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 muppw!""""?^?^ â- â€¢^^â- *5»K^"*iw*' u FOE THE FARMER. FdlTMffiiir. :«?mB»- h^^ \| 1 1 ^-. Kovemter iaa trying month to fann stock in oar northern clinutte. Tha tendor n«Mea have been partially mined by the first bard froeta, leaving jnvt enonith to ooax the cattle and other stock away frna tfaeir dry fodder, yet too Fcant to furnish a geverons living, or to keep np the flow of milk for the dairy. The poor domb bmtes »re loath to leave the fields'and pastures ro long as there is a green hli'e to be nibbled, and tbey «i'l even; continue to hannt their favorite graz- ing grounds when only the yellow tufts of frmt-bitten herbage remain to mark the place of their summer revels. B^a^on, in- stinct, ezperifnce, or comethine, se«ms to teach them that a long, hard winter is ap- proaching, when they will have to forego their wholesome diet of green food, as is too often the case on the farm and they seem to dread its arrival, and endeavor to protract the grazing period to the last pos- sible hour. This of itself should teach the farmer the needs of bis stcck. and induce him to pro Tide for their wants by Isying in a senerons supply of gref n food to relieve the monoto- nous diet of dry hay and gram, which he has been long accustomed to deal out to them. It is a hard matter to break up old onstcms and practices that by long associa- tion have become fixed habits yet when the farmer sees bow closely it affects his in- terests, he should not long besiCate in work- ingtbe greatly needed reform. While the cattle may naturally desire to roam over the fields to the latest possible day, I do not think it policy to allow tbem to do BO. More catile are made unruly at this time of the year than at all other times fiut together. They find nothing ratisfac- ory to feed upon, eo roam uneaoily about, reaching through the fencee and bars, and trying the strength of every ob^truotfon that comes in ^leir way, in the form of waII or fence. The boldest of^ the lot will make a "break" and the rest of the herd are not slow to follow, thus taking thefr first les- sons in fence breaking and pilfering. Instead of allowing stock to wander about to pick np a precarious living during the late autunin months it is much better management to provide late cut forage plants which yield very heavily and can be cut and cured for this purpose, at very little expense. Those who have corn-fodder â€" and what farmer has not â€" can find no bet- ter time for using it than during these late months. If well cured it is always relished by stock, when hay would go untouched. This is particularly the c£B8 with the fodder obtained from sowed com, which is cut and cured with regard to the forage rather tb an to the ripening of the grain. To supplement this coarse food, and to furnish something to take the place of the green food they bavn lost, pumpkins, squasbes, and such qriik decaying roots ss cannot be kept along into winttr, should now be fed cut. lumense crops of flat, white turnip' can be grown for this purpose after anothfr crop has been taken from the ground. These are not long keepers, and can best be fed out in the fall. Pumpkins are excellent, while squashes csncut be sur- passed as feed for milch cows in fall and winter. All the roots are good-^potatoes, rnta bagas, crrrots beets, wurtzeJs, etc. Stock fed liberally with the above men- tioned articles will not fail in flesh or milk, as is the case with those that are allowrd, or toiceA, to pick up a liv:ng from the fields. When so fed they should be kept in large yards where they will have plenty of room for exercise, but still not enough to cause them to run their flesh rff in explor- ing them. As soon as the frosty nights come, the stock should be housed; as well as fed, regularly. Stock cannot do the best when they get up in the rpgn yard covered with frost and thoroughly chilled through each Booming. I know that it is customary among a large class to allow them to lie out in the yards until heavy freezing or per- haps snow ccmes but the faot does not make it any better for the stock, or the practice profitable to the owners. An ani- mal well-noused does not require as much food to keep it up in good condition, a« the fine that is expcsed to all (orts cf weather, day and night. If the readers of this ar- ticle have ever seen cattle fed in the yard On a cold, frosty morning, they will agrf e with me that such voracious appetites re- a aire at least a third more fodder to satisfy lem. As the cattle when so exposed do not thrive as well as those that are housed and fed much less, it is quite pUin that the extra feed is wasted, to say nothing of the njury done the stock. Nor should stock be allowed to run over the grass lands