he Soi Si gen Nos on THE MILL-WHEEL'S SONG. Round and round the mill wheel goes, From early morn till night: The mil)-stream turns it as it flows, And then runs out of sight. But there the old mill-wheel remains, And lots the mill-stream run, And if it shines, or if it rains, It sings, at set of sun: Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, Many a wave from off of me will bear a gal” lant ship! Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, But for me the miller in the tavern could not sip! Round and round I cannot go When the bleak winter comes, And wind and snow do bravely blow And when the brown bee hums, I hear the children laugh and play, I hear the crackling corn. And merrily, all through the day, The gay wind blows his horn: Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, tarn, I make the fires in the cots upon the hill-side burn! — Turn, turn, turn, turn. turn, turn, turn, When man is older than the world he not live to learn! ' Round and round I gaily turn From spring till sutum flies; My humble role I do notspurn, Nor pass my life in sighs. Ido the very best I can, And try to be content; And, since my modest life began, I've sung, when day was spent: Bwish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, [ clothe the god wives children and fill the good wives’ dish! Bwish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, The corn I crack pays for the good wives’ meat and bread and fish! Round and round I #o not pass When long days go to sloop; Not when the lads have cach a lass, As down the road they creep! I sometimes catch the whispers low, And sometimes catch a kiss, As by the old red mil they go Next day Ising like this: mils of the journey to shoot at me from ‘| behind rock, or bush, or ridge, I rode along without s vigilance, srguin for reasons above given, that he woul not dare to do it. It was 1 o'clock in the afternoon be- fore I knew that he was on my trail. As I rose a ridge I caught sight of him about a mile away, but my observation was 80 slyly made that he could not say. 1 had detected him. He had been con- cealed in a gully about five miles back, I learned afterward that a half breed who hung about the fort had told him that I would probably be sent off in that direction, and thst he had been én- camped in the gully for three daygy and watehing for me. Black Serpe doing just as I reasoned he yuld— waiting for night. 1 iotepfled to make an easy journey of it by riding about forty miles and camping for the night, He knew this would/be the way of it, and he had no inten ing me during daylight kept on at the ing the afternoon, yi twice to water my horse. Th u ring the after. my pursuer, who istance, and doubt- mself at the thought il and unsuspected. 1 hat is called a “dry s, with no water at hand. t herbage for my horse, he would not wander far, ndian living could stampede him or ride him away. [knew from the actions pf the animal as soon as I dis moun that there was another horse near by, but I built a fire and toasted my meat, and had enough water in my canteen to make a cup of coffce, Black Serpent would not bein a hurry, When an Indian is trailing you he likes to enjoy his triumph. He plays with you as a cat does with a mouse. Ten o'clock would be soon enough for him, and I sat in plain view of my fire smok- infi until after 9. Then I smothered the blaze for five minutes, and during this interval rigged up my blankets to make a “dummy.” When I retreated into the darkness and looked back, the figure was good enough to deceive anybody. Black Serpent would not approach on my trail but from exactly the opposite direction, and I crept away in the darkness until I was fifty feet from the fire. It was, as near as I could figure jt about an hour when the young buck came grasp ng up from the direction Dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, Gayly now I turn the yellow corn to yellow cash! ‘ Dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, Just listen to the song I sing as waters from me splash ! | ~John E. McCann, in Once a Week. | i RA / B. NY WHITE AGAINST RED. | : Directly following the close of the | Indian campaign in which the gallant Custer lost his life, there was a year of dangerous peace on the frontiers. | mean by that that while the redskins were supposed to have been thrashed into submission, and while they were Apparently at peace, they lost no oppor- tunity to murder helpless people. The whites were bound by honor to observe the peace and to trust them to a certain limit, and, knowing this, the more dis- satisfied bucks took every advantage, I was still in the employ of the Gov- | ernment as a scout and rider, and it was 4ny luck to bring about the capture of four bucks who were guilty of murder ing an old man. They