THE AFTERGLOIV,
bas hed its cn
reac
Rich tints to. darkness slowly
turn
Now night
sunset
descends o'er all, while flitting
past
The dainty
burn
Shrill pi
The swallow
slow,
fire-fly's
' : 1
e the cricket
SWeeps
The in the woodland
hid
gleams the west in crimson—
afterglow
There comes the
Love's weary day is done, and fades in
pain;
Tho’ love has fled, "tis better to forget
Letters and broken pledges yet remain,
Sorrow, remorse and every late regret.
* - -
Darkness is o'er my life; yet when
As twilight gatl and the shadows
= u
N
at eve,
hers
ghts of her, my love of yore, I
quick again,
beats strangely
It is Love's afterxl
—Lindsley
"ny.
Fiavel Mines
MN THE FAGE OF DEATH
BY T. 8. F. ORDWAY,
“The horse is mine, and you nor
any other man shan't ride him with.
out I say so!”
‘And I say the horse is
I'll ride him without
leave, or anybody else's
The two men faced
lowering brows
when a small,
limped forward
“Come,
! It1 hear ano
1838!
srtrabny 1 15
mustang I'll shoo
mine,
asking
1
st
with.
ulle
friend } i n at
was the « ership of a grand
stallion t
leading his wild he
between the M
rado Cl
been en 3
the tough hide of the
gnawed by a coyote, so
when the wild horse plun
fore he could thunder away
ch held him,
horse!" said Finch
pped him," said Coll
have got away without me,
lasso broke,”’ cried Finch:
» the quarrel began. At first
they spoke laughingly, then
till things were said on
that neither man thought he cot
ever for Meantime the
which bad been broken to
one day's rough riding, was used
none of the prospecting party.
As the disputants strode away Clay
muttered to himself:
Queer what fools men will make
of themselves! The idea of
two men quarreling about a
when the chances are a thousand to
one that their scalps will both be
fluttering at the end of Apache lances
within 24 hours!”
The sun was about an hour high,
aad He iassoeq
ins.
both
give, black
those
h ITAS
quivered in the heat. North, south,
east, west, wherever Clay looked, he
saw the cordon of Apaches. Bome
sat their ponies llke bronze statues,
some were stretched on the ground
canon for water, but all waited
mnllies, heat, thirst and exhaustion,
phould deliver the prospectors ‘nto
$heir hands.
These were a party of twelve strong
men who had started from Taos three
weeks earlier under the guidance of
John Burt, who same in from no one
knew where,
he had rediscovered
the famous, long lost Canon de Oro
of the “Valley of Death'’ in Arizona.
He brought with him a nugget of
gold as large as a baby's hand to
baar out his story: he told how
had barely eluded the Apaches, after
they had killed all his friends; he
swore that the Canon de Oro literally
with and the upshot
was this prospecting expedition under
the leadership of Clay.
Two days before this Juh's band
of Apaches, out on tho warpath, had
a'tacked Clay's party with an over
whelming force. Burt and three
others had fallen at the first fire, and
fighting desperately, had at
last succeeded in taking refuge on a
mg by
some ten feet
1
ia
shone gold ;
ne rest,
fifty feet wide,
from the plain.
Irregular lines of stone walls, jut-
from the ground, and hollow
where the roofs of the lower
hambers had fallen in, showed it to
@ the ruin of one of the ‘pueblos,’
common all through that
It furnished a position im-
to the of the un-
riplined Indians, who had at last
settled down to starve the defenders
out. The whites had food enough
for several days, but no water. This
Indians could procure from a
branch of the Colorado
quita, which ran about l
away, but the beseiged had no such
recourse.
One of their number, Aleck Pike,
wounded in the first day's fight, was
already delirious from his wounds and
from thirst, and the were suffer-
ng greatly; two
and loss of rest, joined
1
rising
ing
1L8,
once 8oO
dashes
five
rest
inv’
aay s
to the
& us |
What do you
presently.
how to get
if iat Ty .
if it sour oniy
y liere try?’
and Fine
}
both springing to
ins i
1 the same breath
sim f
ried Collins.
cap,”
weight,
lay, gravely. ‘‘let’
I'he moon will be down by 9
¢ stallion ought
fort by sun-up.
kK, und that bla
a man to
wait
+ CE RE
Li arty
tie
a minute when he
ind the troops ought
y get here by the middle of to-mor-
i ¢ ean hold out
Tor
I think it
Kirby'll not
hears what
+
sup
V Digut, anyiow; w
»
better try it
asked Finch
lie spoke first.”
“Just my luck!’ growled Finch,
angrily, as he turned away,
Coliing smiled triumphantly.
