a OLIVER WENDFELL —— He lived to show Jhat wit may be Divinely kind, divinely wise; That looking on earth's misery, The clearest are the kindliest eyes. HOLMES. | And when Death came to find our friend — : Asioth to do the world such wrong-— He took his tenderest way to end At once his service and his song. H. C. Bunner, in Puck, The 01d Coach Bog. | “That dog said Silas!’ *No."” “Yes, he spok y it just I I do now. I tauzht him to say that word when I was a young man, and used go hunting in the wo around the marshes. He said Silas, 1 no word ever fell on my ears that as plainl { iainl y as to wis and n has given me such cause for gratitude as that, He w old coach dog. I drove the stage between Boston and the cape before I went West. He » the leather boot to a8 an oN. ing Eve. My good candfather had asked that we should the incident of our had given us the groate hankfulness. Each had ne incident, stage driver and relate remarkable nele Silas, the prospector. 1 glanced as the firelight fell on his kindly face, and asked him the s: questi His answer led though t events to which he ferred were not new tome. 1 ha heard him relate many times at hus] ings and on long winter evenin story of the speaking coach. dog as he was accustomed to 1 ‘The Window in the Woods; called it **The Phantom Ian.’ story in part was told in old new: pers and-on red settles forty ot ago. towards Ane start the compat he “Silas,” said I, of the dog be new some makes "em lie awa when the sha ters bang The tie tale. It was corner WO com] any eag we after by a me New Er rs to Silas le. This le Jeddediab resented the happy from Boston, and sung amid a most hea called “Une arrival of the ei 13 } es 4 ively ds. Oh, won't we havea m Oh. won't we have a merry Polly, put And ) I noie and lifted it the old Colonial ti { nearer the fire. A shutte and he cast his eyes towards the window. very still. the kettle on ' we'll all take tea! Silas caught in the jumping mes is “The clouds are seuddin moon,” he began. ing—1 can hear it recs. Many's the time 1 have down to Greenharbor in ti i nights like thi a over the “The wind in the tops of coach on from the seat and bag from the boot, and when ‘Siias,’ there would ereep out boot that old coach dog. “That dog was given to me by =a sailor who was about to go to sea from the old North River. He was a pup then. I never knew a dog that seemed to think so much of his mas- ter as that dog did of me. His eyes were never off me. I taught him a number of tricks, such as to stard up on his hind legs and beg, which he did by utteriug a sharp, pitiful ery. While begging one day he made a sound like 'Silas.” 1 repeated it, and he uttered it again, After that 1 would hold back from him his food until he had made that sound. ‘Say Bilas,” I would say, and after a time he would utter the word, or what sounded like it. In time he would rise on his hind legs, shake his fore paws, and say ‘Silas’ whenever h wanted food. I was very proud to have him call me by name, and I had him do it whenever I met my friends, He became a kind of neighborhood | wonder, and was called the talking | dog. “The old stage coaches had great | leather boots that covered the driver's | legs, and in cold and stormy days! could be raised so high as to protect nearly the whole body. Many atime | have I driven my horses, protected | from the rain or snow by the boot. | Under the boot I. carried the mail | bags, and such packages as we to-day | send by express. The mail conch was sometimes robbed, when the boot wis known to carry valuables. I carried my own money in a large wallet, in a side pocket of a great gray cont, and money for others in the same way. drove the stage for ten years, but I was never molested or robbed, And in those ton years 3 snatched of the e rey dog Silas auways slopt among the mail bags, “While I was driving the stnge, free, healthy and happy, and feeling as though I was running the new world, there was some strange things | happened in the old Dedham Several travelers who had | through these woods at night | met with strange adventures at my feet woods. a little distance | from the way, and heard the ringing | of a bell like a supper bell. Two of | them had turned in towards the win. dow, but as they attempted to ap- proach it, it seemed to draw back into the heart of the woods. After walk-| considerable d them no noarer, alarmed and fled. believin traveler at {8- seemed to had turned and Une tance it and they suddenly it to be a ghost, had entered the road never been heard of again. become UUSK, these events, anyone who to w persons would wis after dark, ex- or “{ carriage had ious window, but « ha i be grson sawn indow nt {OOK heels, last go through the wi cept . No one riding a 1y st in 8 Carri in { seen the but npened there ishing window of as the ‘Phantom away.” I someti tour through the [ used to be war! phantom inn warning are n oi eak thie his paws und say shat “Was | would rise up in aione in always speal Oh, those The iSO were spinning seemed to winter. 