a resume, for instance, as an interviewer in modern times might get from a returning Captain. The letter tells but little of Columbus' trials; or the hardship, discouragement and mutiny which he conquered. It speaks rather in glowing terms of the wonderful land of promise revealed by him to all the world of its timid, trustful natives, of its fruits, (lowers, trees anil metals. It is the jubilant outburst of a hopeful heart overflowing with success.

And throughout the entire letter runs a calm tone of thankfulness to the Creator, of submission to the writer's earthly sovereigns. The distinguished letter writer tells "how in thirty-three days' time I reached thn Indies with the fleet which the most illustrious King and Queen, our sovereigns, gave to me, where I found very many islands thickly peopled, of all which I took possession without resistance for their highnesses by proclamation made and with the royal standard unfurled. To the first island that I found I gave the name San Salvador, in remembrance of his High Majesty, who hath marvelously brought all these things to pass. The Indians called it Gaanahani. To the second I gnve the name of Santa Maria de Cou' cepcion, the third I called Fernandina, i the fourth Isabella, the fifth Juana, and to each one I gave a new name.

When I reached Juana I followed the coast to the westward, and found it so large that I thought it must be the province of Cathay, and as I found neither towns nor villages on the seaciast, but only a few hamlets, with the inhabitants of which I could not hold conversation, because they all immediately tied." Another island he named Espanola, and I here he found "many spices and extensive I mines of gold and other metals." The inhabitants of this happy isle were shy at first, bnt "when they are reassured aud i have thrown off this fear they are irnile- less, and so liberal of all that they hare that no one would believe it who had not seen it. They never refuse anything that they possess when it is asked of them; on I the'contrary, they otier it themselves, and they exhibit so much loving kindness that I they would give even their hearts, and whether it be something of value or of little worth that is offered to them they are satisfied. I forbade that worthless I things, such as pieces of broken porringers and broken glass and ends of straps, should be given to them, although when they succeeded in obtaining them they thought they possessed the finest jewel in he world. It was ascertained that a sailor received for a leather strap, a piece of gold weighing twi msttUanot and a half, and others received for other objects of far value much more." The said Columbus, had never been wen with clothes on, nor vessels like ours. On reaching the Indies I took by force in the first island that I discovered some of the natives, that they might learn our language aud give me some information in regard to what existed in these parts, and it so happened that they soon and we them, either by words or signs, and they have been very serviceable to us.

They are still with me, and from repeated conversations that I have had with them I find that they still believe that lam from heaven. And they were the first to say this wherever I went, and the others ran from house to house and to the neighboring villages crying with a loud voice, Come, come and see the people from heaven He saw no savages, but heard there were some at an island which lies second in one's way in coming to the Indies." This island (Dominica) is inhabited by a race which is regarded throughout these islands as extremely ferocious and eaters of human flesh. These possess many canoes, in which they visit all the Indian islands, and rob and plunder whatever they "Finally, 1' says the great navigator, "and speaking only of what has taken place in this voyage, which has been so hasty, their highnesses may see that I shall give them all the gold they require, if they will give me but a very little assistance; spices, also, and cotton, as much as their highnesses shall command to be shipped and mastic, hitherto found only in Greece, in the Island of Chios, and which the Signoria of Genoa sells at its own price, as much as their highnesses shall command to be shipped lign aloes, as much as their highnesses shall command to be shipped slaves, as many of these idolaters as their highnesses shall command to be shipped. I think, also, that I found rhubarb and namon, and I shall find a thousand other valuable things by means of the men I have left behind me, for I tarried at no point so long as the wind allowed me to I proceed, except in the town of Navidad, where I took the necessary precautions for the security and safety of the men I left there. Much more I would have done if my vessels had been in as good condition as by right they should have been.

