COLUMBUS, Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghosts of shores, Before him only shoreless seas, The good mate said: “Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Adm'rl, speak; what shall I say?’ “Why say. ‘Sail on! sail on! and on?" They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow Until at last the blanched mate said: “Why, now not even God would know Should and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas is gone: Now speak, brave Adw’rl; speak and say" — He said, *‘Sail on! sail on! and on™ Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ab, that night, Of all dark nights! And then a speck— A light! A light! A light! A light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn, He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: “On! and on™ ~-Joaquin Miller, in Frank Leslie's Monthly, FOR YELLOW GOLD. BY FRANK B. MILLARD. HEN the stage ‘‘went light” they ran out the small buck-board, but when more there than passengers the big mud-wagon on. Was This buckboard for there was a day, not a single passenger. to the point, as the Gold Company the driver's thous and doll tens and tw What was more under with of was that box newest ten new ked very blue when gs from th a very 1 spoke loudly of sinclinati of » for letter-writing LOOK on on 1d station, where he box. Things TT i were at was why HE had said the mail-bag lecent job now. 3 and omi ny th jowled agent vith such dark sus . stood up down ter Black Rod w time I had a load preached to every with a full box em hand lin Wine! ter a big as a bar give boot Kmony Zach Spr i nore i possession Oi bad been his | wr of had delivered now was not what he said had Le v i with re big 10% youidn t ail skin fin L & man n indignation wa nim than Diveness a little himself would have his the true sentiments agent s ma the had suspeeted him Black Rocks to nim belore in elt handed” way, and ther outbursts of righteous indiguatic ut uowe in which the up- henval was so great as that of the pres. ent ad that been the reason the stage cympuny bad cut down his pay to sixty" a month? The chances were that it was It was too blamed mean tor a lot of swine, like these people, to come it so | high bands wanted His them just right, fee Tue white dust of the desert rolled up from the mustangs’ hoofs in little pulls, and sprays of it, powdery fine, followed the turn of the wheels half-way up, there to be caught by the breeze and drifted behind io & long cloud that followed the | buckboard like a haunting spirit, Some. | times, as the light breeze shifted, it came back upon the buckboard and its driver like heavy thoughts on the conscience of 8 gwity man, It would serve them just right! Be. | sides that, ouly think—teu thousand!’ express he words in the nne HY over a poor man who only ee Woulda't it serve were | four | Butte Mining | (till flying down the grade, | | rest, What would the people down in Mexico or Guatemala, where he would fly, know or caro if somebody up in far-off Nevada had dumped a box off his buckboard and gone back and got it after a few days maybe a week? It wonld have to bea dark night, wouldn't it?! You couldn't time and take it anywhere, for the whole country would be man who had it. Maybe a month, That would be better. It would all blow over by that time. Let's see, would it? Ten thousand was a good deal. Those stage. stoppers were always striking the box on as that at one haul. ~=perhaps two In two months, then months, But it would have to be well-hidden. And the thought stuck to him, despite | all attempts to keep it off, though by the | time he had driven the mustangs into Red Canyon, his indignation at having | been suspected by the company had died | | | down. The box at his feet had taken on a new meaning for him. It meant smart gowns for his wife, It meant a good schooling for the children. Those five { little ones had had a hard ‘‘rustle” of it to get what few scraps of learning they had thus far managed to clutch; and, as for clothes, they were dressed like juve ing would be over it he dared to do what many anothar hard-pushed man had { done. Resolving the whole matter down | to a plain, clear-cut proposition, it was, { after all, simply a question of ‘‘nerve.” Here was the place to do it. Right here, the high, scraggly rocks, with the patches of sage-brush near the buckboard, could be thrown over there into the sage-brush. It | well-concealed as though buried { foet earth. The of a where came so to