Queries.
Ocnld Ihn rky be lobbed of blno
If all tho flower* should gather
For <UetH its beautiful hue
In crowd" and crowds together?
Should all the flowers wear ita blue.
UtH-hangtd wrcro Heaven's Ixatitiful hns
>r, holding all that tlicy may,
Could biook, lake, tea or river
Make less tho bluo of tho day,
Or tho stars tho night sot over ?
Itsy, nay, but clouds bctw<>en may hide
Tho bluo of day and worlds beside.
Could tlio sunset's pomp be lees,
That autumn wears liko glowing ?
Or its hues of gorgeoiisnoas
Tho rainbow'sareli is showing?
From Heaven earth may not tako away
Or make less fair ono Isjautcous ray.
Tii tmo Heaven oannot miss
Tho beauty earth may lorrow;
Yet hath it tuoro of bliss
When, bid in clouds of sorrow,
Onr hearts lie cheerless, making moan
For loved ones through ita portals flown ?
A Queer Fellow-Traveler-
Bomb years ago I had occasion to
take a long journey to tho north—a
journey which wonld involve my
traveling all night. A few days before
I had received an invitation from a
friend of mine, who lived at a town
which 1 bad to pass, to dine and stay
tho night at his bonse; an invitation
which I gladly accepted, as it wonld
prove a pleasant break in the monot
ony of tue journey. I resolved, there
fore, to so arrange matters as to arrive
at his house in time for dinner, and pro
ceeded to my destination next morning.
When the day arrived I m very busy;
so, after a harried lnnch, I packed np
a few necessaries and rnshed off to
Eustcn, where I arrived with just two
minutes to spare. I asked for my train,
which the conductor pointed ont, add
ing, "If yon don't hnrry np, sir,
you'll leso it." I took his advieo and
jumped into tli6 nearest car, tho door
of which stood cpen, and in which there
was bnt one other occupant. I settled
myself for my journey, and for the firat
time had leisure to observe my fellow
traveler. Now I rather pride myself on
being a judge of physiognomy, and my
firat impressions of him were the re
verso of pleasant. He was evidently a
fl Igety, nervous sort of a man ; he had
restless, gray eyes, without mnch ex
pression in tbem; while his hair and
beard were of a reddish hoe. He was
dressed in a long ulster, which I
thought qnite unnecessary, for, though
it was late in the year, the weather was
no means cold. There was on tho |
seat betide him a small oaken box,
strongly bound with brass, and his eyes
were constantly glancing flom this box
to me in away that I did not at all like.
I liegan to have visions of plots, infer
nal machines, and 1 do not know what
Alter regarding me steadily for a few
minutes he said :
" Is it possible, sir, that yon are not
aware of this carnage being roscrved
for state officials?"
I looked around, and seeing no indi
cation of the fact, repliod :
" I was not aware of suoh being the
case."
" Then, sir," he replied, " I must
beg of yon instantly to vacate it, and
leave mo here in solitary silence."
Considering that the train was going
at the rate of about forty miles an hour
and would not stop until it reached a
small station half way to my deatin
ation in about an hour's time, I could
not quite see why I should oomply with
iris request, or rtther command; and I
frankly told him so, adding that " I
had as much right there as he had, and
did not intend moving."
Ho replied with a most solemn air;
" Then your fate be on your own
head."
This began to frighten me, for the
man's manner convinced me that he
must be insane, and the prospeot of an
hour's journey in a car with a madman
was not calculated to raise my spirits.
However, I puts bold faee on the mat
ter, and a (Tooted id be engrossed with
my newspaper, though in reality I was
watching every movement. He sudden
ly m> * d bold of the wooden box and
held it on his knees, mumbling some
inarticulate word*, theo suddenly re
placed it beside him. In doing so I
eaught a glimpse of the butt of a pistol
■ticking out of bin pooket. I had noth
ing more defensive than an umbrella
and a roll of paper, which, in conse
quence of their extreme length, I was
compelled to carry in my band. Pres
ently he began again.