This is much, and praised be the Eternal God, our Lord, who gives to all those who walk in His way victory over all things which seem impossible, of which this is signally one, for although others may hays spoken or written concerning these couutries it was all conjecture, as no one could say that he had seen them amounted only to that those who heard listened the more, and regarded the matter rather as a I fable than anything else." ENGLISH RACING ESTABLISHMENTS. Lord George Beutinok, "the Napoleon of the Turf." Fifty years ago Lord George "the Napoleon of the turf," as he has ad; miringly been at the bight of his power, and at his instigation sweeping i reforms were made. He punished delinquents for trivial offenses with most unrej lenting severity. He also framed rules, or was the cause of their beins; made, for the guidance of officials, aud when broken i he lined the offenders without ompuncj tion. He was the first who habitually gave high prices for yearlings and brood mares, Before his time brood mares were usually bought for alwut £200 or £250, whereas I through his influence the price was quickly i raised to £700 or £SOO apiece.

He had I the largest breeding establishment in Eng' land, at Doneaster and Danebury, containing a'tKiut seventy brood mares, many of which wore the most costly and best bred hi existence, several stallions. Camerine he purchased for 0 and a yearling, afterward called CHenltvet, for 1,000 guineas, at Sir Mark Hare Park, Newmarket. He purchased of Lord Jersey Bay Middleton for a stallion, for which he gave £4,000, a price never given before for any threei year-old that had broken down and was i not fit for racing. Before his time good-looking and bred yearlings could have been bought for £250 or £300 each. A case in point wns D'Egvilie, one of the finest horses and best bred yearlings in England, that was bought as a two-year-old for Lord George for £500, i since which time the price has been stead' ily rising in every decade.

Moreover, Lord transformed Goodwood from a plating meeting to one of the most cratic and fashionable of the year, and he i ran more horses during the four days than perhaps were ever run by any one person before or since. At his own pense he leveled and widened the course and improved the training ground, and all this after he left Danebury, at which place he bad expended a small fortune not long before, and where, as he said, he was "literally walking on gold. 1' His betting, and in fact everything that he did in connection with the turf, was done in the game costly and extensive way. These fewfacts will be sufficient to show that Lord George Bentinck inaugurated a new era on the turf. That he did good in so extensively patronizing the sport and in spending so much on its surroundings no one will doubt.

When Lord George gave Dp racing and betook himself to politics, Mr. Mostyn purchased his stud, in which undertaking Lord Clifden afterward joined him. and tl.e<e two raced with success. These were the days of heavy betting, Harry Hill and others making a ten-thousand-pound yearling book on the Derby, so that one could in those days have won a very large stake on this race alone. About the year 1852 stud companies began to be formed for breeding racehorses on a large scale, and individuals were actively employed in doing the same thing.

Rawclitfe at York and Middle Park at Eltham were among the most prominent. But before these institutions were formed there were in existence many other establishments for the purpose, the Queen's at Hampton Court, Mr. Jacques', Eastby Abbey, Theobold many others. But at that time few were a success, or thought to be so. The Middle Park Stud to the owner was a veritable gold mine, and certainly it was a great success, financially speaking, if in no other way; but the Kawcliffe was a disastrous undertaking for the shareholders, and it ultimately came to grief just as C'obhani and other stud companies did afterward.

There were too many paid officials engaged in it; from this cause and the want of proper supervision the speculation was a loss to the company, and after some years the establishment was broken John Day, in the Fortnightly Review. CAPITAL OF MONTENEGRO. Curious Customs in a Must Extraordinary Country. Cettinje is the most extraordinary capital in Europe. It consists of one long street with four smaller ones crossing it, and ending vaguely in the fields.

The whole town covers perhaps thirty or forty acres. The principal building is the hotel, which worthily blocks the end of the main street, it is a bare and rickettylooking structure, but represents the acme of luxury at Cettinje. The other public places are the prison, the church and the school. The first of these lies on the righthand side, and in front of the gates, on a lawn, the prisoners amuse themselves by playing rude gimts with pieces of rock for balls, leip-froir, and so on. A few of them are engaged in odd building jobs about Cettinje, and others hew wood in the mountain.

They are not chained, but appear seldom to dream of running away. When a case of evasion happens, one or two fellow-convicts are dispatched to catch tht runaway and bring him back. The theory of setting a thief to catch a thief is here practiced most literally and methodically. The only distinction between a condemned convict and a citizen is that the former is deprived of his arms. This is an equal degradation to the usual dress or brand elsewhere.

