‘ A» a. ii SONG OF THE STARS. When the daylight fades in the evening shades, And the blue melts in the gray, We pitch our tents in the firmamenta To guard the milky way. And we gather the broken sunheams ap That the day has left in its path, To kindle and build the glow, and gild What our sparkling camp fires hath. With fond caresses we jewel the tresses sa Of the moon ns she wounts the skies; And the Heaveus we sprinkle with twinkle That leaps from our sparkling eyes. But when he storm cloud rolls his car In thunder across the sky, And the lightning dashes in fitful flashes, We Lide, till the storm goes by many a The sun is our master, and no disaster Can come to his night of rest ; For with constant eyes on the dim horizon Wo guard the East and the West. We sometimes find where the comet hides, And we frighten him out of his Iair, Till Le apoeds through the night like a fox his tight, To his howe in the great nowhere We sometiniea pause in our journey beoa We see ourselves in the glass Of the wilent inkos or the sed that takes Our pieture us wo pass But when the daylight quivers and broaks, And the gray welts into the blue, The tears we shed o'er our fallen dead Are found in the morniog dew STORY OF Returning from New York City by the E Rail.oad a few years ago, I bought of the trainboy a copy of a Cincinnati paper, in which 1 read a long account of the robbery of the city Nationat Bank of L « RY, and the sudden disappearance of its teller, Harry W. Swope. As usual in such cases, he had been a trusted em- ploye, a member of the church and a society young man. The robbery was a particularly cool one, the gentle- man having quietly slipped 390,000 in notes into a valise t vious Saturday atterncon aft bours and walked out cold worid. That was the of bim, and it was not until after the bank opened on Monday morning that anyone suspected anything wrong. The affair created an immense sensa- tion, ‘society’ was shocked, the church seandalized and the bank di- rectors furious The printed long stories of the Dr. Jexyll- and-Mr. Hyde sort of the young man had led for a umber of years, and numerous friends of the lately departed” knowingly shook their heads as they told the that the, knew something Was sare to happen soon. This sensation interested that when 1 reached Cincinnati scariely realized the express was usual, an hour behind time and had failed to make connection with the train to L —. 1 should therefore be compelled to take the last train going west that night, which would cause me to stop over night io a one- horse town in Indiana shat did not contain a single comfortable hotel, 1 knew Mr. Swope by sight, ing come in contact with him on a num- ber of occasions while doing busine with the bank of which he was teller ‘The L.— papers 1 bought in the Union Depot gave further the affair, and contained also the an- pouncement that the tank director had offered a reward $1,000 for Swope's capture and 10 per e« the cash returned, which would make a total of $:0,000 if Wiis caught before he got ric After eating an lunch 1 took a seat waiting-room of the fully awaited my train. As ld I noticed a voung man approa seat, and, placing bis vaiise on ti floor alongside my own, to which it bore a resemblance, sit down while he looked cautiously around att clock on the wall and at the officials moving about How long he sat beside me | don't remember, but afer a time he slowly arose and walked over to the tele graph oftice at the farther end of the room. Before he came back a strong lunged individual in uniform stepped up to me and bawled out the names of the towns to which the train about to start was bound for. Hur riedly picking up my valise. I made straight tor the gute and was soon aboard muy train for the West The journey was made with the usual discomfort and monotony. The depot at N—v Y » Ind., where 1 had to stop over from 10 p m. till 5 the next morning had been rebuilt since my last visit to that town, and, remembering too well my hotel ex perience there a year before, 1 re- solved to spend the right in the depot waiting-room with a few other passengers who shared my misfortune. All that night the face of the stranger who had occupied a seat be- side me in vhe Cincinnati depot haunted me. There was something about him that reminded me of Tel- ler Swope. He was just his ste and build; his mustache, to be sure, was anting, bat that he could have haved off this appendage was to be considered a master of course. The gold spectacies he wore very much resembled those I had associated with the face of the intellectual: looking teller, and I had observed on his fingers a number of rings, jeweiry that Mr. Swope was said to be very partial to. As 1 turned the matter on he pre- THINK the ' ast seen into newspapers existence ¥ rej LiKe that arters S80 me us $4 % dy 8 Wid details of = ’ is ¢ * nL of al in the depot and FEREY EP gen © he thot SICH Ifelv that 1 had lost a curing a 210,000 reward. 