"Have yon studied the marvelons
powers of electricity, may I ask ?"
' I replied in the negative.
"I have," sa d h; "and have anivrd
at such a pitch of perfection that, aided
by the contente of this box, 1 could
blew 'bis train and everybody in it to
Infinitesimal atoms."
"Bat," 1 hastrded, "how aboutyour
aeifr
"I should calmly monnt into the sir
and survey the scene without injury."
" How V said I.
••7 bat," h replied, "is my business;
look to yourself."
Pleasant this, for mo I However, I
made some remark which setmod to
satisfy him ; and ho lapsed again iuto
silence. I felt more thau ovor con
vinced of his madness, thinking he had
probably escaped from sonio private
asylum, for he was evidently a gentle
man j yet I could not understand what
tho box conld bo w/iioh he guarded bo
jealously. I felt very sorry for him iu
spite of my dangcronu situation. I
then tried another tack, and made sev
eral commonplace remarks to him ; to
all of which ho answered in monosylla
bles, suddenly bursting ont with :
"Do yon dare to address me, sir,
without having first disclosed to mo
who yon are? Your temerity sur
prises mo!"
I thought it best to humor him, and
handed him my card, on which was
inscribed "J. Is. Bmith."
"Ha, 1 guessed yon wero a Bmith ;
yon look liko one; a blacksmith, if I
may judge by tho smutti on your faco."
Hero he broke into a maniacal laugh.
When he bad finished laughing he
said : "Do yon want to know who I
am ?"
I said I thought I might as well
knew his name, if ho did not mind.
"Well," said he, leaning forward and
peering into my eyes, keeping ono
band on tho box, "whoa yon first
jumped into tho carriage I was the
khan of Tartar/; bnt tho wonders of
electricity are snob that I am even
now changing ; I may bo anybody in n
few hours, or even minutes.'' 1 sup
pose I looked surprised, for ho went
on: "Ah, yon looked surprised; but,
perhaps, you will hardly believe tbat
my temper quite depends on wbo I
may happen to' he. Not long ago I
was conversing with some friends, and
I suddenly changod into the king of
Biam, and before they conld get ont
of my way 1 bit three of their fingers
oiT. You should have seen them scat
ter. Ha, ha, ha!"
"Oood gracious I" I exclaimed.
"Yon don't mean it ?"
"Oh, yes, I do; bnt d> not bo
alarmed, I never am so dangerons un
less I happen to arsumo that charac
ter."
Then he sat qniet and I wan thankful
for a little peace. All at once, to my
alarm, he said, qnito unconcernedly:
" I feel it my solemn dnty to inform
yon that I am changing, and that in a
few minutes I shall be the king of
Hiam.'
Instinctively I looked aronnd for
some means of escape, at the same
time grasping my nmbrella Arm, re
solved at least to sell my fingers dear
ly. It wasn't worth while changing
cars, as jnst at that moment I heard
the whistle of tho train annonncing onr
approach to the next depot. I collect
ed my things together near me, so as
to be prepared for a hasty exit, tho more
so as I noticed the feelings of his ma
jesty of Hiam wen; being worked np to
a pitch of excitement, and tho way he
showed his teeth would have terrified
a far less nervons man than myself As
we neared tho depot tho train slackened
speed and at last stopped. Just as I
jumped out the maniac made a spring
at me; bnt I fortunately avoided him
and abut the door in bis face. I got
into the next car, which was empty;
and an the conductor closed tho door, I
called out: "Here, I say, there is a mail
man in—" Bnt the whistle drowned
the rest of my sentence and the train
moved off before I had time to complete
it. I sat still in a horrible state of ner
vousness, expecting I hardly know
what.
At last tho train stopped at the sta
tion for which I was bonnd, and I
jumped out. As 1 passed his ear I
could see him sitting there quietly, and
I went into the station master's room
and told him what had happened, advia
iug him to take some means of (Mur
ing him. He promised to telegraph,
but as id it was no business of hia, and
with this sssnranoo I bad to bo content.
I then went off to my friend's house,
where I arrived jnst in time for dinner.
