TamfiTJTTTtroinsBygrAicHj
former; who possessed soma property
i comfortable little cottatre ai-tha foot
high mountain, had a daughter who
cexylteautifal, bciat-theisamo-timo sot;
ind dreamy that she wonld never do-
: of -any kind. If Bent to draw watery,
rould let her pail fall upon the ground
ien stand, withclaped3ands,gazing at
own fair image reflected in the clear'
S. The buzz of her spinning wheel
dbe heardbnta few minutes, when
hread would fall from the girl's-hands f
.he -would sit dreammg of the fairies
siiches of -which she had -read,
e good mother's patience was-sorely
lbyheidaughter's ways; but scold a
might, the fair Ursela, 'whose beauty
kindly Trays endeared her to all, did
earn to love her duties, and all labor
unpleasant to her. One summer morn
i father said to her: "Ursela, to-day
aiust tend the sheep In the field, and
. that you do-not let them stray too
e girl did as ha was, told; bufc-when.
eached the field she gave no farther
jht to the flok. Throwing herself
ton the Bolt grass in tne shade 01 a.
tree, she listened for a long time tot
wittering of the birds and the humming'
e bees, and then tell last asleep, leaw
he sheep to wander where they would
le lay there, rurrounded by flowers and
the gentle breeze playing with her
hair, there was a slight rustle among
bushes. The branches were pushed!
and the-head of a beautiful woman ap
id and a nair of launhmc blue eyes
sd. with admiration on the sleepingJ
. --.a. momens laiec a quici siep iun
"W yg5sZ)i. WW&aJ'f'
Sclg &r- -,-r -'
THE CLOCdAXJ3I02R3ZD-BEBKCO--'WDB&
3, and the stout form of the farmer
in signt. iie gazeu witn surprise ana,
r at TJrsela. then shaking her roughly, ,
ud: "Did I not tell you to watch the.
p? Thev have now strayed so far that
ast take my time to search for,
u Why do jou cause me so much,
ble? t wish you were some placer
e I should never see you again."
n th ngure sicppea irom Denma tnei jmy lile must be spcntiin sorrow.
ies, and said: "Let TJrsela go with me; "No. father." cried Ursela, running to
iii care for her, and she shall live with- Jhrm, "your life shall not be spent in sor
woriv." row;!f or your daughter has returned to you.
th Ursela and her father looked with-
. . i. -, A.: . S ..1
lisamem. m tue iuir bi ranger, ami iuc .aaie-H-ays.
r repliedi "You may take her in wel- Ursela thought-no more of Bniryland.She
e, for such an idle child is onlw-acauso. bdde her friend, Walla, foreweU, and re-,
utoyance to me' -named in the little cottage, as the joy and
le lather then, went away and left Msk-comfort to her parents. But many times on
bter. When he returned home and moe-nlight nights, the Eairy Queen, with
tils wue wnat na-a nappeneu, ne poor
mn wept pitteriy, ana saia: -wny
s you ariven TJrsela from her home?
s, Ehe was idle; but she was our only
i, nid we loved her. Now when we be
e eld we shall have no one to comfort
le father, too, having recovered from
:r, repented his action, and hurried
b to the field, that he might bring his
d home, but Ursela and the stranger
vanished, and no trace of them could
oa&d. And the d couple mourned the
of their beautiful daughter,
eanwhiie, as Ursela walked through the
is with her new friend her companion
'
j "I am the Fairy "Walla. I have dis-
ised our Queen, and have been banished vWe-JI. GrAOBonrcs, Lazvttm, Maine.
a .fcairyjaua. a. lew oi my laithlul
lids follow ed mc, and we live in an old
lo on the other side of the mountain,
were not permitted to brin our treas
with us: but we have enough to supply
rith foed end clothes, aud that is all we
re, Xou shall live with us, and our
tsure will be to provide for you."
rsela'vas reciedwith great joy, and
fairies waneii upon her as if she were a
sen. Such a l'fe was most pleasant to
little girl, find the gave herself up to
enjojinent ol it. Day after day, at-
ded by one or more ot the fairies, she
jld wander through the woods and fields,
never tired of hearing of the beauties.
!feirfktHd.
im uiorning the Tairv Walla came with
fece and tearful ejes to Ursela, andj
1: "jly tieautuul ursela, we are in
at trouble. Our money is almost gone,
we know not where to get other. What
1 leooae of u- I fear we shall starve."
Trseki was greatly distressed at this
; but sbe had no words of comfort to
r. At first she thought of returning to
father; but when she remembered his
. -words io her, she abandoned the
Hght. All day the little fairies' were
ely grieved; but while berries were to be
nil in such quantities, there was no
iger of them uli- ring from hunger. To
r3 sun"!, as Ursela bat at the window of
rnojs, a lutle old i oman, vellow and
nkled, suddenly stood before ner.
lie going to give you a present," she
1, "one that will make you rich. Xou
1 find it in the hall to-morrow at break
day "
.lie old woman then vanished, leaving
vela te wonder at htr w ords. Por the
t time in her life the little girl rose be
e furc She ran into the hall, and to
disappointment, lound hanging on
wall a huge clock with au ugly wooden
e. The hands moved slowly around the
L, and instead of the usual "tick, tock,"
ud, a shrill voice seemed to be crying,
ork, work."
How ean this homely clock make us
hV" said Unela, and all the fairies won-
(J
4edoT--Ttie-trang. gift Affdayjrtefi
the dock repeated "work, . workf" until, I
'Ursela hated tne souna, ana ran mwum
garden to escape it, but even mere tne-ciooKr,
-made Itself heard. JSor waslt qule? wnov
TLA J 2 L.. Jmmh TTwiala flBflW
Tiiirni came, OOU ill UCi uxuua -lao-s uww
TxuuraiiR worn wiiiuii whs eu uuuubuui -.-
r. Tn 1ia TTUiTnine- ithe said to "Walla i
fTfwA a1w lia? a cntnntnff nr-WI T H-JY
sure its bummr would drown theound of
HD Ulllf UAIX 4 CLJ1UUUJL. r "H
the clock."
rr i ;.i .Am. an. v aw . ki,
castle there fa an old spinning whee" sai
Walla, "and great quantities of flax'r
great auantlties OfnaXi
Ursela had the wheel brought down.-ana;
. . -v. . - . . .
afe once put into practice the many lessons-
UJier motUr hA i-Ti h A. lonV W
. .. . . --- T-n.
ttss owwe aocs. seemew sueav-ouj, uto
we EDiuoia fiKwu bujli. tne wors. wutjk.