1 boarded the train for L tiie best of humor, blue. After taking a slight fast I went down to the office, where the big robbery was still the talk of the clerks. Each of them had a ed to me for my opinion 1 dole- ully recounted my experiences of the viousevening. Of course they unan- ; y agreed with me that I had very toolishly aliowed the fugitive teller to slip out of my fingers. Just before going out to lunch a messenger boy languidly entered the office and handed me a note from my wife. Thinking 1t was the usual - commission to get a yard or two of | swoods like the sample loclosed,” 1] thrust it into my pocket and started | out to dinner. I had not gone ! before 1 suddenly stopped and took out the envelope the boy had given! me, opened it and read it. Atv first 1 could not understand what it all] meant; then I turned it over and | went through it again. it read as follows: “Dear Geonor:—Come home at once, In opening your valisse to get your soiled | linen to send it to the laundry I discovered it packed with bank notes. What does it mean? Is anything wrong? Come home at once." My first thought wae to hasten home, but upon reflection 1 resolved far to step around to the bank and ac- quaint the oticials there of my dis- covery. 1 found the President of the bank in his private ofice, engaged | with several lynx-eyed individuals whom 1 suspected from their appear- to be, as it turnea out they detectives When I was granted an interview and explained my discovery it created, very naturally, a sensation. At first the old gentleman was inclined to re. to De him to allow a clerk me home he seemed to wis in earnest. tHe consented to my proposal, but after a moment's thought he said an escort was un- necessary, thinking, doubtless, that the handsome reward would be a suf. ficient inducement to insure the safe delivery of the preci us valise. As 1 left the bask and turned the street in the direction of was joined in running hat in hand. had reconside him to ac money. quite satisf; WAS IL very accompany satistied 1 uu up home | a young man who came the bank after me, He said ‘the old man” red the matter and sent me hack with the ene to me 10 t as the rw 0 Indn owe fm- out of olpany ho A 5118 St fell po inner tha i Ussing Lae rote ¥ ongratulated KOOWw gentie- ne, and ung man was a ut somehow 1 instinctive di with que \ ana we ied fr i. im habits i in hi concerning methods returned evasive answers or tw ittie things he { finally, dicted himse!f him how in the * HISS! and unex pects asked had rep oe i ne in about OOK] wav At ng at dazed sort { )h, or iw the though my ‘escort 1 had seen e: perhaps ersation, was one outside the he had overhear and had piaying jean the bank sent me insinuatingiy saw that he intend: fort to get hi and then seize ti to bid me good This theory hened when ' seemed Jo mun: Jlrs treasure ! nead of the an ad on. the valise, we placed at al figure jthe said Swope had carried with him-—somewhere about $60. . In examined estimate stairs, ing room and at a the amount newspapers ofl we rough Lhe Wild Hs, of I did not teil my wile fy sts. picions of the soung man down stairs, but 1 resolved at once to arm myself in order to be prepared for the worst It is a well Kncwn fact that in Ken. tucky the sixth commandment has long ago been deciared unconstitu tional, and I quickly made up my mind that if my bodyguard showed any sign of playing me false I would let him have a dose of cold lead. Contrary to my expectations young fellow made no offer to the valise as we started on our ney back to the bank. At the of the short street on which 1 we stopped to take a car. My friend had again become very affable, and as we stood on the corner he offered me a cigar I took it, thanked him: and placing my valise carefully on! the ground beiween my feet, 1 struck | a match to light it. Just as 1 was in the act of