PETER'S QUESTIONS, When Peter was a sturdy lad He moved from Grassvale with his dad; ' And left behind hfs Joo and John, And little Jake and Jefferson; Four chums of his by day and night With whom he used to play and fight; Now where is Joe, and where is John, And where is Jake and Jefferson? Ten years passed by and Pete came back With these four questions in his pack: “Now where is Joe, and where is John. And where is Jaks and Jefferson?” “Joe digs his livin® with his plek: An' John keeps store down to the ‘Crick.’ Jake is away to school I think: An' Jefferson has took to drink.” And Pete came back in ten years more With the same questions as before “Now where is Joe, and where is John, And where is Jake and Jefferson?” “Joe caught cold ditehin' in the rain, An' — we shan't soe poor Joe again; John has got rich an’ Jake got wise; Jeff is a scamp who all despise.” In ten years Peter comes once more And asking questions as before “Now tell me where is old friend John, And where is Jake and Jefferson®” “Why, John he died a millionaire; Jake's gone to Congress, 1 declare. An' Jeff, the poor old worthless scamp, Is nothin’ but a common tramp.” And once more ten years later on He asks: “Where's Jake and Jefferson? “Hain't heard how Governor Jacob died? He was the State's especial pride, An’ to his solemn funeral grand The great men came from all the land; 3ut Jeff it's no good to bewail Why poor old Jeif has gone to jail.” ten years later on, And once more Does Peter ask for Jefferson “Why, hain't you heard the story yit? The papers they was full of it It filled the land from side to side, The way the poor old fellow died The Jeff who played with you when young, The worthless, gray-haired Jeff was hung.” Ten years are gone with days that were, Gone questioner and answerer, And with his questions comes no more The gray-haired Peter as before: And people ask for him no more, And no one asks his questions four: “Now where is Joe, and where is John And where is Jake and Jefferson? ~. WW. Foss, in Yankee Blade THE BUSHRANGERS, After a voyage from Liverpool to Mel bourne I went up country with an Amer ican for a sort of vacation. I had sailed with Shaw while he was Captain of a New Orleans ship, filling the berth of second mate to his satisfaction, and, as | life feeling between acquaintance named Shaw had saved his occasion, there was a He owner of a big sheep mnch on the Mur ray River, and I was only too glad to A run and something a country noted for its anomalies. This was before the days of milroads and while the penal colony was in full blast and the bushranger king of the road. We were five days riding out to Shaw's ranch, our vehicle being a wagon leaded with six yokes of bullocks, which were almost as wild as buffaloes. 1 heard very little the bushrangers until reached the ranch, and then Shaw me such sceounts of the fellows as made me hope I should never be obliged to form their acquaintance. His immedi ste district had not been visited for two or three years, but t come in to the north and west of him gnd indulged in many robberies and murders. There were three Englishmen and natives on the range, which was an extent of country nine miles long by five broad. The force at the headquarters house, after our arrival, numbered three white men, a white woman, three natives, two black women, and four or five black children No gang of bushrangers numbering less than six would dare to attack us, as the house was well armed and the black women could fire a musket as well as a man. Shaw had instructed his help to adopt a peace policy. In a bush ranger applied atany of the stations for food or shelter he was to be accommo. dated, and if they picked off a sheep oc- cassionally no notice was to be taken of it. As I said before, he had not been disturbed thus far, but while he deluded himself with the idea that it was an ae- count of the policy pursued, events were about to occur to prove that the gentle. men of the bush had been wailing their own convenience, A bushranger was, in every instance, a desperate criminal who had made his es- cape from prison or the penal settle. ments. There wasn't one of them who had not deserved the gallows before he fled to the bush. A dozen or more of the most desperate characters sent to Tasma- nia had escaped and reached the larger island and penetrated to the interior, and these men were particularly ferocious and and without mercy. Shaw seemed to rest easy, however, and so during the first week of my stay 1 did not bother my head about the mogers, ; comer had enough todo to get accus- tome to the snakes, lizards, insects and other annoyances which kept him stirred up day and night, on one warm us, was now the wed 4 ashore of Sie about we gave ... aq hae aey twelve case On the tenth day of my stay Mr. Shaw | suoh 4 death was too merciful for me. and I set out to visit one of the outlying stations in charge of an Englishman named Thomas. This man was about forty-five old, and had deserted from an Eng- man-of-war. He had three black men under his charge, and one of them had been sent in the day before with a badly written note to the effect that many sheep were being killed, and that all signs went to show that a gang rangers had settled down in the neigh- borkood. We were mounted on good horses and well armed as wo