"HE GREATEST ABYSS In the "World Is Tbat Mighty Furrow Through the Plains in Which the Colorado Plows. A LEAP TOR LIFE ONUS EDGE. long Tramps Over the Sandy Wildernesses- Witk league Shriveled Up With Heat and Thirst .SHADOW SUCCUMBS TO THE STEADf, Hospitality cf an Irish Woman ana SomethSnj About tie Water Supply Out West. lumiTgy roc Tne msiM-rcn. SHALL not attempt ,to describe the Grand Canon of the Colorado, -for language can not ; touch that utmost won der of creation. There is but one thing to say: "There it is; go see it for yourself. " It is in comparably the great est abyss on earth greatest in length, greatest i n depth, greatest in capacity, and infinitely the most sublime. Hundreds of miles long, more than a mile deep, eo wide that the best 100-ton cannon ever made could not throw a missile from brick to opposite brink in many places ribbed with hundreds of side canons which would be wonders anywhere else, its jEStchlcss 'alls carved by the eternal river Into a myriad towering sculptures into Comes, castles, towers, pinnacles, columns, pires whoso material here is sandstone, there volramo rock, yonder limestone, and acain bewildering marble threaded by the creates! stream in half a continent, which looks a mere steel ribbon at the bottom of that inconceivable gorjre, the Grand Canon of Colorado is that of which there is no ch thins ns description. Even the pres ent c e can not fully comprehend it; and raepJc- an ay from the dazing view crowded upos ."u thoughts and "feelings which jrriw ?i ewell within, and becime more vivid instead of fainter as time goes by. A LEAP FOR LIFE. The descent was ten times worse than the ssceul more difficult, more dangerous.and more painful. Onco I backed over a little Shadkrw Was Had. ledge and rcachingdown my foot found noth ing below. A startled glance over my shoul der showed a narrow cleft CO feet deep lust Wlow me! I had not seen it in my look from farther along the ledgo, whence only the Ehelf which the gully split was visible. It was a tryin? situation. I was too tired to do the old college-day trick of "cbin nlrg" by one hand, and besides, that hand hsd a verv different hold from a smooth horizontal bar or flying ring. The cleft was Fven or eight feet wide, and abont ten feet below me. I saw with the first trial that there was no getting back to the top of my lodge. My rieht arm was almost at full length to hold by the edge, and my feet were in a horiinnial crack which admitted them two th.e inches into the cliffi It required the utmost caution to keep my tlung left arm from being squeezed ssinst the rock and such a squeeze would hare made mo faint with agony and fall. Taee wre but two courses to try to jump so es tn land on the side of the cleft, or to htntr on till exhausted and then drop to sure Jest?i. It did not take long to choose nor dpcite upon the necessary precautions. It was a very doubtful undertaking to spring b-ifkw rd and sidcwie from such a foothold, fall i en feet, and g-un four laterally. The 'ge of the flcft w as nearer my right hand fc- pral ieet, but I could not jump to the rigt.; as you mav readily see by placing yourself in a similar attitude because that clinging arm was in the way. LAY IK TEE 6KT FAINTING. I was tired more with pain than with enrtion and needed every bit of strength and a;nity for that supreme eflort. I e'.ifted my feet into an easier position, loosened my hand clutch for a moment, and even hung my upper teeth upon a point of Took to eae my legs a few pounds. For a moment bo. and then with a desperate treath I tfirust my whole life into a frantio 8ort and sprang backwards out into the air. If the Colorado Canon ran all its TOO miles throagh clinVof solid gold I would not stale that jump again, but now that it is all over I am glad to have done it, for the sake of the experience just as I am glad of a srrp.u manv other things which were un eneafcabiv fearful in their time. It was a well judged jnmp, and it needed ray best I landed upon my back on the eater edge of the ehelf, whence a push Jfi-. SXSy Refuses the ISoneg. weuld have relied me half a mile unless one of thoe vicious-pointed jags below had napped n e loui; enough to cut me in twain and ith nr tect hanging- over the brink at the cKlt fal.adow hal lound an easy way 'id j'liaed me in a moment. Of course, the .eavr tall was unspeakable torture to the t'uken arm and for some hours I lay there tick and faint in the blistering sun before there was strength in me to continue the cvnt. You way be very sure that I back id over no more ledges without a very lull knowledge of how the bottom was to be reached and that it was a great relief to .ami aain in the fantastic asU of Dia jaiOEtl crc eL THE DOG'S rr.AR OF A BATTLER. "UTien we had done so much exploring as -tas possible in nij vriunlcd condition and y Kg MfFv it on the short rations I hod been able to bring we started back to Peach Springs and arrived after a tiresome but uneventful walk, marked only by Shadow's first intro duction to a rattlesnake. In all our trip together it had been weather too wintry for the snakes to cmerce from their holes; but in this tropical valley e found a very large one that day. Shadow's fearlessness In "tackling" any and all foes had been sheer impudent ignorance; and I was glad to find that there was one creature which he in stinctively feared. His whole back was n-bristle, and his growls were fairly start ling in tneir unaccustomed Intensity J but he could not be persuaded to come near that ugly coil even when the snake was killed. Along here we became acquainted with a race of filthy and unpleasant Indians who were in world-wido contrast with the admir able Pueblos of New Mexico. These unat tractive aborigines, ragged, unwashed, vile, and repulsive-faced were the w is? r $ ft m "Ia ITantapai Indian. Hulapais (pronounced Wholl-ah-pie), a dis tant offshot of the far superior Apaches. They were once very warlike, but since they were thrashed into submission by the noblest and greatest of Indian fighters, and the most shamefully maligned, General George Crook, they have fallen into harm lessness and worthlessness. The manu facture nothing characteristic, as do nearly all the aborigines, and are of very little in terest Their shabby huts of sticks, cunnv- sacks and tins are visible here and there along the railroad, and their unprepossess ing iaccs are always to be found at tne sta tions. Alter a brief pause at the then 20-house metropolis of Hackberry to inspect it6 low grade copper mines, we made the end of a SG-mile walk at Hualapai, another boxcar section-house, and one of which I shall al ways cherish pleasant memories. A big, savage white dog flew out at Shadow with inhospitable barkj and the outlook was not wholly encouraging. But a little, thin faced Irishwoman drove off Shadow's assail ant and bade me enter. Could I get some thing to eat, and sleep beside the stove (for I had had to ship my blanket home, since it was too mucn ot a burden through the mid day heat, and with the broken arm; and the" nights were cold), and do a little