It anywhere in woud as of buckboard lown-gr twisted | reache ong and brake-hand] into for 1 the top Zach put on the brake reins about the to take a plunge he hed about water down He off hi it proje out his six-sho took on | hen flashing bullet through the brit hat, which } he sent a e then replaced on his head, I'hough it had been hot enough when he out Thimble started from now Would they he 1 have to concoct, even though he the hole brim? "hat would he care whether they did or If he , he might as well have the : 1 Re ) the story that believe wed them in the hat already suspected him. 1 at the spot where the brush clustered thickest, and made al throw or two in a tentative way, the “Wo distance. yUus hands on How nervy little ti tle tug tossed ir be tht have pon ing Stage Line.’ a such a dire It was the only way it ¢ And that way about to- trust you they trust Old do as any other decent in putling mia mly way. was you, Kain out, : hoarsely. > titre oe 5 : To A114 i thelr y | at ‘Frisco, arter it's mint t do they waat on it up thar | it was their busines What would an hcnest man, He shame every 1 ntioned would spect. Any FA a wild put two Kn nd [1 Dill * l NO LL her and man in it Bill himse mmo to the if was a lit. He had and had deal, drinking That al ig fellow—a As any beet been be looked Yes, Bill was a Lie. Why, he 1y be was born, took him in to show him He used to and he was the first n : ad i his baby brother, Carry all around, one to stand him on his legs and try to make He remembered how it used to hurt his own head when Bill got a knock by falling out of his high-chair Bill was just as much to him now as ever, which fate and the f his natury were giving him now hurt him just as badly perhaps, than they did Brother Bill, What would Bill say? He laid lus hands upon the box again would be safe enough behind the rocks re under sage-brush —as safe as him walk and those knocks WeAK nesses worse, ae yt up thar! Git, Buckskin! Git, Ye lazy critters. : Aud down came the long lash upon the dust.covered backs of the mustangs, and off down the long grade they ran, mak ing the dust fly in the canon as it never | For Zach had grasped the reins in a grip of iron, and both his big cowhide boots were planted firmly on the box. “This "ere is what I call goin’ like sin" he said, ten minutes later, as they were “But I lost some time with a blamed. fool notion that I orter a ben licked for ever thinkin’ on | a minit. Wal, the mustangs got a good Mukin' up fer it now, though. hey ll soon be in a lather, I'll git to the half-way house in a quarter of an hour, and then I'll take a good horn, | feel kinder natvous yit. Thet ‘ere box is a heavy load on a man's mind. 14'pose the sup rintendent up to Gold Butte is worryin' about it, too. Never mind, ol’ | ler, you'll see that stuff stowed away | in yer sale afore sundown, “What's this! A holdup, sure as shootin'|" Out from behind a tall rock, a man, with a plezs of dark ealico over his face nnd a very large Winchester in his hand, bad suddenly sprung, aad the muzsle of the rifle looked right into Zach's round eyes. The brake scraped wheels wad make the sparks fly, The d Gabel G'lang ew before id go and get a box like that in the day- | out looking for the | the wrong day. They never got so much | nile scarecrows, Yes,all the hard scratch. | atop, { approaching | without any mustangs came tos sudden stand, There wos no getting by that Winchester. “] reckon you've got ther drop on me, stranger,” the driver coolly made the re- { mark. *‘Stick up my hands? In course I will, ef you insist on it; but I tell yer these ere mustangs is mighty skittish, an’ it's on ther daown-grade. Bo yer needn't shoot ef they start up, fur it'll be yer own fault. I #'pose yer arter this ‘ere box. Throw it out?! It's too | blamed heavy fer that. Ye'll hev ter give us a life,” The man with the gun had said noth- ing; but the subtleties of the holding-up process were not so fine but that Zach understood every wave of the stranger's hand and every shrug of his shoulders, when the waves and shrugs meant any- thing. Zach had been held.up before. He of the calico mask did not step for- ward at once. In this suggestion that he should assist in taking off the box he seemed to suspect some trick. But one of Zach's hands was held aloft snd the | other, with the four reins in it, was on the level of his shoulder. The man edged up to the buckboard, exchanging [tthe weapon which he presented at Zach's | head