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 'AWm â-  i '^- \\ !«'.,i: hni? Hili; If- â-  â- '7^i ^Â¥: I Hi J • Bf. -^ TIE BOTTOl^M M. I saw it fc^wgtwg in the kitdiea of a thrifty, healthy, itnrdy fanner in Ozfmxl Connty^a bottomleas jug The host saw that the cnrions thing canght my eye and Emiled. " Yon are wondering what that jng is hanging up there for, with its bottom knock- ed out," he said. " My wUe perhaps, can tell ycu tfale story better than I can but she is bashful and I ain't, so III tell it. " My father, as you are probably a\rare, owned this farm before me. He lived to a good old age, worked hard all his life, never squandered money, was a cautious trader and a good calculator and, as men were accounted in his day and generation, a temperate man. I was the youngest boy, and when the old gentleman was ready to go â€" and he knew it â€" ^the others agreed that, since I had stayed at home and taken care of the old folks, the farm should be mine. And to me it was willed. I had been married three years. Well, father died â€" mother had gone three years before â€" and left the farm to me with a mortgage on it for $2,000. I said to Mollie, my wife " Mollie, look here. Here father's had this farm in its first strength of soil, with all its magnificent timber and his six boys, as they grew up, equal to so many men, to help, and he worked hard â€" worked hard- worked late and early â€" and yet, look at it 1 A mortgage of two thousand dollars What canldo? " And I went to that jug â€" it had a bot- tom in it then â€" and took a good, stiff drink of old Meaford rum from it. " I noticed the curious look on the face of my wife just then, and asked her what she thought of it, for I supposed she was thinking of what 1 had been talking about. And so she was, for she said " • Charles, I've thoughi of this a great deal, and I've thought of a way in which I believe you can clear this mortgage off be- fore five years are ended. ' *• Says I ' Mollie, tell me how you'll do it.' " She thought for awhile, and then said, with a funny twinkle in her blue eyes â€" says she " ' Charles, you must promise me this, and promise memost solemnly and sacredly; promise me that you will never bring home for the purpose of drinking as a beverage, at any time, any more spirits than you can bring in that jug â€" the jug your father has used ever since I knew him, and which you have used since he has done with it." " Well, I knew father used once in a while, especially in haying time and in win- ter when we were at work in the woods, to get an old gallon jug filled; so'I thought that she meant that I should never buy more than two quarts at a time. I thought it over, and after a Ijttle while told her I would agree to it. " 'Now, mind,' said she, ' you are never, never to bring home any more spirits than you can bring in that identical jug.' And I gave her my promise. " And before I went to bed that night I took the last pull at the jug. As I was turn- ing it out for a sort of night cap, Mollie looked up and says she " 'Charley, have you got a drop left V " There was just about a drop left. We'd have to get it on the morrow. Then she said, if I had no objections, she would drink that last drop with me. I shall never for- get how she said it, 'that last drop ' How- ever, I tipped the old jug bottom up and got about a great spoonful and that was enough, Molly said. She took a tumbler and poured a few drops of hot water into it and a bit of sugar, and then she tinkled her trlass against mine, jnst as she'd seen us boys do when we'd been drinking to good-luck, and she says " ' Here's to the old brown jug ' "Sakes alive! I thought to myself that poor Molly had been drinking more rum than was good for her, and I tell you it kinder cut me to the heart. I forgot all about how many times she'd seen me when my tongue was thicker than it ought to be and my leus not so steady as good legs should be but I said nothing. I drank the sentiment ' The old brown jug,' and let it go. " Well I went out after that and done my chores and then went to ' ?d, and the last thing I said before leavin';; the kitchen, this very room where we are now, was ' We'll have the old brown jug filled to-mor- row.' " And then I went off to bed. And I have remembered ever since that I went to bed that night as I had done hundreds of times be- fore, with buzzing in my head that a healthy man ought not to have. I didn't think of it then, nor had I ever thought of it before, but I have thought of it a good many times since, and have thought of it with wonder and awe. " Well, I got up next morning and did my work at the bam and then came in and ate my breakfast, but with no such appetite as a farmer ought to have, and I could not think then that my