late in autumn, en account of the injury resulting to the next year's crop of grass in consequence of close fick ing, and hard treaiing. Grass rcots need mulching in this clinoate, and the only practical method of fumishr'ng this mulch, IS to allow a portion of the growth to serve in this capaciry. It is not that a light growth of dry grass will keep the frost fa-om the roots, but it assists in retaiaing the snow evenly on the surface, which pre- vents the altemat freezing and thawing, so fatal to the rcots of grasses and grains. I am satisfied that yard and stable feed ing is by far the most econrmical system of feeding at all times of the year. 6ood farm managers are resorting to the soiling system, and nearly ll ai^ree that the capabilities of an acre are maoh increased by this method of feedmg. As our farms grow smaller as they eventually must, in consrquence of divisions of family estates and increase of population, this method will become more generally adopted. There is' ocrtainly no other time in all the year when yard and stable feeding, can be more advantageous to the farmer than during the autamn season. Coarse fodder that could not be stored in the bam, should now be fed out before it Buffers any further injary from rains and snows. If fed in the atable it will unally pay to cat it np fine and mix a little ffround feed with the maas. Above all tilings the stock should notl be de- nied a fair portion of green food, saoh as we have mentioned above. A sadden change of diet from green to dry food is always sure to cause a falling off in the con- dition of the stock â€" [Western Plowman. able time in the spr'ng. Then if you have no asparagus bed, or rhubtrb, yon can pro ooie the sets this fall and make a start h,^tf yott have sown seed iii the apring, now is the best time to transi^ant. In planning oat the garden, fint decide to use a garden plow and drill in planting and cultivating, and in order to do tais to the best advantage plant in long rows. My plan of A gardoi is to rseerre one side for a number of rows for aspanigus, rhu- barb, sage, favory, horse radish, mustard, spinach, chicory,, saffron and horehound. Tbey are al convenient. More might be adde^f but I find the ones enumerated suf- fice nt for crdica^ purposes. The asparagus bed, or rows, come first then the rhubarb, beoanse they reqcire nearly the same treatment, and by planting tbem close toetther I save some trouble ia mulching in the f^L Then the sage, sav- ory and saffron follow next, and then the horehound. This places the medical and seasoning plants together. Then the chi- cory, spinach, mustard and norse radish, these are principally for greens. By having these alf on one side there is no need for distcrb-'ng them when plowing up the gar- den in fall part of them do not necessarily requfre exira manuring, and I find this plan economizes manure, while the others re- quire extra heavy manuring in ordar to secure the best results, and this can be given without wasting. The plants can all be set out better in the fall than in the cpring, while the seed of the muatard and spinach can be sown as well in the fall as m the spring and will come into use much earlier than if the work is delayed until spring. In plowing up the balance of the garden see that the furrows are left open so that the water will drain off easily and rapidly. A good dressing of well rotted manure wUi be beneficial. Remember that it is ex- tremely diffliult to get the garden too rich. Yet it is not desirable to haul out fresh manure that is full of weed and grass seeds in the garden. It will pay better to pile up and rot well and then work as fine as pcs' ible before applying. A little time spent now in preparing a supply of pea brushes, cr sticks, and bean pules ready for use, will save considerable time in the spring when work is pressing. Then it is a good plan to prepare a num- ber of small round stakes, flatten one side and paint white so they can be written upon. They are very convenient for mark- ing the places where the different varieties of plants are sown store them away where they will dry. See that all the tcols are under a good cover, well cleaned up and oiled so that they will not rust. A FOEf UHE Di CUPPOieS. itertss't Owliil Ta^il fteaat Hd w s Mg Tbtngâ€"Kuw Wajr off UOl- Abont two yean aco a young man of Ras- aian descent and Clncnn»ti birth was standing one m^^xning on a Parisian boule- vard, wondering whatever was to beoome of him. He bad only two francs in his pock- et and had already tried in vain evrf means h« could think of for getting a liv- ing. While he was contemplating the black prospect before him a eenMeman stepped up to a newspaper kiork close by, received a copy of a pap^r costing two sous, laid down a frimo