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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. REC They come to me m the shadow? That coverthe dying day, Snsy take their forms and aubstano > Oui of the twilight gray;. They have no tangible features, > Nor any form of ?peech, . But they point their misty Angers To heights I can never reach: ' .They-bring Tip out of the darkness * Old-time hopes and fears, Tili the shadow fates are fainter . Behind ? mist ofiears. The saddest things of ft lifetim? Axe these shades of old regret * For the dear idea's that-mused us And the joys that we didnt get. BULL FIGHT? A Brutal "Sport" G ?very Mexican city has one or iwo Wu rings, arid in at least two cities there are double' rings where two fights eau be seen at the same time for one admission fee, on' the plan of ? the big American. circuses. . Troupes of bull fighters travel from one city to' ft?other, plat the saue as circuses, playing engagements of several weeks in ??t?h dity add receiving a stipulated surd for each" performance; ifeii fights ar? Held on' Sundays-and tessi aW it Waa td the TTaza de Toroa bull ring that the writer made his way. This ring is shaped like an. amphitheatre, open to the sky. Th?? arena is inclosed by a plank fenoe four feet high, with a rail a foot wide, eighteen inches from the ground on the inside, on which performers step and vault over the fence when too hotly pursued by an angry bull, land ing in a narrow alley that separates the fence from the first row of seats. The arena is 200 feet in demeter, and the floor is of sand, packed hard. Back ci the alley twenty tires of plank seaterise up. Above these are the boxes, furnished with chaim, crowded closely together. Facing the arena on the first tier of seats is the private box ps the referee and his bugler, and near by :S tha band Stand. The amphithe- j Stx? will seat ?0,00& people. The ad - Hissiort. r?nges from twenty-five cents - to $2, seats, on the sunny side of the ring costing just one-half as much as thos<* in the shade. A box costs from $8 to $20, "and will hold from four to ten people. The fights l>egin at 3 o'clock and end at 6, but the crowd begins to VJkg^Dhour before the sport begins. lr j nlf?? jttiTj ?j them is so poor that he canno^BPfrp money enough at least every other Sun day to buy a ticket for the bull fight.. They sit so close together on the Sunny side thattheir broad-brim, high ?rowt? straw hats resemble circles of toat?-stooly; The well-to-do and fashionables occupy the boxes, and "TOT eifert Twenty minutes before 3 o'clock the band arrived and was^ welcomed | with a prolonged cheer* from the bleachers. The leader f arose and boweel his acknowledgments, and j then the band struck np a quickstep. Then came the referee, and he was cheered, too. The referee is a Gov ernment or State official, and has charge of thc performance. It is his duty to see that the bulls have a fair show, to impose fines if members of j the troupe do not put up a good fight, j and to act as master of ceremonies. The sport is governed by as stringent rules as prize fighting. One rule is that tits bull must always be attacked from the front, never from the rear or side. To violate this rule means a fine and an unmerciful scoring from the bleachers, who are as sharp critics as those who sit in an opera house gal lery. ? The referee no sooner takes his seat than an indescribable yell goes up from the impatient bleachers. The referee nods to his bugler, who blows the signal blast. The band strikes up. The gates opposite the referee's box swing open and the troupe of bull fightere; enters the arena, advancing to the referee's stand snd bowing low. The matador heads tho procession. He is the star performer, who finally kills the bull, considered the .most ex citing and perilous "feat-performed. H? is followed by the cspeadors,whc flaunt gaudily colored capes at th? bull to anger him. Then como th? banderilleros, who, when the bull ii sufficieniily stirredUnp, thrust shaxj barbs on each side of his . vertebra that make him wild with rage. Th* picadors follow on horseback, and th< procession ends up with three whit mules, harnessed abreast, with bright colored ribbons flying from the barnes and strings of tiny bells jingling. Tb mules draw out the dead bull at the em of each act. Tour first thought is that abullflgh is a lame affair. The little processio is pleasing to the eye, and the feelin of horror that possesses you when yo sat down has worn away. The men ai picturesquely dressed in knee breeche: short velvet jackets, trimmed with gol lace and silver braid, and silk hos? They might be French playactors, an they step about and bow in-ac oourtl a manner as a prince might. Tl bleachers applaud the paraders lor and loudly. The horses are gaily c pa " '"T. ,o, and the trappings hide tl fact that tiiey are poor, old, worn o hacks that have been doped al fed up foi the killing. The mid are driven oat, and the troupe arran? themselves about the arena. The music of the band ceases and hush come? over the 6000 people wi have gathered to ' see the sport. T referee nods to his bugler. Before t blast has died away the low* gai opposite tb s band stand fly open a the bull enlers the arena from the da pefi where he has been confined i ?three days. Just as he passes une the railing ? dart; to Thigh .are tached the colors . of .his breeder, thrust into Iiis shoulder, and the P' maddens him. He comes bellowing the centre of the arena, and the bri; sunshine blinds him for . an insta He stops ?nd stores at the. howl i mob above and around him and w< ders what it all means. 