THE GLD HYMN,
thin a vacant room,
elled room, quaint-shaped, oak-
¥ oat
A low
LJ
With
Q'er w
I wate
And
rose
A tower
Whereon
ich the sunset’s glory streamed
ed the far-off flitting sails,
alf-way Rock” that looming
from the heaving sea
the scattered isles repose.
one near me gently played
hymn that stirred my heart;
of the Heavenly
And som
A dear ol
"Twas “( hildren
King,’
And what
start,
long
turn,
And I a li tle child again,
Held fast within his strong arms’ clasp,
While soft {he crooned the old refrain.
it woke made
ears seemed
The
Oh! just ofice more to be that child,
And know Pgain the blissful rest,
The old hyjmn brought me, rocked to
sleep 9
With pillowjed head upon his breast!
But only yet a little while,
Though eafth may call it years that
creep,
I know he ll come to me again,
And rock me to eternal sleep.
~~mren y w€vereux in Boston Transcript.
ON THE SILVER CLIFF TRAIL.
Hotel accommodations are very
mearge at Milton, and I was obliged to
share my room with a stranger. He
was a tall, strongly-built man, with a
weather-beaten face and grizzied hair
It needed but a glance to know that he
was one who could both give and take
hard «iocks. There was nothing re-
puisive about him, however. On the
contrary, he seemed to be honest, good
natured, and a thorough gentleman in
the best sense of the word. Entering
into conversation with him, I learned
that he from the West had
traveled extensively through pars
of the United
and
all
States, especially th
wilder parts. We became fast
friends, men sometimes upon
very short acquaintance,
We had both traveled
and were inclined to
long, 80 about 10 o'clock
our room and went to bed I
asleep almost soon as my
touched the pillow. How long I
I do not know, but I was awakened by
sounds of distress from my roome-
mate's bed. As [ awoke I heard him
cry as if in great fear: “Don’t kill me,
I am innocent. For God's sake let me
£0.” This was followad by a choking
sound that made my blood run
Jumping out of bed I turned on
Hght, and looked toward his side of the
room, fully expecting to see my friend
struggling with a burglar. To my sur-
prise there was no one in the room ex-
cept we two. Stepping hastily to the
side of the bed I found him clutching
his own throat and writhing in agony,
at the same time the 3
heard. His face bore a look
terror, suchhMas I hope never
again. Realizing that he was si
from some horrible nightmare,
to wake him up. By calling bh
peatediy and shaking him I finally
ceeded. He started up and gazed abont
him with a wild, frighten look, as
thcugh he did not know where he was
Gradually he came to his senses. but Le
was trembling like a leaf. He began
to put on his clothes, explaining that
he did not dare go to sleep again, hut
was going out for a walk
“If you don't mind, I'll go with von."
said I, “for, to tell the truth, I de
believe I could sieep either.”
“I'm sorry I've spoiled your night’
rest.” he replied, “but if
wiah to go out with me, I
glad to have you.”
We lighted our cigars and
out into the night After
some distance in silence
sald: “It is strange that
should come back to me now
n't troubled me for years
a time when it haunted
that I had be watched ennstantly
while I slept. As g00u as | showed any
signs of agitation, the watchers woul
awaken me. If they had not, mind
would undoubtedly have way
under the strain. There story
connected with that dream. you
care vo hear it?”
Of course | was very much intereatnd
and begged him to go on.
“The dream 1 had tonight,” he con-
tinued, “is merely the recollection of a
terrible experience | once had I was
very young at the time-—scarcely
eighteen. 1 was without any near
relative and dependent entirely upon
my own resources. You remember the
time when gold was discovered in Colo-
rado, how people flocked there from ail
parts of country to make their for-
tunes. Well, I caught the fever. ton,
and taking what little money I had
saved up, [ went to Denver. There |
remained some time mingling with
miners and learning from them all I
could about the gold mines. From sev.
was
800nN
a8 will
that day
up very
we retired
Lakd
not sit
in
fell
heal
slept
as
the
uttering
od
mL
you
shall be
really
strolled
walking
my friend
that dream
It has-
There was
me
so often
to
my
given
is a
Do
discovered In paying quantities at Sil.
ver Cliff, and I decided to go thers,
miner's outfit,
He was a very pleasant companion,
him my plans and all about myself.