in payment, and walked away. It was not for nothing that this young man bad been bom in America, since to witness this mysterious ti'ansaction wa« to him the same thing as to realize that there was place snd fortune for the middle man between the two parties to it. The ex- planation, as he learned afterward, was that the gentleman was an artist, that the old woman carefully searched each morning's papers for any remvks upon his pictures, and that when she found one be gave her a franc for the paper containing it. What the apple was to Newton or the deer's skull to Get ficy Saint Hilaire, this monetary spectacle on the boulevard was to Henry Romeike in so far, at anv rate, aa it pointed the way to fame. He managed to get to Lrndon, invested his last penny in a copy of the Daily Telegraph during the pic- ture season, out out the notices of artists' works, and positively peddled them from studio to studio. The next day he was in a "Fat in December, strong in March," is a maxim that should be painted in large letters over the door of every sheep-house. The practice is altogether too common of letting sheep run on ths partares without extra food till the snow gets so deep that tbey can no longer st care a srarty living. The first heavy freeze so injures the grass that it has but little nutritive value, and unless additional food is given the sheep will begin to lose flesh and if ccmptlled to live on what they pick, wiil get quite thin before severe cold we* ther. This is about the most foolish thing the farmer can do, for when they ai-e once in this condition, it is very hard to arrest the downward course. It is the result of this unwise practica that causes the grea^^ loss among tbe flecks to- ward spring, 'pirticularly among the young- er sheep, which is so often attributed to "grub in the head." Every sbeep-keeper should have the facilities, and on the ap- proach pf hard freezes should commence to feed daily a little hay or grain. The neces- sary outlay will be money well invested. Freclons Stones m Ainenca A beautiful diamond that was cut into a remarkably fine stone hai lately been found near San Francisco, and at a jeweler's in Indianapolis there are two crystah of this Jrecious gem on exhibition which were ound in Indmna. Within the past year a diamond is reported to have been found in Missouri by a hunter, who picked it out of a brcok where he stopped to drink Ex- perienced geologists held to the opinion that so many of the associations of the dia- mimd are present in North Carolina that they have hopes of their bting found there. Toe garnet districts of Arizona and New Mexico may also ba looked upon as the probable diamond mines of the future. Sapphires and rubies have been found at Vernon, N. J., and in Franklin. Macon County, N. C. .jThe colftrs are rich blue, violet blue, mby red and yellow, while soma are colourless. The principal locality for sapphires in the United States, how- ever, IS in the gravel districts near Helena, Mon., and Santa Fe, N. M. Here they position (0 buy several papers, and the next week a large number, and to extend his operations to other persons than artists. At the present mcmrnt, po accurate was his idee mere, and so skillfully has hp followed it up, that his handful of newspaper snip- pings has become nothing less than "The Artistic and Literary Correspondence and Univeraal Compendium of the Press," with offices where a score of clerks, male »nd fe- male, are busily engaged all day long in catting up grFat heaps of newspapers, pasting the cuttng|fl npon printed forms, and mailing them literally to all parts of the world. Three thousand English newspapers, dO^ American ones, and several hundred pub- lished on tbe European continent are thus regularly searched through and dismem- bered under the direction of this ingenious American. The paners as they come in are examined by Bom'-ike himself or one of his bead clerks (French. Germ-in. Italian, and Russian are read in the cffic*^). passages re- ferring to any person or subject en the books of the bureau are marked, numbered, and a printed slip, correspnndingly numbered and having blank spaces for the date, nunn, and address of the newspaper, and name of the subscribpr, is placed between the leaves, and finally the paper is handed to the boys or girls, who cut out the passages, stick them on the slips, enter them in a book, anfl mail them. The charge made for 100 notices â€" "To see onrselves as others spa us," on any matter whatever â€" is $5, or $20 for 500. From its humble beginnings, tbe "Artistic aiid Literary Correspondence" has grown» into an institution of recognizod merit and importance. Among its 7 000 subscribers are a majority of the members of Parliament, numbers of