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THE HAPPIEST HEART.
Who drives the bonne of the inn
Khali lord II bat day
Bolter th lowly deed were done,
And kept the humble way.
The rtirt will find the tworJ or fames
The dtint will hl the crown i
Ay, nonethnll null to high hi same
Tims will not tear It dowo.
The hApplont heart that ever boat
Wn in tome aalot breast
That found the common daylight tweet
An.) l:t to heaven the rest.
John Vanoe Cbcnoy, In Harper's.
CHESAPEAKE
(A $100 rtllZR BTORT.)
T was ft mintftko to
say that I didn't
kuow ft horso from
n mine, aura ft
thing would bo
absurd for mo, ft
careful (tilde nt
of untural his
tory. Then to any
that I know noth
ing about driving
wna h base exag
geration. Many
time liad I (stood on tho forward
platform of a horao car and observed
with tho greatest intercut how the
thing was engineered. And if car
driver isn't scientino, who ia?
Hut I muMt admit that when I saw
that horse, I had misgivings na to my
own ability. Lit ruo descriho him.
In tho first place, ho wna called Chcsa
peako I suppose because he was ft
bay. I forge t just how mnny hands
high ho stood, but it was somewhere
between thirteen and twenty. Ho was
educated for a trotter, and although
only five yearn old, had a record of
2.34. Ho had been taken off the
track, however, because on two or i
threo occasions ho had run away,
sulky and all, and played havoo with
the fenced, and onco ho hnd tried to
get up on the grandstand, causing a
panic in which several peoplo were in
jured. There wasn't a man in the
county who could be sure of holding
him down to a trot if ho should tako a
notion to run ; bo his owner gave up
tho record-breaking idea, and decided
to make n family nag out of him. He
was turned over to a stableman with
instructions to give him plenty of ex
ercise every duy, and not allow him to
Kpeed. In ft few mouths ho was pro
nounced no longer daugeious, and Mr.
Owner took bin wif i for a buggy ride.
But Chesapeake got excited, and after
run of about two miles through
tewn collided with a telegraph pole,
broke Mrs. Owner's arm, and made ex
celsior out of the buggy. Then he was
announced for sole, very cheap.
When I first saw him he had been
standing for u week in a dark stall,
and was somewhat impatient, lie was
harnessed into a buggy, and stood
"with two men ut his bit, one on each
Bide, while the stableman and I got
in. My companion wore a pale, r-er-
I'.. 'i.ul"wU' .ere w a
troubled look in his eye as he took
the reins. Nobody told me how 1
looked.
"Are you ready?" from one of the
bead-holders.
"Y-yes; let him go." And he went,
just missing the curb on tho other
ide of the street, us tho buggy went
around on two wheels; and then what
a ride! All the Jr.ver could do van
to keep him pointed down the road,
and it wu fully ten minutes before
Chesapeake cmno down to a trot.
During that time I think we mind
Lave traveled Bt least fourteen miles.
"You see," suid the man, when
Choaapeake finally struck a moderate
pace, "ttll he needs is a little exer
cise, and he's all right."
1 didn't say much, but did a lot of
thinking; and the thinking resulted iu
a deeisiuli that that home was too fust
for me and I didn't want him. A
Ligher authority, however, decided
otherwise.
I'm telling thi story backwards.
First, I ought to have toid who I um,
and when, why, and how this all oc
surreil. Well, in tho summer of IH'JO, I re
ceived an appointment upon the
United States Geologicul Survev, with
orders to report at once for field duty
at Hutchinson, Kansas.
I wbh young in fact, hud j-ist com
pleted my educationand the pater
nal roof had been almost my only
bhelter, Consequently, the thought
of camp lifu cm tho billowy prairies
filled my soul with wild excitement.
Visions of painted Indians and long
haired cowtioys rose in my mind, and
I went and bought a revolver. Lav
ishly I squandered my father's cash
on hii "outtit" such I thought suitu
Llo for the plains boots, spurs, a
white sombrero, uud pistol holsteri;
rough, gray tluunel shirts uud cordu
roy clothes. No ono wus going to
size me up as a tenderfoot.
On reaching my destination, I wus
somewhat surprised to see handsome
resiliences, beautiful lawns, tenuis
courts and ludius promenading the
street whose sleeves were of just tho
fashionable size I forget what was
proper ut that time. Fortunately, 1
had some fairly decent clothes w hich
I had traveled iu, and 1 begun to re
gret my corduroys and my boots. It
might be mentioned here that a month
later I gave them to our cook, but I
never saw him wear them.