When he learned that | bad just come
from the East and knew nothing about
~ goid mining, he advised me to return.
But I was young and hopeful, and,
moreover, yearning for adventures of
the sort depicted in the cheap novels I
‘Bad read, so his advice was thrown
away. Pinding that I was not to be
diisnaded from my plans, he good-na-
turedly gave me a great deal of vaiu-
able information and told me some
very Interesting stories of his own per-
sonal experience,
“The next morning found me on my
way to Pueblo, Arriving there, I went
The landlord was very obliging.
who was
the third
when he heard of any
going to the same place
one
On
man who intended to start for Silver
Cliff the next morning, and was will-
This man,
rather
a traveling companion.
“Before daylight the next morning
We had only one
horse each, and toese were obliged to
serve as saddle horses and pack horses
at the same time, This made our
progress rather slow, We had ridden
ten or twelve miles, when |
thought I heard hoofbeats behind us.
Turning in my saddle I saw a number
As they rode they shouted
that sounded like “halt!”
ask my companion
meant, when | saw him suddenly cut
the strap which secured his pack, ]3-
ting it fall to the ground. Then, put-
me far
something
I was about
what it all
“A moment later they
me, all except the last
reigned in thelr horses, one on each
side of me, After I had been relieved
of my weapons | was allowed
my hands fall to my side. Glancing at
my captors I found them rough
mined looking men, armed to the teeth
and evidently shoot at a
second’s notice. They little
attention to me but watch
with great interest my
companion
“All this time I h
idea what the
not ask the
me, 1 supposed
rob
galloped past
two, who
let
to
deter
ready to
paid
seemed
the
Yery
to
pursuit of
ad not the slightest
and 1 ds
were
trouble was, ared
guarding
to
not understand way
men who
that they intended
us, but could
they did not
th
1 RH
do so immediately
thoughts were
mind the band of pursuers
Warren At
34 ung his lasso
] let 11y at the
arounu the
with a
break
wo other men then
dismounted, bound the captive's arms
and dragged him to the nearest treo,
lacing a noose around his neck, they
threw the other end of the rope over a
limb, pulled the victim swung
clear of the ground and left him dang-
ling there. He must been killed
or at least stunned, by his fall from
the horse, for he hung perfectly mo-
There was a horrible fascina-
tion in the awful sight, and 1 could
not take my from the swaying
form until I was aroused by the voice
man on right “That's right,
sonny,” he sal ake a good look at it
the last hanging you'll sea"
I shuddered at these words
mustered up courage enough
companion had done
uch a terrible fate
passing
through my
was rapidly
the foremost
his
catching
and
overtaking
last BW
round
tive,
head and
him
shoul-
ders jerk
BYRTY
him
that seemed
bone in his body
until
have
tionless.
yes
>
of
my
a 4
i
It's ever
ominous
10 ask
Oh
the reply,
boat.’
don’t try to pis
‘vou are bo
lefore | could protest my innocence
men
i the leader, grim
to
he rest of the hor rode up
‘our turn
next §
ly. ‘If you've any praayers SAY, say
em damned quick!
“Speechless with fright, i
and led
As in a dream | felt
around my neck and
the end of the larta: thrown over
A dozen hands grasped it and
waited for a signal from their leader
t last | found my
God's sage, gentlemen,’ |
ne why I am to be murdered
have done nothing wrong.’
‘Don’t waate breath, you
blamed jeered one of the
erowd. ‘You'll need all you've got be-
fore we get through with you.”
“I'm no h I eried, ‘I swear
to God I bought that horse in Pueblo.’
He's a liar, yelled a desperate-look-
ruflian Ef he ain't a hossthisf
he doing in the company of
low-iived and
he pointed to where tae corpse of Bill
was
dragged from my horse to a
tree near by
the noose placed
SAW
limb
Then, a
I I swear
i
your
horsethief,’
racthief,’
ing
what's
that there?
skunk over
Warren swung to and fro like a ghostly
pendulum
“Cries of ‘String him up!’ String hia
up!’ resounded from all sides, but the
leader restrained his impatient follow.
ers. ‘Give him a chance to say what hi»
vants to,” said hn, ‘it's the last chance
he'll have, unless he proves his inno-
ence,’
“Encouraged by these words, 1 .ex-
plained as well as | could who [I was,
and where | was going, and how I had
and supposed him to be a gold hunter
like myself
“The leader seemed to be impressed
by my words and manner, but
death, One
big, burly fellow apparently voiced tha
sentiments of the crowd, saying, ‘Hang
He's only a kid and
go he'll be worse than his pal some
“I felt the rope tighten around my
neck. My last hour was surely at hand.