actors, artists, novelists, poets, institutions, and every person who makes a hobby of any public matter. When Lord Dnfferin was appoint- ed Viceroy of India, he telegrapked to Romeike fram Constantinrple to forward him all allusions to India. L"r(^ Randolph Churchill was provided with 8 000 cuttings abont himself in eight months. Bamum re- ceived 1 000 notices of his white elephant in three days Mr. Chamberlain has been supplied with opinions concerning the ship- ping Irgislation, and Lord Derby concern- ing New Guinea the Irish members have a standing order for cuttings upon which troublesome questions to ber Majesty's min- isters may be founded. Not a few persons are actuated by the same motive as the lady (not the major's wife) who writes for all al- lusions to Major of th» -th, now serving in Egypt, and Oscar Wilde, it need hardly be added in conclusion, has been a patron of the enterprise from tHe first. Uk occur in the sand, associated with poridol and pyrcpe-garaet. No regular searching for them ia carried on. They are often found with the associated gems on ant hills which abound in that^ district. Work in the Gardea. November is a good month to plan out fbe garden for next year. It may seem rorkins a eood wave ahead, work A Horse Problem. Color in regard to constitution is a prob- lem which some casual students of horse- breeding are trjiog to solve. As usual in such cases, when the information vouch- safed by those who are in the position of knowing something is not submitted to the test of cross examination, it is not reliable. For a long time all those who liave been engaged m working horses have been of the opmion that brown horses lasted tha long- est, and were the best to withstand wear Md tear. Bays and blacks wne next hm- cied, then came the animals of lighter shades of color. We have no good reasons for believing this, however, for any single opinion on the sabjeot expressed without reasons or facts, is not reliablelenough. We have known the oldest horsesâ€" horses that have done the hardest work in the centre of a Clydesdale district, where chestnut is des- piTOdâ€"to be pure chestnuts, and the best Mid oldest horse of the opposition firm almost next door to be a pure blaok. There M danger, tkerefore. we say, in raising dis- cussions on this subject without material, to met some horsemen are oolor blind to all but bays and browns.â€" {Lonaon Live Stock joiaaaL The knowledge of courtesy and good mnners is a very necessary study, ft is like grace and beauty, that which begets itkmg wd an molinatien to love oneanoSier at the first sight, and in the bMdnning of an acqnaintanoea|»mmarity and ocmsequent- that whioh first opens tha door. «dd in- troduoes us to better ooiselves by the ex- tonoemlnic Finger Rings. While there is a touch of barbarism, I wearing rings on the fingers, yet the civil- ized hand has so long been adorned by tbem that it would look plain and unfinish- ed without its hoops of goH. The ancient Romans wore the ring on the joint just un- der the nail. The Hebrews wore it on the right hand alone. The Greeks wore their rings on the fourth finger of the left hand the Gauls and Britons on the third finger of the left hand. Tn Pliny's time the bethrothal ring was an iron hoop, set with a loadstone instead of a gem. The Romans were even greter slaves to iashion than we of the pre- sent. They had winter and summer rings, the weight and color of tbe ring being ad- apted to the season. The Greeks wore week ly rings, which were charms, and were al- ways itaglios and cameos. Talismanic rings wera also in use among the Romans. Seal rings were heirlooms and of great value in business trsnaaotions. The wedding ring is/ of great antiquity. It is a common thing to' find wives who haye been married a life- time, yet never bad allowed the wedding- ring to slip over the finger- joint It is con- sidered unlucky to take it off To lose it in- dioaeesa misfortune. As yonrweddlng ring weMs So wear awaj your ewes." It is only on ve^ old hands that the worn thread of gold is now seen, A Duchess's Narrow Escape. Duchess Thvra of Cumberland, sister of the Ehmpress of Rqasia snd of the Prinaess of Wales, has just escaped, in aa almost mva- onloas manner, anaocident of the ohase. Two days ago tiiis young prinoess was himt- ing a stag in oompany with her husband and several other members of the illutrioas colony of princes establiaiied on the shwea of Lake Gmarden. Just aa she was oroasing on horseback the waterfall of Aoiaoh, the little bridge gave way and the noble hunt- ress was predpated into the stream, The fall was the more nnf ortanate as the horse wiled over the princess. bowevar. her Boyal Highness received only a few slight uaiaes which did not evsn prevent her from moonting into thesaddle again