I soppose the traces of my fright still
remained, for no sooner did I enter
the dining-room than my Lost ex
claim :
"Why, what is the matter, old man ?
You've not met a ghost on the road,
have yon I"
I told Lira I had seen sem-bedya
good deal worse than a ghost ; and,
daring dinner, I related my adventure,
npon which itey all congratulated me
on my narrow escape. Alter dinner
went off early to bed, pleading fatigae
and the next day's business ae my
exense.
When I awoke in the morning I found
my host ready for breakfast; and I
joined birn at once, as my train left in
an hoar's time
As I shook handa with him at the
depot, he remarked that he should like
to hear of the man being eanght.
I transacted my bnsineM and, as I
had time to spare, I tnin.il into the
first hotel I came to and walked np into
the billiard room, wbTO I met Fred
Chart-on, an old school-fellow of mine,
who was playing billiards with three
others. He seemed surprised to see me,
end asked me how I got there. I told
Lim I had come down there early that
morning, and I thou proceeded to give
him it sketch of my adventurous jour
ney of tbo night before. Frod smiled,
and raid:
"Ah, yes, old man; I heard some
thing about it."
"You heard something?" I said.
"From whomF'
" Well," he replied, " I'll toll you nil
about it for tho benefit of the company.
Old Harris, tho diamond broker, told
me last night that ho had just
come down from tho city. When
he had taken his seat in tho car
ut all alone, just as tho train
started, some follow rushed in. Har
ris said ho did not mnoh liko the
look of the fellow, and as he had about
$40,000 worth of diamonds with him in
a small box, he began to feel uncom
fortable. Ho eaid tho stranger was a
strong, active man, and if it had come
I to a strugglo for the diamonds Harris
would have had no chance—for ho evi
dently felt suro tho fellow mi ant rob
bery ; so ho determined to try and
frighten him out of tho ear by pretend
ing madness, which ho said ho did so
effectually that the fellow, in sheer
fright, bolted al tho first stoppage, and
left him to finish his journey hero
alono. lint wo did not know that you
wore tho hero, old man," said Fred, as
tho wholo four burst into such a shout
of langhtor as I nover hoard boforo.
" Yon must stay, and be introduced to
him afresh; ho will bo hero to-night."
i I did not stop to boar anything more.
I rushed downstairs, thoroughly real
izing that I had been mode a fool,
caught the first train home, and have
not shown myself in that neighborhood
sinco.
Wooden Hour.
There is danger ahead for the milling
fraternity, and it wnj he as well to take
time by the forelock and preparo to
meet it. Goo*l Ilratth cava bread of
highly nutrition* and palatablo char
acter may be mado from wood. Think
of this for a moment. When the price
of wood pulp, for paper manufacture,
fall* below a profitable point, the pulp
can be converted into fl inr, and thia
can l>o aold at a price far below that of
(lour. Why? Well, there will be no
necessity for middling purifiers, an
thero will bo no middlings ; tho germ
will bo so large it can bo chopped out;
tho bran (bark) can bo hewed off with a
broadax. Dig thing, ain't it? Here's
the process :
" Everything aolnblo in watr is
first removed by frequent mac ration
and boiling ; tho wood is then reduced
to a minnto state of division, not merely
into flno fillers, bat actual powder; and
after being repeatedly subjected to
heat in an ovcu is ground in tho usual
manner of com Wood thus prepared
acquires tho smell tnd taste of corn
flour. It is, however, never quite
white. It agrees with corn flour in not
fermenting witbont the addition of
leaven, and iu this cise some leaven of
corn-flour is found to answer best.
With this it makes a perfectly uniform
and spongy bread, and when it is thor
otigbly baked and has much crust it has
a much better taste of bread than what
in time of scarcity is prepares! from tho
bran and husks of ecru."