When I arrived, my "chief" met mo
nt the station, and conducted mo to
mi cleguut hotel, where I lived on
everything good imaginable, and where
thu tables wro waited upon by lovely
divinities iu cool white dresses. My
Kojotiru at that hotel was olio of the
happy iiici'leuts of my life.
Uy his intimates, my chief wus
called "Doc," becuusu ho uhtuyskuew
whut whh the matter with everything;
so 1 might us well make that his name
.for the purposes ol this usrrativu,
Onr party was .Hutchinson a
couple of weekt baying supplies and
stock, engaging cook and teamster,
nd otherwise getting into shape for
work. Each man in thd party wat to
nave ma own individual ijorse, and in
looking for an animal for mo, Doo
came across Chesapeake.
As I said before, my decision as to
his desirability was overrated. Doo
suid : "Y hv, he's jnst what yon want
Alter he's traveled thirty or forty
miles ft day for a month.he'll be quiet
as an oia cow. All be needs is exer
ciso."
Well, the horse was brought and led
to our first camp, jnst outside of town.
I was, of cotirre, not allowed to drive
mm, as uoo still persisted that 1 was
ignorant of horses; but Jake, our
teamster, gave him all the exeroise he
could possibly need, . . and surely
enough, in a couple of weeks he was
very much more calm in his deport
ment; and while never consenting to
walk, no was willing to trot at i
moderato speed when held firmly in.
tio he was tamed over to me, to
gethcr with uulimited advice about
hpw to (jo down hill, how to go np
mil and how to go on ft level.
I had by this time mastered what
my work was to be. Our business in
that country was making maps, and
my liart of it consisted chief! v in talc
ing long drives by myself, and at fro
qnent intervals making baromctrio ob
servations for altitude. We got over
the ground very rapidly, and in
November were far west of our start
ing poiut.
At the time I am going to write
about, wo wero camped at a little sta
tion called Hauston, on the railroad
that runs from Larned to Jetmoro,
It must bo understood that by this
time Chesapeake was my obedient ser
vant. If 1 spoke to him he wonld
travel like tho wind; and in Kansas
that means a goad deal; but if I said
whoa never so gently, ho would
stop so short as to pretty nearly
throw me over the dashbor.rd. That
sort of obedience was jnst what I
wanted, as I had to stop so frequently.
I had been careful, and he had never
runaway, sol had begun to feel the
utmost confidence in his integrity and
virtue.
Thut part of Kansas is but thinly
settled. It is splendid grazing coun
try, and years ago was the pasture of
numberless wild, long-horned Texas
cattle ; but tho settler drovo out tho
rancher, and drought drove out the
settler ; so that now thore is only a
scattered population some who came
there with money and haven't lost it
all. yet; some who would liko to get
away and can't; a few who have
actually made money through
some exceptional pieco of luck or un
usual industry. The prairie is dotted
everywhere with the fallen remains of
sod shanties; and deserted "dugouts"
lino tho beuches beside the creeks
telling of the prosperous "boom" days
when every quarter section had an oo
cupaut, and when Kansas, to tho East
ern mind, was auotb-. "am1 ,for Ar-
.?.i.f.i.s ,P .JT"
piaoes v ( 1 da. A recess If dug in a
steep ba- ,or terraoe, the aid is of
which for1-t.hree walls of the struct
ure. The' nt is usually built of
squares of rfK1- superimposed upon an
other, forniiV V'wall frequently three
feet thick. We is an uperturo left
for a door, and nt. other for a window.
The roof is formed by laying light
bourds across front to back and shovul
ing dirt upon them, aud it is often dif
ficult to distinguish from above where
the bunk leuves off and thu house be
gins. One frequently sees a belter
crop of corn growing on top of tho
house thuu in tho field. These "sod
dies," or dugouts, are often plastered
withiu aud without, have good doors
and windows, uud uru very satisfactory
domiciles in a climate where the runge
of the thermometer is from 115 de
grees iu the shade to forty degrees be
low zero in thu sun ; for they are as
impervious as a enve to external
changes of temperature.
About that tiino we were working
unusually hurd, for we expected to
break cumi and go home the 1st of
December if wo hud finished a certain
amount of territory. Thore 'was
danger of a snow storm coming up
uud stopping us completely. In fact,
it hud suowed a little already, and we
were impatient to get through.
