‘ 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