The Stopping of the Clock.
Surprising falls tho Instantaneous calm,
The sudden silonco In my chaiulK-r small;
I, starting, lift my hoad in half alarm
Tho clock has stopped that's all.
Tho clock has stopped I Yet why have I so
found
An instant feeling almost like dismay?
Why note its silence sooner than its sound ?
For it has ticked all day.
Bo may a life beside my own go on.
And such companionship unlu oiling keep;
Companionship scarce recognized till gone,
And lost in sudden sleep.
And so the blessings heaven daily grants
Are in their very eomtuonoss forgot;
We little hoed what answrrrtli onr wants
Until it unswers not.
A strangeness falleth on familiar ways.
As if some pulse were gone beyond rival 1
Something unthought of, linked with all onr
days;
Homo cloek has stopped—that's all.
(HeoTfje If. Ommur, in Yonth'* Com/sinioii.
THE STORY OF A SCREEN.
Tbc icvel beams of tho mellow May
sunset were revealing every Haw and
crack in tho cheap papering which cov
ered the walls of the little garret-room
where Mabel More sat busily at her
sewing mochine, and a single pot of
blue, velvet pansies in the high, nar
row window ioado a spot of color for
poor Mrs. Mere's weary eyes to rest
upon, as she toiled at the floss-silk em
broidery which was her whole occupa
tion. The room was small and scantily
furnished, but there was within its walls
one relic of evanished days a black
satin screen, mounted on a standard of
gilded bamboo, and painted in deep
rich oil-colors, with a scarlet flamingo
floating upward against a background
of reeds and grasses, while in the dis
tance flamed a stormy snnset sky.
" Mamma did it herself, when she
was a girl at boarding-school," said
Mabel More, to those who sometimes
asked the history of this one remaining
token of luxury. "We have kept it
throngh everything. I would not part
with it for its weight in gold."
And then she would laughingly tell
the tale of how half a dozen collectors
of antiquities and esthetic furniture
hail, at different times, endeavored to
purchase the old satin screen.
" One man wanted to buy it with a
pair of tongs and a brass coal-scuttle,"
said she; " another one offered a broken
set of Thackeray's novels and a fender;
and a third bargained with a tote a-tete
set of china, and a broken-nosed alabas
ter statue of Psycho."
For Malicl was a bright-eved, sweet-
faced girl, who had a very keen sense of
the ridiculous, and live I through the
• hard realities of her life with the quiet
fortitude of an inl>orn heroine.
But after all the socond-hand dealers
were nothing in resolution and j>cr*ist
ence as compared with Miss Ann Azalea
Harper, the daughter of the landlord
from whose leaky and badly drained
premises they had removed a few weeks
previously. Miss Ann Azalea had a
very fair idea of bric-a-brac treasured
and she had cast her fine eyes upon
this very screen.
" It's worth a deal of money," said
Ann Azalea to herself. " And it was ■
only this morning that Aunt Hepsy wa
wishing for just such an old-fashioned
■creen."
Now Aunt Hepsy was a rich old maid
shrewd, crusty, elderly, and full of dis
trust of all the smooth-tongued rela
tives whose professions of love and re
spect were so extreme.
" A screen ?" said Aunt Hejsy. " Yes,
I want a screen."
" I'll paint yon one, dear aunt," said
Ann Azalea.
" Much of a screen you could paint !" '
■aid the old lady, disdainfully.
" I improved a good deal at l>oard
ing-school," said Ann A/alea, meekly.
" An<l I'll stretch it upon an antique 1
bamboo rack; and really I think it will
please yon."
"I don't!" said Aunt Hepsy.
"May I try, dear aunt?"
"Yes," said the old lady, grudgingly;
" you may try I"
And Ann Azalea, who hail already in
her mind appropriated poor Mrs. More's
antique screen, set diligently about the
work of getting possession of the same.
" You owe my pa ten dollars of rent,'
■aid Ann Azalea, spitefully, as she sat
panting for breath in the littlo garret
room, after having toiled up the three
long and narrow flights of stairs. "You
can't deny it."