rode away, and after an hour's ride we drew near the station, which consisted of a stout log hut for the keeper, another for the bincks, and pens for herding the " We found the Place silent and a y deserted, and leaving our horses in a thicket, we cautiously on foot, was that the of | and would : ranchmen { tion : fellows heir night! their night i to the authorities | man was heavily armed, | cover them { leisure ly | quainted with tl omni pr ot blacks had been killed, and we pushed on to the larger hut to find Thomas with- in half an hour of breathing his last, He could speak in whispers, and he told us that seven bushrangers had appeared the evening before and committed the atro- cities visible on every hand. Although he had made them welcome and prepared supper, they had come fora different pur- pose, tortured in the most horrible manner, and when the last one was dead they had turned on Thomas, ; his ears, broken his fingers, cut off the end of his nose, havked off his toes, and tortured him in other ways and had not left the place until about an hour before our arrival. Everything of value could be carried gone, and a» bloody knife was left stickingin the door sill as a sort of defi to Shaw and the of ficers of the law, There rmment t hat district at that time, and wld to nearest and pursuit on our own account, had white and about twenty faithful blacks in hand for a start, and the trail was taken up at the cabin. No one had any great hopes that should overtake the rangers, but it was argued that pursuit must be made or they would soon whole district. If we did happen to fieht Every ranger had a price set on his head, he men which ofl was patrol in the only the was no Gove MOVE we ( make was alarm two ranchmen organize a dv noon next day we ten men we terrorize the un there would be a hot fight death, snd the had faced The white the they had no trouble in After were who death almost dail y for years, were mounted, while bhiacks ranmng the end of » our horses It did gone best ie country predicted another mile + and quite evident that fel ld they had the follow the WHS WS fear pursuit, pace, and men the gang had headed for in the midst of a six miles fro the cabin soon verified, forward with greater caution, h would be 5 Carns | two gallons of and the chan | stupidly dru ravine we and received killed one black Shaw was Was and man acting as Captain and he ordered us to deploy in open arder. thicket, kil others we rated, and done to the edd one after acd vane ing dein dad a mile the others he had point where it acting by such a distance the left to all the « advan or more wen ambushes sudden] vers me, in the rear, held a brief coun det ided to retreat I to the left, and wo wiild was disc Wer any ol whole gang of r from t prisoner HT he earth around 3 There were six of the an honest m They and their clothing est-looking villains clapped eves their and unkempt, and on were dressed, hair have sed men in my but anything to compare with this half or mostly of shee p skins I t Ph i hard lookin ime, the had who were under the leadership o This been transported for murder, and during the two years he was in the colony he killed two guards and led a revolt He escaped from Tasmania by floating out of the harbor on a plank, being loaded down with forty pounds of chain at the time, but whether he was pic ked up at sea or driven to Australian coast was not known He how, and for two years previous to my story had been a veritable terror in a dis trict 100 miles square For a minute after the rangers rose up about me not a word was said. Each and, though I had a rifle in my hands, it would have been folly to move, “Well, who are you?" asked the leader, after we had all taken a good look each other. notorious Joe Trimble. man got there some at I gave him all the information asked | for, and was honest in stating the num. Indeed a new- | ber of the party in pursuit. They did not know that the ranger whom | had seen lying dead had fallen by our bullets, but supposed he had become separated from them as they retreated. When I admitted his death their rage knew no bounds. Had I been an un- armed traveler they would doubtless have taken my life just the same, for this gang had never been known to spare any one. But when they knew that I was one of the party, and was more or less respon. sible for the death of their comrade, they would have cut me to pieces then and { there had it not occurred to them that And, too, they were not aware of the fact that Shaw's party had retreated. After an outburst, lasting three or four minutes, I was disarmed, my pockets emiiod. my hat appropristed by one, and my jacket by another, and we set off for the ravine at a dog trot. two of the men going before and the others follow- ing efter me and striking me at every rtunity. e ravine was a dark and dismal spot, reached by a well worn wind. ing about and making a gradual descent, We went down in single file, snd when we finally got to the bottom I found a hut made of brush and limbs and rock, The blacks, one by one, had been | They had sliced off | outlaws reasoned that they had given up the pursuit, I gota pretty good look {at the surroundings, and, as near {a8 I could make out, the path | was the only way out of the ravine. As {we came down one of the men took { his seat on a