! cast one despairing look about me.
Some distance away a horseman was
His face looked familar,
‘Hold on!” I gasped. ‘I think I know
that man.’ Before [| could say more
the noose tightened and I was lifted
from the ground. Again the leader in.
terfered, and 1! wars lowered to the
earth, much against the will of the ma.
jority of the mob.
“When I had recovered sufficiently to
look around the man on horseback was
close at hand, and | recognized the old
man [ had met at the hotel in Denver,
My captors evidently knew kim, ‘Hey,
Joel’ they called. "This young feller
[says ho knows you. Does he
your Sunday school class?’
“A roar of laughter
{ sally,
“The old man rode up and lookad me
‘Seems to me
I've seen him afore,” he said at last,
‘but I don't recollect when ner where,’
{ “'Don’'t you remember? I groaned,
I'l met you in Denver, at the hotel, last
Wednesday evoning, and had a long
[talk with you. You advised me to go
back East, and I didn't have sense
enough to take your advice.’
“That's right,’ assented the
man; ‘I did meet this young feller,
he says. | guess he's all right boys.’
“But the boys were not to be appeas-
ed so easily. ‘That don't prove nuth-
in', objected the man who had volcad
the general sentiment before. ‘You only
met him that once. He might be a hoss
thief fer all o' that’
“Once more the bloodthirsty crew do.
manded my life, but the old man in-
terceded for me and insisted that 1 be
taken to Pueblo and given a chance to
prove my innocence His words
seemed to carry a deal of weight, for,
though there was no end of grumbling,
I was immediately unbound, and placed
upon my horse. The ride back to town
was without incident, except that
eral of the crowd expressed a desire to
shoot me, in order to save county
the expense of a trial. They went
further than to threaten, however, and
I reached Pueblo with a whole skin.
| When arrived at the hotel the pro
prietor was called out and commanded
to tell he out me
ma know nuthin’
he my heart
me, spirit
tinued,
a few days. Sald he
Cliff. 1 helped
that hoss he's rid
* Who was
here? was
Nobody
feller that
Clift
belong ts
old
ez
He
the
no
we
what knew at
him,’
ithin
about
ink w
he
don’t
began, and
but my rose when
“eeptin’ that he pL
wiix goin’
him when
next
But he
sald he wuz
too. Where's
Oh! he's
yonder. E
with
the question
went away
of
tervention t
of Ole Joe Mack
might be keeping
he 1 £4
reckon
young
company
it is, ses bes
and 1 we'd better
He ought to more keerful in th
of his pals thought. That «
wust
with him wuz the
no more after
afterward that I fell
4 dead faint and
where |
over a
horse in
into the hotel
fever for
lirfous the whole time
tie my hands to kee me
ing all the skin from my
ing at an imaginary rope.”
Was
lay
month I was de
they
from
1
ana
teqr-
The Oddest Hobby in the World
hobby
Woo
who devotes
Probably the strangest
world is that of Henry
Mayfield, Ky
time to developi
ail
ey and
al coemetet
aque as it
modest
wt a plain monu
and
nily resting plac
with this, however, he as
on
imse!
bearin
of
white marble shaft £
a relief presentment bh
horseback
Having thus
Uncle Henry,’
had a life-sized statue of him
He then
mother
struck the personal
note as he is familiar
iy called
elf erected at a cost of 82K
statues of his and
brother, to be followed shortly
by similar statues in Indiana limestone
of a favorite niece and of a young girl
who had brought him flowers during
an iliness
introduced
eldest
angmented by a4 life-size statue
of “Uncle Henry" on his favorite horse
Then followed presentments in
of his favorite desrhound, “Tow Head,”
chasing a deer; another of a fox pur-
sued by his foxhound, “Bob,” and a
marble sarcophagus with a carved rep.
resentation of hia favorite gun
The latest additions have been stat-
ues of three of his brothers in the stiff.
and the most of
Uncle Henry,” although 75
ig still hale and more en-
than ever, it certain that
this strange menagerie will oeeive
many more additions before he sleepa
in the oddest environment with which
eccentricity ever surrounded a dead
man. -Tid-Bita
was
slone
est of poses prosaic
Ag
old,
dress
years
thusiastic in
Family Camps in a Railway Station.