writing at the table? Of coarse I could, and she bustled around to get me supper. HOSPITALrTV OF THE VILDEEXESS. "An' phat's the mathe? wid dhe arrum?" she asked kindly, noticing the sling, and when I told her the tears started in her tired blue eye. "Och! The poor lad! The Door brave lad! Out in this wicked counthry wid a broken arruml And she ran to bring me a pic meant for the men's supper, and other sec tion house delicacies, bound to sootho my hunger if she could not mend my bones. After a generous supper sha went to the other car and dragged in her own mattress and quilts and made me a luxurious bed on the floor, despite my protests. In the morning she firmly refused the customary payment. In vain I told her I had plenty of money and could not be content to im pose npon her. Sho only said over and over: -jno, u- not mcseli 'll tafc the nrsht nickel from yees, poor lad. Yc'll need it, ox ever ye get out av this sad place." Two years later, on a i isit to New Mex ico I came late at night to the lone section house of Cubcro and slept on the floor till morning. At breakfast I noticed some thing familiar about the face of the little old woman, but could not "place" her until I had gone half a mile. Then her tall old husband and her bright sons were aston ished to see the stranger fly back to the house, throw his arms about little Mrs. KeUy and give her a sounding smack on her withered cheek t She was even more dumbfounded than they, until I said: "So you don't romember the poor lad' with a greyhound and broken arm that slept on the best mattress at liaulapai, and leit no pie for Kelly's supper?" "WATEE DELIVEEED BT BAIL. At hardly any of the stations through that vast stretch of country is there any water. In a few cases there are springs within a few leagues which can be piped to the track, Ent in most places the supply comes many scores of miles in trains ol huge tank-curs, and is delivered into harrcls hall buried beside the track. People who grumble at their railroading over a transcontinental line do so without any conception of the dilference between operating a road in the desert and one in a land of abundant water, fuel and labor. It is an interesting subject into which I must not enter now; but to give you a notion of one small matter, let me tell you that the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad hauls the equivalent of 6,000 water cars (each holding eome 4,000 gallons) one mile, or one car 6,000 miles, every day of the year, to supply its stations with water; and that to supply its coaling chutes it ha3 to haul daily the equivalent of 30,000 cars of coal (each car of something less than 20 tons) one mile, or one car 30,000 miles. Had it not been for hunter experience, which made me never touch a drop of water before noon, no matter how choked, and to keep my salivary slauds awake by a smooth quarti pebble under my tongue, I do not know m hat would have become of me. As it was, more than once we came at night to a station with tongues swollen dry and rough as files projecting beyond cur cracked lips, and the first drink brought a spasm of fearful pain. SHADOW- .CXTCLBS't STAND THE STBAKT. Despite the heat Shadow had been inde fatigable in his pursuit of rabbits. I was averaging overSS miics a day in my haste to get across that forbidding land and to meet a sudden need for my presence in Los An geles, and Shadow, I believe, must have traveled at least three miles to my tvo. But now it had begun to tell on hiai, and he ran no more, but dangled wistfully at my heels, and would not eat. At Yucca, after a fear ful day, we found only a miserable shanty of shakes, almost as open as a rail ience. There was no covering to be had for love or money, and the drip from the i ater tank made two-foot icicles that niglit. At last I found a town aud dirty guunysacks and that was our bed. As usual now in these wretched nights. Shadow and 1 lay spoon-fashion, huddled cloie to keep from freezing. (That niglt he was strangely uneasy and groaned and grow lea and twisted in his sleep, but I thought nothing of it. Next morning, when we had traveled some four miles down the track, he suddenly turned and fled back to Yucca. -Utterly dumbfounded at this de sertion by the faithful dog i ho had alwavs seemed haunted by a fear that lie might lose me, and who would even spring from his nap if I changed my seat in room and refuse to lie down ag.in until he had been caressed and convinced that I was not going to escape, I tru-lged back the suffering miles to Yucca. He was lying in the Ehade of the tank, and growled hoarsely as I approached. I put a strap around his neck and led him away. He followed peaceably, and in a couple ot miles 1 had torgotten my wonder ment and was busy with other thoughts. And on a sudden as I st'ode carelessly along there came a snarl so unearthly, so saiuge, so unlike any other sound l"evcr heard, that it froze my blood, and thero within six inches of my throat was a wide, frothy mouth with sunlit fangs more fear lul than a rattlesnake's. Shadow was mad! CHAUL1.S I LUMMIS. A Scone That Is to Be. 'Twill be worth somcthin;j to bo present there. And -look the pithering o'er, When leaker tt'hat's-flis-Xanio is in the chair And ILccd Is on the floor. THE 'M WITCH'S lAILf: rwmTTKT JOB Tn DISPATCH. Among the Bucegi Mountains there stand, close together and facing one another, two very high peaks, which tower far above the ethers. Between them plunges a foaming waterfall, which rushes down the mountain intotbc valley below. It is said that in olden times, long before the memory of any now Uviug, theie two peaks were twin brothers who loved each other with such devotion that they shared every pleasure, and if ono b ept the other wept with him. The brothers were as beautiful as the day. They were taU, slender and very strong. Their mother, the Countess, looked with pride at her manly boySj and as she stroked their golden curls she said: "Andrew and Marion, my dear sons, you will be so renowned that even the stone wjll talk about you." The brothers belonged to a royal family, and they owned many castles among the mountains which they so much loved. One day the two brothers were hunting along the edge of a precipice for a bear which had robbed their flocks. They heard the low growl of the animal, and drawing near, Andrew was about to shoot his arrow, when from a thicket near by, flew a dart, which pierced the animal's side. At the same moment a merry laugh sounded. The w ounded beast with an angry roar rushed into the thicket. "We must hurry to the rescue, for I am kiitp th.it was a chili's lausrh." cried Marion, cs he ran forward, and with a single shot laid the bear dead before him. "What a pity that my first shot did not kill him," said a sweet, clear voice, and then from out the bushes stepped a beauti ful maiden wearing a short, red dress and & white cap, under which her golden hair streamed over her shoulders. Her eyes were deep blue, shaded by long lashes, and her skin was white and fair. For a moment the three gazed at her in astonishment, then