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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
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“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.
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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