a i
Love and Leather,
“1 wish I was a cobbler, sweet,
To make your pa a shoo.” |
‘ Why 80 ?” she asked. * Booauss,” he sighed |
“ Oh, then I may kiss you.”
“You may make his shoe?
boots.”
She thought she had him there,
“1 mean his boots,” he blushed, * for then
We two would make a pair.”
Why pa wears
Though | listened o'er and o'er,
REPORTER.
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('ENTRE
1 '} noetor.
But there came a rift in the srowd about,
And & face thet 1 knew passed by,
And the smile | csnght was brighter tome
Than the Lite of & summer sky.
For it gave me back the sanehins,
And scattered each soinber thought,
Aud my heart rejoiced in the kindling warmth
Which that kindly smile hed wrought, :
“Oh, yes,” she langhed, ‘that will be nice,
We'll both be cobblers deft;
I'll get the right boot done and se:
How you, young man, get left.’
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And gave the youth a pair
Of boots to start the boy, he said,
In business elsewhere,
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wo are wealtl next of
Among the Mowers,
Whore ripening wheat and olover meet,
And shadows streteh of forest be
What time cool breezes kiss the feet
Of laughing Isssies thither drawn
her rose again, and with the thought of
how angry mamma and Aunt Anne
would be, she turned a trifle more toward
her companion, and leaned a trifle nore
he avily on | 10 walked
Men Think of the
tug Wire.”
What thelted “paths | John Skae was arrested in Ban Fran |
| eisco, drunk, the other night, and bas |
| gone to jail because he couldn't pay the |
agrumbsif 1
Urnivshaw
difference
WETS, Al 8
bcs Arn he hed
Profane the holy
Marion, if made any for me
his arm as sl
Their fresh cheeks rosy as the dawn
The mowers’ dewy
Their whetstones’ cheery oli
And seek them in these mor
New life soems stirring in the vein
That bared arms show-—all mov
Rolls on ax wit it
Adown the smoot} i
From bush and shrub the sparrows call ;
The amallest poo
Grand are the
Where health
1
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SRONS Aughl alo
toil hard hand
blade such largess
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We won
Praised by
From tree
The beauty of Marion Marlborough
had a certain stately guise to it, despite
her youth, that made her seem like a
young queen, while its chief charm was
her complete unconsciousness of it,
That she had a lover in almost every
youth who was brought within her
sphere was a matter of course, but that
one of them herself was perhaps slight-
Iv a matter of wonder. Her mother, it
deed, thought it very much so, and often
allowed Marion the benefit of her opin-
ion, and of her opinion In especial con-
cerning a girl who had it in her power
to be of immense beuedit to her family,
and resolutely ignored the possibility.
“when Amelia Tanhurst was mar.
ried,” Mrs. Marlborough would con-
tinue, “there were few poorer than the
Tanbhursts were; and look at them now!
Her marriage put all the sisters into a
society where they also married rich,
instead of having to earn their own liv.
ing or starve, and both of her brothers
ate in first-class business, aud on the
way to millionsiredom.”
I suppose all this means, mamma,
that if Mr. Adrisnce Desmond should
throw me his handkerchief, you want
me to be as eager and alert as the
"
i=
of
“I want you simply not to take it for
granted that he is a wretch of the black-
est dye, but to treat him with civility,
and et him take his chances.”
“ Very well, mamma, I will treat him |
with civility. I hope I treat everyone
0."
“ You are fearfully toploftical to some
of them, Marion,” said her second sis- |
ter, Charlotte.
“Well, I hate them sll. I hate men
who are looking you over, and taking
their faney to a handsome cheek or a
rich eolor—"
“There, there, there, Marion! Peo-
ple will think you a shrew instead of a
beauty. 1 as for Adriance Desmond, |
ng fellow, for I know him
of old; and when he brings his yacht
here next week, you may be as ready to
own it as anybody. I'm sure if you, or
Charlotte, or Emi of Anne, should |
marry any one hal! so agreeable"
“ Which means,” whispered Marion
to Charlotte, with sparkling eves and |
olor, “any one with half so much!
5 y o
10N8YV,
i iw
ae 18 4 C
wv
eo?
C
~wonld marry any one half so
agreeable, it would be a godsend for |
your family.” |
And all the rest
lborough was cutting and fitting,
siting her *‘ goods ready for sale,”
For
Marlboroughs had just emough in-
come to get along with narrowly, and
some of the gands and glories of the |
wealth to which she had once been ae
enstomed the mother longed that her
children shonld have, if she might not |
have them herself; and she made a!
good deal of moan to herself that her |
choice child, Marion, the beauty of the
whole Marlborough race, shonld be |
such a rebel in the matter, and aunts |
and cousins and intimates one and all |
agreed with her,
It was, however, the only thing where
Marion was rebellions. Anybody |
sweeter, gentler, more helpful, than |
she, it would not be easy to find. Her!
laugh, her voice, her step, were music ; |
she was a sunbeam wherever she went :
her little world felt it would be a des-
ert if Marion were taken from it, and
yet felt that the queen must have her
kingdom, let what would happen—in
other words, must marry, and marry |
well. And of course they had all been |
interested when they heard that the
Desmonds—Adam and his half brother |
Adriance—were to bring the steam
yacht round to Parvisport, and spend |
part of a season on the water there; for
Adam himself was a capital fellow, and
would make almost any girl a good hus-
band, al hough the vast wealth belonged
to Adriance, who had inherited it from
his mother, and they were both a sort |
of cousins by marriage. There had al- |
ways been more or less correspondence
in the family, and they really knew
each other, although owing to the long
Juropean residence of the Desmonds
they had never met. The brothers had
seen Marion's picture, at any rate, and
she had been set np in a shrine, as it
were, by one of them at least.
