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EVENING IN THE WOODLAND.
The shadows of eve were stealing.
With their noiseless fairy feet,
Acd the evening bell waa pealing
lis melody low and sweet
I left behind me the city.
With its hot and atiflio; air.
For my heart was sad with pity
For iU toil, auj grief, and caie.
I sought, with the free light of heaven.
Surcease of the weary Btrife,
Where to sylvan scenes wore given
The breath of a purer hfo.
And by grassy nooks I wandered,
Adown by a woodland glado,
Wbcra a tiny brook moan Urod
'Neath the silent leafy sua le.
The beams of the suustt golden
Slioue into my heart's dark ul-lit.
And I thought of the promise oldau.
"At evening it shall ho light
And the holy calm pervadiug
Filled my soul with glad dot p peace,
Liko the joy of tho day unfading.
When the uifcht of tears shall cease.
The Marked Cheek.
"Is this Mr. Rushton's?"
It was a handsome young man who asked
this question.
And the girl who had opened the door !
for hint, in that pretty country plate w here !
the richest people were not very fashiona-1
ule, was Jlr. Rushton s only daughter,
ranny, nerselt.
"What a pretty little soul!" he thought.
Then, as she turned her head, he won-1
dered for a moment whether somebody had j
just slapped her on the left check, there!
was such a singular mark there, exactly J
like the scarlet print of a palm and fouri
fingers, j
Rut that mark hail lecn there all Fanny j
Kushton's life, and it was her one grief, her
perpetual torment.
She hail grown morbid about it in these
early days of womanhood.
But there was no cosmetics and no
arts
of surgcrv that coulttremove it.
There the red mark must be as long as
she breatheil, its hateful scarlet attracting
the first glances from every stranger. j
"3Ir. Kushton at home!"' said Luke!
Ribbins with a Ikiw. j
'Yes," s:ud Fanny.
Then she ushered Mr. R.ibbins into the ,
parlor and went away: and in n few mo
ments the mill owner sauntered in. J
It was a business call. j
The business was easily completed, and
then Luke Robbins rose to depart.
"The hotel is a long way off and I should
be pleased to have you stay all night with
us," said the old gentleman, "There are
one or two spare bedrooms, and supper will
be ready in fifteen minutes. Let us liave
the pleasure of your company. v
"Thanks," said Luke Uubbius. "You
are very kind."
Then he thought of that pretty face with
the red mark upon the cheek.
IH-spitc this mark he watted to !c it
again.
It sat opposite to him at supper time.
"The liest and kindest face in tne world,''
he said to himself a dozen times.
Anil ho did his best to win a little t hat
from the shy girl who could not forgi t her
tormenting mark until they sat in the twi
light on the piazza afterward.
Mrs. liushton had a call from some
neighlior and sat apart conversing.
Mr. Rushton, after many amiable at
tempts to rouse himself, went sound asleep.
Through the evening shadows Luke saw
;hc girl's finely -cut profile and cxpiisitely
shnped head; and tho moon turned all to
black and white soon, and blotted out the
red mark.
And he sat as close to her as he dared,
and her sweet Voice charmed him, and he
fell in love, as men do, for an hour.
Poor little Fanny gave away her heart
that night in or.e whole piece.
It is always liest to keep a little piece, if
one can; but sometime that is impossible.
'Oh, what a beautiful night!" said Fan
ny, as she stood on the porch with her
mother after the gentlemen had retiriiL
Puch a fine breeze, and such a bright
moon."
"It s jaito damp, We'd lietter retire.
I wonder whether your pa wiil lie suited
with to-morrow's breakfast. lie does ask
visitors so unexpectedly," returned Mrs.
Rushton.
Married forty and single twenty take
different views cf life sometimes.
Fannv went to lied to dream of Paradise,
and next day was all happy in memory of
parting pressure of the hand, and a
whispered hope that they might often meet
again.
Yliat a pity that mark is, tuougiu
young Kolimns. rue s """"h
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thing; and I suppose mat Jiusiuoi- a "-j
richutan. A young nian "S"1 do wors'
than lie his son-in-law.
Then as the train whirled him away, ne
said to himself:
,fYhat a pity that mark is.
Nevertheless, very often after that he was
with Fanny a great deal.
Vannv'a mother felt that though this
suitor was not rich, he was eligible, and she
knew that the red mark was a disadvantage
to her Fanny.
"He certainly means soaietiung,
said
mamma.