Close to the hotel is the royal palace, a whitewashed house with green Venetian blinds, which is popularly supposed to have cost a million of francs, owing to the expenses of transporting the materials. Over against it is a long, low red building, known as the "Bigliardo." It received this nickname from an English billiard talile having been set up there. The carrying of this piece of furniture by fifty men over the mountain was considered undoubtedly great feat. While the porters struggled manfully under the slate a pilot stood astride on high and shouted his directions as to how to get round awkward corners. The "Bieliardo" is now used as offices for the different Ministries and a Parliament house.

The church is very small, capable of holding, perhaps, 150' people. On either side of the entrance are the tombs of Prince Danilo and his brother, Mirko Petrovitch, and in the chancel a sort of sarcophagus, which is opened on solemn occasions, containing the embalmed remains of the Bishop-Prince Peter I. The old monastery faces the palace. Fifty or sixty years ago this monastery and twenty or thirty cottages round it represented "the town of Cettinje. Behind the monastery is the famous Tower of Skulls.

In the old days no Montenegrin was entitled to be considered an ablebodied soldier until he had decorated the tower with a Turkish head. The last occasion on which it received its ghastly decorations was after the battle of Grahovo, which took place on the 13th of July, 1859. The Montenegrins lost 400 men and brought in 4,000 skulls, at least so says tradition. The account is more or less confirmed by independent witnesses, one of whom, an Austrian officer, counted 2,300 skeletons on the field several weeks after the famous tight. The custom has, however, now died out, having been abolished, together with most practices of a similar nature, by the Draconian code and inflexible rule of Danilo Ihe Saturday Beview.

Keep Good Butter. If I were asked: "What article is most important in a grocers' stock I would say: "Butter." There is no doubt about it. You may have coffee at times that does not eive you satisfaction, or tea that people will find fault with, or flour that no one can make a decent loaf of bread of, yet these do not make as much trouble for the grocer as butter that is not up in quality. Poor butter will spoil the best meal you can sit down to. Therefore it is of the highest importance that every grocer should be a judge of butter.

It will not do, as a rule, to let other people do the selecting of it for your trade. There is great care needed in keeping butter so that it can not become impregnated with bad odors. I never keep any vegetables or cheese in my ice box where my butter is, and at night before I close the box I put the cover tightly on each tub, after 1 have carefully placed the rag with salt on top of the "butter. It needs care, but I find it pays. Since the oleomargarine law has been forced my sales of butter have greatly I am no longer compelled to compete with some rascally grocer or tea dealer who has the nerve to swindle people to the detriment of honest dealers.

made more dishonest dealers than any one thing ever introduced in the grocery trade. The temptation was almost irresistible to many. It was safer to deal in and paid better than counterfeit money, and the chances of detection were not so great. The grocer who gets a reputation for handling fine butter will be successful. He is apt to be particular in handling other staple articles.

He will not neglect his tea or coffee trade, but will give it the same personal attention. Any grocer who can excel in his selections of butter, tea or coffee and flour need not have much fear of Or Similarities. "Women are like ships," said a traveling man. "I never observed it: unless it is because they are both called she." "No not that. Sometimes your girl is good-natured and kissable, isn't she?" "Then she's a smack.

When a man's wife want's a new seal-skin sacque." "Then she's a sealer, of course." "Right; and when she applies the slipper to her son she's a whaler." Foe biliousness and headache Simmons Liver Regulator is the best medicine the world ever H. H. Jones. Macon, Ga. DISGUISED AS A CAT.

A Most Remarkable Way to Get Bid of Rats. The fabled ass in the lion's skin and his no less familiar antithesis, the wolf in sheep's clothing, must retreat ingloriously to what is metaphorically known as "a back seat," in the presence of a new product of this practical nineteenth century. Its like was never heard of before. It an invention of man to be specific, a result of the ingenuity of Head-keeper Byrne, of the Zoological Gardens in Philadelphia. It was produced for a purpose which it has accomplished so successfully that there can be no doubt that Mr.

Byrne possesses a share of those qualities which have made his distant relative, Inspector Byrnes, of New York. The Zoo was invaded by rats. They came, they grew, they multiplied, says the Philadelphia Press. Finally it became a cjuestion of supremacy between the keepers and the rodents. The keepers acknowledged their inability to cope with the constantly increasing forces of vermin by calling in allies alter all kinds of mechanical schemes had failed.