Iu spite of the near approach of
winter, the 14th of November was
wurm as a summer duy. Not a breeze
was stirring as I started out bright
utid eurly upon my duily drive; and,
making up my mind to accomplish
more than usual on that perfect day,
I kept Chcsupeuke up to an unwonted
speed. Iu fuotI even touched Lim
it was barely a touch with the whip.
It wus tho first tiino I hud done such a
thing, and he wus surprised and
puiued. He put his ears back aud
looked around at mo with ft very
wicked expression, aud 1 knew ho
meant to let mo understand that he'd
get even with me. Then he started
up at a good gait, and 1 soon forgot
all ubout my oil en so against his
horseship, but he didn't.
It was one of Chesapeake's pecu
liarities that ho wouldn't drink with a
bit iu his mouth, rio at noon, when I
watered him, I always hud to take his
bridle entirely off. At first I used to
take him out of tho shafts and -put on
a halter, so that he couldn't possibly
gut away. Then ho got more docile,
uud I used simply to take him by
tho forelock, holding the bridle in my
hand ; and on this 11th duy of Novem
ber, nt l'J o'clock, I drove up
to tho edge of a shallow pool
a "buffalo wallow" filltd with
melted suow took off tho bridle,
hung it over the knob of the Lame,
and climbed buck iuto my buckboard.
Such wus my coutldeiice. Chesapeake
wulked iuto tho middle of the pool
and beguu to drink. Of course my
intention wus to let him drink his rill
and wado through to thu other tide,
when by simple word of tuottU 1
. i
wonld stop him, pnt on the bridle and
proceed npon my business.
Ho was very deliberate drinker
and it was piobably five minutes be
fore I said "Qet up." He walked on
across the pool, and when he reachec"
the other side I said "Whoa." He
nearly stopped, then seemed to re
member something. He turned
around and looked at me, showing the
wnites or bis eyes and laughed wicked
iy. 1 eoplo say ft horse can t Inngh
but he certainly laughed then. Then
he started on a gentle trot, and 1 said
"Wnoa gain, more forcibly, end
gave him some other instructions,
and Chesapeake langhed again and
quickened his pace ft little. He knew
that I had no control oyer him wht
ever, and I was aware that hit Doi
tion was becoming docidodly precari
ous. Thon a brilliant ides struck
me. He wasn t coin? verv fast.
would jump out, run around quickly
to me iront and bead him off.
Acting on the impulse, I jumped
out ctidn t manage to get any
wuere near nis bead, (or jnst as soon
as he perceivod me running beside him
ne broke into ft gallop, disappeared
down a ravine, and come no the other
side witn the buokboard bumping end
. ......
Hanging bebind bim, first on one hub,
then on another : and at intervals I
could see my belongings Hying out in
every direction. My impulse was to
follow on a run, but I gave that np as
bad job and walked rsnidlv in tho
direction he had taken. Fortunately,
tbe nrst half milo of his coarse lay
over what had onco been a nlowe'd
field, and everything loose was shaken
out of the backboard by the time he
had made that distance : so I walked
along, here ricking up mr cushion.
there my overcoat, somewhere else my
pacaage oi maps, until I was too
i . . . . . ..
ueavuy joauou to oo mncn good in a
chase ; so I carefully laid them away
in a corner of a deserted shanty that
had happened along inst then, and
pursued my weary way.
For some minutes Chesapeake was
visible, farther and farther away, at
ast a mere speck on the horizon : then
he scorned suddenly to drop from
view ; snd there I was. alonn. ton
miles from camp, and not a living be
ing that I was aware of nearer than
that point. It was discouraging, to
say the least.
ell, tbe only thintr to do was to aa
ahead ; to walk to that distant point
where my property had faded from
view, and then an indefinite distance
farther. The prairie seemed to stretch
away eternally. I took a man from mv
pocket, sat down on a tuft of bunch
grasa aud thoughtfully contemplated
Iben, with a pocket compass. I cot
my exact bearings. Chesapeake's van-
sbing point was almost due northeast
from where I stood. Less than eight
miles distant in that direction was
Guzzler's Gulch, a "draw," having, as
s tne rule in tbat locality, a deert
channel with almost perpendicular
banks twenty or thirty feet hiirh. and
forming, even when perfectly dry, as
was its usual condition, an imrassablo
Following the hoof prints, I soon
reached a dim trail, invisible except
at a distance in front, and which Ches
apeake had evidently decided was tho
propet course for him to pursue. I
followed rnpidly, but thu diutanco
seemed interminable. Perspiration
poured out from under my hat and
trickled in streams into my eyes ond
down my neck. My throat was parched
almost to choking, but not even u but
fulo wallow, not thu smallest sugges
tion of auything wet was there, ex
cept what issued from my own pores.