There has been at tiroes great scarcity
of medium and low grades of flour for
export. There will be no need for this
hereafter, as exporters can cut down a
few telegraph poles, wooden hitcbing
posts, or even carry off their enemies'
front doorsteps, convert them into a
highly nutritions article of flour and
•hip it abroad to snpply the wants of
the down trodden lalmnng classes of
Europe. When the manufacture of
wood flour gets fairly noder way, how
would it do to convert the big PilUbnry
and Washburn mill* into a miller's col
lege? Thero might be something in
this suggestion.— MtUing IP.wfd.
An Historic I'iclnro.
One of the veteran photographer* of
Chicago, A. Heeler, *om thirty Tram
ago, while in business at Galena,
111., had occasion one dsy to go to a
blacksmith a imp. At the moment he
entered a wretohed, ragged little col
ored boy waa holding ont an old home
a hoe to the blacksmith, endeavoring to
indnce bim to hny it: The artist waa
quick to aee that the acene before him
wonld make a remarkably effective pic
ture. He entered into negotiationa
whiob reunited in the tranafer of the
brawny-armed blackamith, the ragged
boy, the aoril andldook and other im
plement* lying abont the ahop, to the
artiat'a gallery. An excellent picture of
the group waa taken. A few days after
ward a Tory angry colored woman burst
into the gallery and took the artist to
task. After hor wrath had cooled
somewhat she said: " I wouldn't a had
no 'jection to yer takin' my boy's pic
ture, if yer only had let me know, so I
oonld hor dressed him up." The artist
waa not mistaken in his judgment. The
picture attracted wide attentioo, and
was seen in one 11 the European galler
ies reoently, oopied in oil and greatly
enlarged.
There are in Chicago abont 8,000
houses used for immoral purposes
there are 800 churches and more than
6,000 liquor saloon*; 400 olergymati
and 6,000 bartsndert.
FKAItLM OF THOUGHT. I
Learning makes a man fit company
for himself.
l'rond hearts and lofty mountains am
ulwsys barren.
Oar dead tiro never dead to us until
we havu forgotten them.
The heart has reasons that the rea
son docs not understand.
Opportunity, sooner or later, comes
to all who work and wait.
How wo do lovo to shut onr eyes to
what wc fear may bo reality.
How good services ; sweet remom
branccs will grow with them.
Choose those companions who ad
minister to your improvement.
A miser is a man who may be truth
fully described as criminally poor.
Flattery is liko yonr shallow; it
makes yon neither larger nor smaller.
Tho moans to promote any end are
as necessary as tho end to bo promoted.
Genius finds new ideas, wit ridicules
them, and common sense adopts thc-rn.
Many an honest man stands in need
of help that has not tho courage to ask
it.
If ho prayed who was without sin bow
much more it bccometh a sinner to
pray.
The most completely lost of all days
is tho one in which we havo not
lunghed.
Gratitude should mark all onr con
duct, lor wo are snrrounded by the
mercies of God.
Would you learn to judge kindly an
offending brother place yourself in the
position of tho culprit.
The fairest fruit is not nlways the
most palatable. Tho fairest woman is
not alwavs the most faultless.
"Oil On the Troubled Waters.''
In October, 1861, tho coast survey
steamer Vixen was assigned to duty
with the Port Royal expedition, then
fitting out at Fortress Monroe, under
tho command of Flag Offiivr (afterward
Admiral) Dapont. The Vixen was a
small sidewheel steamer, built in 1846
for service in tho Mexican war. Hho
was a miracle of ugliness and was slor
and difficult to handle in heavy weather,
but she was strong and had weathered
many aevero galea. Hho was placed under
tho command of an old assistant in the
coa-t survey, Mr. H>utclle,witb a picked
staff of reliable officers. For reasons
not belonging to this narrative Flag Of
ficer I>upout decided that Mr Boutelle
s'lould accompany him in the flagship
Wabash, and tho Vixen went to sea
with the fleet from Fortress Monroe in
charge of her executive officer, Mr.
Roticrt Plait, then of the coast survey
and now of the United Hu'es navy.