The last raveling of the dressmaking
had just been gathered from the carpet,
when Aunt Anne saw the yacht at anchor
directly beneath the windows, with her
flags flying, and a boat putting off to
shore. You may be sure she had her
hosts marshaled before the new- comers
could mount among them; and if Mar-
ion, in her half-indignant sense of the
barter and sale that Mrs. Marlborough
and her Aunt Anne were making, “was
the last to present herself, it only made
the effect more vivid when she did.
The other girls had been like a garden
of flowers, but here was the rose her-
self. Such damask on the velvet cheek,
such velvet in the blackness of the eyes,
such blackness in the shadows of the
hair whose ripples took the sunshine on
their crest, such sunshine in the smile
that did not come at once! * Helen of
Troy,” thought Mr, Adriance Desmond
—** Helen of Troy could not hold a
candle to her.”
But for her part, she did not look at
either of the Desmonds—at least not
consciously at Mr. Adriance. What
prejudice she could possibly command
in their favor she felt for the younger
and poorer brother, cut off by a whim
of fate from the good luck of the other;
and she was glud when she found her-
gelf, after the whirl and hurry of prepa-
ration that followed the invitation,
pacing the deck by the fair fellow’s side,
while she used some strong language in
her thought concerning the dark, stern
master of the yacht,standing surrounded
by aservilethrong. And then she laughed
at herstrong language, and looked her
companion over, and decided that his
ercet shape, his noble air, his bonnv
face, with its langhing blue eyes, its
Greek contours, its frame of yellow
curls, were all a combination far supe-
rior to bis brother's looks; and so, she
5
Le
had no doubt, were his mind, his heart,
and his whole nature; and the rebel in
Take it altogether that was a delicious
day, Marion thought, as and her
companion, who had scarcely left her
side, elimbed the bank together at nizht
fall, a great star looking at them out of
the dull red gates of sunset; a novel and
delightful experience, and her guardians
letting her alone all the time, and never
once reminding her that it was her duty
to make a ciroumspect marriage and
provide for the family, “It seems as if
n yon for years,” said Mr,
i as they parted. And so
Wd to Marion. But when she went
0 the lighted room, and felt her
T'S approving patror
1 } id saw Char!
} Aer anon
s+ BB occurred to
3
sie
1
it
See
ly smiling rosily
that there was mischief atloat,
' 8 good K ther.
Id hax ave done anything
» pleased me more,”
1.3 2 aai:3 harm va
iri, S&1Q Lier mo
eased her more! Marion
aware what meant,
mldn't they have left herto e
| without
It was
maternal pr
hat
Lali
1 ing it by such v
apparently a part of the
gramme to be pleased with the name of
either of the Desmonds on + bill of
she would hs nore to
i
\
do with any of the name,
QO
~ i
Easier said an done.
tried ¢ the thought
's companion away,
arming sentence that
some dariy hit
fresh, sweet, wholesome some
graceful deed that 3 done, woul
and would set her to thinking of
him more than before: and the moment
that she ¢
Every time
of her
avery lime some
}
a0
d
th
+ 1 vy
0 Any
he had uttered,
1
0
regur,
losed her eves she
that bonny bright face of his as
been painted on her evelids,
It had
monds an
v3
oud
buen arranged that the Des-
d the i who lived on
the yacht, should come ashore for
he Mariboroughs, and for those they
rad pleased to add to their
mt out at once for sea, re
ey please d, | ¥
ir iriendas,
, having
accommodations and ample
haperons. Judge, then, of the wrath
of the household when, coming down
in full yachting array, Marion was fcund
in & morning print, not going
but curled up in a corner of the
with a nove! and a toothache.
“A toothache indeed!”
mother ; “ with a mouth
pearls ! wit} an unsound tooth
your head
“1 didn’t say I had a toothache,”
said Marion. “Aunt Anne said |
and of eo shouldn't contradict
her. All that I said was that I was not
going out in Mr. Adriance Desmond's
yacht, toothache or no toothache.”
Mamma Marlborough opened
month, but just then ecanght sight
something in the window, and paused |
with it still open, and then, suddenly
elosing it with a snap, she shouldered
her parasol, reviewed her little army,
nd seh) thaw § A
and marched them from the room.
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ons,
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Twenty minutes later, as Marion saw
the sails of the yacht go soaring round
the point, a face appeared through the
vines, and a gay voice erving, “May 1
was followed by its owner,
and the object that Mrs. Marlborough
had esught sight of in the window made
its entrance there, and was advancing
toward her with outstre »d hands and
a radiant smile. “It was so unfortu-
to be left behind!” he said.
“And now to find, when I thought I
had lost you for the day, that here you |
r, may I not! Youneed
e tired, I will let you
rest—that you have a book to read, forl
will read it for you, and I have a nicer |
ane besides —nor that you are not go- |
ing to have any dinner, for there is
nothing so delectable as bread and
milk, and I saw plenty of that on the
shelves as [ came by. So you!
is all settled, and you can't for-!
come in? 8
see 1t
me,
f it is all settled, it
no use to forbid you,”
would be of
said Marion. |
Mamma
and my aunt would-—"
“ Think the world was upside down ?
Well, let us startle them with a glimpse
And besides, why
it? What is that book you are reading ? |
Dryasdust? Here is the new book of
poems—music ran mad, but sweetness |
suough in them to make a sweet day |
And his hat |
ion at her feet, and melody and beauty
the other room, and opened the piano,
and sang to him song after song of
old Margaret—who had had her hurried |
when sailing out, parasol on shoulder
—bade them to the little dinner where |
she had done her best, and over which |
they lingered long. And after dinner
there was strolling in the garden, and |
time thrown in—such talking on his |
part as Marion had never heard before, |
such on hers as made him wonder why |
he had not thought all women as sweet |
and fresh and innocent as this ; and at |
length a supper of the delectable bread |
and milk on the piazza in the sunset, |
and the day winding up with a ramble |
out to the cliff's edge to watch for the |
yacht, which did not come, although |
the dew and the evening breeze did. |
And he folded the little wrap around
her in the dark, and longed all at once
to fold his arms there too, and felt as if |
he bad committed a profanity in the |
longing. But they staid there, leaning |
on the old stone wall, gide by side, al- |
most cheek by cheek; and just before |
too tired for singing or laughing. “ Now |
yon must go,” she said, “If Aunt |
Anne—"
“Found me here? What a bugbear
you make of the dear old lady! She
would give me awelcome, However, I
obey. Do you remember I ssid last |
night that I seemed to have known yon |
for years? If I had, I should not per-
haps have seen so much of you as in this
whole long happy day all to ourselves.