appetite had begun to fail. However, I ate my breakfast, and went out and hitched the old mare, for to tell the plain truth, I was feeling in need of a glass of spirits and I hadn't a drop in the house 1 I was in a hurry to get to the vil- lage. I hitched up and came in for the jug. I went for it to the old cupboard and took it out, and â€" " Did yon ever break through thin ice on a snapping told mbnmu;, and find yourself in an instant overhead in freezing water,? Because that was the way I felt at that mo- ment. The jug was there but the bottom was gone. MoUie had tak^i a sharp chisel and a hammer, and with a skill that might have done credit to a master workman, she had clipped the bottom clean off the jug without even cracking the edges of the sides. I looked at the jug and then she burst out. She spoke â€" oh, I hiul never heard anything like it. She said " Charles, that's where the mortgage on this faxm came from It was brought home within that jug â€" two quarts at a time And that's where your white, dear skin and clear pretty blue eyes are going 1 And in that jag, my husband, your appetite is go- ing also Oh, let the bottom stay out for- ever 1 Let it be as it is, dear heait. And remember your promise to me.' " And then she threw her arms around me and burst into tears. She could speak no more. " And there was ito need. My eyes were opened as if by magic. In a single minnte the whole scene passed before me. I saw all the mort^piMS on tiiefarms in our nei^- borfaood; audi thought where the money had ^ne. The very Ust mortosffe father had evw made was to ^y a liiUhdd against yewi Yes, Im-wit wrtt p umd beftore me; a flittarini; pictnca ' of nupi. I nun l mm I debt I debt I dO* I and ib tiia end, da«th I And I letbined my Mollie'k Idss. and add I " 'Mollis, my own. 111 koep Uie promise I I will, so help me heaven ' " And I have kept it^ In less than :five years, as Mollie said, the mtvtmge was cleared off my appetite came back to me and now we've got a few .thousand dollars at interest. There hangs the old jug jnst as we hnng it on that day and frbra ^^t time there hasn't been a drop of spirits brought into the house for a bevraage,- which that bottomlessjug wouldn't hold. " Dear old jug 1 We mean to keep it and hand it down to our children for ^the lesson it can give to them,;, |k .lesson of life of a happy fife, peaceful, prosperous and blessed r" i':^ /C .J-.j.-j' And as he ceasedspeakingjhis wife with her arm drawn tenderly around the neck of her youngest boy, murmured a fervjs^ amen. Bunch YoTurffitB. Of late years a new language has sprung up in America. It is the language of base ball. It is a unique and graphic tongue and can be mastered somewhat easier than German or French. The Dr. Johnsons of this language are the base ball reporters of the different papers that make the chron- icling of the great game a specialty. The man who knows ' not base ball finds .him- self hopelessly lost ^en he attempte to read an account of tnte game as written by the sporting reporter. He sees the column full of "pop flies," " lawnmowerr," "grasshoppers," "foul tips," "hot liners," and other terms that have no meaning to him. To the initiated, howerer, all these expressions tell every tersely what has happened. One phrase very often met with is the " bunching of hits." We read that such a club " got their eye on the ball" and batted the pitcher all over the field, but failed to wia the game because they did not " bunch their hits." It is quite possible for a club to make say eighteen safe hits and nine innings and yet scatter the hits in such a manner that not a single run is scored. The opposing club may make but nine safe hits and yet so much bunch them that they run up a good score and win the game. Herein lies a great moral -lesson that is applicable not only to the base ball public, but to the world at large. Bunch your hits, gentlemen. Every man is a condensed base ball club. He is in the race for the pennant of wealth or fame. A great deal is goin? to depend on his players, bat more will depend on whether he bunches his hits or not. The first requisite is to select your players with care, the next to see that they bunch their hits. Craftiness, dishonesty and cunning are three very brilliant players, " who some- times make splendid catches, but they are very unsafe men to depend on and they are generally caught napping at the bases before the game is over. A very good all around nine are the following well-known sluggers Caution, catcher Ambition, pitcher Industry, first base and captain of the club Enersy, second base Alert- ness, third base Politeness, short stop Good Temper, right field; Sobriety, cen- ter field, and Honesty, left field. It is true that Ambition sometimes pitches a high