A FANATIC, A young knight made his battle-ory, “I'l fight the evil till I die And forth: he rushed with hasdless m ight To do his battle for the right, And recklessly he laid about, And ruthlessly, and felt no doubt, But blindly struck whate'er he saw That seemed to him to have a flaw, "At length a doubt came to his mind: He paused, and turned, and looked behind: Alas! too late he understood How deftly mingles ill with good, With swimming eye, with reeling brain, He saw the good that he had slain, Himself seemed evil to him now, And then he thought upon his vow, And, lo, the warrior lay at rest, With his own dagger in his breast! ~Henry Uolling, in Lippincott, mt ———————— Al A " “vn i Al THE MINERS STRIKE. BY GEORGE E. MERRILL. It 18 quite ten years since the Little Nugget Mine was opened. It is situated on Knob Mountain, ten or twelve miles from the now thriving city of Aspen, It | is about eight years since the Little Nug- get strike occurred, in which Ellen Lybee played so conspicuous a part that one still hears the miners speak her name with a sort of wondering reverence, Her father, Christopher Lybee, had brought his family to Colorado several years before, and his wife had died, af. ter many hardships in their frontier life, just before he had undertaken the super- | intendency of the Little Nugget Mine. to the mine, and there she had lived two years, taking care of his little house, and pouring in upon his lonely life the only sunshine that it knew. It was rare sunshine for any man's life, At eighteen years of age Ellen Lybec was not what every ene would call beautiful, but thers was a native refinement in her features and manner quite out of with the rough mining camp, It was not often that tl daughters of the m themselves with the grew in the canons and ers of Little Ellen was rarel some blossom tucked into the her dress, in her It was one of many thing her to be of a different stamp from the few other women in the camp. It was a lonely and rough place for her, but there was nothing to tempt such a girl to yield herself to the moulding influences of the life around her. There Was, on the contrary, everything to in duce her to resist it. What she was in her owr sought to be in the homes of others. and she had not been a week in the little settiement before it was plain that the camp would be better for her presence, rir keeping Howers ithe Creek wild covers the Nugget bloom: Lut or twinned ¥ 3 A dome, she The superintendent's house was better than any other. It was a framed struc ture, well put together, with glazed windows, good stock doors. floors wel laid, and with three of as celled with plaster. There were in it many evidences of Ella's taste. The wild vines of the « ns had been planted by the door, and trained upward over its frame and the adjoining window, and the gly barbed wire fence was well hid Mita the same gracefu the Lg an len under ering John Randal’s old blind o have t many long that Ellen spent in hes the hour the 5 pass pleasantly in 4 darkness ; and when Joh: Randal hin was laid up pearly al nter witl rheumatism, nothing « much as Kllen's presence ar Mstrations, “Hogerboom’'s Patent Pai Ache-Destroyin’ liniments ain't to Lybec’s girl,” John used to she only kind of comes round and at ye." It was when children were down the Mrs. Bender had no peace until Ellen came in each afternoon with fresh stories and flowers, When Yellow Jim broke his leg down the shaft, and was brought up cursing 80 that even some of the men themselves were shocked, he became very quiet when Ellen spoke to him in a low voice: and when she did not leave his little cabin for two days and nights, except when her father's meals were to be got, Yel low Jim found that there were compensations, even for a broken leg. Discontent had been brewing among the miners in the Little Nugget. These men, who were handling so much rich ore for others, began to feel that their wages ought to be a somewhat larger share of what their labor raised from the ground. Yellow Jim was owe of the foremost to stir up the discontent, and it had more than once come to the notice of Christopher Lybec that the little AG Kill » a 1 . looks nN Mike with Bender's two measles Mme knots of workmen who were talking to. | gether under their breath, and broke | up when he appronched, were centred around Jim, He was not much surprised when five of the men, with Jim at their head, came to the office one day and asked for an in. crease of pay. Lybec knew what no expectation of success when he asswered that he would telegraph to New York for instructions, The men dio not mean to wait until word gould come from directors two thousand miles away. They meant to have the money, whatever answer might be received, and to have it at once, Lybes was a stubborn man, <lared that not a man should have an ad. ditional cent until he received definite orders from