doing so [ received a blow from the left that sent me stagger. ing into the middle of the street. At the same woment my ‘‘protector” disappeired in the other direction. “Look here, young man,” said a. grufl-voiced fellow in uniform at my side, as he shook me violently, “1 thought you told me you were going to take the train west to-night. It has just pulled out and you're left "| Opening my eyes, I looked around | the waiting-room in a confused way | and then reached for my valise, It was nowhere to be found My brusque arouser instantly took the carry ,our- end lived intense disgust on his face, said, as | “I guess that student-like sport who was sitting Leside you has taken care of your bagaage. He passed me a few moments ago on his way to the train with a couple of valises. Next time you go traveling, young man, you had better take some one along with you to care tor vou while you sleep "James C. Moffett, in New York World. as Dro lave you ever noticed that some Jays you seem to walk up hill all ay. Tue more a woman's bat costs, the worse it looks A AOI 5 THE ORIGIN OF ANTHRACITE. Stanning Mysteries of Sclence, The main difference between une thracite and b.tuminous coal Is that the former is devold of volatile mat- ter. Heratofore the theory generally this difler ence was that presented a hall cen. Con - that the the eastern proximity to the Archean axis of e.evation, he surmised that these coal beds had, so speak, been ‘‘coked” upon the elevation of the Appalachian chain: that is, he supposed that the beat and pressure accompanying the palachian elevation, acting most vig- orously near the axis, had distilled and rem~ved the volatile matter of the cross-beds nearest it To adjust the theory to facts, Prof. Lesley added position that heat Pennsylvania. Observing anthracite beds lay in increasing the sup involved in up by con superinenm bent the this theory was brought duct.on when the layers of rock was extremely wnich have since been mainly moved by the erosive agencies have been active over tl millions of years The inadequacy of the has led Prof. J. J. of the University of New York to propound another and simpler theory wis ably defended by hig: at t cent meeting of the Geological America He would account for the volatile matter in anthracite the simple Jact that it longe: exposed to tha which takes pla when which consists chi the hydrocarbons tae volatiie eles thick, re. re 1¢ gi Orcs these stevenson which He res ein ter Hn mersed #1, cont. () cite be formed lagoons of d remained lor ring 0 Lhe ca Re sttbsequent riher change the there { Lhe This iy is fact that tion o anthraci Appalachian axis of Hogers had supposed other is : slevenson is annul sirupie case seems tat for al pheno probably solves one of the ts I goo he lodependent count the ino ius s i sieries i Preventing Horn Growth, A COrresix Farmer if ¢ * fais «EET naenst writes Young with caustic pot 1pply when Woe KS + little horn b th old, or ¢ is LOSelyY Ci Take an ic potash around where Lae appiical fhe hom oung No it Lion has taken pi trials 1 have made calf that has one horn ob or the calf if iflamat FO a good was The place turns black, s off and the ming it } had at any dru fill sid IK hs calf does not seem to The caustic potash may he ug the form of round sticks, sm insize than a lead pencil, and should be Kept frum exposure to th as it readil absoris moisture. store in aller air, He Came at Last, exciaimed the woman, “There's a bur house I'm sure of it.” John rubbed his eyes, and protested mildy that it was imagination ‘No it isn't. I heard a man down stairs.” so John took a box of matches and went down, Uo his stirprise his wife's suspi ‘lions were correct Seeing that he was unarmed. the burglar covered him with a revolver and quite sociable * fsn't iv rather late to bed*"” he remarked A er-a-little bit," replied John. “You're too late, anvhow, because I've dropped everything out of the window, and my pals have carried it off.” “Oh. that's all right. I'd like asi one favor of you, though.” “What is it¥” “Stay here until my wife can come down and see you looking for you every night last twelve years, and | John” ners giar in became be out oi {to ior the Washington Star. The Bay View Reading Circle. Ever since the well<krown Chau. tauqua Circle was started there has been an insistent demand for a short, well-planned and low-priced course of reading for the thousands for