The fearful stortff the fleet encountered
on the North Carolina coast south of
Hatteras is a matter of history. On tho
morning after leaving Fortress Monroe
the number of the fleet rejrorted
to the commander-in-chief as in
sight was forty-nine. On the
next morning the squadron had
dwindled to its squaro root. Only seven
were in night. In tho height of the
Rale the large and powerful frigate
Wabash labored no heavily in the tre
mendous sea that the deadlights closing
the windows of the flag officer's state
room had !>en broken in and be had
been driven to occupy a sofa in the
mxirocabin. Many of the transports in
the fleet wero notoriously unfitted to
encounter auch a storm, and anxiety
and fear for their safety prevailed. Few
of the marine batubon who were npon
tho ill-fated steamer Governor will ever
forget their awfal experience, or their
rescue, chiefly through the seamanship
and plnck of Lieutenant (now Rear
Admiral) Halcb, then execntive officer
of the frigate Sabine.
Small hope was entertained that the
little surveying steamer Vixen, with
her decks hardly five feet above the
water, had survived the gale, but aa the
flagship approached the rend> aroua off
Port I loyal she was seen quietly at an
chor, having reached there among the
first of the squadron. The commander,
Mr. Piatt, in relating tho experiences
of the storm to his chief, Mr. Itontelle,
modestly recounted that, when the
storm grew too heavy for him to keep
his course, he had brought the vessel's
head to sea and had put out a drag to
assist him in keeping her in that
position. As the storm reached it*
height and the hnge wave* frothed
and combed, they began to break on
board and tho vessel was in great
danger. He then poured about a gal
lon of oil overboard, just abaft the lee
paddle-box. It drifted with the veaael
and soon formed an oily scum about
her, after which not a sea oombed or
broke on board, and she rode ont the
gale in safety, arriving at the appointed
rendcavous.in advance of many veaael*
of enormnnsly greater power and speed.
Mr Dontelle immediately reported the
olronmstancea to hia official superior,
Professor A. D. Bsche, superintendent
of the eoaat survey. At any other
period it would probably have been
published and excited attention, but
we were th n in the midst of events of
too great moment for so small a matter
to attraot general notion— Railroad
Journal.
GKITING BACK 11/ x ON*.
Haw it Hrrd of ratlin W rr Itrwrard from
n Hiiml.i ol ilii- Waataru Wllda.
Colonol Dodge, in his "Onr Wild
Indians," says: A few years ago the
beef contractor at one of the military
posts in tho Indian Territory had an
adventure which I will lot him toll in
his own idiom:
"Wall, boys, I was mighty nigh onto
busted that timo, and I'll tell you about
it. Yon see, I'd worked hard and
roughed it and got a nice little lot of
cattle. The contract for the post was
to bo let. I bid on it and got it. Wall,
my cattlo was none of tho best. The
grass was poor, and afore long the com
mamlin' officer says to me, says be
'There's complaints agin your beef.
Yon must do hotter or I'll order the com
missary to buy good beef and charge it
to yer.' Hays I, 'Commandin' Officer, I
know my beef is none of the best, but
give me a little timo and I'll git yer the
i very best.* ' All right,' says he, ' but
do it.' Ho next mornin' I put some
money in my belt and started for Texas.
1 bought a hundred and fifty bead
of first class beef, and hired a M< xicar.
j boy to drive'em. He was only a little
! chap, about twelve years old, but he
was powerful bright an 1 bandy, and
. sand ! lots I I hod a brccch-loadin' rifle
and pistol, but tbo Injuns WOK bail, so I
! bought a doable barreled shotgun for
the boy. Everything went on all right
till we'd got into the Territory, about
ono hundred miles from here. One
momin' we was movin' along when a
man rode up to mo. Ho was a small
sized man, hut the handsomest man 1
ever seed an' dressed tho handsomest.
He had on high boots, big silver spurs
an' buckskin breeches an' a hunting
! shirt all over fringes an' open at tho
front, no had on a white biled shirt
and a red silk nock-tin with long ends a
fly in' behind. Around his waist there
was a red riik sash an' he wore a regu
lar Mexican sombrero an' his bridle
and saddle was Mexican an' covered
with silver. He won on a splendid
| mustang that Lacked and shied
all the time, bnt he rode him
i like a skin. I tell you, boys, it was
a handsome outfit. 'Good mornin','
| says he, a liften up his hat mighty po
' lite. 'Good mornin',' says I, and with
that we chatted along pleasant like.