New York to pay it. Next morning the men refused to work, Lybee mounted his horac, struck into the trail that led toward the town, and “rode ly away, At night he returned, and called Jim to the office, “You may tell ali the tien that they up to-morrow morning and be a “I shall have no work a "Taay ph tui have they can this meant. He had | He de. got more wages, if they can find the place. Take them over to the Clara; perhaps they can get work there.” Lybec laughed as he said this. Yel. low Jim knew that the Clara Mine had shut down two days before. The taunt put an idea into Jim's head, Lybec had probably engaged the miners thrown out of work at the Clara. The game was up, Jim reported to the mon, with him in his conjecture, explanation could be given prompt dismissal of his whole force, when Little Nugget was showing a splendid output, and every day's idleness of men and machinery meant serious loss to the company. “What do you say, ment fight ist” It was nearly a unanimous vote to fight it. When Lybec awoke the next morning, the narrow gulch in which the mine opened was walled across by a formidable breastwork six feet high, closing in the mine. Not a man was to be seen in the camp. Nota gun was to be found in any of the cottages. Lybec was pale with rage, but he mounted his horse and rode away with. out a word. Meanwhile the men proceeded with their undertazing. After Lybec disap who agreed No other for Lybec's Shall we | | peared they came out, collected all the food they could find, took one or two of | the women of the families to do their | | cooking, sent the rest into town in | charge of two of the younger miners, who | were hardly more than boys, and then worked on completing their barricade. | At noon Lybec returned. Ellen met him at the door, and told him what had i occurred, He had brought Ellen, his only child, | use of mel” “They in that hole; I have The shenff will be | men, too. behind the wall: “What's the he said. their fighting | oped up y whole universe. | { an hour, and They have a dozen | we have arsenals outside I” his party, with the | discharged from the than Lybec had ox. He and Ellen we til 1 Ale © ' DEW nchesters d sheriff all the and Intely fifty, ap The new miners Clas arrived sooner re st nto town nce for provisions 1 the people in [| camp itseil, The sheriff stepped out and, in front of his and called to the insurgents, MIE pe eably forth deliver the same to t, Christopher Lybec derisive ie superintenden The miners answered with a shout of laughter. "hen a bullet whis- | tled over the sherifl’s head. he £1 itto 'em, b ve sh yuted the y " “Give it to ‘em! sheriff, | There was a sharp fight. The shenff received a painful wound in the thigh, and fell to the ground. His followers hind such shelter as they could | vieg the sherifl where he fell. adow car she tb s flamed suddenly forth, | man be itered one ball full From corners came quick rifle reports gehead » h i another how sure brought the ground oment { nt exp arst r phe with a from h hand was per ed fell useless He had been firing fr worl his gun his f a cabin near his house Ellen sprang house s, Ah i But did re face was flushed, and with excitement. is gun ipa was by his side main long, Her her breast heaved Before her father could stop her, she ran out again, straight the middle space between the combatants, and stood above the body of the prostrate sheriff | There was that y stood there bullets had ir pped, n the she ’ * Tad 4 8 the Del wee not it into ns tantly the firing ceased not a man upon either side would Lybe« nstant before injure Ellen where an | been flying Ellen took no notice of the wounded man at her side, but waving her hand toward the attacking part, she called out to them to stop firing. Then she turned | toward the gulch and the barrier across its mouth “John Randal! i John Randal!” she called The voice rang « with no tremor of fear ia it. Was no snswer., At that moment John Randal was gaz ing in awe-struck wonder upon the face | of Yellow Jim, who returned his blank ! stare in amazement Randal could not answered if he had wished, But still came the same clear voice, and when no response was given, the call changed. “Mike Bender! der!” | “Hello, want!” Mike's faculties were more at his com. mand, “Mike Bender, show yourself and talk with me. Come out, Nobody shall hurt you," | A moment later Mike head was cau. | ously thrust out from the end of the | wall. Then he advasced slowly, climb. ing over the loose bowlders, stopping to lean his rifle agninst the stones at one end { of the barricade. “Mike,” said Ellen, ‘you would never lie to you. (you now, Twant you totell all the | others, Not one of them shall be hurt, | if they come out, and not » man shall go | oto the mine, either, until the men 1 | choose shall decide to let him go in and i work." “Now, you tell the men in there that there's no wee