whom the avove circle course is too expen sive, and requires too much time The Bay View Heading Circle has been organized to meet the demand. Many of the leading educators and Flint, Mich.. is the Superintendent. To him apolicavion should be made for information. "The circle has a four years’ course of reading, and has the advantage of specializing sub. jects. The first year is the Germace Jour bewinning with November, ere is so much aimless and hap hazard reading, that the well-planned and attractive Bay View course ought to meet with instant favor NOTES AND COMMENTS Foun thousand seven hundred and ten wrecks is the record for the year ending June 80, 1803, 512 more than occurred the year previous, anthracite is about 40,000,000 tons, and for some years per annum, Of its nearly 250 counties 26 have less ns 5, - 000. The number having us few 000 is large, and having as many as 20, Acconrpinag to the latest available re. ulation, 108.840: next comes India with 76,510, Italy with 68.828 Japan with 63.828, France with 60,838, the United Stutes with 50.208 and Great Britain with 20,474, A wosax arrested at Omaha for steal ing £5,000 from her father is spoken of ns a lady of evident refinement,” The opinion of the old man has not been re back it is possible that he may be willing to for give her, for sins that charity is bardly corded, but as he got his money refinement covers so many fo competitor, Ir is estimated that the richest of civ ilized peoples is the English, with £1,260 per capita In France the average is said to be 81,102, inthe !mited $1,020, while by sale of their lands to the United States some of the Indian tribes £5,000 t £10,000 per woman snd ' i Mates {rovernment sree worth f m rom 0 0, i child, Dr. En? {ial Mi $4 one fectual tweniv-seven v It is 8 eT Ci nr aye, read nt 18 100K : an m. This mas fifteon intervals minut HAY t time the Mise HET 8 stone i= visiting the nl ' of he interest to Can He has ! possibie routes, with esl mates wt, and calculations of the advantages of each He proposes that he cable should be laid as governments interested of working the line } G00 per aunt, and thinks that the rates ht be profitably put at 2 shillings a A Vin f the « d owned by The LN the Ost he fhgures at Atl the usual signs, as observed from » hunter, and the Indian, seem to ind; fe a hard winter in the West, The Alaskan Indians are agreed with the In dians of Oregon and Washingt sii that the snows will be heavy and the frosts keen and long. Already the snowstorins have killed large numbets of sheep in the mountaing of Klickitat county, Wash. , and in Missouri the farmers, now that hog killing has begun, are teiling that the Iard runs very jagged, an infallible sign, they agree, of a coming winter of unpre cedented severity. Fas Caar of carries with him, wife's relatives that is Russia when always he visits his filled with valuables, mond rings, various crosses and ribbons of minor orders and purses of money. functionaries, with whom the emperor The with delight in Copenhagen. Souk time ago it was suggested in the papers that one could profitably make ver. It appears that some sharp fellow has acted on the suggestion, and such towns of West Virginia. The only trouble about them is that the counter feiter has overdone the thing a little, and the bad dollars are a little too large. They ring and feel all right, and are made of standard coin silver, but they will not pass through the bankers’ gauges. ro are said to be 2000 of them circulated in various parts of that state, and ordinary people are unable to detect them. Tur Nioaraguan people are evidently disposed to regard the foreigner as fair game fur the tax collector. They have added an article to their Constitution which authouises } She lovyi of forsed loans, punishes y exile from the sountzy. ni ust possible naserts the Sea Francisco icle, that the Niearaguans may go a trifle too far in this matter Any attempt to confis- United States by the taxation method may arouse & curious interest in the ques- tion whether it might not be better for {in a more enlightened manner, | Foxe Cuuxo, 8 full blooded Chincee, | is now acting United States Consul at | Amoy, Chinon. As such he has the power {to try Americans resident in Amoy for | breaches of the United States law, to | which alone they are subject. Fong Chung wears a queue, and throughout in the Chinese fashon, but { speaks English