He told me that ho had a big herd of
cattle about three mi ea to the east, an
j he was afraid I'd give 'em the fever, an'
he wanted mo to keep more to the left,
off his range. Wall, 1 was agreeable,
an' he kept with me for a mile an'more,
sbowin' m where to go, an' then thank
in' me polite, he said good-bye an'
rode off. Wall, now, boys, I had kept
i on the coarse he told me for abont two
| hoars, when just bey ant a ittlc rise I
drove right into my gentleman friend
an' six other feller*. Kidin' right np
|to me, my friend says, says he : 'After
| thinkin' it over I have concluded to
take em in.' Wall, boys, I saw right
through the thing in a minit. I knowwl
it were no no to figh agin so many, so
I bogged. 1 told him how I was situ
ate, that if I didn't get them cattle to
the post I was rninated. He listened
■ few minutes pretty quiet, an'l tbot I
bad him, when all at once he drawed a
pistol, an' all tho other fellers drawed
their pistols at the same timx.
" 'Mr friend, says he, 'we don't take
no advantage of ca'tle men. bnt them
cat! le of yoars is the same as govern
roent property. They is going to feed
soldiers. All such property is aa much
ours as anybody's. Now yon git T and
with that he stnek his cooked j utol in
my face, an' all the other six stnek
their cocked pistols at me. Wall, boys,
me and that Mexican—we left.
■ 'Them fellows rounded np my cat
tle an' drove 'em back their own way.
Boys, my heart was most broke. I
reckoned I was moat rnina'ed if I lost
them cattle. Wall, we traveled along
for a mils or more, when I made np my
mind. 'Domingo,' aays I to the little
Mexioan, 'are yon afeard to stay and
take care of the bosses while I settle
with them chaps?' 'No,' aays he, 'an*
I'll help yon ef yon want me.'
" The country was about half prairie,
an' t'other half the thioiest kind of
blaok jock and scrnb oak thickets- I
hid that boy an' them bosses whar a
honnd couldn't'er found'em. and when
it got towards ovenin' I started on foot
to hnnt np my friend's cattle camp, an'
as I knowed I had to get in my work in
the dark an' at close range, I took the
boy's doable-barrel shotgun, each bar
rel loaded with sixteen buckshot, an'
big sise at that,
"About midnight I fonnd the herd.
The cattle was held in a prairie with
thickets all around it. 1 poked aronn t,
keepin' in the thickets. They hsd
about a thousand hsad, no. cmnUn'
mine. I found their dag-oat. There
we* two men on herd. I poked around
until I found where my cattle was.
Thsy knowed me. an' didn't make no
fans when I went among 'em. Then I
laid down in lha grass. In abont an
hour ore of the herders rods right doss
onto me, an' 11st him hava one barrel.
"In n minit the other herder hol
lered oil, 'Whet it theiF an' gettin'
no answar he gallopped righ < ver thsr,
an* I give him the other hamU I got
bank to the thiokel an' want to my
ramp an' to sleep. Next morain' when
tbo aun *M way up that boy he woke
me, an' says ho, ' XLier bavin' a high
time in that camp; yon had bettor be
looking after 'em all.' I got my break
fast an' w*nt to look after 'em. They
was in a big commotion all of 'em to
gether, buntin* everywhere for my trail.
I had wered mocassins, an' I knowed
none of 'em fellers conld foller my
trail. I had another big advantage of
'em. They couldn't go nowhere nnlesa
they wan on bossback, an' the brush
j was BO thick that they had to nde in
, the open prairie wher I eonld see 'em. '
{ I poked round in the thicket whar
i they couldn't see me. Next night
' I tried it ag'in, but tbcy was
| all on herd und held the cattle
: out on the prairie so for from the
woods that I had no show. 1 changed
my plan au' went back to my camp.