ball that caution is not able to stop and a game is lost in consequence, but all in all this makes a very good nine that works well together. A club like this is rea- asonably certain to have a good position at the finish if. it bunches its hits. Many a man puts forth enough energy in the game of life to win many of tho prizes and yet he wins nothing. He makes a hit, but don't follow it up until his side is out. In the next inning she does the same, but the hits are not bunched and there is nothing to his credit on the scoreboard. So, young man, just out of college, remember that what has gone before is merely the preliminary practice of the club. Get your players well in hand retire all doubtful base run- ners engage sound ones to take their places and then "bunch your hits." A Fneximatic Tube to Europe- Col. J. H. Pierce, of Saithington, who has been studying the use of pneumatic tubes, has reached a point at which he hopes to show that a tube across the Atlantic can be used. Following is a description of the ap- paratus as he conceives it â€" The tube will always be in couples, with the currents of air in one tube always moving in an opposite direction from the other. The heaviest can- non will serve to illustrate the tube. A car takes the place of the charge, the tube to be indefinitely continuous and the speed of the car to be governed by the rapidity with which air can be forced through. Time is required to establish a current of air flow- ing with great swiftness through a tube per- haps thousands of miles in length, but when once created the motion will be nearly uni- form. The speed of the current may be made as gcett as may be desired by using the steam driver fans employed in blast fur- naces. Niagara Falls could drive blast fans and furnish motive power to keep in motion the trains to connect this continent with the Old World. The temperature within the tube may be regulated by passing blasts of air entering the tube through. furnaces or over ice. The speed attainable may reach 1,000 miles an hour. Ths tube lining and car exterior would be of poliriied steel with corrugated sides matching with wheels pro- vided with anti- fraction bearings. The speed, owing to the curvature of the earth's surface, will tend to overcome all weight and the pressure will be upon the uf^ier part of the tube thus there is scarcely any limit to the speed attainable. The inven- tions consists m the details of the work. •fOw -Alas^sfU. All si^ra of lids encMiting Unalastin Island are deeply indsnted by bays and fiords. Beeb and rocks^'snnken and awash, extend seaward in ». soatiierly direction lo long distances, choxinedic eajsantlyby the lieavy billows which break upon them; but ^aronnd dm northern and eastern margins more good harbors are claimed than for all the other Islands of the Alnetian Archipelago put together. In these shelter- ed channels and inlets, as" well as^ in the raceways of the outlying reefs, fish in great variety abqfUjdâ€" ood, lierrifljir,, haUbut, salmon, tront and many other edible kinds, feeding upon the surf w^ishiogs and the scourings of the occm bottoms which are carried in by the winds and tides. And stranger forms of marine life are there in extraordinary presentatioUj wierd, uncouth, and rapacious some hicleoos with tentacles, claws, and spinas, a nd serried teeth, and others charged with batteries electrical â€" creatures devllisii in temper and base in motive, who lurk amosg the weeds and algae which cling to the rocks or forage stealthily among the rafts of kelp drifting with the tide. In snch an uncaniqr range as this one variety of the. .sea serpent makes bis home and thrives, holding his own against all comers. In haunts like this he takes on fat and grows apace. I do not know that he ever attains to the magnitude of those pelagic rangers whi ch are some- times encountered in the high seas, or indeed, that he aspires to, but he often measures a dozen feet in length, which is a hiir enough snake to convince the most incredulous. Prototypes of the creature exist in considerable numbers. Their customary range is off shore among the sunken reefs where the rock cod resort, which is their favorite food but they are occasionally entangled in the ropy sea weeds which fringe the land wash, in which dilemma the natives do^not hesitate to wade in behind them and drive them up on shore, sttmning them with clubs. In this way the specimen before us was caught. He measuied six feet long and ten inches thick. The capture was made on June 15, 18S6, and a drawing was executed while the creature was still squirming, by S. Bapinsky, a Creole missionary teacher at Ilinlink, but unfortunately the serpent itself was not prsesrved. He seemed a most extraordinary mongrel, mani- festly