aa soon as she wasdrawn oot of the watsr. e working a good ways abead. yet if tiiis ample, of others if tiiere be any in ^e rk IS done tEis faU it will aava ooaridw- 1 â- OJasJar worth tiiag notiw o£^Tf I Therioh are i^hle, bnt not liberal poor are genarooa, bat lade afaiUty. the HUSeBT JUTS ST0BT1 Komaane nrngedirYoid rpr^ofM Slsrxa SfcafcomatHT. Living lost above the foothilb snd in the midst of the virgin pine forests of the Sier- ras are a olaas of industrious people little known to tbe world, writes a oorrespcnd ent. They live an isolated happy hfe ^ar from the busy '^orld, of whioh they know Uttle and care less These are tbe "shake- makers." They exist usually in couples, and make their home for the time being where the finest augar-pine grows, and whence the products of their labor can be conveniently hauled away. They are a jolly, happy lot. these "shakemakers" of the Sierras. They work at will, and by way of recreation di vide their leisure time between deer and bear-hunting and the nearest country store The mode of making 'Shakes" or clapboards is simple. The tree felled is tawed into suit able lengths, and then is split into thin boards or " shakes" by means of a froe and a mallet. The shakes sell here in the mount- ains at |4 to 1450 per thousand, and are always in demand. A shakemakers' camp is one of the most picturesque soenes to be found on the coast, and the voluntary recluses who spend year after year in these moun- tain eolitndes are the jolliest lot of bache lors on earth. A majority of this almost unknown race of men are old miner* and young men from the foothilil farms. Wild, brave, uneducated, ani kind-hearted, they include within their numbera hundreds of the best frontiersmen and the noblest types of manhood. While rambling among thn-. hospitable class of men one evening, I sud- denly came into s clear 'ng upon the mount ain side, in the centre of which stood a log cabin of the most primitive character, upoo the porch of which stood a i-miling old man; who ventured the information, 'This it- 'Hungry Jim's' place." Before I could reply to this startling and inccmpreh^nsible cn- nouncement the old man added the follow- ing explanation: "The shakemakers call me 'Hungry Jim' just for fun not that I don't have enough to eat. for if you stop at my place to-night, as I hope yon will, you will find Hungry Jim a good feeder." And so it. proved, for Jim is a good oook, a hospitable host,-and one of tbe best story- tellers extant. His name is Miguel Elias, and he is a native of Tucson, but he has spent thirty-fiveyears among the mountains. He is one of those interesting characters who live in the past, and never tirs of telling of the days of '49, when gold was being talen out oi these gulches in tchunks and every man was wealthy who would work. "Jim " had seen the day when he could count his wealth-by thousands, but monte and bad luck has made him poor, but happier than ever before. His life is a romance and a wo- man the cause of his financial ruin. Now be keeps a rendezvous for the Calaveras and Tuolumne shakemakers. It was "Jim" seat ed before a cheerful pine knot firo which glowed brilliantly that keen frosty evening, who related the following in teres' iag de- tails of a recent tragedy and romance. The telegraph toll a meagre story of the cri^ie, which was committed last fourth of July, but the romantic part of the affair rcitained untold. "Said Jim "Did yon notice a toll gate down the mountain A nice little white cottage near the bank of a creek? Yes? There is where my old mining pard, Frank Pareta, lived, and there in that creek is where he drowned his wife. Oh, she was a beauty, was Frank's wife. The handsomest Italian girl I ever saw. Frank went all the way to Italy to find and marry her, and now he has killed her; This is how it came about Frank Pareta and I wera working together several years in the mines down there in An- geh camp, and one day Frank said to me. 'Miguel, I am going to get mairied when I get money enough to buy that toll road at Murphy's. I laughed at him, and thought no mote about it, as women were scarce ab- ont Angels, and Frank never mixed with them. Bat he saved all of his money, and in due time left the cabin and went to Italy. In a few months he astonished the oamp by returning with a young girl wife, the hand- somest woman we had ever seen. Frank was â-¼e'y proud of his prize and fairly worshiped her. He bought her everything she desired, dressed hergayly, decked her in jewellery, and kept a girl to wait on her. He bought her the toll road for $4 000 and built that pretty little cottage you see there. But the girl was not satisfied. She tired of her el- derly husband, and looked with loving glances upo i joangr r admirers. The hus- band