Next mornin' I was ont early pokiu' in
the thickets and watcbin*. A lot of cat
tle grazed tip toward a pint of woods.
I I knowed they would stop that soon, so
I hid in that pint. Pretty soon a feller
came cliargin' round on a full run after
them cattle. He was a likely chap and
I felt a little oneasy until I recognized
him as having stud: a pistol in my face
l two days before. I got him. Well,
l>oye. there's no use in etringin' this
thing out. Them chaps was scarred
from the start and would hare got ou
of that if they hadn't bad to go through
thickets. I knowed that, an' took it
easy. Tn three days I had gradually
got away with them. They was so
few they couldn't herd the cattle.
, On the mornin' of the fourth day I
noticed a lot of ca'.tle feedin' off. They
was nigh two miles from tbo dug-out.
I laid with 'em, hut in the thicket
Toward afternoon a feller came
dahin' in at full speed an' rounded up
within twenty feet of me. When he
fell he was so tied up in his iariat that
;he stopped the boss. I caught and hid
that boss in a thicket so that the othe.rs
in the dog-out wouldn't know this man
: was dead. After the second day I had
never seen my fine captain. He bad
made the others take chances, but be
i had staid ID the dug-out and run no
risk himself. I thought il I could get
: him 1 would be all right myself. So
afore day next mornin' 1 hid in a break
about twenty yards from the door of the
dug-out, an' jod at day break 1 covered
: that door with my shotgun an'
fired off my pistol with the
I other band. As I expected, h
jumped out of the door with his gun in
his hand, hut he had no chance an' no
| time. I doubled him right up in tho
I door. In a few minits a white rag was
stuck out of the door on a stick. I
called to the man to come out and put
up his bands, and he did. I walked up
an' said to him : ' I ought to kill you,
but I wont if you will do as I tell you.
j Get your boss, cut out my cattle and
drive 'em over that bill.' He said, says
ho : 'I never, never saw yon before an'
I don't know yonr cattle; I am the cook
of this out St, en' I am the only man
left.' Ho I made him get me a boss an'
we mt ont my cattle and drove 'em over
' near my camp, an' me an' the boy took
'em, and by hard driving got to the post
i in time."
Helping Editor* to Oblain Hew*.
Homo euppjrsed friend* ot a newt
p*jvr have peculiar idea* as to wlist
bind ot item* • paper really requires.
Sot long since a gentleman came into
the .Veto aanctnm and naid:
"Look here! Yon mi** a heap of lire
items. I'm on the streets all day ; I'll
come np evenr once in a while and post
yon."
j " All right, fetch on your items ; bat
remember, we want news."
Next day he oame np beaming all
over, " I've got a liTe item for yon.
Yon know that bow-legged gorrilla of a
brother-in-law of mine, who wasinbnsi
' ness here with me? "
" I believe I remember snob a per
son," said the editor, wearily.
"Well, I've just got news from Ne
braska, where he is living, that be is
going to ran for the legislature. Now,
jiut give him a blast Lift him ont ot
his boots. Don't spare him on my ac
oonnt"
Next day he came np again. "My
little item was crowded oat I brought
yon some news," and he hands in an
item abont bit cat, as follows:
" A RnmtßU Axrw*i..—The fam
ily est of onr worthy and distinguished
fellow townsman Smith, who keeps the
boas grocery store of Ward Na 13, yes
terday became the mother of five singu
larly-marked kittens. Th s is not the
first time this nnhtard-of event has
taken place. We understand that Mr.
Smith is being favorably spoken of as I
candidate for alderman."
The editor groans in his spirit as ha
lights a oigar with the effort, (t is not
long before ha hears that Smith is going i
around saying that ha made the paper
what it is, bat it is not independent
enoagh for a place like Galveston.
Many readers will say this sketoh is
overdrawn; bat thousands of editors aU
over the country will lift np their right
hands to testify that thar are personally
aaqaaintad with the guilty party.
The Mormons employ abont 1,000
proselyting missionaries.