for a six-shot revolver “Thanks, stranger,” forced merriment, them air p'inted at me. Now, here ye are.” With his foot he shoved the box alo 12 j urtil it was near the edge of the wagon. “Thar it help yourself ; but ye'll find it a blamed heavy ef said Zach, with “] never like to hev o' long barreled one things They shoot too straight, is, load ter pack, -over forty pound I'he robber’s fingers grasped the box yer goin’ far Dervousiy A Zach: " vit in green un Y‘mebbe thar il » robber pull nis iuxiely feverish i lower %t R18 i 4} Bwiftly Zach's ri and pil to his hip and he whipped | iaown, raisiog his pistol. take that” A flash, without the du ius robber clawed i were grasping for a hol the hold was not : . and ] The driver holster, ant brow. Ithad beena cl two | I guess they man's out rigl Hooray fur nb Way up Who pee | He st and lift a Aimighty Arg - a - Our National Statue of Liberty, Stat of L : : OOTAY my stocks fer a Haw hundred an haw-Law 1 Over d the bit loth It's th fr God! MM Washi years wolohs Oda weigl pounds, a LR tions, heaviest weight, he statu headpiece pric r that d figure, vishing { AY. i Crawford, gned tl mitted his model adorned with a “liberty cap,” but Je | of War, L fe sab Terson Davis, the ted to that a reli ) Secretary a headcover. the ud of MY 8 clions such Phrygian embi ] I'he tained and the I-kn r Han mn Was railed Iw ple, Secret were Sus- head. Craw. le 20300 for cast. expende | dress was subst ford g £30 for the plasts 0 of Libert for al cost up to Repablie, a — Russian Winters. There is one r curious thing about a In the latter part of first of November the weather will be as mild as it is here in September. Nota sign can be seen of an when suddenly, apparent warning, a light haze will be seen in the northern sky and in twenty-four hours the thermometer may fall fifty degrees. The change is so sudden and violent that travelers are fre. quently frozen to desth before they can gain shelter. It has occurred that farm. ers out looking alter their flocks have been caught in one of these blizzards, and, missing their way home, have lost their lives, their bodies remaining under the snow until the following spring. The suddenness of a western blizzard is well known in the northwestern part of our country, but it is tardicess personified when compared with the rapidity with which a Russian winter storm comes on. ~8t. Louis Globe-Democrat, EE ——— a — A Deadly Weapon A Captain of Police of Portland, Ore. gon, has in his possession a very unique and [ormidable weapon lately confiscated on the person of some wrong-doer. It is a folding sword that can be used either as a club or a sword, and when opened is about two and a half foot in length, It blade is made of heavy steel, tapering to a poiotat the end, and both edges are sharpened. The weapon is heavy enough to take off a head at u single blow, It can be opened in an instant by ing a small spriog st the end of the hilt, which lets a heavier spring throw out the blade, Captain Cox says the weapon is an historical relic, having been found on the field of the Custer massacre, but tra. dition and Jailer Hudav th hat it was once the property of Turkish brigands, wow Qricans Picayune, {ussian October or th winte { hange R | sleeves and | medium tucks, with a corselet of velvet The Japanese fever is still raging. The Bertha collar 1s quite a feature. Velvet suits of seen. gown and coat are Hooded capes and cloaks are fashion. able, Pearls are among the most fashionable jewels, Plaids and present, checks are very large at All the newest gowns are being made with short waists, Everything is being ribbon this season trimmed with Very few women who can afford now wear any but silk-lined gowns. i" The princesse dress appears in a shape exclusively { new or tea-gown models. Bhaded chrysanthemums, yellow and | brown, are fashionable bridal bo 1quets, Black henrietta is made up for little tat girls: wear with Scotch plaid surah guimpes About i Ireland earn their 0 we ’ } W nen in Great Brit. living as hos. nurses, And now word comes heur is sc that Rosa Bon og 860,000 i If there isn't chamber there and plenty of The pay of male teac) Rhode Island is 876 per month; women her last | | average teachers 841.80 The re New York City who go : ‘ said to be 200 Are womet to Europe twi & year to buy their dresses, The newest cut of skirt umbire hape or the 5 Is either make with a cross } _ 4 the centre of th fr and women are now he postoffices of Englan: went