4would begin. The little girl applied Tksk
elfdilicentm and was. surprised, alter a.i
1Trrr tvrn rnlmrl that Rhn rn.l Itr PTiinvmTi
.- .' . .. . , i -
the work. And the linen, which she spun.
was so fine-that the fairies did not cease to-
admire it "Walla said: "I know now how
the old clock was to make ns rich. Tour
linen is so beautiful that weoan sell it fori
.much eold. and we need no longer be-ooor.-
xnen me lairies carriea me unen inco ino'
city, where they received such a good pricojtR
.for it that they almost forgot their 'sorrows),
oiaiewdaygbetore, and asrain felt them
selves quite rich. But Ursela did not cease
from her labors, she now enjoyed spinning-;
and was found early and late at her wheel
One moonlight night, when TJrsela andV
tne tames were roamingabout the castle
garden, they heard eoundaiof music, and saw
aporoachinjr throuch the forest, the Fairr
Queen, and hundreds of her loyal subjects.,
They came directly to the castle, and the-
Queen announced that,she had come to take.
jhnpk tn T?niraLm( Walla nnd nr frii1
jTho bcautifulJJrocla,-too,'.wa3'&nvited to go
Qs-
with them, but the little girljaid "IshouldJ
UKe to once more see my rather ana mother;
rthen I shall go with you."
"Walla then.conducted her friend to her
"home. Before the cottage door sat the old
couple. Their faces were marked with
grief, andtthe father was saying: "Why did
I give my-dantrhter to the stranerer? Never
'.again shall I see her, and the remainder of
and vou will-be troubled no more by her-)
fjl.! Mm
.suDjecis, ana walla ts always with them,
Tisiii the farmer's humble home, and bear
"rUch .gifts to the beautiful Ursela who has
now jbecorue as industrious as she is fair, and
hthe Queen of the land, and her ladies will
wear only the linen which the farmer's
jdaughier, Ursela, spina. Paysie.
SODIEENIGMATICAL NUTS.
UPnzzlee ror-th&Uttle Folks That "Win Keep
ThoiqiBialna Busy for Most of the Week
if Tfctcr Solve Them Correctly Honu
Amusements. I
Address communications -far -(Mi deoaxtm-nt
159i ANAGBA1I irr.USTKAIHD,
.d
y
wJiiMffl
. ,, vul j.l.l.U, nil.. .J.iii til l;o u,
A btalw art youth, so tall and bold,
Met at a rustic wall.
He gently whispered, half afraid,
A question low. That pretty maid,
"However, granted aU." F. It.
1595 THE KCTO AKD THE BISHOP.
In Cockneyland a King did dwell
To whom much fame attaches;
THE
--
Ameasure, beast and river spell
SJF?8.$t0l:s .? Aw same as well)
This "Kiiuj of shreds and patohes."
How oftentimes some wicked was
TV ould make his majesty a peg
0TV1LC,11 ianE some puny pun
Or fable he would flsh up:
An article besot from one
JIado royalty a Bishop:
A Prelate of tyrannic ways
ASS yeti2mS 'i111 ta no praise,
Though ffctoe be but a bubble.
Of Iron will andlof ty mind,
He was but one among mankind.
Ttet whcnaeveised-lns double
W-WlMOS.
1696 OOEXAHaiESIT.
P"Taulwas born on, the first of May."
" wuwi w, w caul, uuo u&yi
"An ominous slim of oominp clorv."
"0 yes," said Sam, all a leer analign,
p"A veiy ominous Slay-day sign
nooms to iet an too upper story.' "
ft "Tourprf mV sattl cousin "Ivhold as law
I .Although to the second Etory you go
Tn vaor ifitup iAVna on nlm
t But-the May-day nowersbloonaU'thsme
.. A nnnfVMll4lui wOnw .- ""
j auwkuo.jwimj jjai nco uitt lutiuy B ptmg
.v0.wT.- .... .,-. hu ibuy,
Aspnto,
-
yfc-AjrtrKATm.rAHD3BAin.
t VWhatado you.suppose I found In the lit
wtiaToom wuere we J
e Keep our ciotnesT" asK-
SrSx4rtt mou.
rskippiJig intoa chair at
wiie ono morning
T inn " flfin -Wort
.nMTinlnir intnui ehuir atrhfi hum thnnirT, r,f
r . -- u . -r z o"-- w?-.i
"It. "No, not that," no answered, "but I
found one orthe young animals that belong;
o the bam, theiottomora shoe, a cabbage,,'
Home of the old Inhabitants or Gn.nl. a Kticwi
.gestlon of robbery" Mr. Jones wont no J
irnrtiiAr.jm aitil ju he tmnnmnt itava n innfL
shriek andxalntedaway, and Mr. J. learned'
"" tnerevU4oJn-waereaoos:,ceases to
hnnanra (.wtttt.
,wvr-
1598 c&ABAxra.
One manhood, last and vigorous.
Should be this house of clay
Only can maa by being thus
Live "weUiils-little day.
"We look for age to be entirt,
With Blow and feeble galfa
" Tis nature's law, when youihfatflre
And-vigoP'does abate.
Disease and accident may-cane
E'enyouth to be entire;
,Sut, ifthe heart keep righteous laws,
Theraare states far more dire.
A. I
1599 DEOAPirAnCOTi
If you are in the UuU
Let no one all you thenoej
Tear has no power to oast
On'lnnocenoe.
Zfyou are In the last.
Stand like a wall of rook
Gainst error's cruel Dlaet,
Or totaCahock.
BXTrES-SWSE&
IGOO'-THBtHOTJSIASrDiXXS ovrcniB.