Officer Haggerty of the Pennsylvania
Railroad made a curious arrest of a
whole family at Earnest Station, Penn,
recently for vagrancy. The family
{ congists of John Zhend, his wife and
{ four children. For several weeks they
| have been making their home in the
| solitary waiting room of that station
and foucht desperately to retain their
abiding place. To Magistrate Len-
| hardt, the oldest boy stated that the
| family had been tramping for eight
| years. They came from Switzerland.
| The father refused to be sent to the
| almsghouse or to accept work unless
| provided with a furnished house,
| Magistrate Lenhardt dismissed them
{ on condition that they leave the coun-
ty ~~Philadeiphia Press.
A New Postal Card Idea.
The postal card has been put to a
new use in Italy. Any one who wishes
to remit a small amount of money may
attach to the card postage stamps to
the desired amount. These are cancel-
ed, and the amount is paid to the re.
ceiver of the card.
The property owned by the fraterni.
ties at Cornell is valued at $475,000;
at Williams, $350,000; Yale, $300,000;
Amherst, $200,000; Wesleyan, $125,000;
Harvard, $125,000. »
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
has 80 large
They will es-
It is well that Spain
proportion of illiterates.
cape reading her history.
year's crop of wheat, corn and oats In
this country sold for $1,077,000,000,
The army sutler has ceased to be an
American institution, greatly to the
advantage of
vice,
Migs Helen Gould's £100,000 display
of patriotism better than a dozen
fancy dress balls or vegetable parties,
thinks the Washington Star.
Through the progress of the me-
tropolitan improvements in Paris many
ancient landmarks are about to disap-
pear make room for long lines of
straight streets and high houses,
menace of
the
is
Lo
the war to
yallow fever
back by our
a good start
fever, and not
fear,
The greatest
the United
which may brought
armies, and thus given
for the summer. The
Spain, is what we have
With
States is
be
to
beef at $1.40
vana and moose steak
in Dawson City, the
those two places ought
low-fealing each
pound in Ha-
at £2 a portion
inhabitants of
have a fel-
when it
in
to
for other
comes Lo eating
England holds over territory
fifty-three times
of France, fifty-two t
Sway
as great as the
Imes Ag large az
f times
f
and-ahal as tha
United States
as the
and three times as large
whole of Europe
come
A change ig
of
the Bpirit Nihilists
They now
not
f them re
{
yononyimot
ZATS
ence
Atl this tim
ain in the east
and to some extent
Cape WI
now that
i fa
Khartum,
extension {rom
BOL
Brook have de
iyn women
tax
jared war
the AERERAOTA One declares a
coat of house caused
yf £400
paint on a
assessment
roofs ounted
ar
Those
asserts pointed are
y * . i¥1 .
Alona Ories on hoses
who have been rying to
nto the tgx system will welcome
r
air champions
his redid
CO
in a thousand ways
Obilo
led
h
of Claveland
old and disab
law,
The
pensions
city
its
tarme of
Hig O
has enacted a new by the
which second wives or the children of
such will enjoy the benefits thereof on
the pensioner’'s death Fire and
Water says that a mischev
has long obtained in that
girls marrying widowed pensioned fire
men for the sole of receiving
the pension after the firemen’s death
ious practice
ity, young
purpose
A
The New Orleans Picayune says: A
correspondent writes inquire: “ls
it proper to say ‘the United States ia,
As a Nation
Writers who get
to
she is, and they are
no satisfaction from grammars can best
guit themselves, The main point is to
be understood now, North
that we have a union
and a Nation, with a big
of all creation
and Soull
N. not afraid
The terrible Merrick Road disaster,
on Long Island, on Dwecaration Day,
1807. has at last been passad upon by
the New
York Suprame which unani
mously holds that the railroad
pany was at fault in not proverly
guarding the crossing. This should be
railroads in general
their grade cros-
Division of the
Court,
Appellate
an incentive to
to watch and protect
sings more carefully than is their cus-
tom
eountry on the globe
000,000, or $65,000,000, 000,
£47 500 (00 100,
was estimated at £8.500,000000, or
$42000,000,000; Germany £6.500,000.-
000, or $32,600,000,000; Russia, £5,000.