stafl o i, 0 service iste ¥Y seen out id designs A, picRed in with a weed and of floating Alice Parker, livered an able ornamen CXquUIsite 8 an attorosey-at-law, de- s Mass, , ii iD address in Boston the other night o© shamely us tice sachuselt JWArd won Mrs. Lynda A WOma | as heen nitted to law in Florida, where Deen the prac it had heretofore Mt to attain th extreme is Alice Jane Camj be a London (Eng indy, has patented an im proved measuring attachment for shears and scissors, that promises to make her famous land just The short, stout woman will to flee from the fur slee do wel ves which are to be a festure for midwinter costumes. It i takes a tall woman of commanding pres cessfully ence Lo sud wear them, Trimmed silk blouses for evening wear : also wenecked « in pale shades of surah mv, * t me ion to mich sKirt. are very popular nes ane, trimmed with ch these are adapted to wear with any f A “glove tidy’ of a pretty little pocket is the name , made t to the look- ve hook, scissors, thimble DE-giass, conta stretcher, ton and silks and needles, al unending glove i here ted to is one vocation particu Iarly fit has deltness and taste, This table itertainments a woman who skill combined with artistic to fur fl rations for elegant « The Comtesse Martel Janville, widely known to the readers of French literature from her is a grandaiece of {evolution fame. old The influential women of London, England, who are sending clothing to the destitute Russians have showed the instinct of true charity in having these garments fashioned after the national ress, vocation 1s fox wal aad de pen name of “Grp, Mirabeau, of French She is forty-two years Of 430 women graduates from a single medical college in the United States, 390 are engaged In active practice, at an average age of twenty-seven years, with incomes varying from $3000 to $20,000 A Year The Confederation of Women's Clubs now represents 150 clubs, some of which contain as many as 500 members, Chi cago and San francisco have the largest clubs, but New York claims the pioneer | Sorosis. Long gathered skirts of cashmere are | worn to just escape the floor on girls of two to five years, and have very large round waists in fine or covering the waist so that oniy the upper part shows like a yoke. Constance Eaglestone describes the woman of the upper class in Southern Italy as a brilliant humming bird whose irresponsible existence is passed in flash. ing her own bright hues in the sun, while the women of the lower classes endure with cheerfulness lives of trial and pri. vation, The vagaries of bridesmaids’ favors grow. Recently in London the eight attendants upon the bride carrie! walk. ing-sticks of the Alpine sort with Dresden china heads, gifts of the bride, and at anothee wedding little silver whistles were worn by the maids because the bride bestowed thom, Miss Kate Miner, one of the Vice. Presidents of the Board of Managers of the Columbian Exposition, is a success. ful Louisiana sugar planter. With her brother, she mana the affairs of a plantation of five thousand acres. She is planning to exhibit an Acadian sestle. went and a Creole sottloment at the Inir, . . | store | event is regarded as no ordinary one. BCTENTIVIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Glass coated bricks are annouuced. About 1500 years ago we entered the | epol h of a more genial winter tempera. | ture, Common wheat bran, or any kind of | mill feed is recommended for extinguish. ing oil fires, take place upon this earth once in every 10,500 years, 2 In his own laboratory Mr, Aitken cal cubic inch of air, Experiments with two straight edges, separated at one end by a sheet of paper, show that light can be seen through a clean-cut opening of pot more than 1-40,000 of an inch. stops directly it is replaced. A reverse of seasons is supposed to | culated 30,000,000 of dust particles in a | An Important Difference, To make It apparent to who think themselves 111, that they are not affect. thousands, ed with any disesss, but that the system simply needs cleansing, is 10 bring comfort home to thelr hearts, as a costive condition is easily cured by using Syrup of ¥ Manne factured by the California Fig Byrup Co ) H FITS stopped free by Dr, Krave's Guest Neuve Resronen, No tits after first day's use, Murvelous cures, Treatise and $2 tris free. Dr, Kline, 81 Arch 85t,, Phils totais Pa Tue Trnroar. Troches™ | act directly on the organ They nve an extradordinary effect in ali disorders I