.AwMrfcntverv skillful seamstress lived
plil an old tumble-down house In a certain
city. So old and delapldated was the house
that It detracted much from the beauty of
the Ma-ftfit on which it was situated, and
many times had people to the, vicinity uxsed
ner to nave it ta&eu uowu; uui ie wm hoi
home, and If that was demolished she was
too poor to buy another. It Is true her great
skill with the needle brought her a constant
Income, but that must "be used In helping
her only son through' college. TVhat ro
Tnnrks mteht be made, applicable to the
lad v and her house, being complimentary to
the one, and uncomplimentaryto the othertJ
1601 TRAlTSPOSITIOTe.
LAway to therrfrinanrfwhatarejKm-tMnS
Away, fortheooSklo-sheIlboatls'fasaj!mfcJ
ing.
iXbehole In its side -now the salt waves Is,
drinVinar.
Away, though the winds and'-tho- tmveaj
ipuuiy nu&
Uow pull with a will, boys, andjuIU-anto4
getner,
True sailors win stop not for-wlndtnorfor-l
weather;
The boat skims tho foam, as thongb-llghbas.
Hurrah! we are all two and eafe crsv thel
Shore. MH3E. 1
a leather.
1602 Mtn&ximr.
A-eong arises on the air,
Like a glad lark oircllng into the skyj
And the yoloes soft, and puro, and rare,
Rlnnd Ilka colors "jmkI" and fair:
And they tremble a moment, suspencMU
Then fade,an&slriTiwvnftdle.
-But te that momentnnoarthly Tjrhrhft,
fhlle the songTrang like a qnivorlnpBtaivj
With hnes of blue and gold and white.
Become radiant with a sudden light,
As of- glory that oame from afar.
ium,
1603 IS MODEBJT UFB.
A maiden dressed In dainty wbole.
Upon the porch was sitting;
She balmy breezes fanned her oheek,
And "birds were round her flittinjr.
Her mother in the kitchen stood,
By tubs of soap and water,
Ana toiiea aiono. Decause ino worz
Would two her lovely daughter.
The daughter one a boarding school
Had. learned with paints to bothert
But ne'er had learned poot foolish girt
Tho way to help hermother.
Mas. E.
MAT SOLTXStJ.
Prize ctnntT. Oliver Twist, Pltttbi
Pa. 8. Margaret Blair, Pittsburg, Fa. 8.
Florence Weber, Plumer.Pa,
lorence Weber, Plumer, Pa.
Botl of tumor Lottie "Hughes, Amos II
llellen. Olive A. Klino, Beau Belmont. Sarah..
Thomas, Matilda Ohambordan, Inez, Charles H
Sfoson. Ella A. De Vicne.
Jiiaua Teajorue,
Marion B. Doyle, O. D. Bprague, guile
jianon it- uoyie, u. jj. cprague, ouue Alien, i
John McBryde, Arthur Kent, II. J. D., L. 3.1
Bice.
ASSWEB3.
1583 Anyfl, tongs, bellpws, Are, shoes.nall
and Iron A blacksmith.
15S6 Beau-1-deah
1587 A sponge.
15S8 Ass-pen (aspen).
1559 L Pearl, paler. 2. Leper, repel, a.
Mythical.
1 Vo G oat-mar-l o-ram.
1591 8
PED
- LAMER -
LO EI MER
PA BAD 1 SAL
SEM IDAL ITES
DEMILUNES
B E 8 I N AB
BAT E K
LBS
S
1592 L Z sigh for j ou. (L cipher, XT.) JU
Tou are too backward. (TT B 3 backward J
1593 Mary, army.
The Screech. OwL
rwnmss ron tits ntsrATcii.i
What a very queer
bird
Is thellttlo screech
owl,
And is mostly heard
When the watch
dogs howl.
In day time he hides
from you and
me
In the hollow trunk
of an old oak
tree,
But when It comes
night
He descends from
his height,
HITAnd hunts about for something nice.
A chick, or else a few young i
mice.
Oh, well I remember,
One night in September,
Be came and sat on the cherry tree,
Close to my window, and sang to me.
"Hoo-a-hoo.
Tu-whlt. tu-whoo,
I'm hero by the window waiting for yon:
Come out and see
, What fun and glee
We'll have In scaring the eowardly:
From the high church steeple
We'll hoot and halloo
And frighten the people
Away down below.
They will think we are ghouls,
Or a spirit that tolls
A solemn dirge for their dying hour.
Or else a witch with evil power."
But I thanked him and said:
"I have oftentimes read
That tho biter is apt to get bitten, ho, ho.
Im' afraid of a witch
And of ghosts and all cA, .
And I never could ride on a broomstick, you
know."
Since that time--I'm out of rhyme he
has neverbeen back coaxing me again, but
on dark nights Isometimes near him around
inviting the neighbors to go serenading
with him, and I thizik they go.
AUKT CLAKE.
:
PITTSBURG-, ' DISPATCH;
LANDING THETEOUT.
Feat to be Proud of if the Fish
the Eocky Mountain Kind.
Is
AN EXPERIENCE ffi- COLORADO.
Borne -Adventures of a Journey on Foot
Across the Continent.
THE WEATHER AND THE FINE SCENERY
CwarraH ros Tin: disfatch.
i) ECU an ipereased
and .decidedly irk
some load I walked
south from Denver,
planning to reach
Colorado Springs as
speedily as possible,
and thence make
numerous side tours;
but at Acequia (a
town named after the
Spanish irrigating
ditch, nd popularly
pronounced Saky) an
accidental chat with
the section foreman
threw me a fortnight
out of my course.
He said there were
"trout over behind.
yan hoc-backs"
pointing to a long, rocky wall at the foot,.
ot the range, some "0 miles away.
Trout? Trout? Why, for three years I
had been fairly starving for a bout with
those-beauties a hunger which the catfish
land "lamplighters" of Ohio had utterly
lulled to satisfy. Hardly pausinz to thank
:the herald of Joyful tidings, I took a bee
fline across the rough plain at a five-mile
gait, forgetful of dinner, my load and, in
deed, of everything save my polka-dotted
ddols over yonder.
irfmger Vi alii Than It rooked.