I was hungry, too; but thero wai no
manuu iu this uilderues, and my
lunch box was socurely locked under
tho seat of my buckboard.
I kept this up over an hoar. The
sod was still cut deeply with tho toes
of Chesapeake's heavy shoes, showing
that his puco hud not slackened. I
was becoming discouraged; but I
knew that Guzzler's Gulch was some
where ahead of me, so plodded wearily
on.
Suddenly something dark appeared
before me, less than a quarter of a
milo away. It suemed slowly to elo
vate itself a foot or two from tho
grouud, then it sank back out of sight.
It looked liko a horse's head. Tired,
played out as I waH, I quickened my
tteps into tho nearest approach to a
run I could assume. There it was
again; it was a horso. Chesapeake
hud lulleu down and wat dying. Hut
where wus his body and where was tho
buckboard? Thoso mysteries I could
not solve.
Suddenly, as I hurried on, I beheld
a female figure emerge, apparently
from the grouud, close boiido the
mysterious head. .On seeing me she
wuved her arms violently, as if sug
gesting that I might make a little
more haste. I reached the place aud
a strange sight met my astonished
eyea.
A hundred yards
Guzzler's Gulch, a
wiudiug along the
before me was
narrow canon
level prairie:
scarcely visible even at that short dis
tuuee, for not tree nor a bush
marked its whereabouts. I was stand
ing on tho brow of a bank or terrace
eight or ten feet in elevation, at just
the point where some enterprising
Kausun had dug himself a home.
The roof wus covered with live
od, . aud had formed an appar
ent continuation of the ground
where I stood; but at thut
time it wat brokeu in apparently ut
terly destroyed. From a hole in the
middle protruded Chesapeake's neck,
uud at intervals he raised his head and
gazed around iu mute appeal. The
buskboard wat lying bottom upwards
on the ground below, theshafu brokeu
short off. Evidently Chesupeuke had
landed, full jump, onto the roof,
totally uuoouseious of the trouble he
wus going to make. The light boards
gave way, and down he went, break
ing loose from the buckboard as he
full ; aud the vehicle, by its own im-
petns, turned ft somersault over the
edge of the roof and landod in the po
sition in wnicn it still lay.
WW a .a. "
now to get him out was the very
nrst ining to consider, but while tak
ing in the situation I had time to note
the person whom I had first seen, an
who hadn't yet said a word, but stood
near me, looking very pale and fright
ened, and holding by the hand two
little weeping bovs.
She was young certainly not over
twenty and while not beautiful, ha
an intelligent, attractive face. What
struck me as remarkable was that she
wss neatly dressed, and in garments
somewhere near the correct style.
noticed tbat her hands were soft and
white rare quality in that part of
tne world.
But I had no time to corf tat a nnnn
wny a girl who wonld have made ft
good appearance on Broadway should
. .. . k
ne living bere in a dngout. I went
below and looked in the door. The
room was full of debris splinters of
Doaras, lumps of sod. horse's leas and
harness, dishes and furniture, all
mixed np in one chaotic mass. Ex
cept to raise his head, Chesapeake
coumn i move, and be tluln t try. Per
haps he had already strntraled nntil
he saw it wss no nse.
The idea of crawling around amnnr
those legs and things didn't strike me
as altogether pleasing, but it had to
be done, and in I sailed. First, tho
traces must be cut, so as to get the
shafts loose. Whilo doing that I kept
1 . t I . Ma .
talking to Ubesnncake and nattinir
him. If he had kicked or strutted I
might have finished thin story by tell
ing how the young lady was comnollod
to oraer a conin lor me. Jlut be seemed
to understand the situatiou, and never
made a move while I haoked my har
ness to pieces. He didn't like the
idea of putting his head clear down
into the house, but by pertoverence I
induced him to do it. Then I took
him by tho forelock and pullod him
over flat on Lis side. Next, I asked the
young lady, who was standing at tho
door, looking ruefully at the rained
furniture, if she would kindly sit on
his head for a few moments so as to
hold him still while I fixed the room
so that he could get up. This she
readily consented to do, and while I
was hauling plunk and clearing up
broken crockery she told me her ver
sion of tho epirodc, and explained how
it happened that she was there alonn.