were awaiting “trial, when a young warrior names Black Serpent, who was the son of one of the arrested men, sent me word that he would have my life in revenge. | was stationed at Fort Hays, and he sent word in by a trader. Black Serpent was an Apache, and was described to me as being about twenty-three years of age, strong, feet, and as cunning as a fox. I did not | koow him by sight, while he doubtless had the advantage of knowing me. In two or three instances when such mes sages have been brought in they were | accompanied by the further information | that the sender would be at a certain ace at a certain hour. The recipient his choice to show up and kill or be killed in a fair exchange of shots, or re- turn the message in contempt, and take his chances of being assassinated. Black t gave me no alternative. He meant to catch me of my guard and kill While it wasn't very pleasant to have such a threat hanging over a man, I did not worry much about it. Indeed, it | was the habit of every scout to take all ible precautions anyhow, I simply elt that I had the right, he having sent me the message, to shoot the youny buck on sight, and as for what he ‘was going 40 do, 1 left that all to him. About a week later [ was called upon to make a ride of about seventy miles to & camp on the *moky Hill stage route, aud as | was ready to set out several of my friends came to me and cautioned me to look out for Binck Serpent, who had been seen the day before about ten miles from the fort and directly on the route | should travel. According to the terms of surrender he how'd have been under supervision at the agency, dishorsed and disarmed, but here he was, galloping about on a war pony, armed with a Win. i chester and & navy revolver, and lying in wait to do murder, | was as ready as + 1 could be to encounter him. I had the | cunning goes the American Iodian has no ior on He is quick of ear and vision, | ake in a anticipated, I'll give him credit gor passing over the ground as noiselessly ag a rabbit could have moved. He had Jeft his rifle behind, calculating to use his knife on me. He was all of twenty minutes crotping his last twenty feet, { and I sometimes doubted if my eyesight had not deceived me. He was within six feet of the dummy before he detected it, and then he sprang high in the air and uttered his death-whoop. knowing that I was laying for him. He came down in a heap at the crack of my rite, and he was dead when I got to him. | kept his entire outfit, sending word to his friends what had happened, and that | held myself answerable to them, but no one troubled me about it, even to lay claim to any of the property. A year later, when things generally were more settled, but with dissatisfied bucks breaking away from the agencies at intervals to make raids, an Indian quarter breed stole some things from Fort Larned, and I run him down and captured him. He was imprisoned for several weeks, and some of his buck friends declared that I should pay for the “indignity” with my life. It was honorable enough in their eyes to steal, but a great indignity to pay the penalty of thieving, The three bucks whom 1 had to fear were called Red Earth, Half Moon, and Cloudy Day. They drew ra- tions at the agency, and were supposed to live within the limits, but as 8 matter of (act were prowling over the country most of the time and ripe for any mis- chief, I was then riding between two posts about eighty miles apart, I took two | days to go and tvo to return, and, then, after a rest of two days, | made the trip again. This had been the programme for two months, and the Indians knew | it and could count on my wherabouts at a certain date. For twenty-five miles of the journey I had a stage road and vas sure of company. For twenty miles further the country was fairly safe, there being many hunters and trappers and scouts out, The dangerous part of the country was confined to about twenty. | five miles.* The route lay along the base of a mountain—up a valley—over a sharp rise, and across several gulches. I selected the spot where the Indians would attack me if they held to their threat, Just as the trail left the base of the mountain to take to the valley there was a canon making into the great mound, and the trail ran within thirty feet of its mouth before turning to the left, If the weather was good | always passed this point in going West at about ¥ o'clock in the morning. In going the other way | arrived about sundown, and made my camp in the bushes grow- ing around a spring. I figured that the Indians would shoot me down as | rode up to the spring, or very soon after 1 had dismounted, They woul‘l then drag my body up the canon and conceal it, and lead my horse as far up as possible and then kill him. I would be missed and searched