"It is quite true," acknowledged
meek Mrs. More, who, in her daugh
ter's absence, was almoin tely defense
less ; " but—"
"Yon ought to t be ashamed to owe ao
much money as that," said Ann Azalea.
"We have leen very unfortunate of
late," said Mrs. More. "But we fully
intend to re jay all our indebtedness as
■oon as my daughter—"
" Oh, that's all nonaenee 1" brusquely
interrupted Ann Azalea. "Pa onght
to have put an execution-—that's what
be onght to have done I"
Poor Mrs. More shuddered.
'* And it ain't too late now," added
j
iki- . ~ *>jt i
the young lady, ignoring tlio cotlo nnil
ill I its provisions.
" Oli, Miss Harper!"
" Jlut wo don't want tol>o fliorliitant,
graciously wont on Ann Aznleu. " 80,
sooner than ho at tho expenso of a law
suit, I'll take some trillo or other in
py. That screen, forinstanee," w ith her
greedy eyes flxod on the pictured flight
of tho sourlot'flumingo. " Ton dollars
is a deal of money, nnd tho Hereon is an
old-stylo thing, !>ut I wouldn't mind
calling things even, just to ease your
conscience, if-*-"
" I couldn't—oh, I couldn't!" cried
poor Mrs. More, tho tears coming into
her eyes. "It was work I did as a girl.
My own poor mother sketched in the
green rushes and grass with hor own
pencil, and—and if any cno is to have
it, it is already promised to an old fam
ily friond, wiio is to pay twenty-five
dollars for it."
"Very well," said Miss Harper, rising,
with an ominous toss of her head.
"Then, if you really mean lo swindle
us—"
'• Miss Harper!"
"If you really mean to swindle us,"
severely repeated Ann Azalea, " I may
as well stop at tho constable's on my
way back and put on the distraint at
once."
Mrs. More clasped her thirf hands in
a sort of nervous horror
If i>oor Mablo, who hail gone out so
buoyantly to carry homo her little parcel
of finished work, should return anil find
the minions of tho law in possession !
•' I am a selfish creature," she told
herself, "to prefer my own inclination
to dear May's happiness!"
And so she told Ann Azalea, with a
burst of tears, that the screen should
bo hers.
"I will send it to you—in tho even,
ing," said she. piteously.
"It you'll just wrap a bit of brown
paper around it, I'll take it now," sug
gested Mjss Harper, who believed firmly
in tho ancient ailago of the "the bird
in tho hand being worth two in tho
bnsh."
And HO the scarlet flamingo was car
ried away in the triumphant arms of
Miss Ann Azalea Harper.
"After all," soliloquized she, "I got
it for abeolut elv nothing. For pa said
the old mahogany bookcase ho took off
them was worth a third more than all
the rent they owed; any one but a
fool like that whimpering little MrK_
More would have known it perfectly
well. And I'm are it'll suit Aunt
Hepsy to a T I"
While poor Mrs. More, sobbing bit
terly before the empty place where her
beloved screen had stood, felt a* if nil
the sweet associations of her early youth
had boon wrenched away.
" Mother—dear mother ! why arc you
crying ?" questioned Mabel, hurrying
into the room. "Is yonr neuralgic
hisnlache worse? Oh, mother! where
is the old screen ? I have brought Miss
Milman to see you about it. She says
she will give you thirty dollars for it,
if-"
" I have sold it," said Mrs. More ;
" for ten dollars. To our landlord's
daughter. Or rather I have let her take
it away in jwymrnt for the balance of
the rent we owed them."
"She has docoived yon, mother!"
cried Mabel, coloring up with honest
indignation. "Wo owed her notja single
cent! Oh, dear, mother, if I had only
lieon at home I"
Miss Milrnan, a stout, short, grizzle
headed lady, *tood still in the center of
the room, looking sharply almtit her.
"Don't fret, Alice More," said she.
"Tears never yet did any good. You
may dejend upon it, this woman's de
ceit will yet recoil npon her own head.