Theranee looked but two nr thrnn miln.
away at the outset; but when I had walked
rapidly for three solid hours and the dusk
was closing in, it seemed farther away than
rer, and the wolf began to gnaw at my
MKB3PEAK-Iir
l.telt Just In the edge of night I found a
shabby little cabin on Plumb Creek, whose
J kindly, inquisitive folk found a good supper
1 end b. irood bed for me. But mv heart sank
when they declared with great positiveness
-. thmwrn nn trniit within two davs"
bein's they'd lived in them mount'ns gois
iuoivuj, auu bucy icu&uucuuii;)wuukjuiuni
oa ao year."
So to-morrow 1 was to have no trout, but
J'only that pretty tramp back to the railroad.
a. are.irm tnat night that a. monster trout
was swallowmir the second foreman: and I
jheartily wished the dream might come true.
.out wiui tne morning came Doner muuguio,
X would see for myself and sunrise found
me scrambling ever the steep, rooky foot
hills toward Turk's Head. At 2 in the
afternoon a sandy side ravine brought me
suddenly out into the bottom of the Platte
-Can on, beside the shouting river.
A Typical Stream for Trout.
A clorlous little stream it is clear and i
neonfident and headstrong as youth, cold as 4
Ice, swilt as an arrow, roiiicKing noisily
down the tortuous, boulder-strewn channel
it has chiseled down through 1,000 feet of
granite. Two minutes later I was trimming
the branches from a long, heavy young Cot
tonwood, and attaching a line. Grasshoppers
were plenty in the canon and soon plenty
in the case of my harmonica.
Just where a huge ledge jutted 20 feet
Into a deep pool of delicious green I
made the first cast Just as the 'hopper
came within a foot of the water, whizz!
came a flash from the depths high into the
air, smote the bait with dextrous tail, and
drove it straight into an open mouth.
Splash! SwishI Off went the line, sawing
through the deep water, while that 20-pound
The Garden of the Gods.
mollusE of a pole bent fairly double. What
a glonous electricity it is that tingles
through your fingers at that first strike of a
trout The pickerel of our lily-flecked New
England ponds seizes his prey with a barely
'comparable rush, but then ho goes loafing
away, mincing at the minnow critically,
dubious whetherto swallow or no; ana
when you snub him he soon pulls in like a
limber stick. The bass, be he green, striped
or black, fights doggedly to the last, but he
is too clumsy.
The Acme of Pifcatorlal Sport.
But when King Trout the athlete, the
sage, and the hero of fish makes up his
I cunning head that he ll nsK that specious
fly, then iook out lor musici jfc'rom the in
stant he first touches the hook, until you
tear him still fighting from his rippling
kingdom, there is no time to breathe. Your
line hisses down stream as if tied to a bullet.
Then as swiftly it tears up against the cur
rent. If there be a snag, a root, a tangling
rock in that whole pool around which Sir
Trout may tie your line in a double knot
rest assured he will do it unless you hold a
steady rein on him. He will double, leap
high above the water, dive to the rocky
bottom, turn, twist, add jerk with infinite
ingenuity, to tear the cruel Limerick irom
his jaw. And if at last you lift him upon
the"bank in safety you need feel no shame
that in the contest of wits it has taken your
very keenest to beat that cold-blooded little
fellow.
It took me full five minutes to laud my
game, though ho weighed but' three-quarters
of a pound, and when he flopped beside me
on the bank I threw up my hat and whooped
and danced as wildly as 20 years before.
During the afternoon I caught 20 more, and
in that whole noble string one could not j
15
MmMw
"jfati-ii.- At -j,.f ..-V.--J.". 'Sk, .!-, JkJ&iH8jLxe-v .?3t,1&iljhi. ' -iftAijAji.j j. .j'.. ,..-.. irft ..-.NStejfciv ,..:. ' . si' -" . .,j. -, ' . Z&d '. z. . . .
SUNDAY, JOTB 21,
tell "t'other from which," so exactly were
they of a size. Away up on the headwaters,
back of Pike's Peak, in a rough and track
less wilderness, a few days later, I found
much larger trout. The Eocky Mountain
trout are not nearly so beautiful as the
princes of the Maine and New- Hampshire
brooks, of which they looked like a blurred'
and faded reprint, butnone the less they; are
famous sport.
A Big Ditch for-Irrigatlon.
Near the northern endof this canon is tb
beginning of a most remarkable canal the
"high-une"irngating,ditch. Thiscanal had
then a total length of 83 miles, a width
of 20 feet, and carries 1,184 cubic feet of
Trottf IWOng.
water per second past a given point. For
miles its -bed is hewn from the living rock,
and in one point in the canon it runs through
the heart of a great mountain of red granite
by a tunnel 700 feet long, 20 wide and 10
high. In Colorado, as in New Mexico, Ar
izona, and much more of the vast South
-west, the rainfall is too slight to nourish
tne crops, and tne necessity lor irrigation
has led to the construction of countless
thousands of miles of ditches to bring water
to the thirsty fields.
After a long and glorious mingling with.
the trout of the South Platte, I finally got
back to the little rancho on Plum creek,
where my pack awaited me and where the
evening of my return nassed nleasantlv in
listening to the terse, quaint talk of my r
snaggy-Drowed host as he told or the suller
ings of plucky "Coloraydo" and drew in
vidious contrasts with Kansas. In the
seven years ending with 1878, Colorado was
devoured by grasshoppers. Her corn fields
disappeared as by firej the grass which was
the lite of her millions of horses, cattleand
trees shivered in leafless nakedness. Ona.
July morning in 1875 my old Yankee drove
I off to Denver. "When he got home next
THB-DISTASrCM,
evening his 20 acres of corn was absolutely
wiped from off the face of the earth, his cat.
"'p us oare grouna, ana not a straw
was left of his tall stacks. He showed me
where the ravenous insectshadeven gnawed
half through the sheathing at the bottom, of
the outer walls of the housel
Cutting Off Surplus Baggage.
My writine kent me bnsv till witM,...