'The cope?d quickly ran. up sud flaunt their bu skin-lined wipes at him,* and he char? them, trat tfcey step deftly; asida t the bull slips and fails to'his knees, an instant $<* leap.84? hie feet and contest is renewed. "VJTi&a hotpres the capeador leaps o y er- the fei ?RET. l'fif prayer fh'?t'n?v?r ^ answered,"" The prize that never -was .won, Beautiful thoughts unspoken, j Work th it was left undono, . * The help that never was offered. The letter I didn't write All lift-reproachful.faces fr j Out of the gathering night. And the finished work seems nothing Beside the .wprk undone, And the glv en victory sm all and weak To that v?hich I might have wpn. They fill me with vague lowrings. . These sad. ghosts o? regret, for the only joys worth holding1 * ' Are those I didn't get. -Marie Conway, in Savannah Press. 3 IN MEXICO raphically Described, Sometimes the butijollows after him, and sometimes ho kills tho capeador. After the capeadora have taunted the bull thejr. rotire and the picadors advance oii horseback. The horses, with the right. eye blindfolded, go forward to almost certain death. The j>icadqr: swings a long lance in his right hand and grasps the reins in his ieft. < The point of the lanie is sharp enough to irritate the bull but not sharp eriougV to inflict injury. The time to injure the bull has not arrived. The picador. advances to the centre of the arena and. awaits the charge. As th^ bellowing. bLwk mase rushes for ward with head lowered the picador tries to repulse him'by pressing the lance against his neck and head. Three times the picador must repulse the bull if he follows the rules. But the advantage of strength, momentum and weight is with the bull, and often at the first charge ho knocks down the horse and throws the rider to the I ground. Instantly the capeadora sur round the bull and attract his attention while the picador extricates himself from under the fallen horse. The blindfolded horse is whipped to his feet and staggers about the arena, sometimes desperately wounded, j Perhaps the bull will oharge him again j and li .orally gore him to shreds. If ; the wound is not too severe the horse is hurried out of the inclosure, thrown on" his back, and the wound sewed np. Then the animal is doped and ready to re-enter the arena when the nest bull is let in. Sometimes the sharp horns of the maddened bull mercifully pierce f the horse's heart and end its sufferings Police. When the horse is gored and ers nre on their feet and yelling at the top of their voices. They love to see blood' run. The horses are now removed from the arena, the bugle sounds again and the banderilleros are intro du eec'.. There are three of thom and ?aoh car ries two banderillas, i* stout stick th a itoiVr " ? r w"'Y * . . I in one end as sharp" us a trout hook, and the sticks are wound with bright c?lore? tissue* paper. The banderil jler? takes his place in the centre of the ring and assumes a defiant atti tude. He does not retain it long. The bull charges him with lowered head. The banderillero does not mc ve, and you fancy, for an instant, that he will be gored to death. As the horns al most touch him, he drives the bander illas into the bull's shoulders; then, with wondecful dexterity, steps aside and ont of danger. It is done so deft ly that you'are puzzled, The bull bellows with pain and tears about in a frantic effort to remove the barbs. Blood trickles down hi3 sides. Two other banderilleros repeat the triok, and with six barbs hanging from his shoulders the bull is frenzied with rage. If a banderillero fails to plant a barb in the bull's shoulders he is .hissed, and if. he misses both thrusts "be*is fined. A certain number of misses inf succession, and the little knot of hair lie wea^ ^n the back of hi.'i head will be hut (x. v order of the referee-and he will ?ompelledto desert-the arena disgrac. You ad mire the dexterity of the banderillero, but your sympathies are with the bull. It is a feat that requires great nerve. A misstep means death.. The bull is now wild with rage and pain, and .the most exciting act is ye! to come. The bugle blows again, ano thc matador,* king of the bull fighters, enters the arena and bows to the mul titude, who rise to do him honor. H< advances to the centre of the arena ant faces, his foe. He carries a red cap? over his sword, a Damascus blade three feet long. The blood-red cap attracts the bull's attention at once anc. he charges the matador, who mus doc ge" three-rusrlfes before he has per mission to -kill.. As (hie bull wheel fox. 