What is yonr landlord's name?"
" Harper, - ' said Mrs. More. " Kl*?n
ezer Harper.'
"Oh!" said Miss Milman.
And then she went away.
" I think she grows more eccentric |
every day," said Mabel, looking after
the retreating figure of the stout lady.
" Bich people have a right to be ec
centric if they please," sighed Mrs. t
More, still looking at the omjity place
whore the screen had once stood.
•'••• ••• •
"Dear, Aunt Hepsy," said Ann Aza
lea, radiantly, " I've come to wish you
many happy returns of your birthday.
And here's a little present—the satin
screen I promised you."
"Eh f said Aunt Hepsy.
"My own worn," said Ann Azalea.
" And I do so hope you'll like it."
" Humph I" commented the old lady.
" I've worked day and night to get it
finished," said Ann Azalea, fervently.
" Ann Azalea," aaid the old lady, sud
denly becoming inspired with some de
gree of animation, "where do you ex
pect to go when yon die ?"
"Dear aunt," aaid Ann Azalea, "I
don't in the least understand you I"
" Because you are telling a perfect
tissue of lies, each one more outrageous
than the other," said this painfully
frank old lady. " The screen isn't
your own work at all. The satin was
painted by an old achool-friend of
mine, fifty odd years ago. You cheat
ed her out of it, tho day before yester
day, by a regular pieoo of swindling
that would have disgraced a mock auc
tioneer. And now you may go and I
carry it back to her—Mrs. More, No. 7
Lilac court—with iuy compliment*.
And, Ann Azalea—"
" Yen, aunt," said tho dejected young
lady.
" You needn't trouble to come back
here again. If I adopt an heiress it
must bo Homo one who is pure and
good and truthful—not such a one as
yon! And I'm rather disposed to
think that it shall be Mabel More."
And so Miss Ann Azalea Harper's
grand scheme resulted in utter failure.
The screen was borne ignominiouHly
bock, and Mabel More is now her
unnt'H adopted darling. And Papa
Harper, instead of tenderly consoling
his daughter, says, grullly:
" It's all yotir own fault!"
Indian Holy Pairs.
In sailing down the flanges during
the month of Katik, our October, one
may pass in the course of a single day
half a dozen holy fairs, each with a mul
titude of pilgrims equal to the popula
tion of a large city. All of them are
rendered picturesque by the tents and
equipages of the wealthy, tho variety of
the animals and the bright coloring'in
which the natives delight—those de
scendants of the ancient Aryans of In
dia, "in many respects tho most won
derful race that ever lived on earth,"
as Professor Max Mtiller calls them.
At night all these tents and booths are
illuminated, so that the scene is hardly
less animated by night than by day, ami
all without tumult and disorder.
Krery one <>f these localities is hal
lowed by some mythological tradition,
and tho firmest faith i-i reposed by the
pilgrims in tho truth of those traditions.
Ingrafted for hundreds, nay, thousands
of yeans in the minds of the people,
they have grown up with them articles
of faith, strengthened with their
strength. "Your words arc good,
Sahib; your teaching is excellent,''
said some native head men of villages to
a Christian missionary in Ondh, "but
go and preach elsewhere. We do not
want it. Our fathers' faith is enough
for us. What should wo do in your
heaven? You want n* to go there when
we die. Wo hud rather be with our
father* who went before us. What
should wo do in the heaven of the
Sahibs?" This is no fanciful picture.
These are the very words spoken in
Hindoostanee to an enthusiastic mis
sionary by the simple villagers.
And whnt could he say in reply? He
felt the force of them, although ho did
not allow them to paralyze his efforts.
The religious me la* are attended l>v
thousands of devotees on the same prin
ciple that prompted the villagers' word*
to the missionary. They were observed
by their father-. Generation after gene"
ration has attended them. Hindoo, or
Moslem, or Christian the rulers may
lie, but the melas are still the same,
and, looking back into the vista of van
ished centuries, we still see the same
crowds, the same devotion*, the
same amusement*, fond, clothing and
attendant animals. When liritons were
painted savages it was so, and now that
Victoria, queen of England, is empress
of India, it is so still. S tnetrenlh Ceti
t"ty. __
•• Trail eexojanee."