the throat. Brown's Bronchia of the voice [ If afficted with sore eyes use Dr. lsase Thomn- rons Eye-water. Druggists sell at Se, per bottle In some German telephone offices an | electrically driven clock is attached to | each telephone, which will work as long | ns the telephone is off the hook, and | Recent experiments have shown that | | in the dog and the cat, as well as in rabbit, the removal of fourths of the liver is not followed and that the gan regains its weight within thirty by or- EiX BCTIOUS Conse quenc 0%. days. Vaccine virus has been cultivated a Russian physician, who finds that artificially cultivated is as effective as genuine product, while having the vautage of absolute freedom from germs ¥:nba : of scrofula, tuberculosis or other dis. eases, Mr. Haly, Curator Museum, the Colombo has discovered that carboli f 4) ’ f 4 N Oi the most perfect preserva- re of fisn th and other ni The most delicate frog ws retain their evanes These 1 with hum animals and Jiate Wash Day Comes Once a Year. Germany, pecially mong the ABER mes A Year cleanli ing nence ihe necessity 0 Cgochwartz-waschka the up exposed to the We cam but for this custom, and it those housekeepers to ymer,” built near by, where soiled or unwashed clothes are poles or ing air on : nes, commend them would be well for take a hint who garments in the closets of sleeping -rooms and uader the beds. The humblest German hausfirau does not feel her poverty if she has an abundance of linen, and this she will have if possible, to the exclusion of other things which we might regard almost as needful. She is rick sotled 2 indeed if at the end of six months or a year she can display long lines hung with immaculate linen. We can thus | understand how even at this day a chest of linen is regarded among the peasantry as a purt of their dower or marriage portion of the bride For these wash. ings a week is usually taken, and the It is something of a jubilee in which the entire family takes part. An American lady traveling in Germany witnessed one of these *‘frolics,” where four or five women were washing from one capacious tub, When msked why they did not adopt the easier plan of washing weekly, one of them replied that ‘‘they feared the people might think they had but two garments apiece.” New Orleans Picayune, Fight Between a Hawk and a Snake. Mes. W. PP. Lasitter had an unusual experience a few days ago. As the story goes she saw a large hawk descend to the ground. As the hawk did not rise after a short time she decided to investi. gate. Oa approaching the place the hawk arose and perched upon a tree near by, Io afew minutes it descended again. Mrs. Lasitter proceeded to tue place and found that the hawk had tackled a large black snake, Its talons were fast in the snake, and the snake so entwined about the wings and body of the hawk that the latier could neither disen itself from the snake nor rise with it. Mrs. Lasitter took advantage of the situatior, and arming herself with a club killed both hawk and snake. Ovieda (Fla.) Chronicle. the | more than three. | COPYRIGHT 18817 Hard to take ~—the big, old-fashioned pill retty hard to have to take Ne wouldn't, if yon r how it shocks and w system. " Lud kily, you don’t it. Dr. Pierce's Plea are better, They re do, mildly and g« have ser pe thar LViian the original 1 vegetable, smallest and one of your bottle of August like a cl M aediate relief She was f igl ing eleterious resu case. C. H ington House, Washin LELE HOW Ww 18 105 1 she Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. Rheumatism, Lumbago, pain in Solnts or back, tric urine, frequent calls, Irritation gravel, wloastion or oa Disordered Liver, Impaired digestion, gout, Hilous headache, SWAMP-ROOT cures Xuiney difoul arr ol Borofuin, mamaria, gon] wes kness or debi ty. Cunrantee | 1 met tee ofited. Draggiste wil Price paid, At Druggists, 50c. Size, £1.00 Sime, “ovaiide Guide to Mealth “fran Comm itation Trem Di. Kriwwn & Co. isgnawrox N. Y. | » Kennedy's MedicalDiscovery Takes hold in this order: Bowels. Liver, Kidnevs Inside Skin, Outside Skin, Driving everything before It That ought to he oot You know whether you need it or not. Sold uy every druggist, and masulsctared by DONALD KENNEDY, nn ROX BURY, MASS, OPIUM ETE 20000080 Tut's Pills met ohild, we somtents of One ¥ refund to ve Pos the the infirm ald age me upon the vigorous oman, Tut's Viny Pi ® ® @ ive tone ana @ seec0o00ee
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