'hours of sunset next day. and then the.
was a rough 17 miles between me and the
necessary-postoffiee. Oyer hills and valleys,
gullies, 'irrigating ditches and cactus I
stumbled on through the dark, steering by
the stars; and at last reached Sedalia, just
in time for the mail, but wet, lame and
ravenous. A pair of scales showed me that
my load the heavy rifle and nr-Ann..
cartridge belt, knapsack, blanket, change of"
.uitnAMigs, etc., weignea si pounds;
and that at onoe struck me as "ridincr a fr
horse to death." Thenceforth all that could
possibly be spared went ahead from station
to station on the broader shoulders of the
to station
express companyj and many anight Inearly
froze for want of the blanket, whlehnroa
;'ure te be ahead of or behind me.
Lightened by 12 grateful pounds I re
sumed the march next day, zigzaging for a
week from rood to mountains and back
pgain, as the whim seized mn findinw
I enough game to be interesting, and enjoy-
mg every moment as Keenly as only trained
muscles and careless mind can enjoy. One
cottontail that I shot near Castle Bock
rolled down his burrow dead and would
have escaped me but for a boyhood lesson
from old Hugh, back in the White Mount
ains, with the end of my staff I could
iust feel the limp fur at the bottom of the
hole. Wetting the end of the stick with
my mouth I put it down until it touched
bunny and twisted it around gently a few
times. Then, when I drew it carefully out,
there was the rabbit at the end hnnnn" linn
I delicate cable of his own silky hair.
A Cry That Cardies the Blood.
The full moon was high overhead as I
wound through the lonely canon of Plum
Creek, and midway of that bare defile my
ears pricked up at an old, familiar sound,
for years unheard and almost forgotten the
long, weird howl of the gray wolf. It is a
cry to make the blood curdle; but there was
no answering yell, and after the first
startied grab at-the butt of my forty-four I.
plodded on.
At Larkspur that night there awaited me.
a cold weloome. It was bitter weather.
Under-the water tank the ice was three,
inches thick; and the savage wind roared
down the canon in icy gusts. There was no
place to sleep save in the "bunkhouse."
Xhat had one occupant, and he had one,
blanket TYTvnwn tmq it, f!nlr!H, Cnnnrvs
land not even a gunny sack was to be found.
w uuuKave me mgni. . xne oia tracK waiuer .
shivered under his one tattered cover and,
wouhi have no fire in the battered stove i
he said it "would make the boogs too
wa-Ketui."- x irozeon the bare planks till
midnight and then in desperation took the
law and stove into my own hands and built
a roaring fire, which made the night endur
able, though I had to sallv forth several
times before morning to "rustle" fuel.
Boring Wind With an Auger.
From Larkspur to the top of the divide,
8,000 feet above sea level, was a steady up
hill pull, growing cooler at every step, and
in the teeth of the very worst wind I ever
encountered. By afternoon it was a perfeot
gale, against which I could make scant two
miles an hour bv the most violent exertion.
At the door of one lonely house I knocked,
and politely asked if they could lend me an
auger. "What d'ye want of a anger?"
snapped the hard-faced woman why an
swered my rap. "Why, I thought, madam,
that it might help mo bore through this
wind" but she slammed the door in thd
face of this ill-timed witticism, and I went
without my dinner for being "funny."
The temperature kept falling and the
gale rising as the day wore on. It was
already generously below zero. Near the
aptly named side track of Greenland, J was
crossing a trestle which spans Carpenter's
creek when a sudden gust, resistless as a
wall, swept me off bodily and flung me upon
the ice and frozen sand a score ol leet below.
The ice thanks to the wind had but lately
formed, and through I went into a shallow
pool. It was better than falling on the slag
rip-rap at the ends of the bridge; but the
eight miles to shelter, walking withjplothing
frozen stiff as a plank and nearly every
bone in my body aching, was anything bnt
hilarious.
Some Wonders of Nature.
Prom the top of the divide there were no
temptations from a straight road to Colo
rado Serines, the lovelv Httla elty In the
edge of the plain under the 7017 ahadov U J
jFsSMwiWiK'
1891
Pike's Peak. Just back of towil Is a hillock
160 feet higher than 'the main street, sar
casticaUy known as Mount "Washington, be
cause it has just the same altitude above sea
level as the noblest of our Eastern mountains.
Not far back into the foot-hills from Colorado'
Springs begins the Garden of the Gods a
wonderland fitly named Here, walled in
by rock-bound peaks, is a wild glen of 2,000
acres, and in it amid the murmuring pines
a hundred colossal towers and eaitles. pin-
Jlf .tUe.menU le ?
the deep-red sandstone. In the center of.s-
great amphitheater four titanio crags,
blood-hued and radiant, burst from the
level ground and soar 800 feet aloft. Their
tops are fretted into Wfprl nnints. and
their sides worn smooth and sheer. One of
the strange "monuments" in this "land of
the standing rocks" is a littls lnrcer around
I than a barrel, but CO feet high.
xui x ao not wisn to describe that won
derlandeven if I could. Tt 1 Knmpthinir
'Which every young American should see;.
;and seeing it ie will realize how little can
words give an idea to its radiant dory.
Near by, too. are superb waterfalls. beauti-
iui caves, ana many other delights; ana
'what I fear was almost as interestinz to-1
, s .. -- - ,; I .,
me trout. o. S". Iiiraiins.
GAS FINDS IN NEBRASKA.
.Possibility That the Natural Fuel Exist
There In Commercial Quantities The
Story of Two Babbling Springs A Bon-'
fire Sixty Feet High.
CConnsEFoxDzarca or Tnz DisrATCDtJ
Omaha, June 19. TVe hear from time to
'time through newspapers of natural gas
being discovered in various parts of Col
orado. The accounts are doubtless true,
but somehow after a time we hear no more
about them, owing either to the flow of gas
having ceased or the lack of persistent pros
pecting for it,
During the past month I had occasion to,
fvisit the White river district, about 30 miles
west of Meeker, in Northwestern, Colorado.
This is a singular region of numberless
plateaus, or ' table lands, intersected by
ravines and dry water courses. The White
river flows sluggishly through the heart of
this country. Along a nearly dry
water course we found two powerful
igas springs, about 000 teet apart.