"And thev could always livo with us,
snid nana: "wc need never part from our
a -
Our eyes grow used to everything after a
while.
t v Tinbbins fortiot that there was any
mark on Fanny s face, unless something
!iis attention to lU
lie loved her very much at timeR,thougb
.we were long hours in which he never
red her existence.
t.: a week, at least, Luke thought
enouCh of Fanny to buy her a bouquet, or
1 two hours on a
some music, w -i .
dusty railroad for the sake of seeing her
, for him in her very fin
lie icn i .,
tins: he saw it in her eyes; he heard it
D 1 '
He was a man who is hapry in being be-
And it was not old Mr. Kushton's money
that made him decide to oiler himself lo
her, despite the red mark.
Yes, the next time he went he would ask
Fanny to have hint for better or worse.
Ami knew that she would say:
"Yes."
There arc evil moments in every one's
life moment's that change one's destiny for
the worst.
If ouly it had rained one morning; if
only Fanny had fallen ill ; if only she had
not undertaken that trip to the city just
when she did, this would have been a dif
ferent story.
She used to lie shy of going into the
crowded streets alone, anil, even with her
mother wore a veil, and felt uncomfortable
when any one looked at her.
Rut now ske cared nothing for straiujcrs'
eyes.
Somehow her blemished face found favor
in his.
11 them stare.
The prettiest girl living was nut so
happy.
She went smiling along.
She made her little purcliase with a light
heart.
And then she saw Luke Robbins yes,
really Luke himself coming to meet her.
"Looks as if some one had slapped her
in the face," said a giggling girl's voice.
Anil he turned his hea l.
He saw her, and went to her at once.
"Oli, I'm so glad to meet you," said
pannv
I suppose I ought to start at
once."
..AnJ ni go with vou as far as X .
WUire you can change carriage," said Luke
Rohbius.
le saW people stare at her as she passed,
part of t!ie staring was at the mark, part
f jt at the pretty face and figure,
He crew very "rave,
It was a terrible blemish.
,llose moonlight lovers' walks in the
country he had forgotten all aliout it, but
j ti,t. crowded streets how it forced itself
upon him !
K very one stared so.
In the carriage which they soon stepped
into, a little child ojiened its round eyes,
and with a child's innocent impertinence,
pointed its finger straight at the mark on
Fanny's face.
lis nurse slapped the small palm at once,
and turned scarlet herself, but that did not
mend matters.
At the station there was a crowd.
Luke had passed Faiuy in first, and
stopped to pay the fare.
'Two," said he.
"The old lady t" asked the man.
"Xo," 6aid Luke.
"Oh, that one with the red soar on her
face," said the man, lowering his voice.
"All right."
"Confound yu!" said Luke, in a rage,
Rut the man had meant no rudew ss,
nor had Fanny lu ard him ; but Luke was
excited, confused, agitated.
He hardly knew why then.
He handed her out of the carriage ; then
he pressed her hand.
"Hood-bye until we meet," he said, and
stepp-. d to the platform. "Here is your
train coniiag up."
There stood one of those white-bearded,
n d-cheeked old gentleman who affect to lie
"judges of women," in a way that is in
sultinj to every- woman, since it places her
on a level with wine and horses, having
nothing whatever to do with anything but
her personal attractions.
"Ah ! how tie do ?" said this old gentle
man. ""Ve let our sisters and cousins take
care of themselves for the most part.
Pretty figure rather; good step ; but con
founded ugly red mark. A man wouldn't
like that, el Luke V .
"Xo," said Luke ; a man wouldn't like
it"
Something rustled to his elUiw.
I I left my parcel, Mr. Robbins," said
a cold little voice.
Fanny stood there, so pale that the mark
looked pure scarlet.
"Thanks. Don't trouble yourself."
Rut he went back with her, and he would
have prt-ssed her hand once more, only she
kept it from him.
She had heard his speech :
"A man wouldn't like it"
She had heard the speech that caused the
answer.
And as he looked after her as she entered
the carriage, two tears came into his eyes.
They trickled down upon his cheeks.
He wiped them away.
Suddenly lie felt that he loved Fanny
Rushton from his soul that, his cowardly
sort of trouble that the remarks and glances
of strangers had caused him would never
make him ashamed of himself again.
"Fanny, my rtarling," he said to himself,
"Fanny, my love, 3'our face is dearer to me
for its blemish, and you shall know it lc
fore I sleep. You should, were you a lieg-
. , . r . .1.1'3 ,1,1 Avpa
ir. I u lime it lrjiu me
. -1. i:.... . .....1 111 1ttri l-rul till
Oil my Iiosoin, uiuiui; , uuu " j
the more for it."
He followed after her.
He walked up tho garden path in the
twilight
I le asked for Miss t anny.
"She hasn't come in yet," said the ser
vant "They are so frightened aliont her
mnsterand missus but I tell 'em she'll
turn up all right."
Luke s heart stood sun.