for, but it might bo a week before any trace was discovered. By that time the wolves and vuitures would have left nothing to identify, and the assassins would have been conspicuously present at the agency. It is stil the unwritten law of the frontier that when a man threatens I'd have been called a was | Hh kn d then advanced leadin m. ‘The ford caused him to limp as he had o lame, through accident, | felt thal was under the eyes of one of the Indians, and that before I reached the tifhbered ridge he would rejoin his | two ‘companions in the canon. J slouched along as carelessly as possible until I oh | the ridge. Then I sent my horse forward alone, knowing that ‘hie would halt at the spring and wait for As soon as he was gone I struck Pinto the timber and circled around to get as close to the mouth of the canon as possible. The last 200 feet of the dis- {tance I crawled upon my hands and | knees, My horse had stopped by the way tc | catch up a osthivg of grass here ano | there, and I got my first look into the | { mouth of the canon just as he approached | { the spring. For a moment I wns ready | | to acknowledge that i was beaten at my | | line of reasoning, as I could see nothing | | of the redskins, but while the horse was | | drinking, the would-be assassins, who | | were crouched in the semi-darkness, | {moved forward into view. Yes, the three of them were there, and each had | his rifle, and they had come to kill me. Their actions proved it. They waited | | three or four minutes to see why I did | not come up, and were then sbout tc ‘move forward when I opened fire. I] dropped Half Moon in his tracks, tumbled | Cloudy Day over as he sprang for shel. | ter, and fired upon, but missed, Red Earth as he dodged behind a great boul- der. Had he jumped backward into the canon he would have had all the advan. | tage, but in his sudden surprise he made three or four leaps, and took shelter be- | tween me and the spring. ! 1should not have fired upon him had he run off, and if he had asked fore truce [should have granted it. But he was determined to have my life. He had a good Winchester, and he got such se cure cover that I was obliged to lie low and let him do all the shooting. He velled out to me that he had me dead te rights and he would soon lift my scalp, and he called out, as if to other Indians, to get in behind me, He did this. te rattle me and make me expose myself te his aim, but I saw though hus gnme. J do not know how I would have come out had we been left undisturbed, but my horse presently came to my aid. The firing had excited him, and he had beer trained to look upon an Indian as ar enemy. He saw the red skin down be hind the rock and charged him savagely. The fellow sprang up and exposed him self, and I was waiting for the oppor tunity. The three Indians had come to the ambush on horseback. I took their ponies, rifles, and other truck to the post with me and turned them over to the commandant. He sent word to the head men of the tribe at the agency of what had happened, and a chief named Lame Deer, accompanied by three bucks, came after the thiogs, It was explained to him that the men bad threatened my life and were in ambush to shoot me down, and Lame Deer took a pull at his whisky bottle, looked me over with » grunt of approval, and said *‘Man-Who-Rides-Fast do just right. Injun must let him alone. Who got smoke tooack for Lame Deer!" New York Sun, He Saved the Czar, “Brock™ MeVickar, one of the charac ters of Chicago, just dead, oace saved the life of Alexander, the Iste Car of Kussia. *‘Brock™ was in Paris, and oz the grand fete day was in the street among the throngs of people watching the Czar and his magnificent retinue as they passed on their way to the Tail cries, Suddenly an anarchist or nihilist je the crowd pulled a gun, and poking the muzzle under the arm of aman in front of him, blazed away at the Czar, “Brock™ MeceVickar was the man is front of the would-be assassin. He turned and grabbed him, and, despite his desperate struggles to get away ano lose his identity in the crowd, hung or until the otlicers arrived and hurried the man to prison, The Czar inquired who had stoppe the murderous nihjlist. He was tolo that the individual was *“‘Brock™ Me Viekar, of Chicago. He sent for him, and “Brock” brushed up a little and went, The Czar thanked **Brock” fo the service he had rendered and deco rated him with various orders as a re ward, — New York Herold. —— Telegraphers Who Make Fortunes, I don’t know how it happens, says # writer in the New York Sar, but it seems to me that more telerraphers drift into Wall street and achieve riches there than any class I am acquainted with, A few evenings ago I was at an uptown club with some gentlemen, when one of the party had a telegram