Home interesting scientific experi
ments demonstrating the truth of the
disputed phenomena of clairvoyance
hare recently been made by Dr. O. M.
Heard, of this city. The "sensitive"
was a lady, the wife of a lecturer on
mesmerism. A first ex|*'riment failed,
but on a second trial the lady, whose
eyes were covered with cotton and
closely bandaged, was able to name
actually card* drawn at random from a
jack anil held by the doctor upon her
forehead. Hlic also read the title-page
of a volume which the doctor took from
liis pocket. Other experiments with
coarse print were equally successful,
but she was unable to read flue print.
Dr. Heard calls the faculty trance
voyanco, and thinks that it may be de
veloped to such a degree that the per
son gifted with it can read entire page*
of ordinary print held against the fore
head. The lady, describing lier sen
sations when in the trancevoyant state,
says that an electric light seemed to be
thrown forward from the back of the
brain tijion the object held npon lier
forehead, illumining it and enabling
her to see it distinctly. A further study
of this curious power of reading without
eyes will no doubt be of great
value to the development of the
still rudimentary science of brain
and nerve action. Bncb ex
periment* as those of Dr. Heard are
heavy blows at the theories of the mate
rialists who claim that all mental action
is a physical phenomenon dejiendingon
the organs of sensation. What power
is it, will they tell na, that reads coarse
print when the eyes are practically
blinded? There must l>e a faculty of
perception in the brain quite independent
of the organs of sight, which under cer
tain rare condition* comes into play.
What ia it that sees without the aid of
optic nerve or retina? Here is a ques
tion which opens a wide and interesting
field for specnlation.— Nme York Tri
bune.
The first cotton mill in California is
in prooess of erection.
sciF.vrmc hciupn.
Htonm engines on the average do not
use more than ton per cent, of Iho
power represented ly tho coal they
bum.
Tho friction of two bodies, one against
tho other, produces heat. By rubbing
together two piocoH of ice in a vacuum
below zero, Hir H. Davy partially molt
ed them.
Wave lengths of tho sounds emitted
by a man's voice in ordinary convorsa
tion are from eight to twelve feet, ami
that of a woman's voice two to four feet
per second.
The intensity of illumination on a
given surface is inversely av the square
of its distance from tho source of light.
If the jsige of u hook, held twelve
inches from a candle, be moved six
inches nearer, tho light on the page is
made fonr times stronger.
The last application of the luminous
paint promises to be a very serviceable
one. Mr. browning, tho well-known
optician of London, has hit upon the
idea of coating compass dials with the
pigment, HO that tho belated traveler or
seaman need have no /ear of losing his
way for want of light.
There were sanitarians in the days
of onr ancestors. So long as eight hun
dred years ngo, in the time of ltichard
11., an ordinance was enacted forbid
ding tho pollution of rivers, drains, etc.;
another in the reign of Kdward 11.
against selling " muzzled swine-flesh,"
etc,; ami in tho rcigus of Henry VI.
and Henry VII. and Klizals-th, for the
inspection and cleansing of sewers,
against the slaughtering of cattle in
towns, and again i the ovi rcruwding of
dwellings.
Itailroails. Steamboats and Telegraphs.