'the fourth. charge- the matado pod?as his: blade in the air and cahnl; awaits the rush. The bull bends hi heal, shuts his eyes, and comes ? with great force until within three fee of .tie matador. The sword flashes i the sunlight and is buried betwee the bull's shoulders, piercing the hear A sltream of blood spurts over the an mal s back. His rush is checked an he comes to a sudden stop. The mu titude cheer .frantically and scores < hats, canes and'?dobe dollars m showered into the arena by the excite admirers ot the matador. He hov his thanks. . The bull totters, falls his kn-?es and buries his noro in tl sand. ' An attendant runs up ai buries the point of a dagger deep the bUl's brain. As the attendan hand fae hats aid canes to the excit people on the plank seats the bug sounds again. .The three white mul are driven in. A rope is fa^-en about the horns of the dead bull ? he is drawn dut.r The specti.U>rS wi impatiently for the next. "Six times was' this performance : peated during the afternoon. Wh six bulli} are dead the game is over j the *thv?. .There are cowards arno bulls as well as men. The second b that entered promptly jumped 1 fence,,and could riot;be induced fight. The bleachers were disgust and shffited their taunts loudly, ht iirgall'kinds o? epithets at the cowa ly animal. The r?f?r?e heeded th oriesj and ordered the buljL-returnec a pen.. This was accomplished by ] ting in three spotted steers with b< fastened to their, necks. . When tl turned to go out the bull meekly lowed them. The third bull, trotted in with majestic air of u lion, his tail sw un j . * ! . * ? M J?~ . * e. v - ; one side. He waa ft big black with magnificent horns and : fight. He lilied two horses : than three minutes, and almost two capeadors. They escaped by a miracle. When the matadoi his sword irdo this bull he miss heart, and the point of the ?merged from the animal's boc eral inohes, just back of the f< Catcalls and shouts of derision g the failure of the matador, but deemed himself. Deftly he rec? his sword, ^gnd at the next al drove the blade in to the hilt, pi iieart. The Mexican bleacher blood and skill; they want nc moves. The greatest Mexican bull figl . Ponoiauo Dusz, and he is the popular man in Mexico with the m Some of the feats he performs ari derful. He will stand in the COE the arena, sword in hand, and the approach of the bull. By a movement he places his feet bel the bull's horai, drives his blade the bull's bear ;, and withdraws quioklythat thore is not a stain 1< the silk handkerchief he draw blade through. He is the pei son tion of all that is great to the pe There were SLX bulls and eighth killed the afternoon the writer vi the Plaza de Toris, and his only r was that he did not see a bull fi{ gored. . If the troupes do not give, a good formalice the referee imposes a fii from 0100 to $250, which goes tc city treasury. The bulls are bre purpose for the sport, and the orij stock came from Spain. The mata receive large salaries and a great of homage. The "troupes fide: their hotel to the bull ring in open riages and are saluted all along route. A troupe of Spanish bull fl ers once came to Mexico and rece $180,000 for eighteen exhibitions. : fighting is a scientific sport and i hit-and-miss game. It is also . dangerous work. At Durango, on afternoon the writer saw the figh theCityof Mexico, four performers their lives, two of them being killoe the same bull. At another fight same day a bull tossed a man th feet in the air, killing him instan Such accidents are wildly cheered the crowd, and rho bull gets credit taking the opportunity.-New T Sun. SCIENTIFIC ANCriNPUSTRIAL .An absolutely fireproof chimu fifty fe?t high, has been built of pa at Breslau. It is the only one of kind. ^^Tlurty-two and three-quarters kn the Britip^ her trial t Sinoe j < into use o found tha to vehicle lessened ? has been f . is necessai - to make* it The Yal and presented to the Peaoony Musei n valuable meteoric stone, found thi years ago on the Smoky Hill Biv Kansas. The stone weighs sixty-f I pounds. The British Museum cc tains only two stones which are larg A prominent member of the El lish Boyal Botanic Society proposes devote the Sahara desert to the ra ing of esparto grasu, which is aim as useful as wood pulp. Paper mak have forgotten that they were oi concerned about the scarcity of ra; It is calculated that a fluent speal utters between 7000 and 7000 woi in the course of an hour's unint rupted speaking; many orators more than usually rapid utterance T reaoh 8000 and even 9000. But ! words a minute, or 7500 an hour, ii fair average. Strangely enough, the X rays T not penetrate glass. Eyeglasses, 'photographed, come out black. T proved useful in the case of a Vier glass worker who got a bit of gi into his finger. By the aid of the ri its was discovered, extracted, and. i workman cured, i The evening primrose-open; fe about dusk-has a very light liu I yellow color for the attraction of nig . flying moths, by which, almost ? tirely,.itis fertilized, although it * mains open during the day to some 1 tent, arid may at that time rece 9 some visits from bees, but it is pe , liarly adapted to fertilization by nig a flying moths. The other species , the primrose family (sb called) t fertilized by bees, which, of cour. * are day flying. 