perfectly, having been | educated as a boy in France and after. | ward at Yale, | position on account of the ‘of the consul and vice-oonsul, having been himself the interpreter and secre. { tary. Their departure left him the rank {ine official. Rovxp urs of contraband Chinese are affording exciting diversion for American citizens along the British Columbia border, Gans of ten or a dozen coolies conveyed by white men attempting to smuggle them into this country, have re: cently been the object of exciting chases by citizens or officers in the border coun tics of Washington, A company of thir teen Chinese and two white men was dis covered near Sumas last week, ( i and the two white and in the melee that ensucd one Chinaman was badly wounded and six were captured. Several captures of parties of Chinamen {rom bands hav made within a Week or ten avs Is nouncement itizens gave chase, men f pened fire, three or four such e been connection of toria’s seventeentl that purely family oocurrences of Kept writlien up irom Gay his is systematics r that the interchange tr nit ¥ vast album hres, whic val f fi sain DIVE ary nn the life still] ; Windsor, the las she made to him me Lo prize vi z i { iw, a second aan decreasing. It ph Murray, who { { nite =iatles specs the trie 3 Co jusrter of 8 that at 5 a 4 i: ‘sq 4 '% 1 ¢ predicts that i and often {118 1s especially is bearing yor (TL inadas 3 i there were seal-skin garments n vance in prioe. miinue to returns sl the ports gdom during the #3 for this eountry and for Canada. There was a total emigration to Australia during the same period of 8,020, a decrease as com pared with the first nine months of 1802 It to say that of the 22 954 recorded as having departed for Canada, ninty five per cent found their way over our border. Evidently the attractive powers of the colonies are not great, for in spite of assisted immi gration their population increases slowly, Perhaps if they were to start up in busi ness for themselves Australis and Canada would fill up more rapidly than they do at present. They ought to, n fs I¢ of rst of 3.31% is safe ought to make homes for a great number of people. Waar * natural wool ™ is has been re vealed by a lawsuit in Leicestershire, brought by the Nottingham Chamber of Commerce against a respectable hosiery manufacturer of fifty years’ standing, i defraud, falsely described certain items | of feminine underclothing, The goods, which were marked * natural wool” tarned out to be half cotton, maker called for the defence testified “all wool” and moderate-priced goods | were described as " atata wool” and | understood to contain cotton. It was i said that the Leicester manufacturer had | simply used the terms as employed by | other firms for years, The Courtdecided, { however, that the designation in question { was a false trade description under the | Merchandise Marks act, and the defend- mut was fined five pounds with costs. | A xoranue engineering feat was ac- | complished a few days ago in the com- { pletion of the boring of the Busk-Ivanhoe | railway tunnel under the continental di- | vide of the Rocky Mountains at Hager. man Pass, Col. The tunnel is almost two miles Jong—0.303 feet—and is through solid gray granite. It took three years and twenty days, of twenty hours’ work each day, to bore the b hole. It is 10,800 feet above sea level, through the top ridge of the continent, The water draining rom the one side of the mountain, under which it is driven, runs to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the other to the Pacific, Its construction has cost $1,000,000 and twenty human lives. The tunnel, which is on the line of the Colorado Midland Railway, the Santa Fe's central route to ornia, substi. tutes two miles of track for ten, and does away with one of the most expensive rail. esto the sroperty of citizons of the 8 way climbs in Tic world, — A prvsiciax tells the Cincinnati Times- | Btar that the widespread fear of disease | germs is largely groundless. * Every thing,” be says, ‘is fall of germs or | crusted with them, but every germ is not harmful. Every disease germ on the | body does not produce a disease. If it | did there would not be a person on the | face of the enrth to-morrow. People | lived before disease germs were known and were as healthy ss they are to-day. They lived as carefully as we do—per haps more so. We cannot avoid contact with disease germs, but