Andrew sislred "Are you a little forest fairy, or a witch, disguised so as to allure us into vour den?" "I am neither," was the replv; "I have lived all my life with my grandfather oi the other side of the mountain. To-day, for the first time, I have permission to leave our park and wander where I pleise. But now evening is approaching and I must hasten home. With these words the little stranger sprang lightly throuch the bushes, and soon disappeared from sight. For many daystho brothers talked continually of the beautiful maiden whom they had met in the forest. But although they went often to the place where they nad seen the fairy, as they called the little girl, they waited in vain for her. 0c stormy night in winter, as Androw and Marion sat with their mother near the bright fire blazing on the hearth, they heard, above the moaning of the wind, a low, wail ing sound, as if some one were in deep dis tress. Throwing open the door, they saw crouching against the castle wall, the little fairy about whom they had thought and talked so much. The kind mother gently lifted the child in her arms and tenderly carried her into the warm room. "When her sobs had ceased, and the little stranger was resting comfortably, the Countess said: "Tell me, my child, what brings you hero this stormy night, and why have you left your home?" Urlanda, for so the little girl was named, looked sad again and replied: "Three days ago mygood grandfather, the only friend I have in the world, died, and the servants all fled from the castle, and I was left entirely alone. I know not where to go. Then I remembered the kind faces of your sons, whom I once met in the mount ain, and I thought if I could find them, they would befriend me. I saw the light of your fire gleaming through the darkness, and I thoucht that my troubles were at an end: but although I knocked at the gate as loud ly as I,could no one seemed to hear me, and i concluded that I must perish out in the cold." "Now yon shall stay with us, and be our sister, "cried Andrew and Marion in chorus. "Yes, my dear child, you shall stay with with us and be my daughter, and I shall teach vou to spin." "But I have already learned to spin,"" said TJrlanda," for the fairies, knowing that I was motherless, taught me that art, and you and I shall spend many pleasant hours together over our spinning wheels. That evening the liltlo company in the castle was yery cheerful, and each one thought of the happy days that were in store for them; for the countess had always craved a daughter and the boys had longed for a sister. The next morning, when TJrlanda with her newly adopted brothen, haa gone tor a walk in the forest, an ugly old woman, with hideous green eves, entered the bedroom of the countess, and in a shrill voice said: "Gracious lady, last night you received the beautiful TJrlanda into your home. If you love your sons, and do not wish great trouble to come to them, you will send away this girl at once. For mark my words, if she remains here, she will bring sorrow to you aU." Then, with a horrible laugh, the witch departed, whilo the Countess, frightened and astonished, wondered over her words. The mother would have willingly made any sacrifice for her sons; but she would not readily believe that so fair a creature as TJrlanda could ever cause sorrow, and sho was unwilling to drive the lonely girl from tue onlv home she had. But when the mother was alone with her sons she told them of the old woman's appearance, and of her warning words. "It is faUe," cried Marion, angrily, "our beautiful sister could never cause us anr harm, and wo shall prove to the old witch that she has not Bnoken truthfully." As Andrew echoed his brother's word, nothing more, for the present, was said about the matter. But the countess deter mined to keep a close watch on her foster daughter, and at the first sign of danger to send her away. The years passed by, and although the Countess guarded her sons with the greatest care, she could not see that any harm threat ened them, and the three children seemed very happy together. The youths grow to strong, good men, and their adopted sister was more beautiful even than when a child. Then came a time when eaoh of the broth era wished the fair TJrlanda for a wife; but the beautiful girl loved both so dearly that she could not make a choice between them, and begged that they would allow her to re' mam as their sister; but the brothers would not be satisfied with this. Aud now tor tha first time in their lives they began to quar rel, and use harsh words toward one another. The Countess now remembered the witch's warning, and although her daughter had grown very dear to her, she would willingly have scut her away in order to procure hap piness for her sons. But it was too late; For neither Andrew or Marion would hear of TJrlanda going away, and they declared that thev would first leave their "home, and wander jn foreign lands. The little Jamily in the castle was no longer a bright and happy one. The Countess grew sad and pate.Urlanda's eyes were always red with weeping, and the "brothers were sullen and morose. One morning Andrew went to his brother, and said: "Marion, it grieves me to think that there is such a hatred between us, when formerly we loved one another so dearly. Let us decide the matter by combat, and ho who conquers shall have the castle and caro for our mother ar.d TJrlanda." Marion consented to this plan, and the next morning at sunrise was the time fixed for the battle. Just as the dawn began to streak the cast the two brothers ascended the mountain. They had taken their places and were about to draw their swords, when TJrlanda and the Countess rushed to the spot and begged that the combat might not take place But the youths would not heed their cries, and again faced one an other. Then TJrlanda cried out: "O woodland nymph, when I was a child you came to me and gave me counsel. Now send your wand to me, that I may prevent this b'attie." Before she had ceased speaking, a fairy wand fell from the trees into the girl's out stretched hands. Waving the wand wildly, TJrlanda uttered a few words, which could not be understood by the others, and at that PTXTSBTJUGr DISPATCH, moment the two brothers were changed in to rocky peaks, and TJrlanda became a foam ing waterfall, which plunged between thein. The countess, who was overcome with grief, threw herself on the ground and was changed into a soft moss, which crept lov ingly over the rocks. These two moss-oovered peaks, and the roarin? waterfall can still be seen by travel ers; but the old castle has long since fallea. into decay. jaysiii S0JIE ENIGMATICAL NUTS. Puzzles for tlio IJttlo Folks That TTUl Keep Their Brains Busy for'Slost of the Week If They Solve Them Correctly Homo Aznascinent3 Address communication for this department to E. K. Chadboup-x, Zeunston, Maine. 