Steel traps were lamentably inefficacious, a rat in a trap and in a state I of fright, he emits a scent that is a warn- I ing to his brethren to avoid the vicinity. So "English Jack" was brought to the Zoo with his ferrets. But a man temporarily employed at the Zoo killed one of the ferrets, which was worth $20, and "Jack" withdrew his forces. Then an army of cats was put info service. Each keeper was given a detachment of Mts to train.

It was difficult to get the felines to go in where lions and other savage beasts were. But one breed was discovered that would venture anywhere. The mere presence of a cat frightens rats away. So they left the buiidings and fled to the outhouses. Routed from there they took to the lake and swarmed to the island in the middle.

Safety lay there, for cats cannot swim. The rats soon had the island undermined with holes. They made sad havoc with the young swans and rare birds in the lake. A cat was finally placed high and dry upon the island, but it manifested a disposition to get away therefrom, and positively declined to work. Then Head Keeper Byrne set to thinking vigorously.

After arduous mental labor he evolved a unique project, which he promptly put to a test, and which resulted in the appearance of what is, as far as appearance goes, a new species of monster on the earth. He captured a large sewer rat of about the size of an ordinary cat. He clipped off the animal's whiskers and the hair of its head. Then he went to a taxidermist and procured the skin of a cat, of which he desired to use only the head. Placing the rat in a small box so that it could not move, he drew the skin of the cat's head on the rat, as if it were a hood.

He pierced the skin with two holes fitted to the eyes of the rat. Glass eyes serve 1 to replace those used by the defunct puss in lifetime. The lower jaw of the cat's head was removed, so that the rat could use his teeth and could eat without discomfort. The hood was sewed on securely, the seams occurring beneath the rat's neck. Then was seen the curious spectacle of a rat masquerading with a cat's head.

The face was white. The animal's body was rubbed with cat grease until the odor of rat was swallowed up by that of cat. Just how the unwonted spectacle of an apparent cat swimming affected the rats in the hike cannot be said. Certain it is it did not arouse their suspicions of the animal's genuineness. For when he was set loose in the lake and promptly made for the island, there began to an exodus of rats.

The pain of the rat over the fact that his company seemed nowhere desired by others of his kind must be left to the imagination. Doubtless he tried to be companionable, but wherever he there was a fleeing of his brethren with their wives and families. In fifteen minutes after he landed on the island the lake was covered with rats trying to get away. Some of them boarded the little schooner cruises in the tiny lake. Others hied to the tops of the willow trees on the island.

Finally there was a united movement in evacuation. The rats made a retreat by only way open the mainland shore of the lake, took an overland route to the forebay, between the lake and the Schuykill, and thence found their way to the river, leaving the astonished and deserted instrument of the jubilant keepers to choose between solitude or suicide. If the animal has not perished he is still at large. The Home of Mrs. Southworth.

There is always a charm hanging over the place where books have been written. Pilgrims never tire of going to Concord to visit the homes of Hawthorne or Emerson, or far enough out of London to gaze on the outside of Gads Hill, which Charles Dickens consecrated with his genius, even if they never get any farther than the outside. So the tourists of Washington go over to Georgetown to see "Prospect Cottage," where Mrs. E. D.

E. N. Southworth wrote the "Hidden Hand and some of the other sixty odd volumes which may have served to while away an idle hour. "Prospect Cottage" stands on a hillside. The house is built on the slope, so that the lower side is two full stories high, while the street front is only one and a half.

A wide porch runs around three sides of it. The ceilings are low, and everything about the place is simple and unpresuming. The chief charm of the cottage is the view it commands of the Potomac river, the free bridge and the green slopes of Virginia shores just beyond. Rocks stand up out of the shallow Lfpper Potomac which the unromantic boatmen name "Old Hen and Chickens," but Mrs. Southworth has made famous as "The Three Sisters." They have figured extensively in several of her romances.