A presentiment of evil filled his miniL
In the gathering darkness, two anxious
men went forth, hoping against hope.
"She stepped out on the platform sud
denly. Either she was bcwiiuercu, w mic
,11.1 it on Durpose. Wc were going full
asui Clin i,al a hhxe dress and a virile
hat, and there's a red mark on her face.
They'll know her by that.
Tl.nt was the etiard s story.
That was the story that Luke and Fanny's
oilier heard at last
Tii.i oi.o Ci..n nut on nuroose. or was she
J 'it I (Mil. f '
"liewildercd ?"
r:nd onlv knows no living lieing.
Luke tried to believe that what sue uau
heard him say had not hing to do with it
Rut it was too late now to tell her what
he felt -too late to hide her sweet face on
his heart
He could only stoop over her as slie lay
in her coffin, and press the last kiss his lips
ever offered to any woman upon c co,,i
check that, even in the death hour, bore
still upon it that fatid red mark.
... , i
That Other way.
Zeb. Cuttle came Into the village
post-office the other day in a towering
passion. lie was literally boiling over
with wrath,
"Where u the man T" he demanded,
furiously. "Where la he? Show him
to me!" And he turned up the cuffs
of his coat-sleeves, and spit on his
hands. 1 want to see the man !"
"Wlmt is it Zvbulon'" asked a by
stander. "What is it! I should say it was
enough ! Somebody said 'at my father
didn't know as much as old Squill's
poodle dog! Where's Sain. Carter?"
"Here he comes."
"Ho ! Yes. Them words was spoke
to him. Say, Sam ! will you just tell
me who it was 'at told you 'at my fath
er didn't know so much as o'.J Squills'
IKKKllcdog?" And in Zeb's flashing
eyes and clinched fists lurked destruc
tion dire and dreadful.
"Jsartaiu'," said Sam. "It was Tom
Waterford. Aye and here he comes."
At that moment Tom Waterford en
tered the otllee a youthtul Hercules,
standing six feet in his stockings, and
built like a Tacrine chief. Zeb looked
at him and gasped. But he had gone
too far to back down now; so, with
bold front, though a close observer
eoulu have detected a paleness of the
lips, he went up to the new-comer, and
demanded :
"Toiu Waterford, did you say 'at my
father didn't know so much as old
Squills's poodle dog?"
"Xo, Zeb," returned Tom, with a
broad grin. "You've got it mixed.
What 1 said was this: I said that old
Squills's poodle dog knew more'u your
father knew !"
"Ah O! Aha! that makes a dif
ference, 1 swan, Tom! I'm glad you
didn't say It that other way, 'cause 'f
u bad, by Jimmy ! I should 'a been
mad I"
A npapy Choice.
During the excursion from Pitts
burg to Xiagara Falls, and while at
Cleveland, an incident occurred w hich
will never be forgotten by those who
heard of it. Tho Kennard House,
hi that city, was crowded with
guests, when an eccentric and witty
druggist of Smithfield street appeared
late at night at the hotel office and de
manded a lied. The clerk replied that
there were only two vacant beds in i
llii. lmtis nn ll linritin was nnurtcred :
a Pittsburg morning newspaper man, land wriggle I through this soi ill bole, He doubt but that a solid iron wire one
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who !
burg evening newspaper man,
were with the excursion.
"To tell the truth, they are both
pretty drunk; so you may take your
choice as to which room you will sleep
in."
The drnggisf st;d that ou j;cne:!
I riucipies he would take his chances
with the evening newspaer journalist,
as they excelled the morning men in
more ways than one and ho would
doubtless tie so drunk that he would be
dorinantly quiet ail night. He went
to bed and was soon sound asleep. The
journalist, however, awakened about
twelve o'clock, and thinking it a long
time between drinks, dressed himself
unconsciously, in the druggists clothes
and sallied out to make a night of It.
Ever and anon he muttered as he
treated all present :
"Funniest thing I ever heard of.
When I w ent to bed last night I only
had twenty-five cents lo my name, and
now I've got over a hundred dollars
(showing a corpulent roll of bills), and
I'm bound to spend every cent of it be
fore morning." He did.
A Chunk of Ciold.
One day while I was at work iu the
drift one of our party w ho w as baling
iu the shaft said :
"There's something big had happen
ed up above, Tom ; I hear a great buz
zing and shouting."
"Perhaps it's a fight," I suggested as
I struck my pick in the soil and un
earthed a nuggetas big as a walnut.
Perhaps it's a find." suggested iny
mate.
"There's a find here," I said, as i
crawled out of the drift and exhibited
tl.n nui'L'ct 1 had iust taken out. Then
I heard the clamor, also; it was like
the murmur of distant waves, vie
shook the rope and receiving noanswer
to our signal, concluded that something
important hai happened as our mates
above had evidently left the windlass.