1673 TWO rEOVEKBS. D. M. H. 1674 TEAKSPOSITIOX. Who leads the flht for '02? A scoro of voices answer "I;" Each limn is noble, tried and true. With ready hand to daio and do Aught at his cherished country's cry. JIcKinlcy, Sherman, Iteed and Blaine, Giesham nn A Jlril vr in tho racej Harrison, two, is in uain, Lincoln would talco it, too, 'tis plain) Each is a good man tor the placo. Opposing . tho list is not so last- Cleveland and his successor. Eflk one oi tnese two win noia it iasc, And w lien election day is past. Who is the man the placo to CT1T This Is a matter to interest all) Who is the man to Rot our votest Ho who obeys liis country's call Seeks the people to disenthrall: Sees that our starry flag still float. H. a Bur-spn. 1G75 STAB. J. A letter. 8. A prefix. 8. An Idiot (Obs.) 4. Contontlon. 5 To bo between. 6. Dying of hunger or cold. 7. A firework. 8. Heat. 9. A persuador. 10. Ones who permit. 11. A pasture (Obs.) 12. A diphthong. 13. A letter. liZTTC ItAOEK. 1070 TRIPLE LETTER ENIGOrA. In "humming bird:" Jn "naughty word" In "marching hovd," "Be one," said two To his pil, Hugh, "Hero is the price enough for-you"-(Hands out a V.) "It's all you'll see, 6o go your vay don't D a Arm" If you should wish A ttotlisome dish Jait get complete, a. little "fish." E. O. Chestsb. 167 faQUAEE. L In reality. 2. Placed alono, (Rare). 8. Tne business of c.Ucliiiijj fish. 4. racings made of squared stones, (Arch). 5. Adheres closely. 6. Terrestrial. 7. One of Homer's poems. Iowa Bot. 1678 CHAEADE. An honest old sale was Jack Spray, A liking he had for the sea; Ho lasted high seas far away As happy as Jack Tar could, be. If on land Jack stayed for awhlla. Cad whisky, and gin, and such staff Away he would store with a smile, Quite more, I am sure, than enough. A total he'd have while on land, And ardent spirits ho would quaff) And when he first too drunk to stand Old Bacchus he'd praise with a laugh. Bill. 167!) WOED-BUILDrS-Ck L Join "a fairy," "a small quantity," and "a pool or collection of water," and make "a frightful apparition." 2. Join ' a leaf of gold or silver" and "a gill's name" and make "a woman fabled to have Leen mado by Vulcan, and upon whom all tho gods and goddesses bestowed gifts to maKe nermore complete." 3 Join "an Injury, ' 'si pcrsonl pronoun," and "wealth," and make "a plant bearing a yellow llower." 4 Join "a well-known domesticated ani mal," "a snout," and "a serpent," and make "a flat-headed adder." 6. Join "courtship," "inside," "useless." and "a termination of abstract names denot ing Btatc or quality," and make "a kind of violet." Housino Glokt. 1GS0 ENIGMA. What Is It that relioves my mind Of worrying cares and thoughts unkind. And to the pietont makes us bllndt What is it that we all should bless For hiding from our brain distress, And making sorrows thought ot least What do wo call this maeio hand That beckons us to blumber-luiid Soothes us with its mesmeric wand! What charms tho ills of life away And hold us in enchantment's sway. Invites us in fair fields to strayj We all have felt this subtle power. It makes our cheeks bloom like a flower. And hides from us tho darkest hour. Bill. 16S1 houi: GLASS. L Destitute of a cover. 2. A postofflcn of Krankhn county, Massachusetts. 8. Muscles which tend to strengthen any part of the body. 4. Those w ho hold to mysticism. 5. Baryta. 6. A river cf Sw itzerland, 16S miles Ions. (Web.) 7. In newspaper. 8. Haughti ness. 9. Son or Zophah. (Bible.) 10. Spots. 11. Lays aside an old coat as a preliminary to taking a new one. 12. Orthoclase. 13. Generalized. Centrals, top to bottom: Discrepancies. Diagonals, loft to right down, and loft to right; up. JTreo from perplexing connection. 1'OST.UASTEB. 1682 CURTAILMENT. If you one the total out Of vour bread, without a doubt 'Twill be sour and soggy; If you try to eat of it, Tou will not bo pleased a bit In. tho mouth it's cloggy. Bitteb Bwira. 1683 TRANSPOSITION. "Friendship Is a tender plant. Not a tree of sturdy growth:" "Who and what aro friends," you ask mo; "Wherein doe their friendship lie?" With no riddle do you task me; Why will not this rule applyf "Thoe who seo the good in other G crbiilnnce what is base: Who their evil passions smothor, Seek each false step to retrace." "Lies in mutual forbearance. And in unity of hiart; It piescnts tho same nppcarauco, Sco together, 'see apart.' " H. C. Bcaosa. AUSWEES. 1661. Digno, dine: Bute, but; Quito, quit; Brest, best: Amberg, anibev; Caen, can; Flint, lint; Havre, have; Corea, coie; Posen, pose; Odder, alder; Sofia, sola; Angers, anger; Kent, kcu; Ayr, ay. Rign, rig; Turin, turn; .Nice, ico. Tha deleted lotters spell George Francis Train. 1635. Spain, pain, spin, pin, in, I, span, pan, an, a. Spa, pa, p. "mMiSmJif liTO. PIETISM I X F A 2.r T A E F F USED T A U N T E D IN STOKE S T E E It E 14 MAD DEBS 16G7. Ambled, blamed, beldam, bedlam, "balnied. 16b8. Car e. l(.ai. I'ORTOTTXiLIS ONE It AT ION BE S I 3 T E D T IS I S T E 1 C A S T E It U T T E It LIED L O D I N S 1G70. Ebonv. ebon, bony. 107L Tcn-dous. 1072, Blast, last. S02STDAY, AUGITST 16, BEAUTIES IN BUCK. Under tho Coating of Coal Dust at the Pit Brows of Old England FLOWS THE REALM'S BEST BLOOD. The lasses Are Snperh Athletes and Models for the Sculptor. HEALTHY, CONTESTED AND BLAMELESS COHEESrOWDBXCB OP Tnl DISPATCH.! "WiGAir, England, Aug. 6. Approach ing "Wigan by the Lancashire and York shire Eailway which completely gridirons those two important shires of tremendous industries, the eye rests on a fair and pleas ant English landscape. The nearness of great manufacturing cities has crowded the pretty farmsteadings closely together. The fields are small and carefully tilled. The roada are narrow and often paved. Hedges are trim; gates are wclVpaintcd; farm offices are ample and bright with fresh whitewash; and fine old towers or neat spires here and there show above masses of ancient tree3 through which splatchca of color from thatch, tile or gable hint of quiet village homes. To the eye it is a winsome and pas toral picture. Soon the horizon line is pierced with chimney stacks like mighty spears. Be sides these, as your train speeds along, there shortly appear little bunchings of houses clustering about higher grimy clumps of buildings, and surmounting these are huge wheels of steeL Seen across pretty copses, gentle hills or nestling homes aud outbuildings, these seem like mighty spider-web3 against the gray of tho far, lower sky. Scores of these weird.black, lace-like circles are visible. The meadows and fields run green and fair close to the edges of the huddled structures beneath them. WHEEE PIT BEOW LASSES WOEK. Tliey are the great wheels above the mine pits. Over them runs the steel wire tr chain which lifts or loweis the "hoppet," or sends below the "cage" with its half-dozen empty trucks to return them to the bank or pit brow, each truck laden with its 600 to 800 pounds of coal. Thousands more men dig beneath these wheels and fields than labor in the fields above. There are more miles of streets, galleries and ways below the sur face of Lancashire than above, counting all tho countryside highways and city streets. It is beneath these mammoth wheels which lift the coal that warms half of Britain, and drives more than half her clanging