Little does the world think what tre-
mentions capital in required to carry on
it* travel, traflic ami commerce. The
i railroad net, woven all over the glolw,
j consist* of 2'Ht.t mk milna. Aia. Aus
tralia and Africa can claim only the
| fourteenth part, the other thirteen*
I fourteenth* l*eing n<"arlv equally <li
vidod between Euro|x and America,
j The rolling stock in use over tliia rail
j road net consitH of ftti/KJO locomotive*,
I l2t,<KK> ]ia**enger ear* and 1,5(10,000
freight ear*. The capital invested in
all the railriueU is estimated at 3*20,-
000,000. The commerce on the *eo* is
carried on by 12,(100 steamer* and over
loQ.Ooo sailing vessel*. The tonnage of
these vessels amounts to over 2*',000,000
Urns. Telograpliic communication i
maintained by 5oo,0((0 mile* of wire, of
j whirh nbont five-eights fall to Eu
rope, two-eight* to America and
fully one-eighth to the subma-
I rine teb gn]>h system. There are
10, Otto station*, from wliieh 110,000 ilia
patchea are sent annually, or on an aver
age of 150,000 daily. According to imp
utation, Switzerland doe* the most tele
. graphing, there I>eing one dispatch sent
annually for every inhabitant. This i*
undoubtedly due to the great annual
influx of travelers and pleasure-seekers.
Next conn's the Netherlands and tlieu
Great Itritain. Kus-ia stands lat on
the list, as she sends only forty Jive
! dispatches for every thousand inhabi
tants. The transmission of letters by
mail amounts in round numl>crs to
, alsmt 4,000,000. According to the
population* of the several countries, the
Americans write by far the most let
ters; next come the English: then
Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands,
Denmark, Austria, France, Sweden,
Norwav, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Por
tugal, Greece, Hussia, Servia, Hoti
mania, Turkey. —Chiiigo Tribune.
\ < hlnese llell.
A traveler thus <lescril>e* a represen
tation of the punishment of the wicked
after death, according to the Ituddhist
theory, which he witnessed in the
I suburbs of Canton :
After a walk of about a mile we came
to the temple of horrors. This is a hor
rible place—that is, the scenes are
hideous. The intention is to represent
what a ba<l man would suffer after
death. It is composed of ten different
group* of statuary, of clay, and many of
tliein are crumbling to pieces. The
: first gronp represents the trial of the
j man ; he ia surrounded by his family
and friends, who are trying to defend
1 him; the second, where lie ia con
demned and given vor to the exe
' cntioner; in the third he is under
going a semi transformation from
the man to the brute; the fontb, where
he is put into a mill head downward,
and ia being ground up; his dog ia by
the aide of the mill lieking up hi*
blood. In the fifth scene he ia being
placed between two boards, and ia
sawed down lengthwiae; sixth, he ia
under a large bell, which ia rung until
the eoncnaaion kills him; seventh, the
man is placed upon a table, and two
men are beating htm with large wooden
paddles; eighth, he is npon a rack, aud
the execntioner* are tearing his flesh
with red-hot pincers; ninth, he is in a
caldron of boiling lead; the tenth
scene represents him on a gridiron,
undergoing the prooess of roasting. In
all these scenes the family are present
also larjo figures who represent the
jndge, executioners, little devils, and
various instruments of torture.
I'KAItLS P TIIOUHIIT.
In the world there are HI few voices
and so many echoes.
No conflict is so severe as his who
Inborn to subdue liirnnolf.
True merit is like u river—the dee per
it is the less noise it makes.
Favors of every kind uro doubled when
they are speedily conferred.
In love there are no treaties of peace,
there are only traces. A grand safe
guard for doing right is to hate all that
is wrong.
The happiness of tho human race in
this world does not consist in our being
devoid of passions, but in our learning
to command them.
In this world, saysChamfort, you have
three sorts of friends—those who love
you, those who don't care a penny for
you and those who hate you.
Three things too much and three too
little are pernicious to man: To speak
much and know little; to spend much
and have little; to presume much and
Ih) worth little.
If yon lose a g'dd piece there is a cer
tain number of chances that yon may
find it again; bat if you lose your char
acter it is easier to build u new one than
to recover the old one.
An Indian philosopher being asked
what were, according to his opinion,
the two most beautiful things in the
universe, answensl The starry heavens
j above our heads, and the feeling of
| duty in onr hearts.
The highest thing in nature is man;
the liighi-ht reach in man is his moral
sentiment, and the highest reach in
moral sentiment is benevolence. Be
nevolent disposition is the very center
of Christian character. It ranks men as
perfect or imperfect.
flow to Detect Adulterated < offee.