Has it been a happy day to you? Do
you know, I have half the mind to say,
now 1 have known you, not for years,
but from the eternities. I can’t seem to
remember the time when I did not know
you, Till to-morrow, then.” And he
was gone, and she had crossed the field,
and ran into the house, and torn off her
lendings in a hurry, and was lying on
her pillow, with all her bright tresses
streaming over it, when the rays of Mrs,
Marlborough's kerosene gilded them.
Mrs. Marlborough was thoroughly fa-
tigued, and when that was the case the
conscientious chronicler would have to
state that she was thoroughly cross as
well; but to Marion's surprise she was
beaming as placidly and brightly as her
lamp. It was not the face that Marion
had expected to see.
‘““ Well, my dear,” said her mother,
who, after all, and meaning no disre-
spect to mothers in general, was not the
woman of most discretion in the world,
*“ 80 fate got the better of you, and you
had Mr, Desmond to yourself for the
day, Or did you arrange it all before-
}
sila had aeen
reverse and fi
day to
a of
§ Of
hi i made by the happy
the
vil
HOAs
3
UL
t, by his side
‘Yesterday we
YOoars, to
11 es '
wd never met vou till the
I offended Fi
bending forward and Ik
that her own eves fell.
“Why should yon imagine
thing 7
«ALAR J
such a
Have I been rude to you?’
1! I wish von bad. Then
i iythin
so
nditfer.
ie }
“By heay
nee.
1{ she colored and
rven
else saw it; but she knew ths
she turned to the deaf
\
t hand,
ollie
with
cession she fe hat no one
er com
Mr. Craddock
and devoted
charitable
Marlboro
she plac
i
Wn
f an ideal of
Mr. Desmond, as
y door for her to pass
thought he saw a
lovely ave,
or a brute, and
d
murmured
4
he hel
throu
d open
and then he
sudden tear spring te
and reproached himself
strode )
Was
certain,
after her
be foun
after all.
But here t
PLTITILY 1 ’
tO
1 ha flirta-
3! m as wonld make her elders
hey had never born. And
this idea the wicked beauty straightway
carried into action. It ér occurred
to her that Mr. Crayshaw might take the
affair seriously, and so complicate mat-
rode, read, walked and talked
with Mr. Crayshaw, and wondered what
her sister Emily ever saw in so fright
fully dull a man, when one Emily
fore her
: 3
wish t been
ne
ters; she
face,
Meanwhile
:
the young gentleman
herself, if his namo had not been Des.
mond and his brother had not been a
millionaire, might have been found de-
lightful, watched her proceedings at
first with pain, and then with
and finally with
not take long to
however deep Marion
with Crayshaw, she yet knew every
movement of his own: and that when
she sat with her down-dropped eyes
and folded hands while Mr. Cravshaw
read to her from his learned book, it
anger,
amusement, It did
find out that,
2
Wis engaged
listened, but his own, in its gay
st, Mr.
Desmond began to see what it all
meant, with that instinctive wisdom of
lovers; and on the day when Crayshaw
1 ¥ Yay -
OuLHM
badinage or eloguent
took advantage of the situation, and
replaced him hefore Marion could help
herself.
It was on the occasion of a dance on
the yacht, and no more charming scene
could have been painted than was made
by the masts and cordage, the colored
lanterns stringing every rope and spar,
the musie, the glancing
shapes, the swelling sails and the open
seas, the starlight, and the vast outer
night, all lending the time the sensa-
tion of a delightful dream, till now,
when they had come to cast anchor
among some weird black rocks where
fishermen had kindled a fire, making
fantastic images of themselves in the
red light against the dark and oozy
background, as they prepared some
witches’ broth of a chowder, after se-
curing to the upper shore the great
cable that helped to hold the yacht
broadside on.
“This is the end of the third week
mond, as he took his seat, ‘‘and the
first and second day of my stay has
never yet come back.”
But to this she made no reply. She
could not get away as he sat, but she
could be silent.
me of some fairy story,
turned you to marble? You seem to
be flesh and blood to Crayshaw, but
when I approach and ask for bread you
give me a stone. Will you not tell me
the reason?”
Suddenly it seemed to her impossible
to endure any longer. * The reason?”
she cried. * Yes, I will tell you, if that
will end it. The reason is because your
name is Desmond.”
“No,” said La, gravely, * that will
not end it.
name? Why does that debar me from
your favor?”
‘‘ Because,” she cried again, in des-
peration—*‘ because I am not for sale,”
He stood up before her then and
laughed.
“By George!” he exclaimed. * How
do you know that I want to buy you?”
A hot surge swept over her,
“They are trying to sell me, all the
same,” she replied, swiftly.
“In the slave markets of Stamboul ?”
“Of Parvisport. And if your
wealthy brother eould not be secured
as purchaser, why you, as next of kin,
and heir at law, and in the way of the
rich man’s crumbs"
“ Well, this is fine. And you will
not be made goods and chattels, Tell
me, now,” he said, “if I were not my
you
““ What is the use of talking of im
possibilities she said, and
walk away. But he walked beside her;
sould CROAPE; and she paused
waned far over the taffraal to draw
she
not
burning up as
nger and shame,
Come down here,"
i" oried Emily and
Mr.