8 The temperature at the bottom r the ocean is nearly down to freez f point, and sometimes actually bel 8 it. There is a total absence of lig a as far as sunlight is concerned, i there is an enormous pressure, re n oned at about one ton to the squ n inch in every 1000 fathoms, whicl p 160 times greater than that of the K mosphere we live in. At 2500 fa . oms the pressure is about thirty th t more powerful than the steam press of a locomotive when drawing a tri re_ ld Pigmy Cocoanut? From China. rs "What in the world do you call th to things?" asked a customer of a So ia Water street commission mau yes' id day, a3 he oarefully examined four in five small, slightly oval shaped objet its "Guess," said the commission m ed "Can't-give up.".. . ;le "Those are Chinese coooanute." es "Why, they aren't i iuch larger tl ed rcarbles. " nd "They are very scarce in this co sit try. I happened to get a hold of tb through a friend of mine. He sp ra- the winter down in Florida, and an cbty he was walking along the be for ar d discovered these floating in ng water. They don't grow anywl nil around here, and the natural cont ihe sion reached as to how they got to to. Florida coast was that th?y drift?d sd, ths way from China oi; their own ixl- cord." ' rd- "What makes them so small?" ?ir "I don't know, but you see that t I to aro exactly like the common cocoai let- except in size. lu China they are u alls a great deal for flavoring purposes, icy Chicago Becord. fol- . -?--?- .' Two playgrounds for children ar the be established in Baltimo re this si g to mer, as an experiment. PYRAMIDS IN AMERICA. TWO BUILT OF MUD ARE LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES. Hld Away in New Mexico-Tn a Valley of the Rockie* Far From tho Path of Travel-Strange People Who are Citi zens, hat Do Not Vote Nor Pay Taxes. Pyramids in the United States? Yes, two of them. They are built of mud and inhabited. One, says the Chicago Times Herald, has six stories and the other five, and both have many rooms. The inhabitants have two' names, two religions and two languages. They are Christians and pagans at the same time-Catholics and snn worshipers. They have one church! above ground and several worshiping jjlaces below ground. They are citizens of. the United States, but neither vote not, , pay taxes. They have a republic\JF their own and never carry their jjr~>" nal disputes outside their oymJr^V^' tive court. They owned tl^f?felI'_ lxttlo domain of six miles squareiriong before the United States came jJ^Jo existence, and they lease farms ?T5 ^e ?scend ants of haughty Eru^Pean8' The? 8X6 the real first famigP68 of country, for their forefali**161'9 were livin6 these same pyramids when civilization discovered tdPem 250 ?earB aS?- They are aboriginjare8 ?ut farmer3- They are semicivilizJPd> ,out ihe? Finish with the stocks# and the Epping post, and until recJF^'y stone(l witches to death. In mJPny t?iaos this remarkable peo ple rejP^rses white man's order. The cljr ^dren ^r&ce their descent through JKother instead of the father. The jflTowns the house and all it contains. Ves for baking are built in the oven Stead of under it. In the fireplaces Be wood is burned standing on encl . the people go into. their houses I [brough the roofs, pulling up behind I hem the ladder used in mounting the 1 milding, thus very nearly accomplish - ng the feat of going into a hole and miling it in after them. The pyramids of the American Egypt ?re tucked away in a little valley among pe Rocky Mountains of northern New l?xico. A few years ago they were .000 miles from a railroad. To-day be can get within thirty-five miles of um by rail by going north from Santa m to Embudo, but after that the Erged canon of the Bio Grande del Krte and brown, waterless, intermin K mesas make the approach a trying. Brney of dust, jolts and weariness. Klie American pyramids are known. Kl Pueblo de Taos. It is the north Knost settlement of that strange race Rh has left the American Egypt Inn with the ruins of ancient cities. ENTBANOE TO AN TTNDEBGBOTJND PAGAN CHAPEL. ? the fea pyi fea in pla tm it j th< ral sui Ba vic sta th? 1 Da tia foi chi pa, l'< are to cn sn Th th? de th? th? hoi ba* ne; wi' lik sm by eic crt at! Its people, according to the best au thorities, are descendants of the cliff dwellers, and the pyramidal form of their community houses was another device to protect themselves from thrir hereditary enemies, the Apaches, the Navajoes and the