000,000; Austria £4.000.000.000; Italy,
£3.000,000000, and Spain, 2,000,000.
000, or $10,000,000 00K},
on the telegraph. For a week we had
no news from Manilla, the one point
in the world watfed to hear from, jus:
because the cable was cut. The Phil-
ippine Islands and Admiral Dewey's
fleet seemed to have been utterly lost,
We had gone back to the dark days be-
fore Moree. Now London receives the
daily telegrams from the center of
Nyassaland, where Dr. Livingstone was
Jost among savaages.
The Soudanese general, Mahmoud, is
giving lots of fun to his British captors
He comes from the interior of Soudan,
and in the campaign saw a steamboat
for the first time. He expressed no
astonishment at any feature of the
structure excepting that it smoked all
the time without getting sick and work.
ed all the time without getting tired.
He resembles the Chinaman who saw
near Shangal his first locomotive,
that he could say about it the next day
maelves on board the Britigh steam-
Osborne when
London,
she waa two days
When Captain Ret-
reason there.
their
pay
is an Englishman
phorically patted
gow they were
hadn't
Captain
for and
to fight
a cent
country
to their way
but he meta-
on the back,
for, and just
them
well cared
dinner, at which
to the United States
phia gave them a
toasts were drunk
and England
than
As great of all Russia'e
British territory embrac-
100M) 0M)
of the
S50 000 O00)
more
as that
Its population is
times
POESESSIONS,
than
one-fifth
8 more square miles
occupies whole globe
contains
of the world's
BOUIS,
fifth
land's
populaation
po scattered
four continents, embrace 10,000 islands
=O rivers and 0500
With all this territory
ous population, with ber vast
anc unlimited credit, with her histo
pluck and incomparably greatest
navy in the world, it is strange
that the other
England
The begun
experiment in the education f the
fGESIONS are over
promontories
and this
enor-
weaitn
the
not
nations are polite Lo
rir an
Prince an
Lroop command
}
Beven
ie Indians
7.400 troops engaged
fighting t
of whom
and 813
years’ again
POO Indians
1,337 wom
en
War was carried
on in
lar to the Spa
that between
the Cubans The
consent to a stand-up fight unles
had a great advantage, but
bush and attacked the soldiers
dark whenever they
EIDE
lived country, the native '
roots and game, the
soldiers were required to carry supplies
tw Ba 4
indians
old
iQ
out expo their own lives
on the
vegetables while
with them and were thus handicapped
and retarded in their movements [It
took seven years to subdue the savages
and there was no peace unti. they were
practically exterminated. At the end of
the fighting men were re-
:
three hundred, and they
in the averglades
Seven years
duced to about
were hidden
hese seven years out of the
employed 1,53 died
twenty-three sailors and forty-two
marines being officers
and regular army. Ot
this number only fifty-eight were Xill-
nn =14 wounds, and
1.250 of mularial
of
are now on the pension roles 6.601 per-
sons, of whom 2.373 are survivors and
1.288 widows They receive an aver-
age of S800. 000 a year in pensions, and
since ISG have been paid £3.243.708
During t
1.400 troops
the remainder
soldiergs-of the
od hattle died of
diseases
result the Indian war there
government for pensions growing out
of the Florida war will exceed £53,000,
000). Chicago Record
British Army Doctors.