Ground coffee affords a field for adul
teration, and for this pur]rose chioe orv
! carrots, caramel, date seeds, etc., are
1 the snlistann-s most commonly used.
The ls-ari* have of late years Ik-i-u skill
fully imitated, but as coffee is mostly
! purchased in the ground condition, the
I chief point for the consumer is to Isi
aid© to form some idea us to the charac
ter of the latter article, and the follow
ing are n few simple and reliable to ts :
lake s little of the coffee and press it
U tween the fingers, or give it a squeeze
in the pajer in which it is bought; if
' genuine, it w ill not form h coherent
i mass, as coffee grains are hard and do
not readily adhere to each other ; but
• if the grains stick to each other and
I form a *>rt of "cake," we may be pretty
-are of ndulteratioti in the shape of
| chiorory, for the grains of chiocory
arc softer and more open, and adhere
without difficulty when squeezed.
| Again, if we place a few grains in
a saucer and moisten them with
a little cold water, chiocory will
very quickly Income soft like bread
crumbs, while coffee will take a long
| time to soften. A third test: Take a
wineglass or a tumblerful of water and
gently drop a pinch of the ground oof
fee on the surface of the water without
stirring OT agitating; genuine coffer
will float for som' time, whilst ehiccorv
or any other soft root will soon sink;
and chicrory or caramel will can so a
yellowish or brownish colcTr to diffuse
rapidly through the water, while pure
cfT<-e will give no sensible tint under
such circumstance* for a considerable
length of time. "Coffee mixture*" or
"ooffee improvers" ahotild be avoided.
They seldom consist of anything but
ohicoory and caramel. " French cof
fee," so widely used at present, is gen
erally ground coffee, the lean* of which
have l>een roasted with a certain amount
of sugar, which, coaling over the lean,
has retained more of the original aroma
than in ordinary cotfee, but this, of
course, at the expense of the reduced
percentage of coffee due to the presence
of the earamel.— Thq Satulanan.
Suicide* at a (.ambling Kesort.
The present proprietor of the notori
-1 ons gambling establishment at Monte
Oarlo holds a lease of this lucrative
privilege which will not expire till 191 th
The prince of thisanomalons little atate
receive# as ground rent .">O,OOO francs
|>er annum and a tenth of the profile of
i the tables, liesides which bis little army
of forty aoldiers in light-blue uniform
and his twenty gendarmes in cocked
hftts are clothed and maintained from
the same aooroe. The nnml>er of sni
rides last year traceable to lossea at the
gaining tables is officially rc]K>rted as
forty only, and the number of delin
quencies attributable to the same canse
as forty-seven. According to Mr. Poi
son, however, a gentleman of high offi
cial position at Nice estimates the real
nnmlter of suicidea at abont three a
week. It appeara that the local jour
nals, for obviotts reasons, do not encour
age the publication of these distressing
details, and that it ie not nnnsual to re
gard a suicide by means of a revolver
as a lamentable example of the incau
tious use of firearms, —ixmdos 7We-
It will save many sleepless nights to
know that the Russian of it, for
" knout," is "connoot," and not
" nowt."
A BONANZA KINO.
John W. Mnrkil, liar of Ihe Wmltfclr.t
.■Urn In lh.-World. h) , oorr Work.d far
H.I n lint.
" Hero," said the speaker, a* he stood
with a friend near a windlass by which
ore wan hauled out of a mine on the
Com stock ; "here I used to stand and
tarn for a day. Beth Cook was my
partner, and ho wan paid f'.t a day. Beth
Cook in now a largo owner in the Htand
ard mine ami one of the rich men of
the Pacific coast." The speaker was
John \\. Mackay, the bonanza king, one
of the richest men in the world. He is
a slender, tallish, well-knit man of
forty-seven, with a clean, well-marked
fa-e, showing decision and frankness.
His hair and mustache are brown,
ting'il with gray. If in eye is keen and
penetrating, his skin is ruddy, whole
some and vascular, tanned with Nevaik
sunshine and steamed in the
Turkish-bath temperature of the
lower level of the CornsUxk
lode. What impresses one about the
man is that there is nothing wasted in
1 him; he is ail muscle and nerve, and
I shows temperate and careful habits.