Utes. A captain in dar Coronado, who came up fr>m Mexico in search of the fabled seren cities of Cibola, whose people ate from golden dishes, discovered these pyra mids in 15?0, and they stand today just as he described them, though me story dwellings have sprung up aojmt the foot of the pyramids "^wnjge_j?hft American occupation assured (jesce. The larger building has ninety-ieren rooms and the smaller seventytwo. The inhabitants number about 40. The walls of these communty houses are made of these bricks tried in the sun. The front wall o the second story was built back fror the frc nt of the first story, making aToad terrace. The succeeding storieswere constructed in similar manner, od as all four sides of the building wei ter raced the structure beoame a pyimid. The roofs were formed by layin; sap lings across the walls and cooring SIX-STO: PYRAMID them with mud. Until recc y there were neither doors nor windes in any of the walls, and even now ere are very few. The people clir up the outside on rude ladders, wht may be pulled up after them if danr threat ens, and they enter the homes through holes in the roof. Jany of the dark rooms near the ce$ of the pyramids are in decay, andhers are used for. storing grain. Se of the living rooms are whitewash Fire places are made by construPg a mud hood acrosB a corner with nud flue running to the roof, and yon and cedar brought from the mctains are burned standing on end ire. corner. The broad terraces are thcaygronnd of the children and the lofing place of the "old folks." When discovered by j Spanish conquistadores these peoiwere not only peaceful farmers, brhey wore cotton clothing bou gb tom their Tl wi pe val ar? of an an ho i Sp on be we go pa les fai Ct ca ne P7 Sp on wasins In the Tramer ldwlands farther south, as well as the skins of wild ani mals. To-day the;men wear in sum mer cotton leggings held np by a string and a print ?hirt falling loosely outside the leggings. In cold weather they add moccasins' and blankets. The women wear a skirt of colored cotton, and the waist is a piece of cloth wound around the body over the right shoul der and under the left arm. For ' gala attire they have gayly flowered 'cloth ing with a silk shawl for the head and trh.it e buckskin moccasins with leggings wrapped about the legs until they are learly ivs big as stove pipes. The food paders who came into the ronderland of the southwest with the Spanish explorers and conquerors rafted the Christian faith on the ?gan religion, and the world is res-anted with the strange spectacle a people with two religions, both carefully observed and held in rever ence. There is alittle Catholic church in which faithful, priests have taught TAOS IS Christian doctrines for many genera tions and brought the simple natives to such an understanding that the resent any iaterfence with then- Chris tian rites. At the same time they continue their pagan ceremonies in secret-except their annual sun dance. They have several covered holes in the ground, each perhaps twenty-five feet in diameter and fifteen feet deep. They are known as estufas. Here the pagan priests perform the mystic rites of their sun worship, and no white man is permitted to witness them. These people also have organizations .corresponding to the secret societies of wome ?' i . ? ! enter . rr i a rplacef ....- _ , i \Ai\ --~ .. aj oilu i darkness of sanitary error. The an ther is a symbol of prayer with the cle ramidjdwellers. They tie the downy thi tlier of an eagle to a twig, stick it ! the ground, in an out of the way co: ?o where it is not likely to be dis- a 3 bed, and so long as it remains there tei s a prayer constantly going up to Ca > Trues above. in? The event of the year in the pagan Dt igion is the thanksgiving day of the ga a worshipers, The Christian priests ne ve inaugurated the day with a ser- in ie at the church and they have tb ,mped the fiesta with the name of to 5 Catholic saint selected by their - erunners as the patron saint of the nmnnity. The fiesta is therefore own as St. Geronimo (St. Jerome) y, and the images from the Chris- ~ n church overlook the pagan per- ^ manees from a bower. All but the T arch service is a survival of the jan era. \ty Offerings of sheep, grain and fruits m i hung up on a pole in thanksgiving ?' the sun for warm weather and good nt >ps, and the sun father,is pretty ra to be stalling on his Worshipers. - 1?re is a queer sun dance, in"wi???k.