in fighting. There are {about twenty-five of you. | there's a i foolish and sweet, But there | wat, clear equal have Mike! Mike Ben ye! Hello, what do ye Talk with | any other camp, | ticulating | Ye low | 0 do a to » and then we will see who shal! work the | mine, “Come out-—you and all the men, or let me come in and talk there.” *No, ye'll not come in here, Miss El. len,” answered Mike. “It'll be no good at all, and nobody knows what may hap- pen. The girl thet risked her life nuss. ing my Nora ain't going to run no more risks if I can help it, Just Keep them fellows from shooting, and we'll come out." He disappeared a few minutes, and | Ellen used the interval to obtain from | the sheriff's party the premise that no shut should be fired and no movement made to arrest the men, until she herself should give the signal, Mike reappeared, and Ellen went forward to the spot where the wounded sheriff had fallen. She had sent some of the men to remove him, and he was now in her father's cottage, ‘‘Is it all right?" asked Mike, doubt- | fully. “Yes,” responded Ellen. “Let them come out. I want tosee John Randal, and Yellow Jim, and little Tom, and Nugget Dick—yes, and Beardy MAY as well come out, too.” They came, sad ranged themselves in line, beginning with pale faced young Tom, and ending with the giant Beardy, Then Ellen began to talk to them. She appealed to each one of them by name: she showed them the folly of their un- dertaking. She told them she did not want them to go away to work else- where; they would not be so well off in The Little Nugget had been their home for nearly two years, What would become of the children? There was not & motive th : Insensibly, as she again | did spoke ! at she t appeal to, ’ rew pearer and nearer to hie I words as she AWAY They could see that she her them, her them, observers at back lost passed irom was not wasting the me listening argument, however, for were now gathered about hb n er | attentively, and occasionally answering. ¥, ! Now and then Mike could be seen ges with im petuosity. far Eller n % her smiled as heir barricads yed doggedly down the slope, told them.” said Ellen to ist do it. | i would not take n, but that you and [ would ¢ business, and not one hould be burt, Won't you call Bender, and see what can be w h £1 wing Saturday night it all was freely confessed Mike's cabin, as he and Yellow Jim and John Randal and little Tom talked over the strike, while Beardy and two or three others sat around on kegs and 1 it in | boxes, » month that “It want no use. I'd 's' I'd 'a' given in, but wd and any her down in Kn scared that wo my back. ¢) i L ther a’ shot an instant, ywed who it was, | the cold creeps ran She | DOGGY ever woked just the day she come in and my wa had the scarlet fever I tell a done anything she asked! There was a silence of a few moments It was br Yellow Ji went whiriin Ken by a half-vicious kick that I gave an empty keg, whie g across the little room with a bang and a clatter, “That's the leg she nussed, took ked with he said; from his mouth ymmiseration st h leg, gazed a moment into dark cesses of the mfters, and smoked again. “What fetched Randal, ‘was the way she looked at me. Them , boys and he the pipe slowly, lot i the re me,” mid big blue eves of hern was ] we my poor, old blind mother! How many lays and days has she sat and listened to reading thet the gal's blue eyes were doin’ It wouldn't a-made no difference if Ellen hed asked me to come out and be shot. | believe I'd a’ come “And then the way she fixed it up! I kpew she'd do something. We might have hammered away at Kit Lybee for a year, and we wouldn't have got so much out of him as she did in five minutes.” A man who had been sitting in the dark corner during the conversation, my ing nothing, rose and stepped into the circle of light about the stove. “Boys,” ho mid, *'I tell ye "taint this one thing, nor that one thing. "Taint the nor blind mother, nor scarlet fever, it's Ellen Lybec. It's bless her!" Youth's for her! leg, I tell ye, bows, character! God Companion, . ——— - Increasing the Speed of Ships. In order to do away with the enor. mous pressure of the water against the | front of ocean steamships an English in. ventor has introduced a novel device which he claims will enable faster time to be made by vessels, in addition to | facilitating the maneuvring of ships and tend to avoid collisions, invention consists of one or more screws on each | side of the bow, each forty-five degrees | with the bow, and ninety degrees from | each other, Experiments made with these screws show that the water is thrown from each side of the bow, form. ing a deep well in front of the vessel, and allowing the stem screws to effect their full power in propulsion. «— Hoston Transcript, | white, | vented that can be run into the seam hot { and which will then stand the sun’s heat nossible part of SCLENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Veneers are cut by electricity, Asbestos is supposed to have a great future us u lubricator for machine bear- ings, Berlin, Germany, has refused to arant nny franchises for electric street rail- ways, The telephone between London, Eng. land, and Paris, France, is to be opened on March 1: charge for three minutes’ cone versation, $2, A lineman who received an electrie shock in Louisville, Ky., has become in- | sane and belicves that he is constantly pursued by an electric ghost, It has been recently ascertained that | the resistance of bricks. to « rushing force | varies from 5000 to 22,000 pounds per | square inch, according to quality, Drapers and others showing window goods liable to lose color by fading are advised to put yellow.colored glass in their windows, as the bleaching is caused | by the white rays of the sun's light. Yachtsmen who do not like the black tar in their deck seams can get it been in now a white pitch having in any climate, An English engineer has designed, and is now manufacturing, a portable cross cut saw ; that is, a large two-man that can be folded up into pass, It is re nily afl teeth riveted saw, small com Nible chain of saw. together Experiment has proved that, if a deli- cate piece of lace ed an runpowder, and be pla between lisk of nated iron plate and a the latter be det annihilated, but its clearly stamped on t the Ja be e witl will impres on 157 he iron Photography is being (Franc i ble, ide mory tification ph the hands BONUS A's of kinds which indica hie pat ot ogre iph on a on exhibition. frequently identified either by of probable BOCAS injuries or MArKs Various Oe » i n.rns is inch The elastic 580.000 to 6 gitimate strength pounds, The red twenty-nine and twenty-six and one an expert larg area in a eat the largest This may be g anthracite Breman should the st possible portion of his grate condition to give radian f the : done as follows ; ner lioht v4 . | aring gt X i sq aol when using f ¥ > ’ often, not ¢ onl, by § covering History Depicted on Fans. Wi scarcely h SARL ARN Oi But Yanely he 8 . De LOL of a lady the commonest tical mignificance day. ording ans have TOAaY Pp haa Ek aeep 1 and even in the present f BOK to & London ally to be suppressed for mu reason that been confiscated paper, OCCRsion i h the same newspaper has r being a vehicle i: 8 Western ’ feline ieennyg nm veuted to sow ill and for statesmen or officials by ox ntem) moans of cartoons and epigrams On examining an ordinary fan it must not be supposed that it is a mere creation of the artist's fancy ‘hose queer little men and women, 10 our eyes the facsimiles of each other, represent to the Jap well known histori. cal or romantic characters. Those im possible looking landsc apes on the reverse side all depict localities around the capi tal, famous shrines and pilgrim goals, at once recognizable by aay traveler in the country, A collector of Japanese fans of ancient date finds himself in posession of & com. | plete history of the times, for before the newspaper was established in the land, the fan to a large extent supplied its place. There is no doubt, as an in stance of this, that much of the ill feeling displayed in Japan against for eigners some thirty six years ago was due to the extensive circulation of fans bearing outrageous earieatures of Wostern life and manners, bamb : Dream of an Onyx King, According to William Cooper, the Mexican onyz king, there is enough onyx in Mexico to last about a decade and | then it will become an extinct material, unless mines are discovered elsewhere, Such a t demand exists for onyx, both in this country and Burope, I can. not supply with all my mines, he said, I k hundreds of miners at wit ng onyx, and yet | cannot ur the emand. No man now TE think ati a fine house without having the inte decorations largely com of the finest onyx, A certain millionaire who is building » house on Fifth avenue intends to have » grand stairway of onyx, which will cost something like §300,000, The Dog Milliner of Paris. The American Register describes the story of a ‘dog modiste” in Paris: The sights were very amusing. The place wis not so much of a store as an estab. lishment, with halls asd rooms richly furnished. Ladies tripped in and out all dny long, most of the visitors having with them pugs or terriers, dogs were scattered through the rooms, wach awaiting its turn. Many small mats and rugs were around the floors, and every bit of carpeting of the kind was occupied by some pretty little | These dows have various The robe used in dhe morning n garment of dark blue eloth. called a paletot, and is lined with red flannel, From a leather collar little bells jingle as its wearer walks along. Bometimes a bunch of violets is fastened on the left shoulder of a dog. 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