much more of a fish than an eel appears to be, or even a cutlass fish (Trich- inurus lepturus), for he has visible gills and opercles, fine scales, two spinous fins on his back and the caudal of a true fish. He has also an immense pair of pectorals for balancing himself, and a full complement of fins to promote locomotion, to say nothins; of an abnormal third dorsal which is adipose I Also, he has long, sharp teeth for holding his prey, and a dentated vomer for mastication. Nevertheless, the tout en- semble is altogether suggestive of snakes. Whether he is less a snake than those more formidable monsters which navigators en- counter on the broad ocean, or those which summer saunterers discover in Seneca lake, or the Hudson river, a capture of the latter alone can determine. In color he was most beautiful, the entire length ' of his sides being iridescent with purple and golden reflections, while crimson and yellow splashes crossed the lateral line at regular intervals from head to tail. There can be no doubt that this specimen was a true fish with an elongated body. The tendency to regard, everything vermi- form or sinuous as a snake and everything serpentile as a reptile has invested certain mysterious denizens of the deep with snake- like attributes but whether they are more serpent than fish, or more reptilian than the undulating specimens of Unalashka is what scientists would be delighted to discover. As we find analogues in nature all creation through, it is reasonable to infer that there are true serpents in the sea as well as on the land, and that there are fish as well with serpent forms. Whether this great ophidian of the ancient and modern mariner be fish or reptile, he is, doubtless, predatory and therefore to be feared and avoided. Inasmuch as we, instinctively, associate serpents with evil, we should, perhaps, prefer to regard him as a fish, and there- fore of a kindlier nature, yet we do not forget that a creature much less scaly in- flicted ineffable and lasting misery on man. PEEFUMES. Boarding-Hotise Ghat. " Why is marble cake so called " " Marble cake is so called because it is marble cake â€" carved out of the solid rock in Italy and imported here at great ex- pense." "What's the idea of that " " Economy. It's cheaper in the long run. Yon see a piece of genuine marble cake will last a long time. Now here's a piece on this plate that has been in the boose ever since I came to town^ â€" ^thirteen years ago this summer. Examine ft dosely and yon will observe that it is almost as good as new. You will see here and there some scratches. They were made by strangers, who had extra good teeth. There's a spawl knm^ed off tiiat comer. That %as done l^ tiie Man iritii -the Inm Jaw who waa throogh bnw last sammer witii liie-eff^ ens." How They Are Hadeâ€" Pomades 'the Vctatcle for AbsorblBc Tkcm. Pomades are the commercial vehicle for absorbing and transporting the perfumes of the jonquil, tuberose, jasmine, and a few other species of flowers. A square frame, or chassia, of whitewood, about twenty inches by thirty inches in size, is set with a pane of strong plate glass. On each side of the glass is spread a thin, even layer of grease, which has been purified or refised. Thus prepared, the frames are piled np in ranks six or seven high, to await the season of each special flower. When the blossoms arrive, the petals are picked from the stem â€" the pistils and stamens being discarded â€" and laid so as to cover the grease in each frame. These being again piled so as to rest upon their wooden edges, which fit closely together, there is formed a series of tight chambers, the floors and ceilings of which are of grease, exposed to the pennme of the flower leaves within. The grease ab- sorbs the periume the spent flowers are re. moved daUy and fresh ones supplied and this process goes on from two to four or five months, according to the desired strength of the pomade, which when sufficiently charged with perinme is taken from the glass with a wide, thin spatula and packed in tin cans for export. By these methods the delicate odors of flowers are extracted and retained for transport to dutant markets where, being treated with alcohol, they yield their perfume to that stronger vehicle and pndnce the floral waters and extracts of commerce. Coarser pomades are made by boilinfr the flowers in the grease and sub- jecting the reridne to pressure. The spent pomades are used for toilet purposes and in the manufacture of 'fine soaps. " And u this to be the end of all " sud O'Reilly De Yere, as he seized the girl's hand. '^That is about tiie size of it,'^he replied, coldly. "You tell me that your em^Joirdr has refused to raise your sidscy.?" 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