IT
guess vou do
t one of us
“Collins. I reckon:
aspect of the two men, that the
«atisfaction, instead of merely the
desperate chance of saving the lives
In one of the hollows of the mound,
screened from the sight of the Indi-
ans, Collins began, an hour before
the moon went down, his preparations
for his ride. As each ounce of weight
would tell in the struggle for life
which lay before him, everything aot
absolutely essential was discarded.
A lariat, looped around the horse's
lower jaw, and a saddle blanket
strapped tightly on the back, fosned
the steed’s outfit. Pantalocns, light
moccasing, and a handkerchief around
the head to keep his long hair from
blowing into his eyes, made up the
rider's toilat.
“If I get tothe fort I can get a
jacket and hat from the soldiers; if
I can't get there, there'll be less for
old Juh to tote,’ wera Collins’ re-
flections
Into his pocket he slipped a Der-
ringer, saying, ‘lI don’t take any
chances on being taken alive.”
Strips of blankets were tied deftly
the horse's feet, that no
chinks of hoof on stone might warn
the keen eyed besiegers of his pass.
age; and when the moon was fairly
set, Collins led his stallion down the
slope of the mound, vaulted upon his
back, and saying quietly to Clay,
“If the troops ain't here by an hour
after moonset, to-morrow night
may know I am gone under.’ %
slowly away in the darkness
Those left behind waited, listening
with anxious hearts, to hear tho
tumult which should announce that
their messenger’'s flight had been
discovered.
Five minutes passed—ten minutes
—twenty minutes; Clay had just
drawn a long sigh of relief, and was
turning away with the remark, ''l
reckon he’s safe by this time,” when
a flash caught his out on the
plain. Another and another suc-
ceeded ; and the report of rifles came
to their ears.
They've seen him!
him!’ exe
lid the
and strain their eyes {
dications to the
coLrier
Would
Had he
lead, or a |
the rey
TOU
)
toils
eve
They're after
laimed Finch; but vainly
beleaguered watchers
wr ft
fa
{
as
dry
1d what a shout
fironts it
It sounded
“Draw saber!
‘Trot!
Then came flash on fl
blending with
the rumble of
Soon a dark for
detuched itself f
surrounding obscurity and dashed
to the foot of the mound. An
anxious voice called out “Hello!
All safe?”
‘harge!
ssh. and loud
wild, herce
char
Craliop!
Of ing
in ) i
tom the
iD
‘All safe, thank God !’’ said Clay,
reverently.
“Show a light, then!”’
Ina moment a fire
brush shot up and the |
on the bronzed faces and the panting
horses of Kirby's troop of dragoons
But in the middle of the group, on a
black charger, reeled a swaying fig.
ure, supported by a trooper on each
side. On his bare breast was a crim:
| son streak.
Rushing down the slope of the
mound, Finch reached his side.
“Tom, are you hurt?”’
“Killed, I reckon, pard!’’ he said,
| faintly, “the redskins have got me
this time. Ense me down.”’
They lifted him down tenderly
from the horse and laxd him ona
blanket on the ground.
“Sam,’’ he whispered.
“Yes, old pard; what is it?”
Finch’'s arm went tenderly under the
dying man’s head.
Sam -= the mustang’s — yours.
Don’ t—=hold it—agin me-that I said
«i'd ride him, How dark it is. Say
ify OO ="
The handeclasp loosened, the head
fell back, and the quarrel between
Sam Finch and Tom Collins, as to
who owned the mustang wre over
forever,
of dry sage-
ght glistened
A VEGETABLE PYTHON.
The Wild Fig Vine Binds Big Trees
With Bands as of Iron.
Woe betide the forest giant when
he falls into the clutches of the clusia
or fig. Jts seeds being provided with
fn pulp, which is very pleasant to the
taste of a great number of birds, are
carried from tree to tree and depos-
ited on the Here it ger-
minates, the leafy stem rising upward
and the roots flowing
down the trunk until
80il, At first these aerial roots
soft and with apparen
no more power for evil
streams of pitch
semble in their
tion downward.
branch !
is met with, when th IN
branches,
delinagte fw
lelicat ly
1 50 many
Liey re-
BiLUWIY owing mo-
Here and
r if ction
either
livides to ri
especiall
changes its ¢
and left
Meanwhile
peen aeve
ght
ches have
io ped Waici i sil them-
selves through the ¢ py above and
get ht, where their growth
i$ enormously AS tl
into the ligh
Livin
takes place ther s have generally
reached to
draw to
the
sustenanc
strengthen th
comes
I'l
porti
means of
duction «
snd Iron
ther, says Industries
and somewhat
8
a8 an assistant
afforded by 1 i
out by the Societe
holm, for
ranges of gas bu
In addition to its
tion to the ordinary fishtail burner,
the system is specially
the ignition of the Auer
cent light
Hermes, of Stock-
ously lighting
simuitane
ners by
ite working appears to involve a great
number of separate batteries when-
ever any considerable distance is to
be covered, it does not seem prob-
able that the system will attain any
considerable practical value
Elephants Block a Train.