A moment later a shadow appeared
above and Dill's voice was heard shout
ing: . ...
Come up, boys, and sec tne Dig
find."
"Where is it I asked, on reaching the
surface ; but I scarcely needed to ask, for
it must be where the crowd was collect
ed some fifty yards distant from our
claim. The crowd was large and every
moment increasing, but being brawny
and broad-shouldered, I pushed my way
through it, aud was almost overwhelmed
with astonishment at the slgni mat
greeted my vision ; it wasn t a nugget,
it was a boulder. Xo wonder me mine
were excited. The spectacle was
enough to excite most phlegmatic indi
vidual that ever breathed.
It w as a solid mass of gold as large or
larger than a leg of mutton, and not
unlike one in shape. This was the
mass which has since been widely
kuown as the Welcome nuget. A fac
simile ol it may now be seen in the
Boston Museum of Natural History,
where the weight is given at 2,10j
ounces, aud the value at$U.822.70; the
further information is imparted that
the nugget is the largest piece of gold
found. This is an error. A larger
miff.rpt was found at Dendizo lead on
Feb. . lio9; it weighed 18J pounds 1
ounce Troy, or 2,209 ounces.
I had been mentally congratulating
myself on the discovery of a nugget as
large as a walnut, but the sight of all
this mass ol gold took all the conceit
out of me. Nevertheless I was glad the
nugget had been found, for the claim
from which It was taken was right in
the direction in which wc were work-
ing, and our claim was daily growing
richer in ore.
The Welcome uuggct, as large as it
as, did not enrich its finders, for
there were twelve shareholders in it,
and it brought them less than 1,000
piece; it would have been a lucky find
tor a couple of mates. The man who
dug it out fainted dead away before he
unearthed it. When his pick struck it
he reached out his hand to pick up the
lump; the light from his candle shone
upon it and revealed Its nature. To his
surprise, it did not yield to his touch.
Then he began to feel round it with his
hands, and it grew in size under his
exploring digits. He gave it a wrench
but it did not budge. Seizing his pick
he began to dig around it, and as its
proportions grew under his eye the
spectacle overcame him, and he fainted
for joy.
Remarkable EM-ae From Jail.
A remarkable escape from jail was
recently m:Ue at Franklin, Venango
county, I'd. A man mained Charles
Crayton, twenty years of age, sen
tenced to one years imprisonment on
two indictments, for assault and bat
tery, crawled through a hole six by
eleven inches inches in size, twenty
five feet from the ground, and escaped
down a rope. Crayton, together with
John Murray, convicted of the same
offence, and sentenced at the same
time, was confined in the northwest
corner cell, second tier, the one
farthest removed from the apartments
of the Sheriff. Using two case-knives
which had been converted into saws,
he ilrst cut through the one and a ball
inch upright iron bar dividing the
window, w hu b is six inches wide. He
then with a cold chisel cut Into the
wall, w Inch is composed of a soft free
stone, until lie had treed both ends of a
flat cro;S-barof half-inch iron, through
a hole in which the upright has passed.
Just below tho next cross-bar above,
he cut into the upright to a depth ol
three-sixteenths of an inch, and insert
ing one end of a long bed slat, be and
his partner, by applying their united
strength to the slat, broke off the bar j he admits that probably never in tne
where the uiek had been ma le. This experience of mankind has aro l one
left a spaee six inches deep and eleven j half an inch in diameter been melted.
Inches high. Previously, he and his d in every cac where a rod a quar
purtuer had torn their blanket into j ter-inch in diameter has been melted it
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liailun !?iiiji3 aim I'nttitt -itttv - ..-.j
m r , s,.,.ri.w ih.. rone to !
what was left of the upright rod, lie i
thoroughly soaped
the sidis of the
OOClliilir. soaped llM OWII naked
self alter his clothes were thrown down
I Kir l.ij -i.-.-niiKilii-,' and escaped thruirh
a storm of rain, raging at the time. His
ompauion. being of larger frame, did;
not attempt the hopeless laSKoi gelling
through the window, tut went quietly
Su aSocu- There wrtrre found iu the ceil
two kuives, one cold chisel, one pening
hammer and two bags converted into
...Lj fmi.t tli.i elotti-iw nf n uliirr ro:i-
I hp i -..1 nt t..mYi.iit length to
-I.
brinMhoni if bun-' over his shoulders,
down to his hips, a..l which m ay have
been used to protect bis sides as he
B.l..,1 I. is war through the niierture al-
though this is scarcely probable.