delivergd to him. He opened it, looked at it dbubt fully, and said that it was unintel ng! ble. The operator, in fact, had “bulled™ it badly, and as it was about » subject of importance to him, he was | somewhat annoyed. Another member of the party, a prominent stock exchange man, quietly took it, and without a word jotted down the mes as it was writ. ten in the Morse alphabet, He then | separated the characters somewhat dif. ferently from the bungling operator who had received it, and gave the other gen. tieman what was evidently the correct wording of dhe hare 4 you learn anything about teleg ym asked some Toe. Pie oted Tuy and laughed. ‘““Why, fifteen years ago | was a working operator at #15 a month,” Maxims of Great Warriors, Najoieon laid it down ms a special A rofedlionat Stuty Ji satus form is the 1 cond ition of og Sudotus, at the confessed to a junior personal oa te perior men, an art for ordinary men sad a trade for ig norant men. QUEER BIRDS. LIVING IN FRIENDSHIP WITH | ANIMALS. A Snbterranean Tenantry — The Fea hi rod Vriend of the Ithinoceros and the Valthiul Channa. on There are few visitors to the country districts of this State who have not been amused by noticing the sedate antics of sundry sun-dried looking little owls who, perched upon the rail fence or near hillocks, bow gravely to the passers by. They are by no means shy, or, perhaps, their apparent want of timidity is due to their poor sight: at any rate they can be easily knocked over. When shot, how- ever, they are found to be very poor game, not much better than carrion. As they stand blinkipg and ducking by the roadside they look to be quite a decent. sized bird, but when examined after be ing shot they are found to be 70 per cent, feathers, Worse than that, these feath. ers are full of owl is found to be avery dirty und dis- appointing game, dogs, and a little patient observation will show that gophers and owls or prai- | rie dogs and owls live together asa hybrid community. for the wisdom it has shown in the selee- tion of its home. The hole of the prairie doy is quite a pleasant place, cool in summer and warm in winter, and that of the gopher is very much like it. From the entrance the passage into the mound descends vertically for one or two feet, and is thence continued obliquely downward, until it terminates in the liv- ing apartment, It is globular in form, and generally compactly lined with dried grass. What the exact terms of the community are, is not known, but it is evident that tle members live on terms of peace and good will, It is certain, that the owls live inti. mately with the rodents, end that they Iay their egus and and bring up their young in the holes. Whether the rodents lay toll on the egas for rent or the owls occasionally take a nip at the young squirrels or g phe rs cannot be said. but both suppositions are possible, Itis a curious fact that the cry of the owl, cheh, cheh’' pronounced several times in rapid succession, is that of the rodent with whom he associates and that some tutoring is evidently going on. By too, A EUROPEAN CUCKOO, The American burrowing owls are found west of the Rocky Mountains, being especially numerous on the plains of the great plateau. They are strictly diurnal sod feed on grasshoppers, crickets and mice A much less agreeable bird is the cuckoo. Notwithstanding all the fine things that have been written about the “harbinger of spring,” the cuckoo is a dissolute. dishonest and lazy Lindl. He never builds a nest for himself, but has the singular fashion of laying an egg in the most convenient nest of some other bird, leaving the care of the young one to the foster parents thus selected, Though the egy is rather a small one the youny cuckoo grows rapidly snd reaches 8 good size while the legitimate oc. cupants of the nest are still unable to look alter themselves. No sooner does | the intruder attain its precocious strength than it proceeds to ¢ ect the other bird. lings from the nest by taking them on its shoulders and throwing them bodily over the side of the nest. Being the sole baby it receives all the support of the family, gets every worm or buy the mother brings home, and roon gets big enough to get out and shift for itself, The nest selected by the cuckoo mother is that of a sparrow, finch or lark, and it is believed PB Montague and others that she has the power to retain the egg in the oviduct until she can find a nest suitable for its reception. The evil practices here related are, it | | is pleasant to observe, characteristic of | the European and not of the American | cuckoo, the latter bird building its own nest and rearing its young in the usual | It is painful, however, to have | slovenly | manner, to admit that the nest is 8 ver affair, being fat and enim | of a fow