Mrs. Southworth's first earnings were devoted to making this cottage into a home, and to this day it is her home wherever she may be. The cottage, which hxs now ten or twelve rooms, originally had but five. It needs paint and repairs externally, but within it remains as she left it in charge of her half-sister, Mrs. Baden, who keeps it so that should its mistress appear at any unexpected moment the dear old place would still be home.

Female Physicians. "One of the most absurd arguments used aeainst a girl who wishes to become a physician," said a blue-eyed, fair-haired medical student in petticoats theotherday, "is that the disagreeable sights and experiences of the dissecting-room, if they do not altogether overpower her fortitude, will coarsen her feelings and destroy her delicacy. Kah, I say, to such mawkish sentimentality. No one thinks it hardeiw i a girl to nurse a sick person, and yet I tell you that in ministering to the sick and the dying and the dead in the capacity of a nurse, I have seen sights as ghastly and performed far more distasteful and ex- I hausting labor than I wouid have been called ou to do if I had been the physician and all the time I knew nothing of that keen interest in the scientific part of i the work which I now have, that so absorbs my attention and thoughts that what revolting to others is by me almost unnoticed. 1 The record of cures accomplished by Hood's Sareaparilla can never be completely written.

The peculiar curative powers of Hood's Sarsaparilla are successful when everything else has failed. If your blood ia impure, your digestion out of order, try Hood's Sarsaparilla. Thirteen cords of wood were sawed from a single tree in Colerain township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Waxed paper bags are a new idea for holding coffee, fruit, confections, etc.

They are also useful for packing furs and woolens away from moths, the paratb'ne coating rendering them both air and water tight. If the coal when taken from the stove, are put in an old tin and cold water poured over them, in an hour you will have nice clean cinders that will burn clear and good without the disagreeable trouble of sifting them. Little red ants, it is said, can not travel over wool or rag carpet. One who has tried it covered her lloor with a coarse baize, set her sofa on that, and Las not been troubled since. She adds: Cover a shelf in your closet or pantry with flannel, set whatever you wish to keep from ants on it, and they will at once Silverware, to be kept bright, should never be washed in soapsuds clear water is best.

To prevent articles from tarnishing, warm them and apply with a soft brush a thin solution of collodium in alcohol. The ware can be brightened by rubbing with a flannel or chamois skin dipped in whiting or chalk, then with a newspaper. Dr. F. I).

Reese, of Conrtland, writes to the Medical Record describing the of carbolized oil applied to the arbuncle, and then covered with oakum, which had previously been saturated with the oil. Of a few cases of carbuncle treated in this way, not one has run over two weeks. The disease has yielded to the carbolized oil and oakum treatment as by magic. He uses twenty per cent, solution. Miss Gordon Cumming has drawn attention to the cleansing effect of petroleum on soiled clothes.

The best way to employ it is to fill an average boiler, say of fourteen gallons, with water, adding half a pound of soft soap, and when all is boilirg thoroughly, pour in one and a half tablespoonfuls of petroleum. Then put in the clothes and boil them for half an hour before lifting them out and rising them in several waters. A little more soap, water and petroleum should be added to make up for loss, as successive lots of the clothes are boiled. 7 I Corfsircli I Makes most delicious Kj ICECREAMS, PUDDINCS, BLANCMANGE, SOUPS, CUSTARDS, GRAVIES, Etc. Wl Prof.

Aethte H. Hassall of London, England, author of IM "Food and Us Adulterations," especially recommends Kings- Ijjj Hfl ford's Corn Starch as a pure, nourishing and wliolesomo food, well adapted fur Infants, Children and Invalids. mk T. KiNGSFORD i SON, Oswego, N. Y.

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Hoofing, Sheet-iron Work and Repairing. Telephone, 224. 613 street Sacramento, Cal. THE FIRST PKIZE AT MECHANICS' FAIR (SAN FRANCISCO) IN 1885. Tlio Peerless Tlao Uncxccllod THE! PARISIAN DYEING AND CLEANING SILKS.

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OUK PROCESB of doing up CURT a INS AND BLANKETS IS UNSURPASSED. Perfect Work Guaranteed. Goods Called for and OFFICE AND WORKS, 27 TENTH SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. TTS WHY YOU SHOULD USE SCOTT'S EMULSION of COD LIVER OIL HYPOPHOSPHITES. is used and endorsed by Physicians because it is the best.