we can do what i is better, strenghen the body so that it resists them as easily as a lion can a flea. scientists pretend to deplore a lack of precaution people take against germs. It is simply because the people see, despite theories, that every germ { doesn’t produce sickoess any more than | every is a murderer, Every man can possibly be one, but we not at Some man would be justified in going armed on that count.” La vr. Reberson, 1 has just returned to Los Ao r making a trip with three companions in a smail boat down the Colorado River, from Yuma to the Gulf of California, to ascer tain if the channel could be made navig able for commerce, The river, he says, changes its course in many places every year at the time of the June rise, shifting its bed often as much ss six or eight miles to left or right, and 1t would be im- possible to impound the water so as to secure a regular navigable channel, The tides, too, about the mouth of the river ratic; one of its features is the which, near the fuli of the Aare most er i 3 a arnlid wall i I A s0iid wall B.A les aft eles ‘ geies alls great bore, moon every mont, sweep of water several feet high, part of the Gulf and the mouth of the Col to float that time of theriver th its the sinine ip ihe upper twen mies into yrado the rive any boat in Wi f « a4 man which mmerce 1,401, raiiy ertainly he might do it. On A train as a passen », ride at the rate of 35 I y and night every hout every day and every day int year, if he had average luck he would eventu ully get surcease frédm the gnawing pain i sirse of ao res one pas ne at his heart somewhere in the « x =i vor 2 } 959 ities < OVEN Ob, 0c. ds INULECS, FOV these official fig ger is killed for every 5, a passenger is carried, nassing passing rding to 2,282 miles Aocore ured sen i that to ti LOIN tht ti Or eigus iene figures he ould be in in juarters times nes It is lit- tle better than three thst he would come to an untimely grave in CODBEGUEDI it il he pre { y have B WAY £1 p mrscl AnaqG a bad s« one chance in Hision, b + train run off the trac nid i satisfied lh this weary, world ar ferred wi have only on De His pos taken him d past the usckeeping ow 1.421 times, ive where she went to the other fel with cost Bim al irr weeping berth melancholy care how his shoes loc sinte needn't disturb bh jusrier. Breaking a Bronco, secret of the bronoee The standing where he 1s left} 's docility in ies in the fact with a broad thst he has been broken to a bit “spade Ni piece of metal so placed in the middle of the bit thst when the curb rein is drawn the spade comes hard against the roof of the bronoo’s mouth. The rider teaches the bronco the uses of the spade in this fashion: Having dismounted, the breaker throws the curb rein over the broneo's bead so that the rein lies partly on the ground. Then the breaker waits unt’l the bronco moves. The movement is usually sudden and impetuous. The breaker, with equal suddenness places his foot hard upon the dragging end of the rein, and the spade is driven into the roof of the broneo’s mouth. It is a stub. born beast that does pot stop short when he feels the spade. This discipline is repeated again and again, until the beast learns that to move while his rein hangs over his head and trails on the ground is to stir the spade into activity. When the breaker is sure that the bronco has learned his lesson it is pretty safe to turn the beast loose with the rein over his head. Should | the bronco attempt to leave the place | where he is left, he must sooner or later tread on the dragging rein and drive the | spade upward into the roof of his mouth. | When left to himself, therefore, he is | extremely careful how he moves about, and he seldom attempts to trot away lest { he incur the cruel retribution of the | spade, —[ New York Sun. yw. the spade is a Some Great Fights, The arenas of ancient Rome were not as some people suppose, mere rings or ovals, such as may be seen in the modern circus. They were broken up aad varied in character, according to the nature of the fighting to be done, or to the caprices of those in authority. On one occasion an arena might resemble the Numidian desert, on another the garden of Hesperides, thick set with ves of trees and rising mounds, while again it tured the rooks and caves of at bay, as occasion offered, courage or fear bated not only w
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