Cravshaw,
Come down,” eried Mr, Ons
And she group of the
SW 4
} a down
had
1. He ha
hea
and was holding h
1
1 CUSILY,
d groat
nd BEAin
sore.
i; an i between her late
fF el
YOAring of & waters in
ounded to her like
hangel at the
If care
wm, I had rather go
you
you
or saving
some other man
Perhaps it was surprise that thrilled
him as much as passion then, there in
heaving water of the dark shadow
the ship, as he bent his head
the face upon his breast, to fee
warm and tender lips that met
and answered them. “ By heaven!” he
shouted, ‘Be quick with that boat
there! This way!" and in five seconds
was in the boat, Desmond swim
long beside her with on i
odge, and then she was hand
gly on board; and he foll
and strode away to his
while Aunt Anne and a howling «
took Marion in charge, and tucke
warinly away for an hour, and then
i it her a dry bathing suit and a
ak, and allowed her to come
over
#y
SWO
his own,
she
8
Pil
+
it
big boat eld t
boa
On GQeck.
2 .
Desmond was already waiting there,
and he took her hand, and led her
exultingly away, “I suppose yon wi
4 ¢ : eB hoa
1
ram
CEramd s
L Tash
But,
gap
rovoking glea,
t kiss, with death
, WAS
1 Marion.
1? You
r to have
“ How ean von trium
“Because 1 am victorious,
t it was again
ow, trembling
ailing al ”
SRLIINE siong
What a nigh
‘
Ors tho
. & and
COAST and
wind blowin
sails swellin
up the river, the sweet, warm
gin their faces, the great
mut above them, What a
night with violet heavens,
with fragrance of salt sea and flowery
shore, and with the future throbbing
with all its unknown happiness!
“Oh, Marion!” said her mother, as
they stepped ashore. “To think that
after all my anxiety it was going on just
as 1—" And she became so hysterical
that Marion paused to look at her, a
new light breaking in on her mind just
then, as Aunt Anne landed apd joined
the group, saying to Mr. Desmond:
“Now I ean call you by your name, 1
I saw that the girl thought
you were your brother all the while—"
“Do you mean,” Marion,
“that
“ We mean that I am Adriance Des-
mond, at your service, and not his
brother at all,” said herlover still hold-
her fast, as il afraid she might
break away.
“‘ And thereis to be no love in acottage
and life on a crust, no idyls of poverty
turning into tragedies, but yon are going
to be the rich Mrs. Desmond in spite of
yourself,” whispered Emily.
“1 don't know about that,” laughed
Marion in reply. ‘‘Is there anything
binding ina promise made under du.
ress '—Harper's Bazar,
stars, with
suppose,
Bau
"
ing
A Thief Disguised as a Noble Lady,
A recent letter from Vienna says: A
noble lady from Holland landed here
last week with a secretary, a maid, and
a colored footman, the little set putting
up at the White Horse hotel, in Leo-
poldstadt, The countess, in taking the
best suite of apartments, intimated to
the hotelier that she expected both her
father-in-law and her sister-in-law, who
wis to be married shortly to an Austrian
noble of the best blood, and that the
wedding banquet would take place in
the hotel. Bhe hired a handsome car-
riage and drove out every day with her
footman on the box by the side of the
coachman During her drives she
stopped at many shops, ordered sam-
ples and patterns to be sent to her hotel,
and at the same time made purchases of
silks, laces, fine trousseau linen for the
bride, ete., never disbursing a single
| kreuzer, for the colored footman so
thoroughly represented wealth and in-
spired confidence that shopkeepers were
only too glad to send to the noble
dame’s hotel double the stuffs she or-
{ dered. The countess also called on
several jewelers, one of whom had just
| received a handsome garniture in bril
liants, which at once took her fancy,
{ being valued at the lowest at 50,000
| florins, and the father-in-law being ex
pected on the following day the jeweler
| was requested to bring the set to the
hotel at a given hour.
{ he was requested to be reated, and the
countess took the little case into the
next room, where father-in-law was
| dressing, she said. After waiting a
| quarter of an hour, Mr, Jeweler knocked
at the door and got no answer; tried the
| door and found it locked. A noise in
| the passage attracts his attention. A
| where he finds the countess disguised
| in man’s clothes and guarded by a po
{ iceman. Providence had warned that
| her disguise, He saved the Vienna
| thousands, and placed a set of danger-
with many bows and salams, The jew-
eler, I believe, offered him a shilling,
but he declined to take it.
“The telegraph line to the Pacific
must be kept up at any cost.”
ch was the imperative order of Gen
al Pat Conner, the noted California
dian fighter, to the veteran patrol
Id California trail on
sOast
pon the ©
C1vil war. Men were scarce and the In
dians were numerous than
before, Cx Was
largest military expedition ever
into hostile Indian country He had
ad to “ road from Fort
through the Big Horn, Tongue
untry Wo
HOre
nner organizing
sent
determi
Laramie
river and upper Yellowst
Bannock and the Montana mining re
and to obtain a force large
enough to insure sUCCess ne arly every
fort the tele
graph line was depleted of fighting men,
it the sun of 1540, and
exciting in
were eagerly
California, but
ho J keeping
uninterrapted electric line
500 miles of hostile Indian country was
ttered
military patrol engaged in t { duty,
W herever the redskins CTOs d the line
thoy tore down the wire, burned down
YIM
Un i
Oe ™
gions,
military or stockade on
1HeT
Wis
! an
apen
through
only realized by the brave but se
instances carried
ling it up
rest creek
line be.
tween rt Laramie and South Pass
were intruste to the care of thirty
sy Eleventh Ohio cay
alry P 4 of the late Ed
ward Creighton, of Omaha, then super
the Overland 2 legraph
It was to him and his small band
A that General Conner
issned the above terse and emphatio
order on their departure on their peril.