S"ftJu8Z"'n Spring.
3oth of them were bubbling up through a
pond of dark alkaline water, emitting a
strong smell of sulphurated hydrogen. In
one pond a great number of little springs
were bubbling up fiercely at different
points. In the other pond, which, was
about 13 feet in diameter, the water was in
a violent state of commotion, caused by a
constant rising of great bubbles of gas from
the central orifice, which raised the surface
of the pond nearly two feet above its level
and kept the surrounding water
churning around like a chaldron,,
-The spring sent off at-the same time a strong
'smell of netroleum.thoueh none of that sub
stance could be seen floating on the water-!
-issuing irom it
Tne Spring aHuiof name.
" "From a safe distance we applied a light to
-the surface of the water and in an instant
the whole pond was covered by a sheet of
flame rising six feet above it, and giving
out an intense heat. These springs were
discovered bya cowboy over two years be
fore my visit. While riding along his horse
ehied at something at the bottom and at the
same time he heard a low, hissing noise.
Thinking it was a rattlesnake, he returned,
to the spot to investigate, and saw
that the noise came from a spring.
Guessing what it was he lit a match and ap
plied it to the bubble, which immediately
Sashed firs and continued burning for a few
seconds.
Staking the ground out as a claim he got,
a company to undertake the borincr. and.
-two wells were put down, one at each point.
to a aeptn 01 about ouu leet. a. large cattle
"round up" happening to be in the neigh
borhood the operator told them that he would
give them an illumination, so he set fire
to the gas which was issuing from the wells.
The result was more than he had antici
pated. A column of fire 12 feet in diameter
and 60'feet in height rushed up with a roar
into the midnight sky.
More Than He Counted On.
The operator was-seriously burned nd all
Hha machinery was lost, while for months
this improvised volcano illuminated the,
whole region. How long it took it to sub
side I did not learn, but doubtless it was
eventually overcome by water. The com-.
panv and operator appear to have had
f enough"from their experience and the wells
were leit idle, hut have continued to pour
out the same volume of gas that I found on
my visit.
At the head of Piceance creek, three
miles from this, I found similar
springs issuing from an intensely
alkaline pool. These springs, like
the -"others, would burn a few seconds
when lighted. The gas is allowed to
waste amonethe sagebrush desert The
.nearest town is Meeker, SO miles distant,
andGlenwoodTO. To pipe it to these towns
and establishglass andsmelting furnaces
would not be thought an impossible under
taking in the Hasten States, but here it is
different. I have since learned that simi
lar eassprinss are found alone Buzzard
creek, 20 miles from Aspen. It is evident
wai, uaiuKu eua in cuuiuitjruuu quantities
exists throughout this region. It may bo
years before it is developed, but I think it
Is -safe to say that it will.
Pbank Mohtgomee-;
Substitutes for Whalebone.
The high price of whalebone has spurred.
-up the invention and pushing of substitutes.
The best of these is feather bone, obtained
from common barnyard fowls. Then there
ore bones of prepared horn, celluloid, bam
boo and steefof different kinds, bare and
covered with cloth, said to be waterproof.
But there is nothing as good as the best
whalebone.
The Poor Car Horse.
Baltimore Herald.I
From my very heart I pity
Seeing driven through the city
The poor car horse.
From early morn Jtill late at night,
Hurrying along with all his might,
The poor car horse.
No one over thinks him weary,
Or tho -nay so long and dreary
For the poor car horse.
In cars packed to repletion
Thci e's more room lor an addition.
On the poor car horse.
If in starting he should slip,
Goad him on with voice and whip,
The poor car horco.
If his limbs are racked with pain,
And the sweat runs down like rain,
The poor car horse;
The trip at any cost Is made,
The corporation must bo paid
By the poor car horse.
. If I were a man and voter,
I'd have the cable motor,
And save the poor car horse.
Many a irroan from brute creation
Ascend to Heaven for reparation
i y tTiXT OSir1l1rIWSi
SEASONS GET MIXED.
"Winter lingering in the lap of Spring
Is Nothing in Santiago.
HARVEST COMES IN SEED-TIME'
Sights to. Be Seen on a Rambling
Through Chile's Capital.
Trip
A GREAT EXHIBITION OP MUMMIES
rcOBBXSF03I)ZKCZ 07 TEX DISrATCS.
Santiago de CinxE, June 1. Fe w cities
-can boast of a more delightful climate finer
situation, or grander scenery than this.
Though barely 1,800 feet above.the sea, it is
far enough from the equator to escape ex-
cessive heat, yet not so distant as to be sub
ject to extreme cold. Set in the midst of a
great, green valley, the mighty Andes that
stretch away to the horizon on every side
Inclose it within walls from 8,000 to 20,000
feet high their snowy bulwarks in dazzling
- contrast to the cloudless blue above, the
"living green" below, and-the gqlden sun
shine that envelopes all ae with a garment.
The country immediately surrounding-the'
capital is made up of small estates, with
handsome villas upon, them belonging ioA
wealthy families, who have the good taste
to forsake the city's glare In summer-time
for a few months of rural living. Jlanyof
these suburban casas are fitted up in a style
of elegance rarely surpassed in similar resi
dences of Eurone or the United States.
The true namo of this jinnient ymital. hv
rthe way, is Santiago dd Nuevo Eitremo,
"Saint Tames of the New Beginning" a
strange title, bestowed upon it by the con-
querer, voldlvia, something more than
three hundred and fifty years ago. in con
formity with the jurisdiction that had al-tj
ready been set up at Cuzco, under Father'
Yalverdo,the first bishop of South America.
Sllraclos Accompanying Its Founding.
The history of its founding reads like a
romance how Pizarro's whilom friend,
Diego de Almagro, tried hard to conguer
the tribes in this valley, but failed disas
trously; of heroic endurance, and deeds of
valor on both sides; of the direct interposi
tion of the "Virein Mary, who appeared
standing in the clouds, to the confusion of
tne savages, ana oi iius Diessea spooj,oau
James, the Spanish Patron, who seems to
have had a habit of ridin? downward from
the skies on a milk-white steed at critical
junctures; and of the later vicissitudes of
Pedro de Valdivia, who came soon after
Almagro's defeat, with only a few of his
countrymen but-a great following of friendly
Peruvians and established the town on the
right bank of the Hapoche, in front of
Araucanian village.
