x the
great bridge came to-
“a dead halt, © For a
few seconds the
weary passengers in
\ the **Pullman” con-
tinued to read,yawn,
gaze from the windows with the same
apathy which had charéierized their
{interest ‘since they had reached the
~ monotony of Arizona. But when tie
halt was protracted and: the train em-
‘ployes began to rush through the car with
excitement expressed on’ their usually
| stolid faces, one after another the four
* travelers grew curious to discover
through the steam.covered panes the
_ cause of this fresh detention.
The old gentleman in the end section
muttered a mild oath and ‘bruised his
. fingers in'a vain attempt to raise the
double sashes, then settled back with a
sigh and touched the button Tor Joe.
That long-suffering creature failing to
a spond, the ringing was prolonged till
“the jingling of the bell roused the occu-
pen of the state room from her nap, and
she appeared at its door with surprised
; inghiiry on her countenance. One glance
5 shower her that it was Number Eleven
, Who was ‘manifesting 80 much im.
” patience; a second, that the train was
stan@ing still above a wonderful gorge.
: h, sir! has anything happened?!
emanded Miss Denslow, straugely
ready to take alarm on that lonely home-
ward journey in midwinter,
That's what I am trying to find out!
Where the—Don’t allow yourself to be
disturoed, miss. I will—Joe! Joe! por-
ter!” Voice was added to ring in the
summons for the attendant.
;1 The audacious, aggressive commer-
: cial traveler, in section’ four, rose and
came down the aisle.
.#P1] find that porter, and I'll find out
| What's’ up" he zomatked to Helen 1 jin
ing.
She oted him, but ¢
dks walked through the car and
seated herself before a window.
*¢¥5hy, this-is Canon Diablo! Strange
I did not recognize. it!
Rightly named, too,” retorted Nutn-
ber Eleven. *t3eems as if all the imps
in creation had been hired to pile those’
rocks there! Wonder if that porter isn’t
one of them, and gone to join His fel:
lows: If it wore not for this foot I'd
soon find out what's the matter. J Joseph:
ph’ Ting-yling-a-lingl
~ = Well, there's a “Jouah’ somewhers
on this train, sure. Never made such a
trip since I've been on the road, and
that's four years. We're five hours late
now, and the bridoe all torn upl” ex-
claimed the guard, entering hastily.
¢*The bridge tera’ up! = What do you
mean?” thundered, N umber Eleven.
$*Fact, Some would-be robbers, or
Reasons, been at work. “Indians may-
+*What-—what will become of us?”
asked Muss Denslow, faintly,
*Oh! I forgot there was a lady
aboard, or I wouldn't have ssid that.
But we'll beall right. Found the thing
out in time!
“But you have said it.
what is to be done?”
“Go back, of course, till the track fs
repaired. - We're beginning to move
now. See? But, upon my word, 1'd
like to know who the fellow is. Welve
broken an axle, blown out a cylinder
head, smasbed the windows of the tour-
ist. car—had about forty such hinder-
ances since we left Los Angeles—and
now stalled bere tor nobody knows how
long.”
Pullman, conductors are less wary in
their conversation than train conductors,
on whose shoulders responsibility rests;
they are apt to be chatty and com-
municative, They regard tue traveling
public as a guest to be entertained in
vane tashion or another.
Helen Denslow did not look as if it
Now tell me;
were a pleasant fo.m of entertainment et back? How did I ever do it? She
just then employed.
“How far back must we go? How
long will it take?”
+i hope bot long,” and to ward off
further inquiry the official departed.
The girl lobked hopelessly around, In
“ reality her situation had net changed.