8 pike i ba {JE Just as thougl they 100-00. They which was WO O=O0=00 “People away to York led it ‘up country’ then The Mohawk Valley § time State, seemed as far away at that as the prairies do now. I had a good offer to go to Albany and take a stage route from there to Buffalo. I caught the ‘up country’ fever, and resolved to go. 1 may seem weak, but one of my greatest regrets on parting was that [| would have to leave my old friend Silas, the coach dog, at Green- harbor, and I might never wee him again. “One day as I was stopping at the old Seituate Inn, just out for Albany, I met a stranger there. He called himsolf Searle. | shall never forget the eyes of that man. There seemed to be a hidden spirit, not himself, looking through them. They remined me at once of the traveling window and light or the phantom inn. before setting “But Silas, the dog—I never met such a mystery as when the dog's eyes first met those of that man, It used to be said in Old New England times that dogs would ghosts coming and start up and howl, be- fore people could see them. That dog seemed to see something mys- | terious in that man’s eyes, ‘He leaned into the air when Searle appeared and said ‘Silas.’ aon “He then shook all over, dropped | me, whining in an fearful tone. Jt] seemed as though he must have seon Searle somewhere before, mysteri- ously, in some out of the way place, | What did it mean? | have thought | of it a hundred times—what did it mean? ** ‘Going up the country, I hear,’ said Searle. “ ‘Yeu, I have concluded to take the Albany route,’ said IL There is more money in it.’ '* ‘Goin’ to take your dog here along with you? He's a fine one,’ “ ‘No,’ said I, ‘I'll have w go by the way of New York, and up the river to Albany, and I must leave him behind, If I were going by the way of Springfield I would take him along. 1 set a store by that dog.’ “ ‘Don’t want to sell him, do ye? “There came nu strange light into the man's eyes. 1 cannot describe it It made ine think of the window in the woods again, *“ I hesitated. Hoiltranger,” do you live?’ I sald at the Dedham ponds. They getting dangerous there, nnd I want a dog. 1 need one. Bay, as goin’ off, what will you take for him?’ + ‘] don’t know—l1 wouldn't g him for anything, if Ididn’t have to.’ 1'H you $10 for him. is high, but I’m lonely like, and they say them woods are gettin’ dan What do you say!’ “ You may have +: | felt someh an unworthy thin suy FEV ab ¥ eros dog had such a would » act. nove any ous feeling th entered the shadow int lonely road among trees The i 8 Riliside i stopped and looked back west was red; corn stac and 1 coul Ka sid {arn id hear the merry voices of : ymed hollow listening the mn that 8 the and stil re panic mehow companionship of the ol i dog. as 1 wuld feel heart shrinl ! led how mi I had treated him, and | ction that I id myself used to be. ¢ my aniy Case i my conscience w had done as well as I could I entered the another strange thi me. It eyes of Searle. 1 had never forgotten them. I could almost see them again now. Every rattle in the bushes seemed to bring them back again. ‘As | walked along. hazel stick fora cane, a great | rose like a fire among the tops of gray rocks and skeleton trees. was a full hunter's moon from the sea. After a time it went into a cloud, but the way was still clear. It was almost as still death. “ Occasionally a rabbit would cross the way: once a white rabbit leaped out before me, and I felt my heart beat. and thought again of the old coach dog, Searle's dreadful eyes and the tales of the phantom inn, at when nt way § revs t ts g began Lo La Was the with a witch fev $ IRIE i Is he It coming up i i the cape stage. “The way grew more lonely amid the onks and the russet leaves, save In places the road was strewn with fallen nuts, and Once the eyes of a white owi cons fronted me on a decaying limb--I thought again of Searle, ** Here and there the faint, poison. drifted across the cool air; again 1 met the old familiar scent of the wild grapes which hung over the crevices of rocks and the cidery smell of wild apples. The moonlight fell in rifts as the clouds scudded, driven by some ocean wind along the sky. ** 1 hurried on, hoping to reach Ran- dolph before midnight, when sudden. ly Frond a sound that stopped my feet at once and sent a chill over me. It was a hollow tone, like the zing. ing of a supper bell, such as used bo common in the farmhouses and iuns. Ilooked in thedirection of the sound, when 1 saw a little way from tho road 8 window and a light among the trees. I stopped nervously. “Ig it imagination?’ I asked my- | self. ‘Is it adream of the old story? | Shall I run or turn toward the bell?’ ‘1 was frightened and my heart | beat, but I am not a man to run. After hesitating for a Tow moments, | 1 tarned into the wood in the direc tion of the window and the light, and found a path there, which I began to | follow cautiously. I walked to the place where I ha first heard the bell | and geen the window and the light, but the window and the light were | apparently as far away now as when As I watched but I could i hear nothi LE. 1 dd rind i. 1 hie d the | [ started from the road, I could gee it move back, window a dragged master over tiie pond. Searle had eas light in his hand { foet had moved back to allure travei- ers Nothing ever made ful as that word never passed a Thanks humiliati and gra which followed in the old Greenharbor. Silas? Yes, | question. What became of took him back to Albany He was an old dog then repent that word in his d said it more than that he died.’ —{8t. Louis Republic. evidently one y on fi1taag must with and used Onee on Oil of the Sunfiowar. The oil expressed [rom the flower seed ght ¥ color, and is valued by artists for fine quality for painting. There but little use for it, so that it would not pay to go into the business largo ly. The plant is very prolific, yield ing from fifty to 100 bushels of the seed to an acre. A hundred pounds sed gives thirty-three pounds of | the kernels, and these yield twenty. | five per cent. of oil. Thus an acre of the flowers may yield about 1,100 pounds of the kernels and 275 pounds {of tle oll.. The oll weighs somewhat Jess than eight pounds to the gallon. The oil is not the only valaable - part of this plant. The yield of leaves, dry, Is about HOO pounds to the acre, and they are readily eaten by cattle; the iyleld of stalks is three to six tons, dry, per acre. The stalks are excellent fuel, and where wood is costly it will pay well to grow this plant—for the seed, to be used for feeding cows, sheep pigs, or poultry, for the leaves and for the stalks. To produce a full crop rich soil is needed. ix of a Ii is of 8 “IN PLACE OF COAL. INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF NEW RAILROAD DEVICES. Guarding Against the Operations of Train Robbers. Developments in the past year or 80 have almost tion of two new rods of substitution compelled the adop- by the ra [hes fuel idens il- the country. of cheap and wood for the locomotives and tl protect t { A OT ion of the from train robl Wood is becom ard the forest are ers. ing scarcer every year 01 the west this fires ir ning the end Conl has al WHYS § AVS The month of October f Of fREUCCHE Ariz 4154 ithe detail it 3 18 Muen ana g so much coal somets m up to the game doi passenger en one ¥: voir #lled with oil would sufiice but would matter Car of oil against eight car loads of und seventy-one car loads of The oil flame ismuch fiercer, steam the freight-hauli of the Therefore, fy service reservoir in the have iewanl «1 Ong ana n consequence, comes The ch for I supply. present 8 ief objection against using womotive purposes is the While the supply of oil at ems adequate for all px ble wants, still the proposed use would consume a vast quantity. While it is cheap now, stich a great demand would surely price and probably to such an extent ns to make it prohibitive. Then, again, all patents are perfect in the eyes of the patentee and the general public until they are proven defec- tive, and one defect, in some cases, is enough to squelch an idea forever, oil Ri increase its summer the Burlington and Quiney motive fuel coal, which the strike had made pedient of sending the coal to dif. ferent parts of the road under seal OXPross cars, would confiscate it on account of be- ing in the same straits ment proved a great success, both as to the efficiency and economy of oil as foel, but at the very zenith of sue oab, engineer and fireman with burn. ing liquid, and demonstrated that a new elemont of peril was added to the life of an engineer, and, in a ly less degree to the whole train. i The Pennsylvania i Central rouds have been ting with oll fuel for and have found everything sat tory but the supply. | thint f ( i New York experiments past and Fine {lie use vania locomotiy much of the oil the price very economically If th Oil 3 1 is 18 an established fact 11i« TEN MINUTES OF TERROR. Miraculous Escape From 4,000 Stamneded Cattle. t wasn't y inches ope. We a face F two feel at it was ot rave them d passed over you.” I hadn't drawn three the when the front of the was at hand. Let me just tell vi that I was never so scared in a¥ ¢éritter ww Every } hools dig: Ciasning., and as each one caved the dirt in different hoofs scuff my back, and every instant ex. pected to be stepped on, It took the herd only about ten minutes tO pass, but the time seemed hours long to me. When the last one had come and gone I was regularly covered in and had to be dug, out. Two of the party were stepped on and badly hurt.” “And your horses and mules?” “Picked up on the horns of the cat tle and tossed about and stepped on till they were reduced to pulp. Just cleaned us out as slick as a whistle. If we'd been in our saddles nobody would have recognized us as having onee been human beings.’ seemed like the hand of Provi- dence, didn't it get “Ot That's what we look for and depend upon out in our country. Come out some time and soe how the old thing works when wa are poing to have an avalanche three miles long by a few thousand fect wide.’ jumped the dite on me. 1 I" ity SOoUurse, A ———— Transpfanting Sponges. “Raonges will probably be cheajer in the near future,” sald R. C | Kingsley. “Recently it has been grow and flourish when cut up into slips and transplanted. This brings up the old question as to whether sponges are vegetable or animal, and may result is overturning the oid- time verdict that they are a lower order of animal life and not vegea ble. However this may be, ihe sponge beds can be ioereased ii. pls, plantiag sad
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