^ca J men, with bodies painted and Ai eked with feathers, chant praises to wt ? sun. Then follows a race between th s young men, lasting perhaps two eri ors, in which the contestants run fo: sk and forth in relays. After din- nc r the chifonetis (priests of the sun) ti) fch bodies striped in black and white, fie e zebras, amuse the people with St sh buffoonery aft may be suggested wi the occasion, m uch the same as the tic >wn of a circus, making faces, sy icking jokes and making elaborate G ?mpts at various feats, only to fail, bi _ P? ^ | tri ^_ j fa - el WITH 97 BOOMS. m _--- pj ds is the one occasion of the year ki ten Apaohes, Utes and Navajoes are ici rmitted to pitch camp on the reser tion, and some of these wild tribes 3 sure to be present to get a share the good things given away. The SP tipathy to the Mexicans is forgotten, J1! d Americans are prized as guests of *ai nor. ho The su' ject races early learned the T anish language from their conquer it and for 200 years or more it has 8*' en the common tongue of south stern peoples speaking various lan- *P ages. Even Americans in many ?1: rts of the southwest are forced to in| irn it in order to facilitate their af- J0.' rs. The work of the Catholic bl1 lurch and the tenacity of the Mexi- Ttf as have kept the Castillian promi- - nt even under American rnle. The ramid dwellers, therefore, learn laniah for communication with the or tside world and retain their own in ancient tongue for home life. Few of them know any English. Every new born babe is baptized by the Catholic priest and characterized by a Spanish name, except in a few cases in which French priests, who have been brought in by the present archbishop have given French names. But tbe pagan shaman also christens the babe. Facing the East in the morning twilight, he awaits the mo ment when the sun shall peep over the Taos Mountains, towering 13,000 feet above the sea, when he bestows on the infant a native name by which he is known among his intimates. These people are divided into clans designa ted as eagle, corn, etc., and membsrs of the same clan are not permitted to intermarry. They have an admirable family life. The fields and the pro ducts of the chase belong to the hus band. The house and the children belong to the wife. The crops are the husband's until they are housed, when they become the wife's. She grinds i D IANS. the corn and wheat between stones, and this rude mill is known as a metate. The courts have decided tint the pyramid dwellers are citizens of the United States under the treaty of Hidalgo Guadalupe, by which the southwest was acquired from Mexico, but they do not want to be citizens, and the Government has scarcely treated them as such. The grant of six square miles of the fertile, well watered valley of Taos, made by the Spaniards more than a hundred years ago, has been_confirmed by J&ncle SaT "- [; l?a? ' Y?.?. .'.re cioru .W- wheat kttA ii SR-? w\ roc .u oiiiigoiu the creaoco ux tne Kernels, d the wheat has to be washed to be ?aned, though many persons think it too finicky. The married men of the pyramid mmunity elect a set of officers once rear. There are a Governor, a Lieu iant-Governor, an Alcade, a War ptain and several Assistants. The luguration takes place on New Year's ty in the church. The old officers ther on one side of the room and the w officers on the other. They march single file toward the altar, and, as ey meet, the old Gobernador passes his successor a silver-headed ebony FINS OF CHUBOH BOMBARDED BY. AMERI CAN CANNON IN 1848. ne, presented to the pueblo by jr^ham Lincoln in 1863. Common inds &re'transferred by the other re ing officJfirs. The new officers gen ally insistafsY^on taking an oath be~ r the County Jud^-fiiirithough jj6 jjas i authority in the mtWfeter. The na res imagine that their aoij?lAis rati id by the Government of the^&nited ates. They piso have a Caciqi io is hereditary and holds his posi m for life. He is the head of the stem of pagan religion, while the Qvernor is the head of civil affairs', it so great is the reverence of the ?opie for the Cacique that in any con oversy his will is practically law as ;ainst the rule of the Gobernador. The pyramid people ask no help of nele Sam, and he does not interfere their internal affairs. They have quired a community title to their rms and transfer these among them Ives. They have gone into civilized urts only once or twice, and then ?cause whites encroached on their p " .. They lease some of their land Mexican neighbors at'the rate of $1 r as much as can be seeded with a nega of grain. A fanega of wheat is ?out two bushels, and it will seed tout two acres, making the rent ?out fifty cents an aore. An authority has said that nowhere se on earth has the aborigine built any-storied homes, and these two Tamids are the only ones of their nd remaining in the Egypt of Amer t, Preparing for tau Fray. A Southern bishop arranged to end three days during his annual ?tation at the home of one of the Ablu?, whose wife was a famous usekeeper. A colored boy was ought over from the plantation to be e bishop's body-servant during hiB ty. The morning after his arrival, e bishop having failed to make his pearance, Jake was sent to summon m to breakfast, and found him shav er. In a few moments Jake returned, jking much alarmed. "Where is the shop?" "He says he'll be heah di ethyl" "What was he doing?" L-sharpenin* ob hi' teef. "-Argonaut. Over 300 plays dealing with Napole* i I have been performed or printed the last hundred years. 'AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Lettuce Kot. Too high a temperature, especially &t night, is conducive to the rot, a dis ease, which so often affects lettuce when grown under glass. Thorough ventilation and care in watering is the remedy suggested in bulletin seventy three of tL<5 Ohio Agricultural Experi ment Static u Other diseases of let tuoe are leaf blight, leaf perforation and a downy mildew, and experience at the station has demonstrated that when lettuce is watered by subirriga tion it must be less liable to these dis eases than when surface watered. About Dishorning. Of a lot of twenty yearlings and two year-old steers now being fed at tho Oklahoma Experiment Station, eleven were dishorned in November/the others having been dishorned previously. Three days later the dishornec*. steers were found to have lost an average of eleven pounds each in weight, while those previously dishorned showed an average gain of fifteen pounds each. One week later the freshly dishorned steers showed a gain of thirty pounds each, the other nine a gain of twenty one pounds. The apparent loss from the dishorning for the ten days was about sixteen pounds each. Not one of the dishorned steers seemed to show any ill-effects from the opera tion, but they evidently ate less for a few days.-Indiana Farmer. Kow Forage Plant. The English horse bean is obtaining a foothold in California as a forage plant. It has been tried in several counties and in every case has given satisfaction. In Butte County a tract of 100 acres has been planted with it. As a forage plant where conditions are favorable it is said to be unexcelled. It grows readily in the winter months, gives returns early in the spring, before the hot weather sets in, spreads abun dantly and makes good food for both cattle and horses. It is one' of the now leguminous crops that is quite success fully employed in Ontario, Canada,but after sevetal years' trial at the Massa chusetts station has been discarded be cause it blights and does not produce as muoh fodder per acre as other legumes more easily cultivated. The seed is dropped about two inches dis tant in rows two to two and a half feet apart.-New England Homestead. Feeding; Buttermilk to Hogs. Many patrons of creameries and pri vate dairymen have often a larger sup ply of buttermilk than they have a rightful number of hogs for its oon Bumntion. Where buttermilk is fed ; quantity it generally causes v ' v,hon scours-more so in fine. The hair will become ' they grow pot bellied and ? h*debuttermilk,.when fresh, ter, and uso to each two quarts a art of mill fead, corn and shorts, ung pigs, such as are weaned, will better, eight or ten of them ou two lons of the mixture, fed twice a day, m if they received larger portions pur? milk. With older hogsf one ist be guided by their ability to ;est, but it is surely a mistake to d the milk alone, more so when on iss" Grain for Live Stock, [t is a good plan to husband the lin carefully. Economy is always risable. Economy means, however, ht action. It c oes not always mean save and withhold food from domes animals. Cattle intended for beef Hairy products must bo kept in thrifty idition. Durin.r the next four weeks i temptation will arise on many farms withhold the gruin as the new grass nes on. \s a rule it is best to furnish a iderate amount of grain in early ring along with the first grass and s season with cheap grain it is serially advisable. Much better in will be mada in the growth of the stock and i he condition of the imal for an exclusive diet of grass rough the summer is rendered more rorable. To stop feeding grain at B first appearance of grass allows a frame of the animal to become weak ed, and a chronic weakness of the festive organs is liable to follow, pairing forever the usefulness of a animal and its progeny. The fodder and other provender ld be furnished tho animals in ine^??8?J^h the early grazing and >uld be^S??gd as a tempting bait it the averageaUhg_da?y rations ill be such as to avoid baa m the extreme of moist food. Where one does not have bright )vender of some sort to tempt the izing animals, along with their isa, it is best not to permit grazing til the pasture is well covered with ong blades of green, [n the case of horses at hard work, 1 of stock that is fattening to a finish thin the next sixty days, it is best restrain them from grazing in lati les north of the 40th parallel, until er May 15. During the first week of grazing th all stock, too, it is best usually to t a little lime in the drinking water. 3orn, rye and barley as grain food the stock should usually be mixed th oats and shorts for best results, mixture of two kinds of cereals is rays desirable.-Farm, Field and reside. Salt and Coal. [t is stated that if the consumers of il would mix salt with it, there uld not be so much smoke and the aosphere would be considerably arer, cleaner and more wholesome. lt not only consumes the soot, but kes the coal last longer. The ex riment is easily tried and might re t in some abatement not only of the oke nuisance, but serve to increase ) healthfulness of our bornes and in re the cleanliness of our houses by minating that aggravation of all tidy isowives. Father of Thirty-Nine Children. 