She wds no more alone than before, when
the consciousness of motion, progress,
had given her a Sense of nearness to the
rest of the world; but now that the
progress had ceased she felt as if she
were. She observed afresh her com-
panionsin the *“Fueino.” She had ex:
changed speech with but one of them,
the gouty and ancient New Yorker in
section eleven. The somuolent presid-
ing elder in nulber five was awake at
“last, and mildly curious, though as ex-
asperatingly placid as if being stalled on
a trestle two hundred feet above that
awful chasm were a commonplace inci-
dent. The merchant from Ban Diego
‘had ceased his eternal figuring in a noto-
book, and now gazed through the glass;
though he remained indifferent to the
presence of any {fellow creatures. The
commercial traveler had returned and
deposited himself, his plaid cap, and his
magenta necktie upon the seat across the
.. sisle, where he kept up a running com-
ment on the state of things, which was
intended for Miss Denslow's ears, but
was addressed to Number Eleven,
‘Fhe train receded to the West brink of
_ the canon and came to another halt with
a thud which shook the heavy catriages
Miolently,
1 | The employes
*1 doubt, hoping to rob the train?”
: fying one; and she had fed her hungry
‘against the sky, aad, frozzn with terror,
_ 4sFo' de lan’! We's don" fixed now!
thiough the car.
of afew moments had caused the delay
settling down.
far.
‘Some lurking band of thieves, no
“They took a deal of trouble. They
themselves so ‘much work,” said the maa.
‘with the loud. necktie. = ‘*There's only
fue solitary passenger in the other Pull-
Miss Denslow turned sick ‘with fear.
The utter desolation of ‘her position’ ape
pailed her. Why had she doue this fool-
hardy thing? Yet, why should she have
thought of danger; or how foretell that
she would be the only woman on board
that east-bound train? And the doctor's
Jetter had been sourzent. Her aunt was
dying and needed her. She felt ‘as if
suffocating, and hurried toward the
door.
Yo’ needn’ be sca’ed. We kin take ca’
0’ yo’, lady. Mebbe nuffin’ won't bap-
en.
the porter, gently. Helen had been a
generous patron and not fault-finding.
She had almost compensated to the chi-
valrous porter for his empty car, aad,
therefore, almost empty pocket,
“40pen the door, quick! I must get ]
out of this prison!” In an instant she
had sprung to the frozen ground and
was running blindly, wildly forward,
She passed the trains’ length and gare
to the canon's brink, As she flew by
them her pale face was illumined by the
flare of the trainmen's torches, sparchirg
the disaster’s extent.
.%Oh, lady! Don't go down there!
Take care! It's a tough place!”
At the touch of the brakeman's hand
ou her arm the girl stopped. Her un-
reasoning fear left her us suddenly as it
bad come, and she was her cool, alert
self again.
‘Have you telegraphed for help?”
“That's the worst-—the wire are cut.”
¢‘Sent some one, then?”
4 Yea—if tha messenger ain't stopped.”
“Did such a thing ever happen be-
fore?”
The man answered evasively.
“It’s a wild ‘country, lady. Consider-
able money goés east now and again, and
there's a dismond merchant travels the
the
moonlight filled its Ee | Miss "Den-
slow’s fear gone, her curiosity remained.
Canon Diablo is a world’s wonder. its
sides are covered with loose stones and
bowiders which look as if they had been
brought one by one and tossed into
place.
“I will go down a little way. We
must stay here for hours—1I shall have no
ather such a chaace in all my life!”
"The girl's nostrils dilated. Her heart
beat eagerly. Here was a new experi-
‘ence, indeed. It promised to be a satis-
heart “with such husks since that day, a
year before, when she had parted from
her lover in a quarrel. Moonlight always
brought his memory back to her with
cruel distinctness, He seemed very near.
to her at that moment. “I wonder if he
did really go to the Pacific coast. They
said so—and—it seems as if I must have
heard of him there; and yet—is that why
I hate going home? What a dunce I am!
Expecting to heat of anybody in such a
great country as California, Ah, thisis
—marvelous! "It is a desecration for
mortal to trespass here.”
Nevertheless, the desecration was ruth.
lessly continued. The'train and its miss
haps were forgotten, while petty personal
interests dwarfed and faded out of sigirt
before the majesty of that momant in
that awful solitude. *‘I wonder if eve
before a woman's foot passed over these
stones. How excited I am! All alonc
with desolation and—God.”