us three trip. The small
number of Creighton's patrol rendered
an open campaign against the Indian
maranders impossible. All repairs to
the line were done in the night, and all
breaks in the wire were n
the day fime. :
struction was
young Chevennes o
up to the telegraph
il
n, and $41 3
the wire, and after col
it into nit
oh
* :
S00 miles of
pe
Away
would throw
Or river. The
ommand
3
intandoant
iniaenaons of
CAvAlrvmen
f
Of
months’
ale
mode of de
follows: A party of
Sioux would gallop
and throw a
Over 16 Wikre, then
gallop, leaning down the
hich was usually coiled up and
1 away to be concealed
chievous redskins would then deploy up
and down the line, esch buck squatiing
iy
£33
an
ile
and
The mis
the base of a telog 4
kindled
and after lighting
ail patiently
through and
f cutting down or dig-
the poles was too much for the
Inzy savages; and, as time no ob-
Je ot to them, they waited until the
poles fell. The military patrol,
within its impr { wagons
himsell down at
where
rash or greasewood,
fe
iy nn
ging up
Was
safe
nable corral of
graph pol 8, could see
nelion going on up
but dared not move
| night concealed their
evennes h
msabout the ** talk.
ing wire,” it, and for several
years after the Indian war broke ont re
frained from meddling with
land line. In order to impress
minds of these wild beings with the
sterions power of the telegraph, a
great council was called at Scott's Bluffs,
where the line was first built. Two of
Y
the stationed at
ax and Ch ave always
n very superstit
as they oa
He over.
the
great chiefs were
in the open plain, between th Chimney
Rock and Scott's Bluffs, aud each sent
messages through telegraph operators,
which were promptly delivered. Then
the chiefs mounted their fastest horses
and galloped to meet each other, and
asked what the message was or the
words he had spoken to the wir
The result astounded them. They
could not explain it, nor has it
ever been understood by them, and to
this day a telegraph operator or man
engaged in the repair or management of
the “talking wire” is regarded as a
“medicine man” and a person to be
let alone. It was to this superstition
that Creighton’s thirty men owed their
lives and exemption from attack,
With the approach of night the tele
graph destroyers usually disappeared,
and the repairers would start forth upon
their thrilling and exciting trips. The
horses’ hoofs were muflled with blanket
posts
in case of retreat or pursuit by the In.
interruption by the Indians, to scatter
into the brush and each man to silently
escape as best he could to the camp,
One party would dig holes and insert
ing in a large nail upon which to hang
the wire. The hammers used
thickly padded so as mufile the
sound of the knocking. No talking was
to
avoidable,
ally the most dangerous. His task was
ered with green silk, and stretch it
from one end of the break to the other,
of sage brush or weeds. By this slight,
and Nevada sometimes received a whole
day's news. But woe to the wire if
jack-rabbits were thick, or a bear or
stray pony crossed it, as they often did.
The frail thread would break, and Cali-
fornia got no more news for that night
or dav.
Sometimes the Indians camped on
the line. In that ovent Superintend-
the darkness, make a circuit of the
break and attach his pocket instrument
and commence to talk to Omaha or San
on the line, and then return to camp in
time to escape capture. The Indians
to place the ten wagons loaded with
long telegraph poles proceeded in two
lines, the men in the center. When
at the breastworks formed by the tele-
But while this
tary work, lively times were being en-
brave men were dying by bullet, arrow,
tomahawk and Indian torture, San
Francisco Eraminer,
O55
The Highest Lake,
The lake that has the highest eleva-
tion of any in the world is Green lake,
in Colorado, Its surface is 10,252 feet
above the level of the sea. Pine forests
surround it, and eternal snows deck the
neighboring mountain tops, One of
these, Gray’s Peak, has an altitude of
14,841 feet. The water of Green lake
is as clear as erystal, and large rock
tinetly visible at the bottom. The
whiteness, as though cut in marble.
Salmon and trout swim among them.
In places the lake is 200 feet deep.
or ——
A good wether profit—Fifty dollars
on a sheep trade,
85 fine imposed by the court for the
| offense,
| his mining stocks for $10,000,000 but re
| fused, and they slid out from under him
#0 completely that 86 is beyond his call,
The total amount of United Biates
| registered Londs is $1,173,000,000, All
are held in the United States except
$27,804,000, $044, 000,000, about half,
are in the hands of seventy three thou-
sand corporations and individuals, not
including national banks or foreign
holders, Two-thirds, abont $400,000,
000, Seven millions are held in sums
of less than five handred dollars.
A
ijuaeen
Loudon paper says that “the
bas no wish to have her name
associated with whisky. An enterpris
ing American whisky manufacturer, it
appears, recently sent the queen ‘A
iful barrel of the best distilled
waters of Kentucky,’ which he called
Victoria whisky, He hoped thus to ob-
1 sn advertisement out of her
majesty, but the queen showed her good
sense by simply declining to receive it."
beaut
t isn't best fo bring in a verdict until
all the evidence is in. Deacon Gray, of
Palmerston, Wis.,, detected one of bis
clerks in dishonesty, The young man
was not prosecuted, and after a week of
seclusion in his own room was allowed
to depart from the town. In a prayer.
meeting at the deacon'’s church he was
warmly praised by the pastor for his
supposed forbearance toward the sinner.
This brought him to his feet with a con-
fession that be deserved noecredit The
fact was that he had whipped the elerk
that he had spent the week of retire.
ment abed.
Complaints are made in England that
dyvosmite can be purchased without
diffi
and this with unfortunate results. Gren.
ades of dypamite are employed to kill
trout, and hardly a month is said to
pass without reports of poachers using
the explosive as a means of catching
fish, It has been used also as & means
of taking one's own life. A case re
ported from Yorkshire is of a drunken
well-digger, who put an end to his days
by exploding a cartridge in his mouth.