I will not attempt to give it in her
owu language, but will merely state
tho facts, some of which I learned then
and some afterward.
John Klackfield had stood for ten
years behind tho receiving window of
bank in Kansas Citr. Ho had mar-
iod a delicato girl and lavished unon
her every loving caro in tho hopo that
sho would become a strong woman,
but always she grew weaker. They
had been somo years married wheu
their physician annonucod that tho
uly possible way to savo Mrs. Black-
field's life was for her to co to some
locality of moderately high altitudo,
w uere tbe air was pore and strength-
C t"v " nnfriM- ,- I
o w m U.J b.iuuul titO. t
bo John bought a farm on Guzzler s
Gulch, stocked it, and brought his
wifo and babies to the desolate spot.
There he worked from daylight till
dark, and became brown and muscu
lar, and his children played in tho
sunshine aud grew fat nnd sturdy, but
the wife for whoso sake ho hud come
to that louely place continued to pine
aud pine, and one day passed calmly
uway with no ono nt "her bedside but
Johu nnd his sister Mamie, who had
come out from tho city t- caro for her
in her last illness. That was ubout
threo mouths before the time of which
I write. Mamio hud stayed to assist
and comfort her broken-hearted
brother until he could dispose of his
stock and farm and to caro for his
children.
On the 11th of November he had
started early in tho morning for Jet
more, tho county scat, to attend to
some mutters of business. He would
not bo back until night. She and the
children wero sitting at lunch when
they heard a horse approach at a gal
lop. Taking the children with her,
sho ran to the door to seo what was the
mutter, aud just as they stood in the
doorway, four feet cumo smashing
through the roof all at once, and a
buckboard bounded off the house in
front of them. Had they been in tho
house, or had they been fairly out of
it, they must inevitably have been
struck by either horse or vehicle. Oi
course, all sbo could do was wuit for
tho owner to come, or for her brother
to return, and she was having a hurd
time to comfort the children for thu
loss of their lunch when I arrived.
Wheu she spoko of lunch, I be
thought myself of my tin box ; and af
ter I had cleared up the room, gotten
Chesapeake on his feet, led bim out
perfectly uninjured, and tied him to a
post, I looked up. The little cup
board under the seat wus iutuct, aud
the book I sometimes read at noou,
and my square lunch box with a tiu
cap on top of it were well, not exactly
sate, either, for the cover had oome off
the box. The leg of fried chicken I
had thought of many times was
sticking through my buggy wrench,
and my book was coated inside and
out with very soft tapioca pudding
an especial treat which I had antici
pated with much joy. I brought it
out aud showed it to Miss Mamio,
aud we both laughed, and thou felt
pretty well acquainted.
The rest of this story can be told in
a few words. When Johu IMaokfield
came back from town that night, ho
found a big hole in Lis roof, aud a
uiue hot supper awsitiug him. Three
people tut down to that supper the
babies having been put to bed aud
while it was disappearing, I told him
how it happened that he could look
up from the table and see the stars,
lie laughed heartily. It was the first
time Le Lad smiled, Mamie or rather
Miss Waekttcld said, since his wife
died.
Their dugout was unusually nreten
tions, consisting of three rooms, sepa
rated by board partitions ; so there
wss plenty of room for me that night
The next day I helped John fix his
roof- "It don't make much difler
ence how we fix it" Le ssidl "we're
going to leave Lere in a weok." In the
afternoon, having repaired my buck
board temporarily, I drove back to
camp, picking up my things on the
way. The next day was Bandar, and
well, 1 drove over to tho Blackflold
place and stayed all day. On Monday
ue took bis children, and, of course,
his sister, on an excursion over to
camp for supper.
lie gave me his mother s address in
Kansas City, and when I boarded an
cast-bonnd train on the first day of
Decomber, I thought more of getting
to Kansas City than I did about getting
homo. In fact, I postponed my return
to tho East for a week, which time I
spent very pleasantly at ft certain
house on Independence avenue. When
I did get home, one of my first acts
was to buy $2 worth of stamps snd a
big box of paper. They diJa't last
me so very long, cither.