These were filled with soft bread. Un
derneath the window were picked up a
piece of meat wrapped in a scrap or
newspaper, an obi clay pipe, and a
string or about 22 feet in length, com
posed partly of strips from his shirt
and partly of hempen cord.
1 Shall we you Ijlcr."
The barkeeper was about to close tip. ;
He had said so several times, and h.ul
put out all the lights but one. The old gan to hunt up the money tuat w as ue
tixturo had sli-ok the sandut from j mantled in exchange for I" ucle Sam's
their feet and reluctantly directed their! little chroiuo. Through tevon coir.
footsteps homeward. Ouly a stranger partmcuts ol a leather pockctbook the
remained
a dark saddened man, who
sat demurely on a stool ami Kept ni j
tool and kept his
thumbs revolving around each other,
like white mice turning a littie w heel,
When the coast was clear he stepped up
to the bar and said softly
May I
whisper a word in your car?
rVi Von
it:iy, mister, if you w ill be quick about
it," replied the driiiK-mixer. with his
hand on the lamp screw. "1 w ant you
now that we are all alone, to fill me a
flask of your best whisky for family
! sickness," said the stranger draw ing
out an ancient wallet with twenty
rathoms r leather string wound
around it a well worn wallet, that
looked as if ail the waves and billow s
or bad luck had beat upon it, an J gone
over it and through it, and flattened it, !
and poli.-hed it.-nd w ashed it out clean.
The bar man filled him up a pint,
shaved dew n the cork until it squeaked
wiped the bottle dry and set it upon the
counter.
"The autumnal air is getting a trine
tartish soliloquised the stranger.
"Would you have nny objection to my
taking a liver padder lrom my botllu?"
He filled the tumbler quite full, took
as he did paregoric in the days of his
infancy, and then remarked.
"Perhaps, on the nose, as tne ni-ui
has far waned ami my family are on
their spiral springs aud In their trun
dles, you had better put my bottle
away on the upper shelf, and when
Phiebus Apollo begins to canter his
golden prancer along the avenues of
purpling east, I w ill call for it and you
may then assess me the appropriate
amount: itf ducats.' '
Tim bar-keener snrang over the bar 1
anil began to kick him.
"What!" he said sweetly, "you kick
me arter I have drank! Don't you
know better than that! Kick me with
both leet I cannot reel you even then.
Berore I took that glass, if you had but
shook your fist at n.e you would have
wounded me, hurt me; but now I scorn
your physical punishment. Good
night." he said, as he stood ou the
doorstep; "I sec by the shadow ou the
sidewalk that you have kicacd me
again. Y'oti should remember my iras
cible publican, what the dear old poet
said: "Fate cannot harm mc now, 1
have dined to day,' so say I ; 1 have
drank to night. Good night taveiner.
How much the sparkling firmament
looks like a far oil" city lit up for a fes
tal night. Farewell, I shall ;c you
later."
Lieiituiiie itotis.
The course oflightuing is constan
or prearranged, and if a building
should be struck twice In the same
place the course would be the same
both times, no matter how crooked its
path, provided everything was in pre
cisely the same position throughout the
house ; hence Its path can be supplied
by a proper arrangement of metal. A
very small amount of connected metal,
no larger than a telegraph wire, will
conduct an ordinary lightning stroke.
Lightning seldom, if ever, goes below
the top floor of a house provided with
gas or water pipe, or below the upper
most floor that contains them, in a
wooden house not provided with pipes,
it is more dillicr.lt to state its course be
forehand, although it will generally
strike the chimney and end at the well
or drain, if near the house; its course
through the house being governed by
the different amount of moisture in dif
ferent timbers, plaster, etc., in the ab-
(senee of any metal conductor. A light
ning-rod does not attract lightning,
strictly speaking; it simply conducts
it, like any other metal. A tin roof
connected with the earth by water
spouts or metal hi any form, makes an
excellent lightning-rod; there is no
need of separating your tin roof from
the wood with glass; the electricity
will never leave metal for wood if the
metal continues to moi.-t earth. All
metals conduct sullieieiitly well for a
lightning-rod. The principal requisi
tion is a perfectly continuous rod going
in the most direct line from the high
est points to the meit earth. Theor
atically, copper is six times better than
iron, but practically, for a lightning
rod, iron is nearly as good a conductor
as copper. It makes very little differ
ence w hat shape or form the metal is
worked into, provided it is strong and
substantial. Sir W. Snow Harris is
perhaps the best authority on light-
ning-rods, but probably lo be on the
safe side, he recommends a large rod.
He advises the use of a rod three-quarters
of an inch iu diameter, although
.
of course, sriviutr small connecting
points between the links, offers great
resistance, couscq uently great Heat an. I
explosions at every link. There is lit-
I conduct any ordinary charge of light-
i niug in saf
arrangements, the most important
ol
which is the ground connection.