machin ery, that VOU will find r.earlv nnn-fhird nf all the pit-brow lasses of England at their toil. Your first glimpse of the pit women at work in their strange garb, with their faces, arms and hands black as night from the grime of the coal dust, would fill you with a feeling of revulsion and dread or contact with such apparently saturnine creatures, and a thrill of indignation that women were enslaved bv such seemincrlvdeirradintr work. Acquaintance with the work and the pit brow lasses themselves will completely chauge these first impressions. SINGING AS THEY TOILED. There are five kinds of women's labor at the mines. To make this clear to those un used to mine provincialisms, the five classes may be called "washers," "coblers," "tippeis," "screeners," and "fillers" or 'levelers." The work of the former I found to be at somo mines to wash the dirt from coal in a long shute under rough sheds. A rapid flow of water filled two parallel troughs. The women raked the dirt together and got rid of it through traps in tho trough. Host of these women were singing heartily as they toiled. They were under shelter; seemed to take their work easily; the sound of the running water was pleas-, ant; and they told me they would not like to exchange their work for any other labor at the mines. It occured to me there might be some con nection between the running water and the songs; and I found it to be true. These were tho only lasses who sang always at their work. Tlie purling of the water through the shining coal effected these prisoned humans just as a tiny house fountain will bewitch continuous melody from the throats of canaries and mocking birds in your window or conservatory. Ihere was the hint ol the wildwood in it; the whispered voices of tho field and stream; the endless call of nature's heart to all that was resDonsive in their own. The "coblers" are the coke-burners. At many mines all tne fine coal aud refuse of the screens is transformed into ooke on their own premises. The women here from the nature of the work are compelled to DO CONSIDERABLE HARD LABOR. Armed with long-handled shovels thoy scoop the small coal into arched doorways of the ovens with the same throw and force as, and far more defmess and dex terity than, the men. AVhen the ovens are finally "charged," the women build up the doorway witli bricks, which are plastered over, and the ovens are then left to them selves for several hours. The coke is finally taken out in the form of a huge lump, which splits easily in pieces. Here again the women are employed in splitting the coke "oobles" or lumps and loading them into trucks. The coke is apt to cut their hands and the women are provided with stout leather hand guards. With the aid of these they pile the coke into the coke wagons or cars until filled, and then "trim" the loads neatly, so that none of the coke is lost in its subsequent railway journey. At most mines this work by women is out of doors in storm or shine: though several owners have lately provided sheds. The "tippers" do the heaviest work ac complished by women at the brows of En lish mines. The phafts are surrounded with a high metal platform, usually covered as a protection to machinery and workers, but open ut the sides for light and air. AS Hf IT WERE A BABY CARRIAGE. As the "cage" cornea up from the depths below, with its load of six trucks they are moved from opposite sides, the weight of each truck, chalked on it by the weignman below, is shouted to the tallyman who is boxed in a little glass-encased office at one side, by tally-boys, and as the trucks are pulled from the cage by powerful men, they are caught by the pit-brow women who shove them to the "tip," where the coal is conveyed to tho screens, and upset. Each truck when empty must weign 200 pounds. Its load of coal will run from 600 to 800 pounds. It is geared ou diminutive wide-tired wheels; but at best is a cumber some bulk to handle. Yet two of these strong pit-brow lasses will catch this truck as though it w ere a baby carriage and tend It flying to the "tip," dump it npon the screens by tho aid of a lever, and hurl it back to the cage for return into the mine, in a way that would electrify even an American woman's rights "promoter," The work of the "t-creeners" while the most trying on account of the endless cloud of coal Ilust in which they aro enveloped, requires less muscle than dexterity. A screen, a kind of riddle of iron bars, work ing on the principle of an endless chain, is constantly carrying the coal, which has been dumped upon it lroni the "tip" above, down along an incline into the coal cars, or "wagons," as they are called here, stand ing upon elevated tracks beneath. As tho coal passes along, the dust and fine ccal used tor coke-making falls into a shute be neath which carries the "screenings" to storage bins below. WOULD MAKE SPLENDID RIOTERS. But here and there are clogs of dirt, bits of rock, pieces of shale and huge "faulty" lumps of coal. All the bhale, rock and dirt are picked from the screens by hand, and the way they fly from these pit-brow women's nimble fingers is a w onder. A by stander is in danger of. a broken head; aud one cannot help thinking what a marvelous continircnt tliHi,e women would make in a .Belfast.riot. They also haye inthoix left 1891. along-handled, tiny but sharp and stout spade. One crack or prod of this, so dex trous are they, will split into a score of Sieces the hughest lump 'of coal, which is one if it showns signs of inferior quality. As frequently mines discharge from l,D0O to 3,000 tons of coal per day over this doublo set of screens, and every particle of it passes under the inspection of eight women, four at each screen, some knowledge of the won derful quickness of eye and movement on the part of these pit-brow women can be formed. No ship stoker ever came from tha coal bunkers more ebony black than they all become after the first cage of the day's operation has been "tipped." Tho "levelers" or "fillers" attend to the wagons or cars. Though the coal is carried into them direct from the screens, much tumbles about tho tracks. This is thrown into the wagons, and when they are filled, the women climb into or upon them and adjust the coal in the same manner as the coke-makers trim the coke wagons. WHAT THE GIRLS DO. This work is usually done by girls from fourteen to eighteen years of age. Tho scramble under between and over the wag- ons with the agility of monkeys, and every one nas superD physical aevelopemeni. a. saw one place her hand upon the bumper between the railway wagons, and with a light spring leap upon it, and Irom this, in anbthcr motion, vault into the loaded car five feet above. Carrying a spade in her left hand, she only had the use of her right hand, and yet no professional athelcte could have accomplished the performance with more grace and apparent ease. Having been fortunate enough to come upon the pit-brow lasses at various mines at all hours of labor, in all departments and conditions of their labor, at their hours for meals and rest, on their way