His tongue, teeth and maxillary bones
were blown to pieces, although his
cheeks and lips, for some odd cause,
suffered ne harm at all,
Wc
During the month of July there were
102 railroad accidents, of which forty.
one were in the nature of collisions,
fifty-six of derailment, two of boiler ex.
plosions, two of broken connecting rods
and was due to a broken wheel
Of the collisions twenty-three were from
the rear, seventeen from in front and one
one
to a variety of causes. Three were from
broken rails, three from broken wheels,
three from broken axles, two from
broken trestles, two from broken
bridges, one from spreading rails, three
from accidental obstruction, eight from
cattle on the track, four from washouts,
from land-slide, two from mis
placed switches, and one each from
runaway, flying switch, malicious ob-
struction, rail purposely removed, and
subswitch purposely misplaced, while
nineteen are unaccounted for. Of the
one
came about by trains breaking in two,
four by mistakes or neglect to obey
orders, three by misplaced switches and
one by fog. The record for the year
shows that the greatest number of
accidents occurred in January and the
smallest in April. The average of
deaths by accident was 1 1-4 daily.
EE ————
A Baby Mermaid,
James Garrison, Jr., of Camden, N.
J., was fishing off Brigantine beach in
company with a yachting party, and
caught a fish that answers to the de-
scription of a mermaid, He gives this
account of the capture:
I changed the bait and threw the
{ line in another direction. Pretty soon
I felt astrong jerk, and I thought I had
a good-sized fish. I pulled in the line
rapidly, thinking I bad on a flounder,
but you could have floored me with a
feather when I hanled that thing on
deck. The captain yelled out, “Shiver
my topgallants, Garrison, but you've
caught a mermaid.” I sat down and
| looked at the thing flopping around,
and almost expected it to walk up and
speak to me. I took the hook out of
| its mouth and put it in a pail of water,
{ but it lived only two hours. Why, 1
felt as though I were killing a human
being when I pulled the barb out of its
flesh, It looked so much like a dying
child, that the captain, who is a trifle
| superstitions, wanted to talk to it, and
| felt so sorry that he almost blubbered
likeagirl. I brought it up to Cam-
| den, intending to preserve it in alcohol,
| but Brooker wanted it, and I guess
i he'll preserve it.
{| The Philadelphia Times describes the
{ fish:
The object in question, described by
| many as a mermaid from its resemblance
|on the wall, and was being inspected
{by a crowd of the curious. It was
| 50 many points of resemblance to a
| new-born child did it have that many
| persons manifested l'ttle reluctance in
| pronouncing it a genuine baby mer-
i maid. Its body, with the exception of
| the feet and tail and the location of the
| arms, was in appearance the same as
| that of a child and might be deseribed
as a revised version of a skinned
monkey. The head ran to a peak at
the top and was set on a short neck
| and well defined shoulders,
| were sunken and were covered in lieu
of eyelids with gristly scales, The nose
| was quite prominent and ended in the
{ mouth, the lips of which were of a
| hard, grisly flesh, and fringed with
| eight teeth on the inside-four upper
| and four lower. The tongne bore an
| man tongue, and back of it conld be
| seen two small tonsils,
| abdomen were remarkably similar to
but about forty in number. The arms
extended to the hips and terminated in
five fingers, with claw-like nails, the
joints being at the point of connection
with the body. The legs were long,
terminating in fins, and bore resem-
blance to those of a baby. At the end
of the backbone a well-defined tail, five
inches in length, protruded, ending
vertically in two small fine, Strange
to say there was not the sign of a scale,
a soft, fleshy skin covering the entire
body, which was destitute of hair. The
weight of the creature was about six
pounds.
Dr. O. B. Gross, of Camden, says
that the animal is the young male of the
sharp-nosed ray. The species, he de-
clares, is very common on these coasts,
though the young are rarely seen. The
pectoral fins, which are large and fleshy,
are tied on the back in such a peculiar
way as to give color to the mermaid
legend.
| low the surface; the loving heart feels
| it all,
While I was in college I was im-
{ pressed very deeply by an incident
illustrating the pathos of these facts,
| which need only to be known to be
felt, 1 had observed a large Newfound.
land deg about the
nearly a week, One cloudy afternoon
an old man came wearily into the yard
and inquired for the dog. The wild
and so the dog was allowed to look be-
nignly down from the attie windows
upon his master. The old man tradged
up the long flights of steps, but when
playing leap-frog with the boys on the
campus, Again he patiently descended
and the chase was kept up until the old
man saw it was of no use, It afforded
great sport for the thoughtless, but
there were some among the scores look
ing on whose hearts and tongues pro-
tested.
“ Boys,” said the old man, * this
looks like sport to you, but if youn only
understood the circumstances you'd feel
more like crying than langhing. My
wife and I had a little granddsnghter a
week ago, bat we haven't now.
died last Baturday. This dog was a
great favorite with her. He stayed in
her room all throngh her sickness, and
she would stroke him with great ten-
derness when she was almost too feeble
to raise her hand. While she was
dying she said: ‘ Grandma, you'll keep
Rover to remember me by, won't you,
grandma? Be good to Rover and we'll
all meet in heaven; and now grandmas
is very lonesome without her littie girl,
and she wants the dog. He ran away
as soon as the little girl died, and I
have been searching for him ever since.
Please, boys, let me take him home, for
we have nobody to care for but the dog.”
His voice choked while tears started in
many eyes, Quickly the dog was given
up; & hat was passed and substantial
tokens of the boys' repentance were
presented the old man, and while he
trudged away, followed closely by his
| dog, the sun broke through the clouds,
for it was about to set, and flung a
flood of golden rays upon the college
campus and its buildings, lighted np
and seemed to be the benediction of
heaven upon the scene. I never shall
forget it.— Ree, (7. L. White.
Religious News and Notes,
The Rev. Dr, Diedrich Willers, pas-
tor of the German Reformed church in
Barrytown, N. Y., has just resigned
after an acceptable service of sixty
YOAars,
The Woman's
society of the Methodist church, South,
has now B30 auxiliaries, with 21.3838
members, and rejoices in a treasury
balance of $98 785,
There are nine hundred white Bap-
tist churches in Mississippi with 56,000
members, Of these churches only ten
have preaching every Sunday; and of
these only six are sell sustaining.