Take it Out of That.
A yo.u.g man from the bills, wii.li a
; new
linen duster ou his back and a
new umbrella under his arm,
i huge
. sttwit:rd no to the ccncral deliverv at
the Post Oili.-e and said iu a half coi:li-
. .. .. . . ....
: dcntial w insper mat lie woiii.i tak-' a
j stamp. The shade of the Father of hi-
j Country a green slia.le ol lum was
instantly lu the hands T the young
man for inspection. He took it up en-
rious'y. examined the obverse to .-co ii ; surface or the water. Alter a lew
the picture was all right, ami scrutiu- i minutes he rose, threw a stone into the
ized the reverse, f.-ariiig that he w ould j poml, and said, "You find w hite fellow
discover an iiisullicency of mucilage, j there." The pond was dragged, and
Then he lnid the stamp down and said i the white fellow discovered in an ad
hc would tike it. w ith the air of a man jvaiiced state of decomposition, which
w ho is bound that no man shall get the ; had m idj itself apparent to th black
better of him in a trade. Postmaster ! fellow. We need no; go further into
Mayo looked up and smiled assent, al-I a story of common place murder and
though w e thought he smiled four do! -
lars' worth
-while the pcrcha.-er be-
j young man rummaged, like a w oman
after a flea; his trowsers pockets were
; explored ; his vest vaults were made to
j diore their freight of silver a:nl
! itiils: anil vet he hail not found such
denomination of money as uu seemed
sure of I'osscs-ii'.g. Alter one more
dive into the caverns of his pockctbook
be gave up iu disgust, :uid reaching t
into his trowsers pocket, pullet out a
nickel, and said, with an air ol severe
disappoint incut, "Well, Jou'il have to
take it out ol that !"
ludian St :: Urivrrs.
A correspondent writing from Las
Vegas, Xew Mexico, says that he got
the superintendent to teil him about
his stage line, which runs from Vinta,
Indian Territory, to Las egas, Xew
Mexico, about 'MO miles, and passed
through some of the mot dangerous
Indian country in the world. It has
1(S drivers, thirty of wbom are native
Indians. The line carries the United
States mail daily and what passengers
it can gei, although the superintendent
is as yet tho only w hite man who has
oeeu over the entire route.
"Can you trust your Indiaudnvers?''
I asked."
"Oh, yes," said he. "E.erybody
s-iid at fust that I couldn't do anything
with them; but I had lo do something,
for the redskins had a habit of killing
the white drivers in some localities. I
got some of them broke in at hist, how
ever, and they do very well, They
like the salary, for it enables them to
put on style above their breilirenand
1 tell you they do like to dress. It
catches the squaws, and the young
men like that as well as you fellow s
down East. One day an ludian driver
ran off after a buffalo, and w as gone
two or three days. 1 sent uiun to hunt
him up, but he came back before
they found hi in with a dead buf
Talo and I'ncle Sam's mail as uncon
cerned as if nDlhing had happened. I
discharged him, and it taught the oth
ers a lesson.
"You ought to see them hunt piths
atliignt.. If they can get a glimpse of
a single star, they can find their way
the darkest night that ever blew.
Some of them are great astronomers.
They have an idea that there was once
a great flood w hich coveied the whole
earth. Everybody was drowned but
seven chiefs, who were strong enough
to climb to the top of the highest moun
tain in the country. They would have
been destroyed also had they not pray
ed to the Great Spirit so rervcutly that
their supplications were answered.
They lived to a great age and replenish
ed the earth. When they died they be
came a brilliant star in the heaven.
These Indians know the principal stars
by the names of departed chiefs. This
heller is prevalent among nearly all the
savage Indians In the southern part of
the Indian Teriitory."
"Are any of your Indians desperate
characters?"
"Some of them. Six of my drivers
saw the Custer massacre. They proba
bly took part in it, but they claim that
they were near by herding ponies.
They describe the whole bloody affair,
but will not tell who killed the whites.
Custer had many friends, and they are
afraid of them.
"Have any of your Indians ever seen
the cars?"
"YVs, seven chiefs went up to Vinta
one day, and I got them to look at a lo
comotive. It suddenly whistled and
blew off steam, and you ought to have
seen those seven Indians wilt. They
fell down on their knees in consterna
tion and began to pray to the IJreat
Spirit. I truess they thought the en
gine was the Great Spirit, but I don't
know as to that."
"Mack Trurkers" la A antral!..