By daylight, with less exaltation of
spirit, she could not have accomplished
the descent; but at that weird hour she
reached the bottom of the chasm safe if
trembling. Then she looked upward
across the canon, and shuddered. Its
further brink séemed to rest against the
sky. Backward and upward the height
appeared interminable. She sat down in
the shadow of a bowlder, and a delight-
ful, sumeasured season of repose sug-
ceeded the excitement of endeavot.
A penetrating chill aroused her, and
she looked upward again. “How can I
stifled the returning dread of her soul
and pegan the ascent, over the rocks
which rolled and slipped and threatened
ner destruction.
Suddenly she stopped. That echo of
falling bowlders was not caused by those
whieh herown feet had dislodged. Then
she saw the figures of four men silhouetted
watched them descending toward her.
They were the train wreckers, she
thought. She was doomed. = She under-
stood it clearly. She had put herself
out of the reach of aid. Impulse had
cost her her life, as it hud once cost her
its happiness. Well, life without hap-
piness—that is, without’ William Glea-
ney—waen't of great value. Death in
Canon Diablo—how strange! :
Miss Denslow’s terror ended in an in-
difference which was half unconscious—
ness. But she was not of the sort which
faints, She listened dreamily to the
increasing sounds, and began to count;
curiously wondering how high her num-
bers would reach before¢ her destruction’
came.
“Jp in the first thousand! But that
stone rolled very near.
and twenty~one—Oh!’ y
For an instant she thought that she
had ¢tcrossed the border!’ and had fou
him oh | the other side; & hypothes
quite remote from the fact that he ha
been tat one. solits
oe appeared. Hi! face was pallid F
oy oath the dark exterior.
swarmed backward Ilo
of hours, and already the early dusk was |
But life was safe—so
«Who could have done it—and why" |
could have ‘held us up’ without ‘making | «
“I wouldn't lady! DBettsh stay inside, |
Mebbe it's’ on'y foolin’,” urged |
| in clusters, resembling black edrrants in
partment of State, Consul Smithers
| tricts and study the processes of manu- |
be carried on both winter and summer.
Oune thousand
“iGreat heavens! Helen! Vou.-horel!
{ "Before and behind the road had beea | =
tord up, demolished. The fiendish work |
ay which thea
he perilous slope of
[ Canon Diablo, —Frauk Leslie's.
witness the ——
Nany seeds of the camphor tres have
beeh sent to the Department of State
from Japan ia the hope of affording to
‘the United States a: chance to add this
valuable substance to its, vegetable pro-.
ducts. The tree is a. species of laurel,
and it grows in extensive forests in the
mountainous rezioni of the south of
Japan far from the sea. Large groves
are owned by the Japanese Government,
the wood being very desirable for ships
building, Many of the trees attain an
feet in d 4 ti
twenty feet. - The 4 somes berries: grow
size acd appearance. The fine grain of
able for cabinet work.
I'he camphor is a resinous gam. To
get it the tree is necessarily destroyed,
but, by a stringent law of the land,
another 15 planted iin its stead.
simple method of manufacture employed
by the natives is as follows: The tree
is felled to the earth and cut into chips.
A big metal ‘pot is partly filled with
water and placed over a slow fire. Then
a wooden tub is fitted to the top . of the
The bostom of the tub
is perforated, so as to permit the stean |
to pass up among the chips.
A steam-tight cover is fitted on the |
tub, From this ‘tub a bamboo pipe
leads to another tub, through which the
phor and oil flow. This second tub is
connected with in like manner with the
third. The third tub is divided into .
two, compartments, one above the other,
the dividing floor being perforated ‘with
small holes to allow the water and oil to
pass to the lower compartment. The
upper compartment is supplied with a
layer of straw, which catches and ‘holds
the camphor in crystals. The camphor
is then separated from the straw, packed
in wooden tubs of 133 pounds each and’
is ready for market.