A four weeks' series of revival meet.
ings in the Camberland Presbyterian
church at La Plata, Missouri, recently
closed with ninety conversions and
eighty-five others making profession of
religion.
Hon. H. R. Revels, the first colored
United Btates Senator, has declined to
corn university (Methodist), as he in-
tends to give himself wholly to the
ministry, and bas become a presiding
elder,
In a recent issue of the Pall Mall Ga-
2ctte some interesting figures based on
the census returns are given in regard
Catholics. 635,670 members of the Prot.
estant Church of Ireland, 485,503 Pres-
byterians and 47,600 Methodists. The
Baptists, Quakers and members
other denominations number 37,3105.
The decrease in the ten years in the
was about the same-—4.8 per cent, The
decrease in the number of Presbyterians
have increased 6.7 per cent., 4,228 mem-
bers having been added to the church.
Fish that Fly.
on land not to be found in the sea.
and many other sea vegetables that look
like those of land animals,
cows. One very lovely fish is the
angel-fish. But the most curious of all
is the flying-fish, which has broad fins
like wing
This fish is shaped and colored some.
thing like a mackerel. Its back is blue
and its under parts are white. When it
flies it takes short flights from the top
of one wave to the top of another. The
from a high point up on a tree to ome
lower down. They are plentiful near
find a dead fish on the deck. It had
at night and flown toward them. It
could fly high enough to reach the ves.
gel’s deck, but could not fly across it.
It may have struck a boom or sail and
fallen dead from the blow. After this
see them in the daytime,
They will fly out of the water in front
of the ship in little groups, looking
like flocks of swallows. Their white
sides will gleam like silver in the sun.
They cannot fly far, perhaps a hundred
yards, After wetting their
fins they then can fly farther on. They
pleasure. The dolphin, a very fierce
and fast swimming fish, hunts them in
the water.
they fly out. They are very good to
The people in the islands about
which they live catch them in dip nets
i mie————————
The Work of the Heart,
An English writer says: We may
form some conception of the enormous
energy of the human heart when we
reflect that a good climber can ascend
only 9,000 feet in nine hours, that is, of
time, while the work done by the heart
is equivalent to raising its own weight
(ten ounces) 13,860 feet high. And we
may put this even more strikingly by
pointing out the most powerful engine
ever made by man, the ‘‘ Bavaria” loco-
motive of the Vienna and Trieste rail-
way, can only raise itself through 2,700
feet in an hour; that is, its energy is
less than one-fifth of that of the human
heart. Of course the actual amount of
work done by hoth engine and climber
is much greater than that done by the
heart; bus relative to weight the energy
of the heart far exceeds thut of the
other two.
One day
the encountered one or two
vesie]
boats, The other boats, a distance off,
saw the men struggling in the water.
Captain Pollard sailed his vessel to res-
cue them. The whals retreated to the
with great velocity for the vessel, strik-
ing her amidships with his head and
starting a leak instantly, The infuriated
HUMOROUS,
| Spell fat with four letiers—OB OT.
The fly that walks on clecmargarine
is not the butter fly,
| The true way for & woman to drive &
nare st her
| thumb, Then she'll a
« Smith,” said Brown, * there's a for
aforethought,” retreated twice and re-
peated the blows. The third time it
crushed in the whole side of the ves el,
which sank instantly,
into two boats. They parted in mid-
ocean, in the Pacific, near the equator,
One was pever heard of again; the
other, with Captain Pollard on board,
headed for South Ameriea They were
eighty days in this open boat,
While in this forlorn condition, wateh-
ing every day and hour for a sail, they
were struck ome day by a bill fish, a
variety of the sword-fish, The blow
started a plank near the keel of the boat.
They took off their jackets, stuffed
them into the hole to stop the leak, and
began to bale out the boat, They bad
an ax, and managed to find two or three
pails. With these they set to work to
repair the place, but whenever they
went to drive a nail the plank would
spring ; they conld not drive it from
the inside of the boast, and had no awl
or gimlet with which to make a hole by
which it might enter the planking. A
man ey Nixon said: “The only
A cor
w
i
| was to
have in that Btate a spring so powey
ated ns that the
orses which drink at it never
Mfally im
farmers’
their feet naturally.
ere is & man in our
he i» wondrous wise;
| Carrie was six years old and quite a
| model of propriety; but one day she
| shocked ber mother
Mrs. B,, “how could you
| thing? “Other little girls do 50,” re-
lied Carrie. * But that doesn’t make
it right, does it 7’ asked Mrs, B. “No,”
| answered je, with deliberation,
the ax.” Baid Nizon: “I'm the man
that's going to do that”
lifted on board, almost unconscious, but
he revived.
after enduring untold horrors, they
last expedient, and drew lots to see who
companions,
It is
slender young man, in delicate health
when it fell upon the same
ut an end to his life, when a vessel
Bro in sight, which rescued them.
Captain Pollard could often be seen
afterward by summer visitors to Nan-
tucket
man. From being one of the boldest
was such a wreck that if he saw two or
street, or if any one took up 8 news
years ago. There is now but one sar-
vivor of that boat's crew, and that is
the water,
Walter J—-—, the only son of a widow
of Nantucket, set sail when twelve years
old with the captain of a whaler. One
mast. Had he fallen up~n the deck he
would in sll probability have been
violin—and rebounded into the water.
Soon the ery came, ** A man overboard.”