The settlers of Victoria arc so much
vexed by bush rangers, who invariably
disappear when they are "wanted."
that they have sent to Queensland for
black trackers. That it should be nec
essary to go to Queensland to find
blacks in fossessoin tf these acuities
says not very much, perhaps, for our
success in keeping the aboriginal alive.
I:i England people may be inclined
10 rank the belief lu the savage power
of tracking w ilh the belief in the hazel
waml of the tre-isure seeker, or the ex
plorer for wells. The cleverness of the
wild hunter is supposed to exist only
in Cooper's novels. In Australia it is
very will known by experience that
the blacks will recognize the tracks of
.1 man they have not seen for years and
w ill hunt it over tracks of bush where
the white uau is lost. The great story
of the sleuth-hound qualities of the
,
I Morn is unfortunately mixed tip with
a gho.t. la the eyes of science and
perhaps common sense, it is therefore
a record of hallucination. The tale,
however, has often been repeated and
perhaps never contradicted, that a
j drunken old squatter, returning from
a gate, a man
wiio had lately kit his station and the
j colony for England. The squatters
j wife refused, or course, to believe that
!i ir.au who was iii England could be
sitting cu an Australian gate, but the
; squatter after another Interview with
ithe figure, consulted the local magis
I Irates. They sent a black tracker to
, inspi ct the spot, and his proceedings
! : II- !.
were nut uui.ii.tii.sk, .
tected soxe minute spou of blood on
j tne top ran oi mc gaic.
1 m 'o a iieiguuoim puuu, i..... .."
! self r! it ou the ground and watched the
; clever concealment. Some points m
the tale may not satisfy the skeptic,
but it proves tiie strength of colonial
belief in black trackers.
Warm ami Colli ISuth.
' ;,...,,., , iirii,.,.i
! cal action of baths, was published iu a
1 late number of tho London Lancet.
' Summing i:p, the w riter notes that
I w arm baths produce an effect upon the
I skin directly contrary to that which is
I brought about bv cu! 1 water. The cu
taneous ve.--els dilate itniiicdi.ltciy un
lrr the iiiffii'mv of tiie heat, ami al-
; though the dilation is followed by con-
raction. this contraction is seldom ex
cessive, ami the ultimate result of a
warm bath is to increase the cutaneous
irculation. The pulse and respiration
are both quickened in tiie cold bath.
The warm bath increases the tempera
ture of the w hole body, and by lessen
ing the ueee.-sity for the internal pro
duction fi heat, it decreases the call
which is made upon certain ol the vitr.l
pioeesscs, and enables life to be sus
tained with a less expenditure of force.
While a cold bath causes a certain stiff
ness of the muscles if continued too
long, a warm bath relieves stiffness and
r.itigtie. Tiie I'nal effect of both hot
and cold baths, if the temperature be
moderate, is the same, the difference
being, to use the w ords of liraun, that
"cold refreshes by stimulating the
functions, heat by physically facilita
ting them, an 1 in this lies the import
ant difference between the cohl water
system and the thermal mode of treat
ment. A Kara Btril.
curious spectacle was
A
witnessed
the other eveuirg. As is well kuowu
the Chinese kite resembles a bird i
some particulars, and when flying in
air is readily mistaken lor one. Ou the
evening stated some small boys were
flying one of these kixs, which was up
unite a distance. It was noticed that a
number of birds beg-.n to surround the
kite, and the longer the kite remained
the number increased until perhaps
thirty bad gathered around it, and
from all appearances were endeavor
ing to ascertain the species to which
this nodoseript belonged. They would
float at a distance, ami gaze intently on
the kite, and then with a dart woub.
swoop past it, as c!o- as possible, and
then would turn around gaze once more
at the peculiar bird, but without any
seeming satisfaction. They kept up
their inv sligalions until uaraiicssiau-
led theiu away.
Mew Track TeMer.
ThJ Pcnnsyvania railroad lias had a
new track tester built at Altoona. It is
thirty-two feet long and is finished iu
side with hard wood. 'In the front left
corner is a wash-room and water closet.
In the centre of the car stands a station
ary walnut table on which are fixed
three machines through which pass
strips or paper like the similar arrange
ment in tiie old telegraphing machines.
Over each of these machines ar" sus
pended three pencils in such a w ay that
any deflection will cause the encil to
drop ou the moving paper and make a
mark. In the centre of each machine
are two magnets, one of which is con
nected with a clock and the others with
buttons oik each side of the car. Every
five seconds, measured by means of the
clock, electricity is sent into the magnet
and an armature attract which causes
a pencil to drop on the paper, thus giv
ing a reeord of seconds. At the pas
sage of each mile post a buttou is
touched by the itsoii in change of the
car when a similar process is gone
through with and thus a record of the
miles is kept. The machine ol the left
Aide of the table is a regi-ter of the
gauge. It is connected with an axle
between two small wheels which rest
on the track. In the axle is a spring
wh:ch keeps the wheels on each side
pushed tight against the track. Iu this
way any variation from the standard
gauge is noted. The machine on the
right shows the condition of the track
surface. The pencil is connected, by
means ofja rod or crank, w ith 'the
spring of the car and any inequality iu
the surface is immediately registered
by the jar given the spring. The third
machine registers any difference in the
elevation of the two rails of the track.