When lie walks it is with the sure, agile
tread of the leopard or the lynx -like
one who may spring at any moment.
There is a joyous element in the man,
which would IK.* w inning were its owner
only n ea'eilriver instead of the master
,of millions. He speaks with a half
stammer, which at first impresses one a*
being the slowness of a man who delib
erates while he speak*. This is the bo
nanza king a- ho stands at your side,
looking out over the brow n N* vada hills.
The miners come up and speak to him
and call him John, and there is between
them a sense of command* blended with
comradeship, which upjK-ars odd toa
metrojtolilan even.
Forty-seven yearn ago,or thereat louts,
John \\, Mackar w.is burn in Dublin.
He came to New York in his youth, and
gamboled around the City Hall in
it* pastoral day a, and was not unhappy
when a blase theater-goer pave him a
cheek for the Park theater. Among
other eight* he IIM >I to b>ok with win-
der upon a fatnoua man striding up
Nassau etr.-.-t fr un the old postofßee
with a bundle of n< w-pajM-r- under Lis
arm. This was James Gordon Dennett*
then a curiosity even to boys, and the
work which he was doing was build
ing up the N'<w York licrul-l. Cali
fornia came in enticing golden
splendor out of the sluices of
Swiss Sutter's mill, and young
Mark ay went with all the world t > El
dorado. About this time there went
two others on the same errand, fine
was an Irishman named O'Brien—
" Billy" O'Brien, a* all California came
to call him. Billy had a ]tartn*r —a
strong-beaded, resolute New York lad,
who came from the Broderi* k section
of New York, and had in him all that
immense capacity of doing and daring
which gave Frederick national fame.
Billy's partner is now known as .Tames
C. Flood, of the " Flood A O'Brien
firm." w hose phenomenal success was to
make all the world wonder.
Mackay w( lit hi* wax. as cveryliody
did in those fpvcrih darn. He lived in
mining camps, he slept on the ground,
he pick- .1 and scratched and washed the
gravel in running tr- am*: lie bad his
tips and downs; heha<! all that was gar.
iill that was golden in Kldorado life, and
then he came wiih his pick and hi*
blanket to the Nevada mountains. In
the meantime Billj O'Hrien and hi*
partner had tired of the Hage-brush.
Giving np mining they went to San
Francisco and intobnsine**. Tlieyoung
Irishman made their ac>plaintance. He
had found sumo good prospect* and
they hal some money. A hard-liead<sl.
smooth, discreet engineer became known
to them, by name Fair. He was a man
to le considered, and the roault was
that four men—Mackay, Flood. O'flrien
and Fair—made that business compact
known as tho Bonanza firm, which is
: now a ruling power in onr l'aciflc em
i pire. In the llrm Maekay owns two
tlftha, and as head of the Bonanza firm
is known as the Bonanza king.— HVt*A.
! in'ftfin C-ifnlttl.
Chinese Patients.
The Chinese make, on the whole,
very good patient*. Occasionally aome
of them try onr patience not a little.
< )ne get* a four daya' supply of medi
cine away with him, the recipe bearing
on it, "a spoonful three times daily
after each meal." He come* ltack next
morning for more, thinking to flatter
| von by stating that he drank the former
| ijuantity at one dose! Another has his
arm carefully put up in splint*. and on
his next visit he bring* hit dressings in
a separate parcel. They are groat be
lievers in interna] administration, and
although he have only a cut finger, it ia
difficult for a Chinaman to see why be
should not get some medicine to " eat."
They have peculiar palate*, many of
them, and can drink castor oil nl now
•eon—a stage which ia not so easily
reached in their ease aa it ia in oars.
Here, as elsewhere, the medical has all
along been found to be a valuable aux
iliary to the general mission work.—
LamM, _________
A scolding wife is not a "joy for
ever"—she's only e temj er-ary affair.
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