to the mines, nnd to their homes, and again in their homes, I can testify to their thoroughly good nature, good heartedness and unusual respectability. I confess that I expected to find the most forlorn creatures bearing the image of women. All the illustrations I had ever seen portrayed them as hollow checked, hollow-chested, scraggy, sodden and beastly. They are nothing of the sort. Physically they are the finest formed women in England. WILD AND AWFUL GRANDEUR. It is, of course, a startling thing to come suddenly upon the platform above a pit mouth and amid the deafening clamor of the engines, the crashing of the "cage" as it comes from the abrss below with terrific speed, the thundering of the iron tracks upon the metal floor as they are "tipped" and hurled back into the hollow iron cage, with the endless booming of the coal along the "screens" and into the wagons, while dodging the flying rock and shale half discern these weird,swarthy figures of women, half clad in man's and half in woman's attire, plunging here and there, as if engaged in some bedlamish sat urnalia. It is one of the most picturesque scenes of labor I ever beheld, and has the element of wild and awful grandeur in it. But it has not the hopeless tragedy in it of the certain wasting away of human life furnished by the mill or the factory. En glish roses glow from English cheeks and flame through ;the call of coal on the faces of these pit-brow lassies. You cannot find plumper figures, prettior forms, more shapely necks and limbs or daintier feet, despite the ugly "clogs," in all of dreamful Andalusia. There is not harder, firmer, finer flesh and muscle in any prize ring. The sparkle of royal good health leaps from their splendid hazel eyes. Their lips are like the cockney's heart and spirits, "cherry ripe." And you never will find more dazzlingly white or beautiful teeth in the Azores, in Cuba, or with our own colored people, the coal-dust perform ing the work of a magnificent dentrifico. BEST BLOOD OP ENOLAND. They are most cleanly women and a bath is invariably taken when the brow or "broo gear" is thrown aside for the day. Then the pit-brow lassie is arrayed as becomingly as any of her class in England, and on the village street or at church of a Sunday you could not pick her out from among her companions, unless for her fine color, form and a positively classic poise and grace of carriage possessed, by no other working women of England. I was in company with Vicar Wood, of Pemberton, a part of the time during my visit to the Pemberton mine. "Well," he thoughtfully remarked, "it was one of the conditions made by the Hon. Mrs. Blundell that no pit women here at Pemberton should receive the annual gift of a suit of clothes who did not bear a reproaehless character. I havo charge of tho distribution. There has not been but one instance whero a refusal of the gift has been found necessary during the past ten years." In almost countless conversations with the pit-brow women, I have not found one who did not seem happy and contented in her labor. For this class any labor at any wage is a godsend in England. Altogether, I should seriously regard the pit-brow lasses a3 the handsomest, heathiest, hap piest and most respectable working women in England. Edgar L. Wakeman. A TEEBISLE AF3ICAK ANT. The Baslilkouay, a Most Vorncions Creatnro Which lints Its Prey Immediately. New Tort Advertiser.! There are a great many species of ants in Africa, some of which are found in vast numbers. The most remarkable and most dreaded of all is the bashikouay, and is a most voracious creature, which carries nothing away, but eats its prey on the spot. It is the dread of all living animals of the forest the elephant, the leopard, the goril la, and all the insect world tho man him self is compelled to flee before the advance of these marauders or to protect himself by fire and boiling water. It is the habit of the bashikoaays to march through the forest in a long, regular line, about two inches broad or more, and often miles in length. All along the line large ants, who act as officers, stand outside the ranks and keep the regular army in order. If they come to a placo where there nre no trees to shelter them from the sun, the heat of which they cannot bear, they immediately burrow under ground and form tunnels. It often takes more than 12 hours for ono of these armies topass. When they grow hungry, at a certain command, which seems to take placo all along the line at the same time, the long file spreads itself through the fore3t in a front line and attacks and devours all it overtakes with a fury thatis quite irresisti ble. All the other living inhabitants of the forest flee before it. Their advent is known beforehand; the still forest becomes alivo with the trampling of the elephant, the flight of tho antelope or of the gazelle, of the leopard, of snakes, all the living world, in the same direction where the other ani mals are fleeing away. Their manner of attask is an impetuous leap. Instantly the strong pincers are fastened, and they only let go when the piece gives away. They even ascend to the top of the trees for their prey. This ant seems to be animated by a kind of fury. Sometimes men condemned to death are made fast to a tree, and if an army of hun-, gry bashikouays passes,in a short time only tare skeletons remain to tell the tale. TAKIHG THE INDIANS' LAND. Claims riled on a ValcaDle Strip Given to the Beds by Grant. New York Herald.: When the Puyallup Indian reservation was originally laid out in Washington tho Indians had no access to the tidewater where they had been accustomed to fish. President Grant issued an order making section 34 a part of the reservation. It is claimed that he had no right to do so, as tho land is subject to homestead entry. Four claims have been filed in the Seattle Land Offic on that part of section 34 which is outside the Puyallup Indian reservation. The property is worth 5,",000 per acre, and as the tract in question is about three-quarters of the entire section, or 480 acres, the amount involved is ,200,000. THE BOOK OF WAHD1L Story of tho Prophet Whose Words Have lived the Centuries. HE CEIED OUT AGAINST NINEVEH. The Destroyers Came and the Metropolis of tho Iarth Wa3 lost. BESULTS OF LATAED'S EXCAVATIONS OTirrra tor tot DigrATCiU The last 12 books of the Old Testament cover a space of 400 years. That is as long as from this day back to the time of Chris topher Columbus. And the very latest of these books was written more than 2,000 years ago. Now, when you get 12 books which are almost the only survivals out of the literature of four centuries, almost all other books written beside them having been quite forgotten, and when you reflect that these 12 books have lasted more than 20 centuries, during which men have persist ently continued to remember and read them, the inference is a fair and natural one that these books are worth something. Tho little books, the foolish books, are forgotten in a year. It is the great books that live. These 12 books are books of sermons. And