was jealous, but he was kind and pa- tient* She was capricious and abusive, but Frank lived on in hopes of happier^ times. The jtoUgate keeper had about $1,200 bu- ried in his cellar, and this hidden treasure he revealed to his pretty Italian wife, who secretly appropriated $500 and with it went to San Andreas, the county-seat, and ap- plied for a diverce. Frank heard of the di- vorcs business, but did not discover the loss of his $500 until the morning of last Fourth of July. There was a Ctlabration at Mur phyacamp, and Frank staid at home to collect tolls. He went down to the cellar and discovered the losslof ih'e$500 He called his wife and accused her of the theft:. At first she denied, bnt finally acknowledged that she had taken it, and defiantly announ- ced that she intended to use it to obtain a aivoroe, and positively declined to give it up. Then the angry husband went out and waljted up and down in front of the honse. Ihen he went and gazed into the foaming mountain stream, which was swoUen^d deep. Then he went to the boose and quiet- lly and oalmly invited, his wife to tie a little walk with him. She ooaseuted. The servant girl protested and warned the wife that her hnsliand intended to kiU her The man and wife walked to the oraek? TfawS S^tw*'?*^%?^**' "*• "rfterfurtivZ sbranghng her, threw her body intb the stream to see her drown. An old GwinS hvmgnearwitnessedcthe strugS" a^TSS ?roi^3^* ' '^*""*- H« the hS? drowned woman ont of the water Th- tewrif ""• "oreiato tWSrenl Si*ni^^S:^r?he"^Srf^?\^ When ijken to tho^ iSSafe "SS^gS and f 160 more money waa anMiHilirk ' -t Sue died with h3 rSu^^ "" " Mas. L. a Owley, of Atknt. " one mueh of the night owbgto »" •»!• bands absence at his mill su ' W the doors and windows of- i, l*^*^ o'clock for the purpose of rrtL •""« »»» rapping on the door attraetpH I '*n a A.\in, "Who's that?"lS!*li;jtte a man s voice --wwer quj j^^ "It's me. Pve dropped sometM. here; give ms a match," ""'""niug o^ "I'll shoot you if5ou don't i instantly." the lady rep -ed "**'« She heard the man retreat » j the gate. Goirg ti her burS„ ?,*«»«* of her husband's revolver and Win '•^'^«i shelf beside her bed retinS ^{?8."«« night she was awakened bva Z.?^^ *•» door, and thinking her husWd Si** *« she atarted to open it. All kIiw: **" the man who had knocked atK^*" er in the night was for fhe ^o^Z^^^ ten. On opening the door a S^ the ace of spades was quicklv thri«t- " before Mrs Cooley cou'ld rX SSJ2 a negro had hu arms about her anH^" bearing her back into the room L negro raised her from the floor her h came in contact with the shelf on wMokT had laid her pistol, and she grasnrd^A^ luckily it wss her left hand with whi l.^-?' seized the weapon, but as the negro .hT farther into the house she cocked theSj and placing the muzzle cbse to the nS neck pulled the trigger. A loud repoS' lowed and with a groan the negro rel««!i his hold upon Mrs'^Cooley aud^droST? the floor. Mrs^ Cooley also fell bntStb regained her feet, and changirg the S from her left hand to her r.5h| Z aS cocked and presented it at the negro fdfe determined to kill him. The negro who «S already wounded and bleeding, begeed his life. Mra. Cooley pulled the trigger bnt the hammer would not respond. She 1^ all her force upon it, but it wou'd not eo The negro was quick to see that »me thing was wrong and, r.sing, staggered to- wards the door. Just aa he disappeared through the doorway Mrs. Cooley digMva ed that her pistol was but half-cocked. Re' hammer was given another pull, and, as tlie negro sprang through the yard gate Mn Cooley sent a ball flying after him. Agah he dropped, but almost immediately vii upon hu feet again, racing to war Is the woods. Tne encounter drove the sleep from )ia, Cooley's eyes for the rest of the night and until her husband came home she sat be- side the fire with the pistol in her lap. Mrs. Cooley is satitfied that she mortally wounded her assailant. The police are aconr- ing the country for him, but it is most like ly he will be found dead in the woods. T^E ALISKA SEALS. Preparing tbe SkUia for Market-A Kji^ ery in Natural History. Few of those wearing a sealskin cacque have any knowledge of tbe process by which the skins are prepared fcr use. Seen vben first taken from the animal tbey little re- semble the warm glossy skins worn upon our streets, for until dyed and cored tbey are of a light-brown hue, coarse and fall til land. 