Then the next spring I went West
again, and on my wat stopped a week
at Kansas City. That time I left some
thing there that was round and
sparklod with ft diamond.
hen tho early winter arrived, an
nouncing the end of field work, again
I paused on my homoward way at the
Missouri River. I only remainod
three days at that time, and when I
went to the ticket oflico to engage
ransportntiou to the distant East. I
blushed when I asked for two tickets.
Chesapeake has never laughed again.
He's as steady as any plowhorso. I
let John BInckfield have him, and
when I stopped off last spring to see
him he gave me a look of meek recog
nition that seemed to say :
"Well, old man, I acknowledge the
oorn. Let s call it square.
Wild oats Lave lost their flavor for
Chesapeake. Frank H. Sooley, in
Washington Pathfinder.
Stories From the Sky.
Every country and every age Las its
historical, semi-historical or tradi
tional stories concerning immense
stones falling from the sky, or, more
properly from space. Levi tells of a
whole shower of aerolites which fell on
the monntaius near Homo in tho year
63 ID. C.
The Arundel Marbles (marble tablos
giving the events of the Grecian Lis-
ory from 1582 IJ. C. to 62 B. C. in
chronological order) giveau acoount of
great stone which "fell down frouv
heaven" at -Eogostami about tho year
467 B. C. Pliny, who died in the year
A. D., says that in his timo "the
great air stone," mentionod in the
oregoing, wus still to be seen on the
Hellespont; "and," he quaintly adds,
is even now of the bigness of a
wagon.
Since the opening of tho present
century there have been several woll-
attested instances of falls of stone
rom 'tuo 'regions otf$ace!rn-'iii58 atrarraffge'iiieii
year 1803 a perfect shower of litho
missies foil iu tho farming country ap
jacent to L'Aiglo, France, upward of
3000 separate stones falling npon a
wedge-shaped section of country eight
miles long by about four miles wido.
Aerolites, or "meteorites," as they
are sometimes called, usually fall
singly, sometimes in pairs, ami, less
frequently, iu showers, as was the case
at New Concordia, Ohio, in 18(10, when
nearly two hundred red-hot stones fell
in a field iu broad daylight.
Up to January 1, 1894, there had
been between three hundred and
threo Luudred and fifty instances ro
cordod of stones falling from the un
known regions outside of our atmos
phere, and iu eight of these tho fall
was iu the shape of "showers," the in
dividual missiles numbering from ten
to 6000, and of all sizes, from that of
an orange to immense blocks of
strange combinations of minerals
weighing hundreds of tons. Balti
more Herald.
Tho Fires Will Make Work lor Many.
"What is the probable loss from
the tire on pine stumpage throughout
the State?" was asked of a leading
logger yesterday.
"Tho loss is in one sense nominal,"
roplicd he. "You understand, fire
does not burn the body of pine tree ;
it only burns off the bark and foliage.
The trunk of the burned treu is as
good as over it was, with this excep
tion: Tho tree, after it is burned,
must bo cut tho succeeding winter,
else it will become wormeateu aud
worthless.
"This firo is a blessing in disguise
to labor. Every owner of burned
pine stumpage must go to work this
coming winter and cut every foot of
it, and many of those owners are
forced to cut perhaps Luudreds of
millions of feet of stumpage they
would not otherw ise huvo to cut for
years to com. They are, you see,
forced to employ immense crows of
men they would not otherwise Lave
Lad use for." St. Taul (Minn.) Qlobo.
Pre historic Diamond Mine.
A prehistorio diamond miue is a re
cent discovery reported from near
Winburg, in the Orange Freo State.
A nearly perpendicular shaft sinks ISO
feet, aud workings from the bottom of
this extend several huudrod feet. Old
fashioned spear t and battle-axes, with
primitive tools, curiously-inscribed
ktoues, aud skeletons of men of giguu
tio size, have beuu found, but there
is uo legiiud or tradition among the
natives concerning the miue or the
giaut race who workod it. Trenton
(N. J.) American.
A Ilock'.aud (Me.) mun has two
tame quails. The hen bus luid forty
three eggs this season and is still lay
ing. Doth birds teem to thrive ia
coufiuemeut.
OUli BOYS AND GlKj
FHIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT r
THE PAPER.
Doalnt Sayings and Cnto Doing f
Little folks Everywhere, Gather
Printed Hsre for AU Otbar LlttU Oak
lUad.
to a Mod flntnt,
A swallow Is almost as much of
cripple In getting about on thegrcuji
is that other small-footed personal,
the Chinese lady. Happily, he hi
mall use for feet; his life Is most',
on the wing; flying he gets his food
iklmmlng over the water he snatch
his rirlnlr nr tikai a Atrlm Aim. .
bath, and on tho wing he even feed,
his little ones.