This is done by means of a heavy
peuduiuui sw ung precisely iu the cen
tre of the car w hich under any sway
ing of the car maintains tho perpendic
ular, and the car's variation is imme
diately registered. The car is almost
reaily for its first trial, which will bo
made shortly.
A Uesperat StruKle wltu a Steer.
The cattle-pens at iiutehertown, Mis
souri, were the scene of a terrific com
bat recently. H. Smith, a butcher of
iowerfuI physique, entered a pen to
drive a steer into tho slaughter-house.
The steer became enraged and made a
rush at him. Smith dodged the animal
and struck him over the head with a
club which he bud iu his hand. Smith
then tried to escape, and made a rush
for the fence, which is about seven feet
high, but the steer wheeled around and
dashed after him. Sir.ilh had no time
to make his escape over the fence, and
he turi.ed and faced tiie animal, which
came rushing at him with its head bent
low, intent on goring him. Smith
jumped to one side and again dealt the
beast a terrific blow with the club.
Tho steer, however, succeed.-! in
wounding hiiu in the left side with his
horn, and in a:i instant ha I turned
around for another charge. Smitti
i.'.l.id lustily ror help, an 1 at the same
time threw away his club s.n.1 took a
large clasp-knife out of his pocket and
opened it. Tiie wild brute was again
j OI1 ,nc ,ual,t :l , ) caught Smith ou
horns, one of them penetrating his ab
domen. S.uitli clutched the other horn,
ami with his right arm Jug ids knife
in the brute's i iglil eye. The steor bel
lowed and turned away tor an instant,
and again came at his enemy. The
horns of the animal struck Smith on
his forehead; but glanced off, indicting,
however, two wounds. The butehir at
ths same time slashed the steer across
the throat. Mnitti again clutched hold
of one of the horns, and buried tiie
knife in the steer's left eye, thus blind
ing him. He clung to the horns, al
though the beast iu its agony bellowed
aud tried to shake hiia oil'. At this
critical point Smith's cries for help
brought some half-iiucn butchers to
tne scene, two oi inein wuu guns.
The- took aim and killed the brute al
most instantly. As so n as the shots
wcr' fire l Smith fell backward, cov
ered with blood and nneon-u us.
The (mmiiI 4) ll IH'iivnu.
Eiisha Ilawley, of Ki.Igclicid, Conn.,
was a soldier of the llevoiutulion ami
a deacon. He was a good nia:i of busi
ness, hut he never charged a man one
cent, more than tiie article was w orth.
The Golden Rule w as his rule of lite.
One day he learned tiiat a widow ha I
been reduced from a competent'- to
poverty. H-j visited her. r earing that
he might ound her feeling if be
should offer money or charity, he said :
"Madam, 1 tliii:K. 1 owed your late
husband fifty dollar-, and I've come to
pav it io vou as his legal representa
tive." "How was that?" asked the lady
somewhat startled.
"I will tell you. About twenty-five
years ago, soon after you were married,
I made fnrnltHrc for your hu!ind to
the amount ol two hundred dollar. I
have been looking over the account,
and find that I rather overcharged him
in the price of some chairs tlnit is, I
could have afforded them at somewhat
less. I have added up the interest, and
here, mad.im, is th-j money."
The tears came, in the widow's eyes;
she hall suspected the deacon had con
structed th tle'jt J'y -t t ug that l e
had made an overciiarg . N It. it was
she to do? the money was on the table,
and the deacon ha I left the hoiisc.
A Sensitive KishiTinati.
A gewtle-lookiiig man with a fancy
fish-rod yesterday went up to Delle
Isle to hook a few hundred pounds of
has. While fishing from the end of a
pier he got liU hook fast, ami after he
hatl been i:i that condition for an hour
or so, a man waiting for a boat down
happened along and asked :
"ilook caught .'.own there"'
Well, it is last to something, and
has been for a long time," was the re
ply "Then why don't you haul away ou
it?"
"Well, you see," argued the genih;
fisherman as he manipulated the reel,
"if it is f.L-t to a !ih 1 want to tire him
out, and ir it's f ist to a spile
want to pull this pier to pi
guess I'll vait a while longer '
don't
s. I