'B'iicie becoming valuable tbey are shaved down on the flrah side until not thicker than paper, the long hairs are pdl ed out and the fur dyed. The cost of the ar- ticle is due to the labor expended on it. The raw skins are sold in London, where the finishing is done, and then ship- ped back to America, where they are sold with a.heavy duty added. Ihe killing sea* son in Alaska begins about the 12th of Joat and the 100,000 skins are usually ready foe shipment a month later. The work of slaughtering the acimalsis done by natirei who live npon the St. Paul and St. Geoijje islands and the process is an interesting one. When skins are wanted the natives go to the rookeries, station themselves along the shore between the seals and the water, and at a given signal spring to their feet and make as much noise as possible. The fright- ened victims, timid as deer, then stampede np the beach and are driven like sheep a few miles inland, until their osptors, attack them with hickory clubs. Being knocked senseless, tbey are stabbed with long Auo knives and the skins are quickly stnppn from the bodies. The work is divided among the men, some knocking the seals dom, others stabbing them and still others taking off the sk'ns. The native Indians nnmhets about three hundred and under the tenni of the lease, are provided gratis by the com- pany with warm houses, sixty tons of cow* a doctor and a schoolmaster, salmon uji other necessities and comforts. For their labor the men are paid some $40 000 sl^ gether each season, a sum more than «)»• oient to meet the limited needs of life 'I' region of almost perpetual fogs and utter »• olation. Afsor the killing season is over the se^ begin to shed their hair and a few weep later disappear from the summer campia£ •-ounds for parts unknown. The malM leave first and the ft males and young ««» lattr, until by November the islands areni- terly deserted. Where the fur seal speno' his winter is a question that has never ye« been settled. The fact that he goes a^J in November and returns in May is alltw can be learned- of him. Some have suppw?" that the animals btake themselves to "now- covered islands further south, where t^iey "J mun daring the winter season, bnt »«" none of the many seekers have been *rf find these pUces. The seal is not a er^^ imal in the true sense of the word. fie oannot remain long under water, " °^^ expert swimmer, and yet he leaves St. r for months and returns there thin »^ scrawny. Where is the t-me passed • somsbody oonld teU, that parson w""" f" information worth a fjrtuue. "Yheir away in sections and are fl3»**«'*°8^« old retain, yet they select every year tne feeding and breeding "tat'O" ifL** found nowhere except upon the i^JT' islands of St. George and St. P*'^- ,f Sue a simple fact, yet one of inestimable v* toAUUka. Sail to the seal islands m J ' notice the ooantless number « " ,„â-  there, realise the price which the fk.ns co mandC the oonstant demands of th« "gt and Alaska wiU appear m a oew "« jj It will look to be worth the money «»• ooatoi. To quarrel with a 8iP«"«r " ""Ferior, ith a^ equal is doubtf al with an la rdfcl soa base with any, f oU of m with sordid laAlaaka, door. This -fi^aand sj The bouse ^yt tbe roof Alt live thei poorWah. That 8 wh« tot. Tot's. ^ift wan, bo nae crept int Tan. and W; nerer beamei go he woul ^oroEB tbe al frould patter ^d wat« r, a aroand ^Vab and 000. Tot's fo-k" hated tbe sij called Tot's f .One day 1 looked in vai pMsed a'^d tl and bis heart tiie narrow a tell him whe: They tola be many da$ sgain. So Wah w rolled up his bnt his bead aorots the all layM One day \^ the little hot leap, for thei was the face bat smiling. iron and r^i by the windc Tot's voice have tbe win damp, bnt \^ ed in panton against the So every d window and " looked at the Scmetimes oame to see Long and Le abided him f( baby, but Wi answered " Wah Ke« Kee's baby." But Tot di( h«r. Tnere was one fcr 1 of the dead b and all alone dioted cab, hi ny iCace and t child he had votion of his Tbey buriei grave iu a lit Wah Kee ate and the great and, droppinf place wnere â€"tiept in sili AS TfteSttnssic A Bombay i aotualiy fell i lived to tell t incidents of tl tlie beast brol "I had to n in a few feet c down to his h like a rabbit on other occai cond bullet pr To my horror, the hammer fi panther, with me. Hanging paw driven inl other round m and nack, bnt by raising my seized in his h forget bis sbar of bis greenish of mine, tbe t breath upon n his huge f angi my arm above "I endeavoi in the stomsc who have evei little eflect th ing one's knee else. Tbe pa tremendous it some five pic( prone on my i taet with a ti lay some seco brute, thinkii not woriy me for the retrea brought me ii when I came ground, leani and smiling v satisfaction, y treating form suing panthei tho policemai "The civU the teeth- WOT the one at th fhe bone and Th% two won dose to the b Saarter and t law-wcnnds asrioas, and i larae artery i VloBh would tedeahinai of India. A, Fla ^J)a posson wt nachnl. Faith mig irtwouldiP g^hoss di ;: It ain't. »*»work W da fin' â- WIOWB " 'tar dat de k henebl fur X. kgOt i