Everyone knows his castlo of vmi
on one end of the big cross-beam li
nu uio. warn, or pcrnaps saaaiea on tr,
one of the braces, or a big wood
peg. But not every ono, I am ur
has seen the pretty baby swalloti
itandtng on tho edge of the nest dt
after day, stretching themselves and
""'" uiuimiiM till Ulgni,
mai uieir wings may grow, andthrr
too, may fly out of the old barn som,
morning to begin tholr happy life t
me air.
one aay I saw two or three of th
little swallows learning to tako fnri
on mo wing, iney were able to f.i
m. 1 I . . 1 - I . . .
nine, mm wero scaieu together ii
the lowest Dart of a wIndow a.v
unoui glass. Tbe sash was r
Into tho end of a barn corner-wise.
It made a sharp point at the bottom
uere rat tbe two In a bono, tonkin
at their elders sailing around 'i. th.
sunshine. Every few minutes A
viicum nuuiu swecD ud ouiain
ana, wunoutaiigtiting, stuff amor
Intfi A tin V. a. H....t. I rv
'"W uaujr IUOUIII BIIU KO UD. i ri'jy
youngsters learned to bo very exper,
in snatcning food, and when th
joined the merry party in tho
they readily fed while both they an
me parents were nylng.
A Young Kallwnjr Manager.
Little Archlo Cowley, of Dclwom1
Minn., Is probably the youngest ra
way manager In tho world. Arch;
is but 7 years old, yet ho controls a
entire electrical railroad. It Is tr.
that the road Is but one-tenth of
milo la length, nevertheless It Is IV
s3 a. i a. . .
ieu out jusi as commcieiv as an
road that Is run by grown person
Archie is president, secretary. c:
aucior, brakeman, and niotormac
whilo his sisters nnd nlavniates ;ir
tho passengers. Tho road was buil
for Archie by his father, who Is a St
rail i banker.
Thero are three cars on tbe road
one motor car ana two passenp:
cars, r.aeh car U flvo feet long an
two feet wide. It Is not a tro
rom. insieaa or a trolley wir
there Is a long strip of iron, whlc
lies between the tracks and supplleJ
me eieciricny wnlch makes tho caH
run along. On the motor car Is th
ror controlling the electric current
Dy using it Archie can make bis can
move as fast or as slow as he pleas?
im tins car also is the motor an:
the brake, and also tbe reverse
switch which makes the cars mon
backward.
At ono end of the road Is lb.
power-house; whore the electricity
produced. Tho cle -trlc current cooks!
from a small dynamo, which lsdrlv:
by a petroleum engine. Thero Isal
a shed where the cars nre stored a
night and in the winter time. 1
tne power-house everything is a:
ranged Just the same as if it wa
targe station run by a regular couh
pany.
Hut Archlo 1? tho company In thi
case, ills road Is on the hill by tfc
side of White Hear Lake, and he i
the only boy In that region wliou
able to go counting Iu summer tln-s-l
lie himself will tell you, tho best i
all Is, that In this kind of coastml
full do not have to walk up the hi:
Tbe electricity pulls you up. Arch
Is very proud of bis road, and spein
the days carrying his sisters and tin'
dolls along tho road. Ho can st
any place on the way, so he yretcn
thero are several stations and 1)
sisters get mil Thon bo takes tlu.i
up again when he comes back, an
collects make-bellevo money fr
them, ihey all havo a very g'
time riding on the cars, and Arc!
Is learning a great deal about e'.t
trlclty.
Tub school savings bank syslc
a. ....
uas ueen demonstrated to be a
cess by tho expurlenco of Norrlstow
l'ottstown, Chester and other c-it
of Pennsylvania. In Chester
money at interest from school u
lugs Is nearly :i2,U00, tho bulk
which was deposited In pennies, ui
els and dimes. . Ono pupil alone
reported to bavo uo'iuuiulated
I'lourisning school bunks bavo I1
established after tho I'ennsjlvai
precedent In Colorado. Kansas v
North lakota, and thero uro now J
such bunks In tho country. I
Pennsylvania still has the honor
being in tho lead of . ill the Mutci
tho number of thesu Institution.
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