The tourist, coming down from the trop
ics, feels exhilarated by the climate of San
tiago, as by a draught of old wine. Benja.
min Taylor, in his "Between the Gates."
describes it exactly, for nowhere are tie-'
reasons more neighborly. Says he: "The
impropriety of winter lingering In the lap
of spring has made a public- scandal; but
when September 13 on whispering terms
with May, and old January masquerades in
June's clothes, and July gives all her rain
bows to November, it is time to talk I The
winter is in summer and the Bpring is in
winter, and harvest is in seed-time, and
autumn is left out of the calendar alto
gether. The siroccos blow from the North
and the cold winds from the South; and you.
must never sail by the almanac, or you will
lose your reckoning and get lost in, theu
weather.'
W1H2J otTolcrate -Sires.
But there is another side to this charming
picture. There is a summer-time of fleas
and dust (during the season of our midwin
ter), and an uncomfortable spell of chilly
-dampness throughout the rainy months,
.when Northern people are sufierincr most
p with heat. The people have a deep-seated
-notion that fires indoors breed diseases of
every sort, and except in houses built by
English or American residents there is
hardly a stove, grate or fireplace to be found
in all Chile. The enormously thick walls
retain no end of dampness, the floors laid
flat upon the ground, without cellars be
neath are cold and clammy as tombstones,
and as every casa is built around a central
patio into which all the rooms open, there
ore seldom communicating doors between
the various apartments; so that, whatever
the weather, one must step out into the un
covered courtyard to go from parlor to din
ing room, bedroom or kitchen.
Although the prevailing diseases arey
pneumonia, throat and lung troubles, and J
tne mortality irom uiese causes u ingnuui
during wet seasons, nothing can convince a
Chilean that artificial heat will not abso
lutely poison the atmosphere. When he
visits the home of a foreigner and finds the
rooms are comfortably warm and dry, he
Invariably grumbles and requests that the
door be left open so that he may not suffo
cate but spreads his hands and coat-tails
before tho cheerful blaze as if he thoroughly
enjoyed it. It iooks odd, at a party, to see
ladies in bare arms and decolette bodices,
with blue noses and chattering teeth,
wrapped in shawls and fur-lined cloaks.
crowding around a charcoal brazier, which J
emits iust enough heat to make one more
sensible of the deadly chills that come gal
loping up one's spinal column; and odder
still to see them, at table, still wraoned in
cloaks and shawls, the aching feet of each.
guest thrust into A foot warmer, though sur
rounded by every luxury (except fire) that
wealth can buy.
Foot-Warmers of the People.
These foot-warmers are unique institu
tions, and as ftnamental as indispensable.
They are regular pockets, each just large
enough to slip a pair of feet into, and are
made of fur or flannel, lined with llama
wool. They are often richly embroidered,
and are of Lome manufacture, or made by
the nuns or ornhans In the asylums, who
are all experts in needlework. And oddest
of all. it seems to see gentlemen and ladies.
perambulating the plazas in mid-winter J
the former with mufflers, overcoats and furl
caps, the latter bare-headed, with no other.
wrap than a silken shawl. The manta Is
universally worn in church by all classes of
Chilean women, but for riding, shopping
and the promenade, all but the ultra-lash-
ienable still go about with heodsuncovered.
Santiago is especially blessed with paseos,
or public walks. Besides the incompara
ble Alemada already described, the central
plaza, with its environing arcades and
portales, and beautiful Santa Lucia theiV
is the Tajamar, lying along the banks of the
Mapochc, which used to be the favorite
resort before the Alemada was completed.
It isan embankment of solid masonry, some
three miles long, which was erected many
years ago by a Spanish Governor to protect
the city from the annual rise of the river,
which sometimes swept away streets full of
nouses. A dengntiui winter promenaae is
the Tajamar doubly attractive because out
of fashion and therefore comparatively de
sertedits ancient wall overgrown with
vines and lichens, partially shaded by
straggling willows and eucalyptus trees.
Then, there is tho still popular Canadella
a broad tree-lined avenue where spooning
lovers loiter.
Some of Santiago's Wonders,
Though many cities have extensive and
beautiful botanical and zoological gardens,
there are few which can show any thing
like this of Santiago and I doubt if its
equal, in area and tne value and variety of
its buildings, can be found anywhere in the
world. It contains not only a vast botan
ical garden, laid out on a grand scale, with
little lakes crossed by rustic bridges, a
wilderness of blossoming plants, vines and
shrubs, towering oaks and pines, statuary,
shaded nooks, well-kept walks and plenty
of rustic benches, and the' greenest of
sward without a single placard (so fre
quently met with at kome) saying "Keep
off the grass" and an extensive zoological
park, containing all the animals of South
America,, and many others, conveniently
arranged for observation in long avenues
but a magnificent museum; an underground,
crotto-llke strnotura cont slain Innttmer-
jU-frm t-iVfiaflriih riM-nh-f 1
1T"V
water supplied by hidden fountains; aa
agricultural college, with 'a handsome mus
enm of its own and a long line of buildings
devoted to its various offices; an enormous
new Normal School, capable of holding
2,000 pupils, besides the teachers and their
families, who, supported by the Govern
ment, are all to be housed and fed under
the same roof; and a variety of other edifices
-'too numerous to mention. -
One of the most unique structures in tho
Quinta is one, contributed by SenoraCous
lno half castle, half pagoda built en
tirely of glo.s bottles, bits of iron ore and
square chunks of coal, cupola, balconies
and all representing the family enterprises
the coal mines, iron foundries and bottle
factories at Zola, the wine manufactured on
their various estates and the celebrated
"Cousino beer." Besides music stands and
dancing pavilions, there is a luncheon,
pavilion with open sides and awning
shaded porticoes, where parties may be
served at little tables with ices, winefc
Kxruits and other light refreshment.
In a Swell Restaurant.