After each boiling the water runs ‘off’
through a fencer, leaving the oil, which
is utilized by the natives for illumina-
ting and other purposes: ~Adulteration |
of camphor & gum is practiced mostly by
adding water just as far as the buyer
will tolerate it. Sometimes the pur-
chaser will find that twenty pounds of
water have run out of a tub in twelve
hours. The unadulterated article, known
as the ‘old dry,” can somstimes be
bought, but not often. In a letter on
this subject newly received by the De-
writes ffom Osaka, Japan, that it would
be very desirable to send a competent
agent from this country to Japan, who |
should visit the zamphor-producing: dis
facture,
packing, ete, = Washington
Star.
——ee ce
The Population of arosaland.
It ‘seems: by 'a recent report of
the Danish Statistical Bureau that the
total populagion of 1516, of which 309 |
were Europeans. the remaining 10,207 |
being natives. Since 1880 the increase
has been five per..cent., the greatest
growth peing in North Greedland. In
one of the ¢*colonies,” that of Godhavn, |
the increase has reached thirty-tive pet
‘cent. Nearly the whole of the European |
settlers are found in the south. As has.
always been the case, the women greatly
outnumber the men. This is especially
true of Bouthern. Greenland, owing to
the fact that the milder climate allows
hunting and fishing from the kayak to
During each of the last decades the
number of accidental deaths in this oc:
cupation his averaged 200 in the south
to lifty or.sixty in the north. With re
gard to occ pations, 1668 persons are
engaged i in the whale and seal fisheries, -
365 are ordinary fishermen, thirty-three
are netters, forty-seven are hunters, and
three are cattle-owners, this last industry
having been introduced into. Southern
Gréenland during the year 1890. Lon:
don Times.” :
Be rao
No Clond Without Rath,
A very curious fact is that a F tond i
always raining. © Even in summer, when
the cloud over our heads is white, the
drops are falling from it. But they a
very small and! they evaporate before
they reach the earth. In evaporating
they pass from the. cloud. particle stage
to the haze particle stage; from. satura.
tion to simp 4 ‘condensation, or the dry
duet ates ‘on which the condensation
took place may be left perfectly dry. It
is a general truth that when a eloud it
formed it begins to rain, The minute
come dov io millions
"but silently |
silently band,
Camphor From Japan. Poe
enormous size, oites measuring twelve | i}
the wood renders it partieusarly, valu- :
“The, J sh
pot and the chips of camphor ‘wood are | an
placed in this.
the inclosed steam, the generated came |
census of Greenland in 1890 showed a |
0. Sh places
p hin down canturies
re: been pl
pets ny Lsayi ns
a shock of corn y ha wr bound-it;
just as you and 1 threw it; just as you and
husked it, ‘fheramay coms som» prachial
and ok and comtorting lessons to al
souls while we think of coming in a Tost
ie 8 sheex gi corn _comsth in in hist.
Tv i high time that the King of Terrofs
thrown cut the Christian vocab-
Avast multitu le of Ron
though it were the Sti
% insteas of being ta good man the
) of blessings. Itis movinz out of a
gold vestib le into a warm temple. It is
migrating into > groves of redolence and Pk
ual frui Ie $12 a change from bles k
: ; cate Juns, of
i ps
of Sr Susi ron handouts of ineapos a
yh sie wristlecs ofa
broke up a funeral procas-
: Sd Hs ‘Nain by mak ing a resur-
‘rection ee ra young mai and his mother,
and I would that I could break up your sad-
ness and balt the long funeral procassion of
the world’s” grief by somo cheerful view of
the last transition:
We all know that husking tima was a time
of frost. Frost on the fencs; frost on ths
stubble: frost on the grongd; frosteon ths
bare branches of tha tress: frost in thaair;
frost on the hands of the ‘huskers. You re-
ember we used to hide befwaun the corn
stacks: 80 .as to keep off tha wind, bub still
oil remember how shivering was the boiy
“and how painful was the cheek, and bow be-
numbed were the hands. But after awhile
the sun vas high up; and all the frost: went
out of the aif, ‘ani hilarities awakened the
ech as, apd joy from one n shock ‘want to
Ab: anal’ and was answered by joy
om another corn shock, “Ah shal” No
‘wo all realiz that the death of bur friend is
She th ot many expectations, the free:
eo chilling, the frosting of many of
af tops. Ab i= dar from being a south
wind.