dry sticks and gras on a horizontal branch of a dow tree: and it is still more | painful to have to admit that it is given to the highly reprehensible practice of sucking the eggs of other birds in many respects it is no better than it shou d be, Although so much has been written of the cuckoo by posts very little is known yet by naturalists, re are really more than forty well-defined species of the cuckoo, all of them being migratory, The most interesting is the European cuckoo, a bird about fourteen inches long and having a sweep of about twenty. five inches neross the wings. The cor ners of the mouth and eyelids and the inside of the mouth are of an goles, The plumage ol the t and upper parts is a grat the under and the auxil are white with distinet bars ith te, along the shaft with tri. white #! the feet are yellow and the bill black. The a closely resembles the male, It arrives Rurope in: Great lice, and altogether the | Another peculiarity | to be remarked concerning these birds is | that they are always found in localities | that are infested Ly gophers or prairie | | min crow and cowcor, | is, he is a positive gen | night . ' has often shot the rhinoceros at midnight | | at fountains, , and that | latter it cuts off the binder end and frees the body from the intestinal canal by repeated jerks with its sharp bill, The males are more numerous than the females, and are bold and fierce. In sulumn they are fat, the ancients Xiiling and eating them at that time, slthou it would now almost be considered a sacrilege to eat 8 cuckoo even when at its plumpest, The American cuckoo is a smaller bird, seldom longer than twelve and one- half inches or wider across the wings than sixteen inches. The general color of the bird's back and wings is a light greenish brown, the under parts being grayish white, They are shy birds, SECRETARY BIRD, frequenting the dense woods and solitary swamps, The notes resemble the word “Cowecow,” repeated several " | times with increasing rapidity hence The owl is known as the burrowing | g rapiciny, owl, and though anything butan at- | | tractive creature, is to be commended it is also called the Its food consists of caterpillars, insects, wood snails zed berries, Its flight is rapid, but its gait on the ground is very awkward, itis found in all parts of the United States, though nowhere in great numbers; but there 1s another cuckoo, called the man- grove cuckoo, which is rarely seen out of Florida, Intruder and dishonest as the cuckoo tleman beside the crow. The crow is a born thief-—a petty larcenist of the worst description, He devours the eggs of the birds as a matter of principle. He murders wounded bird with malignity. He de lights to worry the owl and to tease the opossum or racoon is his daily recrea tion Even when brought! into domes ticity, as it easily can be, it displays considerable intelligence, but it will steal everything it can lay its hands on, from a door-mat to & silver te aspoon. It will eat fresh meat when it is to Le had, bu* when this is not procurs t never hesitates to eat carrion or to begin upon any animal that is soon likely to be. In this re spect his habit seems the same in all countries, and there can be nothing one of its names Lile ie more heartless than the way in which | When- | the | be hurries up to the moribund ever he sees an animal lying on ground he soon collects all his com. in the vicinity. One of boldest hops upon the animals body hops slowly toward its head and looks Imquinngly into its If the anima! is able to defend itself, he removes the dangerous rades CYes, | friend by a shake of the head . but if the eves Le dim from disease or wounds, the crow per and plunging its powerful bill into the eyeball of the sufferer, digs it out and feasts upon his favorite morse At his signal the rest join in the attack and are busy at the mimal’'s entrails as quick as one could say Jack Hobinson. Like the burrowing owl, the crow is very fond of the society of other animals, sheep and cow. The motives are not the same, however, and it requires but very little watching to find that all this affectionate herding with these animals is simply the question of gluttony. The sheep is a ticted with ticks and the cow with skin worme, both nice fat morsels, and master crow is after these, With his sharp, strong bill he digs out the parasite, and with the extent of this crop cives his interest in Mary's little lamb comes | to an end, It is for no such sordid motives as these that the buphaga has struck up a | friendship for that heavy and mischiev ous beast the rhinocerous, small white one, is the best, unicorn. It makes a harsh cry in the 8 weax or | the | his favorite being the | This bird. a | if not the | only friend owned by the thick skinned | back of the