It is Palatable as Milk. It is three times as efficacious as plain Cod Liver Oil. It is far superior to all other socalled Emulsions. It is a perfect Emulsion, does net separate or change. It is wonderful as a flesh producer.

It is the best remedy for Consumption, Scrofula, Bronchitis, Wasting Diseases, Chronic Cough and Colds. Sold by all Druggists. SCOTT o. BOWNE. Chemists.

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WMI HTOPSBEYS' HOSEEOFATHIG Illy SPECIFIC No, £0 la 30 jears. The onir remedy lor Nervous Debility, vital Weakness, and Prostration, from nwr-work or other canx'l SI per viaL or 5 rials and large vifti powder, for on receipt ot vre ccrdlally ncoamnj JMnr i to i Diys f''eet net fmjU MOMStliewxt. an-lin every case latuficucn. ti.oo. MW3 SAUCE (The Worcestershire) Imparts the most delicious taste and test to EXTRACT SOUPS, or a LETTER from a MEDICAL GEN- GRAVIES, TLEIIAX at Mad- ras, his brother isaa.

May, 185L lIOT4COLD LEA PEEItINS- Egg I MEATS, tliat their sauce is 8 hichly esteemed in It; 31 GAME, India, and is in my ir '-aflg) orinion, the most MS PDjf'i palatable, as well as the most whole- RAUCOUS, some sauce that is made." Signature on every bottle of the (jen-nine JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, NEW YOKK. GocoanUT I Medals awarded at all Fairs wherever ex! L. O. BRESOTICM 505 and 007 Sansome San Francisco. FOR BAI.K BY ALL LEADING GROCERS.

GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. W. BAKER Cocoa absolutely pure and MlWk No Chemicals iSli II lltW IB- u'f'(l in prcpantiun. It hu UUn Urn Him IJU of I I HH Cocoa mixed with Statx-h, Arn)wrooi I ill or ls therrfore far nioro i Elf 1i I coring than ctnt MM 111 .1 -11 f- PMi! ISitrenirthiininic, Kasii.t Dianrrxn, Wi. Hi Kimirmbly fur InY.IiO.

as veil it fur in health. Sold Groi'tTH everywhere. W. BAKER Dorchester, Mass. I XTOTICF.

TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF JOHN R. WATSON, rleceased. Noti: is I hereby given bytlrtumlersiirie'l, Execir riband Execnton oi the will of john k. Watson, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons harinu claims against laid deceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary ulliiiavit 1- or vouchers, within ten months after the first publication of this Dotice, to theumiersiKned at theoffirf of TAYLOR BOLL, at tbelr office, No IBSbi street, City, California. Hated.

MARTHA M. WATSON, Executrix. OKBBBB AXD A. Abbott, Executors. Ta Hoi.l, 05 5t3 OTICE TO CRKDITORS-E3TATE OP JOHN B.

TAYLOR, deceased. Notice is hereby (riven by the onderrifrned Executrix of JuHX deceased to the creditors of, and all persons having claims taid deceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary aflidavits or vouchers, within ten I months Rfter The first nnMicat'on of this notice. I to hvr. Ht (he office of Matt F. Johnson, 607 I street, Sacramento City, Cal.

ANN E. TAYL R. Executrix of the last will of John B. Taylor, decc-. bated, October 5,1889.

Matt F. Johnson, Attorney for Executrix. o5 5tS XTOTICE TO LINE V. BROWN, deceased. Notice Is hereby given by the undersigned, a.

WEST, txecutor of the estate "of i-MKLINE V. BEOWN, deceafei. to the creditors of, and all persons havine claims the said deceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers, within eUrbl and one-half months after the first publication ol chis notice, tc the said GEOEGK A. WEST, at the law offices of thauncty H. Dunn, atirJO Fifth street, ia the city of t-ucramento, California, the same being the place for the transaction of the of the said estate in the countv of Sacramento.

State of California. GEOKGK A. WEST. Executor of the estate of V. BKuWN, deceased.

Dated Sacramento, October 12, 1881. I rPHE ABLEST PAPER ON COAST; IB the WIEKLY ONION..