The new rules as to hospital stop-
pages will throw upon the army medi-
cal officers a responsibility which, ac-
cording to the manner in which it is
excerciged, will conduce much to their
popularity or otherwise in the barrack
room. The old rule has been that any
man in hospital not suffering from in-
juries received on duty has bees that
any man in hospital not suffering from
injuries received on duty has been put
on hospital stoppages of 7d a day. In
future, however, half of this sum will
be remitted on the certificate of the
doctor that tae man’s sickness has been
contracted as the direct circumstances
as to be beyond his own control. Here,
indeed, is a problem in eitiology. When
a man is laid up with a cold, a pleuriay,
or an attack of rheumatism, after a
hard field day or sentry duty in bad
weather, is the doctor to allow his
medical imagination to wander back
to possible causes and give Tommy At.
kine the benefit of the doubt, or is he
THE DIVINING ROD.
Sometimes It Proves Successful in Water
Searches and Sometimes Not.
The pros and cons of the theory of
thie divining rod are again being dis-
cussod in the English newspapers. The
superintendent of a fire brigade testi.
fles case within his experience
in water finder was commis.
an estate of the
of which he was previously
He got to work, soon found
and, fixing upon
conveniently
probable depth
be discovered in
At TU
in, and at 77 feet
stopped, as the
Some of the
to a
which a
sioned to operate on
existence
Ignorant
the presence of water
the and
placed spring, gave
at which would
sufficient
4.
nearest mos!
Lh
walter
quantities an 75 feet,
1€ waler came
operations had
flow became too heavy.
tools had to be left in the well, as there
was not time to remove them all. The
well supplied cattle, horses and
pigs of the farm on which it was bored
through the dry summer of 1506, never
failing in its [welve montns
second sunk, barely
The
stream
wera
are
run-
The
the
{eet
to be
the
flow
well
from
asked
after a was
tue first,
if
as
“No,
SLreamns
t
a stones throw
water
would affect
near He
distin
finder one
they
was
the other,
rep fed they
80
y different
different
well
two
Ding
1
Becona
fons.”
cess!
dire
ul as
Was a Bf
correspondent regards the
of a
over
pow ar waiter as the result
force
which
otherwise
no
to
magnet or
finder
unable
control and
explain
f finding
while
1at the operation
marked
the
ious boon. He tras
going down
be ox-
{vy
ter
1
.1 '
OU nol
occurred
. A
ily the di-
abruptly. People
responsible for
money ai
A Comprehensive Epitaph.
long ago,”
the
Cemetery
it a visit This has,
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of righteousness
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nen Removed to this town
Was officer in the
war. A founder of the
Government of
of Censors in
a field
onary
Constitution and
rmont A Councilior
A D 1753 A member of the Council
and ‘Li Governor of the State
in A A firm professor in
Christianity in the Baptist Church for
fifty vears left this world and 146
persons of lineal posterity March 20,
18554. aged 10 months, and
twelve days, with a strong mind and
full faith of a more glorious state here-
after. Stature about 6 feet, weight 200.
Death had no terror.’
“If there are any of those 146 persons
of lineal posterity left, I think it would
be samething to their credit if they
would drop along up that some
day and fix up that old patriot’s and
statesman’s grave a little”
eutenant
D. 1779
8 years,
way
The Man Who Has Found a Second Moon.
Dr. Waltemath, who asserts that he
has discovered a moon, was
born in the city of Bremen, and since
the days of his early youth was occu-
pied with astronomical matters. He
studiad at Gottingen, and was lecturer
at the technical schools, and for many
years a lecturer for the propagation of
sjence and useful knowledge through-
out Germany. Since 1883 he has been
studying the disturbances in the
moon's motion. lLeverrier, the great
French astronomer, was convinced that
there must be innumerable small
bodies not very far from the sarth
Either these must be meteorites or
moons, or both of them. He is sure
that there are still several moons
Proctor, in his book, “Other Worlds
Than Ours,” was of the opinion that
the earth possessed 4 certain number
of dark moons, which only shine when
some parts of their surface with great
reflecting power are {liuminated by the
sun's rays.
In recent years several moons attend.
ing other planets than our own have
been discovered. Professor Barnard,
with the Lick telescope, discovered the
fifth satellite of Jupiter in 1802. Pro-
fessor Asaph Hall in 1877, with the
twenty-six inch reflector of the Wash-
ington observatory, discovered the two
moons which light up the planet Mars
in ali the solar system the earth is the
only planet which is attcuded by one
moon: Uranus has four satellites,
while Venus and Mercury have aone at
all —8t. James Gaszetie
the Spaniards than any other Burcpean
ace.
second