head, which when depressed looks like a pen stuck behind a clerk's ear, The birds are nustives of Africa, arc usually seen in paisa, and seem to make a business of devouring serpents. When attacking a snake they approach with one wiag extended and acting as & shield to the body, and with the other strike the reptile, wounding it with the spur, and tossing it into the sir and safely werring out the most venomous species, They also eat lizards, torioises, rats, small birds and large insects, Their vo- racity is remarkable, Le Vaillant men- tioning that he took from the crop of one zleven good-sized lizards, three ser- pents as long as his arm, eleven small tortoises and a number of insects. The natives domesticate them and place them in the poultry yard, where they watch over the fowls with all the care of a mother tending her chickens. The Chinese have trained thst glut. tonous bird, the cormorant, to fish for them, and it will be an interesting task for the amateur student of natural his. tory to add to the list furnished in this article of birds which, contrary to the general custom, are more at home with | strangers than those of their kind. —8an {| Francisco Chronicles, Chita Tarrying in Mexico. Does the question arise what may be | a chita? It is a packing-case, a chair, 8 | saddle, a child's cradle—so diverse are | its uses by the Indians. It is made in tks general shape of a clam shell, with a {rim of hard bent wood, of sone two inches thick, over which is woven firmly 8 rawhide lattice work of netting. Strapped upon the back, with starropes | or thongs passing over the forehead of the bearer, thechita is loaded with small gous, Or else a great packing-case, or a pig, asheep, or a human passenger. Al- most every one who goes this road, makes the trip in a chita,, resting side wise against the eacrier’s back with his legs banging out, while sticks are affixed by which to hold steady, Save F. { Ducane Goodman, the biologist, and | myself 1 know of no one but Indians who have gone over this road save in this manner. Nothing on earth would a rr induce me to be so conveyed. The In- dians are generally faithful, but they have Leen known to stop in a dangerous place and by threats extort large sums from their passengers. They are mostly sure-footed ; I have never leard of one falling, while horses verv often tumble off the other road. But there is siways the possibility of a misstep, which would be nto, fe for the person carried by the Indian, while on ‘‘shank’s mare” one might recover one’s bulance. More- over, these people are personally so un- cleanly that such close proximity to them would be disgustingly offensive, especi- ally when they are warmed by exercise, I know perhaps a score of people who have been so carried, among them a man | who weighs 275 pounds. While this | sounds incredible, I can vouch for it. In case of such beavy.weights, three or four Indiasvs club together for relays and portage over the cliff road only is $6: from Jalapa to Misantia, $11, —Sun Francisco Chroni- cle, | share the pay. The charge of —— ear of the sleeping rhinocerous, which | awakening rushes of into the forest to | escape the hunter. As the animal scamp- ers 0/1 the bird perches on his back, re turning when frightencd or swept off by | 00" Jima, Bronchitia, Croup and all the branches, and remains with it all Sir Gordon Cumming says he and that these faithful AMERICAN DURROWING OWI, birds, imagining their lumpy friend was asleep, would remain uatil morning, and on his approaching, Lefore taking tight, would try to awaken him from his deep slee wre two other kinds that enter. tain a peculiar affection for animals, the screamer and the . The first in ing bird A Sensible Man : | Would use Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. Itis curing more cases of Coughs, Throat and Lung Troubles, than any other medicine, The proprietor has authorized any druggist to give you a Sample Bottle Free to convince you of the merit of this great remedy. Large Bottles 80c and 81. CorLoxiat, wool on sale this season in London ranoutts to some 155,000 bales, Catarrh Carved, A clergyman, after years of suffering from | that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly trying every known remedy. st last found a srescription which completely tured and saved sim from death, Any sufferer from thisdread. ful disase sending a self.addressed stamped envel to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 8 Waren t1. N.Y. will receive the recipe free of charge. A Rad endl Care for Epileptic Fire, To the Editor Please inform gout renders hat] haven positive remedy fort above reamed disease which 1 warrant to cure the Worst cases, So ot ath toes that | will send 1:
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