rock, with his revolver in { hand, to act as guard, and, as I got no { orders, I sat down on another rock near the hut. One of the men started a fire, another cut some meat, and a third went down a ravine and got a can of water at a spring, While supper was preparing | the leader of the gang took a long pull at the whisky jug and then came over and stood in front of me and indulged in a tirade of oaths, threats and abuse, He swore he'd clean out every manchman in | {the district, and that he would have twenty lives for the death of his comrade He boasted of the number of Ii and the amount of his plunder up by declaring thas 1 should be skin alive and my head sont minder of what was made ne victims ind enone answer, Knowing only could I could say would I was hopeless, | the slits mgr fate, A primit five of the the sixth At this time se as of distant tl st chance to es ive meal was soon 1 outlaws sat down to deve kept | , I th ht aer, LOM wi to be fully dark of three or while 1s rock 10 i i oe ‘ f £15 LO 08 Ii A i { had com ter an interval th f a blinding flash « thunder Te CRI ollowed by 8 crash of and shake the n ispendle the guard ro 2 minute of here came ano up the Wi rush h dashed r r terrified 1 by reached us there v and I heard wed my ey earth When Samuel F 8 a4 the Invent Was B yo he ing painter lon made a drawing of Farnese Hes fler it to Benjamin West an an 5s work Cast ! ANXio nis master the drawing nad : Pe riect When Mr. pramined it and that Go on “But it i “Oh, no!” said 4 ‘ And he put his finger upon various unfinished places Mr they were p vinted out here, and here, and bh dor fects, . Morse saw the d¢ voted another week to remedying Then he carried the dma Mr West was pleased, and lavished praises upon the work : but at the end he handed it back, “Very well indeed, master evidently much and said as before gir. Go on and finish it “‘Is it not finished?” asked Mr by this time all but discouraged “Not yet: you have not marked that muscle, nor the articulations of the fin- ger joints.” The student once more took the draw ing home, and spent several days in re ching it. He would have it done this time, But the critic was not satisfied The work was good, ‘‘very good indeed, remarkably clever,” but it needed to be “finished.” “1 cannot finish it,” in despair I “Well,” answered Mr. West, “I have tried you long enough You have Morse, to yet said Mr. Morse Jearned more by this drawing than you | would have accomplished in double the | time by a dozen half-finished drawings.” « Yankee Blade. The Hereditary Principle Hlustrated. a most striking illustration in the case of { the family and Kinsmen of ex. President Theodore Dwight Woolsey, of Yale Col lege. Dr. Woolsey was a descendent of | James Pierrepont, the famous native of | Roxbury, who having becorae dissatisfied with the liberal tendencies of Harvard College, induced Elihu Yale to found » more conservative school at New Haven, | The present President of Yale, Timothy Dwight, is also a descendant of the same | founder, and with the history of the | families of Dwight is interwoven that of Edwards and Pierrepont, who have given many illustrious names to American his tory or letters, It is no more coincidence that both Woolsey and Dight, nine- ig A no dsons f veo great-groat-gran 0 the hat founder of the college: for the inking and plain living of the who were closely assoc inted itwelt lity, was the into a hereditary impetus | clouds, from whence those found | rivers are washed down, | theory entirely without reason, though { nobody has been able to find the matrix | great pearl-fishing ground. |GEMS THAT ARE BOGUS, PRECIOUS STONES MADE BY ARTI. FICIAL MEANS, Making Counterfeit Rubles—A Ten Thousand Dollar Gem From Five Dollars’ Worth of Sparks, “That is a very beautiful stone,” said a Star reporter to a Washington jeweler, | calling the latter's attention dark purple gem of considerable size, with vivid red fire, which lny in a satin-lined box within the glass show case seems very cheap, tod wr value," on Is apparent Ct is cheap for the reason that it i not a real stone,” replied the desler, CAND imitation?” “No: it is not contrary it does not f an In nature, an imitation, at all resem! the eye expert, any known It is simply You Lhe eal product; tl all. chemists havi ture of gold man to make with some not awn have ben Veurs aceon { Pegiea m only trouble is that the dian cessfully out by chemical art Hpie ‘But Sparks “The sparks’ ory few fied Burmah, rulsy is world natives nturies been digging fo therefore Thes strata, wt primitive and fitable manner are pr quant LIOR ID SOCCoss ors of earth and cl depth below the surface so 4 WU CIV valuabie tru Ail ATE SO SIDR y be soar Only occasionally 8 big one, with the pigeon’s-blood color, turns up. Ri are also largely obtained in Ceylon, wher the natives make a business of hunting for them in the streams that come down from the huge cone of mountains in the central part of the island, where it has been supposed for centuries that a great of above the in the Xor is such a matrix rubies existed, yot When discovered it will afford a profitable opportunity for the use of a | few pounds of dynamite.” “‘Are there pearls from Ceylon?” “Yes, the waters thereabout are a Next spring will be the harvest of pearls at Ceylon, which comes only once in three