the sermons are political sermons. These great preachers had a conception of their duty and their place jn the world which not only did not forbid them to meddle in politics, but actually commanded them to preach more about politics than about any other subject whatsoever.. PREACHED ON LIVE TOPICS. They discussed the great questions which were stirring the minds of their generation. It is profitable and interesting to note what these preachers were not interested in not in metaphysics, not in rituals, not in mat ters denominational or ecclesiastical, not in anything small, temporary, unpractical. They were concerned with great, wide, pub lio questions. They felt called upon to as3ail corruption in high places. Dishon est dealers, avaricious capitalists, selfish Eriests, stealing politicians for then they ad a message, a plain, strong, stern mes sage. Not much ii known of Nahum Ho is called the Elkoshite, which means that ho lived, or at least was born in a town named Elkosh, perhaps in Galilee. A little, ob scure town, anyhow, wherever it was. Out of backwoods Moresheth comes Micah, out of backwoods Elkosh comes Nahum. Yes; out of backwoods Nazareth small and de spised, a town with a bad name, comes the Prophet of prophets. It matters little where a man is born. The future of the man depends upon the man. No small sur roundings can keep him from growing great if the spirit of greatness is in him. WHY HE rREACHED OP NINEYEH. Some think, from a word or two in Na hum's book, that he wrote in Judah. Either way, Judah or Galilee, Nahum lived at an immense enough distance from the city asainst which he uttered all his prcachinir. Nahum spoke of Nineveh. A strange fact, that. What could have stirred up anybody in Galilee or Judah to preach a fierco ser mon against that far-away Nineveh? Well, partly, perhaps, the interest which every good man feels in the abolition of anv evil anywhere. The spirit which toot Ames from his Tekoah pastures into the streets of Samaria, the interest which we ourselves feel in the two supreme barbarisms of our generation Siberian exile and African slavery this might account for It. Siberia is a long way off, and Africa is still more distant, yet we are indignant and have stronc words to say about what eoes on yonder beyond tha oceans. Nahum may have been interested in darkest Nineveh as we are in darkest England. But there was much more than that. The wide space be tween the Mediterranean and the Caspian Seas is traversed by three notable rivers; one, the river of the promised land, the other two, the rivera of tha Garden of Eden. NINEVEH V7A3 THE GREAT CrTY. Between the Jordan and tha Mediter ranean Sea lay the kingdoms of Palestine Israel in the North, having Samaria for its capital, and Judah in the Sonth, having its capital at Jerusalem. Between the Euphrates and the Tigris laythe kingdoms of Meso- Sotamia Absyria in the North, having 'ineveh for its capital, and Chaldca in the South, having its capital at Babylon. Now, in Nakum's day the one city which stood out pre-eminent among the30 four was Nineveh. Babylon was in subjection, Samaria was depopulated, and in captivity. Jerusalem was paying tribnte, all to Nineveh. Tho people of Jerusalem, then, had a good deal to do with Nineveh, and a good reason for being interested in that great city. There lived their great ruler. They had "a king, Indeed Namasreh but the King of Nine veh had cariied him off and shut him ud in a palace prison which he had at Babylon. Their real king was the King of the Assyrians, who reigned at Nineveh. In Nahum a day Nineveh was the center of tha world. A WISE MAN AND A SHOVEL. We know a great deal about Nineveh, and are likely to know a great deal more. We know it by the labors of men with shovels. The great city came to an end and was destroyed. It seems incredible that vast city, like New York, like Paris, like London, was leveled with the ground, and and then absolutely forgotten. Men walked over the place where it had stood and were quite ignorant that any city had ever been planted on that site. Across the river grew up a new city named Mouslim, whence we Set the name muslin, and the people who ved there were altogether unaware oi Nineveh. But some 20 years ago there came that very wise man with a shovel, and he began to dig down into the big mounds across the river, and speedily discovered wonders. One thing tbat ha found wai a picture of the very King who reigned in Nineveh in the days when Nahum was writing his book, King Assur-bani-paL You may sea it to day in the British Museum. The King and Queen were aercnely eating supper, looking complacently meanwhile at the decapitated and bleeding head of the King of Babylon, who has committed snioide. RECORDS THAT TOLD A STORY. The man with the shovel dug down Into the Carnegie Library of Nineveh, and brought out actual tons of books queer books written in character, and not on paper, nor on parchment, nor on anything eiso 01 wnicn dooks are comuiuuiy uiuuo, but on bricks brick books, the characters stamped in when the clay was soft. And, most remarkable of all, men studied these brick books and learned how to read tho letters of this deadest of dead laugnages. The library was a vast one. This very King Assur-bani-pal had collected it. His acribes were writing it in their books of brick, copying all the good writing they knew of in tne world's literature of that day, just at the time when Nahum was composing thia book which we are studying. A wonderful library books of astronomy astrology, mathematics, grammars with de clensions of nouns and conjugation of verbs, dictionaries, law books, natural science, botany, geology, books of religion with our Genesis story in them, almost word for word, of the creation and the fall and the flood, and books of history with records of the great past of tho Assyrian Kingdom. TIIE BOOKS OF BRICK. I saw some of these hooka last summer, some of these brick books. They had seen hard usage. They had been on shelves on the second (Story rooms of the royal palace, and in the destruction of the city the palace had been burned, down had gone the floors and walls, mid the books with them; then the plunderers had come and hunted every thing over for hidden tre sure; and then the fain, forming crystals in the cracks and bursting the bricks; and then the long cen IT turies of burial. But there are the brick books, moved to a land then undiscovered, stored in London, put together, and little br little, read into English. These books tell us about Nineveh. Ninevehwasacity of great kings. Ths list of its sovereigca is a list of conquerors. There was Tiglath-Pilcscr I who extended his power from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, a builder, a civilizer, a lion-hunter, the lord of eighty kings. Thera was Assur-nazi-pal, devastator, destroyer; who dyed the mountains of Kurdcstsn with blood; flayed kings alive; others he walled up in living graves, others he impaled on stakes; boys and girls he burned in the fire: hands and feet, ears, noses, and heads ha cut off beyond