The captain felt very sad when he
learned it was Walter J——. He put
ship about snd tacked back and forth,
he ealled the men aft and asked them
whether anything else conld be done,
“for 1 don’t want you to go back to
Nantucket and say that if somethir
else had been done Walter J—— ecunl
have been saved.”
time had been long—perhaps half an
board, the captain made a few turns
more and called on the men for
final decision whether any
be done.
finally concluded to hold on his course,
when one of the men said that he heard
a cry. They listened and soon heard a
call, ** Keep her away or you'll ran over
me.” Half a dozen ropes were thrown
out by as many different persons, when
the boy said: ** Make a bow line, I'm
too weak to hold on.” A bow lineisa
It was thrown out, the lad put it over
one leg, held on by his bands and was
overalls and shoes on.
world, having managed, in spite of the
great exertion of swimming to divest
himself of all his clothes in order that
When asked how he had been sable to
endure so long he answered that Lie was
on the point of giving up from fatigne
and letting his feet go down, prepar-
story to sinking, when he thought of
his mother and kept on. He is still
living in Nantacket.—Lippincotf's Mag-
agine,
I —— ve
Cheese Made from Potatoes.
A German paper says that cheese is
made from potatoes in Thuringia and
Saxony in the manner below: After
having collected a quantity of potatoes
to a large white kind, they areboiled in
a caldron, and becoming cool, they are
peeled and reduced to a pulp, either
by means of a grater or mortar. To five
pounds of the pulp, which ought to be
equal as possible, is added one
quantity of salt. The whole is kneaded
together and the mixture covered up
and allowed to lie for three or four days,
according to the season. At the end of
this time it is kneaded anew, and the
cheeses are placed in little baskets,
when the superfluous moisture escapes.
They are then allowed to dry in the
shade, and placed in layers in large
vessels, where they must remain for fif-
teen days. The older these cheeses are
kinds are made. The first and most
common is made as detailed above; the
second, with four parts of potatoes and
two parts of curdled milk; the third,
with two parts of potatoes and four
parts of cow or ewe milk. These
cheeses have this advantage over other
kinds, that they donot engender worms,
and keep fresh for a number of years,
provided they are placed in a dry sitna-
tion and in well-closed vessels,
a —————
There is this difference between hap-
piness and wisdom: He who thinks him-
self the happiest man really is so; but
he who thinks himself the wisest is
generally just the reverse.
Young man, be happy—hoot, heller,
| skip, garabol and snap your fingers at
the nightmare of a new overcoat for next
winter, Last full a Canadisn genins
| shivered awhile and then reflected
awhile, and the resalt was the purchase
‘of a box of mustard These
were discribnted around on his frame
where they would do the most good,
and while men in beaver overcoats shiv-
, ered with cold be was warm snd :
in his shirt sleeves. One dollar takes
i you through a hard winter, and you
come out in spring fat.— Free Pross,
Now the papers are predicting a lam-
| ber famine, Good gracious, have we got
to go through that horror, too. ave
| we got to sit idly by and suffer, with no
| sixteen-foot board to fill an empty
. stomach, no bunch of shingles to cool
| our parched Jonge, no posts io
fill a want long feit, and no bundles of
lath to press oar fevered lips? This is
| too much. We eould the famine
| in box cars, predicted last spring, but
| to cut off our supply of lumber, just as
: ye have got a new of siomath
itters for au appetizer, is piling
| agony on too thick. — Pecks Sem.
| “Dovounlove me? “Yes” she an-
| swered, * betterthan anything else in
the world. It's a beantiful night fora
moonlight drive.” A moonlight drive
would cost at least three dollars, and as
he agitated seventeen cents in his ri
| trousers pocket he surveyed the lunar
{ orb with a knowing gaze, and remarked:
| #1 should be so happy to take you, but
| it's a wet moon, and you know you sre
ee mt
| morning the di in .
! served to her mother: * Charley and I
| have quit. He knows a heap about the
| weather, but bes 8 perfeet ignoramus
| about me.” — Burlingion Hawkeye,
WISE WORDS,
The aim of education is the desire to
learn.
Agreeable sdvice is seldom useful
advice.
Virtue is the safest helmet—the most
secure defense.
Character wonld be impossible were
there no reputation. :
False modesty is the last refinement
of vanity. It isa lie.
The stateliest building man can raise
is the ivy's food at last,
| To remind a man of a kindness con-
| ferred is litile less than a reproach.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we
| journey to it, casts the shadow of
| our burden behind us.
:
t, but
| they need to be adorned by grace to
No grander thing can a man do than
| who has been discouraged.
| There is a whole sermon in the Per-
| sian saving, * In all thy quarrels leave
ARtion™
-
| the door open to recon :
i
confidence to own its possession.
| The very igh iuns ol yor out hly
| pilgrimages and presti our future
| Ne and shadows indicate the sun.
Be courteous with all, but intimate
with few; and let those few be well
tried before you give them your confi-
| dence.
Be not diverted from your duty by
any idle reflections the silly world may
make upon you, for their censures are
not in your power, and consequently
should not be any part of your concern.
It is true in matter of estate, as of
our garments, not that which is the
| largest, but that which fits us best, is
best for us. * Be content with such
things as ye have.”
The heart will commonly govern the
head; and it is certain that any strong
passion set the wrong way will soon in-
fatuate even the wisest of men; there
fore the first part of wisdom is to watch
the affections.
i
A True Home,
The following beautiful gem is float-
ing around the press as a waif:
he most perfect home I ever saw wus
g little home into the sweet incense of
whose altar fires went no costly things.
A thousand dollars a year served as a
living for father, mother acd three ¢lil-
dren. But the mother was the creator
of the home. Her relations with her
children were the most beautiful I have
ever seen. Even the dull and common-
place man was lifted up and enabled to
work for souls by the atmosphere which
this woman created. Every inmate of
her house involuntarily looked into her
face for the keynote of the day, and is
always rang clear. the rosebud
or clover leaf, which in spite of her hard
housework she always found time to
put beside our plates at breakfast, down
to the story she had on hand to be read
in the evening there was no interrup-
tion of her influence. She has been,
and always will be, my ideal of a wife,
mother and home maker. If to her
quick brain, loving heart and exquisite
face had been added the appliances of
wealth and the enlargement of wide
culture, hers would have been the ideal
of home. As it was, it was the best I
have ever seen.
OS
There should be few roughs
among the Polish Pre