years Between the harvests the patives wait patiently for the oysters to grow, are largely counterfeited, as you know, the best imitations being made of hollow ban i | glnse beads, lined with transparent wax The principle of hereditary has received | and scales taken from living fish. The pearl is chiofly composed of carbonate of lime, with films of animal membrane be- tween its many layers. These membrane films, becoming dry, gives the pearl its hardness. The substance of the pearl isa slimy secretion of the oyster, which is ordinarily deposited upon the interior surface of the shell, forming what is called ‘mother of pearl.” Grains of sand or other foreign bodies, lodging within the shell, produce an irritation of the tissue which causes the deposit of a pearly matter around them for the oyster’s pro. tootion, This matter is deposited layer after layer until the pearl is formed. By the artificial introduction of flinty fied Pearls | SELECT SIFTINGS. The city of New York has 600 Sunday { schools, | The Queen of England makes her own | ten when traveling. About 25,000,000 letters pass yearly between the United Kingdom and North America, Athens, Ga., has a cow that walked on the cross ties over a and 150 yards long. Nearly every vess | Diego, Cal. , eleven tons of ho ny The Florida Stats of wie Of refuse by eremati from carries from ten to | eleared nowninve san Board all cities 10,000 Four million shoe hoxes New |} were acturers la used by Metid] und manuf ost from 25 to 50 « re are 52,000 bens { for at a 5 One They © COMTGAL f their office are h re fond less of the Others, « much disaster ale AS up m turbance wh and As In p ssible whenever the ord CALs rs Are given population are to a large degree educated men, politica more or less of Wih the ex: populated largely by a ra and a profession eption of Pera, which other South American republics seem to | Argen- | are developing | be doing better Chili and thee tine Republic especially at a wonderful rate and when their re presentatives the North and South American Congress this fall they will be able to make a showing that will OPER OUr eyes. - ftianta Constelutson. come to aaa ———— The Most Numerons Figures are given to show that man is the most numerous animal on the globe, There are about fifteen hundred millions of him altogether, against five hundred million sheep, three hundred million cattle, a hundred million pigs and only sixty million horses, Of wild animals it is of course impossible to make any census whatever, but there are prob. ably very few species, at any rate of the larger kinds, whose numbers reach into {the millions. in the lower orders of creation, howeve fishes, insects and so | forth-<the figures would run vastly | higher. Who can count the mackerel in { the Atlantic or the mosquitoes in New | Jersey le Argosy Utiliztion of Running Streams, The utilization of running streams is the object of many recent devices, among which may be mentioned that of M. Taya, "Animal. trestle 65 feet high | | quer tiy gone as | i the The remaining fifteen per cent. of the | highly | most of them make | is | » of slaves, the | woe A BIG WESTERN WOLF HUNT EXCITING BPORT OF THE WYOMING RANCHMEN. Wolves and Coyotes Driven From Their Dens by Dynamite Clears ing the Country of Wild Animals, A correspondent of York World writing from Che Although h the New yenne, savas mting in royal sport of wolf-hunting parties have fre. Wyoming for the t th ol [i i vata rive having 8 systematic drive, having ne of are miles of ternitor so vorsl REEVES operations | spoed wolf off to death ross the and but were no antelog disturbed, ' drive a8 nid nown he Killing different px bluffs ample for the hunters biarbec i“ FEES ¥ ued and big had been 4 added an appe- tempting to hungry For a while the hunt partook of nature of an immense picnic, and while the cow ponies of the ranchers and nd thoroughbred mounts of the town sportsmen munched their oats is MMYoOr tae riders the common their riders formed picturesqe groups under the cottonwoods, and over their roast beef and coffee detailed the adventures of the morning's drive After dinner the real work of the day commenced. Along the line of bluffs for | their entire length the dens of the wolves | had been | barricaded with stones to prevent the es. marked, and some of them eape of the occupants From the four point of redezvous along the valley the hunters moved against the cliffs. Fires wore built at the entrance of the eaves. Green bushes and sulphur were thrown in the flames to make a smoke disagrees. bie encugh to the wolves to force them from their hiding places. A cordon of men and boys, armed with shotguns, rifles and revolvers, formed around the cave, When the blinded and bewildered coyotes and wolves broke into view through the smoke and flames they fell eary victims to the volley of bullets which gregied them. When fire failed to bring out the wolves, charges of dynamite and giant powder were exploded in the caves and the entire frout of the cliffs blown down, burying the animals in the ruins, All afternoon the work of extermination went on, and was only brought to a close by nightfall. « Several hundred coyotes snd gray wolves were killed along the entire line y who attended ths hunt took out twenty.
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