A railway train on the Darjeoling
line in India was recently stopped
by an unusual obstacle—a herd of
wild elephants. The beasts would
not stir from the rails, disdaining to
be frightened by the whistle, and the
driver was obliged to pack the train
out of their way. When at last they
left the passage free, and the traip
ran swiftly past, one of the biggest
elephants tore after it, trying to
charge the carriages.
Walking Backward.
Walking backward is the latest
pedestrian feat for a wager. A young
Belgian recently walked from Ant-
werp, Belgium, to Brussels in two
days, going backward the whole
time. Practice made him progress
ns rapidly as by the ordinary mode
of walking, but he was obliged to
woanr special shoes, with a kind of
heel underneath the tos.
Two Farmers anda Wildcat.
“Nate” Bowen and W. O. Curtis
farmers, living .just over the State
line Pennsylvania, eight miles
from Deposit, N. Y__ had an exciting
adventure with a w Bowen is
u good shot and in the winter does a
good deal of hunting. Two wildcat
were seen by one day re
and he su
mule
in
ideas.
aeai
dogs run
New Way to Make Glass Pipe
arge glass tab
because
y 9% 51
101
)
{ the moi
f the tube to be made. The pi
ig placed at the bottom of the mo
molten glass is pours
ston is forced upward by
essure. Pipes are
proce sections
are for sewers
12h
the p
i
3 In
used
by
long and
water pij
i
“The Man That Eats Dog.”
unusual case came before the
Pittsburg the other
Sherman Zimmerly was
rosted on the charge of stealing
killing and eati
the property =f
Zimmerly readily admitted that he
and his wife had killed and eaten
eighteen dogs in the last few months
and said that bull pup cutlets
An t
arts of
waen
a neighbor
B11
pun
“41
superior to pork He denied, how.
fuestion and offered to prove it by
showing the dog meat which he had
salted down at home. Zimmerly is
known to the whole neighborhood as
‘the man that eats dog.”’
———— s——
** Hoar Frost Glass."’
¥
frost glass, ‘‘verre givre,”’ from the
pattern upon it, which resembles the
the inside of windows in cold weather,
The process of making the glass is
simple,
Ohio's Daniel Bogne.
What Daniel Boone was to Ken-
tacky lsaac Williams was to Ohio—
a pioneer, a great Indian fighter, a
yrerunner of civilization, His fame
18 not 80 widespread as Boone's, but
where he is known, his
memory is very respectfully regard.
His wife, Rebecca, was a gr
pioneer too, and lies buried alongsid
in Unio
et
§ ie rill ¥ 1 r
a knoll overlooking
near Will
t
the Clio Hive
lamstown, ha
timent about where her grave
be that was akin to R.
‘ 4 1 '
s. She declined tl
a
Ble 1 4 sen-
ahold
snould
steven
the Williamstown
¢to be b iried
: ghe still lies
surrection.’
Mr. Creelman, war
nt, who has been exploring
in search of material for
ri novel which he
iting, went to see the
becea and Isaac the «
reports that the bone
pioneers are likely to
Marietta, and rebt
more Whipple and
ury
iamses will
ch, of course
Bame 8¢1
prefer to think
I the
James
8 Dis
centh cont
enti cen
Lr
etta the Will
nt wh
Will
th
Lae
v 01
take
nger trust
his female
4 i
Fal
sud the
y Creat
Beating the Slot Machine
A New York newsboy has succeed.
iin peany-in-the-siot
machine took a
Dutch Guiana cent {rom a customer.
He was disgusted; it was worth a
deal than a cent. As a
these Dutch cents run
$00 to our American sliver
He tried it in a peany-siot
gum machine. it worked
United States cent. He
and there was
Duteh cents
mistake he
e388
joliar.
chewing
a real
a large investment in
money changer did a rattling
business and made a profit. The
bovs could not afford to buy a dol
jarg’ worth at a time, s0 he sold the
ine
astounding number of Dutch
cents found in the boxes of the ma-
cliines most patronized by the news.
boys led to a discovery of the traffic
Bat thers is no help
If the machines are willing
the boys and lose
avery
for it
trade with
He cannot puaish the
Cloth of Dawn of Fowl.
A new kind of cloth is being made
in Lyons from the down of hens,
Juecks and geese, Seven hundred and