There Is also a big restaurant, which It
justly famous for its breakfasts and dinners
the former served between 10 a. m and a
o'clock, and the latter from uY.yu as lato
as a possible customer remains. Breakfast
is naturally the most popular meal, since a
whole day is hardly time enough to see all
-the sights of the Quinta Normal; and there
lore It is customary to come out early, stray
about the gardens during the cool of the
morning, take a mid-day breakfast in the
big restaurant, (previously ordered in ona
of the numerous private parlors, and served
in many elaborate 'courses if the party is
very swell,; and then devote what remains
of the afternoon to the museum. Though
the cooks are French, Chilean styles pre
vail in the food and its serving. Among
other delicacies they give you camarone3, or
fresh-water crabs, shrimps with long, black;'
hairs on, the plumpest of white-breasted
partridges, tiny brown birds on toast, "sea
urchins steamed in their own round.
.-prickly shells, strange fruits and salads-
ana ij you aon t taxe at least ciaret ana
champagne with such a conglomeration of
unaccustomed viands, even the servants will
turn up their noses at you as "a greenhorn,
from away back."
Chile's National Museum is housed in
the imposing building in which the In
ternational Exhibition of 1875 was held a
miniature copy, in stone and glass, of the
Crystal Palace in London, with a magnifi
cent entrance, long central hall, and a wida
stairway In the rear, branching out both
ways to rooms above. Space will not per
rait any detailed description of the wonders
collected here, where the naturalist, the)'
scientist and the archaeologist may revel for
days without time to examine them alL Tha
best of it, however, was stolen frqm Penv
during the recent war, for Chile is not rich'
in aboriginal relics like the land of tha
Incas. The collection of birds is the finest
Jy an inch long to the giant albatross-and
iuge Andean condors.
The Exhibltlon-of Mammies.
Perhaps the object which attracts most at
tention is one of those horrible "pressed
heads," the work of the Jivero Indians ofj
Ecuador the flesh, of a human head, from!
which the skull has been removed, shrunk
en to the size of a fist, yet the features pre-'
served with life-like expression, eyebrows'
Intact, lips sewn together, gaudy feathers
pendant from the ears, and Ion? black hair
concealing the pike upon which this ghastly
trophy oi savage wariare is impaiea.
Ana then the mummies t There are
enough of these dried and pickled folk to
populate a village those that hailed from"
Egypt stretched out at ease in their gaily
painted coffins, leering at the ancient Pe
ruvians, who are all bound up in the mostf
uncomfortable posture, with knees and ears
close together. If only they could speak j r
what tales might they tell, of semi-barbario-"
r nations that swarmed these coasts 1,000'
.years before Europeans ever dreamed of an I
America! xney wouia speas ot laois'
worshiped in great temples, of people who
toiled and hoped and loved and died, as
men do now; of victory and defeat, advent
ure and conquest; of the slow upbuilding of
a mighty empire its gradual decline and
'sudden fall. There is a boy mummy, still
grasping a sling in his shrivelled hand; a
baby mummy, which was probably loved by
Its mummy mother a few centuries ago; and
a grandmother mummy, clinging to her
spindles and primitive weaving apparatus.
Most of the horrible company have con
torted necks and twisted limbs, and every
brown face wears an expression of fearful
agony; as If striving to convince beholders
that the statement ot history is true to the
effect that mummifying process was begun,
by their relatives before life had left the.
body, it having been necessary to bind;
them fast in what was considered the proper'
position before death had stiffened their
muscles. Eas-xxes B. Wjm,
MOLECULES ABB SPACES.
A Simple Experiment That Seems to Es
tablish, the Atomlo Theory.
According to the atomic theory, all matt
ter is composed of small particles of matter
called molecules. Between these molecules
are spaces called pores, much larger than
the molecules themselves. Both molecules
and pores are so small that the most power
ful microscope cannot detect them. Never
theless the following simple experiment is
.eonvincini":
Pill a wide-mouthed bottle completely
full of alcohol or kerosene. Then drop
small tufts of cotton batting upon the sur
face of the liquid. The batting will imme
diately absorb a portion of the liquid, and
will then sink below this surface. Bepeat
this operation several times, and it will
then be noticed that the. bottle does not
seem to be quite full of the liquid, although
If the experiment has been carefully per
formed, none has overflowed. Now, by
means of a line wire, push the cotton to tha
bottom of the bottle and add more. In
this way a large amount of cotton may be
added before the liquid will overflow. The
only satisfactory explanation seems to be
thaMh6 molecules of each substance enter
the spaces between the molecules of' the
hotter.
DEATH IN THE SPUING.
LA-Gsu Babbles Irom Its Bottom That Kills
Every living-Thing.
-flan Francisco Chronicle.
"Talk about DeathTallcy," said Gavin
McNab last night '1 know a spot in this
State where no living thing can exist five
seconds. At a point about three miles from
Eopland and about 30 feet from the road,
there babbles a spring of the clearest spark
ling water you ever saw. The only thing
peculiarly noticeable about the spring from
a distance is the loud hissing sound it
makes sis it gushes up out of the gravelly
soil.
"Approach it and you will be startled to
see lying around the spring the skeletons
of hundreds of birds, scores, of small ani
mals such as coons, foxes, and the like, and
nearly always there will be a body or two
of birds or animals ina more or less ad
vanced stage of decomposition near the edge
of tho spring. The tact of it is that there
rises constantly from the spring a gas so
noxious and so deadly that one whiff of it is
sufficient to extinguish life."
Weeds of Sumatra Widows.
Hew York Snn.
.When a Sumatra woman's husband dies
she plants a post in front of her particular
door in the family house and Jiangs a flag
upon it. While that flag waves she may not
marry again. But when the winds, blowing
softly off the sea, have torn it into shreds
and scattered the bits on the ground her
term of mourning is over, and she may ac
cept a second lover's proffer.
For Fain In the Stomach.
We made use of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera andDiarrhoeaBemedy on two occas
ions for pain in the stomach. . Besnlt satis
factory In a- very short time after taking
the medicine. I hesitate not in giving my
opinion in favor of the medicine. At least
it has done all elaiad for it as far as w
have tried It VXX.J3oox.
s
-1
1