enumeration, and waa proud withal of these royal exploits. RECEIVED TRIBUTES Jl'.OH JEnU. There was Shalmanescr II, who defeated a great confederation headed by the King of Damascus, and including Ahale, King of Judah, and received tributes from Jehu, King of Israel. Jehu's servants, bearing their Hebrew taxes, still staid before the King on the black obelisk in the British Museum. There was Tiglath-Pileser II, whom Ahaz, King of Judah, bribed to .at tack Israel, and who carried away most of the Northern King'dom into captivity. And Sargon, who completed that oad business. There waa Sennacherib, "the hammer,"to whom Hezekiah, King of Judah, paid trib ute, who carried away 200,000 of the inhabit ants of the Southern Kingdom into exile, and narrowly missed depopulating tha whole land utterly. And Esanhaddon who carried off a King to Babylon. And As3ur-beni-pal, the King of Nahum'a day. These were the rulers of this great city. Great, indeedl Twelve hundred towers guarded its walls, three chariot3 could drive abreast along the top. At the gates and by the palace entrances men set those huge winged bulls with human faces, symbols of strength, alertness, and which even now, in the midst of great Lonaon, fill tho beholder with amazement. THE PEOPLE WERE LIKE RULERS. The character of the rulers represents tha character of the people. They were cruel, relentless, ferocious human animals. Tha "bloody city" Nahum calh it. And the man with the shovel tells us that they cared little for even the externals of religion. At . Babylon tho great buildings were temples. At Nineveh they were palaces. Against this great city, the impersonation of irreligious worldliness, at the climax of Its power, Nahum raised his voice. Awar in conquered and dismantled Judah, least among the tributaries of the great King this oDscure poet writes this poem. That ia what it is; it ia a poem, a sermon in poetry, a dirge over a wicked f ity. It is not likely that anybody in Nineveh ever heard of it. But the people of Judah heard it, and it brought some comfort to their Sore hearts. Nahum knows that Nineveh cannot abide forever. That evil cUv, that cruel power, must have an end. How does he kno--r that? Because he knows God. All is de feat and desolation about him, all the hu man strength is on the side of Nineveh, yet God is over all; God reigns, and He is oa the side of the right. THE PROPHECY OF DESTRUCTION. That la what he begins with; God is against the evil and for the right, therefore Nineveh shall be destroyed. Vhat! Tha vast, stupendous, splendid city, this me tropolis of the nations, this center of all might, majesty and dominion destroyed? Yes, destroyed! He pictures itall out. It is like a canvas of Vercstchagin. Outside are the hosts of the besieging enemy, with painted shields and purple robes, with scythed chariots and forests of glittering spears, within is coniusionana tear, o.ne streets are full of fleeing men, hurrying into hiding for their lives. Standi Standi The people cry to the soldiers who should defend them, but there is none to listen. The men in armor are thinking only of escape. The palace is broken open, the Queen is captured. The city is given over to plunder. "Bob vo silverl Kob ye goldl" cry the thieves in the streets. Every face is white with fear. And still the chariots and horses come. The poet looks ahead into the future and the sky is red with flames, and the water of the river of NINEVEH IS RED WITH BLOOD. Destroyed, destroyedl and no deliverance though her walla be stout as mountains and high oa heaven, yet shall they be laid low that the victorioua enemy may march over. Nineveh shall be destroyed, and all the na tions shall clap their hands in gratitude and gladness. And all that happened. All that came fearfully and tragically true. Tip from tha South marched the Chaldeans, tne people of the Southern Kingdom, breaking their chains of bondage. The Ninevites kept a hundred days of fasting and lamentation and prayer to tha forgotten gods, but the gods paid no heed. The Tigris rose and swept away a great space of the walL Through this breach came in the besiegers. The King burned himself alive in his mag nificent palace. The city was robbed of its vast riches. Down fell its walla and stately buildings. It was at an end. The grass grew over the ruins. Nature covered tha dead city with a winding sheet of green and brown. The very name of it vanished for centuries out of the memory of man. It forgot God, and was forgotten. George Hodges. KAPLES AND HEW Y0HK. The Bay of One Typical of Artistic Culture- the Other Progrcsa. New York Ledger. Artist3 and descriptive writers regard tha bay of Naples aa one of the most lovely views ever disclosed to human eyes.- On that favored expanse of shining sea and verdure-lined shore the choicest gifts of our fond and partial Mother Nature are show ered lavishly, as though she would attune the children of summer and the sun to har mony by the peaceful beauty of their envi ronment. The soft tones oi the blue Medi terranean, the yet softer tones of the clear Italian sky with its fleecy, floating cloud islands, the bright colors of the fishing craft, the dots of white canvas in the middl distance and the smaller dots away toward Capri and the hazy horizon, and the subtle, indescribable charm of the mellow Italian atmosphere merge Into ono perfect picture. Small wonder it ia that tho Italians hare coined the saying: "See Naples and die!" Americans who cannot journey to South ern Europe can enjoy a view nearly equal in some particulars and superior in others to the Neapolitan waterscape. From the span of Brooklyn bridge they can view an expanse of greater variety in human interest and quickened by more forma of life, even though the view be without the exquisite sky and sea tints and scenic effects of the other. The lower stretches of the harbor are bordered by the green uprise of Statea Island, flanked by the Knickerbocker estu ary named Kill von Kull and by the Nar rows, guided by the esplanades and panic pets of Fort Wadswortnanttiort Hamilton. The harbor itself is bnsy with the mighty transatlantic steamships, the coastwise shipping and steamboats, ferry boats and pleasure craft of all descriptions, passing between the Bartholdi statue and the Na tional ensign flying at the army post on Governors Island. Eoresta of masts and spars line the shores. The panorama of the busiest port in the Western world is before the eye. Each view is typical the Neapolitan, of poetry and artistic culture; the American, ot direct utility and progress. Each has iU lesson. SHE WAS TOO PBEVI0US. A Sample or the Kind of TVIt That Grcalty Please the Frenchman. La Caricature. La place et les gages me vont; maintenant Madamejoudra bien me soumettre le por trait de Monsieur pour savair s'll me plaira uutant que Madame. The translation I am satisfied with the place and the wages. Will Madame now be so kind as to show me the portrait of Mon sieur so that I may see whether he suits me as well as Madame does? A 4 3 r.
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