1 horse-trainer of Breckinridge, Ky., o has been married three times, is ) father of# thirty-nine children, of om twenty-seven we alive. His lest son and his present wife fe of ) same age, forty-seven years. Johnson's Chill and Fe ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. Falling Walls at Fire?. Mr. Charles T. Hill contributes to St. Nicholas an article on " The Perils of a Fireman's Life," in the course of winch he says: There are several kinds of falling walls, and the fireman of experience knows them well, and what to expect from each. There is one kind that breaks first at the bottom and comes down almost straight, somewhat like a curtain. This makes a big noise, but is not very much to be dreaded. Then there is another that bulges or "buckles" in the middle at first, and makes a sort of curves as it descends. This is a little more serious than the first, and has caused many fatalities. Then there is one that breaks at the bottom and comes straight out, reach ing clear across the street, and remain' ing almost solid until it strikes; and, as an old-time fireman once remarked: "That's the kind you want to dodge." This kind of "falling wall" has caused more of the deaths in the de partment than any other danger the firemen have to contend with. It has killed horses as well os men, and de stroyed apparatus; and it is so rapid in its descent, and covers so much space, that to escape it the men have to be quick indeed. Quinine and other fe' ver medicines take from 5 to 10 days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. Tornado Drills in Kansas. We have fire drills in our pnblio schools in the east, and very effective drills they have proved in more Jthan one case of emergency. In Kansas they have no fire drills, or, if th'y have, we have still to hear of it. Oat there tornadoes are more to be dreaded than fires, and the school children are now being trained in tornado drills. When tornadoes ntrike a Kansas town everybody makes at once for prairies. It is the only way to escape death from flying doors and chimneys, falling trees and toppling buildings. School children are txains?'?o know this from the cradle^afitf on these oc casions rnshjj?H'mell for the nearest bit of cleafprairio attainable. But;, many children have been maimed and j much like ouj ill. Thefei . the piano and the childr^P?TsT ). Then the march is played, and it they go in good order, down the drs and into the cave. Then let tb<3 winds blow! Let the itire building fall in ruhiBl The ildren are safe and have only to be lg out.-New York Herald. Why take Johnson's "hill ?t Fever Tonic? because it cures the nost stubborn case f Fever in ONE DAY. - Cets Two Dollars a Year. "Old Steve" Fallon, who drives the audry wagon running between Belle le Hospital and the different city isons, receives the smallest remun ation of any public servant in the^ untry-two dollars a year. While the amount of "Old Steve's" ,y is as distinctive in a way as the .esident's, it is just ?49,998 less. It n be said, however, that Steve does ore vorrying and figuring over his inual income than the Chief Execu te docs over his. What is more as nishing is the fact that Steve has a mk account. "Old Steve" was born in Ireland id he came to this country when 18 are old. After a while he was given 0 position of driver of the laundry igon. On the first of every January 1 is paid $2 by Miss Alice Brennan, e superintendent of the Training .hool. He counts the days until the mt f?? tb? Kfife825*?P' an k?ur 8868 that "Steve d??>J.tttjy w long it will take him to ?ave $50. j has already placed $32 in the Bow f Savings Bank, the result of twenty o years of toil. During that time he s spent bnt $12-a little over 50 ats a year.-New York World. Johnson's Chill and Fe er Tonic is a ONE-DAY lure. It cures the most tubborn case of Fever in 4 Hours. Burring Two Thousand Years, vVhen the tomb of Pallas, son of ander, was opened, in the twelfth ltury, it is said a lighted lamp, lich must have been burning two )usand years, hung above his head. 1550 a marble sepulchre of the .man period was discovered on an and near Naples. On opening it a ming lamp was found, which is aught to have been lighted before 2 Christian era. About the same ie a somewhat similar lamp was ind near Padua. St. Augustine men us a lamp burning in the Temple of mus that could not be extinguished, d Ludvivicus, another that had been ming for 1050 years. It. is be ved that the perpetuity of these ups was owing to the consummate ?acity of the unctuous matter with lich the flp.me was united, being so oportioned to the strength of the fire nt like the radial heat and natural nature in animals, neither of them nld conquer or destroy the other.