i comes out of the frigid vorth, anl
p they go away from ns westanl be-
nu te Lin body pos bepumbed in mind and
um ‘in ‘soul. We stand "among our
neighbors, our dead families, gad we
~ ¥y ‘Will we ever get over it?” we
will get over iv anid the shoutings of an
uly, reunion, and we will ci. to all
Shes distrasses of bereavement: only a4 the
temporary distressss of husking time.
ns may eudlure § ‘or a mrzht, but joy
cometh in. the morning.” “Light, and but
for a moment)” said the apostle as ho
Slappa hands: “light, and but for a
moment.” The chill of the frosts followsd
; glad 8 Shat comath in: like a shoo
season,”
) n his
i OF course ns. “husk time made rouzh
work with t! or: The huskin,
bd and the hard rnin
come down en the
| Speke svete
) { enn]
| sponatns sroning
pletalk of | for
er of dis- |
nds, IE be to transmuting 3 8
ng. in: heave
| nari nw om The fact
ut it
“huskil
igavesl hood
ory of which makes all
boly tremble with emoti
a harp when the fingers
{aw ne
of minster
} They Some rap!
5 an Fhe bitdranee to their bat
ked off Fo Anil
All their
cies: busied off. “All their ® Jindrances to
sefulness husked
eo God:
) feuons. :
ja Eras a fix their
stand it }
n they ara so so radlace” 16
‘Jections have been husiced ba i
pi of mean on earth to be Anazrcatle
They meant told!
wall enough, but they
oy had bh
how many ings th abous:
ily fbn oh Shey. ai |
you, and they told ‘yo
to stand ‘up for yoa in soms
you wished almost that they had oa tain |
in id ie he: battles. od. spo ¢
contra well meaning disagreeal
in heaven all their offeusiveness has +
husked off. ons is as happy as he hi
be. Hyery ons he Fasaets as happy: as he can
Now
De avon igs reat Asighboriood re-union,
All kings and quoens, all songstery, alli mil-
‘lionaires; all
gent Hi ‘children all ground Him. No
7 in all the air. No va ont in
oft ills. River of ery vail Yolling over
bed of d of peat], undér arch of in-
a mingled with hh ‘Stand at
the on gate of tho granary
come in; out of the fi
‘out of the dariness into
tearing, and the ripping; and tha twisting,
‘and the wrenching and lacerating, and the
huskiog time of earth into the Bids opan’
of corn'cometi in ia his season.”
Yes, heaven is a
like. re of husking time.
feeling so big he declines to speak to soni
one that is not so large, | J ha gel Wi
1 listen to smallest cherab. No Boing of
o door; of caste at ons’ heavenly mansion
i oo opt the citizen of a a mansion.
0 clique in one coraer. wh poring “about a
clique in another corner, David taking none
of the airs of a giant lier; Jostua makin
noone halt until be
the sun and.moon halt; aul
sumption over the ost al making h
of righteousness: N
‘Byrian host, no more
five maid who told him where he o a rn
aigood doctor, Oh, my soul, what a coun
try! The bumbless man a ‘king, the poor poorest
woman 8 queen, the meanest house a palac:,
the shortsst lifetime eternity. .and what is
as
you how sick Jou lex look: bed, and they bo toi ‘you Li
baoqueters. “God ths Father |
d spa thas grain
mio fe edeing, :
light, out of tae
at sociable, with joy |
No one there ;
in’ o's dl be
aman, capil :
more strange about hall = we aay all get
there. Ey
5 gra so many of our
randy ‘precaded us “asa
his season,”
in Persia. : :
Paris. Temps gives
the cholera in
~The writer says that from
shed the ‘chalets went.
tri
‘northwest
v ini:
of the Biliu
‘ater it app
tween Meshed and
long the way [od
g through Nisha-
ague at last reached
be. p
. The Justus system proved
i h
door of the King’s granary *tike asa shock | 4
lation reduced by ‘emigration to'1
inaabitaats, |